The Arkansas City Daily News from Arkansas City, Kansas • 7

THE "LONG AND SHORT" OF IT. SURPRISED The Scott Drug Co. New and Complete Line nnnr.c hjitpnt lucmriNPC. nrnciiMFc STATE TAX COMMISSION BOOSTS THE FIGURES SUBMITTED BY RAILROAD MEN. TOILET ARTICLES, SOAPS AND A COM- PLETE LINE OF STATIONERY PROPERTY VALUED AT $356,064,599.00 PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED 124 South Summit St.

Phone 276 First Door North of the Home National Bank Roads Returned Value at $200,000,000 Tax Commission Traveled Over the Different Roads, Studied Rai road Properties and Reports Made by Railroads Many. Lines Doubled Topeka, May 26. The assessed value of all railroad property In Kansas, as fixed by the Kansas tax commissioners, is $::6,064,599.80. The To The People of Cowley County. (ADVERTISEMENT) will address those who honor me by their presence, At Rock on Saturday, May 30, at p.

m. At Udall on Saturday, June 6, at commission practically has completed its work of assessing the roads. Kaeh road was taken separately and its as 7:.) p. m. BOSflment was made.

Then the totals for each line were taken, and after At Kellogg on Saturday, June 13, at 7:30 p. m. AtTisdaleon Saturday, June 20, this an adjustment of one road to an other was taken. The railroad men are greatly sur at p. m.

At Rose Valley school house, township on Saturday, June 27, at prised at the assessment. Under the new tax law and requirements of the 7:30 o. m. At Maple City on Saturday, July 4, commission everything must be as at 7:30 p. m.

egged at Its actual cash value. The railroad ollicials were supposed to At Silverdale on Saturday, July 11, at 7:30 p. m. make their returns on this basis, but their total returns showed only about At Hackney on Saturday, July 18, THE CASIN at 7:30 p. m.

$200,000,000. Last year the assessment was $70,000,000 and the year be At Arkansas City on Saturday, July MIR DOMf ifaMERRITT JEFFRIES. Mer.U i-rt IFFFRIF Mgr. i i t-v Alt- Tlirt af 2f, at 7:30 p. m.

At Winlield on Saturday August III tell It iB I The Emerson New fore $61,000,000. Heretofore the roads have been assessed at about one-fifth of what was supposed to be their actuft) cash value. The tax commission spent three weeks traveling ov the different railroad lines. The members studied railroad properties and the reports made by the railroads. When they found that property was not returned at the actual figures the commission fixed a value.

In some Instances the tax returns of the lines were doubled in getting the assessed value. Style, Fit and Service are combined to the highest degree in the "Florsheim" shoe. After once wearing a pair you will always look for the 'Name on the shoe." Films Tonight A Great Entertainment For Only 5 Cts ADMISSION Stock Co. Xo-lNight The Coyote the Indian SPECIAL Amateur Contest Wednesday Night. $5 la Gold Given Away Prices 10 and 20c AL HORN The Shoe Man A New Railroad Rule.

New York, May 26. All railroads east of the Mississippi river operating In the territory covered by the "official classification" after July 1 next will refuse to receive ail shipments in less than carload lots which are not marked plainly with the name of the consignee and the station, city and state of destination. Four hundred and sixteen railroads will participate In the new rule. FATAL TROLLEY ACCIDENT3. A.

M. FARLEY'S Grocery Store Three Persons Instantly Killed in Philadelphia Many Wounded. Three Drowned in Missouri, Richmond, May spring wagon in which four persons were riding slipped off a bridge Into a flooded stream ten miles northeast of here. Three of the occupants of the vehicle were drowned. The dead are: Carl Johnson.

10 years old; James Patton, 26 years old, and Cora Patton, 25 years old. The fourth person, Rosa Patton. a sister of James and Cora, was saved. Philadelphia, May 26 Three 1, at 7:30 p. m.

I will discuss State and National Issues; the election ot a United State? Senator and its importance to the people, and why. I will pay my respects to the organized biennial raids upon the State Treasury, and incidentally to the Lawrence University, that has procured appropriations out of the State Treasury in the last three regular sessions of the Legislature to the amount of more than sixteen hundred thousand dollars, and in connection with the other educational institutions In Kansas, are secretly but slowly undermining by law and otherwise, every secretarian College in this SUte; I will give my attention to the new Tax Law, whereby nearly four thousand new tax officers are fastened upon the people of this State, without their knowledge or consent, and the power taken from them to select and elect the assessors of your property, for yourselves, whereby you will be greatly damnified: 1 will show how this new primary law is the product of the lately rebellious states, under which the men with money, the newspapers and organized capital have combined, in every one of them, and the people there have ceased to have any voice in their public affairs; and give as an illustration among others, the State of South Carolina, where less than 30.000 men do all the voting, while there are 130,374 white voters and 885,330 white and black voters, and how under its provisions the same thing will h'ippen here; I will show how the fanners and business men of Kansas are Interested in American shipping over seas, and have no ships, and we were compelled to hire foreign ships to haul coal i our war vessels around the Horn; and why we need able men to represent us, at this time especially, in the Congress of the United States; I will give my reasons why I think I should receive your votes theretor; I will hue to the line, letting the chips fall where they may; I am in this light to a finish; and any and all candidates competing with me for this nomination, If any, are Invited to be present; and all other candidates for County ofilcers who desire your suffrages will be present to meet you. Respectfully requesting a hearing, from eacn and all of you, both male and female, I am Very truly, W. P. Hackney.

81tf Still Gains in First Published in Daily X-Rays May 21,1908. Publication Notice. In the district court of Cowley county, Kansas. J.S.Grady, Plaintiff i vs S. J.

Grady, Defendant To S. J. Grady, the above named defendant: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff, J. S. Grady, in the district court of Cowley county, Kansas, that you must answer the petition of the plaintiff, filed in the office of the clerk of said court, on or before the 8th day of July 1908.

or judgment will be rendered thereon, against you, according to I he prayer thereof, severing the bonds of matrimony existing between you and the plaintiff, and forever divorcing this plaintiff from you. 94141 H. 8. Mines, Attorney for Plaintiff. First Class Groceries Fruits and Vegetables Everything in Season Adjournment In Sight.

Washington, May 26. Both the senate and the house will devote their best efforts to so shaping their affairs as to bring about an adjournment at the earliest time possible during the present week and as a consequence whatever is done will be In the nature of completing work already begun. Final adjournment will probably take place Thursday. A "Dry" Platform Bars Christ. Seattle, May 26.

The state prohibition convention, which has just persons were Instantly killed and at least five others were so badly Injured that there is no hope for recovery and 45 were seriously hurt in a collision between trolley cars on Oerman-town avenue near Chestnut Hill, a suburb. In the northern section of the city late Sunday night, I Forty-five persons were taken to the Chestnut Hill and Qerniantown hospitals, each of which is several miles from the scene of the accident and 'many were taken away in automobiles by the wealthy residents of the exclusive Chestnut Hill district. They I were treated by private physicians and In consequence absolute detail as to the injured cannot be obtained. The accident was caused by a car running north jumping a track while going down a steep grade not far from Chestnut Hill. The car swung across the southbound track and was struck by a car on thnt track.

Hoth cars wer? filled with passengers. Prompt Service Honest Treatment Right Prices closed here, voted down a proposition to incorporate the words, "We accept Jesus Christ as our leader," In the preamble of the state platform. Ministers and delegates stood solidly against it, saying It would arouse the hostility of the Jews and others who differ In religion. The platform opposes local option as a compromise scheme. 115 N.

Summit Phone 121 First Published in Dally X-Rays May 20, 1908. Application for Permit. The application of C. C. Scott, for a druggist's permit to sell intoxicating liquors for medical, mechanical and scientific purposes only, at 124 South Summit street, Second ward, in Arkansas City, Cowley county, Kansas, will be heard at the court house in Winfield, Kansas, at the ofllce of the Probate Judge of Cowley county, Kansas, on Monday, June 22, 1908, at 10:00 a.

m. C. C. Scott, Applicant. J.

G. Shreves, Probate Judge. Wanted For IT. S. Army Able-bodied unmarried men between ages or 18 and 35; citizens of United States of good moral character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English.

For information apply to recruiting office, over Sollltt St warts, Arkansas City, Kansas tf RAILROAD TIME TABLES Cleveland Is Quiet Again. Cleveland, May 20. Peace in the lo Chicago. May 2C Orson C. Bartholomew, 08 years old, of Denver, was killed In a collision between an electric car and an automobile at Twenty-fourth street and Indiana avenue Sunday.

L. Bartholomew, 52 years old, a brother, 6439 Stewart avenue, Chicago, and Miss Margaret Hawkins, 6564 Harvard avenue, Chicago, were seriously Injured. cal street railway strike now hangs upon the result of the vote of the non union employes now at work, which was taken early Monday. The result doubtless will be announced before night, and if the vote is favorable the Good Books Cheap. The X-ItAYS Printing company has for sale at less than wholesale prices, strike will be stopped immediately, under an armistice.

This will continue until all matters Anally are settled by arbitration. San Francisco, May 26. Two crowded trolley cars collided at Devlsadaro and Sacramento streets at the foot of a steep hill shortly after noon Sunday, killing Henry Baer, a traveling salesman, and Injuring 20 other passengers, one fatally and several serlouslv. several copies of the following books: "Pictorial History of America's Homes For Sale Adjoining City, 5, 7 and 12 acres, rich bottom land, planted to fruit and shade trees, fine water and building sites. F.

P. Thomas, M. 700 North Eighth street. 83tf New Possessions," large, beautiful volumes, regular price $3.00 our price Japanese Emigration Limited. Honolulu, May 26.

The Japanese 11.26. consul here has been advised by his SANTA FE ROUTE MOUTH BOUND WO ARRIVE DEPART 11 7 .30 a 400 8.40 a 9 .0 5 a 18 t.lSpm 8.40 pit 408 7.15 SOUTH BOUND 407 7.40 a 17 6.55 a 7 a 405 8.OO0 tu 8.15 U3 7.1S MISSOURI PACIFIC 792 Local Freight I. parts 7.45a 724 Passenger Departs. ..,12. 20 pa ni Local Arrives 11.50am 745 Passenger Arrive 4.

25 FRISCO BAST BOUND 12.30 pot W2 il pa WEST HOUNt 0 9.25 an 07 4 50 pa KANSAS SOUTHWESTERN WEST BOUND 3 Accommodation. 12.45 as BAST BOUND 4 Accommodation. 11.08a at MIDLAND VALLEY WEST BOUND Passenger Arrives 7.40 pm 27 Accommodation Arrives 12 .15 EAST BOUND Passenger Departs 9.10a a 28 Accommodation. 1.25 at "Blue Ribbon Cook Book," the fin government that the emigration from est, largest and best cook book ever Japan to Hawaii is now limited to Japanese and their wives and children, published, profusely Illustrated, regu formerly resident In the Islands, and lar price $2.00 our price 95 cents. To Teach Meat Inspectors.

Chicago, May 26. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and seven members of the department over which he presides arrived In Chicago Sunday night for the purpose of opening Monday a conference on education and Instruction In connection with in-forcement of the new meat inspection laws. "Webster's Common Sense Dic the wives and children of those who now reside there. tionary," large volume, regular price $1.50 our price 75 cents. The Snagboat Down the River.

Kansas City, May 26 The snag- I Wake a Specialty Of House Building and selling Cement Blocks We have only a few of each of these boat Missouri, which has been here for several days, departed Monday books, so come soon if you want a snap. tf morning for the mouth of the Missouri river and will work up to Kansas City Deaths Stop State Business. 1 Carson, May 26. W. R.

Davis, private secretary to the late Oov. John i Sparks, died at his home In this city i Sunday of stomach trouble. again before high water. It will do F0LEY5 HONrT'lAR some work near Missouri City on the way down. top oottgte am felalunga D.

C. ALLEN, Builder.