State Ledger

We have no trouble o getads. No tron- ble with subscribers We have the expe- rence, and you the money — pass the hash this way. By F. L. JELTZ. FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY FOR VICE-PRESIDENT THLODORE ROOSEVELT REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET For Governor- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, For Lieutenant Governor- H, E, RICH1ER. Morris County, For Associate Justice- W. A JOHNSON Ottawa County, For Secretary of State- GEO, A. CLARK, Geary County. For Treasurer- FRANK G TIMES. Wichita County For Auditor GEO. E. COLE. Crawford County For Attorney General— A. A. GODDARD, Shawnee County. For Superintendent of Public Instruction- FRANK NELSON, McPherson County or Insurance Commissionel- W, V, CHURCH. Marion County For Congressmen, Third District- G. W. WHEATLEY. Galena Fourth District- J. M. MILLFR, Council Grove, Fifth District- W. A. CALDERHEAD, Marysville Sixth District- W. A. REEDER, Logan, Seveath District- CHESTER I LONG, Medicine Lodge, At Large CHAS. F. SCOTT, Iola FOR CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST: HON. CHAS. CURTIS. FOR CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST. TON. J. D. BOWERSOCK Bryan and his practices will be a dead is- e after r Nov. 6. When your debts are paid prepare to meet your God. We are for McKinley because we believe no revolution in the United States. Remember that politics never made a man happy, if you should fail don't forget to tack to your race. Remember we don't care anything about our special suppers or society functions, happiness lurks in every flower so that we can be happy without your scary issue. Bryan wanting to liberate his friend Agiu-ablo should just cut that out of his program at home need all the attention that can be given. We are opposed to Democratic rule and sympathy in the Phillipines when we need it in the South. Stay by your principals and vote for McKinley. The State Ledger. Bryans is the advance agent of nisery, want an outgrown financial creed. A vote for Bryan is a vote for a stale crust of bread and a bowl of charity soup. You cannot add value to anything by diminishing the measure of value with which the thing is sold or exchanged. The Democrats do not want honest election laws. Those who want freedom from work may obtain it by voting for Bryan. Remember not to forget that while John Marshall is trying to slip up on Sam Garard that he is still a candidate for Register of Deeds. The Bryan anarchistic wing of the Democratic party is in favor of all the world as against the United States and the Old Flag. During the McKinley regime cotton mills employing Afro-American labor have been established in the South. The South be poor today without the black toilers, yet it is in the South that the Democrats have stolen black men's right. Bryan promise, if elected to do every thing in his power to destroy the gold standard. The people will not give him the chance. 'Rally Around the Flag, Boys,' we'll defend it with our lives against the attacks of Bryan Altgeld, Tillman & Co. and all the anarchist they can marshal. Already under McKinley's first administration Atro-Americans have drawn from the Federal treasury, in salaries, the enormous sum of nearly $10,000,000. The wage earner is as much untitled to honest money for his toil as is the banker for his bonds. But freesilvercrats, led by Bryant, want to pay the toiler with $-cent dollars. The Democrats of the South are especially anxiously for the election of Bryan because they believe it will then be easier than it is even now, to deprive the Afro American of his rights as a citizen. Mr. Bryan admits that the great newspapers are against him. He might also admit that the really great men of his party are against him, that the great religious leaders are against him, that the great business men are against him The desny of every Afro-American in the North is identified with that of his Southern brother. If the Democrats succeed in wresing the franchise from the people of the race in the South the same thing will be done in the North. In Cuba the Afro-American soldiers astonished the world by their bravery and coolness under fire. They were fighting to free the beautiful isle from the Spanish yoke. It was President McKinley who commissioned 266 men of he race to lead their men to battle. Mr Bran is anything to plase his audience. To the wo kman in Chica o he si i, "you are paying too much for your bread." Not many cars afterward to an audience of farmers in Ohio he said, "you are not getting enough for your wheat." He is anything for votes enough to and him in the white lou e. "The Republican Party is the Ship, all else the Sea." — Frederick Douglass. "The Republican Party is the Ship, all else the Sea." — Frederick Douglass. CAROLINA BALLOT BOX We are tired of being humbugged. We may be happy yet, STATE LEDGER. There is nothing that bothers us. Vote the dictates of your conscience. Do not vote against Galen Nichols next Tuesday. Don't try to change things Tuesday, vote for Bill McKinley. You can do us a favor by voting for Stanley and McKinley. Vote the Republican Ticket and you will be happy yet. "The Republian party is the ship, all else the sea"—Fred Douglas. The same may be the ship the other the sea, but show the other to "me." She was born in Old Kentucky but sweet Autumn casts her leaf on the 6th of Nov. Bet your money on McKnley and Stanley. If thy heart fail thee climb not at all—Queen Isabella to Sir Walter Raleigh. S and by the Republi can principles, yet you reserve the rights to vote as you please. Dont get in a hurry, but wait to hear the news at Top ka on the night of Nov. 6. We have taken no interest in any of the fights thus far if we had, all would be for McKinley. Support men on the ticket that you can approach after election and all will be well. John Martin seems to be making trouble for those who want to elect Judge Hazen. Mort Albrugh, the darnell scamp who opposed us may go to hades as far as we are concerned. If those people who complain don't keep their kids off the street at night, it will be all sorrows for them. P. W Core candidate for clerk of the district court of S afford county is a worthy young man and should be elected. We will do the best we can. There are good many Bridenhal men who want to bet, yet there is no money in sight. Remember we are on to your work. Stand by your principles suit yourselves. A colored editor is the County Clerk of Chicago. We are the people and you must respect us. Of course we have nothing to say against other people. Do not worry and do hurry you may be happy yet. We are pleased to note the success coming-for the ticket. The majority of the people of Larned are Pops and Democrats. If Bryan is elected Pitchfork Tillman will be a member of Bryan's cabinet. Remember that we intend to see the State Ticket relieved from Breidenthal. You can put up all the jobs you want but we are there just the same. We are out of this fight and no one need not try to get us into it we are clear of it. Probate Judge Lewis at St. Johns should be nicely supported by our race, Great changes come even to great and small men, hence the result of the CAPITAL. Men down at Larned don't seem to think that any other part of the state must be heard from. Every colored man in the different counties should stand by the Republicans Chief Stahl is making a good record and we believe that ere long he will be confirmed and make a good chief. We can not say of other state but we did our level best to keep every Negro from voting."-Pitchfork Tillman. Mr. Jarrell, the good man on the TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL is not there any more. However Frank's KNOCKER will be to see you soon. We have nothing to say of other folks but we are for the success of the Republican ticket and in the near future you may be somewhat suprised. Show you colors now-let Mort Albaugh use up the different candidates money with his pet news papers. Be true to your countrys honor for after this election no one will know that Mort A baugh ever "lived". An Eastern paper calls Bryan's efforts in speech-making rag-time oratorv. Rag-time has been declared bad form by a long suffering public. The Topeka Business College conducted by L. H. Stickler has become the largest private school in Topeka outnumbering even Washburn College last year by nearly one huddred students. Graduates of the Topeka Business college are holding responsible positions all over the United States. The demand for competent bookkeepers and stenogrophers becomes greater each year and any young person who graduates at this school may feel certain of success. Frank Grimes, will no doubt by his ex-position of honesty receive a larger vote than any man on the state ticket. Grimes is a gentleman, and he is no circus man neither, while the Chairman of the State Committee has his pets and treats only one Negro paper any ways decent in this state We guarantee the people who aaverise,quick returns—most reliable newspaper a mong all classes. VOL. 9, NO. 9, Don't throw your sweetness on the desert air. Sheriff Henderson of Stafford county has made a first class offi cial. Judge Martin and Hazen must fight it out on the line of principle next Tuesday. The kindness of the Santa Fe towards every broken down newspaper man and preacher is very remarkable, they help them at every turn of the way. Mr. Victor, an old soldier of Pawnee county hopes to be the victor in the contest for Probate Judge, He is more clever than the gang that is trying to defeat him for they are two brothers McKINLEY ENDORSED. The undersigned members of the National Afro-American Press Association unreservedly endorse the foreign and domestic policy of the National Republican Administration and believe that the best interest of the country at large, and Afro-American people in particular, will be served by a consistent support of McKinley and Roosevelt in the coming election. Cyrus Field Adams, The Appeal, Chicago, Ills. T. Thomas Fortune, The Age New York, City. Fred L. Jeltz, The State Ledger, Topeka, Kans. W. H. Steward, American Baptist, Louisville, Ky. George L. Knox, The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. John C. Dancy, A.-M. E. Z. Review, Charlotte, N. C. D. R. Wilkins, The Conservator, Chicago, Ill. J- W. Wheeler, The Palladium, St. Louis, Mo. I. B. Scott, S. W. Christian Advocate, New Orleans, La. W. A. Pledgar, Age, Atlanta, Ga J. H, Deveaux, Tribnne, Savannah, Ga J. Chavis, Press, Dallas, Tex. C. H. Handy, The Afro-American, St Louis, Mo. T. T. Allen, The Forum, Houston, Tex L. T. Fox, Preacher-Safeguard, Kesciusko, Miss. J.R. Marshall, The Bee, Paducah, Ky. R. R. Wright, Collage Journal Savannah, Ga. H. T. Kealing, A. M. E. Church Review, Philadelphia, Pa. James Lewis, Republican Courier, New Orleans, La. J. Q. Adams, The Appeal, St. Paul Minn. J. P. Green, The Bee, Wash- D. C.. W. V. Penn, The Appeal, Louis ville Ky. Geo. H. White, The True Reformer, Littleton, N. C. Voting for yourself is not like voting for some one else hence as you don't vote for yourself vote for the other fellow. Prof. Jackson is a honey: Rev. Ward has the pastorate of St John's church- Prof. Jackson gave a concert at the Auditorium last Thursday evening to a full house. It is a less than sacrilege for the anarchistic popocratic free silverites to try to create the impression that Bryan is cast in the same mold as was the patriotic able statesman, Lincoln. A. T. WAGGONER. MEDICINE 731 Kansas Ave YOUR TRADE SOLICITED THESTATELEDGER KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Alma is discussing the desirability of an electric light plant. Lindsborg is agitating sending a prospect hole down into the earth. The Kansas penitentiary, for the month of September, had a balance over expenses of $1,491. Davenport, St. Louis and Fort Scott men propose to rehabilitate the Fort Scott street car service. The Rock Island has asked for bids on twenty new compound locomotives for the freight service. Topeka's paved streets will measure 20 miles when work now going on is completed; sometime this fall. The people of Whiting feel the need of a place to hold public meetings and talk about having a city hall. R. T. Oliverson, of Abbeyville, Reno county, tried to jump on a moving train and was killed instantly. Clay Center has not quit; another injunction is asked for to operate against Parsons in the asylum matter. Warranty deeds have averaged 23 daily, coming to the office of the register of deeds of Sedgwick county. The five barrels of apples sent by the Kansas Horticultural society to Paris, was awarded the first premium. Marion county's poor farm considerably more than pays its own expenses, including the support of inmates. Twelve pickpockets were arrested at Cottonwood Falls. Their work was done during the Old Soldiers' reunion. Severe drouth is reported from several northwestern counties. There is trouble in some of the towns to get sufficient water for household purposes. Burglar entered a store in Topeka and stole $2,500 worth of silk goods. They got in through a second story window and carried the goods down a ladder. At the marriage of Miss Anna Smith and Matthew Mersch near Cawker, a beef, fifty fowls, three hogs, twelve kegs of beer and fifteen cakes were among the refreshments. The plant for making twine at the Kansas penitentiary, which has been closed since July, resumes operations this week. It is the intention to manufacture several hundred thousand pounds. Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg, of Leland Stanford university whose work on "Animal Life and First Book in Zoology," is being adopted by high schools, is a Kansas boy; the son of Ex-Attorney General Kellogg. The meeting of Kansas millers in Topeka, was composed of the best of Kansas' business men and their action regarding the defense of Kansas wheat from Minnesota millers' statements will have weight everywhere. Mr. Vaughan, of Jewell county, cleared about $1,000 from his alfalfa crop this year. He had 100 acres of it. Jewell county has about 19,000 acres of alfalfa. Mr. Vaughan says the crop pays 10 per cent on $100 an acre land. On September 1 the deposits in the state and private banks of Kansas were $31,645,670; on September 5 the deposits in the national banks of the state were $29,195,081; total, $60,840,751; an average of about $43.50 per capita of the entire population of the state. The Scottish Rite Masons held their semi-annual reunion in Topeka, closing with a banquet on the night of October 10. A Labette county farmer bought 8 sucking pigs for $12 and in about 8 months sold them for $70. He estimates that their entire cost to him was less than $25. There are entries for the big coursing meet at Mankato from England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia. The prizes aggregate $1,000. The meet opens October 16. State Architect Stanton is now at work on the plans of the Kansas building at Buffalo. It will be quite different from buildings erected in past years by the state at expositions. The Anti-Horse Thief association met in Wichita October 10. The organization is 37 years old. Its officers for the past term are: J. B. Culbertson of sterling, president; C. G. Horn, of Eagle, I. T., vice president; J. W. Wall, of Parsons, secretary, who were selected at the meeting in Vinita, I. T., last year. Captain Will Watson, of Pittsburg, has received a new leg from Washington to replace the one he left in the Philippines. State Labor Commissioner Johnson has been instrumental in settling the miners' strike in Leavenworth. The miners are given an advance in pay. Other matters are to be arbitrated. Robert Higgin botham, of Montgomery county, died leaving no heirs. He left $200 more than enough to balance expenses and liabilities and that is now in the state treasury according to law. Harper is to have a 10,000 bushel elevator, and wants another lumber yard too. The new Carnegie library at Leavenworth is to be built like a Grecian temple. There were 2,554 old soldiers in the Leavenworth home, at the last report given out. "Feeders" are being placed among Kansas farmers, a carload or two to each buyer. The next meeting of the Commercial clubs of Kansas will be held in Topeka in January. Duck hunting in the Cheyenne bottoms is said to be the best in Kansas this year. Everett E. Salser, professor of bookkeeping and penmanship at the State Normal, is dead. Adjutant Fox's report shows that there are now 1,295 Kansas soldiers in the Philippines. Frank Gilstrap, of Linn county, was killed by a Memphis passenger train. He was very deaf. Mrs. Ellis, of Quenemo, climbed down a well and rescued the child of another woman. The colored Masons of Topeka have asked for the use of the auditorium on Thanksgiving day. While Councilman Stevenson, of Salina, was sitting near a horse the animal bit off a portion of his ear. The imbecile asylum at Winfield has a costly heating plant that is worthless and a new plant is to be put in. The colored people of Leavenworth are making an effort to build a hospital for patients of their race. Building and repairing in Florence has been so brisk that carpenters have been secured from other towns. The Washburn college foot ball team played with a team of soldiers at Fort Riley and the score was 80 to 0 for Washburn. There have been five golden weddings in Oskaloosa in less than twenty-two months; or one for every 200 inhabitants. The Baptist state convention opened at McPherson October 15. It was then expected that there would be an attendance of 300 delegates. Since a recruiting station was established in Topeka about 600 men have been enlisted and forwarded and about as many more have been refused. A Chinaman who has lived at Hiawatha for a number of years, always puts up liberally when contributions are called for anything the town is pushing. Waverly's council has passed an ordinance imposing a fine of $200 a year on slot machines. A license of from $10 to $25 a day may be imposed for running one without a license. There seems to be something unexplainable in the fact that in the third city in size in Kansas arrests for drunkenness are few and far between, while in the city ranking as second in population reports of such arrests are every day occurrences. W. W. B. Darnell, a Topeka teacher who went to Galveston six years ago to become a principal in the schools there, was a victim of the storm. He left some property and his 14-year-old son is his heir. Darnell's friends in Kansas have sent Dr. W. H. Hudson to Galveston to look after the boy's interests. The first enclosed coursing meet to be held in Dickinson county will occur October 23, 24 and 25. Famous dogs are expected from long distances. A party from Wichita attended the funeral of Edward Goldberg at Seneca, Mo. They died there from mushroom poisoning. Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg were long time citizens of Wichita, leaving there when he was made an Indian agent. Their son, Ned Goldberg, aged 16, was dangerously sick from the same cause at the time of the funeral. The Anti-Horse Thief association at their meeting in Wichita elected the following named officers: President, G. D. Horn, Welch, I. T., vice president, D. McCully, Miami county, Kansas; treasurer, John Wall, Parsons. Evelyn B. Baldwin, who is to be in charge of the Ziegler expedition to the north pole, is a Kansas man. He taught school at Oswego in the early 90's, later went into the government weather service, and then joined the Peary relief expedition. He has written a book on polar expeditions. Erastus A. and Rhoda A. Pollard, of Harvey county, have celebrated their sixtieth wedding day. They were married in Vermont, October 11, 1840. J. N. Frantz, a merchant of Canton, was arrested on suspicion of complicity in a counterfeiting scheme. He was taken to Wichita and readily proved his innocence before a United States commissioner. The Atchison planing mill is being equipped with electric lights because a night force is required to catch up with the orders. JONES IN A TRUST. DEMOCRATIC LEADER HOLDS COTTON GINNERS BY THROAT What the Round Cotton Bale Trust Is and Why Mr. Bryan Does Not Denounce It in His Speeches—An Eye-Opener. Senator J. K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, is a defendant in a proceeding brought under the anti-trust law of Texas. He has company in his trouble. John E. Searles, well known in Wall street as one of the biggest "trust magnates," is a co-defendant. The Texans have placed these two gentlemen under fire because they are the heaviest stockholders in a concern known as the American Cotton company. John E. Searles is president of the organization. The chairman of the Democratic national committee says his company is but a "large business concern," but the Texans—and Texas is a Democratic state—think differently. It is charged that the Jones-Searles combination constitutes a conspiracy against lawful trade and free competition. The American Cotton company is a monopoly if there ever was one. Not only is it entrenched behind $7,000,000 capital stock, but it is fortified by patients which exclude the possibility of competition. Nicoll's Stock Exchange Handbook, a recognized authority, says: "The American Cotton company is a corporation which controls the patients for machinery and processes in making round lap bales." "Controls"—that word itself is suggestive of the "octopus." It is a word over which Mr. Bryan fumed in his St. Louis denunciation of trusts. Every cotton ginning plant in the south must have one of the machines manufactured by the American Cotton company. They save time and money. The cotton ginner must make his arrangements with the Jones-Searles combination. It has exclusive possession of the field. The ginner must come to the terms of the combination. He can deal no place else. He cannot even buy independence from this $7,000,000 combination. The American Cotton company refuses to sell its product. It leases its machines. The manufacturer attaches one to his plant and yearly pays tribute to the American Cotton company. So great are the profits of this combination that in the short time the concern has been in existence Senator Jones is said to have risen from the estate of a comparatively poor man until he is now regarded as a millionaire. And the southern ginners continue to swell the bank account of the Democratic campaign manager. William Jennings Bryan in his denunciation of trusts at St. Louis gave a list of the great corporations of the country. But he left out the American Cotton company and the American Ice company. The others he denounced. But these two great Democratic organizations he ignored. He exclaimed: "Those who attempt to divide private monopolies into good monopolies and bad monopolies will never make any progress toward the overthrow of trusts." Therefore Mr. Bryan will not succeed as a trust masher. Even in making his division in monopolies, Mr. Bryan showed strong discrimination. He specified such concerns as the Federal Steel company. Yet this combination is only one of several iron and steel companies in the country. No one is forced to do business with the Federal Steel. There are the American Steel & Wire company, the Republic Iron & Steel company, the National Steel company, the Carnegie company, and there are others. But Mr. Bryan made his division in favor of the American Ice company, which had absolute control over the prices in New York city, and which, last spring, turned upon the poor of the tenement house districts and added to its wealth by the suffering of the poverty-stricken; and Mr. Bryan also makes his division in favor of a concern which is so strongly fortified that every cotton ginning plant in the United tSates is forced to pay tribute to it. It depends, when Mr. Bryan denounces trusts, upon whose ox is being gored. BLAINE'S STORY ABOUT COIN- AGE. James G. Blaine told a story that he said was the best thing he got in Iowa, where the greenback passion flourished for some time, and was exploited with singular intensity. A financier of fantastic methods was leaning back in his chair in a grocery and talking, as he believed, conservatively. He said: "I do not agree to it that we want something that is worthless to make money out of. I think we ought to make it out of gold. But I agree with you that it's the stamp that makes the money—it's the United States stamp, and it isn't anything else. I want gold for money, but there's no use of having a great big chunk of gold to make a twenty-dollar piece. Just take a bit of a wafer of gold and put the stamp on it, the United States stamp for $20 and it is $20. It's gold money, too, and it's got the American eagle on it." Second citizen interposed, saying: "I agree with you, only you don't go far enough. You state the great principle correctly. It ought to be applied to other things. What's the use of putting 136 po 'n's in a barrel of flour? I tell you if there isn't more than a quart of flour and you put the stamp on it, on the package of it, United States stamp, with the American eagle, that it is a barrel of flour—I'll swear to it, it is a barrel of flour!" Citizen No. 1 exclaimed: "But look here, you are talking like a blank blank fool!"—Murat Halstead. EMPLOYEES FAVOR M'KINLEY For the purpose of ascertaining the political makeup of their "house," some of the employees of the firm of Marshall Field & Co. (wholesale department) had a paper circulated the other day asking for signatures to the membership roll of a McKinley Commercial Men's Club. There are approximately 1,000 voters in Marshall Field & Co.'s wholesale department. The paper was passed around with the consent of the management of the house, but with no "coercion" whatever from the management to sign or not to sign, the test vote being purely an affair of the employees, who wished to secure only voluntary expressions from all their number. As a result of this test vote the poll showed: Number votes. Per cent of total vote. For McKinley .....851 85 1-10 For Bryan .....149 14 9-10 McKinley's majority.....702 SILLY SEASON NOT ENDED. That the summer silly season is not yet over can hardly account for the continuance of something more than humor in the Democratic campaigning tactics this year. It was funny enough to have Pitchfork Tillman, who has openly advocated in the past the ruling of South Carolina negroes without their consent, write the "consent of the governed" plank at Kansas City and for Van Wyck, the ice trust man of New York to write the anti-trust plank. But Tammany Hall, which controlled the recent New York Democratic state conventin without any apparently mirthful intent, has done still more funny things. It has put up for governor on an anti-expansion platform, a man whose only public utterance on the subject had been an endorsement of President McKinley's expansion policy in the Philippines. It inserted a plank in the platform denouncing the ice trust, in which the Tammany leaders were stockholders. It inserted a plank denouncing the Ramapo $700,000,000 steal which Tammany leaders had planned and tried to consummate for their own immoral gain. WOOL FIGURES CONCISELY STATED. There is no feature of our agricultural or other industries which shows more clearly the benefits of the protective policy and the adversity of free trade than does wool. The facts are concisely stated in the following table: Value of sheep on litures, Jan. 1 Price washed Ohio feece ..... $116,121,298 Production, pounds ..... 294,000,000 Imports, pounds ..... 294,153,000 Imports, pounds ..... 272,151,000 Imports, pounds ..... 28 b122,665,917 1882 ..148,670,652 294,000,000 29 1887 ..350,826,026 259,153,000 1814 1899 ..76,736,209 272,151,000 28 (a) 1896, (b) 1900. KANSAS PROSPERITY. Nearly one hundred million dollars was added to the wealth of the farmers of Kansas in the first three years of the McKinley administration. How the farmers stood in 1896 and 1899 in that state is shown by the following table: 1896. 1899. Live stock ... $ 80,049,272 $132,759,873 Crops ... 83,303,684 111,391,831 Bank deposits. 17,147,160 33,505,101 Total ... $180,500,116 $277,656,305 Increase in 1899 ... $97,156,689 Kansas farmers will vote for the Republican party this year. South Attacks Bryan: The Memphis Commercial Appeal, a journal which is supporting Bryan, does not take the views of that leader on the Philippine question. In a recent issue it said: "The value of the Philippines to us in a commercial way and in a political way is revealing itself to the American people in spite of those who refuse to see. Politicians who prate about 'Imperialism' are known as politicians, and they are bringing themselves to a point where few credit what they say—where their utterances are looked upon as irresponsible blabbering." McKinley Prosperity and Farmers Under McKinley prosperity the farmers have again been benefited. Placing the market value of all American hogs on the farms, at the beginning of this year, only on the same basis as on Jan. 1, 1899, then the Department of Agriculture's figures show a total gain of $557,000,000 in the value of all farm animals during the three years that William McKinley has been president. Here are the facts: Harrison gain, 2 years.....$ 154,000,000 Cleveland loss, 4 years.....$820,000,000 McKinley gain, 3 years.....$ 557,000,000 Do You Want This to Return? [From the Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec. 15, 1893.] Crowds of paupers are pouring in upon Chicago, drawn by the news of the charity that is being here dispersed. Yesterday Manager Swift ordered that all freight yards be watched and vagrants who were found stealing rides be immediately shipped back to where they came from. PORTO RICAN BUSINESS GROWS Four months' operations of the Porto Rican tariff law show an increase of more than 100 per cent in our imports to that island as compared with the corresponding months of 1899, and more than 300 per cent as compared with the corresponding months of 1897 or 1896. The act went into effect may 1, 1900, so that the figures for August, which have just been completed by the treasury bureau of statistics, complete the record of the fourth month of commerce between the island and the United States under the new law, and render practicable a comparison of the four months' term with corresponding periods in preceding years. Into the United States. Month of— 1896. 1900. May ..... $ 480,821 $1,103,867 June ..... 516,746 1,218,257 July ..... 254,676 640,023 August ..... 107,880 281,903 Total during 4 months.$1,360,123 $3,244,050 Exports to Porto Rico from the United States. 1896. 1900. May ..... $ 113,069 $696,479 June ..... 178,313 890,999 July ..... 101,944 529,729 August ..... 194,361 408,638 Total during 4 months.$587,686 $2,525,845 REASON FOR FARM PROSPER ITY. Between July 2, 1896, the date of Mr. Bryan's first nomination for the presidency, and July 5, 1900, the date of his nomination this year, the price of ten of the principal farm products increased 45.8 per cent. There was not a single decrease in price of these articles which include wheat, corn, oats, lard, mess pork, beef, cotton, wool, hay or butter. Against this the increase of the articles bought by farmers was only 19 per cent. There was an actual decrease in the price of sugar and tea, and small increases in the price of rice, sisal, iron, petroleum, tinplate, leather, sugar and cotton cloth. In every case a bushel of wheat will buy more today than it would four years ago. These statements are all official and can be verified from the public records. The assertions of the Democrats and Mr. Bryan four years ago that McKinley's election would bring misery, have in every case been disproved. The farmers know the difference between distress and prosperity, and they are not likely to vote to bring about that old condition. BRYAN'S PENSION RECORD. "The next congress will have to wrestle with one deficiency of $36,000,000. This is on account of pensions. The appropriation for pensions for the next year must be not less than $150,000,000. It is therefore easy arithmetic to perceive that the appropriation that congress must aggregate not less than $186,000,000. This tremendous sum would of itself be enough to run a reasonable government. One would not complain if it were an honorable debt, because it was never earned by any act of patriotism or heroic service. The government is held up and despoiled of no mean portion of this, and it seems helpless to defend itself. One cannot help being curious to know how many more years it will take to exhaust the generation which feels itself injured by the war. It is safe to say that never did a generation display such longevity."—W. J. Bryan in Omaha World-Herald, Nov., 1892. At the ripe age of 32. MISSOURI'S GREAT GAIN. Missouri has gained over $128,083, 768 in wealth under the Republican administration of President McKinley. The gain was made in values in the following manner: 1896. 1899. Live stock ... $ 93,718,709 $113,806,386 Crops ... 58,219,870 78,411,465 Bank deposits. 53,921,953 141,726,449 Total ... $205,860,532 $333,944,300 Increase ... $128,823,763 This is one of the reasons why the Republicans have a good fighting show to carry Missouri this year. Do You Want This to Return? [From the Chicago Inter Ocean, Dec. 16, 1893.] Bloomington, Ill., Dec. 15.—(Special.)—Since October 15 the records of the police department of this city show that 700 tramps have been sheltered at the city hall by the police department. A great many of them are men of respectable appearance who claim to be willing to work, but are unable to find employment. Each morning the men are told to move on and not return here. Most of them are heading toward Chicago. Railroad Freights Down. Railroad freights have decreased all over the United States since the McKinley administration succeeded the misrule of the last Democratic president. In 1894 the average rate for hauling one ton of freight one mile (the ton-mile being a recognized unit) was 86 cents. In 1898 it was 76 cents. This has enabled producers to get their goods cheaper to the markets than over before. More Freight Moving. The railroads of the United States carried 674,714,747 tons of freight in 1894 and 912,373,853 tons in 1898. That is the difference between Democratic depression and Republican prosperity. Bir Thomas McIlwraith, who died recently in London, arose from a poor emigrant boy to be three times premier of Queensland, Australia. In this position he achieved fame by trying to annex New Guinea to his colonies without the consent or knowledge of the home office. A furore arose, but was checked by the prompt disavowal of the act by Lord Derby, then the British premier. Idle money must be the kind that people worship. Konor to Noblest Ancestor I honor that man whose ambition is, not to win laurels in the state of the army, not to be a jurist or a naturalist, not to be a poet or a commander, but to be a master of living well, and to administer the offices of master or servant, of husband, father and friend—Domestic Life. Berlin's Highest Structure Berlin's highest structure, apart from the churches, is the 318-foot high chimney of the electric elevated row powerhouse. Only two church steeples surpass it, that of the new cathedral 330 feet, and that of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, 340 feet. Savings of Britain's Poor The report of the British Regist- General shows that the sums in the government savings banks to the crea- tit of the depositors aggregates £118, 118,605. There are eight million positors or one in every five of the population. The average amount head is highest in Ireland, where works out at £21 5s, England com- next with £16, and Scotland last with £18 12s. Monument to Dutch Settler A monument to Dirck Wessles Broeck, who successively held the office of magistrate commissary, corder and mayor of Albany in latter part of the seventeenth cent has been unveiled at Clermont, N. The monument was erected by scendants of the Dutch settler and bears this inscription: "Dirck Wess sles Ten Broeck. Born Dec. 18, 1818 Died at his Bouwerie on Roof of sen's Kil Sept. 18, 1717." A Wealthy German Author. Unlike most German authors, Gerhard Hauptmann is a wealthy man and had some means by inheritance, added to them a great deal by early marriage, while his plays are profitable, too. Building villas is a favorite way of investing his earnings. His first villa was in Silesia, second near Berlin, the third in Giant mountains, and at present he building a fourth, in accordance with his own plans, at Blasewitz, in Dresden. Some courtships end in marriages and others revert to the courts. No one, looking at the matter from the point of common sense, expects to CURE PATON by taking pills and strong cath iris. PERMANENT CURE is only effected by moving the CAUSE. GARFIELD TILA CURES. When some people put up at a hall they have to first plank down. Get Your Money's Worth. Get Your Money's Worth. It's hard to appreciate the full work of Morley's Wonderful Eight until you have used it in a score of the em encies that come in every houseboat Dr. T. F. 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The action taken was by the adoption of resolutions reported by a committee, which contain the following: "That this convention accept an advance of 10 per cent, providing the operators will continue its payment until April 1, 1901, and will abolish the sliding scale in the Lehigh and Schuylkill regions; the scale of wages in the two last named districts to remain stationary at 10 per cent above the present price basis; and that the companies will agree to adjust other grievances complained of with committees of their own employees. "Should this proposition be unacceptible to the operators we recommend that the convention propose that all questions at issue be submitted to a fair and impartial board of arbitration. "We would further recommend that under no circumstances whatever should there be a resumption of work at any of the collieries until the operators signify their acceptance of this proposition and you are notified officially that the strike is ended and all return to work in a body on the same day." Comparative Wage Showing. Washington, Oct. 16.—Hon. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, has issued a bulletin giving a summary of data in a previous publication which shows as follows the average wages, 1891 being taken as a basis, and represent- ing 100. Year. Relative Wages. 1891 $100 00 1892 100 30 1893 99 32 1894 98 06 1895 97 88 1896 97 93 1897 98 96 1898 98 78 1899 101 54 1900 103 43 An Independent Mexican Road. Durango, Mex., Oct. 17.—Official notice has been received in Durango of the granting by the federal government of a concession to A. E. 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London, Oct. 13.—A Copenhagen correspondent says of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States: "The renewed negotiations will result, I believe, in the purchase. The opposition party in the Danish parliament favors the transaction, but urges the government to obtain a larger price than the United States previously offered. It is understood that America wishes to use St. Croix as a naval coaling station. London, Oct. 13.—Sir Thomas Lipton was questioned regarding the pork corner, and said: "It is a fact that I control practically all the pork in the United States. I have no intention of raising the price an exorbitant degree. I am perfectly satisfied to make a fair profit out of the deal, and I shall do all possible to avoid causing serious trouble to those who sold short. In fact, I let some go the other day in order to save a few threatened failures." Resened From Talagos Washington, Oct. 17.—The following has been received from General MacArthur: "Adjutant General, Washington: Information from Marinduque, just received that Captain Shields and 48 men, company E, Twenty-ninth regiment, U. S. V. I., ninth regiment; one civilian. American negro, prisoner in hands of insurgents, have been turned over to General Luther R. Hare. More particulars soon giving names killed and wounded." Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To Cure, or Moner Refunded by Your Merchant, so Why Not Try It? Price 50c The chief characteristics of tropical hurricanes is the high wind velocity. No storm of temperate latitudes ever develops such appalling fury. There are few places in the interior of the United States where the wind ever blows more than forty or fifty miles an hour; but in a West Indian cyclone velocities of eighty, ninety and 100 miles are not uncommon, and in 1897, at Cape Lookout, N. C., the anemometer registered 138. New Ocean Greyhound. 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It is fortunate, since there are left no new lands to be discovered on this terrestrial globe, that inventive man has turned his mind to more useful things. So we have steam, electricity and many other advantages not enjoyed by our forefathers. Medicine, too, has made great strides; for even man's old enemy, Rheumatism, has lasted as master in Swanson's "54 species." The most of the benefits of Rheumatism has been astonishing and never equaled in the annals of medicine. It gives instant relief, kills germs, prevents disease and positively cures all forms of chronic and acute Rheumatism, Sciatica and Neuralgia. It is also used with unfalling effect in all Nervous Affections of every description, Catarr, Group, Bronchitis, Stomach, Liver and Nephroliths, La Gripe, Malaria, Creeping Numbness and Kindred diseases. Swanson's "5 Drops" is sold by agents and by the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., 164 Lake street, Chicago, Ill. In some places the druggists are agents. 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A baby is like a crop of wheat—it is first cradled; then thrashed, and finally it becomes the flower of the family. GARFIELD TEA, the wonderful HERB-MEDICINE, created a revolution in the treatment of many diseases; it showed that by purifying the blood plementary were easily affected. Garfield Tea is NATURE'S REMEDY. Any photographer will tell you that lots of people will sit for a picture and then won't stand for it. NEW COLONY. A new colony to furnish homes to thousands of people, to locate in Oklahoma Territory, is now being built. Mr. P. H. Fitzgerald of Indianapolis, Indiana, is backing it. Information sent free, showing how to get good homes, Good farmers wanted. When *z* man never gives a thought to charity he can't be expected to give any thing more substantial. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constriction of the airway. 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Lots of men who have seen trees never saw wood. LOW RATE EXCURSIONS. Via Missouri Pacific R'y., And Iron Mountain Route. To points in the West, Southwest, and Southeast, at half-rates (plus $2.00) for the round trip. Tickets on sale Tuesdays, September 4th and 18th October on 2nd and 16th, November 6th and 30th October on 2nd and 16th, and February, information, land folders, etc., address any agent of the above lines, or H.C. Townsend, G.P. & T. Agent St. Louis, Mo. An old bachelor says the writes of of women or mostly postscripts. THE TURN OF LIFE. The Most Important Period in a Woman's Existence.—Mrs. Johnson Tells How She Was Helped Over the Trying Time. CHARLOTTE JOHNSON Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying, and sometimes painful symptoms. Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the heart were going to stop for good, are only a few of the symptoms of a dangerous nervous trouble. The nerves are crying out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was prepared to meet the needs of woman's system at this trying period of her life. The three following letters are guaranteed to be genuine and true, and still further prove what a great medicine Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is for women. Mar. 12, 1897. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM!— I have been sick for a long time. I was taken sick with flooding. All my trouble seemed to be in the womb. I ache all the time at the lower part of the womb. The doctor says the womb is covered with ulcers. I suffer with a pain on the left side of my back over the kidney. I am fifty years old and passing through the change of life. 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RHODES, OFFICE 600 Kansas ave. Topeka, Kansas (Over Hub Clothing C.) FICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 2 to 5 P. M. Residence, 600 West Sixth street Phone 666. Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach Sures INDEGESTION, KIRNEY and LIVER trouble and RHEUMATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P O., djoining Capital of Kansas. - Mm, 27, C. F. MENNINGER, M, D. Office 727 Kansas Ave. Telephone 19 Office Hours: 11 12 A. M. 2-5 P. M. Residence 125 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. Mf Special attention to dieases of woman and private diseases. FREDD BURNISON. ...Dealer In... Lumber-Lime-Cement-Coal-and Stone. MARQUETTE, KANS. J, E, PETERSON—ot Marquette, runs the best HOTEL and FESTAURANT in the city give him a call, E. M. Eletcher. CARPENTER & BUILDER FURNITUE AND JOB WORK SOLIC ED. 119 E. 7th St. KAW VALLEY brand of MINCE MEAT Manufactured ...By.... CHAS. WOLFF PACKING CO, Is made of the very best and strictly pure and healthful ingredients Your Grocer keeps it; buy some; It will make the best MI CE PIES you ever tasted. M. Hogan. Undertaker And Reliable in His Dealings--Open day and Night.--314 Kan. Avenue. Home Bakery. L. C. BOYCE, Prop. 810 N Kas. Ave. (Successor to Geo. Mayer,) Wholesale and Retail Bakery goods We Sohcit Your Trade, We will Serve You Right, THE LANDIS HOME BAKERY, Many years experience. French home Bakery 316 E. 41n St. Open day and night. Quick service, Rahrer's Restaurant 615 East Fifth St. Opposite Santa Fe Depot, C, A, RAHRER, Prop. PUBLICATION NOTICE. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANS., Tena Kopseker, Plaintiff. vs. Case No. 20815. Frederick Kopseker, Defendant. To Frederick Kopseker, the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by Tena Kopseker, your wife, for divorce; that the said plaintiff filed her petition with the Clerk of the District Court of Shawnee County Kansas on the 14 day of Sept. 1900 and unless you answer said petition on or before the 28th day of November, 1900 same petition will be taken as true and judgement rendered against you divorcing said plaintiff from you and giving to said plaintiff the custody of the two mner children, Ralph H. and William Kopseker, and such other and further relief as prayed for in plaintiffs petition BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writing material-832 Kansas avenue KANKE STUIVE. FARM MACHINERY. WIND MILLS, PUMPS and Also Handle the JACK OF ALL TRADES ENGINE. Useful to All Farmers. LINN, KANS. JOHN MILLER, Dealer In Flour, Feed, Grah, Hay, And all kinds of Coal. 120 East Eighth St., J. W KELLEY, DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries. Give Him a Call. 119 N. Main Street Ottawa, Kes HAYS & SNYDER 921 Kas, Ave., DEALER IN Feed, Hay and Grain and all kind of Coal. A share of your patronage is desired. Tele. 349. HARRIS BROS DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Smoked Meats, A Specialty Cigars Tobacco, and confectionery, Give Them an order goods delivered. FOR SALE Will you buy Will you sell Will you rent Real Estate Try us. Barnes Real Estate Co.Tel 02. 113 West 5th st. Carter & Johnson RESTAURANI SHORT ORDER. When in Lawrence stop at their place, 6111 Mass, St, W. B WARREN The HOTAMALE manufaeturer has opened his parlor at 113 Laurent's street, North Topeka for the season. He can serve you with the delicious food while you wait. Give bin a call. 113 Laurent St, Mrs Pensyl & Betzer. LADIES EXCHANGE. First class line of Bakery Goods aspecialty.....Also Mrs. Pensi does all kinds of fine and plain wing. R. E. KNOX. UNDEKTAKER. FUNERAL CARS BUILT TO ORDER BALDWIN KANS Kansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT TROPS, PROP'S., 706 E. 2ND STREET Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. 115 LOUIS VANDORP, PCR HARDWARE and STOVES Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. These are the things you need Give hima call. 828 Kansas Ave JAMESC. SMITH, Mides, Tallow, Furs and Pelts. 108 and 110 East Third Street. Topeka, K Pays highest prices for consignment trade. <FFERENCES: Chas Woff Packing Co., Topeka. Bank of Topeka. R. G. Dun's Com'l Agency Topeka. W. H. WARD, HARD-WAKE, IMPLEMENTS AND STOVES. GYPSON CITY, KANS. State Ledger Office, 431 Kas Ave. (UP STAIRS.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SHAW- NEE COUNTY, KANS. William Reynolds, Plaintiff, vs. No, 20833 Edward O. Mahis and William H. Brooks Jr. Defendants. The defendants, Edward O. Mathis and William H. Brooks, Jr., will take notice that a petition has been filed and suit commenced against them in the above entitled action, by William Reynolds Plaintiff and that they must answer said petition, on or before the 14th day of November, 1900 or said petition will be taken as true and judgement rendered quieting the title of said plaintiff as against said defendant to the following described real estate situated in Shawnee County Kansas, to wit: Lots Nos. 266, 268, 270, 272, and 274 on Ella Street in William H. Brooks Jr. Addition to the city of Topeka in said county and state and adjudicating and determining that plaintiff Pure Tea and Spices etc. TOPEK A SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Pal. 71 MRS. ANNIE DUKE, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING, Cutting, Sewing - Give her a trial. 826 Com'l street Emporia, Kas. WOOLEY S BAKERY, The place to trade. The best Bakery goods kept on hand daily. 915 Kas. Ave., W. T. WILEY. DEAUER IN. Staple and Fancy Groceries. Fresh and Cured Meats, Fish, Poultry...and Country Produce. Give him a call. 931 Kas Ave. Tele. 291. TURNER BROS., Fine Restaurant. Meals and Short Order. BURLINGAME KAS Shops Kansas Packing House SCHMIDT TROPS, 706 E. 2ND ST. Dealers In FRESH AND CURRE Wholesale and Retail. Give GO TO LOUIS VANDORP, FCR Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, H These are the things you need Give JAMES C. DEALER Mides, Tallow, Fur 108 and 110 East Third St. Pays highest prices for co <FFERENCES: Chas Woff Packing Co., Topeka. H Agency Topeka. W. H. WA HARD-WAKE, IMPLEMENT GYPSO WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE. State Ledger Office (UP STAIR) has the fee simple title to said real estate and that the claims of said defendants, now appearing of record are null and void, W. I, Jamison Atty, for Plaintiff, Attest: A. M. Callaham, Clerk of District Court. W. P, Pfalzgraf, ...Dealer In... Lumber- Lath- Shingles- Coal and Grain...Gypsum City, Kans., J C. JUSTICE E, 220 West 6th Street. Dealer in staple and fancy groceries, fresh and cured meats, plenty country produce all ways on hand. Give him a trial. E. H. PHILLIPS, JEWELER & OPTICIAN Tele. 602 Kas. Ave. All work promptly attended to and Guaranteed. We Solicit your Patronage. THE KANSAS CEMENT PLASTER CO., WALL and LAND PLASTER, STUCCO, PLASTER of PARIS Moulding, Dental Plaster. Etc. D. Strauss. Mgr. Hope Kansas. E.H. UPSHAW. Peoples Feed, 537 Kansas Avenue, North Topeka. Full weights. Goods promptly delivered. ...SEE UNCLE SAM AT 512 KAS. AVE., 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. 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 Go. GOTO ARMSTRONGSRESTAURANT When ingOttawa for anything you want Shot Orders and Meals -222 N, Main St House Market PROS, Prop's., D STREET ers In FURED MEATS. Give Them Your Trade TO CR HARDWARE and STOVES s, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. live hima call. 828 Kansas P C. SMITH, ER IN Furs and Pelts. d Street. Topeka, K r consignment trade. ka. Bank of Topeka. R. G. Dun's Com'l WARD, MENTS AND STOVES. SON CITY, KANS. 渔民 ec, 431 Kas Ave, AIRS. ) WILL FRANK'S RESTAURANT When you go to Florence, don't forget to stop at Will Frank's fine restaurant and Oyster Parlor. He hangles nothing but the finer of fresh oysters. Give him a COTTAGE HOTEL. MRS. J. L. JOY, Prop., The only first class Hotel in the city. Terms $1.00 per day. Little River, Kansas. G, ELLINGER & Co. General Merchandise, Jobbers of Brooms. Shippers of Apples. Solicit orders from Jobbers and Retailers Handling Brooms in quantities. We can save you 25 to 40 per cent. Send US YOUR ORDERS. G. ELLINGER & CO. Corning, Kansas. BELGIAN HARES STOCK FOR SALE SIRED BY CHAMPION DASH. BANBURY STAR. BANBURY RED, and other Write for Prices. A. F. HAYNES. TOPEKA EDUCATIONAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Nonsectarian, Co. educational Practical Education of Negro young Men and Women. Courses: English Normal, Music, Industrial, and stenography. Tuition $1 per month each de department$1.50. Literary and Industrial de combined. Board and furnishe room and tuition $7.50 per month For further information, address Wm. R Carter. Topeka, Kansas DR. WINSLOW 704 Mass., Lawrence, Kansas Dr. W, H. Winslow, does a general practice. Special attention given the eye ear. Spectacles fitted, furnishes to pat at wholesale rates; Office 704 Mass., St. Tele. 260-5, Residence, 1901 New Hampshire street. Tele. 191-2. T. P Wheatly Dealer in all kinds of Coal. Gynsum City, Kansas Mrs. M. L Chamberlain gives EMBR DEKY LESSONS 125 West 71th St. Orders taken for work-Materials furnished- THE UNIQUE RESTAURANT 116 East 6th St. Short Or 'ers and Lunch. Serve you when you wait. TOYS and HOLLIDAY GOOD at PASSIONS DEPT STORE 739 Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas. A. P. RENIUS, Dealer In Lumber- Lath- Shingles- Doo,o's- Blinds- Lime-Cement And Coal. Marguette-Kansas. HOLE IN WALL When in LAWRENCE stop at WEYER MULLER'S RESTAURANT PORT ORLEER. Open Dv and Night 720 Mass., Stroet. GO TO E. W. Griggs for pnotos, fine pictures. Car--901Kas. ave.