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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02

Lady Paget Puts Meat on Black List.
Lady Paget. who is better known as
Mrs. Arthur Paget, and was formerly
Mary Paran Stevens of New York,
has surprised her many friends by be
coming a convert yegetarianism. She
has Joined a small but influential band
of society people who escheW flesh
food and subsist on vegetable fare.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
As II Should Be.

Said Shell never saw a more easy
going, harmless and inoffensive couple
than George and ,Mollie. .,sH .,4-oa.l-
Said He-They will surely be happy
if they marry each other.
Said She-Because, Why?a c.on gdT
Said He-It rs would be S a safety
match.-Chicago Daily News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02

o~A@s'---1T t-fIE u ttl4a17 80 - u
Serious Ma, he's worsesthan. that
He stayed here tile nearly }12 O'Clock
last night, and anyone who had stud
led his face might have thought. he
was sitting up sWithIa 1corpses"--Chi-
cago Record-Herald. .9d &c
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
go oOA Iustl Possibleas

Mrs: Homer (reading} Here's an
accountdof alvillage parson' who left
pulpit te1tbecomea an actef.d Z wen
der what could have induced him to
do thing like, that2s - -
Homer-Perhaps he thought the do
nations OF eggs and vegetables would
be more lberaL-C Chicago Daily News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
He Wasn,t a -Gerius.

rs your son ViOlinist?f'l ~ T
mo. He has joined anew religious
sect, the members of which believe it
is sin for men to ever have their
hair cut. Chicago Record-Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
Somewhat.

AS a poet, however, he was some
what in advance of his age" ~,
'Indeed?"
Eyes. he tried to convert his house
into a museum before he had starved
to death in it"-Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
.sAjctass;sihed.

would you cali rice a cereal or
gegetable?" asked the inquisitive man.
well, 1 have seen times when I
could consider it a missile replied
the recently married many onkers
Statesman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
out and In.

Mrs. White (sympathetically)-So
your husband is in trouble again,
Maud.
Mrs. Black (cheerily) he's
,ut o. trouble, dess now-de scoun'-
rels in jail-Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
A Habit.

SO precious has time grown of late
Men cannot stop, we've heard,
To mildly say 'prevaricate'-
They want a shorter word.
Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
Serious? Well!

do you think" asked the sweet
girls mother that Mr.. Wilkins is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02
For Better Buffers.

ENGLAND has an organization for the
nrgalotiCa CT scat culture.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02

- $3.50
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02

I'D aCI
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-02

by death run up to 5000 or 1O.OOO
= wear There is practically no
chance to gain recruits.
Barn inspectors are now prowl-
ing around inspecting barns, at the
expense of the farmers. The fact
that there is a law upon our statute
books of Wisconsin providing fo1
the inspection of barns may be a
surprise to a large number moi
familiar with many of the laws Of
this state. The duty of the In
spector is to inspect all barns used
for houseiug cattle aud TO see that
such barns are properly lighted
ventilated and kept perfectly SAM
tary.
-yioIa Irtelligencer: G. Fl. Nye
OR and wife arrived last week from
lancaster .ud are getting settled
- their new home. Mr.. Nye hai
served as county superintendent
of Grant county for many year,
and severed his connections will
that Office last July, declining t.
accept another term. We weicom
such good citizens to Viola and hop
they will be happy in their ne,
home. Their son E Nj. Nye Il
Chicago. came with them to Up
get settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03

national laws on this subject have
hitherto been of negative or prohibit
tive rather than an affirmative kind.
and still more that they have in part
sought to prohibit what could not be
effectively prohibited, and have in
part in their prohibitions cOnfOunded
what should be allowed and what
should not be allowed. 1t is generally
useless to try to prohibit all restraint
on competition, whether this restraint
be reasonable or unreasonable: and
where it is not useless it is general
ly hurtful. The successful
the law imm ediately develops another
device to accomplish the same pur-
pose. What is needed is not sweeping
prohibition of every arrangement,
good or bad, which may tend to re-
strict competition but such adequate
supervision and regulation as will
prevent other abuses in no way con-
nected with restriction of competi-
ton"
Interstate Commerce.
1 have called your attention in
these quotations to what 1 have al
it is the duty of the national govern
ment to embody in action the princi-
pies thus expressed.
No small part of the trouble that
we have comes from carrying to an
extreme the national virtue of self
reliance, of independence in initiative
and action. 1t is wisesto conserve this
virtue and to provide for it's fullest
exercise, compatible with seeing that
liberty does not become a liberty to
wrong others. Unfortunately, this is
the kind of liberty that the lack of
all effective regulation inevitably
breeds. The founders of the constitu-
ton provided that the national gov
sole control of interstate commerce.
There was then practically no inter-
state business save such as was con>
Quoted by water and this the national
government at once proceeded to
regulate in thoroughgoing and effec-
tive fashion. Conditions have now so
wholly changed that the interstate
commerce by water is insignificant
compared with the amount that goes
by land, and almost all big business
state commerce. AS result, it can
be but partially and imperfectly con-
trolled or regulated by the action of
any one of the several states; such ac-
ton inevitably tending to be either
too drastic or else too lax, and in
either case ineffective for purposes of
justice. Only the national govern
ment can in thoroughgoing fashion
exercise the needed control This
does not mean that there should be
any extension of federal authority, Hor
such authority already exists under
the constitution in amplest and most
form; but it does mean
that there should be an extension of
federal activity.
This is not advocating centraliza-
ton. 1t is merely looking facts in the
face. and realizing that centralizat ton
in business has already come and can
not be avoided or undone; and that
the public at large can only protect
itself from certain evil effects of this
business Capitalization by providing
better methods for the exercise of con-
troll through the authority already
centralized in the national govern
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03

"Yet. while not merely admitting,
but insisting upon this, it is also true
that where there is no governmental
restraint or supervision some of the
exceptional men use their energies.
not in ways that are for the common
good. but in ways which tell against
this common good. The fortunes
amassed through corporate organiza-
power in those that WELD them, as to
make it matter of necessity to give
to the sovereign-that is, to the
government, which represents the
people as a Wholesome effective
power of supervision over their cor
porate use. In order to insure
healthy social and industrial life,
every big corporation should be held
some sovereign strong enough to con-
troll its conduct. 1 am in no sense
hostile to corporations. This is an
age of combination, and any effort to
prevent all combination will be not
only useless, but in the end vicious.
because of the contempt for law
which the failure to enforce law in
evitably produces. We should. more-
over, recognize in cordial and ample
fashion the immense good effected by
corporate agencies in a country such
as ours, and the wealth of intellect,
energy, and fidelity devoted to their
service, and therefore normally to the
service of the public, by their officers
come to stay, just as the trade union
has come to stay. Each can do and
has done great good. Each should be
favored so long as 1t does good. But
each should be sharply checked when
1t acts against law and justice.
%" The makers of our ma
tional constitution provided especially
that the regulation of interstate COM
merce should come within the sphere
of the general government. The argu-
R-r 80 1af, 1I-Ir II;
stand were even then overwhelming.
But they, are far stronger today, in
view of the enormous development
of great business agencies, usually
corporate in form. Experience has
shown conclusively that it is useless
to try to get any adequate regulation
ard supervision of these great cor
porations by state action. Such regu-
1ation and supervision can only be
effectively exercised by a sovereign
whose jurisdiction is coextensive with
the field of work of the corporations
that is, by the national government.
believe that this regulation and
supervision can be obtained by the en-
Our steady aim should be
by legislation, cautiously and carefully
undertaken, but resolutely persevered
in, to assert the sovereignty of the ma
tional government by affirmative ac-
tion.
This is only in form an innovation
In substance it Is merely a restoration;
for from the earliest time such regu-
lation of industrial activities has been
recognized in the action of the law
making bodies; and all that 1 propose
is to meet the changed conditions in
such manner as will prevent the COM
monwealth abdicating the power 1t
has always possessed, not only in this
country, but also in England before !
and since this country became a
separate nation.
''It has been a misfortune that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03

ment by the constitution itself. There
must be no halt in the healthy con-
Structive course of action which this
| nation has elected to pursue, and has
steadily pursued, during the last six
years, as shown both in the legisla-
ton of the congress and the admini-
stration of the law by the department
of justice. The most vital need is in
connection with the railroads. AS to
these, in my judgment there should
now be either national Incorporation
act or law licensing railway compan-
les to engage in interstate commerce
upon certain conditions. The law
should be so framed as to give to the
Interstate Commerce commission
power to pass upon the future issue of
securities, while ample means should
be provided to enable the commission,
whenever in its judgment it is neces-
sary, to make a physical valuation of
any railroad
AS I stated in my message to the
congress year ago, railroads should
be given power to enter into agree
ments, subject to these agreements
being made public in minute detail
and to the consent of the Interstate
Commerce commission being first OBJ
tanned. Until the national government
assumes proper control of interstate
commerce, in the exercise of the
authority it already possesses, it will
be impossible either to give to or to
get from the railroads full justice. The
railroads and all other great corpora
tions will do we'll to recognize that
ton is as to what government body
can most wisely exercise it. The
courts will determine the limits with
in which the federal authority can
exercise it, and there will still remain
ample work within each state for the
railway commission of that state; and
the national Interstate Commerce
commission will work in harmony
with the several state commissions.
each within its own province to
achieve the desired end.
Sherman Antitrust Law.
Moreover, in my judgment there
should be additional legislation look
ing to the proper conrroI of the great
business concerns engaged in inter-
state business, this control to be exer-
perity no less than for the protec-
ton of investors and of the general
public AS have repeatedly said in
messages to the congress and else
where experience has definitely
shown not merely the unwisdom but
the futility of endeavoring to put a
stop to all business combinations
Modern industrial conditions are such
that combination is not only necessary
but inevita BILE. 1t is so in the world
of business Just as it is in the world
of labor. and it is as idle to desire to
put an end to all corporations to all
big combinations of capital, as to de-
sire to put an end to combinations of
labor. Corporation and labor union
alike have come to stay. Each il
managed is a source OF good !
and not evil Whenever in either |
there is evil. it should be promptly
held TO account; but 1t should receive
hearty encouragement so long as it is |
managed. 1t is profoundly |
immoral to put or keep on the statute |
hooks a. law. nominally in the interest |
(Coutinued on Page Two.)
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Continued on Page Ten.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03
FIND 27 BODIES.
Number of Dead I'm Naomi Mine Now
Placed at Thirty.

Pittsburg. Pa, Dec. 3.-Up to 10
o'clock this morning 27 bodies had
been recovered from the Naomi coal
mine at Fayette City. The mine Off
ciais now believe the dead will not ex-
ceed 80, but miners still place the
number of killed at between 40 and
So Shortly before noon the rescue
parties began to bring out the bodies.
crowd in check as the bodies were
taken from the air shaft. They were
carried to a nearby building erected
for that purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03

Continued on Page Ten,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03

(C.ontinued on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03
WEATHER Is COLDER.
Mercury Drops to 24 Degrees EARLY
This Morning

The weather today has been much
colder than yesterday. A high wind
has prevailed all day and dust has
filled the air. So great has the vol
ume of the dust been that it has pene-
trated every nook and crevice in the
city. The prospects for tomorrow In
dicate continuation of the present
conditions. The wind today has a
velocity of 20 miles an hour from the
north. The following are the temper
atllreS for tadav.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03

That this years diminished wheat
crop should represent SO much more
wealth than its bulk1er predecessors
brings out the fact that, with two ex-
ceptions, the average price per bushel
in 1907 was higher than that in any
other year OF the past quarter of CEN
tury The income from this years
wheat amounts to over one-third of the
total value of all soil products, and it's
yield is about three and one-half mil
lion bushels more than the average an
nuel output for the decade ending with
1906
The crop this year ranks seventh in
volume, and five of the crops overtop-
ping it were of the past eight years.
OF the 1907 growth 921, 7SS bushels was
spring wheat, mostly raised in the
northwestern counties, and worth $685.
29S. While the acreage is only seven
per cent less than last year, the de-
crease in output is over Sc per cent, in
spite of the 85 per cent of it's area be-
ing the durum or "Macaronf' wheats
which government experts" have pro-
nounced so admirably adapted to con-
ditions in Kansas, and especially in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03
Weather Indicatfons.

Chicago, Dec. 3.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Fair tonight and Wednesday:
slightly colder tonight.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24

ern Oklahoma soon to attend to some
business matters.
Ed and john Ecklcs have made APP
%plicntion for final proof on their claims
Ben Holiday has returned 10 Wood
ward for a while.
We are getting a great railroad talk
We don't care so muc;i about the talk,
give us the railroud /"
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Estes have
moved on their claim rhey will soon
convert their little clam mo u we'll
improved farm.
Jesse Miller and Vern Ca'cy have
been hauling lumber for ne new
store
II you have anything "to swop" just
bring il around and you will sure lind
someone TO "swup' with. We have
several ''s~oppcrs" that arc always
shopping
Miss Ethel Ferguson is visiting pa
rents and relatives at Enid.
Robert Estes purchased a fine bunch
Of shoats from Frank Jennings on the
hiown. lie says he is going in the
hog business. lac also engaged two for
Mr.. Hester.
4 lew of our most enterprising
farmers have commenced to break sod
The ground is in fine condition to
break
The old sand man is coming so we
will bid you, N and all, good night.
SUNSHINE.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24
CONTEST NOTICE.
Department Of the Interior, United states
..I nNtn.

Department Of the Interior, United states
Land Office.
Woodward. Okla, December %. 1875,
4 suiicient contest affidavit having been nled
in this Office by Emrst r.. jones, 81 lacy. OKLA
contestant, AGAINST ~. No. 2t6l, made No.
vember ~, 1913. Tor SWia Sec. -. Tp. 4. y. ui
X. n, T.. G.. NJ. BY Conrad \. Mantclo, contestee.
never established residence on said tract Of iand
and never improved, fenced or cultivated said
tract OF land and has wholly Abandoned said
tract Of Land for a period Of nors than six
months prior aud next preceding the Hing OF
this contest and that said default has not been
cured.
That said alleged absence from said land wa
not duo to his employment IN the Army, Navy
or Marine Corps OF the United States in any
capacity in time OF war, and tins the salu
contestant j. ready 10 prove at such time
and place a. may be named by the Regis
ter and Receiver Tor a hearing in said case,
Said parties are hereby notified to appear. re-
spund and offer evidence touching said aliega'
ton at W o'clock a. m. ON Feb. II, 1857, be
fore Ira A. Hill, Clerk of District Court Of Bea-
yer. Okla. in his office at Beaver, Oklahoma
Territory. or, in case of his absence before Ada
Quinn. his deputy, I'm his office at Beaver,
aud that final hearing will be
held at 10 o'clock a. M, on Feb. n, 1901. be
fore the Register and Receiver at the United
States Land Office in Woodward, II.
The said contestant having, in a proper afr
davit. filed Dec. q, 1851. set forth facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
Of this notice cannot be made, il is hereby or
dered and directed chat such notice be given by
due and proper publication.
IA ia. DlCK T. MORGAN. Register.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24
MINNELO.
FLoRErrA

The holidays are over now and we
will again talk with you
We have been visited recently with
two big sleets.
NJ. Hester and s~on-in-law, Robert
Estes, vent to Englewood last week
and were caught in the sleet. Sam
Smith and wife accompanied them to
take the train for their old Missouri
home.
Fred Galley is erecting a large store
and will bring on a complete line of
everything.
Mr.. Mendenhall, purchaser Of the
Sam Smith place, will move to his new
home oon We welcome him in our
midst.
Arch Mitchell has been working for
Robert Mari, of late.
Dan Fuller is having a happy time
keeping bachelors hail." His wife
has gone TO visit her parents at Ring
wood.
Robert Ester purchased n fine team
last week from Bert Glascoe
Nj. Hester intends To return TO east
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24

convinced of the gerrymandering ac-
tions Of the convention is to look at
the sixteen cornered Free Silver"
county in the Chickasaw nation which
divides the recording district, and runs
through the corporate limits of the two
largest towns in the county. 1t is
known generally as Murray county,
and is an insult to the honest people
aud taxpayers of the vicinity of Davis
md Wynnewood, where the chief bur-
den of taxation will lie | suggest
that the hand that drew this map
must have learned its first lesson in
a Chinese laundry ."-Capitalt Guthrie)
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24
ESTHER.

Mr.. Owens from Dewey county, has
recently made settlement on his claim
near Mr.. Enich's.
The two Haworth families are build
ing residences on their claims west of
Humiston farms.
Day Humiston went to E~nglewood
several days ago for freight.
Literary night has been changed g.
Saturday instead of Friday.
1t is rumored that one of the Hollow
peter girls claims has been sold =
to railroad promoters for a .ownsite.
Geo. Greek. of Esther. went { U Ben
this week to make final proof ON hi.
claim.
Mrs. Sands parents accompanied
the DIR. home from Kansas City. |,
rumored that the DR.. has made al
r~ang,ments to sell his farm. ConsId.
Grafton s27o0 90.
Jim Dickson proved up on his claim
here at Esther last week.
Two carloads Of wheel scrapers and
six carloads of mules and men were I'M
loaded at Englewood this week TO
commence work on the new railroad.
Miss Era Jamison returned this
week from her school near Beaver.
FLoRETTA.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24
Robbery at E~nglewOOd

News was received over the phone
here Monday of the robbery of w. W.
Truby's store at Englewood, Kansas,
sunday night.
The large safe in the store was
blown open and about $500 90 secured
by the robbers, So far as we can
learn, no clew Of the thieves can be
found.
Such depredations are getting pre-
valent all over the county and il stands
one in hand to use the utmost safety
In securing their funds.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24
ESTHER

ATownsite Company has been formed
to locate about4 miles east of here
Mr.. Wells will move his store over to
the proposed town site from it's pres
ent location at Wells.
Sam Drake met with an accident by
getting one of his feet twisted up in
spokes of wagon wheel; he is GONZALES
cling now.
Rev. Parker went over to Gate yes
terday, where he is assisting in cree
ton of the Academy domitory.
Mr. Westneris putting up a very
fine story and a half stable on his place
about ? miles west of here. 1t is "a
X 30 and from skeleton looks more
like a residence, but we hear it's only
to be a barn.
The Christmas entertainment at the
school house was II great success over
Il hundred sacks of candy were given
out and not enough to go around, so
there was a big crowd and many re-
ceived beautiful gifts.
Miss Roxie Condor is the guest of
Mrs. Esther Smith our Post Mistress,
this week.
DIR. Makemson struck water at a
depth of s feet in a willow canyon on
his daughters claim
Farmers in this vicinity are still
busy getting in their crops of corn and
kaflir corn.
Mr.. banks has about 400 cattle in
the neighborhood and buying up all
the stock fields and roughness that he
can get.
Day Humiston's horse got frightened
one day last week and ran into a barb
wire fence crippling its fore legs pretty
badly.
Geo Greek went to Englewood this
morning.
EIORErrA
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-01-24
Road Notice.

Notice is hereby given. that at q session OF the
board OF county commissioners Of Beaver coun-
", Oklahoma Territory, held on the 10Th day of
January, 4, D., 1eJI, a Petition signed by A. Nj.
Burnam aud Others of Eimwood township, ask
ing Tor q view and survey for tue purpose OF
locating a Certain county pad, described as FOL.
lows: Commencing at the east side OF the hall
section line OF section 9, township 3. north oi
range "a, and running west through section Q, To
the west line o. section y, township s, north o.
range "a. B. c. NJ, and the north and south sec
ton lines OF section 3, township 3, north Of range
p, L. Z. NJ, be vacated was presented and thet
W. b, Leonard, II. g.. Purdy and J.. r. Quinn are
surveyor, Will meet at ths place OF beginning OF
said noad, on the 23rd day Of February, A. D.,
1871, at 10 O'clock a. m, Of said day, aud proceei
a hearing.
Done by order the board OF COUNT commission
els Of Beaver county, Oklahoma Territory.
j. III. LANGsroN,
County Clerk and Clerk Of aid Board.
la I'll Sw.