The Valley Falls New Era from Valley Falls, Kansas • Page 2

HEGRO SOLDIERS GUILTY I JJbowmah. A professional steeple jack, while painting a ichlmney at Kansas Events; I Latest tell CO fest and escaped with slight bruises THE ffEW EUA By th NEW ERA PUB. CO. VALLEY FALLS KANSAS President Sends Special Message to. The Harriman hearing regarding al Senate on Brownsville Riot.

leged merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads will be" re Ditching Neosho Bottom Land. The first steps -toward reclaiming sumed in Seattle, Spokane and Port He Says Evidence Secured by Purdy pup Mmmmimk 'wl 7 vX-X-Aw-w- WX-X-XX-XwXvX HI ''X-XXAy--' :vV.NVv;XvX-XWX-X-, vxvxaxv wm I cx, 'Wf the land along the Neosho bottoms in HEWS OF THE WEEB investigaton Fee moves Every Shadow of Doubt. Cherokee county has been started In The Prison Is Profitable. The 15th biennial report of the directors, warden and other officers of the state penitentiary has been issued. It shows that the penitentiary is more than self-sustaining.

The earnings for the two years covered by the report were $67,491.39 in excess of expenditures. The board of directors. Neosho township by J. D. and Frank Williams, who own a large tract of land along the river.

Their work. Is Washington. D. C. President land, by the interstate commerce commission.

Secretary Hitchcock has withdrawn 665,000 acres -of public lands from entry and added them to the Uncomp-ahgre forest reserve. The statistical bureau reports that for eleven, months of 1906 the value of manufactures imported amounted to $402,000,000 while exports of the Roosevelt Monday sent to the senate Host Important Happenings of thi Past Seven Days. not a Dart of the large drainage ditch a special message, regarding the proposed some time ago, but is being I a I Captain John Seaton, B. Ballinger aone as a private enterprise, duiu and W. I.

Biddle, tell in their report of the men are experienced In this Brownsville incident which gives the additional evidence collected by Assistant Attorney General Purdy and Mai. Blocksom, who were sent to of new improvements in the twin line of work. The work was begun a short distance west of Melrose and same kind during the year will amount plant which have enhanced its vaiue Interesting; Items Gathered from At parts of the World Condensed Into Small tor the Benefit of Our Readers. Texas by the President to investigate and will increase the output 20 per to $700,000,000. will extend several miles in length cent.

The board recommends an In along the river. The brothers own the affair. The president submitted with his message various exhibits The president has made public a on "cost keeping and the govern crease of $10 a month in the salary about 2.700 acres of land many Personal Secretary of State Root has an ment service" prepared by the keep' of the guards and says that the in acres of which have been covered by crease in the cost of living since the commission. He favors the adoption small lakes and is recognized as the nounced his intention to pay a visit last renort and the long hours and richest land along the river. There to Earl Grey, governor general of Can of a cost keeping system by the gov ernment.

close confinement of the guards make will be about 15 laterals leading from it urgent that the raise be granted Lieut. Gen. Vladmir Pavloff, Rus the lakes, comprising ditches to the W. H. Haskell, the warden, also urges sian military procurator, known as length of 12 miles.

It will take about including maps of Brownsville and. Fort Brown, a bandolier, 33 empty shells, seven ball cartridges picked up in the street a few hours after the shooting; three steel jacketed bullets and some scraps of the casings of other bullets picked out of the house into which they had been fired. President Roosevelt in his message defends his action in discharging the negro troops, saying it would be ab ada at Ottawa. James Cullen, a white man, was lynched at Charles City, foi killing his wife and step-son. David Overmyer, one of the mosi the increase in wages in his report "Hangman" Pavloff, was recently two years in which to complete the shot to death by a revolutionist In work.

Favored Holding State Fair. St. Petersburg. The assassin was That Kansas should have a state captured after a long chase. Travel in Night to File Leases.

fair held annually in some principal A. R. Modisett, H. C. Dale and FORTY-EIGHT HOURS Old settlers at Ashland were re location in the state was a sentiment W.

C. Smott, were acquitted at Oma developed at the various agricultural minded recently of the lot jumping of early days, when dawn found a ha of a charge of conspiracy to de solutely impossible to preserve army discipline to pursue any other course. To justify his action he submits re and livestock meetings held at Man fraud the government of title to 15, hattan. Every one of the associa crowd of people in town to file on school land. Leases expired at mid 000 acres of land In western PE-BU-Hfl GUBEO 11 Cold Affected Head and Throat-Attack was Severe.

tions in session there, including the ka. ports from Maj. Blocksom and Assistant Attorney General Purdy giving night Saturday and at midnight Sun good roads organization adopted a At a conference of the foreign mis day there were two or more persons resolution recommending that the sion boards of the United States and the results of the exhaustive investigation they made at Brownsville on on each vacant tract, with a stake, lan Canada is was agreed to forward to state make provisions for the holding of such a fair. Mr. Graham of the tern and cun.

Just after midnight, the presidents order. The president with his message submits maps with President Roosevelt, the United States prominent democrats in the west, and candidate of his party for attorney general of Kansas at the lasi election, died rather suddenly at bis home In Topeka recently of acute pneumonia. The Prarie Oil and Gas companj has Issued an order stopping all con struction work on trunk pipe lines it Indian territory. The famous trotting stallion, Bar-cn Wilkes, has been purchased by B. Krell of Carthage, Mo.

F. E. Warren, of Wyoming, has teen reelected as United States senator from his state. King Peter of Servia, denies that he has any Intention of resigning or permanently leaving the country. Edward Harry Hurst, a cartoonist, dramatic critic and playwright, of Louisville, is dead at Phoenix, Ariz.

Kansas Farmer said It had been de Sunday the stake was driven, a gun fired and each settler started to Ash senate and King Edward an appeal on diagrams and photographs designed termined that there should be some behalf of the Congo Free State. land to file before the board of com to aid the senate in reaching an intel Dositive action toward the establish- The inauguration of Rev. Henry A. missioners. Every notary in town ligent understanding of the situation; ment of a state fair at the approach Buchtel, chancellor of the Denver was busy writing out filing papers at Chas.

W. Bowman, 1st Lieut, and Adjt 4th M. S. M. Cav.

writes from Lanham, as follows: "Though somewhat averse to patent medicines, and still more averse to becoming a professional affidavit man, it seems only a plain duty in the present Instance to add my experience to the columns already written concerning the curative powers of Peruna. also empty shells and bullets from 3pringfield rifles. ing session of the legislature. The Dlan seems to be to authorise the ap 25 cents. A long line blocked the cor University, as governor of Colorado took place in the Trinity Methodist church at Denver.

The new governor The crimes committed at Browns pointment of a commission. ef about ridor of the courthouse until en trance was almost impossible. All ville on the night of August 13, ac three men to locate the fair. concluded his inaugural address with filings offered were received, though cording to the investigation ordered a prayer for divine guidance. there were as many as six for one by the president are as follows: 623 Rabbits Killed In an Hour.

John D. Rockefeller has given quarter section. (A) Murder of Frank Natua The farmers of the Anson neighbor (B) An assault on Lieut, of Police hood near Wellington for several 000,000 to Chicago university for the purpose of maintaining a fund for the Nephew of Gov. Hoch Is Dead. Gen.

R. F. Patterson, formerly of Dominguez. (C) Assault upon Mr. years have held an annual rabbit hunt pensioning of superanuated teachers.

Horace Waring, aged 22, son of the Fourth Iowa cavalry and Twen. during the Christmas holidays. The Mrs. Anna Waring, only sister of Gov. tv-fifth Iowa infantry and more re and Mrs.

Odin and son. (D) Shooting into houses containing women and children. (E) Wounding of Pre- hunters met this year near the Great- The Kansas legislature met in biennial session at Topeka recently. I haw been particularly benefited by It use for colds in the head antt throat. I have been able to fully cur myself of a most severe attack In forty-eight hours by Its use according to directions.

I use It as a preventive whenever threatened with an attack. "Members of my family also use It for like ailments. We are recommending it to our friends." Chas. W. Bowman.

Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. Hoch died of pneumonia at Salt Lake cently consul general at Calcutta, In house farm and organized. The north The republican caucus nominees, City, Utah. Horace Waring was a dia, died recently, at St Catherines, ciado. division went northwest up Slate member of the class of 1903 civlren- "My evidence," says the message, creek and the south division, southeast Ont.

eineerinsr Kansas University but had oroves beyond the possibility of a Ellen Terry, the English actress, down the creek. At the end of one doubt that some individuals among not graduated prefering the actual tas sailed for the United States to hour the northmen showed up with field He was attached to a the colored troops I have dismissed make a farewell tour of America- a record of 340 dead rabbits, while United States government surveying committed these outrages and that the southmen had 283. a total of others had knowledge of the deet party in Utah and In charge of a Sir Thomas Lipton has offered a cup for a yacht race in Hampton Roads during the Jamestown expo C23 rabbits that were sent to the hap- headed by J. S. Simmons, of Lane county, for speaker, and W.

S. Fitz-patrick of Sedan, as president of the senate were elected. The Oklahoma constitutional convention committee on railroads and corporations has reported in favor of a two-cent railroad fare and the en-lction of a fellow servant law. Suits have been filed in the Missouri supreme court by Attorney General Hadley; to dissolve the al and shielded the guilty from the dv grounds to be hunted in one hour. squad of men, contracting pneumonia while at work in the mountain snows.

Harrv Trekell. proved to be the cham- sition. Trade-Mark for Ireland. Ireland now has a trade-mark with which her products are to be stamped. A penalty may be inflicted for its improper use.

rr. VmntAr hnvinsr killed 59 raD- Col. Patko Andrieff, chief of the Disposed of that Rose Fine. gendarmes of the Lodz district in NEW STATE bits. Russian Poland, was recently shot The $1,000 fine collected by the su For a Graduated Bank Law.

and killed on the streets of Lodz. Simple and Unostentatious Ceremon- preme court from former Mayor W. W. Rose of Kansas City for contempt Anions the bills to be Introduced Capt. John T.

Lytle, general man ies at the Inauguration at Kansas Capital. carlv in the session of the legislature aeer and secretary of the Texas Cat of court will go to Shawnee county is one drawn by John Q. Royce, state tie Raisers' association, is dead in for the support of the common schools bank commissioner, graduating the This in effect is the opinionhanded Topeka. Kansas. At noon Mon leged merger of the Wabash, Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railway companies, and to revoke the licenses and charters of several subsidiary companies.

Violation of the state constitution and laws is charged. Quo warranto writs were issued returnable January 23. San Antonio. Cotiirressional. cacitalizaton of state banks.

Should flnwn bv Attornev General Coleman Give Defiance Starch a fair trial-try it for both hot and cold and if you don't think you do better work, in less time and at smaller return it and your grocer will give-you back your money. Autocratic Revivalists. The earl and countess of Tanker Tille have been holding crowded religious meetings in Shropshire, England. Both are much interested in. day 15 new state officials were inaugurated at Representative hall, Vhe clerk of the court was in toubt The president has sent a specia the bill pass state banks in towns or less than 500 population, would be ns to what disposition to make of the message to congress urging action in regard to closing the break in the Col reauired to have a capital of money and called on the attorney gen with ceremonies of the most simple and unostentatious nature.

The following were the new officers in 000. In towns of 500 to 1,000 population lra.1 for an opinion. the minimum capital is $15,000. In all stalled in authority: Governor, Ed other third class cities the capital is New York is suffering from another epidemic of influenza. The leading flour mills of Minneapolis have been compelled to close temporarily on account of the car Bee Sting Nearly Fatal.

ward W. Hoch; Lieutenant gover orado river by which the Imperial valley is being flooded. It is expected that President Roosevelt will call a special session of the senate immediately after March 4 to consider the ratification of the San Do $20,000. In second class cities the worked on H. H.

Beal, a nor, Win. J. Fitzgerald; secretary of canital required is $25,000, and in A first class cities the capital is shortage. Three hunderd men are well known farmer living near Princeton to save his life from the effects of a bee sting. In eating some honey this kind of work.

The countess was Miss Lenora Van Marter, an American and the earl spent much of his youth in this country. He Is an ener getic member of the house of lord and, like his wife, a great lover of art. state dames M. Nation; attorney general, Fred S. Jackson; treasurer of state Mark Tulley; superintendent of public instruction, Edward T.

000. from the. hive, Mr. Beal took a bee in Bondsmen's Liability Determined. to his mouth.

The bee stung Mr. Beal Fairchild; Superintendent of Charles W. Barnes, state prin J. E. Caton accountant who ex rn the tonsue and in a short time the amined the book of J.

E. Wade, ex- ter, T. A. McNeal; "justice of supreme treasurer of Cloud county, has figured ongue and mouth were so swollen that breathing was almost impossible. Mr.

Beal was not out of danger until court, six years, William A. Johnson; out the liability of each signer on the thrown out of employment. Edward Lechtmere, of Kansas City, ha3 been arrested in Washington, charged with stealing valuables from the National museum. An order has been issusd for a special panel of 200 talesmen from which a jury to try Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White at New York.

F. H. Tedford, chief grain inspector for Missouri, has been summarily removed from office by. the board of six years. Rousseau A.

Burch; fous bonds of Mr. Wade. The liability of years, Charles B. Graves; four yean. morning.

Newspapers for the Blind. The announcement that the London Daily Mall is about to issue a weekly edition for the blind, draws attention to the other British journals published In Braille type, which have had a lonp and useful career, though they have seldom been seen by the general public. The first weekly newspaper for those on Mr. Wade's bond for his Silas Porter: railroad commissioners. Western Roads Come Next.

first term is per $1,000 and that of those on his second term bond is Frank J. Ryan; Charles A. Ryker; George W. Kanavel. mino treaty.

Secretary Taft has submitted to congress an estimate of the deficiency in the war department for the current year, which amounts to Cuban intervention was the principal cause of the deficit. The congressional committee who have been inspecting the work on the isthmian canal have returned to Washington much pleased with the progress made. A lively scene wa3 enacted in the house recently when Representatives Mahon, of Pennsylvania, and Gaines, of Tennessee, passed the lie. The men were only prevented from coming to blows by the interference of other members. The senate committee has re It is announced that when the in $143.02 per $1,000.

The shortage to terstate commerce commission sits at Wichita on February 4, it will consider be made good is $10,772.07. St. Louis. Mo. United Stat-s Cin comnlaints against the Atchison, To cult Judges, Hook and Adams Monday Finney County Land Valuable.

peka Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific issued an order fixing January 30 as That Finnev county land values and other Western railroads, regardin; tc date of hearing on the motion- the blind was published on June 1, 1892, and called the Weekly Summary. It has always been Issued below cost price, and its promoters derive no benefit from Its publication. Another was started only last year, called the Braille Weekly, and issued have changed with the time is shown railroad commissioners as the result of charges made by a discharged clerk. Henry C. Nunn, of St Louis, was appointed to the office.

Tho most flood ever known is threatened in the lower Ohio valley. Much damage has already been the giving of rebates and unjust dis filed by defendants In the suit by the fact that an offer of $175 an rrm-ht bv t'e government against criminations against certain shippers, and-will receive testimony in cases acre was refused for a piece of land the Standard Oil company its su adjoining Garden City recently. The growing out of these complaints, s'diary companies, to have the court set aside the subpoenas in the case. land which less than ten years ago would have been considered high at Largest Stone Arch. dons between Evansville, and Cairo, 111.

The government has taken steps fro prevent E. H. Harriman, Henry $50 an acre could not be bought for from Edinburgh. THE FIRST TWINGE Of Rheumatism Calls for Dr. Williams? Pink Pills If You Would Bo The county commissioners of Cow Deep DrlU'r" Found Has.

Tulsa I. T. The Laclede Oil ana nearly four times that amount. ley county have viewed and accepted C. Frick and H.

H. Rogers from leav the new stone arch just completed Mining connany of St. Louis, brought in a eas well two miles south of tho One Devlin Company Pays Out. Although it had assets to the value Glenn pool at a depth of 1700 feet. Easily Cured.

Mr. Frank Little, a well known citl- at the McCaw ford on Grouse creeTc in Harvey towniship. The bridge is notable as being the largest singls arch sDan in the state. It is 70 feet of and liabilities of only This deoth is below the Glenn sana ing the jurisdiction or Inter stat 3 Commerce commission during the investigation into the' management of the Harriman lines. In a test case at Hamburg a decision was rendered bv the local court 219,450.73.

the Marceline Mercantile hithreto the deepest Oper company managed to pay out after fused to recommend the proposed increase in salaries of cabinet members, president of the senate, speaker of the house and representatives. Congrssman William Alden Smith of Grand Rapids, nas been nominated by the republican caucus to succeed Russell A. Alger as United States senator. The La Foilutte bill providing that railway employes engaged In handling trains shall not work more taan 16 consecutive hours has been passed by the senate by a vote of 70 to 1. The house recently passed 628 pension bills in 95 minutes.

The senate recently passed the in the clear, with a rise of 18 fee; jrcinsr through the receivership by ators state that this discovery means millions of dollars to the mid-conti at the keytone. only a small margin. The figures on zen oi roruana, lonia. was cured of a severe case of rheumatism by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

In speaking about it recently, he said; "Mr body was run down and in no condition to withstand disease and about five years ago began to feel rheu nent field. Droving as it does that an compelling the North German Fire Insurance company to pay the losses the assets and liabilities were given Stockbreeders other sand equally as productive as by the receivers in their report to the court. The seventeenth annual convention the Glenn pool lies below it. Many oil men believe that other stratas ex- of the Kansas Improved Stock Breea- 1st until the" Mississippi lime, 2500 ers'- Association at Topeka eflectea incurred In San Francisco last year. The constitutional convention of Oklahoma, has adopted a asking the president and congress to set aside the ruling of -Secretary Burlington Paper Has Changed Hands the following officers for the ensuing feet deep is reached.

F. C. Flory, editor of the Elk County rear: President. George W. Berry, Em Citizen of -Howard has bought tne poria; vice president, E.

W. Melville, Burlington Independent from Ray P. Eudora; secretary and treasurer, H. A. Heath, Topeka; assistant secretary Sponenbarger and is now in charge.

Mr. Flory is an old newspaper man matic pains in my arms and across my back. My. arms and legs grew numb and the rheumatism, seemed to settle in every joint so that I could hardly move, while my arms were useless at times. I was unable to sleep.

or rest well and my heart pained me so terribly I could hardly stand it My stomach became sour and bloated after eating and this grew so bad that I had inflammation of the stomach. I was extremely nervous and could not bear the leait and is prominent in state political as I. D. Graham, Topeka. Emporia's New Eating House.

well as editorial circles being a mem ber of the democratic state central committee. The contract for the erection, of a Hitchcock segregating 4,0.00,000 acres of land in the Choctaw nation for a forest reserve. The National Red Cross has purchased. 300 tons of flour to: be shipped immediately to the famine sufferers in China. Fire destroyed the tobacco "warehouse and cigar factory of S.

R. Moss at Lancaster, and damaged the stock In ether warehouses in the vicinity recently. The entire loss, it was estimated, would foot up $1,000,000. Harvey eating house at the Santa Fe railway station at Emporia has been Oraanize a State Bank. awarded to S.

M. Parker of Empor J. Atwood, and E. C. Whitcher, ia.

The building is to cost between cashier of the First National bank of S40.000 and $50,000. It will be three Concordia, together with Kackley par stories high and of brick construc ties have organized the state bank ol tion. i Kackley, capital $10,000. Trickett is Re-Appointed. Topeka, Kan.

The first official act of Fred. S. Jackson, the newly elected attorney general of Kansas, who wa3 inaugurated Monday was the reappointment of C. W. Trickett as assistant Attorney general for Wyandotte county, In which Kansas City, Kan, the largest city in the state, is located.

Mr. Trickett is the man who a few months ago permanently closed every saloon and joint in Wyandotte county. President Amends His Order. Washington. By direction of the President, Secretary Taft Monday issued a special order modifying" the order dismissing the negro battalion of the 25th infantry striking out th clause relating to the exclusion of the discharged soldiers from employment in the civil service.

The secretary, now that the war department's Investigation has closed, will undertake to pass separately upon the application for re-enlistment of the discharge men whenever they are supported by evidence of their non-complicity. McCumber service pension, bill without a division. SIteetlaaAas. The shah of Persia is dead at Teheran, the capital, after a lingering illness. He will be succeeded by his son who has been acting as regent for some time.

Representative Charles Curtis, of the First district, has been nominated by the Kansas republican -caucus for United States senator to succeed A. W. Benson. The former residence of John C. MMburn in Buffalo, N.

where President McKInleyj died, was recently destroyed by fire. Sixteen girls and four boys perished in a fire which destroyed a book bindery near Strassbiirg, Germany recently. Secretary Taft has ordered Brig. Geh. McCaskey, commanding the department of Texas, to try at one by court martial Corporal Knowles, of the Twenty-fifth infantry, for the murderous assault on Capt.

Macklin at Fort Reno. He Shot a Pheasant. A Concordia Woman This Time. steamer Ponce, bound from Porto Rico for New York which was 11 davs overdue, has been towed Mrs. A.

Cv Rice, was dangerously The first conviction for killing one burned about the body above her noise or excitement. One whole side of my body became paralyzed. "As I said before, I had been suffering about five years and seemed to be able to get no relief from my doctors, when a friend here in Portland told me how Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured him of neuralgia in the face, even after the pain had drawn It to one side. I decided to try the pills and began to see some improvement soon after using them.

This encouraged me to keep on until I was entirely cured. I have nevei had a return of tho rheumatism or ol the paralysis. The nills are for sale by all drug of the Chinese pheasants, recently waist at Concordia by an explosion imported from, England and liberated following the starting of a fire with In Kansas occurred in Justice Hodges court at Paola. Walter Ring of iyiuis- kerosene. bnrg, who was arrested by Deputy Greene's Work Finished.

Game Warden T. J. Cummings, plead into Hamilton, Bermuda with a broken shaft She had drifted at the "mercy of the waves for eight days before help arrived. A Rock Island passenger train dashed into an apea switch at; causing the engine to. leave the track and turn over.

Five persona were killed and eight injured. Earthquake shocks were reported recently from parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The work of Col. A. R.

Greene, In ed guilty to the charge of shootlnj Kansas, investigating land frauds and one of the birds and was fined $25 llleeal fencing of government -lands, and costs. He said he did not-know what kind of a bird it was. Twelve will not be resumed. Col. Greene nas gists or sent, postpaid, on receipt ol price, 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50.

by the Dr. Williams Mediclm Company, Schenectady, N. Y. been sent to TCaho, his work in Kan cairs of these pheasants were lib sas being completed. erated In Miami county..