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is shown by their inStituting the
principle of discarding class
fights, thus doing away with this
Relic of Barbarism"
Irma Law was chosen to give
the toast representing them
class night and it is needless to
say that it was neither last nor
least
And now the class dispersed
to spend the summer vacation at
their various homes
Three months later found
them back in their places with
renewed energy determined to
make this years work better
than the previous one On ac-
count of their generosity and
willingness to share their talent
with others, they promoted
Thomas ScCtt to the Junior class,
and, feeling sorry for the striv-
ing Freshmen kindly gave them
four of their number. This
year the class gladly welcomed
Leta Cook as new member.
In the annual contest between
the two societies, the two Sopho-
more Representatives carried off
the honors and the class is also
proud to announce that it pos
sesses the only pupil, Hattie
Burnham, who has had perfect
attendance during the entire his
tory of this school.
Glass night will soon be here
again and they are preparing for
it intending to make true the
watchword, venimus, vidimus,
vicemuS.
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Keeney high school were dis
missed early on election day and
turned loose without restraint
upon the shriveling opponents of
higher education and won out, as
the result showed, for the friends
OF the change rolled up majority
OF 147 votes.
Then there came the difficulty
of finding a location for the new
educational plant, but the city
of Wa-keeney soon remedied
this defect by granting the free
use of its school building for a
term of years.
Then of course there were the
ordinary troubles to $50 through,
such as finding competent in
structors and trustees and out
lining the plan of work But
these difficulties were all met
successfully and the result was
a new institution called the
Trego County High School
This new school has now
finished its second year, having
had one graduate in its first
y Od1 dt1o SCtCh UIlIS " Al(h-
ing eight in ALL Thus it hopes
to continue increasing it's list of
graduates.
The Trego County High School
has come up to the standard and
is now a fully accredited school in
any college of higher learning in
the state of Kansas
1t furnishes a choice of three
courses to its students Univer-
sity, Normal and General, and
also makes special arrangements
for teachers in the fall and
spring months Along the line
of social and literary intercourse
we have two societies, the Philo-
nathan and Adelphian which
are about evenly divided and
give programs alternately each
month. There is also an athletic
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Trego County High School.

Some years ago there was
need of a place for higher educa-
ton in western Kansas county
In this county there lived some
people who had come from bet
ter settled parts of the country,
tasted of higher education in the
eastern colleges and wished
their boys and girls to have the
same privilege. So they started
a city high school in Wa-Keeney
which served the purpose for a
while.
But as years went by the peo-
pie began to think that a county
so prosperous deserved some
thing better so they put their
heads together and began to
plan. The result was that they
succeeded in persuading the
Kansas Legislature to grant to
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History of the Class of 1907.

In the year of 1908, September
the 9th, the Wa-Keeney High
School welcomed with pride a
throng of nine brilliant Fresh
men, namely, Susie Burnham,
Ethel Straw, Virgie Dorns, Olive
Eaten, Rex Clemons, Harold
Forester, Robert Blakely, Zenas
Gunckel and Guy Jones, who
showed by their every appear
ance that although they were
strangers both to methods and
associates, they came to make
the best of everything. The
ptasks which were set for
them in the first nine months
were but as play
'Undaunted be
Morning dawnS for thee
could be read in the face of each
noble Freshman What cared
they for the roasts of the upper
classes then, for they were day
by day storing up that which
could be displayed in the future.
In the year of 1904 we mount
ed the second round of the ladder
of knowledge which is known as
the Sophomore year. This year
though stronger in power, we
were weakened in number. We
again entered upon the scene of
battle with Burnham, Straw,
Forester, Clemons, Blakely and
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Robert L. Rinker

Jones to hold our fort. The vic
tory of the year was gained the
eve of the departure of this term
in the color contest with the i'm
mature freshies. Before hoist
ing the grand old red and black
we were greatly refreshed by
the feast prepared by the con
quered.
In the year of 1905 the Wa
Keeney High School became a
Trego County High SchC which
found US on the third round.
Here we again met the misfor-
tune to lose another member of
our class. During this year
after all the new rules and regu-
lations of the T. G. III. s., includ-
ing the discountenance of the
color fight, our class rested in
peace during the term. The last
week we found our mental tasks
had ended in order to expose
our natural ability to tighten the
burdens of the lonely Senior.
In the year 1906 we ascended
the top round with the title Sen
ior- Here we gladly welcomed
into our class two more mem
bers, John Borah and Robert
Rinker. Though our studies are
severe we hope again victory will
be ours, so that we can tell Mr..
Virgil, Phillips Fisher and Co.
NimmerwiederShen."
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association which is organized
along business lines as their
record of victories over other as
sociationS viii very plainly show.
Our school has also been equip
ped with several valuable sets of
reference books and many
volumes of reading matter. It
has a good supply of electrical
and experimental devices. Then
last summer the city had the
whole second story of the build
ing remodeled and now the
school has four recitation rooms,
a hall, library and an Office MAX
ing plenty of room for it to ex-
pand.
This is the history of T. G. HI.
S. in a nut shell. We hope she
may always forge ahead OF the
times and pull rather than stay
behind and push.
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We Adelphians.

That we might learn some
thing new and with that have a
good time, it was decided that T.
G. II. S. have literary societies.
So on the Sd, of November, 1905,
the Philomathian and Adelphian
societies were organized.
Would that 1 could sing to you
the praises of our friends, the
Philos, but such is not my lot,
hence will L gladly tell of the
Adelphian's doings
Officers were duly elected and
a constitution (never to be right
ly followed nor even signed) was
constructed by committee and
adopted by this youthful society.
Numerous meetings wereheld for
electing officers, etc., they might
be called business meetings
by one who wasn't there.
In the First annual contest be-
tween the two societies, the
Adelphians carried off all honors.
1t was a pleasant and interest
ing event. Before the contest
several short programs were
given by members of the society,
one of note being the Kansas Day
Commemorative when we deck
ed out in red and white, for it
had previously been decided that
red and white shonld wave over
the AdeIphians.
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Junior History.

Our Freshman year began Sep
tember, 1904. We may have
been rather fresh" but we were
treated with respect at any rate,
and it was profitable year
At the close of our Freshman
year we participated in little
flag scrap" But that was in
W. II. S. We have no flag
scraps in T. @. III. S., for our
principal mildly requested that
there be no flag scraps" in t.
G. H. S. and asked individual
classes to vote upon it. The re
questwas endorsedby all classes.
So the flag scrap" is mon est"
and is relic of the past.) We
had many laughable experiences
in this, our last and only flag
scrap The class of 'OS indulg
ed in bananas and cake and fed
the class of '07 some of that cake
which only Jnnior girls can bake
The poor boys of 'O7 couldn't
feed themselves because their
hands were tied behind them.
The next morning at sunrise our
flag, the green and white, was
seen on the cupola of the school
house.
The Sophomore year was
busily and pleasantly spent and
was so full-of bnsinessst kat there
was no room for adventures.
The Junior year has been a
L.,
sodes have been mumps and
measles. We are just beginning
to see how much we do not know
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Trego county the privilege of es-
tablishing high school, setting
aside the old law that county
must have at least 5000 inhabi-
tants in order to maintain a high
school. Then the proposition
was finally submitted to the vot-
ers of the county This was at
the biennial election of 1904.
There was much opposition
among the voters of the county
but the young people of the Wa
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crimes murder! NO, fOr> 1t was
sacrificing of human life for the
advancement of a good cause.
This man did not rely wholly
upon self defense for his justifi-
cation. In melting out justice to
these guilty parties he looked be-
yond the matter of self defense.
Even his enemies must appre.
ciate his bravery.
Was the capture of Harper's
Ferry to arouse an interest il
his behalf? No. He only wish.
ed TO abolish slavery Though
his plans failed, he was brave to
the last He expected no reward
from men. His guiding princi-
pie was the Golden Rule.
But was he, as some are in
clined to say, a saint whose every
act was just, who was incapable
of doing wrong, who alone and
unaided saved Kansas and Amer
ica to freedom? No. He was
human, and as such was burden
ed with human weaknesses. That
he often erred, must be admit
ted That his faults were grievous
none knew better than him
self. He made no claim to per-
fection, and who would place him
in position so false would do
him great injustice.
The strength of his character
lies not in his having always been
right. No man has ever been 50.
But it lies in doing his duty as he
saw it. He believed it his duty
and the duty of every man to de
mand freedom for the whole peo-
pie.
No evidence can be found that
this man assumed to be the only
man with a. divine commission tt
fight slavery. He needed this
call; therein lies his glory.
In this world lies obedience to
the call of duty and the defense
of humanity are due from every
man. How few respond. And
this universal Indifference gives
the greater glory to the individu-
al who says in his weakness:
Here am (; send me; [ will do
what I can. Our hero of today
said that.
In sickness and in health,
through evil and good report,
nlaligned and surrounded by OBJ
Stacles none other could have
overcome, without any hope, de
sire or expectation of reward in
this life, he toiled onward and
upward in the steep and rugged
path appointed him. There is
little doubt that he often saw the
scaffold, or file of soldiers in
front of himself with coffin at,
his feet, at the end of the way.
But he turned not aside And
therein lies the granduer of the
character Of John Brown,
1t has been said, no pagan
philosopher, no Hebrew prophet,
no christian martyr, ever spoke
in loftier and more heroic strains
than this so-called coward and
murderer, who declared, from
near the brink of an ignominious
grave, that there was NO acquisi-
ton so splendid as moral purity;
no inheritance so desirable as
personal liberty; nothing on this
earth nor in the world to come
so valuable as the soul, whatever
the hue of it's habitation no i'm
pulse so noble as an uncOnquer-
able purpose to love truth, and
an invincible determination to
obey God Grace Gorrell.
We Adelphians.
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Following are those who en-
rolled in Freshman year:


rolled in Freshman year:
Blackman George Barger Tom
ROrah John Burnham Harry
Cloud Daphne Courtright Lucy
Gorren Grace Croft Anna
Holmes Nellie Harlan Xepha
Henkel Lowell Hiskey Gayle
Hiskey Kate Keraus Arthur
Morren Gilbert Peacock Alice
Redmond Frank Shaw Hattie
Wheeler Roy Wilson Helen
Wilson Jane
Of the eight who have since
left US Mr.. Borah fell in with
bad company Seniors, Miss
Cloud was detained on account of
i'll health, Miss Croft became
Mrs. Dewitt, Gayle and Kate
Hiskey are attending the Thomas
County High School, Frank Red
mond attends preparatory de-
partment Washburn college at
Topeka.
Three more joined US in the
Sophomore year - Willis Law,
Thomas Scott and Edith Scott.
So there are now just sixteen of
us-eight boys and eight girls
the right number and
proportion for class don't you
think?
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Sophomore History.

In the fall of the year 1905
there embarked on the sea of
learning on the hilly plains of
western Kansas the most bril-
liant of classes ever recorded on
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FRESHMAN CLASS 'O7.
Joseph Kellogg Anna Benisch
Anna Thiel Carter Brown
Fay Mccall Ray Mccall
Lillian Chalk Ruby Galloway
Grace Galloway Andrew Croft
Leslie HObbick George Since
Margaret Harrison Ethel Cloud
Senia PhareS Blanche GOrren
Auene Nelson Mildred NieSley
Irene Peacock Zethyl Harlan
Irene Acre Alfred LOfStead
Fanny Cunningham Ernest Samson
Paul KerauS Eva Greenwood
Mabel Edwards Ralph Parks.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03
B0RAH FREED
ON FIRST BALLOT.
JURY SAYS WAS NOT GUILTY
OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAu0
GOVERNMENT.
OVATION BY CITIZENS
Fire Department Makes Spectacular
Run to Hotel and Senator Thanks
fshouting Masses For EXPIRES.
sions Of Favor.

Boise, Oct. 2-United States Sea-
ator William t. Bcrah tonight was ac.
quilted OF the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the government ont Of val.
liable Idaho timber lands The case
was submitted without argument OH
the part of the defense and the jury
was out just long enough to take one
ballot, The verdict was greeted ly
cheers andapplause, which the court
officers made no effort to restrain.
This demonstration In the court room
served only as beginning. AS soon
as the news reached the outside, bells
were rung and the fire department
made spectacular run through the
principal streets, stopping eventual y
at the Idaho Hotel, whore Senator
Borah, surrounded by several hundred
Of his fellow citizens, was escorted
Senator Borah thanked his hearers for
their demonstration aaI for the con
fidence they had repcsed in him
throughout the trial.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03
The Presidents Speech.

1t is very real pleasure to address
this body Of citizens OF Missouri here
in the great city of st. Louis. ! have
often visited st. Louis before, but al
ways by rail. Now am visiting II IN
the course OF trip by water, trin
on the great natural highway which
runs past your very doors-a highway
once so important, now almost aban'
doned, which ! hope this nation will
see not only restored To all its former
usefulness. but given far greater
degree of usefulness to correspond
with the extraordinary growth in
wealth and population of the Missis.
ippi Valley. We have lived in an era
of phenomenal railroad building. As
routes for merchandise, the iron high
ways have completely supplanted the
old wagon roads, and under their com.
petition the importance of the water
highways has been much diminished.
The growth Of the railway system has
been rapid all over the world, but no
where so rapid as In the Unite'l
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03
WILL NOT BREAK
ANY CONTRACTS
SMALL ISSUES STATEMENT
BROKERS' AND LEASED
WIRE MEN MUST STAY
NELL TO MAKE EFFORT
Again to Terminate the Wire Struggle
Has Learned Terms Of Settle
ment-Report Of Amaigama-
tion Untrue.

Chicago. H., Oct 60 President \
j Small CT the photographers TAI i
put an end today to all talk of brcai
ing contracts. The New York an
Chicago strikers were told that under
no conditions would tho brokerage
and newspaper operators working an
dor signed agreement be disturb, a.
He. intimatcd however, that there
We're operators working in brokerage
Offices who had no contracts with
their employers. These he sail
should quit work Immediately.
THE general strike order issued
Aug. 49," he said, that all telegraph
ers employed by the telegraph com
panies Associated Press private and
leased wires not working under IN
ion agreement we're called upon to
cease work Immediately In the face
OF that order there would seem to be
no necessity for the action taken by
New York and Chicago. Neither tbs
members Of the general executive
board ncr myself will sanction for n
moment the violation Of any agree
ment between an employer aud the
international union OF an employer
aud local union.
IF there are any operators who are
working without a contract they are,
in my opinion. just as undesirable
as those persons now work
ing for the Western Union and Postal
companies"
Commissioners of Labor G. r. Ncill
acrived in Washington tonight from
St Louis. President Small will leave
for Washington Thursday If his Wife
Is sufficiently recovered.
Commissioners Neill, it Is under
stood, has been informed Of the Wish,
es Of the strikers as to making set
tlcment with the companies. and he
will endeavor to again act as media
tor. He has been told on what terms
the strike can be settled.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03
TO PROSECUTE
HARVESTER CO,
WITHOUT DELAY - TOWNSEND
HURRiES TO WASHINGTON
WITH EVIDENCE.
CHICACOANs INVOLVED
Department OF Justice After Big
Trusts-Attorney General De-
cdes to Proceed Regardless
Of Smith Report.

| Washington Oct. speedy prcsc
| cution OF the international Harvester
/ Trust in which Chicago people hold
lover $l00,000,000 of its $120,00000f
capitalization was assured today when
Attorney General Bonaparte tele
grapbed to Assistant Attorney Gen
eraI b. D. Townsend at Portland Ore.
to come to the capital at once
Mr.. Townsend has been in charge
lof the task of getting evidence against
the Harvester Trust since last sum
mer SINGER that time he. has trav-
eled over the country In search OF
rev facts. Even during the vacation
cf Attorney General Bonaparte he
received reports rom his assistant
upon the progress of the work
The department of justice has indi-
Gated that 1t would rather go after
the Harvester Trust at once. In a
lcng conference held this afternoon
the attorney general went over the
eround with his assistants.
tion is aelleged to have been due to
the failure OF the department of com
merce and labor to comply with re-
quest made more than year ago for
report upon the Harvester people.
Ur to noon today this report had not
been received. James A. Garfield
was commissioner or corporate MS
when the report was requested and
Herbert Knox Smith, another of the
presidents tennis cabinet, succeeded
him.
Weary of waiting for this depart
mental report ii is now stated that
tifae department OF justice In determ,
ined to proceed upon Mr.. Townsend's s
report. whether or not the bureau of
corporations makes its long-deloycd
statement
1t was stated upon authority today
that the prosecution could not com
nience until Mr.. Townsend reached
Washington. Under the Sherman law
all prosecutions must be brought by
the district attorneys under the d.
rection of the attorney general of the
United States" 1t will, therefore. he
necessary for Mr.. Townsend to hold
a conference with the attorney gen.
eral before Mr.. Sims can proceed at
Chicago "under the direction of the
attorney general"
Mr.. Townsend. 1t Is stated, had
visited nearly all of the places where
he trust does business upon re-
basis. His presence at
Washington is demanded not so much
for the purpose of adding to the re
ports he has made. but to explain por-
ions of them.
The attorney general himself has
assumed charge of the Harvester mat
.er.
II was stated here today that among
he trust matters taken up by the at
.orney general is a prospective prose-
'ution of the whisky trust. This suit
s planned along the lines of the other
rust dissolution contests.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03
.BLAMES THEFTS ON
NECRESS AFFINITY
EMBEZZLlNG TAX COLLECTOR OF
LOUISIANA CHANGES STORY
ABOUT MULATTo LOVER.

New Orleans, Oct. 2.-Charles +.
Letten, former deputy tax collector.
who embezzled sl1S,000. now declares
that Virginia Reed. the mulatto with
whom he was infatuated and upon
whom he lavished gifts. encouraged
him to steal and give her money.
This is directly contradictory to the
statements be made to the police soon
sfter his arrest. At first he main
tanned that she was innocent of any
knowledge of his thefts.
Jewelry given by Letten to his fam
fly and the mulatto is still bein re-
covered and ont of the total amount
stolen all but $1,000 has been traced.
Little has been recovered outside Of
jewelry and property. however. as he
spent the money as fast as he stole IT,
The officials say that the Letten
family is attempting to keep all of the
jewelry possible. II is believed that
at least $4,000 was spent by Detten
or his family yearly.
The mulatto woman may be ar
rested on the charge Of receiving
stolen property The authorities have
found where Letten gave her a $3.50
diamond brooch last Christmas This
may be taken as the basis of the ac-
tion.
So trusted was Letten that he was
not under bond. The state has been
recompensed by Capt John Fftzpat-
rick. state tax collector. who mort
gased his home to raise the money to
cover Letten's thefts
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03

There was extraordinary activity
throughout the city yesterday in all
matters pertaining to the president $
visit today and even late last night
many we're at work making ready.
This was true particularly in respect
to the decorations and there is no
complaint due from any source as 70
the city's appearance today. The der
orations all along the iiae Of march,
from the river to the park. arc corr
plete and all that could be desired,
while citizens have been generous IN
ornamenting their places Ofresident
or business. In a reasonably short
space Of time the city has assuHed
gay attire. The public decorations are
in every way ereditable 10 Mr- Curry
and his CORPS Of assistants. and ther-
are a great many quite costly displays
by individual citizens along the main
streets. These must receive detailed
attention later.
All ARRANGEMENTS for the reception
Of the presidential party are perfected
and unless some unlOoked-for events
prevent Il. there will be no delay and
no confusion In taking the distin-
euished party 10 and from the park.
The big aotills Is expected 70 arrive
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03
POLITICIANS HAVE
HOT FISTlG BOUT
DEPosED HEAD OF FEEBLE
INSTITUTION ATTACKS CIVIL
SERVICE PRESIDENT.

Springfield. H., Oct. 2.-The crowd
cd lobby of the Leland Hotel. filleI
with politicians and state fair visitors
was the scene of an attack tonight on
President w. y. Morlton Of the state
civil service board by Or. c. T. Taylo:
recently deposed by Governor Deneei
as superintendent of the Home for
Feeble Minded Children at Lincoln.
When Or. Taylor. who was accompan
led by Sheriff McGorray Of Macon
county. caught sight OF Mr.. Moulton
he rushed through the crowd AMI
struck Moulton in the chest.
Moulton's fist few up in defense and
he advanced. but before they could
exchange blows bystanders interfercd.
The trouble dated from charges
made by Moulton 10 the house com
mittee on appropriation that Taylor
was using his position for political
purposes. At that time Mr.. TAYLOR.
according 10 report carried to MoHl-
ton. threatened 10 shoot the civil ser
vice commissioner on sight
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-03
DENIED AMALGAMATioN.

ST. Louis, Mo-. Oct 2.-National
President H. b. Perham of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers tonight de-
MED a report that the presence here
today of e. H. Moore. chairman of the
Chicago local c. T. u. A., and G. Dal
Jones. member of the executive board
had any reference to the amalgama'
tion fthe commercial and railroad
telegraphers' unions, adding that such
amalgamation was not even under
consideration at the present time;
that It would be impossible except In
a regularly delegated or special con-
vention. Perham admitted Moore and
Jones were here on telegraphers'
strike business, but declined 70 dis
close the nature.