Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YEAR. EVENTH YEAR. TABERNACLE HAD FINE MEETING. Tabernacle, No. 34, held a meeting Thursday afternoon, This was the meeting for quarterly report of the Second Treasurer for the year 1905 which also made preparations on the business of the pres- The Secretary and Treas- their quarterly report was accepted by the Taber- the report of the board showed report of the Secretary and tallied to the very penny all the money received dur- ear and expended was prop- accurately accounted for. Tabernacle No. 34 is doing he has a membership in good of thirty-six (36), and five and peace reigns supreme Tabernacle is enjoying an anted era of prosperity. arterly report ordered for the Chief Grand Mentor at meeting was received by him with compliments to Wichita No. 34 for the splendid of the Tabernacle. Officers of Wichita Tabernacle are as follows: Miller.....High Priestess Hale.....Vice Preceptress Miller.....Secretary Madison.....Ass't Secretary Swan.....Treasurer Board—Dt. Minnie Madi- illa Kyle, Dt. Mattie Miller. of baking day turn to do light when you use HOWARD'S ELESS PRINCESS FLOUR No other as good CHLIGHTonly $1. Are You A Subscriber? EDITORS GET RICH. good deal of study and work but last figured out how so erry editors get rich. Here set of success. A child is the neighborhood, the attend- en gets $10; the editor gives dunged youngster and the events" a send off and gets hristened; the minister gets the editor gets $00. It grows carries; the editor publishes long-winded, flowery article a dozen lies about the "beau- accomplished bride;" the gets $10 and the editor gets the course of time it dies, editor gets from $25 to $100, per perhaps gets another $15 maker gets from $50 to $100. publishes a notice of death obtuary two columns long, society resolutions, a lot of a free card of thanks, and No wonder so many editors get rich!—Ex. INSON CELLEBRATION. Nelson celebration held by the Literary Society at Gar-Tuesday night was a grand every way. Bradford's orchestra will ball at Redmen's hall, 211 Thursday night, Decem- The New York Times, in an editorial last week, with every word of which our admiration for the talents and pity for the immemorial sufferings of the Jews causes us to sympathize, remarked the fatuity of Russia in repressing and persecuting her Jews instead of allowing them, as the United States has done, full liberty to contribute their utmost to her National richly repaid, as theoklinnETAOINN life. America's liberality has been richly repaid, as The Times says, by the valuable services of the Jews "in the professions, in the trades, in manufacture, in finance, in politics, in public life, on the bench, in both branches of congress and in State Legislatures." But, adds The Times: "If we had been so narrow and bigoted and foolish as to decree that no Jew should hold public office, engage in any save certain specified trades, or have his home outside of designated pales, we should have deprived ourselves of that share of the National wealth which he has had the privilege and made it his duty to create and of his contribution to the country's welfare. Russia has so deprived herself, and of that and other follies she is now reaping the consequences." Without doubt the United States would have lost much, had its policy towards the Jews been less wise and equitable. On the other hand, has not the United States lost much because its policy toward the Afro-American has not been wise and equitable? The Jews, to be sure, now and then encounter a nasty bit of lingering race or religious prejudice. But this is a mole hill compared to the mountain of prejudice which obstructs our progress. The Jews, as The Tmes' boasts, are permitted to hold public office: the Afro-Americans are in many sections unable even to vote for others to hold office; the Jews can enter any trade; there is a tendency, rife in the North and growing in the South, to depress as many of us as possible to the lowest menial occupations; the Jew is undisturbed in his full civil rights; we cannot travel south of Washington without having forced upon us with ostentatious contempt the humiliation of the "Jim Crow" car. We could press the contrast farther, but should only irritate our resentment. The natural effect of discriminations, based on race, which are at once irrational and insuperable, is to discourage and enervate the gentle and embitter and enrage the strong. It is well for the Afro-American, as it has been well for the Jew, that he has a sturdy patience to bear him up. But no one can deny that the Afro-American's efforts fall short of their utmost nipped before their maturity by the frost of raial disdain and proscription. We have, as an English writer pointed out, a perpetual grievance, and we know it, whatever bravado of contentment we may display. Our contributions to the National life, though humble, we have some right to be proud of. If we do no more than make the cotton crop every year, we clothe the Nation. How much more valuable should we be both to the United States and to ourselves if our aspirations were unclogged and the limit of our progress not prescribed! The answer is indicated by the debt this country is under to the Jews.-Age. WOES OF BLOCKADE RUNNER LITTLE MAN'S LONG SILENCE ANECDOTES OF FAMOVS MEN WICHITA "Some days before our departure from Moscow for Nizhnii Novgorod we had booked tickets for places in a sleeping car," writes a traveler. "There were two of us, and by booking berths in time we noped not only to avoid trouble in obtaining places, but to insure a night's rest in the wagon-lit." We were en route for the famous and always unsuspectably interesting 'Bolshaya Yarmaka,' that great fair at Nizhnii which is absolutely without rival in the whole world of periodical commercial exhibitions. I had been cherishing some degree of apprehension as to what might happen at the 'Nijegorodsky Voksal,' or station of the line which runs by Vladimir to Nizhnii Novgorod. My worst fears were realized. Many people were going to Nizhnii Novgorod. And I wondered how many might have booked for the first-class carriages, and whether many would make a rush to capture the berths in the 'wagon-lit.' So I somewhat heavily tipped the most intelligent looking official I could find, and positioned him two numbered tickets and engaged him to see that we were able to appropriate them. "Suddenly the doors of the waiting-saloon were fung open and there was Here is a tale of adventurous blockade running during the Russo-Japanese war: In December of last year the steamer Carlisle, Capt. Jessen, 1,035 tons, belonging to Leith, Scotland, left Vladivostok with arms and ammunition worth over $4,500,000 on board, destined for Port Arthur. Before that port was reached, however, it had surrendered to the Japanese. Capt. Jessen altered his course while he had yet time and stood out to the open sea. All went well until the steamer was 300 miles to the eastward of Yokohama when the Carlisle lost all her propeller blades. The captain rigged up sails on the steamer's stumpy masts, and navigated his vessel 2,000 miles southward, ultimately dropping anchor in San Miguel bay, Caramines, in the Philippines, on Feb. 13. Japanese in the vicinity had heard of the vessel's arrival and disguised as fishermen set out in four sampans to attack and if possible sink the ship. A little man of 12 years, already a qualified practician in silence and obedience, whose father owns a large rubber plantation in Central America, and who not long ago secured options on two plantations adjoining his own, went to New Orleans so raise the money to purchase them. In a short time his wife secured an option on a third plantation, which he very much desired, but which he had not been able to get before leaving for New Orleans. With a wife's caution, she was afraid to trust the option to the mails, so she sewed it carefully in the lining of her small son's jacket, and sent him north by the next steamer. "Mind, you are not to talk to anybody!" was her parting injunction. The boy obeyed her so literally that half the passengers thought him dumb. Several persons took a kindly interest in him, and tried to make the voyage pleasanter for him; but he refused to make friends, and except for There are some interesting anecdotes of the leading British literary lights of the middle nineteenth century in a volume recently published in London, "Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle." On one occasion there was great emparrassment at one of their gatherings. The majority of the party were anxious to hear Tennyson read "Maud," the first copy of which had just reached him; but it was known that Carlyle could not endure to hear any one reading aloud. What was to be done? A plot was laid to have the reading during the time of Carlyle's morning walk; but for this he always demanded an appreciative companion. Mrs. Brookfield says: "Chairs had been arranged in a quiet sitting room; the visitors were taking their places. Alfred was ready. So was Carlyle—in the hall—waiting for a companion in his walk, and evidently determined not to stir without one. It was quite an anxious moment. At length Mr. Goldwin Smith generously a wild stampede. A big squad of most respectable Russian passengers made a rush for the sleeping cars. If all the berths were not booked they would seek to occupy them, although only possessed of ordinary first-class tickets, and they might be allowed to do so by the expedient of a small bribe quietly administered to the guard. I have never seen a wilder scrimmage than the fight that ensued. The passengers with numbered tickets had booked up all the seats for the night's journey. But our man had to shout, push, strike right and left, to hurl out two invaders who had stormed our places and to back hard against others who elbowed their way along the carriage corridors before the way was clear and we could reach the places to which we had a right. "What can be the matter with Russia? What can be the real cause of her troubles? These are questions which thousands of people are asking. The little incident I have described suggests the accurate answer. Absolute carelessness as to administration is typical of the management of all public affairs. 'Nichevo' (no matter) is the word most constantly heard on native lips. Nobody cares." With the assistance of the customs officers on board the crew managed to beat off the repeated attack of the Japanese, but not before many shots had been exchanged. An American warship ultimately arrived on the scene and towed the Carlisle round to Manila, where she was interned by the American authorities. At Manila the Carlisle was provided with a new propeller, but watched by the American warships within the port and by a Japanese cruiser which kept continually appearing in the offing. The Carlisle one night disappeared from Manila at the time of the passing of Singapore by Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet. But again fortune frowned; the Carlisle could not find the Russian fleet, and after many days' fruitless search the captain had again to turn south. At the end of May the vessel steamed innocently into Saigon, where she is at the present moment with her valuable but dangerous cargo on board. brief thanks, no word could be got out of him. As soon as the boat docked he found his way to the office of the broker where he knew his father made his headquarters. His father turned pale at the sight of him, and tremblingly asked if anything had happened at home. "No, father." The father then asked, somewhat sternly, what had brought him there. The boy answered by shaking his head. "I can't tell till we are alone," he whispered. When his father took him into a private office, he shut the door and locked it. Taking off his coat he showed his dazed father where to rip it—and the option was in safe hands. Then he spoke with a sigh of relief. "Mother told me not to talk with anybody," he said, "and I haven't." Of course his father was proud of him, but one hopes that the faithful little chap had a good time after that.—New Orleans Picayune. stepped forward and joined the philosopher and then Mr. Brookfield joined them both, while the rest of us remained to listen with enthralled attention to the new words of the poet." Of Macauley's conversational meth od Mrs. Brookfield gives the following curious example: "I remember sitting next him at dinner, at one period of which I asked him if he admired Jane Austen's works. He made no reply until a lull in the conversation occurred, when he announced, 'Mrs. Brookfield has asked me if I admire Jane Austen's novels, to which I reply—' and then entered into a lengthy dissertation, to which all listened but into which no one else dared intrude." A Tennyson incident: "Mr. Moxon said that Alfred one day while traveling said to him, 'Moxon, you have made me very unhappy by something you said to me at Lucerne,' the unfortunate speech having been: 'Why Tennyson, you will be as bald as Spedding before long.'" HAVE WE REASONS TO BE HOPEFUL. The eyes of the world are centered on Theodore Roosevelt, the peacemaker, whom history will record along the line with "The Fall of Port Arthur" and the "Battle of Meteor Hill." "Blessed are the peace makers; for they shall be called the children of God." America is the scene of a great unwritten romance—with the President as the hero! Roosevelt, the cowboy; Roosevelt, the colonel; Roosevelt, the President, but above all Roosevelt, "the child of God" is a story fit to be dealt with by the deepest writers of the 20th century and reserved among the classics to inspire youths of unborn generations. But there is another passage from the divine-pen which says, "First get the beam out of thine own eye then thou canst see clearly how to get the mote out of thy brother's eye." Tis true that the war in the East affected our commerce to a small extent but the greatest troubles a nation has is her domestic troubles, which if unnoticed, like a cancer cut the vitality from the nation. Russia defeated Russia before the Mikado declared war, by neglecting her internal troubles. If a nation fail to protect the units of a nation, the individuals that make up that nation, she may expect the individual to neglect her in her hours of trials. But the Afro-American is an exception to this rule—being in a country where veery citizen is supposed to be equally protected in life, liberty and property. He stands and sees his property destroyed, his liberty limited, his life taken at the hands of angry mobs of anarchists with as much composure as if he was enjoying a royal banquet. Will God help the inert? Do we hope for divine aid without putting ourselves in an attitude to receive it? Do we expect to reform without agitation? Can we remain silent as each breeze is warmed with the conflagration of some poor black soul at the stake. Taxation without representation, right of trial by jurors, the freedom of speech and the press are the foundations upon which this government was founded—deny these rights to any part of the citizens for some petty prejudice and you undermine the foundation of this glorious commonwealth. The Negros have no need to despair. God is just and will graciously reward those who merit it. Seek no favoritism. Let merit be your watch word.—Ex. HORSE WHIPPED HIM. Rev. - Milligan, a white Baptist preacher who preached awhile in Haskell and is now coloring pictures, received a horsewhipping at the hands of colored men. He went to a farm house to sell some pictures and finding no one but a colored girl attempted to assault her bt failed. He was overtaken by a few colored men and horsewhipped. But for his miraculous escape he would have been lynched when the crowd gathered. BABY DIED. Word from Kansas City, Kan., to us brings the sad news that the infant boy born to Mr. and Mrs. George Jennings of that city last Sunday, died Tuesday. We are, in deed, sorry and extend to our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, our profound sympathies. NO.39 STRANGE, ISN'T IT? It is indeed strange the very peculiar view in which some colored people hold concerning papers published by white people and those published by colored people. A white man can publish notorious, low, mean articles about colored people and the colored people will take his paper pay for it, praise it, take their job work to it, and help it in every way; and pass off what is said as a "joke." A colored man publishing a paper in the interest of the race has a hard time to get some colored people to take it, has to get his pay in jerks, and sometimes never gets it; is expected to always praise every man of the race, and no matter how depraved the character he must say nothing. He must shut his eyes and ears to whether the individual is worthy or has a long train of misdeeds behind him—the colored paper must in every issue fill their columns with words of praise. It is all right to give praise where praise is merited, but the time has now come when the colored man and the colored press must cease seeing no wrong in the race, and must join hands with every other man in crying down immorality, crime, debauchery, and sollicial adulterations, whether the guilty party be white or black. The black man must learn to cease to always look for praise, whether it bemerited or not, and must stand on the broader plain of merit. Our race, like every other race, has its good men and we have our bad men, and until we are able to distinguish between the two we will not be able to make those strides morally, socially, or politically to hich we all aspire. The colored people must, e'er long, learn to tie to a principle—right—and less to the man. Many of the ills which have befallen the race in the past have been the result of tying to deceptive men—men whose interest is the money which the race can supply. The white race has this saving point—that no matter how high in society the man may be if they have an inkling that something is wrong with him or his past record, they are not so much wrapped up in the man but that they will investigate and rid themselves of such a character. If we look at the expose of senators, high officials and members high in society among the whites and see in what manner they have been apprehended and punished we readily find a safe rule of action. But not so with us. Rather than investigate among ourselves and expose the wrong and the wrong-doer, we suffer ourselves to be the ridicule of whole communities and the laughing stock of the other people, and if the Negro press has the manhood and backbone to point out the wrong, too many of us are ready to condemn the Negro press when the press is right. Lank Hilbert has invested in property on North Wichita street. Mrs. Ruth Hayden, of Kansas City, is in the city visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Maria Miller. Mrs. M. Fitzhugh, who has been visiting in the city returned to her home in Enid, Oklahoma. Miss Irma Clark was on the sick list Sunday. The ladies of the Stewardess Board of the A. M. E. church, will give an entertainment Tuesday evening. BRIEF MENTION OF INTERESTING EVENTS OF THE WEEK. KANSAS COMMENT Austrians and Italians Celebrate.—St. Barbara's day was celebrated at Frontenac by the Austrian and Italian miners of this district, as well as a number of others working at the Mount Carmel shafts. The shafts were idle in Frontenac and Chicopee. Celebrations were held all over the district. Oil Ouster Case Continued. By agreement of attorneys the quo warranto proceeding begun by Attorney General Coleman to oust the Standard Oil trust from doing business in Kansas were continued in the supreme court until the March term. This suit was brought under the antitrust law. Grinds on Fence Cases. The federal grand jury is now busy grinding on fence cases. Topeka hotels are filled with Westerners here to either testify as with asses or to watch the proceedings. The authorities expect to grind out the first batch of indictments within a week. Then the jury will be excused until the inspectors round up some more violators. Corn Rots in Field—G. A. Schweizer, a well known farmer of Leavenworth county, has written to his son, Carl Schweizer, who is superintendent of the free employment bureau in Kansas City, that his corn is rotting because he can not find hands to husk it, and he asks for help from Kansas City. The fact that the Kansas Natural Gas Company is paying laborers $2.50 a day has taken most of the men away from other work. Santa Fe Did Not Buy.—The attorney for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad at Arkansas City, Kan., is in receipt of word from Gardiner Lathrop, general solicitor, that the deal for the Midland Valley road is off. It is likely that the Santa Fe will not get the new road unless other negotiations are opened. There have been persistent rumors that the Santa Fe has already commenced to check in its agents along the Midland. Kansas Oil for Kansas Folks.-The first coal oil sold in Fort Scott in many years that was not from the Standard Oil Company's tanks, was sold last week by the Stadden Brokerage Company, which has installed a regular tank wagon for delivery. Six hundred gallons for this independent oil was placed by the local firm on the first day it was introduced to the trade here. The price is the same as that quoted by the Standard Company. Holds Out for 25-Cent Gas—Mayor Everhardy vetoed an ordinance recently granted to the Leavenworth Light and Heating Company, to supply natural gas here at 35 cents. His veto was sustained by four members of the council, who were loudly applauded by the citizens who packed the council chamber. The mayor gave high rates and unsatisfactory terms as his reason for vetoing the ordinance. Leavenworth is making a fight to get 25-cent gas. Acetylene Plant Exploded. — Patrick Kennedy, houseman at Mount Carmel academy, a Catholic girl's seminary, was killed by the explosion of the school's acetylene lighting plant at Wichita. He entered the building with a lighted lantern, when the explosion occurred, hurling his body hundreds of feet into the air. The body went over the stable a hundred yards distant, and was torn to shreds. The explosion wrecked the plant and building and shattered the windows of the main building, causing a panic among the 300 girls attending the school. Ben Bugg Pardoned. — The tearful letter of Ruth Bugg, a 9-year-old girl, struck a responsive chord in the heart of Governor Hoch, and he pardoned Ben Bugg from the penitentiary over the protest of 200 members of the Anti-Horse Thief Association. Bugg was sent to the penitentiary in 1903 from Crawford county for stealing a can of lard out of a farmer's smoke-house. There seemed to be no special "pull" in favor of Ben Bugg except his little sister's letter. She said that her big brother was needed at home, that unless he could come pretty soon their father and mother would not live to see him. "Both of them have to have the doctor," says the little girl, "and the doctor says that no medicine he can give them will do them as much good as to have Ben home again. They are almost heartbroken. Please, Mr. Hoke, let my brother come home, and God will bless you." Sugar Beet Culture. — The sugar beet is not a difficult crop to raise, says a Western real estate dealer. They are planted by machinery and thinned by hand. If the process was reversed sugar beets would be an easy crop to raise. Dedicated $6,500 Parsonage. — The First Methodist church at Parsons dedicated the largest parsonage building in the state, costing $6,500. Rev. Bernard Kelly conducted the dedicatory services, and last night raised the entire amount of the indebtedness on the building. Women to Help—Mrs. W. E. Stanley, wife of ex-Governor Stanley, has gone to Kansas City and Topeka to confer with Mrs. Cora Lewis of Kinsley regarding the purchase of a year's supplies for state institutions. Bids will be opened at Topeka. Freight Rate Convention. — Steps will be taken to raise $1,000 to defray the expenses of the Kansas freight rate convention which will be held in Wichita January 10. A banquet will be served to visiting delegates and speakers will be brought here from other states. Leavenworth Printers Quit. — The printers of the Dorsworth Book company have gone out on a strike after a controversy with the firm covering a period of over a month. The primary cause of the strike was the refusal of the firm to dismiss Alfred Roundtree, a non-union proofreader. A Mere Trifle. — Governor Hoch is quoted as predicting that the Kansas semi-centennial in Topeka in 1911 will add $5 to every acre of land in Kansas. A little thing like that doesn't excite the Kansas farmers. That would mean only $256,000,000 in additional wealth, a trifling matter. Big Damage Suit. — A damage suit for $30,000 against the Baden Produce company of Winfield has resulted from just one Thanksgiving service, which the plaintiff in the case alleges that he performed in Texas under contract with the defendant for so much a hundred pounds of turkey meat. Gratified Longing.—"Pap" Johnson, of Cawker City, has always had a hankering to experience the sensation of having a leg cut off. The other day he deliberately stretched his leg across the rail and let an engine pass over it. His "hankering" has been satisfied. The surgeons don't think he will recover. Judge Little Dead. — Judge G. F. Little, formerly of Junction City, died at Acon, Panama, recently. He went from Kansas to Honolulu, where he served as judge of the Hilo court for one term. Then he went to Panama, where he had lived for the past two years. He was the pioneer American attorney of the canal zone. El Dorado Buys Waterworks.—The waterworks purchase and extension bonds have been received by the city clerk. When the bonds are properly executed and registered they will be turned over to the purchasers and $19,000 of the proceeds will be used to pay for the waterworks and $8,500 to build the stand-pipe and make necessary extensions. The city expects to have its money and take charge of the plant in a very short time. 60,000 Hotel for Iola. — F. V. Crouch has stated to the council that if Iola subscribed the $25,000 asked by the Southern Kansas Electric railway he had a man who would build a $60,000 hotel in Iola. He had no hesitancy in saying who the man was who was to finance the big deal. He said Paul D. Lusz, who is now one of the most prominent men in the Iola Electric, would furnish the money for the deal and that the hotel would certainly be built. Must Hold Another Election.—The board of district auditors of the United Mine Workers' Association, which has been in session at Pittsburgh all week, canvassing the returns of the recent district election, completed its task. All of the candidates will have to go back for a second election with the exception of John P. Hoye, of Frontenac, who is elected district statistician. The next election will be held on Tuesday, December 19. Drillers Blown to Atoms. — Two men, Jean Turner and Herbert Shannon, were blown to pieces, east of Chanute, in a boiler explosion. They were pumping oil on the Burghart lease, at one of the Southwestern Oil Company's pumping plants, when the accident occurred. The explosion tore their bodies to atoms. Several other men were in a small building near by, but escaped injury. The cause of the explosion is not known. Both were experienced oil, drillers. Turner was a widower about 40 years old, while Shannon was a young man not much over 21. Battery's Long March. — The Second battery of field artillery arrived at Fort Riley after completing an overland march from Fort Sill, Ok. The battery, which has been regularly stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., went to Fort Sill for drill last July. While there an order was issued from the War department for its transfer to Fort Riley, and the transfer of the Sixth battery from Fort Riley to Fort Sam Houston. The Sixth battery is now on its way overland to the Texas post, 1,000 miles distant. The Second battery arrived at Fort Riley in good condition. Protecting Fish—State Fish Warden Travis has taken steps to prevent the destruction of fish in the Caney river. A nitroglycerin factory at Peru has been dumping its poisonous refuse into the river, killing the fish. Mr. Travis has ordered the factory to find another dumping ground. Aged Man Killed. — J. Hilton, an old man living in the east part of Wichita, was caught between two freight cars while attempting to cross the Frisco tracks at First street and fatally injured. Both of his feet were cut off and he was brised internally Profits From Alfalfa.—M. D. Cowley has twenty-five acres in alfalfa just north of Eldorado and it came very near making him rich the past summer. Aenid From Enid. — An Enid girl who may or may not have been named for her home town now gives her name rather more of an air of distinction by writing it Aenid. Veteran a Suicide.—Josephus Foreman, an inmate of the Soldiers' home, committed suicide in the rear of a saion on the Pike near the home by shooting himself through the head. Biggest Bible Class. — Dr. Iden, of the state normal, has at Emporia the largest "Bible class" in the world. It has a membership of more than 2,500, with a usual attendance of from 450 to 500. Called the Judge a Peach.—Because she called Judge Thomas C. Wilson, of the district court, a "peach," Miss Emma Burns was sentenced to serve fourteen days in the county jail at Wichita. No Investigation in Kansas.—Charles H. Luling, of Wichita, state superintendent of insurance, says he will not order an investigation of life insurance companies doing business in Kansas. Mr. Luling made the statement in an interview. May Put Lid on Graves. — At a meeting of the Topeka Ministerial Union a committee was appointed to canvass the situation and see if Sunday funerals cannot be abolished. The preachers want the undertakers and cemetery associations to join in the movement. To Build a $20,000 Church.—Members of the First Methodist church of Winfield have subscribed $20,000 for the erection of a new building. J. W. Powell, organizer of the Brotherhood of St. Paul, raised the money in church meetings Sunday and Monday, and organized a brotherhood with 137 members. Double iola Smelters.—It is stated in Gas City and LaHarpe that the capacity of the LaHarpe Smelting works and the Cheroik-Lanyon Smelter works, both of which were recently purchased by A. B. Cockerill, George Nicholson and associates, would be doubled as soon as the work could be done. A Fortune From Apples. — James Sharpe, of Council Grove has just finished shipping the last of his apples. Mr. Sharpe's orchard is located near Parkerville, and this year he had 12,000 bushels of apples, which made twenty-three carloads. They were consigned to a Kansas City commission firm and brought Mr. Sharpe in nearly $10,000. Conductor Hayden Dead. — Steven F. Hayden of Fort Scott, Kan., who had been in the employ of the Missouri Pacific railroad as conductor for twenty-three years, is dead at a hospital at Wichita of injuries caused by vertigo. While going to call on a physician Mr. Hayden fell on the sidewalk and seriously injured himself about the head. Sudden Dementia.—John Campbell, a farmer living near St. Paul, went suddenly insane the other day while returning home from Chanute with his wife. He jumped out of the wagon and fled into a big corn field. He imagined that some one was after him. The neighboring farmers searched the field all night, but couldn't locate him. The next morning he turned up at home as rational as ever. Starving Bees. — Honey bees that are not being fed, are dying in Eastern Kansas. There seemed to be no honey in the blossoms this year, and the bees are hard up as a consequence. W. K. Norbury, of Hartford, has lost nineteen hives this fall while S. A. Thompson of the same place lost fifteen. They are feeding their remaining bees to carry them over the winter. Ireland Ready to Do Time.—A. E. Ireland, national organizer of the International Machinists' Union, gave himself up to the sheriff at Winfield to serve a six months' sentence in jail for assaulting a non-union machinist at Arkansas City last winter during the strike of Santa Fe machinists. The American Federation of Labor is making a strong effort to secure his pardon from Governor Hoch. Macaroni Wheat.—Efforts are being made at the Kansas Agricultural college to produce a winter variety of macaroni wheat. As a spring variety it is adapted to Kansas soil and climate, having done better than any other spring wheat. It is hoped to produce a superior winter wheat as it now is a superior spring producer. In the tests made one variety of the macaroni wheat has already passed two winters without winter-killing, and last season produced 421-2 bushels per acre. The sowing for the third test has recently been completed. Sugar Beet Industry.—Garden City is to have a big beet sugar factory—one that will work up all of the beets in the Arkansas valley in Kansas into sugar. Heretorefone all of these factories have been in Colorado. W. O. Horr cashier of the Garden City National Bank, says the outlook there is the brightest. Gas at Leavenworth.—It is learned at the offices of the Leavenworth Light and Heating Company that by Dec. 13 everything will be in readiness to blow out the pipes and make a test of the main and branch lines. DOGS DID NOT BRING CUSTOM New Yorker's Method of Advertising Displeased the Crowd. A merchant in Nassau street took a novel method of advertising his wares last week. Two show cases of the upright variety stood in front of his door, and on each was planted dogs dressed in gaudy blankets and be decked with miniature "plug" hats. Each held a stick in its mouth, from which was suspended in banner fashion, placards setting forth the merits of the merchant's goods. One of the dogs was a splendid specimen of a brindle bull; the other was an Irish terrier, the saucy expression of whose face was accentuated by the "plug" hat cocked rakishly over one ear. The two eyed the crowd somewhat bashfully and anon looked at each other as though to say: "To what base uses may we come at last?" Judging from the expressions heard in the crowd which almost blocked the narrow thoroughfare, the dogs were more a detriment to the storekeeper's trade than an aid. They shivered in the keen air, despite the protecting blankets, and looked so wistfully toward the store door as though begging to be released from their exposed position, that the people were more moved to pity them and condemn the storekeeper than to purchase his goods.—New York Press. LET NO ONE UNDERSELL HIM Clerk Went Proprietor One Better on Cut Price. "There are many men in business who stand in their own light by not treating their employees with proper consideration," says Capt. William Shelley of the treasury department. "For example, there came into a country store a regular customer who wanted to buy a stove. The clerk, an experienced man in the business, showed the entire stock of stoves, and the one which best suited the customer was marked $20. The regular customer wanted a reduction on account of the large amount of trading done by him every year. The clerk admitted that he had a right to some consideration, and finally offered the stove for $18. That was not satisfactory to the customer, who went to the proprietor with his story. Very soon he came back and announced that the proprietor had agreed to give it to him for $17. "Thereupon the clerk went to the proprietor and asked him if he had made such an agreement without consulting or informing the clerk, and the proprietor admitted that he had done so. Then the clerk went back to the customer, and said: "You can have this stove for $16. I never allow any one to undersell me." . His Good Resolution. The missionary gazed pityingly through the bars at the convict in his striped suit. "My good man," the visitor said, "in this prolonged solitude that lies before you improve the time by making good resolutions to be carried out on your release." "I goin' tJ learn to run an automobile, for one thing," said the prisoner. The missionary smiled radiant approval. "A truly laudable desire,"hesaid,"tc master a pleasant and lucrative business." "Yes," said the other, "if I had learned before, I'd have got away all right in the machine what I was sent up here for swipin." Simple Burglar Alarm. A novel and apparently successful burglar alarm which was recently put up in the store of a Baltimore, Md., grocer has the merit of simplicity and cheapness. He placed over the door of the grocery an ordinary shovel, hung on a nail so that when the door opened the shovel would fall and make a racket. Burglarls visited the place the other night, the shovel did all that was expected of it and the burglarls, alarmed by the nose, took to their heels. Belva Lockwood's Legal Victories. Mrs. Belva Lockwood had an important part in settling the Cherokee claims case, the decision in which gave the eastern and emigrant Cherokees nearly $5,000,000. The suit was pending for years, and Mrs. Lockwood prepared several able briefs, presenting her arguments skillfully point by point. Her share of the fees will be about $50,000. She has another $1,000,000 case before the court of claims now. Vanderbilt's North Carolina Taxes.. The county tax report just issued in Asheville, N. C., shows that George W. Vanderbilt is the largest taxpayer. Mr. Vanderbilt's real estate outside of the city is appraised at $1,410,336 and personal property at $122,219. In the city his Victorian property and real estate is taxed at $40,515 and his personal property at $9,880. Mr. Vanderbilt will pay to the county and city about $16,000 in taxes. "Why don't you tell the voters what you can do for them?" "That's the campaign orator's business," answered Senator Sorghum. "I'm busy figuring on what the voters can do for me." She—Will, I couldn't very well have it trimmed with stuffed goose, even if you do like that better! HA! HA!! HA!!! Well did you Read This The value of a Photograph, you receive as a present the Photograph or a friend or relative and although you may prize it highly, you do not stop to think of the real valuation of it. When that friend or relative dies you immediately look for that photograph and then it is that you realize its worth to you. You have in mind the appearance of a person but as soon as you see a Photograph of them they seem much more real to you. Looking at it in this way you owe to all your relatives and friends a good Photograph of your-self. At The STUDEBAKER STUDIO 142 N. Main Street. 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KRAMER 222 North Main Street Wichita Kansa ‘Senator Mitchell Dead pee | WC ns iu ) (AZ yy i) ye Gy i a YYy it VY a ee. of OF ORFGF aijed States Senator John H. cciell (ied at Portland, Ore., Dee. 8, | fs: death having been due to compli- ions which followed the removal of jar jveth by a dentist the day before. mye senator had song been in poor John Hipple Mitchell was born in Fasiingion county, “Pennsylvania, | ne #2, 1835. He Was reared on a brm. was educated in the public cols and at Butler Academy, and en studied law. In 1860 he went to peiifornia. In the following year he yeated at Portland, Ore. He was jected Republican town counsel in ‘gil, state senator the next year and (ited States senator in 1873. He hiled of re-election to the United States senate in 1879, but was re- ued in 1885, where.he served until Oca WeT THE DEATH HE DESERVED. sssassination of Sakharoff Due to His Brutality. The news of the assassination of out-Geu, Sakharott was preceded by jie most horrible stories of, the man- er in which Sakharoff had been re- yesing the agrarian disorders: He jorralled peasan.s with Cossacks and tien had them beaten with the sol fiers’ whips. In so doing Sakharoft fssiier! the system adopted by Prince Join Obolensky, former governor-gen- val of Pinland, in suppressing the vgvian riots in the vieinity of Khar- jofl several years ago. Prince Obolensky caused the peas- ris io be whipped by relays of Cos- sichs and compelled them in turn to wat their comrades. The assassin of Sakharoff has not a oy BANS -~““\ \\ aN, BSc my So . $ SSo355 \\ Wien Wy Wye ‘ Ya OX, RPAPOTE” i identified. When arrested the oven who committed the crime de- he had executed a decree of * ‘wrrazists' section of the social fvolviionists. Vebannrte Liha eine Raed Th passing of the old leaders In vie was strikingly emphasized * ‘ule ineident that happened on Ng aing day of the session just he upper house was called to Senator Teller met Senator Vso iu the corridor and said: “Mr. au wenty-nine years ago to-day ‘sos sworn In as a senator of the (hiv States, You are-the only mem- he body besides myself who Ns love then, T also learned to-day 2) sire ts not a single employe of ‘be svvate who was here at that time. Te ve getting old, senator; we are tine old" ‘Tears sprang to the . both gray-haired veterans. Evephant's Afternoon Call. ‘7 clophant of a traveling circus Sinas./ to get loose the other day 8! yo for a walk up Bubbling Well al. finally entering a garden where ‘ly was sitting on a veranda, when fie Joveiligent animal broke some gies snd handed her and then “ppl on hig Knees. He was evi- (n'! esking for some refreshments, ine) |) NOt stated whether he ob- Ye! or et, the arrival of his ig buttiag an end to the Interest: g situation.—Tientsin Times. 1897. Failing again in that year to be re-elected, he was returned again to the Senate in’ 1901. During the in- terims he practiced law, having been a partner of the laté United States Senator J. H. Dolph for several years and later of Judge A. H. Tanne. His connection with the conspiracy to de- fraud the government of public do- main wrecked his political influence and caused him to enter into a physi- cal decline. The case against him, which has been appealed to the United States Supreme Court, will abate by reason of his death. Mrs. Mitchell is in Paris, France, where she has spent a large part of her time since the mar- riage of a daughter, Margaret, to the Duke of Rochefoucauld. John H. Mit- chell of Minneapolis-and Lieutenant Hiram Mitchell, U. 8. A., are sons of the senator. Anne TRAFFIC PROBLEM IN LONDON. Snowe Se cee, te Wemeed: TOF Improvements. London rebuilt will be the result if proposed methods for solving the traf- fic problem will be executed. The Principal basis of relief would be two main ayenucs, one running east and west four and three-quarters miles leng, the other north and south four and a half miles long, each 140 fect wide between the house lines and pro- vided with four lines of surface tram- ways and four lines of subway track. with both local and express” service. ‘The outlay, for the whole would be 100,000,000 or more, and would en- tail in return income-producing ele- ments which would promise profit. It is stggested by a New Yorker that a large part of the overcrowding in transportation is due to the fact that the long distance and the local services are not senarated to a sut- ficient degree. By providing suitable cxpress trains, preferably running underground, but possibly overhead, and by separating this service entire: ly from the local transport provisions, {i would be possible to run through trains to extreme outlying suburbs without the inevitable delays of local transport and without mixing or con. fusion between local and express pas- sengers. CLOSE WATCH ON CZAR'S LIFE. Carefully Picked) Men and Women Make This Their Whole Duty. One of the most interesting feat- ures of official life in St. Petersburg is the Intricate system by which the czar’s life is safeguarded. Since the tragic death of the Grand Duke Ser- glus the spy system has beconte more complicated than ever, until now there are whole regin.ents of officifits and carefully, picked men and women whose duty it-is to guard the czar. These officials are scattered through the ministry of the interior, the’ se- cret police and the ministry of war. ‘The inner circle of the-system is the dreaded “third section” of thé secret policc—the men who are charged with the guardianship of the czar’s person. ‘These men are highly educated, are artists in disguise and possess exira- ordinary knowledge and power. High officials, nominally their superiors in rank, dread the vicinity of one of these men, lest their most innocent acta call on a friend, a journey for health or pleastre—be construed into a sinster act demanding explanation. —Harper's Weekly. (a The ‘horse is a useful animal. If it were not forthe herse we could have no horse shows. The horse is not so strong as the ox, but is much quicker. Horses are of various kinds. There are bay horses, sorrel horses, gray horses, black horses, white horses and horses. Horses are used for drawing wagons and crowds. A clothesline is not pretty to look at, but horse clothes are lovely. If you can't get a horse, get the clothes. So no more about horses this time.—Chicago Tribune. DEATH SENTENCE CARRIED OUT. Mrs. Rogers Dies on Scaffold for Mur- der of Her Husband. Despite all the desperate appeals made for a further respite, Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers was hanged at Windsor, ‘Vi.,, Dec. 8, for the murder of her hus- band. The woman, condemned for a cold- blooded crime that shocked the entire state, made no confession on the gal- lows, She had previously told her spiritual advisers it was no use to tell people about others’ shortcomings. Story of the Woman’s Crime. ‘The “ermme’ for witich* Sts. Serr Mabel Rogers was sentenced to death was the murder of her husband, Mar- cus Rogers, at Bennington, Aug. 13, 1902. At the time the crime was com- mitted Mrs. Rogers was only 19 years old. She had been separated from her husband for some time and was desir~ ous of marrying 2 young man named Maurice Knapp. On the day of the murder Marcus Rogers went to Ben nington to visit his wife, and that night she arranged to meet him: in the woods near the Walloomsac river. While caressing him she induced him to allow her to bind his hands, and while he was powerless she chloro- formed him: In this she was aided by Leon Perham, a half-witted boy, who was the son of the woman with whom she bearded. Another woman, Estella Bates, was present. After chloroforming Rogers, Perham and Mrs. Rogers rolled the body into the river, where it was found the next day. In order to divert suspicion the woman wrote a note, to which she signed her husband's name, giving ‘the impression that he had committed snicide. Immediately after the murder Mrs. Rogers endeavored to collect her hus- band’s life insurance, amounting to $5¢0, and also made arrangements to purchase furniture for the house where she expected to live when she had married Knapp. A few days after the murder Mrs. Rogers, Perham and the Bates woman were arrested. Perham made a com plete confession and both he and Mrs. Rogers were found guilty of muraer WON ie n\ 5 &% 4), My y ene eat ce eer in the first degree. Perham was sen enced to imprisonment for life, while the.sentence in Mrs. Rogers’ case was death on the gallows. ‘The date set for the execution was Feb. 8, 1905. On Feb. 2, after Mrs. Rogers had received the last rites of the Catholic church, Goy. Charles J. Bell granted her a reprieve until June 2, in order that the claim of her at- torneys to newly discovered evidence might be heard before the Vermont Supreme court in an attempt to secure for the woman a new trial. , On May. 17 last the full bench of the Vermont Supreme court heard the evi- dence on which the petition for a new trial was based and a little more than a week later denied the petition. On June 1 a second reprieve by Gov. Eell removed the doomed woman from under the shadow of the scaffold. This reprieve was granted in order that the United States Supreme court might pass upon the constitutionality and legatity of the proceedings governing the sentence. < The United States Supreme court was then petitioned for a writ of error in order that the case might go before the highest tribunal, but this was de- nied. On June 19 habéas corpus pro- seedings were instituted. Further le- gal activity on the part of the con- demned woman's attorneys resulted in the ease being carried before the Su- preme court of the United States on an appeal from the rpiings of the Ver- mont court. On Nov. 27 last the Unit- ed States Supreme court refused to stay the sentence of the Vermont court. Mrs, Rogers was the first person sentenced to death in Vermont within the last thirteen years who was re- {used clemency. The last murderer executed in the state ;was Sylvester Beil, who was hanged in 1892 for wife murder. The last woman to be executed was Mrs. Emeline Meeker, who paid the death penalty at Wind- sor on March 30, 1883. In Vermont all executions are held at the state prison and by a peculiarity of the Vermont law the duty of hanging condemned murderers devolves upon the sheriff of Windsor county, regardless of the section of the state in which the Sg thee Papa's Preliminary. “Im choosing bridesmaids,” said the young girl who was about to be mar. ried, reading from her favorite home paper, “one should take pains to se lect girls with gracefully poised heads, who waik well.” Just as her mother was about to commend this very excellent idea the old gentleman gave a scornful snort, and broke into the conversation. “We'll have a cake walk as a pre: liminary test,’ was all he said. But ft was erougy. They refused to speak to him. GOVERNORS AT MARKET PRICES EE? <9 ng a ede. Fluctuation. A party of Chicagoans just returned from Palestine reports the establish ment of a new species of stock market with some decidedly bizarre commod- Ities quoted. One of the commodities offered was Turkish . provincial gov- ernors and the prices ranged from $4 to $12, according to station and cir cumstances. The party was making the horseback trip across the holy land and had, as usual, several mem- bers who neglected to secure the prop- er vise to their Turkish passports at Jerusalem. Arrived at Nablous, the second stop, the governor protested that all lacking the vise should ‘be im- mediately deported from Turkey. The price of this interesting official was $7. At the next stop, Engeddim, the mar- ket price of governors had risen to $12. At Nazareth the demand for governors was evidently less than the supply, for the party -was allowed to pass for $2.50 per head. The pay- ments to the officials were in each in- stance contrary to Turkish law and distinctly in the nature of bribes. On arriving at Caifa, where the highest market was struck, the price had risen to $13 per governor purchased. On board ship the party arranged a miniature wheat pit, a la Chicago, and quoted among their commodities Turkish provincial governors at so much per. WRITER HAS NOBLE ANCESTRY. George Bernard Shaw, Scion of an Old trish Family. George Bernard Shaw, whose play has been forced off the stage by the authorities of New York city, comes of an old and fairly prosperous Irish family. His paternal grandfather, Bernard Shaw, was high sheriff of County Kilkenny, and his father was a man of means. The present head of the family is Major Sir Frederick Shaw, Bart., D. 8. O., of Bushey park, London. Shaw went to London with bis mother and sister in 18%6, when he was 20 years old. Ten years later he, was a famillar character about town and in ten years more he wag femous, In 1898 he inherited the es- tate of his maternal grandfather, a foxhhunting squire of the old sehool, end in the same year he was married to Miss Charlotte Frances Payne ‘Townshend. His mother, a very sweet ‘and venerable lady, was at one time © member of an amateur operatic so- ciety in Dublin, in which his sister gained notable success in the chief roles. * To Eat or Not to Eat. “People eat and sleep too much and don't work enough,” said Thomas Al- vah Edison. “Eat heartily and sleep long,” said Frank R. Lawrence. “As a rule,” he continued, “the vice of: ‘American people is not overeating. It is overworking.” Mr. Edison, . who has tested his own theory of living, is busy, hale and hearty at 58. Mr. Law- ence, who is president of the Lotos club, a familiar figure at great ban- quets and active in many ways, pre- sents at 60 the appearance of a man less than 50. We have, then, two types of fine, vigorous manhood ex- ploiting what seem to be directly op- posite views on the vital questions’ of eating, resting and doing. Really there is less difference in the preach- irgs of the twd men than appears on the surface. Both are against glut- tony, but while Mr. Edison advocates abstention as a preventive Mr. Law- rence says merely, “Eat all you can enjoy."—New York World. Getting the One to Blame. John Philip Sousa was condemning the voice of a comic opera comedian. “Tt is such a voice,” he said smiling, “as belonged to a young man whom [ knew in my boyhood in Washington. “One night at a men’s party this young man sang a solo. It was exe- ecrable. In the midst of the hideous racket bluff old Squire Baer entered. “Squire Baer sat’ down and folded his hands on the knob of his stout stick. He waited patiently till the young man was finished. ‘Then he said to him: “Well, boy, I don’t blame you. You did your best. But if I knew the man who asked you to sing I'd crack him over the head with this club.’” Increase in Texas Population. Congressman Henry of Texas recalls that when he took his seat in Con- gress in 1896 that state had only. thir- teen representatives in Washington. The census of 1900 gave it three more and Mr. Henry predicts that the cen- sus of 1910 will add fouh.more, mak- ing a total of twenty, which would make a population for the lone star state of about 4,500,000.—Chicago Chronicle. ‘Mibeuy Dachand tor Mevkes tuleben: All the mills on the Penobscot and throughout Maine are sawing spruce lumber at top capacity, and the lunr ber is being rushed away as fast as vessels can be chartered to carry it. ‘There never was such @ demand for lumber ofthis kind. & the Girle Could Manage That. Aunt Elizabeth—You couldn't kiss girls of my.time as easly as you can girls @p to-day. They were harder to zpproach in those days. Dolly—Naturally, when they all wore hoopskirts. Taking To Heart. _A Pennsylvania girl, ill with con sumption, swallowed the heart of a rattlesnake"and is now getting well. But who would care to win her heart gow?—Baltimore American. 4 NEW STORE 356 North Main St. Langdon Furniture Co. New and Second Hand Furniture as PHONE 1452. East End Racket General Merchandise | The Cheapest Place in the State to Buy Goods. ~ Phone 1413 523 East Douglas Avenue. i Wichita Kansas. Gli: ging Rose Tent No 23 meets the first and third Saturday of each month and is doing nicely we are preparing for a grard concert totake place in the near fature, We had one new joiner at our last meeting" Dtr. Lulu Verder Q, M, Dir, Rachel Hughes V, Q. M. Raby Strode ©, RK. ° The Arcamum meets the first a urday of each month, Sir Knight ©. Paris. C. A. Dtr, Lizzie Strode O. S. If you are sick and want to ~ cured get the LOPEZ REMEDY, 513 E, Douglas. (Barnes Block.) Mrs, Mary Parks retyrned Saturday from Ft, Scott, ‘The Furnishing Club, of the New Hope Baptist church, gave an enter- tainment ‘Thursday evening at their leheatees, | No man may expect to retain the respect of: his fellows, when he has been proven guilty of acts of a trait- orous nature, or even Hes and de- ceives; no matter whether these acts are committed in polities, business or private affairs. It pays to be honest Te pays Inthe long run to’ tive up to ‘promises though poverty stares you |in the face. L. Hackley Wednesday afternoon with ‘a full attendance. The club listened ‘to an Interesting paper which was read by Mrs, Andrews. The club discussed tne paper with niuch interest. Mrs. Sam C. Collins gave the club some in- teresting points on the race question. ‘The club adjourned to meet next week with Mrs. Fred Martin, 229 West Elm. street. SACRED PROGRAM. ‘A sacred program will rendered at the A. M. E. chureh Sunday night, De- cember 3ist. A delightful program -is being arranged and will certainly please all who hear it. ULEN GaAs aveat ae. For the convenience of our subser’- bers who wish to pay what they ow: The Searchlightoftice at 428 N Main, ground floor, wili be open every Saturday night from ¢ to 8. pm. You may eall there and pay and secure your rece’ pt. Wede this to accommodate you and ws trust you willappreciate this which has been 69 oftenr qu’sted.. Remem- birthe oumber 28 N. Main stret More attention should be placed by the leaders of the race on the: dlarm- ing numbers of colored people who are giving up the country and rural life for that of city and town life. We can see much danger in the Negro leaving the farm of independence ‘and coming to the citygof dependence— ceasing to be a producer lind increas- ing as a consumer only. This twen- tieth century change has no good tid- ings for the future progress of the race and unless some drastic measures are formed to keep the Negro on the farm and place more there we can easily’ see much future difficulty in the way of the progress of the race. . ‘The city is not the place, and the Negro must learn this. ‘The environ- ments of fast city life, the temptations to lead the young astrag, and the lack of opportunities to earn a living in a crowded city are doing more to make good boys and girls, bad men and bad women, than any other thing. By general make-up and_ physical construction the race is best fitted as tillers of the soil, and outside of this honest vocation the race is oyt. of its pew. Rock-Island LUMBER and COAL CO. Wichita; — — Mt. Horeb Temple Ne,J0 Crystal Tabernacle Nv.29 Victory Taber- nacle No. 30 met Dec, 6th, in joint sestion tomake their report of the Masked Festival given atG@, A. B. hall on Thanksgiving day for the benefit of their park. The O,.G. M, Sir Frank Wilson be- ing Presant presided. They elodred $65.96'and after paying taxes, the trustees for the Park were able to bank $50.00 ‘The members of Ark. Valley lodge No,21, A. F. A. M. will eelebrate the Evangelist day, Dec. 27th, at Reduian hall in grand styie.All are cordially invited to come out. The N. U.G, club matat the res- idence of Mrs.B, T. Wright. The members were all present and had an enjoyable time, They adjourned to meet with Mrs. John Taylor, A grand dinner was served, Those present Mesdames:=J, Hardin R, D. Nichols, B. Sharpe J, Taylor F, Webb, A. D. wilson, Mt, Mariah Tabernacle No. 52. meets the eecond and fourth Thars- day of'ench month in the afternoon at the half at 230.pm. The Taber- nacle gave a grand entertainment on Nov, 14.th, and a grand rain bow drill each little girl represented a color of the rainbow. Music was fur- ni-hed by Marhew’s band, Theelubs hard for the that bed been working last three month’s reported the neat sum of $45.38.and they cleared the neat sum of $65.73 Dt- Cora Yeager P. Dir. Lizzie Strod 0. B, a religwus’ contitsyorars acvernses “Paptistal pants, only $12 a, pair.” Gan you creas: these pams and. use them for dinners and elections after sard? ff net. whe ne phan $6 pants," that can Le ereased? They pave a deuaiards bise“Tist now at Honcit.v..crd men on the ist are refcsed.¢rinis ai the saloons. A correspondent Ys that aearly all the men on the [cr are steamship mer; what*th¢r do when they geé pacs to Saa Francizea wenld make wour bea? och Henry Watterson sors he prefers an Enslish lord to an American szob who hes netting but money. But why an Engiish lord? A stecont doz would terre as an object of one’s pre‘crence in 2 case of tha kind. Peat Fuel on Railroads. Peat was used extensively as fuel on Swedish railroads during the last year, the custom being to mix it with half -4ts weight of coal. This mixed fuel has proved satisfactory for freight service. § No Doubt of Him. “If he got into the pearly gates,” says & Georgia exchange. “he must have broken in, for nothing could re- gist the force with which the mule sent him upward!"—Atlanta Constitu- tion. Mack Stanvers has gone to Kansas City with the asphalt company. ——— THE LOPEZ SPECIFIC. The Lopez Specific, although a new remedy to the general public, has been in use as a contagious blood remedy for a great many years in South Am- erica, and used by two of the most successful specialists in this country. 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Meets in Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 26-27. The Interstate Literary Association of Kansas and the West will convene in annual session at Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 26, 27, 28. Each literary society is entitled to representation by three delegates (one of whom may have a place one the program) and three alternates. New societies and those not having been enrolled at the last session of the association, will be required to pay a fee of $1.50. Societies enrolled at last session will pay $1 membership fee. The executive committee will convene in November for purpose of making up the program. Any society may become a member of the association by application to the president or corresponding secretary on or before the first day of December, sending therewith the required fee. IAC, H.U.Y. President. Miss A. F. Moore, Cor. Sec'y, 1214 Vine St., Kansas City, Mo.; I. M. Horton, Chairman Executive Committee. 1608 E. 13th St., Kansas City, Mo. We have oftimes said, and as often proven, that we hold no animosities toward any church, black or white. What we say and what we have said is in defense of a principle in which we firmly believed and one which we every day practice. It is not for selfish gain that we so speak or have spoken, but it is because we can plainly see the "hand writing on the wall" and as a part of our journalistic duty we forewarn our people — this done — it is left to them to heed. We have "no axes to grind" with any man who has charge of any church in Kansas — we do not want his job. We feel ourselves as unworthy as some of those who take offense at our lines are actually unworthy and thus we have no desire to fill their shoes as "spungers on the people" Our remarks are from the right line and those who will read them unprejudicedly will admit. If the shoe which we make in our writings does not fit any mau why need he holler or attempt to wear them? We are making issue on what is right and --- will keep it up till right prevails "if it takes all the summer" We are aware of the fact that a guilty conscience needs no accusing and thus the one"the rock hits will be the one to squeal". We have given cause for no innocent man to complain—and it is our plain object to make complaint for the guilty that he may show himself up. We have been speaking to the race about a sad state of affairs which every col re d man, woman and child in Wichita knows to exist—and the existence of which is a disgrace to civilized communities—then why any one man shoulder this matter if he is guiltless? Now to let the world know our position we here state that we are not writing any bluffs or any funny literature, but we are writing from the standpoint of principle and we are sincere in what we say—the principle for which we contend is right-and come what will or may—we propose contend for the right till we are heard and sight prevails. We have no word of censure for those who for any reason may not see as we do, but we propose before this matter is finally closed to make ourselves so plain that all will agree with us whether they acknowledge so or not. We wish to drop this little word by the way, this is a free country and the constitution of our country guarantees to every citizen the right to speak, write, or print whatever they will or may and have made ample provision under the law for the punishment of any abuse of this con stitutional right—we are therefore amendable to the law for what we say—and that only. Since some have seen fit to take these matters unto themselves we feel that we should make ourselves more plain, there fore we will endeavor at no distant date prove ourselves in tone of thundering facts. The city of Centralia in the state of Washington lately paid high honor to the memory of a Negro, who w-s the founder of the town. He bore the name of a man of means, at one time said to have been worth $15,000.00 and had presented the city a park and donated liberally in all public enterprises. When his funeral took place all the business houses closed out of respect of his memory. —Ex. Wichita Trunk Factory In their new location are THE HEADQUARTERS FOR X MAS TRUNKS and fine leather goods ' 319 East Douglas Ave. As the black man was benefited by the Underground railroad in ante bellum days so is the black man eff Wichita benefited by the Underground Cafe run by Bud Hickerson at 349, N. Main street. The one saved him from slavery—the other will save from being hungry. Eatings all the way from 5 cts. up Have you purchased an Indexed Bible?—you need one—see A. A. Bock. Nice Furnished -ROOMS- By the night or week Transient & Specialty Mr. P. Heck, Prop. 244 North Water St. --- THE WICHITASEARCHLIGHT Searchlight office is now at 428 N Main. Gordon C. Collins and wife arrived in the city Thursday morning and expect to spend the winter here Mr. Colling is one of the leading, up-to-date comedians and many will remember him as with the Mahara Minstrel who played in Wichita recently. He is a personal friend of Mr. W. A. Bettie. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Thompson were calling in the northwest part of the city Sunday after noon. They called at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Porter on Sherwood ave and Mr and Mrs. W. N. Miller on west 15th. street. Taberian Temp'e No. 11 will tender a fine reception to the daughters of wichita Taberrsole No. 34. on Thursday night Dec. 28 h. at the hal, 517 N. Main. The reception will be only for Knights and Daughters of Tabor and their family Great preparation is being made in Taberian circle for the event. The Willing Workers of the A. M. E. church spent a very pleasant evening with Mr. and Mrs.G. H. Young Tuesday as their palacial residence 539 N. Water street. The Sewing Circle of the 2nd. Baptist church met at the residence of Mrs. S. E. Patton Monday afternoon There will be a big Christmas Ball at Redman ha'l Monday Night Dec. 25th, be there. Before buying Christmas Eurni- niture inspect the stock at theMeyer Furniture Company store 322. N. Main. Rev. and Mrs. w.j H. Burrill made a pleant on l at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Miller wed. naysafternoon. Rev. W. H. Burrill and John E. Lewis left Wednesday r Hutchinson to attend the Minisers and Deacoms Union which met there Dec. 14-16. Wilbur B. Clark and R. A. Gibson were initiated in Home of the West lodge N. 2006, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Tuesday night They proved valiant and steamy goat riders. The Frank Garrett Meat Market, at 707 N. Main is reported having closed its doors. We are indeed sorry. But this is another example of lock of race patronage and lock of supporting race enterprise of which we so often have spoken and the 'end is not yet' Unless the spirit of supporting race enterprise is cultivated more where will the like circumstances end? Yet some one is always ready to stick their lip out because we tell the truth about these things when the very things of which we speak are coming true every day. We truly hope the race will soon wake up and see to it that worthy enterprise such as Mr. Garrett's Meat Market was will be able to live. These are troughs. Mies Mable King is on the sick list. Messers Lewis and McDonald, proprietors of the Arcade Barber Shop 339 N. Main have added the improved hollow tube gasoline light service in their shop and will soon uistal a telephone which two improvements adds much to the com- of their patrons. W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. The Searchlight feels proud and thanks the people for (32) thirty two subscribers already this week. Thank you one and all. "Right is Mightier than Might't and thus we continue. Jas. J. Olden expects to attend the Inter-State Literary in Kansas City. He contemplates a trip to Tennessee from Kansas City to visit relatives. Mrs.W. M. D.nt and Mrs E.Lyde have returned from an extended trip through Arkansas where they held a series of meetings. They do not speak well of the impression which Arkansas made on them. The ladies say that here after "Kan. is good enough for them" Meyer Furniture Company, 322 N. Main street, has just received two car loads of furniture for their Christmas trade. Call at 322 N.Ma n and inspect it. Prof. Davis and family of Oklahome are in the city and expect to make this their future home. Prof Davis is a friend of Mr. W. M. Dent. Lank Hilbert and Miss Sallie Rawles spent Sunday in Valley Center Kansas as the guest of Miss Stevenson spread a dinner that was all that heart could wish and that a royal time was had. Mrs. Cannie Baker has second hand clothing for sale at her home 601 N Wichita street. She has women men and children clothing for sale. Porer Perv will spend the Holidays inCherokee as the guest of his Aunt. Mrs. Bud Helm has been on the sick list for the past few days. Mrs. Burl Anderson suffered a burn on the arm from hot grease Sunday. JUST A WORD. Just a word. Don't you think that a newspaper that goes to the trouble and expense of publishing so much of the news of the colored people free of all cost to them, except the little subscription price, that the people ought to bring jog printing to the office of that paper, that it may still live as a first-class race paper? Did you ever see a paper so close to its people? Think about this and report as its suits you. Remember, that when you get your printing done at the Searchlight office you get local notices free of cost to you. You don't have to pay ten cents a line like those who take their job printing to other shops. Then we do as good and as cheap printing as any first-class office in the Think it over. --- battle of the New Wonder Lopez Specific Special Ed. As sure as Hot Springs are the best baths in best as sure as LOPEZ the Best Blood Rememey kn KIND. It Never Fail To Cure or materally be days, any case of Blood Poison, [ Serofula, Sy nning Sores, ] Rheumatism, Liver, Kidney or oles, Malaria, Catarrah, Gleet, Sexual weakness memory, or Weak eyes, General Decline, etc. curry] No matter how bad or where you live DO it. You know you have got to take a good Blo if you get well, so to make matters doubly z and quit experimenting with your life. Each st 30 to 40 days and retails for only $ 50 per b and any where. Mail orders a specialty. 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INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to William T. Vernon, A. M. D. PRESIDENT QUINDARO, KANS. Phones } Office—Bell " White" 4302 Residence—Bell " West ' 15 Bud Hickerson, Proprietor. The Little Annex RESTAURANT & CA The Little Annex STAURANT & CA Open Day and Night Short Order In Season Hot Chile 347 North Main Street Wichita, Kansas Short Order In Season 347 North Main Street FINE C Home-Mat ies, Cakes and Confectiona Special Holiday J. T. If you are PARTICULAR CANDIES for Be sure and THE 140 N. Ma Every Piece of Candy Pre USE IMBODE IMPE FLOUR Hot Order In Season North Main Street Wichita, Kane NE CANDIES Home-Made Bread Sweets and Confectionaries Fresh Cooked Eve Special Holiday Line of Sweets J. T. Olmsted, 337 North Main Street Wichita are PARTICULAR and want pure, O CANDIES for CHRISTMAS Be sure and get them at THE PALM 140 N. Main Street. Piece of Candy we sell is made on the Premises. 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UNIVERS College, Normal, Sub-N Preparatory, Normal, mental and Vocal ], incl Drawing [ Fine Artu printing snd Book-Bin hy and Typewritiing, T Sewing, Cooking, La on, Healthful Cllmate, teachers. es and all inducement mon, A. M. Annex NT & CA ANDIR de Bread ies Fresh Cooked Eve Line of Sweets ilmsted, 1837 North Main Street Wichita and want pure, CHRISTMAS get them at PALM on Street. ve sell is made on ises. N'S SERIAL love good eating IMBODEN MILLING BUSINESS NOVEMBER 9, 1905 SOURCES. Amount $201,916.47 Fred 499.83 Mixtures 13,700.00 Exchange 2,857.50 Exchange 214,421.97 $433,365.77 BILITIES $ 50,000.00 5,000.00 Is (net) 8,607.80 $332,893.19 Is 36,895.78 967,787.97 $433,395.77 ment is correct. RICHARDSON, Cashier. solve your business. OKE— BLUE SEAL CIGARS SOLD EVERYWHERE H W. Dean H W. Dean Meat Market —All Kinds of— Fresh and Salt Meats 513 N. Main St - Wichita In The Grocery Line Your wants need careful attention 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 35' Wm. Dunson Robt. Floyd Dunson - Floyd Mandolin Club Music For Any Occasion Special Arrangements For Parties. Prices Reasonable ..... Leave Order at 428 N. Main St. OLDEN'S D Prescriptions ... Drugs of all kinds. Your patronage solicited. + customer. Our store is Heac 615 North SECOND DEN'S DRUGS Prescriptions Filled with C Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and To tronage solicited. + Once a customer or. Our store is Headquaaters for Colo 615 North Main st SECOND TO NONE OLDEN'S DRUGS STORE Prescriptions Filled with Care ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco . . . Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people. PLEASE ALL GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As Snow. Coffee a Are good things for CHRIST your tickets and get your p Joner-Weigand T 115 North M coffee and Tea good things for CHRISTMAS PRESENT kets and get your presents from us Weigand Tea & Co 5 North Main Street --- Coffee and Tea Are good things for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Save your tickets and get your presents from us Joner-Weigand Tea & Coffee Co., 115 North Main Street K --- --- In The 1905 J G Hopper, Everything Cheap For Cash Call and give us a trial. Fresh and Salt Meats of All Kinds. Poultry and Oysters DRUO STORE is Filled with Care s, Cigars and Tobacco ... + Once a customer, always a adquaters for Colored people. th Main st. TO NONE OTTO WEIFS. AGENT and Tea ISTMAS PRESENTS. Save presents from us Tea & Coffee Co., Main Street Suitable for Christmas Cut Glass, Lamps, Dinnerware Toilet Ware, Jardinieres, Chocolate Sets, Fruit Sets, Biscuit Jars, Box Plates, Vases, Tankard Jugs, Bon-Bons, Spoon Trays, Celery Trays, etc. Finest assortment; prices right. HUSE--CHARLTON Crockery Company 130 N. Main St., Wichita, Kan. --- HUNDREDS of NOVEL and useful Articles THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT. CHRISTMAS The Novelty Store NEWTON, KAN. Mrs. S. Slaughter who has been sick for sometime died at her home last week the funeral services were conducted by Rev. Denton Pastor of the second Baptist church. Charlie Harvey spent Thanksgiving in Hutchinson Kaasas he reports a lovely time. Mrs. M. Roach who has been visiting in Kansas City Mo. has returned home reporting a lovely time. Arthur Thomas of Wichita spent Sunday in this city. Clarence Richman spent a few days in Hutchinson this week. Mr. Ford of Hutchinson Kans. is visiting a few days with Mr. Clarence Richman. Jacob Perkins spent Thanksgiving in Hutchinson Kans. he reports a lovely time. Ossie Steel who used to be one of Newton's popular young men past through the city this week. Miss Myrtle Flemming of Wickita passed through the city this week on her w y home in Wichita Kans. from a few weeks visit in Topeka, her friends were glad to see her. IOLA NEWS Golden Tabenacle is getting along nicely. It meets in the G. A. R. hall every 2nd, and 4th. Saturday in each month Mrs. Sarah Crisp is High Priestes and membe are very much pleased. The Ladies Might Society is working hard to get ready for Christmas. The A. M. E. church will have a Rally the first Snndry in January 1906, for the purpose of raising money to build their new church. All should aid. Golden Eagle Tent No.8 is doing well. It meets the 2nd, and 4th. Saturday in each month. Missie Garner is Queen Mother. HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price; 116 East Douglas Avenue BETTER SUPPLY. SAVE MONEY. NEW GOODS. NOT ONLY TODAY. EVERY DAY. NEW GOODS. SPECIAL INVITATION WIGHITA TABERNAGLE No. 34, Order of Twelve Meets First and Third Thursday Of Each Month All Daughters In Good Standing Invited Mrs. Mattie Miller, H. P. Bearrice Miller. Sec. WINFIELD, KANSAS. W. A. Wright has had his house newly painted. Presiding Elder Brooks held a series of meeting at the A. M. E. church last week. The young men have organized a club with Earnest Campbell, Pres. Harry Nichols, Sec. They have rented a room on south Main and fitted it up. Wm. Gossitt spent a few day in the city. Wainut Valley lodge No. 55 A. F. A. M. elected the following office's last Thursdaynight: J. W. Wood Worshipful Master. Alonz) Monroe Senior warden. James Nicho's Junior Warden. Thos. Campbell Secretary. A. B. Smith Treasure. Appointed Officers: Wm. Fowler Senior Deacon. Tno. Rhoades Junior Deacon. S. Simpson Senior Stewart. A. Monroe Junior Stewart Allen Brown, Chaplin, H. Franklin. Tyler. Manila Chapter O. E. S. oleted the following officers Thursday: Mrs. D. E. Douglas ..... R. M. Mrs. Wm. Johnson ..... Asso M. A. L. Nichols ..... p tion J. W. Wood, ..... Trea- M. Franklin ..... Sec. Mrs G. A. Nichols ... Conductress. Mrs. Lulu Brown ..... A. Con. Jas. Askins is in the city from Tul a I. T. with his family. He conducts a hotel in Tulsa. Mr. and Mrs. A. Menroe entertained the Xra club last Tuesday with Progressivo Pitch. G. A. Nichols received the gents prize and Mrs G. A. Nichols the ladies prize. A delightful evening was spent. Wesly Morris was given the Page degree in Winfild No. 20 K. of P. We wonder if the people up on Mars had as much trouble digging their canals. --- BRAI 120 East Thos. Glover, Pres. Edward Landrum, T We Can Feed You AT THE Court House 517 North We have a full line cy and Staple Groe Sugar, Flour, Meal Brooms, Butter, E tionary, and, in fa you may want in th FREE DELIVERY T Your Patre Court House 517 No Gardne BRAITSCH'S 120 East Douglas Ave We have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fancy and Staple Groerie, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugar, Flour, Meal, Vegetables, Canned Goods, Brooms, Butter, Eggs, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Stationary, and, in fact, anything and everything you may want in the Grocery Line. FREE DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY Your Patronage Solicited Court House Grocery Store 517 North Main Street HARD CO Feed and B Office and Yards Old Phone 146 Feed and Building Material Office and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. --- Sells Ribbons. Sells Combs. Sells Embroidery. Sells Gloves. Sells Perfumery. Sells Syrups. Sells School Supplies. Sells Baskets. Sells Enamel Ware. Sells Fancy Goods. Sells Ornaments. Articles ONLY ONE PRICE. AND WORTH IT. 320 320 320 320 NORTH MAIN. NORTH MAIN. --- WAITSCH'S East Douglas Ave res. S. E. Patton, Sec. drum, Treas. Jas. L. Harper, Mangr We Can Need You Court House Grocery North Main Street A full line of fresh and wholesome Fan- apple Groerie, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Pur, Meal, Vegetables, Canned Goods, Butter, Eggs, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Sta- nd, in fact, anything and everything want in the Grocery Line. DIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY Patronage Solicited House Grocery Store 517 North Main Street dner Coal Co., DEALERS IN..... COAL soft and Building Material and Yards 1201 to 1245 N. Main St. 6 New Phone 1804 1905 320 N. Main LARGER VARIETY. SAVE MONEY. NEW GOODS. LOOK FOR THE SIGN. EASY BUYING. TO PAY US A VISIT. Holiday Footwear FOR Women, Men and Children Prices to suit The poor or the rich... WHAT THEY DEMAND Chinese Guilds Are Willing to Lift The Boycott. THIS WOULD END THE TROUBLE. Tell American Merchants What Changes in the Exclusion Laws Must Be Made to Satisfy Them Drawn up by Boycott Committee. Hongkong, Dec. 12.—At a meeting of the boycott committee of the Chinese gullds and American merchants here the former drew up the following demands, the granting of which, they said, would be necessary to bring the boycott to an end: "First—A distinct definition of the term labor." "Second—That legislation affecting the Chinese must have the approval of the Chinese government. "Third—That American consuls in China be authorized to issue certificates for admission to the United States of Chinese, except laborers, without hindrance, except in cases of fraud. "Fourth—The issue of passports by the Chinese or other governments for submission to American consuls preparatory to the granting of certificates." "Fifth — Medical examination prior to departure to be conducted by one American doctor and one European doctor, the latter to be appointed by the Chinese authorities with a similar examination on arrival in the United States, if found necessary." The sixth and seventh demands call for most favored national treatment of Chinese residents and travelers in the United States. The eighth demand repudiates exceptional registration. "Ninth—The admission of Chinese laborers to the island of Hawaii and the Philippines, provided the local authorities are willing. "Tenth — In case of necessary inquiry on arrival there is to be no detention, provided security be furnished. Technical errors in papers are not to be considered a bar to admission. "Eleventh — The admission of the families of Chinese residents, the importation of females being safeguarded. "Twelfth — The readmission to the United States of Chinese who may have been deported for non-registration on proof of their possession of property in that country or that they are creditors there." NEGRO STUDENTS REVOLT. Alleged That President of Their Co Ilege Is Prejudiced. Washington, Dec. 11.—A revolt of between 300 and 400 female and male students at Howard University, a negro institution of this city, occurred recently. The student body had assembled in the chapel for the usual moon-tide religious services, when the president of the university, Prof. John Gordon, (white) entered and was greeted with a volume of hisses, cat calls, howls and groans. A scene of excitement followed. The students then marched out of the chapel to the campus where the demonstration was continued and Prof. Gordon was still further denounced. The college exercises for the day were abandoned, as the students were practically on strike. OREGON SENATOR DIES Death Follows Extraction of Four Teeth by Dentist. Portland, Ore., Dec. 11. — Senator John H Mitchell died at the Good Samaritan hospital in this city. Death resulted from complications which followed the removal of four teeth at a dental office recently. A hemorrhage of unusual severity followed the removal of the teeth and, despite the application of the most powerful syptics known to dental science, the flow of blood could not be stayed. Physicians were summoned to the dental office, but the combined scientific knowledge of the dentists and physiicians could not stop the flow of blood. The senator's condition soon became alarming, and it was determined to remove him to the hospital, where he died. BURTON IS BARRED. Will Have nothing to Do as Senator But Draw the Salary. Washington. Dec. 11.—The leading senators have decided to express fully condemnation of the convicted members of their body. The senate committee on committees will not make any mention of Burton's name in its report, refusing to assign him to any place, no matter how insignificant. As a result Senator Burton will be completely effaced, so far as any power as senator are concerned. He is barred from the floor and may not show his face in committees. Having no committee poste, he will have no office rooms in the capitol. In fact, his sole function as senator will consist in drawing the $5,000 salary of the office. HJGHES MAKES SUGGESTION. Thinks It Fully Settles Railroad Rate Question. Denver, Colo., Dec. 11.—Colonel W. E. Hughes, president of the Continental Trust Company, who presided over the sessions of the interstate commerce law convention, recently held in Chicago, arrived in the city from St. Louis. Colonel Hughes was unable to continue his journey to Washington, owing to a severe cold, but sent to President Roosevelt and to the executive committee of the interstate commerce law association the following suggestion: "I have but one suggestion to make—that we ask an addition to existing laws giving power to the interstate commerce commission, when a rate has been challenged and, after full hearing, found by the commission unreasonable, unjust or discriminative, that this rate be by the committee at once suspended, and the railroad required under the full penalties of the act to within ten days substitute another rate, to be first approved by the commission. This leaves the rate-making powers with the railroads, gives us all we ask for and, in my opinion, meets fully all constitutional and legal objections raised." INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS Third Conference of American Repub- lies at Rio de Janeiro. Washington, Dec. 9.—The Third International Congress of American Republics will meet in Rio Janeiro January 21, 1906. This decision was reached at a meeting of the executive council of the bureau, presided over by Secretary Root. While Rio De Janeiro is nominally the place for the meeting, it is probable that the third conference will be assembled at Petropolis, which is the diplomatic suburb of the Brazilian capital. Secretary Root, who presided over the meeting, reiterated his purpose of attending this third congress as the head of the American delegation, the other members of which have not yet been selected. It is probable in order to emphasize the interest this government feels in the approaching conventions. The Mexican ambassador was particularly active in bringing about the conclusion. He proposed, in addition to the resolution fixing the time and place of meeting, another resolution, which was adopted providing for the appointment of three committees from the membership of the executive council of the bureau of American republics. The first committee is to endeavor to formulate a program of topics to be considered at the next congress; the second is to prepare rules for the conduct of the business of the congress subject, of course, to such amendment as the congress itself may see fit to prescribe; the third is to undertake a general revision of the relations governing the administration of the bureau of American republics here with a view to increasing its usefulness and bringing in closer relations for business purposes the countries of the union. MAKE IT EASY FOR ABDUL. Powers Make Concessions to the Sultan's Self-Esteem. Constantinople, via Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 11.—The ambassadors of the six powers at a conference just held have accepted some of the modifications proposed by the Porte to the original scheme for the financial control of Macedonia and an amended agreement has been forwarded to their respective governments for ratification. This is expected promptly, when the incident will be closed. The modifications accepted apparently in no way affect the efficacy of the scheme, but are a sop given to the Sultan's self esteem and his claims for recognition of his sovereign rights by the inclusion of an Ottoman representative in the commission and an agreement that the commission's decision shall be submitted to the Sultan for formal imperial sanction. MANY CHANGES IN NAVY. Captains Promoted to More Important Commands Washington, Dec. 9.—Cameron Mc. R. Winslow, formerly naval aid to the president and now in command of the Mayflower, has been selected to command the new protected cruiser Charleston, which will go to the Pacific station early in the year to become the flagship of the Pacific squadron. The Charleston will replace the Chicago, which is badly in need of repairs. Captain Winslow will assume command of the Charleston this month. He relieves Captain Herbert Winslow, who will be ordered to the command of the battleship Kearsarge, relieving Captain Raymond F. Rogers, who will be ordered to Washington to succeed Captain Seaton Chroeder as chief of the office of naval intelligence when that officer goes to the command of the battleship Virginia. Reign of Terror at Kieff. Berlin, Dec. 11.—The local branch of the Russian Revolutionists have received information that a reign of terror exists at Kieff. Drunken mobs are massacreing Jews, students and middle class reformers. 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Stone root, Queen's root and Black Cherrybark in promoting digestion and building up the flesh and strength, controlling the cough and bringing about a healthy condition not be expected to work miracles. It will not cure consumption except in its earlier stages. It will cure very severe, obstinate, chronic coughs, bronchial and laryngeal troubles, and chronic sore throat with hoarseness. In acute coughs it is not necessary to administer coughs, or those of long standing, even when accompanied by bleeding from lungs, that it has performed its most marvelous cures. Send for and read the little book of extracts, treating of the cough, and the laryngeal roots that enter into Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and learn why this medicine has such a wide range of application in the cure of diseases. It is sent free. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. or alcohol or harmful hold-fitting drug. Ingredients all printed on each bottle wrapper in plain English. Sick people, especially those suffering from diseases of long standing, are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter. *All* persons in a hospital is held at private and sacredly confidential. *Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.* Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser is sent *free* on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing *only*. Send 21 one-cent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound copy. It seems easier to write a life insurance policy than to right it. AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR. Covered Head, Neck and Shoulders— Suffered Agony for Twenty-five Years Until Curred by Cuticura. "For twenty-five years I suffered agony from a terrible humor, completely covering my head, neck and shoulders, discharging matter of such ofensiveness to sight and smell that I became an object of dread. I consulted the most able doctors far and near, to no avail. Then I got Cuticura, and in a surprisingly short time I was completely cured. For this I thank Cuticura, and advise all those suffering from skin humors to get it and end their misery at once. S. P. Keyes, 149 Congress Street, Boston, Mass." Largest Man in Paris. Michael Beudin, the largest man in Paris, who was known as the "King of the Draymen," has died from the effects of being knocked down by a street car. He was six feet and three-fourths inches tall and weighed 392 pounds. His strength was so great that he could lift easily and carry a barrel containing a pipe (126 gallons) of wine. Hurried the Declaration. Flies on the Declaration: of Independence! Never! Who says "Never"? William A. Reid asked the other day if flies did not hasten the work of the delegates, and a historian replies, quoting the words of Thomas Jefferson: "I shall never cease to be grateful to John Adams, the colossus of that debate. While the discussion was going on fatherly old Ben Franklin, 70 years old, leaning on his cane, sat by my side and comforted me with his jokes whenever the criticisms were unusually bitter. The congress held its meetings near a livery stable, the members wore short breeches and thin silk stockings, and with handkerchief in hand they were diligently employed in lashing the flies from their legs. So very vexatious was the annoyance, and to so great impatience did it arouse the sufferers, that they were only too glad to sign the Declaration and fly from the scene." A BRAIN WORKER. Must Have the Kind of Food That Nourishes Brain. "I am a literary man whose nervous energy is a great part of my stock in trade, and ordinarily I have little patience with breakfast foods and the extravagant claims made of them. But I cannot withhold my acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to Grape-Nuts food. "I discovered long ago that the very bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a clear head, the power of sustained, accurate thinking. I always felt heavy and shuggish in mind as well as body after eating the ordinary meal, which diverted the blood from the brain to the digestive apparatus. "I tried foods easy of digestion, but f. them usually deficient in nutriment. I experimented with many breakfast foods and they, too, proved unsatisfactory, till I reached Grape-Nuts. And then the problem was solved. "Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfectly from the beginning, satisfying my hunger and supplying the nutriment that so many other prepared foods lack. "I had not been using it very long before I found that I was turning out an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has demonstrated to my entire satisfaction that Grape-Nuts food contains all the elements needed by the brain and nervous system of the hard working public writer." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. MUTINY OF COSSACKS Disorders Will Soon be Suppressed by Minister Durmovo. HUNDREDS OF THEM ARRESTED. The Pope Has Addressed Bishops of Russian, Poland, Recommending Poles to Co-operate in Pacification of Empire and Avoid Sedition. Paris, Dec. 14.—A dispatch to the Journal from St. Petersburg, dated December 12th, says that Minister of the Interior Durnovo has ordered the arrest of hundreds of agitators in the Agrarian districts. The dispatch says that the installation of wireless telegraphy between St. Petersburg, Moscow and Witballen, is nearing completion. The correspondent of the Matin at St. Petersburg confirms the report of the mutiny of Cossacks at Moscow. He adds that the Peasants Alliance has issued a proclamation advising those adhering to the alliance not to pay taxes and to withdraw their money from the banks. Another St. Petersburg dispatch to the Journal of the same date sent by way of Edytkuhnen, says the officers and troops at Moscow held a great meeting at which it was decided to begin a campaign for economical and political reforms. Warsaw, Russian Poland, Dec. 14. A general strike of all servants has been declared. Infantry and cavalry are again patrolling the town. Rome. The pope has issued a most important encyclical addressed to the bishops of Russian Poland, recommending the Poles to co-operate in the pacification of the empire, and avoid sedition. The pope says he is pre-occupied by the grave crisis in Poland and will try to contribute to its complete pacification. Evils are afflicting Poland and many duties working upon the episcopate and the faithful. Although the good Poles are in the majority they lack energy which renders possible the deporable excesses, unworthy of a civilized people "such as massacres of Jews which are condemned and detested by the Evangelical law which is imposed on all indiscriminately. Recalling the words of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical of 1904 the pontiff says: "Be submissive to the rulers who exercise power by the will of God. The Poles should sacredly protect their civil discipline and should abstain from taking part in the plots of wicked men. From their gatherings no sedicious acts should ever emanate and they should make every effort to maintain peace and justice." The pope renders homage to the wisdom and goodness of Emperor Nicholas, who by the ukase of April 30, granted freedom of conscience, giving happiness to many souls. This concession was confirmed and amplified by the ukase of October 30, so the clergy must assist those who wish to embrace Catholicism. The pontiff concludes with exhorting the Poles to avail themselves of the rights of citizenship and with loyalty and diligence to contribute to the progressive amelioration of Russian Poland, assuring them that he will constantly use his influence with the emperor and the government for the religious and moral good of the Polish population. ARGUMENT BEGUN. In the Ballot Box Cases Growing Out of New York Election. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 13.—Argument was begun in the court of appeals in the so-called New York ballot box case. There was a very large attendance of lawyers and spectators. The contest represents the contention of William Randolph Hearst, John Ford and J. G. Phelps Stokes, municipal ownership candidates, that at the election of November 7 they rightfully elected respectively to the offices of mayor, comptroller and president of the board of aldermen of the Greater New York and this will be shown by a recount of the votes. Will Support Rate Bill. San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 14. President Roosevelt was assured by the San Francisco chamber of commerce, through the action of the trustees of the chamber, of the support of the body in his policy regarding the regulation of railroad rates. Brazil Makes Complaint. Berlin, Dec. 14. — the Brazilian minister lodged a complaint with the foreign office over the proceedings of the German cruiser Panther at Itajapy, Brazil, averring a breach of international rights. St. Louis, Dec. 14. — A resolution absolutely prohibiting the playing of Rugby football by students of the public schools, including the high schools, as representatives of their respective institutions, was introduced at the meeting of the board of education TO STOP REBATES. Attorney General Sends Instructions to District Attorneys. Washington, Dec. 14. — Attorney General Moody sent a circular letter to all the district attorneys, eighty-five in number, directing them vigilantly to enforce the provisions of the Ellins act against rebates and discriminations of all kinds, by carriers. The method of proceedings suggested is by way of indictments. It is the expectation that this letter will result in the prompt investigation of all complaints made of the discriminations by carriers, followed by indictment where the evidence warrants. The department itself, it is said, has investigated thoroughly all cases of discriminations brought to its attention, but it has not facilities for a prompt prosecution of discriminatory practices all over the country and it has been felt that these cases were of a nature that could be safely entrusted to the discretion of the district attorneys. Following is a copy of the letter sent to the district attorneys: "An act, entitled 'to further regulate commerce among foreign nations and among the states,' approved February 19, 1902, (32 stats., 847), commonly known as the Elkins act, is directed against rebates and other discriminatory practices by common carriers. It makes such practices misdemeanors and provides for their punishment by fines. It further provides for their prohibition by the injunctive process of the courts. There is no provision that criminal prosecution shall be by the special direction of the attorney general but by section 3 it is provided that proceedings for injunction shall be begun whenever the attorney general shall direct." BOOM OKLAHOMA STATEHOOD. Strong Delegation Warmly Received By Senator Beveridge. Washington, Dec. 13.—Single statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory was promoted in one of the most novel performances ever enacted in the national capitol building. A delegation of 150 strong from these territories called to pay its respects to Senator Beveridge, chairman of the committee on territories. The committee room would not accommodate all of the visitors and the senator received them in the corridor and addressed them there. The overflow occupied the stairs leading to the Marble room, one of the semi-sacred precincts of the senate. Those stationed on this elevation led in cheering the senator, who complimented the people of the territories and promised they should not be disappointed in their desire for statehood. The prettiest scene of the entire proceeding was at the close, when Helen Renstron, a 15-year-old girl from Oklahoma City, sang three verses from "Oklahoma," the joint statehood song. By this time it seemed that half of the habitues of the capitol, including a number of senators, had been attracted by the gathering. When the girl had finished Senator Beveridge shook her hand and complimented her, as did other senators. Statehood boomers from Oklahoma and Indian Territory received much encouragement from representatives at whose committee rooms they called. DEATH ENDS THE CASE. Senator Mitchell's Appeal to Supreme Court Is Dismissed. Washington, Dec. 13.—On motion of former Senator Thurston, Chief Justice Fuller on behalf of the supreme court of the United States, directed the issuance of an order dismissing the appeal of the late Senator Mitchell in the case against him. The proceeding was brief. Senator Thurston announced the death of the Oregon senator and moved the dismissal of the case. In directing the order the chief justice merely remarked that this course was usual in criminal cases. Oil Wells in Northern Kansas. Sabetha, Kan., Dec. 13. — Henry Smith, a real estate dealer of Falls City, Neb., has induced the owners of 7,000 acres of land between Falls City and Sabetha, to permit an investigation and prospecting for oil and gas. He is endeavoring to get 3,000 acres more, making 10,000 acres in all. Sultan Has Yielded All. London, Dec. 13.—The correspondent of the Daily News at Constantinople cables: "The Sultan has yielded. He accepted the scheme for the financial control of Macedonia as embodied in the last collective note of the powers. Convicted of Perjury. New York, Dec. 13. — Former Assemblyman Joseph Campbell of Brooklyn, who was convicted of perjury and with violation of the election law, was sentenced to serve two years in Sing Sing prison. Boise, Idaho, Dec. 14. — The Idaho Wool Growers' convention at Weisr, concluded its work after authorizing the board of directors to construct a refining plant at the salt works owned by the association to defeat the so-called salt trust. Keep the kidneys Well and the kidneys Will Keep You Well. Sick, suffering, languid women are learning the true cause of bad health and how to them. Mrs. W. 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Those who have nothing to do plain of generally complain of a A GUARANTEED CURE FOR THE toothache. Procedures for treating Piso's glasses are authorized to be referred OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. Even when you pay for a telephone you send it on tick. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray in the Children's Home in New York Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Teething Disorders, move and repair Bowls and Destroy Worms. Over time, timonials. At all Druggists. See Dr. Address A. S. O'Minster, Lennon. Never ask a truthful man for honest opinion unless you are prepared for a shock. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY FRANK LEE CURRY owees that he is partner of the firm of F. J. CHEENY & O. business in the City of Toltec County, O. and that firm has one ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and case of CATARRHE that cannot be cared by the HALL CATARRHE CURE. FRANK J. CHEENY Sworn to before me and subscribed in ance, this 5th day of December, A. 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Demand Defiance and a much time and money and the amount of the iron sticking Defiance never sticks. Want Librarica Open Late There is a growing demand in York City that the public libraries kept open after 9 o'clock at no so that those whose days are with work can have access to be more than two hours out of every twenty-four. The system under the two main reference libraries, Astor and Lenox, and the three circulating branches in Mankee the Bronx and Richmond are conducted makes practicallysible to the great mass of women the 650,000 volumes of these two libraries. Morocco City Slave In Marrakesh (Morocco City) slave market is held three times week in the two hours that preset the setting of the sun and the chie of the city gates. The market is an open space of bare, dry grass hemed in with walls and with ruinous arcade stretching along center. The wealthy patrons themselves on the ground and auctioneer, after a prayer to A marches his wares round and re the inclosure, receiving bids and Dayton, Tenn., Dec. 11th (Spa- —Among many prominent resis- t to praise Dodd's Kidney Pills is N. R. Roberts of this place. He of what he have done for him his words will go deep into the be- of all who are suffering in the say. He save: way. He says, “I was a martyr to Kidney Day but Dodd’s Kidney Pills complained me. I shall always keep to on hand in case there should be return of the old trouble, but I thankful to say they did their so well there has not been the old sign of my old complaint. back. The pain in my back must be terrible. If I got down I had hard job to get straight again. my back is like a new one now and can stoop as much as I was any medal half so good as Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Youth is dangerous because thinks it knows everything it gives at Wealthier than any brother sovereign; master of legions, which number over a million; lord of more than one-sixth of the surface of the globe, with subjects of many colors and races, amounting to over one hundred and twenty million souls, the Czar of all the Russias will not be invicible until he adopts Pillsbury's Vitos as his regular breakfast diet. Women and glassware should be handled with care. THE OLD-MONK-CURE TRADE MARK. St. Jacobs Oil has traveled round the world, and everywhere human Aches and Pains have welcomed it and blest it for a cure. Price, 25c. and 50c. More Convenient Every Year KC 25 OUNCES FOR BAKING POWDER MANUFACTURED ONLY BY JAQUES MANFG CO. CHICAGO, CITY NEW YORK, KANSAS CITY EST. 1911 GUARANTEE Every day in every that comes, more he are giving up their e priced Baking Pow turning to KC, the reliable, which has s the test of years. Th ing out that KC BAKING POW costs one-third the powder anywhere ne quality, and makes better, purer, healthful baking. 25 ounces for Send postal for "Book of Presents." JAQUES MFG. CO. Chicago, Ill. ICE, 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE ONLY FOR HEADAGRE ANTI-GRIP IS GUARANTEE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADA I won't sell Anti-Gripine to a K. Call for your MONEY BAD E. W. Diener, H. D., Mannu FILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED DRS. THORNTON & MINOR-1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY It is wrong for you to suffer fro owel and Stomach Trouble when the natural and harmless cure—Mull's Gra- Have you noticed the large number of Typhoid Fever, Malarial Fever, Appendicitis, Impure Blood, Pit Disease, Piles, Female Troubles, Stomach Trouble the result of Constipation. There is a remedy now to be had that cures these trous A full sized bottle is furnished you free to prove it. Remember we give only one bottle to each family. You only with Mull's Grape Tonic send this coupon press of the druggist and we will mail you a bottle. Try all the druggists before you write us as the bottle for this coupon is three times as large as the one we are. The following coupon will not be honored unless it is piece including the Patient's coupon, Retail Druggist's observer's coupon, they must not be separated. TO OUT THIS COUPON, SIGN AND TAKE IT TO YOU AUTHORIZED TO GIVE YOU A FREE 35c. BOTTLE I hereby certify that I have never taken Mull's Grape Tonic, the bottle, that I will not sell or give it away and that I will take owel and Stomach Trouble as soon as I obtain it. Converts My Year Every day in every yearomes, more housewivesgiving up their exhorbitantBaking Powders andt to K C, the honest andwhich has stood so wellof years. They are find-that BAKING POWDER One-third the price ofanywhere near K Cbetter, purer, more25 ounces for 25c. Book of Presents." MFG. CO. Mago, Ill. TI-GRIPINE GUARANTEED TO CUREGO GOLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't Guaranteeyour MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. Borer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. CURED. SEND FOR FREE LAWS. TREATMENT ON POSTALDISCASES, WITH NAMES OF PROMIENT NEW CURESIN OAK 5T. KANSAS CITY. MO. (BRANCH OFFICE AT ST. LOUIS). To suffer from Constipation,le when there is a positive,Mull's Grape Tonic. Of Typhoid Fever cases lately? Typhoidimpure Blood, Pimples, Sick Headache,Stomach Troubles, Heart Troubles, etc.,cures these troubles absolutely. See to prove it. Do each family. If your druggist fails tous this coupon together with name andyou a bottle. As us as the bottle he is authorized to giveas the one we are allowed to send by mail.hored unless it is cut out of the paper inRetail Druggist's coupon and Wholesalearrated. MAKE IT TO YOUR DRUGGIST WHO ISA FREE 35c. BOTTLE FOR IT. Mull's Grape Tonic, that I will apply for only oneand that I will take it myself for Constipation. More Converts Every Year Every day in every year that comes, more housewives are giving up their exhorbitant priced Baking Powders and turning to KC, the honest and reliable, which has stood so well the test of years. They are finding out that KC BAKING POWDER costs one-third the price of powder anywhere near KC quality, and makes better, purer, more healthful baking. 25 ounces for 25c. Send postal for "Book of Presents." JAQUES MFG. CO. Chicago, Ill. RICE. 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE IS GO EQUAL FOR HEADAGE ANTI-GRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't guarantee it. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Diemer, M.D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. PLES- NO MONEY TILL CURED- SEXP FOR FREE LUXES- TREATISSE OR PECULIAR DRS. PROTHRON & MINOR-1031 OAK ST.-KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRANCH OFF AT 59 LAUROS) It is wrong for you to suffer from Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Trouble when there is a positive, natural and harmless cure—MULL'S GRAPE TONIC. Have you noticed the large number of Typhoid Fever cases lately? Typhoid Fever, Malarial Fever, Appendicitis, Impure Blood, Pimples, Sick Headache, Sin Disease, Piles, Female Troubles, Stomach Troubles, Heart Troubles, etc., are the result of Constipation. There is a remedy now to be had that cures these troubles absolutely. A full size bottle is furnished you free to prove it. Remember we give only one bottle to each family. If your druggist fails to supply you with Mull's Grape Tonic send us this coupon together with name and address of the druggist and we will mail you a bottle. Try all the druggists before you write us as the bottle he is authorized to give for this coupon is three times as large as the one we are allowed to send by mail. The following coupon will not be honored unless it is cut out of the in one piece including the Patient's coupon, Retail Druggist's coupon and Wholesale Jobber's coupon, they must not be separated. PUT OUT THIS COUPON, SIGN AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DRUGGIST WHO IS AUTHORIZED TO GIVE YOU A FREE 35c. BOTTLE FOR IT. I hereby certify that I have never taken Mull's Grape Tonic, that I will apply for only one free bottle, that I will not sell or give it away and that I will take it myself for Constipation. Bowel and Stomach Trouble as soon as I obtain it. Patient sign your name here very plainly. Write your full address here very plainly. NONE BUT THE RETAIL DRUGGIST MUST TO THE RETAIL DRUGGIST: This coupon void unless address on the line below. Send this full coupon to the jobber of name, and he will give you 35 cents in cash or trade for each which you send him. All jobbors have the 35c, 50c and 1.00 sizes. only 6 times the 35c size and 3 times the 50c size. RUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: coupon void unless you sign your name and on to the jobber of whom you purchased this or trade for each coupon, properly signed. 50c and $1.00 sizes. The $1.00 bottle contains size. NONE BUT THE RETAIL DRUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: TO THE RETAIL DRUGGIST: This coupon void unless you sign your name and address on the line below. Send this full coupon to the coupon of whom you purchased this ticket and hand it in in cash or with which coupon properly hitted, which you send him. All jobbers have the 35c, 50c and $1.00 sizes. The $1.00 bottle contains nearly 6 times the 35c size and 3 times the 50c size. Retail Druggist, sign your name here. Your address here. NO ONE BUT THE WHOLESALE DRUGGIST MARKS TO THE JOBBER: You will please accept this coupon if the and give to the retailer buying the remedy from you, 35 cents in cash. but you void unless you sign your firm name and address. Forward will remit you 35 cents for each coupon properly signed by the consul. Jobber, sign your name here. Address here. Cut out the above three coupons in one piece. Do BULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., Makers, No. 148 Third DRUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: apt this coupon if the same is properly signed, you. 35 cents in cash or trade for same. This address. Forward all coupons to us, and we signed by the consumer, retailer and yourself. ar name here. here. in one piece. Do not separate. No. 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. NO ONE BUT THE WHOLESALE DRUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: TO THE JOBBER: You will please accept this coupon if the same is properly signed, and give to the retailer buying the remedy from you. 35 units in cash or trade for same. This coupon void unless you sign your firm name and address. Forward all coupons to us, and we will remit 35 units for each coupon properly signed by the consumer, retailer and yourself. Cut out the above three coupons in one piece. Do not separate. MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., Makers, No. 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. FREE TO YOU WOND MORE FREESamples of our reliable plan where you can increase your profit—in fact, MAKE BIG MONEY sell. Samples are available to sell from $70 to $30 a week. Write today, before territory is Address Advertising Dept. John Brodin Chemical Co. in Western Canada is the amount many farmers will realize from their wheat crop this year. Bushels to the Acre Will be the Average Yield of Wheat. and that this was grown on cost many of acres absolutely nothing, while those grants can add to the 160 acres the Governments can buy land adjoining at from $6 acre. and splendid, school convenient, railways at hand, taxes low. and pamphlet "20th Century Canada" for particulars regarding rate, etc., to depend on Immigration, Ottawa, or to the following authorized Government Agent-J. S. Crawford, W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Map this page.) Your address here. Address here. OKLAHOMA GRATIFIED Statehood Bill to Pass Defore the Holidays. SOME MINOR AMENDMENTS. Suggestion of Delegates Will Be Embodied in Bill—Committee on Territories to meet at Once and Formulate Plans. Washington, Dec. 14. — The house will dispose of the statehood question before the holiday recess, according to the plan formulated. The precise manner in which statehood is to be granted to the four territories will be set forth in what is known as the Hamilton bill, giving statehood to Arizona and New Mexico as one state, and to Oklahoma and Indian Territory as another. The bill embodies the minor provisions greed upon by the conference committees of the two houses at the last session of congress. The plan for statehood legislation will be made specific at a Republican caucus of the house to be called for Thursday afternoon or evening. The committee on territories will meet in the morning and perfect the bill, to which several minor amendments will be made at the suggestion of delegates from Oklahoma sent here for the purpose. The bill, however, will not be reported to the house until after the caucus action. Besides deciding on its provisions it is the plan that the terms of a rule shall be agreed upon in caucus under which the bill will go through the house. There is known to be some Republican opposition to statehood as proposed in the bill, but this opposition is not regarded as serious. MUCH ORATORY IN SENATE. Debate Rate Legislation More Than Four Hours. Washington, Dec. 13.—With spirit-ed debates on the subjects of railroad rate legislation, arising through the introduction of a bill by Mr. Tillman to authorize the interstate commerce commission to fix maximum rates, and the Panama canal, due to a controversy over the reference of the emergency appropriation bill to a committee, today's session of the senate continuously proved interesting for more than four hours. An adjournment was taken without a mention of the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon, and so for the first time the death of a senator was permitted to pass unnoticed by the senate. The erasure of Mr. Mitchell's name from the rolls followed. Chaplain Hale called the situation to mind in his prayer by referring pointedly to corruption and death and by praying that members of the senate be given strength to bear each other's burdens. The debate on the Tillman bill was engaged in by a number of senators. Mr. Foraker declared that the bill proved that its author believed the present laws were sufficient to correct all alleged transportation evils except excessive rates, and that there was ample provision for the punishment of rebate giving. Mr. Tillman responded that he had thought the laws sufficient until the investigation begun by Messrs. Judson and Harmon into the Santa Fe case had terminated in a pitriable flasco. Mr. Foraker asserted that the law could not be blamed if "some person fell short in his duty." Mr. Foraker intimated that in his opinion there would be some extended controversies before the railroad rate bills were disposed of this session. After more than a score of senators had discussed the Panama bill it was referred to the appropriations committee by a vote of 40 to 25. Children Burn to Death. Dubols, Pa., Dec. 14.—Six children of William Morgan and wife were burned to death at Lindsey near Puxsutawney at an early hour. The parents and their two remaining children barely escaped with their lives. Vessel Wrecked by Rocks. Havana, Dec. 13.—The Elder-Dempster liner Angola, which grounded hard on a coral bottom while entering the harbor, has been abandoned by the underwriters. The vessel was wrenched by the rocks, which pierced her hull. Fire Destroys Torpedo Boats. Cadiz, Dec. 12.—Fire in the Caracas arsenal destroyed two torpedo boats which were under repair and caused other damage. Site for Tablet. Gettysburg, Pa., Dec. 12.—Secretary Root and Secretary Taft, accompanied by a party of military men, spent today on the battlefield looking over the ground for the purpose of selecting a site upon which to erect a tablet inscribed with Lincoln's Gettysburg address. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alk. Stone Rock Milk Sugar Anise Seed Peppermint Di Caryatide Sugar Waxy Seed Cinnamon Sugar Walnutmilk Sugar A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Hitchin. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CINIS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hitchin. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. "WHEEL CHAIR EVANGELIST."* Dr. Daniel Shepardson Is Dead at His Home in Honolulu. Rev. Dr. Daniel Shepardson, widely known as the "Wheel Chair Evangelist," is dead in Honolulu. Several months ago he sustained a fracture of one of his legs, both of which for many years had been paralyzed, and he never fully recovered from the injury. He was born in Ohio thirty-six years ago. Before he was 22 he had won the degree of Ph. D. at Yale, and, after travel abroad, a theological course and several years teaching of Hebrew, Arabic and the English Bible in the American Institute of Sacred Literature, he entered the ministry. He had been preaching only a few months when he suffered paralysis of his limbs. For nine years he had been preaching and teaching from one end of the United States to the other, and he came to be regarded as one of the foremost exhorters of the day. Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald, of Liepzig, who under the new arrangement by which Harvard and Germany will exchange professors is to lecture at Cambridge for half the coming academic year, is essentially a leader of men. He has the personal magnetism which attracts and inspires people; he is always a little in advance of the majority, and he has the power of expressing himself in such a way as to interest and convince others. His influence is not confined to his pupils. There is probably no man living whose opinions have so much immediate weight in the world of chemists as does that of Ostwald. The man who is always going to do a lot of great things usually ends it by doing a few small ones. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. Vivid imaginations can make things about as disagreeable as anything in this world. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Drugs refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE's signature is on each box. 25c. Did you ever read anything about Job having a wife who insisted upon family reunions? Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE recently and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not be without it now."—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J." Sold by all Druggists, 23c. All the average woman demands of a man is that he be a good listener. When Your Grocer Says he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch but contains 16 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. It is impossible for some men to associate with their inferiors. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because 100 package contains 16 oz., while all the other kinds contain but 12 oz. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. A fellow may feel that he is always right until he is left. LYDIA E. PINKHAM A BRIEF SKETCH OF HER LIFE How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73" Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. THE STORY READS LIKE A ROMANCE Yours for Health Bydia G. Parkham This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819, coming from a good old Quaker family. For many years she taught school, and during her career as a teacher she became known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, she was possessed with a wonderfully sympathetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old-fashioned days few drugs were used in medicines; people relied upon nature's remedies, roots and herbs, which are to-day recognized as more potent and efficacious in controlling diseases than any combination of drugs. Mrs. Pinkham from her youth took a deep interest in medicine, in botany—the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics, and power over disease; she believed that as nature so bountifully provides food for the body so she also provides medicine for the ills and weaknesses of the body, in the roots and herbs of the field, and as a wife, mother and sympathetic friend, she could use of her knowledge of roots and herbs in preparing medicines for her family and friends. Knowing of so much suffering among her sex, after much study and research, Mrs. Pinkham believed that the diseases of women have a common cause, and she set to work to find a common remedy—not at that time as a source of profit, but simply that she might aid the suffering. How her efforts have been rewarded the women of the world know to-day. the women of the world know to-day. In 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity was too much for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from this fearful depression, so when the Centennial year dawned it found their property swept away. At this point the history of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound commences: The three sons and daughter, with their mother, combined forces to restore the family fortune. They resolved to give to the world the vegetable compound that Mrs. Pinkham afflicted with Thompson's Eye Water had so often made from roots and herbs for such of her women neighbors and friends who were sick and ailing. Its success in those cases had been wonderful—its fame had spread, and calls were coming from miles around for this efficacious vegetable compound. They had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then came the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away free. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medicine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these pamphlets were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the demand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts, the family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising on a small scale, and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise was assured, until to-day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words everywhere, and thousands of pounds of roots and herbs are used annually in making this great remedy for woman's ills. Although Lydia E. Pinkham passed to her reward some years ago, the perpetuation of her great work was guarded by her foresight. During her long and eventful experience she was ever methodical in her work and was careful to preserve a record of every case that came to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice—and there were thousands—received careful study, and the details, including symptoms, treatment and results, were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collaboration of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills which, for authenticity and accuracy, can hardly be equated in a2r library in the world. Another act of foresight on the part of Lydia E. Pinkham was to see that some one of her family was trained to carry on her work, and with that end in view, for years before her death, had as her chief assistant her daughter-in-law, the present Mrs. Pinkham. Therefore, under the guidance and careful, training of Lydia E. Pinkham, and a vast experience of her own, covering twenty-five years, the present Mrs. Pinkham is exceptionally well equipped to advise sick women, which she is always glad to do free of charge. The record of, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made of simple herbs and roots, is a proud and peerless one. It is a record of constant conquest over the obstinate fills of women, greater than that of any other one medicine of its kind in the world, and will ever stand as a monument to that noble woman whose name it bears. DEFIANCE STARCH fastest to work with and starches clothes unsec For Health and Recreation come to Texas! Get away from the cold, damp, winter weather here and find health and pleasure in the Winter Play-grounds of Texas. The rest, the perfect sunshiny winter weather and the exhilerating air will benefit you. Tourist tickets are now on sale daily to the following points: Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, San Antonio, Rockport, Corpus Christi, Brownsville and El Paso, Texas, with a final limit of June 1st, 1906. Ask your nearest railroad agent for rates. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes and protects hair, curles dandruff and makes it cone or breaking off, curles dandruff and makes it curle dandruff and over 65 years, and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. It was the first preparation ever used for hair dandruff. Marrow, put up only in fifty cent size, made only in Chicago and by us. The genuine has the signature OZONIZED OX MARROW and by us. The genuine has the signature OZONIZED OX MARROW and by us. Do not be misled by substitutes that claim to be just as good—but always insist upon good hair, soft and beautiful, giving and healthy. It looks like appearance to much detail. A tolle necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegant appearance to much detail. Only 50 cents. Sold by druglists postpaid, or $1.40 for three bottles, express paid. We pay all postage and express charges. It is not possible for anybody to produce a proper hair pomade express when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO.( (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Street 75 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. Try a "Hot Soda" at Olden's. PHONE 1944 D. L. STEWART, M.D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. 703 North Main St. An calls attended promptly. Dry or Night Office Hours — 9 to 12 a. m. 2 to 5 p. m. 6 to 8 30 p. m. Don't Forget Your Xmas Turkey Duck Chicken or Goose We have plenty of them; we also have plenty of Fresh Baltimore Oysters. Our Fish supply consists of Halibut, Salmon, Salt Water Trout, White Bass and plenty of Fresh Cat Fish. Plenty of Mutton and Veal of the very best and our Beef is unsurpassable. Free Delivery Phone 1078 214 North Main L. S. NAFTGER, W. K. TUCKER, President Vice President L. M. MOORE, Cashier United States Depository Directors—W. R. Tucker, B. F. Jett, R. L Holmes, S. B. Auidon, B. F. Mle Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftiger, E. H. Middle aff. O. Z. Smith A General Booking Business Tranacted CHUITA KANSAS JOB PRINTING Why take your JOB PRINTING to others when a member of your own race can do the work as cheap and as good? Bring your job work to the Searchlight office, Second and Main streets, and we will do the work right. "Promptness and Quality" is our The Cossacks are doubles very well, in their feeble way, but if the zear wants results he ought to engage an American football team to clean out the country. Baltimore has had seven little earthquakes since June 1, but as no body would have known it if it hadn't been for the Johns Hopkins selosmograph, nobody is worrying. A New York man who has just been robbed says that it is his fortelless experience of this kind in thirty-three years. He ought to hire a safety deposit box big enough to live in. The czar may extract a grain of comfort from the reflection that this trouble was bound to come anyhow, and it is better to have it now than at the end of another year 0 "Not all of us," says the New York Mall, "can get into the Hall of Fame." And we have reason to congratulate ourselves, for you have to be dead a long time first. A theater company has failed with assets amounting to thirty-eight cents. That is just eight cents more than the price of the best seat at a "ten-twentieth" performance. Special Rates Account Christmas and New Year Holidays MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY in rate of fare and one-third for on selling rate of 50c for adults and DATE OF SALE AND LIMIT hold December 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 sets limited to return up to and t TORY TO WHICH TICKETS ARE on the Missouri Pacific Railway rain and Southern Railway, and p is in territory outlined as follows Rate Open rate of fare and one-third for round trip, mini- mum selling rate of 50c for adults and 25c for children DATE OF SALE AND LIMITS Tickets will be sold December 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31, 1905, and 1, 1906. All tickets limited to return up to and including Jan. 4 TERRITORY TO WHICH TICKETS ARE SOLD To all points on the Missouri Pacific Railway and St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, and points on connect ing lines in territory outlined as follows: Arkansas—All points Colorado—West to and includ- ing common points, Denver to Trinidad inclusive. Nebraska—All points North Dakota—East of meridian at which the Missouri river cros Illinois-All points on and west of the Illinois Central railway; St Louis to a point near Binney, 14 miles of Litchfield; thence to St Louis-Chicago line of the C. & E. I. railway from a point near Binney through Hillsboro, Pana. Villa Grove, Tapton, Woodland and Momence to Chicago. Indian Territory-All points. Iowa-All points Kansas-All points Louisiana-All points Michigan-All points in upper Penninular SPECIAL ACCO CIAL RA ACCOUNT mas and New SPECIAL RATES ACCOUNT Christmas and New Year HOLIDAYS Rate: Open rate of one and with minimum 50c for DATES OF SA December 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 and return up to and including January 4 TERRITORY TO WHICH To all points on the A. T. & S. F. in the following states. Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois (to po Louis line of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois R. R. from (Chicago through Kansas, Louisiana (West of the Mississippi, West of Lake Michigan) Minne (East of A. T. & S. F. R. R.) North D the Missouri River crosses its southern South Dakota, Tennessee (to Memphis (east of and including Cheyenne.) See special ad for rates to points other places, on sale December 23rd go opportunity for you to visit your rela Full particulars at Depot. J. R. MORIARITY, City Pass. Agent ALWAYS IN Santa Fe rate of one and one third fare minimum 50c for adults and 25c DATES OF SALE AND LIMITS 13, 24, 25, 30, 31 and January 1, 1906. including January 4, 1906. TORY TO WHICH TICKETS WILL in the A. T. & S. F. Ry., and to point tates. Arido, Illinois (to points on and west Chicago and Eastern Momence, Tipton in Chicago through nd Hillsboro), Inca (West of the Misi sppi River, Mie Lake Michigan) Minne soia, Missouri, N. F. R. Michigan) North D akota (east of its souther n boundary line), Tennessee (to Memphis only) Texas, lading Cheyenne). for rates to points east, in Indiana for December 23rd good for thirty days to visit your relatives far away. at Depot. L. R. D. City Pass. Agent., Wichita, Kan. Rate: Open rate of one and one third fare for the round trip with minimum 50c for adults and 25c for children. DATES OF SALE AND LIMITS December 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 and January 1, 1906. All tickets good to return up to and including January 4, 1906. WILL BE SOLD TERRITORY TO WHICH TICKETS WILL BE SOLD. To all points on the A. T. & S. F. Ry., and to points on connecting lines in the following states. Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois (to points on and west of the Chicago-St. Louis line of the Chicago and Eastern Momence, Tipton, Villa Grove, Pennsylvania I. R. R. from Chicago through nd Hillsboro) Indian Territory, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana (West of the Misl sissipi River, Michigan (Northern Peninsula, West of Lake Michigan) Mihne sota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico (East of A. T. S. F. R. Dakota) North Dakota (east of the meridian at which the Missouri River crosses its southern boundary line), Oklahoma Territory, South Dakota, Tennessee (to Memphis only) Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming (east of and including Cheyenne). See special ad for rates to points east, in Indiana and Ohio, and many other places, on sale December 23rd good for thirty days. This will be golden opportunity for you to visit your relatives far away. Full particulars at Depot. L. R. DELANEY, Agent. J. R. MORIARITY, City Pass. Agent., Wichita, Kan. ALWAYS IN THE LEAD QUALITY AND PRIGE That is the keynote of the wonderful CONFECTIONARY. I will be please me before Xmas day of any of my HOM ready in my big store room, can fill any EXCELLED. Be sure to place all ordition given to committees and teachers; oranges, nuts and fancy Bon Bon boxes. Them Before Buying. date of the wonderful popularity and s SY. I will be pleased to make any and b of any of my HOME MADE GOODS room, can fill any order with dispute ure to place all orders early to avoid a tities and teachers; also have a fine b nancy Bon Bon boxes. PRICES BEAT That is the keynote of the wonderful popularity and success of ROGERS' CONFECTIONARY. I will be pleased to make any and fill all orders given me before Xmas day of any of my HOME MADE GOODS. I have a large line ready in my big store room, can fill any order with dispatch. QUALITY UNEXCELLED. Be sure to place all orders early to avoid delay. Special attention given to committees and teachers: also have a fine line of pears, apples, oranges, nuts and fancy Bon Bon boxes. PRICES BEAT THEM ALL See Them Before Buying. H. M. Rogers CALL U NEW PH THE PEOPLES CLEA CALL UP NEW PHONE OPLES CLEANING and D ine DRY and STEAM Cleaning Pressing, Repairing and Dyein Guaranteed, Called For and Del awrence ```markdown ``` THE PEOPLES CLEANING and Dye Works For fine DRY and STEAM Cleaning and Pressing, Repairing and Dyeing Minnesota-All points and one-third for round trip, mini- of 50c for adults and 25c for children SALE AND LIMITS 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31, 1905, and return up to and including Jan. 4 ICH TICKETS ARE SOLD Luri Pacific Railway and St. Louis Burn Railway, and points on con- outlined as follows: Nebraska—All points North Dakota—East of meridian at which the Missouri river crosses the southern boundary Oklahoma—All points South Dakota—All points Tennessee—Memphis only Texas—All points Wisconsin—All points Wyoming—All points west to and including Cheyene E E BLECKLEY, T P A I R SHERWIN, P & T A Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 936 Office 517 N Main St L RATES COUNT nd New Year and one third fare for the round trip for adults and 25c for children. SALE AND LIMITS and January 1, 1906. All tickets good to 4, 1906. H TICKETS WILL BE SOLD. F. Ry., and to points on connecting lines points on and west of the Chicago-St. Momence, Tipton, Villa Grove, Pana a high nd Hillsboro), Indian Territory, Iowa, issi sppl River, Michigan (Northern Pen- sula, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico D akota (east of the meridian at which n boundary line), Oklahoma Territory, phi's only) Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming ats east, in Indiana and Ohio, and many good for thirty days. This will be golden rela tives far away. L. R. DELANEY, Agent. ent., Wichita, Kan. ful popularity and success of ROGERS' based to make any and fill all orders given HOME MADE GOODS. I have a large line any order with dispatch. QUALITY UNorders early to avoid delay. Special attentors: also have a fine line of pears, apples, xes. PRICES BEAT THEM ALL See 224 NORTH MAIN ST. UP PHONE 178 CLEANING and Dye Works STEAM Cleaning and airing and Dyeing Called For and Delivered Wichita, Kan. --VIA- Knights and Daughters, if you have changed High Priestess or Chief Mentors since this list was published kindly notify me at once, that I may make the correction. KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. Tabernacles. 1 Mrs. Eliza Nichols, 938 Everett St., Kansas City, Kan. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 South Chestnut St., Iola, Kansas. 3 Mrs. Flora Thompson, 36 North 4 Mrs. Madallene Ward, 325 E. 6th, Cherryvale, Kan. 6 Mrs. Mary Curry, 804 Cherry St. Ottawa, Kan. 7 Mrs. N. E. Wigely, 506 N. 5th, Sa- 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 11th St. Coffeyville, Kans. lina, Kan. 9 Mrs. Sarah, H. Harrison, 1421 Van Buren St., Topeka, Kan. 10 Mrs. Maggie Fishback, 1795 Mass. Lawrence, Kans. 11 Mrs. Perlina Woodfork, 822 Freeman Ct. Kansas City, Kan. 13 Mrs. Nannie Dunlap, Junction City, Kans. 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, Box 315, Wier City, Kans. 16 Mrs. Perlor T. Ballinger, 715 S. 20th St., Parsons, Kan. 17 Mrs. A. Masie, 615 Barbee, Ft. Scott, Kans. 20 Mrs. Emma Maxie, 411 Ransom, Ft. Scott, Kans. 24 Mrs. C. E. Kirby, Bx. 332, Coffeyville, Kan. 28 Mrs. Bell Wright, 1411 Partridge Ave., Parsons, Kan. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio, Leavenworth, Kans. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 West 15th, Wichita, Kans. 35 Mrs. Rachel Dudly, 521 N. 21st South Omaha, Neb. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 523 Main, Atchison, Kan. 38 Mrs. Laura Lee, Weir City, Kan. 52 Mrs. Cora Yeager, 928 Main St., Lawrence, Kan. 63 Mrs. Lizzie Stone, 1042 Everett, Kansas City, Kan. 89 Mrs. Marie Boyd, 1204 Dodge St. Omaha, Neb. 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 Western Ave., N. Topeka, Kans. 559 Mrs. Christena Bell, 294 N. William St., Deadwood, S. Dakota. 777 C. M'S ADDRESSES 333. Number. 1 William M. Watkins, Box 2062 Wier City, Kans. 2 J. Jefferson, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan. 3 Mr. William H. Barnes, 819 L St., Atchison, Kan. 4 Andrew Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb. 5 J. T. Howard, 120 Kansas Ave., Topeka. 6 M. E. Bird, 2014 Hewett, Everett, Washington. 8 R. M. Bingham, 1727 E. Oak St., Ft. Scott, Kans. 10 Richard Walker, Leavenworth. Kans. 11 W. N. Miller, 258 N. Main St., Searchlight office, Wichita, Kan. 13 A. H. Morton, Parsons. 15 Henry Jordan, Salina, Kan. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St., S. Omaha, Neb. 17 Allen Jarner, Box 332 Coffeyville, Kan. 18 James Thomas, 385 Lake St., Salt Lake City. 19 C. Parris, 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kans. 25 Edward Henderson, 1917 N. 3rd St., Kansas City, Kans. 59 S. W. Pasker, 1156 Buchanan, Topeka, Kan. 60 James Scott, 1404 Van Buren, Topeka, Kan. 71 J. W. Bedell, 2127 So. 10th St. Lincoln, Neb. 536 Albert Graves, 90 Charles St. Deadwood, South Dakota. Banner Mills CUSTOM GRINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED FUCKRISCH BROS. PROPS. 928 N. Main St. Phone 589 Los Angeles, San Diego, SAN FRANCISCO and many other California points EVERY DAY FOR $25.00 SANTA FE Cheap, isn't it? Passengers get rate as they do when rates are man tourist sleepers, free coaches. California taains leave p. m. and 10:15 p. m. Libeaal many other points en route. You Valley and many other points in Santa Fe line with block signal equipment, Harvey meals and always use the SANTA FE. P. DEAM ABS IN NORTH-WEST COURT Bonded A can't it? Passengers get just as good service at this low they do when rates are higher. Fast trains, modern Pulpist sleepers, free chair cars and comfortable day California taains leave WICHITA at 2:10 p. m., 5:10 and 10:15 p. m. Libeaal stopovers in California and at river points en route. You can buy a ticket to Salt River and many other points in Aoizona for same price. Line with block signals, rock ballast track, modern Hart, Harvey meals and fast trains. The very best people use the SANTA FE. Particiuars at request Cheap, isn't it? Passengers get just as good service at this low rate as they do when rates are higher. Fast trains, modern Pullman tourist sleepers, free chair cars and comfortable day coaches. California taains leave WICHITA at 2:10 p.m., 5:10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Libeaal stopovers in California and at many other points en route. You can buy a ticket to Salt River Valley and many other points in Aoizona for same price. Santa Fe line with block signals, rock ballast track, modern equipment, Harvey meals and fast trains. The very best people always use the SANTA FE. Particuars at request AM ABSTRACT Co IN NORTH-WEST BASEMENT OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors DEAM ABSTRACT Co IN NORTH-WEST BASEMENT OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors R and his mouey are soon parted. The mau who pays out his good money for inferior building material is foolish. Buy the BEST. We sell it. Have you seen the latest building material? It is our Cement Building Stone. The longer it wears, the harder it gets. J. H. TURNER, 537-547 West Douglas Ave. The Greater OF Best Meats Rib Roasts 10c lb. Fish, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, C at Lowest Cash Prices. WHITLO 222 East Douglas Ave., The One Bi Toys & X The Greatest Variety OF THE Best Meats In the City 10c lb. Best Plate and Flank Boil & C ays, Ducks, Geese, Chickens, Veal, Mutton, and Lam ash Prices. WHITLOCK BROS St Douglas Ave., Phone 298 e One Big Stock Of s & Xmas Gifts The Greatest Variety Best Meats In the City Rib Roasts 10c lb. Best Plate and Flank Boil & Fish, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Chickens, Veal, Mutton, and Lam at Lowest Cash Prices. WHITLOCK BROS IS AT Tanner's Book Store 122 North Main Street Great Holiday Sa Pianos and Organ Great Holiday Sale. Pianos and Organs Great Holiday Sale. Pianos and Organs Save Money Buy your pianos, organ the Greatest House in THE McKINN 135 No our pianos, organ, or piano player from greatest House in the South West. McKINNEY MUSIG GO. Buy your pianos, organ, or piano player from the Greatest House in the South West. 135 North Market Street, Wichita Kansas. A FOOL L. R DELANEY, Agent J R MORIATY, City Pass Agent The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just received a large invoice of Men's Work Shoe Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Misses Fine Dress Shoes, Oxford and Slippers, all styles and kind PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 800 BELOVER & SONS, Props. Phone 298