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THE SOLDIER CLIPPER EX-GOVERNOR ST. JOHN DEAD RAJSE PRICE OF TOPEKA GAS MINERS WALK OUT KANSAS WILL BAR BEER SUBSTITUTES End Comes to the First Prohibition Executive of Kansas at His Home in Olathe. Distributing Company, Increases Rat Without Formaity of Notifying Public Utility Commission. Eight Thousand Union Workers ELDERLY VSD1 SAFEGUARDED Tell Others How They Wero Carried Safely Through Change of Life. Durand, Wis.

"I am the mother ef fourteen children and I owe my life te in Southeast Part of State Quit Their Jobs. Attorney General Brewster Declares Arrest Will Follow Sale of Beverages. TIRED OF OPERATORS' DELAY Nearly Every Big Mine in District BEERLESS SALOONS BARRED Has Been Closed Scale Conference Is Dragging. Topeka. Fifty cent gas has been announced for Topeka.

The Consumers' Light, Heat and Power Company, the local distributing company, sent a circular to each of its thirteen thousand customers here that after (Jue September meter readings it would charge fifty cents a thousand feet for each of the first thousand feet used in any single month and thirty-five cents a thousand for all additional gas used. The company has not taken the trouble, thus far, to tell the public utilities commission about the new rate and it was intimated by officials of the commission that there may be some proceedings taken against the new rate. The company, in the circular, explains to the customers that it is now bankrupt and has been losing money for several, years. It asserts that during July every thousand feet of gas It sold actually cost it thirty-eight cents and it received only nine cents Lydia E.Pmkham'i Vegetable Compound. When I was 45 and had the Change of Life, a friend recommended it and It gave me such relief from my bad feel' ings that I teek several bottle.

I am now well tad healthy and recom Eight thousand union miners walked Amount of Alcohol Contained in Drink Not Taken Into Account by Kansas Law. out in the Southeast Kansas coal fields the other day as a result of dissatisfaction over delay in closing a new agreement with the Southeastern Coal Operators' Association. Topeka. The sale of any beverage which contains any amount of alcohol is illegal In Kansas. This was the John Pierce St.

John, ex-governor of Kansas and a nation-wide figure for prohibition's cause, is dead in Olathe, after an illness of two months, caused by heat prostration June 20. At that time Mr. St. John was in Jet-more, where he was engaged in a 90-day speaking tour for a temperance organization. He canceled the' remainder of his engagement and returned to Olathe, but recovered sufficiently to attend the Prohibition National Convention in St.

Paul, July 18, 19 and 20. On return home he stopped at Shelbyville, 111., July 23, where he made his last address before a Chautauqua audience. Governor St. John took to his bed shortly after his return from St. Paul and-weakened steadily.

For a week preceding his death he was unconscious the greater part of the time. John P. St. John was a son of Samuel and Sophia St. Johri, and was born in Brookville, Franklin County, Indi: ana, February 25, 1833.

He went to school in a log schoolhouse, clerking in a store to pay part of his expenses. While In his twenties he went to California, where he chopped wood, worked at mining, steamboating and merchandising. In 1860 he took up law in a firm at Charleston, 111., entering the firm after a year's apprenticeship. He enlisted for the Civil War as a private in Company Sixty-eighth Illinois Volunteers, and was elected captain. He served with honor, and when the One -Hundred and Forty-third Illinois was organized became its "lieutenant colonel.

ruling of S. M. Brewster, attorney general, and he served notice upon several big brewing companies which are putting out a temperance drink which contains only a small amount of mend your Compound to other ladies." Mrs. Mart Redgway, Durand, Wis. A Massachusetts "Woman rlteat Blackstone, Mass.

"My troubles were from my age, and I felt awfully sick for three years. I had hot flash often and frequently suffered from pains. I took Lydia E. Finkham'a Vegetable Compound and now am well." Mrs. Pierre Couknoyer, Box 2S9, Blackstone, Mass.

Such warning symptoms as sense ef of impending evil, timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, variable appetite, weakness and dizziness, should be heeded by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink-ham's Vegetable Compound has carried many women safely through this crisis. for it. The company figures the interest on the debt and the cost' of operation and depreciation in this cost.

July, of course, is the lightest gas consuming month of the year The new rates are the highest charged in Kansas at this time. The company has already notified the Kansas Natural Gas Company that it will pay a flat rate of eighteen cents a thousand feet for all gas delivered to the local company. LET STATE NAME RECEIVERS EULOGIZED EX-GOV; ST. JOHN Bank Commissioner Benson Believes Utilities Board Should Be Given Control of Corporations. "The amount of alcohol or the fact that the drink is not intoxicating does not bother us one bit," said the attorney general.

"We will arrest every person we find Belling any of these drinks. "The greatest danger lies in the sale of these so-called temperance drinks, advertised as a substitute for beer, is that they are used as a blind for the sale of the real beer in bottles labeled exactly the same as the temperance beer." Just what stepe would be taken In Topeka as. a result of Attorney General Brewster's ruling that the so-called "near heers" were without the law, are unknown. Druggists and confectioners selling temperance "beers" said they were uncertain whether they would continue their' sale. Assistant County Attorney Robert D.

Garver said the matter had not been checked up to him, that he bad no official notification of the ruling that the sale of Bevo was Illegal and that he didn't know what would be done. County Attorney W. E. Atchison could not be reached. The attorney general's statement seems to drive the last nail in the coffin of the "beerless" saloon that' was to have been Btarted in Topeka, backed by the brewing interests.

4 "fr Motorists to Work Roads. Toneka motorists have ordered one Hopeless. "That man we were Just talking to seems to be perfectly remarked the visitor who was being shown over the insane asylum. "And yet he's one of the very worst cases we have," replied the attendant. "That man thinks he can get as many miles out of a gallon of gasoline as the agent who sold him his car said he could." Thorough.

"Did the grasshoppers do much damage to your farm last year 7" "I should say 'they did. They devoured everything clear down to the first mortgage." Appropriate Returns. "Did they realize anything from the ice "Certainly; plenty of cold The miners marched all 'day, calling out members of the union from mine after mine. At the close of the day every big mine in 7 the district had been closed except Weir No. 31 and two Santa Fe mines in the south part.

The walkout affected mines of the Western Coal and Mining Company, the Central Coal and Coke Company, the J. Coal and Mining Company, the Sheridan Company, Weir Coal Company and the Katy companies. The miners declared they would not return to work unless a clause Is inserted in their contract providing that a union miner shall not be discharged without reason nor without the consent of the unions. Strip pits, big contributors to the district's output, were not affected. Alexander Howat, president of District No.

14 of the miners' union, said the miners were restive because the wage scale conferences were "I told local officials of the union at Pittsburg over the telephone that the men would not be asked to work any more until the operators indicate they want to be fair," said Mr. Howat. "I know and every miner knows the operators do not care whether we ever reach an agreement so long as the mines continue to run." Hunt Boy's Slayer. Officers of Sa-lina are looking for a transient shoemaker, who is suspected of the murder of Lewis Parks of Perryvile, at Zurich, two weeks ago and whose body was found? in a house there recently. Parks was a harvest hand who had finished work and was ready to return home.

He met the shoemoker, became the latter's guest for the night. Both men disappeared. Later the body of Parks was found in the house they had occupied. Parks was 19 years old and had been iu Kansas since harvest. He was known to have had $25.

Five Claim $1,000 Reward. Five men are claiming the $1,000 reward which was offered for the arrest of Homer Cullor, the man who has confessed to the killing of Sheriff Walt Davis of Lyon county. J. G. Livingston of Mountain Grove, P.

J. McNerlin of Keota, and three other men, "who are said to have assisted in the bandit's capture, are claiming a share of the reward. Cullor is in the Topeka jail. The controversy may be decided in he courts. 600 Enrolled at Haskell.

Haskell Indian institute opened for the fall term with an enrollment of more than COO Indian youths, Including 200 new students from all Indian reservations in the country. About 100 more students will reach Lawrence later, making Haskell the largest Indian school In the country. Retired Banker Dies. Wilson A. Walker, a retired banker, is dead at his home in Atchison, aged 07.

For many years before moving to Atchison he was in the banking business at Effingham. Dunkards to Wichita The Church of the Brethren, or Dunkards, has decided to hold its next annual national For genuine eomfort end laitins ole nre use Red Orois Ball Blue on wash day. All good grocers. Adv. Electric locomotives gradually are replacing steam on the state railways of Italy.

Your Liver Is Clogged Up That's Why You're Tired-Out ef Serto Have No Appetite. CARTER'S LITTLE. LIVER PILLS CARTERS will put you right III LL I in a tew aays. ill i They do. IYER their C.a A CureCon- hundred sticks of dynamite and in the next week will join the farmers between Carbondale and Wakarusa in blowing the tops off- two bad hills on the branch of the Santa Fe Trail, Carbondale to Topeka.

The main line of the old trail runs eighteen miles south of Topeka. Th Old Trails Association has agreed to mark the road to capital city and put it in the regular log for travelers if the two rocky hills are made passable. One hundred motor car owners are to help in the work The farmers along the road have agreed to furnish a man, a team and wagon for each two men Topeka furnishes. The county and township road officials have agreed to grade the road after the rock has been blown off. The tops of the two hills will be blasted out and the motorists will load the rock into the wagons and haul it to low ground Three years ago the Topeka motorists blasted out the worst hill on the Red Line from Topeka to Kansas City in the same way.

fr Medical Supervision In Schools. Careful medical supervision for the pupils in the Kansas schools is urged In a statement issued recently by the state board of health. There is no danger of the schools being closed from fear of an outbreak of infantile paralysis. Bond Issues, 1 Million. More than 1 million dollars in municipal bonds were issued in Kansas during August for new school buildings, paving and sewers, parks and bolevards, electric light and water Biliousness, Indigestion and Sick Headache Topesa.

W. F. Benson, state bank commissioner of Kansas, believes that the solution of the high fees and bad service of public utility corporation receiverships is in giving the same power to the public utilities commission over these corporations that the bank commissioner has over the banks of the state. "I believe the next legislature ought to pass a law giving to the public utilities commission the same powers over public service corporations that the bank commissioner has over banks," said Mr. Benson.

"I think also that the commission should have the power to compel all the public service corporations under its control to publish at intervals statements of their financial condition, going into detail in such a manner that the ordinary business man could readily and easily comprehend and understand the same. "The bank commissioner of the state has powers of this kind over banks. I see no reason why a public service corporation is entitled to any more privileges from the public than a banking corporation. The state bank commissioner is given power to compel the banks to abide by the law. Why should not the public utilities commission be given the same power?" 'h Want Newspapers Censored.

The Shawnee county W. C. T. U. has unanimously resolved to take steps to have newspaper reporters prohibited from reporting sensational court trials in the daily papers of thia state and to add a number of soft drinks to the black list.

i- Protect Cities on Gas? The Kansas Public Utilities Commission may take a hand in the Increase of rates for natural gas in Kansas City, Kas Rosedale and Topeka. The members of the commission have returned from their vacations, and J. L. Bristow, chairman, began making inquiries as to what the commission could do. Grand Opera for State Teachers.

The Topeka Merchants' Association has closed a contract with the Boston English Opera Company to give a concert here November 10, It will be a complimentary entertainment for the visiting members of the Kansas Teachers' Association. le fr fr Old Corn May Save Kansas. The fact that Kansas farmers had 37,614,434 bushels of last year's corn stored in their bins this spring may to a considerable extent relieve conditions which might have been caused by the shortage of this year's crop, according to J. G. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture, sV tsV School Fund Has Ten Million.

A statement compiled in the office of the state auditor shows a total of $10,533,993.05 in the permanent state school fund, the interest on which is prorated semi-annually among the public schools of the state by the state superintendent of public SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL nuub. Genuine must bear Signature Gov. Capper, Former Gov. Hodges and Others Made Addresses at the Funeral In Olathe. The little First Congregational church at Olathe could not hold all who came to the funeral services of John P.

St. John, first Prohibition governor of Kansas and a national figure in the crusade against liquor. They were of all creeds1 and conditions, including a lame oldnegro mammy. Hundreds went to the church earlier in the day. Eulogies were spoken by Governor Capper, ex-Gov.

George Hodges of Olathe and H. P. Faris of Clinton, in behalf of the Prohibition party, of which Mr. St. John was the presidential candidate in 1884.

"Governor St. John's life was an inspiration to me and to thousands of others," said Governor Capper. "His name will go down in history as. a great American like John Brown, because of the principles for which he fought so valiantly. Think of the V-k million boys and girls who never saw a saloon! That must be credited to Governor St.

Johr more than to any other man. "I should like to see the people of Kansas erect a suitable monument to his memory and will be glad to assist in any way I can." Mr. Faris paid a tribute to Mrs. St. John, "who stood by his side through these troubles as a helpmate to this knight." "This friend of ours is not dead," said Mr.

Hodges, "his work lives and will go on. And while he will have his monument, he has the greatest monument the world can give, the love and respect of his fellow men." Dr. Marvin M. Culpepper, of the First Methodist church conducted the services. His text was from St.

John 1, 6 "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John." Doctor Culpepper, who was close to Mr. St. John in-his final illness, said of him that "after 'skirmishing around in the world of thought, in his last days he came back again to Jesus, the Naza-rene, realizing that there is but one Savior." Train Crew Saves Motorists. Bert Walker of Emporia and Mrs. Walker escaped death in a motor car accident recently by the quick work of the crew of a freight train which was passing near tire road where the motor car overturned.

Tire car skidded on newly graded road and overturned, pinning both occupants beneath. The car caught fire, but Walker and -his wife were not burned. Mall Carter Killed. Jacob Hosney, rural route mail carrier out of Valeda, a small town twenty-fjve miles southwest of Oswego, was killed when a shotgun which he was attempting to lift from behind a stove, was accidentally discharged. Touches Wire; May Die.

Arthur Ferris, an electrician for tho street car company at Leavenwoith, was probably fatally injured at Leavenworth when he touched a high tension wire while at the top of a tall ladder. The shock hurled him to a concrete floor. He was badly burned and unconscious when picked up. fxr -jrr FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved la water for douches steps pelvic catarrh nice ration and iaflaaa nation. Recommended by Lydia E.

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plants. In the month were completed LOSSES SCTY HEYKTD CUTTIM HACKLE! PIUI LMrlc4, Ml. MlhkUll BUCK Em piaiatiadby pralNt whir WrfttbrbooMttiidtottfmoijala. iv-flna Kt.Biacuiimis. ai.n IUm BlxklM Ml.

XI TU klub. Th iiiMrlerltr'ol CattM product! It 4a if tmn al apadallilai ja VACUUM AMD MRUMt convention at Wichita in June, 1917. It is estimated the attendance will be ten thousand. To Build Prison Silo. Warden T.

W. Morgan of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth has been authorized by the government to purchase and Install a 130-ton eilo. The drouth and the need of something to keep feed for the large herd of prison milk cows finally induced the government to go Into the silo feed proposition. Pageant at JOsawatomle. More than three thousand persons observed the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of Osawatomie recently.

Governor Capper delivered the speech dedicating the bronze tablet given by the Woman's Relief Corps of Kansas and dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic. At night a dramatic pageant reproducing the Battle of Osawatomie was given. This celebration will be observed annually August 13. in the state eight school buildings, five electric light plants or additions, one water plant and thirteen street paving and sewer contracts. One city issued bonds for a park and another issued bonds for constructing a boulevard.

Total bond Issues of the month 'amounted to $1,106,691.81. 4 C. W. Kouns Dead In Topeka. Charles W.

Kouns, general manager of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway's eastern lines, died at his home here' a few hours after returning from Washington, where he participated actively in the controversy over wages for the train service employees, JJ, JJ, Sick Benefits for Prlsoner7 Can a Kansas man ill in prison draw money on his sick benefit policy? That t4f dlKCt III Srttaf UMMMV, MIMf, M. tt Wata, Atoil lalpa Hrtlaato aaAr. Baavitr to Qray aaM Hair. Ma. andltM al DnnMt APPGNDICITIO Is the question submitted to the attorney general by the state insurance de partment the other day, Ida writ ror Ttloabia Book or I nfornatioa ft i.

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