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8 TOPEKA STATE JOUENAXi. SATUEDAr E"L AUGUST 9, 1902. KIDDER JS VICTOR Defeats Dan Ham matt, Elks' . .Ping Pong Champion. Opponent - Never Had a Chance to Win. HOW IT WAS DONE. A State Journal Reporter De scribes Game in Detail. Last Contest of Series to Be Played Tonight. Mr. Pancoast Kidder Is still master of the ping- pong lists. The Elks cham pion went down before his iron deter mination and marvelous . nerve last Mr. Kidder Keeps his Head and Sends the Ball Back. Ping pong resembles poker in Just one particular. To wit: If you don't lose, you may possibly win. Ping pong, like appendicitis, Panama hats and shoestring neckties, is a. fad. To a spec tator it doesn't look like much of a game, but it is, when properly played. It was "much of a game" last night as played by Messrs. Pancoast Kidder for the Topeka club and Dan Ham.natt for the Elks. They were the star play ers of the evening, although Herbert Armstong, Theo, Hammatt, Geo. Craw ford and W. J. Black of the Toneka club against A. F. Williams, F. Ben nett, L. Bronson and Adrian Sherman of the Elks furnished some lively games. The principal bout, between Kidder end Hammatt, was pulled off about 9 o'clock. Mr. Kidder came onto the diamond arrayed in a pink negligee shirt, minus collar, and sleeves rolled up. Mr. Hammatt retained his collar and a determined look. Although he Mr. Hammatt Tries to Appear at Ease. lost to Kidder, It was not because he did not slay bail, it was because his opponent played just a little more ball. Mr. Kidder looked over the assortment of tools and took charge of a var nished wooden bat. " Mr. Hammatt se cured one stuffed with cork. The ref eree, Mr. H. Ruff, tossed a four bit piece, and one of the two contestants won, a spectator could not say which one. Then they began to smite the lit tle white ball. Their methods were quite different. Mr. Kidder showed considerable grace and agility In bis movements. Having first tied a fillet around his brow, he got into the game by leaping high into the air when a grounder came his way. and crouch ing low to meet a high fly, but he al ways most always met the ball. An observer could see through, the game easily. It was quite plain that Mr. Hammatt did not want the ball, and therefore batted it back to the I sleep well enough at night, S And the blamedest appetite - Ever mortal man possessed." Riley's farmer is the very picture of a man advanced in years, yet in the enjoy ment of perfect health. A good appe tite, good digestion and sound sleep, are me cniet tactors in vieorous old sure. Lite is sustained by food, when it is properly digested and assimilated. When digestion fails, there is a loss of nutrition which soon shows itself in physical weak ness, nervousness, sleeplessness, etc Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It strengthens the body in the only way possible, by enabling the as similation of the nutrition extracted from food. "I -used ten bottle of Or. Pierce's Galdea Medici Discovery and several visis - of Bis ' Pleasant Fellets a year ago this spring, and have had no trouble with indigestion since, Writes Mr. W. T. Thompson, of Townsend. Broadwater Co., Montana. "Words rail to tell low thankful I am for the relief, as I had suf fered so much and it aeemed that the doctors could dtfat no rood. I got down in weight to J35 pounds, and was not able to work at all. Wow I wergh nearly ros and can do a day's work n the farm. I baVe recommended your medi cine to several, and shall always have a good word to say for Dr. Pierce and his medicines. The Common Sense Medical Adviser. jlooS pages, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Pj, BegcBngala. M. . " ' - 39 other side of the table, doing little foot work, but keeping at it like he meant business. It was a sort of Alinone and Oaston" -affair. - "Tou take the lit tle ball, my dear Mr. Hammatt." "No, the ball Is all yours, my dear Mr, Kidder. Take it. Biff!" The Champion Meets a Swift One. Many ladies were present to witness the exhibition. They were all cognizant of rule 4-11-44 of the game. "When the gentleman on the south side of the table knocks a grounder into the net, the spectators on the north side of the table must applaud, and vice versa." Anoth er rule was strenuously observed. "Spec tators shall not roast, throw things, or otherwise disturb the players." Mr. Hammatt played a steady game from the beginning of the first inning. Kidder was groggy in the second, but came up smiling In the third, and had things his own way for quite a while. He would meet Hammatt's clever- re turns, by feinting low and ducking to the southeast corner. It took him quite a while to overpower Mr. Hammatt, and after the referee added up the runs, multiplied that by the safe hits and subtracted the errors, and announced that Kidder was winner, the champion retired to his dressing room and changed shirts. The score was 6 2 6 0, what ever that means. Many of the spectators took a great interest in the game. Messrs. Charles Holliday and John E. Lord were glad they came. Ping pong Is a fascinating game. It is like the magic disc you look at and become hypnotized. Tou take a point of vantage directly oposite John E. Lord and Charley Holliday fcave a conference. the players, and keep your eye on the ball. After wagging your head about three hours you go to sleep without knowing it. The soothing 1-2 3-4 click of the ball against the bats and table is conducive to a dee trance. It is especially hard on the referee. He sits close to the board and becomes in time hopelessly crossed eyed. The other exhibitors scored as follows, according to the official record: Wil liamsooverpowers Armstrong by 6-4, 6-1. T. Hammatt beats Bennett, 6-4, 6-4. Crawford wins from Bronson, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. , This was undoubtedly a hot game, because the score contains more figures than the others. Sherman fixed Black 4-6, 6-2. Last nights play resulted in 7 sets for the Topeka club to 5 for the Elks and 58 games for the Topeka clubmen and 50 for the Elks. The total score stands, Si2 sets and 189 games for the Topeka club to 21 sets and 191 games for the Elks. This gives the Topeka club the advantage of one set and the Elks must be content with the fact that they have won two more games than their opponents. The tournament closes this evening, and many dead game sports are betting that if the Topeka club wins the Elks will hold second place. Others have even mon ey which says that either the Elks or To peka club will win. Tonight's programme is something like this: 8:00 Bennett against Crawford. 8:30 Bronson against Armstrong. 9:0015. Hammatt against T. Hammatt. 9:30 Williams against Black. 10:00 Sherman against Kidder. 0LD11AM A SUICIDE ? Jumped in Front of Santa Fe Train No. 1 at Sibley, Mo. Every circumstance relating to the killing of young Oldham by Santa Fe train No. 1 at Sibley, Mo., the early part or the week, indicates strongly that he did the Tracy act; that he sui- cided in order to avoid being taken by the officers of the law to serve an un finished term in prison. It is generally understood in the vicinity of that occur rence that a sheriff from Montana was in that region trying to capture him and take him back, a fugitive from jus tice to complete a sentence for murder. People say that he told several times that he was intent upon self-destruction; and to the railroad men who were In a position to know it is very evident that he walked along the track conscious of the rapidly approaching train, warned as he was by the constant ringing of ine Den, ana men a second before the locomotive passed, he stepped in front of it and was hit in the back. He was twenty-nve years old. Washington Happenings. Washington,' Aug. 9.-John Miller.Harold A. Wilts and Thomas S. Morton have been appointed substitute letter carriers at Atchison. ICan. The comptroller has extended the cor porate existence of First National bank, of Newton, Kan., until the close of busi ness, August 8, 1922. W. D. Gardner, of Washington City, has been appointed a night watchman at Cnilocco Indian school, O. T., and Samuel T. Wood, of Gallatin. Mo., a blacksmith at Haskell institute, Lawrence, Kan. Rural free delivery service will be es tablished on September 1 at Bolcourt, Linn county, Kan., with one carrier; length of route, twenty-five miles; population served, 700. The postoffice at Trading 1 uai win ve uiscuuLinuea. $400,000 in Public Bequests. Salem, Mass., Aug.9. More than $400, 000 in public bequests are given by the will of the late Captain William J. Cheever of 'North Andover, Mass., just filed for probate here. Among the be quests are these: $25,000 each to the Denver Orphans' home of Denver, Col., and the Woman's Christian Relief as sociation, in charge of the. Ladies' Home; $20,000 for a suitable memorial to testator's brother, Charles E. Chee ver of Denver. Col. King Oscar is Role of Life Saver. Stockholm, Aug. 9. While King Oscar was yachting today near the Marstrand bridge, which was crowded with women and children, the structure collapsed, throwing the occupants into the water. The king threw off his coat and assisted in the rescue of twenty-three persona wha were taken aboard the yacht. f' SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS AN ELK'S EPISTLE TO PING PONG PAN. Oh! Pancoast, Pancoast, Pancoast! Your imported York state style . , Of playing winning ping pong With lis .TaT.-hno.ks all the while. Shows you've never tried to please us But you rather like to tease us. or you smile wnen we are neat, ' And you plot for our defeat. But we'll lay for you, my man. For you're Just a horrid fellow, - Ping Pong Pan. Oh! Pancoast, Pancoast, Pancoast! There upon your manly chest I see a medal shining. And it marks you as the best. But it's quite plainly to be seef. That you're just awful, awful mean. For you play so staid and steady. And you r.re always ready; But we'll beat you if we can. If we have to hire a player. Ping Pong Pan. Oh! Pancoast, Pancoast, Pancoast! You won't fiustrate not a bit. Our rooters try to phase you. But you're not rattled, not a whit. But we'll rob you of your glory. If that is another story. We'll lav for vou at dances. - ' " And you'll not get many chances. we 11 exclude you Irom our cian. And we'll have our girls all freeze you. Ping. Pong Pan. , Judge and Mrs. Hazen have gone to Colorado to spend the summer. Councilman W. S. Bergundthal is re ported to be getting along very well. The regular meeting of the Civic Im provement society will be held Tuesday evening, August 12. Marshall's band will play Sunday evening, instead of in the afternoon, at Garfield park tomorrow. Frank Long and family accompanied the Knights of Pythias excursion to the grand conclave at San Francisco. Good meals: excellent service: fine music. This is what you get at the ure- merie restaurant on Sundays from 12:15 to 2:15. The coal operators of the Osage val ley have made the price of soft coal 75 cents a ton lower than the regular price during the warm weather. Mrs. Amy McFarland, who has been nursing her sister, Mrs. Higgins, of 809 East Sixth avenue, left today for a two weeks outing in Colorado Springs. B. F. Pankey has lust purchased equipment for 300 more telephones which will bring the Independent exchange in Topeka u to a total of 900 phones. The Elks put their flower covered chair in a dark corner last night and failed to use it when Dan Hammatt met defeat at the hands of Pancoast. Postmaster John Guthrie of Topeka has received instructions to provide push carts to transfer the United States mail from the postoffice to the street cars. . The Haskell Indian baseball team playing in Topeka today is not the or iginal aggregation. It Is the second nine. The first nine is playing in north ern Kansas. The sales ladies at Barnum's store held a hemstitch party last evening at the home of Miss Porter at 1600 West Sixth avenue. Miss Porter is to be married soon. Dennis Spear, the accused Indian murderer has been lodged in the Shaw nee county jail because it is thought the Jackson county bastile is not strong enough for him. Bain, the left fielder of the Haskell Indians baseball team, is the star foot ball half back who played with the Car lisle Indians and scored a touchdown against Harvard in 1900. James Barton Adams, the brilliant paragrapher who has recently left the Denver Post to make his home m soutn ern California, has relatives in Topeka and his mother died here a month ago. ' Owing to a shortage of cucumbers this year there will be a shortage of pickles and Otto Kuehne, the Topeka pickle man says the price will be al most double this year what it was last year. The Smith concern of Topeka has turned out the first of their automobile order for the Parkhurst-Davis Whole sale Grocery company. It made the IS mile trip to Richland yesterday in ' 55 minutes. City Engineer McCabe, Councilman Wolf, and several other councilmen are nlanniner to ero to Grand Rapids. Mich.. for the convention of the League of American Municipalities on August 27, 28 and 29. The rails which the city ' railway company used in building its double track line along the west side of Cen tral Dark are so old and rusty that they look as though they had suffered witfs smallpox. Rev. A. M. Reynolds, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian church, is SDendfng a few days at the home of a daughter in Jefferson county. He is just regaining ms strengtn alter an at tack of fever. Two hundred fiat cars are to be built by the Santa Fe railroad in the near future. It is not known when their construction will take place, but the CANUCK WISDOM. Knew How to Select Food. A good healthy Canadian takes pleas ure in telling about food, and how he got well by using the right kind of food and drink. He says: "In November, 1899, I began to feel bad every day, and gradually got worse. I did not lose my appetite. On the contrary after having a good meal I felt better, but after being at work perhaps an hour or so I would have terrible pains ail over my Doay. I lost considerable time from my work, sometimes a few hours and sometimes two or three days. Finally I went to the Winnipeg hos pital for a thorough examination, and was told It was simply indigestion.' Certainly it was 'simply indigestion,' but I never had anything make me feel worse. I can sympathize with anyone who has simply indigestion. Well I dragged through the winter in about the same condition and got a little better in the summer, but in Oc tober, 1900, tbe same old pains came back and I concluded I must change my diet if 1 expected to get any com fort, so I quit drinking -tea and went to Postum Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts iireakrast -ooa. I ordered these articles from the gro cer and expected to have them for sup per, I had felt so bad that day. Of course the grocer was late in delivering tnem, so 1 laid on the couch until they came and ate "Tper about 7 p. m. After supper I did what I bad not done for weeks before, I walked into the sitting room, lighted my pipe and read the evening paper and forgot I ever felt bad. I wondered if the old pain would come back, but it never did, and right from the first J improved. I have since worked constantly and hard and have not laid off once on account of ill health, and have not once suffered from indigestion since that first . meal of Urape-isuts and Postum. This letter is the straight truth. It may be long, but I don't see how I could tell my experience in less SDace ." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, imcu. A booklet of excellent recipes in, each pacKsf ml orapje-lN ULa, - FIFTH We Operated The Goodlander Fort Scott, 1901 to 1902. The Windsor Topeka, 1 882 to 1884. The National 1890 to 1895, I 896 to 1 899. Fifth Avenue 1877 to 1882, 1885 to J890. t L order has been determined upon. The Pullman works of Chicago nas now completed 1,000 box cars for the com pany. . . - The Shawnee TSuilrlinsr and Loan as sociation allows interest on monthly-de posits of from $1.00 to $20.00 per month if allowed to remain on deposit for more than one year. Ask the secretary at his office 115 W. Sixth street. 'I am dead in love with Ping Pong," the Topeka young lady wrote home from the summer resort. Her stern farmer father replied thus: "I want you to distinctly understand that we don't want any Chinaman in our fam ily circle." The streets and walks committee of the city council met yesterday after noon and transacted a little business. It was decided to turn down the request for an overflow sewer in Dennis & Mar-. tin's addition, for the reason that the city can not afford to build it. It would cost $1,400. , . The Emporia newspapers are having a terrible time with the name of W. C. Ilette, who has just gone down there from Topeka to assume the position or agent for the Santa Fe. It has been spelled Ilet, lsiett, inyeiett ana xnouett. Mr. Ilette's name is kindergarten work compared with that of C. F. Resseguie. which nine out of ten papers habitually misspell. . , , , ' H. D. Booge is. one of the few persons in Topeka who was honored with an in vitation to the coronation of his maj esty King Edward VII. Mr. Booge has corresponded in. a business way with most of the crowned heads and nobility of Europe, yet was much surprised to receive from . the Duke of Norfolk the invitation whiclv. owing to the lateness of its arrival, he was unable to accept- The Hankla Brothers make an an nouncement elsewhere in this paoer concerning the new. Fifth Avenue hotel. The many years experience these gen tlemen have received in the manage ment of good hotels in Kansas, is suf ficient guaranty that the traveling pub lic will receive the best of attention and good value for the patronage they ex tend for their entertainment. The Hanklas are making many improve ments in the hotel and are deserving of success in their enterprise. . , INDIANS WENT DOWN. Topeka Ball Players Easily Defeated Redskins. - The Haskell Indians were treated to a touch of spectacular baseball on the Washburn grounds Friday . afternoon when the T. B. C. baseball team took a one -sided game by the score of 13 to 4. It might have been worse, but the Topeka players gave the red men three runs just for fun in the last innrng;,'. "Gatha" Page, the colored shortstop, was as full of ginger as a 100 yard sprinter, and he played grandstand ball for nine innings without an error. He began with a two-base hit, made another, and was credited with a third, although an error allowed him the sec ond sack. He rapped out a couple, of singles, crossed . the home slate evry time he was at the bat, and was cred ited with a total of six runs. That waa not alL At short he gathered in every thing within a rod of him. He sicked out a hot liner with one hand and froze to a low one, making a double. The feature of the game next to Page was the umpiring of Fogleberg, the pitcher from the asylum team. His decisions were ranker than the tall weeds In center field, but the Indians have a reputation for playing ball despite .all odds ajid unfairness, and they kept on, although the crowd was not slow - to criticise the decisions. McCampbell pitched a good game, but made no at tempt at a record. For the Indians Stanley worked hard in the box but had little in the way of a reasonable sup port. The teams play again this after noon. - The official score was as fol lows: R.H.E. Haskell 0 001000034 5 17 T. B. C 1 0 1 1 2 4 4 0 13 8 7 Two-base hits Page, 2; Fa I lis. Wild pitches McCampbell, 1; Stanley, 1. Bases on balls Off McCampbell, 1;' off Stanley, 3. Hit by pitched ball B McCampbell, 1. - Struck out By Mc Campbell, 3: by Stanley, 4. v - - Drummers to Aid Jessie Morrison. El Dorado, Kan., Aug. 9. The travel ing men of Kansas have undertaken to raise the $600 necessary to appeal the Jessie Morrison case to the supreme court. C. A. Sward, representing the Massey Iron company of Kansas City, Is the originator, of the idea and started a subscription paper here that will be left at the Metropolitan hotel, where the traveling men will subscribe. Pensions for Kansans. Washington, Aug. 9. These pensions have been granted to Kansans: Origi nal: Daniel Depry, Hutchinson, $6. In crease: John FIshback, Wichita, $10. Widows, Mary Lyons, Sterling, $8. Mi liar of William Pierce. Yates Center,$10; Hannah ' Ginter, Emleton.- $12;- Almira Brown, Delphos. $12; Emily Browning, Lecompton, $12;' Alice Carr. Scranton, $8; Esther Van Horn. Coffey ville. $12. AVENUE "HOTELE, 1 r HANKLA BROS. s ... .i.rfv; v - --"--: - 1; 1 ' v Sum Capacity, Seventy Rooms. FALL TRADE BEGINS. Eastern Markets Are Already Full of x Buyers. - New York, Aug.- 9. Bradstreet's says: Midsummer quiet has gone from dis tributive trade, and, stimulated by real ly brilliant crop prospects and good prices for farm products, fall business has begun to expand. Buyers are ar riving in large numbers at all markets, and next week promises to see demand further increased. Manufacturing in dustry which has been more than usually active this summer, continues well employed. Failures are- few and liabilities are small. Prices are steady. July railway earnings continue to show 7 per cent gain over last year. Bank clearings continue to show gains over last year. Advices from the boot and shoe trade are .irregular. Business at the West is active and at Philadelphia the job bing trade is brisk and manufacturers are busy on orders. At Boston, ship ments, though larger than last week, are still far below those of last year, the decrease being fully 12 per cent. Leather and hides are very active, however, and skins of all kinds are taken as fast as received. Tanners are reporting more activity than for some time past.. Belting butts have advanc ed and higher prices for leather pro ducts seem probable. The weight of imported iron is pres sing on domestic sentiment, though no perceptible effect is yet seen on prices for pig iron, which is still in active re quest for next year's delivery. No. 1 Northern foundry is $1 higher at Chi cago for 1903 delivery, coke is scarce (a car famine is feared at that point) and the same complaint from Pittsburg. Steel rails, plates, bars and sheets are active at the West, but the edge of the demand for plates and sheets appears to have been taken off at Pittsburg. Western rail mills are all sold up for the first half of 1903. Structural ma terial is active at Chicago and at Pitts burg, where sales have been very large this week. Ship building interests have taken 40,000 tons of plates at Pittsburg. Hardware, as predicted, has had no dull season this year, and busines Is as ac tive as ever. Western manufactuhehs are reported chowded with orders. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ended August 7, aggregate 4,244. 363 bushels, against 4,3S8.o38 last week and 8,831.199 in this week last year. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 22,398,203 bushels, against 35,032,237 last season. Corn exports aggregate 70.611 bushels against 28,405 last week and 990,714 last year. . yor the fiscal year corn exports are 55a,421 bushels, against 8,718,361 last sea sost. B.-G. DTJN & C0.'S REVIEW. Bright Prospects in Agricultural Sec tions Outweigh Labor1 Disputes. New York. Aug. 9. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Bright prospects in agricultural sec tions far outweigh the adverse influence of labor disputes which are still retardV ing trade and manufacture. Confidence in the future is unshaken, dealers everywhere preparing for a heavy fall trade, while contracts for distant de liveries run further into next year than is usual at this date. Activity has been noteworthy in lumber regions, and fish packing made new records. Railway earnings are fully Sustained, the latest returns showing an average advance of 3.9 jer cent, over the corresponding GOOD NEWS. Many Topeka Readers Have Heard It, and Profited Thereby. ? t 1 "Good news travels "fast" : and the thousands of bad back sufferers in To peka are glad to learn that prompt re lief is within- their reach Manx a lame. weak and aching back is bad no more, thanks to Dban'a; Kidney Pills.' . Our citizens are telling the -good news of their experience with the little . con queror of kidney flto. , Here- is n -example worth, reading: .. ;Mr. George : Henley, of 1015 Taylor street, says: "For two years or more I had slight kidney disorder which at times was quite annoying.' There was not much backache but the kidney se cretions were disordered, . too frequent in action and at .times, accompanied by pain. I dropped into Rowley & Snow's drug store and procured a box of Doan's Kidney Pills. Its use quickly cured me and left no unpleasant after effects. I am glad to recommend such a reliable remedy to others."v For sale by . all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo; "N. T'sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no aubatitit - . 1 ." " TOPE,KA, KANS. time last year and 21.8 per cent, over 1900. Aside from the fuel scarcity and some congestion of traffic, tihe iron and steel situation continues propitious. ' Coke ovens in the Connellsville region main tain a weekly output of about 250,000 tons and find ready buyers at full prices. Much more could be used to ad vantage. - ' ; ' Conditions are indicated by the num ber of orders going out of the country which producers - cannot undertake. Thus far the imports have had little in fluence on domestic prices, except as to billets, which are freely offered below the home market level. New contracts for pig iron were placed this week, cov ering deliveries in the second quarter of 1803, and structural material is desired for bridge and buildings that will not be received until -even more remote dates. Machinery and hardware trade is fully sustained,, but there is idleness in tinplate mills and glass factories. Minor metals are steady. . ? - Footwear factories are well engaged on fall orders and spring samples, and the tone of the market is firmer, al though actual advances have been few. Hides continue their upward move ment, many grades gaining another good fraction. Both domestic and for eign hides share the better feeling, the former being at about the top record. Dry goods buyers are coming into this market -to a considerable extent, yet without placing orders of any . sise. Cotton goods exporters are practically out of the market, prices in China be ing below the point where profit is pos sible. A few lines-of cottons are-fractionally lower,. and further declines are possible. Private advices do not in dorse "the official statement of a lower condition on cotton plantations. Fur ther lines of worsteds have been opened with an advance In keeping with last week's quotations, and an indication, of stability is the lack of speculative pur chases. Raw wool is fully sustained at recent advances, the average of 100 grades snowing a gain of nearly a cent as compared with the level on May 1. Splendid growing and harvesting- con ditions have prevailed in most sections of the country, especially where the larger and more important crops are raised. It is now 'almost certain that the agricultural . returns will be far above the average as to quantity, while tne low stocks at the opemns of the season are calculated to sustain prices, and there is little prospect of a return to the low quotations of preceding years of bumper production. Foreign commerce at the port Is stih less favorable than . in the same week ast year, exports declining $3,775,690. while imports increased sltehtlv Failures for the. week numbered 1i.t In the United States, againt 173 Mast year, and 14 in Canada, against 31 a year ago. Sold to Senator Clark. Salt Lake, Utah. Aug. 9. A special to the Tribune from Helena says: The Helena Independent, the oldest mominir daily in Montana, has been sold to United States Senator W. A. Clark. The formal transfer will not take place until next 'luesaay. it is; understood that the purchase price was $150,000, although this rerjort cannot ho nn- firmed. John S. M."Neill, who sold the paper toaay to ex-uovernor Samuel T. Hauser, representing Senator Clark, gave a supper last night to his old em ployes. . ,.... . . ; Guarding Tracy's Body. ';; J. : Portland, Ore.; Aug. 9. The body" of Harry Tracy, enclosed in a pine box rests oh a baggage truck at the union station here. It is guarded by three of the five men who fired the shots which subsequently caused Tracy to take Jiis own life. - The bodv," will leave for Salem today.. The ruards . carry with them the famous 30-3fr rifle with which the convict, did such, deadly execution and -which : will be, given to Governor Geer- . . '' "... Pifteen Plants. Closed Down. . Pittsburg, ' Pa.," vAug.r ?.-Of, the 2S Plains 01 ice American Xin Plate com pany, operating; "274 mlTls, "15 plants, with a capacity of, 129 miila,. have been closed indefinitely. These suspensions have, followed therefusal of the- tin plate workers to accept "a redaction' in wages. in order that export business to the amount of 1,500,000 boxes might be obtained. - . - . . Boy Cured of Colic After Physician's - " - Treatment Had Failed. ; i " My boy when four years old was taken with colic and cramps in his stomach. -1 sent for the kxor and he injected mor phine. But the child kept s getting worse. I then Kave -him half a Htaspoonful of Chamberlain's Colic. .Cholera and diarr hoea Remedy, and in half an hour be was sleeping and soon recovered. F. L Wil kins. Shell Lake, Wis. Mr. . Wilktns' is bookkeeper for the Bhei Lake Lumber Co. For sail by ail druggtsts. ' . ,'. Burdock Blood Bitters sires a man a j clear head, an aci ve ' brain,-' a strong. I vigorous' body makes him fit for the oaiue or nie. - t . City Ticket Office, j rjnlon Paciflc B, R 6S4 Kansas aTl Considering our long experience, we will endeavor ' to give the t . traveling public a popular priced house combining a well regulated hotel with low rates. j 4 J R. H. BAKER CO. 624 Kansas Avenue, TOPEKA.KS. COLUMBIA COLUMBIA (iR FHOPHONKH. REC ORDS aks Supplies. Disc Graphoi'Honer, Kboordsand Hopplim CniQflM PHONOGRAPHS, RECORDS and cuiaura supplies. VICTOR DISC PPLms8, RECORDS CP List of Machines and Records Mailed Free. STABBED TO DEATH. W. A. Scott Killed W. L. Steb bins in Monadnock Buildiug. Chicago, Aug. 9. Walter A. Scott, president of the Illinois Wire com Dan v was stabbed to death in the Monadnock building today by Walter L. Steb bins, a civil and consulting engineer, with offices in the same building. The stabbing occurred in Mr. Scott's private office. Mr. Stebbins had done some work for the Illinois Wire com pany over which there had been a dis pute. The two had a quarrel and Steb ibns, it is said called Scott a liar. There was a scuffle and the two burst from the private office, blood flowing from Scott's wounds. He had been stabbed twice. Stebbins made no attempt to es caDe. FELL 300 FEET. Broke No Bones, But Lay Where He Fell Two Days. New York, Aug. 9. Falling 300 feet down the sheer side of a cliff in Engle wood, Robert Scott, 13 years old, reached the bottom with no greater Injuries than bruises. When he regained his sense however, he was so weak that his cries for help did not reach far beyond the lonely spot in which he had fallen. Scott lay in the bushes at the bottom of the cliff for nearly two days, being discover ed finally by hoys. They summoned aid and he was carried home. Two doctors were called. Tiry found not a bone brok en and express the belief that the boy will recover. PROPOSE NEW RAILROAD. Would Connect Topeka With TJ. P at Omaha. Business men of Topeka are interesting themselves In a revival of the project to build a railway line north from Topeka to form a connection with the Union Peine line out of Omaha The plan is to build the line and turn it over to .the Missouri Pacific for operation. It is proposed by means of this line to open up a new and very rich farming country north of Topeka which has no railroad facilities. It would give Topeka what it now lacks, a direct line to Omaha and other Nebraska points. ,' Socialists' Basket Dinner. Arkansas, City, Kan., Aug. 9. The So cialists of this county held a basket din ner, in Riverside park, in this city, and then listened to speeches. The principal speech of the day was made by Granvil'e Lowther, the ex-Methodist minister, who was expelled from the church at the con ference ill this city last March. The charge against him was heresy and he referred to the trial several times In his talk. Last night he delivered another speech, and is billed to make two more today. ... ,.. ' . Two Carloads of Emporia Elks. Emporia,' Kan., Aug.9. Two car loads of people. Including the Second Regi ment band Joined the Santa Fe Elks' special here Saturday noon for Salt . Lake. The band will give concerts at Newton, -Hutchinson and Dodge City as ' train stops for supplies. .... . . . - And Diabetes They 'are' curing Bright's Disease and Diabetes in California. The- per-centaffa.'of-efficiency (recoveries) ia these hitherto incurable diseases aver ages as high as 87 per cent. . The de tails of the investigation and demon stration of the new compounds are so conclusive that we at once sent for a handle of the reports and for the new treatment for argent cases In this city. Call or send for one of the reports. topeiia mm co. , TOPEKA. KANSAS.