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The Ordway new era., 1907-11-22

q pioneer OF COLO
rado. now living at
21S East Nebraska
Street, Blair. Neb-
says: II had such
pains in my back
for a long time that
l could not turn
In bed, and at times
there was an almost
total stoppage OF
The Ordway new era., 1907-11-22

Associate with men OF good judg-
ment: for judgment is found in con.
versation. And we make another mans
judgment ours by frequenting his com.
pany.-Fuller.
The Ordway new era., 1907-11-22
Asthmaties, Read This.

II you are afflicted with Asthma
write me at once and learn OF some.
thing for which you will be grateful
the rest OF your life. Rev. J. r. RAIDER,
822 Broadway. Denver. Colo.
The Ordway new era., 1907-11-22

the urine. My wife and ] have both
used Doan's Kidney Pills for what doc
tors diagnosed as advanced kidney
troubles. and both Of us have been
completely cured.
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents boH'
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
The Ordway new era., 1907-11-22
VETERAN OF THREE VANS.
a Pioneer Of Colorado and Nebraska.

Matthias Campbell. veteran OF the
civil war and two Indian wars. ana
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
transportation.

Al present one OF the must interesting
problems in the commercial world is
transportation. The constant cry both in
passenger and freight traffic is for better.
safer. and more rapid means of transpor-
tation. This not only calls for the dredg-
ing of navigable streams or for locks
TO make slack-water navigation possible,
and for better roadbeds, better rolling
stock, and better and more effective and
reliable motive power, which. after all, Is
the master wheel of transportation.
There was a time when rapid transit
was only discussed in great eenters of
population or between those centers. but
it is now a matter of the most vital i'm
portance TO all people and all sections
The business or the professional man of
the cities wants rapid transit between his
office or store or factory and his suburban
home; the truck farmer wants rapid
transit for his truck; the farmer wants
rapid transit for his produce; the stock
farmer wants rapid transit for his stock
when he starts TO market with II, and
the labOreT wants rapid transit to carry
him to and from his work. All along the
line there is a general clamOr for rapid
transit, and this ClamOT has stirred up
the vast corporations engaged in the trans
experienced by the demand for space at
the jamestown Exposition. Months before
the opening Of the exposition every foot
of the space originally set aside for
transportation exhibits was taken, and IL
became necessary 30 provide more space
or deny some Of the larger concerns the
amount OF space they wished This
speaks we'll for the estimate the manu-
facturers place on space at the jamestown
Exposition. particularly those manufac-
turefs who are directly or indirectly con-
nected with or interested In transporta-
ton adjuncts
Formerly transportation referred prin-
cipaliy TO railroad and steamboat or ship
traffic, but II now comprehends all classes
OF vehicles and all classes of motive
power from the powerful and swift
locomotive 10 the tiny engines that
propel aerial and nautical craft. or the
automobile or motorcycle, and from the
finest palace coach or carriage TO the
broad-track or numbering OK cart, and
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26

Norfolk Va. April 5.-Something new
under the sun Is the Water Belt Line"
that has just been projected as a means
Of transportation between the jamestown
Exposition grounds and the several cities
and points Of interest around Hampton
Roads and Tidewater Virginia The
BELT Line on land, by steam or trolley
cars. is A familiar institution In many
cities. but here, for the first time. has
been organized water belt line. boats
instead Of cars being used.
Observation steamers will be run on this
route. Each steamer will carry about
so passengers without crowding. A
regular schedule OF trips viii be made.
the boats starting from CampbeHs wharf
in Norfolk touching at Portsmouth, the
Norfolk Navy Yard, Newport News, Old
Point Comfort. Fort Monroe. and 9th
CT historic points en- route, and compleI
ing the one-way trip at a pier built out
into the waters of Hampton Roads direct
Iy in front Of the exposition site Boats
will run every fifteen minutes.
Trips Up james River.
A valuable feature Of the plan is 10
issue coupon tickets on these trips. Civ
ing the passenger the privilege Of disem-
barking at any or all OF the stopping
places mentioned and taking the next
boat OF any boat later in the day. This
will give opportunity for seeing all the
sights The round trip to the exposition
in this manner will be full Of incident
These Water Belt Line trips are to be in
no sense on the order Of the average
cheap excursion" where the riffran and
bobtail OF humanity usually take posses
sion Of the boat; on the contrary, they
will appeal TO the best class Of people. no
liquors being sold aboard and no rOwdy-
ism being permitted
Besides the regular trips the company
is planning 20 have numerous excursions
20 such places as jamestown Island,
Yorktown, and other points of historic in
teTest in and around Tidewater Virginia
AT Yorktown. where Lord CORVALLIS sur
rendered 10 George Washington, is a
beautiful monument erected by the gov
eminent to commemorate the great vic
tory There stands the first custom house
ever opened in the United States. The
ruins OF the old church built in 1860 are
still 70 be seen. OF equal interest is the
trip up the James River. on the way 10
jamestown Island where the first perma-
nent English settlement was made. Here
can be seen the ruined church tower and
the old graveyard with its historic tombs
and inscriptions. The peninsula between
the James and the York rivers has been
the scene OF more bloody conflicts than
have occurred on any territory Of similar
size Ia the New World.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26

hinges upon the navigable conditions Of
streams. the roadbeds OF railroads, and
the wagon roads, that ike the veins OF
some huge body carry into the eenters
of population the product of the land.
Concerns Interested.
Among the larger of the many concerns
interested in the manufacture OF motive
power devices or vehicles for transporta-
ton that have taken space at the James
town Exposition may be named the
American Locomotive Works, the Penn
sylvania and c. & 0. railroads. and in the
line OF vehicles. the Pullman Car Com
pany. the Barney-Smith Car Company, the
St Louis Car Company, and the
Columbus Buggy Company. This Is not
ALL by any means. but it win suffice TO
show the interest taken in the jamestown
Exposition. This interest, aside from be-
ing general and more or less common
among large manufacturing Arms. has
local significance superinduced by the
great prosperity that has blessed the tide
water section Of Virginia for the past few
years, and that has enabled thousands Of
people who. for many years. had little 10
spend save for the actual necessities OF
z
that will contribute not alone TO their
comfort, but to their facilities for reach
ing the active market with their products.
The slowly sailing craft. or boat propelled
by oar. has become too slow and iabOriOus
for this thrifty people. and they must
have other motive power and other and
better means of transportation. This
opens wide field for motor boat
mechanism and propeuing devices that
the manufacturers in that line are not
slow to recognize and 10 reach while they
are using space at the jamestown EXPOSE
ton.
But interest and demand. born of the
ability to buy. do not stop here with
the motive power OF transportation. nor of
vehicles, but reach out to and cover ali
modern mechanical devices.
These are only a few Of the salient
features of the jamestown Exposition.
The beautiful grounds. containing about
400 acres. on which there are now grow
ding over a million trees. shrubs, and
plants, are IN themselves an attraction
which cannot fail 20 excite admiration.
Magnificent shady walks and drives,
iioWery hooks and dells, abound every
where on the grounds and even the in
closure is a work of art. An immense
wire fence, eight feet high, covered with
hOneysucsle Rambler roses. and trumpet
vines that charm the eye and MI the air
with fragrance, inclose the grounds on
the land sides for q distance of nearly
two miles.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
An Industrial Index.

As an Industrial index. the exposition
VIII plainly show the progress that has
been made during the last 800 years, not
only in this section Of the country. nor in
this entire country, but in every nook
and corner of the habtable globe where
the footprint OF progress has been left:
in mine, factory, on farm and garden, IN
college and laboratory. on land or on sea.
In fact there viii be few. If any, indus
tries in this broad land that will not be
represented at the jamestown Exposition
in such a manner that the good to each
VIII be almost beyond comprehension, and
all virtually nestimable
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
Celebration of State Days.

parallel piers. The water space lnclosed
within these piers viii be used for smaller
craft 70 maneuyer and for aquatic sports.
United States Appropriation.
The fact that the government appro-
priated over a million dollars for the varl-
Gus government buildings. naval and mill
tary maneuvers and drills. and for per-
m8nent improvements. and the further
fact that most Of the great world powers
are participating with their best war yes
sells and best troops. In naval maneuver
and competitive drll. is "a guarantee thar
this feature alone viii attract world
wide attention. a reproduction of the
battle between the MerTimac and Monitor.
i'm Hampton Roads, as it was f0u yht in
l>6-. and which inaugUTated a new era i'm
naval warfare, IS one of the features in
this connection that VIII interest every
patriotic citizen in the United States and
hundreds and thousands Of people in every
other country The government has APP
pr0priated SlG@0 alone for the reproduc-
tion of this famous battle between the
first iron-cIad sea monsters.
Our Navy.
There are now I'm the United States
navy about go vessels fit for service and
thirty. or about that number. in course
oi construction, but it is not so much the
number of fighting ships in our navy that
IS sending as so rapidly 10 the top OF
the list as their size and power. The
United States, like most foreign nations.
has adopted the policy Of building the
heavier class of war ships, that IS, pro-
tccted by the heaviest arm0r plate and
equipped with guns of the greatest de-
structive power. Il is now proposed TO
build another battle ship that viii in every
way ouJclass the British Dreadnought.
And. when it is taken into consideration
that the battle ships cost on an average
about s. 0339lo. some idea can be formed
of the cost of the United States navy.
While there are no Official figures as to
the exact number Of foreign war vessels
that viii participate, it is estimated by
those who are most COnyersant with the
status of affairs, naval and military.
that there viii be at least ninety. and as
Uncle sam viii have many OF his own
best and most formidable sea fighters in
Hampton Roads during the summer. there
viii be nSt less than 100 I'm all Ii will be
the first time in the history of the world
mat armed SululerS and armed vessels
of foreign nation have been perm tied
to land in the waters or upon the shores
of the United States. or thar the like
has ever occurred anywhere. There are
those who seem to imagine that this
great military display may Work mis-
chief i'm tending to militarism, bat others
opine that it tends rather TO universal
peace. The union and good fellowship
that viii be engendered here during this
great exposition, in the intermingling Of
the soldiers and sailors the officers and
rulers of every nation on earth, viii have
lasting effect for peace. and viii curb
the temper and guide the judgment of
those in power to a degree that is not
yet cOmprehended. For America 1t will
virtually insure peace, and il peace is
bought or compelled by an array of power
for defense or aggression. and by the
magnanimity of the broad invitation of
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
InduntrinI ExhInits.

Manufactures have awakened to the
importance Of the celebration and realize
that * is an exposition almost as big
and fully rs important As the ST. Louis
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
ROOSEVELT LEAGUE STARTED.
National Organization Incorporated
TO Secure denomination.

Albany, \. Y. April e5;-The National
Roosevelt League, with principal Office
at II Court street, Brooklyn, was ineor-
porated to-day TO aid in securing the
nomination by ali parties of Theodore
Roosevelt to succeed himself as Presl-
dent OF the United States and TO organ
ize leagues for this purpose in every
state in the Union.
The directors are Bella T0kaje, Wiilim
II. B0yes. J. P. Berg Maurice Kehan.
and Paul kreudeT. Of Brooklyn.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
1880 Morninr CircuIntIon

All advertising contracts made by
The Washington Herald are based
upon its sworn circuiation-a circula-
ton in Washington larger by thou
sands thauf was ever before attained
by any morning newspaper at the Cap
ital It's books are open.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
TRADE FEATURES
GREAT In INTEREST
Elaborate Exploitation of
Commercial Wares.
FOREIGN PARTICIPATION
Display Of the Work of Cap
tains of Industry.
Observation-Disclosures

Money Appropriated by the Various
States, some of Which Has Been
Spent for reproductions of Fa-
nous Buildings - Manufacturers
Have Contributed Largely and Are
Occupying AlI>the Available space.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26

hinges upon the navigable conditions OF
streams. the roadbeds Of railroads, and
the wagon roads, that ike the veins or
some huge body carry into the centeTs
of population the product Of the land
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
BELT LINE BY WATER
Trips Planned Around lamp
ton Roads.
WILL BE SOMETHING NOVEL

Observation Steamers 10 be Run on
the Route with Carrying Capacity
of I 800 Passengers-NorfOli< Ports
mouth, Navy Yard, Newport News,
end Fert Monroe Touched.
The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
Agriculture.

The agricultural and. horticultural in
dustries of the South, and, In fact, Of
every. section of the country. are repre-
scented at this exposition as such interests
have never been represented at any pre-
vious exposition. Special provision has
been made for this, in the erection Of the
States Exhibit Building, which is a hand
some structure of brick veneer, 800 by 500
feet. The architecture is of the later
English renaissance, OF Georgia period,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-18
DANCING WITH SNAKES.
An Indian Custom That Is Supposed to
Bring Good Crops.

Groups of three are now formed by
the snake men, each group consisting of
a carrier priest, an attendant and
gatherer, and these wait their turn in
handed to the carrier priest. SooE all
the dancers are furnished with reptiles,
and, holding the squirming snakes in
their teeth, they dance slowly and with
closed eyes around the plaza.
The carrier priest is followed by the
attendant, who holds snake whip with
which he distracts the snake and so d.
verts its attention from the man who
carries it. and the gatherer is always
ready to snatch up the snakes when
they are dropped to the ground.
1 have often noticed rattlesnakes held
closer to the rattles than to the head,
so they could easily run their heads in
to the eyes and hair of the carrier
priest 1t was nervous work watching
them, for it often appeared if nothing
could prevent fatal strike, but the
priests never seemed to be unnerved or
disconnected In the least, and the pro-
gramrne is never changed.
After the plaza has been circled twice
with each snake, it is dropped to the
ground. the shock of the fall being
violent enough usually to cause the rat
tier to coil and shake its rattles. Then
the gatherer, with a few strokes of his
feather whip, reduces it to submission,
picks it up and hands it to one of the
antelope men to hold
When all the snakes nave Deen danced
with, each one receiving the same treat
ment, the head snake priest strews meal
in a circle at one side of the floor, and
the snake priests all gather around it.
Then. at a given signal, all the snakes
are thrown within the circle, where
they are sprinkled with sacred meal by
numbers of Hopi maidens.
Then another signal is given, and
the snake priests swoop down, grab
up as many snakes as they can carry
Nd sides St6an
mesa to the plains below to release the
snakes in certain sacred places, so that
they may carry the prayers from the
living to the dead, and the ancestors
of the Hopi may intercede for them
with the nature gods that there may be
plenty of rain and no danger of the
crops being destroyed by drought.-The
Craftsman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-18

| turned from a business trip to New
| York.
the Blower house.
Mr.. and Mrs G. Emmett Rigby and
children have returned from Manltou,
Col, and will be permanently located
in Topeka in the future.
Mrs Harry Nichols who mas oeen
seriously ill is now able to be up Tor
a short time each day.
Mr.. Otto G. Miller left this after
noon for New York. He VIII VISIT the
jamestown exposition before he re-
turns.
Mr.. and Mrs. Corney Beatty of viii
mington, Del, are the parents of
daughter, born September g. Mrs.
Beatty was before her marriage MISS
Mary Hairsine of Topeka.
Miss Elsie Drury, of Denver, who mas
been visiting at Horton, Is spending
several days with Misses May ana
Marguerite Scott, 1874 Fillmore. MISS
Drury last night at the Majestic
Mr.. and Mrs. D. J. Mahoney VIII
leave Thursday for Washington, 1nd-'
for visit to relatives:
southern part of the state Thursday:
On her return she will be accompanied
by Mrs Orlando Morse of Chicago, for
an extended visit in Topeka:
Mrs. Minnie E. Worrall widow OF the
late Charles Worrall of Topeka, is very
i'll at Bethesda hospital.
The Triple Tie. will give thimble
party at the home of Mrs. T. S. Woh'
219 Madison, Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. N. Petrie and
daughters, and Mr.. Hocquard, who have
been guests of Mr.. and Mrs. G. h
Estabrook, will motor to Topeka to-
morrow. Mr.. and Mrs. Estabrook ana
Miss Glare will accompany them IN
their motor caf=Ottawa Republic.
lola Registers Miss Verna Fleming
who has been with the Ramsay com
pany for several years. has resigned her
home in Gridley Miss Fleming expects
to go to Topeka for the winter
Hutchinson News: Miss Virginia
Bostick and Miss Foy Baler left TINS
mroning for Topeka and Bethany col
lege. Miss Bostick begins her fourth
year at Bethany and Miss Baker en-
tiers for her first year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-18
7. M. CREWS IS DEAD.
Veteran AuctiOneer Expires at His
Home Near TecumSeh.

NJ. T. Crews, the old time Topeka
auctioneer, died this morning at 1920
O'Clock at his home in Tecumseh. Had
he lived until the 3Oth day of October,
he would have been "A years of age.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock
Thursday afternoon at Tecumseh, and
will be conducted by the Rev. ]. NJ.
Whitehead of Topeka. The interment
will be at Tecumseh.
NJ. T. Crews was the oldest auction
eer in Topeka, and probably the oldest
in the state, in point of service. He
has been for 80 years engaged in the
business of crying sales, and has wide
acquaintance throughout this and
neighbOring counties. He is a native
of North Killarney. and came to Kan
sas in 1857. He settled at Tecumseh,
and was an active leader of the free
staters in the fights with border ruff
fans In 1850 he went back to In
diana. but in 1877 returned to Kansas,
and lived at Tecumseh. In his earlier
days he was a minister in the Baptist
church.
His death was due to blood poison
ing, caused by an abcess. He suffer-
ed great agony for the 80 hours prior
to his DEATH He leaves a wife and
five children, all of whom were pres
ent at his bedside when he died. His
children are Mrs. Ellen Reed of Usage,
Mrs. Laura Ridgeway of Watson, w.
H. Crews of Watson, Andrew Crews of
Tecumseh and c. NJ. Crews of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-18

like mammoth bird house in which
the American eagle could find home
The old watch house has been torn
down.
Mrs. Will Lewis of 1921 Polk street en-
tertained twenty little boys and girls
Tuesday in honor of the third birthday
anniversary of her little daughter Lii
iian The children played on the lawn
where later they enjoyed the refresh
ments of ice cream and cake which
were served by Mrs. Lewis. The little
hostess received many pretty gifts from
hire young friends. Those present were:
Grace Snodgrass Ruby and Eva May,
Mildred and Keith Frazier, Hazel and
Deena Williams, Mildred and Lucille
oswald, Hazel and Mary Shank, George
Saunders, Albert and Marguerite Smith,
Edith and Leonard Williams, Dean
White, Earl McCaslin, Fay Brown ana
Permie Page.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-18
MAYOR WON'T ACT.
Refuses to Appoint Appraisers for
Smith Street Opening.

Smith street between Seventh and
Eighth avenue will remain closed. For
fifteen years and probably more Smith
street has secured more advertising,
top of the column, than any other
street in the city. If regular advertis-
ing rates had been applied to all of
the matter that has been printed
about the opening of Smith street the
bill would be large enough to mort
gage all of the adjacent land. For the
last six months the opening of the
street came perilously near being an
accomplished fact but complications
ensued and it has died once more. af-
fording an opportunity for future
councils to revive it.
Mayor VIM. Green stated today that
he would refuse to appoint any board
OF appraisers to appraise the property
which might be subject to special tax
alton on account of the opening of
Smith street.
The council at a recent session or
dered a benefit district to be created
comprising the two blocks bounded by
Branner. Chestnut and Seventh streets
and Eighth avenue. The council
however, left the appointment of a
board of appraisers a matter discre-
tionary with the mayor. The mayor
will not veto the ordinance, but will
refuse to appoint a board of apprais-
ers. which will render ineffective the
ordinance creating the benefit district.
We would be sure to run into end
less litigation if 1 did appoint a board
of appraisers because the attorneys
for Mr. Farnsworth would bring suit
to set aside any report of appraisers
which would tax Mr.. Farnsworth's
land said the mayor. yet they say
it's wrong not to increase the size of
the benefit district and that we can't
tax the property owners who are di-
rectly interested only. The people
who live right on that street and are
getting land for nothing should be the
ones to pay. but the claim is that we
can't create a benefit district that way
If that is true, then the benefit dis
trict should be larger than the two
blocks. To avoid all of the trouble
that would be sure to come up 1 have
decided not to appoint any board of
appraisers and If the Smith street
question is brought up again it will
have to be brought up as an entirely
new matter"
Originally Smith street was not
plated in conformity with other
streets in that part of the city. Prop
erty owners purchased property and
not knowing the exact lines, one or
two constructed their houses out on
the street as plated and others fol-
lowing their example built houses the
same way When the discovery was
made the only way 1T could be rem
edied was to purchase a portion of the
west fronting lots on which houses
had not been constructed to be used
on q proper valuation of these west
fronting lots. most of them owned by
J. W. Farnsworth, the city ran into an
intermina BILE tangle mixed in which
was also the proper size of the benefit
district which should be created to