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ter and went back to the ever a1luring

| ter and went back to the ever a1luring
| gold fields.
And that time he struck it, contin-
ued Mr.. Browns friend. HE went to
Nome, sunk a shaft on Little creek and
few months later his Railroad claim
developed rich ore. He continued to
find paying properties and the next time
he came back here he was a millionaire.
But all his successes have never made
him forget his home city. He paid back
all that he borrowed here and more,
too. He has befriended men here until
his name is almost loved. When he
struck it. at Nome he was down to his
last dollar and he has always remem-
bered that fact. No man who needed
and was deserving of help has ever
been denied by Joe. Why, altogether,
1 should say that he has given away
nearly 100000 to his friends, and to in
situations that needed money. Last
Christmas he gave $500 apiece to each
of the Sunday schools in this city to be
distributed among the needy children.
And he gave $1,000 to help build this
little Congregational church here on the
corner of Second street and Ruby ave-
nue."
Mr.. Brown is spending the winter
with his family at his fathers home
south of Argentine. He expects to re-
turn to Alaska in the spring.
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THE REUNION AT EMPORIA
Survivors of Companies O and e Talk
of Times That Tried Mems Hearts.

Emporia, Kan, Dec. 9.-The forty
fifth anniversary of the battle Of Prai-
RE Grove was observed mere SATURDAY
by the annual reunion OF the Eleventh
Kansas cavalry, Colonel PIumps Ola
regiment Among the notables from
abroad were General w. w. Den1son,
General Charles Drew and H. b. KEEL
ly, all from Topeka.
These two companies are the only
ones in Kansas that observe this day.
Charles Stotler, the 17-year-old cor
poral was shot in the head and died
in the hospital improvised In the little
old church at Prairie Grove, few
days afterward He was a brother Of
the late Jacob Stotler of the old EN-
poria News, one of the foremost of the
Kansas newspaper pioneers. Asher
S. Childers, a member of Company G,
who was in the hospital at the same
time as was Stotler, in letter read
at the reunion today, says Stotler kept
calling in his delirium for Sweet
Maggie Brown" to whom he was en-
gagged to be married. Maggie Brown
was the daughter of the late Solomon
preacher of Emporia. who helped to
build with his own hands the first
church building on the townsite OF
Emporia. She afterward married Da-
vid S. Gilmore. She lives In Emporia
and has been a widow for many years.
Captain Lemuel T. Heritage, who
engineers this annual reunion, was
wounded in this battle, and carries
cane as a result. The reunion was an
aIl-day affair. A business meeting
was held in the morning and dinner
was served at 1 o'clock. All the wild
ows of members of the two companies
are guests of the association, and Mrs.
Preston B. Plumb is always a guest of
honor.
The battle flag which was carried by
Fred Hirth, who died last year, is still
in existence, and was exhibited 1t is
tattered and frayed. OF the making
of this flag there is an interesting
story. When the companies were made
up in June, 1862, the women can
vassed the little town and collected
enough money to buy materials to
make the flag. But in the poor little
stores no blue cloth of a suitable shade
for the field could be found. Mrs. Ed
ward Borton, a bride of a few months,
had in her trousseau a beautiful blue
gown of the desired shade. She gave
it gladly to be used in completing the
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hag-and that flag is one of the towns
dearest treasures Mrs. Borton lives
In Emporia and was a guest at the
meeting
Almost every commissioned officer
Grove became prominent in the civil
NE OF the state and for many years
nelped to make its history. Plumb
ross, Bowen and Harvey all became
Onlted states senators and others of
the OFFICERS served their state and the
Ieoerai government in various WAYS.
me old Arkansas house round which
the battle ragged still stands. little
changed In appearance in the forty
seven years. Its walls are perforated
with bullet holes, and there are Other
sighter marks of the battle.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Railway Men of Oklahoma to
Make Aggressive Campaign.
Will Maintain Lobby at Guthrie
During Legislature.
ASK FOR ENACTMENTS.
Want Laws in Line With Their
Safety and Health.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.
ASK FOR ENACTMENTS.

Guthrie, Okla, Dec. 9.-An aggres-
sive lobby will be maintained III
Guthrie this winter by the organized
railway men of Oklahoma. A legis-
of which w. T. Fields of Ell Reno. is
chairman, and o. c. Strobe of Shaw
nee, secretary.
Already communications have been
sent to the governor asking that ne
recommend measures covering the
following features:
Limiting service of telegraph, teie-
phone operators and train dispatchers
10 eight hours a day and providing a
heavy fine for violation.
Providing for headlights on loco
motives of such brilliancy as to en-
able the engineers to distinguish Oh
tectg at least seventy rods ahead
Provision of separate coaches for
the two races
To prevent blacklisting of railway
employees.
TO compel railroads to employ COM
petent engineers.
TIC prevent the use of a locomotive
so constructed as to cut off communi-
cation between engineers and fire
men with special reference to cab OF
engineer being located on the middle
of the boiler.
To provide for convict labor on pub
lie roads.
To provide for an eight hour day.
To regulate charges for sleeping
cars within the state. placing the
limit at $50 for lower berths and
one dollar for upper berths.
For INSPECTOR of maintenance,
bridges and right of ways with proper
assistants.
Graphers in railway work under Is
Limiting day service of trainmen
to not more than IA hours a day.
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EIGHT TRAINS TAKEN OFF.
Missouri Pacific Reduces Expenses in
Southern Kansas.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. 9.-Official an.
nouncement of a new time table
which went into effect on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway, Sunday morning
December 8, at 1901 O'Clock, has beer
made by Richard Gerety, chief clerk
in the office of A. H. Webb, superin-
tendent of the Missouri Pacific rail-
/ way. The new card affects only pas
| senger trains between Wichita and
Kansas City. Wichita and Kiowa, Con-
way Springs and Larned, Nevada, Mo-.
and Sedan, Kan. Eight passenger
/ trains will be taken off.
Trains Nos. 1913 and 74O, running
between Wichita and Kiowa, will be
discontinued. Train 1928 is the even
ing train due out of Wichita at $50
p. m. No. 740 is the train into Wichita
from Kiowa at $3.50 p. m.
Train No. 704 from Kiowa, now due
to arrive at Wichita from Kiowa at
1925 p. m. has been changed and will
arrive at Wichita on the new card at
o:2O p. m, in time to connect with No.
4O3 for Denver.
Trains Nos 1913 and 124, between
Wichita and Kansas City, will also be
discontinued. Train No. 124 is due
out of Wichita for Kansas City at a.
m, and train No. 123 is due to arrive
at Wichita from Kansas City at 6:1O
p. m.
Passenger trains Nos 333 and 334
on the branch line between Conway
Springs and Larned will be taken off
nc AOPAdCSQ ny Two
trains Nos. BAT and 34S. No. BAT will
leave Conway at 1925 a. m. and arrive
at Larned at 7:45 p. m.
Train No. 348 will leave Larn-
ed at a M, arriving at Con-
way Springs at 2:40 p. m, connect
ing with No. 7O4. which arrives here
from kiowa at 500 p. m.
Local passenger trains Nos 3O7 and
3OS between Nevada, Mo-, and Sedan,
Kan. will also be discontinued
These trains have been taken off"
explained Mr.. Gerety, Gin an effort to
reduce the operating expenses of the
company. These trains have not been
paying sufficient revenue on account
of the two-cent rate, to justify their
being continued.
mo freight trains, however, will be
taken off,
The passenger trains which will be
by the Missouri Pacific
railway have been running for the
past five years, and, according to some
of the local officials of the COMPANY.
have been doing a good business It |
IS said by some that the Missouri Pa
cihc's action in taking off these trains |
s really retaliatory measure induc- |
ed by the unfriendly legislation of last |
winter. This claim is given addition
Il color by the fact that so far as the
ocal business Is concerned, the vol
line, both of freight and passenger
raffic handled by the Missouri Pacific
ailway on the Wichita division dur
ng the month of November. shows a
iecided increase over October busi-
Tess. |
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OBJECT TO SUNDAY FUNERALS
Arkansas City Ministers Want Them
ON Week DAYS Only

Arkansas City, Kan. Dec. 9.-If the
city council passes the Sunday closing
ordinance now under consideration,
there will be no more funerals on the
Sabbath in Arkansas City. A strong
fight is being made on this portion Of
the ordinance, the ministers being
against Sunday funerals. They say
that the practice cuts into their SER
vices and prevents proper preparation
for their regular sermons. The coun-
cilmen are about evenly divided for
and against the proposition, those
against the measure taking the ground
that people should be allowed to bury
their dead without municipal interfer
ence.
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THIEVES GOT HER MONEY.
Found Where an FL Dorado Woman
Kent Her $500 Hid.

Ell Dorado, Kan. Dec. 9.-For six
weeks Mrs. Fred Meyer of this city
carried five 500 bills in her waist
during the daytime and hid them in
her bed at night being afraid to put
the money in a bank. When she went
to get the money it was gone. Mrs.
Meyers and her husband slept in the
bed from which the money was
stolen, and her father and mother
slept in the same room. None of
them heard anyone in the room at
night. 1t is believed someone saw
her looking at the money before re-
firing, watched where she put 1t and
slipped in and stole it while they all
slept. - =. ...7aLtE
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Appendicitis.
How to Avoid 1t and Escape a Sur
gica1 Operation. Told by
One Who Knows.
A Simple Method That Is Always
EfficaciOuS

Efficacious
1t has only been a few years since IT
was discovered that a surgical opera
ton would cure appendicitis; in fact,
II mas been but a short time since the
disease was discovered and named
Whenever there is an inflamed condi-
ton of the appendix, caused by impact
ed faces in the small cavity opening
into the intestine, you then have APP
pendicitis.
The older doctors used to call this
Inflammation of the bowels, and were
puzzled to know the cause.
Even now, with all the knowledge we
have of the disease no medical man
appendix. why we find it, where it is.
or what are it's functions, If it has any
The disease for which the operation
is a cure is usually caused by indiges-
ton, and in many cases follows a large
and fndigestible meal
physicians have until recently rec
commended an operation, but now as 1t
Is known that 1T is caused by indiges-
operation is assured
Where the patient is treated with
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets, the I'M
1ealtny conditions prevailing rapidly
disappear. the stomach and intestines
are placed back in their normal condf-
ton, every organ of the body operates
as 1t should, and the Inflammation is
re6uced and the operation is avoided
looking after the best interests of their
patients will always keep a supply of
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets handy in
their office, where in cases of sudden
attacks of indigestion they can relieve
the patient at once
There is no record of a case of an
pendfcitis where the stomach and bow
els were In healthy condition and pro
perly disested the food from meal to
meal
No better advice can be given to any
one who has attacks of Indigestion or
who has been threatened with Appendix
citfs, than to tell him to go to the drug
store. pay so cents, and take home q
package of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
whenever heartburn, gas in Stomach
or bowels, heart disease or stomach
troubles, sour eructions, acidity or fer
mentation are present, act at once. Take
a dose of the Tablets and get relief as
soon as possible.
At all druggists-50 cents
Send us your name and address to-
day and we will at once send you by
mail sample package free. Address
r. A Stuart Co., 150 Stuart Bldg, Mar
ahall. Mich
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ST. LOUIS OFFICE DISCONTINUED
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Transferred to ST. Louis.

st. Louis. Mo-, Dec. 9.-The office of
assistant general passenger agent of
the Rock Island in st. Louis will be
abolished at the close of the year. Hal
S. Ray, who has held that office for
two years past, will be transferred to
Chicago headquarters in charge of the
advertising department of the system.
The following changes of the Rock
Island will become effective January l.:
T. H Wilhelm is appointed commercial
agent at Dallas, vice E. NJ. Gleason, as
signed to other duties: r. o. Mccormick
is appointed commercial agent at San
Antonio, vice T. H.,Wilhelm transfer
red to Dallas; c. E. Wynne, jr., is ap-
pointed commercial agent at Fort
Worth vice H. c. Callahan, assigned
to other duties.
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wEEvILs IN THE WHEAT.
Lyon County Farmers Having Trouble
With the Pest

Emporia, Kan, Dec. 9.-Weevils are
giving Lyon county farmers more trou-
bic and anxiety than the financial
strin gency. Millions of these weevils
are said to have taken up their homes
in the wheat bins.
This weevil is a little brown bug,
somewhat smaller than the chinchbug
When a handful of the wheat is picked
up, the kernels seem to be alive. In
the heart of nearly every kernel one of
these little weevils seem to have bored
his way. These bugs have. been trou
blesome other years, but not so bad as
this fall.
Ernest Fowler brought a load of
wheat to town which was inhabited by
several million weevils. He sold the
wheat, but he did not get within ten
cents of the market price for it.
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ASSOCIATIONS TO MERGE.
Meeting to Be Held in Chicago for
This Purpose Thursday.

Chicago, Ill, Dec. "a mass meeting
of western passenger men has been
called for Chicago next Thursday to
discuss a proposition to either abolish
or to consolidate all western passen-
ger associations. 1t is understood that
the majority favors retaining one as
sociation to which shall be given all
the work which is now done by three
associations, namely, the Western
Transcontinental and Southwestern
Passenger association.
The combination of the three as
sociations into one would save the
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State Grange Meeting.

Lawrence. Dec 9.-Lawrence will en-
terrain the Kansas State Grange,
Patrons Of Husbandry. beginning Tues
day. w. r. Stubs will preside and
will make the opening address. Mayor
Barker will welcome the delegates on
behalf Of the county. Responses will
be made by state Master George Black
of OIathe and Secretary A. P. Reardon.
after which Colonel William A. Harris
will deliver an address.
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RAIDED THE LOAN SHARKS.
Pittsburg Oncials Trying to Drive Out
Certain PawnbrOkerS.

Pittsburg. Kan, Dec. 9.-In an ef-
fort to drive from the city the con-
Germs that advance money on furni-
ture and other articles of household,
charging usurious rates. city detec-
tiyes rafded the offices of nineteen of
these money lenders Saturday and
have warrants for eleven others. All
are accused of violating city ordi-
nance it being alleged they are do
ing a loan busin ess under a mercantile
license. The authorities will make
every effort to prevent the reopening
of the places raided.
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kansas Editors to Meet i'm April.

Emporia, Kan, Dec. 9.-The execu-
tive committee of the State Editorial
association met in Elnporia Saturday
and decided to hold the annual conven-
ton of the association in Emporia April
20 to 81. The Business Mems association
will help boom the convention. The
members of the executive committee
are Charles Stitch Of the Alma Enter
prise, ]. E. Junkin of the Sterling
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BISHOP LILI1s TO oFFTCIATE.
He VIII Lay the Corner Stone of the
New Chapel at ST. Marys College.

He VIII Lay the Corner Stone of the
New Chapel at ST. Marys College.
Kansas City, Dec. 9.-Bishop Thorn
as F. Lillis will go to ST. Marys. Kan.
Monday to lay the corner stone of the
new 100000 chapel that is to be built
by the alumni of st. Marys college. He
will also dedicate Loyalo hall, the new
dormitory containing eighty-fiye
rooms.
Tuesday morning the bishop will
dedicate a new $4,000 parish school
at Emmett Kan.
Bishop LiIlis went to Leavenworth
Sunday to formally receive the new
four story building and other i'm
provements at st. Vincent's orphan
age, erected in the past year at a cost
of $4,000. St. Vincent's is twenty
five years old. 1t is the only institu-
ton of it's kind supported by the en-
tire diocese
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OFFICES COMBINED.
Rock Island-Frfsco to Reduce Ex-
penSes in Oklahoma.

rangement of divisions, affecting traffic
officials, reduction of office forces and
the establishment of joint agencies in
Oklahoma will go into effect January
l as concerning the Rock Island-F'risco
lines and alleged interests This was
made known here today, following a
visit of General Passenger Agent Allen
of the Rock Island and Hilton of the
Frisco
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Fined for Beating Spoilers.

Pittsburg, Dec. 50. H. Baldwin,
who was charged with assaultfng Roy
Holcomb and A. L. Hottestein, spotter
students. had a hearing in police court,
and after the testimony was all in.
Judge Holden returned a verdict of
guilty on two counts of assault and
battery. and one for using profane Ian
guage, and assessed fine of S25 for
each Of the charges of assault and IS
for using profane language, a total of
s55 fine. in addition to costs.
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Four More Joints Closed.

Leavenworth, Kan. Dec. SC. D.
Shukers. assistant attorney general,
closed four more "toints" here Satur-
day afternoon, places run by Robert
Doran, d. Crandall, Charles Horne
and Charles Townsend. The deputy
sheriffs seized bar fixtures in two
places 1t is said that the attorney
general will be here this week and
that more suits will be fled
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SERVICE OUT DOWN.
Missouri Pacific Takes Off Trains in
| Northern Kansas

Atchison, Kan, Dec. "a new time
card which the Missouri Pacific put
into effect Sunday on its Northern
Kansas division cut off passenger SER
vice between. Downs and Lenora. a
distance of eighty-ffve miles, and be-
tween Downs and Stockton, forty-two
miles. and substitute mixed trains. on
the Omaha division a local train be-
tween Omaha and nearby points is cut
off.
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KILLED nv Electricity.

Kinsley, Kan, Dec. ga. D. Coleman,
proprietor of the electric light plant
in this place, was almost instantly kill
ed at the plant Saturday evening. He
was alone at the plant when the acct
dent occurred The lights went out,
and his assistant ran to the plant and
found Mr. Coleman dead. A contact
with some portion of the machinery
had caused the full force of the cur
rent to pass through his body.
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Stricken eft . Revival.

Abilene, Kan. Dec. 81. NJ.
Smith. travelling man representing
the accident department of the Mod
ern woodmen. with headquarters at
Lincoln. Neb., died suddenly of heart
failure. while listening to a revival
sermon in the Methodist church. He
has a son in Portland. Ore. but none
of his relatives has been reached.
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western lines fully 100000 annually and
would. it is stated, greatly facilitate
the transaction of business. As it Is
now, before comprehensive system of
rates can be agreed upon and put into
effect 1t Is necessary to convene three
associations and get the consent of all
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Bulletin, ]. L. Napier of the Newton
Republican, Mack Gretchen of the Sedg-
wick Paragraph and w. c. Austin of
the Cottonwood Falls Leader.
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Iointists Quitting salina.

Salina kan. Dec. y.-The fixtures In
fifteen rooms in this city that have
been used for joints are being shipped
to New Mexico The joints have been
closed for about six weeks. but the fix
lures have been kept IN the hope that
the FONTS would be able to open again.
All such hope has disappeared.
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Need Convict Bankers Testimony.

Leavenworth, Kan, Dec. 9.-The
officials Of the federal penitentiary re-
ceived a writ from the United States
court from South Dakota Saturday
evening, to take John Erickson, ex-
president of a national bank in Menot,
S. D., to that place to testify in court.
A bank suit is to be tried this week,
and Frank Lemon, deputy warden,
started with Erickson Sunday. Erick-
son is serving a f1ve-year term for
violating the national banking laws.
He was brought here two years ago
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..1-s. windsor is prudent woman, isn't
she?" -
mony."-Judge.
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MOORISH PRETENDER
HIDING IN DESERT
Once Powerful Enemy OF
Sultan Now a Fugitive
Hunred 10 Geash.

TANGIER, Nov. El--sultaa Ab-Aziz's
forces are hunting duiai Hand, he
Moorish pretender, and his followers 10
death IA the interior OF southern Mo-
rocco.
8Iulai, so powerful q few weeks ago
that he had practical control IN the
southern half of the country and was
generally known as "the sultan OF the
SOUTH has been reduced to desperate
straits by a series Of disastrous defeats.
His troubles began With the recapture
by the Sultan's men of the important
coast city OF Mogador. whicS Mulal had
previously wrested from the Sultan
after two battles, in which both sides
lost heavily. The loyaligts followed up
this advantage BY administering two
more crushing defeats TO the pretend
er's ernlies In the Interior.
The defeated leader has drawn his
shattered forces into the interior, where
tbs loyalists are trying to corner and
ennihilate him. They seem so certain TO
win that the Europeans are not par
ticipating In the pursuit
If Mulai Is captured by the Sultan 8
forces the Europeans viii be spared the
trouble OF dispOslng Of him. In the mean
time a condition OF complete anarchy
prevails in the Southern interior.