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The Lamar register., 1901-04-17
pur,lncton Surveyor. ouI. Work.

has recalled its corps of surveyors
which have been selecting route
from Guernsey, Wyoming, to Salt Lake
City:
The Lamar register., 1901-04-17
Grain and Hay.

GFnIn hnU 1Hy.
Graln-Wheat, choice milling. per
100 lbs, 9Sc; rye, Colorado, bulk, per
100 lbs. Soc; oats, in bulk, per 100
lbs, white Nebraska, 05c; mixed, 03c;
in sack, Colorado white. S1.O2. Corn.
in bulk. per 100 lbs, sec; cornchop,
sacked, soc; corn and oat chops.
sacked. soc; bran, Colorado, per 100
lbs, zoe.
Hay-Upland, per ton 900 to $1,000:
second bottom, choice to fancy, $500
to $3.50; good to choice. 500 to $3.50;
timothy. $1l.OO: timothy and clover,
5000; alfalfa, prime. $500 to $3.50;
straw, $4.00; South Park wire grass,
$500.
The Lamar register., 1901-04-17
Sheep.

The receipts of sheep from January
1st up to and including April 10th, to-
tai 31,256 head. Same period last
year 1861 head arrived, showing an
increase of 1926 head. The receipts
of sheep from April LIST up to and in
Guiding April 10th. total 5,179 head.
Corresponding period last year the re-
ceipts We're 2.177 head, showing an in
crease of 3,002 head.
The Lamar register., 1901-04-17
Butter and Eggs
Decide. Gambling Debt. Arc Legal.

Guided :. ........
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
LOW Temnarature.
site law.

Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 16.-Mercury
fell SO degrees and is 10 degrees below
and is growing colder
La Crosse, VISA cold wave struck
this section driving down the mercury
80 degrees to 10 degrees below zero.
Peoria, ll.-Thermometer showed 81
above at night and at noon next day a
blizzard came continuing seven hours.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-The blizzard raging
throughout Southern Wyoming is ter
rife. Great distress is reported by
sheepmen.
Denver Colin the mountain region
thermometers are generally registered
below zero, the lowest temperature re-
ported being 81 below at Gunnison.
The record in Denver was few de-
grees above zero.
Lisbon, N. D.-Government Their
mometer registered 80 degrees below
zero.
Fergus Falls, Minn.-Mercury fell
here SO degrees in IS hours registering
25 below.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

There used to be a young man
named Stanwix who was rector of a
church at little town in New Jersey
called Appleburg. Very amiable young
man, not long in the ministry, and I'M
married. Nice-looking chap, too, and
a bright fellow but he had his trials
at Appleburg. Mainly it was the wo-
men-they thought he ought to marry,
and of course they were right. But
thinking so wasn't enough for those
dear Appleburg ladies; with the true
feminine desire to help they resolved
to see that he did marry. But here
again they showed universal femi
nine trait by refusing to combine and
work together They all labored hard
enough, but independently, and each
with a view to inducing the minister
to marry different woman.
1t had been going on thus for some
months when Christmas approached.
Now of course there isn't much you
can give any man for Craftsmanship
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
Dishonesty Charged.

Topeka, Dec. 16.-The Secretary Of
State charges that some county clerks
sell copies of the session laws sent to
them for delivery to justices of the
peace and township trustees, as the
law provides. In order to correct this
list of these officers is being COM
piled and the books will be sent to the
county clerks with orders to deliver
them according to law. At the same
time each justice and township trustee
will be notified by postal card that a
copy of the laws has been sent to the
county clerk for him and that he is
entitled to it by calling.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
Slaves Still Held In Tennessee.

New Decatur, Ala, Dec. 14.-That
negroes have been confined for years
within a stockade and held as slaves
on a Tennessee river island plantation
near here is disclosed through a story
told by young black man who re-
Gently escaped from the place. Ben
Milan, a negro, formerly slave in
Lawrence county, has been arrested,
charged with kidnapping negroes and
selling them to the manager of the
plantation. The negro youth says that
pne man has been confined on the ISL
and for seven years.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

bag for married sister, and little
knit shawl for her grandmother, and
a pair of skates for boy cousin, and
various other things for divers other
persons, including fine meerschaum
pipe and a pound Of his favorite smok-
ing tobacco for her brother who was
at college, and who wouldn't be homo
till New Years. Each thing she care
fully put up in a box or bundle and
laid it away.
The day before Christmas was a
never-to- be- forgotten time for the
Rev. Mr.. Stanwix. Slippers just came
down on him like an Egyptian plague.
Along about four O'Clock Stanwix
got crowded out of his room-slippers
piled half way to the ceiling-and had
to put chair out in the hall and sit
there with an atlas of the world in his
lap writing his Christmas sermon on
it. Mighty tough sermon it was, too,
and got tougher as the slippers contin-
ued to arrive. Fact is, he was getting
pretty mad; and every new pair sent
his temperature up five degrees. Con-
sequently, at ten o'clock he was just
boiling. OF course he couldn't swear,
but the way he tramped up and down
that hall and ground his teeth really
amounted to the same thing. The
arriving slippers now began to fall off.
For ten minutes nothing came, and he
was just starting down to ask the
landlady if she couldn't put cot in
the hall so he could go to bed, when
in came another box. 1t was from
Jane-just her luck, of course, to be
late and strike him when he was all
worked up to the bursting point But
let us draw a veil over the scene right
here and leave the poor man alone as
he opens James box.
1t was not more than half-past nine
the next morning when the Rev. MI
Stanwix mounted the Wilkinson steps
and tugged at the door bell. He asked
for Jane. 1t seemed rather queer, but
they ushered him into the parlor and
sent Jane in! Well, to make long
story short, it wasn't ten minutes
until he had the thing all liked up. he
had his chair drawn close up beside
her end Of the sofa.
Jane" he was saying, Tive loved
you ever since the first day l saw you,
but l never knew it until l opened
your box"
''Then you liked them, did you?
I'm so glad" murmured Jane.
II should say I did! Why, it's one
of the finest meerschaums l ever saw.
and that tobacco used to be my favor
lite brand at college. But, Jane, how
did you know l used to smoke, and
was dying to begin again?"
Jane had stopped breathing at the
word meerschaum. Now she caught
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
suex Route Abandoned.

Washington, Dec. 16.-In order to
expedite the shipment of troops and
supplies from the United States to the
Philippines the secretary Of war has
transferred the transport Fitzpatrick
from the New York-Manila route to-
the San Francisco route, SO that the
vessel, which is now at Manila, can as
sist in carrying troops between the two
last named posts. 1t is estimated that
it takes twice as long for trip from
New York to Manila as from San Fran
cisco to the same point.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
Federation of Labor.

Scranton, Pa, Dec. 16.-The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor adopted many
resolutions; among them one instructs
union men to keep aloof from state
militia companies; against the use of
militia in times of strikes. The con-
vention decided to increase the per
capita tax of national and international
unions from one-third to one-half of one
per cent per member per month, and
also agreed to double the monthly per
capita tax for each member, the in
crease of cents to go towards the
raising of a defense fund for the
unions
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
A CHRISTMAS WAIT.

BY Emma Alice Browne.
Break in the dreary East, and bring the
Rise. holy Christmas morning! Break
and bring
The blossom of our hope-thc stainless
King
For weary is the night!
Strange darkness wraps the haSgard
mountain rim;
And worn with failure, spent with grief
and loss,
From the pathetic shadow of His Cross
We yearn and cry to Him.
Sad pilgrims, burdened with unshriven
Oppressed, and covering meath the chas-
tening rod,
We humbly seek the path His feet have
trod,
And strive to enter in.
His anger is so slow-His love so great
Tho we have wandered in forbidden
ways
spurned and denied Him. all our fruit
He calls us long and late.
We are so poor! OF all the squandered
We bring no tithes of Oil. or corn, or
wine,
Nor any offering to His spotless shrine
Save penitential tears.
We are so friendless. in our abject need
We can but cry to Him in bitter stress;
Yet He will not despise our nakedness,
Nor break the bruised reed.
Hard was the lot for His contentment
spread;
Rough was His garb, and rude His lent
en- fare;
In all the earth He had not anywhere
To lay his weary head!
His patience is so long, His wrath so
slow,
Tho Knocked and Scoffed, inSulted and
denied
Beaten with many stripes. and crucified.
He will not bid us go.
The bloody sweat-the sleepless agony
The pangs and pennance of Gethsemane-
He giveth the weary rest.
Break in the dreary East, oh, morning.
With healing in thy holy wings, and
Fruition of our hope-the promised
And blameless Sacrifice!
A sudden pulse of waking life we hear
Throb in the hush of hollow glade and
dell;
The hills take up their olden canticle:
Behold! The Dawn is near!'
And far against the soft auroral glow.
Peak over peak the kindling submits
{; burn;
The wales, rejoicing, seem to lift and
yearn
Thro' curling mists below.
And far along the radiant heights of
morn
A sudden burst of choral triumph swells,
The sweet TIE Deum of an hundred bells
And lo 'Messiahs born"
And all the burden of our grief and sin
Is lifted from our souls forevermore,
AS. huinbly knocking at the Masters door
He bids us enter in.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
Fortune Given by a Kansas Girl.

Galesburg, Ill, Dec. IA freak of
fortune has brought independence to
poor man of this town through his &C
quaintance with a Kansas young
woman. The beneficiary is C. H. Ever
EFT, a carpenter. For some time he
has carried on a correspondence with
Miss Efiie Bush, 10 years of age, of
Smith county, in the Sunfower state.
he has received news of her death and
accompanying the announcement was
a notification that she had left him an
estate valued at s45, 200.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

WHY DUN l. YOU GEL MARRlED!
pers and pipes and shot-guns and slip
pers. And in the case Of a parson it's
still worse-you've got to drop off the
pipes and shotguns, leaving only slip
pers-and slippers. OF course there are
book marks and easy chairs, but the
first are trivial and the latter eXpen-
sive; besides, If he Is unmarried and
you are of the opposite sex, and in the
to give him something made with your
own fair hands, and you can't make an
easy chair. So slippers it had to be
for the Rev. M. Stanwix, especially
after his landlady had been sounded
on the subject and reported that the
poor man didn't have slipper to his
name.
Well, the result was, of course, that
the whole hundred and thirty-six mar
riageable ladies at Appleburg went to
work on slippers; and a few of the
flock who already had husbands also
began slippers, out of the goodness Of
their hearts, probably, or maybe think
ing that they might be widows some
day and might as well have pair to
their credit. The slaughter of plush
and embroidery materials was some
thing cyclonic, and the local shoe
maker had to sit up nights pegglng on
soles. Even unfortunate little Jane
Wilkinson went at pair hammer and
tongs, though everybody said she
hadn't a ghost of a show. In the first
place Jane was too young-her older
sister Katharine was conceded to have
a right to enter for the contest, but 1t
was universally held that Jane had no
right to compete at all. Besides be-
ing too young-she was really nineteen
or twenty-she was also plain. She
might have a certain girlish prettiness,
but not the beauty which the wife of
so handsome a shepherd as the Rev.
Mr.. Stanwix should have. Further
more. Jane was in no other way adapt
ed for the position-she had been a
good deal of tomboy, and was yet, for
that matter; she was frivolous and
careless, and was always putting her
foot in it. The first time the pastor
had called at the Wilkinson house
and while Katherine was entertaining
him in the parlor in the most APP
proved and circumspect manner. Jane
had blundered in, and inside of five
minutes asked him why he didn't get
married-all the girls said he ought
to. Jane had explained to everybody
that she meant it as joke, but it hao
generally been pronounced ill-timed
and in bad taste.
But poor Jane kept working away on
her slippers regardless Of the talk
Everybody said that James slippers
wouldn't fit, or that they would both
be for one foot. or that she would get
the heels sewed on the toe end. oil
something. Jane finally put on the
finishing touches and then packed them
in a pasteboard box and tied it with
pink ribbon.
Then she got her other Christmas
presents ready. She had lot of hanz-
kerchiefs for an aunt. and = shopping
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

Guthrie, Ok, Dec. 14.-Governor Fer
guson was asked the question as to
whether he would be expected to make
endorsements for patronage in oklaho-
ma. To this question he replied: 81
know nothing about this matter, and
do not know whether my recommended
ton is expected or not would prefer
to leave all such matters to Delegate
Flynn, as will probably have enough
business of my own to attend to. 1
would very much prefer not to be mixed
up in Oklahoma patronage affairs"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
Communication Cut on.

London, Dec. 16.-The postal author
tiles say that the gale and snow storm
caused the worst breakdown of the
telegraph and telephone lines which
has occurred in twenty years. North
of line drawn through Birmingham,
the whole country, including Ireland,
is almost cut off from communication
with London. Press dispatches had 10
be sent by rail. The heavy snowfall
continued and the gale was still raging.
There is no doubt that many shipping
disasters will be reported.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
Only President N,...out an ~

President Roosevelt is the first &C.
cupant of the White House in Whose
name the letter "a" does not appear.
Not only has that letter appeared IN
the names OF all previous Presidents.
but also in the names OF nearly every
one Of the 81 Americans who have re-
ceived votes for President IN the cleo
toral college down to William ].
Bryan. There are only eight excep-
tons to this rule.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

The Dominic used to complain some
times about the character of the stories
the rest of us told. He said they were
too economical in their use Of the ele-
ment of truth. And truth was so
cheap, and also so interesting, he
would say. We were always ready to
admit that it was interesting, but were
not so free to acknowledge its cheap
ness. Like other exotics it seemed to
us expensive. Fiction, being so much
more easily produced, appeared to be
the true mental provender in the Corn
Cob Club, a social institution where
we decided questions of great pith and
moment by the aid of the civilizing
and ennobling influence of tobacco in
cinerated in cob-pipes. The Dominic
had quit smoking when he entered the
ministry. but he always said the cobs
smelt good, so we had hopes of his
reclamation; besides, the air was usu-
ally so thick that he absorbed enough
to bring him up, in a large measure,
to the high philosophic plane occupied
by the rest of us.
1t happened on Christmas Eve that
somebody told a story appropriate
enough to the season so far as the sub
ject went, but palpably impossible con-
sidered as a happening. At least the
Dominic said II was. and threatened to
tell a Christmas story himself; and
being counseled By the Professor. who
was classical in his language. TO blaze
away the good man complied as fol-
lows:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
FORMER LAM DON'T APPLY.
Communication Of Homestead Claims
For Townsite Purposes.
WAIT FOURTEEN MONTHS.

| Washington, ID. c., Dec. lathe In
I terror department has sent out ruling
IN proving up claims for townsite pur-
poses, which is here given.
department of the Interior,
General Land office,
washington, ID. c., Dec. 10, 1901.
"Register and Receiver, Lawton, 0. L.
"Gentlemen:-Ref to the regis
ter's letter of the 23rd instant, replying
10 letter "a" of November %, as to
-FOUR needs of blank form 1901, appli-
cations to enter under cash system in
which you refer to section 22 of the act
of May 2, 1890, Geo Stat, 49, you are
advised that on November 49, 1901, the
honorable secretary of the interior in
passing upon the application OF Arthur
Y. Boswell for the communication of his
homestead entry, under section "a OF
said act, held that combinations under
that act did not come under the pro-
visions of the general homestead and
tOWnSltc laws, uuueT WiiCu ChoiiCo
could be made in the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache reservations, and that,
therefore, Communication of homestead
entries for townsite purposes, under
section 90 of the act of May 2, 1890,
could not be made in said reservations.
Very respectfully,
"BINGER HERMAN, Commissioner"
Under this construction of the law,
Miss Beal and James r. Wood will be
prohibited from proving up their claims
at Lawton for townsite purposes.
They had published notices, and De-
cember 10 was the day set for their
proofs. 1t looks now like the only
thing they can do is to wait for the
expiration of the fourteen months limit
to all lands.
The decision also effects number of
projected townsites where the entry
men expected to pay $40 per acre and
get patent under the general town
Sita 1aw
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
MOVED INTO THE HALL"

her breath, and for once in her life
rose to the occasion and didn't put her
foot in it. She simply looked up at
him and smiled demurely.
"oh, 1 guessed it" she said.
ct was the best guess you ever
made. I should have died last night
amidst that awful landslide of slippers
IL hadn't smoked about half of that
tobacco. l mean to keep on smoking
now-that is, il you don't object,
dear?"
Jane scored again.
st rather like the smell of good to-
bacco." she said.-Saturday Evening
Post.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
just in Time.

Muncie, Ind, Dec. 10.-Martin Venc-
man came home and told his wife that
his search for work was unsuccessful.
His wife handed him letter informing
him that he had fallen heir to 100000
from the estate of his grandfather in
Pittsburg, Pa.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

The house committee on interstate and for
eign commerce decided upon favorable report
on the Hepburn bill for the construction OF the
Ncaraguan canal and the chairman was direct
ed to urge prompt action upon it by the house.
Mr.. Cur Is (kansas) has introduced bill for
payment OF overtime labor TO about 90 laborers
at Fort Leavenworth for several years past
Mr. Scott (Kansas) has bill authorizing the
imposing OF license and occupation tax on per
sons engaged in commerce outside their states.
Mr.. Calderhead (Kansas) presented petitions
asking for an amendment to the constitution de-
filming legal marriage.
MIR. Caderhead has bill which provides for
pensions to the 18th and 10th Kansas cavalry
volunteers,
There is bill In the house granting right OF
way and alternate sections OF land for trans
Alaskan railroad from Cooks Inlet to Boring
Strait, $50 miles. This is the road that
General Manager Frey, OF the Santa Fe. is ct
the head of.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

New York, Dec. 1.-the resignation
of W. G. Purdy, as president of the
Chicago, Rock Island e Pacific RAIL
road, was accepted by the directors of
the company. William B. Leeds was
then elected president.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

The senate did little but routine business be-
fore going into executive session on the Hay
Pauncefote treaty which met with full ap-
proval.
Senator Morgan introduced a bill providing
for the construction OF the Isthmian canal. IL
provides On aggregate OF SlSj.1WDO OF when
SS,0O0, 900 is to be Immediately available
There were more anarchy bills introduced
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

Senators Tillmar and MoLaurn. OF South
Carolina, reopened their controversy In the sen.
ate II appears that Tillman deman ~ thar
M~Laurin he ept out OF the Democratic caucus
of the senate because he favors protective
tariff The incident gained interest among the
senators.
Senator Fry (Maine) introduced his ship
subsidy bill.
Senator Hoar (Mass> introduced bill re-
auesting the president, II he shall deem 1t prac-
ticable, TO negotiate with other countries to
Jointly set inside some island TO which persons
guilty OF anarchisttc acts or teachings shall DO
sent and guarded; also q bill giving the United
States jurisdiction OF lynching. Furnishing that
crime with death.
land for the use o. industrial institutions loca-
ted on the public domain; to prohibit Chinese
immigration; providing code OF land lawsfor
Hawaii
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

The house adopted concurrent resolution for
O holiday recess from Thursday, December ID,
to Monday, January 8.
Mr.. Grow (Pa.J spoke for an hour on the pros
pectve legislation for the Philippines. He
argued that the constitution gave congress
power to govern the Philippines according to its
discretion.
The house re eived from Secretary Gage
list OF deficiency appropriations OF several
branches OF the government service, aggrega-
ting St,3A,0o6.
Mr. Ryan IN. W has . bill authorizing the
state department to oxpcnd such amount as Is
necessary to secure the ransom Of Miss stone.
Mr.. Wilcox (Hawsi) has bill far the retiring
Of the Ha waiian silver coinage
The house adjourned until Friday.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

There was a large attendance in the house to
hear the announcement OF committees.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
NINTH DAY.

In the list Of appointments confirmed by the,
senate are j. M simpson internal revenue col !
lectOr for Kansas, and William B Brigham. OF
Kansas. consul general at Cape Town, South
Africa.
The senate comm ittee on tho isthmian canal
bill reported tavorably upon the bill providing
for getting the right OF way from Nicaragua and
Costa Rica.
The senate passed the house resolution to ad-
journ from December ~ to January
The new !sthmian canal treaty was discussed
BY Senators Spooner Money and Foraker MIR
Money was not satisfied with the treaty bat
would not oppose It,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20

Chairman Ray, of the house judiciary COM
mCtee is to name q special committee to In
yestigate the powers OF congress and report
measure to punish attacks on the president and
to zeal with anarchists.
The Indian committee does not endorse the
secrctnrys suggestion that four men be adoed
to the Dawes con mission. Mr.. Curtis will in
sist that the commission be reduced to one man
instead.
Mr. Jackson (kansas) has bill to raise the
pensions of veterans who have passed the age
OF 70.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-20
THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE.
some Of the BILLS Started by Lansns Mem
bcrs.

A committee OF senators Is named to select
the Republican members o. the senate commit
tees consisting OF Senators PIntt, Connecticut
Mcmillan. Michigan; Proctor Vermont FER
kins. California; Nelson, Minnesota; warren
Wyoming; Fairbnn %, Indiana; kear, New DER
sew, md McComas Maryland.
Senator Pcnrose has introduced BIZ Tor the
regulation OF immigration which provides for
duty Of 81 per head for oil comcrs from foreign
countries except Canada aud Mexico tho FUND
thus raised to pay the expenses OF such reenia-
tlon, The bill excludes certain named OBJ O.
tionable classes.