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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
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WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON GRE
ATES SENSATION IN WYOMING
By His Scheme to Move the State
Capital.

Willis George Emerson, who is well
known to a good many people of this city,
seems to have stirred up quite a breeze
out in Wyoming by his gigantic scheme
TO move the state capital.
Mr.. Emerson formerly lived at Meade
Center in this state and he is a member
of the Wichita Consistory. He was for
merly in the banking business at Meade
Center and he and c. P. Burlington did
an extensive business dealing in western
Kansas land. He is a warm friend of
NJ w Levy of this city with whom he
corresponds. The following account of
Mr. Emorson's scheme is from the Dem
yer News:
A scheme of startling magnitude to re-
move the state capital from Cheyenne,
Wye. and locate it in a new town to be
built In eastern FIemon county, near The
Sweetwater river, has been brought to
light, and by publicity probably killed.
The chief mover behind the enterprise
is Willis George Emersan. and it is said
for more than year carefully prepared
plans have been formulated. The last
legislature passed a bill providing that
at the next general election, which oc
ent location of the state capital insane
asylum, penitentiary hospital and other
state institutions shall be submitted to a
vote of the people.
The plan of Mr.. Emerson, and unlimited
capital behind him. was to spring a cam
paign a month or so before the election
to have all these institutions located in
The new city of Emerson, which he pro-
posed to build at the place described
above.
Depending on the sale of town lots to
remunerato. he proposed TO build struc-
lures of magnificent proportions for each
institution absolutely free of cost TO The
state 10 guarantee the building OF rail
road line 10 the new capital which ulti-
mately would become a transcontinental
carrier. ard 10 carry on the development
of that section OF the state on an enor-
nous scale.
Lacking newspaper support, the plan
was TO feed the state with able orators.
who would dazzle the voters with glow
ing accounts ef the intentions of the
syndicate ard golden promises for the
future. Through some miscarriage the
plans of the syndicate have been exposed.
and there is not much probability that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
WILL BE BURIED TODAY.
Funeral Of Roll Stevens This Afaer-
noon At 3.20 O'clock.

Definite information as to how Roll
stevens lost his life in the railroad ac-
cident has not yet been received by his
parents. Mr.. Stevens has teen in com-
nunication with different persons at cin-
meron. Kan, where the accident occurred
but it thus far unable to get anything
definite. He received telegram yester-
day that the body has been sent over
the Santa Fe and Will arrive in this city
this morning at 6:3a o'clock Mr. Stevens
was unable TO so to the scene Of the
accident himself. but sent a representa-
tive. who viii GENE back with the body
when the full particulars of the aci-
dent will be learned
Mrs. Biddle Of Carbonate, George
Stephens Of Ashton. O. T.. and \. H
Stephens Of Kansas City arrived in the
city yesterday to attend the funeral which
win be held today at $50 O'Clock from the
family residence
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
ROUTE WILL BE
SELECTED SOON
w. G.. Edwards Talks of Route
Through City.
He RECEIVED $4,000
For Work of Grading Line
Near Wichita.

w. c. Edwards of the Orient was seen
in his Office at the Winnie block yester-
day, and upon request gave out SINE
important information concerning the
building of that company's lines in this
city, which is now not far off When
Informed that everyone is anxious to
know what route viii be used in build
ing the line through Wichita and where
the.sfte for depot viii be selected, he
said:
Those matters viii all be decided in a
very short time. I don't mean within
several months, but within a month, or
perhaps only several weeks. Judge John
A Eaton, the general attorney of the
Orient, and NJ P. Paret, chief engineer
are the persons who have that matter in
charge. They are the representatives Of
the Orient in all matters of procuring
right OF ways through cities"
But you may say" ne continued, that
the track will be built just as has been
said all along, to the site selected for
the car shops and directly across the
river at that point. The right of way is
complete, so far as that part of it is
concerned, until after the grading is
finished to the other side of the river and
o bridge is built"
So far as to the remainder of the route
into the city Mr.. Edwards said he would
not think Of stating where the right of
way will be secured. In regard to the
condition of the company MIR. Edwards
says that it was never better. At a trip
10 New York this week, where he confer
red with the officials, Mr. Edwards re-
eeived payment for 5000 in cash due him
for the work of grading.
"One of the principal features connect
ed with the building of the Orient" said
Mr. Edwards, lis its desire 90 remain out
Of debt for all time. The officials are
feeling their way along and for that rea-
son no haste is being made in selecting
a route for entering the city Of Wichita
1t will soon be time, however, for that
matter TO be looked after. and then the
route will be given out.
Il know, and am pleased, that the peo-
pie of the city Of Wichita show so much
interest in the movement OF the Orient.
They certainly appreciate the good that
II will do this city when the line is once
established
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01

the newspapers of southern Wyoming
fighting IL
So gigantic is Emerson's scheme that
the outsiders who first discovered it
thought themselves confronted by ire
mendous hoax, but developments haya
proven it bona fide proposition to those
connected with it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
BROTHER WAS KILLED.
Relative CT HRS. Fosnct Was Founc
Dead.

Mrs. z. B. Fosnot received i message
from Joliet. III yesterday stating that
her brother, James Williamson of that
place was killed The telegram did not
say how he was killed. but II supposed
from being run over by 8 train
MIR. Williamson resided here a number
OF years ago and VAS a conductor On iSe
Santa Re between this city AMI Newton
IT the time OF his death he was employ
Ed as yardpaaster for the Santa &c Cd
Joliet aud was found dead in the yards
there.
Mrs Fosnot viii be unable to at:ead
the funeral owing TO present III health
John Wiley, editor of the Hotel Month
iy, published AZ Chicago. wax Wichita
visitor yesterday. the cues: OF b. L. Ea-
ton. proprietor Of the Hotel Carey. asr.
Wiley is on his way to Colorado fren
Topeka where he attended a meeting Of
the Hotel Mems 'sssocsstieu.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03
WORKS EIGHT HOURS
Clarence 81. Mackay Busy at His
Desk Every Day.
HAS Dropped Sport for Work and Now
10 . Potent Factor In New YOrk's
Financial and CONNER
ciol Circles.

Scarce turned 20 years of age, Clar--
ence H. Mackay now occupies one Of the
most prominent positions in the bust
ness world as president of the Postal
Telegraph & Commercial Gable COM
panies. So many young men are being
placed in positions of large responsible
ity that this injection Of young blood
into the large corporations of the coun,
try has come to be question of remark.
MIR. Mackay is the youngest Of these
young leaders of business and finance.
For that reason-because he feels his
youth-he is 10th to bring himself in
to prominence by talking about his az
fairs. Mr.. Mackay occupies the promi-
nent position he holds as legacy from
his father. His rule for business sue
cess is to devote his attention strictly to
his task and to follow as closely as pos
sible in the footsteps of his father. John
w. Mackay.
The son had careful schooling in Or
der that he might fill acceptably the po-
sition of the father. AS director of
the Postal Telegraph company every
branch, every detail of the plant and
service was passed before him. It was
his fathers aim in life to leave his son
prepared to carry on the work he had
begun in various directions. and the
son has accepted and is manfully full
filling his fathers wishes.
While the elder Mackay was engaged
i,> 80 h,,Sl
cable to the orient was always his
pet hobby. According to the Worlds in
dormant the mechanical obstacles did
not figure for moment in this desire.
Congress-, 1t is said, was the greatest
stumbling block to be encountered in
building the Pacific cable. The ques-
tons of private ownership were tooth
some morsels for the opponents of the
cable. Government ownership was
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
Called by Some the Messiah" Of Our
Colored Population.)
the cities generally gaining at the ex-
pense of the country districts.
In Charleston, s. c., the colored
population increased in ten years from
IS, 900 to 10000; in Jefferson county,
KY, which includes Louisville, the
colored population increased from 49,.
600 to $4,000 in ten years: in Shelby
county. Tenn, which includes Menu.
phis, from $1,000 to 5000; in Fulton
county, Ca, which includes Atlanta.
from $4,000 to $4,000; in Baltimore
from $1,000 to 10000; in Washington
from 10000 to 100000; in Duval coun-
ty, Fla, which includes Jacksonville.
from $4,000 to $4,000; in Warren coun-
ty, Miss, which includes Vicksburg.
from IS 900 to AZ. 900; in St. Louis from
$4,000 to $4,000, and in Galveston from
1000 to $500.
Indications of the migration of col
ored residents to the large cities may
be found in the north as we'll as In the
south. In the state of Pennsylvania
the increase in the colorcd population
in ten years was $4,000. OF this $1,000
was in Philadelphia and Pittsburg
alone.
In New York tho increase In the
colored population in ten years was
$4,000, but Of this total 10000 was In
New York county, 1000 In Brooklyn.
and 1000 in Richmond and Queens.
and 1000 in the whole rest Of the state.
Another reason for the increase in
the colored population of the city, not
given by Mr. Washington, is the bet
ter wages paid to colored people in the
cities and their larger opportunities
for material advantage.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03
IS HOLDING HIS OWN.
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, Most Disl1ked
Ruler in Europe, Stronger
Than Ever Before.

Bulgaria is nominally q tributary
state of Turkey; yet in practice it
maintains a more Independent posi-
ton, perhaps, than any other of the
Balkan states It has objected SO
strongly to being regarded as con-
nected with Turkey that the United
States government no longer commune
Gates with it through our minister at
Constantinople, but has assigned 1t to
the territory of the minister to Greece,
who is also accredited to Roumania
and Servia. Ferdinand, the reigning
prince Of Bulgaria, is the youngest son
of the late Prince Augustus of Sake
Coburg and Gotha, and was rs years
old when, in July, 1887, he was elected
by the national assembly of Bulgaria
to succeed a prince who had abdicated
in the preceding year. Ferdinand has
had hard and trying experience, mas
much as the sultan was not willing to
confirm him, and the great powers were
not willing to give him their formal ap-
proval until 1896, when he had been
some nine years on the throne. Ferdi-
nand is not very popular in Bulgaria,
and by common consent the European
press has always made fun of him, the
caricaturists singing him out as the
butt of international ridicule. Yet he
holds his own, and the chances are that
he will so conduct himself as to
strengthen his position and to remain
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03

been equally disastrous. This law, &C
cording to the commuters report, was
placed on the statute books Ito ena-
BILE few wealthy men to acquire vast
bodies of land in California" The ia
cilities it offered to rich and unscrupu-
lous land-grabbers have led to the ex-
tension of it's operations to all the
arid and semi-arid states. MEN and
women have in numerous instances
been employed to take up land in con-
tinuous bodies from 5000 acres even
to 300, 1000 acres and to turn them over
to land proprietors to be used chiefly
for grazing purposes"
Similar abuses have been perpetrated
under the communication provision of
the homestead law, by which the re-
quirement of residence is waived after
IA months for payment of $1.25
an acre. The result Of these various
facilities offered to spectators is that
our splendid expanse of irrigable land,
the greatest heritage ever possessed
by any nation, is rapidly disappear
ing. In the five years from 1898 to
1902 inclusive the government dis
posed of 66,141,5 29 acres-an amount
more than twice as great as the whole
extent of England-and it is estimated
that in 1903 we have lost an addition
al area about as large as the state OF
Pennsylvania. If this keeps up for five
years longer, says the senate commit
tee, "the entire public domain suitable
for settlement will be exhausted and
there will be no land left for our peo-
pie who desire to make homes upon
it." The only way Of escape from this
calamity, says the New York World,
is to repeal all the laws that favor the
Spectator and monopo1ist, and leave
only one legal way of acquiring title
to the public land-"a residence of
five years and continuous cultivation
Of the SOIL"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03

and everything in the German empire,
When his wrath had effervesced some
what he stated his case as follows Last
year, while travelling through Germany.
I fell in love with q young German lady,
and after my return to America became
engaged to her. I. have now come fol
my BRIDE The wedding is fixed for next
Thursday; our steamer passages are
taken day or two later. And find that
the authorities will not allow me to mar
ry unless present a multitude of pa
pers such as never dreamed of! Some
of them it will take months to get, and
some can never get. My intended bride
is in distress; her family evidently dis
trust me; the wedding is postponed in
definitely; and my business partner is
cabling me to come back to America az
soon as possible. am asked for
baptismal certificates Taufschein.
Now, so far as know, I was never bap-
tized. I am required to present GER
tificate showing the consent of my par
ent to my marriage-1, a man 80 years
old and in large business of my own!
I am asked to give bonds for the payment
of my debts in Germany. I owe no such
debts; but know no one who will give
such a bond. I am notified that the
banns must be published certain num-
Der of times before the wedding. What
kind Of a country is this. anyhow"
We did the best we could. In an inter-
view with the minister of public worship
was able to secure dispensation from
the publishing Of the banns; then bond
was drawn up, which signed and thus
settled the question regarding possible
debts in Germany AS to the baptismal
certificate, I ordered inscribed, on the
largest possible sheet of Official paper,
the gentleman's affidavit that, in the
state of Ohio, where he was born, no
Taufschein, or baptismal certificate, was
required at the time of his birth, and to
this was affixed with plenty Of wax the
largest seal of the legation. The form
of the affidavit may be judged peculiar;
but it was thought best not to startle the
authorities with the admission that the
man had not been baptized at all. They
could easily believe that state like
Ohio, which some of them doubtless re-
garded as still in the backwoods and
mainly tenanted by the aborigines, NIGH
have omitted, in days gone by, to require
a Taufschein; but that an unbaptized
Christian should offer himself to be
married in Germany would perhaps have
so paralyzed their powers of belief that
permission for the marriage might never
have been secured.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03

(Recently Appointed Assistant Secretary Of
mission as second lieutenant, and
joined the Fifth Massachusetts cav
airy. 49,
Despite his youth, his service was
such as to attract the attention of his
superiors, and he was made adjutant
of his regiment and later on aid on the
staff of the Twenty-fifth Army corps.
After the surrender of Gen. Lee, Gen.
Oliver went to the Rio Grande, where
he was mustered out of the service. He
remained out of active service but a
short time, however, rejoining the
regular establishment in 1866, when he
was assigned as second lieutenant to
duty in the district of Arizona.
He was promoted to first lieuten-
ancy and then to captaincy. In 1870
he resigned his commission, and in
November Of that year he married
Miss Marion Rathbone, eldest daugh-
ter of Gen. John F.. Rathbone, of AL
bany, and went to Albany to live. He
was made partner in the stove manu-
featuring firm of John F. Rathbone &
Son, now known as Rathbone, Sard &
Co.
In 1880 Gen. Oliver was appointed
by Gov. Cornell inspector general of
his staff, and, with Adjt. Gen. Fred
erick Townsend, was instrumental in
securing for the state the state camp
at Peekskill. When Gen. T. Ellery
Lord resigned Gen. Oliver succeeded
him as ,brigadier general, commanding
the fifth brigade.
Gen. Oliver is a member Of several
Albany clubs. His second daughter
Cora, recently married Joseph H.
Choate, Jr., the son of the ambassa-
dor to the court of St. James. He has
two other daughters, and one son, who
is q graduate Of Yale.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03
ROBERT SHAW OLIVER.
New York Man Chosen to Succeed Col
Sanger a. Assistant Secre-
=. tary Of War. .--

Gen. Oliver, who will become assist
ant secretary of war, has been resi-
dent Of Albany for the past 80 years,
and has long been prominent in the
business, social and athletic life of
that city and the national guard organ
ization of New York state. He was
born in Boston about 60 years ago, and
was boy at school at the beginning
Of the civil war. He wanted to enlist
among the first, but owing to his youth
his family succeeded in persuading him
to postpone his enlistment for time.
In 1862, however, he obtained COM
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03
Geronimo Now q Meth0dist.

Geronimo and dozen of his Apache
warriors have joined the Methodist
church at Fort Sill, Ind. T., having been
baptized in the presence of large crowd
of Indians and whites. With the
Comanches sitting on one side OF the
tabernacle and the Apaches on the
other, each tribe with its Interpreter
standing in the foreground repeating
the words of the white preacher, the
minister stood and told the story of
Christ. At the close of the sermon
Geronimo and II of his warriors, pris-
oners at Fort Sill, went forward and
asked to be received into the church.
In the afternoon the baptismal cere-
mOny occurred.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
It Is Rapidly Passing Away from
Government Control.
How Spec ulators and Others Are Vsing
Unwise Laws to Pick the Locks
Of Our Greatest National
Treasure Chest. 49,

The passage of the national irriga-
ton act has insured the reclamation
of the vast arid domain of the west,
but it has also brought to the front
the question:: "For whose benefit is
this reclamation to be effected?' The
spectators have not waited for the
leisurely development Of public opin-
ion on this question-they are an
swering without hesitation: For
ours" They are swallowing the irri--
gable lands by the million acres, and
unless the laws which permit and en-
courage this process be repealed,
Uncle Sam will find by the time his
irrigation system is complete that It's
only use is to water the vast estates
of land monopolists. Fsfes,
In the report on the Quarles bill for
the repeal of the timber and stone act,
the desert land act and the commuta-
ton clause of the homestead act, pre-
scented on behalf of the senate COM
mittee on public lands by Senator Glib.
son, of Montana, it is said: w..
''The records of the land department
show that under the timber and stone
act our timber lands are rapidly pass
ing from the possession of the nation
to that Of spectators and strong cor
porations.'
According to the commissioner of
the general land Office, lin many in
stances whole townships have been
entered under this law in the interest
of one person or firm, to whom the
lands have been conveyed as soon as
receipts for the purchase price were
issued"
The government has been selling
timber land worth 800 an acre or
more at $3.50, and from the merely
pecuniary standpoint it has lost over
100000 on such sales. The oper-
atoms under the desert land act have
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can who, having thought that patriotism
required him, in crowded railway car
riage, loudly to denounce Germany, the
German people, and the imperial govern
ment, had passed the night in guard
house; another day it was one who, feel
ing called upon, in a restaurant, to pro-
claim very loudly and grossly his I'M
favorable opinion of the Emperor, was
arrested; on still another occasion it was
one of our fellow-citizens who, having
thought that he ought to be married in
Berlin as easily as in New York, had
found himself entangled in network of
regulations, prescriptions, and prohibi-
tions
OF this latter sort there were in my
time several curious cases. One morn
ing a man came rushing into the legation
in high excitement, exclaiming: "Mr.
Minister, am in the worst fix that any
decent man was ever in. I want you
to help me out of it," and he then went
on with bitter TRADE against everybody