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Homestead Contest Notice.
Department. of the Interior,

Department of the Interior,
u S. Land Office. Colby, KANSAS.
Jan 81, 1907 No 1915.
A sufficient affidavit having been filed
in this office by Joseph g. Beatty. con
testant, against Homestead entry No.
19, 9,835 made May %. 1905, for the E3ne3,
Sw4ne4 & Nw} SET sec 26, town. 10
SOUTH in range 20 west by George b.
Cornelius, cOntestcc,
in which it is alleged that George b
Cornelius has wholly abandoned said
claim for more than six months last past
and has never cultivated said trac and
that said abandonment still exists and
was not caused by claimants employ
ment in the army or navy of the q. S,
Said parties are hereby notified to APP
pear, respond and offer eTidence touch
ing said allegation at 10 o'clock A, M
on March 10, 1907 before the Register
and Receiver at the United States Land
office in Colby, Kansas,
The said contestant having in prop
er affidavit, filed Jan %, 1907, set forth
facts which show that after due dill
gence personal service of this notice
cannot be made, it is hereby ordered &
directed that such notice be given by
due and proper publication.
John Thomas. Register,
John Nelson, Atty.
1st pub. Feb. 8. 1907.
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A Chapter from the Life of Famous Actr
By q. z. Sims

versation. he was tired of talking, for he
rose and gave Tom delicate hint that he.
would be glad to bid him goodnight.
you'll excuse noW old boy, won't
you?" he said. I'm bit tired, and I've
got lot of letters TO write before 20 to
the city, as l have to meet the accountant
and the lawyers with regard to the deed of
partnership"
y understand. Goodnight old chap.
Shall I say goodnight to Rose ?"
She's gone to bed, think. I'll say
goodnight to her for you
WELL, said Tom Marlborough to himself
as he walked across the heath in the moon
light. that's the way of the world. IF.
five years ago, anybody had told Jack Smed-
ley that he'd day be taken into part
nership with Marion Brothers, the richest
nrm on the stock exchange, ne would have
jumped up to the ceiling with delight, and
now that it's going to happen, I'm hanged
if he doesn't look more like sinking through
the floor with annoyance. What would 1
give to be in his shoes
Jack Smedley-handsome Jack SmedIey
as he was called by his friends--had lost
his father when he a lad. The Smed-
leys were what is popularity called "a good
old country family. Jacks father had,
however, brought the family to grief He
leviathan gambling transactions. Horses
and cards had been his weakness from
youth and at last. they had brought him
where they had brought many rich
him-to ruin. The old home was
broken up, the old hall sold, the estate
then the bankruptcy court having given a
hna1 touch to the picture of utter smash
Mr. Smedley with his wife and only son
came up to London and were lost to view
in a little house in a mean and melancholy
side street in Noting Hill. Then, after a
year or two of useless regrets for the
the mortal coil, leaving his widow the local
trcGespeople's bills to settle, two quarters
rent to pay, and a growing lad of fifteen to
clothe, feed and provide for in life.
Free press., 1907-02-09

Leave your Watches, Clocks and
Jewelry for repair at ]. B. Basgall' s
store. Goods called for and delivered
every Saturday. All work guaranteed.
All styles of engraving done at reason
able prices. There can be no middle
station IN eye glass and spectacle fit
ting; they are right OF wrong, one or
the other. We fit them right just
right, frames right, lenses right, treat
ment right, prices right; right our way
please. HENRY THoLEN & Son,
Victoria, Kansas.
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The Saturday afternoon Club.

The Saturday Afternoon Club.
The Saturday Afternoon Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Laura Stout
Feb. 16, 1907. Program
AS You LIKE IT.
Collect.
Roll Call,
Secretary's report.
Reading of
Act II. Scenes 5, 6, & Z.
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Another Railroad Chartered.
Hays City on the Route.

Last Saturday another mid-western
Kansas railroad charter was filed with
our State Charter Board, the promo
ters having enough confidence in it to
pay the State S527 so charter fee.
1t is our former Nebraska project,
from Burlington connection at Superior
in southern Nebraska, southwesterly
through Jewell, Smith, Phillips, Rocks,
Stockton, Hays. west Smokey, Ness
City, to Delhart, in northwest Texas,
to connection with the Rock Island Ry.
there for ElPaso.
The promoters claim they have cas-
tern hackers; the survey from Superior
to Ness City will this week be let to
st. Louis parties and the work pushed
rom Stockton to Ness City, 80 miles.
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A bill is up before the Legislature to
fix Senatorial districts of the state and
give the 9Th district an additional mem
Der, the 9th district now having a pop
ulation of 16O, 900; this, Buschow's dis
trict of Is counties, having n, 12O
people at the Assessment roll last 1st
of March, with 1857 votes last fall,
being double many of the districts.
If the change is made this district is
apt to take in this tier of counties and
Rocks and Graham, with representa-
tive Ham of Rocks the logical candi-
date of this district.
Free press., 1907-02-09

The purpose of store advertising is
not merely to sell goods, but to sell
more goods-to make friends, build up
a patronage that will not only stick
but grow. Newspapers reach the great
est number of people in the immediate
vicinity in the most natural way, at
the least expense, and they are there
fore the best of all mediums for our
stores. In a newspaper you follow the
lines of least resistance follow
with the stream - you talk to an au-
dience already assembled of the best
readers and thinkers in the county; to
people who want to read; they are on
your wire; and they won't ring off if
you hold their interest. Attraction is
the basis of all advertising--the store
is the sun, the customers the planets
that revolve around it.
The columns of this paper are always
open to any legitimate advertiser, for
eign or home who pays the regular rate
but we have always recommended the
trading with our home merchants, and
are now publishing on our second page
a series of strong articles on that sub
ject, and our merchants should have
an adver in our columns so people can
see what inducements you offer for
their trade.
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SD Jove. Jack, old fellow, you've
n been q lucky dog said Tom Var

G6n Y Jove. Jack, old fellow. you've
O been lucky dog" said Tom Var
borough. the last OF his friends
guests departed and he was left alone with
him in the smoke-room of his charming
queen Anne" house at Hampstead.
Jack Smedley gave q little sigh Yes
Ioms he said, II suppose l ought to con-
slider myself lucky.
You 'suppose. Why. there can't be
much suppositioa about it. Five years ago,
Jack: things were rather different with
They were. but I think I was happier
then Moneys jolly nice thing, Tom but,
like all other luxuries, it costs good deal
TO acquire"
well, you have acquired it. so YOU
don't know who should be. Look at you
Barely thirty, strong, handsome, a universal
favorite with the men well with the
women; you've lovely little house in town,
a charming place at Brighton, your phaeton
and Mrs. Smediey's Victoria are the smart
est turn-outs in the park you've the best
of health and the best of luck; you're going
to be taken into partnership by the biggest
firm in the city; your wife'S the prettiest
and the jolliest little woman in the world,
andy Jove, old man, it almost takes my
breath away to think what lucky chap you
are."
Jack smedIey let his friend run ON. with
out replying to him. He sat back in the big
easy chair and smoked his cigar with
look in his eyes that told of thoughts far
away, and there crept over his face shad-
that few who knew Jack Smedley's face
would have expected to see there.
His friend noticed it and it puzzled him.
What's the matter ., Jack?" he said.
"Oh. yes. I'm all right. I've been bit
worried lately. You this partnership
is big affair, but to tell you the truth
it, because it's certainty"
Refuse it? I should think not. You
ought to be put into lunatic asylum for
Either Jack smedley didn't like the con-
Free press., 1907-02-09

T. A. Borman, Superintendent of the
Continental Creamery of Topeka made
a long and interesting address before
the Kansas Improved Stock Breeders
Association lately on the Cream and
Butter Industry that was so interesting
that the Topeka Kansas Farmer pub
fishes it in full last week. AS fully a
hundred of our farmers are cream ship
pers and several hundred butter MAX
ers we clip few interesting passages
from the address.
That Cream shipping must be pay
ing success is best shown by the fact
that between 90 and so thousand far
mers were on the pay-rolls of the diff
ferent creameries in Kansas, and as
the profit of cream shipping is studied
and found that these cream checks pay
the running expenses of the farm, leav-
ing the milk on the farm for the calves
and pigs, more and more become ship
Lers of cream
'"There are thousands of cows MIXED
by farmers which are absolutely worth
less as milk-producers, but in many of
these herds are many profitable cows
which will make under proper condi-
tions 200 to 300 pounds of butter-fat a
year, consuming 500 worth of feed and
producing $50 of income, and if far
mers would have their herds profitable
they will sell these poor ones and pay
little extra and get good ones.
Shippers question the difference of
tests of they and their neighbors but
this is generally caused by the differ
ence in the cows
Free press., 1907-02-09

EontinHed tn Section TsVo.1
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Land for Sale.

l have a section of Land in Buckeye
township which will sell at a reason
able price on easy terms. Will divide
into quarter sections, if desired.
Also some good work horses and dri-
vers and several mich cows.
w. J. HADDOCK. Bantam P.O.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice for Publication, n

Notice for Publication, No 1900.
Department of the Interior, Land Office at
Colby, Kansas, Feb. q, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of mis- intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Probate Judge of Ellis county, Kansas, at
Hays city, Kansas on March I3, 1907
viz. Homestead application No. 25o4o,
Samuel Truan, for the E1ISw% section
"a, township IS south, range 16 west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz: John L. Kruger of
Pfeifer, Harry b Clark. James e Nc
Cracken, Owen L Weidle. all of Norfolk
P, o. all of Ellis county, Kansas,
Jn0. Thomas. Register
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Notice of Appolntment.

1st published Dec 10. 1905,
State of Kansas, Ellis county, SIS.
In the Probate Court in and for SAID
county.
In the matter of the Estate Of
Bert j. Gumble,
late of Ellis county, Kansas.
Notice of Appointment.
Notice is Hereby Given that on the
18th day of Dec. A ID. 1906, the under
signed was, by the Probate Court of
Ellis county, Kansas duly appointed
and qualified as Guardian of JAMES
Theodore GUMBLE. minor heir of Bert
j Gumble, late of Ellis County, de.
ceased, All parties
interested in said estate Will take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
JANE GUMBLE, Guardian.
Attest: B. C. Arnold, Probate Judge
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Notice.

AS we are going to dissolve partner
ship we are therefore compelled to ask
al our creditors knowing themselves
indebted to US to please call and settle
up their accounts at once.
Yours truly
HENRY WOLF & Son.
Free press., 1907-02-09
Turkeys and Chickens

l have for sale some very fine Nam
moth Brown Turkeys and White Wyan-
dotte Chickens. C. B. KREUGER,
up-tf. Pfeiffer, Kans.
Free press., 1907-02-09
Church Services.

PRESBYTERIAN. = Sunday School at
10 a. m. Church Services at II a. m.
Christian Endeavor at 6:4O p. m. Even
ing services at 7:3O p. m.
METHODIST = Sunday School at 10 a.
m. Preaching II am. Epworth Leag-
ue at $50 and Evening Service at 7:30
pm. Everybody cordially invited.
LUTHERAN Sunday School at 10
am, Public worship at IL; C.'E. So
ciety at 6:3O, and Evening services at
7:30 pm.
BAPTIST. = Preaching in the morning
and evening by the pastor Rev. ST. Clere
Matthew All are cordially invited
Free press., 1907-02-09

Household goods, Phaeton & Harness
1 offer for sale very cheap some of
my household goods, a ph@ton and set
of good single harness.
N. A. VOSS, Hays,
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-01-01
MANIAC SEIZED RAILROADS
Entered Switch Tower at Chicago
and Controlled Trains.
Discharged Crews and Switchmen and
Hired Tramps-Used Coupling
Pin as a Weapon.

Chicago. o.-After fierce struggle a
dozen deputy sheriffs arrested and
have confined in Jail a crazy man
who, for six hours, disorganized two
railroads by discharging twenty-four
employees and operating the big
switch tower at Cavanaugh Junction,
Ind, where the Lake Shore and the
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railroads
cross.
He is believed, from papers in his
possession to be A. G. Murphy, of No.
1900 State street, this city He en-
tered the tower and told the opera
tor, W. ]. Bete, that he was the new
yardmaster
"All right said Bate; "hope
you're we'll"
You're too fresh" the lunatic an
swered, "and I'll discharge you. I
don't admire your red hair, anyway"
Nor do l relish that red nose of
yours" replied the operator, with
laugh which turned to an expression
of horror, as the crazy man picked
up coupling-pin to enforce his or
der. Bate jumped from the tower,
A passenger train came laundering
along and the man tagged 1t. Then,
as the engineer came up to expostu-
late, he threw the derail switch on
the Lake Shore and almost wrecked
freight train.
A crowd of tramps came along and
Murphy hired them all. He dis
charged the whole yard crew, threw
all the switches, opened all the tele-
graph keys and shook his coupling
pin at any one who ventured near.
Brakemen and engineers tried to
mount the tower to take him, but he
was master of the situation.
Trains were blocked for twenty
miles on every line affected, and
there was excitement enough for a
civil war, when messenger was sent
to the next telegraph station for po-
lice aid. A special train was made
up at Hammond, and after a long
parley the fellow permitted the dep
uty sheriffs to enter the tower They
pounced on him and soon overpow-
cred him.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-01-01
DURAND VICTIM OF GOSSIP.
Ambassadors Retirement Laid to
Lady Susan TownIeY.


Washington, D. Gladly Susan
Townley is the latest woman to cause
diplomatic upset in the country
which her husband serves. If reports
in the Diplomatic Corps in Washing
ton are true, it is largely because of
her that Sir Mortimer Durand, Brit
ish Ambassador to the United States.
has handed in his letter of recall to
the President, and is to be succeeded
by the Right Hon. James Bryce.
Lady Susan is the wife of Walter
Beaupre Townley, formerly coun-
sellor of the British Embassy here,
and at present Minister for England
to Brazil She is the daughter of the
seventh Earl of Albemarle, whose
family name is Keppel, and before
her marriage to Mr.. Townley was
Lady Susan Mary Keppel She comes
from one of the most prominent fam
lilies in England, and her father was
famous admiral. One of Lady Su-
sans brothers is the present earl.
Lady Susan did not like Washing
ton, and she was unhappy in her So
cial relations with Lady Durand. She
is quoted on one occasion as being
dissatisfied with the fact that she had
to go to dinner behind the "daugh-
ter of country curate's daughter" >"
1t is also said Lady Susan rather
freely criticised American officials
and their ways, making comments on
the President, Secretary Taft and
others of the Official set, and having
witticisms at hand in speaking of
official functions. These remarks
have been credited recently to Lady
Durand herself, but it is said that
Lady Durand never expressed any
opinions one way or the other of
Washington official society.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-01-01
MAYOR JoHNsoN'1 TRICK.
Starts at Midnight Laying Tracks
For Road Near Rival Line.

Cleveland. Ohio.-Mayor Johnson
called a special meeting of the City
Council, when he will ask that a res
Olution be adopted giving his low fare
railway company the right to operate
cars on temporary track along Su-
perior street from the Viaduct to the
Public Square.
The Mayor stole midnight march
on the Cleveland Electric Railway
when he superintended the laying of
a temporary track and the stringing
of wires along Superior street in an
effort to connect his west side line
with the square. When the track
had nearly reached the square work
was stopped by writ of injunction
issued at a. m. issued ny Judge
Keeler, But for this, the Mayor
would have had low fare cars run
ming to the square by daylight.
When the new company tried to
use the tracks of the old company on
the street, known as free territory. it
was enjoined from so doing on the
ground that it's franchise, because of
the Mayors financial interest in the
company, was void
Thousands of people viewed the
temporary tracks laid on Superior
street, The trolley poles are made
of scantlings; the wire ia attached
to cross beam; the poles fastened
at the bottom in barrels filed with
Stag, and these, in turn. are fastened
to wagons filled with Stag to steady
them. The tracks are laid on top
of the pavement, and have steel ties.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-01-01
YAQUIS MURDER AMERICANS
Indians Reported on the Warpath
in Mexico.
Raid Railway Stations-Four Per-
sons Butchered at One Place
and Four at Another.

Ell Paso, Texas. Special dis
patches from Nogales say that de-
tails are being received there of the
butchery of a party of Mexicans by
Yaqui Indians near a place called
Valencia, sixty miles below Quay
mas. Eleven Mexicans and one
American are reported to have been
killed.
From all accounts there were more
than hundred Indians in the at
tacking party. The employees on the
Southern Pacific Railroad in that
section are frightened and, it is said,
many are leaving. The massacre may
delay the road to Guadalajara.
Los Angeles, Cal-Colonel S., B.
Maxson, Vice-President of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress, who has
been passing few weeks in the
State of Sonora, Mexico, has arrived
here with graphic story of mas
sacre of Mexicans and whites which
occurred at the little station of
Lancho on the Cananea, Yaqui and
Pacific Railway. According to the
statement of Colonel Maxson, his
train stopped an hour at Lancho.
While there rumors were received
that the Yaeuis were on the war;
path, and that the few people in the
neighborhood of the station and
railroad were in danger.
The station master, named Thomp-
son, belittled the report and said he
and his wife would remain at their
post. The train bearing Colonel
Maxson and party had not left the
station more than an hour when the
Yaquis descended on the little party
of Mexicans and Americans and
butchered four.
Station Agent Thompson and his
wife escaped by boarding a work
train that pulled in at the time The
train arrived after four persons had
been killed and Thompson and his
wife had defended themselves back
of the barricaded doors of the sta
ton. AS the work train appeared
the Indians withdrew.
The train bearing Colonel Maxson
and party continued to a station
about fifteen miles further along the
line and then, as the signs of the
Indian uprising became more alarm
ing, the party decided to return. The
train started back toward Lancho,
and when it arrived the station house
had been burned and four bodies
lay along the track. The party
stopped a few minutes in the hope
that the survivors might be found
and taken to place of shelter.
While the train was at the ruins of
the station the Indians appeared in
the distance. but did not come with
in range of the guns of the few
armed men on the train.
The bodies of the victims were
still warm when Maxson saw them,
and with the aid of others on the
train he gave them burial. Not
many miles further along the road
the scene wea duplicated Four
more dead bodies of Mexicans and
Americans were found along the
tracks. The little band at this sta
tion had been able to repulse the at
tack of the Yaquis. The only living
members of the colony refused to
leave on the train. but said they
could stand off the Indians until the
next day, when the Rurales would
arrive and summary justice would
be meted out to the murderers if
captured
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-01-01
NEW YORK LIFE MEN
INDICTED FOR FORGERY
Six Bills Found Against G. W.
Perkins and C. S. FairchiId.
BASED ON A DEAL IN BONDS

In Presentment Jury Say They Are
Led to Believe Accused Acted
in the Interest of Policy
holders.
New York City.-The Grand Jury
handed down six indictments against
George w. Perkins, of the firm of
]. Pierpont Morgan 6 Co., formerly
Vice-President of the New York Life
Insurance Company, and six indict-
ments against Charles S. Fairchild,
formerly President of the New York
Security and Trust Company and a
member of the Finance Committee
OF the New York Life. The indict-
ments charge forgery in the third
degree. Mr.. Fairchild is. in Europe.
Mr.. Perkins was in court with his
counsel and gave bond of $4,000.
presentment which the Grand
Jury handed in, following the indict-
ments, was virtually an apology for
the action taken by the body The
Grand Jurors-or some of them
held that neither Perkins nor Fair
child profted pecuniarily by the
transaction upon which the indict-
ments are based, but that it re-
bounded to the benefit of the policy
holders.
Five years ago the Prussian Gov
ernment passed law prohibiting
American life insurance companies
doing business in that country from
holding as assets the stocks of rail-
road companies in the United States.
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany was doing business in Prussia
and held railroad stocks. Books
and records of the company show
that, in order to deceive the Prus-
sian Government, 10000 shares of
the stock of the Chicago C North
western Railroad and $500 shares of
stock of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railroad were transferred
to the New York Security & Trust
Co., a subsidiary corporation of the
New York Life
On the books of the company the
transaction was so disguised as to
appear TO be bona fide. AS a matter
OF fact, the stocks never changed
hands. A colored porter named
Marshall and clerk named Matti-
son gave notes for them The deal
was engineered by Mr.. Perkins and
Mr. Fairchild.
From testimony gathered by the
Armstrong Committee this and other
similar transactions were exposed.
The law is specific in stating that
any Justification of the books of
corporation constitutes forgery in the
third degree
L
presentment, Recorder Golf told the
members they had done their work
faithfully and thanked them for their
efficiency. District-Attorney Jerome
followed the Recorder, calling the
attention of the court to the fact
that one of the indicted men was
already in court, referring to Mr..
Perkins. He asked that the man be
brought forward and arraigned, and
this was done.
Then Mr.. Jerome remarked that
six indictments had been brought
against Mr.. Perkins, each charging
forgery in the third degree, and he
suggested to the court that reason
able bail would be $4,000 in each
case.
Mr.. Perkins was then lined up at
the bar. The clerk arose and in
formal manner told him that he
stood charged with forgery in the
third degree in six indictments, and
asked him if he had any plea to
make Mr.. Delafield answered, say
ing that his client would plead not
guilty
Recorder Goff then fixed the bail
at $4,000, which was Immediately
given.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-01-01
Prominent Peou7e.

King Oscar of Sweden continues 10
improve.
Tawney is the handsomest man in
Congress.
Vice-Admiral Togo has been made
marquis.
President Roosevelt has deserted
che cause of simplified spelling.
The latest sensation in London is
Lord Dudley's support OF the Liberal
government.
The Rev. DR.. Paul Whitehead has
been secretary of the Virginia Meth
odist Conference for flfty years.