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FIFTY KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE HIGH PRICES DELAY CONTRACTS FROM Latest Kansas Events. Get This FREE' Book yMjfe Before You fMPl Attempt to Bribe Charged. Charging J. A. Wayland, J.

I. Shep-pard and Fred D. Warren of the Socialist paper, Appeal to' Reason, with having attempted to bribe J. P. Mc-Donough of Kansas City, for the alleged purpose of having him give false testimony in a federal case in which the 1 three are defendants, Harry J.

Bone, United States district attorney, filed a motion in the United States court that Wayland.Sheppard and Warren be cited to 'appear to show why they should not be punished for contempt No Dress Suits for "Sophs." An attempt to simplify the annual social, events at the University of Kansas made the annual sophomore hop one of the most successful ever given" by the second year students at Lawrence. In place of the dress suits at the junior prom a few weeks ago, the men wore dark coats and Thirty-Four Dead In Zapatlan and Half of City Destroyed Colima Volcano in Eruption. Mexico City, Mexico. Thirty-four persons were killed and half of the city of Zapatlan, which is located on the slope of the volcano of Colima, was destroyed by an earthquake during the night. Sixteen persons were killed in the town of Cieudad Guzman, and 13 were seriously injured.

Twelve shocks were felt at Guadalajara, while in Cuartel, more than half a million dollars' damage was done, Including the complete destruction of a large church. Following the shocks, the Colima volcano became active, throwing out lava, boulders and sand in its first big eruption since it destroyed the city of Zapatlan in 1806. The state of Jalisco, on the west coast, in which Colima volcano is situatedapparently bore the brunt of the disturbance. This state is west of the Sierra de Nayarit mountains and Is a high, rugged country. KANSAS TO SELL BINDING TWINE State Prison Will Dispose of 4,000,003 Pounds This Year One-Fifth of Total Amount Used.

Topeka, Kansas. The state prison has 4,000,000 pounds of binding twine to sell this year and Warden Codding expects to. sell every pound of it and have orders left over. The plant had a large amount of twine left over from last year and it has. been working full time all winter and spring in anticipation Of the large wheat crop.

It is estimated that pounds of twine-will be used in Kansas this year and the state plant has about one-fifth of the total. The state plant Bells the twine at eY cents a pound to the retail merchants and one cent higher on direct orders to the farmers. The harvester company twine is sold to the retail dealers at just one cent higher than the prison made twine. SON SECURED FATHER'S PARDON Aged Man About to Begin Two Years Term In Prison Saved by Boy's Self Sacrifice, i Austin, Texas. Charles E.

Knox of Los Angeles, wrote a letter to Governor Colquitt a few days ago offering to serve the sentence in prison which has been imposed upon his father, J. D. Knox, who wa3 formerly justice of the peace at Strawn, Tex. This heroic letter brought to the aged man, who was about to undergo a two year's term of penal servitude, a par The son, whose abundance of love caused him to offer himself as a sacrifice to gain his father's liberty, is only 21 years old. He has been employed in Los Angeles for some time.

IVIAY0RESS CENTER OF INTEREST Dropped In on Suffrage Convention and Was Embarassed by Attention Shown Her. Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor of Hunnewell, who dropped in to attend the closing ses sions of the Kansas equal suffrage convention srre, soon discovered that she was "exhibit in a gathering that included some of the foremost suffragettes in tie entire country as well as the stats of Kansas. Mrs.

Wilson was averse to being lionized even for the cause of votes for women. She was a guest of honor at the re- Lception at Scottish Rite Temple at night, but although introduced to the audience declined to speak. MILITIA GETS SECRET ORDERS Wichita Officers Warned Against Giving Information Couft Martial May be Penalty. Kansas. Following the re ceipt of sealed orders officers of the Kansas national guard here have made an agreement, with merchants to stock fhe two Wichita companies completely with ten days' rations and provisions within two hours' notice.

The officers are silent regarding the plans of the war department covering the movements of Kansas troops. Officers have been warned that they will be reduced to the ranks and pos sibly courts martialed If they divulge orders. Knox Gems Stolen by a Marine. Los California. A marine aboard the cruiser Maryland is charged with having robbed Mrs, Philander wife of the secre tary of state, of diamonds valued at more than $2,000.

Chiropractor Acquitted. Stafford, Kansas. The Jury in the caBe of CharleB W. Green, chiroprac tor, for practicing medicine without a license, brought In a verdict of ac quittal after having been out all night. Shriners In a Gay Whirl.

Los AngeleB, California. The business session of the Shriners' conclave now in session here, ended, after the adjournment of the imperial council and the rest of the week will be da- voted to entertainment. Grant's Tomb In Danger. New York, N. Y.

Reports that the foundations of Grant's tomb on River side drive have been undermined by water and that the magnificent mauso leum Is In danger of collapse, are to Food Supplies for State Institutions Will be Purchased After Market Conditions Becqme Settled. Topeka. Owing to the short crops last year and the crop growing and the meat market conditions at the present time the board of control has found it necessary to delay letting the contracts for supplying the Kansas charitable institutions with food supplies for nearly a month. The contracts for the purchase of half a million dollars of food and clothing supplies for the nine institutions will be let June 26 and 27 this year. Usually the contracts are let in May, but last year they were let the first week In June.

Some time ago the state university advertised for bids for supplies for, the state hospital at Rosedale. The contract- would cover a period of six months. Not a single packer of meats or fruits -or a miller or wholesale house offered a bid for this contract, which amounted to several thousand dollars. The wholesale houses and the packers frankly told the university purchasing agent that crop conditions and the meat market were too unsettled for them to make any long time contract at figures low enough to get the business under the retail prices. By putting off the letting! nearly a month the crop conditions will be pretty well settled throughout the middle west and the meat markets are expected to be in a more settled condition when the grass fed cattle' begin to arrive and then the food packers can make their bids and figure on the prices for the next six months.

Representatives of the railroad or public utilities commissions of all the surrounding states In which physical valuations of railroad property are being made attended a conference with the public utilities commission. Kansas also is making a physical valuation of the railroad property. It is a long and tedious job. Special men have been employed to do, most of the work. No two of the states was doing the work exactly alike and the 'meeting was for the purpose of taking otfer the work in order that the states may assist each other.

The best report ever recorded in the enforcement of the prohibitory law came from Seward county where F. Grinstead, assistant attorney general, convicted every jointkeeper arrested, Early in the year the business men in Seward county sent a petition to John S. Dawson, attorney general, asking for help as the jointists were bold and persistent. Judge Grinstead was ap pointed and has just made his report, He made eight arrests and won in every case. One witness wnose mem ory was very poor was sent to jail.

An echo of the failure of the First National "bank, and the subsequent suit by the state against Thomas Kelly, state treasurer, for $547,575.06, alleged to have been deposited unlaw' fully in the bank and allowed to re main there until the bank Tailed, was heard in a petition filed in the United States district court. The suit is by the Title Guaranty Surety company against John Hannon and William E. Thomas, of Leavenworth. The Wyandotte Gas company has asked the supreme court to allow it to collect its increased rate of two cents a thousand cubic feet in Kan sas City, Kan. Judge Fischer, in the district court of Wyandotte county, by an injunction prevented the pro posed Increase.

The company filed an appeal In the supreme court. A. B. Richards, superintendent of the Postal Telegraph company with headquarters in Kansas City, has filed with the public utilities commission a complaint charging discriminations against his company by-the Bell tele phone system. The city of Hunnewell may have to go without a tax levy for another year, unless the supreme court makes a special order of the ouster Buit.

The ouster case against the four council-men has been heard in the supreme court, but the case is not due for the final decision until June, and then time 19 allowed for asking for a re-hearing and other dilatory proceedings, 'which would allow the present councilmen to hold over until after it was too late make a tax levy to-pay the city expenses. D. S. Burch, state dairy commissioner, and his deputy, W. F.

Droge, have condemned 65 gallons of rancid cream this spring. The state law requires that cream be not more than four days old in the winter and three days old in the summer. Most of the cream that has been condemned was from seven to ten days old. Gov. Stubbs will spend all of next week in the campaign for Roosevelt In Ohio.

The governor has agreed to give the national Roosevelt headquarters a week for Ohio and New Jersey. A suit attacking the right of the state public utilities commission to interfere the 'handling of interstate railroad trains was filed by the M. K. Railroad company against the commission in the United States district court here. The publio utilities commission has ordered the Hutchinson Gas company to make an additional showing before it can be allowed to continue business in Kansas.

This company is a reorganization of the directors of the old Hutchinson Gas Fuel company. STATE CAPITAL FRESH ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR KANSAS PEOPLE. Latest Events Transpiring Among the State Officials at Topeka Gathered by Our Correspondent. Topeka. Attorney General John S.

Dawson believes that if the failure to submit the jury amendment in 1904 put an end to its vitality, a peculiar and a dangerous weakness has been discovered in the plan of the Kansas state government. The supreme court will decide soon whether or not the jury amendment is a dead one and whether or not Dawson has discovered a weakness. The legislature of 1912 adopted a resolution for an amendment to the constitution giving the state the right to a change of venue in criminal cases. Because of a defec in the. legislative history of the resolution it was not placed on the ballot at the succeeding election in 1904.

Two other proposed amendments, one relating to the veto power of the, governor and the other making the state printer elective, were placed on the ballot and both carried. There is little doubt but that the jury amendment would have carried if it had been submitted. At the last meeting of the State Bar association it was recommended that the jury even though ft was ten years old, be placed on the ballot at the coming election. Attorney General Dawson, following the suggestion of the association has brought an action against Secretary of State Charles Sessions to compel him to place it on the ballot this fall. The suit is a friennly one and is simply to determine whether or not the proposed amendment is dead.

Because he is the only attorney in Morton county who will serve in the office of county attorney Clifford B. Seybold is likely continue in that capacity in spite of the charges preferred against him. There are two attorneys in the county and the other refuses to accept the office. In a letter to Gov. Stubbs Attorney General John S.

Dawson discussed in detail the results of an investigation he made in Morton county. Seybold was charged with drunkenness, neglect of duty and with "grafting." The charges were made by Morton county people. Mr. Dawson reports that one of those making the charges was a Morton county physician who was practicing without a license and whowas being prosecuted by County Attorney Dawson holds that not one of the charges Is specific or well founded. That mandamus proceedings will be Instituted against the state textbook commission to compel the adoption of standard textbooks, unless that action Is taken voluntarily by the board, was the statement made by Dr.

Eva Harding. According to her, the "sweet potato geography" must go. Dr. Harding claims to have spent about two years in looking up the records of the books in use in Kansas, and declares that none of them are In general use in any of the Eastern states where books are sold in open market upon their merits. So The engineers of the state railway or public utilities commissions of the Middle West met in Topeka to discuss plans for making physical valuations of the railroads.

It Is planned to make all of these valuations as nearly uniform as possible. The state utilities commission will meet with the city commissioners of Kansas City, next Thursday to discuss measures to compel better freight depots in that city: v. The patrons of the Silver Lake Telephone company have appealed' to Uhe publio utilities commission for a flat rate into Topeka and a delegation appeared before the commission to push thelr-clalms. The complaint was-flled by L. H.

Neiswanger and S. Landis, president and secretary, respectively, of the Silver Lake Telephone com-pany. It is a company made up of i farmers around Silver Lake. Lieut. Barrows, of the fourth field artillery of the U.

S. army, who has been in Topeka for ten days has com-4 pleted the inspection of the equipment of battery A of the state militia. The inspection included clothing, tents, harness, cannon and all the field equip ment. He spent one day adjusting the sights of the guns and field pieces stored In the state armory, A state warrant charging Andrew Wallace with the murder of Mabel Morris was issued at the request of County Attorney Simon. The prosecutor has satisfied himself that Wal lace was with the girl the night she disappeared, and that he was the cause of her death.

A state action against Roy Ball and Serena Klacklnger, charging too friendly actions, was dismissed by Judge Robert D. Garver in the county court after the complaining witness failed to prove any particular menaii ness between them. Senator Dfcton, chairman of the national RooBevelt campaign committee, sent a telegram to Gov. Stubbs again urging that the governor be a dele, gate to the Republican national con vention from Kansas. Gov.

Stubbs Mayoress Was Timid. Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor of Hunne well, who dropped In to attend the closing sessions of the Kansas equal suffrage convention at Wichita, soon discovered that she was "exhibit in a gathering that included some of the fojemost Buffragettes in the entire country as well as the state of Kansas. Mrs. Wilson was averse to being lionized even for the cause of votes for women.

She was a guest of honor at the reception at Scottish Rite Temple at night, but although introduced to the 7 audience declined to speak. Plenty of Cars for Wheat Crop. The Chicago, Rock Island Pa cific railroad announced that it, would have 45,000 box cars In the wheat belt of Kansas when the threshing season) opens. The general officers In Kansas have had wheat reports from every agent in the 1,100 miles of Rock Island lines in Kansas and the reports are so fine that the company expects one of the largest wheat crops the state has ever produced. Will Drill for Oil.

Alex Evans, a wealthy oil man of Muskogee, will start to drill for oil at Junction City within the next 30 "flays. Word has been received from him that he will pack and ship his outfit within two weeks and will start to work immediately upon arrival. He has selected the W. E. Clark farm, east of the city, as the most likely spot for finding oil.

Women Editors to Meet. The Kansas Woman's Press association will meet in Manhattan Tuesday and Wednesday, May 14 and 15, for the 21st annual session. Preceding the meeting Tuesday afternoon will be held a general conference of the presidents of various Kansas women's organizations and of educational institutions to form a Kansas council of women. Begin $50,000 Rock Road. Members of the board of county commissioners with the county road engineer went to Arkansas City from Winfield to take some action in the matter of beginning work on the Meri-den road south of there.

It was decided to go to work at once on the stretch of road leading to the Okla homa line, four miles south of the city. Studies Fort Scott Roads. A system of good roads for the country surrounding Pittsburg is the plan of the Pittsburg city commis sion, which has been conducting an investigation at Fort Scott, where there is one of the finest systems in the West. Linotype Operator Suicides. A.

M. Marsh, 38 years of age, a linotype operator for the Hutchinson Gazette, took his life by drinking carbolic acid. Despondency was the cause. A note left by Marsh said, "I hope my friends make more of life than I have." Paving at Eldorado. The city council in regular meet ing passed two resolutions which call for the paving of part of the two main streets in Eldorado, Central avenue and Main street.

The resolutions are for four blocks on the avenue and three blocks on Main street. Socialists Case Goes Over. The case of the government at Fort Scott against Fred Warren and "Wayland, editors of the Appeal to Reason, was continued by Judge Pollock to the next term of the fed eral court. Lightning Killed a Farmer. William Doughner of St.

John was killed by lightning in the barn at the Edward Landas farm, three miles west -of Macksville. A public sale waB in progress and the barn was crowded with men who had taken refuge from the Two horses and a mule were killed in the barn by the same 1 Depositors May Be There are rumors afloat at Arkan sas City that claims against the old Citizens' and Farmers' State bank are about to be settled. There is yet about $15,000 due depositors. The bank closed its doors in the fall of 1908, since when about 90 per cent of "the deposits have been repaid. Oldest I.

O. O. F. Lodges. The 55th anniversary of the organization of the five oldest Odd Fellow lodges in Kansas is to be held in Atchison the afternoon and evening of June 1.

The Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Leavenworth and Atchison lodges were organized in 1857. Jury Convicts Alexanders. The Jury in the case of Clyde and Floyd Alexander of Belpre, on trial at Kinsley, on the charge of murdering Editor H. C. Buzenbark of Belpre a few weeks ago, brought In a verdict of manslaughter after having been out 22 hours.

Towanda Fire Loss, $25,000. Fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, wiped out half of the city of Towanda, Butler county, early in the morning, entailing a Iobs of between $25,000 and $30,000. Decorate It shows 20 pretty rooms in modern homes and how to get the very latest designs for your home. We will send you FREE color plans made by expert designers for any rooms you want to decorate. Tha Beautiful Watt Tint more fashionable than mil piper or pilot and eoaa far It la too refined and exquisite In color to compare with any kind of kalsomlne.

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Brows Ji Con Atcaiaon, Kaae. We all admire a man who says Just what he thinks about other people. Unslchtly eruptions disappear after a course of Gartieid Tea. Over That N6w. "Is their honeymoon over?" "I guess so.

She's stopped sitting up for him when he's out late nights." The One Sure Thing. 'We can always be sure of one thing," said the wise man. 'What is that?" asked the foolish. one. "That we are never sure of any thing." All He Wanted Was Just Plain Eggs.

A youth entered one of the "ham- and-row" cafes on Grand avenue and ordered eggs. "Up or over?" asked the man behind the counter. "I Just want eggs," replied the prospective diner. "But "do you want them up or over?" repeated the waiter, and again the guest asserted that be desired "only eggs." The third time the party of the second part Insisted on bis query, wheeupon the patron, with a sigh of despair, said "I guess I'll take a steaK. Kansas uity atar.

Milky Way Causes Glaciers. Another suggested cause of glacial periods is that they have been due to the shifting of the milky way, such as is known to have occurred. Assuming that much of the earth's heat comes from the stars, Dr. Rudolf Spltaler finds that the change of position in relation to the milky way might hava given a different distribution of temperature from that existing at the present time. The stars are not only crowded in the region of the milky way, but many of them are of the hottest type.

KNOWS NOW Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Cast For a Time. It's easy to understand how ordl nary people get fooled by coffee when doctors themselves sometimes forget tV, a (onto A physician speaks of bis own! experience: J't "I had used coffee for years and Teallj did not exactly believe it was injuring me although I had palpitation 4i.th heart every day. (Tea containa'cat felne the same drug found in coffee and is just as harmful as poffee.) "Finally one day a severe and al most fatal attack of heart troubls frightened me and I gave up both tea and coffee, using Postum Instead, and since that time I have -had absolutely no heart palpitation except on one" of two occasions when I tried a small quantity of coffee.which caused severs Irritation and proved to me I must let1 It alone. "When we began using Postum It seemed weak that was because did not make it according to directions but now we put a little bit of but ter In the pot when boiling and allow the Postum to boll full 15 minutei which gives it the proper rich flavoi and the deep brown color. 1 have advised a great many ol my, friends and patients to leave ofl coffee and drink Postum, In fact I dally give this advice." Name given b) Postutn Battle Creek, Mich.

Many thousands of physicians ub Postum In place of tea and coffee is their own homes and prescribe it patients. "There's a reason," and it is explain ed in the little book, "The Road Wellvllle," In pkgs. Rvr read fhe ahova letter? A nm ne appeara from time to tlm. The) re atenulaa, true, and full hnniaa Interest. light flannel trousers and the co-eds light summer dresses.

Prizes to Fly Hunters. The Pittsburg State Normal Stu dents have enlisted in the war for the extermination of the fly. Principal Myers posted an offer of prize of $10 cash for the boy or girl under 17 years who delivers, to the biological department of the normal the largest number of dead flies during the month of May. Civil Service at Chanute. A civil service' plan for the employ ment of city officers will be put Into effect at Chanute, this year for the first time in the history of the municipality.

The examination will be conducted by W. H. Haviland, examiner for the civil service commission of Kansas City, Kan. City Is Given a Theater. The heirs of the Brown estate, Mrs.

N. B. Brown and Mrs. Earl Brown, presented the city of Concordia with the Brown-Grand theater, a $50,000 building. The gift was a complete sur prise.

The building is deeded to the city for. a convention hall and theater. Light. Plant Flooded. The dam across the Smoky Hill river held the supply for Russell and Its breaking left the city without water for bqfh domestic and fire pur poses.

The city's electric light plant was out 'of commission and water was four feet deep in the power house. Orchardlst to Jail. Steve Balch, a farmer living southwest of Wichita, "was locked in tha county Jail ia preference to giving bond for $500 to appear for trial in the district court on the charge of refusing to spray his trees as a protection against the San Jose scale. Topeka Officer Is Dead. C.

S. Matthejws, the Topeka policeman who was shot by Lewis La Grande and Frank Miller in a revolver fight on Kansas avenue while attempting to arrest them, died at St. Francis hospital early the next morning. Kanopolis Journal Sold. The Kanopolis Journal has been purchased by W.

S. Baxter of Ellsworth. He will take charge-, thia week. For many years Mr. Baxter has been In the newspaper business in Kansas and Dry 8 Select Ticket.

The state convention of the Prohibition party met at Hutchinson anti nominated an entire Btate ticket and delegates to the national convention, which at. Atlantic City. A state platform was adopted, Storm Sewer for Newton. Plans have been practically completed for' a storm "water sewer system for Newton, to cost about $25,000. The entire city has been divided Into two districts, and the area tq be drained will be 470 acres.

There will be about three miles of sewer tile laid, ranging from 12 to 48 inches In diameter. Longren at Manhattan. A large crowd watched A. K. Lon gren, the Topeka aviator, make his first exhibition flight at Manhattan in the biplane, Topeka I.

Aviator Longren was in the air for 15 min utes and covered a distance of 15 miles, cirollng the fair grounds park three Dancers Must Pay License. The Dodge City commissioners met recently and passed an ordinance providing for a license fee of one dollar from alf dancers, and further provid ing that no person under the age of sixteen years shall be admitted to dances unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian. Atchison Fought Dandelions. R. Hamsey, an Atchison business man, offered to give a prize to the boy who would kill the largest number of dandelion plants.

Lou Ton. sing, 13 years old, pulled 12,300. A total 150,000 were killed. a Curtis Found Guilty. Guy Curtis, 19 years old, who was tried at Wichita for murdering Bert Reed, a cripple popcorn vender, during a holdup, was found guilty of first degree murder by a Jury in the dis trict court, be investigated by a commission.

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