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Free press., 1906-09-29
SMITHS GUILTY OF PEONAGE
Jury Finds They Kept Negroes il
Slavery in Missouri.
Three Years and Six Months in
Fines for Principal Offenders

Cape Girardeau, Mo. = The jury
in the Smith case returned YER
dict of guilty against Charles NJ.
Smith and Charles NJ Smith, jr., and
the five tenants of their farms on the
eleventh count in the peOnage trial a
short time after noon Friday.
Judge Pollock overruied the motions
for a new trial and in arrest of judg-
ment and then pror.lunced sentences
as follows:
Charles NJ. Smith, thTee years and
six months in the penitentiary at FIT.
Leavenworth, Kan, and fine Of $5,-
600 and costs; Charles NJ. Smith, jr-,
two years in the penitentiary and a
fine of $4,000 and costs. Ben Stone
and Ben Fields, each one year and six
months and 500 fine; w. Lee Rog-
ers and William Woods, each two
years and six months and $100 fine;
Floyd Woods, two years and six
months and $100 fine.
Under instruction from the court
James Smith and Rex Smith were
acquitted.
The eleventh count of the forty
four indictments refers to John Reed,
the negro who was with Roosevelt
in Cuba, and escaped from the shack
way through the floor at night He
was the strongest negro witness for
the government.
Free press., 1906-09-29
TROUBLE FOR PMS. SMITH.
Head of the Mormon Church Charged
With COhabitatiOn With one of
His Five Wives.

Salt Lake City, Utah. Farley
p. Christensen, county attorney of
Salt Lake county, Friday was cited
to appear on Wednesday next in the
criminal division of the state district
court, before Judge Armstrong, and
show why he should not direct the
issuance of warrant for the arrest
of Joseph E. Smith, president of the
Mormon church, on a charge of sus-
tanning unlawful relations with one
of ahis five wives.
The citation was issued on the Pc
tition of Charles Mostyn Owen, who
has been active in gathering testi-
mony against Senator Smoot in the
proceeding before the United States
senate committee on privileges and
elections. On September IL Owen ap:
peared before justice of peace and
swore to a complaint making
statutory charge against President
Smith. The complaint was based up
on the fact that on May 81, last,
President Smiths 43rd child was
born to Mary T. Schwartz Smith,
the Mormon presidents fifth wife, at
her home in this city.
Free press., 1906-09-29
CUBANS TALKING PEACE.
Both Factions Show Disposition to
HarmOnize Their Differences and
Appoint Conference Committee.

Havana, Cuba. = All classes are
now awaiting for the conditions under
which tranquility will likely be re-
stored in Cuba and keen disappoint-
ment is expressed on every side be-
cause Of the likelihood of peace being
brought about without armed American
intervention. That the difference of
the opposing factions could be recon
ciled was not generally believed to
be possible until Sunday when il was
announced that the liberals and the
insurgents had empowered a commit
tees to represent them before the
American mediators
The peace will come as the result of
the mediation of the United States is
now believed by Cubans, regardless of
party affiliation, but whether it will be
on terms that will insure permanent
tranquility is questioned.
Free press., 1906-09-29
CAR OF DYNAMITE ExPLoDEs.
cident Which Caused Twelve
Deaths and Loss of 100000

JellicO, Tenn. - Twelve deaths
the injuring of scores of other per-
sons and 100000 damage to proper
ty were caused here Friday when a
carload of dynamite standing on a
track near the Southern railroad depot
exploded with report that was heard
for twenty miles. Buildings were
shattered in the business section of
the town and nearly every piece of
glass within a radius of one mile
of the scene was broken.
Eighteen persons were seriously
injured, among them r. D. Baird,
president of the National bank of Jel-
lico and mayor of Jellico, Tenn, who
was cut in the neck.
The freight car belonging to the
Pennsylvania railroad lines, contained
450 boxes, or 10000 pounds of high
explosives consigned to the Rand
Powder company, at Clearfield, Tenn
Two causes are assigned for the ex-
ploSiOn. One is that three parties
were shooting at a mark on the car
and that a bullet entered the car,
causing the explosion
Free press., 1906-09-29
Claim Against Indian. Allowed.

Washington, D. c. Justice Gould
of the supreme court of the District
of Columbia Friday upheld the con-
tract under which Messrs. Fenkel-
berg, Nagle & Co., of st. Louis and
Edward Smith, of Vinita, 1. T., claimp.
$150,000 as attorneys fees for the
Cherokee Indians in the claim of
those Indians for $4,000, 900 in connec-
tion with the expenses of their re-
moval from the eastern states to In
dian territory many years ago. The
Indians resisted the claim as lille
gal because the contract was made
with their chief and not with the ma
tiOn at large. The allowance of this
claim brings the total of attorneys
fees allowed in the case to 5000, 900.
The claim allowed Friday is known
as the Baudinot claim.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Practice Marches for Troops.

Junction City, KAMA regiment of
Oklahoma National Guard infantry will
arrive at the camp of instruction at
Fort Riley Saturday morning. Friday
three long practice marches were or
dered for Fort Riley troops. The sec
ond squadron of the Second cavalry
will leave September 20 and will
march 225 miles to the northern part
of the state. The first squadron Of
the Thirteenth cavalry and Seventh
and Twentieth batteries of field artil-
lery will also leave Saturday on
march to the southwestern part of the
state the cavalry travelling 225 miles
and artillery PSI miles The cavalry
will stop two days at Wichita.
Free press., 1906-09-29
THE WAY OUT.
Change of Food Brought Success and
Happiness.

An ambitious but delicate girl, after
falling to go through school on ac-
count of nervousness and hysteria,
found in Grape-Nuts the only thing
that seemed to build her up and fur
nish her the peace of health.
From infancy" she says. Il have
not been strong. Being ambitious to
learn at any cost l finally got to the
High School. but soon had TO aban-
don my studies on account of nervous
prostration and hysteria.
my food did not agree with me, l
grew thin and respondent. could
not enjoy the simplest social affair for
/ suffered constantly from nervous
ness in spite of all sorts of medicines
This wretched condition continued
until l was twenty-five, when | be-
came interested in the letters OF those
who had cases like mine and who
were being cured by eating Grape
Nuts.
Il had little faith, but procured a
box and after the first dish l expe-
rienced a peculiar satisfied feeling
that 1 had never gained from any or
dinary food. 1 slept and rested better
lHol niSht anu III lew udyS DSSdn
to grow stronger.
Il had a new feeling of peace and
restfuless. In a few weeks, to my
great Joy, the headaches and nervous
ness left me and life became bright
and hopeful. 1 resumed my studies
and later taught ten months with ease
of course using Grape-Nuts every
day. lit is now four years since be-
gan to use Grape-Nuts, l am the mis-
tress of a happy home and the old
weakness has never returned" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich. There's a reason Read the
little hook, The Road to Wellville." I"
h pkgs.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Proved EnectuaI.

1t is 900 years since the failure Of
a bank in China. On the last occasion
when such an event happened, the
emperor had the failure investigated.
and found it had been due to reckless
conduct on the part of the directors.
He at once issued an edict that. the
next time a bank failed. the heads Of
it's president and directors were to
be cut off, This edict, which has
never been revoked. has made China's
banking institutions the safest in
the world
Free press., 1906-09-29
Practiced What He Preached.

Rev. Denis P. O'Flynn, of New York
city, used to say that priests ought to
die poor and he practiced what he
preached. Aside from valuable IL
brary given to the Paulist fathers he
has left no discOverable estate-no
money in bank, no money in the rec
tory. ''He died as poor as the proverb-
ial church mouse" says his assistant,
Father Corrigan. What little insur-
ance he carried will barely cover the
funeral expenses. He never saved a
penny for himself After keeping the
house on his meager salary he gave
away all he had"
Free press., 1906-09-29

Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the
Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, 40 Sara
toga Street. East Boston. Mass,
writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
s. For eight years was troubled with ex-
treme nervousness and hysteria, brought on
by Irregularities. could neither enjoy life
nor sleep nights: was very irritable, nervous
and respondent.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
was recommended and proved to be the only
remedy that helped me. have daily i'm
proved in health until l am now strong and
well. and all nervousness has Disappeared
| Mrs. Charles f. Brown, Vice-P -Presi-
dent of the Mothers Club, 21 Cedar
Terrace, Hot Springs, Ark, writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:-
g I dragged through nine years of miser-
able existence, worn out with pain and ner-
vousness, until it seemed as though should
fly. I then noticed a statement of woman
troubled as l was, and the wonderful results
she derived from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. decided to tIy it. did so,
and at the end of three months was differ
ent woman. My nervousness was all gone,
was no longer irritable, and my husband fell
in love with me all over again."
Women should remember that Lydia
E. Pinlxham's Vegetable Compound is
the medicine that holds the record for
the greatest number of actual cures of
female ills, and take no substitute.
Free Advice to Women.
Mrs. Pinkham, daughter in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham. Lynn, Mass. invites
all sick women to write to her for
advice. Mrs. Pinkham's s vast experience
with female troubles enables her 10 adj
wise you wisely, and she will charge
you nothing for her advice.
n Best Understands a WOman'S Ills.
Free press., 1906-09-29
cheapens Cost Of Liouid Air.

A Dane named Knudson is credited
with discovering means of producing
liquid air at the cost of no more than
one-sixth the usual price, and it is said
that his process, which is mechanical
rather than chemical, will ultimately
put liquid air on the market at not
more than about two cents a gallon.
The same invention makes it possible
to sell oxygen at a cent a cubic foot,
which promises to bring it into rather
wide industrial use.
Free press., 1906-09-29
nisused Houses Cheao.

Many tourists in Switzerland were
astonished this summer to see vii
lagos in the Rhone valley, near
Brigue, which looked as if they had
been bombarded. On inquiry they
found that the demolished houses
wore mostly temporary boarding
places for the Italian laborers who
made the Simplon tunnel. After
their departure these houses were OF
fered for sale at $50 each-not, OF
course, including the ground on which
thew stood
Free press., 1906-09-29

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods This trouble
can be entirely overcome by using De-
fance Starch. as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Free press., 1906-09-29
No Leavcnworth Prix. Fight

Leavenworth, Kansas s. Ow-
ing to the interference of Gov. Hoch,
of Kansas land Gov Folk of Missou-
ri, and the United States authorities
the fight scheduled to take place
Sunday afternoon between Joe Wal
colt and Billy Rhodes for the welter-
weight championship of the world, did
not take place. A disappointed
crowd of 1000 was here from towns in
the Missouri valley.
Free press., 1906-09-29
EIoat:no Exuosition.

Three hundred British firms have
contributed to an exhibit of goods
which is displayed on the lower decks
of a former military transport, and
will be sent from London to different
ports of Canada, the West Indies,
South America, South Africa. India,
China, Japan and Australia. The voy-
age is expected to last II months.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Five C1aiments for one Prize.

st. Louis, Mo. = Five claimants
in the Clayton circuit court Thurs
day for the $25,OOO prize offered by
the worlds fair contest company for
the correct estimate of the total
paid attendance at the worlds fair
The claimants are M. Logan Guthrie
of Fulton, Mo-, Robert T. Rogers of
Dearborn, Mo-, Charles R. Campbell of
Webster county, Nebraska; Sarah ].
Kitch, of Decatur, Ill.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Expect BnttIe Win RebeIs

Washington, d. c. = According
to information which reached Washing
ton from San Domingo, battle be-
tween the government troops and the
rebel forces is imminent and the
forthcoming engagement is. expected
to be a decisive one
Free press., 1906-09-29
Serve as IIIuminants.

The f1re-fiies of Jamaica emit so
brilliant a light that a dozen of them,
enclosed within an inverted tumbler,
will enable a person to read or write
at night without the least difficulty.
Indeed, it is an expedient to which
many resort. These flies are in size
as large as a common hive bee, and
perfectly harmless. Their appearance
in unusual numbers acts as 'barom-
eter to the natives, and is an indica-
ton of approaching rain.
Free press., 1906-09-29
This May Prove Useful.

On retiring to rest, place hand.
kerchief under the pillow. On being
awakened by smoke or cry of "Ffre!"
thrust it in the mouth and nostrils.
and you can walk erect through very
dense smoke. The nightly practice
of placing the article will make you
less nervous in. the hour of danger.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Gen. Funston san. for cuba.

Jack sonville. Fla Brigadier
Gen. Frederick Funston arrived here
at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon and left
within ten minutes for Port Tampa,
where he will board the steamer Oil
vette Sunday night for Havana.
Free press., 1906-09-29
New Mercury Deposit.

A new mercury deposit is said to
have been discovered at Wieder-
schwing, in Carinthia, Austria, little
to the north of the district of Carni-
ola, where similar deposits extend
from Idria to Neumarkt. The deposi.
is thought to be extensive.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Foreign Commerce. RECORD

Washington, D. c. = The foreign
commerce of the United States has
crossed the three billion dollar mark.
In the II months ending with August
the imports were $1,254. .399,735 and
the eports. $1,759. All. 1898. a total for
the II months of $S,O1S,S17, ,6S3.
Free press., 1906-09-29
nuilders for the Open shop.

Atlantic City, N. ]. = The Ma
tional Association of Builders OF
the United States, in session here
Wednesday, reaffirmed the open shop
principle and calls upon builders ev-
erywhere to sustain them as the only
sound basis for the employment OF
wOrkmen.
Free press., 1906-09-29
DI.regardIng Treaty of Portsmouth
RnrnrInn Mint Robhed.

Munich. Bavaria.-The royal Bavar-
ian mint was robbed Thursday even
ing of a sum equal to $S2.5O0 in newly
coined ten mark pieces. The thieves
got into the mint by creeping through
a dry underground canal which had
been opened for cleaning.
Free press., 1906-09-29
order for I2.4oO Freight Cars.

Phfladelphfa, Pa-The Penn
syIvania railroad company Friday
awarded contracts for the construc-
ton of 12,4OO freight cars. at an esti.
mated cost of s15,0O0.OO0.
Free press., 1906-09-29
The New State
of Oklahoma

Bigger than Missouri; as big as Ohio and
Indiana combined, with soil teeming with
all the crops that any State raises.
OKLAHOMA-the new State-is destined
to occupy first rank in few short years.
Here at the present time over a million
people are duplicating the life which IS
going on IN Illinois and Indiana. Their
houses, their towns and their schools are
newer but in nothing else do their sur
roundings differ from those in our States.
Their cities and towns are growing and ex-
panding with the impetus of fertile soil,
and pu.hing, wide-awake citizenship.
Her settlers, mainly from the older States,
see the virtue of encouraging enterprises of
every kind and the needfulness of getting
more and better facilities; of getting more
hands to develop the country.
In brief, conditions to-day are simply
these: OKLAHOMA is in need of nothing
save people. More men are needed in the
cities and towns; more farmers for the vast
areas of unimproved land not now yielding
crops of which it is capable, There are
openings of all sorts, for farmers and
artisans, for mills and manufacturing
plants, for small stores of all kinds.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Those Peculiar Russians.

Moscow. Russia.-The chief of po-
lice has forbidden workmen to vote
for their representatives in parliar
mentary elections on the ground that
the government considers the council
of workmen's delegates a revolution
ary organization.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Impertanz te Mothers.
uninue Election crv.

A wooden-legged candidate for the
town council of CIaston, Eng, urged
ground that a wooden leg in the coun-
Gil would be pleasant variety among
the wooden heads there now. Vote
for Peggy" was his inspiring slogan.
Free press., 1906-09-29
cuItivated bY the senolars.

1t is stated that nearly 5000 school
gardens exist in Austria, not includ-
ing the sister kingdom of Hungary.
They are connected with both private
and public schools. and are used for
purposes of practical instruction in
horticulture and tree-growing, and
often contain botanical museums and
bee hives.
Free press., 1906-09-29

Defiance Starch-Never sticks to The
lron-no blotches-no bIisters, makes
ironing easy and does not injure the
goods.
Free press., 1906-09-29
reIegrapher. MAY Strike.

Chicago. Ill. = Operators in the
Chicago office of the Postal Tele-
graph company at a meeting Sunday
voted to strike to enforce demands
fer increased wages and improved
working conditions.
Free press., 1906-09-29
swalIowed by the Sea.

During 1905 there were wrecked,
burned and foundered at sea 297
steam vessels, of a net aggregate
tonnage Of 3.611. and 296 sailing
vessels of 214,600 tons.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Relief for Typhoon sunerers.

Hongkong, China.-Europeans and
Americans have contributed $4,000 and
the Chinese $4,000 to the relief fund
for the sufferers from the typhoon.
Disastrous weather continues.
Free press., 1906-09-29

Defiance Starch is the latest inven-
ton in that line and an Improvement
on all other makes; it is more eco
nomical, does better work, takes less
time. Get it from any grocer.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Plans Monument TO Neqro Poet.

The Rev. Dr. David ". Clark, OF
Cincinnati, is making an effort to Sc
cure sufficient money to erect monu-
ment over the grave of the late negro
poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar. Mr..
Clark's father was a STAKEHOLDER, but
he says 'the man who wrote When
Mandy Sings and When the Corn
Pone Is Hot deserves monument"
Free press., 1906-09-29

Money refunded for each package of
PUNAM FADELESS DYES, if unsatis-
factory. Ask your druggist
Free press., 1906-09-29
South AustraTIa's Vintage.

The last South Australia vintage
yielded 1855, ,947 gallons, as compared
with 2,S45,47s gallons In the previous
Free press., 1906-09-29

Box 321, DeGraff, Ohio.
DIR. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.
Dear Sir -
1 was a terrible sufferer from
pelvic weakness and had headache
continuously. l was not able to do my
houseworl1 for myself and husband.
l wrote you and described my condi-
ton as nearly as possible. You recon-
mended Peruna. l took four bottles of
it and was completely cured. 1 think
PerHna a wonderful me dicine and have
recommended it to my friends with the
very best of results.
Esther M. Milner.
Very few of the great mul titude of
women who have been relieved of some
pelvic disease or weakness by Peruna
ever consent to give a testimonial to be
read by the public
There are. however. few courageous.
self-sacrificing women who will for the
sake of their suffering sisters allow
their cures to be published.
Mrs. Miner is one of these. In her
gratitude for her restoration to health
she is willing that
GRATEFUL the women of the
LETTER TO whole world should
DR.. HARTMAN know it. A chronic
invalid brought ba elk
to health Is no small matter Words
are inadequate to express complete
gratitude.
Free press., 1906-09-29

BY following the directions, which
are plainly printed on each package of
Defiance Starch, Mems Collars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de-
sired, with either gloss or domestic
finish. Try it, 16 OF. for 10c, sold by
all good grocers.
Free press., 1906-09-29

From cover to cover without feeling
some of the symptoms.
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9O,O0O,OOO
BUSHELS s
THAT'S THE WHEAT
CROP IN WESTERN
CANADA THIS YEAR
|SsssSs.
This with nearly so-

and 100000 bushels of barley means q con-
tinuation of good times Tor the farmers Of West
ern Canada.
Free farms. big crops. low taxes, healthy
climate good churches and schools, splendid
railway service.
The Canadian Governiile=t offers 100 acres Of
land free 10 every settler willing and able TO
comply with the Homestead Regulations.
Advice and information FHay be obtained free
from w D. Scott Superinfendent OF Imfui-
grafton, Ottawa, Canada OF from authorized
Cauafiian Government Agent. s. Crawford.
No. rs ". Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mlssou1
Free press., 1906-09-29

Some one says that the voice OF
conscience is but an invoice.
Free press., 1906-09-29

It's a case of unspeakable misery
when woman has no one to talk to.
Free press., 1906-09-29

Mrs. WInslOw's Soothing Syrup.
For children tee5hIng. softens gums reduces in.
nammaIIOn GllAys pain wind collie hottie.
Free press., 1906-09-29
Rnnt Cominw Hone.

Washington, D. C. - State de-
partment officials stated Sunday
night that they expect that Secretary
Root. who embarked on the cruiser
Columbia at Colon Saturday night for
Cartagena, will start direct from Car.
tagena for New York
DisreEnrdIn< Treaty of Portsmouth
st. Petersburg, Russia.-It is re-
ported here that the Japanese are
erecting Notifications in southern
Saghalin contrary to the treaty of
Portsmouth.
Free press., 1906-09-29

TT ESNO MONEY TILL CURED 81
k0AAAA0
Free press., 1906-09-29

Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear
they excel other makes.
If could take you Into my large
factories at Broci<tons Mass. .,and show
you how carefully WI. Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit BETTER
wear longer, and are Of greater value
than any other make.
Wherever you live, you can obtain w. L.
Douglas shoes. His name and price IS stamped
on the bottem, which protects you against high
prices and inferior shoes. Take SubStts
fute. Ask your dealer for w. L. Douglas shoes
and insist upon having them.
Fast Color EyeletS used; they UfH not epdSSgs
Write for illustrated CaSaIog OF Fall Styles.
W. 1. DOU0LASs Dept. IL. BTOckten, Mass
Free press., 1906-09-29
$4,000 WEEKLY

made by agents o. ihe Rankerr' Accident Company
ie not unusual. Experence unnecessary. Write
BANKERS AccIDENT CO., DES MOINEs. Iowa
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A GRATEFUL
LETTER TO
DR.. HARTMAN

to health is no small matter Words
are inadequate to express complete
gratitude.
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she is willing that
the women of the
whole world should
know it. A chronic
invalid brought back