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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21

River Stages.

River stages.
Cairo, f5.5-O.l fall.
Chattanooga, 4.4-stand.
Cincinnati, 1865 rise.
Evansville, 1913 fall.
Florence, 2.9-O.i rise.
Jacksonville, 4.S-O.1 fall.
Louisville, 4.3-O.1 rise.
Mt. Carmel, SOL fall.
Nashville. S.9-stand.
Pittsburg, 1.9-stand.
Davis Island Dam. 4.2--stand.
st. Louis. 10.O-O.3 rise.
Mt Vernon, 7.3-stand.
Paducah, S.2-fall.
The river is stln falling here. the
gauge today registering So feet. a
fall of 0.2.
The Dick Fowler got away on time
for Cairo and way points today with
a good trip. She had three cars of
peanuts for the c. & Z. I. railroad
at Joppa.
The Clyde leaves this afternoon at
4 o'clock for the Tennessee river.
The Peters Lee is due up from
Memphis en- route to Cincinnati to-
morrow afternoon.
The II. w. Buttorr arrived from
GAINESVILLE today and left for Nash
Vile.
The Richardson is at Nashville
and I'm few days will go to ST. Louis
to enter the st. Louis and Cumber-
land river trade.
Capt. James Roger left last night
for ST. Louis.
The Joe Fowler was the Evansville
packet today.
The st. Louis and Tennessee river
Packet. company will start its boats
out next week. the City of Memphis,
the City of Saltillo and the City OF
Savan ksrg 'mo1e- se'as.'' -stA p1.
The Harth is due from Evansville
with corn.
The j. w. Thomas, which recently
sank at Tell City. has been put In
readiness to be raised. at the first
rise in the river. She will undergo
extensive repairs and be put back
in the running.
The funeral OF Robert n. Denny, a
union veteran, took place at Louis
Vile. Mr.. Denny was fifty years old,
and was a native of Illinois, but
moved to Kentucky about thirty-five
years ago. He was formerly a river
man. and spent eighteen years as
steward on boats plying the Ohio
river.
Capt. J. S. Barrett. formerly OF
has located at Cairo.
The Sprague. from the lower Mis-
sissippi en- route to Cincinnati with a
tow of empties, is due at this port.
The Wash Honshell departed for
Grand Chain and get the coal boat re
Gently sunk there by the J. b. Fin
ley on her trip down the river. The
Mary Michael, from Paducah, ar
rived light at 1880 p. m. yesterday.
Bulletin.
Capt. Lindenburn, who brought in
he City of Cincinnati this morning,
stated that the river had opened up
10 navigation for a distance of 200
miles above Cincinnati, and that
Pomeroy. a point about half way be-
ween Cincinnati and Pittsburg, is
now the head of navigation Further
Improvement is expected within
wenty-four hours. The river be-
ween here and the Queen City is
almost entirely free from fee. The
liver still bovers around the four
DOT mark at Pittsburg. and there Is
title hope of an improvement in the |
tage anywhere In the near future. |
70 rains are predicted. There is
till considerable ice in the Monon-
,ahela river, and the boats are pre-
ented from bringing coal down
rom tho mines II ouisvilla Post
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21

next week to look over the grounds
and get some Information they de-
sire. Mr.. Murphy will probably be
manager of the hotel. We shah
bring an architect down in a few
days and with Mr. Murphy and our
associates go over the plans with him
The matter of what improvements
will be made are necessarily a ques-
ton of the future. as we want to find
out just what we want and what can
be done with the present building
In the way OF additions and changes.
Work will probably start in forty
days. but IL all depends on what
plans We adopt"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21

/ There does not appear to be any
necessity for the legislative boards of
i'aducah fighting the police bin one
way or the other. The general coun-
Gil has absolute power in making an
nual appropriations for city govern
ment, and can appropriate 10000,
$4,000 or some other amount, as II
sees INT. IL really makes little differ
ence to the council how many patrol
men there are, II the mayor and his
crowd want to insist on any particu-
lar number. The general council
provides the money and the police
commissioners have to make 1t go
around. The talk of working any
particular number until the appro-
priation gives out and then suing the
city for subsequent salaries, is rot.
Instead of the law compelling the
legislative boards to pay over money
that has not been appropriated, 1t
specifically prohibits its spending a
nickel more than appropriated, or
cent for any purpose other than that
for which It was appropriated.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21
A SIMPLE QUESTION OF LAW.

There Is no politics in the matter
of declaring several city Offices va
cant. 1t is simply question of COM
plying with the law. If these Offices
have not been legally created under
the second class charter, they cannot
legally be maintained at the expense
of the taxpayers. III they cannot be
legally maintained at the expense of
the taxpayers, the members of the
legislative boards of Paducah have
no right TO pay the salaries of the
incumbents.
The facts in the case are that the
second-class charter under which
the city is operating, Section 3172,
page II, says under the head o:
Elections" "All offices created by
laws in force prior to this act taking
effect, not herein expressly provided
for, shall be, and they are hereby
abolished upon expiration of the
terms for which present incambents
may have been respectively elected:
but the general council shall have
power by ordinance. to re-create such
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21
Preparations Begin Soon to Remodel
Palmer..-Chicago Man Comes Next Week

Mr.. Joseph l.. Friedman returned
yesterday from trip to Chicago,
where he went on business In CON
nection with the Palmer hotel deal
I'VE are not ready to give out any
details of the new company yet" he
said, "or anything about its plans
You can say, however. that the trade
has been consummated and the i'm.
provements and additions to The
Palmer are an assured fact. Mr.
Frank Murphy, assistant manager of
the Great Northern hotel of Chicago.
representing the Chicago interests in
the new company. will be in Paducah
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21
THE CITY AND ITS UTILITIES.


ownership of utilities is the best So
luton in theory of many difficult
problems of urban government, says
the Louisville Herald. But the wis
dom of its practical application de-
ponds on the city itself. Municipal
ownership has proved success in
Glasgow and several other British
cities, because the government of
those cities is managed on bust
ness, not a political. partisan or fac
tional, basis. The best men there
are, irrespective of party, selected
for positions of municipal govern
ment, control and administration. In
American ii is very different. City
governments are here run on party
lines. Offices are distributed. not to
the fittest to discharge the duties of
the position assigned, but to the man
who, in the place given him, will do
the best service to party. Ali subor-
dinates are required to be party
workers. Assessments for political
campaign funds are levied regularly
on officials. 1t is to their interest to
keep the party with which they are
Identified in Office as long as possi-
BILE.
In Louisville we have fire and
police department bound from shoe
string to cravat to the dominant dem
ocratic administration. for the mo.
ment in power at the city haii. Civ
en- municipal ownership of other
utilities, such as gas. electric light,
water, heating, telephone, subway
and surface cars, whole armies of
partisan workers would be formed
of employees in an these services.
Men seeking, first of all. to promote
party advantages could not render
the city the whole-souled, loyal du-
ty demanded of the truly efficient
public servant The efficient party
worker, but inefficient city servant,
is y the .emptoye who woufd every
time, in the civic administration
esteem, hold first place.
Mr.. Dalrymple, the eminent Glas-
gowan authority on municipal own
ership, who some time ago visited
Chicago at the instance of Mayor
Dunno, reported against the appli-
cability of the principle to Chicago
under existing conditions. Mr.. Dali
rymple's chief objection-insur-
il really is-to munich
pal ownership in America is the
partisan system of city government
here prevailing.
That system is, unfortunately in
full play in Louisville. Pending the
coming of the good day-when Louis
ville's business sense will insist on
2 business city government, the city's
duty is clear:
To part with no franchise in per-
Detuity, or for terms thereunto equiv
llent.
To lease franchise for limited pc
'iods to home corporations prefera-
by, other things being equal, but
With justice to all others.
To retain such powers of control
'ver the lessees as will insure eco
lomical and efficient service.
To suffer no lobbying at the Coun-
Ill boards by the lessees.
To prohibit participation in polit- |
cal campaigns of the lessees in their |
orporate capacity, or their employees
IS such.
To insist on prompt forfeiture of |
harters on default of lessees to do
heir duty to the people.
In one word. franchise holders
lust be at all times faithful to their
essor, the people. and the latter
Dyal to every point of agreement
ntered into with the lessees.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21


Some of the county officials brand
the attempt to release residents of
cities from being overloaded with
county taxes. as absurd" OF course
they think so. They would be very
foolish to take any other view of II.
at least openly. 1t may be as alb
surd as they seem to regard 1t, but
the move is not confined to Paducah
alone, but to cities all over the state.
'.'he residents of at least some cities
are tired of paying nine-tenths of
the county taxes. They are weary
of paying about SIS 900 out of ev-
cry 500. 900 wasted on county dirt
roads every year, when the county
doesn't pay a nickle on the city
streets, although the streets are as
much in the county as the dirt
roads. Some of the counties have
refused to bury city paupers or to
contribute to their support while
alive, and have also refused to pay
houses. 1t has for years been
case of gouge, gouge the city tax
payer, year after year. The county
supervisors meet and boost up city
property as high as possible, and hav
ing majority on the board, cut
down county property as low as pos
sible. The resident of the county
pays about one-tenth of the county
taxes, and the city man pays the re-
mainder, and then has his city taxes
to pay, in addition to both city and
county polls.
After the resident of the city has
paid over about nine-tenths of the
county taxes, fiscal court meets, and
proceeds to dispose of the money.
usually with little or no regard for
the rights or wishes of those who |
have contributed nine-tenths of ii.
There are of course annual ex-
penses of the county, part of which |
the people in the city should pay,
but there are others that they |
should not be made to pay, although |
the law may require 1t. The worm
will turn, and 1t seems to be turning
now
The Henderson Cleaner says of
the move at Lexington, and an edi-
torlal in the Lexington Leader:
THE editor complains of the in
justice done Lexington because the
fiscal courts of that county levies the
taxes on the city the same as on the
and from the further fact. as
we presume, these taxes are all APP
outside the city. That is
what is done in Henderson county
and presumably in every county in
son. Jefferson county is excepted
because she has city OF the first
class: BY section 2744 of the Ken
lucky Statutes cities of the first
class are separated from the county
Tor the purpose of government. The
same power that separates cities of I
the first class may separate cities of
the second or third class If so de- .
sired by the legislature. I
''The fiscal court of Henderson
county levies so cents on all taxa |
Bile property of the county including
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21
Here is a little riddle for Paducal

Here is a little riddle for Paducah
municipal ownership advocates: II
the city of Kalamazoo Mich, fur
nishes $40 street lights at cost of
$4,000 a year actual operating ex-
penses, why is 1t that in Paducah. for
twelve years under municipal own
ership and municipal operation Of
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21

A gentleman with keen sense of
humor, declares that Mr. Heads POI
lice bill should be entitled, "A bill
to compel the general council of Pa
ducah to loosen up"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21

When a man is in love he thinks
1t is the most beautiful thing in the
world; when he's out of 1t he thinks
the opposite, with an exclamation
mint
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21

YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT
Ryery dose msses you feel better. Lsr-ro'
keeps your whole 'nsides right sold on the
money back plan everywhere. Price 30 cite.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21
Daily Thought.
THE COUNTY TAX QUESTION.

Temptations are opportunities.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-21

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The Springdale news., 1906-03-09
W. q. column /:
Hayner Correspondence.
edited bv Ms. AorrIet E. kidd

The Hayner letter with the re- ply by Manford Sehoonover, of Garnett, kas., as published i'll the Springdale News of Feb. 2, attracted good deal of attention and was much discussed by the people of Springdale
 The publication of this corres- pon ence works for the good of the temperance cause and adds greatly to the value of the paper.
 It k well to let an editor know when his work iS especially pleas ing. It was with this thought that tie ladies of Markwell Gn- ion requested tie writer to eN- press through thi, column their appreciation of the successful ef- forts of tile editor of The News to make his paper power for good in the community.
 More of the same kind please.
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09

meet him or her wherever you go. Ii you go to q doctor or hotel with some ole. you may feei as sured that that some ole gets his or her rake off out of tie game. Our crowd at my boarding house went up Happy Hollow and had our photo made as family group; When the pictures came, behold q Jewish lady had steered us and she got her photo gratis. .-I only mention thfs to show Fou that when you come to Hot Springs gou are going to get worked. There is an ostrich farm. an ali gator farm and a fancy dog ken nel. There k always some one getting up parties to visit those points of interest Ii YOU join the party you are worked again. But aside from all this 1t IS d great place to come and boil out and feel young again. As your system begins to be weaken ed by the baths your appetite in- ereaSes. aud Oh. the ravenou> ap- petite of youth comes back to you with all its glory. You can have midnight encounter with mlnce pie or win dog fall with DOT ter house steak. then lie down and sleep like babe. The ter TOTS of indigestion will flee from you like a pleasant dream.
 Our crowd is composed of a miner from klondike, railroad man from Texas. a farmer from Kansas. merchant tron Pensyl- vania and an office boy from St. Louis. who only stops talking while he lights cigarette. think he k bathing for the sim pies. \ Jewes> from Boston, a woman from Kansas, not Carrie Nation. au elocutionisttrom New York. spirituaiist from any where and drummer wife from Tennessee and last, but not least
 Yours truly.
 ED. E. WELeH.
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09
Agree 10 Prohibition for In.
 dian Territory.

The temperance people have taken no part in the contest for seperate or joint statehood, but have eontented themselves with insisting that whether the Indian Territory and Oklahoma be ad- mitted jointly or separately. or not be admitted at all. that the solemn pledges of the go vermeut to the Indian be respected. Chief of these pledges was the promise to maintain the policy of Prohlbi- tion.
 For q while, tie temperance folks demanded prohibition for the entire proposed state. including
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09
New Facts About Arkansas.

Little Rock. Ark.-Fifty-Six of the seventy-tive counties of Ar kansas are now under Prohibition law.
 Of the total state population of 1,S11,564 there are S9S. .S70. or 6S per cent of the total. living under prohibitory laws.
 Eleven-twelftl1s of the territory and two-thirds of the population .enioY the blessings of Prohibition.
 \ staff correspondent for the Associated Press this month shows that 6S per cent of the to- tal increase ill the population ot Arkansas from 1s90 to 1000 occur red in Prohibition territory.
 It also shows that while in 1881 there were 52,S5s more license than prohibition votes cast, that majority has decreased steadily until m 1904 1.955 more prohibit tion than license votes cast in the loeal-option contests of the whole state.
 Another remarkable fact iS that by careful study of the Arkansas election figures 1t appears that in almost every instance where the Prohibition party vote has in- creased since 1890. the no-license vote shows similar increase, and vice versa.
 There are more speak-eas1es Ill the licensed cities of the state than in all the prohibition coun- ties put together.
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09
Town Builders.
Town builders don't buy their goods from mail order houses.

Town builders don't buy their goods from mail order houses.
 Town builders patronize houe industries.
 Town builders don't send to St. Louis or Kansas City, or Chicago or Dallas for stationery.
 Town builders don't knock OH their town.
 Town builders are willing to sell at the market price.
 Town builders don't run the price of real estate so high that 1t scares people off.
 Town builders take strangers III hand and show them around.
 Town builders get together and stand together.
 Are you town builder2
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09
Western Union Appeals Suit.

The Western Union Telegraph Company Thursday filed an ap- peal in the Supreme Court against the judgment rendered against the company in the Crawford County Circuit Court last fall III favor of F.. G. Chase for S750. Chase in his complaint filed III the Circuit Court contended that on January ,, 1905, a telegram addressed to him at Springdale, Ark. was filed and paid for by (. A. Gale at Wichita Kan, telling of the death of his niece. The telegram. he states. was not delivered to him nntil r. hours after being sent to Springdale, although he lives but 500 yards from the telegraph office. By reason of the delay, he says, he was unable to attend the funeral. He asked for s, ,OO0 damages for mental anguish and received a judgment for S750. Ark. Ga Zette.
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09
From North Dakota.

Haley. North Dakota, Feb. 15 Just few words to the people i'll Old Arkansas. I feel that l should write few lines to the Springdale News and also to rela- tives and friends. We have had an unusually fine winter here. some snow and some pretty cold weather but none to speak of.
 Well 1t will soon be time there to go to work on the farms plant ing corn and sowing oats. But thank goodness 1 don't have to do any of that this year.
 The ice now Is about two and and a half feet thick. but still we do not notice the cold. It can get 30 below zero snd then we don't notice it, as people do there when 1t Is just at zero.
 It Is almost heart sickening to Eastern people to come out here and see the old sod houses when they have been use to fine frame or brick houses.
 Hay is never stored away in this country like 1t k there. It IS stacked out on the prairie and placed Ill long ricks of three or four hundred ton. and the cattle are fed load after load when a blizzard comes. Itis two bad that the farmers that have to rent don't pick up courage and come t where they can get something for the work they do.
 l would like very much to bt back in old Arkansas when the strawberries get ready to pick, but then I would want to be bacl in Dakota as soon as they were over.
 Butter sells at 25c per pound and eggs 25c per dozen the veal round and every thing else in proportion Well I guess the boys and girls around Harmon are enjoying life this winter. II seems as if Maggie liked to see plenty of snow. Well l guess l will close. Love to all friends and relatives.
 SAM HENSON.
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09
From Hot Springs.


 Hot Springs, Ark. Feb. 2s, Dear News: K am sojourning in the City of Napors, of our own dear state. I wonder how manY of your readers familiar with the real merits of the waters of this. natures oWn sanitariuIn. Every disease Of which the human body k heir, and the poor, larie, halt and blind come from the four corners Of the earth to be healed by this fountain of youth. I cane here three weeks ago on cane. with inhammatory rheumatism and today l can run up and down stairs like school boy. And one can come here and take the baths at very reasonable price. d course of baths. T, for S7.0o, which includes attendant. good board for from $500 to 5000 per week, and the doctors fees will be from $500 to as much as you will pay. or that they can get out ot you. Unless you have some deep seated affliction you don't need the services of a doctor at all just the plain bath, i'll the hot water as 1t pours from the earth at 98 degrees, is all you need.
 The United States Government has established an army and navy hospital here for the boys in blue. It Is an elegant affair, opened to visitors from , to I ?. m. ot Tues days only. Ispent an hour try ing to gain entrance there yester- day among a morbid, curious croud of visitors and was no near- CT the entrance at the end ot the hour than when 1 started, so 1 gave up in despair.
 It is pitiful sight to see the poor erippIes hopelessly incur able, who have come here think ing these waters would perform some miracle iu their case and timber up their stiff joints, straighten d crooked spine or grow hair on pate aS slick as al onion.
 And then the gratter. you can
The Springdale news., 1906-03-09

Springdale last week haS aroused lit- tie military enthusiasm among the young men of Bentonville and there might be such thing as military company organized here Bentonville Sun.
 A number of the business men of Fayetteville met Thursday night and organized d commercial club with the following officers President, A. F. Wolf; first vice president, J. R. Har- ris second vice president, \. (. Ham, ilton: secretary. ]. w. Massengale: treasurer. F. P. Hall The directors are J. H. McIlroy, c. w. Rattenbury. A. H. Purdue, w A Cornwall and J. H. Phipps. Nearly loo mem- berS were enrolled at the meeting
 Dr. Frank Young'S team ran away Thursday of last week near the home of w E. Bird west Of town, caused by d breast strap breaking and he was thrown from the buggy and one bone u bIS IISdJ dI III OiOnCA R1AttH tiC elbow. It will be some time before he will be able te drive team. The team winch ran away was not the small bronchos which he is frequently seen driving and which everybody has been expecting to run away the drst good opportunity.
 The wInd has been blowing l pretty stiff gale and this afternoon between the hours ot and 3.'cloek the mid dle section of the third story brick wall of the A. |. Wolf building in course of construction te!i with d terrific crash. The wall is seventeen feet high, some l25 feet long and stood unbraeed. Fortunately there were no laborers at work ca the bulid- ing at the time as it might have re- suited in death or the serious injur- Ing of a number. The crash was terrific startling everybody within several blocks of the building. Fay etteville News.