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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
CAKE WALKERS
Taken in by the Police Last Night for
 Distm ping the Peace.

Judge T. Hite Brown played to a full house in the rolice court this, Tuesday, morning and his audience was on the order of mixed affair. There were thirty-four in all-nine females and twenty-five T males. They were all high steppers, warm babies, prancers, dancers and 'jist worse.
 In the distinguished crowd were quire Scott, famous negro cake walker, who has cakes and chickens in fright walks" and who is as goosey as the day is long. Fred Nelson aud Don Nelson, productions of The famous Paris Black Nelson, Virgie Goodloe, Lonzo Banks and others. who have seen the inside of the county and city iails before. They were each fined $5 for disturb .in the peace-the receipts from the entire crowd being $170
 The "Black Thirty Four attended a cake walk, given in Hoboken Monday night by Albert Hamilton, who was also pulled and got so boisterous that the neighbors called up the officers. and the police patrol spent several hours bringing load after load of 'cullud folksn to the police headq quarters. The charge was disturbing the peace, and from what we learned, they made enough noise to disturb the dead in an ad- joining cemetary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
A SMALL FIRE.

The ire departments were called to a residence on East Second aver.ue Monday night 10 extipguish q blaze, which was burning fiercely in wood shed. The boys responded pros pity, ext.nguished the fire. but two barns were turned.
 N, insurance. Damage slight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16

The key to health is in the kidneys and liver. Keep these organs active and you have health, strength and cheerful spirits. PRlcKLY ASH BIT
 TIERS is stimulant for The kidneys regulates the liver, stomach and bowels. A golden household remedy. For sale by Walker Dtug Co. d2w
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
rnls Farming Along ,he Frisco.

Fuf5 Armfng AloDg tHe rrftco.
 attractive, illustrated and thoroughly 'le 64-page booklet. devoted to fruit re along the Frisco line in Missouri, nsas, Kansas and Indian Territory. just |. copy will be sent free upon appii- n to Bryan Snyder, G. P. A, Frisco
 St, Louis, Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16

Ask Hugh Westbrook what he knows about" Oxydenor.' 38
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-18
MANKATO COURsTNG MEET.
Over Three Thousand People in At
tendance Yesterday.

Mankato, Kas, Oct. 1S.-Over 5000
people in attendance at the Mankato
coursing meet Wednesday, The weather
was ideal for fast coursing. forty courses
were run, only ten jacks being caught in
the second round Of the an-age stake.
Red Diamond beat Hortense Jane, Bel
laney beat Mondamon Hummer beat
Cuba, Busy Beryle beat Humboldt Girl
Langley Squire beat Cotton Queen, Lady
Gilmore beat Blue Queen, Corbett beat
Mistress Mildred, Nacaret beat Last
Chance. Fleeta beat Sailor, Harvest
Maid beat Rainbow, Meg Nerrilees beat
Lady HOrtense, Nadira beat Cliffdale.
First round puppy stake:
Fanny o. Rel beat ARIA, On On beat
Swirl, Selden Queen beat Dolly Warden
Inshot a bye. Silver Sioux beat Mould
ed Gold, Fanny F'roater beat Money
Maker, Uneeda beat Highland Mary
Kansas King beat Adelina Patti, Cor
rhuners beat Donna Rita, Whirlpool beat
Court Beauty, Lucy Lee beat Majella,
Joe Patchen beat Bessie Fox, White
Flyer beat Mankato, Gottie Ingram beat
Brother Bob, Merry Mont beat Cue Ball.
FOntenella beat Kansas Lily, Lady Gay
beat Highland Lad, Captain Eads a. bye
Second round puppy stake:
Fanny O'Rel1 beat On On, Inshot beat
Selden Queen, Silver Sioux beat Fanny
FIoater, Uneeda beat Kansas King,
Whirlpool beat Scorbutus, Lucy Lee
beat White Flyer, Gottie Ingram beat
Joe Patchen, Merry Mount beat Fon-
tenella, Lady Gay heat Captain Eads.
The finals will be run off today.
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RAILROAD NOTES.

November 20 is the date set for Sedg-
wick county to vote for the $780, 900 of Or
lent bonds.
The America, Mexican & Pacific Rail
way company has let a contract to con-
struct a road from Tucson to Calabasas,
a distance of IS miles. Bradbury & Co,
of Denver, are the contractors
The case of Daisy Dawson against the
Rock Island is on trial at Leavenworth
before the United States circuit court
Mrs. Dawson sues for $4,000 damages
for the loss of her husband, a brakeman
for the company who was killed at
Narka, Republic county, in November.
1885, while trying to make a coupling.
The hand-hold gave way, throwing Da.w-
son under the wheels. The contention is
that the company was negligent because
the hand-hold was out Of repair
The Santa F'e depot was a sight We'd
nesday noon, when the homeseekers
reached it. No 5 and No I, both dou-
ble-headed and late, came in together
The crowd crushed up to the lunch
counter and before so many famished
people the walters were badly frustrated.
No. ia went east about the same time
and added to the confusion.
The Union Pacific is going to build a
new coal shute at Salina- It is to be a
double feed affair so that engines can
take in supply from a. side track instead
of from the main track, as now.
E. A Austin, of Wellington, is the
new trainmaster on the Santa FEES Ok
lahoma division. F. J. Easley, of Gle
burne, Texas, succeeds Mr.. Austin
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COAL IN DIRT CARS.
Santa Fe Hauls 1t i'm Grade Re-
ductiOn Equipment.
All the Roads Have Full Use For
Their Cars.

Railroad companies all over the coun-
try are complaining Of a shortage Of
freight cars. The lines find great diff
Guilty in furnishing all the equipment
their patrons desire. The situation has
reached such a stage that the officials
of many companies have stopped trying
to furnish the foreign line demand
Ordinarily the big companies are well
satisfied TO rent out their surplus cars
to the smaller lines, rather than have
them idle. On the other hand when cars
are scarce and there are not enough to
they refuse to let them go of their own
tracks.
The present situation has reached this
point. Some time ago the Cotton Belt
and Kansas City Southern made such
refusalS. At their terminals such loads
as lumber have been transferred to cars
of connecting lines. Lines in the south
seem TO have suffered most by the car
famine In and around Nashville there
IS q great shortage. One line that enters
that city was nearly five hundred cars
short in one day, besides having big
demands made upon it by officials of
other roads, which were therefore re-
fused.
Car service on the Santa. Fe is admit
tedly pressed hard by heavy traffic Box
cars, fiat cars and coal cars especially
are short. Some of the dumping cars
that have been purchased for work on
grading the roadbed have been utilized
TO maui coal. The Rock Island also re-
ports that there is something to do for
all available freight cars and other
roads nave their equipment in full de-
mand- Rush conditions usually prevail
In the fall Of the year, but the present
season ec1pSeS all previous preSSures
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WHAT THE SIGN SAID.

A store in 121st street, with laudable
desire to satisfy customers. had the fol-
lowing sign painted and hung in several
conspicuous places: Money refunded or
you can exchange for anything in the
store.''
The regular customers nodded approx
ingly when they saw this, as the rule of
the house had been previously that no
goods could be exchanged.
The first day the signs were up sew
eral sums of money were refunded.
When the store opened the next morn
ing the signs were gone and literary
man was engaged to write one less am
biguous.
There was a reason for this Late
in the afternoon Of the day the signs
We're used a young fellow from down
town bought a pair of 50-cent suspend
ers in the store and g. few minutes after
ward approached a ffoorwalker and said
they were unsatisfactory, relates the
very we'll said the fioorwaIker,
affably. DO yen wish your money
back?''
NO" replied the purchaser; IT be-
neve I'll exchange"
Just as you please said the smiling
hoorwalker- viii you have another
pair of suspenders2"
Il think not; I'll just look around and
let you know when find something that
suits me-"
In less than half an hour the down
town young man called the flOorWalker
to the counter and said: That's what
I want; those with the silver back" And
ne pointed out an expensive toilet set,
which comprised military hair brushes.
silver mug and shaving brush, razor,
manicure set, soap box and a fine leather
case to keep them in.
but you are Joking" said the floor
walker 'aThey are worth twenty pairs
of suspenders."
Il can't help that" replied the other.
I'm taking you at your word. There
is you sign, Money refunded. or you
can exchange for anything in the store
It's optional with me and I wish to ex-
change for anything in the store This
is the anything that suits me-
They wrangled for awhile and the pro-
prietor was called He read the sign
several times, and then said: You are
a very bright young man. It's on us
this time
Turning to the f1oorwalker he said:
MAKE the exchange as he desires, and
haul down those signs before he has
time to buy anything else"
Merchants cannot be too careful in the
use Of this wonderful language of ours
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STOCK SHIPMENTS HEAVY.
Santa Fe Moving Many Feeding
Cattle From the Southwest

w. A. Combs. assistant general live
stock agent of the Santa Fe, with head
quarters at Kansas City, has this to say
about the live stock business of that sys-
tenn: The movement could not be very
much better than it is at present. Sep
TENDER was the best live stock month
ever enjoyed by the Santa. Fe, and thus
Tar in october we are keeping up the
September average. Cattle are coming
out Of the southwest and are being taken
70 Iowa. where they will be fed from the
bumper corn crop Of that state The
ranges of the southwest have more cat
tie on them than anyone can estimate and
they viii nearly all be moved to the feed
ing stations Of the corn belt. The outlook
Is certainly hattering for a continued good
movement of all kinds of live stock es-
pecially cattle and hogs"
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RUNS ON THE BRANCH.
Trust In Providence to Get Oyer the
Division.

An official of one of the roads run
ming into Topeka had occasion recently
to enter into correspondence with ward
masters and switch-light men along the
line regarding the signal lamps used
within their jurisdiction. He wanted
TO know whether they were looked after
by railroaders or people living near the
stations. If by the latter, whether the
farmers took them to light their way
to bed, and a number of other facts look
ing to the improvement of the service
The information requested. came along
in installments, the monotony of which
was finally broken by the following let
ter from a functionary on one of the
small branches in western Kansas:
Dear Sir-We do not have any signal
lights on our branch We do not need
or require any. By the light of the
moon. the CLEAN of the stars and the
help of God we manage to get over our
division. Yours truly,
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Leeds coupler and accompanying pilot,
and is now eligible to passenger work
Emil Ingold has returned from his
western trip, and has taken up the bur
den again in the inspectors department
John Wilson has been transferred to
the paint shop from the round house,
Worth's gang
Ed Young sent in a request for his
time and viii look for a job more to
his liking than NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
soldering.
Joe Williams has gone for a visit to
his old home in Canada, where he will
remain several weeks.
Supt- Avery Turner came in from
Chicago Tuesday night on train No. 1,
and has assumed active charge of the
Middle division. He was warmly well
coined by his old friends who were at the
station. Mrs. Turner did not accom-
pany him.
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SUED BY TOPEKA MAN.
Brings Action In Georgia For False
imprisonment

A special dispatch from Savannah,
Georgia. says:
"W. T. Sallade Of Topeka, Kan. filed
in the United States court a suit against
w. c. Wylly Of Darien. Ca, for $4,000
for false imprisonment Sallade says
that he is a travelling man, representing
a Kansas City CNIo.) firm. He was en-
gagged IN August. 1899. in selling clocks
and other articles in Darfen by sample
only. He did not deliver any Of the
articles disposed OF, but had them sent
on from the headquarterE-
while at Darien Mr.. Wyily question
ed him as to his business. Sallade ex-
planned the nature OF his business TO
Mr. wylly and was told that he was not
violating any law. Later, however. a
warrant was issued for the drummer
charging him with selling goods without
a license. This warrant was sworn out
by W. c. Wylly. and Sheriff Blount Of
Mcintosh county took Sallade before
Justice s. A. Way at Darien. The JUS
tice committed him to jail and he was
compelled to remain there for ten days
until bail could be procured.
During his incarceration Salladc
claims to have suffered the greatest
mental torture because OF the presence
of large number Of armed negroes that
surrounded the jail threatening To burn
IL unless a negro prisoner was given Up
to them Sallade was acquitted before n
petit jury"
The man named in the dispatch is not
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FROM EMPORTA.

John Bogardus. section boss. Is sick
with typhoid fever.
c. F. Kaufer. travelling engineer of
the Santa F'e, was in town inspecting
the engines here, and returned to To-
peka last night
One of the stock cars that was in
the Neva wreck is being loaded onto a
fiat car on the rip track.
The patent blow-off has not been a
success so far. The funnel is too small
and the barrel is not large enough to
hold the steam as it evaporates-
The stock business Tuesday was not
as heavy as was expected, but was
heavy enough to keep everyone busy.
One of the swiftest little trains on
the Santa Fe is the Howard branch
local When it leaves the west end yards
in the morning the wheels are hot before
it reaches Commercial street, and it
till 1920 o'clock letting them cool
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LUTHERAN OFFICERS.
Prof E PhiIba1d, of Lindsborg, il
President.

The Lutheran League convention
which has been in session in this city
for the past two days has closed. Part
of the meetings of the league were held
in the Swedish Lutheran and part in the
English Lutheran church. The election
of officers last night for the ensuing
year resulted in the following.
Professor E Philbald of Lindsborg,
Kan; first vice president, the Rev I b
Kelsey, of Waterville, Kan; second vice
president the Rev. A. W. Lindquist
third vice president, Miss Anna s. HUT.
Of Kansas City, Kan: secretary Miss
Margaret Maxwell. Topeka; treasurer,
the Rev. c. A. Engstrand, Walsburg,
Kan.
Following is the executive COMMITTEES:
The Rev. l. 5. Keyser, Atchison, Kan. /;
the Rev. A. NJ L. Herenius Topeka;
the Rev. J. ". Bah, Kansas City.
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COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS

"a Runaway Girl" with Arthur Dunn
as 'Flipper." will be seen at the Craw-
ford tonight.
Venice and Corsica are the locations in
which the plot and action of the London
and New York success, "A Runaway
were selected by the author 50 as to af-
ford the opportunity to consistently ex-
l1ibit sorne very handsome and picturesque
costumes which are worn by the male and
female characters in the play. COrsican
brigands, Venetian gondoliers and flower
girls. pease nts and soldiers dancing girls
and strollinE musicians-these are all seen
in the play and all of them dressed in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-18

Catarrh is catarrh wherever located.
Catarrh is essentially the same every
where.
The remedy that viii cure catarrh In
one situation win cure It in all situations.
1t does not require one remedy to cure
catarrh Of the head. and another to cure
catarrh OF the lungs, and still another to
cure catarrh OF the stomach, and an
other to cure catarrh Of the kidneys
A remedy that viii cure catarrh any
where will cure catarTh everywhere.
The phrase that PeTuna cures catarrh
wherever located has become almost az
axiom throughout the civilized world.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co, Co
lumbus, o.. for a frse book on catarrh.
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SHAFTER,S REPORT.
Deals With the Military Situation in
Hawaiian Islands.

Washington, Oct. 1S.-In the annual re-
port of Major General Shafter, command
Ing the department Of California. there
is a report from Major George Ruhlen.
garrison at Honolulu consists of two bat
teries, Sixth artillery, who are in quar-
tiers at Camp Mckinley, four and half
miles from the business center Of Homo
lulu. He says that the troops should be
quartered IN plain frame buildings, rath-
the seashore is very destructive to the
No action has been taken looking to the
selection of a permanent site for a mill
tary post in the Hawaiian islands.
Speaking of the bubOnic plague, Major
Ruhlen says that no person connected
with the military service was exposed to
or took the disease. The only effects OF
strictions prevented for a time the use
of Honolulu as port for the transport
The transport service has used the port
of Honolulu quite extensively during the
year. During the year there stopped at
Honolulu. enroute from San Francisco to
Manila. fifty-three transports with troops
and supplies; one with supplies only, thir-
teen with horses. mules and supplies, and
one hospital ship
tary reservations the report advocates
the purchase of about 30 acres more in
order 10 make it desirable a a military
site. One reservation contains I 3H acres
miles from Honolulu and is about seven
miles from the railway station at Pearl
City. Major Ruhlen thinks this site IS
very well adapted for a military reserva-
these reservations was leased in 1882 for
thirty years and these leases will not ex-
pfre until 1872. The lands are mostly used
for grazing purposes.
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EXPOSITION 1904 STICKERS
They Are Being Used by Mr.. Coburn
and Are Unique.

F. d Coburn. secretary OF the state
agricultural society does not allow any
mail to leave his office unless it bears
a little sticlSer advertising the Kansas
Semi-eentennial exposition to be held in
Topeka in 1904.
Mr. Coburu had a quantity Of the labels
printed Tor MS own use They are quite
unique The words kansas Semi-Cen-
tennial Exposition, Topeka 1904 appear
in black over a background Of gold The
sticker IS round and the edge is scalIOped
like the edge Of a seal
The idea Is a good one and some effec-
tive advertising viii be the result T-rfs
design may be adopted by the committees
on publicity and the stickers furnished
in quantities to those desiring TO use them
on their mail matter
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SD Was Greatly Troubled
With a Cold Which Set
tied on My Lungs
and Left Me With
Catarrh."
THEN He TRIED PERUNA
ssIt Has Come Fully Up TO My Exc
pectatlons, Completely Curing
My Catarrh = Leaving
No Trace of it,

Chicago. Ill. Oct. 1s.-Hon. Z. A W.
johnson, Justice Of the Peace, writes
from 607 Sheffield avenue, Chicago. Ill,
the following:
I was greatly troubled with a cold
which settled on my lungs and left me
with a disagreeable catarrh. AS your
medicine has come to my notice several
times. I determined to see what it would
do for me. 1t has come fully up to my
expectations, completely curing my ca
tarrh-leaving no trace of it."
E. A. W. JOHNSON.
Nearly all the chronic ailments to
which the human family IS liable, either
begin or end with catarrh, or else are in
some degree complicated by catarrh.
If this fact We're better understood by
the medical profession than it is today,
it would save a great amount Of anxiety
and suffering, and prevent numberless
deaths.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-18
THE LOGAN SAILS
Bringing Back a Cargo of Sick, In
sane and Prisoners

San Francisco, Oct 1s.-A cablegram
has been received at army headquarters
here announcing the departure from
Manila on October 16 of the transport
Logan, carrying 273 sick, 10 insane, and
SO prisoners About 102 horses and $50
mules viii be loaded on the horse trans
port Conemaugh, which will sail for
Manila this afternoon.
DR.. Alfred c. Girard, the commanding
officer at the Preside general hospital
has received promotion to the Office of
deputy surgeon general of the army,
with the rank of lieutenant colonel
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WITHOUT A FIGHT.
Capt Elliott Surprises and Captures
Filipino General.

Manila. Oct. 1s.-Under cover of q
stormy night, Captain Elliott, Of the For
tieth infantry, surprised the rebel head
quarters near Oroquieta, Island of Min
danao and captured without fighting
General Alvarez, with his staff and TWEEN
ty-five soldiers.
The capture is important, and will tend
to pacify the district. Alvarez had been
for a long time provoking hostilities in
MindanaO. It was he who effected the dis
astrous attack on Oroquieta some time
ago and he was preparing another when
he was captured.
Detachnlents Of the Twenty-second and
Eighteenth regiments engaged the rebels
near Tubua gan, in Southern Panay rout-
ing them, killing twenty and wounding
many.
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of the Republicans that our presence in
the Philippines was due to destiny, Mr..
Bryan said.
DESTINY Is the subterfuge Of the inver-
tebrate. It is the towards excuse for fall
ing in with that which he has not the
strength to resist.
Mr.. .}ryar referred to Mr.. Hanna s
speech yest erday in which he said the
people ought not to swap horses in cross
ing a stream and said:
Mr.. Hanna is mistaken; the Republic
can party * not crossing a stream, but
an ocean. IT is going back to European
ideas and you had best swap horses and
come back, instead of crossing the
ocean"
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o. R. T. TO MEET IN FRISCO.
Photographers Select Coast City For
Meeting Place Next Year.

St. Louis, Oct 1s-The Order Of Rail
way Telegraphers. which has been in
grand council for ten days, has adjourned
TO meet in san Francisco the second Mon
day of October, 1901.
The work Of revision of the constitu-
ton was completed and several grand Of
fcers were directed by the convention to
remain here till the various notifications
pleted
Arrangements were made to have one Of
tne representatives of the o. r. T. CO.
operate with the Commercial Travellers
association and assist that body in in
creaSing its membership.
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NEWTON AND PURCELI.
Missouri Pacific Proposes to Put On
a New Train.

Several superintendent have expressed
themselves as favoring a new local pas
senger train on the Missouri Pacific be-
tween Newton and Purcell, leaving New
ton at noon and arriving at its destina-
ton at p. m. 1t is probable that it will
be put on November z. The traffic is
too heavy for the present service on the
Oklahoma division By leaving Okla
homa City on the new train at 10 a. m
and connecting with the east bound fast
mail at Newton, passengers can be put
into St Louis at z o'clock next morning,
which about equals the time made by
the Erisco from Okla bona