The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country Hungry for office, aided and abetted by gold Democrats and the rowdy element of the town, the Lilly White Republicans of Indianola, Miss., have succeeded in stirring up race prejudice against the colored postmistress, Mrs. Winnie M. Cox, and which has resulted in the closing of the office. The scheme was to have her removed from the appointment would either go to a Lilly White Republican or a gold Democrat. Some of the gold democrats of the two conceived the idea that President Kennedy, having appointed gold Demonstrate in office in other parts of the South would do the same at Indianola, if Mrs. Ford would resign. A system of intimidation and threats was inaugurated. fiss meetings were held, and her resignation demanded, and she was threatened with bodily harm if she tried to retain the office. She was frightened into seding in her resignation, but Postmaster General Payne held it up and caught it to the attention of President Roosevelt and the cabinet. Mr. Roosevelt did not hesitate as to course to be persued, and all the闸net agreed with him. It now rests with the people of India, themselves as to whether their mail offices are to be restored. If the office opened, Mrs. Cox will continue as assistant, and there must be a guarantee that she will be protected in the charge of her duties. Defying the government of the United States and abusing the President in expedite matters. The United States government is not easily frightened and the who know President Rosevelt said that he is not of a temperament to avoid by vituperation nor scared by suggestions and malediction however serious and splendid." BONIZING NEGROES IN PHIL IPPINES ISLANDS, UNDER DISSCUSSION Senator Morgan's plan to colonize the Philippine Islands with Negroes from the United States, has been overawed in the public interest at Washington by only one subject—the curia Venezuela. Not only has the plan been discussed by southern congressman, who, of course, are vitally interested in the Negro question, but northern senators and representatives and the leading newspapers in the east have taken the Alabama senator's plan up and are discussing it with considerable ager. There is opposition to the colonization scheme. Among the opponents already in record are Senator Pettus, of Alabama Senator Tillman, of South Carolina and Senator Money, of Mississippi. The view of the opposition indicate that their dislike arises from the coast of such a plan to the government or to the large number of ships it would require to transport the Negroes. These views were related to Senator Morgan and he answered them by pointing out that his government and he believed the Negroes themselves would build ships enough to accommodate the gradual emigration, which he believed would soon begin. as a matter of fact, the criticism of the plan is somewhat belated. The collation scheme is already well under way. It is believed Senator Morgan got started in a small way over a year ago he wrote, at that time, letters to the war department asking that the Negro ministers serving in the United States move in the Philippines islands be dismayed over there, with commutation actions issued them so that they might there or come home as they pleased. This was done, it is said, with a number of Negro companies, and many of the Negroes stayed in the Philippine islands. It is a fact, therefore, that American Negroes are now in the islands, and is believed that one of the missions T. Fortune is expected to perform as a investigation of these colonist and a report to the war department on their progress and general condition. It is now probable that some way will soon be devised by the war department by which the colonist's wives and families will be sent to them. - Atlanta Journal. The government may have under ad- dent the colonization of the Phillips- with the American Negro, but we our ours doubts as to the feasibility of such a scheme. It might be good plan to thin out some of our poor illiterates in the South, but America is the place for the intelligent Negro. As bad as he is treated, there is no country that is as good for the Negro as this country. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. One of the most remarkable features of this case is that although she is a colord woman, yet the best white people of that place are her friends. Among them on her bond is the present State Democratic senator from the district, together with the leading banker of Indianola and an ex-State senator from the district, also a Democrat. The post mistress and her husband own from $10.000 to $15.000 worth of property in Sunflower county. The reports of postoffice inspectors who have investigated the office from time to time show that she has given the utmost satisfaction to all patrons, that she is at all times courteous, faithful and honest in the discharge of her duties. The liberal minded white men around Indianola are not all dead; neither can they be persuaded to do the wrong. Colored men, go forward. Let us continue to prove ourselves worthy. We should not get impatient. "Rome was not built in a day." We have made and are making great progress. If you doubt it, ask some of the older colored people to tell you their troubles, trials and tribulations. You will sleep lighter when you hear of them and be more hopeful. It is indeed a deplorable state of affairs that thirty-eight years after the war the Negro-haters should be in the saddle stirring up race prejudice, in, juring business interests and retarding the financial growth of one of the most promising sections upon the face of the globe. O the pity of it! Colored men, let us be polite and courteous. Let us stand up for the right The outlook is gloomy but we need not be despondent on account of it. It indicates that the dawn is near at hand and marks our progress along the lines of legitimate endeavor. The Colored Citizen. THE NEGRO AS A FARMER In an address on "The Negro as a Farmer of Georgia," at Clark university in Atlanta, Ga., Professor R. R. Wright, president of the State Industrial college, took the position that there should be great improvement in blantation and mechanical tools and in the clss of live stock and the care of stock. Poor and antiquated toots and old broken-dwn mules should not be the characteristics of Negro farmers. He stated also thaun farm laboa ought to be imporved. The behind the mule should be a more intelligent worker. He should have a better home and better household and kitchen funitur in that home. He regarded farming as perhaps the most lucrative business in the which the colored man could now engage. He spoke of his efforts along the line of industrial education, and especially along the line of agriculture. He has a large number of boys engaged in this class of training. For the past four years the school has held a farmers' conference, and much has been done by the state college in this way. A very comfortable job is that held by A. S. Pratt, of Washington. He is the agent in the capital of 2,500 national banks, and it is his daily duty on behalf of these institutions to see and count the bills of these banks which are sent to the treasury department to be destroyed—"maserated" as they call it there. After carefully counting and keeping a record of these bills he personally sees that they are chopped up. His fees range from $5 to $25 per annum from each bank and Mr. Pratt has become rich at the business. Publication Notice In the District court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Ida Lafferty, plaintiff, vs. Beniangil Lafferty, defendant. 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 than unless you appear and answer on or before the 21st day of Feb. 1903, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from said defendant and warding to her, her malenamed Ida Patterson, and for cost of this suit HOW IT LOOKS A careful observation discloses the fact that Tom Gilbert of the 3rd ward is the most favorable looking candidate of the Republican party for Mayor, It must be conceded by those who have any knowledge of horse flesh that Tom Gilbert is a good goer. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING. FOR FORMATION OF A NEW POLITICAL PARTY. To Be Called "The Civil Liberty Party." Several organization Met in Washington, D. C. This Week, and After Much Diliberation Advocated The Formation of a New Political Party. For two or three days several well-known colored organization have been holding conference in Washington with the view of forming a new political party, to be known as the Civil Liberty party. The conferences have finally come to the decision to issue a call for a national convention, to be held in Cincinnati next May. The call hrs been prepared and the object of the new organixatton set forth therein to be "The second emancipation of the colored race, and the advocacy of the true principals of republicanism as fostered by Lincoln, and the principles of democracy as advocated by Jefferson." The call is signed by S. P. Mitchell chairman os the executive committee of the Civil Liberty party, and Richard Beasley, secretary. It is addressed to "the friends of civil liberty, true freedom of all the people and American citizens who oppose political partisan slavery." It calls for a convention, to be held on May 24, 1903, at Cincinnati, O., "to organize a new political party, which shall take up the principles of republicanism as fostered by Lincoln and the principles of democracy as advocated by Jefferson. The call contains the following sentence: "This party shall know no ocolor creed or previous condition other than good citizenship. There shall be a representation in proportion to congressional districts in each state. Until the convention the committee In charge shall be addressed as the executive nommittee of the Civil Liberty party. The Lanet. With the installing of the new county officers the past week a new incentive has been given to the coming municipal campaign, expectations, realizations and conglomerations will undoubtedly bring consternation in the ranks of parties. The republican county central committee met this week and called the republican primaries for Feb. 10th. It was expected that an early primaries would be called so mana of the candidates had arranged themselves for work upon that belief. Although a convention was thought by many to be the most effective, but we were aware that a convention would not be the result of the committees deliberations for the tendency to buy conventions is to prevalent The primaries give a better break for the entries. Beside the women play a poignant part in municipal affairs and agood many men donot desie to let their wives know by making them delegates the intense rottenness practical and the money circulated. That there are large numbers of liberal minded, justice loving white people in the South we are only to glad to acknowledge; but there is no use denying the fact that in many communities they exercise little or no influence over the class that evidently believe the Negro has no right to "life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness."—S. W. C. A., WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.--William H. Lewis, a colored man has been appointed an assistant United States attorney for Boston. The appointment was made by Henry P. Moulton, the United States district attorney for the Boston district, but it is understood that the selection was made on the suggestion of President Roosevelt. Mr. Lewis is a graduate of Aarvard collage and while there he was held in high regard by both the students body and the faculty. He took a high rank in his studies and was a popular member of the football squad. He is said to be a lawyer of excellent attainments. Publication Notice In the District county of Wyandotte county Kansas. Tony Hill. Plaintiff. vs. Amanda Hill. Defendant. To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above namok court by the above named plaintiff and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 21st day of Feb. 1902, the petition fights against you will taken as a judgment rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and for cost of this suit. The department of zoology of the University of Chicago has bought a collection of 50,000 insects. This great number of "bugs" was collected from all parts of the world by the late John K. Hurst, an entomologist of Brooklyn, N. Y. The collection is valuable because of its completeness and represents careful work extending over many years. How Petroleum Is Refined The refining of petroleum is a process of distillation, in which it is separated into several marketable products. There are two methods of distillation, known technically as "in vacuo" and "cracking." At the petroleum is distilled in a partial vacuum, and in the second, with superheated steam. This process receives its name from the cracking sound of the steam as it enters the undistilled petroleum. Ideal City Will Not Be Nolay. Real city Will Not be Noisy. It is safe to conclude, says the New York Tribune, that the ideal city of the future will be less noisy than the average city of to-day. Street cries of ear-splitting shrillness and all sorts of tumultuous sounds will be moderated by the next generation, if the present municipal rulers do little or nothing to abate a grievous nulsance. New Yorkers are the most patient people ever known. But some day they may break bounds. Theroughly British Hicks"—"Did you ever see anyone so uncompromisingly English as Perkins?" Wicks"—"No, and I never saw anyone with any pretension to style make such a ridiculous breach of good form as he did yesterday. He appeared in full dress at 2 o'clock in the afternoon." Hicks"—"That's all right from his standpoint. It was after 6, London time, you know."—Catholic Standard and Times. A Monument for Napoleon A Monument for Napoleon. Ex-Mayor Walbridge, $^a$ O. St. Louis, spoke on Missouri day at the Buffalo exposition July 2. He gave special attention to the coming celebration in St. Louis of the Louisiana purchase and announced the intention to raise a monument of Missouri granite to Napoleon, who ceded the territory to the United States—Rochester (N. Y.). Democrat and Chronicle. Salt as a Medicine. Salt is considered one of the most useful medicines. Rheumatic people find great benefit in a glass of cold salt water taken regularly before breakfast. Failing hair is often arrested and a new growth insured by the daily application of strong salt and water, with considerable amount of friction, either with the finger tips or hair brush. Bolts and Their Buckles The greater number of belts are shaped, and white calf and patent leather are among the best. The harness buckle is the buckle for these belts. Occasionally there is a buckle that is covered. Some of the belts have buckles on either side of the front and open at one of them. Suede and velvet belts are studded with metal. Become Your Own Master. "There is no fun in working for others when you are able to set up in business on your own account," said Andrew Carnegie in a recent interview. "Always try to become your own master; that is my advice to every young man starting in life. Don't remain a servant all your days if you can help it." Erg Lemonade Dissolve one cup of sugar in one pint of water, add the juice of four lemons. Beat the yolks of four eggs until light colored and creamy, and then the whites until stiff. Mix them ouchly, add the lemon water and one pint of fine chipped ice. Add more sugar if needed. Above Suspicion. On being informed that a member of his race had been sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery, Brother Dickey excalmed: "Dat's what comes er ds yer edication. Thank de good Lawd I never could read or write, en what's mo,'` I never will!" -Atlanta Constitution. Indian Girl to Be Lawyer Wah ta-wass, the full-blood Indian girl who is preparing to enter Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass, at present employed as a typewriter and stenographer in the office of a Boston lawyer and does her studying for her examinations at night. Diameter of the Earth Although the diameter of the earth has been roughly known for many years, it has only lately been accurately ascertained, after thirty years' labor and a cost of $500,000. It is 7,926 miles at the equator and 7,899 from pole to pole. A Plant 300 Feet High. The largest plant in the world is probably the giant sea weed, called by scientists nereocystis. This plant often grows to a height of 300 feet. It grows around the South Sea Islands, where the natives use it for rope. Theodore Quentin, a member of the Philadelphia reserve police, lately wrote to President Roosevelt asking why he gave his youngest son the unusual name of Quentin. The president answered that "the name Quentin is with us old family name coming from French Hugeur refugee who name to this country over two centuries ago." The Bewdolin College water turtle is lead, after four years' imprisonment, huring which time he ate nothing. This is vouched for by Professor Lee, the head charge of the turtle. EDITORIAL. PRESIDENT SOUTHERN POLICY. The southern policy of President Roosevelt has provoked unusual comment throughout the country and we find the race problem again under discussion. The Negro seems a bone of contention and the Negro problem seems to go on forever. It remains for the fearless and undaunted Teddy Roosevelt to stand firm and uncompromising and a few more years will see the most wonderful strides toward solving the perplexing problem. The agitation to commission Negro soldiers we hope will reach successful culmination for the brave black boys are as much entitled to be officers in the regular army as any other nationality for there are none any braver. Give the Negro shoulders straps the record of the past is the most powerful recommendation to all true American Citizens to award the Negro the same chance to advance as his white brother. STAND ALONE The American Negro has been somewhat of a baby for lo the many years. It seems, one of the haragood tacks to teach him how to stand alone. It is almost impossible to induce 'em to believe that they are strong enough to make more of a effort to stand up. We have the highest esteem for those of the race who have made and are making an effort to stand alone, feeble though their efforts may be-It is commendable having tried and failed than to never have tried at all. Could we but impress upon the race the urgent necessity of upholding legitimate race institutions we would feel that our long years of toil and struggling in the journalistic world would entitle us to that long earned rest and well done good and faithful servant. It doth appear that at some stage of our mortal existence as a race, that the millenium will be reached by which all the rest of the Negroes are measured. One Negro business failure plays havoc with the launching of any other Negro business-for all the Negroes are afraid of every other Negro. Every failure is a hidden rock encountered by an unacquainted pilot in his commendable effort to guide the ship upon which you offtime have launched your all, each failure makes another attempt more assured of success because you have the advantage of past experience and a more clever idea of where the rocks are to be encountered in your voyage. Every race failure ought to good us on with a more determined effort than ever to succeed, that we may in the end stand alone. RACE NEWS. Captain Charles Young, the colored officer of the Ninth Cavalry, who will in future be stationed at the Presidio, was a great favorite on the Sheridan coming from Manila to San Francisco and was in great demand. His skin is of the darkest hue of the race, but he is exceedingly clever, a West Point graduate and a pianist of rare ability. The Richmond Planet has an excellent editorial on the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, which the contention was as to whether the Negro could lawfully enjoy the rights of an American citizen as do others. Beginning with the decision in the famous Dred Scott case, in which Chief Justice Taney declared the "Negro had rights which the white man was b ound to respect," the Planet shows that in every instance down to the present time, that great courts has stood like a stone wall against the Negro. Referring to the incident of the resignation of the colored postmistress in Mississippi, it is suffice to say that she forced and intimidated to resign, her and her husbands statement to the southern method. You must state for publication that you were treated all right, if you want to remain in the South. A gun behind your head will come near making you say anything. THEY SAY That "Surprise party" It certainly was a rush. Politics are warming up. And wasn't she surprised. Look out for the Daily Citizen. What was the matter down stairs. Will Miss Sea Foam block be glad. Surely it is a long lane that has no end. Will absence make the heart grow fonder. Miss Sea Foam, black will have a high old time. Will he be a lonesome — when his baby's gone. Cap never reports on Lower or Upper Minn. ave., any more. Nothing but the pleasing recollections of Williams and Walker. So she bids a long for the windy city, you have our sympathy Mr. Sea Foam block. YOUR OPPORTUNITY. "There is a tide in the affairs of men taen at the flood that leads on to fortune." Wm. Newton the old reliable New and Second Hand dealer is selling out at COST. Bargains you never heard of before are being offered on the best line of goods in the city, Beds, Matting, Carpets, Stoves, oil-cloth and all inds of Good Furniture. It is up to you, If you want anything in his line, Goods must be sold. He is quitting the business. Just follow the crowd. First come, First served. 433 MINNESOTA AVE Remember this is your opportunity for good bargains verything in the store will be sold at cost & less. A CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank the many friends who in various ways assisted us during the illness and death of our beloved wife daughter and sister, Carrie Paey-Thomas; for the beautiful floral sympathy offerings and many expressions of sympathy received. The Kindness shown shall always be held in grateful remembrance. A SURPRISE PARTY The dull monotony of a winter evening was broken the past week by a "party" unique, Suprising and pleasing. The affair was arranged by Mrs. Lula Johnson and was tendered Mrs. Naacy McDowell, of Chicago Ill, at No. 541 Ann.ave. The extreme rarity of such events made it the more enjoyable and most delightful time was all-who were present, Toasts conservation, cards and other games served to pleasantly while away the hours, until light refreshments were bountifully served, Toasts were responded to—"The friends of yesterday"—W. C. Maatia. "The friends of today" P. E. Simpson. "The friends of to-morrow" Will Baker. The occasion was even tempered by the presence of Mrs. Jane Holvay, mother of the guest of honor. and Mrs Mary Alexander, both girls of forty years ago, among others who were present of modern times were Madames Geo. Motley, A. T. Donald, Rhoda Milton, Fields, JuliaMcore, Lula Johnson, Misses Lizzie Booker, Eveline Booker, Rosetta Holvay, Hildreth Milton, and Messrs P. E. Simpson, and Will Baker of Kansas City, Mo., H. Hamilton, F. Holvay Eugene Robinson, Jnol-Holvay, Chas. Reese, T. H. Collins, Joe. Booker, C. M. Collins, L. Brooks, Steve White, W. C. Martin, and R. White. Mrs. Nancy McDowell who has been visiting her mother and relatives in this city for the past two weeks will return home, to Chicago Ill., to-morrow after a most pleasant trip. Tales of Two Cities Miss Pauliethe Thompson of Omaha, Neb.,passed through the city this week enroute to Dallas Texas, she was the guest of Mrs. Lula Joenson while in the city. Mr. Abe Rutherford of the Peoples Grocery Co., is still quite seriously ill at his home on State ave. Mrs. Wilson who formerly ran the Bon-Ton Restaurant and short order house at 333 Minn. ave., has moved to 117 E. Thirld St., Kansas City, Mo., Mr. John King the second son of Mr. J. W. King of this city left this week for a four rear enlistment in the U. S. Navy. It is said several other young men will leave soon for the briny deey. Miss Lucy and Sarah Frost of Chicago spent a month visiting their parents Mr. and Mrs. Fost, in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Mrs. Jno. Bibb of 626 Cherry St. does first class work in Hair swiches, Wigs and etc. Hair dressing a speciality give her a call. Ammonium Nitrate The atmospheric ocean surrounding the earth is frequently disturbed by gigantic waves, which are invisible except when they carry parts of the air charged with moisture up into a colder atmospheric stratum, where sudden condensation occurs. In this manner long, par. 'bel lines of clouds sometimes make their appearance at a great height, marking the crests of a ripple of air waves running miles above our heads.—Chicago Chronicle. Lauric Acid on Metals gold, silver, steel, aluminium and oil, when immersed in tauric acid a new chemical discovery, becomes applicable 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 888 tons. JANUARY 16 1.08 the Country oblem will be Assured. ORTUNITY. Fairs of men taen at the flood, Newton the old reliable New- ling out at COST. Bargains being offered on the best line titting, Carpets, Stoves, oil-cloth are. Not anything in his line, quitting the business. First come, First served. SOTA AVE opportunity for good bargains will be sold at cost & less. AGRICULTURE FOR WOMEN A Woman Who Has Observed Says Women Successed as Farmers. Do women succeed as farmers? My observation proves that they do. I could cite a number of instances where women have farmed successfully for many years, and my conclusion is that country girls who are compelled by force of circumstances to work for a living would find a broader field, with profit and time movement, right at home, than in the crowded and less desirable occupations in the city. Few realize the possibilities of farm life, and few farmers' daughters cultivate a taste for agriculture; and yet, the few who did find a fascination in the work, creating an enthusiasm seldom found in any other occupation. Many times the farmer's daughter rushes from home to procure work, possibly in a village store or dress-making establishment, or as hired girl in some private household, in order to procure ready money, when with a life in the village, with the home folks she could easily be offered the amount and at the same time lend her assistance to father and mother. I recall an instance of two loyal farmer girls. The question of help presented itself one year when farm help was either unobtainable or inefficient, with the result that these two daughters offered their assistance. The girls did anything which came to hand, and developed an interest in the work which surprised all who knew them. The autumn set in, the elder, who held a second-grade certificate, obtained a school and taught during the winter, but the younger stayed until the rush of the farm work was over, when she began attending the home school, having to study early and late to make up for lost time. When I last heard of her, she had a won scholarship in a well known college in the West, and was intending to make use of it the following year. Both of these girls were gentle and refined in appearance, and held high positions socially in that community. A woman of my acquaintance, after the death of her husband, a farmer, conducted her farm, and raised a large family of children, educating each, with little outside help. Another acquaintance has adopted swine-breeding in connection with her farming operations. In this undertaking she has been eminently successful. Living not many miles from the writer is a feminine farmer and cattle breeder who has some of the finest Hereford blood in the state in her stables. She hires her work done, and is independent financially. The some of the best known exhibitors of blooded stock have been women, showing conclusively that stock raising as an industry may be safely and profitably engaged in by women having the will power and tenacity to such constructive and lucrative, and the range possibilities in this line is unbounded. Let our farmer girls consider twice are they give up the wonderful opportunities offered by the farm for the less remunerative ones held out by village and city—American Agriculturist. ALWAYS THE BEST OR BIGGEST. Marquia Ite's Observation of the Very Common American Trait. hurumblo lito, former premier of Japan, was impressed by a number of things when he made his trip through the United States. The success of the Americans, he thought, was due to every man believing that he and his possessions were the best and largest in the world. No matter where he visited, the citizens tried to convince him that city contained either the tallest buildings or the biggest sewer, the greatest stores or the largest mills the most extensive breweries or the most mills of the greatest river. One city had the most famous preacher in the world, the sweetest toned pipe organ. Several claimed the prettiest women. One day the premier arrived at a town where he was desirous of visiting the grave of a famous American. From observations made while driving through the streets the diplomat concluded that he had been a city citizen, having to boast of. He would not be too certain, however; and remained alert. Reaching the creamery one of the committee halted and said: "Sir, I wish to direct your attention to that grave. The man who lies buried there had to be provided with the largest coffin ever made in this city." The honored guest thanked his host, net so much for the information as for relieving the strain—Pittsburg Dispatch. CENSURES MR. KNOX COMMITTEE ACCUSES ATTORNEY GENERAL OF DERELICTION Opinion Prevails That Attorney General Could Relieve Existing Coal Famine If He Would Invoke Existing Laws. Chicago.—A national convention at Washington for the purpose of impressing on President Roosevelt the urgent need for immediate relief from the stringency of the coal situation was decided on at a conference at the Grand Pacific hotel. The call for the gathering was issued by Chairman Maybury of the permanent committee of the Detroit coal convention. It was this committee which agreed on the necessity for a national meeting at the capital. The conference opened at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, and at an adjourned session it was voted to reconvene at Washington at the earliest practicable date. The decision followed a series of speeches, in which Attorney General Knox was censured, it being alleged in the meeting that he had not enforced the laws by which, it was urged, redress could be secured. There was a considerable divergence of opinion at first as to the most effective method to be pursued to obtain relief from the present prosecution. Suggestions were made that an open letter be addressed to President Roosevelt, that a convention be called at Detroit or Chicago, or that congress be appealed to for action. The proposal to "move on Washington in a body" finally prevailed, it being agreed that the enforcement of existing laws offered adequate means of relief. MEXICO IS IMMOVABLE. The State Department Cannot Help American Trainmen. Washington—H. H. Adams and other traineen who have started a movement to interest the various organizations of railroad men in an effort to secure redress for wrongs inflicted upon American railroad men in Mexico, will not receive much encouragement from the state department. When the attention of the department of state was called to this question, the authorities were such that the traineen could make practically no headway. As a matter of fact, the state department for many years has been endeavoring to negotiate with the Mexican government a treaty which would insure Americans in the employ of Mexican railroads fair treatment and prevent their arrest as persons responsible for railroad wrecks. Soon after his appointment as ambassador to Mexico, Powell Clayton was directed by the department to negotiate a treaty of this character and he has been successful in obtaining without success. The ambassador's task has been of a very natural nature from the fact that in his negotiations it has been necessary for him to place the United States in the position of endeavoring to regulate the laws of another country from the fact that in order to permit of the treaty the law under which the traineen are arrested must be repealed. The Mexican officials show no disposition to repeal this law as the progress has been made by the ambassador. The law involved is an old Spanish law, which localizes the responsibility for railroad wrecks and provides for the arrest and punishment of railroad employees as criminals. DIDN'T ERIGHTEN ALFONSO. An Assassin Tried to Kill One of the King's Retainers. Madrid.—As King Alfonso, Dowager Queen Christina and the court were returning from church Sunday afternoon a man, who afterward gave his name as feito, fired a pistol at one of the carriages in the royal procession. The bullet went wild and no one was injured. The king heard the shot and put his head out of the carriage window, but was immediately dragged back into his seat by the queen-mother, after which themselves upon the would-be assassin and overpowered him. Feito was taken to the police station, where he said he did not want to kill the king, but the grand chamberlain, the Duke of Sotomeyor, at whose carriage he had aimed. He was searched and in his pockets were found unmailed letters marked "Registered" and addressed to President Roosevelt, King Edward, the empire of the high court of justice at Mexico; also receipts for a number of registered and a visiting card of the mayor of Madrid. Feito was later put under examination by a magistrate to whom he repeated his statement as to the object of his shooting. He insisted that he was not an anarchist and said that his wife, a Frenchwoman, had confined him in an asylum for insane. The prisoner in making this statement did not appear excited, but there are indications that he is insane. To Keep Navies on a Parity Buenos Ayres—An important convention has been signed by Chile and Argentina governing the question of the parity of their natives, which is regarded as definitely determining the dispute on this subject. Argentine removes the small caliber guns from the cruisers Caribaldi and Pueyredon and Chile does the same with the battleship Captain Prat. The ironclads building in European yards will be held by Great Britain until sold with the consent of the two republics. A Small Volcano in Utah. Moab, Utah.—A small active volcanic crater has been discovered by prospectors in the Dome plaetan region near the Grand river, twenty miles north of Moab. From the crater, which is in the solid sandstone formation of the mesa, arises a column of steam that can be seen for miles. The appearance of the volcanic vent indicates that until recently it had been dormant for many years. Moab is in the extreme eastern part of the state, not far from the Colorado line. FAMOUS LAND SUIT ENDED. The DeBoissiere Property Goes to Topska Lawyers. Topeka—By a vote of 4 to 3 the supreme court Saturday upset its former opinion in the De Boissière case and rendered judgment for Troutman & Stone, the plaintiffs. Justice Pichock wrote a disingestion opinion in which he fairly blistered the majority of the court. Had such language been directed against the court by an outsider, he would have been denounced as an archist. Coming from a judge of the court himself, however, it only sured up a sensation for the lawyers. De Boissière, a wealthy Frechman, established a silk farm in Troutman and made a bill of silk culture and so he deed the farm to trustees for an Odd Fellows Orphans' Home and Industrial school. Later he died. His only heir was a sister in France. The trustees for the Odd Fellows took charge of the farm and the lodge appropriated about $35,000 for buildings. Finally a row broke out in the lodge. One faction wanted to keep the farm and another faction wanted to drop it. The sister brought suit to eject the trustees from ownership on the ground that the deed of conveyance was against the rule of perpetuities. She employed Troutman & Stone, toopeka lawyers, to conduct the case. Troutman went to court. While there the woman, who was 80 years old, said she would like to sell her interest in the property. Troutman & Stone bought it. She gave them a quit claim deed. Shortly afterward she died. Troutman & Stone then sued for possession. The trustees won in the Franklin county district court. Troutman & Stone appealed. One year ago last November, the supreme court rendered a decision affirming the decision of the lower court. The court was divided. It stood 5 to 2. G. C. Clemens was then called into the case by Troutman & Stone, and he asked for a rehearing. This was granted. The case was re-submitted last February. It has been hung up ever since Saturday when the supreme court ordered the first exclams and giving Troutman & Stone judgment. An order was also made directing the court below to enter up judgment. No new trial was given. As stated, the court stood 4 to 3. Doster wrote the opinion. Judges Smith, Johnstoff and Greene concurred; Justices Cunningham, Pollock and Burch dissented. TO FIGHT KANSAS Colorado Afraid of Losing Waters From the Arkansas. Denver—In his biennial message to the legislature Governor James B. Orman recommended a liberal appropriation for defending the suit of Kansas against Colorado, the object of which is to stop the use of the water of the Arkansas river for irrigating in Colorado. The governor of Kansas be successful in this litigation," said the governor, "it would work unkind injury to Colorado in her agricultural resources. The work and expenditures of years would be lost. But this would not be the end. The state of Nebraska would come in and inhibit the state of Colorado from using any of the waters of the Platte or its tributaries. It would, indeed, be a great calamity should Colorado be precluded from the privileges now enjoyed." The governor said that the construction of storage reservoirs by the national waterways will attracts of now undeveloped farming lands in this state. "The fair name and credit of the state have been impaired," the governor declared, by the failure to pay outstanding warrants for prior years, and he urgently recommended the payout of the warrants as possible out of the excess revenues. He advocated the creation of a tax commission, whose duty it shall be to assess corporate property now assessed by the state board of equalization. THE DURBAR COSTS 5 MILLIONS Lord Curzon and the Indian Princes Paid Heavily for the Show. London.—Cable dispatches received from Delhi announce the departure from there of the viceroy, Lord Curzon, and Lady Curzon, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and other notabilities, and the end of the Durbar display. People are now beginning to estimate the cost of the festivities. According to one estimate, cabled from Delhi, the Indian government will have to pay 3% million dollars and Lord Curzon himself is supposed to have spent much in entertaining his personal guests. For their display of magnificence he met with 3% million penses presented from 3% million dollars by the nizam of Hyderabad to $50,000, the sum which chiefs paid for their pageants. The governors of provinces had to pay about $75,000 each for their camps. Judging from these estimates the show cost more than 5 million dollars. The Wild West and Sousa London.—America is prominent in the London amusement world. Buffalo Bill and Sousa are occupying big boardings and signs to the exclusion of almost all other attractions. Thousands are thronging to the Olympia to see the Wild West show and Queen's hall has been packed twice daily by admirers of the march king and his band. Mr. Sousa is much pleased by this reception. It is said that the English synagogue which handles the United Kingdom and the continent expects to make much more money than it did in the first tour, which was a big financial success. MARCONI TO INCORPORATE. The British Parliament Has Been Asked for a General Charter. Ottawa, Ontario. — The Marconi Wireless Telegraph company of Canada has given notice of an application to parliament for an act of incorporation to transmit and do business all over British North America, British Isles, Europe and upon the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and upon the islands. Power also is asked for leasing or purchasing existing telegraph, telephone or cable companies. Two New War Ships Ordered. Washington.—The board of construction of the navy department has submitted to Secretary Moody is recommendations that the bid of William Cramps & Sons for the construction of the cruisers Tennessee and Washington be accepted. The bid, which was the lowest submitted, was 4 million dollars for each cruiser, to be completed in thirty-six and ninety-nine ships, but be allocated to that the firm's bid of $85,000 each for the installing of electric plants in the new ships be accepted. OLIO CF EVENTS Within 25 years American astronomers have won as many annual medals of the Royal Astronomical society of England as astronomers of all other countries, except England, combined. A Stradivarius violin brought $3,050 at a recent auction sale in London. This is believed to be the highest price ever paid for one of these instruments at a public sale. The English language is to be systematically taught in Mexican schools, English being deemed as necessary as Spanish for commercial life. More Mexican children than ever before are being sent to the United States for education. A French correspondent at Bangkok complains that French influence is rapidly disappearing in Siam. Among 200 European railway companies only one is in German hands, while the most important positions are filled by Danes, Belgians and Englishmen. There has just died at Braila, Roumania, old, poor and miserable, Karl Kieswetter, who was the first to manufacture Swedish matches, and as a director of the celebrated Boetter factory amassed a colossal fortune, which he lost in railway speculation. He finished his days in bergleigh, the latest decision of the Massachusetts supreme court, speculating in stocks on a margin is not such a risky business, after all. If the speculator wins he can pocket his profits and go on his way rejoicing. If he loses, all he has to do is to go into court and get his money back from the wicked broker—if he can. The present average yield of lima beans in southern California is 22,000,000 pounds, which is about three-fourths of the total production of the world. One rance in the bean country is the largest bean field in the world, and it requires 40 tons of seed beans to plant it. Hannah Young died at Allentown, Pa., last Friday. Her maternal grandfather, the Rev. Abraham Blumer, concealed the Liberty Bell under the floor of Zion's Reformed church, in Allentown, during the British occupancy of Philadelphia in 1777-78, and her maternal grandfather, John Jacob Mockley, hauled the bell to that place. Dr. Rudolph Tombs, Jr., Registrar of the University, announces that the university population had reached the remarkable total of 5,367, excluding 1,032 pupils in the Speyer and Horace Man Schools of Teachers' College. The figures show a student increase of 338 since last year and an increase of 38 in the faculty list. The Illinois Central Railroad company is said to be conducting a series of experiments with a freight car, the trucks of which are fitted with ball bearing journals. These, it is claimed, can be used to examine a gle person can move it. If they prove practicable, train loads can easily be doubled, and hauled with the same power now used. At last the question of the Borghese Villa in Rome is finally settled. It is now the property of the state. The Popolo Romano states that a formal auction has just been held, when the property was put up, a representative of the state offered £119,960, another representative made the sum a round £100,000, and the business was concluded. A "A League Against the Abuse of Automobiles" has been formed in Paris, the new leaguers are not opposed to automobiles on principle—in fact, it is reported that several of them are also members of the French Automobile club—but they wish to take action against excessive speed and reckless driving, and to obtain recognition, and take summonses against all chauffeurs seen furiously driving. "This is the greatest hunting season that Maine has ever known," says the New York Tribune. "All previous records have been broken, and to date more deer have been shipped through Bangor than for the whole of the season of 1901, which has been, to this time, the banner year. Last week the total shipments through Bangor were 756 deer, 28 moose, 8 bears, against 676 deer, 17 moose for the correct reason for the capture of 77 deer, and 11 moose. This is the largest week's shipment ever recorded in Bangor." The estimates of the Paris Municipal council for 1883 include a sum of $35,000 francs set apart for the construction of an isolated ward at the Hospital St. Louis for the reception of lepers. The publication of this item of expenditure has caused a certain amount of excitement in Paris, it being wondered whether leprosy still exists in the French capital at the beginning of the twentieth century. It appears that some 15 or 20 leper patients are annually treated at the hospital, which was a common accommodation of persons suffering from leprosy. In the majority of the cases the disease has been contracted abroad, but leprosy still exists in other parts of France, especially in Brittany. The Chillian and the Argentine governments, says the Prensa, of Buenos Ayres, have not succeeded yet in arranging matters for that mutual disarmament which was agreed upon in the friendly convention lately concluded between the two republics with such a great flourish of trumpets. The arrangement mainly, not to say exclusively, referred to two militias constructed two for Chillian two for Argentina, in the shipyards of the Italian Ansaldo company and the Eligish Vickers company. The cruisers are advertised for sale, but it is said that the offers for them are farcical and unacceptable, just as if the question was to buy them for old iron. In the presence of this difficulty it appears the Argentine government, throwing aside the project of disarmament, has proposed that the two countries should divide between themselves the four cruisers in Italy and one built in England. But this proposal has been rejected by Chill, and, meanwhile, the building of the four vessels continues uninterrupted. G. A. Henty, the writer for youth, who tried a few days ago, got letters from admirers all over the world asking for his autograph and offering critiques. Peninsular war he made two boys disguise themselves by staining their faces with iodine. Shortly after the book was published he received a letter from a boy who said he was a chemist's assistant. The incident was represented as taking place in 1808, iodine was not discovered until 1811—three years after. The Paris Figaro states that it was due to the intervention of M. Pelletan that the contract entered into by M. Goubet for the sale of his submarine to an English firm was broken off. The inventor is further said to have presented all his plans and designs to the ministry of Marine on the sole condition that any submarine built according to his design be built his name. The Figaro adds that the Goubet III was laid down at the very moment when it was announced that the construction of the 13兰舟eboeuf submarines was suspended. KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS. The body of Anna M. Legg, aged 57 years, has been found in the Smoky river near Mentor. The woman while mentally deranged had drowned herself. An eight-inch vein of coal has been struck at the coal shaft in Atchison at a depth of 713 feet. It is of fine quality and has the appearance of being semi-anthracite. Dr. F. H. Snow's meteorological statistics have convinced him that the average wind velocity in Kansas is decreasing, and the drought is gradually becoming extinct. In the legislature there will be two Adamses, two Perkines, two Campbells, two Williamses, two Martinis, two Kinges, two Johnsones, two Brownes, two McKees and three Joneses. A student in the State University who has done nothing since entering school, three years ago, except to play golf and smoke a large, ugly pipe has "been compelled to give up his studies and return home on account of falling health. The increase within a few years of something like 50 per cent in the enrollment of the State Agricultural College, bringing it up to 1,396 this year, justifies the request of President Nichols for a considerable increase in the faculty, and consequently in the biennial appropriation from the Legislature. It has been discovered that each session of the Kansas Legislature costs more than the one preceding, which will cause no particular surprise. It is generally known that the S. S. Ornar, who lives near Abilene, sold $610.75 worth butter last year from twenty cows, an average of $30.53 a cow. This is in addition to the skimmed milk, which was fed to hogs and calves. Estell, the Kaneas desperado who escaped from the penitentiary two years ago, was captured last week in Mississippi. He has killed several men, including a sheriff, and robbed safes innumerable. The county commissioners of Douglass county have approved the plans of the architects for the new $80,000 court house, after some revisions had been made. Bids for the new building will be opened February 10. The controversy as to who is the youngest civil war veteran in the state seems to have been settled in favor of Charles Selig of Eldorado He enlisted at the age of 12 years 8 months and 8 days, and served three years. Richard Williamson, who has been general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at the University of Kansas for the past two years, has resigned his position and will leave shortly for Mexico City to accept a similar position at that place. It is encouraging to know that the contest for the Democratic membership of the interoceanic canal commission has narrowed down to Senator W. A. Harris of Kansas and Senator J. K. Jones of Arkansas. It could not be easier to make a choice. By a cave-in of rock and slate at the Decker mines, near Pittsburgh Miles Bloat, was killed and Jess Barnes and Walter Vendle injured. The heavy fall of rock caught six miners, but three escaped with slight injuries. Bloat was crushed to death Alice E. Bliery, who sued Robert Kenney, a wealthy young farmer, for $10,000 for breach of promise has dismissed the case. She secured a judgment for $6,000 at the fall term of court, but a new trial was given because jurors made an average of their judgments. Stephen John, a farmer and fruit raiser near Hiawatha, says the peach crop will be short again this year. The warm weather in the fall caused the peach trees to bud and the extreme cold weather so soon after killed the buds. The peach crop for several years has been a poor one. A new consolidated school in which four districts join has been opened south of Chapman. A $4,000 stone schoolhouse has been completed and three covered wagons will bring the pupils to school. Even with this advantage and a graded course of study the expense will be but slightly more than before. Abraham Mills, 65 years old, was killed recently by being thrown from a wagon on his farm. Mr. Mills, an Englishman by birth, married into the Shawnee tribe of Indians and has lived in the Indian territory near Checotah since before the Civil war. He was at one time the cattle king in that section. William and Rudy Herges, two big farmer school boys in Nenaha county, made trouble at the Onaga school a short time ago. The principal, E N Sapp, protested, and they used him roughly. He had them arrested and they were sentenced to sixty days in the county jail. They appealed to the supreme court. Word has been received of the death of Colonel R. A. Frederick, at Juneau, Alaska, where he held the position of United States district attorney for Alaska. The colonel was formerly a Kansas man. He lived for many years in Topeka, and was a law partner at one time of G. C Clemens. He left Kansas about ten years ago and settled at Troy, then in Alaska, where he hawnt appointed district attorney for Alaska by the late President McKinley. There was a string of mishaps in Hutchinson New Year's eve. While a wedding service was in progress the house was discovered to be on fire. The bride fainted and the guests fled. On its way to the fire the hose wagon was overturned and two firemen were injured. A street bump to the wreckage and was upset. The bride looked upon the mishaps as an evil omen and when the fire was extinguished refused to permit the ceremony to proceed. The groom finally persuaded her. Nearly all Forgotten. As many as 7287 men have been elected to the National House since the American Congress began. The number does not include those who have occupied seats and been thrown out on contests. Oldest Piece of Writing. The oldest piece of writing in the world is on a fragment of a vase found at Nippur. It is an inscription in picture writing and dates 4500 years before Christ. The University of Pennsylvania has obtained it. Up to Him. Bashful Lover: I leave tomorrow. How long shall you remain Miss Ethel? Up-to Date Girl: Remain Miss Ethel! I leave that to you—Town, and Country. She Preferred Diamonds. A Philadelphia woman induced her husband to buy her $10,000 worth of diamonds in 1895 instead of a life insurance policy of equal worth. She has refused $17,500 for the gems. A student in the State University who has done nothing since entering school, three years ago, except to play golf and smoke a large, ugly pipe, has "been compelled to give up his studies and return home on account of failing health. The increase within a few years of something like 50 per cent in the enrollment of the State Agricultural College, bringing it up to 1,396 this year, justifies the request of President Nichols for a considerable increase in the faculty, and consequently in the biennial appropriation from the Legislature. It has been discovered that each session of the Kansas Legislature costs more than the one preceding; which will cause no particular surprise. It is generally known that the larger a family gets, the higher the expenses pile up. Still, there has always been a waste of money around the Legislature. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Farmers' Alliance Insurance company was recently held at McPherson. The year which has just closed has been very successful for this company. It is a co-operative company and has a membership of over 21,000, and has over 20 million dollars of insurance. It has a reserve fund of $212,000. R. K. McCartney of Valley Falls, is the only founder of the Kansas State Teachers' Association in the harness. In 1863 he and a few others teachers of the Kansas border held a meeting at Leavenworth and formed a state association, which has grown into a most powerful organization. Mr. McCartney has attended every one of the forty annual meetings. While "Gil" Mercer of Concordia was sitting by a lamp reading one night last week, some unknown person entered the yard and fired a shot from a revolver at him through the window. The ball passed just above Mercer's head. The assailant was within a few feet of the window. Mr. Mercer is unable to account for the attack. F. M. McHale, as attorney for Mrs. Carrie Nation, will file a $10,000 damage claim in the city of Wichita for bodily injuries, mental anguish and nervous distress, alleged to have resulted from an attack made upon Mrs. Nation by a mob when she was in Wichita on one of her visits in 1901. The suit will be filed in the United States circuit court. The army board, composed of General Young and Major John P. French, appointed to distribute the appropriation of $500,000 for post exchanges, amusement rooms, etc., at army posts, has made its report and it has been approved by Secretary Root. Among the principal items of allotment are $40,000 for Fort Leavenworth, Kas., $25,000 for Fort Riley, Kas. John Collins will renew his efforts to secure a pardon from the state penitentiary when W. J. Bailey becomes governor of the state. It is said that Collins is in better spirits of late, and this may be due to the fact that he expects to secure clemency at the hands of the incoming governor. Collins was a Kansas university student and was convicted of assassinating his father in Topeka. Mrs. V. M. Johnson, of Highland, Kas, has gone to Florida where she will sell 14. 00 acres of timber land to two highest bidder. Some years ago Mr. Johnson had $100,000 on deposit in a New York bank. The bank failed. In order to protect him the bank made a deed to the 14,000 acres of Florida timber land to Johnson. He died a few years later and the land was bequeathed to his widow. She proposes to dispose of it at public sale and invest the money in Kansas farm lands. Because he got drunk in Joplin Mo, and disturbed the peace, Wesley Erwin, a paroled Kansas convict must return to the state to serve the remainder of a ten-year sentence. Erwin was convicted in Franklin county in 198 of highway robbery and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. He was paroled in 1901 and Governor Stanley exacted a promise from him to abstain from the use of liquor. The governor has issued a warrant for the convict's return to the penitentiary. Analine Foster recently hired out to do housework for the family of a farmer near Good Intent. When cold weather came on the farmer still had a lot of corn in the field. He told his troubles at the supper table one night The young girl volunteered to help him out. This was granted. The next day she was supplied with a team and wagon. She surprised everybody by cribbing fifty bushels of corn that day. On the second day she shucked seventy-five bushels. Her average was sixty bushels a day. Secretary Coburn has made the annual distribution of bounty to the best bushels of the worst ass. He paid out $4,250.70 to seventy-five growers. Last year he paid out $1,747.26 to seventy-seven growers. The crop of sugar beets this year amounted to 8,501,400 pounds, against 3,494,720 pounds last year. The state has paid out $5,998 at $1 per ton, as bounty. This leaves $4,002 unexpended on the $10,000 appropriated. A Roman Building in England. At Castor, in Northamptonshire, on the land and boundary walls of a Roman building in covered by Mr. William le Queux. The area is 40x20 feet, and has in perfect condition its tesselated floor of red and white squares in a tasteful sections. Sections of red frescoed walls have been discovered. From the Roman pottery and glasses found, and their inscriptions, the bones, is believed that it was a Roman temp dedicated to Jupiter. There is a hollow in the center of the floor, with the base of an altar still in place. A. Mississippi Story Representative Chandler of Mississippi was speaking on the pure food bill. He extolled the food products of his own state. "I should like," broke in Representative Sims, "to ask a question about Mississippi—a question about another product of that grand old state. How are the bears born out?" "Work really well," Chandler replied. "Even Presidents cannot get them. Still, we all hoped the President would shoot one, so we could see what pure bear food we produce." OKLAHOMA BRIEFS There have been over fifteen arrests for horse stealing near Oklahoma City within the past six weeks. It is claimed there is nearly 4,000,000 acres of land in Beaver county still open to homestead. A mad dog is said to have bitten twenty-five other dogs near Okarchee Canadian county, last week. Oklahoma has 2,055,000 acres of school land from which the territory derived a revenue of $400,000 last year. The governor's report shows that the assessed value of property in Oklahoma is $48,000,000 greater for 1902 than for 1901. The annual income of the famous "101" ranch near Bliss, which contains 50,000 acres and employs 200 men, is estimated at $500,000. Ardmore is to have another opera house with a seating capacity of 1,000. It will be heated by hot water and lighted by electricity from its own plant. An evidence of improvement in the grade of Oklahoma live stock was the importation from Missouri in week by Judge Lynch. Ponca City, of forty-six registered Red Polled bulbs. El Reno has five elevators with a total capacity of 230,000 bushels of grain. Kingfisher comes second with an elevator capacity of 150,000 bushels, and Oklahoma City third with 142,000 bushels. There are in Oklahoma 2,278 schools, with an enrollment of 116,971 pupils, and 2,503 teachers. Salaries paid teachers aggregate $502,266.65. It is said the only Oklahoma bonds ever issued were to build schools. Thomas Sanders of Fason, in Southern Oklahoma, died last week of injuries received Christmas day in fighting with an unknown companion. Sanders was struck on the head with a revolver, but all attempts by the officers to secure facts regarding the fight have proven futile. The cotton compress at Shawnee has handled to date this season 23,164 bales, as against 17,432 bales for corresponding holdings it own a year. That number is noteworthy for two reasons—the increasing diversity of crops, and the number of competing trading points which have sprung up in its territory. The three new counties, Klowa Comanche and Caddo, added to Oklahoma during the past year, have brought in 70,000 people, and by virtue of the enabling act are launched free of debt for the first three years with court house, school buildings, waterworks and steel bridges all paid from the sale of town lots in the three county seats, which now have: Lawton, 8,083; Hobart, 4,116; and Anadarko, 3,500 people. INDIAN TERRITORY Indian glass manufacturers are investigating the available supply of natural gas at Bartlesville, I. T., with a view to locating a plant there. A postoffice inspector has been sent to Sapulpa, I. T., to investigate the robbery of the postoffice there. Eight hundred and seventy-five dollars in stamps and about $30 in cash was taken. There is no clue of the robbers. Printed reports have been sent out by the mine inspector of Indian Territory, which show that there are at present sixty-one mining companies doing business in the territory. The output of their mines for the year ended June 30 was 2,841,898 tons. The first deed executed and delivered to a citizen of the Creek nation has been received by the allottee, Miss Susanne Barnett, now Mrs. E. C. Shrwelle of Tulsa, properly signed by General Porter, chief of the Creek nation. General Porter has now signed and has ready for delivery 255 deeds. J. K. Daniel, a merchant of McAleter, is miseriously missing. He left home for Denison the day after Christmas. He returned in seven days and was seen by some railroad men apparently in a demented condition. The railway pond has been dragged and the whole town is in search for his body. The Indian Territory Press Association is planning summer meetings to supplement the annual business sessions. 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The German-American Dock 812 Walnut street, Kansas City, I present to the readers of this paper a few technical letters and names of future patients whom I have cured of more fear believing that the afflicted would rather correspond with some one who has been cured than read what I might say about myself. You can more likely investigate and convince yourself to the merits of my treatment. You must doubt any stater entails I must make, but you cannot help but believe the statements of those I have cured. I will ask you to write to any or all of them. If you are satisfied with what they say about my reliability and methods of treatment, write to me or call and see me. Remember that the last issue I counsel you to do is not to accept our money until you are well. Conversation by mail or in person is entirely free. I will be pleased to correspond with you regarding your DR ERNEST HENDERSON. I Very Bad Case of Rupture Cured in three Weeks. McPherson, Kans, June 8, 1989. I had a very bad case of rupture for years. I graduated from college three weeks. I cannot say too good for him. I know he can do just what he wants to do. The Doctor does not ask what he can do. He can be the patient. This is a doctor he can possibly give to any person as I was. I will answer anyone who very truly yours, A. R. OLSON. Write For My Treaties on the Cure of Rupture Sent Few. another Bad Case Permanently Cured in short time - Grateful for Same. My Dear Doctor - I desire to add my testimonial to those you have cured of rupture. My daughter is very well, without pains, and I never say from my work. I cannot say too much for cure, and would, and be back in the con- dition. I would recommend your rupture cure to any one. Do it if you wish. I am truly thank you. sffered for Years -Pronounced Incura- bable by other Doctors. Dear Doctor, I wish to state that I can most treat you—I will have been seriously treatment, with a rightful rupture that was presumed to have occurred, except, possibly, by a surgical operation. I am a surgical operative and I am satisfied, I determined to try the same and am ready for after taking your treatment for a week. I will be very grateful. Your treatment is all that you claim for it. You respectfully. You are respectfully. Kan. *Ke* WEBER GASOLINE ENGINES H.E.P. are easy to start and anyone can run the engine. line and are best for running grinders, shredders, cutters threshers, etc. The Weber Junior" Pumper, 2¼ H. equals 30 men pumping. Ship power is made fully guaranteed. Catalogue free. Weber Gas and Gasoline Engine Co. Kansas City, Mo. THE "Weber Junior" Pumper H.E.P. can also be used powered by powered by COUNTRY PUBLISHERS CO., KANSAS CITY, VOL. 3, NO. 24. DR. HENDERSON **Stricture** cured without intruments. No person detention from business. A person who has been falsely explain this disease. **Viricoccosis** cured without pain. **Phimosis** radically cured without pain. **Book** for both sexes. 99 pages 21 pictures, with full description of above disease. **Taper** for both sexes. Ice at office. **Taper** for both sexes. Ice at office. **PRE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY** for Men. 12. Mrs John Jacob Astor is believed to own the most costly ring in America it was made in Paris and has three large emeralds surrounded by diamonds. The entire circle is inscribed with tiny diamonds and the emeralds are declared to be as nearly perfect as any ever seen in Amsterdam. A flawless emerald is the rarest of gems. The ring is valued at $10,900 by experts. Sister - You've seen Mrs. Newpop's baby, haven't you? Brother—Yes, but I'm afraid Mrs. Newpop must think I don't take any interest in daughter. Slater—Of course, if you don't ask questions about it she brother. But I did ask a question: asked if it could sit up on its hind legs and but yet, and she wouldn't answer—Philadelphia Press. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Beara the Signature of Jessie Benton's Elopement. Benton's Elopement. The deal was Mrs. Jessie Benton, Fremont recalles the union of her father, Senator Benton, of Missouri, violently opposed her union to Lieutenant, afterward General, John C. Fremont. After her marriage the senator to a newspaper office and sent in a notice announcing the wedding of Jessie Benton to John C. Fremont. The editor suggested that the groom's name was usually put first, whereupon it was put second; "it will go in that way or not all Fremont did not marry my daughter; she married him." Lights From Rotary Fans NATIONAL Rotary Fans. A novel scheme has recently been evolved by which train will not only be lighted by electricity but the power will be obtained by a battery attached to the front end of the locomotive. Tests have shown that on an ordinary train five cars can be illuminated in a night, and that the battery in the morning will have nearly its maximum charge of electricity. Of the engines running on Russian railways 4,706, or 39 per cent, were built abroad, and 7,421 are the product of Russian engine-yards. The Most Costly Ring. His Question. Lutheran Minister Tell- of His Cure Lutheran Minister Tell of His Care I受救 for six years with a very bad rupture and during all of the time I wore different kinds of trusses day and night, with the hope of effect, all of them all failed—they only held the rupture in place. Upon the advice of Rev. F. Pfeffer, of Sedalia Mo., I consulted Dr Ernest Henderson, the rapist of my mother, and I cared for Mo., who cared me in a few weeks without subjecting me to a dangerous and painful operation. The cure was complete and since then I have discharged. I am now in a good place, and desired more information will please apply to me, personally or by letter. I am. Kansas City, Mo., June 3, 1900 My Dear Doctor, the rupture was so bad I could scarcely retain it with the aid of a truss. Constantly grew wore and the pain so great I could not breathe. After reaing your advertisement I considered to try your treatment: To my suppriure you cared so much for me that after each such gait of suffering I am oblately sound and well. I danced your fee with pleasure, and still feel that I owe you a debt of gratitude and still feel that by inducing others to go to your treatment. I will gladly write to anyone about my case. I considered your offer of receiving no pay until cure was effected as the best guarantee you could give. I gave me confidence in your treatment. The Following Have Been Cured of Rup- ture. I Have Cured. I Have Cured. I Have Cured. Many I Have Cured. In Writing Choreo- dromics I Have Cured. Mike Gaynor, 30 Ewing St. Kansas City, Mo. A. R. Olson, McPheron, Mana. M. R. Olson, McPheron, Mahastan. R. K. Olsen, M. Merpfeil, A.K. Robert J. Brock, county attorney, Manhattan, Kans. N. M. Kent, 401 Orchard St. Chicago, Ill. Oscar Dillon, 901 Campbell St. Kansas City, Mo. H. M. McDonald, Denison, Kan. H. M. Dobbs, 1830 N. St. Kansas City, Kans. A. Young, 1810 Winder Ave. Kansas City Mo. M. Young, 1810 Winder Ave. Kansas City Mo. Thos. Babe, Kansas City, Mo. W. C. Peak, grocer, 21 Centra. Ave. Kansas City, Kans. M. Lynn, care Goodland Manner Co. Fr. Scott, Kans. Dr. T. F. Parker, 157 Brooklyn Ave., Kansas City, Kans. Hermann Sagell, Kansas City, Mo. Wm. Lynn, Lansman, Kans. M. G. Martell, 719 Fell St. St. Joseph, Mo. Fred Harper, 2011 Indiana Ave, Kansas City, Mo. William Weltman, 410 Landis Court, Kansas City. Mo. Roy F. Pfeiffer, Sedalia, Mo. Roy F. Champion, Armour Station, Kansas City Kans. J. T. Wood, merchant, Greenwood, Mo. Chas. T. Hummert, 49. Edmond St., St. Joe, Mo. Will B. Castor, 11 N. Spring Ave, St. Louis, Mo. E. R. Demorest, Kansas City, Mo. R. B. Griffith, Temple Bldg, Kansas City, Mo. Thes. McMghon, 74 N. 7th St, St. Louis, Mo. R. B. Demorest, keeper 109 E. 10th St., sedence 812 Loe 38 St., Kansas City, Mo. child 18 months old. G. F. Shaw, assistant county surveyor, Inde pendence, M. O. Baker, Bakehall &ummitt Kane. Over Precipice Did Not Hurt Big Rocky Mountain Ram. The man who tells of having been forced to kill a deer out of season to save himself from being run over by a black tall has been vindicated. Such stories have always been put down as merry jests over an infraction of the game laws, or as fictions inspired by the pipe. But George W. Wilson, a Denver contractor, vouches for an incident that occurred in the mountains a short time ago which shows that fact may be stranger than dreams. He is interested in an enterprise that contemplates bringing the waters of the upper Grand river across the range to irrigate the land in the Poudre valley. Men have been at work for several months constructing a ditch in the neighborhood of Cameron Pass, between the headwaters of the Grand the Cache la Poudre. "A gang of our men were eating dinner on a bridge on the mountain side," said Mr. Wilson, "when they were astounded to see a mountain sheep drop in their midst as if from the clouds. It was a big ram, with enormous horns. It landed among them, scattering the cups and dishes and creating consternation. The foreman threw down a coffee pot and grabbed at the animal's legs, and several of the boys sprang up to help him. But the man quickly quited for them. It gained its footing in a moment and sprang away, and was soon bounding up the rocks. Reaching a safe place on an overhanging cliff, it stopped and pawed with excitement. "The boys watched the performance in amazement. Before any of them could recover his self-possession enough to go for a gun the big horn poised and gathered itself for a few seconds and then leaped out into space. Evidently it had tried this jump when it alighted in the camp. This time, however, it made a more accurate calculation and put more force into its effort, for it shot away over the men, descending in the rocks below him. It struck on uneven ground, rolled over several times, but in an instant was on its feet and bounding down the mountain side and was soon out of reach and sight."—Denver Post. Legacy for Emperor William. Emperor William has lately come in for a very large legacy. It may be remembered that some years ago a retired merchant of the name of Hilderbrand presented to the kaiser a magnificent chateau and estate at Arco in Austria, which the emperor accepted and converted into a convalescent home for officers of his army and navy. Hilderbrand is now dead and is found to have bequeathed his entire fortune to the kaiser, including a large property and chateau in Switzerland. The emperor has accepted the bequest. Had Seen the Mother. "Will you marry me?" tremblingly inquired the honest youth of the cow daughter of the grass widow. "Oh kind sir," answered the diffident maid, "you must ask mamma first." "I did," avers the truthful swain, "but she said she couldn't have me, as she was enged to old Goldrox." "Judge There are now at work in the river of the middle island of New Zealand about 240 dredges, each costing from $25,000 to $70,000, with the object of extracting gold from the deposits in the beds of the streams. The "Weber Junior" O Pumper Can also be used as a Weber power purge e.g. DARING LEAP Had Been the Mother ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` By means of clever manipulation of a camera shutter odd "freak" photographs are produced that bewilder and puzzle the unsophisticated. Here, for instance, is a picture of what seems to be a boy with two heads. The sitter hasn't, of course, any more heads than the average human is endowed with. In making the photograph a flash- ODD BOOK SELLING In Etamboul there are several book-stores the proprietors of which are either Persians, Arabians, Abyssinians or Turks. Not in the frequented streets are these stores, but in dark and narrow alleys. The books in them comprise various editions of the Koran, translated into all the languages of the Orient; theological and historical treatises on the Koran in the Turkish, Persian and Arabic tongues, annals which clearly prove that all the sultans of the Ottoman dynasty were prodigies of genius and sanctity; marvelous fairy tales and stories of adventure, which are more or less fantastic and the sole object of which is to prove that no one should be considered honest, intelligent and happy unless he is a Turkish Muslim man unless he has the wealth of turban; unless he lives in Stamboul all his life without ever quitting it even for a day, and unless he regards as utterly fabulous all that he hears about Europe. A Mussulman is forbidden to sell a copy of the Koran, and, therefore a foregather who desires to purchase the sacred book must proceed as follows: Go into the bookstore, having on your face as plous an expression as possible, and say to the proprietor: "I shall consider myself eternally indebted to you who will present me with a copy of the Koran." "As I am a devout believer," the proprietor will answer, "I think it my duty to assist any unbeliever who desires to instruct himself in our law. Moreover, you seem to be a serious man, and I am convinced that it is not vain curiosity which prompts you to obtain a copy of the Koran. I am not a believer our religion. Therefore I am willing to make you a present of this copy though I value it highly, for I paid a good price for it." You will then put the book in your pocket, and a minute or two later the proprietor will say: "I shall consider myself eternally your debtor if you will make me a present of——" naming a certain sum. If you think the price too high you may bargain with him, but you must take care not to make the alghental alliance to the city of the Korean in your pocket, for in disposing of it the proprietor has clearly brothon the law, and it would not be good policy for you to remind him of that fact. **WATCHES FOR MENELIK** Scarcely anything in Europe interests the Emperor Menelik, of Abyssina, so much as the watches which are made there, and his courtiers say that when- THIS MOUNTAIN Much has recently been heard of Central American volcanoes, and one of the most remarkable of them is the famous Izalco, otherwise known as the "Lighthouse of Central America." AFFECTION OF SEALS Natural affection of seals (in their wild state) is well shown in the following anecdote: A gentleman living in Oregon, on the ocean shore, one day caught in a very simple manner a young seal. It had been stranded on the plank wharf by a receding tide and left high and uncomfortably dry as well. It had not strength to waddle into the water and no one to teach it the tricks of its tribe. The gentleman kept the little glossy creature for several days, and then in pty turned it into its native element. It came to the wharf every night and whispered so that he was obliged to The Bishop's Black Heart. Bishop Vincent, of the Methodist church and one of the founders of the Chautauqua circle, tells of an incident, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, that helped to make interesting the summer he spent in the mountains of Tennessee. He rolling thoughtfully along one day, he suddenly found himself in the midst of a very active camp meeting of negroes. Two or three ministers present recognized him, introduced him to others, and soon the bishop found himself so popular that he was fairly dragged to the speaker's platform and asked to say something to the assemblage. He light exposure was made, the sitter posing his head far to one side. After the exposure he remained in the chair, exactly as he had sat for the photographer, but changed the pose of his head, inclining it in the opposite direction. While thus posed the second flashlight exposure was made upon the same plate, with the result shown. ever he visits Europe he will spend much of his time in watch factories, especially in those of Switzerland. A chronometer which only varies 10 seconds in two months was recently presented to him. He was deeply impressed with it. He will probably, however, be more impressed with watch which is now being manufactured for him in Zurich, since it is provided with a complete set of bells, and as regards form, it is a perfect miniature copy of Westminster Abbey. ST. BERNARD'S MONUMENT One of the most conspicuous and attractive monuments in Europe is the statue of St. Bernard, which has been erected on the mountain known as the Ile de la Rochelle. The statue is a faithful likeness of the great churchman, and, as it stands ```markdown ``` on a lofty eminence, can be seen for a great distance. Moreover, the memory of St. Bernard is affectionately cherished by all those who live near the mountain, and hence the statue is more than a mere artifact for it to bring religious symbol and an enduring memoir of a good man's life. IN A BEACON It is situated in San Salvador—a mighty cone, from the summit of which ascends a pillar of cloud by day and a column of fire at night. The whole mountain is built up of ejected volcanic material. take it out again and keep it in a small tank, the seal giving every demonstration of affection, after the manner of a young dog. A private message from Oberlin, O. gives the information that a New Englander, who does not wish his name to be known, has given Oberlin college $50,000 to form a part of the new $500-000 fund for the endowment and equipment of the college. The gift was unsolicited. 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The Danish government manages more than half of the railroad system of the country and has no reason to be pleased with the results of its experience. In four years, from 1898 to 1901, the surplus of 4,000,000 francs has fallen to less than 500,000 francs, and that in spite of a steady increase in receipts. For the present year a further diminution is anticipated. While the length of the system has commenced to economically the same the number of employees has increased by 1,400, while their wages have increased steadily. This is apart from the guarantee of interest and subventions, granted at the request of the deputies, to lines managed by private companies. It might be supposed, perhaps, that in the presence of such a state of affairs the Danish government and deputies are ready to give up these practices. Not at all. To make up for the deficit in the budget of railroads they intend merely to raise all rates for transportation, for passengers, freight, postal packages, even for letters, which amounts to making everybody pay, through the increased rates, for the fancles of a few. This example should be enough for the advocates of the state purchase of railroads in France. -Le Petit Nicols. The March of Science. Oolite, Ind, January 12th.—That Oolite is right abreast of the times in the use of the most recent discoveries in Medical Science is shown by recent cases in which those dreaded Kidney Complaints that cause so many deaths have been completely removed by the new Remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills. Many people in this neighborhood tell of achres relieved and pains departed because of the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. One of these is W. A Terry, the well known Grocer. Here is his story: "I suffered for four months with Kidney and Bladder Trouble and was so bad that I was almost unable to my bed. I was relieved until I discovered using Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I could notice an improvement the second day I took the pills. I would recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to all sufferers from Kidney Complaints. Maps Are Incorrect. It is a popular saying in Scotland that when the North Pole is discovered a Scotchman will be found settled there. It is not surprising, therefore, to find a Scotchman setting matters right in the matter of the Canadian Rockies. The existing maps are all wrong, according to the Rev. James Outram, the gentleman in question. Mountains of great size exist where none are shown on the official charts. One he discovered stands 11,700 feet above sea level. Mr. Outram explored an ice field which he estimates to be 200 square miles in area. It supplies water to three different oceans—the Atlantic by way of the Saskatchewan, the Arctic by the Athabasca and the Pacific by the Columbia river. Fixing the Wedding Date. A curious old marriage custom, called locally "the settling," still survives in County Donegal, Ireland, and in the Scottish districts of Kintyre and Cowal. After the marriage has been publicly announced, the friends of the couple meet at the house of the bride's parents to fix a suitable date for the ceremony. A bottle of whisky is opened, and as each guest drinks to their happiness, he names a date. When each guest has named a date, an average is struck, and "settling" is complete. Neither the bride nor the bridegroom ever thinks of protecting against the date so curiously chosen. A Difference of Opinion. "How did that poem of yours turn out?" "Oh," answered the author, "there was the difference of opinion that usually attends the production of a masterpiece. The postmaster insisted that it was first-class matter, and the editor insisted that it was not." - Washington Star. The *9* is a proposition on foot in Vermont, which has recently experienced a sort of political awakening, to change the capital from Montpelier to Burlington, the chief commercial city of the Green Mountain state. When a young man puts salt and pepper on his buckwheat cakes and doesn't notice his mistake you are perfectly justified in asking who the girl is. - Onio State Journal. One million dollars have been given for a school of education at Chicago university and about half this amount will be expended on an enormous building. "Coffin江" Fitchette, the last of the jurors empounded to try Jefferson W THE DESIGN OF THE NEW COINS Gold and Silver Pieces Planned for the Phillipines—Medals for Heroes. Charles E. Barber, chief coiner at the Philadelphia mint, has been in Washington in consultation with the director of the mint and the secretary of war in regard to designs for a new medal of honor and for the silver coins which will be issued for the Philippine islands if the bill now pending in the senate relating to the currency of the archipelago becomes law. The present medal of honor, which is issued by authority of congress, to soldiers for distinguished service and personal bravery, was designed forty years age, and is not considered, either in artistic merit or design, appropriate for the present day. In the case of silver coins for the Philippines it is proposed to get up the designs and prepare the dies in anticipation of the passage of the bill. This is a tedious work, requiring great care and involving labor that will extend over several weeks. The prevailing distress in the Philippines growing out of the depreciation of the silver currency in use there and the imperative urgency of remedial legislation encourage the secretary of war and other responsible officials to increase the speed action on the relief bill, and in anticipation of that it is proposed to have the mint begin work at once on the silver coins. The bill makes the United States gold dollar of 25.8 grains the standard unit of value, thus placing the islands on a gold basis. It also authorizes the coinage and peso of 416 grains, two of which are to have the value of one gold dollar. It is estimated at the war department that it will take about six months to get the dies prepared. At a conference held recently between the director of the mint and Colonel Edwards, chief of the insular bureau, the design for the coins were passed upon, and Colonel Edwards intends to have the work begun immediately. The design for the silver peso is to bear the words, "Un Peso - Filippins," with a female figure striking a hammer on an anvil. In the distance a pollenicoin is seen. The copper coins are to bear the same scene, with a male figure sitting by the anvil. On the reverse is the American shield, surmounted by an eagle, and the words, "United States of America," with the date.—Washington Post. What Happened When One Mr. Good Came Home to Dinner. When Mr. Good came home to dinner he found his wife in a state akin to despondency, which was quite unusual with her. "Why my dear, what is the matter?" he anxiously inquired. "Matter enough," said she. "Our servant has left us, and here is a letter from Sarah Armitage saying she will be here tomorrow, and expects to stay over Sunday with us. What on earth is to be done? "Oh, that will be all right," said Mr. Good. "Harold can act as dining room waiter, Millie can be maid of all work, and you can be cook. You know you are a good one. We will get along swimmingly." "And what will you do?" quietly inquired Mrs. Good. "Me? Oh, I'll be gentleman," he replied. "Very well, we will try our plan, Edmund," she said cheerfully, "but I am afraid that we shall feel rather awkward in our unaccustomed roles." Mr. Good says she was as cheerful as a lark all the remainder of the evening.—Cassell's Journal. Dr. Milburn's Prophecy. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the United States senate, who has resigned, being now in his eighteenth year, once said to a senator: "Never allow a session to be opened without prayer having been first offered. If you do my boys will be sure to get into trouble." The same senator recalls that on the day of the Tillman-Mo Laurin fraces Dr. Milburn was too ill to attend and the session was opened without prayer. The verable chaplain devoutly believes that the double resulted from that omission. The Standard Oil company authorizes the statement that it does not own or control any part of the producing territory of either the Beaumont oil field in Texas or the Jennings field in Louisiana and has never sought to do so. Spencer Trask of New York and George Foster Peabody of Brooklyn have a force of workmen employed in remodeling Crosbyshire, a hotel on Lake George, where they will establish a vacation home for the young women The Largest Charcoal Iron Plant. Cordwood in excess of 100,000 cords is now piled up along the tracks of of the Marquette & Southeastern rail road, ready to be hauled to Marquette Mich. for use in making charcoal for the Pioneer iron company's million dollar blast furnace soon to go into commission and for the company's Carp river furnace, also located in Marquette. It will require 6,400 cords of wood to charge the eighty kilns at the new furnace, each being of eighty cords capacity, and with the plant in operation 225 cords daily will be required, or the capacity of three kilns. This will be the largest charcoal iron plant in the world. Close to 5 million acres of hardwood lands comprising the pick of the upper peninsula, are owned by the company also three railroads with an aggregate size of 159, valuable mines and mine sites, Ishpening Negaeune district that assure an ore supply for a generation to come—Cleveland Plain Dealer. POOR MAN'S CHANCE It is being said in many Eastern journals and not a few Western ones that the day of the poor man in mining is gone by; that no one but a big corporation can succeed in mining any more; that it takes big capital to do anything; that most of the good mining propositions are controlled by millionaires and that there is no longer a poor man with a little money. This is all a mistake. The day of the "poor" mining man was never brighter nor greater than right now. The assertion that most of the good mines are owned by trusts or millionaires is heard most often, but there is least in that of any of the pessimistic utterances. One hears of the big millaire owners more than he does of the hundreds of substantial companies that go right on with little notoriety, paying good wages and monthly yielding dividends. Finally, it may be justly said in an swer to the assertion that opportunity no longer exists for the man with a little money, that never in the world's history were there fluer opportunit in mining for the man with a little money than in the west half of Amer ica today. Are you interested? Send for our Booklet, it will cost you nothing and will aid you in making money. H.A. RIEDEL & CO., Bankers and Brokers, Colorado Springs, Colorado SLOWLY RISING TEMPERATURE Representative John Williams of Mississippi the Center of a Groupe. Representative John Williams, of Mississippi, was the center of a group of members in the Democratic cloak room a few days ago and story telling was the special order of business Mr. Williams had the floor. "I had a law partner once down in Mississippi," he said, "who began to feel the effects of long years of hard work at his profession and he was advised by his physician to go to the Arkansas Hot Springs and take the baths. The day of his arrival an attendant shut him up in a bathroom, and giving him a thermometer, told him to let the hot water run until it had reached a certain temperature and then shut it off. "The old fellow had more clear grit than any man I ever knew. When the attendant went back, an hour later, my partner was standing up in a tub of boiling hot water. The skin was fairly cooked off his feet, but he vowed he wouldn't get out till the specified temperature had been registered. He was holding the thermometer up in front of his face instead of putting it in one water."—Wash lington Post. Oldest Senator in Service After an interval of many years Nevada will have, after March 4, a Democratic senator. The retirement of John P. Jones of that state will leave William Allison of Iowa the senator, in unbroken service. He first took his seat on March 4, 1873, and by subsequent elections has served continuously since, a period of thirty years. His present term will not expire until March 4. Senator Allison is a native of Ohio. He was a member of the house of representatives for four terms before his election to the senate. The state of Texas has pending just now a controversy as to its boundaries, the irregularity and uncertainty of which have been in dispute before. Several Southern states have pending and a few Southern cities as well. The long contention over the boundary line between Grayson and Carroll counties, Virginia, has recently been established by a survey. The Chinese emperor, in his capacity of high priest, has to offer at least forty-six sacrifices to different gods. American Citizen American Citizen Publishing and Printing Co. VERY WEEK AT 411 MINESOTA AVE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. telephone "755 Blue" W. C. Martin Editor Terms Of Subscription. week y one year ..... $1.0 Entered at the pos. Officer Kansas City Kansas as second class matter Stones were formed into the shape of beetles by the ancient Egyptians. They regarded the beetle as an emblem of immortality, and hence it was the most popular of all forms of ornament. Counterfeit beetles of goanna stones were commonly buried with dead persons, and it was customary to engrave upon them the expression of wishes for future repose and happiness, dedications of the soul to God and various hieroglyphs. One of the latter was a hawk with a human head, symbolizing resurrection. Another, the vulture, meant maternity. A goose was the son of a king. "She had just refused a man worth a million." "Is it possible? Any rational explanation of her act?" "Oh, yes. She had just accepted another man worth a million." Blobbs—Do you consider it good luck to pick up a pin? Slobbs—Well, I guess it's better luck to pick up one than to sit down on it—Philadelphia Record. "We tried a new breakfast food at our house this morning." "What was it?" "Reefstak—Chicago Tribune." DRY CREEK LOCALS. Red Mike's saloon was raided last night and ten gallon of whisky and a caddy of Willow Twist tobacco was stolen. The fact that the Three Leaf Temperance club held a late session last night may furnish Mike a clue. Bill Feverdrops was released from the city jail this morning on the promise that he would behave himself and help his wife do the washing. Bill is a rattling good fellow when he is sober, but it is hard to catch him that way. The Carrie Nation society held its second meeting 'a the rear of Bill Ackmaker's hardware store last night. The meeting was opened with prayer and closed sine die. This final action was taken owing to the high price of hatchets in Dry Creek. Joe Smith lost a valuable dog Monday. It was thought at first that someone had given the dog poison with malicious intent, but a post-mortem examination disclosed one of Mrs. Smith's breakfast biscuits in the dog's stomach. Joe has our sympathy. The Buzzard gives divine notice right here, once for all, that no more free church notices will be published in these columns unless a ticket to the whole performance accompanies the copy. We are down on begging societies and religious lotteries anyway, and we don't propose to be a willing accomplice to the game unless there is something in it for us. Sam Lander, of Coyote Glush, was in town yesterday, the first time since he buried his mother. Sam hadn't been here two hours until he was fuller than a bath sponge and be insisted on shooting the ears off of a gentleman from Omaha. Sam was finally chased out of town by the marshal, and as we go to press some of the boys are trying to coax the man from Omaha to come out from under the meeting house. A box of dried up cake from the beating boards of the Hodges-Blatz wedding reached this office two days after the charming Miss Blatz had thrown herself away by marrying Tom Hodges. If Tom thinks he can buy space in this paper and resistate himself in our innocent affections by sending us a box of cutlings from his table, he's mistaken. He was afraid to invite us to the wedding because he knew we used to be sweet on the girl he film-flammed into marrying him. The bride has the sympathy of the entire community.- Dry Creek Buzzard. STAGE WHISPERS. "Tsar Fortis," a new play by Count Folstol, will soon be staged at Nijm Novgorod. Francis Wilson has in view a plan to revive al his old-time successes next season and this is being discussed now by his managers. Sybil Sanderson is giving a series of concerts at Budapest, after which she will sing at the Wintergarten, Berlin, and then return to Paris. It has been settled that R. D. McLean and Oddett Tyler will be under the management of W. G. Smyth next season, and they intend to make at least two elaborate Shakespearean productions. Sadie Martinot will soon begin a starring tour in "Sapho," under Louis Nethersole's management, and supported by Olga Nethersole's company. Next season Miss Martinot will star in a new play by Clyde Fitch. James K. Hackett is going to play next season Victor Mapes' drama, "Don Caesar's Return" which Richard Mansfield put in rehearsal last autumn, but subsequently shelved because of his revival of "King Henry w." Mrs. H. H. C. De Mille and Harrie Ford have been at work during the winter on a new play for Richard Mansfield, founded on the life of Reubenbrandt. Last summer these authors went to Holland in order to study the history and atmosphere of their subject. HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS. Colored tissue paper is better than white for wrapping up laces and ribbons to be laid away. White SOAP CHIPS OF DIAMOND C SOAP MAKE Washing Easy Complete catalogue showing over 300 premiums that may be secured by saving wrappers, furnished free upon request. Send your name on a postal card, and we will mail you the catalogue . . . . CURES DIPLOMATIC AMBITION. A Short Term in the Zanzibar Con- vailable Generally Sufficient Bushship Generally Sufficient. Consulable consultations have long given rise to humorous incidents. But Zanzibar, to which the President has appointed Mason Mitchell, a rough rider, seems to be in the lead in an attractiveness, if the length of consular terms proves any test, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post. Indiana has usually claimed the honor of furnishing candidates for this place, but after the resignation of a man named Rogers of Shoales, the Indiana senator notified the President that they were through with it. They had constituents who were willing to take chances, but the senators were not prepared to promise that these venerous individuals would stay more than a month. Before Rogers took the place it was held for nearly a year by "Bob" Mansfield, at one time privilege secretary to Senator Beveridge and now consult at Valparaiso. Mansfield came back, according to Indian descriptions, 'as thin as a toothpill and as yellow as June butter.' He said he had stuck it out as long as the insurance company would let him and that he returned to save his preimmuns. Before Mansfield, there was an Indianian named Billheimer, described as a husky Hoosier, with a large nose and frame pickled in maleria. He was cured of diplomatic ambition in about two months, and has never asked for a place since Before Billheimer, Judge Riley of Virginia served; he remained as long as his aversion to the negroes would permit. Finally, he is said to have taken a gun and emptied a load of fine birdshot into the dusky natives who persisted in taking a daily bath in front of the American consulate which, the Judge "allowed," was an indignity to be resented by this government's representative. HE LIKES FRIED POTATOES. Grand Duke Alexis Has a Favorite Dish, So They Say. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia is very fond of fried potatoes, and during his recent visit to Paris he was wont to buy a few every day from a woman in the street and to eat them beside her stall. The woman did not know him, but as he paid her in princely fashion, she was very anxious to find out who he was. "I can tell you who he is," said a neighbor one day. "He is Grand Duke Alexis, uncle of the czar and one of the greatest men in Russia." Utterly amazed, the woman asked: "In heaven's name, how should I address him?" "Oh, call him 'Your Excellency,' or 'Your Royal Highness,' was the answer. The woman resolved to do so, and the next day, as she was sprinkling some salt over the smoking potatoes which the grand duke had bought, she said: "I can recommend them to your royal highness, for I know your excellency has never tasted better potatoes." The grand duke burst out laughing, and paid more for the potatoes than he had ever paid before, but he was annoyed at finding himself recognized and never returned to buy another potato. Girard Was Considerate. Girard Was Considerate. One of the sea captains in the employ of Stephen Girard had a rural Yankee's fondness for whittling with his jackknife, and on one trip succeeded in getting away with a large part of the rail, although, feeling that he was not without the artistic sense, he really regarded the rail as greatly improved in appearance. When the vessel came to Philadelphia Girard went aboard, made a general inspection in the captain's absence, and, as he was about to return to shore, asked one of the seamen who had been outting the rail. The seaman told him the captain, and then, afraid his telling might have unpleasant consequences were the captain to learn of it in a roundabout way, informed that official of the interview with Girard. The captain was in terror of a reprimand, but, hearing nothing from his employer, supposed the incident closed. As he was about weighing anchor ready to leave port, a dray loaded with shingles drove down to the wharf, and the driver hailed the vessel. "There must be some mistake! shouted the captain, "Our bill of lading doesn't mention shingles!" "This is where they belong!" sung back the driver, "Mr. Girard, himself, told me to deliver them! He said they're for the captain to whittle!" Gillette a Real Sherlock Holmes. William Gillette, whose impersonation of Sherlock Holmes has become so famous, has acquired much of the running of the character he portrays, and on being interviewed by the newspaper reporters extracts from them all they know without himself imparting any information. On his return from Europe the other day all the Boston sorbises sought to learn of his future plans, but were obliged to abandon the effort. He took the Job. A characteristic story is told of Abe Gruber, the well-known New York lawyer. When he was a boy looking for something to do he saw the sign, "Boy Wanted," hanging outside a store in New York. He picked up the sign and entered the store. The proprietor met him. "What did you bring that sign in here for?" asked the storekeeper. "You won't need it any more," said Gruber, cheerfully. "I'm going to take the job." A scarcity of sailors more generously than ever before in the history of Maine shipping prevails at the present time, and the wages of seamen have risen to an unusual point. Our Quote the Smallest In time of war France puts 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the said: Germany 310; Russia 310. Publication|Notice In the district court t of Wyandotte county Kansas. James N. Turner, pla n vs. Josie Turner, defendant, To the above armed defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 23rd day of January 1633, the petition fled against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and for ever divorcing plaintiff from said defendant and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for plaintiff. In the district court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Edward Divers, plaintiff, vs. To the above named defendant, that you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 15th day of January 1963, the petition files said case will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered against you a nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from you, the said defeant, and for cost of said suit. Executor's Notice State of Kansas, {s. County of Wyattone, {s. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of Peter Lugibli, Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said county, to be begun and in Kansas City County of Wyattone and State of said, on the first Monday in the month, January S. A. D. 1903. We shall apply to said Court for a full final settlement of said estate. Stibilla Lugibli, Mary Scheller, Annual Haven, Frances Hinton Estate of Peter Lughibh. Deceased. December 1st, A. D. 1902. Dec. 12. Notice of Final Settlement. STATE of KANSAS. WYANDOTTE COUNTY. In the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the Estate of Mahala A. Robertson, decease. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mahala A. Robertson, late of sale County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the State aftersaid, cited the 7th day of Novem- ber. Now, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that we 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 3 years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. WILLIAM S. PATTerson. eater of the last will and testament of Mahala A. Robertson, deceased. Publicstion Notice State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte, ss. In the Pichate Court in and for said County In the matter of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. Letter given that Letters of Ad- ministration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate Anthony Dudley, lated said County, deceased, by the Honor- able, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid the 18th day of November 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the under signed for allowance with one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from the understated; and that if such claims be exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. ELIZA DUDLEY. Administratrix of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. When you want Coal. 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Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, widow of the former vice-president, consented to sell the home where her husband spent his last years, to make way for building improvements in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis negro, Cantrell, under arrest for grave robbing and confessing the crime, is a graduate of Tuskegee university. Professor Woodrow Wilson's inauguration as president of Princeton university, to which he was elected last June, will take place on Saturday, October 25. The Citizen Better keep your W SOLICIT YOUR JONES, MA —DEALI Fancy and St FEED AND Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave, ARE YOU DEAF? ALL CA DEAFNESS OR ARE NOW by our new invention. Only HEAD NOISES CEAN P. A. WERMAN, OF Gentleman: — Being entirely cured of deafness a full history of my case, to be used at your diary. About five years ago, my right ear began to my hearing in this ear entirely. 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