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The Washington times., 1903-12-25
TIME FOR COMPLETING
CONTRACT IS EXTENDED

The District Commissioners have APP
proved the recommendation Of d. E.
McComb. Superintendent OF Sewers.
that Andrew Gleason, a contractor en-
gagged in constructing the east side in
tersecting sewer between Twelfth Street
southeast and Twenty-frst and A
Streets northeast, be granted an ex-
tension of time for the completion of
his contract. from January 1, 1904. un-
I'll February l. 1904.
The cost Of inspection is TO be charg-
ed against the contractor.
The Washington times., 1903-12-25

The Royal Limited" Finest Washing
ton-New York service Leaves b. & o.
Philadelphia 5:5i. and New York p
m. All Pullman. parlor. buffet-smoker
observation. and dining cars. --
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-07-15

800 pieces silk and satin dress goods worth from Is
to $500 per yard slaughtered 1t will pay you call and
look Anyone examining will buy at first glance. All new,
latest styles and prees50 per cent under all merchants
10000 pairs of the welknown SalenLewen Co., Krp-
pendorf, Dittman & Co., Krom Fechemen Co., Chas. X.
Fox Eddy Webster Co.. Valpey Shoe Co., Hazen B. Good
rch Ladies' Low Quarters all descriptions and latest styles
worth from $3.50 to $780, per pair at priceS9 CENTS
The making costs more--he material costs double We
bought from party who had to have the money and give
the benefit of this bargain to the people All
oldgoods
pairs Ladies' Hand Turned House Slippers "a
per pail Worth than double.
500 pairs Mems Carpet Slippers, Is per pair The
soles worth more.
500 pairs Infants Fine Shoes - per pair. The
making worth more
500 pairs Misses White Kid Slippers Nos. 49, 13, and
at only IS cents per par-neary given away.
All description styles and makes of so different shoe
manufacturers boys, ladies' and chdren shoes at 12
price.
500 Mems Silk Grogain Alpaca Coats, worth $500
Slaughtered at $1.73.
Mems Blue Serge Suits worth $1,000, price cut 12 into
$500,
Mems Grey Check Serge twopece Suits latest style
and pants worth $780, price cut 1-2 into, $500.
Mems two-pece Linen Suits and pants worth $780,
price cut IL into, $500.
Mems Imitation Linen and Cottonade piece Suits
coat and pants worth So SO price cut - into, 81 25
Mems Summer Pants from 40 cents pair up.
Greatest variety of mems fine pants at cut into prices
1000 pair boys and chldrens cottonade corduroy and
cashmere knee pants at Is cents per pair
500 ladies assorted Shirt Waists all styles from %
piece up All prices cut 1-2 into
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-07-15

Fans Laces, Ribbons Embroieres Belts and all descrip
tions of fancy goods at 12 regular prices.
Dry Goods of every description at demorazed prices
saying what they worth.
Choice of all Mems Straw Hats in the house,
Anyone worth more than double
500 dozen ladies silk finish dropstch hose worth 40
cents per pair only Is cents
100 dozen fine 1-2 hose all Styles worth %
pair, only Is cents.
300 dozen mems 12 hose at % per dozen
pair Worth so to 65 cents per dozen.
Gents Furnishing Goods of every description saugh
tered prices.
All descriptions of Palasos-prces 80 cents and up.
Umbrellas of all kinds 45 cents and up.
Towels Linens etc. at rdicuously low prices.
100 sacks--13 $50 pounds Good Cofee--at Is cents
peck or $500 per bushe.
All other groceries these great days wholesale
prices to anyone.
Everything marked down suit the poorest mans pock
ct book One dollar will go further than dollars else
where. Everything sold advertised-one price to all All
old trash like the bulk of called bargain daysWe
buckng against the town. the people deriving the benefit
Everything is paid for SO don't be alarmed.
Lace curtains shades mattngs rugs sashed prices
China and Crockery Ware at breakabe prices
Cuteryware at cut prices
Furniture manufacturers prices saving you the freight
White Improved 5-drawer Drop Head $500 Sewing
Machine for $21.95
Gulf Queen 3drawer $500 Sewing Machine for $1293
Stoves at tumbling prices.
Buggies and Sureys $1,000 cheaper than Others
Tnware Stoveware (anteware, etc., reduced prices
Everything marked away down.
Sash, doors and Blinds lower than the lowest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19

bounded 10y fanaticisn, overdid the thing
Ii Is generally conceded that the Ameri-
can people eat too much Beginning with
infants. it is the habit OF very many
mothers to feed them-some Of the more
ld-fashioned still suckIe them every
time they cry and as constant distention
Of the stomach causes them 20 be uncom-
Portable, they cry most Of the time and
hence are fed most OF the time. Surviv-
ing this surfeit for few years. they 20
around constantly as children with a
piece in their hands" are troublesome at
meal time because not hungry and come
10 their school days with weakened digest
ion. headache and a minor train OF Ills
that makes them intractsbie and TO the
compassionate objects Of pity, This stuff
ing process keeps on In many instances
through life or until stomach troubles''
render it impossible.
Some explain this habit Of overeating
as the result Of cheap and abundant food
IN this country. while others. barking
back a few generations. declare that
both overeating and fast eating. another
American s.n. result from the plnched
conditions Of early colonial and western
pioneer times. wherein food was not pien-
tifuI and I'm order 20 get ores share At
the family board il was necessary 20
dispose OF the food rapidly. II other
words. the fact that II one az not eat
his allotted portion quickly. another whose
appetite was Unappessed would sppro-
pirate IL
whatever the cause. the cGec; is with
- Fasting fl the other extreme hyt
very few press the Limit II this dirsctioa.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
DAVE AND THE HARVEST.

Dave Leahy has written the following
for the Topeka Capital, on the harvest
hand situation. which this country must
confront again next year:
During the past eight or ten days I have
had sufficient experience hustling harvest
hands to ill orders for Congressman
vic" Murdock's constituents to realize
that before another season something
must be done TO solve the harvest labor
problem. The farmers Of the grain belt
are getting the worst OF 1t. They are
at the mercy Of the nomadic harvest
hands who are holding them up for more
wages than are justifable, considering
the profits OF farming. I do not believe
that a farmer can pay 50 a day and
board. TO say nothing OF incidentals, such
as time lost in securing men and money
paid for their transportation from such
centers as Wichita. Topeka and Kansas
CITY. I know that Rush and Pawnee
county farmers have hired hands this
week that have cost them s. day. every
thing considered. and even at that sum
ii seems TO be next TO impossible to
get adequate help.
I have an idea and it is this-to cooper
alton between the people OF town and
country during harvest time. The mer-
chant usually has but comparatively lit
tie business when the farmers are hard
est pressed for help. The merchant has
plenty help. but nc trade; the farmer
has plenty work. but no men would
suggest that under these conditions some
plan should be devised 70 get the work
ers and the work together. Why should
nj IT be q good idea in every agricultural
town for the merchants 10 proclaim a
whole Of partial suspension OF business
and chase their surplus clerical force into
the harvest field TO help the farmers IN
critical times I do not say that this
surplus clerical force would be entirely
sufficient but II would naturally relieve
the stress OF the harvest situation. II I
were a merchant ! would allow my clerks
full pay. in addition 70 what the farm
ers would pay them. II upon returning
they would prove 20 me that they worked
in the harvest Geld; and il they didn';
work in the harvest Geld I would dock
them.
merchant doing business in a rural grain
producing section IN having the crop OF
that section well cared for and economic.
ally put away. The farmers prosperity
brings him prosperity Besides. my Plan
would Eirs tbs merchant and his clerks
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
THE FASTING CURES.

A man of Scranton. Pa. being unfortu-
nately a paralytic. recently conceived the
idea or was by SOME exponent OF fast
cure" imbued with Il that abstinence
from food for a period Of forty days
going through the wilderness. as a
faith-curist, with a somewhat numerous
following in this city few years ago
designated it-would relieve mis- disability
Having ccomplished about half OF his
stunt ne died. This does not prove that
fasting within proper limits Is not benei-
cial. II merely shows that this victim.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
BISON AFTER GAS.
Rush County Town Will Dig Deer
Hole

Bison, Kas.. July IA number Of at
tempts have been made by surrounding
towns and counties TO sink a prospect
hole and find If anything of value is hid
den beneath. but as nothing in that line
has ever been done. the one to be sunk
at this place will be watched with great
interest not only by the people of Rush
county but by all central Kansas. There
is not gas well within $50 or poo miles
Of Bison and this part OF the state has
always been considered outside the gas
region. but Mr. RACES intends 10 show
that idea groundless BY producing the
real stuff, and is so confident that il can
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
Paper Napkins, Flowered and Plain at &C Hundred

an opportunity to come in close touch
with the trade" that sustains them. In
addition it will give the men from tn.
town or village a healthy outing and some
exercise that will be TO their physical ad-
vantage during the entire year.
1t isn't good policy TO compel tho farm
ers of Pawnee county to send to Wichita
for $50 four-dollar-a-day harvest hands,
while they could easily get that many
practically idle clerks at Larned, Pawnes
Rock. Burdett and Garfield, who. by help
ing the farmers. would be helping the
business of their employers and material.
~ helping themselves physically and fl
nancially
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19

The Scranton man. 20 whom references
IS above made. Is By no means alone N
the fanatical attempt 10 drive disease out
Of his body oy severe fasting. bat relative
few persons have gone 20 their death
from voluntary starvation. while giut-
tony has slain r. thousands. Iuteiiisens
people have little sympathy for the victim
OF self-lmposed starvation whether. "a
in he case u Or Tanner some years
ago a forty days fast u undertaken az
a medical experiment.. or az IN that Of
numerous religious fanatics IN obodisncs
70 a supposed divine command They are.
however. compelled through humanity.
or courtesy. 20 sympsthlze with a multi
tude OF sufferers including themselves.
whose His are primarily A. least dus
20 overfeedlng This being true. The
fasting cure. moderately and prudsntiy
applied. could scarcely fail 70 confer a
CONAN.
Jesco Won Put;kauer. the fourtsea-Tssr-
old rrandnsghew ~ Prince bismarck. %
press feeder "a a job yriaiins est tbiish-
mcnt in Wilkcnbarre- In. fiis Auut. Hra.
Mary Roger. with whom ~ lives. -
scrub woman The boy father. Francs
Won Putfksunsr. vas IN offer iH shs Ger
man cavalry About taenfy-rys years
aFo. the boy says he guarded ssh
Prince Bismarck ard FED from Germany.
giving 10 hone. position ard ruonsy IA
Ssv York be Vas - one time a Dish
washer lie u.arris1. znd tEo ch4fssn
ve-r tssrn- Marz aerite. aFs4 sixteen. no
f. nox a riBl WORKER - Philadelphia al
TeECo
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
CHANGES AT CNILocco.
New Positions Granted Are of Several
Sorts.

Arkansas City. Kan. July 1S-July lst
quite a few changes were made al Chi
Iocco, some OF which we have already
mentioned. says the Traveller. The new
positions granted are as follows:
Clerk. assistant di.ciplinarian. assistant
industrial teacher. teacher, assistant ma
iron. assistant carpenter. assistant seam
stress. hostler. ad three laborers- The
new appointees for the positions above
which have been filed UP 10 date are:
Clerk, c. E. Birch: assistant carpen-
ter. Nat White: hostler. Frank RobitaiIle:
assistant seamstress, Leora c. Randall;
and Wallace Sweet as lsborer. The po-
sition as tailor has been abolished
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
CORN is DOING WELL.
This Is the Year When Hard Work
Counts

Augusta, Kss., July is.-Numerous re-
ports frfom the country show that corn
is in condition to make a fair crop IL
the weather holds favorable. Corn is
nearly a month behind the season but the
recent warm Weather and showers is
pushing to the front says the Journal.
The corn that was cultivated at the pro-
per time is much better than that which
was not and Will produce wei but some
corn will not produce anything but fodder
except weather conditions be very fav-
orable for another month. This is the
year when the hustler gets well paid for
his work
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
APPOINTED TO OFFICE.
Judge J. A. Burnett Fills the Vacancy
in Summer County.

Wellington. Kan, July l7.-Judge ]. a.
Burnett of Caldwell has been appointed
county attorney of Sumner county by
Judge Swartz TO fill the vacancy caused
by Emera E. Wilson's abandonment Of
the office.
Burnett was judge of the Nineteenth
judicial district from 1882 to 1896. He
was a free silver Republican for a year
or two after that. but got back into the
regular organization when the silver issue
disappeared from politics.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
WOULD AVERT TROUBLE.
Topeka Shop Employees Do Not Ex-
pect . Strike.

Topeka, Kan, July S-Employes q
the Santa Fe shops here do not expect
10 be called upon TO strike az the result
OF the discharge OF shopnen f. Ia Junta.
The la Junts men struck because thesr
pay checks did not arrive on time. and
then were discharged They now threat
en- 10 cause a strike OF all the shopnen
on the Santa Fe system An effort Is
being made BY the leading shopmen here
to have the company re-ernploy the La
Junss men and thus avert the threatened
tyouSse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
EXPLODED TOO LOW.
But the Shot Raised Oil and Water to
the Ton

CoffeyviIle. Kan, July ls.-An expert
mental shot was put down in one OF the
oil wells being drilled on the Parent farm
east Of town Thursday. The shot is
thought to have exploded too low, but
it raised the oil and water to the top
OF the derrick.
The we'll is now down over 40 feet
and the drill has been started again. An
other experimental shot may be put down
i ma day or two.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
Operators Present a Schedule Giving
an Increase.

Pittsburg, Kan, July ls.-When the In
terstate miners and operators convened
this morning the latter submitted re-
vised scale from their standpoint after
which an adjournment was taken until
Monday morning. The operators scale
as revised gives the miners quite an
increase over the first one presented.
but there is yet wide difference between
ii and that OF the miners. As yet there
is no visible prospect OF the miners re-
ceding from their demands embodied in
the scale now before the conference
President Mitchell left last night for Ro-
mama, Ark. TO attend a Mitchell Day
celebration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19

There
o
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
REVISED SCALE.

be found here that he asks for nothing
If he falls to deliver the goods.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02

robbed the store in order to silence
him.
Few Kokomo people accept the
county prosecutors theory that Louis
Yeager killed himself. Oakford peO-
pie have raised a fund Of $1,000 with
which to employ detectives. Petit
lions asking the county commission
ers to offer $1,000 reward are being
signed by hundreds.
The strange woman who holds the
key to the Yeager murder mystery
has not yet been found, and but lit
tie progress has been made toward
establishing her identity. She is
described as being extensively dress
ed. Where she came from, how she
fell in with Yeager, and where she
went after the shooting are circum-
stances that are engaging the atten-
ton of the officers. It is the theory
Of the dead mans family that the
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02
The Russian OIL Fields.

The pa wells completed In the Baku
(Russia) oil field show an average
depth Of 1902 feet and an average ini'
tial production Of 292 barrels a well
day, against an average depth of l.
0S6 feet and an average production
well a day OF $50 barrels for the, S5S
wells completed In 1901, indicating a
very material increase In the depth OF
drilling and not inconsiderable fall
ing of in the average productivenetss OF
the wells, Oil Is worth at the wells
two-thirds OF a cent a gallon.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02

Baffled in their search for the
woman supposed to have been with
Louis Yeager after he left the home of
his fiancee. Myrtle Finley. on the
night Of his death, the authorities of
Kokomo, Ind, decided to postpone the
cintinuation of the inquest in the hope
that further efforts to locate the
woman may be successful.
One whole day was spent in Sharps-
vile, where it is believed Yeager made
the appointment which ended fatally,
and the county prosecutor Is inclined
strongly to the belief that the young
man. who all along has been the sup.
posed victim of the feud between the
villages of Hemlock and Oakford, COM
twelve miles from his home In Oak
ford by the route he followed, and six
miles from Hemlock. where he had
spent the evening.
THE case against Logan ingalls,,
billiard and Frank Fades will be dis
missed" said the county prosecutor
The evidence against them Is poor at
best, and the threats were the natural
outcome Of the enmity between young
men Of rival villages. Their alibis
cannot be broken down."
The motive for the suicide was dis
covered when 1t was found that Yea.
ger had been pressed to set date for
his wedding to Myrtle Finley. but re-
fused his sweetheart's plea because
his physician had told him he could
not marry. His grief over this fact
affected him deeply, and the death Of
his friend, Francis Sutton, who was
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02
Edison King OF Inven,o,.

Thomas Alva Edison maintaips h,,
primacy at the typical American in.
ventor BY the end of March no haa
taken out no fewer than 7sl na,.nss
and his ordinary fees have amonn,o:
to the neat little sum OF an oon u s.
nsures relate however, only to this
county, ,,. every Edison invention AZ
Importance has also been protao,sa
by patents abroad, so that tho ao,.'",
patents bearing his name, in man, , ,ua
suases' count up into the thonsan ,Sn'
and the mere cost of secrr' no'Sands
some fortune. oe hahd-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02

to his friends in Oakford. Yeager ap-
the physicians office, and the night
afterwards visited his sweetheart. The
girl. after greeting him warmly. dis
cussed their plans for future happiness
and said:
II wish you would see father about
a long time" They had been engaged
nearly year.
mo, don't want to see him to-
night. I think it better to wait until
Sunday" Yeager replied.
He appeared to be suffering then.
but on the following Sunday was
cheerful. When reminded of his
promise In the evening. he left sud.
denly an hour or more before the
time he usually departed. Six hours
after his body was found in his car
riage before the gate of his fathers
farm.
The county prosecutor took the
foregoing statement from Miss Fin.
ley. THE motive is plainly apparent"
he said. "The first theory, that Yeager
was murdered es the result of feud,
was abandoned, and no further effort
will be made to trace the where
abouts on Sunday of the boys now
under arrest"
The coroner clings to the belief
that Yeager was murdered by or for
woman, and said, after his return
from Sharpsville:
IF were to bring in verdict this
minute would say. 'Yeager came to
his death at the hands of parties un-
| known"
"The verdict should be suicide of
nothing new Is discovered" said
Prosecutor Cooper.
There are few who still believe
that Yeager was murdered. It was
asserted that Yeager was in store
in Oakford when the place was held
up and robbed year ago. The
crime, 1t is believed, was committed
by young men living nearby. Yeager
told the authorities Of having a clew
to their identity, and some think he
may have been killed by the men who
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02
Stuart Robson's Pet Hobby.

One Of the value possessions OF the
late Stuart Robson was collection
OF scrapbooks complied by the come
dian with great care. They did not
contain press clippings. either. Mr..
Robson was radical free thinker,
and he neglected no opportunity to
point out what he considered the I'M
worthiness Of the clergy. He cut out
all the reports of their msdeeds that
appeared in the newspapers and for
a number Of years he added these clip
pings assiduously to his collection.
The scrapbook increased so much In
bulk at last that he was compelled to
give up the task. But he was always
proud Of the monument that he had
raised to his opinions.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02
Many Live a Century.

The United States census for 1900
finds 1856 persons in the United States
who are 100 or more years OF age.
The value of these figures may be ques-
toned, and perhaps may be best es'
timated by the fact that 1878 per cent
Of the whole number are negroes,
any of whom have no reliable evil
dence as to the date OF their birth.
They are but II per cent of the total
population. 1t seems improbable, too,
that this country should have over g.
500, when Germany, with a population
OF nearly 35,OO0,000, has oily IT'S, and
England. with 100000. only 146 and
France, with 100000, has only 213
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02
Thinks Sailors Too Neat.

naval officer who Is visiting
friends In this city vas enjoying an
after-dinner cigar the other evening
with his host when the latter ra'
marked on the proverbial neatness OF
men who follow the sea-" Tho ON.
GERS reply rather startled his friend.
Yes, we're too blank neat" he said
Tom. I'd give three months pay for
chance to get as muddy as I used
to In my boyhood days. There's never
speck of dust on board war vesse,
ara the shininess of 1t al positively
nakes me hungry occasionally for a
stroll down one OF the muddy streets
for which your city is famous"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-02
ITO BE CoNTiNUED.)
A CAT UP A TREE.

Gallant Policemen Sent to It's Rescue
and the Relief OF the Ladies'.
A singular request was made to Chief
of Police Willard yesterday.
A woman who lives In the neighbour
hoodhood OF 1863 Hamilton street called
up police headquarters. and this is the
conversation that followed:
Hello! Is this police headquarters? p
Yes"
"Is Chief Willard imp
Yes; I'm the chief"
well. chief. have you got a police
man who can climb a tree?"
'Wh-what? A policeman who can
climb a tree? For what purpose?" asked
the chief. greatly surprised at the UNI
usual request.
There's a cat up in tree opposite
1863 Hamilton street, and 1t has been
up there for four days. All the VIC N IN
and girls are In Mysteries over II, and '
wish something could be done about |.
l thought that you could send a police.
man up to climb the tree and bI.pg the
poor cat down"
II am afraid our policemen are not
very good at the art of climbing, but /
will see what I can do"
Cant you get fire department lad
der?"
Wen attend to that all right"
Captain Davidson sent a couple OF his
men to the tree where the cat was roost-
ing Thomas was rescued. however
and the hearts of all In the neighbor.
hood beat regularly again.