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VACATICn TUFT -0IO31 TEE ID JOCHKElZBHriG CONFIRMS UNDER NEW LAW THE DENIS0N NEWS Hi i JAMILL A OtTIRHOLD FAYt TWIDVt Lwil Manager Published at HOLTON, KANSAS. JEFFRIES LASTED BUT IS ROUNDS BEFORE THE BLACK. CAKTCrSUTTLB A CORDIAL MEETING AT BEVERLY ACTS OF ROOSEVELT. More Than Eight Million Aores In cluding Alasga Coal Land Affected by New Order, Beverly, Mara. With positive legal authority for his action President Taft baa issued orders for the withdrawal from entry of 8,495,731 acres of public land, including water power sites and phosphate and petroleum deposits.

In addition, a now order has also been drafted withdrawing from entry and settlement all the land In Alaska which is known to contain workable coal, thereby "ratifying, confirming and continuing In full force and effect" in the words of Secretary of the Interior Balllnger. "the order of withdrawal made by direction of former President Roosevelt on November 12, 1906." Announcement of tihls important action was made at the executive offices here. The order ot the president Is Issued under the new conservation act, passed at the session ot congress which adjoined a week ago. the effect of which was to give the executive full authority to make this withdrawals which had previously been made by President Roosevelt, without enacted authority, but on the theory that the president Is empowered to perform any act in the public Interest that is not specifically prohibited by law. Of particular significance is the withdrawal of the Alaskan lands which have been more or less at the mercy of the land grabbers for many years.

OPEN SWITCH CAUSED A WRECK A Santa Fe Passenger Train Westbound was Derailed at Cedar Point, Kan. Two Killed Florence, Kansas. Two men were killed and three Injured when Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe. passenger train No. 5, westbound from Chicago, was derailed by an open switch at Cedar Point, six miles west of Florence.

The dead are: E. B. Jolley, Topeka, engineer and II. Mitchell, Topeka, fireman. Probably no one will ever know the exact cause of the accident.

A westbound freight train was ordered to take a siding a Cedar Point and wait for the passenger The freight train entered the siding and waited for No. 5. The switch which had been opened to let the freight train off the main track had not been closed. Whether the, switch wis left, open by an absent mlndedvtralnman.or whether it was closed, apparently, but the lock had failed to catch is not known. The passenger train was running at high speed when it struck the open switch.

The engine was. thrown off the rails and it fell on one side In a ditch. The mail car and three baggage cars were thrown at a right angle to the track. The smoker and the forward chair car were, derailed. The rear chair car and.

the Pullman remained on the rails. GOOD WHEAT IN FORD COUNTY Secretary Well Pleased With What He 8aw of the Prospects There. Doage City, Kansas. Secretary Coburn of the state board of agriculture, visited' the wheat fields of Ford county. After a drive of many miles through almost unbroken lines of wheat fields the secretary said that he would not have believed the possi bilities had the story he 'witnessed been related to' him.

He pronounces the wheat prospects as almost perfect. Ford county has 74,000 acres in wheat this year and it is expected to average 3b bushels to the acre. THE TREASURY HAS A SURPLUS Last Year at This Time the Govern-' ment 'Had a Deficit of About $60,000,000., D. C. A surplus of $9,402,000 in the ordinary receipts and expenditures against a deficit last year of $58,734,000 was announced by the treasury department.

The" total deficit over all, which includes Panama Canal expenditures and the public debt, is $25,884,000 against $118,795,000 last year. This May Be a Real Gusher. Okmulgee, uklahoma. Alexander Preston, who found the Preston oil pool, six miles north of Okmulgee, announced that he struck oil two miles west of town. The well flowed for a time shooting over the top of a 72-foot derrick.

It has not been drilled in and it is not known what its daily production will be. Shot at a Kidnaping. East St. Louis, Mo. One man and a girl were killed and two men probably fatally wounded when Robert Hlgglnibotham, who said he was from Kansas City, the father of the girl, attempted to kidnap her.

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BOSTON, MASS. A Teacher In the Making. She was a popular young normal student, who had been to a party the-night before, and as a consequence, was "not prepared" in the geography class. The woman Instructor, true to her method of drawing upon the general knowledge of a student rather than to permit a failure, after eliciting two or three Inconsequential "stabs" from her fair but jaded disciple, asked for the products of China. The victim brightened.

"Tea," she asserted, preparing to sit down. "Yes, and what else?" encouraged the instructor. The young woman smiled with sweet hopelessness. "Now you can mention others, I am sure. Just think about it." "Tea," drawled the flute-like voice of the pretty girl, "and," puckering her forehead with an intellectual tour de force, "and laundry work." Youth's Companion.

When Father Helped. The fond father held the manuscript while his son 'practised the oration. "Shall we permit the ruthless hand of the hydra-headed tyrant," cried the youth, "to to to well, what is it?" The father was wrestling with the manuscript. "Oh, yes," he muttered, "here It Is: 'to Go on." "It's desecrate," cf led the Indignantly. 'Shall we permit the ruthless hand of the hydra-headed tyrant to desecrate the the the' why don't you prompt me The father was staring hard at the manuscript "The the poodle paddle poodle-um of our liver ties," he stammered.

"It's the 'palladium of our roared the boy. "Gimme that paper I'll say it meself." And he stalked away angrily. Of course it was an old bachelor who said that women ought to hold their tongues occasionally In order to give their thoughts a chance to catch, up. A "Corner" Comfort For those who know the pleasure and satisfaction there is in a glass of ICED POSTUM Make it as usual, dark and rich boil it thoroughly to bring out the distinctive flavour and food value. Cool with cracked ice, and add sugar and lemon; also a little cream if desired.

Postum is really a food-drink with the nutritive elements of the field grain Ice it, and you have a pleasant, safe, cooling drink for summer days an agreeable surprise for those who have never tried it. "There's a Reason" for POSTUM Postum Cereal Co Limited, 1 I ft rf 1 miskf rha Former Champion Proved an Empty Shell Without Power, or Staying Qualities. Reno, Nev. The vital, Bpark was not there. Jim Jeffries, only the empty shell of the great fighter of leven years ago, was whipped by Jack Johnson before the most remarkable assemblage of sporting men ever gathered together in the' history of the lame.

Johnson not only outclassed Jeffries, but actually played with the big white man as he played with little Tommy Burns and Stanley Ketchel. The end, while it came with, the suddenness of a thunderclap, was not a surprise; it had been in plain sight from the fifth round. Jeffries did not display a semblance of his old time form. There were none of his short, determined rushes; none of his triphammer blows to the body, and when after the fifth round the negro began manhandling Jeffries in the clinches and easily blocking any attempt at retaliation, there was nothing to do but wait for the end. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER IS DEAD Heart Disease Ended Life of Great Jurist Unexpectedly at HI Summer Home in Maine.

Bar Maine. Chief Justice' Melville W. Fuller of the United States supreme' court died of heart disease at his summer home in Sor rento. The death of the chief Justice was entirely unexpected, as he had been la apparently good health lately and there had been no premonitory symptoms of any kind of trouble. He attended church as usual Sunday and when he retired Sunday night he was to all appearances in his customary health.

Death came about 6 His daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, and the Rev. James E. Freeman, who was a guest of Justice Fuller at his Sorrento cottage "Mainstay," were with the Jurist when he died. THE SEDALIA STRIKE STILL ON Missouri Pacific Still Brings Machinists In Attempt to Break Strike Which Began May 2.

Sedalia, Thirty-two strike 'breakers were brought in from St Louis to take the places -of the Missouri Pacific machinists who struck May 2. The men will work, eat and sleep under Since the strike began more than 350 men have been brought here to fill places of the 136 union machinists. Few have stayed. The strike is no nearer a settlement than it was the day after it was called. The International union pays each married man on strike 8 a week and each unmarried man $5.

The strikers assert they are prepared to stay out until they win. MANY OKLAHOMA CANDIDATES There Will Be About 200 for 8tate Officers and Congress on Four Tickets. Guthrie, Oklahoma. That there are approximately 200 candidates for state office or congress in Oklahoma this year is shown by the filings with the state election board. All candidates must file with that boardfi and those who have not done so will be unable to get a place on the primary ballot August 2.

Three Negroes Are Slain. Augusta, Ga. Resulting in the killing of three negroes, Uvaldia, a small town of South Georgia, was the scene of a race riot which may result in further fatalities. So far no whites have been KILLED 19 IN AN OHIO, WRECK Too Slow In Making Siding and Express Crashed Into at 50 Miles An Hour. Dlddleton, Ohio.

Nineteen persons were killed outright, three probably were fatally hurt and half a dozen were dangerously injured in a headon collision etween a "freight train and a passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton railroad here. Of the killed, 18 were passengers. The other was a member of the passenger train crew. The engine crews had time to jump and all escaped serious Injury. All the dead and Injured were in the first two cars, the smoker and the day coach.

Displeased With Forecast. Carml, 111. Evidently believing that tne forecast of his life would come true as outlined by a- evdsv woman who told his fortune, Will Lewis, a farmer living west of caused the arrest of the woman. The portion of the forecast to which the farmer objected was that he would soon marry and rear twelve children. 9 Robbed Denison, Bank.

Denlson, Kansas. Robbers blew open the safe of the State Bank of Denlson at 3 o'clock in the morning and secured $6,000. Denlson, hearing the explosion that tore the safe to pieces, supposed the noise was made ny the anvil of some premature eele-brator, turned over for another nap. Early Newspaper Woman9 Dead. Washington, D.

Mrs. Emily B. Brlggs, who did noteworthy work in the '60s as a newspaper correspondent Set that fly? Kill him! With' all his faults, a fly doeinl bother one as much aa doea a mosquito. They are fighting In Nicaragua, hut why they are fighting no one aeema to know, Blondes are becoming fewer, according to statistics. So many are "let ting It go back nowadays.

The individual census cards make a pile 16 miles high. And the man high yup presumably is the top card. A liberal supply of aentimentallsm Is good for a man; it keeps him from brooding over his non-performances. A St. Louis man chewed up a $5 bill with a sandwich.

At that it was about as cheap as a piece of meat of corresponding size. I Massachusetts woman wants a dl-vlrce because her husband keeps a live lobster in the house. Well, whafa She been keeping? And now a Belolt professor will tramp In the African wilds. How does he know those cannibals will be able to discriminate between a professor and a missionary? A Chicago surgeon has discovered how to graft new extremities on the bodies of his patients. Science should, In this way, be able to assemble a man superior to the natural article.

A man who started to cure by fasting one of the ills that flesh Is heir to has made the discovery that it cured all ailments in his case. Having become defunct he is free from all disease, even the fever called living. Because Chinese immigrants have been' detained on Angel Island, the Chinese residents have boycotted American goodri. Just what their reasoning Is, Is difficult to understand. Evidently, however, they are trying to meet boycott with boycott The thrifty Dutch also are buying large amounts of American bonds and other securities for permanent and safe investment The Netherlanders are a canny folk, and when they make a purchase of this kind it is pretty strong testimony to the excellence of the bargain.

That Culebra cut is one of the great difficulties In constructing the Panama canal. Latest reports show that a vast mass of stone and mud has dropped Into the excavated channel, Involving a whole lot of extra work. But this la one of the contingencies that had to be considered, and American pluck and perseverance will carry the Job through in the face of all obstacles. Physicians have succeeded in making the stethoscope and telephone so sensitive that the heart beats of a patient in London were distinctly transmitted to a seismologist on the Isle of Wight. It is expected that this will be of great use In enabling physicians to keep in.

more sensitive touch with their patients at all hours. The new battleship South Carolina has returned to Norfolk after a trip at sea for target practise with a new record with big guns, having made sixteen bullseyes in sixteen shots with the twelve-inch weapons. With a score like that to their credit the jackies of the South Carolina must come pretty close to the championship for good shooting. The ex-Shah of Persia appears to have settled for himself at least the problem of what to do with deposed monarch s. He is studying medicine and hopes soon to, become a practising physician.

And that is a much more honorable and commendable proceed ing than dwelling apart in sullen idle ness or plotting revolutions against his country. Some other "exes" might imitate his example with much credit to themselves. Of course it Is guesswork as yet, and no one will know the actual nonula- tion of the United States until the decennial federal enumeration now in progress shall be completed. But word comes from Washington that census officials, basing their opinion on what has been learned thus far, believe that the total for the country will be not far from 100,000,000, which will surpass most estimates made pre viously. A Chicago judge bars wife beaten from citizenship.

He might also bai them up away from the rest of the world. Here's a man complaining because "his wife eloped with his best Friend, perhaps, was Just trying tc prove it When there are a few more flying 'machines the commuter who works in France and Uvea in England will hart Hi 111 IT COSTS TO HAVE A KING PAYING THE BILL EXPECTED TO CAUSE RIPPLE IN PARLIAMENT. Under King Edward $5,260,800 Was Paid Annually for Personal Bent-fits George Wants More. London, England. One of the nicest little rows that parliament has seen-in a long time Is expected within a few days, when the "civil list committee" of the house of commons will report on how much It thinks King George and the members of his family need to live on comfortably.

Edward received during the nine years of his reign $2,260,000, annually The Prince and Princess of Wales, the royal prlcess, the Duke of Sonnaugbi, the duchess of Saxe-Gotha, the Duchess of Albany, and a miscellaneous collection of smaller fry. got another $508,000. There was alBo a revenue of $2,496,000 from the crown estates. The total under Edward was annually for royalty's personal benefit Edward was so old when he came to the throne that most of his relatives had already been provided for. George, however, has a host of young relatives, for whom the country will be asked to provide an annuity of about $500,000.

This means that Englishmen must be taxed for a decade at least a minimum of $5,760,800 yearly simply because they have a king, And there is no longer any doubt that they begrudge the money. The Irish, because they object to be taxed for the support of an English king, declined representation on the civil list committee. DEATH RATHER THAN PRISON Samuel Hardin Hangs Himself In Leavenworth County Jail While Under Penitentiary Sentence. Leavenworth, Kansas. Samuel Hardin, a prisoner In the county jail under a penitentiary sentence, com mitted suicide by hanging himself from a cell door.

Hardin was allowed to have a piece of wire in his cell to hang clothes on. He made a noose of It and attached it to the top of the cell door. Hardin once served a seven-year term in the penitentiary. He was ar rested two weeks ago for stealing wire and junk and was sentenced to a term of from one to three years. SOUTHERN PACIFIC FINED On a Charge of Rebating and Dlscrlml nating Plea Was Guilty and Fine Was $18,000.

San Francisco, California, Pleas of guilty were entered by the Southern Pacific Railroad company to eighteen counts In indictments charging rebat ing and discriminating on rates. The indictments were retured by the fed' eral grand. Jury on information gath ered by the Interstate Commerce com mission. Fines aggregating $18,000, $1,000 for each count, were Imposed by United States Circuit Judge Van Fleet. Puts Ban on Club Lockers.

Wichita, Kansas. The remaining "wet" spots In Wichita dried up when Chief of Police Burt, acting under instructions from County Attorney W. W. Ayers served notive on the Com merclal club and Elks that their lock ers must go. 1 A Shooting at Tahlequah.

Tahlequah, Oklahoma. C. L. Pratt, cashier of a bank at Kansas, shot and dangerously wounded Dick Terry of tfhe same town here. The men came here on business connected with the payment of money to the Cherokee Indians.

Stllwell Sold the Bonds. New York, N. Y. By cable' from London came word that $5,000,000 first mortgage 50-year gold 4 per cent bonds of the Kansas City, Mexico ft Orient Railway company had been sold In that city to an English syndicate by Arthur E. Stllwell president of the road.

Hoid Potterton on Charge of Murder. Arkansas City, Kansas. L. W. Pot terton, whose hearing was finished here was hound over to a charge of President Taft and Col.

Roosvvelt In Conference for Over Two Hours After 16 Months Seperatlon. Beverely, Massachusetts. Col Theo dore Roosevelt visited President Taft at the president 8 summer cottage. They met Just outside the door and simultaneous Taft clapped a hand on the Roosevelt shoulder as Roosevelt seized the president's hand in a strong grip. Thus after a separation of 16 months Taft and Roosevelt met again.

Senator Lodge and Secretary Norton were president; the rest of the world was barred out Those who witnessed the meeting say that it was characterized by all the old time cordiality of relations between the two That there was the best of feeling displayed and that the hearty bursts of laughter that pro ceeded first from the president and then from Roosevelt as they sat on the veranda and chatted for two hours and a half was strongly re miniscent of the old White house days when it was "Mr. President and Will." But conditions had now been reversed As to the talk between them it covered a wide range' of topics and there was a period when the conversa tion was carried on in low tones. What was said must remain a secret however, between them for Taft declined to make any statement after the colonel had departed and Roosevelt would say only that he had bad a most delightful time. TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR ZEPPELIN A German Prince Heads a Party Which Starts for Arctic Regions to Establish Base. Bremerhaven, Germany.

The pre liminary expedition to observe condi tions in view of Count Zeppelin's polar expedition in 1912 sailed from this port on the North German Lloyd steamer Mainz. The members of the expedition, who, with their servants, total 24, include Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the. Kaiser; Count Zeppelin, Councilor Lewald, who was commissioner from Germany to the world's fair at St. Louis; Prof. Herge sell and Explorer Drlgalskl.

When the expedition arrives In Spitzbergen it will tranship to the arc tic steamer Phoenix. The first object of the expedition is to find a suit able headquarters for the Zeppelin dirigible expedition. LUMBER RATES ARE REDUCED Interstate Commerce Commission Grants a Request Made by Omaha Commercial Washington, D. Upon complaint of the Commercial club of Omaha against the Chicago Northwestern and other roads the Interstate Commerce commission ordered that the rates on lumber from Omaha to points in Kansas and Nebraska be lowered from on to three cents per 100 pounds. To Begin Hearing at Muskogee.

Washington, D. The house committee to investigate the McMurray contracts for the sale of the Choctaw coal lands, of which Representative Burke of South Dakota is, chairman, has requested Senator Gore to be ready to testify before the committee on or about August 2. Trainmen Get More Wages. D. An amaicable adjustment of the controversy between the railroads in the southeastern territory and the conductors and trainmen has been reached.

The agreement provides for a subtantial increase in wages and Improved conditions and hours of labor. More Deaths Than Births. Kansas City, Kansas. The June report of Dr. J.

A. Fulton, secretary of the Kansas City, board of health, shows that 26. more deaths than births were reported to him last month. The deaths were 113 and the births 87. Packers Get More Time.

Chicago, Illinois. Judge Grosscup extended the time for the packers to enterMeas In the dissolution suit against l'1 National Packing company and its subsidiary concerns until July. Battle Creak, Mich. ii A murdering his wife. died sere.

She was 80 years eld. a living chance..