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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
Tile MAMMOTH RACKET

Chanute Will celebrate the Fourth,
The Epworth League of Fredonia
has secured sWilliam j. Bryan for a
non-political lecture there at the
fair grounds on June 10th.
c. A. Cox, D. E. McClelland, w. P.
Wright, w. H. Powell, DR.. Hoshaw,
L. 3. Keifer, Col. Carpenter and A.
II. Turner are taking in the congress
sional convention at Winfield.
Fred Grub, who went to Dallas,
Tex, some time ago to engage in
newspaper work, has launched a week
ly journal there under his own man.
agement. The Dallas press speaks IN
high terms of the new publication.
Last Tuesday the Santa Fe Gas and
Oil company brought in a great big
gas well five miles north west of town.
This is IN absolute new and untested
territory and widens our gas field
about four miles. If any one thinks
this is not the biggest gas and oil
field in the world let him explore it
and be convinced.
]. w. Blaine, one OF the prominent
farmers Of this county, was in Chan
ute Saturday, accompanied by his two
daughters who have just completed
the Normal school course at EN- poria.
Mr.. Blaine had been up to attend the
graduation exercises. We understand
one Of the girls applied for a position
in our schools. They are both most
excellent girls, well equipped for the
work, and successful teachers.
The Neosho river, which has been
lowering around the danger point for
a good while, has broken loose and is
now spread all over the bottoms, doing
frightful damage to crops of all kinds.
1t is reported that levee near Austin
and one near Erie broke Wednesday
the water rushing across and mum
dating thousands of acres OF wheat
and corn. The levees in this vicinity
have stood the test so far, and will
doubtless be all right unless the water
rises much higher, which is not very
probable.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Pay your taxes 10 Pleas Hnrt.
Money to loan.-D. M. Kennedy.

Money TO loan.-D. M. Kennedy.
Pay your taxes at P. Hurts office.
Fresh cow for sale. At this office.
Pleas Hurt will pay your taxes for
you.
Unexcelied Gil territory - Kansas
Crude Co,-Stock 40c.
Lady wanted.-To do general house
WORKED. Thurstin.
FOR SALE Some fine hedge
posts.-J. F. Brinegar.
See those fine carriages and buggies
at Heminger & Montague's.
Houston Ray, city scaveDger. Leave
orders at Meals drug store.
A Conservative Management-The
Kansas Crude Oil Co.-Stock 40c
If you want a fine surrey or buggy,
go to Heminger and Montague's.
An honest, safe management -
Kansas Crude Oil Co, Stock 40c.
A full line of carriages and buggies
at Heminger and Montague's.
A Progressive, Careful Management
Kansas Crude Oil Co.-Stock 40c.
JAS. E. SHOEMAKER. dentist.
Office on same floor Farrelly's law Office
An Economical Management. -
The Kansas Crude OH Co.-Stock 40c.
DR.. Baird, Physician and Sur.
geon. Country calls promptly at
tended.
We are handling the Deering ma
chinery. None better.-Heminger q
Montague.
A Productive Management = five
oil wells and no clusters. kansas
Crude Oil Co.
For sale.-A good 80 acre farm,
mile north of Urbana.-Mrs. NJ. B.
Lively, Urbana.
An investment and not a specula-
lation-Kansas Crude Stocks at 40c.
five "oilers."
/ now have another big Kentucky
Jack that will make the season at
Chanute.-J. f. Brinegar.
DIR. Norman l.. Roberts, Dentist
Office over First National bank. Office
hours a. IN. to o. IN. Phone ~.
The Eclipse Photo Co. is making
photos for 10c per doz., and buttons
l0c each. Studio in opera house bldg.
If you want your watch to run, take
it to the new jewcler-all work guar
anteed or money refunded.-Dr. J. W
Phillips.
PUBLIC SALE.-I will sell at public
sale at my residence two miles west Of
Urbana. on Saturday, June 20, 60 head
of cattle and about Is shoats.-George
Sellman.
WANTED-I want you to list your
rental property, houses to rent, va
can't lots and farms for sale with me
at once. Inquiries every daY.-Chas.
T. Beatty.
For biliousness use Chamberlain's
Stomach & Liver Tablets. They
cleanse the stomach and regulate the
liver and bowels, effecting a quick
and permanent cure. For sale by all
druggists.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Plans
and specifications for our brick power
house 30x90, to be erected on the Mo-
Sier land, are now at our office, and
we will he pleased to receive bids for
the construction of sam until June
2lst.-Southwestern Oil & Gas Co.
FOR SALE--Mules and cattle. Ten
or twelve span of good work mules;
aged, mainly coming 8; span Of heavy
draft horses, l registered Hereford
bull, 8 high grade Hereford bulls; cat
tie for sale or trade. One mile north
and one mile west of Earlton.-Fred
], Foetisch.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
@M%vo

This signature is on every box Of the genuine
Laxative BrOmO.Q uinine Tablets
W remedy that cures . cold n ere az
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
Consolidated.

Our two grand army posts have now
united and hereafter there will be bu5
one post in the city. We are delighted
70 learn that the Old boys again stand
shoulder to shoulder as they did dur
ing the early sixties.
A united effort will be made 10
build up strong post and we hope
every old soldier within reach will
identify himself with the post. Yet
only few more years and the soldiers
Of the great rebellion will-he no more.
The ranks are rapidly thinning and
The fire of youth has departed, and
how fitting it, is that the remaining
years should be spent In unity.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13

T. G. Phillips, the blacksmith. who
recently worked in the Dave Matsler
shop is now located in Erie and is
fast building up profitable trade.
Mrs. Geo. COffman and son Floyd
passed through Chanute, Tuesday on
their way to attend the university
commencement exercises. The older
sou graduates from that institution
this wear.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
CONSTIPATED BOWELS.

To have good health, the body
should be kept in laxative condition,
and the bowels moved at least once a
day, so that all the poisonous wastes
are expelled daily. Mr.. G. L. Ed
wards, 142 N. Main ST., Wichita, Ks,
writes: "I have used Herbine 10 reg
ulate the liver and bowels for the past
ten years, and found it a reliable
remedy SOC at Geo. P. Wilder's.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
Notice.

Don't lease your land Without slip
ulating that gas shall not be piped
out of the county. An effort is being
made to secure gas for piping to Kan
Sas City. Let the factories come
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
SPRING MILLlNER Y.

have the latest styles in spring
millinery. Stock fresh, bright and
clean. Prices to suit the trade.
MRS. J. w. LOWEY,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
Tie Fest Prescription fo. Malaria.

Chills and Fever is bottle of GROVES
TAsTELEss CHILL TONIC. 1t is simply
iron and quinine in tasteless form.
No cure-no pay. Price SOC.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
Oil
CHANUTE REALESTATE
AND THE
Mammoth
Racket

STORE are enough to make any.
place famous. Newcomers are
surprised to see a booming town
with a Mammoth Store like ours
selling goods actually cheaper
than small towns or large cities
all over the country.
Come in and we'll convince
you that we
UNDERYUY and UNDERSELL
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-30

reports to the contrary, the output OF
gold promises to exceed that of 1901
which amounted to over $4,000. 900
The statement that business panic
prevails in Dawson and that the min.
ers are deserving the creeks is also
false. From personal investigation,
am able to say that the business mer
of this community have the utmost
confidence in the future of the terri
tory, and are making preparations foi
busy season.
L have, within the past few weeks
visited all the creeks on which the
principal mining claims are located
to-wit: Bonanza, Eldorado, Domin.
ion, Sulphur. Gold Run and Hunker.
and / find that mining operations are
progressing satisfactorily and are
being conducted with modern machin
cry and improved methods, resulting
in much larger output of pay dirt
than in former years. Mining meI
generally with whom I have con.
versed regard the outlook as very
promising, and expect that the clean
up of the present season will compare
favorably with the best of previous
years. Preparations for an unusual
amount of summer work are well un.
der way, and the demand for men foI
such work is very great. The ole
method of thawing the ground by
wood fires and hosting the dirt by
means of the hand windlass is being
rapidly discontinued, and the steam
thawer and automatic lift and bucket
are rapidly taking its place.
steady search is being made fol-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-30

traverses Fifty Mile river and Lake
La Barge, and, leaving the ice at
Lower La Barge, it strikes across the
country to road house called Car
mack, where it again touches the
river; from there, a short cut over
land brings the traveller to Mackay,
and the route thence to Dawson is by
river. Fifty Mile river and Lake La
Barge form part of the Yukon proper,
but the above names are used because
they were originally given by the ar
gonauts as landmarks to measure the
distance of the trail.
About three stops are made daily.
if continuous day and night journey
is not contemplated, and a relay of
fresh horses is supplied every 25
miles. The trip is usually made in II
relays, for which 6S horses are used.
About Is miles per day are made, on IN
average. The quickest time made be-
tween White Horse and Dawson, in
Guiding day and night service, was
three days and ten hours, which en-
abled letters from New York and
Philadelphia to reach Dawson during
the winter months within Is days.
The average fare from White Horse
to Dawson during the winter was
500, the lowest being 500 and the
highest $50, exclusive of excess bag
gage leach passenger being allowed 25
pounds of baggage, and all in excess
being carried at the rate of 40 cents
per pound) and road house expenses
In the summer, the trip from White
Horse to Dawson is made by steam
boats on the Yukon river, and the fare
averages SIS, including board This
route, in connection with the railroad
from NSkagway to White Horse, forms
the inside summer route referred to.
The all-water route via ST. Michael
and up the Yukon river to Dawson is
used very largely in the summer, and
1t is by this that the commercial COM
panies bring in their supplies.
As to means of access from Dawson
to different parts of the surrounding
territory, the Canadian government
has within the last two years con-
structed good wagon roads to all the
creeks within a radius of 40 or so
miles. At the end of the year 1901
there were over 1876 miles of these
roads, which have greatly facilitated
the development of the gold fields.
The development of the Klondike
has been largely due to the enter
prise and capital of people from the
States, about 20 per cent. of the popu-
lation being from the United States.
Much work has been done on the
creeks this year, and, Notwithstanding
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in a position to give the government
the services of an expert upon the
subject.
Admiral Walkers connection with
the navy dates from October 5, 1850,
when he was appointed as a cadet to
the naval academy at Annapolis, from
which he graduated in 1856. During
the civil war he served in the block
aiding squadron and in the naval cam
paigns of the Mississippi river as a
lieutenant commander. He played
a conspicuous part in the capture of
New Orleans and in the operations
against Vicksburg. In the Mississippi
river campaign he commanded the
ironclad Baron de Kalb, and later
commanded the naval battery at
tached to the Fifteenth Army corps
in the siege of Vicksburg. He was
promoted to the rank of commander
July 25, 1866; captain June 25, 1877;
commodore February, 1889, and rear
admiral in January, 1894. He was re-
tired SOr age in 1897 and has since
served on the canal commission.
He is a native of New Hampshire,
being born in Hillsborough, that
state, March 20, 1885, but removed to
Iowa at an early age, and was APP
pointed to the navy from the Hawk
eye state.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-30

gold-bearing quartz lodes or lodges
but thus far without success.
Some very rich strikes of placer golc
have been made in the Eagle mining
district on Chicken creek and other
tributaries of the Forty Mile river, az
we'll as in the Koyukuk mining district
of Alaska. Good Ignite coal has also
recently been discovered in paying
quantities on Washington creek
about II miles from the Yukon river.
in the Forty Mile mining district of
Alaska.
In the Chicken creek claims, the
depth from the surface to bed rock is
from ~ to 81 feet, and the muck covers
the ground to from six to 20 feet; the
pay gravel running from few inches
to five and six feet in depth and aver.
aging from a few cents to as high as
40 cents per pan on some claims.
As a result of the above strikes in
United States territory, large num-
Der of miners from Canadian points in
the Yukon territory are departing
daily for the new fields and taking
with them much improved machinery
for working the claims; and. Judging
from present indications, the pros
poets for the early development of
those districts are bright What is
needed there chiefly are good roads
or means of communication from one
camp to another.
Wood, on which Dawson has I'D to
this time been entirely dependent for
fuel, is becoming scarce and expensive,
the price during the last winter aver
aging SIS per cord, uncut and un-
sawed, making the cost to the consum-
er about $22 per cord
Persistent search has been made
for coal, and two mines are now suc-
cessfully operated in the territory. one
owned by the North American Trad
ing d Transportation company in the
Forty Mile district of the Yukon fer
ritory. ten miles below the post known
as Forty Mile, on the lower river
The main shaft of the mine has
reached a depth of over 155 feet, at
which depth the frost line was passed.
Careful tests have been made of the
coal, and it is found to be Ignite of
good. steam-producing qualities. The
vein operated by this company is nine
feet in thickness. and is one of three
veins OF similar thickness and QUALITY
on tract of / 800 acres of land.
lie other mine in operation is on
Lewes river, part of the Upper Yu-
kon proper. $50 miles from Dawson
1t has reached depth of 325 feet. The
vein is three feet six inches in thick
ness and shows fair quality of bi.
luminous coal. HENRY D. sAYLoRn
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- ONDITIONS all through
E<h. the now settled portions of
MVJ,N Alaska have changed rap
NS idly since the first great
NJ rush to the gold fields.
Dawson, and the other set
Elements, some of which have grown
into considerable towns, along the Yu-
son river, are still the centers of great
est activity, and show promising de-
velopment. Improved transportation
methods have been the foundation of
this development. and transportation
lines are being gradually pushed into
new territory.
Dawson is connected with the out
side world by two routes, known as
the "inside" and "outside." The in
side route is the one used in winter as
we'll as in summer, and extends via
Skagway overland and by river to
Dawson. The other way is to St.
Michael and thence up the Yukon
river, this one being used in the sum-
mer season only
The ocean travel along the route
from the Puget sound country to
Skagway averages, during the sum-
mer season, boat day. these vessels
being of 1000 tons and upward.
From Skagway, Alaska, to White
Horse, Canada, the White Pass &
Yukon railroad affords means of
transportation for passengers and
freight, covering a distance of about
III miles. From White Horse to Daw-
son, in the winter time, for the greater
part of the distance (about 3s4 miles)
the route follows the river 1t first
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mission in the Eighteenth infantry
of the regular army. His commission
was dated May IA, and on May 80, two
years later, came his promotion to
captaincy. He held captains cem-
mission in the Twenty-eighth infantry
until the close of the war, and with the
reorganization and reduction of the
regular establishment he was trans
ferred to the Twenty infantry.
and was later transferred again to
the Ninth infantry. On January &c,
1855, came another promotion when
he was made a major in the Eighth
infantry, which he held until January
1, 1883, when he was promoted to lieu
tenant colonel of the Seventh infantry.
On July a, 1892, he was placed in com
mand of the Twenty-fifth infantry, with
the rank of colonel, and Shis command
he continued to hold until the breaking
out of the war with Spain, when he
was commissioned brigadier general
OF volunteers, and served as such
throughout that conflict.
He is a native of Ohio, and has an,
honorable career in connection with
the long years of Indian warfare liz
the west, which followed the close OF
the civil war. He is now brigadier
general in the regular establishment
and is nearing the retiring age.
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has in his realm. The beginnings c,
his fortune came from the tea bust
ness. He purchased estates in Ceylon
and has kept constantly adding to his
holdings there until to-day he is prob
ably the largest tea grower in the
world. 1t is due to his efforts that the
price OF a good quality of tea has been
reduced to point within the reach
OF the poorer people. In this country
he is known in business way becanse
OF his connection with the packing in.
dustry in Chicago and his line of re
frigerator cars. So great have his in
terests in these two industries he.
come that he has at times seriously
considered removing to the United
States. and it is only love for his ma
tive land that keeps him in Great
Britain
Queen Victoria made Sir Thomas !.
knight in 1898, in recognition of his
widespread philanthrophies and his
notable benefactions to English work
ingmen. His new honors come as q
mark of personal favor from King Ed
ward, who has for years considered
him one of his closest friends.
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Suicide in Armies.

The suicide rate in European armies
far exceeds the rate Of the country
to which the army belongs. The Ger
man army has suicide rate of go per
million; the Italian army, 400; the
Belgic. 240; the English, 23O; the Eng
lish-Indian, $50; the Russian. 200; the
Spanish, 40. The English-Indian rat e
is due to the depressed and suspicional
states produced by moist heat. The
suicide rate of the French army of
the interior fell from 47O under the
empire to 900 under the republic The
African army of France has rate of
$50 per million, probably from causes
similar to those affecting the English
Indian army. The increase of suicide
among Americans in the Philippines is
in the same direction The United
States suicide rate is double that of
the Irish and about one-half that of
the English.-Medical News.
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L. OXnard stepped into the beet
sugar business at a time when the
experiments in California were all
but failures, and by his persistent
energy has developed the industry
in that state until the California fac
tories are producing annually sugar
and by-products valued at $4,000, OOO
and is paying to the farmers of that
state for beets used more than ST..
100000 annually. In his California
factories there is invested the neat
little sum of $40, 1883, which is
practically one-half of all the CAPT.
tai invested in the industry in the
United States. He gives employment
to more than 1000 people, and pays
in wages each year more than $500,
OOO
Mr.. Oxnard has beautiful home
at OXnard, California, where he lives
in princely style when in that state,
though much of his time is spent
at his business headquarters in New
York city, where he can be in closer
touch with the financial interests
connected with the industry in which
he is interested to such a large ex.
tent.
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MANILA AS II is TODAY.
The War Is Ended as Far as the CITY
Is Concerned and American
Ideas Prevail.

The following letter, written late
" by an American business man now
n Manila, gives an interesting de-
scription of the situation in that city
as it is to-day, reports a Chicago ex-
change. 1t reads as follows:
Il wish you could get out here and
see this country. You would have one
of the greatest surprises of your life
and matter for thought for long
time to come. The country is beau
tiful, the climate delicious, though
warm to one accustomed to the tenn
perate zone. The sun is hot at noon,
but shade is always near and some
where breeze is always to be found.
The nights are comfortable all the
year round.
The war seems as far off here as
it did in Chicago. It affects Manila
and the other principal cities just
as much as the war against the Sioux
or Apaches used to interrupt the
business in New York, Boston or Phil
adelphia. There are a few Skin
mishes in the outlying districts, of
course, but they are of little or no
Importance. No one ever speaks of
any war here. 1t is all finished from
local point of view, and every man is
straining each nerve to solve the
mighty problems of peace.
"The rapidity with which those
problems are being mastered sur
prises one. In ten years a new civili-
zation will have permeated all the is
lands. In five years I believe we will
see new Manila. Already the Fill
pinos of rank and means are feeling
the contagion of American optimism
and are looking to the future with
glowing hopes. Ex-insurgent gener-
ais are taking posts under the gov
eminent on all sides, and those who
have been always loyal have gotten
over their fears of the insurgents
and are thinking solely of their share
in the tremendous betterment that is
to come.
Laws have been drafted and are
now before congress, which, when
passed, will throw open the almost
inconceivable riches of these islands
to American development. Capital
has already begun to come in, and at
least two big syndicates have been or
ganized, one of 100000 and one of
$4,0OO,O00. But both are, 1 think.
premature, though they may be all
right if reorganized as soon as the
new laws are enacted.
Il am having the invaluable advan-
tage of the advice of men here who
have studied the situation from the
beginning, and know the conditions.
[ also have the advantage of an ex-
tensive acquaintance among the
wealthiest and most influential ma
tives, obtained through introductions,
which gained for me their confidence
at once"
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ment on an isthmian canal route than
Admiral Walker, and it was undoubt-
edly due to his recommendations for
the purchase of the Panama canal
route that caused congress to choose
that route in preference to Mica
ragua.
Admiral Walkers long connection
with the United States navy gave him
both the incentive and the oppor-
tunity for studying all the details of
this important subject, and when, in
July, 1897, he was appointed as presi-
dent of the canal commission, he was
an ideal man for the place, and was
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those years. No matter what the pub
lie may think of his proposal for the
sale of the Philippines none can con-
sistently question his integrity or his
valor.
His first military experience came
as a sergeant in Company A, Sixth
Ohio infantry, which was mustered
into the United States service April
20, 1861. 1t did not take long for him
to show his worth to those looking
for men to fill responsible positions,
and in less than month from the day
OF his enlistment in the volunteers
he was given first lieutenant's COM