Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT Hon. THOS. C. Wilson Republican Candidate For Judge of the District Court [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a mustache, facing slightly to the right.] TENTH YEAR Hon. Thomas Republican C Judge of the The Republican party of Sedgwick county is to congratulate itself upon the generally splendid set of men who comprise its county ticket. No convention could have made better selections than was done by the primary system. One of the most important offices to be filled on the ticket is that of Judge of the District Court. For this position the Republicans of this county were unanimous in selecting Hon. Thos. C. Wilson as the candidate to succeed himself. During his present incumbency of this high judicial office Judge Wilson has proven himself admirably capable and learned in the law, and without fear of criticism for any desire for applause, and without favor to friends or any effort to punish foes, Judge Wilson has executed and interpreted the law as he saw and believed it to be. In this wise the number of cases in which his decision have been affirmed by four state supreme court proves conclusive his wide knowledge of the law and has given it his proper application. No man can occupy such a position as Judge of a district Court with the large and varied legal questions—new and old—constantly confronting him and render any decisions without error, but the record will show that Judge Thos. C. Wilson was far surpassed the record of any other in this respect. Open, frank, untidal and to the point. Judge Wilson is a man easily of approach and friendly to all. No man has within his grasp a bigger, more tender, and kind "The black man's right to aspire to the highest dignity has ever been carefully questioned. The fact that the appositive power arbitrarily exercised its function and sent a swarm of black office-holding locusts upon the South argues nothing for Southern expulsion. The South was fully continuous of the enormity of the degradation it was sought to fasten upon her." -Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution (Dem.) DISCOUNT ON LYNCH ROPE. Mayer in Southern Democratic State Asks Cordage Company to Shade Price. At the annual meeting of the Plymouth Cordage Company at Boston, stockholder asked President Loring heart, than has Judge Wilson. He is one of those few men whom the longer and the better you know them the more you admire them. Judge Wilson estimates no man by the color of his skin or the race to which he belongs, but in his estimates of men he uses the same process as in his handling of the hundreds of cases which comes before him from time to time, and that process is one of merit, pure and simple. As an index of his standing as a judge it can as a truth be said that the Sedgwick county bar, almost to a man, regardless of politics, favor the re-election of Judge Wilson. No man has been held a closer friend and adviser of the colored people than has Judge Thos. C. Wilson. The writer plainly remembers that when he came to this city no meeting of colored people was considered complete unless Thos. C. Wilson was on the program and this continued until Judge Wilson went on the bench, which judicial position was a bar to his public speaking as in the past. For years and years in Wichita and Sedgwick county Judge Wilson, then plain "Tom Wilson," stood on the firing line as an uncompromising friend and defender of his colored neighbors. The same friendship, and kindly feeling for the colored race is within Judge Wilson today as it was years before he aspired for political recognition. The colored people will make no mistake by casting their vote for Hon. Thos. C. Wilson for Judge of the District Court. If the company sold any rope in the South for hanging Negroes. This stockholder received the reply that os an actual fact the company has received a request from one of the Southern Democratic states in the lynching belt for a large discount in price if a purchase of its rope was made for lynching purposes, it being argued that the publicity which would be given the Plymouth rope for lynching was worth a concession. A. J. ADAMS, Republican Candidate for County Attorney. A. J. Adams, who is a candidate for county attorney on the Republican ticket, was born in Mason City, Mason county, Illinois, 37 years ago. When he was 10 years old he moved to Kansas with his parents and settled in Cowley county, north of Winfield, where he lived until about twelve years ago, when he came to Wichita. He was reared on a farm and is closely identified with the interests of the farmer. Since he has been practicing law at the Sedgwick county bar he has gained the reputation of being one of the best and most thorough lawyers who practice at the Sedgwick count ybar. He is a member of the bar of the United States circuit and district courts, and of the supreme court of Kansas. His nine years of experience practicing before the supreme court of Kansas and the United States circuit and district courts and the district court of Sedgwick county equip him well for the position of county attorney. THE BOSTON EDITOR of Topeka, will address the Colored voters of this city on Monday night, Nov. 2nd. Mr. Guy is one of the most forceful speakers on the public rostrum today. Go out and hear him. Nov. 2nd. J. W. SWANEY, Republican Candidate for County Superinendent. Mr. J. W. Swaney, candidate for county superIntendent of schools, has a record of seeing more service in the school room than any man in the county. Educated at the State Normal at Emporia, he has the added experience of in all the grades from the primary to high school. Mr. Swaney is not a politician but a teacher, as his 25 years' work in the schools by the fact that he has been at Derby for the last 17 years and that at the last election he received 121 votes out of a total of 142 cast in his home precinct. Mr. Swaney was born in Ohio in 1860, moving to this county with his parents 38 years ago with his father, who pre-empted the claim he is still living upon. Mr. Swaney stands high with the teaching profession of the county. He is one of the candidates from outside of Wichita and deserves the support of every republican and every voter who has the good of the schools of this county at heart. J. L. LELAND, Republican Nominee for County Clerk. Mr. Leland comes pretty near being an ideal candidate. He combines with a pleasant personality, a record in public life that is irreproachable while his qualifications for the office which he seeks are not surpassed by any one who ever has been an applicant for the place. That is putting it pretty strongly, but close investigation will bear out the statement, despite the fact that he office has been held by some mighty good men. His service in the office of city clerk for the city of Wichita has done much to fit him for the place he now asks, and his close application to the business of that office, both during his two terms as clerk and his years as deputy, recommends him a worthy candidate. Jesse Leland was born in Chautauqua county, Kansas, February 3, 1869. He came to Sedgwick county in 1882, and resided on a farm in Delano township until 1889, two years after the elder Leland died. Unfortunately Mr. Leland is a cripple, and he was obliged to leave the farm and to remove to the city with his mother, that he might better provide for her and procure for himself an education which would enable him to pursue lines of business activity which his physical disabilities would permit. He obtained a place as janitor of one of the public school buildings in this city, and completed his public education while thus employed. During the summer vacation he succeeded in completing a course in the Wichita Commercial college, thus fitting himself for his first entrance into clerical duties. In 1901 he was the Republican candidate for city clerk, and was elected by the largest majority ever given a candidate up to that time, in the city of Wichita. He was re-elected and later was retained as a deputy though under a hostile administration. Mr. Leland's services as a competent and obliging officer are recognized by every citizen who came in contact or had dealings with him in his official capacity, and the same fair dealing is manifested in all of his transactions, whether public or private. Mr. Leland is essentially a Sedgwick county man, and his friends have put him forth as a man who is fitted for the office of county clerk. He is a man of family, his household circle consisting of his wife and six children. He is a hustler and a Republican through and through. He asks the suport of Sedgwick county voters at the fall election. W. L. APPLING, Republican. Candidate for Sheriff. An Ex-Union Soldier A Badge of Honor With pleasure we present the name of Mr. W. L. Appling who is the Republican candidate for sheriff of this county. Mr. Appling needs no recommendations to the people of this county among whom he has resided for the past 28 years. He is a Kentuckian by birth, having been born and raised in Logan county, Kentucky. Mr. Appling comes from a staunch union family on his father's side—whose union sentiment made it necessary for the Applings to leave Kentucky and go north where the elder Appling located in Southern Illinois while the subject of this sketch, W. L. Appling, joined the Union army in Missouri, where he remained till the close of the war. He enlisted in Company A. Eleventh Mo. Infantry on May 1st, 1861, served 3 years and then veteranized, and served to the end of the war—was discharged January 26, 1866, at Memphis, Tenn., and one month later were mustered out at St. Louis and went home. Mr. Appling took part in 23 hard fought battles and at Farmington. Miss., on May 9th, 1862, he received a slight flesh wound on the leg; was at the battle of Island No. 10 and New Madrid and in both battles of Corinth, Iuka, Miss., Sept. 19, 1862, was in the battle of Jackson, Miss., was in the siege of Vicksburg, for 44 days—was in the assaults of the works on May 22, 1863 when every other man in his company was killed or wounded. Was in the battle of Abbyville, Miss., also was in the battle of Brinville HON.VICTORMURDOCK HON.VICTORMURDOCK PETER H. Congressman from trict who will spee people at Garfield H Thursday October HEAR M OCTOBE Congressman from the Eighth district who will speak to the Colored people at Garfield Hall Thursday Night October 29th HEAR MURDOCK OCTOBER 29TH Miss., was in the campaign of 1864 when Price came to Missouri, was at the battle of the Big Blue when Gov. Marmaduke and 6,000 men were captured. Was in the battle of Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15-16, 1864; was in the siege of Spanish fort of Mobile, Ala., April 2, 1865. Was also in the battle of Richmond, Va., and also Mechanicsburg, Miss. Mr. Appling made a good loyal soldier and spent over four years and a half of the best years of his life in a successful effort to save the Union and if elected will make a capable and competent officer. He solicits the votes of all the people on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Republican Candidate for Representative. Cliff Matson, republican candidate for state representative of the 27nd legislative district, comprising the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Wards of the city of Wichita. Has been practicing law in Wichita for the past eight (8) years and recently in partnership with Mr. E. L. Foulke, under the firm name of Foulke & Matson. He stands for all legislation for the betterment of Wichita and Sedgwick county. He stands for the amendment of the primary law, providing that candidates on the primary ticket cannot gain advantages by the alphabetical arrangement of their names. He stands for such amendments of the present law, providing for the government of cities by commission, that will give Kansas cities the best commission form of government, if any should choose to adopt it. CLIFF MATSON from the Eighth dis ak to the Colored Hall Day Night er 29th URDOCK R 29TH JUDGE E. B. JEWETT, Republican Candidate for Legislature From 71st District. Judge Edward B. Jewett, republican candidate for the legislature from the 71st legislative district has been a resident of Sedgwick county for 36 years and needs no introduction to the people of this community. His district includes the 4th Ward, 6th Ward, Rockford, West Gypsum, Wichita, Minncha, Kechi, Payne, Valley Center, Grant, Lincoin and Park townships. While Mr. Jewett is the nominee of the republican party, his candidacy is largely the result of the action of the business men of the city who concluded that Mr. Jewett's large acquaintance in the state would make him a valuable representative in case the state should conclude to locate a state fair at the next session of the legislature; the location of which proposition the business men of this city are anxious to secure for Wichita. If elected, Mr. Jewett will vote for J. L. Bristow for U. S. Senator, and for a Bank Guarantee act. Every voter should avail himself and vote for Judge E. B. Jewett. LEAVENWORTH, KANS. To the Editor Searchlight: Crystal Tabernacle No. 29 is doing nicely. All daughters are in love and union. Our number is increasing right along and we only have one daughter on the sick list and she is improving and we trust that Dt. Weaver will continue to improve. Dt. Lulu Woods, H. P., expects to start Sunday the 18th, to visit her sister-in-law in Lincoln, Neb., and stop over in Nebraska to visit friends on her return. We do pray God's blessing on the whole Taborian order. NO 31. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER.....Editor Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second Class Mall Matter. Published Every Saturday at 601 North Main Street. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Strictly in Advance. One Year (By Mail).....$1.00 Six Months (By Mail).....75 Three Months (By Mail).....50 Advertising Rates Made Known on application. All matters addressed to the Searchlight for publication must be signed by the party or parties writing. All matters for publication must reach this office not later than Wed- nesday to reach publication in the cur- rent issue. RULES OF THIS OFFICE. 1st. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. Agents take notice. 2nd. Communications received after Wednesday noon will not be published in the current issue. 3rd. In asking to change your paper from one address or postoffice to an- ther give both the ned and the old. 4th. No new name will be placed on our books unless the money accompa- ples the name. Write plain. 6th. Address all matter for publication to The Wichita Searchlight, 601 N Main Street, Wichita, Kansas. 6th. Any erroneous reflection on the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper will be gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the editor. REPUBLICAN TICKET Election, Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 1908. NATIONAL For President James S. 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 Secretary of State G. E. Denton.....Harper County For Auditor of State. J. M. Nation.....Neosho County For Superintendent of Pupilic Instruc- tion E. 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 For State Printer T. A. McNeal.....Shawnee County For Railroad Commissioners C. 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. 71st District.....E. B. Jewett Rep. 72 District.....Cliff Matson Rep. 73d District.....N. Gersman Co. Com. Second District..S. B. Kernan Co. Com. Third Olistrict..... .....A. M. Reichenberger County Clerk.....J. L. Leland County Treasurer.....O. W. Jones Register of Deeds.....Joseph Bowman County Attorney.....A. J. Adams Probate Judge.....E. E. Enoch Sheriff.....W. L. Appling Coroner.....M. M. McCollister 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.....S. L. Barret Marshall City Court.....C. W. Root It is strange that some of those Negroes who are so very anxious about Democratic success do not go South where the Democratics are in full power. Could they vote there? NIT! Find me a community where Democratic 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 success are like oil and water—they won't mix. Fay what you owe to the Searchlight. Be honest. Send your news notes and local happenings to 601 North Main Street. IF IT EVER HAPPENED YOU'LL FIND IT IN THE SEARCHLIGHT. WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE? Vote for S. B. Kernan for County Commissioner from the First, Second and Third wards. OLDEN DRUG STORE ROBBED. Someone entered the Olden Drug Store Monday night by breaking one of the back windows and stole all the money in the cash register, cigars, tobacco and other merchandise. No clue so far has been obtained of who the guilty party was. The loss will amount to only a few dollars. That Judge Thos. C. Wilson is qualified for the office of District Judge goes unquestioned, and that for twenty odd years he has been counted as the friend of the people is a fact well known. Then a vote for Judge Wilson is a right vote. 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. Louis C. Wright held a meeting at the A. M. E. church Tuesday night for the purpose of organizing for the benefit of the colored people. In his effort Mr. Wright is certainly entitled to the best wishes of the people. CHURCH IN CLEARWATER. Rev. Chas. G. Cole went to Clearwater last Sunday and organized a Baptist church there among the colored people. He reports that the prospects look bright for a good church in that place. NORTH END MISSION CHURCH. The colored people of the North End have organized a Baptist church in the North End and will meet at the old fire house, 13th and St. Francis, every Sunday. Everyone is cordially invited. S. B. Kernan is the logical and proper man to vote for the office of county commissioner. G. L. Scott was very much plased this week by a visit with him from his friend, Rev, J. C. Rogers, of Pine Bluff, Ark., who spent several days in our city. Vote for W. L. Appling for sheriff. He's the man. James Maurice has bought a horse and wagon and is conducting a transfer wagon. The large black buggy horse of Al Covington died last week. He was a fine horse and we sympathize with Mr. Covington in its loss. Mrs. Mrs. C. C. Coffee left Wednesday for Pawnee, Okla., where she will spend a week or two visiting with her daughter, Mrs. James Gardner. M. E. Price, who has been quite ill at his home, 1420 N. Mosley, is reported mending. W. M. Lewis, 835 W. 14th, who has been ill, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. H. Abernathy, who have been in Colorado for the past three years for their health is in Wichita, the geust of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. 'W. Orr. 808 E. 13th. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Frazier were called to Hutchinson Saturday to attend the funeral of Mr. Frazier's mother, Mrs. Caroline Frazier, who departed this life Friday at 6 p. m. of dropsy. Funreal took place at 2:30 p. m. on Sunday at the 2nd Baptist church conducted by Rev. C. O. Smith. The deceased was 84 years, 16 days old at the time of her death. VOTE FOR APPLING FOR SHERIFF. The Republican candidate for sheriff, W. L. Appling, needs no introduction to the people of this county, and especially the colored people have ample reasons to look with much favor upon the candidacy of Mr. Appling for sheriff, than whom the colored people never had a better friend. An ex-union soldier, a splendid citizen, a man of integrity, will make W. L. Appling a winner. Every colored man with safety may vote for W. L. Appling for sheriff. WOMEN'S CLUB A concise statement among the colored work THE BOOKER WASHI WICHITA, Hour of meeting 2:30 t Engaged in needle, e erary work. Special typewriting. Meets e afternoon. Mrs. Thos. dent; Miss Sallie Raw Rainy Day Makes no difference to the man who wears one of our good Cravenetts They shed the water and keep the clothing perfectly dry A Craventte isn't entirely a rain coat; it serves the purpose of an overcoat as well. Itg a coat that gives the best satisfaction at all times. We have them in all the popular shades. Qualities of the best. THE HUB CHAS.YOUNGHEIM, Prop. Wichita, Kansas MURDOCK, OCT. 29TH. Arrangements are being made for a meeting at which Congressman Victor Murdock will speak to the colored voters on Oct. 29th. We will give more details in our next issue. The A. M. E. church is still in expectancy of who their pastor for the ensuing year will be. The officers of the church expect to know by Sunday. HOLD A ROUSING MEETING. A representative number of the colored men of Wichita held a splendid meeting at 517 N. Main street, Thursday night and discussed the main features of the present campaign as they apply to the colored people. Every phase of the political situation was gone over carefully after which a committee was appointed who drafted the following set of resolutions: We, the colored voters of Sedgwick County, Kansas, in a representative meeting assembled feel that there is a time in the affairs of men, nations and races when a long train of abuses, political or otherwise, make it is necessary that those abuses be made public. For more than forty years the Negro race in this and other states and counties has been the steadfast, constant and loyal supporters of the Republican party of this state and nation—and as a winning factor the Republican success we have at all times remained loyal to said party—but as a reward for our loyalty we feel that we have not been accorded that political recognition to which we are entitled; therefore. Be It Resolved. That our grievances against the Republican party be set forth in the following resolutions: First. That we demand from the candidates nominated by the Republican party recognition in a substantial way; Be It Further Resolved. That we make known to the people by these statements that we do not favor the "boodling method" that has been in vogue among our people as an honorable method of political emoluments, but that something in the way of official consideration be given as a reward for our loyalty to the Republican party; Be it further. Resolved. That we make it known to all men by this statement, our determination to continue with the Republican party upon a fair and just consideration and adequate and proper representation. Respectfully Submitted, DR. G. G. BROWN REV. W. H. TILLMAN, Sec'y W. N. MILLER, Com. Chr'm. The following are among the representative colored men present at the meeting: W. L. Herman, Tom Glover, J. T. Chinneth, H. W. James, H. W. Marshall, Rev. J. H. Van Leu, Jas. L. Harper, J. E. Lewis, Jacob McAfee, W. B. Morris, H. G. Young, J. Walker, W. H. Tillman, W. N. Miller, E. T. Fishback, Dr. G. G. Brown, Dr. A. K. Lawrence, S. W. Lea, Jno. H. Jones, Dr. J. E. Farmer, S. Will Fleming, Dudley Johnson. The meeting also took steps looking WOMEN'S CLUB DIRECTORY. A concise statement of the Clubs among the colored women of Wichita. Hour of meeting 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Engaged in needle, charity and literary work. Special 1908 course in typewriting. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Thos. Glover, president; Miss Sallie Rawles, Sec. Engaged in the culinary art. Progressive ideas in fancy and home cooking. Meets 2nd and 4th Friday afternoons 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 literary work. Meets every Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B. Hockett, president, Mrs. S. Griggs, secretary. Office Hours 9 a.m to 6 p.m Sundays by Appointment Dr. H. T. Bolden DENTIST Bell Phone 2467 507 N. Main St Wichita, Kan 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 Coal. 530 - Both Phones - 530 Before Letting Contract For your Cement and Side Walk work consult our prices We Do Good Work Our prices low, Work Guaranteed McKEE & MINOR 346 North Main Ssreet forward to making the meeting of Hon. Victor Murdock on Thursday night, October 29th at 4gfield Hall, a grand success and every one present pledged himself to do all within his power to that end. The meeting was organized by the election of Mr. G. H. Young as President, Dr. A. K. Lawrence as Secretary and S. W. Lea, Treasurer, which organization was made permanent. The meeting was adjourned to meet again on Tuesday night, October 26th, at 517 N. Main street. CLEAN JOURNALISM. The editor of the Searchlight has received many compliments from both white and black folks for the high, clean character in which the Searchlight has conducted its end of the present campaign. With the campaign now about at an end not one line of scurrilous mud-slinging yellow trash has appeared and it is our purpose in our concluding issues to hold our publication on the same high journalistic plane. This compliment is not one which reflects alone on us, but is also one which pays a tribute to the advancement of the whole race on line of improvements. With no desire at "tooting our own horn" we say our continued improvements in the publication of our paper in this city should make every Negro feel proud of our effort. We, however, realize that "A prophet is not withinout honor, save in his own country." BASED ON HIGHER GROUND. The colored people make a mistake by basing their claims to "equality," recognition," and a "square deal," on the fact that they are "colored people." Let us take the higher way and base our claims for all the privileges which other Americans enjoy on the fact, pure and simple, that we are "American citizens" and by birth and by alw—we are so entitled. An American is an American and the law should apply to all alike regardless to race. ATCHISON. KANS. Golden Tent No. 11 and its Queen Mother, Miss Ethel Penn were entertained after its monthly meeting by Vice Queen Mother Harriet Montgomery and Daughter Burdett. Ice cream and cake were served. Golden Tent is looking forward to their next meeting as being a big day for they expect to receive ten new members. ... Drugs of all kinds, Cigars and Tobacco .... Your patronage solicited. + Once a customer, always a customer. Our store is Headquaters for Colored people. 615 North Main st. "Second to None" PLEASES ALL Good Bread Makers It Is White As Snow—TRY IT The Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock and Poultry Food are all guaranteed under the United States Law, Serial No. 13415 and under the Kansas State Law Register No. 1. It Is The Cheapest and BEST FOOD on the Market. HOUCK Hardware store First Class Goods at Lowest Prices 116 East Douglas Avenue Dr.J.E. Farmer, Physician and Surgeon —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 Murray's Reliable Perfumes Murray's Reliable Pure Spices They are pleasing hundreds of people and will please you. J. H. MURRAY, Sole Prop. 908 South Hydraulic Avenue New Phone 985 Wichita - - - Kansas W. J. HENRION DRUGGIST 801 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. TRY US For a Good Job of Lead and Oil. SUTTON PAINT CO. Job Printing We have installed a new line of JOB TYPE FACES and we would be pleased to use them on a job for you. Good Work--Low Prices to all 634 North Water St. L. S. Naftsger, President, W. R. Tucker, Vice-President, J. M. Moore, Vice President, C. W. Brown, Vice President, V. H. Branch, Gashier. Fourth National Bank WICHITA, KANSAS Capital $200,000 Surplus $125,000 Dirrctors: W. R. Tucker, W. E. Jett, R. L. Holmes, S. B. Amidon, J. M. Moore, L. S. Nattsger, H. W. Darling, A. G. Houston, E. C. Sheldon, C. W. Brown, J. W. Metz, E. T. Battin, Henry Lassen, V. H. Braneh. A General Banking Business Transacted YOUR GOODS SAFE if you store them with ua--Miller Storage Co., 634 N. Water. Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless Steam Laundry Wichita's Oldest, Most Reliable and Best Laundry BEST LAUNDRY WORK IN THE CITY All Work Guaranteed SELOVER & DONS, Prop. Phone 282 245 N. Marks ABWEBBER Druggist Free Delivery. We will call for and Deliver Your Prescriptions 811 N. Main St. New Phone 611 STORAGE We have a nice, dry, san itary Storage Room..... Goods stored with us is safe. Rates the lowest MILLER STORAGE COMPANY 634 North Water St. Dr. E. Harrison Physician & Surgeon -SURGERY A SPECIALTY- Office Hours 9 to 11 a. m Residence 2 to 3 p. m. 703 N. Main St 7 to 8 q. m. OFFICE 601 N. MAIN ST Phone 860 green BUY LUMBER AT METZ'S Corner Of 3rd & Main Groceries, Meats GENERAL MERCHANDISE We carry a full, fresh line of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Choiceest Fresh and Salt Meats Our Stock of Dry Goods Men. Women and Child- ren's Shoes cannot be excelled in quality or in price. Free Delivery. Tapp & Hanshaw 255-257 N. Main St Phone 255 BOOST FOR WICHITA ENTER PRISES. SEARCHLIGHT SICHITA, : : : : KANS. Pretty near time to send for a rain- maker. "D. U. R. is done with politics." Tell it to the marines. The departing guest at a Japanese hotel always receives a gift, usually a towel. New York's subway is being ex- posed again, but it has never yet been fully aired. Most of us who are the architects of our own fortune only get a chance to build air castles. It is difficult to preserve one's grav- ity in the presence of a man who says he has suspended his. A Jersey minister has married 1,000 couples. The strange feature is that he's bragging about it. The man who threatens suicide is usually the first to yell for a mustard plaster if he has a pain. With the vindictiveness of a woman bound to get even with the literary critics, Marie Corelli has shot out another book. The end of the honeymoon is well in sight when a man complains of the number of buttons on the back of his wife's blouse. If life were a melodrama, we'd get our reward in the fifth act. As it is we have to wait until the final curtain has dropped. The man who is compelled to look life in the face would often, after close inspection, prefer to turn his back upon it. Some of the suffragette banners are described as highly artistic and decorative. The ornamental instinct will not be suppressed. There is only one person more insistent than an insurance agent, and that is a woman discussing the perfections of her baby. Now that the country has been so generally denuded of forests all the year round is the reason for disastrous American floods. St. Louis is talking of having an "only dog show." Dachshunds and prize bulldogs are to be excluded in order to give the other dogs a chance. What with bank robberies, hold-ups and desperate encounters, the small person in search of the sensational need only read the newspapers nowadays. The war department is going to issue a new cook book for the army. In this book the menu will lead the simple life, and incidentally, so will the consumers. In reflecting upon the possible future of the airship as a freight carrier allow your mind to dwell for a moment upon the impracticability of establishing custom houses in the air. The report that a Russian prince is about to marry an American singer is disquieting. It is enough for foreign mobility to be marrying our money without also cornering our talent. How many Chicago people know, for instance, that Chicago has considerably more than 3,000 acres of public parks, and that these parks are regarded as models for all the world? A Chicago woman, guided by a spirit, found a large sum of money. A man, guided by spirit, finds it hard enough to find his way home without adding treasure-seeking to his troubles. Automatic announcers, it is reported, are to tell the streets as the cars approach them. "Automatic" sounds rather wooden for the job, but any kind will beat what street car patrons get now as a rule. Wilbur Wright has beaten the world's record in the matter of sailing in an airship and is now king of the air. But at present his kingdom is not a sparsely populated one, though it is hard to say when it will not be of many subjects. Idle and inconsiderate persons take measure in putting freak addresses on letters, to test the ingenuity of theiders in decliphering puzzles. The British postmaster general has very properly given orders that government employees must not hereafter waste their time, which is public money, in trying to decipher intentional cryptograms. In Germany the princes of the imperial family do not have to run for office. They are born elected, so the club of the family who is cuttingown trees so that his form may return to its sylphilike shape of formerwills will not have to join the wood-smoppers' union or get it in the neck on the polls. All German soldiers must learn to swim. Some of them are so expert that, with their clothing on their heads and carrying guns and ammunition, they can swim streams several hundred yards wide. The fact that the street railways of Chicago are trying to prevent women getting off the cars backwards should cause a protest from every thinking member of the sex. It is an infringement of a petticoated right that has been acknowledged ever since street cars were. HE'S 50 YEARS OLD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT REACHED THE HALF CENTURY MARK ON TUESDAY. IS WARMLY CONGRATULATED One of First Messages Received Came From England's King-There Was No Formal Celebration. Washington, Oct. 28.—President Roosevlt observed his fiftieth anniversary Tuesday very simply. He attended to his executive duties as usual and except for the reception of a delegation from the Hungarian Republican club of New York in the East room of the White House, and the receipt of a large number of congratulatory messages, some floral tributes and gifts from the members of his family the day was the same to him as any other day. Late in the afternoon the president donned his khaki riding uniform and rough-rider hat and went for a horseback ride, remaining out until 6 p. m. There was a jolly family dinner at the White House Tuesday evening in honor of the president's anniversary. No guests were present. King Edward of Great Britain sent one of the first of the congratulatory messages receivd. It said: "I request that you will accept my cordial congratulations upon the occasion of your birthday together with my best wishes for your welfare and prosperity." Gov. Hughes of New York from Catskill, N. Y., telegraphed: "My heartiest congratulations and most cordial regards." Archbishop Ireland from St. Paul said: "I beg leave to offer you my most successive wishes that many, many more anniversaries be allowed you in services of your country and of humanity." From England, Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador to Great Britain, sent: "Congratulations on finishing the first half century with a great record. 'The past at least is secure.'" Similar messages were received from persons, including Rev. Father John C. York of Huntington, N. Y.; Rev. Father Walter J. Power of Oyster Bay, N. Y.; William Abrahams, president of the Clothing Association of Philadelphia; Abraham Lippman, Jewish minister of Pittsburg, Pa.; J. Edwin Browne, national commander of the Army and Navy union at Baltimore; Henry Freuhrer, president of the Brooklyn, N. Y., Arion society; a committee of the enlisted force of the navy at Newport, R. I.; Karl Buenz, German consul general at New York; Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill of New York; Jose V. Fernandez, consul general of the Argentine Republic at New York; Juan J. J. Ulloa, consul general of Costa Rica at New York; Charles S. Francis of Troy, N. Y., American ambassador to Austria-Hungary; C. A. Leavitt, president of the Hunters' Reform club of Tannersville, N. Y.; the senior class of the Rye, N. Y., seminary; Gov. J. Franklin Fort of New Jersey; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cheney of Oyster Bay, N. Y., and Phil Goerres, president of the Hunsruecker Verenin, of Milwaukee. NEW TELEPHONE PROJECT. Big Eastern Syndicate After. Line to Kansas City. St. Louis, Oct. 28.—Efforts are being made by eastern members of the syndicate which controls the United States Independent Telephone company, capitalized at $50,000,000 and which was in danger of being absorbed about a year ago by the American Telegraph & Telephone company, to form a merger of various local and long distance telephone companies between Philadelphia, Rochester and St. Louis. The plan as announced from the east is to bring various independent telephone companies into the United States Independent Telephone company and form a line from the Atlantic coast to through Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo and St. Louis to Kansas City. James B. Hoge, for the United States Telephone company, is said to be the prime mover in the merger project. A Corner Stone Laid at M. S. U. A Corner Stone Laid at M. S. U. Columbia, Mo., Oct. 28.—In a rain ex-Gov. Alexander M. Dockery, acting as grand master of Masons in Missouri, laid the cornerstone of the new $100,000 agricultural building at the University of Missouri Monday morning. Besides Mr. Dockery, Norman J. Coleman, Dr. Richard H. Jesse, B. T. Galloway and Dr. H. J. Waters made speeches. Beverly H. Bonfoy of Unionville, Mo., represented the board of curators of the university. In the line of march were the university cadets, Masons, the faculty of agricultural college and the agricultural students. A Fine for An Election Crook. St. Joseph, Oct. 27.—W. J. Donnelly, a salesman, pleaded guilty here Monday to a charge of registering illegally. He was fined $500. Seven arrests for fraudulent registration at the registration last week have been made. Accepts Kansas City Call. Toledo, O., Oct. 26—Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady of Toledo Sunday announced his resignation as rector of Trinity parish. He goes to Kansas City to the St. George Episcopal church. CORN DEVELOPING. CORN 1908 CORN PRODUCTION U.S. 2,459,000,000 BUSTLE-8 VALUE OF THE CORN CORN U.S. $1921888,000,000 GOVERNMENT REPORT ON CORN. Minneapolis Journal. King Corn—I'm Getting Pretty Strong Myself! BIG MEN TESTIFY CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY ON THE STAND IN THE MORSECURTIS CASE. THE PROSECUTION RESTS Messrs. Gates, Schwab, Flagler and Havemeyer, Directors of Bank Ignorant of Morse's Actions. New York, Oct. 28.—After the admission of testimony by John W. Gates, former Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, Charles M. Schwab, John E. Flagler and William F. Havemeyer, to the effect that as directors of the National Bank of North America they had never authorized the honoring of overdrafts by Charles W. Morse, the vice president of the bank, and had never known of the existence of such practice, the prosecution late Monday rested its case in the United States court here against the former banker and promoter and his fellow defendant, A. H. Curtis, who are being tried for alleged violation of the national banking laws. The day's session furnished a number of sensations, not the least of which was the declaration by W. W. Lee, a former vice president of the bank, that on the day of the institution's collapse, Curtis, the president, had said to him: "I have just told Morse that he has 'busted the bank.'" Mr. Lee was questioned at length concerning the happenings behind closed doors of the bank during the evening hours of October 16, 1907, the day of the collapse. After the accounts of the day's transactions had been closed, it was discovered, Mr. Lee testified that Mr. Morse had overdrawn his account $211,000. In order to make good this deficiency, Morse had turned into the bank a quantity of securities for the most part stocks and bonds not listed on the stock exchange and of doubtful value, as collateral for a loan of $211,000. This loan the directors repudiated on the following day. Testimony intended to show the dominating influence exercised over the National Bank of North America by Morse was given by W. A. Nash, president of the Corn Exchange bank and a member of the clearing house committee. A Missouri Murderer Sentenced. Springfield, Mo., Oct. 28.—Herman Johnson Tuesday pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the circuit court at Mt. Vernon and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Johnson killed James Evans of Neosho in a box car near Pierce City several months ago. Johnson also shot George Ryan of Norwood, Mo., Evans' companion. Ryan escaped with his life by feigning death. Robbery was the object of the murder. A. Kansas Boy is Captain. Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 28.—The Harvard football management announced Tuesday night that the freshman team had elected H. L. Gaddis of McCune, Crawford county, Kansas, captain for the season. Gaddis is from Hotchkiss school, where he played on the football team two years. He is five feet ten inches tall, 25 years old and weighs 165 pounds. He has played right tackle on the team this fall. Died of Blood Poisoning. Springfield, Mo., Oct. 27.-Mrs. Jacob Hazel, the wife of a farmer near here, recently struck her leg on the rung of a rocking chair. The bruise developed blood poisoning which resulted in lockjaw causing her death Sunday. The woman died in great agony. Forest Fires in Indiana. Jasper, Ind., Oct. 27.-Forest fires have been raging in Dubois county for the past 24 hours, and considerable damage has been done. HE TOLD OF SECRET RATES HE TOLD OF SECRET RATES STANDARD OIL HEARING IN NEW YORK RESUMED. A Pennsylvania Freight Agent Tells of Discriminations in Favor of Oil Monopoly. New York, Oct. 28.—That secret tariff rates, which were not filed with the Interstate Commerce commission, were issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad company and that the Standard Oil company only profited by the alleged illegal rates, was testified Tuesday in the hearing of the railroad phase of the government suit to dissolve the Standard Oil company. Edward T. Johnson of Buffalo, division freight agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, who was the only witness called, was on the stand during the entire session. On cross examination by Franklin B. Kellogg, senior counsel for the government, Mr. Johnson testified that the Standard Oil is the only shipper from Olean to Rochester, a distance of 106 miles, and that the rate, which has never been filed with the Interstate Commerce commission or posted, as required by law, is nine cents a barrel. Independent concerns in the same territory, it was brought out, paid rates as high as 28 cents a barrel for practically the same distance. Mr. Johnson admitted that the Standard Oil was the only shipper receiving the rate of nine cents a barrel. He said that he kept the rate secret from the New York Central. Neither roads rates, he testified, had ever been filed with the Interstate Commerce commission. Except for adjournment of a few days for election, the hearing will continue until December 1. Hard on Sheep Herders Medicine Hat, Sask., Oct. 27.—The first trains since Monday reached Medicine Hat from the east Saturday evening. Riders got in from the district south, stretching to the United States border, with fearful tales of hardships created by the storm. Donald Cameron, sheep herder, with two others, were caught and forced to leave their sheep to perish and seek safety themselves. Cameron, however, became exhausted and died. After being 60 hours without sleep or nourishment, the other two reached a ranch in safety. It is feared that many other herders have perished. Omaha's Registration Omaha, Oct. 28.—Complete returns from this year's registration in Omaha became public Monday. It is shown that 73,282 voters declared themselves Republicans; 8,969 Democrats, while 1,214 were divided among other parties and those who declined to state their political preferences, the total registration being 23,465. This is a gain of 2,034 over 1904. As compared with four years ago the Republican registration shows a falling off of 263, while there is a gain of 3,987 for the Democrats. The total registration in South Omaha is 5,185 this year. 687 more than it was four years ago. The "Keeley Cure" Case. Springfield, Ill., Oct. 28.—In the "Keeley cure" case the supreme court, in a decision rendered Monday night, holds that the formula for the cure of drunkards was Dr. Keeley's discovery. The supreme court affirms the decree of the circuit court of Livingston county, where the Keeley institute is located, in Dwight, making perpetual the injunction against defendants in the bill filed against Frederick B. Hargraves, et al, restraining Hargraves et al from disclosing knowledge regarding said formula. An Oklahoma Bank Robbed. Guthrie, Ok., Oct. 27—The First State bank of Fallis, in Lincoln county, was robbed of $3,500 in currency and sold Sunday night. George Schmake, the bookkeeper, was arrested Monday on suspicion of knowing something of the robbery. SOLDIERS CAPTURE MORE NIGHT RIDERS TEN MORE PRISONERS BROUGHT INTO CAMP NEMO. BURTON MAKES A CONFESSION One of the Captured Men Has Been Identified as Leader of Band Which Killed Negro. Camp Nemo, Reel Foot Lake, Tenn., Oct. 28.—Return to camp yesterday of Governor Patterson, accompanied by Assistant Adjutant General Harvey Alexander, the capture of the ten additional prisoners and the return of Captain Rogan from an expedition covering the entire Reel Foot Lake section, were the principal developments here yesterday. Nothing definite has been given out by Governor Patterson of his plans, but it is rumored he will make another sifting of prisoners and that the most important ones will be sent to Union City to appear before the grand jury. Two posses went out from camp, returning with their prisoners about dusk. Among the prisoners held at Camp Nemo is a man who it is said has been identified as the leader of a band of night riders who several weeks ago murdered a youth near Hickman, Ky., on the same night that a family of negroes was killed It is declared here that the mother of the murdered boy identified the prisoners as soldiers, who had taken him into custody while passing her house. According to reports received here of the Hickman raid, the night riders, after disposing of the family of negroes, went to the home of the boy, and despite the protests of his mother, forced him to accompany them. When he did not return, a search was instituted. it is said, and his body was found buried in the woods near Hickman. The names of the women and the prisoners have been suppressed for the present. Burton Makes Confession Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 28.—"Tid" Burton, one of the men under arrest in connection with the night rider outrages at Reel Foot lake, made a voluntary confession in the Tiptonville jail, according to Will Flack, of Tiptonville, who arrived here yesterday. Flack stated that Burton had made his statement to hlm and another man, whose name he did not give. The confession is considered very damaging to the night riders. Burton was arrested on a warrant charging him with complicity in the whipping of Squire Wynne, in Lake county, several months ago. According to Flack, Burton stated that he was in the crowd that whipped Wynne. Burton then told of being at the Walnut Log hotel on the evening that Captain Rankin was killed and that Colonel Taylor was mistreated. Burton says he went to the hotel and there saw Rankin and Taylor. He secured a lunch at the hotel and soon left with it for the lake, remaining out all night fishing. He said he heard shots that night but did not know the occasion of the shooting. He said he was present when arrangements had been made to go to Walnut Log and see Taylor and Rankin, but that he had gone back home and afterward went fishing. Floods Drown 800 Persons. Manila, Oct. 28—Official dispatches received from the sections visited by the typhoon and resultant floods that devastated Cayagan province recently, place the death roll at 800 and the damage of property at $1,000,000 in gold. There were no reports of damage in Isabelle province. ROOSEVELT FIFTY YEARS OLD Observed His Birthday by Attending to His Duties. Washington, Oct. 28.—President Roosevelt observed his fiftieth anniversary yesterday. He attended to his executive duties as usual and except for the reception of a delegation from the Hungarian Republican club, in the east room of the White House, and the receipt of a large number of congratulatory messages, some floral tributes and gifts from the members of his family, the dav was the same to him as any other day. There was a jolly family dinner at the White House last evening in honor of the president's anniversary. No guests were present. King Edward of Great Britain sent one of the first congratulatory messages received. Duke To Do as He Please: Turin, Oct. 28.—It is reported here that the Dowager Queen Marcheeria remains immovable in her attitude of opposition to the marriage of the Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkina, but that the duke has declared that he will have his own way in spite of opposition. Washington, Oct. 28.—Information reached the Isthmian canal office in this city today concerning two explosions of dynamite, which occurred on the canal on October 15, whereby twelve men were killed and eleven were injured. The first explosion was at Culebra cut, near Empire, where five men were killed and eight injured and the second at Mindi where seven were killed, ten injured and one missing. All of those killed and injured at Culebra cut were negress, excepting W. J. Davis, an engineer, and George Goodley, a craneman. [Illustration of a woman with dark hair and a high collar, wearing a dark dress with a white collar.] Proof is inexhaustible that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound carries women safely through the Change of Life. Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanson, 304 E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "I was passing through the Change of Life, and suffered from nervousness, headaches, and other annoying symptoms. My doctor told me that Lydia E. 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A certain well-known Bostonian has been married long enough to have acquired the average man's cynical attitude in respect of the written expressions of devotion indulged in before marriage. One day the Hubbite was going over with his wife a mass of useless papers that had accumulated in the household. They unearthed several large boxes full of love letters. After a hasty glance at them, the husband said: "No use keeping this junk, I suppose? Here it goes." The wife was hurt. "Oh, Clarence," exclaimed she, "how can you be so brutal? Surely you don't want to destroy your own love letters to me?" "Well, keep 'em, if you want 'em, cheerfully assented the husband, "but honestly, Helen, these seem too soft to file!"—Lipnincott's. Woman Chosen City Alderman. Mrs. H. J. Gates has just been elected one of the six aldermen of Magee, Tenn. For several years she has taken an active interest in the educational work of her town and wanted to be elected alderman because it would help her in this work. She is reported to have made about the most aggressive campaign ever witnessed in Magee, if not in Tennessee. The town people seemed pleased with her election, and even those who voted against her believe she will make a first-class alderman. From Dollars to Paper Stock. The other day some 300 tons of waste paper was shipped out of this city to a paper mill in Michigan to be ground into pulp, says the Washington Star. This stock represented the accumulations of four years of canceled money orders, totaling 2,500,000 sheets and once representing a value of $1,500,000,000. ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR Old Lady Got Well with Change of Food. A great scientist has said we can put off "old age" if we can only nourish the body properly. To do this the right kind of food, of course, is necessary. The body manufactures poisons in the stomach and intestines from certain kinds of food stuffs and unless sufficient of the right kind is used, the injurious elements overcome the good. "My grandmother, 71 years old," writes a N. Y. lady, "had been an invalid for 18 years from what was called consumption of the stomach and bowels. The doctor had given her up to die. "I saw so much about Grape-Nuts that I persuaded Grandmother to try it. She could not keep anything on her stomach for more than a few minutes. "She began Grape-Nuts with only a teapadful. As that did not distress her and as she could retain it, she took a little more until she could take all of 4 teapadfuls at a meal. "Then she began to gain and grow strong and her trouble in the stomach was gone entirely. She got to enjoy good health for one so old and we know Grape-Nuts saved her life. "The doctor was astonished that instead of dying she got well, and without a drop of medicine after she began the Grape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. EXPERT. Doc Ahem—You seem to cough with considerable difficulty this morning. Patient—That's very strange. I've been practicing all night! BABY'S ITCHING HUMOR. Nothing Would Help Him—Mother Almost in Despair—Owes Quick Cure to Cuticura. "Several months ago, my little boy began to break out with itching sores. I doctored him, but as soon as I got them healed up in one place they would break out in another. I was almost in despair. I could not get anything that would help him. Then I began to use Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and after using them three times, the sores commenced to heal. He is now well, and not a scar is left on his body. They have never returned nor left him with bad blood, as one would think. Cuticura Remedies are the best I have ever tried, and I shall highly recommend them to any one who is suffering likewise. Mrs. William Geeding, 102 Washington St., Attica, India, July 22, 1907." Mercenary Marriages. "Dinna marry for the siller, Jock," said old Sandy, sagely, to his son, who seemed to show symptoms of the awakening of a young man's fancy; "gin ye dae, ye'll aye regret it. For a'm tellin' ye, when I marrit ye'r mither, I hadna but ae shillin', forby she had aucheten pence. And for all the 15 year o' oor marrit life, I ne'er heard the last o' the odd saxpex."—F. C. Luck, in West Coast Magazine. Every time the owner of a pocket knife sees a grindstone he thinks it is up to him to get busy. PERUNA A TONIC OF GREAT USEFULNESS. GREAT USEFULNESS. Hon. R. S. Tharin, Attorney at Law and counsel for Anti-Trust League, writes from Pennsylvania Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C., as follows: "Having used Peruna for catarhall disorders, I am able to testify to its great remedial excellence and do not hesitate to give it my emphatic endorsement and earnest recommendation to all persons affected by that disorder. It is also a tonic of great usefulness." Mr. T. Barnecott, West Aylmer, Ontario, Can., writes: "Last winter I was ill with pneumonia after having la gripe. I took Peruna for two months, when I became quite well. I also im- tended a lady, who was all run down and confined to the house, to take Peruna, and after taking Peruna for three months she is able to follow her trade of tailoring. I can recommend Peruna for all such who are ill and require a tonic." Pe-ru-na Tablets. Some people prefer to take tablets, rather than to take medicine in a fluid form. Such people can obtain Peruna tablets which represent the solid medicinal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet is equivalent to one average dose of Peruna. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanse and beautify the hair. Newer Falls to Rescue Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Custome Greying, 50, and $1.00 at Drugges PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanes and beautifies the hairstyle Newer knits. Fade to restore. Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cure w/ bleach. 10c. and $1.00 at Drugs DEFIANCE Cold Water Starch makes laundry work a pleasure. 16 oz. pkg. 10c. MILITIAINCONTROL TENNESSEE TROOPS MAKING MANY ARRESTS IN REELFOOT NIGHT RIDER CASE. GRAND JURY MEETS MONDAY Sufficient Evidence is in Hand to Indict Every Member of Night Rider Organization, it Is Said. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 27.—What may happen this week as a result of the investigation of night rider depredations in the northwestern section of this state, is a matter of conjecture. Monday with the convening of the circuit court for Ohio county in special session at Union City, formally to investigate the death of Quinten Rankin, who was killed by a night rider band in the vicinity of Reefoot lake Monday night last, that section will be under complete military domination. Five companies of the state national guard will be at the disposal of Col. Tatom. To aid the militia, the adjoining counties have been drawn on for posses of nicked men. In the Reeffoot lake district the lake itself is the source of contention. It was asserted by those living in the vicinity that it was their right to ply their vocation as fishermen in its waters without molestation, while the owners of the land upon which the lake is situated took an opposite view In the courts, the latter, the Western Tennessee Land company of which Capt. Rankin and Col. R. Z. Taylor of Trenton were the organizers, are largely interested, were unheld. Then followed night rider warnings, threatening death to those who opposed the wishes of the band. It was upon the first visit in many months to the lake region that Capt. Rankin was killed. Of a number of men arrested, ten are being held, and it is promised that when the grand jury is convened Monday sufficient evidence will be furnished to secure the indictment of every member of the night riders' organization. The session of the court will be under military protection. Governors of several states of the south have approved of a suggestion of Gov. Patterson, that a conference of the executives be held and plans devised whereby they can act in concert in an effort to destroy the night rider organizations. Camp Nemo, Reelfoot Lake, Tenn. Oct. 27.—Forty-four more prisoners, including two women, were brought in Sunday as the result of the murder at Walnut Log last week of Capt. Quentin Rankin by masked nightriders. In addition, seven others, including one woman, were arrested by the troops but paroled. Among those seized are William Pratt, hotelkeeper at Samburg, J. D. F. Carpenter, Union City attorney, who, Col. Taylor charged, wrote letters to Taylor and Rankin which were instrumental in carrying them on the fatal trip to Walnut Log; William Brewer, a 60-year-old farmer, his wife and son. No charges against any of the arrested ones have been made public. Aside from the arrests, the day passed quietly with the troops in the disturbed region. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 27.—Gov. Patterson Sunday night announced that he had cancelled all speaking dates in his campaign for re-election and will devote his attention to the Reefoot Lake region. He left late Sunday night for Union City to be present at the opening of the special term of the circuit court there Monday called to investigate the Reefoot murder. Robbers in Bigelow, Mo. Bigelow, Mo., Oct. 28.—The cash drawer in the Bigelow postoffice was robbed of $12 Monday night. The robbers also tried to make a hole through the brick wall of the bank building near the safe. The noise of falling bricks awakened W. L. Catron, who was asleep in a room next door. Catron shouted for help and the robbers fled. The Erisco Railroad Report St. Louis, Oct. 28—The report of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad company for the year ending June 30, 1908, was given out at the general offices of the company here Tuesday. The operating revenue for the year was $25,506,132, a decrease of $2,447,849; and the operating expenses were $25,092,924, an increase of $236,350. Thirty Box Cars Burned East St. Louis, Ill., Oct. 28—Fire in the Mobile & Ohio yards south of East St. Louis Monday night destroyed about 30 freight cars. The fire started between ten and eleven o'clock and at an early hour Tuesday morning was still burning. About 400 cars are in the yards but the fire was believed to be under control. Purged the Jury Box. Springfield, Ill., Oct. 28.—As the result of failure of juries which have tried race riot cases to convict, a sweeping decision was rendered Monday by Judge James A. Creighton in the Sangamon county circuit court, quashing the petit jury panel, surging the jury box, and rendering the county juryless. Mrs. Calvin Hood of Emporia In., Emporia, Kan., Oct. 27.—Mrs. Frances Hood, wife of Mai, Calvin Hood, of this city, a financier and politician, was stricken with apoplexy Sunday night. Her condition is critical. THREATEN A GOVERNOR. Body Guard of Tennessee Executive Has Been Increased. Samburg, Tenn., Oct. 25.—Because of threats against the life of Gov. M. R. Patterson, who is personally directing the investigation of night rider depredations in this vicinity, the detachment of troops assigned to safeguard him has been increased, and additional precautions have been doubled and reinforcements ordered to report to Col. Tatom. Knox Morgan and Elmer Tate, merchants, and T. W. Ward, proprietor of the hotel at Walnut Log, where Capt. Quentin Rankin and Judge R. Z. Taylor were seized by a band of masked men Monday night, were taken into custody Friday. With their arrest the situation became so acute as to call forth instructions from the governor to Sheriff Dawson of Dyer county to report at once with a posse and begin recruiting at Union City of another posse to work in conjunction with the military and the forces of the sheriff's on this and Lake county who are already on the scene. Friday Gov. Patterson visited the scene of the killing of Capt. Rankin, and proceeded from that point to Union City to confer with officials and map out a plan for further action. USED MAILS TO DEFRAUD. A Chicago Mining Promoter Under Arrest in Seattle. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 27.—Wallace H. Hopkins has been arrested here at the instance of postoffice inspectors on the charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. Hopkins, it is charged, engaged in business under the name of The Hopkins company at 181 LaSalle street, Chicago, and claiming to be fiscal agent for the Consolidated insurance company, announced that he represented a merger of mines in Wisconsin and Missouri. The prospectus and other printed matter which he is charged with sending through the mails, inviting the purchase of stock, gave the capital stock of the company at $20,000,000 and for $1 offered to send two shares of stock, one each of common and preferred, on which Hopkins guaranteed to pay, it is claimed, a minimum of 12 per cent interest per annum. AFTER PATENT MEDICINES. Kansas Board of Health to File Suit at Topeka. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 28.—Sult has been prepared and will be filed in the United States district court here Tuesday for a court order to destroy 22 original packages of "maco solvent" or change the labels. The suit alleges that the label says the preparation will "cure diptheria, group, whooping cough and cataractal affections of the throat." And that the label is misleading and dangerous. This is the first attack in his state on a so-called patent medicine under the federal pure food law. The suit is brought by Dr. S. J. Crumbline, federal pure food and drug inspector for Kansas, and secretary of the state 14rd of health. Dr. Parkhurst to Resign. New York, Oct. 26.—It became known Sunday that Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst has resigned the presidency of the society for the prevention of crime which he has held for 17 years. The resignation and the reason for it will be formally announced at a dinner to be held at Hotel Gotham next Thursday night. Bulgaria Backs Down. Sofia, Oct. 23.—The Bulgarian government Tuesday informed the representatives of the foreign powers here of its acceptance of the principle of paying compensation to Turkey, which has been the burden of persistent diplomatic representations during the past fortnight on the part of all the great powers. Mr. Kern's Son Better. Indianapolis, Oct. 26.—The marked improvement in the condition of John W. Kern, Jr., which was noted Sunday will enable his father, Democratic nominee for vice president, to continue his speech-making. MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City, Oct. 28.—Cattle-Common steers, $3.15@4.25; heifers, $4.85@6.25; western stockers and feeders, $3.19@4.70; Hogs-Bulk of sales, $5.25@5.90. Sheep- Lambs, $4.25@5.85; good to choice wethers, $3.85@4.10; ewes, $3.60@4.00. Chicago, Oct. 28.—Beef-Steers, $4.40@ 7.60; cows and heifers, $3.00@4.25; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.65. Hogs—Bulk of of sales, $5.50@5.90. Sheep—Natives, $4.20@4.75; lambs, $4.75@4.35. St. Louis, Oct. 28.—Cattle-Common steers, $2.75@4.25; heifers and feeders, $3.90@4.90; cows and heifers, $2.50@6.06; Texas steers, $2.75@5.60. Flogs- lights and $3.00@5.50. Sheep—Natives, $4.25@4.40; lambs, $5.50@5.90. Grain. Kansas City, Oct. 28—Close. Wheat—Dec, 93% City, May 77% City, July 91% City, Corn—Dec, 57% City, May 57% City, July 67% City, Chicago, Oct. 28—Close. Wheat—Dec, 1.00% City, May 1.03% City, July 98% City, Corn—Dec, 63% City, May 63% City, July 62% City, Gate—Dec, 48% City, May 49% City, July 45% City, St. Louis, Oct. 23—Close. Wheat—Higher, track, No. 2 red cash, $1.01% @1.02%; No. 2 hard, $8.12% @1.02%; futures, December, 98% City, May, $1.03% @1.02%; Corn—Firm, futures, December, 97% City, $4.92% @1.02%; futures, December, 60% City, May, 61% City, Oats—Firm, track, No. 2 cash, 46% No. 2 white, 49% futures, December, 45% City, May, 48% City, Produce. Kansas City, Oct. 28—Eggs, 27% c per doz. Poultry—Hens, 9c; springs, 11c; turkeys, 13c; Butter—Creamery, extra, 27% c; packing stock, 17% c. Potatoes, 58® The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children. 50c. One of the Essentials of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the world's best products. 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"A primary teacher of Chicago, wishing to impress on her pupils the necessity of greater quiet, said: "I am a great deal larger than any of you, yet I don't make any noise when I walk around the room.' "Perhaps, remarked little seventy-year-old Kenneth, 'you don't wear shoes.' "Oh, yes, I do,' quickly replied the teacher; 'just look. Did you ever see any larger than mine?" "Kenneth surveyed them carefully. "Yes, he replied, slowly, 'once—in a show,'"—Waverly Magazine. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. The Second Wife. Little Dorothy could not have paid her father a higher compliment or better expressed her love for him than when she said: "Papa, I would like to tell you something if you won't tell mamma." "Why don't you want mamma to know it, daughter?" "Well, you tell her things I say, and she laughs at them, and I don't want her to know this." "Let papa hear what you have to say, anyhow." "Well, I have often thought that it mamma were to die I would like to marry you."—Delineator. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great number of these diseases, prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to treat them, Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease. Hails Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. Catarrh & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only Constitutional cure on the market. It is administered to a doxorolol to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send Address: F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Take哄all Family Pills for constipation. Fujiyama Modernized. The beautiful mountain peak of Fujiyama, which is regarded by the Japanese as little short of sacred, is to be modernized by electricity. For the benefit of tourists the mountain top and the trail to it will be illuminated by electric lights. Hotels and refreshments houses will be erected on the mountain slope, as well as telephone and telegraph stations. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it What He'd Seen. "No," said the eminent scientist, "I have never seen a Plymouth rock hen lay a corner-stone, but I have frequently seen a pine-apple layer cake." Pettit's Eve Salve Restores. No matter how badly the eyes may be diseased or injured. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. When a mother sleeps soundly at night it means that none of the children has any aches or pains. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Two-thirds of a woman's worry is due to her continuous efforts to have her way. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents There isn't much meat on the bone of content* a. Eagles still hover over the crags that make the Cumberland narrows noted. John H. Horchler, an engineer, found a pheasant fluttering in his yard at Cumberland and observed a large eagle flying away. The eagle had dropped the pheasant and made frantic but unsuccessful efforts to recover it, flying into the yard, but was frightened away by the presence of Mr. Horchler, who found the pheasant fluttering with jagged holes in its neck from the eagle's talons.—Baltimore News. Up-to-Date. A little girl six years old gave an afternoon tea to some of her friends, and she wished to make it as perfect a reproduction of those given by her mother as was possible. "What shall you give your friends to eat?" asked the same mother, "I don't know," replied the embryo aesthette, "unless I give them pink tissue paper and cambric tea. Uncle Tom says that's the most fashionable thing." TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA BUILT IN THE SYSTEM. Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TANLESSEL CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking, the formal wine. You know that it's simple Quinine and Iron in a laxeless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children. 50c. All the Difference. Nini—George says that my beauty intoxicates him. Elsie—I heard that he said you were enough to drive a man to drink.—Journal Amusant. SICK HEADACHE CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness, indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. 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"Don't you enjoy the glories of summer?" "Yes," answered the unpoetic person; "it is something of a comfort to find the gas bills getting so much smaller." DODDS KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHTS-DISEASE DIABETES, BACKU 18375 "Guaranteed" CARTERS LITTLE IVER PILLS. MAKR ```markdown ``` DEAM ABSTRACT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THE COURT HOUSE Bonded Abstractors GRAHAM — CORN MEAL — BREAKFAST FOOD With thirty-five years milling experience in Wichita our products are the best that can be produced. Made froffi best selected grain only and put up in Special Packages, Ask Your Grocer See that you get IMPERIAL THE IMBODEN MILLING Co. WICHITA, KANSAS VERTICAL MILL HAY, FEED, GRAIN and COAL CUSTOM GRINDING A SPECIALTY We sell Corn Chops, Bran, Hay, Oats, Alfalfa, Sceen ed Wheat, Kaffir Corn, Stock Foods, Meal and Flour ORDERS TAKEN FOR COAL. We solicit your trade C. O. VARNER, Proprietor KINER'S European Hotel Newly Furnished. 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Kiner, Proprietor n's Hotel Main St. KANSAS Electric Lighti, Electric Fans restaurant in Connection Proprietor THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN 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 329 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 C good THE WIGHT 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.. BOYN PHONE: 496 J.H. TURNER WICHITA, MANS 333 30 347 WEST DOUGLAS It Is Right To Economize, Even In Small Matters. If You Trade At The Economy 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 Hickerson's 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, 527 Ohio Ave., New Phone 1127 WINCHESTER THE RED W BRAND LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS LEADER AND REPEATER Loaded with Smokeless Powder NUBLACK AND NEW RIVAL Loaded with Black Powder Used by the Most successful shots SOLD EVERYWHERE WINCHESTER NO. 12 REPEATER NEWS OF PRATT. A fine rainfall here Monday the 19th and the farmers are all smiles. The death angel visited the home of Mrs. Steward, one mile south of town and called from Lahoma, to reward, Miss Ireen Steward age 16 years. Westrn U The leading ed stitute for Negro A faculty of eighteen thorou from the leading Inst MAGNIFICENT Steam Heated and Westrn University The leading educational institute for Negroes in the west THE MARY ANN MAYTHAM ACADEMY A faculty of eighteen thoroughly equipped teachers from the leading Institutes in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS Steam Heated and Electric Lighted Theological, Classical, Nor cal, State Industrial, embr tecture, Carpentry, Mechan Book-binding, Tailorling, E making, Millinery, Cooking, Theological, Classical, Normal, Nsb-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailorlng, Business Courses, Dress making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundering and Farming. Thorough discipline, Christian influence careful supervision Fine Military Band and Orchestra For full particulars write Prof. Shelton Of Western U. QUINDA Residence Phone No. 15 MESSEY FAMOUS AND ICE CHEE WHOLESALE For Parties, Picnics, I Orders delivered to a BON-TON & BAKERY E. B. MESSE 146 N. Main St. Of Western University QUINDARO, KS Residence Phone No.15 Office Phone 1423 146 N. Main St. Phone 102 The funeral was held at 2nd Baptist church October 18. Rev. Wm. Turner officiating, assisted by Rev. B. R. Guyer, pastor of A. M. E. church. Rev. Guyer filled his pulpit last Sunday morning and evening, this being his first Lord's day in his new field of labor, and we hope him much success. The 2nd Baptist church is still having those old fashioned meetings under the leadership of their beloved pastor. Rev. Wm. Turner. Eight persons have been taken in full fellowship in the week and total amount of money raised in two weeks, eighty-one dollars and fifty cents. Brethren, how is this for one one of the weak churches of the Southwestern district. We have also built a four-room parsonage at the cost of $700; $400 of which has been paid on the building. Now, brethren, if the Lord permit, we are coming to the state convention that will convene with New Hope Baptist church, Wichita, an., October 1809, with our banner hoisted high. The pastor, officers and members of 2nd Baptist church would be glad indeed to have our worthy President, Rev. E. A. Wilson, visit us at an early date. Sir, and brother, may here from you soon? KANSAS CITY, MO. Rev. T. H. Ewing, pastor of the Vine Street Baptist church, is visiting his family in Guthrie, Okla. Mrs. Tilly Morgan McCain is still on the sick list. Mr. Frank L. Green has goen to Pine Bluff, Ark., on business. Miss Nellie A. Liftridge, who has been teaching in Buxton, Ia., is now teaching in Holiday, Kan. Miss Jessie Bolden of Parksville, Mo., is visiting her sister, Miss DeElla Bolden. Mr. George Saunders, nephew of Mr. George Jennings, was buried from the First Baptist church, Sunday, October 18th. He leaves a widow, three children and a host of friends to mourn his loss. Miss Stella Brown of Parksville, is visiting in the city. Mrs. Estell died Saturday evening at the home of her son, Will Estell, on DEPARTMENTS Prof. Shelton French ACTING PRESIDENT 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 BAKERY ITCHEN E. B. MESSERVE, Prop. to John 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 152 North Water street. Mrs. Maggie Ross Williamson is on the sick list. Roscoe C. Copeland of Ft. Scott is here attending the Western university at Quindaro. Rev. O. A. Jones, pastor of the 1st A. M. E. church, was returned as a good shepherd for another year's work. Rev. Jones preached Sunday night. His subject was found in St. Luke 11:24-25-26. Rev. Jones is an able speaker. All those that hear him once will be anxious to hear him again. RAY L. TAYLOR, For Clerk of the District Court. Ray L. Taylor, the present clerk of the district court, is the democratic candidate for re-election. Mr. Taylor is making his race this year solely on the record which he has made during the two years he has had charge of the office for which he is again the nominee. When he was nominated two years ago, he had had no previous experience in public office though his training in a business way had fitted him well for the duties which went with it. He readily obtained a comprehensive grasp of the routine work and this together with the standing which he immediately attained with court and attorneys, converted him at once into one of the best equipped men who ever held the position. That is why a big majority of the men who have to do with the courts of the county, are with Mr. Taylor in his candidacy for re-election. Never, they say, have the accounts and records of the district clerk's office been kept in better shape, and never have the interests of taxpayers and litigants been looked after better. In both city and county Mr. Taylor is well known and well liked. His friends are legion and they are confident that he will be returned for another term by a handsome plurality. NORTH TOPEKA ITEMS. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan returned. home from Oklahoma, and Iola, Kansas last Wednesday. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Reeves while in Ponca City, andwas the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon in Iola, Kansas and was also the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Seemore of South Third street, No. 311. Everybody made it very pleasant for Mrs. Gordan during her two weeks' visit. Macedonia Tabernacle is progressing nicely under the leadership of Ida M. Jordan, H. P. Mr. and Mrs. M. Duncan returned home Friday from a visit in Texas having visited in Willis, Conroe, Houston. They report a fine time. W. A. AYRES W. A. Ayres, the present county attorney, has lived in Sedgwick county for twenty-eight years. He is very popular among the voters regardless of party, as was shown by his vote of over two thousand majority two years ago. He is a candidate for re-election and his record for the past two years on the several very important matters involving the taxpayers of this county, wherein he stood for the taxpayers ought to be a sufficient guarantee of his re-election by as large a majority as he received before. His ability as a prosecutor is recognized by the bar of Sedgwick county, as well as the citizens generally, and it is a common expression of those who voted for him two years ago, "that they have no regrets for having done so." The voters of Sedgwick county should certainly show their appreciation of what Mr. Ayres has done during the past two years by re-electing him with as big a majority as he received two years ago. JUDGE O. D. KIRK, Cadidate for Re-election as Probate Judge. That he has made a good efficient officer no one will deny; that he has faithfully, conscientiously and honestly discharged the duties of the office is admitted by all who have come in contact with the probate court during his term, and upon his record as such officer he now asks for the endorsement of the voters of Sedgwick county at the November election. Judge Kirk was a private in company E. 125th Indiana regiment and has been a member of Garfield Post for more than twenty years. He has been a resident of Wichita for thirty-one years. VERNON DOING. GOOD Is Making Speeches Which Will Make Republican Votes. Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury, is now engaged in filling assignments throughout the west and middle west states. His itinerary beginning in New York and New England has taken him through Pennsylvania, Ohio and out through Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Dispatches state that he is now filling assignments through Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, speaking nightly to large crowds and having successful meetings. The National Committee has not been able to send him to many sections of the country which have desired his services. His efforts in the campaign have most effective a and he is contributing greatly to the success which is sure to come to the national ticket. OUR CONGRESSMAN HON. VICTOR MURDOCK Republican Candidate for Congress From the Eighth Congressional District Who Will Address the Colored Voters on Oct. 29th, at Garfield Hall. Hear Him. The colored people of this county have vry reason to vote for W. L. Appling for sheriff. Two years with a democratic sheriff demonstrates to them that their hopes of recognition are in vain with a democrat in the sheriff's office. Vote for Appling. "We have abiding faith in the recognition by our Northern brethren of the fact that the Anglo-Saxon race is entitled to run this country."—Charleston News and Courter (Dem.) A Missouri Tornado. St. Joseph, Mo., May 14.—A tornado which swept the country half a mile north and half a mile east of Watson, Mo., in the northwest corner of the state, completely demolished the house and barn on the Good farm. The occupants, Mel Cox, wife and son, escaped serious injury by seeking refuge in the cellar. Several other barns are reported blown down but no loss of life has been reported. Peck's Bad Boy in an Airship BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK ENLISTING IN THE NAVY A They Pulled Me Through That Forty-Foot Gun to Swab It Out. When our balloon that sailed from St. Louis came down in Delaware, and I had bid good-by to the two men whom I sailed with, and they had paid me good money for my services and keeping them awake, I thought of that fleet we had passed over at Fortress Monroe, the beautiful white battleships, and I was afraid I could not get there before it sailed, and secure my berth, as I had made up my mind to go with it around the horn, and help fight Japan or mosquitos, or any old thing that came in the way, so I took the first train to Fortress Monroe, and found that the whole population of several near-by states were going too, as the president was going to review the fleet before it sailed. The next day I was at the hotel at Old Point and with hundreds of other people took a launch and went out among the battleships. Everybody was welcome to go aboard the ships, and we visited several of them and were shown all over the vessels by the uniformed packs. Gee, but a battleship is like a sky scraper on water, and you can go from the roof clear down half a mile below the water line, and it is like a combination of an engine manufactory, a boiler plant, a coal yard, a wholesale grocery, a packing house, a blacksmith shop, a department store, a hotel, a powder mill, a suburban trolley line, and a bargain sale of blankets, a state fair and a military encampment, and a parade ground, a county jail and an apartment house, with rooms to let on the European plan and all of it in an iron coffin, liable to go to the bottom any minute, if the air tanks are punctured. Gee, but I was almost afraid to be down cellar in a battleship without any life preserver, and when I went up on deck, where I could jump overboard if she began to sink, there, away on top of the whole old cook stove, were guns so big that it seemed if one got to moving around on deck it would tip the ship over. It seemed to me like boring a hole in a flat iron and crawling in, and being put in a bath tub, or like rigging up a coal stove with paddles and outriggers, and paddling out in a marsh duck shooting. The first hour I was investigating the mechanism of a battleship and was scared silly for fear she would get ready to sink, and as I looked at the iron everywhere, which I had been taught in school would sink so quick it would make your head swim, I wondered what my nation could be thinking of to build ships of iron and depend on wind to keep them on top of the water, and I thought it would be just as safe to cover an iron railroad They Pulled Me Through That bridge with building paper, and launch it for a trip across the ocean; and yet all the officers and men seemed to enjoy it, and forget about the danger, for they laughed and played jokes, and put on airs, and mash the girls who came on board as though they had made up their minds that it was only a matter of time when the ships would sink, and they seemed to congratulate themselves that when they went down with the ships a time lock would close them up hermetically so sharks and devil fish couldn't eat the crew, and they could float around for all time and eternity safe from the resurrection as they would be buried in a safety deposit box in the vault of a trust company. Some of the jacks played it on me. They took me and wrapped an angora goat skin around me, with the hair outside, and tied a string to my feet, and run it out of the breach of the big 16 inch gun, and another string on my legs, and they pulled me back and forth through that 40 foot gun to swab it out, and when I came out alive they laughed and were going to tie a bag of shot to my feet and let me off a plank over the side to practice on a burial at sea, but I yelled for help and a cross looking man came along and pardoned me, and told the fellows to take me to his cabin and wash the powder off my face, and hold me until he could have a talk with me. When they had scoured me with a piece of brick and some yellow laundry soap, the man came into the cabin, and the boys who had hazed me said he was Admiral Evans, and I remembered him cause once when he was in the light house service he entertained pa and me on his light house tender, and held me on his lap at the New Orleans Mardi Gras, and I said: "Hello, Mr. Evans, don't you remember little Hennery? I am Peck's Bad Boy," and he remembered me, and said: "What'n'ell you doing here?" and I told him I knew what he was up against, going around the horn, and to San Francisco and Japan and the Philippines, and that I wanted to go along on his ship as a mascot, or a Walter or anything, and he said he didn't know, but I would be a good mascot, as last trip they had a goat and a monkey for mascots, and I had a combination of both, and if he was going to make a trip to hades, or any climate hotter than the straits of Magellan, he thought I would be all right. He asked me what I could do and I told him there was nothing that I couldn't do if properly encouraged, anything, from flying a flag of truce from the fighting top, to riding up in the ammunition elevator with 500 pounds of dynamite, to acting as the propeller to a Whitehead torpedo. We talked it over for an hour and he asked about Pa, and then he said he would think it over, and he gave me a ticket with a number on, and told me to be on the front porch of the Hotel Chamberlaine at nine o'clock the second morning after, and if a steam launch from the Connecticut landed there and gave two whistles, for me to get on board with my baggage, and report to him before the fleet sailed. Well, say, this was quick work, and I called a launch and visited the other vessels, promising to be Johnny on the spot at the appointed hour. It was a great sight to see the review when the president came along on the yacht Mayflower and I forgot all about the battleships being of iron liable to sink if the wind got out of the tanks, and was never so proud in my life as I was when I saw the jacks climb up on the rigging and Forty-Foot Gun to Swab It Out. hang on like monkeys, lined up like they were drilling on deck, and when the Connecticut began to fire a salute to the president, out of those great iron sewer pipes, and all the rest of the fleet began to shoot at the air, the noise was so loud that it made your head feel like you do when you take seidlitz powders, and it gallups up your nose, and the smokeless powder made the smoke so thick you couldn't see anything but the president's teeth, as he sailed along on his yacht, and I got so patriotic that the chills went up my back like when you have the grip coming on, and then the smoke cleared away and when a million American flags were flung to the breeze, I began to choke up like you do when you are sick and the callers say, "Well, brace up, boy, you may pull through, but there are a hundred chances against your living till morning," and the tears rolled down my cheeks, and my throat got full like I had the tonsilitis, and everybody else --- on our launch except two Japanese were crying, and then the president's yacht took a position, and all the battleships swung into line and marched past, and the bands played and we all just bellered for patriotic joy, and I was so mad to see those Japanese standing there like bottles of castor oil, not even smiling, that I blew up a toy balloon which I have been playing air ship with, and I whacked it on the head of the meanest looking Jap, and when it exploded he was the scaredest looking person JOHN H. HARRIS When It Exploded the Jap Was the Scaredest Person I Ever Saw. I ever saw, because he thought one of those 16-inch shells had gone off in his hat, and everybody said: "Served him right," and then he laughed, the first time since the review started, and he wanted the skin of my toy balloon as a souvenir of the first gun fired in the war with Japan. From that day, when I had examined critically our fleet and seen it salute, and monkey around the president, I felt so patriotic that I wanted to fight for my country, and I could hardly wait two days for Mr. Evans to send his launch ashore after me, and I didn't care if the whole thing was iron, that couldn't float under natural conditions and if Bob Evans should put oarlocks on a bar or railroad iron, and put me on it, with orders to go sink a Japanese sampan or whatever they call their war ships, I would step aboard that bar of railroad iron with a light heart, wave my hat and tell them all to go plumb. So we went ashore, and that evening there was a ball at the hotel, and all the officers of the navy were there, and the army, and millions of ladies with clothes on the lower half of them, and talcum powder and black court plaster on the upper half, and the way they danced and waltzed and flirted and et lobsters would make you dizzy, and when Bob Evans walked limping by me, with a 200-pound lady on one arm, and a 90-pound girl on the rheumatiz side of him, I was so full of patriotic fire I couldn't help saying: "Hello, Bob, I will be on deck all right," and he looked at me with an expression on his face that looked as though he had drawn a lobster that had been dead too long, and he marched along with his female procession, and the orchestra struck up a good-night waltz, and everybody waltzed, and took some drinks, and went home to wait the sailing of the fleet the next day, and I went to bed with an order to be called at sunrise, so I could be on the porch with my ticket in my hand, ready to jump intr the launch when she whistled and sall away "for a frolie or a fight," and I didn't care which. (Copyright, 1908, by W. G. Chapman). (Copyright in Great Britain.) SHANTUNG LACE-MAKERS. Work of Chinese Girls Superintended by Missionaries. Transmitting samples of silk and thread lace, pongee silks and an illus trated catalogue of laces, silks and drawn-work from the agents of the Chefoo Industrial Mission, Vice-Consul Ernest Vollmer of Tsingtau, reports thereon as follows: With a view of furnishing home work to a large number of native converts, missionaries in Shantung years ago taught converts lace-making. The industry is carried on more or less throughout the silk districts of Shantung, the center probably being in the Chefoo district. Under careful foreign supervision these products have gained a very high standard of quality, and are comparatively cheap. A large variety of laces, collatteres, ties, mantillas, dolies and drawn-work are prepared, mainly by Chinese girls, and sold through the mission stations. Aside from the hand-made products enumerated, thread laces are also made, and a trade carried on in plain, patterned and dyed ponges are pieces. Retail sales are made to all arts of the world. An export duty of five per cent. ad valorem is collected on all goods leaving China. Girls and Girls. Some girls are very hard to please and the rest aren't worth the trouble. ~Nashville American. Infant Mortality in New York. Nearly one-third of all the children born in New York city die before they become three years old. 7.77 Directory Daughters ABOR NASKA JURISDICTION 333 Official Knights & Dau OF TABO KANSAS—NEBRASKA JU 333 777 Official Directory Knights & Daughters KANSAS—NEBRASKA JURISDICTION KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. REV. FRANK WILSON, C. G. M. 1715 Clark Ave. 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, F. 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. 68 Mrs. Lillie Robinett, 1236 Barnett, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Fri. (A) 77 Mrs. Sarah Weddington, 634 Spruce Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) Ita, Kan., Fridays. 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. TABERNACLES. Chief Preceptresses. 2 Mrs. Lottie Williams, 1309 N. 10th, Kansas City, Kan., 1-8 Wed. (A) 2 Mrs. Addie Williams, 906 S. Walnut Iola, Kan., 2-4 Sat. (A) 3 Mrs. Mary Goss, Station 1, Wichita, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 4 Mrs. H. Tyler, 520 E 9th Cherryvalle, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 5 Mrs Carrie Brown, 922 N. 10th, Atchison, Kan., 2-4 Fri. (A) 6 Mrs. Eva Clayborne, 118 So. Mulberry, Ottawa, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 10 Geo. L. Craig, 906 Cherokee, Leavenworth, Kan., Mondays. 11 C. W. Giles, 617 N. Water St. , Wichita, Kans., 1-3-4 Thurs. 12 Lee Holiday, 723 So. 20th, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Thur. 15 Ed Finch, 514 N. 4th, Salina, Kan. , 1-3 Tue. 7 Mrs. Alice Perry, 344 N. 5th, Salina, Kan., 1-8 Fri. (A) 10 Mrs. Ida Wallace, 446 Ark., Lawrence, Kam., 2-4 Wed. (A) 11 Mrs. Pauline Woodford, 822 Freeman, Kansas City, Kansas, 1-3 Mon. (A) 12 Mrs. Betty Johnson, 211 Stewart, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Thur. (A) 14 Mrs. Hattie Warden, 124 N. Washington, Pittsburg, Kan., 2-4 Thur. (A) 15 Mrs. Ellen Lee, Box 25 Weir City, Kan. 16 Mrs. Lzie Morton, 1308 Washington, Parsons, Kan., 1-3 Wed. (A) 17 Mrs. A. Masler, 615 So. Barber, Ft. Scott, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 18 Mrs. Jennie Sellers, 2202 So. 9th, Omaha, Neb., 1-3 Thur. (A) 16 Rich Orn 17 Rev. Co 18 Jas. Cit 19 W. reen 22 B. Ka 24 J. 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Madison Topeka, Kan., 1-3 Sat. (A) 45 Cynthia Henderson, 312 Washington, Kansas City, Kan., 1-3 Sat. NOTICE TABORS. If your Tabernacle, Temple or Test is not in this Directory, or if there is any error, please notify me at once. W. N. MILLER, EDITOR. Apple Dumplings Declared to Be Prefection of Cookery. To one pound sifted four add the slightly beaten yolks of two eggs, a half level teaspoonful salt, and enough water to mix into a batter. Take care not to use more water than is necessary, as the dough must be firm enough to hold its form when dropped into cold water. Stir the batter well until smooth, then add four small piles cut into small cubes and mix thoroughly. Have ready a pot of potently boiling salted water. Drop the batter in by the spoonful and boil without stopping, from 20 to 30 minutes, according to size. Stir around once or twice so that none will adhere to the bottom of the pot. Then cover up again. Take out one by one and cut in even slices. Have ready a pot of hot butter, drop in each slice and brown slightly on both sides. Serve immediately with butter and clinnamon or fruit sauce. This recipe from an old German cook book was sent with the assuance that it "was delicious." WHEN FLOOR NEEDS PAINTING Best Results Achieved by Doing It Following Manner. Have floor well scrubbed and free from tacks and lime and thoroughly dried before applying paint. Give it a coat of floor paint of any desired color every other day until three coat have been applied. Then get a vanilla the color of the paint and apply two good coats of that and the floor will look fine and smooth. To clean the floor, if a border only, first sweep the carpet and let dust settle. Make a duster by wrapping an old piece of flannel around a broom handle so that it forms a round ball and over this a piece of eidderum. Go over the painted portion of the floor with this duster, every once in awhile shaking out the dust. In this way the floor will always look nice and it will not be necessary to clean with water which always dulls the paint. Meat Roll. One quart of flour, two teaspoonful baking powder, one teaspoonful or salt, two rounding tablespoonfuls drippings; mix these ingredients until the consistency of cornmeal, the work in enough sweet milk to form dough easily handled. Cold water may be used instead of the milk, but a tablespoonful more of dripping must be used in this case. Roll the dough into a sheet one-fourth thick, using flour on the molding board to prevent the dough adhering. Spread minced meat or fowl over this and add salt and pepper, begin at one end to roll up as for a jelly roll; pinch ends together, using water to make them adhere, thus preventing the meat from oozing out. Place in a butterfly dish and set in a steamer over boiling water for one hour; remove and serve with left-over gravity or make tomato sauce. Cut into slices when serving. Vegetable marrow squash, a great favorite in England, is coming into favor here very rapidly. The squashes are white and mottled green varieties and should be gathered before the seeds harden. Too long on the vine tends to toughen the meat. Vegetable marrow should be peeled and cut in small pieces, the seed part cut out and thrown away. Drop cut pieces in salt water, and cook until tender. Drain and pass through colander. Return to pan uncovered, and allow to steam or back of stove. Add one teaspoonful butter and little pepper. Serve hot. Vegetable marrow can also be fried baked and stewed.