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COLIiMBUS JOURNAL
ETROTHER & STOCKWELL, Pubs.
COLUMBUS
NEBRASKA
A Mmg itwi tf the Itre tapw
tut Everts Here aid There
Foreign.
A young woman committed suicide
in a frightful manner in Paris. Hav
ing bad a quarrel with ber lover, who
is a lion tamer In a theater, in which
three lions are introduced in the
course of a melodrama, the woman
went behind the scenes and thrust her
.arm into the cage. The animals were
"wild with rage and with a few blows
of their claws tore her head and
breast to pieces.
Harry Whitney of New Haven be
lieves that Dr. Frederick Cook found
the pole, and that Commander Peary
did the same. In expressing the be
lief he said that he knows no reason
for doubting Cook more than Peary.
'Dr. Cook's story," he added, "seems
to me truthful and probable. Nothing
else would explain his twelve months'
absence."
Senor Canalejas, a former minister
and leader of the democratic group in
the Spanish cortes, publishes a strong
ly worded protest against the govern
ment's refusal to restore constitution
al liberties. He advocates a popular
movement everywhere against "cler
ical reaction."
Wild scenes took place in the prison
at Birmingham as a result of the
forcible feeding with a stomach pump
of suffragettes who are on a hunger
strike. The women resisted the ef
forts of the keepers, smashed windows
and assaulted the wardens and finally
had to be handcuffed and placed in
solitary confinement
It is generally believed in Madrid
that the complications which have
arisen between Spain and Mulai Hafid,
the sultan of Morocco, are likely to
result in a Spanish-Moroccan war;
that is a war between Spain and the
forces of the sultan of Morocco in
distinction from the fighting going on,
which is limited to the Moorish
tribesmen inhabitinr the Riff country.
General.
Falling from one of the upper floors
of a skyscraper office building in Phil
adelphia, Robert Bredbury, aged 66
years, met death in sight of hundreds
of spectators.
It is said that American families,
each with an average capital of $1,000
have entered Canada from the United
States this year to become homestead
ers. Chief Forester Pinchot back in
Washington repeating charges of trust
controlled water power.
Peary, in his ship, the Roosevelt,
was central figure in Hudson-Fulton
journey up the Hudson.
Government reports from customs
receipts and internal revenue are fav
orable.
Sir Thomas Upton will come to
America to offer again to race for the
American cup.
Bradstrcet's report shows that the
new tariff schedules have affected cot
ton and woolen goods.
The total national bank notes out
standing secured by United States
londs and lawful money today is $702,
S07.459, against $075,612,327 a year
ago, as shown by the monthly state
ment of the comptroller of the cur
rency. President Taft has declared himself
in favor of ship subsidy legislation.
Commander Peary has accepted an
Invitation to lecture before the Royal
Geographical society in London. The
dite has not yet been fixed.
A Paris paper prints a letter stating
that a secret treaty exists between
England and Spain by which Spain
places her strongholds in Africa com
manding the Strait of Gibraltar at the
disposition of England in case of war.
After having pleaded guilty to
burglary of a store at Woodbine, Ja.,
Mrs. Anna Lind, aged 25, mother of
a 14-months-old baby, was given an
indeterminate sentence of ten years
in the penitentiary
Commander Robert E. Peary re
fused absolutely to allow any of the
records or instruments of Dr. Frede
rick A. Cook to be brought aboard
the steamer Roosevelt and was thus
Instrumental in causing" these records
to remain in a cache at Etah, Green
land, according to Harry Whitney.
Diamonds valued at $3,000 were
stolen from the residence of W. G.
Hunter, in the fashionable residence
section of Des Moines, while the
family was absent Mr. Hunter is
chief dispatcher for the Great West
ern railway.
Senator La Follette has a bitter
'fight on his hands in Wisconsin.
Knox is the thirteenth of the ninety
two counties In Indiana to Tote "wet."
Sixty-two counties have voted "dry"
and eight are "dry" through the op
eration of the remonstrance law. Nine
countries remain in which no action
has been taken.
The financial report of the North
German-Lloyd Steamship company for
the first six months of 1909 shows
net earnings of $1,250,000. as against
losses for the corresponding periods
of 1908 amounting to $1,750,000.
President Taft opened the irriga
tion tunnel at Montrose, Colo, which
Vill reclaim many acres of land.
With the death of Governor John
A. Johnson the government, of Min
nesota passed into the hands of the
republicans. Lieutenant Governor Al
bert O. Eberhart who was elected as
a republican, became Mr. Johnson's
successor at the time of his death.,
'Elaborate dinners provided for the
president on his western tour are
said to be dogging'his digestion.
Conquest of the air will go on
despite accidents is the opinion ex
"' pressed by the French press.
Secretary Wilson Is making a care
ful study of the senii-rxid country of
'western states.
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CONDENSED
According to the report of the gen
eral land office upon the receipts from.
the sales of public lands in the coun
try during the year which ended June
30, last, the aggregate! amount from
sales in Kansas was 179,492; in Mis
souri, $37,554; in Oklahoma, $557,191.
Judge Ralph E. Campbell, in the fed
eral court at McAlister, Old., issued a
temporary order restraining the state
officials from interfering with the pip
ing of ga3 out of Oklahoma.
Laboring men of Omaha will appeal
to Gov. Shallenberger to investigate
the strike situation.
Millions of dollars' worth of valu
able paintings are being bought
abroad by American millionaires for
free entry under-the new tariff law.
Treasury department advices show
that one Philadelphia millionaire alone
recently imported $200,000 of these
works of art.
Fifty persons were injured, one
fatally, in a street, car accident near
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
grounds when a street car got beyond
control.
The Netherlands financial depart
ment has submitted to the state coun
cil a bill providing for an increase of
30 per cent on all import duties.
The question of reciprocal demur
rage, upheld by the supreme court of
Georgia in an opinion handed down,
in which the State Railroad commis
sion was sustained, will be taken to
the supreme court of the United States
by the roads.
Joseph Lesie, who was one of the
Albino family which the late show
man P. T. Barnum imported from Bel
gium, to his museum in' New York
City, over fifty years ago, is dying of
dropsy at the general hospital in
Kansas City.
President Taft says he will urge
upon congress the necessity of author
izing the secretary of the interior to
issue $10,000,000 bonds for the com
pletion of irrigation projects in the
west upon which work has been sus
pended because of lack of funds.
Margaret Price Evans, the wife of
a New York clergyman, committed
suicide at Penwyllt, Wales.
Harry Whitney 'says he is satisfied
that both Cook and Peary reached the
pole.
A joint depate on the tariff bill by
William J. Bryan and Senator Joseph
W. Bailey of Texas at Atlanta is as
sured, the meeting to be held some
time during Oktober.
Robert Hoe, aged seventy, head of
R. Hoe & Co., printing press manu
facturers of New York and London,
died in London after a short illness.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson con
cludes that government regulation of
railroad capitalization would lead to
large investments in securities by
American farmers.
A religious sect in Massachusetts
waited in vain for the world to come
to an end.
A general election in Great Britain
is among the early probabilities.
Washington.
When the long-heralded meeting be
tween President Taft and Diaz of
Mexico at El Paso and Juarez, Mex.,
takes place in October, the interven
ing territory between these two cities,
which is in dispute, will be for this
occasion regarded as neutral terri
tory, and the flags of neither nation
will be displayed therein. This un
derstanding has been reached on the
part of the two nations concerned as
the result of correspondence.
The forecasts of the United States
weather bureau were borne out with
remarkable exactness by the destruc
tive West Indian hurricane which
visited the South Atlantic and Gulf
coasts.
A board of officers has been named
to meet at Fort Des Moines Novem
ber 1 for competitive examination of
candidates authorized to appear for
second lieutenants in the Phillippine
scouts.
It is said that progressive republic
ans in the lower house are likely to
form an independent organization.
The abstract of the condition of the
national banks of Nebraska, exclusive
of Omaha and Lincoln, at the close of
business Septembers 1, as reported to
the comptroller of the currency, shows
average reserve held of 16.40 per cent,
against 16.49 per cent on June 23.
Loans and discounts decreased from
$51,011,575 to $45,656,114.
Raisin wine is taxable according to
a decision rendered by Commissioner
of Internal Revenue Cabell. The tax
will take effect October 1, next All
internal revenue agents were notified.
A very small increase in the num
ber of pensioners in the western
states, accompanied by a slight in
crease in the amount paid in pensions,
is shown by the pension commission
er's report for the year ended June
30 last The figures for the state of
Nebraska are said to be typical. They
show: Number pensions 1908, 15,405;
1909. 15,578. Amount paid: 1908,
$2,322,826; 1909, $2,650,45L
Personal.
President Taft will be given a $10,
000 banquet at the Fairmont hotel in
San Francisco on the night of October
5, according to plans announced.
Economy in every division in the
postoffice department is the command
of Postmaster General Hitchcock.
It is rumored that General Bernando
Reyes, governor of that state, is about
to leave Mexico.
Harry Whitney told the story of
meeting Dr. Cook in the far north
and taking charge of his instruments.
. President Taft, in a speech at Spo
kane, declared for the Roosevelt
policies on conservation.
The party of United States congress
men who have been touring the Ha
waiian islands are nov on the way
home.
Street car strikers in Omaha have
determined to go on with the fight to
a finish.
Wilbur Wright and Glenn Curtiss
are preparing for flights at the Hudson-Fulton
exposition.
Judge William J. Gaynor was made
the Tammany r.Dminee for" mayor of
New York.
Brigadier General Winfield S. Edg
erly, commanding the -department of
the Dakotas, with headquarters at St
Paul, is soon to be retired.
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, with her
two sons and daughter, Miss Kather
ine Elkins, are soon to arrive from
Europe.
Old Batiste, the last medicine man
of the Colville Indians, committed sui
cide in a spectacular manner at Oro
ville, Wrash., by lying down on the
railway track in front of an engine.
THE OKLAHOMA LAW
WORKINGS OUT OF THE
GUARANTY SCHEME.
NEW
RESTRAING ORDER ISSUED
Negotiations for Settlement of Affairs
Progressing and Officials of
Institution are Hopeful.
Oklahoma City, Okla. The affairs
of the Columbia Bank it Trusty com
pany of this city, which was .declared
by the state banking board as being
insolvent a Tew days "ago and which
was taken In charge by State Bank
Commissioner Young under the- pro
visions of the Oklahoma guaranty
law, were complicated Saturday by
the issuance of a temporary restrain
ing order by Federal Judge Cotteral
to prevent the further payment of the
banks creditors.
The applications for the restrain
ing order was made by the attorney
for the National Life company of Chi
cago, whjch holds a certificate bf
deposit to the extent of $170,000.
Service was had on the bank com
missioner and also on W. L. Norton,
president of the defunct bank.
Negotiations for a settlement of the
bank's affairs are in progress and its
officers are hopeful of taking the in
stitution back.
Efforts were interrupted for an
hour or more but were resumed and a
statement is being prepared for pres
entation to the governor showing the
bank solvent
Hope is expressed that the governor
will be convinced that the bank's as
sets are sufficient to warrant the
state in relinquishing control.
Governor Haskell issued a lengthy
statement defending the bank guaran
ty law and says he cannot see how a
federal judge could be so discourteous
to a governor as to undertake to set
at naught a state law without a
notice.
It was announced that definite plans
looking, to the reorganization of a
bank to take the place of the defunct
Columbia Bank and Trust company,
now in the hands of the state bank
ing board, may be perfected Monday
or Tuesday. A party of capitalists
from St. Louis, headed, it is said, by
C. W. Smith, formerly president of
the Farmers' State bank of Tulsa, but
now of St Louis, is credited with be
ing interested in taking over the bank.
The bank continued to pay depositors.
ANOTHER SERMON BY TAFT.
Lays Corner Stone of First Universal
1st Church, Portland.
Portland, Ore. President Taft on
Sunday preached another sermon. The
scene had changed from the Mormon
tabernacle at Salt Lake City on Sun
day last to the cornerstone laying of
the First Universalist church in East
Portland.
The president handled the silver
trowel and worked hard to see that
the stone was properly adjusted. His
apparent earnestness in setting the
stone called out great applause from
the open air audience.
The president referred to his vari
ous church experiences and in con
cluding said:
"No church in this country, how
ever humble it may be, that preaches
the doctrine of true religion and true
morality will lack my earnest sup
port to make it more influential when
ever opportunity offers."
Big Dike for Pathfinder Dam,
Casper, Wyo. The reclamation serv
ice is advertising for bids for the con
struction of a gigantic dike at the
Pathfinder dam, forty-five miles above
Casper on the Sweetwater river. The
work will involve the handling of
about 160,000 cubic yards of earth ex
cavation, 8,000 cubic yards of pave
ment and 2,000 yards of concrete ma
sonry, the estimated cost of which
will be $250,000. The successful bid
ders must begin work on the job at
once, before the floods of 1910.
Steamship Line Rate War.
Los Angeles, Cal. The war of the
coast steamship companies is on in
costly earnest and a passenger can
ride from Los Angeles to San Fran
cisco, meals included, for $1. The
thousands of homeseekers that have
reached California on reduced tourist
rates from the east are taking ad
vantage of the steamship family war.
Nebraska Flour for Europe.
Central City, Neb. Forty thousand
pounds of his best brand of flour to
be shipped direct to Europe, is the
order which J. E. Jenkins, proprietor
of the Central City roller mills, has
booked for early delivery.
Shallenberger Gets Report
Lincoln. Gov. Shallenberger has
made public a report from Deputy
Labor Commissioner W. M. Maupin
on the street car strike situation in
Omaha. He recommends that an in
vestigation should be made of the
situation under the statutes.
Cook Will Submit Data.
Washington Dr. Frederick A. Cook,
the Arctic explorer, announced Sun
day shortly after his arrival from New
York to deliver his lecture, that he
will acquiesce in the proposition that
the University of Copenhagen be
asked to waive its claim to a prior
examination of his records in order
that American geographic societies
and other scientific bodies in this
country may be enabled to review his
data. He said he would be satisfied
to have the decisions -of all these
tribunals announced simultaneously.
Death of a Millionaire.
Kansas City. Thomas H. Swope,
millionaire and philantropist, died
suddenly at his home here Sunday,
following a "Stroke of apoplexy. He
was 81 years old. Colonel Swope was
born in Lincoln county, Kentucky,
October 21, 1827.
Girl Found in Trunk.
Hannibal, Mo. Miss Millie Stock
ing, a Salvation Army lass, was found
unconscious and bound in a small
trunk in the rooms of the Salvation
Army of this city.
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of .Interest Taken From rleri
and There" Over the State..
THE MIDWEST LIFE.
It costs for life Insurance just as
it does for other things, for groceries
or clothing. Because a man is not
dead at the end of the first, third or
tenth year does- not signify that thevj
company is ahead the premiums paid
it. Some have died during these years
and it has taken a part of the pre
miums paid by those still living to
pay the death claims. No one who,
dies in the' first few years his policy
is in force has paid the company any
thing like the' amount it pays his
beneficiaries. That will be apparent
to all on reflection. Life insurance
companies are great equalizers. They
collect small sums from many and pay
.large sums to tbbeneflciaries of the
dead, or to the policyholders them
selves in. case of endowment policies;
The Midwest Life issues all the
standard forms of life and endowment
policies at reasonable rates. The Mid
west Life is an old line Nebraska com
pany. Home Office 1007 "O" street
Lincoln. Write for an agency.
Andrew Meyers, the college ball
player, who was struck by a ball at
Seward, died from his injuries.
A man giving the name of Hans
Jargensen and claiming to come from
Omaha, who has been working for a
farmer north of Nebraska City for
about thirty days, tried to hang him
self and then begged someone to
shoot him.
The Western Union Telegraph conP
pany has appealed to the supreme
court from the decision of the dis
trict court of Lancaster, wlich as
sessed the corporation $100 and costs
for changing its rafes without author
ity of the state railway commission.
Attorney General Thompson is
highly pleased with the opinion ren
dered by the supreme court in the
Sibley express case, whereby the ex
press companies are enjoined from
charging more than 75 per cent of
the rates in effect January 1, 1907.
The Nebraska Bankers' association
has offered a reward of $1,000 for the
arrest and conviction of the person
or persons who broke into a local
bank at Ashton. Eleven dollars in
change was said to have been taken.
The two vault doors were blown open.
Robert Dorgan, deputy internal rev
enue collector, was in Beatrice scan
ning the records in the county clerk's
office for the purpose of ascertaining
the number of corporations in the
county subject to the excise tax 'fea
ture of the tariff law passed by the
recent session of congress.
Robert Dunn, a young man about
22 years old, a farm laborer working
for Harry Desmore, residing a mile
northeast of Elmwood, committed sui
cide by shooting himself in the head.
No motive can be found for the act,
as he was a well-to-do young man of
pleasing address.
Frank Reynolds, Jr., living east of
Arlington, has a fine crop of sugar
cane. This crop was planted about
June 1 and is now out of frosts' way.
Mr. Reynolds also has some fine to
bacco and has successfully grown cot
ton and stands ready to prove that
Nebraska can grow any crop.
Eunice, the 3-year-old daughter of
Emil Nelson, living east of Oakland,
strayed into a yard in which a young
colt had been turned loose. The lit
tle girl approached too near the ani
mal and it turned suddenly and kicked
her in the forehead. "The frontal bone
was badly shattered from the blow.
She will probably die from her injur
ies.
Sheriff Horace Kennedy of Custer
county returned from Lebanon, Mo.,
bringing with him F. E. Parker, who
is wanted on the charge of obtaining
money and goods under false pre
tenses. Parker had been serving a
sentence jt 100 days in jail at that
place on a smaller charge and was
brought to Nebraska on requisition
from the governor of Missouri.
The large number of apples which
were blown from the trees in Otoe
county during the recent storm are
being hauled to the vinegar works,
where they are being made up into
cider and vinegar. This company has
nearly all of the apples it can handle
daily and expects to be able to make
something like 2,000 barrels of vine
gar this season.
Twenty-one states have already con
tracted for space at the National Corn
exposition and will install education
al exhibits. Each exhibit at Omaha
will demonstrate some special feature
of agricultural development and ex
perimental work. In a spectacular
way the corn show is to be far ahead
of last years' mark and also in the
matter of educational achievements
this years 'exposition will eclipse that
of 1908.
A carload of horses, the property of
M. W. McClennan of Echo, New, con
signed to St Louis, were fed at the
stock yards in Sidney and after be
ing reloaded and waiting to be at
tached to a fast freight train the car
took fire from a locomotive on the
Union Pacic railroad, burning four of
'the horses to death, seven were shot
to death on account of burns and
eight more are in a precarious condi
tion and may have to be killed.
At the hay camp of George Hume,
located twelve miles north of Sidney
on the Richardson ranch, Lewis Stolz,
a haymaker in Hume's employ, shot
and seriously wounded Henry Busky,
son of August Busky, a well known
Deuel county farmer. The trouble
originated over an old fued between
the two parties.
According to a note left to his wife,
George Bradshaw, the Kenesaw sui
cide, was a bank and train robber.
He wrote that, he was wanted for so
many cirmes that he could not stand
it any longer and decided to end his
life.
"Al" Baker, owner of the Baker
Theatrical company, shot his wife
and then killed himself at the home
of his son in Lyons. Jealousy was
the cause. The woman died instantly,
but .Baker lived till nearly noon. She
was his second wife and left two or
three children.
James Teely slept his last sleep on
earth on the Burlington railroad
tracks near Johnson. Freight train
No. 113 swept down on him and while
the whistle awakened the man, he
could not get up in time. The train
severed his arm from the body and
broke his skull.
PAPERS ARE FAULTY
VARIOUS IRREGULARITIES IN OB
TAINING NATURALIZATION.
ACTION OF FEDERAL AHORNEY
Act of Last Legislature for Resurvey
f" Lilies in Dundy County
Must Walt.
Because of various irregularities in
obtaining naturalization papers, six
teen Nebraska residents of different
nationalities will probably have to go
through the process of being made
citizens a second time. Papers have
been completed in the office of United
States Attorney A. W. Lane for filing
in the federal court attacking the
validity of their certificates. Most of
those whose citizenship is thus called
into question live at Omaha and
South Omaha, but others are scattered
over the state. The list includes Ger
mans, Bohemians, Scandinavians,
Italians, an Irishman or two and oth
ers of miscellaneous nativity.
The suits to have the decrees of
naturalization set aside will be com
menced in the districts where the
persons respectively live. Only two
of the number will be filed in the
Lircoln division. In some cases it
will be alleged that the individual was
naturalized illegally before he had
Deen in this country five years. An
other ground will be that some of
them were more than 18 years old on
arriving in this country and did not
make a formal declaration of their in
tention to become citizens, which is
required of all except those coming
here as minors. In one or two in
stances the claim will be made that
the certificate is defective because
witnesses for the person naturalized
were not themselves citizens.
Dundy Survey Must Wait
Notwithstanding a petition from
Dundy county landowners the state
land commissioner will not carry out
the provisions of the act of the last
legislature for a resurvey of a north
and south line through Dundy county
until the government is given an op
portunity to comply with an act of
congress introduced by Congressman
Norris. By a little more delay the
county of Dundy may get a more ex
tensive resurvey from the general
government and the state may be
able to save the funds appropriated
by the legislature for a lesser resur
vey. The act of congress calls for a re
survey of the disputed line and also
a resurvey of several townships in
Dundy county. Congressman Norris
thought he was doing a favor to the
people of Dundy county when he got
this act passed and he is much sur
prised now to find that many resi
dents of the townships interested
have signed a petition to proceed with
the proposed state resurvey of the
north and south line. He thinks the
people interested do not fully under
stand the situation or they would not
have signed the petition to proceed
with the proposed state resurvey of
only one line. The legislature ap
propriated $525 to resurvey one line.
This amount will not be sufficient to
pay for the work.
xAbout Bank Assessments.
In reply to a recent inquiry Henry
Seymour, secretary of the state board
of assessment and equalization, has
written the following statement of
how state, national and savings banks
are assessed:
"State, national and savings banks,
domestic and foreign, are assessed
upon the value of their capital stock,
and taxes are levied upon a per cent
basis, the same as all other property
in this state is taxed. The value of
the stock is found by taking the mar
ket value of the same, together with
the surplus and undivided profits,
from which is deducted the real es
tate and other tangible property of
the bank, which is assessed separate
ly. The names of the stockholders
and the amount owned by each are
listed by the bank, but the tax is
levied against and paid by the bank.
Trust companies are assessed the
same, as banks. Building and loan
associations are assessed only on
their real estate, but the shares of
the stock in the same are held to be
credits and are assessed to the own
ers and the members of the associa
tion. Deposits in savings banks as
well as all other banks are listed
and assessed to the depositors. The
rate of taxation varies in the several
taxing districts of the state because
of difference in the amount of the
levy for local taxation."
Irrigation Exposition Coming.
A good share of the United States
Land and Irrigation exposition,
which is to be held in Chicago No
vember 20 to December 4, will be
on 'exhibition at the National Corn
exposition which opens in Omaha
December 6.
Pure Food Prosecutions.
Although the immediate victims of
prosecution are eighteen local butch
ers, the packing interests in Nebraska
are attacked directly in prosecutions
brought by Deputy Food Commission
er Mains on charges of misbranding
lard, cottblene and other substitutes
for lard. The prosecutions are
brought under a section of the pure
food act It is believed that the
eighteen defendants will obtain an
attorney who will attack the consti
tutionality of the law as i t stands to-
day.
Testing Rights of Clubs.
Argument in the Gibson case was
heard by the supreme court The
suit involves the right of a club to
dispense intoxicating liquors to its
members in the face of a ruling by
the Lincoln excise board against the
practice. As the suit involves all of
the principles of law bearing on clubs
that dispense liquors as an incident
to 'such organizations, the decision in
the suit may decide the future action
of all clubs in Lincoln and other
towns or cities where the licensing
boards refuse to issue licenses.
HISTORIC KANSAS STRUCTURE
Building Where Bluejacket, Noted
Shawnee Chief, Was Schoeled,
Still Standing.
Kansas City. There were three de?
nominational missions among the
Shawnee Indians, all situated in John
son county, Kan., the Methodist, 'the
Baptist and the Quaker. The Society
of Friends, or Quakers, established
their mission in 1S24, but the building
now in existence was not erected, un
til 1844. It is about one mile east of
the town of Mcrriam. on the farm
now owned by Mrs. Emily Loomis.
This mission usually schooled about
40 Indian children and the first aid
to the heathen Is thus described:
"The service to a new pupil was to
trim his hair closely; then with soap
and water to give him his first lesson
Where Chief Bluejacket Was Educated.
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in godliness, which was a very good
scrubbing, and a little red precipitate
'on the scalp, to supplement the use of
a fine-tooth comb; then he was fur
nished with a new suit of clothes and
taught how to put them on and off.
They all emerged from this ordeal shy
as peacocks just plucked. A new Eng
lish name finished the preparation for
the alphabet and the English lan
guage. Jeremiah Hadley, grandfather of the
governor' of Missouri, came to this
mission as superintendent in August,
1855, and remained there in the storm
and stress of free-state days. The
Missourians stole his stock and
threatened him with death for his ad
herence to the free-state cause.
Charles Bluejacket the noted Shawnee
chief, was educated at this institution.
Bluejacket, by the way, was descend
ed in the mother's line from the Vir
ginia Marmadukes, a family that has
furnished Missouri with two gov
ernors. CANAL ENGINEER RAIL CHIEF
John F. Stevens Now President of Ore
gon Trunk Line, Part of
Hill System.
Seattle, Wash. John F. Stevens,
formerly chief engineer of the Pana
ma canal, has been made president of
the Oregon Trunk line. This road is
a part of the Hill system, and when
completed will connect central Oregon
with San Francisco. It will run as far
north as Portland and points on the
Columbia river.
John F. Stevens was connected with
the Great Northern railway and its al
lied lines from 1899 until February
10, 1903. He was chief engineer
John F. Stevens.
through those years, and in the latter
part of his services with the road was
also general manager. He resigned
because of a difference of opinion with
Louis W. Hill, a son of James J. Hill,
and now president of the Great North
ern. At that time Louis W. Hill was
assistant to the president
In 1905 Mr. Stevens was made chief
engineer of the Panama canal, resign
ing in 1907 to become vice-president,
of the New Haven road. He left the
New Haven last June.
Solving a Double-Stockinged Mystery.
Hosiery covers a multitude of shins.
No institution that forms part of our
daily lives comes closer to us. There
fore, it is only right that the one
thing we do not know about it should
cause us much mental distress. The
question is: Do stockings (and socks)
wear out from the inside or in from
the outside? We believe the matter
is worthy of the attention of a master
mind, so we have taken it up. We
see on the fashion page that women
are going to start wearing two pairs
of stockings Instead of one. and both
at the same time. We are told the
effect will be lovely. For instance, a
pair of bright green ones underneath,
with a pair of gauzy black ones on
top, will give a beautiful shimmering
ensemble that Is all the nreworss.
Other combinations may be added to
suit the taste. Ail we have to do Is
to notice which stocking gets the hole
first If it is the inner one, we can
deduce that our stockings, and eke
our socks, wear out from the inside.
If it is the outer one, it is just as
easy to conclude that they wear in
from the outside.
Novelist's Good Advice.
Do instantly whatever Is to be done,
and take the hours of recreation after
business, and never before it When
a regiment is under march the rear is
often thrown Into confusion because
the front does not move steadily and
without interruption. It is the same
thing with business. If that which 13
Grst in hand is not instantly, steadily
and regularly dispatched, other things
accumulate behind till affairs begin
to press all at once, and no human
brain can stand the confusion. Pray,
mind this: This is the habit of mind
which is very apt to beset men of in
tellect and talent, especially when
their own arrangement. But it is like
the ivy round the oak, and ends by
limiting, if it does not destroy, the
power of manly and necessary exer
tion. Sir Walter Scott.
A NURSE'S EXPERIENCE.
Backache, Pains in the Kidneys, Bloat
ing, Etc., Overcome.
A ncrse is expected to know what
to do for common ailments, and wom
en who suffer back
ache, constant lan
guor, and other com
mon symptoms of
kidney complaint,
should be grateful to
Mrs. Minnie Turner,
of E. B. St, Ana
darko, Okla., for
pointing out the way
to find quick relief. Mrs. Turner used
Doan's Kidney Pills for a run-down con
dition, backache, pains in the sides and
kidneys, bloated limbs, etc. "The way
they have built me up is simply mar
velous,' says Mrs. Turner, who is a
nurse. "My health improved rapidly.
Five boxes did so much for me I am
telling everybody about it"
Remember the name Doan's. Sold
by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
HEALTH TOO PRECIOUS
"What do you mean by refusing to
chop some wood after the good din
ner I have give you!"
"Well, lady, de highest medical au
thorities gree dat workin' on a full
stomach is injurious an' I don't want
to run any chances of ruinin' me su
perb health!"
CHILD ATE
CUTICURA
OINTMENT.
Spread Whole Box of It on Crackers
Not the Least Injury Resulted.
Cuticura Thus Proven Pure and Sweet.
A New York friend of Cuticura
writes:
"My three year old son and heir,
after being put to bed on a trip across
the Atlantic, investigated the state
room and located a box of graham
crackers and a box of Cuticura Oint
ment When a search was made for
the box, it was found empty and the
kid admitted that be had eaten the
contents of the entire box spread on
the crackers. It cured him of a bad
cold and I don't know what else."
No more conclusive evidence could
be offered that every ingredient of Cu
ticura Ointment is absolutely pure,
sweet and harmless. If It may be
safely eaten by a young child, none but
the most beneficial results can be ex
pected to attend its application to even
the tenderest skin or youngest infant
foot Draff a Ckem. Corp, Sol Pro9&, Bottoa.
-" r The'Thirst for Gore.
Unsophisticated Onlooker I think
this is a first rate place. See what a
fine view we have of this car coming.
Seasoned Spectator Fine view fid
dlesticks! Nothing ever happens on
these straight stretches not even a
broken leg. Come on down to the
turn and wait for the fun. Puck.
With a smooth Iron and Defiance
Starch, yon can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
When a man begins to tell a wo
man about his past love affairs he is
planning to add another to the list.
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SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS
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PU8LIC LAND
DRAWING
22,oco acres of irrigated Government Lane
in Arkansas Valley. Colorado, will be
thrown open for settlement October 21. 1909.
ander the Carey Act. Opportunity to get
an irrigated farm at low cost on easy pav
ments. Only short residence required.
Send for book giving full information.
Twe Butles Irrigation and Reservoir Companj
Lamar, Colorado
QUICKEST WITH SAFETY
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both mother and child. Little ones
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free trcm opiates.
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