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mum BI MX noon, as the bad boy came in with a pair of black goggles on, hi3 coat torn down the back and his pants ripped up the legs. "What a time you must Latest Kansas Events. have had in the automobile. Did you run over anybody?" "Everybody," said the bad boy, aa he pinned his trousers leg together Siieciul iVimioiix for Iviiiis m. Fourteen bills granting special pen with a safety pin.

"There they go now with dad in a milk wagon. Say, these airships that run on the ground give a man all the excitement he needs." The Bad Boy and His' Dad Have an Automobile Ride, and Jump tiurry up ana tell me about your Howivir, I may have a statemint to make in time for th' early editions ar th' afthernoon 'There is nothin' I can say says th' inspictor, whin th' rayporthers av' th' Evenin Sunshine call on him. 'Twould be suicidal. This afthernoon we arristed Mike's wife. She con-fissed that Mike et breakfast at home this mornin', and that he aftherwarda wint to wor-r-k over to th' rollin' mills, carryin' a tin dinner buckit.

Wid that as a clew I do not see how he kin escape us. All me min have been instructed to watch for tin dinner buck-its, an' to arrist thim on sight. I have had a telephone messidge from th' stock yar-r-ds sayin' that siveral tin buckits were seen in that vicinity early this mornin'. It may be that there Is a gang av thim operatin' on th' East side. 'Twculd be unbecomin' in me to say a wor-r-d, an' might dayfeet th' inds av justice.

So do not be offind-ed if I raymain OLD MAN HOGAN He Gives His Opinion on the Ability of Detectives and Does Not Want to Get Into Their Power. BY HENRY M. HYDE. (Author of "The Buccaneers," etc.) (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowies.) "I gorry, I'd hate to have thim day-tectives git afther me," said Old Man Hogari "Wance thim raylintliss bloodhound av th' law sthart on a la-a-d's thrail he might as will confis3 he done it.

They'll folly him all over th' first pages av th' newspa-a-pers, chase him back to his hidin' place in th want section, an' nivir lit up until they git two-column porthraits printed av ivrybody concerned, together with a diagram, mar-r-ked wid star-r-s, showin' (A) where the prisoner stud whin Daytective Hayden lepped on his back, an' (B) a photograph av' th' sus- a Fence. automobile ride," said the groceryman, as he brushed off the bad boy's clothes with an old blacking brush. sions to Kansans have passed both the senate and house, and will become laws as soon as signed by the president. The beneficiaries are as follows: Ga briel Adams, of Junction City, $30 per month; William Baris, of Hillsdale, $24; Francis W. Edgerty, of Cherry-vale, $24; John Springgs, of Carbon-dale, $20; William Sweet, of Hill City, $24; Mrs.

Georgiana Eubanks, of Emporia, $20; Mrs. Mary Soupene, $12; Leander Robinson, of Lawrence, $30; Chapman Mann, of Abilene, $30; Benjamin Shaffer, $30; Arthur E. Strim-ple, of Eldorado, $40; Francis A. Heath, 30; William H. $12.

"Well, dad said he had never taken a ride in one of the devil wagons, though he had got a good deal of ex ercise the last year or two dodging them on the streets, but he said he was tickled to death to hear that I was an expert performer, and he BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK. (Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, formerly publisher of "Peck's Sun," author of "Peck's Bad Boy," etc.) (Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.

Copyright in Great Britain.) "UVE me a package of your strongest breakfast food, and a big onion," said the bad boy, as be came into the grocery, looking as weak as a fever convalescent, "and I want to eat the onion right now." "Well, that is a combination, sure enough," said the old groceryman as would go out with me, and if he liked the sensation, he would buy one. The machine I hired was one of those doublets for two persons, one seat, you know, a runabout. It was a runabout all right. It run about 18 miles in Will Adjust It Heir. Although the supreme court decided two weeks ago that W.

J. Bailey, ex-governor, had withdrawn money from the treasury to which he was not entitled, the state officers are making no attempt to collect the funds in Mr. Bailey's possession. The attorney general, C. C.

Coleman, was asked if he intended to begin action against 'Mr. Bailey to compel him to return to the treasury the money withdrawn by the ex-governor under a misapprehension. Mr. Coleman said that he had not thought of beginning any action and did not know what he would do. "Will you urge the atorney general to commence action?" Gov.

Hoch was asked. "That i's a subject which I do not care to discuss," replied the governor. "I do not want it to seem that I am trying to humiliate my predecessor and I think the matter is one which will adjust itself within a short time." Interesting History. Speaking of the first things in Kansas, it is the curious fact that the first reported decision of the supreme court of the state involved the construction to be put upon the first section of the first article of the first constitution. This section provided for the election of a governor.

An election had. been hold in 1861 and returns had been made by the county officers to the" state canvassing board, but that board refused to canvass the vote. George A. Crawford, one of the candidates, brought a mandamus suit in the su pinder button picked up a mile av th' scene av th' crime be Daytec he wrapped a package of breakfast tive Sergeant Martin. 'This says th' Hur-r-lld, food in a paper and watched the boy rub half an onion on a salt bag, and eat it greedily.

"What is the matter Tnspictor Jones hild a long an' mysterious conference wid himsilf in th' room back av Ryan's bar-r-r, nixt to th' polis station. "I cannot say a with you to look so sick, and eat raw onion before breakfast?" Only Three Holldavs. The bill in the Kansas legislature with respect to legal holidays brings to light the fact that Kansas now has but three holidays which are recognized by law. These are Decoration day, Labor day and Washington's birthday. Christmas, New Year's, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving are not legol holidays.

Congress has declared legal holidays for the District of Columbia, but never for the country at large, although it, has passed laws relieving employes of the government from labor on certain days. Says Refinery Will Pay. "Oh, it is this new-fashioned way of living that is killing little Hennery. When I lived at home before we used vvor-r-d on this or anny other subjict," he says whin he come out. Howivir, a litthle lather he come to sufficiently to talk.

"I rayfuse to be quothed," he Amos Steelsmith, now an oil in the Independence formerly a refiner in Pittsburg, is very op 15 minutes. I got dad tucked in, and touched her on a raw spot, and we were off. I run her around town for awhile on the streets that had no teams on, and dad was pleased. "We had to go through the business part of town, and dad looked around at the people on the streets that he knew, and he swelled up and tried to look as though he owned a brewery, and told me to let her out, and I thought if dad could stand it to let her out I could, so I pulled her open just as one of these station fruit venders with a hand cart was crossing the street. The cow-catcher in front caught the hand cart right in the middle and threw it into tne air, and it rained bananas and oranges, and the dago came down on his head and swore in Italian, and dad said: 'Good shot, and then the machine swung across the street and knocked the fender off a street car, and then I got her in the road straight and, by gosh, I couldn't stop her.

Something had got balled up, and the more I touched things the faster she went. We frightened four teams and had three runaways, and the air seemed full of horses rearing up and, drivers yelling for us to stop. "We kept going faster, and dad began to get frightened and asked me to slow up, but I couldn't. We must have got in the country about eight I preme court to compel them to do so. timistic over the prospects of a new state refinery.

With ordinary business management and the protection of the laws, he says It ought to make some money besides being the means of drawing to the state millions of dol The court held that the election of 1861 was illegal and void, and that Charles chosen previously for governor, was entitled to the office until his successor should be elected says th' inspictor to th' ray-porther av th' Hurr-r-ld, lather in th' day. 'Ivrythiug daypinds on saycrecy. I have made a great discovery. 'Twaa not Mike, afther all, that robbed th' safe. I consider this discovery a great credit to th' daypartmint.

You can use th' same photygrafs you used this mornin'. We was dayceived, for a time, be th' grate resimblance bechuna Mike an' a slice av ham. Howivir, we ar-r-e now rapidly closin' on th' real criminal. I cannot tell you his name. Twould be foolish to make it public at this time.

Moreover, I do not know it, mysilf. 'Twas a medium-sized man, wearin' dar-r-k clothes an' either smooth-shaven or wearin a mustache. Wid that description it is har-r-d to see how he kin escape us. We ar-r-e to watch th three o'clock thrain on th' Pennsylvania to-morry afthernoon, an' if he thries to git away on that, t'will go har-r-d wid him. We hone that ar.nybody seein' a la-a-d av that description will at wance lit us I now which way he was goin'.

ar-r-e daytermined to catch him. If nlcessary, we will arrist ivrybody In town, wan afther the other, an' see what we kin mal 'em confiss to. If wr don't -git th' la-a-d that robbed th' safe that way, we'll be sure to solve a. lot av other mysterious crimes. Howivir.

as I said in the beglnnin', there is no use thryin' to make me talk. I must be "About tin days lather there's a la-a (( comes into th' polis station an asks to see th' inspictor. 'I have come to he 'I am th' la-a-d that robbed th' 'Ah! says th' Inspictor. 'Throw him into irons an' call in th' says th' la-a-d, pullin' a gun wid either hand. 'I'll die first! I may be a he says, 'but I got some sinse av modisty lift.

I don't mind you an' your daytectives at lars in independent refineries, pipe lines, plants and kindred industries, such as boiler plants, cooperage plants, in 1862. etc. Bowling Prohibited. The young men at Highland are sore" at the members of the city F.leetrle Line to Baxter Sprlnus. The Spring River Power company, council.

Some time ago a roller skating rink was started but the trus which has just finished a large concrete dam on Spring river, three miles from Baxter Springs, has submitted to the council a franchise providing for the tees of the hall ruled against that amusement. Billiard and pool tables would not be tolerated and the young building of an electric road from Ga men finally decided upon a gymnasium with bowling alleys in connection. Af lena to Baxter Springs. The road is to be finished in time to handle the ter the alleys had been running awhile, miles, and dad was getting scared, and "I Rayfuse to Be Quothed," He Says. "At th' Same Time Wa Know Who Done th' Deed.

I Can Reveal Nothin' Further." the city fathers met and voted against his face was just the color of salt pork, crowds which go yearly to the big Baxter Springs reunion, and will be having bowling alleys in the town. nine miles long. Stnte Aid for Fair. The bill authorizing the state board and he said: 'Hennery, this excursion is going to wind up in a tragedy, and if I die I want you to have a post-mortem examination made, just to see if I am right about those doctors leaving that monkey wrench in me. For heaven's sake make the machine jump that of agriculture to hold a state fair an "JERUSALEM, BUT YOU ARE A SIGHT," SAID TEE OLD GROCERYMAN.

to have sassidge and pancakes for breakfast, roast meat for dinner and cold for supper, and dad was healthy as a tramp, ma could dance a highland fling, I could play all kinds of games and jump over a high board fence when anybody was chasing me. Now we have some kind of breakfast food three times a day because ma reads the advertisements, and dad is so weak he has to be helped to dress, ma goes moping around like a fashionable invalid, I am so tired I can't hit a window with a snowball. "I should think so," said the old groceryman, as he took a rag and set it on fire 'and let the smoke purify the room. "But I suppose your folks are nually in Topeka crossed the Rubicon in the senate committee of the whole and was recommended for passage. It gives state aid to 1he fair to the amount of $5,000 a yepr.

A committee says. "At th' same time we know who done th' deed. I can reveal nothin' further. His name, is Mike Smith. Not another wor-r-d," he says.

"Mike lives on the corner av East Twiifth avenue an' th' thracks. I shall kape eaycrlt what we have done. Mike often tiikcs a drink. Followin' hot on that clew, I have detailed two av me bist min to visit ivry saloon on th' East side. They ar-r-e enterin' cn th' wor-r-k wid th' greatest enthusiasm.

Me lips ar-r-e sealed," he says. "Afther consultin' th' rogues' gallery an' the' 5.000 Kxclmnee for Fort Srott. The Bell Telephone company, which some time ago secured a controlling interest in the Mutual Telephone company of Fort Scott, has arranged a settlement with the minority stockholders of that comapny, and will consolidate the two plants. A new exchange will be put in at a cost of $75,000 and connections will be arranged with local rural lines. More Than It Needed.

The Kansas Louisiana exposition committee has made a final report to Gov. Hoch and has turned back into the state treasury the sum of The legislature of 1903 appro- of five from the state board of agriculture together with the president and like a great many others who have Eerthillon raycords I am convinced afther he gits thired and lias got enough to dhrink, Mike will go on priated $175,000 for the expense1 of a home. But ivin thin he will not es cape us. At three clock to-morry secretary, is to manage the fair. (oiilllSicilis DiMeiiHfN.

The state board of health reports the following contagious and infection? diseases In the state and the number of deaths which have resulted from the diseases: Diphtheria Cases, 55; deaths, 10. Scarlet fever Cases, 149 deaths, 9'. Smallpox Cases, 713; dealhs, 2. Typhoid fever Cases, 14; deaths, 3. Groom Has Twenty Children.

George AV. Chandler, aged 04, and Miss Ida Ellis, aged 48, were married in Emporia. Both parties live near Olpe. The groom owns a farm and is said to have more children lhan any afthernoon me an' sivinteen av me state exhibit, at St. Louis and it was expected that there would be a deficiency when 1 he legislature met.

After a Life Job. Senator Long presented to the pres fearliss subordinates '11 surround th' house an' daymand his surrender. It he does not come out, we will pull th' house agin at three o'clock th' nixt afthernoon, an' so on, ivry twinty-four hours, until either we git him, or Mi: quit eating meat on account of the meat trust, and are going to die in their tracks on health food. Is your dad going out to-day to get the fresh air and brace up for his travels abroad?" "No, dad is going to stay in the house. He wants ma to get him a female trained nurse, but ma kicks.

"Where you going first?" asked the old groceryman, as he opened the door to let the odor of onion and burned rag out of the room. "What kind of treatment do the doctors advise to bring the old man around so he will be himself again?" "Well, they say he needs some excitement that will get that supposed monkey wrench out of his system. They want him to go where he can take baths, and gamble, and attend horse races, and go into fast society, and maybe have a fight or two so as to stir his blood, and we have decided to an' his family moves away. But do not ask me our plans on th' subjict," man in Lyon county. Twenty of his children, ranging in age from 45 years to childhood, are alive.

IT RAINED BANANAS AND THE DAGO ident Judge Gill, formerly of Kansas, now federal judge for the northern district of 1 he Indian territory. Judge Gill desires the appointment of federal judge in the case Oklahoma is to be made a state, which will be a life position. Dentil nf Rev. Edwnrd 'Gill. Rev.

Eward Gill, for 31 years a Methodist preacher in Kansas, part of the time a presiding elder, is dead at Manhattan. He served in the Eleventh Kansas during the civil war. Kerosene Can. Mrs. Susan Dewey, of Ashland, war, perhaps mortally burned while light CAME DOWN ON HIS HEAD.

fence, for here comes a drove of cat tle in the road. says th' inspictor. "You can easily see that it is impossible for me to say a wor-r-d. Mike's second cousin on his father's side lives up to Sheboygan Wis. Mebbe he will go there to hide, hue th' effort will be useliss.

I am goin' to sind two min up there on th' three o'clock thrain clxt Friday afthtrnoon. If Mike waits unthil they git there his goose is cooked. I must be as silint as th' tomb. Wance we git him, I have no doubt he will confiss he done th' deed. If he does not, I will ask him a few questions wid th' toe av me boot.

No, you kin not have me plcter unliss you take wan av "Gee, but when I saw those cattle Says Wife Gets Drunk. W. A. Kirkham, a jewelry merchant of Leavenworth, filed suit for divorce from his wife, Mrs. Mary A.

Kirkham. He alleges drunkenness and extravagance against his wife. He avers that his net profits are $5,000 a year and that she' uses this to live on. Led Them. to the Altar.

ahead and the machine running away, I tried to pray, and then I steered her "I Eave Come to Surrinder," He Says. I am th' La-a-d That Robbed th' Safe." he says, 'but I can't stand th' publicity anny longer. Betther be behint th' bar-r-s than see yer name an' yer photygraf ye in th' face ivry time ye pick up a Le says. 'I come in here to see that it he says. 'Very says th' inspictor.

'Lay down yer guns. I've tuck th' position from th' first that I wouldn't say a wor-r-d on th' towards an old rail fence that looked as though it was rotten, and then there was a crash, the air was full take him first to the hot springs and turn him loose, and we are packing up now and shall go next week. They tell me that at the Arkansaw Hot Springs you can get into any kind of a scrape you want, and you don't have to look around for trouble. It comes to you, Oh, we won't do a thing down there. I broke the news to dad last of rails, and dad said: 'This is no hurdle and we landed in a field where there was an old hard snow Mr.

and Mrs. Otto Gilbert were remarried at Leavenworth after having been separated eight years. They were led to the altar by their seven-year-old daughter. The reconciliation was accomplished through the efforts of bank. She went up on the side, hit ing a tire.

She picked up the kerosene can and poured some into the stove and an explosion followed. Steers Urnke Through Ice. Ernest Wcybrew, living near Wa-mego, lost seven steers through the ice in the Kansas river, where they had gone to drink. A. O.

V. W. Grand Lodge. The Kansas grand lodge A. O.

U. W. WANTED SOMETHING SOLID Channel Passenger Ddn't Care If It Was an Island or a the Salvation army. More Money for John Jones, principal of the Highland public schools, will pitch for the St. Joseph league ball team this sa-son at a salary of $150 per month.

His salary playing ball will be just double what it Is teaching school. will meet in Leavenworth next week. One thousand delgates are expected. the frozen snow, turned a summersault, the gasoline tank exploded and I didn't remember anything till some farmers that were spreading manure in the field turned me over with a pitchfork, and asked me who the old dead man was standing on his head in the snow bank with his plug hat around his neck. As soon as I came to I went to dad, and he was just coming out of a trance, and asked him Jf he didn't think a little excitement sort of made the sluggish blood circulate, and he looked at the blood on the snow, and said he thought there was no douot about the circulation of his blood.

Lawrence Statesman "Lands." Asa Hawath, of Lawrence, has been appointed a fourth assistant examiner in the patent office at $1,200. Horned 500 Sacks of Flour. Fire broke out in the bakery at Fort Leavenworth, and 500 sacks of flour were destroyed. fo-0erntl ve Store Fall. The Herington Co-Operative association, formed by railroad employes two years ago to conduct a general marchandise store, went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $4,000.

Itextilenee. A business man of Wichita will build a $16,000 residence there this spring. Wnicrworks for ftNhorne. Coal Near KobliiNni). A 16-lnch vein of coal was struck on the farm of Mrs.

Mary Ellis, near Robinson. Gullins has given lip his idea of becoming a circumnavigator. He had always believed that nature intended him for a bold and daring sailor, relates London Tit-Bits. After a day's excursion across tht channel without suffering in the least from the up and down motion, there was no holding him. When there came tha opportunity of a voyage to New York his people were just as glad to let him undertake it as he was to have a chanca of showing his sailor-like qualities.

And this is the result, as faithfully recorded by a fellow-passenger: "Steward!" called Gullins, feebly, on the second day of the trip. "Yes, sir," briskly answered that racial. "Anything I can bring you, sir?" "Yes," said Gullins. "Bring me a an uninhaolted Island or -oh, dear! a continent would do. Anything In that line.

Only be quick for goodness' sake! You can't? O-o-hl Then send the ship to the bottom anywhere any. thing so long as It's solid!" Gaslight for -liurllngtnu. A company has secured a franchise They Ar-r-e Enterin' on th' Wor-rk "He got up, got his hat untangled, told the farmers he was obliged to them for their courtesy and then he called me one side and said: "'Hennery, this attempt on your part to murder me was not the success that you' expected, but you keep on and you will get me all right. Now, as a business man, I want to say we have got to get out of this town tonight or we will be arrested and sent to the penitentiary; besides, I will have to pay a thousand dollars damage at the least calculation. Get me a carriage for home, and you stay and set to pump ga3 12 miles into Burlington.

"HENNERY, THIS ATTEMPT ON YOUR PART TO MURDER ME WAS NOT THE SUCCESS YOU EXPECTED." Jerome to Speak nt Ottnwn. The Ottawa Chautauqua assembly received a telegram announcing th3 acceptance of Its invitation by District Attorney Jerome, of New York, to address the assembly July 7. Only 17 votes ware cast against tho waterworks bonds in Osborne. Cheerful Itotiin ueer. A Lucas citizen claims to havn killed 236 rabbits In one day, seven of which he slayed without moving from his tracks.

Lit ml Iloom nt Peru. Property at Peru has advanced 300 per cent. In price since the rumor that tho state oil refinery would be located there. One Kye Out. Mr.

Eye, cf Concordia, can see noth Ing In Kansas for him and will movo to, Kansas City. Wid th' Greatest Enthusiasm. thim that's lying there on th' top av me disk, wid your name wrote on th' back av It, Undher no circumstances will I (submit to an interview, In th' polis business slllnce Is golden. At six o'clock this evenin' we ar-r-e goin' to pull F.11 th' restaurants on th' East Bide. Mike may git hungry.

You nivlr can till. If that don't wor-r-k, nixt Saturdah at cllvln o'clock In th' mornin' we'll arrist Ivrybody rldln' on th' East side sthreet car-r-s. Mike may git thired wallvln', Annyhow, 'tis a crime to git caught rldln' on thim car-r-s. I raypeat again that there Is nothin' can ay at in' prUlnt time. night, and told him the.

doctors had prescribed excitement for him, and he said that was good enough for him, and he ha3 packed up his poker chips and some marked cards he used to win money with from the deacons in the church, and he wants to go as quick as possible. You will have to excuse me now, for I am going to take dad out In an automobile after breakfast to give him hia first dose of ex-citfnient "Jerusalem, but you are a sight," this machine on fire and skip back to town In time for the evening train south, and we will go where the climate is more "Well, good-by, old man," and the bad boy went limping out of the grocery to go home and'' tell his mother that he and dad had been scoring up for the good time they were going to have when they got out on the road for dad'o health. Hunk Dnlldlim. The Union national bank at Manhattan will build a $20,000 modern bank building. 400,000 Grain Work has begun on the levator for the Santa Fe railroad at Aregntlne.

Good Fellow. Markley See here! You've owed rat $25 for two years now. Don't you thlnb it's time you liquidated that debt? Borroughs Sure! I'll buy you a drink, If that's what you mean. LouisvUl Courier-Journal. atd groceryman late in the after-'.