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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

Columbia, Mo-, Feb. 81. A. Good
man, secretary Of the Missouri STATE
Horticultural society, has Just issued
the following bulletin on the condi-
ton of the peach crop. He says the
peach crop Of central and north Mis-
souri is very badly injured, II not en-
tirely killed, and the crop Of south
Missouri is seriously injured, in very
many places at least.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

Topeka, Kan, Feb. 2S.-The senate
yesterday recommended for passage
the Codding bill, changing the pres
ent system of issuing teachers GER
tificates. The bill establishes county
boards Of examiners, who are to is
sue four grades of certificates-pro-
fessional, first grade, second grade
and third grade, which shall continue
in force, in the order named, for the
respective periods OF one year, three
years, two years and one year.
Senator Smiths bill providing for
, the indeterminate sentence of prison
ers has been engrossed in the SEN
ate. Under the terms Of this bill the
courts are not allowed to fix the limit
of duration Of sentences. Ii La left
with the prison board to say how
long a convict shall remain in prison,
except those convicted of murder and
treason. 1t is made the duty Of the
Judge before whom the prisoner Is
tried and convicted, also the county
attorney, to furnish the prison board,
together with the warrant for COM
mitment, all information that they
can give in regard to the career OF
the prisoner before the committal Of
the crime for which he was SEN
fenced, stating, to the best OF their
knowledge, whether the prisoner was
induatrioua nr mot of GOOD character
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

Connellsville. Pa, Feb. ss.-Mary
Kohland. aged II years, met a horri-
BILE death last night by being burned
alive in a coke oven. The little girl
in running down the hill above the
oven fell and rolled into one OF the
hot ovens. Men at work nearby
broke into the oven and secured the
body, but II was burned to crisp.
hardy a semblance Of q human form
being left.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

sue marriage licenses in this state
shall hereafter issue such license
to any persons either of whom is
aifiicted with any of the diseases
mentioned In section of this act,
knowing them to be SO afflicted. un-
less the female party to such mar
,riage is over the age Of As years.
No clergyman or officer authorized
by law to solemnize marriages with
in this state shall hereafter perform
marriage ceremony, uniting per-
sons in matrimony, either of whom
is afflicted with epilepsy, imbecility,
feeble mindedness or insanity, know
ing them to be so afflicted, unless
the female party to such marriage is
over the age of As years.
Any person violating any Of the
provisions of this act shall upon con-
viction thereof be punished by fine
Of not more than $1,000 or by impris-
onment in the states prison for not
more than three (a) years, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
Francis bill to cut down the ex-
pense of state printing has passed
the house and gone to the senate.
Hutcheson's anti-spitting bill
passed the house and has been mes
saged to the senate.
Hills bill providing that chattel
mortgages may run for two years
instead of one has passed the house.
Among the bills passed in the house
were these:
BY peck-Repealihg the law requir-
ing candidates to file statements OF
election expenses.
By MISUNDERSTANDING Neosho
and Wilson counties as the Thirty
seventh judicial district and making
Woodson and Coffey the Seventh dis
trict.
BY Waggener-To suppress mob
violence.
By Pralle-ProHding for a township
tax for road purposes.
BY Kirkpatrick Modifying the cor
poration law.
A resolution was adopted by the
house requesting congress to submit
to the electors an amendment to the
constitution providing for the cleo
tion of senators by direct vote OF
the people. There was no opposi-
ton to the measure.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

Topeka, Kan, Feb. 24.--In the SEN
ate yesterday afternoon these bills,
among others, were introduced:
By Codding-Permitting the su-
preme court clerk to charge the same
fees as are collected by clerks of the
district courts.
BY Buschow-Requiring seed
houses to put label on all sacks
or packages Of seed showing the age
of the seed,
By Cubbison-Requiring the state
librarian to furnish the Carnegie Ii
brary of Kansas City, Kan, with a
complete set of the Kansas supreme
court reports and digests.
By Henley-Giving educational in
stitutions the right to establish light
ing and heating plants.
By Porter-Requiring coal mining
companies to put in escape shafts at
all their mines.
. By Findlay-PrOviding that any day
on which state, county or city cleo
tion is held shall be declared q Legal
holiday.
BY Hurrell-Providing for q two
mill tax in Jackson county for the
erection of q courthouse.
All bills vacating townsites. addi-
tions, streets, avenues and alleys
have been Incorporated into one gen.
eral vacation bill. The measure has
been passed in the house. 1t con-
tains lS pages.
Electric light and telephone com
panies will be checked from cutting
tops out of shade trees In order to
string their wires In first, second and
third-class towns in Kansas under q
law passed by the house. Adams, Of
Sedgwicl, is the author Of the act.
Under the present law, these con-
Germs can destroy shade trees, which
are in the way Of line construction,
and no one can prevent 1t.
For three hours last night the
house considered the hrst-class city
charter bill. The provision extend
ing all existing electric light, gas and
street railway franchises for 40 years
was stricken out. The city authori-
ties are still clothed with power to
grant franchises. Public utility cor
porations are allowed ten per cent.
net earnings frst and then all net
earnings above that amount ten per
cent.
o'DonneIrs bin regulating mar
rage was passed by the house. II
provides:
No woman under the age Of IS
years or man Of any age, except he
marry q woman over the age Of Al,
years, either Of whom IL epileptic.
imbeeIle, feeble minded, or afaicted
With insanity, shall hereafter inter
marry or marry any other person
within this state. II Il also hereby
made unlawful for any person 20
marry any such feeble minded. imbe-
Gle OF epiieptic person or anyone af-
aieted With insanity. or any person
Who has ever been 20 afaieted- CHI
drsu born after q parent was insane
iha1 not marry except under ne
aboTu named condltiOnE.
- aEonr anfhnrlrnd - lsa 70 -
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information from the people who,
have known the prisoner. The prison
board can either parole or pardon
convicts, upon the approval of the
governor.
A minority report, made In the SEN
ate by Mcmillan and Kennedy, urges
the looping off of another $4,000
from the appropriation for the KAN
sas commission for the st. Louis
worlds fair. The senate ways and
means committee majority report ap-
proves the bill as ii came from the
house, giving 100000 by this legisla-
ture, making $175,OOo in all. McMil-
Ian and Kennedy argue that $1S0,OoO
IL enough.
Two insurance bills by Senator Al
len were passed by the senate. One
gives insurance companies the right
to invest in county and municipal
bonds. At present they can only
invest in state and government
bonds. The other is an insurance
reciprocity bill. It provides that
Kansas shall treat the companies OF
another state in regard to inspection
and fees the same as that state treats
Kansas companies.
The Cubbison-Enright bill regulat-
ing the barber profession and Great
ing state board TO examine BARRIERS
and issue licenses has passed the
house and been engrossed in the SEN
ate. II Is a copy of the Missouri law
and was backed by the Barbers'
union. 1t creates four good jobs for
BARRIERS.
The bill prepared by Senator
Wulfekuhler, chairman Of the COM
mittee on frst-class cities, repeating
the Hanna public service corpora
tion law, passed by the pops In 1897,
has been advanced on the senate cal
endar and will be engrossed to-day.
All the street railway, electric light
and water works companies in the
state want the Hanna law repealed.
Billings, Of Marion, has introduced
a bill in the house TO encourage the
construction Of ponds on farms. II
provides that farmer shall have VI
deducted from his taxes II he shows
that he has built half acre pond
which contains water five feet deep.
II 4 is an acre pond and the water
10 five feet deep then $40 shall be de-
ducted from the farmers taxes.
Peck. Of Cloud, introduced two
hills. One gives the city Of Concordia
the right to issue $4,000 in bonds TO
build an auditorium. The other pro-
yides n way to wipe old mortgages
NJ, the record without having 70
bring suit to quiet title.
when the house took up for con-
alteration the agricultural college
snnronriation bill an effort was made
~ .trilt. ont n $4,000 appropriation
tor animal husbandry. Speaker
pr,n1,e and Adams. Of sedgwick,
..,acLed ne item. They took the po-
s,t,on that n was a waste of funds
- hrv an. cattle and hogs and
-: chs,rman Francis made an
a..,,ua.rt 1or the item ana the house
e.ni-aS Nh
TSa harss h.. .ert these bills 10
...-e.sr,srt. ~ Nv Revin0top-FixinR
shs E -. - ~ s,nrs,ne court reports AT
ns p ,s.sa5 ~, 70 n. NV CampbeIi.
Sl'SV -I--....s
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

New York, Feb. es.-George +. Bal
ley, famous as q circus man, first 9
rival and then partner Of P. I. Bar
mum, In dead. He was s4 years old.
Death was caused by paralysis. Mr..
Bailey Is accredited with being the
originator of the Cardiff giant" and
the Colorado mummy"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26
WORK or THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE.

nuai bank meetings 10 DC neia pc
tween January ana 10; au'norizing
county commissioners 10 pay ~ Genus
bounty Tor gopner scaips' 70 gave
school district treasurers ana clerks
each q salary OF 70 per year. nA'ns
the minimum capitai OF s'a'e Dahks
at $io,ooo instead OF So,ooV' az y now
the law; 10 increase tne saiaries oi
supreme court JUDGES 70 so'vVv eac,i
q year. the increase nos !" .sAe "a
fect untii the expiration Oh 'he pres
ent terms.
Waggeners D,n 70 rePeai 'nc ou'Ae'
shop law was nlieo.
r.raL. ~ nah a,-rn spsta;n.
,nn ! notion to ant ont the charge
- s .ra,d ~ SENATE Yesterday morn
- - a;,tnsl,y settled The Hamilton
GO: s s,,s;a;., oontss+ ,ro,n tbe Sew
1s.s. $50 | s;s+r;ot T. favor ~ Ge;ger
a ~ Novsnhsr alact,on Ge;9er
.ss,.oorot ~ ,vos alectad bv On maioTitv
u .ha 80. - tha rst,,rns iudce
4. %.,. IN al a. aon.ast II. ohoroed
s-s..s I. .a, to,.nshins Tha RAJ
- ,a.o -, reon,,nted ana ca;ger
st;,, had aho,,t On maioritv Then
-. M .t.ornsm. aIsd . mot;on to knock
~ ~. ~ ahous.s - crowd ond ~. was
w s's..S;n.S ~ ~. ssnots yesterday
nv, % - .ass. s,s-s;ssad A.. Hem;,ton-
n.;ra~ contest ana declared Geiger
Is.s ,a...,,.. s,n.+sd ,,,d~a - the Saw
~ sI.L % s,...;ot -
Ss..a. Msrn;,h. h.s ;n+rod,,ced
i, 0e rm ! ~ o. sa.t,ona - Iard nfr
.I @ ~ ..s..u ~ .up as,t w ~ Morr;. county
,ss ~ VA = - naarS Tha nsonle ~
~ 49, 90 CO. .s., - ~ sa:r,u III favny tba
~ y C T,n 90 - Mor~;s
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cTuA.y oss' - a.. hr;daa To- ~ Ia
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paIs !. e -,.;,. - da,oat AZ
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1nNesuSaion = Ine .a g..
asylum s. - ny ~ -aso,,,t;n,,
"'ol @ 1.oaueeS - ...,t4os -
proViu,hs ~. a. s'".s a.s.. ha.n;t.Is for
.nree W slsi. VAT Tea,.o 500 I 81 os.s.a
.he INSANE =. lopeA" 80 1" s"'.,a,,t
'omie 70 inss.usaSe az ~ ~ 4.astmsnt
.. saiu nos.as .. an' 'o
u n"'"n. p" - p..,,;,. -,
me pin n'iouusu u'.,... ~ .hat III
Leavenwo.' - ss.,aaS I -
Prison.aaue Prsan soous -, i, ar,s,a,ttss
usiea'eu ~ 'no o."s. | = =, na+s -
q .he "no," ne 'asS ss,: sno ~ u,.b h,,t
~ 70 - ine .epa oa ~ Ia, tha III
=" eAcopAo,s 49, y A. In
Inc oemocra.s al ,u.eu - .osa,,,t;n, III 49,
senator "uiiekunieI -
indorsing senator W. a. i"ffis ioi
position on the isthmlan canai com
mission was reached for considefa-
tion in the house yesterday mofmng'
When the clerk finlshed reaoing tne
resolution Evans moved that II De re,
ferred to the committee on 1ederai
relations. Adams seconded tne mo.
tion. Chandler raised the point OF
order that a concurrent resolution
could not go to a committee, put
must be voted up or down. speaker
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

Topeka, Kan. Feb. 24.-The legis-
lative Joint committee appointed to
investigate the causes Of the pres
ent coal famine in Kansas completed
its report and Bled copies In each
branch yesterday afternoon. The
COMMITTEES would make coal conhsca-
tion q crime and recommends that
state institutions store coal in SUM
mer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

Martin Gardner, 70 yesrs old, was
Killed by . trolley ear near Buffalo.
NY, he had ! mnnia for walking
qn ga tr-=t
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

No fewer than eS.oOO women lost
money in the St. Louis turf concerns
that have gone under.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-02-26

nnfH THss1la. tI
sco1FaDoFrE c-a ssruan-hN
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-26
COULD NOT RAISE
EWACOURT HOUSE

The Telephone Company is moving
along progressive lines in trying to Sc
cure better Central Office service II
nothing more. The failure to spread
the news of the murder at Eva called
for u vigorous investigation by Presi-
dent ]. O. Carter. AS a result the re-
ports of operators seem to point to the
fact that the Eva Court House night
man was absent or soundly asleep that
night.
The record of calls shows that at
1880 o'clock on the morning of June %,
the Eva plantation office called for
Eva Court House but could not raise
any one. The night operator at the
local central suggested that the local
police be notified but instead the per-
son making the call asked for and talk
ed to the Eva plantation manager.
1t was $40 a. m. when Manager Rem
ton notified the city police and five
minutes later the Eva Court House
answered. The attempts to get Eva
Court House We're renewed the even
ing of Tuesday between $3.50 and p.
IN. and again 1t was impossible to get
nearly I o'clock Wednesday. The tele-
phone people insist that the line was
constantly in good order.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-26
LOCAL BREvITlES.
(From Wednesdays paily.)

Eighty-eight analysis beets. rs. cad
OF the total output of Hawaiian coin
s6SO,000 have been redeemed.
The Chamber of Commerce will hold
special meeting at 2 p. IN. 20 lay.
The e. S. Cunha case has been con-
tinued until Friday by Judge Dickey.
Charles Buchanan has been appoint
ed poundmaster at Kupeke, Molokai
The rifle shoot between Senate and
House will come off Friday afternoon.
Judge Robinson leaves in the Ala
media to spend his vacation on the
mainland.
Miss Chrystal left on the Kinau for
Kawaihae. She will visit at the Par
ker Ranch.
Mrs. Major Harris and Mrs. Col.
French left on the Mikahala last night
for tour of Kauai.
The blankets used by the National
Guard Hawaii men in camp at Kapio-
lani Park were fumigated in the Capt.
tol grounds yesterday
Kakisako, charged with the theft of
chickens by Chinese, was acquitted in
Police Court yesterday. The chickens
got away during the progress of the
trial and roamed about the court room.
Contracts for carrying freight be-
tween Hilo and Hamakua have been
made by Capt. Harris of the schooner
Woodbury., the Julia Whalen having
abandoned the service, owing to the
difficulty of making landing, and also
the loss met on her first voyage.
The many friends Of Mrs. w. Ogg of
Pahala will be pleased to learn that
she has sufficiently recovered to be re-
moved to Honolulu. She will arrive on
the steamer w. G. Hall under care of
DR.. st. d. G. Walters and will be taken
to Miss Johnson's sanatorium on Ke-
walo street.
Jimmie Blancha was sent to the Re-
form School for eight years and John
Vierra was sentenced to Jail for three
months by Judge Dickey yesterday,
but the sentence of Vierra was sus-
pended. Both boys We're charged with
stealing a copper coupling from the
Rapid Transit Co.
Rapid Transit cars began running
between the Esplanade and
Pauoa road beyond the Mormon church.
Transfers to and from the Punahou and
Waikiki routes were given at Hotel
and King streets. The new line was
we'll patronized and the advent of the
electric car was hailed with curiosity
and delight by the denizens of Portu-
guese town.
F. M. Brooks, the attorney, Past
Exalted RUIZ of the local lodge IF
Elks, will leave in the Alameda this
for Baltimore, to attend the
Grand Lodge of the order. Mr. Brooks
will spend six weeks on the mainland
and will visit his former home in Mas
sachusetts before returning. He ex-
poets to travel across the continent in
with the California delegates
to the Baltimore meeting.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-26
wANTED-A BUSINESS LEGISLATURE.

One of the best things that could
happen to Hawaii would be the election
of Legislature from the ranks of men
who have something to do besides pol
itics. The present body is largely
made up of men who would be idle, or
comparatively so, If 1t were not for
legislative employment; hence their de-
sire to supplement each regular session
with both extra and special sessions, In
a word to keep the Legislature running
as long as possible. Private life offers
such people few rewards or attractions;
public life means bread and meat to
I them--provender to be had, for the
most part, without work.
! A Legislature OF business and pro-
fessional men would easily get through
with all the law-making Hawaii needs
in sixty days or less, appropriation acts
included 1t would talk little on the
floor and work hard in committee. If
necessary 1t would work ten hours a
day until the docket had been cleared.
But the Legislature we have wastes
more time at the regular session than
1t uses, for no other purpose than to
make an extra session necessary. Very
soon we shall have had 120 days of
legislation, such as 1t is, and there Is
talk of so shaping matters as to make
it necessary, in case the county act
goes by the board, to have a session of
sixty days more. Happily the law pro-
vides for biennial sessions, for If we
had annual ones the Legislature would,
it is likely, be in evidence one third
of the time.
The rudimentary difficulty lies in the
national habit of thinking that anybody
is fit to do anything. Law-makng is
"a skilled business which, in American
States and Territories, is apt to be
turned over to unskilled labor. A man
who knows nothing of law or the forms
of law, to whom the Constitution is
sealed book, who is as blank on the
subject of political science as a child
unborn and who could not write an in
telligible English paragraph, is yet
presumed capable of making laws
which in form, substance, consttu-
tionality and clearness of language can
meet the test of Supreme Court re-
view. Probably the least competent of
all legislatures in these essentials is
the Hawaiian, many members of which
do not speak English, most members of
which know nothing of law and some
leaders of which have developed their
craftsmanship in tending bar, driving
hacks and pounding poi. What a pity,
what an outrage it is, that the interests
of a busy, high-minded and wealthy
American and foreign community
should, at biennial intervals, be put at
the mercy of such a body of incompe
tenCe and worse.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-26
MORE TOURIST TALK.
1.-THE omcial and Commercial Record.l

I 1.-THE ofiicial and Commercial Record.l
| A through passenger from the Orient
to the coast a few days since remark
ed while here, II, with my family
would like to stop here for a couple OF
weeks and l know of at least dozen
other passengers aboard who would
like to do the same, but we dare not
risk it as there seems so little oppor-
tunity of getting on to the coast when
we are ready to go. Travel Is so
heavy we are told, that no guarantee
OF passage can be given US"
The situation as the Record under
stands 1t Is that passengers by either
the Pacific Mail, Occidental or Maru
lines can obtain interchangeable stop
over privilege here and can continue
their journey on any one of the above
mentioned lines.
With the present heavy first cabin
business from the east this privilege
does not seem sufficient for our needs
however as many tourists who would
be glad to remain here two or three
weeks dare not risk the chance of being
unable to secure Accommodations when
ready to continue their journey and are
stopping here only as long as their
steamer remains in port, which is but
a few hours at best
Each one of these tourists would be
worth much to us, not in coin only but
in advertising us to their friends and
acquaintance. Stopping off here after
a nine or ten days trip from the Orient,
they are predisposed to see everything
in a most favorable light and could
and would do us world of good.
The travel this year has been heavy
but with the addition of the new $4,000
ton steamers to be put on by the Pacif-
ic Mail and the 1880 ton boats pro-
jected by the Togo Kisen Kaisha, trav-
el will likely be trebled as tourists
are prone to patronize the best equip
ped lines and the Orient is gaining
steadily in popularity with them.
When the giant liners are added to
the Pacific Mail run the China will
most likely be withdrawn and why can
this popular boat not be put on the
San Erancisco-Ho route to al
ternate with the Alameda and give us
a local service every ten days. That
she would do a good business is certain
and with the advent of work at Pearl
Harbor the present service is certain
to be taxed far beyond it's limits and
the probabilities are that even with the
China added there would be more bus
mess than they could handle.
With some such arrangement as this
there seems little doubt but that we
could secure a goodly proportion of
these Oriental or homeward bound
tourists.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-26

There was a time when the name of
Ira D. Sankey was in the papers as
often as that of the President of the
United States. Moody and Sankey, es-
pecially during their English tour, held
first place In the days general news.
Afterwards they shared space with
Francis Murphy. Moody has been dead
for some years, Sankey has become
blind and Murphy, who was living in
Los Angeles at last accounts, is an old
man who rarely takes the platform.
Probably there are no three leaders in
the annals of the last quarter of the
Nineteenth Century who were more
helpful to their fellows.