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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-01-28
PROCEEDINGS of the
Board Of County Conan9lSss0ners.

k>rOceeQ171QS or The
Board Of County Comneisssoners.
Jan, End, 1905 Board met in
regular session, to close the Years
business
The Quarterly reports of the
various county officers of the fees
received, of the county superlnten
dent and Probate judge examina
ton of the county treasury were
examined and approved.
$14737, SO paid county warrants
were cancelled of record and de-
stroyed by burning IN the fur
mace in presence of the board,
Rebate for taxes for erroneous
assessments allowed to several
Appointment of Will Porter as
truancy officer for truaucy district
No. I was approved.
E } Mullen and John ScheleI
of Catharine were appointed the
next treasury examiners.
Road petitions of P j Dean 6
others were granted,
That of w A r Waltz & OIL orc
was laid over to April meeting &c
allow Joint action with Trego Co.
The report of viewers on road
petitloned by Andrew BAIL and
others, of Lorenz Brown & others
of r z rbert & others, of j I
Steckline and others, of Nick I'm
norman and others, j r Mock 6
others, of John Karlin and 9TH
ers, and of j E Mock and other:
to vacate certain road were ap
proved md ordered that all nece!
sarY records be made
The re port of viewers of roac
pet1tioned by + B Shoey & 9th
ers, by S L Bowlby 6 others
by L II, Stanton and others. by j
H Stad ter 6 others, were laid oN
er to April meeting for further
investigation.
Monday, JanV 9th 1905,
The Board met for organization
for this year.
Jacob Brull was elected unanl-
mouslY temporary chairman anC
then permanent chairman for the
year.
The Co. money was ordered tc
be deposited equally in the Cit
zens and the 1st National bank a
% per cent. Collections and eX
changes to be free except during
the months of Nov. Dec. G Jan.
The County Printing was dlvi-
ded equally between the 4 papers
in the county each to have $50 {
year. 50 a piece for road notice.
and I legal rates for tax notices.
Commissioners Grlese & Mueller
voting for it. Brull voting No.
The News was designated as the
Official paper. And given thC
Job printing at reasonable rates,
Bruil & Griese voting for it, ant
Mueller voting No on both.
For County Physician the follow
ing bids were received
. DIR. Kidd 1st DIST, 100 VI
DIR Blake - 100 .O(
Or. Middlekauff, Cd & Sd 800, OF
Or. w @ Piatt Sd dist 1870
DR. Snyder Co Physician &
Co. Health Officer 250,0
For Co. Health officer.
DIR. Kidd for county $1,000
DR. / 1atudal End & Sd dis 40
DR. Middlekauff was appointed
Co. I MUSICIAN of End district anC
Health officer of the county a
per his bid and contract on file,
Peter Staab, ir. was re-electeC
Janltor a.. a salary of 800 a year
The Comfy Clerk was des'gns
ted as Purchasing Agent for tie
ensuing year.
The official Bonds of severa
l = xUas.o annr0UOd
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Homestead Contest Notice.
of the Interior,

Department OF the Interior,
u S. Land Office,
Wakeeney, Kansas, No.
Jan. 2, 1905. 1859.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this ofhee by Peter A
Hoff, contestant, against Homestead
entry No 25482 made June IA, 1901 tor
the SCI of sec. IS, township ~ south,
by Louis 81. DIXON, contestee,
in which it is alleged that said claim
ant has wholly abandoned said land
for more than six months last past
and has failed to reside upon or i'm
prove said land at any time since max
ing said entry; that said abandon
ment was not caused by claimants SER
vice in the Army or Navy of the Uni
ted States.
Said parties are
hereby notified to appear, respond,
and offer evidence touching said ale
CATION at 10 o'clock a. m. on FEB. 18th
1905 before the Register & Receiver at
the U. s. Land Office in Wakeeney.
kansas.
The said contestant having. in prop
or affidavit, fled Jan. 2. 1905, set forth
facts which show that after due diligence
personal service of this notice can not
be made. it is hereby ordered and di
rected that such notice be given by due
and proper publication.
A, Fl. Blail, Register.
j. A. Nelson. ATTY. jy 4 f 4
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Money to loan.

have lot of special money
to loan on cattle at special low
rate Of interest. See me at the
Elevator. Ed f. Madden
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Editor Mulroy tells that his op.
position to candidate for Attorney
Geo Cox met with the approval OF
the democratic county committee.
1t IS an awful slap at q party
committee who are supposed to
do their utmost tor the election
of their whole ticket as named by
their regular convention
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Are farmer and do you the
Topeka weekly Kansas Farmer,

for whole year FREE of cost Il paper
published and suitable for Kansas farmers.
EN- yearly subscriptions and you
years subscription This paper will you
for Year free of charge. Don't the chance
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When the war was gong on
with japan, our Russians here
were solid for their mother country
even if they had to leave there,
but now that the industrial rebel
lion and uprising of the people
has taken place they are emphati
cally for the uprising as against
The Gar.
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members are dying from this terrible dis
ease.
In an effort to stem the tide of destruc-
ton committees from the big fraternal Or
CARNATIONS have taken steps for the es-
adjustment of the "Fraternal City as the
new santarium will be known. Churches
clubs and municipalities are being invited to
share the benefits of the unique institution.
Any organization may send its suffering
dependents to this haven of refuge by mere
ly paying the cost of transportation and
maintenance The novel community is dis
tinctly not a money making institution. In
deed, the idea is that when farming advan-
tages have been secured the institution will
be in some degree sef-sustaining.
There will be several gateways of admis-
sion to the Fraternal City. Wealthy individ-
uals who have donated lump sums viii each
have the privilege of sending patients ire
spective of their relations with fraternities
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process of leaving the chair. If there are
more than forty present he stops short
when he has enumerated that number re-
places the three-cornered hat by his side
and sets the legislative machinery in mo-
ton again.
The speaker is provided with an official
tran-bearer. paid by parliament, whose
business it is to see that the speakers legs
do not get tangled up in his long trailing
robes when he leaves the chair and stalks
through the house. In the good old days
when no one under three-bottle man was
considered competent to hold high office the
job was occasionally delicate one demand
ing the exercise of much skill. For many
years ii has been a "cinch. Still Mr..
Gully has recognized the ability with which
from getting mixed up with the speakers
robes by presenting him with silver COB
let.
In one of his exuberant moments the. ir-
repressible and irreverent Timothy Healy
described the speaker of the house of com
mons as "a man who is paid 5000 a year
for sitting in a chair and bawling order"
But to know just when to call a member to
order much more Is required of the speaker
than familiarity with the rules of procedure
of the house. He must be thoroughly
posted on its elaborate code of etiquette,
which concerns itself principally with mem
bers' hats and legs.
X
To the casual observer it would seem that
there Is no assembly in the world whose
members are more free from all restric-
lions whatsoever with respect to these mat
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HEDGED ABOUT BY QUEER
TRADITIONS OF CENTURIES
Peculiar Customs That Must Be Observed by Speaker
of House of Commons.
Copyright, 1905, py Curtis Brown

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, June 90 1905.
Oddly typical of the horror of innovation
and the love OF precedent. which are about
the most striking characteristics of the
British house of commons, is it's Office of
speaker. on which public attention has
been focused by the recent retirement of
William Court Gully and the election of
James William Lowther in his stead. The
speaker is the incarnation of the most
hoary traditions OF the venerable mother
of parlaments. No insignificant part OF
his functions consists In keeping alive
tiquated rules and customs which other
wise. because of their uselessness and alb
surdity. might lapse into condition of in
nocuOus desuetude.
Mr.. Gully has always well sustained the
dignity and authority Of the speakers
hair" said an English journal the other day
in the course of a eulogistic tribute This
was a typographical blunder which might
have passed for a stroke of ironicai humor
had Il not appeared in one of those prodig
iously solemn newspapers which always
spell society with big and never crack
Joke at the expense of august officials.
The speakers chair is an imposing piece
of furniture, raised high above the floor of
the house. with lofty back and a canopy
over It, But 1t is the speakers hair-the
-
which he IS compelled to conceal his own
hirsute top growth when presiding over
the discussions OF the lower chamber-that
far more than his throne-like seat pro-
claims the dignity, solemnity and authority
with which he is invested.
Seated In an ordinary chair 1t is concelv
able that he might still command the re-
spect of the house, but IL he appeared with
out a wig not even that awe-inspiring en-
blem of authority. the mace, would suffice
TO insure obedience to his rulings. Mem
bers of parliament themselves gave up
wearing wigs. and the tights, ruffies and
frills that were regarded as their correct
Accomplishments. considerably over half
century ago, but probably another hundred
years or so will go by before they will con-
sent 10 be governed by a wigless speaker.
The Importance which is attached to the
wig as the outward and visible evidence of
the speakers power is well shown by the
different styles of wig which etiquette pre-
scribes he shall wear during the different
stages of his transformation from an ordi-
nary member to the position of the first
commoner In the land. His election by
the house OF commons constitutes him the
speaker-elect. He does not become a full
hedged speaker until the sovereign has ap-
proved of his choice. As speaker-elect he
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of 1900 sufferers from pulmonary affec-
lions will start to work out their own sal
walton along new lines, which 1t Is ex-
pected will constitute the path for count
less thousands that will follow after.
The public has heard little regarding this
ambitious project. But the fact that II has
been taken unawares does not mean that
there has not been thorough study and in
vestigation and preparation back or the Gig
undertaking. On the contrary no life-saving
crusade was ever worked out more careful
". step by step. For long time past the
darkening cloud of the cOnsumptive plague,
which has been threatening the nation, has
appeared especially menacing to the great
fraternal insurance orders. OF late years
40 per cent of the applicants for admission
have been turned away because of light
weight or the faint of the plague. Yet of
the $50, 100000 annually paid out for IN
surance more than 100000 is for deaths
from tuberculosis alone. In other words,
DESPITE all precautions Is per cent OF the
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New Method in
Collecting Turpentine

q
The Department of Agriculture has Just
received returns from the turpentine re-
sion of the United States, showing that
one of the comparatively small devices for
helping the farmer that the department is
always working on has borne fruit 1t is
the matter of substituting "cupping'' for
boxing" in gathering turpentine from the
pine forests. This difference in treatment
Is simply what the name indicates, that the
tGrpentine is collected i'm small earthen-
ware cups instead of by cutting boxes In
the trees.
This looks like small thing in itself
but the department had to work against a
good deal OF prejudice to get it introduced.
The departments agents went to a num-
beT of turpentine plantations and cupped
half the trees at its own expense in face
of the incredulity and soothing of most tur-
pentine producers, who had been years in
the business and who thought they knew
all about it.
The returns that have just been publish
ed from one of the large plantations where
hal! the trees were cupped according to the
departments directions and half were
boxed after the old method showed that
the cupped trees yielded 81. 2S4 per crop. or
over 30 per cent more than the boxed trees.
The experiment was continued for three
seasons, showing that there was no error
in the apparent results.
Another result from the cupping was that
only forty-four trees were blown down in
thu cupped half of the plantation against
seventy-eight in the boxed section, and of
these only eight of the cupped trees fell
because they had been weakened by tur-
pentining, while of the other half fifty-nine
fell because of cutting boxes into them.
The turpentine area, il is said is being
reduced each year and leases are costing
more and great many pine owners will
allow cupping by lessees on their trees.
while they will not rent their forests at all
for boxing. The department has made a
thorough study of the industry and has in
troduced several improvements in the work
of cupping while the experiment was being
carried on. There has been a good deal OF
prejudice to contend against the part
OF the negro worknen, but the changes
nave made the work quicker and easier.
that the workmen who piece work
rapidly fell in with the departments ideas
when they found that they were making
81 eater speed with the new methods
The turpentine industry is almost UNI
known to the people of the north, but IL
means a great deal TO the southern states
so that while the demonstration in ques-
ton seems like obscure corner for q
great government department to be work.
ing in 1t is one of those points that the
many people benefited greatly appreciate
and makes the departments work easier
when they break in with new and scien-
tific methods to some other field of agricul-
tural endeavor.
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found within a few feet of each other. The
waters are alkaline-salne, and their wen
derful curative powers were known to the
Indians and to Uncle Sans frontiersmen.
Half a century ago a United States army
hospital was located here Altitude is a
prime requisite, and the Las Vegas springs
meet this requirement admirably, being To-
Gated among foothills on the edge of the
forest. at an altitude of about 1000 feet.
In view of the fact that this marvellous
region has go cloudess days in the year
and that so per cent of the patients who
reach New Mexico on their feet are per-
manently cured of tuberculosis, II is not
too much to expect that the Fraternal City
will speedily become the chief national fort
ress against the spread of the great white
plague. The formal dedication of the Fra
ternal City will take place about October 1.
As has been explained, most of the build
ngs. including a hospital and adminstra-
tive buildings, are already in existence. The
others will he completed by early autumn.
Many cottages are now under way, and
orders have beeen placed for an immense
number of tents. which will form street
after street of dwellings for the more ro-
bust. Already many churches and orders
have indicated that they will erect special
cottages for their own patients.
X X
So great is the pressure of applications
upon the societies affiliated with this pro-
ject, and which have a combined member
ship of 5000, 900, that it is expected that
the Fraternal City will have 5000 inhabit-
ants ere it is a year old. The new commu-
nifty will be conducted strictly on the NUM-
cipal-ownership plan, with no surplus prof
its. Trade will be countenanced only to the
extent of supplying the patients with the
necessary conVeniences-all goods to be sold
at cost. Whisky and cigarettes are barred
but every outdoor amusement conducive to
health will be encouraged.
AS is the case at all sanitariums it is to
be expected that hundreds of persons will
take up their residence in the city of Las
Vegas in order to be near relatives who
come to make their temporary or perma-
nent home at the Fraternal City, and for
the benefit of such prospective pilgrims 10
the southwest l have made a careful in
vestigation of conditions at Las Vegas
Just here it may be said that there is no
cause for any one to shed any tears over
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takes no part IN 1t. His gracious appro-
baton" Is given by proxy in the person of
the lord chancellor. At the hour appointed
that high official of the house of lords
known as black rod Is dispatched to sum-
mon the commons to the gilded chamber
of the hereditary legislators.
Black rod slowly PAGES the long corridor
which separates the one house from the
other When he reaches the threshold of
the house of commons the sergeant-at-
arms shuts the door in his face and bolts
It, Theoretically he could do the same thing
IL the king himself presented the summons,
for by this act the sergeant-at-arms is sup
posed to assert the commons right to de-
liberate in secret.
Black rod takes no offense-he gets 5000
a year for performing these little cere-
monial jobs-but knocks three times on the
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and churches. At the outset, however, the
greater portion of the patients will come
as the guests of the fraternal orders which
have contributed to the general fund. Each
order selects stricken men and women from
Its membership to the extent of its quota
and such individuals are under no personal
expense at the sanitarium, the cost of
maintenance in each case being charged
against the organization which sends the
patient If only the insurance fraternal
orders become parties to the plan to tax
each member u cents year for the main
tenance of the sanitarium the income will
be nearly $GG0.0C0 a year and from $50 to
5000 persons can be cared for free, whereas
if other fraternal societies and the churches
cooperate to any great extent as is now in
dicated, the magnitude of the work will be
immensely broadened
The selection of a site for the warfare
against consumption made after proba-
bly, the most exhaustive Investigation ever
made Of the effects of climatic conditions
upon the dread disease Of late years ex-
perts throughout the world have come to
the conclusion that the southwest New
Mexico and Arizona, constitutes pre-emi-
tive, and thus 1t was a foregone conclusion
that some locality in this region of sun
shine and dry, invigorating air would be
chosen After the executive committees of
the leading fraternal organizations of the
United States had agreed, in their supreme
lodges, to support the fraternal sanitarium
idea, sixteen different towns in the south
west We're proposed as possible sites. ~Physi-
clans comprising a committee that served
as board of managers visited each locali-
ty in turn and in the end choice fell on
Las Vegas. which standing on treeless
meadows, underlaid by blue limestone and
red and white sandstone and watered by
the Turkey river, presents the precise con-
ditions most suitable.
Las Vegas Hot Springs, the site of the
sanitarium, takes its name from group of
I springs, some forty in number, which vary
/ in temperature from almost ice cold to boil
| ing hot, examples of each extreme being
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one great humanitarian organization will.
within a few weeks, open a million-dollar
sanitarium for consumptive sufferers that
Will be without a peer in the world. Here
in the heart Of the region which in all
the earth is best adapted to the relief Of
lung troubles a quickly recruited army
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At the Laundry.
rom the Chicago News.

..
Farmer Crawfoot-"Gosh Mandy, you
needn't to bother about washing the chill
dren any more. You can just bring them
around here
Mrs Cprwfoot-'I don't understand, HI
ram"
Farmer .Crawford-"Why. don't you see
the sign. Family washing done insider"
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las TEGAS, n. NJ, July s, 1905.
MERILAS greatest battle against
"A the great white plague will be waged
- within sight of this typical city of
n the new southwest. The fraternal
bodies of the republic welded with
the churches clubs and municipalities into
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may wear only "bob-tail wig'-that is,
quite insignificant wig, such as ordinary
barristers wear, and which comes only half
way down the back of the neck and leaves
the ears fully exposed.
Wearing a bob-taiI wig he submits him
self with all humility to his 1najesty's gen.
erous appreciation" That is a farcical
function, which is carried out with that
funeTeal solemnity characteristic of all
such ceremonies in England. His majesty
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the thought that he may be called upon 10
spend the remainder OF his life I'm this city,
Las Vegas has over 10000 inhabitants, a
splendid hotel a daily newspaper that
would do credit to city of twice the size,
and other metropolitan advantages, 10 say
nothing of a Mexican population, with old
churches and quaint adobe houses, that rem
der II one of the most picturesque places in
Uncle Sans domain.
The cost OF living is decidedly low in pro-
portion TO the value received in health and
enjoyment A charming four or five-room
cottage of frame, brick or stone construc-
ton may be purchased for from 81 800 TO
$1,000, or rented for from S15 to $40 per
month. These prices contemplate a lot 30
feet frontage by 100 feet depth. II the
householder has So, 600 or 81, 600 TO spend he
can secure more land and a more preten-
uous house. AS in most western cities, It
is decidedly preferable to rent a house, in
asmuch as the stranger is likely to be asked
say SIS month for two rooms in a room
ing house. Taxes in Las Vegas are per
cent The water supply comes from
springs in the mountains, and the water
rental is S14 for a four-room house and
Slo0 for each additional room. Electric
light costs 81 per lamp per MONTH and the
telephone rate for residences is $3.50 per
month.
The climate of this newly selected con-
sumptive battle ground is calculated TO
SHdfm d person IN perfect health. Residents
of other sections of the country are prone
TO think of the southwest as region of in
tolerable summer heat, but they forget the
altitude which places the lowest part OF
New Mexico as far above the sea as the
highest peak of the Adirondack mountains
In Las Vegas the thermometer seldom rises
TO 40 degrees in summer, and there is ever
that saving grace, cooling breeze The
winter climate is ideal, due largely to the
dry atmosphere. The atmnGnhara will
carry TO exceed 80 per cent OF humidity and
Tor the benefit of prospective tent dwellers
1t may be mentioned that mosquitoes cam
not live at this elevation. However the
physicians in charge at the Fraternal City
do not intend TO leave all restorative work
10 the Incompatible climate. The latest
approved methods of treating consumption
Will be employed, and all citizens of the
unique community will be compelled to OBJ
serve a municipal code that will call for
elSht hours sleep in the open air each day
II AT all possible: plenty Of exercise care as
to the disposition of sputum, and general
cheerfulness
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he shall do for living when he becomes an
ex-speaker, a question which often causes
his American prototypes not little con-
Germ. He is made a peer, with the title of
viscount, and receives a pension of $4,000
for the rest of his life.