Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT What the Negro ls Doing Here --- The Negroes have made rapid progress in preparing themselves useful citizens since emancipation. It might be well to inform those who do not recognize his progress to here give a figures of his wealth in lives and occupation. We have colleges and institutions of which route, all being well attended by members of the race. A common school system is well attended with some like 1,200,000 youths in my attendance, with about 100 teachers to instruct them have 1,200 lawyers practiced in the various courts of the city. There are 1,100 mediators and surgeons, all well organized and giving perfect faction. Some of this numbing more than $10,000 usually. There are 130 dentists are 75 Negro drug stores, and operated by trained tractors. There are 25,000 boys and girls annually using the various trades, moulding themselves into useful citizens. Negroes own $850,000,000 of real and personal prop- There are 375,000 Negroes own farms and devote their to farming. there are 1,800 colored men employed in the Pullman service are 910 colored men who police officers, 200,000 are employed in the bar business, 600 who have trades of vari- ments. There are 50,000 col- people in business of one or the other. There are mail carriers in the United States postoffice department. colored people are publish- about 1,000 newspapers and magazines, more than 250 books been written and published colored authors. blacksmiths business has colored men who are pracsmiths by trade. In the maker and embalming bush there are 1,400 colored peo-4000 are first class typewri-1,325 are telegraph operat-326 colored women as graph operators; 7,496 first-engineers, 125,000 skilled men, 2,400 colored men are large and wagon makers by Two thousand plumbers has fiters, 325 inventors of machines, 125 clock and watch makers, 2,601 colored women are bakers by trade, 25,000 colored people who are printers by trade 176,543 colored people in the United States who are raising tobacco, 22,000 are cigar makers by trade, 46,000 stone and brick masons by trade, 50,000 colored colored mechanics. 21,453 colored women are dressmakers by trade 6,519 women are highly educated in music, some are teaching music, 10216 colored shoemakers. The Negroes have no suicides and but few beggars. The tramp is the one unknown quantity among the Negroes. These figures, if carefully studied will remove some doubt from the most skeptical mind as to the Negro, and his worth to the nation as a citizen.-Ex. Things look dark for the small boy since the shingle mills of Wisconsin have started up again It is the things we do under adverse circumstances that show the metal of which we are made. Many a man would sacrifice the biscuits mother used to make for the dough that uncle made Odd moments well applied will turn failure into success and open the way for happiness and life. ATTEMPT LYNCHING OF A NEGRO. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., June 4.-- Another lynching was attempted here last night. A crowd of Negroes surrounded the jail at midnight to lynch Walter Fisher a Negro under arrest for killing Edward Boone, colored. Sheriff Routsahn had just returned from Dayton where he took Fisher for safe keeping and so aroused the crowd which yelled that they would get Fisher when he was brought back for trial. Most every woman wants to be an angel but the nearest she can get to it in this world is to wear her dress low enough to give the wings a chance to sprout. In the theatre of life there is no asbestos curtain. WICHITA, KANSAS, JUNE 11, 1904. Negro Blown to Pieces. Southern White Men Thus Show Passion for Parallel Development of Races. MUSKOGEE, O. T., June 4.—Four white men are in the federal jail charged with the murder of Robert Suddeth, a Negro freedman near Broken Arrow by the use of an infernal machine. Suddeth was disliked because he owned a farm in the center of a white settlement. He was blown to pieces while plowing in a field. --- It is only when a man begins to get bald-headed that he really and truly appreciates how happy he was when he was a small boy with a fighting dog and a stone bruise. Negroes to Colonize in New Mexico Half a Million Acres Offered to Colored People on Terms ROSWELL, N. M., June 7. Five hundred thousand acres of valley land between Cloudcroft and Rosswell is being opened up and special inducements are being offered to secure Negro settlers. Much of the land is fitted for irrigation purposes and it is proposed to settle here one of the largest Negro settlements in the United States. San Antonio Negroes have become interested in the project and many of them have closed out such property as they have here and are going to try their fortune in that country. The land will be sold to them in 40 acre blocks with long time payments and they are being assured that all rights under the law that are given white men. In fact, it is proposed to make this an exclusive Negro colony. Hundreds of Negroes from Houston and other east Texas points have already gone there and are sending back flattering reports. A man never knows what it means to have a good and virtuous wife until he has had the other kind. Solomon may have been wise in his own generation but he never had to live a seal-skin life on a dog-skin salary. COLORED RUNNER MAKES RECORD. Philadelphia, Pa., June 5,—At the meet J. B. Taylor, the colored member of Pennsylvania track team, broke the record of 46 2-5 seconds in winning the quarter mil run. He finished two yards in the lead, running easily. --- White and Black Out of Sympathy Younger Generation of Both Races Further Apart Than Their Fathers Bishop Says. TURKEGKE, Ala, June 7.—The most important feature of the commercement exercises at Booker T. Washington's institute was the address of Bishop Galloway of the M. E. church. He said: "Speaking here and elsewhere as the friend of the Negro, I will not conceal from you the fact that in my judgment this is the most critical period in the history of your people. The older persons of both races, with their peculiar and pathetic attachments, are fast passing away. Between the younger generations there are no such ties of sympathy, but rather, I fear a growing estrangement. "And then there are others who have pronounced education a discredited experiment—a demonstrated failure in the elevation of the race. That instead of being a potential agent in the redemption of a people, it has wrought them injury and threatens their ruin. A few have gone so far as to declare that education has increased immorality and crime. Now, all this I have publicly and emphatically challenged, and I call upon you, young people of this institution, by the purity of your living, and the fidelity of your service, to make good that challenge. Demonstrate the fact that the agency which has been all powerful in the history of every other people shall not meet its first defeat at your hands. Answer these criticisms—many of them honest and sincere—not by harsh and defiant speech, but by the overwhelming argument of unassailable character and unquestioned integrity, and unchallenged achievement. "Let me counsel you to cultivate the spirit of patience and Christian charity. Be strong enough to abide the vindication of right living through all the testing years, and be christian enough to meet complaint without malice or revenge. Above all things whatever the provocation, emulate the man of Gallilee, and never harbor hate in your hearts "And remember that your characters are your own priceless possessions which can never be taken away. "Pet puppies in Paris are now provided with pajamas," says an exchange. Does the writer mean dudes or dogs. We don't care if the old mill never grinds with the water that is past, so long as there is plenty of water yet to come. Make the most of the small opportunities. They in turn will help you to greater ones. The golden rule some men live by is merely plated. Remember the place-Market at the gate of DOLD Packing House. WHITE SOUTH SEEKS TO DE- GRADE NEGRO. Rev. C. M. Melden of Providenc Says Tillman & Co. Are Slandering Negro. At a recent session of the Rhode Island state conference of Congregational churches at Pawtuckett the Rev. Chas. M. Melden, D. D., of Providence, R. I., who for some time lived in the south, delivered an address on the evils of lynching. Dr Melden criticised Senator Tillman of South Carolina, Senator Money of Mississippi, and Gov. Vardaman of the same state, whose purpose doubtless is political he said. "They are determined to reduce the Negro to a political nonentity," he continued, "and are endeavoring to create the impression throughout the country that he is a monster of ignorance, depravity and lust, incapable of improvement and fit only to serve his white landlord, and if he aspires to a social or civil equality to be shot like a dog. Let us glance at the remedy of lynching. First—As far as the Negro is concerned he should be trained in the duties of manhood and of citizenship. Second—The exaltation and maintenance of law. This should be done at every cost The entire strength of the national government, if necessary, should be employed to put down the mob and protect the prisoner in his right to a fair and impartial trial Third-I propose as a third remedy, which must supplement and give efficacy to the others, the universal revalence of the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ" Roses will predominate on ladies hats this spring. And as usual the homliest woman on the promenade will wear the prettiest roses. That Russian bear, that walks like a man, always reminds me of the new woman's walk, the walk with the stiff knee action and the Grecian bend. God made all men equal, but Mammon had the last word as to their bringing up. A good way to keep the boy on the farm is to hire a pretty dairy maid. The ice cream sociable will soon be in our midst. W. S. MENRION 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. NO 3 Eminent defenders and opponents of the higher criticism are having a hot fight in the newspapers. Why do the heathen rage? It is said that the horse has greater pulling strength, in proportion to his weight, than any other animal. How about the octopus. A 16-year-old lady has secured a divorce in Chicago. With such an early start it is to be hoped that she may succeed in living it down. The editor of the London Medical Press says that rats and mice are good eating. We understand now the reason for the unrest in China. General Ma is said to have command of the 5,000 Chinese regulars now on the march. There's no doubt about it. Mas are always in command. Uncle Russell Sage thinks no man ought to pay more than fifty cents for a straw hat. Well, a $50 Panama on a fifty cent head does look a little misplaced. The principal part of King Edward's job appears to be to visit around among his relatives and try to keep them from declaring war on one another. Sermons are now being delivered by phonograph down in New York. But a great many prominent citizens will continue to get theirs by wireless telegraphy. In view of the fact that the "Pilgrim's Progress" is about to be dramatized, the critics are sharpening up their pencils and a few of them are reading the book. The thoughtful Cincinnati Enquirer says "a game of baseball is not in the nature of things a religious festival." Every office boy knows it is often in the nature of a funeral. Perhaps the English educator who talked about the "feminized" American youth saw some of those queer things in baggy trousers, dinky coats and caps like clam shells. The members of the W. C. T. U. won't agree that the Boston man who bought six quarts of whiskey for 45 cents at an express company's unclaimed package sale was lucky. We do not doubt the assertion of Dr. Rondhaler that in Philadelphia you think of your grandfather. The atmosphere of the place conduces to thought of those who are at rest. Panama now talks of disbanding its army. This would seem to be an easy matter. All that is necessary is to charter an omnibus and distribute the soldiers around at their several homes. A junkman down in Bridgeport, Conn., cut a telephone cable that contained 100 wires, and when the telephone people found it out they said something much more expressive than "Hullo!" Bibb county, Ga., has a record of a hundred divorce cases at one term of court. The climate of the Dakotas would seem to have been instrumental in shifting the divorce center to the southeast. Do not scoff at the Chicago woman who declares that she used to weigh 224 pounds, but has taken off seventy pounds by mental action. Many a woman has taken ten years off her age in the same way. ' UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. ' THE SEARCHLIGHT, —— weerrs, - . =) kana > ‘W. N. 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WHY NOT GO TO WORK? ‘There is a costaln clemont of Wichita colared society who are hanging around the faloons heg- ging money undr any plea in order to eke out a mere existence till the fall campaign opens when they vill turn loose likr a pack of hurgry wolves upon the candidate for offiee and the public. ‘These men are all well and hearty and are able to work but they are too infernat lazy to work, and prefer to prey upon those who do work and then during the -eampaign time to ply their nefarious and infamous vocation of “politicat grafting.” Ichas always mystery to us why the police de- partment will permit such worth- loss individuals to thus remain e bore apon socivty. We refuee to believe that the police of Wiebits will longer wink at such men whe idly Icaf obout the saloons with earthly means of support. Such fel. Jow do not own more than what i: an bis baek and is a burden to the thrifty colered population én our ¢ ty, Make them either go to work 0 «© git? REINSTATEMENT OF ' THE WHITE WINGS. Ut is much pleasure that we note the re-establi hed of the colored mea to clean the streats. We did not gay anything during the time they were off as we had assurances that they would be placed back at work in the event that the night system did net preve satisfactoey. So the fact that the men are at work aga mssys that their work i far o ® satisfactory and all axe now pleased, Tho time is now at hand when the colored man must learn that « gil that glitters is not gotd ” Don’t ferget Dr. Counteo’s short hand class opens Mon ay night promptly at 8p, m, June 13, You should not fail te embrace this op- pertanity to Jearn this important art, ‘Tor days is all that is required to learn the system he teaches. Tre Merchants who ap- preciate the tradeof he col ored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON WE TLEM. CHILDREN’S DAY Atthe A. M, E, Gbuoch Sunday Eve. Jane 12th 7 p. m, The prograe: for the Children’s ‘Day Exercises at the A. M. E. church, Sunday, which bas been prepared by Mrs. Thos W. Bine, promises to be quite interesting. ‘Pho services wili begin promptly at 7 o'clock rain or shine and evesy. one is urged to be on hand prompt— ly at that hoer. The following is the program. :-: PROGRAM :-: Mrs. Thomas W. Kine ‘Mistress of Program 1— Song by the Choir, 2— Invocation 3— Opening Address W. N. Miller 4— Solo........Mus, Jno, Kimberling 5— Ree, ............ Miss Lillian Jones 6— Quartett...... ( Feug Cirls ) Betty May Hall, Pear) Haculey, Irma Clark, Oarrie Foster. 7— Duett.. Mandelin...Guitar Miss Lena Staten, Mrs. Owens 8— Sole.........Mes. Lawson Fines 9— Ree. ........ Mrs. Ida B Clarita 10-- Basso...Dr, O, P, Washington 11-- Inst. Solo Miss Mattie Turney 12- Solo......Miss Amelie Dhompsen Remember our prize offer for May June and July. The GEM Barber Shop, W, A. Berris, Prop, A Sanltary Shop, High Class Workmen Cleanliness and First-Class Work Our Motto 332. N. Main St. GIVE US A TRIAL Plenty of Clean Towels always on hand. ROCK ISLAND MAKES RECORD The Rock Isiand has established a new record for fast time between Omaha and Chicago. Msy 21d, a special train ef five cars, carrying the Anna Held Company, left Oma- ha at 1:00 «. m, arviving at Chica- go at noon. ‘Phe actual running time was 9 hours and 58 minutes, and as the distance is 499 miles, the ayer- age speed was nearly 50 miles an hour. Stops fer water were made at Atlantic, Brooflyn, Wost Liberty, Barean and Morris, Engines were changed at Valley Junction and a> Rock Isfand and 20 minutes were lost at the latter place while tho members of the company ate break- tast. A performance such as this made without any speeial attempt to“ break a record”, speakes vol- umes for Roow Island men and methods, for it goes without saying that a sped of nearlé a mile amin ate for noasly 500 miles is possibl only when engines and men and track are of the highest standard, We know that those who have aot paid their subscriptiun to the ‘Searchlight da not sleep well at night, so we are making our tour of colleation 0 they can get a rest for awhile, Have your money ready when we eall. CLUB SEASON CLOSED eens ‘The B, T. W. eiub held ite clos: ing session at the residence of the President of the ejb, Mra. ‘Phos. Glover, 700 N. Market last Wednes day afternoon. Pais wae the clos- ing mreting for the season and the club was royally entestained by the hostes; after which each member ‘expressed hera:lf as highly pleased with the work eeo.plished by the club dunng the season. Before ad- jeurning exeh member was preseat- ‘ed with a photographic hkewess oi the club’s president. Adjournment was then taker to meet in the fall with Mrs. Chas. H. Gordon, 18sh and Topeka ave. W. M. Dunson, Painter All Kinds of Fine PAINTING The Ouly Colored Painter the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N, Maia Phone 936 Locals and Personals! ; Fowler Bicycles $25.00 : The best value for your money : Schollenberger Bros- . Phone 545 230. Main § ; We'll Treat You Square. ‘ bo scunapeneaswaebanasiaa evacncacedeeceuescecaccis The A.M, E. church wiill hold specéal sorviees Sunday. ‘Mrs. M, Barton is in the eity this week from Millerton. Joseph Whitted is spending a few days in Wellington visitiag friends, WURVTVVTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAAATS When proparing to pay off bills do nob forget your Searchlight bill, If our collector doos net call while you have the money bring it to eur offiee 110 N. Main St. geeeeneereccecececeneeeeees | The G, L. A. elab met Tuesday ‘afternoon with Mrs, War. Wright. They adjourned to meet next week . Mrs, 8, W. Jones. Mrs, B. Hathmon reevived the snows of the rerious illness of her sister Mre, Bersie Bvaneof Kansas City. Messrs, Wm. Knox, Isaac »Knex an¢ Leroy Knox left Wednesday for Cherryvate, Kas., to attend at the bedside of their sick sister Mrs, Garrie Youag who was reported at the point of death. Mr. and Mrs, Ben J. Topp were on the sick list last week, but are now able to be out again, Rey. A. D. Jamison filled the pulpit at New Hope Baptist church Sunday night: Mrs. Jane Mayes is still very sick at the home of hes daughter, Mrs, Wm. Clark 430 N. Wichita, Mrs, H. F, Frasier, rfter spend- ing the weeq in our city visiting among friends aad relatives and at- tendinp to business matters deft Bondy fos her home in McPher- son, Kas. Watt Morris is getting up a, con- cert company and expeets to come befooe the publie soon. Watch for date. EF TR EF oF St OF OF OF OE Ob Ot OF OE ot OF At the meeting of the city eoun- cil Monday night i; was unani- mously decided to re establish the white wing system of cleaning ¢ starets, The white wings are eomposcd of color d men ip white suits who clean the business blocks, These men were dismissed a fow werks ego and the contract let to une Mr. O.C. Daisy who had tue streets swopt at nig t, The night plan of sweeping the stree’s proved very unsatisfactory. Much eredit is due Councilman J, Frank Bellew of the 1s werd and Councilman Wm. B. Pierce of th: 3: ward who got up the petitions and god deputy coun- ty atterney Ed Dil to write tiem off on the typewriter, Thee p:titions were placed in hands of Rev. B. Morris who got s gnatures rom the business men and the petit ous were presented to th city couveil Monday night and the men weut back o work W:d- nesday morning. The Sourchlight had 8 hand in convineing the city couneilien of thy nesesrity of the men going back to work, but out ef mpd: sty we take no credit. Ail are glad to+ee the urn in the sireots again and hope ‘hat t: eir seteution may be permanent, The men do geod work and in the future Wive- ita’s stree s wili again be noted for tneir elean) ness. If our readers wilh watch cur columns closely and follow them carefully they Will find some very saving bargains every week. We seeure these bargains for the benefit of our readers and trust that they appreciatc them, When wanting to buy consult the eolumns of the Scarchlight at all times. geeeccecoeeceeeeeeecereeeee YOUNG ARTIST, ERSTTST TTT SSSTTT TTT TUTTE Aina Jehnson, son ef Mv. and Mrs. Dudley Jotasom 615 Edgar és quite an artist, He wen first prize in roem 5 of the Washing ton sehoo! and his drawing have been sent to St. Louis as mart of the Kansas educational exhibits. At his home are several fine and attractive draw- ings. Shonld he continue he will be a classieal artist. H, B. Knox reeeived a tolegram Wednesday wiorning annoaneing the serious illnesi of his sister, Mrs, Carrie Young, at her home in Cher- ryvale, Kans. Aceompained by his wife he tefs Fridey morning for thas place... eereererererecrres PEERLESS LAUNDRY. Kaaaaannaananaaaaanaaaaaa The Peerless Steam Laundry is now one of the largest laundries in the state of Kansas. Mr, Seclover & Sons have built up a gigantic trade which has necessitated them instatliug a new steam mangle at a cost of $2,300 and several other late improvements which makes this oue of the biggest and best laundries in the state. They employ 32 people every day and do un immense busi- ness. A cull there will convince you. Mrs. Lee Anderson after spend- ing several months in (California has returned home. She reports having hed a most delightful time in California and tells cf the won- deritl sights to be seen in that country. She gained 12 pounds while in that country and is in fine health, Tabernacle Baptist ehurch chil- drens day service, will take place at2pm, Sunday, June 12, Te program has been} p:s1 witha great deal of care and will bea treat to old and young. The New Hi pe B tist S.S. will unite with tne Tabernacle on this occasion. Oa Sunday night Rev. Dr. Countee will give an illustrated song service with panoramic views, admittance free, a —TRY THE— (BeveGear SOLD EVERYWHERE 90O0O000090600000000000000 GRAND LODGES. 2OO09 FH $SO4H0FO9O0SOO56O0O8 | Arkausas Va'ley lodge 21 thas begun to make arrangements for the meeting of Prince Hall Grand Ledge Kansas jurisdiction, which will mect in this city m ugast. Past Master John T. Chianeth has been placed at the head of the gen- + rad management committee which insures the provisions to be made for the Grand Lodge will be com- plete in the mimutest detail; he is assisted by @ eammittes of progres sive masons, All looks forward for : grand tim-, indeed, in August, i i a i ge teen te eee 2S i (ea i ——S ‘ lool PISIPEIBBASsssaass t ele Southwestern Distributing TeSys] Agent for Cribben &Sexton Co, t= (ic) Any style of stove at wholesale == ee eat ee et HSK KKK KEK KE ES one nie eae : oe ae ‘ q ' 4 { tf . ' : i : : oofibls : ODO FR in cD : . , OW Tan _— ' SESTEVETSTTSTETETTTTTTTTTT aeeenereeeeececceeesess,,. Read the great Searchlight The Race’s Standard Beare SALLALALA SH LALALALLAIMAAALALAR MM MAAAIAY ~ GREAT REDUCTION ? Pants and Suits ; Children’s Suits. | Too many 7 items to mention -- but it will 7 pay you to inspect. : THE - HUB Charles Youngheim, Prop. 114 N. Main St. Wichita, Kansas. JOB WORK IS OUR HOBBY. L, $. NAFTSGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier. vO Fh National Bank, Capital $200,000.00 Surplus 50,000.00 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY DIRECTORS: W. R. Tucker, J. M. Moore, S. B, Amidon, R. L, Holmes, W. E, Jett, L. S, Naftsger, 0. Z. Smith, E, H. Middlekauft B. F, McLean, A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED Wichita +» » - + Kansas, ee C. P. Wshington, M. D. Physician and Surgeon 605 N. Maint. In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful at- tention and our store is the place to get it. We handle the best of Fancy and Staple Groceries and our prices are right. Orders given prompt attention. Kernan & Co., 1102 E. Douglas *Pone 357 We advise you to trade with 4} G. 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McLEAN. LUMBER YARDS AT Nichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. We trade Ranches, Farms, J. F. Belle Real Estate & I Homes So Installment Plan Western Lands and Ranges A S Oklahoma and Colorado R Patronage Office 110 N. Ma MYRON A Groceries, Fru and H 815 N. EVERY THING Prescriptions F Call and see us, Once A CUST Salman L 228 North L MEMBER - DEALER AT Water, Peck, Kansas. 408 W. F. Bellew & Co. Estate & Imigration Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. ands and Ranges A Specialty. Dealers in. oma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lak. tronage Solicited Since 110 N. Main, wichita, K YRON A. DEA eries, Fruits, Vegeta and Feed. 115 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phone ERY THING IN DRU Descriptions Filled With Care all and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman Drug Co. 8 North Main Street LUMBER = DEALER YARDS AT Phone 134 Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. 408 W. Douglas Real Estate & Imigration Agts Homes Sold On Installment Plan. Easy Terms. Western Lands and Ranges A Specialty. Dealers in. Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado Farms and Ranch Lands. Patronage Solicited- Office 110 N. Main, wichita, Kansas. MYRON A. DEAN Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables and Feed. 815 N. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 EVERY THING IN DRUGS Prescriptions Filled With Care Call and see us. Once a customer always A CUSTOMER Salman Drug Co. 228 North Main Street. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 232 SELOVER & SONS, Props. 245-247 North Market St HOUCK Insurance Gasoline Stoves Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose, etc. 116 East Douglas Ave. HARDING'S RESTAURANT Fort Orders Soft Drinks Lunch Ice Cream G. W. Harding, Prop. East Douglas Wichita. --- First-Class MEALS DEALER Phone 134 408 W. Douglas City Property and Merchandise New & Co., Immigration Agts Used On Easy Terms. Specialty. Dealers in. Kansas, Arms and Ranch Locks. Solicited- in, wichita, Kansas. A. DEAN Fats, Vegetables Feed. MAIN ST 101-Both Phones - 101 G IN DRUGS Called With Care a customer always OMER Drug Co. Main Street. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transleat a Specialty Mrs. R. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St.' Tel. 936. Banner Mills + CUSTOM GRINDING + ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROFS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 530 Ask for cash ships. NEW STAND. Rev. W. H. Billman, pastor of New Hope Baptist church takes the view that the churches ought not to publish so much about them free of charge, and he has recommended to his church that items published be paid for by the church. New Hope is composed of some of our best people and their readily accepted and will pay the Searchlight for their items. We think this a very manly stand taken by Rev. Tillman and he has our whole congratulations. While the Searchlight has made an effort to publish all the news about our churches during the past five years we have not received any kind of pay except on two occasions when Rev. Dr. Terrill was pastor of the A. M. E. church and now at the hands of Rev. Tillman. We are satisfied that every Negro journal in existemic would be pleased to see more pastors take the same stand. He has opened a long needed position—one which will do much to help Negro papers and will do no harm to the churches, to pay as they go. Rev. Tillman maintains that the churches are not pauper institutions, but ons with the whole public as their backers and are thus amply able to pay their way. In this we also agree with Rev. Tillman. Of course the practice of free print for the church is of long standing, and on our part we have worked and murmured not, but are willing and gladly accept the offering of New Hope and its gentlemanly and race loving pastor and hope that the time may come in Wichita and in Kansas when more of our pastors will take the same etand which Rev. Tillman has taken. FINAL AND COMPLETE REPORT OF HORNET CLUB. The following named persons who worked with the Hornete are members of the church J. E. Lewis ..... $11.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Wells ..... 8.25 Tobe White ..... 25 Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell ..... 8.00 Joseph Patterson ..... 3 75 Mrs. Lou Wilson ..... 5 10 Miss Ida Wilson ..... 5 15 Solomon Brown ..... 1 2 Mrs. Anna Goodseal ..... 1 90 Mrs. Berry ..... 2 20 Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson ..... 1 00 Mrs. Bertie White ..... 35 Mrs. Julia Hill ..... 2 75 Mrs. Mary Able ..... 5 00 Mrs. Callie Arnold ..... 50 Mrs. Weather ..... 4 25 Miss Estella Slator ..... 1 10 Mrs. Alpha Heck ..... 75 Mrs. Georgia Hyde ..... 5 15 Phillip Hyde ..... 7 30 Mrs. Ida Frazier ..... 3 00 Mrs. Eliza Youngblood ..... 1 68 Edmond Simpson ..... 3 00 Mrs. Mary Agons ..... 1 10 Rev. J. H. Vanlue ..... 1 00 H. Buford ..... 50 The following are the friends who contributed: W H Grant ..... 10 A W Morris ..... 1 00 B J Booker ..... 1 50 Rev Yokum ..... 25 Syl Anderson ..... 25 Ds. ..... 50 Mr. Swain ..... 50 Dr. J. E. Farmer ..... 2 15 Miss Virginia Hammonds ..... 2 00 A. T. Glover ..... 75 To many of my friends who gave me money foe the club and did not desire their names published, and to all of whom I am very grateful. From this source I have remitted $42.53. I am yours humbly Alice Lewis Chairman Hornet Club. P. S.—If any names are omitted please attribute omission to Sec. Get a Searchlight, if you want the new \ LIVE STOCK It will pay to give the calves grain as soon as they get to the soil where they care for it. They take an interest in it very early life, if it is daily placed before Calves can use corn and other to better advantage than cow they digest it more fully up to months of age. This is because stomachs are at first more fit digest concentrated feeds than feeds. From the age of six to a year old their digestive system gradually undergo a change and are adapted best for the hand bulky foods, some of which are trained in the process of digestion for from three days to a week. Therefore a little grain during calfhood will be used to advantage, and the little animals will be thriftier for it. The writer has frequently fed whole corn to calves daily and found that they made the best possible use of it. Probably there is no better grain than oats for calves, as it is better suited to make muscle than is corn. In the feeding of grain to calves it is preferable to feed it dry, as it is then more thoroughly masticated. It is doubtful if it is a good practice to grind it and mix it with milk or other slop, as is sometimes done. One advantage in feeding oats is that they are a producer of muscle rather than of fat, as it is not desirable to induce the young and growing animals to lay on fat. The calf that is two months old may be fed as much as a pint of grain a day and the grain ration can be increased with the growth of the calf and the conditions in the grain market and pasture. If the pasture is short, of course more grain should be fed than if the pasturage is abundant. Also a calf on a blue grass pasture would need less grain to keep it thrifty than would the calf on a wild pasture. Cactus for Stock Feed. Recently the city daily papers have been printing long articles on the use of cactus as stock food, representing this to be a new idea. The fact is, the cactus has been used quite extensively as stock food for at least ten years and perhaps longer. In the Southwest the variety principally used is the Nopal. The spines have to be singed off with fire or the cactus boiled till the spines can be rubbed off. Within the last few years extensive experiments have been made in Australia in the feeding of cactus, the boiling process being most used, in preparing the cactus. Several years ago the Farmers' Review expressed the hope that the government would undertake the breeding of cactus, with the object of getting some varieties without spines. The government stations have not yet taken up this work so far as we are aware, but we believe it will be done in the not far distant future. A good-sized spineless cactus of the variety liked by stock would prove of unestimable value on our western plains, where the rainfall is insufficient to clothe the plains with grass. The time may come when those same plains will be clothed with miles of spineless nutritious cactus. American Horses in Germany. American Horses in Germany. Germany is at the present time importing more than 100,000 horses a year, but few of them come from the United States. It was hoped a few years ago that we would catch a great deal of the German horse trade, but that hope has not materialized. Instead of gaining, we are losing. The latest figures we have are for the year 1902, but there has been little or no improvement since that time. In 1899 we sent Germany 4,343 horses; in 1901 we sent 553 horses, and in 1902 only 137 horses. This is near the vanishing point. Germany's sources of supply and numbers of horses imported from each country in 1902 were as follows: Belgium, 20,963; Denmark, 21,691; Russia, 35,131; Austria-Hungary, 14,485; Netherlands, 10,785; France, 6,213; Great Britain, 1,020; Switzerland, 840; United States, 137; all other countries, 402; total, 111,667 American consuls in Germany are told that the reason American horses are not being extensively imported into Germany is not the price, but the quality or lack of quality in the draft horses that can be picked up on American farms. The Task of the Shepherd. The saying that "everything is a trade" is as true of the shepherd as of any other functionary interested in the raising of farm stock. The task of the shepherd is to make himself thoroughly familiar with every phase of the live stock industry, especially of that part of it devoted to the raising of sheep. All branches are woven together quite closely and the lessons learned from one may be applied, to some extent at least, in another. The shepherd must know his sheep and their weaknesses. Their virtues will take care of themselves. He must know what conditions will reduce the thrift of his stock and the various diseases that are likely to come upon them. As to sicknesses of sheep, it is more necessary that he understand them and be able to baffle them than in the case of that of any other kind of stock. The sheep does not easily recover from disease, and the shepherd must be able to take the disorders as soon as they appear, if they are to be effectively treated. Give a little attention to breeding and the results will appear in a better flock. strap slippers For Men and Women. Patent Calf Oxford $2.50 We Sell Cheap 110 North Main Street Lots of Men Are in The Same Position Use a little more forethought, brother, and keep out of the rut of "penny wise and poud foolish." 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A ONES 497 URNER, Douglas Ave. DRUG STORE filled with Care Cigars and Tobacco. ..... a customer, always a customer for the Colored people. DAVIS, smaker, Harness work guaranteed. Prices Reasonable Ave. Wichita COPYRIGHT 306 East Douglas Ave. —Both Phones 98— WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS. SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEARCHLIGHT. Wichita, Kansas, Saturday June 11,'04 KANSAS COMMENT. FIVE MILES WIDE. — During the heavy rain storms Emporia Junction was in an overflow five miles wide. OIL AT PAOLA.—The Osawatomic Gas and Oil company brought in well No. 3 on the Beebe farm southwest of Paola. It will pump fifty barrels a day. RUIN OF CROPS. — Farmers in the Little Arkansas Valley have lost thousands in the ruin of crops all through Sedgwick county and to the north in Harvey. VOTED THE BONDS.—At an election Winfield voted $15,000 in bonds for school purposes. A new school building will be erected and present ones enlarged. VICTIMS SMASHED CIRCUS.—A circus at Turon did much "grafting and "short change" work. In return the victims chased the show from the townsite and smashed the mirrored wagons. NEW CLUB ROOMS.—The club rooms of the employees of the Topela Railway company occupy the entire second floor of the new office building opposite the state capitol. At the opening all of the employees and their families were present. Lunch and an orchestra were furnished by the company. In the new club there are a gymnasium, pool room, bath rooms and reading room. No expense has been spared in fitting up the rooms. Loss of STOCK.—The Rev. Mr. Fitch of Wichita, reports twenty head of cattle killed by a single stroke of lightning on his pasture southeast of Florence. Arthur Ice, living northeast of Florence, on French Creek, lost hogs and cattle and other stock, and with his family of twelve were floated downstream in his house, which lodged in some trees. The Fisher brothers and Williams brothers, of Cedar Point, were heavy losers of hogs and crops. The Stonestreet family, reported lost, were later located and rescued in boats. OU. FIELDS FLOODED.—Neodesha and vicinity never had such a flood before. Both rivers left their banks and overflowed nearby oil wells, while other oil wells could not be reached. All the wheat fields between the rivers were under water. Some families who remained too long in the bottoms were brought in by rescuing parties. Precaution had been taken to save stock by taking all animals to the highlands. Neodesha was without mails for a few days. The older citizens say that the food has been equal to that of 1895, which is the highest known. Fall river and the Verdigris united south of town making a sheet of water two miles wide. AT OTTAWA.—The flood at Ottawa registered, at one time, 34 feet above low water mark. There were 300 families homeless. Now that the flood is over and damages done in plain view it is found that the losses are much greater than at first was apparent. The Santa Fe yards are a mass of twisted rails. Around the depot are holes eight feet deep. The loss of a milling company is $8,000 on flour and feed alone. The condition of the machinery is as yet not known. An ice and creamy company lost $2,000 or $3,000. Two drug stores on comparatively high ground are complete wrecks. One lumber yard is all gone. The loss of the potato crop is at least $30,000. Farm lands are swept bare. In North Ottawa 25 houses were wrecked. A HOLTON YOUTH.—Sidney S. Linscott, president of the senior law class of Kansas University, is a resident of Holton. He has held several offices in his class and has always been considered one of the leaders in the law school. He is a graduate of Shattuck Military school, Faribault, Minn., and a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. COTTONWOOD RIVER.—After the cloudburst in the country west of Strong City, that river covered the valley from bluff to bluff for miles. RIVER ENTERS STORES.—At the highest of the flood at Burlington the Neesho river rose sixteen inches higher than ever before and entered some of the stores on Neosho street. More than a mile of Santa Fe track was out and no trains came in for days. The waterworks pumping station was flooded. Much damage has resulted to growing crops. SECOND FLOOD.—For the second time this year the lower district of Iola was flooded and hundreds of families driven from their homes. KANSAS WEATHER.—Prof. Snow, of Kansas University, has kept weather records for thirty years or more, and these records show that May of this year was normal, as compared with the past years. The rainfall at Lawrence during May, 1904, was 7.85 inches, and the mean temperature was 62.32 degrees. A CORN PREMIUM.—The management of the Hutchinson fair is going to give two dollars a bushel for the best twenty-five bushels of corn shown by any one man. MANUAL TRAINING.—The first class to graduate from the Kansas Manual Training Normal school at Pittsburgh received diplomas at the close of the most novel and interesting commencement exercises ever held in Kansas. The exercises consisted of interesting and practical demonstrations of work done in the normal. Demonstrations of cookery, wood working and domestic science and art were given from the platform, and the graduates showed the large audience how to teach cookery, sewing, wood working, etc. The graduating class consisted of ten young ladies, all of whom expect to engage in teaching manual training and domestic science, and all of whom have previously been engaged in teaching, and gave up schools to spend the past year taking finishing work in the Pittsburg normal. KANSAS SALT.—Within the past fourteen years almost $10,000,000 worth of salt has been mined in Kansas. There are ten companies operating in the state. Seven produce evaporated salt, and the other three mine rock salt. The vein of salt is about 200 feet thick, and there is no telling how large an area it covers. It has been tapped at Ellsworth, Lyons, Hutchinson and Kingman. It probably extends over a good portion of Central Kansas. STRIKE SITUATION.—So far as the strike situation in Topeka is concerned there is no perceptible change. The shops are full of men and the Santa Fe officials say they are good ones. The road is not doing a big freight business at present but officials say that a decrease of business is to be expected at this season of the year. The machinists are not discouraged and say they are more hopeful of winning than they have ever been. COBURN BACK HOME.—Secretary F. D. Coburn of the department of agriculture, has returned to Topeka and says that he will be found at his old desk in the future. Since quitting his job as director of the live stock exhibit at the St. Louis fair he has been at Excelsior Springs recuperating. He has regained his health and will now buckle down to business in the agricultural department. He says he is glad to get back. FROM HIAWATHA.—George M. Nutting, editor in chief of the Jayhawker for 1904, is a Hiawatha boy. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of Alpha Tau Omega. Mr. Nutting succeeded in getting out an unusually good Jayhawker. He has been editor of the Kansas University Weekly and is one of the competitors for the Rhodes scholarship for Kansas. "NEVER BETTER—"We have lived a long time in Kansas," says the editor of the Jewell Republican, "but we never saw wheat, oats, alfalfa, corn, potatoes, gardens and fruits all in such magnificent condition as they are now." WERE COMPORTABLE—When the people got back to the H. H. Coe farm house near Ottawa after the flood had somewhat receded, they found two hogs and three dogs comfortably occupying one of the beds upstairs. FIRST DEATH IN FIFTY YEARS.—Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Johnston, of Wichita, lost a grandchild by death at Indianapolis, Ind., recently. This is the first death for fifty years in the Johnston family. LARGEST CLASS.—The graduating class at the Emporia state normal school numbered 252 members, the largest class ever graduated from a Kansas institution. GOV. MORRILL'S FLAG.—In ex-Governor Morrill's bank at Hiawatha is a large Union flag. It was given him by the soldiers of the military home at Leavenworth. COFFEYVILLE'S WORST.—While the Verdigris river was still rising it had reached the record high water mark. Hundreds of people were obliged to vacate their homes. The property loss is heavy. The North Star Paper Co.'s plant was completely flooded, causing great loss. The oil fields were inundated. The ice company's plant was flooded. The city had flood water on three sides. AGED LILACS.—In a Hiawatha yard are two lilac bushes which are over 35 years old and are still blooming. RAIN AND WIND.—At Winfield two and a half inches of rain fell in a few hours. The Walnut and other streams became the highest they have been this season. Severe windstorms came with the rain and at Maple City several buildings were destroyed. STILL FLOWING.—A 300 barrel well was brought in on the Thompson farm south of Pern. It has shot oil to such an extent that the trees around it are dripping with the petroleum. It has flowed a stream incessantly since it was shot. 200 YEARS OLD.—A man at Potter claims to have a brass kettle that is over 200 years old. It was found in the ruins of one of the old Jesuit missions on the Shebeshekong river in Canada. These missions were established as early as 1640 among the Huron Indians. DR. LOWRY STREET DOWN.—Dr. J. R. Lowry will not be a candidate for secretary of the state board of health again. This is the only office that pays a salary. Dr. S. J. Crumbine, of Dodge City, is a candidate for the job. COLONEL. CULP'S RECORD.—In the obituary of the late Col. Edward Culp, of Salina, it is recited that he was the only officer in the Twenty-fifth Ohio infantry who was not killed or wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. This regiment was one of only five regiments in the war that lost more than 85 per cent of its men present for duty in any one battle. Colonel Culp entered the war in 1861 at the age of 17 as a private. He came out at the end of the war as lieutenant colonel of the regiment he entered as a private. REVOKED CERTIFICATE. — The state charter board has revoked the certificate of authority of the Southern Investment company of Lexington, Ky. to do business in Kansas. The legal reason for revoking it is that the company failed to make a report to the secretary of state as required by law. The real reason is that the company is doing a bond business of which the state officials do not approve, and which they have not allowed other companies to do. HOUSES FRUIT AND CROPS.—In Rice county dozens of houses, barns and windmills are reported turned over by the wind. Hundreds of fruit trees are blown down. Some corn and Kafir corn is reported washed out. It is hard to estimate the loss, but it will be great. About Lorraine and Sterling many small houses were blown down, crops were damaged and much other damage done. Two inches of water fell within ten minutes. A POPULAR STUDENT.—Ralph Waldo Ellis, of Pratt, Kansas, present editor of the Kansas University Weekly, is perhaps the most popular man in the senior class. He has completed the course in three years and during the meantime has found time to play football and engage in newspaper work. Mr. Ellis played end and substitute half back in 1902. BULLET THROUGH BRAIN. — Albert Dallal, a Norcatur man, was shot in the head, the bullet going straight through the brain, but he is on a fair way to recovery. He is now able to sit up to the table and eat his meals. TRACK WASHED OUT. —The Iola electric railroad has a quarter mile of track submerged leading from the river and four miles east of the city a small ravine has washed out about two hundred feet of track. 181 SENIORS. —There are 181 members of the senior classes in the six departments of Kansas university, and besides these there are 19 candidates for the master of arts degree and one for degree of master of science. 600 HOMELESS.—The sudden rise of Sand creek flooded about one-fourth of the city of Newton. The rise of the creek was caused by a cloudburst. About 600 persons were rendered homeless. SERVED TWO TERMS.—John Ready, a Winfield negro, who was released from the penitentiary last February after serving his second term, is now in jail for assaulting a 9 year old colored girl. STREETS COVERED.—The cloudburst at Emporia, during which $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches of water fell, covered Commercial streets for two blocks. Basements were filled with water. FIRST AND PRESENT.—In a flower parade in Topeka Mrs. Robinson, wife of the first governor, and Mrs. Bailey, wife of the present governor, rode in the same carriage. WHEAT RUINED.—Much wheat was ruined by floods in the vicinity of Winfield. People who were driven from r homes by high water have returned to them. PRESENT TO LIBRARY.—Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Morgan have presented $100 to Hutchinson's public library which has been invested in the purchase of books. TORNADO IN NORTON COUNTY.—A tornado struck Selden, west of Norton on the Rock Island railway, demolishing a church, five dwellings and destroying much farm property. A funeral service was being conducted in the church at the time and 500 persons were in attendance. A dozen persons were hurt, none seriously. Much damage was done to farm property in the path of the storm beyond Selden, but no loss of life has been reported. TALL WHEAT.—In Stafford county wheat stands as high as the burgy box. wheat stands as high as the buggy box. TORNADO IN FORD.—During a heavy heavy storm a tornado struck several barns, windmills and houses near Ford Citymiles ten southeast of Dodge City. One house belonging to Elliott Sisson was turned completely around so now it faces west instead of east. All the windmills in the vicinity are down. Much damage was done by hail and the driving rain. Reports from several localities say that nearly all the fruit is off the trees. TRYING MILLET.—Millet is being given a trial in Haskell county. 20,000 HARVEST HANDS.—T. B. Gerow, director of the state employment bureau, estimates that about 20,000 hands will be needed for the Kansas wheat harvest. He figures that wages will be about $2 a day. This includes board, of course. GOLDEN WEDDING.—In Nelson township, Cloud county, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremi Regnier celebrated their golden wedding. Among the guests were three brothers of Mr. Regnier aged respectively 77, 79 and 83 years. Mr. Regnier is 73. NONUNION MEN KILLED Infernal Machine Exploded Under a Depot Platform. FORTY SHOTS FROM UNION HALL Local Committee of the Western Federation of Miners Deplore the Diabolical Murder. "Doers of Such Deeds do not Deserve to Live." Cripple Creek, Colo., June 8.—A concealed assassin by pulling a wire exploded an infernal machine, instantly killing eleven men and severely wounding eleven others, two of whom have since died. The men had quit work at 2 a.m. and were waiting to board the suburban train and return to their homes in Cripple Creek and Victor. Just after the engineer of the approaching train blew his whistle as a signal to the miners, according to custom, a terrific explosion occurred underneath the depot platform at Independence on and near which twenty-six men were gathered. The platform was blown into splinters, the depot was wrecked and a hole twenty feet in circumference and about as many feet in depth, was torn in the ground. Fragments of bodies were hurled through space for several hundred feet and later were picked up still quivering. Some of the bodies dropped into the pit made by the explosion, but heads, hands, ears, legs, arms and trunks were strewn about on all sides. Pieces of flesh were found on the buildings 500 feet away and bloodstained everything within a radius of 50 feet. A majority of the dead and injured were single, but several had families living in the district. Denver. The outburst had its inception in the strike of the members of the Western Federation of Miners some time about a year age, when 4,000 men quit work for the purpose, primarily, of enforcing an eight-hour day. This action so incensed the mine owners that they declared war on unionism and the breach has grown wider with the passage of time. Victor.—Nitoting broke out in Union hall in this city while a mass meeting was being held to discuss the murder of twelve non-union miners by means of an infernal machine at Independence. Forty shots were fired into a crowd in the street. Two persons were killed and six persons, at least, injured. Colorado springs.—The local committee of the Western Federation of Miners has authorized the Associated Press to say that they deplore the diabolical murder. The following is a statement given out by them. "No men who deserve to live would or could approve the awful deed. The fiends who planned and carried out the devilish crime should be detected and punished to the full extent of the law. The crime must be unearthed and the perpetrators punished. The committee and all local members of the Western Federation of Miners are ready and willing to assist in uncovering the guilty ones and will use every endeavor to assist the authorities in their efforts and we herewith tender the services of all our members. We will also join in offering a suitable reward for the arrest and conviction of the guilty persons." Cholera In Philippines Manila, June 9.—An epidemic of cholera is sweeping the Philippine islands and the inhabitants are dying by hundreds in many parts of the interior. The cholera has been raging in the archipelago for nearly a year, but is growing decidedly worse with the advance of summer. The total cases in Manila to date have been 5,112, with 3,958 deaths. This is a case of mortality of 77.2 per cent. In the present year there have occurred in Manila 1,179 cases, with 894 deaths, giving a case mortality of 75.8 per cent. There have been 3,309 cases and 2,568 deaths among women. In fourteen cases the sex was not noted. These figures show that the number of men affected is about twice that of the women. A Naval Battle Probable. Che Foo, June 9.—Preceding a sea attack on Port Arthur the Japanese apparently made a determined effort to advance on that stronghold by land. It would appear that the Japanese had planned a sea and land attack on Port Arthur and the Russians, on seeing this, sent their fleet out to give battle. The result is not known. Against Compulsory Voting. Berne, Switzerland, June 7.—The grand council of the federation, having proposed a law which made it compulsory for the people to vote at political elections, the law was disapproved by a majority of 1,000. Judge of Ninth District. Topeka, June 6.—Governor Bailey has appointed C. M. Williams of Hutchinson, as judge of the Ninth judicial district to succeed the late M. P. Simpson, who was killed in an automobile accident in early May. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. Over 200 Union Men Confined; 24 Deported on Special Train. Denver, June 9.—Adjutant General Sherman M. Bell, accompanied by a detail of staff officers, is on his way to Cripple Creek bearing Acting Governor Haggott's proclamation of martial law for that district. He has instructions to use his judgment as to the need for issuing the proclamation. Cripple Creek.—Deputies and soldiers searched the hills for union miners and the sum total of arrests was nineteen. This swelled the number of men confined in the "bull pen" to considerably over 200, and 24 of them were placed aboard a special train and deported from the district. In each case a committee of the Citizens' Alliance waited upon them and compelled them to act immediately under pain of violence. They went to union headquarters and turned everything over in an effort to find the union records. Their efforts were unavailing. While the tension is tightly drawn and the whole district has taken sides in the bitter feeling existing between the Mine Owners association and the unionists, it is thought that a clash will be averted for the reason that most if not all of the union leaders are in durance. The streets of this city are being constantly patrolled by deputies and soldiers. Seven Stations Established. Kansas City, June 9.—P. Conner, the forecaster of the weather bureau in this city, returned from a trip through the Kaw watershed to establish river stations and engage men to take charge of them. Seven stations were established as follows: Kaw river, Topeka, Manhattan; Republican river, Clay Center; Solomon river, Beloit; Smoky river, Abilene, Lindsborg; Blue river, Blue Rapids. "The necessary equipment for the stations has been ordered and the names of the men who will be in charge of the stations will be announced when the chief of the weather bureau acts upon my report," said Mr. Conner. "All the stations will be in operation by July 15 and earlier if we can push the preparatory work. These stations will keep the weather bureau informed of river conditions the same as the stations in the wheat and corn belts now report weather conditions." K. N. G. Encampment. Topeka, June 8.-S. H. Kelsey, adjutant general of the Kansas National Guard and Governor Bailey have agreed that the annual encampment of the guard shall be a brigade affair. For some time the military men of the state have been undecided whether to allow each regiment to hold a separate encampment or to hold a single encampment. A majority of the officers in both regiments favored separate encampment of the regiments but the governor and the members of his staff have decided that more good would result from one meeting. Mines Found And Exploded. Washington, June 9.—The Japanese legation has received the following cablegram from Tokio: "Admiral Togo reports that the clearing-up operation in the Talienwan bay is progressing satisfactorily, despite rough weather. Forty-one mines were discovered and exploded between June 2 and June 6. The Chinese who formerly served the enemy as a pilot is now usefully employed by us. One safe way was discovered rendering navigation possible for shallow ships. Obscene Advertisements. Washington, June 6.—Postmaster General Payne has given out a statement regarding newspaper publication of obscene advertisements. It was explained that the department had no intention of entering upon a crusade against patent medicines or establishing a censorship on advertisements, printed in newspapers, but simply aimed to correct abuses in cases of obscenity and fraud as required by law. The Rowersock Dam. Lawrence, Kans., June 9.—Congressman J. D. Bowersock is considering a deal to fell his dam across the Kaw river at this place to a company which proposes to build an electric line from Kansas City to Topeka. The dam has a 15,000-horsepower and will furnish almost-enough power for the entire line. In case he closes the deal he will not rebuild his flour mill, which was washed out by the flood last year. London's Trade In May. London, June 9.—The May statement of the board of trade shows increases of $14,325,000 in imports and $150,500 in exports. Bloody Cossacks. Seoul, June 9.—Reliable information has been received here from Ping Yang to the effect that Cossacks between Anju and Kai Chou are reported to be killing the Korean natives and looting their homes. His Summer Vacation. Rome, June 7.—United States Ambassador Meyer paid a farewell visit to Foreign Minister Tittoni, and afterwards left Rome on his summer vacation, most of which will be spent in the United States. Tle Between Brother and Sister Tie Between Brother and Sister. In no country in the world is the tie between brother and sister closer than it is in Russia. The brother is regarded as her guardian equally with their father, and as her protector even more. Appetite of Young Robins. Young robins have an almost insatiable appetite for worms, and must eat at least as much as their weight daily. Their powers of digestion are prodigious in proportion to their size and age, and their rate of growth is correspondingly rapid. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. When Interments Were Permitted. The following curious rule appears under paragraph 68 of the municipal regulations governing burtals at Glessen. Hesse: "Interments are only permitted after death has taken place. In all other cases a certificate signed by the mayor is required." A Telephone Conundrum. The Reading Hustler asks: "If Ann is 24 years old and goes out into the orchard and eats a green apple and gets the colic, what is her telephone number?" and a telephone replies, "You might try sicks sicksty, but the chances are that the line is 'busy,'" Clothing of Esquimaua The well-to-do Esquimaua generally own several complete suits of clothes, and present a neat appearance when not engaged in dirty work. The poorer classes wear one suit for all occasions until it becomes shabby. New clothes are seldom put on till winter. The outer frock is not often worn in the igh, or hut home, being usually taken off before entering the room. The Day in Review. Let not sleep fall upon thine eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.—Pythagoras. Placed Washington First. George Washington was the only president to receive the unanimous vote of the electoral college. At the second election of James Monroe, in 1820, there was no political opposition, but one elector from New Hampshire voted for John Quincy Adams, explaining that he did so in order that no man might share with Washington the honor of unanimous election. Lions Are Treacherous. Men who have had long experience with lions give them a very bad character. There is said to be no art in so-called lion-taming but the art of terrorism and no rule but that of keeping the lions' stomachs full and their minds cowed. There never has been and there never will be, say some, an appeal made to the lion's intelligence, because the limited amount of that quality which he possesses is entirely dominated by his ferocity. Hunters Destroy Fur Industry. The wealth of Russia in furs is being rapidly sapped. It is reported that in a certain district of the Yenisei government, where fifty years ago hunters annually shot 28,000 sable, 6,000 bears, 24,000 foxes, 14,000 blue foxes, 300,000 squirrels, 5,000 wolves, and 200,000 hares, hardly a sable can be found to-day. The blame is laid to the wanton destruction of wild animals in the course of the hunting expeditions. No steps seems to have been taken to put a stop to this. A Druggist's Story. Coelledo, Mo., June 6.—Mr. Adolph Gerhardt, chemist and druggist of this place, was so ill with his back and kidneys that he couldn't work. He was very bad and didn't seem to get any better till he began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. He was so delighted with the results he got from this remedy that he wrote: "Dodd's Kidney Pills are a Godsend to suffering humanity. I was down on my back from kidney trouble so bad that I was unable to work. I began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and before I had finished one box, I was able to go to work again. I have not had any kidney trouble since. I will always recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills." Many such cases are being reported from all over the state and Dodd's Kidney Pills, solely on their merits and by the wonderful and perfect cures they work are established as the standard remedy for backache and all kidney complaints. The Poor Little Dog "You had better have Hannah, the cook, feed that lap dog of yours something besides breakfast food and cream," growled Mr. Flattingon to his wife. "I found him on top of the dresser this morning gnawing up my bone collar buttons." — Cleveland Leader. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Keep the Brain Active. People often make the excuse that they have bad memories when the truth is they are too slovenly to use their brains. Nothing, however, insignificant, should be done without reflection. First thoughts are often best, but it is sometimes not until we have thought many times that we can make them so. DOCTOR ADVOCATED OPERATION PE-RU-NA MADE KNIFE·UNNECESSARY. WINCHESTER Take-Down Repeating Shotguns Don't spend from $50 to $200 for a gun, when for so much less money you can buy a Winchester Take-Down Repeating Shotgun, which will outshoot and outlast the highest-priced double-barreled gun, besides being as safe, reliable and handy. Your dealer can show you one. They are sold everywhere. FREES Our 160-Page Illustrated Catalogue. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN. MRS. EVA BARTHO, 133 East 12th St., New York City, N. Y., writes: "I suffered for three years with leucorrhea and ulceration of the womb. The doctor advocated an operation which I dreaded very much, and strongly objected to go under it. New I am a changed woman. Peruna cured me; it took nine bottles, but I felt so much improved I kept taking it, as I dreaded an operation so much. I am to-day in perfect health and have not felt so well for fifteen years."—Mrs. Eva Bartho. Mrs. Senator Roach, of Larkmore, N. Dak.; Mrs. Senator Warren, of Cheyenne, Wyo.; Belva Lockwood and Mrs. General Long-street, of Washington, D. C., are among the prominent ladies who indorse Peruna. Miss Helen Rolof, Kaukanna, Wia., writes: "Several times during the past two years or more my system has been greatly in need of a tonic, and at those times Peruna has been of great help in building up the system, restoring my appetite and securing restful sleep."—Helen Rolof. Miss Muriel Armitage, 36 Greenwood Ave., Detroit, Mich., District Organizer of the Royal Templars of Temperance, writes as follows: "I suffered for five years with uterine irregularities, which brought on hysteria and made me a physical wreck. I tried doctors from the different schools of medicine, but without any perceptible change in my condition. In my despair I called on an old nurse, who advised me to try Peruna, and promised good results if I would persist and take it regularly. I kept this up for six months, and steadily gained strength and health, and when I had used fifteen bottles I considered myself entirely cured. I am a grateful, happy woman to-day."—Miss Muriel Armitage. Miss Lucy M. Riley, 33 Davenport St., Cleveland, Ohio, writes: "I wish to add my indorsement to thousands of other women who have been cured through the use of Peruna. I suffered for five years with severe WINC Take-Down Don't spend from $5 much less money you Down Repeating She outlast the highest besides being as sa dealer can show you o FREES Our WINCHESTER REPEAT SLEEP For Skin Tortured Babies and Rest For Tired Mothers In Warm Baths with Cuticura SOAP And gentle anointings with CUTICURA Ointment, the great Skin Cure, and purest and sweetest of emollients. It means instant relief and refreshing sleep for tortured, disfigured, itching, and burning babies, and rest for tired, fretted mothers, when all else fails. Sold throughout the world. Cultures Soap, 58c. Chambre House Sg., Paris, 3 Rue de la Paix, Boulevard A, Avenue Droit de la Chemie, College des Propriétaires. Sold for "How to Cure Baby Humor." When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. MRS. EVA BARTHO. backache, and when weary or worried in the least I had prolonged headache. I am now in perfect health, enjoy life and have neither an ache or pain, thanks to Peruna."—Lucy M. Riley. It is no longer a question as to whether Peruna can be relied on to cure all such cases. During the many years in which Peruna has been put to test in all forms and stages of acute and chronic catarrh no one year has put this remedy to greater test than the past year. If all the women who are suffering with any form of female weakness would write to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, and give him a complete description of their symptoms and the peculiarities of their troubles, he will immediately reply with complete directions for treatment, free of charge. Address Dr. Hartman. President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. What has become of the old fashioned store that kept hair oil. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS Use the best. That's why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents. Some people are so worthless you can't help them. Free to Twenty-Five Ladies. The Defiance Starch Co. will give 25 ladies a round trip ticket to the St. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri who will send in the largest number of trade marks cut from a ten cent, 16-ounce package of Defiance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, anywhere in the above named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and received by the Defiance Starch Co. Omaha, Nebr., before September 1st, 1904. October and November will be the best months to visit the Exposition. Remember that Defiance is the only starch put up in 16 oz (a full pound) to the package. You get a third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never sticks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mail September 5th. Starch for sale by all dealers. Unless a man has faith in himself there isn't much hope for him. THE DAISY FLY KILLER destroys all the files and affords comfort to every home in dining-room, sleeping-room, and laundry-room. These are trouble-some - clean, neat, and safe in jars anything. Try them once and you will without it. If not killed by fire, send prepalp for 25%. HAROLD SOMER, M.D. HAROLD SOMER, M.D. Brooklyn, N. L. FREE to WOMEN A Large Trial Box and book of instructions absolutely Free and Postpaid, enough to prove the value of Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic Paxtine is in powder form to dissolve in water—non-polonous and durable for antiseptic antiseptics containing alcohol which irritates inflamed surfaces, and have poor cleaning properties. The contents of every box makes a moist, moisture—lasts longer—goes further—has more uses in the family and does more good than any antiseptic preparation you can buy. Paxtine is in powder form to dissolve in water, not incarnates and far superior to liquid antiseptics containing alkali and irritant inflamed surfaces and have no cleaning properties. The contents of the formula must be more Antiseptic Solution - lasts longer, you deserve more uses in the family and does more good than any antiseptic preparation you can buy. The formula of a noted Boston physician, and used with great success as a Vaginal Wash, for Leucorrhea, Pelvic Catarrh, Nasal Catarrh, Sore Throat, Sore Eyes, Cuts, and all soreness of mucus membrane. In local treatment of female ills Paxtine is invaluable. Used as a Vaginal Wash we challenge the world to produce its equal for thoroughness. It is a revelation in cleansing and healing power, which cause inflammation and discharges. All leading drugstores keep Paxtine; price, 50c. If you dress not, does not, suit. Paxtine takes a suit not, looking like Paxtine. Write for the Free Box of Paxtine to-day. R. PAXTON CO., 5 Pape Bldg., Boston, Mass. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. GETS OUT OF HIS DEPTH. Musicians' Oddities Make Amusement for Companions. Among such a mass of players as comprises a great orchestra there are "characters" enough to supply a new Dickens. One of these characters, according to the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, is noted more for his love of big words than knowledge of their meaning. During Mr. Seidl's lifetime he played in the orchestra at Brighton beach. One day the tuba player, who sat back of him, had a very difficult part to play in Liszt's symphonic poem, "Mazeppa." Hearing his heartfelt sigh of relief on its conclusion, Mr. Malaprop turned and asked, "Barnum had one, hadn't he?" "What?" was the query. "A Mazeppa, of course," was the answer. He had confounded the hero of Byron with a zebra. "Do we play this with or without reputation?" he asked one day of a colleague. Playing in a new theater on tour, the man who sat next him looked up and announced: "The acoustics are bad here." "Are they?" he said critically, sniffing the air. "I have such a cold that I can't smell. But I take your word for it." Russia's Many Holidays. Russia has over 100 universal holidays in the year, and, in addition, every village has the holdlay of its own saint, so that on the average there are only about 18 working days in a month. Each village also has certain holidays of its own. Thus the village of Mikhallovo celebrates as a festival the anniversaries of: "The day the village was burnt down in 1897." "The day Piotr Morsoff tumbled into the ravine and broke his neck." "The day Piotr was buried." "The day the Czar Alexander Nikolaivitch, the emancipator, visited Count Zhilinsky's house at Bobr." "The day the Virgin Mary was seen bringing food to the famine-stricken in 1891." All these festivals are celebrated by the consumption of "gorki" (another pet name for vodka). The drink is not paid for by private individuals, but out of the communal revenue, the amount to be expended being fixed at a special meeting of the "mir," or village parliament.—Stray Stories. A. Prison Schoolroom One of the most remarkable schoolrooms in the world is that La Petite Roquette, the French prison for juvenile offenders. The system of this prison is solitary confinement, the whole building being so constructed that each of the detached cells is overlooked by a warder stationed on a small observation tower. The schoolroom consists of 200 cells in the form of an amphitheater, from each of which the teacher, and the teacher only, can be seen. Each of the youthful offenders takes his place in silence, the first in the furthermost cell and the others in rotation. The closing of one of the cell doors opens that of the next cell. The voice of the teacher is the only sound to be heard in the building. In Banking Business Sixty Years. James Espy of Cincinnati, the oldest active banker in Ohio, has resigned as president of the Ohio Valley National bank. Mr. Espy was 80 years old last week, and he took that occasion as a fitting time to resign, after rounding out sixty years at active service in banking work, which he began with the Franklin bank of Columbus. He has been in Cincinnati since 1854. In 1858 he organized the Ohio Valley bank and became its first president, retaining that position until his resignation. Wrote Will on Bible Flyleaf Mrs. Schoenberg, a wealthy widow of Independence, Mo., died two years ago. She was known to have made a will, but the document could not be found. A few days ago it was discovered that the will had been written on the fly leaf of a Bible used by the decedent. The relatives did not desire to mutilate the book, so they offered it for probate, and the estate is now being settled according to the terms set down. Harry Lehr's Quiet Costume Harry Lehr has once more achieved a sartorial sensation. On entering a Philadelphia hotel the other evening he revealed a creation in shirt studs that no rival can hope to emulate. Three studs he wore, large as the old-fashioned 2 cents, carved in black enamel, with a gold rim and a diamond cross in the center. Cuff buttons and waistcoat buttons were chosen to match this chaste design. From Athens to Paris. Athens, Greece, is soon to be connected with Paris by railway. The Grecian government has already secured the building of a road to the Turkish frontier, which will soon be connected with the railway systems of Europe. Typhoid Mortality Decreases. In 1882 the deaths from typhoid fever in Paris were 142 per 100,000 inhabitants, to-day the proportion is only 10 per 100,000. Eyes of British Queen Queen Alexandra's eyes are deep blue, and retain the mingled softness and fire of youth. Steel and Iron Rails. Steel rails average 130 tons of metal to the mile: iron. 145 tons. 900 DROPS A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS AND CHILDREN. Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alk. Stone + Rockellia Salts - Lemon Seed - Naparidine + El Carbureo Salts + Were Seed - Cloridine Sugar Whiskey Powder A Perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Flitcher NEW YORK. All Stomachs Old 35 Doses 35 Caps. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitcher. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Many who formerly smoked 10¢ Cigars now smoke LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR Dealers supplied by their jobber or direct from Frank P. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. All Treasure Hunting. Treasure hunting has become the principal occupation of the islanders of Martinique. They dig day and night among the ruins caused by the eruptions of Mount Pelice for gold and other valuables. British Automobiles There are no all-Eritish-made automobiles. The machines contain parts from the United States or France. The industry in England has been hampered by adverse legislation so that the import business in such vehicles is much larger than the export French Pension Fund. The law c. France requiring all seamen to deposit 2 per cent of their wages with the government is applicable to fishermen, and this fund so collected is used to create a service pension, payable to all who have served twenty-five years under the French flag on the seas. The amount received by pensioners varies according to the capacity in which they have served. After the death of a pensioner one-half is continued to the widow. Wise is the man who refuses to drink between drinks. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, aids pain, ours wind colic. See a bottle. Bank tellers usually know more than they tell. Don't you know that Defiance Starch, besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in packages and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? A man isn't necessarily thin because you can see through him. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. THOS. ROBBINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Unless a man is his own master he can't master others. DONT SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers. 5c. a package. The oyster is getting ready to shut up shop. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. Unfortunately all contrition is ex post facto. FITS permanently up. No fire or newcomer after the first day's use of Dr. Klins's Great Nerve Inverter. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 831 Erast Street, Philadelphia, PA. The sailor feels all at sea when he is on land. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to be drained by a constitutional remedies, because it is caused by an infection. The mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this infiltrated you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. The infection is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed. However, nine cases of ten or more cases of catarrh, which can be an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces, will give one Hundred Dollars for any case of ten or more cases of catarrh, which could be held by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circular free. F. J. CHENYE & CO., Toledo, O. Soil by Druggrant. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The wheel of fortune turns many a fellow down. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Familiarity breeds contempt except where money is concerned. M. To be a successful wife, to retain the love and admiration of her husband should be a woman's constant study. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Potts tell their stories for the benefit of all wives and mothers. "DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:—Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will make every mother well, strong, healthy and happie. I dragged through nine years of miserable existence, worn out with pain and weariness. I then noticed a statement of a woman troubled as I was, and the wonderful results she had had from your Vegetable Compound, and decided to try what it would do for me, and used it for three months. At the end of that time I was a different woman, the neighbors remarked it, and my husband fell in love with me all over again. It seemed like a new existence. I had been suffering with inflammation and falling of the womb, but your medicine cured that and built up my entire system, till I was indeed like a new woman.—Sincerely yours, Mrs. CHAS. P. BROWN, 21 Cedar Terrace, Hot Springs, Ark, Vice President Mothers' Club." Suffering women should not fail to profit by Mrs. Brown's experiences; just as surely as she was cured of the troubles enumerated in her letter, just so surely will Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure other women who suffer from womb troubles, inflammation of the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous excitability, and nervous prostration. Read the story of Mrs. Potts to all mothers:— ham, Lynn, Mass, and you will be advised free of charge. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured and is curing thousands of cases of female troubles—curing them inexpensively and absolutely. Remember this when you go to your druggist. Insist upon getting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. M. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — During the early part of my married life I was very delicate in health. I had two miscarriages, and both my husband and I felt very badly as we were anxious to have children. A neighbor who had been using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advised me to try it, and I decided to do so. I soon felt that my appetite was increasing, the headaches gradually decreased and finally disappeared, and my general health improved. I felt as if new blood coursed through my veins, the sluggish tired feeling disappeared, and I became strong and well. "Within a year after I became the mother of a strong healthy child, the joy of our home. You certainly have a splendid remedy, and I wish every mother knew of it. — Sincerely yours, Mrs. Anna Potts, 510 Park Ave., Hob Springs, Ark." If you feel that there is anything at all unusual or puzzling about your case, or if you wish confidential advice of the most experienced write to Mrs. Pink- DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D.C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. 3xra in civil war, 3xra adjudicating claims, 4xra in criminal war. Early in the morning, late at night, or whenever used, Defiance Starch will be found always the same, always the best. Insist on having it, the most for your money. Satisfaction or money back guaranteed. It is manufactured under the latest improved conditions. It is up-to-date. It is the best. We give no premiums. We sell 16 ounces of the best starch made for 10 cents. Other brands are 12 ounces for 10 cents with a tin whistle. Manufactured by THE DEFIANCE-STARCH CO., Omaha, Neb. W N. U.—WICHITA.—NO. 24, 1904. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Counts Shrimp. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION