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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-16
RECENT REFLECTIONS

q zook has lust purchased
Tho I'D kaufman farm, a half sec
zion in BuckeHe township.
N A Keve is slowly recovering
from recent attack of paralysis, a
fact his MANY friends will be pleased
81, learn
Invitations have been received
hr ARLENE friends to the marriage of
A,nhs prnmaee and Miss Elizabeth
catror IN sent 1s. at Liberty, Mo.
word has been received by
fr,enda that Mr. and Mrs. A. z. Bish-
IN Z, Guatemala CITY, G. A., expect
= sa,I for the limited States this
,r.ar
Alhert sarbach the wealthy HoI-
ran mercbant who killed himself in
= hoto, ~ Kansas CITY Yesterday was
~a,I Enouu nv several Abilene people
vbo daenlv regret his untimely death.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-16
Will TRY II OYER.
NO VOTE ON NEW METHOD OF
GOVERNMENT NOW,
Council Decides That There We're Not
Enough Names Of Qualified
Electors on Petition-An-
other Effort to be Made.
rrrom saturdays Daily.I

q -
The city council at its meeting LAST
evening endorsed the report OF the
committee appointed by Mayor Rice
at former meeting to check up the
names of the signers to the petition
for a special election to vote on a
commission form OF government. The
committee included in its report the
findings Of e Makins and H. E. Ack-
ers who were employed to do the
actual work.
The Makins-Ackers report Is as fol-
lows:
eve find the names of TIT regist-
cred voters upon said petition as
compared with the registration books
of said city. In addition we find
many names which do not conform
to the registration books and to legal
requirements according to the opin-
ion Of the city attorney"
Council Gleissner and Cowan also
say: eve have endeavor, d to give
those who petitioned for this com
mission form Of government every
opportunity 10 verify these names
We also find 1874 names upon the
registration books of the city OF ADJ
lene by actual count"
H. L. Humphrey appeared before
the council and asked to Withdraw
the petition but was not allowed to
do SO, and the report was accepted
and adopted. An entirely new petit
ion will have to be gotten up If the
matter is again considered.
MIR. Gleissner in an interview with
the Reflector today said that every
opportunity to verify the names on
the petition was given those who seek
to have this new method adopted, and
Messrs. Makins and Ackers were given
a carriage and driver yesterday after
noon to personally visit the signers
in an endeavor to get the required
number
The law requires that 40 per cent
of the qualified electors must sign
the petition before an election can be
called and as 1t lacked six-tenths Of a
man lost out.
The registration books contain
1894 names of electors and it re-
uuired 717.6 names to make the Pc
tition a 60. The advocates of the
new method say that new petition
will be started at once and more care
observed to meet the laws require
ments.
New crossings that have been or
dered in were tabulated and will be
put in at once in the order of priority.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-16

Barney Parker had an accident last
evening which resulted in his hands
being severely burned from the ex-
pIOsion Of gasoline. He went to the
tank which is kept away from the
other buildings for 8 supply Of gaso-
line for some lamps and took light
ed lantern with him. setting it about
20 feet from the tank. Little other
damage was done, but Barney will be
laid up some time as a result.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-16
SMASHED A. S. o'DowD's CAR.
Former Abilene Man Had a Motor
Crash.

The Kansas City Times has the fol-
lowing concerning an accident In
which A. S. O'Dowd, formerly OF this
city was the loser: A motor car
with five passengers was struck by
Westport car No. 1879 at 10 o'clock
last night at Thirty-ninth street and
Broadway. The car was badly dam
aged and the passengers thrown out,
severely bruised The street car,
southbound, according to A. s. o.
Dowd of 3S45 Broadway, proprietor
of the o'Dowd Furniture Company,
driver and owner of the motor car,
was going at rate exceeding thirty
five miles an hour. The motor car
was being driven west on Thirty
ninth street. The other occupants Of
the car, Mrs. O'Dowd, A. L. Potter,
of Ss45 washington Avenue, her
son-in-law, Mrs, Potter and their g.
month-old baby. s. G. Cooper was
the motorman and ]. F. Harvey the
conductor Of the street car. They
were not arrested.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-16

The county campaign Of Sunday
school institutes is on in fun torce.
In spite Of the unfayOrable westher
four meetings we're held yesterday;
Mr.. stem in Flora, Miss Bayless in
Banner. Mr. Engie in Lyon and Mr..
Werner a speaker from Rice county
in sherman township. Favorable re-
ports from an these points are being
received at the state office.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-16

John McCardle, one Of the eOunty's
wen known farmers. wiz open a liv-
cry stable in the Tiff barn west Of
the opera house about September 20.
H viii put IN first class rigs and run
an up TO date boarding and livery
barn.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-09-16
5000 Reward.

The above reward will be paid for
the arrest and conviction or any in
formation leading to the arrest and
conviction Of the party or parties
who INSTRUCTED the public highway
between section and Z, Noble town
ship, Dickinson county, Kansas, on or
about the eth day Of September,
1909.
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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-30

PADUCAH is THE BEST MARKET you will find anywhere
This easily by comparison of the stocks of Padu
cab merchants and the prices The big fall stocks display
undeN Memphis
Evansville Louisville nearby shown by the number
the
which roundtp railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
Making Merry
At Mealtime, Means Good Appetite
Good Digestion, Good Cheer, Good
Heart and Stuart's DYSPEPSIA
Tablets.
Do You Use Them? If Not, Why?

DYSPEPSIA is the skeleton at the
feast: t deaths head at the festive
board. 1t turns cheer into cheerless-
ness, gaity into gloom and festivity
into farce. 1t is the ghost in the home,
haunting every room and hitting at
every fireplace, making otherwise mer-
ry people shudder and fear. If there
is one disease more than another that
worsted, it is DYSPEPSIA. It is the
very genius of unhappiness, unrest and
i'll nature. In time it will turn the
best man almost into demon of tenn
per and make good woman something
to be dreaded and avoided.
1t is estimated that half of ones
troubles in this world comes of a stom-
ach gone wrong-of Dyspepsia, in short.
Foods taken into the stomach and not
properly cared for; converted into
for and hasn't any notion what to do
with. 1t is irritated and vexed, panied
and annoyed, and in little while this
state of things becomes general and
directly there is Something bad to
pay" The whole system is in a state
of rebellion and yearns to do some
thing rash and disagreeable and a fine
case of Dyspepsia is established and
opens up for business.
If you were bitten by a mad dog,
you would not lose a day in going to
a cure; do you know you should be
just as prompt with Dyspepsia? Rab-
les in a quick death, dyspepsia is a
slow one: this is about all the differ
ence. Thel is a cure for rabies and
so there is for Dyspepsia and one cure
was about as difficult to discover as
the other. Pasteur found out one and
the F. A. STUART COMPANY the
other, and it is no longer a secret, as
it is made public in the wonderful
Tablet, which so many are using and
praising today. One writer says Of it:
'.Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are little
storehouses of digestion which mix
with the stomach juices, digest food.
retingle the mucous membrane and its
nerve centers, give to the blood great
wealth of digestive fluids, promote d.
gestion and stays by the stomach until
all its duties are complete"
Some cures are worse than the dis
Other and the patient despairs at the
requirements: but not so with the
Stuart Dyspepsia Tablet they are easy
and pleasant to take and no nausea or
i'll feeling follows. There is none of
this getting Acknowledgement like
a liquid and making the remedy
dread. Another writer says
1T matters not what the condition
Of the stomach, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets only improve the juices and bring
quiet to the whole digestive canal. of
which the stomach is the CENTER
Forty thousand physicians use these
tablets in their practice and every
druggist sells them. Price SOC. Send
us your name and address and we will
send you a trial package by mail free.
Address F. A. Stuart Co., $50 Stuart
Bldg. Marshall. Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
HAS BIG CAPITAL.
Kansas Gas and Electric Com
pany Gets a Charter.
Takes One Out i'm West Va. With
Four Million Stock.
MYSTERY ABOUT LII.
Believed Standard Oil Company
Is Behind Project.
Congressman Anthony Gets Good
Place on House Committee.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Considerable
mystery surrounds the financial back
ers of the Kansas Gas & Electric COM
pany, which was chartered few days
ago by the secretary of the state of
West Virginia. The company will
have it's principal office in Charleston
and its chief works in Kansas.
The capital stock is $4,5OO,000, and
while the purposes are ostensibly to
furnish electric current and natural
and artificial gas to consumers, a
clause in the charter authorizes the
company to own and control the CAPT.
tai stock, bonds ETC., of any other cor
poration.
The charter was issued at the re-
quest of the law firm of Price, Smith,
Spilman & Clay of Charleston, and
while members and stenographers of
that firm are the incorporators, it is
known that they represent some New
York firm probably connected with
the Standard Oil company.
In the Organization of the house
military commit ee, Congressman Dan
r. Anthony was named as chairman
of the subcommittee on arsenals, bar
racks and military reservations.
The prospects for much new con-
struction work during the next fiscal
year is not bright. Under direction OF
President Taft the estimates for the
expenses of the army for the coming
year have already been cut from one
hundred million to ninety-four mil
lions and from present indications it
committee of the house will still fur
Their reduce this sum. The military
committee will undoubtedly follow
policy of further concentration of army
posts, which means the abandonment
of more of the lesser posts throughout
the west and the concentration of the
army at the larger posts, such as Fort
Leavenworth and Fort Riley.
The outlook for statehood in Arizona
and New Mexico this session is not
brilliant. The senate committee is not
friendly, Chairman Beveridge is frank
" opposed, and some of the members
of the house committee believe neither
territory is ready for statehood. There
is believed to be a good chance that
the territories will again be disappoint-
ed though Chairman Hamilton of the
house committee is confident the bill
will pass.
Declaring that the provisions of sem
ate bill 404, for the proper observance
of Sunday as a dav of rest in the Dis
trict of Columbia, are religious in
character md design, and unconstitu-
Bristow from the citizens of Emporia
and Lebanon, Kan, yesterday were
placed on file in the senate. The petit
TONERS also take exception to the
house of representatives joint resolu-
ton to amend the constitution by be-
ginning it with the words: ''In the
name of God"
Speaker Cannon doesn't speak to the
fnsurgent members of the house nova
days except when circumstances alb
solutely force him to accord recogni-
ton, and that isn't often, either in his
social relations or when they rise on
the floor of the house.
Going down the Mississippi river dur
ing the early autumn with the presi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
PRIZE FIGHT AT FORT RILEY.
William Garkin of Battery b Knocks
Out Negro Fayorite.

Junction City, Kan, Dec. 17.-At
the gymnasium at Fort Riley last night
occurred a good fstic event. Follow
ing three preliminary bouts between
soldiers. came the big bout of the
evening between William Gaskin of
Battery B, Sixth field artillery, and
Damon Martin, colored of the Mount
ed Service school detachment
The fight was witnessed by about
1900 officers, enlisted men and civil
ians. The betting was in Martins
favor as high as to 1. The fight
started with fierceness that made it
very evident that it would be of short
duration. Near the end of the first
round Martin was on the mat and had
taken the count to seven when the
gong rang. In the second Gaskin fol-
lowed up his advantage and delivered
knockout immediately after the
round commenced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
ICE DAM IN THE KAW.
Stops Lawrence Water Mill and
Threatens City'S Power.

Lawrence, Kan, Dec. lice
which is piled nearly ten feet deep
from the bridge to a sandbar three
miles below the dam has caused the
power plant and Bowersock's mill to
shut down. There is no fall in the
water where it goes over the dam
and as a result there is no power.
Lawrence is now lighted at night
by about half the horse power that
it usually has. The street cars are
greatly hampered in running as the
saving with it. The only power that
is being produced is that from the
steam capacity Of the plant which is
400 horsepower, while the usual
horsepower of the dam is 1s400.
The banking up of the ice is caused
by a sandbar which is located three
miles down the river from the
dam. The ice and snow found 1odg-
ment here and has continued to pile
up behind this until it now reaches
the dam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
ENGINE STRUCK LOAD OF HAY.
Two Men Were Buried Under Contents
and Severely Injured.

anu oONSISiy
Norton, Kan. Dec. 17.-Speeding
through the deep cut train No lib
struck a hayrack containing two en-
ployes of F.. NJ. Ogle, a 1iveryman
here, tearing the hayrack into pieces.
throwing the men under the load and
killing a horse.
Fred Brown, of Florence, one of
the occupants, received a bad cut on
the head, and was severely bruised in
other places. Lloyd Green, of this city
had leg cut and bruised. These
men were driving the team fast and
would have had ample time to make
the crossing had the horses not
stopped across the track. When the
engine struck the wagon they were
thrown under the load of straw and
the wagon was totally destroyed The
two men were taken at once to doc
tors office, where they were examined
and treated. Just how serious
Browns wound is cannot be deter
mined for a Gay or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
O. e. S. INsTALLs OFFICERS.
Philipsburg Chapter Is an Unusually
Strong One.

Phillipsburg, Kan. Dec 1.-THE
PIelades chapter or eastern stars
casion installed the following officers:
Worthy matron, Mrs. E. ]. Close;
worthy patron, S. w. Grub; assistant
matron, Mrs. r. w. Pope; conductor,
Mrs. H. B. Morgan; assistant conduc-
tor, Mrs. c. NJ. Mills: secretary, Mrs.
Karl Smith; treasurer. J. F. Morse;
chaplain, Mrs. j. G. Gebhart; Ada.
Miss Florence Lewis; Ruth, Mrs. Fred
Bridegroom; Esther. Mrs. E. A. Mel
son; Martha, Mrs. S. W. Grub; Electa,
Mrs. M. A. Spaulding; warden, Mrs. C.
M. Arnold; marshal. Mrs, Rose E.
Lewis.
The order is in a Furnishing condi-
ton, this city being one of the strong
holds of Masonry in this state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
DEATH UNDER CAR WHEELS.
Clarence Benning Mangled by Atchison
Switch Engine.

Atchison, Kan, Dec. 17.-While
trying to jump on the rear footboard
of Santa Fe switch engine, Clarence
Benning, aged %. lost his footing and
fell beneath the wheels Of the car at
tached to it. AS he fell Benning
grasped an iron rod just above the
footboard and succeeded in keeping the
main part of his body from being
crushed by the wheels.
Before the engine could be stopped
it had gone ninety feet and the wheel
of the car had cut and crushed the
limbs of the unfortunate man into a
mass of flesh and bone, and he died
little later FROM loss of blood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
HUNTER HAS NARROW ESCAPE.
Mcfarland Man Shot in the Head,
Will Recover

Manhattan, Kan, Dec. 17.-With
the base of his scalp torn off and
neck shot up, a victim Of a hunting
expedition accident Paul Pyetzki, a
Rock Island boilermaker employed at
the shops at Mcfarland, was brought
here for, medical aid.
Pyetzki was not seriously injured,
1t was found later. but the accident
was one of those cases where it might
easily have been a fatal affair.
Pyetzki was out hunting with some
friends when one of them had some
difficulty in ejecting a shell from his
gun and was yanking at it in the at
tempt to dislodge the shell, when the
gun was discharged, the shot striking
Pyetzki, who was standing about 80
feet distant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
Murder!

One gets Il by highway men-Tens
of thousands by Bad Bot0eLs-No diff
ference. Constipation and dead liver
make the whole system sick Every.
body knows it-CASCARETSr regulate
cure Bowel and Liver troubles by simply
doing natures work until you get we'll
Millions use CASCARETS, Life Saverl
$50
cAScARETs roc box for weeks
treatment all druggists. Biggest seller
IN tie world. Million boxes month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

Der 81 to Try Major E. N Jones, IT., q
student of the army school of the
line at this post. Brigadier General
frederick Funston will head the
board
1t is reported Major Jones is to be
tried for neglect of duty while quar-
termaster at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo-
ming Jones came to Fort Leaven-
worth as captain last August and he
Der 16.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
KANSAN I'LL IN WASHINGTON.
A. c. Hilligoss of Labette County Has
Severe Case of Pneumonia.

Washington, Dec. IA. C. Hill
goss a well known Kansas politician
and old soldier is reported dying of
pneumonia in this city. Capt Hill
gross's home is at Montana, Labette
county. where he has been active in
politics for years.
He took a prominent part in G. A.
R. work and had been an official of
the Baxter Springs, Reunion associa-
ton for three years. He has been
in Washington serving as door
keeper of the house of representa-
tives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

consented, telling the court that she
was the widowed mother of ten chill
dren.
Vance. for better or worse, is a
mere child and when Judge Osborn
saw her yet in short dresses just be-
low her knees, he shook his head and
refused to grant a license, telling her
to go back to school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
HAD NERVE OF CONVICTIONS.
Probate Judge Refused Marriage
License to Children.

independence, Kan, Dec. IL
Judge Osbon refused to grant a mar
riage license to Nancy Vance, aged
Is and Margaret Cook, aged IA. The
law gives the probate judge this
authority when the boy is less than
Is or the girl under the age of Is.
Vance was accompanied by his step
father, Sterling P. Burgin, from whom
he had gained consent. The Cook
girls mother was with her. She also
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
CAPITAL STOCK is TAXABLE.
II Corporation Is Not Kansas Insti-
tuition With Property Here.

F1annelly in the district court here
held that me capital stock of foreign
corporations owned by residents of
Kansas can be taxed when the proper
ty of the corporation is not within this
state. When the property, however. is
all in this state and itself pays taxes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

the holders of the capital stock shall
not be required to pay on that stock.
The decision was in a test case di-
rected against the county treasurer to
recover taxes paid on stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

r. Crawford, the local physician for
the Missouri Pacific. obtained trans
portation for them and sent them to
the hospital of the Missouri Pacific at
Kansas City. 1t was feared that their
feet would have to be amputated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
TO TRY AN ARMY OFFICER.
Funston ct Head of Court Martial
Which Will Try Major Jones.

Leavenworth, Kan, Dec. IA
court martial composed of the highest
ranking officers of the army will con-
vene at Fort Leavenworth on Decem-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
OLD INDIAN FIGHTER DEAD.

Jacob Garrett Fought Redskins Under
General Custer.
Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 17.-Jacob
Garrett. 60 years old. who fought with
General Custer in his Indian cam
paigns. and who was a member of the
Kansas cavalry in the Civil war, died
at his home here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
site on the east side of Main street,
between Ninth and Tenth streets.

Kansas postmasters appointed: Squire
b Rice at Clare; John F. Patterson at
Fe1Isburg; Paul Hauptman~ at Eudell;
John R. Bacon at Wherry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17
FIRE IN FRANKFORT PRINTsHoP
Loss to Editor Mahaffey of Review
Will Be Small.

Frankfort. Kan, Dec. 1.-THE Re-
view printing office has been dam
aged by fire. Editor j. W. Mahaffey
had gone over to open the office and
turned in the alarm. There were
very few people on the street at that
time, and it was still dark.
The fire alarm did not work very
well either, and very few heard it. It
was. some time before the hose carts
arrived, and when they did it was
found that the hose on one cart was
frozen through The loss is trif1ing
Mexican Section Hands Badly Frozen
Kipp, Kan, Dec. 1.-Two Mexicans
employed on the Missouri Pacific at
this place, while at their work one of
the cold mornings a few days ago had
their feet frozen so badly that DIR. u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

Jap hairpins, fans, dolls, etc. Topeka
Spice Mills, 109 East Eighth.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-04
STANDARD JURY COMPLETED
ONLY ONE FARMER ON THE Az
TRIAL PANEL.
The Witnesses and the Evidence WIN
be About the Same a. In the
Original Hearing.

Chicago, Mar. Roy Cunningham
of ,Belvidere, Ill, is the only farmer
on the Standard OIL retrial jury
which was completed in United
states District Judge Anderson's court
Monday. The preponderance Of agrf
culturlsts on the first panel OF venlre-
men caused its dismissal at the re-
quest Of the defense, Attorney John
4. Miller remembering that 1t was
a farmers jury which made possible
Judge Landis' fine Of $2S, 24O,O0O. Mr.
Cunningham's companions In the Jury
box include i've grocers, well driver
retired jeweler, and advertising
agent, tailor, mechanic and q hye
stock dealer
The opening statements OF counsel
was made Tuesday. As the witnesses
and evidence will be about the same a.
in the original hearing, and the points
At issue have been sharply defined, u
il hoped to conclude the case In itort'
night. Judge Anderson last week rul'
ed informally that the company can
be accused Of only SO ofenses tot
which the highest possible penalty y
an aggregate fine Of $4,000.