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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
THE EXPOSITION OPENED
President Roosevelt Reviewed the
International Fleet of warships.
The Ter-centennial at jamestown For.
maIly Launched Although Part
iy Prepared for the Event.

jamestown. = President Roosevelt
the diplomatic, naval and military
representatives of foreign nations and
the governors of score of states
participated Friday in the opening ex-
ercises of the jamestown ter-centen-
NAL exposition The exposition is
far from complete, but this was not
allowed to interfere in any way with
Fridays celebration OF the three
hundredth anniversary OF the first
English settlement in America. From
the firing of sunrise salute of 300
guns by the United State army,
through the picturesque review of the
international fleet of war vessels an
chord in Hampton Roads, through the
ceremonies of dedication at which the
president spoke and down to late
hour Friday night when the chief ex-
ecutive went abord the naval yacht
Sylph to spend the night, the day was
crowded with notable incidents. NO
table among the days events was the
command of the situation in front of
the crowded grandStand from which
he spoke when panic seized the
surging throng of spectators.
The military encampment about the
exposition grounds began the days
ceremonies with the firing of the
three century salute. Soon from
across the waters of Hampton Roads
came the boom of guns signalling the
beginning of the review by the presi-
dent OF the most formidable fleet of
international battleships and cruisers
the world has witnessed in many
years.
The ceremonies were brief, the fea-
ture being the addresses of President
Tucker of the exposition and Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The latter, at the
conclusion of his address, pressed the
gold button, which formally marked
the opening of the commemorative en-
terprise. Then followed an informal
luncheon to the president and forty
other guests in the Administration
building
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
SUIT FOR OIL PROPERTY.
Eighty Acres in the Famous Glenn
Pool Valued at 100000, Sub
ject of Litigation.

Tulsa, /. r. - Suit was filed in
the federal court here Friday involv-
ing title to property in Glenn pool,
estimated at nearly 100000. Ex-
Creek Chief Legus Perriman, guardian
of Cleveland Grayson, a Creek minor,
sues the Gulf Pipe Line company,
Prairie Oil and Gas company, Greek
Oil company, Charles E. Douglass and
Wright Thornburg, for s125,000 dam
ages for oil sold from Grayson's lease.
Title to 80 acres comprising the lease
is also claimed by Grayson. The land
produces an annual income of 100000
now and it is only half developed. The
legal question involved is the right
of the white wife of a Creek Indian
to hold title to allotments. Two
judges of the eastern district have hello
at variance ON this question.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02

1t seems that It could be easily
pointed out to him that IL there was
no town near him and he had to drive
20 or 80 miles to take his produce to
market and haul his groceries the
same distance home, he could easily
see that his land would greatly dcpre-
ciate In value and the disadvantages
he would encounter on every hand
would be very disastrous to his time
and he would gladly spend his money
at home to divert this calamity.
One of the most potent levers with
which to control trade in country To-
calities is the liberal use of printers
ink, coupled with intelligence in ad-
vertising the wares of the merchant
The catalogue houses employ the best
talent obtainable to write their adver-
tisements and spend large sums of
money in this way. Besides advertis-
ing judiciously they advertise on
large scale and consequently get the
business. The old saying that You
must fight the devil with fire" will ap-
ply in this case. The home merchant
must advertise. He must do more than
say: Come to Smiths to trade,
cheapest place on EARTH" He must
describe his merchandise as he would
in private conversation over the coun-
ter to a customer, and then quote the
price. This will nearly always act as
a clincher and will at least put him
on a standing with the catalogue
house. In fact it will give him an ad-
vantage over the catalogue house, for
in almost every case he can sell the
same grade of merchandise cheaper
than the catalogue house can sell it.
This is not mere theory but state
ment of fact, for the reason that the
country merchants business is oper-
ated at very much less expense than
that of the mail order merchant.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
RECEIVERS FOR BREwERIEs.
Kansas Supreme Court Names Allen,
Whitcomb and Carver to Take
Charge of Property.

Topeka, Kansas The supreme
court Wednesday appointed Judge S.
H. Allen, G.. w. Whitcomb, and Judge
T. F. Carver, all of Topeka as receiv-
ers for the Kansas property of the
brewing companies against which GUST
er proceedings have been filed to pre-
vent their continuing business in the
state in defiance of the prohibitory
law. The court fixed the joint bond
Of the three receivers at $45, 900 which
was furnished.
AS soon as the receivers are formal
ly in charge they will take steps to
abate the nuisances which have been
flourishing in different places which
are owned or controlled by the brew
ers. This will mean the closing Of
the brewery-owned joints in the
state and it is believed that this will
include the majority of places now in
operation in Atchison, Leavenworth,
Pittsburg. Topeka. and some other
towns. In Wichita the saloons al
ready have closed and it is understood
that the fixtures have been moved
from the state.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02

South Carolina's state liquor dis
pensary system, which has been
abandoned because it did not work to
the satisfaction of the people, has
been succeeded by a local option sys-
tenn, with the counties as the unit
The voters may decide whether they
shall have a county dispensary or pro-
hibition, explains Youths Companion.
If they decide for the dispensary. the
management of the business will be
in the hands of a commission of three
men for each county, appointed, one
by the mayor or mayors of the town
or towns in the county. one by the
school board, and one by the legisla-
tive delegation. The profits are to be
divided among the municipalities, the
county and the school fund The ad-
vocates of the new system believe
that it will improve conditions in the
state.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02

There are thousand and one items
of expense which the city merchant
has to meet that are entirely unknown
to the country merchant.
The time is rapidly approaching
when people who patronize mail order
houses will be looked upon as soon
ers" by the solid and influential citi-
zens of all commonwealth and will
suffer ostracism at their hands.
Cities and towns are built by COM
bined efforts Of the residents thereof;
not by foreign capital So too are our
churches and schoolhouses built. It
may be true that in many instances
eastern capital has been employed to
make improvements in the west, but
always with good round interest to
the lender of the money. No one ever
heard of case where an eastern man
or firm contributed to western enter
prise for the fun of the thing. Nor
did you ever hear of case where any
mail order or catalogue house ever
contributed to any church building
fund. Nor yet did they ever build or
help to build any of our schoolhouses.
You never heard of a case of this kind
and you never will. All these eastern
sharks care for is your dollar, and
you know it, and when they have got
ten that they have no more use for
you. Then why should you patronize
them? You can go to your home mer-
chant any day in the year and if you
are short of change, he will extend
you credit. If you are sick and I'M
able to work the home merchant will
see that your family is provisioned
until you get on your feet again. He
will do all of this and at the same
time furnish the same grade of goods
at the same or even at less price.
VIII the catalogue merchant do this?
A society could be organized and
designated as the Peoples Protec-
tive Association An organization
of this kind could be perfected in
every town and hamlet in the coun-
try. Merchants and business men
would push these organizations for
the reason that it would be to their
interest to do so. After the organize
ton is formed and things are running
smoothly questions of the day may be
discussed. and also matters pertaining
to the welfare of the immediate local
ity may be brought up which will in
clude the important question of trad
ing at home. OF course it will be ad-
mitted that this question will have to
be handled with gloves on. But there
are men in business in every town
who are equal to the emergency and
no trouble is anticipated in getting
the farmers and others who buy of
mail order houses to listen to reason.
Teach the farmer to love his coun-
try. his town and his people; make
him realize that they are his; that
they are part of his being, his life.
Teach him that it is to his financial,
moral and social interest to buy his
goods in his home town, and if he he
man he will do it.
J. p. BELL.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
NEWS
The Life Romantic.

why is it, asks the North Ameri- |
can Review, that in middle age the
novel so pals upon US. while we turn
instinctively to biography and letters.
or to poetry and history for our
lighter reading? 1t SENS fact too
readily overlooked that the very form
of life's romance changes with the
years. 1t is undoubtedly a provision
of nature that the emotional life
should be paramount from Is to 80;
but surely the glamor shed about the
amative relations begins to wane
with middle age, and we find either
new food for the life romantic or we
settle into a dull routine of recurrent
occupations. 1t is then that personal
optimism and pessimism are put to
the test. To let the sweeping pageant
of life become all drab and dreary is
to admit failure in life, and to live
with ever-increasing zest and interest
is to have captured success. The
greatest free gift of the years is i'm
personality. That voracious interest
in ourselves which is SO natural a
limitation of youth fades of it's own
accord as we grow to fuller knowl-
edge of our slight endowment, the
paucity of our spoken lines and the
fragmetnary and insignificant part of
fill up the void? We are, after all,
not cast for the hero's part; but are
we to sink into mere hardened ma
chimes? The gift of entirely imper-
est of lifes events. When it falls
upon us we can adorn our secret cor
ners of delight and learn to live in
them. We begin to listen to music
with no disquieting desire to have it
interpret our personal emotions or
feed our ambitions. We can look at
pictures and nature with a new and
more liberal interest. There is a shift
ing of basis. by which. If we will. we
may gain complete advantage. AS in
youth We cling to some glorified
fragment of the past or hold out our
hands to some warm hope of an I'M
earned but magnificent future, so in
middle age we come, if we will, to
moment richer and nobler in itself
If in youth we use the senses for per-
sonal aggrandiZement, in maturity we
learn to enjoy them for themselves
1t is a shifting of basis from emotion
to perception, and the perceptions can
give as keen a pleasure, every whit.
as the emotions.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02

If the discovery of a veterinary sur
geon in the French army should
prove to be all that is claimed for it,
hot air will become of value. The sur
geon claims that by subjecting vari-
Gus cereals to currents of heated air
he can make the grain immune as re-
yards mould and other forms of dis
case, and thus add greatly to the use
Iulness of the articles. The govern
ment thinks so well of the invention
that the immunizing process is likely
TO be applied to stores in the military
magazines, estimated to be worth S..
100000 or $1O,OOO,OOO. The discovery
however, will not increase the market
price of the oratorical brand of hot
air.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Party Rate Tickets for All.

Washington. - A far reaching de-
cision was rendered Tuesday by the
Interstate Commerce commission re-
specting party rate tickets" Vari-
Gus railroads of the country have been
proceeding on the theory that sucn
tickets applied only to theatrical or
amusement companies. The commits
sion hold, however, that the transpor
tation of such amusement companies
on party tickets would be similar to
transportation where the same num-
Der of persons not belonging to such
companies offered to travel and that
therefore the tickets must be opened
to the use of the general public.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Nearoes Ordered Away.

Big Springs, Texas. - While as
sisting the arrest of several negroes,
Deputy Marshall James Burke was
killed. Following the killing of
Burke, the citizens assembled
in mass meeting and notified all
negroes who are without property in
this town to leave at once. Negroes
owning property here were ordered to
dispose of it within Is days and also
leave
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
BIG PIER COLLAPSES.
Six Dead and Sixteen Missing at
Baltimore.

Baltimore, April ga section of
500 feet of the new pier being erect
ed at the immigration station at Lo-
Gust Point, South Baltimore, for the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad and for
the use of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company, collapsed to-
day, carrying down between 20 and
% workmen, of whom six are known
to be dead, several missing and Is
injured.
Among the injured is W. N. Ed
son. general superintendent of the
Baltimore Bridge Company, who had
charge of the steel construction. It
is not yet known how seriously hurt
he is. He was caught while warning
the workmen off the pier.
The pier is two story structure,
1000 feet long. It's estimated cost is
100000. Warning of the disaster
was had several days ago when some
of the piles began settling. Today,
shortly before the disaster, the piies
settled in such an alarming manner
that orders to leave the place we're
circulated among the so odd work
men
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Senator penrose at White House.

Washington. Senator Penrose OF
Pennsylvania, whose name has been
freely mentioned in connection with
the giving away at a dinner of the
deatails of an alleged conspiracy
against President Roosevelt, was
one of the early visitors at the White
house Thursday. This is Senator
Penroses first visit to the White
house since the publication of the
story which he denied a day or two
afterward. The only statement he
would make when seen later was that
the visit was purely social.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
a Jointist Pardoned.

Topeka, Kansas. - A full pardon
was granted Friday by Governor
Hoch to Chris Maier, from the coun-
ty Jail where he had so days remain
ing on his sentence of co days and a
5000 fine for selling liquor. Maier
gave the county a bond of 81, 1000 never
TO engage in the liquor traffic again.
The pardon was recommended by
Sheriff Wilkerson, County Attorney
Schenck and Secretary Norris of the
State temperance union
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02

parable injury, ana one that you Sho
their ambition, hence the contentment
that prevailed.
But in after years, when cities
grew and trade expanded. the mer-
chants of these cities not being con-
tent with conditions of trade, devised
plans by which they might reach out
for more business. Advertising in the
newspapers being a cheap way of
putting the merits of their goods be-
fore the people, this plan appealed to
them and it was adopted. At first they
operated on small scale; then, as
the merchant saw the opportunity for
making it pay, he added to his adver-
Using fund. And so it has continued
until to-day millions of dollars are
annually sent to mail order houses by
the people of the United States.
The best and most effective way to
throttle the catalogue house has been
question uppermost in the minds of
country merchants for several years
past; Some advocating one plan and
some another. There are several plans
which might be presented to induce
the farmer to buy at home In the
first place his pride might be appealed
to. There are very few farmers who
own their own farms but that would
be interested in building up his own
locality. He realizes the fact that if
his farm is to be valuable it must be
farmed in the most scientific manner
and all buildings, fences, ETC., must be
IL, to-
and above all the farm must be To-
Gated not too far from some good
town, for we all know that farm land
brings much better price when near
to some good town or village. 1t is
not hard. to get the farmer to realize
this, for if he ever sold any farm land
or tried to sell any, he knows this to
be fact. Well. then, after he has
realized this fact, the thing for him
to do is to patronize his home mer-
chants and business men, so they may
be able 10 build and maintain a good
town.
Public. schools are much better in
the towns than in the country for the
reason that where the population is
most dense, there is more taxable
property to the amount of territory
covered, hence there is more money
collected for school purposes, and as
a result more and better teachers are
employed. All this is of the highest
Importance to the farmer, as most
farmers who are of any Importance in
their profession are interested in Civ
ing their boys and girls a good educa-
ton. And right here is wnere the good
town proposition comes to him with
great force. He knows he can send
his children to the village school at
great deal less expense than to send
them away to college. and that in
most cases better results are OBJ
tanned.
If the farmer seriously desires all
these good things he must of necessi-
ty help to build them. Let him under
stand that he is one of the main
spokes in the great wheel of COM
merce in his vicinity and that he can
ill-afford to send abroad to purchase
even the smallest item of merchan-
disc, though it may seem to him that
he is saving a few cents by doing so.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Loeb May Leave the President.

Washington. = According to a ru-
NOR which has been in circulation
for some time and was more defined
Thursday, William Loeb Jr., secre-
tary to the president will next JAN
uary become head of the Washington
railway and electric company of this
city. Owing to Mr. Loeb's depar-
ture with the president for the
jamestown Exposition no confirma-
ton could be had from him of the ru-
NOR. A controlling interest in the
company has been secured by local
capitalists.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Found Him Not Guilty.

Washington, April 20. Binger
Hermann, former congressman from
Oregon and former commissioner OF
the general land Office. was acquit-
ted of the charge of destroying pub
lie records The trial had progress
ed for twelve weeks and the jury de-
liberated twenty-one hours. Her
mann was indicted by a federal
grand jury in Oregon on the charge
of defrauding the government out of
public lands. The immediate charge
was destruction of letter files while
he was commissioner of the general
land Office in 1902.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
oklahoma's Crop Losses.

Guthrie, Ok. = The present condi-
ton of the wheat crop in Oklahoma
according to an official bulletin is
sued Wednesday by c. A. McNabb,
secretary of the Oklahoma board of
agriculture. is Co.'S per cent and that
of oats crop at 30 per cent. This
bad showing is the result largely of
the. ravages of the green bugs
throughout the entire territory.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
GaIena Saloons Close.

Galena, Kan, April 90. = What is
believed to be an advance wave of
the reform movement for Kidding
the state of open saloons and joints
reached Galena this afternoon. when
Sheriff Hatton ordered all saloonists
in the city to discontinue and gave
instructions against reopening for
business
The order has been given to all sa-
loonists in Cherokee county and af-
fects. approximately, 100 places of
business. Galena saloon men imme-
diately obeyed the order.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
An Appeal for Mason and Harle.

Ell Paso, Texas, = Richardson,
Mason and Harle, the Americans who
are under sentence of death at Chi
huahua, Mexico, for murder to secure
insurance money were granted another
lease on life Wednesday when the fed
eral court sitting in Juarez, after refus1
ing writ of habeaus corpus, granted
an appeal to the supreme court of
the republic of Mexico.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Iapanese camp on the Border.

San Antonio. Texas.-According to
reports received by the immigration
authorities here Friday, large col
ony of Japanese has assembled oppo-
site to Eagle Pass. Thus far they
have not applied for admission into
this country, but have taken up the
matter with the ambassadors of their
country at Washington and the City
of Mexico.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Returned 2o,sss Letters in On. Day.

Washington, d. c. - All previous
records for days work in returning
of dead letters were eclipsed or Nor
day last, when 2O,36S letters were re-
turned. The largest number hereto
fore returned in single day was H.
48S, on March % last. The number
of letters on hand awaiting return has
been reduced TO $4,000. A little over
a month ago there were over 100000
of such letters on hand.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
TiIlman Meets a Frost.

Northampton, Mass. = Just before
the conclusion of his lecture in the
Academy of Music Tuesday night
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman of
South Carolina asked for show of
hands from those who believe that
the negro was not the equal of the
white man. There was no response.
He then asked for similar vote frosl
those who believed in the supremacy
of the whites and a few hands were
raised. Mr., TiIlman concluded by at
lacking those present for their fail
ure to respond to his request
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Lived 100 Years.

New York. = A dispatch from San
tiaga, Cuba, says the death there of
Antonio Infante, negro, at the age
of $50 years, despite his great age,
the greatest recorded in modern
times, the man is SAID TO have retain
ed all his faculties unimpaired to the
end. Infante is said to have been
born in 1857, 10 years before the be-
ginning of the American revolution.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
| ondon Newspaper Comment.

London. = All the London morning
newspapers print long dispatches on
the opening of the jamestown expo
sition and President Roosevelt's
speech at the function, the editorials
extending congratulations at the sue
cessful Inauguration OF an exposition
of such Astounding interest.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
Brewery Receivers at Work,

Topeka, Kansas. : The receivers
for the property of the eight brewery
companies and the Helm Real estate
company began work Thursday. Their
bonds were filed in the supreme
court and approved by the court and
the orders for the receivers to take
charge were issued Immediately.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
orouth Hurts Usage Pastures.

Arkansas City. Kan. April 20. =
Cattlemen in the Kaw and Usage
reservations are apprehsnsive over
the condition Of the grass in their
pastures. The shortage of rain for
several weeks has stopped the
growth of the grass and this. coupled
with the fact that the early warm
weather gave the grass start and
caused the stock to rush to begin
several weeks before the usual time
cuts down the supply. The pastures
are ali stocked to the limit
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02

Col. Hugh Scott, who has been more
successful than any man in the army
in capturing savage chiefs, both in
this country and the Philippines, owes
part of his prowess to his remarkable
understanding of the sign language as
used by the North American Indians
He mastered it in the west in the be-
ginning of his career.