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HORSETHIEF UNSAFE.
PROPERTY INTERESTS GUARDED
IN TWO TERRITORIES.
1 )rganized Banc’s of Desperadoes, That
Were a Mi.iace in the Old
Days, Now Find Scant
Pickings.
Guthrie, Oklo.—In the two terri
tories, soon to be united as one state
under the name of Oklahoma, the
Anti-Horse Thief association has
grown in number* and importance,
anil to-day James S. Kirkwood, of
Guthrie, Is the head erf an army of
40,000 men, ail residents of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, each man of
whom is subject to immediate service
at any time to take the trail and aid
in the capture of the festive horse
thief.
With the advance of civilization
across the western prairies the horse
thief and his band have h en buffeted
and beaten until they bid fair to take
their places in obscurity with the buf
falo, deer and antelope. Instead of
the vast expanses of prairies which af
forded ample avenue of escape for the
horse thief and his gang of marauders,
the plains are now dotted with towns.
In each of which Is located a telegraph
Instrument, a device which has done
more* to eradicate the horse thief and
his methods than any other agent.
The passing of the horse thief in
Oklahoma can be credited largely to
the efforts of the Anti-Horse Thief as
sociation, whioh now has close to 1,000
lodges in Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory. The National Anti-Horse Thief
association was organized in northern
Missouri 43 years ago, and It ulti
mately extended Its membership into
all of the middle and western states
| and territories.
During the past year in Oklahoma
alone there were organized 131 new
lodgeB, with a membership of 14,000.
In this county 17 new lodges were or
30NGER TO RETURN.
JOTTED STATES MIOTSTEB TO
CHINA CORING HOME.
ECas Had Wide Experience in Diplo
matic Field Both in the Orient
and in South American
Countries.
Dea Moines, la.—Announcement Is
nade that on January 1 Edwin R
longer, United States minister to
'hlna, will resign his diplomatic post
md return, with hi9 family, to this
:ity. Few diplomatic careers of recent
'ears have been as adventurous and
Vcturesque as Maj. Conger’s. Few
vomen of any rank or station of re
:ent years have played as Important a
>art In shaping the destinies of an
implre as Mrs. Conger. No less an
luihorlty than William E. Curtis, on
Vs return from a tour of the world,
leclared to the Chicago Women’s club
hat Mrs. Conger is directly responsi
ve for the recent action of the dowa
;er empress establishing ie universi
ies in the largest cities of China. That
vas but one example of the wonderful
nfluence which Mrs. Conger exerts
>ver the real ruler of the celestial em
Vre.
Maj. and Mrs. Conger have now
leen stationed at Peking for six years,
ays'a special from this city to the
Chicago Chronicle. There they were
hroughout the siege consequent upon
he “boxer” uprising. Imprisoned In
he legation, they remained until the
tilled troops, with Gen. Chaffee in
ommand of the United States forces,
nade their historic march to the re
ief of the beleaguered diplomats.
It was in 1898 that Maj. Conger was
ent to the Peking post, transferred
rom Brazil, where he had served two
eras, from 1891 to 1893, and again in
897 and 1898. An interesting story
s told of his appointment to the Bra
ilian mission. When he wras a young
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PATHETIC ROMANCE.
IT LIES BURIED IN'A HUDSON
RIVER TOMB.
I _'
A Love Story of Years Ago and Its
S*d Ending—The Eate of Cath
erine Eerdon and Her
Lover.
New York.—Although time has al
most erased from memory a romance
of over half a century ago there yet
remains an old tomb at the uppermost
end of the Palisades to tell a curious
story long buried within lts grim gray
walls, says a special In the Herald of
this city. A narrow, overgrown' path
winds its way up to the old vault from
the road which leads from Sparkill to
Piermont, where within the shadow of
the Palisades this tomb has stood for
over 50 years.
Not far from tht3 spot, along the
roadway leading to the banks of ths
Hudson, stands an old colonial man
sion which for years has been deserted.
Behind its bolted doors still remain
much of the handsome old furniture
and decorations which tell of the once
luxurious home. The old spinning
wheel still stands In the corner and
the richly painted portraits still hang
upon the walls. A shady driveway
running around the rear of The house
winds Its way to the top of the Pali
sades, where a most superb view
stretches before you of the Hudson
and the/surrounding country, rich is
historical reminiscence of the revolu
tion.
William Ferdon, of Holland Dutch
descent, migrated to this section of the
country many years before the civil
war. Being a shrewd business man he
soon became very wealthy. The man
sion In which he lived was built of
lumber from his sawmill and the sur
rounding estate was kept In splendid
condition. His daughter Catherine was
a girl of great beauty, with many ac
. — t fr
TO VIEW BOTTQ^ OF SEA.
A New Invention That Will Be of
Great Value in Ocean
Besearch.
London.—A clever Instrument has ,
been devised by Cavaliere Giuseppe
Pino, an Italian inventor, by which
the bottom of the sea can be examined
with & clearness that has hitherto been
Impossible. This invention and one
to raise objects are in dally use, the
operations being supervised by the in
ventor.
The- hydroscope—such is the name
given to the instrument for seeing ob
jects in the sea or on the sea bottom
—is constructed of steel and in shape
1 ] I
jg Mrs. Fairbanks tells how neglect of ||
warning symptoms will soon prostrate a
woman. She thinks woman’s safeguard is
Lyd4 E* Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
“Dear Mrs. Phckham:— Ignorance and neglect are the cause of
untold female suffering, not only with the laws of health but with the
ohance of a cure. I did not heed the warr mgs of headaches, organio
pains, and general weariness, until I was well nigh prostrated. I knew I
nad to do something. Happily I did the right tiling. I took Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound faithfully, according to directions,
and was rewarded in a few weeks to find that my aches and pains dis
appeared, and I again felt the glow of health through my body. Since
I have been well I have been more careful, I have also advised a number
of my sick friends to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, and they have never had reason to be sorry. Yours very truly,
Mrs. May Fairbanks, 210 South 7th St., Minneapolis, Minn.” (Mrs. Fair
banks is one of the most successful and highest salaried travelling sales
women in the West.)
When women are troubled with Irregular, suppressed or painful menstru
ation, weakness, lcucorrhuoa, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that
bearing-down feeling, inllummation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or
flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or ar®
beset with such symptoms as dizziness, futntnoss, lassitude, excitability, irri
tability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, ‘lall-gone1’ and “ want-to-b®*
left-alono " feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is
on® tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinklmurs Vegetable Compound
at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you
M®d the best.
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham t — For over two years
I suffered more than tongue can express with
kidney and bladder trouble. My physician pro
nounced my trouble catarrh of the bladder,
caused by displacement of the womb. I had a
i frequent desire to urinate, and it was very pain
ful, and lumps of blood would pass with the
urine. Also nad backache very often.
“ After writing to you, and receiving your
reply to my letter, I followed your advice, and
feel that ytra and Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound have cured mo. Tne
medicine drew my womb into its proper
place, and then I was well. I never feel
any min now, and can do my housework
with ease." — Mas. Alice Lamon, Kincaid, Miss.
No other medicine for female Ills In the world has received
•uch widespread and unqualified endorsement.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her fbr advtc*.
She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
FORFEIT If wo cannot forthwith prodnoo the original letters and signature®®!
above testimonials, which will prove their absolute Mnutnenea*.
Lydia K. Rinkham 31 divine Co., Lynn. M***i
FRUITS BREAKFAST TABLE
Nature Provides Its Own Remedies, Whloh If Used
Judlolously, Insure Perfeot Health
at AU Times.
. Aside from the pleasnre of eating
fleaSonable fruits before beginning the
first meal of the day, this custom has
undoubtedly arisen from the well known
fact that nearly all fruit and more par*
ticularly plums and PRUNES contain
Batumi laxative principles which act
directly on the stomach and bowels.
Constipation, that dread and trouble*
some complaint which Is undoubtedly
the basic cause of nine-tenths of the
dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness,eto.,
*o prevalent among ouf people to-dav,
Bad which, if neglected, surely leads
to more complicated and serious or
ganic diseases, can surely be prevented,
and when not too far advanced can be
absolutely cured by the judicious use
of the modern laxative and cathartic
California Prune Wafers.
They are not a patent medicine In
the ordinary sense of the word, being
compounded from fresh California
Elines, which every intelligent person
ows is truly nature's laxative.
A dainty little wafer, always the
flame, compounded in a highly con*
centrated form from fresh CailfornU
Prunes, they are a natural dissolvent
acting on the contents of the 6tomac)
and bowels and not on the organ
themselves.
They regulate the Liver and Shorn
ach, Cleanse the System and PurifJ
the Blood, Cure all Bowel Trouble*
Biliousness, Bad Breath, Bad Bloo4
Wind on the Stomach, Bloated Bowels
Foul Month, Headache, Indigestion
Pimples and Dlzztness.
* Every household should have |
family package of CALIPORN1
PRUNE WAFERS, and at the fir
signs of approaching Illness, or wti
under the weather, take a couple
wafers, and the doctor's bills will so#
be much smaller than they are now.
You can eat what yon please M yt
follow each meal with a CALIFORNI
PRUNE WAFER, which quicklv dl
solves the most Indigestible food, at
helps to carry It through and out of t
system In a gentle and healthful os
ner, without the slightest paln.grlpll
or nausea. 100 Wafers for 25o.
FRUIT IS NATURE’S LAXATIVE
California Prune Wafers
A Natural Dlisolvant and Cura for
BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, DYSPEPSIA
and ALL BOWEL TROUBLES
Far Battar than Pill or Purga. 100 WAFERS, 2B CENT]
C. 0. WEANING &C0., Druggists
OPP. HOTEL BERKELEY, MART1NSBURO, W. VA,
i ,v «
JAMES S. KIRKWOOD.
(Commander of the Horse-Thief Hunting ,
Army of Two Territories.)
ganized during the year, with over 700
members. Throughout Indian Terri- 1
tory the increase has been even great- 1
er. in the territorial division of the 1
national association there Is one antl
; horse thief lodge to every 60 square *
miles; In Kansas, one to every 216 1
square miles; In Oklahoma alone, one 1
to every 120 square miles; Pawnee 1
county has a lodge to every 26 square *
miles; Lincoln and Pottawatomie 1
county, one to every 85 square miles; '
Logan one to' every 38, and Greer '
county one to every 140.
During the post year the association
has aided In the capture of 137 horse
thieves and the recovery of 512,000 1
worth of stolen animals. There were 1
“ 121 horses stolen and 136 recovered, *
some of them being stolen during the 1
previous year. Out of the 187 thieves 1
captured 117 have been convicted.
A great part of the prominence at- ;
tained by Kirkwood as president of ;
1 the association and as the most In- '
trepld leader In the two territories is
■ due to "Trailer," a black stallion,
I which has been In Klrkwood’B posses
sion for many years. He Is said to be 1
able to scent a horse thief for several 1
miles, and he Is more widely known In
Oklahoma than auy other animal in
* the territory. The horse has carried
Kirkwood all day and all night with
I out rest except fbr food and water.
"Traveler" Is now 18 yeans old, but he
> Is still able to eatch the air of exclte
> mi nt in a man hunt, and on an oc
* casion of that kind he sprints over
> country roads and fields as if he were
1 still a colt.
Lampblack Used for Fuel.
Lampblack is now being used for
fuel, and is burned In a manner sim
ilar to that employed In disposing of
breeze. A grate bar having slots one
i half Inch wide in three sections, each
eight inches long, and spaces five
eighths Inch wide Is used. The lamp
black is allowed to drain before being
burned and Is mixed with heavy tar
and the partially consumed and coked
lampblack from the ashpit. It con
tains 30 per cent water when ready
for firing. When thoroughly dry the
lampblack Is ascribed a heating value
of 14,200 b. t. u. per pound. Sixteen
pounds of dry lampblack are produced
jji with each l,00o cubic feet of gas made.
'j A King Without a Crown.
The king of Belgium is quite demo
cratic, and Is opposed to fuss and cere
mony. He not only does not wear a
crown, but has not even a crown to wear!
There are no coronation ceremonies; the
j sovereign merely Inaugurates his reign
■j by taking an oath to govern according
to the laws.
A New Name for Detroit.
Three-fourths of all the pills sold lu
11 the United States are made In Detroit.
I This arena of activity has therefore
acquired the name of the "Pill City.”
MAJ. CONGER.
United States Minister to China, Who Is
to Retire Soon.)
nan Conger had attended the law
ichool at Albany, N. Y. Among the
itudents In his class, and one with
vhom he became well acquainted, un
11 the acquaintance grew into a true
riendshlp, was William McKinley. A
luarter of a century later Maj. Conger
md Maj- McKinley served together in
ongress, and the friendship of early
lays was renewed. When the Brazilian
lost became vacant President McKin
ey remembered his friend Conger and
he appointment was promptly made.
Alter, when the Pelting post became
racant and the administration needed
i thorough diplomat, a tactful, care
ul statesman, Maj. Conger was trans
erred. The Peking post 13 an linpor
ant one; the past six years have
ound grave questions of commerce as
veil as of international law, arising.
Uaj. Conger h e. fulfilled his mission.
During the diplomatic conferences fol
owlng the capture of Peking he rep
resented this government, and, while
.here are some to-day who maintain
hat he was too forgiving and lenient,
md granted concessions to China which
ihould never have been made, he acted
.hroughout for what he considered the
lighest and greatest Justice to all.
It was some time after the "boxer’'
iprlslng that Maj. Conger returned to
Des Moines, his lifetime home, on a
short leave of absence. A great mass
neeting was held at the Auditorium to
welcome him. It was attended by
housands. When Maj. Conger had
leparted for China, a few years be
'ore, the Grand Army post of which
le was an honored member had held a
smoker In his honor. One of the feat
ires of that farewell had been the
singing of "God Be With You TUI We
VIeet Again” by one of the sweet
voiced singers of the city.
"Many and many a time during the
larkest days, when death seemed only
i few hours removed, did I remembei
iiose words, ‘God be with you till we
neet again,’ and utter them over and
ivwr and think of the comrades and
Wends and folks at home,” declared
Maj. Conger, with the tears streaming
jown his face, as he responded to the
iddresses In his honor.
The Petroleum Production.
It Is not yet half a century since Col.
Ltrafce discovered petroleum on the
waters of Oil creek, near Titusville, Pa.
The total production of crude pertoleum
from 1859 to 1903—43 years—has been
ao less than 1,165,280,727 barrels. Ol
this output Pennsylvania and New Yors
contributed 53 9 per cent.; phlo, 24.3 pel
cent.; West Virginia, 11.3 per cent.; In
diana, 3 9 per cent.; California, 3.6 pel
cent., and Texas, 2.1 percent.
Football Aids Police.
The Australian detecUves find foot
ball useful. Criminals will htdeslx days
In the week, but they have to come out
on Saturdays to see the football game,
and the police are on hand.
A HUDSON RIVER TOMB.
(In II Is Buried a Romance of Many Tears
Ago.)
complishmeni-s, wroso graces had won
great favor among her friends. But the
sad end that befell her cast a deep
shadow over the home where peace
and happiness bad reigned supreme.
At the time the Erie railroad was
building its great pier out into the
Hudson a contractor from the south
came here fn connection with tho en
terprise and lived for some time at
Piermont, then a bustling town. His
son, a young stripling of 19, soon be
came acquainted with Catherine and
during the summer months the two
became insperable friends. After a
time they became engaged. Later on,
when the young suitor approached the
old gantleman for his daughter’s hand,
the question came up as to what money
the young man had behind him. For
tune had not been financially generous
to the young fellow and he had noth
ing to offer but his protection and
love. This not being a sufficient price
for his daughter their marriage was
refused. Forbidden to see him any
longer the young girl was seldom seen
afterward. From her window, where
she sat alone at night looking silently
Into the moonlight, she could see the
path where they had so many times
strolled together and where they had
often talked over their future plana.
Many reports were rumored about
the village concerning her strange
death. Some say that she had been
locked up in a little room at the top
of the house, where she pined away
and died from grief, and still others
said that she became despondent and
starved herself to death. She was In
terred in a marble coffin and was the
first to enter the family tomb which
had been built in the mountain slda
In later years, when William Ferdon
died, it was said that in his will he
made a request, that his coffin be borne
to the tomb by negroes, as he wished
no white man ever to enter the sacred
chamber where his daughter's body lay.
Another story is that when they car
ried his coffin into the tomb they ac
cidentally knocked against the one
where the daughter’s body lay exposed
to view through the glass lid, and the
Jar caused the body, which had been
embalmed, to fall to dust A beautiful
portrait of Catherine Ferdon still
bang3 upon the fall In the old mansion.
Clothing Made of Fish Skins,
The government fish commission has
been making Investigations about the
suitability of fish skins for clothing. It
has been found that salmon skins make
excellent leather and have been used for
boots by the Eskimos for this purpose
for years. These northern people also
use tanned codfish skins for coats and
waterproof garments. Whaleskin makes
beautiful leather and takes color well.
Electrical Conductor Wanted.
The French Society of Manufactur
ers are offering a prize of 6,000 francs
for the invention of an electrical con
ductor.
THE HYDROSCOPE.
(View Showing the Instrument as R Ap- .
pears in the Water.)
is like a huge telescope pointed down- ■
ward into coral caverns or sunken I
ships instead of upward at the sun or||
the stars. Its complex system of||
lenses, 12 in number, answers to the '
objective glass of a celestial telescope.
By the internal mirrors they produce 1
a clear picture of the sea bottom, the
ray§ of light passing up the tube to a
sort of cantera-obscura house at the
top, which floats above the surface and
is capable of holding four people.
The amount of light under the su?
face is considerably greater than is <
generally imagined. Tho Inventor ofc,
the hydroscope has himself been abl®;i
to read a newspaper lying on the sea*"
bottom at a depth of 360 feet from th«
surface by the ordinary daylight peneflf
trating the water. The area viewed bfljjs
the lenses at the bottom of the tubfl|
varies according to the amount of light
The hydroseepe is also likely t|^
prove of considerable use on war vew
sels. A tube can be fitted into the cerfjl
ter of a vessel, one end of which wigH
lead to the captain’s bridge and t 1
other will penetrate the bottom of th. d
vessel and have an extension that ca ‘
be thrust out and drawn back as occa
sion requires. When the hydroscop®
lenses, which will be somewhat differ^®’
ent from the apparatus illustrated, ar '
drawn up flush with the bottom of th,!£*|
vessel the water beneath the ship caiE
be viewed to a distance of CO to £
feet.
Government Experts Desire to Pr
duoe an Orange Tree That Will
Thrive in the North.
WnuMr jton (D. C.) Special,
ft is the f of botanists in the ei ,
ploy of the gevornment of the Unit
States that they may bring into bei
«n orange tree which shall be as stur ■
as the apple tree; which in DecerntM
shall bear its wreathe of enow and
May its garlands of bloom, and whiL
when summer comej shall yield fr*
as good as that sweetened and gildjf
> in the south sun. Botanists not oof
hope to do this; they believe they uif
do it.
This does not Involve the <r
ing of aught against nature, but loci
to the correction of some unnatural I
capacity or Incompleteness in the pll
. % ' •
HARDY ORANGE TREE.
(It Haa Withstood One Cold WlnteH
City ol Washington.)
which bears the dessert orange. It a
effort to make the citrus tree if*
which is obtained the most gracjM
orange &3 hardy and as insensitivw
cold as the citrus tree from which ifl
talned the least gracious orange. H
crossing a citrus tree which grow*
the north, and which bears the unefl
fruit, with a citrus tree of the soufl
is sought to beget a plant in which H
be combined what is good in each. I
That form of citrus which gfl
farthest north is a Japanese sfl
citrus trifoliate. It may be seen ifl
United States as far north as Ml
chusetts. Its use is only ornamfl
Its fruit, under favoring condition*
tains the size of a wild perslmmo*
is globular in figure, tawny and bf
Its kinship with the commercial o»
might be suspected by a man strf
susptclo'is, but not otherwise.