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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-03-06
MAEKET REPORT
Kansas City Mo. Feb q 1NS

Kansas City No. Feb Il lNS
Live sock receipts As Kansas C't'
last week.
Cattle prices advanced s'igat'!
las week. but unG as much streng It
was shown as wa hoped for. ~ virN
of the moderate receipts, "A eco t"F
the week, Reports from Chicago 'h|
dictate the continued np"pu'Ff'.y|
heavy steers there u this CO.
made the smallest gain here last "a
closing strong TO 10 higher Tor Jhe
week, while oLhef Killing cattle IA
yapced 10 TO l5c. The supply to0sy
10 10. 900 head and as all the marFets
are lightly supplied prices are sttanK
er, steers 10 higher in many cases
butcher stuff and stodkers and fato
srs shade stronger. Top here today
on steers is 5 So, although 5 60 SEs
pail on three different days last USeE
and fancy steers weulo easily re eli
$50 Bulk OF the steers sell ab ~
TO $50 Fed ColoradOs sold 40
day the second iustallmauu OF thr
Lock hart steers as cospsred WIN
b.25 for the first shipment last .SHn
DAY. Cows bring 3 Is TO 40, heifsrs
$50 to 1925, bulls s 25 to 4.50, calves 4
to 6 so, stOckers 40 TO &c. feeders
4,25 to 400. February cattle receipts
exhibit shortage Of 10 per cent from
same month last year but total re
ceipts of all kinds of live stock re
celved here were heaviest GA record
for any February, 10,9S9 car leads
Hog prices made net gain OF 100
per hundred last week, recei pts "A zoo
head. Run is 10 eco today aud marSet
is Is higher. Top to-day is 4. 80 nulk
of sales 4 30 to 4b0, weights from $50
to 24O pounds selling at 40 10 400
mainly. February receipts Increased
80 900 head over same mouth last ear
or 80 per cent.
Sheep have held about steadY dur
ing the last week but LAMBS dGc'iuco
Is to zoe although they closed the
week firm. SuPpp today is So oG0
head aarIet steady on lambs, most
sales 50 10 60, but sheen and yearI
ings are 10 higher Fed western
werhers sold today at $40 yeariings
at 500 to 10, ewes 10 TO >. aeavy
westers sold last week al 80 wcJhefs
$50 consignment OF the Western
Meat & Live Stock company, Aimeua
Kan,
4 PUOyg M
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-03-06

A. J. RIOKART,
Live stock COrTcsn0nGe,t
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-03-06
RELIABLE JEWELRY

our superior array of JewelrY an
Watches makes selection easy. Every
hing is in perfect taste, and every
.ning may be perfectly relied upon,
We sell nothing we don't know all
about, and we tell you everything we
inow about every thing you ask to see.
Q. Il. CONKLIN, the Jeweler.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

annufnce myself candid to for the osS~
of Tr asurer Of Neosho coanty subjectto the
decision of the publican convention or pit
mary
J.FCOOrER
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hereby announce myself asa ssndipa5e for
District Clerk of Neosho County subject to the
action of the Republican primary.
GED. YOCEEY.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-03-06
ON THE COOKING OF MEAT

When preparing a roast f. the
oyep. wipe ~ with a vet clio md
ana rim ulI any superiluuu is
IL the meat is lamb or Huttu io"E
over carefully for hairs or hes Of
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
THE STATES TAX VICTORY.

The Hudson Observer and the Pater-
son Guardian cordially agree, without a
very thorough examination into the
subject, that the new railroad tax law,
which has just been upheld by the
court of last resort, is a delusion and a
snare. Says the Observer: "There has
been a victory, and there has been a
defeat. When the tax bills come out
next year, the people will find that the
defeat ~overshadows the victory"
Under the new law the railroads pay
OH main stem alone the amount of
about So, 500, 900 annually, which is about
ST. 500, 600 more on a less amount of
this property than the railroads paid in
1906 and prior thereto. On s~econd-class
railroad property, as assessed locally i n
the municipalities, the total assessment
Is about 81, $50, 900 more, or double the
amount formerly paid. Where in 1866
the railroads paid an aggregate of less
than s1,600,00 in tax, they now pay.
under the new law, nearly five million
dollars.
Oh, but by the reduction of tax
rates throughout the State, the rate for
the railroads will be correspondingly re-
duced and will pay less tax. But is any
Individual taxpayer fool enough to
object to a lower tax rate for himself
simply because railroad property will
get the benefit of the lower rate? AS
for the assessed valuations, there is
little fear that they will be manipu-
lated to any degree or for any length of
time in favor of railroad property.
The State Board of Assessors is not
a constitutional body and a be abol-
ished by statute. The essential point is
that the principle of equal taxation has
become established in this State, and
the mind that can see no victory in
that is curiously defective.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
JERSEY CrTY,s spo1Is ISSUE.

The burning issue in Jersey City has
beer the municipal spoils.5 In the
mayoralty election in November the
fight was between the ms and the outs,
the men who received the public
salaries and the men who coveted
these salaries. When the result vas
declared the jubilation of the victors
was on account of the captured city
offices, while the defeated ones were
depressed because they had lost their
patronage. AS a last resort the latter
sought the courts to retain their offices.
The men who hold appointive public
office and the men who seek appoint
ments to public office constitute a
small fraction of a community. Why
should their selfish interests dominate
an e~lection2 OF what benefit is it to
the average citizen whether this man
or that mar gets an appointment as
long as the mar appointed Is capable
and honest? Why should an entire
community be placed in the position
of partisans of one or another crowd
of office-holders or office-seekers? Tho
burning issue In Jersey City suggests
the need of a civil service law which
shall put only capable men in Office and
shall then keep them there.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
AS TO ARMY PAY.

Comparison of the pay of the army
with that of the work the same men
would be likely to engage in in civil
life, greatly to the advantage of the
latter, in arguments for better pay for
the soldiers, does not imply that the
army should compete with civil indus
try for men on a wage bases. That
would, of course. be impossible.
Nevertheless, the comparison is fair
In argument, for it is entirely logical
to conclude that the compensation is
a prime consideration of the average
young man in choosing an occupation
where the choice is free. Young men
who might incline to the life of the
soldier in a majority of cases would be
deferred by the extremely low pay in
comparison with what they could earn
even at unskilled labor, when a little
more, with prospect of advancement,
would turn the scale in favor of a
military career.
Experience has shown that young
America is patriotic, and in time of
wal will go to the front and not bother
about pay, but the country cannot wait
until war is declared to train all its
soldiers, There must be enough ready
trained to meet an/emergency and form
a nucleus for the organization of the
army needed when we shall be pitted
against a formidable foe. We car very
well afford the extra pay and induce
ments hat would help to overcome the
present difficulties and raise the army
to the minimum strength that safety
requires.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
ono to Rockefeller. credit.

Some spa%ce-hunting reporter has I'M
carthed a barber in Cleveland IND given
publicity to the tonsorialist's assertion
that John D. Rockefeller never tipped him
in a three-years' course of shaving. Good
ness knows, Mr.. Rockefeller has been
made the target of enough criticism and
abuse IN the last few years Without bring
ing such a charge against him. Charge.
though, is a misleading word. If Mr..
Rockefeller didn't tip the barber he set
an example of independence and moral
courage that other people would do well
to take pattern from. The cry of revolt
against the oppressive and matchmaking
tip is frequently raised, and while it dies
out without rallying the men and women
who squirm under it's tyranny, the time
must come when some limit will be set
to the tipping rule. AS things are. a large
and growing class is being converted into
a mixture OF cringing beggar and insolent
outpurse, and the habit of preying on So
ciety at larg. is being learned by thou
Observation-Disclosures Telegraph.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
The Morning After.

Last night l ate a little bird,
And had a bottle cold;
Twas in the new hotel. we sat,
And merry stories told.
And, oh, when l had gone to sleep,
A man came to my bed,
And, with a eleaver bright and sharp,
Reached out to get my head.
Then 1 turned over on my side
But not to sleep, alas;
Another demon sought to kill
BY giving laughing gas.
And still another brute appeared,
To strange me he came;
wore a coat Of mail. n from
His eyes shot tongues of flame.
And all night long it seemed ! fought
With demons bad to ee;
With ugly brutes who thought 1t spor
To try to murder me.
The very kissing of their breath
Methought | plainly heard;
They'd come to have revenge, because
1 ate the little bird.
This morning. OH my aching head
Is throbbing, and / seem
To fee as though | had undergone
What really was a dream.
/ used to love the little birds,
Before I came to know
That such a dainty little thing
Could treat a fellow so. 8
Detroit Free Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
THE COST OF THE CANAL.

Washington tells us that because of
changed conditions from those existing
two a ago, when the majority of
the board of consulting engineers of
the Panama Canal submitted it's re-
port, the estimated cost of a little be-
low $14o, 900, 900 is fully $50, 000, 900 under
the real outlay thai will be required to
complete the i~nter-oceanic waterway.
An increase of more than 20 per cent
in the estimates sounds rather formi-
dable, and there is a disposition in
quarters that have always opposed the
Panama route to impute the increase
to the demands of the navy for wider
and larger locks and to resent the
extra outlay for that reason.
OF course there are other reasons that
account for some of the increase. in
Guiding higher prices for labor, and
there has been a large expenditure for
zone government and sanitation not
included in the former estimates, and
in the last single item the result is
worth much more than the outlay. But
il the whole increase were up to the
navy to stand blame for it would be
amply Justified. OF what use would
the great waterway be from a strategic
and protective standpoint for the ma
ton that is bearing the expense of the
enterprise if the canal should prove
inadequate to the requirements of the
navy when an emergency might call
for a swift transfer of ships from one
ocean to the other. Merely consid-
cred as a quick aid to defense the
canal would be worth the whole cost
When the benefit to the worlds COM
MERGE of his short cut is considered
$500, 600, 900 is a bagatelle.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

William K. Vanderbilt, sr,, will close
his Long Island home, Idle Hour, and
intends to go 70 Europe to be away TWO
years.
Lord Kelvin, when a professor at Glas-
cow University, was occasionally obscure
and complex when the interest OF a SIDE
issue led him off the beaten track. rms
was made the subject OF an eplgrahl'
which contrasted his methods with those
Of his assistant, Day, to his disadvantage.
rho occasion chosen was that Of his re-
turn from having received his knight
hood. and a student wrote upon the black
hoard: ''Work while it Is yet Day, Tor
the Knight oometh when no man can
work"
Germany's crown prince is not the only
scion of royalty in the fatherland VINO Is
learning a trade. Three young sons Oh
Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia
nephew of the Kaiser, have gon TO tne
manual labor training school, at Gross
Lichterfelde for the purpose of taking
a course in practical mechanics. This Is
in accordance with an ancient tradition
of the Hohenzollern house. TIT eldes'
bow. Prince Frederick Karl, who is II, is
learning the locksmith's trade, and his
younger brothers are being taught cabl-
netmaker's work. !
BY direction of the President, Briga-
.dier-General Winfield S. Edgerly has been
relieved from the command of the Depart
ment of the Gulf at Atlanta, Ga, and or
dered to proceed to st. Paul, Mimi, ano
assume command temporarily of the De
partment of Dakota, during the absence
Of Major-Ge General Adolphus w. Greedy
General Edgerly's present assignment tC
the command of the Department of Da-
kota, although announced as tempo
rary," is intended to be made permanent
on the statutory retirement of Genera
Greedy, March q next. General Greedy
has been granted leave of absence unit
that date and has practically ended his
career as an officer in active service.
Ermete Novelli, the eminent Italian
actor, was presented with a medal by thu
Circolo Italiano of Harvard University
last week.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
NEW JERSEYS MURDER COLONY.

The report OF the State prison keeper
refers to a matter which has been
pointed out and commented on by the
STAR-the~ phenomenal number of con-
victs in the State prison who have
committed murder in some one of its
degrees from homicide to m~araslaugh-
ter, the per oentum of these convicts
to the prison population at the present
time being LIS per cent.
The report gives the number and
per centum of homicide and m~anslaugh-
ter cases for a series of years. In 1902
there were 81 out of a prison popula-
ton of 1,021; in 1903 there were 1OS out
of 1857; in 1904, 112 oft of LIS in
1906, 1873 out of 1905; in 1906, IA out of
1919, and in 1907, 1877 out of 1851.
Curiously enough, the prison keeper
extracts the moral from these figures
that capital punishment is wrong in
principle. On the contrary, the extraor-
binary number of man-slayers serv-
ing sentences is evidence of the neces-
sity for a strict enforcement of the
law in cases of capital crime.
There have been too many weak
nesses in our system of criminal jus,
tice, too much latitude for criminal
lawyers and too much leniency and
clemency for murderers. There is a
fixed idea in the criminal mind that
justice is too slow, too faint-hearted
and uncertain to be greatly feared.
The evidence to sustain that belief is
furnished by the State prison statistics
and the records of the State Pardons
Court. The electric chair has recently
put three brutal murderers out of the
world, and there are others. Give
that apparatus its due and New Jer-
sey will cease to be a murder State.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
WHY DO SOME STATESMEN
DODGE THE ICE-PRESIDENCY?

"Berryman's clever cartoon in the
Washington Star recently" said a
member of the House of Representa-
tiyes, depicting a number of the cad
ers of the dominant party fleeing in
terror from an ignited bomb labeled
Vice-Presidency, 19OS,' lest it explode
and hit one of the group and land him
as the tail-end candidate in the next
national Republican convention, calls
to mind a point or two regarding the
high office which was made he sub
ject of the artists sketch.
1.-THE Vice-Presidency, together with
a portfolio in the cabinet Of The Presi-
dent, has long been popularity sup
posed to be the principal monument in
the graveyard of disappointed political
hopes and ambitions for the most ex-
allied of the elective positions within
the gift of the people-the Presidency.
Accepting the truth of this SUPPOSE
ton according to ones own individual
volition, the fact remains that more
thar one representative of the lower
house of Congress at the south end of
the Capitol has a figurative lightning
rod extending skyward in hopes that
llBHlHlH5 may n IL ohN
transport the stricken member to the
north end of the building to the Vice
Presidents luxuriously furnished pri-
vate room, and there are many reasons
why this is so.
although the vice-presidency is lnly
of comparative insignificance with the
presidency itself, as against other Of
fees, yet to my mint 1t is a position of
great dignity and Importance, and I
could never understand why it has not
been more eagerly sought. Three times
within the past generation 1t has ele-
waited it's incumbent to an occupancy
of the White House. and this may be
said to be a good average of percentage
as against the whole number of times
the office has been filled in this period.
The social Importance and family
prestige attaching to the office are very
great, while officially, of course, the
position ranks second to that of the
President. Perhaps one reason why so
many statesmen have declined 1t is be-
cause it carries with 1t but compare
lively little political patronage and in
many instances comparatively little
political influence with the very ad-
ministration of which it may be a part.
although this would seem an anon
ally, there are many instances within
our memory where the chief executive
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
RA11RoAp PROSECUTIONS.

In ordering the prosecution ola large
number of suits against railroads for
alleged violations of the safety APP
pliance laws Attorney-G enerah Bona
parte has taken a timely step that
should be productive of great public
good. It is a matter of common knowl-
edge that these laws are more honored
in the breach than the observance, and
no doubt the fact accounts for a large
proportion of the accidents that Kill
and MAIN so many people yearly.
Pretty nearly all the big railroads and
a lot of small ones are involved in ths
suits to be instituted by the govern
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
enjoyment Requires Understanding.

A reporter, tired and warm, complained
to Walter Egan. on the Euclid links In
Cleveland, that he thought golf stupid.
"You think golf stupid, eh?"
With a mighty drive the Chicago golfeA
sent the small ball flying a tremendous dis
'tance toward the little faraway red flag
Then, as he STROBE on over the fresh turf,
he said:
'rYou only find golf stupid because you
don't understand it. You remind me OF a
certain Hottentot.
Two white men in Africa laid out for
themselves a nine-hole course and there
in the wilds morning after morning they
played, though the sun was hot and though
the dry and sandy soil left them almost
continually in the bunkers.
''Well, the Hottentot watched the two
white men golfing for several days. Silent
and absorbed, he followed them in de-
fatigably over the yellow course. Then hc
disappeared.
Where had he gone? The white men,
missing him. laughingly made search. They
found him at last far out in >the burning
desert.
1.-THE naked Hottentot stood alone in the
burning desert, whacking away at a large
stone with a great war club and shouting
hercely:
"'Hang i'll Hang it!'"-Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
URGES KILLING OF HOUSE CAT
AS DESTROYER OF BIRD LIFE

stroyer of bird life in the world; and
the two birds known as the great
horned owl and the goshawk. the dis
tinguishable features of which are so
evident that it is absolutely impossible
to mistake either of them for n ether
bird"
DR.. Kalbfus reports that wild birds.
not game birds, have increased the past
twelve months;t that woodcock and snipe
appear to be plentiful; rabbits and
squirrels are plentiful in some sections
and scarce in others; deer and bear are
increasing rapidly, and that then number
of deer killed in Pennsylvania last year
was not more than 230.
The game COMMISSIONS reiterates the
assertion that the presence of aliens and
| their disposition to use guns, legally
and Illegally, is a constant and grave
menace to the wild life Of the State and
to the peace OF every community where
in these people are found,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13

New Jerseys Legislature will have
a harder task than ever this year to
keep expenditures within economical
limits and yet come anywhere near
meeting the extra demands made upon
it for funds for institutional improve
ment or expansion. Almost every State
institution wants. something out of the
ordinary. Already requests for nearly
81, 900, 900 for these purposes have been
submitted in reports showing their
needs, while the surplus in the treas
ury is reduced and the revenues are,
If anything, shrinking. How to recon-
cile economy with these great needs
without putting the State in financial
difficulties is the problem the law
makers will have to solve.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 1S.-That
the. hreside sphinx, the disturber of the
midnight hour, the fence-walker and
the mouser, in other words the cat,
should be made the common prey Of
hunter. is the startling recommendation
made by Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of
the State Game Commission, in his an
nual report.
DR.. Kalbfus gets after it and other
enemies of birds in a discussion of the
bounty law, saying:
'In my opinion the appropriation
made by the last session of the Iegis-
lature for the payment of bounties
upon certain animals is money well
applied, the only trouble being, as I
see it, that the appropriation is not suf-
fcient to meet demands, and that the
list of animals as named in the act is
not comprehensive enough 1t should
have added to 1t at least the house cat,
than which there is no greater de-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13

has all but effaced the Vice-President
from the political patronage-map of the
capital. This fact, however, then or
now, in nowise interferes with the Of
flee itself, and there are but few of us
at the other end of the Capitol who
wouldn't rise to the a like trout to
the fly if the line happened to be cast
in our waters, though to preserve the
national tradition we would have to be
very coy when the hook splashed and
seemingly reluctant to bite,
lone thousand dollars a month Will
go a long way toward the providing
of the winters coal, paying the rent
and buying car tickets, to say notnlng
of a few other i~neidentals of everyday
life which are termed essentials TO
human comfort. Though the salary at
taching to the office ought to be double
this figure. according to the IDEAS OF
some persons, 1t is of sufficient magnl-
tude to prove an attraction, for II must
not be supposed that the office shouid
be sought by rich men alone, or that
political honors are the only resultants
from office-holding. .
"And as to the latter, he OIL
presiding over the ablest deliberatlve
body in this or any other country
ought to be sufficient In itself to salts
fy the ambition of the average man
competent to fill such q position, whlle
the number of average men competent
to fill the position whose profession OF
work yields them less than the salary,
but who can't get it, is legion. Ihen
there are several secr~etaryships n
confidential clerks positions at dis
posal, as well as a few minor appoint
ments at the other end of the Capitol
which count for something, especially
when bestowed upon members of the
family or relatives.
I'm fact. l have always Thought the
country at large has misJudged the
Importance of the position, and that II
has done so is perhaps ecaus the
prerogatives and Importance OF the
office of President are so tremendous
and potential that everything else IN
the nature of a political office Is
dwarfed in comparison. The same rule
holds true as to corporations and bust
ness concerns in that the president
has such supreme power and authority,
but I will exchange my legislative
billet for that of the Vice-Presidency
on sight, but, like the rest of us, ma
tional tradition and innate modesty
prevent a public announcement OF the
fact"