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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-12-11
PANAMA DISCOVERS 4 PHO,
LIFE OF GENERAL HUERTAH Is
THREATENED.
Four Army Officials From Colombia
Charged With Trying to Persuade
Were Promptly Apprehended-The
Declare 1t 10 Spite Work.

Through a letter the Panama gov
eminent has discovered what is Al
legged to have been a plot against the
life OF General Huertas, commander
in chief OF the forces of the republic
of Panama, and an effort on the part
of army onclals to persuade the gar
rison at Panama to revolt. II such q
nipped in the bud by the apprehension
at Panama of four alleged conspira-
tors, VINO were Immediately brought
under guard to Colon and shipped
hence to Port Limon.
The prisoners were all born in the
interior OF Colombia, and have been
on the isthmus for years. They were
members of the Colombian battleship
which gave it's support to the new gov
eminent when the republic was form
ed, and which was commanded by Cen
eral Huertas. They all took the oath
of allegiance to the new republic and
continued to serve in the army. One
of them is a colonel named Ferrol,
two are majors, and the fourth is the
adjutant OF General Huertas.
They declare that the charge that
they were engaged in conspiracy is
the work of personal enemies, and
that some Colombian who was deport-
ed from the isthmus Immediately after
the establishment of the republic No
vember 3, sent letter from Port Ii
mon addressed to Colonel Ferrol. The
communication was written in terms
duplicating them in such q plot. AT
the same time, they say, the writer
advised some of the officials at Pana-
ma to secure and read the letter ad.
dressed to Colonel Ferrol before it was
delivered to him. This was done eth.
er last night or this morning. The
four persons were arrested this morn.
ing at the barracks and lodged in Jail
This afternoon they were conveyed
to the railway station, where they
were placed on board train bound
for Colon.
According to their statement, they
were not allowed to make any eXplana-
ton. The writer OF the letter, they
say, may have been prompted by q
desire to injure them because they
turned Panamains, or the whole plot
may have been concocted in Panama
in order to get them out Of the coun
try because, as Colombians, they were
disliked here. They do not dare go to
Colombia, where, they assert, they will
be treated as traitors. The govern
ment will pay their passage to Port
Limon. They are entirely without
funds and have no means of earning
a living, but they express the hope
that ultimately they will be permit
ted to return to the isthmus.
Upon arriving here the prisoners
were placed in Jail. The reports in
circulation that they attempted to as
sassinate General Huertas are not
true. Nevertheless. the government
doubtless had some evidence against
them to justify the step of deporting
them.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-12-11
ARMY's STANDING.
Nearly 10000 Men EnIisted-Net
FH Decrease. ......,

DCCTedSGs
Washington.-On December 1, 1902,
the army of the United States, accord
ing to the latest reports which had
been received from the military de-
partments, consisted of 1886 officers
and 66,003 enlisted men, a total of
69,5S9. In addition there were in the
service 1898 men of the hospital corps
excluded by the act of March 1. 1887,
from classification as part of the en-
listed force Of the army. There were
also in the service 1872 volunteer medi-
cal officers, 100 regular officers and
1878 enlisted men OF the Philippine
scouts, and 20 officers and $40 enlisted
men of the Porto Rico regiment. At
that time reported an order made
on the oath of October, 1902, providing
for further reduction of the army to
the minimum strength allowed by law,
except as to the organizations which
were to be kept at full strength for
instruction purposes at Leavenworth
and Riley and the legation guard at
Picking. That order has been executed
during the year by permitting enlist
ments to run out without filing the
vacancies. fste sf ri 90 use = g..
At the date of the last reports re-
ceived from the military departments,
October Is. 1903, the actual strength
of the regular army was 36Sl officers
and $500 enlisted men, distributed as
follows: VIVA
United States, 1882; Philippine ISL
ands, 1850; Cuba, 719; Porto Rico,
212; Hawaiian islands, 1877; China,
ISL; Alaska. $780,. ss7& .aisfHa ~
The distribution among the differ-
ent branches of the service was as
follows: aissN a. zaas4 .ya sY9 '"%
General officers and staff organiza-
tons, 3S4S; cavalry. 1919; artillery
corps. 1910; infantry, 24,554; re-
cruits and miscellaneous detachpents.
213O. T.. D.
There was also in the service 2s
officers and 52O enlisted men Of the
Porto Rico regiment, SO officers and
1905 enlisted Philippine scouts and
2s07 hospital corps men. ~
These figures show total net, de-
crease during the year of 1873.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-12-11

W. j. Bryan is in Paris.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-12-11

Gross Corruption Sentence.
II also wish to deny your utterly
unwarranted statement that the gross
corruption in the case of Tyner has
gone on for a number OF years. You
should know, and your subordinates
do know, that no, single act of cor
ruption, gross or mild, has been dis
covered against me; and that the
United States government, with it's
40 inspectors and chief inquisitor, Mr..
ABristow, will be unable to discover.
| have tried during 40 years of faith
full service to my country to prove my
zeal for faithfulness and honesty in
the public service, and I now say to
you, the president of the United
States, my executive, as IL 1t were the
last word l shall ever utter, that in
your well recognized and honorable
zeal for the public good, you have al
lowed yourselfsto be deceived and i'm
posed on, and while can not hope
for a hearing at your. hands, I shall
at least give myself. the ,wretched
solace Of having denied these wrongs
and Of having demanded that hearing
which right and justice ought to &C
cord to me. Very respectfully
s. -si JAMES N. TYNER."
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-12-11

There has died in the Kentish VII
lage of Rolyenden an old lady, 90 years
of age, who was present at the battle
of Waterloo.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-12-11

The $2,142.207 worth of platinum ex-
tracted in the Gorotiagodaski district
Of Russia last year is practically the
worlds supply of that metal. ss8 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
LATEST KANSAS FAKE.

The eastern editors must be averdant
lot The latest thing to claim their at
tention is a report that Kansas school
boards have inserted a mo courtship''
clause in the contracts of women teach
ers.
The story originated in the brain of
a space writer but that does not mat
ter if the correspondent happens to live
in Kansas. Any freak story, no mat
ter how wild or improbable, is greedily
snapped up if it bears a Kansas date
line. The result is that editors devote
much time and space to discussing sit
uations which never existed and waste
a great deal of sympathy. This will
continue as long as they allow them
selves to be imposed upon by writers
whose living depends upon the insane
and freakish notion that any story
from the sunfiower state, no matter
how unreasonable, is worth printing
and paying for.
This is the way the New York World
comments on this latest Kansas
fake"
Shades of John Brown and Dan An
thony-the apostle of freedom and the
champion of the hair-trigger-we
should hope sol If no schoolmasters
had ever spanked" and no schoolma' ms
had been courted what would Kansas
be today? A half populated desert!
What would these school boards
have? Race suicide or marriage with
out counting? Would they have the
stalwart young husbandmen of Kansas
get wives as the Roman raiders obtain
ed them, among the Sabine virgins-by
carrying them off in their arms? And
shall the male teachers, deprived of the
delights of propinquity and the advan-
tages of natural selection in the choice
of wives, be cast into the dreadful lot
terry of matrimonial advertisements to
secure life partners?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
GIVE US PURE MIr.K

Topeka pays too little attention to
pure food. 1t is true that there are
ordinances which are supposed to pre-
vent the adulteration of food stuffs but
like many other city laws little atten-
ton is paid to them.
Just now the people are considerably
agitated because Chemist Gray discov-
cred that there is a universal system of
milk adulteration practiced in Topeka:
but there is every reason to believe
that as soon as the storm blows over
the milkmen viii resume the old prac-
tice. The use Of formaldehyde which
acts as a preventative of milk but also
destroys it's wholesomeness has been
generally practiced in Topeka No one
knows how many cases of sickness and
even deaths among children may be at
tributed to this cause.
The people can not know of these
outrages unless some one with an ever
vigilant and watchful eye stands on
guard. 1t is the business of the food
inspector to do this. The health of the
people is in a measure In his hands and
be should not wait for the warnings to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
First Ward Councilman In Ser
iOns Condition.
Mental Trouble Caused by Sick
ness and Worry.
HAVE LITTLE HOPE
Friends Fear That He May Not
Recover.
Has Made a Good Record in
Topeka.

Councilman J. w. Blossom of the
First ward is suffering from mental
trouble. believed to have been brought
on by sickness and by brooding over
his losses in the flood. He will probably
resign his position of councilman from
the First ward
Neither Mr.. Blossoms physicians nor
his relatives will venture an opinion as
to the chances for his recovery. They
all say however, that his condition is
very serious.
Mrs. Blossom states that the trouble
has been coming on her husband grad
ually since last March. She does not
attribute the misfortune to worry over
loss in the flood. Mr.. Blossom has fire.
quently stated to his friends during the
past two or three months that he was
not feeling well. Few suspected the ma
ture of his trouble, however, until a few
weeks ago He attended the meeting OF
the council on August II, and acted
about as usual. Since that date, how
ever, his mental decline has been more
pronounced.
While so far Mr. Blossom has shown
no violent tendencies, it is feared by
some of his friends that his malady
is likely to take such a turn. He is
said to have indicated desire at times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
LOCAL MENTION.

DR.. L. r. Goodwin is sick at his home
Archdeacon Crawford came home
from Colorado this morning.
Miss Maude Cowdrey has returned
home after weeks visit with Miss
Winnie Kearney at Tecumseh.
Miss Martha McCabe. librarian of the
College of Emporia, has returned to
Emporia after spending the summer
with her brothers in this city.
In city court today Claud Smith, the
negro porter who stole a diamond scarf
pin from room at the Union Pacific
hotel, waived his preliminary exami-
nation and was bound over TO the dis
trict court with a bond of $500.
Sam Hayden, colored, who was ar
rested by the police yesterday for steal
ing Santa Fe brass, has been re-arrested
by city court officers. 1t seems that the
brass stolen by Hayden consisted of
three large valves, which are valued at
$28.88 by the Santa Fe company. This
makes a case of grand larceny against
Hayden.
Sawyer Donald Moore has been found.
Moore is the young man who was
sought by his brothers and sisters sew
eral weeks ago. He is at Huron, Kan
sas, and has not seen or heard of any
member of his family since he was seven
years old He saw the story of the
search for him in the State Journal, and
has written to this paper for the ad-
dress of his relatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
OWES MUCH MONEY.
Proceedings in Bankruptcy Against
an Ecuador Railroad.

Trenton. N. J.. Sept. 3.-Vice Chancel-
lor Stevens today granted an order to
show cause why a receiver should not
be appointed for the Ecuador company,
in Jersey City. The authorized capital
of the company is $5.Oo0OO0. The appli
cation was made by the Ecuadorian as
ISOLATION limited of Ellington, Scotland,
and London, England, which alleges
that it is creditor of the. company.
The compla inant alleges that the Ecua-
dor company's liabilities are SO, 600,0 900
with assets of $4,000. The company was
formed in February, 1908, for the pur-
pose of constructing a railroad to be
known as the Guayaquil and Quito
railroad of the Republic of Ecuador,
South America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
ALBAUon-KELLY QUARREL

So far as the quarrel between Chair
man Morton AIbaugh of the Republl-
can state central committee and State
Treasurer Thomas T. Kelly is concern
ed the public cares little but as to the
principles and facts involved in the con-
troversy the people of Kansas are vital
ly interested.
When the tax payers of the state see
the state board of equalization deliber-
ately make an increase of several humid
red thousand dollars in their taxes they
naturally wonder why. Chairman AL
baugh says that the increase was unnec-
essary and intimates that it was made
to give the state treasurer a large sum
of money to deposit in banks upon
which to draw interest for his personal
benefit. Mr.. Kelly on the other hand
asserts that the increase was made nee
essary by the enlarged appropriation Of
the legislature of 1903 and that the mon
ey will all be required to pay the cur
rent expenses Of the state.
One of these officials is right and the
other is wrong and the people ought to
know which must bear the burden. Mr..
Albaugh makes a proposal which ought
to simplify matters by suggesting that
he and Mr.. Kelly submit their resigna-
tions with the understanding that as
soon as it is proven which one is wrong
that his resignation shall be accepted.
This bears the stamp of good faith on
Mr.. Albaugh's part and it might offer
a solution which will forever put an end
to the controversy and let the people
know who is to blame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
JAYHAWKER JOTs

Indian bead work is the latest fad at
Cawker City.
A sissy boy visitor at Jennings Gre
ated more commotion than the arrival
of a circus.
1t is to be hoped that the carpenters
strike at Abilene will soon be planed
and smoOthed out.
Chanute is having a bitter fuss over
whisky. Why not pour some of their
oil on the troubled waters.
Selden boys have the circus fever.
Every lad in town has a turning pole
or a flying trapeze in the back yard.
A Bison sheep became entangled in
a thick sunfiower patch and existed
without food or water for three weeks.
Coffeyville's bottle factory starts UP
September 10. With orders for weeks
ahead the promoters hope to do a cork
ing business.
This is a prosperous season in Wash
ington county for the editor of the Reg
lister. His paper is running three pages
of sheriffs sales.
A Salina man will be allowed to ex-
hibit violin of his own make under
the provision that it will at all times
be a silent display.
A Bison barber has sheathed his
razor and for a time will say next
to bundles of wheat as they are tossed
to him on the thresher.
Cawker City is going to have a weed
cutting day. And every man, woman
and child is expected to turn out with
sickles. scythes and butcher knives.
The average weight of a load OF
home grown" Mcpherson watermelons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

ell, and is the only Democrat who has
ever been able to secure election to the
city council from the First ward. He Is
very popular with the laboring classes,
and stands well with everyone as man
of the highest honor and strictest adher-
ence to what he believes to be right He
is we'll liked by all the members of the
city council. for they know that while
he is Democrat. and on the minority.
he viii always vote for what he believes
to be right.
Blossom was first nominated by the
Democrats for councilman from the
First ward in 1895, when he was defeat
ed by o. d. Skinner. In 1898, Blossom
was again nominated, and succeeded in
defeating his opponent, G. A Starbird.
In 1880, he was a candidate against s. c.
Miller. and Miller beat him by the mar
row margin of 40 votes. In 1902, Bios
som turned the tables on Miller, and de-
feated him by a majority of 26.
He has been engaged in the business
of house moving in Topeka for a great
many years, and has probably done as
much of that kind of work as any other
man in the city. In the flood he sus-
tanned considerable damage. His horses
were all drowned, and his home was
rendered a wreck. He seemed to take
this misfortune rather hard, but whether
it contributed materially to his present
unfortunate condition will probably
never be known.
There is still hope that Mr.. Blossom
will recover, and everyone who knows
him believes that he has a fighting
chance. He has a naturally rugged
physique, and was in his younger days
a man of great muscular strength. These
characteristics may reassert themselves,
and restore his diseased mind to health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

There is an old scandinavian fairy
tale about woman who has tried to
catch sunshine in her apron so as to in
troduce it in her house. and
amusing as the notion seemed, the
scientist has at length made it a pos
sibility Quite as improbable, too, was
the notion that fresh air could ever be
transported in a concentrated form from
one place to another; yet a French sa-
want has recently made genuine fresh
air tablets, thus solving a problem
hitherto considered insoluble. The sci
enlist in question was investigating
acetyline gas when he made the dis
covery that he could combine certain
chemicals into a tablet. which, on be-
ing dropped into water, dissolved, and
gave forth pure oxygen. The value of
this discovery can scarcely be overrated
since by its use in submarine boats,
mines, or in diving it may be in stru-
mental in prolonging human life. Even in
our dwellings, when Indictment weather
prevents Window-opening to any great
extent in sleeping apartments, school
rooms, theaters concert halls factory,
and, above all, in hospitals and large
drapery stablishments-where ventIla-
ton is usually inadeQuate-these fresh
air tablets would be of incalculable util-
ity. 1t is to be hoped that their cost
is small enough to enable them to be
generally used.-Dietic Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
WILL DAVIES EXPLAIN.

Conner Davies of the Concordia Kan
san is finding a thorny path as
Republican editor. AS a Populist Mr..
Davies was recognized as a leader and
as one of the most consistent reform ed
itors in the state Then came his change
of heart. He gave a very good reason
for deserving the sinking ship Of Popu-
lism and no one questioned his SINGER
ity.
New comes the fiat footed statement
that Mr.. Davies closed a deal with the
Republican state central committee by
which he was to be paid a stipulated
sum as the price of his apostacy. It
doesn't sound well and Mr.. Davies ought
to explain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
HARRIS IN LAWRENCE.
Ex-senator Will Move to That
Place.

Senator w. A Harris returned to
Kansas Wednesday from Washington
and will hereafter make his home at
Lawrence. His term as United States
senator expired last March, but the SEN
ator took a house in Washington for
the summer and it was generally un-
derstood that he was waiting for Pres
ident Roosevelt to appoint the canal
commission, expecting to be named as
member of that commission.
The Lawrence Gazette in speaking of
Senator Harris return says:
He has come home to live and spend
the rest of his life among his friends
the people of Kansas, for every hon.
orable, liberal man in Kansas is a
friend of Senator Harris. He expects to
move his family to Lawrence and re-
side here, where he made his start in
life in Kansas, and where he is apprec-
lated for his full worth. He has round
ed out an honorable political career
held the highest positions within the
gift of the people of Kansas, and made
a record of which every one is proud
He returns. poor in purse, but rich in
the admiration of his friends He re-
fused every offer for private gain at
public expense.
He exploited no railroad companies,
Jerusalem Worlds Fair shows, or any
thing of the kind, and Indignantly spurn-
ed offers of a very large sum and a per-
manent position at a handsome salary
to let up on his fight on the Pacific rail-
roads debt to the government Single
handed and alone he fought the power
full Hobbies and saved the government
nearly $4,000. 900. w. A. Harris retires
to private life conscious of having done
his duty and of having it said of
him that he is one man who passed
through the oauldron of politics and
came out with an unblemished charac-
ter What greater tribute can be paid
RI anv rnan2'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
GLOBE sIGHTs.

IF'rom the Atchison Globe-]
Look out for a big moving day for q
number of people who board.
Ever notice how modest and quiet 6
South Methodist preacher is in the north
We will admit 1t: We can't pronounce
Beirut. and neither can your schoo
teacher
The people occasionally forgive a giddy
maid.
There is really only one thing you car
feel in your bones, and that is the approach
of old age.
dalton for. the stories she tells that she
is called Marconi.
We don't know when it was put on, but
all underwear looks as if this ought tC
be Saturday night.
Some of these days there will be SO many
leaders in this country that no one will bt
left to do the work.
Another reason why F. NJ. Baker is &
in the state. and hasn't named it after q
sleeping car.
IF Smiths Quarterly really intends te
print the truth people are saying to John
Smith, the editor, I'VE would like to give
you some facts"
A wedding party in Beirut INDUCED in {
feu de joie, and we sent war ships over
This is all there is to it, except-what's {
feu de joie?
An Atchison man who lately went east
on a vacation estimates that he spent $
on weight slot machines while killing time
while his wife shopped.
We have often wondered that the wo-
men never adopted this plan for raising
the mortgage on their church: By filming
their husbands penny for every spot or
the table cloth while eating?
We don't know how it is in other towns
but in this town when a professional
band gives a concert the people who have
great deal to say about being hun
cry for music are conspicuous by their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

was so pounds. Small boy raiders would
be compelled to eat those in the patch.
Two Winfield sportsmen killed thirty
four prairie chickens on a recent hunt
in the Kiowa country and brought the
birds home for potpies for their friends
Plenty of the corn over Sheridan
county measures ten feet in height. 1t
might be in order to drop the short
grass title and style it the long
stalk country.
A facetious freight brakeman chuck
ed" a drunken Neodesha citizen fvom
the top of the car to the inside with a
load of cattle. In revenge the d. c. cut
off the tails of nine cows and inciden-
tally cut off the brakeman's job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03
Typhoid Fever.

ing sick with Typhoid, Bilious, Malaria,
Scarlet Fever or Diphtheria?
When Hamilton's Celebrated Fever
Specific will prevent any of these dis
eases if taken in time.
The same medicine will eliminate the
morbid poison from the system and
abort the disease at any stage of the
fever in a few hours. The usual way
it takes from 3 to weeks to recover,
and often do not live.
II you will try them and learn of
their great worth you will not be at
any time without the tablets
There are hundreds of people in this
vicinity that can testify to what they
have done for them by saving them
sickness and money.
Sold by Rowley & Snow, druggists,
600 Kansas avenue.