State Ledger

have no trouble adads. No tron- with subscribers have the caper- , and you the try — pass the this way. By F. L. JELTZ. PRESIDENT. M. McKINLEY, OF OHIO. CE PRESIDENT EO. ROOSEVELT. OF NEW YORK. REPUBLICAN TATE TICKET. Governor- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, Suttenant Governor- H, E. RICHTER. Morris Eounty, Associate Justice- W. A JOHNSON Ottawa County, Secretary of State- GEO, A. CLARK, Geary County. treasurer- FRANK GRIMES. Wichita County Auditor- GEO. E. COLE. Crawford County. Attorney General— A. A. GODDARD, Shawnee County. Superintendent of Public Justification- FRANK NELSON, McPherson County. Insurance Commissionel- W, V. CHURCI. Marion County For Congressmen, District- G. W. WHEATLEY. Galena High District- J. M. MILLER, Council Grove, District- W. A. ALDERHEAD, Marysville District- W. A. REEDER, Logan, High District- CHESTER I LONG, Medicine Lodge, CHAS. F. SCOTT, Iola CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST ION, CHAS, CURTIS. CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST. N. J. D. BOWERSOCK. Currah for McKinley and Cur- who is a big man at this hour. We take back nothing we have new to the line let the chips where they may. To speak the dictates of your science is no violation of law. Don't forget that when we /ose one hand we gain on the er. Do not be discomitted in well many people does well and some discomitted for naught. The curfew law has been t am- d in Topeka and young urch- ure smiling. We not engaged at producing tures we are still publishing STATE LEDGER. Boys are becoming more saucy day because some of thi ents think to much of them to instar a punishment when is sary. Think how once it is to have emies as well as friends you see our enemies never harm you it is our friends that do the dirty the oft-tunes. those things that interest you just are the things that dis- gest the public less. Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep you'll weep alone. The State Ledger. The editor of this paper does not upnold crime, nor do we give rise to insurrection measures but something has to be done in behalf of the colored citizens of the south. Ere long we shall note more beastly and dastardly crimes committed by the rebel populace of Dixie. There are a few young fellows who hold some kind of a job under certain person's in power and they have more to say against you if you so displease them than than the chieftain himself. What woman hates is bravery and cowardice the former she admires to a certain extent but if she marries a man who is brave enough to kili another she hates it most sorrowful hence cowardice and bravery are prime attributes of a woman's admiration. Do not play second fiddle to no one. If you are out for a place and all things equal, do not enter into any nefarious scheme by which you will compromise the race for a deputy-ship or clerical position. Iave whole hog or nothing. What about that New Orleans kidnug? Verily the death of colored citizens, guilty or innocent, great or small are soon forgotten. The American government is now wide awake in China for the murders she has committed. But thus far no attention is given to a bloody Southern War. There is no question in the minds of the public but that some evil doer is doing Topek just about now in the way of burning barnes and destroying property the party or parties caught in such act would not be to severely dealt with if they were tared and feathered. A few days ago a general State election was held in Alabama in which State and county officers were elected and the Democrats decided by a victory of 50,000 majority to call a constitutional convention to disfranchise illiterate Negro voters. Virginia is also preparing to call a similar convention; then will follow Georgia, Florida and other Southern States. Ex. People who intend to reside permanently in Washington ought to stop paying high rents year in and year out and commence buying a home. Do not crowd into the congested and disease-hurried localities where colored people are permitted to live. Go out into the suburbs where you can get cheap land and plenty of fresh air. Now is the time to begin. Ex All sorts of people are being placed under arrest for supposed intimacy with the regicide Bresci. The latest victim is a young girl who, in company with her uncle, aunt and cousin, their daughter, were fellow passengers on the steamer which Bresci journeyed to Europe. The pretty Italian girl and the han isome Bresci very naturally formed an acquaintance on the ship and thereupon the authorities assume that she must have been in a position to hear all about the plot," and caused her arrest, it being a well known fact that intending slayers of kings are in the habit of confiding the details of their plans to the pretty girls they may chance to scrap acquaintance with on their lonely travels. Ex. State K. Stat AT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR TOPEKA, KANSAS THE FAITHFUL COLORED MAN There is one thing sure about the colored citizens, which is worthy of the following remarks: "He is ever willing and ready to take up the white man's burden and although he is rebuked and cast aside for the dirty Indian or Dago and denied many privileges, he is still true to the white man of this country. The white men of the country tor some cause better known to himself will serve the above out landish class better as a rule, than they serve the faithful Negre, yet when he gets into trouble he will call upon his faithful "black Bro." This kind of love is only skin deep, and the smiles that generally protrude from their lips are borrowed smiles. NORTH CAROLINA AND THE NEGRO. The disfranchisement of the Negroes in North Carolina, was a cunningly calculated piece of work espoused by a class of white southerners whose very hearts are shrowded with prejudice and who have lost all sense of good citizenship and justice to all men alike before the law. The Globe Democrat in an editorial in its issue of August 11th, among other things uttered the following truths concerning the disfranchisement of the Negroes in that state: "This is the correct ground to take. An educational qualification for the suffra_ae ought to be adopted in every state, but it should bear on all races alike. An ignorant white man as a voter is just as much of a menace to good government as an ignorant Negro. If the black man is shat out from the polls the white man should also be barred. This principle is so elementary that no argument is needed to enforce it. It appeals to every reasonable person."—ex. We know we hurt many of you out what of that, we are still doing business at the old stand. The sly mo keyed enemies of ours will amount to nothing, no more now than they have heretofore. The Kansas State Grand Lodge session closed with a very successful meeting. S. G. Watkins was chosen G. M., J. H. Childers secy. There are some good for nothing class of persons who think they operate the business of the world, but that time has passed there is nothing in it only their thoughts. People who do not send in the r money for this paper do not wish to be placed down as dead beats, when hundreds well know they owe us without a doubt. The Republican State Committee will no doubt serve the colored journals this year better than they have in the pst. Our State Reform School is a model just now for those who wish to see it under the superintendency of Mr. W. S. Hanceck, a great change has been made in all departments. Fred Stonestreet, our present City Marshall, has made himself by his manly way, a true friend and capable gentlemen to all classes, and when the time comes it is expected of the Republicans colored and white to give him a THE RIGHT OF A COLORED CITIZEN The privilege of man should not be diminished provided he carries that certain amount of good character that makes him a good and useful citizen. We are not certain whether prejudice is growing, but we are certain of one thing it is coming to the surface more plainly than in the past. One thing should be kept in mind, as for the colored race, if he makes a good citizen, a good so'der he should be accorded all rights as a Free-man. The Jim Crow car law cost Virginia this year's encampment of District National Guard, meaning the loss of thousands of dollars. It will cost these Bourbons many thousands more before the miserable farce is ended. ex. The "candidate for anything and everything" invariably falls. Get your eye on the bird you want to shoot—and shoot him with all your might. Don't fire in the air. See! Whether a church member's soul goes to yeavan or elsewhere of en depends upon how he stands with the pastor-that is, if he has a chukle headed nincompoop for a pastor You are worth just what you will bring in the open market, not a cent more. The rule of trade and the rule of ability perhaps ought not to be running masses but in effect, they are, and you can not get away from it. No matter what protective movement race loving Negroes may inaugurate, a cheap white man can alway, find a cheap Negro to place barriers in his way. If the Afro American were half as loyal to himself as he is to his country's flag and the Republican party, our stock as a race would go way above par with a rush that would make one's head swim. —Ex. The population of the District Columbia is 278,718 being an increase of 48,326 over the population of 1890. This is the official count of the twelfth census, as given out by Direbtor Merriam. The report on the colored pah has not yet been compiled; but will probably be nearly 120,000 Amercain-. Mr. Chas. Hoeland of the firm of Hoeland and Co. has opened a neat cigar store and factory at 409 Kansas avenue , where he will be pleased to have his many friends call and examine his different brands. Mr. Hoeland will carry everything kept in the smoking line. Don't fail to call ard see him in his new quarters, 409 Kas., ave., Only an editor can comprehend the the trials of a pencil pusher. How to make every man the most distinguished, every girl the prettiest, every swell most popular and every man the most successful. Besides remember to call the old settler "Colonel" or "Major," all red-headed old maids "golden-haired," and to mention all the blessings received from failing to puff the man who passed through town and not call around for f or he would be expected to pay his subscription and to the mistakes In the initials in names and errors in the new members of families. All this is anything but a paradise. An editor who tries to please everybody is a tool, and if he is afraid of making enemies, he is a faud. Ex. NOTICE. Special attention is called to the neat bakery of Mr. G. L. Wooley who has opened a first class bakery at 915 Kas. avenue. He carries a full line of everything. Give him a trial and you will be served right. "I am not surprised," remaked the debonair dry goods drummer, "that those people down in Kentucky don't drink any more water then they do. I have just heard from a customer or mine in Eminence, a pleasant town not far from Louisviile, that a well known citizen there who has been troubled for a long time time with a hacking cough, had a severe spell of coughing the other day and raised two square blocks of some kind of hard substance. His son sent them down to a chemist, who reported that they were block of limestone, caused by the limestone water the cougher had been drinking. I may add that the cough doesn't trouble him any more, but just think of the liability a man is subjected to down there of having his bronchial tubes and his alimentary canal macadamized from Dan to Beersheeba. I'd rather drink moonshine than run such a risk as that. Sure would We guarantee the people who advertise,quick returns most reliable newspaper a m o n g all classes. VOL. 9, NO. 2 Hays and Snyder, the leaders in Coal, Feed, Hay, and all kinds of country produce. 921 Kas. avenue. Give them a call. these gentleman strive to please their customers and desire your patronage. While you are making money, save money. Put it into a bank, a building association, or some other business ente prise. Style is all right, and fine houses a nd fine furniture are very pleasing but the government clerk who us ed to live on $6.00 per week and now finds $1200 per year inadequate for his needs, will one day occupy a stool of repentance, watch it. ex. The howling of Bryanism means disfranchisement of the colored populace of the South kep up also the ravages of New Orleans repeated. Men should differ politically but not in regard to human lives. One man's life is just as dear to him as another. To support the things cited means the worst is yet to come. To defeat the confounded allies of Pitchfork Tillman, we must begin now at the bottom and allow no guilty man to escape the defeat at our hands this fall. LOOK AT THIS The Health food store at 118 East 5th street, has a good line of Sanitarium Health foods which are just what you need, if you are sick, and they will be a luxury for you if you are well. Go and get some of their Cereal Coffee. It is much more healthy drink than the coffee that you have used all your life. If you are in need of a good Bible or some religious books that will show you the truths of the Bible more pliably than you have known them before, call and examine the fine line at THE KANS. TRACT SOCIETY, 118 East 5th. St. SHE UNDERSTGOD The following story will show the high price that illustrators of reputation command for their work; A young woman who had received treatment from Dr. S Wiler Mitchell of Philadelphia and was very fond of him decided at a recent celebration of his birthday, that a fitting and appropriate gift would be the presentation of one of the original drawings of Mr Howard Pyle for "Hugh Wynne" Forwith she invaded the Century Company's sanctum and, with her fingers tenderly grasping a new $10 note, asked to buy the drawing. She was told that these pictures were never sold unless exceptions were made in the cases where the artist himself or the author wished to make the purchase. "Just so," said the young woman, "I wish to present it to Dr. Mitchell." "Ah in that case," said the gentleman at the desk, "we shall take pleasure in giving it to you at the exact price we paid for it, which is $100." The little lady in her excitement dropped the $10 bill. The gentlemen at the desk picked it up for her and smiled while she hurriedly took her departure. The good doctor was presented with a less appropriate gift that year. A·T·WAGGONER DRUGS AND MEDICINE 731 Kansas Ave, YOUR TRADE SOLICITED W. L. Yaggy has a 500-acre catalpa plantation in Reno county. The Rock Island is making extensive improvements at Smith Center. A Neosho county farmer has imported a start of and is successfully raising English ring-neck pheasants. Two carloads of wild horses were sold in Chanute a short time since. They came from Idaho and Montana. J. P. Royal. a Sedgwick county farmer, paid $7,500 cash for a section of land adjoining his half section farm. Jesse Cook, assistant electrician at the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, takes a place as electrician in Honolulu. The Rock Island's southwestern extension from Liberal means cheaper coal for the southwestern counties of Kansas. It is said that seven Harper county farmers have cleaned up, oiled and carefully sheltered their harvesting machines. Kansas farmers, when they visit their old homes in the east this year, register at the hotels like this: "H. J. Braves, Farmer." A baby was left with two boys in the yard. The boys had matches and the baby was burned to death. This was at McPherson. A Rooks county man ships St. Bernard pups all over the country and recently received a good offer for an entire litter from Mexico. W. W. Van Gundy, an inmate of the Leavenworth Soldiers' Home, died in a wagon near Emporia. He was on a camping trip with his family. The Kansas live stock sanitary board decides to continue the quarantine on breeding cattle from all states outside of Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma. President Taylor, of the state normal, is agitating a move on the legislature to induce action in making the summer school at that institution free. Five of the new chair cars which are being built in the Topeka shops by the Santa Fe have already been turned out. There is nothing that is desirable to have which these cars lack. Joseph Lewis, who served in the Black Hawk, Mexican and Civil wars, has been mustered into Lincoln Post. in Topeka. Abraham Lincoln was his captain in the Black Hawk war. The Creamery Package Manufacturing company plant at Kansas City, Kas, has built a large addition to its factory for making butter tubs, etc. Two hundred operatives are employed. Superintendent Nelson of the Wichita street car line gave a trolley excursion in honor of his daughter's eighth birthday. Her little friends made up a handsome crowd and enjoyed the occasion. Mrs. Joseph Herman, of Burlihgame, with the entire family, were traveling in a wagon and while camped south of Coffeyville, was burned to death while cooking. There were five children, the youngest 3 months old. Henry Hibner was standing in front of a threshing outfit's engine when it blew up. He was blown 400 feet, over a wheat stack, and made two bounds, one of 45 and one of 25 feet. He was alive when the party reached him. C. G. Toland, of Wellsville, was found by trainmen near Red Rock station and taken to Perry, O. T. He was bruised in many places. Farmers in the vicinity of Russell are talking of putting up an elevator with a capacity of from one-half to a million bushels in which to store their grain. Chancellor Snow's report says that July was cooler than usual and that there was one inch and seven-tenths more rainfall during the month than the July average. For two weeks the average daily receipt of wheat at the elevators in Downs was 3,500 bushels. H. J. Parker, who swore warrants against eight Emporia druggists, charging them with unlawfully selling liquor, has been arrested on a charge of perjury. On July 15 there was paid for freight on wheat shipped over the Missouri Pacific from Lindsborg, $786.86, and the 16th $864. It is estimated that it will average during the shipping season between $300 and $600 a day. W. W. Addington's daughter was visiting at her uncle's farm in Montgomery county, and her cousin placed his knee against her back and pulled her shoulders back. She died from the effects of the act. Samuel Hazlett, a Scotchman, aged 74, dropped dead while working over his wife's grave at Hartford, Lyon county. The Missouri Pacific train dispatcher's office at Conway Springs has been abolished and the men transferred to Wichita. Shawnee county has 2,238 farmers. Gentry's dog show train had a slight wreck at Ottawa. Government agents have been stocking the Smoky Hill river with black bass. Henry Birt, of Mitchell county, received over $1,200 for wheat from 57 acres. Dan'l. Stiger, a farmer near Hunnewell, was killed at a railway crossing July 31. A train passed over the central division of the Santa Fe with 128 cars recently. A woman's club at Beloit is raising funds to extend the water mains to the cemetery. William Smith was badly injured by the explosion of a threshing engine near Caldwell. Pink eye among horses and cattle is reported as resulting in total blindness in some sections. A Dickinson county man is said to have cleared $6,000 in two years with a merry-go-round. The state board of charities will soon advertise for bids for building the new asylum at Parsons. A joint at Williamstown had a stick of dynamite placed under it which demolished the building. The Gould salt plants at Hutchinson have stopped work indefinitely. About 300 workmen are affected. The hay crop is good in Montgomery county and is being cut; baled and shipped. Haying crews live in their wagons. Coffey county and Osborne county both report that delinquent tax lists of this year are shorter than for any previous year. There have been no new cases of Texas fever in Chautauqua county for several weeks. So far ten cattlemen have lost 122 head. An English clergyman writes to Kansas University asking what fee he shall send to receive the title of D. D. from that institution. Greecey county complains of a plague of flying ants which throng the houses. In the court house they are swept up by the fire shovel full in all the rooms. The Kansas Oil and Gas company are still taking leases, having now 25,000 acres in Southern Montgomery county. They are making arrangements to put down wells. The house occupied by Mrs. Thompson in Wichita caught fire. She rushed to the gate where she fell. One whole side is paralyzed and she is blind; all the result of fright. Twenty-five years ago Anton Mermis came to Ellis county with his entire possessions tied in a blanket. This year he has harvested 50,000 bushels of wheat, from his own land. Some of the Topeka ministers complain that the old custom of being called upon alternately to hold services at the insane asylum is changed; one minister now going there regularly. Ed. Ford and wife were boat riding near Clay Center when both were thrown into the water. Ford was drowned but his wife was saved by holding on to weeds until help came. Miss Katherine West hanged herself in the Osawatomie asylum. She was highly educated and became insane from too much study. Her home was in Fort Scott, but she had been a teacher in New York, Connecticut and Michigan. The Wichita electric street car company has fixed August 26 as the day when it will turn over its entire system to the King's Daughters, giving them the day's revenue for the childrens home fund. During July the sale of stamps and postal supplies at the Topeka postoffice amounted to $10,642.56, an increase over July, 1899 of $1,500.89. Montgomery county farmers have the practices of plowing their wheat land in July; and have done so to a greater extent than usual this year. Henry Dorson, of Atchison county, claims that he raised an average of 40 bushels of wheat to the acre on land which has been farmed 40 years. Kansas Agricultural college has received a pure blood Guernsey bull, with a wonderful pedigree. It is about the most valuable of dairy animals ever brought to Kansas. An eastern writer in an article on Kansas spoke of the broad fields of buffalo grass swaying and waving in the wind like the waves of the ocean." Wouldn't that make a jackrabbit laugh? The medals which the G. A. R. will give to the members of the Twentieth Kansas contain the names of the following battles: "Bag-Bag," "Caloocan," "Apalit," "Malolos," "Calumpit," "Marilao," "Polo." The "Farm and Freside" warns its farmer friends from being worked by the Belgian hare boomers. It declares the flesh of the new rabbit is no better than that of the common kind and there never will be a greater demand for it. The whole thing is a swindle, it says. COLONIAL TRADE. COLONIAL TRADE. BRITISH COMMERCIAL RETURNS SHOW INCREASE. Afford a Steady Market for Products of the Parent Country—Comparison with the United States—Articles That France Supplies to Her Possessions. French colonies show a rapid increase in the proportion of their importations which they take from the governing country. An elaborate report on the colonies of France, their government, finances, and commerce, has been published by the treasury bureau of statistics. It shows that the total value of imports into French colonies, exclusive of Algeria and Tunis, amounted in 1898 to $47,741,416, the imports from France and French colonies alone being $22,853,921. The following table shows the value of imports of French colonies during the year 1896, by principal articles: Textiles ..... $10,104,917 Spirits, wines, etc..... 4,858,154 Cereals and flour..... 4,654,325 Colonial products ..... 3,144,032 Machinery, hardware, etc..... 2,977,700 Building, stone, combustible ables and etc..... 2,477,472 Animal products, hides, etc. 2,162,551 Yarns and threads..... 1,812,207 Oils and vegetable essences..... 1,536,537 Metals..... 1,485,202 Chemical products..... 1,268,507 Fish..... 917,754 Paper, printed matters, etc. 862,504 Pottery and glassware..... 747,621 Timber..... 733,041 Live animals..... 728,252 Vegetables, fruits and seeds..... 644,388 Arms and ammunition..... 606,818 Furniture and woodwork..... 520,754 Dressed skins and furs..... 488,985 Drugs..... 322,814 Coloring matters..... 184,518 Clothing..... 119,638 Matting, wickerwork, etc..... 119,594 Dyes..... 111,375 Vegetable fibers, etc..... 99,174 Musical instruments..... 38,110 Sundry products and manu- factures ..... 3,190,283 Total ..... $46,917,236 Another and broader way of looking at it than the mere study of articles imported is to see the total commerce which the various nations have with their colonies, and the relation which their colonial commerce has to that of other parts of the world. A recent London letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer has the following: The world has been very wide-awake lately to the fact that the colonies of the British Empire have been of vast service and importance to England in facing the surprise party which has been substituted for the "picnic to Pretoria" which was expected to take place in South Africa. It will, however, amaze a large number of the mercantile public, even though they be well posted in trade statistics, to learn what an enormously valuable asset in England's trade is the colonial business. Without going into detail, and assuming for the present that the total of their interchanges may be represented by round numbers, say 2,000, the shares of the several holders stand thus: Total ..... 2,000 The colonies most certainly are England's best customers, as is shown in Mr. Mullhall's paper on "British Trade" in the March Contemporary. Take some figures for the lest decade, 1889-1898. England's aggregate interchanges, export and import, with great industrial communities were as follows: The British colonies ..... £1,788,000,000 The United States ..... 1,399,000,000 Germany ..... 824,000,000 France ..... 682,000,000 Total ..... £4,692,000,000 Thus England's colonial trade shows an excess of £389,000,000 over her United States trade, an excess of £924,000,000 over that with Germany, and of £1,106,000,000 over the French trade in a space of ten years. The contrast is still more striking if one divides the aggregates according to exports and imports. It is well known how England's sales to European nations dwindle year by year under the operation of hostile tariffs and commercial restrictions. Take the United States for the period under review. Her account gives the following results: Purchases from the U. S. £1,019,000,000 Sales to the United States. 380,000,000 Total ..... £1,399,000,000 The reports for the British colonies indicate much more equal conditions of trading and a freer access to their markets: Purchases from the colo Prices 100.00 miles ..... £949,000,000 Sales to the colonies ..... 839,000,000 Porto Rican Trade. Exports to Porto Rico in May have more than doubled as compared with the preceding May, and imports from the island are nearly doubled. Exports to the island from the United States in May, 1899, were $305,564, and in May, 1900, were $696,479. The imports into the United States from the island in May, 1899, were $647,179, and in May, 1900, $1,103,867. The May commerce with Porto Rico shows a much greater increase than is the case with any of the other islands. With Cuba the commeree of May differed little from that of May, 1899, and this was also the case with the Hawaiian islands; while in the Philippine islands the imports show no increase, though the imports show a remarkable gain. TRADE OF OUR ISLANDS. Exports from the United States to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Samoan islands, amounted, in round numbers to $45,000,000 in the fiscal year 1900, and were more than three times as much as in 1896 and more than twice as much as in any year of our commerce with those islands except in the years 1892, 1893, and 1894, when reciprocity greatly increased our exports to Cuba and Porto Rico. To the total for the fiscal year was, in round figures, $25,000,000 against $7,530,000 in 1896, and $24,157,000 in the great reciprocity year 1893. To Porto Rico the exports of the year were, in round terms, $2,600,000, against an average of $2,750,000 in the reciprocity years of 1892, 1893, and 1894. To the Hawaiian Islands the total for the year was about $15,000,000, or five times as much as in 1893, nearly four times as much as in 1896, and more than double the total for 1898. To the Philippines the total for 1900 was about $2,500,000, or more than in the entire fifteen years since 1885, the date at which the first record of our exports to the Philippines was made by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. To the Samoan Islands the exports of the year were about $125,000, or nearly as much as in all the years since 1896, at which date the official records of our exports to those islands began. The total imports into the United States from Cuba for the full year show a total of $31,000,000, against $15,000,000 in 1898 and $18,500,000 in 1897, though they still are less than one half the average for the reciprocity years 1892, 1893, and 1894, when our imports from that island averaged over $75,000,000 per annum. From Porto Rico the imports of the year are but $1,350,000, which is less than the total for any preceding year since 1880, and is due to the destruction by last year's tornado of the crops which supply Porto Rico's chief articles of export. From the Hawaiian Islands the imports for the full fiscal year are $21,000,000, or double the average annual importation for the period prior to 1896, and twenty per cent higher than in any preceding year. From the Philippines, despite the war conditions which reduce producing and exporting power, the imports are larger than in any year since 1894. OUR POSITION IN CHINA. Our Claim to Equal Facilities with Other Notions Is Assured. The diplomatic history of the United States affords no better example of successful endeavor to secure by mutual consent an evident right than that offered by the recent correspondence carried on under the President's direction for maintaining the "open door" of trade in China. The establishment of spheres of influence in that ancient Empire by European States, supported by the control of important seaports, has seemed to many to forebode the practical partition of that country among foreign powers and the effective appropriation of commercial privileges in China to the exclusion of all not able or willing to claim a portion for themselves. By a timely series of diplomatic notes Secretary Hay has obtained assurances from the Governments of Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Russia, by which they pledge themselves not to interfere with the perfect freedom of trade in those portions of China where their influence may prevail. The unobstructed enjoyment of the privileges of trade is thus secured to American manufacturers and merchants by the free consent of the powers. Perhaps the most important fruit of this unprecedented negotiation may prove to be that all the powers, feeling the assurance of unrestricted commerce, may be disposed to accentuate to a less degree, or even abandon, that policy of commercial annexation which has apparently been promoted by the absence of such a just and reasonable understanding. The American claim to unrestricted facilities of trade in China is not a special favor asked and granted, or demanding reciprocity. It is based on treaty rights which promise equal rights to Americans with the citizens or subjects of the most favored nations. The recognition of these rights has been obtained at a moment when they were apparently about to be ignored. Less Failures Than Ever. "Fewest Failures for Eighteen Years" is the headline on Bradstreet's record for the first half of this year. That non-partisan business journal says: "The number of failures reported for the first six months of the calendar year 1900 is the smallest noted for eighteen years past. Compared with a year ago, the falling off in number is 3.3 per cent, while compared with 1898 the decrease is 25 per cent, and even larger decreases are noted when comparisons are made with the first half of the years 1897 and 1896. This year, in fact, for the first time in eighteen years, the six months' failures have fallen below 5,000 in number. Which Is the Better? Wouldn't you rather sell corn at 43 cents in Chicago than at 28½ cents? The former was last month's price. The latter and the lower figure was the Democratic price in June, 1896. Hopeful Tidings for Western States and Territories. Washington, D. C.—Senator Warren before leaving for his home in Wyoming, speaking of the work of the National Republican Convention, said: "The platform adopted by the convention conveys to the people of my state, and of every Western state and territory, the most hopeful tidings given them for many years. This is contained in the declaration that, 'In further pursuance of the constant policy of the Republican party to provide free homes on the public domain, we recommend adequate national legislation to reclaim the arid lands of the United States, reserving control of the distribution of water for irrigation to the respective states and territories.' "The fact that the Republican party puts no idle words in its platforms and redeems every promise it makes to the fullest degree is appreciated in the West, and with the positive declaration that the party is committed to reclamation of the arid lands of the country, all doubts that this will be done, and done speedily, are removed. "Had I had such a declaration to back me up at the close of the 56th Congress, when I attempted to secure an appropriation for the building of storage reservoirs in the West, success would have been assured. With such a declaration now a plank in the platform of the Republican party, success is in sight, and I confidently believe that before the 56th Congress closes, it will provide means for the inauguration of a system of reclamation of our arid lands which will do as much for the arid West as the adoption of the Homestead Law did for the great Middle West country. "The Republican party has already taken the preliminary steps in the work of reclaiming the arid lands of the West, and what it has done is of such practical and useful nature that a substantial foundation is already established upon which the work of reclamation can be continued and be made of lasting material benefit to the West. The first definite action taken towards reclamation of arid lands by the government was secured by the Republican party, in 1896, when by the provisions of the River and Harbor Act, under a section which I had the honor to present, an appropriation of $5,000 was made 'for examination of sites and report upon the practicability and desirability of constructing reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water, to prevent floods and overflows, erosion of river banks, and breaks of levees, and to reinforce the flow of streams during drought and low water seasons, at least one site each in the states of Wyoming and Colorado.' "The examination thus provided for, was made by Capt. H. N. Chittenden, Corps of Engineers, and this report made by him showed most convincingly the practicability, utility, and economy of land reclamation by means of storage reservoirs to be built at government expense. The report of Capt. Chittenden is regarded as the most valuable contribution of information obtainable upon this subject, and is in so great demand that the 56th Congress has directed that 3,000 additional copies be printed. "The next practical step in the direction of arid land reclamation was taken in the 55th Congress when by provisions of the Agricultural Appropriation Bill, appropriations of $10,000 and $35,000 were provided to make a series of investigations by experts in practical irrigation. These investigations were placed in charge of Prof. Elwood Mead of Wyoming, recognized as the leading authority on irrigation problems in America. The present Congress has increased the amount for this year's investigations under Prof. Mead to $50,000, and the scope of his work has been enlarged to cover many new irrigation experiments and problems. "In addition to these investigations, Congress has encouraged and sustained by liberal appropriation the work of stream measurements and investigation of water resources of the country, conducted by the United States Geological Survey. "The Republican party, as I have said, never makes a promise it does not fulfill, and I confidently anticipate that at a very early day, the practical work of irrigation investigations under Prof. Mead, the collection of data of water resources by the Geological Survey, and the location and survey of storage reservoir sites in Wyoming and Colorado by Capt. Chittenden, will be followed by the erection by the government, on the headwaters of our principal Western rivers, of storage reservoirs which will serve to reclaim millions of acres of land now arid and useless, and transform them into productive farms and homes. The increase in value of land as soon as it is reclaimed and is insured a permanent water supply is enormous; and with the waters of our Western rivers, now running to waste, fully utilized, the growth that will come to the West will be almost beyond comprehension." Production of Spalter The production of spitzer increased more than 50 per cent between 1894 and 1898. In the Galena-Joplin district the value of the product was $2,400,000 more in 1898 than in 1897. This was due to President McKinley's policy of opening the mills. Majorlty Against Enslage The Republican majority in Oregon was over 11,000, and it was piled up against complete fusion. What will it be in the other States? Big Teacher for Philippines. Fred Washington Atkinson, principal of the high school at Springfield Mass., who is now studying the methods of the industrial schools of the south, preparatory to taking up new duties as the first American perintendent of public instruction in the Philippines, stands six feet in four inches tail in his stockings, and straight as an arrow. Like the Deadly Under=Current A man and a woman are swimming in a lake. which grasps one without warming the mucous membrane which lies the entire body suddenly becomes weakened in some spot and disease is established. It may be of the lungs, the head, throat, stomach bowels, or any other organ. When ever it is, and whatever it seems all springs from the same cause. CATARRH CATARRH or inflammation of this delicate pearl membrane. The system is weakened in matter. 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Ministers Still In Pekin---Certain Death To Consent To Leave. EARL LI SHOWS HIS HAND. London, Aug. 9.—"In case the troops advance the Chinese must fight. The suggestion that the allies should be allowed to enter Pekin in order to sort the ministers to Tien Tsin is absolutely impossible. Washington. Aug. 9.—The following telegram from Minister Conger has been received by the state department: "Tsi-Nan-Yamen. To secretary of state: Still besieged. Situation more precious. Chinese government in- stating on our leaving Pekin, which would be certain death. Have abun- nant courage, but little ammunition or provisions. Two progressive yamen ministers beheaded. All connected with legation of the United States self at present moment. Brussels. Aug. 9.—M. de Favereau, minister of foreign affairs, has received the following message from the Belgian minister at Pekin, dated Aug. 2: "All foreigners are at the British negation, where we have been besieged by Chinese troops since June 20. Up to the present 58 of the marines have been killed and 70 wounded. The attack has ceased since July 17. Provisions almost exhausted. We hope to be delivered next week. All the Belgians here are well." The London associated press agent reads this comment: "A message from the Belgian minister, dated Pekin, August 2, seems effectually to dispose of the rumors that the ministers have either left or are intending to leave Pekin." Troops And Refugees Arrive. San Francisco, Aug. 8.—With her locks crowded with blue-jackets, ma- nies, ex-soldiers of the Ninth infan- ry, and refugees, the United States transport Logan, from Taku via japanese ports, was allowed to dock after passing quarantine. There were even women and children on the ves- sel direct from Tien Tsin, who had escaped from mobs of Boxers and the imperial Chinese troops. Nearly all of the passengers in the cabin had felt the depressing effects of a siege and had been in the Chinese city when it was threatened by the Celestial fight- ers and the refugees were more than had to get back to civilization. Among them were Dr. Diffenderfer and Mr. C. Meltotho, who were in the mill at Tien Tsin where the Chinese were held day before the first relief came through. Boers Are Surrendering London. Aug. 7.—There are 2,500 older prisoners at General Hunter's camp and 1,500 prisoners and nine guns at General Ian Hamilton's camp. There were about 5,000 in the Caleden valley originally, but some refused to accline in General Princeloo's surrender and slipped in the night. These have now sent in asking for terms of surrender. It will take some ways to ascertain the exact number. The Boers who excuse themselves for not fighting say they are in a hopeless position. The ravines were choiced with wagons, which were placed in the most dangerous spots of the roads, which were blocked for 20 miles. Praise of Japanese. Tien Tsin. Aug. 6.—The Japanese are giving a splendid exhibition of organization. Their whole machine moves like clockwork. There have been forwarded from Japan small boats or lighters for moving troops and stores and every regiment is landed quickly and without confusion and started for Tien Tsin within a few hours after the transport has anchored in the harbor. The management of the Japanese army and the bravery, spirit and intelligence of the Japanese troops are a revelation that command the respect and admiration of all foreign officers. Enlisted Men Promoted. Washington, Aug. 8.—The President was appointed forty-eight enlisted men in the regular army as second lieutenants in that organization and assigned them to various arms of the service. All men have excellent service records and they have made high earnings in their examinations. Fever Situation at Tampa Tampa, Fla., Aug. 7. — The fever situation here is unchanged. No new cases are reported. State Health Officer Porter and Assistant Surgeon General White, of the marine hospital service have arrived but have made no report. A large number of people have left on outgoing trains. A Semi-Monthly Dun. Washington. Aug. 9.—Instructions to Mr. Griscom, charge at Constantiople, were to the effect that the claim in Turkey be pressed about every forty-night, in order that there might be no cause of the negotiation. Mr. Griscom appears to be keeping up the semi-monthly reminder with great regularity, as word comes about every two weeks that he has presented another demand. They are all to the same effect that a settlement be made and an exact time fixed for carrying it out. CATTLE TAXATION IN COURT. Moving of Stock to Evade Assessment Still Practised. Topeka. Aug. 9.—Suit is commenced in the supreme court to test the constitutionality of the Wiley law concerning the taxation of movable personal property. Some of the cattlemen of Western Kansas have been in the habit of evading the payment of taxes on cattle for years by moving them from one county to another about the time the assessors are making their rounds. Representative Wiley put a bill through the legislature in 1897 providing that the assessment of cattle in such cases could be extended on the rolls any time between March and September. A live stock commission company, of Kansas City, moved a bunch of 1,200 head into Sherman county last year after the regular assessment time and the county authorities slapped the bunch on the assessment roll. The company refused to pay the tax and the sheriff advertised the cattle for tax sale. The company filed suit to enjoin the sale and the district court rendered a judgment in favor of the sheriff. An appeal from that decision has been filed in the supreme court. The commission company claims that the law is in violation of five or six provisions of the state constitution. Latest From Mr. Conger Washington. Aug. 7.—The state department has received dispatches from Minister Conger and Secretary of Legation Squiers, dated July 21. Squiers' message reads: "All well: no fighting since the 10th by agreement. Enough provisions. Hope for speedy relief." This came through Consul General Goodnow, who adds that he has received an imperial edict, dated July 30, ordering Jung Lu to provide an escort for the ministers to Tien Tsin, when the ministers fix the date. The edict says the ministers can receive messages not in cipher, but, notwithstanding this, plain messages were returned to some consuls on August 4. Bryan's Acceptance Speech. Indianapolis, Aug. 9.—The arrangements for the democratic notification ceremonies had been completed, Bryan and Stevenson and their party, and thousands of visitors had arrived and the city was in gala attire for the occasion, when the day dawned. The sun shone out upon a clear sky, making it quite certain that the program for conducting the exercises in the open air at Military park could be carried into effect. The weather was torrid. Mr. Bryan's speech, which was punctuated with applause throughout, was received with great enthusiasm. The speech is very lengthy, covering about 6 columns of a seven column paper. Need American Gold. London, Aug. 9.—In the house of commons Benjamin Lewis Cohen, asked the chancellor of the exchequer the reason for early closing of subscription bonds. The chancellor said the reserve of the bank of England stood at the lowest point for years and he was advised that great relief might be afforded here by the movement of gold from the United States if a large part of this loan (10,000,000 pounds sterling were taken there. It is understood here that about £5,000,000 of the loan has been allotted to the United States. Advance on Pekin. Washington, Aug. 7.—That the advance upon Pekin actually began no later than Friday is well assured now. Officials of the war department still decline to discuss the latest message of General Chaffee, dated Friday, in which he announced that the American, British and Japanese forces were making the start without the remainder of the allies. It is well understood that General Chaffee's dispatch cannot be given to the public as it contains information intended only for the guidance of the officials. Anti-Foreigners Again in Control. Washington, Aug. 8.—Apprehension exists at the reappearance in Pekin politics of that rabid anti-foreign fanatic Li Ping Hung, which may have had something to do with the rumors of Li Hung Chang's suicide. It is certain that with Li Ping Hung and Prince Tuan in control of the defacto government in China, a religious war probably will be waged against all foreigners, and friends of the more liberal Chinese statesmen are anxious as to their fate under Tuan-Li regime. Emphetic Cabilegram to Viceroy. Washington, Aug. 9.—The president directed and the secretary of state has sent to Earl Li Chang, to Sheng and to such viceroyas as can transmit it to whatever government there is in the Chinese empire a very emphatic statement of the position of this government. European Detectives. London. Aug. 9.—Discussing editorially methods of stamping out anarchism, the Daily Mail says: "In the first place, such a headquarters for outrage as exists at Paterson, N. J., ought to be closely watched by the European secret police, and full powers of extradition should be granted everywhere. "It is impossible to note without regret that the United States have found themselves unable to surrender certain men charged by the Italian police with complicity in Bressol's deed." The Inevitable Inference. Mrs. Brown-Stone—My present husband reminds me so much of my first one. Mrs. Joke-Smith—What's the matter with him? Nickel in the Slot for Pravers. In Algeria one can drop a nickel in the slot and get a prayer blessed by the haji. But beware of playing tricks. Over the machine is placed a notice in Arable to the effect that any miscreant who dares to cheat the prophet by annexing a prayer in return for a disc of lead or a spurious coin will be consigned to eternal punishment. The American Working Map. Much comparison has been made between the endurance of the Chinese and the American working man. Those with authority say that the average working man of America is as superior to the Chinese as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is to any other dyspepsia's cure. The Bitters also cures constipation, indigestion and prevents malaria. Pat Smith Summed Up. Here is a somewhat personal birth notice recently printed by the Silverton, Colo., Standard: "Born-To the wife of Pat Smith, a boy. The boy favors his old dad in several ways, viz.: He's bald, has a red nose, takes to a bottle like a bumblebee to a lump of sugar, makes a great deal of noise for the money he spends and won't work." Franz Josef's Many Titles. Of all the rulers sovereigns of Europe, the Austrian emperor can boast of the largest number of titles of nobility and territorial rank. In addition to his imperial crown, his majesty is in nine different ways entitled to wear regal tiara, twice he is qualified to be addressed as grand duke, once as grand prince and in numerous ways he is entitled to be called count or lord. Youngs t. Railroad President. John Skelton Williams, age thirty-five years, is the youngest railroad president in the world. He is the head of the Seaboard Air Line railway, aggregating nearly 3,000 miles of tracks. He had to work for his living while a mere lad, and two of the chief causes of his rapid promotion are his uncompromising integrity and his phenomenal capacity for hard work. Mineral Wealth of Britain Returns have just been laid before the British parliament showing that during 1898 the British Empire as a whole yielded about one-third of the world's output of gold, more than one-quarter of the salt, one-ninth of the silver, and seven-elevenths of the tin. Of coal the yield was 220,000,000 metric tons, only about one-fifteenth of which was contributed by mines outside the United Kingdom. Light on Siberla. A traveler returning from Siberia says: "The prisoners are not chained. They eat at the same table with their guards. 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The natural picturesque surroundings have been made more attractive and the hotel is a model of comfort and elegance. For the greater accommodation of guests who come in constantly increasing numbers from every section of the United States, arrangements have now been made for the enlargement of the hotel buildings. The contract was let yesterday by Major Kramer for additions that will cause an outlay of over $20,000. The improvements will consist of a new bath house and an addition to the hotel. The addition will be two stories in height and will occupy a ground space $0x160 feet. It provides forty additional guest chambers. The entire addition will be handsomely and elegantly furnished. The bath house, when completed, will be the finest in the United States. Besides the bath house and the guest chambers there will be on the first floor a dining hall, a music room, a billiard hall, physician's offices and a barber shop. In connection with the bath house there will be ladies and gentlemen's dressing rooms and cooling rooms. The dressing and cooling rooms will be elaborately decorated and the floors will be laid in white title. In both cooling rooms will be built large ornamental fire places which will be used for heating purposes in addition to the regular steam heating. The work will be entirely completed in 90 days. The improvement and the entire arrangements of the hotel and grounds are made, keeping in view the artistic effect of the whole, and when the improvements arranged for are completed the hotel and surroundings will be much more attractive than before. Major Kramer states that a still further addition to the hotel is contemplated, and that plans are now being prepared for an additional structure to contain 150 rooms for guests. Already a quarter of a million dollars has been expended on the Indiana Mineral Springs enterprise and under the present management greater growth and development in the future is assured.—Attica Daily Ledger. Historian Wrote Poetry. Few readers of the works of the historian Mommsen are aware that he once wrote poetry. In 1843 there appeared in Kiel a volume of poems by Theodor Mommsen, his brother Tycho and Theodor Storm. Of these, the historian contributed sixty, Storm forty and Tycho fourteen.—New York Post. The Dueber Watch Works, at Canton, O. form the finest and most complete watch plant in the world. The twin factories producing both watch movements and watch machines are devoted exclusively to manufacturing the light-hearted watch movements and watch cases. Every resource and every effort is concentrated in the single direction of making watch movements and watch cases as near as possible as the whole human power. 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Rowan, Milwaukee, Wis. W. N. U. WICHITA--NO.--32-1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. CATARIO FREE TOPHANNA NAN SCHOOL NORTHAND PENMANSHIP & TELEGRAPHY ETT'S HINA Allays Irritation, Aids Digestion, Regulates the Bowels, Strengthens the Child, Makes Teething Easy. TEETHINA Relieves the Bowel Troubles of Children of ANY AGE. MOFFETT, M. D., ST. LOUIS, MO. State Ledger. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN SUBSCRIPTION six months 75c One Year 1.50 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. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and Residence 1331 VanBuren St all promptly attended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAL- LACE. Office 724 Kan. Ave, Phone 250 H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 330 Kans Ave. ruptly attended. All calls 1el 14. OB: C. A. TAYLOR. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a.m.; From 2 to 5 p.m. OFFICE 226½ KAS, AVE. (CverKohl's Drug Store,) Wm. B. Swan, M. D. 725 Kansas Avenue, Tup ka 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. Homoeopathist Residence 626 Fillmo St. Telephone 360. Office 807 Kansas Avenus. S. G. STEWART, M. D. FICE 621 KANSAS;AVE.; TELPHONE 541 RSIDENCE 511 W. 5TH ST. ELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SUKGEON. FFIW HOURS; 9 TO II A. M. TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P. M. ELEPHONE 558. OFFICE 117 WEST 5th st. DR. J. C. ISERMAN, Office 112 East 6th street Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given to Disease, Stomach and I lungs and Female Trou- ces. Office Hours: -9 to 12 -2 to 5 -7 to 9 Phone DR, R. O, RHODES, OFFICE 600 Kansas ave Topeka, Kansas (Over Hub Clothing C,) OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A, M. 2 to 5 P. M. Residence, 900 West Sixth street Phone 656. --- GIBRALTAR DRUG CO 823 KANSAS AVENUE. Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATHIC REMEDIES. A.CT MA TERIALS.] Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach Regulator: Cures INDEGESTION, KIDNEY and LIVER trouble and RHEUMATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P O. Adjoining Capital of Kansas. M r, 27. GO TO E. W. Griggs for photos, fine pictures. Car--901 Kas. ave. W. D. W. G. Mason and Cistern builder also wells. Parties needing service leave and us at LEDGER office. Go to J. P. Johnsons for anything you want in the line of fine cigar's tobbacco and confectionery. 409 Kas. ave. R. E. KNOX. UNDERTAKER. FUNERAL CARS BUILT TO ORDER BALDWIN KANS. Miller's Pharma- cY. 6th & TOPEKA AVL. Drug,s Medicines, Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. C. F. MENNINGER, M, D. Office 727 Kansas Ave. Telephone 19. Office Hours: 11·12 A.M. 2-5 P.M. Residence 1251 Topeka Ave. Telephone 85. J. M JAMISON, M. D, Office 506 East 4th Street. Office Hours: From 8 to 10 A.M. "12 M to 3 P.M. "7 P.M, to 9 P.M Special attention to dieases of woman and private diseases. Henderson paint works. J, A. HENDERSON, PROP. Manufactur.res of all kinds of PAINTS Strictly Pure. 609 Mass, Street. LAWRENCE, KANSAS. F. M. Pletcher CARPENTER & BUILDER FURNITUE AND JOB WORK SOLIC TED. 119 E, 7 h St. M. Hogan. Undertaker And Reliable in His Dealings--Open day and Night.--314 Kan. Avenue. For Sale--By John L. Howard 415 Kansas Avenue. Inuses o. W. 5th St. ranging from $80 $1200 centrally located at reasonable prices on easy payments. Give him a call. Home Bakery L. C. BOYCE, Prop. 810 N Kas. Ave. (Successor to Geo. Mayer.) Wholesale and Retail Bakery goods, We Solicit Your Trade. We will Serve You Right. BAKERY, Many years experience. French home Bakery 316 E. 4tn St. PALACE RESTAURANT. Eskridge, Kans., The Best Place to get a good "Clean, Square Meal" for 25c. From Maine to California. The Proof of the Pudding is the Eating it. Try us and see. M F. LAWLOR, Prop Open day and night. Quick service. Rahrer's Restaurant 615 East Fifth St. Opposite Santa Fe Depot, C, A., RAHRER, Prop. U.S. CYCLE GO. NATIONAL N.27. 118 East 8th Street Difficult Bicycle Reparing a Specity Stock and Key Work, Umbrellas Repaired Valcanizing. Good WHEELS to rent-and for Sale Second Hand. We Are Experts CALL AND SEE OUR 199 NEWMODELS U. S. CYCLE CO. 118 East 8th Street. I have on hand a Complete Stock of Drugs. Medicines and Toilet Articles. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. And our Ice-Cream Soda cannot be beat. Give us a Trial, Sati faction Guaranteed. THOS. MORSE. 929 KS. AVE. Medical Advice Free. BELCIAN HARES STOCK FOR SALE SIRED BY CHAMPION DOSH. BANBURY STAR. BANBURY RED, and others Write for Prices. A. F. HAYNES. Pomona, Kansas G, ELLINGER & Co. General Merchandise. Jobbe's of Brooms. Shippers of Apples. Solicit orders from Jobbers and Retilers. Handling Brooms in quantities. We can save you 25 to 40 per cent. Send US Your ORDERS. G. ELLINGER & CO., Corning, Kansas. E. H. PHILLIPS, JEWELER & OPTICIAN Tele. 602 Kas. Ave. All work promptly attended to and Guaranteed. We Solicit your Patronage. For a new Clock or fine Watch eparing The best up-to-date and most polite jeweler in the city. See Uncle Sam, 512 Kas. ave JOHN MILLER, Dealer In Flour, Feed, Grath, Hay, And all kinds of Coal. 120 East Eighth St. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material—832 Kansas avenue 1014 Quincy Street. Paper Hanging and inside finishing a specialty. 32 years Experience. HARRIS BROS DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. Smoked Meats, A Specialty' Cigars Tobacco, and confectionery. Give Them an order goods delivered. 1300 QUNCY ST. L A. FISHER. Dealer In CLOTHING, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, BCOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAFS ETC. 118 East Sixth Street, Topeka Kan FOR SALE - Will you buy Will you sell Will you rent Real Estate Try us. Barnes Real Estate Co. Tel 62. 113 West 5th st. C. F. Rodiges, Dye and Cleaning Works. 820 Kans. Ave. Misfit and Tailor Work a Specialty. Satisfaction guarant ed. Dyeing Cleaning and repairing on Short Notice. Garter & Johnson RESTAURANT SHORT ORDER. When in Lawrence stop at their place, 611½ Masr, St. PALACE HOTEL E.C. THRALL PROP. Serves first class meals and Lodging Meals and Lodging open day and night 118 W. 6th St. Bowersock- Lawrence Kas. High Grade Flour, ROLT, R, CLARK Mgr. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the district Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Nephi Owen, Plaintiff. vs. Case No. 20751. Amy R. Owen, Defendant. To Amy R. Owen; You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff, Nephi Owen in an action for a divorce in the above named court and that unless you answer his petition filed therein on or before the 6th day of October, 1900, judgement will be taken against you divorcing the plaintiff from you as prayed for in said petition. Nephi Owen, Plaintiff. Attest, A. M. Calaham, (Seal) Clerk Dst. Court. Aug 20, J. C. JUSIICE. Dealer in staple and fancy groceries, fresh and cared meats, plenty country produce always on hand. Give him a trial. Pure Tea and Spices etc. TOPEKA SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Tel. 71 DR. ADAM RUPIN (HOMCEOPATHST.) THE NOTED GERMAN PHYSI has a professional record of forty ye ACCUTE AND CHRONIC DISEA He is especially well prepared and eminently s treatment of Vernal diseases, Nasal and Throat Cati la Cancer, Rheumatism, Granulated Dypepsia, Fema'e Weakness, Piles, D cs. CONSULTATION IN GERMAN Office 106 East Sixth Street, CALL AND SEE CERTIFICATES TOPEKA SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Tel. 71 Passon's dep't store, DEALER IN Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notion and all kinds of household goods. ADAM RUPIN, SR. (HOMEOPATHIST.) NOTED GERMAN PHYSICIAN, personal record of forty years treating UTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES. well prepared and eminently successful in the treatment of ases, Nasal and Throat Catarrh, Scrof. Rheumatism, Granulated Sore Eyes, Epi- Fema'e Weakness, Piles, Dropsy and all C s. COLLATION IN GERMAN OR ENGLISH East Sixth Street, T L AND SEE CERTIFICATES OF WONDERFUL DR. ADAM RUPIN, SR. THE NOTED GERMAN PHYSICIAN has a professional record of forty years treating la Cancer, Rheumatism, Granulated Sore Eyes, Epilepsy, (Fit, ) Dypepsia, Fema'e Weakness, Piles, Dropsy and all Chronic Disease cs. CONSULTATION IN GERMAN OR ENGLISH FREE. Office 106 East Sixth Street, Tupeka, Kansas CALL AND SEE CERTIFICATES OF WONDERFUL CURES. Lansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT PRO'S, PROP's, 306 E. 2ND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS, Wholesale and Retail. Give GO TO LOUIS VANDORP, FCR Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Ha These are the things you need Give b BAUGHMAN THE LEAD ICE CR Their Flavors A GIVE THEM Tel, 253. 23rd Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trades. GO TO WANDORP, FOR HARDWARE Inen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks* and Gardens e things you need Give hima call. 82 BUGHMAN BR THE LEADERS ICE CREAMS their Flavors Are Delicious GIVE THEM AN ORIGINAL 3. 23rd & Linc. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. 115 Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezets, Hammocks* and Garden-Tools. These are the things you need Give hima call. 828 Kansas Ave Their Flavors Are Delicious. GIVE THEM AN ORDER. Tel,253. 23rd & Lincoln St. WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE. State Ledger Office (UP STAIR Hedger Office, 431 Na (UP STAIRS.) State Hedger Office, 431 Kas Ave. (UP STAIRS.) voice of final settlement. THE STATE OF KANSAS, Shawnee County, in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of James Cook Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid Estate are her by notified that I shall apply to the Probate Court, in and for said County, sitting at the Court House, In Topeky County of Shawnee State of Kansas, on the 2nd day of July A. D. 1900, for a tull and final settlement of said Estate. W. I. Jamison, Administrator of the Estate of James Cook, deceased. 6-9 A. D, 19 o. E.H. UPSHAW. Peoples Feed, 537 Kansas Avenue, North Topek1. Full weights. Goods promptly delivered. Passon's dep't store, DEALER IN Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence KAn Cated Sore Eyes, Epilepsy, (Fit, ) Dropsy and all Chronic Disease s. MAN OR ENGLISH FREE. Topeka, Kansas TIES OF WONDFRUL CURES. Give Them Your Trade. 115 110 ACR HARDWARE and STOVES s, Hammocks*and Garden-Tools. live hima call. 828 Kansas pre AN BRO'S., ADERSIN REAM. Are Deiiclous. AN ORDER. 3rd & Lincoln St. 渔民 Dec, 431 Kas Ave. AIRS. ) Crockery, china, glassware, tinware, notions and all kinds of household goods. 739 Mass. St. Lawrence Kan Passon's dep't store, Youn toug D. A. Peyton The council neld four warm meetings last week. The 23rd Kansas re-union is in session and everything indicates a war-like spirit. Mrs W. F. Weber and son Carl are in Col. spending the summer they will visit many points before returning. J.B. Bass formally editor of the 'CALL" is in the city visting friends and relatives. The lawyers are cutting capers this warm weather with their vest pocket fill with papers. Mrs. Barnes, wife of the real estate dealer died Sunday and the funeral was held Monday afternoon. We are very pained to hear of this sad loss, as Mr. Barnes has been in poor health a long time. Johnny Johnson, has a full line of confectionery goods always on hand. Johnny has worked up a fine trade. Don't forget to call and see him. A'l kinds of Summer drinks on ice during season. Remember the place 400 Kas., Ave. A Kansas man, enroute to the Paris exposition, declares that the only time he ever really lost his nerves was when the sailors on his ship commenced to load no the lifeboat with bread and water. He said he didn't know that this was done once a week in order to have the boats in readiness, and felt sure a storm was coming that would swamp them all. "I was scared and asked the captain about it," he says, "and the captain laughed at me. That made me mad. These captians put on to much dog anyway. There isn't one of them that could tell the difference between a selfbinder and a straw stacker." Ex. The Diamond Drug Store, 6th and Buchanan Streets Give them a call. Remember that the Davis Mercantil Co. 601 Topeka Ave is the place to patronize You will get your money's worth by trying the Davis Mercantile Co. GOTO ARMSTRONGS RESTAURANT When in Ottawa for anything you want short Orders and Meals -222 N, Malo Sh J. W KELLEY. Staple and Fancy Groceries. Give Him a Call. 119 N. Main Street Ottawa, Kas HAYS & SNYDER 921 Kis, Ave., DEALER IN Feed, Hay and Grain and all kinds of Coal. A share of your patronage is de sired. Tele. 349. WOOLEY'S BAKEKY. The place to trade. The best Bakery goods kept on hand daily. 915 Kis, Ave. W. T. WILEY. Staple and Fancy Groceries. Fresh and Cured Meats, Fish, Poultry. and Country Produce. Give him a call. 931 K4s Ave. Tele. 291 MRS ANNIE DUKE, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING, Cutting, Sewing—Give her a trial. 826 Com'l street Emporia, K4s. TURNER BKOS. Fine Restaurant. Meals and Short Ord r. BURLINGAME K4S. HOLE IN WALL When in LAWRENCE stop at WEYER MULLER'S RESTAURANT SHORT ORDER. Open D v and Night 720 Mass., Street. DR.WINSLOW 704 Mass., Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. W. H. Winslow, does a general practice. Special attention given the eye and ear. Spectacles fitted, armisets to patient at wholesale rates; Office 704 Mass., Street Tele. 260-5, Residence, 1901 New Hampshire Street. Tele. 191-2.