The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country VOL. 15. NO.. 15 Co-operation, Sunday Forum. Sunday was Women's Day at the Forum. The attendance was not as good as it might have been, owing to the fact that there were many other attractions during the afternoon. Miss Florence Smith rendered a beautiful solo Miss. Wilson, accompanist. Miss Ethel stefard read a paper on "Why and How Society Should be Improved" The aim of society is to develop the individual, mentally, physically and morally Dancing and card playing are two evils of modern society, and should be supplanted by church amusements and entertainments. Mr O B Johnson thinks that dancing adds gracefulness to the human form. Mrs Griffith said she has never dared but considers herself as graceful as any dancer Miss Emma Brown brought the paper not as broad as his object but h a t y endorsed its opposition to card playing and dancing by chris ians. Prof. Harrison said would rather be a sinner than a dancing card playing so-called christian. The Forum meets the second and fourth Sundays of each month at the Metropolitan Baptist church. One of the objects of this club is to provide suitable Sabbath entertainment for the people. The committee on "Policy Playing". I. F. Bradley, chairman will make its report at next meeting. Interesting program is promising. The Forum was well entertained last Sunday afternoon by Miss Etbel Stafford, of Argentine public school. A crowd was present and the many critics found it dfluent to offer rebultals to Miss Stafford's argument, subject. 'Why and How to Imgrove Society. Miss Florence Smith furnished sweet music. Sunday, June, 8th, the Commi tee on Morals will report to the Forum at the Metrodoitan Church, Mr. M. Smith is chairman of the committee. Rosehill Baptist Church The Rose Hill Baqtist Church of Kansas City Kansas, had a rally May 25, 1902 for the purpose of raising money to liquidate the last payment on their church lot corner 8th St. and Oakland Ave. and succeeded in their efforts Rev. D. B Jacks on was much pleased with the rally which amounted to $204 28. God is blessing the church greatly under the administration of Rev. Jackson which makes us know that he is the right man in the right place. May God help them in their effort throughout the building of a new office—. A Letter from the Deep Our vessel is situated about one mile from shore, off Norfork. There is a training vessel near by, also a hospital vessel and a prison vessel. George King and L₁(Dennis) are employed upon the same vessel. At present our vessel is quarantined and cannot leave the vessel to go on shore. Each of us was given: 1 Black Jersey Sweater, three pock socks, three suits underwear, one watch cap, and needles. By the way George is sewing now with three spools of thread: silk black and white cotton tape one silk neckerchief, neck braid ness kit consisting of a plate, two bowls knife, fork and spoon, the latter three being silver, two mattress covers, a mattress and a hammock. Oh yes, a pair of shoes and towels. Well I guess I had better give you the bill of fare now: Monday, breakfast bacon, beans, coffee and light bread; Dinner roast beef stewed tomatoes, coffee and bread. Supper cold roast beef, tea and bread and tatoes. Tuesday, breakfast sausage, potatoes, coffee and bread. Dinner stewed peas, coffee and bread. Supper liver and bacon fried, tea and bread. Wednesday breakfast steak, coffee and bread. Dinner chicken stewed with dumplings, onions green beans, potatoes and bread. Supper chicken, tea and bread. Thursday mess with the addition of pie for dinner. Friday we have as a different of Tuesday Oatmeal for breakfast. Saturday like Wed, and Sunday pie again. We have a time hear for everythin, up at 5 oclock eat breakfast at 6.30 have querrers, cloth inspection to see if they are clean at 9.00 I have nothing more to do until 12.00 dinner, nothing more again until 5.30 pm. supper We retire at 9.00 oclock I know you would laugh harty to see me in this white. -Dennis Matthews, U. S Training Ship Franklin WANTED Women in cook, and Laundress add., Mrs. A. W Solomon Employment agt Office 115 E. 5th St. Leadville Colorado The funeral of Mrs. Judua Johnson formally Miss Judua Coleman was held Wed, morning from the M, and O. Hall where the A. M. E. Church now holds fort Rev. W. B. Brooks officiated the funeral was held the auspices of the Pearly Gates of Kansas Temple S. M. Ts. Mrs. Sylvia Robinson officiating Mrs. Johnson died after a long illness was well known in this city and Denver Colorado THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. They Say Sunday was a Gala day. How about what he said to him. Did the band realy go down the alley. Now realy was it his girl who lost her sleeve. He sure can dodge M. B. easy. He sure can dodge M. B. easy. The party lasted until 1 oclock but he never did show up. I wonder where is my fan. He certainly can clap his hands hard This column is like a good many peoples in out—has no limit. Have you ever been down 'to the Rareback shop on Minn, ave. It's in the sea foam block and she sings in strong voice—"There is a warm spot in my heart for you baby." wander who tis. Now what about the next Governor of Kansas and to do right. Three cheers and a rooster for Mayor Craddock—soon Gov. Craddock. The hit dog always hollows—now if we have hit you—be wise and say nothing. Fales of Two Cities The S. M. T. & U. B. F. Donated the Douglass Hospital $2 57. Minnesota Ave, after a long siege is at last in a fair use so asphalted. Remember H. R. Stine of 349 Minn ave, is the popular barber who does good work. A joint session of the International Order of Twelve will converse at the Suns of Protection Hall to night in preparation for their Annual Thanksgiving Sermon. The A. C. L. Grocery invites your patronage 435 Minn ave. A branch number of the Grand United Fountain of Free Reformers is being organized in this city by Special deputy Mrs. Oxley and Deputy Rev. J. J. Carpenter. Mrs. Susan Gatewood and caby have gone to Springvalley Ill. To visit her sister for several weeks. Mrs. M Daniels has eturned home from Chicago where she has spent some time. The Memorial Sermon of the G. A. R.'s was preached from the C. M. E. Church Sunday be. Rev. — Holvay and Reed do all kinds of Real Estate work call on them in bargains 440 Minn. Ave. Have you seen any of our job work lately well you have any bills tickets, letter heads, envelopes, cards or anything else stop in and see if we can suit you. The Wiling Walkers met at the Residence of Mrs. J. Palmar on 8th St K C K. a good crowd attended several visitors several quotations were rendered followed by a short but interesting programme. The meeting adjourned and refreshments were served a pleasant vening was enjoyed by all. The Annual Thanksgiving sermon of the S. M. T's. and the U. B. F's. was preached from the King Solomon Baptist church last Sabbith afternoon by Rev. W. B Brooks of the A. M. E. Church. Prof. W. E. Henderson and wife in company with his mother and sister past through the city this week enroute to Guthrie Oklahoma and stopped over a short while with their uncle Rev. E. F. Henderson Prof. W. E. Henderson and his father have purchased a considerable amount of farming land in Oklahoma with the view of making it their future home Mrs. Pinkney mother of Mrs. J. W. Thatcher of N. 3 d street and Mrs. Brown of Wash. ave. is seriously ill. Mrs. Jennie Leeumont of Minn. ave. has been arting for the past week Mrs. Arthasa Holiday lingers upon a bed of affliction suffering from a cancer she is said to be beyond recovery The A. C. L. Grocery Company of 435 Minn ave., are making special prices in good groceries. Call and see them. Its your advantage. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Allen, Smith, Defendant. Alen Smith, Attorney To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer, or on before the 1st day of July 1902 the petition will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost of suit. I. F. Bradley, Attorney Mary Smith. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING, Mr. L. W. Johnson, and Miss Georgia E. Freeman who was quietly married during this school term will, owing to the remodeling and refurbishing of their beautiful home, be at home to their many friends after June 5th 1902 at 722 Freeman ave, Kansas City, Kansas We hope them a happy life of great success with many congradulations. ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE State of Kansas. ss. County of Wyandotte. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of James H. Martin deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of James H. Martin late of said County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 15th day of April, 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are herby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. HENRY P. EWING. Administrator of the Estate of James H. Martin, deceased. In witness whereof the, undersigned Probate judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 15 day of April, A. D. 1902. ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself as Candidate, for Representative of the Tenth District, First, Second and Third Wards of Kansas City, Kas.,—Subject to the Republican Primary. I hereby announce my self as candidate for Clerk of the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas.—Subject to the Republican primaries. William Needles. I hereby announce myself as a Candidate for the office of Coroner of Wyandotte County Subject to the decision of the Republican Primaries. S. C. WHINERY. I hereby announce myself as a Candidate for relection to Second term to the office of Sheriff of Wyandotte County subject to the decision of the Republican Primaries. HARRY A. MENDENHALL. All diseases start in the bowels keep them open or you will be sick, cascarets ct like nature Keep liver and bowels activewithout a sickening gripping feeling. six million people take and recommend cascarets: Try a 10c. box. All druggists. TOPEKA The Oak Leaf club met at Mrs Maning Wednesday afternoon. Miss Jessie Roberts and H. H DeShattio were married at the residence of Mrs Wm Shaughter Wednesday eve. Rev. Johnson of Lawren e visited his little boys at the Industrial institute this week. Mrs Renia Horton died Sunday at Lawrence and was buried from the Mt. Oive church Tuesday afternoon Rev. Hooks officiating. Don't forget that Henry Stine the bar丹 at 349 Minn avenue is the Laboring men, Musicians and Expressmen headquarters also the place for a good shave Aschalt Pavements. About twenty-five years ago government engineers decided to pave Pennsylvania avenue in Washington with asphalt. That was the beginning of the general use of the scientific mystery for street pavements. To-day over 234,000,000 square feet of street pavements in the United States and Canada are covered with asphalt. This asphalt pavement would make a boulevard twenty-six feet wide over 1,750 miles long and would reach from New York to New Orleans, and then have several miles for side streets. "Chair-House" Lodging Known as "the chair house," a New York institution's title is derived from the fact that human beings so poor they can not buy a lodging at the cheapest Bowery resorts put up five cents for a chance to occupy a chair for the night. By 11 o'clock the night's contingent is fast asleep in the chairs, the usual number being twenty-five or thirty men, of all kinds and degrees of decrepit poverty. Triumvirate For Tl The Maine Dead Remembered. Secretary Long recently received by express from Chicago a box containing a beautiful wreath of red roses and lilies of the valley, on which was placed a small card, with the following unsigned message: "Kindly take this to the Arlington cemetery and place it on the mound of the Maine dead." Secretary Long directed that the flowers be turned over to the quartermaster's department of the army, so that the wishes of the unknown donor might be compiled with. Becoming Americanized. a western girl who attended a reception given by the wife of Minister Wu at the Chinese legation in Washington, writes to a friend saying: "The house is very much like an American home and the Wus are becoming more like us every year. Formerly the minister received and his wife was poked back in a corner. Now she receives and he wanders about looking lonesome, allee samee like Melican man when his wife gives a party." Shah Collects Cats. The Shah of Persia has many hobbies, among these being the collecting of cats of all countries. He has, perhaps, the most magnificent assortment in the world, and when he travels the cats always accompany him. They have special attendants, who are paid large salaries for looking after them. To neglect one of the Shah's cats is practically the same as committing suicide. Heard Her Lover Die A cheerful telephone story is reported from Vienna. A young woman of Magyar-Czernyia in Hungary was called upon the long-distance telephone by her sweetheart in the town of Taba. He said: "Would you like to hear how I shoot myself?" Then she heard the sound of a shot. It was found afterward that the man had really killed himself. House Built of Buttons. A house built of buttons is the latest thing in architecture, and a certain French musical celebrity is building it. The walls, the ceilings, the doors, exterior and the interior are all ornamented with buttons of every description. Every country has been ransacked and some very curious specimens are reported to have been brought to light. Bible for the Coronation The king has already ordered the coronation Bible from the British and Foreign Bible Society, to be used in Westminster Abbey in June. It will be a large quarto volume, bound in red morocco, with gold clasps and stamped with the royal arms. It will become the property of the bishop who administers the oaths. London's Catholic Cathedral The Roman Catholic cathedral in London, now in course of erection, is 360 feet long and 156 feet wide. Apart from the site, it has already co⁺ $750.-000. The material used is red brick, with Portland stone courses, and its Oriental decorative features, it is said, suggest a mosque rather than a cathedral. Small Navy of Uraguay Three gunboats of twelve-knot speed constitute the invincible navy of Uruguay, a force which would have a hard time with the mobilized fleet of Slam, which has two 800-ton corvettes, six gunboats, a 2,500-ton deck-protected cruiser armed with fourteen guns, and a 650-ton cruiser. 400.000 Jews in Africa A writer in the Jewish World gives the total number of Jews in Africa at 400,000, of whom 20,000 have located in South Africa, where, says the writer, the most solid and tangible results have been attained by Jewish pioneers in all branches of development. Ex-Soldiers for Clerks Ex-soldiers will in future be employed as clerks in all departments of the British war office. Preference will be given to such as possess first-class certificates of education, or have been invalided from active service by wounds or sickness. Steady Vote of Nevada The vote of Nevada fluctuates very little. In 1892 it was 10,878; in 1894, 10,508; in 1896, 10,305; in 1898, 10,011; and in 1900, 10,196. No other state in the Union has such a record of an undeviating vote as has Nevada. Lucky to Be in Jail. The believers in the thirteen idiosyncrasy are now citing cases of the man with thirteen wives who was sent to jail the other day, as if a man with thirteen wives were not in good luck to get safely inside a jail. Convicts Ask Clemency. The white convicts employed on the breakwater at Capetown are sending a loyal address to King Edward, praying his clemency on the occasion of the approaching coronation. Paper Mills in America. There are now more than 1,100 pulp and paper mills in the United States. They use about 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber a year. The sawmills consume twenty times as much. OUR 39TH ANNIVERSARY Special preparations have been made to present a programme bristling with gems of truth. well-sct pearls of practi cal lessons of the social, intellectual and spiritual progress of the times, with scholarship and eloquence native and florid, by some of the well known Apostles of theology, the professions and mechanical life. Music will be furnished by the following named choirs: Pleasant Green, Pilgrim Rest, 2nd church and Vine Street Church choirs of Kansas City, Mo., Pleasant Green, Mt. Pleasant, Metropolitan, Rose Hill and King Solomon Choirs of Kansas City, Ks. Independent church choir Leavenworth. The following named Ministers and Pastors will take part in the programme: Revs. T. Justien DeClelland, Lawrence; W.E.Helms, Topeka J. M. Middleton and W. P. Banks, of Leavenworth. E. A. Wilson, G. McNeal, W. B. Brooks, Smith, A. Berry, Buren, D. B. Jackson, J. R. Richardson, D. Jones, E. P. Green, G. W. Burdette, M. S. Jones, Atchison. E. M. Cohron, D. D., St. Joseph., E. B. Meredith, D. D., J. T. Foulke, D. D., of Kansas City, Kans., E. M. Wilson B. D., T. H. Ewing, M. D., S. W. Bacote, A.M.D.D., J. W. Wilson, Wesport. J. W. Hurst, A. D. Jamison, G. W. Boyd, J. S. Addison and P. F Adams, Argentine. Rev. Robert Mitchell A. M. D. D. Pastor First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky one of the eminent scholars and polished pulpit orators of the country, auditor of the National Baptist Convention who is dubbed the Robert McAuther of the Negro race, will preach Sabbath morning and evening of June 8th and deliver a special lecture Monday evening the 9th "On Negro Manhood and Womanhood". Monday Evening the 9th Dr Mitchill will deliver a lecture on "Negro Manhood and Womanhood" E. D. Jones, J. H. Walker, E. Jackson, A. Spriggs, A. D. Cornell. We hope to collect $1.000 June 8th, to repair the church. HARTONA makes the hair grow long, straight, beautiful, soft, and glossy. 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Write to of more than used and are the Dollar and his paper, and HIGH GROWER ATONA FACE MELL, which m of the Feet, ation. Write very plainly. money Order, or TRADE-MARK. REPUBLIC OF HARTON MAY 30 1902 heCountry By Education Birthday of a Nation. The new Australian federal government is appointing a Commonwealth Day on the lines of the American Independence Day. It is now engaged in weighing the claims of July 1, when Queen Victoria assented to the constitution; September 30, the date of the proclamation; January 1, the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and May 9, the date of the Duke of Cornwall's opening of the first federal parliament. The January date is the one most favored. Holland and Its Colonies. The hold that Holland has on its East Indian colonies is rather precarious. The Archon war, stretched over well-nigh thirty years, is having a period of recrudescence that will sadly Dutch resources. The Jambi war has also kept the Hollanders busy. Strange to say, in both districts the Dutch troops are doing what the Dutch condemn in South Africa—burning farms. They are even destroying whole villages. Henrik Ibsen's Early Life Henrik Dissen fifty years ago was serving behind the counter of a country drug store. The dispensing of medicines, however, did not suit tastes of the celebrated Norwegian, and during his apprenticeship he was hard at work reading for the profession of a doctor. In order to eke out a very small salary he took to writing, with what result the whole world knows. Fortunate Child. In the town of Manzanares, In Spain, the birth of the first year of this century was curiously honored by the municipality. Having recognized the claims of the expiring year by paying the funeral expenses of the last inhabitant of the town to die in it, the local authority undertook to bear the cost of the education of the first child born in the new year. Lakes in Arld Australia Subterranean lakes have recently been discovered in the Eucia district, Australia. They lie about thirty feet below the surface and contain an abundance of water. This discovery is of the greatest practical importance to this especially arid district. It is of scientific value also, as it affords an explanation of the disappearance of certain rivers. Robbery by Wholesale. A remarkable robbery has been committed at Bird's Island, near Toulon. There was on the island a bed containing 100,000 two-year-old oysters. They were safe at a recent date, but on the proprietor visiting the place again seven days later the whole stock had been cleared without any clue to the robbers be discoverable. Flying Not a New Idea. Flying is not a twentieth century idea. As far back as 1273 Friar Bacon predicted that flying would "shortly" become a general practice and Bishop Wilkins in 1652 said: "it will yet be as usual to hear a man call for his wings when he is going on a journey as it is now to hear him call for his boots." Honor for Italian Literary Man. Prof. Rodolf Lanciana has just received the greatest prize a literary man can hope for in Italy. The Academia Reale della Science of Turin has awarded him the triennial prize of 12,000 lire, called the Premio Bressa, from the name of its founder, for his recent scientific work. Home of the Cholera The marshy ground of the Ganges delta, with its vast masses o. vegetation, decaying under a tropical sun, is the native home of the cholera. In that pestilential region the cholera and plague are found every year and all the year round. Swedes in United States. The total emigration of Swedes to America during the last fifty years has exceeded 850,000, while about 150,000 Swedes have gone to other countries. Of the emigrants to the United States only 5 per cent have returned to their native country. Four Meals a Day. Washington hotels are said to be the only ones in the country that serve four regular meals every twenty-four hours—breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper—the latter bein' served in some cases as late as midnight. Sullivan's Final Crop John L. Sullivan says he will quit the stage and engage in farming. If he should prove as successful in raising crops as he has been in raising hellaballoon he may in time become a haveseed aristocrat. Famous Frescoes Ruined. In the work of restoring the Ara Coeli church at Rome, the famous mural frescoes of Pinturchiochio have been completely ruined, several large nails having been driven into them. Picture of Computer Commutation tickets between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., according to a late order of the railway company, must have photographs of the holders affixed. Ugly Father Knickerbocker. Boston is at last getting even. President Eliot sars New York is VERY WEEK AT 417 MINNESOTA AVE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Telephone "375 Blue" Terms Of Subscription. Weekly one year.....$1.00 Entered at the post office at Kansas City Kansas at securc class matter. Read The Citizen. Artificial Clay in Germany. Artificial clay, according to German papers, is receiving increased attention abroad. The ceramic novelty, which is used for the manufacture of artificial stone, tiles, gutters, etc., is composed of sand, chalk, cement, liquid petroleum. The substances are mixed in certain quantities and a claylike mass results, which can be formed at pleasure and acquires an excellent degree of hardness by being subjected to heat. Has Siberian Mammoth Russian savants are looking forward with interest to the return to St. Petersburg of Prof. Herz, with a great Siberian mammoth. He is bringing the skeleton and part of the skin and flesh, including most of the interior organs, and about a hundredweight of food found in the stomach of the monster. The parts kept weigh over a ton and much of the flesh was given to dogs. Farmer O'Neal's Hard-Wood Teeth. Farmer Poley O'Neal is using a set of false teeth he made himself out of a piece of seasoned apple tree root with no other tool than his pocket knife. The teeth are of perfect shape and regularity, and the plate, which is of the same piece of wood, fits his mouth as well as if fashioned by a plaster impression. He can crack corn with these teeth—Chicago Inter Ocean. Curlons London Advertisement. The following curious advertisement recently appeared in a London paper: "Gentleman wants board-residence, Real good home, in small family. No other boarders. Being over-stout, therefore subject to many annoying remarks, advertiser prefers very stout people's company. No others need write. References exchanged. Address," etc. Long's Poor Penmanship. When Secretary of the Navy Long entered the department of which he was the head, he was obliged to have John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, stamped on the corner of all his stationery. Otherwise, it is said by those familiar with his handwriting, his correspondents could not have read the name signed to his letters. German Teachers Poorly Paid. Germany is undoubtedly the best educated nation of Europe, yet its teachers in many parts of the country are very poorly paid. Recently several men teachers in Frankfurt applied for situations as policemen, owing to their remuneration being smaller than that of the average police officer. Glacier Will Deluge the Earth Leon Lewis, of Winsted, Conn., author of "Telluria" and a writer of some considerable repute on scientific subjects. says a glacier at the South Pole three thousand miles in diameter and correspondingly thick, will some day break and melt, deluging the earth, beginning with South Africa. The Thirty-two Caliber Revolver. The revolver with which President McKinley was shot was a 32-caliber, and since that time dealers have noticed an increase in the number of calls for weapons of that caliber, and, it is said, of the particular make used by the assassin. Relle of the Revolution. John M. Buttrick, who recently died in Lowell, Mass., was a great grandson of Major John Buatrick, who began the fight at Concord bridge, and the gun which fired the first shot in the revolution is still preserved in the family. John Wesley's Birthday. The trustees of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., the oldest Methodist college in the country, have given their official sanction to a bicentennial celebration of the birth of John Wesley, to be held in June, 1903. State Examination of Doctors But eight states do not require examination by a state board of those who wish to practice medicine. They are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Tennessee. Extent of Detroit River The Detroit river is the outlet of the greatest bodies of fresh water in the world, aggregating 82,000 square miles of lake surface, which, in turn, drain 125,000 square miles of land. Empress and Her Tent. The tent in which the Dowager Empress of China travels is made of yellow silk, copiously embroidered in silver and gold with great, dragons and blizng suns. The Sane Idea. 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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 Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. On Dec. 24, 1895, they started east across Europe and Asia Minor to Egypt, where they took passage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the journey, and the severity of this trip resulted in the death of two of the travelers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, completed the voyage and won the money. -New York Press. Laboratorio de� aldesalto Gold, silver, steel, aluminium and lead, when immersed in tauric acid, a new chemical discovery, becomes pliable and ductile as putty. Tons of Gold in Use. The amount of gold coin in actual circulation in the world is estimated to be about 865 tons. Candarets CANDY CATHARTIC THEY WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP 10s 50c 50c Drugslics Genuine stamped C C C C. Never sold in bulk. Fearware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." State of Kansas,} ss. Wyandotte County,} In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurdge, deceased, Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurdge late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 8th day of February A. D. 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such Estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. PETER YOUNG. Administrator of the Estate of Clara Williams, Alias, Clara Slurge. 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Cromwell Produce Commission Company, Defendants UNDER and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in said Court, numbered 4857 wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendants, and to me, the undersigned, Sheriff of said County directed, I will offer for sale, at public auction, and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, at the front door of the Court House in the City of Kansas City, in said County, on MONDAY THE 12TH DAY OF MAY, A. D. 1902. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said'day, the following described Real Estate situate in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, to-wit: Lot number eight (8), in Block one hundred and thirty-two (132), in Wyandotte according to the recorded plat thereof, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas. H. A. MENDENHALL, Sheriff of Wyandotte County, Kansas. [March 11] DRUGS, MEDICINE, CHEMIALS, & Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc. 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WERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, SAYS, ing entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, as to be used at your discretion. my right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting ar entirely. treatment for catarrh, for three months, without any succe ong others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. used it only a few days according to your directions, tha my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely re remain Very truly yours. nt does not interfere with your usual use YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME NAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AVE., CHI PATRONZE Vyandotte Drug 1512 North Fifth Street, PUREST DRUGS AND CH every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper ended. Prices always the LOWEST at our sto night bell. Phone W. 171. Medicin . RAYMO Manufacturer of Wholesale dealer in HARTAKERS SUPPLIES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AFTER BOOMS, 431 Minnesota ave. 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BEFORE USING PICTURES TAKEN AFTER USING LUSTORONE No. 1.—To be used at bed-time every night. Straightens Knotty, Nappy, Kinky, Curly Hair. It acts quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten the hair. Lustorone straightens by softening the hair. It acts instantly. You do not have to wait weeks for the results. Lustorone is recognized as the only True Hair Straightener. No hot irons are used. Lustorone straightens without any outside assistance. LUSTORONE No. 2. - Must be used in connection with Lustorone No. 1. It is used every moment. Cures all forms of Scalp Diseases, such as Dandruff, Tetler, Itch, Eczema, and Psoriasis. It is used on the scalp, on the hair from out, and causes the hair to grow on the baldhead. Restores Grey Hair to its Natural Color. LUSTORONE FACE BLEACH. - Whitens the darkest skin, making it several shades lighter. Will bring the skin to any desired shade of color. Cures all Facial Blemishes, Pimples, Black Heads, &c., also cuts all Skin Diseases and removes Small Pox Fits. LUSTORONE SCALP SOAP. - Absolutely it should be used with Lustorone No. 1. It is used on the hair from failing out. The regular price for the treatment is $5.00. OUR GREAT OFFER! Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with $1.00 and we will send you all of the goods as named above, in plain wrapper, so no one can know contents. This offer made to introduce Honest Goods. We can send to any place in the world. Full Directions with every treatment. DOMINION MANUFACTURING CO., Stamps accepted. 2220 E. Marshall St. RICHMOND, Va. Sons And Daughters To Eastern University great school for our youth; now a part of our State's in their children for the Work of life and its duties. PARTMENTS ment to prepare for the ministry, desiring to fulfill t PreParing for the work of teaching in the public school choose desiring the same. Scribery Department department and giving an opportunity for education good. DEPARTMENT opportunity for Proficiency, in that Fines of fine arts—music. DISTRIBUTION Department to give our youth training, fitting them for the old. We are opinioned that in this day of competition and nothing will so aid the Negro as to prepare his child skilled labor. With such training no man need fear for future of his race. Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Printing, both job ing, Business Course and Stenography, Dressmaking. CITY mates from Lincoln, Wilberforce, the best schools of the country maintained by our people William Tecumseh Vernon, B. S. D., A. M., Pres., Lecture s. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing, instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson Garret of Wilber course and stenography; James T. Edwards of Hampton n. B. S., of Wilberforce professor mathematics; A. language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher of dressmaking music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of science. In addition been secured. ORTUNITIES These teachers and officers ment of the young people under their care and gladly lend student is made to feel the sting of poverty, but merit alo vened credit for the same. per month, $5.50; tuition per month $1; room rent per month, $1; incidental fee on en essary that Extravagant habits be vised to bring strong substantial clothing, but expensive engaging for an education. School opened Sept. 9, 1900. M. made by writing Pres. W.T. Vernon, Quindaro, Kas. B. catalogues given full information regarding the same catalogue to William T. Vernon. Send Your Sons And Daughters To Western University A great school terests, Negroes should here train their child DEPART Theological Department to pr demands in our pulpits today Normal Department PreParing and giving a higher training to those desiring Preparatory Fitting students for the Normal department those deprived of such in childhood. MUSICAL I For Furnishing an opportunity for of fine art STATE INDUS It is the intention of this department to work of life in the industrial world. We are abor unions and stern demands nothing will compete with any in the world of skilled labor the future of his children or the future of his Courses. — Architectural or Mechanical newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business aln sewing. FACULTY The faculty is composed of graduates from Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best school following is the faculty, Rev. William Tecumu in Philosophy and Logic, Charles S. Bowman and Carpentry; John Charles Wood, instructor force, instructor in business course and ste teacher of tailoring; E. J. Vernon, B. S. of Moore of Fiske, professor of language and lit Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, piano music; Mrs. L. lecturers of various topics have been secured. OPPORTUNITY The constantly labor for the betterment of the you helping hand to the saree. No student is mad tells. The most deserving are given credit for Expenses—Board per month, $1. It is not necessary the encouraged here; students are advised to bring apparel is not needed by one struggling for an arrangements for entrance can be made by wi will send one of the latest complete catalogues A great school for our youth; now a part of our States' interests. Negroes should here train their children for the Work of life and its duties. Theological Department to prepare for the ministry, desiring to fulfill the demands in our pulpits today Normal Department PreParing for the work of teaching in the public schools and giving a higher training to those desiring the same. Preparatory Department Fitting students for the Normal department and giving an opportunity for education those deprived of such in childhood. For Furnishing an opportunity for Proficiency, in that Finest of fine arts—music. It is the intention of this department to give our youth training, fitting them for the work of life in the industrial world. We are opinionated that in this day of competition and abor unions and stern demands nothing will so aid the Negro as to prepare his child to compete with any in the world of skilled labor. With such training no man need fear for the future of his children or the future of his race. Courses. Architectural or Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Printing, both job and newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business Course and Stenography, Dressmaking, A4 sewing. Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best schools of the country maintained by our people Following is the faculty, Rev William Tuschmisch, B. S. B. D. A. M., Press, Lecture Following is the faculty, Rev. William Reedman Vernon, B. S. D. A. M., Pres. Lectures in Hilthosophy and Logic, Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing and Carpentry; John Charles-Wood, instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson Garret of Wilberforce, instructor in business course and stenography; James T. Edwards of Hampton teacher of tailoring; E. J. Vernon, B. S., of Wilberforce professor mathematics; A. F. Moore of Fiske, professor of language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher of dressmaking; Mrs. Luci Cunningham, piano music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of science. In addition lecturers of various topics have been secured. constantly labor for the bettement of the young people under their care and gladly lend helping hand to the sarc. No student is made to feel the sting of poverty, but merit alone tells. The most deserving are given credit for the same. Expenses—Board per month, $5.50; tuition per month $1; room rent per month, $1; incidental fee on entrance, $1. encouraged here students are advised to bring strong substantial clothing, but expensive apparel is not needed by one struggling for an education. School opened Sept. 9, 1901. All arrangements for entrance can be made by writing Pres. W. T. Vernon, Quindaro, Kas. He will send one of the latest complete catalogues given full information regarding the same. Write at once for Information-or-catalogue to William T. Vernon. From the London Globe: An informing story is being told of Mr. Kruger. Returning home from one of his journeys to England, he brought with him a pair of pajamas, and his appearance at night in this clothing nearly frightened the life out of the good Tante, his wife. "What's that?" she demanded. "Sleeping clothes from England," said Mr. Kruger, with misgiving. "Then take them off," responded Tante, "and come to bed in your velldtschoen (shoes)." Can it be Mr. Kruger's habit to go to bed in his boots? --- Quindaro, Kansas, Oom Paul's Pajama Armored Glass A recent German invention is armored glass, or glass cast with wire gauze incised in their substance, so as to increase the resistance to pressure shock, and the effects of heat. Tests of the new material have been made at the Chemnitz technological museum which show that the armored glass is much stronger, and where the ordinary glass broke under sudden applications of pressure the strengthened material only cracked, and the cracks caused by changes of temperature did not allow either damp or flame to pass. congressman Botkin, of Winfield, Kan. in a recent letter to Dr. Hartman, Botkin says: My dear Doctor—It gives me pleasure to certify to the excellent curative abilities of your medicines—Peruna and malina. I have been afflicted more or less for a quarter of a century with cathode of the stomach and constipation. President Washington has increased my troubles. I have a few bottles of your medicine, given me almost complete relief and I am sure that a continuation of them will effect a permanent—J. D. Rotkin. Mr. L. F. Verdery, a prominent real agent of Augusta, Ga., writes: "I have been a great sufferer from external dyspepsia. I tried many physicians, visited a good many springs, but I believe all of them more important than all of the above medicine. I feel like a new person." R. Verdery. The most common form of summer arthritis is catarrh of the stomach. This is generally known as dyspepsia. Peruna cures these cases like magic. You do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a will statement of your case, and he will give to you his valuable admonition. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus, O. Corticelli SPOOL SILK Corticelli silk nowa smoothly; it is always even and always full length and full strength. 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Millions of WOMEN use Cuticura SOAP in baths for amusing irritations, inflammations, and excrustations, often free or offensive respiration, in washies for offensive respiration, and for many sanative, antiseptic purposes, which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers. treatment for Humours. $1. Closuring of CUTICULAR SOAF (j), to cleanse surface of创壁, CUTICULAR INFECTION, to soften the surface of创壁, CUTICULAR INFECTION, to inflammation, to healing, inflammation, and infection, to heal and heal, and CUTICULAR PILLS (j), to cool and clean CUTICULAR RESULT PILLS (Chocolate Cooler) are used, oidurous, economical CUTICULAR for the skin, CUTICULAR for the skin, and for all other blood pur- puration and burn soren. 60 doses, $25. , Bela Proja, London. British Depot: 27-28, Poster, U.S.A. THUNDER MOUNTAIN, IDAHO, MINERAL TREASURE HOUSE. Fortunes of Gold Are Being Found in the Center of the State of Idaho. Thunder Mountain, the new Idaho gold field, is the most promising mineral region in the United States. The richness of this country, was not only because of the richness after heavy snows has closed all avenues by which the region might be reached except upon snowshoes. Notwithstanding this fact, Colonel W. H. Dewey of Idaho, and others who have had wide experience in mining, have expended vast sums in the purchase of undeveloped claims. The surface indications are marvelously rich. These gold bearing ledges, from 100 to 300 feet, will run through a mountain parcel of the state, and the mine, this case oolitic has values running from $7 to $4,000 per ton, and the plates of the 10-stamp mill which runs on the ore to be cleaned of their accretions of gold every six hours. In a few weeks two miners last spring cleaned up $7,500 in placer gold, using a small cotton hose to wash the gravel, the water coming from a small reservoir on the mountain side. The mineral zone covers a large section of hitherto unexplored country, and is about 175 miles from a railroad. There are five routes leading to the Thunder Mountain country, v.l.: via Ketchum, Mackay, Boise and Weiser, Idaho, and Redrock, Montana, all on the Oregon Short Line railway. A great rush to this mecca for miners is predicated on the Thunder Mountain” will be as familiar as the old watchword, “Pike’s Peak or Bust,” as soon as the snows disappear so that the camp may be reached with supplies, which will probably be between May 15 and June 1. A scarcity of provisions at present keeps miners away, as flour at $0 per sack is considered somewhat of a luxury even in the golden land. Surrounding Thunder Mountain is a large section of country adapted to agriculture and stock-raising. D. E. Burley, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line railroad, at Salt Lake City, sent an expert and a survey crew cheerfully give any information required as to the routes and general conditions in and around the great mining camp. Characteristics of Gold Many people suppose that all gold is alike when refined, but this is not so. An experienced man can tell at a glance from what part of the world a gold piece comes, and in some cases from what particular gold district the metal has been obtained. Australian gold, for instance, is distinctly redder than that from California. The Ural gold is the reddest found anywhere. Religion of the Boers With but few exceptions the Boers of the Transvaal belong to the Dutch Reformed church or to some branch of that church. One of the branches or sects is known as the Doppers, being the most extreme and rigid of them all. Ex-President Kruger is a member of the Dopper church, and when he resided in Pretoria he used to preach regularly to a Dopper congregation. Cinematograph for the Blind. A cinematograph for the blind has been invented by Dr. Dussand, a French physician. The successive stages of the picture are embossed on sheets of tin and made to revolve rapidly between the fingers of the blind person. Burning Head. Star City, Ark., May 26th.—A very remarkable case has just occurred here. Mr. W. H. McFalls has been suffering severely for two years with an aliment that puzzled the doctors and everybody. The trouble seemed to be all in his head, which had a burning sensation all the time. Sometimes this burning pain in the head would be worse than at other times, but it never left him. At last he tried a new remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills and was agreeably surprised to find that the burning gradually disappeared. 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Montgomery Ward Co. CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. SALEMES WANTED to sell our trees in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma. Liberal terms and weekly payment. Write us at once. Latest Kansas News They Refused to Move, So He Applied the Lantz System. TOPEKA.—(Special.) J. G. Haney, superintendent of the Fort Hays branch experiment station of the agricultural college, has finished cleaning 400 acres of the old reservation of prairie dogs. Haney wanted the ground for experiments. The dogs refused to move, so he proceeded to kill them off. He used the Lantz system adopted by the college. "This what it cost to kill off the dogs on 400 acres," said he: $3\frac{1}{2}$ bushels of wheat at 62c. $2.17 1 sack of cornmeal. .40 6 cans of poison at $1.50. 9.55 15 lbs. of carbon blu sulphide at 18c.2.70 2 gallons of gasoline at 20c. .40 123 hours work at 12c. 15.45 3 hours' work at 25c. .75 Total $30.87 or less than 8 cents per acre. "There is still an occasional dog to be seen on the reservation, but I carry a bottle of carbon bi-sulphide and gasoline while out on the land, and hope to get the last one soon. It is necessary to keep watch even after they appear to be all gone, as they will come in from adjacent towns. "There is no longer any need of the prairie dog being the menace that it has been in the past." FLOODS NEAR EMPORIA. Creeks and Rivers are Swollen and Much Damage to Crops is Feared. EMPOIRIA. — (Special.) According to the normal rain gauge 2 1/4 inches of rain fell hear Monday night. The water poured down in t orrents all night and was the hardest rain for years. The downpour, in addition to the late rains, is doing damage throughout the county. All creeks in the county are out of their banks. The Cottonwood river is higher than it has been for years and two bridges crossing it near town have been made useless on account of the water flowing across the roads approaching them. For the first time in ten years people came to Emporia in boats on the Cottonwood river from Cottonwood Falls, twenty miles west. At the junction of the Neoosho and Cottonwood rivers, eight miles southeast, a flood is imminent. Farmers from there report things in a serious condition and that if the river rises eighteen inches between 4,000 and 5,000 acres of planted land will be flooded; also that several farm houses are endangered and that the occupants are ready to leave on a moment's notice. Both rivers continue rising. HE STOLE LETTERS. Frank M. Sturgeon, Mail Carrier, is Caught in the Act. KANSAS CITY.—(Special.) Looking through a hole, which had been made in the ceiling, Postoffice Inspectors E. L. McKee and D. W. Peters Sunday afternoon saw Frank M. Sturgeon, one of the most trusted mail carriers in the service in Kansas City Kas., steal two packages, containing thirty-two letters, which had been laid on the stamping table in the Kansas City, Kas., postoffice. The hole in the ceiling had been made for the purpose of allowing postoffice inspectors to watch the stamping table unperceived and for a week they have been watching it at various times in the hope of catching a thief, who has been systematically stealing letters in une postoffice for the last eight months. Sitturgeon was arrested immediately after he had placed the letters in his pocket. He confessed his guilt after being taken to the private office of Postmaster Sartin. SEEMED TO BE DEMENTED. Robert Ballet, an Armourdale Cigar Man Mysteriously Disappears. ARMOURDALE—(Special.) Robert Ballet, an Armourdale cigar salesman, who mysteriously disappeared a week ago, has been arrested by the police in Kansas City, Mo., in an apparently de- mented condition, and placed in the city hospital. Ballet came to Armourdale about two months ago from Oklahoma and bought a small cigar store at 635 Kansas avenue. He roomed at 631 Scott avenue. About a week ago he dis- appeared without telling anybody that he intended to leave. Mrs. E. L. Franks, his landlady, notified the police of his mysterious disappearance, stating that she believed he had been a victim of foul play. The police went to his store and broke open the door. Everything was in perfect order, but there was no clue that would assis- t them in finding the missing man. The meanest man in Cottonwood Falls is the one of whom it is said: "He owns a controlling interest in every dog in town." Fatal Fall in a Mine Fatal injury JEWELL CITY—(Special.) Mr. Edward Keegan, for three years state mine inspector of Kansas, was killed here by a fall in the shaft of the Bassye mine, three miles east. About ten days ago, Mr. Keegan was made superintendent of the Prospect shaft lately sunk by Topea promoters, on the Bassye farm and in endeavoring to disguse the hoisting apparatus, the support gave way and he fell over 100 feet, meeting death almost instantly. Mr. Keegan was about 40 years of age and single. Marle Leaf Conductor Killed. LEAVENWORTI;—(Special). Daniel Cameron, an extra conductor on the Maple Leaf railroad met with an accident at Meniger Junction, near Leavenworth Friday afternoon, which resulted in his death in this city an hour and a half later. He was coupling two cars when the platform steps closed against his head, crushing it. The dead man's home was at 2223 North Seventh street, St. Joseph. He was 43 years of age and unmarried. Last Bulletin Shows Wheat Conditions to Have Improved All Over the State. TOPEKA.—(Special). Weather Observer T. B. J. Bennings, of the United States department of agriculture, has issued the following report showing the condition of the Kansas climate and crops during the last week: Wheat has improved in all counties; it is heading short in Atchison, and heading well in Shawnee; it is headed in Morris, is in blossom in Miami and Coffey, is filling well in Montgomery, is making rank growth in Jackson, is turning in Crawford, and is beginning to ripen in Labette; there is some rust in it in Labette, and rust is feared in Greenwood and Miami. Corn a good stand, growing rapidly and clean, but ground too wet to cultivate. Oats have greatly improved; they are heading in Atchison and in Montgomery. Grass has grown rapidly and in fine condition. Alfalfa is ready to cut in the southern and central counties, cutting having begun in a few but was stopped by the rain. Strawberries are ripe in the southern and central counties. Apple prospects have improved, and in Coffey county many trees that had been partially denuded by canker worms are putting out a second crop of leaves. Potatoes are growing well, are being marketed in Elk, and are in bloom in Johnson and Pottawatomie. Middle division: Wheat has improved; it is heading in Ellsworth, Kingman, McPherson and Republic; is blooming in Sedgwick, and filling in Sumner. Corn is growing rapidly, but is getting weedy in some counties; some corn washes dout by heavy rains. Oats are generally in fine condition, are much improved in Ottawa, heading in Kingman, and in head in Sumner. Alfalfa is ready to cut in many of the counties, but the weather has been too wet. Potatoes are doing well. The ground is in fine condition, but generally too wet to work. Early cherries are ripe in Clay, Reno, and Sumner, with an overstocked market in Cowley. Apples are fairly set in Ottawa. Pastures and meadow grass have greatly improved, and cattle are in fine condition. Western division; Wheat has improved; the early is in bloom in Thomas. Corn is generally up, in good condition, and is being cultivated. Alfalfa cutting is progressing in Finney, Graham, Thomas, Trego and Wallace; it is ready to cut in Sheridan. Grass is in fine condition except in Hamilton, and is growing rapidly. Cattle are thriving on the range. Forage crops are being sown. Oats and barley are much improved, and in Thomas the barley is heading. Field Gun Tests Next Week. JUNCTION CITY.—(Special.) The army board of ordinance and fortifications will arrive at Fort Riley on June 4th to witness the field gun tests. The first test will be the carriage trial. The Sixth battery, under Captain Adams, will make a ten days' practice march with the post to Topeka and return with the seven new guns. Mrs. Wilson Cannot Live. ARKANSAS CITY.—(Special). Mrs. Frank Wilson, whose husband, shot her Sunday is still alive. There is no hope of her recovery, however and her death is expected at any time. Wilson, the murderer and suicide, and his victim, Abner Carter, were buried Monday. The coroner and county attorney held an investigation, but developed no further evidence. Artillery Horse Stamped JUNCTION CITY.—(Special.) One hundred artillery horses stamped at Fort Riley Tuesday and many of them will have to be condemned, having been rendered unfit for service by their wild run. Is Dead of Her Wounds ARKANSAS CITY.—(Special.) Mrs. Frank Wilson, who was shot Saturday morning by her husband, died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Sarah Favorite, at midnight Wednesday. The two children left by Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will be cared for by their grandmother. The body of A. B. Kanter, who was shot by Wilson at the same time he shot his wife, was buried in River View cemetery. His mother, who was supposed to live near Falls City, Neb., has not yet answered the telegram sent to her Sunday night. Is a Grass Widow Now. WICHITA.—(Special.) Mary Ellen Lease is now a grass widow. Judge Dale signed the decree that made her one Saturday afternoon. The whole affair took only fifteen minutes. She charged that Mr. Lease never contributed so much as $5 toward her support during her entire married life. She said that she supported herself by sewing, soliciting advertising, keeping boarders and doing newspaper work. It isn't the sedy chap who sows wild oats. To Stait Parsons Akyllum at Once. PARSONS—(Special.) The state board of charities has been in session here approving and signing contracts, as well as marking the sites for the Kansas hospital for epileptics. The board is accompanied by Mr. Washburn, the state architect. Four carloads of brick are on the ground and the contract calls for the work to begin at once. Chairman Allen, of the board, delivered the address to the high school graduates, who held their commencement exercises in the opera house Friday night. 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The fractional part of a dollar due of the Post Office Department for the year IN 1000 CASH PRIZES, to those making the nearest estimate correct, to the Post Revenue of the bank for the year ending 31 March VALUABLE INFORMATION: To aid in forming your estimates, we furnish the following figures which we obtained directly from the department at the time of publication. The department of the department at every year from 1887 to 1891 inclusive. The fractional part of a dollar is not considered. The Total Revenue of the Post Office Department for the year 1897 WAS $82,665,462. 1898 WAS 89,012,618, INCREASE 7.68 PER CENT 1899 WAS 95,021,384, INCREASE 6.75 PER CENT 1900 WAS 102,354,579, INCREASE 7.72 PER CENT 1901 WAS 111,631,193, INCREASE 9.06 PER CENT 1898 WAS 89,012,618, II 1899 WAS 95,021,384, II 1900 WAS 102,354,579, II 1901 WAS 111,631,193, II The Total Revenue for the first half of the Total Revenue be at the end of the fiscal year. 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RESTAURANTS ARE IN HARD STRAITS Many Retail Shops Have Shut Down Altogether—Butchers Who Have Persisted in buying of Packers Lose Their Ice Supply — Hotels Will Be Out of Meat Soon. CHICAGO.—(Special.) Chicago has begun to realize that a meat famine is imminent. Butchers who have bought of the packers fighting the stock yards teamsters lost their ice supply. Restaurants were in straits to procure choice meats. The commodity rose in price and many shops have shut down in different parts of the city. President Albert Young of the Teamsters' National Union, declares that the strike will be backed by union labor and won if it takes five years. But Chicago has practically abandoned the hauling of meats from the yards. All meat wagons that go out are followed and traced. Except for the few wagons that leave the yards under heavy police protection early in the day, no meat is hauled out. The four big packing concerns of the stock yards, at a conference held with union leaders representing the striking teamsters, refused absolutely to grant the concessions asked, or any part, and went openly on record as being unalterably opposed to the recognition of union labor in the yards. Thousands of persons have had their usual supply of meat cut off entirely, and many others who are able to buy a little here and there pay fancy prices for it. All through the city butchers have closed down, and many of them will not open again until the strike has been settled. A joint council of the local Teamsters' Union will be held to determine whether all the union retail butchers are to be called upon to stand by the teamsters and refuse to handle the meats of "unfair" concerns. At the leading hotels and restaurants it is stated that the supplies would last three days' longer. If the strike is not settled by that time, the managers do not know what they will do. It might be possible to get meat if they had only to deal with the packers' teamsters, but the stanch sympathetic stand of the iceemen and coal teamsters leaves the restauranteurs completely in the hands of the strikers. The firm of Irwin Bros. has equipped its drivers with revolvers, and it is owing to this fact that some beef is delivered. Robert Alling was taking meat to the Y. M. C. A. building, when three men waylaid his team. One of them seized the lines and the other tried to pull Alling from his seat. The driver crew a revolver and threatened to shoot the man at the horses' heads. The driver then turned his attention to the men on the wagon, who also fled when he pointed the revolver at them, threatening to kill them if they did not get down. After reaching the Y. M. C. A. building, Irwin Bros. and the Harrison street police station were informed by telephone of the attack. Several policemen were hurried to the scene, but they could not find any trace of the assailants. STRIKE IS TO SPREAD. Teamsters to Carry the War to Kansas City, St. Louis and St. Joseph. CHICAGO—(Special.) Every packing house in the West belonging to the "Big Six" is to be attacked by the Teamsters' Union if the local companies do not recode from their position and sign the agreement. The tie-up in Chicago, which is declared complete, is to be carried to Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph and St. Louis and the teamsters, whose national headquarters are in Chicago have received assurances from their locals at other points that the men will obey the summons and go out. This move will be national in its effect. The decision to make the call was reached by the executive council of the National Teamsters' Union and came after a conference with Louis Swift, of Swift & Co., and Edward Morris, of Nelson, Morris & Co., both of whom refused even to discuss the agreement the teamsters wished signed. The attitude of the packers' representatives took away the last hope of an immediate settlement of the strike. EASTHAMPTON, CONN.—(Special.) Many residents of the southern part of this town felt what they believe were earthquake shocks Saturday night. The disturbances occurred at 9:50 o'clock, awakening sleeping persons, jarring buildings and rattling dishes. It lasted only about thirty seconds. Lightning Struck a Balloon. BERLIN.-(Special.) A military balloon was struck by lightning near Augsburg, Bavaria, Tuesday night, at an altitude of 1,600 feet. The only occupant of the basket at the time was Lieutenant Von Hiller, who was telephoning his observations to soldiers on the ground below. When the balloon was struck it burst into flames and fell rapidly to the earth. Lieutenant Von Hiller had the bones of both fet broken, but escaped furthel injury. Made Borns Gold Coins CHICAGO.—(Special.) Eustin A. Batcheldor has been arrested charged with being the leader of a band of counterfeiters. When the detectives forced their way into his room at 287 West Randolph street, they found about $1,000 in spurious coin, composed principally of $10 and $5 gold pieces. The police say that Batcheldor had a number of confederates, and that they have done a great deal of counterfeiting in the last few months. Keep your eye on the thermometer SEVEN DRY YEARS. Australia Suffering From a Most Terrible Drought. LONDON—(Special) Cabling from Sydney, N. S. W., the correspondent there of the Daily Mall gives an account of the terrible drought from which, as a climax of seven dry years, Australia is now suffering. The correspondent says that the losses in stock in Australia since 1899 amount to $75,000,000. Unemployed men are dripping into the cities by the thousands, and there the state governments are providing them with relief. The only districts that have escaped the drouth are the Northern rivers district of New South Wales and part of the Rivera district. The situation has been aggravated by the federal duties on fodder, which prevent its importation. Communication in the interior has been paralyzed, as the waterways are unnavigable. Owing to the expense of fodder, the firm which had the contract has abandoned the hauling of the mail in Queensland, the cost of transportation having risen from $30,000 to $150,000 annually. The sheep are dying by the million, continues the correspondent, and even the rabbits are starving. Animals have stripped the bark from the trees for food. A common method of treating exhausted horses is to silt the animal's palate with a knife. The horse is revived by swallowing his own blood. Numbers of "Sundowners" and "Swagmen" have been found dead by the waysides. The governments are doing everything possible to alleviate these conditions, but meteorologists despair of an early change in the weather conditions. POTTS MET THE EMPEROR. Americas Representative Waited in Court Yard Until William II Appeared. BERLIN. — (Special.) Lieutenant Commander Templin L. Potts, U. S. N., who is to succeed Commander William H. Beehler as naval attache of the United States, October 1, next, was presented to Emperor William Saturday in the courtyard of the castle. Lieutenant Commander Potts, who was in uniform, was directed to wait until his majesty returned from the spring parade of the Berlin and Potsdam garrisons on the Templehof field and then, after the ceremony of "trooping the colors" Captain von Grummis presented the lieutenant commander to the emperor, who was on horseback. With the lieutenant commander standing by the side of his horse, Emperor William and the naval officer conversed for about ten minutes, his majesty questioning the future naval attache with great rapidity as to where he was born, had he ever been in Germany before, where he had served, etc., eliciting almost a complete autobiography of the naval officer. The emperor finally said he was glad Lieutenant Commander Potts had come to Berlin and thus closed an informal audience. ANOTHER AERONAUT KILLED. Lost Hold on Parachute While Still Eight Hundred Feet in Air. KINGSTON, N. Y.—(Special.) Harry Hicks an aeronaut, was killed at Kingston Point, a summer resort, Saturday. He had been engaged to make daily balloon assemblies, and Saturday afternoon was booked for his first exhibition. When the balloon had reached an altitude of about 2,000 feet Hicks commenced the descent by means of a parachute. going slowly to about 800 feet above the Hudson river. For some reason he lost his hold and fell, striking head first on a sandbar in the river. Hicks was a nephew of Charles Karbick, well known as a balloonist. SHOT IN HIS BED. Mystery Surrounds Attempted Murder of a Wealthy Chicago Man. CHICAGO.—(Special.) Daniel Hill, a wealthy real estate owner of Morris, Ill., and partner in the firm of George H. Phillips Company, on the Chicago board of trade, was shot and seriously wounded Monday morning, as he lay in his bed at his residence 757 .onroe street. Six shots were fired, three taking effect, one behind the left ear, one entering his nose and the other shattering his right arm. Considerable mystery surrounds the shooting. According to Mrs. Hill, she and her husband were asleep, when Mr. Hill was awakened by the forcing of a lock on the bedroom door. He reached for his revolver, but before he could use it, three men pushed into the room and fired at him. The first shot awoke Mrs. Hill and she rushed to the window and shouted for help. The police responded in a few minutes, but in the meantime, the supposed burglar nad made their escape. SALT LAKE, U.—(Special) N. E. Graves, a mining man, shot his wife twice in the head and instantly killed her at their home at 27 East Fourth street Saturday. Graves then shot himself in the temple, inflicting a fatal wound. No reason is known for the murder and suicide. Graves came to Salt Lake recently from Eureka, U. He formerly lived in Denver. A $1,200 Denver Robbery. DENVER, COLO.—(Special.) The safe in the treasury department of the Colorado Telephone Company was opened and looted of $1,200 last Saturday night. The robbery was not discovered until Tuesday. It was evident that the robbery was committed by some one who knew the combination. Robert L. Huntington, a trusted employee in the office, is missing, and a search is being made for him. He was bonded for $1,000 in the American Security Company. Robbers Shoot Three Men. WHATCOM, WASH.—(Special) At Fairhaven, about midnight Tuesday night, two men held up a saloon known as "Butch's Place." In accomplishing this and effecting their escape from the police, three men were shot, one probably fatally. They are Police man Anderson Petersen, shot just below the heart, will die; Night Watchman S. A. Grandjeau, shot in the left side, will recover; Thomas Barr, bystander, shot through right shoulder, not seriously. SIDEWALKFALLS ONE PERSON KILLED AND 100 IN INJURED IN NEW YORK. THE CROWD WAS VIEWING A PARADE Precipitated Twenty Feet Into an Excavation—Some of the Injured May Die—Authorities are at Work Endeavoring to Discover Who Was to Blame for the Accident. New York.—(Special.) Elvin L. Coolidge, circulation manager of the New York Commercial, was almost instantly killed and about 100 others injured Wednesday evening by the breaking down of a temporary sidewalk at Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street. Some of the injured may die. Those who fell were part of the crowd gathered to watch the parade of militia in honor of the visit of the French Rochambeau commission to this city. Two thousand persons were on the sidewalk when it gave way. They were precipitated twenty feet into an excavation for a new building and fell on piles of building material. Considering the nature of the accident and the number of persons in it the hospital surgeons express surprise at the few who received serious hurts. Many were able to go directly home after having their injuries treated by the ambulance surgeons. Those taken to the hospitals and who sustained the worst injuries are: George Essing, patrolman, scalp wound and shock. James J. Kelly, detective sergeant, attached to Inspector Thompson's staff, scalp wound and shock and possible internal injuries. M. J. McManus, patrolman, three ribs broken and contusions. Charles Warner, contusions of body and internal injuries. E. L. Coolidge, who was killed, received a fracture of the skull. Mr. Coolidge had served on the staff of the Boston Journal and the Boston Globe, and had been connected with several city papers during his stay in this city. He leaves a widow and four children. The accident occurred just as the head of the parade had passed the corner. The French visitors had gone past and knew nothing of the accident until some time later. Troop C had just ridden by the and Twenty-second regiment was passing when the crash came. The officers in command at once gave the order to break ranks, and fifty militiamen were at once detailed to the work of rescue. Murry calls were sent for police reserves and ambulances, and in a very short time those who fell were assisted out of the excavation, and the work of binding up wounds and conveying those most injured to hospitals was in full swing. The authorities are busy endeavoring to discover who as to blame for the accident. Coroner Scholer says the sidewalk had not been built of material strong enough to stand such a great weight. Early in the afternoon the police o..cials became suspicious of the strength of the sidewalk, and a detail for hours kept the crowd from collecting on it. But as the time for the parade to pass came near the crowd became unmanageable and, in spite of force on the part of the police, crowded onto the forbidden sidewalk and there stayed until the breaking of the support landed them in the excavation. The coroner ordered the arrest of Contractor Cowan and of J. G. Miller, the sub-contractor. The contractor, sub-contractor and foreman insist they warned the policeman to keep the crowd off the sidewalk, as it was not built to stand so great a strain. Girl Drowned In a Pond. BLACKWELL, O. T. — (Special.) Word reached this place of the aced Maude Hood, 21 years of age, who resided with the family of Rev. Mrs. Signor, west of Nardin. Mrs. Signor and the girl went to a pond a short distance from home. Wednesday after noon for the purpose of bathing. Miss Hood had entered the water and Mrs. Signor was standing on the bank when the unfortunate girl got into deep water and is thought to have been so severely frightened that she lost all control of herself. Mrs. Signor fainted at the sight of the drowning and was unconscious for several hours. Help finally arrived and the body of the young woman was recovered and taken to the Signor residence. Kldnapped His Own Child SALT LAKE, UTAH. — (Special.) While on her way to school, Florence Cooper, aged 7, was kidnapped by her father, E. C. Cooper, of Pueblo, Col., and carried in a hack to Boonville, where they boarded the Union Pacific train for Pueblo. The Cooper's three years ago, agreed to live apart, the wife to retain possession of the little girl. Mrs. Cooper will institute proceedings to gain possession of the child. Alfonso's Troubles Begin. MADRID.—(Special.) A crisis in the cabinet has occurred. At the meeting of the cabinet Wednesday, Senor Canalejas, the minister of agriculture, insisted upon the necessity of convening the chamber immediately to discuss the religious question. The other ministers opposed this proposal, and Senor Canalejas resigned. After this action the remainder of the cabinet placed their portfolios at the disposal of Senor Sagasta, the premier, to enable him to solve the di- culty. Explosion in a Residence. HOUSTON, TEX—(Special.) Early Tuesday a boiler exploded at the home of Millionaire John H. Kirby, where a private theater and natatorium were being built, Engineer Harry Woodward, of Memphis, and Associate Chas. Coughlan were instantly killed. The end of the boiler went through a section of the Kirby residence and the sleeping inmates narrowly escaped death. _____ The new woman always departed when the new baby arrives. 100 OR MORE DEAD. Miners in a Brittle Columbia Mine Entombed—Were Two Explosions of Gas. FERNIE, B. C.—(Special.) A terrible explosion occurred Saturday in No. 2 shaft of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company's mine, near Fernie. The explosion extended to No. 3 shaft. One hundred and thirty seven men were working in the mine at the time of the explosion. Only twenty-four are known to have escaped. Nine dead bodies have been taken out. Of the men nectombed, it is feared the great majority are dead. No. 2 and No. 3 shafts are situated on Coal creek, six miles from Fernie. They have always been considered dangerous, being dusty and gaseous. It is said the first explosion occurred in No. 2 mine, where it allied a miner lighted a match. The explosion was repeated in No. 2 mine, the two shafts being connected. The scenes at the mines and in the village of Fernie are heart-rending. Hardly a house has escaped affliction. The work of rescue is being hurried and perfect order prevails, assistance coming from every available source. The presence of coal dam is adding to the danger of rescue work. People are hoping against hope, but it is unlikely that any of the miners now entombed in the shafts will be seen again alive. A new fear has become general—that the mines may catch fire at any time and survivors are being besought by their relatives not to venture into the shafts, even for rescue work. The ventilation is being restored as quickly as possible. All the bodies will soon be recovered. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Railroad Man Shot His Wife Who Was Carrying Baby in Her Arms. OGDEN, U. —(Special.) Lorenzo A. Faulkner, a railroad man about 30 years of age, shot and killed his wife, Rose Faulkner, Monday afternoon and then blew out his own brains. Faulkner's wife left him some months ago and returned to the home of her parents. Monday afternoon he called at the house and asked her to go walking with him. She consented, taking her 10-months-old baby in her arms. Faulkner soon began quarrelling with the woman and pulling out a revolver, fired three bullets into her body. One of the shots scorched t.e. infant's cheek. COST OF PHILIPPINED. Navy Department Alone Has Expended $20,000,000 There in Four Years. WASHINGTON.—(Special.) In response to a resolution of inquiry the secretary of the navy has forwarded to the Senate a statement by the paymaster general of the navy showing the expenditures of the government on account of the navy operations in the Philippines from May 1, 1898, to date. The statement places the amount in round numbers at $20,000,000. The expenditure to November, 1898, was $5, 545, 643; for 1900, $5,512,000, and for the remainder of the $20,000,000 is estimated for 1902, the exact figures for the present year being unavailable. Shot His Wife and Himself NEW YORK—Special.) George T. Bruns, an examiner of accounts for the Equity Life Assurance Company, shot his wife Tuesday night and killed himself at their home in Brooklyn. Edna Dashiell, sister of Mrs. Bruns, who had spent the evening with the couple, says that Bruns was unreasonably jealous, and charged his wife with extravagance and receiving attention from other men. Mrs. Bruns denied the charges and, the quarrel growing fiercer, Miss Dashiell left the room. Immediately after, four revolver shots were fired. Bruns sending three bullets into his wife's side and a fourth into his own head. He died instantly. Mrs. Bruns will probably die. They had been married two years. Hanged for Triple Murder. PHILADELPHIA, PA. — (Special.) William Harmon Lane, colored, was hanged at 10:08 o'clock Wednesday morning. The crime for which Lane paid the penalty was particularly atrocious. On the morning of April 1, he shot and killed Ella Jarden, by espaxraoanoffa-mbm66r an..ohw? quem he was employed as a servant, and her two daughters, Madelain, aged 12, and Eloise, aged 7 years. Lane had stolen money from his employer, and fearing the consequences of his thefts, he deliberately shot the woman and her young daughter in an upper room of their home, and then called the elder child from the street, where she had been playing, and shot her. 4 The Stockmen Showed Fight BAKER CITY, ORE — (Special). Three tramps attempted to hold up two stock men on a freight train near Huntington Tuesday night. One of the tramps, a negro, was mortally wounded and one of the stockmen was seriously hurt, but will recover. The stockmen, who live on Upper Brunt river, were returning from the East. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS A slight shock of earthquake has been felt in Northern California. 3 The cholera situation in Manila and the provinces remains unchanged. The increase in cases continues and the fatalities are still about 80 yer cent. Nothing could be more appropriate than that Mr. Milks, when he came to Kansas and looked around for a place to locate, should have picked out Barnes. Rev. Dr. Guy Potter Benton, president of the Upper Iowa university at Fayette, Ia., has accepted the presidency of Miami university, Oxford Ohio. Bishop Henry C. Potter has salled for Europe on the Oceanic. He probably will remain abroad resting about three months. A large part of this time will be passed in England. J. J. Matchett & Co.'s candy factory, a six-story structure in Brooklyn, was burned Friday. The loss is estimated at $150,000 to $200,000, covered insurance. RUN TO DEATH CLASS FEUD LEADS TO DROWNING OF A STUDENT. BELONGED TO UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Jumped Into Lake Champlain to Escape His Pursuers—Had Gone to Platts- burg, N. Y. to Arrange for the Freshman Banquet and Was Followed by Sophomores Bent on Kidnapping PLATTSBURG, N. Y.—(Special.) The feeling which has existed between the freshmen and sophomore classes of the University of Vermont culminated here Tuesday in the drowning of Nelson Pease Bond, of Burlington, Vt., treasurer of the freshmen class. The freshmen had arranged to have their annual banquet at the Cumberland house, and Bond, with four other of the freshmen, came over on the morning boat from Burlington to make the final arrangements. Bond left his companions in the afternoon for a stroll, and, it is alleged, was set upon by two of five sophomores who had come over from Burlington earlier in the day, presumably for the purpose of kidnaping him and keeping him from the banquet. He fied before his pursuers until he reached Wilcox's dock, out of the way place on the north lake front. The pursuers claim that he jumped into the lake in an effort to escape by swimming. They endeavored to rescue him by a boat, but could find no oars, and he sank before they could reach him. Coroner McMasters will hold an inquest and the matter will be probed to the bottom. Bond was 19 years of age. ELEPHANT WAS SENSATIVE. Her Keeper Didn't "Shake Hands" With Her, so She Killed Him NEW YORK.—(Special.) "Tops," a female elephant of the Forepaugh & Sells circls, killed a man Friday at the show ground of the circus in Brooklyn. The victim was Jospeh Blunt, of Fort Wayne, Ind. He went to the elephants' inclosure, where the animals were waiting for their breakfast, and each stuck out his trunk to "shake hands" as Blunt passed down in front of them, it being the custom of the trainers to salute each elephant with a gentle tap. Blunt had a beer glass in his hand, and when he approached "Tops" he shoved it at her instead of giving the usual greeting. This act seemed to offend the great beast. In an instant she seized the man with her trunk and, after hurling him violently to the ground, knelt on him and crushed him to death. Keepers came to the rescue too late. They drove "Tops" back and removed the body. Rock Island Wreck DES MOINES, IOWA—(Special). The east-bound Rocky Mountain express, the Rock Island's fastest train, due here at 9 o'clock a. m., was wrecked near Avoca while running at a high rate of speed in an endeavor to make up lost time. It is estimated to have been traveling between seventy and eighty miles an hour when the tender left the track and tore up the ties for a distance of nearly a mile before the speed could be reduced. The trucks finally broke and the gearing gave way, but the speed had been diminished to such an extent that only the front cars were damaged and no passengers were seriously injured. Put Poison in Her Husband's Beer. DES MOINES, IOWA.—(Special.) Sarah Kuhn, sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her aged husband at Delta by placing poison in his beer, has been denied a new trial by the Supreme court, though Justice Weaver filed a dissenting opinion in which he asserted the woman might be the victim of prejudice and that the theory of suicide had not been wholly disproven. Love for a sweetheart and impotency of her husband were alleged as motives for the crime. Murderer Released by Friends. JACKSON, MISS—(Special) Oliver Lomar, recently convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, was released from jail at Mendenhall, early Monday, by a number of his friends. Sheriff Magee sent out several posses in pursuit, but Lamar has not yet been apprehended. The lars were pried off the jail from the outside. Two men supposed to have been in the gang were arrested. For Stealing $30,000. BALTIMORE, MD.—(Special). Mrs. Sallie E. McCall has been arrested and is held for the Philadelphia authorities. She is charged with the theft of jewelry and securities valued at $30,000 from Mrs. Caroline Bradstetter, of Philadelphia. Mrs. McCall admitted having all the stolen goods but declined to state where she had concealed them until she had a conference with her attorney in Philadelphia. May Bathe Together. BERLIN.-(Special.) Seaside bathing in Germany has hitherto required careful separation of men and women. The authorities of the various resorts, at a convention just held, have decided to make German bathing more attractive by permitting the use of a common beach, thus getting German patronage which hitherto has been roing to popular Belgian ar1 French resorts. The lighter weeklies are making fun of German prudery. Several Americans Are Victims. MANILA.—(Special.) Captain Chas, Russell, of the English infantry, is dead. He was the first o..cer to die of cholera. Up to the present, in Manila, there have been twenty-five cases of cholera and twenty deaths among the American, and thirteen cases and ten deaths among the European population. The cholera totals to date are as follows: Manila, 1,165 cases and 993 deaths; provinces, 5,001 cases and 2,878 deaths. Most men are short on gold but long on brass. Major Hudson of Topeka offers to sell his shale land in Trego county for $4 an acre. Here is a chance to make a clear profit of $4,999,996 an acre on the investment. An Emporia man has bought his first full dress suit, and a lot of his friends are worrying lest he will wear it in the daytime. Corn prospects in Kansas are so bright that Atchison will invite President Roosevelt to attend the Corn Caraval next fall. A day of prayer for rain was set apart in Ashland last week, but when the day arrived the service was postponed on account of the wetness. Some complaint is being made because there was "nothing free but ice water" at the G. A. R. encampment in Fort Scott. William Allen White writes that when he returns home he is going to levote all of his energies to getting out a good paper in Emporia and let the "side issues" go. At last reports Prof. Haworth and Prof. Franklin of the University of Kansas, who said they would resign if gold in paying quantities was produced from Trego county shale, were still drawing their salaries. "If caught he will no doubt receive is just deserts," applies in the case of a patent medicine pedder in Iola. He was passing around sample boxes of pills and told the children they were good to eat. Most of the children are now able to be out. Ex-Congressman E. R. Ridgely is driving a fancy bunch of 100 Hereford and Shorthorn cattle out to Kingman county for pasture. A big Buffalo fish was caught in the Solomon river a few days ago. The Delphos Republican describes it: "The fish weighed thirty-five pounds, twelve inches tall and thirty-eight inches long, mouth like a haymow and eyes like a pirate. A section of him in the frying pan looked like the diaphragm of a 10-year-old steer." As the result of long litigation the Larned Opera house has been closed indefinitely. The court has decided that the owner of the opera house does not own the entrance, which is through the Opera House hotel. The owner of the hotel refuses to rent the entrance and the owner of the opera houses refuses to buy the hotel. One business firm in Howard, according to a local paper, is so stingy that it refuses to rent a box at the postoffice. In order to save twenty cents every three months this firm receives all its mail through the general delivery, and one of the proprietors, or of their many clerks, takes his place in the line and when his turn comes waits patiently until the postmaster sorts through a big stack of mail for Tom, Dick and Harry, and then marches away with an armful of mail, proud in the consciousness that he is saving a grand total of eighty cents a year by not renting a postoffice box. 1 A strange thing happened in Washington last week. The editor of the Republican wrote a mean piece, the kind that is called "scathing," about Editor Veatch of the Post-Register. The Republican's engine broke down and Veatch allowed the Republican to Run off its edition with his press and engine. Five good citizens of Glen Elder are putting in a system of water works for their own use. A ten foot well has been sunk, a gasoline engine bought and a 350-barrel tank will supply the homes through pipes. Not a Kansas woman was elected to any office by the Federation of Club Women. The juvenile volcano which appeared in Brown county a few weeks ago is quiet and inoffensive now, but the farmers intend to take no chances. They will plug it up the moment it shows any hostile tendency. The Mexican Central railway has relected A. A. Robinson of Topeka to be president of the system. James F. Legate has been stricken again. A few months ago he became partially blind. Now a stroke of paralysis has deprived him of the power of speech. An old story has been revived about the time John Guthrie, now postmaster at Topeka, delivered the Fourth of July oration to the patients at the asylum for the insane. His subject was "the Blessings of Liberty." In the midst of his speech he was interrupted by a man in the audience who ejaculated: "Your speech may be all right; but I say dang the liberty that keeps a man locked up all the time." 5 The Santa Fe has given $20,000 and a site for a Y. M. C. A. building in Topeka. An additional $10,000 must be raised in Topeka. Haskell county has concluded an unusually long term of court. It lasted two hours and a half. The spring term owl lasted fifteen minutes. The editor of the Downs Times says that the editor of the Ellis Headlight weighs 111 pounds with his shoes on and 101 with them off. The girl who tried to polish a hot stove with a mixture that had gasoline in it lived in Elk City until last week. A man in Independence found a pocket-book containing $17.25 'n a bale of hay. He is not complaining a particle about the "adulteration of farm products." A Chanute man claims to have an oil well that flows a barrel a minute.2 Haskell county, with 500 population and no railroads, has not had a prisoner in its jail since the last county seat war fifteen years ago. A proposition is pending in Parsons to vote $200,000 for the public ownership of the gas plant, which is rather odd considering that Parsons is in the natural gas belt. Mrs. Julia Whitmore of Weir City has seven daughters whose names rhyme. They are Dora, Cora, Nora Flora, Zora, Lora and Clora. Four thousand dollars, above all expenses, was realized by the Elks' fair at Anchison last week. Half of the amount will go to the fund of the committee of forty' to aid in securing new industries for the town. BAILEY NOMINATED FOR GOVER OF KANSAS. ENRIGHT FINALLY WENT OVER T Kelly Was Nominated for Treas the First Ballot—Resolutions clare Unequivocally for Roof velt for President in 1901— Convention Finished In Work Thursday. THE TICKET For Supreme Court Justice, year term, H. F. Mason of Garden J. C. Pollock of Winfield, A. L. G. of Newton; four-year term, E. H. of Beloit; two-year term, E. W. ningham of Emporia. For Congressman-at-Large—C Scott of Iola. For Governor—W. J. Bailey leville. revenue. For Lieutenant Governor—Hanna of Hill City. For Secretary of State—J. R. row of Smith Center. For Treasurer—T. T. Kelly of P. For Auditor—Seth Wells of E. For Attorney General—C. C. man of Clay Center. For Superintendent of Public instruction—L. L. Dayhoff of Hutchins. For Insurance Superintendent Charles L. Luling of Wilentia. WICHITA.—(Special.) The great convention in the history of this was held heer last Wednesday. It earnest and enthusiastic, and slightly acrimonious. All political terests are represented on the and hence all are reasonably well isified. None get all they wanted no potential element was eliminated from the standard political man. The Baily forces organized the convention and nominated their idle governor. Then their hold sword and the Burton people captured something down to state superintendent schools. They got four members the executive council—Burrow, Kelly and Coleman. Bailley and hoff will represent the minority on council. While Luling, of the Bailies, was nominated for insurer commissioner, he is not a part of executive council. Three Civil war veterans placed on the ticket—Cunninghill Ellis and Greene, he is not a part of executive council. The Seventh district fared well the convention. It got four nominees—Greene, Mason, Luling and Daythe Sixth got three, also some unusual for that district—Ellis, row and Hanna. The First got Bailley the Second, Scott and Kolley. Third, Pollock and Wells; the Four Cunningham, and the Fifth, Colle Not until Wyandotte county reached in the roll call was the of the contest for chairman between Cole and Greer known. Those keep tally saw that Cole had 516, the number needed to nominate him Wyandotte county was jailed. Cole county having passed, and a feller went up, but Wyandotte voted Greer just the same. Then Rowlby the band-wagon act. It was a convention at this time. The Burton men claim that Third district threw them down, some votes, else they would have troiled the organization. However they admit now that there was chance to beat Bailey. Cole is to be paid by being apped one of the tax commissioners, vided he can make peace with the executive council and provided the can be passed. Harry Bone is to a member of the board of charities he can run the same gauntlet and West is slated to do time under Cman as he has under Godard. Governor Stanley made a favorable impression in his candidacy for the senate and pressure will be brought to bear urging his appointment in diplomatic service. If the recommendations of the senate are followed by the new senate central committee, Albaugh will probably not be re-elected chairman. He ever, this situation may change with calculations on the campaign. Senator Burton wired President Roosevelt the resolution indors him; also the reciprocity resolution. The president replied: "J. R. Burton:—I am deeply touched and pleased. Theodore Roosevelt Convention hall was decorated elaborately for the occasion. A shield red, white and blue covered the light in the center and from it extending to the balcony were streamed giving a bell effect. Bunting and dress were in evidence everywhere else in tending across the front of the stage was a huge flag. The pictures of the Kinley and Roosevelt framed together hung on either side of the stage. the background was the Wick Eagle's 1900 emblem, containing pictures of a big eagle, McKinley or Roosevelt, over which ran this line "Four more years of prosperity." The emblem was set in a frame made United States flags. The ground of the auditorium was used exclusively for delegates. There were just 10 chairs put in to accommodate the 10 delegates. The stage was press reporters. Outside of the newspaper probably 100 others found seats there. The balcony was given up to spectators holding tickets. "No darkened house, no durdens coffin, no special mourning attire, bricked grave, no unnecessary care, no available expense and no unreasonable eating and drinking." Such are a few of the advantages offered to members of the British Funeral Reformers' society. Baffles the Berlin Police. A newspaper vendor in Berlin has just hit upon a novel way of baffing the police. He has fitted up a cycle as a newspaper booth, and who told to "move on" he simply pedals to a new beat and opens a new business. The Mosquito's Bite. The bite of the mosquito wounds scarcely be noticed were it not for the fact that the insect injects into the wound an acrid juice, which causes the itching and painful sensation.