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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-06-03

Average Condition Of Crop is
77.2, as Compared With
81 May Is Last Year.

Washin ston, June 2.-The fol-
lowing bulletin on the condition
of the cotton crop was issued by
the department of agriculture to-
day:
Returns to the chief of the
bureau of statistics Of the depart
ment of agriculture show the to-
tai area planted in cotton in the
United States up to May Is to be
about %, 10000 acres, or ia per
cent from the total acreage plant
ed last year.
The average condition of the
growing crop of May rs was TIP
as compared with SO on May Is,
1904; 74.1 at the corresponding
date in 1908 and a 1O-year average
of S5.3.
THE ACREAGE DECREASED.
The percentage of decreases
acreage in the different states
(the comparison being with the
total area planted last season. is
as follows:
Virginia, -.
North Carolina, 10.
South Carolina, II.
Georgia, II.
Florida, 10.
Alabama, 8.
Mississippi, II.
Louisiana, IA.
Texas, IL.
Arkansas, IS.
Tennessee, 10.
Missouri, II.
Oklahoma, II.
Indian Territory, 10.
THE CONDITION.
The condition of the crop by
states on May Is was as follows:
Virginia, 81.
North Carolina, 50
South Carolina, rs.
Georgia, "a.
Florida, 88.
Alabama, 81.
Mississippi, 70.
Louisiana, 70.
Texas, 60.
Arkansas, 70.
Tennessee, Sc.
Missouri, 81.
Oklahoma, 88.
Indian Territory, 81.
Statistician Hyde had COM
ment to make on the acreage and
condition estimate of the burea II
of statistics, department of ag-
ricu1ture, which was issued at
noon today. When seen, he said
he did not care to discuss the
figures of his bureau, nor those
of anu other firms oroa MIA ti0nS
or individuals who have made es-
Inmates of the acreage.
Information in the hands of the
bureau officials show that esti-
mates of the per centage of re-
duction in the acreage range
from 1899 to 1874. The lowest is
that of the Financial Chrodicle
Continued On last Page.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-07-06
Majority Of Inhabitants Of
WarsatO Oppose Russian Rule

With the people Of Russia generally
IN state of unrest presaging revo,
luton, with open revolt in some sec.
tons Of the Cars domains, and with
fresh disasters caused by the war In
the East, the autocracy Of Russia is in
a critical condition.
That the war must be ended soon to
prevent general revolt against the
government cannot be doubted. Dis
patches from all parts Of Russia are
all Of this tenor.
The internal situation grows graver
daily. Each loss of a life at the hands
Of Cossacks increases the hatred Of
the people toward all that the govern
ment represents. Reports Of fresh dis
orders are coming from Russia as fast
as the censor will let them out. The
news Of the riots has been minimized
by officiaidom; no one can guess their
real extent.
The red flag of revolution was hoist
ed at the masthead of the Kniaz Po-
temkine, Russia's most powerful bat
tleship in the Black Sea. The captain
and most of the officers were MUIR
dered and thrown overheard in the
open sea and the ship was completely
In the possession of the crew and a
few officers who threw in their lot
with the mutineers.
The guns of the Kniaz Potemkine
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CHICAGO LOSES GOOD CITIZEN.
Graeme Stewart, Dead, Also Promi-
nent in National Affairs.

Graeme Stewart, Dead, Also Promi-
nent In National Affairs.
Graeme Stewart, one of Chicagos
leading merchants and foremost citi
zens, died June 26, two weeks after
stroke of apoplexy.
Graeme Stewart was born on Aug.
30. 1853, three years after his father,
William Stewart, an Ayrshire Scotch.
man, settled in Chicago.
From 1900 to 1904 Mr.. Stewart was.
a member of the Republican national
committee, succeeding Thomas N.
Jameson as the Illinois member. He.
served the entire four years as a
member of the executive committee.
of the organization. In the campaign
of 1900 he was the central figure in
the management of the campaign in
the west, the headquarters being in
Chicago. His genius for business adj
ministration made him an invaluable
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FOND OF NATIONAL GAME.
Government Clerks at Washinoton
Have Regular LEAGUE.

Washington boasts of DEPART
mental Baseball League comrose'' Of
teams representing the various de-
partments. Several cabinet officials
make point of attending the games,
which are played almost every after
noon on the big circle in the rear of
the white house. Secretary Metcalf
is the most enthusiastic rooter of tho
lot, though Secretary Moody is close
second. One of the most faithful at
tempts at the professional games of
ball in Washington is the Chinese min
lister. Sir Chentung was famous
pitcher while student at Amherst.
He could have maze big money as a
professional had he cared to take up,
baseball instead of diplomacy.
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TYRANNY: cHAsTsEMENT OF A coAcHMAN EN- ROUTE
Drivers frequently beaten by ocemen for characterization

were trained on the city, and in the
streets masses Of striking workmen,
who previously had fled before the vol
leys of troops, were inflamed by the
spectacle of open revolt on board an
imperial war ship and made bold
front against the military.
The next step of the mutineers, 1t is
believed, will be the seizure of Sevas-
topol, where vast quantities Of NUM-
tions Of war of all kinds are stored.
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or in tunics of rough wool. The gar.
rison consists Of $4,000 men. The au.
thorities are quick to suppress mani
festations Of national feeling. An
Englishman told me that he had in
vited some ladies to his room one
evening, and after supper one Of them
sang Polish patriotic song. Next
day he received call from the police.
Do the Poles speak bitterly OF
Russia? We asked one of them in
the crowded waiting room of the sta
ton II they were contented with their
lot, and he replied: "Such things
must not be talked of here.
Another reply of another Pole to-
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against the altar rails. In the body
OF the church number Of men, seat
ed in pews on one side, sang, and
when they had ceased, the women on
the other side took up the strain. In
another church the doors are left
open at all times, but an iron.barred
gate shuts off the interior from the
porch. Yet at any hour Of the day
women and men may be seen kneel-
ing there, and these by no means the
poorest in the town. What doffing Of
hats, too, in the act Of passing a
church! We saw dozen men raise
their hats simultaneously.
Language is a symbol, a pledge of
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dTTeSLeu, anu IueTe ndb Deen some
thing of a showing for reform, but II
is hard to tell whether 1t will last very
long"
Sugar Beets Doing Well. = Sugar
beets in this section In the patches be-
ing cultivated by the Arkansas City
Commercial Club, and numerous
farmers living in the vicinity are 60.
Ing to make record breaking crop
according to the expert who has been
here from Colorado instructing the
farmers In beet culture. He complet-
ed his work today and has left. The
beets have been grown as an expert
ment and the prospects are excellent.
A factory will be built here by the
American Beet Sugar Company, II the
results Of this years experiments
prove to be UP to expectations.
italian Bishop at Wichita. IN The
Right Rev. Bishop Deobbing, OF Napia
and Sutra, Italy, the Oldest Catholic
diocese In the world, has arrived at
Wichita to visit Bishop Hennessey
and consult with him on matters Of
interest to the church at large.
Ottawa Sure Of oas,--At Ottawa an
agreement was entered into between
the Kansas Natural Gas Company and
the local artificial gas company by
which the Kansas company takes over
the local concern. restocks the con-
solidated company and uses the local
plant to distribute gas In the town
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co.worker with Senator Hanna, Hem
ny G. Payne, Harry New, and r. c.
Kerens In the financial conduct OF the
campaign. Mr.. Stewart and Mr.
Payne were the two leaders upon
whose judgment President Mckinley
relied implicitly in matters pertaining
to the administration in the middle
west.
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WARSAW EVER IN UNREST.
Poles Long for Overthrow Of Hated
Russian Rule.

Poles Long for Overthrow Of Hated
Russian Rule.
Warsaw should be seen before the
rest of Russia, not after 1t. 1t Is tame
to those who are coming from the
East. But to the traveller from the
West it contains ample evidence Of
a novel civilization-that Is, of the
Russian Empire. Warsaw lies on the
border-line between the Occident and
the Orient. The Poles, properly
speaking, belong to the Western
world. They have our calendar, our
religion. Warsaw Is full Of old pal
aces and churches that are Italian in
style. Its railways-small natter
are part and parcel Of those Of West
ern Europe; 1t is only east Of the
vistula that the Russian gauge be-
gins. But the Russian Colossus has
set its heavy foot on Poland, and the
lot Of the Poles henceforth will be
to. hold up the torch Of Western civ
ilization In an empire that is un-
friendly to 1t.
That the Poles are aware of their
mission no one who has watched
them can doubt. With them, as in
Ireland, religion and patriotism are
synonymous. What crowded church
es! We went into one Of them in the
afternoon, on an ordinary week day;
the seats and aisles were almost full.
No priest was visible, but crowd Of
people pressed, expectant, patient,
-...ee~e~---~~-~~s~~ --~-~-~-~e-~-~
Equlvocal Welcome.
when the young king Of Spain was
In London he one day saw q banner
Of welcome bearing these words In
tolerable Spanish--up to the last
word: "Que yuestro reinado, senior,
sea largo y flez," which was intend
ed to mean: MAY your reign, sir,
be long and happy" But that last
word threw him into fits Of laughter.
Il should have been "feliz' AS It was
il meant nothing in Spanish, while In
French, a language with which bis
majesty is familiar, It is equivalent to
the American get out
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/ nationality. The Poles cling tena-
ciously to theirs. In the restaurants,
in the shops, enter and speak Russian
to them. They reply in Polish; you
persist in your Russian. 1t becomes
essential to the bargain that you
should communicate in common
tongue. Then reluctantly the Rus
sian comes, but not word more than
is necessary. For most of them know
Russian. 1t is taught in the schools.
And on every shop, wherever there
is an announcement of the kind of
thing on sale, or the name of tho oc-
cupier, both are written side by side
the name in Russian letters as or
dered by law, the Polish name in
Western. characters.
Nowhere is the clash Of rival
creeds more conspicuous than here.
No doubt most of the churches are
Catholic, and many of them, Gothic
or Renaissance, are by no means
wanting in merit But If you will
stand on the bridge across the Vistula
and look upon the hills on which the
city is built, dominating all there is
a mass of scaffolding with three gilt
crosses on the top. It is a new Rus
sian cathedral, which Is being raised
by means of subscriptions from Or
thodox Russia, and when 1t has its
domes and cupolas 1t will be the most
striking object IN the town. Some
times, however, the process is re-
versed for the Orthodox are not
numerous in the Polish capital. In,
the Praga across the river are two
high Gothic towers, uplifter far above
the roofs. And opposite 1t, fair and
small, is tiny Russian church, with
Its refulgent silver crosses. Is 1t be-
cause Warsaw is the capital Of con.
Quered Poland or because 1t Is near
to Germany that the streets are alive
with soldiers? The attention is ar
rested necessarily by company of
big-limbed fellows, who SLOUGH along
In white blousss and black trousers,
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-07-06
PsrpstuaI Boycott on Work.

Jose Rodriguez, Mexican resident
OF El Paso, Tex, IS 9S years old and
never did days work in his life
While yet small boy Jose decided
that one could get along very we'll
without working, and he has managed
to exist ever since without turning
his hand to anything more arduous
than chicken-fghtfng. For nearly
threc-auarters of century he has
been known far and near as pro.
moter Of such battles, but Is careful
to explain that this IS not work.
merely recreation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

least fifty stations will be completed
and equipped in Kansas during the
next three months. The Uncle Sam
company is a home concern, 1t is
backed by the laws of Kansas, sup
ported and approved by about nine
tenths of the people in the state, and
the Uncle Sam refined and fuel oils
vii be the most popular Kansas prod
command good prices
Big Deals Are Being Closed Daily on
This Stock.
Investors can depend. as before
stated, on this stock advancing 25
per cent. on August 1. However, this
does not mean that you have any GER
tainty that 1t will remain at the pres
emit price for even the next five days
Big deals are pending all over the
United States. This announcement Will
be read by close to fifteen million peo-
pie. The saving banks OF the country
are full of money that is bringing the
depositor practically no income and it
is not any safer than it would be if
invested in this company as the Uncle
Sam company is paying as it goes. 1t
is not running in debt a dollar. In
fact it has thousands of dollars in the
treasury. Every well managed refinery
company that owns its own production
succeeds. The Uncle Sam company
has oil lands enough to feed the pres
ent refinery and the two that will be
built during the next year for over a
century. When you buy this stock
you invest IN one of the greatest grow.
ing enterprises in the nation. It will
be to the west what the Pure OIL COM
pany is in the east. You should not
delay an hour after reading this an
nouncement. Send your rernittancS
now and secure stock. for it is easily
worth 25 cents per share right now
and will be selling for that In less than
six weeks Several deals for ten and
twenty thousand shares have been
closed in the last three days. If, how
ever, you only take one hundred shares
at $14.0O you are welcome to poin us
for this company will live and prosper
by the help of its many friends and
the thousands of small stockholders
and influential men who will demand
and force a square deal for its prod
ucts in every part of the union. For
further particulars write or wire,
II. II. TUCKER, JR. Secretary,
Cherryvale, Kansas.
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HAS REACHED A CRISIS.
Monday Will Decide Fate of Present
British Government.

London, July 21.-The house of COM
mons sat barely half an hour today
and lfien adjourned until Monday to
await the decision regarding its future
course of action, in view of the defeat
of the ministry last night on John Red
mond'S motion to reduce the vote for
the Irish land commission.
The house was packed, and much ex-
element was visible on all sides and
there was a disposition to view the de-
feat of the government as more serious
than it was generally regarded in the
early hours this morning. Immediate
Henry Campbell-Bannerman the lib
claring that it would be unseemly I'M
der the circumstances, to proceed with
business while the government was con-
sidering its position. Premier Balfour,
however, declined to adjourn the house
until the bill dealing with the differ
ences of the Scottish United Free
church and the Free church had been
passed. This was quickly accomplish
ed, the house rose and the excited mem
bers swarmed into the lobbies eagerly
discussing the probably decision of the
cabinet which had been summoned to
meet this afternoon.
The view that the government will re-
sign. however, is not held in circles
generally well informed as to the gov
ernment's intentions. and it is reitera-
ted the resignation of the Balfour min
istry is not likely in view of the almost
certainty that the government will be
habilitated by its normal majority on
the trial of strength, July "a, to which
the opposition formally challenged the
ministry.
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a conductor of electricity than does
uranium.
"Radium contains heat, light and
power of and by itself, and the ques-
ton Is wheBe does all this energy
come FROM It is an explosive sub
stance, always giving off little par
ticles of its own substance. This may
cause US to change our conception of
heat and light as being composed of
minute particles of a material sub
stance. Each atom of radium ex-
plodes into three kinds of rays called
alpha, beta and gamma rays. The
alpha and the beta rays are similar
in some of their characteristics and
travel at a high rate of speed, prob
ably with the velocity of light or cleo
tricity, which is hundreds of miles a
minute. The beta rays are very small
and capable of penetrating piece Of
iron or steel to a depth of six inches.
The gamma rays are the rays of vi
bratiOn and are different from the
other two kinds. One of the peculi-
arities of ray of radium is that as
it travels at this enormous rate of
speed, should it strike upon certain
substances it would produce light.
"It is possible to see the rays ema-
mating from a piece of radium and
hitting and striking upon other sub
stances; that is to say, that you can
see the atoms as they go. Sir Oliver
Lodge thinks that the beta emanation
is negative electricity, but this is
doubted by many.
Radium in Colorado.
There seems to be large guam
titles of radium in Colorado, which
runs in fissure veins for over a hum
bred miles through the mountains.
The veins are one and a half miles
apart and are filled with a large
amount of copper. The uranium from
which the radium is extracted is
found in large quantities underneath
several strata of sandstone. The
uranium ore is crushed and the ra
dunn precipitated by means of a
hydro-sulphuric solution. 1t requires
a ton of ore to procure a very small
amount of radium. and the cost of ex-
traction is something like SIS for a ton
of ore
Mr.. Adams claims to have more ra-
dunn than any other individual in the
United States. He says that his work
with it has resulted in injuring his eye
sight, and the fingers of his hands
have been somewhat eaten by the
substance. His sight was SO badly
affected that for awhile he saw double
yet he says he was in Kansas.
At present he is engaged in organ
izing a company for the mining of
radium and in making the substance
of marketable value. Mr.. Adams for
merly lived in Topeka and a number
of his old-time friends heard him last
evening. The lecture was given in an
informal manner, and the twenty or
more persons there were permitted to
handle and see for themselves this
strange and costly mineral.
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SHAWNEE is REDUCED.
Assessment Is Cut % Per Cent by
State Board.

The state board of equalization wound
up it's annual session Thursday after
noon, and gave out report showing the
amount of state tax which each county
in the state will have to raise.
Shawnee county was given the usual
% per cent reduction. because of the
fact that Shawnee assesses it's property
at about SO per cent of its real value,
and other counties assess at considera-
bly, less than that fraction.
The board of equalization reduced the
valuation of some of the counties to an
aggregate amount of 10000, 900, but in
creased others by about 5000. 600, so
the net increase in assessed valuations
as returned by the county clerks was
increased about 100000.
The state must raise by taxation this
year 81, 209,0 02. Last year it was neces-
sary to raise 81, 967, 346. In 1903 it was
$2,480 495. 1t is always necessary to
raise more the year following the ses-
sion of the legislature.
AS adjusted by the board of equaliza-
ton, the total assessed valuation Of the
state is 1881, 553s34s.
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thirty thousand acres of valuable oil
and gas lands. located in some of the
richest oil fields in Labette, Mont
gomery, Elk and Chautauqua counties
and also south of Bartlesville, in the
five hundred barrel district, right up
against the Usage line in the Cherokee
nation. On these properties there are
seventy-nine (79) producing wells and
five pumping plants The company
has room for over 5000 oil wells.
Thousands of barrels of oil are owned
and in storage, ready to be refined and
turned into money. More oil is being
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pany has kept its prom
ises in the past and will
keep them in the fu-
ture. In a year from
now you will see this
stock selling for five
times or over the pres
ent prices. The COM
parry is a common
mans company. It
takes an immense
amount of capital to
complete this gigantic
undertaking, but the
good work goes for
ward with a VIM If
you can buy over 100
shares take some of
this stock and get lined
up right for the oil in
dustry of Kansas II
you have from one
thousand to ten thou
sand dollars to invest,
come down and look
these properties over
and have a confidential
talk with the managers
and officers of the COM
pany.
Personnel of Company.
James Ingersoll, pres
ident; J. H. Richie,
vice president; H. H.
Tucker, jr., secretary
and treasurer.
References: TheMont-
gomery County National
bank, the Peoples Ma
tional bank and Cherry
vale State bank, all of
Cherryvale, Kas.
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DETECTIVES WE'RE LOST.
Found by a Posse of Farmers Bearing
Torches.

New York, July 21.-Lost in the
mountains near Midvale, N. J., while
they We're gathering evidence in d
mysterious country murder case,
Ralph Shaw, assistant prosecutor; Ma
thaniel Shane, county prosecutors de-
tective, and Coroner Edward L. Wheel
er We've rescued late last night by a
posse of farmers who secured the
mountains with torches.
For several hours the trio wandered
aimlesSly about the mountains and
were preparing to sleep on the ground
when they were found. No evidence
was obtained in the case on which the
officials were at work.
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stored every hour. The company has
thousands of barrels of tankage COM
pleted, one big tank alone having a
capacity of one million six hundred
thousand gallons. There are two dwell
ing houses at the refinery and four
more in the oil fields. The company
also has a fifty-five acre tract close to
Kansas City, on which refinery No. 2
and the big tank farm will be COM
pleted during the next six months.
The company has purchased tank cars
and has storage tanks for stations that
will Immediately be installed at Con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

Any County in Kansas
That Will Buy Fifty
Thousand Shares at
Present Prices WIN
Secure an Oil Station
for Both Refined and
Fuel Oil at Once.
AS before stated. the
Uncle Sam company is
already at work INSTALL
ing stations in Kansas.
Any man or club of
men who will band to-
gether and take sixty
thousand shares at
present prices can
name the man they
wish to be put in charge
of the company's inter-
ests in their county and
the company will at
once commence to sup
ply them with both re-
fined and fuel oils. It
will also install a sta
ton at their county seat
town just as quickly as
the machinery can be
secured from the man
ufacturers.
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Cigarettes Forbidden.

New York, July 21.-A campaign
has been inaugurated by Commission
er Wathern against the use of
cigarettes on Ellis island. Their sale
has been forbidden and the commits
sioner has caused it to be known
among the employees that cigarette
smokers are not wanted Men on the
island say that the male immigrants
are nearly all addicted to the habit