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SAVED BY SHOVELS Chicopee, Crawford County, De serted by Former Residents Takes on - New. Life. MINE WITH STEAMER'S AID 619 Scrapers Uncover Valuable Vein and Persons Who Deserted Vil lage are Returning. Chicopee is on the way back. A year ago it seemed like Chicopee never could come beack. The last -bis coal mine was being closed down. Houses that miners lived in were being moved miles away to a new camp. Merchants had hunted up new loca tions and were transferring their stocks. And nearly every building that wa3 left in Chicopee was empty. The word went out that Chicopee, once the queen of the coal towns of the Southwest, practically was a de- written. For twenty years Chicopee had been the noisest camp in the coal fields. A miner who wanted to spend his money had greater opportunities to satisfy his desires along that line there than in any other town in the section. "Pay nights" saw great crowds gather on Chicopee's streets. A few years ago the mines began to give out. The field was moving to the north. There was more money working newer mines and men said farewell to Chicopee. Its glory faded. Finally town lots became part of .farmers' fields. Then the outside world was told that Chicopee had gone down for the last time. Now Chicopee is coming to life again. Men are moving into houses that have stood vacant. A few resi dents who remained when all the rest had gone are happy. They see pros perous days In the future. The big steam shovel has' resurrected their camp. USE CANARY TO SAVE LIVES , Mine Rescue Men Carry Bird With them to Warn of Presence of Noxious Gases. In the office of Francis Kecgan, state mine inspecor, sings a little yel low canary weakly, very weakly. It has a little cage, but Keegan and tha deputy inspectors around the" office let it out of the cage, and it has the freedom of the office. It hops feebly about but soon tires and returns to the cage. It is willing to die so that soma men may live. This little canary Is a mine inspec tor. It went into the great disaster at Dawson, N. M., last fall. Its mis sion is to show by dying if there was afterdamp and noxious gas in suf ficient quantities to kill rescurers. The men who carried the cage into the mine watched to see if the canary -strangled. If it had, the men would have turned and gone out of the mine, for they could not live more than a minute or two in that foul air. -fc -X -fc Wichita Woman Shot. Mrs. Mary .Newman, 25 years old and pretty, was found at her home in Wichita with two bullets in her breast. She is the wife of O. A. Xewman, wire chief for the Bell Telephone Company. New man refuses to talk about the shoot ing. He was not at home when Mrs. Newman was shot. Neighbors declare the wounded woman begged to be al lowed to die. Newman said that she had been ill recently. Mrs. Newman is at a local hospital. Doctors say she has small chance of recovery. -K -K Water Still Warm. The water in Oirard's municipal well remains at a temperature of 90 degrees now. The normal temperature of the well form erly was 72 degrees. A report of an analysis of a sample of the water sent to C. A. Haskins, state engineer, has been received by City Clerk "Walker and Superintendent Parker. The en gineer says the water seemed to be all right and that he was unable to discover a cause for the neat. - - ' Celebrate Founder's Day. Bishop William O. Shepard of Kansas City, Kas., was the principal speaker at Salina in the celebration of founders day for Wesleyan University. Other speakers were President Wilbur N. Mason of Baker University and. Presi dent F. E. Mossman of Southwest Col lege at Winfield. Bankers to Hear Owen. Senator Kobert L. Owen of Oklahoma., one of the authors of the new Currency Law, has agreed to address the - Kansas -State Bankers' Association at its meeting in Wichita, May 21 and 22. - Newton Banks Merge. A deal was closed at Newton . recently whereby the First National bank absorbs the Home state oanK. 1 ne riouie insti tution has a capital of $50,000 and was organized ' seven years ago. The First .National .was organized In 1880. -k " -K Lived 94 Years. Mrs. '. Mary Grat tan. a . pioneer " resident of Central Kansas, died at: her home near New ton the other day at the age of 94. She is survived by seven children, fifty-three grand children and sixty three great grand children. DROWNS HIMSELF IN WELL Worried Over Woman's Demands fo .. Money Kansas Farmer " Ends -His Life. 1 Haunted by the fear of having his small fortune dissipated to satisfy the claim 3 of a woman who for a few weeks had been his housekeeper, John H. Valentine, a prominent farmer liv ing nine miles northeast of -Douglass, recently drowned himself in a well on his farm. Valentine, who was 40 years old, had been a widower for several years. About December 15, Valentine met the woman by appointment in Kansas City. - He had known her slightly for several years and it is said that he intended to marry her. It is also said that the woman refused to become Mrs. Valentine, but consented to act as his housekeeper. Friends of Val entine declare that he objected to this arrangement. Valentine believed that there was prospect of litigation, the woman hav ing employed attorneys. He feared that it would eventually take most of his property to contest the case in court. His friends believe hat worry over the affair drove him insane. ; COULDN'T BRING HIM BACK Religious Sect at Columbus Spend Hours in Prayer in Effort to Re store Leader's Life. , Believing that prayer if fervent enough, would restore life, more than thirty "True Believers" gathered from surrounding towns, spent hours praying for the body of their leader, John Dean of Columbus. They en deavored to conceal the fact that the man was dead, giving out the report that he was sick and that they were praying for his recovery. Neighbors became suspicious and learning the truth, a coffin was sent to the house. The prayers refused to let the under takers have the body and sent the coffin away. By this time most of the "Believers" were near exhaustion. The local authorities stepped in and in spite of protestations, the burial took place. The "Believers" wanted to hold the body until the third day, be lieving that the dead man would come back to life then. EDITORS WILL HEAR BIG MEN National Figures in Journalism on Program Newspaper Week at State University. Among the newspaper men who will take part in the National "News paper Week at the University of Kan sas May 11-14, are Mark Sullivan, George Hough Perry, James Melvin Lee, and Roy W. Howard. Mark Sullivan is editor of Colliers; Mr. Perry wa3 for years advertising manager for the Wanamaker and Siegel-Cooper stores; James Melyin Lee is best known as editor of Judge; and Roy W. Howard Is president of the United Press Association. - - -X Meet After 58 Years. William Hill yard, 71 years old, and A. L. Chritton, 73 "years old of Wichita were boys to gether in Illinois in 1857. They drifted apart in 1858 and knew noth ing of each other until they met on the jury empaneled for the February term of the district court. Both en listed in the Union army, Hillyard joining the Third Illinois cavalry and Chritton the Thirty-eighth Illinois in fantry. After the war Hillyard re turned to his home in Illinois and Chritton to his birthplace in Indiana. In 1883 both came to Kansas, but each was ignorant of the other's com ing. Hillyard settled in Harvey county and Chritton came to Wichita where he has resided ever since. Hillyard moved to Wichita in 1905. - -X Another Pioneer- Gone. Abraham Hooper, aged 75, a resident of Atchi--son county, since 1858 is dead there. In the early days Hooper made trips across the plains from Atchison to Denver as a freighter, and was with the militia organized during the Civil War to meet General Price. He was the father of Daniel Hooper, for sev eral years probate judge of Atchison county, who died in 1912. -X - New Theater for Atchison. Atch ison, distinguished for two years as the largest town without a theater, is soon to have a new modern playhouse to take the place of one condemned by state authorities. The local Kagles lodge have officially announced that it would construct the new house this year. The lodge will also build a new club house, the combined structure to cost J50.000. r -X 1 -X . May Die of Burns. Elwyn Led bet ter, 18 years old, probably was fatal ly burned at Great Bend when he threw coal oil on a smoldering fire, causing an explosion which set the house on fire and ignited his clothing, -X -X -X Botkin for Senate. J. D. Botkin, warden of the Kansas state peniten tiary, has written A. A. Dunmire, president of the Botkin-for-Senatoi Club at Wichita, his decision to' an nounce for the Democratic nomina tion for the United States Senate. -X -X -X Votes New Rule. Commission gov ernment for Osawatomie was carried recently by a-majority of almost 5 to 1. A light vote was polled. Out of 353 votes cast, the new rule bad a majority of 225. there being 289 votes for new form. - STonr.i goes east Hundreds of Passengers Taken , From Stalled Trains to Illinois Farm Houses. RAILROADS ARE HARD HIT Situation So Desperate on Most Lines That Operations Kad to Be Sua- -pended Temporarily. Springfied, - 111. Hundreds or pas sengers on trains in Central Illinois aro being cared for in farmhouses aad village hotels, while section gangs and crews of rescue engine are try ing to dig trains out of snowdrifts, some of which are twenty feet deep. So severe was the blizzard all day and so relentless the wind, that the snow filled in as fast as it could be shoveled out. The situation became so desperate on some roads that oper ations were abandoned temporarily, and all attention directed toward car ing for the passengers. A Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis train with twenty-five passengers Is stalled at Virginia and another is at Cantrall with thirty-five passengers. Farmers are housing the passengers. Peoria division, -Chicago & Alton trains, have been annulled.. One train is snowed under at Green Valley.- Five engines pulled the Illinois Cen tral "Daylight Special" out of a drift at Divernon. Baltimore & Ohio passenger trains are stalled at Sharpsburg, Oweneco and Virginia. The Oweneco train left Its passengers at Pana. Passengers of other trains are being housed by farmers. Three Wabash passenger trains are in drifts near Markham, with four ex tra engines and squads of men trying to dig them out. Interurban cars of the Illinois trac tion system are held by drifts in sev eral directions out of Springfield. Volunteer relief has been offered by farmers. Three Killed in St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo. Three deaths in St. Louis and vicinity were directly at tributed to the blizzard which hdo been raging here during tthe last two days. Three men in as many acci dents were struck by trains after they had been blinded by the sleet and snow. Scores of other persons injured in accidents caused by the storm are being cared for in local hospitals. . " STORM SWEEPS TWO STATES Rain Turning to Sleet Covers Kansas and Missouri With Coat- . . ing of Ice. ... Topeka, Kan. The most severe storm that has visited Kansas this winter came . Sunday night. It fol lowed a light rain that started early in the day. "All the northern part of the state that could be reached -by either telegraph or telephone report ed a sheet of ice a quarter of an inch thick on the ground and sleet and snow falling rapidly. Scanty reports received from the western part of the state indicated that unsheltered live stock is suffer ing. Fear is expressed that the air tight coating of ice may damage the wheat fields. St. Louis, Mo. Sleet driven by a 25-mile wind began to fall throughout Missouri early Sunday afternoon and by night had coated the ground with more than an inch of ice in many places. The blizzard was accompanied by a drop in temperature of about thirty degrees in twelve hours. STORM COVERS WIDE AREA Transportation and Wire Communi cation is Demoralized Through out Middle West. Chicago. The worst snow storm of the winter has bf.-en raging over a large port of the Middle West. Throughout Missouri, Iowa, Central and Southern Illinois, Kansas, Ne braska, Indiana and Ohio a heavy snow was falling, accompanied by a high wind. Telegraph and telephone lines were demoralized, especially south and west of here, and steam railroad traffic was badly delayed. ' Rail Rates- Favor Imports. Washington. The Interstate Com merce commission has anounced its intention of Investigating why freight rates on merchandise imported are less in many instances than those for shipping domestic goods from the same American ports to interior points in the United States. Peonage in Michigan? Hancock, Mich. Charges of peon age made by striking copper miners were herd by congressional investi gators here. Joe Wood Is 111. , Twin Lakes, Pa. Joe Wood, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox of the Amer ican League, has just undergone an operation for appendicitis at his home here. An early recovery is confident ly expected. U. S. Athletes Won in Australia. Sydney, N. S. W. In the state ath letic championships held here, George L. Parker, the California sprinter, won the 220-yard dash and Ruric Temple ton of the Olympic Club, San Fran cisco, the pole vault. - . KUEPHY OUT OF DASE BALL Sella Controlling- Interest in-Chicago Club to C. P. Taft of '. Cincinnati. . ' ' ' Chicago, III. "I -started in baseball with a shoestring, and now I am worth more than a million dollars," said Charles W. M,urphy, who has just sold under pressure the controlling in terest in the Chicago National League club. . t - . - Mr. Murphy chuckled and then grew serious when he was asked - to tell how much Charles P. Taft gave him for 53 per cent of the stock of the club. . "I would be violating a confidence to give the exact amount," he replied, "but estimated on the basis of the price I : received for my interest, the club is worth more than a million dol lars. A half million or so is a lot of money,.but the Cubs are worth it. . In the time I ran the , club, I believe It was the most prosperous organization in the league." CANAL 0PENINGTHIS SUMMER Col. Goethals, Now in Washington, .Says Everything Will Be Ready By July 1. Washington. The Panama ' Canal will 'probably be opened on July 1, according to estimates "of its builder. Colonel Goethals, who has arrived here to report to President Wilson, Secre tary. Garrison and Congress on the waterway... 11 - "I have every expectation that it will be ready on that date," Goethals said. ' "There is no danger that slides will -close the waterway, although geo logists tell us that minor slides may be expected when the water rises to its full level in the canaL - "The defenses of the canal are practically completed those on the Atlantic side entirely so. The state ments that the canal is inadequately protected can be flatly'' denied." CRANK THREATENS WILSON West Orange Man, Signing Himself "God's Son" Arrested for Writ ing Letters. West Orange, N. , J. Postoff ice in spectors and police have arrested George Barnhardt, a cook, on a charge of writing letters threatening President Wilson with death. 'He was arraigned before Recorder Mc Laughlin and held in $1,000 bail to await action by the federal authori ties. About three months ago Presi dent Wilson began receiving letters signed "God's Son," threatening him with destruction, the postoffice in spectors , say. Bernhardt s . said to have escaped from an asylum near Philadelphia. REBELS WRECK TROOP TRAIN All On Board, Including Officers and Men and English Engineer Were Killed. Vera Cruz, Mexico. A government troop train, carrying a company of infantry from the City of Mexico, destined' for Jala pa, was blown up by rebels. The wreck occurred near the Lima station of the Interoceanic Rail way, 140 miles from Vera Cruz. The entire train was demolished. All on board, including 55 officers and men and the English engineer, were killed. A passenger train, fol lowing the troop train, was fired on by the rebels, but escaped by backing rapidly. NOT DR. WINTERS' DAUGHTER New Castle, Ind., Physician Failed to Recognize a Child Held at Springdale, Ark. Sprlngdale, Ark. The child held here as Catherine Winters, the kid naped daughter of Dr. W. A. Winters of Newcastle, Ind., was declared by the physician not to be his child. ' Doctor Winters arrived here to iden tify the girl found recently at Hunts ville. Ark., in company of a man who gave the name of Edward Stuart, and who was believed to be Doctor Win ter's 10-year-old daughter, who has been missing from her Indiana home since March 20 1913. BECKER TO HAVE NEW TRIAL Court of Appeals Gives New York Police Lieutenant AnolVier Chance For His Life. Albany, N. Y. By a vote of 6 to 1, the court of appeals has .granted Charles Becker, convicted New York police lieutenant, a new trial. Becker was convicted" October 25, 1912, of the murder of Herman Rosen thal,' a notorious gambler, and ' ; sen tenced to death at Sing Sing prison. Justice Werner voted against a new trial. The convictions. of the four gunmen, who appealed with Becker, were unan imously affirmed. Henry M. Teller Dead. - Denver. Henry Moore' Teller, " ex cabinet officer for more than thirty years United States senator from Colorado, is dead here. Mr. Teller, who was 83 years old, had been ill two years and his death was not unex pected. Offers $700000 for Cubs. Chicago. An offer of $700,000 for his stock in the Chicago . National League ball club-, has been- .made to Charles P. Taft by a syndicate of six Chicago business men. - Watch Carefully Start Them Off Right With a Good Laxative arut Then Watch Their Food. y Mothers are often - unconsciously very careless about the diet of their children, forcing all to eat the same foods. The fact Is. that all foods do not agree alike with different persons. Hence, avoid what seems to constipate the child or to give it Indigestion, and urge it to take more of what is quick ly digested. If the child shows a tendency to constipation it should immedlafVly "be given a mild laxative to help the bow els. By this is not meant a physic or purgative, for these should never be given to children, nor anything like salts, pills, etc. What the child re quires Is simply a small dose of the gentlest of medicines, such as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which, in the opinion of thousands of watchful moth ers, is the ideal remedy for any child showing a tendency to const! pa tion. So many things can happen to a con stipated child that care is necessary. Colds, piles, headaches, sleeplessness. hand many other annoyances that chil dren should not have can. usually be traced to constipation. Many of America's foremost families are never without Syrup Pepsin, be cause one can never tell when some member of the family - may need It, and. all can use It. Thousands endorse It, among them Mrs. M. K. Patten, Valley Junction, Iowa, who is never without it in the house. Mrs. Patten CO Om be Noie. by 4' - - ' sv vug" turtle- forms One bottle SPOHN MEDICAL, CO. Wanted A New Baseball Rule. Walter Johnson was pitching for the Washington team, and Mr. Jennings, who was trying to pump optimism into his despairing players, sent up an am bitious young man to try to make a hit. He acted briefly. . After swing ing wildly at two of Johnson's offer ings, he made a third wild swing, and, entirely by accident, popped up a lit tle fly to first base. As he loped down toward first, and was called out, he turned to Jennings, let out a stream of emphatic and pic turesque language, and wound up with this observation: "I'm a son of a gun if there oughtn't be a rule making that guy hang lights on the ball!" Jennings, who got his start in life as a miner, smiled grimly. "Where do you think you're work ing." he asked softly, "in a' coal mine." The Popular Magazine. EIJ S DYSPEPSIA, "Pane's Diapepsin" cures sick, sour stomachs in five minutes ' Time Itl "Really does" put bad stomachs In order ''really does" overcome indiges tion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and sourness in five minutes that Just that makes Pane's Diapepsin the lar gest selling stomach regulator in the world. If what yon eat ferments into stubborn lumps, you belch- gas and eructate sour, undigested food and acid; bead is dizzy and aches; breath foul; tongue coated; your insides filled with bile and' indigestible waste, re member the moment "Pape's Diapep sin" comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. It's truly astonishing almost marvelous, and the joy is its harmlessness. A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Dia pepsin W411 give you a hundred dollars' worth of satisfaction. ' It's worth its weight In gold to men and women who can't get their stom achs regulated. It belongs in your home should always be kept handy In case of a sick, sour, upset stomach during, the day or at night. It's the quickest, surest and most harmless stomach doctor in the world. Adv. The Insult. . - Lady (ordering boots for her hus band) Do you keep men's boots? Shopman No. madam, bat we keep np to nines in women's. London Opin ion. ' If men were as perfect as their wives expect them to be the monotony of married life would be debilitating. Sfrfmgth Beauly Come With Dr. Kerce's Gcidca tledical Discovery Thin is a blood el?rseT and alterativa ' that starts the liven- mnd stomach into . vigorous action. It thns aneists tha body to manufactory rich red blood Which feeds tha heart oervea brain and organs of the body. The oigmum - work smoothly likemachTnei J lunning tn ofl. Yon feel clean, strong and r aUenuoos Instead -of tired, weak and. . faint. Nowadays Too can obtain Dr. -Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Tableta, aa well as the liquid tana . . . from all medicine dealers, or trial box f taMets- by mail, on receipt of 60c Address B.V-Fierce, MJX,Buaalo,N.T. . Ms .Heel .Ciswai las jfc..-, ...... ..t . . RALPH M. PATTEN - says that Syrup Pepsin has done won ders for her"boy Ralph, who was con stipated from birth but is now doing fine. Naturally, she is enthusiastlo about it and wants other mothers to use it. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is Of-ll t Kv itFltMlato' 4friT ...f. nr. A one dollar a bottle, the latter size be- -ing bought by those who already know its value, and It contains proportion ately more. Everyone likes Syrup Pepsin, as it Is very pleasant to the taste. It is also mild and non-griping and free from in jurious ingredients. Families wishing to try a free sam ple bottle can obtain it postpaid by ad- -dressing Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 203 Wash Washington St., Monti cello, I1L A pos tal card with your name and address on it will do. ' LT DISTEMPER bandied e urfry. The trick- arc cored, and mil ottn t DLOnttr bow "exposed." kept from havliur the cb- xmiug aPOHNTS LIQUID DISTEMPER CUKE. Giro or In feed- Acta on the blond end evnele u.rni. of of dtatemDer- tlont remedv ever known trap nmrm In AmL gtisrsnteed to cure one esse. 60c endue bottle; abend -let-end nerneee deelen. or sent exurass neld tnr Cat shows bow to poultice throe te Our free S..IH, III I . OOShOO. lfMts.UeS.ite Frenchwoman's Cold Cure. Having been without a cold for 27 years, a French lady, who holds this fortunate record, attributes it to the following process. Each morning aft er taking a warm bath, she immediate ly sponges her throat, her face, and the back, of her neck and ears with ' the very coldest water she can get for about two minutes. In cold weather one may feel inclined to shirk, she says, but the result of steady applica- . tion she has found a plentiful re ward. GIRLS! GIRLS! TRY IT, nriiirirx vmin nun i.rnmii-1 miir. nam HM1WIII I I WWII in till Make It Thick, Glossy, Wavy, Luxur lant and Remove Dandruff Real . Surprise for You. Your hair becomes light, wavy, fluf fy, abundant and appears as soft, lus trous and beautiful as a young girl's after a "Danderine hair cleanse." Just try this moisten a cloth with a little Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. This will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt and excessive oil and in Just a few momenta you have doubled the beauty of your hair. - Besides beautifying the hair at once, Danderine dissolves every particle of dandruff; cleanses, purifies and Invig orates the scalp, forever stopping itch ing and falling hair. But what will please you most will be after a few weeks use when you will actually see new hair fine and downy at first yes but really new hair growing all over the scalp. If you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of it, surely get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any store end Just try it- Adv. Neighborly Bitterness. Mrs. Murphy Take in that face and put out your pup's. Mrs. Maloney I did this morning, and everybody passing by said: "Good morning,- Mrs. Murphy ." Syd ney Bulletin. Drive that cough from your system. T 1 -ftx 1 1 1-J X t. l 1 1 sorely help yon 5c at all Drug Stores. Don't talk so much. People do not pay any attention to 99 out of every 100 words you utter. Putnam Fadeless Dyes guarantee satisfaction. Adv. We can readily believe that many people are saddest when they sing. loos , Aelisin sU be SI I HI l