Wichita Searchlight

YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. Stand Up For The Negro Colored People Should Take More Interest In Race Enterprises NINETH YEAR. Stand Up For the Colored People More In Race En ATS THE MATTER WITH WICHITA? colored people of Wichita are meant in every way except that they must have the enough interest and pride in themselves of the race which are lived in Wichita. From what we have been able to learn of the past of the colored people of Wichita means that this is not a recet failure is one that has been characteristic of the colored people of this city so long that "the memory of man with not to the contrary." In the space of time which the Searchlight has been published in this city, we have seen many worthy enterprises among our people by members in race and for lack of that interest so necessary to succeed race enterprises, we have had each of these, one after the close their doors and die the of a failure. When we go to parts of the west we have often told that other cities consider the "graveyard of Negro enterers" and colored men with capital in a location have told us that they would have to come to Wichita invest their money but they have informed that the colored people Wichita will not take an interest in electronize race enterprises and they other places with the result that colored people are the losers. The Searchlight began publication in the city we have seen two first-races, five grocery stores, two markets, five brass bands, three land stores, one land company, six doctors, four carpenters and one stone mason start in business city. And in every case these stresses, professional and tradesmen long since closed and their businesses counted with the countless number of the past. DEAD FOR THE LOST OF THAT RACIAL INTER-NECESSARY TO SUCCESS. In case we could cite the names prominent colored men of Wichita during the entire life of each of enterprises, though convenient to do so, never darkened the door until one penny with them, but on contrary induced as many other people possible to do as the in mind were doing. Thus, in business ever started in Wichita our personal knowledge there has been, and are today, that class "chronic knockers" against Negroises. In almost each case of business which we here give as once been in Wichita the man at the head were splendid men experienced, and had it not been the "chronic knockers" then, as they would have made a glowing success in their business, to the credit Wichita and its colored people. Just as it, Wichita, the third city in Asia, with the third largest populace of colored people in the state, is the bottom of the list in Negro envisions. It is a downright shame to colored people of our beautiful city, grocery store, no band, no mees, no drygoods store, no meat etc. SHAME ON WICHITA. We have been hammering away on the proposition for some time and succeeded in inducing several men invest in our city. As soon as a gets comfortably located and has mind on building up a business, it is that the "knockers" begin to train their work and the funny part of it is, there are so many of our peon this city who will listen to theseakers when it is the same old rocking song" as soon as a new business. THE COLORED PEOPLE OF WICHITA MUST CULTI- --- VATE RACE PRIDE AND TOWN PRIDE IN RACE ENTERPRISES WHICH ARE BEING RUN IN WICHITA. One of the principal reasons why Negro enterprises in Wichita has such a hard time to exist is, that too many of the colored men who desire to stand forth as the leaders of the race in Wichita put too much of their energies out to help race enterprises in other towns to the detriment of their own enterprises. These men, no doubt, have in mind that in so doing they can build up "big names" for themselves abroad and get in the lead at home, which, however, is a sad mistake. Every man when he wishes to weigh the quality of another man will first look to see what this man has helped to or accomplished at home and it is a sure thing if the man cannot show success at home not many are willing to trust things with him away from home. This is true in every avenue of life. No man has ever reached prominence in America who did not show a clean and clear bill of fare for good work accomplished and helped to accomplish at home. Of course home is the starting point. Any man who does not take a pride in the enterprises of his home town and can only find some mean and contemptible thing to say about his home enterprises will never be a safe man for others to trust their affairs in the hands of. There is no reason under the sun why beautiful Wichita should not stand at the head of every city in the west in Negro enterprises except for the eternal work of the Negro "knocker" against Negro enterprises. The time is fast coming in Wichita, as in other towns of the great west, when the Negro must stand on his own resources and must look to each other for work and for business, and at the rate which the colored people of this city have kept up for the past years their lot can only be dreamed of and can not be fully described. What's the matter with Wichita? These things are true. The proper thing to be done is for every colored man, every colored woman, every colored boy and girl to place Wichita and Wichita enterprises before all else and let all put their shoulder to the wheel and strive to make every enterprise in Wichita, and more especially those among the colored people a success. There is enough colored people in our city to do this and all we need is to put a little unity of racial action behind them and push them up the hill. Stop "knocking" and STAND UP FOR WICHITA ENTERPRISES. Put your little mite, your good word, your good deeds, and your encouragement with that of your neighbor's and help give every Negro enterprise in Wichita a boost and a shove up-hill. Remember that you cannot hurt any Negro in business in Wichita without hurting your own interest. Every colored man should feel a deep interest in the business and other welfare of every other colored man. The way we have heard some of our people talk about Negro enterprise one would have thought that they had some corner on some privileges which the Engro engaged in business could not enjoy—but in every case when the thing was simmered down each stood on the same footing that of a Negro. Wichita has some of the most refined, moral, religious, and educated colored people to be found anywhere in the west—their only falling is that they see into have fallen in the old rut of thinking that a Negro is not capable of doing anything as good in business as the white man. And thus the many business failures among the colored people of Wichita which stand out today as a great detriment to the growth and progress of the colored people of our city. Then again, too many of them are too willing to spend time and money to push forward race enterprises of other towns when they can only and will only find fault with and refuse to patronize the race enterprise at home. What's the matter with Wichita? She's alright! Who's alright? WICHITA! The good book says that "charity begins at home and then spreadeth abroad." And it does seem that a man would look after his own first. These things we say because they are sadly in need of being said and put into practice. The colored people of Wichita ought by this time be ashamed to stand at the bottom of the list and have to continue to be the "hewers of wood and drawers of water for others when their ow need their nourishment. their good words and their support. Let all hands get a hold and resurrect our beautiful Wichita from the "grave-yard of Negro enterprises" to the foremost and most energetic city of Negro enterprises in this fair west. It can be done and no one need be hurt in the doing. All it needs is an individual determination on the part of every colored person in Wichita that he will boost up, talk up, praise up, help up, patronize up, and encourage up every Negro enterprise which is in Wichita or which may come in the future. Instead of finding reasons why you cannot patronize Negro enterprises in Wichita if you will think for only one moment you will find ample reasons why YOU SHOULD patronize any and every race enterprise within the city of Wichita. What's the matter with Wichita? If you have but five cents to spend, see if you can find some Negro enterprise to spend it with. It is a bad impression which a father or mother makes on their children when they never find anything good to say about Negro enterprises and the people of their race through much sacrifice are attempting to hold up race enterprises for the coming generation of the Negro race. Your boy or your girl may embark in business right here in Wichita some day, and if so, a very poor show will he or she have if the example concerning Negro enterprises in Wichita as carried out by some of these parents meets this boy or girl hold in the face. Don't worry about the white man. He treats you nice, but he does not overly crave your patronage so that he would advise you not to help your race enterprises. In that regard the white men of Wichita are better to the colored people than the colored people are to themselves. Let us be a people and patronize our HOME RACE ENTERPRISES. And let all catch up the cry WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH WICHITA? SHE'S ALRIGHT. AND WE WILL PATRONIZE OUR WICHITA NEGRO ENTERPRISES FIRST. LAST AND ALL THE TIME. WARNS SOUTH OF RACE DANGER. Ex.Gov. Northern of Georgia Says Lawless Spirit is Alive in the Courts. Atlanta, April. 1.—Speaking before the Atlanta Evangelists' Association on the negro question, ex-Gov. Northern who has been going over the state in an effort to bring about a better feeling between the races, declared that "govermental hell!" exists in Georgia so far as the races are concerned. He said: "The white people hate the negroes and the negroes hate the white people. There is deep 'grained antagonism between the two races and where the negro is concerned the white people are all ready to cry with Ben Tillman. 'To hell with the law!' "This spirit is alive in the courts. I recently wrote to members of the su- preme court asking if they did not consider lynching nothing less than murder. I failed to get an answer, and it was the same way with regard to the sheriffs. "In response to another letter I received an insulting reply from a Baptist minister. "I believe every one of a mob a red-handed murderer, whether he be the tail end member or a leader, and it is my opinion that all people connected with a lynching, whether they be only onigokers or not, should be sentenced to the penitentiary. "I consider people who burn negroes as savages hot from hell. Many are trying to belittle this great question. It is greater than all other problems combined. Just now we are lapsing into barbarism and our civilization is slipping from us. Something must be done." NEW PARTY, MAYBE. Graves' Proposition Might Work Out From the New York Evening Post. John Temple Graves proposal that W. J. Bryan should nominate Roosevelt at the next Democratic convention illustrates clearly how, by means of his trip south, the Browsville affair and other methods, the president has won the South. When te most rabid anti-negro editor in Georgia thus acclaims the man who asked Booker Washington to lunch, the hatchet is indeed buried and the "solid South" in the greatest danger. But there is something eminently fitting that this advocate of lynching should make the proposal he does, for it is lynch law, ocratic party and te democratic par that he would thus apply to the democracy. To turn it over to the republicans bodily would, however, not mean the delivery of its true soul!—of the soul which inspired it in the days of Cleeveland, and long before. An era of good feeling for all save the railroad men and corporation managers this may be, but the fact leaves a few political questions still unsettled—individualism as opposed to state and national management and supervision, the rights of the state, and the iniquities of the tariff. In other words, the democratic or some other party still ought to continue the fight for justice and equality as against prerogative, special privilege, and the partnership of the government with certain individuals, for the latter's enrichment. It may be that a new party will carry on this old contest. If so Mr. Graves' proposal is perhaps as good as a way as any of hastening its formation. Unfortunately for him, his reputation is such that few men will take him seriously. CHURCH GRAFTER. Do you think a preacher is trying to elevate the people in his church when he takes two-thirds of the Sunday collections and one-third of all other money raised and out of the remainder he permits the church to pay his room and board and keep up the running expenses of the church? Not much. Talk about grafting, no grafting scandal can equal this one—and by a-o-called minister of the gospel. Such preachers are only grafters out for the money and has not the interest of the people at heart. Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! and some people of the church get "hot" when it is mentioned that they are letting a preacher rob their church. The Searchlight is going from this day expose to the public gaze, a lot of this hypocrisy which is being practiced to the deception and detriment of the colored people and we are going to let the chips fall where they may. Look out for a great sensation in that line in the very near future. The lid is off. KANSAS CITY, KAN. The funeral services of the late James J. Peebles was attended by such a vast concourse of people that the church did not begin to hold them. Long before the hour the streets were thronged by those trying to see and hear the last rites over this good man. The widow's son Masonic lodge turned out about 100 strong. Rev. E. A. Wilson officiated in an able manner. Rev. Bowen of the mother church made brief appropriate remarks. The deacons, sewing circle, Sunday school, choir and others gave beautiful floral offerings. The most beautiful tribute paid to him was to see that band of women, the Sewing Circle, 35 or 40 strong, turn out in a body. This is the first instance of women revering a man so much as to turn out publicly. As the funeral cortege entered the church, these loyal women arose in a body and remained so until the casket was in its place. Mrs. M. Calaway Matthews, president of the circle, and bridesmaid of the deceased at his wedding, composed and read the following resolutions: Whereas, our omnipotent and all-wise Creator has placed Mis mysterious veil between our beloved brother, James J. Peebles, leader of current events, in our circle, and. Whereas, we, as humble Christians bow to His decree, we, the officers and members of the Metropolitan Baptist church Sewing Circle, have assembled here today to pay the last tribute of respect to his memory. Ever since the organization of this body, and during the various phases of its development, from infancy to the present time, he has assisted this auxiliary in every way possible. All departments of the church, and the community at large, owe much of their happiness and success to the words of advice, and timely aid of this our late Christian brother. Therefore, Be It Resolved. That in the death of Brother James J. Peebles, this circle laments the loss of this brother who was ever ready to proffer the hand of aid and voice of sympathy to the needy and distressed. He was an active member and officer of this circle, a friend and companion who was loved by all who knew him; a faithful and loving husband, an affectionate brother, and, greatest of all, an exemplary Christian; Resolved. That we condole with the wife, brothers, sister and all other relatives and friends, in the loss of this upright man, and commend them to God, who doeth all things just. Resolved. That his vacancy will be hard to fill, and that it will be a blessed recollection that he lived to be loved by all who will ever cherish his memory. That though today we will lower his corpse in the tomb, it will not be our dear brother; we strew with flowers and wet with our tears only the frail casement in which he once lived, for he is now rejoicing around God's throne. --- structed to cause a copy of this preamble and these resolutions to be published in the Wichita Searchlight, Wichita, Kan., and forward a copy to the bereaved family. Very beautifully has the poet pictured the heavenly future of such a Christian— There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death." PREACHERS OUR FAVORITES. There is a certain preacher in Wichita who is endeavoring to make it appear that the Searchlight is a "preacher fighter." This is a falsity of the first water and this we can easily prove. The Searchlight has always gotten along with every colored preacher who has ever had charge of any of the colored churches in our city since we came to this city with the single exception with this one preacher who delights to style himself "the greatest preacher(?) who ever came to Wichita." Every cooled peachet who has ever come to Wichita, save this "greatest one" has been one of the closest friends of the Searchlight and all of them today are. The Searchlight attributes the apparent difficulty in getting along with this one "greatest preacher" to the fact that all the other preachers who have ever come to Wichita were God-sent and God-fearing, intelligent, refined Christian gentlemen and were satisfied to stay among God's lowly, humble and meek peopel while this ONE is an exception and possesses none of the former qualifications but is simply "the greatest(?)" To prove that the Searchlight has on its list of friends today every colored preacher who has ever held a charge in Wichita, except this one "greatest" we here give the name of every colored minister who has had charges in Wichita since we have been here and as all of them are still living with the exception of three, they can speak for themselves and the Searchlight will be willing to abide by what they say about how they found us. We stat with those who were in charge when we came at the respective churches and give these living in the order in which they served: Rev. A. C. Terrill, A. M. E. now at Atchison; Rev. M. L. Copeland, 2nd Baptist, now in Arkansas City; Rev. P. D. Yochum, A. M. E., now in Wichita; Rev. W. H. Tillman, New Hope Baptist, now pastor Murdock Avenue Baptist, Wichita; Rev. Wm. Turner, Tabernacle Baptist, now pastor in Pratt; Rev. H. W. King, A. M. E., now presiding elder Topeka district, Topeka; Rev. W. H. Burril, New Hope Baptist, now pastor in Boile, Oklahoma; Rev. J. E. Fletcher, Tabernacle Baptist, now in Chanute; Rev. A. H. Mayo, Tabernacle, now in Baltimore; Rev. Geo. M. Hunter, Tabernacle, now in Lake Charles, La.; Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, A. M. E., present pastor; Rev. Joseph Wilson Jr., New Hope Baptist, present pastor; Rev. J. H. Van Leu, State Missionary, residence Wichita. We are willing to leave this matter of getting along with the ministers with these eminent divines. Each of these divines have had dealings for a longer or shorter time with the Searchlight and are competent to speak on this line; and another thing each one of these ministers are bon fide paying subscribers to the Searchlight and no matter where they locate have the Searchlight sent to them which speaks loud enough in itself as to how the Searchlight gets along with the ministry. Every colored minister who has ever come to Wichita with the single exception of this "greatest preacher" has been advisors and helpers to the Searchlight and the Searchlight advisors and helpers to them. Each of these ministers and the Searchlight have always stood hand in hand for the advancement of the interests of the colored people. Whenever you meet one of these ministers ask him how he and the Wichita Searchlight got along when he resided in Wichita. They are our friend sand we are their friend—each willing to help the other. MAGE 2 Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mall) ..... $1.00 Six Months (By Mall) ..... .75 Three Months (By Mall) ..... .50 All matters addressed to The Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wed- nesday to reach publication in the cur- rent issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to another give both the ned and the old. 4th. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompanies the name. Write plain. 5th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N. 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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. For the past three or four weeks we have had much difficulty in securing a prompt delivery of The Searchlight. The post office department has promised to give their assistance in seeing that our papers are promptly delivered to subscribers and we ask our subscribers to report to us promptly any delay. We publish our paper on Friday, mail them out Friday night and every one ought to receive them Saturday. If you do not receive your paper on Saturday please notify me. W. N. MILLER, Editor, 601 N Main, phone 2045. A special notice we give to you, 'Tis something novel, something new. We are arranging for next month, On a certain date, A festive occasion to celebrate. It will be one of beauty, grace and renown. For a Queen O May we then will crown. And the public shall have A chance, as will be seen. What fair lady shall be the chosen queen. There will be pages, maids, amidst Beautious bowers, to do honor to the queen O flowers. Further notice through the Search- light there will be. Keep watch. Yours truly, SEEKING A ROW. ```markdown ``` if this devil in the garb of a saint (?) is determined for a newspaper hearing he has got it in his hands. This same individual who continues to malign the editor of the Searchlight and trying to hislead the people in regard to these two cases, is always trying to rib up a fight with some one and when he gets a fight on his hands runs and hides behind the petticoat of a few good women and holds up his hands in "holy horror" and cries loud "save me, save me." If this individual is not man enough to stand the brunt of the fights which he himself ribs up he should not bring them on. Since the foundation of the world it has been recognized that MAN was the protector of WOMAN, but Wichita has the unique spectacle of a so-called "man" flying to woman for protection from his own battles. The editor of the Searchlight is a MAN in the full sense of the word; he may not be as corpulent and robust as some, but he will hold his own in the congregation of MEN. We see no necessity of a continuation of this mess and in the past two years have proven it by our silence and letting ghe aggressors alone—but patience sometimes ceases to be a virtue, then the devil is to pay. We can see no benefit which the writer in the Plaindealer finds in the continued ding dong after the editor the Searchlight. He need not worry himself about our welfare in the least, for we were in Wichita happy and contented, just as we are now, years before Wichita was cursed by the presence of him. We are quite old enough to take tain and sure that te coure iforthrure care of ourselves and one thing sure and certain no matter what the disposition of the cases of which this would-be saint (?) writes so much concerning, we will prove oursels MAN ENOUGH to stand by the decision of he courts and not to go round town belly-aching to everyone we meet and trying to have them assume the burdens which belongs to us. If you are a man stand out in the open and fight. With us we are going to maintain in the future our same silence in regard to this matter as we have in the past two years, and but for this snake in the grass at this time we would not have broken our long silence. We trust that all parties concerned will let this matter rest until it is finally determined. If not and the author of the Plaindealer letters is determined to keep the ball rolling, we will meet him on the half-way ground to fight to the end. We are little, 'tis true, but we fill every inch of te ground which we occupy. Enough is enough and too much is foolishness. A CORRECTION In our last issue we stated that Mr. Thomas Glover had been elected as a delegate to the Electoral College to be held in Chanute soon. This, we are informed is a mistake as Mr. John T. Chinneth was elected as delegate and Mr. Thos. Glover was elected as an alternate. Between these two gentlemen the interest of Wichita at the Electoral College will be well booked after. BENEFIT MUSICALE. A Grand Benefit Musicale will be given at Redmen Hall, on Wednesday night, May 8th. This promises to be one of the most elaborate functions ever witnessed in Wichita and the proceeds are to go to the building fund of Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M. Everyone is cordially invited to come on this occasion. H. D. Heiserman, better known as "Hank," died at his residence, 707 Roberts St. Thursday morning. Mr Heiserman was an old settler of Sedgwick county, was an old soldier and quite a friend of he colored people. The weather man certainly has some kind of a grudge against Kansas this year and is giving her some mighty bad weather. Rev. J. F. C. Taylor, pastor of the A. M. E. church preached a very inspiring and instructive sermon Sunday night. What do you owe the Searchlight??? Pay up!!! Pay up! Pay up!! Office 601 N. Main street. STEWART BELL IS DEAD. STEWART BELL IS DEAD. We are informed that Mr. Stewart Bell, a former Wichitan, died in Oklahoma last week. We have been unable as yet to find the cause of Mr. Bell's death. It has been only a short time since Mr. Bell moved to Oklahoma with his family to live on the farm with his father-in-law, Mr. Garrett. Mr. Bell had many acquaintances in Wichita who will regret very much to learn of the death of Mr. Garrett and extends to the bereaved family their full sympathies. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT LOCALS THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. Mrs. H. F. Frazier returned Monday from Independence, where she attended the Women's Home and Foreign Mission Board which met in that city in conjunction with the ministers' and Deacons' meeting which met there. NOTICE TABORS. We respectfully ask the Tabernacles and Temples that have not paid their subscription to the Searchlight to do so at once. Send your one dollar in and get a receipt. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Call at the Searchlight office and have your job work done. Prices to suit all. All our work is fully guaranteed. Phone 2046. The T, B, A, club met with Miss Ela Roach Saturday, April 20th, and after a very enjoyable time adjourned to meet with Mrs. Grace Madison, 333 W. Fifthteen. Miss Minnie Jackson left Monday morning for Kansas City to visit her friend Mrs. Mary Collins. Mrs. E. A. Lyde left Tuesday for Los Angeles, Calif., to visit with her brother. She will be gone till about July 1st. ODD FELLOW SERMON OUD FELLOW SERMON The G. U. O. O. F. Will hold their annual Thanksgiving services at the 2nd Baptist church Sunday, May 12th, under the auspices of Home of the West Lodge No. 2906 and Household of Ruth 612. The Thanksgiving sermon will be delivered by Rev. Joseph Wilson jr., the very able and learned pastor of the New Hope Baptist church. The sermon will be at 3 p. m. Dr. E. Harrison has moved his office up stairs over 601 N. Main next door to the Searchlight office where he will be pleased to meet all his patients new and old. If you have any carpenter work to be done or any painting which you want done give W. C. Neeley a chance to figure with yuo. He will do you good wok at right prices. Mrs. S. Sneed, proprietress of the Centropolis hotel has made many very noticeable improvements at the hotel and is now prepared to serve her trade in the most comfortable manner. Call there 605 N. Main street. Mrs. Etta Kelly is very sick at her home 531 N. Market. Mrs. Tennie Woods, of Kansas City has returned to her home. Mrs. H. W. King, wife of Presiding Elder King of the Topeka district, was in Wichita Tuesday on business. She was the very picture of good health and reports that she likes her new home in Topeka. The weather in Wichita for the past week has been regular winter weather. With a heavy rain and sleet Monday and cold Tuesday and Wednesday, the weather was anything but pleasant. MUSICAL CLUB Frank Garrett is organizing a Musical club among the children. He has a nice class of young folks now, and after school is out will increase it. At a very small cost he will teach them mandolin and guitar. All parents should take an interest and give their children an opportunity to learn music. For full particulars call to see Frank Garrett, 708 N. Market. Moses Dickson Tent No. 5 had a good meeting Thursday afternoon and will meet again next Thursday at 4:30. Mothers, send your children. A FINE COLT. M. E. McKeeley's sorrel mare foaled a fine filly April 30th, by T. L. Hackley's fine young stallion, "Direct News," and it is an excellent, fine and healthy colt. Rev. J. H. Van Leu is tearing down the building at 518 N. Water and is preparing to erect a modern cottage on his property there. The T. B. A. club met with Mrs. Grace Madison. Saturday afternoon, April 27th, and a very enjoyable time was had. After spending some time in fancy needlework the club adjourned to meet with Miss Della Gaines, 917 North Water Saturday afternoon, May 4th. J.W. Owens Shoe Repairing WORK DONE WHILE YOU WAIT 2nd Shoes Bought and Sold 332 N. Main Street Wichita, Kau. Johnston's Restaurant 339 North Main Street Meals 15c to 25cts. Hot or Cold Lunch —At All Hours— ICE CREAM SODA POP always on ice SUNDAY DINNERS 20c and 25c. A. M. E. Church General Class. Next Sunday being the first Sunday in the month, the morning will be devoted to general class. In the evening the pastor wRev. J. C. Taylor will preach from the subject "God's Still Voices." Seats free. All invited. AT THE TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. The Tabernacle Baptist church had a glorious meeting last Sunday. They had a spiritual feast and had the good fortune to have four of God's chosen ministers with them as follows: Rev. J. H. Van Leu, State Missionary Rev. W. H. Denton of Newton; State Moderator Rev. H. I. Jones, President B. Y. P. U. and Rev. E. C. King of Chicasha, I. T. Rev. H. I Jones will preach for the church next Sunday, May 5th. We cordially invite everyone to come out and worship with us. The church is contemplating on a rally during the month of May. Rev. S. S. Bandy, pastor of Second Baptist church of Wellington, Kansas, spent Wednesday and Thursday in Wichita among friends. Frank Garrett will give a bin entertainment at the Redmen hall, Tuesday night, May 7th. All are cordially invited to be out. Felix Lockridge, son of Mrs. M. J. Price, is sick in bed at the home of Mrs. Kittle Coleman from injuries. BENEFIT MUSICALE. The following is the program to be rendered at Redman hall Wednesday night, May 8th. The program will be in charge of Prof. J. J. Smith. PROGRAM. 1. Piano solo.....Eliza Brandon 2. Quartet.....Four Male Voices 3. Violin solo.....Fay Anderson 4. Vocal solo.....Miss Myrtle Fleming 5. Piano solo.....Miss Iah Webster 6. Vocal solo.....Stewart Waters 7. Cornet solo.....Prof. Jas. J. Smith 8. Bass solo.....Juo. Edington 9. Duet 10. Miss Sallie Bartlett and Miss Ethel Patton. 10. Piano solo.....Miss Pearl Hockley 11. Violin solo.....Prof. Jas. Anderson This musicie is given for the benefit of the building fund of Arkansas Valley lodge No. 21, A. P. & A. M. All are invited to be present. THOMAS-BROWN MARRIAGE. Miss Lillian Brown and Mr. Albert Thomas were united in marriage in Newkirk, Okla., last Saturday and returned to Wichita Monday. Both are prominent Wichita young people. All wish them success. Mrs. Cunnie Darby, sister of C. Evans, died in Kansas City last Sunday after an illness of less than one week and was buried Monday. She leaves a husband, a brother and many friends. The ladies of the G. L. A. club were entertained Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. J. L. Harper and Mrs. S. W. Jones at the home of Mrs. Jones. Miss Mary Lyerson, of Nashville, Tenn., Miss L. Bowers and Miss L. Covington were guests of the club. An elegant two course luncheon was served and a delightful afternoon was spent. "Vote For Queen O' May." PROGRAM. GOOD BREAD MAKERS It Is White As SNOW-TRY IT- Otto Weiss, Agent I have a full line of fresh and wholesome Fancy and Staple Groceries, 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. Your Trade Solicited Court House Grocery 601 N. Main St. USE IMBODEN'S IMPERIAL FLOUR AND BREAKFAST FOOD and you will Love good eating OUR GROCERS IMBODEN MILLIN 615 North Main st. Brugs of all kinds, Gigars and Tobacco patronage solicited. + One a customer, al-mar. Our store is Headquaters for Colored ... Drugs of all kinds, Gigats and Tobacco ... Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaters for Colored people. WICHITA, KANSAS. The Language and the Boy. The Language and the Boy. A child, with its meager store of language, is somewhat in the position of the fabled woodchuck, which was simply obliged to climb a tree, whether it could do so in harmony with the facts of natural history or not. He must express himself with what language is immediately at his command, or fail in more or less serious degree to express himself at all; and so his little store must be treated as thoroughly plastic, just as the language of his race, in its earlier stages, was plastic, says Atlantic. The existence of whiten, "to make white," is all the justification he needs for smallen, "to make small," or lowen, "to make low." "Jimmie Jones hasn't grown much since he was here before," says some one. "Why, I believe he's ungrowed some," answers my younger, expressing his thought clearly and fully, and delightfully unconscious of the fact that linguistic authorities do not recognize the right of this handy prefix to attach itself to this particular verb. Ought I to have stopped him right there and loaded his undeveloped memory with parallel columns of words which do and do not admit the prefix un-? If I had done so his brother would probably not have ventured to ask, a little later, how people make un-hand-painted china, and his knowledge would have been less today by the small amount of information which I was able to give him on that subject. Even the wolves are enjoying the present era of prosperity. The government has issued a bulletin in which is shown the flourishing condition of the coyotes on the western cattle ranges and of the larger wolves known as "loafers" or "lobos." The natural food of these beasts of prey was the buffalo, but they find cattle and horses a satisfactory substitute. Cattle are preferred; not that the wolves have any prejudice against eating horse-flesh, but because the old method of attack from the rear, which they practised on the buffalo, is equally successful with range steers. When they try it on horses, however, they meet with a painful surprise. How serious is the pest of wolves, remarks Youth's Companion, may be gathered from the fact that Wyoming alone has paid out $65,000 in bounties in the last ten years, and this makes no account of the sums paid by counties and stockmen's associations. The cattlemen reckon their losses to be about ten per cent of the herds. Great organized neighborhood wolf-hunts on the western ranges have been advertised all over the east during the past winter. Sleep and Old Age There is no question that the quantity of sleep required steadily diminishes from infancy to old age. This is a rather interesting exception to the general rule that, as in so many matters, old age returns to the needs of infancy. As regards sleep, says London Pall Mall Gazette, old age is more remote in its needs from infancy than is any other period of life. If elderly people obtain good sleep during the first few hours, and if they have not lost that delight in reading which we all had in youth, but which so many of us curiously lose, their case is not to be grieved over. The special value of the earliest hours of sleep, by the way, has been proved by psychological experiment. The popular phrase "beauty sleep" is well warranted. It is the early (the deepest) hours of sleep that make for health and beauty. Camels, the old ships of the desert, will see give way to the new ships of the desert, automobiles. The succession, like that of steam greyhounds to clipper-ships at sea, has to meet prejudice and conservative habit, but the conquest by the automobile of the sand wastes of Nevada is an accomplished fact. Here, to be sure, it was not the camel, but the burro and the stage coach that had to yield. Under the heavy cars the sand hardens into smooth tracks, and with a little work good motor car roads can be made. Several toll roads have been built and more are promised. Rich miners and others who use motor cars for business and pleasure are behind the movement to construct roads to connect all important points; and the commercial development of southern Nevada is assured. A man has been discovered in Philadelphia by the name of Antonio Whatawad. As the contents of his pocketbook harmonize with the name his friends should lose no time in advising him to keep away from Wall street. The German piano manufacturers sell many extremely cheap instruments in Constantinople on nine months' time. Think of paying for a fourth-rate piano after living with it the greater part of a year! Charges Forty-One Violations. — On a charge of failing to unload eighty-three carloads of cattle within in the twenty-eight hour provision for feeding and watering. H. J. Bone, United States district attorney, has filed suit against the Rock Island railway for $20,500 in penalties on forty-one different counts. Took $8,698.44 From Convicts. — A great amount of money can be collected from the prisoners brought into the federal penitentiary as is shown by the records kept by Deputy Warden Lemon during the past six years. His figures show that $8,698.64 has been taken from the men entering the prison. Each of the newcomers is searched and all of the valuables turned over to the deputy warden for him to keep until they are released from the institution. Deputy Warden Lemon has been making a record of the amounts taken from each of the men since May 20, 1901. He found that a large number of the men had only one cent on their person. The largest amount ever taken from one prisoner was $206. Organization of Poultry Raisers.—The poultry raisers of central Kansas met in Newton and organized the Central Kansas Poultry Association. A great deal of enthusiasm was shown. The fee for membership was fixed at 50c per year and almost at once applications for membership came pouring in. The first annual exhibit will be held in Newton, December 10-14, and the association expects to make it one of the best and largest shows in the west. The auditorium is a large and well lighted building and is so arranged that 2,000 birds can easily be cared for. All poultry raisers are urged to send their names to the secretary and help to make this the best association in the west. Banks in Western Kansas.—With in the past two weeks seven state banks have been instituted in Western Kansas by Deputy Bank, Commissioner Harry Troville. And this recalls the fact that two-thirds of the new state banks instituted within the last two years are in Western Kansas. There are now about 1,000 state banks in Kansas, meaning that there are about eight banks for towns of 1,000 population in the state. One bank in Pawnee county is said to be paying 100 per cent a year to its stockholders. The banks instituted by the bank commissioner within the past week are: The Grant County State Bank, Ulysses; The Citizens' State Bank, Claffin; Barton county, capital $10,000; The Lake State Bank, Lake City; Barber county, capital $10,000; The Citizens' State Bank, Liberal, Seward county, capital $25,000; The People's State Bank, Garden City; capital $25,000; The Farmers' State Bank, Larned, Pawnee county, capital $15,000; The Earlton State Bank, Neosho county, capital $10,000. Engineer Seriously Hurt. — At the commencement exercises of the School of Traction Engineering, held at Wichita, Charles S. Ely, of New Hope, Penn., was caught between an engine he was backing and a separator. The separator was pushed a distance of two feet before the engine could be stopped. Ely was hacking the engine under a full head of steam, and according to his own statement did not shut off the steam in time, and the momentum of the heavy engine carried it against the separator. His back was caught against the self-feeder, with the engine pushing against his abdomen. Those who witnessed the accident said that it seemed as if he would be killed instantly. He was rescued from his perilous position by C. G. McBride, another student of the school, who leaped upon the engine and threw the reverse lever over, causing the engine to leap forward and releasing him. The unfortunate young man was taken to the office of Dr. Evans, and later removed to a hospital for treatment. Negro Killed by Police. — A negro named Plummer was shot and killed at Coffeyville by J. H. Fletcher, a policeman. Fletcher shot the negro to save the life of Charles Bliss, another officer, whom Plummer had attacked with a razor. A coroner's jury exonerated Fletcher. 3,500 Apply For Service Pension. — Applications at the rate of about 200 a day are being received at the United States pension office in Topeka. Over 3,500 applications have been received since the passage of the service pension bill which grants a pension of not less than $12 a month to army veterans over 62 years of age 2 Prisoner Attempts Suicide. — William Wann, 24 years old, who was serving a sentence in the reformatory at Hutchinson under the name of Frank Mannern, jumped over a railing in a cell house, striking his head on the concrete floor, eighteen feet below, and crushing his skull. He died the next day. Wann was sent March 14, 1904, from Garden City for burglary. Hand Mangled in Plant. — Edward Volfmy, a cabinet maker at the Western Furniture and Manufactur- Cough Strangles Her--Mrs. Nancy N. Washington, of Wellington, aged 74, died quite suddenly, strangling to death in a spell of coughing. Her husband, recently deceased, was a lineal descendant of Bushrod Washington, half brother of the first president. No Joints By January 1.—"I think the first day of 1908 will see Kansas without a joint," said Robert Norris, secretary of the State Temperance Union, the other day. "I don't mean by that there won't be absolutely any liquor sold in the state, but the quantity is going to be mighty small. There may be some bootlegging, but that will be about all. I think that the recent legal moves against liquor interests was the most important in years. I think its effect was much more far reaching than the movement to oust the mayors of cities." Mr. Norris says that the recent decision of the federal supreme court in a South Dekota case practically knocks out the whisky drummer. This person has been regarded by the temperance people of Kansas as one of the hardest factors to handle in securing enforcement of the prohibitory law. Therefore, the leaders in the temperance movement are pleased that the decision has gone in their favor. Accident at Wellington. — During the competitive drill by cantons of the Patriarchs Militant, in connection with the I. O. O. F. eighty-eighth anniversary at Wellington anawing on which some twenty people were standing collapsed, precipitating them upon the heads of the crowd below. Among the moreriously injured were W. M. Costigan, Wichita, arm broken and internally hurt; J. C. Smith, Jr., Wellington, hip dislocated; Charles F. Martin, Wellington, arm broken; George Tracey, Argonia, arms and back bruised, condition serious; Mrs. C. H. Barnard, Wellington, hip crushed and hurt internally; ex-Senator W. J. Lingfelter, Wellington, injured in back and limbs; Mrs. Port Campbell, Caldwell, seriously bruised about back and head. Big Scottish Rite Reunion. — The Twenty-ninth semi-annual conclave of the Scottish Rite Masons in the Valley of Wichita was concluded with a magnificent banquet at the Temple in Wichita. The banquet hall was niled and the dinner which was excellent, was served by the ladies of the Order of the Eastern Star. The room was elaborately decorated and an orchestra furnished music throughout the evening. The class in whose honor the banquet was given was composed of eighty-nine members, and was called the "Cornestone" class. It adopted as its motto "For they shall be as cornerstones of the Temple." E. W. Allen, pastor of the Central Church of Christ, delivered the class oration. Rev. Dr. Ritchie, formerly of Wichita, but now of Kansas City, was the toastmaster. Mr. Thomas W. Harrison, of Topeka, sovereign general of the Kansas Grand Lodge, was the first speaker of the evening. In speaking of the new building, Mr. Harrison stated that it was the largest consistency building in the world. The Masons are planning great things for next year when the new building will be dedicated. They expect to have a class of 1,200 and Mr. Harrison announced that it would be the largest Masonic event that had ever taken place on the American continent. Body Found in a Ditch.—The body of John Veroda, a single man who lived on a farm in Republic county, about eighteen miles north of Concordia, was found covered with brush in a ditch near his home. His head was crushed. A 16-year-old boy named Svoijgr, employed by Veroda, was missing, together with a team and buggy. He was caught near Munden, but refuses to talk. Hagerman a Kansas Product.—Herbert Hagerman, who is to quit as governor of New Mexico by order of President Roosevelt, was a former resident of Kansas. He was reared at Muscotah, Atchison county. His father was in business there for many years. Wants Receiver Discharged. — H. H. Tucker, Jr., the indicted secretary-treasurer of the Uncle Sam Oil Company, filed a petition in the United States district court at Topeka asking that the receiver, recently appointed by the court, be discharged. Tucker declares the company, which has 10,000 stockholders, is solvent. A hearing on the petition was set for May 6. ing Company, in Wichita, while at work suffered a badly crushed and mangled hand. In operating a machine his right hand was drawn into it and before the machine could be stopped the thumb and two fingers had been so badly crushed that they were taken off at the Wichita hospital. She Fell Down Stairway. — White standing at the head of a second floor stairway in the Wichita hospital Mrs. G. M. Gray, of Towanda, Kan a patient couplescing, fainted Output of 3,000,000 Pounds.—"The penitentiary twine plant will put upwards of 3,000,000 pounds of the best binding twine it has ever produced on the market this season," said W. H. Haskell, warden of the Kansas penitentiary. "We have already booked 700,000 pounds, and if nothing seriously injuries the wheat we will undoubtedly sell all we can produce. The penitentiary twine is this year selling at 9 1-2 cents per pound in small lots and at 8 1-2 cents in lots of 5,000 pounds and over. Last year the prices were 8 3-4 and 9 3-4 cents." --- Another Kansas Train.—Syl Dixon, exploiter of the resources of Kansas, is to take another train through the Eastern states, showing the great products of Kansas. The Syl Dixon Kansas Jamestown Exposition and Advertising Train will leave Topeka about September 1 and will be out of the state several weeks. It will visit a number of the larger cities both on the trip going and returning, and finally will enter the gates of the Jamestown exposition, Jamestown, Va., there to remain as long as is believed feasible. The train will make a daylight run of 20 days between here and that city. The train will be made up of from fifteen to twenty cars loaded with Kansas flour, two baggage cars used to exhibit the fruit, grain, mineral and other resources of forty counties of the commonwealth, and there will be two sleepers for the accommodation of those who accompany the train. One man will be allowed from each county. That man will be expected to praise the good things of the particular county which he represents in every possible way. A band of music from some good Kansas town will be on board the train. "I think," said Mr. Dixon, "that we are going to have a fine train. I have been out in the northwestern part of the state and the people out in all of that country are enthusiastic. We shall go first by way of Cincinnati and Louisville, making a daylight run of twenty days over an itinerary therefore well advertised. We are sure to get big crowds, and it is unnecessary to say that we shall do the state a tremendous amount of good. We shall make exhibits on the return trip, after spending plenty of time at the Jamestown exposition. After the train returns to Kansas the exhibit with the exception of the flour will be taken throughout the states of the Northwest during the early winter months." Passes 45,000 Mark. — Wichita is feeling "chesty" over the discovery of a directory company that the Peerless Princess of the Plains has more than 45,000 inhabitants, the population being boldly given as 47,080. 2 Puts Kansas Wheat at 87. — E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers' Association, from reports received from his correspondents over the state, makes up the prospective average of the wheat crop this year at 88 per cent. T. B. Gerow, secretary of the free employment bureau, thinks Mr. Smiley's report is about correct. Found a Diseased Cow.—Dr. S, J. Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, thinks that a law should be passed compelling an inspection of all dairy cows by a state veterinarian, because of tuberculosis, which is frequently conveyed through the milk. Dr. Crumbine spent part of a day in a Topeka packing house, where he says a very fat, apparently healthy cow was slaughtered. The meat cutters found that the animal was badly affected with tuberculosis. and fell to the first landing below the dispensary. When assisted to her room it was found that no bones had been broken and that she was not badly hurt, except for the opening of the wound made by the performing of an operation. Foraker May Come. — Word has been received, though not directly from Senator Foraker, of Ohio, practically assuring his presence in Topeka at the state G. A. R. encampment in May for a speech. Members of Society of Army of Potomac Unveil Statue of Their Leader. THE PRESIDENT MAKES AN ADDRESS Other Speakers Were Gen. Sickles, Gen. Howard and Gen. Dodge Veterans Honored by the Regular Troops and Milicia in Parade—New Officers of the Society. Washington, May 3.—President Roosevelt, cabinet officers, army and navy officers and men prominent in civil life, participated Thursday a termon in the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statue to Gen. George B. McClellan, which has been erected in this city by the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Hundreds of old soldiers were in the city to attend the unveiling ceremonies. Of these visiting veterans, about two-thirds were from the Army of the Potomac, of which Gen. McClellan was commander, the remainder being members of the Societies of the Armies of the Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee. The monument was unveiled at Connecticut avenue and Columbia road at 2:30 o'clock, Brig. Gen. Henry C. Dwight, president of the Society of the Potomac, presiding over the ceremonies. Right Rev. Henry Y. Satollee, bishop of Washington, opened the services with prayer, after which Brig. Gen. Horatio C. King, of New York, gave a brief history of the statue. The unveiling of the statue by Dr. George McClellan was followed by a salute by the Fourth battery, United States field artillery. Addresses were made by President Roosevelt, Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, and Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge. The parade of the troops past the statue was under the command of Maj. Gen. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the United States army. The military parade, which was reviewed by the president, was the closing feature of the unveiling ceremonies. The troops, consisting of all the regular army, navy and marine forces near Washington, the national guards of the District of Columbia and the state of New Jersey assembled on Washington Heights, north of the statue, and commenced marching past the president's stand immediately after the benediction. The Grand Army men formed on both sides of the line of parade and the troops marched through. The Twenty-third infantry, Col. Philip Reade commanding, which arrived in Washington Wednesday on the transport Summer from the Jamestown exposition, took part in the ceremonies. The regiment will return to Camp Capt. Joseph Smith at Jamestown. Invitations were extended to the foreign army and navy officers who are in the city, to attend the reception to the veterans at the library of congress. Early Thursday the various corps meetings of the Army of the Potomac took place and the public exercises and reunion of the society were held in the Belasco theater. One of the boxes was reserved for the president and family, another for Mrs. McClellan, widow of Gen. McClellan, and her guests; another for Mayor McClellan of New York city, and one for the officers for each of the four societies. President Roosevelt was made an honorary member of the Society of the Army of the Potomac at its 37th annual reunion at the Belasco theater in this city. Thursday. Gen. N. M. Curtis, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., formerly a member of congress, was elected president of the society to succeed Gen. Henry C. Dwight. The other officers were reelected as follows: Recording Secretary, Gen. Horatio C. King; treasurer, Lieut. Frank S. Holliday; corresponding secretary, Col. W. F. Fox. A Lineman's Deed St. Louis, May 3.—After climbing a two-story porch and breaking open a window Albert Koenig, a lineman, secured entrance into the room of Nettie Woods on Walnut street early Thursday, and shot her. He then shot himself twice. Both were removed to the hospital and it is believed they will die. A long knife was found under the woman's pillow but apparently she had no opportunity to use it in defense after being awakened. The two quarreled recently. Eleven Dead in Mine Explosion Charleston W. Va., May 3.—The bodies of 11 dead have been recovered from the Whipple mine, where an explosion of gas occurred late Wednesday and this is thought to be the full extent of the fatalities. The number of injured is five, the last injured man having been taken out Thursday. The mine was only slightly damaged. The cause of the explosion is still unknown. The Unwritten Law in Ohio. Ironton, Ohio, May 3.—Dr. Warne McCoy, a prominent physician at South Point, Ohio, was shot and killed at midnight by Capt. John Davis of the Portsmouth ferryboat. Capt. Davis asserted that he was defending the sanctity of his home as he had returned unexpectedly at midnight and found Dr. McCoy in his wife's room. Davis fled to Kentucky. ```markdown ``` Pe-ru-na Relieves Spring Catarrh. THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMAN MISS DORA HAYDEN. "Without hesitation I write to thank you for the great relief I have found in your valuable medicine, Peruna, and will all the attention of all my friends suffering with catarrh to that fact. Besides I cheerfully recommend it to all suffering with catarrh in any form."—Miss Dora Hayden, $19 6th St., S.W. Washington, D.C. A Case of Spring Catarrh. Mrs. N. P. Lawler, 433 g N. Broadway Pittsburgh, Kas., writes; "The last spring I caught a severe cold, which developed into a serious case of catarrh. I felt weak and sick, and could neither eat nor sleep well. "A member of our club who had been cured of catarrh through the use of Peruna advised me to try it, and I did so at once. I expected help, but nothing like the wonderful change for the better I observed almost as soon as I started taking it. In three days I felt much better, and within two weeks I was in fine health. Peruna is a wonderful medicine." THE DIFFERENCE IN TASTE. Dogs Prized as Edible in China Are Here Fashion's Pets. "He is the real thing in the way of a chow," said she. "Father bought him for me in Shanghai. Did you know they ate them there?" "I had heard that the Chinese ate dogs, but I thought it was a fake, like the story of their eating rats." "No; it is the truth. They do eat dogs, but only the chow variety. 'Chow,' you know, means 'edible. Yes, they eat chows. In every butcher shop you see chows' carcasses hung up, the same as we hang up the carcasses of pigs. The flesh is white." "White?" "Yes; like veal. The Chinese raise chows for food and feed them only, softy, wushy stuff, mashed vegetables and bread and milk. No meat whatever. Hence the white flesh." "Notice Wu's black tongue. Well chow tongue is a Chinese delicacy. They make soup of it. But it is very expensive, like our turtle soup, and it is only eaten by the rich. "Isn't it strange that a dog so fashionable with us should be only an article of food in China?" IN WESTERN CANADA. Delicate in the Old Home; Better Health in the New. I came to this country from the State of Wisconsin three years ago, and must say that I am greatly pleased with the outlook in this western country. For my own part I am entirely satisfied with the progress I have made since coming here. I have raked excellent crops of grain of all varieties. Last season my wheat averaged 23 bushels of wheat to the acre, oats 60 and barley 40. We had a splendid garden this year, ripening successfully tomatoes, muskmelons, water melons, sweet corn and kindred sorts. The country is well adapted to wheat growing and mixed farming, and to my mind it is the best country under the sun for a man with a family and small means, as it is possible for a man to commence farming operations with much less capital than is required in the older settled countries. The climate is all that could be desired, being very healthy and invigorating. My wife came out about six months ago, and although inclined to be delicate in the old home, she has enjoyed the best of health since coming here. In short, I am more than satisfied with the land of my adoption, and I am also satisfied with the laws of the country. Yours very truly. (Signed) JOHN LANGDON Write to any Canadian Government Agent for literature and full particulars. Worth More Money. "Do you consider a chauffeur worth $200 a month?" "Well, the last one I had ran away with my wife, and you knew my wife, old man."—Life. The reward for a good deed done is in having done it—Emerson. EVEN IF DISCOURAGED TRY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS FOR YOUR RHEUMATISM. The Pills Have Cured the Disease Is Almost Every Form and Even In Advanced Stages. Rheumatism is a painful inflammation of the muscles or of the coverings of the joints and is sometimes accompanied by swelling. 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"About two years ago I began to feel rheumatism in my joints, which became so sane I could hardly walk. My joints were swollen and pained me terribly. "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were recommended to me by a friend, after I had failed to get well from the doctor's treatment. When I began taking the pills, the rheumatism was at its worst. I had taken only a few boxes, when the headaches stopped and not long after I felt the pain in my joints becoming less and less, until there was none at all. The stiffness was gone and I have never had any return of the rheumatism." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured such diseases as nervous and general debility, indigestion, nervous headache, neuralgia and even partial paralysis and locomotor ataxia. As a tonic for the blood and nerves they are unequalled. A pamphlet on "Diseases of the Blood" and a copy of our diet book will be sent free on request to anyone interested. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all drugstores, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $3.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Court's Acoustics Bad. The acoustic properties of the courtrooms in London's new criminal courts building are so bad, it is said, that the other day a prisoner who had been sentenced to six months thought he had been sentenced to 12. He said to a warden: "One of the beaks gave me six months and another of 'em gave me six months before." Also, besides echoes, "reverberations" are complained of. There is more Gatarih in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great number of patients prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. 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NEW MOVE IN RUEF CASE Indicted San Francisco Boss Asks Change of Venue to Another County. DECLARES A FAIR TRIAL IS IMPOSSIBLE The Affidavits Say That a Widespread Bias and Prejudice Against Him Exists Throughout the Community—The Prosecution Will File Counter Affidavits. San Francisco, May 4—Abraham Ruef at the resumption of his trial Thursday applied to Judge Dunne for a change of venue to some other county, alleging that for various reasons he could not be fairly tried in San Francisco county. Ruef claims that his trial before Judge Dunne has been in progress since March 18; that 325 venirem have been summoned; approximately 57 jurors have been examined and no jury has yet been obtained; that since the 23d of October, 1906, he has been constantly made the subject of editorial attacks and caricature drawings representing him frequently as attired in prison garb; that all of the jurors so far selected and sworn have read these newspaper attacks and seen these cartoons and that some of them have confessed that they entertained as a result therefrom an opinion of the defendant's guilt or innocence; that some of the jurors had attended a banquet at the Fairmont hotel on the night of April 18, last, and there listened to and were prejudiced by speeches demonstratory of Ruef delivered by District Attorney Langdon and Assistant District Attorney Heney; that the citizens of San Francisco have so generally read the local newspaper attacks on him that a widespread bias and prejudice against him exists throughout the community. The affidavit is sworn to before Justice of the Pence J. P. Treadwell and attached to it is a package of newspaper clippings 14 inches high. Special Prosecutor Johnson stated that the prosecution desired an opportunity to file counter affidavits in support of an objection to the change of venue. Judge Dunne said this opportunity would be given and meantime took Ruef's affidavit and its accompanying voluminous exhibits under consideration. Judge Dunne ordered that the examination of talesmen for the completion of the jury proceed. M. Miteau, a dealer in millinery, gave as a reason why he might not make a fair juror that the jury might be locked up over night. He said that four years ago he was a juror in a murder case and that the jury was kept out 36 hours. He said he did not render a fair verdict because he was worried by being away from his family and was worn out. The prosecution challenged and the juror stood aside. They Want Sympathy. Boise, Ida., May 3.—Clarence Darrow of counsel for Messrs. Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone o the Western Federation of Miners, who are charged with complicity in the murder of former governor Steumenberg, Wednesday night issued a formal statement in behalf o the prisoners. It was anticipated that the statement would be a direct reply to President Roosevelt's "undesirable citizen" letter but the statement is in reality a general one and references to the president are to the former letters of the executive. In Memory of Great Ball Game. St. Louis, May 3.—A banquet was held at the Southern hotel Wednesday night in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the most remarkable game is the history of baseball—the 15 inning game between the Syracuse Stars and the St. Louis Browns, May 1, 1877, resulting 0 to 0. Only one base runner reached third and there was but one error in the game. Chris Von Der Ahe, formerly president of the St. Louis club and W. A. Kelso, gave graphic description of the 1877 game. Tulsa to Get Cement Plant. Tulsa, I. T., May 3.——The Tulsa Portland Cement Company capitalized at $2,500,000 was organized here Wednesday. The company owns 500 acres of gypsum land at Lost City, east of Tulsa, and will build a plant of 2,000 barrels daily capacity, employing 500 men. Prominent capitalists of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Ft. Wayne are back of the enterprise A. Fisherman's Luck. St. Louis, May 3.—D. Max Gregg, son of Colonel H. H. Gregg, a wealthy mine owner of Joplin, Mo., here on his honeymoon, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of having attempted to ship four fish out of Arkansas. Oxford Degree for An American. Oxford Degree for an American London, May 3-Oxford university Thursday conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A Big Undertaking. St. Petersburg, May 3.-The council of ministers has decided to double track the Siberian railroad. The section from Atchinsk to Irkutsk will be doubled this year. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. Price, $1.00, retail. "THE MARRYING SQUIRE." Justice Geo. E. Law, of Brazil, ind., Has Maried 1400 Couples. Justice Geo. E. Law, of Brazil, Ind., has fairly earned the title "The Marrying Squire," by which he is known far and wide, having already married some 1400 couples. Ten years ago he was Deputy County Treasurer. "At that time," said Justice Law, "I was suffering from an annoying kidney trouble. My back ached, my rest ar and wide, having already married some 1400 couples. Ten years ago he was Deputy County Treasurer. "At that time," said Justice Law, "I was suffering from an annoying kidney trouble. 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It is held that soil and climatic conditions in Ireland are favorable to the production of a good quality of tobacco, and that its cultivation can be made profitable. That an article may be good as well as cheap, and give entire satisfaction, is proven by the extraordinary sale of Defiance Starch, each package containing one-third more Starch than can be had of any other brand for the same money. Life, misfortune, abandonment, poverty are the fields of battle which have their heroes—obscure heroes, who are sometimes grander than those who win renown.—Victor Hugo. It Builds Force The Hon. Richard McBride, premier of British Columbia, whose government has emerged successfully from a general election, is the youngest prime minister in King Edward's dominions. He is only 36, and he achieved the premiership four years ago, after having held a subordinate office as minister of mines. 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Year by year the age increased in volume and is value, and still the Canada Government offers every bona fide saintler FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Some of the Advantages The phenomenal increase in railway mileage main lines and branches—has put almost every portion of the country within easy reach of churches, cheap fuel and every model convenience. THE NINETY MILLION BUSHEL WHEAT CROP of the year means $40,000,000 to the farmers of Western Canada, apart from the results of ode- grains and cattle. The advice and information refers to the SUPE- INTENDENT OF IMIGRATION, OTTAWA, Canada, or any authorized Government Agent. J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. My Old $1.00, retail. LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner 3rd & Main IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Banner Mills CUSTOM GRINDING A Specialty ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED F. WOODBROOK BROAD, PROPA PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY Best Laundry In The City Phone 282 W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE DATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNERS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an application or support for DATENTS complies strictly confidential. HANDCook on Patents.com free Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of support for DATENTS. Comprises a year; four months. $1. Sold by all newsletters. MUNN & Co. 3615roadway. New York Branch Office. 62 F. St. Washington, D. C. Use Murray's Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antisoptic 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 GRAND SPRING FESTIVAL CAN- TATA. The Crowning of the Queen o' May. The Queen shall be selected by popular ballot. Any person can vote for their choice. The ballot box will be placed at Olden's Drug Store. There will be pages, maids of honor, heralds with musician flowers, will form a grand pageant to crown the chosen Queen. Under the auspices of the ladies of the Auxiliary Board of the A. M. E. church. Date and place notice will be given later. Who shall it be? Cast your ballot with 5c for 2 votes. YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Room and Board Mrs. Ivry, 122 S. Mosley Ave. keeps a first-class rooms and good board... In the May Queen contest up to date the 2nd Miss Myrtle Hearst and Miss Bess Duval are in the lead. Miss Du- val having 148 votes and Miss Hearst 190. ELECTS OFFICERS. Taborian Temple No. 11 held a very fine meeting Thursday night and after the regular routine of business elected the following officers for the ensuing year: C. Swan, Chief Mentor; L. H. Goodall, Vice-Mentor; W. J. Johnson, Chief Scribe; A. Washington, Assistant Scribe; Chas. Neeley, Treasurer; J. H. Jones, Chief Orator; Ford Neeley, Coloy-Bearer; Wm. Frazler, Drill Master. The Temple has made a most remarkable progress during the past two years and the new officers take hold with a membership of 37 and a big fat treasury on hand and no debts outstanding unpaid. REMEMBER the Grand May Festival to be given by the Garrett Musical Club at Redmen Hall. Tuesday night, May 7th. Music will be furnished on the mandolin, guitar and piano. Everyone is very cordially invited to come out. Mrs. H. F. Frazier having returned from Independence, Kansas, after attending the State Executive Board, reports the session a good one, both spiritually and financially. Each district president of the W. H. & F. M. convention is carnything putting forth efforts to make their district the "Banner District" of the state, at the annual meeting in Salina, Kan., in October. Do You Want Long Hair? IF SO, SEE Mrs. Geo. McDonald, Sole Agent For MME. C. J. WALKER'S Wonderful Hair Grower Mrs. McDonald is the Sole Agent and uses the same process which Mme. Walker uses in making the hair grow. Office at 634 North Wabash Ave. For Full Particulars BIRTHDAY PARTY. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Alexander highly entertained at their residence, 727 S. Mead, Monday evening in honor of their daughter, Miss Alberta, it being her nineteenth birthday. The evening was spent in music and games, after which a four-course uncheon was served in the dining-room, which was beautifully decorated in white and pink roses. At a late hour the guests departed declaring Miss Alberta an ideal hostess. Those who enjoyed Miss Alexander's hospitality were as follows: Mrs. Dora Tipps, Mr. and Mrs. James Vann, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Able, Emily Johnson, Viola Hobrok, Josie Dunway, Gracie Able, Beedie Jackson, Eliza Jackson, Sallie Dunway, Rosa Dunn, Alberta Alexander, Miss Gray of Topeka, Willie Mitchell, Mr. Julius Malay, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Felix Martin, Mr. Wm. Payne, Mr. Henry Byrum, Mr. Albert Minweather, Hallie Able. Johnstons Restaurant, 339 N. Main, is the place to get good meals. Ice cream and soda water always on hand. The women in attendance at the State Executive Board of W. H. & F. Mission Convention, Independence, Kansas, April 25-26, were: Mesdames Emma Gains, Topeka; H. E Brown, Kansas City; H. F. Frazier, Wichita; P. A. Smith, Cherokee; Phels, Iola; Anna McDonald, Parsons; E A. Wilson, Kansas City; J. A. Campbell, Cherryvale; E. Wickman, Coffeeville; H. L. Smith, Cherryvale; Misses Cherry Briley, Coffeyville; Mary Johnson, Cherryvale. Mrs. Beedy Davis has arrived home from Denver where she spent the winter with Mrs. Frank Watkins and other friends. Mrs. Johana Jones left this morning for a visit to Geary, Okla., where she will spend a few days with her mother and other friends. The B. T. W. club met Thursday, May 2, with Mrs. J. W. Thompson. A very interesting meeting was had. The club succeeded in raising a nice donation for the Frederick Douglas mortgage fund. After the general routine of business a delicious four-course luncheon was served by the hostess. On next Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Wm. Bowers will entertain the B. T. W. club in honor of her niece, Miss Lyreson, who is visiting from Nashville. Watch for the Searchlight collector. Be prepared to pay wha you owe us. Office, 601 N. Main St. THE WICH TA SEARCHLIGHT BICYCLES BICYCLE We are agents for the National, Pierce, and Johnson Bicycles .... We also carry a full complete line of Guns, Fishing Tackles, Base Goods, Hammocks $1.75 up. All kinds of Sp Goods. Consult Our Prices Before Buy ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING DO Wichita Bicycle & Sporting Goods BICYCLES BICYCLES BICYCLES BICYCLES We are agents for the National, Pierce, and Iver Johnson Bicycles ..... We also carry a full and complete line of Guns. Fishing Tackles, Base Ball Goods, Hammocks $1.75 up. All kinds of Sporting Goods. Consult Our Prices Before Buying. ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING DONE AGENTS FOR WHITE DAISY WHITE ROSE WHITE LILY WASHERS COOPER-WEYLE Hdw. Co 256 North Main Street Centropolis Hotel 605 North Main st. First-Class In Everyway Clean Beds, Wholesome Meals, Cigars, Ice Cream and Cake at all times..... Terms Reasonable Mrs. S. Sneed, Prop. W. C. Neeley, Carpenter and Painter All Work Guaranteed 1241 Blain Avenue. Wichita Tabernacle No. 34 held a most harmonious meeting Thursday afternoon with 32 daughters present. Dtr. Wallace made the High Priestess, Dtr. Mattie Miller, a present of $1.00 with which to have a breastpin 333 made and the Tabernacle will present the High Priestess with a new crown and robe in which to attend the Grand Session which is to be held in July in Weir City. The Tabernacle is doing nicely in every way. PRATT (KAN.) NEWS. Rev. Wm. Turner, of Wichita, has accepted the pastorate of the Second Baptist church of this city and the church feels highly complimented in being able to secure the services of so able a minister of the gospel as Rev. Turner. He comes to us with no recommendation save that which every minister should have—the gift of God. He preached two sermons to us Sunday—one in the morning, the other in the evening. In the afternoon he organized the B. Y. P. U. and from this time on the various societies of the church will be ably looked after. Rev. Turner has expressed himself as very much pleased with the interest which the church is taking in the work. We are sorry to say that we have been idle so long, but the circumstance over which we had no control were the cause. However the church is determined that it shall push onward and upward and make Rev. Turner's stay One of our members, Bro. Robt.AOI with us both pleasant and profitable. One of our members, Bro. Robt. McDonald, has been very sick, but we are glad to say that he is fast on the road to recovery. The A. M. E. church of Pratt had a spidid ball ron April 22nd. A glorious time was had. Rev. Wm. Turner of Wichita preached for them at 3 p. m. the rally collection was $250.00. The Second Baptist church has called Rev. Wm. Turner to the pastorate of their church and all look forward to a grand success at that church under his management. LAWRENCE. (KAN.) TABERS. St. Mary's Tabernacle No. 52, and Temple No. 10, gave a reception at their hall Wednesday, April 24, in honor of Dtr. Emma aGines, C. G. P. Dtr. Gaines delivered a very refreshing lecture after which short talks were made by Dtr. Cora Yeager, Dtr. Ida Wallace, Dtr. James Alexander, G. D. M., Dtr. Mary Fishback, Dtr. Mary Brown and Dtr. Laura Verder. Refreshments were served. There were 75 knights and Daughters present. Mrs. Tennie Woods, of Kansas City, who had been in the city for the past few weeks at the bedside of her sick mother, Mrs. Mary Sherrils, and who only returned to her home in Kansas City last Saturday, returned to Wichita Friday morning with the dead body of her husband who died in Kansas City last Wednesday. She has the sympathies of all. SAD DEATH. Phone 545 AGENTS FOR 256 North Main Street PEABODY, KAN., NEWS. Mrs. James Hall was the victim of a surprise party at her home on Crest Hill Saturday evening, when a number of friends gathered to join her in celebrating her thirty-fifth birthday. Mrs. Hall served ice cream and cake. Mrs. Hall received some valuable presents, such as drawn-work, glasswrae and chinaware. Those present were: Alex Ridley, Mrs. Frank House, Mrs. George Hall of Newton, Mr. and Mrs. George Dell, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Bush, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Dell, Mr. and Mrs. John Powell and Mrs. Winson. Mrs. George Hall of Newton is visiting relatives and friends in the city this week. Lee Frame was a visitor in the city Saturday and Sunday. Clifford Rickman was a visitor in the city Saturday and Sunday. Misses Seattle Bush and Mabel Hall entertained a number of friends at the home of the latter Saturday evening in honor of Miss Bush's sixteenth birthday. Thus Mrs. Hall and Miss Bush celebrated their birthdays together. Miss Bush received some useful presents. Music and games were the amusements of the evening, and all enjoyed themselves greatly. Those present were Misses Ida and Nettie McLean of Strong City, Miss Gladys Patterson of Florence, Callie Anderson of Newton, Cora Stevenson of Valley Center, Lena Rolland of Newton, Ethel Winson, Messrs. Clifford Rickman of Valley Center, Eugene Rolland, Lee Frame. Antry Neeley, Arthur Gray and George Brown of Newton, William Hall and Thomas Raines. Miss Lena Rolland returned to her home in Newton Monday afternoon. Misses Nettie and Ida McLean returned to their home in Strong City Monday after a few days' visit with their aunt, Mrs. C. N. Dell. Miss Gladys Patterson returned this week to her home in Florence after a short visit with Mabel Hall. Mrs. John Powell entertained Mr. and Mrs. James Hall of Newton, Mabel Hall and Miss Gladys Patterson of Florence, with an elegant two-course dinner Sunday. NEWS OF GREAT BEND. Mrs. N. Harding has returned from Wichita. Rev. Calvin Perry, of Larned, preached for Rev. Raimey last Sunday. Mrs. Charley Wilson returned to Kansas City, Monday. The B. Y. P. U. social was postponed for this week. Queen Esther's circle held her annual reception at the parsonage last Friday evening with Rev. Mrs. Raimey acting as general hostess. The rooms were beautifully decorated with potted plants and ferns. As each guest arrived, Mrs. Anna Bynum and Mrs. Edna Smith returnedTAOlaoinAOIN Edna Smith presented them with a scripture memento just before the short program. Rev. Raimey offered prayer. Welcome address was given by Mrs. Gertrude Wells. Response was given by George Martin in a few well chosen words. Paper by Mrs. Charley Wilson. Recitation, Mrs. Grace Gower. Solo, Mrs. Gertrude Wells. A few choice selections were rendered by the choir of the First Baptist church. Rev. Raimey acted as toastmaster of the evening. Misses Ethiol, Stephen and Irene Sellers presided at the piano. After social visits the guests were served with a four-course luncheon. All enjoyed a lovely time. CAUGHT AT LAST. 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Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —Diseases of— Women and Children A Specialty New Phone 986 Office 517 N. Main St HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Price 116 East Douglas Avenue FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" ```markdown ``` The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Peat 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Agents wanted everywhere. PAGE 3 1915 329 East Center SALINA, KANSAS Designer and Builder of Tent Houses. Prices in reach of all. Write for particulars TO-DAY. W. M. Dunson, Painter and Paper Hanger, All Work Guaranteed 302 W. Murdock Ave., Wichita No Hard Times Not when the agriculture products of the country are $6,000,000,000 in one year. You are safe to go ahead and build. I sell the Cement, Plaster Paris, Brick Etc., etc., etc. NO. PHONE 496 J.H. TURNER WICHTA, KANS. 533 TO 547 WEST DOUGLAS The handsome residence of Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Banks, on corner of Maple and Third streets is nearly completed. Paul Jones of Topeka, will lecture at the Second Baptist church Thursday night. Mrs. P. F. Alston is visiting her husband at Enid. Addie Jones has gone on an extensive visit to Lebanon, Missouri. G. W. Simothers, whose residence is three miles west of his city, has been confined to his bed under the doctor's care the past week. Garret Banks is slowly improving. Born to Mr. and Mrs. William West Friday, April 19, a daughter. Red Front 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. Male The Kid Reporter's Big Beat By J. A. PLOUFF The following news story appeared on December 15 in a Boston paper: Lying in his heart's blood, dead, Charles W. Boid, the famous lawyer of this city, was found dead in a corridor of his home by a servant girl at seven o'clock this morning. The girl, Miss McCee, went to the second floor of the Bold mansion at that hour this morning and was horrified to see her master's body stretched at full length on the floor. The coroner, after a cursory examination, announced that Mr. Bold had been dead for eight hours, and death was caused by a bullet wound. A dispatch was sent to the police end Chief of Police Fitzgerald and Coroner Edwards were closeted together for an hour. ing to the many against Sullivan heard to say at ever got out of "get even" with ney. Sullivan was ment a month at the Telegram pub story: "Charlestown, the Telegram.) released from storied after servin years. "Sull"van was Springfield gun morning after he and before he le situation. The The servants have been in the service of the murdered man for years, and practically worshiped him, as he was always a kind and generous employer. Miss McGee, who was the first person to see Mr. Boid this morning, made this statement to the police: "About nine o'clock I heard the door-bell ring. Mr. Boid had given me orders not to answer the bell after nine o'clock as he was always in his room after that hour. There was an extension bell in his room which is on the second floor. Mr. Boid could hear the bell and would answer the call by going into the corridor to the speaking tube which went straight down to the front door. "He could in this way speak to the visitor and if he desired could open the door by pressing an electric button. "Well, I heard the bell ring and then I heard Mr. Boid's voice, I do not remember or could not distinguish what he said. Then I heard a noise as if he had closed the door of his room." Coroner Edwards, in an interview, said: "This is indeed one of the strangest cases I was ever concerned with. "Robbery was not the motive of the assassin, because nothing is missing. "The bullet entered between the eyes. "Mr. Boid was prominent as a criminal lawyer and he had prosecuted and defended some of the most dangerous criminals in this country. It is not unlikely that some felon whom he has prosecuted in the past is at the bottom of this affair." When nine days had elapsed after the murder Billy Spade, cub reporter on the Telegram, was struck with an idea which he decided to develop. He went to the city editor and asked for a week's vacation. The week off was granted, and Billy set out to work up his idea. He was a youngster in the newspaper field, and he wanted that $5,000 reward. Billy was intimately acquainted with a nice little girl named Emma. So Emma was an incentive, and Billy's wits were soon working. Officer McGuire, who was on the Beacon Hill, hit the night Mr. Bold was shot, fell into Billy's path as the first step in the idea. Officer McGuire knew Billy and answered his question good-naturedly. "Billy, me boy, there was no suspicious looking characters roun' here that night. There was a guy what went up to the house between nine and ten, but he wasn't there more than three minutes. He seemed to be talkin' to somebody in the speakin' tube. Then he walked away. Nobody else went near the front of the house all night, an' let me tell ye, I'm onto me job." Billy then went to the Bold house and introduced himself to Miss McGee. She escorted him upstairs and showed him where she found Mr. Bold. Billy went downstairs and examined the door, door-bell and speaking tube. Then he started on a run for the Telegram office. On reaching that busy place he jumped for the newspaper files. Finding what he wanted, he ran to the telephone booth. Then out of the office again, this time going to police headquarters. Back to the Telegram office and Billy and the city editor were at once engaged in an excited dialogue, the city editor waving his arms excitedly and Billy talking all the while like mad. He was pushed toward a typewriter, and with the city editor standing over him, Billy pounded away at the machine, writing the scoop of his life. A half hour later newsboys were shouting the information that "The Bold Murder Mystery Solved! Exclusive Story in the Telegram! ! !" Under glaring cross-page headlines was the following story: Spike Sullivan, thug and ex-convict, was arrested this afternoon charged with the murder of Charles W. Boid on the night of December 9th last. This morning, Mr. Spade, a Telegram reporter, was detailed on the case and in 12 hours he has solved the mystery and furnished the police with the evidence that resulted in the arrest of Sullivan. Sullivan was arrested about an hour ago and confesses his guilt. Sullivan was sentenced to state's prison ten years ago as a member of the so-called 'Sewol gang' of criminals. Attorney Boid was district attorney at that time and he recommended the court to impose a long sentence ow- PAGE 1 ing to the many charges already pending against Sullivan. The latter was heard to say at the time that if he ever got out of jail alive he would "get even" with the prosecuting attorney. Sullivan was released from confinement a month ago, and at that time the Telegram published the following story: "Charlestown, Nov. 22.—(Special to the Telegram.)—Spike Sullivan was released from state's prison this morning after serving a sentence of ten years. "Sull'van was visited by two Springfield gun manufacturers this morning after he had been released, and before he left the office of the institution. The men offered Sullivan $25,000 for a gun called an 'air gun' of which Sullivan is the inventor. It appears that Sullivan was an adept mechanic, and during his stay at the prison was employed in the machine shop. At odd moments he tinkered on a strange looking contrivance which he was pleased to call his 'air gun.' "About a year ago he finished his work and had the gun completed, although in rough form. He was apparently afraid lest somebody steal the result of his inventive genius as he guarded the gun closely and never allowed anyone to touch it. "A week before his release he asked Warden Smith to give him a lead bullet and Sullivan placed it in the gun. Aiming at a pine plank, three inches thick, Sullivan pulled the trigger. No report was heard. Walking to the pine plank Warden Smith saw a hole that extended through the board. The bullet was found crushed against the wall. "The Springfield gun manufacturers heard about the 'air gun,' and were present to negotiate with Sullivan for its purchase. "Sullivan said he guessed he'd rather keep the gun for awhile, and on being pressed said he would not part with it for any figure. "He left the prison a free man, carrying in a box his precious gun." This article appeared in the Telegram, but little attention was accorded it then. Fortunately Mr. Spade has a faculty of remembering such little things. He noted that Officer McGueil said that nobody excepting one man had been around the premises. This man was at the front door between nine and ten o'clock and spoke to some one in the house through the speaking tube. He remembered that Miss McGee declared that she had heard no noise except that of a slamming door; and yet Mr. Boid's bedroom door was found open the next morning. He remembered that the bed had not been slept in. He concluded that some one on the lower veranda had called Mr. Boid to the speaking tube, and had then fired a revolver up the tube, the bullet striking Mr. Boid between the eyes. It was evident that when Mr. Boid fell to the floor beneath the mouthpiece of the speaking tube the noise made by coming in contact with the floor was that which made Miss McGee think it was the closing of a door. But if a revolver was fired up the speaking tube somebody would have heard the report. Then Mr. Spade remembered that Sullivan had threatened to get even with Mr. Bold. Also he remembered that Sullivan had been offered $25,000 for an air gun, a gun that made absolutely no noise. Mr. Spade concluded that Sullivan was in no financial position to turn down such an offer for a weapon unless he had some important reason. Could it be possible that Sullivan wanted the gun to satisfy the vengeance he had been nursing for ten years? Mr. Spade decided in the affirmative. The rest was easy. Chief Fitzgerald was notified and two detectives brought Sullivan, who was found in a water-front bar-room, to police headquarters. Sullivan, completely taken by surprise, confessed as follows: "I went to the Boid house that night and rang the bell. I was near the tube, and in a few seconds I beard Boid's voice asking who was there: "I shoved the barrel of my gun in the mouthpiece of the tube so that the curved end pointed up, and the tube being just the same as a long gun barrel. I pulled the trigger. I heard Boid drop to the floor above me. I was sure that no one got wise to me. "I wasn't there more than two minutes, The next mornin' I read in the papers that he was dead and the cops were daffy. O, yes, I'm your man. But I'm insane. And take good care of the gun. But anyway, I've sold the patent rights for $30,000, and I guess I'll be able to get a lawyer that will make you fellers hustle to prove I ain't insane. Why, only an insane man would chatter the way I'm doing." The next day Billy asked for and was given a month's leave of absence. He journeyed to Emma's home and showed her the check given to him by the Boston Bar association as a reward. Now Emma is planning to spend it for furniture. THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Iowa City Iowa City Gets Fame. FORT DODGE'S MOCK MARRIAGE ACT A NATIONAL JOKE. Document Which Terrorized Bachelors and Spinners Credited to Mayor Fort Dodge, Ia.—Not since the days of the Cardiff giant has Fort Dodge had such signal distinction heaped upon it as has been conferred through the introduction of the marriage ordinance in the city council recently. Not long ago people who did not know that there was such a place as Fort Dodge, Ia., are to-day talking about it. From almost every state in the union letters have poured in, either condemning the ordinance or upholding its originator in his purposes. The past few days the mayor's mail has been burdened with an unusually large number of letters from girls, who have asked him to put them in correspondence with some of the more eligible bachelors of the city, whom the mayor declares are growing entirely too numerous. As is commonly the case with the unheard-of, some small incident can be traced to the beginning as the prime mover that suggested the idea, and the marriage ordinance in this case is in no wise an exception. It all came from a small matter originating with the police force. On the force are two bachelors: Peter McCabe and John Qualey, who have had to endure the expense of all "layoff" on account of the other members being married, and the mayor favored them. Both of these men protested at the discrimination, and at last the mayor suggested that the only way in which they could be placed on an even footing with the other members of the department was for them to get married. They again protested that it was not reasonable that they should be singled out for compulsory marriage and no one else, whereupon the mayor declared that he would make the thing general. No one who looks at Mayor Bennett's picture would pick him out as a joker, but there is not a man in all Iowa who enjoys a joke more than he. It was not intended that the ordinance should have any further attention, and while the local papers used it as a feature of the council proceedings, there was nothing more thought of it until outside papers copied it and letters of inquiry began to arrive. From that on the joke grew to such proportions that marked copies of papers and letters from all over the United States were address- MULE AMBULA MULE AMBULANCE FOR MINES Car to Be Used in Pennsylvania to Aid the Injured. Pittsburg—Car ambulances, drawn by mules, are to be introduced in the hard coal mines of Pennsylvania to Ambulance to Be Used in Mines. facilitate the work of the First Aid to the Injured Corps, when accidents occur far from the mine openings. The body of the ambulance cars is similar to those of the ordinary mine car, but between the two platforms are sets of springs which prevent jarring as the car is moved. On the up- CHICAGO'S NEW POSTMASTER. State Senator Campbell Named to Succeed Buse. BENNETH H. DANIEL A. CAMPBELL. Chicago.—Senator Daniel A. Camp- pell of the Twenty-first district has been appointed by President Roose- --- ed to the mayor. Probably no one person has enjoyed this huge flasco more than he, and many are the hearty laughs he has had over letters addressed to him. For years there has been a deadly strife between Fort Dodge and Waterloo for supremacy. Just recently Waterloo has enjoyed the distinction of a street car strike which has won for it a larger portion of metropolitan distinction. Fort Dodge could not stand idly by and permit her hated rival to acquire these newly achieved honors and make no effort to outdistance her. The outside papers asked for more news regarding the marriage ordinance, and here was the opportunity for which the reputation builders of the city were looking. Miss Jenny Cameron, principal of the Castlewood private schools for children, was cre J. W. (Fort Dodge, Ia., Mayor Alleged Author of Mock Marriage Ordinance.) ated a leader of the spinsters in opposition to the ordinance. Jennie was made to hold mass meetings, boycott a mythical department store with a mythical manager, and Charles Swift, another fictitious personage, was made to take up the opposition in behalf of the bachelors. And thus the story of the ordinance and its effect, resulting in the agitation and scenes, was fostered and added to until every daily paper from coast to coast has given space to more or less of the reports sent out. per platform two upholstered stretchers are placed side by side, and the car is so arranged that either stretcher may be used separately. The sides of the cars are also unholstered, and so built that when once an injured man is placed on the stretchers he is held firmly and suffers the smallest amount of movement while being taken to the surface. When the outer air is reached the stretchers may be taken off the car without disturbing the accident victim at all, and be carried to the hospital in an ambulance without moving the sufferer from the stretcher on which he was first placed. Each car has a full emergency equipment of rubber and woolen blankets, a medical case containing bandages, ointments, stimulants, means for stopping flow of blood and splints for broken limbs. Competitions for prizes, organized by the mine owners, between First Ald Corps are becoming frequent in the anthracite regions, and surprising skill is shown by the miner-doctors in the work for which they are thoroughly drilled by the companies' physicians. velt to succeed Fred A. Busse as postmaster of Chicago. Daniel A. Campbell was born in Elgin, Ill., June 23, 1863, but he received his education in the Chicago public schools and at the Chicago college of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and since that time he has devoted his attention to the practice of his profession and to legislative duties at Springfield. Mr. Campbell was first elected to the general assembly as a house member in 1893. Two years later he was elected to the senate and has served continuously from that time to this. He was last reelected in November, 1906. He is known as "the silent man" and his leadership in the Illinois senate of late years has been absolute. The present organization of the senate is probably the strongest in the country. Senator Campbell is a member of the Republican executive committee of Cook county and has long been a factor in local politics. A Mother's Heart. Mrs. Brink—Mrs. Klink! Mrs. Klink! Your little boy is in our yard stealing our chickens. Mrs. Klink—Horrors! He'll get his feet wet in your big, ugly, damp grass. I don't see why you can't keep your lawn mowed, Mrs. Brink.—N. Y. Weekly. The woods of New South Wales are so varied as to meet the world's requirements. KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. 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. aveneue, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 3 Mrs. Mary Burbridge, 514 N. Wichita St., Wichita, Kan. 4 Mrs. Laura Williams, 625 4th St., Cherryvale, Kansas. 5 Mrs. Mary Burdett, 819 N. 1st. street, Atchison, Kansas. 6. Mrs. Addie Glaspe, 128 Mulberry street, Ottowa, Kansas. 7. Mrs. Lillian Shobe, 336 Santa Fe street, Salina, Kansas. 8. Mrs. Nancy Fax, 505 N. Santa Fe St., Foffeyville, Kansas. 9. Mrs. Sarah H. Harrison, 1321 Van Buren, st., Topeka, Kansas. 10. Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Arkansas street, Lawrence, Kansas. 12 Mrs. C. March, 515 Nebraska Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 14 Mrs. May R. Freeman, 105 S. Locust St., Pittsburg, Kansas. 15 Mrs. S. Furlough, box 405, Weir City, Kansas. 16 Mrs. Hattie Collins, 1001 S. Forest, avenue, Parsons, Kansas. 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. 28 Mrs. Delia Dorsely, 716 S. 15th St., Parsons, Kansas. 29 Mrs. Percila Lee, 720 Cheyenne St., Leavenworth, Kansas. 32. Mrs. Adda Birthright, 114 West Broadwav, Butte, Montana. 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 and street, Aichison, Kansas. 38 Mrs. Laura Lee, Weir City, Kan. 62. Mrs. Cora Yeager, 928 Main, Law- rence, Kansas. 63. Mrs. Lizzie Stone, 1147 Ann ave., Kansas City, Kansas. 77 Mrs. A. Pickenz, 259 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. 93 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 Western Ave, N. Topeka, Kan. TEMPLES. 1 William M. Watkins, box 2062, Welr 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, 2014 Hewett, Everett, Kansas City, Kan. 7 J. C. Coffee, 1455 N. Mostey, Wichita, Kansas. 8. Rev. M. Wooten, 416 W. Third st., Ft. Scott, Kansas. 10 Frank Smith, 420 3rd Ave., Leavenworth, Kansas. 11. W. N. Miller, 601 N. Main street. Searchlight office, Wichita. 12 Lee Holiday, 728 S. 20th St. Par- 15. E. W. Garvice, North 1st street, Salina, Kansas. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th St. S. Cmah, Nep. Annie Edwards, 944 Everett, Kansas South Mosely avenue, Wichita, Kan. Coffeyville, Kansas. 17. Rev. Allen Garner, 704 E. 12th st., James Thomas, 218 W 1st, South 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. 836 Albert Graves, 90 Charles St., Deadwood, South Dakota. QUEEN MOTHERS OF TENTS IN KANSAS. Miss Jannie Alexander, G. Q. M., 948 Penn, Lawrence, Kansas. Lillie Hardin, 006 South Fifth avenue, N. Topeka, Kansas. Hester Cornish, 911 Western avenue, N. Topeka, Kansas. Jennie Sellers, 1428 N. Eighteenth street, Omaha, Neb. Eliza Robinson, 1801 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Mollie Spencer, 502 V street, Atchison, Kansas. Maggie Robinson, 911 Everett avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Louise Verder, 813 Jersey, Lawrence, 'Jesuury Mary Bison, 325 Miss., Lawrence, Kansas. Charlotte Dalton, 1228 Barnett, Kansas City, Kansas. A. O. Murrell, 451 S. Fourth street, Salina, Kansas. Mary Hopkins, 903 West E. North Topeka, Kansas. H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Kansas. Lettie Hill, 429 N. Wichita street, Wichita, Kansas. Amy Lane, 1422 E. Appleton street, City, Kansas. Laura Smith, 308 E. Eleventh, Coffeyville, Kansas. enworth, Kansas. Ada Gilbert, 405 N. Santa Fe, Cofella McKinnie, 217 Sherman, Leav- There are hundreds of women who clean house and every article, even down to an insignificant little pin cushion, is put right back in its old accustomed place. There is nothing so monotonous as a house forever presenting the same appearance. It is pleasant to make a cheerful change every room. There is a woman who makes it a rule to always change some of her pictures. She has a number of beautiful frames, so she selects new prints for them. The best masters are copied and it is possible to secure beautiful pictures for only a little money. Then the old prints may be put away for future use. It has a great deal to do with making home look a little more cheerful. Women have learned that a few good articles in a room are more artistic than a great amount of gaudy furniture, and this new regime of household affairs is responsible for less work, too. In this age, when there is every convenience imaginable, it really seems strange that any well-regulated household would need the assistance of servants only on special occasions. But it seems the more women have to work with, the less able are many to do even a little work without having the assistance of a hired girl. To properly manage a home every woman must use her brains to save her strength, and many do, but there are a great many who merely exist in houses and do not live in homes. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A little ammonia added to water colored clothes are washed in will remove dirt easily. Use only hot water with a little ammonia added for cleaning paint. Ordinary kitchen soaps wear off the paint and do not clean it so quickly and thoroughly as ammonia. Use a good sand soap on obstinate places. Lace may be easily washed and made white again if put to soak in a basin of warm water in which soap powder has been worked into a lather. Two or three of these warm lathers in 24 hours will be found to cleanse very dirty lace without rubbing. To keep an ice chest in good condition wash thoroughly once a week with cold or lukewarm water in which washing soda has been dissolved. If by chance anything is split in the ice chest it should be wiped off at once. Milk and butter very quickly absorb odor and if in the ice chest with other foods should be kept closely covered. When a dark ring is left on the material after using such a cleansing agent as turpentine to remove a stain, make a ring all around the outside of the first ring by dipping the finger in chloroform and applying it to the material; keep rubbing toward the center of the circle with plenty of chloroform, allowing it to evaporate freely, and the ring will have disappeared when the spot is entirely dry. Rhubarb Pie Rhubarb is now plentiful in all markets, and the head of the family is pretty sure to ask for the sort of rhubarb pie "that mother used to make." Two and one-half cups flour, one-half cup butter, one-half cup lard, one-half cup water, one-quarter teaspoon baking powder. Sift flour with powder; rub in lard and butter cold; add the water; mix into a smooth dough. One and a half bunches rhubarb, one and a half cups sugar. Cut fruit in small pieces after stripping off skins, cook it very fast in shallow stewpan, with sugar. Line pie plate with the paste; wet rim; add rhubarb, cold; lay three bars paste across, fastening ends; lay three more across, forming diamond shaped spaces; lay around a rim, wash over with egg, and bake in a quick oven 15 minutes. Maitre d'Hotel Butter. Put a quarter pound butter, the juice of two lemons, two tablespoons chopped parsley, salt and pepper in a basin, mix well and stand on the ice until needed. This will keep almost a week and is nice spread upon a juicy porterhouse steak. Boiled Sunday Nursery Pudding One pound of currants, half pound of flour, half pound of trache; mix the ingredients in a smooth paste with some milk and put in a bowl tied up with a cloth; strain for four hours. Serve with wine sauce. Ironing-Board Cover Make slip covers for the ironing board on the principle of a pillow case making them tight to avoid wrinkling. Have two for each board, using them alternately, and when one needs to be washed it is slipped off and replaced at once with the second one. Keeping Flowers Fresh. Flowers dipped in the melted wax of candle ends will keep fresh for at least a week. Small flowers, like pansies, may be dipped in bunches, roses and large flowers separately.