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The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
TO TEST ANTl.BET LAW.

Kansas City, Mo- Feb, 20,vTo test
the consIitutionalty of the anti-race
betting law passed al the last session
of the legislature. one race is To be
decided at Elm Ridge track tomorrow.
A bookmaker will make wagers which
are to be offered, his arrest will follow
and the case will he tried in the crimi-
nal court
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
sehoolhox Definitions.

"NOah's wife. said a boy In Of
examination, was called Joan OF
Arc" Water" wrote another is
composed Of two gases. oxygen and
brigen.' Lava. replied a third
youth. Is what the barber puts on
YOUR face" A blizzard" insisted an
other child, is the inside Of a fowl.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
KILLED BY EXPLOSION.

Bluefeld. w Va, Feb. 20.-In pre-
mature dynamite explosion at Coal.
wood mines today, John Willis and
Tom Nash. both white, were killed and
Frank Collier, sea- of the superintend-
ent in charge seriously injured.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

A typical South African household
described by Olive Schreiner had an
English father. a baiEDutch mother
with a French name. a Scotch gov
erness, a Zulu cook a Hoitentot
bousemaid and a Ksfir stable boy.
while the little girl sho walled on
table vas a BaEutc
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
WHOLE HOUSEHOLD MURDERED

Askabad, Russia. Feb 20.-During
the Bairam feast last week General
Dschurayik and all the members of
his household were murdered The
crime is supposed Ia have been one of
personal vengeance.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

formances they viii give in this terri
tcfy this season. The attraction will
confne most Of its,time to The larger
cities and it was only after consider
able correspondence and by extra in
ducements that tley decided TO favor
Cairo with another visit. At the opera
house, Friday. February 23rd.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
A UNANIMOUS VOTE.

Columbus, Ohio. Feb 20.--The sen
ate today by unanimous vote adopted
the house joint resolution requesting
Ohio's representatives in congress to
vote for railway rate legislation de
sired by the president.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
OFFICERS REELECTED.

Springfield, H.. Feb. 20,-Announce-
ment was made at today's session of
The United Miners of officers elected
by the vote taken two weeks ago. The
results show president, vice president
md secretary-treasurer reelected
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

George Nelson, some years ago a
popular member of the Rock Island,
Three Eye team. who is now EN-
ployed in Chicago has applied to Pres
dent Holland for a berth on The nm
piring staff.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
STABBED WIFE AND MOTHER.

Preston, Mimi, Feb. 20.-John
Stourdale, of McLeansboro, is in jail
here charged with stabbing his wife
and mother. The younger woman may
not survive The mother was not
seriously injured.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

The beautiful play. The Last Rose
OF Summer which met with such en-
thusiastic endorsement az the hands
OF theatre goers when presented last
season has been secured by Manager
Williamson for one of the few per
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

There is nothing doing in the Kitty
league and for the first time that The
sporting editor has been writing base
ball during the past 30 years he IS out
of fodder" and Kitty league Base
Ball Gossip" is not worth "shucks.'
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

son. but now he has been transferred
to Louisville of the American associa-
ton
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Cairo, Alexander County, IIlInols. Pop
ulatIon 1877.

Cairo, Alexander County, sIllnols. Pop
ulatIon 1917.
Mayor, GEORGE PARS0NE.
Clerk, II. A. HATCHER.
Treasurer. JAMES QUINN.
Comptroller. u, 8. DEWEY.
Police Magistrate, A. J. ROSS.
Chief OF Police, M. 8. EGAN.
Alexander County. Population 22,96A
County Judge. VIM 8. DEWEY.
County Clerk, JESSE Il. MILLER.
Circuit Clerk, LEE r, DAVIS.
Sheriff, JAS. s. ROCHE.
Coroner, DIR. JAMES NcMANUS.
Board Of County Commissioners.
GEORGE PARSONS,
DIR EDWIN J. CAUSE.
J. J. JENNELLE, Chairman.
Assessor and Treasurer, FRANK n
DAVIS.
County Superintendent OF Schollx
PROF. JOHN SNYDER.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

IOIal ..,.t,........ ........,..,, .... 10.
ALBERT WATSON, Chairman
NJ w. SCllAEFER, Secretary.
MI Vernon, H., Jan 10. 1906.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21

Lydia Pnkham Vegetable Compound Succeeds Where Others
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-21
Alexander County. population a2,ssa

County Superintendent OF Schollx
PROF. JOHN SNYDER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
FUEL SAVING INVENTION.
An Eng1lshman Perfects Automatic
CarburettOr for Automobiles.

New York, Dec. 5.-After years of ex-
perimenting, an English inventor is said
to have evolved a means for materially
lessening the cost of motor car fuel. The
new invention is nothing more nor less
than an automatic carburettor, by means
of which cheap paraffin may be substitut-
ed for the. more costly petrol. and it is
predicted that the new device is likely to
reVolutionize autOmobiling-
Adherents of the improved carburettor
a. motor car reduced to a third by its use
but that all smell and smoke are done
away with.
A practical demonstration of the carbu-
rettOr was held recently, when a number
OF experts were drlven some seventeen
miles on a motor-omnlbus fitted with the
TT has taken me nine years of almost
continuous work to perfect it, said the
inventor. There are, I know, other par
affin carburettors the market. but
none which operates automatically.
Everything is automatic. The engine
sufficient heat has been generated the
flows in and takes its place.
The engine was then started on petrol
escaping from the exhaust pipe. Wait
minute or two and watch, said the in
In three minutes the fumes and smoke
disappeared, changing, as the paraffin
took the place of the petrol, to colorless
and odorless. vaoor.
A man who is at the head of the syndi-
cate which has acquired the patent rights
TT means.H he, said, "a saving OF at
least two thirds OF the ordinary expenses
of running a motor car. in addition to
doing away with all smoke and SMELL 1t
is fitted al present to a 24-horse-power
engine, and this motor-omnibus is the
only one in existence today driven by
paraffin. The complete cost of the car
burettor which is adaptable to any make
of engine, is s100 The oil we are using
is ordinary paraffin."
After the had returned to the gar
age the amount of Daraffin and petrol
consumed was measured 1t was found
that the run of seventeen miles had re-
CURED enc and a half gallons of paraffin
and about q pint of petrol.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
NINE WORKERS. ELECTION.
Results of Banoting fo- District Ofi-
cscIs TT Pittsburg-

Pittsburg Kan, Dec. 5.-The board of
auditors Of the United Mine Workers who
have been in session at Miners headquar-
tiers in Pittsburg since Monday morning
making the official canvass Of the re-
turns of the recent district election, com
pleted the canvass yesterday
The canvass shows that but two of the
district officers were elected on the first
ballot These are Alex EIowatt. district
president, who was reelected by larSe
majority over his one competitor. and
Robert Gilmour, district secre tary-treas-
urer, also reelected, although opposed ~
seven candidates
The other district officials who were
candidates for reelection will have to go
zllsclxi for second vote, although all
ahead Of their opponents.
Vice President Lindsay will go back for
a second ballot with Leon Besson, of
Dunkirk- Harry BOusheld. national board
member, viii go back. for a second bal
lot with John J. Hoye, of Frontenac.
In the Cherokee county district board
Tom May viii go back with two other
candidates.
The members in the Rich Hill and
Usage fields were elected. there being but
two candidates in each field.
Martin Banahan was elected board men,
Der in the Usage field by eleven majority.
James James was elected in the Rich
Hill field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
The Lawrence Prisoner Con-
fesses to Doing the Shooting
On the Santa Fe Train i'm Which
E. c. Ward Vas Injured.
REMEMBERS NOTHING.
Insists That He Cannot Recall
Any of the Particulars.
Is Identified as Kansas City
Drug Store Thief.
REMEMBERS NOTHING.

Lawrence. Kan, Dec 5.-The wound
ed man arrested here accused of trying
to hold up Santa Fe passenger train
No II at Holiday confessed last night
that he was in a shooting on the train,
but says that he remembers nothing
except that fact. He says his name is
Charles Green. He says he knows he
was shot, but does not remember shoot
ing anyone else. When asked about
the attempted hold up he hesitated and
replied: I don't know what I'm up
against. l don't remember trying 10
held up a train"
1t is --eueved he will attempt to prove
that he was drunk and was not respons-
IDLE for his act
DR. Ball Of Kansas city. whose drug
store was robbed at O'Clock Monday
E night identified Green as one of the
men who robbed him. An old Mexican
coin which Dr. Ball kept in his cash
register was found in one of the man s
pockets.
A watch which was identified by Ball
as belonging to Monroe Liggett mis-
drug clerk was also found on the man.
The prisoner is about five feet four
inches tall and is dark. He gives his
age as "a, the age given on the union
card he carries. He appears to be only
about IS years old. He says he has
not been in Salida, Colorado, for three
months. His card is issued from Sa-
Ida.
1t is not believed that Green is his
name. When questioned, he points to a
boiler makers card bearing the name
Charles H. Green. He was questioned
in his cell by a reporter
Yes, 1 came in on that train" he
said Il rode in the coach, too. don't
remember much about the shooting
though. I know I got shot someway'
myself
The prisoner denied all knowledge Of
the drug store held up in Kansas City
and said that he had been drinking
pretty heavily before he took the Santa
Fe train for Topeka He also denied
having a partner and whenever asked
about his business in Kansas City,
would not answer
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Long Shots Win at Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Dec. 5.=Two long shots
finished in first place al 20 to 1. Lille
but was under the wire two lengths
ahead of Cicelv and the favorite, Sir
Caruthers- In the last event Cyclops
was never headed. beating Treasure
Seeker by head. Bill Curtis won his
fourth victory in five days at odds of
to 8. Jockey Kent, who rode Kirk
field Belle in the third event. was sus-
pended by Starter Hoffman, who refused
to give any reason Judge Hamilton
suspended Jockeys A. c. Koerner and
". Fischer for a week on account of
rough riding, granting them the privi
lege of riding for their own stables.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05

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confidence; all letters of consultation
being treated as strictly private and
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Such consultation costs you nothing
whether you take treatment from Dr.
Pierce or not.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has
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vFaxorite Prescriptionn is the one
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
A SHIFTING or UMP1REs.
Transfers Between Eastern League and
American Association.

Milwaukee, Dec. 5.@A transfer of
the umpires from the Eastern league to
the American association and the shift
ing of the American associa ton UNI
pires to the Eastern league is likely to
take place. Empires Clarence Owens
and Steve Kane and possibly Jack
Eagan will all be with the Eastern
league next year. Owens and Kane
have practically accepted offers from
President Powers of the Eastern
league. Eagan is awaiting a final
offer.
The only American association UNI
pire who will remain with the associa-
ton is William J. Sullivan, and he can
not go to the Eastern league because
President Powers VIII not have an UNI
pire who lives in the circuit. The sign
ing of American association umpires
with the Eastern league means that
President O'Brien may sign some the
the Eastern leaguers. Only one of the
five umpires with the Eastern league
this season will remain, Moran. Al
least two of them may be seen with
the American association
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
scoFFERs
often Make the staanehest Converts

The man who SCOTS at an idea or
doctrine which he does not fully I'M
derstand las at least the courage to
show where he stands.
The gospel of Health has many con-
verts who formerly laughed at the idea
that coffee and tea, for example, ever
hurt anyone. Upon looking into the
matter seriously. often at the sugges-
ton of a friend, such, persons have
found that Postum Food Coffee and a
friends advice have been their saliva
my sister was employed in an east
ern city where she had to do calculat-
ing writes an Okla. girl. She suf-
fered with headache until she was al
most untitled for duty.
Her landlady persuaded her to quit
coffee and use Postum and in a few
days she was entirely free from head
ache She told her employer about it,
and on trying it, he had the same ex-
perience.
my father and 1 have both suffered
much from nervous headache since 1
can remember, but we scoffed at the
idea advanced by my sister, that cof-
fee was the cause Of our trouble.
However, we quit coffee and began
using Postum. Father has had but one
headache now in four years, due to a
severe cold, and / have lost my head
aches and sour stomach which am
now convinced came from coffee
"A cup of good hot Postum is satisfy
ing to me when / do not care to eat a
meal Circumstances caused me to To-
cate in a new country and I feared /
would not be able to get my favorite
drink, Postum, but I was relieved to
find that full supply is kept here with
a heavy demand for It Name gwen
Read 1.-The Road to MELVILLE in pkgs-
There's a reason.
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EXPRESS MEN GET ADVANCE.
Adams Company VIII Pay Its EN-
pIoyes More Money.

Chicago. Dec 5.-An. increase in sal
aries affecting more than 1000 of the
Adams Express company's 1900 employees
throughout the country and 200 of the 900
day.
Owing to the manner in which the in
crease is being made, with no definite
percentage of raise, the actual amount Of
additional salary is difficult to compute,
but it is estimated that in Chicago alone
it viii amount to more than 81 900 per
annum-
Aside from the 200 men affected in Chi
cago by the Increase. the others are scat
tered over the slightly less than $1,000
miles of railroads which the Adams Elk
press company uses in its deliveries
Many of the men are employed along
the lines of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, the Pennsylvania lines, and sew
eral of the New England railroads.
Asked whether the Adams company
found this plan better than a general in
crease in salaries of a definite set per-
centage affecting all employees, General
Agent Calhoun replied:
This seems vastly the better way The
men do their work with the realization
that the moment they deserve it they will
get better. pay. Each mans own in
dividua1 effort counts he is not made to
wait for the laggards. and we have found
the system a wholesome one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
Santa Fo's Eucalyptus Groves.

The Santa Fe has begun planting
trees on its land in San Diego county.
southern California. The tract is $3.50
acres in extent and is known as the
Rancho San Diegito It is near Del
Mar. It Will be converted into
eucalyptus grove. About 700 acres
year will be planted for number of
years. The wood will be used for ties
and piles. F. p. Hosp, who has charge
of this Glars of work, estimates that
IS, 900 worth of timber for ties can be
raised on one acre. The red gum will
be planted, as this, as well as the SUI
gar and iron bark varieties of eucalyp-
tus, has been shown by experiments in
Australia to last more than % years
under ground, while the blue gum will
not last more than three years under
ground. The seeding will be done dur
ing the winter, and the seedlings for
the first years planting are now in pre-
paration- About 5000 boxes of small
seedlings are required. -Railroad Ca
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
New St. Louis Depot OPENS.

The ROCK Island and Frisco lines
opened today at ST. Louis the New
Broadway and BiddIe street freight
terminals which they have been con-
structing there for over year past
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois also is
interested. The terminals are thor
cughly equipped for handling both car
load and merchandise freight traffic
The plan for handling merchandise
freight as adopted provides a separate
receiving point for each of the three
roads, the terminals as yet only having
been opened for outgoing freight. The
inbound freight house will be COM
pleted and opened for business about
January 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
NATURAL GAS FOR NEWTON.
A Digging Machine on the Trenches
Which DOCS Work of 40 Men.

Hutchinson, Kan. Dec. 5--The
natural gas people loaded their dig
eing machine onto a car and it was
hauled over to Newton. There the
work begins at once on the laying of
city system of pipes which is to con-
meet with the main line that runs up
there from Wichita. to furnish natural
gas to the people of Newton. 1t is UNI
derstood that the system will include
about sixteen miles of pipe
The machine digs a trench at the
rate of six feet per minute and it does
the work of about forty men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
Rock island in sew short Line.


Palestine, Tex, Dec. Sit has been
learned that Palestine will secure the
new railroad, for which o. E. and H
L. Erisman, railroad engineers and
contractors of Buffalo, n. z, made
parliminary surveys early last fall 1t
is stated here that the new road is
backed by the Rock Island system,
and that the work of construction will
be started early next year. The sur
veys made from this city last fall and
winter have all been completed, plans,
maps and charts covering the surveys
having been drawn up by the Erisman
brothers, and were recently presented
to r. H Baker. president of the Trim
ity and Brazos valley Ga Yoakum hne)
and in turn laid before B. K. Yoakum
and the board of directors of the Rock
Island system, who. it is said, have
approved the surveys and. have al
ready placed the necessary orders for
rails. bridge material ties and other
materials which are specified for jan
uary, February and March deliveries.
The surveys made from Palestine
last fall and winter are from Palestine,
northeast to Athens. north to Green
vile and northeast to Paris. where a
connection Is made with the Rock Is
land system there, and from Dallas
south to Ennis and Ennis southeast to
Corsicana, thence east to Palestine
From Palestine south the line has
been surveyed to a point in Houston
county. and thence to Trinity, where
it links to. a connection with the Trim
ity and Brazos Valley sin9 which the
Rock Island holds tie controlling in
terest. From Trinity the line runs
northeast to Luflxfn and Lufkfn to
Beaumont, on to Lafayette La, and
to connection there with the Colo
RADIO Southern and New Orleans-Pa-
cific, which is now under way and con-
structed as far as Crowley, La, with
about fifteen miles yet to build to La
fayette. thus forming network
through north. east and south Texas.
thence to New Orleans.
These lines when completed will
give a much shorter route to Ennis,
Corsicana, Dallas. Fort Worth and to
Greenville and Paris via the Rock IS
land than by any of the other lines
reaching these points
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
r. 1. Proposes Line from Burlington.

A telegram from Chicago to the Re
public last night said that the Rock
Island management again has under
consideration the plan to build a new
line from Burlington to Keokuk, Ia, to
St. Louis, so as to form a direct route
from Minneapolis, ST. Paul and Water
town, S. D., to New Orleans The road
would be useful chiefly for hauling grain
to the Gulf of Mexico for export. That
the Rock Island system will undoubted-
~ construct a line from Burlington and
Keokuk on either the east or west side
of the Mississippi river Is believed by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
Sued for Game Law Violation.

HUT has filed suit in the district court
here against the Rock Island road for
violation Of the game law It was over
this road that the car load of quail
seized here on Friday was being ship
ped to Chicago, and Oklahoma statutes
provide that any railroad or express
company hauling unlawful shipped
game shall be subject to a fine of $500,
which goes to the county school fund.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
Contested ELECTION in Finney county,.

Garden City, Kan, Dec. 5.-H. v.
Lawrence, candidate for treasurer, has
contested the election of A. c. Wheeler.
and Harry Nichols has also contested
the election of Mrs. Molz, county su-
perintendent. Fraud is not alleged. but
a number of Democratic ballots were
thrown out in various precincts Of the
county because of improper marking
which should have been counted. AS
there were a number of Republican
ballots thrown out for the same reason
the Republicans do not fear the con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-05
woman &C. Insane on a Train.

lola. Kan. Dec. 5.=Quite a little
excitement was caused on the 6:57
Missouri Pacific passenger Monday
night when Mrs. Jim Allen, colored,
wife of the notorious jointist who
operated IN this city several years ago,
lost her miEd near Genesea and had to
be guarded until the train arrived at
lola Conductor Atkinson telegraphed
to the local agent to have an officer at
the depot to take an insane woman
into charge.