davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Peace Rumors Explained.

London, March 1.-THE flying ru-
mors of prospective peace were founded
on the fact that President Kruger had
appealed to Lord Salisbury for a ces-
sation of hostilities, setting forth at
length, by cable, the terms which he
was willing to accept and also that the
cabled dispatch to the premier was
signed by President Steyn as well as
by President Kruger.
Lord Salisbury's answer is exactly
as given by the Associated Press at the
time, that the advances had met with
an emphatic rejection at the hands of
Lord Salisbury, who also said that no
such attempt to retain the independ-
ence of the Transvaal could be con-
sidered for moment by the British
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Texas Cattle Raisers.

Fort Worth, Tex, March 1.-THE
concluding day of the Texas Cattle
Raisers' Association was largely at
tended. The following resolution was
adopted;
That the executive committee be au-
thorized to gather data and inform
themselves upon the ability of this as
ISOLATION to protect its members from
excessive or extortionate freight rates,
and they are authorized to expend such
funds of this association as they deem
necessary to attain that end.
A resolution endorsing the pending
congressional bill extending from
twenty-eight to forty hours the time
cattle may be kept on cars, was adopt
ad
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
PAPER TRUST CRITICISED
Bids For Government Supply Are
Raised Fifty Per Cent.
BILL TO REGULATE PRODUCTS.

Washington, March 14.-An urgency
deficiency bill, carrying 81, 439, $50, was
passed. The principal items were
$780, 200 for the naval establishment
and S4S7.Ooo for the public printing
Office. In connection with the last
item, Mr.. Richardson called attention
to the bill he had introduced to regu-
late the product of the paper trust.
The advance in the price of paper
was one of the causes of the
deficiency appropriation asked for.
Mr.. Richardson said the creation of
the paper trust had reduced competi-
ton and increased prices. He said the
number of bidders for supplying paper
to the government for the next fiscal
year had fallen from As to so, in former
years, to 80, and the price had ranged
so per cent higher.
Mr.. Steel of Indiana inquired wheth-
er tariff of So would raise the price
from $50 to S35 n ton. He was willing
to join in enacting a law for properly
controlling trusts. But reduction of
the number of bidders in these busy
times, he said. was not significant. He
cited as an instance bids advertised for
building a government soldiers home
this year. Whereas in former years
contractors had fallen over themselves
to bid, this year there was but one bid
der. He had been suspicious, had
written former contractors and had
learned they were busy and did not
care to bid on government work upon
which labor could work only eight
hours day.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
WHY SHIPS ARE CONTRACTED.
Plausible Reasons For Contracts For
War Ships.

ffausible Reasons For Contracts For
War Ships.
Washington, March 16.-Naval Con-
navy yard; Baxter, of the Boston navy
yard, and Stahl, of the Norfolk navy
yard, were heard by the committee on
naval affairs on the advantages and
disadvantages of building warships in
government yards. Among the adj
vantages of government construction,
as specified by Contractor Bowles, are
the maintenance of an organized force
ready for emergencies, the avoidance
of profits; the saving of cost of inspec-
ton and in trial trips. Among the
disadvantages given are that the gov
eminent yards are handicapped by the
cumbersome naval bureau system;
government yards pay 10 to 80 per
cent higher wages than private yards;
unskiiled and boy labor such as private
yards use to considerable extent is
impossible; government work is eight
hours daily, as against nine and ten
hours in private yards; the govern
ment yards give 1o guarantee of
results, similar to those given by pri-
vate yards. Mr.. Bowles, comparing
the Texas built by the Norfolk navy
yard, with the Indiana, built in a pri-
vate yard, said that the former cost %
per cent more per ton than the latter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
.rafksy Queen. .. Taxa.

-
/; Mss Anita Martin Is known
threuehout Texas as the turkey
queen on account of the many tur-
Keys which she has raised on her
ranch. in that state. So great has been
the increase in Miss Martins business
since she started with her four turkeys
dve years since that she now employs
TWO women and a boy to help take
care OF her 100 stock birds. Miss Mar
tin sells her turkeys to regular custom
ers, and claims to have cleared 81, 500
in a year. The most expensive birds
are those which feed on nuts and other
fancy foods, which renders their flesh
sweeter and more palatable. All the
eggs are Matched by incubators, and
the food which the turkeys eat arc
grown on the ranch, thus saving much
expense
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
BANKING WITHOUT CAPITAL
Is Not Possible Under Operations
Of New Currency Law.
1T MUST BE UNIMPAIRED.

Washington, March 15.-The comp
troller of the currency, Mr.. Dawes, is
overwhelmed with assertions and in
quiries touching the operation of the
currency bill about to become a law
All sorts of notions are entertained BY
pref it. He says:
1.-THE new law regarding circulation
would not make it easier to drive the
authorities into allowing the bank to
do business with no capital While it
is true that the organizers of national
bank can secure in circulation the par
of the bonds deposited by them as
security therefor, less the five per cent
redemption fund, if this currency was
used to pay off the cost of the bonds,
it could not, of course, be used as cap
ital for the bank.
Where money has been borrowed to
purchase the bonds deposited as Sc
curity for circulation, the bank notes
issued against them might be used to
pay a portion of the debt. But this
operation does not affect or lessen the
necessity of the bank having $25, 900 in
unimpaired cash capital, irrespective
of the currency and bond transaction.
The assumption is that the $25, 900
received from the government upon the
deposit of that amount of bonds as
security could be used both to pay the
debt assumed in the purchase of the
bonds as well as for the working capt.
tai of the bank in addition, which is of
course, impossible"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
FRANCE BRISTLING UP.
Calls For Statements From Colonies OF
Available Soldiers.

Available Soldiers.
New York, March IA private
cablegram from an unimpeachable
source in Paris says that the ministers
for the colonies sent cipher cables to
the governor of every French colony,
almost in the words of Mr.. Chamber
lain to the British colonial governors,
asking how many soldiers were availa-
asked for a detailed statement from
each governor of the number and
service of the colonial forces, and lists
of officers and men. The minister's
cables were long and in cipher and
were sent all over the world; to colo
MES in Africa, Madagascar, Tongzing,
Guadalupe, Martinique, French
Guiana and every French colony on
earth. 1t is also said that cables of a
similar tenor were sent to French con-
suls, asking for lists of French soldiers
in foreign countries who could return
to France in the event of their services
being needed.
Paris, March 1.-THE minister Oh
foreign affairs, NJ. Delcasse, in the
senate denied that France had refused
to join Russia in making friendly
suggestion in the direction of peace
between England and the Transvaal.
He then declared: 1.-The union between
France and Russia draws closer every
day and defies all malevolent asser-
lions to the contrary" France, he
added, had never ceased to be the most
generous nation the world had known.
But after so many hard and sometimes
cruel experiences she could no longer
admit that her duty to the world
should stand before her obligations to
herself.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Hurts The Wholesalers.

Kansas City, March ia local
wholesaler here said: sWe do not
know what to make of the situation of
binding Irvine. We can not meet the
10 cent price. We can not go below
the III cents we are filling wholesale
orders at. AS it is, the price is from
IL to 20 cents below what it was a
year ago. We can not hope to meet
the penitentiary price, nor can we see
how they can afford to sell their
product at 10 cents. The fiber and
sissal cost them So cents
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
The New War Loan.

London, March 13.-The new war
loan, which the Stock exchange has
christened ''khakis, has proved most
popular, and has been already thrice
covered, exclusive of applications from
the provinces, the colonies and the
Continent. 1t is understood that offers
have been received from the United
States to take up the whole, which it
is expected will be covered ten to
twenty times. Dealings have taken
place at two and one-fourth to two
and one-l,alf per cent premium.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Sunday at Paris EXPOSITION.

Washington, March 16.-The presi-
dent has sent instructions to United
States Commissioner General Peck at
the Paris exposition, to see that the
Sabbath is observed as far as possible
in the American section during the
progress OF the exposition. Whether
these instructions contemplate the
closing of the American section is not
known, but it is believed that the de-
termination of that question will be
deferred by Mr.. Peck until after he
has consulted with the exposition au-
thorities
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Manila HOSPITALS Wen Supplied.

Washington, March 14.-Surgeon
General Sternberg has received re-
port from Major Corbusier, medical
purveyor for the department of the
Pacific, showing that he has an ample
supply of bed linen and clothing for
the military sick in the Philippines
and that there is no foundation for the
report that the patients are suffering
from the need of such articles.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Eipnres Rx Rriedenthal.

Topeka, March 19.-The state banks
show gross earnings of "a. per cent
and net earnings of 1892, 4s6.72, or 14.5
per cent Two hundred and seven
state banks, with capital of 81, 354, 800,
paid dividends of $433, 21O. Sc, fraction
and thirteen banks, with a capital of
81, BAL, O75, paid no dividends. While
these banks paid no dividends, there
were only nine state banks which
failed to show net earnings for the
year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Grand Army Report,

Topeka, March 1.-THE annual re-
port of Adjutant General Coulter, of
the Kansas G. A. R., shows that during
the past year the order has gained 631
members. This is the first time in
eight years that the order has shown
any increase. 1t began to drop off in
membership in 1892 and kept it up
until 1899. Captain Coulter says the
increase is due to hard work by the
officers of the department and to the
revival of the war spirit on account of
the Spanish-American war. The order
now has 10, 900 members in the state
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Gathering Natnional Guards.

Lexington, KY, March 14.-Adju-
tant General John Castleman has been
in conference with Governor Beckham
and other leaders The organization
or the new state guard under Beckham
and Castleman is proceeding. Several
companies in the state guard as origi-
nally constituted, have gone over to
Beckham, and it is understood that
the new company organized here and
the companies enlisted at Louisville
and other points in the state, will be
mustered in.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Judge d. M. valentine stricken.

Topeka, March 13.-Judge D. NJ
Valentine, of Topeka, for eighteen
years associate justice of the supreme
court, and one of the best known
jurists of the West, was attacked by a
light stroke of paralysis at his home
here. The attack was not severe and
the Judge rallied from its effects in a
short time. He seems almost as strong
as ever. He is 70 years of age and it is
feared that he will sustain another
attack
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
First Kentuckv Decision.

Louisville, KY, March ia decis-
sion sustaining the contention of the
Democrats that the legislature is the
tribunal designated by the constitution
for the determination of contests for
the Office Of governor and lieutenant
governor YVES handed down in the cir.
cult court by Judge Fields. The Re-
publicans will appeal the case to the
state court of appeals and If the de-
cision is against them will try TO get q
hearing before the United States
supreme court.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

Moody's death brings to mind the
fact that he and his collaboration, Mr..
SanKey, exerted the most beneficial in
f1uence upon the organ trade for many
years. When they were at the height
of their success people all wished to
be able to sing their hymns at home,
and an organ seemed to produce the
best effect, SO that their tour was al
ways sure to be followed by substantial
orders for small organs suitable for the
household. Thousands were sold in
consequence.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

Col. Count Georges de Villebo.s
Mareuil is the brains Of the Boer army.
He recently received the thanks of the
Transvaal government, in it's official
paper, for the victory at Colenso. The
count, who is Gen. Joubert's chief of
staff, served in the French army,
through the Franco-Prussian war, ris-
ing to the command of regiment in
the foreign legion, and was afterward
with the French forces in Tunis, Ton
Quin and the western Sudan. Two
years ago he threw up his commission
because he was not promoted to the
rank of general From. DR.. Leyds he
procured the rang of lieutenant general
in the Boer army. He had said that
the Boer country Offered every adj
vantage for a campaign of surprises
and war Of ambuscades."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

The famous Ross case, by which the
Supreme court Of the United States
held that a conductor of a freight
train is a vice-principal Of the rail-
road company in his relation to other
trafnmen, is overruled in the recent
case of New England Railroad COM
pany vs. Conroy, Advance Sheets U. S.,
p. So, which holds that the conductor
is a fellow-servant Of the engineer
and brakeman, unless special and I'M
usual powers have been conferred upon
him.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Women and Monuments.

It is said that with the exception OF
Queen Victoria no woman has been The
original of so much plastic art as the
Maid of Orleans" Joan Of Arc. 1t IS
estimated that all the world over not
more than fifty monuments have been
erected to women. More monuments
have been erected to the Emperor Will
liam I. of Germany, than to all the ia
nous women put together. Nearly a
century after Maria Theresa's death
Austria erected a monument to her
memory. A beautiful statue of Queen
Louise of Prussia is in Berlin.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

A Yukon mail-carrier writes to the
general superintendent at San Francis
co, telling how he has had to sacrifice
CELEBRITY" one of the requirements of
the "star" postal service, to safety"
in some recent experiences. On his
arrival from the trip up Forty-Mile
river, he found the Yukon damned
with huge cakes of ice, which it was
unsafe to cross because of the great
holes through which a man or mail
pouch might easily fall. Whenever
any mail has gone to the bottom in an
ice-jam, he says, every man therea-
bouts feels certain that at least dozen
of his letters were in that particular
pouch. So this carrier waited favor
able opportunity, which came on Nov.
6, when his party started forth at day
light. They made ten miles before sun
down, having two sleds loaded with
300 pounds each drawn by dogs. The
ice was piled so high in some places
that they had to chop passage
through it rather than attempt to go
over. These are some of the difficult
ties that Uncle Sans servants in the
postal service have to surmount.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Diamonds In Amariea

Diamonds have been discovered dur.
Ing the last few years in the neighbor-.
hood of the great lakes, principally
in the state of Wisconsin, and the first
discovery recorded was at Eagle, Wau-
kesha county, in 1876. Since that time
seventeen well identified diamonds
weighing from one-half a carat to
twenty-one and one-fourth carats have
been found about the great lakes, and
their discovery has given rise to con-
siderable speculation and the formulat-
ing Of theories.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
state teachers, Certificates.

Topeka, March 13.-The enactment
of the Grattan law, relating to teach
ers' certificates, has led to notable
increase in the number of students in
the department of pedagogy at Kansas
university. Ia accordance with law
graduates of the School of Arts who
have completed the regular courses in
pedagogy are granted a state teachers
certificate. by the state board of edu-
cation. This certificate is good for
three years, and may be good for life
after two years of successful teaching.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Found Dead in San Juan.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 49,
John Wesley French, of New York, a
lawyer and a graduate of the Columb ia
law school, who has served as a. lieu
tenant in the Seventy-hrst regiment,
was found dead in a hallway. The
circumstances surrounding the case
give rise to a suspicion of foul play and
an investigation is in progress. Mr..
French had been in Puerto Rico a year,
having been employed as school
teacher. He had also spent some of
his time in newspaper work
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Chinese Boycott Decision.

Butte, Mont, March, 15.-Judge
Knowles, of the United States court
handed down decision in the noted
Chinese boycott case, which has been
pending in court for several years. He
made permanent the injunction against
labor unions and labor leaders who for
years had prosecuted a boycott against
the Chinese and all employers of Chi
nese. 1t is understood that claims for
damages will now be presented to the
federal government by the Chinese
minister
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

Under the name of "magnalium," DR..
J.. Mach has produced alloys of alumni
mum and magnesium which, while con-
siderably lighter than pure aluminium,
are harder than that metal and better
suited, it is asserted, for working.
With Is per cent of magnesium, the al
10y is said to resemble brass in the
readiness with which it submits to the
operations of turning, boring and cut
ting. By increasing the magnesium to
25 per cent, an alloy resembling bronze
Dis produced, but the color is silvery
white.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

The American workman is declared
to be more alert in action and quicker
DIN perception than his foreign COM
petitor. The writer asserts, as ga
well-known fact" that in a given
amount of work to be accomplished in
a given time, by an equal number Of
foreign and American workmen, with
equal appliances and facilities, the
American will excel his foreign rival
in the proportion of almost two to
one. Qualities so essential in the
struggle for mercantile supremacy
should not be overlooked, he thinks,
in estimating the causes which are
contributory to this result.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Steel Trust Gets 1t.

Wheeling, W. Va, March 15.-The
Aetna-Standard mill, which was pur-
chased the latter part of last year by
the National Steel company, has trans
ferred it's holdings for $4,000 900 to the
American Steel company. This is an
increase of price over the original sum
paid of over So, ZOO, 900.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Wages Too High in New York.

New York, March 19.-The American
Tobacco company discharged its entire
list of 500 employees, men and women,
from the cigar factory at Fifty-second
street and the East river, and it will
move its plant to its factories in Rich
mond, Va, Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Lancaster, Pa. Manager Gordon said:
Labor is too expensive here, and we
can get it cheaper in the other places. :"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

The Samoan treaty was ratified by
the senate with scarcely any opposi-
tion-with none, in fact, which in
Nolved principle. So this country has
become possessed Of one large island
and several small ones, five thousand
or more miles distant from the CONT
nent of North America, the very names
of which few of us know how to pro-
nounce. 1t shows what an excursion
into the world we have made in the
last three years.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Bridee Broken By an Ice Jam.

Omaha, March 1.-THE Missouri
Pacific bridge over the Platte river at
Oroopolis, just south of here was par
TALLY taken out by the ice, and trains
are compelled to go around by other
routes. The Burlington bridge, which
is near by, was thought to be in dan
ger at one time, but prompt work
saved the structure
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Although charges of wanton cru,

Although charges of wanton cruelty
have been made by Boer against
Briton and by Briton against Boer, the
contest thus far has been marked by
chivalrous humanity on both sides
when the fury of battle has left it's
stricken victims to be succored by their
foes. In Boer operating camps and
hospitals, as in the British, no dis
elimination was shown between friend
and foe. Common suffering has ap-
pealed to common humanity, enmities
have been forgotten, and the same
plying kindness and tender care eX-
tended to one as to the other.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
French Names In Africa.

Among the French names which at
the present day may be found wide
spread throughout South Africa, from
the Cape to the Zambesi, are Marais,
Joubert. Du Plessis, De Villiers, Jour-
dan, LIE Roux, Malherbe, Du Toit, Ma
Ian, Retief, Theron and Hugo.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

Similar natural advantages to those
offered in California for homes can
be found in many parts of Mexico, to-
gether with the far-reaching argument
that an American dollar goes as far
as two of Mexico. For all expenses
connected with housekeeping, says
Modern Mexico, and all the little incl
dentals in the rural districts this will
be found true.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Wireless TelerraphH

Has had new demonstration of
usefulness by the captain of light
ship, who used it after ordinary signals
had failed, to notify the shore authori-
ties of danger. In like manner
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the
famous indigestion and dyspepsia cure,
acts when other medicines fail. 1t
regulates the bowels and improves the
appetite.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Tea and Conee.

An eminent doctor says that no per-
son should be permitted to drink tea
or coffee until he or she has attained
the age Of eighteen years. In the young
those beverages undly excite the ner-
vous system, and have an injurious eff
feet upon the digestive organs.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22
Johannesburg Mines.

Paris, March 19.-The possibility of
the Beers destroying the mines is
causing some anxiety among French
financiers, who hold one-third of the
shares. The Gaulois devotes an article
to the subject and calls upon the
financiers of Europe to furnish the
Beers with the means of resisting
British invasion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-03-22

Count Boni Castellane's reiterated
expressions as to the generosity and
hospitality of the, United States indi-
cate that he held New York up for
more than is generally suspected