The Hoisington Dispatch from Hoisington, Kansas • Page 6

MARKETS CORRECTED DAILY MARCH OF AM ERICANIQM. HI'S PROMill. Woman Dean of Women. Miss- Theodosia Ammons, who represented Colorado at the national suffrage convention at New Orleans, Is dean of women in the Colorado -Agricultural College. fWLC AO? GMTS VOlST GLW7m COrtZXyvZTEOJOrj' 7- iSAyy OTVCLS SAT1 MATT It Rebukes The Desecration- Of Memorial Day By Gaety.

SHMF Fl nnilFNT PARAGRAPHS. 999 mam mam mam ar mm Topeka, May 20. Govern ot Bailey is JM a. A 1 ,1 4,2 day. Tie.

wants it observed in a patriotic manner instead of games and The great curse is selfishness. The frron f. ciaprirA 6(r5fiw. f2rn.t.i tilde IS one of the finest of human sentiments. The selfishness of slavery and secession brought about that colossal sacrifice- which makes the civil war a lone rkinnnnlA nn f.ho fdrv line of the world's war architecture.

This unparalleled offering" moves us, the beneficiaries, to the deepest sentiments of gratefulness. The beautiful custom of our memorial was years ago recognized by the legislature of this state in an enactment declaring May 30 a legal holiday. Since this expression by the lawmaking power of Kansas, her sons of a younger generation have done honor to the memory of their fathers and challenged the admiration of the world by their decency and gallantry in the war with Spain. The Union preserved by the fathers and expanded by their sons has reached a rank in the family of nations which makes every true son of the republic proud. In order that the people of this state may with becoming devotion pay their annual tribute to the soldiers aud sail ors, living aud dead, who on land and sea by their sacrificial valor made this our great inheritance what it is, V.

J. Bailey, governor of the state of Kansas, do hereby proclaim the 30th of May, 1903, a day set apart by most proper custom and enactment for such public observance as may best show onr gratitude, and inspire a deeper love of country. 1 request that all churches, civic and charitable societies, public officials and educational institutions, join with the military organization iu making this day all that it should be, by virtue of its memories and meaning, and that our citizens refrain from perverting this memorial occasion to the use of games and gayety. Tennessee Pleads Not Guilty. Washington, May 19.

Senator Bate, of Tennessee, had a conference with Postmaster General Payne concerning" the reported intimidation of John A. Allgood, carrier on the rural mail route at Gallatin, Tenn. Senator Bate informed the postmaster general that only two persons had participated in the intimidation of Carrier Allgood, and matutained that the entire law-abiding- community should not be held responsible for the actions of the two men. He urged that the department restore" the service. No action will be taken pending1 the receipt of the report of Inspector Conger who is investigating-the matter.

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WHEAT No 2 74 CORN No. 2. fa OATS No. 2 I -St. LouU Lire Stock.

78 45 33 BEEVES 4 15 HEIFERS 225 TEXAS STEERS. 3 30 .7" Cotton. -MH'llinji LIVERPOOL NEW YORK Wichita Grain. Close 5 15 4 70 4 65 12.104 Close Y'day 799 Open Low Today July Sept CORN May Sept. OATS May July Sept 79V 73 74 72 74Ji 71? 4i 44i 4i 44 jZ u4 34 31 41 44- 86H 83 90 34 81 30 Wichita Litre Stoclc.

5 90 6 10 CATTLE 8TOCKERS 4 00 2 00 SHEEP (b 4 40 STalERS 4 33 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. The miners' strike at Pana, 111., has been settled. The president spent four days in the Yosemite valley. The forest fire in the Adirondacks continues its dangerous condition. Mayor Low of New York has stopped the preaching- of Mormon ism in the streets.

The Victoria parliament Is in session at Melbourne to pass a measure dealing with the railroad strike. The sibway contractors of New York employ every man who will work in place of strikers. Police guard the entire line. America sends a hundred million dollars to Europe every- year to support the families that American girls have married into. Fourteen hundred Kansas City school children have deposits in the school savings bank averaging over eleven dollars each.

There are about 50,000 Chinese resi-dent in Manila. They are being inoculated with bubonic serum to prevent a spread of the plague. Fire at Halifax, N. destroyed a larg-e furniture factory, with 40,000 feet of lumber and several small build-id gs. Loss $175,000.

The Chicago, Burlington Quincy railroad has about 50,000 freight cars which are now being relettered at the various division points. Prof. Stedd has been forced out of the Latin chair at Emory college, Georgia, on account of a-magazine ar ticle criticising Southern whites for their treatment of the negroes. The strike of dock laborers at Val paraiso, Chile, is serious. The strikers are burning property.

A battle was fought over 200 killed or injured. A detachment of 3,000 troops has been sent there. An alarming- drouth prevails in Porto Rico, together with many small whirl winds. Coffee is the only crop in good condition. Jews of Portland, Oregon, sent -in one remittance $2,000 to aid the stir-v vivors of the massacre' at Kischineff, Major General; Shaflfir retired, has been 'elected the supreme commander of the G.

A. R. for California and Nevada. The membership of. the Woodmen of the World was on 1 las 176,028, a net increase in two years of 46,191.

Heavy rains and. storms have done much injury to crops in Florida. operators of sawmills and turpentine and phosphate plant have much damage. Many bridges are washed away and rock and shell reads re damaged to large amounts. 5 40 4 75 4 75 "660 am i Uncle' Sam as a "Good Fairy." Uncle Sam has purchased 250,000 pounds of Richmond tobacco for his "blue Jackets." Th(a recalls the old story about Jack Tar's- three wishes -all the 'baccy In the world, all the rum in' the world and for the third, "a little more 'baccy." The English Language.

So far from there being any real danger of the defilement of the language by the profusion of Briticisms and- Americanisms, of Canadlanlsms and Australlanlsms, of New Zeland-lsm8 If such exist, as no doubt they do English is really the most fortunate of air modern tongues in that it has so many sources of refreshment, to varied, so remote from each other. --Brander Matthews in Harper's An Old Lady's Discovery. Garnett, May 18th. For 18 years Mrs. Mary Dunlop of this place has suffered with'.

Kidney trouble, which was so bad at times that It made her life a burden. She tried much.medlcine and many treatments, but got no better. At however, Mrs. Dunlop claims to have found a perfect remedy, and-she Is so pleased at the wonderful cure she herself has received, that she is telling all her friends and praising the medicine to everyone she meets. The name of this medicine is Dodd's -Kidney Pills, and it has done wonderful work for Mrs.

Dunlop. Everybody Is talking about it, and some people are claiming to have been cured of Rheumatism by It. A Mrs. Garrett who lives in Brazils, this state, was at the point of death with some Cerebro-Spihal trouble and was saved by Dodd's Kidney Pills. It is certain that no other medicine ver introduced here has done so much good in such a short time.

Respect for Spinsters. We in England have for some time past recognized the social and. shall it not be said, economic value of the spinster. She has long since ceased to be disparaged, and. Indeed, we see very year how our girls cling to free-4om and voluntarily -constitute themselves what but- a generation ago would have been described as hopeless old maids." Lady's Pictorial.

Darnum'f Practical Joke. P. T. Barnum was a great practical joker. On one occasion he notified the dealer from whom he bought a large amount of supplies that half the pepper he sent him was peas.

The dealer Indignantly denied the charge and quite a warm correspondence followed, it being finally ended by Barnum, who inquired whether half the letters In the word "pepper" were not p's. Kentucky's Aquatic Hen. Mrs. Annie Lawrence of near Winchester had a chicken hen to go to the creek and wade In the water and spread her wings out on top of the water. and laid five eggs.

The first time Mrs. Lawrence -saw her she thought a turtle or something had hold of her. When she went to her sixth egg Mrs. Lawrence had company to come, and she killed her for dinner. Winchester Democrat.

BE INDEPENDENT It's Easy to 8hake Off the Coffee Habit, There are many people who make the humiliating acknowledgment that they are dependent upon Coffee to "brace them up" every little while. These have never learned the truth about- Postum Cereal Coffee which makes leaving off coffee a simple matter and brings health- and strength In place of coffee ills. A lady of Davenport, Iowa, who used Postum Food Coffee for five years Is competent to talk upon the subjects She says: "I am a school teacher and during extra work when I thought I needed to be. braced up I used to indulge in rich, strong coffee of which I was very fond and upon which I thought I was dependent. "I began to have serious heart palpitation and at times had sharp pains around the heart and more or less stomach trouble.

I read about Postum and got some I dropped coffee, took up the Postum and it worked such wonders for me that many of my friends took it up. Tn hnrt tlmA.I was well strain. even able to attend evening socials. And I did not miss my coffee at I can truthfully say that I have been repaid fully for the change I made. I have no Indications of heart disease' and not once in the past four years have I had a sick headache or" bilious spelL 7 "Uf father, 78 years old, is turn enthusiast, and feels that his' good health In a large measure is due to the 6 cups of good, Postum which' ha enjoys each day." Name furnished, by Poxtca Battle Creek, Ulch.

MORTALBBAUG'S REPORT. Says Building: And Loan Associations Should Have Simpler Contracts. Topeka, May 20. Bank Commission er Aibaugh, in his fourth annual report of the building- and loan associations of Kansas, just issued, says: The department has continued to ex perience such- trouble from the various co-operative companies, the seductive character of whose literature has con tinued to enlist the membership of people in different parts of the state. As a rule, these have been people who are not Well informed and- who could not afford to lose even the small amount that they have invested before they ascertained the character of the companies in which they were making investments.

While the business "of the companies at Kansas City waned, others at Wichita, Coffey ville and Topeka continued to do business despite the efforts of this department, assisted as it has been by the newspapers to suppress them." There are forty local buildin? ana loan associations in the state andjthree general associations, with aggregate assets to the amount of $4,662, 341. G8, an increase for the past year of Commissioner Aibaugh recommends that the present building-. and loan law should be simplified so that those who invest'in building- and loan stock may have a contract so clear and explicit that there can be no misunder standing- relative to its contents. Individual Right To Labor. New Haven, May 20.

Union labor and Yale student interests have come into conflict by the adventure of six undergraduates of Yale who ie-, eently took JLhe places of striking- truck tlrivers. Committeemen from the trades anions have asked President Hadley to call the students from the trucks. Yale's' president has declined on the ground that the constitution permits any man to sell his labor, and now threats intimating- that "union labor at I work on Yale's new halls may be called out in a sympathetic strike are heard among the strikers. Bible Printers Strike. Philadelphia, May 19.

A strike has been inaugurated in the Bible printing establishment of the National Publish ing- company in this city. Sixty-five members of the "bookbinders' union struck because of the refusal of the company to pay the union scale. More than eighty girls are. idle as a result of tue bookbinders' strike. Booker Washington's Bed.

Atlanta, May 16. A movement has been started in Georgia to raise a handsome purse for Miss Louise Had- leyj the -Indianapolis chambermaid, who refused: to make up a bed which had been occupied by Booker Washing ton, and was discharged for her refusal The citizens of Senoia, made Hp a purse for her of $25, and it is probable a goodly sum will be realized. Many telegrams have been sent to Miss Had ley," assuring herthat Georgians appre ciate her actions. Enmity Against ffriare. Rome, May 15.

Various "documents received by the Vatican as well as the cardinals, from the Philippines, tend to prove that the enmity between secu lar classes and the friars in the archi pelago is far from abating. One of the most violent of the accusations against tne friars was sent by a professor in the college at Dagupan, Luzon. The general feeling the Vatican is unfavorable to the friars; they have, how-ever, come very strong -supporters, led A THREATENED DELUGE. WILL EXPOSE BRIBE TAKERS. Nebraska's Governor Indignant Concern Inf Proffered Bribe.

Lincoln, May 19. Governor Mickey says that he intends.to expose the bribe tenders who', offered him money to influence the appointment to four state offices. He said: "There will no political trickery or graft practiced during this admin istration. I do not know whether it 's bribery or not, but what am I to think of a man who hopes to influence me by offering to "donate $1,000 to a certain provided I appoint him to a po sition, or if I faror another he offers to piace the money in a third person's hands. I do not know whether it is bribery or not if a candidate for chief oil inspector offers, to give $1,000 to an other person aspiring- to the position as a balm." It is stated that au inves tigation of the alleged attempted bribery is being demanded by persons in different parts of the state.

Massacre Of Jew. London, May 20. Kischineff, Russia, is the scene of a massacre. The story reads like the brutal acts of former ages. In the town were many Jews.

They have all become paupers in a few hours." The anti- semi tic citizens robbed them, destroying- their property, and slaughtered hundreds in the most bar baric mannen Women were outraged and: then mutilated; men had -their hands, lips, ears; noses, etc, cut off. Wpraen were spiked to the ground; had nails driven into their heads; were dis- embowled; cliil.dred-unbprn were cut from their mothers and dashed against buiidingsT These are a few of the kinds of tortures put upon the Jews. Union Labor National Gnard. Topeka, May 20. The antagonism between union labor and the national has reached Kansas.

A new national guard company, to be known as Company IT, of the First regiment, has just been organized at Atchison. Wlien the time, came for the mustering in of the company, it was found that twenty-five of the boys, who were un der age, could not obtain the consent of their parents on account of the union labor idea. There were enough can didates for membership in the company, however, so that it was possible to proceed with its organization in spite this fact Rock Island Buy Texas Roads. Austin, Texas, May 18. Robert Mather, general counsel of the Rock Island, advised the Texas state railroad commission of the purchase by the Rock Island of one half interest in the Houston Texas Central, Houe ton -East and WTest Texas, and Texas Kew Orleans; also the making of a trackage contract with the Galveston, Houston Northern.

He submitted this and other trackage' contracts for -The Rock Island gains valuable connections by these deals. Deleffmte Wanted. Washington, May 16. Word has just reached Washington from Ind ian Territory that in the event that congress does not give Indian Territory a territorial form of government at the next session, a strong effort will be made to have It provide for a delegate to, congress from that territory. It is said that Representative Curtis of Kansas willbe asked to lead the flghW and some of the leading men" of the territory will come to Washington tb help push th6 bnithron ImSst III Muskogee, I.

T. May .16. The. new and Cherokee land have been received. This will, a lot of money which has been tied up in certified check put up to cover: transfers under the old forma which: were withdrawn without the privilige qt talcing; down the checks penaingf vne aecisioa oi iqb secretary on the new forms.

The new leases differ from the old in that, instead of a blanket mining- lease covering-- all classes of mineral, they are classified. Denver Cathedral Burned. Denver, May 16. At midnight the root ot ou ionn cauiearai, xne largest Protestant Episcopal church in the city. t.

Later. The interior oi me came- jr i a mi. .1 estimated at $100,000, although it cost much more than tnat. At was ouui ft 1881-The insurance is $30,000. The 1 1 by Cardinal VivQ 'J.