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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23


Last Saturday when President
Roosevelt In compliance with an act
of congress announced the appoint.
ment Of an inland waters commission
and outlined IN letters to the
commissioner the work to be done,
ne %inaugurated what may be one OF
the most fa~r-reaching and most
generally beneficial industrial
movements in the history Of the
country. The railroads have shown
themselves unable TO provide
adequate transportation during the
busy seasons Of the year for the crops
and manufactures 10 many secticns.
Consequently there is often great and
costly congestion. BY the opening
up Of all the natural WATERWAYS mugt
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

The Thaw case has occupied the
boards for about six weeks. Every.
body has grown tired Of it. The
principal proposition demonstrated
by the trial is the Importance which
the American people attach to
money. II the parties concerned had
not had plenty of money the case
would not have been prolonged over
three days.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

After numerous variant decisions
in the lower courts the st Louis
Court Of Appeals decided that hunters
licenses we're not required in the
hunters own counties and the Kan.
sas City Court Of Appeals decided
that they are This week the
supreme court Of Missouri decided
with the st. Louis court that they
are not, Meanwhile this section Of
the law has been repealed by the
legislature.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

OF this congestion would be relieved
and the farmers and small
manufactures who lived near some
navigable stream would no longer be
at the mercy of the railroads. The
work Is not Of a year or even of a
decade 1t is a stupendous project
and envolves the expenditure of
millions Of dollars. II the commission
follows the plan outlined in a careful
aud systematic way it will do
unreasonable credit to itself and
make Roosevelt one Of the foremost
among the industrial penefactors of
the United States.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23
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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

The Department of Political
Economy at Yale comes out with
statistics showing how the rich and
poor men at the University spend
their money. Students who spend
$500 or less a year devote only six per
cent of the outlay to clothes, while
those who spend in the neighborho9d
OF 1000 acorn themselves with
aoout twenty-five Der cent OF their
entire expense accounts. Tue richer
are found to spend eighteen times as
much as the poorer for pleasure and
eighty TWO times as much on tobacco
and intoxicants it is pointed out
that great democracy exists at Yale
because out OF two hundred and fifty
students classified only nine' spend
over $1,000 a year. In reality these
statistics prove very little. A man
who spends less than $500 a year is
not necessarily poor and the man who
spends over $4,000 a year is not
n -c~essarlly rich. The former may be
APPLE to spend many times what he
does and the latter may be eating
into the principal of his hardworking
parent. The classification should be
according to spending pro%clivlties
rather than spending abilities. The
fact that comparatively a very few
spend ever $1,000 a year is not
indicative of any great democracy.
A student with a $500 income, for
example, could hardly keep up to the
social pace Of his classmate who
annually let 70 OF 81 500,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

Jew batting 10 Russia has broken
out again. Thousands are said to be
flockiug across the Austrian frontier.
The Russian parliament is in session
and these outrages are calculated to
make that body more radical than
the last.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

The prospect is that the graft
exposures 10 San Francisco will sur
pass all the sensati rs nj munic pal
corruption to date. Beyond doubt
San Francisco will beat the record OF
Philadelphia, and that is enough. II
the prosecution brings about a moral
earthquake equal to the physical o
the Golden Gate City may consider
its account square.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

The Aggie Myers case has been
promoted to April % on tie Supreme
Court calendar. Maybe this case
will be concluded within three years
after all.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23
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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

The Agricultural College at
Columbia, Mo-, is to have a
department Of poultry. For the
establishment Of this department will
30 s15, 900 out Of the entire ss7, 600
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-03-23

All OF our garments are shown in an
~up.to-date way, a decided advantage over
the old way. A buyer can see at a
glance the different styles, the nobby
patterns. Call, if only to see the finest
Mems Clothing and Ladies' Ready-to.
wear Store in Lexington. 1t will be
worth your while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
CLYMER BEST BATsMAN.
The Washington Boy Leads the Amer
lean With the Willow.

st. Louis, Aug 26.-The latest COM
pilation of American league averages
shows Otis Clymer of the Washington
Nationals as the leading batsman, with
the fat average of 1874. Flick is Sec
ond and Cobb of Detroit third. Niles
of the Browns has fallen off in his
stick work and is now fourth, with an
average of 1929. George Stone, who
has been lowering around the 800
mark of late, has finally jumped in
the select class, being four points over
the coveted mark. The number of
800 batters has dwindled down to
nine, Lajoie and Spencer having drop
ped out.
The New York Highlanders lead in
club batting, with a mark of .25S. while
the Browns and Tigers are tied for
second place, with a percentage of .256.
The Sox have had a bad slump, and are
now last in batting. The Nationals
have the most stolen bases to their
credit, and the Maps the greatest num-
Der of sacrifice hits. The Athletics lead
in long distance batting, with the Maps
second and the Browns fifth.
Among the individuals, Harry Davis
of the Athletics has overtaken Flick
among the sluggers, the former having
an even 100 extra bases to his credit
Stone Is the best in this respect among
the Browns. Clymer is the best base
runner, having pilfered IA bases in 80
games. d. Jones of the Tigers is the
premier run-getter, but Niles is right
behind the Detroit man.
The White SOx lead in team fielding
with percentage of 1858, with the Tig-
ers one to the rear. The Browns are
third, with a mark of 1856, and the High
landers last.
Among the individual felders. White
of the Sox leads the pitchers, with a
perfect record in thirty-one games
Howell has the best average among the
Browns twirlers. O'Connor heads the
backstops, with the fine average of $780,
while Stevens is twelfth and Spencer
sixteenth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
PLOT AGAINST COMFY.
The Captain Says Railroads Seem
Leagued to Beat Him.

Washington, Aug. 26-Captain Patrick
Coney of Kansas. who wants to be COM
mander in chief of the G. A r., has
presented to the Interstate commerce
commission complaint that the rail-
roads of the country have by accident
or design, assumed an attitude that is
prejudicial to his candidacy. There are
three candidates in addition to Captain
Coney whose names will be voted upon
for the office of commanders -chief of
the G. A. R. at the annual necampment
which will be held in Saratoga the week
after next. They are Charles G. Burton
collector of internal revenue in Kansas
City; Charles Burrows of New Jersey,
and General John T. Wilder of Tonnes
see
Captain Coney fears the eastern can
didates for the reason, he says that
the railroads have fixed a deal in rates
that injuries his candidacy and is dis
tinctly in the interests of his eastern
rivals. The rates allowed by the roads
on account of the encampment is a half
fare from all points east of the Missis-
sippi and a two-third rate from aN
points west of the river. This means,
Captain Coney contends, that the east
ern delegates will all go to the en-
campment while hundreds of soldiers
from the west will be prevented from
making the trip on account of the dis
criminatory rates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
EARLY NATURE-FAKING.
Goes Back to Time of Aristotle; to
Say Nothing of Aesop.

Nothing new about this nature
taking business said the college
student, with the ink scarcely dry on
his diploma. about 1900 years ago
they were at it, and the man who
could tell the biggest nature yarn had
the biggest demand for his writings
Longer than 1900 years ago there was
one Alcmaeon, who said that goats
breathed through their ears Then
came along Aristotle and accused this
Alcmaeon of nature falsehoods, for
old Aristotle knew thing or two
about nature himself and used to en-
ploy the armies of his friends, Philip
and Alexander the Great to procure
nature wisdom which Aristotle gave
to the world was, Man is the only
animal that has ears and cannot move
them
About 400 years after Aristotle
tried to clear UP Alcmaeon'S blunderS
Pliny appeared on the scene and
muddled things all up again with
some most wonderful nature yarns.
If bramble frog he wrote, is buried
in a new earthen vessel in the middle
of a corn field, there will be no storm
to cause injury And he had the
nerve to put up this story: In the
city of IasuS there was another boy,
ALSO Hermias by name, who in like
manner~used to traverse the sea on a
dolphin's back, but on one occasion.
storm suddenly arising, he lost his life
and was brought back dead. upon
which the dolphin, who thus admitted
that he had been the cause of his
death, would not return to sea, but lay
down upon the dry land and there ex-
PRED In another tale he says, Some
persons recommended that three
crabs should be burned alive among
the trees on which the vines are
trained to prevent these from being
attacked by cold blight
"Pliny'S yarns about human anat-
orny were something wonderful. He
tells of a race of savage men whose
feet are turned backward, and of
race known as Monocoli. who have
only one leg, but are able to leap with
surprising agility. The same people
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
POLICE HAVE A BUSY DAY.
Make Over One Hundred Arrests
Most for Driving on Wrong Side.

Chief Eaton broke out in fresh
place Sunday. and as a result, seventy
one people were arrested for riding or
BY 10 o'clock this morning forty
eight of the victims had appeared in
police court and were fined a dollar
each. Among the victims of the
Order number 'leven," We're a man
over rs years of age. arrested for rid
ing a bicycle on the wrong side of the
street. one prominent lawyer who
drove on the wrong side because he
had his latest heir out for little fresh
air and the wrong side was the
shadiest, and ten small boys, mostly
messenger boys. who rode their BIZ
cycles to the leeward of the dead line.
All these children will escape the dol
lar fine accorded their elders. as the
police court has no jurisdiction over
them, and Judge Hayden, juvenile
court, will not have the gall to fine the
kids for such a slight offense.
Not only the "wrong-siders' fell be-
meath the axe of Chief Eaton. He
personally led a raid on a weed-lot
key party in North Topeka, arresting
Bob Cuthbert Peter Alendorf. Walter
johnson, John McJimsey and Ed Ger
man on a charge of shooting craps.
The key was also confiscated. and John
Alendorf a brother of one of the
men caught in the raid. was taken in
for talking back to the police concern
ing his brothers arrest
In all. 10 arrests were made be-
tween dark aSturday night and day
light this morning. All were Tor peut
offenSes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
ROOT FULL OF KINKS.
MuIdoOn Says That Is All That Allied
the Secretary.

New York. Aug. 26.-Secretary Root,
who is at Muldoon's cure" farm near
White Plains, is progressing finely, ac-
cording to Muldoon, who says he will
have the secretary back at work 1.-The
strongest man in President Roosevelt s
cabinet in two weeks more.
LAS to the secretary's condition. Null
doom said, there appears to be very lit
tie wrong with him. He was plugging
the work too hard, and any man that
forgets that all work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy is likely to wake up
some day and find himself full of men-
tai and physical kinks.
That's all it is with Mr.. Root. have
been able to see since he has been up
here how he is worked. 1 am taking
personal care of him. and it takes most
of my time to see that ne IS not bothered
every minute of the day and night by
politicians and officials.
He seems tolike the experience he gets
he is eating we'll and sleeping better and
in two more weeks he will be a well
man. His personal physicians have been
up here only twice to see him and 1
don't think they will call again. Mr..
Root had simply got to the point where
a safety valve had to be opened. That's
what his rest cure amounts to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
CITY TO HIRE ENGINEER.
Will Check Over Report on Fifth
Ward Sewer.

I The city council VIII employ a civil
engineer to check over the work done
by the city engineering force on the
Fifth ward sewer Investigation. The
council meets Tuesday evening and up
on the request of F. G. Dreaming. will
engage an engineer. The city attorney
wants to feel assured that all the facts
upon which the city is basing it's suit
against Brooks and Gilmore, sewer con-
tractors, and James. +. McCabe, late
city engineer, are Thoroughly grounded.
Mayor Green reiterated his views on
the Sixth ward sewer charges by say
ing that the council S had no official
knowledge of misconstruction and that
it awaited a presentation of the COM
plants by the property owners in the
Sixth ward before taking any action.
There is no hurry about the matter"
said the mayor. The suit, if any is
brought. cannot be fled before the jan
uary term of court; Ihat is the first
time that it can bestried. The facts, If
they exist, will not run away in that
time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
A GRUES0ME FIND.
Decomposed Body Found in School
House Attic.

The badly decomposed remains OF
human being, supposed to have been
a man, was found in the attic of the
Pancake school house, three and one
half miles northwest of Overlook
Sunday morning by a number OF
Dunkards who had gathered at the
school house for the purpose of hold
ing services An inquest was held but
the verdict of the jury is vague mas
much as they were divided as to the
sex or as to whether the victim COM
mitted suicide or was murdered.
The remains are those of a person
about 35 years of, age. who probably
weighed about 135 pounds, and in the
opinion of many who viewed them are
those of a man. The victim mad APP
parently climbed to the attic and after
removing nearly all of the clothing
made a rope of an undergarment and
fastened it to rafter and died of
strangulation. --.5s-r,
The Dunkards Of that section have
been in the habit of holding monthly
services at the church once each
month and it is more than likely that
the body. was in the attic when the
last meeting was held there four
weeks ago, Sunday. When the door
of the school house was opened Sun
day morning the stencil was unbear
able and a search revealed the re-
mains. s-~-
The head had fallen from the body
and had rolled between the feet, max
ing the find all the more gruesome.
The condition of the remains made
identity impossible, as there was moth
ing in the clothing which was piled
up in perfect order in the attic, to lead
to clue. There were four silver dol
lars and some small change in the
trousers pocket and the hat, which is
of white and made by Stetson, was
sold by a Lawrence firm
No shoes were found excepting
pair of No. rubbers, such as are
worn by women. The hair of the vic
tim was of the finest quality which
led many to believe that the person
was a woman and had worn her hair
closely crODped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
PLAN NOT A SUCCESS.
Railroads Want System of Posting
Tariffs Changed.

Petitions to the interstate com
merce commission are being circu-
lated among the shippers of Kansas.
and probably of other states as well.
asking that the commission abolish
the order requiring railroad com
panies to post on a bulletin board in a
pubic part of the depot all the
freight tariffs. Instead the railroad
companies wish to keep a file of the
tariffs in the hands of the station
agent, which file can be inspected at
any time by the public.
The first road in Kansas to actively
take up the work of circulating these
petitions is the Union Pacific The
travelling freight and passenger
agents Of this line are circulating the
petitions and are said to be securing
the signatures of many shippers. who
posting tariffs is not a success.
N. II. LOOMS, general attorney of
the Union Pacific, was asked this
morning concerning the movement
which seems to have its origin on his
line, and said:
Il have seen a copy of this petition,
put do not think that it is being
united in its circulation to the Union
Pacific lines. I do not know where it
originated. The object is to secure
Mhicn requires all railroads to file
freight tariffs in a public place. I
suppose the idea was when the order
was issued that freight tariff. was
something which could be spread out
gnu examined. Instead of that it is a
book full of figures, and supplements
ere issued frequently to revise the
us ures IN the book. In the small sta
iois, IL Is impossible to prevent van
oallsrn, and these posted tariffs are
torn down and DESTROYED.
9nipperS sometimes examine the
t tsri1s, md what they want and carry
the tariff off with them, so that the
next next person to look for that tariff is
disappointed. 1t certainly would he a
much better plan to have the agent
keep correct and complete file of ali
the tariffs, and have this book omen
10 the inspection of the public hut
under his supervision, so that it NAV
not be mutilated" '
Ihere is a federal law relating To
the filing of tariffs in a public niace
but this law is defined and maSe
operative through the orders of the
interstate commission. Ry getting
the commission to modify its rulings
the railroads believe that they can
nandIe the freight tariff proposition
with more satisfaction to the public
and less trouble to themselves. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
RYAN HIT BY A CAR.
RebeIIious Member of Railroad Board
Hurt-PIeased Nevertheless.

Frank Ryan, one of the members of
the state board OF railroad commissio-
ners arrived in Topeka today, with his
hands and arms wrapped up in band
ages from injuries sutained by being
thrown from a street car in Kansas City,
Kansas, last Saturday.
lit looks to me-" said Mr. Ryan, "as
though the Metropolitan has gone into
a conspiracy with the railroads to Gre
ate a vacancy in the board of railroad
commissioners, and make me 1t. A
street car which 1 wanted to get on
failed to stop and I tried to jump on.
Something hit me so hard that 1 didn't
know exactly what happened, except
that was thrown down and dragged
about forty feet, and my clothes nearly
all torn off The thing that made me
Tnaddest was the fact that the car didn't
stop at all to see whether 1 was dead or
not. NY injuries seem to be nearly all
flesh wounds but am afraid that some
thing inside of me was hurt, too am
waiting to see how badly I was hurt
before I go after the street car COM
pany.'
Mr.. Ryan is much pleased with the
turn which has been taken by the 2
cent fare fight.
IT told the other members OF the board
some days ago that 1 would have to
stand out from under this position which
the board had taken. knew that some
thing like this was going to happen.
It looks to me now though the board
would probably issue 2-cerlt fare order
without any delay. and I don't see how
the railroads can very well avoid obey
ing the order"
The three members of the board are
expected to meet in Topeka this after
noon. and they will probably take some
action on the 2-cent fare matter before
they adjourn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
CHEMICAL ROBBED.
Hetty Green's Bank Is Short $500, 900
in Cash.

New York, Aug. 26.-Expert ac-
countants were busy all day today in
the offices of the Chemical National
bank and it was reported that large
defalcation had been discovered In the
big institution which has been known
for wears as Hetty Green's bank. A
detective sergeant, MeCafferty, head of
the bureau of detectives, and several
of his aides were out searching for
one of the men in the cashiers de-
partment, who is reported to have
disappeared with the money.
The reports as to the extent of the
embezlement reach as high as $780,
900, but no authoritative statement
could be obtained upon this head be-
cause such officers as remained in the
CITY refused to discuss the matter.
The reported .looting of the Chem
ical National bank recalls the one pre-
voius occasion in 1897 when the insti-
tuition suffered a logs of nearly $40O,-
600 Because its cashier, William c.
OuinIan. the seldest2and most trusted
cashier in New York, fell under the
influence of John c. Silver and Francis
Ora BILE, wildcat t. promoters. Before
that time Quinlant had lent 90 million
dollars of the banks money without a
hitch or q centss@dePfeciati in the
security silver and Cradle wormed
their way into his confidence so clev-
erly that by the end of 1897 Quinlan
had given them $500, 900 of the banks
money upon collateral that wasn't
worth the value of its parchment.
Quinlan resigned. declaring that he
could not continue in his position after
deceiving the directors. George G.
Williams, president of the bank, re-
signed later Silver and Cradle es-
capped with the plumber.
It Is said that the stock of the
Chemical National bank is the most
valuable bank stock in the United