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QUICK TIME IN pockEr-p1ck,Ne.

Incident of the 8owery Which Is Both
Strange and True.
This occurrence, improbable as II
may seem, actually happened in this
city
A certain large pawnbrokerage
house which has a number of separate
places Of business employs an expert
accountant to examine its accounts
once month. The accountant has a
fine gold repeater and stop watch
which was given to him by his faith
er and for that reason Is valued by
him at even more than its intrinsic
value
This accountant, who lives in Brook.
lyn, went to the pawnbroker's the
other day from his home. He crossed
the 10th street ferry and reached the
Bowery. on cross-tOwn car. walking
the rest OF the distance to the store.
Instead OF passing through the pri.
vate hall to the rear ONCE, as he does
usually, he entered the section where
the loans are made. As he passed
through the door he encountered q
young man who was rushing out In
such q hurry that he almost knocked
down the accountant Behind the
counter one OF the clerks was laugh.
ing and holding something In his hand.
What's the joker" the accountant
asked him.
Why answered the clerk, chat
fellow who just rushed out wanted $40
on this watch. He said he had bought
it for $40. The watch IL worth $3.50.
so I told him to wait a minute until
l could call up the police and find out
where he had got 1t for that .insig.
nificant sum. You saw how he wait
ed"
Let me see that watch" said the
accountant.
He looked, then clapped his hand
on his watch pocket. The pocket was
empty.
That's my watch" he said, and
opening tho, case showed to the clerk
no less surprised than was the &C.
countant, the inscription his father
had engraved on the inside cover.
The thief had picked his pocket
probably in the crowded little car
and had rushed: to the pawnbroker's
beating. him there by only a minute
or two.-New York Sun.
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South Brown.

. This is busy week as everybody
is harvesting.
Harvest hands are scarce and un-
g reasonably high.
Corn, where we'll tended, has fine
color and is growing very fast.
The only thing that seems to be
needing rain very bad is the potato
crop.
The wheat seems to- be much better
} than it was thought to be before har-
vest commenced.
Mr.. Thomas, of near Lewis, is here
this week harvesting his wheat on
the Shepherd ranch.
The Sabbath school at No. l6 has
elected Mrs. C. F. Eslinger as super
intendent. The school is In good
condition.
j. B. Howard, of st. John, is max
ing, a harvest hand of himself this
week helping to save the wheat grown
on his farm here.
Rev. j. B. Hargadine, of Wright,
Kans., has temporarily laid aside
his ministerial robes, and is sweat
ing in the harvest held.
Mr.. George and wife, of Missouri,
father and stepmOther of Anderson
George, came in from Missouri Tues
day TO visit their son and other
friends who are located here.
Miss Mary Frazey, of Lanark, ILL.,,
who has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. Gibson, is suffering with pneu-
monia. DR.. Pearson was called
eruesday torender medical service.
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TIME TABLE A. T. & S. F. r. Y.

A new time card went into effect on
the Santa Fe June 4. The changes at
this point are not many. Nos. l, 5,
and going west at night are nm
changed except No. l does the local
work from Hutchinson west. The
new Colorado flyer arrives from the
east at three In the morning and stops
at this station. Going east the only
change on the through trains is that
the evening train. No. 8, leaves here
at 7:25. The Colorado flyer going
east does not stop at this station.
The branch train arrives as at pres
ent but departs at lbs. The branch
local freight leaves here at 9 in the
morning going east and arrives from
the east at 2:45 in the afternoon. The
main line local goes east at $50 in
the morning and west at 800 in the
afternoon. The branch local runs
from Hutchinson to this place and
turns.
EXCURSION RATES.
Summer excursion rates to Colo
RADIO and Utah, June to September
3O.--Round trip summer excursion
tickets will be sold to Denver, Colo
RADIO Springs, Pueblo and Glenwood
Springs, Colo. and to Salt Lake City
and Ogden, Utah, at rate of one regu-
lar. first class limited fare plus fifty
cents for the round trip. Dates of
sale, daily from June l to September
30 inclusive: final return limit, Octo-
Der 81. Joint agency fee of twenty
five cents will be collected for execu-
ton of return ticket.
Special summer. tourist rates to GER
tain points in Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin, via Chicago. Tickets on
sale daily to and including Septeh-
Der 30: final return limit October 81.
Homeseekers' excursions to points
in Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Terri
tory, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New
Mexico. and Texas: also to points in
Colorado, east of and including Rocky
Ford-one fare for the round trip plus
81. Tickets on sale July I and 81,
August 4 and IL, September aud Is:
return limit 81 days from date of
sale. Tickets to Rocky Ford and
points east on sale on Tuesdays of
each week.
Summer rates to Colorado points.
Pueblo, s11:1O: Colorado Springs,
1890; Denver, s14.S5: Glenwood
Springs, $23.10. Tickets on sale July
to September b; final return limit,
October 81.
? c.. w. CLASS, Agent,
Kinsley, Kas.
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Stray Notice.

Parties unknown to me turned into
my pasture, five miles northwest of
Kinsley, last Tuesday morning., one
sOrrel horse colt, six or seven weeks
old. star in forehead; one dark bay
mare colt. about eight weeks old, star
in forehead, and one Jersey 'heifer,.
one year old, branded on hip. Owner
can have same by proving ownership
and paying charges. G. J. SMITH.
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His Fall.

Speaking of bad falls" remarked
Joggers, Il fell out of window once
and the sensation was terrible. Dur
ing my. transit through the air
really believe l thought of every mean
act 1 ever committed in my life"
Him." growled Jiggers, you must
have fallen an awful distance"
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Lewis Items.

Rev. l. N. Pierce started for Den
YER Monday on business.
j. B. Vosburg has started his meat
wagon for the harvest trade.
A dance was held at the White
Elephant Barn on the evening of July
Fourth.
W. Fl. Israel, manager of the Far
mers' Co., is in the harvest field.
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Always Within Ranae.

The man who reaches the goal of
his ambition mas usually the consola-
ton of knowing that he can easily get
another.
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NEGROES IN DISTRESS
E~MIGRANTS FROM UNITED STATES
STARVING IN LIBERIA.
Minister LyOns's Letter to Secretary
Hay-Movement to Bring the
Sufferers Back.

vALDOSTA, Ca, Nov. 13.-Thsre is a
movement on foot here to bring back from
Liberia the Irwin county negroes swho last
February emigrated to that country. The
predicament of these negroes was described
in a letter from the United States: minister
resident and consul general at Mcsnrovia to
Secretary of State Hay and trans nitted by
him to Congressman Bradley, of. Georgia.
The report Of Minister Lyons to Secretary
Hay is dated Monrovia. Liberia. sSept. %.
1t follows:
'Sir-I nave the honor to that
in the month of February of the present
year a party of fifty-six colored: persons,
consisting Of males and females lind chill
dren, left Irwin county, Georgia. as emf
leadership Of one B. J. Scott. Uhon their
arrival the Liberian government did it's
best to assist them in overcoming the rigor
of the climate and in supplying them with
some food until the land which pad been
given them could produce some thing for
their s~ustenance. Since then, however,
twenty of the number have died g. Cheese
government. For lack of homes tley were
all put in a house of two rooms, where they
died one after the other from waIft of food
and medicine. Thirty-six of thil number
still remain in a sickly and DESTITUTE con-
dition. Sixteen are still at Cheesetnanburg.
Twenty-Five have returned to Nonrovia.
These are ragged, starving and homeless.
Five of these will return to tfss United
States by the first English STEAMER to
Liverpool, on or about the LIST of October,
1903, their transportation having ,been ar
ranged by friends in the United States.
There being no provision for relief in
cases of this kind, we had to kelp them
from our private purses. We soon. how
ever, discovered that We could ;not give
much charity to twenty-five PERSONS for
any length of time, for food is starce and
the prices are enormous. Owing, your Elk
cellency, to the agitation now going on in
the United States on the subjects of negro
emigration to Liberia by irresponsible per-
sons, whose literature has wide circulation
among the innocent and poorer classes OF
negroes, the question becomes one. of grav-
ity for the consideration Of bots govern
ments."
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the Isthmus Of Panama. The general tone
OF the comments is more or less Indifferent,
with the exception of those OF the Speaker,
which bitterly and even violently addresses
itself to the diplomatic victories of the
United States since Napoleon played at
way before the demand of the Washington
government" and including Lord Sails
bury's withdrawal of the demands on Ven
ezuela In the face of President CleVeland ;
ultimatum,' British consideration of opin-
ion concerning the Argentine Repubhc ana
lastly the blockade of Venezuela when
Great Britain, Germany and italy itself
withdrew from the attempt to collect depts,
certainly legitimate. from Venezuela.
Continuing the Speaker. while admitting
that 1T Is only on the map that the Near
aqua canal route completes with the panama
route, which In practice is invincible, pre-
diets that IF the present crisis in Panama
Is TO be established as a precedent, the rela-
tons OF the United States TO Europe VIII
hitherto known. If the United states, In a
spirit OF Imperialism, confiscates a prov
ince of Colombia, digs the canal and de-
tends it-for apart from hypocrisy that is
what the movement means-tnen Tor the
first time i'm its existence the Republic VIII
enter the jealousies, alliances and whole IN
ternational policies Of Europe. The 18TH
mus. once pierced. will become as much a
cosmopolitan interest as the lsthmus or
Suez. The difficulties, the glories, perhaps,
and the delicate diplomacy and perpetual
peril which attended our presence in Egypt
will enter for the first time into American
life. Such a canal would transfer one-fifth
the isthmus, and the canal would remain
one of the permanent objects of dispute or
of armed and allied agreement with the
nations of Europe.
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possession for several weeks. about fifty
wears acn q machinc Of nrociselv that snrf

possession for several weeks. about fifty
years ago. a machine OF precisely that sort.
of Commerce OF about 1852 contained a fun
account of the machine. but these files
We're DESTROYED By FIRE. and he told the
clared. Il remember the facts perfectly.
About 1852 an old man. perhaps eighty
years old brought the machine to my office
to show to me. 1t was constructed about
like this: 1 think there were six of the
hollow arms. In each was a little ball.
The arms were not rigidly fixed. but had
a little play AS the cylinder revolved the
on the right were always an inch or so
further from the center than those on the
left, and they counterbalanced the weight
OF the arms themselves. The whole ma
chine was always, therefore, heavier on the
right than on the left. and so il always
evolved L think there was also a spring
in each arm that helped the reaction or
the ball, but / cannot r~ecollect the orange
ment of the springs
Then there was a pendulum that was
geared to regulate the speed. If that was
disconnected. the machine went faster ana
faster till the centrifugal force kept all the
little balls at one spot. and then II would go
slower and slower till it stopped tried
that once, and started il again with my
finger.
well. 1 kept that machine in my office
for several weeks, under my own private
about 1T, and it went right along. The
Journal of m printed an account OF
IL. and was ridiculed numerically in conse-
quence, but the machine kept right on go
ing.
Then the old man exhibited at a fair i'm
New Jersey, charging a small entrance fee.
and some local scientific men-I think one
of them was a Princeton professor-had him
arrested for taking money under false pre-
lenses. He was arraigned and the justice
of the peace asked him what defense he
had, and the old man said his only defense
was that the machine did what he claimed.
The Justice was angry and asked him how
he dared say that when these eminent gen.
tlemen swore there must be a spring in it or
it wouldn't so.
"And the old man said: L have worked
at it for forty years. and there is no spring
in it, and il does GO
so they got an ak and chopped it up, and
there was a great silence, for there was
no spring. And the old man picked I'D the
fragments and went away with the tears
rolling down his face. And he died soon
after"
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The municipality Of Kiel has decided TO
name a street "Mommsen, in honor Of the
late Professor the historian
The lord chief justice OF Great Britain
has ordered the removal OF the Whitaker
Wright case from the Old Bailey to the
High Court of Justice so that, owing TO
its complicated character, IL may be heard
by a special jury
Lord Roberts is suffering from pneumonia
contracted at the unveiling, Nov. 5. at
Windsor, OF the memorial TO Prince Chris
tian Victor, of g-Holstein, grand
son of the late Queen Victoria, who died
from fever in South Africa in October, 1900
Lord Roberts is in no danger.
Addressing the Institute of Ocean knowl-
edge at Berlin last night DIR. George Weg-
ner spoke on the question Of a canal from
the Pacific TO the Atlantic He said the
Panama canal would never become as im-
portant as the Suez canal, but that, never
theless, it would play a great part in the
worlds commerce.
There Is much satisfaction at st. Peters,
burg over the result Of the Cars visit
abroad. 1t is believed that a complete
understanding was reached with Germany
and France regarding the near and far
East, making for peace and rendering Rus
sia's rear secure in the event of future hos-
tilities with Japan.
The verdict of the coroner's jury I'm the
death Of Mrs. Sophia Frances Hickman, the
unfrequenied part of Richmond Park. Lon-
don, after she had disappeared two months
previous from the Royal Free Hospital,
with which she had been connected, was
suicide by morphia, while temporarily In
s4n0.b
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EXPERT PATENT MEN QUIT.
Outside Firms Want Them mt Twice
the Wages the Government Pays.
Washington Times

Few die and none resign does not ap-
ply to the Patent Office" said Chief Clerk
Irelan one day last week as he announced
the resignation Of one OF the principal ex-
aminers, who had acquired a wide reputa-
ton as an authority on wireless t~elegraphy-
Instead of holding on to their jobs like
grim death In this office the great trouble
is to get the first-class examiners to stay.
and this not only applies TO the examiners
but to others who do technical work.
THE men we employ in making exami-
nations are of an unusually high class be-
cause of the severity Of the examinations,
and when they manage to get a place in this
office they are fully competent TO make a
living. Here they are put upon a specially,
and those with any unusual ability rapidly
become exceedingly expert and well versed
in the art TO which they are assigned.
Promotions are made upon merit, and
the examiners gradually rise TO the place
of principal examiner, but all along we are
losing them. Outside firms learn that one
of our experts is particularly well up upon
their subject and make him offers which
cause him TO give Uncle Sam THE shake"
and go where he can make twice as much
money.
..The principal examine who resigned
this week had a great reputation among
those interested in wireless biography. and
they have been after him for some time.
He was getting $3.50 here, but II Is almost
certain that he will get twice that salary
from the New York firm which landed
him, and his case is a sample OF the others.
"In one way or another the Patent Office
has lost two hundred employees in the last
four years, which. in proportion TO the total
number Of employees, We think TO be the
1Fraf -
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FIGHTING in MANCHURIA
RUSSIANS ALLEGED TO HAVE At
Tackled CHINESE TROOPS.
Supposed Ia Latter We're Rpbbers,
According to a Tien-Tsin RuniOr-
Names of W%arships Changed.

TIEN-TSIN, Nov. 13.-It is rumored here
that Russian troops marching tovraed Shan
Tai-Kwan encountered a force of Imperial
Chinese troops and that fighting. ensued,
the Russians, it is asserted, pretending
that the imperial force was a banG of Chi
nese robbers. Altogether over 1000 imperial
troops have crossed the frontier into Man.
churia.
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. ia litter re-
ceiver here from Shanghai says that Russia
is constantly changing the Names of her
warships to create confusion ans uncer-
tainty concerning the -movements: of the
ships The same letter adds that both
Russia and Japan are actively pushing prep
a%rations for war.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 13.-The Int national
Eastern Company has signed a contract
for the construction of a railroad from
kai-Feng-Fu to Honan-Fu, with a Improbable
subsequent extension to Sian-Fu.
ROME, Nov. 13.-The Tribuna publishes
an interview which it's st. Petersburg cor
respondent had with Japanese Minister Ku-
rino there. The minister said that the sit
uation between Russia and japan. al.
though serious, is not desperate, las both
countries desire a peaceful ~soluti6sl of the
pending questions. The sending of Russian
troops to the far East, the MINISTER as
serted, was due to the desire of khe Rus
sian government to balance it's fokces with
there. Negotiations were going forward
slowly, but firmly, Russia having recog'
nized the preponderance of Japanese in.
tersStS in Corea.
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BOSTON BEANS AND PIE.
Tar Deserted Navy and Travelled 5000
Miles to Get His Favorite Dish.
New York Herald,

Braying a as well as the
probability of a years Imprisonment and
dismissal from the service, Christian Han
sen, an oiler In the United States navy.
came back from Alden, in Arabia, to New
York yesterday on the steamer Cedric, so
that he might once more eat a square meal
of pork and beans and pie.
Cabin passengers of the big White Star
liner were aStoniShed to see the navy
yard tug Narkeeta draw up on the port
side yesterday morning as the revenue cut
ter with the customs officers, drew up on
the starboard side. Two marines climbed
the adder and escorted a man in handouts
over the side and down on to the deck of
the Narkeeta. None of the officers of the
Cedric would say a word about the matter
TIMES. vicious assaults and mysterious rob-
berries fioated about.
The explanation came from the navy yard
In Brooklyn. Hansen. IL seems, surrendered
voluntarily TO the American consul at
Liverpool. After partaking of his favorite
food he sank into a peaceful sleep on the
receiving ship Hancock last night. Officers
at the yard told his story for him.
Hansen'S case Is one of the most peculiar
they ever recorded. He was born In the
great American ''pie belt" and had lived
In Boston and loved pork and beans and
pie. He was shipped aboard the cruiser
Raleigh, bound for the Philippines, last Au-
gust, and at the entrance To the Suez canal
deserted. Pie was a luxury on board and
beans a rarity. He wandered through
Arabia seeking his favorite edibiles. He
never found them Only in his dreams did
he enjoy the sucuclent bean and the tooth
some pork He got to Port Said on an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-14
SUIT FOR SIX MILLIONS
DAMAGES DEMANDED BY PUR-
CHAsERs OF STRATTON MINES.
English stockholders Allege They
Were Victimized by ''SaIting," but
Defendants Deny the Charges.

DENVER, Col, Nov. 1S.-Answer was
filed to-day in the United States Circuit
Court by Tyson S. Dimes. Carl S. amb
lain and ID. Z. Rice, as executors, ID. II.
Rice. Tyson S. Dimes and Moses Hallet. as
trustees, and L. Harry Stratton as sole heir
of the w. S. Stratton estate to the suit of
the Stratton Independence Limited Com
pany, of London, for 100000 damages for
alleged fraudulent Misrepresentation as to
the value Of the Independent mine in the
Cripple creek in connection with the sale to
British investors. General denial is made
of the allegations of sailing or other fraud
ulent acts on the part of Stratton or his
agents and the further defense is made that
in making over the shares of the company
to Mr.. Stratton the plaintiff company part
ed with nothing of value except as u
shares had value by reason OF the ownership
by said company of the property acquired"
1t is further set up that plaintiffs had full
opportunity to examine the mine, the mill,
the premises. the books showing smelter re-
turns and all things pertaining to the prop
erty and that they did in fact so examine
them.
1t is asserted that the property was not
conveyed to the plaintiff for any sum what
ever, but that there was simply the forma-
ton of a company to comply with the law
and to avoid putting up any actual money
at all. 1t is shown that Stratton entered
into the plan, as did the other incorporates
whose interests were merely nominal, to
have something to put on the market and
that Stratton owned and for a long time
held the stock of the company, so that If
anybody was defrauded 1T was he, as 1t was
upon the value of the property that the adj
v~antageous sale of the stock was made.
As a final ground OF defense the answer
sets up that the cause of action accrued
If Ii ever accrued at all, during the life
time of Winfield Scott Stratton and against
the said Stratton, and the same did not
survive his death and did not, and does
not, constitute any basis for a claim against
the executors of his estate" The bulky
document of twenty-nine typewriter pages
closes with a petition to the court for dis.
charge from sne suit and judgment for the
full costs Of the same.
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COL. CASEY IN TROUBLE.
Leading ShOrt-HOrn Cattle breeder
Financially Embarrass1d.

CLINTON, No., Nov. 13.-The Union Ma
tional Bank of Kansas City, M, to-day
flied a suit in the Circuit Court. here for
$4,000 against Casey & Towers, sof which
firm Col. George NJ. Casey is az member.
Colonel Casey is a noter BREEDER of fancy
live stock. The firm had executed. notes for
that amount. A United States DEPUTY mar
shall to-day served papers on Coloslel Casey
in an attachment suit for $12.04sa brought
by the Merchants National BanS of Law
renee, Kan. The basis of this .suit was
notes executed by Colonel Casey 20 a Kan
sas City commission firm, whichs later as
signed the notes to the Lawrence sank. The
suit was brought in the United States Cir
cult Court for the Western district of Mis-
souri,. Colonel Casey is suffering from
nervous prostration due, it is saids to finan-
cial troubles. He is on his ranchsin Henry
county in a serious condition.
Colonel Casey is probably tbf leading
Short-horn breeder III the United States. His
present embarrassment is due, ii IS said. to
the slump in the price of cattle: He has
always enjoyed good standing irl financial
circles. and his friends believe thht he will
be able TO survive the present. financial
crisis. His indebtedness is said 20 exceed
900. 900.