The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country HONESTY. INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY SHOULD BE OUR TRINITY FOR THE FUTURE. OUR RACE, THEIR ENTERPRISES GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING CLOSELY OUR RIGHTS. The tights of individuals are often misunderstood, and the assumption of right to which ones title is not clear or which are disputed leads to continuous troubles and complications. Very few rights exist, even in so-called free country like ours, without certain previous objections, legal or social. It is a common taqeef for cooped people to assert and claim their right to really every thing they see other people enjoy, without much if any consideration or thought for the common objections which the r enjoyment demands, and newspapers especially and everybody in general are often expected to fight for right" when that fight may be embarrassed by doubts of its consistency and justice. To assume that we have a regular right to everything merely because we are legal citizens and other people enjoy those rights is not always wise or reasonable. Other and under which we labor and which bear unfavorably upon us first to be overcome and removed before we demand equal consideration with those who are not circumstances as we are in spite of all theories to the contrary, business or social standing has and will continue to have great bearing upon all the common relations and rights of individuals in every commonty and if we fight all our lives we cannot overcome our hardships without proper overcome for those underlying sentiments which exist everywhere in our country and we commonly confound with prejudice and absolute injustice. A colorful business man whose money circulates in business circles usually enjoys more public and private privileges than others of his race. Where others might be denied he will THE PRIDE OF THE WEST. CAN YOU GUESS?- NOW IS THE TIME. Kansas City is again to the front with abig en eprise, an enterprise stupendus in conception and which is being carried on with characteristic Western energy and enthusiasm. A short time ago the directors of a convention Hall, a building which is justly called the pride of the West, an anounced that they proposed to raise enough money to complete the great public structure. In order to secure a part of the money needed for this purpose it was decided to give a series of entertainments in the ball in October. Convention Hall being a building out of the ordinary in all respects it was of course requisite that the entertainments should have some unusual features, and when the people of Kansas City heard that the directors of the Hall proposed to offer valuable prizes to purchasers of concert tickets they knew that it was well to be prepared for an intense announcement. The first news that the directors of the hall gave to the public was to the effect that Kill Armour, who gave the blue Hereford heifer, Armour Kose, to Convention hall when the original building was in process o construction, had given another Here, heifer, Armour Sunflower, as the first prize in the guessing contest. Mr Armur further agreed with the directors that if the person who secured Armour Sunflower did not wish to keep her he would pay $1,000,000 in cash for the anual the Metropolitan Street Railway Company followed Mr Armours lead and offered to give $2,000.00 in cash, to be divided into prizes of $1,000.00, $750.00 and $100.00. The Kansas City Electric Light Company w a next in line, and its contribution came in the form of a donation of $1,000.00 in cash, to be divided into one prize of $500.00, one of $100.00 and a number of smaller ones. Then the merchants began, and there came a shower of piano, organs, buggies, and traps, ransomous furniture, china, pictures and a hundred other gifts of value. On each of these articles the price for which it would be sold to a cash customer was placed, for the directors felt that they must stand by and see that the public was not deceived Flemish oak dining room set donated by Emery, Bird, Thayer &., a collection of hards furniture which was seen by the thousands of people who attended the recent Home Pr. duets Shw in Convention Hall, and is worth $89.50 in gold, down to the dairy little toilet articles for men and women' no utensils has a value of less than $5.00. the tickets, for the entertainments and guessing contest had no sale when there came a startling announcement. The Kansas City Oat Meal and Cereal Co. better known as the manufacturer of Oat nuts, notified the directors that it would give a capital price of $5,000 in cash. The Atlas Oats Co. went farther and announced that it would present one concert ticket, with guessing coupon at tached, for every twenty-five coupon taken from package of its product. The chance of securing $5,000 in cash for 25 cent, the price of the concert ticket with guessing coupon attached, was too good to be overlooked, and guesses began to pour into Convention Hall. The total cushion prices now amount to about $10,000, while the merchandise prizes have a smaller value. In order to give everyone a chance at the prizes the director saw. 14, NO.21 Best Weekly TRY AND ECONOMY SHOULD bem de welcome if known. A colored man whose style and manner is clearly in accord with those of the ordinary patrons of any public or private place of entertainment or business may open a way for his race who're courts and every form of agitation wuld fail. This ought to teach us that the only key to the enjoyment of so-called equal rights and privileges is race elevation by individual improvement. To concede that we are not ready for something is the first step; to seek to be reasonable in all our demands is the next; and then to con end firmly and intelligently for what we are assured is only just will be a noble work for our discriminating and progressive men and women. We can all follow these suggestions with profit, make better progress and be happy in the era. —Colorado Statesman. Let us prove to the world that every generation of Negroes, since our freedom and citizenship, is making im movements upon the proceeding one. Let us so conduct ourselves in all matter that we shall are long make the white people of the South, all nav all r the world, recognize the Negro as a man i every sense of the word.—Recorder. The children of our people should be taught trades, if not given an education. It used to be the rule and not the exception for boys to be bound out as apprentices to a master mechanic of some sort. As a result they were returned out alone the less men, although frequently given only their board and clothing during their term of apprenticeship. decided to et the guesses be upon the official votes of the State of Ohio at the next election, which is to be held Nov. 5 1901. The concert for which the tickets are being sold will be held a few days before the election—beginning, in fact, on the evening Oct. 30—and as soon as the secretary of the State of Ohio announces the official vote of the state the prizes will be distributed among those who have guessed the correct, or ne rst the correct vote. In cases of tie guesses the directors have several plans in view, but whi-hever is adopted will be entirely fail to all parties as it will be conducted under the supervision, as indeed is everything in connection with the contest, of some of the most prominent businessmen of Kansas City. The concert tickets with coupon entitling the purchaser to one guess as to the total vote of Ohio and a chance at all the big prizes, are sold at 35 cents each. While it is desired that all purchasers of tickets shall attend the concerts yet that is not necessary, as the guessing coupon is to be detached from the ticket and mailed to Convention Hall, Kansas City, Mo., as soon as possible. In order that they may be properly recorded. Those who are not present at the concert have the same opportunity as those who are present in the matter of securing prizes. Agencies are to be established in every city and town in the directors having made arrangements to offer substantial inducements to those who get up clubs and sen tickets. Those who wish to secure their tickets dirc should address their mail orders to Convention Hall, where all communications are al received by Louis W. houss, the secreary. For the guidance of those who may wish to vote as a statement of the official vote in Ohio for the past ten year* 1891.....795,631 1892.....861,025 1893.....835,604 1894.....776,819 1895.....844,906 1896.....1,020,107 1897.....864,022 1898.....793,169 1899.....920,872 1900.....1,149,121 An average vote of 876,397. Elections for governor are held in Ohio in odd years, and elecions for secretary of state in even years. This year a governor is to be elected. Presidential elections are held in all years divisible by four. This will help you in your guess. Philadelphia has a blind colored man with a marvelous memory. His name is William Ellwood Wright and he lives at 1128 Rodman street. He is employed by Edward C Zwickler, a white bucher. As the butcher calls off the names of the buyer, this color-d man packs each bundle of meat in the basket, makes a do on each package with a pointed skewer, which has a nine-ing according to location and number, and delivers the entire log over that big city without the slightest error. An exchange says that only $3,200,000 spent yearly for Christian missions while over $6,000,000 is spent for tobacco one. Think of it. This should make the tobacco-using ministers throw away the filth weed. --- AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1901. REAL ESTATE YOUR CHANCE FOR A HOME ON EASY PAYMENTS. "Home" what tender recollections linger around that word—what a train of deep buried memories "home Sweet Home" There is rally no argument to advance why everybody should own a home and more especially the Negro. Here is a baggain among bargains. No. 1108 Everett avenue 4 room cottage, good cistern, lot 25x150 for $375 00 $100 00 down and $10,00 per month with 6 per cent interest. Nos. 1225, 1227 Barnett avenue' Four room cottages newly painted, beautiful shade trees Lot 25x125 Sells for $750, 00, $75 00 down $10 00 per month, 6 per cent interest. Noa 2302 2504, 2506, 2508 H.llock St. Four room cottages These beautiful little cottgs are suitable for small families, are one block from the West Side electric line and all have cisterns attached with ties 25x150, they can be bought for $75.00 each $0.00 down, balance $10 per 00 per month at 6 per cent. interest. The above are only a few samples, of W. B. Harris, the only Negro Real Estate Dealer in the city, office 206 Poris mouth building Tel. Wes 38. Give him a call. WHAT IS COMING. The Nationa Afr-American Council will hold its Fourth annual session at Pui adelphia, Pa. on Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday August 7, 8 and 9th. The Afro-America National Business League meets in Chicago, Ill., in Aug., The Sixth Annual Western Press Association holds forth this year at Colorado Springs August 5, 6 and 7th. TOPEKA NOTES. Miss Inis Page of Kenss Cify Mo., is guest of Mrs. Osie Iox o Lowman Hill. Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Wright left Puss day eve., for an outing in Denver. The Ladies Sewing circle met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Jerry Johnson. Mrs Joseph Wilson of Jopin Mo., is the guest of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilson. Mr. J.H.B. Taylor and Mrs.Olie Moss were united in marriage Monday eve., Rev.R.M. Ward officiating. Miss Lizzie Spaulding is slowly improving. Mr. and Mrs Jas.Page left Saturday for Chicago Ill. Miss Gertrude Solomon entertained the Golden Rod Art club Friday. The St.John A.M.E. Sunday School give a Trolly Party Thursday ve. NEGROE ARE NOT DYING OUT Increasing Faster Than the Whites in the Southern States. Washington, July 10. — Preditions, based on the census of 1890, that the negro population of the United States would gradually decrease in proportion to the total population, are not borne out by the statistics of the present census. The negro population in the United States in 1890 was 11.98 percent of the total, a decrease from 13.12 percent in 1889. This year the percentage will be somewhat less than 11, though until the compilation of statistics has been more in any completed it will be impossible to give exact figures. In some of the Southern states, the negro population is increasing faster in proportion than the white. In the border states there seem to be a little falling off, and in the Northern states, to which the tide of European immigration flows strongest the white population is increasing more rapidly, this does not hold good however, in some speci- localities, such as cities in which negro servants, especially in hote s, are rapidly displacing white men and women. To Whom it May Concern. This is to certify that Rev. G. McNeal of this city will appear before the Governor of the State of Kansas, on the 15th day of August 1901, to ask the pardon of one Robert Manuel now serving a ten year sentence in the State penitentiary, having been sentenced from the District court of Wyandotte County October term 1898, charged with Assault and attempt to kill. TO SWEETEN THE SREATH. Unless a disordered stomach is the cause of a tainted breath, the following formula used as a wash will prove of feetive: Salo', 3 gram; alcohol, 159 grams; essence of anise, 1/4 gram; essence of geranium, 1/4 gram; essence of mint, 1 gram. Pour a few drops in half a grass of warm water and rinse the mouth well. The Industrial Union of America West Indies and Canada will hold a convention at Concord N. C. July 4th o 7th. TALES OF TWO CITIES. EDITORIAL PICKINGS. Telephone us your news' when you have any "Blu 373" catches us. Mrs. W. I. Gorman of Orville Ave. is visi g in Lawrence. Mrs. J W King of 1011 N.4th St. who ene ently had an operation performed at Douglas Hospital as we go to press, is hovering between life and death—with odds against her. Franklin Temple of S.M.T's gave a soci in the Sea Foam block Tuesday eve. of this week at the hime of Mrs. Alice Blakely Miss Eva Washington of Librity Mo. and Miss Mattie Cole of this city made our offe a pleasant call this week. Miss Bettie Huston of the Sea Foam block has returned from a most pleas act trip to the Sunny South where she reports having enjoyed a most excellent sojourn. Miss Azalea Martin of Valley Falls Kans is the guest of Mrs. Berry Walle of Layfayette ave., Miss Wardia is quite a talented young lady and a grad uate of the High school of her city. Mrs. C.J. William leaves shortly for Salt Lake City, Cheyenne and other Western points on an extended trip. Mrs. Rebecca Saunders leaves shortly for Denver Colo., to spend the Summer. The Kansas City, Kansas Embalming and Casket Co., will bury your dead. The Twin City Business Mens Association are, making extensive preparation for a grand picnic and excursion soon. Robert E Paterson, son of ex-deputy Sheriff Corvine Paterson returned home last week from San Francisco Cal, where he recently arrived as a member of the 49th Reg. L. S. V., lately mastered out in the anose city after having seen service in the Phillipines. Robert is quite an old veteran by experience having seen service with the 23rd Kansas in Canada. When the white wounds blackest be left the Menarry. Medical College at Nashville Tennessee, and enlisted with the 49th infantry serving with credit in the hospital Mr. J. A. Thornton's "Morning Chocolate" to meet Mrs J. E. L fidge of Denver Col. who is visiting her, was one of the most joyful features of the season. Music was furnished by Othello Mandolia Ochestra, and some very choice selections on the Piano were rendered by Miss Mamie Aletha Richardson, and Mrs Abner Taylor of Springfield Ill. Mrs Thor on was assisted by Mrs J. J. Peepes, end Mrs G. W. H. Grassman. Mrs Alice Dugged Cary of Atlanta Georgia is still visiting her many friends here, who are making her stay most enjoyable. Her brother Rev. William S Dugged is pastor of a large church in Georgia and is doing well. We admit that there are some bad Negroes in Kansas City Mo, as w as white, but when a orure is fasten ed upon a Negro there is always more hubbub then is necessary We doubt very seriously the reports as largefly magnified by the white press, concerning Thursday event True face a when a Negro is concerned can seldom ever be obtained through the press, for it has become second nature to report white newspaper, writers and report to "color" very loudly anything bad a Negro is accused of doing. If all coons look alike and many white men when blacked up look the same. There is much room for douats. If the Negroes now in chattied did really do as has been reported they deserve severe punishment but if there is a doubt then we hope they will get the benefit. We have had more occasion then is our custom to hear the past week, the discussion of the big and little Negro There is an unusual spurt among Negroes in this city to co-operate to do business and we are sorry to know that the idea has gone forth and is continuing to circulate that in certain business, in this city the Big Negroes have combined against the Little Negroes. Such an idea harbored in the heads of sane Negroes is outrageous and utterly beyond even thinking about. In our experience of fourteen year we have found out in the true sense of the word there are no big Negroes There are some Negroes that think themselves better then oth r Negroes and honestly speaking, in certain repect they are better. But we have found that the big Negroes as some ill insist on calling them are the CITIZEN Call up "Blue 375" when you have anything in the news line. Hello! Central!! Give me 375 Blue, please—well Hello!—Is this the American Citizen office—yes—we are at your service. Give us a little more time and you will see truly the greatest negro paper in the West. He sings with all the sad disappointment of a doting father "if it had only been a boy." He is prepared to say that marriage is not a failure. On the strength of the girl—He rushes a new rig. What a glorious old Fourth he had. And the American Citizen has a Telephone. Master Alorzo Taylor brother of Mr Lulu Johnson arrived this week from Louisville Ky to pay her a visit. REEP THIS IN MIND. The AMERICAN CITIZEN takes the stand that one good turn deserves another. Where we fail to receive the journalistic courtesies extended to others, we refuse to do any puffing unless its a "cash" transaction. Bear this in mind, for we are not in business for our health. Only money talks. Over 6,500 men of color in St Louis and yet the white man don't allow them a dog's show." Not one store will employ a colored girl as clerk: Not one store in St Louis that will employ a Negro only as porter Not one bank will employ a Negro only as janitor. Not one foundry cooper shop or carpenter shop will give our bows a show to learn a trade. No factoure of any kind will employ our young people. The Transit Co. employ no conductor or motormen from among our people. Not one place of business of any kind will employ a Negro man or woman. Then they say: "The Negro ought to work and our young girls be upright and honest. Do the white men and women think they are digging the right thing by our people?" - St. Louis Exchange Down in South Carolina recently a lynching party, after swinging a colored man up to a tree limb, discovered that they had the wrong man. They hastily cut him down, and as a balm for his wounds, they made up a purse and gave him a mule and several acres of cotton land. LADIES Expecting confinement should consult D. Davis, Painless Accoucheur. All female complaints, diseases, fistulas and all rectal diseases treated by the Mild Medicine Method. No pay if not cured. Dr Davis' Health institute, 6 h and Kaiser ave. Armadale. ons that never carry on any business except it be a business where 1 kind of a Negro is permitted to deal. A Negro when it comes down to the transaction of business of a beneficial nature to another Negro can find 10,000 excuses why he should not help that individual, they seem to be lacking of common sense, they don't like Mr. A. or Mr. B., consequently they let one or two men stand in their way preventing them from laying a foundation upon which their children might build a mammoth institution. Thousands of the grand est opportunities ever presented to human mortals, are being thrown away by Negro foggyism of big I's and little U's. Thirty-five years is enough, we ought to be educated far above that now. We have but to glance around us to see that in the commercial world as well as else where, the white man has his foot on your neck and the majority of us are helping him to keep it there. It is well now white the sun shines on both sides of the street to make hay Winter is coming and the chances are, it will be just as cold as it is now hot. Much of the suffering in winter among Negroes could be avoided if they would make the proper preparation, instead of having what is known on the street as a "wratting good time" all Summer Lay by something, for old Crmp is coming and its a hard time some of we will have workroom or a. comp. sated, the sewing-women. Why do they not take the city case on their way up? They can not afford the five central? If concluding to deny her something else, she gets into the cat, give her a seat! You want to see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the five look at that woman and behold a more horrible martyrdom, a hotter one a more acriding death! Kansas News Notes. Clarion is talking about a new $20,000 hotel. The new Catholic church at Orient has been dedicated. Rural free delivery will be established at West Point the first of July. A heel fly alighted on the tire of D. W. Blaine's automobile in Pratt and punctured it. Of the 106 teachers attending the institute in Neosho county, twenty-seven have red hair. Wooldbury county has contracted with tax ferrets to investigate its delinquent taxes. The Chanutre band found that it had sufficient surplus breath to blow itself for new uniforms. New machinery is being installed in the canning factory at Waverly and the plant is being enlarged. Convicts in the penitentiary appear to have concluded to let the warden and his deputy run the place. A man in Coolidge advertises that he has fitted up an ice cream parlor in one corner of his blacksmith shop. An Atchison committee is trying to arrange for the presence of the duke of Cornwall at the next corn carnival. Because he purchased a ready made coat instead of having a tailor make it, a Dubuque policeman was arrested. Things have been at fever heat in Lawrence ever since the University of Kansas conferred those 182 degrees. There are 13,772 Congregationalists in Kansas, and yet New England wonders where all the Yankees have gone. A little boy in Herrington who couldn't wait until July 4, killed his sister a few days ago with a toy pistol. Two horses recently sold by Cyrus Leland were shipped to New York and then sent to Denmark for the royal stables. Blue Rapids has a woman who makes $3 per day as a paper hanger. She can hang twelve double rolls, with border, in eight hours. A modest man in Troy claims to have been around the globe eight times, speaks thirty-two languages and knows the Koran by heart. A Kansas man offers to exchange a mule for a wife, which causes an exchange to remark that some men never know when they are well off. Ex-Mayor S. F. Neeley of Leavenworth has given the contract for the erection of his new $65,000 hotel to ex-Mayor C. A. Fellows of Topeka. A McPherson man is suing his wife, a dressmaker, for divorce, which shows, among other things, that seamstresses are not always what they seem. The State Agricultural college has issued a booklet devoted to "pruns domestica." Probably it explains how to tell them from the wild or razorback prunes. Mrs. R. A. Baker of Concordia had two husbands and three sons killed in the civil war. Her first husband was killed early in the war and her second served toward the close. Farmer Hales of Jackson county gave a rat killing bee at which 300 rodents and fifteen gallons of ice cream were disposed of. Evidently the guests found it appetizing work. Dogs are not taxable under the Topeka ordinance until they are six weeks old, and the number of large, shaggy, overgrown pups in town is the marvel of the dog catcher. Wind was so brisk in the vicinity of Liberal one day recently that workmen on the Rock Island extension complained that they couldn't hit the spikes with their sledge hammers. A crying baby interrupted one of the speakers at the alumni banquet in Lawrence. The speaker paused and then added: "I will suspend my remarks while the class of 1916 gives its yell." Workmen repairing the roof of the court house at Cimarron found a bushel of cartridges concealed in the garrow. They had been hidden there by sharpshooters during the county seat war in Gray county fifteen years ago. James Jenkins of Grant township advertisises in the Pratt County Union that he will pay twenty-five cents each for all bull snakes three feet or over in length. He domesticates them and they keep the premises free from rats and mice. Thirty-one railway conductors have made reports to the state labor commissioner of work and pay for the year. An average run of 3,353 miles per month was made. Their average annual income was $1,071 and their expenses $778. No drafted Kansas soldier ever served in the army of his country. February 15, 1865, a draft actually commenced in Kansas and was continued until March 16, when a peremptory order came from Washington to suspend the draft and release the men who had been conscripted. This order came in response to official protests from Kansas in which the fact was set forth that the state had furnished more troops in proportion to her population than any other state in the Union. Under all the calls from 361 to 1863 the Kansas quota was 12,832. The actual number of volunteers furnished was 21,806, or 8,875 in excess of her just proportion. On the theory that the Kaw river is navigable it is under the supervision of the federal government and the state warden has no jurisdiction along its banks. It is, therefore, permissible to catch any kind of fish in any way at any time—if you can. At the twenty-ninth commencement of the University of Kansas degrees were granted to 167. The graduates from the School of Arts numbered 113. HELP FOR KANSAS New York Council Discusses Sending 5,000 Unemployed. D Men. Alderman Gorman, of New York city, wants to send at least 5,000 of the unemployed men and women of New York city to the fields of Kansas and other Western states to help harvest the crops. This matter was discussed seriously by the board of aldermen. It was decided to hold conferences with the officials of the department of charities to see if the plan could not be carried out at once. Alderman Gorman's resolution, which was adopted, recites the dispatches from Kansas and other Western states telling of an extraordinary demand for labor; that there are thousands of unemployed in New York who would gladly work if they could get to the places where the demand exists, and instructs the council charities committee to confer with the department of charities to ascertain how many are needed in the West and report ways and means. Suitable legislation is promised, so that the scheme may be successfully carried out. BARBER WORM IN KANSAS. It Shaves Beards off Hard Wheat to the Joy of Harvesters. A very peculiar worm has made its appearance in the wheat field of Mattis Olson, a farmer living near Assaria, Kan. Mr. Olson has on exhibition at the Farmers' National bank there two samples of his wheat from the same field and raised from the same seed. One sample, which he took from a corner of the field, was filled hard and ripe and had the beards intact. The other sample is still green. The peculiar feature of the green wheat is that the beards have been neatly cut off by a worm. This is the case with the greater part of his field, the ripe grain constituting only a small portion of his acreage. One of the drawbacks to hard wheat is the beard, which is more or less a nuisance to harvesters and threshers, but this worm has almost entirely shaved the beards from this field of wheat without any damage to the grain. Kansas farmers would do well to raise these worms. THROUGH / TRESTLE. Wabash Train Wrecked near Peru, Ind.—Fifteen Said to be killed Westbound passenger train No. 3, on the Wabash railroad ran into a wash-out at Cass, fifteen miles west of Peru, Ind., wrecking the engine and five cars. It is reported fifteen persons were killed. The train is due at Peru at 10:55, but was one hour late. The train was running at high speed to make up lost time and when near Cass, a switch five miles east of Logansport, plunged through a trestle that had been swept away by a wash-out. The engine was totally demolished and the three passenger coaches and two baggage cars were derailed and overturned. Every surgeon in Peru was summoned and the relief party left for the scene. Details are meager, but it is rumored Engineer Butler and Freeman Adams and at 'last a dozen passengers were killed and many more injured. WARRANT FOR A POSTMASTER. Dodson Farmer Had Trouble in Getting His Mail, He Alleges. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Ulysses Flancy, postmaster at Dodson, Mo., on a charge of felonious assault upon David N. Hyre, a farmer living one and one-half miles north of the station. Hyre says that he went into Flancy's store and called for his mail, but Flancy paid no attention to him. When Hyre asked a second time for the mail, he says Flancy told him to get out. "I am after the United States mail, and will stay till I get it," he replied. He says "that Flancy came at him with a knife and then with a revolver. Hyre started to defend himself with a pop bottle, when the postmaster's wife came in and stopped the trouble. Hyre went out without the mail, but his wife, who was waiting outside, went in and got it. FIRE AT NEBRASKA PRISON. Second Attempt is Made to Destroy the Penitentiary. The remaining wing of the Nebraska penitentiary buildings, one of which was burned last March, narrowly escaped destruction the other day from a fire started maliciously. Governor Savage and Warden Davis say, by convicts employed in the broom factory. Prompt discovery allowed the flames to be quenched in their incipiency, and the damage is nominal. An investigation in the broom building showed that a candle had been lighted and so placed that, after burning itself about half, it would communicate itself to a mass of broom corr. The nozzle of the hose had been plugged, but the pressure was so stong that the water removed the obstruction and the fire was quenched. Evelyn B. Baldwin in London. Evelyn B. Baldwin and four members of the Baldwin-Zeigler Polar expedition have arrived in London. The expedition will leave Franz Josef Land about July 12 on its voyage North. The three vessels of the expedition, the America, the Belgica and the Fritjof, will rendezvous there before that date. William Zeigler, the financial backer of the expedition, has gone to the Con- AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at #417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice, at Kansas City Kansas, as second class matter. Every Friday evening New York loses thousands of its residents, who go to other cities in the state and to Boston and Philadelphia. These people are citizens of Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Elmira, Binghamton and the travelers to Boston and Philadelphia have their homes in these cities. All of these men do business in New York city. They return to New York from their homes on Sunday, arriving Monday morning, and from that time until Friday evening they are going after the almighty dollar—Baltimore News. Nothing Personal Intended When Lady Blessington sent D'Orsay to complain of some delay on the part of her publishers, Otley & Saunders he used very high language. A dignified man in a high, white neckcloth, who v as listening to him, said: "Count D'Orsay, I would sooner lose Lady Blessington's patronage than submit to such personal abuse." "There was nothing personal," said the count: "if you are Otley, then damn Saunders; if you are Saunders, then damn Otley." Ancient Manuscript Heirlooms. John Beutler of Wapakoneta, Ohio has manuscripts and books that have been handed down from father to son since the ninth and sixteenth centuries. He has original manuscripts of the code of Justinian the Great, emperor of Rome, written in the latter part of the fifth century. He also has original manuscripts of the annals of C. Cornetius Tacitus, the Roman historian, written in Greek, about the middle of the sixth century. The Famous "Passion Play." Already arrangements are being made by the tourist agents to conduct parties to Oberammergau this year, the famous "Passion Play" having been fixed to commence on April 24. It will last.as usual, till the end of September. Since 1633, with only slight remodeling this mystery or miracle performance has been performed by village peasants in the Bavarian highlands every ten years. Old-Time Surgery. A grim souvenir of an old-time war was on view in a cutter's window in the east end of London recently. It is an ebony-handled saw, which, according to the inscription on a brass plate attached to the instrument, was used by a surgeon of the British army to amputate the limbs of wounded soldiers at Blenheim, Malplaquet and Ramallies. Warner Illinois Corn Counties Very few people, pechaps, are aware of the fact that in the counties of Coles, Douglas and Moutriet, in Illinois, three-fourths of the all the broom corn used in the world is produced. The amount used in the whole world is 35,000 tons, of which 27,000 tons are grown in these counties. Too Good a Target. Fithterho the regiments of the Highland Brigade which have worn the kilt have presented an admirable mark for bullets by reason of the dark tartan of which the national costume is made. Orders have been now issued that all Highland corps are in future to wear a khalil apron in front Oddities in New York Names If you keep your eyes open while riding around the streets of New York on the surface cars you can see many odd combinations of the names of busses men and their trades, some of which are here given: Ashman, hotel; Burns, coal; Best, groceries; Burnham, real estate; Cook, fish and oysters; Bomf, beer and liquors; Coffey, teas and sugar; Forrester, real estate; flood, rubbers, boots; Gutter, pawnbroker; Goodrich, carriages; rier doctor; Katz, butcher; Love, chemist; McClean, shirts, diamonds; Noyes, lawyer; Proudman, diamonds; Pitcher, milk; Rich, perfumery; Silk, dress goods; Swindel, teas and spices; Sickman, fish and clams; Wood, building materials—New York Herald. Speed of Ocean Liners. In an article in Cassier's Magazine on steam speeds at sea, Mr. Oldham says twenty-five years ago the Atlantic had never been crossed by a screw steamer at a greater rate than fifteen miles an hour, that of the fastest liner, Scotia. Today steamers have reached the speed of twenty-five miles an hour, and, although the power required to propel a steamer varies with the cube of the speed, yet, before a third of the next century expires, another increase of at least 50 per cent in ocean speed may be safely predicted. The construction of a steamer of 65,000 tons will probably not trouble the constructors of the future nearly as much as did the building of the Great Eastern those of the past. Peanut Butter. According to a prominent dealer, peanut batter is rapidly becoming an important commercial product. It is made by grinding peanuts very fine and reducing the mass to a paste, from which a large part of the oil is removed. A little salt is then added. Many physicians recognize the nutritional value of this butter. It has all the wholesome qualities of nuts without being so indigestible. Peanut butter is excellent for the poor, too, for it contains quite as much nourishment as ordinary butter and is much less expensive. --- FREE TO ALL! Be not deceived by loud advertisements that promise much and accomplish little. Do not send your money away until you know what you are going to get for it. We do not ask you to send us your money until we have proved to your own satisfaction that PICTURED TAKEN AFTER USING LUSTORONE Straightens Kinky, Nappy, curly Hair. No hot irons are to be used at all. LUSTORONE straightens without any outside assistance. LUSTORONE is put up on two forms. No. 1 causes the hair to grow long, silky, straight and up to two. No. 2 will form a dandruff, tettler, eczema and all scalp diseases, and feeds the roots of the straightening hair. No. 1 is used at night, No. 2 in the morning. They must both be used in the treatment. LUSTORONE is fully guaranteed to straighten kinky hair, stop the hair from falling, restore grey hair to its natural color, and create a new growth of hair on bald spots. It is not possible for any one to make a hair tonic to equal LUSTORONE. We have thousands of testimonials like the following we have not space to publish: Mrs. Mary Young Fowler, California, writes, LUSTORONE is a God-send to suffering humanity. Send me $5.00 worth at once. I know what it did for me. TO SECURE A FREE SAMPLE OF LUSTORONE send us your name and address and enclose 12c, to pay postage and we will mail to you a sample of LUSTORONE 1.1 and No. 2 (2 packages) same day money is received. This sample will convince you of the truth of our assertions. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN S100 PER YEAR. D. W. White, H. P. Ewin, J. G. Groves, W. M. Gamble, Frank Wilson S. A. Putherforo, I. F. Bradley, C. W. Comager W. M. Grigsby. AUDITORS. S. A. Kutherford, Frank Wilson, Miss E. V. Jone. Our trade in the Transvaal An American piano, retailing here for $200, fetches $500 in the Transvaal. An organ worth $50 here sells for $150 there. American saddles and harness don't suit the Boers, the former being too high-priced and the latter too fine for the rough overland work of trekking. In the canned meat line, Australia so far undersells Chicago that our packers are in despair. Our manufacturers sold over 7,000 tons of barbed wire in 1897 to the Transvaal, but, strange to say, the fence posts came from Germany and England. Four iceplants were furnished for the Kimberley mines by Chicago, having an aggregate capacity of twenty tons a day, besides 100,000 cubic feet of cold storage—New York Press. Clarified Sugar. Take the quantity of fine white loaf sugar you intend to clarify, add to it of very clean warm water, half a pint for every pound; when dissolved add to it the white of one or two eggs, as the quantity may require, well whipped; put it on the fire, and when it comes to a boli pour into it an ordinary teacupful of cold water; on its rising again to a boli remove it and let it settle for twenty minutes; skim the scum from the top, pour off the syrup into a clean vessel with sufficient quickness to leave all the sediment at the bottom and such steadiness as to prevent any of the latter rising and mixing with it. 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 foll 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 Bazaar Beantles of Warwick Castle Warwick castle is held by many to be the most beautiful seat in England. The large baronial hall is a magnificent room. It is decorated with the most perfect specimens of armor, furnished in a luxurious manner, and masses of flowers and large palms abound on every side. "We Bury The Dead." PATRONAGE SOLICITED. Telephone office 1014 N. 5th Street KANSAS (171) KANS. A Hard Bet to Win. In 1833 three Irishmen agreed to undertake a journey around the earth on foot for a jackpot of $150,000. Each one of the party deposited one-third of this sum in the Bank of Dublin, and it was agreed that whoever survived the trip and returned should receive the whole amount. In case all died a Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. On Dec. 24, 1895, they started east across Europe and Asia Minor to Egypt, where they took passage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the journey, and the severity of this trip resulted in the death of two of the travelers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, completed the voyage and won the money. —New York Press. MERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORTFST LINE CROSS THE CONTINENT The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kansas City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulated and tully equipped with latest improved Reciling 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 Pintsch Ligt Only line running two trains without charge from Kansas City to Los Angeles. Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon Washington and California. Don't complete your arsignment for a trip west until you have mod all six special inquiries situations offered by Lloyd Pa- ter. For full information in respect to latest time, contact J.B. FEAWLEY. J.B. FEAWLEY. Apt. U. 1. 100 Parking City. 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. Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will 'arm 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 HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. The Wyandotte Drug Store FOR THE PUREST DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. And the best of every thing 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 Delivere W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYA Undertaking R. oms, 431 Minnesota Factory Cor st St. KANSAS CITY. W SOLICIT YOUR JONES, MA —DEAL Fancy and Sta FEED AND Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds o delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave. RTAKERS * SURPRISES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT A LOCATION FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Homes, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone Vactory Corst St. and Riverview Ave. CITY. WE INIT YOUR PATROLLES, MARTIN&—DEALERS IN—and Staple GrocEED AND SALT MEAL. Cigers. All kinds of Country Produce in every part of the city. and Oakland Ave., Kansas UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER. Undertaking K. oms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Cor st St. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS CITY. KANSAS. 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 Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Lire, K.C. K Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantee the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time. Give him a trial and see for you self. CANCER Home Treatment that cures Cancers and Tumors: Used with perfect safety; harmless, soothing, non-intrusive. We prefer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a speedy cure. Cases that require a sanitarium need not be nitil cured. Write today for our 80 piece boots. It contains much valuable information and contains a list of testimonial from patients we have incurred in cancer. 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To meet the need it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our nea remedies. Remember, we handle no fake g all our remedies are trade-marked, registered and 1900. We refer you, as to our respons the editor of this paper. own in the United States. Write to us to do with easy and pleasant work, and no risk one testimonial in your own State of peo E. WASH. shades lighter, and will 'turn the skin of a one face wash. One bottle does the work. freckles, and all blisters of the skin. Y tions with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bo- bands of delighted patrons send us testimoni- ably satisfied and delighted with the Hartona if you are employed or not, and we will sho - SMELL. store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Godors caused by perspiration of the feet, orders to EDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmon- OFFER. ge boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Stra- ods will be sent securely sealed from observ- oney can be sent post-office money order. Main St., Richmon C. L. 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Active Guarantee, and no money accepted until treaties on rectal diseases, and hundreds of Also our 40 page book for women; both cen- DR, 10th & Oak Sts., Kansas City, Mo. TWAS MURDER WASHINGTON GRAND JURY INDICTS MRS. BONINE. The Sticks to Her First Story—Young Ayers Was Killed in Defense of Her Honor and Bullet was Fired in Mortal Struggle Be-tween Them. The grand jury at Washington, D. C., has reported an indictment for murder most Mrs. Lola Bonine, formerly of Mo., holding her responsible for the murder of James Seymour Ayes, Jr. on May 15 last, while both are in the room assigned to Ayres at the Kemore hotel in Washington. The reporting of the indictment most Mrs. Bonine was attended as much interest as was manifested the day the defendant appeared in court seeking release on bail. The room was crowded, many prominent men being present. In the room were a large number of ladies, whose only attire indicated that they be-attired to the better stations in life. The audience had been prepared for the result announced and the reading of the indictment created no surprise. The indictment is the culmination of a prey that was wrapped in mystery and has excited the interest of the populace to a degree probably ever before equaled in the national public history. James Seymour Ayres, jr., a resident of Port Austin, Mich., was found in his room in the Kenmorne A revolver that had been dropped on a trunk near the window contained three empty shells and as many cartridges, and an examination of his body showed that his death was used from bullet wounds. At first it was thought that the case was one of suicide, but that theory was soon disproved, especially after Thomas F. Baker, who resides across the street from the hotel informed the police that immediately after the shooting he was a woman emerge from the room coupled by Ayres on the fourth floor of the Kenmorne hotel leisurely descend the fire escape to the second floor and enter the hotel through a window. The entire detective force of Washington was put upon the case. For two days not a particle of information could be obtained. The coroner’s was in session and all of the images of the hotel were summoned beamed for investigation. Mrs. Bontine asserted in her statement that she had gone to Ayres' son for the purpose of taking him the medicine, which he had requested and that the killing occurred in defense of her honor. Her story was probedrotten to a certain extent by the crimes upon Ayres' body and upon the defendant. The grand jury commenced the consideration of the case June 3 and was engaged almost constantly with it until a day or two ago. IN BLOODY CONFLICTS. Bach Catholics, Missionaries and Their Pupils Have Trouble. A dispatch from Berlin says: Theologe Gazette publishes a dispatch Seoul, Corea, dated July 6, saying that bloody conflicts, extending over a period of ten days, have occurred on the Island of Quelpart between Roman Catholic missionaries and their pupils, and the pupils are reported to have been killed during encounters. the governor of Quelpart, according to the dispatch, says the trouble was a fault of the pupils and arose from the support of the tax collectors in trying illegal taxes upon the natives. Upon hearing that two French missionaries had been killed in the Island, French warship proceeded to Quelpart, upon finding the missionaries in question alive the warship returned. The Korean government has complained Huan Junan and an American court official to investigate the matter and is sending a company of Korean infantry with them to Quelpart. Quelpart is in the Yellow sea, sixty miles south of Korea, to which country is subordinate. It is a penal settlement. He Was in Bad Company Sheriff Ben Tilghman has arrived in Baltimore, Oka, with a prisoner, Bee Burns, captured near Cleveland, who, when arrested, was in company with the notorious bandit, Ben Cravens, who escaped capture, and is being closely pursued by the officers, who are magazine of success this time. The man captured, Burns, was wearing a watch and pistol stolen in Stroud at the time of the attempted bank robbery that place. Burns confessed his complicity in the recent holdouts in Eastern Oklahoma and implicated Burns, whose acquaintance he obtained while in prison, together with two other men. Because he Could Not Get Work. Peter Stacey 21, of Green Forest, Berkshire Springs. Ark., from the effec- tors of an overdose of morphine. After trying in vain to get work he told Sandra that he would die sooner than he back to his home where he is well connected. He took sixteen grains of morphine and shortly afterward stag- ged into the restaurant, calling for up of coffee which he was too cowery to drink. He was put to bed and two hours later a physician was called, but too late to save him. Washed a Town Away a deluge of rain, amounting to a abdurst, washed away nearly the town square of Corbin, Mont., twenty south of Helena, and the big concentrator there. So far as is known there was no loss of life, but the damage to wires renders details durable. Killing Heat in Norway. Defense heat prevails in Norway, the temperature reaching 91 degrees Fah- hest. Many persons and horses have overcome. HOW CITIES GROW: Urban Population of the United States Increasing Rapidly The census office has issued a bulletin concerning the urban population of the country. It shows that 28,411,698 people in the United States live in cities and towns of over 4,000 population. This is 37.3 per cent of the entire population, a gain of almost 5 per cent since the census of 1890, when the percentage was 32.9. Compared with the census of 1850, the report shows a gain in the urban population of the country of more than a third in percentage, and of considerably more than double in actual numbers. There were in 1880, 580 places of more than 5,000 population each, with an aggregate population of 12,936,110, or 25.8 per cent of the population. About one-half of the urban population of 1900 was contained in cities of over 100,000 people. There were 38 of those cities, with a combined population of 14,208,347. There are now 1,158 places of over 4,000 people in the country, as against 809 in 1890. The population of the District of Columbia is regarded as urban. In the other states and territories the percentage of people living in cities and towns as compared with the entire population of the places ranges from 91.6 in Rhode Island to 2.5 in Indian Territory, the entire list being as follows: Rhode Island, 91.7; Massachusetts, 86.9; New York, 71.2; New Jersey, 67.51; Connecticut, 65.5; Pennsylvania, 51.1; Illinois, 51.0; California, 48.9; Maryland, 48.2; New Hampshire, 46.7; Ohio, 44.8; Delaware, 41.4; Colorado, 41.2; Michigan, 32.7; Washington, 36.4; Maine, 36.2; Missouri, 34.9; Wisconsin, 34.5; Minnesota, 31.0; Indiana, 30.6; Utah, 29.4; Montana, 31.0; Wyoming, 28.8; Oregon, 27.6; Hawaii, 25.5; Louisiana, 25.1; Vermont, 21.0; Nebraska, 20.1; Iowa, 20.5; Kentucky, 19.7; Kansas, 19.2; Florida, 16.5; Virginia, 16.5; Texas, 14.9; Tennessee, 14.1; Georgia, 13.9; South Carolina, 11.7; West Virginia, 11.6; Arizona, 10.6; Nevada, 10.6; Alabama, 10.0; North Carolina, 8.0; South Dakota, 10.2; Arkansas, 6.9; Idaho, 6.2; New Mexico, 6.1; North Dakota, 5.4; Mississippi, 5.3; Oklahoma Territory, 5.0; Indian Territory, 2.5. TURKEY PAYS THE $95,000. At Last the Harpoot Indemnity is Satisfied. The State department at Washington has received the amount of the American indemnity claim against Turkey-$55,000—through the American legation at Constantinople. The claim was for the destruction of the property of American missionaries in Turkey at the time of the Armenian atrocities in 1895. A mob razed the building of Euphrates college at Harpoot and destroyed the mission premises. Turkish soldiers took a leading part in the attack and repeatedly fired on the building. The occupants were obliged to flee for safety and it was only by chance that no one was injured. The payment of the money was a surprise to those not directly concerned at the State department. Cattleman Morris is Busy. Howard W. Morris, a cattleman living ten miles northwest of Sedan, Kan., has been arrested by Sheriff Taylor on a charge of whipping his wife with a cattle whip. After being arrested his wife commenced divorce proceedings against him in the district court, went before the probate judge and enjoined him from disposing of his property and sued out a writ of habeas corpus to get possession of her two children. While his wife was thus leading him such a merry pace, a young lady of his neighborhood named Mary Stump had Morris arrested for statutory assault. Disastrous Failure in Missouri The Missouri weekly crop bulletin says a general heavy rain immediately is all that can save the crops from failure that means disaster. The fearful heat continues. Cotton and melons in the southeastern counties, where some rain has fallen, are doing well. Haying is progressing rapidly. Many meadows are not worth cutting. Wheat threshing is progressing rapidly, with good yields. Wheat threshing is nearly completed. Oat harvest is perhaps the poorest yield known. The fruit crop is very light. The general outlook is about as bad as it can be. Fell Dead at Breakfast Table. Walter Williams, a farmer near Mexico, Mo. fell dead at his breakfast table. He had been complaining for nearly a year and believed his trouble due to the fact that a bug had gotten into his ear while he was lying under a tree. The doctor was unable to find the insect. The deceased leaves a widow and five children. Kinsmire to be Tried. In Toncka. William Klusmire, the alleged wife murderer, of Holton, Kan., will be tried in Shawnee county. The district judge there has notified Judge Hazen of Topeka that he proposes to send the case to Toneka for trial. Germany's Exports to U. S. German exports, including Dresden, to the United States during the fiscal year ending March 31, amounted to $99,987,031. This is an increase over the last fiscal year of $1,074,854. Building Strike in Fort Worth Building Strike in Fort Worth. A thousand men in the building trades at Fort Worth, Tex., have struck and work is practically suspended all over the city. The strike is the outcome of the refusal of the laborers' federation to arbitrate their demand for higher wages. Stars for News of Pearl. Herbert L. Bridgeman, secretary of the Peary Arctic club of New York, and head of the expedition by which it is hoped to discover the fate of explorer R. E. Peary, his wife and little daughter, has left for Sydney, C. B., which will be his sailing point. Dod's Big Wichita Plant Jacob Dold and Sons, packers, of Kansas City and Wichita, have incorporated their Wichita plant with $1,000,000 capital. ALTON WRECK SEVENTEEN KILLED AND FORTY-TWO INJURED. TWO TRAINS ARE TELESCOPED Freight Crashes into Passenger Carrying Epworth Leaguers to 'Frisco—Men and Women, Pinned by Timbers, Heavy and Burning, Fight for Life—Many Victims Not Yet Identified. The Chicago and Alton's vestibulated limited passenger train, bound from Chicago to Kansas City, collided with a fast freight train between Marshall and Norton, Mo., shortly after 7:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. Seventeen persons lost their lives and forty-two were injured. The trains collided heads on. The engines were pushed to either side of the track, the baggage and chair cars were piled on top of the engines, the dining car was tipped over and the forward cars of the train telescoped. Immediately after the collision some of the cars caught fire and the wreck was a blazing mass. The steam and scaling water escaped from the engines, burning many of the passengers frightfully and enveloping the awful scene in a cloud that made the rescue work all the more difficult. The wrecked train left Chicago at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday night and was due to arrive in Kansas City at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. It was one of the finest trains between Kansas City and Chicago, the cars having all been made by the Pullman company for this special run. The engines were so completely demolished that the fire under the boilers was scattered in every direction, and, falling upon the woodwork of the overturned cars, set fire to them quickly. On account of the rapid spread of the blaze it was feared from the first that there were other dead bodies in the wreck that were not accounted for while the relief crew was at work. The train was loaded with Epworth Leaguers en route for the convention at Frisco. The dead and injured were taken to Kansas City as soon as a relief train could reach te scene of the wreck. Following is a list of the dead and injured. The dead: Dan. McAnna, conductor of freight train; D. J. Anderson, engineer of freight train, Slater, Mo.; Dan Donnelly, fireman on freight train, Mexico, Mo.; Frank Briggs engineer of passenger, Slater, Mo.; I. S. Rogers, express messenger, Chicago; Rhoda Curtiss; B. W. Hooker, Phoenix, N. Y.; Unknown woman, apparently 22 to 25, dark hair and brown eyes. Unknown woman, apparently 35 years old, dark brown hair and gray eyes; two unknown men; Sydney Jones, California; Mrs. Dickson; Miss Lulu Rider, 25, Kentland, Ind.; Unknown woman; Mrs. S. A. D. Harry, Hoopeston, Ill.; Mrs. Frances Walker, Flatbush, N.-Y. The injured: Miss Zola Harry, Hoopeston, Ill.; Mrs. J. A. Miller, Bloomington, Ill.; Miss Julia M. Hayslip, Chenoa, Ill.; Dr. J. S. Adsit, Hoopeston, Ill.; Mrs. J. S. Adsit, wife of Dr. Adsit; Miss Leona Miller, Bloomington, Ill.; Prof. S. A. D. Harry, Hoopeston, Ill.; Leslie S. Coleman, Paw Paw, Mich.; O. D. S丹原, Chenoa, Ill.; Miss Libbie Elkins, Bloomington, Ill.; Mrs. Dora Johnson, Bloomington, Ill.; Mrs. Bertha Mitchell, Pontiac, Ill.; Mrs. Newton Mitchell, Pontiac, Ill.; Mrs. Margaree Finucane, Troy; A. A. Kaufman, Chicago; C. E. Null, Mexico; Miss Gus Williams, colored, porter; Miss Sadie E. Taylor, Wilmington, Ill.; Miss Dora Wickwire, Goodland, Ind.; Mrs. Lottie Still, Hornellsville, N. Y.; E. C. Bray, Chicago; Mrs. Mayer, Louisville, O.; Mrs. Anna Morrison, Valparaiso, Ind.; G. P. Dixon, Farburg, Ill.; Ell Walker, Louisville, O.; Mrs. Levi Archer, Cromwell, Ind.; Mrs. C. W. Snider, Jasper, Ill.; Mrs. Ora Tollman, Valparaiso, Ind.; Miss Catherine Walker, Louisville, O.; Mrs. Hilda Hayslip, Chicago; T. J. Elliot, Farber, Mo.; Mary Bird, Vandalia, Mo.; Miss Clara Golden, Topeka, Ind.; Miss Gusta A. Nelson, Topeka, Ind.; George B. Hill, Gilliam, Mo.; George Allens, colored New Frankfort, Mo.; Joseph Whittle, Gilliam, Mo.; James Varndell, freman on passenger train; Joseph Balden, Salt Springs, Mo.; Christ Johns, Shackelford, Mo.; Gertrude Duncan, Elgin, Ill.; Walter Walsh, white cook on dinner; Thomas Johnson, colored, second cook. Oil at Amoret, Mo. The Bates County Oil and Mineral Company, of Amoret, Mo., has struck oil. The drillers have gone through thirty-five feet of oil sand, which will run two barrels of oil per day. The prospect is very flattering for a big strike of oil when they reach the lower strata of oil sand, which, according to geological survey, is eighty feet thick. This oil is a fine lubricant. Kansas Boy Dead in South America. Word has been received from South America of the death of Dr. Clarence Probert, a former Salina, Kan., boy. Death was due to yellow fever and the body was buried at Boca Del Toro, Veragua. Father Held for Child's Murder. Perry Burris is held at Eureka Springs, Ark., without bail charged with the murder of his own 16-year-old daughter. This is the result of an examination before Justice Cunningham, at Berryville, Ark. Thought He Had Killed His Nephew. Lawrence Halbritter, aged 55, blew out his brains at Sioux Falls, S. D. after a quarrel with his nephew, Carl Halbritter, aged 20. The elder man had struck the nephew with a knife, inflicting a flesh wound, and thought he had fatally wounded him. The Topeka, Kan., millers have instituted their fight to compel the railroads to re-establish the milling in transit rate which was abolished about four months ago. VISITORS ON THEIR WAY TO OR FROM THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION, POLAND SPRING AND THE RESORTS OF NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND, WILL FIND EXCELLENT SERVICE ON THE THROUGH TRAINS OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. THIS GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY SYSTEM OF AMERICA COMPRises THE New York Central & Hudson River, C. C. G. & St. Louis, (Big Pond), Michigan Central, Boston & Albany, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Pittsburg & Lake Erie, East Coast & Western, Agregated 10,400 MILES of Track in the Populous Territory East of CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS. POLAND SPRING HOUSE, MAINE. Notre Dame, Indiana We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Notre Dame University, one of the great educational institutions of the West, which appears in another column of this paper. Those of our readers who may have occasion to look up a college for their sons during the coming year would do well to correspond with the president, who will send them a catalogue free of charge, as well as all particulars regarding terms, courses of studies, etc. There is a thorough preparatory school in connection with the university, in which students of all grades will have every opportunity of preparing themselves for higher studies. The Commercial Course, intended for young men preparing for business, may be finished in one or two years according to the ability of the student. St. Edward's Hall, for boys under thirteen, is an unique department of the institution. The higher courses are thorough in every respect, and students will find every opportunity of perfecting themselves in any line of work they may choose to select. Thoroughness in class work, exactness in the care of students, and devotion to the best interests of all, are the distinguishing characteristics of Notre Dame University. Fifty-seven years of active work in the cause of education have made this institution famous all over the country. New Jersey's Constitution The present constitution of the state of New Jersey, adopted in 1844, has remained unchanged for fifty years and remains practically the same as when first adopted. The term of the governor of New Jersey, which expires in December, is three years, and New Jersey is now the only state in the country which adheres to the three years' term. EPWORTH LEAGUE CONVENTION, San Francisco Cal. 18-21 1901 When planning your trip do not forget that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway is the most popular, best equipped and safest railroad in the Northwest. On all of its through lines of travel this railway runs the most perfectly equipped trains of sleeping parlor, dining, free reclining chair cars and coaches. It is the only line with electric reading lights in each berth in the sleeping cars run between Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and between Chicago and Omaha. All regular travelers know and appreciate the merits of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In purchasing your tickets see that they read via this line, and you are assured the very best of service. For rates, descriptive literature, etc., inquire of your local ticket agent, or address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, IL. Showcase Manufacture. Among other lines of manufacture in which Baltimore leads the word is that of making showcases, and not only does Baltimore's output exceed that of any other city on the globe, but it was also one of the first to construct this useful article. Hall's Catarrh Cure is a constitutional cure. 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Her Ancestors Were Lawyers Mrs. Emma R. B. Railley, upon whom has just been conferred a master's degree by the Washington College of Law, was born in Alabama and comes from distinguished ancestry. Her great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were all lawyers. Mrs. Bailey married young, and when her husband died a few years ago she found that it was necessary for her to support herself and her children. She secured a position in the department of the interior and then studied law. A Major's Experience. Major Scott, says the Jimtown Ananias, being suddenly awakened last night, found five snakes in bed with him. The major jumped out of the front window and climbed a tree. He had not been there long before a hurricane blew the tree down; the tree fell on the house, smashed the roof, demolished the bed, and killed all the snakes. The only damage the major suffered was having a couple of his legs broken. Woman Golf Instructor. 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G & J TIRE COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. --- President's Proclamation The following is the proclamation just issued by President McKinley opening the Wichita and Comanche, Kiowa and Apache reservations to settlement: "Whereas, by an agreement between the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians on the one part, and certain commissioners of the United States on the other part, ratified by act of Congress the Wichita and affiliated bands' 82 stat., 876, 878, the said Indian ceded, theferred and relinquished, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever, unto the United States of America, all their claim, title and interest of every character in and to the lands embraced and inhabited by the described country now in the territory of Oklahoma, to-wit: "Commencing at a point in the middle channel of the Washita river, where the longitude of the west longitude crosses the same, thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the line of 88 degrees, 40 longitude, thence on said line of 88 degrees, 40 longitude to the middle of the channel of the main Canadian river, thence down the middle of said main Canadian river to cross the ninety-eighth meridian, thence due south to the place of beginning. "And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying said agreement, allotments of land in severity regularly made to each and every member of the land-filled bands of Indians, native and adopted, and the lands occupied by religious societies or other organizations for religious or educational work among Indians have been regularly allotted and used to the societies and organizations, respectively. "And whereas, by an agreement between the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes of Indians on the one part, and certain commissioners of the United States on the other part, amended and ratified by act of the United States June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672, the said Indian tribes, subject to certain conditions which have been duly performed, ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished, forever and absolutely, without any further soever, expressed or implied, unto the United States of America, all their claim, title and interest of every kind and character in and to the lands emerged in the following described tract of countries in the territory of Oklahoma, to-wit. "Commencing at a point where the Washita river crosses the ninety-eighth meridian west from Greenwich; thence the meridian west from Greenwich; thence the main channel thereof, to a point thirty miles, by river, west of Fort Cobb, as now established; thence due west to the north fork of Red river, proximate to the mouth of the 190th meridian west longitude; if not, then only to said meridian line, and thence due south, on said meridian line, thence down said north fork, in the middle of the main channel thereof, from the point where it may be first intersected by the lines above described, to the point where the meridian of longitude west river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to its intersection with the ninety-eighth meridian of longitude west Greenwich; in the middle of Meridian line, to the place of beginning. "And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying the agreement between allotments of land in seventy years, the member of said Comanche, Klowa and Apache tribes of Indians; the lands occupied by religious societies or other or members of the tribe, work among the Indians have been regularly allotted and confirmed to such societies and organizations, respectively, and the secretary of the interior, out of the lands occupied by religious societies, has regularly selected and set aside for the use in common for sale Comanche, Klowa and Apache tribes of Indians, 480,000 acres of grazing lands. "And whereas, in the act of Congress, "acting the said Wichita agreement, it is RELATING TO MINERAL LANDS. "That the laws relating to the mineral lands covered over the lands ceded by the foregoing agreement. "And, whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying the same omanche, Kiowa and it is provided: "That the lands acquired by this agreement shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the land allotments are made and be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and own-site laws of the State, and provided in addition to the land office fees prescribed by statute for such entries the entry man shall pay $1.25 per acre for the land entered at the time of acquisition. And, provided further. That in all homestead entries where the entryman has resided upon and improved the land of the faith for the purpose of fourteen months he may commute his entry to cash diamiral Siewer's Ancestors Admiral Dewey's ancestors lived in the town of Lebanon, Conn., so well known as the home of Jonathan Trumbull and his gifted son, the painter. A paper was read before the New England Catholic Historical society, in Boston, by Miss Ella A. Fanning, city editor of the Norwich, Conn., Bulletin, in which the following statement was made: "Josiah Dewey in 1700 bought from Oneco, son of the great Mohgan chief Uncaes, what is yet known as the five-mile purchase." Sullivan's Instruments Sold Well Sullivan's Instruments Sold Well. Sixteen of the violins and violon- cellos owned by the late Sir Arthur Sullivan were recently sold for $1,800. The greatest prize realized for any one of the instruments was $850, which was paid for a violoncell by Joseph Guarnerius. Degraded for Religious Scrapes. An Austrian officer, the Marchese Tacoll, declined a challenge on account of religious scruples two years ago. He was not only degraded from his rank August 6, the Date Fixed for the Opening of the Wichita and Comanche, Kiawa and Apache Indian Lands to Settlement. upon the payment of $1.25 per acre. And, provided further. That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, as defined and described in sections 2204 and 2305 of the revised statutes shall not be denied to any person who, having attempted to, but for any cause failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing laws, or who made entry under what is known as the committed provision of the statute, to make a homestead entry upon said lands. And, provided further. That any qualified entry man having lands adjoining the lands herein ceded, whose original entry embraced less than 100 acres in all, the lands by this agreement ceded living contiguous to his said entry as shall, with the land already entered, make in the aggregate 150 acres, said land to be taken upon the same conditions as are required by the statute, provided further. That the settlers who located on that part of said lands called and known as the 'neutral strip' shall have preference right for thirty days on such land, which they have located and improved. "That should any of said lands allotted to said Indians, or opened to settlement under this act contain valuable mineral deposits, such mineral deposits shall be excavated and the existing mining laws of the United States, upon the passage of this act, and the mineral laws of the United States are hereby extended over said lands. whereas, by the act of Congress approved January 4, 1911 (31 Stat. 227), the secretary of the interior was authorized to extend, for a period not exceeding eight months from December 6, 1900, the time for making allotments to the Comanche, Klowa and Apache Indians for settlement the lands so ceded by them: "And whereas, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1901 (30) that has regularly subdivided the lands so as aforesaid respectively ceded to the United States by the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians and the Comanche, and spouse and subdivide to counties, attaching portions thereof to adjoining counties in the territory of Oklahoma, has regularly designated the lands of the county, has regularly set aside and reserved at each county seat land for a townsite to be disposed of in the manner provided by the act of congress last year, has regularly surveyed, subdivided and platted the lands so set aside and reserved for disposition as such townsite; "And whereas, by the act of Congress last named it is provided—" The lands to be opened to settlement and land offices of Congress ratifying said agreements respectively shall be so opened by proclamation of the President, and to avoid the contests of conflicting claims which may have otherwise rendered settlement and land lands to settlement and entry, the President's proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which these lands may be opened to settlement and entry, persons entitled thereto under the acts ratifying said agreements, respectively; and no person shall be permitted to set aside lands except as prescribed in such proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry. WHO OPENS THE TERRITORY OF Oklahoma to include the lands so ceded as aforesaid, which land districts and land offices have been established by an order of even date here- "And, whereas, All of the conditions required by law to be performed prior to opening of such tracts of land to settlement are such as, as I hereby declare, fully performed; "Commencing at 9 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, July 10, 1901, and at j. o'clock p. m., Friday, July 26, 1901, a State land offices at El Reno and Lawton, in the territory of Oklahoma (the office at Lawton to occupy provisional quarters in the immediate vicinity of Port St. John, Alabama) will be provided at the partners' halls and provided at Lawton, for the purpose of ascertaining what persons desire to enter, settle upon, and acquire title to any of said lands under the homestead law and of accertaining registration at each office will be for both land districts, but at the time of registration each applicant will be required to elect and state in which district registration each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified to make homestead entry of these lands under existing laws and to give the regis- tation description and identity as will protect the applicant and the government Fish 150 Years Old. There are some goldfish in Washington which have belonged to the same family for the last fifty years, and they seem no bigger and no less vivacious today than they did when they first came into the owner's possession. A few of the fish in the Royal Aquarium at St. Petersburg are known to be 150 years old and the age of the sacred fish in some of the ponds attached to the Buddhist temples in China is to be counted by centuries, if we are to believe the priests. Heart Woman on Suffrage The Connecticut house of representatives took a recess recently in order to give Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker an opportunity to address the members on woman suffrage. She was given a respectful hearing and was heartily applauded, but the measure was defeated as usual. Typhold Killing British Soldiers During the first three months of this year there were, among the British troops in South Africa, 6,258 cases of typhoid fever, 1,060 of which proved against any attempted impersonation. Registration cannot be effected through the use of the mails of the employment of an agent, excepting that honorably issued to the benefits of section 2804 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of Congress approved in 1995, for presenting their applications for registration and due proofs of their qualifications through an agent of their own selection, but no person will be permitted to act as agent for more than one such agent, or to be permitted to mitte to register more than or in any other than his true name. Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified to receive a transferable certificate to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands to be opened hereunder in the land district in which he is living, and for purpose for which he may go upon and examine said lands is that of enabling him later on, as herein provided, to understandingly select the lands for which he is living, and for purpose for which he may go upon and examine said lands in advance of the opening herein provided for, and during the first sixty days following said opening no one other than he is permitted to make homestead settlement upon any of said lands, and then only in pursuance of a homestead entry duly allowed by the local land officers, or of a statement duly accepted by such officers. SIXTY DAYS FOR DRAWING. The order in which, during the first sixty days following the opening, the rainy season begins, the red envelope must be homemade entry of the lands opened hereward, will be determined by drawing for both the Reno and Lawndale counties, and the States land office at El Reno, Oklahoma, commencing at 9 o'clock a.m. , Monday, July 29, 1901, and continuing for such period as may be necessary to complete the drawing. Under the supervision and immediate observance of a committee of three persons whose integrity is such as to make their control of the drawing a guaranty of its integrity, the tree will be appointed by the secretary of the interior, who will prescribe suitable compensation for their services. Preparatory to these drawings the registrar must make a description of the drawing each applicant who shows himself duly qualified, make out a card, which must be signed by the applicant, stating the land district in which he desires to make the drawing, a description of the application, a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be at once sealed in a separate envelope, and the applicant will mark the label or mark than such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing for the land district in which the applicant desires to make the drawing as herein described, and the registrar according to land districts and will be carefully preserved and remain sealed until opened in the course of the drawing as herein described, and the applicant completed all of these envelopes will be brought together at the place of drawing and turned over to the committee in charge of the drawing, who, will be attended with entire fairness and equality of opportunity, shall proceed to draw out and open the separate envelopes and to give to each enclosed card a number in the order in which the drawing will be made. While the drawings for the two districts will be separately conducted they will occur as nearly at the same time as is practicable in the district, and the district will be certified by the committee to the officers of the district and will determine the order in which the applicants may make home-made salds land and settlement thereon. "Notice of the drawings stating the name of each applicant and number assigned to him by the drawing will be posted each day at the place of drawings of his number by a postal card mailed to him at the address, if any, given by him at the time of registration. Each applicant should, however, in his own behalf, employ such measures as will be required by the regulations and information of the order in which his application for homestead entry can be presented as fixed by the drawing. Applications for homestead entry of said applicant, at 9:00 a.m., the applications for the opening can be made only by registered applicants and in the order established by the drawing. At each land office, commencing Tuesday, August 6, 1990, at 9 o'clock a.m., the applications for the opening can be made exclusive, for that district must be presented and will be considered in their numerical order during the first day, and on at that rate until all of said lands subject to entry under the homestead application, and when disposed of, when he will be given appear and present his application for entry when the number is reached, his right to enter will be opened until after the other lands be disposed of, when he will be given another opportunity to make entry, failing in which he will be deemed to have abandoned his right to make entry under the homestead application and when disposed of, a homestead entry each applicant must personally present the certificate of registration therefore issued to him, together with a regular homestead application and be received accompanying him with the required office fees, but an honorably discharged soldier or sailor may file his declaratory statement through the agent representing him with the required office fees, and the certificate of registration will be dispensed with only upon satisfactory proof of its loss or destruction. If at the time of considering his regular application for entry it appears that any homestead entry of these lands his application will be rejected, notwithstanding his prior registration. If any applicant shall register more than once before his homestead entry is being upon any of said lands during the first sixty days following said opening. PREFERENCE FOR SETTlers. "Because of the provisions in the said act, Congress approved June 1980. That the act shall be on that part of said lands called and known as the "neutral strip" shall have preference right for thirty days on the lands upon which they have been in the immediate waters in the lands in the immediate waters shall for the period of thirty days Immigration from Europe More immigrants are said to be arriving from Europe this year than ever before. Most of them come from southern Europe and Scandinavia. Italy furnishes the largest quota this season. Most of them are coming west to work on railroad extensions of the Burlington, Union Pacific and Great Northern. Italians, it is said, are the best track workers that can be obtained, and they are replacing the Chinese heretofore employed by the railroads on the Pacific coast. Barley Production: Of the 2,080,000,000 bushels of barley produced by the civilized countries of the world Russia produces by far the largest amount. Next in order comes Austria, which is followed by Germany, the United States, England and Spain. Studying Our Commercial Methods. Loo Chin An, a high Chinese official and a commissioner of commerce, arrived in San Francisco recently, sent by his government to examine the commercial methods and history of this country. after said opening be subject to homestead entry and townsite entry only by those who have heretofore located upon and improved the same, and who are accustomed to the thirty days as aforsaid. Persons entitled to make entry under this preference right will be permitted to do so at homestead entry during said period of thirty days following which no entry previous registration, and without regard to the drawing herein provided for, and at the expiration of that period the lands shall have been made which no entry shall have been made will be the general provisions of this proclamation. The intended beneficiaries of the prevision in the said ceded lands, proved, respectively, March 2, 1855, and June 6, 1900, which authorizes a qualified entry man having lands adjoining the lands, whose original entry embraced much of the ceded lands as will make his homestead entry contain in the aggregate not exceeding 100 acres, may obtain such an extension of his existing property at the proper new land office proof at the proper new office prior to the opening herein provided for. "Any person or persons desiring to found, or to suggest establishing, a township upon any of said ceded lands not in the near vicinity of either of the towns, or not in the township tofoe selected and designated as aforesaid may, at any time before the opening herein provided for, file in the proper local land office a written application to the commission to give divisions the lands intended to be affected, and stating fully and under oath the necessity or propriety of founding or establishing a town at that place. The commission to the commission said petition to the commission, thereof, an oral land office with their recommendation in the premises. Such commissioner, if he believes the public interests will be subserved thereby, will, if the secretary an order withdrawing the petition, thereof, issue an order withdrawing the petition, thereof, in such petition, or any portion thereof, from homestead entry and settlement, and directing that the same be held for the time being for township set-town purposes, and that such event the lands so withheld from homestead entry and settlement will, at the time of said opening, and not before, become subject to settlement entry and settlement laws of the United States. None ceded lands will be subject to settlement, entry or disposition under such general township laws except in the manner herein prescribed until after the expiration sixty days from the time of said opening. "Attention is hereby especially called to the fact that under the special provisions of said act of Congress, approved March 3, 1901, the townsite selections of the new towns into which said lands have been formed, cannot be disposed of under the general townsite laws of the United States, and can only be disposed of in the special manner proposed in said act of Congress, which declares "TOWNSITE REGULATIONS." "The lands so set apart and designated shall, in advance of the opening, be surveyed, subdivided, and plated, under the jurisdiction of the township into appropriate lots, blocks, streets, alleys, and sites for parks and public buildings, so as to make a townsite thereof." Indeed, That no person shall purchase more than one business and one residence lot. Such town lots shall be offered and sold at public auction to the biggest bidder, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, at sales to be had at the opening and subsequent there- "All persons are especially admonished that under the said act of Congress approved March 3, 1901, it is provided that upon compay, or enter any of said ceded lands except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days from the time of compay, or enter any of said ceded lands except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days, but not before, any of said lands remaining undisposed of may be settled upon, occupied and enclosed under the said act of compay, or enter any of the homesites township laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner of effecting such settlement, occupancy and entry had not been prescripted. "It appearing that there are fences around the pastures into which, for convenience, portions of the ceded lands have heretofore been divided, and that any of the lands not enclosed and are still the property of the Indian tribes ceding said lands to the United States, all persons going upon, examining, entering or settling upon any of the lands, are subject to compay as the property of the Indians and not to destroy, appropriate, or carry away the same, but to leave them undisturbed so that they may be seasonably removed and preserved for the benefit of the Indians. The secretary of the interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for. "In witness whereof I have herertum set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1801, and of the commencement of the United States the 126th. "WILLIAM McKINLEY. PIERRE LORILLARD IS DEAD. On the Deutschland He Came Home Last Week to Die. Pierre Lorillard, the multi-millionaire and american turfman, is dead. He arrived in New York from Europe on the Deutschland July 4. When the end came at the bedside were: Mr. Lorillard's daughters, Mrs. T. Suffern Tailor and Mrs. William Kent and their husbands; Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., and Pierre Lorillard's grandson. Mr. Lorillard's recent illness dated from June 20. He was in England and went to his lodge at Ascot hoping to see his horse David Garrick win the Gold Cup. He was stricken with a chill and was ill a week. He was advised to come to America and boarded the Deutschland. Ask a Doctor how often you should bathe, and he will tell you how often he bathes. Baltimore's City Bacteriology. Dr. William Lloyd Stokes, bacteriologist of the city of Baltimore, has been elected a member of the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in that city, and has been given the chair of pathology. World's Largest Apple Orchard. Ex-Gov. Morrill of Kansas owns what is said to be the largest apple orchard in the world. When work now in progress has been completed, the orchard will contain 64,000 trees. The Disease Berl Berl Dr. Charles Hose, of Sarawak, after many experiments, has formed the theory that the disease bert bert arises in tropical regions from the consumption of moldy rice. Dr. Strangeways Pigg of Cambridge has expounded the theory in England. Cloud Stood, Report Was Tasted, Etc. An extract in style from the modern novel: "This cloud that tried to stand in the way of their youthful joy was only a false report whose taste could not splinter the radiance of their hamhams." ALTON WRECK SEVENTEEN KILLED AND FORTY-TWO INJURED. TWO TRAINS ARE TELESCOPED Freight Crashes into Passenger Carrying Epworth Leaguers to 'Frisco-Men and Women, Flinned by Timbers, Heavy and Burning, Fight for Life-Many Victims Not Yet Identified. The Chicago and Alton's vestibulated limited passenger train, bound from Chicago to Kansas City, collided with a fast freight train between Marshall and Norton, Mo., shortly after 7:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. Seventeen persons lost their lives and forty-two were injured. The trains collided heads on. The engines were pushed to either side of the track, the baggage and chair cars were piled on top of the engines, the dining car was tipped over and the forward cars of the train telescoped. Immediately after the collision some of the cars caught fire and the wreck was a blazing mass. The steam and scalding water escaped from the engines, burning many of the passengers frightfully and enveloping the awful scene in a cloud that made the rescue work all the more difficult. The wrecked train left Chicago at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday night and was due to arrive in Kansas City at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. It was one of the finest trains between Kansas City and Chicago, the cars having all been made by the Pullman company for this special run. The engines were so completely demolished that the fire under the boilers was scattered in every direction, and, falling upon the woodworm of the overturned cars, set fire to them quickly. On account of the rapid spread of the blaze it was feared from the first that there were other dead bodies in the wreck that were not accounted for while the relief crew was at work. The train was loaded with Epworth Leaguers en route for the convention at Frisco. The dead and injured were taken to Kansas City as soon as a relief train could reach te scene of the wreck. Following is a list of the dead and injured. The dead: Dan. McAnna, conductor of freight train; D. J. Anderson, engineer of freight train, Slater, Mo. Dan Donnelly, fireman on freight train, Mexico, Mo.; Frank Briggs engineer of passenger, Slater, Mo.; I. S. Rogers, express messenger, Chicago; Rhoda Curtiss; B. W. Hooker, Phoenix, N. Y.; Unknown woman, apparently 22 to 25, dark hair and brown eyes. Unknown woman, apparently 32 years old, dark brown hair and gray eyes; two unknown men; Sydney Jones, Caicage; Mrs. Dickson; Misa LuhRider, 25, Kentland, Ind.: Unknown woman; Mrs. S. A. D. Harry, Hoopeston, Ill.; Mrs. Frances Walker, Flatbush, N. Y. The injured: Miss Zola Harry, Hoopeston, Ill.; Mrs. J. A. Miller, Bloomington, Ill.; Miss Julia M. Hayslip, Chenoa, Ill.; Dr. J. S. Adsit, Hoopeston, Ill.; Mrs. J. S. Adsit, w of Dr. Adsit; Miss Leona Miller, Bloomington, Ill.; Prof. S. A. D. Harry, Hoopeston, Ill.; Leslie S. Coleman, Paw Maw, Mich.; O. D. Sanborn, Chenoa, Ill.; Miss Libbie Elkins, Bloomington, Ill.; Mrs. Dora Johnson, Bloomington, Ill.; Mrs. Pertha Mitchell, Pontiac, Ill.; Mrs. Newton Mitchell, Pontiac, Ill.; Mrs. Margaree Finucane, Troy; A. K. Aaufman, Chicago; C. E. Null, Mexico; Mo. Guy Williams, colored, porter; Miss Sadie E. Taylor, Wilmington, Ill.; Miss Dora Wickwire, Goodland, Ind.; Mrs. Lotte Still, Hornellsville, N. Y.; E. C. Bray, Chicago; Mrs. Mayer, Louisville, O.; Mrs. Anna Morrison, Valparaiso, Ind.; G. P. Dixon, Fajrburg, Ill.; E.il Walker, Louisville, O.; Mrs. Levi Archer, Cromwell, Ind.; Mrs. C. W. Snider, Jasper, Ill.; Mrs Ora Tollman, Valparaiso, Ind.; Miss Catherine Walker, Louisville, O.; Mrs. Hilda Hayslip, Chicago; T. J. Elliot, Farber, Mo.; Mrs. Bird, Vandalia, Mo.; Miss Clara Golden, Topeka, Mo.; Miss Gusta A. Nelson, Topeka, Ind.; George B. Hill, Gilliam, Mo.; George Allens, colored New Frankfort, Mo.; Joseph Whittle, Gilliam Mo.; James Varnell, fireman on passenger train; Joseph Baldus, Salt Springs, Mo.; Christ Johns, Shackelford, Mo.; Gertrude Duncan, Elgin, Mo.; Walter Walsh, white cook on diner; Thomas Johnson, colored, second cook. Oil at Amoret, Mo The Bates County Oil and Mineral Company, of Amoret, Mo., has struck oil. The drillers have gone through thirty-five feet of oil sand, which will run two barrels of oil per day. The prospect is very flattering for a big strike of oil when they reach the lower strata of oil sand, which, according to geological survey, is eighty feet thick. This oil is a fine lubricant. Kansas Box Dead in South America. Word has been received from South America of the death of Dr. Clarence Probert, a former Salina, Kan., boy. Death was due to yellow fever and the body was buried at Boca Del Toro, Veragua. Kather Hold for Child's Murder Perry Burris is held at Eureka Springs, Ark., without bail charged with the murder of his own 16-year-old daughter. This is the result of an examination before Justice Cunningham, at Berryville, Ark. Thought He Had Killed His Nenhew. Lawrence Halbritter, aged 55, blew out his brains at Sloux Falls, S. D. after a quarrel with his nephew, Carl Halbritter, aged 20. The elder man had struck the nephew with a knife, inflicting a flesh wound, and thought he had fatally wounded him. The Topeka, Kan., millers have instituted their fight to compel the railroads to re-establish the milling in transit rate which was abolished about four months ago. THE YOUNGERS PAROLED. Pententiary Gates to Open to the Missouri Bandits in Minnesota. The Minnesota state pardon board has approved the parole applications of Cole and James Younger, who have been in the Stillwater penitentiary for the last twenty-five years for complicity in the robbery and murder at the time of the raid on the Northfield. Minn., bank. They probably will be confined to the boundaries of the county in which the Stillwater prison is located. Coleman and James Younger have been in the penitentiary at Stillwater twenty-five years. Coleman is 51 and James 53 years old. The prison authorities join in the petition for pardon. In Missouri W. C. Bronnaugh, a member of the state board of managers of the Confederate home, had charge of the movement to secure a pardon for the Youngers. Great pressure has been brought to bear on each governor of Minnesota in the last twenty years to pardon the Youngers. Hardly one was ever favorable to the proposition till the present governor was elected. He spoke favorably to persons from Missouri who went to him to intercede for the Youngers, but he told them he would not assume the responsibility of pardoning them. The matter could be considered by the new state board of pardons, and if it reported favorably he would pardon them. Last winter the Minnesota legislature passed a law by which prisoners who had served more than twenty-five years could be paroled. This gave a new opportunity. Ex-Governor William J. Stone and many other leading Missourians have used their influence to get the Youngers paroled. Twenty-five years of good conduct in state's prison was the basis of the appeal of Coleman and James Youngen for a remission of the life sentence passed upon them. CUTTING CORN FOR FODDER. Kansas Farmers Have Abandoned Hope of Getting Rain. The unprecedented drought has ruined the early corn and will probably kill the late corn in Kansas. Labette county corn has all burned up and reports from all over Kansas indicate that all Kansas corn is a failure. There is a superstition that every year that ends in the figure one the corn crop will be a failure. It was so in 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, and so on in all the years ending with 1. According to this belief and superstition people say that as 190: ends with the figure 1 that it accounts for the failure of the corn crop. No rain has visited Labette county for a month and a half and vegetables, as well as all corn, are ruined. Farmers in many sections prayed for rain, but none cane and now corn is being cut up for fodder. The late corn will not be saved unless rain comes inside of eight days. Farmers say that if the rain does come the crop will not be one-fourth of what it would, as the chinch bug has made its appearance. SHE IS IN PRISON. Iron Gates at Lansing Have Closed Upon Jesse Morrison. As the sun was sinking behind the Western hills, casting long dark shadows across the parched and deadened valleys, marking the close of a scorching summer day, the prison gates at Lansing, Kan., swung open for a moment, then closed with a loud clank, marking the beginning of the darkest period in the life of a fair young woman. Fate had decreed that Jessie Morrison should enter a felon's cell at the loneliest hour of the day; the hour which people with trivial troubles pick out to do their sobbing. How much more lonely it must have been to Miss Morrison, whose liberty was taken from her and whose youthful dream of sometime being a happy, contented woman, with a home of her own, had been shattered. Miss Morrison will be placed in the tailor shop. DR. JAMES MARVIN DEAD. Former Chancellor of the University of Kansas Passes Away. Dr. James Marvin, ex-chancellor of Kansas university, first, superintendent of Haskell institute, and one of the pioneers of the Kansas educational system, died at his home in Lawrence, Kan., after a long illness. Dr. Marvin has been connected with the school work of the state of Kansas since his appointment as chancellor of Kansas university in 1875, and by noble and generous work has rendered a great service to the state of his adoption. Dr. Marvin was born near Plattsburg, New York, on August 17, 1820. He was reared on a farm and only given such educational advantages as were possible to the farmer's boys of that time. BURGLAR BLOWN TO BITS. Had Nitro-Glycerine in His Hlp Focket and it Exploded A would-be burglar was literally blown to pieces at Benton, Wis., by the explosion of nitro-glycerine which he carried in his hip pocket. He was breaking into a creamery and, as he was climbing through an opening into the building, a trap door fell and struck him on the hip, exploding the nitro-glycerine. The body was dismembered and parts of it was scattered all over the creamery. J. B. Higdon's drug store, including contents valued at about $3,000, together with a barber shop and a harness shop, at Richmond, Kan., was totally consumed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. The total loss is about $5,000, with insurance of about $2,000. It is reported that the Russians are rapidly completing the Manchurian railway and that they will employ 50,000 troops for the defense of the line. Kaiser Digs *calendar*'s Elixir. Although, as befits a man who lives in the divine right of kaiser, kaiser shows a stern D-net to the lie when he drives about the house in private there is no monarch to so frank and full of fun. When met Lord Salisbury during his visit to Cows some time ago he that august man some stories made him split his sides. He dug the premier in the rises grandmother was not by, and a apologized for the indiscretion. Japanese Use English English is the language of the namese office—in its intercourse foreign diplomats, and even in its graphic correspondence with in- representatives abroad. All tele- gram from Tokio to the foreign ac- quaintance Japan are written and ciphered English, and replied to in the manner, though if the Foreign M ner has occasion to send a written patch, this, as a rule, is in Japan which may be said to be a cipher itself. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Lemons for the Toilet. Few women nowadays but know the value of lemons and the fruit is cheap that the toilet table should be without this "little yellow door" as some call it. Lemon juice is white, either for the hands, neck or the A piece of lemon rubbed on the toremoves discoloration, but the must be brushed afterward or the will injure them. A piece of lemon tossed in the wash water is refring and likewise softens the water. Wireless Telegraphy in Ireland. At Rosslare, Co., Wexford, progress is being made with the stallation of Marconi's wireless graphic apparatus, which is be erected there. The installation will soon be ready for work, when it be used for receiving and transmitting messages to and from the American liners and other vessels passing by the Irish coast. Rosslare will soon become a notable name in Irish geography. Bismarck's Fame at Home Bismarck's Fame at Home "Who was Bismarck which was put by a German officer his men, called forth some curious answers. Nine said that he found the German empire, seven though that he was an emperor, a great man bert picture him as a general, said that he was a poet, and another that he translated the Bible. The neatest answer was that he was Kaiser's greatest enemy." Gold from River Dredgings In the operation of dredging nuggle channels at the mouth of Moruya and Shoalhaven rivers in South Wales it was discovered in the mud contained much gold on An automatic gold saver was attached to the dumping machinery it is estimated that enough gold thus be obtained to defray the expenses of keeping the channels open. Russians Emigrating to Siberia A Russian contemporary states the *t* e emigration of Russian peasants to Eastern Siberia, and especially to Ussuri territory, is going on at a few ishr rate. During the first three months of the present year nearly 3,000 peasants left Odessa for Vladivostok. One peasant steamer carried 800 emigrants to far east. Most of the emigrants from southern Russia. **Compliment to United States** The new $4 bill issued by the Donation of Canada promises to be popular, for artistically it is a main piece of the engraver's skill. On face it bears a flattering picture of lock on the canal at Sault Ste. Marie an engineering purely pure American This vignette is regarded as a delic compliment to the United States. Senator Clark Likes Paris Senator Clark Lives Paris Senator Clark of Montana has eased to spend a part of each year Paris, and has offered a large portion of her time to the Avenue de Friedland, which is one the most beautiful in Paris, which is on to the Palais Castille, occupied ex-Queen Isabella of Spain. Poems by King James I An interesting literary discovery reported from Oxford, where a number of hitherto unknown poems to King James I. have been found in the Bodleian library. They are able to be undoubtedly genuine and best the royal autograph. OLD SOLDIERS Now is your opportunity! 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Kansas City, No. 28, 1900 PISO'S CURE FOR GUERRES WHERE ALL GUESTS BEST BEATTED. Taste Good Use in time. Inked by druggers. CONSUMPTION