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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
MRS. coNNEII's FUNERAL.

The funeral OF Mrs. John connell oc.
CURED at 1890 O'Clock Saturday morn
ing. The iIterment was in the Holy
Cross cemetery. Rev. John A. Reynolds
Of the Catholic church otfitiated. Mrs.
Connell was struck and killed just east
OF the city Thursday morning by a
freight engine, us she was returning home
from the city, whittier She had been to
do some Christmas shopping.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
ruNERAL o. MR. REYNoLps.

The funeral of Benjamin S. Reynolds
occurred at his late home near Reynolds.
vile Christmas morning at 10 o'clock.
The officiating minister was Rev. w. J.
Newton, Baptist preacher, residing al
Olive, The interment was in the family
cel s;ssry. A large number OF relatives
and ghbors attended the obsequies.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
RELIEF FUND
S.'' is GROWING
Clarksburgers Continue to Contribute to
the Relief Of the Afflicted in EatieT,
gys85 Pennsylvania.

The Telegam's reIVf fund for the ty-
phoid fever.stricl,cn people Of Butler. Pa
continues to grow. R. H. Broadhea,, act.
ing secretary OF the relief committees Of
that place acknowledges receipts q the
rcmittlnces in these words: Your con
tributions received by Treasurer 7. J..
shulIin. Permit US to thank you on be.
half OF all those who win receive aid d Il
result Of your generosity" Those who
have thus far made contributions TO this
fund, 50 far as known by the Telegram
are as follows:
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
TELEGRAM we'll PEMEMBEPBD

The Telegram acknowledges receipt of
many tokens Of esteem by merchants aud
business firms. and assures The donors
that they added much to this papers
Ch1itmas festivities. Among the gifts,
were cigars, candies, tropical fruits and,
in fact, everything TO make the day one
Of good cheer,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
STOCK EXCHANGES CLOSED.

Owing 10 the Christmas holidays the
local stock market Offices are closed to.
day, but they will resume business as
usual at The opening hour Monday mcrn.
ing, The offices were also closed Christ,
mas day.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
WILL RENDER MUSIC.

The Sunday school OF Inc First Bap
ti-t church will render some beautiful
music in connection with their Christ
mas Offering to Christ" 1t is hoped thai
every member of the school will be pres
cnt, if possible.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
POLICEMAN JOHNSON QUITS.

P. v. johnson has severed his donuec,
tion with the police force Of the city
This was done day or 50 ago at the
instance Of the mayor and chief of Po-
lice.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
SURVEYORS
OF ROADS
APPOINTED
By the County Court at Term Just
Closed. Other Orders of the Court
Before Adjournment.

By the County Court at Term Just
Closed. Other Orders of the Court
Before adjournment.
Before final adjournment Thursday
evening the county court passed orders
as given below:
Sheriil's residence was issued for three
years for $4,000. The insurance was
placed with Alexander 4 Alexander. An
order Of 500 was issued in payment Of
premium.
Andrew Lyon was appointed oyerseer
Of the poor in Coal district, beginning Jan,
uary next and ending June !, 1905.
Jacob NJ. Swartz was appointed to have
charge OF the burial of INDECENT soldiers
and sailors.
John R. Stout was given a deed for
100 acres Of land on Ann Moore's run,
purchased by him about 1852.
Thaddeus Curry was allowed an exon
eation amounting TO $4.74.
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-26
M salrntion ArnY service.

Owing to the fact that the Salvation.
Army tent blew down Friday night, there.
will be no services by thC Army Sunday.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
MIX and Butter.

Hope Of Romapo, a registered Jsfss,
COW, ownei by The Agricultural A.
partment Of The University OF Mi,s,ps
has, since 1886, through the sale Of h.
milk, butter aud calves. brought IN.
the treasury Of the seanll sl,stI :,
Her record for the Seventeen years
1855 pounds Of milk, 4l47 pound,
OF butter aud ihesn calves.
Prof C.. H. Eckles IN char re of IA.
department OF dairy h~usbandry. SAP.
this is only d sample Of what can \.
made from a good CIV, VERY r.,
farmers" said Pfot. Eskles, "reaiiz,
the income that "a b. had from ,
good COW. The farmer who keen,
COW a year to raise a SI5 or 500 cal,
usually thinks he has done we'll. nm,
his profits do not compara with tho.o
of the dairyman. Except with b,,b
priced registered cattle, The milk. M,
he calf, Is the most valuable produc,
of the COW.
"The milk produced by the AVERAGE
Missouri COW in a year wall sell 70,
a bout $50 at the creamery or wbor
made into first class butter. A eood
10 of the DAIRY breeds will MAKE q,
least $50 cash income every year :
have a list OF about fifty Missouri far.
mcrs who report a cash income from
$50 TO 500 per COW every year, and
these figures do not include the income
from the sale of calves and pics fed
on the skim milk. But. SAYS one
milking is a tremendous task Asa
matter of fact, it takes only sixty hours
worth ten cents an hour, to milk
COW twice a day for ten months.
"Last year b cash income from the
herd of cattle on The college farm was
S82. 80 a COW for butter sold and sI2.
so a COW for milk, skinned milk and
calves, making a total income from
each COW of s95 This year the aver.
age income per COW from the same
will be over 800 for the en-.
tire herd of twenty-eight. These re.
do not come from expensive or
excessive feeding. They are not due
to fine barns or unusual treatment of
any kind. But they are the result of
doing the right thing at the right time
the proper way.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
Foot Ball at W. M. 4.

The w. M. A. foot ball team under
the direction Of Captain jenkins is
working hard to get 10 shape for the
game today with Sedalia High
school. Most of the material is new.
there being only two or three of last
years team playing. This fact has
made the development of the team
very slow, and until the last few DAYS
the work has been very unsatisfactory.
The practice this week has been very
encouraging and Captain jenkins is
sure that before the season closes the
team will be up to the average.
The schedule up to this time is,
Sedalia High school at Lexington,
Saturday, October 18th; Buckner at
Lexington, Saturday, October oath;
buckner at Buckner, Saturday,
October 3lst; Marshall High school at
Lexington, November eth; Topeka
Hlgh school at Lexington, November
10th. 1t is more than probable that
a game will be arranged with the
second team Of the Haskell school.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
THE FARMERS INSTITUTE.

Elsewhere In this issue will be
found a repeated announcement OF
the Corn Show and Farmers Iusti.
tute to be held in this city November
l6 Every farmer who can do so
ought to attend this meeting, see the
exhibits which will be on hand that
day, and hear all the lectures that
will be delivered on farm subjects.
Since the farmers work and the
farmers life is more or less isolated,
he, more than other men, needs the
encouragement and renewed enthu-
siasm which is to be expected from
just such meetings as these. Lectur-
ers who are regarded as authorities
upon the subjects treated will speak
on that occasion and undoubtedly the
finest and most diversified collection
of revenue yielding field products will
be on public exhibition. 1t is almost
as important that we impress these
lecturers, some of whom are engaged
in training scientific farmers at the
State University, with the excellence
of Lafayette county as an agricultural
section, as that they should impart
to US new and valuable information
in the science Of agriculture. The
%ofiener they a be induced to. pro
nounce the name Of Lafayette county
in their lecture rooms, the better It
will be for us.
Besides, IA great deal Of enthusiasm
for ones occupation is to be induced
in this way. People Of every Other
employment meet from time to lime
for this very purpose and farmers
should do so. There are press asso-
citations, bankers associations, teacE-
crs Institutes and hundreds Of others
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

Judge Chrisman 10 his reply to the
allegations OF Senator Stone in a suit
to recover $40, 900 which Stone says
he was induced to invest in the stock
Of the Kansas City Times by false
representations, makes counter char
yes which, if they can be sustained
are very serious indeed. 1t seems not
at all likely that these charges can be
proved. Whatever else his enemies
may have said of Senator Stone, he
has never yet been accused of being a
chump. Aud If these things are true,
and can be shown to be true, then he
Is not only unfit morally to represent
Missouri In the United States Senate,
but he is has not sense enough to serve
on a c%oroner's jury 10 the backwoods
of Arkansas. The metropolitan pa
pers assume that the charges are true,
and upon any sort of evidence or up
on no evidence they will report them
as proved when the time comes.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
Sellers.McElrOy

Alfred l.. Sellers of Lemona, Melon
ala county and Miss Nettle McElroy
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. B. f. Neil
roy OF near this city we're quietly mar
rled at the brides home Sunday after.
noon at 4 O'Clock. Only the family
and near relatives were present for the
ceremony which was performed by Rev.
a s. Gwinn. The bride is cheerful Of
disposition, womanly in her manners
and tr'ly christian In her character.
The groom is manager of a large mer-
camille business at Lemona. They
LETT at five o'clock or the groom's
nome. The Leader extends klnGliest
congratulations Leader.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

The farmer who does not take a pride
IN mis- work aud In the excellence OF
what he produces ought to be sold
out by the sheriff and moved to town.
And he will be. He more than almost
any other workman ought to be proud
Of the product Of his hand and BRAN.
And It is precisely this pride that
lies at the root OF all really successful,
economic agriculture.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

Thomas A. Edison has announced
what he calls the greatest OF all his
triumphs in the conquest Of the
forces Of electricity. He claims to
have invented a generator which
derives its power from a "fuel" Of
remarkable properties. This inven-
tion, says Mr.. Edison, will bring the
various applications OF the storage
battery within the reach Of every
body, The announcement will not
be hailed with very great confidence,
since Mr. Edison has fallen into the
habit of exciting expectations too
soon. We are still waiting for that
$3.50 storage battery automobile,
which is now two years overdue, and
that marvellous magnet that was to
put the poorest iron oxides on a par
with Spiegel-eisen.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
Judge Ewing,s Lecture.

Judge William G. Ewing, Of
Chicago, a national lecturer of the
Christian Scientists, spoke at the
court house Tuesday night. Judge
James P. Chinn introduced the speaker
with appropriate remarks, and the
lecturer ~discoursed in a calm, argu-
mentative style for an hour and a
half upon the Christian science faith.
lie had a good audience and held
close attention, being an interesting
speaker.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

One of the serious questions which
will be before congress for considera-
tion at the approaching session is
that of ratifyiLg the reciprocity con
vention with Cuba. The treaty as
ratified by the Cuban senate differs
slightly with the one ratified by our
last congress and will have to be
passed upon. The situation has
changed in the past two years. Cuba
Is no longer suffering from hard times
Failing to make reasonable trade
relations with us, she has sought
elsewhere and found what she sought.
Instead of furnishing US a valuable
market for many things we have to
sell, she is still as far from US In a
business way as she was before the
war, and in point Of friendship, fur
ther from US than ever before in her
history. The policy OF protection is
bringing the inevitable result of
making US corrupt at home and hated
abroad.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

The Consolidated Lake Superior
Steel Company capitalized for sll7,-
900, 900 failed about two weeks AGO
and vas sold under foreclosure of
mortgage for s5, 200. 900. The actual
value Of the plant was between 5 and
10 millions The owners bonded the
plant for that sum and took the bonds
themselves. Then they capitalized
the plant at s117, 600, 900 sod the
stock and pocketed the money. When
1t failed to pay dividents upon such a
capitalization they foreclosed and took
back the plant. And still people
wonder that the name of Jesse James
is respected by many MlSsourlans.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17


The people Of Boonville last week
voted upon the question of municipal
ownership for the waterworks plant.
The proposition was lost by a narrow
margin. The company has since
made three propositions to the city.
They offer to sell the plant to the
city, or lease it to the city for a term
of years at a price to be fixed by a
di~sinterested board Of expert apprais-
ers, or to renew the franchise with
certain notifications and concessions.
The water company seems to prefer
to sell.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
v

The Mississippi River Levee Goa
vention, which meets nj New orleans
October p, will recommend to con-
gress to take the work a. N intaining
the levees on that river entirely Out
OF the hands OF the states, which
have no available revenues with which
TO prosecute the work. The diff
%culties Of river improvement in the
case Of the great rivers which run
into the Gulf are not economical but
political. 1t can be easily showu that
no serious engineering impedimentS
stand in the way and that such i'm
provements would pay and pay at
once, But u government is not so
organized that the work may be done
at the expense of those who are the
direct and immediate b~enefciarieS,
1t has been carefully calculated by a
committee which will report at the
approaching convention that a levee
system from Memphis to New Orleans
would reclaim %, OOO, 900 acres Of land
which is now utterly worthless,
besides improving the condition and
value Of a much greater area which is
now partially available for tlllage or
forestry. Diminishing from consider
alton the latter and taking into view
only the areas which might be re-
claimed from utter worthlesSness, it
will be seen to exceed the area of
Massachusetts four to one, and in
fertility and productive capacity to
exceed the whole Of the New England
states many times over. More cotton
could be raised Oh these reclaimed
lands than the word now consumes.
The soil is moreover suitable for rice
"uu sugar OduO'
II the national government we're to
undertake TO care for the Mississippi
river, the expense would have to be
betrayed out Of the Ordinary revenues,
which under the constit ution must be
derived from excuses and tariffs. Both
are inequitable systems Of taxation,
and the application OF the revenues
so derived to the reclamation Of land
which when reclaimed would not be
government land but the property of
private persons, would be a further
a%ggravation of injustice. This con-
S%ideration would, however, recon-
mend the scheme to the people of
Northern ideas, If only the Mississippi
arose 10 Louisiana and flowing North
and East through Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York and Massachusetts, emptied
into Boston Bay. To some sense, of
course, the world as a whole is
by the doing of anything
that ought to be done, but if any
plan an be devised by which we may
avoid taxing Southern planters to
a competitive area into the
market against them, it surely ought
to be sought. 1t might be possible
to condemn these swamps and give
them to the general government as
land. After reclamation the
government might reimburse itself
)ut Of the sale Of the lands.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

The Buckner Tribune Of last week
gave an interesting sketch of Claiborn
M. Webb, of that city, who is per-
haps the last survivor OF the Seminole
war veterans. He is So years Of age,
was born 10 Giles county, Tennessee,
in 1915, came to Jackson county in
1884 and lives with his daughter in
Buckner.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
PUBLIcLAND LAWS.

The lntelligencer Is In receipt OF a
long Communication from Guy E.
Mitchell, a member Of the irrigation
congress, urging that pu lie attention
be called to the abuse OF the public
land laws, by which the lrrlgable aud
reclaimable public lands are rapidly
being taxed up by stock companies
organized for the purpose and by
wealthy individuals. He explains
what everybody has known for years
that men are hired to homestead
quarter sections of land, build huts on
them at an expense of a few dollars.
furnished by the company, go to the
places and spend a day two or three
times in a year, and then prove up
and assign the claims to their employ
ers.
It is not worth while to call atten-
tion Of the people to these things.
They do not care. Indeed there was
never any more excuse for our free
homestead laws than for the "forty
acres and a mule" proposition to the
negroes after the war. Our public
domain has been a temptation to
grafters ever since the adoption of
the federal constitution. Beginning
In the Ohio territory it has gone on
and on until now it will be a relief
when people know that the public do
main is all gone and grafters will
have to become ordinary citizens or
pass over into the more heroic and
honorable class of highway robbers.
The essential features Of our pre-
sent public land laws belong to the
time Of that greatest fraud among
American Statement, Daniel Webster.
These laws we're designed to give the
North an advantage over the South,
to encourage immigration, and to in
crease the voting population Of that
section. Whatever has been added
to the value of land in the extreme
West at any period has been done at
the expense of the East, except in i'm
mediate proximity to great cities. The
value of land per acre 10 the Atlantic
States is less now than It was a hun
dred years ago and In the Middle
States it is not greater than it was
fifty years ago. There is no more
valid reason for giving the public
land Of the United States to home
seekers than for giving them pensions
out of the treasury. Fraudulent en-
tries are but natural incident, Of a
vicions principle.
But the principle is not more vic
ious than all the leading government
policies which have had their orr
gin at the North, from the early nav
igation acts to the recent pension and
tariff laws. Forty millions Of acres
of land we're entered last year includ-
ing both legitimate and fraudulent
entries This at the price at
which government land is sold
is less than the amount Of fraud
10 the annual expenditure for
pensions. II is less than that
part of the profit of the United States
Steel Corporation last year which was
due to the protective tariff graft. {
The pension expenditure last year
was about $3.50, 900, 900, more than the
annual cost OF the German Army, the
greatest military force 10 the world. !
The net earnings Of the steel corpor-
alton were sIS3, 3OS, 900, "A per cent e
which was due to the protective
laws.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17
THE SHEPHERD CONTEMPT DECISION.

When editor Shepherd published
the offensive editorial about the su-
preme court the court was not in ses-
sion 1t was convened for the pur.
ppse Of hearing his defence to the
charge Of contempt. After flung
him, the court promised to hand
down a decision, which 1t has done
on re-assembling after the summer
vacation. The decision is a lengthy
one, written by Judge Marshall, all
the judges concurring. The editor Of
this paper is not lawyer enough to
have an opinion upon the question of
the jurisdiction of the court. What
ever may be the merits of that ques-
tion, nine men out Of ten will agree
that the court made a colossal tact.
ical blunder in paying any attention
to Shepherd, whether it had a right
to do so or not. The editorial wa
particularly Objectionable. 1t was not
merely insulting in spirit. but made
specific charges Of corruption against
the whole court, though three out Of
the seven judges dissented from the
majority opinion in the case. What
ever may have been the editors rights,
as a moral proposition be did not get
a lick amiss.
1t seems more than probable that
the supreme court was trapped In
this case by a carefully laid scheme
1t is currently reported 10 Warrens-
and it is probably true that the
editorial iu question was not written
by Shepherd at all but by an eminent
republican attorney of that place, and
marked copies mailed to the Justices
the court for the very purpose Of
Inducing them to commit a blunder
which might have political effects.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

The Odessa Democrat will be Of age
in another year. 1t has been pub
lished twenty years, The office is
equipped with new job type, a new
press, paper cutter, etc. The office is
prosperous and the subscription list
larger than in years past.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

Governor Dockery has again signed
papers for the extradition OF Kratz.
the st. Louis boodler. The state
department will forward them to
Mexico. 1t is not very likely that
the Mexican government will give up
Kratz, but it is thought to be worth
while to repeat the request.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

Col. William P. Hall, since the
removal of General Corbin, has become
acknowledgement of the United States
army. He is a soa Of Judge William
A. Hall, Of Randolph county, Mo, and
graduated at West Point in 1868.
He is a son-in-law of Senator Black
burn, Of Kentucky.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-17

The steel trust thieves seem to be
falling out and Schwab, Carnegie, J..
P. Morgan, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller
and Others are hammering each other
as hard as they can.