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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-04

OUR great buying powers and the close profit principle on
~ which we sell bring customers values that need no
inducement to purchase but their own intrinsic merit.
And SO we strive continuously to secure for our clientele
the best qualities in merchandise it is possible for us to obtain.
but not alone qualities styles too are up to the standard.
"You must not fail to call this week and inspect the NEW
DRESS GOODS, MILLINERY, SUITS, SKIRTS, etc.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
The Mutual Telephone.

NAvAhRE, July 6.-In this age IL
can be safely said, 80 country's pro-
gressivsness Is sized up by the way it
takes hold Of rural route, telephone
etc. The country, generally has done
fairly we'll, but some towns have been
Indifferent regarding the phone.
They look at the issue as being one
Of minor importance and think the
farmers should pay royalty to rum
Mutual line into town. Sounde Ab-
surd, doesn't itP But It's fact.
These towns that hold back to see
what other towns will do and expect
10 get 1t by waiting probably didn't
know that that epigrsm has been
changed to read, "all things come to
those who hustle while they wait"
Time was when the mutual tels-
phone was unknown, but times have
changed.
Farmers must have connection with
implement men, elevators, hog, cat
tie, chicken and egg dealers, doctors,
lawyers, etc., ETC., and wherever they
can get them the quickest and cheap
cot, there's where they 60.
Most Of the business men see where
they need the service while . scatter
ing few say they can't see where
they'll gain anything, when in iact
they need the line to simply Keep even
with small towns.
Our county with few sxcsptiOns)
d covered with an efficient service,
md the towns that don'k get next"
viii awake some day 70 End them
'slvos going dOwnhill.
Q. L. EsHELNAN.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
DeVoe's Weather Forecasts.

July will enter with hot and sultry
weather. LIST to Srd, hot and sultry.
4th, thuDderstorms. 9th to 9Th, hot
and sultry 9TH to 18th. pleasant. On
the 18th storm will form over the
Mississippi Valley and move north.
eastward, causing heavy rains over
the Ohio Valley on the 18th to 18th.
10Th to 18th, pleasant. 18th to 18th,
hot and sultry. 18th to 2lst: on The
10Th q storm will form over the Ohio
Valley aud move northenstward,
causing local thunderstorms and sui
try weather. 22nd to oath, hot and
sultry. 25th to 2etb, pleasant. 9th
to 2Sth: on the 9th a storm will form
over tbs Missouri Valley and move
eastward causing rains oyer the
northern states. 29th to SOth, hot
and sultryi followed BY local rams.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
HEAVY AT SALIVA.

SALINA, July 6.-The rain last
night was very heavy, fully ~ inches
falling here. Streams are very high.
The Lincoln branch Is washed out at
Luray. At Minneapolis the high
wind blew down barns and did much
damage. A woman and boy we're
killed by lightning at Beloit and one
OF the Beloit school buildings was
burned to the ground by lightning.
A ten.ioot rise is reported as coming
down the Smoky Hill.
CHAPMAN CREEK HIGH.
CHAPMAN, July 6.-The rain last
night was the heaviest here since the
spring Of 1908. Chapman creek is
out Of its banks north Of here and the
farmers on the low lands are much
The Smoky Hill is flooding
The farms ON bottoms. Wheat 10 In
very bad shape and hundreds Of acres
will never be cut.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
ABOUT PEOPLE.

R. Waring went to Clay Center.
Senator Burton went to Kansas
City.
Miss Augusta Dewey returned to
Topeka.
G. Kubach went to Nebraska on
business.
Frank Hissem Of Ellsworth Is Wis
itiug with Paul Jolley.
DE. Crebbs Of Strong City spent
the Fourth In the city.
Mrs. F. B. Glimpse left for q visit
at Ration, N. NJ, and Colorado
Springs.
Ralph Goodell, who has been the
guest Of Paul Jolley. returned to his
home OF Ellsworth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hoopman and
children of Bunker Hill are visiting
Mr.. Hoopman's sister, Mrs. @. z.
Rice.
W. P. Lightner goes to Ryder.
Iowa, where he has bought a fine
farm. Abilene will be sorry to lose
him but hopes be will prosper. The
will keep him posted ON
homo events.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
r. V. DYER, County Sup't.,
Abilene, Kansas.
JERUSALEM WAS AFIRE.
Exhibit at Fair Has Narrow Escape
from Flames.

ST. LOUIS, July GA fire in the
Jerusalem concession in the Worlds
Fair grounds, which threatened to
consume the entire eleven acres Of
buildings and set fire to Festival hall
and the West pavilion, was confined
to the American cafe. The loss is
about $4,000. 1t was believed I'M
possible at first to save the Jerusalem
buildings, but the firemen succeeded
in keeping the flames in the two
wings occupied by the restaurant.
The fire broke out at 2:30 O'Clock in
the morning. The restaurant was
2.story structure, made Of staff. 1t
cost about $4,000. The equipment
was valued at $4,000. 1t is q total
loss. but is fairly covered BY iusur.
ance. 1t was owned by the Jerusa-
lem Catering company. The cause
Of the fire is not known.
There was excitement all over the
Jerusalem Enclosure by the time the
6remen arrived. The sounds Of the
shots fired by the watchmen had
awakened the 700 persons who occu-
pied the various buildings Of the ex-
hibit. Without waiting for clothes
many jumped from the windows or
rushed into the streets. Others
packed their trunks and threw them |
from the windows. Trunk after trunk |
was thrown to the street. Many Of
them broke when They struck the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
You Can Save $500 to $500 by Taking
Our Excursion Leaving July Is,
or August %,
7-DAY TRIP SI7OO l2-DAY TRIP S220O|
Cheapest way see the show.

NV 70 day Pullman Tourist
sas City Conditioned occupying BERTH
berth will cost 50 extra each way three good meals
Tuesday morning Thursday evening the following
meals the return Friday furnish
berths nights lodging St. Louis take you
to paid attraction inside to three Philippine
Villages Fire Fighters Hagen
ride the Intamua Ry the Scenic R
equivalent admission Over and Under the
Sea- Mh and Sunday the Electric
special thirty miles with picnic dinner
This desirable from the fact that the
Worlds Fair is mot open Sunday.
with your railway fare and admission grounds
7day but away
ST. railway fare and admission to grounds extra.
plan good and sleeping accommodations
City only possible Co. your place early
20 with the crowd.
For particulars call on or address
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Mrs. G. C. Stsrl sntertains fol
Mrs. Herbst. Miss Herbst and Misc
johnson tomorrow.
w. II. Elcholtz has improved bis
undertaking psrlors BY repaPering
and adding to the furnishings.
The new uniform band suits that
were worn BY the boys on the Fourth
were furnished BY the ever popular
clothiers G. c. Sterl q Co.
-supt. Dyer will take a party Of
teachers 10 St. Louis July IS. 1t
costs tl7 for 8 7-day trip, railway
fare and admissions extra.
The Abilene greenhouse 10 being
improved BY Its new proprietor, A.
L. Van ostrand. New concrete walls
are TO be placed around the bot
houses and the lawn and residence
win Be improved materially.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
CHAPMAN CREEK HIGH.
POPS NAME WATSON.
Famous Georgian Unanimous Choice
of National Convention.

of National Convention.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July 6.-Thomas
E. Watson Of Georgia for president
and Thomas E. Tibbles Of Nebraska
for vice president was the ticket NOM
mated by the Populist convention.
The names OF William V. Allen Of
Nebraska and Samuel W. Williams Of
Indiana were also placed before the
convention for president, but before
the list Of states had been completed
In the roll call their names were with
drawn and Watson was nominated by
reclamation.
K Whether Mr.. Watson will accept
the nomination or not no one in the
convention seemed to know and all
efforts to secure some definite infor.
nation from Watson's friends failed.
Watson was quoted as saying that II
the Democrats ct St. Louis nominated
Hearst he would support him for pres
ldent.
The platform declares for postal
savings banks, for the organization
,i labor to aght capital, the abolition
II child labor. eight-hour-a-dsy law
'Or factories and workshops. initiative
md referendum, against alien owner
hip Of land, for government control
u railroads and other public utilities.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07

enacted by both parties. Our nom
inee will construe the constitution for
the good Of all at home and not for
the exclusive good Of tariff bene-
ficaries."
Williams finished his speech, the
band playing "Dixie." amid great
cheering.
At 200 p. m. the convention adj
journed until 10 O'Clock Thursday
morning.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
DEMOCRATS At WORK.
NATIONAL CONVENTION MET AT
NOON TODAY.
Hall Was Filled to the Last Gallery
and Was Very Hot-Bryan Was Re-
ceived With Cheers -Looks Like Q
Parker Victory.
Special to the Reflector.

Special to the Reflector.
ST. LOUIS, July 6.-The Democratic
convention opened the second days
session at 10 O'Clock.
Indications are that Judge A. B.
Parker OF New York will be nomi-
mated for president; ex-senator Geo.
Turner Of Washington state for vice
president.
The platform will slur the money
question declaring that it is not i'm.
portant; will be moderately tariff re.
form, and oppose expansion.
FIRST DAYS SESSION.
ST.. LOUIS, July 6.-The Democratic
National convention met at noon to-
day. 1t was called to order at just 4
minutes past 10 O'Clock.
The balconies and galleries were all
filed and the hall was sitting hot.
and Hawaii delegations
entered amid cheers. Bryan led the
Nebraska delegation up the aisle and
was cheered heartily.
After the call to order there came
! prayer by Rev. John F. Cannon Of
Grand Avenue Presbyterian church,
u. Louis. John Sharp Williams Of
was chosen temporary
chairman.
Williams made Q stirring address
o the convention and bis speech was
veil received. He INDUCED in keen
arcasm Of President Roosevelt's
raise OF Elihu Root and charscter-
zed former Secretary Roots speech
q praise OF the president as 80 piece
I utter egotism." de said: THE
x-secretAry Of war, while secretary
the war, was sx.oficio emperor Of
he Philippine Islands. The Republic
IN platform like the Republican
hartman, deals mostly In boasts that
he Republican party is and was d. l
'ctly responsible for every good
hing that God sends to the United
Eates." +,
The frat real Outbvrst Of applause /
flowed mention Of Grover Clevs- Q
nd's name. Cheering for Cleveland Q
for many minutes with the
invention In disorder and continuous !,
les for Grover. Mr.. williams re- I
med his speech amid great disorder. d
8 said: General Joe Wheeler was '
ore in evidence in the Spanish war
On the strenuous Roosevelt himself J
ID Joe Wheeler was . Democrat"
3OOd Liquidation Is ever claimed as o
publican lsgIIlAtiOn when II was
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
STATE Bank OuarterlY Meeting

At a quarterly meeting OF the d.
rectors Of the Abilene State bank held
July 9th, the usual semi-annual divi-
dends Of per cent was declared and
$500 passed to surplus account. I.
j. Aspley was elected cashier and J.
A. Flack assistant cashier.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
10 Electric Lighta Tonight.

Owing to the high water ct the mill
the electric light works viii not be
able 70 run tonight and there win be
no lights.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07
ground and scattered trinkets and
souvenirs Of Jerusalem on all sides.
After them their owners jumped.

j. B. Case, vice president OF tie
Jerusalem company, left today for
St. Louis to look after the loss etc.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25
His Popularity

Elmer Coombs. until quite re-
Gently an inmate of the County
Farm, and upwards of 10 years
of age, performed feat a few
days ago, that many men Of
younger years would find beyond
their strength. He walked from
Bellfountain to Albany, bought
a wheelbarrow and trundled it all
the way back home, a distance of
nearly 80 miles.
coombs has a mania far hard
work and spends much of his
time ehopping wood, and tor
this reason the County pays him
a small monthly pension and
allows him to work where he
may please. A neighbor has
erected a small house for him
and gives the old gentleman en-
ployment, paying him what he
justly earns.
| He rises regularly at S a. m:
and splits wood until breakfast
is ready, not a bad habit by any
means, and during the day. as
his age and the weather permit,
he works away, earning all the
way from between SO and rs
cents. His few belongings are
securely locked in a trunk and
he never ventures ten feet from
his shanty without fastening al
doors and windows. Not long
ago some one suggested that q
wheelbarrow would save him q
great deal of labor, out it had te
be one of his own, he never
borrows, and so he journeyed al
the way to Linn county to get it
!. His act in not patronizing hi!
. own county, after receiving near
Sly six years of free maintenance
is one of those acts OF ingratitud'
occasionally exhibited in thos'
r who have received public benefit
1 Coombs sleeps with the wheel
barrow by his bedside and viii
allow no one else to handle it
His devotion to il is that of
. .tfriend and he watches over j
with tender solicitude.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25
pany to receive all money and
bank same to the credit of sale

pany to receive all money and
bank same to the credit of salo
company. This. gentlemen,
takes from the organizers the
chance to get your money and
skip or to divert it to any other
use than here in this special field.
We desire to place with the people
along the way about $50, 900
worth of stock. This will be in
addition to what is already in
the treasury and If this amount
is subscribed for, the company
will go ahead without being
obliged to make other arrange
merts.
The above in brief, is the re-
port of the gentlemen in question
aud merits the careful consider
alton of every citizen befo.e any
stock IS purchased by them. They
are objections to the enterprise,
but they come largely from he
changed attitude of the project
o1s. At first they did not want
the peoples lmoney and proposed
to construct the road themselves,
now, however, they want $4,000
from the people and want it as
soon as they can get it, and be-
fore the company has invested
any alnoupt Of lis own money.
II the money is to come out Of
Benton county the road Will net
be built, and furthermore il this
read is built, this company Will
show its own sincerity by sink
ing its money first. Benton
county has granted every con-
cession within reasonable bounds.
It is now the turn of the COM
pany to 60 ahead and do what
they promised to DO in the begir-
ming. No doubt the citizens will
take this stock. If the road IS an
assured success, but after the ex-
periences of the past it is efTont-
cry to ask the people to take
hold of the proposition without
something more tangible than has
yet made its appearance.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25
The c. & E. have made ;

rangements to run a special train
from Corvallis to Albany after the
game Wednesday. Those who
wish to attend will come over on
the regular at 1890. The S. P.
has made the same provision fol-
those who wish to come up on
the regular from Dallas, Mon
mouth and Independence.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25

.fy L a.- hfn- muron rrgs I'd
ing -..p'.'y, t of ary kind, for
either ladies or ger tlemeu, or board.
ing PAGES for $. .ndents, l will be at
Your service. Phone NE at resi-
dence 25' Independent or 306 Bell,
or at Office SOB Independent.
J. w. LENGER. .
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25

The Night School is making a
-ate cf S5 to December % for pen
rnanship; and SO for both Book
keeping and Penmanship: Short
hand ard Penmarship $40. Meet
on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
,veniugs.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25

The kick ii If the game next
w inesday between the. Utah team
A.. t ,e O.>C e.yen will he 1t
8 clock =. ,n st,re will clo.e At
=. 2::36 so .nat Il clerks mry at
t nj the. ga ,,e LIT. very one come
out I'D cheer the boy . on t !, victory
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25

Fresh cider in any quantity de.
sired for sale at the Corvallis cider
mill. south end of Main street. APP
pes ground tor one half.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-25

Result of Voting for Silk Flag.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

At La Crosse, Wis heavy wind and
hail storm wrecked a building at the
interstate fair grounds and huge trees
were uprooted. The damage to crops
was heavy.
Mary and Clara Holthau, young girls,
were drowned while watching the flood
at Senrea, Kan, the bank giving away
and carrying them into the water.
A young physician, Dr. Seymour T.
Jarrecki, was shot and killed at his
home in Denver, Col. Two shots were
fired, one bullet entering his body near
the heart Apparently he had been
murderer escaped.
Followers of John Alexander Dowie
received him in Zion City, ILL.,, after his
six months tour of the world in the
most spectacular fashion.
Hail in the vicinity of Bolton, Mo-,
and Manhattan, Kan, has done much
damage to crops and orchards.
At Cleveland the stockholders of the
State national bank and of the Euclid
Park national bank, voted to consoli-
date the two concerns. The combined
capitalization amounts to 81 900, 900. The
deposits aggregate S12,000000.
At the convention in st. Louis w. H.
Maxwell, of New York, was elected pres
ident of the National Educational asso-
citation.
Papers have been filed in a suit
brought by the attorney general of Ohio
to GUST A. Booth & Co., Of Chicago, the
so-called fish trust, for alleged viola
ton of charter.
Louis Bruemmer, county judge of
Kewaunee county, Wisconsin, was
found hanging to a tree in a ravine
in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee suburb.
He was under treatment at a sani-
tarium in Wauwatosa, from which he
disappeared few days ago. He is
supposed to have hanged himself
while demented.
A mob lynched John Jones, the ne
gro assailant of Mrs. Banister, near
Gainesville, Ga. The negro's body
was riddled with bullets, more than
500 shots being fired.
National democratic committeeman
from Nevada, Joseph R. Ryan, who
was head of the Nevada delegation to
the democratic national convention.
died in st. Louis of pneumonia.
1t is said that over 1900 Illinois con-
victs are made idle by a peculiar legal
complication, in which a federal in
junction and a new state law come
in conflict
The convention of the National Ed
ucational association ended at S.
Louis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-07
THE EAST.

Smoke and gas at fire in Broadway,
New York, overcame 43 firemen. Four
of the men may die from their injuries.
In New York three directors of the
Knickerbocker Steamboat company,
held by General Slocum coroner's jury,
surrendered and gave bail.
A very old Stradivarius violin, once
owned by Joseph Jean Bott, has been
sold in New York by his estate for
$4,000
The boiler of a locomotive exploded
on the Pennsylvania railroad while 60
ing up the mountain, so yards from
Ehrenfeld station, Pa, Thursday, kill
ing three men, injuring two others, one
of them fatally.
Rev. Silas c. Swallow, of Harrisburg,
Pa, was nominated for president, and
George w. Carroll, of Beaumont, Tex,
for vice president by the prohibition ma
tional convention at Indianapolis, after
Gen. Miles refused to let his name be
used The platform, besides making
a strong declaration against the liquor
traffic, favors international arbitration,
liberal suffrage laws, the initiative and
referendum and divorce reform.
1t is stated by Rev. DR.. Silas G.
Swallow, of Pennsylvania, who was
unanimously nominated for president
by the prohibition national convention
at Indianapolis, that he will not give
his decision until after he has been
officially notified of his nomination.
Lester May, formerly connected with
a Brooklyn newspaper, killed his wife
and committed suicide at Ocean Grove,
N. J.
The annual varsity eight-oar race
was won easily by Yale from Har-
ward. The crimson four, however,
beat the Yale four
Dun and Bradstreet report re-
turning confidence in nearly all lines
of business and promise improvement
in the last half of the year.
A band of three robbers raided Cor
donville, Pa, shot and injured two
men, and in their flight after being
driven from the town killed a toll
gate keeper One of the robbers, who
gave his name as Carson, was prob
ably fatally wounded on the head by
a blow from an ak and was deserted
by his companions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-07
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Merchants who block Chicago side
walks are brought up standing by a
decision of the supreme court of Illi-
nois, which declares that the sidewalks
belong to the public and must be kept
clear from distractions.
President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale,
in the baccalaureate address to the
graduating class, holds that faith and
devotion are the basis of a nations
true greatness, and appeals against
the acquisition of wealth for it's own
sake.
The pension bureau at Washington
estimates that the unknown army" of
veterans made eligible for pensions
under the new order of President
Roosevelt will not exceed 5000 men,
and of these less than 5000 have ap-
piled for pensions.
New Boston, town near Texarka-
ma, Texas, is partly wiped out by a
cyclone, and several persons have, been
killed.
John Alexander Dowie, in a speech
at New York, denounces King Edward
and says a viler prince never cursed
England. He expresses admiration
and love for President Roosevelt.
Count Tolstoi, in a ten-column arti-
Gle in the London Times, scores the
Russian government for bringing on
the war and characterizes the car as q
weak ruler, who is being deceived
constantly.
Ferryman James Brooks of the
Biltmore estate, has been given a
gold medal by George w. Vanderbilt
in recognition of his bravery in saving
three employees of the estate from
drowning.
Rich former residents of Chicago,
quoted in New York paper on their
reasons for leaving the former city,
|criticise the western city sharply for
its alleged dirt and misrule.'
Prof. G. Stanley Hall, of Clark uni
versity, declares co-eds and higher ed
ucation are foes TO the race.
Pope Plus X. disbanded the largest
choir in Rome on its refusal to learn
the Gregorian chant.
Earl Roberts has definitely decided
to accept the invitation of Ambassador
Choate to visit the United States in the
late summer or early autumn.
A suit was commenced in Chicago by
Louise Jordan-Miln and her actor hus-
band for share in 100000 estate OF
the late Thomas M. Jordan.