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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-04-17
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anc increase the value of their
property so much as good side
walks. Places which now seem
remote from the business section
OF the city will become easily ac.
cessible, when this is done. Good
sidewalks should be required of
railroads at all crossings.
ARTEsIAN WELL.
Your attention is called to the
well, which, as you are aware, is
in deplorable condition. This is
legacy from the last administra-
tion, and while it is a very desir-
able improvement, in my judg-
ment, arrangements should have
been made before it was under
taken, to put the we'll in proper
shape, with funds at their COM
mand However, we must take
hold of it at once. / recommend
our hardware merchants and
plumbers be invited to submit
within one week, suggestions with
prices, for its improvement, along
lines to be indicated by the street
and alley committee. | also sug-
gest the advisability of piping a
portion of the water to south
park, with two or three hydrants
or drinking founts along the line.
PARKS.
Public parks are The grandest
institutions of municipal life.
When properly improved, pro-
tected and cared for, they become
at once the pride and joy of every
one, old and young. The Com
mercial club has in contemplation
the laying out of both North and
South parks with walks and drive
ways, planting of trees and other
shrubbery, and sowing grass, the
expense to be betrayed for the
present by those owning property
Immediately adjacent to them and
such other public spirited citizens
as will contribute. / feel that this
movement should be indorsed and
encouraged by you, and that as
soon as practicable the city should
perform the duty and assume the
burden of caring for the places of
public amusement and recreation.
RAILROAD FACILITIES.
! am happy to announce that
the fondest hopes of our citizens
with reference to local railroad ter
minals are in fair prospect o real
ization. Vice President Allen of
of the M. X. & T. after an inter-
view on the subject, announced at
st. Louis on Saturday that that
company would join with the
Frisco company, as soon ss ar
rangements could be perfected, to
construct joint passenger station
at Vinila, that would anticipate
the growth of the city in its pro.
portions, five to ten years. Sub
sequently favorable responses
were received from certain of the
Frisco officials. President Yoakum
is now in Europe, but it will be
recalled he expressed himself
favorably on this point to a COM
mittee of our citizens headed by
DR.. B. F. Fortner last year. This
is an improvement, the value of
which cannot be over estimated
and convenience to our citizens
and the travelling public of the
highest importance.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
That steps be taken to encour-
age the FIRE department, and ar
rangements be made at once for
attaching the engine recently pur-
chased TO the various artesian
wells, and otherwise making pro-
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR
CATARRH THAT CONTAINS
MERCURY.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering 1T through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the dam
age they will do is ten fold to the good
YOU can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. ].
Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., containes no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, In buying Halls Ca
tarrh Curde be sure you get the genuine.
1t is taken internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by +. j. Cheney Is Co. Testimonials
free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle.
Ha,"" Family Pills are the best.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Confidential Beauty.

my dear Mrs. Angel, let me congrat-
Ilate you on your beautiful and clear
complexion, causing you to have so
youthful IN appearance. | mention this
fact abruptly because those two gentle
men friends of yours that just passed
up the avenue remarked as they pass
me, by jove! isn't Mrs. A - stylish?
Such beautiful skinner complexion is
perfect, and she don't look over thirty
and more. but | could not hear what it
a This is pleasing to ourselves, as
you know; now give me my reward by
telling me why and how it is-what is
the secret. my lei friend? We are the
same age, forty-one, SO you can easily
understand why I am so interested to
know the secret Of your youthful love-
liness."
You are the dear, good friend of my
life, Clara; we ladies do like admira-
ton, especially from those we love, may
be from the opposite sex-so for this
DIT Of pleasantly l will give you my Sc
cret. For seventeen years / have used
Or. T. Felix Gouraud's Oriental Cream,
the greatest preventative of those blem-
ishes that causes premature appearance
of age. 1t is my treat, my Angel, and
here is Sherry's."
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
On Rotary Lines.

1t is of interest to note that nearly
all the improvements made in farm
machinery have been along rotary
lines. There is the revolving cylinder
of the thrashing machine, the whirling
disk of the cream separator, the circular
saw, the rotary disk in place Of the
drag, the rolling Golfer, the disk pillow,
the windmill, the hay loader, the corr
shelter, the corn shredder, the forage
cutter, the motive power for harvest
ers and mowers applied in a rotary
way. The application of this rotary
principle has revolutionized the print
ing business, underlies all land and
water transportation methods and
seems to be in perfect harmony with
the great natural law of rotation
which regulates the motion of the
earth and planetary system, the move
ment of storms and the recurrence of
the seasons.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Missouri in Brief.

School enrolment shows a gain Of
80, 1000 population in st. Louis.
Alfred Davis, member of the English
Parliament, has been in st. Louis ia
inspect Worlds Fair plans.
Fifteen pioneer citizens of Clinton
county. each of whom is more than so
years old, are forming an old settlers
association.
BARLEY Sillinger is held at the Four
Courts, st. Louis, while police endeavor
t. learn where he got $3.50 in gold.
Missouri's record-breaking crops and
steadily increasing prosperity are at
tracing favorable attention from the
entire Union.
The Chicago and Alton Railway has
decided to put in a switch at Sturgeon
in Boone county, giving that town
which Is now on the Wabash, a com
peting line of railway.
Judge CAN'T of the Supreme Court re.
fused the petition OF four men, in.
dicted for bribery, for release on writ
of habeas corpus and declined to change
the amount of their bonds fixed by the
lower court
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Men Fight in Mid Air,

At st. Louis two workmen engaged
in putting some bolts into the end of an
arm of the captive airship tower at
Forest Park Highlands quarreled and
fought a terrible battle en- a narrow
plank 10 feet above the grund.
A misstep would have meant the
death of both. Each tried to throw the
other off the plank less than than two
feet wide, while they struggled for pos
session Of a heavy hammer.
Several hundred pleasure-seekers and
a gang of workmeu watched the strug-
gle with abated breaths. Every mar
was pOwerless to do anything to stop
the struggle, which threatened to cost
the lives of both.
At a moment when it seemed that the
two combatants must topple off to
death, the hammer fell from Franklin
Beal's hand, and, striking the frame
work of the tower with dull thuds, fell
to the ground below. Guy Pearson at
that moment had his arms tightly
gripped around his opponents waist.
preparatory to hurting him TO his death
The dull thuds of the falling hammer
brought both men to their senses. An
cry passions gave way to an over
whelming sense of their mutual peril,
and, white-faced, weak and trembling,
they dropped on their hands and knees
and crawled back to the tower, de-
scending to the ground below as men
who had been near death and had not
vet recovered from the shock. Neither
would discuss their quarrel.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Old Bride Story Betold.

Former Councilman Frederick G. Ut
hoff, who, it is said, was "bunkoed' out
of S45, 900 or $50, 900, it is alleged he
received for his vote on the Central
Traction bill by r. NJ. Snyder of Kan
sas City, has returned from Colorado
to testify at Snyder's trial, and was in
conference with Circuit Attorney Folk.
1t is believed that Uthoff's return is
next in Importance to the return of
John X. Murrell.
Uthoff, it is said, received $50, 900
from Snyder for his vote for the Cen
trail Traction bill. His name was last
on the council list at st. Louis and his
vote was the deciding Later Sny-
der, it is said. borrowed SIS 900 from
Uthoff and went to New York, whence
Uthoff followed him. There Snyder in
duced Uthoff to sign an agreement by
which he accepted $4,000, and denied
that any offer of bribery had been
made. Snyder was subsequently in
dicted.
The four prisoners now in the four
courts. John II. Schneider, John Helms,
and Otto Schumacher, under $45, 900
bonds each, and William Tambly under
$4,000 bonds, made application tc
Judge Douglass of the criminal court
for a reduction of their bonds.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Demented Farmer Ends Life.

Samuel Grubb, a wealthy farmer,
committed suicide at his farm, one and
a half miles south of Oak Grove, about
thirty miles east of Kansas City.
Grubb was about so years old, a
bachelor and a cripple. He owned about
500 acres OF land and was considered
very wealthy. About three weeks ago
he became partly insane. and was
watched but disappeared from his home
a search was Immediately instituted,
and he was found hanging to the limb
of a ire in one of his pastures. He
had tied the rope about a limb and was
holding the loose end in his hand when
found. 1t is thought he pulled up the
slack of the rope until he choked him
self to death.
Grubb came to Jackson county TWEEN
ty years ago from Indiana. and had
since that time lived in that county.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
INCREASE OF GLACIERS.
Enormous Areas Are Now Covered
By These Great Ice Rivers.

Ex.-For the past five years physical
Eeographers have been giving a great
deal of attention to the study Of gla-
ciers. One question that has interested
them very much is whether since the
beginning of the historic period the gla-
ciers of the world have augmented or
diminished in area. No perfectly def
mite information with regard to this
question has been obtained, though
some general conclusions have been
reached. 1t is traditional in the Alps,
however, and some other regions that
valleys now occupied by glaciers were
formerly pasture lands. On the whole,
1t is certain that for several centuries
till quite recently there was a gradual
increase in the area of glaciation.
Glaciers everywhere are in a state Of
continual movement-they are con-
stantly ~inceasing in length or shorten
ing. Climatic variations are, of course,
the cause Of the oscillation. though the
influence of climate Upon glacial move
ment is not yet fully understood. When
the laws governing the movement of
glaciers are well known the science of
biNhNOlCiO6y ~ pC COlolhCl ANY
Their advanced than it is today. ,
There is good evidence to show that
in the Arctic regions in the eighteenth
century and in part Of the nineteenth
century an important extension of gla-
ciers occurred. n Spitzbergen. for ex-
ample, harbors which whalers had Of
ten visited in the seventeenth and early
in the eighteenth centuries were filed
later with glaciers, so that they could
no longer be used by shipping. The ad-
vance of glaciers in Iceland is said to
have covered places that had formerly
been the sites of farms and churches.
Glaciers seem. within the historic pc
riod, to have attained their greatest ex-
tent about 1860. Since that time few of
them have grown to an important de-
gree. Many Of them have diminished in
size, and Others have entirely disap-
peared. This phenomenon has been OBJ
served in all parts of the world.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03

The young lady in New Jersey who
drank two ounces of carbolic acid be-
cause her beloved did not make his ev-
ening call quite so long as usual is a
partial answer to the beautiful conun-
drum, What will not woman do for
the man she loves? 1t would appear
that in order to prevent a recurrence
of this tragedy we should have a STAN
dard time for evening calls, a limit that
will carry young women safely beyond
the carbolic-acid stage. 1t is usually
the length of the young mans calls that
drives the family to drink, although the
quality of the potion is more soothing
and less dangerous, and we should the
more expect to see a young woman des-
perately producing a bottle as the hands
of the clock creep to midnight. But
so many women, so many minds. We
must take the ladies as we find them,
and be prepared at all times for the
worst.-Chicago Post.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03

The Vienna correspondent of the
Standard says: THE Vienna papers
state that the International Parlimen-
tary Conference on International Arbi-
tration, which was originally postponed
to the beginning of October, will not
take place this year at all, but will be
held next year, in August. The reason
for this postponement,% according to the
committee, is that the members of some
parliaments will be prevented from
coming in October, when the sessions
of several legislative chambers open.
Several delegates, moreover, who wish
ed to take part in the conference, were
already on their way to Vinenna at the
time when it was first postponed, and
they would not be able to make the
journey again this year.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Whistled While He Worked.

John Tamson, the joiner who did odd
jobs in a Scotland village, was en-
ployed by the schoolmaster to do some
repairing, according to the Chicago
Chronicle. The worthy pedagogue him
self was experimenting the operations
while John gayly whistled Yankee
Doodle and kept time to the June with
his plane.
Il say, john" says the schoolmaster,
"if We maun whistle, can We no whistle
a mair godly tune than that?"
VERY weel, dominic returned the
Joiner, and he slowly moved his plane
up and down to the mournful strains
OF the "Old Hundred"
The dominic watched him in silence
for a few minutes and then in gentler
tone whispered:
Il say, John, did the guidwife hire ye
by the day or the job?"
John slowly finished the verse he was
whistling, then laid down his plane
and replied:
"By the day, of course"
"Gin that's the case then I'm think
ing yc had better start Yankee Doodle
again."
Then he left.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Driest and Wettest Places.

The wettest place in the United
States, the locality where falls the
most rain, as shown by the weather
bureau reports, is Glenora, Ore, where
the average rainfall for ten years has
been 1854 inches, while the driest
place, the locality where the rainfall is
least, is the weather bureau station at
Newman Tank, in California, where for
IL years the rainfall has been only 1928
inches per n Other stations in the
state of Washington report over 100
inches of rainfall per year, while all
through the desert regions of Califor-
mia and Nevada the annual precipita-
ton is less than four inches. The sec
tions of the country where the great
crops are produced show up with from
twenty-five to fifty inches of rainfall.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
No Admittance.

Some doctors were talking the other
day about the case of the Western wo-
man who was indignant to find that her
vermiform appendix had been removed
when she hadn't expected it. One of
them told this story:
A man was struck by a car on Broad
way. He was removed to a hospital in
an insensible condition. After a curse
ry examination the surgeon said: I've
had better operate at once for appen-
dicitis."
The patient was stripped in order that
he might be prepared for the ordeal,
and this legend was found tattoed on
his chest; in case of accident don't
operate for appendicitis. 1t has been
removed twice already"
They then concluded that he was only
suffering from shock.-New York Sun.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
SHOT AT HIS KING.

Probably Prince Nicholas of Greece,
who is one of King Georges five sons,
inherits his will from his father, for
the kings most prominent quality after
his sound common sense, Is his unfail-
ing good humor.
The anecdote is related that the king
was prowling ~Caliph-like about the mil
itary quays one dark night when he
was challenged by a sentinel. King
George, who did not wish to be recog-
nized, took to his heels, whereupon the
sentry fired on him. He was a good
shot, and the bullet literally graZed the
royal fugitive, cutting a piece out Of
his coat.
Next day the sentry was commanded
to present himself at the palace, where
the king received him, and after com-
pimenting him both on the vigilance Of
his watch and the accuracy of his aim,
pinned the Order of the Redemption on
his breast.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
RANGE OF THE RAMEPos.
A Wild Region Close to New York
City.

New York Mail and Express: Who
would believe that within 80 miles of
New York City there are mountain
dwellings, in a district so wild and rough
that they are inaccessible even to the
feet of ponies; that no produce can be
taken out to nor supplies brought In
from these farms save on the Lacks of
men; that the people gain their living
by making baskets, wooden spoons and
such light articles as they can trans
port on their shoulders; that even the
bodies of the dead cannot be taken out,
but must be buried in the forest or in
the yards of the mountain cabins? A
region where the people are as print
tive in their ways, though not so law
less in their tendencies, as the Tennes-
see mountaineers? 1t is hard to believe,
but it is true.
When, in the middle of August, I
pitched my tent on the easterly side Of
the easterly range of the Ramapos, in
Rockland county, close to a mountain
stream, | did not know that just over
the range of these wild mountains de-
%scendants of the Tory rangers of 1916
were yet to be found. l did not know
that the higher reaches of the noun
tains were tolerably full of r%attlesnakes
of great size and beauty. l did not know
that the wild dogs lived up there. l
only perceived that the hills were beau
tiful, the air pure and invigorating, the
woods practically unbroken, and the
stream clear and cold. / perceived that
there were no swells' places anywhere
in the hills, and that the wood-ranger's
p%asturage was unbroken. The people
WHOM | met were cordial, smiling, un-
suspicious. l like the Ramapos as the
result of only a glance, and liked them
still better after a camping %acquaint-
ance of a couple of weeks.
1t certainly did o decrease my in
terest to know that, beginning some
20 or more years ago, sundry domestic
dogs of large size, finding in the RAM
apo woods no one to say them nay, had
fled from the lowland farms to the hills,
and had, after going quite wild, started
a breed of creatures which has now
taken on quite a type of its own.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Sheep for the Highway.

1t would greatly improve the APP
p%earance of the country highways all
over the country if a flock of sheep ur-
der the care Of herdsman and a trained
dog could be kept in the community for
the sole purpose of p~asturing down the
sides of the roads. This would be done
in the countries Of the old world. where
so much good land would never be per-
mitted to go to waste year after year.
So used, 200 sheep would completely
transform the appearance of any four
square miles of territory.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03

A dispatch from st. Joseph says two
unknown men who boarded a Pullman
sleeper on the Missouri Pacific train
and robbed six passengers on the Pull
man within a few hours after they
barded the train, they got off at Kan
sas City over 81 1000 to the good.
The men went through the sleepers
while the travellers were asleep and
while the conductor was in another car.
Those passengers who left their money
in their trousers lost all their cash.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Best Time or the Year.

The best time of the whole year is
just when summer blends into fall,
when the tempestuous and electrical
energy of nature is spent, when the re-
wards of toll in the garden and ORCH
ara and on the farm are ready for dis
tribution, when hail, cyclone and flood
can no longer mar the crop; when the
black bass bite in the eddy down on the
river and spring chicken and pumpkin
pie become staples on the bill of fare.
Life is then worth living, if ever.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
Fell Seven Stories to His Death.

Alexander Murray, a lieutenant of the
Fire Insurance Patrol at Kansas City,
fell seven stories through the freight
elevator shaft in the Rock Island I'm
plement Company's building. No one
saw him fall, but some time afterwards
he was found in the basement at the
bottom of the shaft, frightfully man
gled. He was alive when found, but
die soon. Murray was trying to pre-
vent damage to the stock through a
Cured.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03

The government experts are working
on an irrigation problem on the Salt
river, in Arizona, which includes the
building of a dam and reservoir in a
canyon in the mountains and the i'm
pounding of a body of water IL miles
long, 100 feet deep and three miles wide,
or sufficient water to irrigate 1000, 00O
acres of desert land. Coupled with the
use of the water will be the utilization
of the immense water power thus Gre
ated, which, in the language of the ex-
pert in charge, will be such that the
power created by the discharge of the
water needed to irrigate one acre OF
land will be sufficient hen trans
mitted by electricity to pump water
from deep wells to irrigate another
acre.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03

Theodore G. Bates, a Massachusetts
fnancier and promoter, travels not a
little in connection with projects he
has on hand, but always carries with
him a supply of drinking water from
his farm in the old Bay State. The
water is from a spring neal the spot
where took place one of the most terri
BILE Indian massacres in all the history
of Massachusetts,.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
The forthcoming retirement fror

The forthcoming retirement from
parliament of w. E. Lecky, the histor-
ian, is said to be due to heart weakness.
He is the most fluent speaker in parlia-
ment and causes despair to stenograph-
ers because his speeches flow swiftly in
a continuous stream of most elegant but
difficult language, with never a pause or
break, the result being that when he
desires an accurate report he is forced
to supply it himself.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03
y w.
wF'T

Twenty thousand Swedes came to
this country in the month of July from
the hills, valleys and towns of Sweden,
every one of them, male and female, of
the very best type of foreign citizen
ship, all industrious and thrifty and to
be most easily and readily assimilated
and transformed into good citizens
here.