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have no trouble retails. No tron- with subscribers have the expe- rience, and you the way—pass the this way. By F. L. JELTZ. R CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST; 1900. Hon. Chas, Curtis, ANNOUNCEMENTS, FOR REPRESENTATIVE, hereby announce to the many readers of STATE LEDGER that I am a candidate the Legislature from the 38th Dist, Sub- to the Republican Primaries April 14th to, Aivin J. Dodge. I am a candidate for REPRESENTA- TE from the 37th District, subject to the publican primaries, April 14th. FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY. MA CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE County Attorney of Shawnee county , sub- to the Republican primary election to eid April 14, 1900. Chas. F. Spencer. FOR STATE SENATOR, AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATE SEN- orat the coming Republican Primaries April 14th 1900. T. W. Harrison. AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENator subject to Republican primaries to held April 14, 1900, Ino, T, Chaney, FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. AM A CANDIDATE FOR SUPERIN- dent of Public Instruction, subject to the Republican primary election to be held on a day, April 14, 1900. S. P. Wright. FOR PROBATE JUDGE. FOR PROBATE JUDGE, whereby announce my candidacy for the place of Probate Judge subject to the Repub- lin Primaries held this spring W. E. Fagan. J. Bevelle, has authorized us to announce that he is a candidate for Probate Judge of ownee County subject to the primary action this spring. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, W. C. Stephenson hereby announces his candidacy for County Commissioner for the strict containing he 2nd, 3rd and 4th wards subject to the Republican primaries. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER subject to the Repub- lin Primaries. April 14th 1900. I am a candidate for County Commissioner subject to the Republican Primaries held this spring. J, M, Miller. There is going to be lots of fun in 1900. This way of trving to bluff us will cut no ice, That is echoes of the past. Charley Spencer the only candidate tor County Attorney is going to win, place your bets on him. Judge Hazen is going to have opposition. Also Senator Martin takes the race as an independent candidate against him. There is a likelihood of Ed McKeever having some opposition at last, Thos. McNeal is quoted as being a candidate again' him for the City District. We intend to go after the Negro- haer right and left. Nothing stares us in the face that frighten even death will not frighten us from our honest and truthful course. Justice is our motto, Some ducks that belong to the puddle family presumes they are particular smart "ere long we shall see. We don't claim to be in the swim but we are still in the news- paper business, We don't care how much you fight us it's just what you have been doing since we started 8 years ago. The versatile Galen Nichols uno against it hard and fast. Glad to predict he is sure to be the last man in the sace for County Attorney. The State Ledger. TOPEKA. KANSAS, MARCH, 6, 1900. COL. HARRISON. IS CERTAINLY GAINING SUPPORT. Since the announcement of Col Harrison for State Senator from this county, there has been coming a great wave of sentiment in his favor. As a matter of fact no one can speak other than in words of praise for him for the good he has done this city when he was Mayor. Those kinds acts of this goodman are not forgotten: he stands well with all classes and if nominated and elected no one need feel afraid of Shawnee County not being treated fairly. There is a good deal more to be considered than many people suppose, first of all some one should represents the people who can do something, get a few things for the benefit their of constituents. These neccessary matters will not be overlooked by Col. Harrison in case he is elected. He is a man so thoroughly acquainted with every one till his demands in the interest of Shawnee County will be granted merely by the asking. His war record is a very remarkable one. The senate will be made up largely of men of the Col's calibre and standing, hence he will be no stranger in the State Senate of Kansas. This position was ably represented and looked after by an ex-union veteran Major Anderson and now following in his steps, Col. Harrison has been asked to succeed him. The Col. did not desire to make the race but was urged to do so on the grounds that he was the right man for the place, and that the people had confidence in him to represent all classes alike. The primaries are not held till the 14th of next month which will be on Saturday and it is the duty of all laborers as others to take an active party in the selection of their choice for State Senator. Col. Harrison's opponent in this fight is the present State Senator Jno, T. Chaney, Mr. Choney has a following especially among the young crowd. George H. Elliott, George A. Edge, Willis Edson, G. Huron and others. Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your petition requesting that I be a candidate for the State Senate at the Republican primaries in this county on April 14th, 1900. I thank you most heartily for confidence shown by these numerous signed petitions. If I can be of any assistance to the old soldiers the laboring classes and the business interests of this county my time and best energies are at their service. Two years ago I was asked to be a candidate for this same position, but then declined in favor of an older and more deserving Union Veteran. Believing that this request is made in good faith I do not feel at liberty to decline it and therefore accept the invitation and consent to be a candidate for the position named. And if chosen for that position I pledge my best service to the interests of the Republican party and the masses of the people. WAS IT Political Conspiracy? The sudden withdrawal of F. E. Kutz from the race for County Supt, has set the people to talking, suggesting and discussing. Many believe that the withdrawal of Kutz meant a well organized combination against Prof. S. F. Wright, for County Supt. In an interview with F. E. Kutz recently he said "don't quote me as being in favor of Van,") meaning Vanorsdol. He was asked what effect would his pulling off have toward Vanorsdol. He said that so long as the teachers were opposed to Mr. Wright, and there were three candidates from the North side; he deem it feasible and good politics to act as he had. "However said Kutz,"if Mr. Wasson of Rossville was in the race, I would be for him." Kutz knowing at the same time that Wasson was an enthusiastic Vanorsdol man and could not be dragged into the fight, leaving the field to Wright a nd Vanorsdol; and meaning his and Wasson's strength should go to Vanorsdol which was all that was necessary to nominate him. In reply to these statements, we assured Mr. Kutz while the teachers as he said were objectionable to Mr. Wright, yet they did not run nor manipulate politics in this county, and with every teacher against Mr. Wright for personal reasons he could be nominated. This opposition as we understand is mere personal, Wright being a man who is positive and determined and will condescend to no imperious faction, hence he is being fought and back-bitten by these gentlemen—Kutz, Wasson et-al. However the voters of Shawnee County just have begun to crush bossism in the bud, and ring rule is sure to be defeated at the polls on April 14th, notwithstanding the combination, Mr. Wright will grow stronger among people of all classes whose faces are dark yet their votes stands for as much as President McKinley's. Mr. Vanorsdol and his well regu-lated coterie will be much wiser instruc-tors after the primaries next month. We believe in fairness but combinations, rings and cliques must be relegated to the barnyards from whence they sprang. Readers of this paper must understand we are on the defensive and no fair minded intelligent vo-ter white or colored can support any combination against S. F. Wright, LOOKTHEM OVER Since going to press last if you will notice the removal of announcement from our columns, why? Because we would not except any terms but judicious prices. Any man who fails to pay them should not become a candidate for office under no circumstances. Hence you see why we yanked the same out of our paper. A SURE WINNER. A/vin J Dodge of Oakland who is an employee of the Santa Fe Company for 17 years standing and candidate for Representative in the 38th District Oakl and and Tecumseh Townships first and second ward of Topeka is a winner at the polls April 14th. He is the right man for the place. The Man Whom A. L. Brooke The Third--Termer Must Beat April 14th. A very interesting Legislature fight is now on in the 37th District of Shawnee County between J. B. Sims, and A. L. Brooke who wants to go back to the Legislature for the third term which is rather surprising-yet he is in the race. If the citizens of Rossville, Silver Lake, Menoken, Williamsport, Monmouth, Auburn and other townships serve Mr. Brooke rightly he will receive an everlasting defeat at their hands on April 14. This will have a tendency to show the third-termers that every time they dip snuff the public don't have to sneeze. Mr. Sims is a well known stock feeder and grower, living eight miles southwest of Topeka where he has lived since 1872. He came to Kansas that year with his parent and with his father Major William Sims engaged in farming and stock raising. He has made a success. He graduated from the Clinton, Ill. High school before coming to Kansas, and his large interest in this county is due to his judicious management and his superior qualifications. Mr. Sims has never asked for any office in the past, but being urged by his many friends he has decided to enter the race. Mr J. B. Sims is the son of Major William Sims of the First National Bank of this city: if nominated and elected he will make the right man in the right place. It is only a question of time as to his success. No candidate for a third term can defeat an honorable citizen like Mr. J. B. Sims. The time has come that new material is demanded, and the people are not slow in this age to urge such claims. We predict an overwhemling success for Mr. Sims and a down right defeat of his opponent-Brooke, who has had his say, and seen his day, and now it is now cawning in a New Era. When Jesus wept he didn't weep because he was such a coward, neither was he afraid but, because there were fools whom he came to save that railed him and didn't know what they were doing. And just so it is today, men will revile us simply because they don't know any better or just because some big mouth enemy comes along and speaks ill of us ne to takes the burden to himself and begins to kick and snort such causes his own defeat: Every one is discussing chicken pox. And Ed Howes lay sermons that will be published in the State Journal during the week of March 13th. A woman who likes to lie is dangerous reptile. We have no sympathy for a man who only in the days of trouble call on his friends. Our letter on the Sheldon Edition will soon appear getting ready to pack your clothes. Those candidates who intend to capture the colored vote had better be quick-else it will all be gone. W, C, Stephenson candidate for County Commissioner to succeed T, P, Rogers was highly favored by the Young Men's First Voter Club Monday evening. FOR SALE. 4 room cottage on Chesnut street 1 lot five location, price $400, 50 cash payments. 2 room house nice and neat, 1 1/2 lots, on Lime street 325- $50 cash balance payment. 2 room house nice and neat. 1 price, $150, cash, 25. See us for bargains. Scott & Co.—615 Kans. ave. WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE. State Ledger Office. 431 Kansas Ave. (up stairs) The snubbing class of office seekers must go in t he coming primaries. It will be remembered that we have readers and friends as well as our cotemporaries, and when these canidates engage in this kind of chicanery they will find a speedy reaction and if they don't be sorry for it it will be a little surprising. All newsoapers have influence don't be foolish to believe otherwise. We belong, to no syndicate, combination joint or Drug store We own and operate the State Ledger. While some depend upon the big papers to land them safely we want to say if they had all the papers with them it would be far better for them. Judge Dolman who is so large till Bill. McKinley's over coat would not make him a cover for his head will appreciate the Judicial office when he gets through with it. If you get some people jammed they will say most anything. Is not it far better to tell the truth? One talsehood will make you tell 75 hows that? Better bear the ills you have than flee to those you know not of. Some big mouths are around saying don't place your announcements in our paper we have no influence. We shall see. Young roosters are thick now-a-days on Kans. Ave. walking with young pullets who seem to be much their Junior's, This is a nu-sance. Those candidates who don't appreciate our renders by announcing in this paper can go to—well Greenland(?) W. F. WEBER Nominated Feb. 24th. On account of space last week we failed to mention the nomination of our townsman W. F. Weber who defecated the Charley's hands down on the 24th ult, while Mr. Weber had the city administration against him he walked off with laurals which places him under no obligatious to the city administration, He wil be elected on April 14, WHAT CON GRESSMAN BOWERSOCK IS DOING IN Matters are not being over look ed by those who have We guarran.ee the people who uavetise, quick returns—most rekable news paper a mong all classes. VOL. 8. NO 25 been sent to Washington D. C, to represent the different Districts of our great state. The national reports are sent frequently when ever anything is said or done for Kans. Here of late we have been advised to what each one is doing separately hence the work is so remarkable till it needs comment and circulation through out their respective Districts for these districts comprise the "severals" white and colored constituents are always anxious and glad to hear of some good being accorded Kans. hence Mr. J. D. Bowersock from the second District is meeting with much Press favor at present. In a recent issue of the Kasas City REPUBLICAN PRESS (JOURNAL) we clip the following which shows on its face the prevailing opinions home and abread: Work on the part of Mr. Bowersock shows that he is looking after the interests of the people living at the mouth of the Kaw. Mr. Bowersock has also taken much interest in the plans for the new public building to be erected in this city and when the time comes for additional appropriations on that line we may look for him to obtain them in short order. The fine business ability of Mr. Bowersock helps him much in his political work and the Second District is to be congratulated on having a man so well equipped to represent it in Congress,~K. C. Press. A POINTER WE WIN. The neutrality of some papers has caused general comment through out the city and county since last Saturday's Primaries They say on the rail it is all right but its best to take a stand and stick. We want to so say right here if we make a bad bargain we will stick to it, and hence you can see if we are for a candidate that goes. If against we generally win. You can state to your friends that the LEDGER was for Weber who was nominated Saturday over Samson. MR. F. H. MURPHY. Fine Pool Rooms III E. 6th St, One among the most prominent business men in the line of amusements is Mr. F. H. Murphy at 111 E. 6th street. Mr. Murphy strives to please his customers and his fine pool room apartments are up to date in all and every particular. It is one place that is kept clean and first class; his janitor service is fine and if one desires to spend an extra evening at Mr. Murphy's fine place you may rest assured that you are going among the best people of the city also into a parlor of amusement. Don't forget Murphy's place 111 E. 6th Tom McNeal vs. McKeever Legislature 36th District. At last Ed. McKeever will have some opposition it signs of the times point correctly, in the person of Hon. Thos. McNeal of the MAIL and BREEZE, Mr. McNeal is the proper man to make McKeever appreciate his reasons for aspiring for a third term, for instance A. L. Brooke whom John B. Sims will defeat hands down these. Persons beware. A. T. WAGGONER. BY F. L. JELTZ. KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. There was a burglary at Lane, Franklin county last week. Kansas University had to close for a few days for lack of coal. The Kickapoo Indian school at Hoyt is to have a gas plant soon. Ottawa is in the field as a candidate for the next G. A. R. encampment. A cattle dipping plant is to be established at Garden City. The cattle men are to do it. The regimental band of the Twenty-third Kansas is forming a permanent organization. A cotton mill at Independence makes 1,000 pounds of twine a day, employing forty-five people. A. J. Titus says cars will be running on the Denver, Oklahoma and Gulf out of Kiowa by June first. The mother of John J. Ingalls is said to be still alive at the age of 100 years. Her home is in Boston. In some of the western counties the statement is made that English sparrows are destroying fruit buds. Sandy Calhoun, a Twentieth Kansas soldier, is charged with killing his partner in their saloon at Yale. Four extra railway mail clerks will be delegated to take care of the Sheldon issues of the Topeka Capital. A woman of Troy horsewhipped a man for getting her husband drunk, and paid a fine of eleven dollars. Something like seventy-five Kansas towns have organized improvement societies during the past ninety days. The Santa Fe has surveyors at work finding a new route between Kinsley and Great Bend, to escape the heavy grades. Julius Neuman, who preempted the first 160 acres at the Lecompton land office, is dead. He had lived a hermit life on his land. Firemen Haley and Meadows both of whom were killed with their engines on the Rock Island, within six months of each other, married sisters. A great number of people attended the twenty-second annual session of the grand lodge I. O. U. W. in Topeka: estimated as high as 1,500. The cold weather crowded the penitentiary mines to get out enough coal for the state institutions. The weekly shipments increased from 200 cars to nearly 300. The Middle and Oklahoma divisions of the Santa Fe are consolidated. G. T. Neubert, master mechanic of the Oklahoma division, with his clerks, moves to Newton. John Collins' diamond shirt stud and his watch are still in the sheriff's possession at Topeka. Two negroes who claim Collins gave the articles to them and Collins' family claim the jewelry. Jim Brennan, who killed Sam Wood, now resides near Kingfisher, Okla.. and is a prosperous citizen. He owns good farm and a big herd of cattle, and is said to be getting rich. He has been sheriff of his county. Beginning March 12 the Atchison Champion proposes to run its daily issue for one week as the "Devil would run it." It is to be under the exclusive management of W. P. Campbell, with Dr. G. R. Nunnalty as editor in chief. An old man from Missouri, Ross by name, killed himself at his home near Moran. He had recently bought a half section farm. John Musgrave, of Glen Elder, a delegate to the A. O. U. W. grand lodge is in the hospital with a broken leg. He fell on the ice. Waverley people arrested a drummer for a liquor house. He was allowed to go into the hotel for breakfast when he dodged the constable and ran into the country. A large crowd gave chase but he got away. J. R. Blayton, a wealthy celery grower of Santa Anna, California, was traveling east with his family, when he became deranged and jumped from a car window. He was found at Ford City, twenty miles away, and it was a difficult task to capture him. The long distance telephone company offered the Mutual company of Fort Scott $8,800 per share of stock which cost them $3,500. With the offer is a guarantee that the mutual plant will never be turned over to the Missouri and Kansas company. Mr. and Mrs. William Wright of Barber county have been married fifty years, have raised eight children and seen twenty grandchildren grow to manhood and womanhood without a death in the family or in their children's families. The movement to have the Western Methodist headquarters moved from St. Louis to Kansas City is being followed by similar action by the Baptists, and Kansas City will probably be headquarters for both these great denominations in the West. Eighteen inch ice was put up at Phillipsburg. Kansas gained in births, over deaths, in 1899, 12,615. The G. A. R. in Atchison held a fair and cleared $400. The millers of Kansas are to meet in Topeka on March 6. Reading business men are talking about establishing a bank. Bids are asked for completing the fourth floor of the capitol. E. E. Billeter, of Sterling, has made over 100,000 barrels for salt. Stafford, with 800 people, is talking about an electric light plant. The Kingman soap factory has difficulty in finding soap material. Money orders from the Philippines reach Kansas postoffices quite often. Sumner county proposes to try a grand jury to get rid of its jointists. An Edwards county farmer sold thirteen horses to a Kansas City firm for $1,300. Pittsburg has captured a factory for the manufacture of gas and gasoline engines. Wichita has let large contracts for the extension of the sewer system of the city. El Dorado is to vote on the proposition to build a $30,000 high school building. Wamego has about 2,000 people. Its two banks report $322,466.03 on deposit. Demand for farm land is larger than for many years; especially in Western counties. The largest farm in Kansas is said to belong to J. W. Robinson, of Eldorado. He has 10,500 acres under cultivation. Blue Rapids has a new mill and elevator, built on the site of the one that burned. It is just now being finished. The voters of Topeka will have a chance at the spring city election to vote $50,000 of bonds for park improvements. The mean temperature of February at Kansas university, was seven degrees below the average of the record of the past. Judge Guthrie who has been in Topeka for nearly forty years says that the recent snow was the heaviest he ever saw in the state. Judge Hook has ordered the sale at auction of the Kansas and Missouri bridge, at Leavenworth, in default of payments due on bonds. The Commercial Travelers of Kansas meet in Atchison in May and the local lodge at Atchison has been allowed $1,500 for entertainment. Some one has made off with a $33 cornet belonging to the Clay Center Presbyterian church. The local G. A. R. post also reports the loss of three drums—two snare, and a bass. The seventy-five insurance companies doing business in Kansas report collected in 1899, $1,823,005 in premiums, and the amount of losses paid out $1,008,428. Most of the companies show a loss in the year's business. Ben McLean and W. B. Throckmorton, of Wichita, have organized the Valley Pine Lumber company with headquarters at Greenville, Ark., and have put in a big planing mill there. The capacity of the mill is 100,000 feet a day. Kansas University has about fifty more accredited schools than has Missouri university. Chancellor Snow has received since the first of the year notices of quite a number of high schools that have conformed to the requirements. There is a sport in jail in Seneca, for having several saddles, laprobes and whips which had been missed at Whiting. New chair cars have been placed in daily service, on Santa Fe trains No. 7 and 8, running between Kansas City and San Antonio, Texas. Harper county claims $2,700 from the state on an alleged erroneous assessment. Roy Ritchie of the treasurer's office and Dick Sanders of the auditor's office are in Harper county checking up the account. In the Shawner county court house there are fifty radiators and a number of grates. When the weather is cold it requires two tons of coal a day to keep up heat. Kansas has 807 newspapers. Of these 51 are dailies, 619 weeklies, 3 semiweeklies, 103 monthlies, 12 semi-monthlies, 1 bi-monthly, 10 quarterlies and 8 occasionals. Shawnee county leads with 49. Sedgwick comes second with 22, and Labette third with 21. Wyandotte, the most populous in the state, has only 15. Lawrence has contracted for a new twelve room school building. It is to be of stone and the estimated cost is $20,300. Two sticks of dynamite were exploded at one side of the hall, where a dance was going on, in Riceville, a suburb of Galena. Everybody was shocked but no one seriously hurt. Honest Kansas buttermakers complain that tons of butterie is shipped out into the state to farmers. They buy it, work it over, make it into prints and double their money. Proposes a Division of Indian Territory. KIOWA AND COMANCHE LANDS. Washington, March 5.—One of the most persistent opponents to statehood for the territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory has been Representative Little, of Arkansas. It is understood that Mr. Little's opposition is based upon special reasons growing out of a plan of his own, which he, desires to see adopted toward the territories. Instead of allowing the Indian Territory to come in as part of Oklahoma, he wants it divided and a part of it annexed to Arkansas and a part made over to Oklahoma to come in when that territory is admitted to the Union. He has not made his scheme generally known, but it is expected that he will propose it formally to the committee on territories, as the most feasible plan that could be adopted. The proposed opening of the Kiowa and Comanche reservation stands a show of passing even if the house objects to its passage as a rider to the bill providing for the opening of the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho. In fact, it is expected that objection will be raised to its passage in that form, but there is reason to believe that it can be pushed through in conference by conferences of the two houses on the Fort Hall bill, agreeing to re-attach the Kiowa and Comanche provision and urging its adoption in the house and senate. General Otis Cables. Washington, March 3.—General Otis sends much news to the war department this week. He says that since the recent opening to commerce of the island ports 13,000 tons of hemp and 70,000 bales of tobacco had been received at Manila and that large shipments of the commodities named will soon be made to the United States and other countries. Secretary Root, says that he is satisfied with the situation in the Philippines. The officials are confident that the backbone of the insurrection is broken and that there will be no further hostilities on a large scale, and that affairs in the archipelago will be in fairly good shape by the time of the arrival of the Philippine civil commission, about the middle of May, for the proposed transfer of government control from the military to the civil authorities. More Santa Fe Shops. Topeka, March 1.—The Santa Fe management has authorized the expenditure of $107,000 for the construction of new shop buildings and the repair of the present buildings of the general shop plant in this city. It is the intention to commence work on the new buildings as soon as the weather is favorable. An extension will be built on the present machine shop, a large foundry for axle work will be erected and a frog and switch factory built. The additions will be responsible for the employment of at least 300 more men by the Santa Fe in Topeka. The buildings will probably be completed and ready for use by the middle of the summer. Suffrage Defeated In Ohio Columbus, O., March 5.—The House defeated Mr. Haner's resolution proposing to amend the constitution by giving women the right to vote at all elections after January 1, 1900. 82 votes being required to adopt, and the vote was 49 nays to 57 yeas. The proposition received more votes than in any previous Legislature. The Public Approve London, March 3.—Lord Lansdowne chose the psycological moment to announce estimates exceeding 61,000,000 pounds and rather startled the public py unfolding the program of the war office to send out, in addition to the 30,000 troops now afloft, 56,000 fresh soldiers. Lord Roberts will ultimately have a force of a quarter of a million. It will be remembered that heavy orders for guns have increased the number of workmen at the arsenals by by about 25,000. These decisions to send out more troops and to increase the home armament meet with universal approval. Hauling Logs With Engine. Minneapolis, March 1.—The H. E. Akley Lumber company has introduced successfully in its lumber camp north of Grand Rapids a locomotive on runners, which pulls a train of from ten to fifteen sleds laden with logs at a rate of from five to six miles an hour. The innovation seems destined to revolutionize methods in lumber camps inaccessible to railroads or logging streams. General Buller's Report. Ladysmith, March 5.—General Buller says of the defeat of the Boers, that it is more complete than he had dared to anticipate. This whole district is completely clear of them, and, except at the top of Van Reeanan's Pass, where several wagons are visible there is no trace of them. When their last train left Modder Spruit station they blew up the bridge. They packed their wagons, moving to the north of Ladysmith, leaving vast quantities of ammunition and individual necessaries. MORE PUERTO RICO RELIEF. The Surplus of The Emergency War Fund Used. New York, March 5.—A special to the Herald from Washington says, "To relieve the great distress in Puerto Rico caused by the hurricane, Secretary Root, by direction of the president, has authorized the use of $1,225,000 remaining over from the emergency war fund. This authorization was made about ten days ago as the result of a special report from Major General Davis, showing the starving condition of the natives. It is assumed by the war department that congress will make this authorization before the $1,225,000 has been expended. General Davis has been directed to utilize the money in clearing up the plantations, so that the farmers may proceed with the raising of crops. This will enable many natives to go to work at once and thereby put sufficient money in circulation to temporarily relieve existing suffering." Dr. Brown of Chanute Topeka, March 3.—Dr. Brown, of Chanute was elected Grand Medical Examiner. The fees remain unchanged. The contract for the publication of the Workman was awarded to Governor Riddle, of Minneapolis, for another year. The vote was almost unanimous. The fee for reinstatement of old members was reduced to 50 cents. The salary of the grand master was fixed at $1,500 a year. He is allowed $1,275 for expenses, besides a contingent fund to pay clerk hire and a stenographer's salary. The salary of the recorder was fixed at $2,000 and he was allowed $2,500 for clerk hire. The grand receiver is given $350 a year salary and he must put up a $75,000 bond. The per capita was retained at $1.50. Wichita was given first prize, $100 in gold, for the best drilled team. Leavenworth took second prize, $50, and Lawrence third, $25. Upchurch lodge, of Topoka, showed the largest gain in membership and was awarded the championship cup. Shared Rations Wite Boers. London, March 5.—Lord Roberts says he was much gratified at finding the enthusiasm among the Kimberley people regarding the care of the sick and wounded. All the houses had been converted into hospitals and the men had been made most comfortable. "It delighted me to see our soldiers sharing their rations and biscuits with the Boer prisoners before they commenced their march for Modder rider. Some of the poor fellows were very hungry after having been half-starved in the laager." Trans-Mississippi Congress Houston, Tex., March 2.—Secretary Thomas Richardson has issued the official call for the tenth annual session of the trans-Mississippi commercial congress to be held at Houston April 17 to 21, inclusive. The territory to be represented embraces all of the states and territories lying west of the Mississippi river. Telegraph to Source of the Nile Mombasa, March 2.—The Uganda railway telegraph line reached the Nile at Ripon Falls, Feb. 18, and was carried across the river next day, thus establishing telegraphic communication between London and the source of the Nile. This is Suggestive. Melbourne, Vietoria, March 3.—The secretary of the state for the colonies. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, has cabled to the Australian government asking whether they would be able to send additional troops to South Africa, in the event of imperial troops being required elsewhere. Dramatic Change in Natal London, March 3.—The editorials in the morning newspapers are not only jubilant, but are written in a tone of confidence as to the future which contrasts strongly with the gloomy forebodings of the previous six weeks. General Buller's misfortunes are almost forgotten, although it is everywhere recognized that the relief of Ladysmith is largely due to Lord Roberts. The Times says: "The change wrought in Natal within twenty-four hours is indeed dramatic." Irish Lads Get Excited. London, March 3.—From every part of the empire there is a constant infux of telegrams describing the rejoicings. The news was received with great enthusiasm at Dublin, where, however, the jubilant spirit of the Trinity college students carried them beyond the bounds of discretion. A large body of them marched to the Dublin Mansion House, where they scaled the garden walls and captured a green flag flying in the grounds. A few of the students were arrested and assessed small fines Sir George White, Ladysmith, March 5.—Surrounded by cheering soldiers, townspeople and coolies, celebrating the relief of the town, Sir George White, at the postoffice, addressed the throng. He said: "People of Ladysmith, I thank you for the heroic and patient manner in which you assisted me during the siege. It hurt me terribly to cut down the rations, but, thank God, we kept the flag flying." Then, profoundly moved, General White led the assembly in singing "God Save the Queen." RICHEST FARMING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. A Complete System of Irrigation Relieves the Anxiety About Rain That Prevails in Other Parts of the United States—East and West Compared. We are permitted to publish an extract from a private letter written by a gentleman who has recently been devoting his time to the personal investigation of practical farming by irrigation in the west. His vivid portrayal of the advantages of that system will no doubt interest our readers. He says: "There is a vast, an immeasurable difference between farming in the east and farming in the west. If the farmers of the east could only be made to understand the advantages enjoyed by their western brethren, I verily believe there would soon be no land for settlement in the great irrigation states. The irrigation farmer has absolute certainty of crop, and certainty of its perfect maturity. He never plants that he does not reap, and when I say reap I don't mean the reaping of scattered stands of half matured grain such as the eastern farmer cuts at the close of a dry season; and the reaping of fields that frequently average 50 bushels of wheat to the acre—every grain of which has reached the perfection of development. There is no anxious scanning of the skies for the 'cloud no larger than a man's hand' and fervent prayers that it may envelop the heavens and send down water to the thirsty fields. The irrigation farmer never thinks about rain. He watches his growing crops, and the day and the hour moisture is needed, he is out with his hoe flooding his fields with water from canals that skirt them. "Everything grows in the west that grows anywhere else in the United States north of Tennessee. Potatoes frequently yield 500 bushels to the acre, and barley is grown far better than any raised in the east. The fruits are delicious. I never saw any to compare with those grown in Idaho, where apples, peaches, plums, cherries, pears, apricots abound, and where there are thousands of acres of Italian and German prunes which I am told have made fortunes for their owners. "To my mind, Idaho is the best watered and most inviting arid state in the Union. I made a careful investigation of the great Snake River valley in that state, along and tributary to the Oregon Short Line Railroad, and saw there evidences of prosperity such as I have never seen elsewhere in the United States. This wonderful valley is said to contain over 3,000,000 acres of arable land. It is threaded with great irrigation canals in every direction, and there are vast tracts awaiting only the touch of the farmer to make them productive. The sun doesn't shine on finer or more fertile land. When I saw the happy homes, the well filled granaries, the sleek, fat stock, and the smile on the face of nature reflected in a smile of contentment on the faces of the farmers, my heart went out in pity to the thousands in the east who are struggling along from year to year, toiling against adverse climatic conditions, and never knowing how soon a drought will wipe out the profits of prosperous years. "Lands can be had in this Snake River valley almost for the asking; but they are going, day by day. The Oregon Short Line is making extraordinary efforts to bring the advantages of Idaho to the notice of eastern farmers, and is flooding the country with conservatively written descriptions of the state. Write to the General Passenger Agent of this Railroad at Salt Lake for printed matter about Idaho, and read it carefully. It will be a revelation to you and I sincerely believe will end in your removal to the west." A Substitute for Cork. Phellosene is the name given by a French inventor to a substance he describes as artificial cork, and which may be used for all purposes for which cork has hitherto been found needful. It is an analogue of celluloid and consists of cork bark ground to an impalpable powder and agglutinated by a solution of nitro-cellulose in acetone. It contains about ten to twelve percent of nitro-cellulose and is said to be a trifle, if anything more combustible than cork under the ordinary conditions.—New York Tribune. NONE SUCH Nothing hobbles the muscles and units for work like SORENESS and STIFFNESS Nothing relaxes them and makes a speedy perfect cure like St. Jacobs Oil ```markdown ``` Blood Humors Are Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla "I always take Hood's Sarsaparilla the Spring and it is the best blood purifier I know." PAREE GRHIRT, back win, Mich. It Purifies the Blood. "Eruptions that came on my face have all disappeared since I began taking Hood Sarsaparilla. It cured my father of catarrh." ALPHA HAMILTON, Bloomington, Ind. "I had scrotula sore all over my back and face. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and in a few weeks I could not see any sign of the sores." OTHO B. Moore, Mount Hope, Wis. Eradicates Scrofula. Trick of a French Comedian. A comedian in a Paris theater recently made a great hit out of a painful incident. While indulging in a bit of horse play on the stage he struck his head accidentally against one of the pillars of the scene upon the stage. The thud caused a flutter of sympathy to pass through the audience. "No great harm done," said the comedian, "Just hand me a napkin, a glass of water and a salt-cellar." These were brought and he sat down, folded the napkins in the form of a bandage, dipped it in the glass and emptied the salt cellar on the wet part. Having thus prepared a compress according to prescription and when everyone expected he would apply it to his forehead, he gravely rose and tied it round the pillar. Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cures.—George W. Lota, Fabucher, La., August 26, 1885. It doesn't cost anything to be polite and it often pays enormous dividends TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. A drugstress refund the money if it fails to cure 25c. E. W. Grove's signature on each box. Some people mistake contrarines for tenacity. MAN'S MECHANISM Delicate Machinery That Needs Constant Care. Absolute Cleanliness and Regulation as Necessary as for Any Other Kind of Machinery. How to Keep it in Working Order. There's a screw loose somewhere! One little screw in the big machine gets a trifle loose and the whole apparatus clogs, and it defuses to work properly. A skillful engineer can tell by the "feels of his engine when there's a screw looseness or billousness—needs prompt attention. It clogs the whole delicate mechanism of man, and must be removed skillfully without force or shock. Only vegetable laxative should be used, and Cascarens Candy Cathartic, which you can eat like a piece of candy, are the most agreeable, natural and effective of all laxatives. Cascarens are the only antiseptic cathartic, and not only make the liver lively, move obstructions in the bowels, strengthen the intestines, but kill all germs of disease in the body. Therefore prevent a well as care. Buy and try Cascarets to-day. You'll have a chance to try them, and may they do, that will please you. As druggists, 10c, 25c and 50c, or will mail price. Send for booklet and free samples Address: Montreal, Can.: New York. This is the CASCARET tab table. The 25c tablet of the original Address: Montreal, Can.: New York. Magic letters "C.C.C." look at the table before you buy the tablet. You can imita- tions and substitutes. CCC Japan's Oldest Bank. Tokyo correspondence Chicago Record: The Mitsui Ginko is the oldest banking establishment in Japan. It was founded more than 200 years ago and is now a strong partnership corporation, in which eleven members of the Mitsui family assume unlimited liability. Its capital is 5,000,000 yen and its reserve fund amounts to 3,783,000 yen. Its officers are now in a temporary location, while an immense office, "the only steel building in the east," is in process of erection. The site covers two and one-half acres; the building area is 2,600 square yards and the structure will be three stories high. It will be provided with two electric passenger elevators, hot and cold air blasts and electric lighting by an iron lated plant. It will have a steel skeleton, with granite and glazed brick walls. It will be completed in 1903. American Cotton for China. Ten years of railroad building ought to bring at least half of China's population within reach of our cotton goods, and that, without any increase in the per capita use of our cotton would amount to $200,000,000, or more than the total surplus of cotton not raised by us for export. China lies largely in a zone of severe winters, and while it has the greatest deposits of coal, the Chinese have never yet solved the problem of building heating stores. The introduction of cheap American heaters into 50,000,000 Chinese homes is one of the possibilities which lie before our manufacturers.—Leaile Weekly. Soldiers in a Panic. All armies are liable to night scares which at times almost amount to a panic. On one occasion a British regiment in India, marching over the gahouts on its return from maneuver at Chinchwud, was thrown into temporary confusion by the bolting of a couple of pack oxen laden with cooking pots. Got Back the Mirror. A society woman of Philadelphia gave a luncheon not long ago and afterward missed a small gold mirror. She immediately sent to each of the women who had been her guests a postal card, upon which was written: Dear Madam: A gold mirror was stolen from my dressing table yesterday. Have you got it? The mirror was returned, but the owner never found out who took it. Half good won't do! A "may-cure" cough medicine won't do. If it will "perhaps" do its work, it's worse than worthless. If it's good, it's worth ten times its price. Do you know where to draw the line between the good and the bad? This testimonial should help. "I had a bad cough for six weeks and could not find any relief whatever. My little girl read about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral being such a wonderful remedy for coughs, so I bought a bottle. It relieved me at once. Before I had taken a quarter of a bottle my cough was entirely cured. I think it is the most wonderful cough mixture ever known."—L. HAWN, Newington, Ont, May 3, 1899. Your doctor or druggist will bear us out. Three sizes: $1.00 size, cheapest in the long run: 50c. size, just the thing for a cold that "hangs on": 25c. size, for an ordinary, mean, disagreeable cold. REPORT ON SHIPPING BILL. Farmers Will Realize a Larger Gain Than Seaports. FOREIGN INTERESTS OPPOSE. Washington, March 3.—The report prepared by Senator Frye upon the shipping bill reported by the committee on commerce of the senate is made public. The report begins by asserting the "self-evident value of a national" merchant marine," explains and deplores our almost entire dependence upon foreign shipping for our ocean carrying, suggests the danger of reliance upon the merchant ships other nations which may become involved in war, the possible complete exclusion of American exports from their regular foreign markets. The British-Boer war has materially reduced our means of transportation and embarrassed our ocean mail service. The humiliation of our reliance upon foreign vessels bought and carried during our war with Spain is referred to. The suggestion that this situation may be overcome by the free admission of foreign-built, ships to American register is met by pointing out that if such admission were unconditional it would result in destroying existing American shipyards on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. All competent authorities agree that this bill, if enacted, will involve a large increase in the American merchant marine. The passage of this bill, it is claimed, would probably affect a reduction of $25,000,000 a year in ocean rates on American commerce through the additional shipping and the competition that would be created. Foreign opposition is being concentrated upon the bill, because foreign shipping interests clearly see that they will be seriously injured by the replacing of American for the foreign vessels now in our foreign trade. As the most promising field for the future development of our markets for agricultural products in northern and temperate Asia, the committee believes that our grain fields and cotton plantations will gain in greater proportion from the enactment of the law than the seaboard ship-building and and ship-owning states. National Charities Conference. National Charities Conference. New York, March 5.—The National Conference of Caarities and Correction will meet in Topeka, May 18-24, instead of May 16-22, as heretofore announced. The Republican state convention is to meet in Topeka May 16 and 17, which would interfere. The effects of the Topeka conference are already being felt in advance. A movement has been started to organize a Kansas State Conference of Charities and Correction, with the probability that Prof. F. W. Blackmar of the State university will be made president. They do things promptly in Kausas. A Trust of Trusts Wheeling, W. Va., March 5.—A combination of iron and steel industries with $1,000,000,000 capital, will be completed within six months from April 1. It will include the American Tin Plate company, the National Steel Company, the American Hoop and Wire Company, the National Steel Sheet Company now forming, and other immense concerns: In fact the scheme takes in about everything outside of the Carnegie interests Arresting Citizens as Rebels. Rensburg, March 5.—The greater part of the Dutch residents of Colesburg have been arrested as rebels. The Boers were in full retreat northwards with a British force following them. A Kansas Trust. Topeka, March 1.—Five of the largest creamery companies in Kansas and Oklahoma, representing one-fourth of the dairy interests of this territory, have been consolidated under the name of the Continental Creamery Company with headquarters at Topeka. The consolidated company starts out with nine creameries and 107 skimming stations. It is expected that this number will be increased so that in the near future one-half of the creamery business of this territory will be handled through the consolidated company. New Soldiers Same as Old. Washington, March 2.—The house committee on public lands reported favorably on the bill giving to soldiers or sailors who served in the Spanish or Philippine wars an allowance of their time and service on any homestead entry they may have made. Favorable action also was taken on a bill of Mr. Waters of California amending the act as to prevent forest fires on the public domain by turning over the fines to the public school fund of the counties. Learned Insurgents' Trick Manila, March 5.—Colonel Anderson, with the Thirty-eighth infantry, employing the insurgents' own tactics, has ambushed the enemy near Batangas. Through spies Colonel Anderson earned that a detachment of insurgents would pass a certain road. He posted his soldiers concealed among the trees lining the road and when the enemy arrived the Americans volleyed unexpectedly, killing twenty-four insurgents, wounding thirty and capturing several. Leap Years in the Twentieth Century. The twentieth century will have the greatest number of leap years possible for a century—namely, twenty-four. The year 1904 will be the first one, then every fourth year after that to and including the year 2000. February will three times have five Sundays: In 1920, 1948 and 1976. Our Increase of Insanity. Much discussion has been aroused lately by the alarming increase of intensity. Our high living is the cause assigned. In the rush for money, men and women neglect their health until the breakdown comes. The best way to preserve the health is by a faithful use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It cures stomach lills, such as constipation dyspepsia and biliousness. By wearing gloves you can avoid showing your hand in a poker game. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price: 500. Good acts, like sheep, are apt to follow one another. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, aids pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. A polished hat doesn't go well with a shiny coat. If your opponent is bigger than you don't contradict him, even though you know he is in the wrong. Loss of hair, which often marks the prettiest face, prevented by Falken's Hair Balsam. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15cts. The grinding trust is truly a grinding wheel monopoly. A man can accomplish things at 20 that he would be ashamed to attempt at 40. C. P. R. Immigration Literature. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has just issued two excellent immigration pamphlets for 1800—"Western Canada" and "British Columbia"—which contain a great deal of useful and accurate information about the country west of Lake Superior, and are of special interest to those who contemplate settling either in the Canadian Northwest or British Columbia. Large editions of these pamphlets are distributed gratuitously in Great Britain and the United States, as well as throughout the Dominion, and are eagerly read by those who are seeking a new home and desire to know something of the best country in the world in which to find one. For pamphlets and further information address J. Francis Lee, Genl. Agt. Pass, Dept., 228 So. Clark st., Chicago, Ill. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get in the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable and send what they advertise. Poets are born—and on rare occasions one is paid. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on premises that are manufactured by N. I. Cunney & Co. Toledo, manufactured by no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure you be sure you get it is taken internally and handled to Toledo, Ohio by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonial free. Sold by Drugstores, price 75c per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Poverty is one of the best insulators known. FITS Permanently Cured. Noiseless urgesiness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restore. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ld. 331 Arch St. Philadelphia, Ph. Hope is described as a fair woman by a poet. No wonder hope is so frequently disappointing. A man may sell his honor for a dollar but he can't buy it back for a million. Send for "Choice Recipes," by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass, mailed free. Mention this paper. The proper size for a lazy individual ls exercise. Woman's Kidney Troubles Why trifle with health when the easiest and surest help is the best known medicine in the world? Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is known everywhere and thousands of women have been cured of serious kidney derangements by it. Mrs. Pinkham's methods have the endorsement of the mayor, the postmaster and others of her own city. Her medicine has the endorsement of an unnumbered multitude of grateful women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper. Every woman should read these letters. Mrs. Pinkham advises suffering women free of charge. Her address is Lynn, Mass. Had Catarrh Nine Years—All Doctors Failed. HON. GEORGE KERSTEN, OF CHICAGO. Hon. Geo. Kersten, a well-known Justice of the Peace, of Chicago, says: "I was afflicted with Catarrh for nine years. My catarrh was located chiefly in my head. I tried many remedies without avail. I applied to several doctors, but they were not able to cure me. I learned of the remedy, Peruna, through the daily newspapers. After taking the remedy for 18 weeks I was entirely cured. I consider my cure permanent, as it has been two and a half years since I was cured." SPRING HUMORS. Complete External and Internal Treatment $1.25 Consisting of CUTICURA SOAP (25c.), to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales and soften the thickened cuticle, CUTICURA Oint- ment (50c.), to instantly allay itching, irri- tation, and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and CUTICURA RESOLVENT (50c.), to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring skin, scalp, and blood humors, with loss of hair, when all other remedies fail. Bold throughout the world. FOTTER D. & C. CORP., Pruss, Boston. How to Cure Spring Humors, free REDUCE-PAGE SIZE. CUTICURA REDUCE-PAGE SIZE. Cuticura SOAP MEDICINAL TOILET PRICE 25 CENTS Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Peruna is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Peruna not only cures catarrh, but prevents it. From Factory to USER. ONE Profit. Our High Arm MELBA Sewing Machine has all its mental, necessary Attachments and Accessories, with chief Cold-wait nut cabinet, is furnished with the latest improved AUTOMATIC THREADING SHUT, the muttle in threaded ready for service. The MELBA. ONE Profit* Our High Arm MELBA the Up-to-Date Improvement, necessary Attachments with choice of oak or walnut cabinet. Is furnished AUTOMATIC SELF-TELE. By one moment the shuttle is threaded MELBA be the target. TAKE-UP, Automatic HOBBIN WINDER, and a COMPLETE set of best steel attachments, carefully assembled. The machine, weather wrapped and crated, is about the size of a large refrigerator. The average about $1.00 within 30 miles of Chicago. The cabinet work is ornamental, the seven drawers and coventry doors are painted in a light color. The heavy HOBBIN-PLATED Ring Driver Falls, etc. Each machine is carefully tested before leaving our customer. We have a general line of EVERYTHING you can order for your customer on a close margin and fully GUARANTEE it for TWENTY YEARS. We will ship this machine C.0.0. Our customer can order a customer for our customer on a receipt of $4.00 with order. Of 100-letter machine all complete, is $14.25. Of 4,000 illustrated pages will be sent prepaid on receipt of 15 cents, which we will accept. This catalogue prices wholesale prices on EVERYTHING you EAT, Wear and USE Established JOHN W. WADSON St. Order by this No. A 11 150. 160 W. Madison St. Chicago, IL. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. All families should provide themselves with a copy of Dr. Hartman's free book entitled "Winter Catarrh." This book consists of seven lectures on catarrh and la gripe delivered at The Hartman Sanitarium. It contains the latest information on the treatment of catarrhal diseases. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. LAMB'S Throat Candy, one of the best confections for coughs, public speeches, & Send 10c to Lamb Mfr. Co., Ottawa, Canada, for sample box. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives answers for coughs, public speeches, & worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAY's treatment FREE. DR. H. H. GREEN'S BONS. Box E, Atlanta, Ga. GREGORY'S SEEDS For 50 years the favorite with practical gardeners and florists. The seed contains all varieties. Seed it. J. J. H. GREGORY'S BON, Harbordhead, Hart. MONEY for OLD SOLDIERS Union soldiers and widows of soldiers who made homes and cared for June in May, of less than 100 acres (no matter if abandoned or reliquienced), if they have not sold (their additional homestead rights, should address, with full particulars, giving district, &c. HENEY M. COPP. Washington, D. C. HOT SPRINGS. ARK. Salzer's Rape gives Rich, green food, food, at 250c. a BUY NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS SEEDS Salzer's Seeds are Warranted to Produce. Mahlon Luther, E.Troy, Pa., astonished the world by growing 250 bushels big four Oats: J. Breide, Mahlon, 170 bushels, and H. Bovley Red Wing. Mium, by growing 500 bush. Salzer's score per acre. If you doubt, write them. We wish to gain $20,000 new customers, hence will send on trial. 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR 10c. 10 pks of rare farm seeds. Sals Bush, the 8-eared Corn-Speels, producing 50 bush. Hod and 4 tons dry per-ton of oil, each 1000. Bread, Fermale the greatest grass on earth; Salzer's age so. Rape, Spring Wheat, ac., including our mammoth Plant, Fruit and Beef Catalog, telling all about Salzer's Great Million Bottles. Potato, all mailed for 10c. postage; positively worth $10 to get heatsart. Seed Potatoes $1.20 a bbl, and up. Please send this ad. with 10c. to Salzer. 35 pks earlier regsta-ble needs, $1.00. Catalog alone, 6c CHEAP RATES. Special Inducements to Homeseekers. NEW RAIL ROAD OPENING UP Farming, Mineral, Timber, Rice and Market Gardening Lands. BUY AT ONE WHILE CHAP. Your choice of land from mowns of the North to sunshine and flowers of the South, all on the great PORT ARTHUU ROUTE, Kansas City to Gulf of Mexico. CHEAP RATES. On one side and third Tuesday of each month throughout the year we sell Homeseekers' Excursion tickets from all points on our line north of Howe, I. T., to all points south, where the one way is in seven dollars ($.00) of more, at the rate of ONE FARE PLUS $2 FOR THE ROUND TRIP. STOP-OVERS will be allowed on the going trip of the road to the south of West Lines, Mo. within fifteen (15) days from date of sale, and they bear a final limit of twenty-one (21) days. For full information address: H. C. ORR, GENERAL PASSEYER AGENT, KANSAS CITY, MO. 1,000 NEWSPAPERS Are now using our International Type-High Plates Sawed to LABOR-SAVING LENGTHS. They will save time in your composing rooms as they can be handled even quicker than type. No extra charge is made for sawing plates to short lengths. Send a trial order to this office and be convinced. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, WICHITA, KANSAS. W. N. U. WICHITA—NO. 10—1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. The World's Senitarium and All-Year-Round Pleasure Resort, reached only via this line. Elegant Hotels Sublime Scenery. Delightful Climate; Healing Hubs Springer Park, Parking Garage, Guest Room, Most charm from St. Louis. Reduced Round Trip Rates all Year round, from all coupon points in the U.S. and Canada. For descriptive and illustrated pamphlet, write Company's agents, or H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, ST. LOUIS, MO. State Ledger. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN SUBSCRIPTION six months 500 One Year 1.00 ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS CASH IN AD- ANCE. entered at post office at Topeka, Kansas, at sec udclass-rates. Published every Saturday at 431 Kan. ave $1.00 in advance PHYSICIANS. I. A. SHIELDS M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and Residence 1331 Van Buren St. Calls promptly attended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAL- LACE. Office 724 Kan. Ave. Phone 250 H. B. HOGEBCOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 833 Kans Ave. All calls promptly attended. DR; C. A. TAYLOR. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a. m. From 2 to 5 p. m. OFFICE 226½ KAS, AVE. (Cver Kohl's Drug Store,) Wm. B. Swan, M. D 725 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. office hours, 11:00 to 12 m, 2:00 to 4:30 pm. Residence 624 Buchanan St. Bell Telephone, 660 GEORGE DICK, M, D, Homeoopathist. Residence 626 Fillmo St. Telephone 360. Office 807 Kansas Avenus. S. G. STEWART, M. D. OFFICE 621 KANSAS AVE. TELPHONE 541. RSIDENCE 511 W. 5TH ST TELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. FFIRE HOURS; 9 TO 11 A.M. 9 TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P.M. TELEPHONE 558. OFFICE 117 WEST 5th st. DR J. C. ISERMAN, Office 112 East 6th street Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given to Diseases f Stomach and Lungs and Female Trou- boes. Office Hours: 9 to 12-2 to 5-7 to 9 Phone e DR, R. O. RHODES, OFFICE 606. Kansas ave. Topeka, Kansas (Over Hub Clothing Co.) OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 2 to 5 P. M. Residence, 9 o o West Sixth street Phone 656. PHYSICIAN & SURGEQN, RESIDENCE in CONNECTION WITH OFFICE and STORE. calls answered day or night. ALSO -dealer in Drugs, Medicines, and al Articles kept in a Drug store Mayetta, Kansas. 929 The American School of Magnetic Healing. WELTMER METHOD. Every known disease cured without medicine or Surger DOCTOR M. M. PENDROY, 614 Manke Street, Emporia, Kansas. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO: 823 KANSAS AVENUE. Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATHIC REMEDIES. A.T MA TERIALS. A. C. MARKLEY. Attorney at Law, Practices n all courts, Office 116 W. 6th FRED C. SLATER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Practices In AllCourts. Office 600 Kas, ae ISENHAKT and LEXANDER Attorneys at Law. 517 Kansas Ave. P. HITTLE VEHICLES & UNDERTAKING GOODS. 326 North Main Street. KANSAS LIVEJ V & LOADING STABLE. Ladies saddle horses. Good turn out—100 E 2nd street. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material—832 Kansas avenue *Houses on W. 5th St. ranging from $5s* *$1200 centrally located at reasonable prices on easy payments. Give him a call.* CURRENT MAGA- ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT or ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC and; CLASS A. LADIES HOME JOURNAL, McCLURES, POPULAR MONTHLY, MUNSEY'S AINSLEE, and SELF CULTURE. All For 40 cents per. Month. CLASS B. SCRIBNER'S, HARPER'S, MAGIZINE, COSMOPOLITAN, McCLURE'S, LIPPINCOTT'S, and LADIES HOME JOURNAL. All for 50 cents per. Month. CLASS C. THE CENTURY, FORUM, NORTH AMERICAN REVEIW, AT LANTIC MONTHLY, CURRENT LITERATURE and SCRIBNER'S, All for 70 cents per. Month. For explanation see the STAR NEWS CO. 409 Kans. Ave. or Jefters & James. N.ope. GO TO Emerson's fine meat market at Havenville is the place to patronize. If you want good medicine to do the work quick all kinks diseases it will pay you to consult Mr. Chas Hamilton office main st. Sterling Kans. Mrs M. E. Fair gives meals 15cts your trade delicited Abilene Kans. Martin and Hutchison 15 East Sherman st. Hutchison Kans. New and second hand goods bought and sold. Give him a call. E. W. Griggs for pnotos, fine pictures. Car--901 Kas. ave. GO TO—W. B, Warrens for anything you want in the line of HOT TAMALES, and CHILLI SOUP, he makes the best. His parlors are UP-TO-DATE. Give him a call 504 East 4th street. When in Lawrence stop at Bush's Restaurant 611½ Mass. St. will serve you righ Dont forget the Candy Kitchen 115 south main st, Ottawa Kan Mr. H. L Hendrix Propure Candies Home.md.e Don't forget that th & Trowbridge carry everything in the ine of groceries a their store 503-505 W, 10th st. Go to J, P, Johnsons for any thing you want in the line of fine cigar's tobbacco and confectionery, 409 Kas ave, A, L, Wilson the painter and decorator 701 Vermont st. is the one to see if you want good work done in his line. F.P.Z1MMMERMAN FRESH And SALT MEATS, FRESH FIST GAME, OYSTERS and POULTRY, PHONE, 130, 708 Kas. Ave. (Morrow's old stand.) F. A. BECKSTROM. FINE WALL PAPER, and VARNISHES, Paints and Painters' Supplies. 518 Jackson St. Topeka, Kansas MRS, NORA RICE. Operates the Farmer's Hotel Havs City, Kansas Give her a call—Meals 20 cents Mr E.H. Varnish. Has succeeded Mr J Morris at 224%*Cause at in the line of groceries fresh and salt meats cigars and confectioneries, country produce give him a call. Slichter Cash Grocery. Staple and fancy Groceries, Highest price Paid for Country produce 1 Cures Female Weakness - Wear Walking and Work Easy. Walking by Eryce Papahani Who Holds All Figures. Walk at All Figures. Simple in Construction. Comfortable. Ninety-sight per cent of its warthems, thousands of l. m. write like this. "120 Ward St. Jacksonville, FL." I have found your Body Bruce to call that you say of it. I feel sick. I have been in trouble for about 6 years with womb troubles, whiters, cramps at men's menstruation, constipation, kidney stones, backache, backache, headache in abdomen, etc. I have not had a pain like a girl or a boy. I feel like a girl or a boy. Sept. 20, 1891. Horse This Dress Money Refund $4 Browz Is Not Satisfactory. Send for Full In- formation with Illustrated Book, or call 1-800-323-2222. THE NATURAL BODY BRACECO, Boston, MA. Every Prompt, Woman Stands In the District In and for Shawnee County Kansas. The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued by plaintiff here in the District Court of Shawnee County Kansas for divorce and that unless he answers the petition filed by said plaintiff on or before the 26 of January 1900 the same will be taken as true and judgement rendered as prayed for in said position. Jennie Melton, by her Atty W. I. Jamison, First pub. Dec. 16. '99. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Shawnee County Kansas. To Minnie Wood, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff, John Wood, in the district Court of Shawnee County Kansas, and that you must answer the petition filed therin against you by her plaintiff, on or before the 22nd day of December 1899, or the petition will be taken as true and judgement divorcing said plaintiff from you will be rendered accordingly. (Attest) John Wood, A, M, Callaham, By Jas, H, Guy Clerk Dist: Court, His Atty. First Pub, Nov, 4th. SUMMONS OF PUBLICATION. In The District Court In and For Shawnee County Kansas. Hannah Ransom, Plaintiff vs. Louis W. Ransom, Deft No, 20289, The above named defendant is hereby notified that he has been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County Kansas by the above name plaintiff for divorce and that unless he answers the petition filed by said plaintiff on or before the 24th day Nov. 1899 the same will be taken as true and judgement rendered as prayed for n said petition, (Attest) Hannah Ransom A, M, Callaham, rAtty. Clerk Dist, cou., W, I mson First Publication Oct. 14. LOUIS VANDORP. 72CR HARDWARE and STOVES Screen Door, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden Tools. These are the things you need Give hima2call. 828 Kansas Ave WHERE TO GET YOUR HATS And CLOTHES CLEANED. if you have a first rate looking suit of clothes that you would like to have cleaned and put in shape take them to I. s Harding's as you go to the State 108 W 9th street. If you have straw goods or silks, don't forget * that he does this kind of work. Try him. BURE TEA SPICE ECT TOPEKA COFFEE SPICE MILLS 109 EAST SIXT ST. TEL. 71. --- M. Hogan. Undertaker And Reliable in His Dealings--Open day and Night.--314 Kan. Avenue. J1,5 U. S. CYCLE GC. NATIONAL N27. 118 East 8th Street. Difficult Bicycle Repairing a Specialty Lock and Key Work, Umbrellas Repaired, Valcanizing. Good WHEELS to rent-and for Sale Second Hand, We Are Experts CALL AND SEE OUR '99 NEW MODELS THE AMERICAN HAIRGROWER A NEW DISCOVERY. ON THE BEST EVER OILS EVER INTRODUCED FOR GROWING HAIR. Makes the hair soft and Makes it Grows Long, it will Make Good Head of Hair Where it is Thin, providing the Hair has not been desiroyed by some inflamatory disease. Makes the hair soft and Makes it Grow Long, it will Make Good Head of Hair Where it is Thin, providing the Hair has not been desiroyed by some inflamatory disease. HAIR SWITCHES 25 & 50 cents, at MRS. J. SMILEY'S-502 Quincy Street. SHAKE THE BOTTLE WELL BEFORE USING. Give this remedy a fair trial and you use no other.-Mrs. Banks. 330 Madison Street. GOPEKA KANS. Kansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT PRO'S, PROPS. 306 E. 2ND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. Kansas Packing House Market Skiing GoToOur Ad- vertisers and trade THOS. E. DEPUIL. WEST 8TH STREET. C Pys and Fine Confectionery. W.M.HEBB. 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Give us a trial 522 Jackson Street. H. A. KLAUER For the best. Gold-Bug, Silk-Edge, and a fine line of Tobbaccos, and Smoking Articles, 526 Kans. ave. a22 GILCHRIST BROTHERS PROPRIETORS NATIONAL STABLES Good Turnouts delivered to any part of the city. Boarding a specialty. tel. 46 706 Jackson st. FOR SALE Will you buy Real Estate Will you sell Will you rent Try us. Barnes Real Estate Co.Tel. 202. 113 West 5th st. JNOCHELAND R ```markdown ``` RANDOLPnI KANS. Fine engraving especially FRED C. FAGEPCRANS. 72c KAS. AVE. Sells watches, Clock's and Fine Jewelry. Watches cleaned, $1.00, mainsprings $1.00. All work first class, and warranted one year. Money to loan at 8 per cen on valuables. H$_2$ F. SEEKATZ DOES FINE WORK ON LADIES AND GENT'S SHOES, GIVE HIM A CALL. REPAIRING + ROMPTLY EXECUTED. 202 West 6th ST. M25 Miller's Pharmacy. 6th & TOPEKA AV.. Drug, s Medicines, Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. H= LYMAN& SON, Agricultural Implements Vehicles, Lumber Wagons, Robes And Harness, McCormick and Champion Binders and Mowers. Granger Hall Bldg, Manhattan Kas. WE ARE HERETO TUXEDO MAN STAY. Your Trade you please. DESOIO T. A BROWN Mgr GO W.M. For all kinds of Feed; Flour, H 412 Kar THE WEAR AND TE Men and Women use Hudyan. acknowledged by our leading medi tissue builder known to med cal so that life of despondency and disco will make of you a happy man. Try Hudyan Cures Women. Nerves. GET•HUDYAN from your drug If your drugg HUDYAN REMEDY CO., UP TO McKEEVR. Ed. McKeever will not have the nerve to tell it about the city this time that no one is against him but the Editor of this paper this is the braggado story he imparted to a few of his confidential friends when, at the same time he knew it was not true, Col. Veale will make him appicate "his expancy" and says point blank, that if McKeever has no opposition, and no one else can be found to race with him he will. Also Ed. McKeever the third term should read the want columns of the "CAPITAL and JOURNAL" of this city more than he does. WE ARE ASKED*'WHOIS WOLF? Two years ago C, V. Wolf wanted to aspire for Clerk of court through cowardice he layed down and it is not believed by his friends this time that he will have any effect or cut the least ice. Wolf poses as a very smart man showing his feeling and cloven hoofs wherever necessary its one thing sure a large number of our readers can not perceive the idea who Wolf is or whether he is joking or merely trying to get before the people: the movements of Mr. Wolf's shall be watched with interest. So more it be. J. M. MILLER The Old Soldier Making votes. In looking the situation o ver it is week we find that Mr. J. M. Miller for County Commission is coming up all right with a good vote for that office. The retiring member Mr. Rodgers is a old soldier and it seems as though the old soldiers are doing all the can with the aid of Mr. Miller outside friends to nominate him on April 14th, but just how much strength he has thus far is hard to tell, he is well known to our people, and he's making an extra effort to capture their support. Let us respect ourselves and as rule others will respect us. ROHRING SHCE SHO 527 Quincy Street repairs BOOTS SHOES. Neatly done while you wait, Rubber Heels 40 and 50 cents The Best On The Market ROHRING — THE SHOE MAK Getyour harness and saddliery goods Geo. Kleins and Co, 7 18 Kus, Ave. paring a specially, all work guaranteed W. D. Woodall Maron and Cistern der also wells. Parties needing service orders at LEDGER office THE LANDIS HOM BAKERY, Many years experience. 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