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L, a "M A. I. M AT I I :ii IN. l'.lltnr. A. II M A i i I,.SU. - - H. lA'TliXU I-RY. 'H'lt HU ...T...... MISPOVRI. , After al!, the but way to avoid hoat irwimlons in (o keep cool. Fmlnent a trcFHcs mill Insist op '.-"lug their diamonds. f Atr.-hlpa ami wlrl.-!.g messages art j row ding the atmosphere. Summer begun working' at the Job Industrlounly an soon as It arrived. X P;immer-resort nicwqnltwt have not '.rani of the war on them, f ', : ? ?min t A i. in 1. . . .. ninnllit -..".ihit? liic lilf'H IIIU; (lUtV juiiinuuv.' Mures, but noror rain 4 that. It Appears from oHirlnl reports that 'here is also a made-ln Germany de ceit. Pe thankful that radium "at present 4-nrIces Is sot one of the necessities of ife. cQ Those who cannot ewiru should avoid fading In water more than ten feet Jfcp. tO rr t u-h cakes exploited iu a New York Jtore end wrecked the place. They CQvcre prohablr made from the torpedo 5sh. ijv The bent statesmanship these days l ji exerted not toward Retting nations W ut of debt, but toward getting them S peeper in. Every man cannot loin the uplift by ridding the world of African lions, but be can assist at spreading trap for -he feet of the nefarious housefly. Whatever romance there may be !n ntematlonal marriages Is removed when the bride's father must settle lie Broom's debts. H is announced that" the Grefk !rama is about to become a fad with American theater goer. It Is Just an ;xcuse to get women to wear that style of clothes again. The yellow peril le a literal and nenacing fact wherever Sunday ichoola and well-meaning but worldly ITforant reform movements subject .rirls to the sinister association of Chinamen. A Russian grand duke baa aent an jrder for the American invention of diver forks for com on the cob and igain does the genlae of the western lemlspbere triumph over the nonre iourcefulneaa of effete Europe. . mj s - A man was arrested in New York ,'or kissing bis wife In their own wine while the shades at the window s-ere up. This is but atep removed ."rom arresting a man for kissing his a-!fe on Sunday, which will probably "ollow as a blue law not to be over- ' .ooked. - J 1 . . Princeton university rejoices In a tudent who haa discovered the flrat omet seen this year. That young ,,san probably la destined to proml- ience In the astronomical world. He nay not have hitched his wagon to a itar. but towed by a comet he may et there Just the same. Friends at Washington of Comman ler Peary, the Arctic explorer, be lieve that he. has reached the North Pole and the goal of his ambition and las placed the Aanerlcan flag there. srhla. If verified, will be crowning ' triumph for American pluck and per severance. Incidentally the announce nent will also aave trouble for a auru a.er of other gentlemen headed In the same direction or contemplating a Tip to the cole. A Chicago magistrate has decided '.hat It la no crime for one person to tread on another person's foot, but Lhat neither la it a 1iue for the down trodden person U retaliate by amtt-"-;ng the fuot-crufchor In the eye or on i Jie Jaw. If Solomon could revisit the i arth and hear some of the Judicial Utljecision, of modern life, he would ac ((.nowledge tba folly of trying to keep . ftlHs record for freak declulona for an 'nstant. The mosquito la made almost a bird f prey by the dispatch from Cape i Town which state that an overflow I f the Orange river due to a heavy . ainfalf, has bred so many uioto,ulto k,n the Cordonla northern district that v, firce quarters of the population are utnVcted with nialurla. which U tw..n JJatal in many cases. In Borne parta of he world the house screen is a siuil- ".ary necesalty, both day and night, but Qjjho houseUy la the chief danger in ion malarious countrlea. pr - . Chicago's plan for the construction if an auditorium capable of accom modating 45.000 people fa interesting. 3ut the architects will have a task 'n Uniting a building In which ao many nn find aeatlng or Blinding room ltMn ear-ahot of speakers. A vast p(iall In which oaly a portion of an aa "ifenihlage can get within hearing dla-P-4iure of the Breakers' platform would jc;ve disappointing and therefore lesi ' lefctialile than a amaller hull In i,it ' JX.11 can participate in the "doings." P" It has long been remarked that an .tland off Chicago that could be used or pleasure purposes would be bet er than the rlcheBt of gold mines for ts oner, but there la no such pro ii'! Ion from the bottom of the lake, iiid Chicago has tad to be content wtu parks along the shore. Hut nov ( t In But'gt-ated mat an lalund be con inicted iu a reef which exists In the hallow iae off the city, for a public ;ark. Tlil la visionary, and If an . !!:! in? were made wl!h dredglngs and ""uinp.'ngs It would lack beauty b aia of lu docked tliojea. A COOL RECLFTION IN CLOUDS Balloonltts tncountere4 8now $torm 13,000 Fet Above 1 1 Earth Wer Obliged to Descend. Pt. Iyouls, Missouri. A mid uminier enow storm two miles aloe earth caused John Hurry, Paul J. MrCullouti and .Toha 8. Thurman. who ascended here H the hrtlloon I'nlverlty City In an attempt to capture the I-ahm cup to land near Savanna, III. They trav eled 212 miles mostly through, rain. The attempt to win the cup was giv en up after the h;i, netting and basket became so wet that the gas would bo loiiK'T support the weight. "At one time when we were trying to get out of the snow storm," ah! ("apt. Horry over the long distance telephone. "We rose to 13,000 feet. We were In rain clouds nearly all nlsht and got soaking wet. "At 7 o'clock, after I had thrown out ballast, we left the rain cloud and went Into snow. At times the basket swung around like a top. Sleet cut our faces, and we bad to keep brush ing snow off the edge of the basket to prevent its weight from retarding our flight" The landing wns made In a wheat Ccld nine miles north of Savanna. The distance covered was about 233 miles short of the Lahm cup record of 475 miles, established by Capt. Charles Pe Forest Chandler in a flight from St Louis in Ovtober. 1907. BRISTOW CONSULTS PRESIDENT The Kansas Senator Explained Posi tion of "Progressives" on tht Pending Tariff Bill. Washington, D. C At an Infor mal meeting of the "progressive" sen ators Brlstow made report of a visit he made to the White house. His visit was made in view of a satement attributed to tho president criticising the position of the "pro gressive' senators. Mr. Brlstow stat ed that he had found the president In sistent upon a downward revision as outlined by him In his campaign speeches, and so far as he went in that direction the progressives were with him. He also told his associates the president was not especially phas ed with the bill so far as It has been formulated In conference. Senator Bristow, called on the presi dent to assure him that the progres sive Republicans agreed with him as to the basis of tariff revision. They felt. Brlstow said, that the Republican platform should be accepted In lta statement that protection should carry the difference In the cost of production plus a reasonable profit to the manu facturer. WILL TRY THE RUSSIANS NEXT Hawaiian Sugar Planter Will Import ' Some of the Czar's Subjects as Laborers. Honolulu. Hawaiian sugar plant ers are contemplating Importing Rus sian Immigrants to solve the labor problem In the island. A Russi.-ui capitalist now visiting here, has offer ed his assistance to bring some cf l.Is countrymen to the Island, many of whom, he stated would like to come as plantation laborers. The Hawaiian plauters have experi mented with Japanese. Spanish, Portu guese and Porto Rlcan laborers, and all have proved unsatisfactory. The Japanese are on strike for higher wages and many of the Spaniards Partuguese and Porto Rtcans became discontented and left the islands. Second Trial for Judge Maben. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma District Judge W. N. Maben, who was recent ly acquitted of the charge of accept ing bribes was suspended by District Judge Rosner at Tecumseh, pending the trial of Meben on seven other Indictments, In one of which be Is charged with embezzlement. NO MORE KOW-TOWING TO RICH Uob Oeclacs That He Will Hereafter Collect the Revenue and Do it Quick. New York, N. Y. "There will he no more kow towing to the rich by tho customs agents of thla port." announc ed Collector William Loco, jr., "no more skip through-eaay subserviency. Heretofore the poor BchiMil teacher who had taken a frugal trip abroad has all the worst of 11, but from now vu we are going to have quicker clear aucva, more revenue and fewer dis gruntled cltSxcns." By placing customs desks on both paatiiger decks of incoming liners, instead of on one only, aa formerly, Mr. Loeb waa recently able to clear the Louisiana In one hour, against a paMt average of three; and he says be expects eventually to cut the time to 20 minutes. "1 feel proud," ho added, "that while we have lessened the clearing time two-thirds, we have in created the customs receipts 100 per ceut" One Thing That Aldrlch Mltaad. New, York, N. Y. Harvey T. An drews, a lawyer of this city, who was formerly attached to the force of the appraiser of the port, thinks he has caught Senator Aldrlch In an omission the Payne-Aldrtch tariff bill provides no classification for flying machines. A Leopard Injured a Child. Pea Moines. Iowa Myrtle Btrauber, three-year-old daughter of Kurl Strau ber, waa so badly lacerated by a leopard at the couuty fair at Rockwell City that It la feared the girl will din. NCY FCr? A mm mi-. i : f 1 THE DEMAND FOR SMALL BILLS TREASURY DEPARTMENT ASKS NATIONAL BANKS TO HELP. f They Will Exchange Large Notes For Small Denominations It Will Supply Demand. Washington, D. C. The co-opera tion of the National banks with the treasury department In furnishing small hills to meet the demands grow ing out of the movement of the crops In various sections of the country, la urged In a statement given out at the treasury department. The sug gestlon followed a conference of the treasury official at which the whole matter waa threshed out Th relief sought Is to have the Na tional banks Issue $5 bank notes to their legal limit In place of the larger denominations and then to exchange their $5 certificates for $1 silver cer tificates of equal aggregate value. The statement follows: "The usual fall demand Is being made on the treasury department by the banks for a supply of aanall bills for crop moving purposes. 'To meet this demand the treasury can Issue new $1 silver sertlficates In exchange for silver certificates of larg er denominations, which are sent to the treasury for that purpose. An un usual supply of small bills has been prepared to meet this soejwnal de mand and the banks can materially as sist the treasury by effecting the ex change of their large silver certifi cates for small bills at an early date, rather than by waiting until the crop moving season actually begins. "It lies within the power of the Na tional banks of the country to render further material assistance in this matter. Bankers are permitted under the law to take out 33 1-3 per cent of their circulation In IS bank notes, or about $200,000,000. they have availed themselves of this privilege only to the extent of about 1128.000.000; there fore, the National banks could. If they desired. Increase their supply of i bank notes by $94,000,000. FLEECING THE RICH AMERICANS. A Band of Professional Gamblers Reap Rich Harvest In European Water ing Plaoes. Paris. France. An alleged band of American professional gamblers, giv ing the names of Oshorue. Brody, Roy al and Hubbard, have been arrest ad on the chargo of card swindling on a huKe scaltt. American and English guests at the fashionable hotel at Vichy and Alx Les Balus and other watering places were tba victims. Quantities of marked cards and ap paratua for sensitizing the fingers were found In their possession. Posing as strangers, otto to another. It is asserted the men would start a game of polfr or bridge, finishing big winners. The principal victlais were rich Americans from one of horn, the police say, $.'0,000 was tak en at Aix la IUlns. It Is believed that the names given by the men are false and an Investigation as to their identity la now going on. Press Censorship In Bolivia. I-ATar. Bolivia. A press censorship has beva established here and the newspapers publish nothing concern ing the severing of diplomatic rela tions with the Argentina republic An Alrahlp Transportation Company. Albany, New York. The Now York Aerial Manufacturing tc Naviga tion company of Brooklyn was Incor porated to tarry on the business of tranport!ng passengers freight and other commodities by airships of all kinds. Killed by a Longevity Rtcipe. Cbliaxo, lllinol-rWhil taking one Of the di:ly walks to which she credit, ed her long life, Mrs. Klizabeth Hack er, S3 years old, was run down and klllvd If a street car. CANE HARVEST! I Hi t AH I I talal I I LU A ASTONISHING STORY OF GRAFT A Detective Sergeant In Chicago Col lected $9,000 a Month and 8aloon Keeper Got $1,000,000. "Chicago, Illinois. A astounding story of graft in the so-called West Side levee of Chicago is said to have been related to the grand Jury. Detective Sergeant Jeremiah Griffin, alleged to have been the collector of protection money from dive keepers, gamblers and cocaine sellers, was In dicted on eight counts. He Is alleged to have garnered as high as $9,000 a month, a very small part of which re mained In his own pocket. In aJJ, Griffin, who travels out of the Desplalaes street station, headquart ers of Inspector McCiJin. Is said to have collected $150,000 from denizens of the underworld of the West Side. Indictments also were returned against Louis Frank, saloon keeper and politician, who has said to have accumulated a fortune of $1,000,000 in the levee district and against Michael Heltler, who Is familiarly known as "Mike the Pike." They are alleged to have collected money front illegal houses by representing them selves as agents of the police. READY FOR THE SUPREME COURT Missouri Will Appeal Two-Cent Fare and Maximum Freight Rate Laws to Highest Tribunal. Jefferson City, Missouri. Attorney General Major and Fred W. Lehiran of 6t Louis and Eanford B. Ladd ol Kansas City, the latter two being spe cial counsel for the state have com pleted the assignment of errors upon which they hope the I'ulted States su preme court will reverse the finding of Judge Smith McPherson of the feder al court in Kansas City In hi decision against the two-cent passenger fare law and the maximum freight rate act The assignment of errors deals with both the canes, the maximum freight rate and the passenger fare laws. Even outside of Missouri there Is great Interest In the outcome of this appeal, as many state are Interested to know If they ran, by statute, con trol local railroad rates. Tho attorney general will ask to have the case ad vanced. In which event he anticipates a final determination within 12 months. Cholera Inoculation Failed. St. Petersburg, fliiksla. -fbe cbok ra situation now n-ems to be well un der control. After remaining station ary for several weeks, with a maxi mum of 120 cases, tho number of rases has gradually dern-ased until thera were only C2. There are MK) patients iu the city hospitals and 4S persons are being treated In the sub urban hcspllal. Preventative Inocula tion, which wa largely employed dur ing li0N, haa been discarded by the chulera expert as useless. Progress on the Canal. Washington, T). c substantial progress In canal construction all along the line is shown by reiorts coming to the Washington office of the Isthmian' Canal Commission. Excava tion work approximates 80,000,000 ruble yards, almost as much a the total quantity of dirt taken out by the French in the period they were en gaged in operations there. Iss than 100,000.000 cubic yards of arth re main to be removed from the ditch. Five Thousand Saw Man Hangtd. Brandon, Mississippi. Five thou sand persons witnessed the hanging of Win. Mack, a negro, who was exe cuted for criminally assaulting Miss Mamie Meyers, daughter of a farmer living near Peiehatchle, Miss., on Nov. 17. Ii08. A $300,000 Fire In Massachusetta. New Bedford, Massachusetts. The plant of the New Bedford Cordaxu company was partly destroyed by fire. The loss Is estimated at between ZUO.OOO and $300,000. I t IHE T0F1KA CLUB WILL BE DRY Both Attorney General and County At torney of Shawn County Bring Proceeding. Topeka, Kansas The Topi'k Club will bo "dry." It will be a dry as '.ho Kansas courts ran make It. A tvmporary liijunrtlon prohibiting the club from maintaining a locker system for dispensing Intoxicating liquors to member and their Mends wa granted by Jiiuku W. M. I Una In the district court for Shawnee county. At the same time that the proceed ings were being worked out Iu the district court, John Marshall, assist ant atuirney general, filed In the Kan sas supremo court a jn'titlon to oust tho club from maintaining the lockor system. It was a double-barreled action against the club that was started. J. J, Schneck, county attorney, brought the Injunction proceedings and tho at torney general began the other suit The Injunction was based on tie nuis ance section of the prohibitory law. This provides that an injunction may be brought to prevent rersons using their property to create or aialntain Ing a nuisance and then provides that a place where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale or use-as a beverage Is a nuisance. The proceedings In the supreme court are based on the nuis ance count and also on the clubhouse law, prohibiting the sale of liquors In clubs. THE TEXAS COAST SUFFERED Half of Bay City Unroofed and Every Building In Velasco Partly Wrecked. Houston, Texas. The west In dian hurricane, which swept from one end of the Texas Gulf coast to tha other claimed a toll of 12 human lives, outside of Galveston, fatally Injuring four others and seriously wounding 18, according to the details of the storm available here. Whole towns were de vastated and the wreck and ruin to property will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The territory around Ray City seems to have been the center of the storm, which moved southwest from Galveston. For four hours there a "0 mile wind swept across the country carrying everything before It At Bay City, about 50 per cent of the business section was damaged, in cluding the cpera house, one bank, the court house, the new high school building and the city Jail. In the Jail the cages were left standing and the prisoners were exposed to view, but were safe. Every building in Velasco. near Pay City was unroofed or partly demolish ed and the town was under four feet of water. People are escaping; in boats from Colorado river a mil away. TROUBLES OF A KANSAS SHERIFF He Took an Intan Man to Nebraska and Waa Placed in Jail and Sued. Topeka. Kansas S. N. Manama, sheriff of Rooks county, has been re leased from the Jail at Nebraska City, Neb., and three suits have beMi filed against him. Sheriff Manaugh took an Insane patient named Rankin to Nw braska City, where he formerly had lived. The Nebraska law makos It a criminal offense to bring a pauper Into any county, so the sheriff waa arrest ed and kept In Jail two nights and a day and then released. One suit Is an injunction to prevent the sheriff taking any more Insane patients Into Nebraska. The other suits are damage suits to collect al leged damax) s for taking Rankin back to Nebraska City and thus bringlug a pauper Into the state. The Kansas attorney general has advised the sheriff to begin suits in the 1'nited States courts for false Im prisonment. Checking Wp Packers Backs. Kansas City, Mo. The members of the Kansas state board of eijuallsathin are making a personal Investigation of the book nf the packers Iu have ap peahd from the asxetised valuations placed on their property by the Wyan dotte county board of equalisation. The Investigation began at the office of the Armour Tucking company. Kansas City May Gat a Depot Chicago. Illinois. Affirmative ao tlou as taken by the directors of tho Kansas City depot accepting without ehango the Kanaa City council ordi nance providing fur the erection of a new $.'u,0oo.000 terminal depot fur railroads entering Kansas City subject to a referendum vole of the citizen of the municipality. Robbers In a Kansas Depot. rittshurg, Kausaa Rubbers blew up the Missouri, Kansas it Texas de pot safe at Mineral, near here, wrecking the depot and escaping with $i00. Wa Not Leon Ling. London, Kngland. The man whom an American visitor saw outside a Jewelry shop here on July If., nd Identified as Leon Llnif, tha Chinaman suspecteil of the murder of Klsl Sicl In New York on June , has b-en found t- le a Japanese ussxlatcd with an Anglo-Japanese financial firm W. W. Clarke, superintendent cf the forestry service died suddenly in lA ran Canyon of pneumonia. Mr. Clarke haa been in the forestry svrvica vr al years. crossed cha:;:;el n Ainsm? LOUIS BLERIOT A FRENCHMAN LANDED AT DOVER. Flight Waa Mi.-i From French Short In Las Than 30 Minutes In Small Monoplsn. Iovr. Eng. This siecpy seaport town experienced the keenest thrill known In a feneration, when at nun rise a white winged, bird liUo ma chine, with loudly humming motor, swept out from the haze olmcurlug the tea toward the distant French coast and, circling taleo above the lilgh, chalky cliff of lXiver, alighted on r.'ngllsh soil. A Frenchman. I.oula Uleriot. portly and red mustached, calmly descended from tho saddle, limping on a bandaged foot, which had been burned on lata previous overland flight Immediately two compatriots, who had been waving a big trl-colored flag as a signal for the landing place, fell upon him enthusiastically, embrac ing him, shouting and pounding him on the back. They, with a few sol diers and others who happened by chance to be on the scene, were the onJy parsons to witness the finish of a remarkable feat. nicrlot left Les Raranneg, three miles from Calais, about 4:30 a. m. on one of the smallest monoplanes ever usod. He crossed the channel In a little less than half an hour, twice as swift as the fastest mail boat. His speed averaged more than 3 miles an hour, some times It approximated GO inllea. He kept .-bout 2:.0 feet above tno sea level and for ten min utes, while about mid-channel, was out of sight of both coasts and the French torpedo boat destroyer which followed him, with Ms wife and friends aboard. SOLDIER SHOT GIRL AT THE FORT Charles O'Nell Fired Four Timet Standing at Front Door of Cap tain's Residence. I.-eaven worth. Kansas. Private Charles O'Nell, a soldier In the mill tor prison t"jard, killed Miss Min nie - Bcharbora, a young woman cai iJvOyed at the home of Capt. Charles N. Murphy on Grant avenue, at Fort Leavenworth. O'Nell shot the girl in the front doorway of Capt. Murphy' residence In the prcserce of Mrs. Murphy, Lieut, Rjsidl C. Hand, of ficer of the day, and two members ol the guard. O'Nell was craied by Jealousy and fired four timet at the girl b- fore he was overpowered. The shooting caused considerable excitement at the post, as It took place on the fashionable avenue, where a number of officers and their famillet were sitting on the front porches. FOUND THE BANDIT'S HOARD Lavish Expenditure for Champagne caused Arrest of Men With Aged Coin. Cheyenne. Wyoming. The lv!H expenditure of money f..r ch.tmpign Vf Mi,iam White and R. W. Stack well of Rock Creek, led to the arrest of the tmo men at 1-arauile and the recovery of a large sum money, believed by officers to be a portion of the swag secure J by bandits several years ago in a Union Pacific train rob bery at Wilcox. The arrest tollowed a ipnu during which the two men pent $445 for wine. White later deposited $4,010 In a Laramie back. White claimed he found the money Id a glass Jar burrled In the cellar of William Taylor's rt-I-dunce. All the money I gold cola and beai dates many year back. Taa Storm Los $1,000,000. Houston, Texas The unmoor of persons dead as rult of Wednesday a hurricane is now conservatively ea'.l. mated at 2.'i; those more or l seri ously Injured number tlce as many, and the property loss I conservatively rstlinated at $1,000,000. l-.'xcepl to Isolated points, ail communication, li.is beeu r4WtorcJ. Athletic Wmnrt at Seattle. Keattle. Wash Seattle ratue out In the lead In tho International Y, M. C. A. handicap meet at tho Alaska-Yua-on Pacific exposition, winning l:h a score of S.t point. Vancouver. 11. C, lth I'O points, was th nearest competitor, t;lt. Kansas City team be lug thlid with 17 points. President Moyr Endorsed. IVnver. Col 'lb Western Federa tion of Miner in convention here t-ndori-d tho administration of presl dent Charles Moyer and approved hla annual report by a vote cf ::i to 79. E. H. Harriman MucJv Improved. Garteln, Austria K. 11 ilttrlm.in a health la much Improve I. H. makes long walking tours daily, Hi, ,.1,51. dren who are now on tho war to join their father, are expected to reach hare aoou. Still More Successful Flight Washington, t). ( Fstahliahln a new record for aviation in America. Orvlllo Wright, in the Wright aero plane at Fort Mjer, made a spectacu lar flight of oti9 hour ItH liili.u;,., ,nj 41 seconds duration. Giving Advice to Bolivia Lima. Peru.-it was reported here that Ilollvla. yielding lo the ,,Mce of the United State. .mij ,lfr,.r ,0 aegot late directly i;h j-eru concern "I th division at certain dlsuut.4 Urrliory,