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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-05
Putting Two aud Two Together.

England is about to ,ell all her naval
vessels that are not up to date. SAYS
the Chicago Inter Ocean. and this fact
may haveSome connection with the re-
cent visit to London ef the king OF
Portugal.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-05
G. E. ROBBINS,
Amorett, Mo-,
AUCTIONEER,

VIII cry sales In Bates and adjoining counties
at reasonable price. Satisfaction positively
guaranteed or no charge made. Several years
OF experience in Iowa. Can give best of refer
ences. A share Of your patronage solicited.
Dates can be gwen at this Office. l2-2m'
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-05

San Francisco and Los Angeles.
CAL, and return.-May 3, II, ID, IA,
Is, Is, II and 18th with final return
limit Of July Is. 1908. Rate OF
$40 90 for the round trip.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacra-
mento, CAL, and intermediate points
greatly reduced rates. Every day,
Feb'y 18th to April Both. 1903. Call
or address, L. C. VANDERvooRT, Agt.
Special one way rates to Portland,
Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Helena,
Butte, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Billings
and Intermediate points Feb'y 10th
to April 30th $25 90; Kansas City
to Southland $22 so; Spokane,
Helena $40 90; Billings $15 90.
E G. VANDERvOORT, Agt.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-05
Nstice of Final Settlemed.

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and all
others interested in the estate Of Lucretia A
Speaks, deceased THAT |, ID V Brown, public
administrator In charge Of said estate, intend
to make final settlement thereof, at the next
term Of the Bates county Probate court, In
Bates county, state Of Missouri, 70 be held at
Butler, No., on the 9th day Of February, 1905
s7-it D. v. BROWN, Administrator
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13

strong independent organization can compel
them 10 make good nominations in most dis
trfcts and then choose the hest among them.
The Democrats have here z large majority
when party lines are drawn. and have their
vote Thoroughly masSed i'm many districts. 50
that anybody with the party label can ne
elected Consequently the whole campaign must
he taken out of national politics. and honest
candidates who would secure Democratic votes
against Tammany gray wolves must not pe
merely known as trustworthy independents on
n Republican ticket. hut must be nominated as
Independents on a non-partisan municipal ticket
This necessary difference in procedure now
ever. need not prevent more care in nominating
aldermen. The Citizens Union has been care
less about this perhaps because the powers OF
the aldermen are not so important here as IN
Chicago. 1t has. through shortsighted policy III
trying to attract selfish political interests, OF
through mere inadvertence, more than once put
Oh its ballots for petty office names of men VINO
should not have had its support The great
problem here is to secure the chief offices TO
honest men. and the tendency has naturally
been to make everything count to that end.
But the Board of Aldermen is still powerful
factor in government and bad council can
cause endless annoyance. Greater care should
henceforth be taken in the matter, and a higher
standard insisted upon for candidates Tor al
dernlen who are TO have the support of the
Citizens Union.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13

the globe is a question upon which no positive
utterance is vouchsafed. Only time can tell
A timely and welcome Recommendation Was
made in one Of Professor Fleming's lectures.
He proposes the adoption of "kumaseope' as
name for the receiving instrument IN wireless
telerraphv. One advantage of the word Is tnat
if is more comprehensive and general than Co
herer" Responder" magnetic detector anu
the specific titles given to other devices perform
ing the same function. 1t is also short, eupnoni-
ous constructed on correct etymoloSicai prih-
ciples and appropriate. The first hall OF the
word IS n Greek noun, meaning "A wave IL
would be hard to find another which would meet
all the requirements of the situation so adihi-
rablv. Another word is suggested by this one
although Professor Fleming does not appear 10
have thought of it. There is crying need Ior
q suitable term to designate a message sent py
wireless telegraphy. Why not call 1T kunla-
gram? This too. is short, sounds Well mas
legitimate derivation and Is free from one oo-
lection to "Marcongram" or "conigram. treat
rs is Marconi he Is not the only contributor 10
the new system of communication. If any one
mans name should be incorporated In the WORD
for which there is now pressing demand, that
man is Hertz "Hertzgram' is not so bad; out
.'l,limagram' is better. What will the etymoio-
cists and electricians say to it?
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13

one of the most inhospitable climates IN Tue
world. the temperature ranging from arctic
cold to more than equatorial heat
This enterprise is no small one. 1hose WIZ
have besitated whether TO consider Australia
a continent or an island may be convinced by
notice of the figures in the case. There Is
already a railroad running UP from Adelaide 10
Oodnadatta near the head of Lake Eyre.
distance of 6SS miles. There is also one run
ming from Port Darwin south 145 miles to
Pine Creek But between them lies gap,
set TO be spanned, of no less than LOGS miles
When that gap is filled the trans Australian
railroad will be complete, with length of al
most 800 miles. That is surely enough to es-
tablish Australians title to continental dlStlhc-
tion Moreover there will then be con-
tinuous rail route from Melbourne to FORT
Darwin of 2343 miles and one from Fremantle
to Port Darwin of 3.114 miles 1t is indeed
country of magnificent distances.
1t is interesting to observe that South AUS
tralia invites the whole world TO compete Tor
the contract for building this road, and Is ad-
vertsing for bids in Great Britain. the Unlted
States, France and Germany. 1t is q great
undertaking. worthy of the attention OF the
world. and when it is completed it will form
All important link In lines of travel around the
globe Indeed South Australia already has
visions of vast stream of travel flowing from
San Francisco and Vancouver to Adelaide,
thence across the continent TO Port Darwin.
and so on to Canton, TO the Siberian Railroad,
and thus TO Europe.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
KEEP WITHIN BOUNDS.

Our good natured Borough Of Manhattan has
been in a long list of instances for many years
excessively indulgent toward architects. build
ers and real estate owners In permitting with
out interference encroachments upon the legal
stoop lines and the invasions of the properly
constituted boundaries. Too many projections On
the fronts of buildings and too many pushings
forward of exterior walls, narrowing the SIDE
walks and threatening the roadways have been
passed over without action. Has not the time
now come for the safeguarding of the interests
Of the majority of the people of New-York by
the enforcement of Spartan rigor in the de-
fence of every inch of the open spaces which
still remain for the advantage of citizens gener-
ally? Give almost any architect or contractor
the breadth of a finger, and he may soon be
grasping the whole width of the hand. What
avenues and streets, which can be found any
where in New-York, are too broad? Almost
every one Of them ought to be wider.
Excellent men undoubtedly are the designers
and constructors in this metropolis. Yet how
many violate city ordinances! The law for
bids the incumbrance and obstruction Of our
public streets and avenues. except for mod
crate part of the roadway. Yet how fire.
uuently the law is ignored! The disregard by
builders and contractors of public convenience
and public comfort as we'll as their contempt
for law, are certainly not commendable, and
New-Yorkers have a right to be indignant about
such things But our placid, much enduring
people hate to be disagreeable. and the abuses
,oOtiuue
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
A GOOD RELIANCE.

There are many reasons for believing that the
big bronze sloop yacht Reliance, the latest prod
uct of Nathaniel G. Herreshoff's fertile brain,
which was launched at Bristol on Saturday will
excel in speed and weatherly qualities any OF
her predecessors of the ninety foot class.
Men who have made a life study Of the science
of naval architecture and who, guided by the
shape of vessels hull, are able to predict with
much accuracy the ability Of that vessel to
travel under certain conditions, even before she
has carried sail, agree in expecting this new
creation" of Herreshoff's to prove faster and
a better yacht than either the Constitution or
the Columbia. Moreover, yachtsmen OF scep-
teal temper, who always hesitate to believe
that an untried vessel possesses greater speed
than her rival which by right of deeds has won
the title of champion-or those among them VINO
were fortunate enough on Saturday to obtain
close view of the Reliance-agree unanimously
with the naval architects. so that the ordinary
Iayman must needs accept such unity OF praise
as convincing. This being So one may naturally
feel that the Reliance is sure to defeat both the
Constitution and the Columbia. and that in the
regular course of events she will be selected to
defend the Americas Cup against Sir Thomas
Lipton's Shamrock III.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
ANOTHER GREAT RAILROAD.

Transcontinental railroads seem TO be the
order of the day. The United States was, OF
course, first with such ali enterprise, and Is
still easily first in the number and importance
of such roads. Canada came second, and still
maintains that rank. Now Russia has prac-
tically completed one across the Eurasian con-
tinent. which promises one day TO be of great
industrial as well as Of strategic Importance.
The ArgentineChilia road across South
America will some time rank among the great
lines Of the world, though 1t is not so long as
these Others Cecil Rhodes's enterprise, or
railroad not across but from end to END OF
Africa, is being pushed to completion Win
characteristic British energy. Latest but Dy
across Australia
The latter is not national but a State un-
dertakng 1t is the work of the State OF South
Australia. which is distinguished among the
members OF that commonwealth by possessing
a continuous territory across the continent
from south TO north. from the Great Aus
tralian Blight TO the Gulf Of Carpentaria and
the Arafura Sea. AS in the case OF the North
American, Eurasian and African comments
the telegraph has been the precursor OF the
railroad, and for years there has been
stretch OF wires across Australia from Ade-
iaida to Port Darwin. Nevertheless, much OF
the heart OF the continent is still unsurveyed
and unexpiored- The regions around Mount
Wittenoon and Lake Amadeus are almost as
unknown as they were In the days of Sturt
All that can confidently be said of them is that
thsy srs Q supremely savage wilderness. with
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
PERSONAL.

u IS expected that Professor Clarence F. Carroll
who has been elected superintendent of the pubic
schools of Rochester. will take up his duties there
nv Nav l. The superintendent IS man
~ progressive ideas. his work during ms
nine years connection with the school system OF
Worcester has shown After his graduation from
Vale Professor Carroll was superintendent OF the
schools of Oil City from 1881 TO 1sSs ana ne was Io
seven years president or the state MI li4Si 80
New-Britain. Conn.,
James McNeiIl whistler. the American artlst' WIN
receive the degree of doctor of laws at the forta-
coming Glasgow University graduation ceremony
The degree will be conferred in absenta, as oW lns
TO the state Of Mr.. Whistler's health ne Will De
unable to be present
w E Gonzales has succeeded his brother N u
Gonzales who was shot by Lieutenant Governor
TilInan as editor of The Columbia state III
closing his brief announcement Mr. Gonzalss
saws: ITO it's old principles and its old taItn5 ne
State is pledged and for them II Will stand py % i
help of God beyond this generation NO haIne Is VIZ
That space is dedicated a perpetual memorial
tn him whose spirit lives with US.
Jules CIaretie. director of the CoInedle FRAN
caise of Paris and member of the ACADEMY
has accepted an invitation to visit this country IN
the sprng of 1904 to lecture on French ofdIiatie
art and the national theatres IN FL u-ueL 'AO
AUSPICES of the Federation of French Alliances
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
CHICAGO'S EXAMPLE.

One result of the Chicago election is particu-
larry worthy of study by municipal reformers
in New-York There the Voters League has
succeeded in securing large majority of hon.
est and thoroughly trustworthy men in the City
Council A victory in that quarter is consid-
cred much more important than control OF the
Mayors Office, for the council has great power,
combining the ordinary legislative functions
with the authority here exercised by the Board
OF Estimate and Apportionment and the Com
nfssioners Of the Sinking Fund.
The body consists of seventy members. half
Of whom are elected each year. In 1896 IT was
commonly believed that about q dozen members
OF the council were honest In that year the
Voters League was organized. The original
plan was TO form q municipal party, but this
was not found practicable, and finally a self
perpetuating committee of nine. sustained by
large body of citizens. was constituted with a
permanent office force, which devotes itself ex-
ciusfvely to securing the nomination and cleo
ton by the old parties Of fit men for the coun-
ell. Careful investigations are made Of all can
didates, active support is given those found
good, and strenuous opposition made 10 those
who are Objectionable. The result has been
steady decrease in the number of gray wolves,
as the corruptionists called there, in the
council OF the thirty-five holdover aldermen
tweYty>seyen We're Endorsed by the league and
eight were not indorsed by it OF the newly
chosen aldermen twenty-nine We're indorsed by
the league. five were not Endorsed by 1t and one
had neither its favor nor opposition Thus
there arc sfty-six honest independents in the
bodv 10 fourteen who cannot be counted on In
rolfttcal character the council stands thirty-fve
Renublicans thirty-three Democrats one fnde-
nendent and one Socialist. Both Democrats
end Republicans however, are committed 10 q
disregard of party lines in the organization OF
the council and the conduct of IFS business
Not only has the Voters League thus made It
self q balance OF power, but il is so feared by
the narties that IFS word often prevents the
examination of unfit men. and so IL has greatly
raised fhe character of candidates as well as
r,evented the election of known corruptiopists
The council has always been the weak spot
IN resorrn government in New-York. Neither
pnder Mayor Strong nor Mayor Low has II Deen
,ossfh,e to nut entire trust in all the neminally
rasorYn aldermen nor has it been possible 10
~sro .he honest sentiment OF the city even
n,,,,asllv n proportional representation In the
,,sv Such work as has been done in Chlcago
g. ,r.sflv needed here, though it probably can
- he dome in the same way. There are many
,o,d features about the plan OF holding the Dai-
80 os mower between parties instead OF or
-.r,,,np a separate party or making the IN
.h,s romnronaises of fusion. But such
-..,.1 4. .nno.stble here. The national parues
-. prvtty well balanced In Chicago aho
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
continue

series of lectures which Professor j. A.
Fleming has Just delivered before the Society of
Arts in London is not only the latest authorita-
tive account Of wireless telegraphy given to the
world, but also the most satisfactory Inc
speaker is the adviser Of the Marcon company.
and does not occupy an altogether d1s1nteresteo
position. Yet his full and accurate references to
American and German devices, and to the IN
yentions of Englishmen who are in some sense
rivals Of Marconi, show judicial spirit as well
as wide information. Moreover, Professor
Fleming's happy choice of SMILES TO illustrate
obscure phenomena qualities him to an excep-
tional degree as q popular expositor of the new
art. He does not, to be sure, tell all that the
public wants to know. He is reticent about
some of the problems yet unsolved; and COM
merciaI considerations compel him to refrain
from describing certain features of the appa-
ratus now on trial. With such reserve how
ever no one can reasonably find fault
Upon the one vital question of secrecy and
pon-interference he sheds only little light.
He describes q set of experiments which he
himself conducted only two or three weeks ago.
Two stations at Poldhu, side by side were en-
ployed to transmit simultaneously and contnu-
ousiy for an hour. Each handled different
message; and at intervals Of fifteen minutes
fresh ones were substituted for the preceding
pair Eight messages in all were handled dur
ing the test To generate the waves for one
sending instrument the whole twenty-eight
horsepower Of the plant erected for transoceanic
service was brought into play. For the other
an ordinary ship signalling outfit, consuming
only one-tenth of horsepower, was used The
long distance messages were picked up at Poole,
$50 miles or more away. Provision for receiv-
ing the others was made at the Lizard station,
only few miles from Poldhu. The significant
fact is that the impulses from the more power
full of the two generators were not instrumen-
tally recognized here and that the messages de-
signed for the Lizard were recorded without
trace of interference. The world thus has fairly
conclusive evidence Of the efficiency of the sys-
tenn as applied to two receivers. How many
more can be worked equally well Is not yet
clear.
Professor Fleming talked In conservative
tone about distance. All that he could assert
positively is that communications can be car
ried between points 5000 miles apart; that
three times as much power is needed to do
so on a globe, where a bulge 300 miles high
is interposed between stations, than II the sur
face were fiat and that sunlight so paraIyzes
the service that messages will go only 700 miles
by day when with the same expenditure OF
energy they can be sent 1000 miles at night.
All this was known before Whether 1t Is
feasible to transmit messages half way around
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
A,rusemcnts.

ACADEMY OF MCsIC-s .le--The 5ulurhsn
AMERICAN THEATRH--S-l5--The fArtsflan
SEIAaSCo TFEATRlS-s-Tsse Tariing of TIE Gtls
BIJou TaEATRF-S.Is-Nsrc 1roWn.
HEOADwAY EATRE-s-Prfnce - fi!sea-
Chinese Honeymoon
CIRCLE THEA TRF1--S- -I5--NaudeNtlle
sFrTTFrCN T-EFATRF-S: :2o-A Message from Mars.
vALyS THEA -S:I5-Starbucks,~
World in Wax
ENPIRF TFIEATRE-S:20-The Unforeseen.
fOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE Alrhonse a7'
Castor.
GARDEN THEATRE s:3Q-EyeryTsan-
EEICE Mice and Men.
HARI.EM OPERA HOUSES -lo-PrirnFcsc & AeeN
Mfns.rels.
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE-s;'o-fret FessY,1 >, -,
IRVING PI.A CE TIBATRE-s:2o-pie Frqpe tiEe DOM
KEITH s-Continuols Performance.
GNrCsK ERROCKER sTRE-S-Mr Blue Bsaru
MADraaN SCt- ARE GARDEN-2-S-f f2-nETn & haiiey-
MAJESTIC TrfEATRE%-The Wizari = OK .,-.
T-FIT Earl OF FawfNcset
INTERPRETATIONS y OPERA HOUSES :15-Tsie Seasons
MURRAY Hill. THEA TRE-2-S-s Wifes FeTil
NEW SAyNY-s :3e-The Tanning of Helen.
PASTOR S-Coatnuous Performance.
PRINCESS THE ATRE-s:3u-Tae FTtskN Mrs lohns"il-
Fpoc~ToR.s THEA ATRES-Couedy Rnd Vaudeville
.TTc~TSoRIA 1ATRE-s -f5--Tsesurrecticn-
THEATRES ,l5-Sultan OF SflIu
WEST END NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13
Nsp1lnrk DAILY Grihm1ss
MONDAY, APRIL Is, 1908.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING

. roBErrN-Bv a collision between a fast
freight and en express train on the 1ntercoionlai
Railway OF Canada six trainmen ano lLatLap .
were killed; il was thought that the enslnse ss,
90 tb4 freight was insane. - The successful
efforts of Manchester, Eng, TO MAKE mat Guy
g cotton port have alarmed the shlpoMIels powers ~ ~
St Margaret's, Westminster. took strong srouilu ~,
in favor Of more tolerant relations between lhe
Fstsblished Church and the NoncomforTnlsts
Hil,71a Pacha the new Inspector General
Of the Sultan's reform movement in Macedonia
talked OF the sale of arms TO Aloahlans aliu
other questions bearing on the MaceoonlaLl man
S;+na+ion Serious strikes have broken out
in St Petersburg. and bloody encounters nave
taken place between the police ana the S'i =
DoMEsTIC.-James II. Beck has resigned his
.ff5ce as Assistant Attorney General, and has
become g member Of the law firm of Shearr'lal
&. Sterling, Of this city. - lnVestlsatloh Nii
he made into charges that manutactuIers IA
rural free delivery districts had received ad-
vance Information from department employees.
It was reported from Fort HeIIo"sloi!@
that the President was well ard .laI i! ii.uGa -;
Albany that the Republican members of the
legislature have decided to kill the gran Dill
- The members Of the State legislature lear
that Governor OdeI viii cut the appropriation
bill in order to obviate the necessity OF IN IN
creasing the direct State taGaIlon- SeIla.oL e
Aids is working on scheme OF mortgage
TAXATION Two persons wer e burned 10
death and five others were injured in nre
which destroyed d house in Indianapolis
CITY-The chase and killing of a vicious dog
caused
sids nr5ve Policemen and others chased
n 'possurn through Harlem streets. - Ine
annual Easter parade in Fifth-ave- was Largely
attended The committee appointed pN
the Central Federated Union to confer with DIS
7rict Attorney Jerome in regard TO charges mace
nv him of corruption among labor men repor tsu
that Jeronne could not prove the guilt of the
leaders in question. - It was announced that
EsrS Nan De Carr, wife of the warden, would
give in the Tornbs a bridal luncheon Tor L tIe
Sancke Of oscar Pouch who is undergoing the
Pasteur treatment for a dog bite. - II was
learned that ten Inca mummies from South
America had been given TO the New-York Odon-
.oToesoel Society Many thousands Of dol
1a-e were raised in Easter collections for special
purposes at various churches = a young
Tor5sn sied at Bellevue it is said. from NOR
phine poisoning
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Showers. The temperature yesterday: Highest
50 degrees: lowest, 40
New-York tribune., 1903-04-13

There is still some controversy over coHpui-
sorry vaccination under the orders of boards OF
health and over the necessity of keeping dogs
in leash or muzzled while in the streets OF
crowded cities. But there ought not to be-