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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-04-27

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-04-27

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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
Topeka Emeroino.

The latest reports from Topeka
contain some estimates of the waters
sad havoc in that city. AS the
waters recede, the awful destruction
becomes more manifest. Residences
are swept away, business houses
collapsed, sidewalks washed away,
street paving gone and the sewer
system destroyed. Ten thousand
people are homeless, and many
thousands will have to be cared for
for a long time. Even after the
water goes down and they find their
homes intact they cannot occupy
them.
The authorities have decided not
to allow anyone to live in the flood
ed district until it is drained and
cleansed. How long this will take
no one knows. With all this filth
deposited by the river, and decay
ing vegetable matter, pestilence
can be avoided only by the most
rigid measures. Topeka now has
before her the most stupenduous
work she has ever undertaken. The
work of many years is destroyed
and must be replaced in as few
months as possible. Her street
paving and sidewalk must be rebuilt
and her sewer system made anew.
The damage to property is now
estimated at between two and three
million dollars in and around the
city. When to this is added the
millions lost at the other cities of
the state, including Kansas City
and its surrounding cities with a
loss of S25, 600, 900 and take in the
crop losses, we have matter of
$50, 900, 900 and no one yet can
tell how much more of accumulated
values that are wiped out entirely.
1t is very severe blow to this part
of the country and one that 1t will
take years to overcome. Yet the
people will meet the calamity brave
ly and soon business and pleasure
will move along in the state as
though nothing out of the usual had
happened.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
THE CALF

The proneness of people to fol-
low leaders and to keep in the
beaten paths is so aptly illustrated
in the following poem clipped from
one of Mr.. ]. ]. Jones' law jour
mails, that, old though it may be to
many, we think it Will still be in
teresting to all:
zone day,through the primeval wood,
A calf walked home, as good calves
should;
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail as all calves do.
"Since then two hundred years haye
fled,
And, l infer, the calf is dead.
And from that day o'er hill and glade
Through those old woods a path was
made;
And many men wound In and out,
Aud lodged, and turned, and bent
about
And uttered words Of righteous wrath
Because twas such crooked path.
"This forest path became lane,
That bent, and turned, and turned
again;
This crooked lane became road,
Where many poor horse with his
Toiled on beneath the burning sun.
And Travelled some three miles In one.
And thus, a century and half,
They trod in the footsteps OF that calf.
"The years passed on in swiftness
fleet,
The road became a village street;
And this, before men were aware,
A city's crowded thOrOughfare.
And soon the central street was this
or a renowned metropolis.
A nd men two centuries and a half
Trod In the footsteps Of that calf.
Zach day a hundred thousand rOut
Followed the zig gag calf about;
And o'er this crooked journey went
The traffic of continent.
A hundred Thousand men were led
BY one calf near three centuries dead.
They followed still his crooked way.
And lost one hundred years day;
For such reverence is lent
To well established precedent.
Men are prone to go IL blind
Along the calf paths OF the mind,
And work away from sun to sun
To do what other men have done,
They follow IN the beaten track,
And out, and in, and forth, and back,
And still their devious course pursue,
To keep the paths that Others do.
But how the wise old wood gods laugh
Who saw the first primeYal calf;
Ahl many things this tale might
teach,
But am not ordained to preach"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
Levee Broke.

Wednesday evening late the Beach
levee broke and let the river In to;-
rent in over the bottom north Of the
east road. Thursday morning the
whole bottom was covered. The levee
along The road leading out Of town
east acted as dam and forced the
water across the Katy track over the
low part of the First wBrd across
Main street and over the sidewalk
Into.the fair grounds Early Thursday
morning men were sent down To open
the levee. This relieyed the situa
tiun slowly by checking the rapid rise
in the northeast part OF town. Every
thing in the shape of a crop in the
bottom is now gone. Rumors have
reached us that the levies all along
the river have broken. The rivers all
over the state seem to be falling. The
heavy damage is done and it only re-
mains for the waters to subside to re-
veal the fall extent.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05

simply rushing torrents. The water
is said to have reached the second
floor of the Union depot. Hun
dreds of houses in Argentine
Armourdale and the bottoms Of
Kansas City have been swept away.
Most of their occupants escaped to
higher grounds or were rescued by
boats but many perished in the
floods.
The big implement houses and
packing houses have been in the
midst of the floods and many of
them are said to have collapsed.
The property loss IN Kansas City.
alone will run into the millions.
Railroad traffic as we'll as all other
kinds has been abandoned and COM
mercial life is at standstill. Local
ly conditions have been worse. The
Neosho is out of its banks and the
bottom we'll flooded, but the high
water mark of IS has not been
reached. Thousands of acres of
fine crop lands have been submerg-
ed and large amount of property
swept away.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05

present IN low lands bordering the
streams of Kansas. 1t would be
idle to moralize about the folly of
building towns at sites susceptible
of such overfows as that at Topeka.
The American people would take
their habitation On the thin crust of
a volcano if there appeared to be a
commercial or other reason for their
doing so. When we find the people
of Galveston going almost cheerful
ly about the task OF rebuilding
their stormswept city, one might as
we'll whistle to the wind as to point
morals to the water-drenched towns
of the Kansas valleys. However,
it does seem reasonable and feasible
that these towns should provide
themselves with means of rescuing
the perishing people IN times OF IN
undations. While the heroic men
of Topeka were vainly trying to
buffet the whirling waters with crude
hatboats hastily knocked together in
the local lumber yards, one of the
life boats used by the government
could ahd would have gone easily
to every menaced mansion, and the
loss of life would possibly have
been nothing at all. Aud the valley
town Of Kansas which does not pro-
vide, say its fire department, with
one or more of these vessels is not
taking the simple and Inexpensive
precaution which common sense
suggests.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
LOSS OF PROPERTY is
VERY GREAT.
Many Lives Known to be Lost
in the Great Flood.

Never since Kansas has occupied
a place on the map has she been
visited by such terrible disaster
as she has suffered during the last
week. We have had grasshoppers,
drouths and have elected the SYM
pathies of the rest of the country
by our sufferings, but these scourges
sink into insignificance when COM
pared with the devastation and hor-
rors wrought by the waters.
The chinch bugs and grasshoppers
might eat up vegetation, and the
hot suns dry the life out of it, yet
there was way for the distressed
to get aid or flee to more favored
regions, but when the water comes
down in torrents and in few hours
cuts oft all avenues of escape and
the only temporary relief from
the death dealing currents is on the
house tops and when hundreds and
thousands of people, men, women
and children are thus situated, mo-
mentarily expecting the house to
topple over and they plunged into
the muddy, seething current, the
picture is indeed appalling. Prac-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
Floods and Precautions.

Kansas City Journal.
This food of 1908 is not unprec
edented. Had the people of the
Kansas valley consulted the brief
but authentic annals of the Indian
days they would not have dwelt in
such fancied security. Congress
man Charles Curtis, himself a part
blood Indian and born ou the town.
site of Topeka, said to a reporter
for the Journal:
al have known ever since child
hood of the great Kansas river
food of 1874. Some years ago
had talk with Indians of the Kaw
tribe who we'll remember the circum'
stances. They assured me that tn;
river rose to a depth of tweAty fee
all over the present site of Nortt
Topeka. Indeed, for years after
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
NOTICE.

All parties Indebted TO or haYing
aceounts against the Chanute Milling
Co., are requested TO call ard adjust
same at once. Having sold out we
wish to get all matters pertaining 70
the business closed up. Parties hsv-
log grain on deposit can continue to
draw that out under the new firm
same as the Old.-OTIs & SON.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
TEN YEARS IN BED.

r.. A. Gray, ]. p, Oakville, Ind,
writes, "For ten years l was confined
to my bed with disease of my kipneys.
II was so severe thatI could not move
part of the time. l consulted the very
best medical skill available, but could
get no relief until Foley's Kidney
Cure was recommended to me. II has
been a Godsend to me-" For sale at
Browns pharmacy.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
DEVASTATED BY FLOODS

tically all the rivers of Kansas have
been on a mad revel, overhowed
their banks and spread death and
destruction with a lavish hand. AT
present writing no one can estimate
the loss of life or approximate the
destruction of property.
The first wild rumors of the num-
bers drowned will likely be found to
be exaggerated. All North Topeka
was submerged and many of the
large business houses collapsed
from the undermining of their
foundations. The citizens took
refuge in trees, upper stories OF
buildings and on house tops. To
add to the horror there, large
lumber yard caught fire and the
burning piles of lumber hoated
through the streets firing the build
ngs on every hand. People in up
per stories of these buildings had
burn or take their chances in the
floods. A cold, rainy night added
to the suffering of those who were
compelled to cling to the trees.
Many clung to trees till they be-
came so benumbed by the cold
they lost their hold and dropped
into the muddy water below.
Every effort was made with tie
appliances available to rescue the
imperiled and hundreds were
brought ashore in boats and on
RATS, but many perished before they
could be reached. All North To-
peka containing about 10, 900 peo-
pie, has been swept by the food,
hundreds of houses have been wash
ed away and burned. Thousands
of people are homeless and subsist-
ing on charity, who a few days ago
were we'll to do. The history of To-
peka is but the history of many
other towns except that the rise was
so sudden and unexpected there
that there was greater loss of life
than at other points.
Manhattan, Salina, Abilene, New
ton, Concordla, Lincoln center,
Florence, Osborne and Lawrence
and many other towns in the state
have suffered immensely. Kansas
City and the surrounding suburbs
have suffered great damage. The
whole bottom about Kansas City
has been one raging food. All the
bridges oyer the Kaw have been
swept away and the streets were
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
WE CAN'T TELL YOUR
FORTUNE,

but we have publications that will
enIighten you about Texas and Its
great possibilities. Other Katy"
publications, "The Golden Square,"
1.-THE Coming Country" "Old Mex
ico," etc.. will be mailed on applica-
tiou. Address, Katy"
$40 Wainwright Bldg, st. Louis, No.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
A Great Opportunity.

As the property where ! am doing
business is now sold and / must close
out quickly, l now offer great indNce-
ment In millinery for the next two
weeks. Avail yourselves OF this op-
portunity OF life time. S. A. Lynn
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
Main
Street

property is seldom for sale, but
Just now we have four pieces
for sale:
25 #. corner Main and
Santa Fe.
25 #. near corner Main
and Evergreen.
80 #. near corner Main
and Central.
50 it. corner Elm and
Lincoln.
Any of these are good propositions
for business property and will
sell soon, as they are rare bar
gains for Chanute investors.
Call on us for prices.
Br1Ck1er BrO9.,
williams Theatre Bldg.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-06-05
THE ONLA GUARANTEED KID
NEY CURE

is Smiths Sure Kidney Cure. Your
will refund your money If
after taking one bottle you are not
satisfied with results. so cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-09
WOULD HASTEN DEATH. .
Aged Man, Eighty-two Years Old, At
tcmpts Suicide With Razor.

tempts Suicide With Razor.
New Hartford, April 9.-Tuesday
this usually quiet community was star
a bachelor of eighty-two years of age,
and a very jolly old man, living with
w. c. Murray, two miles north OF this
place, had tried to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor. He
evidently had planned the affair, and
waited his opportunity to carry out his
intention of ending his life. When Mr..
Murray had gone to New Hartford and
Mrs. Murray was about her household
duties. he quietly left his room, taking
a razor from the sideboard and going
to q nearby corn crib. He shut the door
of the crib SO that he could not be seen
by anyone passing, but the wind, blow
ing. gale. blew the door open. When.
Scott Murray, son of w. c. Murray,
passed the crib he heard a noise in the
crib. On looking he saw Thomas lying
on the floor, in his own blood, and
bleeding freely. As Mr.. Thomas weighs
230 pounds some time elapsed
before help enough could reach him to
were called and dressed his wounds.
He, talks quite rational about the af-
fair and is feeling quite cheerful. NH.
Thomas has never limited in any way
that he was tired of life, nor shown
any tendency to suicidal moods. It is
difficult to understand what led him to
attempt his own life. He makes no
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-09
Tho Man Wa. Drowned.

Burlington, April 9.-The body of a
man, which bears evidence Of having
met his death by foul means, was found
yesterday morning by d. Emerson and
j. Florey, two O'Connell Island fisher
men. When discovered the body was on
the sandbar in the willows. The body
was brought down the river in Baner's
launch and taken to the morgue. The
coroner will hold an inquest some time
this morning.
Several theories as to the identity
OF the body were put forward, one be-
ing that it was that of Charles Eek
berg. But this was denied by Mr.. Eek
berg's brother-in-law. The body was
badly decomposed, and had been in the
water evidently long time. The man
weighed about 165 pounds, and was 5
feet inches in height. His skull was
crushed in on the right side. pointing
toward a violent death. The clothing
consisted of light undershirt. blue
trousers, gray socks and a pair of
ohnac
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-09
woMAN's LONG TRAMP.
Ellen M. Arthur Walked From Texas

Ellen M. Arthur Walked From Texas
to Sioux City.
Sioux City, April 9.-In order to OBJ
tain support among friends for her
three little children, the oldest of whom
was IA, Mrs. Ellen M. Arthur walked
all the way from the gulf towns OF
Texas to Sioux City. She had seen a
prospectus of the southern state which
pictured 1t as land flowing with
milk and honey. When she got there
she faced the alternative of starving or
walking. and she chose the latter. Buy
ing little express wagon, in which she
placed her 9-year-old daughter Bar.
bara, and pulling the little cart after
her, she started out on the long tramp
back to home and friends. Across tn,
huge state of Texas trudged the mourn
full little party, thru the Indian Terri
tory, up thru Kansas and Missouri I'M
til Iowa was reached, finally reaching
Sioux City. This is probably the long
est tramp on record ever taken by a
woman and children. The courts have
lust allowed Mrs. Arthur a divorce
from the husband she has been separ
ated from for several years. with $4,000
alimony. She has been looked after
by friends since her arrival here.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-09
LOST POWER OF SPEECH.
Burlington Boy Hit by Base Ball un'
able to Talk.

Special to Times Republican.
Burlington, April S.-One of the most
peculiar cases which has come to the
attention of the medical fraternity in
Burlington lis that of young Raymond
Grant, who was injured while watching
ball game bet. en High school and
university men last Thursday after
noon.
The lad was struck on the side of the
head by. liner from The bat driven
down past third base. He was rem
dsred unconscious for aeveral hours
and when he came out of the comatose
condition he apparently had been de-
pl.ived of the faculty of speech.
The accident occurred on the West
Hill diamond The boy with number
OF companions had crept out perilously
close to the base line. as subsequent
events showed. The swift drive struck
him on the right side of the head near
the temple. In an unconscious condt-
ton he was taken to his home at b02
Wood street. He is the son OF A. f..
Grant. 1t was three hours before he
could be revived from the stupor into
which he had fallen.
He came to about o'clock Thursday
evening. but has not spoken q word
since. Every kind Of effort has been
put forth to get him to talk. but to no
avail The young fellow has apparently
lost the habit of speech completely. He
takes nourishment, understands every
thing said to him, but can not articu-
late d sound.
The case is an odd one. The seat in
tha brain where the functions of speech
are supposed to lie Is or the left side
az the head, while the boy received the
blow on the right. There have been
cases where such a blow produced con-
cussion on the opposite side OF the head
md this is the only way the strange
phenomena can be accounted for. Ray
inond is making his wants known now
with paper and pencil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-09
WORKING OUT Taxes
Strange Notions of Many County
Officials Concerning the
New Road Law
WOULD BRING BACK OLD SYSTEM
The Only Tax Which May Be worked
Out" Under tho New Statute, Is the
Poll Tax, Others to Be paid in
cash-situation in Different caun-
ties.
Special to metropolitan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 9.-The state off,
| Gals are sometimes amused at the
strange notions some Of the county OFF,
Gals have Of the new road law. A
number of county officials are plainly
trying to find some way not to en-
force the law rather to find how best it
can be lived up to. In one eastern Iowa
county meeting Of the township
trustees was held and 1t was decided
that each township employ a road SUI
perintendent at SO a day while en-
ployed, that he be empowered only to
hire one man and team permanently,
that the superintendent shall employ
for work on the roads the farmers of
the township, that they shall work
eight hours day, that the township
clerks shall collect the tax this year
and it shall be paid out upon the order
OF the road superintendent. In short
this is a way to virtually maintain the
old system OF working out the roads"
In another county 1t is stated that the
county and township officials are in a
great stew over the new law, that they
do not know where the funds are to be
secured for working the roads this year,
that the farmers have the option of
paying in cash or working out the tax,
that II they choose the former they
may wait until next year to pay the
taxes and hence there will be no money
for road work this year. They are
hopeful, SO they stated, that the farm
ers would choose to work out most OF
their tax as usual this year. State
officials declare that 1t is strange how
anybody can suppose, after the pas
sage of the law last winter requiring
all road taxes on real estate and per-
sonal property to be paid in cash, any
person In Iowa can think that properly
owners have the option now OF work
ing the roads," The poll tax may be
worked out, as usual, but not any 9TH
er taxes. It must all be paid in cash.
AS for collecting the taxes so they can
be used, all the powers heretofore had
by county and township officers are
continued for the collection Of taxes and
lf the property owners choose to de-
lay their tax payments until the next
year when the penalties attach and
their land is to be sold for taxes of
course they may do SO; but 1t is pre-
sumed that property owners will have
as much interest In the roads hereafter
as they had in the past. The road
taxes for this year are due and pay
able at the usual time and in q majority
of the counties of the state there will
be really no trouble in changing from
the old system to the new one.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-09
TO SNUFF VOLCANOES

A STARTLING DISCOVERY MADE
BY AN AUSTRALIAN.
Volcanoes can easily be extingutshed,
saws the New York Herald. A New
Zealand man claims {and there are
many who agree with htm) to have
discovered a liquid by means of which
volcanoes may be eXtinguished quickly
whether active or threatening.
Many diseases of the human body
act in the same manner as volcanoes.
Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Kidney Dis
orders, Female Diseases and many
Others all begin with slight rumble
of pain and distress, and if not treated
In. time will burst forth in all their
fury, causing all who are so afflicted
the most intense suffering and max
Ing life a complete burden.
That a liquid has been discovered
that will, extinguish these volcanic
eruptions of disease, whether active or
threatening, is not only certain but
material fact.
DI,. DAVID KENNEDY's FAVOR
TIE REMEDY is this liquid discovery.
THE WONDERFUL CURATIVE
powers of this famous remedy have cut
q new path through the field of medi-
cine, sweeping with it a startling
record of tremendous success.
Druggists sell 1t in new SO cent size
ard the regular $l.Oo size bottles.
Sample hottle-enough for trial, free
by mail.
Or. David Kennedy Corporation,
Roundout, NJ. Y.