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Free press., 1907-07-27

Mrs. E. A. Rea and daughter Hazel
returned from Hiawatha Friday
morning.
This vicinity was favored with a
heavy rainfall Thursday night. Pre-
cipitation at the Experiment Station
regiitered 1.s3 inches.
Dennis Levick, who lost his team
by stroke of lightning at the time
of the flood, bought out Bach's dray
this week.
Ice Cream Social.
The ladies of the Catholic church
will give an ice cream social on the
church lawn Tuesday evening, July
Both.
Miss Stella West is again
stenographer for the Uncle Sam
Cement Company at Yocemento. Miss
Stella was located at Yocemento some
time ago but was changed to Yost's S
Mill.
HONEY. Mrs. Addison has received
another keg of that beautiful honey
from her western relatives and will
again let our citizens have some of it
at low price, if they call at her resi-
dence in west part of town.
Mrs. E. R. Cole, this week made
the purchase of the Doleschal Farm,
comprising 16O acres, from VIM.
Sweeney. The farm is located ten
miles north of Hays on the Stockton
road. The consideration was $40 per
acre or $4,000.
Alex Meier went to Gorham Monday
morning. He is running an elevator
there forsthe Ellsworth Milling Co. In
couple weeks he expects to move
his family to Gorham and make his
home there. Hays loses a good citizen
in Mr.. Meier.
According to assessors reports
Ellis County now possesses 943 horses
and 20, O13 head of cattle. This is 8Oe
less horses and 6,214 less cattle thar
our neighbors on the north, Rocks
County, have We have 81 more
horses than Russell County, so there!
L. J. Rieser of Salina was here the
other day on business. Mr.. Rieser Is
a young man who has taken course
by mail with the Scranton School
Four years he has burnt the midnight
oil'' to equip himself as chemist
Last week he was called to the chei1
chemists office of the Santa Fe anc
was offered position with the com
pany in their wood preserving plant
in Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Steadm al
lately of Great Bend and formerly o.
Hays, returned last week and vii
make their home here. Mr.. Steadmal
has accepted permanent position a
head-miller for the l. M. Yost Milling
Co. He is an expert miller and know
the business from the ground up ant
the Milling Company is fortunate Il
securing his services.
Union services were held in tn
Presbyterian Church last Sunda
evening. Attendance was small, w
suppose on account of the hot weather
Rev. Weist preached short bu
forceful sermon on the subject, eth
Ark in Harvest - The next unio
services of the Protestant churches wi
be held in the Lutheran church an
/ Rev. Mumford of the M. E. church wi
! preach the sermon. Everybody
urged to attend.
Free press., 1907-07-27
Legal Notices.
5 eeeo0eeeeee0oesee0eae 8 8 {
Notice for Publication. No. 1915

Notice for Publication. No. 15I5
Department of the interior, us. Land
Office Colby, Kansas. May 90, 1907.
W. HnDEBRAND of Hays, Kansas. has
filed notice of his intention to make final
five year proof in support of his claim,
viz; Homestead Entry No. 26492 made
March 81, 1903, for the N4NW4 G SCI
NW4 of Section 4, Township 12 south,
range II w, and that said proof will be
made before Clerk Dist Court, at
Hays Kansas on July 20, 1907.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation of said land, viz:
Robert w. Battin, Thomas Elliott,
Lee M. Shelton, Samuel Haddock,
All of Hays Kansas.
JNo. THOMAS, REGISTER.
Free press., 1907-07-27
Safety Deposft Boxes.

The First National Bank of this city
has just received nice outfit of Safety
Deposit boxes which they will rent at
very reasonable prices. These boxes
are made from the best Chrome Steel.
Call and see them.
Free press., 1907-07-27

$40 acre farm IN Ellis Co. Kans. All
under fence, room house new barn
40x70, ? graneries, milk house, good
well, 200 barrel tank. Price $35 an
acre. Address,
JOHN II. GERKEN, Ellis, Kans.
Free press., 1907-07-27
Things our Neigh
bOrS are Doing


Farmers in Rush County have already
commenced plowing the soil prepara-
tory to putting in 250, ,O00-acre wheat
crop this fall.
The Russell Record is running 4th of
July border on some of their display
advertisements Russell always was a
long ways behind the times.
The Holiness Camp Meeting begins
in their big building north of Ogallah,
next Thursday Aug. 1st to last ten days.
Quite number will go up from here.
Clyde Bice will run the Bice thresh-
ing engine this year. 1t is twenty-five
to twenty-four horse power and prob
ably the largest in this vicinity. Plain
vile Times.
The last issue of the Oakley Graphic
contained 44O in. of display advertising.
Oakley evidently appreciates the value
of newspaper advertising. 140inches of
advertising was carried by women ad-
vertisers.
Weekly papers all over the north
| west part of the state are raising their
price from a dollar to dollar and a
half year. Since the paper trust
has boosted the price of white paper
this is the only way open to the poor
publisher to make ends meet. .-Salina
Journal.
Over in Russell County the county
Superintendent announces that students
can get their board and lodging at SO. so
| to 81. SO a week. 1t used to be So. so to
So but everything is advanced in price
and good teachers command better
salaries and can afford to pay higher
board.
Here is sample of the queer pranks
linotype machine will play, from last
weeks Yocemente Starr
The agent for the American ms.
The agent for the American Insur-
ance Co. last week adjusted the lossTof
Henry Myers barn which was re-
Typesetting by hand may be slow
but it never plays the editor such tricks
as that.
Plainville has tried the experiment
of district ownership of books in hel
city schools. and has now decided it is
not a success. School children are
naturally not as careful of books
belonging to the district as they would
be of their own property and con
sequently books are considerably the
worse for wear and tear The expert
ment has been discontinued. Plainvillt
scIAol trustees have also ordered their
principal to collect three months tuition
in advance from all new non-residen m
students.
K L. Griffith, editor of the Kanopoli
Journal, a paper which has recentl!
been newly established, is responsible
for the following bit of reprint, whicl
we suppose he is willing to guarantee
as an actual occurrence
Dear wife, cannot tell you how
I've missed you since you went away
The home is very lonesome now,
Il Where did you put my suit of gray
! With none to greet me at the door,
: With heavy heart [ tread the block!
) That homeward lead: miss YOU more
a But, say, where did you hide my sox
How still and dull the house appears
[ miss the sunlight of your eyes:
The weeks you've been away seem year
What has become of all my ties?
I hope you will enjoy yourself,
But do not mingle with the flrts
S I've hunted every closet shelf,
e Wherever do you keep my shirts
And now I've told you all the news
There's nothing more for me to write
Except where did you hide my shoes
They are not anywhere in sight,
eI Detroit Free Press
Free press., 1907-07-27
Threshing Outfit for Sale cheop.

I offer for sale cheap, and on easy
terms, the Grenell Threshing outfit "a
thresher, engine, water-wagon, etc)
complete outfit good as new. Can
be seen at our residence in southeast
part of Hays. VIM. HoLLENBECK.
Free press., 1907-07-27

Just received at Henry Tholen and
Sons at Victoria fine assortment of
Japanese Hand-painted Chinaware and
the famous Swastica, or Good Luck
Pins.
Remember we mend watches, clocks
and Jewelry and if left at j. B.
BasgalPs grocery store in Hays will be
taken care of, mended and returned.
Give US trial with your work. If in
Victoria try our Eye testers and get
glasses that will please you.
Free press., 1907-07-27

Frank Stout was up from Salina
Saturday to hear case before Justice
OF the Peace Schoendaller, but the
latter was sick necessitating the post
ponement of the case.
Free press., 1907-07-27
Gold Watch for Sale

A first class Gold Watch and chain
worth at least $45. will be sold for
$40 cash. Watch alone 500. Has
two and wants 20 sell one of them.
See it ut this Office.
Free press., 1907-07-27
Guardians Notice.
In the Probate Court of
TIlIs- H1,...4-~ U

In the Probate Court of
Ellis County Kansas. SIS
Notice is hereby given that on the
9th day of July A D. 1907 the under
signed was by the Probate Court of
said County and State, duly appointed
and qualified as Guardian of the person
and the Estate of Fred Tiff who was
adjudged to be of unsound mind in
the above entitled Court December 1906
All parties interested will take
notice and govern themselves accord
B. C. ARNOLD, Guardian.
Attest J. B. Gross,
Probate Judge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-02-20
MIGRATION BILL CREATES
DISSATISFACTION
PLAN OF ACTION NOT DECIDED ON
NOW ASSUME AN OVERBEAR-
ING ATTITUDE. ~.

Toxic, Feb. 20.-The official text Of
President Roosevelt's amendment Of
the exclusion bill has been published
acre.
AS expected it has created the
strongest dissatisfaction among the
Interested parties, although the move
ments of procedure have not yet as
sumed definite shape
The Japanese residents of the Ha-
waiian islands have telegraphed Pres
ident Roosevelt and the Hawaiian rep
resentatives in the house indicating
the seriousness Of the injury which
will be caused to their rights and in
terests by this legislation. The lead
ers of opinion here are aware, how
ever, that under the circumstances
the only alternative is to calmly resign
themselves to the situation, hoping
that the government can arrange with
the American authorities to reduce the
sacrifice in the interest of Japanese
emigrants to minimum. They re-
greet the new law, lest the San Fran
cisco people, glorying in their success,
should assume an overbearing atti-
tude.
News of this kind would only tend
to injure Japanese susceptibilities
which President Roosevelt has been
specially careful to avoid.
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SHONTs BEFORE. COMMITTEE
Questioned Concerning Several Canal
Matters.

Washington, Feb. 2O.-Chairman
Shonts of the isthmian canal commits
sion and D. w. Ross, the commits
sion's purchasing agent, appeared be-
fore the house committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce to answer
protests from New Orleans that that
city is being Disseminated against by
the canal officials in favor of New
York and also to advise the commit
tee as to the truth of the rumor that
the canal purchasing office is to be
removed from Washington to New
York. -.-.~
Mr.. Shonts explained that he will
leave the commission on March and
cannot speak authoritatively as to fu-
ture plans Of the commission, but he
said that he did not know that any
change in the purchasing office is
contemplated.
When asked why it is not possible
to operate at least one of the Panama
railway steamers between New Or
leans and Colon Mr.. Shonts replied
that such a change would interfere
with the regular service now main
tanned, as the railway has only five
vessels, all of which are required in
the New York service. He also said
that Mobile wants Panama steamers
and has appealed to him, thus dis
proving the claim Of New Orleans
that Gulf ports are all agreed that
New Orleans is the port which should
have the canal business.
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NO MOTIVE is ASSIGNED.
Defense and Prosecution Refuse te
Discuss Peculiar Murder Case.


Discuss Peculiar Murder Case.
New York, Feb. 2O.-The inquest
into the death of Mrs. Ida Binge, the
aged woman who Is alleged to have
died from sublimate poisoning ad-
ministered while she was dying of
cancer, will be held shortly. Mean
time her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Wallou,
who is charged with the murder, is
held in the Tombs without bail.
There have been no definite develop
ments regarding motive for the al
legged crime. Friends and relatives
agree that Mrs. Wallou did all that a
loving daughter could do for parent,
who was incurably i'll of lingering
disease, and can give no explanation
for the alleged crime, supposing poi
son was administered as the analysis
of the chemical experts seem to show.
Neither Assistant District Attorney
Corrigan, who has the case in charge,
or the attorneys for the defense would
discuss the theory Of euthanasia, that
IS, that the poison was administered
as an act of mercy by some sympa-
thetic hand, as advanced in some quar-
tiers in explanation of the supposed
crime.
The attorneys for Mrs. Wallou, it
is said are framing a defense of sui
eide. 1t is stated that Mrs. Binge, a
day or two before her death, was seen
in the bathroom, where the bichloride
of mercury tablets, the poison said to
have been found in Mrs. Binge's stom-
ach, was kept
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-02-20
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

William J. Duffey, aged sixty-fve, a
veteran theatrical manager of New
York, is dead at Norfolk, Va.
Assistant Paymaster w. P. Sypher,
U. S. NJ, has been dismissed from the
navy on account of technical embez.
element.
The French chamber of deputies, by
a vote of 3S9 to S8, sustained the gov.
ernment's policy in regard to church
and state separation.
Kansas City jail physicians state
that Frank Hoffman, the condemned
murderer. who Monday attempted to
commit suicide, will recover.
John Wilson, convicted for the
fourth time for robbery in Minneap.
oils, has been sentenced to serve thir-
ty-five years in the state penitentiary.
The total amount of foodstuffs that
reach London yearly, according to the
secretary of the public health commit.
tee, is between 100000 and 100000
tons.
Forest fires are burning over wide
territory IN MISSISSIPPI. Settlers IN
remote places have had desperate
fights to save their homes and build.
ings.
Charles Barnard, the we'll known
boat builder, is dead at Madison, Wis,
at the age Of eighty-fve. He was born
In Germany and was veteran of the
Mexican and Civil wars -.
General Winfield S. Edgerly, U. S.
A., who returned from the Philippines
last week and is now visiting in Los
Angeles, CAL, has been ordered to
Atlanta to take command Of the de-
partment of the Gulf
w. Leon Pepperman has resigned
from the position Of chief of the
Washington office of the isthmian
canal commission to become assistant
to Mr.. Il. P. Shonts in the Interior.
ough-Metropolitan company of New
York city,
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SCHOOL QUESTION SETTLED.
Terms of Agreement Ending the Con-
troversy.

troversy.
washington, Feb 2O.-The basis Of
the agreement reached between Pres
ident Roosevelt, Secretary Root,
Mayor Schmitz and the members of
the San Francisco school board on the
Japanese school controversy has been
made public by Mayor Schmitz. Briefly
stated the agreement is this: .
Japanese children are to be admit
ted to the white schools Of San Fran.
cisco under certain restrictions.
Skilled and unskilled laborers COM
ing from Japan are barred from the
mainland of the United States.
American laborers, skilled and un-
skilled, are excluded from Japan.
This agreement means that the
schools of San Francisco will be con-
Quoted in the same manner as they
were before the board of education
adopted the resolution last October
providing for the segregation of the
Japanese, except that adult Japanese
who are pupils in primary grades
must continue to attend the Oriental
schools and that Japanese children
under sixteen years of age will be
admitted to classes with white chill
dren of their own ages.
While the resolution of the school
board as amended reads "children Of
alien BIRTH, it is freely admitted by
Mayor Schmitz and his associates that
the resolution will apply only to the
Japanese children and that the change
in the wording was to make it plain
to the Toxic government that no dis.
elimination was intended against
Japanese children.
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WOULD BUY FROM COLONIES.
Great Britain May Reduce Contracts
for American Beef.

Great Britain May Reduce Contracts
for American Beef.
London, Feb 20.-The war Office is
taking steps to ascertain the POSSIBLE.
ity of obtaining for the British army
larger supplies of canned meats from
Australia and New Zealand, so that
the contracts with the American
packers may be reduced in the near
future.
When the government was ques.
toned in the house of commons as to
whether the colonies could not be
given the first chance to obtain the
next contracts Mr.. Buchanan, f1nan.
cial secretary of the war office, said
that in anticipation of an increased
demand and in view of the stories re-
garding American canned meats last
summer, as we'll as the governments
desire for wider area for supply, a
representative had been sent to Aus.
tralia and New Zealand to report on
the methods of packinghouses there
and the capacity of those colonies to
furnish canned meats.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-02-20
ONE HUNDRED MINERS DEAD
TERRIBLE DISASTER OCCURS IN
A COLLIERY AT LAS ES.
PERANzAS, MEX. . 80.

Eagle Pass, Tex, Feb. 20.-A dis.
patch received from Las Esperanzas,
Mex, says that it is now believed 100
lives were lost in the explosion Mon
day in the mine belonging to the Mex
lean Coal and Coke company. Forty
three bodies have been removed and
more than sixty miners are still in
the compartment where the explosion
occurred. Whether they are dead or
not is not known. Many Of the men
who were killed were Japanese.
The explosion is thought to have
been caused by gas which ignited from
a defective lamp carried by one Of the
miners. The accident is the most Sc
rious that has occurred in the district
since the mine disaster which occur
red in the Barratorna mines in this
district year ago in which about the
same number of lives were lost.
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DIVORCE STATISTICS.
Over One Million DEGREES Issued in
Twenty Years.

twenty Years.
Washington, Feb. 20-Preliminary
estimates made by the bureau of cen
sus as result of the investigation Of
marriage and divorce statistics indi-
cate that the number of applications
for divorce filed throughout the United
States during the twenty-year period
from 1887 to 1906 will reach the enor-
nous total of 100000.
It is estimated that three-fourths of
the applications have been granted, so
that the statistics when compiled will
show that in the period stated more
than 100000 divorces have been al
lowed.
In the twenty-year period from 1867
to 1886, for which divorce statistics
were secured, the total number of di-
vorces was $4,000.
On their face the figures indicate q
stupendous increase, but when the
ratio they bear to the population is
considered it is not so great, though
still large enough to warrant the seri-
GUS consideration of the American
people.
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DECIDE ON AGGRESSIVE ACTION
Woman suffragists to Organize Polit-
ical Party.


Chicago, Feb. 20.-A national wo-
mans political party, with state and
county committees In every state and
county and ward and precinct cap
tains in every city-with all the para
phernalia of the politicians except the
right to vote-may be the outcome Of
the national woman suffrage conven.
ton, just closed here.
The plan, which involves a reorgan.
1zation of the National American
Woman Suffrage association along
lines which, even to the reformers,
seem radical, was preached at the
convention in the report Of the ma
tional membership committee given
by Miss Laura Clay of Lexington, KY.
1--WE have been an overgrown wo-
mans club long enough" said Miss
Clay in her report. This system Of
gauging a persons devotion to the
cause of woman suffrage by his or her
attendance at meetings and pink teas
and things isn't going to advance our
cause much farther"
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In Connection With Lottery.

Dallas, Tex, Feb: 2O.-General w.
L. Cabell, commander of the Transmits
sissippi department, United Confed-
crate Veterans, has been placed under
a bond for $4,000 in connection with
the Honduras lottery matter. The
case will come before the federal COM
missioner March 2 for hearing.
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Feb. 9.-Cattle-Beeves
s4.00@6.90; COWS and heifers, $1,000
6.25; stockers and feeders, $4,000
40; Texans, $3.65@4.75; calves, $500
@7.50. Hogs-Mixed and butchers,
se.75@7.05; good heavy, $6.95@7O5;
rough heavy, $6.75@6s5; light, $6.75
@697k; pigs, $6.1O@675. Sheep,
s3.40G5.50; lambs, $4.5OQ7.60.
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VENEZUELAN REBELS SHOT.
Latest Attempt at Rebellion Ends
DisastrousIy.

Washington, Feb. 2O.-The state de-
partment has been informed by ca
blegram from the American consul at
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Of the COM
plete extirpation of the latest attempt
ed rebellion in Venezuela. The news
is contained in the following dispatch:
General Antonio Parades, with sew
enteen others, were shot after being
captured by government troops near
Barancas, in the state of Bermudez,
about the 18th inst
Parades landed on the coast of Ven
ezuela from one of the West Indian
islands about two weeks ago. His
party consisted of about twenty men,
but it was stated that, he had ample
funds and that he would soon receive
large supply of weapons with which
to arm the natives, whom he expected
to flock to his banner.
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Pays Fine of $4,000.

Toledo, O., Feb. 20.-The Ann Arbor
Railway company appeared in the
United States court during the day
and paid the fine Of $4,000 imposed
by Judge Tayler for violation of the
interstate commerce law in granting
rebates to the Toledo Ice and Coal
company.
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NO REVISION OF TARIFF.
President Will Not Summon Congress
in Extra Session.

in Extra Session.
Washington, Feb. 20.-That Presi-
dent Roosevelt will not call special
meeting of congress next summer to
revise the present existing tariff is
now an assured fact. He gives as his
reason that the popular demand for
such revision is not great enough.
This expression by President Roose-
welt is accepted as furnishing the rea-
son for want of activity among West.
ern representatives, who have been
urged by their constituents to make a
stand for early tariff revision. Many
of these members declined to sign the
petition for a caucus Of the Repub-
lican members of the house, the object
of which was to pass resolution urg-
ing the president to call congress In
special session to consider the tariff
question.
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st. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Feb. 19.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.5O@6.25; common to
good, $4.0O@5.0O; good to choice COWS
and heifers, s3.5O@4.75; veals, $4.5O@
5.75. Hogs-s6.6O@6.7O. Sheep-Weth-
ers, $4.75@5,25; good to prime spring
lambs, $6.50@@7.15. .....-.
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N|CARAGUANS VICTORIOUS
DEFEAT ARMY OF HONDURAS
AFTER MANY HOURS OF
SEVERE FIGHTING.

Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 20.-The
troops of General Bonilla, president of
eral Zelaya, president of Nicaragua,
which were guarding the Nicaraguan
frontier. After many hours fighting
the army of Honduras was defeated.
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Laborers Want More PAY.

Chicago, Feb. pa committee rep,
rescnting several thousand trackmen
employed in construction and repair.
work of Western railroads met here
and prepared wage demands, which
include a minimum scale of So day
for ordinary section hands and SIS q,
month for the foremen of gangs"