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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY TRADING WITH THE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. HOW CAN BRYAN WIN? There seems to be a general feeling among Democrats that Mr. Bryan has a good fighting chance to win this year—that he is stronger than ever before, more elements being united for him than were aligned on his side in either of his former campaigns. It may be too, that some Republicans are a bit uneasy about the possible outcome. But is there really any good reason for this feeling? Mr. Bryan was not as strong in 1900 as he was in 1896, for he polled 6,190,695 votes the first time he ran and 190,493 fewer in 1900. In 1896 he was the choice of three national political political organizations, and in 1900 he was the candidate of four—the Democrats, Silver Republicans, Populists and Anti-Imperialists. Judge Parker four years ago polled 5,079,041 votes, running as the candidate of the Democrats alone and bitterly opposed by the other three parties which were for Bryan. In other words, the two extra parties for Bryan in 1896 represent a difference of 1,430,018 as compared with Parker, while three extra parties represent a difference of only 1,280,105. But Bryan received in round numbers 150,000 fewer votes when he was backed by four parties than when he was the choice of three. When Parker ran, the minor parties, most of them, were resolved into their original elements, and those which are survived have put up tickets on which Bryan's name does not appear. Additionally, the Hearst party is doing substantial damage to Bryan. The politicians are casting an increasing number of votes, and they draw far more from the Democrats than from Republicans. There is no Populist try to speak of, though Mr. Watson nominally running. The New York democracy is notoriously opposed to Bryan. Mr. Bryan may rush to the spot to make obeisance to Boss Murray, but Tammany is not for Bryan. Baker is abroad. David R. Francis, leader of the old Cleveland follower, is touring Ireland. The power-Hearst influence in New York is, course, against the Nebraskan, and is difficult to see how anybody can reasonably look for New York to be taken from the Republicans. With New York lost to him, Mr. Bush's case apparently is hopeless; he elected he must carry New York, solid South, New Jersey and Convent, or other states with an equiv. electoral vote, and then on top all this he must carry Oklahoma, this would leave him eighteen electoral votes short. He must carry of the big Middle West states—Illinois or Indiana. He has not used his own state since 1896. Illinois has not gone Democratic since when Cleveland carried it. Ohio remains for Taft, and the Democrats only Indiana to hope for. bunfur ul rl till the form wawat iping ll tl boan preaed ond htl men tterte e an lake a matter of fact, the solid South becoming less and less a deciding factor. Not many years ago New York, Kansas, and the solid South settled the rest, but the apportionment of 1900 and only twelve votes to the South twenty-six to the North. Now it is the solid South and four large northern states for the Democrats to pour years from now. when a apportionment is made, it will be five Northern states. And the solid South itself is distinishing. Mighty wonders have been used in the last few years. Some cases may be expected this year, and the South is really hostile to it. By 1912 the solid South may be a political relic of the days of recessions and passions happily pass away. if this man Hearst, who is saying mean things about Bryan, is the whom the Nebraskan recently connaed in a list of Democrats "fit president." his friends say 16 to 1 is a dead The same will be said of the who invented it after Novem- NEGRO DOLLS A Timely Movement on Foot to Supply Negro Children With Negro Dolls. LET EVERYBODY BOOST Matrons of Colored Baptist Church Approve of the Church Factory to Make the Gifts. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 30.—At a meeting of the Colored National Baptist association, composed of leaders from all parts of the world, in session here, the following resolutions were adopted: "Whereas, Our publishing board at Nashville, Tenn., under the management of Dr. R. H. Boyd, is prepared to supply a long-felt need in a factory for Negro dolls; and, "Whereas, Our people for nearly half a century, because of uncomely and deformed features of Negro dolls, have spent thousands of dollars for white dolls for Christmas. Resolved, That we do here and now give our indorsement and hearty approval of the Negro doll factory and not only urge the patronage of people of our churches as Baptists, but the race at large throughout the United States." THE GOVERNOR WOULD REDUCE SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION. Kansas Republicans Again to Lead in Fight for Nergoes' Rights to Vote. Has Figures to Quote, Showing That Solid South Gets More Electoral Votes Than It Is Entitled To. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 30.—Governor Hoch made his first political speech of the campaign at Oberlin, Kan., Monday night. Although there have been many demands for him during the last three weeks, he has been compelled to turn them down on account of official duties. Now he has the work in his office cleaned up and will spend most of the time from now until the election in the field. The governor took for his text at Oberlin: "Shall the People Rule?" This is the slogan used by the Democrats, in Northern states, to catch votes. It is not being used in the Southern Democratic states. It doesn't fit political conditions there. Where Negroes Don't Vote. "I believe the Republican declaration in favor of reduced representation in Southern states is one of the vital issues in this campaign," said the governor. "That's why I am going to talk some on 'Shall the People Rule.' So long as the Southern Democrats exclude the Negroes from participating in election just so long should their representation be based on their reduced vote." The governor has had some election figures looked up. They show that at the last presidential election, Iowa cast 485,703 votes and was entitled to 13 presidential electors. Florida only cast 27,046 votes and had 5 presidential electors; Alabama, 100,694 votes with 11 electors; Mississippi, 58,383, with 10 electors; Louisiana, 56,908 with 9 electors; Texas, 234,008 with 18 electors. This made a total of 474,029 votes with 53 electors in the five Southern states named. Thus Iowa cast 11,674 more votes than the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, yet those states had four times as many electors as Iowa. Has the 'Dope to Prove it. At the election held in 1904 there were cast in the state of Michigan 520,437 votes. Michigan has 14 electors. Yet Louisiana casting only 53,908 votes and Florida casting only 27,046 were entitled to the same number of electors. The total vote of Florida and Louisiana was only 81,054. Deducting these from the total vote of Michigan it will be seen that 539,383 of the votes cast in Michigan had no result whatever in the election of a president when WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, OCT. 3, 1908. compared with the vote of Florida and Louisiana. The states of California, Oregon and Washington cast in 1904 n aggregate of 550,442 votes and had 19 presidential electors. Florida, Georgia, Texas and Virginia, with a total of 29,766 had 48 presidential electors. Governor Hoch will endeavor in his campaign speeches to arouse the people of Kansas on this subject. The Republican candidates for congress in Kansas also hold these views and they will no doubt try and force the passage of a bill in congress next year reducing Southern representation in congress, which will also have the effect of reducing Southern representation in the electoral college. The ladies of the home cooking club met with Mrs. W. H. Jones, 906 N. Water Street, in a business meeting. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Sam Collins. President. Mrs. J. T. Chenneth. Vice President. Mrs. W. H. Jones, Treasurer. Mrs. Ben Butler, Sec. Mrs. Will Jones, Reporter. The club will meet with Mrs. Anderson the 9th of October. The ladies will have the regular menu at the next meeting and hope all the ladies will be present and start out happily or this coming year. WHO CREATED THE PENSION SYSTEM? Nearly all Union veterans vote with the party of Lincoln and Grant, the party which created and maintained the pension system under which nearly four thousand million dollars have been paid out to survivors of the Union armies and to the widows and orphans of soldiers who have passed away. It may interest Union veterans to know that the Democratic state of Virginia discriminates against them by exempting from the poll tax as a prerequisite to vote those only who served in the army or navy of the Confederacy, no similar exemption being provided for Union soldiers, of whom there are many in the state. This is quite a recent change in the constitution of Virginia, having gone into force in 1904, when the American people showed whatt hey thought of Democratic rule in nation and state by piling up a record breaking majority for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. There is every indication that Taft and Sherman will be borne to success on another tidal wave, and survivors of the Union armies, who still number a vry large proportion of the electorate, will undoubtedly vote for the Republican party, which has always stood by the veterans, and against the party which holds the Union soldier to be less worthy of the ballot than the former Confederate. A SAMPLE OF MANY. The following is an instance and a small pointer as to how things will go in Kansas this year: KANSAS DEMOCRAT FOR TAFT. J. W. Moore of Marion Suporting Entire Republican Ticket. Topeka, Sept. 29.—(Special.)—J. W. Moore of Marion, Democratic candidate for congress in the Fourth district two years ago, is working for the Republican ticket this year from Taft down. He has not only tendered his services to the Republican state committee, but has also come through with a good fat contribution. The state committee will bill him for several speeches. Mr. Moore is even heartily supporting his opponent of two years ago—Congressman Miller. Mr. Bryan shows what an unconscious humorist he is when he tells Judge Taft, after the latter has been so long in the public service, to go and make a record for himself. Yet Mr. Fryan, in spite of his in- "Shall the people rule?" See the tolerant treatment of the sound money official records of the votes cast in Democrats, appears to cherish the 1896 and 1890. "TAFT DAY" IN KANSAS. Will Be One of the Most Important Events This Year. "Taft Day" next Saturday promises to be a memorable day in Kansas. If the plans of Chairman Dolley, of the Republican state committee, carry, and they no doubt will, the Taft meeting in Topeka will be the largest political gathering ever held in the state. The recent big Bryan meeting will look like a shadow compared to it. Invitations have been sent to 10,000 Republicans in the state and special trains will be run from al adjacent territory. The Taft meeting will be preceded by a torchlight procession and fireworks. In addition to the Topeka meeting the people along the Santa Fe will assemble at the different large towns to hear Taft from the tail end of his special train and to participate in the al day rallies that are being arranged. Chairman Dolley will take charge of the Taft train at Denver on the night of October 2 and will make a special effort to have the Santa Fe bring it through Kansas on time. Chairman Dolley is running the Republican campaign on an entirely different plan than that used in the past. He is financing no sideshows nor ignoring county organizations. He is simply making a straight, clean cut campaign, presenting Republican issues in a forceful way and avoiding any mud slinging. In the field he is operating directly through the county organizations. He is depending upon them to do the local work and is holding them responsible. He believes that the function of a state committee is to be the director general of a campaign, furnishing speakers and literature, advising county committees and ironing out troubles that cannot be handled locally. But the field work he insists should be done by the county committees. That his plan has met with popular favor is evidenced by the energetic an deceptive work being done by the county committees everywhere in the state. WILL THEY RETURN? If William Jennings Bryan, still holding fast to the ruinous dogma of free silver, imagines that the patriotic sound money Democrats who opposed his candidacy in 1896 and 1900 will stultify themselves by supporting him this year, he is doomed to an overwhelming disappointment. His studied silence on the financial question will not deceive the independent members of the party who revoiled against the Bryan menace of repudiation and dishonor twelve years ago. His policy is quite as hateful to them now as it was then. They remember that in nearly every one of his speeches in 1896 he insulted and sneered at them. As an example, take the following from his speech in Memphis, Tenn., on October 5 of that year: "I want to tell you what I told others: That if you think the gold standard is absolutely necessary to the welfare of this country, you make a great mistake if you vote for me, because, if I can help it, the gold standard won't stay in this country for one moment." Mr. Bryan has always insisted that there should not and could not be any compromise between those who opposed the gold standard and those who supported it. He is on record in scores of instances as denouncing its Democratic supporters as men "who want to use the party organization for private gain and their country for public plunder." He has notified the Democrats leaving their party because of his advocacy of ree silver to "take their baggage with them ad not expect to come back," and he has boasted that he does not know of a set of men he would rather lose than the gold Democrats. hope that they will compromise with conscience and vote for him this year. He forgets that their revolt in 1896 was inspired by devotion to a moral rather than a political principle. They took the position that questions affecting the national honor and the national credit were not legitimate subjects for partisan controversy, that no party can bind its members to support a policy which runs counter to their conscience, and that the integrity of party government implies the right of the individual to rebel against party mandates when his own sense of duty requires him to do so. There isn't a shred of evidence to show that Mr. Bryan's position on the coinage question has changed. There is every reason to believe that the attitude of the sound money Democrats remains absolutely unchanged. That the twice-defeated advocate of free silver, repudiation and dishonor should expect the support this year of the self-respecting Democrats who voted for his overthrow in 1896 and 1900, is simply another manifestation of his ridiculous notion that they are either cowards or fools. EVERY MAN'S RIGHT. When the framers of that immortal document, the Declaration of Independence, wrote "these truths we declare are self-evident, that all men are endowed with certain inallenabe rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness" with that declaration, later made the spirit, guide, and law of our land, gave to each and every man the unquestionable right to be the "sole dictator of his own conscience." It has always been and is now the full policy of the Searchlight to extend to every man a due and respectful regard to his opinion—political, religious and otherwise. This is as it should be and far be it from us to even desire its change. But in times like these when it seems that the Negro race is almost completely engulfed in an era of Negro ostricism, Negro discrimination, Jim Crow humiliation, wherever the Democraite party is in power, it does seem we say, that in times like these, when Republican success means infinitely so much for the Negro and Democraite his downfall. In these times it is extremelw vexing to one who has the interest of the whole race at heart to hear Negroes find room or time to even think of voting with the National Democratic party. It is just like "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" something is wrong. It should not take very much talk to convince a Negro that he is in bad company flirting with Democracy. One of their ring-tail leaders, Tillman, says: "Yes, we shot 'em. We stuffed the ballot box. We killed the damned Niggers." In democracy Vardaman would be your play mate. He said in his campaign for Gov. of Mississippi: "If I thought I was to be elected as Governor with one Negro vote. I would spurn the office, and refuse to serve. Down with the "Niggers." No Nigger vote for me." Surely such types do not believe that "all men are created equal" and yet these are true types of Democracy. Beginning this week the state committee will bill Governor Hoch. Senator Curtis and Senator Long for the rest of the campaign. Governor Hoch sah ben busy up to his time with officii business. Senator Curtis has been campaigning in Indiana and other states. Senator Long has been devoting his time to private aalrs but from now on these three big guns will be at the disposal of the state committee and will whoop things up for the entire Republican ticket from Taft down. Bryan has settled the bank deposit question in his own mind, but the question of the deposit of ballots in November still worries him. President Roosevelt's bout with Bryan and Governor Haskell has done Judge Taft much good in Kansas. It has called attention to the fact that Bryan has made peace with all the corrupt Democrats of the nation whom he frequently denounced in the past and that through overnor Haskell he has got in close touch with the Standard Oil trust and other gigantic corporations. On the other hand Taft has spurned all offers to compromise with the trusts or their allies. Kansas gave Roosevelt 129,000 majority four years ago. Her people believe in Roosevelt and his policies with all their heart and soul, and now that he has exposed the Democratic scheme, they will rally to his call and vote for Taft as they would for him were he running himself. Bryan says his place in history is assured. Sure; it will be found in the appendix. All that is left for Bryan to do is to write a nice letter about himself in answer to the Roosevelt letter to Taft, From the rapidity and style of Judge Taft's answers, it is not likely that Bryan will invite him to speak any more. Jerry Botkin, the Democratic candidate for governor, says that W. R. Stubbs is a rank ingrate for turning against the railroads after he had made all his money off of them. This leads ex-Lieutenant Governor Harvey to observe: "How much greater an ingrate is Rev. Botkin. After being cured by Peruna, as he loudly boasted in the newspapers he had been, he now turns on his benefactor and runs for office on a prohibition platform." Mr. Bryan's sign reads: "Paramount Issues Made While You Wait." "Fehind the Democracy," says the Bryan campaign book, "are the eternal and irresistible forces which bring victory to the truth." The Democracy is bound that these forces shall never overtake it. Bryan's political principles are like the price of whale oil—subject to change without notice. Most campaign poetry is bad. This year it's worse. The royal Morocco shoe seems to be on the other foot. Prof. Lichtenberg seems to think Vesuvius more easily quenched than a cultivated thirst. Elopements are all the go. Repentance follows hard and fast on their heels just the same. Can't some of these brilliant reformers be induced to convert mosquitoes to vegetarianism? Having just fined the French cable company $5,000,000. Castro contemplates quite a sinewy little war. It may be that Castro is too busy saving up his money for a rainy day to attend to international politics. The Indiana girl who was fined for wearing a sheath gown finds that the objectionable slit in the skirt comes high. They are now changing their clothes four times a day down at Newport. This includes putting on some for breakfast presumably. Colonels must repeat their 90-mile ride because on the first trip they used more than one horse apiece. Apparently it's the horse that is being tested. Queen Alexandra declares she will no more wear feathers of nesting birds in her hats and bonnets. So fashion will probably accomplish what humanity cannot do. A Philadelphia motorman who has inherited $150,000 refuses to give up his job; but, of course, in time he will find that he can have just much fun with an automobile. cA TRE SEARCHLIGHT, eee Oe care, . cara (£5 aa RTE @.N. MILLER................-Editor Batered at the Post Office at Wichita, Bansas, as Second Class Mall Matter. Puvtioned “Every Gotunday at on, North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION - Strictly in Advance. @ne Year (By Mail)..............$1.00 ix Months (By Mail)............ 78. 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Any erroneous reflection on the @baracter, standing or reputation of amy person which may appear in this Paper “will be gladly corrected if Drought to the attention of the editor. seimmiettighiaeetalaciiiialatamisiainedi tinea REPUBLICAN TICKET Election, Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 1908. _ NATIONAL. For President William H, Taft..........64-+4...Ohlo For Vice- President James 8. Sherman..........New York STATE. For United States Senator J. L. Bristow.............Saline county . For Governor W. R. Stubbs.........Douglas County For Lieutenant-Governor W. J. Fitzgerald..........Ford County For Secrtary of State . B. Denton...........Harper County For Auditor of State. J. M. Nation...........Neosho County For Superintendent of Pupblic Instruc- tion . F. Fairchild......Ellsworth County For Attorney General F. S. Jackson......Greenwood County For Treasurer of State Mark Tully.......Montgomery County For Superintendent of Insurance Charles W. Barnes......Osage County 2 For State Printer ‘'T. A. McNeal........Shawnee County For Railroad Commisstoners ©. A. Ryker.............-Reno County Geo. W. Kanavel......Harvey County Frank J. Ryan....Leavenworth County For Justice of Supreme Court A, W. Benson........Franklin County Henry F. Mason........Finney County Clark A. Smith.......-Mitchell County CONGRESSIONAL. Representative in Congress Victor Murdock...........-.+ Wichita COUNTY. State Senator...........J. H. Stewart Rep. Tist District........:E. B. Jewett Rep. 72 District...........Clift’ Matson Rep. 784 District..........N. Gecsman Co. Com. Second District..8. B. Kernan Co, Com, Third Oistrict.......++++ seeressseeessoA. M, Relchenberger County Clerk......-.....--3.L. Leland County Treasurer.........0. W. Jones Register of Deeds.....Joseph Bowman County Attorney..........A. J. Adams Probate Judge....-....-.-.E. E. Enoch Sheriff. .......eeeeeee-We Le Appling Coroner....-..+..-.-M, M. MeCollister County Superintendent..J. W. Swaney Surveyor............-.John K. Brown District Judge........Thomas C. Wilson Clerk District Court....W. C. Malone Judge City Court.......James L. Dyer Clerk City Court..++.... «8. L, Barre Marshall City Court....-...C. W. Roo! " It is strange that some of those Ne- groes who are so very anxious about Demoeratic success do not go South where the Democratics are in full pow- er, Could they vote there? NIT! Find me a community where Demo- cratic doctrine is taught,and in which the Negro has a ‘square deal” and I will show you a community which Is not true to its teachings. Democratic success and Negro suc- cess are like oil and water—they won't mix, Pay what you owe to the Search- light. Be honest. é | LOCALS ————_. | THE RESUME OF THIS WEEK— ‘ERT Send your news notes and local b.openivgs {0 601 Worth Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? | Vote for 8. B. Kernan for County Commissioner from the First, Second Naat eaten eee Mrs, Robert Davis of Kingman ar- rived in the city Saturday evening and ‘wall, spend several months in Wichita as the gilest of Mrs. W. N. Mills. John Covington, Mrs. Bd Landrum, Mrs. Lucy Anderson and Mrs. M. De- mon, of Leadville, Colo., were pleasant callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, 1650 South Topeka avenue, this week. ee Mrs. J. E. Lewis is confined to her sick bed at her home, 307 North Mead avenue, «’ Rev. and Mrs, William Turner came up from Pratt Monday. Rev. Turner will return Thursday. Rev. J. H. Van Lew ts proving a valuable member of thé Republican county central committee. The party needs to congratulate itself upon se- curing him as a member of this im- portant party organization. Rev. J. F.C. Taylor and Hon. Thos. Glover left Tuesday morning for To- peka, where they go to attend the A. M. E. annual conference. Mrs. Mary Clark left Monday for Topeka to visit among friends. | Mrs. Sam W. Jones and son, John D., left Monday for Topeka, where they wil spend about two weeks visit- ing friends. Rey. S. S. Washington left Monday for the annual conference in Topeka. Rev. Washington will make a splendid report from his church in Newton, where he has done good work this year. Dr. H. T. Bolden, Wichita’s colored dentist, made a pleasant visit to Eldo- rado Monday and reports quite profit- able LOOK OUT FOR PRATT. Rev. Willam Turner, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Pratt, was a pleasant caller at our sanctum Tues- day. We are informed that he people jot Pratt are just about completing ‘a parsonage 28 by 28, modern, for their ‘pastor and his family and are about to plan for a new church to cost not less than $1,500. Dr, Turner says that a $1,500 church “sounds good to him.” The people of the Pratt church are made up of farmers and men and wo- men of means and if they make up their minds to have a $1,500 church they will have it. Rev. Turner is the right kind of pastor to plan success Lee Cetra When you want cement stone or Plastering done, call up new. phone 127 and give W. L. Herman a chance. His work and prices are both right. HAVE CALLED A PASTOR. Second Baptist Church Calls Rev. George W. Smith of Paris, Tex. - AN ABLE MINISTER. The Second Baptist church, one of the leading colored churches of Wich- 1;that church as their pastor. Rev. mended by both the ministry and lay- [| speaker and is a man of education, re- s|Gnement and ministerial experience. oa the most prominent men and women in Wichita and the membership of this oe ee ee city. The Searchlight extends to Rev. : Sess RS ane THE WICHITA STARCHLIGN: Smith a most cordial weleome to our] WOMEN’S CLUB D city and hope his pastorate will be| A concise statement profitable, not only to the members|among the colored wor ft hi did. chureh, every ee ak | chureh, ut © e885] THe BOOKER WASHI ™ WICHITA, é eS Hour of meeting 2:80 tc Engaged in needle, ¢ WHY NOT WORK IN HARMONY?|... 3 gaa There ts only a little “handful” of colored people in Wichita when com- pared with the great number of whites in our city, and It does seem to us that it ought to be possible for them ‘to work together in peace and harmony. None of them are “rich,” as that term applies today, and none of them have Jany more than they really need. ‘There is no excuse for “back-biting,” big- headedness,” etc. None of them are given any special privileges—and those things which are open or granted to one Is open and granted to all. Much ‘more good can be accomplished as a jrace by a more harmonious under- |standing and friendly feeling existing among them. Circumstances and con- ditions make every Negro “his broth- er's Keeper” here and elsewhere and you must give an account of your good or bad keeping. All of them are subject to errors and mistakes—like other humanity—then why not work In harmony? Do not consider it @ dis- grace to patronize a Negro enterprise of today—because, perchance, your boy or your girl may seek the same patron- ‘ge at other hands tomorrow. You can glve your patronage to the white man, but when you do this all's at an end. While with the Negro he must spend his money at the colored churches, in suporting a colored home and in advancing the race. It is a pitiable sight to see and a seandal to hear Negroes decrying Negro enter- prises—when at the same time they have boys and girls in whom they look forward to a bright future and hear those same lips who deny and de- nounce Negro enterprises and seek to find some flimsy excuse for not patron- izing them tell of the great hopes which he cherishes for the future of his boy or girl. Every Negro mother or father cherishes this hope—yet they give it the lle—by refusing absolutely to patronize Negro enterprises them- selves. If your boy or girl climb the ladder of fame he or she must do so because he or she Is a Negro, and be- cause the race extends to the Its favor, no matter what the duty. ‘Then shame on you who deny your own enter- prises, Why. not work in harmony? As an excuse some say: “I don’t like. tha ‘Nigger’ who runs so and s0,. Suppose every one would “sit down" like you.” You would have been dead Jong ago. If this Negro can supply your demand, patronize him. Why not work In harmony? Every Negro in Wichita is placed on the same level 80 far as affairs go, so what's the use in chiding, falling out, pouting, ete. Why no work in harmony? It costs = more, and Is far more profitable. In reply to the Roosevelt letter, Bry- an attacks the Roosevelt policies. And yet he claims to Rave originated most of them. In The Busy Bargain Basement f Teazledown Outings— In mill ) yards; light, medium and dark col- ‘stripes Extra heavy fleeced Bi tea yard. Bargain Basement O8 hed Sheetings—In mill lengths of 1 to 10 gement ...... w.... 25¢ uinens— In factory lengths of 2 to 10 colors; worth 40c yd. Now....... 256 shirtings— One entire case of a thou- grounds, with stripes; neat figures hina ar lavender. Raeaniar. She wae. 5,000 Yards of Teazledown Outings— In mill lengths of 10 to 20 yards; light, medium and dark col- ors, in checks and stripes Extra heavy fleeced gi outings, worth 124¢ a yard. Bargain Basement O38 {6-4 Pepperel Bleached Sheetings—In mill lengths of 1 to 10 yards. Bargaiu Basement ...... ...... 25¢ Heathorblcom Linens— In factory lengths of 2 to 10 yards; plain black colors; worth 40c yd. Now....... 256 Fancy Madras Shirtings— One entire case of a thou- sand yards; white grounds, with stripes; neat figures and dots, in black, blue or lavender. Regular 25¢ ma- dras shirtings, in mill lengths 10 to 20 yds. Now 15¢ One Case of Yard-wide Bleached Muslin— Smooth, even quality; 10 to 20-yd lengths; worth 8 1-8¢. Bargain Basement 6$¢ White Dotted Curtain Swisses— Extra width—meas uring 45 inches; regular 18¢ qualities; factory lengths 2 to 10 yards. Bargain Basement 12ke Crash Toweling— A 1,000 yard lot of Bleached and Unbleached Linen Crash: lengths of 1 to 5 vards. Reg- ular 124¢ and 15c qualities. Bargain Basement 10c ‘Cotton Blankets— 500 pairs Soft, Thick Fleeted Cot- ton Blankets, in tan and grey, with faney borders: full 11 4 size: an early season offering in the Bargain Base- ment. Pair $1.25 ODLON VOC B Bit 107 eM TTT EK, 7r arenes, / MALLE NSTEN 00K WOMEN’S CLUB DIRE7CTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. THE BOOKER WASHINGTON CLUB WICHITA, KS. Hour of meeting 2:80 to 4:80 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and it- erary work, Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every ‘Thursday ‘afternoon, Mrs, ‘Thos. Glover, prest- dent; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. THE HOME COOKING CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. ngaged in the culinary art. Pro- gressive ideas in fancy and home cook- ing. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday after- noons of each month. Mrs, Will H. Jones, President; Miss Jennie Wheeler, Secretary, THE W. T. VERNON CLUB, WICHITA, KAN. Hour of meeting 2:30 p.m. Engaged in needle, charity and Mterary work. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B. Hockett, president, Mrs, S. Griggs, secretary. Office Hours 9 m to 6 pm Sundays by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST Belt Phone 2467 507N. MainSt Wichita, Kan i Satisfaction — IN EVERY POUND OF — “Wichita’s Best” Flour POENISCH BROS,, Agents 622 N. Main Street We also carry a complete stock of Hay, Grain, Feed and Soal. 530 — Both Phones — 530 TT TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. Rev. James L. Washington, the boy preacher, with his father, who has been blind for the last 18 years, has been with Pastor Countee for nearly a week. The boy preacher has had full houses every night and his ser- mons are highly instructive. The boy is a wonder. He repeats from mem- ory 536 chapters of the Bible and with his plain, practical preaching many are led toysee Jesus the Christ and believe in Him. The cold snap of last Sunday inter- fered very much with our morning service and Sunday school attendance was slim. The state convention of the Bap- tists will convene in Atchison on Tues- day before the second Lord’s day and our pastor anticipates attending. Rev. Countee will begin a series of Bible readings on next Tuesday night and invites all who are interested to all the questions they desire. Meeting I oieliniak ¢assenne CLUB, REE ag a | Otocn's Davo Sron, ; Prescriptions Filled with Care gn Dengs of all hinds, Cigars and Tobacco ,. ; Your patronage solicited. + Onee a customer, singel ; qustemer. Our store is Headquaaters for Colored veal | 615 North Main st. Uae ea dandensulelsaueces ceccrscctacenteere SUSE TETLSEISSTERDDSTESERESESSSSEESES ITI Iy : “ Second to None” econd to None ”: : PLEASES Good Bread Makers : It ls White As Snow—TRY IT : The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Foog + are all guaranteed under the United States Lay, Serial No. 18415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Martel Rencececececceceezececeece receneeeeeeseeee sss seein: oe HOUCK _|Peerless Hardware store First Class Goods at S Lowest Prices tea mM 116 East Douglas Avenue T e O+pyiIn TT? Dr. J. E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeen —Diseases of — Women and Children A Specialty Office 703 N. Main St. Use Murray’s Reliable Nerve Balm Murray's Reliable Antiseptic Salv Murray's Reliable Extracts Marray’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. 808 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita — — -— Kansas ee W@W. S$. HENRION or X. Main £0, Wichita, Kans. TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. TT Job Printing We have installed anew . line of Jos TyPz Faces and we would be pleas- ed to use them ona job for you. Good Work- -Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. SRD BT TRO SUT L. S. Nafteger, President, W. R. Tuck er, Vice-President. J. M. Moore, Vice President, 0. W. Brown, Vice Presi- dent, V. Hl. Branch, Gashier. WICHITA, KANSAS United States Depository Capital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 Dirretors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Holmes, 8. B. Amidon, J. M. ‘Moore, L. 8. Nattsger, H. W. Darling, ‘A. G. Houston, EC. Sheldon, ©. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Hen ry Lassen, V. IT. Braneb, AGeneral Banking Business Transacted YOUR GOODS BAFE if you store them with us—Miller Storage Co. 634 'N. Water. Peerless | Steam Laundry Wichita’s Ol"est, Most Re Hable and Best Laundy BEST LAUNDRY WORK (4 THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER ft SONS, Prep. = 232 245 N. Markel CRESS At AB Weeser | Druggist | Free Delivery. We wil) cal! forasd Deiiver Your Prescriptions | 811 N. Main St. New Phone et | STORAGE | We havea nice, dry, saa itary Storage Room...... Goods stored with us is safe. Rates the lowest MILLERSTORAGE COMPANY 634 North Water St. Dr. E. Harrison| Physician & Surgeon ~ SURGERY A SPECIALTY-~ Ofiive Hours Ytollam Residence 2teop m. 703 N. Main St Tt 8y.m. OFFICE 601 N, MAIN ST Phone €€0 picin BUY LU MBEk esscat rH METZ'S Gomer 3rd & Main Groceries, Weal GENERAL MERCHANDISE We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fanc¥ Groceries and Clo cet Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men, Women and Ubil- dren’s Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or price. Free Delivery Tapp & Hansha” 265-257 N. Main St Phone woost For wichi7s 5” PRISES. Supplement to The WICHITA, : : : : KANS. Fan Losing Favor. It is said the fan trade is steadily declining, and this, too, in spite of the fact that at no time has that graceful weapon of coquetry and comfort been so universal. Some of the leading fan houses in Paris have closed their doors, and one of the best fan-makers, whose patronage includes the elite of Europe, declares the day is past when long prices will be paid for fans. One instantly seeks the reason for the change of sentiment which thus affects trade. The aforesaid fan-maker explains it by saying the German copies of the expensive styles have done a good deal to injure first-class trade. The richest customers buy only antiques. Instead of seeking the work of modern artists who make exquisite pictures they will fly into raptures over a dirty old fan that is by no means beautiful, merely because it is an "antique," and a possible Louis XVI. Not long since a lady went into ecstasies before a beautiful fan painted only the other day. She declared she had seen nothing lovelier in any art exposition in Europe, that nothing was done nowadays like it; it was genuine. She was not at all pleased when told the truth that it had been made in those very workrooms. The Japanese fan has proved a formidable rival to the artistic French fan. It is pretty and dainty, but its price damms it with faint praise. What lady arrayed in a $1,000 costume could fan herself with a bit of colored paper? asks the Boston Herald. But the majority of women eschew fans. They are only carried on state occasions, for no one wants to be bothered with their care. A museum is the best place for this rare antique, particularly if it has any historic association guaranteed. Man Still a Savage The civilized world is reverting. It plines for brutalities, it hankers for horrors, and it grovels before the spectacle of animal pain. Don't you believe it? Then you do not know what is happening in the most enlightened quarters of the earth. It is useless to enumerate the cruelties practiced in the name of pleasure or of science. For one, I hate at dwell upon what exists in this educated, supposedly Christianized world, exclaims a writer in the Boston Herald. Man is still a savage. Whether it is pigeon shooting, bull fights, sport in the jungle, a privately arranged bull and tiger combat, or even the accepted prize ring maulings, he craves the emotion, the maddening, blood-curdling frenzy this process of killing excites. There are degrees, it is true, and the brutal instinct may not relish seeing hapless birds drop whit broken wings as much as watching a bull and tiger shut in a cage battling out their bloody strength, but it is all one in the main, a bestial excitement. But we are told that spectators at such scenes are few compared with all those who have made a better and safer life for humanity at large. One never can tell. Sometimes the police step in, as they did at the savage exhibition in Marsilles, and end the "sport." But the police cannot reach the source of such inhuman amusement. Primrose day, set apart by the admirers of Disraeli, is still observed by them in England, we believe. According to information contained in Henry W. Lucy's recently published parliamentary reminiscences, there is no reason why its observance should be continued under that name. Its designation is based upon the assumption that the primrose was Lord Beaconsfield's favorite flower. At his funeral a wreath of primroses lay on his coffin bearing the inscription: "His favorite flower," to which the queen's initials were added. It seems, however, that when the queen wrote the inscription she had in mind the prince consort and his cherished flower. Mr. Lucy remarks that the only remembered observation made by Disraeli concerning primroses was that they made an excellent salad. Now comes the distressing information that a straw hat fastened on the head of a workhorse during the hot weather has no other effect than to add to the poor animal's sufferings by making its head still hotter. A philanthropic gentleman with a thermometer made this discovery. Let him carry his investigations a little further. Isn't the air inside a straw hat worn by a fat man hotter than the air outside, and would it not be better for him to go bareheaded? One of the Wright brothers of aeroplane fame has been decorated with a medal. He will have to wear it in the exact geographical center of his manly chest in order not to interfere with the pulse of his machine. There are some pessimistic persons who believe that the Dutch would find it about as interminable a job to conquer Casero as they have found it to subjugate the indomitable Atchinese in north Sumatra. ARCHBOLD TALKS TELLS ASSOCIATED PRESS OF THEFT OF LETTERS FROM HIS FILES. SAYS HEARST BOUGHT THEM The Standard Oil President Declares Some of the Letters Were Photographed and Then Returned. New York, Sept. 30.—A new phase of the discussion of the so-called "Standard Oil correspondence," made public recently by William R. Hearst, was entered upon late Tuesday when John D. Archbold, vice president of the Standard Oil company, made a statement to the Associated press, setting forth details of the alleged theft of correspondence from his files. Former United States Senator John Lowndes McLaurin of South Carolina also entered the field with a signed statement declaring his attitude in the matter of the correspondence between himself and Mr. Archbold. Mr. Archbold said: "In response to many inquiries as to the theft of letters from my files, the following may be made known: "Over three years ago a report reached me that certain of my letters had been offered for sale to newspapers of this city, avowedly as stolen letters. Examination showed that some letters were missing and that they could only have been taken by some one not only familiar with the office details, but highly trusted. The party on whom suspicion fell stuntly denied all guilt. A little later, however, a man who represented himself as acting between the thief and those to whom the letters had been sold, proposed to return some of the letters for a consideration. His story was that the idea of the theft had been conceived by his brother, who had at one time been in the company's employ, and that his brother has induced the employee already suspected to accomplish the theft. According to the go-between's story, he had disposed of the letters, or some of them, two men who purchased them on behalf of Mr. Hearst's newspaper, the journal. Not only had stolen letters been thus traded for, but the thief was induced to carry off one or moreetter copying books, many of whose pages he claims were photographed, other pages being removed altogether. The books in question were, the go-between said, returned after 48 hours. It is impossible to say how many were stolen and sold in this way. The thieves worked at their leisure. It is not thought necessary to say more at present, or to mention names. Corruption of the go-between's story of three years ago lay in his return of some of the correspondence at the time. The production of stolen letters by Mr. Hearst is further corroboration now. Obviously, among such a coterie, authenticity of their output is not to be lightly accepted. The opportunities for falsification, suppressing of context, and distortion of passages are many." Want Their Baggage Reduced Want Their Baggage Reduced. Washington, Sept. 30.—Importance of lessening the baggage carried by the enlisted men of the army is forcefully set out in various reports of the department commanders to the secretary of war made public Tuesday. Injured in a Class Eight. Delphi, Ind., Sept. 30—In a class fight between the classes of the high school Monday, Larry Coble, president of the junior class, was seriously injured with a shotgun. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Senator Beveridge is to make several speeches in Kansas beginning about October 12. The United States auxiliary cruiser Prairie arrived at Colon Tuesday morning from Hampton Roads. A gang of robbers succeeded in blowing open the safe of the State Bank of Ladysmith, Wis., getting safety away with $3,000 in cash. Senator Bailey of Texas emphatically denies the published statement that he was going to resign on account of his Standard Oil connections. During the past year $3,279,529 in new bonds were issued in Kansas, according to the report of the state auditor just issued. Montgomery county led with $539,972. Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, and Miss Gertrude Dietrich, daughter of ex-Senator Dietrich of Nebraska, were recently married at Farmington, Conn. The coinage of the United States was criticised at the opening session of the American Numismatic association, which began its annual convention at Philadelphia Tuesday. A special dispatch from Teheran to the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger says that the imperial troops have suffered defeat at Tabriz and as a consequence, and on the advice of the members of its cabinet, the shah has decreed that parliament be opened on October 30. John W. Kern and James S. Sherman, candidates respectively on the Democratic and Republican tickets for the office of vice president, met recently in the lobby of the Auditorium Annex at Chicago, shook hands and talked a few moments before leaving for their trains. RUSHING THE SCRAP HERO. BURKE FAT. TO THE COURTY BROWN. SCRELL OF THE SCRAP. BROGRIST WORKS IN THE COUNTRY AND WORKS BROTHERS3. BURKE FAT. WITH THE COMPETER MY EVER. BURKE FAT. IS STRONG AND SWEET. WHERE THE SMALLEST COMPETER HOME. INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. DROUGHT LOSSES TAFT'S KANSAS SCHEDULE SITUATION IN WESTERN PENN SYLVANIA EASTERN OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA IS SERIOUS. HEAVY DAMAGE IN ALL LINES Lack of Water in District About Pittsburg Will Cost Millions of Dollars—Epidemic Anticipated. Pittsburg, sept. 29.—With losses aggregating several million dollars from forest fires and heavy damage to crops and live stock, the reported loss of a number of lives due to fighting timber conflagrations, the inforced idleness of thousands of workmen, owing to the suspension because of the lack of water, the health authorities anticipating serious epidemic of contagious diseases and many small streams dried up and practically obliterated, the drought of 1908 which has held western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia in its grasp for more than two months, remains unbroken, each day gradually increasing the seriousness of the unprecedented situation. While in the Pittsburg district the water supply is sufficient to carry on all business, the low stage of the rivers has caused a congestion of much coal in this vicinity. Every available barge and float has been loaded with coal and at present, with almost 20,000,000 bushels in the Pittsburg harbor, the river coal mines have been compelled to shut down for the want of shipping facilities. There are about 15,000 miners employed in the river mines along the Monongahela valley. This great fleet of coal is for the supply of points in the west and south and probabilities are there will be a coal famine experienced, especially in the northwest, should conditions prevent the shipment of the coal before cold weather sets in. In West Virginia lumber plants, glass factories and iron and steel mills, located along the rivers, are closed on account of insufficient water. In eastern Ohio the same conditions prevail and it is feared the great iron and steel mills at Youngstown, O., employing over 20,000 men, will have to suspend operations unless the drought is speedily broken. In all sections of the dry zone prayers are offered up daily and these prayers will continue until they are answered with rain. Mahoney City, Pa., Sept. 29.—To relieve the water famine in the mining towns of New Boston, Buck Mountain and Morea and to secure a sufficient supply to start up the collieries which have been idle for over a week, the Mill Creek company have a force of drillers working night and day boring artesian wells. In many of the churches Sunday prayers were offered for rain. Made 457 Converts Raised $2,000 Phillipsburg, Kan., Sept. 30.—Rev. French E. Oliver of Kansas City closed an evangelistic meeting here Monday night which has been in progress since August 30. As a result of his work 457 converts were made. A voluntary offering of $996.06 was received to pay the expenses of the meeting, and $1, 048.83 was contributed to pay the evangelist and his three assistants. Baldwin Balloon Shipped East. Baltimore Bailoom Skipped East. St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 29. - Dirigible balloon No. 1 of the war department, which has been used here in experimental flights during the military tournament, has been shipped to Fort Myer, Virginia, in charge of Lieut. B. D. Foulois, Lieut. F. B. Lahm has gone to Omaha to take part in balloon flights there. Held for a Girl's Murder St. Louis, Sept. 29.—Jackson Long, the negro who was arrested Saturday afternoon on suspicion of being the murderer of Nellie Mayday Nienaber, 14 years old, who was found dead in a forest near Meacham park, a suburb, was held to the grand jury by the coroner of St. Louis county Sunday. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WILL CROSS STATE SATURDAY. To Make Eleven Speeches, Beginning at Garden City and Ending at Topeka. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 29.—The official schedule for the Taft special through Kansas was announced Monday at the offices of the Atchiton, Topeka & Santa Fe railway. The train is to leave Denver at 10:30 o'clock next Friday night, the national committee having agreed to see that Judge Taf' is in his car at that time. No time is given for the train until it reaches Garden City at 7:40 o'clock Saturday morning. It is scheduled to stop five minutes at that point, and Mr. Taf' will make a speech there. The train will be operated on an exceptionally fast schedule to that point, no stops being permitted except those neces sary to receive dispatches and sup plies. The schedule through Kansas follows: Arrive: (Mountain Time.) Depart 7:40 a.m. - Garden City: 7:45 a.m. (Mountain Time.) (Mountain and Central Time). 9:00 a.m. m... Dodge City ... 10:15 a.m. (Central Time.) 11:00 a. m. Kingsley 11:10 a. m. 12:13 p. m. Stafford 12:23 p. m. 1:25 p. m. Hutchinson 1:40 p. m. 2:25 p. m. Newton 2:40 p. m. 3:15 p. m. Florence 3:25 p. m. 4:05 p. m. Strong City 4:15 p. m. 4:30 p. m. Emporia 4:45 p. m. 5:27 p. m. Osage City 5:37 p. m. 6:30 p. Topeka Mr. Taft will arrive in Kansas City Sunday morning at 6:30 o'clock and he will remain there until Monday morning. St. Louis Highwayman Caught. St. Louis Highwayman Caught. Chicago, Sept. 23.—Lester Cooch, 21 years old, said to be wanted at Clayton, St. Louis county, Mo., for highway robbery, was arrested here Sunday night and taken to St. Louis Cooch and Daniel O'Meara are accused of having held up a merchant of Florissant, Mo., on a highway near Clayton April 19. O'Meara was arrested but Cooch escaped. He was captured on information furnished by the sheriff of St. Louis county and returned without extradition. Another Roosevelt Letter. Washington, Sept. 29.—President Roosevelt late Sunday night made reply to William J. Bryan's recent speech in which he maintained that the Democratic party and platform were not getting a square deal in the campaign. The president's reply deals particularly with Mr. Bryan's assertion that the administration has been neither sincere or effective in the prosecution of trusts. Political Disturbances in Cuba. Havana, Sept. 29—Political disturbances have begun to assume some gravity in Cuba. A conservative meeting at Sancti Spiritus, in Santa Clara province, was the occasion of a riot Sunday at which many were injured and in Havana Sunday night a meeting of the new negro party, headed by Gen. Estenoz, was broken up by Liberals who kept up a continuous shouting. Mr. Sherman in Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 29.—James S. Sherman, Republican candidate for vice president, arrived in Chicago Sunday afternoon. Monday night he is to be a speaker here before the Hamilton club. Other speakers are, to be Congressman Nicholas' Longworth and Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan. A. General Rain in Missouri. St. Louis, Sept. 29.—Rain began failing here at six o'clock Sunday morning and continued all day. The indications are that the sky will not clear until morning. The rain has been general throughout Missouri and so far as reported extends down the Mississippi valley as far as Vicksburg. Every negro church, school house and lodge room in an area of ten miles in Baker, Early and Calhoun counties, Ga., was recently burned by a band of masked riders. HELD FOR RUSTIN'S DEATH CHARLES E. DAVIS BOUND OVER AT OMAHA. Alleged Slayer of Physician Was Released on a Bond of $10,000. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 30.—Following a five days' legal battle before Police Judge Crawford, Charles Edward Davis was Tuesday afternoon bound over to the district court to answer the charge of murder in the first degree for the killing of Dr. Frederick Rustin on the morning of September 2. Bail was fixed at $10,000 which was promptly furnished by two brothers of the defendant and the accused man was permitted to go, although he will remain in charge of a guard who has been retained by the Davis family. Mrs. Abbie Rice, who has been detained in the matron's department at the police station since the shooting, it is stated, will be released on a nominal bond for her appearance in the district court as a witness. It is stated also that her father will take her back to Des Moines where she will remain until the trial is over. Dr. J. P. Lord and Mrs. Rice were both called in rebuttal Tuesday morning. Their testimony was brief, being for the purpose of refuting statements by the police that Lord had not told the officers of meeting a man answering Davis' description the night of the shooting and explanatory of why Mrs. Rice did not ride in the same seat on a street car with Rustin. The arguments occupied the rest of the time Tuesday. Attorney Gurley, for the defense, forcibly criticised the characters of witnesses placed on the stand by the prosecution, and particularly did Mrs. Rice come in for the harshest criticism. County Attorney English spoke but briefly, confining himself to what he termed a "poor attempt at an alibi" for the accused man, and telling the court that its duty was to bind the defendant over to the higher court. Injured in Nebraska Wreck Kearney, Neb., Sept. 30.—A fruit train crashed into No. 62, the Grand Island accommodation train, in the Union Pacific yards in this city late Tuesday afternoon. Six persons were injured, some of them seriously. The injured: Mrs. R. St. John, Gibbon, Neb., severely bruised; Mrs. T. Reynolds, Minneapolis, back injured, badly bruised; Mrs. E. Bowker, Kearney, Neb., bruised and cut; Mrs. Hazel Hillon, Amherst, Neb., spine injured; Raymond Fern, brakeman, collarbone broken. Taft on Tariff Revision. Sloux City, Ia., Sept. 30—Tariff revision mostly downward, but in some instances upward—notably on pottery—was the keynote of Candidate Taft's ten speeches Tuesday. In none of them did he forget to "go after" his Nebraska opponent. The Ohioan's campaign through South Dakota terminated here Tuesday night where he addressed a tremendous audience from the four states of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota. Fidelity Sues a Sanitarium. Topeka, Sept. 30.—The Fidelity Trust company of Kansas City filed suit Monday in the United States circuit court against the Anthropological Sanitarium company of Quenemo,usage county, Kan. The Fidelity company alleges that the Quenemo company borrowed $75,000 from it in 1896 and has made no effort to repay it. The petition also asks for possession of the property, which is said to have been deserted. Improvements at Fort Russell. Washington, Sept. 28.—Nearly $750,000 of construction work is to be undertaken by the war department at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. This includes provision for quarters, barracks and other buildings which will provide accommodations for a complete regiment of cavalry, another of artillery and a third of infantry, as well as two companies of the signal corps. Battery C Off for Philippines Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 30.—Battery C of the Fifth field artillery left here Tuesday night on a special train or two years' service in the Philippines. The battery consists of 125 enlisted men and three officers with Capt. D. E. Aultman in command. It will sail from San Francisco October and will be stationed at Fort McKinley near Manila. Oppose Guarantee Proposition. Denver, Col., Sept. 30.—The trust company section of the American bankers' association went on record Tuesday afternoon in opposition to the bank deposit guarantee proposition, making the third subsidiary association of the American bankers to declare itself on this subject. Russian Epidemic Increasing. Washington, Sept. 30.—The cholera epidemic in Russia is increasing, says a cablegram to the marine hospital service from a European representative of that bureau Monday. The principal centers of infection are St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, Gurjew, Kuban, Bostow and the Don valley. Late Kansas Corn Damaged. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 30.—Thousands of acres of late corn planted after the spring floods in the Kaw valley were greatly damaged by the severe frosts Sunday night. Property owners should know how to prove the purity and quality of white lead, the most important paint ingredient, before paying for it. To all who write, National Lead Co., the largest manufacturers of pure white lead, send a free outfit with which to make a simple and sure test of white lead, and also a free book about paint. Their address is Woodbridge Bldg., New York City. The Scramble for Wealth. If there is a sad thing in the world, it is the spectacle of the men and women who, in their mad scramble for wealth, have crushed out of their lives sentiment and the love of all that is beautiful and sublime. The very process by which they seek to win the means of enjoyment kills the faculties by which they can enjoy. When the average man wins his wealth he finds himself without the power of enjoyment, for the enjoying side of his nature is dead. He finds to his sorrow that the straining, striving life is also a starving one. AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS. Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills After Years of Suffering. F. A. Rippy, Depot Ave., Gallatin, Tenn., says: "Fifteen years ago kidney disease attacked me. The pain in my back was so agonizing I finally had to give up work. Then came terrible attacks of gravel with acute pain and passages of blood. In all I passed 25 stones, some as large ney disease attacked me. The pain in my back was so agonizing I finally had to give up work. Then came terrible attacks of gravel with acute pain and passages of blood. In all I passed 25 stones, some as large as a bean. Nine years of this ran me down to a state of continual weakness and I thought I never would be better until I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The improvement was rapid, and since using four boxes I am cured and have never had any return of the trouble." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Muggins—"When your wife sings suppose you forget all your troubles." Buggins — "Um—all my other troubles." TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA TO DRIVE AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM. Take the Old, Standard GROVES TASTELESS COOKING POTS and use them for making The formula is plausibly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children 60. The doing of evil to avoid another evil cannot be good.—Coloridge. Smokers have to call for Lewis' Single Binder cigar to get it. 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We solicit your trade C. O. VARNER, Proprietor KINER'S European Hotel Newly Furnished. Nice, Clean Rooms $1.50 and 352 North and RESTA 846 North Good Home Cooking, Prompt S Johnston CHITA 507 N. N Everything first-class. Elec Transient Trade — Re R. Johnston Furnished. Nice, Clean Beds 25c and 50c p Rooms $1.50 and 2.50 per week 352 North Main Street and RESTAURANT 846 North Main Street e Cooking, Prompt Service — Meals — S Chas. L. Kiner, P Johnston's Home A 507 N. Main St. K thing first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric ransient Trade — Restaurant in Connecti R. Johnston, Proprietor Newly Furnished. Nice, Clean Beds 25c and 50c per night Rooms $1.50 and2.50 per week 352 North Main Street Johnston's Hotel ICHITA 507 N. Main St. KANSAS Everything first-class. Electric Lighti, Electric Fans Transient Trade - Restaurant in Connection R. Johnston, Proprietor Straighten Your Hair known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. The success of success has proved its merit. It makes the hair straight, light, soft, and can comb it and arrange it in the hair you want. It prevents and prevents dandruff, invigorates stops the hair from falling out or and gives it new life and vigor. It harmsness—used with splendid remedies on the skin. kids children. imply perfumed, the pleasure, as implyed everywhere we declare. Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't bine else alleged to be "just as good." the best results, buy the best Pom- will pay you. Look for this name on every package. and deserts, will not supply you with that need us, express or postal money order upward your daughter's name and address upward bottle prepale to any points in U. mmercial mail on receipt of price. Address: Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., Eastern St. 8 Chicago, Ill. HAIR FOMADE is made only in Chi- lifornia above 6ft. Agents Wanted Everywhere. --- AIN and COAL ING A SPECIALTY Hay, Oats, Alfalfa, Sceen- ck Foods, Meal and Flour L. We solicit your trade R, Proprietor In Beds 25c and 50c per night 2.50 per week Main Street and RESTAURANT Main Street Service — Meals — Short Orders Chas. L. Kiner, Proprietor n's Hotel Main St. KANSAS Electric Lighti, Electric Fans restaurant in Connection Proprietor GAMS Sir D. L. Taylor Designer and Builder of Tent houses, Tabernacle houses and Temple houses. Prices in reach of all. Send your order to-day 829 East Center SALINA, KANSAS W. L. Herman CONTRACTING : PLASTERER 856 Eagle St., Wichita, Kan. ALL THINGS ARE WELL. That ends well—so pay your subscription to the Searchlight and get good THE WIGH SEARCHLIGHT A Smoke Talk At Home With green wood in the stove or fire place isn't what its cracked up to be We have lots of nice dry Wood cut in 16 inch and 2-foot lengths. Also plenty of GOOD COAL always on hand... HOTEL PHONE: 496-- J.H. TURNER WICHITA, KANS. 533 to 547 WEST DOUGLAS It Is Right To Economize, Even In Small Matters. If You Trade At The Econcmy Grocery Store you can always get fresh goods at reasonable prices. To trade with uswill convince you. " Once our customer, always our customer " We are at the corner of Pine and Water st Call to see us D. K. Mickleberry, Proprietor Restaurant 339 N. Main St. Meals 20c and 25c Cigars; Tobacco, Lunch Fish Game and Oysters in Season Your Trade Wanted J. W. Owens SHOEMAKER With The WICHITA SHOE CO. 144 N. Main St. Your Patronage Solicited All Work Guaranteed Use Herman's Cement Stone Made from the best material. Lasts longer, wears better and more durable than any other Cement Stone on the market. Prices Reasonable. PRICES 11c each laid in wall 8c each delivered 7c each in the yard Rock Face 8c each Plain Face 7c each Manufactured By W. L. HERMAN NEWS OF PRATT, KAN. Mrs. Sarah Green of West township was called to the bedside of heil sick daughter, Mrs. Ella Johnson, at Garden City. We are glad to say at this writing that Mrs. Johnson is improving and her many friends here hope she will soon recover. Mrs. Mase Johnson and children of Garden City arrived here Saturday night. Bro. Mase Johnson came over to Pratt last June to harvest and was so well pleased with our country that he decided to make this his future home. He has built a nice little house on the East Side and all is well with Bro. Mase. The Baptists of this place are glad to have this Christian gentleman and lady in our midst and hope him much success. The Second Baptist Sunday school is rejoicing over the arrival of the Johnson family. Bro. Mase is the father of 18 children and says he feels like he is just sweet sixteen. We hope Bro. Johnson's example will be a lesson for some of the young married men and ladies of Pratt and vicinity, for we certainly need children in our Sunday school. Lord, send us a few more families like this that our school may be strong. Rev. C. A. Woods of the A. M. E. church preached his farewell sermon last Sunday night and left Tuesday to attend the annual conference at Topeka. Rev. William Turner, pastor of the Second Baptist church, is spending this week with his family at Wichita. The funeral of Robert McDonald was held at the Second Baptist church on September 23. Services were conducted by Pastor Turner, assisted by Rev. W. F. Warder of Winfield. Westrn U The leading ed stitute for Negro A faculty of eighteen thorou from the leading Insti MAGNIFICENT Steam Heated and Westrn University The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west M.C. COY A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. 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Main St. Prof. Shelton French, ACTING PRESIDENT Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No. 15 Office Phone 1423 MESSERVE'S FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED ICE CREAM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL For Parties, Picnics, Socials and Churches Orders delivered to any part of the city BON-TON & KANDY AKERY ITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop, 146 N. Main St. Phone 15 OBITUARY. In Memory of Robert McDonald. Pratt, Kan., Sept. 28, 1908. Robert McDonald was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, in March, 1850, and died September 21, 1908, aged 58 years and 6 months. He grew to manhood in his native state, united in marriage to Margaret Belle in the year 1869. To this union two children were born. In the year 1875 his wife died, himself and one child surviving her death. He was again united in marriage to Betty Vaughn in the year 1879, two children being born to this union. His wife died in the year 1895, leaving himself and two children. Robert McDonald came to Pratt county in the year 1884 from Wilson county, Tennessee, being a resident of Pratt county 24 years. He has ever proved himself an honorable and trustworthy citizen. He professed a hope in Christ at an early age and as a Christian has ever been found at his post of duty and when the Death Angel entered he found a life well spent and the soul ready and willing to go from labor to reward. He has resided for the past several years on his farm, a short distance south of Pratt. He leaves one daughter and four grandchildren, one son-in-law, Mr. A. T. Bandy, and one daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emma McDonald, and a host of friends to mourn his absence. S. L. DRAKE. PAUL BEARS. ZED BRIGHT. JACK FLEMINGS. J. W. LOWE. J. P. RUSSELL. MACK JAMES. ARKANSAS CITY, KAN. Farewel Reception Given in Honor of Pastor. Friday evening at the A. M. E church a farewell reception was given in honor of Rev. B. R. Guy and wife by members and friends. The church Friday evening at the A. M. E. young which made a lasting impres- church a farewell reception was given sion upon all who were present. in honor of Rev. B. R. Guy and wife The work during his three years by members and friends. The churchhere does credit to any community. DEPARTMENTS on French, ACTING PRESIDENT University RO, KS Office Phone 1423 ERVE'S CELEBRATED REAM AND RETAIL Socials and Churches any part of the city KANDY ITCHEN ERVE, Prop, Phone 15 was crowded at an early hour with young and old anxious to pay their respect to those who had set for them such a lofty, Christian example for the last three years. At 8:30 the master of ceremonies called the house to order. Mr. Elbert Robbins escorted Mrs. Guy to her seat on the rostrum, while Miss Daisy Doty was Mr. Guy's escort. His cabinet of officers took their places around them. Program as follows: Chorus—Miss Eva Smothers, presiding at instrument. Prayer—D. W. Williams. Opening address—William West. Address in behalf of stewards—P. B. Andrews. Address in behalf of stewardesses—Mrs. Belle Smothers. Reading—Miss Cella Brown. In behalf of trustees—E. A. Mitchell. In behalf of Sunday school—F. H. Drumgould, superintendent. Duet—By Mrs. E. A. Mitchell and Miss Cara Carpenter. Church at large and friends—Miss Addle Jones. Response—By Rev. Guy and wife. The members and friends presented the pastor with an elegant suit of clothes as a token of their love and esteem. The touching remarks by Mr. and Mrs. Guy in response will be cherished and remembered by all present. At close of program refreshments were served by the committee—Misses Drumgould, Logan and Ward, assisted by six young ladies dressed in white—Misses Gladys Dell, Pearl Sawyer, Bernice Perkins, Ethel Caldwell, Necle Andrews and Blanch Kemp. It is the sincere wish of the members and friends of Rev. Guy that if he should not be returned for another year that he will be given a higher field of labor. The church was crowded Sunday evening to hear his farewell sermon. This discourse was full of good cheer and excellent advice to both old and E. young which made a lasting impression upon all who were present. The work during his three years there does credit to any community. E. A. MITCHELL. VISITS WITH UNCLE BY YLL SHARE HIM. When your wife puts on her worst hat to go calling with you, it means that she is trying to shame you into buying her a "perfect poem" she has discovered in some near-by millinery emporium. The thing for you to do is to take your medicine like a man. The trouble with most of us is we want an $55-a-month flat in a $40,000 neighborhood, on a $12-a-week salary. There really wasn't much business sense in giving that prize of a barrel of flour to a Milwaukee poetess. She probably fooled it away for stamps to send out more rejected poems. --- Almost as regularly as the moon gets full—that is, quarterly, I go out into the placid country to pet the wably calf, to watch the busy little bee gather honey and to scratch the pig with a cob! I always leave the city mart full of enthusiasm. One reason I leave it, is because I cannot take it along. You may remember one of the Rogers brothers, when asked if he took his wife to Paris with him, replied: "Voud you take a ham sandwich to a banquet?" And that's another reason why I leave the city behind when I go into the country. I like the country for the country's sake. It is to me what a glass of effervescing champagne is to the man who is "city broke, a high stepper and afraid of pigs along the road." Not that I ever have hankered for a farmer's life. My divine affatus and a disproportionate central statuary that bothers me when lacing my shoes, forbids the freedom of yeomany, but I have dreamed of being a gentleman farmer. In my mind's eye I have flitted from flower to flower on the farm, currying the pigs, feeling new horns sprouting on the infantile rams, salting the new kittens, haltering the turkey gobbler, gathering the eggs when the horses have failed to eat them, snaring gophers from post holes, teaching the dog to bite book agents, fighting the chinch bugs, importing skimmed milk to the village bragging about that new colt and how near the lightning came to hitting my barn! Up to a recent visit this was my dream of the farm. Now I know I have been deceived. All farmers of to-day are gentlemen farmers, and just as soon as I can find a farmer fool enough to swap places with me, I am going out into the rural districts to eat green corn off the corn and be happy the farmer' married. I was met in "the little country town" by the farmer. After getting shave and offering in payment a bill so big neither the farmer nor I could change it, he bought some good clars and said he was ready. It was a glorious morning. In the air there was no essence of redolent cafaterias, no ancient alley-stench, no slop-wagon fetor—only the sweet incense of meadow and field. At the farm home the grass in the front yard was clipped with a lawn mower, there were hammocks and easy chairs. The dinner was a dream. The farmer spent the day enjoying himself, while the hired help did the work. There were yet two picnics and a sale to attend that week. He was going to all three! I have always contended that while the farmer feeds us all he usually keeps the best for his own larder. There is a huge overgrown belief in town that a farmer skimps his own table to carry food-stuffs to market. Perish the error! The farmer has fresh eggs and vegetables, the yellow-legged chickens cavort about his legs and the apples in his orchard are as ruddy-hued as the cheeks of his pretty daughters. His mail is delivered at his door, he has a telephone and takes forty-leven periodicals which he reads before passing them to that bourne from which newspapers never return. His life is not ideal, but it has a leaning that way. Don't pity the farmer! Save your sympathy for the town slave. --- Ten Lives Lost. We had a cat, a big mouser, who was always ready for a job. In a stable, on a bed of straw, was a big dry goods box with homes for mice. When clearing the stable we brought the cat and raised the box, the cat came out and pawed and one in her mouth, she snapped each and caught nine all topped, jumping under the low roof for the last one. They were all large and none escaped. Just at this juncture Cutter's frisky Newfoundland dog jumped our yard fence and snapped poor puss through the back. The murder murdered murderer!-Horticola (Wls.) Reporter. --- A Chicago girl claims to have received forty-seven proposals of marriage—only one or which she is sorry she rejected. And now the forty-seven men will have to ask her all over again to find out who's who! Bryon Williams THE RAILWAY From stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. This railroad will probably carry President ground in the interior of the dark continent wh planned on the expiration of his term. SIXTH SENSE This railroad will probably carry President Roosevelt to the great hunting ground in the interior of the dark continent when he takes the trip now being planned on the expiration of his term. SIXTH SENSE WARNS. --- 0 STRANGE INTUITION HELPED FU- GITIVE EVADE LAW. Escaped Convict Successfully Eluded Detective Twice, But Failed to Heed Third "Hunch" and Was Captured. Frankfort, Ky.—The man with the sixth sense, who knows from intuition that he is being chased is to be released from the penitentiary on parole. His name is William Rousey and he is serving a sentence of 21 years having been convicted in Boyle county of manslaughter for the shoot- SNORED AND WAS EJECTED. Hotelkeeper Enforces House Rule Against Guest. Springfield, Mass.—Joe Abis was ejected from his boarding place at 26 Liberty street because he snored and said things in his sleep. Stephen Hello, the landlord, was the man who created considerable diversion for the neighbors by throwing the star boarder and his effects into the street. Abis slept on a cot in the kitchen, and before daylight in the morning he began to play a symphony on his nasal organ. He ran the scale so loud that he aroused all the sleepers in the house and they entered a protest. Hello made up his mind that the best way to stop the snorer was to throw him out, so an attempt was made to oust Abis. In the process tables were overturned and chairs huried across the room. Finally Hello and Abis clinched in the street in front of the house, and the former exhibited red marks on his throat where he said the ejected boarder clutched him. Things quieted down before 12 o'clock, when Abis 'sought another boarding place. SUDDEN BATH DANCE FEATURE. Master of Ceremonies Hurled Into Pool by Alfred G. Vanderbilt. New York.—Ever since Alfred G. Vanderbilt's dance at Oakland Farms, Newport, those society people who were not present have been learning from their more fortunate friends what they missed. It was only the other day, however, that the secret got out. If fashion follows the lead set by Mr. Vanderbilt at his first dance following his divorce, it will hereafter insist that the master of ceremonies be chucked into a swimming pool, evening clothes and all, and made to swim for his life. That was what happened to Worthington Whitehouse, who led the cotillon at the Vanderbilt dance, and the host was the one that put him there. No, there wasn't any hard feeling about it. That is to say, there wasn't any as far as is known. While Mr. Whitehouse struck out boldly for the shore in his new evening garments the other guests, men and women, to the number of nearly a hundred, cheered uproariously. WANTS HIS WIFE TAMED Long-Suffering Husband Appeals for Federal Aid. Washington—In an imposing document, covering 42 solid typewritten pages and teeming with reports of fistic encounters and contact with stove lids and other domestic weapons, a South Boston man appealed to the department of justice for assistance in triumphing over the temper and strenght of an amazonian wife. The harassed one, whose name is not divulged, depicts all the viciousitudes of an unusually strenuous married life, including four arrests "on trumped-up charges," conviction of perjury, heart-robbing picture of his period in jail, stories of flying fattrons, a disobedient son who assaults him and a pleasure-loving daughter. The correspondent declares, that, although the Boston police have slightly declared him insane, two alienists have examined him and swear it isn't so. However, he says, he really ought to be, "after such a — of a life with such a — of a wife." NATIONAL LABOR LEADER Copyright by Walton Rawett. Dennis A. Hayes, prominent in the organized labor movement in this country A RUMPUS IS MADE BY CLOCK. ing of one Mastin. The killing was a neighborhood feud and both men were using revolvers when the fatal shot was fired. Rousey comes of a noted family. His grandfather had seven sons. Of the seven only one met a natural death, the others being sent into eternity by bullet or knife wounds. All of the seven are dead, the last, Micajah Rousey, having been killed at Junction City by the marshal. Will Rousey is a nephew of Micajah Rousey. He has another cousin in the prison here who was convicted of killing an old man named Kiser in the courthouse at Danville. After Will Rousey had been convicted and sentenced to the penitent NATIONAL LA Copyright by Waldon Fawcett. Dennis A. Hayes, prominent in the org A RUMPUS IS M Man Tries to Steal It, But Old Timepiece Raises Objection. New York.—An antique clock, worth nothing whatsoever as a timepiece, but having a value of perhaps $50 from an antiquarian's point of view, stood silent on the mantelpiece of the drawing-room on the first floor of No. 7 West Twenty-sixth street. The old clock had stood there many years with its hands always pointing at 2:28 o'clock. It stopped at that hour about 25 years ago, and had declined to go ever since. About 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon Frank Williams, aged 28, found the door of No. 7 West Twenty-sixth street ajar. Prompted by a curiosity, possibly, he walked in and tipped into the drawing-room. There was no one there. Williams espied the ancient clock on the mantel. It looked pawnable, and he gently lifted it off the mantelpiece and started out with it. He got as far as the hall when the clock suddenly awoke from its Rip Van Winkle sleep and with a rattle and buzz and bang and clanging of bells screamed for help in its horological way. It was a French clock, and it screamed in the musical accents of France. Williams quickened his pace, but had not more than reached the front door when William Ling, the caretaker of the house, came bounding up the stairs from the basement to see what had broken loose. --- tiary he appealed his case to the court of appeals. While that appeal was pending he broke jail at Danville, sawing the bars in two and getting away. The man who escaped with him was captured, but Rousey seemed to have been swallowed up. He was a member of the Railway Trainmen's union and carried a card which would pass him on any railroad in the country. In this way he was enabled to make quick jumps about the country. Walter Fitzgerald was jailer of Boyle county, and he and Tom Hemm, then chief of police, went after Rousey. Months passed and the people had forgotten that such a man as Rousey existed. More than a year after Rousey's escape he was arrested in a small town in southern California. He was brought back and when the court of appeals affirmed his case he was brought to the penitentiary here. During the year that passed after his escape, Helm was on the trail of Rousey and twice was within two hours of him, reaching a town only that length of time after Rousey had gone. The chase was from Illinois to southern Arkansas and back four times and then across Texas and New Mexico into California. During this time Rousey never had positive information that anybody was after him. He received warnings in some mysterious way. He says something told him Tom Helm was after him and would come to the town in which he happened to be at that time. As soon as this feeling came upon him, without questioning it, Rousey would leave. On the day before he was arrested, Rousey said, he was sitting by the railroad-track in the yards where he was employed. He said the old feeling which said to him plainly: "Tom Helm is coming here after you" came over him. He said he went at once to the foreman of the yard and asked for his pay and also for a pass to Canada. This was on Thursday. The foreman persuaded Rousey to wait until Saturday and work the week out. The failure to obey the warning caused Rousey to be caught just at the edge of what would have been safety, and he went to the penitentiary, where he has made a good record. ABOR LEADER organized labor movement in this country. MADE BY CLOCK. Down the front steps went Williams, hugging the frightened old clock under his coat and sprinted toward Broadway. At the corner Ling caught him and turned him over to a policeman. WAGES AND LIVING COST GROW. Report Showing Changes in Welfare of Workingmen in Year. Washington.—The average wages per hour in the industries of the country were 3.7 per cent. higher in 1907 than in 1906, while retail prices of food were 4.2 per cent. higher, according to the July report of the bureau of labor. The regular hours of labor per week were four-tenths of one per cent. lower, and the number of employees increased one per cent. The purchasing power of an hour's wage, as measured by food, was less in 1907 than in 1906, the decrease being one-half of one per cent. The report shows that, as compared with the average for the ten-year period of 1890 to 1899, the average wage per hour in 1907 was 28.8 per cent. higher, the number of employees 44.4 per cent. greater, with a decrease of five per cent. in the average hours of labor per week. The retail price of principal articles of food was 20.6 per cent. higher. Compared with the average for the same ten-year period, the food-purchasing power of an hour's wage in 1907 was 6.8 per cent. greater. 333 Official Knights & Knights & Daughters OF TABOR KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave., 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1 Ington, Wichita Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 15 Parsons, Kan. MRS. EMMA GAINES, C. G. P. 1170 Filmore avenue, Topeka, Kas. A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S. 321 Dakota, Leavenworth, Kans. MRS SARAH FORBES, C. G. R. 717 "C" St., Lincoln, Neb. WM. CORE, C. G. T. 1210 Lane, Topeka, Kans. MRS. BESSIE HALL, G. Q. M., 460 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kans. C. M. JONHSON, G. P. P., 1832 N 23rd, Omaha, Neb. MRS. PAULINE WOODFORD, C. G. PR. 823 Freeman, K. C., Kan. REV. M. WOOTEN, C. G. O. 416 E. 3rd, Ft. Scott, Kans. OFFICIAL ORGAN—The Wichita Searchlight, W. N. Miller, Editor, 634 N. Water St., Wichita, Kan. NEXT PLACE MEETING—The Grand Temple and Tabernacle Kansas-Nebraska Jurisdiction, will hold its next Session (the 18th annual) in Topeka, Kans., on the 2nd Tuesday in July, 1909. Number. 1 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 9 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 8 Mrs. Laura Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kan., 1-3 Tues. (A) 9 Mrs. Katie Thomas, 117 E Laurett, Topeka, Kansas. 10 Mrs. Ida Wullace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodford, 623 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 19 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Hattle Warden, 124 N. Washington, Pittsburg, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. Ellen Lee, Box 25 Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Lizie Morton, 1308 Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-1. Wed. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th Omaha, Neb., 1-8 Thur. (A) 20 Mrs. Bessie Hall, 406 Horton, Ft. Scott, Kan. 28 Mrs. Della Dorsey, 714 So. 14th Par- sons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 29 Mrs. Lulu Woods, 1027 Pottawat- omie, Leavenworth, Kans., 1-3 Thurs. 30 Mrs. Laura Bright, 203 Ohio Leavenworth, Kan., 8 Set. WANTED—A sample Later Model "Bentley" making money fast. Write for NO MONEY REQUIKE anyone you pay for. The allow JEN BAYN FREE put it to any test you wish. keep the bicycle ship it back to FACTORY PRICES at on to $25 middlemen's profits be mature behind your bicycle at any price until you re- prices and remarkable spec YOU WILL BE ASTON low prices we can make you t this bicycle to your BICYCLE DEALERS, you double our prices. Orders filled the COASTER-BRAKES, usually have a number on hand taken in promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 single bicycle, import equipment of all kinds at A $8 50 HEDGETHORN SELF-HEALING TIP making money fast. Write for *all particulars and special offer at once.* We NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship *NO MONEY* to you and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride your bicycle to put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES will highest the grade bicycles it is possible to make at one cent. At one cent you will pay $35 middlemen's profits by buying direct of us and the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone and price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unbeef of factory craftsmanship. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and our low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost, we can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders filled the day receive the SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at price and we describe bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES, single wheels imported roller parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. $ 8 50 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $ 4 8 SELF-HEALING TIRES A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUCE, ONLY The regular retail price of these tires is sell you a sample pair for $4.80 (cost with order $5.5). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers who have purchased up-to-date rubber in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the surface of the tire. The advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day to us. a special quality to close up small punctures withing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters, fied customers stating that their tires have only been up once or twice in a whole season, and ordinary tire the puncture resistance qualities by several layers of thin, specially prepared tread. The regular price of these tires is $5.00 per pair, but the best buy being the fine tread on the rider of only $4.00 per pair. All orders shippe approval. You do not pay a cent until you have. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent on all purchases. We also offer a nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be ret not satisfactory on examination. We are perfect bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will receive a free tire. We know that you will be so well pleased that when We want you to send us a trial order at once, here. IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy the special introductory price quoted above; or w describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tire. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal offer we are making. It only costs a postal to J. L. MEAD CYCLE COM the rider of only $4.38 per car shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on demand and can ship until until the car is returned. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination or for any reason money sent to us is safe as in a car. We will give you a pair of these tires, you will find that the tires are wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. IF YOU NEED TIRES Hedgethorn Functure-Proof tires on approval for pair of the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes an offer to purchase. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful tires to make. 71105:44 TABERNACLE Chief Preceptresses 777 Directory Daughters e 34 Mrs. Joana Jones, 1135 N. Washington, Wichita, Kan., 1-3 Thurs. (A.) 35 Mrs. Adah Lewis, 1603 Archer Av., South Omaha, Nebraska. 37 Mrs. Mary Robinson, 108 N 3rd Atchison, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 38 Mrs. Ella Young, Box 1173, Weir City, Kan. 39 Mrs. Hulda Patterson, 8th and Elm, Abilene, Kan. 52 Mrs. Ada King, 722, N. Y Lawrence Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 68 Mrs. Lille Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) ita, Kan., Fridays. 85 Mrs. Francis Hardaman, 1801 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. 91 Mrs. Lulu Rountree, 1125 N. 19th Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 92 Mrs. A. Grant, 401 So. 8th, Lincoln, Neb., 2-4 Fri. (A) 98 Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 1 Fred M. Harris, Box 1173, Wolr 2 Rev. Jos. Smith, 308 E. 11th, Coffeyville, Kans., 1-3 Tues. City, Kan., 1-8 Fri. 3 J. G. Purdett, 819 N. 1st, Atchison, Kan., 1-3 Fri. 4 F. D. Early, Sherman Flats, Omaha Neb., 2-4 Mon. 5 Robt. M. Jordan, 908 N. Western, N. Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 3 A. J. Beam, 409 Osborne, Ft. Scott, Kan, 1-8 Tue. 12 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 16 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan., 1-3 Tue. 16 Richard Clark, 420 N. 25th, South Omaha, Nebr. 17 Rev. Allen Garner, 704 M. 12th Coffeyville, Kansas. 18 Jas. Thomas, 218 W. 1st, Salt Lake City, Utah. 19 W. M. Hughes, 1023 N. J., Lawrence, Kan., 2-4 Thur. 22 B. C. Easter, Box 156, Oswego Kans., 2-4 Tues. 24 J. W. Warren, 218 E. 7th, Cherryvale, Kans., 1-3 Tues. 25 J. H. Downs, 422 Haskell, Kansas City, Kansas, Fridays. 50 U. A. Graham, 1160 West, Topeka, Kansas, 1-3 Thur. 60 E. C. Sqires, 1813 Jefferson, Topeka, Kans., 1-3, Mon. 72 J. M. Wright, 1125 Saratoga, Lincoln, Neb. 1 Lillie Harden, 900 Fifth St., Leavenworth, Kan., 4 Sat. (A) 2 Susan Daniels, 210 W. Wall, Ft Scott, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) RECORD THORN RECORD PUNCTURE MAKE CO. PROOF CHIARO SELF HEALING U.S.A. Same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on examined and found them strictly as represented. (therby making the price $4.65 per pair) if you release this advertisement. We will also send one returned at OUB expense if for any reason they are exactly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a will find that they will ride easier, run faster, tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We enforce this remarkable tie offer. Enjoy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of torn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at our store. Fire and Sundry Catalogue which ties at about half the usual price. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle from anyone until you know the new and wonderful learn everything. Write it NOW. COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL, 777 TEMPLES. Chief Mentors TENTS. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rubbing. Cut this matter all any other make--SOFT, LASTIC and EASY RIDING. 8 Lizzie Weaver, 1122 Saratoga, La- colin, Neb., 2 Frl. (A) 4 Lorenzo ( A ) 8 Ida Stovall, 706 So. Walnut, Ida Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 9 Flora Patterson, 811 W. 27th, Oma- ha, Neb., 1-3 Sat. (A) 10 Maggle Robinson, 911 Everett Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 11 Mary Brown, 325 Miss, Lawrens Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 11 Ethel Penn, 718 “Q” St. Atchison Ks., 2-4 Sat. (A) 17 H. H. Adkins, Weir City, Ks, 24 Wed., (A) 18 A. O. Murrell, 451 So. 4th, Barra Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 25 Gertrude Taylor, 1310 E. Clark Parsons, Kans. 2-4 Sat. 28 E. A. Tiggs, 2314 Morgan, Parsons Kans. 1-3 Sat. 28 Louise Verder, 813 N. J., Lawrens Kan, 1-2 Sat. (A) 35 Hester Cornish, 911 Western. Topeka, Kan., 1-2 Sat. (A) 37 Jannie McAdoo, 1818 N. Madison, Topeka, Kan., 1-2 Sct. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 1213 Wash- ton, Kansas City, Kan., 1-2 Sct. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Seat is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once W. N. MILLER, Editors A Desperate Sunday Battle Near Press tonia, Ark. West Plains, Mo.—John Roberts and his wife Sunday resisted a sheriff posse in a desperate battle near Pretoria, one mile south of the Missing Arkansas line, when the officers attempted to arrest Roberts for killing Obe Kessinger, a neighbor, Saturday night. As a result the woman and Sheriff Mooney of Baxter county, Ark, are mortally wounded, Roberts and two members of the posse—Max Lowery and his son—are all teriously hurt. Roberts may not survive. The murder of Kessinger was colloided. Roberts went to the house in the evening and called his vistim to the door. When Kessinger appeared Roberts fired deliberately and killed him. The cause of the deed has not been learned here. To Show Kansas Products. Garden City, Kan.—A delegation of 25 from here is planning to attend the forthcoming Albuquerque national irrigation congress and industrial exhibition in a private Pullman car Garden City will have displayed a model sugar farm of the United States Sugar and Land company, a lot of fine sugar beets and alfalfa seed, together with the Garden City reclamation project, which will be shown off by the government in connection with its other projects. Railroads Given a Stay Chicago.—Railroads affected by the Missouri river rate case decision, requiring them to make effective the big rate reductions ordered by the Interstate Commerce commission, received word from Washington Monday that they had been granted a stay of 30 days. Hannibal, Mo., Quarrymen Strike. Hannibal, Mo.—Because of a strike of quarrymen which started recently all manufacturing departments of the Atlas Portland Cement company ceased operations Saturday night. The shut-down is caused by lack of material and affects 2,500 men. Kansas Congregationalists Adjourn Wichita, Kan.—The Southern Kansas Association of Congregationalists finished a three days' session here Friday and adjourned to meet in Wellington next year. The Rev. W. F. Harding of Arkansas City was elected moderator. Revenue Receipts Fell Off. Washington, D. C.—The statement of the receipts from internal revenue for August, 1908, shows a total of $192,094,687 as against $222,255,897 for August, 1907, a decrease of $3,141,210. A Congressman Will Not Run. Oakland, Cal.—Paul S. Gillette, Democratic nominee for congress in the Third California district, has notified the county clerk of Almeda county of his withdrawal as a candidate. Portions of Missouri Get Rain. Mexico, Mo.—A half inch of rain fell ere Tuesday morning. This is the first rain that has fallen here in any appreciable amount since the first part of August. Missouri's Drought Broken. St. Louis, Mo.—Rain was general throughout Missouri Tuesday, thus breaking the prolonged drought. The rain at Alton, Ill., was the first in 42 days. Drought in West Virginia. Morgantown, W. Va.—On account of the scarcity of water 306 coke ovens ave shut down, throwing nearly 1,000 men out of employment. ---