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1 the to here knew an he all I is be upon and peace and are czar's in a to interests. the will Japan he if to is is to whose is as 10 THE KANSAS CITY STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1903. A FIGURE OF EARLY DAYS. DEATH OF SETH WARD, WHO WAS AN INDIAN TRADER MANY YEARS AGO.

Here When the Site Kansas City Was Farm Land and Wilderness, Ile Had Seen the Growth of a Great City. The funeral of the late Seth Ward, whose death last night was announced in The Times this morning, will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the residence, Fifty-fifth street and Broadway. The funeral services will be conducted by Dr. J. P.

Green, president of William Jewell college at Liberty. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery, Carriages came along would sell them fresh and ready to continue their journey. In 1855 he married Mrs. McCarty, a widow, whose father, John Harris, owned part of Westport. Mr.

Ward bought adjoining land. and before the boom his holdings had become very extensive. He bought and sold land when the city was growing fast, and his holdings in Kansas City real estate were very extensive. Since his age- he was 83- has kept him out of active life. his son, Hugh C.

Ward, has managed all of his property and transacted all business in connection with his holdings. THE CZAR READY TO AGREE. Settlement of f1 the Chinese Diffleulties Now la Sight. PARIS, Dec. information has been received here that the czar signed his approval of the general conditions preliminary to a Russo-Japanese agreement.

The overtures were formulated after the THE LATE SETH WARD. (From a photograph taken at his home two years ago.) will be at Main street and Westport avenue at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon for those who will attend the funeral. Though the younger generation and new arrivals in Kansas City did not, as a rule, Mr. Ward, have much acquaintance with he was well known to the older people. Those who were when Kansas City small town him well.

He was a was one of the few saw of Kansas who City's growth. When first knew the place all of Kansas City and pretty much all of Westport was farm land. That was fourteen years before the Missouri legislature passed an act to permit the City of Kansas to adopt the charter "heretofore granted to the City of St. Joseph" and amend it according to their needs. He knew Independence even before that time, having visited town before 1838.

"From 1838 1845 Mr. Ward lived with the Indians in what is now Colorado and Wyoming. During that time he learned to live on exclusive meat diet, and when buffalo meat, venison and othering, game had run low, could join with the Indians in eating their dogs, a last resort in time of food shortage. Later he began to freight goods from Independence to the Indian agencies in Kansas. That was even before the days of the Santa Fe trail.

Then freighters had loads both conferences between Admiral Alexieff, the Russian viceroy in the far East, and the Japanese authorities. The results were intrusted to Admiral Alexieff to forward The approval to St. of Petersburg. them will communicated and it believed the negotiations proceed toward a conclusion. from Tokio The pessimistic reports are believed by the officials here to reflect the feeling aroused at the delays preceding the (czar's approval of the general conditions for a agreement.

These a delays are said to have been unavoidable incidents of the czarina's illness. It is believed that Japan's early receipts of official notification regarding paRussia's cific course will result in similar 1111 provement in the Japanese aspect. JAPAN, Dec. The emperor opened the Diet this morning. In referring to the situation with regard to Russia, said that his ministers now with prudence circumspection, important international negotiations for the preservation of far East and of rights Japan's BERLIN, Dec.

the debate -day in Reichstag the estithe budget mates Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, declared Russia could casily seize Kiau- THE WARD HOME, ON 400 ACRES JUST SOUTH OF THE CITY. ways, as the Indians did not know the use of money and hides served in its place. Later he established a trading post at Laramie and made big profits buying from gold seekers, who had overlonded their wagons so they could not get through the mountains, and selling again to others who were short of supplies He often bought travel-worn oxen for a small price and got a good price for fresh oxen. He would care for the worn-out animals al few weeks and when another traveler SIMPLE REMEDY FOR CATARRH. Just Breathe Myomel Four Times a Day and Be Cured.

If a few years ago someone had said can cure catarrh by breathing air you charged with a healing balsam, the idea would have been, ridiculed, and it remained for that eminent in investigator, R. T. Booth, to discover 111 Hiyomei this method of cure. Hyomei has performed almost miraculous cures of catarrh, and is to-day recognized by leading members of medical profession as the only advertised remedy that can be relied upon to do just what it claims. The complete outfit of Hyomei costs but and consists of an inhaler, a medicine, dropper and A bottle of Hyomer.

Breathe Hyomei through the inhaler for a few minutes four times a day and it will cure the worst case of catarrh. It soothes and heals the mucous membrane of the air passages, prevents irritation and effects a complete and lasting cure. Iu Kansas City there are scores of well known people who say they have been cured of catarrh by I yomei. If it does not cure you, the Owl Drug company will return the money you paid for Hyomei. This is the strongest evidence that can be offered as to their faith in the remedy.

The Owl Drug company of this city will fill orders by mail, postage paid, on receipt of price. I will KAW RIVER FLOOD PLANS. PACKERS AND RAILROAD MEN WILL PRESENT. THEIR IDEAS TO-MORROW. An Effort to Be Made to Agree Upon General Flood Prevention Plan for the Use of Government Engineers.

A meeting of representatives of the packing companies and the railroads that were affected most by the recent flood will be held in the clubroom of the Coates house to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock for the purpose of an effort to agree upon a general for flood premaking, vention work along the Kaw river. S. Waters Fox, the river improvement commission's engineer and the local representative of the government board of engineers, and the members of the executive and finance committees of the commission, will also attend the meeting, the call for which was issued by Fred W. Fleming, chairman of the executive committee. Mr.

Fleming has received letters from nearly all the large interests that were invited to send representatives to the meeting accepting the invitation. The railroads affected most by the overflow of the Kaw river were the Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Chicago Great Western, Kansas City Southern, the Kansas City Belt line and the Metropolitan street railway. It is expected that all will be represented at the meeting. In advising the executive committee that the Missouri Pacific will be represented at the meeting Russell Harding, vice president and general manager, wrote: "The object of this meeting is one in which all Kansas City lines are interested very deeply." In replying to the committee's letter of invitation I. H.

Rich, general manager for Swift said: It is Swift opinion that, regardless of what other action may be taken by the river commission in regard to flood prevention, there should be a dike built on the left bank of the Kaw, going down, which would be on the north side of the river where the old Fifth street bridge was. That is a very low place-lower than any other part of the river bank. It is where the water first cut through and made what we thought was going to be a permanent channel, and through which came the majority. of the water which damaged Armourdale. This would have no reference to diking the entire river.

It would only fill up a low place which is very dangerous to this part of Armour. dale even in an ordinary flood. Mr. Rich also stated that Swift Co. would vote with the majority of the interests on any plan for flood prevention that might be deemed feasible.

W. R. De Witt, an assistant government engineer, working along the Missouri under the direction of Captain H. M. Chittenden, in Kansas City to He will attend the meeting.

The general probably plan for river betterments agreed uponone devised- -will be laid before the government engineers when they meet here December 20. THE NEWS IN LEAVENWORTH. An Unusunl Pest nt the Fort-Forty-Six Divorce Snits Pending. LEAVENWORTH, Dec. dents of Fort Leavenworth, and the inmates of the old United States penitentiary in particular, are suffering much annoyance from skunks.

These pests prowl around the residences at night and often crawl under houses and into cellars. At the penitentiary they get under the cellhouse and frequently cause from 100 to 200 prisoners to remain awake all night. The annoyance commenced last June when they were driven from the bottoms by the high water. The animals remained in the hills and multiplied. Since cold weather began they under the buildings go to keep warm.

They get into the sewer pipes and drains at the penitentiary and spend the night as near possible to the hot steam pipes under the cellhouses. The docket for the January term of the district court contains forty-six divorce cases. This twenty less than at the of the October term. Some of the opening couples divorce suits are pending are living together again. The docket also has 126 civil suits.

Judge Gillpatrick is ready to hold court almost daily, from January April, so as to clear the docket, provided lawyers and litigants are ready proceed with the trials. Members of the Kansas Loyal Legion will have a banquet for General J. Franklin Bell Saturday night. A regular monthly meeting of the Loyal Legion will be at the Planters' hotel in the evening preceding the banquet. General Freeman, Colonel Conover and Judge Gillpatrick will speak.

Court of Honor Lodge No. 1040 elected the following officers for the new year: Chancellor, E. R. Snodgrass; vice chancellor, W. W.

Hull; recorder, A. M. Ritter; chaplain, Lucy Bergman; conductor, Alvin Erman; guard, William Bayless; sentinel, Frank Reynolds; directors, J. Erman and J. W.

Dawson. There will be a poultry exhibit December 18 and 19 011 Cherokee street near Fifth street. No prizes will be offered, but owners of fancy chickens in this county are invited to bring their poultry. Eugene filed suit yesterday for a divorce from Mrs. Susie Goble.

He alleges that she would not remain at home, and often remained away a month at a time. He asks for the custody of their boy, 6 years old. Henry Stokes of Company Sixth infantry, at Fort Leavenworth, was arrested yesterday and accused of robbing W. M. Thompson, a veteran of the Soldiers' home.

Thompson said that Stokes robbed him of two watches and $3. Edgar Stewart's bakery at 616 South Fifth street caught fire yesterday, while a was frying doughnuts. building, and machinery, were damaged about eight hundred dollars. The temperature here dropped to 3 degrees above zero early this morning. John Liebengood, parole officer of the Hutchinson Reformatory, was here last If night.

Mrs. Frederick Harvey left last night for New York. Mrs. M. Arries left yesterday for Denver.

She was the guest of her son, C. R. Arries. MUNYON'S PAW-PAW Well-Known People Testify That It Cured Them of CATARRH It Is Nature's Own Remedy for This Serious Ailment. STOPS DISCHARGES Purifies the Blood -Heals the Sore Spots and Drives the Disease From the System.

MUNYON PAW I PAW- sible. It heals and membrane, purifies out of the blood, all you eat, rests strength and makes Catarrh becomes a constitutional disease when the poisonous catarrhal discharge from the head and nasal passages drops down into the throat and then passes into the stomach, where i it may attack that ofgan, the kidneys or liver, whichever is the weaker, and Catarrh results. My Paw-Paw, if taken in time, makes Catarrh imposstrengthens the mucous and drives the poison makes you eat, digest your nerves, gives you you glad to live. MUNYON. THE SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH ARE PLAIN, You cannot mistake the discharges from the nose and throat, the bad breath, the irritated membrane, the stuffy feeling 111 the nose, the pressure and pain in the head.

dizziness, sneezing, nose bleed, inflamed, watery eyes; liability to take cold; stupid, dull feeling in the head; nausea, deafness and the hawking and spitting of mucus that drops from the nose into the throat. If you have noticed any of these symptoms you have Catarrh, or will soon have it. Do not delay. Get a bottle of PawPaw and give yourself the benefit of its protection. Read what others say who have been cured by Paw-Paw and then act quickly in defense of your health and happiness.

If you have catarrh, Try it. If you have dyspepsia, Try it. If you are nervous. Try it. If you are despondent, Try it.

If you are weak and run down, Try it. Cast away all tonics, all medicines and all stimulants and let Munyon's Paw-Paw make you well. It will lift you into the high altitudes of hope and hold you there. It give exhilaration without intoxication. It makes old people feel young and weak people strong.

Sold by all druggists. Large bottle, $1. Paw-Paw Laxative Pills, 25c a bottle. MAIL SERVICE IN SUBURBS. THE POSTOFFICE EXPECTS FIFTEEN NEW CARRIERS JANUARY 1.

Free Delivery to Be Extended to All Parts of the CIty--Night Collections In Districts Where There Is None Now. An important improvement in the mail service in Kansas City will probably take place January when it is expected that fifteen new carriers, which Postmaster Joseph H. Harris has requested, will be allowed. Mr. Harris said this morning that he had not yet been advised that the carriers would be allowed, but little doubt exists that they will be granted.

This advice is expected on every mail. The addition of fifteen carriers to the will permit of an extension of deservice liveries and collections of mail to outlyThis ing territory within the city limits, territory has built up rapidly and those living in the districts affected have felt the need of an extension to the service for some time. Those in charge of the mail service at the postoffice regard the additions to the service as particularly timely. The principal feature of the improvement will be to give two regular deliveries a day to two and one-half square miles of territory never before, covered. This includes the territory lying south of Forty-fifth street and east of Garfield avenue, and also takes in a strip of territory south of Thirty-ninth street and east to the city limits.

Another of the city where the free delivery will section. be begun is that lying between the Blue river and the city limits in the Sheffield district. NIGHT COLLECTIONS OF MAIL. The most important change which will be noted in the collection of mail will be the extension of the night collection service to all territory from Hardesty avenue. and the State Line, between Independence avenue and Thirty- street.

At the present time in some of this territory letters and correspondence which persons handle from their homes is allowed to lie in the boxes from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until IO or IT clock the following morning. Mr. Harris has also asked an allowance for the maintenance of two carts and one contract wagon as additional equipment for the collection service. Should the additions to the service be granted by December 15. at which time they were asked for, it will be possible to give increased efficiency to the delivery and collection of mail during the holiday rush in the business and residence districts of the city.

A Weak Stomach, Besides being the cause of most sickness, is also contrary to Nature. It was intended that this important organ HOST should be strong and healthy, for it is from this source we STOMACH receive all our strength. Then it is very important that BITTERS? you commence taking Hostetter's 00 Stomach Bitters at once, because it is universally acknowledged to be the best stomach strengthener in the world. For 50 years it has been successfully used by sickly people all over the country. It will positively cure Nausea, Sick Headache, Heartburn, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Cramps, Liver Complaints, Insomnia and Malaria, Fever and Ague.

00 Be sure to try a bertin, to-day. The genuine must have our Private Stamp neck. At all Druggists. loreme mow for the standard value in 5 cout cigare. Whom the cigar man says as good 0.0 a Crass' Let the Creme Take Things As They Come When you buy soda biscuit in a paper bag, take them as they stale- soggyDon't blame the baker.

Don't blame the grocer. Don't blame anyone but yourself. When you buy Uneeda Biscuit look for the In-er-seal-the famous red and white trade-mark design that identifies the package which keeps them -cleanCredit the baker for baking them. Credit the grocer for keeping them. Credit yourself for buying them.

Uneeda Biscuit NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY The Best Citizens Of Kansas City Take the Santa Fe When They Go East. If You Do The Same You Will Be in Good Company. it's Nice to Travel With Pleasant People. The Santa Fe is a pleasant line in other respects-meals served by Harvey--three fine and fast trains daily to Chicago, on a million dollar track, leaving 7:30 a. 6:00 p.

m. and 7:00 p.m. For tickets and sleeping car berths, apply at A. T. S.

F. Ticket Office, 905 Main Santa re Union Depot or 22d and Grand Ave. Station. WE CURE MEN Have you ever stopped to think about the question of getting your health back? Are you perfectly satisfied with the way things are going with your strength and vitality- -your mental and physical powers? Perhaps you suffer in silence from weakness and backache, just becatise you do not know where to gO to get cured. Possibly you never thought about it one way or the other.

IT IS TIME TO THINK. You liave got to live, and why live in the enjoyment of perfect health and manhood? Are you interested in your own pleasure and the keen enjoyment of a perfect physical condition, realized only by perfect health? This can be obtained only by treating with a reliable specialist--one who knows what to du for you, and who can back his knowledge up by this proposition. NOT A DOLLAR NEED BE PAID UNTIL CURED. You do not pay us until you are satisfied and you are restored to health. Can we say more? of and get our opinion without any cost to you.

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BIGGER AT 8:15 TO-NIGHT IN OLD BRIGHTER THAN EVER POPULAR MATINEE SATURDAY I KENTUCKY NEXT WEEK SUNDAY MATINEE HENRY W. SAVAGE OFFERS RICHARD GOLDEN and a Great Cast in KING DODO By Pixlev Luders. Authors of Prince of Pilsen Seats now on sale---No Increase in Prices. TELEPHONES MAIN 692 and 0695 WEEK OF DECEMBER 6. MODERN VAUDEVILLE.

Lydia Yeomans-Titus Sisters Rappo E. Rousby's "in A. P. Rostow The Three Richards Mr. Mrs.

Walter B. James and Sadie Leonard Deaves Tom Mack The Kinodrome MATINEE EVERY DAY PRICES 25c, 15: Chow whenever it suited its fancy, and therefore Germany should exercise its moral influence to prevent difficulties in East Asia. The speaker that there would be a large increase in the military estimates. Mayor Gilbert Wants Addresses. Mayor T.

B. Gilbert of Kansas City, Kas. is anxious to learn the present places of residence of William Lesley, J. C. McIntosh, M.

L. Butcher, Lou Menew, Charles Kelber, W. C. Runyon, Thomas Tolliver, L. M.

Weinberger, L. S. Bean, W. H. Ayers, J.

A. McFarland, Jim Spears, R. I. Lemmons, J. McNeal, W.

A. Burnett. Millie Ready, M. Lewis, C. L.

Wildermood. Mrs. Catherine Callahan. If these people will call on the mayor or send their addresses to him before Saturday o'clock they will receive informaLion of value to them. Former Kansas Cliyan on the Stage.

Harry Hedrix, who is one of the actors with "The Brigadiers" at the Century theater this week, was born and reared in Kansas City, He and his wife, Ada Prescott, appear in one of the best acts of the show, a song and dance turn. Seven years ago Mr. Hedrix left Kansas City to gO upon the stage. Since then he has been mostly in vaudeville. The Yenger Memorial Fund.

The fund being raised among the teachers and school children of the city for the erection of memorial to Robert L. Yeager had reached a total of $621.52 before noon to-day. The following subscriptions were received this morning: Lowell school, Hamilton school. Chace school, total, $40.68. Cutting.

From the New York Times. Clara- Oh, hum! I wish the Lord had made me a man! Mother- -Perhaps he has, dear; only you haven't found him yet. TELEPHONE WILLIS WOOD 1032 Every Night, Matinees Wed. and Sat. Henry W.

Savage Offers George Ade's Latest Musical Comedy PEGGY FROM PARIS "A big winner." -Globe Democrat. Next Week-Qulucy Adams Sawyer. Tel. 570 AUDITORIUM and Main Sat. HOYT'S A BUNCH OF KEYS NEXT WEEK- JANE KENNARK Seat Sale To-Day.

GILLISS10-20-30-50: 10-20-30-50c To- Matinees Wed, and Sat. Howard Hall and a Great Cast, The Man Who Dared See the Sensational Entrance to the Lion's Den, Monte Carlo, etc. Next Week-Al Martin's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." THEATRE NO CENTRAL MATIN SUNDAY. MONDAY THURSDAY, SATURDAY 341 GRAND. ALL THIS WEEK THE BRIGADIERS Presenting 2-Bright Burlesques With Plenty of Pretty Girls.

NEXT WEEK- "THE CRACKERJACKS." Central High School Auditorium Friday Evening, Dee. 11 James Whitcomb Riley In Readings From His Poems. Sent Sale Tuesday, 9 A. nt Burlington Meket Offlee. Prices Admission 50c.

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