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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Secretary Shaw at Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-Leslie Shaw, the
new secretary of agriculture, is in the
city to attend the annual banquet of
the National Business Mems league in
the Auditorium this evening, where he
will make his maiden speech since en-
tering President Roosevelt's cabinet.
On this occasion he will discuss Com
merce and Industries of the West"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
AVENGEs BROTHERS. DEATH.
Negress Who Killed Jack Porter Is
MortaIIy Wounded,

Crockett, Tex, Feb. 27.-While an
officer was serving papers on Mary
Williams, a negro woman, she shot
and killed Jack Porter, a young white
man. who accompanied the officer.
The woman then fed, but was cap
tured by the sheriff.
Fearing trouble the officer started
to town by a roundabout way, but as
he passed Porters Springs he was met
by Karl Porter, the brother of the
dead man, who shot and probably
mortally wounded the woman.
Both the woman and Porter are now
in jail.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
In Memory of John Sherman, Jr.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-Out of respect for
the memory of John B. Sherman, Jr.,
founder of the Union Stock yards,
Mere will be two-hour cessation of
all business today within the limits
of the yards, while the mortal form
of the man who helped to make Chi
cago's packing industries what they
are lies in statelat the Sherman home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Colonel Pope,s Son Missinn.

San Francisco, Feb. 27.-Since Nov.
10 last H. S. Pope, formerly a stu
dent of Stanford university, a son of
the late Lieutenant Colonel Pope, as
sistant surgeon of the United States
army, has been missing. His mother
is on her way to the Philippines and
knows nothing of her sons disappear
ance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
SAVANNAH COTTON RECEIPTS.
Million-BaIe Mark Has Been Reached
In That CITY.

Savannah, Feb. 27.-Savannahs cot.
ton receipts for the season of 1901-O2
will reach the million-bale mark today.
The gross receipts for the season have
been 999,276 and the net receipts 998,.
821.
Both the net and gross receipts will
have gone beyond the million-baIe
mark today This is the earliest date
in any season that the receipts have
been SO large
The gross receipts on the same day
of the 19OO-01 season were 862,851, and
the net 861, 1923.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Big Consolidation Proposed.

Pittsburg, Feb 27.-Negotiations
will be consummated next Monday for
the formation of the United States
Fireproofing company by the purchase
and consolidation of II independent
interests. The new company will
have $1,250,0O0 capital and $500 900 of
bonds, but this capital will be increas
ed in two weeks to $5,OO0,0OO.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
FIRE DESTROYS HALF THE TOWN.
Postoffice and Nine Stores Burned at
ThomasviIIe, NJ, c.

Thomasville, N. c., Feb. 27.-This
place has been visited by a fire that
destroyed half of the business portion
of the town.
The postoff1ce, two drug stores, a
hardware store, five dry goods stores
and a general merchandise store were
burned.
For awhile it was thought the en-
tire town was doomed to destruction.
The Baptist orphanage was saved
from damage by the heroic efforts of
the fremen. The loss is heavy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Purse of s1o. .ooo for Eioh+

Denver, Feb. 27.-The News today
says that the Colorado Athletic club
will offer purse of $4,000 for the
Corbet-McGovern fight. The bid will
be forwarded to The Cincinnati En-
guirer before April Is.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Three Charges Against Mrs. soffeI.

Butler, Pa, Feb. 26.-Mrs. Kate Sof-
fel, wife of the Pittsburg jail warden,
who assisted in the escape of the Bid
die brothers and was wounded during
the battle when they were recaptured,
has been moved from the Butler hos
pital and taken to Pittsburg by Detec-
tive Robinson. She has fully recov-
cred from her wounds. Three charges
have been made against her, one al
leging the crime of aiding in the es-
cape OF murderers and two alleging
felOniOus assault and battery
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
SchuIers Aaain Escane.

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 27.-The Jail
sentence of the Schulers, the wealthy
manufacturers who have been com
mitted for contempt of court for hay
ing destroyed certain books which
they were ordered to exhibit, has been
stayed for the third time by Judge
Wilkerson, of the city court, on ac-
count of illness in their families. The
tive-day sentence is now to commence
on March 12.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
o,ponovan Rossa loses Foot.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Feb. 81
ODonovan Rosa, famous for his con-
nection with Fenian raids in Canada,
had his foot amputated, the operation
being necessitated by gangrene. Some
doubt is expressed of his recovery.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
JOINED MOTHER IN DEATH.
Loss of Parent Causes Chicago Boy to
Suicide

-O0S u SRI NIIt Oe4USOo NTIINa9U DUy 10
Suicide.
Chicago, Feb. 27.-For- love of his
dead mother Charles Anderson, a IA
year-old boy, committed suicide here
by taking poison.
"Since mamma died." he said, in a
childish scrawl left for his father, 81
don't seem to care to live. l miss her
so much that l must die, too. Goodby,
father. The money she left me you
can have"
The lads mother died some time
ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Steamer Naiad DESTROYED

Columbus, Ga, Feb. 27-The steamer
Naiad, owned by the Georgia and
Florida Navigation company, of this
city, was burned at Blountstown, Fla,
ON the Chattahoochee river at 2 o'clock
yesterday morning. The Naiad has
been carrying the mail on the lower
river from Chattahoochee to Apalachi.
cola. All the mail on board was de.
stroyed. The steamer burned to the
waters edge and is total loss. No
lives were lost and nobody was hurt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Prince VIII Not visi+ c.n.da

Berlin, Feb. 27-There is no founda-
ton for the statement cabled to the
United States from London by a news
agency that Prince Henry will visit
Canada before returnin9rto Germany.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. It's perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and it's acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get it's beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name OF the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
San FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N. z.
Forsele by all Druggists.-Price5 SOC, per bottle.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
JOHNSONS
CHILL AND FEVER TONIC
IS a Superb Medicine.

IS q superb medicine.
1t is 100 times better than Odinne and does
in d single day what slow Quinne cannot do
in 10 days.
It is wonderful cure for any MaIarial
trouble. 1t enters the blood quickly and
drives out every trace of MaIarial poison.
1t a is superb Grip Cure Will drive out every
Grip germ from the body and do its work
quick and do it right.
1t is endorsed and recommended by the
very best men in this country. 1t is the
standard and accepted remedy for MaIarial
FeVerS.
Use it, and use nothing else for Fever. 1t
will cure every phase OF Malarial pois-
Oning.
1t costs but so cents a bottle if it cures,
nothing if it does not cure. Buy it from re-
spOnsbe dealers and thus be of getting
the genuine.
4 B. GIRARDEAU,
Savannah, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
Forty Children Die of Diphtheria.

Santa Fe, Feb. 27.-Superintenden
]. e. Crandell, of the United States
Indian school, has received word from
two precincts in Northern Taos coun-
ty. that 40 children had died there the
past few day of diphtheria.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-28
s1oI0 Tor Shipment.

New York, Feb. 27.-Additional en-.
gagements of gold were made this
morning, making the total amount 70
be shipped today $3,5O000O.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
SPORTING news.
Leander and Krebs Win the New
York Cycle Contest.
Twelve Thousand Spectators
Saw Saturday Night Finish.
AWAY BEHIND RECORD.
More Than $50 Miles Slower
Than the 1899 Sprint.
Winners Get Purse of 81 500,
Second Money 81 900.

New York, Dec. 15.-George Leander
of Chicago finished first in the six-day
team cycle race in Madison Square
Garden Saturday night. Twelve thous-
and spectators, keyed up to a high
pitch of excitement, shouted themselves
hoarse as the burly westerner dashed
across the finish line at 1912 a length
and a half in advance of J. P. jacobson
of New Haven.
It was a thrilling finish between this
pair. Their team had led the weary
p1odders throughout the last half of the
contest, and it had been a foregone con-
elusion that the two would fight it out
in a close finish for first prize money.
During the last day OF the struggle
Leander. had permitted his teammate,
Floyd Krebs, to bear the brunt of the
battle, while Jacobson had been relieved
in a like manner by Newkirk. When it
came to the finish both stars were COM
paratively fresh, and the speed duel be-
tween them consequently was keen.
tween them the purse of $1,000, while
the portion of Newlxirk and jacobson
will be 81 900.
The fight for the third prize of $3.50
was as desperate as that for first money.
Floyd MacFarland outsprinting John
Beden in the last lap and winning by
two lengths. MacFarland and Maya
were placed third, Beden brothers
fourth. Stinson and Moran fifth, Calvin
and Root sixth, Keegan and Peterson
| seventh and Barclay and Franz Krebs
eighth.
The winners were more than $50 miles
behind the record established in 1899 by
Miller and Waller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
PASSING OF THE DESERT
Garden City and Finney County
Shows Substantial Growth.

Garden City, Kan, Dec. 15.zWhlle Gar
den City is not having a boom, and does
not want one, yet for the year just clos
ing both city and county have had a
good degree of prosperity. More buildings
have been erected the past year than in
.12 previous years, together. Among the I'M
provements is an $4,000 school building,
$4,000 expended on court house, which is
steam heated and electric lighted r. NJ
Lawrence erected a 5000 residence, E. j.
Pyle one costing $1,000. besides a great
many smaller residences and numerous
improvements, IS additions, painting and
brick sidewalks.
The country has shown equally as well
and all this prosperity has resulted from
sugar beet culture and alfalfa There
never was such an abundant crop of seed
and the high price of s. a bushel, with the
yield in many cases being from
5 to bushels to the acre, besides to
tons of hay, has created great demand
for alfalfa land and almost doubled the
price. 1t is well known fact that al
falfa seed cannot be raised where there IS
a great deal of moisture, and in wet
season we cannot produce seed as the
rank growth prevents 1t from boiling, and
so our dealers have not been able to sup
ply the demand from eastern Kansas. Our
beet sugar raisers are more encouraged
than ever, and next season will show
large increase in acreage.
AS a source of encouragement to them
the farmers bought the Kansas ditch last
winter, enlarged it to double its former
capacity and gave a good water supply
most of the season. The Great Eastern
will $50 into the hands of farmers soon,
and the Amazon Canal company has been
reorganized and have issued $25,ooo bonds
to be used ir charging and improving it
Our industrial club is raising $4,000 to be
used in developing the underfiow, either
by pumping or gravity flow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
KANSAS NEWS.
LeavenW0rth Man Gives Pointed
Reasons for Divorce.
Says His Wife Stole His Money
From His Trunk.
WAS AWAY AT CHURCH.
Alleges That He Was Married
Only For His Cash.
Once Had Him Arrested on the
Charge of Vagrancy.

Leavenworth, Dec. 15-The Times says:
Carl Waldvogel. through his attorney,
Ben F. Endres, has filed red hot petit
ton for divorce from his wife Catharine
Waldvogel in which ne says she touched
him for all kinds of money, robbed his
trunk while he was in church, never loved
him and several other allegations of a
sensational character are made
The petition states that they were mar
ried at St. Paul, Mimi, January 81, 1893,
but that four days after they cast their
lots together Catharine left him and went
away for a three weeks stay with her
son, (she evidently had been married be-
fore), leaving him to take care of the
house and cook his own food.
The aggrieved husband not only alleges
that she was no housekeeper. but says she
was not at all campanionable person
and very frequently would go away from
him for stays of from three weeks to five
months in spite of his protests against her
trotting around dining with other people
Another allegation is that she did not
love him either before or after marriage
and that her motive in getting married to
him was purely mereenary and prompted
by a greed for gain, knowing he was
worth $1,000. He also alleges that she
never lived with him as his wife
On March "A, 1895, the plaintiff states,
he had in his trunk at home in an en-
veIope $755 in cold cash. but that while he
at church the wife got into the trunk
and robbed him of 1886, and that during
the time they lived in the same house she
robbed him of $3.50. Since marriage, the
plaintiff states, owing to her shiftlessness
and extravaganza he has been ruined
financially and physically.
While the wife was at home, Mr. Valid
vogel says, she made life miserable for
him by continually fussing and quarrel
ing and because of her domineering man.
ner On April a, 1901, she had him ar
rested on the charge of vagrancy in Mil
waukee and had him thrown in the coun-
ty Jail where he remained "a hours after
which she refused to prosecute him, doing
this merely to humiliate him.
The last allegation is that the wife as
ISOLATED with men against his wish and
that her conduct on such occasions caused
him great grief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
WHIPPED A PREACHER.
Rough Times in a Methodist Church
at Wilson, Ellsworth County.

Wilson, Kas., Dec. 15.-While the Rev
Mr.. Edwards. an itinerant evangelist,
was preaching in the Wesleyan Metho-
dist church at this city, he was forcibly
taken from the pulpit by B. H. Riley.
Henry Bosserman and Mrs. Nevada
Welch. He was taken outside and
whipped with horse whip.
The Rev. Mr.. Edwards had just fin
iShed prayer when he was approached
by Mrs. Nevada Welch who requested
him to publicly retract some language
that he had used derogatory to the
character of Mrs. Michael Bosserman.
mother of Mrs. Welch. Mrs. WEIGH was
requested by the Rev. Mr. Beckett. the
local preacher. to take her seat. She
slapped the Rev Mr.. Beckett in the
mouth several times. Henry Bosserman
and B. H. Riley. who We're seated near
the pulpit, then sprang to their feet,
seized the Rev. Mr.. Edwards and
dragged him through the congregation
to the outside of the church. They
whipped him to the Union Pacific depot.
five blocks from the church. They de-
sisted only when the Union Pacific
agent, P. S. Cross, ordered them off the
railroad property.
The act is condemned by the citizens
of the town, regardless of creed. No
steps have been taken to punish the
offenders. The Rev. Mr.. Edwards was
married the evening before to Miss Alicc
Terry, a young woman of this town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
FARMS MAKING FORTUNES.
Oklahoma Has One of $4,000 Acres
Income Is Half Million.

The officer of every immense corpora
ton comes in for his share of the worlds
fame. but there are unknown captains
of industry in the west who are doing
things in the world of work and finance
that are equally as worthy as the trust
magnates. The management of a 10000
acre -arm-tne largest under one fence
in the United States-iS a task that be
comes appalling in it's immensely when
one comes to consider all Details
joseph Miller. man yet under 30
running the famous .'101" ranch in
northern Oklahoma. Indeed, he has
been operating it quite successfully for
the past four years, but under decreased
been thrown wide open and the ground
was relieved of its nOblest working
power, the production of crops. Mr..
Miller pays the Ponca and Otoe tribes of
Indians $32, 500 annual rental for his 50.-
600 acre farm: other running expenses
amount to $4,000 annually. The profits
for 1901 were S150.00O. This year $1,000
acres We're sown to wheat 5000 in corn
and 5000 in forage crops.
The income of the ranch is from $780,
600 to $500,000 annually The profits
upon wheat are from $4,000 to $4,000
annually. The profits upon steers is
Two hundred men find employment
upon this vast ranch. and S33 900 worth
of tools and machinery are used In
caring for the grain harvests. -Four
fields and in herding steers.
Mr.. Miller has mastered economies OF
farming to such a degree of perfection
as is making the "101'' ranch noted as
the most profitable farm property in the
west He has a system Of double plant
ing of the cornfields that gives double
use to the land. For instance after
corn has been laid by in the midsummer
between the rows a full crop of COW
peas is sown. BY the time corn is har-
vested the cow peas have grown high
enough to make good pasturage. Also
after the cutting of wheat in June and
July the fields are plowed and sOwn to
Kaffir corn. This is ready for pasture
in October, but the field is first drilled
in wheat and then the cattle are allowed
to tramp in the wheat and nibble of the
blades of corn. During the winter, after
the corn has been eaten away the wheat
grows up. and it too is pastured until
spring. This system of getting two re-
turns rom a single field is idea orig
mated by Mr.. Miller 1t is his most
successful plan of making money out OF
farn7ing-Colliers' Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
G. M. MUNaER's MOTHER DEAD
The End Came in Denver at 81 Years
Husband Still Living.

Eureka. Kan. Dec. 15.-Martha Stebbins
Whitney Munger, the mother of George NJ.
Munger of this county, died of old age De-
cember 10 at the home of daughter, Mrs.
John r. Hanna. in Denver, with whom
she had made her home since 1892. Mrs
Munger was 81 years old. and was born in
Whitney, Oswego county. New York. Sep
TENDER IL. 1871. It was wild region and
her father was land agent there for John
Jay, first chief justice of the United States
and afterward ambassador to Spain. She
possessed a number of letters from that
famous man to her father. In 1886 she was
married to Lyman Munger lie still sur
wives her and only two days her junior
He is in possession Of all his faculties ex-
cept his hearing, keeps abreast of the times
and takes long walks.
Until the hour preceding her death she
was in possession of all her faculties and
talked to her children of the novelty CT
death. saying she would welcome It gladly.
Seven children survive her-Mrs- John r.
Hanna of Denver. George NJ Munger of
Kansas. Mrs. O. p. Stoddard. Galva, i'll. :;
Oretta L. Munger, Pliny E. Munger. Chi
cago. Mrs w. F. Wiley. Sioux City. Ia:
and Mrs Charles NJ. Cox. Denver There
has not been a death in the immediate
family in the last So years Mrs. Munser
LEAVES IS grandchildren and three SreaI
grandchildren.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
ARE FRIENDLY TO DRAPER.
Wichita Officials Object to Issuing
Warrant for Him.

Wichita. Dec 15.-It was only after
being threatened by Judge Harvey with
a Jail sentence for contempt of court
that the clerk of the city court late Sat
urday afternoon issued a warrant for
w r. Draper, the St. Louis newspaper
man and former Wichita correspondent.
Draper is charged with malicious libel.
James f. Conley. the county attorney,
refused to issue the warrant, because, as
he stated: It refuse to become a party
to any scheme to injure a young mans
character when 7 know that the prose-
cution is not brought in good faith. but
only for the purpose of giving cheap
advertising to an eastern paper
The Philadelphia North American is
behind the prosecution, charging that
Draper sold it a ibelous story concern
ing an Indian named White Buffalo. The
warrant is the result of a visit to this
city of E. o. Vanvalkenberg. editor of
the Philadelphia North American. En-
Dry Foster, of the same paper. and
Judge James Gay Gordon. the attorney
for the publication, together with White
Buffalo, the Indian alleged to have been
Sl2ndered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
DOWNS LODGES ELECT.
Doings in Secret Societies Have Beer
Lively.


Downs, Dec. 15.-Doings in lodge cir
cles at Downs, the Modern Woodmen of
America elected the following list of Of
ficers for the ensuing year:
c. H. Walters, v. c.; Dave McCormic,
w. A; O. McAfferty, banker: T. S. Ter
ry, clerk; Knox Hef1ey. escort: Dick
Ward, I. w; H. A. Ray, o. W.: DR..
T. o. Felix, medical examiner.
The Ancient Order of United Workmen
elected W. Williams, NJ. W.; J. F. Tun-
nicliff, foreman: L. E. Pugh. o-'ersear:
c. B. Bates, financier; J. W. Pugh, re-
Stretton, guide; VIM. ReDpman, /. W.;
VIM. Getty. o. w; VIM. Getty, trustee;
DR.. Z. o. Felix, medical examiner: DR..
0. F. Shearer, assistant medical exami-
ner; j. W-Pugh, representative to Grand
Lodge; w. J. Kenyon, alternate Grand
Lodge.
The Order of Eastern Star elected Ms.
Alma Duden, w. NJ; J. w. Pugh, w. P /;
Mrs. Catherine Dillon, A. M; Miss Jes-
sic Hardman, secretary: Mrs. May d.
Wetty, treasurer: Mrs. Jennie George,
conductreSs: Mrs. Artie T. Harrison. A.
c.; Miss Leslye HardmA1. Adah; Miss
Libbie Bragg, Ruth; Miss Jennie Dillon,
Esther; Miss Catherine Stump, Martha
Bragg, warden; J. w. George, sentinel;
Mrs Mabel Williams, organist.
Downs lodge No. 204 A F. and A. M.
H. A. Meibergen, NJ. W; L. S. Terry.
S. w; c. Bowen, J. w; Geo. NJ. Wilson,
secretary; w. A johnson. treasurer;
Myron Meibergen, S. D.; W. T. Will
Jams. ]. D.; D. H. Harrison. S. s.; ].
w George, J. s.; DIR. T. o. Felix, trus-
tee; F. NJ. Houby, 7.