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BRIDGE LETTING.


 Pine Bluff, Ark, Jan. 10, 1907. In pursuance to law, I will let at the front door of the Court House in the city of Pine Bluff, at 12 o'clock, noon, on Saturday, Jan uary 26, 1907, contract for build ing a first class bridge across Johnson Bayou on lthe Swan Lake road. <
 Plans and specifications can be seen at my office or at the county clerks office.
 Bridge about 200 feet long.
 JAS. COULD, County Judge.
 10 Ct
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Ind to Russia. Both at the court of the Hing of Italy and
 t St. Petersburg he has spent his mon- " freely in keeping
 pen house and giv- Ing grand recep- Hons such as repre- Tentative diplomats
 Ire supposed to pro-
 kide in order to 6aintain the digni- 0 of the govern Ments by whicE they fre accredited. Mrs:A Meyer. who Ras Miss Alice Ap-
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SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.

The tax book for the collection of the special assessment upon the real property in Sewer District No. g has been placed in my hands. All owners of real property lying in this district are requested to pay their assessments to me within thirty days from this date. If such payment is not mads, action will be commenced at tie end of that time for the eolfction of said assessment and for legal penalties and costs.
 Given under my hand this second day of January, 1907.
 J. P. ALEXANDER, Collector
 Office corner Fourth and Pine St
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Cardinal Richard.

Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris. who is a conspicuous figure in the contest between church and state in France. is venerable prelate. He was born in Nantes in 1919 and last year celebrated the diamond jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood.
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Offices TRAVELLERS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, PINE BLUFF, ARK.

Notice of the Annual Stockholders
 Meeting.
 The stockholders of the Travellers Fire Insurance company are hereby notified that the regular annual meet ing of the stockholders Will be held at the office of the company on the 18th day of Febsparys For the pur- pose of electing board of directors for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may come be- fore them.
 E. B. BLOOM, Secretary. January 17, 1907. 1-19-26t
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q suffered habltually 4om consti- patton. Doan's Regu|ks relieved and strengthened the bowels, so that they have been regular ever since. = A. D. Davis, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Tex.
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Dates and melons are almost the only food of many of the poor in Jerusalem. Usually only one meal day is taken by them
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place, and MT. Moo dy presented him. self for examina. tion. but was told that he was not qualified.
 "You can but try me and see," was the answer.
 The request was granted and fO tho
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A MISTAKE.

If you don't get our pr1ces or watches, jewelry, trunks. suit cases.
 bags. etc.. before you buy. T. A. Drum
 mond. 22l Main.
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FOR RE.iT.

11O3 w. 9th Ave, five rooms, bath and electric lights. FOOT w. 5th Ave. four room dwelling.
 515 Hickory St. seven-room dwelling.
 517 Hickory St, t.rce-roorl dwelling.
 1906 E. 10th Ave-, three room dwelling.
 641 Georgia St., three--room dwelling.
 HI Spruce St., two-room dXell- ing.
 416 Missouri St., three-room dwelling.
 For Sale. Three dwellings, East 9th Ave-, on paved street, Have several nice lots left in the PineeBluf Land Co !, Addition; bargain if sold at once. Have party desiring to buy prop erty in western part of city. Loans made on all kinds of sa- curity.
 CHAS. HANCOCK Real Estate, Loans and Insurance.
 Ofice113 Pine St.
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THOMAS W. LAW lection for the "muck o' rake" 1t Is supposed that should he write society novel it would show up some of the doings of the smart set in way that might not be quite to their liking. It might be sup. posed that with his war on "the system" and his iscampaign against boodling in the Massachusetts legislature MT. Lawson would be too busy to give any atten- ton to social conditions among the rich set, but he Is versatile man, and as he has dallied with horses, yachts, dogs, cattle, pictures and statuary. it is not surprising he should be up on mat !ters connected with the Four Hundred. Making money has lost It's special charms to him, 1t Is SO commonplace. Losing 1t, even by the million, is some thing to which he has become accus- toned, too, but 1t seldom takes him very long to recoup his losses. He likes to spJnd his money better than he likes making 1t, and few Americans have ever spent their dollars with such sprodigal generosity as he. If he wants } . thing he buys it regardless of cost, as lrAthe case of the historic Lawson pink. A ew York concern offered $2.00O for thu Slip, Harlow w. Calvin made 1t S6bOO, another florist made bid of 915,OO0. and Lawson jumped 1t to $3O,000.
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William H. Moody, the present attor ney general in the cabinet of President Roosevelt. who will soon go on the nonch of the United States supreme curt, was not always recognized as eessing the making of great jurist. not long after he commenced xr-J Jstudy of the law that an examina-
 ou of candidates for the bar took
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5 Georee von LeIgerke Meyer, the
 United States ambassador to Russia, who is scheduled for early appoint.
 ment to the cabinet as postmaster gen. seral, comes of a distinguished Massa. ehusetts family and was born in Bos- lon forty eight years ago. He is a
 Graduate of Harvard, has had sue. Eessful career in business and has sery- sor in various positions in the public oervice from alderman and member of 1e9islature up to ambassador to Italy
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uleton, Is woman of many personal SAarms and exceptional cleverness. and Ghe has aided much in establishing her Husbands success as diplomat.
 At luncheon party not long ago Mir Meyer told an incident illustrating the allantry and wit of the czar.
 "A beautiful Italian girl," he said,
 was summoned to play the violin at tAe Winter palace.
 She was an excellent musician. Her nerformance was admirable. At the 1cd. with smile and little bow. the CRar said to her:
 N" If were to shut my eyes while Spu are playing, could fancy it were
 saye. but much prefer to keep them GDen,'"
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'T 'TI1onaSW.LawS0n
 ] and Other Folk
''FrenzIed finanCe'' Man to Become Nov. eust-Meyer's New Job-Sir William perkin-Aitorney General Moody. GarIinqton's Difficult Task.

:" Il O M A U w.
 E L A W s o N is
 not satisfied with the literary fame he has won through his magazine expose of "frenzIed finance" but is credited with an ambition to enter the field of fiction. In view of his predi- Iootiou for fho ssrnl1ck
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oA9To7 p.....h. 1Ihs Kind You Have Always Bought
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WRITE US FREELY

and frankly in srictest confidence, telling all your troubles. and stating your age. We will send you FREE ADVICE, in plain sealed envelope, and val- uable 64-page book on Home Treatment for Women.'
 Address: Ladies' Advisory Department, The Chattanooga Medicine Co.,, Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
ACCIDENT AT PETROLIA

Last Sunday evening while some
40 men were changing the gas line
at Petrolia, the pipe broke from the
tremendous pressure within, 200
pounds to the inch and escaping
gas torn up the ground like an earth
quake, hurting men, pipe, tools,
rock and dirt high into the air.
The only wonder is that there were
not several men killed. AS it was
there were but four or five severely
hurt and no one dangerously so.
Several more received bumps and
bruises but not severe enough to
hinder them from work.
Mr.. r. w. Cope one of the wors,
hurt, was brought to Chanute and
placed in the hospital fer better
care than could be given him al
Petrolia. A lsrge pit in the ground
alsone shows where the accident
was, as the gas was soon switched
to another pipe and the damage
repaired.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18

to adopt old laws to new conditions
merely. 1t is not to pit cunning.
This is not "war upon wealth" as
has been charged. 1t is not meant
to annoy the sanctimonious Mr..
Rockefeller.
1t is to enforce and bulwark and
defend the "square deal"
1t is TO uphold the "career open
to talent" which has made the Re-
public what it is. 1t is to defend
the young man and the poor man
in their equal rights in business as
the constitution defends them in
political life. Monopoly that fat
eLed kings favorites of old, priv;
leges that raised barriers against
merit and industry, can have no
proper place in a republic.
In a republic there is no means
known whereby the will of the
people can be forever baked. The
people have resolved that defiant
monopoly shall he humbled and
secret privilege be ferreted out and
destroyed. Nothing can prevent
the prosecution of the work.
The reform of high finance, the
humbling of the money power, the
subjugation of insolent and law
defying corporations, can only come
through the strength and the fairness
and the unceasing vigilance Of the
nations courts of justice.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18

every lie that SIS told requires doz'
en- more to back it up and give 1t
credence. When a worker goes out
on a strike he commits first blum
der, by giving up the very job he IS
fighting to hold and then finds him
self compelled in most cases to
make worse blunder in attempting
by forcs to prevent another worker
from stepping into his job. 1t IS
true, strikers, or rather union labor
leaders, profess to deprecate vlo-
lence but however much they may
repudiate the responsibility, the
fact remains that violence accom-
panies almost every important strike
and the position of the strikers
would in most cases be hopeless
without it. 1t is the fear OF losses
and irreparable damage by lawless
methods that generally impels en-
ployers to yield to the demands OF
their striking employees. They find
it cheaper to grant unjust demands
than to undergo the losses resulting
from strike.
The strike of the commercial tel
egraphers has been an honorable
exception to the lawlessness that
usually attends a strike of such
magnitude and the strikers can be
commended for their moderation
and self. control even In tho face OF
apparently sure defeat. However,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
STANDARD OIL SUITS
THOUSANDS OF COUNTS In INDlCT
MENTS PENDING IN FIVE
SRAiES

From the New York World.
Against the Standard Oil suits are
pending in Missouri, New York,
Illinois, Louisiana andrTennessee
AS last officially reported, 6,326
| counts were included IN the indici
mehts. Most of these are for re-
batting. If In even portion OF
theses cases the penalties are ex-
acted, rebatlng as it affects the
Standard OIL will be a thing of the
past-as with lesser malefactors 1t
has already become through the in
creasiag frequency and severity of
punishment.
The Missouri case attracts not
the Standard OPS evils practices
but its illegal life.
1t is suit under the Sherman act
for the dissolution of the trust.
1t is for this suit that testimony is
now being taken in New York.
This giant combination that for a
quarter of century has seemed
chartered libertine of the law; that
had jumped at need from Ohio to
Indiana and from Indiana to New
Jersey; that has changed colors
chameleon-like upon its Shiny trail
from State to State, employing a
hundred aliases to wreck its feebler
competitors; that has burned is
books of account, defied the courts,
bought legislators; that has sought
in vain to placate public opinion by
unexampled gifts to charity and ed
ucatIon-this pike among the min
nows Of high finance is fighting for
bare existence in a fight foredoomed
10 failure.
1t is not enough that it shall cease
to do the deeds o; monopoly. 1t
must cease to be a monopoly.
This is the greatest case now be-
fore the Federal courts.
The end of all, the goal of con-
slant strivsng in the twenty years
campaign against monopoly, is not
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
THE LAW OF LABOR

The collage of the commercial
teleoraphers'. strike affords another
melancholy instance of fact that
has been illustrated too often before
that union workingmen are proceed
on wrong lines, according to false
idea, not worthy to be called prln-
ciple. when they refuse to work with
nonunion men and denounce their
labor as "unfair." The union man
who refuses to accord non-unlon
man the right to earn living for
himself and his family in free and
open field is himself unfair. In
common fairness he is bound to con
cede the same liberty of action to
other workers that he claims TOR
himself. When he declines to re-
cognize this plain principle of JUS
tice he is guilty of bigotry and in
tolerance. The world has long ago
discarded bigotry and intolerance,
or at least their active expression,
in matters of RELIGION and it will not
tolerate such hateful evils much
longer in Its industrial affairs.
The strike is about the poorest
policy that organized labor could
employ under any circumstances,
however much may be argued in Its
b .half a: matter of principle. 1t
is almost as foolish as lying. where
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
A GOOD IMPLEMENT.

We notice good many of our
farmers are taking out manure
spreaders this fall and we also no.
tice that Davis & Merit have just
got in a car load of this most valu-
able machine.
When east last year, on the old
fields that had been faraed for a
hundred years and more, we no.
ticed that almost every farmer had
a manure spreadsr and thought it
about as essential as the plow.
There they have learned to farm
right and have learned long ago that
you can't keep up ground to high
state of cultivation by always taking
off and never returning anything to
replenish the soil. Many of t!ose
oldfarms are said to produce better
now than they did 40 or so years
ago, simply because the farmers
have rotated crops, fertilized their
ground and farmed in a rational
manner. The farmers of this country
seem to be getting their eyes open
slowly. They are beginning to
learn that after corn has been
raised on piece of ground contin-
uously, even through the best of
S il, it begins to want change and
the crops are not as good as they
were.
The fact that the farmers are
buying the manure spreader indi-
Gates a wakening to better things
aud a more systematic style of
farming
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
PRIMARY

That primary election talk seems
to be exercising some of the state
politicians. 1t seems that some of
them are afraid the results will not
be Just as they would have them.
The facts are it is a blamed sight
easier to manipulate a delegate con-
vention than to handle the whole
state. Some how the ringsters
seem to think that the thing may get
away from them if the selection of
officers is left to the people instead
of the delegates. There is little
danger that the people may have
some sort of show if everything is
done by the primary method. That
would be too bad. This political
gang has manipulated things so long
and divided up tn. spoil among
themselves and those of their kind
/
for so many years that they begin
to think that it belongs to them and
that this great state of ours would
suffer dire calamities if they could
uot admins. er its public functions.
We have seen few political con-
ventions where the will of the people
is supposed to be expressed snd we
mnst say that our opinion is that
they are often about the rottonest
and most villainous aggregations on
the road when it comes to express
ing the will of the people.
We can't conceive how the pri.
mary can excel them in diabolicaI
cussedness and we are in favor oi
trying the primary system. 1t il
very evident that the people o.
Kansas are becoming tired of being
herded and voted like pack o.
sheep and want to be men politi
cally as we'll as otherwise.
| The demand for the primary il
deep seated and if the politicians dt
not fall in line, things are liable tt
| pop at the next electian. We know
that the primary system is some
what cumberous and may be littl,
expensive, but the people are de
manding it and it must come.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
First published In the Chanute Times
Oct. IL, 1901
Notice to Contractors

The Tioga township road committee
will receive sealed bids at the cffice Of
w. NJ. Gray, secretary, until IL O'Clock
noon, Saturday, Oct. Goth, for the
construction Of a county road COM
mencing at the west side of Kansas
avenue on west Main street, Chanuts,
Kansas; thence west to the corner OF
the half section of Sec. 49,. Twp. 27,
Range Is, in a thorough, complete,
and workmanlike manner.
Contractors to furnish all mat erial
and to perform all labor In the con-
struction OF said road 10 accordance
with the plans and specifications now
on file in the Office of the secretary.
All bids must be accompanied by q
certified check Of five per cent of the
amount bid. Said road commission
reserves the right to reject any aud
all bids.
j. E. PLUAnfER. Pres.
W. NJ. GRAY, Sec.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
s0ecial Session acf n'aFy Law

their moderation and self control
even in the face of apparently sure
defeat. However, their respect for
the law only rendered their defeat
the more certain, for there is no
law, human or divine, which justi
fes any body of men in saying to
other men: Thou shalt not labor ="
which is what the refusal Of union
men 70 work with non union men
amounts to in effec Kansas City
Journal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION

On Tuesday morning the little
town of Frontanet, situated near
Terre Haute, Ind, and containing
about thousand people, was totally
destroyed by a powder explosion.
The Dupont powder works are To-.
Gated theirs and in some manner
powder in the works and in large
store house blew up, destroying the
town and killing about SO people
and hurting more or less, almost
every person in the town. A school
building contalng 200 pupils was
blown to pieces and m any of the
pupils killed or wounded. The
cause of the explosion is unknown.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18

7. Additional argument for the e,
cent fare has been accumulating in
Ohio. Summarized by the railway
commission it shows that in the fs-
cal year ending June 80, ten small
roads mainly devoted to freight
hauling took in SIS, 645 less In their
passenger departments than in the
previous year. All other roads
made gain. The total increase
for these roads was $I,I32, 2Sa in
passenger business. The additional
revenue, a contemporary begs the
public remember, wac forced upon
the roads. They objected to the
reduction, took off trains to make
the new regulation obnoxious, and
did all they could to discourage
travel by abolishing all special and
excursion rates. If the result OF
this experiment in Ohio is s'confsca.
ton" il would seem that wise rail-
road arrangements would invite
more of 1t.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
MRS. CASSIE CHADWICK
DEAD

She will be remembered as the
woman who created such a sensa-
ton in the financial world year OF
so ago.
Mrs. Chadwick had some strange
power that enabled her to gain the
confidence or control. of wealthy
men and cause sthem to pour out
their wealth upon her as thought i;
were but water.
She gathered in the money by the
hundred thousand. She caused
staid bankers and financiers to lose
their heads and wreck conservative
institutions that they might give the
money to this adventures. Strong
men cringed at her feet and gave up
their lives at the thought of the
follies she had led them to. OF
all the hundreds of thousands she
swindled her dupes out of, but little
remained with her. 1t all went
some where and she died in prison
cell.
Cassie led a fast life. She
crowded much into few short
years. Had her talents and genius
been properly directed, she could
have done much good in the world
and left an honored and honorable
name.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18

The widow of the great Snowman,
P. T. Barnum is about to marry for
the fourth time.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
EOR SALE.

Eight room house. Would take
team and cow as part payment. Price
Sl4oo. Call at once W. End, No. 4l8,
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-02-17
PRESIDENT WINS OVER
HOUSE COMMITTEE
Bin Providing for Leasing of Coal
Lands 10 BE Reported.

Washington. freb. 15.-A bill con-
forming in measure to President
Roosevelrs recommendation for the
leasing Of coal lands by tho govern
mcnt. rather than for their sale, was
decided upon today by the house com
mitlce on public lands. Last WcdneS-
day the committee reported a bill
which was widely at variance with
the suggestions made in the message
ot the president on coal lands, sent to
congress the same day. The commit
tee was unaware Of the message unil
after It had reported the bill, and
Representative Lacey the chairman,
suggested reconsideration.
The committee today added n leas-
ing clause TO the bill. but no agree
mcnt could be reached on such gen
eral leasing plan as the president de-
sires The bill as amended authorizes
the president to lease any coal lands
with a royalty Of not more than two
cents ton and provides that the
lands may be withdrawn from entry
after they are leased. but not before.
The amount to be leased to any one
person is limited to 1850 acres.
President Roosevelt wanted all coal
land withdrawn from entry at once,
regardless Of whether II be leased or
not. but the general withdrawal OF
coal lands, much after the manner in
which forest lands have been with
drawn. Is strongly opposed by western
members, who are not willing to ap-
prove any more land to go into gov
crnment reserves.