Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Grand Session The Grand Court, Heroine of Jericho, Held their twenty-third Annual session in the city of Leavenworth. The Grand Court, Heroines of Ohio, held their 23rd annual session in the city of Leavenworth on June 11, 12, & 13. This session, point of attendance, finance and business, was the grandest that ever been held. At no time in history of the Grand Court has ever been a greater meeting on the one which convened in the city of Leavenworth on the day of June, 1901. It was a grand success from start to finish. Every state was highly pleased with the session. Delegates were present in every quarter of the state of Texas and all met in harmony and worked with that degree of unison which characterizes a meeting of intelligent and progressive people such as composed that convention June the 11th. The convention was convened 10 o'clock a. m. In the absence of the Grand Matron, Mrs. Hattie Gamble, of Kansas City, Kas., who did not then arrived, the Court was called to order by the Grand Matron, Mrs. Mollie Jack-Praver was offered by the Grand Chaplin, Rev. O. Davis, of Kansas City. The address of welcome was delivered by Miss Ella Kinnis, of Leavenworth, and in grand response, Mrs. A. M. Willis, Ft. Scott, Ks. accepted the welcome on behalf of the Grand part of the State of Kansas.. Rev. Davis then made a few remarks, noting the grand work done in the past year by the Grand Court Kansas, after which, the usual committees were appointed. Adjournment was then taken until 10 o'clock Wednesday, Jnne 12th. WEDNESDAY, June 12th. The Grand Court was re-convened at 10 o'clock a. m. The Grand Matron, Mrs. Hattie Gamble having arrived, introduced to the Grand Court, at once assumed controle of session. Routine of business transacted, the various committees made their reports. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon a best impressive memorial services were held. At no time in the history of the Grand Court has such impressive and effective services been held as was witnessed on that occasion. It seemed more like the services were the plan of the "Un-Hand," than by that ofhu- manity. The services may some day be equalled, but never can they be excelled. They were truly the Grandest of all Grand. Adjourned till 10 o'clock Thursday morning. THURSDAY, June 13th, The Grand Matron called the session to order at 10 a. m. The secretary read the proceedings of the previous meeting, which was approved. An invitation from the Court at Wathena Ks., asking the Grand Court to meet with them in 1902, was read and the invitation was read and the invitation was accepted. All committees having reported and other business having been finished the Grand Court went into the election of officers for the ensuing year. The officers elected were as follows:—Mrs. Eliza Scott, of Leavenworth, Grand Matron; Mrs. Mollie Jackson, Grand Senior Matron; Rev. B. R. Guy, of Ft. Scott, Grand Chaplin; Rev. O. Davis, of Kansas City; Ks., Grand Worthy Joshua; Miss Johnson, G. C. Treasurer; Mrs. A. M. Wilson, of Ft. Scott, Grand Court Scribe; Mrs. Hattie Matterson, Grand I. T.; Mrs. Vanniel, G. O. G. Mrs. Cubbin, Grand Senior Attendant; Mrs. W. N. Miller, of Wichita, Grand Junior Attendant. Adjourned to meet in Wathena in 1902. St. Mary's Court of Leavenworth gave a grand reception at the Masonic Temple to the Grand officers, on June 12, a grand time was had, and the reception speaks well for the officers and members of this thriving Court. On the night of the 13th, the Grand Court Drill took place at the G. A. R. hall. This was something well worth attending, as was the reception on the night before. Leavenworth turned out in its gayest and best attire and a most enjoyable time was had. The meeting of the Grand Court in Leavenworth was a grand one and will long be remembered by those who were in attendance. I vote for Miss ... as the Most Popular Young Lady in Wichita, Sedgwick co., Kansas. Name ... Residence... GRAND CHAPTER. The Grand Chapter, Order of Eatern Star, will convene in the city of Leavenworth on Jnne 26th, and will in session Jnne 26th, 27th and 28th. this promises to be a grand meeting and great preparations are being made for the occasion. all the advantages of secu education, will have no biame but himself if he sho attain success. In these days vance in education and p the Negro boy must aim than to be a "dead game sp calls for something more th ry to make men. The you Kindergarten School. Preparations have already been made for the opening of a kindergarten school in this city on Monday June 24 '01. The school will be held at the school building on West Central Ave. and Water St. As we have always said, we say now; it is a grand movement to prepare the youths for the forthcoming session of the public schools and at the same time it affords a safe place for the parent to leave their children during the working hours. The school will be in charge of Miss Lula Parks, who graduates from Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., and Miss Blanche Alexander who graduated from the Wichita high school last month. Both ladies are highly competent and capable, and all parents will do well to avail their children of this opportunity. A "refined fool" is a misery to himself and a laughing stock for his neighbor. Toas lodge No.10, K. of P. will hold the installation of their officers elect at Peerless hall on Wednesday, June 26th. Come out every one. Grand Chancellor, Jno. E. Lewis, of the Suflower Grand lodge K.of P has appointed W. N. Miller, of Toas lodge, No. 10 of this city, as Grand Keeper of Records and Seals for the state. The appointment came as a great surprise to Mr. Miller who accepted the high honor conferred upon him by the appointment. THEIR FAULT. It is a shame to see young boys on the street corners dancing jigs, boxing and scuffling and to hear them using loud and boisterous talk; to see them spit their ambure or puffing their poisonous cigaret's. The whole world has its eyes on the young Negro, for what the young Negro of to day makes of himself, is what the Negro race will be in the future. From one point of view, with this object lesson before one's eyes, the future seems quite dark and uncertain. The young Negro of to day with all the advantages of securing an education, will have no one to biame but himself if he should not attain success. In these days of advance in education and progress, the Negro boy must aim higher than to be a "dead game sport." It calls for something more than finery to make men. The young Negro must learn that his social, financial and political success is in his own hands. What he would have it be is what it will be. Make your aim high in life and battle to reach the summit. What will the future of the race be? is a question in which every young Negro should be concerned. Stop frittering away golden moments on street corners, in the dives and other places of like ruin. Go to the farm. Go now. The harvest is ripe and the laborers are few. Young men you will some day long for the hours which you now spend in idleness. That you attain no success, is a fault of your own. The wheat crop of Kansas in 1901, will go down in history as the greatest ever harvested. On Monday morning June 24th, Miss Lula Parks and Miss Blanche Alexander will open a summer school at the Emerson school house corner of Water & Central, Every one is invited to attend the opening. This will give on opportunity to those who would like to advance in their studies, to do so. In connection with the school will be a kindergarten for the youngs. Miss Pasks and Miss Alexander are both highly accomplished and capable young ladies. Miss Parks graduated last week from Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., while Miss Alex ander graduated in May from the Wichita High School. You have a golden opportunity now, and should take advantage of it. Remember school opens, June 24th, at 9 a.m. Had A Nice Time. Our friend, Henry Braden returned Monday from an extended visit in Enid, Oklahoma, visiting visiting relatives and friends. He made our office a most pelesing call Tuesday, and did us some substantial good while there in the way of several good subscribers, for which we are very thankful. He reports an enjoyable time and says that most all in that section of the territory are anxious readers of the Wichita Searchlight. We are proud to know that our friends always speak a good word for us at home and alo abroad. Mrs. Ara Dunn has a firstclass restaurant at715 E. Douglas. You can get a nice hot meal "like mother used to cook." Go there 715 E. Douglas Ave. Hot meals, Mr Pat Duffey, one of foremost and progressive business men conducts a firt-class, up-to-date restaurant, at the Wichita Stock Yards. He sets meals for the stockmen and is doing a fine business there. We like to see our men go to the front as Mr. Duffey is, and make something, and be something as he is. The Odd Fellows will have a big big time in Wichita, July 16, 17, and 18, at the annual meeting of the District Grand Lodge. Great preparations are being made for the event. When you go to buy your groceries, furniture etc., consult our columns and buy from the merchants who advertise with us. By advertising with us they show that they are friendly to the colored people, and want their trade. Why continue to trade with a man who does not care to see the race progress and only cares for the colored man for his dollar? This paper is run to advocate the cause of the colored people mainly, and when a man in business will not ask you for trade through your advocator, why trade with him longer? Every colored man in Wichita can and should consider this his paper, and support those persons or firms who help them through their organ. The time is near at hand when we, as a race must become closer and closer united, and do such things as will progsess the interest of the race. In speaking thus, we do not insinuate or reflect on any person, but this is simply a business proposition which concerns every member of the race. We can not ask to have some one or two of our young ladies placed in the various stores as clerks and expect to get it, but we can ask that the persons who receive our patronage, patronize our institutions as we do theirs, on a business basis. When we become more united on this simple proposition, we can then be in shape to ask and recieve greater ones. We have the interest of the whole colored people at heart and do not speak alone, and from a selfish stand point, but from one of interest to the whole race. If the firm you trade with will not patronize your institution, there are others who will, and thus it goes. Many of our readers have done this, and in every case good results followed. We wish to hear from more of them on the same line. We ask you again to trade with the firms who advertise in our paper. Call on Dr. E. Harrison when you want any medical treatment. He is well qualified and fair in prices and terms. Consult him. His office is at 407 Main. The Summer School. Miss Blanche Alexander and Miss Lula Parks will open a summer school on Monday morning, June 24th. These two young ladies deserve the patronace of all our people and should be encouraged in their undetaking by receiving it. Send your son or your daughter to this summer school, it will greatly help them for the forthcoming school term. We ate one of the finest meals of our life at the restaurant of Mrs. Ara Dunn 715 E. Douglas last Sunday. Go there for your good wholesome meals. It makes us feel good to hear the good to hear the good reports which come in from all parts of the state where our paper has reached. Subscribers are rolling in, and the good name of Wichita and her good people is being hurled far and near by us. We are determined that Wichita shall be in the front ranks with a colored paper, and the success which is headed our way makes us believe we can accomplish our desire. The Tabernacle Baptist church held their big rally last Sunday afternoon. A large crowd was present and the rally was conducted in up to date style. In the absence of Rev. R. M. Turner, the pastor, who was confined in bed at his home sick. Rev. H. F. Frazier, pastor of the New Hope Baptist church, conducted the rally. An eloquent sermon was preached by Rev. Stewart and the services were assisted in by Rev. A. C. Terrell, pastor of the A. M. E. church. A collection of $54.25 was raisee. Hon. Miles Parker was the chief usher and saw to it that every one was seated as fast as they came in. The rally was a success. McBride-Brown Wedding. Mr. John H. McBride and Mrs. Lutisia Brown, were united in marriage, on Monday, June 10th, by Rev. H. F. Frazier. The wedding was quite a quiet one and only a few friends of the contracting parties were present. The ceremony was performed at the parsonage of Rev. Frazier. Mr. McBride is quite a prominent member of Toas lodge No. 10, K. of P. of this city, while his bride is also very prominent. The Searchlight extends to Mr. and Mrs. McBride its best wishes for a most successful marriage life. WANTED. 10,001 men, women, and children to read The Wichita Searchlight.Only $1.00 per year. THE SEARCHLIGHT WICHITA, KANSAS. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post-Office at Wichita Kansas, as Second Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday at No 239 North Main Street, up stairs RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: IN ADVANCE. IN ADVANCE. On year, by mail ... $1 60 Six months, by mail ... 75 Three months, by mail ... 40 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to "The Searchlight," J. Wichita, Kansas. All matters to be published must reach this office not later than Tuesday, to reach publication in the current issue. Correspondents and agents wanted everywhere. Write us for terms. All matters sent to "The Searchlight" for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. "To Live and Let Live," is "To Live and Let Live," is our Motto. You Can Find Us At 239 N. Main Up Stairs. Why not a colony of colored people take advantage of the lands being sold so cheap in Western Kansas? There is plenty of room for you there and you can soon make a mark by strict application to business. You can do so if you will: Will you? We wish to thank the officers and members of Home of the West, No. 2906, G. U. O. of O. F. and those of Toas lodge for the good pieces oj job work which they gave this office. Vote Often On Our Pan-American Contest Below you will find vote as it now stands on 12 leading ministers. Rev. Lynch ..... 1810 Rev. Ricthey ..... 1522 Rev. Braidt ..... $1171 Father Tihen ..... 1130 Rev. Parker ..... 1107 Rev. Dubber ..... 1049 Rev. Myers ..... 1039 Rev. Gibson ..... $1029 Rev. Thayer ..... 1017 Rev. Griffith ..... 956 Rev. Burns ..... 949 Rev. Switzer ..... 930 Greenfield Bros. 112 E. Douglas EURNITURE CARPETS MATTING DRAPERIES HARDWARE 340 GILBERT 340 Since the day we opened our store we have prospered. The reason is,we carry the best assortment in the west We put in the newest novelties. We sold things right. We have added another floor, making 9,000 sq. feet. Would be please to figure with you. J. O. GILBERT, 340 North Main St. K. of P. Installation at Peerless ball next Wednesday night. Remember, Mrs. Lee Anderson's HAIR DRESSING AND MASSAGE PARLORS, at 442, N. Topeka. J.T. Chinneth, our popular Main st. barber, and Worshipful Master, elect, of Arkansas Valley Lodge, No. 21, spent last week visiting his father in Texas. The boys missed him while he was gone and were glad to see him return. He reports a most enjoyable time in every respect. Rev, R. McTurner is on the sick list. The Tornado, 118 E. Douglas, is offering some bargains to you. See them. The Masons will hold their Thanksgiving sermon at the A. M. E. church next Sunday. The services will be conducted under the auspices of the great Arkansas Valley lodge, No. 21, of this city. Rev. A. C. Terrell will preach the sermon. Hear Him. Our motto is "To Live and Let Live." Ask your merchant what his motto is, and ask him to advertise with the "Searchlight." Little Lillie V. Jones was five years old last Tuesday and she says she got "Two pair new dresses" for a birth-day present. ROCK - ISLAND ROUTE. Sanfrancisco and Return $45.00 July 6th to 13th St, Paul and Return $19.70 June 8th to 10th St. Paul and Return $21,70 May 27th, 28th and 30th Chicago and Return $20.65 July 28rd to 25th Kansas City and Return $8.15 June 9th and 10th Milwaukee and Return $22.75 July 21st and 22nd Colorado points $15.00 to $22.50 All Summer and several others. For full information call or address, Miss Sarah McDougal, in company with Miss Flora Perkins arrived in the city Tuesday from Enid, O. T. She spent the day visiting relatives and friends and returned Wednesday eve., to Enid. She reports a nice time in Enid. Grand Chancellor, Jno. E. Lewis remembered this office nicely in the way of some good job work for which we are grateful. The Jones Tea and Coffey Co. have the best quality, is our motto- 238 N. Main Tel. No. 708. 40, 50, & 60c ONE THOUSAND CELEBRATED McKIN 40, 50, & 60c Music for 10c CELEBRATED McKINLEY MUSIC NOW ON SALE AT 10 Cents. Will be sent to any address ( postage paid ) on receipt of price in stamps. A Postal will bring you A NEW CATALOGUE FREE. Will be sent to any address ( postage paid ) on receipt of price in stamps. A Postal will bring you A NEW CATALOGUE FREE. SM WICHIT WICHITA, KANSAS. We do job printing. REMEMBER THE THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SATURDAY, JUNE 22nd 1901 S. B, COLLINS, Prop. General Merchandise Phone 660 352 N. Main St. Give us a call for any thing you need. We have the prices right and can do you some good. Staple and Fancy DRY GOOD, CLOTHING, BOOTS SHOES, and Furnishing Goods. Respectfully, MRS. LEE ANDERSON HAIR DRESSER— and MASSAGE PARLOR. 442 N. TOPEKA AVE. Our Summer Suiting Is Going Fast. Now is the time to make a selection for your season clothes. The PEERLESS TAILOR & FURNISHER. 508 E Douglass Ave., 'Phone 511 The following ladies have been voted for in the contest to select the most popular young lady in Wichita, each recieving the vote opposite her name. Miss Winnie Raye.....3 Miss Ethel Isler.....2 Miss Blanche Alexander.....2 This contest will close Thursday night, August 1st, 1901 at midnight, Vote for your choice. The winner will secure a SOLID GOLD RING with her initials and date of presentation engraved thereon. Who shall win it? Votes can be had at this office. A COOL PLACE ... Where You Can Spend your SUNDAY AFTER-NOON and EVENING, is the CENTROPOLIS HOTEL. We make it a specialty to * * * * * Have Everything for the comfort of our patrons. Ice Cream, Soda Pop and Lunches. J. H. Hodge, Prop. 605, N. Main. Mrs. G. W. Fox was up from Pratt last week to get a baby from the Colored Home, but she took Mattie Fox's baby from the Rescue Home instead. FOR SALE or TRADE:—One barber outfit complete. Address:— W. A. Patton, 215 S. Washington, Wichita, Kans- Music for 10c D PIECES OF THE LEY MUSIC NOW ON ess ( postage paid ) on re- . A Postal will bring you LOGUE FREE. M 5 and 10 Cent Store 406 E. Douglas ```markdown ``` GROCER S. B. COLLINS. SCHROEDER & MATTHEWS 256 North Main street. 256 North Main street. SELL. Linen carpet at ..... 28c Ingrain carpet at ..... 30c All wool filled carpet ..... 50c Matting ..... 15, 18, 20 and 25c Six-foot extension tables ..... $4.75 Six cane seat dining chairs ..... $5.75 Six wood seat dining chairs ..... $3.50 Screen wire, per square foot ..... 1 1/2c Iron beds ..... $2.95, $3.75, $4.25 and $5.50 Rubber hose, per foot ..... 7 1/2 10 and 12c Steel ranges ..... $24.00, $32.00, $87.00 SELL. Linen carpet at a Ingrain carpet at a All wool filled ca Matting ..... Six-foot extension Six cane seat din Six wood seat d Screen wire, per Iron beds ..... Rubber hose, pe Steel ranges ..... SCHROEDER & 256 NOR Linen carpet at ..... 28c Ingrain carpet at ..... 30c All wool filled carpet ..... 59c Matting ..... 15, 18, 20 and 25c Six-foot extension tables ..... $4.75 Six cane seat dining chairs ..... $5.75 Six wood seat dining chairs ..... $3.50 Screen wire, per square foot ..... 1 1/2c Iron beds ..... $2.95, $3.75, $4.25 and $5.50 Rubber hose, per foot ..... 7 1/2 10 and 12c Steel ranges ..... $24.00, $32.00, $37.00 OEDER & MATTHEWS 256 NORTH MAN, This Is Our Kansas Brilliant Coal It is tinted with rosin, visible and iuvi- ble. No, there is no soot to stick to your stove lids, and it is the coal in the market, You get more heat from it than from most ordinary coals, and it does not cost you any more than the cheapest coal. Where is it mined? At Pittsburg, Kansas, from 108 ft. shaft, No, it does not make any clinkers, will coke and all burn up clean. You will find this coal at Hacker Coal Co: 414 N.Main St. Phone 108. Patton's Cate Ice Cream Home Made Pies, Cakes aand Confe 601 North Main St. on's Caterer & Bakery Cream Parlor s, Cakes aand Confectioneries. Soda Pop on Ice. North Main St. Mrs. S. E. Patton, Prop. Patton's Caterer & Bakery Ice Cream Parlor Home Made Pies, Cakes aand Confectioneries. Soda Pop on Ice. 601 North Main St. Mrs. S. E. Patton, Prop. DOLD'S PERFECTION HAMS and BACON WHITE CLOVER LARD SAUSAGES AND WICHITA SAUSAGES ASK YOUR DEALER FOR OU U. S. GOVERNMENT YOUR DEALER FOR OUR PRODUCTS—— U. S. GOVERNMENT INSPECTED MEATS. * * ASK YOUR DEALER FOR OUR PRODUCTS U. S. GOVERNMENT INSPECTED MEATS. * * DOLD'S --- --- Barnes & Newcomb Popular Music House. Pianos, Organs.Every thing known in music. Largest stock to select from and Lowest Prices. Latest Sheet Music and Books. B.F. McLean, Lumber Dealer Wichita, Kansas. Yards at Wichita, Kas., Clearwater, Kas., Peck Kas., Chency, Kas, For a Good,First-Class Shave GO TO Fisher's shop Up to Date Hair Cu'& Shampoos. 638½ E.Douglass Ave., Burl Fisher.Prop. Taos lodge No. 10, will hold the installation of their officers at Peerless hall, Wednesday night June 26th. Admission only 10 cents. --- ```markdown ``` LARD WICHITA, KAN; SPECIALTIES. H. C. DUNBAR, PIONEER UNDERTAKER. 235 North Main Street RESTAURANT. FOR FIRST-CLASS MEALS. Meals, 15 Cents. 715 East Douglass Avenue Mrs. Ara Dunn, Proprietor. Fort Scott, Kan. The Mt. Zion Baptist church realized $84. at their rally Sunday. Quite a number of K. C. people were in the city Sunday. Mrs. B. R. Guy is visiting with Mrs. Sexton this week. Miss Lula Parks came down from Jefferson City, where she has been attending school, Saturday, and will visit a few days with relatives. Rev. K. P. Bond, of Galena, preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Go to PEERLESS HALL next Wednesday night to the Installation of the officers of Tacos lodge No. 10. FRISCO LIE. 108 For Monett, Springfield, St. Louis, and all points East, daily, 1.29 p.m. 102 Pittsburg, Joplin, Galena, Webb and Carthage, daily, 1.29 p.m. 103 Burton, Ellisworth, and all points West, daily, 2.40 p.m. 102 Pittsburg, Girard, Joplin, Carthage, and Sapulpine, 10.00 p.m. 102 Monett, Fayetville, Fort Smith, and mediate points daily, 10.00 p.m. 102 Eureka Springs, Springfield, St. Louis, and all points East, daily, 10.00 p.m. For Sleeping Berths and through ticks to all pointsand particular information at B.E. DUNN, Dist.Paes.Ag. 100 Douglas Ave. ATCHISON, TOPEKA and SANTA FE No. | Arrive | Leave 408 | 10.35 p m | 10.35 a m 406 | 11.15 a m | 11.20 a m 416 | 3.00 p m | 3.00 p m a 418 | 2.20 p m | 4.00 p m a 458 | 2.55 p m | Englewood Exp. 428 | 6.40 p m | 6.40 p m 472 | 11.00 a m | Wichita and Weste South and West 407 | 6.45 a m | 6.50 a m 405 | 4.50 p m | 4.55 p m 415 | 1.10 p m a 417 | 12.15 p m | 12.0 p m a 457 | 7.45 a m | Englewood Exp. 427 | 8.20 a m | 8.30 a m 471 | Wichita and Western, 515 West 416 | 3.00 p m | 3.00 p m 428 | 6.40 p m | 6.50 p m Fifty hours to Los Angeles. a Daily, except Sunday. L, R, DELANEY, Agent. W, J, BLACK, G, P, A., Topeka, Kan. CHICAGO,ROCK 15LAND and PACIFIC Time Table, Effective Nov.18,1900 Trains Arrive Lea North and East No 2 Kansas City,Chicago and St Louis Limited,daily 9 45 a m 945 p No 2 Colorado Springs, Denver and Pacific coast 9 45 a m 945 p No 4 Kansas City,St Louis and Chicago night Expr. 9 00 p m 9 00 p No, 36, Daily, Ex. Sun Colo, and Kan, City 1.10 pm 1.50 p No, 32 Accommodation daily except Sunday 9 30 a m 9 30 a South and West No 1 Ft Worth,Dallas, Houston and Galveston express,daily 6 40 p m 7 00 p No 1 Oklahoma,Ft Worth New Orleans and Pacific coast,daily 6 40 p m 7 00 p No 3 Oklahoma, Ft Worth, Dallas and New Orleans express 6 35 pm 6 35 No 3 Ft Worth, Houston, Galveston, San Antoin express,daily 6 35 am 6 35 No. 35, Daily, Ex. Sun. Oklahoma Express 3.10 pm 3.10 p Elegant free reclining chair cars on trains and Pullman Palace sleepers for Wichita to Chicago and Kansas City w out change. Also sleepers on all night trai to Fort Worth, Houston San Antoin New Orleans. Tickets sold and bagge checked to all points north, east, south west. Steamship tickets sold to all Europe points owest rates. Pasaenger state sorner Douglas and Meade ave. phone C.E BASCOM, D.P. C. B. B. Lodge Directory Knights of Pythias. Toas LodgeNo.10 KnightsofPythias WICHITA.KAN. Castle Hall 338 North Main street. Regular Meetings Second and Fourth Monday Night in Each Month. Visting Knights in good standing Welcome Bert Glover,Chan.Com. S.W.Fleming,K.of R.& S. CONSTANTIA CONSTANTIA ERIA COURT No.7. Order of Calanthe. Mrs.J.II. Phelps, W.C. Miss Blencq Alexander, R.of D. Mrs.Ida Martin, W.of R. of D. Meets 1st. and 3rd. Monday each month ARKANSAS VALLEY Lodge No.21. A.F & A.M. Bopkins Abernathy, W.M. W.H.A. Clark, Secretary. Meets 1st. and 3rd. Tuesday each month. All Master Masons in good standing are Cordially Invited. PALESTINE COMMANDERY No.12. Wichita Kansas. J.T.Chinneth, Emminent Commander J.A.Roberson, Generalissimo. Phil Hyde, Captain General Joseph Fine Secretary. Sylvester Anderson,Trease Meets the 2nd Monday night each month MT.ZION CHAPTER No.17. W.H.A,Clark, High Priest J.S.Fauver, King. Ben Wilson, Scribe. J.T.Chinneth,Secretary Grant Ewing,Treas. Meets the 4th Monday night each month PRINCESS CHAPTERNO.12 O.of E.S. Mrs.M.E,Banks,Royal Matron, Miss Lizzie M.Burnham,Secerty Meets 1st and 3rd.Wednesday each month. Mt.Olive Court No.9,H. of J. Mrs J.E.Lewis,M.A.M. Mrs.Lottie Anderson,Secretury Mrs L.Adams,Treasurer Meets every Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. The Biggest of Sample Shee we ever had. Six big shipments just unloaded. Buy them now and at wholesale prices, and save the retailer's profit. Getin your work as soon as you can and get the best selection. Groceries cheaper than most and as cheap as the cheapest. 4 lbs fancy evaporated peaches 25c 9 lbs good prunes 25c 1 gal New York apples 25c 100 lbs Imperial flour 1.75 Canned corn 07c up 8 bars Diamond C soap 25c Guaranteed Baking Powder, per lb 10c Tall can salmon 10c 8 bars Clairett soap 25c 8 bars White Russian soap 25c 3 cans Lewis lye 25c California appicots, can 10c Tapp Bros. & Hanshaw, The Missouri Pacific Ry Shortest Line To Colorado Points MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Mos Direct Line To KANSAS CITY AND ST.LOUIS. Reclining Chair Cars on all trains SEATS FREE. Call at our New Passenger station cor.Douglas ave. and Wichita st. for reliable information relative to any trip you may contemplate. E E BLECKLEY B & T A E.E.BLECKLEY,P. & T.A Wichita - Business - Directory F.M.Jaques & Co., Special Prices made on Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, and Matting Either cash or easy payments. Call in whether you buy or not. we take pleasure in showing goods and giving you prices. F.M.Jaques & Co., 243 N.Main St. New Music Firm, Burress & Goforth, are the DECKER & Sons and SWEETLAN and WESTERN COTTAGE goods. Machines of all kinds. Repairi Remember BURRESS 149 North GUS A. M DEALS Wall Paper, Win Picture M Firm, Burress & Goforth, are the sole agents for the celebrated DECKER & Sons and SWEETLAND Pianos: the BURDETT Organs and WESTERN COTTAGE goods. String Instruments and Sewing Machines of all kinds. Repairing a specialty. Remember The Place. BURRESS & GOFORTH 149 North Main St. Wall Paper, window Shades and Picture Mouldings. Sign and Banner Work a Specialty. ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMING TO ORDER. Trade at FUL Clothin g,Hats& For Men,Boy Largest stock,Best selections,L Greatest SEASONABLE GOODS,AT Clothin g,Hats&FurniShing Goods For Men,BoysandChildren. C.R.Fulton C.R.Fulton ..... Wichita's Greatest ..... Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store. ..... Dr. Claude G. Baker, DENTIST DENTAL PARLORS —— Up Stairs Nextto Eagle Office Leavenworth. Mrs. Dora Brown, formerly of this city, but now of St. Joseph, Mo. has returned to her home after a two months visit with her mother, Mrs. Fannie Young. She is, also, going to take up the agency of the "Wichita Searchlight" in St. Joseph. Mrs. Carrie E. Johnson returned home this week; she has been attending Lincoln Institute in Jeff. City, Mo. Mrs. Elma McRay is quite ill at her home on Third and Walnut Sts. The Knights and Daughters of Tabor had their annual sermon preached at the Second Baptist church last Sunday, June 16th, The services were conducted by Rev. Banks, pastor. They were honored with a large attendance. The "Searchlight" is becoming quite popular in Leavenwoth. Every one likes it, and speak well of it Send more searchlights to us. Staple and Fancy Groceries Fine Candies, Cigars AND T0bacco C. S. Truex's 246 N. Main St. Phone 746. Vienna Bakery, 250 N. Main The Only Bakery in the City mak- ing Bread by Improved Machinery. --- THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT, SAT JRDAY; JUNE. 22nd. the sole agents for the celebrated and Pianos: the BURDETT Organs String Instruments and Sewing ing a specialty. The Place. & GOFORTH Main St. MILLER & CO. ERS IN Window Shades and Houldings. 19 South Main St. TON's-It pays. FurniShing Goods andChildren. latest styles, Finest assortments, t Values. OUT OF SEASON PRICES. OSWEGO Messrs. Joseph Robinson, Paul Holms, and Wm. Harvey of Cherryvale, passed through the city Thursday enroute to St Louis, Mo. Miss Nora Grant, of Neosho, Mo., is in the city visiting Miss Mary Lindsay. Fleetwood Ezel, of Columbus, was the guest of Miss Lelia Biggers Sunday. John Weeb, of Chetopa, was in the city Sunday visiting his best girl. Miss Pearl Webb, of Chetopa, will spend the summer in this city. The picnic given by Miss Olivia Porter in honor of her select school pupils, was largely attended. Rev. D. P. Pruitt, of this city, returned home from Joplin, Mo. Friday. Died—Little Horace Fryson, age 10 years, 6 months, sunday morning. Mess Rosaline Minnifield has returned home from St. Louis. C. Richardson returned from Cherryvale Saturday. Mrs. Rebecca Franklin returned home from Waco, Tex., Sunday. Anna Horn, Luticia Renfro and Miss Pauline Hughes went to Joplin Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Mace Franklin went to Chetopa Sunday. SACRED CONCERT. There will be a grand Sacred Music concert at the Second Baptist church next Sunday night. An extra program is being prepared for the occasion. Every one is invited to come, it costs you nothing. Go out, hear the fine selections. A Book Free Trade At SNYDER BROS., MERCHANT TAILORS As we have a large stock of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC WOOLENS, at Nobby Prices. All Work Guaranteed. 212 N. Main St. MRS. E. R. LADIES' and GENT REPAIRED, CLEANED, ALL WORK C 117 N. Lawrence ave. THE SUNFLOWER GROCERY STAPLE AND FANCY ..... GROCERIES. P. M, Scott, Prop. 418 E Douglas. Phone 772 [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. Surgical & Medical TREATMENT IN ALL Lungs,Nervous,Chronic, and Private Diseases; also diseases of the EYE,EAR,NOSE,THROAT. Prices Reasonable. All I ask is a treatment. OFFICE 407 North Main St. A BOOK The Story IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPH Tuskegee Normal ar Negro of our times. T 400 pages and beautiful and original drawing in cloth, $1.50. 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Thanking a kind public for their liberal patronage, I am Truly Yours, Mrs. M. A. Collins, Pantherapist, 604, S. Lawrence St. Wichita, Kan. When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 E Douglass Ave. 'Phone 357. Englishman's View of Stock Infation The London Economist's comment on the recent Wall street craze is that "the infation had lasted so long and become so indiscriminate that, while a collapse was inevitable, nobody could tell whether or not it would take place before quotations had reached even giddier heights." Postage to Be Reduced to One Cent. The President who succeeds in getting thirsty can tell a high place in the esteem of the people, but no higher perhaps, than the esteem in which everybody holds Hostetler's Stomach. Bitter's medicine gets at the starting point of disease by acting on the stomach, helping that organ in its duty of digesting food. 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A consideration of some of the principles and conditions which should guide the breeder's art may accordingly form a profitable subject for examination. The primary and generally recognized axiom, that like produces like, need not be enlarged upon nor illustrated. The distinctive racial types are notably hereditary. Darwin taught "that all characters of all kinds, whether new or old, tend to be inherited, and those which have already withstood all counteracting influences and have been truly transmitted will, as a general rule, continued to withstand them, and consequently be faithfully inherited." But like does not always produce like. Male and female of the same breed, or even of the same family, when mated, produce progeny exhibiting notable individual differences. This tendency to variation is sometimes exaggerated, and "sports," as the horticulturist terms them, result. These variations have afforded materials from which have been formed the numerous so-called breeds of our domestic animals. Variation is sometimes traceable to the law of reversion, i.e., of the appearance of ancestral characters. Examples of reversion are constantly met with, and are especially frequent where short-pedigreed, crossbred, or otherwise faulty sires have been used. Among the heavier breeds of horses, the light carcass and thriftless habit, rough, coarse, round limbs, short pasterns predisposing to ringbone, as well as peculiarities of gait or temper, which have marred the remote ancestors of the sire are liable to appear in his descendants of the third and fourth generation. Amongst some of our longest cultivated white breeds of hornless sheep occasional individuals appear with black spots and rudimentary horns, testifying to the persistent descent of ancient character which crop out after having remained latent for several generations. Darwin, in his work on "Animals and Plants under Domestication," records a remarkable instance of this persistence of ancestral character in pigeons. The numerous varieties, differing so greatly in color, feather, and even in structure, are descended from the Blue Rock, which has a slaty blue color with dark bars on the wing feathers. In many modern sorts the blue color and feather markings have disappeared; but, although absent for generations, when two of these varieties are crossed, the ancient insignia reappear in many of the progeny. In molding animals for special uses, and maintaining acquired types, breeders have constantly to battle with this tendency to reversion. In a few generations the numerous artificial varieties of pigeons, if allowed naturally to intermix, would revert to the original Blue Rock. Modern dairy cows, amidst unfavorable surroundings, in much less time than it has taken to bring them to their profitable yield of milk, would furnish only sufficient for their own calves. Prepotency is a principle not well understood. It occurs in certain races, species, and individuals. The jackass is prepotent over the dog, the ass over the horse, the pheasant over the chicken. The Blue Rock male, as already indicated, imparts its slaty blue color to its progeny when crossed with almost any other distinctive breed of pigeons, of whatever color. Among cattle, the prepotency of the Texas and the Shorthorn is very marked, as may be shown by the rapidity with which a few crosses of either of these sorts absorb or obliterate the character of other bovine breeds. The darker colored sheep seem to have a stronger transmitting power than the lighter ones. Prepotency cannot always be measured by the antiquity of the breed. Darwin pointed out that trumpeter and fantail pigeons, although distinctively bred for upwards of a hundred years, and breeding perfectly true within their own kind, when crossed with other varieties of pigeons, some of more recent origin, quickly lost their distinctive characters. Prepotency is sometimes notable in one, sometimes in the other sex. The male donkey appears more prepotent than the female, as exhibited in the distinctive characters of the mule and the hinny. The Arabs look to the pedigree of the mare rather than the horse, which attests their belief in the prepotency of the mare. Darwin offers the following explanation of prepotency: "It apparently depends upon the same character being present and visible in one of the two breeds that are crossed, and latent or invisible in the other breed; and in this case it is natural that the character which is potentially present in both should be prepotent. Thus we have a reason to believe that there is a latent tendency in all horses to be dun colored and striped; and when a horse of this kind is crossed with one of any other color, it is said that the offspring are almost sure to be striped. Sheep have a similar latent tendency to become dark-colored, and we have seen with what prepotent force a ram with a few black spots when crossed with white sheep of the various breeds colored its offspring. A nearly parallel case is offered by those black bantams, which, as they grow old, develop a latent tendency to acquire red feathers." The male and female parents are oe-lied to contribute in about equal pro-portion to the conformation and characters of their progeny. But certain conditions modify this equal proportion. The best bred and most vigorous parent is apt to exert a dominant power. Hence, intelligent stockraisers are most careful in their selection of consistently bred sires, whose ancestors for several generations have exhibited the desired characters and qualities.—W. J. Kennedy. Profect Becomes Blind. Cardinal Ledochowski, the prefect of the Propaganda Fide, had become completely blind. The pope at first refused to believe the diagnosis made by the physicians and sent his own oculist, Professor Martini, to see the cardinal. After a prolonged examination Dr. Martini declared that the operation which had been suggested would be useless, as the cardinal's optic nerves were permanently paralyzed. Long Leaps of a Fly: A member of the London Zoological society during a visit to the Malay peninsula discovered a curious insect called the lantern fly, which makes great leaps without the aid of its wings. It was some time before he could find out where its leaping power lies, but he at last discovered a curious projection on the front of its head, like a nose, and this it bends back under the abdomen and then releases it suddenly, the effect being like that of a springboard. Daughter of Confederate Colonel Daughter of Confederate Colonel Miss Pauline Vincent Mosby, daughter of Colonel John S. Mosby of the confederate army, received her diploma recently from the Maryland university hospital in Baltimore, where she graduated as a professional nurse. Miss Mosby was one of twelve students who finished their course, all of whom, with one exception, are southern women. Miss Mosby will leave for California, where her father now lives, and at once begin her career as a trained nurse. Millionaire Teaches Elble Class Lord Overton, the millionaire peer of Glasgow, has conducted a bible class of about 500 young men in Glasgow for more than 20 years and as a preacher and evangelist he is much in demand. He is specially interested in everything that has to do with the well-being of young men, and among other things he pays a well known Scotch minister $5,000 a year to devote himself to the work of an evangelist. But he is not "namby-pamby." He is a keen fisherman, is more than a fair shot and is not to be despised at golf. Cats Aboard Liners. Every large ocean liner carrying passengers, always has on board from six to ten cats, these being apportioned to various parts of the ship, as well as appearing on the vessel's books as regards the rations they draw. A few of the first-class saloon cats have become quite celebrated, especially in the long-voyage boats that go to India and Australia. Large sums have been offered for one saloon cat on a great line, and the staff have to guard it strictly from acquisitive admirers, in whose luggage it has several times been found. A Pike County Miracle. Velpen, Ind., June 17—Wm. O. B. Sullivan, a farmer of this place, and who is a brother of ex-Representative Sullivan of Pike and Dubois counties, has had a remarkable experience recently. Mr. Sullivan is 49 years of age, and has been a citizen of Pike County for 30 years. For two years, he has suffered much with kidney trouble and rheumatism. His shoulders and side were very sore and stiff, and his back was so bad he could hardly straighten up at all. He had palpitation of the heart, and a smothering which was very distressing. He used three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and is as strong and well as ever he was. He pronounces his cure a miracle. Mr. Sullivan's statement of his case is startling. "A month ago I was a cripple. Today I can do a hard day's work every day, and have not a single ache or pain." Dodd's Kidney Pills have done some wonderful cures in Indiana, but none more miraculous than that in the case of Mr. Sullivan. An Eloquent German Minister In Dr. Von Miquel, who has just been raised by Emperor William to a seat in the Prussian house of lords, the lower house loses one of the most eloquent ministers who ever addressed it. This facility of speech he owes to his French origin, for Miquel is of Huguenot descent, like so many soldiers and statesmen who have made their mark in Prussian history. Home Grown Nursery Stock. "One of the oldest and largest nurseries and Experimental Grounds in the state of Kansas is located at Lawrence. Mr. A. H. Griesa, proprietor, has originated some of the best known, if not the very best, varieties of fruits. In his grounds are the Superb Apricot, Mele Strawberry; Kansas, Lawrence and Cardinal Raspberries. Not only this, but he has also originated the early Melon Apple, Russian Olive, Catalpa Bungei and the new Tamarix. The fame of the Kansas is widespread—the standard Black-Cup of the U. S. and the new Cardinal are, filling a still higher place among the Reds. Those wanting stock for profitable fruit growing or those who wish to beautify their places with the newest and best in hardy ornamentals, are recommended to this nursery for their responsibility and square dealings. All stock is guaranteed true to name, and they replace that which fails. The Kansas Home Nursery employs agents; local and otherwise; and bright young men out of employment who wish to canvass at good pay, should not fail to write to them at once." Birthplace of Virgil. Mantua, after nearly twenty centuries, has remembered that it is the birthplace of Virgil, and has set to work to erect a monument to its great poet. 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Many of the beautiful scenes in Yellowstone National Park have been photographed and for the first time are presented to the public in a beautiful folder published by the Oregon Short Line Railway. In addition to the views, which would adorn any home, there is a great deal of information concerning the best way to visit the park that should be in the hands of all who contemplate visiting this storehouse of wonders. Send 4 cents in stamps to D. E. Burley General Passenger and Ticket Agent Oregon Short Line Railway, Salt Lake City, Utah, for a copy of this work of art. All the women take an interest in a stepmother. NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO Via Missouri Pacific Railway. The Missouri Pacific Railway is now operating double daily service from St. Louis and Kansas City to points in Colorado, Utah and the Pacific coast. Trains leave St. Louis 9 a.m., and 10:10 p.m., Kansas City 6 p.m. and 10 a.m., carrying through sleeping cars between St. Louis and San Francisco without change. Excursion tickets now on sale. For further information address Company's agents. H. C. TOWNSEND, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis, Mo. EXCURSION TO YELLOWSTONE PARK. An extended tour to the Yellowstone Park has been arranged by the American Tourist Association of which Reau Campbell is general manager. Many people of this vicinity are interested in the opportunities such long stops at all points of interest that the travelers will be able to make extended explorations of such places as Pike's Peak and the Rocky Mountains. The same features that have been promoted this year. There will be utmost privacy for small parties in the 'Fallman sleeping and dining cars, and all the coaches used on the drives will be for the exclusive use of the guests. There will also arranged a tour to Alaska, and if individual members of the Yellowstone party desire to continue further north, the trip will be extended. The tickets for these tours includes all expenses everywhere. Full particulars will be furnished upon application to E. E. BLECKLEY, DEATH begins in the bowels. It's the unclean places that breed infectious epidemics, and it's the unclean body—unclean inside—that "catches" the disease. A person whose stomach and bowels are kept clean and whose liver is lively, and blood pure, is safe against yellow fever, or any other of the dreadful diseases that desolate our beautiful land. Some of the cleanest people outside are filthiest inside, and they are the ones who not only "catch" the infections, but endanger the lives Are You Using Allen's Foot Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Drummists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen, S. Olmsted, L.R. Y, N. WONDERFUL GEYSERS OF YELLOWSTONE PARK. No Other Region in the World Abounds In Such a Variety of Attractions. In such a variety of Attractions. The most wonderful scenery in the world is in Yellowstone National Park, the great natural curiosity shop of the universe. Nowhere else, within equal bounds, are found so many natural wonders grouped, almost as if by design, for the special convenience of sight-seers. The wonders of the Alps and the Himalayas, could they be gathered together and compressed into an equal space, could not hope to rival in grandeur, in variety nor in number, the attractions of the Yellowstone. Were all the attractions except the geysers removed, the region would still be famed world wide, drawing nature lovers from all countries to witness the exhibitions of unequalled power of these matchless giants, which, with a roar that may be heard long distances, spout huge columns of seething water high into the air, sustaining them there for varying lengths of time. Old Faithful, with a regularity that begot its name, at intervals of 65 to 75 minutes, sends up a high column of water 150 feet into the air, remaining active for four minutes. Giant, with a deafening roar, spouts 250 feet every third day for 90 minutes, while Giantess, at longer intervals and with slightly less power, maintains activity for twelve hours at a stretch. Many others, at intervals ranging from five minutes to several days, spout water to varying heights, remaining active for periods ranging from one second to an hour or more. In all, there are thirty-three members of this interesting Geyser family of sufficient importance to deserve special mention. Twenty-sight of these are in Upper basin, and when several of them, with their rainbow tints, spouting at once, the scene is indescribable. Other scenes of grandeur that abound in favored mountainous regions pass in endless review before the enchanted tourist, all sense of fleeting time being lost in their admiration. 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The Treadwell farm in Kingman county, of F160 acres, has been bought ty Wiyst? Stanley, of Illinois, for $120,- Mf project is started in Columbus to piton an automobile cab line to and fom the union depot to advertise the tom. Walter Post, aged 18 years, was dmwaed in the mill race in Burlington hile swi.aming. He was seized with ramps. Mis Nelly Morrison, of Salina has tuilt up a big business in corn husle dolls ev work isin demand in. the East, The graduating class at Concorcia is. cectainly up to date. Its motto was: spayond this ie the washtub and the samback.” A fice at Conway Springs destroyed the Central hotel, Farris’ livery barn and Mrs. Grinsley’s residence. The Doss is about $10,000. Tue amount of interest due the state on daily balances in the National City janie of New York City, for April amounted to $96.77. Two thousand cars of wheat were vilied from Claflin, Barton county, last year, and it is believed that the record will be held this year. JA. Tuttle, traveling freight agent for the Rock Island, killed himself in Hutchinson beeause he believed that ‘he was to become blind. Senator Leidy, of Butler county has been appointed to be a member of the State Test Book’ commission, to sue- ceed President A. R. Taylor, who re- sigaed and left the state. RM. Wright, state superintendent of forestry has distributed 1,500,000 treosin Western Kansas this season. They were black and honey locust, Osage orange and eatalpa. Tor Topeka Mirror Manufacturing company has asked the attorney gen- enlof the United States to prosecute the Mirror and Plate Glass trust under the Shorman gnti-trust act. The new G. A. R. department com- mailer, Mr. Norton, has appointed Fraok M. Biddle, of Blue Rapids, as ‘cpartment adjutant and W. W, Denni- ‘a. of Topelca, as quartermaster, Prosident Murlin of Baker university has been given a two months’ leave of abveave to attend the Ecumenical con- ferouce of world wide Methodism in Ionlon in September. He is an elect- el delegate. |. W. Luellen, of Olathe, the invent- orof a voting machine, is in Washing- toa consulting attorneys about organ- ‘ing a company to build the machines. Restate ‘Treasurer Hefflebower is fi Rancing the inveation. Juin A. Hamilton, wife of C. B. lianitton, died in Mexico City, where Mr Mamitton is doing a printing busi- west He had a large establishment ‘0 Topeka for many years, and during one state printer's term was the part- ner of the printer elected. ‘bartes Stark, a Franklin county farmer, a white man with a fair skin, ‘stoning black, ‘The doctors call it a case of Addison’s disease. Ex: Representative E. J, Turner, of the vixth Kansas district, is practicing lw in Washington before the con- fresional committees and | depart- meats ‘Tho stone Baptist church in Topeka which faces the eapitol and is opposite the Santa Ve general offices, is to be ‘akon own and a $30,000 new church erected there. Water came up with a rush to with+ int foot of the top of a well being bored in McPherson, The well had Feached the depth of 135 feet. Kingman county has 185 people who srvover 20 years old; of these thirty a past $0, three are past 90. Of the ‘i the women far outaumiber the ‘ vitluin threw a stone thfough the Tinlow of a Katy passenger coach, at Parsons, and Miss Libby Chetelle was 2h «by itand received internal in- The Santa Fe is ta extend its present cht dopot im Wichita, malking it 185 ‘St teuger, Its outside platform ca- Me'ty will be about 9,000 square feet. Mrs Amelia Bruning, who bas been +. low 9 years, has in that time Bally imnecca a Eee ee Se ee ee ae oe been marketing 4,000 bushels of old wheat." ~ # Kansas City erooks were arrested forrobbing a store at Roxbury, Me- Pherson county. The Dickinson county court house is to have a $13,000 addition. ‘The pres- ent building cost $20,000. One Sterling bank paid out in 60 days, during the marketing of the last broom corn crop, $360,000. ‘The State Agricultural college con- fered degrees on 57 graduates and nine pest graduates on June 12, The penitentiary twine plant is working a double shift until the far- thest northern harvest is over. Don Seaton, son of John Seaton, has bought a half interest with Ewing Herbert in the Atchison Champion. A Salina ice and storage company is burned out of business, It had the largest institution of the kind in Kan- saa. John Hermes, of Pond Creek, 0. T., paid $1,000 for an 80 acre farm four miles north of Wichita on the Little Arkansas river. Alinen manufacturer of Massachu- setts, is taking notes on Bourbon coun- ty’s flax crop, with a plan to putting in a factory at Fort Scott. ‘The big Salina fire, of the cold stor- age warehouse fried $61,200 worth of eggs. Seventeen thousand cases of eggs were burned. There were 42 car- loads of eggs | Walter Cunningham, a Winfield po- liceman, was shot by a jointkeeper in a tight over the destruction of 18 cases of beer which had been seized at the railroad. It was feared that the wound was dangerous. R. B. McNaughton, of Wichita, put out 13 acres of onion sets, in rows so they could be cultivated. The onions are already as large as eggs and gar- deners predict that the yield will be over 500 bushels to the acre. A $30,000 Catholic church was dedi- cated at Flush, Pottawatomie county. It is 114 feet long and 52 feet wide with acapacity for seating 600 people. It is built of white limestone. The church has three beautiful altars, the central one costing$i,200, was donated by John Elart. A number of harvest hands who had been at work in Oklahoma and were following the harvest, were robbed in Wellington. Two highwaymen would corral two of their victims at a time, go through their pockets and lock them in a boxcar. They would then lay for two more. A fake started at Lawrence has caused vexation at Kansas university. ‘The story told of the discovery by a university professor of a way to tura black men white. ‘The faculty is over- whelmed with letters about the matter from everywhere, and an effort is now being made to head off the big lie. Harper county has developed as among the best agricultural counties in Kansas. A. R, Greene, now, and for long, serving his country in the U. 8. land department, was, 20 years ago, a traveler for the Kansas City Journal, and then predicted that Harper county must and would be abandoned to the cattlemen, although his judgment was that it would never be first class, even for pasturage. Dr. 5. F. Neeley. is to erect a $52.- 000 hotel in Leavenworth. Ex-Mayor Charles A. Fellows of Topeka, has the contract. In getting out the stone for the Lyon county court house and the Emporia Carnegie library a stone was quarried which measured 6 feet thick, 30 feet wide and 90 feet long. It was split to required dimensions. One block for the library was shipped which weighed four tons and was 12 feet long and two feet square. It came from Cottonwood Fails. D. B, Bartholemew, a stockman and farmer of Stafford county, was killed at the depot at Hudson. The express truck stood too near the track and aa engine struck it and it was hurled against Mr. Bartholemew. Miss Augusta M. DeForest, who won a scholarship in Washburn college, when she graduated: from the Atchison county high school at the age of 15 years has now won a four year scholarship in Columbia university at Washington, D.C., upon her graduation from a high school of that city. Prof. James H. Canfield, once chan- cellor of Kansas university, now Ii- brarian of Columbia university, Ohio, COLLAPSE OF GRAND STANE Injures Twenty-five Women And Children; None Fatally. NORMAL ATHLETIC FIELD, Chicago, June 13.—Twenty-five wom- en and children were injured, none fatally in the collapse of a grand stand at Normal Athletic field, 63th street and Stewart avenue, while wit- nessing the field contests of the Chica- go normal school. Several were hurt seriously, but it is thought none will die. ‘The more seriously injured are: Mrs. B. Zeigler, spine injured, may prove fatal; Mrs. J. 0. Wallace, cut; Mrs. R. Coleman, internal injuries; Mrs. 7. Fisher, spive injured; Annia Criocy, 10 years old, leg broken. The stand, which was 100 feet long and seven tiers high was crowded. The program of the day was fairly underway when on account of the general stamping of feet in recognition of some meritorious athlectic feature, the supports gave way precipitating the spectators to the ground. Several hundred persons were hurled under the timbers. The field day exercises came toan abrupt stop, and the par- ticipants joined in the work of rescue. The sufferers were removed to the normal school nearby which was con- verted into a temporary hospital, with more than a score of physicians and surgeons in attendance. eaidiet ae tea a Fairmont, W. Va. June 19,—The largest coal deal ever consummated in this state is closed, the Watson coal operators having practically secured control of the entire Fairmont re- gion. A new company with $12,000,000 capital, has been organized, known as the Fairmont Coal conpany. The Watsons have associated with them several New York capitalists, but they will retain the controlling interest. The mines absorbed in this deal com- prise practically every mine in this district a total of thirty-seven plants. ‘The annual output will be over 6,000,- 000 net tons of coal. Over 4,000 men are on the monthly pay roll. Employ Non-Union Men. | Seattle, Wash., June 19.—Under the protection of armed guards the Moran Brothers company, metal workers and ship builders resumed work in the ‘boiler and machine departments of their plant in this city with non-union smechaates ‘Twenty non-union boiler makers and machinists were put to [work at the old scale, $2.50 per day for ‘ten hours’ work. In addition the com: ‘pany has sixty non-union carpenters As yet there had been no demonstra. services of twenty guards who are sty to patrol the works with rifles ‘at's moment's notice ‘Onder Against Parchasing Liquor. Washington, June 19.—The secre- tary of war directs the publication of the following order for the informa- tion of the army: “Malt, vinous or spirituous liquors will not be purchased by the subsistence department for any purpose. Supplies thereof needed in medical or hospital practice, or for use in the diet of soldiers too sick to use the army ration will be provided by the medical department.” Now California Tickets. Kansas City, June 18.—The new Cal- ifornia homeseekers’ tickets may turn ‘out to be a good thing for the state of Kansas, The tickets will have a fif- teen-day going limit, with stop-overs allowed west of Kansas City. This will enable the homeseekers en route for the coast to make tours into the grain fields of Kansas The return | pasaage is continuous. i) eomualnee Giana | Anadardo, Ok., June 19.—The order of the secretary to use cavalry to expel ‘the sooners from the Kiowa-Comanche country means that there will be no delay in opening and that the opening ‘proclamation will issue as soon as the reservations are cleared. This action of the department casts & doubt upon the lottery theory of opening the lands, as sooners could not get any advantage by being in the reservations if a drawing is decided upon. Curtis Act Must Control. Washington, June 19.—The president has disapproved the act of the Cherokee council in appointing commissioners to form a new treaty with the Dawes com- mistion. This action is based on the recommendation of the commissioner of Indian affairs, who practically takes the gronnd that it is a waste of time to continue the negotiations, in wew of the wasted opportunities to reach an agreement. The veto of the presi- dent leaves the Cherokees to be dealt with under the Curtis act. fe ie ee ee Wichita, June 18.—The people of Glasgow, Belfast and of Liverpool and London, will now be able to get pork products direct from the great western: packing center, Wichita. The John Cudahy Company have made ar-ange- ments to make weekly shipments to those markets. Every week there will be loaded in the ears from the Cudahy house such cuts of meat as are in de- mand on these foreign markets and shipped direct. The company will ship ten to-sixteen car loads each week, Hollow Ash... = 3» Hall se : CHAPTER XIII.—(Continued.) “Words cannot express the pain you have given me tonight,” he said; “but Jet it pass. You are free, and I have no right to reproach you. Good-bye and God bless you, Rose!” He kissed her hand, but she snatched it away and sprang into the carriage She felt annoyed and out of temper. “When she reached home, she went up into her own room and stood before ‘the glass. It was a very fair face that she gazed at—he had often praised It, and she knew her power well. “And he thinks I am going to beg and pray for forgiveness, does he?” ‘she said, tossing her head wilfully. “We shall see, after all, what crime I have committed, that I need to trem- bie and shrink from his eye. Tomor- row I will not—tomorrow I will show him that if he chooses to play the part of a tyrant, I do not intend to take that of a serf. He had better fetter me at once.” Jn that mood she went to bed. But ah! we should be very careful how we part with those we love, even though they only leave us for a few hours. Do they always come back? Of if they do come, do we always know just how we shall meet them? It may de as utter strengers, for aught, we can say. I have known those who have loved each other dearly as they said good-bye, and yet within three months they stood face to face as cold- ly as if they had never met. But the case of poor Rose was even worse than this, for Mr, Vere never came again. She had preserved a discreet silence as to this episode in her history on her return home. No one had ever heard her mention Mr, Vere’s name— not one of her own family ever knew that such a person was in existence. Her woman's pride came to her aid. She learned to live without him—to be happy without him; yet he was not forgotten. And on this morning, when she sat in her own room,thinking of the past, she had a letter in her hand from him. It had been forwarded with others from Mecklenburgh Square. The sim- ple words set her heart beating, so that she could scarcely see: “Rose—I was too hasty and harsh with you long ago. Time has taught me that there Is nothing so precious as your love, If I have lost it, I am Spins home to try and gain It again »d grant I may not be too late. “Ever yours, “Stanley Vere.” Coming home, and to win here? But how, and when, and where? | When and where, indeed? She could “not hope for a meeting so romantic aa that of her two cousins had been; and yet, in what other way could her lover seek her presence? For you must bear in mind that the parent birds had no idea that their scarcely fledged nestling had tried her wings in so bold a flight. Rose in love! Rose, who had scarcely given up playing with her doll! The thing was simply absurd! s So the young lady sat alone in her room, and stared at the letter, and wondered what on earth she should do, and wished she had a confidante who would give her some advice as to ‘the best way of extricating herself from the dilemma, It would not do to speak to her mother, and Catharine would only laugh at her. At last she thought of Marjorie, who had a ro- mance of her own, and thereby would know how to sympathize with another. She went. She found the lady alone in the tur- ret-chamber. Charles was smoking a cigar, in fear and trembling, in one of the empty attics, and at the same time getting a lyeath of fresh air. So Rose had her cousin all to herself, and told her tale without much loss of time. Marjorie listened stlently. “Well,” “she said, when Rose had finished, “the old fairy tale is true. The Princess Perfect may be shut up in the highest and most impregnable of towers, and guarded by the fiercest of dragons, yet in one way and another Prince Imperfect will continue to get up the stairs, and fall at her feet all the same. It {s ccurlous, and, at the same time, very edifying.” “But I am not Princess Perfect,” said Rose. “True.” Fe “Nor was I shut up in a tower.” “If you had been it would ‘not have mattered. But never mind that—do you want to s. the Prince?” “Ah, yes.’ “That is frank and to the purpose. Why did you let him go?” “He thought I flirted, my dear,” said Rose, firmly. “Oh, indeed,” replied Marjorie, with ‘a little cough. “Men do take queer ‘fancies into their heads now and then.” “Very.” | “However, I will do all I can to help you—though, of course, you must ‘Promise to be very good, and never, under any consideration, to flirt again.” “I'll promise.” “Then the best way is for you to come. to us.” “Where?” “IT don't know—I'll make Charles take a house in town. Now that we hhave scared your poor papa to death, I CHAPTER XIV. end. Is he up yet?” “No jhe has had some gruel in bed.” “May it make him penitent and more inclined to obey the orders of his su- Perior officer, your good mamma. Where would you like us to piteh our tent in town, Rose?” “Oh, somewhere near Mecklenburgh Square.” “In it, If you like. Charley ts rich, and can live where he pleases, thank Soodneas. Then that is settled?” “Yea” “And you will come to us?” “With pleasure.” “When?” “AS soon as we can get him back to town.” “And the preux chevalier? By the way, what is his name?” “Vere.” + “Ot what county, Rose colored. “Really I don’t know.” “But where do his family reside?” “I cannot tell you.” Marjorie elevated her eyebrows. “Do you know nothing of him, then?” “Very little. But General Grantham, with whom I was staying at the time, introduced him as the eon of one of his oldest friends. And he moved in the best society.” “Well, time will show. At all events, we can soon find out all about him if we set to work the right way.” “Yes,” said Rose; and leaning her chin upon ‘her hand, she fixed her eyes upon the glaring coals, and fell to mus- ing about the lover of whom she knew 50 little. The door opened, and Mrs. Cowley entered, looking worried and per- plexed. “I don't know what to do!” she ex- claimed, “What {s the matter, aunt?” asked Marjorie, “L wish we hadn't played that fool's trick last night, “Why?” Is papa worse?” asked Rose, looking up. “No; I can't say that ye {3 really ill; but he seems so nervous and fright- ened. If the door creaks, he jumps; and I know what that feeling is so well. I had it all the time when we first came to this horrible house." “Oh, he will get over that!” “Yes; but, atter all, I begin to think it was not right to frighten him so. A great, strong man does not faint for nothing. I can’t think how I came to let you do it.” “But as it is done, let us try to re- pair the mischief, if any there be. Get him up, and send him down to the vil- lage, shopping. He will come home as blithe as a lark.” “That is the worst of it!” — - “What?” “T can't get him up.” “What do you mean?” ‘He won't move. He says the whole house is full of ghosts, and that he means to stay where he can’t see any more; and oddly enough, I heard him just now muttering to himself that he wished Charles was here.” . “My husband?” ge “Then what can be easier than to tell him that his wish is granted.” “And that Charles {s here?” “Yes.” “My dear child, that would do very well with some men, but not with Mr. Cowley. He is as sharp as a needle; and if he found out that Charles had been in the house all night, he would guess at once where the ghost of the cabinet come from., And if he once found that out, I’m gure I should have a separate maintenance offered to— nay, foreed upon me tomorrow.” “Oh, no; not so bad as that,” was the cheerful reply. “I will manage it so that he need never know we have been here before. Rose, you have al- ready lent me halt your wardrobe! give me the other half—your out-door por- tion, He will not recognize your hat and cloak, I suppose?” rons “Then bring them, and send Charles tome.” 2 Half an hour later, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cowley left the house on foot, and walked away toward Banley. And as Mr. Cowley, senior, was partaking of. tea and toast at six p. m. in the seclusion of his own chamber, a fiy drove up to the door and a knock was given that nearly shook the house down. Mr. Cowley dropped the cup and saucer, and spilt the tea all over the bed. “Good gracious! what can it be?” — “I will go and see, my dear. Lie down and compose yourself.” | Mrs. Cowley went, and returned with & well-got-up face of astonishment, “Well, what is it?” cried Mr, Cow- ley. | “Such a wonderful thing.” “Out with it!” ' “The most extraordinary—" tag you wished your nephew Charies was bere” “Bo I do. Ta dig the whole piace, up if I bad him to back me, and never} think of feeling frightened.” “Well, Charles is here.” “Nonsense!” “I assure you he is. Ho has just, returned from Australia, and he came) to the door in the Banley fly. He has! been to our town house, and Mrs. Gray. directed him here And his wife is: with bim.”” “Married?” “Yes—to an English girl, though.’ “I he had married a New Zealand-, er, tatooed trom head to foot, I should, not care. Zounds! give me my clothes, Mrs. C.!' This news is worth ten Dounds, at the least. We'll rout the ghosts out now, or my name Is not, Cowley.” “Yes, dear,” teplied his better half, meekly, as sho helped him to dress, They went down to the, drawing room together. No more ghosts now; —no suggestion of ghosts even. A’ bright fire blazed upon the hearth— four candles Ut the table, which was, laid for tea. Rose and Cathariny, ini pretty evening dresses, ran forward to: meet their father as innocently as if they had never dreamed of scaring him half out of his senses. But he Dushed by them unceremoniously, and Tushed up to the hearth, where Charles Cowley was standing, like a true Brit- on, with bis back to the fire. “My dear fellow!” said the baxker, shaking him by both hands. “You aro as welcome as the flowers in May!" “Why, 0 I hear,” replied the nephew demurely. “You have been getting yourself into a bit of a scrape, I imagine, and want me to help you out. Oh, you naughty old boy! But let me introduce you to my wife.” CHAPTER xv Mr. Cowley shook hands with Mar- Jorie—decided, after his first glance at her, that she was a nice sort of a girl, and then dismissed her from his mind entirely. He was burning for an un- interrupted ten minutes’ conversation with his nephew, alone, that he might relate the wonderful things that had befallen him. Few men could boast’ ot having seen three real ghosts, ona after another! And Marjorie, like the other women, was sadly in the way Just then, However, there was no help for it. Tea was waiting, and Mr. Cowley, junior, fell to wonk upon the muffins, and ham, and tongue, like a man wha had fasted all the way from Australia, When the cloth was taken away, his uncle breathed freely again. ‘The la- dies sat gossipping together before the fire. The worthy banker rose, nudged Charles in the side, and whispered, “Come with me a moment.” Charles followed him from the room, merely pausing at the door to give a nod and a wink, expressive of great enjoyment, to the group he left behind. Mr. Cowley seized his nephew by the arm when they stood in the hall, and dragged him up the stairs. A lamp was burning in the turret-cham- ber—a fire blazing on the hearth. Soe- ing this, as he opened the door, Mr. Cowley started back with a look of extreme surprise. “Why, those born fools cannot think of putting you here to sleep!” he ejaculated. “Why not?” asked Charles, looking extremely innocent. “Why not? The jades! I'll have no tricks played off on people under my roof. I know it ts the fashion to put the guests in the haunted room, to see if there really 1s a ghost there; but, by George! we want no such testa here! They shall give you another apartment—it is like their impudence to get this one ready. (To be continued.) HARD TO WRITE TURKISH. How Foreigners Are Ablo to Piace Its Words on Paper. Arabic words, phrases and expres- sions, as in the case of the Perslans, were freely employed by the Turkish writers. So the original Tartarie, or Turkish, dialect of the Ottomans, blended with the refined, melodious tongue of the Arabs and the sweet and harmonious language of the former followers of Zoraster, formed what is today the literary language of the Turks. Hence the variety in the ox- pressions and the richness of the words of the Turkish literature, While in the European languages Latin and Greek words are merely used as a foundation stone upon which the re- spective national words are bullt, the Turks, on the contrary, employ almost to an unlimited extent Persian and Arabic phrases in their original shape. Hence, again, the difficulty of master- ing the literary Turkish, which neces- sitates also the study of the other two oriental tongues, This variety of languages, coupled with the difficulty of the union of aen- tences into the one so-called “chain,” which is unknown to ahy European language, renders Turkish one of the most difficult of the living tongues of the world. To be able to write well in Turkish, or, to use their own expres- sion, to be @ good “kiatib” (writer) — not in the sense of an author—tis held in that country as one of the highest accomplishments that a person can possess.—Chicago Chronicle. Railroad bridge builders are adopt- ing the Gr timber of the North Pacific coast for bridge butlding because of its remarkable strength. Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which, neglected prove hal- ters to strange undutiful children. ‘There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably —_higher strength than to act. Composure is often the highest result of power. Holders of Otoe-Missouri Lands in Kansas and Nebraska. MAY FORFEIT THEIR LANDS. Washington, June 19.—The purchasers of lands in the Otoe and Missouri Indian reservation in Kansas an Nebraska will be expected to make final settlement of their accounts with the government by July 1. The time, under the law, expired a year ago, but a year's grace was allowed so as to bring the matter to a final close without hardship. Some of the settlers have recently been informed that they could secure a further reduction in the price to be paid for the lands by giving their cases into the hands of certain attorneys. It is understood that a number of settlers were almost coerced into consenting to join with others in an attempt to secure further concessions. The copy of a letter purporting to have been sent by an attorney named Van Arsdale, of Cheyenne, Wyo., to settlers on the reservation, was transmitted to Washington, and the department immediately wired him to know if he had written such letters. He replied that he had not and could not understand how his name was used; that he had acted as attorney for the settlers and had advised them that the time time for final settlement would expire on July 1, and that there would be no further grace. It is evident that settlers are being misled, and it is possible that those who fall into the snare will forfeit their lands. Tornado in South Dakota. Huron, S. D., June 18.—A heavy storm occurred in the southeast corner of this county. It commenced with a heavy rain and dense darkness. A balloon shaped tornado and picked up Mr. McCormick's two story house, 24 feet square, with the family in it, carried it several rods and then twisted it to pieces. All of the family were snatched from the ruins by the twister and thrown against a barbed wire fence and all seriously injured. All other buildings and machinery at hand were destroyed. It then destroyed a school house a half mile distant; dipping again two miles further on, the residence of Mr. Garder was wiped off the face of the earth. At the next farm house struck one person was severely injured. Other farmers suffered losses. Much stock was killed by lightning. Three inches of rain fell in two hours. War Department Plea4ed Washington, June 18—Officials of the war department are very well pleased with the prospective surrender of General Cailles, the Filipino insurgent leader. Advices received at the war department indicated that this would occur soon. Cailles is a man of considerable influence and with his backing of some hundreds of men has been a menace to the efforts of the military authorities to stamp out the rebellion in Luzon. His capitulation, therefore, is regarded with much satis-faction by the authorities here, who say they see in it another evidence of the general disintegration of the insurgent forces. Afraid of the Negroes. Leavenworth, June 18.—Considerable excitement was created here by the unearthing of what appears to be a deep laid scheme of the negroes of Leavenworth to arm themselves with revolvers purchased from soldiers at Fort Leavenworth. Seven of these weapons had been purchased by well known negroes, before the matter came to the notice of the United States authorities. Ocean Kates an Obstacle Washington, June 17 —Consul General Gowdy, at Paris, in a communication to the department of state, expresses the opinion that American coal can be advantageously placed in competition with coal imported from other countries in France, especially in view of the recent imposition of the English export tax on that product. If ocean transportation could be considerably reduced, Consul General Gowdy says, there is no doubt but that American coal would have a great future in France. Cavalry After Sooners Guthrie, Ok., June 19.—Captain Farrand Sayres, commanding officer at Fort Sill, Okla., acting under orders from the war department, started with forty cavalrymen to clear the Wichita mountain land of unlawful intruders, preparatory to the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche reservation. The government is determined to free the country of all "sooners," whether there for the purpose of mining or otherwise. Boers Again Beaten. London, June 18.—Lord Kitchener reports to the war office from Pretoria as follows: During the march from Vrede General Elliott's column engaged Dewet near Reits, June 6. After severe fighting they captured 71 loaded wagons, 45 prisoners, 58 rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition and 4,000 cattle. The Boers left 17 killed and three wounded. Our casualties were three officers and 17 men killed and one officer and 24 men wounded. CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT Of Mrs. McKinley's Health. Hopes to go Home July 1. Washington, June 18.—The improvement in Mrs. McKinley's health continues and Dr. Rixey said on leaving the White House that he was satisfied with her condition. She sat up in her rolling chair during the day and chatted and laughed with the president and others at her bedside. For several days the weather has been cloudy and rainy and Sunday was particularly gloomy. This had a somewhat depressing effect on the patient but with the return of good weather more satisfactory results are expected. Sunday was a very quiet one at the White House. The president spent most of the time with his sick wife. Word comes from Canton, O., that the improvements on the president's home there are about completed and that everything will be in readiness for occupancy by the first of July. If Mrs. McKinley's condition permits her removal by that time she will be taken to her Ohio home where it is believed the chances for permanent improvement will be greater than in Washington. Hope is expressed that she may be able to travel by the first of July if the present rate of progress toward recovery is maintained. Chappelle a Cardinal. Perhaps Rome, June 19.—During one of the audiences, when the elevation of Archbishop Chappelle of New Orleans was urged upon the pope, the latter expressed his high regard for the work of the archbishop. It is the intention to bring the matter of the title of the friars in the Philippines to a determination by a trial in the supreme court of the Philippines. Under present conditions there can be no appeal to the supreme court of the United States, but such an appeal could be allowed if provided for in legislation at the next congress. 'Twas a False Alarm Leavenworth, Ks., June 18.—Colonel Jesse M. Lee has returned to Fort Leavenworth from the scene of the recent reported Indian troubles in Wyoming. Colonel Lee has fully investigated the reported killing of the sheep herders by Indians on the Muddy and found it to be without foundation. The story had been started, according to Colonel Lee, by a man who said he had reported it "just to have some fun." Colonel Lee states that there is no danger, whatever, of an Indian uprising. Preachers Cited for Contempt. Denver, Colo., June 19.—Judge W. L. Palmer of the district court cited Rev. W. H. Talmage, state superintendent of the anti-saloon league. Rev. M. A. Rader, pastor of the Grace M. E. church, and W. D. Wynkoop, secretary of the local Christian Endeavor society, to appear in his court and answer to the charge of contempt on certain statements made in Denver pulpits and elsewhere regarding the court's action in cases involving the rights of saloon keepers to sell liquor to women and of restaurants to serve liquor on Sunday. Cargoes of Teachers. Washington, June 19.—Captain Long has been directed to fix up the transport Thomas if the Sherman is not available so that she may sail on July 23 as a special transport for teachers. The Thomas is to be fitted to carry 170 female teachers and 400 male teachers to the Philippines. The war department has received from Judge Taft an approval of the selection of 250 teachers, who will be ready to sail on the Thomas. One hundred and fifty-six teachers will sail on the Burford and Logan, on July 1 and July 16. The Morrison Jury El Dorado, June 19.—A jury has been secured to try Jessie Morrison a second time. The trial was then begun in earnest. As the attorneys for the state have said they will exclude much of the testimony offered at the first trial, it is believed that the case will be given to the jury promptly. It has taken four days and a half to secure the jury. It is composed of nine farmers and three laborers. A negro was one of the twelve men temporarily selected, but he was excused. Researches in Palestine Cincinnati, June 19.—A buried city in Palestine has been bought for Martin Meyer, the valedictorian of this year's class of the Hebrew Union college of this city. He will leave on August 15 for the Holy Land to make excavations and scientific researches. Meyer won the Palestinian scholarship of the American Society of Oriental Research, which is supported by colleges all over the country. He will be furnished with money to pay Arabs to dig into the ruins. To Colonize South America Rio Janeiro, June 18.—A German syndicate has just been formed with a capital of 25,000,000 marks, with the object of colonizing the states of Rio Grande, San Pablo, Santo Catharina, Parana, Minas Geraes and Goyaz. The government has guaranteed 5 per cent interest on the capital invested in the enterprise. There is a plan for colonization by Italians in various sections of Brazil. This plan has been formed by a society recently organized in Rome. OPENING MAY BE DELAYED. OPENING MAY BE DELAYED. Springer's Plan is to Keep up Suits Until Congress Meets. TO COMPLICATE MATTERS Washington, June 19.—Placing the best possible construction on the movements of Springer and the delegation of Indians from the Kiowa and Comanche reservation whom he represents, it is evident that the object of the Indian and their friends is to delay the opening of the reservation for an indefinite period, and all indications are that they will be successful. Those best informed admit that there would be nothing surprising in an indefinite postponement of the opening. Springer is working the endless chain policy with the courts. He is preparing to carry the case along from one stage to another of inconclusive action toward the time when congress meets again. To this end he is prepared to institute another suit should the supreme court of the District hold that the parties named as plaintiffs in the injunction proceedings cannot sue, and, in the meantime, he would take the case on appeal to the court of appeals of the District. In other words, he would keep two cases going on at the same time, one involving a new suit and another an appeal. After that, he still has the supreme court of the United States in reserve for such action as may suggest itself to his resourceful and fertile legal intellect. All motions and movements undertaken by Springer now appear to be simply in the interest of complicating matters, so that it will be impossible to extricate the issues involved without a complete new deal through congressional channels. Another Alliance Scheme. Minneapolis, Minn., June 17.—Geo. H. Phillips of Chicago addressed members of the National Farmers' Alliance here, on corn and corners. "Let the government," he said, "tax the farmer a cent a bushel on his crop of corn and with the money build elevators in which to store a hundred million bushels of corn and pay forty cents, Chicago basis, for it, and the world will pay the same price. There is not so much of it that we need worry about an extra large crop or two. With the government ready to pay forty cents for it, the farmer can borrow thirty cents from his country banker if he needs the money, and carry the surplus for seven years if need be." Kansas Boys Do Not Win Washington. July 18.—Not a single candidate from Kansas passed at the supplementary examinations of appointees as cadets in the West Point military academy. The discharge of Cadet Maduska the other day leaves Kansas with only eight representatives in the military academy as follows: Class 1, Adam F. Casad; Class 2, Henry A. Young; Class 3, Matthew A. Cross, Donald C. Cubbison, Walter S. Drysdale and Merrill E. Spalding; Class 4, Arthur H. Cartet end Sidney H. Guthirie. Western Freight Association. Chicago, June 13.—J. V. Mahoney, commissioner of transportation of the Pan-American exposition, and formerly chairman of the the Sioux City, Ia., traffic bureau, has been offered the office of chairman of the Western Freight Association to succeed H. H. Courtright, who has become incapacitated by illness. It is the intention of the officers and members of the pool to reorganize the association. Grasshoppers Out West Topeka, June 17.—Reports from Cheyenne, Sherman and other extreme western counties indicate another grasshopper year. Thousands of young grasshoppers are hatching. The farmers are now experimenting to find a method of killing the insects. A favorite method of killing them is to scatter a mixture of bran and paris green through the fields and poison them. Nebraska is afflicted with the pests and an effort will be made to rid the two states of them. Fire at Buffalo. Buffalo, N. Y., June 19.—A fire which started on the dock at the foot of Ferry street, on the Niagara river river front, at 2:30 a. m., destroyed two elevators, one large flour mill, the docks of the International Ferry company, which runs the ferry boats plying between Buffalo and the village of Fort Erie. The total loss will be in the neighborhood of $210,000, divided as follows: Frontier elevator, $40,000; Ryan elevator, $75,000; Queen City mill, $100,000. A More Oulet Trial. El Dorado, Ks., June 18.—There are no sensational later developments in the second trial of Miss Morrison. Apparently the first trial revealed all there was to reveal. The four new bits of paper introduced by the state and objected to by the defense are merely good-bye letters written to friends by Mrs. Olin Castle when she realized that she was dying. The interest in the trial is not what it was. The court room is no longer crowded to suffocation. INDEPENDENCE IN SIGHT. Christmas Likely to See Cuba Governing Itself. Washington, June 17.—It is expected at the war department that Cuban independence will be an accomplished fact by next Christmas. The next step in order now that the Platt amendment is adopted by the constitutional convention is for that body to take up and pass an electoral bill which will provide for the election of all the officers who are to set up an independent government in Cuba. It is said here that such a bill is already framed, and is ready, for submission to the convention at any moment. It is thought that the convention can dispose of this measure in a week or two and that will complete the labors of the body. A period of ninety days it is said here must be allowed for the publication of the electoral act before the necessary elections can be had. It may be necessary and probably will be to maintain some United States troops in Cuba after the new officials are inaugurated and until the Cubans have had time to set up a Cuban military force or gendarmerie but the length of this stay probably will depend on the wishes of the Cubans themselves. Peters Called to Washington Washington, June 18. It is understood that Judge S. R. Peters, of Kansas, has been invited to come here at once. It is believed that during the visit of Senator Burton and Representative Curtis the matter of pension commissioner will be settled and that this means that Peters will get the position. Newton. Kas.—Ex-Congressman *S. R. Peters received a dispatch calling him to Washington, where he will be tendered the office of pension commissioner, succeeding H. Clay Evans. President McKinley has had under consideration the names of ex-Congressmen Blue and Peters for this position. Investing in Kansas Lands. Atchison, June 19.—F. M. Baker, of Atchison, recently bought 2,000 acres of pasture land in one body in the northern part of Graham county, paying $6,250 for it. One year ago this property was nearly all subject to tax deed and could have been bought for $1.25 an acre, and today I believe it could not be bought for $6.25 an acre, as Mr. Baker has great faith in Kansas lands. A. J. Rice of Effingham, Kas., has bought more Graham county land during the last two years than any one individual. He now owns 36 quarter sections of land, nearly all of which are improved and paying good interest on the money invested. Oswego Headquarters. Topeka, June 17.—The charter for the consolidation of the Frisco and Memphis lines makes Oswego, Kansas, headquarters of the combination. Under Kansas laws a Kansas corporation must keep its general offices within the state. After much consultation and canvass of the matter it was decided to take a Kansas charter. A connecting link will be built from Oswego to connect the two systems. The filing of the charter was delayed a day by the necessity of wiring to some members of the charter board who were out of the city. Bulletins Suspended. Washington, June 17.—Mrs McKinley's physicians held their usual consultation and decided to discontinue the issuance of bulletins. It is said that her condition continues to improve slowly and the doctors consider it useless to give out a bulletin each day, under the favorable progress she is making. Should her condition grow worse the bulletins will be resumed. Summer Resort Hotel Burns West Baden, Ind., June 17.—The Mineral Springs hotel is destroyed by fire. No person was injured. The fire broke out at 1 a. m., in the bake shop at the south end of the building. It burned rapidly and by 3 o'clock the hotel had been completely consumed. The loss is $500,000; insurance $100,000. Two hundred and twenty-five guests were registered. The guests were transferred to Frenchlick and nearly all left for their homes on morning trains. Stealing Railroad Men Topeka, June 19. - The Rock Island finds that it will have to meet the bids for men to work in the harvest fields, or stop work on their several extensions. The company sends out men from Kansas City but before they reach their destination the signs put up by the farmers offering $2 a day and board seduces the men and they slide off at the next station, and the company will be compelled to meet the farmers' bids as the road cannot afford to stop work on its new lines. Seven Thousand Idle Men. Newport News, Va., June 18.—Superintendent Post of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, has announced his ultimatum to the striking machinists. He gave it out officially that if the strikers did not return by 6 o'clock last evening the entire plant will be closed indefinitely. Up to the present time between 2,000 and 2,500 men have been laid off owing to the strike of the machinists. There yards give employment to 7,000 persons. Icebergs. No port lamps gleam along our sides No banners float on high; No human lookout raises glass To scan our seas or sky. No Admirals above our decks 'Mid guns and gunners stand; In hidden sheath to send the sound Of warlike, stern command. Yet all the navies of the world Our bows in vain assail; We fear no smoking battle tower That thunders through the gale. By captains gray our path is marked; By sailors white and old; For us the phantom rockets glare And phantom bells are toled. By hands long gone from mortal view. By forms that men forget. And we may wander on our course 'Till time at end shall be. This time at end snail be. For in our breasts are locked the hulls Of ships once lost at sea. —John James Mechan in the Criterion Fort Hayes Land Question. Fort Hayes Land Question. The state of Kansas and other officers representing it presented a petition recently to Acting Secretary of the Interior Ryan, praying an interview and reversal of a departmental decision relative to the Fort Hayes military reservation. They want the land vacated and turned over to the state. The Kansas officers claimed to have discovered that certain survey maps and plats shown by the general land office in Washington and necessary to the former departmental decision are not on file in the local United States land office at Wakeeney and never have been on file there, says a Washington correspondent of the Globe-Democrat. For that reason they claim that Cox and his associates, who filed homestead applications for the land, could not have obtained original right by the mere filing of these papers of application, not being a long-established rule of the land department, founded upon the statute, that local land offices can not allow applications or entries until after the filing in the local land office of the requisite maps and plats, showing the surveys and subdivisions of sections and quarter sections of the lands. An investigation into the matters presented by this petition and information elicited by the department through correspondence with the local land office at Wakeeney corroborated the statements of the Kansas officers representing the state. Acting Secretary Ryan has directed the commissioner of the general land office, Mr. Hermann, to call upon Cox and other individual applicants for these lands to show cause why these applications should not be rejected and the lands made over to the state under the recent act of congress granting the unappointed lands in the reservation to the state for agricultural college purposes. It is a settled rule in the department that a former decision for an entry of land will never be vacated upon an ex parte showing and hence Cox and his associates are accorded an opportunity in this instance, to fully set forth their claims and views. The papers presented recently strongly indicate that the department can not lawfully do otherwise than award the land to the state of Kansas. Senator Harris and the assistant attorney general of Kansas, and a number of other prominent Kansans were in Washington recently interesting themselves in the case. In the petition which they presented at the interior department they include some interesting exhibits, such as a photograph of the map of Fort Hayes military reservation now in the land office at Wakeeney, showing that the divisions and subdivisions are not indicated on it, and also a photograph of the map in the General Land office here, in which such subdivisions are shown. In rendering the original decision favorable to Cox the department was not aware of the difference between the two maps, and it could not but presume that they were alike. Why the difference exists is not apparent as yet, but will probably be brought out in the further hearing of the case. The Naval Cipher- The naval cipher would make a good textbook for the puzzle editor and the queer people who solve their freakish maneuverings. Words and sentences are as involved in these mysterious writings as it is well nigh possible for human thoughts to be concealed. All the great departments of the government have their own way of transmitting secret messages, but the naval code is the most intricate and vexatious of all. This naval code has been doing business for a good many years, but no one ever thought much about it until the Washington newspaper men suddenly discovered that it was a very great nuisance in their business. Not that these enterprising chaps are unpatriotic and want to pry into government secrets, but the transmission of a code message takes such a long time that the waiting becomes tiresome. In some mysterious manner the receipt of an important message is always breathed forth in this little newspaper community, and there is usually a scurrying to the department to get such portions as are to be given out. At first sight, these code cablegraphs are not different from any other code messages. They are a jumble of words from all languages, lingoes and dialects, with a sprinkling of common strong slang. They suggest history, prize fighting, art criticisms, mathematical problems, politics, circ advertising, and, in fact, almost everything except something about ships. Italian words are joined to Bowery brevities to form a word and strange surprises come in the shape of a collection of letters with 's' on both ends and two or three 'x's in the middle.—Detroit Journal. Badly Timed Compliment Brigadier General James F. Smith of San Francisco became colonel of the First Regiment, California National Guard, in 1897, went to the Philippines in 1898, became the first American governor of the island of Negros in 1899, and is now a brigadier general of volunteers. His rapid advancement recalls an incident that marked the time when he was elected colonel. The election was held in the evening. During the day Mr. Smith, who is a lawyer, was engaged in defending fifty Chinamen charged with gambling. During the hearing the judge suddenly asked the prosecutor to point out certain ones of the indicted Chinamen who were supposed to be standing among the horde of orientals in the back of the room. The prosecutor could not and asked Mr. Smith to do so. Mr. Smith persisted, the prosecutor persisted, the judge insisted, and the future general remaining defiant, was sent to jail for contempt of court. He went to fail late in the afternoon and that very evening was elected colonel. The next morning the newspapers throughout the state published a brief Associated Press dispatch from San Francisco relating the fact that James F. Smith had been elected colonel of the First Regiment. The fact that he was also in jail was omitted. A friend of Mr. Smith, who had gone to Napa the day before, saw the dispatch and immediately sent the following congratulatory telegram: "The right man in the right place." When the message was delivered to the new-made colonel in jail he couldn't see the humor of it at first. Then he realized that it admiring friend did not know the "place" where the message found him.-Philadelphia Post. American Soldier's Generosity. A writer in "Ainslee's Magazine" tells this story: "Our government allowed several transports with returning volunteers to stop at Yokohama, and so hundreds of American soldiers visited that city and Tokio. One of them hired a bicycle, and was taking a ride about the streets of Yokohama when he ran down an elderly Japanese man. The soldier rang his bell several times, but the Japanese apparently paid no attention to it, and the American found himself promptly arrested and taken to court, where he was fined 10 yen ($5). He protested that he had done everything possible to avert the accident, and asked why the man made no attempt to get out of the way. The policeman then told him that the man was blind. The soldier looked dazed for a minute, then felt in his pocket and brought out a $10 bill. 'Here,' he said, 'it's the last I've got, but he can have it,' and he turned it over to the blind man. The Japanese were deeply touched, and that same day a delegation of policemen hunted up the soldier and gave him back his fine.' Army Officers' Intricate Duties Army Officers' Intricate Duties At the present time an American army officer's duties are often bewilderingly deritated.It is said of Lieut. N. G. Bishop of the artillery that while administering his duties in the Philippines his labors in addition to his regular tasks as officer, have embraced the licensing of business not provided for elsewhere in the government; the management of markets and the collection of market taxes; the management of the matadero and the collection of the meat tax; weights and measures, carriage taxes and taxes for carts and horses; building permits, registration of live stock, public land rentals and the collection of various other small imposts and taxes. All of these with a few exceptions, were farmed out for collection and supervision to individuals under the Spanish regime, but Lieut. Bishop has broken up this corrupt system. Men for the Navy. Lieut. D. W. Blamer, of the United States navy, opened a recruiting station at Indianapolis recently, and for ten or twelve days enlisted a large number of men for the navy. The building of new battleships for the navy opens opportunity to many "land lubbers" to begin a sailor's life. Men from eighteen to twenty-five years were enlisted with pay of $16 a month and youths from fifteen to seventeen years were taken as apprentices. Each man received a bonus of four months pay and an allowance of $45 worth of clothing as soon as the recruiting officer accepts him. In addition to sailors, the recruiting officer enlists sailmakers, machinists, electricians, musicians, boilermakers, hospital stewards, painters, carpenters, coal passers and men from other trades.