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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
GOVERNOR URGES PEACE.
He has Concluded TO Offer his Services
as a Mediator

st. Paul, Aug. 12.-The first definite
step looking toward the arbitration OF
the struggle which has been in pro
gress for over a week between the
Northern Pacific and the Order OF
Railway Telegraphers was taken when
Governor John A. Johnson addressed
letters to President ]. J. Hill and
Howard Elliott of the railways, and
President H. B. Perham, of the tele-
graphers, urging a settlement of the
trouble and offering his services as
mediator.
Governor Johnson was prompted to
take this action by numerous letters
he has received from commercial
organizations and citizens OF the
state urging him to take some meas
ure to end the struggle. The govern
or stated that some of the letters he
had received declared that business
in sections of the state was almost
paralyzed by the conditions which
now prevail.
President Perham, of the tele-
graphers, has stated on several oc-
casecasions that he is willing to sub
nit his case to any fair-minded tri-
bunal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
No Royal Suicide.

There are no signs of race suicide
in the British royal family. Victoria
had four sons and five daughters,
King Edward is the father of six and
the baby boy born to the Prince and
Princess of Wales the other day
makes an even half dozen for them,
five being sons. The other stems
have done as well = the Empress
Frederick eight and her son, Emperor
William, seven; Princess Alice, six,
and one of her daughters, the EN-
press of Russia, five: Prince Alfred
and Princess Helena. five each; Prin-
cess Beatrice. four; Prince Arthur,
three, and Prince Leopold, two. The
Cumberland and Cambridge branches
are equally prolific.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
THINK TERMS ARE SEVERE.
How the Portsmouth News Is Received
al Rome.

Rome, Aug. 14.-Much surprise was
felt here today at the Japanese peace
terms becoming known, and high COM
pliments were paid to the Associated
Press for it's exclusive dispatches on
the subject. The opinion is express
ed in Rome that the terms are very
severe on Russia, but if the Japanese
are sufficiently firm Russia will end by
accepting, as there is nothing in
them, it is thought, derogatory to Rus
sian pride, although both reimburse
ment and territory are demanded.
The view in military circles is that
Russia intends to do the best possible
for herself, but will accept in the end.
The main Japanese terms are less ex-
orbitant than expected here and the
hope is expressed that an agreement
will be reached.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Forest Work in Kansas.

Washington, Aug. s. - The forest
service will take steps Immediately
to inaugurate tree planting work on
the recently established Garden City
forest planting in the sand hills Of
c. A. Scott, who has had charge of the
forest planting in the sand mills OF
Nebraska during the past four years,
has been detailed to the Kansas work,
and will soon be on the ground to To-
cate nursery sites and make plans for
the shade frames with which to cover
the seed beds. It is possible that
seedlings from the Nebraska nursery
will be shipped to the Kansas reserve
for planting next year, since two
years will be required for the home
grown seedlings to develop to a suit
able size for transplanting.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
An Odd Collection.

The National Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children has a
remarkable museum, where. within a
glass case is a collection of imple-
ments of torture. Straps of every de-
scription are there. sticks. clubs and
ropes with the knots still in them,
that once held childish wrists fast.
There are also twisted hooks. bam-
boo canes and chain with paddock
by which an imbecile child was for
years fastened to a post. Hanging
by itself is a straw basket two feet
long and a foot deep in which twins
were found on baby farm.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
FALSE TESTS ARE MADE;
SMALL FARMERS CHEATED

state and every car of wheat should
be inspected by state inspector be-
fore it was started to market. This
would give the farmer fair deal.
Local oil inspectors are appointed for
every point where oil is handled. and
the same system should be applied to
the grain inspection department. AS
it Is now, a farmer who sells his
wheat to local dealer must take that
dealers weights and tests. The deal
err ships the grain to market and gets
the weights and tests from the state
inspection department. The farmer
does also where he ships direct to
market himself. He should have just
as good protection if he sells at home
as if he ships to market and local in
spection is his only salvation"
There is no telling how generally
the scheme is being worked. Several
complaints have been made from diff
ferent parts of the state. No single
dealer has monopoly on the scheme.
Many of them are in 1t. OF course
a majority of the dealers are honest,
but enough are crooked to make life
burden to the farmers. They don't
know which to trust.
"The legislature last winter passed
law requiring grain men to give
shippers full weight on grain ship
ments." said Judge West. I'm the
past dealers at the big markets had
been in the habit of deducting 100
pounds from every car. 1t was esti-
mated that this meant a loss of
$4,000 a year to the people of Kan
sas, SO the bill was passed prohibiting
that practice. But that law only ap-
plies to weights. 1t doesn't apply to
tests. For instance, a farmer might
haul 10000 pounds of wheat to local
dealer in a town where there is no
state inspection. That wheat prob
ably would test 60 pounds to the
bushel and be worth 65 cents bushel
But the local dealer would put a test
of Sc pounds to the busheI on it and
only give the farmer say 60 cents
bushel or 5 cents less than the wheat
vas really worth That is the thing
that must be remedied by direct and
special legislation"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18

Topeka, Aug. 14.-Complaints have
begun to reach the attorney generals
Office of scheme certain grain buy
ers have of swindling farmers by false
tests of wheat. AS a rule the game
is worked on small farmers who sell
their grain at the machine. 1t can
not be worked on those who ship their
| grain to market and get state inspec-
| ton But the state is full Of small
| grain growers, and if any considerable
per cent of them are swindled it
means a vast amount of money for the
swindlers in the aggregate.
Here is one sample" said Assist
ant Attorney General West today.
Here is a letter from an old farmer
in Allen county. He sold his grain
at the machine, but had to deliver it
on board the car. The dealer tested
it at fifty-six pounds to the bushel.
The farmer thought he was being
swindled, and had the wheat tested
himself. 1t tested sixty pounds to the
bushel. Still the grain dealer said he
was buying on his own tests, not on
those OF somebody else, and he paid
the farmer for fifty-siX-pound wheat,
which was from 5 to z cents less per
bushel than the farmer was entitled to
for his sixty-pound wheat. Now the
old farmer wants to know what he
can do. have investigated the
statutes, and | believe he can make
a case against the dealer for obtaining
property under false pretenses.
have so advised him and urged him
to lay the matter before his county
attorney"
There ought to be specific law
against this sort of theft" continued
Judge West. at is worse than high
way robbery. When a man is held
up at the muzzle of gun and robbed
he knows just how much he is out,
but if an INSCRIPTIONS and dishonest
grain dealer is gouging him by false
tests of grain all he knows is that he
has been robbed, but doesn't know
out of how much. In addition to law
against thievery of that kind, the
state inspection department should be
spread to cover every hamlet in the
The Orient railroad builders own
more than fifty townsites along the
roads right-of-way. Only three of
these are in Kansas.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
H0CH SPOKE ON REFORM.
Kansas Governor And Party In PhlIa.
delphla.

Philadelphia, Aug. 14.-Gov. Hoch Of
Kansas and his party arrived here to-
day to attend the launching of the bat
tleship Kansas tomorrow at the ship
yards in Camden. With the party are
thirty persons. including the govern
or's wife and Miss Anna Hoch, his 16-
year-old daughter. who will act as
sponsor for the battleship.
Governor Hoch was guest of hon.
or at a public reception held today at
the headquarters Of the City party.
Many prominent citizens were pres
ent and the governor delivered an ad-
dress on Reform"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
TEACHERS CLEARING HOUSE.
State Superintendent Will See That
All Have Jobs.

Topeka, Kan, Aug. S.-The Office OF
the superintendent of public instruc-
ton is being used as clearing
house for Kansas teachers. If a
county has more teachers than it
needs the state superintendent is no.
titled and he in turn notifies the SUI
perintendents of counties where there
is a demand for teachers. In this way
the teachers and the jobs hunt each
other
Frank Dyer, assistant superintend-
ent, said that there would be enough
teachers with certificates in the state
to fill all of the vacancies in the
schools. Heretofore there has been
a surplus of teachers in the eastern
counties and not enough teachers in
the western part of the state. The
teachers did not know where the va
cancies were and the superintendent
of the counties which did not have
enough teachers did not know where
to find them. This is all changed by
the clearing house system.
A report issued by the state super
intendent shows that Usage county
has twenty teachers more than it
needs. Johnson county has nineteen,
Wyandotte county twenty and Craw-
ford county twenty-five surplus teach
ers. The counties which are in need
of teachers are Washington, which
can employ twenty-five at salaries
varying from $50 to $40 a month;
Stafford county needs about thirty
teachers and pays an average salary
Of $42 month; Jefferson county
needs three teachers.
Those who desire a position should
write to the superintendent of the
counties where teachers are needed
The law provides that teacher hold
ing a certificate in one county can
teach in any county in the state by
having the county superintendent en-
dorse the certificate.
The state superintendent will from
time to time issue a notice of the
counties having surplus of teachers
and the counties in which there is
a demand for them.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
ToIstoi's Little Joke.

Count Tolstoi's sense of humor
still continues to exist. One day he
was discussing Ibsen with a friend.
Said the latter: 81 have seen a great
many of Ibsen's plays, but | cannot
say that understand them. Do you?"
Tolstoi smiled and replied: "Ibsen
doesn't understand them himself He
just writes them and sits down and
waits. After while his expounders
and expIainers come and tell him pre-
cisely what he meant"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
kinu Oscar a Poet.

King Oscar of Sweden is a poet OF
no mean order, and his sonnets have
been translated into most of the Ian
guages of Europe. He is an accomp'
lished musician, too, his nautical
songs, set to his own music, being
very popular in the Swedish navy. He
has written histories and dramas,
translated classics, and is the author
of some hymns which enjoy the high
est popularity. Finally, as tenor
singer, he is always welcome at con-
certS.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Drunken Man Kills Passenger.

Louisiana, Mo-, Aug. S.-While a
Chicago and Alton passenger train
was crossing the Mississippi river
bridge, Marion Warner, of Secor. ILL.,,
a passenger on the train. was shot
and instantly killed by an unknown
man. After shooting Warner he
emptied his revolver at the other pas
sengers. one woman receiving slight
wound on the arm.
The woman who was injured is Miss
EfIie Mcdonald. of Galesburg. ILL.,,
who was on her way to Russell, Kan
sas. A bullet glazed her arm, max
ing a flesh wound.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Regarding Assuan Dam.

The Egyptian government has de-
cided upon postponing-and this may
mean abandoning - the scheme for
raising the Assuan dam. and thereby
increasing the supply of water for the
irrigation of the country in the sum-
mer, and has taken this decision
mainly because two mathematicians
in London have developed new the
ory regarding the stresses upon ma
sonry dams.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Disposition of Convicts,

4, Toxic, Aug 1.-THE disposition of
THE convicts on Sakhalin island is
now under consideration. They will
probably be taken to the Russian
coast and will there be transferred 10
the Russian authorities. Under pre-
arrangement. the Russian prisoners
,of war on the island, 10000 in all, are
being TRANSPORTED to Japan.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
COMMODORE Somerville Nicholson

COMMODORE Somerville Nicholson
~ of the United States Navy, in a
letter from 1887 r. Street, North
west, Washington, d. c., says:
"YOur Peruna has been and Is nov
used by SO many of my friends and
acquainfances as sure cure for ca
tarrh that 1 am convinced of its cura-
tive qualities and I unhesitafingiy rec
ommend 1t to all persons suffering
from that complaint.
Our army and our navy are the natural
protection of our country.
Peruna is the natural protection of
the army and navy in the vicissitudes
of climate and exposure.
We have on file thousands of testi-
monials from prominent people in the
army and navy.
We can give our readers only slight
glimpse of the vast array of unsolic-
tied endorsements DR.. Hartman is con-
stantly receiving for his widely known
and efficient remedy, Peruna.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. S. B. Hartman,
President Of The Hartman Sanitarium,
Columbus. Ohio.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
The Weather Bureau Is Free From All
Graft.
NO IRREGULARITIES ALLOWED.
Eight Hour Working Day Was Estab-
iished With Fair Wages - Shot Is
Taken at Secret Service Men -
Statement in Full.

Washington, Aug. -. - Professor
willis L. Moore. chic of the United
States weather bureau, today issued
a signed statement denying allega-
tons of graft in the management of
the weather station in the Blue Ridge
mountains near Blue Mont Va, dis
claiming the existence of any irregu-
Iarities in the administration of his
Office and offering full opportunity for
the investigation of any specific
charges by any responsible person.
Professor Moore says that no secret
service men are at work in the bureau
and scores a "few incompetent or dis
honorable employees" dismissed from
the service and endeavoring to secret
1y reform the institution.
The statement says:
"a few days ago a statement was
published in Washington to the effect
that it was reported unofIicially that
the secret service had dispatched
agents to the mountain station
,(Mount weather of the United States
weather bureau where the sleuths
for the past two days have been nos
ing around.
! According to the report these
.sleuths discovered that the weather
bureau was paying SO per day for I'M
,rIys 1nl t. t,t,ta hn
amount paid laborers in the city of
Washington and that there is COM
plant on the part of employers ada
cent who only pay rs cents to $100.
Nov. it is a fact that the weather
bureau has never paid SO a day to any
:IabOrers employed at Mount Weather
SOr at any other place and If the re-
|pOrter who wrote that statement had
taken the trouble to ask for the
privilege of examining the pay rolls
eof the weather bureau, which would
have been freely placed at his dis
iposal, he would have saved his read
lers the opportunity of reading secret
lily secured scandal instead of openly |
procured news. l would like to have |
the entire pay roll of Mount Weather |
Tor of any other portion of the weather
bureau, published, so that the public
may know whether there is an ex-
ltravagant management inside of the
bureau or malicious Justification on
THE outside.
Il do not doubt that | have disturb
red the labor market in the vicinity of
Mount Weather and l am proud of the
fact. for | was told of men working
from sunrise to sunset for so cents
per day and board or rs cents per day
and they board themselves. / believe
that such hours of labor and such
wages do not contribute to the better
tment of American citizenship or the
welfare of the state and so far as
have the power as the chief of large
government bureau l shall ever strive
to alter such conditions.
Cor the approval of Secretary Will
son, WHO believes in reasonable hours
of Tabor and a fair wage scale, es-
tablished a wage of SO per day for
stone masons, $3.50 for carpenters
and S1.50 for day laborers. If the
sleuths. who are reported to have
been 'nosing around Mount Weather,
had been little more vigilant they
would have discovered that had also
with the sanction of the secretary of
{ Disposition of Convcts.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
A Denver Bank Fails.

Denver. Colo. Aug. 12.-The West
e.'n bank. a state institution, failed to
open. A notice was posted announc-
ing that Henry M. Beatty, assistant
cashier of the bank, had been appoint
ed assignee w. G. Brown is presi-
dent and w. T. Perkins cashier Of the
Western bank.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Wireless to Honolulu.

San Francisco, Aug. 14.-On the top
of Mount Tamalpais is being erected
a wireless telegraph station from
which it is expected direct communi-
cation with Honolulu will be establish
ed. Subsequently the promoters of
the project say they may continue the
line to the Orient.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
indian National Hero.

The arrival of many Hindoos from
India to enter as students at the I'M
perial university and schools of
technology at Toxic has been noted
lately. 1t was intended to celebrate
the festival of the great Indian ma
tional hero, Sfvaji, at Toxic this year
for the first time with great eclat.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
An Unprecedented Scene.

+. Portsmouth, England, Aug. -. -
Scenes unprecedented in a British
naval porte were witnessed here. The
Finch sailors for hours fraternized
with the British tars. the sailors of
the two nations parading the streets
arm in arm singing the "Marseillaise,
and the British national anthem.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
On Relief ExpeditIon.

{ Honnings vaag. Norway, Aug. 12.-
The Arctic steamer Terra Nova,
which went to the relief of the Fiala-
Zeigler Polar expedition. has rescued
Anthony Fiala and all the others con-
nected with the expedition with the
exception OF one Norwegian seaman.
Who died from natural causes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
interruption of U. S. Mails.

Washington, Aug. S.-The postoffice
department announced that the in
terruption of the mail service in the
states of Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas on account of the enforcement
of the quarantine resolutions in the
fever districts is mainly confined to
limited areas or districts and to points
reached by local railway trains.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Has Dispatched Force.

Toxic, Aug. 14.-Admiral Kataoka
reports that he dispatched a force to
cooperate with the army in attacking
a Russian force which was holding
the southeastern coast light twenty
miles east of Korsakoff.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Left For Japan.

General Oku's Headquarters in the
Field, Aug. 14.-General Arthur Mac
Arthur. accompanied by his aide-de-
camp. Captain Parker w. West, of the
Eleventh United States cavalry, left
the front for Japan.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Socialists Are Arrested.

LODI, Russian Poland, Aug. IL. -
A thousand socialists who were hold
ing meeting in forest near here
were surrounded by soldiers. The
majority of the socialists were ar
rested and many of them we're wound
ed while attempting to escape.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
WI Tina Fang Denies.

Pekin, Aug. IL. - The Associated
Press correspondent is informed that
there is no foundation for the state
ment that WI Ting Fang. former min
lister to America. is responsible for
the Chinese anti-American boycott.
The agitation against dealing in
American goods and shipping on
American steamers is spreading.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
New Opera For Eames.

New York. Aug. 14.-Clyde Fitch's
play, "The Toast of the Town." which
Viola Allen will present next season,
is to be made into an opera for Emma
Eames' use. Mr.. Fitch will writ1 the
libretto
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Reuardlna NeuotIatIona.

Berlin. Aug. 1.-THE Lokal Anzeig-
er's correspondent at Portsmouth. N.
H., cables that he asked NJ witte II
the japanese terms presented a basis
for continuing the negotiations and
that N. witte answered. Certainly"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
carneoie Strike Called OFF.

Youngstown, O., Aug. 12.-Members
of the amalgamated lodges at the
mills of the Carnegie company where
a strike has been on for over a year.
took vote deciding to call the strike
off by a large majority.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
A BIushjnu Lake.

Lake Mora. in Switzerland, has the
curious property, every tenth year, of
turning red, owing to the presence of
certain water plants which are not
found in any other lake in the world.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Robbers Get $4,000,

Opatoff. Russia, Aug. 9.-The local
treasury was attacked by forty armed
men who killed or wounded all the
watchmen guarding the buildings.
The robbers secured $4,000.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Many Names Recorded.

Grand Junction, Colo, Aug. IA. -
ON the last day but one Of registra-
ition for Uintah lands 1.4GS names
were recorded.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
In Boston Next.

Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 10.-The
international anatomical congress, at
it's first session adopted an invitation
to meet in Boston in 1907.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18
Strike Has Ended.

Riga, Russia. Aug. 1.-THE strike
of the dock laborers has ended and
business is proceeding as usual.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-18

The Orient railroad builders own
more than fifty townsites along the
roads right-of-way. Only three of
these are in Kansas.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-09-28
The ShOrthOrn Bull,

The points which should be observed
in selecting a shorthorn bull are. &C.
cording to an authority, as follows:
The bone should be strong, of fine
texture and clean, the skin pliable and
elastic and the hair soft and thick.
These parts should be evenly covered
with firm flesh which should be mel
low to the touch, not soft and habby
or in ridges. The animal should be
deep, broad, low set and smooth. The
top line and underline should be
straight and parallel, and the style
active and vigorous, but not restless.
The chest should be deep and wide,
fore TANKS full and the space back OF
the shoulders we'll filed, leaving no
depression. The heart girth should
be large and the ribs long and we'll
arched, the loin deeply feshed, CON-
ing out full to hooks and carrying
width evenly from hooks forward. An
animal should have a back broad,
straight, we'll feshed and smooth and
the hooks not prominent but wide,
smooth and we'll covered.