State Ledger

THE STATE LEDGER By F. L. JELTZ KANSAS TOPEKA; KANSAS The naphtha launch is now assisting the automobile in reducing the surplus population. The rest of the fight may have been a fake, but Jeffries' broken nose was genuine, apparently. If all the world were really a stage the theatrical trust would come pretty near owning the earth. What is to be said of other trusts in Germany when even the cement combine has failed to stick? As England doesn't happen to need "Bobs" in her business just at present she is a trifle forgetful of him. In his second battle with Champion Jeffries Kangaroo Bob can not deny that he got his share of the dope. The Alps have cost 201 lives in the last ten years. Death seems to be doing the tallest climbing after all. Latest crop reports are to the effect that the growth of hair on John Rockefeller's head is doing excellently well. No amount of abuse will bring the blush of shame to the cheek of the man who owns a record-breaking automobile. Lobsters are scarce—on the benches in the Boston markets. Elsewhere, we regret to say, they are as numerous as usual. Prince Boris of Russia, 25 years old and unmarried, is on his way to the United States, probably with the idea of mining for gold. Only five revolutions and three wars are now going on in South America. But what can you expect in the vacation season? Carnegie is now giving libraries to individuals. If he intends to go all around there is little danger that the field will soon be covered. Baron de Coubertin runs no risk in prophesying that the American starry banner will sometime be par excellence the Anglo-Saxon flag. It is today. The new battleship Maine is a flyer as well as a fighter. That she will never use her speed in leaving an enemy behind is a foregone conclusion. Did you ever meet a person who had learned to swim by following instructions such as are printed in many papers at this season of the year? Great Britain has captured Africa, but the Yankees have captured the trade of Africa. The Yankees have made the greatest capture, on the whole. Mr. Fitzsimmons' fervent prayer for victory on the eve of battle didn't pull down the long end of the purse, but it may have helped him to put up a good stiff fight. They have found some bones out in Kansas which show that man has lived on the earth for at least 35,000 years. What a long time it took to work up to the sugar trust. Joshua Anderson was taken from jail one morning by a crowd of men and hanged to the cross beam of the city scales, in Owensboro, Ky. His weight is not stated. A woman in San Francisco fasted forty-five days in order to reduce her weight. She accomplished her purpose, but her family will now be put to the expense of burying her. The word "automaniac" has been coined as descriptive of the man who owns a devil wagon but so far no insane asylum wards have been set aside for the use of this class of lunatics. Lord Kitchener's latest smile—said to be the twelfth of his lifetime—has been photographed. If he has the bad luck that distinguishes the private career of American heroes it will be his last. The census bureau's statement that the farms of the United States are worth more than $20,000,000,000 apparently hasn't as yet inspired any one with the idea of getting up a farmer's trust. According to the census bureau, bachelors outnumber maidens by 2,531,333 in the United States. Now, girls, don't let these figures make you frivolous, or you may spoil your chances altogether. And now an Indian 115 years old follows the old negro who was 126. Some of these stories of the age of people who only knew when they were born by hearsay look a trifle doubtful. After undergoing all the perils of the South African campaign, it would be indeed distressing if Kitchener in London should be killed by kindness. In a Vienna divorce case the unfaithful wife and the co-respondent were sent to jail for two months. Is this a step toward social reform? Pamphlets concerning the housefly are now being distributed by the Department of Agriculture, probably because the housefly constitutes one of the country's principal products. May Yohe should dry her tears. She is now qualified to write magazine articles and to join Major Pond's aggregation of platform celebrities. That St. Louis physician who has been fired $5 for swearing at a telephone operator has our sympathy, not for the loss of his money, however TAKEN TO JAIL THE HUSBAND ARRESTED WITH WIFE AND PARAUMO. HAD TRAVELED ONE THOUSAND MILES Followed Them From Kansas City to Texas—Attempted to Bribe an Officer but Made a Mistake—Men Taken to Jail but Wife Allowed to Remain in Her Boarding House. CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.—(Special.) Several days ago J. W. Gibson, of Kansas City, arrived in the city. At the Oriental hotel he saw on the register, "John W. Hall and wife," of Kansas City, Mo. The hotel proprietor informed Gibson that Hall and wife had left several days since for Gregory, a small town in San Patricio county, twelve miles from Corpus Christi. Gibson went to Gregory and learned where Hall and the woman were boarding. He entered the house during Hall's absence and confronted his wife. Mrs. Gibson disappeared from Kansas City last May. He informed the proprietor of the house that the woman was his wife, for whom he had long been searching. In the meantime Hall appeared and there was a stormy scene between the two men. The boarding house proprietor, fearing trouble, summoned the sheriff. When the situation was explained the sheriff said he would arrest Hall and the woman for adultery. Gibson, the husband, relented and begged the sheriff not to arrest his wife, but to permit her to accompany him back to Kansas City. So persistent did Gibson become in his pleading that he is said to have offered the sheriff an amount of money if he wouldn't arrest her. Thereupon Gibson was promptly arrested for attempting to bribe an officer, and Hall and the woman for adultery. The two men were taken to Saniton, San Patricio county and placed in jail. Mrs. Gibson was permitted to remain in her boarding house, she claiming to be ill. Hall and Gibson were neighbors in Kansas City, each having a family. Gibson says that when his wife disappeared last spring, he suspected her of having gone to join Hall and followed her. He says that he has traveled over a thousand miles to find his wife only to be jailed. He admits offering the sherif money, but denies that it was intended as a bribe. Under the Texas statutes it is liable to go hard with him. He is a member of several fraternal societies, and has wired friends to come and take his wife home. Mrs. Gibson is a handsome blonde and seems greatly distressed over the exposure. ATTEMPT TO FIRE PEORIA Torch Applied to Five Buildings—The City. Threatened. PEORIA, ILL.—(Special.) The police and fire departments of Peoria were kept on the jump Tuesday by the operations of an incendary. The torch was applied to five buildings during the day, and though the actual fire loss will not exceed $25,000, with an insurance of about $12,000, the flames at one time threatened to sweep a large section of the city. The police department arrested Edward Flanigan, 20 years of age, on a charge of arson. They claim to have direct evidence against him. Shortly after his arrest the mutterings of the crowd made it necessary as a precautionary measure, to remove the prisoner to the county jail for safe keeping. Since then Flanigan has refused to say a word. NAVAJO INDIANS IN NEED. Unless Government Comes to Their Assistance They Must Starve. DURANGO, COLO.—(Special.) The Navajo Indians have never been in such misery as now, since 1868, when Kit Carson had them rounded up in a corral at Defiance. The extreme heat and drought in the Navajo country have ruined ranges and horses, cattle, sheep and goats are starving by scores daily. The Indians have had little else than horse meat to eat for some time, and unless the government will come to their assistance they must starve during the coming winter, as they will be thrown upon their blanket industry alone, and this has never done much for their subsistence. Preacher Threw a Lamp. NEW YORK.—(Special.) Rev. C. S. Dennis, of Flushing, a well known Long Island revivalist, is in prison in Queens county jail charged with felonious assault. While he was conducting a service some boys who live nearby threw stones into the meeting room. This was a repetition of similar annoyances, and Mr. Dennis is said to have on this last occasion sprung from the platform in anger. It is said he tore a burning gasoline lamp from its fastenings in front of the door and hurled it into a crowd of boys. It struck James Fretzeno, 20 years old, and he was so badly burned that fears are entertained that he will die. Three-Story Building Blown Down. ALLENTOWN, PA.—(Special.) During a violent wind storm Tuesday the new three-story brick store and residence of Frank J. Schroth was leveled to the ground and Mr. Schroth, who was at work on the roof, was thrown to the ground and instantly killed. Eight other men were at work in the building. All, however, escaped, except John Kransley, whose ribs were crushed and shoulder squeezed. The actor prefers a short run to a long walk. Postmaster Tries to Die. GUTHRIE, O. T.—(Special.) Postmaster M. L. Compton, a wealthy and prominent citizen of White Rock, O. T., climbed to the top of a windmill on his farm and then jumped to the ground, with the intention of suicide. Both legs were broken by the fall and the amputation of one was necessary. The physicians state he will die. Ill health was the cause of the attempted suicide. It takes little to make a woman happy and less to make her miserable. THE MARKETS. GRAIN. KANSAS CITY — Wheat — September 62%; December, 62%@62%c. Cash. No. 2 hard, 62%; No. 3 hard, 63%c. No. 4 hard, 55%@62%; rejected hard, 54 @55%; No. 2 red, 65%; No. 3 red, 62@ 64c. Corn—September, 41%@41%c. December, 33%@33%c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 56%c; No. 2 white, 58%@58c; No. 3 white, 57c. Oats—No. 2 white, 35%@36. Rye—No. 2, 44%@45c. CHICAGO—Wheat—Cash: No. 2 red 69%c; No. 3 red, 67@68c; No. 2 hard, 68%c; No. 3 hard, 66%@67c. Corn— Cash—No. 2 mixed, 57c. Oats—Cash— No. 2 mixed, 29@29%c. ST LOUIS—Wheat—No. 2 red, cash, 65%@66; on track, 62%c; December, 64%c; No. 2 hard, 64%@68. Corn—No. 2 cash, 56c; on track, 57%@57%c; September, 45%c; December, 35%c. Oats —No. 2 cash, 29c; on track, 30%@30%c; September, 25%c; December, 25%c. KANSAS CITY.—Cattle —Texas and Indian steers, $2.75@4.15; native steers, $3.85@8.30; Texas cows, $2.25@3.00; native cows and heifers, $1.25@4.75; stockers and feeders, $3.00@5.05; bulls, $2.52@4.70; calves, $2.25@5.25; Hogs — Heavy, $7.40@7.45; packers, $7.20@ 7.35; medium, $7.00@3.71%; light, $7.20 7.30; yorkers, $7.30; plugs, $6.50@ 7.10. Sheep — Muttons, $3.40@4.15; lambs, $3.75@5.80; range wethers, $3.00@ 4.25; ewes, $3.15@4.00. ST LOUIS.—Cattle —Top, $4.80. Hogs —Top, $7.60. SOUTH OMAHA.—Hogs —Top, $7.30. SOUTH ST. JOSEPH.—Hogs —Top, $7.57%. Sheep —Top Western lambs, $5.50. CHICAGO—Cattle—Good to prime steers, nominal, $8.00/$5.00; poor to medium, $4.50/$7.70; stockers and feeders, $2.50/$5.25; cows, $1.50/$5.75; heifers, $2.50/$6.50; canners, $1.50/$5.25; bulls, $2.25/$4.50; calves, $2.50/$2.55; Texas fed steers, $3.25/$5.00; Western steers, $5.00/$7.00; Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $6.00/$7.65; good to choice, heavy, $7.30/$5.75½; rough heavy, $6.70/$7.15; light, $6.75/$7.35; bulk of sales, $7.00/$7.35; Sheep—Good to choice wethers, $3.50/$4.25; fair to choice mixed, $3.50/$3.75; Western sheep, $2.50/$4.00; native lambs, $3.50/$6.25; Western lambs, $5.75 HORSES AND MULES HORSES AND MULES Horses—Draft, good, $90 to $140; Draft, $1,500 to 1,700 pounds, $150 to $170; chunks, good to choice, $80 to $125; chunks, common to fair, $50 to $65; drivers, good to fancy, $80 up; drivers, medium, $50 to $65; Southerners, good to choice, $50 to $75; plugs, $10 to $15. Mules—13½@14 hands, fat and broken, $35 to $45; 14@14½ hands, fat, good hair, $45 to $65; 14½@15 hands, ft, $65 to $55; 15@15½ hands, fat, $90 to $120; 15½@16 hands, fat, $125 to $140. Green salted hides, Nos. 1 and 2, all around, 8½¢; bulbs and stags, 7¢¢; green, uncured, 1¢ per pound less, and part cured ½¢ per pound less than cured; grubby kips or glue stock, 4¢; horse hides, large, $2.75@8.00; small, $1.25@1.50; dry burses hides, 16 pounds and up, 14@14½¢; dry flint, fallen, 16 pounds and up, 12½¢@13%; under 10 pounds, 11¢; dry salt, 11¢; dry glue, 7¢; very badly grubby, green or dry hides are classed as glue stock. Sheep pelts, 40@75¢; dry flint, $8¢@9 per pound. Tallow, No. 1, 6¢; No. 2, 5¢. Prairie hay, choice, $6.55@75¢; No. 1, $6.25@6.50; No. 2, $5.75@8.25; No. 3, $4.50@5.50; No. 4, $3.50@4.00. Timothy oil, choice, $10.00@11.00; No. 1, $9.00@9.50; No. 2, $7.00@8.00; No. 3, $5.00@6.00. Clover, No. 1, $6.50@7.00; No. 2, $6.00@6.50; clover mixed, No. 1, $6.50@7.50; No. 2, $6.00@6.50. Alfalfa, choice, $10.00; No. 1, $9.00@9.50; No. 2, $6.00@8.00. 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. Woman Licensed as Pilot Woman Licensed as Pilot. LOUISVILLE, KY.—(Special.) Mrs. John Golden, of Jeffersonville, Ind. has been granted a license to pilot steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and Tuesday she started on her first trip as a licensed officer. She will be at the wheel of her husband's steamer, the Shawnee, which goes South with a large store boat, the Mount Vernon, in tow. Mrs. Golden has devoted much of her time to the river, and has traversed the various waterways of the South with Captain Golden. NEW YORK—(Special.) Joseph Kehoe, who was wanted by the police on a charge of assault, is at a hospital dying, it is believed, of a pistol shot wound inflicted by Policeman Marrilan. When the officer went to arrest Kehoe he was struck in the face. A crowd then attacked Marrilan and then the officer shot Kehoe, but whether by accidental explosion of his revolver during the scuffle or purposely has not been determined. Kehoe and Marrilan were well acquainted and it is said there has been bad blood between them. M. Dr. William M. Beardshear, president of the Iowa state college of agriculture and mechanical arts at Ames, Iowa, died last week at Des Moines, Iowa, as the result of an attack of nervous prostration incurred while attending the meeting of the National Educational association, of which he was president, at Minneapolis a month ago. Dr. Beardshear had been connected with educational movements in Iowa for more than twenty years. He attended Otterbein university, Ohio, where he secured his A. M. and LL. D. degree, and then spent two years at Yale. His progress was so rapid PORTRAIT OF LADY ARNOLD. Wife of Celebrated English Poet is a Japanese Lady. This is a new portrait, just taken, of Lady Arnold, who was Tama Kurokawa of Sendai, Japan, before her marriage to Sir Edwin in 1897. The author of "The Light of Asia" has just passed his seventieth birthday. M. His first wife, who was the daughter of an English clergyman, died in 1864. Civil Service in Australia Some odd discoveries are being made by the postmaster-general of Australia in regard to the freedom and laxity with which "franked" stamps have been used. All the state parliaments and departments have been permitted to use rubber stamps which frank all their correspondence from end to end of Australia. The understanding was that only official correspondence should be so franked, but the interpretation of "official" has been elastic. It has covered letters canvassing for church bazaars and convening meetings of cricket, football and rifle clubs. Even the departmental messenger boys have had free access to the rubber stamps and have used them freely. One member of parliament had the coolness to ask this to be sent as a franked telegraphic message: "Have engaged a barmaid; am sending her by the 7:40 train." King Alexander's Position: King Alexander's Position King Alexander, like his father before him, is ignored by his fellow-sovereigns when he travels abroad. No official notice is taken of his presence at Vienna when he stays in the Austrian metropolis, while his offers to visit St. Petersburg and other foreign courts with his elderly consort, Queen Draga, have been curtly declined. Nor could any European prince of the blood, no matter how impoverished, he found who was base enough to be willing to give his daughter in marriage to King Alexander, who married his mother's discharged lady-in-waiting merely because he could find no woman of royal rank willing to become his queen. Tons of Precious Metal. A bar of gold containing $1,250,000,000 worth of precious metal would be three square and 300 feet long. At two tons to the million, it would take 2,500 double teams, or 5,000 horses, to haul this mass of coined treasure over the average roads of country. Fixing fifty pounds as the proper load for the average man to carry any distance it would require an army of 100,000 to carry the stuff. In ranks of twelve moving in fairly open order this army of gold bearers would stretch over eleven or twelve miles, or about the length of Broadway on the island of Manhattan. Pronose Second Monte Carlo It is proposed to establish a Japanese Monte Carlo on an island in Tokyo Bay. At present, however, the laws of Japan discourage gambling in any form. Ancient Custom Revived. Dumfries has just revived the ancient system of shooting for the "siller gan," presented to the trades of the town by King James VI or Scotland. that at the age of 29 he was made president of Western college at Toledo, Iowa, and was the youngest college president in the country. He was appointed superintendent of public schools at Des Moines in 1888, but two years later he was elected president of the college at Ames. His school work has been wholly of a supervisory nature. He was appointed a member of the United States Indian commission in 1897. Dr. Beardshear was a civil war veteran, having enlisted in 1864 in the Army of the Cumberland. He was mustered out at the close of the war. A. Wonderful Feat. Recently a party from the embassies at Constantinople went to inspect the international lifeboat service on the Black sea coast. At one of the lifesaving stations they thought they would like to test the conditions of lifeboat work, so, clothing themselves in bathing costumes and cork jackets, they each took an oar in a lifeboat, to the huge delight of the Turkish boatmen. One of the secretaries of the British embassy is never seen without an eyeglass, and is said even to sleep with it. On this occasion he was faithful to his glass and solemnly embarked in a cork jacket and eyeglass. All the proper exercise were gone through, and finally the boat was capsized and right again by its own crew. As they crept out from under the capsized boat a howl of surprise came from the Turks, for the secretary's head appeared with the eyeglass firmly fixed in its proper position, its owner taking it as a matter of course that it should be there.—London Telegraph Buying Wife in Installments Buying Wife in Installments. A British officer, writing of the native troops of Nigeria, tells the following: "Our first job was the audit of pay lists extending over three months. Each list was thickly bordered with marginal notes. On one of the first pay lists that I checked I noticed that one of the men—Private Ogbebi we will call him—was paid 5 shillings less than was due to him. On reference to the margin I found that on such and such a data it was ordered by the proper authority that 5 shillings monthly should be so deducted from the pay of Private Ogbebi and paid to Corporal Amadu until a total of £5 had been paid, said £5 being the assessed value on a wife, the property of the said Amadu, who had been induced by Ogbebi to renounce her allegiance to her lawful spouse." WILL ACT FOR THE POPE. Mgr. Guidi Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines. The announcement from Rome that Mgr. Guidi has been appointed apos- tolic delegate to the Philippines is regarded as further evidence of the Pope's desire to personally look after the affairs of the church in the islands, Mgr. Guii having for years been the pontiff's nearest councilor, Mgr. Guii occupies apartments in the vatican palace, and it is said the Pope in late years has taken no important step without consulting him. A well known engineer, M. Casalonga, is so favorably impressed with the practicability of the moving sidewalk that he has worked out a plan for a rolling platform running from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de la Bastille. That part of Paris now has an omnibus line, but owing to the crowded condition of the streets the accommodations are very unsatisfactory. The platform itself would consist of three parallel parts, running with speeds of 2.4, 5 and 7 miles an hour, respectively. A passenger walking on the third platform could thus attain a speed of nine to ten miles. The promoters are contemplating even a quadruple platform, making the higher speed as great as twelve to fourteen miles an hour. First American Public Library First American Public Library. What was probably the first public library in the United States was started in Charleston, N. C., in 1749. Municipal Debt of Paris. Paris has the biggest municipal debt of any city. It amounts to £$0,000,000. FREE AT QUEBEC GAYNOR AND GREENE SCORE A DECISIVE VICTORY. A WARRANT HELD THE DETECTIVE Failed to Name Date on Which Alleged Crime Occurred—Judge Caron Says He Cannot Presume When the Offense Was Committed—May Have Been Before Treaty. QUEBEC.—(Special.) Colonel John F. Gaynor and Captain Benjamin D. Greene scored a decisive victory Thursday in their fight against extradition to the United States, where they are wanted in connection with alleged frauds in harbor work for the federal government involving millions of dollars. Judge Caron, in the superior court, discharged the prisoners from the custody of Sheriffs Langelier, of Quebec, and Valee, of Montreal, in whose official care they have been since their sensational arrest in Quebec last May. A large number of the prisoners' friends were in the court room and they heartily congratulated the two men upon their release. Colonel Gaynor and Captain Greene left the court room soon after Judge Caron had concluded and proceeded to the Chateau Frontenac. Colonel Gaynor, who is suffering from rheumatism, retired to his room. It is understood that the United States government will institute new proceedings for extradition, but up to a late hour no step had been taken by counsel representing the Washington authorities. Judge Caron, who spoke in French, occupied about two hours in delivering his judgment. In reviewing the legal proceedings since the arrest of the two prisoners he pointed out that their counsel had raised an important question to the effect that the warrant issued by Magistrate LaFontaine was illegal, on the ground that it did not contain the date nor the year in which the alleged offense had been committed. He could not presume when the offense was committed, and it may have been previous to the signing of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, and if so, the accused could not be held, as the treaties had no retroactive effect. According to a deposition made in Montreal by Mr. Erwin, counsel for the United States, in May last, continued Judge Caron, the accused were charged with fraud committed on or about January 1, 1897. That crime was not included in the treaties and that of receiving money under false pretenses was only included in the treaty of 1900. This was fatal to the prosecution, as the offense included therein did not fall under the e-adaction treaty; consequently the arrest was illegal and the accused must be set at liberty. TWO WILL DIE FROM BURNS. Woman and a Man Probably Fatally Injured in a Chicago Fire CHICAGO.—(Special.) One man and a woman were probably fatally burned and one man slightly injured early Thursday by a fire which broke out in an upper flat of the apartment building, 1 Park avenue. H. G. Miller was taken to the county hospital and the woman, Grace Barnett, was removed to the Presbyterian hospital. It is said both will die. Henry Moore, who was scorched while trying to save the others, was taken to the county hospital. The fire was extinguished in a few minutes. The woman and men were occupants of the top flat, and received their injuries while fighting the flames before the arrival of the firemen. The cause of the fire is unknown. A Wabash Freight Wreck DES MOINES, IA.—(Special.) While running at full speed near Dunreith, the brakebeam under the cabose of a Wabash freight train broke, causing the car to spring into the air and turn over. The conductor and two brakemen were in the car at the time, escaping miraculously with serious, though not fatal, injuries. The injured are J. R. Childers. Des Moines, conductor; severely cut and bruised. T. E. Newton, Moberly. Mo, brakeman; hip dislocated. Art Sickas, Des Moines, brakeman; scalp badly cut and partially severed. Acquitted of Murder VINITA, I. I. T.—(Special.) James Raines was tried and discharged at Muskogee, I. T., Thursday on a charge of killing Daniel Smith at McLain, I. T., last Saturday. The testimony shows that Smith was working for Raines and attacked him with a pistol, Smith got directly in front of Raines, holding a pistol in his hand, and told him he was going to kill him. Raines pulled his pistol and fired and Smith fell dead. The difference between repartee and impudence depends on the size of the man who gets it off. Ranchmen in Fatal Duel GETTSBURG, S. D.—(Special.) Wesley Carr and Patrick Lavery, ranchmen living near this fought a duel Thursday in which Carr was killed and Lavery dangerously wounded. Carr used a revolver and Lavery a rifle and both fired a number of shots at close range. Lavery has an ugly wound in the jaw and another in the side. Carr died from a shot through the heart. Trouble had existed for some time and when the men met a quarrel was followed by the shooting BUTTE, MONT.—(Special.) Judge Knowles Tuesday signed an order authorizing the removal of J. B. Kelsey to Kansas City, Mo., and Walter Ennis to Oklahoma. Kelsey is wanted for forgery and Ennis for forgery and grand larceny. They left at once. PORTLAND, ORE.—(Special.) Oliver C. Davis, a member of the Salvation Army, is under arrest in this city on a charge of embezzlement of $800 from a school district at Oberlin, Decatur county, Kansas, eight years ago. CHICAGO POLICEMEN KILLED. Died Before They Could Give an Account of the Fight. CHICAGO.—(Special.) Officers Timothy Devine and Charles T. Pennell patrolmen of the Chicago police department, were killed here early Wednesday in a revolver battle with what is supposed to have been a gang of thugs. Much mystery surrounds the shooting, for both men died before an adequate account of the shooting could be obtained—Devine in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and Pennell on the operating table while surgeons were probing for bullets. The fight occurred just before dawn near Jackson boulevard and Ashland avenue, in the aristocratic section of the west side. The fusillade of shots aroused the entire neighborhood. Citizens who heard the dying policemen groan rushed to their assistance and saw men running away. Officer Pennell, meanwhile, had heroically staged a hundred feet to a patrol box and sent in an alarm for assistance. At once the police set a dragnet for all suspicious characters, and soon had six men in custody. Before Pennell died he was able to gasp out a few words about "robbers," giving descriptions of two men. MINISTER KILLED A WOMAN. Confesses He Fired the Bullet That Caused Her Death. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—Special Rev. Charles Hill, a Congregational minister, has confessed that he fired the shot that killed the Widow Saw at the mining town of Benwood, fifteen years ago. She was stepping out of the door of a neighbor's house when the bullet struck her and she fell dead. Three boys shooting at a mark some distance away were rested, but the bullet that caused the death was too large for their gun. The widow's son was under suspicion as it was said he obtained considerable property by the death of the mother. Rev. Mr. Hill says he was shooting at a mark with a young man named William Trager, and that he fired the fatal shot. HOTEL GUESTS IN A PANIC. Four Injured in Seeking Escape From Fire at the Sir William. CHICAGO, ILL.—(Special.) Panic stricken, half a hundred guests at the Sir William hotel, 70 Randolph street raced through hallways and down stairways Tuesday night, seeking a cape 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 hotel; burned about head. Schafer, Fred, guest, overcome gas and burned about head and body. Gray, William, guest, overcome gas and burned about the head. The fire, which was caused by exerting gas, was extinguished without serious loss. LIGHTNING MELTED RINGS. Woman's Left Shoe Almost Torn 00 but she Recovered. COFFEEEN, ILL.—(Special) During a thunder storm here Tuesday that ning struck Mrs. Frank Neller, of St Louis, melted a gold watch chain which was about her neck, and also four gold rings on her left hand. The rings ran together into one piece. Her hand was an umbrella with a side rod and the rod was twisted out of shape. Her left shoe was torn of She was rendered unconscious for a hour, but has fully recovered. Mr. and Mrs. Neller had stepped into a church doorway during the storm. The spire was struck, and running down, the bolt stunned Mrs. Neller. Neller was also seven shocked. A Chinaman Commits Suicide TOLEDO, OHIO.—(Special). Won Yen, a Chinaman recently arrested entering the United States in viola- tion of the immigration laws, commi- suicide Wednesday in the county here by hanging himself with a torn from a sheet. Wong Yen believed to be occupied in smuggle his fellow countrymen across the be- der. Killed Wife and Himself Killed Wife and Himself FOREST TOMMISH, ARK. — (Speak Word was received here Wednesday of a double tragedy at Lone Elm village thirty-five miles east of the Manse Huggins, assistant postman in a fit of jealousy, shot his wife death and then committed suicide. The couple were parents of five girls. The family was prominent and spected. Postoffice Blown Open. HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y. — (Sical.) The postoffice here was erased by burglaries Tuesday night. The safe was blown open with dynamite and stamps to the value of $1,500 in currency, three diamond rings a valuable bracelet and all the relics of the office were stolen. There is clue to the robbers. Held Up Ten Vehicles GUTHRIE, O. T.—(Special.) For outlaws held up ten vehicles coming from one to six persons each on the highway near Chickasaw, L. W. Wednesday, relieved them of our $400, watches and other valuables as then compelled them at the police guns to stand together until the big waymen were out of sight. A number of the most prominent men Chickasaw were among the victims United States marshals have taken the trail of the outlaws. Charged With Raising $1 Bill. SOUTH 'M ALESTON, I. T.-S- cial.) A. J. ALESTON, a farmer Guertle neighborhood, was bound Wednesday by Commission worker on a charge of raising a $1 bill denomination of $10 and attempt to pass it on a local dry goods chant. The work was crudely deten- tens being pasted over the figure and betraying words obliterant Hampton's son is under arrest the same charge. His arrest con- red at the street fair here serve- weeks ago. You can't always judge a man's tem per by the way he treats his wife be fore company. WANTED for U.S. ARMY: able bodied unarmed men between ages of 21 and 55, citizen of the United States, good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write LISH. For information apply to Healing Officer 16 West 8th St, Kansas City, Mo., Masacie Temple 16 Joseph, Mo., 38 College St, Springfield, Mo., 52 Main St, Joplin, Mo., or 40 Ohio St, Seatalla, Mo. Some people economize by cutting off the necessaries and hanging on to the luxuries. Some dollars say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. It is hundreds of curious that the less money a man owes the less credit he has. MT. PELEE'S GREATNESS IS PAST 19-o-gen, Sarasya's Triple Treatment is growing Trouble and Constipation, Sand Debtility, Live Trouble and Constipation, Sand Debtility to R. J. Sarasya & Co. Janesville, WI for beadle and free treatment. Absolutely guaranteed. When it comes to output the pencil manufacturers take the lead. Kansas Land. Price $10 to $30 per acre. Address D. R. Ritter, Yates Center, Kas. The most dangerous hole in a pocket is the one at the top. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces 10 cents. Try it now. The fellow who attempts to live by his wits discovers that it is no joke. DONT SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers. 8c. a package. It's one thing to invent an airship, and another to raise the wind. Newfoundland Honesty. Simple honesty is one of the striking characteristics of the people of Newfoundland—that piety and honesty which accompany an austere religion. Doors are not locked, property lies exposed everywhere, no watch is kept on the fish when they lie drying on the flakes. No man takes advantage of his neighbor, no man quarrels with his brother, no man appeals to the law, nobody is arrested. Sticking to One Location A singular illustration of the persistence with which the Japanese adhere to their family vocations is seen in an announcement in a Japanese newspaper that a certain celebrated dancing master was to hold a service in honor of the one thousandth anniversary of the death of his ancestor, who was the first of the family to take up the profession. Chowing Tables a Necessity Grewling tobacco a necessity. They have Sunday closing ordinance in Joplin, Mo., and under its provisions only necessaries may be sold. A grocer was accused of selling plug tobacco on Sunday, but his attorney raised the point that chewing tobacco is a necessity. Judge Brown, before whom the case was tried, took the same view and discharged the accused. Then he took a fresh chew of plug and called the next case. Caused Panic in Portugal. News has been received of an extraordinary phenomenon recently observable at Pedros, near Oporto, Portugal. The sound of a tremendous explosion was heard, and a flame-colored column of smoke was swept across the town by a furious cyclone, which tore up trees by the roots. The phenomenon lasted two minutes, causing a great panic among the inhabitants. The Hardest Bill to Collect. "Talk about hard bills to collect," exclaimed the fashionable florist. "I know the limit. The banner for impossibility is borne off by the bill for blossoms run up by the young man whose engagement has been broken off." Locusts Cause Great Loss. The Rocky Mountain locust, or grasshopper, in 1874 destroyed $100,000,000 of crops of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, and the indirect loss was probably as much more. appreciates nicely starched arch under the sun gives the Starch. It is absolutely other starches contain. It or causes the clothes to them. For 10 cents you get arch that can be made. ```markdown ``` Every tidy housekeeper appreciates nicely starched clothes and linens. No starch under the sun gives so good a finish as Defiance Starch. It is absolutely free of the chemicals which other starches contain. It never sticks to the iron or causes the clothes to break. It does not rot them. For 10 cents you get 16 ounces of the best starch that can be made. Get Defiance. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEB. CHANCES OF LONGEVITY. A doctor says that persons who attain their thirtieth year without suffering from any serious illness are likely to live till they are at least seventy-three years of age. TO YOUNG LADIES. From the Treasurer of the Young People's Christian Temperance Association, Elizabeth Caine, Fond du Lac, Wis, "DRAB MRS. PINKHAM: I want to tell you and all the young ladies of the country, how grateful I am to you for all the benefits I have received from using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suffered for MISS ELIZABETH CAINE eight months from suppressed menstruation, and it effected my entire system until I became weak and debilitated, and at times felt that I had a hundred aches in as many places. I only used the Compound for a few weeks, but it wrought a change in me which was very regular, beginning, having very regular signs, and find that my entire body is as if it was renewed. I gladly recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to everybody"—MISS ELIZABETH CAINE, W. W. Division St. Fond du Lac, Wis. $-5000 forfit if a testimonial is not genuine. At such a time the greatest aid to menstruation is Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares the young system for the coming change, and is the surest reliance for woman's ills of every nature. Mrs. Pinkham invites all young women who are ill to write her for free advice. Address Lynn, Mass. CHURCHES SCHOOL HOUSES AND HOMES must be decorated with ALABASTINE to insure health and permanent satis- faction. Write for free suggestions by our artists. Buy only in packages pro- priely labeled "Alabastine." ALABASTINE COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ward's Big Bargain Book cards off high prices, by hospital goods to all, orth a dollar. Ill save you many dollars. It contains over 1,000 pages quoting whole Ward's catalog. Ward's catalog illustrations are used to help you understand what the goods look like. Send 15 cents for catalogs and learn how to make four dollars do the work of five. Montgomery Ward Co. 5 CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY in a dainty little booklet, 25 out of some 300 bright boys tell in their own way just how they THE PUBLIC POST SAN FRANCISCO with Free Free then for can want Pictures of the boys—letters telling how they build up a paying busi-ness hour. Interesting stories of real business. We will furnish you with Ten Copies the first week Free of Charge, to be sold at Five Cents a Copy; you can then sell the wholesale price for many as you find you can try to it. If you want to try it, ask HAMLIN'S WIZARD OIL FOR SORES, ULCERS ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT. Infused with Thompson's Eye Water PISO'S CURE FOR BURNS WHERE ALL ELSE ANLS. Best cough syrup. Tastes Good. Use in lint. Sold by vrurgists. CONSUMPTION Kansas Land. A second band is being organized in Inman so that the musicians can work in two shifts. The total valuation of property in Kansas for purposes of taxation is about 363 million dollars, which is probably about a third of it. Wellington's new electric light plant is a great success. Wichita is threatening to bore for salt, and Arkansas City is going to see if it can strike natural gas. County Clerk Harms of McPherson has caused the assessment basis to be increased. The owners of taxable property will try to keep it out of Harms way. Kickapoo, in Leavenworth county, is much disturbed because the Rev. Mr. York, who is temporarily occupying the Baptist pulpit, appears on Sunday wearing a shirt waist. During a revival service held by the Firebrand sect near Abilene one brother was moved by the excitement of the occasion to exclaim: "Do hurry up, Lord; you're so slow!" "Jack" Light was fined $50 in Salina a few days ago for being drunk and disorderly. A Salina firm is sending out medicine wagons over the state, each one equipped with twenty two remedies and each remedy warranted to cure one disease. The farmer who brings an ear of corn to town weighing eleven pounds or upwards is beginning to report at the newspaper offices. According to a government census bulletin Kansas has a total of 173,098 farms. They average 240 acres, and over 60 per cent of them are improved. Hail fell in the vicinity of Russell a few days ago with such severity that the Record vouchers for the statement that it knocked all the barbs off the wire fences. A Topeka dentist has been elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science by reason of his labors along the line of "ethnographic odentology." A Missouri girl has written to Postmaster W. C. Palmer of Jewell City to know why her "fellow," who lives there, doesn't answer her letter. She writes that she is awfully worried. As a result of a change in the course of the Republican river since the last flood a dam is left across an empty channel, a new sewerage system has no outlet and flour mills and an electric light plant have no motive power. Robert Cline of Linwood picked an sacked 103 sacks of potatoes in one day last week. The sacks hold two bushels each. The land is yielding 700 bushels to the acre, and while the price is low, the pickers are making good wages at four cents a sack. A man in Parsons quit the newspaper business in order to become a letter carrier. David W. Mulvane has bought 1,500 acres of land in Western Kansas. "Buckskin Bill" is playing the southern tier of counties with A Wild West show. His pictures make him look brave. "We have no doubt he is," says the Arkansas City Traveler. The federal court has taken a hand in the Text Book trust case. George Crane of Topela has been enjoining the trust in the state courts. Now Judge Hook has enjoined Mr. Crane from doing any more enjoining. A woman in Atchison, the Globe says, starved to death recently, and it was found that she had had company for three weeks. She kept so busy passing things, and worrying about them, that she ate nothing herself, and dropped dead on the twenty-first day while urging a guest to have her third piece of chicken. Leavenworth has decided to begin enforcing its curfew ordinance, which will help some, although the adults in Leavenworth are the ones who need regulating. In Meriden the principal duty of the town marshal consists of cutting the weeds. A swarm of bees tried to settle on a live electric wire in Galena last week, and some of them have not regained their composition yet. There is no fury like a stinger stung. Not many years ago it was proposed that the government should lease land in Western Kansas for ten cents an acre. Last week 281 acres of this land in Meade county sold for $10,000 cash. Emporia is being ridiculed about its new jail, which was supposed to be secure against stratagems from within and mobs from without. Several days ago two frail little women broke out and escaped. After Friday of this week the game law permits shooting prairie chickens, and in Emporia all the "mimrods," the paper says, are waiting for the signal. "Dear Mary," wrote a brother in Norton to a sister in Goodland, "we are all very well, only mother has hysterics, Tim has the toothache and Jane has a baby. I hope you are the same." Topeka has amended its "hack ordinance" so as to permit the drivers to charge seventy-five cents between 1 o'clock in the morning and 6. In tearing down an old building in North Topeka this week the workmen came across an "original package," a reminder of the interesting days of fifteen years ago. Eight young men in Pittsburg have entered into solemn compact not to wed. It is suggested that an agreement of eight young women of Pittsburg might have been much more sensible. Bert Gardner stopped a runaway team on the main street of Neodesha last week by seizing the horses by the bits. A McPherson county farmer who is possessed of 'rare business sagacity has started a series of plow races. They are almost as exciting, as the chariot races in a circus, and result in doing about four days' work in one. The new postoffice in Kansas City, Kas., will be completed this week. The bill appropriating $150,000 for the building was signed in March, 1899. Why Syrup of Figs is the best family laxative It is excellent for ladies. It is convenient for business. It is perfectly safe under It is used by millions of It stands highest, as a land. If you use it you have the produces. It is convenient for busin It is perfectly safe under It is used by millions of It stands highest, as a la If you use it you have th produces. World's Most Populous Street. The most populous street in the world is said to be that in New York extending from Amsterdam to West End avenue and from Sixty-first street to Sixty-second. Eight thousand seven hundred human beings, of twenty-six nationalities, of every race and color and creed, are huddled together in five and six story tenements. --- Tablet to Martyred Presidents. A memorial tablet in bronze of the martyred presidents—Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley—was unveiled on July 4 by a New York branch of the Young Men's Christian association. The work is the tablet of Sculptor E. St. John and was presented to the association by Peter Winchester Rouse. A Favorite of the King. King Edward is a great lover of dogs and has many favorites. The present chosen and constant canine companion of his majesty is an Irish terrier named Jack. He came into the King's possession November last and now lives with his majesty, travels with him and lies beside the King's chair all day. Early Settler of 'Erisco Dead Adolphus G. Russ, a pioneer of '47, is dead in San Francisco. At the time when there were not thirty houses in the city he bought for $16 the lots on which the Russ house now stands. --- What a Good Name Does What a Good Name Does. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 11th—Mr. Vahlberg of 222 South Peoria St., this city, had for years been an invalid with liver complaint and kidney trouble which was fast hastening him to the grave. The Doctors gave him up and his friends and neighbors all declared he could not live. His brother came from Minneapolis to see him before he died and inquired if he had tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. On being told that this remedy had not been used he went out at once and bought a box, feeling satisfied from what he knew of Dodd's Kidney Pills and the noble work they had been doing in Minnesota, that they would save his brother's life. The first two days Mr. Vahlberg seemed to grow worse, but after that he gradually improved under the treatment and was soon restored to complete good health. It's unfortunate that some men don't have the same faculty for getting out of trouble they have for getting out of work TILDA ANN IS GOING TILDA ANN IS GOING to Kansas City to see the Priests of Palas parade, night of October 7. Wonderings in an hour than you have dreamed of in your whole, dog-goned REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS The sin of being a red-headed parent is visited even unto the fourth generation. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward forany client that cannot be cured by Hall Castañera Curso. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toleco, O. W. Cheney for the last 18 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga- tion. West & Truax, Wholesale Drugs, Toleco, Aldingua, Marvin, Wholesale Drugs, Toleco. Hall & Catrine Curem is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the skin. It is sold at a free Price per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Some widows seem to think that a husband is better late than never. Low Rates to the Red River Valley Low Rates to the Red River Valley. From July 26th to August 26th the Great Northern Railway will sell harvest rides to all persons in the railroad person, in parties of five or more, from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and West Superior, and $1.90 from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and North Railway in Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Also on same dates tickets to all points on their line, Minneapolis, Duluth and North Dakota east of Minot, at following rates for each person in parties of five or more: from Slocum, Minneapolis, and Yankton, $9.00 from Slocum Falls, $5.50. Tickets and information from all railway ticket agents, or upon application to the Railroad Office, for St. Paul, Minn., or Mix Bass, G. I. A., 229 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. Lava From Mont Pelee Analyzed. The sample of lava which caused the destruction of St. Pierre has been analyzed by J. M. Camp, chief chemist at the Duquesne Steel Works. The result shows the composition of the lava as follows: Silica, 57.60; sesquioxide troz, 7.21; alumina, 18.75; lime, 6.22; magnesium, 1.08; manganese, a small trace; sulphur trioxide, 1.60; carbonic acid, 6.12, and moisture, 1.83. Engineer's Remarkable Record. An American railway engineer who has just been placed on the pension list one year ago, the most remarkable records of his last engineering in the world. For forty-two years he has kept an account of the miles he has traveled. The total amounts to 1,402.297 miles. Although 125 years old a watch owned by a gentleman in Gloucestershire, Eng., still keeps excellent time. It was worn at Trafalgar, during the Peninsular war, at Waterloo, through the China war in 1840, and finally in the Indian mutiny. **Ladies Can Wear Shoes** One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All drummers and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. No good cause ever started with a working majority. From July 26th to August 20th the Great Northern Railway will sell harvested potatoes in five or more, from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and West Bend, in parts of five or more, from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and West Bend, in parts of five or more, from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and West Bend, in parts of five or more, on points on great Northern Railway in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, on their line in Minnesota, west of Sukh Centre and Benson, and in North Dakota east of Minot, at following rates for all railway stations in cities of five or more. From Sloux City, Ia., and Yankton, $0.00 from Sloux Falls, $7.50 from Sloux Falls, and from all railway ticket agents, or upon application to P. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn., or May East, G. I. A., 220 S. Clark st., Chicago, IL. An alarm clock and a man's conscience soon cease to trouble him. WHEN YOUR GROUCH SAYS he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Dealer or May East, G. I. A., 220 S. Clark st., Chicago, IL. The grass widow is sometimes a daisy. THE MODEL A MANHATTAN $50.00. F. S. Webster Co. Boston Bldg. Kansas City. It's worth noting that the broad-minded man never has the big head. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N., Minnesota Mint, Jan. 6, 1900. Unless your friends are trumps it is up to you to discard. $100.00 Cash Prize for a Name. For the new Daily Limited train to California to be placed in service November 1, 1902, by the Rock Island System and Southern Pacific Company, via the El Paso Short Line. The competition is open to the public and conditions involve no fees of any kind. For circular of instructions, address at station Jno. Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manager, Rock Island System, Chicago. A fool may start a strike, but it takes a wise man to stop it. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teaching, softens the gum, reduces inflammation, aids pain, cures wind colic. High life doesn't exactly fit a mna for a celestial career. From July 28th to August 20th the Great Northern Railway will sell harvest excursion tickets to all cities of five or more from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and West St. Louis, in part by purchase of six more points on Great Northern Railway in Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Also on same dates tickets to all points on the Icelandic Railway in North Centre and Benson, and in North Dakota east of Minot, at following rates or from Sioux City, In., and Yankton, $0.00; from Sioux Falls, $7.50; from Sturgeon, from all railway ticket agents, or upon application to F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn. or Max Bass, G. I. A., 250 S. Clark st., Chicago, ill. It is better to play poker with straights than crooks. **WHY IT IS THE BEST** is because made 'nature' differently since Sturgeon is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. Fortunate is the actress who doesn't depend on her wardrobe for success. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists fund money if it fails to cure. 26c. No man becomes a jail bird just for a lark. You never bear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. Good Record of a Watch. Ladies Can Wear Shoes Splendid Opportunity to Visit Red River Valley. Harvest Hand Excursions WHY IT IS THE BEST Because Its component parts are all whole It acts gently without unpleasant It is wholly free from objection It contains the laxative principle It contains the carminative principle It contains wholesome aromatic agreeable and refreshing to the All are pure. All are delicately blended. All are skillfully and scientifically Its value is due to our method of the originality and simplicity of To get its beneficial effects — buy Manufactured by CALIFORNIA FIG San Francisco, C Louisville, Ky. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING ment parts are all wholesome, only without unpleasant after-e- free from objectionable subst the laxative principles of plant the carminative principles of p wholesome aromatic liquids and refreshing to the taste, cately blended, fully and scientifically compo- due to our method of manufactu- ality and simplicity of the con- geneficial effects—buy the gen- Manufactured by ORNIA FIG SYR San Francisco, Cal. Ky. New York SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS IRONING A SHIRT WAIST. Not infrequently a young woman finds it necessary to launder a shirt waist at home for some emergency when the laundryman or the home servant cannot do it. Hence these directions for ironing the waist: To iron summer shirt waists so that they will look like new it is needful to have them starched evenly with Defiance starch, then made perfectly smooth and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be laid away two or three hours. When ironing have a bowl of water and a clean piece of muslin beside the ironing board. Have your iron hot, but not sufficiently so to scorch, and absolutely clean. Begin by ironing the back, then the front, sides and the sleeves, followed by the neckband and the cuffs. When wrinkles appear apply the damp cloth and remove them. Always iron from the top of the waist to the bottom. If there are plats in the front iron them downward, after first raising each one with a blunt knife, and with the edge of the iron follow every line of stitching to give it distinctness. After the shirt waist is ironed it should be well aired by the fire or in the sun before it is folded and put away, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Some people run into debt; others are pushed in. ALTON RESUMES CAST ST. LOUI TRAIN SERVICE Passengers destined to St. Louis and points east should go via the Kansas City gateway, thereby securing the advantage of the Chicago & Alton's fast night train, leaving Kansas City at 9 p.m., arriving in St. Louis at 7:08 a.m. Chair cars free of extra charge Compartment sleeping cars. The Alton keeps their light shining just ahead of the rest. Write to L. D Cooper, Traveling Passenger Agent, Chicago & Alton Railway, Kansas City Mo. for lowest rates. Long engagements often result in short marriages. Low Rates to Minnesota and North Dakota. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS Use the best. That's why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocery, 5 cents. I CAN SELL YOUR PROPERTY OR BUSINESS no matter what it is or where located. If you want to buy, I have what you want. No deal is unfair or too small. Many want to your bank. Address with stamper A. M. 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Write for free booklet PILES CATALOGUE FREE VEHICLES & HARNESS FOR THE DIRECT TO USER: NOTE SOME PRICES ON RELIABLE GOOD, ATTEMPT AND DURABLE ROAD WAGONS $20.25, TOP BUGGIES $30.25, HARNESS $40.25, SADDLES $25.85, PARK WAGONS $55.25 ON ORDER FROM THE MOVETTI INTEGRIT 100 The ERHARDT WAGON MFG CO., Atchison, Kan EDUCATIONAL. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INC. the conservatory of Musle is conducted on the plan of the best Classical conservatories of Europe. The Art Department is modelled after the best Art Schools of Europe. Preparatory and Minim Departments. Pupils are here carefully prepared for the Academic and Advanced Courses. Gymnasium under direction of Graduate of Boston Normal University and Tynewood extra. Every variety of Fancy Needwork taught. For catalogue address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY. St Mary's Academy. Notre Dame P. O. University. 100 Students Wanted in Shorthand and Typo- writing. 100 Students wanted in Telegraphy. Will contract to furnish pay position as soon as graduated. Address G. H. LONGWELL, Highland Park College, Des Moines, Iowa BOOKKEEPING, SHORTHAND etc., successfully taught by mail or no scholarship. POSITIONS secured. 10,000 scholarship. E. 7. DRAGHONS BUS. COL. St. Louis, Mo. KANSAS CITY COLLEGE KANSAS CITY, MO. Catalogue A, free. Attend School Cheaper by entering through American School or College Agency, Chicago. State Hedger F. L. JELTZ: TERMS $2 per year " 6 months $1.00 " 3 months $0.00 KANSAS CITY, Kan... Ads... Go to — Wyrick's Place when at Kansas City, Kansas Headquarter for anything you want in the realtime line. G. MONTAFSON. A ANDERSON Cosmopolitan Refreshments of all kinds. Give them a call, 419 Minnesota ave. MIKE KIREY. CILLE HANNA THE ADMINISTRATION. First Class Liquors. Wines and Cigars, nothing better on Drought. Fine Routed River for Family Use a superbly 913 North 6th street. THOS. HETHEKINGTON Refreshments. 911 North 5th street. BLOMQUIST Tailoring Company Our fall styles are in now. Call and make your selection. LYNCH BROS, Dealer in Coal, Wood, Flour and Feed. 538 North 3th st., Kansas City, Ks. Mrs. V. WILSON, 333 Minnesota avenue, Serves meals short order and Lunches. Meals 20 cents. Give here a trial. Best Meals in the City. MARTIN'S Beehive Restaurant. 15 Central Avenue. Go to W. M. KOFFLER For all kinds of GROCERIE'S, Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Poultry and Game in Season 342 Minnesota avenue, Dr. Will H. SMITH, M.D. (Late of Chicago.) Physician and Surgeon. Specialties—Chronic Cases and Diseases. Ten years special study Hospital experience. 1520 North 5th street. DORSEY GREEN.. Atorney-at-Law. Room 33, Court Block. 7th and Minnesota avenue WIND MILL GEO, W TIMBY Windmills pumps tanks pipe, Hot and cold water Nortonville, KAS. smokethe GROWLE& Hand made 3 CENT Frank Klingman, Mfr. HA. KLAUER Carnes All the latest brands of cigars and also a FULL LINE of Tobacco and smoking articles. His cigars are made in Topeka, 120 Kans ave The AMERICAN WiND ENGINE As America stands today towering above any and all the nations of the earth and as our wind wheel stands among wind wheels as America does among the nations, we therefore have named it — The American— It is Up to Date and Beyond. Has Hardened Self-Oiling Ball and Roller Bearings. Governor automatically. Patent Long Pump Stroke, and is The Greatest Pumping Wheel on Earth. We are also originators and manufacturers of Compressed Air Water Service for hotels and houses, giving Country Homes City Water Service, Contract Shop connected with Factory. Drawings, Patterns and Modes Made. Castings Furnished Machine Work of All Kinds Done MANUFACTURED BY THE AMERICAN WIND ENGINE —COMPANY— 213-215 Wea First wr.; TOPEX KING HOTZI KING HOTEL MRS. L. T. WOODY Pro 811 Vermont Street, Lawrence, Kane Meais 15c, Holding 25c, New, fixed np in every particular 16 fine rooms, WM- KLINGER TAILOR. Tailoring at reasonable prices. A and Workmanship guaranteed, Cleaning and Repairing neatly don 512½ Kansas Avenue. Topeka PINE BROS. Dealers In Staple and Fancy Groceres 187 Bridge St, Tel No 29 LAWRENCE, KANS. KANZ & CO The Family Drug Store Your Trade Solicited.! TopekaDrug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST, 732 Kansas Avenue, UNDERTAKERS % And JEMBALMERS 308 Com'l Street, Atchison, Kansas B. D. ZIMMERMAN. Direct Importer and Jobber of China, Glass and Queensware Lamps and Burners. 614 Com'l St Atchison, Kans. J. E. KETTEKMAN THE STAR RESTAURANT GoodDinner, Lunch and Short order Meals 25 cents First class Temperance Drinks Alma, Kans J. S. GRICE Groceries, Flour and Feed, 903 W 6th Street. E. J. BLACK Restaurant & Meals Short Orders, Board an. Lodging -- day or week, 21 meals for weeks board. Call and try me. Cherokee str., Leavenworth, Kas. JOHN J. O'DONNELL Funeral Director and Embalmer, Corner Shawnes and Fifth street, Open Day and Night Office Telephone 221, Residence Phone 222 Leavenworth, Kansas. OSCAR M. OLSON, —Notary Public Money Satisfy sent to Sweden in exchange Power of Attorney to Sweden, at low rates 1604 North 5th street KANSAS CITY Kansas Do you read the State Ledger? If not. WHY REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE MORTGAGES crawford Building. Telephone 440, 507 Jackson St, Tampa, Kox JAMES. SMITH JAMES. SMITH Mides, Tallow, Furs and Pelts. 108 and 110 East ThirdStreet Topeka Kas and124 S.2nd street St. Joseph Mo. 706 Kansas Avenue Finest lines of stoves made. * * Topeka, Kansas. * PENINSULAR PAINE BRO'S PAINE BRO'S Expert Watchmaker and Jewelers Dealers in all kinds of Merchandise, such as Guns, Revolvers, Musical Instruments also Bicycles and Bicycle Reparing. Also Agents for the Best Remedy in existence. Tae "Jo-He Magnetic Rock Oil. 325 Kansas avenue, TOPEKA, Kansas THE IMPERIAL Hall and Po IMPERIAL BILL Hall and Pool-roo ANDERSON Prop. Give him a call. THE VAR Heating&Manu : Manufacturer Wrought Steel Warm Revolting Reel Bake Ovens and 323 and 25 Cherokee Street Moon & T Emporia Marble & Stone Office and Works 709 Commercial Icerygn & Domestic J and all. Cemetery Work executed in the Latest Style ANTHROPOLOGY THE VARNER Bury & Manufacturer : Manufacturers of: Steel Warm Air FU Reel Bake Ovens and Iron Sm Cherokee Street : LEAVENW Con & Hag Marble & Granite Works 709 Commercial street, Em & Domestic Marble and all Cemetery Works. Used in the Latest Styles by Skilled HROPOLOGIO Sanit THE VARNEY Heating&ManufacturingCo Wrought Steel Warm Air FURNAGES Revolting Reel Bake Ovens and Iron Smoke Stack 323 and 25 Cherokee Street LEAVENWORTH- Kansas Moon & Hagins Emporia Marble & Granite Works Office and Works 709 Commercial street, EMPORIA, Kas. Foreign & Domestic Marble & Granite and all Cemetery Works. Work executed in the Latest Styles by Skilled Mechanics. ANTHROPOLOGICAL Sanitarium IN A BEAUTIFUL LOCATION For TREATING, BOARDING and NURSING A INVALIDS and for curing every variety of PHYS TAL DISEASES, and all Chronic, Nervous and Female Here, in this Health Institution is employed with go highest skill, all the vast Vitalizing Powers of Nature the Water, Food, Electricity, Vital Magnetism and Atma, the all, employed ONLY in the great SYSTEM OF ANTHI Forfurther particulars address O. ROBERTSON, QUEN BOARDING and NURSING A and for curing every variety of PHYS and all Chronic, Nervous and PHENE Health Institution is employed with g who vest Vitalizing Powers of Nature the stricty, Vital Magnetism and Atma, the LY in the great SYSTEM OF ANTHI- dars address O. ROBERTSON, QUEN For TREATING, BOARDING and NURSING ALL CLASSES OF INVALIDAS and for curing every variety of PHYSICAL and MENTAL DISEASES, and all Chronic, Nervous and Female Complaints Here, in this Health Institution is employed with greatest force and highest skill, all the vast Vitalizing Powers of Nature through Vital Air Water, Food, Electricity, Vital Magnetism and Atma, the highest power or all, employed ONLY in the great SYSTEM OF ANTHROPOLOGY. For further particulars address O. ROBERTSON, QUENEMO. Kas. Crance & Schenck, 100 West 8th str. Phone 348 Dealers in Building, Sidewalk, PresSED, Fire and Ornamental BRICK Mortar Colors, Lime, Cement and Plaster. Our Materials all made by Union Labor. TOPEKA, KAS J.E. PE RESTAURANT and CONC Cigars, Tobbaccos and mild Drinks. Call and see me and I will serve you rig John Pears, Prop., J.E. PEARL RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY and mild Drinks. Lunch and I will serve you right. Prop., 210 North I RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY Cigars, Tobaccos and mild Drinks. Lunches and Lodg Call and see me and I will serve you right. John Pears, Prop., 210 North Kansas Ave. SMITH ER IN Hurs and Pelts, HardStreet Topeka Kas St. Joseph Mo Topeka, Nc) Bank of St. Joe, Bank of Topeka HARDWARE CO- as Avenue toves made. Kansas, ★ E BRO'S er and Jewelers chandise, such as Guns, Rev. Bicycles and Bicycle Reparing. at Remedy in existence. 325 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas E L BILLARD Pool-room call. 222 Kans. Ave BARNEY Manufacturing Co. Fracturers of : Term Air FURNAGES Ins and Iron Smoke Stacks. : LEAVENWORTH- Kansas R Hagins & Granite Works Commercial street, EMPORIA, Kas. Cable Marble & Granite Cattery Works. Styles by Skilled Mechanics. LOGICAL Sanitarium and NURSING ALL CLASSES of a variety of PHYSICAL and MEN- ferrous and Female Complaints is employed with greatest force and Powers of Nature through Vital Air atmism and Atma, the highest power or STEM OF ANTHROPOLOGY. BERTSON, QUENEMO. Kas. 110 West 8th str. Phone 348 Dealers in Building, Sidewalk, Pres sed, Fire and Ornament BRICK Mortar Colors, Lime, Cement and Plaster. Our Materials all made by Union Labor. TOPEKA. KAS PEARS CONFECTIONERY s. Lunches and Lodg ou right.` 210 North Kansas Ave 11 & 405 Kans Ave DR. O. A. TAYLOR. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a.m. From 2 to 5 p.m. OFFICE 226% KAS, AVE. Over Kohl's Drug Store. H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON 833 Kans Ave All calls promptly attended let, 14 Tel. 893 I. A. Sni. ELDS M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and residence 1331 VanBuren N. calls promptly attended S. G. STEWART, M. D. GFICE 621 KANSAS AVE Telephone 544 Residence 112 East 7th Street C. F. MENNINGER, M, D Office 727 Kansas Ave Telephone 1 Office Hours: 11-12 F. M 2-4 P. M Residence 125 Topkai Ave Telephone 85 J. M JAMISON, M. D, Office 506 East 4th Street Office Hours: F. Owl 8 to 10 A. M E. P. M. 10 3 P. M. F. P. M. 10 9 P. M. Special attention diseases of women and private diseases. Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE HOURS; 9 TO II A.M. 2 TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P.M! Sunday Hours: to 3 P.M. OFFICE 414 Kas Ave. Over Wallace Drug Store. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO. 923 KANSAS VENUE (peka, Kans) OMEPATHIC KENNESY IES MA TERIALS Miller's Pharmac 6th & 10th KA AVE Drugs Medicines, Prescript Carefully Compounded Give Us a Trial. LEUNBERGER & BROS GROCERIES MEATS, FISH AND POULTRY 933 Kansas Ave, Telephone 291 WHITTELSEY MER CO. Cor 2nd & Madison Street Phone 732 City Give them a call. H. GENTHE. 113 East Fourth St Bakery Goods. Cakes and Pies Give them a call, J. H. SCHLEGEL—for meats, 907 West6th Street. Tel. 34. S. W. CARPENTER Milk depot Home made bread, cakes and pies Give them a call. 200 Monroe St. MRS. F. J. BERT Bakery and canned goods. Cigars and Tobacco. 222 E 2nd St. Imported Jobbers In HOUSE-HOLD SPECIALITIES. All goods sold on easy payments. Office. 221 E. 4th St. Topeka, J. I. Ward gr, THE FAMOUS H W SHAVOR, Proprietor All kinds of cold Drinks- Mens and Short order south of Square - (HOLLON, Kas Live kidneys, rheumatism and hart bles. Will cure 75 out of every 100 cases, consultation free F, M, FARLAND M, D, Physician and Surgeon For 30 yeats I have made chronic diseases a special study. Call and see me, I Will give you satisfaction female diseases a specialty. 613 Branner St. Topeka, Kansas F. W. WHITTIER Upholstering, Recaning, Repairing Refinishing - 710 Jackson St. M. R. MITCHELL, M. D 931 North Van Buren St, Topeka Kansa Phone 246 CHICAGO LUMBER CO, Lumber, Sash, Doors, and Lumber Cements, Mouldings, etc. Alma, Kan ALMA MARBLE & GRANITE WORKS, AUGUST FALK, PROPRIETOR Send him an order, Alma, Kansas EAGLES SMOKER gle Binder 5c Cigar, all dealers handle them. Closing for the summer in Millinery. Now is the time to make your selection at Mrs. L. A. James, 72 Kansas, Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. ..... Ads Mrs. A. RUFF Groceries- Meats & Bakery Fresh Pies and Cakes daily. 1308 West Ninth str Millea Bros, Staple and Fancy Groceries Fruits, Country Produce, etc. 1301 Union Avenue. First Class Sam le Room, Tino LYNCH, Prop- Fine Line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Open Day and Night- 1330 St. Louis Avenue- BIGEST OFFER in the HISTORY 1 Gall 8 year old Key Whiskey, 1 Gall Bi Brandy or Wine, Glass and Cork Screw — only $3.00. Send a Money order at— State Line Exchange, 1721 West 9th str. F. JOSEPHSON & CO. BATMAN & TAYLOR, 1331 West 9th street, You may find all the things in the puzzl but you can't find better — DRINK than we have all the time. Try LEO'S Cafe and Lunch Room A Good Place to eat. A nice 100 Lunch counter. Good Service Board and Lodging rooms 1527 w. gith 1719 West 9th str. will so letter. G. BRAITEN NUSUM, Physician and Surgeon. Room 3 & 4, Bundrem Building EMPORIA, Kansas. G. W, BRINER, Seventh Avenue Market. Fresh and Salt Meats. Phons 97. 627 Commercial str. Emporia, Kansas. J, O. GKAHAM, Coal, Wood and Feed. 819 Commercial str., Emporia, Kas THE ASTORIA L. E. BUMP, Proprietor. Lunches and Short Order first class in every particular. Corner Deisware and Cherokee street. LEAVENWORTH, Kansas. $2 5. 0 0 and to Prescott, Phoenix and Many Other Points in Arizona. Tickets on sale daily during September and October. Through tourist sleepers and free chair cars every day. Personally conducted excursion three times a week. Liberal stop-over privileges in California. See california's circus groves, oil wells, ranches, vineyards, big trees, mines. california has productive lands, perfect climate, good markets. The rich San Joaquin Valley is an open door of opportunity for the hustler. Santa Fe T. L. KING, Ticket Agent, Depo or T. M. JAMES, jr. 830 N. Kansas avenue A man talking on the phone. Gentlemen -- Being entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, I will give you a full history of my case, to be used at your discretion. I right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting worse, until I met my hearing in this ear entirely. I underwent a treatment for cataract, for three months, without any success, consulted a numbologist, among others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city, who told me that no operation all operation, that the head noses would then cease, but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. then saw your advertisement accidentally in a New York paper, and ordered your treatment. I was only a few days away according to your directions, the noises ceased and to-day, five weeks after my five, my hearing in the year has been entirely restored. I thank you heartily and beg to remain. Very truly yours. A. W. FERMAN, 739 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Our treatment does not interfere with your usual occupation. Examination and YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME at a nominal advice free. INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AVE. CHICAGO, IL. CALIFORNIA PERSONAL. The Rev. Dr. Snelson is the new minister at St. John's A. M. E. church. The Rev. Dr. Snelson is supposed to be from California. Rev. Green, formerly of Brown chapel, has been transferred to Manhattan, where he will pastorate one year. Rev. B. F. Watson was with us not long ago, he now resides in Philadelphia. If the people will stop tingling on Lucas and Nicholas they will probably go to heaven when they die, if they don't, h-1 will sure be their portion. WH Cramer one of the most popular young men in Kans city is the leach janitor at 1230 Union ave where he has served for months as a faithful dutiful and competent young man Mr Cramer has the respect of his oyoe and bids tar to make him self felt in this world Stebbins must not fool the colored vote dear readers remember he is the rankest of populist and if there is any One who despoises Pops it should be the colored voter of Kans they have tilted every place that was ever filled by regroves vote against them Mr G Feisburg of Sierra California has opened a fine tallow- ing cleaning and pressing depar- ment at 3155 Kansave his old friends will please call and se- tom The Iopeka Herald will never enember winning any fight this year of AD 1905 AICHJSON.Kansas, ... Ad. L BORSERINI Wholesale & Retail Mercantile Co., 730-732 Commercial str. Wholesale Dealer in Van Blatz Milwaukee Beer, Importet and Domestic Liquors — O. A. LEE & CO. Dealers in HAY, GRAIN and FEED. 8tu & Nain st., ATCHISON, Krs. Office - City scales® EMIL EBNER, Dealer in - Groceries, N. tions & Feed, 603 North Tenth Street, New Telephone 604. Dealer in...GROERIPS & MEATS Corner 10th and Laimie str. Telephone 170 A. W. TEACHOUT. Moulings, Pictures, Artists' Material Artistic Picture Framer, 520 Commercial street, Wholesale's Confectionery and Retail. T L WHITE, Manufacturer. Give him your trade. 109 N. 5th str., Atchison, Kansas First Ward Headpuarters J R. EARLEY, Prop. 116 South 4th street, Jones Bros, 114 South 4th st., Atchison, Kas. Handle a good line of refreshing—drinks Courteous and polite, give them a call. Dr. G. H. T. JOHNSON. General Practice—Chronic Diseases, Women and Children a Specially General Practice—Surgery a Specially Office Hours 8 a. m to 9 p. m. Telephone at Office and Residence 1-8 to 110 North 7th street. Goto Ray and Son, 314 Com'l St. Emporia, Kansas, meals short order and ice cream parlor Give them a call. "Gee Whiz" U "Augh" 2—C the Rargains I have in farms; Ranches, city property etc—and B-4—U—Deal in such—let me send U a list. I am in the Land of "big kipa's", Korn; Wheat—Klover—fat Kuttle and Hogs—FRANK GEE-848 Mass street Lawrence, Kansas G. FELSBURG Merchant Tailor Laries and gentleman Clothing Cleared Repaired or saved. 3151 2 Kansas Ave. Work Guaranteed, ANY HEAD NOISES?