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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28

he thought it would be best to say as
little as possible about so uncomfort-
able a subject as frauds and scandals
and claim everything was all right
anyway. So the platform says:
Our administration OF the great de-
partments of the government has been
honest and efficient and wherever
wrongdoing has been discovered the
Republican administration has not hes
itated to probe the evil and bring Of
tenders to justice without regard to
party or political ties"
How honest and efficient the Repub-
lican Administration has been B
shown by, not only the postoaice
frauds, but by the land frauds, the
Department of Justice Scandals, the
Littauer glove scandal, the Indian Ter
ritory scandals, the Philippine scan
dals, the Porto Rico smuggling scan
dals. the District of Columbia scandals
and other frauds and scandals. In
fact. no department of the government
is free from them, and it is no wonder
that not even in their own time and
their own way, do the Republicans
care to publicly mention them, much
less allow a thorough investigation.
Some charged with perpetrating
frauds are candidates for office on the
Republican ticket and others are still
high in Republican councils, and 1t
would be disastrous to talk of such
matters with the voters about to take
action.
The same program is attempted on
the tariff The Republican leaders say
stand pat and il the time ever comes
when it becomes necessary for party
success to amend the tariff in our own
time we will do it. Therefore the Re-
publican platform said: I'VE insist
upon the maintenance of the princi-
pies of professionalism is, we stand
pat-"and therefore rates of duty
should be readjusted only when con-
ditions have so changed that the pub
lie interests demand their alteration"
That is, when we-the Republican
leaders-find conditions have so
changed that the public seem deter
mined to defeat us, we will introduce
bill in the House of Representatives
to readjust rates of duty and If the
Trust majority in the Senate defeat the
bill we can't help IL, but will try again
if you continue us in power. But for
Gods sake don't trust the Democrats"
This is what a spring poet describes
as residing, under the bamboozle
tree" and in his latest effusion he
says:
There's the smooth politician who lives
on the dream that he's surely oam-
boozling the voters
With his CAB and his graft, till he hnds
in the end he's been badly bam-
boozled by foaters.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
coauettlna with the Trusts.

It was an interesting bit of news
noting the furtive visits at the white
house of five successive millionaires
-Stillman, Cassatt, Morgan, Perkins
and, lastly, George ]. Gould. These
conferences might be passed by as
hardly noteworthy but for the fact
that there has been studious effort to
keep the truth from the public. That
does not look so well. Ostensibly the
administration is cunning for the
trusts. Contenporaneous presidential
consultations with gentlemen who are
engineering the operations of some of
the trusts will go far to confirm the
popular suspicion that the war upon
these combinations is only a paper
war, and that, once the election IL
over. there will be an end of it.-Phil.
adelphia Record.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
CLAIMS ARE SETTLED
The $4,000 Set Aside By Congress
To Be Accepted.
LOO DELAWAREs TO GET A SHARE.
Voted To Accept Money Under Con-
ditions Made BY The Act Of Ap-
preparation, With The Provision
That Money Be Paid DeIawares.

Bartlesville, I. T., July 23.-The
Delaware council adjourned after set
Ting the disputed point of accepting
$4,000 set aside by act of congress
to settle all Delaware claims and
suits. Indian Agent Shoenfelt presid.
ed. There was large representation
OF leading Delawares present, and
they made short work of the business
in hand. Among those present from
distance were ex-senator Jones, OF
Arkansas; Judge Vail, former law
partner of Senator Butler of South
Carolina, from Washington; w. T.
Hutchings, of Muskogee, counsel for
r. c. Adams; Mrs. A. j. Blackwell
of Chelsea, wealthy Cherokee widow
whose husband had furnished some
means to finance the Algonquin com.
pany.
The council voted to accept the
money under the conditions made by
the act Of appropriation, with the PRO
vision that the money be paid pro
rata to individual Delawares by In
dian Agent Shoenfelt Attorneys fees
and commissions amounting to about
$4,000 were resented, five claimants
being represented. The claim of Wal
ter Logan of New York for SIS 200
was scaled to $4,000 and ordered paid
The claim of ex-senator Jones for
$4,000 legal services for R. c. Adams
was cut down to $1,000 and ordered
paid. The claims of three other law
yers were thrown out.
At one time Adams claimed len pei
cent of all money and land secured
but when he found that sentiment was
setting against him he very magnan
imously relinquished all claims and
got busy taking oil leases from the
Delawares. He secured seventy-three
leases, but they were all knocked out
Since the first of May he has secured
about forty new leases. One feature
of these new leases is note for STE
which he takes from the Indian, agree
ing, when the lease is approved, tc
pay back the note.
Indian Commissioner Jones has
been the only official friend that AID
ans has had through his various troub
les. Secretary Hitchcock refusing tc
give him an audience at all or to con
slider his schemes. If he makes his
leases stick he will have a pretty good
thing in the oil business, and can lei
the people who staied him in on the
deal and even things up a bit. II
the leases are turned down both him
self and his hackers will be out some
thing.
The council agreed to let the Bar
ties, Ketchum and Dodge families
known as the Kansas Delawares, &C
before the Dawes commission with
their claim for enrolment. Previous
councils had refused to admit the
claim. There are about LOO Della
wares to share in the distribution o.
the S150,000.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Administrations Friends Spared.

The injunction that President Roose-
welt and his Attorney General obtained
about two years ago against the beef
trust seems to have had just the OPP
posite effect intended. 1t was supposed
at the time that President Roosevelt
was hunting, with intent to kill, the
most conspicuous bad trust he had
discovered. 1t is impossible to fathom
upon what theory President Roosevelt
selected the beef trust as the sole bad
industrial trust he could find to prose
cute, for the coal trust, the Standard
Oil trust, the steel trust and dozens of
others were culpable in the same de-
gree. The profits of the Standard Oil
trust were larger and the dividends
paid much greater and the monopoly
even more grinding than the beef
trust, for it had advanced its prices
100 per cent in year. The coal trust
was equally guilty and quite as OPP
pressive The steel trust was more
gigantic and as a monopoly spared
neither high nor low. Why were none
of these selected as the horrible ex-
ample?"
nc ISdoOh was pain. hOJ nOlO
all too strong politically and had been
in the past and were expected to be
in the near future, large contributors
to the Republican campaign fund. 1t
would never do to run amuck"
against such good friends, with their
Wall street connections that con-
trolled banks, trust companies, rail-
roads and other industrial combines,
with half the capital of the country at
their back. The beef combine men
were small potatoes compared to the
other trust magnates, and as public
opinion was centered on beef, in con-
sequence of the extraordinary increase
in price, the packers combination was
selected for Knox to slaughter.
But the Packers combine people
were no novices in the legal game of
bluff and being advised by their attor-
neys that an injunction restraining
them from combining in restraint of
trade did not hinder them from gen
tleman's agreement to all sell at the
same price and not bid against each
other for cattle and hogs, left the in
junction obtained by the Administra-
ton ''up in the air." in the language
of the street"
So President Roosevelt got all the
credit for his war on the trust, but
the beef consumers have profited moth
ing, for the price of beef is still high
But even the Republican Congress
could not justify state of affairs that
kept up the price of beef and reduced
the price of cattle, SO last winter Sec
rotary Cortelyou of the Department
of Commerce and Labor was ordered
to investigate the Packers combine.
1t is presumed that for months this
investigation has been going on, but it
does not seem to worry the Packers
and certainly has had no restraining
effect on the other trusts, for they are
all still charging "all the traffic will
bear" If the voters of the country
are satisfied with this playing at war
against the trusts and vote to indorse
such namby-pamby operations they de-
serve to pay trust prices for the bal
ance of their lives and will probably
do so.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Secretary Wilson'S Heresy

Secretary Wilson will get read out
of the party unless he be careful.
When congress deems 1t unwise to
give us more tariff on any agricultural
product" he says in a genial talk
about beet sugar, 1--WE must seek to
produce that product more cheaply."
That is rank heresy. The sound doc.
trine is that we must elect congress
that will give us more tariff. IF we
can grow an average of more than If
teen tons to the acre." he continued.
unconscious that his sentiments were
revolutionary, I'VE will then not need
any protective tariff" Other indus
tries have made growth proportioned
to that, but does anybody recall one
that no longer needed tariff In the
estimation of it's proprietors?-Phila-
delphia Record.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
WON'T DO 1T AGAIN
BRITISH SHIPS SAFE

ing the war status of the ST. Peters
burg, and had defied the Russian war
flag, contrary to international law,
which evidently came as a complete
surprise to the British government,
that nation might not have acted as
it did. In spite of this development,
however, Russia adopted a most con-
ciliatory attitude. The czar himself
was DESTROYS of avoiding the slightest
pretext for a quarrel and personally
gave orders to settle the matter
promptly.
According to high authority, Rus
STA has conveyed assurances that there
would be no repetition of the Red
sea incidents. How the collateral
questions growing out of these Incl
dents will be regulated has not yet
been disclosed. There is no talk of
an international conference at this
time to discuss neutral commerce, but
diplomats here believe that such a
conference, to discuss this, as well
as new questions raised by the war,
like the use of wireless telegraph, is
advisable when the war ends.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
FRANCE TRIES TO KEEP PEACE
BETWEEN ENGLAND and RUSSIA

Paris, July 23.-The French govern
ment has taken the initiative toward
averting an Anglo-Russian crisis. Its
action is not by the exercise of friend
ly offices, but by a more effective
means. Foreign Minister Delcasse is
making friendly representations to
Count Lamsdorff, the Russian foreign
minister. This, from the ally on whom
Russia chiefly depends, is expected to
exert strong influence toward a pa
cific solution. The exact nature of
NJ. Delcasse's representation is not
disclosed, but they are understood to
contemplate the release of the Malac-
ca and suitable redress. Russia's an.
swer is momentarily expected, If it
is satisfactory the release of the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Shame of Minnesota Republicans.

The Republicans of Minnesota have
sold out bag and baggage to the Mer-
ger and Steel Trust interests and Bob
Dunn, the Hill and Rockefeller candi-
date was nominated for governor. The
Gov. Van SAINT faction, who instituted
the Merger suit in the state courts,
which forced President Roosevelt to
follow suit in the Federal courts, are
defeated and the octupus will rule the
roost. AS a sap to the Van SAINT fac
ton, the platform commends the CAV
errors action in ''espousing the
cause of the people against the rail-
road merger and trusts" How the
trust magnates must grin when they
read about the man they defeated es-
pousing the cause of the people. 1t
would be interesting to know how
much the victory cost the trusts and
still more interesting to see what the
voters will think of the combination.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28

steamer probably will be followed by
the payment of money indemnity.
The French authorities are doing
everything possible to prevent the af-
fair from assuming grave proportions.
Although reluctant to criticise Russia,
they are inclined to the view that a
mistake has been made in the present
case which Russia will be ready to
admit and correct, unless retarded
through excessive British criticisms
The French press and public are TAX
ing the affair calmly. The minister
ial press takes the view that the situa-
ton is due to a misunderstanding, and
that, if Great Britain establishes the
fact that the seized goods are not con-
traband, then Russia will recognize
and redress the error.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
eamboozIina the Voters.

"In our own time and our own way"
as Senator Lodge arrogantly puts it, a
further postal investigation will be I'M
dertaken. "In our own time and in
our own way" we will attend to such
revision of the tariff as may be neces-
sary, say the Republican leaders The
Republican platform, however, does
rot indorse Senator Lodge, or perhaps
when the Senator wrote the platform
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
WOULD SEND RAsBIs TO WAR.
Wants Them To Officiate At Burial
OF Jewish Soldiers.

VT jewish soldiers.
st. Petersburg, July 23.-Rabbi
Drabkin, in an interview, asserted that
there were $4,000 Jews fighting in
the Russian army in Manchuria. The
rabbi calls attention to the fact that
when Jews fall in battle their burial
is different from that which occurs
when death results in other ways. The
Talmudic law requires that those who
fall in battle shall be buried in their
blood. Therefore the bodies of such
are not placed in shrouds, but are in
tered in their clothes.
Although Jewish soldiers can Of
ficiate at such burials, Rabbi Drabkin
thinks rabbis should be sent to the
Far East, together with the instru-
ments prescribed by the Jewish ritual,
the only place in that region where
these now are being Hardin.
The Jews in Russia are subscribing
immense sums for the aid of the
families of their co-religionists in the
field, Odessa alone having contribut-
ed $125, 900.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Left For Native Country.

Chicago, July 21.-Weary of turmoil
and hardships encountered while
struggling for living in the face of
strikes and lockouts 62 families of
the strikers left Chicago to return to
Austria-Hungary. There they will re-
ceive less pay they say, but their en-
ployment will be more steady and de-
void of peril
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Died Of Broken Heart.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 21.-Mrs. Ida
Haertel, widow of Theodore Haertel,
died of a broken heart at her resi-
dence in Allegheny. Her husband was
killed few days ago by live wire,
and when the news was broken to
her without warning blood gushed
from her mouth and she fell to the
floor. She steadily declined until her
death. Physicians pronounce it a
case of broken heart
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Dying Of Cholera.

Baku, Russia, July Refugees
from Teheran tell horrible tales of
the ravages of cholera. They say
that on some days the mortality
reached 900. The Europeans are
abandoning their property and are
fleeing to a camp in the mountains.
There is a pitiful condition of af-
fairs at the quarantine stations
which are almost without food. The
Russian government has ordered the
closing of the frontier for the pur-
pose of preventing the Introduction
If the disease.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Russell Harding RESIGNS.

st. Louis, July 23.-Russell Harding,
vice president and general manager
of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain
roads, Gould system, cabled his resig-
nation to George NJ. Gould, now in
Europe. Mr.. Harding has accepted
the presidency of the Pere Marquette
road and the vice presidency of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and
Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville rail-
roads. Mr.. Harding will assume his
new duties just as soon as he is re-
leased by Mr.. Gould. No name has
been suggested as a possible success
or to Mr.. Harding.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Emperor Nicholas DispIeased.

=
=. ST. Petersburg, July 22-Emper-
= or Nicholas in an interview with
Count Lamsdorff, the foreign min
= lister, expressed his dispIeasure
> at the turn events had taken, and
at the possibility of complications
= with Great Britain arising out of
the detention of British ships by
*.the Russian volunteer fleet steam
3 ers in the Red sea.
This pacific attitude, if the re-
ports be correct, will doubtless
lead to an immediate amicable ad-
justment of the difficulties.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
No Official Report.

st. Petersburg, July 2O.-The war
Office has not yet received an off
cial report of the Russian attack on
the Japanese positions at Mo Tien
pass but it is not regarded as improb-
able that such an attack has been
made, as General Keller is very ac-
tive. If it turns out to be true, how
ever, the war Offices declare it is i'm
possible that the attacking forces
could have consisted of two divi-
sions, as reported, and more likely
the force was composed of two regi-
mentS
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
No Marine Insurance.

Seattle, Wash, July 25.-Local ma
rine insurance agents received cable
instructions from London to accept
no risks on ships or cargo destined
for Japan without authority from Lon
don. This is considered suspension
of the marine insurance businesses to
the Oriental belligerent ports.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
No Change At New York.

New York, July 19.-There was no
change in the status of the meat strike
and matters have assumed the phase
of a deadlock Meat is becoming
scarcer on the east side, and the tenn
per of the people is beginning to be
felt.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Intense Heat.

Chicago, July 20.-Today brought
no relief from the blistering heat
The first victim today was that of a
dock laborer, who became crazed by
the heat and suddenly plunged head
long into the river at Clark street
bridge. He died soon after being res
cuod
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
A Mammoth Tree.

Frenso, CAL, July 25.-W. H. Hart,
a well known lumber mill man, claims
to have found giant sequoia measur-
ing thirty-six feet in diameter and
100 feet around the base. This is
said to be the largest tree on earth.
Hart says the tree is in Eshom valley,
Tulare county, in a secluded gulch
near one of the mills. The mammoth
he figures, is 400 feet in height.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Granted Writ OF Error.

Washington, July 23.-Justice
Brewer, of the United States supreme
court has granted writ of error to
the United States district court for
the eastern district of Missouri in the
case of Senator Joseph R. Burton of
Kansas, convicted in st. Louis of &C.
cepting fee for services before the
postoffice department, while a member
of the United States senate The case
will be reviewed by the United States
supreme court probably in the fall.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Ancient Adab Found.

Chicago, July 21.-Udnunk, the an.
cient Adab, perhaps the oldest city
in the world, has been discovered
by the University of Chicago exca-
waiting expedition in Babylonia. This
city has for many years been the OBJ.
ject of search by Qrientalists.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
MedicaI pirector Dies.

New York, July 21.-Dr. Edward w.
Lambert, chief medical director of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
from the day of its organization until
January 1, 1904, when he retired on
account of his health, died in his
10th year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Brewery Workers To Strike.

San Francisco, July ia confer
ence of representatives of the brew
cry workers union and the owners
will be held to attempt an adjustment
of their difficulties. The demands of
the union are for schedule of S22
a week of six days, and rs cents an
hour overtime.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Jews Join Russians.

st. Petersburg, July 25-Rabbi
Drabkin, in an interview asserted that
there were 10000 Jews fighting in
the Russian army in Manchuria.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Reaardinq Seizure OF Steamer.

London, July 22.-The opposition
leaders in the house of commons have
allowed it to be understood that they
would be prepared to support the gov
eminent in it's representations to Rus
STA in regard to the seizure of the
steamer Malacca in the Red sea.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
ETzEL's KIN WANTED MORE.
Not Satisfied With The $25, 900 Offered
by China.

by China.
Washington, July 25.-Heirs Of
Louis Etzel, killed by Chinese sol
diers near New Chwang, are dissatis-
fed with the amount of indemnity
(s25.OO0 Mexican) paid by the Chinese
government on account of the affair,
and have complained to the state de-
partment. The department has re-
piled that, in view of the facts in the
case, the unprecedented character of
the killing and the general practice
of the American and other govern
ments in fixing indemnities on &C.
count of death, particularly in allow
ing for foreigners killed in this coun-
try, the indemnity in this case is re-
garded as sufficient. The promptness
of the Chinese government in set
Ting the case without any pressure is
officially commended.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
insufficient Ore SuppIY.

Florence, Colo, July 25-The Union
mill was closed down because of in
sufficient ore supply from Cripple
Creek. One hundred men were thrown
out of employment.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
In Honor OF EIection of piaz.

st. Louis, July 19.-There was a
public reception at the Mexican ma
tional pavilion at the worlds fair in
honor of the election of Porforiro Diaz
to the presidency of the Mexican re-
public.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Jeffries To Resume.

Oakland, Cal, July 22.-Champion
j. j. Jeffries left here for Hardin
| Springs, where he will resume train
| ing for his coming contest with Jack
| Munroe.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Advanced Twenty Per Cent.

Peoria, July 19-The fresh meat sup
ply of all the out of town packing
houses is practically exhausted and
prices have been advanced twenty Per
cent
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Russia Didn't Do IL.

London, July 25.-The officers of
the China Mutual Chinese Navigation
company deny the report circulated
that the steamer PAX Ling had been
seized by a Russian volunteer fleet
cruiser in the Red sea-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
General Wounded.

st. Petersburg, July 19.-General
Rennemempff was wounded, but not
seriously in a skirmish near Saim-
atsza. A bullet passed through the
calf of one of his legs.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Makes Good Time.

New York, July 25.-The torpedo
boat destroyer Blakely, which is being
given her official trial off this harbor,
exceeded her contract speed over the
measured mile course.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28
Advance In Boston.

Boston, July 19.--As a result of
the strike of meat cutters the retail
meat was advanced from 1 to 2 cents
a pound on all cuts in Boston.