The Weekly Star and Kansan from Independence, Kansas • Page 5

DISTRICT COURT. "FINE BUSINESS" OouncU Meeting. The city council met Thursday evening in an adjourned session at the city hall. The minutes read and Lace and Curtains. Shades.

INDUSTRIAL. CLUB MEKTS, The meeting of be Citizen's -Indus-, trial Club at club room, Carl-Leon; last" night, was well attended by seventy or eighty of the It will stop raining sometime and then you will want We intended as we stated last fall, to discontinue the line, but we have found room and have now in stock a lot of pretty patterns with more to arrive in a few days. The goods come from the best factories and the prices always talk business at the Racket. The Overhiser-AndGi son Worcantile Co, House Cleaning Goods. Canterbury with a view of interesting them in the Coffeyville gas and oil field.

Epperly-WIlson. Xeodcsha Sun, March 10. Rev. J. W.

Epperly, formerly pastor of the Baptist church at this place, and Mrs. Etta Wilson, formerly this place and daughter of S. Shutt north of town, wre married in Kansas City sometime last week and are now living at Ellsworth, Kansas, where Mr. Epperly is pastor. Mrs.

Wilson has been attending Hardin college at Mexico, for some time past ard the supposition that they met in Kansas City and were married. Mr. bnutt said this morning he had knowledge of their marriage Vat presumed it was true aa his daughter had sent word to have her personal belongings shipped to Ellsworth. Sunday's Kansas City World announced the granting of a marriage In Spite of the Weather There is Something; doing at this store all the time. We are now selling a 'Man's Watch for $3.50.

Watch on Earth for the i arid Jewelry repairing, and the Jeweler KANSAS. license to W. Epperly, Ellsworth, 35," and "Etta Shutt Wilson, Ellsworth, 27," so there is no doubt of their marriage. Bank Changes Approved. Coffeyville Journal, March 10.

The comptroller of the currency at Washington has approved of the following changes in the First National bank of Coffeyville: J. T. Wettack, president, in place of Thomas Scurr, Thomas Scurr, vice president, place of W. H. Read; W.

H. Shep-ard, cashier, in place of J. T. Wet-tack; E. E.

Wettack, assistant cashier, in place of W. H. Shepard. 'judge "Thomas J. Flannelly was on hands -and i called promptly at Monday, -corning.

Tiria- being the day that the jury was summoned to appear, Dist. Clerk D. called the list and the folkrig named Jurymen answered Ut: their napxes: Independence city. F. -Moore, IvJV.

Matthews, Independence -city. Cherjyvale. Aj.Shneta, Parker township. Charlie; Campbell, Caney township. Schooley, Caney, township.

(jOfteyville; township. Caney. -Sam Wallick, West Cherry township." Rutland township. T. Grajvlndfpiderice city.

M. Rennick, George Pfister, Coffeyville: J. S. Mitchel, Coffeyville. 6.

F. Mitcnel Coffeyville. S.F. Watts, Independence city. Stan- Geary, West Cherry, township.

Archfe Boid, Caaey township. George M. Stewart, Independence township. r- L. G.

Kinney, Caney, J'am'es Freeman, Caney. TL H. Hare, Louisburg township. Enoch Strecker, West Cherry. John Baker, Liberty.

E. Si Lindley, Independence city. A. jf George, Fawn Creek. J.

B. Lee, Independence township. Dick Huff and Bill Huff were arraigned and plead not guilty and being unable to employ council Judge Flannelly appointed Piper to defend them: J. Calfway and Sam Carter were arraigned- and and pleaded not guilty and' not being able to hire an attorney the court assigned John Berten-shaw to their defense. Brooks, who had previously arrained' and plead not guilty, was put on trial.

Mayo Thomas, Capt II. Ai. Scotland, J. F. Bellamy for the state and A.

L. Billings for the de-j A jury was readily obtained and the evidence heard yesterday forenoon. J. Railway and Dan Carter were called into court and were asked to plead and they both plead not guilty. John Bretenshaw -who was appointed yesterday as counsel to defend the defendants, filed a motion to dismiss-the case against each of the defendants on the grounds of the of the Coffeyville court, as -to its jurisdiction to hold preliminary examinations.

The court, overruled the motion. A second motion was made to dismiss the case because of indefinite description of the property said to be taken. The court required the state to make their description more definate and certain. The -jury, after being out only a short time, returned a verdict against Frank Brooks for burglary in the second degree, which give3 him not less '-than five years in the state prison. State of Kansas vs.

Charles Jones, colored man, oetter known as "Colorado Slim," who is alleged to havo killed one Thomas Beasley, another colored man and a fellow workman on tie steel' gang laying track on the Missouri Pacific 'railroad at Jefferson about a month ago. County Attorney Mayo Thomas and his assistant Capt. H. A. 'Scott represented the state and Banks and Billings conducted the defense.

The following are the names of the jurofs selected to try the case: H. C. Gray, Wm. King, Milt Bower-sbek, S. F.

Watts, II. Kerchoff, J. S. Mitchell, Archie Boia, A. N.

George, Charles Campbell. J. M. MAYORSHIP. His Honor, the Mayorship, is after several dozen of our worthy citizens in good old fashioned alliance style.

The first man we hear of to get 'Ti sueu uuuer tut wnttis ul luh iru-1 i i j.i 1 at iitical jusrgernant, was Billy Smith third ward politician. After this pon-1 derous machine bd passed over the entire body of our oil friend and; "crunched" him, and just when his; friends tEought that he was a goner, sssiimAd shan HVp nihbpr ha'1 and proposed to Int the! maehine stopped not but sped on af-! ter the swift footed A. C. Whitman, noted business man, cf the fourth ward, and ti caught A. C.

and left him mangled and bruised by the wayside. His friends say that A. C. got toe, mashed attempting to kiss the fickle goddess as she passed on her way after E. W.

Stout. Al. Brown and others. We hope 'that the mantle of the mayorship may i all on some good man. Either one thes-- gentle-toen will do.

The Ellsworth Box Factory. The city council met last night in special session and granted the Ellsworth Paper Mill company tne privi-ledge of erecting a box and egg filler factory on the strip cf land 40 fet wide by 220 long by the city, between Bowers mili and Tenth street, South of Santa Fe right of-way. The building will be 40 feet bv 140 feet and two rcrir-s high. i i Paint Brashes. WEALTHY VISITORS HERE.

Came From Illinois and Missouri to See Gas and Oil. Coffeyville Journal, March 5. CoSejrville Was honored Thursday with the presence of a party of dis-J tlngulshed 'capitalists from Illinois and Missouri. They arrived here at 3:30 a. m.

in a coach chartered especially from Springfield, 111., over the Santa Fe road. There were about thirty in the party. They came at the solicitation of and as guests of S. F. Canterbury, representing the Calumet Oil company.

Upon their arrival the party was escorted to the offices of the oil company in the -Brown block in East Ninth street, where a reception was bell and where mny of our citizens met the visitors. Shortly afterwards they were taken in carriages for a drive over the city and to the various enterprises. They were also taken to the Parent farm fast of this city, that we consider the Best money. We also do fine Watch are experts in our business. I JQHBJSODJ IjVQEP EjVQEjVCE where they saw oil flow, from the well recently drilled.

Tie gas wells were also visited. The glass works were inspected just- before noon, after which the visitors were taken to the Mecca hotel for dinner. After dinner they walked out to the Coffeyville Vitrified Brick and Tile works, where they saw the best brick in the world made by natural gas. Other enterprises were also visited and the time pleasantly passes until 4:20 o'clock, when they again boarded their car and left the city to return to their various homes. The party was brought here by Mr.

SlPThe of is no he in Meeting of Business Men Last Night a Grand Success ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE. Speeches by Our Leading Citizens. Perfect Harmony Prevails. The citizen's meeting Friday night at the auditorium was well attended and. the best of feeling prevailed.

O. P. Ergenbright was chairman, and J. A. secretary.

The -contracts made by the Commercial Club with Chas. Hartford City, erect a 24 tank window glass plant, a 36 pot bottle factory and a hundred ton rolling mill, and the contract with Mr. Ingalls for 3000 retort zinc smelter was made plain to the au dience and met unanimous approval. Speeches were made by Thos. H.

Stanford, H. W. Young, A. C. Stich, F.

J. Fritch and J. B. Swan as to ways and means if fulfilling the city's part of the contracts. A committee of five were appointed, consisting of A.

P. McBride, W. P. Eowen, C. L.

Bloom, W. P. Lyon and Al. Shulthis, for the purpose of organizing a land improvement company to buy the sites to be donated to the various enterprizes and also to buy additional tracts of land and ay them out into town lots to be sold for the purpose of obtaining funds to bo used in paying for the sites donated and the lands layed out into town lots. The citizens will be asked to subscribe to thA capital stock of the company for the purchase price of the land needed, and will receive for their stock, lots in the new ad dition at prices fixed by appraisers.

Each alternate lot is to be reserved as treasury stock for farther use in encouraging other enterprises to locate here. The Commercial Club have options on 4 acres of land for this purpose and in case the Sam fcarkhurst tract is taken Mr. Park-hurst agrees to take $5,000 stock in the town-site aa part payment for the lands. The trict most likely to be selected is the seventy acres lying east of Pennsylvania avenue and north of the Santa Fe railroad. The beet sugar industry was also discussed and a committee of three were apointed, composed of Henry Norton, H.

W. Young and L. C. to have the matter under, con trol. It is desired to have as many farmers as possible plant a small patch in sugar beets to be cultivated under the direction of a beet-expert.

A. C. Stich agrees to procure ten fanners to do Tom Yoe to furnish ten farmers, L. C. Mason ten farmers, A.

P. McBrido five farmers, H. W. Young five farmers, C. L.

Bloom five farmers and Wm. Dunkin four farmers. The cost of an expert beet raiser will be 300 dollars and the Commercial Club guaranteed its payment, and Mr. A. C.

Stich, for the Industrial Club, stated that they would assume one-half of the expenses. We are proud of what the Commercial Club ihas accomplished in locating the many manufacturing industries in our city, and more especially those located this week, namely: The smelter the window glass plant, the bottle factory and the 100-ton null, all of will spend n'wil eight hundred thousand dollars in their construction But, we do not want to lose sight of the fact that a Portland cement factory is located here and are already at work and in fact have been for months doi ig preliminary work. One million and a half of dollars will be spent in its construction before a wheel will start. Nearly one thousand men will be on! the pay roll, whose earnings would amount to a large sum of money. This plant will be one of the finest of its kind in the United States.

We have the bes material that has yet been found anywhere for the man- ufacturing of Portland cement. The promoters of this plant have brought this great industry to our very door, paying their own money for everything they have gotten and have not asked the city for a farthing. We are assured on the very best authority that the cement companv will build no dwelling houses, nor will the put in acy stores, an1 tlru all the dwelling houses that our enterprising citizens may see fit to build, will readily find occupants. This statemci.i a sufficient tluU tbe plant will an I built very far away, or, if built at Table Mound, will be connected with the city by an electric railway. Drilling for gas will commence by the 15th of this month.

Something swell! If you want a house planned to suit yoa, call on Center Jansen. architects and builders; they always succeed in pleasing. Office over Helmer's tailor shop. i approved. Report of police judge was read and referred to finance committee.

The estimates of the extension of Magnolia and Second street sewer, as continued i the city engineer's report, was approved, and the city clerk was instructed to advertise for bids, for the construction of the same. The following resolution was introduced by Councilman W. N. Smith of the third ward: Feb. 18, 1903.

To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Independence, Kansas. Gentleman We have noted with regret that the rule.Jn the past has been to employ nonunion men on the public works in this -city, and believing that this condition has been brought about witnout your knowledge, Hence be it Resolved, That we, the members of the Central Labor Union, on behalf of all of the unions in the city, ask your honorable body to instruct your street commissioner that after April he must demand from all applicants for work th6 central labor working card before employing therm. Respectfully, J. A. Williamson, Pres.

J. Jacobs, Sec. Referred to city attorney and layed over, until next meeting. The water work was ordered to put in a water main from Main street along Fifteenth street the south end thereof, with fire-plugs placed at proper intervals. F.

P. JOLLY'S SERMOX. Rev. F. P.

Jolly held the rapt attention of the congregation upon the subject "Is Thine Heart Right?" He first described the kind of heart which was not right and then the kind of hearts which were right in the eight of God. Every eye seemed to be fastened on the speaker throughout the entire discourse. He closed with the following appeal: "What question can compare to the question of my text? Is it a business question? Do you not realize that you will soon have to go out of your store; that you will soon have to resign your partnership; that you will soon handle for the last time a yard of cloth, a pound of sugar, or a penny's worth of anything? "What difference will it make to you 15 years, 20 years, 40 years, 50 or 100 years from now If a fin should break out in Independence, sweep over the entire state; if every insurance company should fail; if every bank cashier should abscond; but your eternity of bilss or eternity of woe a billion years from now depends upon how you answer the question of my text, "Is Thine Heart Right?" "Are you making losses for everlasting? Are you making gains for eternity? Is it a domestic question? Do you not realize by the inexorable law of nature, that your family relations will soon be broken up. Your father will be gone, your mother gone, you will be gone, and then whether you will livo unending ages with God or spend an eternity in exile, whether you will take wing and fly an eternity of bliss or take chain and drop to unending woe, whether you will spend your future praising or blaspheming, chanting or groaning depends on how you answer the question of my text "Is Thine Heart Right?" What queetion is so broad or overwhelming, so far reaching, so momentious as th question. "Is Thine Heart Right?" "What difference does it make now whether William McKinley was one of the greatest presidents in the United States or whether he was known outsiae of his own neighborhood, what difference does it make now whether he roceivd the greatest funeral obsequies in the gift of the American people or whether he was ont 5n a shrowd, so what differeii'-f will it make to you soon whether you were welcomed or maltreated, whether you were applauded or hissed, whether you were rich or xoor, high or low, the question which will harvest your chief "ains oy d''ore J'our I.

-II chief losses, eternity, is wnicn win encircie an the plain, thrilling, practical question. "Is Thine Heart Right?" I)IKI. L. W. Laird, well known in this city, and an old soldier, died last night about 8 o'c'ock at the Caney Sanitorium and hospital.

Comrade Laird was S- years old. His body will arrive here today and will be burisd tomorrow at 10 a. ni. from Harmon's undertaking room by the I. O.

O. who will conduct the ritualistic servicrs of the order at the cemetery. He died from paralysis. LICKNSK. Harry Bixler, Cherry vale 33.

Dora Penn, Independence 24. Frank L. Felts, Ir dependence 20. Martha M. Churcrill, Sycamore.

.17. Dewitt White, Bartlesville, I. T. 41. Mary A.

Barton, Bartlesville, I. T. 22. most enterprising business men of the city. The club numbers' now about one hundred and many more will lx; added.

The of this club is to advance the material prosperity of the city. The president of every labor organiza-J tion In the city was voted a member of the Citizen's Industrial is right, that capital and labor should go band in hand, bearing each "others burdens in sympathy and street paring question was the one most thoroughly discussed. All seemed to be of the opinion tKaf paving should be done from Jtrenue west on Locust and north on Tenth. streets and west on Railroad streetHo the Santa Fe depot, the width thfrty. feet and Main street from where ft' is now paved west to the MissouH'Pa-cific depot the width of thirty feet A committee of three was appointed, consisting of Allen Brown, S.

V.Matthews and G. E. Gllmore to investigate the matter. The club adjourned to meet next Wednesday night. THREE JOLLY BOYS.

Chas. Bingly, H. Jones and Wm. Sellers, of Louisburg township, came down, to the city Friday, and being anxious to see all the sights available, applied to Sheriff Pruitt for -a pass to visit the inner prison. The sheriff inquired their names, and Mr.

Bingly being spokesman, gave his, own name and then introduced his friends. Mr. Pruitt smiled one of those peculiar laughs of his at the boys, saying indeed I am very sor-, ry, but I believe you are the very fellows that I have been looking for. I have a warrant for your arrest for disturbing a religious meeting. The boys confessed their identity and were taken before Esq.

J. S. Way and pleaded guilty and were fined ten dollars and cost each, which they promptly paid. Mr. Pruitt thenl showed them through the county jail.

The boys were delighted with their visit to tne county property. DON'T GMT GAY. Wallace Parish, of Elk City, came down Thursday evening to see the sights in a live city," and confining his first efforts to get gay to the vicinity of the Santa Fe depot, he made an effort to engage passing ladies In conversation, which failed to be satisfactory to him. His next effort was to capture one of them, which proved a failure, too, and resulted in the police being called, and Police Officer Miser responded and after a search arrested T-arish, who was identified by the ladies as the party who sought familiarity with them. Parish lay in the cooler over night and plead guilty Friday morning in police court and was fined $15 and costs, which he paid.

COURT NEWS. Ida May Crawford brought suit today in the district court against Granville Carrender to collect wages she alleges are due hr. She also, brings suit againtt Carrender for partition of real estate. P. A.

Dittman vs. Jesse Dittman is a suit for divorce filed Thursday in the district court. The plaintiff in this case as 13 xisual in all divorce suits, is always "all smiles," and defendant was worse than she took him for. Minnie Pearl Cooper vs. Wifcfield is the title of a suit that was filed in the office of the district clerk today.

The petition of the plaintiff alleges that she has been a faithful vife and always kind and affectionate to wards her husband, but he in return' failed to be good. She says that she had to earn her own living as the de fendant totally failed to do o. A Bad Cyclone. Last evening about seven o'clock 'a! cydone put in its appearance about jtw0 miieg westof this city, going in aj nortliwesterlj- direction. It moved Mr.

Orwig's house off the foundation, de-' I molishing one side, tearing away the and shin trips and dnm-' aging the barn. At Joseph Henderson's place it blew the shingles off the house, tore his porches away, unroofed his barn and carried his wagon bed away. At the Kerchol place, recently bought by Adam Braike, it blew the barn down and th1 porches off the house. At the Join Cain place it blew part of the roof off the house, corn crib and stable and carried the wagon bed away. Police Court.

Oliver Darnell, was arrested on the 5th for using abusive language on the streets, taken before the police court where he plead guilty, and was find $1.00 and costs, amounting to $7.50, which he paid. On the same day Oliver Darnell was again arrested taken before the police court for assaulting Grant Way, and the case was continued until March 16. a tr a a Tested Free Palmer Optical Co Independence, Kansas. Orliees in Headquarters Building, corner Main street and Pennsylvania avenue, have a special sale on all their warranted 15-year pold filled spectacles with the best French Lenses fur Other goods at surprisingly low prices. We buy direct from the factory, that's why we can retail at jobber's prices.

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At moderate prices. We give you honest treatment. A hundred testimonials can be had at our office' of Independence people who have been cured of serious eye tumbles and diseases by our treatment. WHY PAY PRICES and net nothing in return, -wben. by calling on us you can get honest treatment, honest dealings and receive a cure for a small sum, by expert Doctors of Optics, Give us acall before going elsewhereand beconvinced.

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