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3i-c -fag Mat sjfcifcAJl WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION ON FATHERS FARM 70, RHEUMATISM STAYS CURED MAN OF MILLIONS HAS BUILT SPLENDID PALACE. RECORD PAPER VICHTTA, Oklahoma News OUT THERE: IN KANSAS THE LAND Of PEACE, PROSPERITY AND PLENTY. (2)- M's. Cota, Confined to Bud and in Constant Pain, Cured by Or. Williams Pink Pills.

Rheumatism can be inherited and that fact proves it to be a disease of the blood. It is necessary, therefore, to treat it through Die blood if a permanent cure is expected. External applications may give temporary relief from pain but as long as the poisonous acid is in tlie blood the pain xvill return, perhaps in a nexv place, but it will surely return. Dr. Williams Pink Pills cure rheumatism be- cause they go directly to the seat of the disorder, purifying and enriching the blood.

Mrs. Henry Cota, of West Cheshire, is the wife of the village ma chinist. Several years ago, she says, I was laid up with rheumatism in my feet, ankles and knees. I was in coft-' stant pain and sometimes the affected parts xvould swell so badly that I could not get about at all to attend to my household duties. There was one period of three weeks during which I was confined to the bed.

My sufferings were axvful and the doctors medicine did not help me. One day a neighbor told me abont Dr. Williams Pink Pills and I decided to try them. After I had taken them a short time I was decidedly better and a few more boxes cured me. What is better, the cure was permanent.

Remember Dr. Williams Pink Pills do not act on the bowels. They make new blood and restore shattered nerves. They tone up the stomach and restore impaired digestion, bring healthful, refreshing sleep, give strength to the weak and make miserable, complaining people strong, hungry and energetic. They are sold by all druggists, or will be sent postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes S3.

30, by the Dr. Williams Medi-cire Schenectady, N.Y. Magnificent Private Estate Created Out of Tract Where in His Youth He Toiled Hard in Semi-Poverty. In Morris county. New Jersey, resides a man of great wealth, whose fortune is horn of industrial life insurance, and liis splendid home is founded upon the tract where in his youth he drove the plow and herded his fathers cows.

In business life he is the next man to United States Senator Dryden; in a social way he is just the farmers boy grown up. But as business opportunities opened up in his career, he carried along his farm with them, and next to Dryden no man in New Jersey has a more splendid estate. It is situated in the borough of Florham Park, near Madison, and embraces some 5,000 acres. Part of it was his fathers farm and if his paternal relative were to wake from his last sleep he would not know the place on which he tolled so hard to make a bare living, and on which his life insurance son has spent millions. The private roads that run through this estate are macadam in construction and are 40 feet wide.

There are 23V miles of them. They lead through forests, which in their original form were wildernesses, but by the Midas touch of wealth are transformed Into parks. The Passaic river flows through or by them, and its tributary waters are held in check to make lakes and ponds, which are stocked with fish, and on whose surface a fleet of small pleasure boats float. On the side of the old cow barn is roared a clock tower 100 feet high, on whose summit Is recorded time, facing the cardinal points of the compass and accented by a bell that chimes the hours so that they are heard as far as Morristown, -Summit and Bernards-ville, 10 miles distant. Fifty men are employed constantly on the estate, sometimes 100 and even more.

The old farm blossoms under the touch of wealth, and the farmer boy coming home from the life insurance building daily drives through the old cornfield, which is now a garden, to a splendid big house where liveried servants meet him and bow to him on the very spot where he used to wash his hands in a trough. There is no illustration more marked of sudden wealth brought home, none at least which has such loyalty to its place of origin. Dr. Ward took a practitioners degree in medicine; that is, he was licensed to cure if he could, and patients came to him. He found the acquirement of patients difficult and sought employment from the newly established insurance company as an examiner.

It was not a difficult nor a highly professional task, but as the company grew his fortunes grew with it. So, as fortune came to him, he has built up on the old homestead one of the finest private estates in New Jersey, if not in the United States, and all of it resting on the trifle called industrial life insurance. Saw Chance For Business Captain Homer W. Hedge, president of the Aero club, said in Pittsburg apropos of a very dangerous balloon descent: This reminds me of a visit that was paid to the aeronautical editor of a certain newspaper by a solemn man in black. The new Aero club Is doing well, I believe? the visitor began.

Yes, said the editor. We have already ninety members. Good! And ascensions will soon begin, eh? They will begin within the week. Now, sir, said the man in black, I will pay you one dollar a line if you will write in your answers to correspondents column that the quickest and best way to descend in a balloon is to bore a hole in the gas bag. The editor shook his head.

Its a liberal offer, he said, but I'm afraid we cant accept it. The man in black sighed. I am sorry, he said, and he walked out. Who is that man? asked a stenographer, looking up from his desk. That, the editor replied, is our new coroner.

He is paid by the job. Same Old Story. It was the vacation rush in the baggage room of the big depot. Suddenly, without warning, there k'as an explosion that shook the building. The trunk of an anarchist with a bomb in it! shouted the depot detective.

Russian Nihilists! echoed a man in the crowd. The Black Hand! added a third. But just then a meek little man pushed his way through the crowd and picked up the fragments of a hinge. Lucys trunk! he sighed. I told her if she forced anything else in that trunk the wohle top would blow off.

But a man cant tell a woman anything when she is packing. Tenderly they lifted the poor smasher from the floor and picked from his auatomy one toothbrush handle, one curling iron, a soap dish and a belt buckle. Wheeler Saw the Point. Charles Nutting, an old inhabitant of Jaffrey, N. but long since dead, once went into the saloon kept by Henry Wheeler, better known as Hen Wheeler, in Rindge.

Hen had once kept a tavern in Jaffrey, and of course xvas acquainted with Mr. Netting. Nutting called for whisky, and. noticing that the glasses were rather small, asked: Hoxv long have you had these glasses. Hen? Hen replied: Lets see; it's nigh onto 20 years since I bought those when I used to keep tavern over in Jaffrey.

Well, said Nutting, theyre rather small for their age. Have another glass, Charles; have another glass, rejoined Hen. A Debater. Is that friend of yours a great debater? He is, answered Senator Sorghum, in the kind of an argument where money talks. Habit and Imitation.

Habit is our primal fundamental law. Habit and imitation there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all xvoiking and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in the world. Carlyle. The Long-Suffering.

1 am going to learn to play on a horn. Gee! You must have a wonderful belief in the patience of your Houston Post- KANSAC The greatest successes founded on failure. are often A lie is the acute form and hypocrisy the chronic form of the same disease. Some preachers make the Scripture read: "Make your calling and collec tion sure. A man may not acquire wealth by early rising, but he can give a good imitation of industry by so doing.

At Panama the earth to be excavated for the canal is estimated at 120,000,000 cubic yards. Now let Uncle Sam witch the world in digging dirt. In the controversies of the future it will he well for the powers to remember that the steel for the Italian war ships was furnished by an American institution. The Japanese roll of honor contains the names of 56,426 lighters who won distinction in the war with Russia. With half a million heroes on hand Its no wonder that Japan isnt afraid to talk hack to Uncle Sam.

Italians have erected in New York city a monument to Verdi, the grand old man of Italian music. This is the third memorial which the Italians have presented to Xew York. The others are the monuments to Columbus and Garibaldi. The English cant be accused of dumping wheu they can sell us one of the only two copies of the 62-leaved 1631 edition of The Passionate Pil-Srim for $10,000. Eighty dollars a page is more than this trifle would probably have brought in a home market.

Japan is accused of cultivating a jingo spirit. When the Japs calmly examine the huge national debt they have contracted during the last three years, they will feel inclined to talk over in a friendly spirit any differences that may arise with a stronger power than Russia. Every day or so the largest ship in the world is launched. The latest monster to be heralded as the largest Is the Cunard liner Mauretania, which is larger by a thousand tons than its sister ship Lusitania, which was launched in June. But the dimensions of these ships are the same; 790 feet long and 88 feet beam.

The story of a Japanese spy sketching fortifications at Manila has a sensational sound, but its authenticity may be doubted. It is pretty evident that influences are at work trying to create distrust between Americans and Japanese. Both these peoples are too sensible and too confident In each others good will to be easily misled. Doctor Forbes Winslow, an alienist, has been quoted as saying that before long there will be more lunatics in the world than sane people. He has been misquoted, of course.

What he said was that if insanity continues to increase at the rate shown by statistics the insane will some time outnumber the sane. It all depends on the if. We need not despair. The girls employed in a porcelain factory in New Jersey went out on strike the other day because the manager ordered that they must no longer sing at their work. They had been in the habit of amusing themselves by singing popular songs, hymns and Sunday school music, but they may do that no more.

Rather than keep silent they stopped work. It cannot be that the manager was married, else he would have known what result to expect from such an order. Japanese scholars are urging upon the people the importance of abandoning the old Chinese system of sign writing, or ideogpraphs, and the adoption of the Roman alphabet for spelling Japanese words, says the Youths Companion. They support a paper devoted to the propaganda, and report that the people are beginning to approve it. Inasmuch as English is taught in the primary schools in Japan, the coming generation will know the alphabet anyway, whether they use it in their own language or not.

British women suffragists who created a riot in the lobby of the British house of. commons set a bad example to the world. It is the belief of many the influence of women on public life would be purifying and uplifting, but when a body of petitioners becomes so turbulent as to call for the interference of the police and the imposition of fines for disorderly conduct, then lovely woman gets down to the level of the tyrant man, and, being on the level with him, cannot be his upiifter. Linn County Budget. In San Domingo there is a remarkable salt mountain, a mass of crystalline salt almost four miles long, said to contain nearly 90,000,000 tons, and to be so clear that medium-sized print can be read with ease through a block a foot thick.

Elmer E. Steiner, a rural route carrier of Indiana, has perfected an invention which he believes will in future preclude wrecks brought about by the present system of dispatching trains. Holding a gun for a hunter is not hunting, decides a St. Louis county justice. Moral: Always be sure to hold the gun and not the bag.

There is a great difference between a wish and a dogged resolution, between desiring to do a thing and determining to do it. Statistics show that great mental workers are, as a rule, long-lived. Activity is conducive to longevity. Our borrowed Lappings account for half of our trippings. They've indicted a concern in Vermont for rendering lard from tainted meat.

Alas, even the New England fried cake proves to be a white sepulcher. Statistics show that great mental workers are. as a rule, long-lived. Activity is conducive of longevity. The heart that sees goes always before the hand that obtains Too many tffilnk of.

religion a sow i vs wind Packing Plant Wants Boost. The Hutchinson Packing Company wishes to enlarge its plant. It wants the people of Hutchinson to help along the project. The company asks that the people of the town raise $25,006. return for which the packing company agrees to spend $50,000 enlarging the plant, besides giving $5,000 to the street railway company, with to extend the line to the paok-'ng house.

There is no threat of closing down if the money is not subscribed. hut it is said that the company has been offered substantial inducements to locate elsewhere. Rose Must Settle Now. The mandate of the Supreme Court of the I'nited States in the case of the State of Kansas against Mayor Rose of Kansas City, has been filed in the Supreme Court by Attorney General Coleman. It will he remembered that Mr.

Rose appealed his case to the higher court on a writ of error. The mandate says the writ of error is d'smissed for wart of jurisdiction. The filing of this mandate means that Mr. Rose will he compelled to settle his accounts with the Supreme Court of Kansas at once. He still owes the $1,000 fine.

Ex Convict a Suicide. John Nelson, who killed Albert Morris in Coffeyville. in September, 1901, killed himself at the home of an old friend named Dick Downing. He shot himself through the heart and died immediately. He left a note saying that he was a discontented, miserable man, and that his killing of Morris was in st If defense and had not rau sad him to kill himself.

Nelson was tried for the murder of Morris, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. He severed a parole several months ago, after having been in prison only a ar. While he was in trouble his wife sued him for divorce and left him to marry another man. Nelson brooded over this and it Is believed that it was this family trouble as much as the murder trouble that caused him to comjnit suicide. He left four children.

Echoes From the Election. The state canvassing hoard have met and ssued certificates of election to the Republican candidates for state offices. The Iiw requires the hoard to mfet ami canvas the returns and 'ssue certificates In all cases where the result has been decided. The candidates for member of the legislature who were successful were riven certiorates. In the Ingalls-Wilcox district in Atchison where the ote was a the case will be disposed of December 12th at an ad jonrned meeting of the board.

A remarkable feature of the official returns is that there were nnlv 7.0tn votes less cast for governor this year than two years ago. The Democrats polled nearly 31,000 votes more, however, than they did at the lection of 1904. The Republican ote for governor this year was and two years ago It was 186.731. The Democratic vote for governor increased this year from 110,991 cast for Judge Dale in 1904 to 150.021. The Socialist vote dr-chased.

Manx of the members of this partv r.itcd for Colonel Harris. The Socbtl'st vote decreased. Many of the members of this party voted for Colonel Harris. The Socialist vote for governor this year was 7.621 as compared to 12.101 two years ago. There was a decrease of more than in the number of votes polled by th, Prohibitionists.

Topeka Man Is Luckv. Frank Smith, of Topeka. a brother of Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who.

with her husband, was killed In an automobile accident in France four years ago, lias receixed his share of the estate left by bis sister. Smith sa'd ho receixed many times the amount naid to the other he'rs. hut gave no figures. He is said to have accepted $250,000 for his share, and the final papers were signed. Grain Car Are Wanted.

The Wichita 1 oard of trade has employed A. E. Helm, a lawyer of that rlaee. to make an effort to seettre from the railroads some concessions the way of ears to move the grain now on hand. The railroad companies complain of a car shortage and are charged by the gram men with discriminating in favor of other shippers.

It was said that if the roads still held to their decision the grain men would begin suits in the United States court and state supreme court to compel them to furnish nectssary ears. Helm went to Topeka to take preliminary steps in the ease. Child Fatally Burned in Bonfire. Ethel Parcel of Wichita, a 3-year-old girl, was so badly burned In a bonfire that she died. In some places on her body and limbs the flesh was burned to the hone.

Grain Elevator Coilapssd. One section of the Shellaharger elevato-at Salina collapsed, dumping 12,000 bushels of wheat into the street. Two workmen had just left the basement of the elevator before the crash and escaped burial under the spilled grain. Must Silo Their Beets. The sugar company at Garden City has issued orders to all licet raisers to silo their beets.

This will mean a loss to the men who are raising the beets, as they are hound to shrink in weight, and the company will allow only twenty rents a ton for siloing. Crushed by Falling Earth. Whil-digging a well near Garden City W. H. Munn and G.

H. King were erush-ed by falling earth. Munn died from the injuries he received and King is badly injured. Baldwihs New Plant. Ten thousand dollars worth of bonds of the city of Baldwin have been registered by the county clerk.

The bonds are for the new electric light plant of that town. They consist of twenty bonds for $500 each. Suspected Robber Caught. Sheriff Woodin of Kay county, O. has a man who gives his name ns Johnson under arrest at Newkirk on the charge Of and suspected of teng otie of the men implicated in the tohCery of the Rt Charles hotel at Arkansas C't-e Struck by Street Car.

Mack Shields, a restaurant keeper, was struck by a street ear in Wichita. Shields was crossing the street. He waited until one car had passed and not noticing another car going in an opposite direction, stepped in front of it. He received serious injuries about the head and face. Two New Banks for Junction City J.

H. Grentner, of Junction City has announced that he will open a state bank there on January 1 and H. G. West, of Concordia, also made the announcement that he will open a state bank there on the same date, Both banks will he capitalized at $25,000. Needed Fund Is Raised.

Eight months ago Mr. Carnegie proposed to give $25,000 to the library fund of Baker university, at Baldwin, when friends of the college had subscribed a like amount. President Murlin has announced that subscriptions had been secured aggregating $25,951 The building has cost $45,000. and the new endowment added to the old endowment makes a fetal of about $100,000 that Baker has invested iu this building and its endowment. He Scorns a Pardon.

Dr. John Kurman, alias Count Yon Waldersee, alias John Doe No. 7," was so dis satisfied with his imprisonment in the Kansas state penitentiary for the crime of grand larceny that he has returned to Gov. Hoch a citizenship nardon. Von Waldersee has boasted that he is a member of a royal family in Europe and that he has not been serving in the state penitentiary under his proper name.

In returning his citizenship pardon he intimates that he does not care whether he is a citizen of the United States and that he is on his road to British Columbia with 'an empty purse and an empty stomach. Burton to Write Book. it is re ported that when ex-Senator Burton passes through the portals of the Ironton county jail in Missouri and breathes the air of liberty he will publish a hook giving the inside history of the incidents which led up to his conviction. The book will he written during his incarceration. He will then take the lecture platform and probably the independent political stump when it is expected he will startle the country with a hitter arraignment of President Roosevelt former Fourth Assistant Pest master General J.

L. Bristow, Allen White, the magazine writer, and Cyrus Leland, former boss of Kansas politics. It is these prominent personages that Burton holds as being directly responsible for his downfall. Who Said Bleeding Kansas? A summary of the yields, numbers and values of agricultural, horticultural and live stock products of Kansas for the year of 1906 has been issued by the state board of agriculture. F.

D. Coburn, secretary of the hoard says that this has been an evenlv balanced prosperous year with an immense wheat crop, a big corn yield, an abundance of other grains and forage, with good prices lor all. The bulletin continues: Never be1- fore have the soil products represented so much wealth, and the rewards of industry are revealed in the year's values of farm products and live stock, amounting to $424,232,277. or $15,582,455 in excess of their value in the best preceding year. They are about 85 per cent more than the value of the same items of ten years ago.

Would Make Virus. Because of the gradual increase of diphtheria and smallpox in Kansas. Secretary Crumbine In his Board of Health bulletin, just Issued, suggests that the state furnish antitoxin and va-cine virus to citizens of the state free of charge. He suggests that a laboratory he established at the State University for the purpose of manufacturing these agents. Frisco Using Much Kansas Plaster.

Cars can not he furnished fast enough to haul out the orders for "Mue Rapids plaster that come from San Francisco to be used in the ri--I'lding of the city. There are four plaster mills at Blue Rapids and each one of them is running at full capacity trying to keep up with the orders that are pouring in daily for their product. More than half of these orders, it is said, are from San Francisco. Blue Rapids plaster was used extensively in old San Francisco and since the destruction of the town orders have been pouring in so rapidly that the mills are taxed to their utmost to supply the demands made upon them. Fine and Imprisonment.

the district court at Junction City J. W. Williams was sentenced to serve thirty days in the county Jail and fined $100 and costs. He was convicted of running a joint. Enriching the Soil.

Jim Lahr, of Nemaha county, ran a manure spreader over eighteen acres of laud once a year for two years. Last spring he planted the land to corn and it raised eighty bushels to the acre, to say nothing of forty wagon loads of pumpkins. Man Shot by Burglar Dies. J. J.

Breene. who was shot by a burglar in his home at Arkansas City on the morning of November 161 h. died from the effects of his wound. The burglar has not yet been locaied. Parker Increasing His Factories.

C. W. Parker Is increasing his factory at Abilene by building a three story structure 60x150 feet in which to store the carnival paraphernalia during the winter. Pour companies are wintering there and the factory is running full time to get ready for next season. Let Contract For Meat.

The bids for furnishing the meat contract at Fort Riley for the first six months of 1907, was awarded to the Nelson-Morris Company. They secured the contract, bidding $5.83 a hundred. Hutchinson Hotel Fails. Wm. F.

Kendall, a hotel keeper of Hutchinson, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the federal court. The only secured debt is that of the Hammond Typewriter Company, for a machine The liabilities are listed at and the assets at $153.25, Free Use of the Knife. John Roberts was fatally stabbed by Victor Ellison at Meeker. In the same community George Christy was fatally stabbed by Waller Hudson. Will Watch Muskogee's Interests.

Theodore Guliek, secretary of the Muskogee Commercial Club, is in Washington, where he will attend the rivers and harbors convention and see that Muskogee is not overlooked. Claims Self Defense. Another negro 1-iiiing has occurred in Payne county. Timothy Johnston having shot Laree Bolden, a cotton picker, on iho Bridweli farm near Ripley. As in all of the recent killings ia Payne county Johnston claims to have shot in self-defense, Bolden having fired two shots at him.

Johnston is in jail at Stillwater. Free Ride Ended in Jail. Imprisoned in a carload of merchandise, which he is thought to have entered with the intention of committing theft, John Nicks, of St. Louis, was taken to Muskogee from Vinfta and lodged in jail. The train crew saxv Nicks enter the car at Vinita and sealed the ear, wiring ahead that a prisoner xxas on the way.

Pipe Line Survey Beaun. Civil engineers, representing a Pittsburg, syndicate, haxre began a survey preliminary to the building of a pipe line from Muskogee to the Gulf. It is estimated that the cost of the line will be in the neighborhood of Oil operators are jubilant and predict the price tf oil will go much higher. Weatherford Man in Jail. Martin Robinson, of Weatherford, has been arrested on a charge of attempting to dispose of mortgaged The Robinson family is said to have hr on implicated in the robbing of the mails between El Reno and Arapaho, several years ago, some of the hoys going to the penitentiary, hut they have been leading quiet, industrious lives since that time.

Cattle Money For Apaches. The 325 A piiches. men, women and children. have received from the sale of a herd of 500 steers sold during the fall off the pasture of the Fort Sill military reservation. A number of the infant chil Iron re-ceixed as much as $5oo each, whle many of the older cnes did not receive more than the price of one steer, $35.

Old Geronimo came in for a xery small sum. Grand Jurors Dismissed. The Garfield county grand jurors summoned for term of court haxe all been dismissed by Judge Burwell at Enid, who held that the jury was irregularly impantled. A jury commission will he aeoo'nted and an attempt made to secure a grand jury for this term of court. Among the principal cases to be tried are those against William Kennedy, president, and 11.

H. Watkins, cashier, of the defunct Citizens bank, of Enid. Criminal Dc-ket Crowdid. The United States federal court for the Southern district of Indian Territory, with Judge Dickerson piesiding, lias convened at Chickaslia. Criminal cases haxe congested the dockets and put all work behind.

Should the regular order of things continue there would he between O.OtiO and eases for the judges of the new state. It is the intention to have the nresent courts continued for one year after statehood. Preparing for the Rush. The States land department has commenced to proxlde for the big rush in the Lawton land office during the opening of the big pasture lands to settlement. Judge J.

W. Witten, of he law department of the ge xernl and office, bringing two expert land office clerks from Washington, is on hand. Already 25.000 pamphlets haxe been forwarded or passed out by the local land office alone jn an-sxxer to questions. Hennc6sey to Have Electricity. A franchise has been granted to the Hennessey Electric Light and Power Company.

The city has the option at the end of ten years of buying the proposed plant at the appraised commercial value. Silver From Oklahoma. Txvo hundred pounds of silver bullion were shinned from the smelter at Cache to the mint at Washington, just as a sample. It is not generally known that gold and silver bullion is being sent from Oklahoma. The smelter at Cache xxill he kept busy in the future and consignments of bullion will he shipped regularly to the mints.

Slipped on Icy Pavement. Falling on the frozen pavement at Hobart .1. L. Schwielik, an Oklahoma City traveling man. had three teeth knocked out and his jaw hone fractured.

Red Man's Signature. Indian chiefs. Healing with the government, now have to append their thumbprints to the documents instead of cros-marks, its hitherto. The reason is that chiefs haxe frequently repudiated the cross marks and thtir obligations. Mandamus Applied For.

Commissioner Tams Bixbv has received notice of a writ of mandamus filed against him by John T. Pickens to compel the commissioner (o enroll seventy-five Choctaw Indians on the Choctaw roll. Tramp Causes Costly Fire. Fire, caused presumably by a tramp smoking in the hay. destroyed a barn and gianary owned by P.

Phillips near Shawnee. All the horses were sav1 hut 800 bushels of grain, a barn full of feed, harness anil tools 'veiv destroyed. Loss $3,000, uninsured. Wrecked Safe and Secured $250. Burglars blew open the safe of B.

Serimpshire, at Mannsville, and secured $250. The safe was xvreckod. Assistant Secretary. Secret at Chas. Filson lias appointed James McConnell, who held the same position under Secretary Grimes, as his assistant, to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of Dr.

Hugh Scott. The appointment is for the time the constitutional convent'on is in session. Dr. Scott has assumed his duties as private secret try 1 Governor Frantz, Mulhall to Have New Trial. Zack Mihail, Oklahoma cattleman and live stock agent of the Frisco railroad, who was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary for a shootin- affray at the Worlds Fair two years ago, has obtained a new trial.

On the night of June 1904 Mulhall became involved in trouble with Frank Reed on the Pike at the World- fair grounds. Several pistol shots were fired and Ernest Morgan who was not implicated In the tumble, was struck by a bullet and seriously xvounded. To Meet December 27. Parson H. L.

Storms of the Afro-American Suffrage League has issued a call from South McAlester for all of the leagues in the Indian Territory to meet at Muskogee December 27 for the purpose of protesting against the passage of any discrimitory legislation against negroes by the constitutional convention at Guthrie. The protest will be against Jim Crow ears, separate waiting rooms and any disfranchising schemes. Booker T. Washington, William T. Vernon, Judson Lyons and Bishop Turner of Georgia are among the prominent negroes invited to attend.

Sundav School Institutes. The Oklahoma State Sunday School Association has just completed all arrangements for the holding of a series of Sunday school institutes in cities of the territory during the month of December. Six Sunday school specialists will make up a party who will tour the state and conduct these institutes. The dates and places for holding the institutes are as follows: Hobart, December 4-5; Anadarko, December 5-6; El Reno, December 6-7 Shawnee, December 7-8; Oklahoma City, December 10-11: Guthrie, December 11-12; Perry, December 12-13; Enid, December 13-14. Blue Goose is No More.

The famous Blue Goose saloon, the last of what has been termed line saloons, is no longer to he In operation. This was the decision of the county commissioners of this, Comanche, county today when R. L. McKinley, the proprietor, was denied a license. The Blue Goose is situated near the county line on the road to Rush Springs.

Since the opening of the new country in August, 1901. there has always been a number of these resorts, oftentimes the number was seven, where the citizens of nearby Indian Territory towns might come to secure their liquors. The anti-saloon movement has been so strong in that locality as to drive them entirely out. Suffragists to Maintain Lobby. Thp Oklahoma and Indian Territory Equal Suffragists Association, in session at Oklahoma City, elected the folloxving officers; President, Mrs.

Kate H. Biggers. Chickasha; first vice-president, Mrs. Minnie K. Bailey, Enid; second vice-president, Mrs.

Frances Carter, Guthrie; recording secretary, Mrs. Ida Ward Darnell, Wynnewood: corresponding secretary, Mrs. Jessie Livingston Parks. Enid- treasurer, Mrs. Anna Laskey, Oklahoma City.

The association passed resolutions holding the constitutional delegates responsible for the liberty of Oklahoma women and Instructed the president, Mrs. Btegers. to at once open headquarters in Guthrie. She will he assisted in the lobby work by Dr. Francis Woods, national lecturer and organizer.

Wages Raissd One Cent Per Hour. Rook Island employes at Shawnee xx ho have worked one year or longer for the roail xyill receive an increase of 1 cent per hour. Over 700 men are affected. Acnointed Assistant to Filson. Captain J.

M. McConnell, former assistant secretary of Oklahoma under Grimes, has been appointc 1 assistant secretary under Charles Filson to assist in the rush of work incident to the constitutional convention and election. lie will remain until January 1. He succeeds Dr. Hugh Scott, xx ho resigned to become secretary to the Many Nenroes The reversal by the Interior department of a decision of Commissioner Tams Bixliy of the Fix-e Civilized Tribes, entitles all negroes in the Choctaw Nation, who are known as freedmen, i the age of 21, who were living March 4, 1906, to a place on the rolls.

Between three and four thousand people are affected. Each individual xxill receive the equivalent of 40 acres of land, commercially worth $15 per acre. Had No Time to Dress. Fire of unknown origin damaged the three-story Shawnee hotel and guests and baggage were rushed out, many of them in scant clothing. The upper and second floors and roof were badly damaged, while the entire structure and contents were deltulged with water.

The loss is about $3,000, partly insured. Hospital Association. The Tulsa Hospital Association, with a proposed capital stock of $40,000, has been organized. Failed to Indict Him. The grand jury at Oklahoma City failed to indict Buck Garrett, chief of police of Ardmore who was charged with the killing of a man in a resort in that city nearly a year ago, during tlie cattlemen's convention.

Charaed With Swindling a Boy. Conductor Minor, of a south-hound Santa Fe passenger, turned M. C. Anderson White and Robert Moore, negroes, over to the police at Shawnee on a charge of buncoing a white hoy out of some money and forcing him from the train at Kendrick. Inspector Wants Evidence.

A summons has been issued by In speetor V. D. Foulke at Muskogee requesting till persons having a knowledge of any sales by which the Creek nation xxas defrauded by fraudulent schedules or corrupt offi rials to appear before him. Killed by Switch Eng ne. Will Lewis, a Choctaw Indian, 22 years oj age, was run over and killed by a Santa Fe sxxitch Engine near Ardmore.

It is said he had been drinking. and it is presumed he laid down on the trsrk. Will Ask For $10. COO. Mrs.

Solomon York, of Topeka, has filed suit at Junction City against Mrs. Grace Groom, of St. Marys. for damages for alienating the affections of her husband. Mr.

York and Mrs. Groom were at Junction City and Mrs. York went there from Topeka and had the papers served. Honor For Dr. Sheldon.

Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, of Tooeka, known all over the world as the author of In His Steps, has been invited by the English Temperance Society to go to England ne' March to take a prom inent part in the temperance campaign which will be started there about March 1. Cavaness to Get Postoffice. Congressman P.

P. Campbell hag announced that he has recommended the appointment of Herbert Cavaness, editor of the Chanute Tribune, for postmaster at Chanute to succeed P. E. McClelland, whose second term expires next month. Mr.

McClelland was not a candidate for reappointment. Democrats Nominate P. P. Elder. The Democrats of the Fifteenth senatorial dtrict have nominated P.

P. Elder for the senatorial vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Smith. Gov. Elder had announced that he will run on a platform calling for two-cent passenger fares, the abolition of the pass and economy in appropriations. Bsttleshio About Ready.

The great battleship Kansas, named after the Sunflower state through the efforts of the Kansas delegation in congress, is nearing completion at Camden. N. where she te being built by the New York Shipbuilding Company. It is expected to have her ready for a trial trip about the first week in December, next. Wedding Follows Funeral.

G. Coulter, an old citizen of Salina, died aged CC years. A peculiar incident in connection with his death is the fact that Thanksgiving day was his wedding anniversary, and it was to be celebrated by the marriage of his son, Roy Coulter, to a young woman at Concordia. It was the fathers request that the marriage take place notwithstanding his death. Recommend Savinas Bank Law.

In his bi-ennial report the state bank commissioner, John Q. Royce. will recommend the enactment by the next legislature of a state savings bank law. At present saviners banks in Kansas are operated under the general banking law, but it is the opinion of most banking men that a special law applying to savings banks should be passed. Dyer Declined Place.

Frank R. Dyer has declined the appointment as superintendent of the State school for the Blind at Kansas City, tendered him some time ago by Gov. Hoeh and the appointment has been offered to Prof. W. B.

Hall, superintendent of the city schools at Abilene. Prof. Hall has accepted the appointment conditionally. He will go to Wvandotte if the school board at Abilene will release him. Manufacture Caskets of Glass.

A company has been formed with headouariers at Canev. for the manufacture of glass caskets. J. M. Stafford of Petersburg, is the patentee of this casket, and it is about the comnletest thing ever designed.

It will preserve the body thousands of years without any embalming process. It can be made and sold in competition with all other caskets at an enormous profit. From Cvdah to Cudahy. The final transfer of the Cudahy Packing plant at Wichita has been made, and the deed finally recorded. It shows that In consideration of $250,000 John Cudahy for the John Cudahy Packing Comnany.

transfers to the Cudah' Packing Company the Wichita nlsnt. The plant is being run to its full capacity. Died in Rooming House. Ed Billon died suddenly in his room in the McCarty rooming house in Wichita. The verdict of the coroner's jurv in the case w-as that the deceased came to his death by heart failure, brought about by over indulgence in liquor.

Prisoner Is Pardoned. A telegram was received at the ETnited- States penitentiary from the Secretary of War granting a pardon to Thomas Mulligan, a military prisoner. Mulligan- was brought to Leavenworth September 25, 1905, to serve a two-year term. Mulligan was a soldier in the regular army twenty-five years aDd was serving his last enlistment before retirement when he pawned a revolver and pair of blankets while drunk one night. Thrown From Train, Legs Broken.

H. M. Burkholder, a brakeman for the Union Pacific railroad, who resides at Wamego, was thrown from his train at Marysville and both legs broken. He was taken to a hospital at Kansas City. Paroled a Convict.

Gov. Hoch has paroled Clyde Banker from the state reformatory at Hutchinson. Banker has served a year in the in: stitution for attempted assault. His parole was recommended by Judge J. H.

Reeder of the district court. Found Dead in His Chair. R. A. Mitchell, an aged resident of Leavenworth, was found dead in a chair Kiiled a Young Prisoner.

Officer Bridgeford, of Fort Scott, arrested a youthful vagrant and while taking him to the calaboose the prisoner broke away. The officer shot the fleeing prisoner through the head, inflicting a wound from which he died soon aftor being taken to the hospital. A card in the dead mans pocket indicated that he was Nordel Broten, of Blue Earth, Minn. He was apparently about 18 years old. Twenty-Three Club.

Wellington has organized a Skidoo club. It is composed of 23 membei-3 and gives its social functions on the 23rd of each pionth. He Stole Dental Gold. George Howarton, who was arrested, charged with robbing several dental offices in Leavenworth of the gold used in filling teeth, pleaded guilty to burrs ary in the first degree and larceny and was sentenced to serve an indefinite term of from five to ten years in the penitentiary. 1-J.

I Jr- GAVE DRUMMER A SCARE. Delayed Telegram Suggested Awful Possibilities. There was a traveling man, said the night operator, whose wife 'presented him with a son while he was out drumming up trade. The doctor got the mans address, and, since his wife was doing none too well, wrote out a message giving him the news and telling him to return. The doctor gave the message to the cook, who couldnt read.

She forgot to send it, and the next day the drummer came home of his own accord. He stayed a day or two, found his wife doing all right, and set out on his rounds again. Nothing, as it happened, was said about the forgotten telegram. And at the end of the week the telegram was remembered by the cook. With an exclamation of horror you know she couldnt read she hurried to the office and sent to the drummer that delayed message.

When he got it that night he was terrified. What he read was this: Another addition a son; your wife very ill; return at once. He took the midnight train for home. He was like a man in a trance. Another? he kept muttering in a dazed voice.

Impossible On getting home he was so relieved when everything was explained to him that he decided not to fire the cook, after all. Records of Wagers. Betting is neither so general nor so promiscuous as it was 150 years ago, when books for recording wagers were always kept on the tables In the much'" frequented coffee houses of London. Some of these books are still to be found among collections of antiques, and they make interesting reading; All manner of bets are entered there, on marriages, births and deaths, on the duration of a ministry, on the length of the lives of prominent personages, on the possibility of earthquakes, and even on hangings. Vanderbilt Popular with Comrades.

Cornelius Vanderbilt is slowly but surely earning his wav to the front In the national guard of New York. In 1901 he was elected a second lieutenant in the Twelfth regiment and is now senior first lieutenant in the organization. He has been detailed to the captaincy of one of the companies and will soon become a regular captain. The members of the regiment show no jealousy over this promotion, as they say it was earned by good work as a soldier. English Labor Party Active.

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