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Mesa free press., 1898-12-09


that should have been counted toi
Bark. The baldheadel elltor of thi,
great family Journal was inspector at
that election, and lie takes this occa
sion to say that X any man asserts
that there was any unfairness prac
ticed in the count Of tire vote of the
Mesa precinct, he is Far. The doors
of our den are always open.
Raining and showing this morning
with health giving north breeze
blowing. All the country is thor
oughly saturated with moisture, for
which due thanks are rendered to
whom thanks are due The clouds ale
still dark and lowering, thank God.
A large number of the friends ard
relatives of Uncle Geroge Shrine met
at his home Tuesday night to celebrat te
his eightieSh birthday Uncle George
is yet hale and hearty and has pros
pect of q good many years yet to
come.
Charley Hill, who has had charge of
DIR. Chandler's cattle ranches south of
town for the past four or FIVE years,
now has charge of DR.. Chandler's
home ranches. Jesse Hobson has
succeeded Charlie Hill as manager Of
the ranches south of town.
Passey u Nets fine new store room
will be ready for occupancy in a few
days, They are receiving almost daily
invoices of fine furniture and when
the stock is all placed it will be the
finest furniture store on the southside.
Mesa Lodge / 90. F. last Sat
urday night elected the following Of
6cers to serve for the term beginning
Jan lst. Noble Grand, S. Moote; Vice
Grand. Ed. Bloomer; Secretary, W..
A. Burton; Treasurer, j. III. Pomeroy.
W. w. Perkins, prominent stock
man of the north has sold out his
Interests and has come to Mesa, ar
irving last Friday. He has many
friends here who would be glad to
welcome him permanent resident.
The Galloway cattle that Mcqueen
sold to w. Ell. Smith. the Prescott
cutcheY, were nineteen months old
and weighed little over a thousand
pounds each. The three months old
calf weighed three hundred aud sixty
five pounds.
In the regular prosecution Of his
business Sam Barnett has been ac~
cepting tobacco tags for milk instead
of nickles. He has six Of them now
which he accepted on six successive
mornings.
w. Ell. Smith, the Prescott butcher,
always secures the best beef to be had.
MondayAhe bought fourteen head OF
| Ene Gallaway beeves from the line
stock ranch of A. G. Mcqueen.
Go and see the fine line of new
dress goods, furnishing goods and
suits of all kinds at the Coop. A
large line of toys and Christmas fancy
goods will be Displayed in few days
A shooting occurred in Globe last
week in WHICH Charlie Edwards, son
of Judge E. J. Edwards, shot and
killed Chas Cadotte and accidentally
wounded Mil Brawley.
Van Wright's barber shop is one
of thc neatest establishments of the
kind in the territory. 1t has new
furniture throughout, new drapery
new bath tubs, and new carpets.
Our hardware dealers have beer
enjoying fine trade nowadays. The
people from far and near come tt
trade with our hardware men.
Mrs. Annie McComas and Mis-,
Nellie Clark successfully passed tine
examination for teachers certificate.
this week in Phoenix.
The Coop has fine limo Of new
fall and winter dry goods and furnish
ing goods besides full line of fresl
groceries.
They say that white cloth hang
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CATTLE COMING IN.
George Stakely of Newton, Narrow
ly Escapes Being Trampled to Death.

Newton, May 31.-Francis & Row
land have returned from their New
Mexico and Arizona trip. They shipped
from the far west 1850 cattle, which
was divided as follows:
Eldorado parties took sol head |;
Bjorne & Bjorne of Ga1va took $50
head; and 25 head were delivered to
w. J. TrousdaIe. The balance of the
herd was distributed among their own
places, 2S9 going to Walton pasture and
485 to the ranch at Putnam. Good prices
were received for the stock, 100 of the
yearlings bringing s24 apiece.
The trip was enlivened by good
time" on the way out, so Rowland says.
AT any rate, he came back wearing a
white silk shirt, the toniest thing seen
in stock circles for many day. Two
occurrences in the casualty line, formed
a part of the trip.
George Stakely, who has been with
the firm for some time, narrowly es-
capped death. While in a car he was
kicked by a COW and rendered uncon-
scious for some time. 1t happened at
midnight down the Ration mountains. A
bum, who happened to be stealing a
ride in the car, found Stakely, and
saved him from being trampled by the
stock. brakeman was summoned and
the injured man taken to the caboose.
He will be ready to work in a day or
So George White, another employee,
who lives at Crittenden, Ariz., is short
a couple of teeth and has bruised face.
A prod pole CHANGED to make direct
connection with a cows foot and dived
straight for his face with aforesaid
result.
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NEW FIGHTING ENGINES.

The Chicago Tribune thus sums UP
the result of the experiments of build
ing new styles of fighting engines which
have been in progress:
1t looks as if the weakest sister in the
American navy were the much Wanted
dynamite cruiser that bears the fero-
ciouS name of the VeSuViuS. This
unique warship was expected by its ad-
vocates to play as brilliant a part in the
next war as Ericsson's famous Monitor
played in the war of the rebellion. 1t
was supposed TO be able to stand three
miles on shore with it's three pneumatic
tubes and throw 500 pound charges of
dynamite with all the efficacy of an
earthquake upon the hostile fortifica-
tions it attacked, but ever since it was
launched it has been subject to a series
OF accidents and repairs. 1t has done
nothing since the outbreak of the war
but SAIL from one navy yard to another
In order to have something fixed about
Its guns and machinery. Much the
same thing has been true of that other
experimental craft. the ram Katahdin
Even the torpedo boats have not as yet
inquired as largely in active operations
On either side as was expected by naval
experts Apparently the armored cruis-
ers and battleships are destined to do
ali the important work of the war
Fortunately these have surpassed all
expectations in their efficacy and relia-
bihty, and the brave Yankee sailors
and gunners ask for no better craft
than those that Dewey and Sampson
and Schley are handling so gallantly.
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RAILROAD NOTES.

The Katy rock crusher at Sweeney
will be started early in June, giving
employment to a large number of men.
More trouble over taxes is in store
Tor the railroads traverSing Kansas.
The board of railroad assessors will
compel all roads doing business in Kan
saS TO report the total amount of roll
ing stock owned by each, whether To-
Gated within or without the state. Only
two Kansas roads have reported, ac-
cord1ng to the resolutions of the board,
the M. K. & T. and the Memphis. The
purpose of the board is to take the en-
tire amount of rolling stock and appor-
ton to Kansas for taxation such part
of the rolling stock as the mileage in
Kansas bears to the total mileage of
each road.
Among the privileges accorded the
pubic on Decoration Day at Ottawa
were the big Santa Fe shops, which were
thrown open to all visitors.
To take effect June 1, the Santa F'e
company will check bicycles free be-
tween points in Colorado Arizona terri
tory and California Only one bicycle
or tricycle. will be allowed to a passen-
ger This ruling conforms to the new
laws in force in the states mentioned.
Some of the implement dealers of
cause they cannot get their orders filed
from the eastern firms fast enough to
supply the present demand.
Atchfson Globe: Switch engine No.
SO, of the Missouri Pacific, has a whis-
tie that wakens the dead. This whistle
has been famous in AtchisOn many
years Engine SO wore out a good many
years ago, but the whistle was lacked
up, and new engine built under it.
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Wichita Will Make Prisoners
Work.
Rock Pile Will Be Established
at Once.
TO MAKE GOOD ROADS.
NeOshO Falls Boy Swallows a
Silver Dollar,
Which Has Been Cut Out of
His Throat.

Wichita, May 31.-At the meeting of
the board of county commissioners this
morning, Mr.. Howard presented a res
olution providing for the establishment
of rock pile for the county Jail. The
resolution also included the fixing of
one of the roads leading into the city
from the west.
Mr.. Wilson was appointed to find out
about freight rates on stone and a To-
cation for the yard. Mr.. Wilson said
this morning that it was probable the
stone yard would be located on one of
the lots owned by the county close to
the Missouri Pacific tracks on Central
avenue. Mr.. Wilson also said it was
probable the pounded rock would be
placed on Maple street.
People living west of town have been
trying for a long time TO get the county
to fix one road SO they could get into
town without going through those aw-
full sand holes just west of town. 1t is
calculated this stone placed on that
road through the sand will be the
means of saving several hundred dol
lars every year which the farmers have
been spending on broken wagons and
harness to say nothing of the good
tempers that have been ruined there
every year.
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FROM NEWTON.

Charles Jones has been appointed
day switchtender at the slip" switch,
with Comrade Thompson on duty
nights. James Pierce has been promo
ted to foreman of the half-and-half en-
CINE, and Rudolph Schumacher and
James Ryan, switch tenders at the car
riage factory lead.
Frank Beydler, who has been the
guest of his brother, Lea Beydler Of
the boilershop, left for Inman, where he
will visit friends for a few days before
returning to his Nickerson home.
Ben Thomas, the handsome copper
smith of the Topeka shops, spent Sun
day in this city. 1t is whispered on the
q. t. that Ben has wonderful attrac-
ton in Newton that calls him here
about twice month.
If Governor Leedy is short on mater
ial for a colonelcy in either Of the new
Kansas regiments, Newton can supply
the shortage in the person or Master
Mechaic Gavitt, who would make an
excellent man for the position. OF
course Mr. Gavitt'S consent will have
to be obtained first.
A representative Of the electric light
ing force, of Topeka, was in the city to-
day repairing the apparatus which had
burned out in one of the coaches.
Charles Isenburg, of Engineer Earl's
department has been indisposed for
several days. See him if you wish to
learn the exact nature of his ailment-
August Soth, of the bridge and build
ing department, poisoned his hands the
other day while handling green ties and
has been compelled to lay off in conse-
Quence.
George Rathburn, a brother of Black
smith Helper Rathburn of this city, is
raising a company of volunteers at OF
tawa, which will enlist under the sec
ond call.
w. j. Miner, otherwise known as
Dynamo Bill" will have charge of the
plant. At least that is the story his
associates tell.
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Annual Santa Fe Excursion and
Picnic June Is.
Plan Now is to Visit Transmits
sissippi Exposition.
COMMITTEES AT WORK
Dan Lane, w. L. Jury and G.
w. Belts to Select the Place.
A New Scheme For the Annual
Outing.

The question of the yearly excursion
June Is is now paramount in the minds
of the Santa Fe shopmen. For years
the excursions have been run to Kan
sas City, st. Joe and places where
parks have been used for a grand pic
mic with games and amusements of all
kinds.
The committees for the annual excur-
sion have been named and are hard at
work. The committee composed of
Dan Lane, w. L. Jury and G. w. Belts
who are to select the site. The COM
mittee will go to ST. Joe, Kansas City
and Leavenworth to look for suitable
place for the picnic.
Today a new proposition was sug-
gested by some of the shopmen, that
the annual excursion for 1898 be run to
Omaha to give the excursionists the
opportunity of visiting the Transmits
sissippi exposition. The idea has met
with the favor of a great many, If not
all of the shopmen.
The excursion train could leave To-
peka Friday night, arriving in Omaha
the same night and would give the eX-
cursionists all day Saturday, Saturday
night and Sunday, leaving for home
Sunday night.
The run from Topeka to Omaha is
night and returning Sunday night the
Santa Fe employees would have the
pleasure of two days at the exposition
without losing any more time than If
one day trip was taken to some nearby
park.
The shopmen and other employees of
the road who take part in the excursion
with their families, are anxious for the
change to be made and their idea is
that trip to Omaha would be both
enjoyable and profitable while the trips
to small towns are nothing out of the
ordinary.
The Santa Fe management, so says
the committee, is always consfderate
and in the past has done a great deal
for the employees on their annual excur-
Sions. A rate over some other road
from Kansas City or ST. Joe could be
secured for the excursionists and the
fare for the trip would be within reach
of all.
De Alexander is chairman and Dan
Lane, secretary of the general com
Inittee and they are working hard to
please the prospective excursionists.
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PEOPLE YOU HEAR OF.

Thomas Towndrow, who has Just died
in. New York at the age of IS, was prob
ably the oldest newspaper reporter in
the country. He worked with and for
the elder Bennett and Horace Greeley.
The. new French commander in chief
is General lamont, who is a Breton. He
is 81 years of age and served in the Cri-
mea, LOmbardy and Mexico. He was in
Metz in 1870, and in 1885 commanded
the TonQuin expedition.
After three successive failures in a
costly experiment, one of Mr.. Edison's
asked: Why don't you worry a little
about it, Mr.. Edison?" why should
1 20 replied the inventor, ''yoU are wor-
rytng enough for two"
General Walker, congressman from
Virginia, had an unexpected caller the
other day in the person of an old body
servant, who had followed him all
through the war. The general greeted
the decrepit old negro as affectionately
as he would a brother.
The German philosopher Nietzche,
who is now in an insane asylum, never
was noted for his modesty. In one of
his books he wrote: Il am that predes-
tined man who stamps the value of
things for thousands of years. I might
become the Buddah of Europe"
Don't call them rough riders" says
theodore Roosevelt, land don't call
them cowboys. Call them mounted
riflemen. If any man believes this reg
iment will go in the hippodrome order
he has made a mistake-particularl
when we get in the midst of the fight
Count To1stof, when he has a great
work in hand, writes nearly all day.
and sometimes far into the night Even
in the summer, during the children's
holidays, he rarely will leave his desk
to spend a few moments with them;
the morning seems to be the only time
that he gives up to his family.
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Isben, the Norwegian dramatist, is
an extraordinary looking man. Almost
a dwarf in height the upper part of his
body is immense, compared with his
lower limbs. He has a huge head,
covered with bushy white hair, and his
keen blue eyes glare at his interlocutor
with piercing glance.
=
Like her husband the general, Nine
Weyler is a native Of the Balearic is
lands, and as a girl was ravishingIy
beautiful. Her parents were peasants,
and when she married the general who
was then a lieutenant colonel, she could
neither read nor write. From the al
tar she went to a convent, where she
remained until her education had been
completed.
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was necessary Saturday to transfer
Santa Fe passengers across the Salt
Fork at that point.
Mrs. George Keller of Coffeyville, who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
A. Anderson, for several days, has re-
turned home.
Mrs. L. E. Garside of Atchison, for
merly of this city, who has been visit
ing her parents, Rev. and Mrs. William
Long, went to Medicine Lodge for a
visit.
The people living west of here are
trying to induce the Santa Fe to run
special trains for their accommodation
during the Winfield ChautauQua as
Sembly.
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FROM WELLINGTON.

Bob Henry. Santa Fe boilermaker,
is on his claim near Alva on a few
days visit.
Engineer A. Anderson and Fireman
J. M. HentzeIl went to Woodward after
their engine, No. 81.
Twenty-Five carloads of material for
the Pecos Valley line passed here
Thursday night and three carloads Fri
day night.
The new Wells-Fargo refrigerator
cars are now running in this country
and perishable goods are handled with
more safety.
On account Of high water at Alva. it
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DIES UNDER THE KNIFE.
Mrs John Fairman of Fit. Scott Sue.
cumbs to an Operation.

Fort Scott, May 31.-Mrs. Fairman,
wife Of John Fairman, who resides near
Lath Branch, a few miles east of Fort
Scott, died yesterday afternoon while
undergoing a, surgical operation.
Mrs. Fairman was taken i'll a few
weeks ago with stomach trouble. She
had been suffering from a tumor The
attending physician and two other doc
tors held a consultation yesterday
morning and decided to perform an
operation which was done A tumor
weighing several pounds was removed
from her side but while the operation
was being performed she expired.
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evidence that God is an advocate of
reciprocity.
Hutchinson News: The difficulty In
filling quotas in some of the southern
states is not for lack of officers, but
the first call did not provide for reg
iment of colonies and majors.
-
Ell Dorado Republican: Had the
government let the contract for taking
Havana and freeing Cuba to the high
est and best bidder, it would have been
accomplished long ago.
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Wichita Eagle: Sampson so far has
occupied nothing but the time of the
reading public.
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and It Is thought this will be Sufficient
if few arrests are made.
The park commissioners are determ-
ined to have the shooting of birds
stopped. They claim that there is no
use in fooling with the men who go into
the parks to shoot birds, that such peo-
pie are loaferS and not good citizens,
and that they ought to be promptly ar
rested, fined and allowed to remain in
the city prison until the fines are paid.
1t is proposed to put detectives in the
parks to secure evidence after which
they will notify police headquarters by
telephone and a police officer will be
sent to arrest the violators of the law
and if possible find birds in his pos
session.
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STRUCK BY A SLEDGE.
Missouri Pacific Machinist Injured
at Fl Scott

Fort Scott, May 31.-Will Hopkins, an
employee of the machinist's department
at the Missouri Pacific shops and who
resides on South Main street. met with
a painful accident at the shops.
He and another employee were on
job when the accident occurred. He
was holding a drill while his associate
handled the sledge and as Hopkins
raised up to adjust the drill the sledge
struck him on the forehead. He was not
rendered unconscious but the blow daz-
ed him An ugly cash about two inch
es long was cut, but with proper treat
ment the wound will not prove danger
Gus.
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sPAN1ARDS DEPART.
Kansas Miners Refuse to Work With
the Treacherous Race.

Weir City, May 31-At a meeting be-
tween the men at the Cherokee Lanyon
smelters and Superintendent Cockrill,
the men demanded the removal of the
SpanfardS employed there who were in
sympathy with Spain.
Superintendent Cockerill, after hear
ing the charges, discharged four of the
men.
The men also asked for pay every
two weeks, which the superintendent
thinks will be granted.
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Another death has occurred-this time
in New York-from the stab of a wo-
mans hatpin. Since hatpins can
scarcely be classed with concealed
weapons, it will devolve upon the law
makers to devise some method of
curtailing the fatalities resulting from
the too free use of this article of fe-
minine apparel.
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Headache Quickly Cured
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Send your address to H. E. Bucklen C
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Political bias seems to cut but a small
figure in metropolitan journals when
Speaker Reed is under discussion. The
Democratic New York World praises
him highly for using the power of his
position to prevent Hawaiian annexa-
ton, while the Republican Tribune con-
dennis the course as revolutionary and
an abuse of power.
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In an argument against the issue of
bonds as proposed in the pending reVe-
nue. bill. Senator Teller of Colorado said
last week that Notwithstanding the
complaints made of the large pension
expenditures. The pension charges are
large, yet the government has paid
since 1865. S312. OOO, 600 more for interest
upon the public debt than il has paid
for. napSiOrS
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That war balloon for Commodore
Schley's use is a little late in arriving.
The commodore doesn't need it. The
thing most likely to be required when
the Spanish fleet again disappears is a
diving hell
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1t is not surprising that John Sher-
man resigned his place in the cabinet.
He seems to be opposed to everything
that the administration is doing. He
is against territorial extension in any
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EX-RAYS.

EmporIa Republican,: In answer to
an anxious lady inquirer, we will say
that the war will leave plenty of men
at home to escort the pretty maidens
10 the picnics and on other summer ex-
curSionS.
Parsons Sun: Some of the erstwhile
congressional hotheads have discover
ed that it was much easier to yell war
Khan to get ready to fight successfully
after war has come.
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Chanute Tribune: Kansas will raise
enough wheat to feed all the armies
and navies of this country and have
3 few million bushels to ship to Europe.
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Parsons Sun: With meat two dollars
n pound In Havana and coffee twenty
1--WE cents a cup, the Spanish bluff that
the blockade is q failure doesn't cut
any Ice.
II
Arkansas City Traveller: Sagasta
says he trusts An God There la no
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Another Case of Rheumatism Cured
NV Chamberlain's Pain Balm.

NV son was afflicted with rheumatism
rvhicb contracted his right limb until
he was unable to walk. After using one
and a half bottles of Chamberlain's
AGAIN / can heartily recommend it to
PERSONS suffering from rheumatism
TOHN SNYDER, Freed, Calhoun Co..
w Va. For sale by druggists.
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SAVE THE SONG BIRDS.
Last Legislature Passed a Law for
This Purpose.

Wichita, May 31.-The city authori-
ties are consulting with the police in
regard to the arrest of men who per-
sist in shooting the song birds in the
new city parks.
There is a general ordinance against
shooting birds in the city, besides
speciaI park ordinance in regard to
shooting birds. The fine may be 500
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