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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-06-03
L. LATIMER,
SURVEYOR

SURVEYOR,
HYATTsvILI E, MD.
Will give prompt attention to all busi-
ness entrusted to his care, and solicits q
share of public patronage.
aK Sub divisions specially
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-06-03
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SPARkES.

Every duty omitted obscures some
truth we should know.-Ruskin.
The surest way not to get sympathy
is to whine for i'll. w.
If We will do all the will of God {
know we will soon know more to do.
Labor to keep alive in your heart
that little spark of celestial fire-con-
science.-W Washington.
The maximum amount Of good
never can be obtained from mini
mum amount of virtue.
God knows our hearts all times, but
our neighbos see what is in our
hearts by looking at the way we be-
have ourselves.
If you would 90 to heaven when
you die, put your heart there while
you liv'. "Where you treasure is,
hare will your heart be a'so."
No matter how lite value the thing
we appropriate from another may pos
sess, the fact that it does not b'long
to us should make it sacred.
When Christ called His disciples to
follow him He did not have to call
twice. Not one Of the twelve, so far
as we know, had 10 have the invita-
ton repeated. The great disciples,
through all the centuries, have been
the obedient disciples, Loyalty respond
ing to the first claim made by Christ
upon them.
Life is made up of small things,
small duties, small sins, small tempta-
tons, small troubles, small fragments
of happiness. -. The man who
waits for a great emergency or a fine
opportunity to show and prove his
religion is in fair way, think, never
to have any religion at all.
Mistress -"Why have you set the
alarm for 12 o'c,ock?'
Bridget 'Shure, thot's for the
bread to rise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
HORRORS OF WAR.
The Port Arthur Siege Outranks All
Former Records.

A correspondent writes graphically
of the dreadful scenes in connection
with the siege of Port Arthur:
Few, indeed, have read ToIstois
"reminiscences of the siege of Sevas-
topol, or Perez Galdos' hardly less
vivid pages describing the vicissitudes
which the inhabitants of be1eaguered
Saragossa suffered during the Napo-
leonic wars, without uttering a fer
vent Thanksgiving that such butchery
and slaughter was quite impossible in
the more humane age in which we
live. 1t has remained for the blockade
by land and sea of Port Arthur in the
last ten months to show that our self
Generalization was without any foun-
dalton in fact and that the fighting
brute of today, when his lower in
stincts are aroused, does not rise above
the low level of the last century or,
for that matter, the warlike practices
of the Middle ages.
Lifting up the corners of the cur
tains which shield this dismal butch
cry and paying but slight attention to
the official bulletins issued by the an
tagonists which are originally inspired
in a desire to mislead and to deceive,
we can ascertain beyond the perad-
venture of a doubt that there has
never been greater slaughter in pro-
portion to the numbers engaged than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
GOLD FROM KANSAS.
State Is Credited With Production of
$1,000 Last Year.

Washington, Dec. 26-Kansas, in 1908
for the first time Joined the ranks of gold
producing states Along with her came
Tennessee. The two states came in with
gold products valued at So, 700 for Kansas:
$500 for Tennessee. Kansas also reported
silver for the first time, giving a produc-
ton of no less than 81 600 ounces.
Some interesting facts and figures on
the total production of gold and silver in
this country in the year 1903 are given in
a report published by the United States
geographical survey in its annual volume
of mineral resources. The total statistics
of the production are furnished, as usual
mint. The volume may be had upon ap-
plication to the United States geograph-
ical survey.
The total silver yield of the United
States for 1908 amounted to "a, 800, 600 fine
ounces This had coinage value of S70,-
206,0e0 and a commercial value Of S29, 322.-
COO. decrease in quantity of 100000 fine
ounces, or PIG per cent.
Besides Nevada and Kansas, the follow
ing states and territories also showed
gains in production in 1903 over 1902:
Idaho, $4,000 ounces; Utah, 365, 100
ounces; Arizona 344 900 ounces; Alaska,
s.. 600 ounces; California, 2O700 ounces;
Virginia, $500 ounces; Tennessee, 700
ounces.
The greatest decrease in the production
of silver in 1903 was in Colorado. 1t
amounted to 2,6S5, 800 fine ounces. Alaba-
ma, which reported 100 fine ounces of sill
in 1902, reported no production in 1903.
Other decreases were as follows:
324 500 ounces; New Mexico, 276,500 ounces;
South Dakota, $4,000 ounces Michigan,
60 800 ounces; North Carolina, $500 ounces;
Wyoming, 4,S00 ounces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26

that of which the gray ashen cliffs
about Port Arthur have been the
scene.
we know of battalions that have
been blown to eternity by the electric
mines and proud battleshipS with a
complement of a thousand men which
have disappeared beneath the waters
with but three or four miraculously
favored survivors. We know that the
devoted garrison of the beleaguered
forts has shrunk from about forty TO
four thousand, and that thousands
upon thousands of MANNED Russians,
torn, mangled and tortured out of the
semblance of human beings, are dying
in the drains and the cellars of the
fortress, suffering the fortunes of the
damned without the alienation OF
anaesthetics. We know that the Japa-
nese army under Nogi still numbers
one hundred thousand men, thanks to
the Japanese system of always keeping
the besieging force up to that strength,
but the Japanese war Office admits
fifty thousand casualties in the be-
sieging army, and those in a position
to judge, and with no apparent reason
for concealment or exaggeraton, place
the losses at a much higher figure
Time and again the Russians have
proposed a truce to give burial par
ties an opportunity to save from the
vuItures these gallant blood stained
remains, and time and again this offer
has not been availed of. The decom-
posing remains of those who have
fallen in the previous assaults are lett
there to serve a hideous purpose
Rightly or wrongly, it has been sur
missed that the want of respect and
consideration for his dead which Gen
eraI Nogi has apparently shown is In
spired by the thought that the dead
may yet add to the OVERLOOKING meas
ure of their devotion while living.
Perhaps it is hoped that their decom-
posing remains may faint the scant
remaining water sources of the be
sieged and send the specter of pesti-
Ience stalking through their already
shattered ranks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
AGAINST VACATION" SPORT.
Michigan Professor Takes Step to Do
Away With Suspicious Work.


Ann Arbor, Mich, Dec. 26.-An at
tempt to raise athletics at the Univer-
sity of Michigan above the suspicion
of crooked work was this week made
by Prof. A. H. Pattengill. who has is
sued the following proclamation to
athletes:
"a student shall be ineligible to rep
resent his college in athletic contests
who engage in such contests as a
representative of any athletic organi-
zation not connected with his college,
except by special written permission
previously obtained from the proper
athletic authorities.
Occasional games during vacation
on teams which have no permanent or
ganization are not prohibited, provided
written permission has first been Sc
cured, and provided that such permits
sion be granted for one team only dur
ing any single vacation, and that no
PERMISSION will be given to play on a
professional or Semi-profeSSionai team.
I'm the administration of this rule it
is expressly understood that a semi
professional team is n team, any one
or more of whose members receives
remuneration for his services. 1t does
not devolve upon the athletic authorf-
ties to prove receipt of money by any
of the team, but common re-
ports may be taken as a basis of ac-
ton"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26

Why remain in the north and stay
indoors six months in the year con-
Stunning what you raise during the
other six Inonthsf
Go south where you can work out
doors every month in the year, and
where you are producing something
the wear round. If you are a stock
raiser you know your stock are now
"eating their heads off, and. besides.
have to be protected from the rigors
of winter by expensive shelter.
economical stock feeding requires
the combination of both flesh forming
and fat forming foods in certain pro-
Dortfons Alabama and Florida pro-
duce in abundance the velvet bean
and cassava, the first a flesh producer
and the latter a fat producer and
they are the cheapest and best fatten-
ing materials known to the world.
More money can be made and with
less labor, in general farming, fruit
and berry growing and truck garden
ing along our road in the south than
81 any other section of the union
If YOU are interested and desire
further information on the subject
address G.. A Park, General Immigra-
ton and Industrial Agent, Louisville
& Nashville r. r. Co.. Louisville. Ky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
Coursing .Meet Begun.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. 26.-
The courSing meet under the auspices
of the Oklahoma Coursing association,
in which dogs were entered from Kan
sas, Iowa, Texas and Oklahoma and
Indian Territories. was begun here
Saturday. and today there will be a
consolation event There were no
in the days event and the time made
in the same are as follows:
Twilight, OBS, Painter, Oklahoma
Texas oren. o:2e. McNew, Shaw
nee, Okla.
Freesias. 2:O5. Howard. Blackwell.
Lady Carmine. ZOOS. Bartlett. Win
Charles G., 1:1s, Painter. Okla
homa City, Okla.
Frisco Line, 1925. Taylor. Oklahoma
Miss Ringing, 1856. ozmun, Ell
Desmond. 1:4O. Bonnevell, Black
Roguish Eye, o:2s, McFadden.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
May Neversettle, 0:26, Harbour,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Lady Audley, O:4S, William Black
well, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Blackwell Boy. 100, Howard, Back
Pathfinder. 200. McFadden. Okla
homa City, Okla.
Pretty Peggy, o:5o, Bartlett. Win
Stuttgart Girl, 2:O5. Harbour. Okla
homa City.
Floral, KaS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
BATTLING NELSON TOLERANT.
Declines to Prosecute Teddy Murphy,
Who Skipped With Money.

San Francisco, Dec. 26.-Battling
Nelson will not prosecute his manager,
Teddy Murphy, who with Eddie San
try was brought from Stockton to this
city by a detective to answer charges
of embezzlement. The check for So
600 found in Murphy's possession was
cashed and the money deposited with
the property clerk of the court. Both
Murphy and Nelson signed a paper
agreeing to this. SantrY has been re-
leased on his own recognizance and
Murphy will be released on 81, 900 bail.
Nelson and Murphy both say that an
amicable settlement can be reached,
and further legal proceedings are not
anticipated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
SURELY OPEN JANUARY 7.
shannon Says No Contingency Will
Prevent Essex Park Meet.

Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. Racing
will commence in Hot Springs on sat
urday, January T." was the announce
ment made to horse owners and train
ers by William Shannon, principal
owner of the Essex park property.
The announced allayed much
uneasinesS that has existed since the
meeting of dissatisfied turf magnates
a week ago in Chicago, but it is con-
strued in various ways. Some thlnk
it means the stewards of the western
Jockey club have given assurance OF
concessions. Others believe it implied
that President Devereaux has yielded
with a good grace. Yet another de-
duction is that the Hot Springs Jockey
club has made I'D it's mind to race in
dependent of the Western Jockey club.
In explanation, Shannon says:
1.-The directors of Essex park make
this encouragement because we intend
at all hazards to keep our word to the
many horsemen who have come to our
track with the expectation of racing
sixty days at Hot Springs. We have
not heard from the Western Jockey
club, nor have we withdrawn our pro-
test, but racing will begin here on
January z, which ever way the cat
may jump. We still seek a change
from the December assignment of
dates, but we expect to secure the FL
days Essex park had for its initial
meeting last February and March. If
we and others can get no satisfaction
new circuit should be formed, it would
not interfere with this announcement.
as in any event racing at Hot Springs
will open the first Saturday in Janu-
ary."
That there is no longer any doubt
about the opening date is evident by
the issuance and distribution of the
programme book. The first days card
includes the Inaugural handicap, a
mile race for 3-year-olds and upward,
with a guaranteed value of $4,000, and
it is announced the weights will be
made known next Sunday.
Horses continue to arrive. though
the carpenters have great difficulty in
keeping pace with the ever-pressing
demand for stalls Wednesday O'Neil's
string of thirteen got in, and Thursday
G. c. Baker reached Essex park with
fourteen. Sam Wagner is expected
from Chicago on any train. He has
asked for fifteen stalls, but his horses
are still at Latonia. At present there
is little chance to get in at Essex park
unless stalls have been reserved, but
new stables. to contain EOS stalls, are
under way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
NO TREE AT WHITE HOUSE.
Christmas Was Celebrated as a Fam
fly Holiday.

Washington, Dec 26.-At the White
House Christmas celebrated as a
FAMILY holiday. The president remained in
the house during most of the day. In the
afternoon in company with the two older
boys and a friend he went out Tor a walk
Of the family and r. H Ferguson an in
innate friend from New York, who is a
guest at the White House. The members
of the presidents family exchanged gifts
but there was no Christmas tree In place
of this the children enjoyed the delights
OF the Christmas tree at the house of Mrs.
W 3. Cowles, the presidents sister, the
1estlvitles taking place Saturday night
AT the home of Vice President-eleet and
Mrs. Fairbanks three of their four sons
9olned the family party for the Christ
TnaStIde, Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Fairbanks
OF Chicago being detained in that city
All the calNnet Officers with the excep-
ton of Secretary Metcalf of the depart
ment of commerce and labor. are passina
the holiday season at their Washington
homes Mr.: and Mrs. Metcaf are at An
tor N Metcalf -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
SMITH CENTER BUILDING BOOM.
During Past Year Many Substantial
Buildings Were Erected.

Smith Center. Kas., Dec. 26.-This
town has been having an old-fashioned
building activity all the year; in fact
has been enjoying a larger revival of
building than that enjoyed the year
the Rock Island was built through
Smith county. Nor has there been any
OverproductiOn in this revival Dozens
of new residence houses have been
completed many of them beautiful in
architecture and modern in every re-
spect. Several business buildings have
been erected, and others will be built
this winter and next spring. And yet
there is a shortage of good business
houses as we'll as residences.
Among the improvements now I'M
der way in Smith Center is the cree
ton of two beautiful churches--the
Methodist, to cost about $1,000, and
the Congregational, $500. The for
mer is frame with brick veneering, and
the latter of stone. Both of them will
be heated with furnaces. The Con-
gregatiOnalists expect to complete and
dedicate their church about March Is,
while the MethOdists expect to have
theirs in shape for dedication about
April Is, the time of the holding of
the annual conference, which meets in
Smith Center at that time.
Smith county will send a large dele
cation of her school teachers to To-
peka on the occasion of the annual
meeting of the State Teachers asso-
citation this week. Twenty or more of
the teachers have signified their inten-
tiOn of being there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
KANSAS NEWS.
New Oil Refinery at Kansas City
VIII Be Inadequate.
Unable to Take Care of Immense
Output Of New Fields.
PIPE LINE NECESSARY.
Unlikely That Oil VIII Be PIped
to Atlantic Coast.
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
incorporated In Illinois.

In the Incorporation at Springfield,
Ill, of the Prairie Oil and Gas company
is said to lie confirmation of the stories
that have recently been circulated to
the effect that the Standard Oil COM
pany was planning an immense pipe
line connecting the new oil fields of
Kansas and Indian Territory with the
great refineries at Whiting. Ind.
The Prairie Oil and Gas company is
the pipe line company of the Standard
Oil in Kansas. Its legal headquarters
are at Neodesha, but it's main operating
headquarters are at Independence. The
company has a capital stock of 50, 500, 900
in Kansas. and has recently fncorpora-
ted under the Illinois laws, with a CAPT
tai in Illinois of 81, 800 900.
The new pipe line will run from Kan
sas City to Whiting, Ind, and the route
is said to have been already selected
It will cost several million dollars, 1T
probably nowhere near $4,000, 900, as IS
been stated in the dispatches w x
has already been begun in Kansas.
The new pipe line is to handle e
production of the Kansas fields wit the
greatest efficiency and economy. A lew
refinery is being built by the Standard
OIL company in Kansas City, but it will
be unable to take care of the immense
output of the new fields. Owing to the
distributing facilities at whiting and
the smaller freight charges on finished
products from there ii is more profitable
TO refine the oil there than at Kansas
City.
The talk of piping the Kansas oil
through to the great refineries at Bay
Onne, n. J., appears TO be mistaken.
The Standard Oil company has a pipe
line from the Ohio oil fields to Whiting,
and another from the same fields to the
eastern seaboard. 1t is unlikely that
these two lines Will be Joined to trans
port Kansas oil to the seacoast, since
it would be cheaper to refine the crude
oil at Whiting and ship the products.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
lola DEAL IS A GO.
City Is to Purchase Gas Plant and
Rates VIII Remain Unchanged.

lola, Kan, Dec. 26.-The lola Gas
company and the city of lola have
about concluded their deal in which
lola is to follow the precedent set by
Chanute and go in the municipal own
ership business. The Register says of
the deal:
There is some difference of opinion
as to the price to be charged for lights
but 1T is probable some concessions
will be made on both sides, and the
result probably will be a price for
lights a little lower than the Chanute
schedule and a little higher than the
present rate in lola. The other feat
ures of the rate schedule will be the
same as at Chanute.
lola last week was supplied with
gas from the Lanyon wells but is now
connected up with the wells in the
new field north of that town and the
smelter city is warm once more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
CoRRIGAN IN FULL CONTROL.
''Master of HAWTHORNE Is Vice Presi-
dent of New Orleans Jockey CInh.

New Orleans, Dec. 26.-Edward Corrigan
is now in undisputed control of the New
Orleans Jockey club. His elevation and
election to the vice presidency Saturday
means more than at first suspected. It
developed that Mr.. Corrigan already has
his plans well laid and unless the Western
Jockey club comes to terms and accords
the new southern race course proper dates
he Will form a powerful independent cir
cult, starting in Kansas City, taking in
Hawthorne. St. Louis, New Orleans and
other points. There is no longer any doubt
about this being the programme 1t is
proDable new association will be organ
lied in the west, which will have Corri-
gan at its head
All turf men gathered here for the win
ter are talking of the new Corrigan deal
Congressman Joseph L. Rhinock of Cow
ington, KY, one of the Latonia leaders
is hand and glove with Corrigan The
fact came out last night that he is now
a very heavy investor in the new track
here, it being said that he is in for $5e 600
worth of STOCK.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
SPORTING NEWS.
The Present Champions of the
Ring.
From Bantamweight to the
Heavyweight Glass.
SCALE OF WEIGHTS
James j. Jeffries Remains I'm
disputed Champion.
Tommy Ryan Is Claiming Title
Of MiddIeweight Champion.

Bantamweight-Jem Bowker,, of Lon
don, England
Legitimate featherweight-Abe Atten.
of San Francisco.
Heavy featherweight, 12S to 1S0-
Jimmy Britt, of San Francisco.
Lightweight-Joe Cans, of Baltimore.
Welterweight-oe Walcott, of Bos-
ton.
Middle and light heavyweight-Robe
Fitzsimmons, defeated Jim Hall in four
rounds at New Orleans, March 6, 1898.
Claimed by Jack O'Brien and Tommy
Ryan.
Observation-Disclosures ]. Jefries-
A new bantamweight champion was
made when Jem BoWker won the de-
cisco, in a 20-round bout in London on
October H. 1904.
Abe Atten knocked out Harry Forbes
in five rounds at st. Louis and later
won from Kid Herman, Young Erne and
Aurelio Herrera. He is the legitimate
featherweight champion today.
Britt did not win his championship
this year, although he clinched his right
to the title by defeating Battling Mel
son the other night at San Francisco.
He is a 130-pound man and his cham
pionship is at that weight.
Joe Cans must still be considered the
lightweight champion, having won on
a foul from Britt at Frisco on october
q.
At 145 pounds Joe Walcott remains
for the present secure.
None other than old Bob FitzsimmonS
can be considered the champion in the
middleweight and light heavyweight
classes, though Tommy Ryan and Jack
O'Rrien are both claimants for the title
and the former is advertising himself
as "middleWeight champion" continu-
ally.
Jeffries remains the undisputed cham
pion of heavyweights.
The scale of weights for the various
pugilistic classes is as follows:
Bantam-Under lis pounds.
Feather-122 pounds.
Light-133 pounds.
WeIter-142 pounds.
Middle-15S pounds.
Light heavyweight-175 and under.
Heavy-175 pounds and over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26

elect, Major Colin Campbell and his wife
formerly Miss Nancy Letter, Ivan Hay of
Catharine Howard. sister of the Earl of
Suffolk, and Walter Van Rensselaer, Ber-
~, an intimate friend of the family in
this city.
1t is expected that Major Campbell and
Mrs. Campbell, the Earl of Suffolk and
the Countess of Suffolk and all of the Wis
1tors will sail Wednesday from New York
for England and that Mrs Letter and Jo-
seph Letter will go to Chicago in a day
or two after that for the rest of the vim
ter at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
THEY DIDN'T MEET.
Addicks Makes a Flying Trip to Law
sons Town.

Boston, Mass. Dec. 26.-Mr. Addfcks
came to Boston and secured quarters ~
the home of a friend in Newton. He dis
cussed his errarld with Dunbar Racxe-
mann & Brewster, Court street attorneys
in certain Bay State Gas suits They were
in consultation for hours After dinner
at Young's hotel with Judge Dunbar, Mr.
Addicks started for New York on an early
afternoon train. He did not come to
him. 80
There is no reason why I should sea
Mr. lawson, stated Mr.. Addicls ~
came to Boston solely on a business trim.
Il am sorry that Mr. Addick's st.,,
was of such short DURATION" said NJ
Lawson Nothing would have pleased
me more than to meet him face To foo
Many things there are on which 7 vo,s1d
like to enlighten Mr.. Addicks Yes G inl
deed, it is too bad that he found Me-
York interests so Imperative I've"