The Republican Citizen from Atwood, Kansas • 6

5 BILLS IN CLOTHES PROP I 8 SJmohe deadly BusInessWas Generally Suspended jt? A "ffTAdj ji 9 and A to Be Kan 'X an ap Joseph £4 i lb Si IB 1 Kansas Young Man Told His Mother of Intended Crime At Ellsworth Kas Yancey Carpen ter shot his brother Chris Carpenter and dangerously wounded him Yancey had Been visiting his family Hefttobk his wife home from there loaded his revolver told her that he was going to kill his brother and 'Ji fc More Trouble by Negro Troops Leavenwortih Kan ourteen sol diers mostly nfembers of 'the ninth cavalry colored stationed at Leavenworth were arrested Tuesday by order of Captain Walsh for con nection with the riot on a street car here Monday night when four shots were fired Into a car loaded with pas sengers The trouble which is simi lar to that which resulted recently Vlth discharged members of the 25th Infantry at Reno Okla is causing apprehension among the colored troop ers Two Wounded in a Mixup in a School house Simon Watson was shot and danger ously wounded and Lawrence Watson received a flesh wound in one arm' in a fight at Oak Mills in Atchison coun ty Kansas The trouble occurred at Sunday school exercises in theOchool house Charles William and John Gladden had an old grudge against the doorkeeper and one of them struck him Simon and Lawrence Watson brothers went out to try to quiet the Gladden brothers who were drunk and the shooting followed The Glad dens escaped Two revolvers one of which had no been fired while the other contained five empty shells and a pair of brass knuckles were found a short distance from the place of the shooting BANK ROBBER WANTS PARDON Great Bend Bandit Promises Good Hereafter Governor Hoch has received plication for a parole from 8 Kearns the young man who has been sentenced to an indefinite term of from ten to twenty one yearsin the penitentiary for robbing the Great Bend bank December 8th Kearns says he expects to lead a good life He believes he could live a good life If released now and asks the governor to give him a parole He says he intends to repai atlon to those who have lost by his acts and retrieve his once spotless PASSES OR MORE PAY armer Had Carelessly Tossed Aroundi Two Boards Cbncealing $500 5 After throwing a couple of boards nailed 'tightly together around the yard for eight months or more using thenr as a clothes line prop andJor various' other things Beq Bannon a "iariner living neai Derby Kas while splitting the boards for kindling found $600 hidden between them Bills to the amount of $290 were mutilated al most beyond recognition These with the pieces of board to which 'they attached were shippedtp the treasury department at Washington for identification The balance of the bills: were in good condition and went at once to swell" Mr bank account'' He is 0f the opinion that the boards I were collected by him at the time of th floods last spring when he gath ered quantity of driftwood I Spring creek and the Arkansas river I the junction of which is near' his farm BROTHER SHOOTS BROTHER and Government vniciais Employes Enjoyed the Day a Washington White house was brilliantly lighted Tuesday night for the Christmas dinner President and Mrs Roosevelt had as their only guests Representative and Mrs Nicholas Longworth The doors leading into the state dining room and the blue and red rooms Srere thrown open and the Roosevelt children had a merry time until nearly midnlghL A detachment of twenty members of the i fnrntahad Uuuea OULU3S marine music for the occasion A geiieral suspension of public busi ness marked the celebration of Christ inas In this city' Only matters of the most urgent nature were attended to and in consequence the army of gov ernment 'employes and officials were free to enjoy the day As has been the custom in the past simplicity everywhere surrounded the events at the White house The pres ident was an early riser and transact ed considerable business Vice President and Mrs airbanks spent the day quietly in their home as did the various cabinet members and their families lU Receiver for a Railroad Ala application 'OfAmbrose Mofcell Thomas Morrison and John McLeod alleging the insol vency of the railroad chancery Wednesday appointed gw' 1 Eleven Hundred Persons per Wek Killed Through Accident house and asked for Chris He left there and met his mother com ing home from church He asked where his brother was telling her he wanted to kill him He walked up the street to a restaurant where his brother was and when Chris went out he followed him and phot him He is under arrest awaiting the result of the shooting A SHOOTING IN OAK MILLS KAS a ArLimia Citv Slaver Unknown The jury at Arkansas Cltyi? which has been investigating the Ing of John Breene returned a yer diet bu could not fix the blame The jury had been in session seven jdays! and every clue has been investigated Breene was a constable a nd jt as shotK a revolver fight with a burglar In ASSAULT BY NEGRO SOLDIER Wife of Prominent Physician of El Reno Ok Thrown rom Side Walk by Man In Uniform Race feeling is at nese of San rancisco had Representative Rochester Wants sas Legislators to Live A Rochester a member of the legislature from Scott county is op posed to legislation which will deprive members of the legislature of railroad passes unless there is some assurance that the lawmakers will receive a raise in salary Mr Rochester says that his mltehge of $106 And per diem pt $160 for a Session of the legislature Is only enough to live on during the session and he wants the members to have more compensation It their passes are to be taken from" them He will propope a constitutional aDjepdmentwhich will provide "tharmembeii are hot tcThave jpnssca1 Ind wlU vide for an increase of pay fob the i 1 "A 1 te' ui A Tears Won a Pardon A pardon was issued by Governor Hoch to Orrin Beauchamp! of Elginvr who is serving a sentence for crimlnalJ carelssness in handling a revolver The5 pardon was recommended by Aikman who sentenced him but the tears of Mrs Beauchamp who two destitute children made sonal appeal was the greatest with the governor A County Clerk Suicides Liberty Mo The dead body of Lee Soper who had just complet ed his second term as county clerk of Clay county was found Thursday in a shed in the rear of his home Near by lay his 22 caliber target rifle and a bullet hole was in his head It la believed he commltteed suicide He was 38 years old and married: Des pondency over ill health is believed to have impelled him to take his life Militia Withdrawn from Scooba Meridian Miss All the troops stationed at Sqooba the scene of the recent race troubles returned Thurs day afternoon in charge of Governor Vardaman who went there Wednes day night to take personal command Returning military officials and others says that 'Apprehension of further trouble Is passed There were no out breaks on Thursday? Gen Hudson Improving Topeka Kan? The attending phy btclans 'of GepijJK Hudson state that blsCondition was a trifle 1m Investigating at Brownsville Browsville Tex Purdy as i sistant United States attorney gen eral accompanied by Major Augustus Blocksom of the inspector department and Merchler a confidential law clerk to Secretary Taft arrived here Wednesday to In vestigate the rioting of negro soldiers here last August Only four witnesses were examined Thursday and it will probably require several weeks to complete the inquiry The examina tion is conducted privately Struck Oil Near Madison Madison Kansas is now In theQUfA bell The Madison Drilling company recently brought in a 180 pound ba 'VjVV rel oil well The well Is 2300: feet' uvj deep Oil was struck at 1180 was heavy The oil is now 50 deep in the well The oil stone hM ijeen penetrated only eix eeC is in Greenwood county Exerclses Were Abandons'd $1 Because an epidemic bf diphtheria prevailed iff Council public Christmas exercises ahd sinil lar gatherings were Abandonedby der of the health offloer Throe or deaths hrivd resulted' from' tho'dreadMMM disease Defaulting Cashier of Seden Kan IBank is Ready to Explain Manipulation of Books Coffevville Otto Stallard returned voluntarily to Sedan! Wednesday to face the charge ot em I bezzling about $20000 from the Peo Nalonal bank of i whlcii he was cashier He left Sedan during the night of September 20 leaving notes announcing this 1 shortage buL saying that he' had not used the money and was not personally responsible tor the defalcation At his home at Sedan Wednesday night Stallard relt eraedyhis 'statement' that he had not misused dollar of the money and does not know what became of it but that after? discovering the short age he had done wrong in trying to hjde It from the directors ahd the ex amlners He admitted making false entries this bfit said he was ready to take whatever punishment should giyeg him for doing this He offered to explain all the falsejen tries anil to do what he could toward correcting the books Stallard has not been arrested 'yet and probably will not be for several I days" although! 'he will be closely I watched Stallard was induced mo come home by a telegram from his wife which she sent to him last week at Dallas Tex She had not heard from hirif until' then "except once he:) sent aletter to relatives in Illinois and they forwarded it to her at Sedan a'' EEDING NEW YORK POOR Thirty seven Thousand Persons Shar ed In the Distribution of Christ mas Dinners New York New York celebrat ed Tuesday the most bounteous Christmas it 'has had in many years Ideal winter weather clear cold and sunshiny marked the day 1 Thirtv seven thousand of the poor shared in the distribution of turned down town He went to his Christmas dinners by tne aaivauuu 'Army? Timothy Sullivan and the Bowery Mission ive thousand has kete and 1000 bags each containing a fowl and sufficient for a family of five persons or more were distributed by Commander Eva Booth of the Salvation Army at the Grand I Central! Palace from 11 to 1 Mystery in Kanaatfa Death Monroe Morgan a farmer and stock 1 man who lived In Eureka dlediin if 1 hospital Emporia He i 1 been found In an unconscious condl tlon and near him was a small iottlbv and a jar both of which had carbolic acid He was a wealthy man 3 and his death Is a mystery therey? was no evidence of his having sal lowed poison i Stariling Comparisons Made by Dr Compulsory and Ac curate Records Demanded MRS CALDWELLNOT GUILTY Jury Makes Decision in Noted Kahsas "'Mrs Susan" Cal dwell vyasIdeciareC not guilty otthe crlme of murdering her husband by the jury Tri the district court at Salina Mrs Caldwell her son Harry who has been her constant companion during her trials" and her attorneys each shook hands with the jurors and thanked them When seen by a reporter immediately after the announcement of the verdict Mre Caldwell was weeping joy and her son Harry who was the only member" of the family the room was weeping violently? feel like crying but I said Mrs Caldwell to the reporter Just then two large" teardrops down her cheeks She wiped thenLT away and said in a trembling will not cry any SOWED IRST ALALA Death in Emporia of Harrison Park man Whq Introduced the Harrison Parkman who alfalfa into Kansas died at his home 7 In Emporia He was 73 years old body was taken to Philadelphia for Ski burial Mr Parkman first saw alfalfa grow ing in Chile He brought seedto? 1 America and in the late70s he camei to Emporia to live He sowed alfalfa rO seed on a rarm wuicu nu vvuv the plant prospered It was 4n gaining popularity in Mr Parkman always insistedflhatw yg' is the ideal forage crop tor Kan8as Woman Burned Mrs A Lenhard of Eureka was probably fatally burned by a gas2 oline explosion was building fire In the cook stove and confuslngJ fho Pflfln me auu vuai poured a quantity of gasoline on the fire Her clothing and nair caugm uinri thp neighbors hearing hes screams rushed to her rescue butthej flames were not smothered out until shewas terribly burned Her daughter was also painfully burned hands and arms In attempting to her mother Effect New' York important steps are RSwBOon to be taken in this city and else: to establish a system of com: pulsory and accurate records of the St'f' lenormous number of persons who are annually killed and injured in Amer "7 vast army of industrial workers New York City alone the meager afw: 'v records obtainable are startling In 1904 there were 4162 persons W'fc'' killed in Ney York City through acci dent and negligence as shown by the reports of the department of health Eb5 these reports are said to be in complete Dr Josiah Strong president 01 tne American Institute of Social Service in speaking of the number of persons killed each year our IndustrlaL oc cupations made some astonishing compjtrlsons He said: In the United States kill in four years some 80000 persons more tran fell in battle and died of wounds during the four years of the Civil war We are killing more than twice as many every year as perished by violence In both the rench and Eng lish armies during the three years of the Crimean war are more killed and wound ed in our railroads every year than 'the entire losses of the Boer war on both sides in three years We have Industrial casualties enough every year to keep one conflict like our war with Spain going for 1200 years or 12 such going for 100 years Our peaceful vocations cost more lives every two days than were lost in bat tle during the entire Spanish war the best statistics obtain able lmay say there are to day 575 000 persons in the United States un der sentence of death to be executed 'at an unknown moment during the next ten years 1100 next week and the same number every week until the ghastly work Is complete An In telligent and earnest effort would pro cure the reprieve of a multitude of these innocent A Dewey and i'JLewls Dantblerirecelvers of the Mobile Jackspn and iKansai City railroad running' frtmMobile to Middleton Tenna dte Stance of 366 The people were admitted to the great hall in crowds of 200 and pre sented with a basket of food The usual Christmas dinner at the Palace was abandoned as Commander Booth was convinced that the recipients of the gifts preferred to take them to their own homes and preWe ther dinners after their own fashion This made it possible to add 1000 bags to the amount usually distributed Chinese Relief und Grows Washington Additional subscrip tion for the China famine sufferers amounting to $1000 have been receiv ed by the American National Red Crdss making $6000 to date The Chinese minister Thursday thanked Secretary Root for the evidences of good will and friendship given by the 1 American government and people to i wards the sufferers He said the Chi wbite and' threats of lynching are him they would at once send $4000 to ever a result ot an the relief committee at Shanghai assault committed on Mrs Cllf 1 ford wife of a prominent physician Thursday afternoon by a negrp sol dier of the 25th infantry i Mrs Clifford and her sister Mrs I Clarke were attempting to pass the soldier when he viciously grabbed Mrs Clifford around the waist and threw her into the street exclaiming tliat the sidewalk belonged to him Mrs Clark screamed for assistance and the assailant fled escaping before help arrived News of the attack spread rapidly and the entire police department re inforced by several hundred men and boys searched the town and surround ing country but Thursday evening the chase was given up as the negro was in uniform and must return to the post or become a deserter Word was sent to ort Reno and all absentees noted Both Mrs Clifford and her sister are positive they can identify the man and will go to ort Reno and attempt to pick him from the soldiers who were out of the post when the assault occurred One Church Closed Paris The first Instance ot the closing of a ctiurch under the separation law has occurred at Azhy Sur Indre where the mayor in writing ordered the cure to leave both the presbytery and the church edifice which ho declared the communal au thorities fcould take over in pursuance of the law The cure consequently quilted edifice which was closed 7 Earthquake Damage In HafitlhgoChlia' Halfbt town Af Arira tn the ifrovlrice of Tacna has been "destroyed by an earthquake and p'rftvod Closes relatives eay other' to vrns in neighborhoodhave hia hope for moro or rjdovery 2 wx 'je 7 3 ej 1 If Elites I rtf z7 Sp ft 7 6w) ILi jrl Tt' v': Jl I Vu 1 toX'jrt KU 1) 1 tr ifes iwfyT fw? 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