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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-06
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The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02
TO KING COUNTY,: HAVE A LIT
TILE SENSE.
(Pt. Angeles Tribune-Times.

There is a golden opportunity at
your feet today, hlng county! What
are you going to do with it? Not
only is it your opportunity, it is your
only show in the world to save your
white alley.
If you will quit flying kites on minor
and personal considerations and seize
the main chance, the whole ball of
political wax is in your hands. Just
have little sense now for once and
work your graft.
You want a senator. You've got a
show to get two-one this time and
one the next. But you've got to fire
up the Seattle spirit and be quick
about it at that
You can't elect Preston. He's out
of it now. He's got dead horse about
his neck. You got off wrong with him
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

and criminals. Now is the excepted
time to call halt on this wide open
procedure that has run rampant in
this city since Tom Humism made it's
first advent herein. Lets show to the
outside world that Seattle after all
is not a second Sodom and Gomor-
rah, When Seattle is mentioned to
an outside man he begins to shiver
and shake and involuntarily grasps his
pocket book lest the very name of Sc
attic sets it to moving. There is a
remedy for all this and the coming
grand jury is the first course of the
remedy and the people themselves is
the other part If the people will de-
mand the enforcement of the laws and
will demand that the murderers and
the thugs be driven out of business
it will be done and done at once. Let
this be done by the people and let
us have a decent city.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

There is at least one man in Seat
tie mighty pleased to see that the
state auditor has called upon the Pan
American commissioners lor this state
to make a show down for the $25,0OC
spent in Buffaloing the state last year
1t is reported that ex-EXecutive Com
missioner Moore has been contemplat
ing appealing to the coming session OF
the Legislature for some cOnsidera
ton of his treatment by the commits
sion, and it is possible that this de-
mand of the state auditor will open
up the way. While the commission
KEEP. within the appropriation, it is
generally conceded that Mr.. Moore
is entitled to as much credit for that
fact as any one. Through his firm
stand at least two of the original ap-
pointees were left at home, and had
they been taken to Buffalo, as the
board of commissioners commanded
their salaries would have overrun the
appropriation, if it had not been ex-
ceeded in any other way. 1t is re-
called that, at the outset, the election
of Ankeny as president of the board
was the part and beginning of a
scheme to exceed the appropriation
and allow Mr.. Ankeny to square the
account, as he could better afford to
do it than let a deficiency stand as
weapon to use against him in his
candidacy for the U. S. senate. Mr.
Moore stood firmly against that
scheme and several others
One phase of the Buffalo affair
which has never seen newspaper light
is the fact that at least four of the
appointees named by the board of
commissioners were at Buffalo in di-
rect conflict with the constitution of
the state-a clause providing that no
member of a legislature making an
appropriation should share in the dis
bursement of the fund thus provided.
Senator Andrews, Senator Paul Land,
and Representative La Wall (secre-
tary) and Thompson OF Kitsap coun-
ty, were each under pay during the
eXposition-although the final report
of the board-signed by all the mem
bers-states that Senator Andrews
gave his services to the state, when,
in fact, he received $500 per month
from the first of April till near the
close of the exposition, when he and
Representative Thompson resigned
and came home.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

The big fight between the two gas
companies of this city promises many
new things under the SUM- The Seat
tie Gas and Electric Company seems
determined that their competitor shall
do no business in Seattle except under
grave disadvantages, and therefore
has given all gas consumers in certain
districts eighty cent instead of dollar
gas, which they have been praying for,
and it gives regular coal gas instead
of water gas as does the other com
pany. The water gas, it is claimed,
is dangerous, but it is extensively used
in all of the largest cities of the East,
and it is surmised that there are those
in Seattle no less timid along this line
than their Eastern brethren and they
will use water gas" as quickly as
coal gas if it comes bit cheaper. The
Indications at present smells strongly
of a great gas war in Seattle that will
for time at least give the citizens
gas to burn.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

gold of 81 1884, 900 900
The greater part of this immense
amount of Indebtedness is held in
Europe, mainly by England. Germany
and France, and a very small fraction
in the United States, where $25.OOO-
600 of Mexican gold bonds were taken
in 1899. And this immense sum shows
the ratio of the financial. and as a
natural sequence, the material interest
these three European nations respec-
lively have in the republics south of
the Rio Grande, and explains the
alertness and vigilance with which
these same three nations, each one
for itself, watch the course of events
on this side of the Atlantic
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02
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South Americas Population.

From the recent Pan-American con-
ference it was learned that the popu-
lation of the various South American
republics are as follows
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

1t means something for few men
without money to burn and without
official positions to back them in their
journalistic ventures, which are los
ing ones from the beginning, from an
official standpoint, to oppose men who
are aided from the outside financially
and who hold official positions to aid
them at home. Both Scoby and Madge
hold federal positions which they
work for all there are in them. If
the Olympian does not pay single
cent they can yet run the paper and
make it have the appearance of heal
thy sheet, for the reason that the sala-
ries of both proprietors are paid and
paid we'll in another direction. They can
devote their entire time to the paper
and still draw their salaries, as each
of them employ clerks to do the work
of their respective offices and they
are free to do as they please with
their own time. | am told that it's
the exception and not the rule to find
either one of them in their federal
Office during the day, but they can be
found ON the streets doing politics or
doing the people day in and day out.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

Seattle has a reputation throughout
the state, yea the entire country, for
being the home and rendezvous OF
thieves and thugs, that is calculated to
do it no good in. the future and all
because the mayor of Seattle has per-
sonal reasons for permitting all the
renegades, murderers and thieves on
the Pacific Coast to congregate in this
city. Because forsooth they can be
pulled by the police periodically and
fined heavily and because they have
the money, which they got by holding
up some man, woman or child to pay
their exorbitant fine seems to be his
chief reason. Much money it must
be admitted, flows into the Golfers of
Seattle from the fact that it is wide
open town and the same might be said
of a town which is the home of pi-
rates ON the high seas. 1t is all i'll
gotten gains, it is all blood money
and will at no distant day rise up in
our faces as living condemnations
against the toleration of such crimes
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

A pretty political fight is being
waged in Thurston county between
what is known as the Scoby-Madge
ring and the Weir-Deckebach opposi'
ton. Scoby who has had undisputed
control of the politics of the county
for the past decade or more, is being
made the central point of attack. In
discussing the relative positions of the
two factions a we'll known politician
of that county was lead to remark:
IF Ankeny wins and does not forget
the boys, Scoby and Madge, backed
by the Olympian, will continue to run
things in Thurston county, but, if
Wilson or Preston wins or any one
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02
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else except Ankeny, the Scoby fol-
lowers will lose out completely, their
paper will go to the wall sooner or
later and their political power broken
and Weir, Deckebach and their
friends backed by the Daily Recorder,
will direct the political affairs of the
county for a good many conventions
yet to come. Deckebach is a splendid
organizer, a shrewd politician and
proving himself to be a magnificent
newspaper man, all of which will aid
him greatly in his fight against the
ScOby-M -Madge ring.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

IOtal ............. bZ, SoO,COU
1t will be seen that the United
States represents fifty-fve per cent
of the population of the western hemi-
sphere, exclusive of the Dominion of
Canada. 1t may be added that the
population of the recently acquired
territories of the United States is
larger than all Central America Hayti
Santo Domingo, Bolivia and Ecuador
Americas Public Debt.
Another interesting figure is the
public debt of the nations represented
in this conference. According to the
Statesman's Year Book for the cur
rent year, 1901, the public debts of
the Latin-American republics are ex-
pressed in the following figures (gold).
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

Already Olympia is beginning to fill
up with politicians and lobbyists who
are preparing to swoop down on the
legislature and have it do things that
will be of material advantage to either
them or their friends. Gov. Mcbride
is watching the politicians as they
take rooms in the city for the leglsla-
tive season with an eagles eye. He
has already threatened to have the
lobbyists arrested if they try in any
way to influence any members OF the
legislature. Of course it would be a
hard matter for the governor to
prove his case and jury would think
a good long time before it would con-
vict man on such charge, and even
if it did the Supreme Court would
knock out such a verdict in wholly
minute 1t will be impossible even
with the aid of the National guards
of this state for the governor to pre-
vent men from lobbying, for whatever
measure they may see fit or are IN
clined to do. Such a course, if pur-
sued, would be unprecedented and it
would meet such storm of disap-
proval that the man who inaugurated
lit would be driven from the public
eye in utter disgrace.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

Already" said a well known Olym-
pia politician to the Piemaker one day
this week, Gov Mcbride sees the
handwriting on the wall and realizes
the utter defeat of his railroad COM
mission bill, and being a shrewd and
sagacious politician he is making eff
forts to hedge on the entire situation
in order that he may safely land his
political aspirations. Rumor has 1t
that the governor is considering a
compromise and out of that he expects
to either land as governor of the
state or secure the federal judgship,
which will be created either by the
present or the coming congress.
am certain" continued the politician,
that the governor will not enter the
senatorial fight because if he did he
would be branded as an migrate to
Mr.. Preston and as throwing his east
ern Washington friends down. IL
therefore he can bring about COM
promise by having his political enc
mics give to him their absolute prom
ise of support for the governorship OF
the iudgship without the general pub
nc knowing that he willfully aban-
doned his fight against the railroads
and the cause of the people | predict
that he will do So"
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

Next Monday week the eighth legis-
lature of this state will convene and
the politics of the state, which have
been slumbering since the close OF
the last campaign when the state went
overwhelmingly Republican, will break
loose again and will for the sixty
days following and even perhaps for
sixty days more, be the sole topic OF
conversation not only among politi-
clans, but among business men as
well. What the next legislature does
in the way of passing bills and who
it elects United States senator will
have considerable bearing on the fll-
ture mineuverings of the politicians of
this state.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02

If Harold Preston is elected United
States senator and if the railroad COM
mission bill is passed it will mean
that Gov. Mcbride and his friends
will domineer the politics of the state
for the next ten years or more, or
at least the indications point strongly
in that direction. If on the other
hand Levi Ankeny is elected United
States senator and the railroad com
mission bill is defeated it means that
j.. =. Ankeny and the railroad people
will tdomineer the politics of the state
for the next ten years. Then again,
if compromise is made and John L..
Wilson is elected United States sena-
tor and the railroad commission bill
passes in a modified form then the
struggle for supremacy will continue
ii similan condition as it now is
and will be settled at the next state
Elnvantion and when the ninth legis-
Nlature of this state shall have com
pleted it's work. It's barely possible
that the railroad people have the
commission bill defeated in the SEN
ate, but whether they dare defeat the
bill outright or not is a question. To
defeat the bill outright might mean
the defeat of the Republican party
in 1904 and that neither the railroad
people nor the Mcbride people are
anxious to see done.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-05-07
THE BURLINGTON.
Their Cutoff from Mexico
to Old Monroe.

The following is quoted from
the Troy Free Press:
The route of the new Burlington
Short Line from Old Monroe to
Mexico has been permanently lOca-
ed from the former point to beyond
Troy. The road will cross the
river at Little Rock and run close
to the southern part of Moscow.
From there it will run nearly due
west bearing slightly north, and
will cross the Marthasville road a
quarter of mile south of the
township line between townships
fOrty-eight and forty-nine, or about
half way between the residence of
Henry Niehaus aud the big elm.
This is the nearest point which the
road will make to Troy, just a mile
and half from the court house.
Frank D. Brown, who has been
assisting the surveying party. and
to whose efforts are due the fact
that the road will cross this near
to Troy, informs us that this road
is permanent and that the road
will be built on it. He also says
the work of construction will COM
mence within the next thirty days.
OF course there will be a station
on the road within easy reach of
Troy, and the thing for the people
to do will be to build as good a
road as can be made from Troy to
this statinn-One that any kind of
hauling can be done over at any
season.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-05-07
and Illinois and buying cheap

and Illinois and buying cheap
homes.
Our crop of corn, oats grass,
etc, was enormous last year and
was sold for big prices. A few
more years of the prosperity we
are now enjoying aud the farmer
will be as independent as a hog
on ice".
But did you ever notice that
when farmer prospers or sells his
hogs, cattle, butter, eggs aud other
products high, the poor man of the
cities aud the laboring man "gets
it in the neck9' All persons have
to pay so much higher for what
they eat, etc. This is surely the
farmers inning.
In the last few years live stock
has been greatly improved; now
there is no breeding stock but
what is high up in improved blood.
Well, winter is huStling along,
spring is right here and the farm
er has his hands full getting his
last years crop off and getting
ready for the 1903 planting. There
will he very large acreage put
out the coming season.
A peculiarity Of this section this
year will be our hundreds of new
neighbors, parties that have
bought land and are moving in
and our old familiar neighbors
moving on-an eternal shifting of
the human kaleidoscope.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-05-07
|. o. o. F. ANNIVERSARY.
Ed. Hook Talks for "Friend-
ship, Love and
TRUTH"

The following is repeated from
the Vandalia Leader:
Ed. w. il. Hook. of Mexico,
met with the Vandalia 1. D. o. +.
Saturday night aud Sunday and
addressed a large congregation
composed of members of the order,
members of the ordero of Rebeecahs
and citizens generally. His re-
marks included history of the
order, its beauties, etc, He dis.
PEELED some Of the erroneous ideas
that the order conflicted with the
church. The order, he said, took
up work left undone by the church..
The address was very much en-
ioyed by all present.
Sunday, April Goth, was theS4th
anniversary of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows in the Uni
ted States, and the event was cele-
brated in every town and city in
this country where the order ex-
lists.
So from a half dozen true and
tried men who banded together in
ties of friendship, love and truth
has developed one of the most pow
erfal fraternal organizations on
the globe. The great amount of
good it has accomplished in the
way of relieving the distressed,
caring for the widows and orphans
and burying the dead is beyond
ordinary comprehension. aud vet
it continues on ito mission with in
creased momentum.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-05-07
AUDRAIN FARMS.
Many New NeighbOrs in
and Around LaddOnia.

Colmau's Rural World of st.
Louis prints the following letter,
written from Laddonia by j. w.
Stevens:
Editor Rural World; There
has been a wonderful change in
this part of the grand old State Of
Missouri in the last few years, and
especially the last year A few years
ago a rural or party telephone line
was run from Perry to Hutchison,
Rails county. Now ten lines enter
Hutchisen, a village of one store
and blacksmith shop aud post of
fice, and eighteen into Perry. AL
most every road has its line of
poles, almost every house its tele-
phone.
Without having experienced the
benefits it is hard 60 realize the
convenience and pleasure derived
from their use. In the last year
four rural mailroutes have been
run,out Of Laddonia, and as many
lines from other towns along the
q. & A. r. r., so the farmer can
get his mail every day.
One year ago land could be
bought for $50, with pretty good
improvements on it, Now the same
land is selling for $40 per acre.
People are aocking in from Iowa
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-05-07

An old negro Of ante-bellum
days was watching a circus parade
in Joplin Tuesday with unalloyed
delight. When a wagon carrying
a negro band passed along the old
negro's cup of JOY was full.
"Looky yondah," he yelled.
"Shore nuff cullud folks. Niggahs
is suhtinly smaht when dey gifts
to BLOWN hohns lax dat. White
man hide yoh face"
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-05-07
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elected teacher for the Capps
school, north of Molino.
Robert Weelsleger, well remem-
bered in Mexico, a freight eonduc-
tor on the Wabash, walked off the
top of a box car at st. Charles one
day last week and was killed.
Martinsburg reelected the
teachers who have served during
the term just closed. They are
Prof. F. C. Douglass, principals
Prof. Gus Wilson, first assistant;
Miss Maggie Torreyson, second
assistant. They are faithful and
able teachers and each will receive
an increase of salary.
The MESSAGE last week men
toned the shooting scrape between
one Carroll Trippett and Hezekiah
Hegnette at Spencersburg in Pike
county. Hegnette was over 70
years of age and was killed. Tip
petit who did the shooting is but
q; he was not held. Hegnette
had threatened Tippettd The Rails
County Record says Hegnette was
of unsound mind.
The MESSAGE made an egregious
blunder last week, one that we re-
gret very much, referring to the
marriage in this city of Mr.. James
Graham and Miss Maggie Fisher,
both of Hannibal. We changed
Mr.. Graham's name instead of his
wife e's-we called him Fisher also.
1t was blunder that was
marked in the proof-sheet but
failed to get correction. Hope Mr..
and Mrs. Graham will kindly par
don us.
Vandalia is waking up on the
road Improvement vuestion. l.. L..
Lemon, prominent farmer living
near Vandalia, is agitating the
building Of a gravel road to run
from Vandalia seven miles to the
northwest. The Vandalia Mail
aud Express is taking up the agi-
tation. That paper argues that
good rock roads leading into Van
dalia from all directions would in-
crease the trade Of the town so
per cent and land values in the vi
cinity would increase at least 20
per cent. Glad to see the NJ. and
E. take that position; the MES
SAGE believes it is not an exagger-
alton.
This writer witnessed part Of
the dedication ceremonies Of the
Worlds Fair buildings and
grounds in st. Louis last week. 1t
was all very pleasant except the
cold and the street car service.
The street car companies were not
half preuared to transport the vast
crowds to and from the grounds.
Walking was as good IN many in
stances. They'll have to do better
than that next year-or hitch on a
sleeping car service. We saw
Teddy aud Old Grover and the
rest Of the big notables. It was a
day for big men and big crowds;
it was the biggest day any city in
this country ever saw. Big
things we're doing; the country
was making more history. The
speeches were great--if all could
have heard them--but nearly ey-
erybody yelled for Teddy and Old
Grover just at seeing their mouths
work. The 0Creation Hymn
was sung BY a chorus Of thousands
Of voices and was one Of the most
soul-thrilling things of the day.
About 10000 was burnt for fire
works Thursday night aud about
400 900 people looked on. tbs
estimated that about 800, 900 peo-
pie Witnessed the great military
parade Thursday morning. II was
great day for 81. Louis and all
these United States