The Kansas Statesman from Atchison, Kansas • 1

Tin VOL. 1, ATCHISON KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901. NO. 28. AROUND TOWN Barton's Ioe Cream Soda is the best.

The Norris Rowe trained ani mal show will be here Sept. 7th. OUR SPRING and SUMMER GOODS For a first-class meal at anv hour of the day or night so to How ard's restaurant, 409 Com'l. Your Home News this Week Dished up in Short Paragraphs. Hundreds of People know that artistic cosy corners and rtens are not so much a matter of money as good taste in the selection and arrangement of decorations just so with photographs and good position, expression and finish are what you get of Snyder, Photographer.

703 Commercial st; John Benning, ohain gang guard, has resigned his position. A police officer will be detailed for this work in the future are now in, Suitings, Trouserings, Light Overcoatings in great variety. Our styles and fits are right, prices right. The Italians that have been work ing on the Shannon Hill have been moved to Hiawatha, and are living in old box oars. ckkkkkkkikkkrckkirckrkkr Dauber has resigned Jiis po sition as street commissioner, and W.

W. DAVIES. until a new one is appointed Martin Mara will have oharge of the work. Father Martin Veth returned from Italy this week after an absenoe of four years, He will be the instructor in philosophy at St Benedict's col 1 we WE HAVE THE ICE lege this year. A Shane, of Leavenworth, has opened up a oommission business in the Atchison National Bank build ft are ing, with the Cella Commision and earnestly solicit your patronage for the coming season.

We will furnish coupon Ice-books payable in Ice at the lowest possible rates, thus removing all possible disputes as to the quantity of ice delivered. Coupon Books issued in denominations from 500 to 5000 pounds for cash on receipt of Coupon' Book. Prices quoted on application. Phone 550. Thomas Fuel he Co B.

P. WAGGENER, PRES. R. L. PEASE, VJCE-PRES.

C. S. HETHERINGTON, CASHIER. C. W.

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of St Louis as correspondents. Minnie Carson, colored, aged 15 years, died Wednesday morning of consumption, at her home at 801 street. The burial was yesterday at the Coleman cemetery from Shiloh churoh at 2 m. An Atchison man has not had a summer vaoation for five years and doesn't intend to take one for five years more. The reason is this: he can't get Poehler's ice cream when he leaves home.

Miss Rebeooa Brown, aged 24 years, died this morning at her nome on South Seventh street of typhoid fever. The funeral will ocour Sunday morning at the resi dence and the burial will be made at the Sumner cemetery. The three barges, a skiff and a number of the stringers used in the construction of the bridge here were sold Tuesday to A Hall of Kansas City. They were floated down the river and will be used in the construction of the new Winner bridge there. The City Counoil got down to business Monday night and did a whole lot of things.

The contract for grading, ourbing, and paving Third street from Division to street, was let to Owen Seip Co for $7,704.12, the work to be completed within one hundred days. The paving of Kearney street from Third to Fifth was let to Lawrence Wines for $3,088.41, the work to be completed within sixty clays. A grade for Atchison street, from Fourth to Twelfth was reported by the committee on improvements and the report wss adopted by the obun- Capital $100,000, Surplus $20,000. Atchison, Kan. Turkish troops have crossed into Bulgaria and taken possession of disputed Work on six vessels for the United States Navy has been suspended by the strike of the machinists at San Francisco.

A Brooklyn woman has sued the Rapid Transit company of that city for $1,000 damages for killing her pet Pomeranian dog. The first wedding in the new town of Lawton has taken place. A regular army soldier and an Illinois girl were the Diplomatic relations have been broken off between France and Turkey, as a result of the trouble over the payment of the French claims. Boer women in the concentration camps in South Africa insist that the Boers have been promised intervention by certain European Powers, and that the fight will go on until Boer independence is achieved. James Mahoney a farmer liv ing near Parsons, lost several stacks of wheat by fire last week.

Evidence pointed to a former employe of Mahoney as having set it on fire. Farmers caught him last Wednesday night and tarred and feathered him. In. a recent conversation with a friend Count Tolstoi referred to the effect of age in freeing the mind from its dependence on the body. As a young man, he said, any bodily illness depressed his mind also, whereas in his present illness the mind has retained all its freshness and power of lucid thinking.

Sidney Cooper, the English Royal Academician, who is 97 yeors old and hale and hearty, says he has not tasted beer, tea or coffee for fifty years, vnor milk for ten. years. He only drinks Scotch whisky at luncheon, dinner and before bed time, with rarely a glass of champagne or port. Pope Leo is an omniverous reader. He has recently perused "Quo Vadis," and the author, Henry Sienkiewicz, has received a letter from the Vatican expressing satisfaction for the Catholic ideas expressed in the novel.

The Polish author has also received from Leo XIII a marble tablet of the time of Con-stantine recently found in the Ostariano cemetery, the scene of some of the incidents of "Quo Vadis." Mrs Tom Moore, or "Zeeke," is one of the oldest Indians on the Pacific coast. She is a Makah Indian woman of Washington, born and raised at Neah Bay agency, and is without doubt more than 100 years old. The first thing she will ask a stranger for is tobaccoj which 6he eats with great relish. She is nearly blind and can just tell daylight from night. Her husband has been dead for over thirty years and she has no relatives living, being supported by rations furnisned by the government.

Mrs II Belmont was forced to abandon her proposed "patent medicine quadrille," which was to have been a feature of her danc at Newport recently. She was compelled to take this step owing to the avalanche of letters and telegrams which the announcement of the entertainment brought down upon herself and upon her invited guests from the proprietors of patent medicines and from their advertising agents. Eagar to avail them selves of such an opportunity to advertise their "cures" amonpr the "four hundred," they offered not only to design the costumes worn to represent each particular remedy, but also to defray all the expenses in connection therewith, some even beitnj impolitfi enough to offer monetary considerations if their proposals were accepted. Go to Geo. Barton for Pure Drugs.

Jno Banning, night patrolman, has resigned his job. Jaok Weld has been put on in his place. Quite a orowd of Atohison people will go to Kansas City Sunday to hear the Banda Kossa concerts. When out-of-town people come to Atohison they always go away sing ing the praises of Poehler's ice cream The theatre will be opened for the coming season by Thomas Seabrooke in "A Modern Crusoe." Mrs Alioe Carlin has withdrawn her suit for alimony which she began on Tuesday against her husband, John II Carlin. The Catholics will give a picnic at the city park in Effingham next Tuesday.

A dance will be given in the evening. During the absence of Judge Casey the chunks of justice in the city court will be banded out by Ed Jaokson. The True Eleven will have a big jubilee in Atchison Sept. 21 23 to celebrate the wiping out of the debt on their hall. The Italian lied Band now playing at Kansas City will probably be secured for the Labor Day oele-bration in Atohison.

Arthur Morris, who was drowned at Dodson, last Saturday is supposed to have been a on of Hiram Morris of this city. Raohael William, colored, will be tried tomorrow on a charge of msau-ity. Information was filed several weeks ago. but was later withdrawn. Constable Clora says that the people of Atohison do not appreciate his servioes, and threatens to leave town.

It would be a good riddance, A delegation of Atchison colored people go to Lawrence Monday to attend the annual session of the Masonic lodge which meets there this year. The North Seventh street paving and grading cost $15,752.95, of which amount U5" was paid in cash by property owners. The city will issue bonds for the balance. The city has asked Judge Bland to modify his order in the Atohison case so that the city can pay the judgement in installments. The application will be heard in September.

Don't forget to call on T. B. Smith when in need of house furnishing goods. lie carries everything to furnish a house and his prices are always right. Give him a call.

Thomas Quinn, aged 27 years, died Wednesday morning of typhoid pneumonia, which he is supposed to have contracted while in El Ileno. The burial was from St Patrick's ohuroh yesterday. Frederick Stuessi, of St Joe, a brother of Mrs A Dilgert of Atohison, committed suioidw last night by taking carbolic aoid. He was 35 years old. Mrs Dilgert was visitiDg her brother at the time of his death.

The old telephone company ex-peot to rebuild their system and will put a large force of men to work immediately upon it. All the old phones will be replaced with new and modern instruments, and a new switch board with a capacity for 1200 phonea will be plaoed in the oentral offloe New wires will be strung and new poles ereoted; those on Commercial street will be fifty feet tall and on the other streets forty and forty-five feet. Lewis sciiiilU The street railway has offered the city $1000 if it will extend its franchise for five years. A poorly fitted pair of spectacles or eye glasses is expensive at any price. To have a pair fitted properly go to A Hooper, skilled optician.

Buffalo Exposition and G. A. R. Encampment. A reduoed rate sleeping car will leave Cawker City, Sept.

7 for Buffalo and Cleveland, Write II Hawkins or A Smith, Cawker City, Kansas. Mrs. Louisa Becker, aged 59 years, wife of Peter Becker, died Monday evening at her home just west of town, of cancer of the breast. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at the residenoe and burial made it Mount Vernon cemetery. Will Cotter and Miss Anna Smith were married in Kansas City Wednesday, and will make their home in that city, Miss Smith has b9en employed for seyeral years at Donald's and is well known in Atchison.

Miss Myrtle Peake and Walker were married Wednesday night at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs Odlin. The wedding was private, being witnessed only, by the immediate relatives. They will make their home at 814 South Sixth street. Repeated experiments, always ending in failure, are convincing proof that Atchison is ithe poorest newspaper field in America. The Atchison Champion, which has just olosed its care9r, at one time was the most influential paper in Kansas, and the most vital force the city ever had St.

Joe News. The Daily Champion gave up the struggle last Saturday evening. The plant and material were sold to a firm at Wellington, and will be used on a new daily to be started there. Mr Herbert, the proprietor, says its failure was due to mismanagement. The Evans-Snidar-Buel live stock commission agent, of Kansas City, are sending out to their newspaper friends a brier pipe, sack of tobacco and match safe in order that the editors can smoke a pipe of peace with them, and we herein acknowledge reoeipt of the articles.

This is an unique way of advertising, and the pipe dream you have when you smoke their pipe is of the excellent service they are giving their patrons. Mayor Orr end Counoilmen Bix ler, Berry, Noll and Allaman, and John Compton, fire chief, went to St Joe yesterday to examine the water works system there. 'At the September meeting of the counoil the Atohison Water Co will present plans for the enlargement of its plant, and the counoilmen want to be informed as to what they oan get and what is needed. A warrant was issued several months ago for the arrest of Wm Cranshaw, colored, on a oharge of assault and battery information being filed by his wife, but before the warrant could be served be had left town. quietly dropped into town last week and was immediate arrested on the warrant.

He has his hearing today in the oity oourt. Cranshaw was elected oonstable on the Democratic tioket last spring but failed to qualify. Lumber, Coal and Lime 1116 Main st. Both Phones 66. 1W CBS IkVAV II oil.

The grade made a fill of about Geo. H. Painter, Upholsterer five feet at the oreek between Eighth and Ninth; makes a out of three feet between Finth and Tenth and and and a out of six feet at Eleventh street. The report was adopted in the face of muoh opposition by the people west of Tenth. A few years Mattresses made and Repaired.

ReoalPlllO ii Store and Window First-class work and Good Stock. ji ago the ooal dealers got an ordinanoe through whioh required them to pay $20 a year licence, and the oounoil decided to oolleot the money as the oity needed it. the tax levy for 1901 was made by the oounoil upon 014 XT Kth Cf DUnno R9Q A i-U; tr 4 in uiu, ui, m. uvuv ju( iiLuisuu, xv alio da. a taxable valuation of $2,117,122.

The tax is 28 mills to raise 279.40; and is divided as follows: fJass, Tinware and Hardware. Sole agent, for Alaska Refrigeratorss and 712 Commercial St. Oewel Gasoline Stoves. Interest, 15 mills; Sinking fund, 1 mill, Water; 2 mills; Area fuud. 6 mills.

A motion to kill the water tax levy on the ground that the ser-vioe is inadequate, was lost. Employers who keep children from school in Germany are fined not less than ten marks. Parents and guardians are obliged Jo provide material for needlework and other means of instruction for girls. Other wise the school board has the right to obtain these things by compulsion. When the great chemist Chev-ruel, whose statue was recently unveiled in France, attained bisone hundredth birthday, he was entertained at a public dinner at which his son, a high official in the department of justice, 07 years old, was also present.

Tlio old man made a speech and in telling an, anecdote made a slight which' his son corrected. Old Chev reul turned around quickly and iua sharp tone said: "Hush, youngster, when I am lalkiog." And tho '-youngster'' held his tongue. Ht MINIUM III HI II Ml I Buy your Groceries of E. Pea rson Weinmann Baker, dealers in Furniture and Carpets F. E.

Gilbert Co. dnalnrs In GROCERIES, Flour and Feed Notions, Candies, Cigars. Hoth Phonos 1H2. Cor. Sixth and Spring sts, Who will give you good I ASK YOUR GROCER FOR I goods and prompt delivery ry Trr: rgrrjutn i Gor.

5tti ave. and st. I ill ii II hiiPW'iP Upholstering and Mattresses, 616 Com'l. St. Telephone 022.

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