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PAYS $40 DAILY FOR BOARD.
A Wellington Boy Finds Living in
Buenos Ayres Expensive.

Wellington. Kas., Dec. CIV. A.
I.ichtenberger has received a letter from
John Pitts, dated Buenos Ayres, Octo-
Der %. He says in part:
.tBuenos Ayres is a great city of $780,
900 people. The people here are great
for sport and enjoyment. There is no
city outside of Paris that can come
any way near supporting so many fine
carriages and horses and such num-
Der of pretty and well dressed women
as Buenos Ayres.
Everything is very expensive here
I am paying $40 per day for board and
room, and only two meals per day.
Coffee in the morning is extra
"a John B. Stetson hat, such as we
in the states pay So for, is sold for 1928
I have just now received my laundry
for last week: One suit of underclothes,
two shirts and collars, three handker-
chiefs and two pairs of socks-and the
bill is 1885. Tobacco is clear out of
sight Such cigars as are sold in the
states for five cents would cost so and
rs cents here, and pipe tobacco, plug
cut, costs So per pound, and good chew
ing tobacco you cannot buy here at any
price So if you want to send me a
Christmas present, tobacco is the stuff
s'All the people here that are not ma
tives are here for what money there is
in it
'@This is a very heaIthful place, and
the climate is fine, although it has been
very wet here this year, more rain than
usual. and the roads outside of the city
are almost impossible. The amount Of
rainfall in the past six months has been
three feet and six inches, not counting
what has fallen in the last forty-elsht
hours. The prospect for a grain crop is
ANYTHING but fattering"
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KANSAS NEWS.
Chanute's Woman Barber and
an Operator EIOpe.
Had known Each Other Less
Than a Month.
BOTH WERE MARRIED.
Mrs. COffman's Husband Is
Santa Fe Trainman.
Payne Was Imported to Take a
Strikers Place.
BOTH WERE MARRIED.

Chanute, Dec. pa sensation has
been caused here by an elopenent which
was evidently a case of love at first
sight. Both the parties were strangers
to each other prior to the Santa Fe
operators strike.
Mrs. T. H. Coffman was the only wo-
man barber Chanute could ever boast
Of. The man was an operator named
Harold G. Payne, who has been work
ing at the dispatcher's Office lately, hav-
ing been brought here by the Santa Fe
company during the recent strike.
Mrs Coffman is a well known figure
in Chanute. having had charge of the
first chair in her stepfather's, J. Hud-
klns, barber shop near the Santa Fe
track just east Of the Candy parlor, for
a year or two. Her husband n H
Conman, is a well known Santa Fe
brakeman, who went to Hot Springs,
Ark, recently because of poor health
Since Payne came to Chanute he
mad been noticed paying attentions to
mrs. Coffman. and spent a large part
OF his time in the barber shop, when
Mr. Hudl1ins was absent. Sunday he
wrote the following note to her which
is self-explaining, and she showed it
to her mother:
My Dear Mrs. Coffnan-This will
probably be somewhat of a surprise
to you, but having just arrived in your
city, and learned that you were still
here, I FASTENED to address you.
would it be convenient for you to
receive an old friend whom you will
undoubtedly recall having met in
Walla Walla during your visit in
Washington some few months ago?
Miss White mentioned in connection
with my visit here that you would re-
member her. and wished me to ex-
tend her best wishes. If convenient
to receive me I should consider it an
exceptional pleasure to call this evening
at half after g. In the meantime am,
my dear madam, very cordially
HAROLD C. PAYNE
This note was written to get him
up at the house, where he was intro
duced as an old acquaintance she had
met while visiting her uncle in Wash
ington. During his stay he proposed
that he accompany Mrs. Coffman to
the Christmas exercises the next
night. Mrs Hudkins, who did not like
his looks-and it may be said in passing
that he is one of the ugliest men ever
seen in Chanute-told him he could go
if they all went together The next day
he said he had some extra. work to do
and could not go. Mrs. Coffman went
down to the shop in the evening. Upon
closing the shop she went over to the
Delmonico, where she waited, saying
someone was coming to take her home
She was Joined by Payne there. and they
left on the night train Their present
location is not known.
The news was telegraphed to Mr..
Cohman, but nothing has been heard
from him yet. It. is rurnored that
Payne is a married man.
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ing all kinds of money in the Hot
Springs pool rooms
The estimated value OF the F'utuTity
stakes Of the Coney Island Jockey clu0
for 1868 is 5000
ssParson" Davies, the old-tine mara
ger OF pugilists, is managing successful
pool room at New Orleans.
In addition to the betting at the Cres-
cent City track, they have five pool
rooms in the city in full blast.
Al Thomas is estimated to have ridden
500 miles in showing horses at the last
Madison Square Garden sale.
Jerry O'Neil has q slendid prospect for
next seasons 2:13 pacing classes in his
late purchase, Diavolo, 2:12A.
Amerigo, 2:1s1z, by Governor Stanford,
dam Cactus. by Cuyler. has been pur-
chased by Dempster & Hough. Clayton,
III.
J. D. Clayton has purchased of W. c.
Scott the yearling bay FLY by imp.
Water Level, dam Sarma, by imp. Mus
covy.
Mike Bergen, the ex-jockey, is a pat
lent at the city and county hospital in
San Francisco. Dissipation brought
about his illness.
David B. Martin is driving a fast pole
team in Paragon, 2:131z, by Storm King
and Claudius. 2:1811, by Hambletonian
Tranby
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LIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA.
A. A. Swjngley, of Turner, Sells
Mining Machinery in Africa

Turner, Kan, Dec. 29.-Allen A.
Swingley, managing director at
Johannesburg, South Africa. for Sheriff.
Swingley & Co., Qimited), extensive
dealers in mining machinery, spent
Christmas day with his mother here.
Mr.. Swingley was born in johnson
county, Kansas, forty years ago. and is
a son of the late George Swingley. For
the last fifteen years he has Travelled in
foreign countries, engaged chiefly in
selling mining machinery. He was in
South Africa three years before the
British-Boer war began. His company
was doing a large business then, but
since the outbreak of hostilities the
mining business has been seriously in
terfered with.
Mr.. Swingley thinks there is no place
on earth that will compare with the
country in the Johannesburg district, so
far as mineral resources are concerned,
and the possibilities Of its development
are unlimited. This little country, he
says, practically controls the diamond
markets of the world, and though the
end of the war is not yet in sight, he
believes it win continue to do so for
MANY wears.
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SPORTING NEWS.
Charles Head Smith Will Pur-
chase Some Likely Yearlings.
His Trainer Has Located Sew
eraI Down In Kentucky.
IN BLUE GRASS REGION
Garry Hermann Entered In
Louisville Derby April 90.
Fast Colt Is Now Being Sent
Five Miles Daily.
IN BLUE GRASS REGION

Chicago, Dec. 29-Charles Head
Smith, owner Of Garry Hermann, will
leave shortly after the first of the year.
for kentucky, where he goes to inspect
some promising yearlings that have
been located by Charles Hughes, his
trainer. Hughes has been travelling
around through the state all fall and
has located some six or eight of what
he considers the best colts to be found
in the noted bluegrass region. and he
has sent word to his employer to come
and pass on the animals.
Smith has now only one horse that
he places any confidence in for next
year. and that is Garry Hermann
Part of the Smith stable will be ship
ped to Kentucky today.
Il intend to go down to Kentucky,
said Mr.. Smith, "aS soon as can get
away after the holidays. Trainer
Hughes has located six or eight year
lings down there that he says look very
promising and if they suit me after see
ing them will very likely buy up some
of them. would have gone down this
week, but my boy is home for the holi-
days and / didn't want to leave While
he was here. Everything is very quiet
down in Kentucky and I guess the colts
will keep until I get there.
7 am going to ship Donald Balm to
Kentucky. Garry Hermann has been
entered in the Louisville Derby. to be
run April %, and we will soon begin to
train him for the event. At present he
is being sent about five miles each day
to keep in condition and then turned out
in the paddock. I am looking forward
to a good season on the turf next year,
perhaps the most promising that we
have ever had in the west. The big
stakes given by the officials of Wash
ingtOn park will no doubt attract a good
many of the big horses of the east and
that will be a stimulus to the racing in
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western Asaociation Need.

Chicago, Dec 29.-At a meeting held
Friday in the Great Northern hotel. the
Western association of professional
baseball clubs was formed. No officers
were elected, this action being deferred
until next Wednesday, when an adj
journed meeting will be held in this
city The members of the association
so far determined upon are Kansas
City, Minneapolis, Detroit, Louisville,
Toledo Eight clubs in all viii comprise
the association, but those present at
the meeting declined to say what the
other cities would be, saying that they
would be taken from a list of half q
dozen which made application The
names of these places We're also kept
secret. but it is known that among the
number is Rockford, ILL.,, St. Paul and
Grand Rapit1S
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9 " .
influenza - Cold in the Head

influenza - Cold i'm the Head
Is an Inflammation Of the lining mem
brane Of the nose. Commences with ting
ling. itching and dryness of the nostrils,
followed by a watery or mucous discharge;
frequent sneezing; dull pain and sense of
weight in the forehead; increased secre-
ton of tears; occasional chiriness. and
Fever.
If not arrested. the Catarrh spreads to
the throat and respiratory organs, attend
ed with Hoarseness, Sore Throat. Tickling
Cough and Oppressed Breathing
CHECKED CIRCULATION the cause of
nearly all Colds, produces these symp-
toms; the use of '77'' starts the blood
tingling through the veins until it reaches
the extremities- when the feet warm up
and the Cold is broken At all druggists.
Csc, or by mail
New pocket edition of DR. Humphreys
Manual of all diseases, mailed free
Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co,
Cor. William & John Sts., New York
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Notes Fronn oberlin.

Oberlin. Dec. 29-Judge Geiger and Joe
Young, court stenographer; are away on
a junketing trip to Cuba They are book
ed to return in 60 days
NJ e Mix and D. c. Moser have taken
1000 head OF cattle from their ranch IN
this vicinity to Playfair, Mo, where they
are feeding
Otis L Benton shipped lately from his
ranch in Sheridan county 5000 head of
cattle to the vicinity of Des Moines,
Iowa, where Pete Adams is feeding them.
The public installation held jointly by
the o. z. 5. and r. A. NJ on Thursday,
the 9th, followed by a banquet, is the
talk of Masonic circles.
The winter wheat Of this vicinity looks
we'll as most Of the crop was sown late,
and suffered no injury from the Hessian
fly.
The A. O. u. w. has been expa<ienc-
ing q boom here this month, 46 new
members enrolled their names.
John Emahizer and family departed
for Los Angeles. Cal, on the 9th inst.
Mr.. Emahizer has been engaged in the
furniture business for 16 years. was pros
porous and the town looks for his early
return, although he claims his removal
is permanent
Corn failed here this year and our
farmers are drawing on their bank ac-
counts and paying SO cents per bushei
for eastern corn.
The Sons and Daughters Of Justice,
whose growth since its organization I'M
der the guidance Of its president, G.
have rewarded the gentleman's labor by
electing him for anothSr term
Bicknell & Smith. grOcers, failed here
on the 9th The Oberlin National bank
closed them out to satisfy a mortgage
held by them for 81. 500.
The present owners of the Oberlin Pol
Ter mills, Col B. r. Sticl1ley and Ned d.
Beauer, are refitting, refurnishing ard
building additions to the mill, and will
make it modern in ever particular.
Tom Rooney, proprietor of the Metro
pole, whose name as a carterer, leads all
others in the eyes Of the drummer IS
reported as going out of business. lie
will retire from public notice by living
on his small farm adjoining this city.
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Horse Notes.

Racing viii open up in Chicago about
April 25.
Mary Centnever. PIP, has been bred to
Cresceus-
Thirteen bookmakers are making mon
ey at New Orleans.
Cephas, 2:11A. by Cyril, was recently
sold at auction for $500.
G. W. Williams has changed the name
of his stallion Mazatian to Intact.
Senator Tim Sullivan, of New York,
has been trying to pick winners on the
New Orleans track.
Dangerous Maid, a Keene CASTOR. is
winning good money out at Tanforan for
Doc Sweet
The horses of A H & d. H Morris
are winning most of the money in the
south.
Steve L'IIommedieu is said to be max
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county court last week, says a British
paper. John AIcGauley, a cycle manu-
facturer, sued William George Higgins
for the price of a bicycle and Access
series.
The defense was that Higgins was a.
minor when he entered into the con-
tract, but PLAINTIFF ssolicitor. Mr.. Duffell,
contended that the bicycle was a s.nec-
essary'' suitable to his condition in life,
inasmuch as he used it constantly in
going to and from his business.
His honor, Judge Whitehorne, held
that the defendant was clearly liable,
and gave judgment for the plaintiff. with
costs
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MGovERN AND BROAD.
A Twenty Round Bout Practically
Arranged Between the Two.

A Twenty Round Bout Practically
Arranged Between the Two.
New York. Dec. pa 20 round bout
has been practically arranged this after
noon between Terry McGovern and Kid
Broad. The fight will probably take place
at Hartford the week of February 4.
Sam Harris, manager of McGovern,
wrote to Joe HUMPHREYS, stating a pref
erence for Broad as his next opponent.
Manager Macias, for Broad, said today
that the match would be settled as soon
as articles were received bearing the sig
nature of Harris. A new club will hold
the bout A name has not been chosen
yet. but Charles White will be referee,
Joe HUMPHREYS announcer and Danny
Maher timekeeper. Harris wrote to a
friend today that the probability of his
going to England depended largely upon
his consideration of offers from the Pa
citic coast for q bout next Nav
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Piles Cured without the Knife.

itching. Blind. Bleeding or. Protruding
Piles No cure, no pay. All druggists
are authorized by the manufacturers of
Pazo Pile Ointment to refund the money
where it fails to cure any case of piles no
matter Of how long standing. Cures or
binary cases in six days; the worst cases
IN fourteen days. One application gives
ease and rest. Relieves itching instantly.
This is a new discovery and is the only
rile remedy sold on a positive guarantee,
no cure no pay. Price, 80 cents. If your
druggist don't keep it in stock send us so
cents in postage stamps and we viii for
ward same by mail Manufactured by
Paris Medicine Co, St Louis, No. Manu-
factllrers of Laxative Rromo-Q uinine and
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic.
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THIRTY FOR ONE.
Trial Seed Wheat Yields a High
Average to an Acme Farmer.

Abilene, Kas., Dec. 29-W. r. Dunlap.
of Acme, who is one of the leading
farmers in that vicinity, sowed fourteen
bushels of Pearl wheat on thirteen acres
of ground year ago last fall.
1t yielded 40 bushels, or a little more
than thirty-two bushels per acre, all of
which he sold at IS cents per bushel
for seed, except what he wanted for
seed for himself. This kind of wheat
last year and thus far this year, he
reports free from Hessian fly. The seed
was obtained from northern Ohio.
Mr. Dunlap is of the opinion that if
seed were shipped in from other states
every few years very little injury would
be done by insects, and the yield would
be much greater. Several other farm
ers have shipped in seed wheat from
northern states, and report excellent re-
suits.
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HEiIt Young Sells Cayuga Colt.

Lexington, KY, Dec. 29-Col- Milton
Young of McGrathiana farm, has sold
to T. P. Hayes the fast yearling colt by
Cayuga, out of imp. Chalice, for 81, 50ss.
over the Kentucky association track in
:23 3-5, with 109 pounds up. Early in the
summer Col. Young sold the colt to Sara
Lucas for $500. He liked his work 50
well that he repurchaSed him for $1,000,
and has now disposed of him for 81, 5Qe.
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A Texas Herd Runs Wild in the
Streets of Armourdale.

Armourdale, Dec. 29-Four hundred
Texas cattle stampeded through the
streets yesterday afternoon, wreclking
fences and terrifying the populace.
The herd was big and the roar it crea-
ted was so loud that the public was
warned in time, preventing personal in
juries.
one steer, not content with exploring
lawns and jumping fences, rushed pell-
nell into a grocery shop. BY the time he
came out the store was wrecked. Coun-
tiers were overturned, show cases smash
ed, shelving torn down and the doors
carried off their hinges. Twenty-eight
men we're with the cattle, but they lost
all control of them 1t was not until foul
hours had passed that the last of the
affrighted animals was corralled.
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Chicago, Dee. 29-In spite OF the rule
adopted at the recent league meeting
abolishing spring training trips for Ma
tional league clubs, the Chicago team
will spend a few weeks in the south be-
fore the playing season begins. Hot
Springs OF. West Baden will be the
scene of the Orphans preliminary work.
They will get together on April l, and
will then have three weeks in which to
develop their salary arms and to get
into working trim for the first cham
pionship game, which will be played on
April IS.
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.-1se overland Limited" via Union
Pacific makes Is hours quicker time be-
tween Missouri river and San Francisco
than any other line.
Finely equipped with Double Draw
ing Room Palace Sleepers Buffet
Smoking and Library Cars with Barber
Shop and Pleasant Reading Rooms,
Dining Cars, Meals a Ia carte. Pintsch
Light, Steam Heat.
OF this train Admiral Beresford says:
why, 7 never saw anything like it:
and then, too, this dining car system
it is grand. The appointments of the
Union Pacific trains are a constant
source of surprise to me-"
]. G. Fulton. Depot AGENT.
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Atchison, Kas., Dec. 29.-John Hawk
FMS Clark died yesterday on his hOnie-
stead at Clay Center. Mr.. Clark was
one Of the very first settlers In north
ern Kansas, having come here in the
early fifties with his family from Gin
cinnati He was the father-in-iaw OF
the late T. c. Adams, secretary Of the
State Historical society. and also OF
Frank A. Root, the well known news
paper man and writer.
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win Keen TannehiII.

Pittsburg, Pa. Dec. 29.-Treasurer w.
W. Kerr, of the Pittsburg club, was ask
ed regarding a report that the Pirate
management had offered Jesse Tame
hill for Pitcher Scott, of Cincinnati.
There's nothing in that Mr.. Kerr
said. I'VE made no such offer. We have
no notion of parting with Tannehills
services. This is like the story from st.
Louis that we are trying to sell the star
He is not for sale and will not be I'M
less something extraordinary should
turn up. This isn't likely
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q New Coneordia Firm.

Concordia, Dec. 29.-The wood AIer-
camille company has been reorganized
and q charter applied for under the title
of Sutherland Bartleson g. Lutt COM
pany. w. B. Wood has retired from the
company. The new firm is composed of
three well and favorab1y known COM
mercial travelling men, with Arthur
Sutherland at the head, and Maurice
taken active and substantial financial
interests. The two latter will continue
on the road as statesmen for the new
firm
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A JOINT IN LAWRENCE.
Four Inmates Arrested and Pro-
nounced Gamblers

Lawrence, Dec. 29.-Assistant Marshal
Sam Jeans made a raid on a gambling
Joint that has been in operation sor1e
time In the Moore building next to the
old Pacific House in North Lawrence
Four men were arrested and arraigned
in police court, one of whom plead guilty,
the trials of the others being set for to-
day. This place is believed to have been
q rendezvous of out Of town characters
who come to town to commit depreda-
tions. and Officer Jeans hopes to be able
to break up the place early this winter.
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Charlie Herr Sold.

Lexington, KY, Dec. 29.-Bidding by
sealed letters for the famous trotting
horse Charley Herr, 2:07, closed at mid
night Owner David CahiI will open
the bids today. This is the first in
stance where a horse has been auctioned
in this manner. Charley Herr has won
Sc. 0OG in purse money, and CahiIl
claims to have refused $4,000 for him.
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To stop Fake Fighting.

Paterson, N. j., Dec. 29.-Cllief Of Po-
lice Graul issued an order today prohib-
iting the holding OF boxing bouts in this
city in future The chiefs order is be-
lieved to be a result of the outcome of
the bout last night before the Passiac
County Athletic club between ssMyster-
ious Billy Smith and Young Mahoney
of Philadelphia The audience was much
dissatisfied because the tame affair
was declared no contest.
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Vas sHARKEY,s COUSIN.
Man Caught Stealing Declares he Is
Related to the PugIist.

St. Joseph. Mich, Dec 2s.-Patriclz
Sharkey, first cousin and only cousin
to the world-renowned sailor pugiIist.
Thomas Sharkey. now occupies a cell in
the county Jail in this city Sharkey
arrived in this city from Chicago a week
ago. There is no doubt of his relation
ship to the great fighter because there
IS a great facial resemblance and many
other evidences which go to bear out
Patrick Sharkey's statement
On Christmas Sharkey was caught
trying to remove an overeoat off a
dummy in front of a clothing store by
Samuel Danforth, a local groceryman
sharkey's arrest Immediately followed
He appeared in police court this morn
ing, sentenced to serve sixty days in the
county joil. While before the bar he
stated he was the only relative of Thos.
Sharkey residing in the United States.
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Denies FAKE Fight Story.

Buffalo, Dec. 29.-'4There is nothing IN
Lansing's story" said Frank Erne. 7
never faxed a fight in my life. That
part Of the story about getting the
whole Of the purse is a joke which Nc
Govern and his manager will appreciate.
had been weakened too much in the
effort to get to 128 pounds, although
when I entered the ring I thought I
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Concordia, Kas., Dec. 29.-The con-
test for trustee OF Solomon township
was decided today in favor OF the fu-
sion candidate w. +. Cobb. The cleo
ton board failed to count twelve Deul-
ocratic votes. thereby electing the He-
publican candidate, but the county COM
nnissioners counted them, giving the fu~
sion candidate saNan ma lnrltY-