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YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. School Opens Monday Morning end Your Children To The Near est School Just As You Did Laat Year And All Other Times Be Mannerly In Your Conduct EIGTTH YEAR School Open Monday Send Your Child est School Ju Laat Year Other Be Mannerly I SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY. Events of Colored Children Should send Their Children to the Same School Where They Attended Last Year. AT'S WHERE THEY LEGALLY BELONG. "Jim Crow" Schools Will Go In Wichita Right Now. sunday morning, September 10, is late for the opening of the pub-schools in Wichita and for the fit of the parents of colored chil- we tell them to send their chil- to the same school where they ended last year. It is a settled fact that there is no legal authority for the board of Wichita to separate or any way make any change in the sent school system of our city and up to the board as to what they to da. Without going into what future may be done—the school of Wichita are not authorized to off a little "bull pen" with high fences and call it "equal and am- school accommodations" for the red children of Wichita and any attempt to do this should be met in a feasible, lawful but firm resistance this part of the colored people of this Sir D. L. Taylor 329 East Center SALINA, KANSAS Designer and Builder of Tent Houses. Prices in reach of all. Write for particulars TO-DAY. --- city and there seems little doubt but that this will be done. Every parent of children in Wichita, regardless to color, should see to it that their child is on hand Monday morning on time. A Word of Warning. To the parents of colored children we advise that should you take or send child to the usual school in your school district Monday morning and he or she is refused admission, or after being admitted, is refused the school accommodations in the usual way, it is not necessary to become angry or in any way become ungentlemanly or unladylike. Your course should be to be positive first that your child is refused and find out then and there from the principal or the one in charge of the building as head instructor on what grounds your child is refused. We sincerely trust that no parent of colored children will so far forget themselves as to make any unnecessary scene as nothing can be accomplished in this manner. SIX AND HALF MILLION TONS ONE YEAR'S PRODUCTION OF KANSAS COAL. One of the State's Largest Industries —Principal Consumer is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Kansas always stands out big and triumphant in the industrial reports of the government. Whether it be corn or wheat, or beet sugar, or flour, or live stock, or salt, or petroleum, or lead, or zinc, or cement, or gypsum, or coal, or a score of other staple products of soil, mines, or manufacture, the word "Dirigo" belongs on the top line of the story. The coal production of Kansas is the subject of a report for 1905. E. W. Parker to the United States geological survey. Other states produce more coal than Kansas does, but no state has made a greater increase of output, and so the phrase stands good in Kansas even for coal production. In 1905, Kansas produced 6,463,329 tons of coal, worth on the spot, $9,410.632. This was an increase since 1896 of nearly 125 per cent. To mine this production in 1905, 12,006 men were employed an average of 212 days. The average production per man was 538.3 tons, and the average daily production per man was 2.54 tons. Of course, this includes all the men employed in all the mines of the state. and since, in new or undeveloped coal territory, the mining is done in a desultory way, and by inexperienced men, the daily average per man here state is not a fair estimate of the full earnings of the miners. For the coal miners of Kansas, with few exceptions, belong to the United Mine Works of America, and are workmen of the highest order of intelligence and skill. The coal produced from the Kansas mines, with the comparatively little which is sold in Kansas City, St. Joseph, Joplin and other border towns, is burned by Kansas families and Kansas industries, and by railroads operating in Kansas and Oklahoma. In addition the western part of the state obtains large quantities of the production of Colorado mines. Tri-Annual Session Held The Session Which Closed In Little Rock, Arkansas Last Week One Of The Best In The History Of The Order LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE TRI-ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF Yesterda tional Order, Tabor, A. Philander, Izard stree ng office, Triennial the follow Jackson, I. P. Green. wonderful which nov 000 Knight Maids and At the r G. M. of the made an a of the dev of the d throughou The largest consumer of coal mined in the state is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. To establish a supply of coal for its locomotives, the Santa Fe has opened or caused to be opened more coal mines in the state than any other institution or individual. The marvelous growth of the city of Pittsburg and the congestion of population in the mining camps round about that splendid city may be traced directly to the money invested by the Santa Fe in coal properties there. From the coal mines of Kansas the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe takes and yearly 859,000 tons. This is 13 1-3 daily 2,300 tons, monthly 71,600 tons, per cent of the state's annual production. To mine this shart of the stat's production, using Mr. Parket's averages, 1,600 men were employed in 1905. The Santa Fe consumes in its locomotives, within the state of Kansas, daily 1,793 tons, monthly 55,583 tons, and yearly 666,996 tons. Of this total, 200,136 tons are bought in Colorado. The company operates approximately 500 locomotives within the state. Based on the law of averages for the entire operation of a western railway, a locomotive consumes a ton of coal in a run of about 15 miles, or about five tons a day. This average includes heavy road engines and the lighter engines used on branch lines. Counting two men to an engine, 1,000 men (engineers and firemen) are employed in burning the coal which the company buys for Kansas consumption. Added to this are the 1,600 men employed in mining the coal. Mr. Parker's report is full of interest outside of the figures above given, but an exhaustive article on the subject would occupy more space than we have to spare. MAKING HIS MARK. One of the most progressive colored men in Kansas is Mr. Josh W. Voohes of Kansas City, Kansas. Starting in Columbia, Tenn., where he was born July 4, 1865, at the age of six months his parents moved to Nashville, Tenn., where young Voohes came to manhood. His mother died when he was only six months old and his father died when he was 12 years of age, and young Josh started life alone with 1 pig and $4.00 in money, and in four years he had accumulated $4,000, bought a threshing machine and was at work. His liberality to friends caused his down-fall for at the request of his many friends he signed, endorsed and stood good for checks, notes and money and when these "friends" failed to pay it fell his lot and he paid—and when the last note was satisfied he found himself "dead broke." He was married and sickness or his wife was an additional expense. His wife died and he came to Kansas since coming to Kansas he has married again and today is numbered among the well-to-do colored men of Kansas City Kansas. For eight years he followed his trade of shoemaker, served 14 months on the police force, ran a second hand store, and was two years Deputy Street Commissioner. Today he conducts a first class restaurant, grocery store and meat market, at 552 State street where he is doing a thriving business. He now has a stock valued at $1.500 all paid for—owns several valuable pieces of real estate and is progressing in fine style. When in Kansas City, Kansas call to see him Tri-Annual Session Held The Session Which Closed In Little Rock, Arkansas Last Week One Of The Best In The History Of The Order LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE TRI-ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF TWELVE, KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR, IN LITTLE ROCK. Delegates Come From Twenty-Two States to Attend Sessions of Negro Secret Order, Which Lasted Four Days. KANSAS WELL REPRESENTED Five hundred delegates are in the city to attend the triennial convention of the International Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor, a Negro benevolent and fraternal organization. The sessions, which began yesterday morning, are being held in the chapel of Philander Smith College, Eleventh and Izard streets. Delegates are present from lodges in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Pursuant to the call of the I. G. G. M., the Daughters met at the First Baptist Church, Seventh and Gaines streets, to await the arrival of the Knights and two uniform companies. The welcome address was made by the veteran Knight, Sir Louis Thompson, master of ceremonies for the occasion. The Scripture lesson was read by Sir R. S. Stout of Williams' Industrial College. An invocation was offered by Rev. W. S. Cornwell, C. G. O., of Arkansas, followed by a song by the Taborian choir. Sir. F. B. Farrell, I. C. G. O., of Indianapolis, Ind., was introduced by Sir J. E. Herriford, I. C. G. T., who addressed the large audience of 2,000, from Rev. 13.7. One of the delegates said of his address: "No greater words of advice of truths have ever fallen from the lips of man. The flow of eloquence that fell from his lips was like thunder from the heavens. In his conclusion he said that the Knights and Daughters were they who stand with uplifted hands to catch fallen humanity." The collection was then taken by the order to the amount of $18.56. The order was organized at Aalena, Ill., in 1855, as the Knights of Liberty. During the war it ceased activity, but was reorganized at Independence, Mo., in 1872, under the title of Knights and Daughters of Tabor. From this date until 1887 the order grew so rapidly that at the session held in Mobile, Ala., in that year the State Jurisdictions were ordained, which held sessions annually. The supreme body, which is in session here this week meets every three years. The order has a total membership of about 80,000. The officers of the organization are: S. A. Jordan, Little Rock, I. C. G. M.; Anna T. Jackson, Nashville, Tenn., I. G. H. P.; S. S. Reid, Marshall, Tex., I. U. G. M.; Jennie Jones, Jacksonville, Ill., I. U. G. P.; A. R. Chinn, Glasgow, Mo., I. C. G. S.; Anna M. Bowman, Louisville, I. C. G. R.; Joe E. Herriford, Chilchicote, Mo., I. C. G. T.; A. Q. Green, Mayfield, Ky., I. G. P. P.; Ella E. Falson, Indianapolis, I. G. Q. M.; BenJ. F. Farrell, Indianapolis, I. C. G. O.; Lucy C. Jefferson, Vicksburg, Miss., I. C. G. P.; Laura Page, Providence, R. I. I. G. 1st; W. M. White, Dublin, Miss., I. G. D. M. Yesterday's session of the International Order Knights and Daughters of Tabor, a Negro organization, held at Philander Smith College, Eleventh and Izard streets, were consumed in hearing officers' and committee reports. Triennial reports weresubmitted by the following officers: I. G. H. P. Jackson, I. G. I. M. Failon and I. G. P. P. Green. These reports showed the wonderful growth of the organization which now has a membership of 80,000 Knights and Daughters and 25,000 Maids and Pages. At the morning session P. F. Field, G. M. of the the U. B. F., of Tennessee, made an address. He spoke at length of the development of the order through the development of the order throughout the United States. Partial reports from the committees on credentials, membership and ways and means were received at the afternoon meeting. The committees on I. G. M. address, I. G. I. M. address and I. G. P. P. address made their final reports, which were discussed by Representatives Frank Wilson of Kansas and Neustel of Alabama. Louis Thompson, a pioneer member of the International order, who has held his membership for the past 26 years, made a short talk. Among the most prominent representatives who are attending the convention are the following: S. A. Jordan, H. E. Carolina, Arkansas; Rev. Frank Wilson and Dr. Emma Gaines, Kansas; Lizzie Fitzpatrick, Indian Territory; Hattie Patterson, Mississippi; A. S. Brown, Florida; J. E. Harriford, Ida Thompson, Missouri; G. E. Neustel, Alabama; G. W. Draper, A. R. Chinn, Missouri; Louis T. Thompson, Jennie Jones, Illinois; Addie Thomas, B. F. Farrell, Ella E. Falson, Indiana; S. S. Reid, M. A. Johnson, C. E. Day, Texas; Nancy Hargrave, M. E. Harrington, Massachusetts; Dr. J. G. Thomas, Dr. P. L. Jordan, Rufus S. Stout, Lula B. Taylor, S. A. Jones, W. Y. Wilson, Arkansas; G. B. Williams, Alabama; Jennie Grice, Florida; M. E. Marcham, Ohio; D. J. Mitchell, Anna T. Jackson, Tennessee; W. M. Pruitt, Louisiana; W. H. Harrell, South Carolina; A. Q. Green, Kentucky; R. D. Smith, Mississippi; N. D. Jackson, Georgia. Third Day—Morning Session. The I. G. T. & T. was called from rest to labor by the I. C. C. M. The minutes were read and adopted. The committee on condolence was called. The Grand Temple and Tabernacle of Arkansas jurisdiction presented to the International Grand Temple and Tabernacle three acres of ground in Hot Springs for a national home. The same was accepted and a committee was appointed, composed of J. I. Blakely, R. D. Smith and S. A. Jordan, to devise plans. The I. C. G. S. made a report showing that nearly $4,000 had been collected. The I. C. G. T. made his report, corresponding with the above. The same was received and referred to the committee. The committee on credentials made its report, and it was adopted. The committee on returns made a final report, on international grand dues, showing that the amount of $3,932 had been collected from that source. On motion the report was adopted. A resolution on medical certificates was read by Dr. G. W. Hayman and was referred to the committee. A resolution on the monument fund in honor of Abram McFall was read and referred. An appeal from Ohio was read and referred to the committee. The committee on the condition of the Negro was read and in part is as follows: --- NO.25 Newspapers 650 Negro authors of books. 650 Books in libraries, in volumes 251,000 Books in libraries, valued at $650,000 Banks owned and controlled 30 Farms owned. 250,000 Holmes independent of farms 130,000 Amount of school property $15,000,000 Amount of church property 40,000,000 Amount of taxable property 700,000,000 Contractors 3,000 Telegraph operators 100 Steamboat pilots 25 Sailors 10,000 Stenographers 5,000 Bishops, about 30 Sir Newstelle, Montgomery, Ala. Sir N. D. Jackson of Atlanta, Ga., Sir R. S. Stout of Little Rock and Sir L. F. Finney of Murpheyboro. Ill., were speakers at the morning session. The local committee tendered the representatives a banquet. SOCIAL EQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS. There are very few Afro-Americans who understand the difference between civil rights and social privileges. They think the two are one and indivisible, when they are as separate as they possibly can be. Civil rights are covered by the common and the statute law and are common to all of the people mainly because they are public rights based upon a contract. When a man buys a thing which any other person can buy it is a common right. All places of amusement and accommodation are of this character and so are all public service corporations, such as railroads, steamboats, hotels, and the like. Efforts to give such a social character is an American subterfuge, intended solely to victimize Afro-American people. That is the lorg and the short of it. Social privileges are such as are not public in any sense, but depend upon the individual as to whether he will extend them or not. A social privilege has no public right at all. Bishop C. H. Phillips and his wife were made to get out of a Pullman sleeping car in Texas last week. The good bishop was very indignant and said that while he did not believe in social equality he thought that he had been treated very unfairly. What does Bishop Phillips know about social equality? And what had his right to ride in a Pullman car to do with social equality? It is a civil right to do that for which he had to pay a stipulated price to a corporation with a charter under the laws of the State of Illinois, we believe, and not subject in transit to the laws of Texas. Why does Bishop Phillips want to mix up matters amout which he appears to be gloriously ignorant? And there are others. He paid for his sleeper; was an inter-state passenger; and he was not subject at all under the circumstances to the laws of Texas separating the races in Texas for the laws of the United States are above State laws in cases of that kind. The black man who says that he does not want social equality with the people of equal standing with himself as a man and a citizen whether they be black or white, simply does not know what he wants; and the black man who does not know the difference between social privileges and civil rights should keep his mouth shut tight about the matter when he gets at a point where he does not know whether he is going or coming.—N. Y. Age. HOCKADAY PAINT WEARS. Salesroom on N. Mosley. PHARMACIST WANTED. A good colored pharmacist is wanted by Jas. J. Olden at his drug store, 615 North Main. Good wages paid to the right man. Write to Jas. J. Olden, 615 North Main, Wichita, Kan. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. 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Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. "To Live and Let Live" Is Our Motto. HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLU- TION NO. 7. Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the members elected to each house concurring therein: Section 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of said state for their approval or rejection, to-wit: The constitution of the state of Kansas is hereby amended by striking out the whole of section 17 of article 2 of said constitution, and inserting in lieu of said section the following, which shall constitute section 17 of article 2 of the constitution: Sec. 17. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state; and in all cases where a general law can be made applicable no special law shall be enacted; and whether or not a law enacted is repugnant to this provision of the constitution shall be construed and determined by the courts of the state. Sec. 2. This proposition shall be submitted to the electors of this state at the general election to be held in the year 1906 for their approval or rejection. The amendment hereby proposed shall be designated on the official ballot by the following title, viz.: "Amendment to the constitution relating to laws and their construction by the courts," and shall be voted for or against as provided by law under such title. Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute-book. Passed the House January 17, 1905. Passed the Senate January 19, 1905. Approved January 20, 1905. I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true and correct coy of original house concurrent resolution No. 7, now on file in my office. J. R. BURROW, Secretary of State. PAINT YOUR HOUSE. It is surprising the beauty and value that a little paint will add to one's house. Every man who owns a house should not be content till it is well painted. Besides adding beauty and value it also preserves the lumber and material and adds greatly to its durability. Many colored people make a sad mistake by overlooking a little paint on their home. Then again the paint is cheap and a gallon will go a long way if properly used. Paint your house, your outhouses, and other premises. Call up the Hockaday Paint company—or go down to their factory, first block north of Frisco depot on Mosley, and get their prices—and you will go to painting at once. We are going to watch to see what colored person is the first to begin painting their property. Beautify your home with Hockaday paint—it is the best. Pay up on the Searchlight. HAVE BOUGHT A HOME. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lease have purchased the house and five lots at 1530 Sherwood avenue, and have moved into their newly acquired home. This is a very commendable step on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Case and one worthy of emulation by other colored men in Wichita. They will start at once to raise chickens. Call at the Court House Grocery Store, 601 North Main street for your eatables. Phone 2046. 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., 102 E. Douglas Pone 35' When In Coffeyville Stop At White Front Boarding House First Class Accomodations Prices Reasonable BROOKS & WILLIAMS, Props. 1224 So. Walnut St. Coffeyville, Kansas OUR TELEPHONE NUMBER 2046 Anyone desiring the Searchlight can get us over the telephone by calling up New Phone 2046. Let the colored people get together and stay together for their own material good. BIG TIME EXPECTED. Wednesday, September 12th 1906. A committee of colored men are making preparations to have a big time in Wichita on Wednesday, Sept. 12th. They have engaged South Riverside park for the afternoon and Garfield hall for that night and from the indications they will have a time long to be remembered. Arrangements have been made to have Hon. W. W. Fisher of Topeka, and Rev. J. R. Ransom, presiding elder of the Topeka District, among the list of speakers and all may look forward to a most enjoyable time. Everyone is invited to come out to both the park and the hall. Do not miss this occasion to have a splendid good time and hear those things which touch the interests of the colored people discussed in a lively way. TO REMODEL. Jas. J. Olden, proprietor of the Olden drug store, 615 N. Main, announces that he will remodel his drug store in the near future and add several hundred dollars of fresh, new stock. He proposes in the near future to have one of the most complete drug stores among colored men in Kansas. Rock Island System Wichita, August 1, 1906. Preferred Route to, from and between Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Peoria, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha, Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Worth, St. Paul, Minneapolis and everywhere beyond. SOUTH BOUND. No. 13, Daily, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Houston, Galveston...6:10 pm No. 35, Daily, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Memphis, Chickasha .....2:15 pm No. 11, Daily, Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico, Arizona, California..6:55 pm NORTH AND EAST BOUND. No. 12, Daily, California, Colorado, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago .....10:01 am No. 36, Daily, Colorado, California, Topeka, Kansas City, and St. Louis .....2:15 pm No. 14, Daily, Lincoln, Omaha, Topeka, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago .....10:25 pm For sleeping car reservations, tickets, time tables, etc., apply to any Rock Island Ticket Agent. Mrs. Taylor Reed arrived in the city Monday from Topeka to spend a few days visiting in this city among friends. LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. Call up New Phone 2046 and give us your news and job printing. Mrs. H. T. Frazier, lip Hyde and Rev. J. Monday to attend the school convention in Rev. A. H. Brooks, spent Sunday and Mita. He filled the pu E. church all day Su JUDGE WILSON HOME. Judge Thos, C. Wilson, judge of the district court returned home Thursday from a six weeks' vacation spent at several points in California. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Porter served dinner in the new dining room which they have recently added to their already palatial home for the first time last Sunday. This room is fitted in the most modern manner with china closet, etc., made in the wall. It is a palace of comfort and bespeaks of the untiring energy of Mr. and Mrs. Porter to have and do things in fine style. COLORED FOLKS' REUNION. The event of the month will be the big reunion of colored people at Riverside park and big program at Garfield hall, next Wednesday, Sept. 12. Wide preparations are being made for this event and all may look forward to a grand time. Remember the date, Sept. 12, at South Riverside park and at night at Garfield hall. Julius G. Gaines is slowly improving. Mrs. Daisy Grinstead entertained at her home, 413 North Wichita street, Friday afternoon, August 31, in honor of Miss Emma Collins and Miss Sadie McQuarters of Kansas City, and Mrs. Joe Bell of Coffeyville. Those present were: Misses Emma Collins, Sadie McQuarters, Blacnh Alexander, Sallie Rawles, Marie Stevens, Mabel King, Ida Gordon, Georgia Hutchinson and Mrs. Joe Bell. After spending a very pleasant afternoon, lunch was served and all went home vowing they had had a pleasant time. Mrs. E. B. Bluet and her two daughters, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Harris will arrive in the city from Weir City on Sunday where Mrs. Bluet has spent the past three months. Henry Braden returned Thursday from Kansas City where he attended the reunion of the 23rd Kansas Volunteers. He says they had a very pleasant time. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Dent returned Wednesday from an extended summer vacation which included many towns in Southern Kansas and Eastern Missouri. They report a very enjoyable time at every place they stopped during their visit from the city. Rev. R. N. Countee of Kansas City was in the city this week and filled the pulpit at the Tabernacle Baptist church Sunday. The friends of Rev. Countee regret very much to learn of his continued ill health. He left Tuesday for Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary Swan is still very sick. Mrs. Thomas Glover, who has been on the sick list is able to be out again. WECAN SUPPLY You with Trunks of all descriptions and any kinds of traveling bags. THAT'S OUR BUSINESS SEE US Wichita Trunk Factory 319 Eatt Douglas Ave., Bud's and Rest 408 N. M Meals 15c Lunch Sho Mrs. H. T. Frazier, J. E. Lewis, Philip Hyde and Rev. Joseph Wilson left Monday to attend the Baptist Sunday school convention in Wier City, Kan. Rev. A. H. Brooks, presiding elder, spent Sunday and Monday in Wichita. He filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church all day Sunday. THANKS. ALL. I desire to extend my heartfelt thanks to all those who were so kind to take part in the program on Monday night, September 3, and to those who gave me their patronage. Mrs. T. A. Wallec left Saturday for Topeka where she will spend a week or ten days and will then go to Clinton, Mo., where she will visit among relatives. Clinton is the former home of Mrs. Wallace. The Ladies' Aid society met Tuesday at the home of Mrs. W. N. Miller. After routine business lunch was served and the club adjourned to meet next Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mary Sherrills, 311 West Murdock avenue. Mrs. Mary Swan is still very sick. BIG TENT MEETING. The members of the Holiness Church are making great preparations for a big tent meeting which will open in Wichita at Tenth and Main street on September 20th. Visitors are expected from many points of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, and this promises to be one of the religious events of the season in this city for this year. Everyone should avail themselves of the opportunity to attend this big religious meeting. The ladies of the Household of Ruth have decided to give a musicale concert on September 2nd. Watch for later announcements. Mrs. Taylor Reed, of Topeka, arrived in the city Tuesday to visit as the guest of Mrs. M. A. Young. She will leave Saturday for Pratt, Kansas, where she will visit with Mrs. H. H. Buckner. Mrs. A. Fox returned from a visit in Valley Center, Saturday. B. M. Crawford is back again from a pleasant week's visit in Ft. Scott. Mrs. A. Martin left Thursday on a visit to Memphis, Tenn. A GRAND SUCCESS. The Labor Day exercises at Redman hall, Monday night, Sept. 3rd, under the auspices of the Building Fund committee of Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21, headed by Mr. J. W. Thompson, was a grand and most signal success. 21, headed by Mr. J. W. Thompson, was a grand and most signal success. A large crowd was present and everyone enjoyed themselves in a most pleasing manner. The program was one which was highly appreciated, every number being a specialty in itself. Owing to lack of space, we are unable to specify each, but among the main features was the drill by six little girls, under direction of Mrs. Geo. W. White and the splendid drilling of Imperial company No. 1, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, who did well. The vocal solo of Mrs. Ben Butler was loudly enceded and she was called back a second time. The recitation of Mrs. S. S. Washington was highly cultivating, while the paper of Miss Lulu Coington, vocal solo by Mrs J. W Hall, duet by Venia and Malon Hall, instrumental solo by Miss Lois Wilson, address by Rev. W. H. Tillman, remarks by Rev. H. W. King, oration by Mr. Chas. Price, were all excellent. Rev. A. H. Brooks, presiding elder being was called for and made a fe winteresting remarks. In a whole, it was grand in every detail. Need not watch your enemies—but keep close tab on your friends—there's the danger. Cafe Restaurant Main st Art Order Game In Season C. C. Hickerson, Prop. J. N. THOMPSON. S. E. Patton, Sec. Jas. L. 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USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating R GROCERS IMBODEN MILLING FROM ABSTRACT C IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors cond to None PLEASES ALL FOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As SNOW—TRY IT— Otto Weiss, Agent TARGET TO STOP AT THE E'S Ice Cream Parlor House Grocer Main Street Fresh and wholesome Fan- Teas, Coffees, Spices, Vegetables, Canned Goods, Coal Oil, Gasoline, Sta- thing and everything Grocery Line. BY PART OF THE CITY Grocery Store Main Street ITS..... HOUSE..... AD-IT" UR color, flavor, and pounds BY Mill Co. KANSAS GUEST STORE Filled with Care Tigars and Tobacco. Once a customer, always quaters for Colored people Main st. N'S MIRIAL AND ST FOOD Live good eating IMBODEN MILLING CO. TRACT O CORNER OF THE HOUSE Contractors No None ALL MAKERS NOW—TRY IT— Otto Weiss, Agent THE Parlor 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 Excellence Counts..... It excels in every respect,—color, flavor, and pounds bread per barrel. MADE BY Watson Mill Co. ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco .. Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always customer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored people 615 North Main st. DEAM ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors "Second to None" GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As SNOW-TRY IT- OTTO WEISS, Agent 601 N. Main Street OPEN FOR BUSINESS S, PROPRIETOR --- KANSAS IS CLEAN POINT OF SCANDAL IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT. Heah Administration is Entitled to Enforcement. NO DANGER OF DEFEAT. WICHITA EAGLE MAKES STRONG ARGUMENT FOR HOCH. Neitherence, Logic Nor Reason” in Predicting Harris Will Win. One of the strongest statements of concern for Republican success in Kansas this year made since the opening of the campaign was recently made in the editorial columns of the Wichita Eagle. The article was as follows: Kansas in all her history was never more free of political scandals than at the present time. The supposed presumably crookedness has been probed to the bottom, first by expert accountants and later by suit instituted in the courts, with the result of no duplicity or any over-reaching discovered so far as the present incumbent is concerned. As for the seeming discrepancy in the books of his predecessor's offer has been made to "make good" when it is shown that there has been any shortage. The bosses are usted, and the boss busters have accused to accuse. None but honest and unable men have been appointed to office by the last two chief executives of the state, and the more the acts of the last legislature are looked into the stronger is the conviction of their wisdom and practical utility. No accusations of lobby bribery have been heard, and no evidence of graft have been suggested. The state revenues have been honestly and economically disbursed, no charges have been lodged against the management of any of all the state institutions, and the life and conduct of every state official have been above criticism. Now with a fairly nominated ticket of exceptional good and true men, with a cut in the tax per cent., with pledges of still additional reformatory legislation asked and made, all taken together with the additional fact of an all around admitted prosperity, why there should be any apprehension of a defeat for the Republican party in the state, in November, is beyond comprehension. There is neither sense, logic nor reason on which to predicate such a prediction. The defeat of the Republican party in the face of the facts enumerated would be an unaccountable political anomaly, even though every one of the nominees on all the other tickets were angels of perfection personally. There would be no more political sense in defeating the Republican state ticket, our great Republican majority conceded, than it would be to send to Washington eight Democratic congressmen on the plan that Roosevelt couldn't trust the present delegation in holding up this hands in his patriotic and courteous undertaking for a square deal and better citizenship. DEMOCRATS HAVE NO SHOW. William Allen White Says Republicans are Sure to Win. William Allen White, of the Emporia Gazette, continues to give evidence from time to time that those who pressed him as opposed to the re-election of Governor Hoch and the success of the entire Republican state ticket were mistaken. In a recent issue of his paper Mr. White printed the following article which sets at test all doubt as to his support of the entire Republican ticket: The editor of the Gazette has no political sense. Every one admits that, but at times he hits it right on a guess. In Eric county and in Butler county this week Democratic candidates on the county ticket refused to run. The Democrats in the Second district named three men before they not one who would stick. Last week in three counties Democratic nominees not off the ticket, and the Democratic convention in Cowley county endorsed a Republican nominee for obvious reasons. Now there may be some trouble for one or two Republicans on the state ticket, and the Democrats may think they are selling a good deal of soap for the kind of concert they are giving, but the cold awful clammy facts are that there is no more show for the Democratic ticket in Kansas this WORK DONE WHILE YOU WAIT Endear Shoes Bought and Sold 802 H. Main Street Wichita, Ks. NOTICE—Send your news in the early part of the week, which will insure its publication. The earlier the letter, Editor. near than there is for an A. P. A. boy at a Catholic picnic. The people of Kansas have tried Democracy too recently to be fooled. The enthusiasm of any party begins at the grass roots, and the fact that the county candidates of the Democrats this year have a bad case of no-thank-yous, is a pretty good sign that the Democratic party, as such, is asleep at the switch. MISSOURI BUTTING IN. Atchison Globe Takes Red-Hot Shot at Kansas City Star. The Kansas City Star has been houting from the housetops that Kansas ought to enforce the prohibition w. The Atchison Globe takes exception to this demand of the Star and says that the Kansas men who run the cities and counties ought to know more about what the state needs than newspaper men living in Missouri. The Globe also says that the Kansas men who are running the towns know what the people want and also know why they were elected. Continuing the Globe says: This being the case, is the Kansas City Star making any friends for Harris by howling for the enforcement of the prohibitory law in Kansas? Do not the men of Kansas know as much about their own affairs as the writers on the Kansas City Star? And are not the opinions of these Kansas men entitled to some respect and consideration? The Star's constant cry is that the law is being violated. True, but is it not a fact that dozens of laws are being violated in Kansas City? People are tired of this old cry about prohibition, as a campaign issue, for it is not sincere. The Star is a powerful, square and useful paper, but it is making a mistake in going into politics so violently. Who ever the smart man of the Star is, we are convinced that he will privately endorse the opinion expressed above, and that the present Wild Hurrah is against his judgment; he submits to it because he doesn't like to "say anything" to associates who have taken a mistaken course. SAPP FOR SENATOR. Harris and Overmeyer Make Deal to Placate Former Chairman. Colonel W. A. Harris, of Chicago has repeatedly said that he was opposed to deals in politics, yet it has been almost conclusively proven that Colonel Harris has entered into a deal whereby he expects to stop the internal war in his own party which has been going on for several months. This deal is to give W. F. Sapp, of Galena, the Democratic cause nomination for the office of United States senator. Colonel Harris went into the present campaign believing that there was a chance for him to be elected Governor and a chance to elect a legislature which would be Democratic on joint ballot. He asked that Hugh P. Farrelly, of Chanute, be nominated for lieutenant governor, so that Mr. Farrelly would be a good governor when the legislature elected one Colonel Harris to the senate. Mr. Harris came to Kansas from Chicago expecting that the legislature would be Democratic. When he arrived here and looked over the situation he decided that he would do well to pull himself through. He then decided to give away the Democratic caucus nomination for senator Mr. Sapp has been off the Democratic reservation for some time and as he is a strong man there was nobody better to give the nomination to him. Sapp has now decided to be good and will support his party ticket. In the meantime Colonel Harris will be doing that in politics—making deals—which he condemns in other politicians and parties. TWO TO ONE ON HOCH. Democrats Have Not Taken Offer to Bet on Hoch. For more than a week there has been a bet posted in a Topeka cigar store which has gone begging. This is an offer to bet two to one that Governor Hoch will be re-elected. The man behind the bet has posted $1,000 and will put up more if the Democrats take this amount. The man will also allow the Democratic committee or any of the supporters of Colonel Harris, of Chicago, to take any part of the amount that they think they can handle. The peculiar feature of the affair is that the bet has been posted for nearly two weeks and that no takers have appeared. The best betting this year and the money which will be won the easiest will be that bet on Governor Hoch or the Republican state ticket. L. S, NAFTGER, W. R. TUCKER, President Vice President J. M. MOORE, Cashier Fourth National Bank Directors—W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L Haines, S. B. Amidon, B, F, Me Lean, J. M. Moore, L. S. Naftzgrer, E H, Middlekauff, O. Z. Smith. A General Banking Business Transected W CHITA TNSAS THE WICH TA SEARCHLIGHT PAGE 3 Hockaway Paint ```markdown ``` KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. Tabernacies. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 943 Everett, Kansas City, Kas. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. Miss Jennie Alexander, G. Q. M. 918 Penn. St., Lawrence, Kansas Number. 1 Mrs. S. Williams, 1309 N 10th St., Kansas City, Kansas. 2 Mrs. Sarah Crisp, 615 South Chestnut St., Iola, Kan. avenue, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 4. Mrs. Laura Williams, 625 4th St., Cherryvale, Kansas. 5. Mrs. Mary Burdett, 819 N. 1st. street, Atchison, Kansas. 7. Mrs. Lillian Shobe, 336 Santa Fe street, Salina, Kansas. 8 Mrs. Nancy Fax, 505 N. Santa Fe St., Foffeyville, Kansas. 11 Mrs. Paulina Woodfork, 823 Freeman Ave, Kansas City, Kansas 14 Mrs. May R. Freeman, 105 S. Locust St., Pittsburg, Kansas. 15 Mrs. S. S. Furlough, box 405, Weir City, Kansas. 16 Mrs. Hattie Collins, 1001 S. Forest, avenue, Parsons, Kansas. 17 Mrs. A. Mascio 615 Parhoe. Et 17 Mrs. A. Masie, 615 Barbee, Ft. Scott, Kan. 20. Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kansas. 20 Mrs. S. Montaque, 403 Kickapoo St., Leavenworth, Kan. 24 Mrs. Cherry Briley, E. 12th St., Coffeyville, Kansas. 29 Mrs. Percila Lee, 720 Cheyenne St, Leavenworth, Kansas. 30. Mrs. Eliza Scott, 3rd ave. south, Leavenworth, Kansas. 33 Mrs. Phannie Corneal, Box 384, Alliance, Neb. 34 Mrs. Mattie Miller, 335 West 15th, Wichita, Kan. 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 104 South 2nd street, Atchison, Kansas. 38 Mrs. Laura Lee, Weir City, Kan. 52. Mrs. Cora Yeager, 928 Main, Law- rence, Kansas. 63. Mrs. Lizzle Stone, 1147 Ann ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 77 Mrs. A. Pickens, 250 E. 15th, Topeka, Kan. 85. Mrs. Francis Hardeman, 1801 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kans. 89. Mrs. Blanche E. Alston, 2215 Pacific, Omaha, Neb. 91 Mrs. Ella Golden, 310 North 12th St., Omaha, Nebraska. 92 Mrs. Alice Grant, 401 South 8th street, Lincoln, Nebraska. 83 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 Western Ave., N. Topeka, Kan. 777 C. M'S ADDRESSES 333. TEMPLES. Number. 1 William M. Watkins, box 2062, Weir City, Kansas. 2 Thomas Henry, Coffeyville, Kans. 3 Mr. William H. Barnes, 819 L St., Atchison, Kan. 4 Andrew Herrold, Sherman Flats, Omaha, Neb. 6 M. E. Bird, 3014 Hewett, Everett, Kansas City, Kan. 8. Rev. M. Wooten, 416 W. Third st., Ft. Scott, Kansas. 10 Frank Smith, 420 3rd Ave., Leavenworth, Kansas. 15. E. W. Garvice, North 1st street, Salina, Kansas. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St. S. Cmaha, Neo. 17. Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th st. Coffeyville, Kansas. --- L. Z. and O Stands for LEAD, ZINK and because Time and Experience have Pure Zinc and Pure Linseed Oil properly GROUND TOGETHER, make HOCKADAY PAINT confirms it. Sold at retail to citizens of W block North of Frisco Depot. OutsIDE THE HOCH 18 James Thomas, 218 W 1st, South FOR LEAD, ZINK and OIL. Now e and Experience have proven it, Pure Linseed Oil, proppitioned AND TOGETHER, make the best Paint PAINT confirms it. detail to citizens of Wichita from. Frisco Depot. Outside soid through THE HOCKADAY PAINT Stands for LEAD, ZINK and OIL. Now everybody knows, because Time and Experience have proven it, that Pure Lead, Pure Zinc and Pure Linseed Oil, proptioned CORREORLY and properly GROUND TOGETHER, make the best Paint on Earth. HOCKADAY PAINT confirms it. Sold at retail to citizens of Wichita from factory, one-half block North of Frisco Depot. Outside sold through dealers only. THE HOCKADAY PAINT COMPANY St., Salt Lake City, Utah. 19. C. Paris, 948 Penn. street, Lawrence, Kansas. 25 Edward Henderson, 1917 N. 3rd St., Kansas City, Kan. 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. Use Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salve Murray's Reliable Extracts Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices These Goods Have No Epual They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 303 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita! - - - Kansas R A FOOL and his money are soon paated. The man 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 BOTH PHONES 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 333 TO 347 WEST DOUGLAS Red Front RACKET The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes RACKET The People's Economy Store Sample Shoes We have just received a large invoice of Men's, Work Shoes, Men's Dress Shoes, Ladies' and Miss' Fine Shoes, Oxford and Slippers all styles and kinds. AT: WHOLESALE PRICES Tapp & Hanshaw Phone 257 255-257 N. Main -S M BLUE C SOLD E Does your T send in their n The White L 1224 South Wa sas, is the pla city. Brooks A Banner Mills CUSTOM GRINDING ..... A Specialty ..... ALL KINPS OF COAL & FEED PORNERCH BROS, PROPS. 922 N. Main St. Phone --- OIL. Now everybody knows, be proven it, that Pure Lead, proppitioned CORREORLY and the best Paint on Earth. Fichita from factory, one-half side sold through dealers only. ADAY PAINT COMPANY ALL SUMMER REDUCED AT BRAIT Cash Sho SEE WINDOWS FOR O 120 East Doug WESTERN Cash Shoe Store SEE WINDOWS FOR GOOD SHOES CHEAP 120 East Douglas Avenue WESTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, Co and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Normal, Musical, [ Instrum piano, oagan and harmony, Mechanical], Carpentry, Business Course, Stenograp ing, Dressmaking and Plain ing, Farming and Gardenin ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location Influences and Thorough Te INFORMATION: For terms, price fered, write to William T. Vern DEPARTMENTS: Theoiogical, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, SubNormal, Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], including piano, oagan and harmony, Weaving [ Fine Arts and Mechanical], Carpentry, Printing snd Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllmate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducement offered, write to William T. Vernon, A. M. D D QUINDARO, Phones } Office Resid W. S. MENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. -SMOKE- BLUE SEAL CIGARS SOLD EVERYWHERE Does your Tabernacle or Temple send in their news each week? The White Front Boarding House, 1224 South Walnut, Coffeyville, Kansas, is the place to go when in that city. Brooks & Williams, proprietors. The Court House Grocery Store has moved their stock of groceries from 517 N. Main street to the new Young building, 601 N. Main, where they cordially invite you to call and buy your groceries. The Searchlight wishes to thank all for the many pieces of job work which they have favored our office with. We are still prepared. SUMMER WEE AT DUCED PRICE AT RAITSCH'S Cash Shoe Store WINDOWS FOR GOOD SHOES CH East Douglas Aven EAST UNIVER The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West. ITS: Theoical, College, Normal, Bus Industrial. Classical, College, Preparatory, New Musical, [ Instrumental and Vocal ], Organ and harmony, Brewing [ Fine al], Carpentry, Printing snd Book Course, Stenography and Typewriting smaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking ing and Gardening. S: Splendid Location, Healthful Cllm s and Thorough Teachers. N: For terms, prices and all inducer ite to Am T. Vernon, A. M. PRESIDENT INDARO, KA phones } Office—Bell "White" } Residence—Bell "West" Phones } Office—Bell " White " 4302 Residence—Bell " West " 15 MOVED! MOVED! --- Hockray Paint ER WEAR PRICES SCH'S e Store GOOD SHOES CHEAP glas Avenue UNIVERSITY College, Normal, Sub Normal Preparatory, Normal, Sub- normal and Vocal ], including Drawing [ Fine Arts and Printing and Book-Binding, Hy and Typewriting, Tailor- Sewing, Cooking, Launder- g. on, Healthful Cllmate, Good Teachers. es and all inducement, of- non, A. M. D D KANS. —Bell " White" 4302 ence—Bell " West " 15 NOTICE. The Western Negro Press Association will hold its next annual meeting in the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, on September 21 and 22, 1906. All newspapers west of the Mississippi are requested to send representatives. All business men are requested to participate in the meeting. This session will be one of the most important meetings ever held, and will be of very great importance to the race. Matters of importance to the race in the great West will be under consideration, and as we are nearing another presidential contest, it is important that we exchange views now. We urge that a large attendance be present at this meeting. W. H. DUNCAN, President. Colorado Springs, Col. WANTED! WANTED!! WANTED!!! Wide-awake, hustling, get-up-and-go agents and correspondents in every city, town and village in America to handle the Wichita Searchlight in their locality. The Searchlight is a standard race journal, brim full of race news all the time. Highest possible commissions paid. Good money to the right parties. Do not delay but write today, to W. N. MILLER, Editor, 601 N. Main St., Wichita, Kansas. PAGE 3 NOTICE. AAll Summer via the Santa Fe. Tourist tickets on sale every day. To gain a pleasant and auspicious travel Santa Fe. The magnificent miles long—seen en route to Denver Springs prepares you as nothing offered by this great vacation land. Pullmans, chair cars, fast trains pealing to discriminating travelers. Descriptive literature free For timetable folders, ticke J. R. MORIATY, City Some Excurri the Sumr Tourist tickets on sale every day at very low rates. To gain a pleasant and auspicious introduction to Colorado you should travel Santa Fe. The magnificent mountain panorama—over one hundred miles long—seen en route to Denver and through Pueblo and Colorado Springs prepares you as nothing else can for those other attractions offered by this great vacation land. Pullmans, chair cars, fast trains and Harvey meals. A combination appealing to discriminating travelers. Descriptive literature free For timetable folders, tickets, reservations, apply to J. R. MORIATY, City Ticket Agent, Wichita, Kansas Some Excursion Rates for the Summer by the RockIsland System Portland, Maine, and Montreal Toronto Niagara Falls and Buffalo, and Chicago and return Poteskey, via Chicago and la Charlevoix lak Mackinac lak St. Paul and return California and back Tickets on sale every day Good for return till Oct For rates to other Summer T Tickets on Sale June 1 to September ROUND, TRIP RATES. Grand Junction, Colo. $29. Glenowod Springs, Colo. 29. Ogden, Utah 30. Salt Lake, Utah 30. Rawlins, Wyo. 25. tS. Louis, Mo. 17. Eureka Springs, Ark. 10. El Dorado Springs, oM. 8. Return limit thirty days from d Round trip tickets sold to follow tember 15; return limit October 32, Portland, Ore. $60. Seattle, Wash. 60. Tacoma, Wash. 60. Spokane, Wash. 55. Prescott and Phoenix, Ariz. 55. Grand tour of the Pacific coast to Francisco the destination of ticket; including via Los Angeles to San Francisco and any regular direct route theref For summer tourist rates to res Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Newshire, New York, North Dakota, Nov Quebec, West Virginia, Virginia, V the undersigned. Full information as commodations, etc., furnished on app. E. E. BLECKLEY, T. P. A. Mo. Pac. Station, Corner Wichita St. PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The Oxy Phone 233 d, Maine, and return $62.90 al 57.90 and Buffalo, and return 45.90 and 42.25 return 47.10 Chicago and lake and return 31.70 rail 32.35 lake 31.95 rail 32.60 lake 32.20 rail 34.20 and return 23.20 ia and back 60.00 a sale every day till September 30th. 1906 return till October 31st. 1906. rates to other points apply to Portland, Maine, and return ..... $62.90 Montreal ..... 57.90 Toronto ..... 42.25 Niagara Falls and Buffalo, and return 45.90 and 47.10 Chicago and return 24.90 Poteskey, via Chicago and lake and return 31.70 ,, ..... rail ..... 32.35 Charlevoix ..... lake ..... 31.95 ,, ..... rail ..... 32.60 Mackinac ..... lake ..... 32.29 ,, ..... rail ..... 34.20 St. Paul and return ..... 23.20 California and back ..... 60.00 Tickets on sale every day till September 30th. 1906 Good for return till October 31st. 1906. For rates to other points apply to mmer Tourist Rates Summer Tourist Rates ..... VIA ..... June 1 to September 30; Return Limit October 31, 1906. TRIP RATES. ROUND TRIP RATES. Colo. $29.95Denver, Colo. $17.50 Colo. 29.95Colorado Springs. 16.45 Colo. 30.50Pueblo, Colo. 14.95 Colo. 30.50Trinidad, Colo. 22.00 Colo. 25.85Walcott, Wyo. 25.85 Colo. 17.90Chicago, Ill. 24.90 Kk. 10.25Hot Springs, Ark. 17.20 oM. 8.90Siloam Springs, Ark. 10.05 Dirty days from date of sale. lets sold to following destinations on sale June 1 to Sep- pilimit October 32, 1906. $60.00San Francisco, Cal. $60.00 60.00Los Angeles, Cal. 60.00 60.00San Diego, Cal. 60.00 55.00Victoria, B. C. 60.00 ix, Ariz. 55.00Helena and Butte, Ment. 50.00 the Pacific coast and the Pacific Northwest, with San- nation of ticket; going via any regular direct route (i- ngeles to San Francisco); returning via Portland, Ore., direct route therefrom, or vice-versa, $73.50. tourist rates to resorts in Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, New Hamp- North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, inia, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, etc., call on or write full information as to routes, stop-overs, sleeping car ac- cumfirmed on application. T. P. A. I. R. SHERWIN, P. and T. A. Corner Wichita St. and Douglas Ave., Wichita, Kansas. Tickets on Sale June 1 to September 30; Return Limit October 31, 1906. ROUND TRIP RATES. ROUND TRIP RATES. Grand Junction, Colo. $29.95Denver, Colo. $17.50 Glenowod Springs, Colo. 29.95Colorado Springs. 16.45 Ogden, Utah. 20.50Pueblo, Colo. 14.95 Salt Lake, Utah. 20.50Trinidad, Colo. 22.00 Rawlins, Wyo. 25.85Walcott, Wyo. 25.85 tS. Louis, Mo. 17.90Chicago, Ill. 24.90 Eureka Springs, Ark. 10.25Hot Springs, Ark. 17.20 El Dorado Springs, oM. 8.90Siloam Springs, Ark. 10.05 Return limit thirty days from date of sale. Round trip tickets sold to following destinations on sale June 1 to September 15; return limit October 32, 1906. Grand tour of the Pacific coast and the Pacific Northwest, with San Francisco the destination of ticket; going via any regular direct route (including via Los Angeles to San Francisco); returning via Portland, Ore., and any regular direct route therefrom, or vice-versa, $73.50. For summer tourist rates to resorts in Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, West Virginia, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, etc., call on or write the undersigned. Full information as to routes, stop-overs, sleeping car accommodations, etc., furnished on application. E. E. BLECKLEY, T. P. A. I. R. SHERWIN, P. and T. A. Mo. Pac. Station, Corner Wichita St. and Douglas Ave., Wichita, Kansas HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue Avenue --- Santa Fe SELOVER & SONS, Props. 3. $ \vert f \vert = 1 $ C. E. BASCOM, C. P. A. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Class No. 4 of the A. M. E. church is making preparations to give a most novel entertainment in the near future. Further notice will be given later. Mrs. Harriette Lewis, who has been in Ft. Scott the past two weeks returned home Wednesday. Mrs. W. E. Whitted was among the excursionists to Newton Sunday. The Tri-Annual Session of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor held their session in Little Rock, Arkansas, August 28, 29, 30, 31 and closed Sunday, September 1st. This was one of the most important as well as interesting sessions ever held in the history of the order and showed a most wonder- THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT H. O. HARRIS Cut Price Jeweler, Watches Cleaned 50c an Main Springs Glocks Cleaned 50c an Crystals, Hunting Balance Staffs Old Gold or Silver Bought or Made Over. All Work Guar REPAIRING—Personal attention given to high plicated watches of all makes. All kinds for railroad men and societies. 437 North Main St., Wichita, K Open Evenings MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Church Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY BAKERY E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. 146 North Main St. O. K. Dye Wor HERRISON, e Jeweler, 50c and 75c 50c 50c and 75c 15c $1.50 Trade Over. All Work Guaranteed Action given to high-grade and makes. All kinds of emblems Wichita, Kansas evenings ERVE'S CELEBRATED REAM E AND RETAIL Socials and Churches, any part of the city. & KANDY KITCHEN ERVE, Prop. Phone 152 e Works H. O. HARRISON, Cut Price Jeweler, Watches Cleaned ..... 50c and 75c Main Springs ..... 50c Glocks Cleaned ..... 50c and 75c Crystals, Hunting ..... 15c Balance Staffs ..... $1.50 Old Gold or Silver Bought or Made Over. All Work Guaranteed REPAIRING—Personal attention given to high-grade and plicated watches of all makes. All kinds of emblems for railroad men and societies. 437 North Main St., Wichita, Kansas Open Evenings O.K.Dye Works O.K.Dye Works The Most Perfect and Up-to Date Dry Cleaning Process Known Newest and Latest Machinery KID GLOVES CLEANED FREE when accompained by other work. Second Hand Clothing for sale. Bed Quilts Cleaned. Our New Steam Process leaving cotton soft and fluff. WE CLEAN and DYE Silks, Flannels, Kid Gloves, Plums, Gents' Clothing, Felt, Panama Hats, etc., etc. Goods Called For and Delivered Established in Wichita 1901 ALWAYS ORDER ORDER CELEBRATED Ice Cream e and Retail ORDERS A SPECIALTY New Phnoe 1893 Old Phone 3 Wholesale and Retail PARTY AND PICNIC ORDERS A SPECIAL 154N. Emporia Ave., PARTY AND PICNIC ORDERS A SPECIALTY 154N. Emporia Ave., New Phnoe 1893 Old Phone 8 13th Anniversary Of The Opening Of The Cherokee Strip Bliss, Okla., Sunday, Sept. 16 $2.50 Round Trip $2.50 Santa Fe Route Special Train will leave Wichita 7:50 a. m., arriving at Bliss 11: 15 a. m., Returning leaves Bliss at 6:30 a. m. arriving at Wichita about 9:50 p. m. FREE ENTERTAINMENT The program for the anniversara celebration will be interesting It will open with a grand parade of Indians, Cowboys, Cowgirls, Bands, Automobiles, and other features. Hold up of the stage coach by Indians. Cowboys to the rescue. 1000 Indians, 200 Cowboys participating in this event. Buffalo chase 101 famous herd of Buffalo and Indians from various tribes. This will be an Entertain ment for women and child d r e n and one which Yourself Cannot Afford To Miss, Short easy trip. Plenty To Eat and Drink. Our facilities for handling people at Bliss have been greatly im proved and there will be no delay Full particulars at depot L. P. Deleony, Agent David Cox is much improved at this writing. Read the Wichita Searchlight, only $1.00 per year. ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Words to the Point. To Editor of Wichita Searchlight. I noticed that through the Wichita Eagle of your city the editor in this --- Repairing Neatly Done C. G. HANSON, Prop. 330 North Main Street Phone 2003 Bissant WILMITA, KANSAS ful and rapid growth of the order since the last meeting of the Tri-Annual Session. Kansas was very well and ably represented by Sir Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Mentor, and Dtr. Emma Gaines, Chief Grand Preceptress—and the Tri-Annual Session was made to feel proud over the splendid report which came from the Kansas Jurisdiction which showed Kansas to stand on the fore ranks of Krand Jurisdictions. Below we reprint the report of the Session as printed in the Arkansas Daily Gazette of Little Rock. STRONG CITY, KANSAS. Everything is getting along nicely in this city. Rev. E. G. Gauss, has just returned from Emporia, where he has been conducting a series of meetings for Rev. W. S. Blake, at the St. James Baptist church at that place. The meeting was a grand success in every way and thirteen were baptised in the public park Sunday before an audience of 1,000 people. It was a great day for Rev. Blake, Rev. Gauss and the people of Empora. Mrs. Anna Woods, Mrs. Callie Level were the guests of Mrs. Bell Level this week. Rev. W. N. Hampton, of Abilene, was in the city last week and preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday. Misses H. Coleman and Beatrice Burks went to Emporia Sunday to attend the baptising. James Dorsey left Wednesday for Iola where he will make his future home. Mrs. Daubins and Mrs. Elmer Lee are in Kansas City visiting friends and relatives. Frank Levels has gone to Colorado Springs on a short visit. Mrs. Gertrude Jackson has gone to Valley Mills, Texas, on an extended visit. David Cox is much improved at this writing. Read the Wichita Searchlight, only $1.00 per year. A man in a suit holding a cane. J. R. Moriaty, C. P. A. editorial column of August 3rd, in stating the prejudice of the Oklahoma Democrats against the negro for political gain only and did not mean to do the Negro any extensive injustice; but that it incited many low, vicious white people to kill harmless Negroes and some that were not so harmless. While I have thanked him for the kind remarks he has made. I want to carry this subject a little further and say this same prejudice so wagey by the Democratic party has found a footing in every political party of this country and is bearing down upon the Negro with such pressure until he thirsts for a kind word, no matter whether they come from the public press or speaker. No race appreciates them more than does the Negro. If the black man could induce his white brother to spare half the time in seeking out and advertising the good the Negro is doing for himself and making himself a better citizen, educating his children and bringing them up in refinement, to advertise him in this effort as he does in seeking out his criminal element and holding up to the world in the seclusion of all the good h'es doing, the Negro would have at least a brighter prospect in the pursuit of the rights that God itnended he should enjoy. He also states that the Negro is in Oklahoma and is there to stay. We acknowledge the fact and add in all states as well, and they ask no greater favor than simple justice, and if this can be obtained by the assistance of his many friends of the white race the complaints of the Negro for rights in this government will be a thing of the past. E. A. MITCHELL. Wm. Bass left for Colorado Springs, September 1, to accept a position as butcher. His wife will visit a few days with her aunt, Mrs. Scott, in Ponca City before joining him. Creighton Smothers and Willie Hewey left Saturday night for Jefferson City, Mo., where they will attend school at Lincoln institution. Miss Addie Work and Miss Nettle Work arrived from California to visit with relatives and friends. [Portrait of a man in formal attire, facing forward.] Dr. R. C. WRIGHT, Phr. D. with Makin Eye Drug Company Parsons, Kansas A Promising Young Pharmacist With A Bright Future $50. To California And Return Via FRISCO SYSTEM FROM HERE TO THERE The "Frisco" beginning Sept 3rd and continuing daily till Sept 14th will sell round trip tickets to Los Angeles and San Francisco, Cal. with return limit Oct. M. B. Look at the Good new Organs Goon 2nd hand organs Good new Sewing Machine Square Pianos 2nd hand Pianos New Pianos $167.00 Come and see them Look at these prices Good new Organs $40.00 to $60.00 Goon 2nd hand organs $10.00 to $25.00 Good new Sewing Machines $12.00 to $25.00 Square Pianos $15.00 to $25.00 2nd hand Pianos $100.00 to $150.00 New Pianos $167.00, $178.00, $185.00, $198.00 Come and see them Thos. SHAW 132 North Main Street --- NEWS ITEMS. 31st at the low rate of $50 00 Liberal Stop Overs For full particulars see the Free co agent or address F, E. Clark, D. P. A., Wicho FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" so The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co "None genuine without my signature" Charles Ford Print 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. Dr. P. Holmes Regular Medical Physician W Thirty Years Experience In The United States A GREAT DININE HEAL With 25 Years Experience You Must See He will cure you at a dista of one hundred yards. Will iieve anyone of Chills and Fe in five minutes. Will cure you all diseases, Old Sores, Too aches, Cramp Colic, Rheumat Nervous Troubles, Loose a Stiff joints—in fact A L L D SEASES OF MANKIND, makes peace where there is w brings loved ones back to the home who have been driven by unfair means. HE IS A MEDIUM He tells everything you did in your life, who you father or father, or ever did On September 5th, 1905, brought Ira Burrell, of Great Texas, back to life. Try Me and Be Bless Hous At Each Office 8 a. m. till 12m. 348 James & Kansas City, Kan 12:30 to 5 p. m.. 1613 Cottage Kansas City, ese prices $40.00 to $60.00 $10.00 to $25.00 $12.00 to $25.00 $15.00 to $25.00 $100.00 to $150.00 $178.00, $185.00, $198.00 --- THE SEARCHLIGHT Whita. Kansas, Saturday Sept. 8, 06 A Gloucester, M. s., man has been "bitten 40 times by a pet bulldog." There's no accounting for tastes in the matter of pet A Tennessee man wants congress to pass a law against peek-a-boo waists. He must possess an unholy desire to get congress to hunt for trouble. A seacow 18 feet long and which cost $2,000 has been added to the New York aquarium. The trouble with three seacows is that they give salted milk. The daughter of a Standard Oil magnate has announced her engagement to a chauffeur. Who will be the first heiress to marry her father's son? The discovery of a lot of new coal in Pennsylvania will not especially interest the consumer. A find of this kind does not exert any effect on the price. The New York World publishes an article under the title of "New York Minds Its Own Business." It does so probably because it refuses to recognize the fact that there is any other business. Boston's school board has announced that the marriage of a teacher will be considered equivalent to her resignation. There has for a long time been a general opposition that Boston school teachers never married. A Kansas lady insists that woman can never hope to be man's equal until she is able to open a telegram as calmly as she is able to open a can of corn. Why not give her a chance? Let her have equality as soon as she is able to open a telegram as calmly as a man opens a can of corn. Mrs. Humphrey Ward is coming to this country, perhaps for the purpose of finding out whether she stated the case strongly enough when she said all Americans were insufferably vulgar. Incidentally she will lecture the vulgar things and get as much of their money as possible. The Candymakers' association has retained a medical expert to investigate instances of candy poisoning. After diagnosing eight cases in Brooklyn, the deaths were attributed "to bad milk." Of course, the milk dealers' physician will promptly shift the responsibility to breakfast foods. The boy who was flogged by the river of an ice wagon for jumping the step behind and taking a splinter of ice, should have remembered it, at the present rates, a fragment enough for a cooling mouthful is valuable piece of property, the takings of which is almost grand larceny. A Texas railroad has ordered that boys are to be employed in the company's shops who have not com- tested eight grades of school, while one are to be taken for clerical work to have not completed a high school course. Compulsory education laws could become mighty nearly obsolete similar rules were adopted by all business and industrial concerns. Although many other industries flourish in this country, the manufacture of paupers seems to be on the decline. According to a report of the bureau of the census, the number of paupers in almshouses in every hundred thousand of the population has decreased from 132 in 1880 to a fraction more than 101 in 1903. England and Wales had, in 1905, almost 900 indoor paupers to the hundred thousand of population, or almost even times the proportion of the United States. During the fiscal year ending June 1996, there were imported into the United States uncut diamonds to the value of $10,579,000, cut diamonds valued by the custom-house appraisers $2,428,000 and other precious stones to the amount of $4,247,000—a total of more than $40,000,000. And when the tax assessor goes diamond hunting anywhere in the United states, these gems, so rich and rare, do not sparkle for him. Their luster is imputed to a few thousand dollars in the forgetful memory of the tax judge. The English are objecting seriously to the smell of the American cigarette. This international bond of unity is growing. immigrants are arriving in New York at the rate of 9,000 a day. This will to some extent offset the summer travel from America to the capitals of the old world. Neither Alfred Beit nor Russell age had $100,000,000, and some day you may learn that even Rockefeller has been worrying along with not much more than half a billion. The billionaires have at least lived see the end of all that fussiness most tainted money every time a defection was suggested. The trusts are at it again—monoposing. This time, however, it appears to be litigation, or prosecution the courts, of which they are rapid-acquiring the monopoly. a decent man should at least carry enough life insurance to tide his will, or the widowed season.—Atlanta Journal. In a good many cases that might be a very small amount. SIX AND HALF MILLION TONS ONE YEAR'S PRODUCTION OF KANSAS COAL. One of the State's Largest Industries —Principal Consumer Is The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Kansas always stands out big and triumphant in the industrial reports of the government. Whether it be corn, or wheat, or beet sugar, or flour, or live stock, or salt, or petroleum, or lead, or zinc, or cement, or gypsum, or coal, or a score of other staple products of soil, mines, or manufacture, the word "Dirigo" belongs on the top line of the story. The coal production of Kansas is the subject of a report for 1905 by E. W. Parker to the United States Geological Survey. Other states produce more coal than Kansas does, but no state has made a greater increase of output, and so the phrase stands good in Kansas even for coal production. In 1905, Kansas produced 6,463,329 tons of coal, worth on the spot $9,410,632. This was an increase since 1896 of nearly 125 per cent. To mine this production in 1905, 12,006 men were employed an average of 212 days. The average production per man was 538.3 tons, and the average daily production per man was 2.54 tons. Of course, this includes all the men employed in all the mines of the state, and since, in new or undeveloped coal territory, the mining is done in a desultory way, and by inexperienced men, the daily average per man here stated is not a fair estimate of the full earnings of the miners. For the coal miners of Kansas, with few exceptions, belong to the United Mine Workers of America, and are workmen of the highest order of intelligence and skill. The coal produced from the Kansas mines, except the comparatively little which is sold in Kansas City, St. Joseph, Joplin and other border towns, is burned by Kansas families and Kansas industries, and by railroads operating in Kansas and Oklahoma. In addition the western part of the state obtains large quantities of the production of Colorado mines. The largest consumer of coal mined in the state is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. To establish a supply of coal for its locomotives, the Santa Fe has opened or caused to be opened more coal mines in the state than any other institution or individual. The marvelous growth of the city of Pittsburg and the congestion of population in the mining camps round about that splendid city may be traced directly to the money invested by the Santa Fe in coal properties there. From the coal mines of Kansas the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe takes daily 2,300 tons, monthly 71,600 tons, and yearly 859,000 tons. This is 13 1:3 per cent. of the state's annual production. To mine this share of the state's production, using Mr. Parker's averages, 1,600 men were employed in 1905. The Santa Fe consumes in its locomotives, within the state of Kansas, daily 1,793 tons, monthly 55,583 tons, and yearly 666,996 tons. Of this total, 200,136 tons are bought in Colorado. The Company operates approximately 500 locomotives within the state. Based on the law of averages for the entire operation of a western railway, a locomotive consumes a ton of coal in a run of about 15 miles, or about five tons a day. This average includes heavy road engines and the lighter engines used on branch lines. Counting two men to an engine, 1,000 men (engineers and firemen) are employed in burning the coal which the Company buys for Kansas consumption. Added to this are the 1,600 men employed in mining the coal. Mr. Parker's report is full of interest outside of the figures above given, but an exhaustive article on the subject would occupy more space than we have to spare. Heat for Sterilizing Milk. It is asserted by high authorities that neither great heat nor long maintenance of the requisite temperature is required to sterilize milk suspected of containing the germs of diseases, such as tuberculosis. The bacillus of that terrible disease are destroyed by a temperature of 105 degrees in five minutes. Not Much Time Left. "Just one minute—the astronomers tell us that a monster comet is heading for the earth with the speed of an express train. Only a few days remain in which to pay your subscription to the News—we don't want to trot all over h—ll to find you."—Andalusia News. Zoological Metaphor. The latest mixed metaphor comes from Warrington. In a caustic attack an the town council a member of the local trades council taundered: "Let us go to the council not like a lamb, but like the wolf, and take the bull by the horns." — London Evening Standard. HERE AND THERE. —The landlord and tenant system is the bane of north Texas, saves a correspondent. We need more small farmers who own their lands. A renter never plants a tree, builds a house or even repairs a gate or fence if he can avoid it. —Times have so changed that no careful poultryman thinks of feeding much soft poultry food, nor of placing it upon the ground. He feeds dry food mostly, and puts it into troughs or upon boards—Exchange. STENSLAND FOUND The Chicago Banker Has Been Captured in Tangier, Morocco After a Long Chase. BETRAYED BY A WOMAN. Was Tracked Across the Atlantic and Through Europe by a Newspaper Man—Called Himself P. Olsen of Norway. Chicago, Sept. 4.—A cable message to the Chicago Tribune from Tangier, Morocco, Monday announced the capture in that city of Paul O. Stensland the president and manager of the defunct Milwaukee Avenue State bank. The arrest was made by a representative of the Chicago Tribune and Assistant State's Attorney Olsen of this city, who have been on the trail of Stensland since August 13. During the period intervening between his flight and his arrest Stensland has been going under the name of P. Olsen of Norway. It was learned before his arrest that he had figured on spending the month of October in the Canary islands and from there going to London, as he had ordered all his mail sent to the Metropolis hotel in that city from Tangier. The news of the arrest of Stensland was received in the section of the city in which his bank is located with great excitement. A long line of depositors was in front of the bank waiting for their money when the announcement was made, and it was greeted with cheers, groans and threats. Later advices received at the office of the states attorney threw considerable doubt on th statement that Stensland would return peaceably. Members of the office staff after the receipt of the cablegram, the contents of which they declined to divulge, became suddenly busy in the preparation of extradition papers and it is now expected that the fugitive will make a fight for his freedom. States Attorney Healy declared, however, that there is no doubt that Stensland will be brought back, as it is believed that the sultan of Morocco will give him an if* the United States asks for him. Later in the day additional particulars of the arrest of Stensland were received. He was taken into custody while in the British postoffice in Tangier. He had alighted but a short time before from the German tramp steamer Olenburg and came to the postoffice to direct the forwarding of his mail under the name of Paul Olsen to Morgador, 400 miles southwest of Tangier. As he entered the postoffice he was recognized at once by Assistant States Attorney Olsen, who at once placed him under arrest. As Stensland apparently made no effort to conceal his trail the following was not difficult. The closing of the doors of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank which occurred on August 6 probably caused more anguish, suffering and trouble than any similar event in the west in many years. It was followed by several cases of suicide, a number of people were driven to insanity. Stensland lived a fast life, spent money recklessly, speculated wildly and in one way or another made way with about $1,000,000 of the money of the bank before the crash came. More than 22,000 families had money deposited in the bank and the failure came as a crushing blow to the majority of them. The vast majority of the depositors were wage earners and the money they had in the bank represented all that they had been able to save from the earnings of years. Assistant States Attorney Barbour late in the day received a telegram from the state department at Washington saying that a cablegram had been sent to the Moroccan authorities asking whether they would surrender Stensland. Founder of Labor Day. Philadelphia, Sept. 5.—The dedication Philadelphia, Sept. 4.—The dedication of a monument to the late J. J. McGuire, organizer of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, was the feature of the observance of Labor day in this vicinity. The inscription on the monument gives the late national secretary-treasurer of the Carpenters' union the honor of being the "founder of Labor day." Stamped to Death by Ex-Convict. Muskogee, I. T., Sept. 3.—At Porter, I. T., 20 miles northwest of here, Saturday night, Henry Kennon, a carpenter, was literally stamped to death by O. W. Graves, an ex-convict, the result of a quarrel. Graves was brought to Muskogee Sunday and placed in a federal jail charged with murder. Tulsa Capitalists Fight. Tulsa, I. T., Sept. 5.--W. D. Weaver and Robert Powell, prominent Tulsa capitalists, quarreled over a five-cent watermelon and Weaver was fatally stabbed. He later made an ineffectual attempt to kill his assailant with a shotgun, but failed from loss of blood. Wood Burner Exploded St. Paul, Sept. 5.—A new motor car weed burner that has been put into service by the Union Pacific road biew up Monday evening near the town of Elba, killing one man and injuring two, one fatally. North Dakota Solves the Adulteration Problem. North Dakota seems to have found the key to the question, "How shall we protect the people from frauds in manufactured products?" A new law has recently gone into effect designed to make it impossible to deceive people into buying inferior and adulterated paint under the impression that they are getting real paint, viz.: pure white lead and linseed oil. The North Dakota lawmakers did not attempt to absolutely prohibit the inferior pigments, or mixtures of pigments. They adopted the slogan, "Let the label tell," and then left to the people to buy whichever they wished. Under this plan, if any one wishes to buy a mixture of rock-dust, ground quartz and other cheap elements which are found in many paints and so-called "white leads," no one can object; for they do it with their eyes open. But if they prefer genuine white lead and linseed oil, they can be sure of getting it, for none but the genuine article can bear a label which says "pure white lead." In all other States mixtures are of ten sold as pure white lead which contain little—sometimes no—real white lead. It would seem that were this same principle applied to food, beverages and all other prepared articles, where deception is practiced upon the buyer, the question would be solved. It would leave us free to buy what we pleased, but would protect us from unwittingly buying what we did not want. Troubles of an Author. Robert Louis Stevenson's mother wrote in one of her letters from Samoa: "The people here are now discovering that Louis writes, as the Bottle-Imp' is coming out in the native paper, having been translated by Mr. C.—. It is much appreciated, but leads to some curious results. For instance, the house in it somewhat resembles ours, and a good many of the natives suspect that Mr. Stevenson has the 'bottle' himself." In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all druggists, 25c. Trial package. FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, La Roy, N. Y. The Central American Soldier These barefooted soldiers are antagonists not to be despised. Nearly worthless in attack, they are nevertheless tenacious in holding a position, a trait that comes from their Spanish descent probably. In the Cuban campaign Gen. Garcia is said to ha ve said in reply to the remark of an American officer: "The Spaniards never attack." This may have been true in the main, but the defense of the trenches at Caney showed that the Spaniards would hold a position with as much courage and tenacity as any other troops. The Central and the South Americans have not generally showed much steadiness in war, but there have been occasions when their conduct has been conspicuous for gallantry, and all the virtues which go to make up the stalwart soldier. N. O. Times-Democrat. A. Real Celebrity. The local pride of the natives of Cape Elizabeth, Me., is so intense that it takes the attitude of pity for all who have the misfortune to dwell elsewhere. This is known to regular summer visitors, and by most of them respected. One rainy day a newcomer, who had joined the gathering at the store, composed of fishermen and summer visitors, ventured to enumerate some of the distinguished men who had come from Maine. There's Longfellow," he said, "and frannibal Hamlin, and James G. Blaine, William Pitt Fessenden, Thomas B. Reed, and—" Here an old fisherman looked up from his work of splicing grass blades, and broke in: "Smart? Those fellows smart?" he questioned. "You just come down an' see John Pillsbury skin fish!"—Lewiston Journal. GOOD AND HARD Results of Excessive Coffee Drinking. It is remarkable what suffering some persons put up with just to satisfy an appetite for something. A Mich. woman says: "I had been using coffee since I was old enough to have a cup of my own at the table, and from it I have suffered agony hundreds of times in the years past. "My trouble first began in the form of billous colic, coming on every few weeks and almost ending my life. At every attack for 8 years I suffered in this way. I used to pray for death to relieve me from my suffering. I had also attacks of sick headache, and began to suffer from catarrh of the stomach, and of course awful dyspepsia. "For about a year I lived on crackers and water. Believing that coffee was the cause of all this suffering, I finally quit it and began to use Postum Food Coffee. It agreed with my stomach, my troubles have left me and I am fast gaining my health under its use. "No wonder I condemn coffee and tea. No one could be in a much more critical condition than I was from the use of coffee. Some doctors pronounced it cancer, others ulceration, but none gave me any relief. But since I stopped coffee and began Postum I am getting well so fast I can heartily recommend it for all who suffer as I did." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville." "There's a reason." BALLOONIST FATALLY INJURED. LEROY FATALLY BURNED AT McPHERSON, KAN. Was Working for J. C. Lapi, the Emp ployer of Mrs. M. Napier. McPherson, Kan., Sept. 6.—A horrible accident occurred on the McPherson county fair gurounds this evening at 5:30 o'clock. While filling a hotair balloon, preparing to make an ascension, Jack Leroy, who was to go up in the balloon, was directing the inflation. He took up a cup of gasolene and attempted to throw it on the fire. It caught fire and he attempted to throw the gasolene away but as the tin cup exploded it blew back over him and he was instantly enveloped in a mass of flames. He attempted to run through the crowd, tearing his clothes from him as he ran. Several men seized him and once had him on his back, but he was being so severely burned that he broke from them and ran again. Finally a man reached him and stripping off his coat, wrapped it around Leroy, putting out the fire. His clothes were completely burned from his body from the waist up. Leroy was to make the ascension for Prof. J. C. Lapri. This is the third accident that has happened to Prof. Lapri or those in his employ during the past two weeks. Two weeks ago Prof. Lapri, who was making an ascension in Wichita, fell into the top of a cottonwood tree. He was so severely injured that he has been unable to make any ascensions since. Last week Mrs. May Napier, whom he had employed to make the ascensions for him in Wichita, fell and received injuries from which she died in less than twenty-four hours. Mr. Leroy was burned from head to foot and there is no hope for his recovery. The accident was witnessed by fully 5,000 people who stood terror-streken at the sight. Lewiston, Me., Sept. 6.—Carl Smith of Brockton Mass., a professional aeronaut fell a distance of 125 feet from a balloon at the Maine state fair grounds late this afternoon and received injuries which will probably result in his death. Smith started to make his descent on a trapeze attached to a parachute, when one of the trapeze ropes broke and he fell to the ground. TERRITORY WILL HAVE TO WAIT. Can't Get Its Funds Ahead of Other Creditors Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 6.—The territory of Oklahoma will not get to be a preferred creditor of the Capitol National Bank, but will have to take its chances with the other creditors of the bank. The supreme court today reversed the decision of Judge Pancost who gave the territory a preference claim on the $18,000 deposited by Secretary William Grimes and Secretary Fred Wenner of the school land board just before the Capitol National failure on the ground that the officials of the bank knew at the time that it was in a failing condition. HAD SHORTAGE OF $48,000 Former Assistant Cashier of the Vicksburg Bank Arrested. Memphis, Sept. 6.—A special from Vicksburg, Miss., says: B. S. Adams, now manager of the Quinn Sharpe Drug Co., but formerly assistant cashier of the Citizens' National Bank, was arrested today by United States Marshal Wilson and taken to Jackson on the charge of being short in his cash to the amount of $48,000 while employed in the Citizens' National Bank. Adams left the employ of the bank when he confessed to George B. Hackett he was short, stating the amount. Mr. Hackett notified a surety company, who had bonded Adams and it is supposed the surety company had Adams arrested. He was unable to make a $5,000 bond. BOSTON ABLE TO SAIL. Will Make Her Own Way to the Navy Yard. Bellingham, Wash.. Sept. 6. — The United States cruiser Boston, damaged September 3 on Peapod rock, will make the start for Bremerton navy yard tomorrow morning under her own steam. The divers today discovered the leak in the hull for which they have been scarching. NELSON IS STILL IN BED. Unable to Be Out as Result of the Fight Goldfield, Nev., Sept. 6.—Nelson is still confined to his bed as the result of his Monday's beating. For a time he bled profusely from hemorrhages of the head and afterwards of the bowels but it is believed that all danger is passed and that he will soon be on his feet. Nolan and Nelson are still claiming they were robbed of the fight but they get little sympathy. TO BOOST FOR STATEHOOD. Albuquerque, M. M., Sept. 6. — The Republican territorial committee, in session here this afternoon, endorsed the Hamilton joint statehood act, joining New Mexico with Arizona by a vote of 35 to 10. The committee appointed a subcommittee of five to work with a like committee from the Democrats forming a non-partisan joint statehood board. It is probable that the opposition to statehood will make a fight against endorsement in the convention, which will be held in Las Vegas, September 29. ```markdown ``` GAINED 34 POUNDS Persistent Anaemia Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills After Other Remedies Had Failed. "When I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills," says Mrs. Nathaniel Field, of St. Albans, Somerset county, Maine, "I was the palest, most bloodless person you could imagine. My tongue and gums were colorless and my fingers and ears were like wax. I had two doctors and they pronounced my trouble anaemia. I had spells of vomiting, could not eat, in fact, did not dare to, I had such distress after eating. My stomach was filled with gas which caused me awful agony. The backache I suffered was at times almost unbearable and the least exertion made my heart beat so fast that I could hardly breathe. But the worst of all was the splitting neuralgia headache which never left me for seven weeks. About this time I had had several numb spells. My limbs would be cold and without any feeling and the most deathly sensations would come over me. "Nothing had helped me until I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, in fact, I had grown worse every day. After I had taken the pills a short time I could see that they were benefiting me and one morning I awoke entirely free from pain. The distress after eating disappeared and in three weeks I could eat anything I wanted and suffer no inconvenience. I also slept soundly. I have taken several boxes of the pills and have gained in weight from 120 to 154 pounds and am perfectly well now." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure anemia because they actually make new blood. For rheumatism, indigestion, nervous headaches and many forms of weakness they are recommended even if ordinary medicines have failed. They are sold by all druggists, or will be postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenected, N. Y. 'FRISCO'S CROP OF GENIUS. Second Only to New York in Vigor and Freshness of Its Literature. New York is of course the great American market for literary wares, says E. S. Martin in Appleton's Magazine. There is also a measure of hospitality shown to writers and their products in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Indianapolis. But San Francisco for thirty years past has beaten all four of these subsidiary literary centers in the freshness and vigor of its inspirations. It has had an ocean of its own to stimulate its imagination, a new country behind and about it and an adventurous and virile population that has liked to live its own life in its own way and dream and live its own romances. It has had money, too. It has sent out its envoys to view the world (and a good many of them have stayed away), and because it has been one of the world's great starting places and landing places it has viewed habitually from its own doorstep pretty much every kind of human creature that has been worth looking at. Altogether, San Francisco has been like no other city of our republic. WILD WITH ITCHING HUMOR. Eruption Broke Out in Spots All Over Body—Cured at Expense of Only $1.25—Thanks Cuticura. "The Cuticura Remedies cured me of my skin disease, and I am very thankful to you. My trouble was eruption of the skin, which broke out in spots all over my body, and caused a continual itching which nearly drove me wild at times. I got medicine of a doctor, but it did not cure me, and when I saw in a paper your ad, I sent to you for the Cuticura book and I studied my case in it. I then went to the drug store and bought one cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Cuticura Ointment and one vial of Cuticura Pills. From the first application I received relief. I used the first set and two extra cakes of Cuticura Soap, and was completely cured. I had suffered for two years, and I again thank Cuticura for my cure. Claude N. Johnson, Maple Grove Farm, R. F. D. 2, Walnut, Kan, June 15, 1905." Fear for Cologne Cathedral. Serious damage to the magnificent central portal of Cologne cathedral is feared. Several large pieces of carved stone have fallen and numerous other portions show signs of loosening. The cathedral, begun in 1248, was not completed until 1880. It is generally regarded as the finest piece of Gothic architecture in the world. Deadly New Rifle. Deadly New Kill. Bullets from the new 30-caliber rifles of the United States army whirl with great rapidity. The rifling gives one revolution of the bullet about its axis in ten inches. At the muzzle the velocity of the bullet is 2,300 feet a second, which means 2,750 turns a second, assuming that the bullet does not strip in the rifling. The circumference of the bullet is .942 of an inch, which gives a peripheral velocity of 2,600 inches each second, or 13,000 feet a minute. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM SEVERE BRIGHTS DISEASES BACKACH DIABETES BACKACH Please discontinue the use of any drug or imitations. The public may only use the medicine. Gossips might be appropriately termed misfortune tellers. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, are fast to light and washing and color more goods than others. 10c per package. Although the rolling stone gathers no moss the high roller scatters a lot of it. Lewis' Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. When Bachelors Were Taxed. When Bachelors Were Taxed. There is nothing revolutionary in modern proposals to tax bachelors. Two centuries ago every celibate in England was paying tribute to the exchequer "for neglecting his duty to support another man's daughter." OFTENTHE BESTPARTOFLIFE Help for Women Passing Through Change of Life Providence has allotted us each at least seventy years in which to fulfill our mission in life, and it is generally our own fault if we die prematurely. Mrs. MaryKoehne Nervous exhaustion invites disease. This statement is the positive truth. When everything becomes a burden and you cannot walk a few blocks without excessive fatigue, and you break out into perspiration easily, and your face flushes, and you grow excited and shaky at the least provocation, and you cannot bear to be crossed in anything, you are in danger; your nerves have given out; you need building up at once! To build up woman's nervous system and during the period of change of life we know of no better medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Here is an illustration. Mrs. Mary L. Koehne, 371 Garfield Avenue, Chicago, Ill., writes: "I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for years in my family and it never dismisses; so when I felt that I was nearing the change of life I commenced treatment with it. I took in all about six bottles and it did me a great deal of good. It stopped my dizzy spells, pains in my back and the headaches with which I had suffered for months before taking the Compound. I feel that if it had been taken, I would not have been alive to-day. It is splendid for women, old or young, and will surely cure all female disorders." Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., invites all sick and ailing women to write her for advice. Her great experience is at their service, free of cost. MOTHER'S FAVORITE Cuticura SOAP MEDICINAL AND TOILET PRICE 25 CENTS Because of its Delicate Medicinal, Emollient, Native, and Antiseptic Properties combined with the purest of Cleansing Ingredients and most refreshing of Flower Odors. Sold throughout the wi-fi. Culicura Soap, 25c. Otter-land, Bath & Body, 25c. Theatres, Bath & Body, Films, 25c. per vial of 60. A single set often cuvee. Depots: London, 27 Charterhouse Sq.; Parts: A Rue de la Bourse, 112 N. Columbus Ave. Potter Drug & Cham. Corp. Sole Props. Send for "How to Preserve, Purify, and Beautify the Skin, Scalp, Hair, and Hands of Infants and Children." THORNTON, McCRUM & CO. Bonds and Stocks. Dwight Building, Kansas City, Mo. If you wish to buy or sell Portland Cement Company Stecks Don't fall to get our prices. EDITOR WAS DEAD. Life of Edward Rosewater, Founder and Proprietor of the Omaha Bee, Ends Suddenly. FOUND DEAD IN COURT BOOM Was Caused by Heart Failure Brought on by Over Exer- tion in Recent Senatorial Campaign. Omaha, Sept. 1.—Edward Rose- water, proprietor and editor of the Omaha Bee, and prominently iden- tified with the political, financial and business affairs of Omaha, and the state of Nebraska for 40 years, was found dead in district court room No. 6, on the third floor of the Bee building, early Friday. Mr. Rosewater had evidently sat down on a bench in the court room and fell asleep, and died of heart failure. Mr. Rosewater went to Waterloo Neb. Thursday afternoon, where he delivered an address to the old soldiers of Nebraska. He reached Omaha on his return at 7 p. m., and went to his office immediately in the Bee building. He was not seen by members of his family after returning from Waterloo. Edward Rosewater, founder and editor since 1871 of the Omaha Bee, was born at Bukovan, Bohemia, in 1841. He came to the United States in 1854 and began work as a telegraph operator when 18 years old. From 1861 to 1863 he was a member of the United States military telegraph corps and in the latter year became manager of the Pacific Telegraph company at Omaha. He was at various times member of the Nebraska legislature, member of the republican national committee, member of the advisory board of the national committee, member of the United States mint commission and representative of the United States to the Universal Postal congress of which he was vice president. He was the original promoter of the trans-Mississippi Exposition held at Omaha in 1898. Hundreds of telegrams of condolence have been received by the family from all parts of the United States, from personal friends and relatives of Mr. Rosewater, among them being William Jennings Bryan and Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press. After Harvester Company. Topeka, Sept. 5.—In the district courts of Reno and Shawnee counties Tuesday investigations of the international Harvester company are to be instituted by Attorney General Coleman. For nearly a month Mr. Coleman and his assistant, Fred S. Jackson, have been collecting evidence against the harvester company and they believe they now have sufficient information on which to base a prosecution which will drive the company from the state. Interurban Power House Burned. Walcott, Kan., Sept. 5.—The power house of the Kansas City-Western electric line was destroyed by fire at 10 o'clock Monday night. The loss is estimated between $40,000 and $50,000. The car barn and twelve cars it contained were saved. Officials on the line said they would attempt to operate a few cars on the line with power from the Metropolitan Street Railway company until they can re-build the plant. More Fighting in Canada. Nogales, Ariz., Sept. 5. Fighting between Mexican and American workmen broke out at Cananea at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. Mexicans ruled the place Monday night, it is said. The information was brought here by a locomotive engineer named Mitchell, of Greene"s railroad. He left just after the fighting began and has no further particulars. Gans Defeated Nelson. Arena, Goldfield, Nevada, Sept. 5. —Battling Nelson deliberately fouled Joe Gans in the forty-second round of the best and longest fight seen here in many years. Both men were tired when the fight ended, but Gans was apparently the stronger. He was away ahead on points and had smashed and cut Nelson all through the fight without being badly hurt himself. Mr. Shaw's Missouri Dates. Washington, Sept. 2.—Secretary Shaw will speak in Missouri the week beginning September 16 as follows: Hannibal, Monday afternoon; Moberly, Monday night; Carroiton, Tuesday afternoon; Kansas City, Tuesday night; Pleasant Hill, Wednesday morning; Joplin, Wednesday night; Dixon, Thursday afternoon; Lebanon, Thursday night; Crystal City, Friday morning; Farmington, Friday night; Likeston, Saturday afternoon; Poplar Bluff, Saturday night. A Demonstration of Thanks Santiago, Chile, Sept. 3.—A great demonstration was held here Sunday in order to express to foreign nations the thanks of the republic for the sympathy and aid given Chile because of the recent earthquake. Fifty thousand persons marched in review past President Rieco and President-Elect Montt and the diplomatic corps. Elihu Root, the American secretary of state, who was present, was loudly cheered. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed All Chemically Pure. The mistaken idea of a few years ago, about Alum in Baking Powders being injurious, no longer prevails, or scarcely exists. It is a well established fact by chemical analysis that Cream of Tartar being less volatile than Alum, when exposed to heat, is not entirely vaporized as is the case with Alum, but leaves a residue in the bread, which is injurious, Alum, on the contrary, is entirely evaporated while performing its function during process of baking, leaving no atom of injurious residuous substance. The words "Chemically Pure" erroneously used to designate Cream of Tartar from Alum baking powder is a misnomer. Baking Powder made of pure Alum is as chemically pure as made from pure cream of tartar. These words mean nothing more nor less than pure chemicals, and in no way can they imply that one baking powder is Alum and another Cream of Tartar. Alum has been declared to be wholesome; an established fact. Every large water system in the cities along the Missouri river use Alum in large quantities to purify the water before pumping it into their water mains for consumption. Cream of Tartar baking powder is perhaps good enough for any one; Alum baking powder is better, and very much cheaper. Atmospheric Poisoning: The protests against the automobile omnibuses of London have received a powerful reinforcement by a declaration of Sir James Dewar on the chemical basis. He is undoubtedly among the high chemical authorities of the world, and his condemnation of the motor buses and freight vans seems conclusive unless invention provides innocuous motive power. Sir James Dewar states that the combustion of petrol or gasoline in these motors throws off vast quantities of noxious gases. Some of these are absolutely poisonous and all injurious. He holds that the air of London is bad enough already without the addition of carbonic acid gas, the sulphurous gases, and, worst of all, the asphyxiating carbonic oxide. Moreover, while he admits that science can improve motors, he declares that it is impossible for it to burn petrol and render the resulting gases innocuous. WORN TO A SKELETON. A Wonderful Restoration Caused a Sensation in a Pennsylvania Town. Mrs. Charles N. Preston, of Elkland, Pa., says: "Three years ago I found that my housework was becoming a burden. I tired easily, had no ambition and was fading fast. My complexion got yellow, and I lost over 50 pounds. My thirst was terrible, and there was sugar in the kidney secre was becoming a burden. I tired easily, had no ambition and was fading fast. My complexion got yellow, and I lost over 50 pounds. My thirst was terrible, and there was sugar in the kidney secretions. My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but as his medicine was not helping me, I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They helped me at once, and soon all traces of sugar disappeared. I have regained my former weight and am perfectly well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Labor the Great Quality. The most beautiful actions of the human body, and the highest results of the human intelligence, are conditions or achievements, of quite unoblious—nay, of recreative effort. It is the negative quantity—or quantity of de-fect—which has to be counted against every Feat and of de-fect which has to be counted against every Fact or Deed of men. In brief, it is that quantity of our toil which we die in.—Ruskin. To keep your auto looking bright use the following mixture for all paint-ml parts: Sperm oil, one-half pint; common vinegar, one-half pint; oil bergamot, one dram. Mix and rub with clean cloth. For all brass work use tripol, one and one-half pounds; any lubricating oil, eight ounces; gasoline, three quarts. This is one of the best cleaners for all polished brass. If you contemplate buying a medium priced automobile and want to be certain of securing a car suitable for touring on country roads, up hill as well as down hill, you will make no mistake in buying either a Buleck, Maxwell, Mitchell, Reo, Knox, Franklin or Queen. These range in price from $750 to $2,000. European Neatness. In a thousand miles of Europe an observer saw only one rubbish heap —some old metal cans at Carlsruhe. Everywhere else was a complete absence of all waste or carelessness, and above all, of defacement and roadside uncleanliness. Important to Mothers. Import to mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it There is no speed limit for autos outside the city of Shanghai, China. Within the city 30 miles an hour is allowed. THEWINNINGSTROKE If more than ordinary skill in playing brings the honors of the game to the winning player, so exceptional merit in a remedy ensures the commendation of the well informed, and as a reasonable amount of outdoor life and recreation is conducive to the health and strength, so does a perfect laxative tend to one's improvement in cases of constipation, billiousness, headaches, etc. It is all important, however, in selecting a laxative, to choose one of known quality and excellence, like the ever pleasant Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., a laxative which sweetens and cleanses the system effectually, when a laxative is needed, without any unpleasant after effects, as it acts naturally and gently on the internal organs, simply assisting nature when nature needs assistance, without gripping, irritating or debilitating the internal organs in any way, as it contains nothing of an objectionable or injurious nature. As the plants which are combined with the figs in the manufacture of Syrup of Figs are known to physicians to act most beneficially upon the system, the remedy has met with their general approval as a family laxative, a fact well worth considering in making purchases. It is because of the fact that SYRUP OF FIGS is a remedy of known quality and excellence, and approved by physicians that has led to its use by so many millions of well informed people, who would not use any remedy of uncertain quality or inferior reputation. Every family should have a bottle of the genuine on hand at all times, to use when a laxative remedy is required. Please to remember that the genuine Syrup of Figs is for sale in bottles of one size only, by all reputable druggists, and that full name of the company—California Fig Syrup Co., is plainly printed on the front of every package. Regular price, 50c per bottle. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They Pimple Vegetable. CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. When you buy WET WEATHER CLOTHING you want complete protection and long service. These and many other good points are combined in TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING You can't afford to buy any other TOWER'S FISH BRAND AJ TOWER, CO. BOSTON U.S.A. TOWER'S FISH BRAND, CO. U.S.A. TORONTO, CALIF. Wanted for U.S. Army Able-bodied, unmarried men, between ages of 21 and 35, citizens of United States, of good character and temperate habitats, who can speak, read and write, and are RECRUITING OFFICER Wichita, Great Bend, Hutchinson, Abilene, Arkansas City or Eureka, Kansas. Magnificent Sacred Edifice. The largest and costliest building thus far undertaken in New York, the city of immense structures, is the magnificent $10,000,000 Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, now being erected on Morningside lieights. This will be the greatest edifice in America, and the fourth in importance in the world. "Pugs" Ordered from Seattle. The chief of police of Seattle, believing that prize fighters bring criminals and other undesirables in their train, has ordered all pugilists, trainers and others connected with the ring to leave the city or take up some respectable employment. Smokers have to call for Lewis' Single Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Mice and conclusions are not synonymous, yet women jump at both. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain,ures wind colic. 25c a bottle. It's unsafe to bury the dead past —better cremate it. A poor man isn't necessarily a cheap man. It is best for all who are troubled with disorders of digestion to adopt a simple, nutritious diet, ignoring those foods which induce irritable conditions, and strictly adhering to the policy of moderation. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD can be regularly eaten by persons with the most dyspeptic and rebellious stomachs. It is made from the whole grain of the wheat containing no indigestible matter;—regulates the bowels. Palatable—Nutritious—Easy of Digestion and Ready to Eat Can be served hot. Put in a hot oven for a few minutes; or cook in boiling milk to a mush- Dr. Price, the famous food expert, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, Delicious Flavoring Extracts, Icicle Cream Sugar and Jelly Desserts, has never been compelled, notwithstanding strenuous Food laws, to change any of his products. They have always conformed to their requirements. This is an absolute guarantee of their quality and purity. San Francisco, Cal. 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WANTED-More View Acents. Business pays 200 per month. Farmers' sons, students and clerks preferred. STANDARD SCENTIC Co., Kansas City, Mo. REBELLIOUS It is best for all who are troub adopt a simple, nutritious diet, ig irritable conditions, and strictly ad W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 Shoes BEST IN THE WORLD W.L.Douglas $4 Gilt Edge line cannot be equalled at any price To Shoe Dealers: W. L. Douglas' Job- binder is the most complete in this country Send for Catalog SHOES ESTABLISHED 1874 CAPITAL $2,500,000 SHOES FOR EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES Men's Shoes, $5 to $1.50. Boy's Shoes, $3 to $1.25. Women's Shoes, $4.00 to $1.50. Misses & Children's Shoes, $3.50. Try W. L. Shoes, $3.50. Misses and Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear them, excel other makes. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater value than any other make. Wherever you live, you can obtain W. L. Douglas shoes. His name and price is stamped on the bottom, which protects you against high temperatures. Your shoes tute. Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes and insist upon having them. Fast Colored Shoes will not wear brass. You can purchase a flattered Catalog of Fall Styles. W. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. 12, Brockton, Mass. $100.00 WEEKLY made by agents of the Banker. Accident Company is not unusual. Experiential unnecessary. Wint BANKERS ACCIDENT CO., DES MOINES, IA 602. Bus. Winter Wheat Pc Acr That's the yield of Salzer's Red Cross Hybrid Wheat. Send so in stamps for free sample of same as also catalogue of Winter Wheats, Hye, Barley, Clover, Sweet Corn, Corn Starch, GALZER BEED CO., Bot. W. L. La Crosse, Wise If affixed with I Thompson's Eye Water sore eyes, use W. N. U., WICHITA, NO. 36, 1906.