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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-04-24
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

The Silver Circle net with Mrs.
Frank Spaniole yesterday.
Jack Alefs is building a large |
addition to his house. He is also
building a te ephone line from
Henry Harper's to his house.
Mr.. John Everett is hauling
sand to build a rock house.
Henry EssmilIer is having spout
ing put on his barn anu house
Nuttleman is doing the work
One of our young society men
claims that orange punch is all
be can drink %
Smith. the piano man. went up
the creek with a piano today
Mr. thinner had the misfortune
to lose fine horse today
Warne OFT. while out hunting
this morning shot coyote.
Henry DrelIa found a coyote
den and captured 10young coyotes
One of our base ball mines are
in the county seat Dlaving a game
with Ridge nine
John K McMullin is out from
the county seal inspecting the
wheat fields -
Sam Gwinn and family and Sam
White and family are attending
church at Walnut Valley This is
the last Sunday that the Rev Davi;
breaches in this neighborhood
He leaves next week for bis home
near Wichita
Oscar Remert can do a neater
job at turning over a header barge
tllan any man in this nelghbor
hood
Mart Brining has purchased q
large storage tank from Nuttle-
!. man. the tank man
Uncle Dan Miller left this
morning for a visit in Ohio and
Pennsylvania
JimDalziel was around in this
neighborhood this afternoon
Chas Nader is touring s..'this
neighbornhood in his automobile
Mr. -Burgtoff and family are
visiting at Dundee
The telephone line came in
handy for some of our young
ladies
Thursday is the last day Of
school at No 4. A pall game be.
tween the Great Bend High
School and No 4 is to be played
Dave BAKER and family are visit
ing at Robt McMullins
Mr. Brumbaugh and his gang o.
carpenters are going to build s
large. barn for Henry Drehle thj,
week.
Mike Keenan, and brother Will
are fencing in some pasture land
A good many of our farmer
have started to list corn
i. They claim that Egg. O. See. i
very hard. on buggies :.
Roy McMullin returned to hi
school south. of, the river ::thi
morning =
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-04-24

Glennie and NeymanI Patrick
came in from Santa Fe Tuesday
evening for visit with their
grand Darents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j.
Anthony. o.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-04-24

Finest out, ''Demce" sold by
grocers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
STAY
CLOSED HERE

Sal00hmen have been informed
that saloons of the state generally
are not closed today, and that the
primary law, with regard to their
closing, is to be given test.
Chief Rice when informed that
local saloons might open before
evening, in conjunction with the
general rule elsewhere, stated that
he would not make arrests except
on warrants. Last night he ordered
However, there was no desire to
keep the saloon open after voting
began. Prosecuting Attorney Barn
hart was still to be reckoned with.
Jack Wilmot, head of the Liquor
Dealers association, has been
closed all day and states that he
intends to remain closed. Daven-
ports, the Silver Grill. the Club,
Occur d'Alene and other leading
places all say they will stay closed
if the others do.
Prosecutor Barnhart today reit-
Grated his previous statement that
not under any consideration will
he countenance the opening of sa-
looms, and that il the rule is disre-
garded. he will cause wholesale ar
rests and prosecutions.
Opinions on the primary law as
to saloons differ. Mr.. Barnhart and
Attorney General Atkinson hold
they must close the same as a
general election.
Corporation Counsel Hamblen Is
Of the opinion that as the primary
law does not specifically specify
that saloons shall close, they need
not.
At the last city primary election,
all saloons closed and there was no
endeavor to make test of the law.
This is the first time the primary
law has been tried generally
throughout the state.
Indications are that certain poll
ticians were back of a movement
to open, in hopes of influencing a
vote in favor of those candidates
selected for the support of the
liquor men.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

CHICAGO, Ills, Sept. Sat a
conference of democratic leaders
today here, the democratic national
committee decided to invoke the
corrupt practices act to prevent the
lavish use of money by the repub-
lican national committee in doubt
full states.
1t is charged by democrats that
the republicans are arranging to
raise a big campaign fund TO be
used in uncertain states.
According to an agreement made
with Bryan, Gompers will remain
on the stump throughout the cam
paign. 1t is understood that Com
pers will make an open appeal to
labor to support the democratic
ticket.
Under the plan adopted today an
other labor leader joins Gompers
in stamping the country. Gompers
has a plan by which he expects to
have literature favoring democrats
distributed in all labor circles.
Leaders are greatly relieved at re-
ports received from various state
chairmen.
Bryan spent much time talking
campaign plans, and Kern was
prominent in the conference. Bryan
speaks tomorrow at Peoria, Ill.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

The city schools reopened
promptly at 9 o'clock this morn
ing, contrary to the order of the
board of public works requiring
that they should remain closed un-
til provided with fire escapes.
The school board simply ignored
the order of the city commission
ers and have instructed the
schools to proceed as originally in
tended. 1t is now up to the board
of works to enforce its order or
acknowledge that the school board
is master of the situation.
Commissioners Wetzel and
Witherspoon this morning said the
board of works had done it's duty
in placing the matter so squarely
before the board of education, and
that if the latter saw fit to reopen
the schools over the order of the
board of works the responsibility
for an accident, should one occur,
will rest on the shoulders of the
school board. Mr.. Witherspoon
added that the matter had pre-
scented itself to him in another
phase since he had met with the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
DR.. WHITEHEAD
DIES in WRECK

SEATTLE, Sept. 8.-Dr. Caleb
Whitehead, president of the Alas.
ka Banking & Safe Deposit Co.,
and general manager Of the Sc
ward Peninsula railroad, died yes
terday as the result of injuries re-
ceived in wreck on his own road,
says an Alaska dispatch.
The train was ditched at Iron
creek and the car in which White
head was riding with friends tipped
over into the creek. He was in
the water several minutes and
failed to regain consciousness.
DR.. Whitehead was chief assayer
at Washington, ID. c., and resign
ed to come to Alaska. He owned
several paying claims in the dis
trict.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION
TOOTH AND NAIL AFFAIR

congressman; Hinkle for superior
court Judge; Mann, justice Of the
peace; ]. S. Phillips and w. M.
Dean, commissioners; Fred Pugh,
prosecuting attorney; Koontz,
treasurer, and Mac Pugh, sheriff.
There are few calls for the demo
cratic ballots and indications are
that the vote ON governor will be
close. Durkin men and Byrne men
are all actively soliciting every
body who approaches the polling
places.
Despite the fact that there is a
heavy fine provided for election
eering' near the polls, there is a
lot of 1t going on so close that 1t
would take Solomon of Judgment
to determine whether the law In
this respect is disregarded. The
polling places are all fenced in and
the "hustlers" are as close as pos
sible to the fence.
Here is a pointer for the voters:
The polls must remain open until
everyone who was on hand at the
closing hour, s o'clock, can cast his
vote. A lot of working people will
probably get home late and If they
all try to vote before 1t would
result In condition Of congestion
which would retard matters to a
great extent. Voters must be in
the polling places before o'clock.
Nearly 10000 are registered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

Not in the history of the city has
there been so much activity exhib-
tied at the polling places, as there
is today in the states first primary
election. The contest is as heated
and waged as thoroughly as though
1t were a regular election. There
is no concerted action of one party
wing against another on account of
the numerous candidates for each
office. Each candidate Is personally
experimenting the job of getting
out his vote, riding around from
one polling place to another in
buggies, feeling the public pulse,
and the trend of the voting from
their lieutenats.
Although the vote as yet is com
paratively light, it Is up to expec-
tations. There wasn't much doing
between IL and II when the poll
ing places first opened, but rush
ut noon when people went from
,,heir work to their homes.
The real rush is expected from
s to after working and business
hours. Anticipating this extra
booths have been provided and
every precinct in the city is pro-
vided with from one to four more
than customary.
Congestion is expected, but every
effort is to be made tonight to
hurry things along. Owing to the
size of the ballots, it is taking a
long while for some Of the voters
to get through. The average time
isf rom two to five minutes. Most
voters go into the voting place
armed with q list of those he in
tends selecting, thus rendering his
voting easier and speedier.
Mud-slinging, such as never be-
fore was heard In Spokane cleo
ton, is general. The vociferous
voters and candidates are finding
plenty of listeners to their extern
poraneous outbursts.
Evidently candidates have gone
to all the expense of en- election
under the old system. Several have
hired automobiles, buggies, hacks
and hustlers. or the latter there
are number at each voting place.
Some of them are hustling for a
certain slate, while others work for
the individual alone.
1t will be interesting to compare
the candidates expense" state
ments with which 1t is indicated
the primary is costing some of
them
One slate which is being gener-
ally boosted in the second ward is
Mead for governor; Rosenhaupt for
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

DIAGRAM DRAWN FOR THIS
NEWSPAPER BY DISTRICT AT
TORNEY JEROME, SHOWING
HOW THE RICH MAN AND THE
POOR MAN GO AT 1T WHEN
THEY WANT TO BREAK THE
SPIRIT OF THE LAW.
get there
$50 the rich man goes ahead and
/, prosecuting attorney, sit over
here at A and am powerless, for he
has broken no law.
But the poor man, whose pur-
pose is just the same, has no
money to hire counsel. SO he
plunges directly through the first
barrier for the reason that he does
not see the gap. Then it is my
duty to nab him. And then in court
his lack of funds handicaps him
again.
Il do not make the laws, |
merely am intrusted with the duty
of enforcing them. If l did make
them l could put up a lew without
gaps. AS long as the gap is there
the rich man can hire a good legal
pilot to take him through"
Asked If he saw any remedy for
this condition, the district attorney
shook his head.
There Is none now existing" he
said. Perhaps some time, when
socialists realize and make prac-
teal their dreams, the state will be
empowered to employ lawyers for
both defense and prosecution and
dictate what witnesses and what
experts shall be called. That might
be solution"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
RING FIGHT IN
KING COUNTY

SEATTLE, Sept. S.-Reports
from various parts of the indicate
that ring politics will be rebuked
in today's state primaries.
Senator Ankeny. who is up for
the peoples endorsement, has a
hard fight, as his enemies accuse
him of securing his present seat by
unfair means. Governor Mead and
Samuel Cosgrove are having a hot
fight.
Interest is not keen in the dem
ocratic primaries, there being few
contests and little to indicate the
outcome.
The hottest fight Is centered in
Seattle, where an effort is being
made in King county to GUST the
present clique in control of coun-
ty Offices.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
MONEY! TALKS IN COURT; ERICH AND
POOR NOT EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW

light there is to bear on. his side OF
the case. The jury is likely to be
overawed. The state is placed at a
disadvantage. And all this the rich
man does legally, on the ground
that 1t is an effort to get at the
truth.
'This is to say nothing of the
ways the rich may use their money
for purposes Of corruption, and
still escape detection"
Then the district attorney, in
speaking of insurance and race
track cases, told of another way
in which the rich escape the pen
atty of the law-by evasion. He
drew a diagram on his blotter.
II can show 1t best by this" he
explained. I'D G is the rich mans
line; x Y the day laborer's. Both
these fellows want to break the
spirit of the law in order to accom-
plish some very desirable personal
end. The rich man calls in his high
priced attorney and says: Able
counsel, l want to do this thing;
how do l go about it?' This way,
says the counsel, you take this
long route around through all the
gaps in the legal barriers and per-
haps make law or two through
the legislature to suit you, or
amend and act and then you will!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME
office in the criminal courts build.
ing, Jerome spoke calmly and re-
Effectively, but directly and ex.
plicitly. To illustrate his views, he
drew the diagram which accom-.
panies this article.
The case of John Van Rens.
selaer, son Of wealth, who wrote
letters threatening to kill his own
mother, If she did not give him a
certain sum of money, was a par.
ticular instance which served as an
illustration for the district attor.
ney Van Rensselaer, escaped pun.
ishment by the quick work of his
attorneys, who had him committed
to Bellevue as temporarily ire
sponsible. Instead of being charged
with blackmail, Van Rensselaer,
was merely charged with threaten.
ing. This allowed the authorities
to send him to the hospital instead
OF to jail.
IF he had been a poor man, it is
likely he might have gone to JAIL
said Jerome. But he was able to
employ lawyers who were shrewd
enough to take every advantage
the law allowed.
"A poor man and a rich man may
appear in court in similar cases
and yet the rich go free and the
poor be convicted, although one il
no more guilty than the other.
THE state, Of course, is expected
to aid the poor man in his defense
But when court appoints lawyers
for the defense they are often oil
the shyster variety, and at best sci
dom experienced or very able. The
/ poor man has no funds to bring In
witnesses or experts or detectives
but the rich man or the prosecution
can do all these things and more
So their cases are unequal
THE rich man gets the best law
yer to be had, one who knows
every loophole which can legally
be taken, and then he can do like
Thaw-send clear to Europe to gel
witnesses. He brings every bit Of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
ATTEMPT TO MURDER
PRES. ROOSEVELT
Bullet Fired From Bushes at Road
side Whizzed Over His Head.

CoughIin was stopped on the
road leading to the presidents
home by Detective Adams. This
explains the hurried trip Of Chief
WiIkie of the secret service force
to Sycamore.
Coughlin said he wanted 10000
troops to drive criminals from Bos-
ton. He was taken to Oyster Bay
town hall, where Justice Franklin
held him for examination.
Major WadsWorth, who was rid
ing with Roosevelt, believes the
bullet was fired by hunters en-
gagged in target practice and not at
the president.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

school board and that he thought
it was possibly best for the school
corporation not to sustain the loss
of revenue from the state that he
was told the closing of the schools
would entail.
Yesterday afternoon at o'clock
the board of works adopted the
following order:
"As we believe that sufficient
time has passed for the board of
education to have complied with
the requirements of ordinance
A333O, entitled An ordinance to
provide for the prevention Of fire
and accidents which became op-
erative April "a, 1908: and
Whereas, we believe it is our
duty in order to properly safe
guard the lives of the occupants
of the schools to insist that the
ordinance be enforced; be it
Resolved, that the board of edu-
cation be instructed to conform
with the requirements of said or
dinance A3330 before opening the
schools
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
KETCHEL SAYS
HE'S NOT

LOS ANGELES, Sept. Sal
though Papke is the hero of the
hour today, Ketchel has not lost
as much prestige as would natur-
ally be expected after such a de-
cisive defeat yesterday when he
was knocked out in the twelfth
round. Although it is serious set
back, Ketchel says he is not fin
ished. Papke says he beat Ketchell
at his own game with a lucky
punch early.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

UPHEAVAl

An overcharge of blasting pow.
der today noon wrecked the stone
crusher operated by Willet &
Camp at the Big rock pile on the
east side of Division street near
the o. r. & N. tracks. The crush
err and it's attachments were scat
tered in all directions and a huge
chunk of stone weighing several
tons was thrown into fiat car
close by.
The streetcar tracks run within
100 feet of the crusher, but none
of theh rock fell in that direction.
The force of the explosion was to-
ward the northeast, in which di-
rection there was no danger to
the public travel on Division
street.
Blasting at this point has been
the cause of considerable COM
plant for the last few months by
citizens who pass there daily.
Some blasts in the past hurled
huge chunks of stone on the bicyle
path at the foot of the big rock,
blocking the path for many days.
Other times explosions left i'm
mense chunks of the rock in a
threatening upright position, where
they remained for several days be-
fore being removed.
Willet & Camp are doing the
blasting. After they have injured
somebody the authorities will prob
ably enforce regulations.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
CROOKED WORK
SAYS JUDGE

AT his meeting in Masonic tenn
pie last night Judge Poindevter
made the announcement that the
proprietor of newspaper publish
ed at Rockford had tried to black.
mail him.
He also charged Charles p.
Lund, Rockwell's righthand man,
with opposition TO him on account
of an unfavorable decision In the
case which involved the custody
OF the Davenport children. This
was the case where the Davenport
children were kidnapped by the
father after the courts awarded
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

of the inexplcabe of public affairs IS
frequently be driven
by public opinion into attending the safety and
sanitation of buildings which the children of city or
community educated.
The school board Conwood undoubtedly considered
that building safe until the time became death pit for
of lives The might be said of the
other disaster in which chldrens
lives have paid the penalty of official ncompetency
lessness
Inquiry of the Spokane board Immediately after the Collin
wood horror demonstrated that board satisfied with
the safety of it's buildings.
buildings
nadequaey fitted with fire facilities. The fire
remedy defect that board entirely overlooked.
The protection extended children in the build
ngs the alternative of leapng the hard ground
concrete below in they could not down the
stairs and the board actually resting nothing better
than this for these buildings The high school fire
found to be insufficient after people had become
alarmed enough to force investigation.
At that time members of the board much
cened the safety Of the children They determined
to comply with measure at and foaed bond
issue largely the strength of their official zeal.
That months
time drifted became evident that the boards
the fire danger waning
member told The Press that it would be considered
provide fire for all buildings
The money could be used better advantage, etc.
School with buildings spite Of
all the time available for that purpose.
The commission orders regulations complied with be-
but backs in the face of the
directors who backed by the prosecuting attorney in
their willingness slight precautions possible
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
TO PROSECUTE
REPUBLICAN LEADERS

on the Northern Pacific a short
distance north of this city.
Six cars heavily loaded with logs
broke away from the locomotive
and ran away down the grade. No.
2, the southbound passenger train
on the Northern Pacific, at that
moment appeared down the track
and a headon collision between
the two trains would have occurred
in a moment had not the brake
man dropped from the swiftly
moving runaway train at a switch.
He threw the switch before the
last logging car had passed and
ditched the entire logging train.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
$500 FINE FOR CROOKED
WORK At POLLS TO-DAY

Corrupt solicitation for the pur-
pose of influencing voters at the
polls is punishable by fine and i'm.
prisonment In the county Jail II the
offender is convicted. The primary
election law protects the voter
against political touts and paid
workers, and makes 1t n misde-
meanor for any person to so OBJ.
trude himself ON the voter.
Section 22 of the primary cleo
ton law follows:
ANY person who shall solicit,
request or demand. directly or in
directly, any money, intoxicating
liquor or any thing of value or
promises thereof. either to influ-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
HURLED LIKE SHOT
FROM MOTORCYCLE

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. SO.
Taylor, young motorcylist, Is
lowering between life and death
in a hospital as the result of an
accident on Coronado track. When
finishing five mile race he sud-
denly lost control and the machine
dashed to the fence.
He was hurled 80 feet, his skull
fractured and his face and scalp
literally cut to pieces.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08
BY r. F. FRAZER.
Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
NEW YORK, Sept. s.-William
Travers Jerome, district attorney
of the county of New York, prose-
cutor of Harry X. Thaw, and held
responsible for the failure to prose-
cute in the famous insurance fraud
cases, sees no equality between the
rich and poor before the law. To
the correspondent of The Daily
Pres he made this blunt statement:
There is no real equality of rich
and poor before the law. The poor
mans chance of properly defend
ing himself in court is small. I do
not see how the condition can be
remedied."
Jerome, the most famous prose
cutor in the country today, thus be-
comes the first court officer in the
land to candidly state his belief in
an opinion which has long been
held by thousands of American citi-
zens.
Leaning back in a chair in his
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

OYSTER BAY, Sept. Sit Is
learned today that an attempt to
assassinate Roosevelt was made
Saturday while he was riding on
Cove road, near Sycamore.
The assassin fired from the
bushes by the roadside, the bullet
whizzing over the president.
He pulled his horse up and want.
ed to search the bushes, but a
friend dssuaded him.
The attempt became known
through the arrest of John Cough
lin, who armed and thought to be
insane, was seeking an interview
with the president.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-08

Ience his vote or to be used or un-
der the pretense of being used to
procure the vote of any other per-
son or persons, to be used at any
poll or other place prior to or on
the day of any election under this
act, for or against any measure or
question to be voted upon at such
election. shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon trial and con.
viction thereof, he punished by a
fine of not less than $40 nor more
than $500, or by Imprisonment in
the county jail for not less than 30
days nor more than six months, or
by both such Ane and imprison-
ment."