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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
An Early Chicago Mayor.

Chicago, Sept. 24.-Hon. Alison Smith
Sherman, who was chosen mayor of
Chicago in the eighth year of its cor
pornte existence died at his home in
Wankegan at the age of 90 years. Mr.
Sherman came to Chicago from Barre.
Vermont, his birthplace, in 1885, and
Mt once toOls an active part in public
affairs
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Some grocers say they don't keep
Defiance Starch. This is because they
have a stock on hand of other brands
containing only II OF. in IL package,
which they won't be able to sell first,
because Defiance contains 10 OF. for
the same money.
Do you want 10 OF. instead of 12 OF.
for same money? Then bny Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
EXPRESS.

The automobile that completed its
tour from the Pacific coast to Bur
lington, VT, on Friday. had to tow
back to town another broken down
machine that was run down the line
to meet 1t. This incident supplied the
thing needed to produce a spectacular
finish.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Cremation Fioures.

According to statistics published in
Paris, 1910 dead bodies were cremat-
ed last year In France. The United
States comes next in the list with
1896. Italy, with only 4.393 bodies
cremated during the year, has twenty.
eight crematories, the United States
twenty-six and England only nine.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Motor E.ee In Woman.

Eiany women are discovering that
living on a moto. car" is most de-
structive of beauty. Moderate motor
ing. by improving health and the ca
pacity for sleep. enhances a woman's
charms. but the hardened tourist type
Of $50 miles day tans and coarsens
her skin and gets crows feet around
her eyes. her face loses its soll. wom-
anly contour and gains hardness and
determination
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The San Francisco earthquake and
the eruption Of Mt, Colima, following
the outburst from Vesuvius, afford am
pie evidence that the disturbance In
side the great round ball on which we
live has not been settled yet.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

DR.. J. w. Shuts, president OF the
Board of Health, of the city of Wich-
ita for the past ten years. says he
would under no consideration have any
OF his patients undergo surgical
operation for appendicitis, after wit
messing the prompt cure of this trouble
made weekly by DR.. p. ). Thomas at
his Sanitarium in this city. His cures
are without danger. and certain.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
John I. sulIivan,a VIII.

For the first time in his life. John
L. Sullivan has made a will, and We
understand that in 1t he has be
oueathed his thirst to Editor Reaves
Of the Hardeman Free Press. Now
let Mr.. Carnegie leave him something
with which to quench it--Memphis
(Tenn.l Commercial Appeal.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
New Pension Examiners.

Washington, Sept. 25--Thc follow
ing pension examining surgeons have
been appointed: DIR. C. A. Ellis at
Maryville, Mo-. DIR. George w. Iobs at
Muslsogee, 1. T., DIR. j. NJ. Workman
at Woodward, Ok. and DR.. j. C. Shaw
at Hoiton, Kas.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
To Succeed Judge Dale.

Topeka, Sept Ex-Governor Bailey
settled the district judgesllip contro-
verey in Sedgwicl1 county by an
nouncing the appointment of Tholnas
y. Wilson 10 succeed Judge Dale on
the district court bench. Wilson is
now probate judge
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
First Irish Land Sale.

Dublin, Sept. 26.-The negotiations
for the first land sale under the new
land act have been completed between
of his estate in the Athy and Maymoth
districts of county Kildare. The ten
ants are given a twenty-five year pnr-
chase. The transaction involves
Sc. $50. 600.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Some immense waterspouts have
been seen in Nome. and it has been
hailing blocks of ice in Colorado, but
not solitary sea-serpent has shown
up at any of the seaside resorts this
summer. The sea-serpent liar must be
taking a vacation this year.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Many women and also some few men
suffer from cold feet in the very hottest
weather, have to use from l to 3 COM
forts to keep them warm. This is
caused by improper, poor and sluggish
circula ion. ''Crippin's Compound"
equaizes he circulation and will warm
the feet in 3 to days. AT your drug
gist or by mail postage prepaid bottle
81. OO--6 bot ties ST.. co.
THE CRIPPEN MEDICINE CO.,
304-oOS n. Main st. Wichita, Kansas
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

If you are bitten by rattlesnake, :"
says an authority, and can't get
whisky, eat tobacco pound if nee
essary. 1t will cure you" Life is
sweet, and there are men, doubtless.
who would pay even this price for it.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

That man in Mount Vernon who let
his wife compel him to sleep for a
month in the chicken coop has shown
unconsciously that it takes a wife to
measure accurately the dimensions of
ter husband.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Some one has discovered that the
increase in mortality from cancer
bears 3 direct relation to the In
creased consumption Of. beer. There
are persons whose sole object in life
seems TO be to destroy all the peace
OF mind OF their fellows.-Bu6aIo
Exnrass
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Smart Answer.

'T met half-witted fellow down on
Long Island last summer" said At
torney David Rockmore. HE was go
ing along talking to himself. 1 stop
ped him and asked why he talked
when he was alone. Well he replied,
there are two reasons, like to talk
to a smart man and I like to hear
a smart man talk."-Exchange
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Benuest 40 SANTA CIans.

Rutland, VT, Sept. 2s-The annual
Christmas tree, with gifts for the chill
dren of Dandy, Mount Tabor and
vicinity, is provided for in the will of
Silas L. Griffith, Vermont lumber
man. who died in California in July.
The income of "a fund of So, 500 is-to be
used each year to purchase these gifts
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

How would it do for the nations, be-
fore further increasing their navies,
to have few of the rocks dug out
of the oceans, so the boats will have
room?
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

It is generally known that potatoes
contain large percentage of alcohol
but are we to infer that this is most
generously liberated in the process of
MASKING?
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

A superstitious Ozark county young
man tried recently for luck to kiss
the bride before the groom could do
it He is now nursing two black eyes
and a broken nose. He got the luck,
all right-Kansas City Journal.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

In these days of trading stamps and
mark-down sales, it is a strong-minded
woman who does not come home from
a shopping tour with the idea that
she has been finding money
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Radium in Utah.

S. T. Lockwood has succeeded in
extracting radium from the carnotite
deposits of Utah, and expects to pro-
duce it on a commercial basis, as it
gives up it's radium somewhat easier
than the pitch-blonde from which it
has been extracted in laboratories.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

w. II. Culp & Co., Florists, Wichita,
Kansas, can hll your orders for choice
cut flowers for all occasions. Plants
and bulbs in season. Telegraph, tele-
phone or mail orders promptly filed.
Send for price list
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Representative Baker of Brooklyn,
who will neither accept railroad
passes nor appoint cadets to Annapo-
lis, must have got into politics by mis-
take.-Buffalo Express.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

"The sheep which were imprisoned
in the turret of the French cruiser
Suffern"-that's just what they were
doing, even if they were not seriously
injured
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Both Plague And ChoIera.

Tien Isin, North China, Sept 30
Both the plague and cholera are raging
at Pei Tang, a seaport ffty miles cast
OF Ticn Tsin, where 1000 deaths have
occurred during the pas: two months.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

There is man at Laurel, L. l., who
claims that in the sixty years of his
life he has eaten $1,000 pancakes.
Some people don't seem to have any
sense Of shame
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The Toledo Blade says: Miss Fairy
Titmarsh has pair of calves that can
not be beat in this section of our
glorious republic" Perhaps somebody
will write a poem about them, as
somebody did about Mary's little
lamb.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Lumber Fire In Wisconsin,.

Mellen, Wis, Sept. 96.-F. B. Chase's
sawmill, store and six million feet of
lumber at Morse, Wis, has been de-
stroycd by fire. The loss is $500, 600,
partly insured.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Lawrence. Kas., had a wind storm
the other day that made some of the
old settlers think for the moment that
Quantren had come again.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Encourage American Enterprises.

Santiago, Cuba, sept 24.-In speech
President Palma assured those present
that the government would heartily
encourage American and other enter
prises In Cubs
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Prof. Langley should not be discour-
aged. If his machine will not fly per-
haps it will be a success as a sub
marine boat
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

California regrets to report that she
has not prunes enough this year to
create trouble in even the Hungarian
diet.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Literary people should live as near
as possible to nature without getting
too far away from the publishers
Puck.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

A Chicago professor has undertaken
the task of writing six large books
about money. That's his scheme for
getting money.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The British government has increas-
ed Poet Laureate Austin's pension. If
this is the price of silence in the fu-
ture we can understand the raise"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Perhaps if they had allowed Mr..
Corbett to take an ak into the ring
with him the result might have been
different
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Live shells were fired at a French
warship. without any apparent effect
upon it. However. Dewey's men were
not behind the guns.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

If a man will only keep on making
love to a woman after he has married
her they can keep on foOling them
selves indefinitely.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Unfortunately the people the
world would like most to be. rid of are
never the ones who get mixed up in
those tunnel accidents
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Undoubtedly Russia and japan are
merely bluning. Neither has begun
to invest in Missouri mules
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The fact that riches cannot buy hap
poor.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
For Live stock ExhibIt.

Topeka. Sept. 2s.-StocIlmen insist
on the Getting aside for live stock ex-
hibit at St. Louis, of $40, 900 or $50, 600.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Increase Chances of contaalon.
no physician v. III question the state
ment that alcoholics taken to the
point Of intoxication increase the sus-
ceptibility to infectious diseases.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Jamaica should be a good market
for cyclone cellars during the next few
months
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

81 sleep like babe.s' says Corbett.
What poetic language these hard-fist-
ed fighters use!
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The new college Of journalism is
primarily intended. however, to pro-
duce newspaper men,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

A st. Paul girl tried the old reli-
able test to discover if they were
mushrooms or toadstools. 1t worked.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

ALL UP TO DATE BOUSEKEEPERs
use Defiance Cold Water Starch, be-
cause it is better and or more of it
for same money.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

It would be well worth going many
miles to see Mr.. Jeffries and a good
swift red devil collide head-on.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Ido not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and cOlds.-JoHS b
BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. %. 1900
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

When it comes to engagements the
summer girl prefers quantity rather
than quality.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Thomas Cooksey Ward, 1.-THE Sage
of Maryland" is dead at the age of
Ill. 1t takes a sage to reach that age.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

THE BEST RESULTS IN STA RCHINGs
can be obtained only by using Defiance
Starch, besides getting or more for
same money-no cooking required.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Then use Defiance Starch, it will
keep them white-16 or for 10 cents.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The camel can go without water but
the moth can grow fat by merely eat
ing holes
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Banking institutions have no use for
the mo account man"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Apparently Mount Vesuvius' gIudge
against the existing order of things
is deep and lasting.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Now is the time to order Hyacinths,
Lilies Cut Flowers and Plants.
CdAS. P. MUELLER.
1912 N. Market St.,
Wichita, ,Kans.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY.
Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue
All grocers sell large OF. package, cents
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

IF YOU USE BALI. BLUE.
Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball BIue.
Large OF. package only cents.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The sweetness of revenge is often
only sugar-coated.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Some excuses are so thin that YOU
can see right through them.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The fellow who invests in green goods
is generally done up brown.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

The lock to be placed in the Dan
ube-Oder canal win be 131 feet high.
and the highest in the world.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

man who gossips is worse than a
woman who wants to vote.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

A lot of misdirected sympathy is
wasted on the under dog.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

If you don't tip the waiter the waite,
is apt to tip the plate.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

ETC permanently cured No fits nervousness after
Grst days OF DR.. Klines Great Nerve RestoE
er Send for FREE 82. 90 trial bottle and treatiseA
DR K h KLINE. Ltd. ISL Arch Street. Philadelphia, Pa
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

It may be more blessed to give thar
to receive, but it isn't so popular.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
INsIsT ON GETTING lr.

Truth is mighty, but good deal of
st is suppressed.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

WHEN YOU BUY STARCH
buy Defiance and get the best, 10 OF. for
10 cents. Once used, always used.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

One sort of perm nent investment is
buying a cemetery lot.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

DEFIANCE STARCH
should be in every household, none SO
good, besides or more for 10 cents
than any other brand of cold water
starch.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Two souls with but single thought
seldom remain single.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

It is sometimes easier to meet u bill
than to dodge ii.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
nrr1ANcEsrAucu

Some people spend all their lives
looking behind them
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
i. Deafness Cannot b cured.

Never Judge an actress by the dia-
monds she thinks you think she wears.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

A man must have plenty of back bone
to succeed; also plenty of cheek.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
COLD FEET IN SUMMER TIME.

If 1T were not for the trials of life
the lawyers would starve to death.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR
makes top of the market butter.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
Millions for Precious Stones,
Cof The Iuck.

Americans imported SIS, 412.77G
worth of precious stones last year.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Geronimo probably has confessed
that he was an old chief of sinners.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

When a fellow is frozen out of a
good thing it naturally makes him hot
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Mrs. NInsIow's Soothing Syrup
For children teething. soft ms the gums reduces Il
damation, allsys pain. wind collie. 25c bOttI
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

Stops the Cough and
Works On the Gold
q RrOsln O,frf,a IT, IaA- D-{~. az,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03
TRIED EN- Time


Eugene E. Lario. of Isl a
Twentieth Avenue, tick T%Y
ct seller n the Union "
Station. Denver. Col.
says: you are at lib
erty to repeat what
Arst stated through our
Denver papers about
Doan's Kidney Pills In
the summer OF 1899, for
have. had no reason In
the interim to change
my opinion OF the rem
edy. I said when first
interviewed that II 1
had q friend and ac-
Quaintence suffering from backache
or kidney trouble would unhesitat-
ingly advise them TO take Doan's Kid
ney Pills. I was subject to severe at
tacks OF backsche, always aggravated
II l sat long at a desk It struck me
that II Doan's Kidney Pills performed
half what they promised they might
at least help This induced me 10
tr7 the remedy. 1t absolutely stopped
the backache. have never had a
pain or q twinge since"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid.
ney medicine which cured Mr.. Lario
Will be mailed to any part of the
United States on application. Address
Foster-Mfburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y. For
sale by ali druggists. Price so cents
per box.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-03

G09S Line Cfu1DOL % squared al OGg 0E1cGs
eh0e5 ~ MALL 20 cents extra. EIlustrafe&
CatsiOg free. W. L. DOUGLAS, BrSektoa. Msaa,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-12
THE GOVERNMENT FORCED
into GETTING ITS OWN
J. II. Boyd's Eagerness to Embarrass His Sue
cessor Leads to Discovery Of Public Land
Jumped by KapioIan Estate

Forced the wall in litigation thin streak of
for widening the Waiaae road the Government has
windfa properly speaking landslide Trouble upon
by intrigue has suddenly changed boon the shape
and half of land appears con
demned land in a tract absolutely owned by itself
Suit by injunction brought by Yong Wal the road
well advanced seeking damages against the Govern
for epa Wal the lessee of the land question
from the Kapoan Estate Ltd H. Boyd when Superntend
of Public Works. settled Coburn the
Kapon Estate for the required right of way Mr. Cobun
gagged stand behind the any difficulty that might
be interposed by the lessee.
Yong proceedings against Superntend
of Public Works and the contractors Lord Beer Mr. Coburn
has destepped and left the Government
matter At the time understood James II. Boyd back
of necessity to fight.
Up against the situation described the Superintendent of Public
Works and the Attorney General instituted examination titles
The result discovery that the land leased by the
ani Estate Yong Waa beautiful apparently part of the
public domain According the records both the Survey and the
Land Offices it ungraned Government land 1t has far
appears been conveyed either in fee simple by lease
Yong Wal, only well coached has refused several offers
compromise his injunction suit Now unless his lessor show
title the tigious Chnaman will be hoist with his petar
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-12
BAR ASSOCIATION WILL SEND
MEMORIAL TO WASHINGTON
Lawyers Decide That They Want Five Supreme
Court Justces---Davis ."Butts In" and
Is Given the Cold Shoulder.

no decision by majority of the court,
the decision of the lower court would
stand affirmed. To this Mr. Derby re-
piled that there was always the posi-
bility Of denial of justice, where two
or three justices are disqualified, and
the unanimous decision of the remain
der is required. E. P. Dole said that
there was not likelihood of such a
thing happening in twenty years.
mot unless the members of the Su-
preme Court are stockholders in cor
porations," said Butt-In Davis, when
no one was watching. 1.-THE time is
coming, though, when they will have
to sell their stock in corporations, con-
tinued Mr.. Davis. No one paid the
slightest attention to him and the dis
cussion of the memorial was continued.
President Smith stated that at the
time of the drafting of the Organic Act,
the provision for substitute justices had
been approved because of the limited
population and the possible frequent
disqualification. He contended that
with an increase in tie membership of
the court there was less danger of dis
qualification. It was finally decided
to leave the amendment as it was, and
the vote was then taken on the memo
rial 1t was adopted with but one dis
senting vote, that of Judge Diekey.
Mr.. Smith suggested that four orig
inal copies of the memorial be made,
two to go to Delegate Kuhio for pres
entation to Congress, one to the De-
partment of Justice, through Mr..
Breckons, and the other to the Chief
Justice for the Supreme Court. Mr..
Stewart wanted to know why a copy
was being sent to the Chief Justice and
Davis laughed and made some sneering
remark Stewart hastened to disclaim
any such meaning as intended by Da-
Wis. and Mr. Smith explained that it
was a simple act of courtesy to send a
copy of the memorial to the Supreme
Court which is most affected by the
proposed change.