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THE VIOLA NEWS LATE MARKET REPORT. Kansas Citv. 1 LATEST KANSAS NEWS ooo toWoTfotooootootooooT'OTHootoototoo HUNTING SALT AT CALDWELL. Big Plant to Be Located if Boringa Are Satisfactory. WELLINGTON.

The Hutchinson Salt company has commenced drilling operations on the 26-acre tract of land recently purchased adjacent to the Rock Island round house and yards at Caldwell. Senator Frank Vincent, the companys manager, has personal charge of the work. They expect to locate a mammoth salt plant at Caldwell as soon as their experimental borings have determined the most favorable location. The Morton-Levering Oil and Gas company, which recently brought in two fine gas wells near Arkansas City, has leased large tracts of land in the vicinity of Caldwell and will begin drilling for gas at once Joe Morton, brother of the secretary of the navy, is president of the company, in which the secretary is also largely interested. The hope of the prospectors is to find gas in sufficient quantities to use as fuel in making salt.

Should they do so, the bulk of the Hutcuinson salt industry will be transferred to Caldwell. Chicago Futures. CLAUD U. KIER, Pnfc. VIOLA, KANSAS A lot of people will always be sorry they didnt know it was Joe Jefferson's farewell tour.

The price of human hair is rising. This years crop of hair must be considerably below the average. Harry K. Thaw, who has married a cnorus girl, will find the ice thick around his family hearthstone. Love classified as a romance; but for some people it seems to be a succession of short stories.

Triggs says that football vtames ape senseless. So are many of the players after a hard scrimmage. The government has over 271,000 employes, or a few thousand less than I he entire population of Washington, D. C. It has: often been noticed that the woman' who is called "a mans Oman is as unlike a man as it is possible to be.

Advice; to those Long Islanders who are suffering from a visitation of women burglars: Make a noise like a mouse. There are knockers in this world who, if they were marooned on a desert island, would proceed to knock themselves. The fireworks people are slow. They havent begun, as yet, to prepare for reproductions of the Lone Tree hill episode. Revolutionists are reported to be rapidly increasing in Italy.

These disturbers and the baby are making it pretty lively for the king. A statement is going the rounds that there are 20,000 quacks in New York city. Quackery would seem to le a regular business there. The next chapter of the story about the automobile wedding should describe the cooking of the wedding breakfast over a gasoline fire. John L.

Sullivan should be more cautious in signing total abstinence pledges. One of them may turn up as a promissory note some day. Joaquin Miller, the Frisco poet, has rtruck a spouting oil well on his Texas property. If there enough oil to last, of course Joaquin will quit spouting poetry. Major Delmar has broken another trotting record.

There are so many kinds of trotting records that it is a poor horse which cant break one now and then. King Oscar of Sweden dances at 75 and enjoys it. The king3 of Sweden used to make their subjects dance, but they didn't live to such a happy old age. By eating matches a Pittsburg par rot set her owners house afire and was herself badly scorched. This seems to have been an all-around case of poetic justice.

The wife of the successful man is always said to have been his inspiration and help; but the unsuccessful man is happier if he has a wife who is a consolation and a help. The Dutch have captured Batoeba-toe, killing 196 Achinese and losing three of their own men. One or two of the Achinese must have had something with which to shoot. The lady who got married after writing The Memoirs of a Baby has just become a mamma. Now she will have a chance to decide whether there ought to.be a sequel or not 4 The latest is the nothing ball.

It slows up at the plate and puzzles the batsman, who can make nothing out of it. Whereupon, it is conjectured, the exultant pitcher throws a.nihll fit. Bod cooking, so a speaker told the Parents club, is responsible for many divorces. Until the race Is much more highly developed the surest way to reach and bold a man is to feed him right. Wouldn't it bo a mere waste of time for anybody on the outside to Instigate a revolution In Central America, where revolutions flourish so luxuriantly, whether there happens to be any instigating or not? A seat in the New York stock exchange has Just been sold for $80,000.

And yet the average man, if he nad $80,000, would be quite content to retire from business and live on the So-Jterest of his money. WASH BLUE Costs to cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other kind of bluing. Wont Freeze Spill, Break Nor Spot Clothes DIRECTIONS FOR USES around in the Water At all wise Grocers. A snobs idea of a superior person is one who has more money than himself Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch It is impossible to sell them any other cold watr starch. It can be used cold or boiled.

Censor Theater Posters. No pictorial theater posters are to be posted in Oldham, England, in future, without first being submitted to a censorship appointed by the local watch committee. Hospital Erected in One Hour. In Austria a few years ago a complete hospital was built and was made ready to receive patients with in an hour, a feat which seems almost impossible even when we know that all the component parts of the building were at hand. THIS YOUNG WOMAN APPEALED IN VAIN POE HELP.

When Hope had A 1 1110-t Settled Into Utter Despair Relief Came from an Unexpected Source, Mrs. Emma of No. Joy street, Burlington, Iowa.who.se husband is au employee of the Rand Lumber tells a story of pitiable suffering: For about five years, she says, 1 bad a host of physical ills thut kept me an invalid and puzzled the doctors. Some of them thought I was going into consumption. At times I was so weak that I could not comb my hair or even wash my face.

Then excruciating pains ran suddenly up my thigh and I lmd to bo curried to bed screaming in my agony. I could no longer do my work aud the drain upon my husband's purse was very heavy. I craved food but what I nto only gave 1110 discomfort. My liver was torpid, and often I had to be carried to the door for uir to save mo-from. suffocating.

The worst was the pain which seemed as if my thigh were being pushed out of my body. The best doctors could do was to deaden it by narcotics. Once they thought I could not live fur more than two days. In one of my worst attacks, a friend said Why dont you try Dr. Williams Pink Pills? They are the only thing that ever helped my rheumatism.

I took his advice. After using one box I felt better, and I continued to use tho pills for three or four months with steady improvement until I was well. For four years I have been able to do all my household work, and no longer have to take medicine for any serious trouble. I gave one box of Dr. Williams Pink Pills to man 011 crutches because of rheumatism and advised my market woman to buy a box when she was complaining of the same trouble.

I heard that he was soon able to throw his crutches away, and slio told me she had got rid of the rheumatism by the use of oue box and could not thank me too much. Testimony multiplies as to the magnificent curative powers of Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People in cases of rhennmtisni, neuralgia, nervous headache; palpitation of tho heart and all forms of weakness in either male or female. They are sold by all druggists throughout the world- It Is possible to break a record and still have It. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch Is fast taking place of all other brands.

Others say they cannot sell any other starch. The door of adversity Is always supplied with a knocker. Mrs. J. II.

Giles. Everett, Ia, Snffered Kirn with kiilnty troiiM. ural tyH1 vldMimmly ifrtorltr Y. tL Running an automobile la fine sport if you can afford the fines. Writ MtrniNK KTK RKMKPT Oblcseo.

If your vyp lire mm or IniUnird, end kpi im-uPri idvlce end free Mtnple I' KINK. It cure ell cyedlle. The palmist is usually looking for a hand out. Dont you know that Defiance Ptaroh besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces In package and selts at same price aa 12-ounce packages of other kinds? If all Is fair in love the blonde ihould rejoice. Mother Cray's Sweet Powders for Children, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nuree In the Children's Home In New York, euro Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels aud Destroy Worms.

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he Release of Albert Heff, Who Sold Liquor to Indians. WASHINGTON. The supreme court has granted a petition of Albert Heff, recently sentenced to jail in Topeka for selling liquor to a Kickapoo Indian in Kansas, that he be admitted to bail and that the United States marshal for the district of Kansas be directed to show cause why he should be deprived of his liberty. Heff was convicted of selling two bottles of beer to John Butler, a member of the Kickapoo tribe in Brown county, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $200 and to serve four months in prison. The prisoners contention i3 that as Butler owns land in severalty he is a citizen of the United States and that therefore the statute providing a penalty for selling liquor Indians does not apply to him.1 The case will be argued before the supreme court November 28.

QUAKERS AND INDIANS TIE. Friends University and Chilocco Played No Score Game. WICHITA. Friends university and the Ciilocco Indians played a no score game of foot ball Saturday on Hess field. The game was one of the closest and most sharply fought of this season.

Neither side came within fifteen yards of scoring at any time, and most of the fifty minutes were played about the center of the field. Tho Indians made great gains on line bucks, Duggan, their fullback, making repeated gains through the Quakers tackles, but the Quakers had the advantage on end runs. The two teams were nearly equal in weight, the Indian backs averaging a trifle heavier than the Quakers. The game evened matters considerably, as the Quakers won the first game from Chilocco early in tne season. WANT REFORM IN EMPORIA.

Women of the Kansas Town Want a Grand Jury to Investigate. EMPORIA. A petition for a grand jury is being circulated here. The signers want to investigate the moral condition of Emporia and Lyon county. It is said that there are too many joints and the moral atmosphere isnt as pure as it should be.

The Law and Order League, Womens Federation of Clubs, and individual citizens are interested in the movement. Several lawyers have tendered their services free, It is said. The Womens federation, in a newspaper article printed in the Emporia Gazette Saturday, openly denounced the methods of Mayor Martin. If the petition gets 200 signers a grand Jury will he called. Another Shortage" Nailed.

TOPEKA. Still another county has been heard from and It Is the same old story. Rowett, state accountant, charged a shortage of $472. CO in coupans from Cortland township in Republic county. It has been found that coupons were not stamped state property" and that they were clipped by the bond broker when the sale was made to the school fund commissioners.

This makes nineteen items heard from In Rowett's report and every one of them shows that the coupons were clipped, were never state property and that the state treasurer had nothing whatever to do with them. Prominent Farmer a Suicide. WICHITA. Charles C. Junney, a prominent farmer whose home was near naynevillo in this county, shot and killed himself In a rooming house here Saturday.

He had separated from his second wife and had quarreled with her just before he committed suicide. Janney was 43 years old and Is survived by four children. No Hogs Inside Topeka's City Limits. TOPEKA. The fine of $5 assessed by the Topeka police court against James Dwyer for keeping hogs Inside the city limits hag been affirmed by the Kansas supreme court.

The case has been In courts for three years and the costs aggregate several hundred dollars. i -ARKANSAS CITY. The new gas well struck was drilled In Sunday and shows that it is the greatest that has been found in this field, being estimated by the gas men at 4,000,000 cubic feet per day. The Morton-Ieverlng company, which struck the well, Is preparing to drill others In the vicinity of the new one, To Save Black's Foot TOPEKA. Mrs.

W. J. Black, wife of the general passenger agent of the Santa Fo, is Improving slowly from her injuries received In the Missouri Paclfio wreck at Tipton, Mo. -The surgeons announced that they would not bare to amputate her foot A DOG WAS HIS MISFORTUNE. F.

T. Appleton to Prison for Life, Says the Kansas Supreme Court. TOPEKA. The Kansas supreme court has affirmed the decision of the district court of Rush county under which F. T.

Appleton was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of W. J. Talbot, city marshal of Lacrosse, where Appleton was engaged in the mercantile business. The men engaged in a quarrel over a dog which belonged to Appleton. The dog insisted on lying on sidewalk in front of Appletons place of business and the latter refused to remove him.

Standing in the door of his store with a revolver, he challenged the marshal to arrest him. Talbot walked toward him and Appleton shot him. Emeute at Wellington. WELLINGTON. Three prisoners escaped from the Sumner county jail here Sunday and their absence was not detected for nearly twelve hours.

The men were William Allen, sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for burglary; Gilbert- Morris, awaiting trial for forgery, and Ray Campbell, highway robbery. The prisoners had sawed through the bars of a corridor window to crawl through. They made their escape about dusk and as no count was made at the time the prisoners were locked in their cells it was not discovered that they were missing till next morning. Accidentally Shot While Hunting. NEWTON.

Carl Davignon, a Santa Fe engineer, living In this city, was brought to the Axtell hospital Sunday night in a critical condition as the result of a gunshot wound received while hunting with friends. The gun was accidentally discharged while in Davignon'8 hands, the charge tearing away one side of his face and inflicting a wound that may prove fatal. Pepper in Jointist's Eyes. TOPEKA. Fritz Dureln, a Topeka Jointist at the county Jail Tuesday night to chat with some friends who were stopping there.

He paused In front of the cell occupied by Blanche Boise, the home defender, and gazed at her. She asked him to move on. He-declined. Site grabed up a handful of red pepper and threw it in his eyes. He then moved for doctors office.

Could Have Done It Before. CUBA. Adolph Havel, 18 years old, residing near Cuba, became crazed with pain after aving fifteen teeth extracted. and killed himself with a shot through the brain. A Kansas Newspaper Man Dead.

LEAVENWORTH. N. B. Perry, editor of the Union, a labor paper, died at his home here Monday night. He had been ill two weeks.

Mr. Perry came to Leavenworth more than twenty-five years-ago and had been In the newspaper business ever since. For the last two years he had published the Union. He was a Mason, Knights of Pythias, Red Man, Odd Fellow, Elk and Eagle. He leaves a widow, $4,000,000 In Pensions.

TOPEKA. The quarterly payment of pensions Is now taking place at the federal building for the states of Kansas, New Mcico, Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Missouri. A total sum of $4,000,000 Is being paid out to 116,000 pensioners. Though, of course, tho majority of this money goes to the states under tho Jurisdiction of this district, some Is sent to every state In the country. The Anthony Dally Bulletin has relapsed Into a weekly.

It was a thoroughly creditable paper, but the town was hardly large enough for 1L LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. At Westerville, Dr. Lewis Book-waiter, was inaugurated president of Otterbein unversity. Fire has destroyed one side of the town of Marion, in Tuscola county, Michigan. Loss $200,000.

The cruiser, Tacoma, arrived from San Juan, P. R. She will go to the navy yard to undergo necessary repairs. Commissisoner Wright will leave Manila November 12 for a 20 days' tour of inspection of the province of Mindanao and Jolo. The Russisan volunteer steamer Voronej, loaded with coal and provision, passed througn the Bosphorus bound for the Mediterranean.

Kogoro Takahira, Japanese minis ter to the United Sates, was reported to be much improved. Dr. Shrady said he thought all danger was passed. The trial of Nan Patterson, who has been in the Tombs since last June charged with the murder of Sae-sar Young, will begin November 15, in New York. The German ambassador and the Baroness Speck von Sternberg left Washington for White Plains, N.

where they will be the guests of Mr. Whitelaw Reid. The North German-IJoyd steamer Lahn, which was sold to Russia several months ago, lias under gone reconstruction and will servo as a captive balloon ship. The remains of Arthur C. King, a millionaire tea importer, who died at Berkley, were shipped to Detroit, Michigan, He came to this country five months ago.

At Chicago, Martin W. Burke, for seventeen months manager of the Brevvort hotel, was found dead In bed at the hotel. It is believed that he died of Brlgbt'8 disease. Baron Taubd, who is connected with the foreign office, has been designated as Russian judicial adviser to tho International rommlssion which is to Inquire into the North Sea Incident The Japanese legation has received a cablegram from Honolulu saying that Prince Fushima, the Mikado's adopted brother, sailed from Honolulu for San Francisco where ho is expected to arrive on the evening of November 9 or the morning of November' 10. Tho Idle plant of the Carnegie Tube company has been leased by A.

M. Byers, Independent manufacturer, and the works will be placed In operation at once. The plant has been closed down for two years, owing to poor business and sharp competition. The resumption will give employment to COO men. At Dallas, Texan, fire destroyed the dry goods establishment of A.

Green St Co. The fire Is believed to have been started by burglars. There are evidences that the plnce had been ransacked. The Interstate commerce commit slon which Is investigating mining and transportation conditions In the anthracite region In connection with the suit of W. It.

Hearst against tho coni carrying railways, Inspected the colliers In the western end of Schuylkill county, Pa. A dispatch from Valparaiso says that severe earthquakes have been felt In the Northern Provinces. Many houses were damaged In TacnA and Arlca, In Negerlers several houses were thrown down. Four men were Injured by falling walls..