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THE WEEK IN KANSAS -A RESUME -OF INTERESTING OC . CURRENCES FROM ALU "" - PARTS OF STATE. DRUG MISTAKE WAS COSTLY A Lawrence Woman Secures a Ver dict of $5,00O Against a Local Firm for Error in Filling ; f "prescription. Zf . , Mrs. Luella Daniels of Lawrence was "awarded $5,000 damages against a firm of druggists, also of Lawrence, in the district court at Atchison. Mrs. Daniels sued for ?25,000, alleging that her health had been permanently im paired by taking medicine, the pre scription for which, she alleged, was improperly filled by the druggists. She charged them with gross careless ness. The case was decided in Mrs. Daniels' favor at the June session of the court, but the jury could not agree on the amount of damages. The suit was tried in Atchison county because Mrs. Daniels said she could not get a fair trial in Lawrence, where the firm is widely ' known in business and politics. A suit for $6,000 damages brought by J. H. Daniels, the husband, also is pending in the courts. The defend ants have given notice of an appeal. The case has attracted wide attention among druggists in Kansas and Mis souri. The jury's verdict establishes a precedent which holds that drug gists are liable for the result of pre scriptions filled by them. The Daniels case is the only one of its kind ever tried in the district court of Atchison county. Kansas Horseshoers Elect Officers. The Kansas Blacksmiths, Horse shoers and Wagonmakers Association e" ed these officers at the close of th-; tate. convention at Salina: T. E. Lannan of Topeka, president; W. (J. Johnson of Coffeyville, vice president; Austin English of Hutchinson, sec retary and treasurer; Charles Ander son of Salina, W. G. Miller of Wich ita and Edward Bohrer of Lyons, members of the executive board. The attendance was about 200. Smoked Out Hiding Convicts. Three prisoners who disappeared from the state penitentiary were emoked out of their hiding places in tunnels beneath the brick plant, where they had been hiding. Big piles of straw were placed in each tunnel and set afire. By means of fans the smoke was circulated through all of the tunnels. The prisoners crawled out nearly suffocated by smoke and tarnished for want of food. Narrowly Escapes Burning. The home of Henry Boyle, an. aged resident at Olmitz, was burned to the ground and Boyle and three little chil dren narrowly escaped death. The first person to reach the burning bouse managed to break in the door and rescue Boyle.. Others who car ried out the three children who were sleeping upstairs had a narrow es cape themselves. Farmer Motor Club on Tour. The Farmers' Motor Club of College Hill, a neighborhood on the horder of Dickinson and Marion counties, took an 80-mile sociability run recent ly, visiting a half dozen towns, and spent three hours at Abilene. A re ception and smoker was given by the Commercial Club. Eighty men and tvomen in sixteen cars made the trip. ..Widow Gets $3,COO of Railway. A Junction City jury returned a ver dict for Mrs. Mary A. Roediger in her suit against the Union Pacific railway. Her husband, John Roediger, a farmer, was run over and killed by a train on the night of August 26, 1912, as he was walking home along the tracks. She was awarded $3,000, the amount she asked. Smoky Hill Bridge Bids Faulty. Because the county commissioners In advertising -for bids for two new bridges across the Smoky Hill river costing $30,000 did not specify cement the contracts may be void. The at torney general has disapproved the proceedings. A special meeting of the board was called to consider the matter. . A $73,CC3 Fire in Lehigh. "rs 'recently burned a business block of Lehigh, a town of six hun dred population, near McPherson, con suming three general stores, a restau rant, a tinshop and the ptstoffice buildmz. The loss is estimated to he - About $75,000. Morphey Is Russel's New Postmaster. The contest for postmaster at Rus sell has been ended by Congressman J. R- Connelly, who has written his friends at Russell that he will recom mend J. V. Mcrphy, editor of" the Kussell Reformer, for the place. A Kansas Boy to Annapolis. John Lindsay, 13 years old a mem er of the senior class of the Emporia high school, received notice recently -of his appointment, subject to exam ination, as midshipman in the United States Military Academy State Is Second In Flour. Kansas flour mills made a new high record of production in the milling year ended June 30, 1913,jrheir:' total output - was- more than To?4 million barrels, enough to supply bread to nearly 9 million persons. . ' .- Kansas was the second state in the Union in flour production last year, only Minnesota being ahead of it. The total output for the twelve months ended June 30, 1913, was 10 million barrels about 1V4 million barrels more than for the previous year, and enough to supply Kansas and all the twelve big states between It and the Pacific. ; Only 20 million of , the 89 million bushels of wheat raised in Kansas was shipped out of the state and farther" than Kansas City for grinding. All the people of Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Ari- zona, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California, Washington and Oregon could be sup plied from the output of the Kaasas mills last year. - The entire population of the six New England states, aad Delaware -and Maryland, could be sup plied with the product after the peo ple of Kansas had obtained their r:il quota. - . Reports have been received by R. E. Sterling of the Northwestern Mills:' from 182 mills in Kansas and their total output for the year was 1Q.S63, 566 barrels of flour. The output was 1 million barrels greater than in the preceding year. The mills ground al most 49 million bushels of wheat. The figures do not include those of the Kansas City mills on' the Kansas side. The production of Kansas City mills, chiefly from Kansas wheat, was about 2 million barrels of flour. The figures make Kansas next to the largest flour ' producing state. Only Minnesota is ahead of Kansas. Notwithstanding this high record output the' Kansas mills utilized only 59.8 per cent of their full grinding ca pacity. If all the mills of the state should run full time throughout the year they would grind more thau 80 million bushels of wheat. Helps to Start the Plants. The electrical engineering 4epart ment of the University of Kansas is now at the disposal of the various mu nicipalities of the state for advice con cerning installing and running electric light plants. "However," said Prof. Geoge C. Shaad, recently, "we da not wish to he put on record as universally fa voring municipal ownership for the c.Uies of Kansas. In many cases the best possible proposition is a mutu ally satisfactory arrangement with pri vate corporations for the supply of electrical service and usually if tke private corporations are satisSed with a reasonable return for taeir in vestment, such arrangement can ba made." In case, however, the municipality would take "over the electrical plant. or install' a new one, the- department at the University will meet the city council for a general discussion, and advice. "But, by discussion and advice, ia not meant planning the plant to the minutest detail," continued the head of the electrical engineering depart ment. Services of the local engineer can be secured for this purpose. Our aim is to give the city council a broad general knowledge of the subject so that it may know what it is attempt ing." A Big Gas Well in Kansas. The Wapaw Gas Drilling? Company ef Augusta brought in one of the big gest gas wells in the history of the Augusta field the other day. The well has a depth of 1,470 feet and registers a flow of 4 million feet. The gas is from the lower levels and is of the finest commercial grade. This well is the farthest south in the field. This proves the contention that the gas producing areas extend far be yond the original lines laid out by optimistic promoters. Counties Join for Reads. Five counties, SumAer, Cowley, Butler, Harvey and Sedgwick,, sent representatives to a good roads meet ing In Wichita the other night. Sixty four motor cars brought the delegates to Wichita. The object of the meet ing was to persuade the Sedgwick County Commissioner3-to improve the Meridian road between Peck and the north line of Sedgwick-county. It is said that this stretch of the Meridian road is the worst between Winnipeg, Canada, and Galveston, Tex. Kansas City Firm Takes Charge. . -in a final effort to straighten out the financial tangle which has en meshed the United Kansas Portland Cement . Company at Iola for many months, the Commerce Trust Compa ny of Kansas City has -taken posses sion of the property as trustee for the stockholders. Oldest Saline County Man Dies. Michael Brogan, 95 years old, a resi dent of Saline county forty years, died near Salina the other day. He waa the oldest man in the county. Sterling Postmaster Dead. Thomas A. Dilley, postmaster at Sterling, is dead. He wa born, ia Roseville, " Warren county, ' Illinois, May 7, 1813. In 1861 he jo-'ned tll volunteer company at Roseville, 111. and in 1864 the-Twenty -fifth Regimen of Volunteers. Convict Loaned by "Pen." Convict No. 2737 from Lansing pris on has . been loaned to the state "re formatory at Hutchinson to instaE the machinery for making: j rooms al J that institution. .. - .. 1EVER POPULAR TAX Assessments on Incomes Always Great English and American' States men Have Gone on Record In Op ; position to . Plan Lincoln's Words of Denunciation. - When Edward Gibbon, the historian, tells us that the Roman emperors " as certained the incomes of their subjects by burning them at the stake, we feel little regret that the glory of Rome is no moreT" When we read how the busi ness men of the middle ages, especial ly the- very successful Jews, were in geniously tortured to make them re veal . their incomes we see some ad vantages in not living even in that picturesque period. But we must not exult prematurely! The English income tax is the model upon which the present - federal in come tax Is based. A quarter of a century after the English tax went in to force it was repealed with an en thusiasm that is worth recalling. Dur ing the Napoleonic . wars the income tax had been endured as a necessary evil. But after Waterloo popular op position could no longer be restrained. The house of commons was deluged with petitions from all parts of the kingdom. From the "merchants, bank ers and traders of the city of London" came a petition with 22,000 signatures expressing "abhorrence of a tax repug nant to everything like British feel ing. , Throughout the debates in the com mons at this time it was always the inquisitorial nature of the tax, an in herent evil, rather than the high rates which aroused most bitter hostility. The intensity of feeling may be gath ered from Brougham's very popular proposal that all records of the tax be burned that posterity should never know that such a tax had existed. Wen may the Democrats ponder over these things! . Gladstone's denunciation of the in come tax came just ten years after Abraham Lincoln, who must have had in mind England's experience, wrote "to the voters of Illinois;" "By the direct tax system the land must be literally covered with assessors and collectors, going forth like swarms of Egyptian . locusts, devouring every blade of grass and other green thing," We do not wish to press the-analogy between Democratic tax officials and locusts or any other kind of insects, in structive though such analogy be. We do wish, however, to counsel great re straint and good sense in administer ing what has proved in all times and' places to be the most unpopular of taxes. Wilson's Mexican Policy. Unpleasant is the prospect ' which lies before us. if President. Wilson ia his schoolmaster's conceit shall carry us into a foolish and ruinous war with Mexico. Not in the lifetime of a" gen eration would we be able really to compose the country; and even when it should be lone, if ever, the result would involve an unending responsi bility and a permanent source of trou ble. To maintain Mexico as a con quered province would put upon us a strain to which our system is not adapted and which it could hardly sustain. To incorporate Mexico with in our own system with her myriads of ignorance and alien incapacity would be a policy of utmost hazard, probably one tending to national de struction. And this being so, we ought by every expedient consistent with honor and dignity to avoid the kind of mix-up in which the president's course, if it shall be persisted in, is more than likely to involve us. - Plea for Party Unity. In a recent speech former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks said: "Circumstances which unfortunately led to party division a year ago no longer exist. The Democratic party i3 in full power, and it -can be over thrown only by the united effort of the great-body of those who believe in Republican principles. I have no doubt whatever that the logic of events will brihg all Republicans Into co-operation again. "This cannot be accomplished by coercion of any sort; it must come about naturally by the exercise of a spirit of tolerance and patience; old scores should be forgot ten. As President McKinley happily pnt It, 'It does not' do to keep books in politics." Taft the Statesman. The instances of the election of able Judges by the people the. former head of "the nation regards as exceptions that indicate the ability of the .Ameri can people to make the best of a bad system. There, then, is the gauntlet of the able jurist who occupied the White House thrown down to the ad vocates of the plan to cast the judi ciary into the political arena for a scrambling over and to the populace for the rending of its robes. Always Minority Party. The Democratic party, nationally, has never ceased -to be a minority party. The party has been put in power nationally by a split of . the Republican party. . The Democratic party will remain in the ascendency nationally so long as the Republican party stays divided so long and no longer. The Republican party can reassert Itself as the governing party nationally and in -normally Repub lican states just as soon as the-dl-rided -wings get together. INDIANS DEFY THE OFFICERS Navajos Have Entrenched Themselves on Mountain in New Mexico -.. Cavalry Called For. , - Santa Fe, N.M'.F,ifteen hunrded Navajo Indians allied la defense of eight comrades and are reported in armed - encampment on Beautiful Mountain,' thirty-five miles southwest of ; the Shiprock" Agency, - defying United States Marshal . Hudspeth to arrest the renegades, who are wanted on federal warrants charging horse stealing, assault and bigamyr- Two troops of cavalry have- been asked for by the marshal and the re quest has been referred by the War Department-to Major General Carter, in command of the border patroL . The Indians are fortifying on a high table mountain, the summit of Which is ap proachable by only one tortuous road. MAIL CAR ROBBED BY BANDIT Registered Packages Taken From Southern Pacific Train Near San Francisco. - San Francisco, Par more than an bo ir a masked highwayman was ia charge of the mail car on. a Southern Pacific Shore line limited train from Los Angeles, between- San Jose and this city, while the three mail clerks lay on the floor bound with ropes and their heads covered with) sacks. The bandit carefully helped himself to all the registered mail, going through the letters and packages and discarding the money orders and other articles. - As the train reduced its speed upon entering the yards, the robber pocket ed the booty, bid the clerks good night, jumped from the car and escaped. KANSAS PREACHER RETURNS Rev. C. B. Littleton, Who Disappeared From Edna,' Kan, Refuses to Talk. Coffeyville, Kan. The Rev. C. B. Littleton, who mysteriously disap peared from Edna, Kan., shortly after the death of his wife, June 29, last, has appeared in the little town just as mysteriously as he disapeared. When called up over the long dis tance telephone from Coffeyville, Mr. Littleton- positively refused to make a statement of any nature concern ing his disappearance. - ' Asked as to his whereabouts since Hieing absent from Edna, he declined to talk other than to reiterate that he bad no statement to make. ONE DEAD, THE OTHER DYING Couple From Elsberry, Mo, Found ,i Shot Through- Head in ' ' , Toledo, O. Toledo, O. The body of a woman and a man, dangerously wounded, were found In a hotel room here. Beth ' had been shot through the head. The couple registered as James E. Griffith and wife of Elsberry, Mo. The coroner is of the opinion the man shot his wife and, after watching over her body for. several hours, turned the gun on himself. Physicians say he cannot recover. He formerly lived in Altoona, Pa. TRAIN THROUGH A BRIDGE An Infant the Only Passenger Kilied in Wreck Near Centerville. ' Ark. " Fort Smith, Ark. After the engine and) tender- had safely passed the weak point, three coaches of a , pas senger train bound from Dardanelle to Ola went through a small bridge nine miles east of Centerville, resullrJ Ing in the death of the l-memtbelt. baby of Mrs. R. L. Baker of Dar danelle the severe injury of Mrs. Baker and a 7-year-old sob, rr addi tion to Injuries to six other- passer gers. RAILROAD STRIKE IS ENDED Southern Pacific Trainmen Return. to Work Pending' Arbitration of Grievances. Houston, Tex. The strike of oper ating employes of the Southern Pa cific lines in Texas and Louisiana was ended when the railroaa yielded to. demands of the men to meet a feder ated committee of the four unions in the controversy. . The- men were or dered to resume wort immediately. . Within thirty minutes after the an nouncement was made that the strike had been ended idle wheels began to turn in the Houston railroad yards. A Real D. A. R. Is Dead. Fond Du Lac, Wis. Mrs. C. R. Danks, 93 years old, daughter of Capt Luther Rice, an officer in the Ameri can Revolution, is dead here. She had resided here half a century. Hero Faces Arson Charge.' . - Chicago. Clement Thatcher, a postal clerk who was hailed as a hero last February when he discovered a fire in an apartment house and awak ened the tenants, was arrested, sus pected of having set fires la four aparcrnent houses. A Girl of 4 Had Tremens. - New York. Found wandering oa the streets drunk, 4-year-old Sarah Keefe is dying at Bellevua of alco holism. Her mother ia charged with, neglect. - teENAnom lTI JxCytnn at LESSON (By E- O. SELLERS. Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) - ..t; -- -. ,-:-... LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 30 CROSSING THE JORDAN. - LESSON TEXT-Ioshua SrT-lT. GOLDEN TEXT "Fear thou not tor I am with thee." Isa. 41:10. , The spies' sent out by Joshua (ch. 2) were animated by quite a different motive than that -which governed those who first visited Canaan, and they brought back a much different report (Num. ch. 13). The story of their experience ia Jericho with Ra bat, their escape from her house, and the Incident of the "scarlet thread," wiO prove an Interesting introdnctioa fortoday's lesson. "There are two suggestions iw- the preparation tar the crossing of the Jordan mentioned! ta the flnt seven verses of this chapter: (lj It was to be- an orderly advance (v. 4); no disorderly crowding about those who led. , This was also to- be a sure path, though they had not passed that way before, for God was leading. (2) It was to be a prayerful advance (v. 5). Literally, they were to "un dertake great things for God and to expect great things from God." - Jesus Must Lead. . 1. The Leader, w. 7, 8. The cir cumstances surrounding this episode are far different from those at the crossing of the" Red sea. Moses' en counter with Pharaoh had stamped him as the one who should save the nation. True, In the battles and in his association with Moces Joshua had occupied a position of leadership, but how he is to deliver Israel from the death of the wilderness into the life and possessions of Canaan, hence the words, "I will magnify thee in the sight of all Israel." It is notice able, however, that Joshua did not lead this forward march, but rather the priests.. The ark which they bore is a type of Christ and he must al ways lead. Jehovah magnified Joshua because Joshua had magnified Jeho vah, see I. Sam. 2:30, John 17:4, 5. II. Those Led, vv. 9-13. Joshua at once communicates Jehovah's order for a forward march to the people (L Thess. 2:13). But God graciously ac companies his word by a visible mani festation of his presence (v. 10, 11) cf. I. John 1:1. Col. 2:9. It was the word and presence of . the "living God" (v. 10) that was to work this miracle, and to accomplish the victo rious possession of the land in ac cordance with his own sure promise. This lesson is a great lesson of types. God, through the leading of his priests bearing the ark (a type of Christ), leads man from the failures cf his wilderness experience, through death (the Jordan), into newness of life (Canaan), Rom. 6:4, 9. Previous ly the mention of the names of these enemies (v. 10) had so frightened Israel that they turned aside in a panic, but Israel had been learning in the bitter school of discipline and failure. "The Lord of all the earth" (v. 11) is to lead, why then fear? There was, however, to be a test, viz;, the path was not to open until their feet were in the waters. There was no such test at the Red sea, for they did not then have sufficient faith, L Cor. 10:13. I. Peter 1:7. Israel's One Way.r III. The Dry Ground, w. t4-17. TJp until the- moment they stepped Into the water, priest and people alike re lied upon the bare word of Jehovah, I. Sam. 15:22. WTe, "loo, will surely find a way of escape If we yield him implicit obedience, Isa. 43-. 2; I. Cor. 10:13. As if to heighten this miracle we need to remember it was the sea son of flood tide (v. 15). The river Jordan Is a great type of' the judg ment passed upon sin. Verse sixteen tells us that the waters were backed up beyond "the city of Adam." Our Joshua delivers not only us from all sin but bis deliverance is also suffi cient for the whole human race, Heb. 9:28, I. John 1:7. Our deliverance Is complete, let ns praise him. The Jordan would not, however, have opened "had those bearing the- ark paused upon the hank. The people could not have been delivered except as the ark remained: in the river bed. Jesus went into- the waters for us, 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal.. He has con demned sin for us, Rom. 8r3. ' He alone has opened a pathway for our deliverance.. There was no other -way whereby Israel could be delivered and further they were delivered ."right against ' Jericho" (v. IS) viz before their next big task, aad "all the -nation were passed cleaa ever Jordan (v. 17), John 17:12. - Representatives of each tribe (ch. 4) carried - from - the river twelve-stones- for the buildtng of an altar so that the history of that delivers ace might be perpetuated. IV. The Lessoa. In this lee son we are brought, in company with Israel, into the land at last. Abraham saw and believed. Jacob and his sot.jj left' it when threatened with moral contamination and physical death. "Much has happened stnee that time, but "God's" purposes have gone on un changed. Nor has Jehovah ever been defeated. Israel is delivered because," in the language of Pa. 114:2, "Judah became his sanctuary. Israel his do minion. Note how Ps. 114:3 united forty years of history. "The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven b4.CS-" This, i the history of Israel. ANOTHER GOOD YEAR IN WESTERN CANADA AMITOBAr SASKATCHEWAN AND ALBERT, HAYXSPLENDID CROPS. 7J The results 1 of the threshing throughout Western Canada shows a more wonderful yield than usual of wheat, oats, barley and flax, all of which was harvested, and threshed in perfect order. Not only was the av erase yield excellent over the entire country, but the quality was of the highest standard. Without going into figures, it is .sufficient to say that wheat graded almost .universally very near the top. Reports are to hand showing yields of wheat from many fields which averaged forty bushels per acre, and weighing 65 pounds to the measured bushel. Oats were very heavy, running from fifty to one hun dred "and fifteen bushels to the acre. Barley also was a very heavy yielder and kept up the reputation of Western Canada as a producer of that cereal. Ia many parts of the country the yield of fiax exceeded the earlier expecta tion, bat fa other parts, there was sobcc loss era account of winds blow ing off the boll. Hundreds of farm ers who have only been in the country threr or" four years, with bet little means when, they arrived, wBL out of the crop of this" year, clean up all their indebtedness and; be able to put some thing aside- for further improvements on their farms- and homes which are now freed of incumbrance. The writ er has just heard: of the experience of a man in the- Battleford district that is worth, repeating. He went to the district seven or eight years ago, with no money, worked for a time; got a team of horses,, did "some freighting: and homesteaded' a quarter section of land. He now owns 480 acres of land. ' clear of all incumbrances, and has wheat, oats, barley and hay,, as well as a good number of horses, cattle: and bogs, feeding rough grain to the stock. He is a firm believer in mixed farming. The fifty dollars that he first earned in the country has now increased to $25,000. He has never had a crop failure. " Instances of this kind could be repeated over and over agaim There is a Dane, named Key, east of Saskatoon, whose oats this year went 110 bushels to the acre", and his wheat 40 bushels. He has paid off the mortgage on his farm, andnow contemplates a trip- to Denmark, to visit his old home. He has no more cares or worries, but is anxious tp have more of his people settle in that part. It is not only' thefarmer with limited means and small area of land who is doing well, and has done won derfully in Western Canada this year;, but the man with means, the man who. is able to conduct successful farming on a large scale and many opportuni ties offer for such in Western Canada,, also has increased his bank account handsomely. A farmer in Southern: Alberta raised 350,000 bushels of grain In 1913, and made, almost a fortune out of it. - In. Saskatchewan and in; Manitoba Is to be heard the same story of what has been done by the farmer working a large area, which he is able to do successfully, by the use" of improved farm machinery, en abling him to cut hundreds of acres, a day, and plow the land immediately with large traction outfits. No better recommendation could be given the country than, the fact that during the past year, upwards of 400,000 settlers arrived in Canada, the greater num ber of whom went to the farm. There are still many thousands of home steads, still available, capable of pro ducing such crops and maintaining such herds as has made rich men out of the thousands whose experiences could be reproduced were it necea sary. Advertisement. Sure of It. "Jt was a love marriage, that of the young heiress with the ' foreign nnklomon Cna r-r -vr r a amolrh Jtt o ff a- tion to him." "Well, the wealth was all he was after." . - A CLERGYMAN'S TESTIMONY. Tne- Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wig ton, Pa., suffered from Dropsy for a year; His limbs, and feet were swol len. and puffed. Hej had heart flutter ing, was dizzy . and exhausted! at the least exer tion. Hands ' and feet were cold and: he had such a draggiBg sensa tion. across, the tolas, that it was dinieulfc--to move. After using 5 boxes of Dodds Rev. K. fieelosu. Kidney PiTts the- swelling disappear ed and he- felt himself again.-' He says he has bees benefited and blessed by the use of Dodda Kidney PiUa. Sev eral'' months later he wrote: I have not changed my- faith in your- remedy since the .above statement was author ized. Correspond with "Rev. E. Hes lop about this wonderful remedy. Dodda Kidney Pills. 50c per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo. N. Y., Write for Household Hints. Iao music of National Anthem (English and German words) and re cipes for dainty dishes All 3 sent free. Adv. . The longest word in the English language is antitransubstantiational ism. Coughs come from inflamed Bronchial Tubes, ttean's Mentholated Couuh Drops heftl the irritation 6c at all Drug Stores. Upright pianos should be so placed in rooms as to avoid dampness veA drafts.