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, 1897-11-10

CACTUS LOYAL ORANGE LODGE
NO. 232-Meels first and third Saturday
;, eniuss in |. o. o. +. hall
d. A. Joues, W. Nj.
David McCullagh, Secretary.
, 1897-11-10

r. W. BANTER, JR., LODGE NO. 81,
b.. Of Il. R. T.-Meets first and third
Wednesday evenings in G.. A. R. hall.
j.. J. Storey, Master.
Wm. Matheson, Secretary.
, 1897-11-10

GEM OF THE ROCKIES LODGE NO.
50. c.. !. 4. to the B. of l.. E.-Meets first
and ;hIrd Thursday afternoon in G. A.
IL. Ian.
Mrs. George Harris, President.
Mrs. J. w. Costin, Secretary.
, 1897-11-10

ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION NO.
1903. b. Of l.. E.-Meets every Saturday
evening in G. \. r. hall.
VIM. Nottuge, Chief ENGINEER.
6. W. DeForest, First Assistant.
, 1897-11-10
SECRET SOCIETIES.

w. C. T. U.;-Laranie Lodge meet the
second and fourth Thursdays OF ca"u
month. at 2:30 p. IN. AZ the reading room.
c. NJ. Simpson, President.
Anna b. Holiday, Secretary.
, 1897-11-10

y AS.AitIi Tribe NO. 2, l.. O.. OF X.
Vi Mv,.- inst and third Monday even
~ t.. u. o. +. hail
John Gilbert :
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STOCKYARDS HEARING.
Judge Thayer Sitting-Points Being
Presented by Stockyards
Attornevs.

Judge J. NJ. Woolworth of Omaha is
holding the attention of Judge Thayer in
the federal court today. D. R. Hite
talked all yesterday afternoon and fin
ished his argument this morning. Both
men are attorneys for the stockyards
company.
The company no longer questions the
legality of the act passed by the legis-
lature from a technical standpoint. n ey
have taken new contention, however,
which was not touched in the former
hearing. It is that the legislature has
no right to make private property public
property without compromising the par
ties interested for what they will lose.
They claim that since the act of the legis-
lature provided for no compensation. it is
therefore invalid
The other contention is on the interstate
commerce feature of the case. If the
stOckyards company is engaged in inter
state commerce the state law cannot af-
feet it's business, and the attorneys are
trying hard to establish the fact that it
is engaged in interstate business.
Judge Thayer is hearing the case alone.
He opens court at 10 O'Clock and gives
seven hours a day to the hearing. The
case will be completed at noon tomorrow.
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MAsoNs oF ooNooRpIA
Celebrate an Anniversary - Eave a
Historical Gavel.

Concordia. Oct. 19.-The quarter cen
tenniaI anniversary of st. Johns lodge
No. lib, A F. & A. NJ, of Concordia,
was a success. The several Masonic
lodges of Cloud county were invited
and all OF them sent representatives.
In all 10 lodges We're represented by
visitors and invited guests.
An interesting feature Of the ami
versary was the historical sketch pre-
pared by Judge A. a. Carnahan, of this
city St. Johns lodge is in a fourishing
condition. During its existence it has
expended hundreds of dollars for relief
and charity. It has admitted 103 and
buried 20. Its present membership is
70. 1t has a gavel in use made from
timber taken from the United States
man-of-war Constitution, the ship car
penter who presented it saying that he
was searched every time he left the
ship, but when he carried out his tool
chest they failed to examine it. An
original ode, dedicated to the lodge,
was read by Victor L. Dodge, of No.
10, District of Columbia. a bounteous
banquet was served after which short
talks We're made by many of the broth
erS.
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THE LILY WAS GENEROUS.
Hrs. Langtry Kept Her Husband
Supplied With Funds.

London. Oct. 19.-Sir George Lewis
counsel for Mrs. Lily Langtry has is
sued a statement in reference to the
report that the husband of the actress
when he was found wandering help
lessly in the vicinity of Grove, previous
to his commitment to an asylum for
the insane at Chester, had only a few
copper coins in his pockets.
The lawyer says that since the sepa-
ration of Mrs. Langtry from her hus-
band she had paid Mr.. Langtry regu-
larly through her counsel (Sir George
Lewis an adequate allowance and that
as soon as Mrs. Langtry heard of Mr.
Langtry's condition of health she for
wants of the sufferer. The allowance
paid Mr. Langtry, Sir George Lewis
adds was irrespective of the income
which he derived from his property in
Ireland.
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BOOM FoR WICHITA.
English Capitalists to Purchase the
Stockyards Plant.

Wichita. Oct ia letter was re-
ceived a short time ago in the city from
Mr.. Whitaker of the Francis Whitta-
ker & Sons Packing company, saying
that several English capitalists would
sail from Liverpool on October 10, and
that they would probably arrive here
about the first of the month
1t is understood that these English
gentlemen are coming here with a view
Of purchasing the plant with Mr.. Whit
taker at the head of it. 1t is said that
they will supply unlimited capital for
the maintaining and running of the big
packing house. 1t is said that Mr..
Whitaker has asked that a one-fOurth
interest in the stockyards be given to
the company, they agreeing to run the
plant at its fun capacity the year
around in consideration.
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CHANGE FOR A WHITEWASH
Captain Lowering Does the Expected
and Elects a Court of Inquiry.

Chicago. Oct. 19.-Captain Lowering has
elected to have his treatment of Private
Charles Hammond at Fort Sheridan made
the subject of a court of inquiry. The
court has been constituted and ordered to
convene at Fort Sheridan on Thursday
of this week. The order was issued by
General Brooke today and the officers
constituting the court notified by wire OF
their appointment and directed to report
al Fort Sheridan.
The court consists of Colonel Simon
Snyder, Fourteenth infantry Fort Wayne;
Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd Wheaton Twen-
tieth infantry. Fort Leavenworth; Lieu
tenant Colonel Henry CARROLL Sixth cav
airy, Fort LeavenwOrth; Captain Henry
3. Moon, 3 company, Twentieth infantry,
Fort LeaVenWorth, recorder.
All of the officers of the court are
chosen from outside posts in order that
the board may be free from local preju-
dice in the investigation.
General Brooke declines to talk about
the affair. because he will be called upon
to review the finding of the court of in
quiry. He received the letter of Secre-
tary Alger last night and Captain Lover
ing elected the court of inquiry to
court martial soon after his formal noti-
ftcation of the action of the secretary of
war.
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BIG GAME PRESERVE.
st. Louis Men Purchase 1900 Acres
in the Heart of the Ozarks.

st. Louis, Oct. 19.-Deeds will be
signed today completing the purchase
of the last $50 acres of a 1900 acre
tract of land in Iron county, No, that
is designed to form one of the greatest
game preserves in the United States.
Purchases of land in the vicinity of
IrontOn, No, have been pending for
several months until there has at last
been quietly bought enough land to
serve the purpose indicated. The pur-
chaser is the Mountain & Lake Hunt
ing & Fishing club, including in it's
membership many well known men in
st. Louis. Charles Webner, ex-mem-
Der of the city council, is vice presi-
dent; Charles H. Huff, president; John
W. Peclxington, treasurer.
The tract selected for the purposes of
the club is in the heart of the richest
game regions in Missouri in the beau
tifGl Arcadia Valley, surrounded by the
Ozark mountains.
The intention of the club is to present
the preserve to the state at the eXpir-
alton of so years, provided the plans of
the club be successfully carried out.
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Total amount

Total amount --.-.-.-.........S 192, 90, III 81
Among the claims allowed are those of
the reorganization committee. The COM
mittee held second mortgage bonds
against the old company amounting to
SIG. 431. 1876. 81. Claims conditionally allowed
are those pending in. the courts.
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BLEEDING PILES

And all other forms of this common
and often dangerous disease readily
cured without pain or inconvenience.
Thousands of men and women are af-
hicted with some sort of piles, without
either knowing the exact nature of the
trouble, or knowing it, are careless
enough to allow it to run without TAX
ing the simple means offered for a rad
icaI cure.
The failure of salves and ointments
to permanently cure piles has led many
to believe the only cure to be surgical
operation.
life ard moreover not often entirely
successful and at this time are no long
er used by the best physicians or rec
commended by them.
The safest and Surest way to cure
any case of piles, bleeding or prOtrud-
ing, is to use the Pyramid Pile cure,
composed of healing vegetable oils, and
and opiates. The following letter from
a Pitttsburg gentleman, a severe suf-
ferer from bleeding piles, gives some
idea of the prompt effectual character
of this pile cure He writes:
I take pleasure writing these few
lines to let you know that did not
sleep for three months except for a
short time each night because of q bad
case of bleeding piles. 1 was down in
bed and the doctors did me no good A
good brother told me of the Pyramid
HIle cure anu bOl5AlL II Jill lily III Us
gist three fifty cent boxes. They cured
me and 1 was soon able to- so to my
yvorl1. again WILLIAM HANDSCHU,
46 St, Cotton Alley, below Butter ST.,
Pittsburg, Pa
The Pyramid Pile Cure is not only
the safest and SureSt remedy for piles,
but is the best known and most pOpu-
lar Every physician and druggist in
the country knows it and what it will
do.
Send for little book on cause and cure
of piles. describing all forms of plies
and the proper treatment.
The Pyramid can be found at all drug
stores at so cents per package.
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APRON OF WASHINGTON
Said to Be in Possession of the Wichita
Masons.

Said to Be in Possession OF the w 1ch1ta
Masons.
The Wichita Beacon says:
J. H. Mccall, editor of the Kansas
Freemason, now has in his office the
Masonic apron worn by George Wash
ington. 1t is not an uncommon thing to
see in Masonic lodgerOoms a picture Of
Washington attired n the regalia of the
order, but Mr.. Mccall has the apron IT.
self represented in those pictures.
The apron was given by General
Washington to Oliver WolcOtt, one of
the signers of the Declaration Of indie
pendence. He gave it to his son, John
Wolcott who in turn bequeathed it to
his son, George H. WOlcott, who pre-
scented it to the present owner in con-
sideration of kindness extended to
him in the time Of sore need.
The apron was originally of light
blue color, but age has turned it to a
peculiar yellow. 1t is satin and the
flap bears the a1lseeing eye, while upon
the apron proper is portrayed the other
Masonic embIems of the lodge and the
Royal Arch degree. 1t is 1412 inches
long, and Is inches wide, with round
corners The flap is also different from
the aprons now worn by the fraternity,
being round instead of pointed.
DR.. Whitecraft sent Mr. Mccall some
interesting letters, which he has re-
ceived which proves beyond a doubt
that the relic was really at one time
the personal property of Washington.
One of the letters reads:
Corning, April 6. 1S65-To my son,
George H. WOlcott: My Dear Son
This apron was at one time your grand
fathers, Oliver WolcOtt's. He was one
of the signers of the Declaration of In
dependence. It was given to him by
the immortal George Washington. It is
over one hundred years old. 1t was
given to me by my grandfather. I give
it to you; keep it as a relic and a pres
ent from your poor old father, who is
now 96 years old. JOHN WOLCOTT."
The above letter shows great age and
was evidently written with a quill pen.
1t is pasted on canvas, which shows
that care was taken to preserve it.
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To Curea Cold IN One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c.
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YOU'VE BEEN THERE.

The scenes of a farm life are hard to portray
To one who has never been there.
The sowing and reaping and making the hay
And raising young cattle with care,
The mist of the morning. the dew Of the eve,
The wind and the rain and the snow,
Each playsa large part, as you well may be-
ieve.
have been there myself, and lnowi
It is quite like a pastoral poem to start
While the dew yet bejewels the grass
And drive all the cows to pasture apart
Where singing brook through it may pass,
And you inger awhile where the water flows
cool
And the cowslips and peppermint grow.
IT, Joy to watch those wee fish in the pool.
have been there myself, and lznowl
But at night when the milking time comes and
A young cow that's about three years old,
She objects to your presence and lets her feet
fly,
While the pail slips away from your hold
And she spreads you out over the landscape
maybe
In manner not cautious nor slow,
Then the poetry fades to a startling degree.
have been there myself, and knowl
When your city friends come in the glad sum-
mer time,
How they praise up your berries and cream!
And they talk of the healthfulness, too, of the
cline
And declare country life is a drea1n
linen your prOQOclS Will vanish Win praise
for their worth,
But dollars OF bushes don't grow.
It's hard to raise cash, cen though fertile the
earth.
have tried it myself, and IznowI
There is much to be done when the harvest is
near
And your tired with the hay season, too,
But when all is made snug and the snowdrifts
appear
And the short winter day is soon through
Then the butternuts crack, and the popcorn
viii snap,
And the apples like rosy cheeks glow
Why farm is the jolliest place the map.
I have been there myself, and I knowl
Quite often some fellow, though bashful and
shy,
In his good Sunday clothes neatly dressed,
Will call neighbor conveniently nigh
Whose daughter his fancy suits best.
Then the old folks will yawn the clocks
striking ten,
And to bed they IL obligingly go,
While the two draw their chairs bit closer,
and then
Sayl You've been there yourself, and you
knowl
e. S. Blake in Boston Globe
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FOSSIL TURTLES.
Queer Formation Discovered in
Decatur County.
Five Foot Ledge Full of Petri-
fed Animals.
ENORMOUS TERRAPINS
What Appears to Be Sharks
Teeth Also Found.
Other Kansas News of General
Nature.
ENORMOUS TERRAPINS

Oberlin, oct. 19.-On the ColYin ranch
near Oberlin, Decatur county, there
has been discovered a bed of fossils,
mostly turtles of enormous magnitude.
They are in lodges of rock.
The turtles are about 18inches across,
most of them being imbedded in the
stone head first. One of them has been
discovered lying sidewise. The shells
and bones are only partly petrifed and
being shut up in the rock has prevent
ed their decaying. The ledge being
about five feet high the exposed par
extends back about 20 feet.
As early as in 1879 naturaliSts visited
this locality and picked up several
specimens, but the main bed wasn't dis
covered until recently. Sharks teeth,
and bones of other extinct animals
have also been found in the lodges Of
rock It is claimed the leg bones Of
some of the turtles discovered are large
as those of q good sized animal
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True to Life.

They were having some private theat-
ricals, and Mr.. and Mrs. jerks gave the
scene from 1.-The School of Scandal in
which Sir Peter rates and reproaches Lady
Teazle for her extravaganza and other
shortcomings. Edith jerks, eight years
old, was in the audience, and when asked
at the close of the entertainment how she
had enjoyed her parents acting she cleo
trified her hearers by saying in tone OF
Disappointment: Acting! They were not
acting. That's the way they're always go
ing on at home. It'll Bits.
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CHICAGO TO THE COAST.
The "sunset Limited" Will Com
mence Through Service Tomorrow.

mence Through Service Tomorrow.
Chicago, Oct 19.-The Sunset hmi-
ted" the vestibule limited train COM
posed of gehtlemen's library, smoking
and buffet car, ladies' parlOr observa-
ton and library car, Pullman cOmpart-
ment, and drawing room sleeping cars
and dining car, which, during the past
two winter seasons has been operated
on fast time between New Orleans and
Los Angeles and San Francisco, will,
commencing tomorrow, October 10, be
placed in semi weekly service between
Chicago and Los Angeles and San
Francisco. The route will be Chicago
& Alton, Chicago to St. Louis, St.LOuis,
Iron Mountain & Southern, st. Louis
to Texarkana, Texas & Pacific, TeXar-
kama to Ell Paso, Southern Pacific, FL
Paso to Los Angeles and San Francis
co. The equipment of the trains and
the service will be maintained at the
high standard established during the
past winters. when the train was in
service between New Orleans and Cali
fornia- Sunset limited will leave Chi
cago / 80 p. m. and St. Louis 10 p. m.
every Tuesday and Saturday.
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STATE BANKERS MEET.
To be Entertained Thrae Days a.
Wichita Oct $3.50.

Wichita Oct 19.-The seventh annual
session OF the Kansas State Bankers
association, will convene for a three
days session in this city on the 2Sth OF
this month.
The delegates viii arrive Thursday
and be registered and assigned to
quarters at the official headquarters
the Carey Grand. The city council au-
ditOrium has been secured in which to
hold the convention sessions.
As preliminary to the formal bust
ness the delegates viii be taken over
the city in carriages by the local re-
ceptiOn committee.
Friday evening will be given up to
the social features. An elaborate ban
quet VIII be spread in the dining hall Of
the Carey to which all members are in
Vited.
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FATAL FOOTBALL INJURY.
Iember of a Wisconsin Team Will
Die From a Foul Tackle.

West Superior Wis, Oct. 19.-Morris
E Moran, one of the Superior Normal
schools football eleven, was so severe
~ injured in the game against Ste
vents Point in this city last Saturday
that he is not expected to recover
Moran was playing at left end when
the accident which may have a fatal
termina ton occurred. He was running
with the ball toward Stevens Point
goal and would have made it but for
a foul tackle, by which he was tripped
and thrown heavily in such a manner
that he sustained serioue internal in
iurieS
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SHE PAINTS A TIGER.
Leavenworth Woman Preparing q
Picture for Denver Club

Leayenworth, Oct 19--Miss Edith
Farrell. a promising young artist of
LeavenwOrth. is in Kansas City paint
ing a life-size picture of a Bengal tiger
for the new club house of the Denver
Wheelmen's club, the swell cycling So
ciety of Denver. The tiger is the clubs
emblem.
Miss Farrell was unable to secure a
tiger IN LeavenwOrth, but after cOnsid-
cradle trouble and delay borrowed one
from a Kansas City furrier
Miss Farrell is the daughter of W
H Farrell the veteran wholesale fruit
man of LeavenWOrth, and q sister of
Professor Joseph Farrell of the Kan
sas university, who is now on leave
of absence and in Italy studying mu-
sic.
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a SMOOTH ooUNTERFEIT.
A So Bark Note Raised to $40 Fools
a Cashier and Two others

The Ottawa Herald says:
About the smOOthest piece of forgery
one ever sees is in the possession OF the
Peoples bank. 1t is a two dollar bank
note raised to a SO. 1t is only by
close inspection that the deception may
be detected. All the figure rs have
been carefully erased and the figure 10
skillfully put in each place.
The same way with the Roman char
acters and the wording In each place
has the change been made except the
small figures on the margin of the note
and they have been very skillfully
blOtted out. The work was done so
skillfuIy that the note passed from the
hands OF d business man to the bank
and from the bank to a farmer, who
detected the deception after he got
home, when he returned it to the bank.
on the note, which never is placed on
SO note
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ooFFEYvIL1E PLANT REMAINS
Straw Board Factory Will Not Be
Movad as Was Renortad

Coffeyville. Oct 19-The report sent
out from this city that the straw
board factory would not be located
here but at Cherryvale was a mistake
J. F. Ellsworth has moved his family
TO Cofeyville and mas Identified himself
with the interests of the city
The foundations are in and almost all
of the brick work of their enormous
plant has been completed. Several cars
of lumber, delayed on account OF the
yellow fever scare in the south. will be
on the ground this week Then the
building will be completed. over $50
hands will be employed
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SANTA FE BEET FARM.
Industrial Comm jssi oner Davis Talks
of d New Mexico Project.

Santa Fe. N M, Oct 19-IndustrfaI
Commissioner J. A. Davis of the Santa
Fee railway system and party of cap
italists have been examining into the
sugar beet farms in this locality. They
have found acres of beets weighing
from one to six pounds which accord
ing to analysis by the territorial agri-
cultural college yield from Is to Is per
cent sugar. They express surprise that
Rocky Mountain valleys above 1000
feet in altitude can show such results.
There is a project on foot to erect a
sugar factory here and Commissioner
Davis says his corporation will give it
all possible support He also says that
it is probable that eastern capital will
within a short time establish a large
factory somewhere in the central Rio
Grande valley.
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NOT IN THE CITY.
Seven Blocks Well Populated Not
Now Part of Topeka.

The commissioner of elections is
having no end of trouble about the peo-
pie who live in Steele's addition south
of Twenty-first street.
The last legislature reduced the lin
its of the city of Topeka by vacating
what is known as Steeles addition
which is south of Twenty-first street
and between BoleS avenue and Western
avenue. This comprises seven blocks
pretty well built up. This viii also re-
duce the number of voters in the Fifth
I'd
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TAYLOR FOUND GUILTY.
Cashier of the Argentine Bank Will
Have to Do Time.

A. Taylor of the Argentine bank, which
failed last year owing thousands of dol
lars to depositOrs, was convicted in the
criminal court in Argentine yesterday,
of wrecking the concern. The trial has
been proceeding for a week.
The liabilities of the bank when it
failed were found to be S19S, 600 and the
assets bout S1OO 600 less 1t was shown
that the false statements of the banks
condition were swor2 to by Taylor and
that his bank held 200 worth of
worthless paper.
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Shells this your cycIometer on the
mantel?
He-Yes.
'Why, it only registers 2. Is that all
the miles you have ridden in six months?''
ooh, no. I keep that to tell the number
of dollars I have paid in installments -
Yonkers Statesman
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Pensions for Kansans.

Washington. Oct. Extensions were
granted as follows:
Observation-Disclosures c. Sweeney, OIivet.
Supp, emental-Wnh am NJ Martin.
Maple City.
characterization S. Morris, Peola;
Joseph NJ. Hiner, Garnett.
Reissue and increase-Edw F. Bing-
ham, Stockton: Sylvester Baker, Abb
beyville; John S. Farmer. Norton
Original widows, etc.-Ellen 6. Bush,
Auburn; miners of Edwin M Ewing,
IouiShurg.