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The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-06-27

We have big stock of choice
patterns in furniture. Better buy
while the sale is on at Peoples
co op.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-06-27

Fifty 20 one hundred tons of
first class alfalfa hay wanted at
Peoples Coop, They pay cash
for produce.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-06-27
Notice.

United states Land once,
salt Lake CITY, Utah.
Iuue n. 1907.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14
BIG BATES COUNTY ENTERPRISE,
COSTING $4,000, WILL GIVE
IMMENSE VALUE TO LAND
THAT Is NOW ALMOST
WORTHLESS.

Rich Hill, Mo.-They're digging 1t
deep, wide and long in Bates county.
They are inviting comparison with the
Panama canal and are not ashamed of
the home product They do this with
out using the high sounding title of in
land waterway, navigable channel or
river route. They are content to have
their pet scheme known as the drain
age ditch-with the accent on the
but they do insist that they have the
biggest drainage ditch in Missouri,
length, depth, width and cost consid-
cred.
The pride of Bates county in this
immense engineering undertaking
seems to be justified. The ditch when
completed will be 231a miles long,
more than half as long as the Panama
canal which is 46 miles long. The nav
igable depth of the Panama affair is
35 feet The deepest cut in the Bates
county ditch is &c feet At it's widest
point, the Bates county channel is 90
feet at the bottom and 135 feet at the
top. For miles, the width of the bot
tom is 60 feet with the slope, in en-
gineer's parlance, one-to-one, meaning
that for every foot in depth, the side
must widen foot. This makes the
empdnhmenl nave an angie oI 70 ue-
grees. The cost is $4,000, raised by
selling six per cent. bonds at a pre-
MUM of $4,000 October 20, 1906.
A wonderful feat to be paid for vol
UNFAIRLY by farmers. More wonderful,
indeed, is the accomplishment when it
Is remembered that the deficiencies of
the old drainage law discouraged such
progress. Yet few wide awake men
saw the opportunity, helped to amend
the old statute and then set to work
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

in earnest They had land once worth
ten dollars an acre. Now they are sell
ing it for $40, $22 and $25 an acre
and then letting real estate men turn
1t over again to hundreds of immi-
grants from Illinois and Indiana. The
immigrants have seen how drainage
paid in their own states and are will
ing to wait two or three years when
they may decide to sell again-finally
for $50, SIS and 800 an acre. They
have seen the evolution and believe In
the future for experience has taught
them the inevitable benefits of owning
drained land.
The Marie des Cynges river is the
champion crooked stream of western
Kansas and western Missouri. 1t be-
gins south of Topeka and is one of the
attractions of the Ottawa Chautauqua
which it usually overfiows about every
other year. From Ottawa it meanders
across the line into Bates county, Mis-
souri,, and zigzags across the south
ern part of this county into Vernon
and back again before the Usage river
finally captures the stream and pro-
ceeds on to the Missouri not SO very
far from Jefferson City
The people of Bates county have
learned to hear of rain in Kansas with
fear. An ordinary downpour in
damp season means that the Marie des
Cygnes, usually an orderly water
course, will spread over miles and
miles of country. There have been
times when during almost an entire
summer it was impossible to drive
from Rich Hill to Papinvil1e, a small
village ten miles east and south of this
place Even in ordinary dry weather.
long lakes of pond lily depth must be
skirted by the roads. In times of
freshets, the Marie des Cynges is like
" to change its course by the erosion
of the soft dirt banks A man may
own acres of land before rainstorm
and when the overflow from the
stream has subsidized, he may find it
gone, perhaps over a neighbours field
or perhaps in the bottom of the river
that has decided to change it's course.
So it was not surprising that few
levelheads got together and decided
that the overflow must be stopped.
They engaged engineers and found
that relief was possible. According to
the engineers the 70 crooked miles
that the Marie des Cygnes took in CO.
ing from one line of Bates county to
the other could be shortened by max
ing a straight channel 231z miles in
length Losing 1914 miles of the
crooks in this river was almost too
good to be hoped for Now the reaIi-
ration is only a few morths in the
future
The steps in securing relief show
that persistence may do. Under the
d drainage law. q district for defray-
ing the expenses Of q ditch could only
be secured by means Of an election
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

clared, as she was taken to a cell, mo
matter what you do with me- He'B
safe now-far away in the south No
body shall have him but me-"
And Mrs Cadiex went free and she
kept her boy, too, thanks to the auto
mobile.
The three Ward children have been
kidnapped twice by their father and
two of them rekidnaped by their moth
er-quite family record,
John e. Ward and his wife have
been separated for nine years. The
three little girls, Marion, Vera and
Cecilia, lived with their mother at No.
673 East One Hundred and Seventy
fourth street One night Mr.. Ward
went there, demanded to see his chile
rem, and Mrs. Ward let him. There
was heated argument, and the up
shot of it was that the father took the
three little daughters away from their
mother and placed them at once in the
convent of the Holy Cross.
Stole Children from Convent.
After three days search Mrs. Ward
found the girls. Several times she
tried to get at them but failed. For
days she haunted the neighborhood
of the convent until the long vigil
made her desperate.
She saw two of her little ones.
Vera and Cecilia, playing in the yard
In she ran and the next moment the
two were in her arms. Marion wasn't
there and the distracted mother was
afraid to wait. So off she ran with
the two, hatless and coatless.
At once the sisters notified Mr..
Ward, but he couldn't find them
| they were not at their mothers home.
The husband got warrant, but he
couldn't find the children-a1d the
mother has them still.
The records tell of countless other
cases-of how Mrs. James Cook kid
naped her boy in a carriage from right
in front of his fathers hotel in ia
| maica; how Anton Head Richards,
grandson of Eugene L. Richards, pro-
fessor of mathematics at Yale, was
kidnapped in Chicago by three men
whom Mrs. Richards declared were
emissaries of his father; how Mrs.
Montague Rolls, of Detroit, paid $1o.-
600 to get her boy back after his ia
Their had kidnapped him-there are
many more cases.
Love causes more kidnapping than
| money. And the lesson is learned in
| the divorce court first.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

New York.-Are the courts of the
country turning into schools for kip
napers?
There is this newest case, for ex-
ample, of Mrs. Maude c. Clare, of No.
20 West Eighty-fourth street. Mother
hunger proved too much for her-she
kidnapped her little hoy, though he was
In the custody of another, by order of
the court
When the learnes judge hands down
his decision in tie case of Smith vs.
Smith, does it mean that at once the
divorced father or the divorced moth
-er of the little children must turn kid
naper? Nobody consults the children.
Of course.
The wise verdict has been rendered.
Mrs. Smith is free to resume her maid
en- name of Miss Jones and gets the
custody of the two little Smiths. boy
and girl There is alimony, a decree
permitting Miss Jones to marry again,
and formal permission for the father
to see his children once in so often.
And the very first time he does see
them he steals them away-he Is q
Ridnaper in the eye OF the law
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14
ONE OF THE VICTIMS.
Old Maids Interest in the Tale Did
Not Last Long.

By and by the train came along to
before, uprooting trees and leveling
face of the earth, and a young man
who had passed through the tragedy
got aboard. OF course, we were all
anxious to hear all about it, but a
woman 40 years old, who was evident
ly an old maid, was more anxious than
any of the rest. She got the young
man down beside her and began:
Now, you must tell me just how it
occurred, and what you thought and
did. Where were you when the cyclone
Gamer"
I'm farmhouse, ma'am-"
Asleep"
mo, ma'am. was sitting up, com t.
ing girl
Hum! Sitting up at midnight, eh?"
'Yes'm. Sally was sitting on my lap,
and 1 had my arm around her waist
when we heard a great roaring and"
81 don't care to hear any more, sir."
announced the old maid as she stif1y
drew herself up and hitched along.
Don't you want to hear how the
house went?''
mo, siri''
And how Sally was blown right on
my knees, leaving me there with no.
body to hold?"
mo, sir!"
one of her shoes was found mile
away ay-how-how-"
And then we dragged him off to the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14
MISSOURI DRAINAGE DITCH
TO RECLAIM MANY ACRES

The man with a small farm had as
large vote as man with thousands
of acres Trivial objections often were
magnified. Luckily, Southeast Mis-
souri-Scott, Dunkin, Ste- Genev1eve,
Cape Girardeau, Madison, Stoddard
and a few others-were also asking
relief, so after convention at Cape
Girardeau, in which Bates county par
ticipated, the present law was passed
It permits the formation of drainage
district much in the same manner that
sidewalks are secured in tho cities.
majority of the property owners to
be affected sign a petition and the
county court takes action A majority
of the acreage can force the building
of a drainage ditch. The cost is as
sessed in proportion to the benefits
derived.
J. F. Kern of Butler and John D.
Moore of Rich Hill took the initiative
and secured the necessary number OF
signatures. Mr.. Kern as the largest
land owner-he held 1000 acres-per-
suaded the owners of the land TO join
in the movement. 1t did not take long
for they worked intelligently and
though court proceedings were brought
testing the legality of the petition and
JULIET lACluCAtdl 1SaIU1SS, OClCoAI Ia SAaO
circuit court insured the standing of
the bonds that were ordered.
Their total amount was $4,000, bit
the promoters had figured the cost
and the resulting benefits. They found
that in round numbers about So, 600
acres of land would be kept from the
dreaded annual overflow, and that the
cost per acre would be $10.93, which
could be paid off on the installment
plan. The method of assessment Is
simple, though unique. The basis is
that land is either overflow land or It
is not Assessments are made on each
forty acres, the size of a mans farm
making no difference. Thus, il 80
acres of a certain 40" are overflow
land, the owner pays on each aero 70
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14
LOVE PROVES
SUPERIOR TO
LAWS DEGREES

Or it may be the other way. The
decree is Mr.. Smiths. The court says
some unkind things about Mrs. Smith,
and the children go to the father for
education and support.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

per cent of the full $1O93 fixed as the
cost per acre for overflow land. If %
man has a high 40" entirely sur .
rounded by overflow land, he pays nc,
tax If half of his "40'' is overflow
land, he will pay on that particular
tract of land $21S.6O, or half of the
$1O.93 an acre.
The county court of Bates county
let the contract for digging the big
ditch to Foohey e Sons of Fort Wayne,
Ind, who in turn employed A. v.
willis &c Sons of Pittsield, ILL.,; b. HI.
McWilliams of Nation, Ill, and Small
Bros. of Iowa, to help on different sec
lions. Foohey & Sons are doing the
biggest portion of the work, about 10
miles A " Willis & Sons are doing
the deepest portion, at the southern
end of the ditch.
Though the main ditch is 1914 miles
long, two dredge boats of a small type
are busy cutting laterals that will
total II miles in length. Small ditch
ing will drain lower places into them.
Already the county court has pur-
chased the bridges for crossing the
ditch-one bridge every two miles
Each of these bridges costs $4,000,
and these must be paid for by the
drainage district
1--WE have tried to complete this big
job in the right fashion," said John D.
Moore, vice-president of the Farmers
and Manufacturers bank of Rich HILL
1.-THE property owners have already
made money, simply through the fact
that the ditch is being built. 1 know
of one man who protested against the
ditch and who has since sold his land
for a profit of $1,000. Another has
cleared $4,000, while the biggest oper-
ator is supposed to have put away
about $780, 900 through the handling of
this fine land
practically everything can be
raised on this soil 1t is rich, with the
aIluvial deposits of untold centuries.
The overfows from the Marie des
Cygnes have been the only drawback
to the development of this part of the
country The drainage ditch clears the
land. Immigration has already set in,
and Illinois and Indiana are furnish
ing the biggest portion They are the
best class of immigrants, for they all
have money, are industrious and will
make this section of the state more
prosperous than ever before
when the ditch is completed, which
will be within two years, this land will
be worth as much as similar land in
Illinois and Indiana It's character is
the same 1t is close to the markets.
The health of the community is al
ready good even with the overflows,
so that there certainly will be no dan
ger from this source Rich Hill al
ready has felt the impetus of the inn
migration. The drainage ditch is a
success, and win be more SO A. tha
years pass"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14
River Life at Manila.

Manila's distinctive feature among
the cities of the planet is the river life
to be encountered on the Pasig, the
sluggish stream which flows through
the metropolis of the American I'm
dies" In this respect Mapila is only
eclipsed by Canton, China. where the
Pearl river floats a city of unknown
population running into the tens of
thousands. says a writer in Leslie's
weekly. Over 5000 Fflipinos live on
the Pasig. and very few of them ever
come ashore-whole generations live
and die ON the sluggish waters of the
river.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

smoking car to tell the rest, and the
old maid looked out of the window and
wouldn't speak to anyone in the car
for an hour after.-St- Louis Globe
Democrat
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14
Off in the Automobile.

Off in the Automobile.
At the ring of the bell the little fell
lows fell in line to march to the re-
fectory for supper When the moment
came Mrs Cadiex jumped from the car
while the chauffeur kept his hand on
the wheel She seized the child and
before his astonished playmates could
raise an alarm she had him in her auto
and was on in cloud of dust
She was followed to New York and
arrested at her home. No. 12S West
Thirty-ninth street But the boy was
not to be found
I'm going to ,ep him." she D.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14
After a Runaway MARRIAGE.

VOrc0 court
After Runaway Marriage.
Mrs. Clarke is the divorced wife of
Capt. Forrest c. Clarke, a civil en-
gineer employed by the Metropolitan
| Steamship company. Capt. Clarke's
father is a Boston millionaire, and his
wife was Miss Maude Buchanan of
Dorchester, a suburb of Boston. They
ran away and were married seven
years ago.
A little boy, George, was born, and
the mothers heart rejoiced. Then
there came rumors of this thing and
that, and it ended in divorce. Capt
Clarke had known and liked DR.. Garlic
ton c. Kremer while both were stu
dents at Harvard. and husband and
wife would be just the people to take
| care of little George. So DR.. and Mrs.
Kremer adopted little George, then a
boy of four, and Surrogate Fitzgerald
signed the formal order.
DIR. Kremer allowed the mother to
see her little boy once a week, and for
a time Mrs. Clarke obeyed strictly the
| orders of the court.
Meanwhile DIR. and Mrs. Kremer had
become greatly attached to the boy.
One day when Mrs. Clarke was with
him they caught her stealing out of
the house with the child.
Il can't live without him." she wept;
so please don't blame me-
DR.. Kremer explained as gently as
he could that she must be more cir
cumspect, even if she did love him, for
the court had formally given the little
| fellow into his possession. In fact he
had been rechristened and was then
and is now-Carleton Clarke Kremer.
Regained Her Boy.
| Mrs. Clarke went away, greatly agi-
tated- The following Sunday she called
again to see the boy and found that he
| was with the physicians sister at the
home of DIR. Kremer's mother, No 134
West One Hundred and Twelfth street
She went there in carriage and wait
ed outside. Then DR.. Kremer's sister
came out with the boy and took Lex
| ington avenue car down to Sixty fifth
street, where DR.. Kremer lives Mrs.
Clarke had a carriage up the block
As the boy got off the car with his
adopted aunt Mrs. Clarke rushed for
ward and literally tore the child from
the astonished woman In jiffy she
had him in the carriage and away she
whisked. There was a woman friend
with her, who promptly seized Miss
Kremer and gave Mrs. Clarke plenty OF
time to escape with her boy.
A few hours later and Mrs. Clarke
was safe on her way to Boston
aboard the steamer Harvard. oddly
enough vessel belonging to the com
pany in which her divorced husband
is employed.
Mother-love had won the victory
Mrs Clarke had her boy despite all
the forms of law. Mrs Clarke had
learned her kidnapping lesson from the
divorce court
Mrs. Hanna's Victory.
4 Then there was the famous case OF
the Hannas. Mrs Dan r. Hanna. wife
of the son of the late Senator Marx
Hanna, was forbidden by the courts
of Ohio to take the children out OF
ftheir Jurisdiction For an answer she
promptly took the three boys straight
to New York, hid herself in the Hol
land house. escaped from little hos1
of deputy sheriffs and process servers
and calmly sailed for Europe, despite
all the DEGREES of the court
She had learned her lesson Mother
love rose above the mandates of the
law. And she has won, too She Ia,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

prematurely gray hair 1t was Mrs
Cadiex, and she had learned in adj
vance the routine of the home. She
knew that the children would be play
ing outside at that hour.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

decree is Mr.. Smiths. The court says
some unkind things about Mrs. Smith,
and the children go to the father for
education and support.
Mother-Love Triumphant.
But mere legal verbiage can't de-
stroy or root out mother-love. Despite
her failings, Mrs. Smith loves the lit
tie ones she brought into the world.
She is hungry for them; she wants
to take them to her heart again and
hear them whisper Mother
But the court has made its decree.
She must not see them Under the
law she is not regarded as a fit per-
son to bring them up But she finds
them somehow, and off she runs with
them-she has learned from the court
to be kidnaper.
She knows her lesson well.
Judges may sit and sit, and expound
the law to it's last letter, but fathers
and mothers have a different code
They are learning to kidnap now.
Railway train, automobile, horses,
yachts-al1 have been used to kidnap
children. 1t is anything to get the lit
tie ones out of the state where the di-
vorce is granted, for then it means
delay-more law and more court de-
cisions. Meanwhile the kidnaper has
the children.
And there has never been a convic-
ton for this kind of kidnapping. Wrong
as they be, no father or mother who
has stolen back a child-and hundreds
have done so-has ever gone to prison.
More children are kidnapped in the
United States every year by father or
mother than by all those criminals who
steal children for ransoms or revenge.
And the lesson is learned in the di-
vOrce court.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-01-26

LIVERPOOL. Jan. .2s.-The wheat
market closed at s. SID. gain Of Va
for the day.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-01-26
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
eeliinssr.

0otnn0ee.
Nap J. Lord. Spokane; e. l. Wood
ward. Kansas City; DR.. J. B. Ohmsted.
Portland: William CARNEY. Portland:
H. B. Kirkenberg. Basalt: w. g. Lew
10. San Francisco; L. B. Patten, Kan
sas City; l. e. Cullens. Spokane; J. T.
Ransburg, w. H. Weston and wife
Frank Schrogel, c. g. Jennings. st
Louis; A. c. Pattman. Butte; r. T.
Thorne, Butte.
Raymond.
J. o. Maxon, w. e. Bamthover, Spo.
kane; DR.. w. o. Borns, Greer; John
Baker. Findlay. Ohio: u. w. George
McComb, Ohio; A. H. Hanson, Gin.
ton, Ia; s. M. Long. F. L. More
Moscow: L. M. Thurston. w. L. Cas-.
ter. Summit; Mrs c. A. vickey. Chas
E. Stone. Spokane: George w. Hoag
Spokane; ]. w. Johnston, H. g. Mos.
futon. San Francisco; p. Gibson
Grangeville; A. N. Turner. Grange.
vile: n. Narramore. Culdesac; r. c
Whitman. Harpster; Henry Gribble
Harpster; Florence Bower, Harpster
Grand.
c. F. Hall and wife. Spokane: Mrs
Thos. Leo Gordon, Asotin; L. c. Yates
Spokane.
Dc France.
! s. J. Adams, Clyde, Wash: o. W
BLANK, Winchester; Abe Hudson. Rus
/ soil: T. J. Hardin, no: A. W. Beadlel
! cenesee: W. A. Nixon, Genesee ]. r
1,aam, Union: r. e. Phillips. Union
| A. w. wheatley. Weston; P. Fountain
James Tilson.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-01-26
FROM THE COUNTY RECORDS
(By Commercial Trust Coz

Oee6o-January 70.
Edward NJ. Flat to Phoebe Elliott.
lots IT. IS, 10, 80, 81, 49, sec. 25-s4-1
W. $4,000.
Ella Evans to Anton Faucht. 1-2
sw IA, ne IA sw IA, Sec 1-34-s-w,
$1,000.
Everett B. Campbell to J. l. Campbell,
e Ia sw IA. sw Ia, sw IA, sec. 10
s5-1 e. and Sc IA Sc IA. Sec 1851
W, $4,000.
Henry ]. Fisher to Savannah s.
Young. lots s and q block G, Fishers
first add. TO Culdesac. 800.
James M. Fairly to oroflno Trading
Co. Ltd, IL lot IS, block 8. Orofino.
800.
Sarah c. Thompson to w. A. Morey,
lot block Is. Thompson's add. to
Lewiston, $500.
Ulysses 3. Mix to Five States Tim
Der Co, ne Ia SEQ. ss4-37-5 Z. SO.
Orofino Trading Co. to L. stannus,
s IA lot IL, block s, Orofino. 800
Agnes M. Tamblyn to Cora e. Stew
ems. " IL block a. Yantis add to
Lewiston. $500.
sadie e. Clark to Western Hardware
q Imp. Co., s IT lot Is. block Z, Big
gardfs add to Mdhler. SIS.
r. e. Dean to Emma ,. Mooney. lota
So to ~, block 10, Deans add to Moh-
Ter. 800.
Con pineen to John W Pratt. lot I
block I, Culdesec. 500.
Patents.
u. s.. to Ella Evans. . IL ~ Ia
ne Ia sw Ia, 1-34-3 ".
u. 8. to Everett b. Campbell. SAME
a. No. :.
! o, q. to Leonard }. Sims, lot -, &c
| 3s-s4-3 ".
Final Receipts.
q. 8. 70 Arthur y. Hinclly. lots I
3, - Ia NV Ia. ne Ia ~ Ia. 10
l0-e .. s3s7.ss.
Releases.
Deming investment Co. TO William
n. Bales, se IA sec. 10-s4-f {.
Artielss 81 incorporation.
Hedges Gold Mining Co. Ltd. Cap
ital, s1.5ooeoo. lncorporators: p, +
Hedees. Adrian Gordon. John o. Ben
der. r. v. Kuhn. Flora Sears