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 TALES OF TWO CITIES Mrs. Frances Callaway of 1026 Nebraska Ave. is quite Ill this week. Mr. C. A. Graves of Lomur Cal. who represents a large mining interest in California is in the city the guest of Mr Ed Graves of 1000 New Jersey Ave. Mr. Chas. Ferguson our expressman is in the windy city of the west. Mr. Joo Lake one of our leading ten serial artists who has been quite seriously ill is now improving. Mr. Stephen White of 534 Sea Foam block has returned from Denver and other Colorado points. Mrs. Sylvia Robinson of the popular Block leaves Tuesday for Salt Lake City Utah and other Western points in search of health she will be absent about three weeks. Miss Ella Neal one of our young competitors leaves for her native home Louisville. Ew early in the week. Mr. Thos. Harshel formerly of this city but now of Chicago is in the city. Mr. Jas W. Thateher of Minn. Ave. is attending the Association in Leavenworth this week representing Mount Pleasant-Baptist Church. Mr. Jno. J. Glass our old reliable composer who underwent an operation at St Margarets hospital and who hovered between life and death is again at his favorite place our Cases. TheNational Business Mens Association convenes in Caliago next Thursday. Friday and Saturday many of the motivated negroes throughout the country will be in attendance it is said that the colored citizens of Chicago will surpass all previous efforts in entertainment of the Association quite a number of the Twin cities representative negros will attend. the funeral of Mrs. Geneva Sheldon of 728 Idaho Ave who died on the 9th inst. at the Age of 33 was heid fro n the Metropolitan Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon under the auspices of the Lone Star Court. She leaves one daughter and a ausband to return thier loss. Rev. E. A. Wilson officiated at the funeral. The W. B. Raymond undertaking establishment had charge of the remains. We have known. this firm for some years and hava no hesitancy in speaking of them as thoroughly reliable. Miss. Carrie Fitzhue of St Louis Mo's the guest of Mrs. Ithery Fitzhue 1512 N. 9th St. THE POWER OF A HYMN. A beautiful story was told by Prof. Drummond concerning Wesley's hymn "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." Two Amer- icans, who were pressing the Atlantic met in the cabin on Sunday night to slug hymns. As they sang the last hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," one of them heard an exceedingly rich and beautiful voice behind him. He looked around, and although he did not know the face he thought he knew the voice, so when the music ceased he turned and asked the man if he had not been in Civil War. The man replied that he had given a Confederate soldier. "Were you at such a place on such a night?" asked "Yes," he replied, "and a curious thing happened that night, which this hymn has recalled to my mind. "I was posted on soutrv duty near the edge of a wood. It was a dark night and very cold, and I was a little frightened because the enemy was supposed to be very near. About midnight, when everything was still, and I was feeling homesick and miserable and weary, thought that I would comfort myself by praying and singing a hymn. I remember singing this hymn: "All my trust on Thee is staved, All my help from Thee I bring. Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of Thy wing." "After singing that a strange peace came down upon me, and through the long night I felt no more fear." "Now," said the other, "listen to my story. I was a Union soldier, and was in the wood that night with a party of struts. I saw you standing, although I did not see your face. My men had their rifles focussed upon you, waiting the word to fire, but but when you sang out, 'Cover my d feucesel' had With the shadow of Thy wing,' I said, 'Boys, lower your rifles. We will go home.' TOPEKA NOTES. Miss Sadie Wilson, of Chicago, is visiting her brother, Rev. Wilson, on the North Side. Misses Carrie Smith, of Atchison, and Mayne Lewis, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, who have visited Misses Brown and Hawkins, returned to their respective boxes Thursday. The Oak Leaf Club picniced at Garfield Park Wednesday in honor of the visiting ladies in the city. and Best Week INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY SHOU OF TWO CITIES THE CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The Central Baptist Dist. Association met at Paola Kans. last week and quite a large delegation was present. Those who attended report as having had a good time and having been royally treated. Sunday School and Womans work was reported as having been quite successful the past year. The same officers were re elected for the ensuing year moderator Rev. A. Fairfax of Parson. Sec'y. Rev. E. A. Wilson of this city, vice moderator. Rev. R. P. Banks of Junction city Treasurer. Rov. J. S. Hale of Chanue, Ass't Sec'y. Rev. J. L. Dudley of Ft. Scott. The total amount of money raised from all sources was $214.16 The next session will be held at the 2nd Baptist church at Iols Kau. Aug. 1902. Miss L. V. Ashton, formerly Matron of Douglass Hospital, but now Traveling Solicitor, will leave on a tour next week. Mrs. Della Tyler leaves early in this week on an extended tour in the west in the hopes of bringing the flush of health to her cheeks. The concert by a number of little ones last Monday evening at Mount Pleasant. Baptist church, was quite a success. It was under the superiston of Mrs. Dilsey Young. The Franklin Temple of S. M. T. will give a moonlight social at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Ann avenue, between 4th, and 5:h streets, Tuesday night. August 20th. A number of young people very agreeably surprised Miss Bertha Cole o Lafayette avenue. Thursday evening, an enjoyable time was had by all, music, cards and social conversation were the features of the evening until late hour, when lunchon was served and all departed for home feeling quite juiliant. Cards are out announcing the coming mutuals of Miss Josephine May Price to Mr. Henry Taylor Tuesday eve. Aug. 27th at 8 o'clock at the home of the rides mother I318 N. 8th St. THEY SAY Truly the saddest words in life—"It might have been." A man's love can be beckoned, but not commanded; a woman's love can be commanded but not beckoned. Rev. A M. Ward returned Wednesday morning from Atchison. Rev. J. W. Braxton held his last quart- erity meeting Sunday at Brown Chapel A. M. E. church. Misses Eva Libran elaborately enter tained the Golden Rod Club Friday after- son at their heme, west 8th. street. Miss Penelope Rucker, of Atchison, is visiting Miss Mary Jordan and Mrs. A. M. Ward. The Ladies Sewing Circle met with Mrs. R. H. Wade Wednesday afternoon. SOU1H OMAHA. The Quarterly Meeting of Rev. P. D. Davis will be held at Sinicate Park Sept 1st P. D. Davis Pastor Rev. J. R Ransom Pre. Elder. Mrs Fanny Washington o' South Omahatie daughter of Mr. and Mrs Isaac Robinson o' 821 New Jersey Aye who is such an industrious and intelligent young woman will be our corrections Agent for the American Citizen We are glad to learn what she has taken such an interest in the paper. Mrs Julia Howard and Mrs. Fanny Washington entertained a few friends at Lake Manawa, a good time was reported by all. Miss Mollis and Ella Tribune wendy the guest of Mrs. Washington Sunday. The Teachers of Allen Chapple are preparing for a grand endowment Day Sept. 15th. THE WOMEN Some woman has written a book entitled 'How to Enjoy Matrimony.' I wish the publishers would ask me to write a prefact for it. The minister doesn't have to know the marriage ceremony by heart, for if he forgets a word the woman can always prompt him. It's a great advantage to be a pretty woman, because the wind never blows her skirts around near as much as it does a homely woman's. I read of a woman the other day who had her husband arrested for shooting the nose off her chinn teapot. If he had shot her own nose off she would probably have forgiven him. The only thing which would punish a woman worse than having to say what she believed, would be having to believe what she said. - New York Press. --- AMERICAN 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 really no argument to advance why everybody should own a home and more especially the Negro. Here is a bargain among bargains. LOTS FOR SALE Lots 35, 36, 37 and 38 in block 141, $150 per lot, Lots 48 in block 141, $150 per lot Lots 38 and 34 in block 111, $150 per lot, Lots 4 and 5 in block 7, $150 FOR SALE BY W. S. HARRIS. W. S. Harris, FoM 1, No. 500, Minnesota avenue. Telephone 239 west. LITTLE THINGS There's never a rose in all the world But makes some green spray sweeter: There's never a wind in all the sky But makes some bird wing fleeter; There's never a starbut bring to heaven Some silver radiance tende; And never a rosy cloud but helps To crown the sunset splendor; No robin but may thrill some heart, His dawnlight gladness voicing, God lives us all some small, sweet way To set the world rejoicing THE CHANGING STATUS OF THE NEGRO Within the last ten years new philanthropical and educational influences have been brought to bear upon the colored people of the United States. Some of them of the most effective of these energies have grown up within the races itself. To those who have watched the developments with interest it has seemed that the new efforts to better the condition of the negro have been more practical and more promising than those of the past. It may be taken for granted that all of them have been directed on the present notion that the principle of colored citizen ship was to be as secure as it was liberal. Is this true? Is the feeling of the white toward the blacks at this time, whether the south or the north, such as to give the greatest encouragement to these efforts? It is neither new nor surprising that the white people of the South determed to rule that section of the Union. They have governed it all these years, despite Republican majorities depending upon black votes. The new aspect is the change of policy. Instead of preventing the colored people from going to the polls, or refusing to count their votes when cast, thus violating state and national laws the new plan is to disfrainise the great majority of the negroes by legislative enaments. Although this process embodies what most eminent lawyers regard as an unconstitutional discrimination, the turn from the arbitrary annulment of the negro ballot to formal disfranchisement of the colored man has been made by a number of states, with prospects that the remaining common wealths of that section will follow. toward him, to say the least, both in its administrative functions and in its pubic declarations. At one time the attempt to annul the citizenship of the negro in a Southern state would have caused a sensation throughout the whole Republican party. Now it is made and limited with impunity in Maryland a few days ago the Democratic state convention made its paramount issue the promise to disbranchise the negro. The Republican convention, held later, completely ignored the challenge. Sentiment in the South seems utterly with as to what should be done with the negro. One declares that the race should be equitably distributed throughout the Union; yet when an attempt is to gather up colonies for other patts, or to take men in large numbers to Northern industrial establishment there is hostile protest from the planters on the ground that their abor supply is being reduced, and there is likely to be equally strong objection from the people of the section to which it is proposed to transport them. Another declares that what the South needs is industries to employ its natural laboring population but the uncompensating haters of the race, like Senator Tillman, cry out that industrial education and development of the negro is the worst thing that could happen. All profess gratitude that the institution of slavery was a bolished, yet many hold that the colored man was in better condition physically, mentally, and morally, when he was in bondage. At this time the South as a whole seems to regard the negro as a n evl that it might have avoided, but still an evil that has become necessary. It. afraid of his ignorance and it is afraid of his education. It values his manual labor, but it presents the least presumption of equality. The South is responsible tor the great negro population, and to the South the country will look for the settlement of the negro problem, barring, e course, the possibility that the Federal govern- ment may seem it necessary to reaffirm his political status. Yet the South is the natural home of the black man. He is the most adaptable laborer for the Southern employer. It is not his fault that the South has not been the great. est agricultural country in the world. The land is rich in soil and wonderfully varted in its products, agricultural and mineral. Negro labor is not expensive. I. is efficient in the field, and ought, with encourag-ement, to become useful in the factory. It is capable of plan ing, harvesting and manufacturing the wonderful cotton crop of the South. But from a mere agricultural standpoint the negro is indispensable to the highest development of these states. With the rapid extension of railways, the increasing facilities Lr shipping perishable fruits and vegetables, and with enormous growth of Northern markets for the consumption of these products, there is no limit to the productiveness of the Southern plantation. There the seasons open early and runleite. The growth of market gardening in these states, under the better facilities and bigger demands of recent years, has been one of the most surprising showings of the Department of Agriculture. Much of this product may be marketed at times when there is no Northern competition, and bring fancy prices. The negro is the natural bone and sinew of this new development. There is more profit from his toil, if given encouraging training, than there would be in the importation of more expensive white labor.-K. C. Star. EDITORIAL PICKINGS FOUR MONTHS UNDER TO DO RIGHT. Four months have elapsed since the great land slide occurred in municipal affairs in Wyandotte county State of Kansas. The Peoples candidates who won out, have gradually swung into control of affairs and there has been no millennium yet. The mammoth monster, the Republican papers, backed up by the gangsters, enleaved to make the good people of this city believe, would stalk through the streets frightening and driving away our citizens has not materialized, and the old municipal government ship with all sails up, glides on, she is manned by a worthy crew, and skilled mechanics over see the work. Strenous efforts are being exerted and powerful glasses are sighted upon the municipal ship as she glides majestically down the great stream of time on her two years journey that some flaw might, be discovered that can be used to severely cripple this splendid voyage. Those who watched closely the ranking of the smooth tongued politicians who predicted such dire disasters did the present government prevail—four months ago—are not now to be found. How seemingly strange that people are oftimes made to forget their own best interest by the smoothness of up-to-date politicians. We did all in our power to open the eyes of the people and told them nothing but the truth. So far all we have said has been truthfully verified. At the head of the helm of the old municipal ship stands that exceptional gentleman, Mayor W. H. Craddock, who needs now no introduction to the public for his praises, have been well sung, and his official actions up-to-date have been in keeping with the battle cry of "To do right." That no public official, however conscientious he is, can satisfy the whims of all the populace, has been conceded by all reasonable minded people. It can be said of our present Mayor that he began his official career like an old timer and has en deavoured to treat all, irrespective of color or party affiliations, with that consideration every citizen and human being is entitled. There is ahead of this, our esteemed friend and City Father, an unlimited career in the political world. At the head of the Police Department ex-Senator H. T. Zimmer is acquiring the duties of Chief with as much ability as one who was really old in the business. This is the man who made it possible that the Western University at Quindarndo could get $10,000 instead of $4,000, from the state Legislature several years ago. His methodical ways, vim and determination are so predominant that success seems assured him in over undertaking. He is rapidly bringing the department up to a par with the "finest" of any city. Capt. James O'Brian is little but loud, forceable and determined, and as Captain, is making remarkable success and winning the highest of praise from his men and in exacting public. Jerry Grindrod as Chief of the Fire Department, has taken hold of affairs with the stamina of a man who means business—he has inaugurated some new wrinkles and has advocated new equipment in place of much worn and unfit for service stuff. We shake his hand for advocating a new nose reel at No. 5, and hope him successful in the effort for more stations and engines. From present indications he will make as good, if not a more successful Chief than Kansas City, Kas, has ever had. Street Commissioner James E. Porter, tetter known as Capt. Porter, in his office, is giving satisfaction, and is exceedingly strenuous in his efforts to do his whole duty. He is hoeing his end of the row exceptionally well, meriting the good graces of all who come in contact with him. MR. FRED DREES. Sanitary Sergent, is grazefully and commendably holding up to, and beyond the usual efficiency, this department. There is no mercy being shewn dirt and flath and it is to bis credit and that of his able assistants, that the city is being put in an excellent sanitary condition, considering the lack of proper sewerage connection and an established garbage system. Judge T. B. Bowling, the ex- CITIZEN elegant gentleman who is known to every old citizen in Wyandotte county. As Police Judge, although not yet a month in office, is giving satisfaction in the issuing of justice. Judging from his career in Wyandotte county as a man of the highest type, we feel confident that no regrets will come from the appointment. THE MAYOR IS RIGHT We heartily endorse the stand of Mayor Craddock in behalf of the people's interests, at last Tuesday night's meeting of the City Council. Too long have the peoples interests been juggled. It is a sacred right and one dear and near to every property owner, that when a street is to be paved in the vicinity of their property that their wishes should receive some consideration. While Minnesota Avenue is in an awful condition, the rights of the property owners should be zealously considered in the matter of repairing the same. We lift our hats with a cheering crowd of true and loyal citizens to the maniliness of those men who stand for wha, is but just and right towards all citizens. AND THE NEGROES CANNOT BATHE. Kansas City, Mo., has a public bath house yet the negroes cannot bathe in the same. It is now proposed by the Directors of the same to build one for negroes. There seems to be no other ultimatum but a separation then we must submit. The negroes like baths as well as anybody else, so let it come. We are proud to see the manly spirit of the Directors in contributing $250 from their jeans towards the project. It would be a very wise thing for a certain republican official when he has remarks to make about negroes to confine himself within the limits of his closet. But even walls have cars sometime. Verily! verily!! We say, uato him his days might be numbered in the political world. The Negroes have learned that one party is not so warm, in Wyandotte county there are always others. This is a hint that might possibly be taken too late. We have something up our sleeves, we are now shaking it. Watch Harvey. THREE seems to be much discussion on the recent tirade of Pitchfork Tillmah. We have long since concluded he was a dead one and passed him up. THE NEGRO BUILDING IS A GO. Since we are not sufficiently advanced in civilization it seems—the color line will be drawn—then we are in favor of a negro building at the St. Louis exposition in 1903. We agree with the Kansas City Journal, that the building constructed should be build by negro mechanics and an effort be used in every direction to that end. It would therefore be in keeping with everything else to let us have a negro Commissioner. Kansas being always the first in nearly all things, should let one of its five be a negro Gov. Stanley, could concede us that much without hurting his conscience we believe. Kansas City, Kansas, has some extra good timber to select from, Judge I. F. Bradley for instance. THERE is much speculation as to the actual whereabouts of Carrie Nation and her hatset. Poor Carrie is greatly missed these hot days. THE NEGRO UNDERTAKERS. THE NEGRO UNDERSTAKERS. The reporter in Kansas City, Kas., of the Kansas City, Mo. Journal, must undoubtedly be suffering from a most severe case of color blindness or is at least prejudiced to that extent that he cannot speak truthful when a negro is concerned. If his report about the Kansas City, Kas., Embalming and Casket Co., in last Saturday's (10th.) issue of the Journal, is to be judged as a fair sample of his work, it would be well to make him an editor of a yellow journal and send him down to Oklahoma. The Kansas City Embalming and Casket Co., is a legitimate negro institution, composed of men who, like all true American citizens, reserve the right to engage in any business anybody else does. It does not imply simply because negroes see fit to engage in the undertaking business, that they want to monopolize the whole business and bury every dead negro in Wyandotte county, as the Journal would have the public believe. They cannot, nor do they now, or have they ever, counted on such an impossibility. As was announced in this paper at the time of their opening in July, that they desired not to antagonize, but simply wanted a part of the negro patronage they still stand there. That they will get a share in spits of the efforts of the reporter of the Kansas City Journal, goes without saying. It is not to be presumed that behind the reporter stands a prompt—we believe from the acquaintance of the white men engaged in this business that they are gentlemen, and have no condemnation for the negroes who are endeavoring to rise a little higher in the business world even though they engage in the same line of business. The statement of the Journal regarding the negro Masons attitude toward the negro enterprise was all a manufactured fabrication and struck the negroes that read the same like beans in a dry barrel. The time has arrived when the negro must venture along all lines of business—there are negro undertakers in other cities, and as far as we have been able to learn white men in the same line have, and do, accord them all the business courtesies they accord others. A WEALTHY EX3LAVE. By Close Attention to Business He is Now worth Thousands of Dollars Now worth Thousands of Dollars. At ants, Ga, August —, Peter Vickers, who was born on a plantation here some sixty-two years ago, is one of the wealthiest colored men in this section of the county. He owns a number of farms and they are all in a high state of cultivation. He has a good bank account and his credit is unlimited. He takes but little interest in politics, but manifests considerable interest in his community and is always ready to contribute his share to the public good. He recently contributed $1,000 to bring the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad by Douglass. His children have all settled around him, and in addition to giving them a good education, he has helped them to make a good start in life. He says the secret of his success, if there is any secret about it is: "Close attention to business, judgment and industry." His purpose in life has been to get more land in order to get more money to get more land with. Mr. Vickers is not only one of the largest landholders in the state, but he owns considerable property in the towns of Douglass, Waycross and Fitzgerald, He is well known throughout the county in which he lives, and in several adjoining counties and enjoys the confidence and respect of all, white and black alike Dr. J. W. Anderson and wife of Dallas, Texas, are visiting his uncle, Charles U. Anderson, 1015 Minnesota avenue. Dr. Anderson visited many of his friends in Leavenworth, Atchison and Lexington, and met many of his classmates of the Meharry College of Nashville, Penn. The Dr. was reared in this city but for the past thirteen years has made his home in Dallas, where he has a good practice Oddities in New York Name 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 business men and their trades, some of which are here given: Ashman, hotel; Burns, coal; Best, groceries; Burnham, real estate; Cook, fish and oysters; coffin, beer and liquors; Coffey, teas and sugar; Forrester, real estate; flood, rubbers, bots; Gutter, pawnbroker; Goodrich, carriages; Herb doctor; Katz, butcher; Love, chemist McClean, shirts, etc.; Noyes, lawyer; Proudman, diamonds; Pitcher, milk Rich, perfumery; Silk, dress goods; Swindel, teas and spices; Slickman 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 American Citizen: ar: MERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS ‘clark See Ae aa W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ‘Weekly one year.,............. $150 Butered at the postoffice. pt Kansas City Bieed sil sea aminnoer, Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pieas in and for Wyandotte County Kansas. Rebert M. Thomson. Plainiff, 3 " ¢ 8. M. Thomson © §. A. Thorson fo. fendan.s. z ee Ne eee ed Jo 8. M. Thomson nad Sarah Thomson, Greeting: ‘You will take no- tice that on July 2nd. 190i, Plainti.t filed his petition in the above named Court and unless you avswer demarr or ‘otherwise object on or before Septem: ber 30, 1901, the allogations of s id pet ition will be taken as confessed to be true and Judgement rendered requiring that you convey to Plaintiff the follow- ing deseribed Real Estate in Wyandotte County Kansas to wit; Commencing at a point 75 feet, north ofthe N. W. of Corner of lot 40 inthe Home Sxilding Company's Addition to Argeutine there North 50 ft., thence East to the front ine of Lot A., thence in a South Easter ly direction along the line of lot A, to fa point opposite the Starting point thence West to begining, and unless you con7ey said Land the decree of said Court to stand for. the conveyance of ssid Property from you to said Plain sift. LW. Johnson, Plaintiff's Attoraey. Attest. ©. W. Litebtield, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny Deputy (Finst published Aug. 9b.) In the Diswrics Ouurt of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Elisabe-h Owens, Henderson Wiliams and Maud Williams, oy ber next friend, Plaintiffs. Maria Williams Jackson and Peter Jackson, Awanda Williams-Le and Sandy Lee, Adiine Williams, Htias Williams and Frank.ia Williams, Defondants. ‘To Elias Williams, you are here vy notited shat you have been sued in the above oamed Court by the abore nam- ed p auntiffs, and uuless yon appear and answer the petition tilea in said case, on or before the ‘Twenty-first (2) day of September, 1901. the said petition will be taken as trae, and judgement rendered there-on. tae natore of which will bea jadgment, making partition of the following described reat estate to wit:—Lots Fortystwo (42) and Forty three (43) i. blook Tiveuty-seven (27) in the former city of Wyandotte, now 3 part of Kansas City, in Wyandotte County Kansas, also, Lot Foriy eight, (48) in block Foriy-eight. (48) in the former city of Wyandotte, now par of Kansas City in Wyandotte county Kansas, according to the prayer ia_the petition filed here, and for cost o this suit, LF. Bradley. Auterney for the Plaintiff (Aug. 912.) In The Court of Common Pleas o Wyandotte County, Kansas: Abner Robinson and Amanda Hine Plaiatifts. ys. Paulina Moorehead and Jane Moore, | Defendants No, 4893. Ko Jane Moore, ‘You are hereby notified that the Plain tiff above naced has brought suit and filed ais petition against you, together with other D. fendants in the above ontit!~ ed Court, and that you most answer the petition aforesaid led again t you on o- before the Twenty-first day of Septem- ber 1901,or said petition will be taken as true, and judgment accordingly rendered against you as follows: First—A judgment making partition of the following described real estate to wit; Lote Twenty-six [26] Twenty -icv- en [27] Twent, might [28] and Twenty nine (29) in block One hundred and Six ty nine (169) ia the former city of Wyan dotie, now @ part of Kansas City in Wyandotte county Kansas, as prayed for ia the petition, fled in the above entitled cas’. and for costs of suit, IF Bradley. 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(Phis is to certify that Rey G McNeal of this city will appear before the Gover nor 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 pevitentiary, having been sentenced from the District court of Wyandotte County Uctover term 1898, charged with Assault and at emptio bill ‘T is axserted by the defenders of wtruote that in almost every instance the formation of a trust has been fol- lowed by @ decrease in the price of the product. This is true; but in most in- fiances trusts have been formed te check the downward tendency of prices by interfering with the operation of the jaw of supply and demand. Probably there 1s mo conspicuous instance of lower prices following the organiza. tion of a trust, in which the prices to the consumer would not have fallez stn lower i: the trust had not been formed. The greatest objection te trusts is that they are wrong in prin ciple, i> that they interfere with & faadpmentalliaw ot tude: Only persons under thirty years o age were ready to accept promptly Har vey's great discovery of the clroulation ‘of the blood; and just as youth fe mos} apt to respond to the touch of gentua 0 men © rare abilities seldom fall of the spirit of perpetual youth. Keeping young is simply keeping abreast with the times we are In. At the recent an: alrersary in New York City of the founding of Stevens Institute, ex-Mayor Hewitt related this incident: “Whex Twas a student at Columbia, base ball ‘yas our only game, and not such a det sAment to a college as it is to-day. We Yost most of our balls by knocking them over into a yard of a house in Barclay street. One day when we were shor ‘and could not get any base balls, I wa: ‘appointed a committee of one %o visi the house and ask for some. A gen: teman appeared in answer to my ques tion, and producing a basket contain ing twenty-fve or thirty balls, asked they were ours. I said that I suppose they were, ‘Every one of them ha broken a window in my house,’ he re joined, *You may take them, and whet you have all the ~ndows tn my muslo =r, = to Hoboke wom the Seliool of Engineering, 13 trom the School of Law, 9; from thé Sckool of Pharmacy, 20; from th School of Fine Arts, 7; from the Schoo ‘of Medicine 6. A lard Bet to Win, In 1893 three Irishmen agreed to un- dertake a journey around the earth op 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 pas- sage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the jour- ney, and the severity of this trip re- sulted in the death of two of the tray- elers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, com- pleted the voyage and won the money. —New York Press. UNTON i PAGIFICN Ay = a e3 aQSay a Cea yy Co eo og PicroR™ SHORTFST LINE ane CRUSS “CONTINENT ‘The Union Pacific ‘The Original Over- land 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 hetween Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. Alltrams solidly vestibuled and tully equipped with latest improved Reclining Chair Cars free and Pullmay Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining ears on the restaurant pian ‘at prices most reasonable. All cars light- ed with the celebrated Pintech Lig t Only line ruoping two trains with out charge from KarsesCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado: Utsh Idaho, Oregon, Washington anc California, Don't ‘complete your an f+n cate for a trip west until you bay. iad el elcut eqvciel inducement sittin facd ty the Unien Pa Fer ull infos jen iy vegan te avice Ube. €1 6. esl] on cr addr J.B. FRAWLEY, «Union Pacic 100° « =——L a TRADE MARK _ — <l REGISTERED 1602: «. USATENTOFFICe ge 2) . i WASHINCTON.0.6, 5a oe kL 5 ZI) . va p LA (Se: ane = THE CRANDEST OF ALL pe ee Ro GS reparations tor the Hair! |= ows SSS BES. SE toe [See Se Ce The Original and Only Hartona. | Le Ose a TE | rN 2 Ce AR Wy ) Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straigh, aie Ee OD”>-—".-(W RR SSS Wee Aes <I i i | SSphiee e ?DC—===2 ening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, SEFOREUSING AFTER USING Harsh, Curly Hair. i. : | HARTONA HARTONA e y ; 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, re, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona dovs no, "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 guj | straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—o,, box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children’s hair just the same as adults. To meet the popula: nd ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 0c. sizes, in our special roung 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 y are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copy. righted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to tig City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies. and to the editor of this paper. We want lady dnd gentlemen agents, white or olored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matty 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 yous 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 hay used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough ? 6, HARTONA FACE -WASH. 4 Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and wil! turn the skin of a mulatto poy. son 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 regy, late 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 .f you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona reinilia 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 ta make money without risking any of your own money. Hartona No-Smell will remoy? 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, eg, Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a peckage. Address all orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, iyo 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 vxiclosed in a registered letter, or by express, Address all Orders to @ HARTONA REMEDY CO.. 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. a PATRONIZE | “Wyandotte Drug 3ia.3 The: Wyandotte Drugsia-3 | & 1512 North Fifth Street, : | FOR THE PUREST DkUGS AND CHEMICALS, And the best of every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper Prescription | carefully compounded. Prices always the LUWESU at our store. Open day and right, Riog night bell, Ba-Phone W. 171. Medicines Delivere Sar eee W.B. RAYMOND. Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HUURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THESICK AND WOUNDE: Undertaking Kuoms, 431 Minnesota ave. ‘leiepnone West 32. Factory Cor st St. and Riverview Ave. Telepehone 2& {KANSAS CITY. KANSAS, WB | SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE, JONES, MARTIN&CO. Fancy ana Staple Groceries, : FEED AND SALT MEATS, okinra inom mm oo : i Blandehard Lewis No. 6,Sta e Lire, K«.C.K Does all kinds of Boot and Shot work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very jlatest and best Shoemaker’s machine and guaranteen the best and the sheapest work ia the quickest tme Give itm a trialand see for you self. | ) Home Treatment that ari, | oureeCancersand Tamers, | GAP sates ssi wi kg lisse 1 gD ss ates Bae ante e sits, Neue Sag ee wea reeset, nob atl icon an BES chee ae ne Eeaetacoe Sinisa A "Tree oom dg tC ert Ra ste KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. A: C. L. COAL. CO, —1IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— ‘The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries, eee GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, axv BUILDIN STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 435, Minnesota Ave. Tel, 152 Web n@r-Yard and Storage 917 and 919 No th 3rd. St. EE. HENDERSON. Manager ——_— a GERS EA | | Gem Drug Store | MINNESOTA AVENUE | DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc..—> PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOULFT ARTICLES. Mi RRIAM, ELLIS &BENTON Fire Insurance, Real Estate, WYANDOTTE BUILDING, Northeast Corner Fifth and Minnesota Ave., KANSAS curry, _ a ae = KANSAS, Qeposite New 101 & 103 West 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. (Penceiis a3 The Old Reliable Doctor, Oldest in Age and Longest Located. A Regular Craduate in Medicine. Over 27 Yezrs Special Practice.--22 Years in Kansas City. $ ‘Authorized by the state to treat Chronic. Nervous and Specia! Diet Gitres guaranteed or moncy relundeds "hi eslernes ura : Fan mereury oF injurious edieines ised. No detention from bse Ponts ate dlstance treated by malland express "Medicines se? freofrom gaze or breakage. Ko mediciges ron «1, Us cuis oo." Gharges iow. Over 0,00 cases cured. State pou cane ad send 1" Pa auitina tre and conidentini poregnalig or ite". _ Seminal Weakness and iboucias econ io oorcn bs Sexual Debility, $,Js3!'t Festantocd gr tonayrfaid:©0 5? flrandexcomes-causig ota dreams | for vook match fai ep", | face, ruties tiblood to the heads pains ta | Waicocele==<:,: i ees Dick, ‘confused ideas. and forgetiuiness; | vous debility, weakness 0! basbhutness, arin to setely, loan of sex teases perinanetyeares A Mer cad stop ‘night Tomes “restore lost Hydrocele=~*is a “i Igrge and strengthen weak parts'cod ake | Phimosis==%0"% pata iy yout formarriare, Book {2,20 05,1 Syphilis, iratterr te isese,n at ores" trve lite, i fits ormsand stages’ cured | scription of above siseaxt= | {of Ife. Blood Poisoning, skin Discasen, | eure sene'sesied is pias Elcers: suellings, Sores Sconnemoan:and | Eatiais vias getively cared or moiey refundea, > | PR€e Museum ; 7 i Tadleallg cured “without | of Anatomy for men SUICHUITS er meomierreeternn | Sacaeeaet erat | 2. New and Infuilible Home Treatment. "No | Asermon wi out words! | Secure Tickets | 2... VIA TBE.... ‘Chicago, Milwaukes | &St, Paul Ryo, ....4ND YOU GET.... a . Sleepers: & Ghair | Cars | Ueabe: | CHICAGO ‘and all intermedsite polate ‘The shortest uickest and bes tine to Chilocothe, Ot tumwa, Cedar Rapids, Pubnque, and La Crosse snd Cedar Rapids, Kocktord and Freeport: ss+Pessenger Station at... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. ‘Take Westport Cable City Ticket Office, 915 Main stree, Ridge Building. AB. BERT G88 Gea. fox mete Agent - "FJ. LERCHPassonger Agent, Office 915Main St.. Kansas Cit j plated shagipg gs Wonder why s-me people Fick an! Se TE Aes The Citizen is in the Push: Better keep your Eyes open. PILES’ TILL CURED. SKIN TORTURES Cuticura SOAP And a single anointing with CUTICURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. This treatment, when followed in severe cases by mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, to cool and cleanse the blood, is the most speedy, permanent, and economical cure for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humours with loss of hair ever compounded. Millions of Women USE CUTICURA SOAP, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, in the form of baths for annoying irritations and inflammations, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many sanative antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women and mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used these great skin purifiers and beautifiers to use any others. CUTICURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odours. It unites in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, the BEST skin and complexion soap, and the BEST toilet and baby soap in the world. Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humour Custicura Consisting of CUTICURA SOAP, to cleanse the skin of crusted and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle; Custicura Concentrate, to instill anally infiltrated inflammation, irritation, and soothe the skin; and CUTICURA SOAP, to cool and cleanse the blood. THE SET A SINGLE SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturous, disgusting, itching, burning, and burning humours, with less of harm than a Sold thirsty work. British Depot: F. NEWBERT & SONS, 77 and 28, Charterhouse, London, E.C. POTTER DRUG AND CURE COURT, Sole Props, Boston, U.S.A. CARTRIDGES IN ALL CALIBERS from .22 to .50 loaded with either Black or Smokeless Powder always give entire satisfaction. They are made and loaded in a modern manner, by exact machinery operated by skilled experts. THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD • ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM Making Home Happy. Anything that contributes to the happiness of the home is a blessing to the human race. The thoughtful housewife, who understands her responsibilities in the great problem of making the home all that the word implies is ever on the look out for that which will lighten the burdens of the household without lessening the merits of the work done. That is why nearly every well regulated household is using Defiance starch. It costs less and goes farthest. Sixteen-oz package for it. If your grocery hasn't got it clip this out and give it it. Made by and ask him to send for it. Made by Magnetic Starch Co. Omaha. Neb. Sillicus="Truth is mighty." Cynicus "Ves; mighty scarce." PREMIUM SCALES OF THE WORLD FOR HAY, GRAIN, STOCK, COAL, ETC. Steel Frame and Royal Scale Rack No Pricing MOST MADE OFFicial Stock Scales at World's Fair, Chicago, 1992. al at Farm, Mississippi Exposition, Omnibus, 1992-1999. clearest reliable U.S. Standard scales made. May hold articles for farmers at wholesale prices. Catalogs, brochures, and informational materials from CHICAGO SCALE COMPANY 892.248 & 296 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. CURE FITS FREE A Pull-Size 18 Treatment of Dr. O. Phillip Brown's Great Remedy for Cold Feet and Nervous Disorder. Address: 0 FRIES BROWN, 90 Jackson Boulevard, Newburgh, N.Y. SCALE AUCTION BIDS BY MAIL. YOUR OWN PRICE. 20s, He Pays the Freight, Binghamton, N. Y. Written with bare eyes, no nose. SKIN TORT And every District of the Skin and Relieved by CUTICURA And a single anointing, great skin cure and purpure treatment, when follower doses of CUTICURA and cleanse the blood, is nent, and economical cu ing, itching, burning, ble pimply skin and scalp he ever compounded. Millions o USE CUTICURA SOAP, a for preserving, purifying, cleansing the scalp of crusts, scal ping of falling hair, for softening rough, and sore hands, for baby the form of baths for annoying ir free or offensive perspiration, in weaknesses, and many sanative suggest themselves to women and of the toilet, bath, and nursery, duce those who have once used the tiffers to use any others. CUTIC emollient properties derived from cure, with the purest of cleansing ing of flower odours. It unites in the BEST skin and complexion baby soap in the world. Complete External and Internal Cuticura Cooling of CUTICURA doses, and the instantly allay itching and heal, and CUTICURA blood. SINGLE CUTICURA blood, dislarging itch bumours, with loss of hair, when all else fails. NEWERY & SONS, 27 and 28, Charterho CHEM. CORP., Sole Frops, Boston, U. S. A. WINCH CARTRIDGES IN from .22 to .50 loaded with eit always give entire satisfaction. modern manner, by exact mach THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HO SOZODONT insur At all Stores, or by Mail for the pr W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 33, 1901 PISO'S CURE FOR DURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Growing Tobacco Under Cloth Not only is the growing of the finest grade of Sumatra tobacco under cloth in progress in Connecticut, but in Decatur county, Georgia, much is being done along that line, and very successfully. The state commissioner of agriculture, Mr. Stevens of Atlanta, has been looking at the crop in Decatur county. He finds 1,500 acres of tobacco on one farm, 500 of this given to Sumatra under cloth at a cost of $30,000. That farm sold more than 451,000 pounds of tobacco last year at prices ranging from 20 cents to $1 a pound. Charge at Penitentiary Door Hereafter visitors at the Kansas state penitentiary will be charged 10 cents each. The sum goes toward paying the extra guard made necessary by the visitors. Are You Using Allen's Foot Easy? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S, Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Stars of First and Second Magnitude Astronomers say there are only eighteen stars of the first magnitude. The light from these takes about three years to reach the earth. There are fifty-five of second magnitude. Hamlin's Wizard Oil Co., Chicago, sends song book and testimonials for stamp. Get Wizard Oil from your druggist. Silence may be bought; consequently silence is golden. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. The coaching crowd sometimes goes the pace that spills. IN URES Pressing Irritation With Scalp Instantly In Bath with CURA SOAP with CUTICURA, the best of emollients. This in severe cases by mild RESOLVENT, to cool the most speedy, perma- re for torturing, disfigur- ing, scaly, crusted, and humours with loss of hair of Women Assisted by Cuticura Ointment, and beautifying the skin, for s, and dandruff, and the stop- ging, whitening, and soothing red, rashes, itchings, and chafings, in instations and inflammations, or too the form of washes for ulcerative antiseptic purposes which readily mothers, and for all the purposes No amount of persuasion can in- these great skin purifiers and beau- CURA SOAP combines delicate in CUTICURA, the great skin ingredients and the most refresh- ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, soap, and the BEST toilet and Treatment for Every Humour, CURA SOAP, to cleanse the skin of crusts and thickened cuticle; CUTICURA OINTMENT, to inflammation, and irritation, and soothe CURA RESOLVENT, to cool and cleanse the skin is often sufficient to cure the most tortu- ring, burning, and scaly skin, scald and blood throughout the world. British Depot: Sq., London, E.C. FOTTER DUG AND ESTER ALL CALIBERS Her Black or Smokeless Powder They are made and loaded in a inery operated by skilled experts. ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM Does your Teeth 25° Price. HALL & RUCKEL, New York. "Uncle Sam's" Youngest Diplomate Clarence L. Thurston, who was recently appointed secretary of the United States legation of the Argentine republic, is just twenty-one. He is the youngest man in the diplomatic service of the United States. THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP. Many Bears to be Found in the Virginia Morgans. The Great Dismal Swamp is a region strange and interesting, weird and solitary. It occupies a billow plain some forty miles in length by twenty-five miles in breadth along the Atlantic seaboard, extending from Suffolk, Va., in a southerly direction, well into the bounds of North Carolina. Its deep shades, great stretches of brake and its very solitude make it a region of interest. To the naturalist and sportsman it has much to offer. In its fastestness, the black bear finds a home admirably adapted to his protection and in every way favorable to his increase. Here amid the dense growth of underbrush and timber, he may live in comparative safety. And there is perhaps no locality in the whole eastern United States of like extent which can offer a larger bear population than this great morass. The white-tailed deer is also an abundant denizen of the swamp, frequenting the elevated parts. In addition to the deer and bears, there is a big-game feature of a rather unusual nature. The swamp abounds in wild cows. These animals, of a brown color and somewhat smaller than the ordinary cow, having for many years been under the peculiar conditions of the swamp, until they are almost complete, they are feralized from the herds of the farms adjacent to the swamp, and are the descendants of cattle which many years back wandered to the fastnesses and were lost to their owners, finally becoming wild. Being no longer recognized as property the sportsman may call game all that he may have the prowess to shoot. Lake Drummond, some ten miles from Suffolk, Va., is the only body of water in the swamp. It is a beautiful sheet of water, of an oval contour, and fringed with a heavy growth of timber, mostly cypress, white cedar and black gum. Its water is of a dark green color, owing to the decaying vegetation of the surrounding country, but is suitable to drink, and possesses the quality of remaining pure longer than most other water. For this reason it is often carried to sea by sailors on long voyages. The characteristic mammalian fauna is of a semi-tropical nature as regards the smaller forms, while there are many tropical plants. Of birds there are not many kinds, prothonotary, hooded and Swainson's warblers and the Maryland yellowthroat being the principal smaller forms. The trees, some of which are primeval, are large and beautiful, while there is a luxurious growth of ferns and aquatic plants. Cane grows in profusion.—Forest and Stream. NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS. Aluminium Has Not Proved So Useful as Was Once Predicted. A dozen years or so ago, when aluminum was first placed in the market it was scarce and dear. It was predicted that it would ultimately be used for a great variety of purposes. These expectations unfortunately have not been realized. As time went on it was discovered that, contrary to what was first believed, it was readily acted upon by solutions of many salts, by acids, including vinegar, and especially by alkalies, though it excelled copper in the resistance which it offered to nitric acid. Besides, aluminium for kitchen utensils and the like has the great objection that it blackens the hands like lead. To obviate this drawback it is not frequently coated with a layer of silver, but this in itself is no easy matter, for aluminium is so porous that it retains water and impurities obstinately, with the result that bubbles are formed in the electro deposit, or that this peels off in the polishing process. The chief remedy is to thoroughly cleanse the aluminium and to give it a preliminary coating with another metal, preferably copper, before silvering. Several patents have recently been taken out for processes on these lines. Another great drawback to the general use of aluminium is that it has hitherto been very difficult to unite two separate pieces of the metal. This objection, however, will probably be met by the welding process of Heraeus, which has recently been protected in several countries. In this the welding is so complete that the juncture is practically invisible and the aluminium can be rolled out to a thin sheet without separating into its component parts. A Remarkable Octogenarian Although 82 years old this summer, Mrs. H. P. Van Cleve, "t. e first white baby born in the Northwest," is still vigorous of mind and actively interested in the world's affairs. She lives in Minneapolis, Minn. Her life story, as told in The Ladies' Home Journal, is a picturequeque and exciting one. Born at Fort Crawford, Wis., on July 1, 1819, the daughter of one regular army officer and the widow of another, she passed through all the trials, hardships and adventures of military and pioneer life on the frontier, and although she has spent most of her later years in cities, her experiences have still been of a varied and unusual character. Her golden wedding anniversary was celebrated more than fifteen years ago. Dangers of an Education. On being informed that member of his race had been sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery, Brother Dickey exclaimed: "Dat's what comes or yer edication. Thank de good Lawd I never could read or write, en what's mo', I never will."—Atlanta Constitution. Helped Her President Father The late Mrs. Martha Patterson, daughter of President Johnson, was her father's confidante in all his political struggles and difficulties. Her husband was Judge Thomas Patterson, who died a number of years ago, and she left two children, Belle and Andrew Johnson Patterson. It Pays to Raise Ostriches Our ostrich farms are profitable. Birds are worth $100 aplece and a good specimen yields about $25 worth of feathers at a plucking. To the Ladies: Don't let your grocer sell you a 12 oz. package of laundry starch for 10 cents when you can get 16 oz. of the very best starch GUARANTEED SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER BRAND OF STARCH MADE. MONEY REFUNDED IF NOT SUITABLE. HAS NO EQUAL. DEFLANCE TRADE MARK DEFLANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG CO. OMAHA, NEB. EXACT SIZE OF IO CENT PACKAGE. 72 PACKAGES IN A CASE. chances in pushing this article, we give an absolute guarantee with every package sold, and authorize dealers to take back any starch that a customer claims to be unsatisfactory in any way. We have made arrangements to advertise it thoroughly, and you must have it. ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER. If you cannot get it from him, write us. Hypothetical Stipulations. A Kansas school board received the following letter the other day from one of the teachers: "I would like to have the refusal of the school as long as you are willing to hold it for me, though I can't say positively that I will not teach nor positively that I will. If I am married, as I think I will be, of course, I will not want the school. But you know the old story about many a slip, and I would hate to be out of a job as well as the other." The People Who Wore Whiskers The People Who Wear Whiskers. The dwellers in the north of Europe have always been remarkable for their use of the beard. This, of course, is due to the cold temperature of those regions. At the present day Russia is probably the country in which beards are most generally worn. There the peasants wear beards to a man, while the upper classes, adopting the French fashion, usually affect an imperial or a short, clipped beard. Both Had One. An enthusiastic Louisiana fisherman had great luck while fishing on the Illinois river recently. During the day he wired his wife: "I've got one weighs seven pounds and is a beauty." He was considerably surprised to receive the following from his wife: "So have I. Weighs ten pounds. He isn't a beauty. Looks like you." For Women's Troubles Too: New Baden, Ill., August 12th:—Mrs. Anton Griesbaum, Jr., has been very ill. Female weakness had run her down so low that she could not do her housework. She had tried many things, but got no relief. Dodd's Kidney Pills, a new remedy, which is better known here as a cure for Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, and Rheumatism, worked liked a charm in Mrs. Griesbaum's case. She used three boxes and is now a new woman, able to do her work as well as ever she was. Her general health is much improved, and she has not a single symptom of Female Trouble left. Dodd's Kidney Pills are making a wonderful reputation for themselves in this part of the state. The Collarless Gown The collarless gown brings the pearl necklace into vogue to such an extent that the supply of real pearls cannot meet the demand. But it is the price and not the small supply which is the usual obstacle to obtaining such a necklace. So the imitation pearls have come into the breach in greater perfection and beauty than ever before. Dairy Products Imported by Brittan. Last year Britain imported butter to the value of £17,000,000, cheese to the extent of £5,500,000, eggs, £2,500,000 and poultry just under £800,000. RATES ARE REASONABLE. A False Impression Corrected — Fun- American Exposition Railroad Fares and Hotel Rates Low as Could be Expected. Buffalo, N. Y., July 30—A joint meeting of railway passenger agents, hotel and newspaper men was held this afternoon with the view of adopting some means for correcting so far as possible the impression that appears to prevail at distant points that railway rates to the Pan-American Exposition are high and that hotel rates in Buffalo are excessive. The conference revealed the fact that Buffalo can accommodate two hundred thousand visitors in its private houses and hotels at rates ranging from fifty cents to two dollars per night, and that no one need pay more than one dollar for a first-class lodging in a private house. It was also shown that the railroad rate is lower than for any former exposition for a five, ten or fifteen day ticket, according to distance, being at the rate of one fare plus one at the rate of one fare from all parts of the country. The Niagara Falls cheap, one-day special excursions of former years, when trains were overcrowded and everyone subjected to great discomfort, are remembered only so far as the low rate is concerned, and this is quoted as showing what might be done. The passenger agents assert that the present half rates are as low as can reasonably be expected. An extension of the present limit has been looked for, as it gives too short a time for anyone to see the big exposition, but it has not yet been modified. Other points which the representatives of the publishers' association will lay stress upon are that the Exposition is completed in all details and that both Buffalo and the Exposition are well policed and as free from dangerous characters as any city in the country. A joint committee was appointed to deal with questions affecting the Exposition and the proper welcome and care of guests. The Exposition has had in operation for some time a tree bureau of information for the convenience of intending visitors. What is one man's loss 'is another man's gain, except in the case of reputation. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ! Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., CATRISH, NY. He is also the senior partner and State aide said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarney that cannot be handled by the firm. FRANK J. CHENEY. S sworn to before the jury. CATRISH, NY. Presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1861 [SEAL] A. W. GLEASON, Baltimore, Md. Hall's Catarney Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Tolke, SOL by Dr. Drugs, 75th, the BEST dies: grocer sell you a arch for 10 cent the very best made for the price. 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DEFIANCE STARCH IS THE BIGGEST THE BEST COLD WATER STARCH MADE. No Chromos, no Premiums, but a better starch, and one-third more of it, than is contained in any other package for the price. Having adopted every idea in the manufacture of starch which modern invention has made possible, we offer Defiance Starch, with every confidence in giving satisfaction. Consumers are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the prevalent custom of getting 5c. worth of starch and 5c. worth of some useless thing, when they want 10c. worth of starch. We give no premiums with Defiance Starch, relying on "Quality and Quantity" as the more satisfactory method of getting business. You take no chances in pushing this article, we give an absolute guarantee with every package sold, and authorize dealers to take back any starch that a made arrangements to advertise it thoroughly, you cannot get it from him, write us. Largest City South of Equator. The census returns for the metropolitan district of Sydney, N. S. W. have just been published and show that during the past 10 years its population has increased by a little over 100,000 persons. The total is now 338,859, of whom 197,227 are males, 189,632 females. Sydney now ranks as one of the largest cities of the world. It is the largest city south of the line. The United States only contain six larger cities. Steelhead Salmon in Superior Four years ago the United States fish commission began to plant in Lake Superior the steelhead salmon of the Pacific. It was believed that this salt-water fish would thrive in the cold, fresh waters of the great lake, and fish of this kind weighing five pounds have recently been caught. As modified in the lake they are well-shaped, firm, with flesh of a fine red and delicate flavor. The planting will proceed rapidly. Names of Newspapers Among British newspapers, according to the New York Sun, there are 160 Advertisers, 150 Timeses, 149 Newses, 128 Gazettes, 120 Chronicles, 119 Heralds, 104 Journals, 95 Expresses, 70 Guardians, 68 Observers, 48 Standards and 42 Mercury. There are 40 Free Presses, 38 Telegraphs, 31 Mails, 30 Posts, 29 Independents, 23 Couriers and as many Examiners and 22 Echoes. Reading the Latest Books Many people read books simply that they may keep up to date in literature. It is part of their capital in society. Most of these buy liberally. Plenty of readers are to be found whose book bills for novels run $100 to $150 a year steadily. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All drug sticks and shoe stores. Esc. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Straws show which way the iceed drink goes. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J. F., 17, 180. There's a difference between South-down mutton and down South mutton. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gum, reduces fumigation, allays pain, cure wind colic. A bottle. It's a poor mule that won't work both ways. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. THE GENUINE TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK TAX NO SUBSTITUTES CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS A.J.TOWER CO. BOSTON.MASS. MONTREAL THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, DUBLIN Classics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Biology, Chemical and Electrical Engineering, Architecture. Through Preparatory and Commercial Courses. Room Free. Junior or Senior Year, Collegiate Rooms Free. Junior or Senior Year, Collegiate Rooms Free. Moderate charges. Ed. St. Edward's Hall, moderate charges. The 58 Hour will open September 10th, 1001. Catered by R.E. MORRISSEY, S. C. S., Presidale. 20.000 HARVEST HANDS required to harvest the grain crop of West ern Canada. 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE The most abundant yield on the Continent. Reports are that the average wheat is 10% more wheat in Western Canada will be over thirty bushels to the acre. Prices for farm help will be excellent. Splendid Danching Lands adjoining the Wheat Belt. Excursions will be run from all points in the United States to the Free Grant Lands. Secure a home at once, and if you wish to purchase at prevailing prices, and secure the advantage of the low rates, apply for literature. Secure an indent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to J. S. Crawford, Canadian Government Agent, 214 W. Ninth St., Kansas City, Mo. When visiting Buffalo, do not fail to see the Canadian Exhibit at the Pan-American. STARK best by Test - 77 YEARS. We PAY CASH WANT MORE SALEMEN Stark Nursery, Louisiana, Mo.; Dansville, N.Y. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. STOLE $375,000 FUGITIVE FROM GERMANY ARRESTED. SOME OF THE BOOTY RECOVERED Forged and Hypothetical Stock in Big Company — His Changing 10,000 Marks Into American Money at a Chicago Bank Gave Detectives the Clue That Led to His Capture. Shadowed by the police of Paris, hounded by the detectives of Scotland Yard, looked for by the sleuths of New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, Garbard Terlinden, of Duisburg, Germany, accused of forgery and embezzlement by the German government, has finally been captured in Milwaukee by Chicago Pinkertons and taken to Chicago for safe keeping. The prisoner is wanted by the German authorities for having forged and hypochetically 1,500,000 marks' worth of charters and securities, the property of the Garbard Terlinden Company of Duisburg, of which he was manager. The business was a land improvement and investment enterprise, and it is said that a great number of poor persons were financially ruined by the defalcations of the manager. The American equivalent to Herr Terlinden's booy is $275,000. A little more than a month ago German Consul Wever placed a description of Terlinden in the hands of Williamm A. Pinkerton. The next day one of his detectives learned that a man answering the general appearance of the absconder had changed 10,000 marks into American dollars at the First National bank of Chicago. A canvass of the other banks showed that he had deposits in at least two of them. It was found that he had lived for a few days at the Continental hotel under the name of Graefe. Thence he had gone to Milwaukee. Terlinden speaks English and French fluently, but with a pronounced German accent. He was placed under arrest without difficulty. The Pinkerton officials admit that a considerable portion of the prisoner's supposed booty was found in his pockets, and that more of it was on deposit in Chicago banks. A fight against his extradition is probable. WOMAN FORGER AT WORK With Railroad Men For Victims She Se- sures $1,000 It is alleged that a prominent Wichita, Kan, woman, whose name the attorneys are unwilling to divulge, has forged three checks, with the name of Frank T. Dolan, former division superintendent of the Santa Fe at Wichita, and now superintendent of the Chicago division of the same road. The aggregate of the three checks was $1,000, and the money was secured upon them. It is also alleged that she forged the name of George R. Peck of Chicago to checks, but did not secure the money upon them. No prosecution has yet been started, as it is understood S. B. Amidon, Dolan's lawyer, is in hopes of negotiating a settlement with the woman. KANSAS MAKES SLIGHT GAIN. Population 1.6 per cent Greater Than a Year Ago. The total population of Kansas, as returned by township assessors for March 1, and tabulated by the state board of agriculture, is 1,467,808, or a net increase within the preceding year of 23,100, or 1.6 per cent, making the number of inhabitants in 1901 larger than at any previous time in the past thirteen years. This year seventy-three counties have gained 35,296, the largest gain being 6,519 in Wyandotte county, the smallest 2, in Butler. Thirty-one counties lost 12,196, the heaviest loser is Cherokee county, 2,059; the smallest Grant, 4. FUNSTON HAS A RIVAL. Eleut. Grant Makes a Capture Nearly as Important as Aguinaldo's. Second Lieutenant Walter S. Grant of the Sixth cavalry, while scouting with a detachment near Taal, Batangas province, has made what military authorities consider to be the most important capture since Aguinaldo was made prisoner. Grant captured Colonel Martin Cabrera, his adjutant and six other insurgents. Cabrera has been growing in power for some time. He controlled all the insurgents in Southern Batangas and also those westward of the city of Batangas. Two Sedalia Banks Consolidated. The People's bank of Sedalia, Mo., with a capital of $50,000, has been absorbed by the Sedalia National bank, which leaves Sedalia now with three banking institutions, the Bank of Commerce having been absorbed a few months ago by the Citizens' National bank. A California Cloudburst. A terrible cloudburst occurred at Teachahapi, Call., doing an immense amount of damage. All connections by wire, telephone and telegraph are severed, and it is impossible to obtain particulars. Four or five washouts resulted and the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad trains are detained at Bakersfield until the track is in shape for traffic. Crews of men are at work repairing the damage. It is reported that two inches of rain fell in half an hour. Kansas Murderer Caught. James Hardison, who murdered Gearry Stephens, brother of ex-County Attorney Charles Stephens, at Scammon, Kan., about two years ago, has been captured by officers at Mountain View, O. T. Sheriff Sparks and Charles Stephens have left for Oklahoma for the prisoner. Hardison shot young Stephens twice. Governor Stanley offered a reward for Hardison at the time. The owner of a mackintosh has something laid up for a rainy day. CITY OF MOBILE LOST. Great Storm Has Visited the Alabama Coast The tropical storm which has been raging along the Gulf coast has completely isolated the city of Mobile, Ala, from the outside world. It is known that considerable damage has been done along the water front in Mobile, but whether there has been any loss of life or not is mere conjecture. Nothing had been heard from the country south of Mobile up to the time the last wire to Mobile failed. The Western Union office in Mobile has been abandoned, the water being three feet deep in the operating room. Communications were had for a few minutes with Mobile. The Associated press reporter there had made his way to the operating room in a boat. He took up his position on top of the switchboard, several feet above the flooded office and detaching the associated press wire from its place in the beard, sent this message: "Am on top of the switchboard here with a lineman. The water is over three feet deep in this room, and it is still rising. The wind is blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and we look for worse things to-night. The business district is deserted—" Here the wire failed and nothing more could be heard from him, although the most persistent efforts were made. The water was reported as high as in the great flood of 1893, although at that time the wind was not as high. From Mobile to Fort Morgan, a distance of thirty-five miles, and on both sides of the bay, summer resorts and summer houses are located. These were, it is believed, in the direct path of the storm. The telegraph line to Fort Morgan runs around the bay through the country and covers eighty-five miles before it reaches the government reservation. It is feared that there has been loss of life on some of the islands in Mississippi sound, located just outside the bar below Fort Morgan. These islands are inhabited by French fishermen, and are only about four or five feet above the water under ordinary stages, and there was great loss of life in 1893. The storm is moving Westward. PHILLIPS IN BANKRUPTCY. Receiver Appointed for the Young Chicago Grain Broker On the petition of three creditors of the George H. Phillips company of Chicago, a petition in bankruptcy has been filed for the company in the United States district court. George H. Phillips and two others directors of the company filed their consent that the petition be allowed and the Chicago Title and Trust company has been appointed temporary receiver. The filing of the petition and the appointment of the receiver will enable the company to continue in business. One of the directors, W. K. Sackett, will be appointed by the receiver to manage the business and the affairs of the company will proceed under the new management. The three creditors who signed the petition are J. A. Greenlee, H. F. Babbitt and W. R. Hutchins. The claims of these gentlemen range from $5,000 to $25,000. Meanwhile the statement is nearly complete and the exact condition of the company's finances will be known. Since the middle of July, when the tangled condition of the books of the company was discovered, every effort has been made to straighten out its affairs. Expert accountants have overhauled the books, and have, in some degree, brought order out of chaos. It is now estimated that the assets of the company will aggregate $250,000 and the liabilities will not exceed $200,000. GIRL'S LEAP FOR HER LIFE When Train Thundered Down Upon Her She Jumped From Trestle. A 15-year-old girl was crossing a railroad trestle east of Pittsburgh, Mo, when the Missouri Pacific passenger train came upon her. Just as the engine was almost upon her she jumped into the stream below. The engineer had already applied the emergency brakes, but the train had crossed the trestle one hundred yards before it was brought to a standstill. The train men went back expecting to find a badly injured girl, but met her walking up the bank with her bundle in her arms. Beyond being covered with mud and water she was uninjured. FX-GOVERNOR STONE ILL Condition of Patient, Who has been In discussed for Ten Days. Former Governor William J. Stone is critically ill at his home in St. Louis. For three weeks he has been confined to his room with dysentery and rumors that his aliment was not responding to treatment as rapidly as expected have been current for the past ten days. It is learned that he has suffered something in the nature of a relapse and that his most intimate friends are denied admission to his home. We Control London Meat. There has been a recrudescence of agitation on the part of Irish and British farmers in England against what they term a practical monopoly of the London meat market by Americans, and the board of agriculture has promised to inquire into the matter. The agitators assert that the American importers of cattle have so influenced a corporation in London which controls the markets that they control the trade and rule prices to the practical exclusion of home farmers. Death From Lightning Shock A bolt of lightning struck a store building at Sidney, Mo., and killed Fred Foster. One of the occupants, Thomas Buster, who was standing near Foster, was badly shocked. The other occupants were unharmed. Governor Dockery has issued a proclamation offering $300 reward for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Moniteau county of the unknown murderer of Nancy Birding, in that county on December 11, 1896. TWELVE KILLED TEMPORARY WATER WORKS AT CLEVELAND BURNED. NO LIFE SAVING APPARATUS. Men Had to Choose Between Death by Fire and Drowning—Some Died in Tunnel Because Fire cut off their Supply of Air—One Rescuer Suffocated—Tunnel Has Cost Thirty Lives. Five men were burned to death, four were drowned, three and possibly four were suffocated and several injured as the result of a fire which destroyed a temporary water works crib, two miles off the Cleveland, Ohio, harbor. The dead so far as known: Arthus Hasty, drowned, body recovered; Mark Snyder, drowned; Arthur Hastings, burned; Plummer Jones, suffocated; John Martine, drowned; John Kowolsky, drowned, body recovered; four unidentified men, burned. The injured, on for no known: John Leese, probably a broken back, fatal; O. Braddock, burned about hands and face; Charles Smith, overcome by gas in tunnel; David Kelly, rescuer, overcome by gas. Twenty-six men obeyed the order of Manager VanDusen, when the flames broke out, and took refuge in the water on floating pieces of wreckage. Four of them lost their hold upon their frail boats and sank beneath the waves just as help reached their comrades. The crew of the tug J. R. Sprenkle heard the fire whistle blow from the crib and raced to the scene from the harbor. She picked up eighteen of the survivors, who had drifted to the west of the crib on their floats of boards and wreckage. VanDeusen and three of his men were hanging in the water from a two-inch line suspended from the crib. Just as the line was burning away above the men's hands a yawlboat from the barge Wilhelm, manned by two men, dashed into the veil of heat and smoke that enveloped the crib and rescued the four men on the rope at the risk of the boatmen's lives. The men picked up in the water were brought to the city on the tug Sprenkle. They were naked, exhausted and badly burned. Many of them were cut by falling timbers. After two hours of hard work, five charred human bodies were found, burned beyond recognition. Two were in the attitude of prayer. As soon as the five bodies were found the tug Kennedy returned to the harbor at once and notified the coroner of the discovery. While this was going on strenuous efforts were being put forth to reach the men imprisoned in the tunnel, whose air supply had apparently been shut off entirely by the burning of the compressed air machinery. At times it was thought that voices could be heard down below, and the life savers and the firemen peered down with ears intent, but the sounds ceased again. At the mouth of the shaft it was like a furnace and the iron work was red hot from the flames. Finally after a deluge of water had been thrown on the smouldering shaft entrance, a voice was heard from the bottom calling for help. A line was quickly dropped down the shaft and as it tightened a shout of joy went up from those about. Slowly but carefully a man was raised. His pallid face, covered with slime, his starting eyes and heaving chest told of the horror he had gone through during the hours he had spent in the tunnel. He was William Curry, of Canton. As soon as he could gasp, Curry said: "They are all at the bottom of the shaft, hurry up." In quick succession seven others were brought up from the foul and stifling air of the tunnel. All were in a most pitiable condition. They reported that two other men were lying unconscious at the bottom of the shaft. A workman volunteered to rescue these men and he was quickly lowered into the shaft. In a few moments the unconscious men were brought up, more dead than alive. One and possibly two men are supposed to be lying dead in the tunnel, too far away from the shaft to be reached. Plummer Jones, one of the rescue party, was overcome by gas and died. This tunnel has already cost thirty lives and is still far from being completed. Divided 1 Million Among Them. The fact has just come to light that General W. J. Palmer of Colorado Springs, the time that he sold his interest in the Rio Grande Western railroad for $6,000,000 about three months ago, made a distribution of 10,000 shares of the stock of the company, then at 104, among the employees of the road, amounting in all to more than $1,000,000. Each employee, from section foreman to general manager, was remembered. Undervalued the Stolen Gold A mistake was made in computing the number of gold bars stolen from the Selby Smelting works at San Francisco a week ago. The booty is valued at $320,000, nearly $50,000 above the original figures. $ Killed a Marlow Safe Blower. Three men entered the Marlow, I. T. postoffice while the guard was out and attempted to blow the safe. The guard returned while they were at work and a fight ensued. One of the robbers fell, shot through the breast, and the other two escaped. The man gave his name as Gray of Kansas City. He was taken to the hospital and died within a few minutes. Death From Base Ball Blow. William Smith, the 10-year-old grandson of Mrs. E. R. L. Hale, of Sedalia, Mo., who was hit in the stomach by a base ball two weeks ago, died from his injuries. This makes the second similar fatality this season and the more serious casualties include one broken leg and one fractured arm. PROGRESS OF THE CROPS. Droth Continues in Ohio Valley—Favorable Elsewhere. The weather bureau's weekly summary of crop conditions is as follows: The week ending August 12 has been one of very favorable temperature conditions in the districts east of the Rocky mountains, with beneficial rains over a large part of the drought area. Drought, however, continues in the Ohio valley and in portions of Tennessee and the upper lake region, while excessive rains have caused destructive freshhes in the Carolinas and proved injurious in portions of Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Extremely hot weather in California caused rapid ripening of fruit and serious injury to grapes in some places. Late corn has experienced material improvement in the states of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and in Kentucky and Tennessee, and with favorable temperature conditions in September the yield in the Missouri valley will be larger than indicated in previous reports. In Ohio. Indiana and Central and Southern Illinois, the condition of the crop has farther deteriorated, especially in Southwestern Ohio. In the Atlantic coast districts corn has made excellent progress. Rains have interrupted spring wheat harvest, which, however, is nearly finished over the Southern portion of the spring wheat region, and caused lodging in portions of North Dakota, where the grain is reported as shrunk and heads not well filled, as a result of the late excessive heat. Wheat harvest on the North Pacific coast is in active progress with yields exceeding expectations. Further improvements in the condition of cotton is generally reported from the central and eastern portions of the cotton belt, although rust and shedding are more or less indicated, especially in Georgia, Florida and portions of Alabama, where too much rain has fallen in localities. Over much of the Western part of the cotton belt, and in portions of the central districts, cotton is suffering for rain, and in the drought regions of Texas is falling rapidly. Picking is in general progress in Texas, except in the northern counties. In the Middle Atlantic states and New England tobacco has made favorable progress, except in portions of Maryland, where the crop on lowlands has been injured by too much rain. In Kentucky and in portions of Tennessee the crop is greatly improved, but in Southwestern Ohio it has been seriously damaged by drought. All reports from districts east of the Rocky Mountains indicate an extremely light and inferior apple crop, although the outlook is slightly improved in Kansas and Missouri. Plowing for fall seeding has made very favorable progress, except in the Ohio valley, where the soil is too dry, EARTHOUAKE IN ALASKA? Seismograph at Victoria, B. C., Indicates Severe Disturbance. The seismograph at the meteorological office at Victoria, B. C., has recorded some very severe shocks of earthquake, which the superintendent believes occurred in Alaska, as the records are similar to those made when the last earthquake occurred up North. The preliminary tremors commenced at 1:30 a. m., and continued until 4:08, the pendulum in this interval recording several oscillations. At 5:15 another disturbance commenced, which rapidly assumed immense proportions until at 6:15 the swing of the pendulum had completely crossed the record paper and maintained this incessant movement for some twenty minutes. At 10:40 fresh vibrations began, which became very pronounced for nearly and hour. ONLY $11,000,000 DUE HIM Black Hills Story About a Dane for Whom Relatives Have Hunted. After a search for twenty-two years, relatives of Peter Nelson Oague found him on a farm near Piedmont, S. D, in the Black Hills, where he has been known as Peter Nelson. When the man left his Denmark home, he dropped his last name. That was for reasons of his own. He has left for Denmark to take possession of a fortune awaiting him amounting to $11,000,000 which has been ready for him twenty-two years. He had letters that proved his statements. He is related to wealthy people in Denmark who stand high in the army. Dropped Dead in the Street James H. Miller, a well known Chicago man, a member of the firm of Spear & Miller Co., Monadnock building, Chicago, manufacturers of brake shoes, dropped on Fifth street near Walnut, Kansas City, Mo. The police ambulance was hastily summoned, but medical attention was useless. A letter of introduction to Daniel Cameron, superintendent of the Cudahy Pecking company of Kansas City, signed Lloyd J. Smith, was found in the dead man's pocket, and business cards also showed him to be a member of the firm: Oil Strike at Erie, Kas While drilling for gas at Erie, Kan, an unexpected oil find was struck at the depth of 500 feet. The well is claimed by experts to be good for twenty-five to fifty barrels per day, if shot. The oil is pronounced to be of fine quality. Centralia to Have a City Hall. The city council of Centralia, Mo., at a recent meeting, sold $7,000 of city hall bonds to Captain Sam A. Smoke of Columbia at par and a premium of $50. The contract for the city hall will be let August 20 and the work begins immediately thereafter. Spanish Gun for Missouri. Governor Dockery has been notified by the war department at Washington that one of the Spanish guns taken in the late war, and which the department placed at the disposal of Missouri to exhibit as a war relic, was at New York and would be shipped at once. The state is to pay the freight. The cannon will be mounted in the capitol park at Jefferson City. BANDITS IN JAIL HELD UP A KATY TRAIN IN INDIAN TERRITORY. BLOODHOUNDS RAN THEM DOWN Robbery Occurred Near Caney—Express Safes Blown Open, Mall Rifted and All the Passengers Robbed— Six of the Bandits Have Been Ar- Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train No. 3, south bound, was held up and robbed at Caney Switch, I. T., by seven or eight men. Two men got on the train at Atoka. When two miles north of Caney they crawled over the tender with pistols in hand, covered the engineer and fireman and commanded them to stop at Caney water tank. There the men were joined by the others, and at this juncture a fuselide of shots alarmed the crew and passengers. Postal Clerk Tulley was compelled to go through the train, carrying a sack, in which the valuables were thrown. Every passenger was robbed, and then the robbers turned their attention to the express car. Both safes were ollen open with dynamite and their contents secured. The amounts are not yet known, although the robbers got some valuable jewels. They gave a diamond ring and shirt stud to Engineer Lanham. The operator at Caney, when he heard the shooting, suspected the train was being held up and put out the light in the depot and telegraphed to Atoka, eleven miles away, for officers. Within two hours after the robbery was committed bloodhounds had trailed these men to their homes. They found the wet clothing identified by passengers as that worn by the robbers. They found three masks and found in the fire box of the cook stove when the arrests were made the shoes of the men arrested. The tracks were measured and fitted the shoes exactly. J. B. Davis, deputy marshal of Colbert, I. T., says the following men have been arrested on the charge of having committed the robbery: E. C. Richmond, Bob Alford, George Brown, John Gibson, Tom Edwards and Jack Barr. These men were arrested at Caney and taken to Atoka. The American express people claim they lost nothing by the robbery and the loss to the passengers is estimated at $200 to $200. WOULD BLOW UP THE ASYLUM Mischief of Flend is Discovered in Nick of Time. But for the watchful eye and prompt use of his trigger finger by Asylum Fireman Gilbert Lord there might have been a dreadful catastrophe at the state institution at Nevada, Mo. During the national guard encampment about a month ago some miscreant turned out the water in the big battery of boilers one night and had the engineer not discovered the fact just as he was about to pump cold water into them an explosion would have resulted that might have been fearful in its consequences. At the same time and probably by the same scoundrel, the electric wires were so tampered with as to result in the burning out of the armatures when the current was turned on. Since then a close watch has been kept for fear of a repetition of the attempts, and at last the intruder came. A load of shot cut a section out of his coat, but so far as known failed to hit him. The asylum authorities are greatly exercised and the utmost vigilance is being exercised to prevent a repetition of the outrage. PATIENCE HAS A LIMIT. Husband Waited Twenty-Eight Years for Reconciliation. Henry W. Horton of Sedalla, Mo., after vainly waiting for twenty-eight years for his wife, Margaret E. Horton, to return to his home and reside, has filed a suit in the Pettis county court for a divorce. Horton and his wife were married at Postal, Pettis county in 1872 and fourteen months later they parted. Horton remained on his farm and year after year vainly urging the bride of his youth to return and now weared of hoping and waiting, has sought a legal separation. Sign or Crispi Dead. A dispatch from Naples, dated August 11, says: Signor Crispi died at 7:45 o'clock this evening. He was surrounded by the members of his family and several intimate friends. The news was immediately telegraphed to King Emmanuel and Queen Helen. The papers assert that the body will be conveyed by steamer to Palermo, where the municipality will arrange for a great public funeral. It is rumored that Signor Crispi's will authorizes a prominent Italian politician to examine his papers and to publish his memoirs. He Got Away With $29,000. The examination of the books of the Akron, O., Varnish Company, just completed, shows that the defaulction of former Treasurer Homer J. McCrum amounts to $29,000. McCrum disappeared some weeks ago, and is now supposed to be in South America. McCrum issued paper of the company and pocketed the proceeds. The company will meet all the notes. Spending a dollar before it is earned is like eating to-day the eggs that is to be laid to-morrow. Died in Saying His Fishing Pole. William Delaney, night foreman of the shops of the St. Joseph Light, Heat and Power Company and one of the best known electricians of this state, was drowned in One Hundred and Two river, east of St. Joseph while on a fishing excursion. A large fish snapped the rod and he endeavored to recover it by leaping into the water. He was seized with cramps and died before a friend could reach him. The odor of a well-cooked dinner is the incense of domestic love. OUR TRADE WITH GERMANY. Wonderful Growth of Commerce Between Two Countries. Recent discussions regarding the commerce between the United States and Germany lend especial interest to some figures just presented by the treasury bureau of statistics, which show the growth of commerce between the two countries in the last thirty years, and in detail during the last ten years. These figures show that imports into the United States from Germany have increased from $27,000,000 in 1870 to 100 millions in 1901, and that exports from the United States to that country have increased from 42 millions in 1870 to 191 millions in 1901—an increase of nearly 300 per cent in imports from Germany and of nearly 400 per cent in exports to Germany. On the export side, the greatest growth has been during the last five years, in which time our exports to Germany have doubled, being in 1896, $97,897,197, and in 1901, $191,072,252. This growth is distributed among a large number of articles. Comparing our exports to Germany in 1895 with those of 1901, corn has increased from $1,672,539 in 1895 to $17,305,229 in 1901; wheat from $1,522,736 to $7,871,573; lard, from $8,018,516; to $13,700,875; oil cake and oil cake meal, from $2,339-885 to $5,242,624; flour from $740,264 to $2,011,259; agricultural implements from $556,914 to $2,677,319; and copper from $1,604,390 in 1895 to $7,785,496 in 1901. Machinery of all kinds, including steam engines, increased from $1,-595,135 in 1895 to $1,099,095 in 1900, the figures for 1901 in this item being not yet available. On the import side, the articles which show the greatest growth during the last decade are coal tar colors and dyes, chemicals, lacets and embroideries, earthen, stone and chinaware, and sugar. Coal tar colors and dyes have increased from $1,272.275 in 1891 to $3,822.162 in 1900; other chemicals, from $1,868.988 to $3,988.116; lacets and embroideries, from $945.168 to $2,402.372; earthen stone and chinaware, from $1,440.107 to 2,787.163, and sugar from $2,209.150 to 3,146.734. An examination of the statistics issued by the German government shows that articles from the United States formed, in 1891, 10 per cent of her total imports for consumption, while in 1900 they found 16.9 per cent. Of her exports, those to the United States in 1891 formed 10.7 per cent of the total, and in 1900, 9.3 per cent. MURDER INSTEAD OF ACCIDENT Deathed Confession Explains How Michigan Man Met His End. The facts in a shocking murder at Franklin, Ohio, have just been made known. Edward Crossman, of Manchester, Mich., who met his death on April 31 last, was supposed to have been struck by a train. A different story is told by a man named Medler, who is dying from consumption in a Cincinnati hospital. He states that Grossman was working in a paper mill at Franklin, Ohio, and incurred the enmity of other employees, who placed a rope about his neck and raised and lowered him from a beam, finally hurling his head against the iron shafting, fracturing his skull. Crossman was then placed upon the railroad tracks to cover up the crime. A detective from Cincinnati has arrested George Stag, living near Franklin, presumably in connection with the affair. MOVING MISSOURI PEACH CROP Caroads of Luscious Fruit are Ready for the Market. John G. McNair, the "peach king" of South Missouri, has begun shipping his large crop of peaches from the Buffalo fruit farm at Koshkonong. All along the line of the Memphis route fruit growers are preparing to gather their crop. The long drought kept back the fruit for over two weeks, but now it is ripening and is of unusual size. Various estimates have been made of the crop, but the following is a conservative one: Koshkonong will ship 250 cars of peaches; Mammoth Spring, 20 cars; Thayer, 10 cars; Brandsville, 25 cars; West Plains, 10 cars; Olden, 50 cars; Pomona, 40 cars; Mount View, 20 cars; Willow Springs, 10 cars; Cedar Gap, 40 cars. The entire crop at Koshkonong has been sold to John G. McNair. S. R. Young & Company of Springfield haveought the crop around Mammoth Spring. BURIED TREASURE FOUND. Searchers Unearth $32,000 Mostly in Spanish Gold. News has just been received of the finding of $32,000, mostly in Spanish gold specie, buried in a chest about five miles from Portersville, Miss., on the Mobile & Ohio railroad, by four men who have had a chart of the burial place and have been searching for the treasure for some time. This section was once the rendezvous of the notorious Copeland gang, and it has been long known that they buried most of their ill-gotten wealth there. There is said to be another sum of something over $50,000 buried in Sucurroche swamp. Murder and Su'e'de. Since Saturday night Robert Stephenson and Mrs. Lillie Kispert have been dead in a room on Cutter street, Cincinfatti. When the police broke open the door, murder and suicide were disclosed. It is believed Stephenson deliberately shot Mrs. Kispert while she was asleep and then put a bullet through his brain. Nothing was found to indicate a reason for the crime. Mean souls, like mean pictures, are often found in fine looking frames. Shot by an Enraged Farmer While strolling with companions in a meadow near Butter, Mo, Carl Norfleet, son of a prominent merchant, was shot by an infuriated farmer who supposed the boys had been in his peach orchard. Several shots were fired, but only one took effect. Norfleet's wound is serious, but not fatal. The laying on of hands as a curative power is not new. Almost any old man can remember when his mother practiced the art. There are eighty secret societies in the state. "Rocky Ford" of Kansas is the title of Sylvia. Allen county is to have further free rural delivery. Fort Riley is the geographical center of the country. Elgin is the largest cattle shipping point in the world. Small towns of the state are suffering from croquet fever. Through the influence of women's clubs in Leavenworth, benches are being put into the parks. Neody is the name given to a poor, defenseless baby girl in Neodesha. Burlingame's water supply is to be investigated. What has it been doing? Instead of the annual flower parade, Winfield will this year have a wheat parade. It is a mistake to suppose that the cow peas that grow in Kansas have milk in them. There are 52,000 negroes in Kansas—a good many, considering the short water-melon crop. The garbage from the Osawatomia asylum for the in-ane is sold to a farmer for $56 a month. The name of the lucky Ottawa professor who is soon to marry a Kansas City girl is not given. There is hard feeling in Lawrence because the county officers buy their stationery in Leavenworth. Miss Julia R. Pearce of Kansas has been appointed analyst of soil in the department of agriculture, Washington. Fort Scott is to have a new jail. The county commissioner has awarded the contract and the cost will be $15,000. The fellow who broke into the Katy depot at Mound Valley secured only 35 pennies and some antiquated revenue stamps. J. C. Weathers of Howard, a prophet with some honor in Elk county, says next summer will be as dry as 1901. He may be right but what does the "J. C." stand for? Atchison has grown to be such a good place to live in that a merry-go-round which pre-empted a vacant lot in the business part of the town lost $60 in two weeks. Atchison has a novelty in the way of a woman loafer, who takes her stand at certain prominent places and knocks on every one of her own sex who happen to pass by. Emporia objects to the Glypsies who are camped near that town, because they are so dirty. It would take about all of the water in the city reservoir to wash them. A new floor is being laid in the basement corridor of the state normal school at Emporia, where the young men and young women promenade and sing "John Brown's Body." An Atchison man has been trying to play on a cornet for thirty years, and makes a boten of it still. Once probably, in a century, a man is born who can get music out of a cornet. Clyde is the shining buckle on the water-meton belt and the town is going to have a carnival the latter part of this month at which everyone will be invited to eat all the watermelon he cares for. John Moore, the Hutchinson murderer who killed his five children, is not satisfied with having escaped the gallows through the weakness of the Kansas law. He wants to be pardoned and is actually figuring on getting out of the penitentiary. A company in Independence has secured the contract for furnishing crackers to the penitentiary for the next six months. The convicts at Lansing don't subsist on crackers, but the compliment to Independence is something. The Newton Republican seems to think it strange that three pairs of girls and boys in that town, not over 18 years old, are engaged. Doesn't the Republican know that people never love as hard at any other time of life as that age? Just as a l of the exchan editors in Kansas were abandoning the hopes that anything would ever happen again in Burlington, a young woman in town flashes a diamond ring on the public. There is a house in Waverly where the death of a woman and her daughter occurred only a day a art last week. A year ago a man and his wife died within forty-night hours' time at the same house. A farm hand near Lyons started to raise a disturbance the other day. His employer walked about five miles looking for the constable before he remembered that he was that officer. When he returned to make the arrest his man was gone. The following fake appeared in a Los Angeles paper: "The ladies of the First Baptist church at Dodge City, Kan., will hold a popcorn social in the cornfield of Brother Asa Freeman tomorrow night. Bring a cup of butter. The corn pops on the stalks from the excessive heat. It is a beautiful sight to see the mass of snowy whiteiness dropping showers from the ears of corn. Admission to the field tea cents." Rossville is the corn center of Kansas. Charles Spencer of Wellington was one of the lucky ones at El Reno. He drew No. 13 in the land lottery. His story shows a remarkable series of coincidences and upsets all superstitions about 13 being an unlucky number. When he bought his ticket he was given back 13 cents in change; at Caldwell, when he bought a ticket for El Reno, he was again given 13 cents in change. At El Reno he was No. 13 in the company he joined to register and at night he slept in cot No. 13 in a store building. No. 15 in a story me at the soda fountain is a tenet of which distinction is common among the youthful swains and maidens of Galena. Warnings to girls. A Garden City miss jerked her head so suddenly when a young man tried to kiss her that her neck was broken. The successful use of morning glories as fodder in Kansas is another cheerful proof of the development of estheticism in that state. People in Kansas who don't believe in the classics will probably set up a roar about the Greeks who are working on the railroads in that state.