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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
SORRY He SHOT THEM.
Negro Murderer Mistakes Man and
Woman for Pursuers.

LewisvilIe, Ark, Aug. AFTER killing
two persons, seriously and probably fatal
iy shooting two Others one woman, and
less seriously shooting two more, Ike Kin
ney, a desperate negro. was killed in a
river bottom at Doella, six miles south OF
Lewisville, after a hot fight with a posse
of citizens that had surrounded him.
E Kinney killed a negro at Stamps We'd
nesday and fled and while being pursued
by a posse, shot and killed E. r. Fersu-
son. The negro met Mr.sand Mrs. Stewart
of Greensburg and Immediately began fir
ing.
After, shooting and, seriously, wounding
both, the negro told them that he thought
they were members of posse, and as
sured them that he was very sorry he had
fired on them. Later about 25 men with
dogs started on Kinneys trail. A few of
the searching party finally located Kinney
in a bottom = near poeIla, a plantation
rostoffiee. AS soon as the posse had ar
rived and begun TO close in the negro
he opened fire. c. F. Nash lost a finger.
Alvin Barham was shot through the neck
and seriously wounded Then w. Z. Nash
sent bullet into the negro and he tum-
bled over dead. Fifteen hundred dollars
had been offered for the capture of Kin
ney, dead alive.
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NEW PIPE LINE A GO.
a Million Dollar Payment to Be Made
at Once.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 4.-The work
of the abstracters on the Kansas-to-
the-Gulf pipe line project will be COM
pleted tonight. Saturday or Monday a
payment of one million dollars will be
made to the National Bank of Com
merce of Kansas City on the oil well
options deposited there. Within If
teen days another payment of one mil
lion dollars will be made. This will
complete the cash consideration in
volved in the contract.
Every property optioned has been
accepted. There are some bubbles,
such as tax bills. etc, which do not
constitute a real cloud on the titles,
but these will be Strengthened out by
the producers, who will give bond to
protect the parent corporation. 1t is
asserted that not a serious flaw has
been found in the titles to any of the
land offered the company.
There has been some discussion as
to where the Kansas headquarters of
the company would be, but no decision
has been reach ed yet, SO far as the
public knows It is said by one of the
promo ters that Chanute, Kan, will get
the general offices of the company,
that George L. Craig, who is to be vice
president and general manager of the
company, will make his office there
and that all of the Subordinates will
office there. Chanute is to be the
northern terminus of the line. A. w.
Mellon is slated for president of the
new company. Among his associates
on the directory will be Henry C.
Frick, r. B. Mellon, H. C. McEldowney
of Pittsburg; H. E. West of Peru,
Kan; Michael Cudahy of Chicago, and
| at least one of the Cornplanter refinery
/ owners of Warren, Pa, as we'll as Geo.
L. Craig, who has arranged all the de-
tails of the consolidation.
The story sent out from here that
the scheme is a sideplay on the part
of the Standard Oil company is ridi-
culed by the producers who are here.
| They are heavily interested in the
plan. Nearly all of the producers
have been conspicuous as opponents
of the Standard Oil company. The
producers say the best answer to the
story of Standard Oil control is that
| the Standard Oil company does not
usually have any partners in it's pipe
line schemes, but builds them itself.
1t is believed that work on the 8
million barrel storage tank, which the
new company will provide will begin
at once. There are stories from Kan
sas that the Standard Oil company is
discriminating against some of the
producers who are in the pipe line
scheme and it is to relieve these and
others like them that the storage tan%;
will be erected first Work on the
pipe line is expected to be we'll under
way before the end of August.
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NEsKE GETS A LETTER.
Mrs. DevIin Tells Him He'll Get All
His Money Back.

Theodore Neske, the hump-backed
newsboy and bootblack who plies his
trade at the Santa Fe depot has re-
ceived a letter from Mrs. c. ]. Deviin
relative to his deposits which are tied
up in the First National bank failure.
Though Neske is but a boy in appear
ance he is "a years old and came to
Topeka 26 years ago from Prussia. By
industry and close saving he managed
to acquire SLOTS which he had on
deposit at one of the banks here, but
at the instance of Mr. Devlin who be-
came acquainted with him he was in
duced to change his deposits over to
the First National. He often shined
Mr.. Devlin's shoes and had implicit
faith in the coal operator when the
suggestion was made, especially when
he was informed that his money would
draw per cent interest.
When the failure of the bank was
announced it came to Neske like a
thunderbolt out of a clear sky. He
finally decided to write to Mr.. Devlin
asking him as to the probability of the
payment of dividends and when the
depositors would receive the return of
their money. The letter was addressed
on the 18th of July and on the 2Sth
the following letter was received in
reply:
Topeka, Kan. July 20, 1905.
Mr. Theodore Neske, Topeka.
Dear Sir: Mr.. DeV1in has not seen let
ters and knows nothing of your writing
TO MIN, as L am not allowed TO let MINI
see them. He is better, but it will be
sixty or ninety days before he is well.
feel sure that you will get all your
money out, as there was so much put
in to secure the depositors, and I do not
believe the receiver will sacrifice any
OF the securities
Thank you for your belief in Mr..
Devlin, and you are right as he is a
man in whom you may put your faith
and not be disappointed.
deeply regret that you should be wor-
ried and, believe me, I am sure you
will get every cent you put in the bank
Sympa thetically yours,
MARY A. ]. DEVLIN.
Neske came out into the glare of the
hmelight in 1894 as the result of a mat
rimonial experience which did not re-
suit happily. Neske went back to Prus-
STA in that year to marry the girl of his
boyhood love. On returning to Topeka
with his bride the two became separated
in Chicago never to find each other
again. Neske now lives alone in his lit
tie home at 1000 East Eighth avenue.
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strength in which an advance of a point
was made in Union Pacific and st. Paul.
Some of the less conspicuous western
stocks made wide advances. Chicago and
Alton rose 2A points, Minneapolis and St
ern Pacific, point. Twin City Transit
gained 8 points and the local fractions
rose 1 point. Delaware and Hudson ad-
vanced az points, Central of New Jersey
and Smelling III points. Pressed Steel Car
I The active demand subsidized and prices
settled slightly, but with no pressure to
sell apparent. Northwestern gained 2
points and Colorado and Southern, St.
Louis Southwestern preferred. Nashville.
Chattanooga and st. Louis, Hooking VAL
ley Coal, Virgfnia-Carolina Chemical and
20. S. Rubber preferred 1 point, United
Railway Investment yielded point and
Metropolitan Street Railway lost it's gain.
Bonds were steady.
Advances of ~ points in Great North
eru preferred, as points in Northern Pa
ciic and 21z points in Northwestern were
features during the noon hour. The two
former stocks Immediately reacted over q
point. Evansville and Terre Haute also
jumped TX points. Wisconsin Central and
Hooking Valley gained point. Steel
Foundries lost 1 point.
Prices fluctuated within a narrow range
but dropping tendency was Observable
Union Pacific receded to last nights level
Northwestern grangers. however, worked
to the top. Smelling extended its record
to. 1884. st. Paul preferred and Keokuk
and Des Moines preferred rose point.
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NO ONE Is BORROWING.
Loan Agents Find Little Demand for
Their Money.

Abilene. Kan, Aug. Ar will have
70 go out of the business, I guess, -
said a loan agent here. 1.-The only way
can get business is to stop lending
money and go to borrowing. The
modern mortgages all have clauses
that allow the farmers to pay off any
part of the principal at the time of any
interest payment. They are doing this
at such a liberal rate as to make it
hard lines for the loan agent. I had
no business here and so went I'D in
northwest Kansas to a little town call
ed Plainville, where I made a dozen
loans in two days four years ago. I
called on the local banker and asked
him if he knew where I could lend
some money.
Not around here said he. 4 have
more money on hand myself than I
know what to do with I stopped at
three other towns and in all got SINH
lar reports. Here at home when a
bank failed in 1889 it was paying 10
per cent interest on 100000 of de-
posits; now the three banks have more
than 100000 on deposit for which
they are paying no interest
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FINDS A WAY OUT.
Secretary Pierce Has Settled the Mat
ter of Precedence.

New York, Aug. 4.-Acting for the presi-
dent, Third Assistant Secretary of State
the Russian ambassador, and Mr. TAXA
hira, the Japanese minister, the official
programme for the formal presentation to
the president of the Russian and Japa-
nese plenipotentiaries to the Washington
conference This programme has for
weeks peen a subject of much STUDY on
the part or the president and MI Pierce.
AS the. presidents representative Mr.:
Pierce will accompany Baron Komura and
of the New York Yacht club at East
Twenty-third street, ats o'clock Saturday
morning, where the delegation will board
the protected cruiser Chattanooga, Com
mander Alexander Sharp commanding, and
the vessel will start for Oyster Bay.
form a similar Ceremony for Mr.. Witte
and Baron Rosen, the Russian plenipoten-
tiary. and their suite, who will go aboard
Reginald F. Nicholson commanding.
Mr. Pierce will then board the convert
ed yacht Syiph. which. steaming rapidly
the column. Arriving at Oyster Bay about
noon the peace squadron will anchor, its
arrival being loudly heralded by the firing
of an ambassadorial salute of nineteen
guns.
The japanese plenipotentiaries win come
sented by Assistant Secretary Pierce. Half
an hour later the Russian ENJOYS will
ately the president will formally present
the Russian and Japanese plenipotentiar-
les to each other.
A buffet luncheon in the cabin of the
Mayflower will follow. At its conclusion
the japanese mission will take leave of
the president and board the Dolphin. Mr..
Pierce will go aboard the cruiser Calves
ton and the president will then take leave
of the Russian mission and go ashore,
again receiving a salute of twenty-one
guns. ~
Under convoy of the cruiser Galveston,
Commander Cutler commanding. with Mr..
Pierce aboard, Russians on the Mayhower
and the Japanese on the Dolphin, will sail
for Portsmouth. The squadron will steam
slowly, SO as not to arrive there before 10
o'clock Monday morning.
DESTROYS of being strictly neutral in all
the arrang ements- for the presentation, 1t
was decided at the outset by the Washing
ton government that the president would
recognize no precedence based on success
sion in the present war. Because Baron
Komura was presented at Sycamore Hill
almost week before Mr.. Witte arrived
in this country, it was decided that for
this reason Baron Komura must take
precedence over Mr.. WHITE. This, however,
will be recognized only in the half hours
difference in the time of the presentation
of the two missions.
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Goinc TO- CoIorado2

The rate now is $1f.50 to Denver, Pueh,o
and Colorado Springs. and return ticl<.
cts on sale daily, final limit RETURNING
October 80. Stop-over allowed in bo+S
affections between Pueblo and Denve-
chair cars and Pullman Sleepers. fsSf
time. block signal system, Harvev
meals.
The only line to Denver passing
through Pueblo and Colorado SPRINGS >
summer service better and faster
than ever '.f5e3 ~
Write for descriptive literature and
other information.
won't you go Santa Fe way?
If you want real pleasure trim Won
will T. L. KING, Agent.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway
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Kansas City, Aug. 4.
Open High Low Close Yes
WHEAT


Chieago. Aug. 4;.cATILE LRecelpts, 70,
prime steers, S. 25G5.90; poor to medium,
Sc. 75d5.1O; stockers and feeders, $2.25d4 20;
cows, s.. 4OG14.5o; heifers. g. Z@4.S0; Gamers,
81 5o02 40; bulls, 81. 10000; calves, 8 COG
7.CO; Texas fed steers, 50. 50Q5.o0; western
steers, SO. 50d4- 80.
HOGS-Receipts today, 15,o00 head; esti-
mated Saturday, 5000 head. Market 5@1Gc
higher. Mixed and butchers, s5.50a6. 10;
good to choice heavy, S5.90G60715; rough
heavy, IS. 4505.50; light, S5.75Q6.15; bulk of
sales, s5. coos. 80.
sHEEP-Receipts today, 1900 head.
Market steady. Good to choice wethers,
$4.00G4S5; fair to choice mixed, $40044. so;
western sheep, $4,000. 70; native lambs,
IS OGd7. so; western lambs, $5.50Q750.
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Kansas City Live stock Market.

Kansas City. Mo, Aug: 4.-CATTLE2aeo
Receipts today, 1000 head, including 800
head of southerns. Market strong. Ma
tive steers, $4.25d57 TO; southern steers, 81
Q4.50; southern cows. 2O0d3.50; native
feeders. 81 75dt4. 4O bulls, g 25q3. IS: calves,
s.. 50d6.O0; western steers, S. 50Q5-00; west
ern cows, $200l4.e0.-
HOGS-Receipts today. 5000 head. Mar
ket 5@1Oc higher. Bulk of sales, $5S0a5- 30;
heavy, $575@5.S5; packers, $5.S0d5.95; pigs
and lights, S5.S0d5.95.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 5000 head.
Market strong. Muttons, "a 15@5.15: lambs.
$5.25d6.50 range wethers, 4.6Od5.25; fed
ewes SO 75M450
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Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City, Aug. .4.-close-WHEAT-
Receipts today 16S cars. Quotatione
were steady and as follows: Sept, 7Sskc !.
Dec, s4@ssase; May sSzsc Sash Sash; No
CORN-Sept.. 46xd4sc; Dec, 3sszc; May,
4924 d497sc. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 5oG501.c;
No 2 white. 501ad 50%c.
OATS-Market steady. No. mixed, 269
29c No. white. 3OQ31c.
RYE-Market steady. CSC.
IS. 5GG9.00: choice prairie, $3.50.
BUTTER-Market steady. Creamery,
&c EGGsNMar rktt Steady Fresh. 15c.
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Anderson Must Return Money.

Cincinnati, Aug. 4.@The national
Baseball commission has decided that
players who wilfully break their
agreements with clubs that enter into
contracts with them in good faith shall
be permanently blacklisted
The commission also handed down a
decision in the case of OutfeIder An
cerson, who was on the reserve list OF
the Little Rock team and received ad-
vance money from the Minneapolis
team. The commission ordered Ander-
son to return the advance money to
the Minneapolis team.
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in the neighborhood of one million BUSH
els, forced September down to 56szc. The
market closed weak. Final quotations on
September were down 11sQ114c, at $40
537sc.
OATS-In sympathy with corn the oats
market was weak. Another factor that
contributed to the weakness was free
movement of the new crop. Commission
houses and longs were free sellers. Sep
TENDER was off &c, at 27skc.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. were. steady
Trading was very quiet. September pork
was off 21sc, at s1S.371s. Lard 25c up, at
T421s, Ribs were unchanged, at s.. 10.
WHEAT-Cash: No red, S61zQ87c; No.
8 red, S51s@S7c; No. 2 hard, S5d861zc; No. 8
hard, S4M851zc; No. 1 northern, $1.10G1l5
QS1.O5-
CoRN-No. 3. 5594q5sc; No. q, 551za56c.
OATS-No. 2, Csc; No. 3, 29d30c.
RYE-Cash: 6Oc; Sept. 651zc; Dec, &c.
FEAX-Cash: NV, $1.33; S.-W., $1.26.
TIMOTHY-Sept.. $40; May, $3.50.
CLOVER-Aug., S12.75. =
BARLEY-CaSh: 40lJ46c. -s-
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new schol building at the Topeka reform
schol to M. Heery of Topeka. His bid
was $14,117 and was the lowest of the
six received.
The new building will be two stories
with basement and will be built of
brick. The basement will be used for
gymnasium and locker purposes. The
upper part will be used as school rooms.
The last legislature appropriated $18, 900
for the building which does not include
lighting, heating or plumbing.
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Ser York -rs,srs

Wall St, New York, Aug 4:-STOCKS.,
opening prices in the stock market today
generally to a fractionally higher level L.
and N Colorado Fuel and Peoples Gas
rose a large fraction. Metropolitan Street
Railway rose about point and Twin City
1 There was ": Considerable demonstration OF
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Rock Island Fuel Tests.

The Rock Island system is making
some interesting tests of fuel in Fort
Worth and other Texas points. The
tests have been made in switch en-
gines with results which are said to be
satisfactory. The fuel is a preparation
of sawdust, waste and shavings mixed
with crude petroleum. Tests were also
made with briquettes, manufactured of
q composition of slack mixed with crude
V,efroleuu1
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Santa Tse oils Rnsdhed

OiIing of the Santa Fe roadbed from
San Bernardino to Summit has been
commenced and the oiler also sent
around the loop It is expected that
about eight cars of oil will be required
to lay the dust between San Bernardino
snd the top of the Cajon grade.
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New York. Aug. 4.-BUTTER-West
factory, common to extra, 15d16c, western
imitation creamery, extra, 1910; western
EGGS-Market steady. Western, $50
1910.
POULTRY-Alive poultry quiet. West
ern chickens 14c; fowls, 13c; turkeys, BE.
Dressed poultry easy Western chickens,
14G16c; fowls, 14d15c; turkeys, 13914e
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SEVEN MILLS ON THE DOLLAR.
Creditors of Mrs. Chadwick to Get Part
of Their Money Back.

Cleveland o., Aug. 4.-Creditors of
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick will receive
a total dividend of about z mills on
the dollar when the matter is finally
settled. Net assets will amount. to
about $4,000 against 100000 in
debfadneSS
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Sudden Death Of Miss McGram

Leavenworth, Kan. Aug. 4.-Miss
Nellie McGram, 18 years old, dropped
dead while ascending a stairway at St.
Mary'S academy south of this city
Thursday afternoon. 1t is said she
died of organic heart disease. Her
home is in Hays City, Kan. and she
was here preparing to enter the Sister
hood.
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Ch,cago produce MARRIED

Chfca 90. III, Aug. 4.-BUTTER-Market
strong. Creamery, 17d2O15c; dairy, $50
1S1Sc.
EGGS-Market steady. At mark, cases
included, 1874 I161zc.
CHEESE-Market firm Dairy, 11g1Ac;
Twins 1Osz ale; Young Americas, 111zc.
POULTRY-Alive poultry easy Turkeys,
I5c; chickens, lie; springs, 12q14c-
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Cotton Market

New York, Aug. 4-COTTON-Sales to-
day, 1.50o bales. Spot cotton closed quiet
and 80 points lower. Quotations per 100
pounds: Middling uplands. 10; middling
gulf, s10.e5.
Galveston, Tex, Aug. 4.-COTTON-
Market steady, at 105sc per pound.
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Eugar ami Gomez tn Sow York

New York, Aug. 4-SUGAR-Raw sugar
steady. Fair refining, 3 7-16G31zc: centrifu-
gal, Sc test, S-S2q41sc; nolasses sugar,
3-16d3Ac. Refined sugar firm. Crushed,
$500; powdered, $40; graduated, $3.50.
COFFEE-Market steady No. Z Rio.
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mo such thing as summer complaint -
where DIR. Fowler's Extract of Wild
Strawberry is kept handy. Natures rem
edy for loOseneSs of the bowels.
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HEERY TO BUILD 1T.
Gets Contract for New Building at
Reform School.

The board of control on Thursday af
ternoon granted the contract for the
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st.c5 Wathena and Return,

Sunday, August 6, special train will
leave Rock Island depot at O'Clock
a. m, returning leave Wathena 9 p. m
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Call up Topeka Coal Co, 72O kansas
avenue, for low prices on semi-anthra-
cite. Either phone 4S2.
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14ange OF Prices ON Hrockn.
Furnished by J. e. Gall, Commissions.
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
Onice ITO West Sixth street Telephone
$50. Correspondent Chrtsty Grain and
Stock Co, Kansas City. Mol
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Wool Niarkef

St Louis, Mo-, Aug. 4.-WOOL-Market
steady. Territory and western mediums,
2SQ30c; fine mediums. 23q26c; fine, 1091sc.
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Chicago, Aug. z.
Open High Low Close Yes

National Board of Trade. Kansas City.
FURNISHED by ]. E. Call, Commissions,
Grains Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office lilo West Sixth street. Telephone
4S6. Correspondent Christy Grain and
Stock Co.. Kansas City, Mo- ->~a .
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HOCH TALKS o. K.
CONTINUED from Page ons.2

the honicides in America are pitiful and
unnecessary tragedies, due to the un-
lawful carrying of weapons. While
fighting is wicked, it is debasing not to
want to fight when rights are invaded
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Sf.25 Wathena and Return.

Sunday, August s, special train will
9eave Rock Island depot at o'clock
8. M, returning leave Wathena 9 p m.
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CENTER o

New y two blocks nengh t fifty cases of yellow
t point f eleventh d p the b
Mret who a the d bd
# Vm OF Mississippi is " ~ b unpopular n
0 d t ming t ahh d In tk eel OF
Ever H ira e en- the m
a re N lever the railroad permitted t. enter H h
d dust prof material
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The Topeka Coal Co. has received a
large shipment of storage rate coal.
Cali up phone 4S2 for prices.
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Group instantly relieved. Dr. Thomas
EciectTfc Oil. Perfectly safe. Never fails.
at any drug store.
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We are overloaded with semi-anthra-
cite. Call US up for cheap rates.
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The Chicago independent Market
FURNISHED by J. e. GAN. Commissions
Grains Provisions, Cotton and Stocka
Office ITO West Sixth street. Telephone
1885, Correspondent Christy Grain and
Stock Co.. Kansas City. MOI