The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The only Daily and Weeklv Negro paper in this section of Country BENNETT & CO. VOL 3, NO. 49 The only D WILLIAM McKINLEY EVERY DAY I We Can Save Y Store Set Hair Pins, 3c. 250 Belt Buckles, 20c. kind, 10c. 100 Belt Buckles, 25c. kind 15c. 500 Shirt Waist Sets, 5c. Fancy Stick Pins, 50. kind, 3c. BENNET 435 MINNESOTA AVENUE. LOCALS. Mrs. Drake, on Jersey avenue is very sick. Elder Griffith's neace is visiting him for a short while. Mrs. Turner on Jersey, between 8th and 9th street, has been very ill with la grippe. Mrs. Rosa James is oill expecting a trip to Denver, Col. if her health does not improve. The Sextette Mandol'ne club surprised the guest of Mrs. Laura Jones last Friday night with a scerinade Rev. W. L. Grant, of Lawrence, Ks., preached the Old Fellows sermon at the First Baptist church Sunday, May 6th. The AMERICAN CITIZEN has revived new vigor and will prove in the future to be the most enterprising negro paper in the west. The Armeur Packing Co. are making rapid progress tearing away the old building on James street to build their new addition. Mr. P. Lee, an old friend of Mr Geo. A. Dudley, whom he has not seen for twenty-seven years, called at his office last week. Mr. James Freeman, the popular whist player, is a favorite among the young ladies. Mr. Freeman is a well respected young man. When you want cool refreshments patronize our own color. It is just as good Ice Cream, Soda, etc., as you will find in any other place. D, W. White, the well known furniture and second hand dealer, is a race enterprising man, and believes in pushing race enterprise along. Rev G W. Boyed, pastor of Highland avenue Baptist church, went to St. Louis, Mo., last Sunday night, where they will spend a few days on business. Some seem to think the Convention Hall will not be ready for the Democratic National Convention, July 4th, as the rebuilding seems progressing vey slow. Don't fail to patronize the AMERICAN Citizen by subscribing for it and get our prices on job work of all kinds. Every negro should patronize all negro enterprises. Live and let live. Mrs. S. Jales, of Marshall, Mo., and Mr. Gumble, of Hisawaths, Kas., were called to the bed side of their mother, Mrs. Susie Gamble. She is much improv ed at this writing. Miss Virginia Gueuer, who has been attending the Macon (ity College, was called home nearly four weeks before the ending of the school year, to attend the bedside of her mother and sick sister. Miss Ella Richardson and Miss Min le Richardson, from Leavenworth, are expected to reside in our city for a short time, Miss Ella Richardson being the guess of Mrs. Laura Jones, of 335 Minnesota avenue. The sun will be entirely eclipsed Monday morning, May 28th. The total eclipse will be visible in a stretch of territory 55 miles wide from New Orleans, La., to Norfolk, Va. Tuskegee is in the immediate line of the total eclipse and many persons from the North are expected to spend a week here observing both the eclipse and our Commencement exercises which begin May 27th., and continue till Thursday, May 31st. The Naval Observatory has decided to place one party of observers in Alabama and will most probably select Tuskegee as a suitable point for observations. MERRIT WILL WIN. Dr. O. A. Taylor, of Topeka, and Dr. S. H. Thompson, of this city, have recently been admitted members of the Kansas State Medical Association. They have the honor of being the only colored physicians who are members of this association. Such recognition as has been accorded us through the efficiency and skill of Drs. Thompson and Taylor, is enough to make every member of our race feel proud to have such physicians in our midst, in the state, and more especially in the city in which they practice. KANSAS CITY, KAN., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1900. 5 pc. Button Sets, worth 10c. per sct, 5c. Fize 10c. PearlBut ters, per dcz., 5c Ladies' Vests laped neck and sleeves. 7c. Miss Mery Douglass is going to entertain a few friends informally on Friday evening at her home, 28 north Mall street, in Grandview. Quite number of persons are going to Quindaro to morrow evening to the literary exercise, as it is the last night of the exercises. Among those going are Miss Josie Lee. Miss E. Sewell. Mrs. J. Palmer, Miss Emma Miner, Miss L. Bryant and Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Green. The Odd Fellows' sermond was held at the 2nd. Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, to a crowded house of about 2,600 people. There was four members of Odd Fellows present from Kansas City, Kas., there was also excursions from Atheisen, Leavenworth and Topeka, with a large number of Odd Fellows aboard. There was a collection taken up for the Old People's Home, Second Baptist church and the Orphan Home. Total collection $55.70 for each institution, and $1170 other expenses had to be taken out of that amount. At No. 524 526, 523, Minnesota ave. is situated one of the most substantial firms to be found in any of the two Kansas cities. The Temple of Economy can indeed be called by that name for, if to economy, and at the same time get your money's worth both in quality and quantity, then this is the place you long have sought and been out many dollar because you found it not. It is not necessary to recommend one line of goods that this firm deals in, but simply to say you can find everything. The citizens of this city should take just pride in a store like the great and only Temple of Economy, and patronize it. This city will never be what it should be in the commercial world until its inhabitants recognize. patronize and endeavor to build up home and its institutions. We live in one of the grandest little metropolist cities to be found in the broad domains of Uncle Sam. Let us take the pride we ought to take and make it one of the greatest. Stand up all along the line for Kansas, and give your patronage to such worthy establishments as the Temple of Economy. Read their 'ad'. KANSAS CITY, MO. There was a reception given at the home of Mrs Susie Woodard, by the Exclel Club, in honor of the Misses Irene and Alice Walker, who are soon to go away for the summer. The house was very brilliantly lighted and decorations were of carnations and American beauty roses. Among those present from out of the city were Miss Losew, of Topeka, Mr. Lester Block and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Garnett. Cards and dancing were the principal features of the evening Prizes were won by Mrs Irene Walker and Miss Lusew, of Topeka. Refreshmen were served from 11 until 1, and at the wee small hours of the night every one departed to their respective homes much refreshed after the evening's enjoyment. Among others present were Messrs D. Johnson, Leon Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs Counter, Lon Angles, S. C. Chaney, Mrs. Mary Arnold, P. A. Tilford, Miss Gertrude Henderson, W. H. Jackson, J. H. Wilkerson, Miss Mae Alexsuder, E. Lee, Miss L. Phillips, Willis Simpson, Miss Gertrude Henderson, J. H. Wilkerson, Miss Mae Alexander, E. Lee, Miss L. Phillips, Willis Simpson, Miss Ida Sharber, Mrs Chas. Kelly. CAME IN THE NIGHT. St. Louis, May 7.—By the collapse of a house at 1430 Nighth street, Cora Eversen and Melvina Nelson, colored, were killed and seven others, who are now at the city hospital as a result of their injuries, nor widely escaped death. The two women named were suffocated as no marks of injury are to be found on their bodies. Firemen rescued the other inmate of the building, which was a two story displaced structure that had been condemned. All were asleep when the accident occurred. PROFIT SHARING. THE PUBLIC ALSO HAS A CHANCE. Announcement has now been made through the public press that Siegel & Cooper, the greatest department store merchants in the United States, have decided to inaugurate a system of profit-sharing with the thousands of their employees, thus giving each man, woman and child in the service of this great company a personal and financial interest in the conduct and success of the business. To accomplish this remarkable undertaking the two mammoth stores in Chicago and New York will be placed under the management of the Siegel-Cooper Company, a corporation with a capital of $24,000,000, in which corporation both Mr. Siegel and Mr. Cooper will continue to be the directing powers. Two million dollars has been set aside as a trust fund for employees, to be distributed in annual dividends to all who are three years in the service of the company, and constitute a pension to all who after ten years of faithful service become incapacitated for further employment. A still further feature is the limited sale of stock to the public, by which, to the extent of the stock sold, the public may share the profits of this wonderful business. The stock is being sold for $50 per share, and may be had upon application at the company's stores. These features are specially interesting to colored people, for Siegel, Cooper & Co. have far exceeded all other large mercantile enterprises in substantial recognition of colored people. A few other firms employ a colored porter here and there, but most of them have absolutely refused to give any employment to colored persons. On the other hand, Siegel & Cooper have employed one or more sales people for several years, at one time having in their service Mr. Lewis Cummins in the responsible position of general salesman. For years Mies Mattie Johnson has had steady employment as demonstrator, and during the past two years she has been sent on special duty to other cities to introduce the goods of the firm. Besides this, the company for over ten years has been a frequent advertiser in the columns of The Conservator, showing that it appreciates colored patrons and patronizes colored enterprises. It is natural that tasee facts should operate to create a kind feeling for the firm among colored people, and this is shown by the large and growing patronage of the firm by colored people. It is natural, too, that this new feature of profit snaring with the public should be favorably considered, for through it the humble worker may buy an interest—hold stock in one of the greatest enterprises of this country. It is an opportunity never before offered, and one that is certain to be accepted by many thrifty people who, having only small sums of money, desire to make careful investments Siegel & Cooper solve a problem—they "give the people a chance." FOUR TEXANS KILLED. Fort Worth, Tex., May 3. A meager report received here late to-night gives information of a quadruple killing at Quanah. Two of the men are Lute and Cage Beach, but the names of the other two are not known here. The trouble originated over a grass lesse. The men met on the public thoroughfare and opened up the fusillade with Winchester, as ording to indefinite news received here to-night. All four men are prominent cattle men. The Beaches live at Stephenville, Erath county. Cliff Scott and the other Kansas members of Roosevelt's rough riders who engaged themselves to Buffalo Bill's show, are now in New York suffering the keenest sort of disappointment. Bill has decided not to take his show to Paris, and the boys can only tour this country. Barney Sherdan c'aims to have found a man who will attempt to cross lightning bugs with honey bees so that the product will work night and day. Dick—"I lost $50,000 in less than half a minute last night." Fred—"How did it happen?" Dick—"I proposed to Miss Bulliion and she said 'No.'" 1,200 LEFT HOMELESS. Sandon, B. C., is Completely Destroyed by Fire. Spokane, Wash., May 5. — A special to the Spokesman Review from Kaslo, B. C., says: Sandon, the second mining town of importance in the *S Ocean* district, has been completely destroyed by fire and near y all of its 1,200 people are homeless and ruined. Kaslo is 28 miles from Sandon, but about midnight large clouds of smoke came rolling over this town from Sandon. At once word went out that Sandon was destroyed, but no news could be had from the desolate town, as all the wires were down. Several hours later a train came in from Sandon bringing a number of those who had lost all their property. They reported that the total loss was between $500,000 and $1,000,000, while the insurance could only have been about $25,000. The flames started between Spencer's hall and Brown's store. Two streams seemed to hold the flames in check for a while. Then one stream gave out and the flames spread rapidly. After that it was only a matter of the fire burning itself out. The miners' hospital was blown up in an effort to check he flames. By this time all the lower part of the town, including the tenderloin and many business places, were gone. Then the firemen blew up the Echo hotel, one of the finest buildings in the Kootenay country, the Canadian Pacific railroad station and other buildings, in order to save the stores of H. Geirich and H. Byers & Co. This was accomplished. Half a dozen other buildings, including the electric power house at the extreme end of the town, were saved. The rest of the town was destroyed. Relief measures were taken immediately. The officers of Sandon donated $500 and mining men there contributed $3,000. Kasio raised $1,800 and sent up a special train with large supplies of food, ten s and clothing. More relief is needed. TOPEKA. KAS. Mrs. Martha Reynolds is quite ill at her home on Buchanaa street. Mrs. Mattie Deen Johns left Thursday morning to join her husband in Dakota The Ne Plus Uitra club met with Mrs. Geo. Smith, corner of King and Lane streets, Saturday afternoon. Dr. Geo Shaffer and Rev. J. R. Ransom left last week to attend the General Conference of the A M. E, church a Columbus, Ohio. Prof. W. H. Jackson, of Nashville, Tenn., gave one of his Phantas Magoria Biblical Dioramas at St. Johns A. M. E. church, Tuesday evening. Miss L. Davis, one of the students of John R. Smith College at Sedalia, Mo., spent a few days in the city this week, the guest of Mrs. Henlen Ransom. The Ladie Sewing Circle celebrated their 13th, annual May Fair, at 113 E 7 h. street, Wednesday, from 8 to 11 p. m. A splendid musical and literary programme was rendered. The Golden Rod club was entertained by the Misses Phillips, Friday afternoon, complimentary to Mrs. H. Johns. The parlor and dining rooms were beautifully decorated with h Lilacs and Sweet Williams. After a delightful two course luncheon was served the following programme was rendered: Instrumental Solo, Miss Pearl McNeil Vocal Solo, Miss Nellie Hicks. Recitation, Miss Gena Thompson. Instrumental Solo, Miss Cora Beunett. The Club will meet, with Miss McNeil, Friday afternoon. LAY THE BOUQUET AT HER FEET BY LEON RHODES. [Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Victoria E. Overall.] From Yellow Stone Park extremely west, Unto Florida's southern coast, I searched for flower I love best Then prepared my greatest "toast." To "a city of roses" next I went Which bounds us on the east— Now to California land I'm bent, Where rich fruit adorns the feast. Say not my search is all in vain, No reward for my lost sleep— The search is now renewed again With success I'll surely meet. From ocean to ocean I am bound, For my bouquet is not complete, When the missing flower is found I'll lay the bouquet at her feet. --- TEMPLE OF ECONOMY AND Everything. Pass our doors to-morrow and you pass a privilege to save money. We'll help stretch your dollars. Three more days left to get one of those beautiful framed pictures. Count your coupons. DRY GOODS. One lot of light colored percales put up in book fold, worth 10c. per yard, for to-morrows sale, per yard, 7c. Big assortment of Shirting prints, per yard, 5 cents. Toile du Nord ginghams, the best gingham made, for to-morrows sale, per yard, 10c. Another shipment of sun-bonnets, Gingham and Chambray, to morrow 25c. Big table full of ladies shirt waist in new patterns, made in late style, with French back and two rows of inserting, every one a $100 value, Saturday 75c. Several styles in ladies' collars, all the late style, each 10c. Ladies black figured brilliantine dress skirts worth $1.93, special to-morrow $1.20. Ladies muslin French style corset covers neatly trimmed, to-morrow 25c Special lot of ladies muslin skirts made with cluster of tucks and ruffle worth 59c, special price to morrow 45c Temple of ECONOMY 524, 526, and 528, MINNESOTA AVENUE. Mrs. Ma'indo Jackson, of 1421 North 3rd, street, died last week. Mr. Henry Washington, of 328 Walker avenue, who has been quite ill for four weeks, is improving slowly. Rev. T. A. Moore, of Bermingham, Alabama, is in the city, the guest of his old friend and father of the gospel, Rev. A. D. Jamison. Mrs. A. C. Scott, one of the nurses at Deuglass Hospital, was called this week to Leavenworth on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. F. Clark. The Modera Restaurant, managed by Mrs. A. M. G. Spencer, at 504 Nebraska avenue, is drawing great crowds Sunday afternoon. The house was crowded all day last Sunday. The funeral of Wm. Sanders. of 712 Freeman avenue, who departed this life last Wednesday, was held at the residence Friday in the afternoon. Mr. Sanders' sudden demise was truly a great surprise to all who knew him. Ohio Republican Platform:—We reaffirm the principle in which the Republican party had its birth and on which Abraham Lincoln was elected President, that the representatives of the people have full power over territory belonging to the United States, in harmony with and subject to the fundamental safeguards of our free institutions for liberty, justice and personal rights. We sustain the President and Congress in exercising this power with due regard for the safety and welfare of the Union, and with the most just, generous, humane and fraternal consideration for those over whom the authority of the nation is extended. We advocate for them free schools, full security for life, liberty and prosperity, the most liberal measures for the development of their agriculture and industry, and the largest degree of local self-rule for which they are fitted. We have faith in American patriotism, character and capacity, and we know that the American government will extend the inestimable blessings of freedom, law and civilization to the people who are brought under our protection. The man who stepped on a rusty nail has been killed again near Abilene. PERSONALS. LINCOLN'S POLICY. of Country STATE SENATOR. F ECONOMY thing. pass a privilege to save money. We'll days left to get one of those beautiful GOODS. up in book fold, worth 10c. per yard, per yard, 5 cents. ingham made, for to-morrows sale, per ingham and Chambray, to morrow 25c. new patterns, made in late style, with every one a $1 00 value, Saturday 75c. the late style, each 10c skirts worth $1.93, special to-mor- ras, patterns taken from the high priced day, per yard, 20c. to-morrow 10c. ist patterns just received by express in tern $1.93. records, big sale, come and see what we 5c and 20c. on children Parasols, ranging in price of strong natting, three grades, to-mor- milk gloves and mittens, every pair we XXXX drawers, big assortment of all movers neatly trimmed, to-morrow 25c made with cluster of tucks and ruffle, other Hubbard styles, neatly trimmed 80c. fancy colors, worth 15c each, to-mor- worth 25c, to-morrow 19c to 98c. made with double sole and high splice 12¼c sizes 5 to 9¼ made, with double knee, sole of NOMY, MINNESOTA AVENUE, KANSAS. THE STATE of Kansas, County of Wyandotte, ss. In the matter of the estate of Taylor McDonald, deceased. In the Probate Court in and for said County. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the estate of Taylor McDonald, late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 3rd. day of March, A. D., 1900. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one years from the date of said letters or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate, and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. I. F. BRADLEY. Administrator of the estate of Taylor McDonald, deceased. Kansas City, Kas., March 20th, 1900. In witness whereof the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have herete set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, this 18th. day of March, A. D., 1900. K. P. SNYDER, Probate Judge The census taker rang the bell at the house of Gen. Underthum. The general's wife respended. "Who is at the head of this house, madam?" asked the census man. "I am," said she promptly. "Ard-er—have you any profession or occupation?" "Well, you can put me down as a 'general manager.'" Father—"That young man who is calling on Edith is absolutely worthy less." Mother—"Ab, well! She loves him, and I suppose what can't be healed must be endured." Father—"Huh! What can't be healed can be tood, and I think that's what will happen to him if he calls to night." If the St. Louis woman who has sued her husband for a divorce, alleging laziness as the ground, gains her suit, it will deter a great many indolent men from assuming the responsibilities of married life. S. M. T. Gilbert Temple, No. 97. Meets at 6th and Charlott streets the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month at 1:30 p. m. PRICE TWO CENTS OVERWORK And nervous prostration is something you don't want, that's certain. Then don't have it. A perfect Sarsaparilla prevents this distressing and dangerous disease, and it cures it, also. It keeps you up when especially pressed with work. It cures dyspepsia, and it builds up exhausted nerve tissue. But it must be a perfect Sarsaparilla to do this. So far as we can learn, there isn't but one in the world, and "The only Sarsaparilla made under the personal supervision of three graduates; a graduate in pharmacy, a graduate in chemistry, and a graduate in medicine." $1.00 a bottle. All Druggists. "I first used Ayer's Sarsaparilla in the fall of 1848. I came out of the Mexican War run down in health and badly used up. It did me so much good then that I have always taken it every spring as a blood-purifying medicine. I attribute my robust health at 78 to the use of your Sarsaparilla every spring." — S. T. Jones, Witchita, Kana, March 29, 1900. BILE IN THE BLOOD A man in bed, looking up at a woman sitting on his back, who is screaming. without them. You will find all your other disorders commence to get better at once, and soon you will be well by taking— THE IDEAL LAXATIVE Cascarets CANDY CATHARTIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. The sphinx measures sixty-six feet from the excavated bottom of its base to the top of the figure. The length of each ear of the sphinx is four and one-half feet, its mouth seven and one-half feet wide, and its face fourteen feet broad. A person standing on the top of its ear can not reach to the top of its head. The sphinx is certainly large enough, but photographs showing it in varying sizes, even towering above the highest pyramid, is a mere trick of the camera. You know all about it. You are a perfect slave to your work. It's rush through the day and worry through the night. There's no time to eat and no time to sleep. Already you have nervous dyspepsia, nervous sick headache, and neuralgia. Your food distresses you. You suffer from terrible depression. The outlook is dark and forbidding. You feel sure there is but one termination to this— No matter how pleasant your surroundings, health, good health, is the foundation for enjoyment. Bowel trouble causes more aches and pains than all other diseases together, and when you get a good dose of billious bile coursing through the blood life's a hell on earth. Millions of people are doctoring for chronic ailments that started with bad bowels, and they will never get better till the bowels are right. You know how it is—you neglect—get irregular—first suffer with a slight headache—bad taste in the mouth mornings, and general "all gone" feeling during the day—keep on going from bad to worse until the suffering becomes awful, life loses its charms, and there is many a one that has been driven to suicidal relief. Educate your bowels with CASCARETS. Don't neglect the slightest irregularity. See that you have one natural, easy movement each day. CASCARETS tone the bowels—make them strong—and after you have used them once you will wonder why it is; that you have ever been Cattle Barn a Nulsanne. When the owner of a city lot builds a large barn immediately adjoining and in front of his neighbors house, on an adjoining lot, where he kept a number of cattle, horses and other animals, and thereby seriously interfered with the comfortable enjoyment by the neighbor and his family of their home, the neighbor had a right to have the barn abated as a nulsance. This was decided by the Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, in the case of Hockaday vs. Wortham. DARING DUDES in WAR. Englishmen of all classes will not forget that in the hour of her need the first and most generous to respond to England's call for help were the so-called darlings of society, who have shown that they could lead a forlorn hope as easily as a cotillon, and that while they may not have known how to live like the Frenchmen of the ancient regime, they well know how to die.—London Letter. Reproof isn't evidence of guilt. The Boers in South Africa seem now to be acting as if they were somehow in league with the iron manufacturers, says the Manufacturer. Wherever they retreat they blow up a bridge or destroy a bit of railroad. There is the fear that they may also do much real damage to the mines on the rand, wrecking costly equipment and valuable machinery. In any case there is likely to be an industrial "boom" of much consequence in South Africa once peace is re-established. There will be large demands immediately for bridges, machinery and material to replace what has been destroyed. That is a certain thing, and that the iron and steel manufacturers of England are fully alive to the importance of this market there is abundant evidence. American manufacturers should also keep this field in view, as there will be opportunities to carry on extensive trade with this part of the world once the work of recuperation actually begins. More than this, it is reasonable to expect that new work of development will be undertaken in all parts of the country. Africa will have got general advertisement as the result of the war. Capital which had been invested there in large amounts before will be attracted thither in still greater volume. The railroads will be lengthened and improved, the mineral wealth will be further explored under the guaranty of a liberal and stable government, and, of course, in a short while there will be communication between Egypt and Cape Town by Cecil Rhodes' all-rail line. This will bring Europe very close to South Africa and will insure its rapid economic upbuilding.—Chicago News. BRITISH OFFICERS' NICKNAMES As Funny as Those of a Lot of School- houses It is curious to note how many of the men who are now at the war are better known by their nicknames than by the names to which they were born, says the London Mail. All the world over Roberts is well known as "Bobs," chiefly so through Rudyard Kipling; while Lord Kitchener of Khartoum is seldom among his intimates known as anything but "K. of K." Col. Baden-Powell, who has been popular all his life, was known at Eton as "old Bathing Towel;" Col. Byron, who is A. D. C. to Lord Roberts, is known as "the Strong Man;" Maj. J. Erewing, who commands the Warwickshire Yeomanry, and who married a sister of the Duke of Rosburg, is called "the Weasel;" Capt. Peel is known as "Monkey;" Capt. Milligan, one of the smartest young men, as the "Canary;" Capt. Seymour Fortescue as "the Commodore;" while Mr. Schomberg McDonnell, who was Lord Salisbury's secretary, but gave up the position on going to the war, is known to every one as "Pom." Mr. Hugo de Bathe is best known as "Sugar;" Capt. Lawson and Capt. Bagot Chester, who are often together, are known as "Bubble and Squeak;" and Sir Cloud de Crespigny is known as "Creepy." Even the Duke of Marlborough, great man as he is, is called "Sonny" by those who know him well, and the Duke of Westminster is known as "Ben d'Or." Last, but not least, the Duke of Cambridge, who was at one time head of the war office, on account of his connection with the public parks, is known as "George Ranger." THE MAN AT MAFEKING. Col. Baden-Powell Comes from a Distinguished Family. Col. Baden-Powell, who, at the outbreak of the Transvaal war, asked to be placed in "a warm corner," has now held his "little corner" long enough to break all British siege records, including that of Lucknow, says Collier's Weekly. The place he has so long held, by the way, is pronounced Mahf-king, not Mafe-king. In regard to the colonel himself, Dr. Halg Brown, his former headmaster at Charter house, has this to say: "I notice that the name is invariably mispronounced," said the doctor. "The 'a' is 'ah', but it should have the usual sound of 'a,' as in 'Bathing Towel,' which was his nickname among the boys at school. The boy was essentially the father of the man; he was very active, lively, full of fun and amusement, and exceedingly popular with his school fellows." The colonel's father was the late Professor Baden-Powell, and he is descended on his mother's side from a family which achieved distinction in the naval service. He was educated at Charter house, and at the age of nineteen he joined the Thirteenth hussars, serving as adjutant with his regiment in India, Afghanistan, and South Africa. Thus he made the acquaintance of the Cape very early in his career, an acquaintance to be resumed on more than one memorable occasion afterward. Frigate Birds. The frigate bird far surpasses all others in its powers of flight, inasmuch as, except at the breeding season, it seldom visits the land, and is never seen to swim or rest on the waters. An American naturalist, Mr. Lancaster, who spent several years in studying the habits of this and other birds, states that the frigate bird can live in the air for a week at a time, night and day, without once perching or resting. He found these birds able with ease, to go 100 miles an hour. The alabatross has followed the course of a ship for several days without being known to take a rest. The swift is another bird which is almost continually on the wing, and never settles on the ground or on trees. THE YAQUI TROUBLE DESPERATE WAR BEING WAGED BY THE INDIANS. These Unsubdued Redskins of Mexico Are Determined to Win Their Freedom or Be Exterminated as a Race—The Transvaal of America. What is believed to be the last desperate stand of the Yaqui Indians is being made in the fastnesses of Sonora. It is a fight without mercy or quarter on either side, the Indians seemingly determined to win or be exterminated as a race; the Mexicans to wrest from them their last foothold in the "Transvaal of America," as the desolate, inpenetrable region can be called. Four hundred years have been insufficient for the invader to beat down utterly the power of the once mighty nation whose impis scattered the mailed squadrons of Coronado in flight. Even when beaten by superiority of arms they, like the Boers of Cape Town, trekked into the wilderness, and ever since—with a hiatus of fragile peace here and there—have held their ancient enemies at bay. A year ago the Yaquis broke the truce with the Mexican government that had existed for a considerable period, and declared that they would gain their independence or become an extinct race. Since that time at least 2,000 Mexican soldiers have been killed or captured and several hundred Yaquis have been exterminated. Once before in their mountains the Yaqui forces repelled the Mexican troops for ten years. The Mexicans finally capitulated, and as an inducement for peace signed a treaty with the Yaqui nation ceding to the people thereof a wide stretch of territory and granting them home rule, with Diaz as the official head of their government. Gen. Torres was subsequently appointed commander of the Mexican military forces in the cities and fortresses of Sonora and governor of the state, but the Indians were still permitted to choose their own chief. All went well for years until the country began to fill up with prospectors in search of gold and Mexican peons, who lived by plundering the people. Torres and his hangers-on grew rich, and every hill resounded with the noise of the miner's pick and shovel. The Indians realized that they were being gradually crowded out and rebelled. American prospectors say that one Yaqui Indian is worth five Mexicans. The Indians were the laborers of Sonora. They were employed by the railways and mines, and were found to be both industrious and honest and capable of great endurance. Physically they are perfect specimens of manhood, and their intelligence is admitted to be superior to the average Mexican peon. Early last summer the Indian laborers on the railways and in the mines began to desert their posts without apparent cause, and a little later the report was spread that they had taken the war path. Teteplate, their old war chief, who led them during the ten years' war, was sent to treat with them. The report came back that he had been murdered by the enraged braves. Several months later he was recognized while leading them in an onslaught against the Mexican forces. After the outbreak of hostilities troops and Gatling guns were hurried from Mexico proper to Sonora via El Paso, Texas. The Indians assembled in force in the swamps of the Yaqui river near Potam, and it was there that the first battle was fought. The Mexican troops attempted to capture the Yaqui stronghold, but were driven back with heavy losses. The soldiers returned to Potam with their garments torn to shreds by contact with the jungle thickets, and hundreds were prostrated by the terrible heat. Torres and his army thereafter remained inactive for several months. The commanding general said he was awaiting cool weather, and that he would resume the campaign in the autumn. Meanwhile the Indians crossed the river and made their way to the mountains, where it is practically impossible to dislodge them from their positions. They took their women and children with them, and depleted many ranches of their cattle, which they drove to their camp in the Bacatete range. In the early winter Torres began his advance, but has been unable to accomplish anything up to the present time. He seems to be satisfied if he can prevent the Yaquls from capturing any of the important towns in the western part of the state, and the only battles that have occurred have been precipitated by the Indians themselves, who swooped down in force from the mountains and attacked the Mexicans, and after inflicting as much damage as possible retreated. The war is likely to be prolonged indefinitely, as the Mexican troops are unable to cope with the Indians. Recently Yapui juntas have been established in several border towns in the United States, and considerable money has been raised to be expended in securing the independence of Sonora. Many adventurers from the United States are also said to be fighting with the Indians. The Indians in the field number about 2,000 well-armed men, and the Mexican forces about 5,000, most of whom have little stomach for fighting. Recent dispatches from Mexico announce that 4,000 troops have been ordered to Sonora to re-enforce Torres. This would indicate either the war is assuming a more serious aspect in the eyes of the Mexican government, or that Torres' losses have been exceedingly heavy. All the old parchment colonial deeds and records in keeping of the state department at Harrisburg have just been put through a process of preservation by Secretary of the Commonwealth Grief, says the Philadelphia Record. For years these records have been kept in tin boxes, and, as they were occasionally searched, the result was much confusion in the arrangement of papers. Many of the old wax seals were lost, and the crumpled papers were more or less damaged. Peculiar interest attaches to the Indian signatures, which are yet quite distinct on many of the documents. A large parchment contains the treaty of the Penns with the sachem of the Schuylkill Indians, and embraces the transfer of all the tracts of land or lands lying in or near the River Schuylkill and its branches, under date of September 7, 1742. The consideration for this land, as stated on the deed, included twenty brass kettles, 100 blankets, sixty linen shirts, twenty hats, six coats, twelve pairs of shoes and buckles, thirty pairs of stockings, twenty guns, twelve gunlocks, 300 pounds of gunpowder, 600 pounds of lead bullets, sixty hatchets, fifty planting hoes, 120 knives, 160 pairs of scissors, 100 tobacco tongs, twenty-four looking glasses, forty pounds of paint, twenty-four dozen garters, six dozen small silk ribbons, twelve dozen rings, 100 pounds of tobacco, 400 pipes, twenty gallons of rum and £60. There are several large deeds transferring land from the Indians to the Penns, all bearing the peculiar signatures of the Indian chieftains, representing all manner of animals, reptiles, fishes, birds and insects. The most important of these deeds is that conveying to the Penns the territory controlled by the Six Nations, for which a consideration of $5,000 was paid. The signatures of the Indians to this document give the Indian names and their English signification. WANTS TO SELL HIS BODY. Contortionist Wants a Customer for His Corpse Although by no means desiring to shuffle off this mortal coil, Walter Wentworth wants to sell his body. He has done it twice already in his lifetime, and now, although in his seventy-fifth year, he is looking about for another purchaser, and if he finds one, he thinks he has a good chance of surviving him, too, says the New York Herald. Walter is what is ordinarily called a "freak." He is a contortionist, and the queer things he does with his legs and his arms, and even his spinal column, are enough to make the eyes of the ordinary person bulge out to a dangerous extent. Even physicians are puzzled at the curious way in which he handles himself, and it was a doctor who first suggested to Wentworth the idea of selling his body. It was just sixty years ago that Wentworth ran away from his home near Detroit, Mich., to ride race horses. Then he joined a traveling circus and went the whole world over. With all his knocking about and the seventy-five years he carries, he is just as lively and supple as a 15-year-old boy. It was while he was being exhibited in Detroit in 1870 that he got a chance to sell himself. Dr. Cowe was greatly interested in him, and offered $100 for his body after he had done with it, for dissecting purposes. Wentworth jumped at the offer; the money was paid down. The doctor, however, conveniently died within a few months. Wentworth came to New York five years later, and was able on the trip to persuade Dr. H. L. Wilder of the Kings county hospital to take stock in him at the same price, a case of getting in on the basement floor if Dr. Wilder should live. He thinks Dr. Wilder will be unable to fill his part of the contract. He is therefore anxious to find somebody else who will invest in him. Vaudeville During Lunch Time Vaudeville During Lunch Time. There is a prospect that Currler's restaurant, on Fulton street, New York, may be converted into a playhouse, where continuous vaudeville will hold forth. Merchants in the neighborhood and their clerks are having heated discussions over the probabilities of success or failure of the enterprise. The idea is to give performances during the day, with especial attention to the lunch hour—say from 12 to 2:30—when tables will be plentifully supplied with the best that the market affords. A citizen can pay $1 at the door and not only obtain an excellent meal, but see a good show while eating. A Good All Round Man. Corporal Lorne Stewart of "G" Company, writing to his home in Prince Edward island, says: "I spent all morning in having a bath, washing my shirt, socks, towels, and daring my socks. I can make porridge, tea, coffee, cocoa, pudding, soup, boll vegetables, fry beefsteak, wash, darn, sew, clean cooking pots, wash dishes or do any sort of housework. Such is the result of campaigning. I am going out to service when I go home, so if you know of any one wanting a cook, housemaid, or general servant, just recommend me; I am equal to anything from nursing a Kaffir baby to washing the older children." Not Familiar with Contents- A correspondent of the London academy writes that a bookseller in a large provincial city discovered an assistant arranging four new copies of Walk Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" on the shelves devoted to books on gardening. DR. HARTMAN'S ADVICE Is Sought by Female Sufferers from Ocean to Ocean. Mrs. F. W. Goulder, 1306 4th ave. Rock Island, 11l., writes; [Image of a woman with dark hair, wearing a white dress with a ruffled collar.] "I was afflicted for five or six years with catarral difficulties and was growing worse all the time. I began taking your Peruna with a marked improvement from the first. Independent of curing that, the Peruna has greatly improved my general health." "Every bottle of Peruna is worth its weight in gold; especially to me, for I owe my present good health to Peruna." All over the country there are women who have been invalids for many years, suffering with female derangements which the family doctor cannot cure. What a boon to such women is Dr. Harman's treat ad hoc. Suffa has his skill made him that hardly a hamlet or town in the country but knows his name. He cures tens of thousands, and he offers to every woman who will write to him her symptoms and a history of her trouble free advice and treatment. The medicines he prescribes can be obtained at any drug store, and the cost is within the reach of any woman. He describes minutely and carefully just what she shall do and get to make a healthy, robust woman of herself. The Doctor has written a book especially for this class of women, entitled "Health and Beauty." This book contains many facts of interest to women, and will be sent-free to any address by Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O. Britain's Indian Army. The full strength of Great Britain's Indian army is 300,000 men, of whom 230,000 are native and 70,000 British soldiers. In addition to this military force there are about 20,000 enrolled European volunteers, and a native police, officered by white men, nearly 200,000 strong. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. A pillow fight is seldom a sham battle. A B Stroud, Grantville, Ga., wrote: A priceless boon has been given the baby world in Dr. Mofet's TEETHINA (Teething Powders) The wise girl looks well to her bait before she shears for compliments. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. A man's conscience is either his best friend or his worst enemy. $20.00 A WEEK AND EXPENSES to agents selling our household goods. Sell on sight. Write C. H. Marshall & Co., Chicago. It's usually the bottom dollar that counts. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wind colic. Dr. bottle The organ grinder has a great many turning points in his life. A Book of Choice Recipes Sent free by Walter Baker & Co Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. Menton this paper. It is usually safe to suspect the man who is suspicious of others. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. 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Mr. Gielgud, the native commissioner at Sebungwe, Africa, reports that the very rare white rhinoceros still roams the veldt in the district between the Sanyati and Zambesi rivers. 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. Guns Regarded as Devils Much superstition has been attached to artillery by those nations which are pagan. The Burmese and Malays regarded their guns as devils, and strove to enhance the killing power of their weapons by constructing their cannon in the form of dragons. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S.Oimsted. LeRoy, N. Y. It is misdirected sympathy to bet on the under dog. Many causes induce gray hair, but PARKER's Hair BALSAN brings back the youthful color. HINDERCOURS, the best cure for corn. 16cts. It is necessary to pray and watch as well as to watch and pray. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE's TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 500. The shoemaker's favorite tipple is sherry cobbler. Ask for Tickets via FRIENDS FRIENDS THIS WILL ROLLLED OATS OATS Silver Plated Salt and Pepper Shakers POSED AS AN ANGEL. LOVELY WOMAN PRESENTED IN A MARBLE ANGEL. Countess Zichy, an American Beauty, Who Is Famed in European Courses— Poses for a Statue to Be Presented to Empress Dowager of Austria. (Special Letter.) A pathetic story but one which has been repeated many times and will be many times again is that of Countess Bela Zichy, of Austria, who was formerly Miss Mabel Wright, of New York. Pathos, pain and pleasure mingle in her story, which had its beginning in New York some years ago, was carried across the ocean and has not yet ended. The countess was Miss Mabel Wright, a poor but very beautiful girl, who lived in a New York boarding house, where she made a bare living painting Christmas cards and designing calicos. She happened one day to visit Narragansett Pier for an outing, and there she met several New York society men, who so admired her rare beauty that she was introduced to their friends because of the admiration they felt for her perfect loveliness. It was not long after this that she met and married Fernando Yznaga, who had been divorced from his former wife, a sister of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The marriage launched her upon the very crest of the social wave of New York's "Four Hundred," and for a number of years no social function was complete without her. Her married life was as happy as could be until Count Zichy, who possessed wealth illimitable, every grace possible to the accomplished man of society, and a fascinating way which easily won him a place in the heart of every woman whom he met appeared. Then Mrs. Yznaga lost her heart and before long she eloped with the count, went to North Dakota and obtained a divorce. She then married Count Zichy and went with him to his magnificent estates in Hungary, where they live a happy existence. The countess has recently come again into public notice through the fact that a short time ago she posed for a superb white statue of an angel to be sent to the Dowager Empress of Russia. last balcony runs a feet from the side vided with a manhole end, through which lower herself and dri Of course, the device water pipes, through cold water can be for escape from becoming —Chicago News. What Pezzler "I was stopping for an American friend station in Cuba," said who recently visited one day as I was risc across one of the w PARDON FOR INNOCENT MAN. (Columbia, S. C., Letter.) Charley and Eugene Mills are twins. They lived in Spartanburg county up to two years ago, when Charley, convicted of highway robbery, was sent to the penitentiary under a six years' sentence. The brothers resembled each other so closely that only those who had known them from infancy could tell one from the other. Eugene was the "black sheep," and, as boys, Charley frequently suffered punishment on his account. Gov. McSweeney has just decided to grant a full pardon to Charley Mills, indisputable evidence being presented that for two years the young man has been wearing convict's stripes for a crime of which he was innocent, but which was committed by his brother. While the present assistant attorney general was a magistrate in Spartanburg, A. J. Phillips was held up in the highway and robbed of his watch and some money. The victim had Eugene Mills arrested, and at the hearing before Magistrate Gunter the man admitted his guilt and was sentenced to serve 30 days on the chain gan. When the sentence had been served Phillips, wishing to further prosecute the case in the Sessions Court, pointed out Charley Mills to law officers as the highwayman who had robbed him. At the trial Mills pleaded not guilty, but made no mention of his borther being the guilt/ one. So he was convicted and sentenced to six years at hard labor. Only recently did this miscarriage of justice come to light and now the innocent man will be released. WAY TO SAFETY MADE EASY. Platform and Staircase Fire Escape Adjusted. Occupants of the Telephone building would have comparatively little difficulty in reaching the ground in case of fire. A new fire escape has been adjusted to the sides of the west elevation of this building, which is not only adequate, but in its construction less disagreeable than such devices are apt to be on the fronts of tall structures where some respectable efforts have been made at architectural beauty. The new escape runs from the level of the upper floor to within eight or ten feet of the sidewalk, each floor being connected by stairway and balcony to the one below. The device is of steel throughout, and consists of, first, a narrow balcony, which runs along the window sills of the upper floor. This balcony is railed in with steel railings, so that persons in a hurry to get out cannot be precipitated to the ground. The balcony runs from near the corner of the building to a distance of some twenty feet back. There it connects with a narrow staircase, also railed, which runs down to the next floor, where a second balcony, the exact counterpart of the upper one, receives the people. This method of progress is maintained to the sill of the second floor, each being provided with the platform, where exit can be made, and the balcony along which the escaping persons can run and the stairs to approach the ground. The ```markdown ``` last balcony runs about eight or ten feet from the sidewalk, and is provided with a manhole in the northern end, through which a woman could lower herself and drop without injury. Of course, the device is provided with water pipes, through which streams of cold water can be forced to prevent the escape from becoming too hot for use. —Chicago News. What Pozzled the Boy. "I was stopping for a few weeks with an American friend on his sugar plantation in Cuba," said a congressman who recently visited the islands, "and one day as I was riding alone I came across one of the wagons loaded with cane broken down in the field. A hind wheel had come off, and the driver of the oxen, a boy about 15 years old, was taking things as cool as ice, not even having unhitched his beasts. "When did it happen?" I asked as I got down. 'Hours ago, senor,' he replied. 'And haven't you reported to the overseer?' 'No, senor.' 'But why have you wasted all this time when there is need of hurry?' 'Will the senor tell me,' he replied as he lazily scratched his head, 'what has happened to the wagon?' 'Why, a wheel has come off, of course.' 'Then I will go up to the mill and report. I should have done so long ago, but I wasn't sure.' 'Sure of what?' you doit. 'Of whether the wheel had come off the wagon or the wagon had come off the wheel.'"—Washington Post. Foreign but Pertinent A North Omaha Sunday school superintendent always conducts the lesson review in his school. He spends about five minutes in explaining the lesson, and then asks: "Now, has any one a question to ask?" Last Sunday he explained the lesson as usual, dwelling at length on its chief thoughts, and wound up with the usual question: "Now, has any one a question to ask?" A member of the boy's junior class raised his hand, "Well, what is your question?" asked the superintendent. "Please, sir, are we going to have a picnic this summer?" -Omaha World-Herald Cures Talk Great Fame of a Great Medicine Won by Actual Merit. The fame of Hood's Sarsaparilla has been won by the good it has done to those who were suffering from disease. Its cures have excited wonder and admiration. It has caused thousands to rejoice in the enjoyment of good health, and it will do you the same good it has done others. It will expal from your blood all impurities; will give you a good appetite and make you strong and vigorous. It is just the medicine to help you now, when your system is in need of a tonic and invigorator. Scrofula —"I had scrofula sores all over my back and face. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla, used Hood's Medicated Soap and Hood's Olive Ointment, and was cured." Orno B. Moore, Mount Hope, Wis. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine LABASTINE is the original and only durable wall coating, entirely different from all kalsomines, because it is pure, clean, durable. Put up in dry powder form, in five-pound packages, with full directions. LL kalsomines are cheap, temporary preparations made from kalsomine powder and stuck on walls with decaying animal glue. ALABASTINE is not a kalsomine. EWARE of the dealer who says he can sell you the "same" "something just as good." life is not posted or is trying to deceive you. 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Illustrated pamphlets, gracious farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of information as to reduced railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immunology Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to J. Crawford, 214 West Ninth St, Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City to San Antonio Without Change Via the Santa Fe Route. Through Pullman Palace Sleepers and free Roathing City Cars to Ft. Worth. As in and San Antonio, daily at 10 p.m. from Kansas City. Absolutely no change of cars. Round trip tickets on rail at F.R. reduced rates. The A. T. & S. B. G. W. HAGENBUCH, G. A. P.D. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Or W. J. BLACK, G. P.A. Topeka, Kau. PARALYSIS Locomotor Ataxia conquered at last. Doctors amazed at recovery of patients thought incurable by amazed at recovery of patients thought incurable by OD AND NERVEFOOD. Write me about your case. Attend free DE. CHASE, 224 N. 10th St., PHILADELPHIA. Ash Grove Lime The Best on Earth. DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Cialims. Late Principal Benjamin U. Vinson Bureau. 3 yrs in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, etc since. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 19, 1900 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Treatment. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION American Citizen. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Daily and Weekly 325 Minnesota Ave KANSAS CITY KANSAS TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily delivered by carrierper 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 Negro's 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. MONEY FOR OLD SOLDIERS The additional Homestead Claims of all Soldiers or Sailors who served in the Union army or navy, their widows or minor heirs. Who filled a Homestead claim of less than 160 acres and prior to June 22nd, 1874? Such persons are entiled to enough more land, including the number of acres embraced in their original entry, without living upon it, to make 100 acres. If they homesteaded 80 acres, they are entitled to 80 more. If 40 acres 120 more, if 19 acres, one sore more, or any other number as it may be. By late ruins and decisions its not necessary that final proof should have been made on their original entry, that is, they are now entitled to such additional rights if their homestead was abandoned, canceled or relinquished, and all transfers can be made at their homes, before a Notary Public. All such claims I am prepared to buy and will pay the highest market price in cash. AL ONCE. Will buy fractional claims ever if not more than one acre each. If you did not make a homestead filing you have no claim to sell. This land is yours and don't wait but come to this office at once and get full partitions concerning this land. It is to your own interest to do so. AMERICAN CITIZEN OFFICE, 335 Minnesota Avenue. The Americau Ctizen Directory OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, AND KANSAS CITY, MO. Church Directory BAPTIST CHURCHES. African 3914 East 15th street. Greenwood, 2005 Anderson Avenue. Highland Avenue, 1119 Highland Ave. Macedonian Mission 216 East 21st street. Missionary, 2605 Madison Avenue. Mt. Calvary, 15 northeast cor. Norton Avenue. Mount Gay, 2100 Wyoming Avenue. Mount Norish, 983 Bluff Street. Mount Olive, Villa s. e. cor. Garnett. Mount Zion, 908 Hickory Avenue. Mount Zion. Primitive, 2815 Garnett street. Pilgrim, 705 Charlott. street. Pilgrim, Charlott between 6th and 7th Pleasant Green, East Forest. Round Top, Norton near 28th street. St James, 1411 East 15th street. St James Chapel, 518 High street. St. Marks, 1019 East 4th street. St. Pauls, 510 East 4th street. Second Baptist, Charlott, cor. 10.h. Vine Street, 1825 Vine street. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 21st between Summit and Madison. s. Augustine Mission, 1025 Troost ave. METHODIST EPISCOFAL. Ashbury Chapel, 1620 Cherry street Burns, 11s W. W. Cor, Highland ave Clark's Chapel, 519 S. W. Bountyward Westport v., Prospect Place Cor. 23rd King Solomon Miss on 4th and Locust Colored Schools. Attu ks 208 East 19th street Bruce 8914 East 15th street. Douglass 27th N. E. Cor N. Prospect Place Garrison Forest S. W Cor. 4th street. Lincoln School 11th N W. Cor Camp- bell street. Lincoln High School 816 East 11th st. Page Itochster N.E. Cor. Pro-spect Avenue. Pearn 4241 Shawne. Phillips 1917 Cherry street. Kound Top 2617 Norton Avenue. Business Directory. J. A. Wilson Jeweller 1616 W. 9th st. Chandler's Barker shop, Samuel Chandler Prop. S LCIus ers Mgr 112 East 6th stre t. Restaurant Mrs Amus Prop. 114 East 6th stre t. Field's Barber Shop 102 East 6th stree Miller's Barber Shop 113 East 6th KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Enterprises. A.C.L. Coal Co. Main Office 492 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 Clark & Lee, junk store, 1104 north 8rd. st. Kansas City Kansas Soap Works, 4th. st., between Oakland and Freeman. J.R. McClain, Grocer,1700 n 5th. st. J.R. Rucker, Buteher, 1609 n 16th. st Douglas Hospitals, 319 Washington ave., Miss L. V. Ashton, Matron. CHURCHES METROPOLIS. St. James A. M. E., cor. 7th. and Ann. St. James M. E., Freeman ave., between 9:th and 10th. C. M. E. Oakland ave., bet. 4th. and 5th. CHRISTIAN. 8th. St. Christian, cor. Everett and 8th. 9th. St. Christian, cor. 9th. and Nebraska. BAPIST. 1st. Baptist, corner 5 h. and Nebraska avenue. Metropoliitan Baptist, cor. 9th. and Washington. Mt. Zion Baptist, Virginia ave., between 4th. and 5th. Mt. Pleasant, 3rd. st., between Oakland and Jersey. Rose Hill, Jersey ave. bet 9th. and 10th. Pleasant Green, Wood St. and Split-log ave. King Solomon Baptist, 3rd and State avenue. HOTELS The Empire House 385 Minnesota Ave. Dyson House 440 Minnesota Ave. Jamison House 417 Minnesota Ave. Restaurants. J. W. Johnson's 6th and State. Mrs. Hall 507 Minn. Ave. Mrs. Sarah Thurston 1414 5th st. Mc Gees 448 Minn. Ave. E. Stoakes 1510 N. 3rd st. BARBERS J. T. Roberts & Tucker, 507 Minnesota avenue. J. Gross, 412 Minnesota avenue. G. McClellan, 613 Minnesota ave. M.T. Comer, 608 Minnesota ave. Robt. Keith, 315 Minnesota ave. M. Pattison, 1603 north 3rd. st. SHOEMAKER. Lon McAdams, 348 Minnesota ave. D. W. Wynne, 809 Minnesota ave. Lewis Blanchard, North 6th., State Line. Wilson, 5th. st. between Nebraska and State. M. & O., 1806 north 8th. street. Cons of Protection, State and 6th. DRUGS. Wyandotte Drug Store, 1512 north 5th. street. DOCTORS. S. H. Thompson, 151. north 5th. st. G. H. Brown, 1010 Freeman ave. Jordan, 610 Minnesota ave. ARTISTS. O. J. Brooks, 70, New York Life Buildig. TEACHERS OF FRENCH AND ELOCUTION. Arthur A. Anderson, 541 State Ave. UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND FRONT WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE. SHORTFST LINE ACROSS CONTINENT The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kansas City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibule and fully equipped with latest improved Reclining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant pian at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintch Lis t Only line running two trains without change from Kansas City to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon Washington and California. Don't complete your ars rangements for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducements and attractions offered by the Union Pacific. For full information in regard to low rates time, etc., call on or address J. B. FRAWLEY. Gen. Agt., Union Pacific, 1000 Main street, Kansas City, Mo Hair Cutting, 25c, Baths, 15c., Shaving, 10c., Newly Remodeled Bath Rooms, Porcelain Tubs GEO. McCLELLAND, EAGERS Gem Drugs MINNESOTA DEL DRUGS, MEDICINE Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes PERFUMERY AND FAN W. B. RA Manufacturer of an UNDERTAKERS FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYAL Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota Factory Cor st St., KANSAS CIT Am Drugs MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEM et Soaps, Brushes, Combs, ERY AND FANCY TOILET A B. RAYM Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer RTAKERS * SU ARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SIC Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone factory Cor st St., and Riverview A CIT DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc., PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES W. B. RAYMOND UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. Telephone 26 KANSAS CITY KANSAS GO TO THE GREAT JU Wholesale Office 811 Hckory Street, IRON YARDS CORN Iron, Kags, Bot Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, box dealer in junk. Here's the p'ace where dealing. AT JUNK S Olesale and R ckory Street, RON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICK Rags, Bottles and scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals. Here's the p'ace where you can get corre SAM'L. GREAT JUNK SHOP. Wholesale and Retail. Office 811 Hckory Street, Kansas City, Mo. IRON YARDS CORNER 8th. AND HICKORY. Cash paid for scrap iron, rags, bottles and metals. Wholesale and Retail dealer in junk. Here's the p'ace where you can get correct weight and square dealing. SAM'L. DIGGS. Telephone, No 126 Hickory Kansas City, Mo. REAL Ameri DAILY and GO J. W. JO ICECREA The only Ice Cream Parlors in the get the BestIce Cream Soda, and Pies, Cakes AND Special attention paid to Ice Cream, wholesale, 175 te 90 e a call. Corner 6th. and State street KANSAS CITY READ THE American Citiz LY and WE GO TO W. JOHNSON CREAMPAR Cream Parlors in the two Kansas C ream Soda, and Ice Creams Cakes AND Confect al attention paid to Churches, Lodges a wholesale, 175 te 90 cts. per gallon. I 6th. and State streets, CITY American J. W. JOHNSON'S ICECREAMPARLOR. The only Ice Cream Parlors in the two Kansas Cities where you can get the BestIce Cream Soda, and Ice Creams, Fine Lunch, Pies, Cakes AND Confectionaries Special attention paid to Churches, Lodges and parties. Ice Cream, wholesale, [75 te 90 cts. per gallon. Don't fail to give us a call. Corner 6th. and State streets, KANSAS CITY KANS Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Line, K. C. K. Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantees the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time. Give him a trial and see for youelf. Midland Barber Shop Harsy Parson Proprietor 115 East 6th street. Pace Barber Shop Oarth & Warfield. Proprietors 550 Grand Avenue. O' Bannon' Barber Shop W.T. O Ban'on Proprietor 560 Grand Avenue. Manila Barber Shop Madison Bros. Proprietors 769 Independence avenue. McRay's Barber shop Ben McRay Proprietor 819 Independence avenue. Bug Store AVENUE CALLER IN. TINES, CHEMICALS, Times, Combs, Etc., BY TOILET ARTICLES RYMOND, Wholesale dealer in SUPPLIES PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS INK SHOP. and Retail. Kansas City, Mo. R 8th. AND HICKORY. Bottles and Metals. Bottles and metals. Wholesale and Retail you can get correct weight and square SAM'L. DIGGS. Kansas City, Mo. TO THE can Citiz n, WEEKLY. TO JHNSON'S MPARLOR. the two Kansas Cities where you can Ice Creams, Fine Lunch, Confectionaries churches, Lodges and parties. te. per gallon. Don't fail to give us KANS Secure Tickets .....VIA TRE.... Chicago, Milwaukee &St. PaulRy AND YOU GET.... Sleepers: & Chair and all intermediate points The shortest, quickest and be tine to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Bubaque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: ...Passenger Station at... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable. City Ticket Office, 915 Main street, Ridge Building. A. B. BRIDGES Gen'l. Southwester Agent F. J. LERCH Passenger Agent. Office 915Main St. Kansas City Cars GREAT SHOE VALUES. MELSON We'll admit that shoes are a pretty hard judge unless you are an expert in the business. NELSO YOU can buy with SAFETY and CONFIDENCE but good dependable shoes, and all of them Prices you Cannot Elsewhere. All our Shoes are guarantee pairs Ladies' tan and Black Oxfords, coin toe, 100 pairs Bend's ladies tan and black Oxford's late our price $3 00. Bonds, Men's tan and black, $5 00, $3 50 and $3 $2 00, at NELSON'S. SHOEMAKER 315 M that shoes are a pretty hard article of foot are an expert in the business. At ELSON' with SAFETY and CONFIDENCE, for andable shoes, and all of them at you Cannot Dup all our Shoes are guaranteed. One hul- and Black Oxford, coin toe, light sole, S adies tan and black Oxford's latest styles, go- and black, $5 00, $8 50 and $3.00 shoe, at N'S. SHOEMAKER AND SH 315 Minnesota A betty hard article of merchandise to business. At SON'S CONFIDENCE, for we carry not all of them at not Duplicate guaranteed. One hundred and fifty coin toe, light sole, $2.00 shoe, $1.50, Oxford's latest styles, good value at $2.00, 50 and $3.00 shoe, at $2.75, $2.25 and EMAKER AND SHOE DEALER 315 Minnesota Ave. DEAL Prices. ULTZ & SON, DEUTATION AS— Ccers, the many years of prosperous business. Business OLD STAND.— nesota Ave. ne all their old customers and friends their stock. They now have in PROCERIES, FRUITS AND VEGETABLE house in the two cities. Give them COAL CO., MARTERS FOR— BEST PRICES Sales, the Smallest Profits test deliveries. OUR PRICES ON FLOUR, AND BUILDING TONE, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. th 3rd. St. We'll admit that shoes are a pretty hard article of merchandise to judge unless you are an expert in the business. At NELSON'S NELSON'S YOU can buy with SAFETY and CONFIDENCE, for we carry not- ing but good dependable shoes, and all of them at Prices you Cannot Duplicate Elsewhere. All our Shoes are guaranteed. One hundred and fifty pairs Ladies' tan and Black Oxford's, coin toe, light sole, $2.00 shoe, $1.50. 100 pairs Bend's ladies tan and black Oxford's latest styles, good value at $2.50, our price $2.00. Bonds, Men's tan and black, $5.00, $3.50 and $3.00 shoe, at $2.75, $2.25 and $2.00, at NELSON'S. SHOEMAKER AND SHOE DEALER, 315 Minnesota Ave. Sole Leather and Wholesale and Retail Prices. THEO. SCHULT —WHOSE REPUTATION Grocer Has been established through these many years in this city, have Resumed By —AT THEIR OLD STAND 542 Minnesota Where they will be glad to welcome all their and invite the public to call and examine their full line of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES EARLY VEGETARIAN At prices to compete with any house in the call and you will never regret it. A. C. L. COAL —IS HEADQUARTERS BY THE CHEAPEST The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the and the promptest delivery GET THEIR PRICE COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Yard and Storage 917 and 919 No.th 3rd. St. E F. H A MODERATE Restaurant Good Meals Cooked COLD LUNCHES ON SHORT NOTICE, THE BEST HOME MADE PIES IN THE CAKES AND CONFECTIONARIES. When you want good Ice Cream Modern Restaurant Ice Cream Where you can always find delicious Ice number, 504 Nebraska Avenue, MRS. H. M. G. M. SCHULTZ & —WHOSE REPUTATION AS— Grocers Published through these many years of pro- sistence Business —AT THEIR OLD STAND.— 22 Minnesota Ave. Will be glad to welcome all their old custom- ic to call and examine their stock. They AND FANCY GROCERIES, FROM EARLY VEGETABLE compete with any house in the two cities never regret it. C. L. COAL C —IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— CHEAPEST PRICE Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON GOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND B STONE, Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Te storage 917 and 919 No.th 3rd. St. Has been established through these many years of prosperous business in this city, have Resumed Business 542 Minnesota Ave. Where they will be glad to welcome all their old customers and friends, and invite the public to call and examine their stock. They now have in a full line of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS AND EARLY VEGETABLE At prices to compete with any house in the two cities. Give them a call and you will never regret it. The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 No:th 3rd. St. A MODERN restaurant Meals Cooked to LUNCHES ON SHORT NOTICE, BEST HOME MADE PIES IN THE CITY, AND CONFECTIONARIES, when you want good Ice Cream go to the Restaurant Ice Cream always find delicious Ice Creams. Naska Avenue, MRS. H. M. G. SPENCER and Surgeons. Lambright 1215 E D. M. Mitchell, B Grand ave. DERN urant. looked to Order. NOTICE, RES IN THE CITY, ARIES. Ice Cream go to the Ice Cream Parlors Necessary Ice Cream. Remember the H. M. G. SPENCER, Proprietress. KANSAS. D. M. Mitchell, Barber Shop, 576 Grand ave. Restaurant COLD LUNCHES ON SHORT NOTICE, THE BEST HOME MADE PIES IN THE CITY, CAKES AND CONFECTIONARIES. When you want good Ice Cream go to the Modern Restaurant Ice Cream Parlors Where you can always find delicious Ice Cream. Remember the number, 504 Nobraska Avenue, Physicians and Surgeons. Drs. Shannon and Lambright 1215 E. 18th st. Dr. J. N. Birch 1339 E. 19th st. Dr. T. Q. Unthank 1233 Independence Ave. D. M. Grand ave Langston Walker H. J. G 9th st. Cowd Cowden a Barber Shop 704 East 12thst Restaurant J. W, Gordon Prop. 554 Grand avenue. Dr. L. J. Holly 1113 Campbell st. Rising Snu J. F. Cole, Editor, L. W Wood. Manager 117 W. 61st st. Restaurant H Powel Propriator 572 Grand avenue. Grocery, A. Webb, Prop. 49th and Holmes. Maupin's Barber Shop 1332 E 18th st. Brown's Barber Shop 1329 E 18th st. Berry's Barber Shop 1432¹ E. 18th st Grocer, George Grear, Prop. 1211 E. 8th st. KANSAS CITY. E F. HENDERSON Manager. Langston' Barber Shop 718 East 8th st Walker's Farber Shop 806 East 12th st H. J. George, barber shop, 1307 w 9th st. Chicago Cafe H Compton Proprietor 706 . 685 12th street