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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01
A Socialist College for Wichita.

Wichita is to have a Socialist Col
lege. Thos. Elmer Will, formerly
president of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College, w. A. Ross. Gran
vile Lowther and others, will open
on May 3 the American Socialist Col
lege at Wichita. Their object is to
prepare men and women to work for
the establishment of the CO. cooperative
Prof. and Mrs. Fred
eric A. Metcalf, formerly of the de-
partment of oratory in the Kansas
State Agricultural College, have
leased the Western College of Oratory
and, with the assistance of Rev. and
Mrs. o. p. Harnish, have added to it
a department of music. The two
schools have headquarters in the
Sedgwick block and will cooperate
closely. All the parties are recently
of Ruskin College, Trenton, Mo.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01
KNsI.EY coUNTY. KANSAS.
rioTTEwITz.s STORE ROBBED.
Youthful Thieves Get Away With
Goods but Leave Clues Which
flake deEtification Easy.

Sunday night A. Hottewitz's store
was broken into and goods to the
amount of about $50 taken. Entrance
was effected through rear wind ow.
The parties apparently knew where to
look for what they wanted and fitted
themselves out with clothing and eat
ables A careful animation of the
premises Monday morning showed
that the work had been done by
novices for they had left some things
which could be identified. A cap was
found and identified as belonging to
a boy about sixteen years of age by
the name of Renstrom. Later in the
day Claud Smith found new shoe
about four miles southwest OF town
which Mr.. Hottewitz recognized as
having been taken from his stock.
Still further to the southwest piae-
apple was found which had also been
dropped. These facts seemed to fix
beyond question of doubt the iden-
tity of the guilty parties. A warrant
was sworn out for the Renstrom boy
who was said to be working near
Bucklin and Sheriff Moletor went
over there Monday night. The boy
was arrested and part of the stolen
property was found in his possession
The sheriff also learned that this boy
and Frank McCanse had hired liv-
cry team In Bucklin at 2 o'clock Sun
day afternoon and that they returned
to that place at o'clock Monday
morning. He brought his prisoner to
this city and lodged him in Jail. Later
warrant was issued for McCanse
and the sheriff went after him We'd
nesday, having become convinced
from the information gath red that
both boys were Implicated in the
robbery.
Soon after the sheriff had started
from here for Bucklin to get McCanse
telegram was received stating that
the boy had hiked. The Renstrom
boy says that they went to a livery
barn in Bucklin at two O'Clock Sun
day afternoon, hired a team to go
fishing on the-creek. drove here, rob-
bed the store and returned to Buckli n
at four O'Clock Monday morning,
having buried their plumber in a corn
field two miles north of the latter
town.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01
We have the
"Great Snakes"

Corn Sled which we have ham
died for years and cannot find
it's equal. Your neighbor will
tell you this too if he has ever
used one.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01

of all kinds. Remember that we
have our Harness all made to
order by the most skilled work
men west of the Mississippi
river. We have a complete line
of Strap Work, Collars and
Sweat Pads.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01
Too Great a Risk,

In almost every neighbOrhood
some one has died from an attack OF
collie or cholera morbus, often before
medicine could be procured or a
physician summoned. A reliable
remedy for these diseases should be
kept at hand. The risk is too great
for any one to take. Chamberlain 5
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rene
-dy has undoubtedly saved the lives oil
more people and relieved more pain
and suffering than any other medi'
cine in use. 1t can always be de-
pended upon. For sale by c.. A
Mosher s. Co.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01
Strayed or Stolen.

One dark brown mare colt two
years old. Has white right fore foot
and both hind feet white with star in
forehead, nose slightly Roman, short
heavy tail. in good condition, weight
about 1000 or HOO pounds. Had on
leather halter. Colt answers to name
of Brindy. Reward offered for any
information leading to its recovery
ANDREW HURKHART,
Offerle, Kansas.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01
Notice.

A meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Old Settlers Associa.
tion. is called for Saturday at p M.
May 8, for the purpose OF deciding
upon arrangements for the annual
picnic of the association.
DIR. b. r. MosHER, President.
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Club Notes.

On account of sthe very unusual
"spell o. weather. which prevailed
on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs: L. w
Higgins, president of the Woman's s
club, called the meeting off for that
day. 1t was to have been held at the
home of Mrs. Draut and the hostess
was to have had the topic for the day,
Schiller's 'Wallenstein." 1t will be
given at a called meeting in the future.
The meeting next week will be on NJ on
day on account of the Federation, and
will be held at Mrs. Hines. Mrs.
Hine will give paper on Wagner s
life and music. Tuesday most of
those who go to Wichita will leave on
No. &, coming home Friday.
No talk about the Kansas woman
would be complete without word as
to the club woman, several thousand
of her, says a writer in the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune. The most re-
markable thing about the Kansas
club woman is the awe inspiring, all
embracingness of her knowledge.
She knows all about Buddha, Brown
ing or buckwheat cakes and can talk
with equal huency about the higher
criticism or the hired girl. She can
J
date of the Italian renaissance or the
day and hour, when her first baby cut
it's first tooth.
She is equally capable of figuring
out the next transit of Venus or of
cutting a shirt waist from yard and
three quarters of goods by a pattern
that calls for three yards and half.
Unlike HOratio, there are few things
in heaven or earth of which her phil
osophy has not dreamed, and what
she has ''dared to dream of she has
dared to do"
Public parks and fountains, kinder
gartens and restrooms for farmers
wives, industrial schools, travelling
libraries and art galleries, sch holar-
ships in high sch ools, and universi-
i'ties, improved civic conditions and
beautiful schoolroomS-theSe are
some OF ;thedfreams.. she has trans
formed into realities, and her work
is only we'll begun. :E
The woman's club has ceased to be
an experiment and Jest and has be-
come Il nucleus of altruistic activity,
the centre of an widening circle
whose circumstances will one day
touch the stars.
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For Sale or Trade.
Good Stallion and Jack. At my
farm, two miles southwest of Belpre.
NICK GRAF.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
AN OVATION TO MISS ALICE.
The Presidents Daughter the Nc-
cipicnt of Lavish Attention
by the Porto NicaDs.

San JWnn. Porto Rico, March 20
There was grand reception ut the
thentcr here Tuesday evening, under
the auspices Of the citizens commits
tee, in honor Of Miss Alice Roosevelt,
following an elaborate display OF fire
works on the plaza, which listed un-
I'll ten o'clock and was witnessed by
Miss Roosevelt, who received tree
mcndous ovation from the people
gathered on the plaza and on the
roofs Of the houses One OF these
pieces, representing President Roose-
welt, was 25 feet high The interior OF
the thcatcr was decorated profuseiy
and displayed the word welcome '
formed Of electric lights Miss lioosc-
welt spent two hours shaking hands
She left for the interior Wednesday
accompanied by Gov Hunt, Mrs. and
Miss Elizabeth Hunt, Thomas llunt,the
governors brother, and Mrs Thomas
Hunt; Miss Beatrice Buck, the gov
emOrs ward. and Secretary Bliss. The
party will be away four days and viii
visit Cnycy Ponce, Muyogucl and the
Intermediate towns ~ well uS the
principal sugar estates, The inhabit'
ants Of Ponce have planned u big re-
ccpliou for Miss Roosevelt
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
THE NEN IRISH LAND BILL
The Irish Secretary, Mr.Wyndham,
Presents II in the British
House of Commons.
KEEN INTEREST FElTIn The PROPOSAL.
its Uoped that Its Passage ana Al
r,t,i.,r,,iop VIII Promote Peace
aud Contenvnent In ireianh-"'-
chnei Dnyiu witnessed Introduce
ton of the Bill.

London. March 26.-The Irish sec
rotary. Mr. Wyndham, introduced the
governments long-anticipated irish
land bill in the house of commons
Wedneyday. II proposes 2 free grant
of $Go,00O,OCO for the purposes OF the
bill.
The keen interest felt in this new
legislation. which it is hoped will pro
mote peace and con.entinent IN Ire
land. was evidenced by the crowded
house.
The peers gallery and the distin'
guished strangers gallery were hlled
md there has been no such gathering
Of members Of parliament since the
opcning Of the session. Michael Day
lit the father Of The Land league
celebrated his tifty-seyennth birth
dav anniversary by entering the
house for the first time since he
ceased 10 be a member, in order to
hear the chief secretary for Ireland
unfold his plans.
MIR. Wyndham, who was heartily
cheered when he rose "a speak, an
nounccd at the outset that the gov.
srnment thought cash aid was ncces-
sary for the fulfllmcnt Of the pro-
posed scheme, but it attached greater
inheritance to the credit operation
than to the cash operation. lie then
unfoIded the scheme which provides
for advances Of money for the pur-
chase of land by the tenants. The
advances will be in the shape of casa,
and not Of stock, but in order to en-
able the cash to be raised new
| stock is to be noattl. II will be
called guaranteed ~, per cent.
stock" and will he dnreleemab!e for
30 years
MIR. Wyndham doubted If $50O,Ooo''
600 Of the stock would br needed. 1t
will bee issued at the rate Of $4,000
900 yearly for the first three years,
and afterward possibly in larger
sums. I'm addition TO this the gov
eminent proposed free grant or
500 900 coo. to be raised by additions
to the stock, the interest and sink
ing fund Of which will be borne by
the treasury,
The secretary explained that while
the maximum charge on the English
treasury would not exceed Sl,913,oOo
in single year, the reduction In the
cost Of the administration of Ireland
would amount to $l2j0,0O0.
The advance to tenants, through the
provisions of the bill, are limited to
| 81, 500 in the congcsted disS'icts and
81 900 elsewhere. The bill will become
effective November I. Mr., Wyndhnm
said S750,O0O,OOO could safely he adj
vanccd ON Irish land but he thought
the scheme would not involve $780,
| OOO,00o
The bin also provides that tenants
shall pay 3h per cent. interest on
loans from the government, that UNI
tenanted farms and grazing lands will
be sold to neighboring tenants, and
that three commissioners will super
wise the sales.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
Good Roads Law Framed,

The executive committee Of the
Arkansas Good Roads Association
|mct at Little Rock and adopted a
good roads law. which will be pre-.
scented to the joint committee OF the
general assembly on roads and high
wayA The bill, which was framed
by Judge Falconcr Of Sebastian
county, provides for tax of 81 on
the thousand for 4 state road tund.
IN creates the Office Of state civil
engineer and provides that any hye
or more residents on road outside
the corporate limits Of a town may
petition the county Judge for the i'm
proyemont Of such road, by guarab
toong Is per cent Of the cost 1t
also creates a state board OF road
and highway commissioners, consist
mg Of the commissioner of agricuI'
ture, secretary of state and attorney
general,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
the House.

S. B. No. l, the King antitrust bill.
was announced as the special order
Mr.. Toney asked leave TO call up II.
b. 296 the appropriation bill for the
school for the blind.
Mr.. Campbell of Randolph moved
that the bill be postponed until Mon
day afternoon
Mr. Toney spoke against the motion
Further consideration of the bill was
stopped by the arrival of time for the
regular order
Mr.. Futrell was given leave TO call
up s. b. 1872, giving ChauCery courts
the power to remove disability of mi
nors,
Mr.. Cate spoke at length against the
bill.
\ point of order raised y Mr.. Parks
that Mr. Cate was using dilatory tao
tics was sustained.
The bill was passed, ayes 65. noes IL
Mr.. Cate called up s. II 27O. to pay
certain teachers OF the 4safmu in
sttute amounts due them on contract
Mr. Campbell moved to postpone the
bill till Tuesday morning
Messrs Cate and Chaplibe asked that
the bill be disposed Of at once.
The motion to postpona prevailed.
S. b. No. /, the anti-gr6st bill was
again taken up
Mr. Toney moved that the bill be
postponed for two weeks. and spoke
in favor Of the motion. He said there
was a disposition on the part Of some
members to railroad this bill through
the house Several motions to adjourn
were lost At several times during the
consideration the point was raised that
no quorum was present. and the ser
geant at arms was called upon to bring
in absentees.
The motion to postpone the bill two
weeks was lost.
Mr.. Cook moved to postpone the bill
one week. He spoke in opposition to
the bill and declared that parts Of It
would be unconstitutional.
The motion to postpone for one week
was lost
Mr. Parks moved that the bill be
read.
Mr. Toney offered as a substitute a
resolution that the bill be returned
to the senate for such corrections and
engTossment as the law or rules re-
CURED. He said there were interinea-
lions in the bill and no one knew how
they got there.
Mr. Parks said the interineatons
were the work Of the author Of the bill
Mr. Cook asked If the governor had
not said in his message that he wrote
the bill.
The substitute offered by MrToney
was defeated,
Mr. Parks motion to read the bin
prevailed.
After the reading a motion to refer
the bin to the committee on judiciary
prevailed, and at 1925 the house ad-
iourned until Saturday morning after
being in continuous session from $3.50
in the morning.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
Attorney Arrastad In Court.

r. A. Davis, an attorney was ar
rested In the court room OF Justice
Of the Peace Moisnor ut Little Rock
on a charge of carrying concealed
weapons. Davis was the prosecuting
witness in an assault and battery case
against Joseph Fitzpatrick, a barkeep'
or. Fearing trouble Justice Molsnor
ordered every one In the court room
searched. Davis took pistol from
his pocket and handed It to the Jus
tIcc. when the case was concluded
Justice McIsncr ordered Mr. Davis
arrest He was taken 10 the county
JAIL but was later released on 800
bond
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
|RKANSAS STATE NEWS.
EOmpany Organized to Drill for Oil
Near Little Rock.
VENTS OF WEEK BRIEFLY CHROAIClED
,ditor of Hot Springs Paper Charged
with Criminal Libel-Mall Pouch
Rifled at Van Buren-Attorney
Arrested in Court Room.

Programme for Press Association.
A subcommittee appointed by the
Executive committee of the Arkansas
Press Association has prepared a
Program for the annual convention,
l. be held at Monticello in May.
mong the addresses announced for
| he three days session are the fol;
|owlng: Necessity for Uniform An
bouncement Rates in Papers of a
Giyen Class" Ed McCorkle of the
Philadelphia Siftings-Herald and Geo,
n Adams of the Pine Bluff Graphic;
FThe Editorial Page the Distinctive
Power of a Paper. and Should Re-
ect the Personality of the Editor
NJ. Neal Helena Daily World;
1.-THE Pulpit and Press as Potent
Factors in Modern Civilization Rev.
Dr.. Julien c. Brown, editor religious
tepartment Sunday Commercial APP
beal. one forenoon session will be
devoted to memorial exercises for che
ate James Mitchell, Of the Arkansas
Democrat.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
The House.

Mr.. Campbell introduced a bill to ex-
ompt hawkcrs and pcddlers of garden
and farm produce from the state and
county license tax, He also presented
petition signed by about eleven hun-
dred names, asking that that the bill
be passed
II, b. 400, the state capitol bill. was
called up and an amendment was
adopted, providing that the architect
shall in no event receive for his ser
vices more than per cent Of one mil
lion dollars5 the total cost of the build
ing
Speaker Moore introduced n bill APP
proprlatlng $500 TO secure roster Of
the officers and enlisted men of the
state who served in the Confederate
army In the ciyil war
Mr. Latmcr introduced a bill to pre-
vent nepotIsm and to prescribe and de-
fine the degrees Of relationship,
Private Secretary Jacobson announced
that the governor had signed the folf
lowing bills: II. b. 49, imposing col.
lateral Inheritance taxes, II, B. sc, pro-
vidng for separate departments for
state and county prisoners, II. Il. III,
providing a course Of study for common
schools,
He also announced that the following
acts had become laws without the sig
nature Of the governor, H. b. 1858,
establishing two separate judicial dis
tricts In Logan county. II, h. a. reg
ulating the degree comforting power OF
the literary institutions OF the state.
H. B al, prohibiting the catching or
killing OF wild turkeys by certain meth
DDS. H. B, 90, providing n uniform
measure for apples, H. b. GAS to cure
defective acknowledgment ana convey.
anccs, II, B23O, amending section 573t
of the digest
Mr. Gannaway called up IT, II. 37i,
licensing the practice OF ostoopathy In
the state, ana moved 10 make IL Il
special order for Monday
Mr. Du Lanoy opposed the motion.
lie thought the doctors should have a
chance to discuss the bin before com.
mlttrc,
Mr. Parks said the bin ala not define
ostoopathy ana anybody claiming TO be
nm ostcopnth could give medicine, lie
said It woul9 be impossible to prose.
! cute anyone for malpractice under the
/ provisions OF this measure.
| Dr Greene thought that undor the
! provisions of the hlll anybody In Arkans
! gns would be- permitted 60 practice med.
| lclno by calling himself an osteopnth
The motion 10 make the bin a
special order was lost on motion of
| Dr. Meyers the house adjourned nt
noon untll Monday morning ut .
o'clock
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
FIRE IN EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.
Al EnrI, Morning uiHsr that DAM
nl,rd rroperp ~ the ENicnt
oI About 100000,

st. Louis, March 90, In The hnse-
mrut Of shoe shop occupied 10y Au-
gust Mute, corner of Colinsville aud
Missouri avenues, East st. Louis, ILL.,,
an inclpirnt blaze which was discoy.
cred shortly after midnight was
famed into flames, which for u tine
threatened destruction OF tbs entire
butucss block,
nrtnchmcnis from the fire depart
mcnt uf ~, Louis arrived ON the scene
shortly after 1880 n, ~, und the lire
NaB prevented from causing serious
damage 10 the lioston store, next
door, aud the Christian restaurant
The damage, II Is thought VIII not
cScccd 100000, The origin of the lire
In not known.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
Charged with Criminal Libel.

Fred w. Vaughn, editor of the
helormer, a paper issued in the in
terest of DR.. j. w. McClendon's can.
didacy for mayor of Hot Springs, and
Lou Kay have been arrested on a
charge of criminal libel The com
plant, which was filed by Prescott
ing Attorney viii H. Martin, named
all the city and county officials and
three Of the proprietors of the Arkan.
sas Club as plaintiffs The charges
are based upon an article which APP
peared in the Reformer, making
charges of bribery and corruption
against certain high officials and
claiming that the proprietors Of the
Arkansas Club were paying for pro
lection"
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
Must Leave the State.

Attorneys for the state and de-
Tense, it is said. have compromised
the famous Parnell case at Ell Dora
do, in which Matt Parnell was
charged with murder and Jim Par
nell, his brother, with assault with
intent to kill. uDon condition that
the accused men leave the state be-
fore May 26. The charges against
the Parnells were the result of a
shooting ARRAY on the public square
at FL Dorado in which Walter and
Tom Parnell and Constable II. l..
Beasley were killed and City Marshal
Guy Tucker was seriously wounded.
The shooting grew out Of feud be-
tween Constable Beasley and one
branch of the Parnell family.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
Mail Bag Rifled at Van Buren,.

4 mail bag was cut open and RI
fed at the Iron Mountain depot in
Van Buren,. tramp, who gave his
name as J. H. Stanley was arrested
and charged with the crime. I've
arrest was made by Postohice In
spector John Elvin, who reached the
city within a few hours after the rob-
berry. Stanley was identified by a
number Of persons who had seen
him loanng around the depot during
the evening before the robbery was
committed. The contents Of the mail
bag were found secreted in the rear
Of tho donOt
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
CcnpanY to Drill for Oil.

A company has been formed at
Little Rock for the purpose Of drill
ing Off oil at point about seven
miles west Of that city The com.
pany, whose corporators are all prom.
inent business men Of Little Rock, is
known as the Rock Creek Oil and
Mining Company, and is capitalized
at $4,000. The formation Of the
company was the result Of the dis
coyery of a spring covered with pc
troleum. Options have been obtain
ed by the company upon large
amount Of territory surrounding the
well, and a test well will be driven,
it is said. within a short time,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
Novel Suit for Damages

A novel suit has boon filed In the
PULASKI circuit court at Little Rock
Mrs NJ, Il, McC0skill the plalntlH
asks for damages TO the amount OF
$500 AGAINST the Little Rock Trnc'
ton and Electric Company alleging
that n car owned BY the defendant
ran over n line Of hose through which
wator was being carried to oStIn'
puish the flames which were destroy
ing her homo. thereby stopping the
stream and allowing the building
win IIs cOntonts. 10 DO dosroyo0.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
Double Hanging at Star City.

Jay Green and James Rutiin, both
koIored were hung at Star City for
4he murder of Don McGhee, another
3negro. The crime for which the two
men were executed was committed
$about a year ago. Three times, since
aheir conviction, a date had been set
dor the hanging, but each time they
Rycre saved by legal proceedings. The
4iate for the execution was finally
ct as February -, but few hours
before they were to ascend the gal
hows, Gov. Davis granted reprieye
.pn account Of a confession made by
Green in which he declared that he
committed the crime at the instance
of Jennie Stcbbins, shooting McGhee
from behind a bush with shotgun,
land that Rufln was innocent An
failed to substantate
these facts and Gov. Davis ordered
the execution to take place,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1903-03-28
TPIpAY, MANCH 30.

The house spent almost the entire
day In the discussion of the King anti
trust bin being In continuous session
from $3.50 H. M until 1928 =. m,
After parliamentary struggle the
hin was read second time ana referred
to the committee on judiciary
In the senate the Hale drainage bill
was rcad twlcc and referred to the
committee on lovocH,
The bin providing FOR n state board
~ arbitration wan considered IN the
yonntc but nunl action was deferred
Tho senate adjourned Mt noon untll
Mpu1ny morning