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MARKETS TODAY.
Liberal Profit Taking Makes
Wheat Weak.
Fair Demand for May Corn
Holds Prices Steady.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Are Steady = Natives
Bring 1926 to $6.75.
Hogs Are Quoted at Five Cents
Higher.

Chicago, Nov. 24-WHEAT@The wheat
market today opened q trif1e easier on
liberal profit taking sales by local longs.
The weather in the northwest was much
more favorable for the movement of the
crop and the receipts in the northwest
continued small. December opened I'M
changed at 731sc and sold at .73c. Mime
apolis, Duluth and Chicago reported re-
ceipts of SOP cars
The close was easy with December a
shade lower at 73173Jsc
CORN-There was a fair demand for
May corn by commission houses and this
held the market steady. There was little
news at the opening favoring either side
December opened 1sc higher at 4214c and
sold at 42isc
The close was steady with DeDcember
&c higher at 42Ac
OATS-The oats market was quiet and
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ARE HIDING NEAR BIZ.
Arkansas City Bandits Thought to Be
Yet in tho Town.

Arkansas city. Kan. Nov. "a
There Is no trace is yet of the two men
who, in an attempt to hold up the Of
fee at the ST. Charles hotel Friday,
killed William Gaff. the night clerk,
and S. c. HaIpin. an actor. Officers
have searched the country and the po-
lice have come to the conclusion that
the men did not leave Arkansas City,
but are here in hiding. A systematic
search of the town Will be made to-
day.
In the meantime all the trains leav-
ing Arkansas City on all railroads are
being watched All the trainmen have
been notified and will cooperate with
the Officers in an effort to find them.
The coroner conducted an examina-
ton OF the bodies OF Gaff and Halpin
and found that each was shot with a
IS caIiber revolver and that the shots
were fired at close range.
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HORSE in ORCHESTRA.
Jumped Over the FootIighta and
Created Panic in Theater.

East St. Louis Ill. Nov. 24.-While
a performance was in progress at the
Broadway opera house last night a
horse, utilized in the last act to draw
the heroine in a buggy, became fright
ened and sprang over the footlights
into the orchestra. The heroine fell
unconscious to the stage and three wo-
men in the audience tainted While the
horse foundered around in the or
chestra pit demolishing chairs with its
hoofs and creating excitement in the
theater. Presence of mind of a num-
Der of men in Selling the horse and sit
ting on it, at the same time admonish-
panic.
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kansas civ Produce Market.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov 24.-WHEAT-
Close: Unchanged; December, 675sc; May
7234c; July, 71Ac. Cash: No. hard. 1O750
73c; No 8. 691zQ71c; No red, 71Q724e;
No. s. 6T15Q701zc-
CORNZUnchanged December, 1850;
May, 3Sssc; July, 391sc Cash; No. mixed
3S93S14c; No. 8, 371z@37azc; No white
SS1AQ39c; No. 3, 3Sl4 Q3S1zc;
OATS=Unchanged TO nc lower; No. =
white. 32sz m33c; No. 2 mixed. 321zc.
RYElMarket steady; 60@62c.
HAY-Market strong; timothy. Csc high
er; choice timothy, 1425a14.75; choice
prairie, $11.75012.25.
BUT ER-Market firm. Creamery, &c;
packing. 1870.
EGGS-1ac lower, 2Sc.
eceipts-Wheat, 103 cars
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jury of the Public.

Rome. Nov. 24.-The announcement
that Senior Caruso. the tenor, was
found guilty in New York police
court yesterday of annoying women in
Central park geological garden and
was fined $40. reached Rome so late
that only the Messagero of the morn
ing papers published the news. In SO
doing the paper added: "Caruso will
appeal. but the real verdict will be Civ
en- by the people Of New York in the
manner IN which they receive him the
first time he appears before an au.
dience after his condemnation"
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Washington. Nov. 24.-These rural
carriers have been appointed for Kan
sas routes; Clahin, route 2, H. c. Smith:
carrier, Henry Dunstan substitute:
Fredonia, route I, Henry e. Hiatt car
rfer, John H. Maxwell substitute: Hes
ston, route I, John H. Klienfeldt car.
riar, Chester Brainerd substitute; Pen.
alosa. route I, John B. Carbaugh car.
rfer, Lewis e. Shankel substitute.
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New York, Nov Firm !,
street prices extra, creamery, 291z official
prices creamery common to extra, 1920
street price extra creamery, &c; official
prices creamery. common to extra, 100
261kc; held seconds to extra, 21q26c; west
ern factory, common to hrsts. 1612Q20c;
western imitation creamery, hrsts. 20150
Pike
CHEESE+Irregular
EGGS-Quiet; western seconds 2IQSoc
POULTRY-Alive, nominal; western
chickens. &c; fowls. 10c; turkeys. 15c.
Dressed. firm; western chickens 12@16c;
spring turkeys, 12Q20c; fowls, 9Q12c.
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Chicago, Nov.
Open High Low CI9se Y
Kansas Citx Llve stock.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 24.-CATTLE-
Receipts 1900 including COO souther I rs
Market steady. Native steers, S4.zoa OBS, 10 ;
S2.O0d4.25 native cows and heifers, $2.0gQ
5.25: stockers and feeders, $2.60Q4-15; bulls,
81 25G3.S5; calves, $1,000. 90; western
steers. s.. 6OQ5. %; western cows, s.. 4944.OO.
HOGS-Receipts 5000 Market SC lower:
Bulk Of sales, Sc. 1906 20; heavy, s. 15q
6.25; packers. $61Oq6.221z; pigs and light
$5.75GI6. 20.
SHEEP-Receipts. none. Market nom
ina1iv steady. Muttons. S4 1905. rs; lambs.
s6O0lp7. 40; range wethers, $425Q6OO; fed
ewes. 81 .C005 25.
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CI,icaro Iive Stock NIarket.

Chicago. Nov. 24.-CATTLE.-Recei IS
400. Market steady. Beeves, 81. 00Q1. 40;
cows and heifers, 81. 1901. 50; calves. s.. O0a
7.50; stockers and feeders, Sc. Coos. 90.
er. Mixed and butchers. $5.909630 good
heavy, Sc 1905. 30; rough heavy. 50. S5Q6OO;
light, S.. 9oGD6. 221z; pigs, $550d5.90; bulk OF
sales. 6.C006 20.
SHEEP-Receipt $500. Market steady.
Sheep, So. 25Q5.70; yearlings, $5.5OQ6 40;
lambs 81 50G7 10
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FL Paso. Texas, Nov. PA special to
the Herald from Carlsbad, N. NJ, says
that the fuel supply in that town is
exhausted and people have been forced
to burn bacon to keep from freezing.
Schools have been dismissed in conse-
quence Of the terrible cold. The snow
is a foot deep in town and two feet on
the ranRes
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Liverpool cables: Wheat unchanged;
Chicago car lots today: Wheat IS. corn
Kansas City car lots today: Wheat 100
corn 80 oats T.
Kansas City estimated car lots Monday:
Wheat 1903, corn SO, oats IA.
Chicago estimated car lots Monday
Wheat 35, corn 1876, oats 500.
Northwest car lots today. Minneapolis
Wheat 80; last year 702. Duluth-Wheat
224: last year 20
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A YEAR IN JAIL.
Sentence Pronounced on Mrs. Droc-
mund for Killing Her Husband

Kansas City, Nov PA jury in
the criminal court found Mrs. Dora
Drogmund guilty of granddaughter in
the fourth decree for killing her hus-
band and assessed her punishment at
twelve months in the county Jail. She
may not serve even that. for her at
torney, L. c. Boyle, said he will ask
Judge Wofford to parole her for the
time because of her physical condition
and because of the fact that she has
baby only two months old.
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rIaster N1ilIs Relind order.

Blue Rapids. Kan, Nov 24-Freight
cars cannot be furnished fast enough
TO haul the orders coming from San
Francisco for Blue Ra7ius plaster to be
used in rebuilding the city. There are
four plaster mills at Blue Rapids and
each one is running at its capacity,
trying to keep up with the orders thai
come In
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AT the Gotham Billiard Tourney

New York. Nov. 24.-Harry Cline Of
Philadelphia and Edward Mclaughlin
of New York were winners Friday in
the 1872 balk line billiard tournament
for the shortstop championship In the
afternoon Mclaughlin easily beat Frank
Hoppe. 400 to 261. In the evening Cline
defeated Gallagher 400 to 378
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New York, Nov 24-AIONEY- Money on
call nominal; no loans. Time loans. very
dull and strong: 90 days and 80 days, Z
per cent bid; six months. 6 per cent bid
Close: Prime mercantile paper, 6Q61k per
cent.
Sterling exchange. steady with actual
business in bankers bills at S4S5 $50
4.S5. rs for demand and a 81 so. 5O674 80 90 for
90 day bills. posted rates, SASH and
81 S615; commercial bills, a. 500 "a SOSs
Bar silver, 7OAc; Mexican dollars Sac
Government bonds, steady; railroad
bonds irregular
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Hiawatha. Kan, Nov. 24.-WhiIe VIII
liam Evans, a laborer, was digging a
ditch a few miles north OF here he IN
earthed a bag containing United States
silver and some Mexican coins. The
bag held about SIS in all The coins
bore dates varying from 1929 to 1856.
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Chicago, Nov. 24.-CHEEsE-- Market
Firm Daisies, 13a4d14c; twins, 1314Q131zc;
young Americas 1312Q13s4c-
E POILTRY-Alive, hrmer: turkeys loc;
BUTTER-Narlzet steady. Creamery
2O02S1bc; dairy, 19Q25c.
EGGS-Market steady; at mark cases
Included 20M26c.
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ering by room shorts were but slight
Effective. selling of the high priced
western railroad stocks impaired general
weakness to the market. These stocks
that had Displayed fTTnness at the out
set fell away in common with the others
but did not yield much below yesterday S
closing. International Pump sagged 3B
Great Northern preferred 81, Northwest
ern 3, Delaware and Hudson ., st. Paul
and SIoss Sheffield Steel ~ Northern
Pacific. Reading and Sugar l. Enameling
preferred gained L
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a school chi NIIssine

Mcpherson. Kan, Nov. 24.-Anna
Hall, Is years old. has been missing
from her home in Mcpherson since
Wednesday afternoon. She left home
with her younger brother at noon for
school. but after reaching the school
house grounds she disappeared.
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10 per cent in wages effective January
4 was announced by the Calumet &
Hecla Mining Co.. today. Between
1000 to 5000 workers are benefited
by the announcement
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"A dangerous surgical operation, in
x-olxrinp the removal of malignant ulcer,
rs large as my hand. from my daughter S
hin was prevented by the application Of
R,tc1xlen's Arnfca Salve.' says A. C.
eticllel. of Niletus. w. Va. Persistent
use of the Salves completely cured it.
cures Cuts Burns and Injuries. Csc at
Arnold DRUG Co, druggists.
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steady The December option was inclined
to ease off somewhat on selling by longs;
December opened at 3Sl4c and sold at $50
331Sc.
PROVISIONS provisions market
was quiet and easy on a 10c decline IN
opened 71zd1Oc lower at $14471z to $14-5O-
Lard was sc to TIC lower at SS-35 TO
SS.375z Ribs were &c lower at $3.50
WHEAT-Cash: No. 2 red. 741207oc; NO.
red, -74d741kc; No. 2 hard, 731zd7512cs n o.
hard, 7207415c; No 1 northern, S1Q5S4zsc
No northern, 7SQS4c; No. 3 spring, t4Q
S21zc.
CORN-No ?, 44slc: No. 3, new, 4oc.
OATS-No. ?, 321k132Szc; No. 3, 325zqS21zs
FLAX, Clover and Timothy, nil
National Board of Trade Kansas City.
FURNISHED by J. E. Gall Commissions.
Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
Office ITO w. Sixth st. Phone ass.
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TO GET A LIBRARY.
The steel King VIII Give Great Bend
the Sum Of $12.5OO.

Great Bend, Kan. Nov. 24.-The ef-
forts OF the committee which has been
having in charge the matter OF secur-
ing Carnegie library have been sue
cessful. as the following letter will
testify:
New York, Nov IA. 1906
f. v. Russell, Esq, Great Bend, Kan:
Dear Sir-Responding to your com
munications on behalf of Great Bend
If the city agree by resolution of coun-
Gil to maintain a free public library
at a cost of not less than twelve hun
dred and fifty dollars a year and pro
vide a suitable site for the building,
Mr.. Carnegie will be glad to give
twelve thousand five hundred dollars
to erect a free library building for
Great Bend
ResDertfllIlv vOurS
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1910 ROUND TRIP.
The Great Annual Football Game
Comes on Thanksgiving Day at K. c.

Spend Thanksgiving in Kansas City.
see the big football game between
Kansas and Missouri universities, and
take in the fine theaters there. The
Rock Island has six daily passenger
trains each way. You can leave Kan
sas City at Sos in the evening. or
1910 p. M $2.70 for the round trip.
Tickets on sale 2sth. good until Goth.
A NJ FULLER, Agent.
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were Theodore Smith, Ruth Tomlinson,
Anita Weiskirch, Ruth Larimer, Mary
Virginia Thomas, Ruth Smith Made
lyn Mccoy, Lucille Elmore Alice
Hughes and Helen Knox All numbers
of the programme were heartily ap-
plauded
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Cotton Market.

New York, Nov. 24-COTTON-spot
uplands $n.20, middling gulf $11.45. No
sales.
Galveston, Tex, Nov 24.-COTTON-
Higher, 1OAc.
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Weekly BANK Statement

New York, Nov. A.-The statement of
the clearing house banks for the week
shows that the banks hold 81, 403, 425 more
than the legal reserve requirements. This
is an increase of 81, OBJ, $50 as compared
with last week
The statement follows
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Sugar and Conee Market.

New York. Nov. 24-SUGAR-Raw
quiet; fair refining. 5-16c; centrifugal IS
test, 1850; molasses sugar, 1-16c; re-
fined. steady; crushed, $3.50; powdered,
$3.50; granulated. $3.50.
COFFEE-Mari1et steady. No. Rio.
z o-l6c
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Bank C1cnringa.

New York, Nov. 24.-The following
table compiled by Bradstreet shows the
bank clearings at the principal cities for
the week ended Nov. Is, with the percent
age of increase and decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week last
year.
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The staten ent follows:
$1,000
Chicago and Return Via Crock
Island

Account International Live Stock
Exposition. Tickets on sale Dec 1st
to 4th, limited for return Dec 10th.
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EXCURSIONS.
Thanksgiving Rates via santa Fe.

one way rate is $500 or less viii be sold
AT rate OF one and onetthird fare for
the round trip. On sale November rs
and %, final limit returning December
3, 1906. ~ -. :.
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The council some time ago passed
resolutions pledging their best eff
forts toward fulfilling the require
ments asked for by Mr.. Carnegie, and
1t is now only a matter Of settling the
site and other minor questions, when
work can hegin.
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nanrl,tnr of ii ~ .TricI,ett Ia Nc

Kansas City. Kan, Nov. 24.-Pearl
Trickett, a daughter OF c. W. Trickett,
will be married to John l. Julian OF
Omaha at the home OF her father 602
oakland avenue tonight
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Another dlspatch says:


Bound Brook. N J., Nov 24.-After
a litigation which involved many legal
intricacies and disputes, what may be
the final chapter in the settlement OF
the estate of the late Mr.. and Mrs
Charles L. Fair, who met tragic
death while automobiling in France
nearly four years ago, was closed yes
terday by the payment of between
100000 and $500, 900 to Frank Smith
of Topeka, Kan, a brother of Mrs Fair,
who until yesterday had not received
his share.
Mr.. Smith was in this place last night
as a guest of Fred A. Nelson and left
here today for Newark
It was in anticipation of yesterday
settlement that Smith came east, leav-
ing Topeka on. election day.
BY being shreWd, Frank Smith re-
ceived nearly twenty-five times as
much as the other six heirs who were
Mayor Bill Smith. formerly of New
Market, now of Caldwell; Abe Nelson
Of New Market: the late Mrs. A. Mel
son of New Market. mother Of Mrs.
Fair, estate of Mrs. LETTER of Union and
Charles Smith of Denver. Colo
Although the amounts of the other
heirs received were exaggerated, the
exact sum received by each was $24,-
600. $40, 900 on the first settlement and
S14. 600 in the final settlement
At first the executors of the estate
we're unable to locate Frank Smith, but
after the other relatives had signed on
he bobbed up in Topeka where he was
employed by the Santa Fe hospital and
inf1rmary. Acting on the advice of an
attorney of that city, he refused to &C
cept the same amount as given to the
other relatives and held out for one
seventh Of the estate, which he sue
ceeded in getting yesterday.
Frank Smith, when boy, had rowing
tendencies. At the age of II years,
thirty five years ago this Thanksgiving.
he left his home in New Market, n. J.,
striking out for the west. He never
returned until last year when he heard
of the death of his sister, Mrs. Fair.
In the west he worked on farm, was
ranchman and chef in a hotel. At the
present time he is proprietor of a hard
ware and farming tools supply concern.
MT Smith Will leave for Topeka
Sunday night.
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TOPEKA LIVE STOCK MARKET,
FURNISHED by Charles Woln Rackins Co
Yards close At noon on Saturdays.l
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Range OF Prices on Stocks

New York, Nov. p
[Furnis- by J. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 w. Sixth St Phone 1861
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NORTH TOPEKA

Leave. items for this column with
kimban Printing Co.. 90 North
Kansas avenue
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Open High Dow Close Yes e.


Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions,
Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Office ITO w. Sixth St. Phone 4S6l
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Total q 3 =, -, u, o55 10
balances paid in cash.
~"Not included in totals because con
tanning other Items than clearings.
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SMITH GETS MONEY.
Topeka Man Makes a Settlement with
Fair Heirs.

New York, Nov. 24-Frank Smith
of Topeka, Kan, a brother Of Mrs.
Charles L. Fair, who with her husband
was killed in an automobile accident in
France. four years ago, was in New
Providence. n. J., last night. He came
on here to get his share of the estate
left by his sister Smith said he re-
ceived many times the amount paid to
the others heirs, but gave no figures.
He is said to have accepted $500 900
for mis- shart and the final papers were
signed yesterday at a law office in
Newark. Mr. Smith viii leave for To-
peka Sunday night
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Market Gossip.

Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions
Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Ofrice 10 w. Sixth st. Phone 1851
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fF'urnished by Cope e Co. 134 Kan Ave
POULTRY-Hens. Size lb.; spring chick
ems. sac ID; live turkeys: hens and young
gobblers. 15c: old toms, DC
EGGS-27c doz.
BUTTER-Fresh country. 1s02zc.
FURNISHED by the City Hay Market. Al
Quincy street,
HAY.
PRAIRIE HAY-New. s9.oOas1o 90; baled
So 0071O00
ALFALAFA HAY-Loose. slo.oo111.oO
Eopcfza TTtdr NTerIxet.
Topeka, Kan. Nov a.
rPrices paid In TOi'~Aa this week. based
on Boston qnotations.l
GREEN SALT CURED .12e
NO. HORSE. .....-.-.-.........- 50 50fD3 %
NO. TALLOW ..l.................,6s
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-06-21
GOV. FOLK FLAYS JEROME.
Says Statements Made BY the New
York Man Are False.
never Gave Him an Opinion UDon
Any subject--Benehts Of the cru
sade Against Bribery.

JefFerson city, June IA. District At
torney Jerome Of New York, IN an M
teryiew charged that me GDscuri
doodle prosecutions brought the law IN
to disrepute and did no good, and ina.
the blame for cases being reversed
fell on Governor Folks successor IN
the once OF circuit attorney Of 81.
Louis. Replying to this charge Coy
ernor Folk said Wednesday;
"Mr. Jerome is apparently in trouble
about something, else he would not %
SO desperate in the effort to excuse
himself.
"A few weeks ago he was quoted az
saving that I had given him an opinion
that the insurance plunderers had not
violated any criminal statute, when
had given him no opinion at all ana
had no communication, whatever, Win
him on the subject.
oThe benefits Of a crusade against
bribery can not be measured by tne
number of men in stripes. The awaK'
ening Of the public conscience 70 tne
necessity Of stamping out the oifense
that strikes at the heart Of free gov
eminent was the main thing accom-
plished.
Lawyers can always be employed
astute enough, who are paid enough &c
exercise their wits enough to rais'
points enough on which to hang q re-
yersal. 1t is easier. under the lame
and hating criminal procedure N
American states, for a camel TO &C
through Of needle than to put .
rich man in the penitentiary for crimes
against the public. But that is no rea
son why the effort should not be made
II he is guilty"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-06-21
HOUSE SAYSLOCKS'
BY q Vote Of ITO to 50 ItExpressed
Its Preference for That Type
Of Waterway.
Mr.. BURTON As INSTRUCTOR
A sea Level Canal to Accommodate
Modern shipping Would Require
twenty Years or More In
Building.

Washington, June 16.--If congress
should send measure to President
Roosevelt providing for the construc'
ton Of a sea level canal on the 18th
mus Of Panama, he would veto 1t. This
statement is made by authority.
The introduction by Representative
Littauer Friday Of the amendment e
the item in the sundry civil bill appro-
priating $25,OOO,OOO to continue the
construction Of the Panama canal. pro.
viding that no part Of that sum shall
be used in the construction OF q sea
level canal, was done with the approx
oil of the president.
The house Friday by a vote OF llO
to IS voted in favor Of lock canal
across the isthmus of Panama, as pro-
yided for in the amendment presented
by Representative Littauer OF New
York.
With members Of congress sitting
on the short steps In the aisles OF
the house. around the space In groups
the galleries filled and with Mr.. Bur
ton of Ohio, pointer in hand, DISCUSSING
charts, the difference between sea Level
and lock canal presented every ap-
pearance of class room.
Mr.. Burton took position in front o.
the maps and called attention to the
vital differences between the two types
remarking that were the topography
understood, 1t would be the very
strongest argument for the lock leve
canal. He said If the banks woulc
not cave, If large boats could g
through without running against rocks
at the side and could be properly
steered. then a sea level canal wouit
he the enterprise which would be
naturally preferred. But such a cana
convenient for modern shipping ant
prospective shipping would in TN
Judgment Of those who have CAREFUL!
studied the subject, exhaust 20 year
or more in building"
Mr.. Bartlett Of Georgia, made pom
against the amendment Of Mr.. Littauer
He insisted that the amendment wa
clearly new legislation and argued tn
question from that premise.
The chair, Mr.. Watson OF lndian'
held the amendment in order and with
out further discussion the Littaue
amendment was adopted.