The Kansas X-Ray from New Albany, Kansas • 1

The New Albany X-Ray. VOLUME III. NEW ALBANY, WILSON COUNTY, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 7, 1900. NO. 40.

Letter From the Philippines. Following is a very interesting letter, or several letters, from John Heath who is now at Jolo, P. to Albert Sherman of Neodesha. The first one is dated July 15: Since I have changed companies mail is very irregular. I haven't even seen the papers.

I hear there is some scrapping in China and that some of our regiments have gone there but don't know anything about it. This is a worse place than Cebu was. It is just like being in jail here. It is also a very unhealthy place. We can buy most anything we want here but everything is about two prices on account of the heavy duty.

We are feeding pretty good here except our bread and rice is pretty buggy. In one slice of bread this morning I found sixteen bugs and ants and it is an unusual thing to get a plate of rice without two or three worms in it. We can go swimming whenever we wish; we have a spring board out at the end of the pier. There is an animal in the water here called the water porcupine. It stays around among the rocks and looks like some weeds growing there, but if you touch it, it sticks those stickers into you and then you have a sore foot.

I have only struck one once. got a stiff ankle en account of it. You ought to see the women here. They wear pants, waist and A sash. When dressed up they have about all the colors of the rainbow on them.

They wear lots of silk here. The people are not near as poor as they were on that other island, but I believe they are dirtier and uglier. They all carry guns and bolos here but are not allowed in the town with weapons. The men wear skin tight pants. Some of them look as though they were made on them and were destined to stay there until they were worn out.

Our ice plant has broken down. When it was running we had all the ice water we wanted and could get ice cream any day for 15 cents Mexican per dish. If the boys don't come up to the notch drilling they give them a week or two in the rookie squad where they have to drill 4 hours and 15 minutes each day. I have been lucky enough to keep out of that so far. There are fellows in it who can beat me all hollow though.

We are in good quarters here but I don't like tin soldiering. We have to be dressed up to gO out on the streets and stand dress parade eyery evening. I got those two "Suns" you along in April. The latest thing we have to contend with here is a dose of quinine that we have to take every morning until further orders. We had 50 men on sick repoti for about a week and the other companies were just as bad.

It is a malarial fever that we get here on account of a breeze coming off' of foul water. Every man is ordered to take a dose of quinine each morning. We are all lined up and a sergeant comes down the line with a bottle and a spoon. The stuff is in liquid form and h-l to take. We have been taking it for ten days now and they have only got three doses into my mouth.

I swallowed one dose, I thought I needed it that morning. slipped out of ranks a couple of times. Once the sergeant turned his head and I pretended to take it but didn't. The other mornings I took the stuff to the barrel to get water and ditched it. But.

they put a stop to that this morning and I had to take it in my lips but I spit it out. When they get ahead of me they are good ones. Well, Albert, I will stop for this time. I suppose you will put in a vote for Bryan and Towne. Am sorry I can't.

July 17, 1900. As I haven't mailed your letter yet and a very sad occurrence happened today I will write you about it. About an hour ago one of the boys came in and said there was a large alligator at Shoup's saloon and as I wished to see it we walked up there. While we were looking at the reptile, which was a huge monster about twenty feet long, we heard the cry of "Fire at the bakery" aud of course ran in that direction. It seems that a kerosene can full of oil had accidentally been set on the stove and exploded.

One boy was severely burned on the arms while another's clothes caught fire and before the fire could be put out and his clothes pulled off him, he was scorched nearly all over and his face was bloated and bloody. It was the most horrible sight Lever saw and him screeching with pain. It made me sick. I could hardly get back to quarters to lie down. What makes it more sad is that the boy belongs to my pany having come with me from Frisco.

He will probably die. I don't see how he can live. I have seen several terrible bloody scenes but nothing ever turned my stomach like that did. I suppose you had a lively time on the glorious Fourth. We also had quite a time.

We had jumping matches, running races, horse races, boat races, tugs of war, swimming races and a ball game. The boat race was the finest race I saw. Nine boats took part, six niggers in each boat. They ran in a circle around some large boats, a distance of nearly half a mile, purse $20. The ball game was for a barrel of beer.

It resulted in a tie, 5 to 5. At night we had a torch light procession. The company putting up the most comical appearance was to get two barrels of beer. Each procession was a burlesque on the army. My -September 5.

James Fitzmorris was down from Fall Saturday evening visiting friends. A large crowd drove down to NeodeFriday to witness the ball game. Mrs. Heber Pierce and children came home Saturday from a month's outing in Colorado. S.

J. Bartlett recently had his pension increased to $12 per month. "Shim" Morrow, the barber, has returned to his home at Yates Center. County Clerk Isham thinks of doing the farmer act when his term of office expires. County Superintendent Perry and wife visited his parents in Pleasant Valley township, Sunday.

J. T. Cooper attended the Chanute fair Wednesday. Sadie Wood returned Friday from Guthrie, where she has been visiting a sister. H.

F. Hoyle returned Friday from a visit to his old home in England. Charles E. Rench, of Parsons, Kansas, visited old 1 friends in town this week. B.

Dornblaser returned Sunday from his trip to Chicago to attend the National Encampment. The ball team is away this week on a tour through Elk county. They have games scheduled at Moline and Howard. Thomas Clemens, a young man employed with the Santa Fe grading crew, was returning home from a dance near Buxton early Sunday morning and was stopped by two men west of the Merino school house. When they commanded him to throw up his hands, the team became frightened and they evidently thought he was trying to escape.

One of them fired a revolver at him, the bullet ploughing through his coat and coming uncomfortably near his person. They then secured the team and searched him, securing thirty-five cents. He was released and drove on into town, gave the alarm and the sheriff and a posse went down into the timber in Van Duser's pasture, and captured a couple of young fellows and jailed them. They give their names as George Shull and Ched Jackson. Young Clemens claims they are the guilty parties.

The preliminary was set for Monday but they had it postponed until their attorney could be present. The Fredonia gas well is on a standstill, waiting for casing. Mrs. H. L.

Crittenden and two sons, of Joplin, arrived in Fredonia Wednesday to visit Mrs. H. M. Keesling and other old friends. Mr.

Crittenden once published the Fredonia Democrat but is now in the produce commission business at Joplin. The glandered horse which was causing trouble up in Verdigris township is dead and buried. Its death was a great relief to the State Sanitary board. It is to be hoped that no other horse will so far forget himself as to be afflicted with glanders. List of Deeds Recorded.

Following is a list of the deeds recorded for Wilson County for the past week as furnished by Howard Dean, bonded abstracter and register of deeds, Fredonia, Kansas: Mary R. Clough to S. A. Barcus warranty deed to 5 lots in Buffalo, $1200. Milton Reiter to J.

W. Fritchett warranty deed to 160 acres in Prairie township, $1. T. C. Babb to Jean, Hurst, Redfearn Produce Co.

warranty deed to part of 1 lot in Fredonia, $500. City Real Estate Trust Co. to W. A. Long warranty deed to 160 acres in Colfax township, $1600.

C. L. Williams to L. W. Strange quit claim deed to part of 1 lot in Lafontaine, $400.

Alfred Carlburg to Jasper Coats warranty deed to 3 lots in Vilas, $300. Wilson County to H. F. Pinney tax deed to 3 lots in Fredonia, $10.99. J.

H. Seiler to Henrietta Seiler quit claim deed to 1 lot in Fredonia, valuable consideration. J. H. Seiler et al to A.

P. Skaggs warranty deed to 65 acres in Center township, $1300. Marriage Licenses. Joseph Danel, Lafontaine. 23 Miss Mary Klimek, ..18 Henry J.

Butner, Fredonia .26 Miss Edith A. Thomas, Fredonia. 18 George Watt, .26 Miss Cora Hamill, 18 Alfred R. Hobbs, 22 Miss Frances J. Caley, .18 New Cases Filed.

James Shannon vs Belle Shannon. action for divorce. Martha T. Hampton vs Harry Hampton, action for divorce. E.

F. Armstrong vs The State Bank of Buffalo, Fred Gunby, M. T. White, -French and Eli Neff, suit for possession of 76 head of cattle now at Buffalo. State of Kansas vs Ched Jackson and George Shull, charged with highway robbery.

A good many consumptives would be cured and the worst cases comforted and relieved by using Foley's Honey and Tar. Suggest it to those afflicted. You should do this as a friend. R. B.

Hogue, represented Coxey's army. The company winning the beer had a cart with Uncle Sam offering inducements to the boys to enlist. Next came an officer in a cart with a card which said get transportation." The soldiers behind had a card which said don't." Some of the boys carried axes and shovels; their card said "We didn't see these at the recruiting stations." Last came the cripples with canes, crutches, etc. They had numerous cards such as is the recruiting station?" are going to re-enlist, nit." Altogether it was a lively time. The Chinese furnished the fire works and they made plenty of noise if that counts for anything.

We are expecting some horses in now on the next boat. There will be some mounted infantry organized here, about 75 I guess. don't think I want any of it. They will drill them to death. Our awkward squad has grown to twentyfive now.

Still they haven't got me. There is a school started here with an attendance of forty pupils. They teach nothing but English. The teacher is an Indian and he gets $85 Mexican per month. He can talk Indian, Moro, English, Spanish and Chinese and is just the man for the place, for among his forty pupils are all those nationalities except English.

The Fourth we had a penny race. There were forty pickaninnies in the bay where the water was about 12 feet deep. 800 coppers were thrown in for them and the one getting the most was to receive $20 Mexican besides each one was allowed to keep what pennies he got. Two of them tied on 27 each so they divided the money. It was fun to see them go after thein though.

These women make their cigarette wrappers out of cocoanut leaves and carry them stuck through their ears. You have probably read more about this place than any other place in the Philippine Islands. But we don't see much of the natives and their mode of living. Soldiers are not allowed any further outside the walls than the block houses, which is about a quarter of a mile. The walls were covered with soft mortar and pleces of broken beer bottles were stuck all over them and make them bad things to climb.

This of course was done by the Spaniards. We never allow more than 150 hombreys in town at one time. The Spaniards let them in a time or two when they held this place and were massacred for their kindness Adios. As the boat left before I sent your letter I'll write a little more. That boy who was burned only lived about four hours.

He was buried the next day. The other one is not expected to live. He set a lighted torch on a can of kerosene oil was the cause of the fire. No damage was done to the bake shop. have been busy for a few days taking the census of the company.

Am not through yet. I guess I'll make a few dollars at it. We think we are going to Mindanao before long. There's fighting to be done there. Will send this this time.

J. R. HEATH, Co. 23rd Infantry. Jolo, Jolo, P.

I. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There 1s only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely deafness is the result, unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.

We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY Toledo, 0.

Sold by Druggists, 75. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A man may not cause much of a sensation on earth, but you bet he will when he enters Heaven; there will be SO few men entering heaven. -Atchison Globe. The Drug Trade.

So many changes in the fast few years in the drug trade have caused the druggist of to-day to keep a close watch upon his prescription case as well as his eral stock of drugs. New formulas, new processes of compounding with new pharmaceuticals, chemicals and elixirs keep the up-to-date druggist in a constant state of watchfulness that he may be prepared and qualified as a good prescription druggist. We are good prescription druggists, constantly adding new chemicals and pharmaceuticals to our line so that prescription brought to us may be accurately filled "with just what the doctor ordered." We also carry the most complete line of toilet articles, perfumes, druggists' sundries and all that makes a drug store fully up to date. We have just secured the agency for Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which is guaranteed to cure Constipation, Indigestion, Sick Headache and Stomach Troubles.

Remember our motto, "No old stock, no substitution." You can always get what you ask for when you come to our store. Yours for business. R. B. HOGUE.

Summer Clearance Sale. It is nearing the close of the summer season and we find we are overstocked in various lines of summer goods. In order to convert these goods into cash, we make the following prices. Men's 50e balbriggan underwear. Ladies' 25c ribbed 20c Ladies' 20c ribbed 15c Ladies' 15c ribbed 10c Ladies' 10c ribbed 7c Ladies' 5c ribbed vests.

15c 10c 6c 50 Men's 50c straw Men's 40c straw 25c Men's 25c straw 15c SHOE DEPARTMENT. 2 pair ladies' slippers, No. 31, formerly sold at $1.60.. $1.25 18 pair ladies' slippers, Nos. 3 to 63, formerly sold $1.35.........

1.00 15 pair ladies' slippers, Nos. 3 to 7, formerly sold at $1.00.. .75 12 pair ladies' shoes, No. 6, formerly sold at $1.40. 1.00 12 pair ladies' shoes, No.

3, formerly sold at $1.40. 1.00 A few pair of out-of-style slippers, per ,50 Also a mixed lot of children's slippers at cost. Our Groceries are Pure, Fresh, and of the Best Quality. A new stock of Queensware just received. We handle the Best Flour in the market.

Top Prices paid for Butter, Eggs and 0. L. Jackson, NEW ALBANY, KANSAS. Headquarters Is the place to come when you want or need Anything Reliable. You will continue to find our place of business headquarters for Drugs, Medicines, Stationery, Books, Jewelry, Clocks, Watches, Etc.

Take note of our new line of Perfumery. We handle the best quality of all goods and sell at LOWEST PRICES. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. R. B.

HOGUE, New Albany, Kansas. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a Great Favorite. The soothing and healing properties of this remedy, its pleasant taste and prompt and permanent cures have made it a great favorite with people everywhere. It is especially prized by mothof small children for colds, croup and whooping cough, as it always affords quick relief, and it contains no opium or other harmful drug, It may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For sale by R.

B. Hogue. There is an unfortunate time in a man's life when he feels too old to become gay, and too young to go to bed early. -Atchison Globe. Ulcers, open or obstinate sores, scalds and piles, quickly cured by Banner Salve, the most healing medicine in the world.

R. B. Hogue. "The sweetest music in the world," Judge Kingman used to say, "is to buy a fifteen cent beefsteak, take it home, and listen to it Globe. "I like her because she is pretty," an.

Atchison man said this morning. Men are such liars that remark had a refreshing ring. -Atchison Globe. Every man exaggerates the story of his loneliness in writing to his wife when she is away from home. -Atchison Globe.

Much that passes for wit owes its humor to its absurdity. -Chicago News. When a girl finally lands a promising young man, she is as proud as a -Atchison Globe..