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By F. L. JELTZ KANSAS TOPEKA, KANSAS Tolstoy is the reincarnation of Ham- let's father's ghost. He will not down. The friends of the Egyptian sphinx will be much mortified to learn that he is decaying. Many people would settle the New Jersey mosquito problem by moving out of the state. The national amateur golf champion is only twenty years of age, but he hopes to outgrow it. A stogie trust has been formed at Pittsburg. Some people will regard this as a burning shame. A Pittsburg man killed himself because his wife left him. The amount she took with her is not stated. Mr. Wu is to have honors bestowed on him when he gets back to China. Everybody hopes they will not hurt. Few people are dying from appendicitis now. King Edward deserves praise for establishing a fine precedent. May Yohe- henceforth will hardly trust the key to her safety-deposit box to young men who swear undying affection. Count Matsukata, a Japanese financier, predicts a panic in the United States. Has the count been dabbling in oil stocks? We do not know exactly what a Swiss "seiche" is, but it is evidently a proper thing for all well regulated summer resorts. Spain will station a diplomatic representative at Havana, but it will be some time before he will become the dean of the corps. San Francisco has one saloon for every twenty-two adult male inhabitants. In some respects, however, it isn't such a bad town. The Rev. John N. Mills classes many of our modern novels with yellow fever. This is unjust, for the fever is not always fatal. A machine that will lay brick as fast as six or seven men has been invented, but we shall still continue to get our eggs in the same old homely way. Great Britain did the best she could in arranging a coronation display, but America quite took the shine out of it with a Vanderbilt wedding. Peary would be cheered up if he could be reached by telegraph. The Windward has started toward the North Pole and the relief ship bears a ping pong outfit. That New Jersey boy who was resuscitated after being under the water half an hour will be a good man to experiment with our submarine boats when he grows up. A Rhode Island man claims to have been cured of rheumatism by a stroke of lightning. An analysis of the case probably will show that the rheumatism was scared out of him. According to a pathetic article on the requirements of school teachers which was recently printed in an educational journal, they have to know pretty near as much as a country editor. Minister Wu Ting Fang is going to write a book on the United States, but it is difficult to see where he is going to find any new material since he has already practically exhausted the subject. It may serve a good purpose to remind the public that deaths resulting from the use of the harmless firecracker on our last national anniversary are still being reported to the coroner. When the Duke of Marlborough goes to assume his duties of viceroy a large percentage of the people of Ireland will have their first opportunity to see a chafing dish and a spider phaeton. Dr. Leyds has been barred out of South Africa. In view of the fact that he has money enough to live like a prince in Europe some people probably will refuse to regard his banishment as a hardship. The saying is that "every man has his fool hour at some time in his career." "It would seem as if a good many spend it at Newport. Strange things occur down in that metropolis of fashion and folly. A Chicago man who was worth $300,000 a year ago has assured the tax reviewers that he hasn't a cent. This shows that when a man is lucky enough to get hold of $300,000 he should take it away somewhere and bury it. The manager of a New York aquarium has discovered that fishes really think. If he could interview some that come within range of the summer resort angler their opinions on the fool with the fancy rod and reel would be worth chronicling. A nobly born captain in the Swedish army has refused to fight a duel with an American, claiming that the latter is a mere commoner and therefore not eligible to meet one of rank. S'Death! Hasn't that Swede found out that Americans are all uncrowned kings? This is too much! The doctor who attended Christopher L. Magee of Pittsburg during his last illness has been awarded a fee at $29,239.25. He wanted $200,000, but the jury evidently took into consideration the fact that Mr. Magee died. BY CLOUDBURST THE TOWN OF MANITOU, COLL. SUFFERS GREAT DAMAGE. RAINBOW FALLS COMPLETELY DESTROYED Rainbow Fall is no More—Fully 100 Dwellings Moved From Their Foundations—The Wreckage Piled 20 to 30 Feet High in the Springs Park.—Colorado Midland Suffers. COLORADO SPRINGS, COL.—(Special.) The fair town of Manitou presented a sorrowful spectacle Wednesday. There was a cloudburst in the vicinity of Woodland park and the flood that descended Ute pass did more damage at Manitou and the pass than had been done by a single storm for years. There is not a wagon bridge left in Ute Pass below Cascade, the rainbow fall, one of the beauty spots of the vicinity of Manitou, has been put out of existence, the carriage road is washed out completely at several places. In the Soda Springs park in Manitou the wreckage, consisting of household goods, lumber, railroad ties, bridge timber, tree trunks, etc., is from twenty to thirty feet high. During the height of the flood the stores along the north side of Canyon avenue were a foot under water for an hour. Fully 100 light dwellings have been moved from their foundations. There were many reports of loss of life, but none were confirmed. The Denver & Rio Grande railroad lost a bridge between Manitou and Colorado Springs, and was washed out at Buttes, eighteen miles below this city, and at Wigwam, which is thirteen miles north of Pueblo. The Colorado Midland line is totally destroyed in Ute ass. HELD UP BY TWO MEN. Burlington Train Robbed and Express Car Blown Up. DUBUQUE, IA. — (Special.) Two masked men held up the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy "limited" north bound, two miles north of Savannah, Ill., at 11:30 o'clock Tuesday night. They cut off the Adams Express Company's car, forced the engineer to run up the track and then blew up the car. The robbers torpedoed the track, and when the torpedoes exploded the engineer quickly brought the train to a stop. One man boarded the engine, ordered the engineer to run ahead after the other man had uncoupled the express car. Trainmen hurried to Savannah and gave the alarm and a posse of officers and citizens armed with shotguns and revolvers hastened to the scene. The "limited" is said have carried heavy and valuable express. It is reported that the robbers secured about $20,000. The officials of the railroad company are unable to give any information as to the amount of booty secured by the robbers or to say definitely whether any of the trainmen had been injured during the exciting en counter. TRAIN THROUGH A TRESTLE. One Man Killed, Four Injured and Two Missing in Ohio. PEEBLES, O.—(Special.) A coal train on the Norfolk & Western fell through a trestle near here Wednesday. One man was killed, four injured and two missing. The dead: Robert Foley of Portsmouth, brakeman. Fatally injured: Harvey Norman of McDermott, brakeman. John McArthur, Portsmouth, con- ductor. Davis, Portsmouth, engineer. Two tramps, who got on the train at Peebles, are missing. At the Auditorium. At the Auditorium. The Woodward Stock company will open its season at the Auditorium, August 23, with a spectacular production of the scenic melodrama, "Hearts are Trumps." The play will be staged with all the elaborate detail that characterized "The Great Ruby," which it somewhat resembles. The members of the reorganized Woodward Stock company are Marion Converse, leading woman; Howell Hansell, leading man; Harold Hartsell, Gertrude Berkeley, H. Guy Woodward, William Riley Hatch, Willard Blackmore, Wilson Enos, Joseph Totten, Estelle Carter, Miss Leslie Bingham, Carrie Clark Ward, Miss Reed, Sedley Brown and Harry Long. The sale of season tickets for the Auditorium will take place August 18 and 19, and the sale of seats for single performances will begin August 20. Changes at Denver Mint. DENVER, COL.—(Special.) Frank M. Dower, of Longmont, was Wednesday appointed assayer of the Denver mint by President Roosevelt to succeed Joseph L. Hodges, whose term had expired and Joseph W. Milson, of Canyon City, was appointed smelter to succeed Henry T. Brady, resigned. A Cattle Bustler Killed. BUTTE, MONT.—(Special.) Word has been received from Sanders Station of the shooting and killing of a notorious cattle rustler, named J. W. Perry, known throughout the Eastern Montana ranges as "Black Perry," by James Haynie, foreman of the Hysham Cattle Company. No particulars of the killing are given. Haynie is a well known stockman and is one of the oldest cattle managers of the state. He has given himself up. Knowing vice is to take a little stock in it. Willis Wood Will Open. The Woodward and Burgess Amusement company has announced Saturday, August 23, and Monday, August 25, as the opening dates of its two Kansas City theaters, the Auditorium and the new Willis Wood. The Willis wood will open August 25, with Amelia Bingham and her all star company, presenting the powerful play, "A Modern Magdalen." The new theater will be ready in time, and seats for the first performance will be sold at auction in the lobby of the Baltimore hotel, August 11. DES MOINES MAN MURDERED. Led a Crusade Which Resulted in Closing Gambling Houses. DES MOINES, IA—(Special.) Isaac Finkelstein, whose crusade against public gambling closed the eight houses in Des Moines two weeks ago, was murdered at 10 o'clock Tuesday night in Walnut street at an alley entrance between Sixth and Seventh streets. He was on his way to his home, less than a block and a half away, when a man stepped out of the shadow of the alley and struck him a blow over the head with a singletree. Finkelstein fell to the ground. Four men less than a block away saw him fall and ran to assist him. He was dead when they arrived, his skull being crushed. Save for the bloody singletree, which was left beside the victim, the only clue to the murderer is a report that a little after the time of the murder no one recognized the man who was overheard to say to another: "I killed the _____," and at another time a man was heard to tell another: "Keep your mouth shut." The murder is supposed to have resulted from Finkelstein's action in prosecuting the gamblers. He did not object to public gambling, but wanted the city to receive a revenue from it, he said, and when the police did not raid the houses he filed complaints with the sheriff. The resultant raids proved so expensive that the gamblers closed their places. EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED. Lives of 700 People Endangered but No One Was Killed. CADILLAC, MICH.—(Special.) An excursion train on the Ann Arbor railway, made up of eleven coaches and carrying 700 people, was wrecked six miles north of this place Monday. So far as known, no one was killed, but about a dozen persons were injured, some seriously. The injured: G. S. Young, Alma, hurt about head and shoulders. C. B. Boardman, Mount Pleasant, back and hip badly bruised. Charles Nye, Owosso, back and chest badly crushed. Otis Sprague, Alma, back and leg badly bruised. G. E. Gilles, Alma, right arm fractured. W. C. Hoover, Findlay, O., right knee injured and other slight injuries. Henry Day, Cadillac, several ribs fractured and head badly cut. William Orr, Cadillac, back badly injured and other injuries; quite serious. A. J. Harrington, Oshkosh, Winn, back seriously injured, hurt internally. A. C. Kraft, Duran, head cut and other slight injuries. Henry Webster, Alma, back and side injured. The train was bound from Durand to Crystal Lake and Frankfort and was running about thirty-five miles an hour. It is believed the wreck was caused by the flange breaking on one of the wheels of the combination baggage and smoker, next to the engine. 2 BODY OF A WOMAN FOUND. She Had Apparently Been Murdered ST. PAUL.—(Special.) A special to the Pioneer Press from Chippewa Falls, Wis., says: The body of Mrs. George Wolf, who has been missing since June 27th, was found Sunday buried in the sand four miles south of this city. The last seen of Mrs. Wolf she was driving on the night of June 27 with her husband, who has since left and whose whereabouts are unknown. Suspicion aroused by the disappearance of the woman and the authorities have been conducting a search for several weeks. Sunday George Bollinger while prodding the earth with a wire, discovered the body. The face shows marks that indicate that death was inflicted with a heavy piece of iron or stone. GIRL LOST IN MOUNTAINS. With a Broken Ankle She Spent Two Gold Nights Without Food COLLEGE NORTH ZINAL, SWITZERLAND. — (Special.) Miss Whalley, an English girl, staying at a hotel here, is the survivor of a terrible experience in the mountains. She started alone Saturday to walk to St. Luc and missed her way. She did not return and on Sunday morning a rescue party was organized. She was found on Monday in the hills, 400 yards above Ayer. She had broken her ankle but had crawled a long distance in spite of the injury. She spent two cold nights in the mountains without food or shelter and suffered greatly, but thanks to a strong constitution she is recovering rapidly. FORT BENTON, MONT.—(Special). Tuesday night, in a quarrel over a card game, John Allan, a sheepherder, shot and probably fatally wounded John Reavis in the office of the Overland hotel, at this place. Before Reavis fell he knocked Allan down, took his gun away from him and beat his head to a jelly with the butt of it. Allen's skull is crushed in and it is likely that he will also die. Forest Fires Rage in Wyoming. WASHINGTON.—(Special.) Dispatches received by Acting Commissioner Richards, of the general land office. Wednesday, announce that large forest fires are raging near Lander, Wyo., and in the southern part of the state west of the Medicine Bow forest reserve. A special agent has been ordered by telegraph to proceed to each of these places to direct the fire fighting. They have been instructed to expend $500 in each of the fire areas and more will be authorized if needed. Strike at the White House. WASHINGTON. — (Special.) The members of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' local union No. 26, who have been employed on repair work at the White House, have quit work in order to enforce the rules of the union. The cause of the "walk-out," it is stated, is the refusal of the New York firm having the contract for electrical work at the White House to accept the local terms of the electrical workers' union. The demand for hammocks is strong. BYHISOWNHAND OUTLAW TRACEY, WITH CAP TURE CERTAIN, SUICIDES. BUT FIRST HE MADE A DESPERATE FIGHT Made a Desperate Fight.—Weak From Loss of Blood, Sent Bullet Through Brain.—Bloody Trail Shows Savage Determination of Man.—Crawled 75 Yards After Wounded. SPOKANE, WASH. — (Special.) Harry Tracey, the notorious outlaw, whose escapades have filled the nation for the past sixty days, lies dead in Davenport, the county seat of Lincoln county. Sheriffs' posses and others are disputing the ownership of his body. Sheriff Cudhee, of Seattle, who came across the state to take up the long and baffled chase, positively identified the outlaw at the inquest Thursday. The death was intensely tragic. For two days Tracey had terrorized the occupants of the Eddy rack, out in the Lake creek country, three miles from the little sliding of Fellows, on the Central Washington railroad. Then five determined citizens of Creston, hearing of his presence there, took their rifles and revolvers and went after him. They knew their business and did it without flinching. When Tracey ran they hung on his flank as the deer-hound hangs to the hunted deer. Sighting the men and securing his rifle, Tracey sought cover behind a haystack, escaping several rifle bullets. The posse then found cover behind a large rock and for awhile it looked like a siege. Then Tracey broke for a large boulder lying on the edge of a small wheat field, and this dash was his undoing, for just as he came to the rock he fell forward, a rifle bullet having broken his leg. He plunged into the wheat and his bloody trail there shows the savage determination of the man. For, after receiving the wound, he crawled seventy-five yards on his hands and knees in order to reach a spot that would command the posse and enable him to poud a merposse and enable his mto pour a mercessil fire upon them. But once only point. Then, weakened from the loss of blood, he tried to stanch his wound, failed, and with his revolver sent a bullet through his brain. By this time, dusk had fallen and the posse, unaware of the seriousness of his wound and fearing that his silence was intended to lure them into a deadly ambush, posted themselves to prevent his escape and patiently waited for the dawn. During the night others came on the scene and joined in the cordon. At daylight Wednesday they found the outlaw's dead body. None of the posse was wounded, though all of them had narrow escapes. When they were firing from the cover of their rock, they had to lift their heads over the cover and every time this was done Tracey's rifle rang out, and a bullet chipped the rock. For two days and as many nights Tracey held the family of Farmer L, B. Eddy under subjection. Here again he showed the qualities of nerve and cool headedness, but these very qualities brought about his downfall. Had he not allowed G. E. Goldfinch, an 18-year-old boy, to leave the ranch when he did, this story might be different, but the outlaw had too much faith in estimating the terror his words of warning would give to the lad. HOTEL GUESTS IN A PANIC. Four Injured in Seeking Escape From Fire at the Sir William. CHICAGO, ILL.—(Special.) Panic-striken, half a hundred guests at the Sir William hotel, 70 Randolph street, raced through hallways and down stairways Tuesday night, seeking escape from a fire which resulted in serious injury to four persons. The sufferers: Anderson, Grace, burned about head and arms. Gray, William K., night clerk of hotel; burned about head. Schafer, Fred, guest, overcome by gas and burned about head and body. Gray, William, guest, overcome by gas and burned about the head. The fire, which was caused by escaping gas, was extinguished without serious loss. Killed by His Brother-in-Law HOQUIEM, WASH.—(Special.) F. 8. Aegers was killed Thursday morning by Joseph Stockhammer, his brother-in-law. Stockhammer and Aeger's sister had been divorced for several months. Wednesday night the men met on the street. Stockhammer assaulted Aegers. Aegers swore out a warrant for assault against Stockhammer, who pleaded guilty and paid his fine. He then shot Aegers dead at the police station. An Expensive Blunder LOUISVILLE, KY—(Special.) As a result of a mistake made in posting odds, the Kingston poolroom Saturday lost about $2,500. On account of a similarity of names, the board marker confused Talala, a 2 to 5 favorite, and Duella, a 30 to 10 shot, entered in the first race at Highland park, and reversed the odds on the board. The form players immediately noticed the false price and a large sum was bet before the mistake was discovered. Double Drowning at Picnic. BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO. — (Special.) Rev. W. H. Leatherman, pastor of the Methodist church at DeGraff, was drowned Wednesday in trying to save Earl Needham, aged 13, who went down with him. Thirty boys of the clergyman's church were on a picnic at a nearby resort. Young Needham went swimming and was seized with cramps. The minister tried to rescue him. Rev. Mr. Leatherman was 35 years old and leaves a widow and two children. MINE WATCHMAN MURDERED. Had Been Followed From His Werk By a Score of Men. WILKESBARRE, P.A. — (Special.) The dead body of Daniel Sweeney, a watchman in the employ of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Company at their Bliss colliery in Hanover township, was found in a field in Hanover township Thursday morning. Sweeney quit work at midnight, and was followed by a score of men. The men were making threats, and Sweeney was afraid of them. He took refuge in a saloon and waited there for some time. After he thought the crowd that followed him had dispersed, he left for his home. This was the last seen of him alive. The supposition is that the men who followed him from the mine were lying in wait for him and, when he approached the spot where they were hiding, they assaulted him with pick handles and beat his brains out. The body lay in a pool of blood. The county detective is now at work on the case. It is said the coal company will offer a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers. The murdered man told the superintendent of the mine where he was employed that some of the strikers had told him that if he did not quit work he would be sorry. Sweeney said he needed employment, as his family were in want. There is much indignation over the cold blooded murder, as the dead watchman was well liked. Michael Yisko, John Smith and Ignatz Shukie, all foreigners, who were last seen in Sweeney's company, were arrested charged with being implicated in the murder. They were given a hearing before Magistrate Khiski, of Hanover township, and brought to Wilkesbarre in a special train. They were at once taken to the county jail. THROUGH AN OPEN SWITCH. Santa Fe Passenger Train Wrecked in California. LOS ANGELES, CALIF—(Special.) A Santa Fe passenger train returning from Rodondo Beach ran through an open switch Tuesday and crashed into an oil train. Both engines were wrecked, as was also one coach and four oil tank cars. The fuel tank of one of the engines exploded immediately after the crash, setting fire to the wreck. Burning oil was scattered in every direction and the large refinery plant of the Combs Refining company was set on fire. The plant was completely destroyed, as were all the cars in the wreck except one. T. D. Martin, fireman of the freight engine, is missing and it is thought his body is under the burned wreckage. The injured: H. E. Gardiner, engineer, face terribly scaled, chest, back and legs burned by being caught in a shower of burning oil. C. H. Andrews, fireman, hands and face burned and back injured by jumping from cab. William Whitesides, passenger, Los Angeles, left arm broken. Frank Scott, brakeman, face and shoulders burned by oil. STREET CARS TELSCOPED. Passengers Imprisoned an Hour and Several Seriously Injured. ELGIN, ILL.—(Special.) In a street car collision here Monday two cars were telescoped and several persons seriously injured. A switch to a sliding upon which stood three empty cars was left open and the car from Elgin to Dundee crashing into the standing cars, two being telescoped. The passengers were imprisoned for nearly an hour and everyone of fifteen passengers on the car was more or less seriously injured. The most seriously hurt were: Frank Warner, motorman, leg broken, badly cut and injured internally; may die. Frank Minard, Carpentersville, both legs broken, injured internally; serious. Mrs. D. C. Hunter and two children. Mrs. M. E. Berlin and daughter, badly cut and bruised. FATAL GASOLINE EXPLOSION. Charles A. Brown, Owner of a Candy Factory Dies From Injuries. STILLWATER, O. T.—(Special!) A gasoline lamp exploded in the Stillwater candy factory Monday with fatal results to the owner, Charles A. Brown. The lamp was one of the new hydro-carbon lights and had been threatening trouble for several minutes. Mr. Brown and a boy named Perry were in the room at the time. Perry escaped before the explosion, Brown stayed and received the full charge of burning gasoline over his head and body. He was so badly burned that he died in horrible agony about 4 o'clock. He was about 25 years old and had been married about a year. The candy factory was set on fire by the explosion but was extinguished without serious loss except to the goods. Died Carrying a Candle SANFRANCISCO—(Special.) Mrs. A. K. H. Patchen, of Buffalo, N. Y., a member of an old and aristocratic family of the Empire state, dropped dead early Tuesday at the home of friends in this city and her body is now at the morgue. A candle which she was carrying when death overtook her, ignited her clothes burning the body somewhat, and at first giving rise to the belief that she had been burned to death. Defiance Starch is a peerless starch Struck by Wall of Water. Struck by Wall of Water. FLORENCE, COL.—(Special.) A Ric Grande special passenger train from the East, bound to California and carrying 300 tourists, is in the ditch, just east of Florence, near Swallows. The wreck was caused by the train being struck by a wall of water eight feet high, coming down Peck creek, caused by the heavy rains in the mountains south of here Thursday afternoon. The difference between repartee and impudence depends on the size of the man who gets it off. The Indian Paper to Suspend. The Cherokee Advocate, the only paper ever printed in an Indian tongue, is about to suspend owing to change in the government of the five tribes. The Cherokee is the only tribe having a written language. It was invented by Sequoyah, a Cherokee, in 1826. Salt Lake Still Falling. Salt Lake people, and especially the summer colony, are commenting anew this summer on the fact that the lake has been receding continuously since 1868. As to "Strawberry Blondes." The eminent German portrait painter, Franz von Lenbach, admires "strawberry blondes" more than any other type of women, though he declares that they are so ethereal that they can not be happy in marriage unless they are adored and petted all the time. Cut This Out for Reference Omaha Auditorium Auditorium Stock Contest Omaha Auditorium Stock Contest July 1, 1902, to October 28, 1902. Tickets Twenty-five Cents One Thousand and One Prizes Each Ticket Entitles the Purchaser to One Simon Stock in the Omaha Auditorium Company Chances to Win a Prize. Tickets Twenty-five Cents One Thousand and One Prizes Ticket Entitles the Purchaser to One Share of Com in the Omaha Auditorium Company and to Two Win a Prize. Tickets Twenty-five Cents One Thousand and One Prizes Each Ticket Entitles the Purchaser to One Share of Common Stock in the Omaha Auditorium Company and to Two Chances to Win a Prize. CAPITAL PRIZE IN GOLD $ Contributed by the Dei- nance Starch Company of Omaha--Seven Hundred and Three Smaller Cash Prizes Ranging from $2.50 to $50.00 OTHER PRIZES.—House at Omaha City Lot, $700; Grand round trip tickets to cities on the Great Lakes, and the Ink Garments; Buggies, Saddles, Sness, Engines, Guns, Silver and other useful and ornamental a Six More Semi-Monthly Awarding of Regular Prize and 1,000 other Regular Prize of their Value to the 1,001 Prizes estimates of the total number of all candidates for governor in 1902. These are the figures for aid you in making your estimate, 1,275,671; 1896, 1,434,046; 1887. What will the figures be this year. Awarding of Semi-monthly prizes will each be not less than will be paid every two weeks a test. They will be paid to the estimates, during the two week amount of the bank clearings of 16, September 1, September 16, November 1. These figures on dates named will assist you. 1901: July 1, $1,233,488 1st, $823,138; August 16th, $1,171,613; September 16th, $266; October 16th, $1,039,742 1902: July 1st, $1,061,0 NOW Is the Time to S Person Stands Just as Good to Make Prize Winning Estimate is as Likely to Win $5,000 or Prizes as One Made in October Number of Votes Cast Until a test Closes October 28. Some one is going to win Why not you? And others are ular and special prizes ranging may be one of them if you make DONT FORGET THE S AWARDED EVERY T Such Opportunities are a stock and two chances to win. But remember that a do than one hook. One ticket and dozen tickets and two dozen es likely land one of the big or so Send in your Quarters and Send Them in Now. PRIZES.—House and lot in Omaha, value, $3,500; Lot, $700; Grand Kimball Piano; Chapel Organ; kickets to cities on the Pacific Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Makes, and the Inland Pleasure Resorts; Sealskin Buggies, Saddles, Sets of Double and Single Har- gins, Guns, Silver and Glass Tableware, and many ornamental articles. More Semi-Monthly Special Cash Prizes. Beg of Regular Prizes.—The $5,000 Capital Prize Either Regular Prizes will be Awarded in the order due to the 1,001 Persons making the 1,001 closest to the total number of votes which will be cast for the governor in New York State, November 4. Share the figures for the last five elections and will make your estimates: 1891, 1,165,085; 1894, 1896, 1,434,046; 1898, 1,359,190; 1900, 1,556,520. The figures be this year. Beg of Semi-monthly Special Cash Prizes.—These each be not less than $50, nor more than $500, and every two weeks during the progress of the con- will be paid to the persons making the closest during the two weeks preceding each date, of the bank clearings of the city of Omaha on August 1, September 16, October 1, October 16, and These figures of the bank clearings of Omaha named will assist you in making your estimates: July 1, $1,233,488; July 16, $1,063,599; August 38; August 16th, $1,036,132; September 1st, September 16th, $1,127,988; October 1st, $955- 16th, $1,039,742; November 1st, $1,205,423. July 1st, $1,061,057; July 16th, $1,137,004. Is the Time to Send in Your Estimates.—One ends Just as Good a Chance as Any Other Person Winning Estimates. An Estimate Made Now to Win $5,000 or One of the Other 1,000 Regular One Made in October. For No One Can Tell the Votes Cast Until After They are Counsed. Con- October 28. One is going to win $5,000 for twenty-five cents. But? And others are going to win 1,006 other reg- special prizes ranging from $2.50 to $3,500. You of them if you make an estimate. FORGET THE SPECIAL CASH PRIZES ADDED EVERY TWO WEEKS Opportunities are not often offered—a share of two chances to win big prizes for twenty-five cents. Remember that a dozen hooks will catch more fish look. One ticket and two estimates are good, but a ticket and two dozen estimates are better, and will more one of the big or some of the smaller prizes. In your Quarters and your Estimates—and Better in Now. Is all letters to OMAHA AUDITORIUM CO., Room A, New York Life Building, Omaha. Agents Wanted in Every Town. Out for Reference...It May Not Appear A Again. 000 in Gold—Free Contributed by the DEFIANCE STARCH CO., of Omaha, Nebraska, to Omaha Auditorium Co. With 1,000 other PRIZES for the best estimate made on the best for ALL candidates for Governor of New York at the held Nov. 4th, 1802. T SEMI-MONTHLY CASH PRIZES $500.00. Free guess as to the amount, also ONE SHARE IN STOCK of the Omaha Auditorium Company. ETS, 25c EACH. On Sale from July 1st to October 28th. Win $5,000 for 25c by purchasing an Auditorium Stock Ticket. List, or remit direct, F. E. Nettleton, Supt. The Auditorium Company, Omaha, Neb., giving estimate on the amount estimated for the Special Prize, and tickets will and send you. The votes that have been cast: 1891, 1,165,085; 1894, 1,275,677; 1888, 1,335,190; 1900, 1,366,520; 1902, WHAT? A Chance for Everybody. paper when you write. Agents wanted in every town. Press THE AUDITORIUM CO., Omaha, Neb. 000 IN GOLD—FREE For 15 Trade Marks Cut from 10c Packages of DEFIANCE Starch OTHER PRIZES—House and lot in Omaha, value, $3,500; Omaha City Lot, $700; Grand Kimball Piano; Chapel Organ; round trip tickets to cities on the Pacific Coast, Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, and the Inland Pleasure Resorts; Sealskin Garments; Buggies, Saddles, Sets of Double and Single Harness, Engines, Guns, Silver and Glass Tableware, and many other useful and ornamental articles. Six More Semi-Monthly Special Cash Prizes. Awarding of Regular Prizes.—The $5,000 Capital Prize and 1,000 other Regular Prizes will be Awarded in the order of their Value to the 1,001 Persons making the 1,001 closest estimates of the total number of votes which will be cast for all candidates for governor in New York State, November 4, 1902. These are the figures for the last five elections and will aid you in making your estimates: 1891, 1,165,085; 1894, 1,275,671; 1896, 1,434,046; 1898, 1,359,190; 1900, 1,556,520. What will the figures be this year? Awarding of Semi-monthly Special Cash Prizes.—These prizes will each be not less than $50, nor more than $300, and will be paid every two weeks during the progress of the contest. They will be paid to the persons making the closest estimates, during the two weeks preceding each date, of the amount of the bank clearings of the city of Omaha on August 16, September 1, September 16, October 1, October 16, and November 1. These figures of the bank clearings of Omaha on dates named will assist you in making your estimates: 1901: July 1, $1,233,488; July 16, $1,063,599; August 1st, $823,138; August 16th, $1,036,132; September 1st, $1,171,613; September 16th, $1,127,988; October 1st, $955,266; October 16th, $1,039,742; November 1st, $1,205,423. 1902: July 1st, $1,061,057; July 16th, $1,137,004. NOW Is the Time to Send in Your Estimates.—One Person Stands Just as Good a Chance as Any Other Person to Make Prize Winning Estimates. An Estimate Made Now is as Likely to Win $5,000 or One of the Other 1,000 Regular Prizes as One Made in October, For No One Can Tell the Number of Votes Cast Until After They are Coun.ed. Contest Closes October 28. Some one is going to win $5,000 for twenty-five cents. Why not you? And others are going to win 1,006 other regular and special prizes ranging from $2.50 to $3,500. You may be one of them if you make an estimate. DON'T FORGET THE SPECIAL CASH PRIZES AWARD EVERY TWO WEEKS Such Opportunities are not often offered—a share of stock and two chances to win big prizes for twenty-five cents. But remember that a dozen hooks will catch more fish than one hook. One ticket and two estimates are good, but a dozen tickets and two dozen estimates are better, and will more likely land one of the big or some of the smaller prizes. Send in your Quarters and your Estimates—and Better Send Them in Now. Address all letters to THE OMAHA AUDITORIUM CO., Room A, New York Life Building, Omaha. Responsible Agents Wanted in Every Town. THE OMAHA AVE. Room A, N. Responsible Agents wanted in Eve. Cut This Out for Reference $5,000 in C Contribut DEFIANCE S of Omaha, I The Omaha A to be given with 1,000 other PRIZES vote to be cast toward the candidature election to be held Nov. 4th, 1902. EIGHT SEMI-MONTH from $0.00 to $0.00. Free guesses OF COMMON STOCK of the Omaha TICKETS, 25c E. A Chance to Win $5,000 for 25c Tr. Write for prize list, or remit direct Omaha Auditorium Company, Omaha election and amount estimated for be made out and sent you. Here are the votes that have be 1886, 1,454,046; 1888, 1,339,150; 1900, 1,566 A Chance to Mention this paper when you write Address THE AUDITOR $5,000 IN C For 18 Trade M Packages of DE Cut This Out for Reference---It May Not Appear Aagain. $5,000 in Gold—Free DEFIANCE STARCH CO. of Omaha, Nebraska, to to be given with 1,000 other PRIZES for the best estimate made on the vote to be cast for ALL candidates for Governor of New York at the election to be held Nov. 4th, 1902. EIGHT SEMI-MONTHLY CASH PRIZES from $0.00 to $50.00. Free guess as to the amount, also ONE SHARE OF COMMON STOCK of the Omaha Auditorium Company. TICKETS, 25c EACH. On Sale from July 1st to October 28th. A Chance to Win $5,000 for 25c by purchasing an Auditorium Stock Ticket. Write for prize list, or remit direct to F. E. Nettleton, Supt. The Omaha Auditorium Company, Omaha, Neb., giving estimate on the election and amount estimated for the Special Prize, and tickets will be issued you choose. Here are the votes that have been cast: 1881, 1,165,055; 1884, 1,275,677; 1886, 1,431,046; 1888, 1,359,190; 1900, 1,306,520. WHAT? A Chance for Everybody. Mention this paper when you write. Agents wanted in every town. Address THE AUDITORIUM CO., Omaha, Neb. $5,000 IN GOLD-FREE For 15 Trade Marks Cut from 10c Packages of DEFIANCE Starch everyone who will to the Auditor- Co. or the De- Starch Co., 4. Neb., 15 trade cut from 10 ct. % packages of DEFIANCE ST will be sent an torium Stock Guessing ticket sells for 25 cts you a guess great contest $5,000 or some one of the 1,000 other prize of your grocer we will send it to ticket upon receipt of the price o The Defiance Star $5,000 IN GOLD of the 1,000 other prizes. If you cannot get Defiance Starch er we will send it to you express prepaid including one receipt of the price of the starch. Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebraska or some one of the 1,000 other prizes. If you cannot get Defiance Starch of your grocery we will send it to you e press prepaid including one ticket upon receipt of the price of the starch. The Defiance Starch Co. Omaha, Nebraska To everyone who will send to the Auditorium Co. or the De-fiance Starch Co., Omaha, Neb., 15 trade marks cut from 10 ct. or 15 box packages of Three Hundred Degrees of Cold Fahrenheit, by the action of salt on ice, secured what was then thought to be the lowest temperature attainable and used it as the basis of his thermometer; but now, through the use of liquified gases, a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit is easily produced Peculiar Name for Town A little town in Arkansas is called Maryhattanna, having been given that name by C. R. Webber, who chose this method of perpetuating the names of his wife and two daughters. While Adelina Patti was shopping in London recently a gentleman overheard the young woman who served her at the counter address her as "Miss." He says: "What a tribute to her perennial beauty to be still taken for a young miss at the age of sixty." DEFIANCE STARCH will be sent an Adutorium Stock and Guessing ticket which sells for 25 cts giving you a guess in this great contest to win