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Evening journal., 1903-12-17
Rsmark.hI. offsr Eor rwo wesks.

william r. Clark. .105 West Ninth
street. one OF the leading jewellers. is
selling lady's or gentleman's gold
filled watch. guaranteed for 20 years.
with Elgin movement Tor sl20o ana
giving free With each y240O worth OF
trading stamps. dletr
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
WEATHER BULLETIN


cloudy weather will prevail with slight temperature
Friday fair partly cloudy will
followed slightly higher
probably
European
ery weather the Banks
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
FINISH LOADING BELOW CITY
Big csrsoss Are Put on Ships After
Shoals Are Passed.

After loading a big ship with -four
below New Castle. $50 stevedores were
brought TO this city yesterday by the
sea-going tugs Bryn Mawr, +. A.
Churchman and Baltic.
The ships with heavy cargoes are
loaded in Philadelphia with as much
as can be carried over the flats abreast
of this city. The remainder of the
cargo is taken below on lighters and
loaded in the deeper water. The men
were put ashore here and went home
on a train.
Large, Beautiful Gold Fish.
A new lot at Cartmell's, Sixth and
Madison.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
WORK PROGRESSING
ON NEW RANCE LIGHT

smyrna Dec. 1.-THE work is pro-
crossing rapidly on the range light
which VIII be known TO naviga tion as
the New Firms Point Range" at
Taylor's Bridge. The old Firms Point
Light was located on the New Jersey
shore and is now abandoned. when
the light near the mouth Of Blackbird
Greek Is completed vessels outbound
VIII keep from the vicinity OF Port
Penn that light IN range OF the bow
with the New Finn's Point Light until
certain point is reached. when SINH
lar beacons from the New Jersey shore
win serve as a guide.
II all goes we'll the hundred foot staff
which is OF chestnut timber, viii be
raised soon. Uncle Sam win experience
little trouble IN getting a light-tender
for service here. BESIDES having
comfortable house furnished he viii
have six acres OF tillable land at his
disposal. Several persons in this VII
cinity have their eye on this job.
Woodward & Bro. 800 Market ST.
Sen Ice Hooks. Ice Tongs. Tee Crcepers,
Snow Shoveis. Sidewalk Cleaners. Me-
chanical Toys. Hardware
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
DECLARES HIMSELF BANKRUPT
Market Street Clothing Merchant Fails
in Rusiness.

In United States Court this morning.
Nathan shiofman. a clothing dealer at
No. COS Market street filed papers In vol
uutary bankruptcy. The case was referred
10 Referee Arahur W. Spru2nce.
shtofman places his liabilities at $500
and assets al $3.50.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
TayIorIs case Postponed.
A Rare Chance.

William Clark. ieweaer, los West Ninth
streot. has an Edison Phonograph and
two dozen selected rrooris which be viii
sch Ak a great bargain Hf sold at once
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
X. N. saltman & Co.

An kinds OF carpenter work done:
building and repairing. Old furniture
and pianos repaired. s03 West Sec
ond street Wilmington. Del. D27
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
Woodward & BIO. aos Mar..t s..

Sell Mrs. Potts Irons. Clothes Wiring
ers. Carpet Sweepers. Bird Cages. Food
Choppers, Christmas Tree Holders,
Fine Scissors. Tool Chests. Hardware.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
$500 Worth Of Trading Stamps Free.

William Clark. jewerer. lo5 West Ninlh
street IS selling. for DAYS Only lady's
god-rlcd. guaranteed 20 year watch, With
guaranteod movement, regular price }i..oo.
ar 50 uo.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
EXPERTS TALK
ON GOOD ROADS
Meeting at Farnhurst Yester-
day Afternoon Was Not
Largely Attended
HELP WANTED FROM GOVERNMENT
Logan W. Page Of the Department Of
Agriculture Delivers Technical Ad-
dress Telling Of the Atmospheric &c.
feet on Road Material.

There was an interesting good roads
meeting held at the county hospital
at Farnhurst yesterday afternoon. II
was poorly attended. Many more citi-
zens would probably have been present
had the meeting been held in this city.
Among those present were several
county officials and a number OF repre-
sentative. farmers of this county. The
meeting was held under the auspices
Of the Delaware Highway Commission
and the Levy Court.
This meeting was Of great import
ance to people In this county interest
ed in good roads and addresses on the
subject were made by the following
prominent speakers: Logan Warren
Page. chief OF the chemistry depart
ment of the Department OF Agricul-
ture at Washington; Professor Pike.
geological expert OF the same depart
nient: United States Senator Asbury
c. Latlmer OF South Carolina; Henry
I. Budd. State highway commissioner
% New Jersey; Dr. A. T. Neale OF tho
Experimental station at Newark. and
Register OF Wills Frederick T.. Bach.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
PIKE APPOINTED TREASURER
Succeeds Mckinney in That Position at
Lyeeum.

West +. Pike has been appointed treas
urer of the Lyceum Theafre to succeed
Mr.. Mckinney. who has been promoted
to press agent. Mr.. pike Is well-known
and poular here as Inc was one Of the
ticket sellers at South side Park for the
past two seasons. He only recently re-
turned from "trip Through the south as
treasurer OF the Mabel Page Company.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
Fraetured Her shouIder-

silppel down ses,orday and fractured her
shoulder
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
ENTIRE FAMILY
IS WIPED OUT
Three Burned to Death in
Early Morning Fire at
Oak Lane
MOTHER AND BABES SUFFOCATED

Philadelphia, Dec. 11.--Pent in their
bedroom by locked door with flames
roaring. through entry and stairway.
three persons. n mother and her two
babes were sunocated early this
morning IN. a fire that destroyed two
cottages az Oak Lane. Half o dozen
other inmates Of the two houses were
obliged TO fee IN their night robes. saw
ing nothing OF their property. and one
OF them. a woman. was badly burnG
In a heroic but futile effort 70 save the
lives OF the little family that was wiped
out by the flames. The property loss
will not exceed s5eoo but the tribute
OF life taken by the flames Is the hcav-
lest levied in the history Of the old
York road suburban section.
Entire Family Wiped Out.
Three bodies now lie at the city
MorRue awaiting a formal identhca-
ton. They are those OF Mrs. Harry
l.. Smith. a young woman: Harry l..
Smith. Jr.. her 3-year-oid son. and
Albert Smith. a babe Of months. Mrs.
Elizabeth Shelmlre. IN whose house.
No. sos city Line, tho smith fnmiiy
boarded. is IN the Jewish Hospital suf-
fering from severe burns incurred while
vainly striving to arouse Mrs. Smith.
The home that until this morning
sheltered Mrs. Shelmire, her three
sisters, and the Smith family is a
mass OF ruins while the adjoining
property 90 the westward. which was
occupied by Mrs Cummings. is like.
wise totally destroyed. The homeless,
families are now being cared for b,
charitable ncighbors. who received
them barefooted and clad only In theu
night-rohes as they scampered on
into the frozen street TO escape mos
horrible death.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
DRUNKEN MAN
ON A RAMPAGE
Breaks Into Chinese Laun-
dry and Rifles the Money
Drawer
CAME NEAR BEING A MURDERER
coIored Youth Shoots Twice at Step
father, Both Bullets Taking Effect.
Charged With Assault with Intent to
Kill and Held Under Heavy Bail.

For breaking into the laundry OF
Hong Lee at Fourth and Poplar streets
last night Martin Robinson, q young
man, well known to the police, was
held, under $500 bail i'm City Court this
morning for the Court of General Ses-
sions. The evidence showed that Rob-
inson had been drinking yesterday and
entering the store Of Hong Lee de-
manded a shirt which he claimed the
Chinaman had belonging to him. The
two had a tussle, after which the pris-
oner went out and Hong repaired to
the police station to tell the authori-
ties of his troubles. During his alb
sence Robinson returned to the laun-
dry and breaking in a window gained
admittance 10 the building. He rified
the money drawer taking about SO
which Hong had laid aside to pay his
rent. Blood from a wound in Robin
sons hand was found in the money
drawer and on the floor of the laundry
Boy Shoots stephather.
That Charles Sentman- coloreo
youth. was not charged with murder
in City Court this morning is probably
due 70 his lack Of skill as a pistol shot
He sent two bullets in the direction OF
his stepfather yesterday afternoon. one
taking effect in the elbow and the othei
in the neck of his parents anatomy
The prisoner said he was moving his
belongings from the house when his
stepfather appeared and beat him. later
getting an axe and threatening TO xii
him.
Il. went across the street. said tn,
priosner. "and got gun and shot al
him. Upon admitting the offensc
Judge Cochran held the youth undei
$1,000 bail for the upper court on 4
charge of assault with attempt to com.
NIT murder.
TayIoc's Case Postponed.
William T. Taylor was arraigned al
last nights session Of court on charg,
Of forgery, but the case was continued
until tomorrow morning. Taylor ad
mitted to the nolice last night that h,
passed the checks. three being OF $ an,
the fourth for SS
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
VOTES.

Lena Frederick, sO7 w. Srd ST.. ee.s7t
r. J. Healy. los Broomo STU. 17.4f9
Helen Crawford. 1927 Poplar st 1O.4ss
W. J. Lilly. go Woodlawn Ave. 4.ei0
C.. Z. May 80. 49,. 80. ........... $50
Thos. Martin. 2i2 \. Harrison. 357
Mary Burke. s0s s. Van Buren, st AS
John Warren ...... .........-.. 26s
Ferd Speer. 1893 Delaware Ave-. 1s4
John Welch. 1905 Hutton St.. 15s
L. Behringer 412 Lombard ST.. 1s4
G. Ealxin. 400 f. 9TH St......... sc
John Shaw. Clayton. Del. 75
II. Barker. $40 +. 10th St. 81
J. Riley. 9is Front St...... 57
W. Day. Ills Front St.......... 30
Geo. Smith. a03 E. Fifth st. "a
Geo. Phillips l104 From s..
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
Mr.. HOrrigan Presided.

Cornelius J. Horrigan. president II
the Delaware State Highway Commis-
sion. presided. He explained that a. ..
meeting was called In compliance with
an act passed by the Legislature TO the
effect that one meeting shall be held
each year in each county TO thoroughly
dlacuas good rnnd mattnrs.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
Mr. Pase Introduced.

Logan Warren Page. chief OF the
chemistry department Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. was intrcduced
as the first speaker. He spoke OF the
l9ismere road which he inspected ON
Tuesday. He said Il seemed to be
very simple problem. There seems 10
b. some difference OF opinion az to this
read" he said. II have read over tile
specifications and they seem to be all
right. but the important thing Is the
carrying out Of specifications. He eN
plaiaed that he has some samples OF
rock from. this road which win b. am
Giyzed and he win be able 20 repoi
OF IL carly next week. In answer to
n guest ION Mr.. Page said that gravel
insree about as good a binder as san
be secured.
l5r also answered Il number OF otheI
questions in regard 10 the analysis ol
stone aud other things relating to the
building OF new roads.
He said IL he was going to recon-
struct the Elsmere road he would sim.
ply use a spike road machine tc
crown II up, which would give the ben
/ eft OF the old surface. II Is a bad
plan. he says, TO destroy good sur
face.
Evening journal., 1903-12-17
New Jersey commissionsr Talks

Highway Commissioner Budd OF New
Jersey was the next speaker. He ex-
plained that New Jersey has had con.
siderable experience in road building.
an1 hc would be glad TO answer any
questions on the subject The gooi
roads law there. he said. is very popu-
lar. This law provides that the State
pay one-third, property holders 10 per
cont. and the county the balance. I'm
der this law 1000 miles Of good roads
Rave been constructed. or the twenty.
one counties in the State twenty are
fcnntinn.d on rifih pnrnA
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WEATHER:

Tomorrow-Fair to
partly cloudy
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
KoRN IS STILL KING IN KANSAS.

From the Topeka Herald
Kansas raised approximately ninety million bush
els of wheat this year. Her alfalfa crop for 1903
would feed all the cattle in the world through the
winter. Her cattle Craze upon thousand hills and
her hogs roofing UP the ground in ten thousand
fertile valleys. Ten thousand babies crying or
Growing in as many homes and steen million chick
ems are Growing and cackling all up and down the
states highways and byways. But valuable as all
these crops are the old standby crop-the that
our fathers planted when they first "emigrsted to
Kansas and the which Son John is harvesting
in its golden abundance this falls corn-klng
Corn
1t was the first crop to be raised in Kansas. For
four decades it practically the only crop 1t is
still the principal crop. Wheat is widely advertised
and alfalfa has made its picture, head, bust, half
three-quarters and full length in the newspapers
and magazines from Maine to Molos but when there
is mortgage to pay another quarter section to buy,
son to put through college or a daughter 10 DOVER,
nine Kansas farmers in ten buy another team OF
mules, hire another hand and put in more corn.
Last year Kansas raised 201,367,102 bushels OF
worth over 900. At the same time her
54s4s.236 bushels of wheat were worth only trife
over $29, 000-One-thrd the value Of the corn
crop During the last twenty years the value OF the
corn crop has exceeded the value of the wheat
fifteen times, while the number Of bushels of corn
raised has always exceeded the number of bushels
of wheat in the year except IN lgjl-year be"
fore last when the drouth caught the corn while it
was yet in tassel and cooked 1t brown In every
other year in the last two decades the ratio Of Kan
sas raised to that of KansaS-raised wheat
measured in bushels has varied from two to one in
nineteen hundred to nineteen to in 1885. Dur
ing the entire twenty years the raised amounted
to 2028 695 TIT bushels against sol 255354 bushels of
wheat, and the value of the corn was 5000 o39, 152
against s457,12 093. That is to say: For every
bushel of wheat raised in Kansas during the last
twenty years there have been raised three bushels
and three pecks of corn. while every dollar that
wheat has brought to the state in twenty years
might have been covered with two dollars which
have come to Kansas to pay for corn.
In twenty years Kansas has raised enough corn
If the were laid end to end, to reach 300 times
old tn 2 about
the globe 81 feet wide This is the sort Of belt which
has been raised in the Kansas belt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
sAlLEYs ADMINISTRATION ENDORSED.

Governor Bailey in an interview acknowledged
that he expects TO ask the Republican party of the
State for an endorsement of his administration. In
his Official acts. Referring to the announcement the
Leavenworth Times says that he will get IT despite
the fact that he has been probably abused and
vilihed than any governor in recent years. Bailey
has made good Governor. His administration has
been successful. The probable reason for his early
announcement is due to the fact that his name has
been mentioned In connection with the congressional
fight in this district" The Times further asserts
unequlTocaly. that there was never any truth in
the statement that Governor Bailey had consented
70 become candidate for Congress from the First
district that the opposition Curtis can by any
pressure force him into such a contest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
A CLERICAL QUESTION.

preacher at Ottawa went into the Office of Mr..
Rohrbaugh Ottawa's rich man. and asked him to
listen while he read something to him, says Ed.
Howe in the Atchison Globe. The preacher then
read from the newspaper alleged account of Rohr-
baughs DEATH telling of his good deeds. and relating
that he had left as memorial the finest Methodist
church in the west 1t sounded so good to the rich
that at its conclusion he told the preacher that
he would give him 50 for every 81 he raised for a
new church. The money raised, and the church
built and now church people are having fit after fit
over the question: MAY preacher tell lie that
good NAV come of t?"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
TO SLEEP.

Oh healing Sleep. why art thou so shy of me?
l. who have wooed thee from my chdhoods day;
The night without thee marked lonely way,
The stars look down upon a silent
missed the sweetness of security
While in their little beds the others lay
And dreamed their little dreams Of love and play,
And without thee tossing feverishy.
Oh! wilt thou look me with generous eyes
Till. forced to these poor arms. the moment when
Death gives thee to me solves all mysteries
A sleeping and forgetting Stunned of men?
As now | grudge thee no sweet sacrifice,
Oh, gentle Sleep. be tender to me them
Mary Page Bird
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
Il h ~nA IA ii y
0dliehita 4.ag {
NJ M. munpo cK EDIT
AS FOR CANADIAN ANNEXATION.


The New York Tribune, in edtorially treating
the Canadian question observes that 1T was certain
that when American farmers began to stream into
the Canadian northwest the prevailing voice OF that
fertile and prosperous region would be for annexa-
tion and it is coming round to that at Lou Dillon
gait They can probably come in if they want to
when the time is ripe; we Indifferent about it,
and the initiative is and will be all theirs-and the
lions share Of the advantages will be theirs also,
fact which even the mouldiest old Tories and re-
dictionaries up there have difficulty in perceiving
The trouble with the Tribunes conviction is it is
a conservative one if not cowardly one. 1t lacks
vriiity and defnteness. The American people are
not Indifferent to the bumptous demands, the pre-
sumptuous acts and unwarranted movements on the
part of the Canuck Presenting English back
ing and on Johnny Bulls all around national envy,
not to say individual hatred, of America and every
thing American save for its colonial rights in
British North America, the Canadians have ham
pered our fishermen on the Banks, have despolied
our sealeries in the Benrng Sea and along Alaskas
coast have disputed land rights and bay pos
sessions up along the Pacific, have unblushingiy
robbed the American miners who discovered and
developed the Klondike having practically driven
every enterprisng American from that gold field
through system of inspection and are even now
asking the cession of one of the oldest states in
the Union. When it comes to touching business IN
terests and trade relations the New York papers
cosmopolitan rather than American, cowardly
for
the union of states to spread from the Atlantic to
the Pacific from the Gulf to the North Pole, that
every foot of the continent shall flourish beneath the
protecting folds of the Star spanged Banner. Amer
lea is Anglo Saxon what of foreign blood this
continent she cannot assimilate she will conquer and
educate up to the standard of the American love of
freedom and to her spirit of enterprise. Canada
with her Canuck or mixed race habitues stands
bar to our expansion a menace to our progress and
clog to our destiny as the wealthest and greatest
nation Of the worlds history and Canada therefore
must be wiped off the map and popuous and
wealthy states of the Union founded along the north
ern shores of our great lakes which lakes including
Hudson Bay Gulf of st. Lawrence, the Gulf of Van
couyer together with all the other waterways bays
and streams, shall become the highways of people
who hold that the Monroe Dostrine means at bottom
America for Americans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
GOVERNMENT PRINTING VERY EXPENSIVE

The Government print shop like all industries
conducted by public officers and for quasiparty in
terests is found to be very expensive. AS result
of Miller's dismissal from union pressure and his
subsequent reinstatement by the President, Secre-
tary Cortelyou of the Department of Labor and
Commerce has been quietly investigating the con-
duct of the Government printing office, at the re-
quest of President Roosevelt and when his report is
submitted the President is likely to recommend that
this office be transferred TO the department over
which Secretary Cortelyou has control 1t is init
mated further that radical recommendations will
be made by the President with respect to the con-
duct of the office.
It is said that Secretary Cortelyou has found that
work done in the printing office for the various de-
partments has cost far than would have been
charged by private concerns outside The cause for
this is said to be the limiting of the work that be
done in the Government priting Office, and other
arbitrary regulations concerning the doing of the
work. One instance is given in which a department
official obtained an estimate for some work from
the Government printer He thought the price was
high and he asked for bids from outside concerns.
lie obtained much lower price and the contract
vas given to firm in Baltimore.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27

The ice plant Pratt started Tuesday
Mr. Green Is a color dauber of Preston. Pratt county
Husking it is said. VIII cause Kansas pride tall
some distance.
become city the arst-ciass- Gushers
don't make a city
Phiiipshrrg take report before that
brass band convention gathers
a was organized week at Hutchinson
And there's not hobo" among the instruments
Caldwell viii make use Of the curfew beginning
Monday The and time limits Is years and eight
o'clock
Elmer Psdaed of Hutchinson has elected presi-
dent freshman L. Ills trial term vii
be months
A tnresher of Pratt county feed store dur
Ing the his engine grind feed No duh
for him.
Kay valley people would set their life boats
atmosphere Kansas Is reported IS feeling
like rain again
The Anthony Bulletin is churchman's ideal Paper
this week gives lines Joint case and - laes
to a revival meeting
w,nae,s Is threatened with another newspaper T W.
Eeker formerly editor Arkansas City Traveller Is
trying bug the Courier.
coneyvile cnerryvale and Independence may unite
in holding chautauqua IL would be held az the juno
ton OF the interuTbsn lines.
Mack Gretchen reports that the Newton IRE Depart
scored another victory last week II managed 20
keep ice house from burning.
The Hutchinson calls attention che FAC, that
Democrats next year has not met with second
A crowd needed home Preston Pratt
county. just eight days prairie IRE 4 spark
from Rock Island engine isnstsd the dry
TreEo threshed 4.aTI bushels wheat IN
II hours and fifteen minutes breaking worlds record
The old record was 1890 bushels the time.
group Of New York bankers VIII stop over Hutch
inson on their way TO convention san Francisco.
They stop at only one other point in Kansas Topeka
Pratt SCOTS the reported honesty Of the circus
VIII r0ed he ADV Nc Pratt
had a little experience Of its with the
jontist tried and fined Anthony the other
day and the papers give the matter paragraph.
be hard for Winfield and wellington understand this
Mr.. Pepper Arkansas City has brought injunction
proceedings against the bands playing in hs neshbo
hood. And everybody In the town is hot
Pepper.
The sedgwick Paragraphs editorial column
crowded cut week by advertisements readers
wish the Pantasraph prosperity but miss the editorial
paragraphs more
The Pratt Republican that many people
Hutchinson that list Of their names would al
column and therefore IL doesn't undertake publish
them RS that the editor politician
Their money been the stockholders Of
Pratt OIL. Gas and Mineral company ne
satisfactory contract for drilling could be made This
beats the circus that returned the money lady
Mcpherson.
Preston correspondence in Pratt Republican,
recently in this neighborhood mother whispered
daughter replied: Why. you think mother
! going shake my bangs FOR old
man.
Hutchinson News: Nearly everybody thinks that
knows how grocery a newspaper
Statistics show that % OF the who
the grocery business failures little perusa
newspapers leads the opinion that large
mistaken when they think they editors