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The Englewood Homefcuilder. 3naw D. Carter, Editor. ENQLEWOOO. KAN a.

Well, It was about time for Frar.ols Joseph to have mifce trouble of some kind. In order to Keep out of bankruptcy The Hague tribunal might try issuing trailing si amps. Champagne sells for a quart in Colombian money, which seems almost like giving it away. Prize Fighter Fitzsimmnns is going to star in a eomic opera. Furthermore, he is to be paid for doing it.

Fame is that blissful state where other people think you are as great as you all along have considered yourself. A great many humble folk with good appetites and little cash will not envy Mr. Rockefeller his legacy of dyspepsia. "Hoopskirts Occupy Women at Conventions," says a newspaper headline. It should have been "Women Occupy Hoopskirts." There is a deficit of in the Dutch treasury.

The dispatches do not say whether it was stock gambling or the ponies. Ill-gotten gains, child, are often what the other man makes by taking rvlvan-tage of the opportunity you miss by being a good fellow. It Is generally allowed that the late Ttain-in-the-Face Is now a good Indian whatever he was when he was engaged in warwhooping. A New York girl has had a man put in jail because he admired her. Yet she would probably have despised him If he hadn't turned to look.

King Alfonso is again reported to be engaged to be married, but a good many people will refuse to believe it until he exhibits the license. The fashionable thing is not often the comfortable one, but very shortly a well-sewed pair of walking gloves' will be welcome on any old plea. A Brooklyn woman committed suicide because she had no friends. Some' people would regard that as the finest kind of encouragement for living on. Young Mr.

Rockefeller gladly would part with some of his ability to buy rich viahds if he could only purchase a good digestion wherewith to enjoy them. It is doubtless true that no man can afford to dress poorly, but it is probably also true that some men Cannot afford to dress as well as they habitually do. We do not believe that George Ade Is making more money than he knows what to do with. Did anybody ever make more money than he knew what to do with? France and Germany have reached an agreement the Moroccan question. It doesn't matter, of course, whether the agreement is satisfactory to Morocco or not.

A former baseball pitcher who drew a salary of $5,000 a year is now making $1.50 a day in a lumber camp. It doesn't make much difference to him when the season closes. Schumann-Heink has sprained, her voice. We wonder how it is that people with bull voices, foghorn voices, nutmeg-grater voices and sawmill voices never sprain theirs, i C. W.

Schwab is going to have a $150,000 silver gilt dinner service. Even with that, however, he will probably find it impossible to take more than one mouthful at a time. "What shall we do when the lobster disappears?" anxiously inquires the Boston Globe. But there is no dangei that the lobster will disappear so long as the chorus girl is on earth. Another cure for consumption has been discovered.

The remedy consists of the juice of vegetables. Certainly the juice of corn has made many at least forget worse Woes than consumption. Weber and Fields are talking of joining forces again and "Kid'" McCoy Is- going into vaudeville at $70 a week. How can anybody continue to worry about the condition of the American stage? The Breadwinners' college, a school for those who must work for their living, has been opened in Boston. Whether it succeeds or not will depend largely upon the showing its football team is able to make.

It seems odd to read that a young wife has sued for divorce because her husband wants to kiss her too much, devoting so much time to his demonstrations of affection that he neglects his work. That is not the usual complaint. A new law is soon to go into force in parts of Russia permitting the natives to discuss politics. If they discuss them as fervently, as noiselessly, ineffectively as some thousands of our people do, the blessing" of the law will be deeply disguised. MEANS LEGAL FIGHT CITIZENS OF DIVIDED COUNTIES WILL BRING SUIT.

STALLARD RETURNS. Defaulting Cashier of Sedan Bank is Ready to Explain His Manipulation of Books. rHEY OBJECT TO THE PARTITION Opinions From Leading Attorneys Are to the Effect That the Delegates as a Whole Exceeded Their Authority in Fixing County Lines. Guthrie, O. Dec.

30 It is learned here today from reliable sources that citizens in some of the that have, been divided will go into the counts in an attempt to prove that the constitutional convention is without authority to change couny lines. A 11 known attorney of this city stated today that unquestionably the convention exceeded its authority in dividing Oklahoma counties and that the courts will declare its work in that respect illegal. An attorney who clams to have made a study of the powers of the convention declares that the constitutional delegates cannot legally I change existing county boundary lines in Oklahoma Territory. He declares that congress possesses the sole right of fixing county lines and establishing county seats in the opening of Indian lands to settlement and, therefore, only a state legislature is empowered to make changes. When an attempt was made to change the county seat of Grant county, from Pond Creek, the matter was taken into the courts.

Judge Beauchamp of the Fifth Oklahoma district, held that when congress established county lines and fixed county seats, such lines or county seats cannot be changed, even by vote of the people, prior to statehood. Similar opinions were given by Judges Pancoast, Burford and Hainer, and the decision was sustained by the Oklahoma supreme court. The same question came up in Dewey county when an attempt was made to move he county seat from Taloga to Selling, and was decided in the same manner. The people considered the precedent set by the courts so binding that the people of Cordell, who previously had succeeded in getting the county seat from Cloud Chief in Washita county, went before the last congress and had the removal legalized to prevent the possibility having it moved back to Cloud "Chief. A very perplexing question has arisen from the division of several Oklahoma counties by the constitutional convention, that of how the indebtedness of the old counties shall be distributed among the new ones.

This matter will probably be settled in the schedule of the constitution but no solution can prevent great injustice being done to the people in some of the new counties nor proclude the possibility of the courts being called upon to settle some of the tangles that will result from slashing up the counties. STATE CONTROL OF PIPE LINES. Coffeyville, Kansas. Otto D. Stallard returned voluntarily to Sedan Wednesday to face the charge of embezzling about $20,000 from the People's Naional bank there, of whicii he was cashier.

He left Sedan during the night of September 20, leaving notes announcing his shortage, but saying that he had not used the money and was not personally responsible for the defalcation. At his home at Sedan Wednesday night Stallard relt erated his statement that he had not misused a dollar of the bank's money and does not know what became of it, but that after discovering the shortage he had done wrong in trying to hide it from the directors and the examiners. He admitted making false entries to do this, but said he was ready to take whatever punishment should be given him for doing this. He offered to explain all the false entries and to do what he could toward correcting the bank's books Stallard has not been arrested yet and prqbably-will not be for several days, although he will be cloaely watched. Stallard 1 was induced to come home by a telegram from his wife which she sent to him last week' at Dallas, Tex.

She had not heard from him until then except once he sent a letter to relatives in Illinois and they forwarded it to her at Sedan. FEEDING NEW YORK POOR. Thirty-seven Thousand Persons Shar. ed in the Distribution of Christmas Dinners. New York.

New York celebrated Tuesday the most bounteous Christmas it has had in many years'. Ideal winter weather, clear cold and sunshiny, marked the day. Thirty-seven thousand of the city's poor shared in the distribution of Christmas dinners by the Salvation Army, Timothy D. Sullivan and the Bowery Mission. Five thousand baskets and 1,000 bags, each containing a fowl and "fixings" sufficient for a family of five persons or more, were distributed by Commander Eva Booth of the Salvation Army at the Grand Central Palace from 11 to 1 o'clock.

The people were admitted to the great hall in crowds of 200 and presented with a basket of food. The usual Christmas dinner at the Palace was abandoned as Commander Booth was convinced that the recipients of the gifts preferred to take them to their own homes and prepare their dinners after their own fashion. This made it possible to add 1.000 bags to the amount usually distributed. Governor Frantz Is an Advocate of This Idea. Guthrie, O.

Dec. 31. Governor Fraulz believes that" the interests of the now state of Oklahoma will be best conserved by incorporating in the constitution a clause giving the state the right to own and control pipe lines and oil refineries. The governor was Indian agent in the Osage nation for some time and had general supervision, under the direction of the interior department, of one of the richest oil and gas fields in the new state. Governor Frantz believes that the agitation in Kansas for state refineries and control of pipe lines has saved that state many thousands of dollars.

While it was pointed out that the Kansas movement was unconstitutional, he asserts that such objections could be removed by authorizing the ownership and control of state refineries and pipe lines in the new state constitution. Chinese Relief Fund Grows. Washington. Additional subscription for the China famine sufferers amounting to $1,000 have been received by the American National Red Cross making to date. The Chinese minister Thursday thanked Secretary Root for the evidences of good will and friendship given by the American government and people towards the sufferers.

He said the Chinese of San Francisco had notified him they would at once send $4,000 to the relief committee at Shanghai. DRY FARMING CONGRESS. Denver, Dec. 31. Gov.

McDonald has issued a call for the first general convention of those visibly interested in the reclamation of the sembacid. regions of the United States by systems of scientific farming to meet in the City of Denver, Colorado, on January 24th and 25th, 1907. The value of this movement is apparent to all who have been closely watching the development of agricultural- production under both irrigation and "dry farming" systems. Father Kills Young Son. A Couhty Clerk Suicides.

Liberty, Mo. The dead body of Lee B. Soper, who had just completed his second term as county clerk of Clay county, was found Thursday' in a shed in the rear of his home. Near by lay his 22 caliber target rifle and a bullet hole in his head. It is believed he committeed suicide.

He was 38 years old and married. Despondency over ill health Is believed to have impelled him to take his life. Militia Withdrawn from-Scooba. Meridian. Miss.

i All the troops stationed at Scooba, the scene of the recent race troubles, returned Thursday afternoon in charge of Governor Vardaman, who went there Wednesday night to take personal command. Returning military officials and others says that apprehension of further trouble is passed. There were no -outbreaks on Thursday. A man in New York" has completed fifty years of service, with the firm by -which he is employed, and the occasion has been" recognized by giving him a dinner and a loving cup. If any man in the country has made a longer record of continuous service with one firm, now is a good time for him to stand up and get applauded.

A Chicago banker who has been sent to the penitentiary declares that he will come back and pay off every cent that he. owes. Evidently he bet lieves in spreading the gospel of hope." The Idea of putting, Lincoln's Gettysburg address into the schoolhouses is good, particularly since it can all be included on a bronze tablet within a space of about' 34 by 3S Inches. It is a lesson in English, as well as a lesson in patriotism, although Lincoln was what is commonly called "an uneducated Exchange. Ripley, Dec.

31. The fifth killing in two months in this city occurred yesterday, when Pil. Jackson, colored, shot his sixteen-year-old son. The top of the boy's head was bltjwn off. The, father and son in field on the Morehead ranch exchanged holiday greetings.

Immediatelv afterward Jackson his gun and fired. Tom Morehead, who heard the shots, arrested Jackson and hurried him off to jail at Stillwater in order to prevent a lynching. To Transport Chinese Relief. Washington. Quarterroaster General Humphrey has notified Secretary Taft that he has available two transports in which supplies for the Chinese famine sufferers may be sent.

These are the Buford and the Warren, both at San Francisco, Secretary Taft upon the reconvening of congress, will ask for authority to use one of these vessels for the relief mission Railroad Building Active. Chicago. More miles of railway Were constructed in the United States during the last year than have been built during any year since 1888. according to tthe Railway Age. Since last January.

6.067 miles of track have been laid on 988 lines in the states apd. territories, making the country's total railway mileage 223,139. MAY BE MACKLIN ASSAILANT. Late yesterday a negro answering the description of the Macklin assailant attempted to hold up the. railroad agent at Darlington, near here.

The agent knocked the negro down, but he escaped and it is believed he to El Reno. Several days ago bloodhounds traced Macklin's assailant to Darlington, where the scent was- lost. The Chinaman is not seripilsly wounded. After last night's shooting the negro is believed to have escaped on a stolen horse. I Explorers Remains Found.

El Paso, Tex. -The remains of Prof. Thomas Grindell and his party who left Douglas, in June, 1904, on an exploring expedition into Tibur-on Islands, located in the Gulf of Cal-ifornji, but who were never afterward hear from, have just- been found in a desert in Sonora, where they perished evidently for want of water. The identity was made through letters addressed Grindell- found with the' remains. Grindell was principal of the Douglas schools.

Endows Industrial Home. Kingfisher, O. Dec. 31. Ex-Governor A.

J. Seay has donated $5,000 to the Kingfisher college here. The is to be used in constructing a home" for the industrial department of the institution. The department will provide poor students witn work to assist in maintaining themselves in college, at the same tlmo giving them an opportunity to learn a trade. A Santa Claus Special.

Knoxville, Tenn. H. K. McHarg. who recently sold his Virginia Southwestern railway to the southern, handsomely remeiuoered all his officials and employes Monday.

He ran a "Santa Claus Special' over the entire length of the "Santa Claus" being the To every employee who had been in the company's service for one year "Santa Claus" gave one month's salary as a' Christmas present. TOO MUCH BUSINESS RAILROADS UNABLE TO PROMPTLY HANDLE ALL FREIGHT OFFERED. General Manager Hurley of the Santa Fe Gives Company's Side of the Story. FIGURES OF INTEREST TO ALL. The bother of the operating department of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railway, and of all western railroads for that matter, just now, is the lack of equipment to handle the crops of Kansas and Oklahoma and of the west 'generally.

The congestion seems to grow worse instead of better. New locomotives and new box cars come from the manufacturers weekly, but freight continues to pile up at stations. A few days ago, to move perishable freight which was accumulating at Chicago and Kansas City, a hurry order was made to send to those cities all the empty box cars available. It was a case of necessity and the order was obeyed on all divisions. The result was increased congestion of freight in Kansas and Oklahoma.

'However, the congestion has been relieved somewhat at Chicago and Kansas City, and soon these cars will be available west of the Missouri river. In the meantime, shippers along the line have been complaining and the local newspapers are full of the subject. But the railway company is doing the best it can. It cannot perform the impossible. The existing condition is something unprecedented in the history of railroad transportation.

For instance, on the Oklahoma division of the Santa Fe alone the cotton shipments so far this year have been 12,000 bales in excess of shipments in the same period last year. This means the use of 240 cars more for this commodity than were used for the same purpose last year; this in a territory served by a comparatively short section of road. In corn, and wheat, the increase is even greater. The trouble, however, Is not to be charged wholly to lack of equipment. Consignees might relieve the congestion if they would unload cars expeditiously.

For instance, there are to-day 14,000 loaded cars in Galveston awaiting for consignees to empty them and turn them back into commission. This is not the fault of the railroad. Mr. J. Krutschnitt, manager of maintenance and transportation of the Southern Pacific, who has been studying conditions', finds that in- a period of ten days the shippers held cars eight days give to the roads only two days "use of them.

He estimates that if the shippers had given to the railroad the use of these cars three days it would have been equal to the use of 31,000 cars. Here is a thought for shipper. Speaking of the condition. E. Hurley.

General Manager of the Santa Fe, said today: "The car situation, particularly with reference to box-cars, has been the cause of much anxiety in the operating department of the Santa Fe for the past sixty, and especially, the last thirty days. This has been due to several causes; notably: (A) Inability to obtain the return of equipment that had been delivered to other lines in the regular interchange of business. (B) Delay of consignees in unloading of equipment. "About one-third of the available box-car equipment of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company is now on foreign lines. It is of first importance to the largest number of people served by a Railway Company that merchandise loading shall be taken care of.

These are commodities that are necessary for the sustenance and comfort of the people. "The latter part of November the car situation became so acute in the larger cities that it was necessary to forego grain loading for a period and take empties from the grain district to Kansas City, Chicago and other large merchandise shipping points for this loading. "At. the time we had "at Chicago 300 carloads of merchandise and other commodities for loading and transfer. The transfer -loads could not come through to destination on our line for various reasons.

In some, cases the cars of other lines in which they were loaded were bad order and could not be repaired promptly, and in others the line owning the cars were not willing for the cars to be moved away from their own tracks. We were short from 35 to 75 cars daily for loading at the freight house; these loads being chiefly merchandise. "At Kansas City the situation was much the same. We were short 75 to 150 cars there daily, and had as high as 70 merchandise loads for transfer in addition to being short 25 to 50 cars for similar loading at the warehouse "Not only must the merchandise be handled promptly because of its necessity to the people depending upon and awaiting its receipt, and also because of its largely perishable character. But the consignments are in the aggregate so large that unless each days' loading is handled promptly the warehouses become blocked, preventing the receipt of freight and interfering with the handling of whaL is on hand.

The situation became so acute that it was necessary for us to store some of this freight in bad order cars belonging to other lines until equipment became available. "It became a question of what loading was actually of the most importance to the larger number and in the judgment of the management the necessity for cars for the prompt handling of merchandise outweighed their, necessity for grain shipments. Con sequently orders were issued that empties should be sent from the grain district to provide for this merchandise loading. These orders were in effect for about ten days. Subsequently the return of cars from foreign lines has enabled us to do more toward taking care of the grain loading to better advantage.

Since January 1st, 1902, the Santa Fe iSystem-has purchased 530 engines and 20.256 freight cars of various classes. In February, 1906, 2,000 box cars, included in the above total, were ordered for delivery, the first 1,000 in June and July, the second 1,000 in September and October. We have only received 830 of these cars, due to the inability of the manufacturers to secure the necessary material and labor to construct the equipment. In addition to the above, we have recently placed orders for 100 engines and. 6,700 freight cars, delivery being promised during the Spring and early Summer of the year 1907.

The business of the T. S. F. Railway has shown an enormous increase, as for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1902, the Company handled 5,198,283,013 net ton miles, while for the year ending June 30th, 1906, it handled 7,294,559,366, an increase of 40 per cent. The first four months of the fiscal year, July, August, September and October, 1901, the net ton miles handled was 1,761,222,582, and for the same period for the year 1906, an increase of 49 per cent.

The delay in not promptly unloading and releasing cars by consignees, due to insufficient storage facilities, is to a certain extent responsible for the inability of the Company to furnish cars as promptly as desired. This statement is supported by the fact that during the month of October, 1906, the average daily mileage made by box cars was eleven miles less than during the same month of the previous year. From the above it will be seen that while the business of the Atchison Company has increased enormously, the Company has exerted every effort to increase its carrying facilities so as to be able to handle the increase in business offered. "We give cars in order of priority of claims. First come, first served, and the cars are equitably distributed.

We have no favorites. Our purpose is to treat all alike. Sometimes cars destined for one station are seized by shippers at another, but we can't prevent that; the cars are seized, loaded and gone before we hear of it." For several weeks past reports have appeared in the press as to the suffering of people in certain sections of the West, account of lack of fuel. While a careful investigation develops that most of these reports have been unfounded, yet it appears therefrom that such suffering as has actually been experienced is directly attributable to the inability of the railroads to transport coal to relieve the situation. As indicating that the railroad is not alone responsible for such conditions which might prevail, it would seem proper to acquaint the public with the policy of some of the larger railroads relative to the handling of coal.

The Santa Fe System, for example, has for a number of years past put in force during the months of April, May, June and July, reduced rates on coal from mines on its line in Colorado, and during the same period the Coal Operators reduced the price of the coal approximately 25 cents per ton. The move upon the part of the railroad was to induce the dealers along its line to store during the period referred to, as much coal as possible, as past experience had proven that the Colorado coal will store to good advantage and that there- would be practically very little, if any, loss -by reason of shrinkage as jof storing same. Notwithstanding the efforts of the Santa Fe in this direction, it has been somewhat difficult to induce the dealers to put in sufficient quantities to meet the winter demands. The results have been somewhat disappointing to-bpthi the coal operators and the railroads, as the conditions which invariably! confront the people of the West before-the railroad and coal operators and the reductions in 'price and rate -were entirely for the purpose of avoiding shortages of supplies during the winter months. It would therefore seem that to a certain extent the people should accept some of the responsibility for any suffering that might be occasioned as a result of insufficient fuel supplies.

Latest Kansas Events. Should Exhibit at Jamestown. J. E. Junkifl of the Sterling Bulletin has from a- trip to Norfolk, was making arrangements for.the next meeting of the Na- ftional Editorial Association.

He vis ited the Jamestown Exposition ground and was greatly impressed with the extent and character of the work being done there. Many of the are completed and 3,000 workmen, are distributed over the grounds arid structures. He says: "Kansas should be represented at the Jamestown exposition which opens April 26. The ordinary results which come from having a building and an exhibit of the resources of the "state should be a sufficient reason, but in view of the Kansas Semi centennial in 1911 it is a positive necessity. If we expect other states to become interested in our exposition, we must show a spirit of reciprocity.

This is our first opportunity. We should meet it half way and extract all the honey possible while the flowers are in bloom. Not Good as Securities. Attorney General Coleman has rendered an opinion in which he holds that the banks of the state can "not purchase and 1 hold as securities the "Land Credit Bond" issued by the Win-ne Mortgage company of Wichita. A state bank in' the southwestern part or Kansas recently wrote to Bank Commissioner Royce, asking if these bonds could be purchased and held as security.

Mr. Royce submitted the question to Mr. Coleman and the latter holds that the bonds are neither bonds nor notes in the strictest legal sense and that they can not be purchased by banks. The mortgage company is issuing the bonds with the mortgages on deposit in a Wichita bank as security for the bands. Plans Colony for the Blind.

Mrs. Frances Fearn, an American woman 'whose husband, now dead, for some years was connected with the iiplomatic service, will come to America to interest Influential persons in the establishment of a colony, for the blind. Mrs. Fearn now is the guest of Queen Elizabeth of Roumania Carmen Sylvia), with whom she spent the last summer, and is to bring over plans, pictures and stereopticon views of a similar colony which some time ago was organized and still is maintained by the queen. Supposed to Be a Suicide.

Now that Rain-in-Uie-Faoe js at last a good Indjitn, probably no mention will be made on his tombstone of the fact that he had seven wives and didn't live happily with any of them. Claremore, I. Dec. 31. A stranger, supposed to be J.

A. Cov ert, a druggist of Minneapolis. died very suddenly at the Royal hotel this evening, presumably from strychnine poisoning, taken with suicidal intent. A guest across the hall, hearing groans, went into the room and found him in convulsions. He died before medical aid could be procured.

Hicks Will Lecture Now. Bakersfield, CaJ. Miner Wednesday morning signed a contract for $500 a week to continue for. a year with X. J.

Schmidt, a contractor of Berkley. This will mean for the now famous miner the sum of $26,000 for a year's public appearance on the lecture The Shah is; Worse. The. condition of the shah has taken a sharp turn for the worse and his death is expected from hour to hour. First California Orange Shipper.

There is living in Norway, the pioneer orange shipper of California, Mrs. Rebecca Warren. Mrs. Warren who is 70, went to San Francisco on Vanderbilt's steamer, the North Star, and speculated in land. In 15 years she had $17,000 at interest.

She was the firsts orange grower -to ship fruit by the car load out of the state, beginning with cattle cars, which she had cleaned out and loaded. She later married Mr. Warren, and their brand of oranges were known as the H. Dutch to Honor de Ruyter. The three hundredth anniversary of Admiral de Ruyter's birth will be appropriately celebrated by the Dutch this year.

To honor the memory of the hero it has been decided to have built a war vessel in Amsterdam, reproducing exactly the construction and rigging of.De Ruyter's famous ship, the Seven Provinces. The interior of the vessel will be decorated in the style of the seventeenth century, and is to contain an exhibition of artistic and other souvenirs of the admiral's time. Shelly's Note Books Sold. Three note books which formerly belonged to Shelly; the poet, containing autograph manuscript, a considerable portion of which has not been published, was sold in London several days ago for $15,000. The purchase is said to have been made for an American and the manuscript formed part of the library of" the late Dr.

Richard Garnett, ke'eper 'of' printed books of the British museum. Combatting Smokeless Powder. German military authorities are experimenting -with a device by which the location of troops using smokeless powder may be easily discovered. By this device it is proposed to survey the landscape through pale red glasses. The flash of smokeless powder appears strong in fed light, while ordinary cbjects are dimmed.

By furnishing field glasses with the device in questiba, which is provider- with screens of the proper tint, the position of concealed marksmen can be detected. Iffes Death of D. C. Webb. David C.

Webb, head of the Webb-Freyschlag Mercantile company, died at the h'qjhe of his son-in-law, E. W. Freyschlag in Kansas City. He was 72 years old and was born in Lafayette Ind. In 1848 he went to South America, locating at what is now Aspinwall, on the isthmus of Panama.

In .1858 he sold out and moved to Decatur, ,111. Here he Seamans! In 1876 he moved to Council Grove, where he bought and managed- several farms. He also owned a bank at Council Grove-and general -stores at Council -drove and Strong City. Mr. Webb moved to Kansas City in 1892 and "organized 'the Webb-Freyschlag Mermantile company, of which he was president at the.

time of his death. He Sowed the First Alfalfa. Harrison Parkman, who introduced alfalfa into Kansas, died at his home at Epiporia. He was 73 years old. Mr.

Parkman first saw alfalfa growing in Chile. He brought seed to America and in the late 70s he came to Emporia to live. He sowed alfalfa seed on a farm which he bought and the plant, prospered. It was slow in gaining popularity in Kansas but Mr. Parkman always insisted that it was the ideal forage crop for Kansas.

They Marry Mother and Daughter. A mother and her were married at the same hour, by the same man in the same room at the county court house at Kansas City. They were Mrs. Alice Marsh of Butler, aged 39, and Miss Belle Marsh of High-art, aged 20. The groom in the first instance was William Harrington of Columbus, Kansas, and in the Second William Church of Junction City, Kansas, both prosperous farmers.

The Oldest Editor. With reference to the illness of Colonel Marshall M. Murdock of Wichita, John S. Gilmore. the authentic Fredonia historian says: "The press and some people frequently mention or assert that this or that publisher is the oldest editor in the state.

They aTe all invariably wrong. Marsh Murdock is the man. not only in years oi life combined with active and practically continuous service, but in stretch of such service. He will have been constantly a working a editor on" papers of his own 44 years next September, having founded the Osage Chronicle at Burlingame in 1863. When he sold that paper early in the spring of 1872 he started the Wichita Eagle as soon as a type foundry could furnish the material.

He is the real veteran i editor of Kansas, and in com-parisoniwith his services a lot of other fellows frequently referred to as 'veterans' have but passed the stage of fairly seasoned recruits. Famous Scout Dead. Samuel Agrippa Morgan, aged 104 in 1833 an Indian scout and interpreter for General Henry Leavenworth, the founder of Fort Leavenworth, died at Leavenworth. He was scout for General Kearney in his march through Kansas and Colorado to Utah, and also accompanied expe ditions from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, N. and California.

He was born in the Cherokee nation, then North Carolina, In 1802. He went from there to Fort Gibson, 1. in 1833 and there enlisted in the government service. Morgan was present at the laying of the cornerstone of the first permanent building at Fort Leavenworth. Governor Favors the Plan.

Governor Hoch is heartily in favoi of the enactment of a law providing for the establishment of a guarantee fund in the state treasury to insure deposits in state banks drawn up on the lines suggested by State Bank Commissioner John Q. Royce. Since the Royce plan went into print and since the Quincy bill drawn up along the same lines was made public it has been stated by several papers that Governor Hoch would oppose such a measure in his message. Governor Hoch says he has never authorized any such statement and that as a matter of fact he favors the plan. How few know their own good, or knowing it JuvenaL Due to the Soil.

The soil of Cuba is very fruitful. Cabbages grow so large that heads weighing 2X) pounds each are common. All vegetables do well. Radishes are ready for the table within from 15 to 18 days after sowing, lettuce in five weeks after sowing, while corn produces three crops each year. More Time in Ouster Cases, Mayor Findlay Ross," of Wichita, and the Citv of Wichita, have been al-lowed 20 days additional in which to answer to the ouster suits filed aganist them by Attorney General C.

C. Coleman. The order was issued by the supreme court on accouunt of the fact that the original papers in the case set December 23, as the day for the answer and December 23 fell' on Sunday. Topeka Wants State Money; The Topeka Commercial Club is preparing, for-its campaign in the legislature to get an appropriation for the semi-centennial celebration, which is expected to be held in Topeka. in 1911.

Major T. -J. Anderson is preparing a statement' setting forth the' needs of the Centennial Association and this will be among members of the legislature. A- Wife Slayer Sentenced. John C.

Moore, who shot and killed his wife at Arkansas City, on October 21, last, has been sentenced to be hanged after serving a year in the penitentiary. Chicago Editor Released. Moses Harmon, editor of Lucifer, Light Bearer, was released from the federal penitentiary on completion of serving a year's sentence, objectionable matter through the mails He was met at the gate of the prison by a committee of three and escorted' to the home of S. R. Sheppard, where about 40 persons, some from Kansas City, on him- An informal reception Mr.

Sheppard entertained him at-dinner. Mr. Harmon is 77 years old and feeble, but he is not broken in spirit. Well Known Stockman Injured. Fred Thome, one orhe best known cattlemen near Osage" "City has received seyere injuries.

horse stumbled and crashed Mr. Thome's chest, breaking also one arm and one leg. The horse was killed by the fall having broken its neck. Two Students Drowned. Herman and Easton, students of the deaf and dumb institution at Olathe, were while skating on the lake adjoining that city by breaking through the ice.

Negro Troops Riotous. Several members of the Ninth cavalry, negroes, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, while intoxicated, created a disturbance on a Fort Leavenworth bound electric car. They kicked all the windows out, beat the conductor and -the motorman, locked them In and raced with the car to Fort Leavenworth where the rioters were placed in the guard house. Several white women were on the car during the trouble and some of them leaped off but none was injured. Burton Is Healthy.

In a dispatch from Washington printed in Kansas City newspapers, it is staged that Ex-Senator J. R. Burton has become a physical and mental wreck since his incarceration in the Ironton jail in Missouri. State Treasurer Kelly spent a day with Mr. Barton at the Ironton jail recently and, he states that the rumor that Burton is breaking down is wholly false.

He says he is just as strong both physically and mentally, as he has ever been. Queer Cause for Suicide. Because her husband wanted to send the family washing to the laundry," instead of having it done at home, Mrs. Ri L. Clark of Chanute, drank carbolic acid, hoping to kill herself.

This attempt at suicide too placS she was at the supper table. Her husband was at home. He summoned medical assistance, and help arrived in time to counteract the effect fo the poison and save the woman's life. Pardon for Orrin Beauchamp. A Christmas pardon has been issued by Governor E.

W. Hoch to Orrm of Elgin, who was serving a sentence for "criminal carelessness in handling a revolver. The pardon was recommended by Judge Aikman, who sentenced him, but the tears oi Mrs. Beauchamp, who with two destitute children made a personal appeal was the greatest factor with th governor. i Boy Shot His Father.

Bert Miller, aged 12 years, shot his father at Harper while they were examining an old musket. The boy was playing with the gun when his father said, "blaze The boy pulled the trigger and the ball entered the father's head. Death resulted immediately. Belgian Industrial Workers. According to 1905 figures, the total number of the industrial workers in Belgium wsjs of which were women- Officers for Cloud County Fair.

New officers of the Cloud county fair association were elected as follows PresMent G. B. Van Landingham; vice president. Harry Barton; secretary, W. Li.

McCarty; assistant secretary, G. C. Pierce; treasurer, W. H. A Franklin County ShdOting.

John Carson, proprietor of a hotel at Rantoul, shot and seriously injured Benjamin Harper, a young man, in a quarrel. Harper was shot in the face and neck. Woman Burned by Gasoline. Mrs. T.

A. Lenhard of Eureka was jVrobably fatally burned by a gasoline explosion: was building a fire in the cook stove and confusing the gasoline and coal oil cans, she poured a quantity of' gasoline on the fire. Struck Oil Near Madison. Madison is now in the oil belt. The Madison Drilling company brought in a 180-barrel oil wett at a depth of feet.

Oil at 1,180. but was heavy. The oil is now 150 feet deep in the well. A Burglar at Skiddy. A burglar entered the post office at Skiddy by taking out a pane of glass in a rear window.

Nothing of much value was missed except a cigar box containing $13' in pennies. He hired -a room at the hotel and stayed to breakfast, paying for the same in pennies. Salina's New Insurance Company. Salina is to be the home of a new life insurance company. The name or the company is the Security Life association and the plan is unlike any company operatiag in the state.

i-. ITl LUC hmmmbi ui I lJI a. Enoch Estep, another of the vanguard of Kansas pioneers, died at the home of his son, A. E. Estep, In Burlingame, aged The deceased was born in Manard county, 111., and came to Kansas in February, 1855, locating at Mound City, Linn county.

Abilene Will Get Its New Park. The $6,000 city park bonds issued last spring by Abilene have been declared legal in the district court. Insuring a park in the heart of town. One Reason for Failure. The late Barney Owens, of Point Ereeze, was a David Harum type of character.

This noted and. successful horseman had a way of 'Saying wise things with a seasoningof homely humor. To a conceited man who had failed egregiously in life Owens said one day at Point Breeze: "Well, Bill, you and I know how it is with some men. They're so busy blowing their own horns that they can never hear the factory whistle coaxing them to come to Philadelphia Bulletin, Churchill Was Correct. Winston Churchill (the AmericanV at times has rather a patronizing way of expressing himself that grates on some ears.

Not long ago he was shown some illustrations on. which an. artist was at work, one being for a magazine. Mr. Churchill admired both picture and text and remarked, "I tell you the man who wrote that verse is all right, he will be heard from yet." "That is quite true," dryly responded the artist, "his name is John Milton and the poem L' Lightning Struck Twice.

Dr. J. G. Keith, formerly of St. Louis, who was struck by lightning several years ago, went to Leadville, for his health, and was again hit by a bolt.

About 11 years ago the doctor, while walking on the street. was struck by a thunder bolt. His left side was partially paralyzed He went to Colorado for his health and last spring while on the street he was again hit by lightning. This second bolt practically rendered Dr. Keith helpless as far as his left side is concerned.

FACTS ABOUT FIGURE NINE. Professor of the Occult Has Added a New Wrinkle. Mathematicians have juggled with the mystic figures 3. 7 and 9 for ages, and now comes a foreign "professor" of the occult science to tell fortune by "the force in a simple numeral" the 9. He reminds his victims that if they multiply any number, short of a decimal, by 9 the two figures of the product added together will make 9.

Thus: Nine times 2 are 48, and 8 and 1 are 9 times 3 are 27, and 7 and 2 are 9 times 5 are 45, and 5 and 4 are 9 times 6 are 54, and 4 and 5 are 9 times 7 are 63, and 3 and 6 are 9 times 8 are 72, and 2 and 7 are 9 time 9 are 81, and 1 and 8 are 9. He might have added that any number in the hundreds of thousands multiplied by 9 will give a product the sum of whose digits is a multiple of 9. Take at random 9 times 545 are 4,905, the sum of which is IS. and 9 into 18 goes 2 times. Take 7,352 multiplied by 9 equals the sum of the digits is 27; 9 into 27 goes 3 times.

Oh, there is an immense amount of fun in 9. MADE THEM ALL LAUGH. Book Must Have Been Funny, but No One Knew What Is Was. It must have been a very funny" story! The type looked funny from across the aisle of the car. the pictures looked funny, and the young lady who was reading it doubled up in fits of stifled laughter every few minutes.

The young man in the seat with her could not help stealing a glance at the pages of the book which was evidently so funny, but whose cover was carefully doubled back out of sight, and soon he began tb laugh as he unblushingly followed the story page after page, shaking with suppressed merriment. The woman in the seat at right angles became interested and looked over the girl's shoulder. Presently her face bnkdened into a grin and soon she was convulsively shaking. The man in the seat across smiled at the scene. A boy a few seats down the aisle grinned sympathetically.

A darky still further down showed all his white teeth. The contagion spread until the car was nearly on the verge of hysterics, when the fair reader got up to leave the train, yet no one but the girl herself had any idea as to what tie book was. VAST WEALTH OF THE SOUTH. In Natural Resources That Section Is Supreme. To Its coal supply, more than twice as great, as the combined coal area of Great Britain, Germany and Penn-sylvinia; to ite vast stores of oil and natural gas as supplementary sources power of water powers for utilization of power and heat and light the South adds at least 3,000,000 available horse power of watr powers for utilization for electrical transmission, also for power, heat and light.

The development of this vast water power potentiality will eventually employ to $300,000,000 and be equal in working capacity to 6,000,000 men. It will make possible construction of thousands of miles of interurban elec marts it will furnish cheap power 1 I IV. i vu--v and light for mines and factories, and create, as in Switzerland, the highest forms of skilled mechanical work in the mountains ot the South, where climatic conditions are unsurpassed by any other section of the world. In counting up the riches of the South always beat in mind its wealth of ever-running Streams, where nature furnishes the power without price except for the cost of development. Manufacturers' Record.

POSTUM CEREAL LTD. Guarantee On Their Product. We warrant and guarantee that all packages of Postum Cereal, Grape-jsfutsand Blijah Manna hereafter sold by any jobber or retailer, comply with the provisions of the National Pure Food Lawt-twid are not and shall not De adulterated or mis-branded within the meaning of said Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906, and entitled, "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated oi mis-branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, liquors, and for regulating traffic there in for other purposes." Postum Cereal Ltd. C. W.

Post, Chairman, Battle Creek, Mich. Dec. 12, 1906. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of December, 1906. Benjamin F.

Rkid. Notary Public. My commission expires July 1, 1907. Our goods are pure, they always have been and always will be, they are not mis-branded. We have always since" the beginning of our business, printed a truthful statement on the packages of the ingredients contained therein, and we stand back of every package..