The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country W. H. CRADDOCK FOR MAYOR MEANS LOWER TAXES AND A GREATER KANSAS CITY AND A BREATHING CHANCE TO THE POOR TAX-BURDENED CITIZENS. APPEALS TO REASON. IN BEHALF W. H. CRADDOCK AND THE PLATFORM "TO DO RIGHT." FREEDOM AND MANHOOD. VOL 14, NO.6 Oldest and W. H. CRADDOCK FOR APPEALS T IN BEHALF W. AND THE PLATFORM "T AND MA The campaign is now drawing to a close in dead earnest, the close of a busy will soon be upon us. It is to be hoped that every voter has seriously, intelligently and honestly considered the issues be fore the people and on next Tuesday will step up to the ballot boxes in the different wards and voting presents and exercise the glorious privilige of a true American Citizen. We have labored faithfully and honestly in our efforts to place before you the true conditions as they exist today, and what by unintentional eorelessness on your part the result will be in the future. There is not a vot r who is a citizen at present and expects to still be one in the future in Kansas City Kansas but what is rested in making this one of the best places to live, in the universe. There is not a tax payer, whether he is fortunate enough to own more real estate besides his little home or not, but what has been cramped to pay the taxes on his ownings from year to year. He has used all the economy that human lives can exist upon yet the conditions have remained the same and are still the same today. Men have come among you at your daily toil prior to elections in all the years gone by, have told you that these things would be remedied if you would give them your votes—as usual you give them, and find each year your condition growing worse. Now we need not tell you that every mayor elected in Kansas City Kan. almost in its entire history has be in Republicans. Common sense would then teach you that you could expect no change if you continued electric Republican mayors, especially this year when the Republican party has turned over to a secret gang known as the Municipal Reform Trust—whose reformation is based on, not the city's best welfare, but their own personal gains. It is said one big partner's ip business is being formed of this city's municipal affairs. The oath bound organization, the M. R. T's, have entered into an agreement with the corporation push and are making a mighty effort to control this city's affairs to suit themselves, while the citizens and tax payers, who have always borne the trust and burden in the beat of the day—stand "quabbling" over party principles and other like affairs, B. L. Short stands as the undisputed candidate of the M. R. T.'s and not the candidate of the bone and sinew of the Republican party, and if the people by ignorance of these facts elect him, he will be Mayor in name—while Nat. Barnes and the corporations will be Mayor in reality. We ask in the name of high heaven and all that is honorable, near and dear to you as citizens, are you going to stand for this? There is a remedy at hand and one which will be in the course of a little time a never failing cure, for many of the ills the tax payers suffer in this city. That remedy is to pick out such men as W, H. Craddock to control the municipal affairs, stand by them and enact them. It is now up to the people to change these conditions, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, on next Tuesday day. The time is here—if we wish to live and maintain our homes and make a greater Kansas City, that we must override party lines and pick out men that have the moral courage to stand upon the platform—"To do Right." These three words mean much to the masses when uttered by men whose integrity and general make-up and past history is taken into consideration. To prevent a snake from doing us harm we pay close attention to its head, and at the opportune time kill it. Therefore it behooves everybody to cut the head from the so-called Republican ticket and substitute a head from which purity, decency and THE KAN d Best Weekly FOR MAYOR MEANS LOWER TO REASON, W. H. CRADDOCK M "TO DO RIGHT." FREEDOM MANHOOD. honesty will emanate. We now make our last appeal to the negro citizens whose best interests are at stake. We appeal to you with all the honesty human mortals ever spoke—with all the earnestness in our power, to stand up and be men, free men, thinking men, interested men in the affairs that concern all our futures, if we are to live in Kansas City, Kansas. In the glorious sunlight: of a new century let us set up a higher ideal of citizenship and exercise the blessed privilege of a free man, in behalf of good government and a better Kansas City. To the women, God's noblest and grandest creation: you too have a say, and we consciently believe that you will all do the right thing and vote for a man who promises—"To do right," and from our past knowledge of the gentleman he means exactly what he says. Are we to be forever paying the mortgage the Republican party claim against us for our freedom, isn't it a fact that in the past thirty-five years we have paid both the principal and interest to the Republicans? Then why argue? Why hesitate to vote as a tree man? As a thinking, wide awake, intelligent being, and to your own best interest. We have voted continually for other people's interest and never once stop to think that we all have interests, that in the grand aggregation of human interests, deserves as much protection and recognition as any other nationality's interest. Many of us have owned homes in this city, you know how you lost them. Many have homes to-day, you know what it takes to hold them. There are others that rent, you know what enormous rent you are paying. Did you ever stop to consider that if the property owner didn't have such high taxes to pay you could get cheaper rent. It is then up to you to be interested in good municipal government, just the same as the tax payer. Incompetent and corporation interested officials inflict wrongs upon the tax payers, they in turn on the tenants of their property, and you, the tenants, being compelled to work at daily toil, have no redress but the ballot which, if properly used, is the greatest weapon in defense of human rights and true citizenship in the world. It should then be a paramount with every negro voter, both women and men, to rally to the support of a man who is pledged to stand true to the interests of the people, and you are a part of the people. The man who represents the consummated qualities of an upright, honest and capable mort l who will do you the most good, is W. H. Craddock, the choice of the people for Mayor. Give him your vote, tell your neighbors about it, bring your wives and sweethearts out to vote, if they are registered, and we know they are. REMEMBER dear brethren and sisters every vote you put in the ballot box against B. L. Short and the corrupt gang behind him—you are getting your veugenance against Nat. Barnes, the 'B' bee in reality, who sat down so hard on the negroes that they are still feeling the sting. Be men and women enough to resent a most dastardly insult. One of the greatest negro meetings ever held in this city in the interest of good government and a better Kansas City and W. H. Craddock, was held at the M. and O. Hallen on Wednesday night. The Negro is reading the AMERICAN CITIZEN and acting the part of one. Let the good work go on till Tuesday night, and Wednesday as an Aprils sun peeps up, the old familiar strains will be wafted on the winds to the ears of B. L. Short, Nat Barnes and the discriminating gang (you are beat) Praise God from Whom all blessings flow Don't let inclement weather keep you away from the pills. Brave the storm in defense of your rights. AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1901. POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS A fit place to live, lower taxes, a just assessment of the same and a Greater Kansas City, is what it means when you vote for W. H. Craddock. Let us demonstrate to the world that secret gangs and corporations cannot override the people in the greatest metropolis of the West. Get out early on next Tuesday. Vote first and then see that your friends and neighbors vote. W. H. C. addock is the most conscientious, true to the core, all around friend of the masses, that has asked the suffrage of the people for many a day. Go to church Sunday and in your prayers ask God to give you strength to vote for W. H. Craddock, the most exalted type of ideal manhood and American citizenship. THE white man that tells you the Republican party freed you and that he fought for your freedom—is simply trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Tell him you helped to free yourself and entitled to as much credit for saving the union as anybody else. That you have paid the debt claimed against you by the Republican party and stand to-day a free man to use your power of franchise in the direction you think by intelligent observation, will do you the most good. Le. everybody turn out and give W. H. Craddock the grandest majority ever received by a candidate for Mayor in Kansas City, Kas. The New Broom has the following to say to the true blue Republic ns and honest citizens: "No Republican who has the interest of this city or of his party at heart can afford to have the Republican party to be any longer controlled by the M. R. T., a secret society of limi ed numbers which excludes from its membership all cooled and foreign born citizens. The republican party has always welcomed to its membership all good citizens regardless of color or nationality and any society which seeks to run the republican party of this city without consulting or considering the colored or foreign born voters ought to be quickly and forever destroyed and forbidden." B. L. Short is member of the M. R. T He was nominated at an M. R. T. a month before he publicly announced his cardiology. The Republican Centra- l Committee was controlled by the M. R. T Ed. Earhart, an M. R. T, prepared the call for the primary election and provided in it that an M. R. T, canvassing board should appoint M R. T. judges and clerks and run the primary to suit the M. R. T. bosses. Will true republicans who love their party and respect its principles vote for the M. R. T. candidate for Mayor?" ON THE POLITICAL RACES. The bookmaker of THE CITIZEN, who has sized the field of political racers up pretty well, announces the following: The Greatest Mayoralty Haadicap, git up and 'git race ever ran in Kansas City, Kas, will take place next Tuesday, April 2nd. Seventeen thousand citizens have secured admission by registering, and the struggle for supremacy is now on. The people are betting heavily on their choice, who is a general favor, W. H. Craddock, against the M. R. T. horse, B L. Short. Competent and honest judges will be secured and the horses will make the finish attrictly on their morit and past record for (speed.) All indications are that Craddock, the Keatucky thoroughbred, will come under the wire a winner by long odds. He's the speeder to bet your dough en. There are numerous bets offered on Craddock and Short. Some are two to one, that Craddock will carry the entire city by 1,500 majority. Others are that his majority over Short will be 2,000 Bets are offered 3 to 1 that U. S. J. Hughes, the Independent candidate, will receive over 1,000 votes. Bets are offered 3 to 1 that J. E McFadden, the Democratic nominee for Councilman in the 2nd. Ward, will beat Al. Baker, the Republican nominee, by 125 majority. Bets are offered 2 to 1 that Craddock will carry three out of the five precints in the 2nd. Ward. Bets are offered 2 to 1 that Stisley, the Democrat nominee in the 4th Ward, will beat Geo. H. Miller by a small majority. Bets are offered that Jno. A. Adams, the Republican nominee for City Treasurer, will lead the ticket. Even money is offered on Blackburn and Kampmier, Councilmen candidates in the 3rd. Ward. Our "Booky" says there is a rather good sized lot of 'easy money' floating for those who know a thing or two about horse flesh and can pick the winners. Take your Registration papers to the polls Tuesday. POLITICS AND OTHER NEWS. Interesting and Other Very Newsy Bits Gathered by our Correspondents at Topeka, Kansas. TALES OF TWO CITIES. --- Politicians from all over the State are much in evidence in the city this week, they are pushing the claims of their choice for members of the Rail road Commissioners which are to be on Saturday, of course there are no Colored leaders in this push as his day has passed. Janitorship and eat have all been given out and that is the dead line the Negro in politics. There will be some additional janitors and one colored fireman a pointed at the Statehouse sometime this week it is understood that the State has been made for sometime. The executive committee of the State Afro American Council will meet in Athens on Saturday we hope that they will take some decisive action in regard to the paramount matter before the recent State Convention All councils are expected to send in what funds they can to treasurer Tipton at that time. Sources of colored people from over the state are preparing to go to the New lands in the territory which will be open to settlement on or about August 1st. This is a movement which is commendable, as we believe the acquisition of land and properties of all sorts will do more to solve the race problem than all the agitation of a century. CITY POLITICS. Fred. Stonestreet, for City Marshall, and G. W. Williams, for member of the School Board, the colored candidates at Tuesday's city election, will not have any opposition, as the Democratic and Citizen's tickets and nominees have withdrawn in their favor. There is a rattling of dry bones in the rustling for votes for the Mayoralty contest on next Tuesday. People who never vote have registered so they may vote. The registration exceeds 15,000. The colored people have all registered and are ta king curious, and it is freely predicted that the election will be close as between Mr. Hughes and Mr. Parker, and some have the tenacity to bet even money on Parker, the Democratic and Citizens' candidate. If Parker was it means a house cleaning in the city affairs. A ting which has not happened in years, and no doubt to many it will be greeted with great joy. Aside from the head of the ticket there is no contest with the possible exception of one or two, Councillmen in the permanently close Wards, otherwise Mrs. R. C. Wakes on the sick list. Mrs. Annie Hawkins of Kans. City Mo. and to Linnis Mo. on the account of their grand mother's illness they visited our city Sunday. Mrs. Emma Pitts, of Higbee, Mo. well and favorably known in that city, died last week of small pox, to the sad regret of many. Mrs Rosa Robinson, of 1710 Holmes street, who has been so seriously ill for some time, is improving. Mrs Mattie Davis of Galveston Texas who has been the guest of her mother and sister Mrs. Lula Gibson and Mrs. Ida Kelly 703 Wyandotte St. every since the desvastation returned home this week reports a delightful stay with relatives and friends and wishes to return thanks for the way she was entertained. The Installation of the Pastor Rev. B. W Bacotte last Sunday was a complete success at each service a packed house, Sunday all the members of Allen Chapel Rev. Scotte pastor visited their services Sunday night and gave the church $20. 00 we are glad to see this Union ge on we hope to see it in every church in the Union. The Installation of Pastor the Pleasant Green Baptist church of Kansas City, Mo. will take place Sunday March 31st at the their church North of Independence ave., between Forest and Tracy ave., a special Invitation to the two Kansas Cities good programme Rev. B. W Bacotte master of ceremonies. Dr. G. E. Horsey, our new and promising physician, has located at No. 440, Minnesota avenue, where his shingle flaps to the breeze. He is an energetic buster and bids fare to become one of our most permanent fixtures. In your patronage remember he bids for a portion, and in answering the same he brings medical skill and ability. Mrs. Kattie Dudley. of 1304, North 8th street, is indisposed this week. The Rev. Father Demby of Kansas City, Mo. has been asked by the Bishop of Kansas to organize the Episcopal Church among the people of his race in Kan. City, Kan, he hopes in a few weeks to basin this work. CITIZEN the regular Republican ticket will have clear sailing. CITY IN GENERAL J. H. B. Tayler, real estate agent and politician, returned this week from Joplin, Mo., where he visited relatives. J. H. Guy has organized what we understand to be an undenominational Bible class for the benefit of the colored people of the city, in which he has assisted several prominent Topeka citizens. We do not know whether Brother Guy is working up opposition to the churches or not, but from what we can learn it is probably a good move. Opposition has developed against the proposition to vote bonds to the Santa Fe railroad for shop purposes. Among the colored people they claim that the Santa Fe discriminate against them as workmen. And they should not expect them the colored people not to retaliate when an opportunity presents itself. Your correspondent made a flying trip to Kansas City last week and was sorry our time were so limited that we could not visit the Sanctum of our cheif. LOCALLY The Merritt Sisters and Brother sang to a large and appreciative audience on Tuesday evening, at 118 North 8th st. All of the churches are preparing for special Easter services. Special Easter Rally at St. Johns A. M. E. church. Mrs. Mary Bennett entertained the Ladies Sowing Circle Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Dilbert, of Kansas City, Kas., and Mrs. W. B. Townsend, of Leavenworth, Kas., met the Executive Committee of the Art Federation Wednesday at one p.m., at Mrs. M. Chiles, 116 E 7th st. Mr. Will Merritt left Thursday for Chicago. Rev. Joseph Fulton, of Brownville, Tenn., was visiting in the city last week. Rev. W. I. Brown, of Troy, Ks., spent his week in this city. Quarterly meeting will be held at St. Marks A. M. E. church, North Topeka, Monday. Rev. Helm, of the Shiloh Bapist church, has moved his family to the city. It is said that the "Goat" of the new Jasper Lodge of U. B. Fs., broke lose at the Fifth Street Opera Lodge room last Saturday night and in the scramble interrupted the meeting of the "Old Boys Political Jubilee meeting" in the Auditorium below. It was claimed that it was a Craddock animal and didn't propose to be headed off. He didn't like the Short meeting below because it was too short. Some of our leading musical people are practicing a comic opera, "The Little Tweon," for May. There is regular rehearsals Tuesday nights at 7 o'clock, and Friday afternoons at Mrs. Lucas. Nearly one hundred persons have taken part. The following is a partial caste of characters. General Knickerbock, .. W. M. Lucas. Alvin Barry, .. F. K. Douglass. Rufus, .. C. Moppins. Lord Dolphin, .. Ruhh Mathew. Dolly Dimple, .. V. Jackson. Lady Dolphin, .. E. Chase. Violet, "The Little Tycoon," Stue. Lucas. Mrs. Mattie Washington colored 2 years old, living at 536 Trost avenue, died of heart disease th is week in the surgeon's room at police station. She was walking along the street in company with her husband, and when at Pacific and Harrison streets she fell the pavement it unconscious. She was to the station in the ambulance and died a few minutes after reaching there. ACROSS THE POND. Under the caption of "Among Our Theatrical People" in the great and only "Colored American" of Washington, D. C., we clip the following, which will doubtless prove of interest to the many in the Twin Cities who remember the pleasant faces of the parties spoken of, as at one time residents of our city, and whom we yet claim. Miss Ollie (Burgoyne) Martin will soon sail for Hamburg, Germany, to fill an engagement. Tom Logan and Geo. Jones have joined hands and are meeting with good success on the Pacific Coast appearing in Vaudville. Mrs. Jennie Buford, wife of Mr. J. H. Buford, is quite seriously ill at their temporary abode, Mrs. L. Johnson, North 3rd, street. Money. The White Man's Gauge of Social Distinction The Rev. Dr. Thomas of Washington, D.C. in a recent lecture in that city had this to say of the "Social Gauge" of average white man: "I tell you, the colored man to-day is being crowded out and does not stand the show he did twenty years ago. The white has invaded the field of labor which was formally left entirely colored man in certain sections of this country. The colored man is fighting prejudice and discrimination even for the privilege of earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. We should join together as one race in one ind. suitable brotherhood, build factories and give employment to colored men. Save yourselves from the degradation of begging work begrudged you by the white man." "You can talk about education all you please," continued Dr Thomas, "but education isn't in it with money. Our young men go to college, generally distance the white men and come out with 'A. B' and 'A. M.' after their names. Where do they go? You'll find them around the dining room tables of the hotels and at the boot-black stands. "Mcney, I say is the white man's gauge of social distinction. He doesn't care about education. Let me tell you a story that illustrates this A few months ago a colored man as black as any one I see here came to New York from Hayti to buy some goods. When the sale was over the dealer took him to his hotel. "We can't allow that man here," said the hotel man. "But he is my guest," said the dealer. "That makes me difference," they said. "Sir,' shouted the merchant, 'this man has just written me a check for $20,000!" "There was no more trouble. The dollar mark was over the line of race prejudice and the white man could not see the colored line. "Let me be introduced anywhere as a college man with a degree and I get a polite, shilly reception. But you introduce me as a man with money and there will be a demonstration that would do honor to a prince. All the white man wants to know is 'Has he money?' and then, 'How shall I get hold of it?' "We have been talking too much about education. What we want is an industrial unity that will give our laborers work, and office positions to our educated youth." Race Notes. The Kentucky Medical Association of colored physicians and surgeons will meet in Frankfort May 8th and 9th. It is stated that George F. George intends to establish a colony of 700 colored people on his farm at Port Jervis, N. J. During the month of December a new public school house for Negro children was established at Havana, Cuba, by Oblate Sisters of Providence. A nice building was donated them. Colored people support seven colleges, nineteen academies, fifty high schools, five medical schools, twenty-five theological seminaries and raise $11,000,000 for their education. The promoters of the African jubilee emigration announces that they will set sail for Monrovia, Libera, either Saturday, November 30th, or Saturday December 14th, 1901. They further announce that over 2,500 Negroes have have already enrolled with the associaction for passage. P. P. Allen, owner of largest plantation in Anderson County S. U., worth about $1,000,000 and of the men presented by the grand jury in slavery case, drove in from his plantation on Friday the 8th inst., heard the news of his presntment, and dropped dead in the presence of J. S. Fowler, another the men indicted. Bellfountain, O.,—Mrs. Nellie Jackson (white) one of the victims of the victims of the West Liberty tar and feathering mob in November, 1890, secured a judgment against the county (Logan) March 7th for $700 damages. The woman had been living in the with the father of her deceased husband, both colored. The former, Edward Jackson, recently secured a verdict for $1,000 and has been paid the money. D. Rickman another Afro American who was in the house at the time of the raid, an man who was also tar and feathered has a suit pending and will win. The "Click" Mitchell heirs' judgement (for his lynching at Urbana several years ago) against Champaign county, was for $5,000. All this under Hon. H. C. Smith's Ohio anti lynching law, which he passed in the Ohio assembly in 1896 and which has practically put an end to mob violence and lynching in this state. All honor to him! MARYLAND AND THE NEGRO. Maryland has joined with Mississippi, Louisiana and the Carolinas in disfranchising a large proportion of the negro voters. Certain politicians of the state are insisting that the new ballot law is simply a measure to secure purity in elections and is really not directed against the negro. Such insistence explanations do not have the intended mollifying effect on the North. The average American citizen much prefers the brutally frank statements of Senator Tillman on white domination to equivocations and evasions. The Maryland law is fairer than those of the other states that have disfranchised the negro. Mississippi accomplished its purpose by a law ostensibly directed against all ignorant voters, but which gave white judges a discretionary power to exclude negroes. Louisiana and North Carolina discriminated between illiterate whites and negroes by the "grandfather" restriction. Illiterate men whose fathers or grandfathers were allowed to vote January 1, 1867, may exercise the franchise. Maryland will get rid of the ignorant voter by abolishing disfranchising party emblems on the ballots, arranging names of candidates in no regular order and forbidding the giving of aid in the marking of tickets. It is expected in this way to disfranchise about 44,000 men. Some 26,000 of these are negroes, mostly Republicans, while the remaining 18,000 are whites affiliated with both parties. Alabama, Georgia and Virginia are contemplating negro disfranchise. The South regards the present time as particularly favorable. Senator Morgan expressed the prevalent feeling when he wrote, "Things are coming our way." While this action throughout the South will have a depressing effect on the negro in one way, in another it may act as a stimulus. It provides a powerful incentive for him to develop himself to a point where it will be impossible to deprive him of a share in the government. Maryland Republicans have already begun an educational movement for the purpose of retaining the negro vote. Just as soon as a majority of the race throughout the South become capable, self reliant citizens they will secure for themselves all the privileges of citizenship.—K C. Star. MRS. HUNTINGTON GIVES LIBER ALLY New York, March 24.—Booker T. Washington to night announced that as a result of the meeting held last Monday evening in the Arumstrong association, for the Tuskegee Institute, $20,500 has been given or promised, including $10,000 from Mrs. C. P. Huntington, which may be used for the endowment fund. Toward the $25,000 for current expenses necessary to be secured before the gift of $10,000 promised by women of Brooklyn is available, $13,800 have been received. NEGRO PHOT BY A M.J.B. Richmond, Va., March 23.—An unknown negro on his way to trial in Halifax county, on the charge of burning the stables of a Mr. J. Darnette, was last night taken by a mob from the constable who had in charge, and shot to death None out of the mob were identified. Cease every joy to glimmer on my mind. But leave the pleasant light of hope behind. Campbell spoke for us when he penned the initial lines to the "Preasures of Hope" "Hope springth eternaal in the human breast." That is why we suffer in silence—that is why we submit to treatment that has graced other nations to desperation and made them strike for the liberty of thought and action which we so patiently await—that is why we 'suck sorrow' year after year. We are hopeful tast a change will come.—Daily Record. Jim Johnson, colored, was found dead in his bed at Wagoner, Wednesday. He was holding a pistol in an mouth. A bullet had entered his mouth and had gone out at the ear, but some who saw him think it was murder. Booker T. Washington has been invited among other noted personages to deliver an address before the next state Teachers Association meeting in Kansas. It is conceded on all sides that W. H. Craddock, the choice of the people, will be elected the first Mayor of the greatest city in the greatest State, in the 20th. century, by an overwhelming majority. Mr. Wras Wilson, of 4th. and Freeman, is quite ill. Mr. B. S. Smith, our Deputy County Attorney, wife and sister-in-laws, the Miss Porters, left this week to attend the funeral of their mother in Greenfield, Iowa. Mr. Chester Rollins, of 703 Wyandotte street, is quite ill. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans , as second class matter. It has long been a subject of much inquiry as to who and where the rich negroes live in our state priJournalists world to read the following clipped from the Kansas City, Times, in a daily issue the past week as it proved to us; "Nick Chiles of Topeka is one of the richest negroes in the state His wealth is estimated at $40,000. He runs two newspapers, a hotel, a joint when there is no excitement on, a farm, a dairy and the republican negro vote." The white man who faces a negro audience and endeavors to make them believe that the Republican party that has B. L. Short for its nominee with that organized secret gang behind him, is the party of Abe Lincoln should be hissed off the rostrum with the utmost contempt. The candidacy of B.L. Short the gang so called Republican party nominee for Mayor is not meeting with the popular that some of his scheming man-gers had hoped for. In fact the voters are not "next" to the curves of the gang and conoration bosses and they have declined to be fooled by the promises being made by the manipulators. The M.R.T. gang that caused Mr. Short to enter the mayoral contest—are down in the mount they are beginning to see the hand writing on the wall. They have discovered that W. H. Craddock is the people's canidate and that it is the people who elect officials and not Secret gangs of hungry office seekers. The election of Mr. Craddock as Mayor of the city will be the beginning of the end of corporation control in local Municipal government. He is for an honest assessment of taxes, believing that this is the only method by which this city can be placed on a self-supporting basis, and lessen the burden of taxation that the small property owner has been compelled to bear during years past. Remember that I. B. Blackburn, the only Negro on the ticket, is a candidate for Councilman in the Third Ward. Let every Negro stand up for him, then see what the Republicans will do. It's up to them. There is no disguising the facts there are changes at work in Wyandotte county that will result ultimately in bringing the negroes to a realization of getting together in one solid phalanx. We are no prophets but in a course of a few years at the least. From faint rumblings, unless the negroes lay aside all petty jealousies and unite for their best interests there is going to be something happen that will make us all open our eyes. IS ANARCHY TO BE THE OUT- COME? Where is to be the end if the insatiate lynching habit shall continue to grow by what it feeds upon in a ratio similar to that at which it seemingly has developed in the recent past? Beyond question the outlook is a most unpromising one. The swift and mereless meeting out of vengeance by the inflamed and unreasoning mob when one presumably guilty of "the usual crime" has fallen into its clutches has become in incident so commonplace as to attract comparatively little attention, even in instances where the faggot has superseded the noose as the instrument of torture and death. The burning of the negro wretch at Paris, Texas, some years ago, which so long stood out alone and unparalleled as the aime of inhuman atrocity as illustrated in mob violence, has within a twelve months been relegated to obscurity and forgetfulness in consequence; multiplied repetitions on a more shocking scale. But it seems scarcely imaginable that a further step in savagery is possible in this direction—the limit to which we been reached.* The latest manifestations of a development of the appetite for a human victim, of the thirst for blood, point toward diversification. The 'usual crime and murder no longer provide sufficiently numerous occasions on which the hunger for a human sacrifice can be sated. Less provocation apparently must be accepted as a justification for an uprising of the people in these strenuous dys of the twentieth century civilization, and Rome, Tenn. nishles a upon a woman had inflam passions o the populace there—no murder had been committed, no stable had been robbed of an occupant, nor yet even had the owner hen rocst su a life! A man had lost a pocket book which was said to have contained a little above $100. A boy found it in the street. session by a negro named Crutchfield on the plea that its contents were worth- Crutchfield's arrest fo lowed, and, with his guilt easily established, the negro might have expected and presumably would have been given, anywhere else than among barbarians, reasonable and suitable punishment—doubtless a penitentiary sentence. Not so, however, in Home, Tenn. No less a penalty than death should suffice, was the decision of these people who had 'risen in their majesty.' And the steps were taken to enforce the popular decree. The condemned wretch was led from the jail toward the spot whereon he was to be executed, but just here something happened which the programme hadn't included. The desperate negro broke away from his would-be executioners and escaped in the darkness. This was disappointing, indeed. But the blood thirsty crowd's dismay was of short duration. Seme resourceful leader beheaded himself of the fast that at Crutchfield's home was a sister, who possibly might have connived at the retention of the money, although beyond question otherwise guilless. Happy thought. 'Justice' should not be bequeathed, after all. And so these brave men went to the home of the unsuspecting defenseless woman, dragged her forth to a nearby bridge, and there they killed her and threw her body into the stream below. Thee are the meager but awful details of a tragedy which only could have become possible anywhere in this so-called law-governed land through the natural and unchecked development of mob vengeance. Such is the inevitable outcome of the growth of the lynch law spirit. Is it to flourish and expand with out bindrance until finally anarchy shall reign? - Kansas City Journal. PERSONALS. Mrs. L. Gibson, 708 Wyandotte street, has purchased a nice six room cottage at 2578 Highland avenue. Fred. Monday, of this city, now a residence of Kansas City, Mo., lives at 1503 Cottage avenue, died Thursday last. We are unable to learn the particulars regarding the funeral. Mr. F. Christian, of 1810 Baltimore avenue, who was quite ill last week, is now able to be out. publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kausas. A. W. Fox. Plaintiff. Anna Fox, Defendant. No. 15107. The State of Kansas to Anna Fox, Greeting. You will take notice that you have been sued by plaintiff, A. W. Fox, for a divorce in the above named court, and that plaintiff's petition was filed January 7, 1901. That the grounds on which said divorce is asked is abandonment for more than one year. Now, unless you answer demurge, or otherwise object, on or before the 17th day of March, A. D. 1901, the allegation of wrongdoing was confessed to be true and judgment against you gran ing said divorce as prayed for. L. W. JOHNSON, Plaintiff's Attorney. Attest, A. GUNNING, Clerk. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. John Greer Plaintiff, Jane Greer, Defendant. The above named Defendant, Jane Greer, will take notice that she has been sued by the above named Plantiff, John Greer, in the Court District of Wyandotte County, Kas., where his petition is now on file, praying for a decree of order from you, the said Defendant, and that the judgment may be said petition on or before the 12th day of April 1901, said petition will be taken as true and judgement thereon rendered against you, fully and completely divoring you from said plaintiff. B. S. Smith Attorney for John Greer. Attest. A. Gunning Clerk of Dist. Court (First Published March 1.) Part of the Brain That Keeps Names An Austrian savant has declared that the human brain contains a "name center." He says that it is the office of this cell to retain names. A striking case which would seem to confirm this theory recently occurred at Cleveland. A brakeman was shot by a conductor, and the former could not remember the names of persons and things, although he could perfectly well describe the functions of all articles exhibited to him. A surgeon probed for the bullet and found it in the exact spot necessary to affect the remembrance of names, according to the Austrian's theory. When the pressure of the brain had been relieved the patient remembered names as well as he had done before his injury, cradled the name of his assailant.—Scientific American. Highest Clock in the World. The clock on the Philadelphia city hall is the highest in the world. It has the largest dials. If the dials were out of the way and tracks were laid, two trains could pass each other running through the holes. The glass in the four faces is fastened there by a ton of cement. The glass, if laid on the ground, would make a walk a square long and ten feet wide. The minute hand will flush its year's journey by completing a 110-mile trip on New Year's day. It is expected that this minute hand will travel 110 miles annually for many years to come. The clock is strong, and the minute hand is phosphor bronze, and weighs 250 pounds. THE HAPPY DAYS OF AGE Old Idea of Youth's Carelessness Has No Foundation. Youth takes itself with the same seriousness which belongs to age in a time of less knowledge; and one of the greatest proofs of a more complete mastery by the world of the art of living is the wish and ability to be careless, says Scribner's. The one who is learning to dance counts the step, and that is what age has ceased to do; while youth is still whispering "one, two, three," most sedulously to itself. It **ELIGHTLY MIXED IN HER TERMS** She walked into the office of the Judge of Probate and asked: "Are you the judge of reprobates?" "I am the Judge of Probate was the reply. "Well, that's it, I expect." quoth the old lady: "You see, my husband died detested and left me several little india and I want to be appointed their executioner!" NEGROES BABRED. COLORED PERSONS NOT ALLOWED IN CALVERT CITY. A Stringent But Unwritten Law Carried Out by the Inhabitants of the Little Kentucky Town—No Colored Mar Dare to Live There. This town, in Marshall county, is on of the few places in the world that has effectually solved the race problem says a Calvert City, Ky., correspondent of the Denver Times. Not a negro is to be found within a radius of a dozen miles and the negro is yet to be discovered who has any permanent desire to ome here. To threaten a negro with Calvert City is to bring before vision pictures of death more horrible than by lynching. The peaceable, law abiding spirit that prevails in the little Kentucky town is swiftly banished when a negro appears. If he keeps going he is not molested, provided he attends to his own affairs and does nothing to provoke the alert hostility of the residents. But he can neither take up his abode there nor remain there all night, and so disastrous have been all past attempts to break this unwritten, but none the less stringent law, that no negro would to day dare to move into Calvert City and announce his intention of remaining. The town itself is a small place of a few hundred inhabitants, situated on the Illinois Central railroad, only a dozen miles from Paducah, the metropolis of southwest Kentucky. The intense hatred of the negro dates back 20 years or more. Few profess to know the origin and many claim that it was born in the people, but some of the older inhabitants declare that it had its inception years ago, when two negroes married white women and settled there. The aversion of the people became so great that numerous attempts, resulting in considerable bloodshed, were made to expose the mismatched couples, and eventually they were driven away. This aroused the bitterest hostility among the negroes, and the white people soon grew to so hate the sight of one that every negro was ultimately run out of the vicinity, and one has never been known to live in the same parts since. In recent years there has been no serious trouble, but it is estimated that no less than ten or a dozen negroes who have settled in the neighborhood have been sooot from ambush or otherwise mutilously killed. This reprehensible means of exterminating them, however, was always adopted as a last resort, and no one was ever punished for relieving the community of their presence. The colored people in this part of the state generally are aware of this peculiar characteristic of Calvert City people, and usually avoid the place. When a train stops here they can hardly be induced to poke a head out of the window. Last summer an excursion traim from Memphis passed Calvert City and a big darky of the "bully" kind got off, stalked down the platform and bodily announced that he had come to stay and would like to get a look at some of the celebrated citizens of that town. He got it sooner than he anticipated, and in seeking safety on the train he left a portion of als wearing apparel. UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE. SHOBTEST LINE The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west, the splendid and best Line to the Kansas City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestubbed and fully equipped with latest reclining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintch Lig. Only line running two trains without change from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho. Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars rampages for a trip west until you have earned all about special inducements d attractions offered by the Union Pac. For full information in regard to rates time, et. c. call on or addr P.Y. Gen. Agt. Union Prefect 1000 Main trent. Kansas, City, Mo. Obstacles to Art. Asked what she regards as the greatest obstacle to an artist's success, Mme. Suzanne Adams, the youngest of Mr. Grau's prime donate, replies, unhesitatingly, "Friends! who admire and love you and interrupt your studies, tempt you away from them and generally all your efforts to work conscientiously; who would not tell you of a fault lest they hurt your feelings, and never tell you of a virtue lest they stimulate your vanity." Constant musical study and care of the physical being, without coddling, are the principles Mme. Adams advocates as those likely to bring an ultimate success to the ambitious singer - Harper's Bazar TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S.PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D.C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. HARTONA NO-SMELL. Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to 1512 North Fifth Street, FOR THE PUREST DE And the best of every thing in Paints, carefully compounded. Prices always and night. Ring night bell. W. B. RA PUREST DRUGS AND CH every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Ad. Prices always the LOWEST at our sto night bell. Phone W. 171 Medicin B. RAYMO And the best of everything in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription carefully compounded. Prices always the LOWEST at our store. Open day and night, Ring night bell. Phone W. 171 Medicines Delivered W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SUPP FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT AN AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Corst St., and Riverview Ave. RTAKERS * SURFACE CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Tetepnone W Factory Corst St., and Riverview Ave. W T YOUR PATRO ES, MARTIN & —DEALERS IN— and Staple Groc SEED AND SALT MEAT Cigars. All kinds of Country Produce in part of the city. and Oakland Ave., Kansas Blandchard SCOLE ...VIA TB Chicago Mi UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER. Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Loc St. , and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 W SOLICIT YOUR JONES, MA —DEAL Fancy and Sta FEED AND Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th. and Oakland Ave., Lewis Blandchard SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE JONES, MARTIN&CO. DEALERS IN Fancy and Staple Groceries, FEED AND SALT MEATS, Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of Country Produce in season. Goods delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave. Kansas City, Kas No. 6, Sta e Line, K.C. < 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 guarantee the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time Give him a trial and see for you self. CANCER Home Treatment that curves Cancers and Tumors Used with perfect safety; harmless, soothing, non-irritating. We prefer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a speedy cure. Cases that a speedy cure Est. 1914. Our sanitarium need not any small cure. Write today for our $3 home book. It contains much valuable information and hundreds of testimonials from patients we have cared for. Best free. Conspicuity by mail or in person, free. Address. DR. E. O. SMITH'S SANITARIUM, A. S. MCCLEARY, MANAGER. Rooms 6 to 11, N. E. Corr. Halls & Train Sts., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. --- KANSAS CIT TRANS MAIL SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. DRUGS AND CHEMICALS Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription the LOWEST at our store. Open day Phone W. 171 Medicines Delivered YMOND. SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS. R PATRONAGE, ARTIN&CO. ERS IN- ple Groceries, SALT MEATS, Country Produce in season. Goods Kansas City, Kas 票Tickets ...VIA TBE.... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry ...AND YOU GET... Sleepers! & Ghair Cars ...TO... CH1CAGO and all intermediate points The shortest quickest and bes line to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Dubnque, 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 Southweste Agent F. J. LERCHPassenger Agent. Office 915Main St., Kansas Cit Wonder why some people kick so hard when the truth is told. HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. ..HARTONA.. Preparations for the Hair! The Original and Only Hartona. Matchless and Positively ening all Kinky, Harsh, C faitiful. Makes the hair grow on bal- ing out of the hair, itching, and al- lway life and lustre, and the hair stay- ing the hair down with grease. We children's hair just the same as we have placed it on sale in 25c. on the Hartona remedies. Remember otherwise. All our remedies are years 1892 and 1900. We refer yea- tual use of the face wash. One bo- blackheads, freckles, and all blen- full directions with each bottle of the United States on receipt able. Thousands of delighted pat- are not perfectly satisfied and deli- no matter if you are employed or on five or six shades lighter, and w body; cures sore and aching feet, cl disagreeable odors caused by pers- Address all orders to ONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. M. AND OFFER. You three large boxes of Hartona L Smell. Goods will be sent securely plainly. Money can be sent by p 9 E. Main St., N A. C. L. C IS HEADQU THE CHEAP The Best Goods, the Quickest and the pro GET THE COAL, WOOD, FEED, Wholesale and Retail. Office 402 Yard and Storage 917 and 919 N EAG Gem Dru MINNESOTA DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN MERRIAM, ELL Fire Insurance WYANDOTT Northeast Corner Fifth KANSAS CITY. DR. HENN 101 & 103 West 9th St., Kans The Old Reliable Doctor, Older A Regular Graduate in Med Practice.--22 Yea Authorized by the state to Cures guaranteed or money re- no-maturity or injurious and patients at a distance treated by free from gaze or breakage. Charges low. Over 60,000 ca- seminal Weakness and and Positively Unequaled for big all Kinky, Knotty, Stubby, Harsh, Curly Hair. Does the hair grow on bald and thin places. Re- tie hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hair strette, and the hair stays and grows naturally down with grease. Hartona is positively just the same as adults. To meet the need it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our ana remedies. Remember, we handle no fake gs. All our remedies are trade-marked, register and 1900. We refer you, as to our response own in the United States. Write to us to do- with easy and pleasant work, and no risk one testimonials in your own State of peo- t. E. WASH. Shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a one face wash. One bottle does the work. Freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. Y tions with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per box of delighted patrons send us testimonials satisfied and delighted with the Hartona if you are employed or not, and we will sho- SMELL. Store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Odors caused by perspiration of the feet, orders to. EDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond OFFER. Large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straw goods will be sent securely sealed from observa- ney can be sent by post-office money order. Main St., Richmond C. C. L. COAL CO. IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— CHEAPEST PRICE. Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest B and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BU STONE, and Retail. 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Carelessness is the twin brother of Aiahonesty actpeiomech bas to work hard, grinding. the Rowing Beeman Pepsiagam What the small boy saw at the circus migiwieet, ‘The Bluest Blue makes the whitest white, that’s Red Cross Ball Blue, ‘They Endored. ‘The Roman roads were built with ‘@ substratum of heavy blocks of the stone most abundant in the neighbor- hood, covered with a layer of smaller stones or gravel. They were highest in the middie, with a trench one each side to carry.o% the water,and no trees or shrubs were allowed to grow with- in 100 paces of elther hand. Boston's Lion and Unleors ‘The old wooden lion and unicorn on the old statehouse at Boston are to be succeeded by copper figures of the same heraldic beasts. The lion is to wear a coat of gold leaf. The lion’s crown Will be of the shape of the Brit- ish royal crown, the jewels being rep- resented by splashes of color. rofessional Story-Fellers Professional story-tellers roam from house to house in Japan, to spin their yarns. In the elty of Tokio there are about 600 of these professional —ro- mancers. ‘Their pay averages 20 cents an hour. When the story-teller discov. ers that his romances are becoming dull from frequent repetition he moves into a new district, al ia aaa le John B. Cleveland of Spartansburg, S. C., has offered to present to South Carolina a memorial tablet, to which 4s affixed a plate of copper taken from the coffin of James Glenn of Long- croft, Scotland, who lies buried in the ancient churchyard near Linlithgow castle. Mr. Glenn was governor of South Garolina from 1738 to 1755, Bride's Mother Drops Dena. At the marriage of Miss Lalla Jor. dan to David Jennings Porter, {x Greenville, S. C., a sudden death oc curred immediately after the cere mony. While Mrs. John M. Jordan the mother of the bride, was talking to her daughter, the old lady suddenls fell to the floor, and in a few moments was a corpse. NEARLY GONE. Mrs. Julia A, Mallahan, of Owosso, Mich. Has a Very Narrow Escapo—Tho Doctor Had Little Hope. Owosso, Mich., March 25.—(Spectal.) =Blite Rebekah Lodge, No. 2, 1. 0. 0. F. of this town,came very nearly losing thelr esteemed and capable secretary Mrs, Julia A. Mallahan. Mrs. Mallahar caught a severe cold last winter, anc like many others, failed to recognize the dangerous possibilities until it had settled in her Kidneys, and left het with very severe bearing.down pain: and almost constant backache. It al most carried her off. Mrs. Mallahan tells the story this way: “T caught a cold last winter, which 1 noglected until it settled in my ktd. neys, causing severe bearing dows pains and almost constant. bachache My health had previously been so goo that I paid little attention to thes: symptoms, until the disease had gon #0 far that my doctor entertained but « slight hope of my recovery. “Fortunately one of our Lodge Mem bers mentioned Dodd's Kidney Pills Her description of the cures they hai effected sounded like a fairy tale, but | sent for a box, deciding to give them tral. I soon found that che had bu half told the story of what they cout do. I bless the day I first tried them and have nothing but the highes raise for them." Many very valuable lives have bee: saved by the timely use of Dodd’ Kidney Pills, and not a few of thes have been in Owosso and other neigh boring Michigan towns. There seem to be no case of kidney trouble o dach-ache that Dodd’s Kidney Pill will not cure, They are 50c. a box, six boxes fo $2.50. Buy them from your loca druggist if you can. If he cannot sup ply you, send to the Dodds Medicin | Chattakt aailkio i. X. ‘Likes Home Remedies, ‘When ex-Congressman Culberson o! Texas was in Detroit the other day he caught a bad cold. “If I were at home,’ he said, “my wife would get out a plec of flannel and my mother-in-law—whc is an angel—would make me a horrible mixture of vinegar, onion, suet an¢ mullein, I would be put to bed ané when I woke up I would be well. .t is a horrible mixture, but I wish I was a home.” Fashion Afvots the Ribbon Trade. ‘There is unusual dullness in the silk ribbon market. Ribbons are used ex. tensively for the decoration of ladies wear, and when anything else is sub- stituted naturally there ig not ¢0 much demand for ribbon. For some time women have been wearing but littl ribbon, and the market is consequently overstocked —Philadelphia Public Led- ger. thansas Tews Thotes. > SODRER: OOTET AAD TOCHEy SaaS Ingalls’ “Opportunity” and credited it to Plumb. Mr. Butcher now operates the meat market at Solomon. He bought out a man named Steer. A Lincoln miller celebrated St. Pat- rick’s day by starting a car of flour to Belfast, Ireland. Kansas has 200 free mail delivery routes. Applications for 300 more are under consideration. ‘Thomas county citizens gave a sod house party and now Grandma Burd has a happy little home, Boys of a very tender age “get fuller than the moon” out in Grant county, according to the Republican. It is said that the Rey. Charles M. Sheldon has $50,000 in sight for his book on the hired girl question, Grenola has the reputation of hav- ing the best hotel on the Southern Kansas division of the Santa Fe. Following a visit ot Mormon elders an Agra man advertises that he wishes ‘to buy 60 acres of land and two wives. An Osborne county man has volun- tarily resigned a paying office and 6 Jury has been called to try his sanity. ~ Carnegie’s gifts in Kansas have fall- en to Kansas City, Emporia, Leaven- worth, Lawrence, Fort Scott and At- chison. It cost a traveling agent $100 to ped- dle obscene pictures in Bourbon coun- ty. But how about the fellow that bought them? Disgusted with March vagaries Mr. Robin, of Cloud county, will spread his wings and sail for Antwerp, ‘Bel- gium, this week. Smith county citizens have leased 10,000 acres of land to explore for coal, which would indicate that a pretty ex- tensive shaft is contemplated. Mr. Good Housekeeper is billed to rejuvenate the municipal sewer plant of Concordia and if there is anything in the name the job should be an cle- gant one. Mra. Carrie Nation, the joint smash- er, says she will sue Bostick’s z00 o! Indianapolis, Ind., for damages for naming a baby elephant “Carrie Na- tion” without her consent, Dr, A. J. Clemens, who died re- cently at St. Joe, willed $15,000 to Miss Georgia Houston, a 17-year-old girl at Wetmore, in Nemaha county. Dr. Clemmens spent a year in Wet more and was treated in his old age and feebleness with a great deal ot kindness by the Houston family, and for this he remembered the girl in his will A colony of 150 Atchison county farmers will go to the Upper Peace valley, in Northern Alberta, Canada to take up homesteads. ‘They have been lured by extravagant pros pectuses, claiming that 120 bushels of oats can be raised to the acre. ‘Those of the colonists who escape the rigors of the first winter will return to Atehi- son county before the second. ‘Work on the new extension of the Chicago, Rock Island & Mexico rail- road from Liberal, Kan., to Whit Oaks, N. M., is progressing rapidls and at the present rate it is expected to complete the first hundred miles b3 June 1. The track is laid several miles below Buffalo, Okla., and trains ar running between Liberal and Buffalo thirty miles south of Liberal. ‘There are over a thousand men employed on the work. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Thompson are « well-to-do but childless couple o} Wichita. The other night they wer awakened by a loud knock on thei door, Going out, Mr. Thompson foun‘ on the porch a 2-months-old baby ani to its clothing was pinned this note: “Mr, and Mrs. _'thompson:—Pleas take me in, You have no child and | have no home—ERMA.” The Thomp sons decided to keep the child anc wma has found a good home. “T have done very well in the navy,’ writes W, A. Maddox, from the Unites States ship Solace, to his mother, fr Kingman. “I have had three promo tions until now I am a petty office: with the rate of Q. M. 3 C., whict means quartermaster, third class. | stand four hours and walk up anc down the decks or on the bridge, ai sea, with a spyglass in my hand, or the lookout for signals from the flag ship or any other ship of the navy I get $30 a month and my board an¢ lodging. Don't you think that is a good as I can do on the outside?” At Winfield Nellie Schmidt, owner of the building in which the smashe¢ joint was located, has filed suit for damages in the sum of $515 and $251 for attorney's fees against Rev. S. W Stophlet, M. Hahn, doing business as ¢ dealer in second-hand furniture, an¢ his wife, Mrs. M. Hahn, M. E, Johnson Rev. D. R. Best, Baptist preacher, H L. Kunee, Rev. G. T. Smith, Joe Mon crief, Rev C. A. Henershot, W. R. Lor ton, Rev. C. Lowther, Joseph MeMi! Jen, Carrie McDantels, F. B. Waldron Nancy B. Hahn, Mark Nation, Mrs Mark Nation, Bert Leavitt and 8. W Duncan. ‘A state convention of grain growers has been called to meet in Salina Ma3 16, to formulate plans for fighting what is known as the grain trust. A call has been issued at Topeke, signed by Representative J. A. Bucklen, o! Oakley, Representative Ed Green, of Hackney, Cowley county, and Jame: pe tae ap RANE I TT PIPLPILIPPPP EPID IPAPD PIA LPPDIDIIS ‘ Bowels Don’t Move? Caused by over-work! Over-eating! Over-drinking! No part of the human body receives more ill treatment than the bowels. Load after load is imposed until the intestines become clogged, refuse to act, worn out. Then you must assist nature. Do it, and see how easily you will be cured by CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. Not a mass of violent mercurial and mineral poison, but a pure vegetable compound that acts directly upon the diseased and worn out intestinal canal, making it strong, and gently stimulating the liver and kidneys; a canuy tablet, pleasant to eat, easy and delightful in action. 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At every funeral the bottling of mourners’ tears is one of the chief ceremonial rites, Each of tae mourners 1s presented with a sponge with which to mop off his face and eyes, and after the burial these sponges ate presented to the priest, who squeezes the tears into ‘bottles. ‘This custom {s one of the vldest known in the east, and has probably been practiced by the Per- sians for thousands of years. Severe Test of a Watch. “rye seen a good many funny things at this station,” said a ticke* shopper on the Ninth avenue elevated Une, “but there is one old fool who always amuses me more than all the athers. He is the man who invariably sets his watch by the dial up there which points out the next express. Eve seen him do it more than fit times this winter. And the look o1 bis face when he does it! I can come pe near telling what he says to umself."—New York Sun. Sia eS ak: A strong fight to elect a dead man was an unique feature of the election at Montoursville, says the Philadel- phia Press. Christian Dubert, a nom- Imee on the republican ticket, died Monday, and as the time was too limited to place another candidate cn the ticket, a strong effort was made to alect the dead man in order to defeat the democratic candidate, and then have the vacancy filled by the appoint- ment of a republican. Dubert received 56 votes, only 12 short of a majority. Florida ‘Thronged with Viattors. Florida is now thronged with vis- Itors from the northern and western states. The leading hotels of the prin- cipal cities and towns report “full houses,” and the boarding house peo- ple are also reaping a rich harvest. Every arriving train adds to the crowd. From Lakeland one day last week 2,000 quarts of strawberries were shipped after the local demand had been supplied. Bulla » Logging Road. D.N. MeLeod of Newberry and Ter- fy Scanlan of Bay Mills are contract- Ing for seven miles of 40-pound steel for a new logging railroad. Mr. Me- Leod has taken a contract to log 0,000,000 feet of pine twelve miles east of Grand Marais for Hall & Mun- son company, He will cut it in two years. ‘The roadbed is graded and ready for the steel and that will be laid as soon as the snow goes off. ahaa "banka scare | Peter Sorenson discovered a “boil- {ng spring” in the basement of the Empire building, says the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, and he is now at the Emergency hospital with a badly- cooked foot. Sorenson was walking about the basement floor when he stepped into a catch basin which had been left uncovered. Steam trom the boiler hed been discharged into the sewer and this sent the water up to a scalding temperature. Producer of “Lawson Fink.” ‘Thomas W. Lawson ot Boston, who ls having @ yacht bullt to compete tor the defense of the America’s cup, is, like Sir Thomas Lipton, a self- made man, He made his fortune in speculation, but has an eye for art and owns a fine collection of pictures. He is, however, best known for the Law- son pink,” which bloom cost him $30,- 000 to produce. in be Form “Bverything portended a storm,’ wrote the society editor, who had been detailed to do the introduction to the account of the tornado. “The heavens were arrayed in the conventional black,” ete—Chicago Tribune. ‘Thirty minutes is all the time re- quired to dye with PUTNAM FADE- LESS DYES. If you can't tell twins apart, wait un- til they are together and tell them. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an {nfalltble ‘medicine for coughs and eolds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J, Feb. 17, 1900. ‘The postage stamp is one of the [stamps of civilization. THOUSANDS OF FAIR WOMEN HERALD PRAISES FOR PERUNA. Catarrhal Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration Make Invalids of More Women Than All Other Diseases Combined. ] | ae eS |/ 7. Yl Li We 2a oN eee a) he © Sa" WI Tago § : Zz a > | SermnlSs A CXS | hee, Ra Pres) i eieann : SSS SSS Lt) A ea BS W LS — Z| HOS Peruns is the woman's friend every- where. It is safe to say that no woman ever used Peruna for any catarrhal de- rangement but what it became indis- pensable in her household. Letters From Women. Every day we receive letters from women like the following. Women who have tried doctors and failed; women who have tried Peruna and were cured. ‘Miss Katie Klein, 6125 Bartmer ave- nue, St. Louis, Mo., writes: “Pertina has doné me more good for ¢atarrh than the best doctors could. 1 had catarrh so bad, but after taking Peruna it is entirely gone, and I feel like @ different person.” Miss Anna Prescott's Letter. Mies Anna Prescott, in a letter trom 216 South Seventh street, Minneapolis, Minn., writes: “I am sincerely grateful for the relief I have found from the use of Pe- runa, I was completely used up last fall, my appetite had failed and 1 felt weak and tired all the time. My drug- gist advised me to try Peruna and the relief I experienced after taking one bottle was truly wonderful. “I continued its use for five weeks, and am glad to aay that my complete restoration to health was a happy surprise to myself as well as to my friends.” —Anna Prescott. A constant drain of nervous vitality depleting the whole nervous system causes the mucous membrane surfaces to suffer accordingly. This is the con- dition called systemte catarrh. It very nearly resembles, and there is really no practical difference, between this con- dition and the condition known as neu- ‘The mariner’s compass performs a lot of very important neete-work. nin. Winow soothing sprap pr ane acer ice TEU teh era ns Ses False fronds are lke your shadow— only with you in sunshine, Se ee rhe THES os Wi aie A small boy defines a lady as a grown-up girl who isn’t saucy. Red Cross Pall Bive makes clots Mle tn a en ee Tasthenia, or nervous prostration, Peruna will be found to effect an immediate and lasting cure in all cases of systemic catarrh. It acts quickly and beneficially on the diseased mu- cous membranes, and with healthy mucous memibranes the eatarrh can no longer exist. Peruna True Friend to Women. Mrs. F, J, Lynch, writes the follow- ing from 324 S, Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich: ‘The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0. Gentlemen—“I earnestly recommend Peruna to any suffering woman, as it cures quickly. Last year I had a most persistent cough which nothing seemed to cure. Two bottles of Peruna did more for me than all the doctors seemed to do. In a couple of weeks I found myself in excellent health, and have been enjoying it ever since. Hence I look on Peruna as a true friend to women.”—Mrs. F. J. Lynch. Peruna is equally efficacious in cur- ing catarrh of the throat as in curing systemic catarrh or catarrh of the stomach, Catarrh is essentially the same wherever located, Peruna eures catarrh. Peruna Makes You Feel Like = New Person. Miss Mary Coats, a popular young woman of Appleton, Wis,, and prest- dent of the Appleton Young Ladies’ Club, also speaks in glowing terms of Peruna, A letter recently received from her by The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, reads as follows: “Tam glad to call the attention of my friends to Peruna. When that lan- guid, tired feeling comes over you, and Cures a Cough or Cold at once. Conquers Croup, oping Cough, Broncita Gristoand cov tunapticas guick, sure renal Dr. Lhai's Pills sure Constipation: 50 pills 10e. OFFERS FREE Homes Khong Pers. ot Innds, soon to open tonotiiement Ongar Gtniltetma THE KIOWA GhIEF, slevoted {tformetion’ about ‘wore lensey'will Soctats FrosumatlonBring date of gponing Oue yeur igh. brow ® cents:'S conte ver Gone,“ MOR: GANS MANUAL {Comers ours eat MO SAN: £80" aA: MAP and CHIEF, Six moutis Riso. wor sale bf Boot nd Mets Dealers, or address DICK 1. MORGEN, Perms O°, ‘your food no longer tastes good, and ‘small annoyances irritate you, Peruna will make you feel like another persom inside of a week. “I have now used it for three sea sons, and find it very valuable and efflcaious.”—Miss Marie Coats, Diseased nerves are traceable direct- ly to poor digestion, and poor diges- tion 1s directly traceable to eatarrh. With the slightest catarrh of the stom- ach no one can have good digestion. Very few of the many women who have catarrh of the stomach suspect what their real trouble is. ‘They know they belch efter meals, have sour stom- ach, a sensation of weight or heavi- ness, a fullness, irregular appetite, drowsiness, gnawing, empty sensations, occasional ‘pain—they all know this; but they do not know that their trouble 4s catarrh of the stomach. If they did they would take Peruna, Peruna cures catarrh wherever 10- cated. As soon as Peruna removes catarrh from the stomach the diges- ton becomes good, appetite regular, nerves strong, and trouble vanishes, Peruna strengthens weak nerves, not by temporarily stimulating them, but by removing the cause of weak nerves —poor digestion. This is the only cure that lasts. Remove the cause: Nature will do the rest, Peruna re- moves the cause. It you do not derive prompt and sat~ Istactory results from the use of Pe- tuna, write at once to Dr, Hartman, giving a full statement of your caso and he will be pleased to give you bis valuable advice gratis. ‘Address Dr_ Hartman, President of ‘The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. 0. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED SPI | wisi teers Sonenenee Bee taoes fame erare aA i ee oo aces arian Wares Eales iegmicetvicst Thompson's Eye Water Whee Auowering Advertisement Windly eatin. Tho Tape Sy NAGE eae Ce COR FRED FUNSTON CAPTURED HIM MARCH 23. CAUGHT IN HIS HIDING PLACE Taken to Manila on a United States Gun boat—What to Do With Aguinaldo is Now an Interacting Question For the Administration to Determine—He May Be General Frederick Funston's daring project for the capture of Aguinaldo in his hiding place in the province of Isabella, island of Luzon, has proved completely successful. Aguinaldo was captured there on March 23. The United States gunboat Vicksburg, Commander E. B. Barry, with General Funston and Aguinaldo on board, has arrived at Manila. The province of Isabella, where the capture of Aguinaldo occurred, is on the island of Luzon, about 200 miles northeast of Manila and about seventy-five miles north of Baler, on the eastern coast, which place was made memorable by the capture of Lieutenant Gilmore and his party from the gunboat Yorktown, in April, 1899. Isabella province is wild and mountainous, especially along the coast, where the high range, known as the Grand Cordellinas Oriente, extends for a hundred miles or more north to south, the highest points of the range being but a few miles from the shore. Rugged trails, in some places being but a foot or two in width, lead across the mountains, frequently crossed by rushing streams, and where these overflow their banks the trails are waist deep in mud. It was to this uninviting district that General Funston and his small band went a short time ago. It was a part of the island that had never before been visited by American troops. The disposition of Aguinaldo will be an interesting one for the administration to determine. The possibility of his capture at any time always has been kept in view and that of his future has been a matter of informal discussion by the officials. It is not believed, however, that any definite line of action was ever determined upon in regard to the matter. The attitude of the government for a long time past has been one of comparative indifference to Aguinaldo's capture, it having been determined to crush the rebellion without regard to his whereabouts. His recent activity in directing the course of operations against the American forces probably brought about the recent change in this attitude. As the leader of an insurrection against the United States government Aguinaldo may be tried and executed, a lesser punishment meted to him by executive clemency, or complete amnesty extended. TROUBLES OF A PROMOTER. Property of Fred O. Hopenoe, of Topeka in the Hands of Trustees The business affairs of Fred O. Popeneo, president of the Accounting Trust Company, of Topeka, former owner of the Topeka Capital, a promoter and mining operator, are in a tangled condition and J. R. Mulvane, R. S. Shaw and Jesse Shaw have taken charge of all his property interests as trustees. Popeneo is now in Costa Rica. He went there two months ago to look after his mining affairs. He is president of the Bella Vista Mining Company and a heavy stockholder in the Thayer Gold Mining Company, of that country. Both concerns are operating gold mines in the mountains of Costa Rica and Popeneo's dividends are said to be $3,000 monthly. It has leaked out that prior to his departure to the Central American country he transferred all of his real estate in this section. His liabilities are placed at $50,000. The trustees are now closing out the trust company's affairs and the indications are that but little will be realized. CUBAN WAR CLAIMS. One Man Wants more than 2 Million Doll laws—Mrs. Ruiz, Asks $75,000. The Spanish war claims commission, of which ex-Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire is president, has received from the state department a full list of the claims against Spain, growing out of the insurrection in Cuba, and filed up to March 15. These claims are all those of American citizens, for, under the treaty of Paris, the governments of the United States and Spain undertook to adjust the claims of their own citizens. The grand total of these claims is about $20,000,000, and included in the list are five claims in excess of a million dollars. The largest single claim is that of John W. Brock, on account of property losses, estimated at $2,162,514. Mrs. Ruiz, widow of the dentist who was kiled in a Havana prison, is a claimant for $75,000. Laws of Live Stock Immense Loss of 22,000 Thousands of dead cattle, sheep and horses strew the plains of Western Nebraska and Eastern Colorado, as a result of the blizzard. In hundreds of creeks the animals sought shelter to be covered with drifting snow, while others struggled against the blizzard and perished on the ridges. Two Years For a Missouri Postmaster, S. B. Patterson, postmaster at Halls, Mo., was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for being short in money order accounts. Emigration From Porto Rico. The American steamer California, which has sailed from Guanica, Porto Rico, for New Orleans, has on board 899 emigrants destined for Hawaii. Of the number 395 are men, and the remainder are women and children. The emigrants are physically superior to those of the previous expedition. The American steamer, Porto Rico, took 400 persons, who are to be employed in the Cuban iron mines. Even the honeymoon is sometimes obscured by a cloud. WOULD HAVE AN INCOME TAX. The Findings of an Agent of the Industrial Commission. The industrial commission has made public a report upon the taxation of corporations, prepared by its agent, George Clapperton. The report makes a volume of 178 pages. The greater part of it is devoted to a summary of the tax system of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Texas. Mr. Clapperton says that he found the general property tax prevailing in all the states, but that there are distinctive features in the various states, which are especially marked in the taxation of corporate property. He does not indorse the system of levying a fixed rate upon net earnings, which is in vogue in Delaware and Virginia, finding that while the system is theoretically satisfactory, it "does not meet the varied business developments of corporations." He also finds the general property tax unsatisfactory. Upon the whole, Mr. Clapperton concludes that an income tax is the most equitable, saying: "There is a growing class of citizens who receive large incomes or salaries, and enjoy all the advantages of society and good government who, though possessed of abundant ability to pay taxes, are, under existing systems, practically exempt from taxation or inadequately taxed. This class is receiving, and must continue to receive, especial attention in the revision or reformation of taxing systems in the several states. "While a tax upon individual incomes is generally conceded to be just and equitable in principle, it has been received with disfavor and regarded as impractical in its operation. It is apparent, however, to the careful student of commonwealth taxation that because of its justice and the increasing efficiency of state administrative methods that are being evolved, the idea of a limited supplementary state income tax is growing in favor and coming to be more generally regarded as a practical measure under state supervision." SEEK NEW HOMES. Five Thousand People Camped Near Oklahoma Indian Lands. Five thousand persons are camped along the borders of Kiowa and Comanche reservation, awaiting permission to enter these lands, which are to be thrown open to settlement this summer. Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of people have arranged to put in crops in Canadian, Blaine and Oklahoma counties this year, expecting to secure homes in the Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservations. These are prospective settlers. There are some possibly in every county of Oklahoma and some in Southern Kansas, but farm lands are well occupied within reach of the new border. This condition also prevails in Texas, from Terrall and Wichita Falls to Vernon. This flow of immigration is pouring in mostly in wagons. Each family has a small home for its owners on wheels, ready to move in the fall. The opening cannot occur later than August 9, but, it is believed, that practically the time limit will be taken by the department in making allotments and perfecting arrangements for the opening. This makes it imperative that the settlers raise a crop on rented land. The head of the family will make the dash for the claim, leaving others to care for the crop and join him later. England Builds Most Warships. According to a report to the state department by United States Consul Sawter, at Glanchan, the ship building yards of Great Britain during 1900 turned out 1,442,471 tons of commercial vessels, against 861,692 tons by all other countries combined. With warships added, the respective amounts aggregated 1,510,835 and 1,053,792. In the last three years, however, says Consul Sawter, foreign countries have doubled their output, while England has increased only fifty per cent. The United States last year led both Germany and France, the amounts of tons standing, respectively, 358,557, 260,751 and 165,348. Tarkey's Many Troubles. Reports from Constantinople say that affairs are rapidly reaching a dangerous pass there. Turkish finances are in an inextricable confusion. All government salaries are from six to eight months in arrears. Uward of $4,000,000 are due for war material. The military expenditures is daily increasing. In order to cope with the rebellion in the province of Yemen, in Southern Arabia, and the possible rising in Macedonia. A Colorado Cashier to Prison Columbia U. M. Anderson, ex-casher of the First National bank of Greeley, Colo., who pleaded guilty in the United States district court to a charge of having embezzled $27,000 from the bank, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas. Mortgage Need Not Fear Morocco Secretary Long has canned an order to Admiral Rogers on board the United States cruiser New York at Tangier to proceed at once with that vessel to Manila. This is an abandonment of the plan to have the New York convey United States Consul General Gumme from Tangier to Mazargir, in the attempt to collect American claims. It is the purpose of the state department to endeavor to adjust these claims and other outstanding issues against Morocco without any show of force and in the ordinary practice of diplomacy. At Stanford University is an address to the students, President Hadley of Yale outlined an ideal system of education, in which all the American universities should join for the common good of educational progress and economy. He showed the enormous waste under the present conditions of rivalry, and even antagonism, and planned an educational trust, embracing all the larger institutions in the East, Middle West and on the Pacific coast, in which the professors, graduates and students should combine for the common good of education. TONTINE COMPANIES DECLARED ILLEGAL. OHIO SUPREME COURT FINDS FRAUD Nine Companies Forced to Cease Their Operations—Aggregate Liabilities to Policyholders Will Be Approximately $2,000,000—The Declaration Considered a Death Blow to the Business. The Ohio supreme court has dealt a death blow to the so-called debenture business in Ohio. In the quo warranto proceedings brought by the attorney general against the Intersite Investment company, of Cincinnati, the court entered judgment of ouster. The decision is based upon the finding of the court that the methods employed by the debenture companies are those of a lottery; that they are fraudulent, contrary to public policy and unlawful. Five of the six judges concur in the judgment, and the sixth, Judge Shauck, does not dissent. Assistant Attorney General Todd, who has had charge of the case for the state, said that, in his belief, the nine debenture companies of Ohio will attempt to do no further business. Applications for receivers for most of them have already been made. The companies' aggregate deposits in the state treasury now amount to about $530,000. According to their own reports, the aggregate liabilities to debenture holders amount to approximately $2,000,000. The aggregate assets claimed by the corporations, other than the deposits with the state treasurer, amount to about $300,000. COMBINE OF GOULD LINES The Big Southwestern Union Said to be Organized George Gould's plan to become the head of a combination of railroads capitalized at $300,000,000 is progressing favorably. His plan meets with the approval and has the co-operation of J. Pierpont Morgan, the Rockefeller, and the Harriman syndicate. The unification of the Gould system of railroads under the control of the Missouri Pacific will include the Missouri Pacific, St. Louis & Iron Mountain, St. Louis, Southwestern, Texas & Pacific, International & Great Northern, Wapah, Missouri, Kansas & Texas and Denver & Rio Grande. George Gould has just bought a controlling interest in the Denver & Rio Grande and it is intimated that he purposes to utilize it as an important factor in the construction of the greater Missouri Pacific system, of which he will be the head. In Memory of Consul Ramsden. The handsome bronze tablet to be set up by the Navy department at Santiago in memory of the late Frederick Woolaston Ramsden, has just been finished at the Washington navy yard and is ready for shipment. As consul general of Great Britain, Mr. Ramsden rendered conspicuous aid to Lieutenant Hobson and his comrades by alleviating their sufferings during imprisonment. This work, together with other deeds of unselfish devotion, told upon Ramsden's health and caused his early death. The tablet bears the following inscription. "Here lived, during the Spanish-American war, Frederick W. Ramsden, consul general of Great Britain. He died at Jamaica, August 10, 1898 The Navy department of the United States, in token of his humanity to American naval prisoners, erects this tablet to his memory. Bank Kohberg Get $1,000 At Somerset, O., seven men broke open and robbed the Somerset bank at about 1:30 o'clock in the morning. Only about $5,000 in cash was taken, the robbers overlooking $5,000 in gold coin and $20,000 in bonds and time securities. Three men worked in the bank and four were stationed as sentinels nearby. At the first explosion Mr. Hayes, living opposite the bank, came out and was met by the sentinel stationed there and told to get back into the house if he did not want his head blown off. After the robbers had completed their work the men were lined up in single file and the leader gave the orders, "All ready, forward, march." The robbers were as cool as soldiers on dress parade. Took Two Lives for Love A ranchman, Clarence Crawford, living near Los Angeles, Cal., dangerously wounded Ralph Mulheron, killed W. C. Stratton, attempted to kill Mrs. Stratton and ended his own life by sending four shots into his breast and a fifth and sixth shot into his forehead. He is supposed to have been insane. Mulheron is a ranchman against whom Crawford is not known to have had any grievance. The murder was a ranch hand. 23 years old. He was in love with Mrs. Stratton. A Holiness Convention in Chicago A holiness convention has been called to meet in Chicago from May 3 to May 13, with the idea of uniting "all holiness" organizations throughout the world into an international union. The call for the convention is signed by the following: G. Hughes, New York; W. T. Hogue, Illinois; Isiah Reid, Iowa; J. A. Wood, California; A. M. Hills, Texas; J. Mcd. Kerr, Canada; C. N. Crittenton, Washington; A. Smith, Missouri; S. B. Shaw, Illinois. Forming Furniture Trust. A plan to formulate a combination of all the principal furniture factories of Grand Rapids, Mich., has progressed so rapidly under the direction of Charles R. Flint, of New York, that it is expected to be in working order by May 1. Capital stock $8,000,000. A Berelt Against Turkey A Revolt Against Turkey. The well known Arab sheik Hamid-Dit has again raised the standard of revolt against Turkish rule in Yemen, one of the principal divisions of Arabia. A MINE UNDER THE PALACE. Discovery of Another Plot Against the Czar of Russia. A dispatch from Paris states, on the highest authority, that a mine has been discovered beneath the palace of Emperor Nicholas at Tzarskoe-Selo, seventeen miles south of St. Petersburg. Several notables, the dispatch further says, are implicated in the plot against the czar. The Russian press was not permitted to mention the affair. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that in consonance with what is believed to be the czar's expressed wish, the minister of the interior has published instructions for the authorities of the towns and provinces, recommending preventive measures against disturbances, as more effective than severe repression after disturbances have broken out. The Birmingham Post, which is closely in touch with Joseph Chamberlain, says news received in high quarters in London indicates that the czar is in a very nervous state owing to the condition of the political horizon. It is said that he fears the result of the policy of his ministers in the far East, while the student troubles and threats against his life, of which there are more than have been published, have completely unnerved him. His medical advisers have strongly counselled a yachting cruise, but the czar has refused to follow their advice. REJECTS CARNEGIE'S OFFER. Aitchison Thinks It Cannot Afford to Give $5,000 a Year for a Library. The offer which Andrew Carnegie made to B. P. Waggener to donate the city of Atchison $50,000 for a library will not be accepted by the city. The declination of the offer is due to Carnegie's stipulation in the contract that Atchison would have to put up $5,000 per year for all time to come, for the maintenance of the library. The city could not afford to do this. A. 'Frisco-Manila Route. San Francisco is to have direct steamship service with Manila. Its urgent need has been voiced in meetings of local bodies. To supply it the Oriental Steamship company has decided to place two of its vessels on the route. These are the Monmouthshire and the Carmarthenshire steel ships of 3,000 tons burden and 13 knots speed. The former is scheduled to start on her first trip April 10 and will be followed by her consort on May 10. It is expected that the time occupied between that city and the Phillippines will be twenty-one or twenty-two days, and the intention of the company is to provide thirty days service. The route of the steamers will be via Yokohama, Nagasaki, Manila and Hong Kong. Exodus to North Dakota Possessed of homestead rights, household effects and requirements of land development, between 1,700 and 1,800 persons left Chicago Tuesday over the Wisconsin Central road for the agricultural regions of North Dakota. Six special trains were required to carry the party and belongings. The prospective settlers gathered in Chicago from Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois and other states, and among them were between 300 and 400 members of the German Baptist church, commonly known as Dunkards. All but a few of the land hunters will settle in the Devil's lake. Mouse river and Turtle mountain regions. What Porto Rico Wants At a meeting of the San Juan, Porto Rico, chamber of commerce it was decided to present a petition to President McKinley, through Governor Allen, asking for a loan, for free trade, for an extension of the constitution and for a protective tariff on coffee entering the United States from foreign countries. The president of the Chamber of Commerce, looking upon these requests as unreasonable, has resigned. Medals for Heroes. Through M. De Lanessan, the minister of marine of the French republic, the navy department has just received two beautiful silver medals and diplomas awarded to P. Ausseress and Patrick Mullen, sailors on the United States battleship Kentucky, in recognition of courage and devotion exhibited by them on November 11 in the port of Algiers, in rescuing four French sailors whose boat had captized. Germany to Find Out: Dr. Steubel, director of the German colonial department, has started for London to assist in expediting the conclusion of the negotiations regarding the indemnity to be demanded of China. Dr. Steubel was selected for this task by the chancellor, Count von Buelow, because he was formerly consul general of Germany at Shanghai, and is especially conversant with Chinese affairs. Dockery's New Secretary Governor Dockery has made the following appointments: O. P. Gentry, Clay county, private secretary to the governor. Mr. Gentry is a young business man of Smithville and has been one of the active and official Democrats of the state. William Todd of St. Louis, deputy warden. Captain Todd was formerly connected with the penitentiary as deputy warden. Ethelbert Barrett of Harrisonville, public administrator of Cass county, vice George W. Fely, deceased. Price of Horses Goes Up. British competition has carried the price of cavalry horses so high that the United States government must pay almost twice as much for such animals as it did when the war with Spain began. A war now would compel the American government to pay prices for cavalry horses that are very high or force a change in the cavalry specifications. After all, genius may be only another name for hard work. TORNADO STRIKES BIRMINGHAM, ALA. SCORES MAIMED BY FLYING TIMBER Damage to Property Placed at a Quarter of a Million—Most of the Persons Killed or Injured Were Negroes, the Tornado Passing Directly Through Their Part of Shortly before 10 o'clock Monday morning a fearful tornado swept over the southern part of Birmingham, Ala. The number of killed is estimated at twenty-five, of whom five are white. The destruction of property is placed at a quarter of a million dollars. Eighteen bodies have been recovered, and scores of injured have been removed to the hospitals. Among the dead are Dr. G. C. Chapman, of the firm of Taily & Chapman, who conduct a private infirmary and the wife and infant child of Robert J. Lowe, chairman of the Democratic state executive committee. The storm struck the city in the extreme southwestern corner and plowed its way eastward, leaving a path 150 feet wide through the entire southern section, extending from Green Springs on the west to Avondale, on the east, and continuen its course until its fury was sent in the mountains beyond Irondale, a small town six miles east of the city. CAST LOTS TO KILL THE CZAR. Son of a Russian General Drew the Fatal Number and Told, The london Daily Mail publishes the following, dated March 24, from its St. Petersburg correspondent: "Yesterday, (Saturday) 500 workmen from the Obuchower metal works paraded on the Nevski prospekt. On the wa yhther they demolished the state brand booths. Eight hundred Cossack, with drawn swords, met the workmen and an encounter ensued. The number of killed and wounded is kept secret. "The police have discovered a plot against the life of the czar. It appears that a group of students drew lots and that the fatal choice fell to the son of a Russian general. The student told it father and the latter informed the czar, imploring him to leave St. Petersburg." Russia Closing in on Corea The state department has received from Mr. Allen, American minister at Seoul, Korea, dispatches confirming the cable report of the removal of McCleavy Brown, the director general of Korean customs. As this action of the emperor, undertaken at the behest of Russia, goes far to wipe out the integrity of Korea, according to the estimate of the officials here, it will be allowed to pass without a remonstrance on America's part. The officials are convinced that Russian domination of Korea would mean the extinguishment of American interests in that quarter. These in recent years have become important Mr. Brown is an Englishman. America Doesn't Hide It. The United States government is employing spies to obtain information relative to the plans of the insurgents in the Phillipines. Formal recognition of the employment of spies by the United States is made in the last army appropriation law. An appropriation of $2,400,000 is authorized for incidental expenses, among which is "hire of laborers in the quartmaster's department, including the hire of interpreters, spies or guides for the army." Seven Killed in a Mine. A special train, composed of a box car and a fast engine, brought into Connellsville, Pa., nine men, victims of a mine explosion at the Gates mine of the Eureka Fuel Company, in the New Klondike coal field. The mine has been worked only a few months. The explosion, it is believed, resulted from accumulated gas Twenty-eight men entered the mine to work. Of this number sixteen were caught in the explosion and seven killed. To Find the Money for China. It has been decided to invite Sir Robert Hart, director of the Chinese imperial maritime customs, Monsigneur Favier, vicar apostolic at Pekin, and other experts, financial and otherwise, to submit proposals on the best methods for raising the amount of indemnity to be demanded from China by the powers. A Joplin Woman with a Pistol At Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Nettie Eckels shot and killed Henry Oxendine, a bartender. After shooting Oxendine twice with a 38-caliber revolver, she turned the weapon upon herself and fired a ball through her left lung. Her wound is not considered dangerous. She had threatened for some time to kill Oxendine. Jealousy is given as the cause. Missouri Insurance Figures: The forthcoming report of E. T. Orear, superintendent of the Missouri insurance department, will show that the forty-two regular life insurance companies doing business in the state had in force December 31, 1900, in Missouri 90,574 policies, carrying the sum of $208,211,030.43 insurance; premiums received on same during year, $6,653,-099.01; claims paid during the year by the same companies, $2,672,794. An angry person in an argument resembles a cripple in a foot race. Crenshaw is Beer Inspector. Governor Dockery has appointed G. Y. Crenshaw of DeKalb county, Mo. state beer inspector, for a term ending August 31, 1903, to succeed George R. Kennamore, who was appointed two years ago by Governor Stephens. Mr. Crenshaw has been Governor Dockery's private secretary since the governor took charge of the executive office. The new office pays $3,000 a year. Whisky make a man stagger and ehlorform makes him limn. DENVER'S HAND TO THE SICK. Industrial Colony to be Established for Consumptives. To save the lives of thousands of persons belonging to other states from death by tuberculosis is the object of an organization of Denver physicians and other professional men and women for the establishment and maintenance of the Rocky Mountain Industrial sanitarium, which has just been incorporated. The organization aims to be national in its scope and has the endorsement and support of many of the foremost physicians of the United States. Its purpose is to aid the great majority of tuberculosis patients in poor or moderate circumstances who come to Colorado and other mountain states in the hope that the climate and altitude will aid in effecting a cure, and who, almost invariably, are immediately surrounded by conditions which preclude improvement or recovery. Their plan provides for the erection of a sanitarium about twenty miles from Denver, to be constructed as an industrial colony. A large amount of money will be required. This, it is expected, can be raised by the "cottage endowment plan." To secure these endowments individuals, fraternities, clubs, societies, churches, college alumnae, labor unions, etc., the Young Woman's Sanitarium auxiliary has been organized. A branch of this auxiliary will be established in every city and town in the United States. Tin Can Trust Completed. The new tin can consolidation is now in operation. The various plants will from now on be operated for the American Can Company. It is intimated that the new price list will show a substantial advance and it is also reported that the American Tin Plate Company is about to make an advance in tin plate prices. An interesting feature of the consolidation is that all of the venders have signed an agreement not to engage in the manufacture of tin cans within 1,500 miles of Chicago for a period of fifteen years. Cubans Will Yield. The action of the Republican party in Santiago in indorsing the Platt amendment and instructing Senors Gomez and Ferrer, of the Santiago delegation to the constitutional convention, to vote for the amendment, together with the letters of General Sangilly and the mayor of Cienfuegos, advising acceptance, were incidents of the past week that have tended to clear up the political atmosphere, until now there are few who do not expect the convention to approve the amendment. A Cuban Sugar Combine Now. What may be the first step in the consolidation of the various large sugar interests in the island of Cuba, or the purchase of these interests by American capitalists, has been taken. The Chapara Sugar company of Cuba has placed contracts in this country aggregating more than $2,000,000 for the equipment of the largest sugar plant ever built in Cuba. A Place For Mr. Hull's Son. The president has decided to transfer Major John A. Hull from the judge advocate's department to the inspector general's department and to give him his present rank in the regular army. Major Hull is a son of J. A. T. Hull of Iowa, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, and president of the Philippine Development & Lumber Company. Appointments By Dockery. Governor Dockery has appointed the following members of the Board of commissioners of the Pan-American and Charleston expositions: Robert M. Yost, St. Louis; E. S. Garver, Grant City; John T. Beal, Edina; Fred P. Graves, Doe Run; Charles C. Bell, Boonville. Mutiny Brought Him Pardon Governor Stanley has commuted the sentence of Floyd Graham, the negro convict who rendered valuable assistance in suppressing the mutiny in the Kansas penitentiary coal mine. The commutation amounts to a pardon. Graham led the rescuing party down the shaft. Ends Gambling in Arkansas. After a spirited contest the Arkansas house of representatives refused to reconsider the vote by which it passed the senate bill for the suppression of gambling. The bill imposes a fine of $500 to $1,000 for gambling, half the fine to go to the informant and half to the common school fund. Thought His Bank Still Sound. Albert Ives, the oldest banker in Detroit, is dead at the age of 91 years. In 1847 he established the private bank of A. Ives & Sons, which failed last fall. Mr. Ives, who had retired from active business, was kept ignorant of the failure, and up to his death believed the institution to be flourishing. Making Havana Fit to Live In: A report has been received at the War department from General Wood showing that the death rate in Havana for the month of February was 19.32 for each 1,000, which is said to be below the average of most American cities. The strike of coal miners of the Fremont county district has been ended by an agreement satisfactory to both sides, and work will be resumed April 1. About 1,500 men are affected. Ten Tons of Free Seed a Day Ten tons of seeds, put up in 600,000 separate packages, are turned into the Washington postoffice every day that the constituents of senators and representatives may be supplied in good season this year. This daily outcurring lasts from early in January until the end of May. The Bell Telephone Company of Missouri has filed with the secretary of state a statement of an increase of capital stock from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000. Indian Reservations and Other New Districts to Be Opened Up This Year. In the Great Sekatchewan Valley and the Fortile Plains of Assiniboia To the Editor, Dear Sir: The past three or four years have demonstrated to a large number of Americans the value of the grain-growing and ranching lands of Western Canada. Tens of thousands have taken advantage of the offer made by the Canadian government as well as of the exceedingly low prices asked for lands by the railway, colonization and other companies. The experience of those who have been settled there for some little time is of a highly gratifying character. So much so that the Canadian government, who has control of the immigration into Western Canada, has decided to open up some new districts that year in the well known Saskatchewan Valley and also in the fertile plains of Assinibio. These Districts are probably the most productive in the entire West and in close touch to largely settled communities as well as being situated on some of the most important lines of railway. They are within easy reach of markets, schools, churches and other social advantages. In some of these districts lands may be homesteaded as well as purchased outright at very low prices. Now as to what can be done on these lands. The evidence of the settlers in the neighborhood of the lands now about to be opened for settlement (some of them being located in one of the best Indian Reservations) goes to show that the very best results have followed even most indifferent methods. Cases are given where farmers have gone with most limited means, barely enough to erect a small house and break up a little land, have in three or four years time become prosperous, all debts paid and money in the bank. The soil in the Districts mentioned, Assinibio and Saskatchewan, is a rich loam, fifteen inches to three feet deep. As a settler says, "It appears like the accumulation of decayed vegetation and ashes for centuries (the sub-soil is a stiff, putty clay)." On this soil it is possible to raise from 40 to 50 bushels of wheat to the acre, 75 to 100 bushels, all of which bring good prices at the local market. For mixed farming these new districts are probably among the best in Western Canada. Stock fatten easily on the wild grasses. Hay is垦殖, and prices splendid. Another settler writing to a friend in Iowa says: "The climate is all that could be desired, plenty of rainfall in summer, with no hot, dry winds. On the 28th of September I saw prairie flowers in tumble, sweet corn, potato and tomato vines that had not been touched a particle with frost, and the winters are milder than those in the State from which I came. After the holidays the winter sets in clear and cold, with plenty of snow for good sleighing; no high winds or blizzards are known. Horses live out all winter and pick their own living, while cattle live all winter in open sheds and around the hay ricks. Wheat, oats and barley are the principal grain crops. Potatoes and all other roots and vegetables do well, the yield being enormous as compared to those in the States. Wild fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, gooseberries and all varieties of currants yield in abundance. As a reader of your valuable paper for a number of years, I feel that I should inform you of the progress and advancement being made in Canada within the past few years, and the inducements and advantages that will follow settlement in Western Canada. Those who desire information can do as I did, and apply to any Agent of the Canadian Government, whose name I see appears in advertisement appearing elsewhere in the columns of your paper, and when writing particularly about the Saskatchewan Valley or Assinibio Districts. How to Overcome Rashfulness How to Overcome Bashfulness You will overcome your bashfulness by going frequently into society, and endeavoring to lose your self-consciousness. Try to act naturally and without restraint, no matter where you are; and do not imagine that the eyes and thoughts of the entire company are constantly concentrated on you, eagerly awaiting every expression that comes from your lips. It is this kind of self-consciousness which makes men bashful.—New York Weekly. Are You Using Allen's Foot Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen Smart Burning, Sweating Cuts and Corns and Rashes. 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. When Tree Reach Maturity Authorities on forestry say that 75 years are required for the oak to reach maturity; for the ash, larch and elm, about the same length of time; for the spruce and fir, about eighty years. After this time their growth remains stationary for some years, and then decay begins. There are, however, some exceptions to this, for oaks are still living which are known to be 1,000 years old. Hope for Bald-Headed M Hope has dawned for bald-headed men! Timothy J. Mulcahy, an engineer in a Cleveland tannery, has been bald for years. Suddenly a little furre began to sprout on his head, and a few weeks later his cranium was covered with a thick but short growth of hair. A doctor investigated the matter, and learned that he had been working under a revolving belt. His hair had been sprouted by electricity. A Fireman's Chillz Bide A Fireman's chilly fire A fire alarm sounded in the house of Hook and Ladder Truck No. 4, in Newark, N. J., just as the driver, Herman Hanie, was taking a bath. He bounded out of the bath-tub, threw on a single garment—a long India-rubber coat—slid down the brass pole leading to the truck room, mounted the truck and drove to the fire. The moisture on his limbs froze in the chilly air, but Herman didn't mind a little thing that. An hour later he returned and finished his bath.