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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

Philippst.s, and belonged to the best
type of American soldier. Without ex-
cepticu the black policemen whom
questioned had served either in the Brit
ish army or in the Jamaica or Barbados
police. They were evidently contented,
and were doing their work we'll. Where
possible the policemen are used to con-
troll people of their own color. but in
any emergency no hesitation is felt in
using them Unfortunately.
Inasmuch as 80 Hidfly both of the white
and colored employees have brought their
families with them. schools have been
established, the school service being I'M
der Mr.. O'Connor. For the white pupils
white American teachers are employed;
for the colored pupils there are also some
white American teachers, one Spanish
teacher, and one colored American teach
err. most of them being colored teachers
from Jamaica, Barbados and st. Lucia
The schoolrooms were good, and 1t was
a pleasant thing to see the pride that the
teachers were taking in their work and
their pupils
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

for the good and steady men of course
continue at the work. Yet astonish-
ing progress has been made in both
cities. In Panama 80 per cent of the
streets that are to be paved at all are
already paved with an excellent brick
pavement laid in heavy concrete. q few
of the streets being still in process of
paving. The sewer and water services
in the city are of the most modern by
gienic type. some of the service hav-
ing just been completed.
In Colon the conditions are peculiar
and it is as regards Colon that most of
the very bitter complaint has been
made. Colon is built on a low coral
island. covered at more or less shallow
depths with vegetable accumulations
or mold. which affords sustenance and
strength to many varieties of low
lying tropical plants. One-half of the
surface of the island is covered with
water at high tide, the average height
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Gases Against Ros. Closed.

w. w. Rose. ex-mayor of Kansas
City. Kan. yesterday paid to the
clerk of the Kansas supreme court
in Topeka $1,024.10, this amount be.
ing the fine assessed by the court
and costs in the case. The payment
Of this fine marks the close of the
state cases which have been pending
against Mayor Rose for more than a
year. The money paid today with,
costs in former suits paid by Mr.
Rose makes an arorsgate amount NJ
s1,5G2.64 which the ex-mayor has
paid To the supreme court.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Find Coin In Mules shoulder.

Pittsburg. PA silver half-doIlar
bearing the date of 1904 was found
in the left shoulder Of mule that
was operated on by a veterinary sur
geon the other day, according to a
special dispatch from Cumberland.
Nd. The mule had been lame for
several days and an examination re-
vealed large lump on the shoulder.
After the removal of the coin the
iameness disappeared The veterinary
expressed the opinion that the coin
was swallowed with food.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

and dropped it in the mail box. Then
he started on a brisk walk.
{ Suddenly there came command
from behind him.
Hands up"
Up went his hands and the robbers
went through his pockets. He smiled
grImly as the holdups secured only
few dollars in silver, and he thought
with pleasure of the money he had
put in the mail box in Uncle Sans
care. The robbers went away com
planning of the small amount they Sc
cured. and the treasurer went home
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Protection. TO Workmen.

By recent legislation France takes
the lead of all countries in the pro-
lection which it affords to working
men. A workman in the discharge of
his duty does not have to prove neg
ligence on the part of his employer
in order to recover damages. The
government guarantees the laborer
against loss through his employer be-
coming bankrupt, and in some cases
an annuity of a value as high as 60
per cent. of the workman's wages goes
to his family in case he is killed.
The employers, in order to protect
themselves, insure against all kinds of
liabilities, and the companies which
do this insurance, are, in turn inves-
tigated by the government.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
HAS A CORNER ON TEETH.

tana, if not of the entire west He
corners the market and turns 1t loose
at pleasure He is the head of kind
CT elk-tcoth trust, against which no
small potato in the. eRtooth line may
hope to buck successfully.
Losekamp formerly bought dresses
from the Indians, the dresses being
decorated sometimes with 500 teeth
Any hunter with elk teeth in his pos
session wac sure Of a purchaser in
Lcsekamp-
But he cannot by thea any more
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Intended Victim Dumps His Money Into
MaiIbox and Thus Saves 1t.

A West end man had an experience
recently that made his hair stand on
end and had it not been for his quick
wit in devising a means of getting out
of the difficulty it might have cost him
dearly, says the Duluth News-Tribune.
He is the treasurer of a local lodge
and was returning home from meet
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
HE FOOLED THE HoLDUP MEN.

ing with considerable amount of
money in his possession, fortunately
the greater part of which was in cur
rency.
He got off a car quite distance out
in the West end and turned off side
street toward his home, when he no.
ticed that he was being followed by
two suspicious looking men. Quick as
a flash he pulled an envelope out OF
his pocket, addressed it to himself,
stamped it, put the currency inside it
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

and make a reasonable profit. for any
Crow Indian nowadays knows the
value of an elk tooth.
Lcsekamp is disposing of his teeth
to a firm in the east at the rate Of
400 and 500 Il month. The firm takes
them for watch fobs for members of
the society ca Eixs.
In Wyoming a jeweler has made a
speciality of souvenir spoons. the
handles of which are decorated with
elk teeth. An elk-tooth bracelet. stud
ded with diamonds is another Wyon-
Ing novelty.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Poor Mother!

81 saw the doctor at your house
this morning." said Naybor.
YES replied Popley, that boy of
mine climbed out on the back roof
when we told him not to
And fell off and broke his"
Nary a fall! but my wife tried to
whip him for it, and now she's a
nervous and physical wreck"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

boys, ran well, and the buffaloes went
at a good gallop; but the emu would
not stir, neither would the elk. until
the end of the race, when it took
fright and darted down the course at
great speed.
Finally the ram was the winner, a
horse coming in second and buffalo
third
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

oren Rect, nephew of the secre-
tary of state, while scarcely over 80
years of age, was recently appointed
vice president of the Metropolitan
street Railway company of New York.
Root started at the bottom of the lad
der. He began with a construction
gang as a laborer, and later, before
going into the Offices of the company.
he acted as motorman, ard for sew
eral months RAG up fares.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
JOHN sPEER DEAD.

Prominent Figure in Kansas Free
State Troubles.
Denver, Dec. l7.-John speer. who
was a prominent figure in the Kan
sas free state troubles. and founder
Of one of the first newspapers IN that
state. died this morning at the
home of his daughter. Mrs. Bradford:
Dubois aged SO. years. The office of
he Lawrence Tribune. his paper.
vas sacked by Quantrell's men in
1868. and spesr's two sons murdered.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Froos March to Winter Quarters.

Fer the first time in years the resi-
dents of northern Chester county to-
day saw frog parade. Fully 100
frogs of all ages, ranging from frogs
a score of years old to this springs
youngsters, left the schoolhouse pond
in Warwick township this morning
and marched along the road to the
falls of French creek, where they took
up their winter quarters
Migrations of frogs in large bodies
are seldom seen, especially at this sea
son of the year. 1t is believed By old
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Care of Employees.

Next In Importance to the problem of
sanitation, and indeed now OF equal inn
portance, is the problem of securing and
caring for the mechanics. laborers and
other employees Who actually do the work
task has been under the control of Mr..
jackson Smith. and on the whole has
been well done. At present there are
some 6,0o0 white employees and some
l went over the different places where
the different kinds of employees We're
of every type both at their work and in
their homes; and 1 eonYersed with prob
ably a couple of Hundred Of them all
every class and including those who came
especially to- present certain grievances
olmost invariably expressed far greater
content and satisfaction with the con-
ditiops than did those who called to
make complaint.
Nearly 5000 of the white employees had
come from the United States. No man
can see these young. vigorous men
energetically doing their duty without
thrill OF pride in them as Americans.
They represent on the average high
class. Doubtless to congress, the wages
paid them will seem high, but as mat
ter of fact the only general Complaint
which found had any real basis among
the complaints made to me upon the
isthm1e was that, owing to the peculiar
surroundings, the cost of living, and the
really not as high as they should be. In
fact, almost every man 1 spoke to felt
that he ought to be receiving more
money-a view. however, which the aver
age man who stays at homo in the
United States probably likewise holds
as regards himself. | append figures of
the wages paid, SO that the congress can
judge the matter for itself. Later / shall
confer on the Sub5act With certain repre-
sentative labor men here in the United
States. as well as going over with Mr..
Stevens, the comparative wages paid on
the zone and at home; and 1 may then
communicate my findings to the canal
committees of the two houses.
Chinese and Other Labor.
OF the 1900 or 10000 day laborers
employed on the canal a few hundred
are Spaniards. These do excellent
work. Their foreman told me that
they did twice as well as the West
Indian laborers. They keep healthy
and no difficulty is experienced with
them in any way. Some Italian labor
with the drilling. AS might be | ex-
pected. with labor as high priced as
at present in the United States. it has
not so far proved practicable to get
any ordinary laborers from the United
States. The American wage workers
on the isthmus are the highly paid
skilled mechanics of the types men
toned previously. A steady effort is
being made to secure Italians, and es-
pecially to procure more Spaniards,
because CT the very satisfactory re-
suits that have come from their en-
ploymont and their numbers will be
Increased as far as possible. 1t has
not proved possible. however, to get
needed for the work, and from present
appearances we shall in the main have
to rely, for the ordinary unskilled
work. partly upon ,.colored laborers
Chinese labor. 1t certainly ought to
be unnecessary to point out that the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Will Have Two Riding Halls.

Junction City. Kan. Dec. Ito.
day the commandant at Fort Riley,
Colonel E. S. Godfrey, was notified
from Washington that Fort Riley
will have two riding halls built dur
ing the fiscal year instead of one.
Fort Riley has now the largest rid
ing hall in the United States. The
artillery post is to have a riding hall
that will be about 335 feet long by
105 feet wide. A riding hall will be
built in the cavalry post for ths
school of eauitation that will be
slightly smaller than the old hall.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
A "Noah,s ARK Raee.r

At a fair recently held at Madras,
India, an amusing turf novelty was in
troduced. 1t took the form of handi-
cap race for all animals bred in the
country, the competitors including but
faloes.- elephants, goat. ram. emu,
elk, besides ponies and horses, and
was popularity known as the 'Noah's
Ark Race
The elephants were as placid as If
moving in marriage procession. and
went over the course at quick walk.
The ram and goat, ridden by little
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Eiktcoth John, of Montana, Controls
the Market.

John D. Losekamp, of Montana, has
only 10000 teeth left. says the New
York World
Elktooth John. as he is sometimes
called, has for 25 years been buying
the molars Of elks. until a short time
ago he was the posseszar of 10000
elks' teeth,
He is tbs sektooth king" Of Mon
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

Robert Galley, Princeton's old-time
center rush, has sailed for China
again, sent out by Princetons under
graduates and alumni to develop
Young Mems Christian association in
the city of Picking. with special refer
ence to the educated and official
classes. Galley has been spending
year in the United States after
seven years at Tientsin. where he
stayed at his association post during
the boxer war.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

At the Marine hotel in ventnor
Isle of Wight. there is Porter of
lofty mien who walks about showing
to whoever cares-to see it a three
penny piece attached tc his watch
chaia IT is the tip given him by
John d. Rockefeller Jr.. when he was
leaving the hotel after a three weeks
stay The porter says he wouldn't
part with it for "a ten-pound note
It's curiosity.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
In Bad Shape.

u heard your new stenographer
boasting that he can work the type
writer like lightning"
That's about right. When he gets
through with the job it looks very
much as if lightning had got its work
in on it."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

There is a vast difference between
the economy which administers wise.
ly and that niggardly economy which
saves for the sake Of saving and
spends a dimes worth of time 10 save
penny. I have never known a man
who oyerestimated the Importance of
saving pennies, to do things which be-
long to large minds.-Success Maya.
zine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

residents that the frogs deserted the
pond, which has been their breeding
place for years, because the water is
too low.-Pottstown Correspondence
PHILADELPHIA Press.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

There are none so blind as will not
be able to peruse the latest projected
magazine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
. Mans seIashness.

A man viii interrupt choirs of
angels or his own love-making to put
his bat on.-Mary R. s. Andrews.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Preliminary Work Being Done.

The wisdom of the canal management
has been shown in nothing more clearly
than in the way in which the founda-
lions of the work have been laid To
have yielded to the natural Impotence
of ill-inforned outsiders and begun all
kinds Of experiments in work prior to a
thorough sanitation of the isthmus. and
10 q fairly satisfactory working out of
the problem of getting and keeping a
sufficient labor supply, would have been
disastrous. The various preliminary
measures had to be, taken first; and
these could not be taken SO as to allow
US to begin the real work of construc-
tion prior TO January l of the present
year. 1t then became necessary to have
the type of the canal decided, and the
only delay has been the necessary delay
until the 29th day of June, the date
when the congress definitely and wisely
settled that We should have an S5-foot
level canal. Immediately after that the
work began in hard earnest and has
been continued with increasing vigor
ever since; and it will continue so to
progress in the future. When the con-
tracts are let the conditions will be such
as to insure a constantly increasing
amount of performances
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

IT must bore those Utes to have Col.
Anger sent to put holes through them.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

Remember that IN easy-chair is an
essential part Of the strenuous life.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Sends Special Message to Coz gress Giving Re-
suits of His Observations in Canal Zone
Replies to Critics and Makes =
Recommendations
Recommends

The following is the text of President
Roosevelt's special message to congress
on the subject of the Panama canal:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
In the month of November 1 visited the
Isthmus of Panama, going over the
Canal Zone with considerable care; and
Colon, which are not in the zone or
under the United States flag, but as to
which the United States government,
certain sanitary purposes. l chose the
month of November for my visit partly
because it is the rairest month of the
year. the month in which the work goes
forward at the greatest disadvantage,
and one of the two months which the
medical department of the French Canal
company found most unhealthy
Following the introduction to the mes
sage the president gives resume OF ms
programme during the days he was on
the isthmus, and then says:
At the outset 1 wish to pay tribute
to the amount of work done by the
French Canal company under very dim
cult circumstances. Many of the build,
ings they put up were excellent ana ana
are still in use, though, naturally, the
houses are now getting out of repair ana
are being used as dwellings only until
the work they did in the Culebra cut,
and some of the work they did in Dig
ging has been of direct and real beneht
This country has never made better
investment than the $40,000,00O which it
paid to the French company for work
and betterments. including especially the
Panama railroad.
An. inspection on the ground at the
height of the rainy season served to con-
vince me of the wisdom of congress in
refusing to adopt either a high-level or
universal agreement among all people
competent to judge that the Panama
route, the one actually chosen. IS much
superior to both the Nicaragua and
DaTien routes.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

of the land being liz feet above low
tide. The slight undulations furnish
shallow. natural reservoirs or fresh
water breeding places for every varie-
ty Of mosquito. and the ground tends
to be lowest in the middle. When the
tog,n was originally built no attempt
IVES made to fill the low ground. either
III the streets or on the building sites.
that the entire surface was pYac-
si"ailr ana Emi:e: when the duag-
- became impa ssahle certain of the
$; "a Were crudelv improved by fill
n specially bad mud holes with soft
rc" or other material. In September.
1870. Z systematic effort was begun to
formulate a general plan for the prop
er santa ton of the city; in February
last temporary relief measures were
taken. while in July the prosecution of
the work was begun in good earnest.
The results are already visible in the
sewering. draining, guttering and pay
ing of the streets. Some four months
will be required before the work of
sewerage and street Improvement will
be completed, but the progress already
made is very marked. bitches have
been dug through the town. connecting
the salt water on both sides. and into
these the ponds, which have served as
breeding places for the mosquitoes. are
drained. These bitches have answered
their purpose. for they are probably
the chief cause of the astonishing
diminution of mosquitoes. More bitches
of the kind are being constructed.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20

Next day the letter containing the
money was delivered safely to his Of
flee.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-20
Colon Water Supply.

1t was not practicable, with the
force. at the commissions disposal. and
in view of the need that the force
should be used in the larger town of
Panama, to begin this work. before
then laid in the town and water was
furnished to the people early in March
from a temporary reservoir This
capacity before the end of the dry
season and the shortage was made up
by hauling water over the Panama
an ample SUNNY Of the very best
water; Since. that time the new reser-
voir back of Mount Hope has been
practically completed. I visited this
reservoir. 1t is a lake over n mile
long g, and half a od mile dde bro broad It now
GGa rrfcSa some eoo,poI,UUo gallons OF
a photograph of this lake. together
with certain other photographs of
what saw while 1 was on the 18TH
mus. Nothing but a cataclysm will
hereafter render it necessary in the
dry season to haul water for the use
of Colon and Cristobal.
Colon Pavements.
1 rode through the streets of Colon
season. after two days of almost I'M
exampled downpour. when they Were
at their very worst: Taken as a
bad; as bad as Pennsylvania avenue
in Washington before Grants admin
iftTatien Front street is already in
ever. Some of the side streets are
also in good condition. In others the
change in the streets is rapidly going
on. Through three-fourths of the
town it is now possible to walk, even
during the period of tremendous rain.
in low shoes without wetting ones
feet. owing to the rapidity with which
the surface water is carried away in
the bitches. In the remaining one
fourth of the streets the mud is very
deep-about as deep as in the ordinary
street of a low-lyinS prairie river town
of the same size III the United States
during early spring All men to whom
spoke were a unit in saying that the
conditions of the Colon streets Were
100 per cent better than a year ago.
The most superficial examination of
the town shows the progress that has
been made and is being made in ma
cadamizing the streets. Complaint was
made to me by an entirely reputable
man as to the character of some of
the material used for repairing GER
tain streets. On investigation the COM
plant proved well founded but it also
appeared that the use of the material
i'll question had been abandoned. the
commission after having tried it in one
or two streets finding it not appro-
pirate.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-23
EYER FOUND GUILTY.
Jury Finds for Murder in First
Degree. Killed Howard
Miller at Gettysburg

William Eyler, Of near En-
mitsburg. this couuty. who on
May sofa, 1906. dilled Howard
Miller in a hotel al Gettysburg.
Pa by hitting him on the head
with an iron pump handle con-
cealed in an umbrella. was found
guilty of murder i'll the first de
gree. last Tuesday.
Eyler's trial consumed more
than week in the Adams County
Court at Gettysburg. the argu-
ments being concluded Tuesday
AFTERNOON
After Judge Swope had deIiv
cred his charge, The jury retired
at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
The jury returned with lis verdict
of guilty at 8 O'Clock Tdeslay
night.
During the trial a dozen or
more residents Of the neighbor
hood of Eyler's home in thi>
county testified that they have
always regarded the prisoner as
peaceable aud harmless.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-23
Visited Catoctin.

Messrs. ID. Columbus Kemp
and Charles G. Waters, of Fred.
erick, and Mr.. Alexander Rams
burg. of Lewistown, were taken
to Catoctin Furnace Tuesday at
ternoon by Mr.. James +. Solt
to have a conference with Mr..
James E. Thropp, the new owner
of the Catoctin Furnace property.
Mr.. Thropp spent the day di
recting and giving orders con
corning the future developments
of his ore mines. He is now en-
ploying a numb Der of men on the
work and will employ more in the
near future.
Mr.. Thropp has in mind some
plans which will certainly be Of
benefit to the north end of FRED
erick County, and very likely
benefit Frederick after the new
trolley line is completed, which
will run directly by Catoctin and
his ore mines.