The Banner from Lafontaine, Kansas • 2

AMERICA'S BIG TOBACCO TRADE A New Jersey grand jury has to HEALTH BUREAU ileted the National Packing company and 21 directors personally on a The Weekly Banner 200 STRANGE, Publisher. ONLY NECESSARY TO TREAT STOMACH, SAYS COOPER Uncle Sam Leads the World as an Exporter of the Weed Some in-, teresting Figures. charge of criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade. The directors In STRONGLY LAFONTAINE KANSAS. clude many of the prominent packers of Kansas City, St.

Louis and Chicago. The effort of the miners and operators to reach an agreement at Kansas City failed and the matter will go before the national convention in ApTil. NEWS OF THE WEEK Is Bill Soon to Be Introduced Backed by Associations and Physicians. The Cruiser New York will be sent Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. to the Philippine as the flagship of the Asiatic squadron.

By an order of the court at Lexing WOULD SAVE NATION BIG SUM ton, nearly $2,000,000 assets of Washington, D. C. More than one billion dollars' worth of tobacco and manufacturers of tobacco have passed through ports of the United States since 1890, the value of the export from the county during that period having aggregated $646,000,000 and the imports into the country $386,000,000. These figures are exclusive of trade passing between the United States and its non-contiguous territories, which showed in 1909 alone cigars and other tobacco brought In from Porto Rico valued at $5,750,000 and shipments of tobacco to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico valued at nearly $2,000,000. The United States leads the world as an exporter of tobacco, having supplied over $41,000,000 worth in a total of approximately $150,000,000 worth of tobacco and manufactures which entered international markets last year.

President Taft and Senator Aldrich Busy with Financial Legislation Plans Administration Favors Central Bank Scheme. the Southern Mutual Investment company will be distributed to creditors. A New York food scientist says we live but 40 years when the normal span of life should be 200 years. Two men lost their lives in the fire Which destroyed the hotel at Forney, Texas. J.

C. Simpson of Kansas City and an ardent believer in the Laymen's Missionary movement says that the spreading of the gospel means a turning back of the tide of immigration that is threatening America. A Carbondale, man held a royal flush in an exciting poker game and was so overwhelmed by his winnings Washington. Congress is to be asked before long to pass a bill creating what shall be called a National Bureau of Public Health. It is urged spread all through the land, and con gress has felt the effect.

Preparing Financial Measure. Now that President Taft has sent to congress all of his important recommendations that he has a hope will be enacted into law this winter, he Is turning his attention to the question of financial legislation which must occupy the time and minds of the national legislators. Senator Aldrich, who Is the chairman of the national monetary commission, is in constant conference with the president over the form which the great financial measure is to take. The president believes that Senator Aldrich, in this matter of reform of the currency, is absolutely sincere and that the Rhode Islander hopes to make constructive financial legislation something like a monument to his legislative memory. It can be said that the chances are 99 in 100 that it is the intention of the administration, on the advice of the majority of the monetary commission, to recommend to congress next year eome plan for a central bank of issue.

In all the speeches which Senator Aldrich made in the west and In all the Interviews to which he has submitted since congress assembled, he has made no direct statement that be is in favor of a central bank, but It is known that his mind and attention rest upon such an Institution as one of the best means, as he views it, to make stable the country's financial system. Details Not Worked Out. The president has had presented to him a number of different plans for a central bank, but to none of them has he given a final preference, and It can be said without fear of contradiction that Mr. Aldrich himself has not stated definitely Just which plan he thinks should be selected for ultimate approval. Mr.

Taft wants a central bank, if the country Is to have one, which In a measure will be a mean between two extremes. President Taft has let it be known that it in his earnest desire that legislation intended to give stability to the country's currency shall have attached to it no taint of suspicion of that great associations and thousands of individual physicians are anxious the government shall take cognizance of the necessity for a more adequate system of guarding the health of the A MONSTER FLOATING FORTRESS American people. Time and again Secretary Meyer Plans to Build the Greatest Battleship of the World. that he went home and died of heart suggestion has been made that there should be a department of health with failure. a chief who would have a place in the President Taft in a speech In New York advocated a budget system of president's cabinet.

It Is not likely that congress for years to come, at any rate, will sanction the creation of such a department of government, but it is likely that a health bureau of some kind before long will be estab lished. It must not be taken for granted that Uncle Sam does not do anything Interesting Items Gathered from all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. From National Capital. Horace T. Jones a special agent In the kind department testified 'before the Ballinger committee that men who were interested in the Alaska land frauds brought pressure to bear on President Taft to keep James R.

Garfield out of the cabinet. Senator Stone has offered an amendment to the rivers and harbors bill making the amount appropriated for river improvement at St. Joseph, 1150,000 Instead of $75,000. The naval committee will recommend to congress the building of two battleships of the Dreadnaught class of not less than 28,000 tons, A bill introduced in the house requires all government vessels to be equipped with wireless aparatus. Dr.

Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture told the women graduates of Cornell university that "the woman who can sew a button on a shirt and ten fresh eggs from stale is worta more to humanity than all the women college graduates in the world." When congress refused to make the salaries of the judges of tne new court of customs appeals $10,000 a3 the president wished he withdrew the nominations he nad sent to the senate for the positions. The only recognition given Washington's birthday by the senate was the reading of Washington's farewell address by Senator Depew. departments of the government at Washington were closed in honor of Washington's birthday except congress. Senator Borah of Idaho introduced In the senate an amendment to the constitution which if adopted by the states will give women the right to vote. Senator Aldrich has Introduced a resolution creating a business methods commission and in his speech charged that a saving of $300,000,000 could be made in government expenditures.

to look after the health of his nephews and nieces. The Marine hospital serr ice is efficient, and it is aided in its Washington, D. The sceptre and title of the "Mistress of the Seas," to pass from Great Britain to the United States. The construction of a floating fortress impregnable to a whole modern fleet. A battleship which by the power of its own guns will keep all other modern battleships out of their ordinary range of effectiveness.

These are the three predominant features of the monster American battleship. The first intimation of which was given by Secretary Meyer of the navy to the naval committee of the house. The salient physical features of the greatest battleship in the world will be these: Its displacement will be 34,000 tons. It will carry 12 14-inch guns. work by the medical corps of the army and navy.

The American Health league is petitioning congress to es tabllsh a National bureau of health, and it is asking the people to back up government expenditures based on income in order to prevent waste. The referee gave the decision to Wolgast in the 40th round at San Francisco and Battling Nelson is no longer champion. Col. Conner, who owns a farm near Toledo, Ohio, took a car load of turnips to Toledo and distributed them free to the people as a warning he said to the high priced grocers. The supreme court has decided a land suit in tavor of Mrs.

Belle Frost an Indian woman by wuich a valuable piece of land, adjoining Mill Creek, passes to her possession. Believing that moving picture shows have a soothing effect on the insane Nebraska officials will buy machines for use at the asylum. An examination of the stomach of Prof. J. T.

Vaughn the KirKsville, teacher who died suddenly showed the presence of 49-55 of a grain of strychnine. Two hundred bankers from 19 counties of northwestern Oklahoma attended a convention at Enid. The Democratic state committee has elected W. P. Sapp of Galena as national committeeman from Kansas to succeed John Atwood who resigned.

its request. Plea of Health Officers. The new theory advanced by L. T. Cooper relative to the human stomach has attracted such widespread attention that the public in cities visited by the young man has been joined by many physicians In a discussion of his beliefs and medicines.

Mr. Cooper says human health, is dependent almost entirely upon the stomach. He says that no disease can be conquered without first alleviating all stomach disorders. He further says that most men and women of this generation are half-sick owing to degenerate stomachs. And lastly, he claims that his New Discovery medicine will rejuvenate the human stomach in 90 days.

Cooper has been traveling from one city to another, conducting in each what he calls a campaign of educa tion. For the past year he has met the public in the larger cities of the country, and his success has been phenomenal. Thousands of people have flocked to his headquarters wherever he has gone, and the sale of his medicine has been beyond anything of the kind ever before witnessed. Possibly the most Interesting feature of the attention this young man has attracted is what his army of followers, whom he has converted to his beliefs through his medicines, have to say on the subject. The following statements are from two well-known residents of Chicago and Boston, respectively, and the enthusiasm of these is characteristic of Cooper's admirers generally.

Mrs. H. B. Mack, of 3201 State street, Chicago, says: "I have been suffering for 12 years from a combination of stomach trouble, catarrh and constipation. I had a gnawing pain in the pit of my stomach, a sort of a dull pain that I could not quite understand.

Then there was a dull headache, and my mind seemed to be wandering continually. I could not eat, and what little solid food I did eat I could not retain on my stomach. I tried every remedy I could think of, and also tried out a number of patent medicines, but without any apparent result. It was through one of my friends that I heard of Cooper's prep-r ation, and I immediately decided to try some of it. It is two weeks since I took my first dose of it, and I feel like a new woman.

The headache seems to have disappeared, and the pain in my stomach, along with It. The medicine is worth its weight in gold, and I want to thank Mr. Cooper for what he has done for me." Mr. Edwin F. Morse, of 20 Oakley street, Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, says: "For three years I had not a well day.

My stomach was in frightful shape; the mere thought of food 'vould nauseate me, and I really had a borror of anything to eat. All solid food would cause me extreme indigestion, bloating and gas on my stomach, and nothing tasted right. Some time ago I got some of this Cooper's medicine, about which there is so much talk. I actually feel as well and strong as a boy ever since the first bottle. Every sign of stomach trouble has disappeared, and I have a hearty appetite and eat three square meals; everything seems to taste good.

Anyone who knows what chronic indigestion is can appreciate what this means to me. I consider this the most remarkable medicine I ever heard of." Cooper's New Discovery is sold by all druggists. If your druggist cannot supply you, we will forward you the name of a druggist in your city who will. Don't accept "something just as good." The Cooper Medicine Dayton, Ohio. In a communication recently put out from its New York headquarters, offi what is generally called Wall street influence.

The president is telling his friends that he is confident, from what cials of the bureau of health, say: "Responding to general demands for Senator Aldrich tells him, that the such a scientific check to the prevent A NEW WIRELESS SYSTEM able diseases and deaths that are now Rhode Islander Is no less anxious than he to see to it that Wall street shall in no way be given an entering wedge of influence by means of the legislation when it Is finally enacted. known to cost the nation $1,500,000, 000 in life and labor each year, ofn cers of this organization are making By Its Use Boats May Be Driven And Guided Exhibited Before War Department. Gift for the Kaiser. The house of representatives has every effort to have a law speedily made of their recommendation, which was contained in the platform of the just passed a bill appropriating three leading parties In the last presidential campaign and which has been $5,000 for a replica of the statue of the Baron von Steuben which is to advocated by leaders of every political faith since that time. President Taft has Just assured representatives of the American Medical association and American Health league, they declare, he erected soon in Lafayette square, Washington.

The replica of the statue, if the senate sanctions the house action and the president signs the bill, will be sent to Kaiser Wilhelm and the German people in the Mutual, Ok. Lee and Ray Clarke, young men living near Mutual, have invented an electrical apparatus which is now being exhibited before officials of the War Department at Washington, which makes possible private communication by wireless telegraph and enables the operator to propel, guide and control any boat, carriage or other vehicle driven by electricity, steam or gasoline. The system is known as the "Wireless Selection," and the inventors say it is destined to become as useful and probably far more wonderful in the variety and extent of its powers than the wireless telegraph system. that he is heartily in favor of this plan. If the people of every section of the land will declare themselves on this vital question in the next few name of the people of America as a weeks, it is asserted Uncle Sam soon grateful recognition of the services of von Steuben to the American colonies when they were trying to throw off the yoke of Great Britain.

Foreign Affairs. Senators Milllcs-Lacorix and Senator Linlilhac fought a duel with swords in Paris. The Insurgent forces in Nicaragua have captured Granada. President Madrlz has fled from tho capital of Nicaragua and the insurgent troops are expected to take the city of Managua soon. King Edward of Great Britain opened In person the third parliament of his reign with a speech which outlined tho fight that is being made against the house of lords.

Chinese troops have entered Lhasa the Capital of Tibet and the residence of the head of Budhlsm who fled at their approach. The movement to present the von Steuben memorial to Germany was in itiated by Representative Richard Bar-tholdt of St. Louis. Mr. Bartholdt was born In Germany, but he has lived In this country a great many years.

WOULD ORGANIZE THE BOYS Domestic Items. According to the decision of Prof. Taft of Michigan Agricultural college the most perfect ear of corn has been found near Kalamazoo. J. M.

Fiske the firm of New York brokers that became involved In the Hocking pool slump have beeu denied reinstatement by the stock exchange. The lower house of the Oklahoma legislature has passed a bill repealing the dispensary system and maaing the sale of liquors In the state for any purpose Illegal. Friends of Prosecutor Garvin of Hudson county, New Jersey who is prosecuting the beef trust have been approached by men from Chicago and assured that the prosecutor could retire a rich man if ho would drop the prosecution of the packers. Richard Frakes, once had a 400-acre farm on i.ne Missouri river near Atchison, but it has been taken acre by acre by the river until it has all disappeared. A Nevada, jury brought In a It is perhaps possible that the St.

Louis representative had the German people in mind more than the German emperor when he first thought The "Boy Scouts of America" Would Be Induced to Live More in the Open. of a plan to present the von Steuben memorial to the fatherland. Once on a time, if the records are not wrong, may be persuaded to give the same attention to the physical welfare of human beings that he now does to that of sheep, cattle, hens and hogs." The friends of the plan for a health bureau under government control say that the bureau is particularly necessary to warn the people of this country "of the dangers that menace their vitality in the most common walkp of everyday life." Then the American Health league says that it Is calling attention to drugs as well as diseases. Declaration is made that numerous forms of drug habits are becoming more prevalent everywhere In the United States than people realize. Tho dangers of cocaine, morphine and opium are pointed out, and it is said that vigorous efforts which are being made to control and minimize their sale ought to have the sanction, the backing and the aid of a government bureau.

While physicians are trying to get government recognition of the need of federal safeguards for the health of the nation, sociologists are trying to eet. Uncle Sam to establish what Mr. Bartholdt was in Berlin and de Personal. Jacob Galser who went to Leavenworth, in 1854, the year the town started, is dead of paralysis. He built the first hotel there.

Mrs. Sarah Louise Van Tassel taught the infant class in the Tomkinsville Staten Island Sunday school 77 years. She has just died, at the age of 91 years. Dr. Hull, arrested in connection wilh the death of Prof.

Vaughn of Kirksville, has given bond in the siring to pay his respects to the emperor, he requested an audienco and described himself as a German-American. It is said that Emperor William remarked, "Germans I know and Washington, D. J. N. Boyce of Chicago, who is in Washington, has started a movement with the intention of making the boys of the country grow into larger and better men than otherwise they might become.

He wishes to establish an organization as the "Boy Scouts of America," by which the lads who are now 10 to 16 years of age will be induced to live somewhat in the open, will be taught manners and self reliance and also taught to submit to a mild discipline. Americans I know, but German-Americans I do not know." This was the emperor's way of intimating that a man must be one thing or the other, and that he did not like hyphenated Meant as Return Compliment. The gift to Germany will be a sort A Natural Question. James J. Corbett, in the smoking room of the Mauretania, praised the "style" of Jim Jeffries.

"It's a neat style," he said; "neat, quick, to the point. It gets there like the remark of a little girl who said to the minister, in the course of a quite interminable call: 'Did you forget to bring your amen with you, for lack of a better name they call of return compliment for the gift sum of $7,500. Senator Tillman who suffered a stroke of paralysis has regained the use of all his faculties and is gaining strength. Cov. Hartley of Missouri addressed the meeting of the North Central Kansas Teachers' association on "The Reign of Theodore Roosevelt." Miss Catherine Hinsdale has resigned as teacher of a Sunday school a Laboratory of Criminology.

The which Wilhelm made to the United States eight years ago of the statue subcommittee of the committee on Ju of Frederick the Great. It was with Frederick the Great's permission that diciary has just reported favorably a bill which appropriated a sum of monev for the establishment or nucn Baron von Steuben or Gen. Steuben, THEY STOP PAULHAN'S FLIGHTS The Wright Brothers Secure An Injunction in Federal Court Against the Frenchman. Oklahoma City, Ok. Louis Paulhan, the aviator who was under contract to make flights with his airship here, received a telegram that the Wright brothers had secured an injunction in the federal court in New York, which prevents Paulhan from making further exhibitions.

Paulhan says he will make no more flights until the mattei is cleared up. a laboratory or bureau. It Is not the Crosses are of no use to us, but in as much as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves. Fenelon. as he came to be known in America, was allowed to come to this country to act as a sort of a drill-master-in-chief to the Continental armies.

Germany, it is said, has always felt more or less keenly a regret that Americans should have thought principally about Germany's attitude in the rev intention of the lawmakers, if they pass a bill of this kind, to make the bureau a largo affair. What the friends of the measure want is to have appointed three or four specialists in criminology who will make a deep study of the causes of crime with a view of finding out if it is not possible in some way to bring to bear the preventive measures which are so olutionary war as one made manifest ft by the dispatch of the Hessian hire ling troops to this country to help the cause of the British. Killed In An Austrian Duel. Vienna. A duel with pistols was fought here by two Austrian government officials, Dr.

Oscar Mayer and Baron Hermann WIdenofer. Mayer shot WIdenofer dead. verdict of not guilty when a boy charged with robbery confessed that he broke Into a store because he was hungry. The jury took up a collection of $16.85 to buy him a ticket home. The Missouri Pacific will soon place on all steel mail cars to protect the mail clerks who have been subject to especial danger in the wood constructed cars now in use.

Fred S. Jackson, attorney general of Kansas has filed a motion for a new trial of the insuranco trust case in the Shawnee county district court and unless the motion is granted will appeal the case. A special grand jury has been called at Kirksville, to investigate the death of Prof. J. T.

Vaughn in whose stomach strychnine was reported to have been found. The National City Bank of Cambridge, has been taken in charge by the comptroller of the currency upon the discovery of a shortage of $144,000. Results of tests made with Nebraska seed corn show that but 27 per cent of the corn will grow and bulletins are being sent out warning against planting untested seed. The Missouri game and fish warden has commenced the purchase of game birds for breeding purposes with the Intention oi spending $20,000 at once to restock the state with game. The Kansas experiment station at Manhattan reports the wheat there damaged by repeated freezing and thawing of the wet ground.

The prices paid for hogs at the Kansas City stock yards continue to climb upward and have reached $9.25 per hundred pounds with the supply short Democratic editors of the seventh congressional district of Missouri have been called to meet at Sedalia March 26. More cars are being operated In Philadelphia and tho street car company asserts that tbs strike of tb trolley-men Is broken. class at winsted, after a continuous service of 63 years. Aviator Hamilton flew a mile at El Paso, on a unit mile track in 1:11 which Is the same as his record In California on a mile track. Dr.

J. II. Hull of Monroe City, has been arrested In connection with the death of Prof. J. T.

Vauhn of Kirksville. Byron E. Church who for 20 years has been president of the Bank of Holyrood, Holyrood, was arrested at Kansas City. Irregularities of nearly $100,000 are said to have been found in the books of the bank. Col.

W. F. Cody has dismissed the suit by which he tried to collect lost In attempt to make an actress of Catherine Clemens before 6he married Gould. Mrs. Loran D.

Fillmore, whose husband was a cousin of President Fillmore died at the home of her son at Joplln, agod 98 years. Ex-Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has announced himself a candidate for the republican nomination for governor. Mrs. E.

H. Harriman has given to the Adirondack Sanitarium laboratory. Gig Noventa of Pitisburg, drank carbolic acid and died when he was refused enlistment in the army. Capt. Samuel N.

Atwood the oldest resident of Barry county, is dead at the age of 100 years. Senator Geo. II. Hodges of Olathe, has formally announced himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Kansas. Ten Years for Killing a Woman.

Oklahoma City, Ok. Oscar Binyon was convicted of killing Fanny Glea-son in Oklahoma City, September 26, 1909, and sentenced to ten years in the state prison. much better than cure measures. Crime i Disease. Some people go so far as to say that crime in many of its forms Is a disease.

A great many people admit that crime is frequently committed by persons who are the victims of circumstances and who are not impelled to crime by what may be called real criminal motives. If congress shall establish a bureau of criminology, the experts will study living conditions of the people, the effect of poverty and liquor drinking on crime, and many other subjects which may shed light upon the main question. The same argument that is used by physicians for the establishment of such a bureau as they want Is used by the friends of the other project They say that If Uncle Sam is willing to spend millions every year through the agricultural department to check the ravages of insect pests, that he ought to be willing to spend a few thousands to check the ravages of crime. In recent years congress has paid more attention to what may be rilled sociological matters than It ever did before. Tho study of sociological subjects has The gift of the statue of Frederick the Great, with marked reference to the relation between Frederick and Gen.

Steuben, was intended as an offset to the unpleasantness that is connected with the Hessian hirelings. The statue- of Frederick the Great stands In front of the American war college In the city of Washington. When the gift was made, there was a great deal of adverse criticism In America. Congress was urged not to receive the gift because citizens whose criticism was of the extreme and perhaps unthinking kind, declared that we wanted no statues of kings in this country. The gift, however, was received In the spirit in which it was offered.

The statue had not been long in place before an attempt was made to destroy It. At least it was supposed an attempt was made to destroy It, for a small-sized bomb was exploded by some unknown person near tho base of the statue. The bomb did no damage, but It did create tremendous excitement G50RGE CLINTON. Baby Smiles When He Takes Farmers Paid the Cash. McPherson, Kansas.

One of the largest mule and horse sales in this part of the country was held by F. D. Entriken. Forty-two mules sold for $11,600. One span sold for $440.

Every sale made was for cash, not a single note being offered. COTE nil wLmii Troops Withdraw From Cairo. Cairo, 111. The five militia companies that have been on duty in this city since February 17 because of the fear of race riots, have been So plaa.nl thai lie Slcea it nod contain W- 1 Mi ates. There nothing tika it ior 1 1 Auhraa uxi trouble) of th throat and langa.

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