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New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
m,uTlA,s PART IN mANGUVREs.

Washington July lO-Although it has been practi-
calv decided tkat there will be manoeuvres this
wear between the regular army and militia in the
seacoast States. arrangements have nearly been
completed by which the organized militia OF these
States will be brought as far possible in touch
virh The army as contemplated by the Militia act
of 1903 The entire militia of Maine. consisting OF
two regiments of infantry. is to be assembled near
Portland August % TO 29 for the purpose OF taking
part in the combined army and navy manoeuVres AT
Portland The Ist Regiment Massachusetts Heavy
Artillery also is TO take part in the man9uvres at
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
ARMY and NAVY ORDERS.
Washington June 1O-The following army and
navy orders have been issued:
ARMY

Major GEORGE RUHLEN. quartermaster; Captain
ERASMUS N. WEAVER, artillery corps; captain
LEONARD d. WILDMAN. signal corpt detailed
board 10 War Department 70 consloer Sl6iiaI
be erected at coast artillery posts
Contract Surgeon JOHN n HEWITT from Fort Worden
for snnulHent Of contract
Captain CHARLES F. PARKER artillery corps. 70
Niagara Falls attend meeting Of association OF
electrical engineers
Erst Lieutenant CHARLES E HAY. u. oath Infantry.
to oiice judge advocate general
First Lieutenant JOHN = DEVEFEUX. assistant sur
geon from Fort Smelling 10 Fort Meade 70 relieve
Major Frank K. EEEFER, surgeon
First Lieutenant CHARLES E NARROW assistant
geoa. Fort sheridan to Fort Crook
Contract Surgeon HARRY D. BROWN from Preside 70
Vancouver Barracks
Secand Lieutenant JESSE D. ELLIOTT assigned 10 9th
Infantry. Company r
Second Lieutenant WESLEY ". K HAMILTON. artillery
corps. from I'D Company 10 69th Company. coast
second Lieutenant THOMAS a JONES. artillery
9th Company 70 I'd Company. coast
NAVY.
Lieutenant G. AALLIsON detached Judge
general. works OF Moran Brothers
Lieutenant H =. BRYAN detached works OF Bethlehem
Steel Company; TO Alabama
Ni!dshp4nen r w RYDES and W ". SMYTH. 20 the
Maine.
Psynaster F. T. ARMS detached the Columbia. Navy
Yard. New-York.
Paymas,er H E. JEwEFT. detached the Puritan the
Columbia
Pavmaster P c. KENNARD. detached navy yard. Mare
Island: the Independence.
Assistant Paymastsr ". B. ROGERS. the Puritan.
who has been training nremen for
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11

The government crop report, as inquired by
Statstician Brown. OF the Produce Exchange, in
dicates winter wheat harvest Of 463.i9S 900
bushels comparing with indication of 4s3.S62coo
on June l, and with last years harvest OF
III 1885, 666 bushels. \ spring wheat crop OF zoi,-
l29 600 bushels is indicated. comparing with the
June estimate of 29S $4,000 bushels and with an
actuaI harvest last year OF 25S974942 bushels The
total indicated wheat crop is 72O627Oo bushels, as
against ISL 905O 600 bushels indicated on June and
last wears harvest of 67O. 063008 bushels
The report corn is the first for this year. ana
indicates a WELD of 26S0O00GO0 bushels. as COM
pared with 2523 64S312 bushels harvested last year.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
ALASKAN ANIMALS FOR FAIR.

Tacoma Wash July 1O.-A collection Of Alaskan
wild animals will form part OF the government
,b3nit at the St Louis Exposition Executive
l,,,,,,issioner Johnston has received telegraphlc
authority from the Acting Secretary OF the lnte-
ior to take out OF Alaska a pair each OF the iahd
and water birds and one family each oI pt polaI
basrs moose mountain sheep and mountain sodts::
This permission necessary because; ; tns a. -
Congress passed a law forbddinG the sHlPHieti' "a
ft,r bearing animals from AlnSka
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
acreage
compared

The average condition of winter wheat on July 1
was 7SS as compared with S22 last month Il on
July l. 1902; S83 on July l. 1901. and year
age Of 1872.
The following table shows for each of the twelve
principal winter wheat States the condition on July
in each of the last three years. and that on June
/ 1903 with the ten year July averages:
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
Ten

The average condition Of spring wheat on July
was S25 as compared with 95.9 last month. S2.4 on
July 1902 $50 on July l. 1901, and ten-year aver
age of $50
The following table shows for each of the hve
principal spring wheat States the condition July
in each of last three years and that on June l.
1903 with the ten-year July averages:
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
NEW TREATY WITH GREECE IN FORCE

Washington. July 10.-Un!ted States Minister
Jackson, at Athens, has informed the State De-
nartroent that notifications Of the consular con-
vention between the governments Of Greece and
tie United States were exchanged az Athens yes
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
Mr.. BRYAN GOING TO EUROPE.

Lincoln Neb July l0.-William Jennings bryah
has announced his intention OF gong 10 Hulope
-, a,,t,,r,n 70 study social conditions in mon
archies 1t is his intention to sail early IN sep
Ten1ber and remain abroad until the ena OF Ihe
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
TILE uIINoIs REACHES FAYAL.

Fayal. Azores. July lo.-The United STATES pat'e'
shin Illinois has arrived here.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
TO SPEND 100000 ON THE NEw-YoRk

Washington, July 1o-Rear AoHii'al Do"iee
.,at,o, thar the armored cruiser New
york be brought 10 the Atlantic Coast for repairs
has been approved The yssse yes a WI" IN pe sddon s
overhauled at a cost OF S5eoey1. ttsrr 40
1iiI he dtted with new battery
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11

EJECT of the new junk law See to-nor-
roxyS. Tribune.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11

A man who has been training nremen for
over twenty years. to-morrow's Tribune
New-York tribune., 1903-07-11

big Italian festival. See to-morrow's
Tribune
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

At the Lone Jack picnic last Sat.
urday Governor Dockery, Judge
CAN'T, Senator Clark, and Prosecuting
Attorney Herbert S Hadley spoke.
Hadley, whois a republican, made the
longest speech, which was reproduced
In full in the Kansas CITY Journal
From the first sentence to the last #
lnslsts upon the nomination of Folk
oy the democrats as = n~on.partisan
nomination. He said; at is to this
principle that the people are showing
Ihelr devotion today and when such
40 issue is presented party lines
disappear and republicans and demo-
cratS vie with each other in their
support of a man who has shown nv
MS conduct 10 office that no ylolator
OF the law is so rich and no politician
powerful as to exempt him from
the penalties that the law has fixed
a punishment for his offenses. TT
thiS result should come about and a
era OF good feeling be inaugurated by
the uncontested election of JoSenh w
FOX as governor, let US hope that
WIN The driving out of the corrupter
OF our Legislature there will also come
an end to the corruption of the ballot ),
OF which goes to show that the
republicans are still skilled in "the
OF the Greeks" Hadley would
vote Y for Fire Alarm Flanagan against
Folk. ~
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
MEDITATION ON GOLF.
tame Has Taken a Deep Hold on Play
ers for Pleasure.

A general survey of the game Of
golf during the past year seems to es-
tablish a fact very comforting to
those who followed it and tasted gifts
pleasures before its great burst into
popularity in the early nineties. Not
only has it succeeded in keeping
clear OF the debasing element of gate
money, to which cricket and foot
ball are being surrendered even more
and more, but it has taken a deeper
hold OF the ordinary player who fol-
lows it for physical benefit and rec
reation. AT first the character of the
game seemed likely to be seriously
altered for the worse in England un-
der the accumulation of medal COM
petitions, DOGGY competitions, driv-
ing contests, club matches, county
cups and all the dreary pot-rewarded
struggles Of modern athletics. But
as time went on and the charmof golf
as golf without the extrinsic excite
ment OF pots and cups had time to
work in mems minds, SO organized
competitions attracted ever less at
tention, until to-day we find the pro-
posed county team contests hanging
fire, and even club matches languish-
ing. The truest delights of golf are
known only to the busy man, says
Blackwood's Magazine.
When the fading of youth has shut
cricket, football and even lawn
tennis-the fair weather game-for-
ever from his possibilities, he begins
to recognize the profound virtue of
golf. That there is a more youth
tul, more forceful, more skillful golf
than his, he is well aware. But he
need not bother his head about it.
Sufficient unto him the struggle
With a friend, the exercise in the
pen air and the constant and keen
'lay Of human nature under success
$ OF d~istresses intense enough while
he game lasts, but subjects of banter
md amusement when it is done.
low rarely to be seen now is any spe-
linen Of those first victims of a mis-
aiken zeal for the game who carefully
ecorded their scores in match play.
'he book and pencil are now regard
d as the signs Of the beginner, the
or the mar who ought not to
LAY golt.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
THE SIDEWALKS.

The work Of curling ten blocks Of
South Street preparatory to paving
that street with vitrifed brick is now
we'll under way. 1t has beeu 81 long
since anything In the way ofsySlemat-
&c street or sidewalk improvement has
been attempted In Lexington that
most Of the younger inhabitants do
not remember the time. Here and
there over the city a property holder
mas put down a new sidewalk along a
lot of fifty feet or s~eventy-6ve feet;
and here and there, especially in the
far outlying districts, the council has
macadamized a blOck-some ines uu-
connected with any macadamized
street. Yet, such as it is Lexington
probably has as much brick sidewalk
and macadam street as any city OF its
size 10 Missouri. The sidewalks es-
peciallY have been suffered to fall
into a disreputable condition. An
observing stranger would think from
the amount, the excessive width aud
the bad state Of repair Of our side
walks that Lexington had once been
an unusually prosperous place, but
That 1t is now in a declining cOndi-
tion. Such, however, does not seem
to be the case. There are more bust.
ness houses in Lexington than at any
other time in forty years. Residence
property is In great demand, and real
estate values are dlstresslngly high.
Ii Is difficult to find a satisfactory
explanation for the condition Of side.
walks in Lexington. One thing that
has made the proper maintenance Of
OF those we have an unnecessary bur.
den in their excessive width. There is
d mile OF sidewalk on Franklin Street
which is or four five feet wider than
neceSsary-wlder than those 10 the
retail business sections of St. Louis
and Kansas City. Their, Is perhaps
as much walk of this excessive width
on Main, Third and East South
Streets. The old sidewalks were laid
to the yard fences, thong M one
ever walks closer than two icet of the
fences. Shade trees block off two feet
on the street side. Some property
owners who have laid walks within
the past few years have wisely disre-
the old city ordinance upon
this subject-with great saving to the
book and no inconvenience to
the public. 1t is hoped that with the
proposed improvement Of the streets
there will come a general sentiment
'or sidewalk improvement.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
DOUBTLESS MISTAKEN.

The Marshall. Democrat News OBJ.
jectS to some comment by the INTEL.
LIGENcER upon an editorial paragraph
10 the DIN recently. Perhaps the
INTELLIGENCER mistook the import
OF the paragraph. Certainly no fair
minded man could criticise an editor
for urging the claims of any reputa.
BILE candidate, If done in the spirit of
the Democrat News second editorial.
The INTELLIGENCER was preaching
from a text rather than on it. There
has been so much that is intemperate
IN democratic country papers of late
on several sides, and 50 much that is
EXCEPTIONALLY overbearlng mostly on
one side that the remarks were
thought to be timely. When one
reads foolishness like the following
scattered through the editorial COL
umns of an Eastern Missouri country
paper all taken from a single issue
he must feel like protesting, even if
ne mad previously been in sympathy
with the editors favorlte:
For governor of Missouri, -
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the villains.
For governor Of Missouri. -
Platform-Weed out the wolves.
For governor of Missouri, -
Platform-Garrote the grafters.
For governor of Missouri. --
Platform-Eliminate the eggsuckers
For governor of Missouri, -.
Platform-Bury the bribers.
For governor of Missouri. -
Platform Nab the knaves.
II the democratic party of Missouri
refuses to purge itself from within
the job will be done from without.
IL Is not at all like the Democrat
News to urge a favorite in a
spirit like this. There is a great
deal of difference between a crouch
house" and a reform. The peopleare
very properly indignant over the
state Of affairs In the legislature
which have been disclosed by the
grand jury Investigations. and it is
perfectly natural that there should
be some diversity of opinion as to
what should be done about it. An
respect is due every party mar who
calmly and firmly thinks that Mr.
Folk or Judge CAN'T or Mayor Reed
is The man for the work and the hour
But a distinction sharp and clear IS
to be made between people OF this
CHARACTER and the rabid marplots Who'll
are intent only upon making a rough
house. The marplot-to vary some
what an eplgram Of Mr.. Folk's-the
narplot is neither a democrat O
republican, he is a nuisance. The
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

James Howard Briggs, once private
secretary to Herbert Spencer, has
written a book which is absorbing
much attention In the East-"HiStory
Of the Carnegie Steel Company"
Some Of the facts OF this book might
never have been Obtainable but for
the bitter personal rels tiOns SubSisting
between Carnegie and Prick. The
details OF the piratical practices by
which the Carnegie Company crushed
out or forcibly assimilated the smaller
companies are what give to the book
Its sensational interest among specu-
latOrs and business men 10 the East.
But to US In the West such informa-
tion as that contained in a letter of
May 10, 1899, from Schwab to Frick
is Of greater general concern. Schwab
writes: al know positively that Eng
land cannot produce pig iron at
actual cost for less than S11.5O per
ton, even allowing no profit on raw
materials, and cannot pat pig iron
into a rail with their most efficient
works for less than $3.50 a ton. This
would make rails at net cost to them
at $40. You know we can make
rails for less than $l2 per ton, leaving
a nice margin on foreign business. -
this date steel rails we're selling
In this country at S28.I2 per ton.
La comparison with this robbery
is the sense of worrying our
over the penny populations Of
John A. Lee? Yet a great political
party defends the policy by which
This robbery is perpetrated.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

Buckner extends wide her invita-
tions for August 29th. On that occa.
sion she will offer a baby show, a
barbecue dinner, music and oratory.
The speakers Of the occasion will be
Hons. James A. Reed, William S.
Cowherd, Herbert S. Hadley, and D.
A. Ball. The coincidence Of prize
babies and candida es is one of those
perilous %strategems which will lend a
~breathless interest to the occasion
Who knows but that the instructions
OF the Jackson county delegation
may hang upon incidents Of that
day?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

Justice Brewer in an article In Les.
lies Weekly urges two old remedies
Tor lynching: Speedy trial and the
abolition Of appeal in criminal cases.
In England and for nearly a hundred
years in this country, there was no
appeal from conviction OF a criminal
offense in a federal court. This could
hardly be regarded by any n &C
quainted with conditions in the South
as more than a partial preventive. If
these remedies were supplemented BY
an entire separation of the races
lynching might be done away with in
time' but it is not likely to be much
interrupted by any radical treatment.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
P ON A LEDGE.
Explorer in the Canyon of the cOlOr,s,
in a Tight Place.

A member OF a party sent out bv
the Smithsonian institution in IN.
early eighties to explore the canyon Of
the Colorado, recalls an experience
the memory Of which, he assures his
friends, still makes his hair Jingle At
the roots. This is his story, accord.
ing to the Youths Companion.
l had left the party for an alldsy
exploration on my own account, and
at four o'clock in the afternoon was
working gingerly along a ledge which
projected from the wall of the can.
yOn. 1t was a dizzy spot, with theI
rocky walls running straight down
to the river bed.
l came at last to a break in the
ledge-a sort of vertical split in the
wall of the canyon. 1t was about five
feet across, and a tree grew on the
other side, rooted hard and fast
among the crannies. Lucky thing"
said l to myself, chat the tree IA
here" and grasping a branch that
stuck out in my direction, I swung
myself to the ledge on the other side
of the gap.
Well, | started along all right, but
inside of two minutes 1 came to the
end of the ledge. There was nothing
to do but go back, and back l went.
When l got to the gap once more.
felt just the way an animal must feel
when it is caught in a box-trap.
The tree by which l had swung
myself across was now on my side Of
the ledge, and furnished me no more
help in getting back than if it hadn't
been there.
knew that no human help would
ever reach me, so | just had to cling
to the rough wall and try to make
up my mind to jump across from one
narrow ledge to the other, right
across an open space with a drop of
400 feet and nothing but rocks below
me.
A hundred times I had my mind,all
made up, but every time l looked
down into the canyon my courage
failed.
1t was nearly dark before |
jumped. I can remember even now
how my nails scraped across the
recks when | attempted to retain a.
foothold on the other side. Ny feet
were all alive with tingling nerves as
they slipped over the gravel on the
ledge, but when l found that I was
standing safely on the other side.
l felt warm all over at first, and then.
although it was a hot day, l had areal
chill, and shook as if | had the acme
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

When the postofice scandals were
made public through a personal quar-
rel of the thieves, it was announced
with all becoming phrases and -four
ishes that the investigation would
Ego go to the bottom;' and now that
the Indian Territory r~ottonness,
which has been so bad for three years
that the people in the West have had
to wear noseguards, has come to the
attention Of the administration, it is
said of Mr.. Roosevelt, who is preach.
ing lay sermons at Oyster Bay, that
that be will dig deep" There is
something encouraging in this more
modest expression. 1t might have
been more encouraging still If it had
been announced that "he will Just
scratch the top" The trouble with
the p~ostotice investigation seems to
have been that they dug TOO deep.
The digsers themselves never got
back to the light, like Eoderly's Tom
Benton dog.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

In another column will be found
the assessed valuation Of the public
service corporations Of this county as
approved by the board Of equalization
Tor the year 1903. 1t will he OBJ.
served by comparison that the rail
way, telegraph and telephone prop.
ertY of Lafayette county is valued at
nearly One-fourth that of the real
estate Of the county exclusive of
town lots, and If we include town
property, improved and unimproved
the ratio is considerably greater than
one to six. II we farther include all
all personal property subject to taxa
ton, the ratio is still considerably
greater than one to seven. In ad.
lecent counties the ratio of the prop.
erty of these three classes of corpora.
lions TO the total valuation OF other
property may be expressed as follows:
Saline, Ill; Jackson, 5;Johnson, 4;
Pettis, 4; Carroll, 10; Ray,
Doubtless few readers of the INTELL1-
eENcER had ever thought of the
property of these corporations as
amounting to so much. A considera-
ton of these facts will go far toward
accounting f the interest which
these institutions take 10 legislation.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22
Literature Of the State Of Missonr,

Inc Missouri Worlds Fair Commits.
son. with eminent appropriateness, i.
seeking to maks a display of Missouri
literature. 1t is proposed to show q,
o. Louis not only products of the soil
ana The factory and the mine bpt ,bo
products Of the brain in the form Of
DOCKS. The Department of Publication
o. winch Walter Williams is superin.
tendent and F. ]. Moss, of St. lo.onb
o - Uua,'man' is DESTROYS of securing a
copy OF every book written by a Miss
DURAN 'sa These will be exhibited in
the State Building
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

considerable encouragement is felt
oy the advocates Of an Isthmian
canal over the rejection of the treaty
oy the Columbian Congress. Asser-
tion is freely made apparently with
out evidence that this action was
secured at the instance of the trans
Continental railway companies. The
people may comfort themselves with
the reflection that the enterprise was
OF doubtful merit anyhow. Just
what benefit is to accrue to the shin.
ping interests Of a nation which
transports only eight per cent of her
imports and exports 10 her own ships
Is bard to see. 1t seems very doubt
fu whether the digging Of the canal
would afford any relief to the Pacific
coast country, when 1t is considered
that already the greatest ship lines
entering Galveston and New Orleans
are owned and operated 10 connec.
tion with the Southern Pacific Ra /
way II We mean to enter upon a
career Of military conquest, let us
build the canal by all means; but
otherwise it is difficult to see what
advantage is TO accrue to US as a
nation by becoming 3 toll. gate keeper.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

"If our LEGISLATORS are wise, says
Congressman Lowering Of MaSSaehu-
sets. 'they will not a~ntagonize the
great growing sentiment 10 favor oil
tariff revision, whether it come under
the head Of the Iowa idea or that
older and countrywide demand that
has been forcing itself upon the at
tention of the party leaders for the
past few years."-The republican
party can be depended upon to meet
this demand fairly aud SquarelY. They
will just endorse that clause of the
Mckinley tariff law. which gives 10
the president the power Of negotia'
ting reciprocity treaties; aud the
vigorous and strenuous Roosevelt can
be depended upon to busy himself in
the matter by day and by night as be
has in the past. AS a negotlatOr OF
reciprocity treaties Mr. Roosevelt has
ever beaten his record as a trust
cluster"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

In st. Louis a man hailed a street car.
The motorman failed to stop. The
mar drew a pistol and compelled the
motormsn to stop. The man was ar
rested, but the court discharged him,
saying the rights of citizens are para
mount to the right of street cars.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-08-22

Joseph Pulitzer has provided
So, 0OO, 900 for the endowment of a
school of journalism in connection
with the Columbia University, New
York. 1t will be coordinate with
the other professional schools Of law,
medicine, engineering and the like.