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Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21
Clarendon News.

Contrary to the general be
lief the Baptist College was
voted to Canyon City, which
place besides 40 acres of land
for asite, gives S25, 900, of which
amount Mr.. Lester, banker
there, gives s11, 600 in consider
alton that the college he named
Lester Baptist College, which
was agreed to. 1t was friend
ly contest between Clarendon,
Canyon City, Hereford, Mem
phis, Amarillo and Canadian.
Notwithstanding the over.
whelming offer of Canyon City,
Clarendon with her many nat
ural advantages and Sl5, 600 led
in the voting and many thought
would be sure OF victory, but on
the final vote, after all others
had dropped out, some of Clar-
endon's publicly professed
friends deserted and gave it to
Canyon City by vote of II to
Clarendon's 8.
We congratulate Canyon City
on their good fortune, especial.
ly in possessing a citizen who is
willing to put up $1,000 for a
college for his town-we are
sorry we did not have one such
in our town. Canyon is thriv-
ing trade town of some 700 or
800 people and no doubt will
now make substantial growth
and may soon be sure enough
rival of Amarillo, It being the
trade point for all the south
plains country.
After the location at Canyon
the Canadian college was offer
ed to the Baptist people as a
gift if they would take it and
operate it and a committee was
appointed to see after it, and it
is said that they will accept it
and open school about October
1st and that by next year the
Panhandle will have two Bap-
tist colleges in full operation -
Canadian Baptist College and
Lester Baptist College.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21
Hereford Brand.


Well, the Baptist College
question is settled, and we hope
the Baptists of the Panhandle
are satisfied with the result of
their commission work. While
every man feels that his partic-
ular town should have been
awarded the college, the Here
ford people hope that the Bap-
fists and other citizens of the
Panhandle will accept the de-
csion Of the commission and do
all in their power to make the
college success in every way
in its present location. The
Canyon people are to be con.
graduated, not only for having
captured the prize, but for hay
ing citizen who is wealthy
enough and public spirited
enough to donate cash enough
to insure the college for his
town, as did Louis Lester, pres
ident of the Stockmen S Nation
al Bank, who donated $4,000 in
addition to the $1,000 he had al.
ready subscribed. Canyons
future is assured if this loyal
citizen continues to boost the
town-with his cash. While
Hereford was our first choice,
Canyon was our second, so we
do not feel as if we were entire
ly defeated.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21

Clarendon.
The Banner Stockman rises to
congratulate Canyon City on
her great good fortune in Sc
curing the Baptist College. We
trust she may make of it the
great institution it should be,
and derive from it all moral and
financial benefits which may be
due her progressiveness in Sc
curing it.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21
Clarendon Chronicle.

The Baptist College locating
committee met at Claude Satur-
day and after due deliberation,
decided that Canyon City was
the most desirable location for
the proposed Baptist college;
their offer being S25, 900 in cash
and 40 acres of land. Claren-
don would like very much to
have secured this institution,
but now that the question has
been finally settled, her citizen
ship will turn their attention to
building up the town in other
ways. We extend congratula-
tions to Canyon City on secur-
ing the college, and hope that the
Baptists will succeed in build
ing up a great educational in
stitution in that city of which
the entire Panhandle will feel
proud.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21
Hale Center Messenger.

We congratulate Canyon on
her good fortune in securing
this institution for it means
much for her, much that will
add to her Importance as an
educational center. Individual
ly the selection of Canyon is
most gratifying to us, and we
believe the committee acted
wisely in making her their
choice, and that the location
will be universally satisfactory.
From a sanitary point of view,
Canyon is the ideal place, and
her social moral and religious
surroundings are as good as
can be found anywhere, and
commercially she is the trade
center of the entire south plains
country, as far as Lubbock and
Crosby counties. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that some feeling was
engendered over selecting the
location, but that will soon sub
side.
We repeat our congratulations,
aud hope and expect this insti-
tuition to prove a sweet SAVIOR
unto higher intellectual attain
ments, not only to Canyon but
to the entire Panhandle.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21

future. And when they return
home they will not forget to tell
their neighbors and friends the
impressions formed. The Can
yon reunion, as an advertising
medium, was the most far reach
ing in practical results, of any
gathering which has ever been
held in the Panhandle, and as a
patriotic, social and feStal gath
ering, it was the equal of any.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21
Not Yet.

The reunion will be heldat Can
yon next year, at which time the
old soldiers hope to be able to
award the reunion to some town
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21
Amarillo Star.

Some of the EDITORS personal
friends at Canyon are inclined to
blow just a wee bit about that col
lege proposition. Dear brethren,
some where we have heard that
"you should not holler till you are
out of the woods" E" You have not
got that school built yet. Wait
until you get the preliminaries set
tied before you crow, you may need
our help and you would hate to be
in a position where you could not
ask for it. Be merciful as you
hope for mercy.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21

The reunion at Canyon last
week, from individual and pub
llshed reports, was one of the
most successful that has been
held since the camp was organ
lzed seven years ago. With few
exceptions, all to whom we have
made inquiry, say that Canyon
was almost lavish in her atten-
ton to the old soldiers, and the
entertainment to the public was
excellent. Of course there is a
small class who attend these
gatherings that think they are
entitled-to as much considera-
ton at an exconfederate reun-
ion as Gen. Gordon or any other
general, no matter how high in
the ranks of the Confederacy he
may be.
These dissatisfied attendants
think they are entitled to be met
by the mayor and the brass
band, accompanied to the grand
stand and called on to make a
speech on "the SaCredness of
Of the lost cause" then hauled
over the town in four horse
carriage and wind up with a re-
ception at the finest hotel in
town. Aud the chances are
that these very people who
think they are entitled to so
much consideration away from
home, try to get into every little
show that comes along, without
paying the price.
This reunion was worth a
great deal TO the entire plains
country, for it is estimated that
fully 500 people came from 9th
er parts of the state and from
other states, to see and Judge
for themselves of this already
great-au1 very great future
country; and Canyon City and
Randall county are not the only
beneiciaries, for these people
scattered from Canyon to all
parts of. the plains. Quite a
number of them came to our
little town and every one to
whom we talked were loud in
their praise and eulogistic in
their prophesies OF what this
country holds in store for the
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-21

Hereford Searchlight.
After quite number of bal
lots had been cast by the 81
members of the locating COM
mittee of the Baptist College it
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chimes multiply rapidly In the near future
Il will be necessary 70 build much better
roads than those OF to-day, and recon-
mended that the owners of these vehicles
be required TO pay an annual tax for the
reconstruction and maintenance OF high
ways.
Highway engineers in the United States
have invariably expressed the opinion that
automobiles, instead Of injuring the roads
were positively helpful to them. Our advo-
oates OF better thoroughfares have often
referred to the beneficial effect OF these
vehicles on the modern roads as an argu-
ment favorable to the extension OF the good
roads movement. They maintain that the
rubber tires tend to harden a roadbed and
make II smooth.
II these new conveyanoes are impairing
the highways in England, 1t would seem that
the trouble must be due to some elements
used in the contraction Of the latter which
are not to loo found here. 1t will be diff
cult to convince Americans that the auto
mobile is harmful to American roads.
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over the sign OF a Portland clothing
store which bore an inscription promls-
ing "a new silk hat" to any man who
knocked ball beyond 1t. We SEQ SAM
In our minds eye now, making decorous
progress down Third street, crowned
with his shining stovepipe, followed by
q volunteer honorary committee Of Port
land youth who have sacrificed their
newspaper-selling private interests to
their municipal pride; waved at from a
hundred windows by fair maidens who
have laid aside the pencil and the type
writer to do honor to hero; saluted
everywhere with palefaoe limitations Of
the horrific mutations OF his fathers.
We see his inky black hair swaying
austerely as he shakes his head In de-
Ginning the invitations which well-mean-
ing but demoralizing appreciators direct
at him from over swinging barroom
doors.
Never was a red hero more fairly or
deservingly enthroned in the heart of
the populaoe. With all the odds against
him, he did great deeds, He won the
game. He did not sass the umpire.
The only source Of regret is his name.
It ought to have been Chief MAKEs-THR-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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RATTLESNAKES IN CALICO.
Case where a Supposed Bite was an Anti
dOte for Too Much Whiskey.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: In 1882
a discovery of quartz in southern California
started the Calico district with boom The
name was taken from the color OF the rock
OF the country. The newspaper Of the town
Of Calico was the Calico Print. 1t was in the
country of rattlesnakes. cactus and horned
toads These rattlesnskes were OF the kind
known as "sidewinders. owing TO their
method OF locomotion.
John Daggett WAS candidate then for Lieu
tenant-Governor of California. with Gen.
SLOVENIAN for Governor. Daggett had a
large outfit. and In charge was most vera
cious man, who tells this story about side
winders. 1t was summer time, few cabins
and houses had been built most OF the men
sleeping in brush tents put up in the beds OF
the dry arroyOs.
A mile or more from Daggett's camp was
saloon and to this one evening went jim
Hard and George Peard. two Of the miners. to
load UP, They returned late at night. George
very full and Jim comfortably londed, George
foil into his bunk in their brush tent, but i'm.
mediately jumped up, calling out that he had
been bitten by a rattlesnake. Jim. IN his
drunken wisdom, knew just what TO, do.
and there, with a Ratchet, chopped OF the
index finger of his left hand where Peard
claimed the RATHER had struck him.
Up at the mine Office was stopping that night
nation OF the deta ched Anger he declared that
IL had not been bitten by rattlesnake. Fur
Their investigation showed that Peard In
falling into his bunk had made the leaves
rattle and struck his finger against sharp
point
It j. on record in Calico that Peard did not
get drunk again for q month. NJ
NEW YORK. Aug Is.
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Diamonds for Everybody.

Just how many quarts, or bushels, or
barrels of diamonds are locked away in
the vaults of the De Beers company il
known only TO those whose business it ia
to keep other people from knowing. That
they hold enough to control the market
and to regulate the market prices is well
known to the world.
We're the product of the De Beers
South African diamond mining properties
to be placed on the market as it comes
from the ground, day by day, or week
by week, two results would Immediately
follow. One would be decided fall in
diamond values, and the other a market
subject to spasmodic fluctuation accord
ing TO the yield Of the mines. As it is,
this company, which has practically a
monopoly Of the output, regulates the
supply in accordance with market con-
ditions. IT pours out or it withholds,
and so maintains prices, certainly to its
own advantage, and possibly to the adj
vantage of all.
News is now at hand which makes
probable one or the other Of two issues.
The discovery of new diamond area is
reported from South Africa. Should
this prove to be an extensive deposit,
the De Beers must either control il or
effect combination with it's proprietors
by which the present system will be con-
tinued. or there will be an influx of gems
INTO the market which will make dia-
monds IA common as collar buttons.
The first reports of the new discovery
were received with general scepticism.
Reports of that nature had become too
common to excite any special enthusiasm
Scattered stones have been picked up
over considerable area in South Africa
and each new find was declared by the
lucky discoverer to be certain evidence
Of new Kimberley. The market wearied
OF such tales, and refused TO respond to
The exuberance Of prospectors who found
one or two isolated specimens.
The latest discovery appears TO be OF n
more substantial nature. Qualified ex-
perts have made careful examination,
and report that at a point about TWENTY
five miles east Of Pretoria there really
does exist a new diamond mine of some
sixty or more acres in extent which ia OF
Inc same nature az the Kimberley prop
erty, The mining correspondent of the
l'ondonlatmes reports to his paper, from
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A New Rapid Transit Policy for
New York.

Among the merchants in Broadway
between Forty-second street and Union
Square there is some difference of opinion
as to the Use Of that route for an extension
of the rapid transit system. They are
unanimous in opposition to ditching the
street after the method already pursued
in the digging Of the subway, or even
after the new method which is to be in
troduoed in Broadway below the Post
Office; but among many of them there is
decided objection to building any sort of
underground road there, while others are
favorably disposed toward deep tunnel
whose construction would not interfere
with the surface of the street.
That such tunnel could he built is
an engineering possibility as to which
there can be no dispute. Nor can it
be questioned that, in addition to the
deep tunnel across the island which is
to be constructed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, others will he re-
quired and will be built very soon after
the present subway has been opened for
travel. II is obvious that, longitudinally
and transversely, Manhattan Island is
destined to be bored with rapid transit
roads; but il is not less evident that
this community will never again per-
init the Rapid Transit Commission TO
tear up the streets as it has done and
is doing, in order to make bitches for
subway. The further constructions will
have to be genuine tunnels. and there is
abundant engineering ability TO plan
them and carry them through
The question whether the route Of the
proposed rapid transit extension shall be
through Broadway or through Seventh
avenue may deserve discussion, so far
the two routes to the public generally
and to the inhabitants Of the districts
traversed, but in neither the one nor the
other ought there to be repetition of the
present method Of ditching. The damage
done along the Seventh avenue route
might be less than in that in Broadway,
but it would be serious. II is unnecessary
and the smallest Seventh avenue shop
keeper is entitled to protection against
the outrage Of a ditch no less than the
great merchants OF Broadway
The Rapid Transit Commission has been
furnished with demonstration that ts
present method Of constructing a subway
is offensive to the community and is in
tolerable because of the injury caused
to public and private interests. The time
has come, therefore, when it must turn for
a solution of the rapid transit problem.
daily increasing in importance, to a sys-
tenn of tunnelling of which there are
many examples to prove that it is en-
tirely feasible and distinctly preferable
to the ditching method.
That is, from now on there must be a
new rapid transit policy for New York.
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In6crestim ateS.

If the Democrats are to have any rea-
sor4 b.a expectation Of defeating Mr.
ROOSEVELT next year, they must not
ns re tbs mistake of Understanding his
political strength or his present personal
popularity Such an discriminating
o.1ir.ior- of him as the Nashville American
gives shows not only an excess of parti-
fan-nir out at least a partial misunder-
stendine of the situation
Unbalanced. unreliable. full OF self. empty OF
prudence. OF knowledge Of discretion. Of the com
prehenslon OF the laws OF nations Of the laws OF his
o7yt country. OF even the little social laws. Mr..
RoosyvsrT Is failure. Is that not palpablst
lust we needs butt our heads against palmer
proposition to take cognzancc Of this all too APP
parent national mIsfortune' Must there be yet
agreater one
And yet the Republicans have already COM
nitted hesclves tn this mans re lection or rather
ror him. conventions have Endorsed him. and for
what. In the happy appreciation and enjoyment
Of our wondrous prosperity have any OF us stopped
70 think for what good or gain we owe Mr.. Roosx-
WELT Is IL not all the reverse' What Democrat
IAN do worse"
Here is an important Democratic
journal talking as if anybody could beat
ROOSEVELT
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Johannesburg, that, although before
visiting the properties he was very
sceptical regarding the permanent i'm
portance Of the discovery, after care
full examination he had no hesitation
in stating that true pipes or Orators
of diamantiferous soil really had been
found. He reports further that the soil
has been we'll tested throughout the
above-named area, and that thousand
foot borehole has already been sunk into
the so-called blue or diamond-bearing
earth: that diamonds Of fair quality are
found wherever the examinations have
been made, and that there is no reason TO
doubt the value of the discovery. A later
despatch reports the receipt, at Johannes
burg, Of the first consignment OF stones
from the new district. II consisted OF
diamonds aggregating $1,000 carats in
weight in their rough state. Experts
found them of good quality.
1t has been for many years a convlc-
ton in South Africa that the Kimberley
and the Jagersfontein were not the only
diamond beds Of that country. The new
Premier mine, if present reports be sub
stantiated by future tests, promises to
add third to the list Of really important
properties, and gives a cheerful encour-
agement to hopes that others may yet
turn up or be turned up. until even the
poorest Of us can have all the diamonds
he wants. The only trouble Is that il
that time should really come none of us
would want them.
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The Story of a Grab for Protts ~ tb'
Expense of the Public.
From the journal of Commerce

From the JONrndt OF commerce
When the plans of the Rapid Transit Subw ay
in this city were first announced. assurance
were given that there would be worry little
tearing up Of street surfaces and interrupted
of trsfric. Shafts would be opened and cut
tin rs made here and there. which would b6
bridged over, and the work would be carried
on beneath a surface over which the norma
movements would proceed with little dis
turbsnce and no damage 10 business. Wher
the construction began this promising pIah
was abandoned and II was said that one sid
of a street would he opened At a time for shor
distances and traffic turned upon the otheT
side. and the work would proceed with III"
minimum of obstruction But even this hsi'
way plan was pursued only here and ther"
Contractors became utterly heedless Of publtd
convenience and The interests OF business
along the subway, and the commission gre"
lax In enforcing it's requirements. Hug"
trenches were dug over long stretches. some
times including both sides OF crowde,
street. and were left open month after month.
while paving stones. material. debris an"
temporary structures encountered the ROAD
vays and sidewalks as pla ces of free storage.
There ia no longer any doubt that the sub
way system ia going TO be sufficiently profit
able 10 justify the ext eise Of the most scien
,iffo method Of construction. There ia no e1
cuse for any more OF the clumsy dltchin.
that has been going on so long
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but the urgent representations Just mace
by the British Ambassador at Constan-
tinople are too much in the nature OF an
old story to produce an effect without
the backing of force.
When, at the time OF the great mas
sacres, the British Government did
threaten force, an intimation that RUS
sian gunners would probably be found
with the Turkish in the batteries OF the
Dardanelles was sufficient to show that
the Armenian matter had become ques-
ton in which Russia and Turkey would
have to be dealt with as one. The Sc
uuestration of the Armenian Church
properties by Russia confirms this view
and it is grave with consequences, for
il may mean sooner or later the extinc-
ton OF the Armenians as people, in the
same way az the Firms are suppressed.
In this policy the Russian Government
is sure Of the support Of the upper class
circles in Russia, among whom strong
feeling prevails against Germans, Ar
menians and Jews, and to such an extent
that Russian nationalist societies are
being formed all over the empire having
for their purpose the suppression of those
races and their virtual expulsion from
the country.
As regards the Armenians, the ques-
ton is one Of direct interest for Ameri-
cans. At the root of the Armenian
troubles are the ideas imbibed by the
thousands of young Armenians who have
passed through the American mission-
airy schools scattered throughout Asia
Minor, and the pledge of better govern
ment given by the European Powers az
the Berlin Congress. How that pledge
has been kept is seen in the terrible
events of the past eight years. and there
is no trace of an intention Of the Govern
ments of Europe to act in the future in
any way differently from in the past.
The one chance for the Armenians seems
to lie in a revolutionary outbreak in
eastern Armenia simultaneously with
the renewal of the instruction in
Macedonia. followed by Russian inter-
vention to restore order,
Such a movement could hardly fail to
bring England, with perhaps another
Power, into action; and the fight for
supremacy in Asia Minor and the Persian
Gulf would begin. The Macedonian
question has been so arranged that it
need not cause war in Europe, but unless
Great Britain means to adopt a purely
defensive policy in Asia and wait behind
her own frontiers until they are attacked,
she is not likely to sit still while the ever
advancing Russian tide creeps steadily
on to the ramparts of India, at the risk
of imperilling her prestige and position
within the circle of the Himalayas and
the Hindu Kush.