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BYRON REPUBLICAN
CHARLIR A KELLER Ed Prop
BY BON
OLKA
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN YKKUITOKT
E It Strong a farmer living west of
Blackwell has disappeared
The Farrington elevator at King-
fisher has been destroyed by fire
The people of Hobart expect to re-
ceive deeds to their lots in a short
time ' - (
1116 grocers of Shawnee have organ-
ized to protect each other from dead
‘ beats '
Many snake bites are recorded but
no deaths result Oklahoma snakes
are mild
Two loads of this year's crop of yel-
low corn was marketed at Shawnee on
July 25
The population of Oklahoma as re-
ported to the redistricting commission
is 541485
Wellington and Wichita men are
figuring on putting in a big flouring
mill at Blackwell
A colony of 1000 people from Tren-
ton Mo will open the new town of
Thomas on August 19 ‘
A Lawton dentist in drawing a tooth
bursted an artery in his patient's
mouth endangering his life
The Woods county editors at their
association meeting at Alva declared
against division of the county
Guthrie stands ready to put up $25-
000 all that is asked to bring in the
Denver Enid & Gulf railway '
The Great Western Oil and Mining
company of Lawton has incorporated
with two million dollars capital
There were 160 persons enrolled at
the Logan county normal Institute
beating the record in the territory
A large oil well machinery and sup-
ply house is to be located at Oklahoma
City by a Beaumont Texas man
The people of Geary have voted bonds
for the erection of a new 93500 brick
school building and construction work
will be commenced at once
Pete Williams has been convicted in
the Caddo county court of being instru-
mental in the murder of the two
sheriffs Smith and Beck last January
James E Ament former president of
the Alva normal school has been elect-
ed president of the Oregon state nor-
mal school It was a surprise to him
and to his friends
Jno R Thompson has been appoint-
ed captain of Co K of Enid vice Cap-
tain Boberts resigned and Harry C
Overfelt captain of Co G Hennessey
in place of Captain Hanselman re-
s'gned '
Mrs James R Wood has receeived
her certificate on her “No 1” claim at
Lawton which disposes of all contests
She will receive her patent in the reg-
ular routine of business in the general
land office
Governor Ferguson tells the commis-
sion to redistrict the territory for leg-
islative purposes that it is best to re-
district along county lines as far as
possible and not to “gerrymander" for
political effect
At the Ponca Indian sun dance this
year there were several graduates of
1 Haskell Carlisle and Chilocco schools
showing that education has not erad-
icated the superstitions of rlie red men
The sun dance is a religious function
and not a mere sport There were
fully 1800 visiting Indians guests of
the Poncas who have “gone broke” in
in making valuable presents to their
visitors The Indian police do not per-
mit the use of kodaks but seize and
break them to pieces
The board for leasing school lands
6eized walnut logs in Canadian county
claiming that they were stolen off
school lands
The contract for the care of the in-
sane of the territory expires on Octo-
ber 1 and the contractor II C Beamer
and Governor Ferguson are negotia-
( ting for a renewal of the contract
Much of the Kechi country has been
leases and companies are preparing to
erect cement mills The Frisco line is
building a spur from the new town of
Cement to the gypsite deposits
E E Brown editor of the Observer
at Guthrie announces the discontin-
uance of that paper and its removal to
some larger city where he “can handle
the political questions of Oklahoma
Kansas and Nebraska”
Kansas farmers along the state line
are claiming from one to two rods
south of what is supposed to be the
fctate line The county surveyors of
Kay Grant Woods and Woodward
counties are asked to ascertain the
true situation and establish the true
liuc
Ifcnry Nelson had six stacks of
Wheat ten miles from Medford He
has them no longer Lightning burned
them ’
The country about Tilgerald can
certainly rival the world in the pro-
duction of fi IIO ' vegetables A farmer
had onions in the market a number of
them measuring thirteen inches in cir-
cumference There were 130 prisoners in the Ard-
more jail at a recent morning's count
This is a larger number than before in
three years
The stone and brick library building
at the territorial college at Stillwater
just completed at a cost of 940000 is
substantial and attractive It liaa
three floors and an auditorium with a
beating capacity of 1000
W A Flesh man has near Okeene
an orchard that is five years old and la
a fine one Apple trees bending under
their loads plum tree five years old
that have yielded over four bushels
each of marketable fruit Hia vine-
yard is breaking the trellises with the
loads of large bunches of grapea
Tlc auiouni uenveU from tne sue oi I
lots at Eeggs was 911720
Wagoner claims to be the big hui
market of In liun Territory
The dew court house at llolmrt Is tc
be built of Oklahoma grauite
The Creek council njet last week t
net on tlie supplemcntil treaty
The Iloldenville city council has de
elded to build a city hall und a jail
The cornerstone of the Ciimberlan
Presbyterian church at Ardmore is laid
A big barbecue and picnic with ro-
ping contests is set for August f and t
at Ilelicr Springs
The Frisco is putting in stock pent
ut Troy I T to accommodate Jurgi
shipments of uattle
August will seeover 1200 cars ol
cattle shipped from the Creek and
Cherokee reservations
The census of Miami just completed
gives the names of 2350 people who
are residents of the city’
Chinch bugs are reported eating the
fields of corn near Vinita now that
the wheat is out of the way
The Dawes rommission prepared to
make allotments to Creek homesteaders
by fitting up offices at Okmulgee
It is now reported that the deal is
off and that no combination will Ye
formed of the cotton oil mills of the two
territories
The federal government has leased
the new Thompson building at Vinita
and Will use it as a jail until a United
States jail can be erected
The Shawnee Indians adopted as
Cherokee citizens have had a number
of meetings resulting in the adoption
ACIDAL WAR BY STRIKERS
EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA
Great Damage
Strikers Who Were Shot
Mostly Foreigners
Were
GOV STONE SENDS 1500 MEN
Shenandoah Pa Aug 1— In street
fighting between a mob of striking
miners on one side and deputy sheriffs
and police on the other Joseph Beddal
leading merchant was beaten to
death two Borough policemen shot
ODe fatally and more than a score of
strikers shot by policemen and deputy
sheriffs
The trouble started when Deputy
Sheriff Beddall attempted to escort two
non-union workers through the strik-
ers line of pickets Tne- workmen were
dressed in their street clothes but one
of them carried a bundle under his
arm and this aroused the suspicions of
the strikers The bundle was torn
from him aDd when it was found to
cantain a blouse and overalls the man
was taken from the deputy and beaten
almost to death
“It is estimated that more than 1000
shots were fired and the wonder is that
more fatalities did not result More
than twenty strikers all of whom were
foreigners were snot and at least two
of them will die The doctors of the
town dressed the wounds of nearly
forty strikers all of whom were for-
eigners ' Sheriff Beddal' sent the fol-
lowing to Governor Stone:
“Bloodshed and riot in this county
property destroyed citizens killed and
of resolutions opposing the adoption of I injured Situation beyond control
the Cherokee treaty I Troops should be seat to Shenadoah
Tan Rogers had 180 cattle on the I
Osage reservation among them 80 fine
3 and 4-year old steers Of these 113
died with fever and the rest are
thought to be doomed Ilia loss will
reach 94000
' The 'Snakes have rebelled against
the action of the Creek council In pass-
ing the supplemental agreement and
have been holding meetings at the old
Hickory grounds about ten miles south
of Okmulgee
Govern men t surveyors are at Sulphur
Springs laying out 640 acres as a reser-
vation for a national park to be main-
tained by the United States in the
event the new Indian treaty is ratified
by the Indians
Citizens of Tplsa have been success-
ful in raising the money required to
buy the right of way for the Katy
through the town and seven miles east
The price is fixed for crossing allot-
ments at 91 30 each
During the year ending June 30
1903 74505 acres of land were entered
In the Kingfisher land office Nearly
39000 acres were entered in Day coun
ty The total area of land in the dis-
trict is 4431000 acrea '
Revenue Collector Cobb estimates
that there are 1000000 head of cattle
In Indian Territory distributed as fol
lows: Chickasaw nation 500000 Choc
taw nation 350000 Creek nation 150
000 Cherokee and Seminole nations
100000
There were about 100 lessees of school
lands representing every county or-
ganized “The United Lessees of Olcla
homo ” A resolution was adopted op-
posing a permanent tenant system and
that action be taken by the legislature
to place the lands on sale the lessees
to have preference right to purchase
The entire press of the Cherokee na-
tion is in favor of ratifying the Chero-
kee treaty and excessive land holders
are opposed to it These are backed
by the fullbloods and the oil men and
by merchants at Coffeyville and other
towns along the line who hold mort-
gages and gather rents which will be
come worthless If the treaty is ratified
Citizens of Ilenryetta have formed e
corporation with a capital of 925 00(
to work the coal mines in that neigh-
borhood Prof J H Kelly of the Tonkaws
preparatory school is making an active
canvass of the territory for students
He addressed the Logan county nor
mal institute
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the survey of the electric rail
way line from South McAlester tc
Ilaileyviile a distance of 14 miles The
line will serve about 30000 people
R B Harris known as Red Bird
Harris a prominent Cherokee died a
few days since at his home near Mub-
kogee - -
The supplemental treaty with the
Creek Indians has been ratified Under
it all leases for grazings are limited tc
one year and leases for agricultural
and mineral purposes to five years
Mrs Morris wife of a Rock Island
yard man was driving with her two
littlo girls when the horse ran away
The children were only slightly bruised
but Mrs Morris was seriously hurt
The oldest man In Indiau Territory
lives near Fort Gibson and his name is
Edwin Ilorry lie is 103 years old
lie uui born in Virginia in 1704 and
has lived in three centuries The old
man is living with his second wife who
is now about 80 years old
The Elks of South McAlester opened
their new homo with the initiation of
30 candidates Elks from Parsons
Muskogee Durunt Fort Smith Den-
nison Gainesville and Shawnee were
invited and a full team from Hot
Springs had charge of the floor work
Buffalo Jones is agitating tho reser-
vation of a large park in the Chicka-
saw nation to be devoted to raising
buffaloes
The town - of Tahlequuh is to cele-
brate the opening of the Cherokee Cen-
tral railroad on August 5 The rosd
is being pushed rapidly towards Mus-
kogee The Osage payment is on The In-
dians get 9395000 a pro rata of 931433
The fullblood payment will lust to
August 3 the hslf breeds will be paid
during the week beginning August 4
Harrisburg Pa— Governor Stone
ordered the Eighth and Twelfth regi-
ments and the governor’s troop of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania in
command of General J P S Oobin to
proceed immediately to Shenadoah
General Gobin left here In a special
train at midnight It was expected
that 1500 troops wquld bo on the
ground by daybreak
to on I Oil Company's
tVells
Lompoc Calif July 30— Lompoc
valley experienced a severe earthquake
shock at 10:55 p m A violent shock
was felt which lasted fully thirty sec-
onds and was so severe that dishes
clocks house plants etc were thrown
from shelves upsetting furniture and
other articles The people were strick-
en with terror and ran from their
houses some fearing to return as
other lighter shocks continued for
several hours afterwards Another
heavy shock was felt at 5 a m and
one at 11 a m 'A large water tank
was kr 'eked over the earth cracked at
many different places and the Santa
Ynez river bod was slightly changed
at places The disturbances seemed to
be of a local nature -
Santa Barbara — Advices received
from Los AlamosO California forty-five
miles north of this place report an
unusually severe shock of earthquake
at about 1 p m doing great damage
to the property of the Western Union
Oil company at the Carreaga wells
The damage is estimated at from
912000 to 915000 At Harris station a
fissure is reported to have opened and
from it a stream of water two feet
deep and eighteen feet wide is now
flowing A slight shock of earthquake
was felt in SaDta Barbara shortly be-
fore 11 o'clock but no damage was
done
The disturbance was more plainly
felt at tlie latter place than at any
other point which has thus far report-
ed In this city the shake was barely
discernible and few people knew of
such a thing until the weather bureau
reported
CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE
ARTESIAN WELL IN KANSAS
orh Under
In The Center Of a Large Oil Pro-
ducing Territory
BIG FRUIT PRODUCING VALLEY
San Luis Obispo Cali Aug 3 — A
strip of country fifteen miles long by
miles wide rent with gaping
Work Delayed — Men Wanted
Parsons Kans July 31— Work on
tho new state insane asylum Hospital
is progressing slowly on account of
the scarcity of labor Not an Idle man
Is to be found and the brick work on
the building is almost completely tied
up as no brick masons can be found
There are two physicians' residences
laundry power house administration
building and numerous cottages for
tho patients to be erected and the
contract calls for them to be completed
by tho first of March Unless more
labor is found this will be an impossibility
Shooting Non-Union Miners
Pottsville Pa July 30— Daniel Lan-
derman foreman at the Kosmoor
colliery Shenandoah was shot near
his home by a crowd of strikers His
face and shoulders were ' torn with
buckshot but it is thought he will
recover Albert Landerman was also
chased and shot and four other non-
union men badly beaten
Tumaqua Pa— About fifty strikers
captured William Eagan a Lehigh
coal and navigation company brake-
man and made an attempt to march
him out of the region They were met
by about twenty deputies armed with
Winchester rifles At the point of
thsir guns the officers marched the
men to a trsiu and took them to Luns-
ford The town is in a state of tur-
moil and serious rioting 16 feared
fissues and dotted with liills and knolls
that sprung up dnrlng the night as if
by magic a village in ruins and hun-
dreds of people fleeing for their lives
are the results of last night's siesmlo
disturbance in the - prosrerous and
fruitful valley of Los Alatnosin the
northern part of Santa Barbara coun-
ty For more than four days that
section of the county has been shaken
by a series of earthquakes that is with-
out precedent The general direction
of these disturbances was east and
west and in action they resembled the
waves on a pool of water The topo-
graphy of the valley is greatly
ohanged ' Los Alamos Is a town of
about 600 inhabitants and is the center
of a large oil producing territory It
is situated in tlie Los Alamos valley
one of the most productive valleys in!
the state wheat olives and citrus fruits
being produced in abundance '
The inhabitants are leaving for other
parts as rapidly as possible and al-
ready the village is almost entirely
deserted
The stricken village presents the ap-
pearance of the ruins of a city long
deserted A church had beeu leveled
to the ground and not one brick build-
ing waa left standing Chimneys had
toppled over frame buildings bad been
wrenched apart and thrown from their
foundations telegraph and telephone
wires had been broken add there was
not a building in town that had not
been damaged more or less seriously
Since the first disturbances there have
been over seventy distinct shocks and
those who have been keeping records
have given up as the disturbance bos
become almost continuous
tbs Reeder Bill to Begin
THU rail
Downs Kas July 31— The govern-
ment will begin irrigation experiments
in northwestern Kansas this fall under
the provisions of the Reeder bill
passed at the last session of congress
F II Newell chief hydrographer has
written Congressman Reeder that ho
will come back west shortly to sink
some wells He says that theflr&t well
will be sunk In South Dakota and the
second one In Ivansaa - His idea is that
the first Kansas well should be sunk
somewhere near the center of -Mr
Reeder's district probably either in
Rooks Ellis or Osborne county Then
if the well proves a success the hydro-
grapher will work on west
“The sinking' of wells In western
Kansas may be of incalculable benefit
to our section in another way” said
Mr Reeder “There is always the pos-
sibility of striking coal oil gas be-
sides water either oneor all It is the
ljope of the chief hydrographer ' that
artesian wells of pure soft water can
be established in Kansas mid the geo-
logical department at Washington
which has made an investigation gives
him much encouragement in his hope
All tat Western Kansas needs
water
PlSu stKrt wesltvw
' Paderewski the celebrated pianist
la an excellent man of business All
the money he earns by hla profession :r
and It Is said to axceed $100000
year la invested to the best advan-
tage He is said to be a shareholder
In a well-known piano firm as well
aa part proprietor in one of the chief
hotels In Warsaw Paderewski has
been heard to say that ha has never
had a single serious financial loss
during the time he has conducted bia
own Investments j
A PLAN FOR A LABOR BOARD
After Anarchists
Washington July 31— Commissioner
General of Immigration Sargent has
sent to immigration officials through-
out the country photographs of anar-
chists who have been expelled from
Turkey and who are believed to be on
their way to this country Accom-
panying the photographs from Turkey
were the instructions to investigate
the charges against the anarchists and
if they were correct to return the men
To Represent Railroads Apd Act With s
Board From Unions
Topeka July 29 — General Manager
H U Mudge pf the Santa Fe lasts
meeting in Chicago where the general
managers of the railroads centering in
Chicago are considering the advisabil-
ity of establishing a general labor
board whose Individual members will
be empowered to act for the railroads
they represent Should the plan be
carried out an attempt wiI also be
made to induce the labor unions to or-
ganize a similar board to trea with
the railway board of grievances The
plan has not been fully outlined and
there are certain difficulties in the
way of its being carried out Several
of the executive officials of the big
systems however are interesting
themselves in the matter in the hope
that such boards will be found to be
practicable The object of the plan is
to save expense and time for both the
railroad officials and the employes
Tbs End la Mot Tea
Topeka July 29— It is still an open
question whether the American Book
company will ask the supreme court
sitting in banc to review the decision
handed down by three judges exclu-
ding the company from the state until
it takes out a charter It would not be
surprising if this was done and It may
ho done on tlie court's own motion
should some of the justices who did
not sit on the case disagree with tke
judgment rendered
Labor President For Peace
Shenandoah Pa Aug S — The fol-
lowing printed notice was posted by
the mine workers all over the town:
“In view of the disturbances that
have occurred at Shenandoah within
the past twenty-four hours in utter
disregard of the teachings and princi-
ples of the United Mine Workers as an
organization and contrary to the ex-
plicit instructions of the leaders we
call upon members of the United Mine
Workers to at once do all in their
power to suppress lawlessness and to
aid the officers in every way to main-
tain peace and good order
“JOHN FAHEY”
“President District No 9”
Report Was Untrue
Topeka Kans Aug 2 — An official
denial is given out by the general
manager's office of the Sudta Fe to the
I dispatches from New York stating that
an increase in pay for 6000 Santa Fe
trainmen wonld go into effect on Aug
1 Assistant Manager Sweet says that
no request for an increase in wages
has been made by the trainmen re
I cently
Uneaten reaennts Strike
Lembnrg Galicia Austria July 30
—The strike in East Galicia of over
100000 agricultural laborers most of
them Russians and which developed
into a lising against the landed pro-
prietors of tlie district is becoming
more serious Gendarmes attacked the
strikers and were attacked by them in
return Crops and farms have been
destroyed Several peasants have been
wounded and others arrested
Scandinavians Coming
' Copenhagen July 29— The transport
lines here are coping with the greatest
boom in Scandanavian emigration to
the United States since the eighties
Every out-going vessel is crowded The
Oscar II Is taking 1000 emigrants on
each trip Here two sister ships will
now be hurried toward completion in
order to handle tlie traffic The cause
of this rush is the unprecedented hard
times throughout Scandinavia as well
as more stringent conscription laws
Judge Horton Djrlog
Topeka Aug 2 — Miss Rosamond
Horton a clerk in the state library'
received a telegram announcing that
her father Judge A H Horton now
at a Wisconsin watering place was 1
falling rapidly and that he was likely
to die at any moment' She left at
once for his bedside ' Judge Horton
went to Wisconsin two weeks ago to
recover his health
Typhoid Story a Feko i
Denver Col Aug 1— The following
statement has been issued by the slate
board of health:
“To the Associated Press Great in-
justice has been done to Colorado Col-
orado Springs and Manitou by wildly
exaggerated reports of typhoid- fever
Such reports are false There is no
epidemic and no more danger tliun
elsewhere throughout - the country
The water of Manitou and Colorado
Springs is unusually pure There has
been no case of typhoid fever reported
from Manitou during the year 1903
and but three cases as originating in
Colorado Springs and these were from
locally defective sewerage
(Signed) HUBERT WORK
“President Col State Board of Health
“LEONARD FREMAN Secretary”
Spanish War Veterans
Philadelphia July 29 — It was an-
nounced here that the third annual
encampment of the Spanish-Ameriean
veterans will be held in Annapolis on
September 22 23 and 24 President
Roosevelt has written that he expects
to attend the encampment on Septem-
ber 23 1
Cattlemen Appeal to President
Oyster Bay R I July 28— W B
Sleeper of Wyoming presented to the
paesident resolutions of tlie stock rais-
ers of the Big Horn country Wyoming
concerning the exclusion of cattle anil
siieep from the additional Yellowstone
timber reservation They ask the
president to suspend any action with
reference to the exclusion of stoek from
tho reservation during the present sea-
son which will last scarcely 90 days
longer It is said that the president
has practically granted the request
Earthquake and Elactrlclty
“It la now over 100 years” said ths
eminent engineer John Gordon Gray
In a recent paper on wireless teleg-
raphy “since Salve a Spanish physi
dst Inventor of tho electro-chemical
telegraph In a paper before the Acad-
emy of Science of Barcelona said : “If
earthquakes he caused by electricity
from ono point charged positively to
another point charged negatively one
does not even want a cable to send
across the sea a signal arranged beforehand”
- King Edward 8ets Fashion
Since It became known that King
Edward VII has been in the habit of
taking a pint of champagne at break-
fast some of the younger swells
New York city have tried it too
fere that though many of these young
men wero accustomed to sip a pint of
sauterne at breakfast They consid-
ered that a mild “hair" Champagne
la more of a “horsehair”
A Foolish Lift
Stratford Wis July 28th— William
Junemann was working with a farm-
er near this place last summer and
one day they got atuck with a load
of grain Mr Junemann says: VWe
had to lift like fools and my back
cracked and started to hurt mo so
that I couldn’t stand it any longer
The man I was working with took
me homo and I went to bed I saw
an advertisement of Dodd’s Kidney
Pills in the paper and I sent and got
one fifty cent box Before I had
this box used up I began to feel bet-
ter and I kept on and very soon my
back was well again
'“I can't say enough for Dodd’s Kid-
ney Pills and I cannot understand
why anyone should continue to suf-
fer with backache when Dodd’s Kin-
ney pills will cure It so quickly
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How Adsm and Eve Were Punished
The vicar was questioning a small
class of Infants on tho Old Testament
“And now” he said very hlandly
can any child tell me in what way
the Creator punished Adam and Ev
for their transgression In the Garden
of Eden?” A tiny tot staggered out
of tho line with uplifted finger
“Please he seat them a baby”
Storekeepers report that the extra
quantity together with the superior
quality of Defiance Starch makes it
next to Impossible to sell any other
brand
There are various walks In life but
the political candidate prefers to run
BIO CROM BALI BLUR
Should be In every home Ask your grocer
for it Large 2 os package only 6 cents
Yon may not be self-made but you
ean endeavor to make yonrself agreeable
Kadlec Cam Waaa Shoes
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-
Ease a powder It makes tight or new
shoeaeaay Cures swollen hot sweating
aching feet ingrowing nails corns and
bunions All druggists and shoe stores
85c Trial package FREE by mail Ad-
dress Allen S Olmsted LeRoy N Y
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The baseball fan doesn’t always keep
cool
Mors Naval Offloers
Washington July 29— Evidence in
black and white that there is not
enough commissioned officers in the
navy to properly man the warships
now in commission is contained in a
statement issued at the department
Secretary Moody will take is to Oyster
Bay to visit tlie president lie will
present the figures as baclciDg the
opinion he firmly holds that a sub-
stantial increase must be made in the
commissioned force or the United
States must stop building battleships
Cloudburst Over 80 Square Milee
Hornellsvllle N Y July 30— Re-
ports from the surrounding country
show that the cloudburst of Saturday
night affected nearly eighty square
miles of territory A broad estimate
of the damage' is 9250000 The crop
loss is enormous Much stock lias been
drowned and many buildings huve been
washed off their foundations
The Erie got one track open late in
the day It will be some days before
all the damages to the roadbed are repaired
Tornado In Wieooniln
La Crosse Wia Aug 2 — One of the
most destructive storms in years oc-
curred here Railroads have been
'washed out in all directions and tele-
graphic communication in all directions
practically paralyzed Damage to crops
will reach many thousand dollars A
tornado north of here did great damage
to farm property many houses and
barns beings unroofed The storm
was general over western Wisconsin
The storm also struck Winona Minn
where it unroofed a church and an elevator
Another Storm:
Canadagua N Y July 29 — Another
terrific storm visited this section doing
great damage to crops and property
that had 'not already suffered 'Ed-
ward Chamberlain was struck by
lightning and instantly killed Can-
andagua lake has risen still higher
The damage on hundreds of farms is
simply Irreparable From every part
of the county comes reports that wheat
is sprouting in the shock and that a
serious blight has struck the apple
trees
Fradnlent Matrimonial Bureau
La Grange Ind Aug 2 — Mrs Vic-
toria Gibson of Butler Ind is under
arrest charged with the fraudulent use
of the mails in conducting a matrimo-
nial bureau It is charged that by
means of advertisements she secured
a nutneer of matrimonially inclined
victims who sent her sums of money
The affidavit of information was fur-
nished by J A Knight of Basile Ixas
who answered nn advertisement and
sent 950 to defray the expenses of a
prospective bride to Kansas
I do sot believe Pleo’e Cam ter Coneamptlea
turn an equal tor coughs and eolda — Jobs F
Boras 1'rlnltj Springs Ind Feb 15 isoa
Even the prices are high on roof gardens
SENSIBLE HOUSEKEEPERS
will have Defiance Starch not alone
because they get oh e-thlrd more for
the same money but also because of
snperior quality'
The girl who steels her heart will
not have it stolen
DR J C BROWN Practice Limited to
Wlobita Kans EyaBar Nose Throat
J Ha TURNER
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Douglas WICHITA
Pboue 496
KANSAS CITY X0 Ctalogu A tree
Son of Governor Tom Carney
Leavenworth Kans July 31 — E L
Carney a lawyer of this city was
stricken with apoplexy and died with-
out regaining consciousness lie was'
tlie son of ex-Governor Tom Carney
of Kansas and a graduate of Harvard
Mr Carney was stricken while bitting
in u chair reading lie was born in
Cincinnati fifty 3-ears ago and had
lived in Leavenworth forty years He
was seemingly in perfect health
to within ton minutes of Ins death
1 Baying Males for Florida
Kansas City July 30 — W A Cramer
of Jacksonville Fla is here buying
mules which he will ship south for use
on the cotton plantations He expects
to get about two carloads of the big
Missouri variety Rain has not beeu
as plentiful in certain parts of tho j
south as it has been here and as a con-
sequence there will be a bhortage of I
cotton in some sections but at that the
crop will be a good one The orange
and fruit crops he says were never
belter and there will be a big supply
Earthquake Up North
Omaha Neb July 30 — An earth-
quake shock which was general over
portions of Nebraska western Iowa
and South Dakota occurred shortly
before 1 p m The beismic disturb-
ances were felt at a large number of
towns in the three btates and lasted
from ton to fifteen seconds No flam'
age has been reported thus far al-
though the shock was sufficient to
rattle dihhes and affect bell towers in
some places Battle Creek Nebraska
was hliaken for twenty seconds
Naval Station at Havana
Washington D C Aug 2— I’Wib-
nbly tlie last chunee the navy depart-
ment had to beeure a couling or naval
statiort in Havana liurbor was lobt by
tlie action of the Cuban cabinet in au-
thorizing the lease of the arsenal
grounds This was the site of the pro-
jected United States naval station
News of the Cuban cabinet's action has
just reached here Nothing is expected
to be done respecting tlie acquisition
of sites for stations elsewhere ou t'ee
island until next winter
Cattle Men Kill Goats
Grand Junction Colo July 30 —
Fourteen ninshed men appeared on the
grazing ground of the Angora Range
association on l’inon mesa where
1000 gouts were ranging Three
herders who were in charge of the
goats were bound while tho maskoS
men slaughtered more than 600 of th
flock by shooting and stabbing them
The loss le estimated at 98000 Mrs
M B Irving tlie manager of the
association it a widow 38 years of age
and an author of note
A llrave Young Mnu
Joplin Mo Aug 2 — Orvillo Os-
borne 10 years old shot a robber at
Vcrclj Kans a small town northwest
of Joplin The robbers entered the
store of S' D Osborne and ordered
young Osborne to throw uj) his hands
Instead the lad opened fire at the three
men who lied One of them was shot
in tke thigh and was so badly wound-
ed that he had (o be assisted in his
escape by his associates Young Os-
borne is considered a hero in local
circles
Lives Lost In Texas Flood
Dallas Texas Aug 2 — A report
reached here from Hillsboro that be-
tween 400 mid 500 men who were chop-
ping wood in tlie bottom lands between
Richland and 1’ost Oak creeks have
not been heard from since the heavy
ruins and it is feared thutsomeof them
were drowned An effort is being
made to get Into communication with
the locality Five lives were lost and
hundreds of head of livestock were
drowned in the flood forty miles south-
east of Austin
Only One Victim
Shenandoah Aug 2 — Of nil persons
who were beaten with clubs or struck
by bullets during the rioting one mun
Joseph llerid ill is dead lie was a
brother of Deputy Sheriff Thomas
lleddull and a nephew of S It Beddall J
the sheriff of the county He was 35
years old and was a member of the
Boddal-Tuggart eompuny wholesale
and retail hardware dealers of this
city The strikers will call upon the
county officers to fix tho responsibility
of the shooting
Gusrante Cormn Independence
SL Petersburg July 28 r— A special
dispatch received here from Seoul
Corea announces the conclusion of an
important agreement between tho Brit-
ish and Japanese ministers to Corea
and tne Japanese councillor Kato
special advisor of the Corean emperor
by which Great Britqln and Japan mu-
tually guarantee Corea’s Independence
and pledge her their support and as-
sistance In all Important questions af-
fecting her International and foreign
policy
Work on Manila Post
Washington July 28 — Reports have
reached the war department that ex-
cellent progress Is making on the
Manila post Congress appropriated
I 850000 early in the year and 1800 I
acres of land on the Pasig river has j
been acquired for the post The lum-
ber for these quarters is sent from the I
Columbian river and Puget Sound It
Is said that the white ant which Is no
destructive to woodwork in the Phil-
ippines does not injure the yellow pine I
of tba Paolfic coast
rhons Servian to New Orlenne
ChiuHgo July 31— Officials of the
Illinois Centrul railroad in Chicago
may talk over tho telephone with the
New Orleans office of the road as long
as they please without any charges for
overtime for their conversation is over
their own wires Their new tulle line
has just been completed and put in
working order and is one of the last
steps in the installment of the Cen-
tral's big telephone system ooreiing
all the important terminal and Intel
mediate points on its line
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