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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-25

Rev Charles NJ. Sheldon. the reform
preacher and author. isSreported dangerous
ly Ill at his home in Topeka, Kan. OF dis
ease of the stomach and kidneys. and may
have to submit to an operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-25
TO CURE A COLD m ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo ouinino Tabaets
Druggists refund money If II fails to cure
T. w. GROVES signature Is each box. sc.
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STANDARD CROWS
Humboldt Editor Says Business
There Is Booming.
Oil Company to Build at Once
$50 New Tanks.
HAS BOUGHT 200 ACRES
Carload After Carload of Ma
teriaI Daily Arriving.
viii Be the Largest Storage
Farm in the World.
HAS BOUGHT 200 ACRES

lola, kan, Aug. 24.-The Register
says:
]. Ralph Pickell was in lola today.
Mr.. PickelI is editor of the Humboldt
Herald, one of the most enterprising
county seat papers in Kansas. Mr..
Pickell says that business in Humboldt
is looking up in every line, and the
people are busy and happy.
1T is no secret" said Mr.. Pickell,
that the Standard has purchased the
GadarI 200 acres across the road from
the tank farm, and that they intend to
make the Humboldt tank farm one of
the largest in the world. The present
site of the tank farm contains Il acres,
and has % tanks on it, It is stated on
reliable authority that when the Stand
ard is through building, it will have $50
tanks at Humboldt, Carload after car
load of material is arriving every day.
and a large force of mechanics is busy
at the Standard farm
rs the Standard running much oil
from the Humboldt fieId?" Mr.. PickeIl
was asked.
Yes. Considerable oil is being run.
But the prices are so low, and there is
so little in it at present prices, that the
producers are simply running enough to
keep the wells in good shape. You
know a we'll is easily ruined if it is not
pumped. That is about all the produc-
ers are doing-working them to keep
them in shape. OF course the oil pro-
ducers are not feeling the effect of the
Standard activity, but the merchants of
Humboldt are feeling it, and business
in all lines is looking up.
THE story that there was yellow fe
yer near Humboldt in the railroad camp
some time ago was the work of a prac-
teal joker. There was no yellow fever,
of course. 1t is true that an Austrian
had the fever. and there is no doubt
that he is yellow, but that was hardly
ground for the statement that he had
yellow fever. 1t was only ordinary ma
larial fever, and no physicians were
called from Chanute"
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ROCK ISLAND CHANGES LINE.
Canadian River Causes Much Trouble
to the Road.

Oklahoma City, Aug. 24.-It is said,
though the officers of the road here
claim to have no official notice of it,
that the Rock Island is contemplating
changing the course of their line a. lit
tie in the eastern part of Canadian
county. For the past several years the
road has had much trouble with the big
bridge over the South Canadian river
near Minco, south of Ell Reno, and
since the bridge went down there a
year ago the company has hesitated
about putting up another expensive
structure. The river bottom at that
place is such that no foundation can
be made secure, consequently the cree
ton of an expensive structure would
not pay for the trouble.
The proposition now is to build a
line of road from Yukon, about TWEEN
ty miles east of Ell Paso, to the cross
ing of the Frisco over the river, at
which point excellent river bottom has
been obtained for foundation purposes.
The Rock Island will then build addi-
tional bents to the bridge constructed
by the Frisco and both roads use the
bridge to cross the river. The Rock
Island will then build line to con-
nection with the main line. It is said
that the country south of Ell Reno and
to Minco is not fitted for bridge build
ing and there are a number of small
canyons and ravines to cross, while the
other way there is none of this to con-
tend with
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RAILROAD NOTES.

Rev. L. w. Williamson addressed a
meeting of shopmen at the coach shop
this noon.
General Manager J. E. Hurley of the
Santa Fe returned yesterday from
trip in the east.
The Rock Island planning mills at
Shawnee are turning out a large num-
Der of cabs every week.
w. K. Etter. trainmaster of the
Santa Fe at Topeka, left yesterday for
short trip over the division.
After several weeks cessation the
grading on the Rio Grande division OF
the Santa Fe is again in progress.
The Santa Fe company has closed
it's stone quarries at Ortiz and the
force of laborers employed there were
transferred to Watrous.
The new system of handling freight
on the Rock Island, known as the Red
Ball system, will be installed by the
fifteenth of next month.
Repairs are piIing up in the Rock
Island shops at Shawnee and the yard
tracks are said to be crowded with
cars of every description.
The clerks in the passenger depart
ment of the Santa Fee are arranging
the sch eduIe for the special trains to
be used for the G. A. r. reunion at
Denver. They state that they are glad
that such occasions only come once
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WANTS BACK IN PRISON.
Remarkable Request of a Woman Out
on Parole.

Lesvenworth, Kan..Aug. 24.--In the mail
to Warden Jewett on Wednesday came an
odd request. A woman asked to be lock-
ed in the. penitentiary to serve a sentence.
The woman who makes this request Is
Miss Rosa Northcott of Crawford county.
She was convicted of mansIaughter in the
fourth degree about eight months ago and
sent to the state penitentiary for term
of one year.
There were extenuating circumstances
connected with her case and at the state
penitentiary she was looked upon as a VIC
tim of circumstances, which she was not
able to overcome. She was also a good.
obedient prisoner, and when she applied
for a pardon her case was acted upon
promptly. The pardon board did not wish
to grant the young lady a full pardon so
soon. but unanimously agreed to give her
freedom conditionalIy.
She was granted parole and on May rs
last she left the prison happy and smiling
She went to the home of friends in CraW-
ford county who agreed to look after her
interests and give her a good home.
After spending three months with friends
she has decided that she likes the prison
home better, and she will be allowed to
come back In her letter to the warden
she says she is dissatisfied with her home
In Crawford county and frankly confesses
that the people with whom she is living
are dissatisfied with her.
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HE TOUCHED A LIVE WIRE.
How an Ednporia Boy Came Near to
His Death.

ooh save me; save me. I'm burning
up was the frantic cry of Roy Good
ing, a 12-year-old boy who lives at 619
Merchant. street, as he lay on top of
the cable box, back of the Independ-
ent Telephone office last evening about
O'Clock, unable to move. He had
hold of live electric wire. Young
Gooding attempted to amuse himself
by walking out along the cable box,
that extends from the rear part of the
telephone Office about forty feet, across
the alley to a telephone pole. The box
is suspended fifteen feet above the
ground, and is about a foot square.
The electric light wires cross above
the cable box on the east side of the
alley and when Gooding reached them,
he grabbed the nearest one, intending
to raise it and walk under it. AL
| though the wire is insulated, the cleo
tricity passing through the insulation
gave him the full strength of 104
volt current. Gooding fell backward
as soon as he touched both hands to
the wire, fortunately falling on the
cable box. He tried to tear himself
loose from the burning wire, but
couldn't.
His cries for help attracted the at
tention of the telephone people, and a
couple of linemen, who happened to
went to the boys rescue. They walked
lease Gooding, but failing in this, they
cut the wire with wire cutters. The
| linemen sustained no shock from
handling the boy or the wire, as they
| wore heavy leather gloves.-Emporia
| Gazette
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LEAVES AGED WIFE.
Leavenworth Husband Finds Younger
Companion.

LeaVenWOfTn HUSBAND E1nuS younger
Companion.
Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. 24.=Mrs.
Mary Coffman of Kansas City, Kansas,
nearly SO years old, and in quest of a.
husband, aged 38, told the police the
unusual story of her husbands deser-
ton, his supposed marriage to the wife
of a Lansing prison convict and how
fight from her after he had been re-
stored by the police of this city last
June. The Grant husband, according
to his wife, will face charges of biganly
and ENFORCEMENT on his recapture.
Mrs. Coffman first presented herself
to the police shortly before the dinner
hour and told a portion of her story,
saying that she believed her husband
to be in St. Joseph, and she was try
ing here to find trace of him and sat
isfy herself of the belief that he had
secretly married Mrs. Minnie Howe,
wife of convict recently released from
the Kansas state prison.
When He First Left Her.
Eighteen months ago. so this I'M
usual story goes. James Coffman, a
laborer, disappeared from his home in
Kansas City, Kansas, one night and all
attempts to locate him proved without
fruit until, on the Wednesday following
last Decoration day, the deserted wife
came here in quest of her recreant
spouse. officer BANNER took the case
in charge and soon located Coffman at
the Thudium packing house where he
was working. Coffman, when brought
face to face with his wife. claimed that
he had been unable to make a living in
Kansas iCty and hadF come here intend
ing to bring his wife as soon as pos
sible.
A reconciliation took place in the
police station and Coffman returned to
kansas City with his motherly wife
Five days later, she says, he left home
very early saying that he was going
to look for work and from that day to
this he has been missing without
trace. Various theories exist to the
effect that he is either in Atchison or
st. Joseph, but none is founded on
fact. Mrs. Coffman, however, does not
intend to give up being determined, as
she told Times man yesterday, that
she would have her revenge.
Wife Hints at Trouble.
THE police are trying to find out for
me whether he married this convict S
wife and if he has I will get him and
her 10th. He has me and she has her
husband, and I will send them both
to the limit said Mrs. Coffman, vim
dictively shaking her clenched left fist
on which the wedding ring shone.
1--WE have been married eight years
and there was never any trouble until
he left me. He was stopping at the
Commercial house, Mr.. Beery's place,
with that woman and can determine
it and be sure as soon as can find
Mr.. Berry.
t'They also want my husband in
Kansas City for ENLIGHTENMENT. The
morning after he deserted me men
came to my house looking for him,
saving he had collected $50 or $50
belonging to w. o. McNaughton.
told them that he had left me and that
did not know where he was, so he is
wanted for that too. I will find out
whether he married that woman-see
if DON'T
Mrs. Coffman f1ourished her parasol
energeticaliy and was gone.
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THE EARTH UPHEAvING.
Curious Phenomenon Occurring on a
Southern Kansas Ranch.


P. H. Albright of Winfield, has sent
a party properly equipped to investi-
gate a curious phenomenon occurring
on the Ohio Live Stock company's
ranch, about two miles south of Maple
City. The occurrence is on the COM
paratively level upland pastures south
of Sherlock creek. At one place in a
radius of about $50 feet, there are five
or six singular depressions, like small
craters, each about nine or ten feet
across, and three or four feet deep. 1t
IS one of these that has caused the
wonder. Recently the bottom of it has
risen about eighteen inches, a solid
plug of earth nine or ten feet across
and perfectly round, being forced up
ward by some great force below.
Mr.. Albright thinks that at one time
there was a natural we'll in the rock
at that place, and that water either
stood in it or it was the underground
outlet of the water that fell on the
surface. AS the stratum underlying the
surface about four or five feet is a
thick ledge of the cavernous limestone
prevalent in this country, this view is
not unreasonable. In course of time
the water in the subterranean channel
found another outlet and this opening
gradually filled up with sediment
washed into it from the prairies. Some
other obstruction has probably choked
the outlet and the cavities have filed
with water from head giving enough
pressure to force out the plug of earth
filling the old rock well. much as gas
pushes the cork out of a bottle. The
men sent to investigate have well dig
gers tools, with which to clean out
the orifice. Mr.. Albright hopes that
they will develop a well of running
water.-Arkansas City Traveller.
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DOING THEIR DUTY.
Scores of Topeka Readers Are Learn
ing the Duty of the
Kidneys.

To filter the blood is the kidneys duty.
When they fail to do this the kidneys
are sick.
Backache and many kidney ills fol-
low;
Urinary trouble, diabetes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure them all.
Topeka people endorse our claim.
C. H. Morns, of 1905 Quincy street.
Topeka, Kan, says: Some six years
ago l gave testimonial concerning the
merits Of Doan's Kidney Pills 1 can
only add to it that I have still the same
faith in this remedy and re-endorse it
today as strongly as when I first used
it 1t brought me great and decided re-
lief from pain in my back that has been
a source of much annoyance to me for
a long time. You are at liberty to re-
new my statement about Doan's Kid
ney Pills as it may help some unfor-
tunate person with an aching back and
who ardently wishes for remedy"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the naane-Doans-and
take no other.
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for Taggart's company and was not
responsible for the record it con-
tanned. The roll was signed by Tag
CART which would make it appear that
it was written in the hospital. Miner
said the captains conduct in the quar-
rel with his wife shocked and sur
prised him. He identified the pledge
and said after he received it all
doned. He said there was no truth in
the charges on file at Washington
charging him with improper conduct
with Mrs. Taggart and said he was not
actuated by malice when he omitted
Taggart's meritorious service in his re-
port
Miner admitted in cross examination
that while the muster roll was made
out by Taggart it must have been in
conformity with the hospital records.
He also stated that the making out OF
the report about Taggart's conduct
was the last opportunity he would ever
get. He said he did not investigate
both sides, but did what he did for the
good of the service and the happiness
of the Taggart family. Several specific
questions were asked as to whether he
had done all these things for the good
of the service.
Captain Rither, who was named as
one of the correspondents at the begin
ming of the suit, but against whom all
evidence has been ruled out. went on
the stand following General Miner. In
regard to his midnight visit to Mrs.
Taggart, described by Howard Tag
CART on the stand, he said that Mrs.
Taggart sent him after some medicine
for one of her children and on his re-
turn with it. he met Howard in the
hallway.
Says Miner Called But Once.
The deposition of Miss Elizabeth
| Berry, daughter OF Judge Berry OF
Newport, KY, was read by the defense.
Miss Berry is the young woman who
was a guest at the Taggart home at
Fort Leavenworth at the time Colonel
Miner is alleged to have been fire.
quentIy entertained by Mrs. Taggart-
Miss Berry deposed to the effect that
| Colonel Miner never called at the Tag
CARTS home when Captain Taggart was
not there except on one occasion
Charles Heffeldnger, the Wooster
| bartender, who is alleged to have sold
beer to Mrs. Taggart since she has
been in Wooster, and especially on one
occasion when she is alleged to have
given beer to her young boys, was q
witness He testified that he had never
sold Mrs. Taggart beer and denied the
| charge that she had bought beer in
his saloon for her boys.
An attempt is being made to have an
| investigating committee appointed to
ascertain the ailnent of Mrs. Taggart
| while she was patient at ChrfstS
| hospital. A request was made of the
mayor of Cincinnati, but he refused to
grant it. The refusal of the mayor will
result in an attempt to have Judge
Eason appoint a commission to look
/ into the matter.
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WAS SHE HYPNo11zED2
Wichita Woman Alleges This in Her
Divorce Petition.

Wichita, Kan, Aug. 24.-An attorney
and a policeman drove to the home of
DR.. W. M. Hunter of this city and
therefrom. in his presence, took his
wife and baby away with them. From
the house the party drove to the office
of the attorney where Mrs. Hunter sign
ed a divorce petition, already drawn up,
and was then taken to a place her hus-
band has since been unable to locate.
In the divorce petition Mrs. Hunter
alleges that her husband exercised a
mysterious and simple power over her
which she believes was hypnotism. Mrs.
Simpson, mother of Mrs. Hunter, stated
that her daughter married. DR.. Hunter
presumably under a hypnotic spell.
That she did not love him, but his in
fluenee over her was so great that she
was unable to escape.
Hunter has secured attorneys and
will contest the case. He says that his
wife has no reason to leave him and
that the trouble was caused altogether
by the influence of her mother.
Mrs. Hunters attorneys got out in
junction proceedings late yesterday at
ternoon restraining Hunter from inter-
fering with his wife and child pending
the divorce suit.
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ENGINE HITS CARRIAGE.
Union Pacific Kills One Person and
Injuries Two Others.

Salina, Kas., Aug. 24-The Union
Pacific Denver express struck a buggy
containing two women and two small
children at the Santa F'e avenue cross
ing here last evening. A 5-year-old
child of Mrs. Jacob Wallerius was
killed, 3-year-old child MORALLY
injured, and Mrs. Devlin received in
juries from which she probably will
die, Her. left leg is almost entirely
severed. The two women were caught
on the pilot of the engine and carried
for distance of two blocks before
the train was stopped. Mrs. Wallerius
was not badly hurt.
The party was driving into town
from the country. As the buggy
reached the crossing freight train
on a siding obscured the view of the
main line. The horse was driven
upon the track just as the passenger
train came along at the rate of forty
miles an hour. The Wallerius family
is one of the wealthiest in the county
Wallerius is a farmer. Mrs. Devlin
lives in town.
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The NJ, X. & T. work to Fulfn Law.

The M. K. & T. is making a vigor-
GUS attempt to fulfill the requirements
of the twenty-eight hour cattle law and
has issued to conductors, dispatchers
and engineers the following order:
when from any cause, there is
chance of train not making the next
feeding station in time to unload with
in the twenty-eight hour limit, con-
ductors must be given instructions to
reduce by setting out, if necessary,
everything except the stock. Train
must be given an absolute right over
all except trains and g.
After the train has arrived at the
stations the work of unloading is given
precedence over all other work even
to the handling of some of the passen-
ger trains.
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CAUGHT 211 CATFISH.
Work of Two Fishermen on the Cot
tonwood in Five Days.

John Weeverness and Jim Ludy,
who ished five days and nights near
the ''Narrowneck," west of town nine
miles on the Cottonwood river, brought
their last catch to town yesterday. The
men caught 211 channel catfish that
weighed from one to eight pounds
each Placing the average weight at
three pounds, the fishermen sold 633
pounds at cents a pound, or S4231
for their five days work They saw
they caught all the fish on trot lines.
They had out about 500 hooks every
night, using minnows and crawfish for
bait The fish were caught on a rip
pie, as that is better than deep water
fishing, the fishermen say.-Emporia
Gazette
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New International Bank.

New York, Aug. 24.-An interna-
tional bank with a capital of $1,000, 600
is being formed for the purpose of
carrying on banking operations be-
tween the United States and Hungary
and to open accounts of emigrants to
this country from the Balkan PENN
sula. The new bank is being organized
by interests identified with the Hun
garian general credit bank of Buda-
Desth
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Boycott Reaches Yokohama.

Yokohama, Aug. 24.-(Via San
Francisco)- anti-American boy
colt as Geographically reported, has
reached Yokohama. On July &c, local
Chinese refused to give any freight to
the steamer Manchuria, due to leave
for Hongkong on the 28th. On August
6. at meeting of representative
Chinese it was resolved not to deal in
American goods; not to ship any goods
on American steamers and not to do
any business with any American bank
ing or insurance company.
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saloonkeeper Wasn't Playing Fair.

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. 24.-Three
special agents of the internal revenue
department of the government arrived
here a few days ago and started an in
vestigation of the manner in which
LIQUOR dealers conduct business here.
They charged George F. Roesch of car
rving on Wholesale business on a re-
tailer's license. Roesch was compelled
to pay wholesalers back license for
four years and penalty, the whole
amounting to $500.
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Some Water Used at Beloit.

People have little conception of the
amount of water it takes to supply a
town the size of Beloit, on day when
the atmosphere is hot and the ground
is dry. Yesterday the Beloit Light
and Water company pumped 645, 900
gallons of water for the use of the
people of Beloit. This is the largest
amount that the company has ever
been called upon to supply in one 7av
The Solomon river may not be the
purest source from which to obtain
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Cornstalks for Firewood.

Lawrence, Kas., Aug. 24-CoI ].
d. Miles has on exhibition specimens
of Kansas corn that will be hard to
equal Each of the three stalks
brought in as samples is at least six
teen feet tall. The tallest is sixteen
feet two inches and is twelve feet
from the ground to the first ear. It
would be impossible to gather corn
like this without a ladder.
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Pnstoffice Is Robbed.

Paola. Kan, Aug. 24.-The home OF
E. z. Pendleton, the postmaster at Pen
dleton, small station five miles south.
east of here, was robbed. A gold watch
and $40 belonging to Mr. Pendleton ane
S35 in stamps were stolen.
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MISS GoULD's GENEROSITY.
Reported to Have Given $45, 900 t.
Leavenworth Y. NJ. G. A.

Leavenworth, Kan. Aug. 24.-It is re
ported at Fort Leavenworth that Miss
Helen Gould has given $4,000 for the
erection of Y. NJ. C. A. building on
the army reservation. The plans for the
building have been submitted through
the International Y. NJ. c. A. commit
tee. The building is to be on Pope av-
enue, close to the Officers club. Private
information conveyed to the officers is
that the building will be large. fine
brick edifice, in keeping with the other
new buildings of the post.