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Evening journal., 1906-08-21
Thieves Steal EGGS.

Some time last night thieves broke into
the grocery store Of Mrs. Morrow az Har-
rlson and Conrad streets and stole thirty
six dozen Of eggs. The thieves could no..
get into the store proper because the
doors were locked too securely They LEFT
no clue 10 their identity.
Evening journal., 1906-08-21
FRESH QUAKE
DESTROYS TOWN

By Our Own Wire, Publishers Press.
LONDON. Aug. 21.-Another heavy
earthquake is reported to have struck
Valparaiso last night This is the in
formation received here from Lima,
Peru, to-day.
The reports state that the town Of
Quinota. twenty-six miles from Valpa-
raiso having a population of 10000, has
been destroyed.
Lima experienced a slight shock this
l1nOrning
Evening journal., 1906-08-21
ovters 70 hoId MeetIna.

Qualified Republican voters OF the
Sixth ward will meet tonight at No.
sO4 King street, and all who have reg
istered are invited to attend. The
meeting is called for o'clock.
Evening journal., 1906-08-21
Fruit Festival

All preparations have been COM
pleted for the fruit festival to be held
by the state Road Sunday school on
Saturday evening.
Evening journal., 1906-08-21
your stove Repaired Eree!

During August we charge only for
cost Of materials. The labor cost you
nothing. Write or phone. Mcmahon
Bros. Co., Fifth and King streets.
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Frank Grimes. a victim of circum-
stances, hands $4,000 to the state.
KANSAS STATE LEAGUE.
Independence Ball Players Seemed to
Have Made Best Showing.

Independence, Kan, Dec. 15.--E. II.
Sutton Of Bartlesville has compiled the
official averages and percentages of the
players engaged in the struggle for
the Kansas State League pennant last
year, and a careful perusal of the same
will show why Independence landed
the rag These figures show that Bert
Haas was the star Of the league. He
and while Bowen of Cherryvale, and
Armstrong of this city, go ahead OF
him on catching with a per cent OF
1000 each, Bowen played in 8 games,
Army" in 43, and Haas in 274-
which makes a world of difference.
And it should be borne in mind that
this record was made after the six club
league was organized on the 18th of
July, and after Haas had twice been
hit on the head and put out of the
game. He did not work up to his full
capacity after that, either at the bat
or behind it, because he was just a
little bit "leary.'' Had he batted as he
was doing before his injury he would
have had a big league record. And
speaking of big league records, Dusty
Rhodes, who went to St. Louis, doesn'
seem to have much of an edge over our
staff of pitchers in this showing. BY
the league was Brown, of Independ-
ence, who shows up strong at the bat,
at first base, behind the bat and in
the outfield. OF the pitchers Womack,
who got into the fight when he was
in the pink of condition, leads off with
1000 per cent. Brandon of Independ-
ence comes next, and Dec follows
him Womack only pitched in ten
games, while Brandon off1ciated in
FL and Decaniere in IT. In the field
ing averages the system of grading
gives the Industrious pitcher the worst
of it. There was not a better fielding
pitcher in the league, if there was as
good as Brandon, yet he falls below
others because he went after every
thing in sight and sometimes missed.
Among the outhelders La1ly Of Bar
tlesville and ]. Killilay Of Cherryvale.
go ahead of Brown Of this city. but
Lally only played in % games, and
Killilay in IL against Browns IT.
Collins shows up strong at third and
at short, as does also Station. Johnny
Hendley is strong at third and outffeld.
Wilson doesn't show up as we'll as his
friends expected, because his batting
eye left him along towards the close
of the season and an attack of Char
ley Horse" injured his fielding. but we
all know what he can do just the
same. Barndollar's record was also
cut some because he has a habit of
going after everything, like a good
ball player ought to do. Barney .
however, is right up toward the cen
ter on batting
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A Poor Day for Favorites.

Los Angeles. Cal, Dec. 15-=tPud-
din - Mcdaniel, favorite jockey in
former seasons at Ascot park, made
his first appearance here since his re-
turn from New Orleans. He was
greeted by prolonged cheers Nc
Daniel had only two mounts. He put
Merllngo over for show money in the
fifth, but failed to land Arragon in the
third.
It was a bad day for favorites, Cotil-
Ion at to 5 being the only first choice
to take first money. La Gloria hung
it on three shorter priced horses in the
second; Illusion cleared her field by a
nose in the third race; the slow begin
ming w. H. Carey began earlier than
usual and grabbed the fourth race at
1 5 to 1. and old Prince Ching actually
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CLAIM THEY ARE ssTOTTNG FAIR
Racing Board Denies That Bicycle
Riders Are Treated Unfairly.

New York, Dec. 15.-1:epiying to pub
lie charges that the race was not being
conducted fairly, Manager r. f. Kelsey,
chairman of the racing board of the
National Cycling association and ref
cree at the garden said that the charges
were unfair and silly.
Patrick Powers said: This is not the
first time that the honesty of the six
day race has been questioned and prob
ably 1t will not be the last The public
never believed there was anything
wrong in this race, as is evidenced by
the record crowds of this week We
will continue to operate in just the
same manner, and leave It to the public
to decide who is honest"
Floyd MacFarland said there was no
strike Of the riders. but that they were
riding easily to allow Vanderstuyft a
chance to recover from the effects of his
fall
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ORA MoRNTNGsTAR's PLANS.
BnIiardist Plans to Challenge for 1872
Title Soon.

New York. Dec. 15.-For the third
time since they began their series of
practice games, Ora Morningstar de-
feated George Sutton, the world s
champion 1872 balk-line billiardist, in
Morningstars academy. The score at
the end Of the seventeenth inning stood
at 400 to III, the New Yorker having
consistently piled up higher runs than
his opponent. In view of the fact that
next Tuesday Sutton is to play Willie
Hoppe in a challenge game for the
1872 title, followers of the greentabie
game are beginning to think that SUIT
ton may be returned the loser.
As matter Of fact, Mornlngstar be-
Heves that he is able to make a good
bid for the championship himself and
has been training for weeks to chaI-
lenge the champion. AS soon as SUIT
ton and Hoppe finish Morningstar will
challenge the winner. His playing is
when he participated IN the tourna-
ment last spring.
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BEELL FOUND HIM EASY.
Had No Trouble in Defeating Yankee
Rogers 1T Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. 15.-Fred Bell,
champion catch-as- catch-can wrestler
of America, successfully defended his
title at Brooke's Casino last night with
Yankee" Rogers, the New England
champion, whom he defeated in two
straight falls. Bell took the first fall
with a head and crotch hold in eleven
minutes and forty-one seconds and the
second fall after a hard struggle with
q head hold in twenty-one minutes
and thirty seconds. The little cham
pion undertook a big job when he
tackled Rogers as to weight and
height. The easterner lowered over
him by ten inches and outweighed him
by fully fifty pounds. Besides this
Rogers was no green hand at the
game. He was up to all the fine points
of wrestling. marvelously quick for
big man, and wonderfully strong. The
little wrestling demon" however,
never gave his giant opponent a mo-
ment's rest and fought him all over
the ring on their feet and made life
miserable for his man when they were
down.
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STEADY CAIN.
General Trade Is Expanding
Regardless OF the Fact
That Chief Interest Centers in
the Holiday Business.
WERE NEVER so ACTIVE
Industrial Lines Are Exceeding
All Previous Records.
Wages Continue to Advance
But Help Is Still Scarce.

New York, Dec. 15.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Holiday trade monopolizes attention.
although there is a steady gain in dis
tribution of winter goods as the tenn
perature becomes more seasonable.
While it is somewhat early to have
very definite information regarding the
next crop of winter wheat the depart
men of agriculture has Appropriated
final results so closely in the December
reports of recent years that its prom
ise of new high record production has
a natural tendency to depress quota
tons. The decline was not severe, how
ever, chiefly because inadequate rail-
way facilities continued to restrict re-
eeipts at primary markets. There was
a much more violent response to gov
erament figures in the cotton market
where the price fell to the position held
month ago before the sharp advance
to the highest point of the season.
Liabilities of commercial failures thus
far reported for December amounted
to $2,745,324, of which 81, S24,041 were in
manufacturing, $1.022, 692 in trading,
and $4,000 in other commercial lines.
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Latest Record Is That He Is Wanted
as Manager.

Louisville, KY. Dec. ia wild
rumor was staggering around today
that Dan Mccain. captain of the New
York Giants, was the object of a man
agerial Irritation at the hands of
George Tebeau, owner of the Colonies.
Mccain is spending the winter here
and at Shelbyville. He said concern
ing the report that he might manage
the Colonies:
Il am in the game for the money.
If Tebeau arranges with the owners of
the New York club. and satisfies me-
The reimbursement mo that Mccain is
likely to play IN louisville is looked
upon here as a joke.
1t is said that Danny Kerwin, Of the
Louisville club, IS to be sent to Kan
sas City and that Center Fielder Cas-
sadly Of the Blooz, will be transferred
here.
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Bradstreet's,

Bradstreet's says:
Holiday trade. now in full swing, at
tracts most attention. Business which
is of foremost proportions, bids fair tc
eclipse previous records, a significant
feature being the demand for high
grade goods.
Industrial lines were never so active
and the labor situation, so far as griev-
ances are concerned, seem to have i'm
proved Wages are still being ad-
vanceds and the supply of help still con-
tinues scarce, although this is the sea-
son for comparative suspension of out
door activity. Car shortage still pre-
walls, and it is alleged that the railways
are diverring rolling stock from grain
to other higher paying freights.
Copper is highe@-23 cents a pound
with demand urgent for spot and
nearby delivery Lead as we'll as
spelter, is high.
The Boston wool market is active
and bouyant in tone, with prices half
to 1 cent higher. Manufacturers are
buying freely and domestic stocks are
being reduced. High prices in London,
Australia and South America affect
quotations there Continental buyers
America that American buyers could
not meet.
Sugar has been irregular, needs of a
few refineries calling for buying at
slight advances, but reports as to the
Cuban crop are of large possible
yield, providing labor to harvest and
grind the crop can be-secured.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending December 10
number 220, against PIG last week, 226
in the like week of 1905, 239 in 1904.
239 in 1908 and 225 in 1902. Canadian
failures for the week number 81. as
against 80 last week, and 3S this week
a year ago.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending December 10, aggregate
q : - I,.o1e- i've so
week; 4437.162 this week last year;
1.444, $50 in 1904: and 4,332.S32 in
1901. For the past "a weeks of the
fiscal year the exports are 1880, 57S
bushels against 57,25S,549 in 1905;
32,701,47 in 1904; and 1ss,O19,951 in
1901.
Corn exports for the week are 1851
TIA bushels, against 1,1O9,477 last
week; S.407,776 a year ago, and 49,
703 in 1904. For the fiscal year to date
the exports are 20,S4S,517 bushels,
against 29.256,ss5 in 1905. and 1866
O99 in 1904
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FoRrx-THREE COUNTIES ADOPT.
Returns on Barnes High school Law
Complied by I. l. Dayton.

According to the returns received
and complied by 1. l. Dayhoff state
superintendent of public instruction.
the people in forty-three counties of
the state voted in favor Of what Is
known as the Barnes school law. This
law put It to the popular vote of coun-
ties individually to say whether or not
they desired the establishment OF
county high schools within their con-
fines. Those counties voting in favor
of the proposition are as follows:
Allen, Anderson. Barber Barton,
Bourbon. Butler. Clark. Coffey. Co
manche, Cowley. Doniphan, Edwards,
Finney, Ford. Grant, Gray. Hamilton.
Harper. Harvey, Jefferson, Kearny.
Kingman, Leavenworth, Lincoln, Lo-
gan, Lyon, Marshall. Mcpherson. Nor
ton. Ness, Usage, Pratt. Rice, Russell,
Saline, Sedgwick, Shawnee. Stafford.
Wabaunsee. Wallace. Wichita. Wilson
and Wyandotte.
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SATURDAY

for office. Mr.. Cade has called and ex-
planned matters, and satisfied US that
he simply broke his fathers nose by
accident, and is justly entitled to the
suffrage OF the people. Also, see ad-
vertise1nent of his saloon.
IT is being whispered about that Jim
HelIso (who is ourself) Will soon be
offered consulship in Germany in rec
ognition Of his services in building up
the west. II offered to him he will
take 1t. He has never been known to
refuse an office yet, and is not going to
Our esteemed contemporary has al
ways had a longing to shine in society,
and he made good beginning at Mrs
week. When he was lifted on to a
sled to be drawn home his boot1egs
were found to be stuffed with table
napkins and his pockets with tea
spoons.
AS secretary of the local vigilance
committe, it became our duty to warn
Mr.. Martin Holden, a stranger who had
was Tetarding the progress of the
town by trying to ride his broncho
into saloons. Mr.. Holden stayed on
until drawn up and lowered three
times, and then departed with a sore
throat.
When Mr.. Johnson arrived in Ari-
iona from Ohio two months ago to es-
tabiish weekly paper, we told him
that he would have to depend upon
the gun as well as the pen for a year
or two. He differed with US and went
over to Grass Valley and issued the
Eagle. Last week a mob waited on
him and Quilted his office and drove
him into the thickets. He was charged
with running a Sunday school sheet.
The little difference Of opinion we
had with Colonel Brown, manager OF
the stage line. last Sunday, has been
grossly .naKnif1ed. In an argument
over affairs in Cuba we limited that
we dlstrusted his historic accuracy, and
he started to pull gun on us. We had
him covered too soon, however, and
as soon as he really understood the
kernel of our observation we were
friends sgain. The colonel is a little
off on history and little slow on the
draw, but good fellow nevertheless,
! copyright, 1906. by G. D. Daniels.)
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won race. These were the surprises
Harding was scratched out of the sec
ond race by order of the judges. Judge
Hamilton was not satisfied that this
particular horse was sufficiently
Identified. There. was talk in the bet
ting ring that an attempt had been
made to put over a ringer, but this
Harding's owner denies.
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A Jockey Knocked senseIess.

New Orleans. Dec. 15.-Grace
George, an entry in the second race at
City Park, broke through the barrier
just before the race. Jockey Marster's
stirrups broke and he was knocked
unconscious against the fence, while
his frightened mount ran three miles
before pulling up The jockey was
not seriously injured. Weather clear;
rack fast
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FitzgeraId-Britt Bout or.

Dayton, O., Dec. 15.-The Fitzger-
ADJ Britt twenty-round pugilistic
contest, which was scheduled to be
held on December %, before Jimmy
Coffroth's club at San Francisco, has
been called off owing to the former
badly injuring his right hand in his
bout with Peter Sullivan here last
night in the second round.
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San Francisco, Dec. 15.-The wise
ones dropped a lot of money on Nina
Gibson at Emeryville. w. Miller had
the mount on the favorite, but Sea
Lad showed heels to the field. In the
fifth event Miller retrieved himself by
skillfully guiding Beechwood to the
head of the procession and in the sixth
race made Major Tenny a winner
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al Western Wonder.

There's Hill at Bowie. Tex. that's
SwlSs Pm who from a L t.is o % 5o
pounds has grown to over $50. He says:
Il suffered with a terrible cough, and
ton. / was reduced to 30 pounds when
/ began taking Or. Kings New Discov-
ery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds
Now after taking u bottles. I have more
than doubled in weight and am complete
" cured" Only sure Cough and Cold
cure. Guaranteed by Arnold Drug Co.
druggists. SOC and 800. Trial bottle free.
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financial statement of the Athletic as
ISOLATION of the University of Penn
sylvania for the fiscal year ending Sep
TENDER 1, which has been Issued
shows that the total receipts for the
period were $92,869-77, and the ex-
penditures SIS. $685., leavil-~ = bal
ance OF $4.OO5.92. The recelp1s at
foe tbal games were S66,37S.43, and
the exDenses S29-R2216
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To accommodate holiday travellers a
rate of a fare and one-third for the
Union Pacific and its connecting lines,
has been placed IN effect by the Union
Pacific. Dates OF sale. Dec. 20, 21, %.
%. "a. rs. %. 80, 81. 1905. and Jan.
1st, 1907. Inquire OF F. A. Lewis
City Ticket Agent. 52B Kansas avenuof
or ]. c. Fulton. Depot Agent.
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A DEAD BODY IDENTIFIED.
The Man Found Near PIttsburg Was
That of j. r. Butcher of Parsons.

Pittsburg, Kan, Dec. 15.-The body Of
the unknown stranger who was found
dead near the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railway crossing south OF here Monday
has been Identified as that of J. r.
Butcher of Parsons. r. NJ. Rhodes OF
Parsons with whom Butcher had been
making his home, identified the body.
Rhodes story is that Butcher left his
home at Parsons last Friday morning
without saying where he was going. He
had Just received a letter from a wo-
man in Springfield, Mo, with whom he
had been corresponding, and 1t has since
developed that she refused to marry
him His death evidently resulted from
heart disease. There were no signs OF
violence on his body.
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Through Standard Pullman sleeping
car operated on wabash train No. 4,
leaving Union station. Kansas City,
every night at 500 o'clock, arriving
Des Moines next morning at a. m
Secure your doEets and sleeping car
berths at Union Station or SOS Main
street.
H. C. SHIELDS, 7. P. A.
J. J. SHINE. W. P. A. Kansas City.
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Mccoy would Box AtteII.

Barberton, O., Dec 15-Othio Sack
EFT. or Young Kid Mccoy. posted $1,000
with John Mccoy of the Barberton
at 1872 to 124 pounds Abe Attell pre-
ferred. VIII let forfeit money go as
side bet
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CALDWELL JURY SECURED.
Third Trial OF Noted salina Murder
Case Finally BeginS..

Salina, Kan. Dec. 1.-THE third triei
of Mrs. Susan Caldwell, charged with
the murder of her husband is under
way in the district court here. the jury
having been secured Friday. Witnesses
examined were for the purpose of es-
tablishing the fact that Mrs. Caldwell
and her husband had separated twice
before the killing occurred.
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Bank CIearings.

New York. Dec. 15.-The following table
compiled by Bradstreet shows the bank
cIearings at the principal cities for the
week ended Dec. a. with the percentage
OF Increase and decrease as compared
with the corresponding week last year:
Amount Inc Dec
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piles Cured in 6 to IA Davs

PAzO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure
any case of itching, blind, bleeding or pro-
truding piles in to IA days or money re-
funded. Soc.
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ARIZONA KICKLETS.
No Dull Plays With "The Kicker
Man,

We understand that the five quack
doctors in town are encouraging each
other to shoot US. Office hours the
same is usual. and a smile for all call
ers.
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Take. LAXATIVE BROAdO quinine tablets
Druggists refund money il it fairs culs.
E.W. GROVES signature on each box sc.
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A careful canvass of this territory
brings to light the fact that there are
no less than thirty-six editors who play
a lively game Of poker at a f1ve-dollar
limit Statehood should have been an
assured fact long ago.
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Mr.. John Hughes called Mr. David
Barlow a liar al the postofice the other
day, and Mr.. Barlow drew his gun and
fired four shots and wounded a China
man in the heel. One could comment
on such scenes, but what's the use.
When a man was born to use a club
instead of a gun why can't he recog-
nize the fact?
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The edict has gone forth among the
fashionable four hundred of the
Gulch that private. bottles at parties
and receptions are to be tabooed. You
either drink what the hostess furnishes
or go dry. This prevents any mixing
of the brands or making odious COM
PARSONS.
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In last weeks issue we had an item
to the effect that 1Er. jack Cade, OF
this town. gouged HIS fathers eye our
while living in Texas q dozen years
ago. and that he was no At man to rur
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some critter at Santa Re sends US
postal card predic- our death by
hanging within the next three months,
but we shall continue to take a cheer
full view Of life, and get out the largest
and best family weekly on earth until
the little affair comes or.
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We do not wish 1t to be understood
that a subscriber cannot stop his copy
of The Kicker whenever it pleases him
to do so, but at the same time we wish
to make it plain that If he lives any
where within a hundred miles Of the
Gulch he may expect a personal
call from us to ask Tor q personal ex-
PLANTATION.
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balances paid in cash.
~~Not included in totals because con
taining other items than clearings.
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During the last five years we have
received an average of fifty letters per
week asking for our photograph. We
wish to say that we have never had
a negative taken. There was no occa-
sion to. Any picture of Napoleon Bon
aparte looks enough like. us to be a
twin brother, and they can be had at
any stationer's We hope we shall not
be charged with egottsm In this mat
ter. Napoleon couldn't help 1t II he
looked like US.
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The present city marshal, who has
held office only two months, has had
five bullets shot into him during that
time and is getting a bit discouraged,
About the only consolation he has IS
the knowledge that he has shot seven
bullets into other fellers.