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IT'S A COMBINATION I'M OUT.
To the Editor of the EsIc
Please announce me as-a ranlddate for re-election
to the oSlce of Clerk of the5)MrIct court of sodK
ivick county, subject to the action of the Republican
county convention. Respectfully,
C. H. LruKn.
"Wichita. Ttan.. June 9. ISO. 119 tf w tf
Geuda Springs Excursions.
Perhaps Manitou.Las Vegas llotSprings,
Mackinaw, the north pole and other cool
places are too far away for your time and
purse.
If so, why not visit Geuda Springs, the
noted southern Kansas resort nearer home
and costing less money?
The Santu Fe route makes a one fare
round trip rate on Saturdays and Sundays,
limited to the following lUonday for re
turn. You can leave at 4:10 p. m. on Sat
urdays or at 7:40a. m. and 4:10 p. in. on
Fundiiys. and return from Geuda Springs
early Monday.
Good hotel accommodations; fine bath
ing; boating on lake; spring water equal to
Saratoga, o'2-tf
Imperial flour has many imitators but
no rivals. 53-tf
3imc. IilniU'li,
The mind reader is at the Tremont ho
tel. Can le 'seen t once on business.
Hours froni'O a. m. to 10 p. m. o-J-tf
(i. A. 11. Excursion to Iloston, .Massachusetts.
Tho national encampment of the G. A.
It. mc"8ts in Boston, Mass., August 10 to
36. The Missouri Pacific railway has
named a rate of one lowest fir&t class fare
for tho round trip for this occassion.
Tickets will be placed on sale on August
(j, and continue on sale until August 10.
The tickets are good for return passage
until August 25; however arrangements
Lure been made whereby the time can be
extended 'until September 30, if desired.
For further information call at 137 North
Main or at depot corner Second and
"Wichita streets. K. E. Bleckley,
52-tf General Passener and Ticket Ag't.
Odd Fellows and Patriarchs Attention.
For the meeting of the I. O. of O. F. and
Patriarch Militant in Chicago, August 3
to 10, the Missouri Pacific railway oilers a
rate of one lowest first class fare for the
round trip, plus one dollar for admission
ticket. '1 liese tickets will be placed on
Bale August 1, and continue on sale until
August 5. For further information call at
137 2Torth Main or depot corner Second and
Wichita streets! E. E. Bleckley",
B3-tf General Passener and Ticket Ag't.
a
New firm. Buggies from 45 to $200; the
best buggy for the leat money at 123
North Xarket. Call and get prices. E.
G. Ilaffcty. d49-Gt wlS-lt
If you want to buy a buggy and pay
cash, don't, fail to call at 123 North Market
and E. G. Railety will save you money.
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NOTICK.
tcfevrc's Private School for Uojs.
-Mock, Main and F.lm Streets.
Persons who wisli their sons to attend my
Echool next session will please formally en
enter them by letter or interview before
AugusfrSO, since I will not re-open unless a
number sufficient to justify continuance
sh:dl have been entered by tliatdatc. School
uould open on the first Monday in Sep
tember and continue orty weeks. Terms,
$7.. Arthur Lefevkk.
1011) North "Water St.
References:
Colonel B. II. Campbell.
lion. G. Ij. Douglass.
"William-M. Kaeiser, Esq. d4S tf
Dally by Dajllcht.
New morning express, Kansas Citv to
Chicago. The Santa Fe route. 43-tf
Take stage at Wharton for Stillwater;
U3illy Snyder, proprietor. tl4S tf
Three Through Trains.
Two night, one morning, Kansas Citv to
Chicago. The Santa Fe route. 43-1f
I Should SmllcT
Goto Hettinger's drug store and trv
their ice cream .soda at 5 cents a glass.
43 tf
Arc you going west' Are vou jjoing
east? Tf so. take the Great Bock Island.
Finest accommodations and lowest rates
to all points. City ticket office, 100 East
Douglas avenue, corner Main street.
110 tf
Three hours the quickest to St. Louis
Missouri Pacific railwav. VM tf
PSIDAY !
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FRIDAY, THE DAY!
Don't forget or you will be
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wide; plain, fancy and bord
ered side bands. " About 500
yards will be on sale at a
loss to us of -10 to 50 per
cent. Our price Friday,
loc Per Yard.
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TEEY BKAYED TEE DEEP
RISKS AND DEATH ROLL OF AN
EXPERIMENTAL WAR CRAFT.
The Charleston Cigar Boat She Met-wlth
Disaster Again and Again Crew After
Crew Added to tho Ghastly I4st SUo
"Went to tho Bottom at Last.
Copyright by American Press Association.
OR instances of
individual daring
of tho sublimest
type we need not
go farther than
the pages of naval
history of tho civil
war. Cushing, the
crow of tho Con
federate Albe
marle, the com
mander and men
of the Confederate
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ram Arkansas, the Confederate boarders of
the Underwriter in tho North Carolina
waters, the Union defenders of the Harriet
Lane in Galveston harbor, the participants
in the battle of 3Iobile these and many
others deserve to live in history, not alone
for the grand results accomplished, but
because of their deeds of unexcelled brav
ery. Tho Confederates, being on the de
fensive, and for that reason having ample
incentive to heroic outbursts, probably put
on record more instances of individual dar
ing than did their antagonists. They had
the desperate end of the conflict to bear up.
Unfortunately for history their records arc
sparse, survivors of the hour have since
passed away, and much is left to unau
thenticated tradition.
The story that follows, however, is true
and it is substantiated in detail by records of
undoubted truthfulness. Seven men, five
being seamen of tho Confederate navy and
one a captain of artillery and the other a
lieutenant of infantry, volunteered for an
enterprise that had been attempted five
times and had met with disaster. On
three occasions all hands had perished,
and on one other seven out of eight, and
again six out of nine had met death. Tho
hazardous business was nothing less than
being confined in a submarine boat, ex
posed to a variety of dangers without one
possible way of escape in case of disaster.
The time was 1SG4, the scene Charleston
harbor during tho formiOable operations
of the powerful Union army and navy.
The waters were full of Union blockaders
and every foot of vantage ground around
the harbor was either occupied or besieged
by Union troops. The port was blockaded
almost effectually, and many daring -attempts
were made by the besieged to de
stroy Union vessels by infernal devices.
The New Ironsides was attacked twice, the
second time receiving very serious damage.
A companion vessel of the New Ironsides
was the Ilousatonic, a noble new ship, ly
ing in North channel and completely block
ading that passage. If she could be re
moved by stealth scores of blockade running
vessels could pass in and out in a night,
giving comfort to the beleaguered army
and people of South Carolina.
The several experiments in destroying
vessels by torpedoes that had been made in
the harbor pointed to the torpedo afloat as
the proper method. The New Ironsides,
which was so seriously damaged by a tor
pado boat, had once stood for an hour over
a fixed torpedo of 2,000 pounds of powder,
but the wires connecting the torpedo with
the shore would not work and the gunboat
floated away safely. Soon after the Iron
sides was successfully attacked (October,
1853) a little boat was brought by rail from
Mobile and accepted by the Confederate
commander, Gen. Beauregard, for Charles
ton harbor. Beauregard was an engineer,
a Gcientific fighter and believed in skillful
methods, and promptly accepted the new
machine, although she came with a forbid
ding reputation. She was to plow the deep
like a fish, but had no provision for storing
air, and on an experimental trip in Mobile
bay sunk and all her crew, eight men, were
suffocated before they could bo rescued.
That was disaster number one. Lieut.
Payne, of the navy, soon found a volunteer
crew of eight men and took charge of her
for a series of experiments in the harbor,
which wcro tragic in the extreme, but
which by tho advancement of knowledge
made amends for the dole of blood exacted.
The new craft is known in history as tho
"cigar boat." She was made of boiler
iron, was SO feet long and 4 broad, Avith a
vertical depth of 0 feet, approximately.
Access was by two manholes covered by
hinged caps having bull's eyes for steering
purposes. While the vessel floated these
caps wcro about a foot out of water. The
propelling power was the hands of the
crew, operating on a shaft b- means of
cranks. On the exterior there were vanes
or wings, that could be adjusted at any
angle by interior manipulation, and when
the boat was to move on even keel tho vanes
were kept level. To descend at an angle of
10 degs. the vanes were fixed at that tingle
and tho propeller put in motion. The re
sistance of the water against the vanes
caused the bow to dip and the boat to de
scend on au inclined plane. By reversing
the vanes the opposite direction could bo
taken until surface was reached. A tube
of mercury told just how far under water
she was tit any time.
The boat was designed to dive and pass
under the war vessel it was- intended to
destroy and drag a torpedo after, to be ex-
A SPECKT DANGER,
ploded by violent contact with the bottom
tf the vessel as soon as it touched the keel.
Lieut. Payne and his crew of eight
men wero preparing the boat for an expe
dition one night and had her at the wharf
near Fort Johnson when the wave of a
passing steamer washed over her and
swamped her. Payne escaped, but the
crew wave all drowned. She was raised
and cleared of herxlead and Payne secured
another crew, and she went down in the
same manner at Fort Sumter wharf, Payne
and two men escaping. It was plain that
the cigar boat w-as simply a coffin.
The craft had earned such a bad odor
in Charleston harbor that it was dtcided
to try her in new waters and she went to
Stone river, where several succcsncl divis
wero made. At last, however, she went
down and did not come up, and after
search it was found that she had got fast in
the mud at the bottom and all on board
had perished by suffocation. Onco more
she was raised, the dead removed the
fourth ghastly cargo from her iron bound
hull and she returned to the harbor.
Every disaster to the boat had had some
thing about it that was held to be a warn
ing for the future, and a new crewvventon
board and resumed experiments. She
dived beautifully, and, barring accidents,
would carry a torpedo any where in the
deep. One more accident led to a change
of plan. For an experiment sha dived ua
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Chief, fouled a cable ana all or ner crew
perished. When she was recovered one
Lieut. George Ji Dixon, of the Twenty-first
Alabama regiment, secured Gen. Beaure
gard's permission to try the famous David
against the Housatonic. Beauregard stip
ulated that she should be rigged as a
torpedo boat on the surface of the water
and not as a submarine device. He be
lieved that the water was too shallow in
the harbor to admit of successful diving
under a heavy ship.
A spar was then set on the bow having a
torpedo that would explode by concussion
with tlife object aimed at. The new method
of operation may hae seemed to lessen the
danger, but in reality the boat had met
disaster as often when on the surface as
when submerged, and the chances of her
riding the convulsive waves produced by a
torpedo were very narrow. Yet, although
some thirty men had perished in her, Lieut.
Dixon found a crew ready to volunteer
and destroy the Housatonic. Fivo of the
crew were men of the navy Arnold Becker,
James A. Wicks, F. Collins, Ridgway
and C. Simpkins. They were joined by
Capt. J. F. Carlsen, of the South Carolina
artillery.
The Housatonic was riding at anchor on
the evening of Feb. 17, her officer of the
deck, Master J. F. Crosby, pacing mechan
ically to and fro, scanning around as far as
the darkness it was 9 o'clock would per
mit. Suddenly he saw about a hundred
yards away what appeared to bo a plank
moving swiftly toward his ship. It was so
strange that, anxious though he was, he
waited a short time before giving alarm
over so contemptuous an object. Then he
sounded tho cry, and all hands were called
to quarters. But he was a few seconds too
late. The little boat had sneaked along
the beach the night before, and been hidden
during tho day not far from the doomed
vessel. Then in a twinkling she had dart
ed out of hiding, eluded the lookouts, and
even while the cry was sounding through
the ship Lieut. Dixon rushed upon her
sides and fired the torpedo.
He struck forward of the mainmast, and
the hole extended below the water line,
sinking her in four minutes. Five men
went down in her; the rest clung to the
rigging and were rescued. But the
"plank,"' as the Housatonic's officer called
it, disappeared in the commotion of the
waters. The fate of the crew could only
A DA'vD.
be surmised. The boat had set out secretly
to destroy the Housatonic, but no one
could tell the tale of her experience.
There were other Davids in the waters, and
hundreds of fixed and floating torpedoes
in tho channels. Tho men of the Housa
tonic could give no a&'ount of the affair
other than the shadowy "plank" story, but
whether the plank were an automaton, a
floating torpedo impelled by cog work, or
the missing "cigar boat," no one knew.
It had disappeared with tho vessel de
stroyed. After the war the secret came out; the
"cigar boat" had justified her inventor.
The wrecks of the harbor were cleared by
divers, and while exploring the depths
around the Ilousatonic they found tho
rusty iron machine partially buried in
drifting debris about a hundred feet away
from the hull of the man-of-war, her prow
pointing toward it. Of course her daring
crew had paid the penalty and were se
curely coffined inside. The Housatonic
was one of the new war vessels. She was
a screw sloop, mounting eleven guns, and
Lad been in the South Atlantic squadron
since 18G2. Her destruction was a warning
to the whole fleet and an encouragement
also to the Confederates, who after this
made several efforts, some of them suc
cessful. Notwithstanding the reality of this sub
marine engine, such boats are at this date
deemed chimerical, and popularly supposed
to exist only in the brains of crazy invent
ors or the imagination of romancers.
Jules Verne puzzled and amused the read
ing world with Capt. Nemo's strange craft
in his "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea." Gen. Lloyd Brice, in a recent
satire on American defenselessness, brings
into action a wonderful fish boat, invented
and managed by au erratic shirt manufact
urer, as though no sane man of science
would waste time on a scheme of that nat
ure. What has been considered a creation
of fancy, however, has been proven a fruit
ful reality, as in the case of this Charleston
boat.
Jules Verne's submarine vessel was
cigar shaped, and recently a Spanish naval
officer constructed a boat over which he
had dreamed for many years. The Spanish
government thought so well of the plan
that the inventor, Lieut. Feral, was given
the means to experiment, and his boat, El
Peral, was successfully launched and
made several trips, justifying the hopes of
her projectors. This boat is a little more
than double the size of the Confederate
boat, being 74 feet long and 9 feet broad.
She is fitted out as a torpedo boat, and can
run six knots an hour under water.
The torpedo boat had its origin in the
' civil war, and the Confederates developed
I it to a greater degree than did their adver
! saries. Since that time all first class powers
j have been experimenting, but no satisfac
I tory result has been reached. There are at
i present boats of three or four hundred tons
armed with torpedoes, small boat3 carried
upon Avar vessels to be lowered when in
close quarters with the adversary, and a
l coast torpedo boat, having its hull sub-
merge:!. All of these are liable to detec
; tion and destruction by the enemy. The
situation calls for a noiseless, invisible en
I gine thft can work in all weather and
at anv hour, day or night, as the Confed
erate David was intended to do.
The prob- I
lem when solved will be by a submarine
craft not unlike tho ill fated one whose
story is ".old here. But surely no contriv
ance of this character ever had more de
voted adherents, more venturesome and
painstaking operators than the "cigar
boat" of Charleston harbor.
Geo. L. Kil:jeu.
The rarrot Xot the Only EIrd That Talks.
The parrot is gencirallv supposed to
have the monopoi v of the power of talk
ing among bird's, but as a matter of
fact the parrot is decidedly inferior to
the niynah. There are alwavs exam
ples of these birds in the insect house
at the Zoo, and they repeat various
phrases with great clearness of utter
ance. Curiously enough, the hen has a
gruff voice, while the cock speaks in a
clear high tone, like that of a child. The
mynahs can be easily provoked into
showing off their power of speech, and
will greet the visitor wMtb "Gtskl morn
ing"' in response-to his sahnatwcs. The
mynah is a kind of starling-, and this
latter bird is well known fer its imita
tive powers. Same years ago an ac
count was- published of a "talking ca
nary," which coald articulate quite
plainly, and would repeat a series of
phrases. But the wtsader-k, not that
there are so msnv different kinds of
birds which can 'talk,v but that "there
are not mon. The voice organs are
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Tree Reading .Matter.
There are various schemes for supplying
reading matter at a trifle above actual
cost. What would you think if you could
get good literature free? Drop" a postal
card to G. T. Nicholson, general passenger
and ticket agent Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, Topeka, Kan., and ask
for copies of "To Mexico by Palace Car."
You can also procure copies of "A Santa
Barbara Holiday," "Guide to San Diego
Bay Kegion," "Las Vegas Hot Springs
Guide," and folders relating to Texas;
Oklahoma and Kansas.
Very respect fu 11 v, yours.
51 5t Gk. Pass, and Ticket Ag't.
Advice to Mothers.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. It
soothes the child, softens the gums, alluys
al pain, cures wind colic, and is the best
rlmedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-liveeents a
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Has it ever occured to you that the
Santa Fe route has a very fast train to
Chicago and tlip east leaving Wichita at
12:40 noon, arriving in Chicago the next
morning, making all eastern connections.
It is a fact. doO tf
When vou travel west take the SantA Fe
route whose line passes through the
principle cities of Kansas. Your excursion
tickets via this line always have a going
limit, permitting stop overs, thus business
and pleasure may travel together. d50-tf
Regular weekly excursion to Gueda
springs, Santa Fe and Frisco via Winfield.
One fare for round trip every Saturday
and Sunday limited to return .Monday.
For particulars inquire at V22 North Main
street and passenger station.
W. I). Murdoch,
50-tf Pass, and Tkt. Agent.
Cars leave Douglas avenue and Main
street for Burton car works every forty
minutes. commencing at 0:20 a. m. All
cars leaving on od'J hours run through,
al.-o car leaving twenty minutes belore
and twenty minutes after the even hour.
For Fairview and Seventeenth street cars
leave First and Main at fifteen and forty
five minutes past each hour. Leave
Seventeenth and Fairview at fifteen and
forty-live minutes after each hour. 3U t
St. Louis to Colorado via Wichita.
Commencing Sundae, July IS.l&lO, the
Missouri Pacific railway will run through
sleeping cars from St. Louis via Pleasant
Hill, Rich Hill, Fort Scott and Wichita to
Ceneseo and from thence to Pueblo, Colo
rado Spring's and Denver. This change
was made on account of a great many peo
ple from the east gomtr to Colorado being
desirous of going via Wichita. The train
will stop here two hours, giving alia
chance to view the "Peerless Princes-." and
still land passengers in Colorado same
time as if they had gone via Kansas City.
It al-.o gives the citizens of Wichita sleep
ing car service from here to Colorado. Re
turning, it gives us through sleeping car
service Wichita toSt. Louis, and gives the
Colorado people ;i chance to go east via
Wichita. This change will undoubtedly
be appreciated by the traveling public,and
especially by the"citi.ens of Wichita. If
you are going east or west so via the pop
ular new through route. Through cnair
and sleeping car service. New route jut
completed between Fort Scott and Rich
Hill goes through the finest mineral and
agricultural country in the west. Don't
forget the new short line to St. Louis or
Colorado.
City ticket office, 137 North Main street,
Wichita, Kansas.
40-tf E. E. BLECKLET, P. & T. A
Sl'KCIAL KACCItSION.
To Colorado and Utah 1'oiiits Via the Missouri
l'acillc Hallwaj Cheap Kates.
If you are going to the mountains of
Colorado or California take the popular
Missouri Pacific fast line and travel at the
rate of fifty miles tin hour in elegant re
clining chair cars or Pullman palace buf
fett sleeping car. No dust or cinder on
thi line. It is the shortest line to all Col
orado points and makes the fastest time.
Exnres train leaves Wichita every evening
at o:'-U landing vou at Pueblo, Colorado
;nrings or Deuver next forenoon. Pueblo
for breakfast. City ticket olDce 137 North
Main street. Depot corner Second and
Wichita. 39 tf
This oflice i prepared to fnrnfh all th
blanKs wuicn are uea m connection wnti
n.-e Coop s blank?, which are the only
blank? printed that have been approved by
the land commissioner at Washington.
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Catechism.
What line rnns three through passenger
tram.s to St. I.oiiL without change
The Frisco.
What line runs Pnllmaa sleepers and
reclining chair ears morning and night to
St. Louis?
The Frisco i the only line.
What line ha. the fntt train toSt.Loui'-
The Frisco, whose flyer leaves Wichita
at 2:25 p. m. daily, arriving in St. Louis at
7:30 the following morninsr.
Does this fast train connect with other
train from St Louis
Why, certainly, with all east bound
trains in St, Louis union depot. dSO-t!
To Stocfc Shippers,
To better accommodate shippers who
consicn to the Wichita, market the Atchi
son, Topeka Ac Santa Fe have arranced for
a train Wvintr Arkansas City at 7:35 p. m.
arriving at Wichita about midnight. This
train will connect at Winneld. takiatr stock
from Southern Kansas railway, and at
South WinSeld from the Florence branch
and at Mulvane from El Dorado branch.
Arrancement-s are ato made for morninj?
train leaving Newton at about 5 a. m. and
arriving in Wichita at about S a. in Tnfc
arrangement will last tbrongh the heated
term and enable shippers so sec their stock
to the Union Stock tri?A in good order.
f WNsra
The Frisco line runs Pullman sleepers
reclining chair cars (seats free), daily to
St. Louis, without change. No other line
does this. 50 tf
Cheap Trip to Galveston.
The date, July 29 only; the rate, one fare
for round trip: route, via the Santa Fe;
limit three days south bound with final
limit of thirty days for return; stopovers
north bound "only.
This is for excursion to Galveston or
ganized by board of trade of that city.
Gaiveston with its deep harbor and cool
sea breeze, its shipping and fine residences
is well worth a visit.
Nearest agent of Santa Fe will cheerfully
answer all questions about this cheap ex
cursion. Through coaches and Pullman sleeping
cars from Wichita dailv. Train leaves at
4:10 p. m. " 50-tf
Kml:ration to the West.
If you have friends in the east who con
template coming west, or if you are going
east, remember you can save time and
money, likewise your friends, by buying
tickets over the ilissouri Pacific railway,
the shortest line between St. Louis and
Wichita by 4b miles and over. Two hours
the quickest time. This is the only line
giving you choice of two routes, either via
Kansas City or Fort Scott. Elegant free
reclining chaii cars between Wichita and
St. Louis, also between Kansas City and
Wichita, without change of cars. Pull
man sleepers on all trains. Be sure that
your tickets read via the Missouri Pacific
railway and thus save annoyance of
changing cars and unnecessary delays.
Bemember also that no charges are made
by porters for riding in chair cars. These
porters are paid by the company and are
not allowed to charge any one, be they
local or through passengers. They are
hired to attend to tlie wants of the travel
ing public.
City ticket office, 137 North Main street,
Wichita, Kan. E. E. Blecklev,
Passenger and Ticket Agent.
H. C. TOWNSEND,
GeneiBl Passenger and Ticket Agen
St. Louis, Mo. lUtf
The Santa Fe is the short line to Pneblo,
Colorado Springs .and Denver. Note the
time: Leave Wichita 4:10 p, m.. arrive
Pueblo 0:33 a. m.. arrive Colorado Springs
7:40 a. m., arrive Dener 10:30 a. m. Through
Pullman chair car and dining car service.
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Maverick National Bank
BOSTON, MASS.
CAPITAL.
SUlil'LUS,
$400,000
600,000
Accounts of banks, bankers and corporations so
licited. Our facilities for COLLECTIONS are excellent,
and we ie-dh-coutit for banks when balances war
rant it.
Itoitonfcn Reserve City, and Iwlances with us
from banks (not located In other Keserve Cities
count a- a reMr e.
We draw our own exchange on London and th
Continent, and make cablo transfers and place
money by telegraph throughout the United State-
and Canada.
We hae a market for prime firt-class investment
securities, and invite propositi from s-tntes, counties
and cities when issuinK bond.
We do a general Bankini; Business, and invito
correspondence.
ASA A. POTTER, President.
JOS. W. WORK, Gabbier.
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SETON & STEWART
MANTFAcrrnnns of rrnc
RUNNYMEDE. HARPER COUNTY,
KANSAS.
The waters manufactured by this
firm are to he obtained in Wichita at
the Carey Hotel and through Messrs.
Mahnn Brothers.
C. A. WKIGHT. GEO. STARK 3IILLER
WRIGHT & MILLER,
Eeal Estate Dealers,
KENTAL AGENTS.
Buy anil sfll Real Estate on commission, collect
rents, h.ive repairs made economically and remit
promptly. Correspondence soli iteil. References.
All thirties, for whom we liiHP done business hero
or elsewhere. . N Jlain fct.. Ground Floor. d!8
TO ART DEALERS Al ARTISTS.
Artist's Materials, Pictures Mouldings and Frames,
Wholesale and retail. Catalogue free.
MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED.
F. P. MARTIX, 114 Mtirket St.
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THE CRYSTAL ICE COMPANY
N'mv ready to supply all ivi'liine their Pun? DiUU
edWatrne, at usual prices. Oflice and Factory
Cor. Osace and Pearl streets. West Side. Order
Rooks t W. . Pearce 4(6 Eat Douglas Atc. and
Occidental Hotel Cor. Second and iialn.
F lepnone Xc UV2. J..v. SOHN
dill tf Secretary.
Smithson - & - Co.
rirebaugli Building
132 N. Market St.
Loans. Real Estate & Insurance.
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HOTEL CAREY.
s' TO S3 PER DAY
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Baths. Baths. Baths.
The WicbisA Steam Laundry has just
opened the nicest line of Bath Rcoow in
the State. Lainwlrv and Beth Room
117, 119 and 121 W. rust St-
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LOBER DEALERS!
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Cuts inter India Linen, ,
Cuts into Persian Lawns,
Cuts into White Lawns,
Cuts into Organdies,
Cuts into Hosiery.
In fact slashes right and left all over the house.
THE WICHITA OVERALL AND SniET MANUFACTDEIXG CO. -
JI.VXrFACTCRKRS AND JOBIU.P. OK
Overalls, Jeans. Cassimere and Cottonadc Pants; Duck Lined Coats and Vests;
Fancy Flannel and Cotton Oversliirts: Canton Flannel
Undershirts, Drawers, Etc
Factory and Salesroom 139 X. Topeka, Wichita. Correspondence Solicited
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KEITH & PERRY COAL COMPANY,
(Successors to Economy Coal.Co.)
Miners : and : Dealers : in : nil : G miles : of : Coal
Main Oflk-o 11G X Market. Telephone
Wichita Trunk Faetory
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FRANCIS WHITTAKER & SONS.
C- 0. PAGE & CO.,
j Hardware:-: Merchants
C arry the lnt ttvk t
Rubber and Oak Tanned Leather Beltine
In Southern Knsa
Corrrf pond ence. vltr t ted.
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CASCHKEK A UKAN, Prop'.
WICHITA, - KASAS.
Elrrator. Strain Heat, Bath Keoa. KWlrV Beth.
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Loave Kansas City 10.0
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Chicago 7.25 a. in., daily
jsjtnta Ke rout.
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"Wo are cutting and slashing evervlhmg in the Cloth
n" anc Fiirnlshing Goods line, in order to make room
frit. --m "foil OT4-1 -tr-i-nt rv tf xb-
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Every Bargain Seeker Should Not Miss TJiis
Opportunity.
We are offering goods below the market value.
Come and See for Your Self.
STRAW HATS AT ALMOST ASONG.
GOLDEN Eai.O-LE.
One-Price ClotMsrs. Dourias &. Lawrence. I, GROSS k CO
101.
Now that the traveling season Is
here those in need of a good trunk or
-v alise should not fail to go to the fac
tory. We are headquarters. Ruy
from first hands and get factory
prices. Wc have marked them down
lower than they can be shipped in
lor, and are making many new stylos
in ladies ami gents dress trunks.'Wo
also carry a fine line of ntchels,
poiket ami bill books, sample ami
medical eases, also lunch baskets ami
soon. Our stock is complete. Ifvour
trunk or vulire is out of order havo
it repaired at the Wichita Trunk
Factory, No. 32S West Douglas Aev.
II. JIOSSFRLD, Proprietor
WICHITA AND ST. LOUIS,
OUR SPKCIAIL'Y IS
First-Class Goods I
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war " Miear uireti iueais.
All oui' Men is Branded as
Per Cut
Pore Uflfllulicrabl Lard.
RfifrigeraW Dressed Beef.
If your grocer does not supply
you with our goods send us
your address and we will send
you the name of one that will.
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