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Will -Attend Platt Faneral. Wahington, April Prest- Wish to Clean Up Several Gasoline Stoves and in order to move them fast will make very low prices until all are gone. We have also new styles in Refrigerators, both handsome and good. Our buggies were never better and our line more complete, and the prices we make are very low. We will please you both in style of lob and price if you will come in.

THEO ST PIERRE For The Best In Clothing Always XTRAGOOD SEE BOLINGER I Thank You On June 1st I will retire from the photograph business in this city and to those desiring work done before I leave, I will say that I will appreciate your orders early. My business experience in Concordia has been a satisfactory one, and I thank my friends and customers for their patronage. Miss Young. We Want to Pay You For using our flour. We're going to do it by giving you a better flour for your money than anyone else.

The better we make it the better you'll like it. See! Concordia Roller Mills 0'Reilly's Barber Shop Opposite Colson's Cafe. Well Equipped, Elegant Baths. Expert Massage and Shampooing For Ladies and Gentlemen. Shoe Shining Parlor; in Connection.

Patronage is solicited and appreciated. dent Fairbanks, has telegraphed Sergeant-at-arms Ransdell, of the senate, the names of the senators who will act 88 a committee to attend the funeral of the late senator Platt of Connecticut. Among them are Clark, WyomIng, Patterson, Colorado, Allison, Iowa, Cullom, Illinois, and Carter, Montana. Honor a Witchita Priest. Wichita, April John Henry Tihen in charge of the Pro-Cathedral parish of the Catholic Church Saturday received notice from Rome of his appointment as chamberlain to Pope Pius X.

The office carries with it the honorary title of Monsignore and is conferred for distinguished servies in the cause of Catholicism. The recent visit to Rome of Right Rev. Bishop Hennessy of the Wichita diocese is responsible for the appointment. Presidents' Camp Moved. Glenwood Springs, April President Roosevelt's hunting camp was moved to West Divide Creek Saturday.

The 1 snow in that city has about all melted and the guides think the country promises good sport. P. B. Stewart, of Colorado Springs, has left the camp. Elmer Chapman the courier, is not expected by secretary Loeb before Monday or Tuesday.

Printed Lottery Tickets. San Antonio, April States secret service officers seized a printing plant here with which lottery tickets have been printed. eral arrests have been made. It is said that tickets for several Mexican lotteries have been printed here and distributed all over the country. Wind Unroofed Three Cars.

Trenton, April -The Chicago, Rock Island Pacific westbound fast freight train was damaged by a wind and hailstorm at Seymour, Ia. A thrashing machine was blown from one of the flatcars clear over the right of way fence. Three other cars were unroofed but none was derailed. A Taamp Injured at Clyde. Special to the Daily Blade: Clyde, Kans as, April -Rober A.

Page, a tramp, fell from a Rock Island freight train here last evening and sustained some very serious injuries. He was stealing a ride on a freight west bound when he fell from the rods and came near being ground to death under the wheels. He has one rib broken, his right ear badly torn and out and is otherwise badly bruised. New Cigar Factory a at Clyde. Special to the Daily Blade: Clyde, Kansas, April will soon have another cigar factory.

Sam Sherlock, of Seneca, will open up a cigar factory here soon. Clyde needs and will support a good factory Kansas Board Not in Control. At Topeka the Missouri Pacific informed the state board of railroad commissioners that it would not restore a passenger train on the Prosser extension of the Central Branch. The company maintains that, as the branch extends into another state, the question is one to be determined by the interstate commerce commission. Here is.

a case where the gasoline motor car, now coming into use, will fill the bill. Damage suits to amount of $30,450 were up for hearing in district court this month and the judgments rendered amounted to $650 or just a fraction over two per cent of the amount sued for. The platforms on all Central Branch cabooses are to be removed and entrance to the cars will be made from the sides only. -The platforms on the ends of the cabooses are always being smashed. All the railroads either have made or are making similar changes.

The Spencer Junior cigar is the best five cent cigar in the city. Layton Neilson, handle -it in Concordia exelusively. It is up to you. If you want the best for a nickle you will smoke the Spencer Junior. Robinson McCrary's east window has another attraction this week -the battleship Kansas, made of articles taken from the hardware stock.

It is both unique and natural. Harry McCrary is the artist who gets up these attractive displays. All kinds men's summer shirts at Hinman's. Antoinette Provost, eleven years old, died at the home of her parents near St. Joseph, this county, Friday and was buried Sunday morning.

Fred Eels, who is trying farm life this spring, came in Saturday to remain over Sunday, bringing with him one of the finest crops of whiskers ever seen on a kid's face. As he did not dispose of the crop at the barber's it is presumed that he will keep it un til it is more luxuriant. The Brightop Hinman store at Hollis has been sold to a man from Strawberry. Eugene R. Woodruff, a traveling salesman for the Hall Lithographing of Topeka and who is known every town in the state probably, died in Topeka Saturday.

He was well known in this city, where he had many friends. RUSSIA'S NEW NAVY. Programe of Commission to Replace the Vessels Lost in the Present War With Japan. St. Petersburg, April commission headed by Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch which has already raised $5,000,000 by public contributions for the navy has announced its program.

The vessels to be built are as follows: Three cruisers of the -Bayan type, four gunboats of the Giliak type, ten river gunboats of 183 tons, several torpedo cruisers of 570 tons, one mine transport of the type of the Yenisel, 32 torpedo boat destroyers, torpedo boats and submarine boats, two of 297 tons, and 29 of 350 tons, and ten coast defense vessels. The names of several ships destroyed at Port Arthur, like the Bayan and Pallada will be repeated and a number of the ships will be named after deceased officers who distinguished themselves by individual exploits at Port Arthur mostly upon torpedo boats early in the war. One of the cruisers will be named Admiral Makaroff. Charles M. Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel works and Charles R.

Flint of New York have arrived at St. Petersburg. It was announced April 20 that Mr. Schwab accompanied by Mr. Flint, would arrive in this city, to confer with the admiralty and the minister of finance regarding the Russian naval program which it is understood is now practically completed although it has not yet received final imperial approval.

It is believed that some preliminary negotiations relative to the building of a ship in the United States and involving also the possible construction of big shipyards in Russia have already occurred and that Mr. Schwab has gone to St. Petersburg upon the request of the Russian authorities to discuss the subject in detail. THE CHICAGO STRIKE. New Peace Move Taken Under Consideration by.

Employers With Judge Tuley as Arbitrator. Chicago, April new peace move in the teamsters strike with Judge Murray Tuley as the arbitrator, was taken under consideration Saturday by the employers. The strike leaders as the result of negotiations carried through Mayor Dunne agreed to submit all grievances to Judge Tuley and let him decide the issues. The offer included a waiver of all preliminary demands of the unions involved. President Shea of the Teamsters union announced accordingly that a proposed spread of the strike would not occur Saturday.

Meanwhile the grand jury took up an investigation of the labor situation. An inquiry was begun Saturday into both sides of the subject. President Shea, George S. Golden, and other labor leaders were summoned as witnesses. Secretary Job of the employers association was also called.

Well Known River Pilot Dead. Cincinnati, 0., April R. 4 G. S. Hinkle for 30 years secretary of the Pilots' association and known among rivermen from Pittsburg to New Orleans, is dead at his home in Bellevue, of cancer of the throat.

For nearly a month he had not tasted food. He was prominent in Kentucky politics as a democrat. Realizing that death was near he had made all arrangements for his funeral even to the selection of pall bearers. Sympathy tor Kaleieff's Mother. St.

Petersburg, April central committe of the journalists' organization composed of many of the most celebrated Russian writers, including Korotenko, Gessen, Annensky, has adopted a resolution of sympathy with the mother of Ivan Kaleiefi condemned to death as the assassin of Grand Duke Sergius, expressing the hope that the time will soon arrive when Russian mothers will no longer be obliged to sacrifice their sons in the struggle for liberty. Army Board Appointed. Washington, April order has been issued by the war department appointing a board of officers consisting of Maj. Gen. James F.

Wade and Brig. Gens. Frederick D. Grant, Frank D. Baldwin, Tasker H.

Bliss and Albert M. Mills, to meet at the war college here May 29, 1905, to make selections for detail to existing and anticipated vacancies in the general staff corps. Increase in Russian Taxation. St. Petersburg, April The council of the empire has promulgated the first law providing for an incerease in taxation for war purposes.

It in, cludes an increase in the tax on matches, petroleum, and a graduated tax on the salaries of officials. The total product is estimated at 000,000. The law goes into effect May 1. Another Rupture Threatened. Washington, April state department has received advices that there is great danger of a rupture between Chili and Peru growing out of the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute and this has demonstrated the necessity for the immediate selection of an American minister to succeed Mr.

Wilson at Santiago, Chili. Mi. Wilson recently was transferred to Belgium. Refinery Case Dragging. Topeka, April it now is four days since the answer in the state oil refinery case was filed in the supreme court, neither side has made the expected motion to advance it on the docket.

Unless a motion of this kind is made and granted case will drag beyond the summer vacation and not be decided until next fall. BLADE Tonsorial Parlors. Bert Bray, TONSORIAL ARTIST. Shop under Barons House. Your patronage is solicited and Si faction guaranteed.

Cal and see me. J. V. SWENSON, BARBER. You are invited to trade with me and I will guarantee you satisfaction.

107 West Sixth street. Don't forget the number. Hotels. Exchange Hotel, GEO. GUILBERT, Proprietor.

Concordia, Lansas. Your Patronage is Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Real Estate and Insurance. J.

H. TYNER, Rcal Estate Insurance Iron Block, Concordia, Kansas. MYERS HILL, Contractors Builders 530 E. Eighth St. PHONE 482.

Livery and Feed Stables. McConaughey's That stands for everything that's first-class in the livery line. This is a hint. Do you catch the idea? Blacksmiths. HESSTON McKENZIE BLACKSMITHS.

Shop located east of Exchange Hotel on Fifth street. General blacksmith and wagon work our specialty. C. W. Myers, GENERAL BLACKSMITH Shop located on West Sixth street.

Horseshoeing is one of our specialties. Call and see me. Feed Stores. F. Buchner's Feed Store, No.

220 West Sixth Street. Everything that is usually found in a high grade feed store may be found here. Come in and see us. Troup's old stand. PHONE 190.

G. B. VAN AUCTIONEER, Dates made at Blade and DIRECTORY You are invited to do business at THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Manufactured Ice From pure distilled water will preserve the health of your family. Leave your orders with The Concordia Ice and Cold Storage Company Phone 2.

YOUR HARNESS Oiled and Dressed at GREEN'S HARNESS LAUNDRY Single set, 75c Double set $1.00 Double set (with breeching) $1.25 W. C. GREEN, Jr. EASTER SHOES Are best and most stylish when purchased from Diebel Ahlberg. Everything that's upto-date for Men, Women and Children.

EP DIEBEL AHLBERG, Extensive Shoe Dealers, East Sixth Street. SPECIALS In Ladies' Shoes Oxfords $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 Call and see them. The Drew MAUTE THE Shoe Man Dentists. A. 0.

Sage, DENTIST Fine gold fillings, crown and bridge work a specialty. Offloe in Caldwell block, up stairs, N. W. corner Sixth and Washington. Dr.

J. J. Moore, DENTIST. Dental Parlors over music store 5 Sixth and Washington, first stairway west of corner on Sixth. Restaurant ESTIE BRUMMETT, PROP.

Call and see me when in need of a good, square meal at a price that you can afford. CONCORDIA STEAM LAUNDRY L. E. ABBOTT, PROP. Quick and satisfaotory work at reasonable prices.

Phone No. 3. Physicians. Charles Caton, M. D.

Practice limited to diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and adjustment of spectacles. Office over postoffice. W. R. Priest, M.

D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention given to surgery. Office in rooms over Neitzel's drug store. Dr.

Ida Wiard, Neurologist and Ophthalmologist. Entire attention devoted to nervous diseases and the scientific adjustment of glasses. Private office at Ward's jewelry store. Dr. T.

E. Raines, Homeopathic Physician and Surgeon Office in Caldwell block. Residence West Fifth street. Residence phone No. 91.

Dr. Cecil J. Huntington Osteopathic Physician Graduate of Still College, Des Moines, Iowa. JAMESTOWN, KANSAS A. J.

Weaver Physician Surgeon Offioe over Layton Neilson's, Concordia, Kansas. PFLEIDERE MORGAN, Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry. PHONE 20 CARTNEY SON, Wholesale and Retail Meats. PHONE 38 F. J.

Harker. Fresh and Salt MEATS. Phone 14, If You Are Looking For the best in groceries, you will go to Phone 72. 0. S.

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