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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23
have GONE 70 Topeka TO
APPEAR BEFORE Tux COMMISSION

Commissioners Nick Mayrath,
w. ]. Davies, and w. c. Dunck-
ner, County Clerk Connaway and
Assessor Crane went to Topeka
Wednesday noon, being called there
by the State Tax commission to
to explain the assessment of Ford
county.
1t will be the effort of the repre-
sentativcs of Ford county to See to
it that this county is given an
assessment equitable with adjoining
counties. Several counties in this
section held down their land values
below the value returned by the
assessors here, and the state tax
commission is anxious to know who
is in error in estimating values. In
the assessment and equalization in
this county the officers have made
every effort to comply with the new
law in letter and spirit. Where the
judgment of the deputies differed
materially, the board of equalization
made personal inspection and took
evidence in the effort to be fair and
just to all concerne dodge City
Journal, Democrat.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23
Normal Notes.

The Normal begins next Monday
and the prospects are very good for
large attendance.
Quite a number have already
engaged board.
Prof. Winslow and Prof. sterba
will be here Saturday to commence
work.
State Supt. Fairchiid will be here
to lecture for US one evening.
We are very anxious to have
visitors at the Institute especially
members of SCHOOL boards.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23
CHALLENGES LONG TO
SERIES OF DEBATES
j. l.. Brisfow Wants Pub
lie Discussion.
To Be Held During Last
Week of Campaign.

Salina, Kan. July 2o.-Before
he left Salina this afternoon, ]. L.
Bristow, candidate for the United
States Senate against Senator Long,
sent a challenge to the Senator to
meet him in a series of six joint
debates, one of which shall be held
in Topeka in which the issues of
the day may be discussed. The
challenge stipulates that the debates
shall be held during the week pre-
ceeding the primaries. Following
the challenge which was mailed
out this afternoon:
The challenge follows:
''Salina, Kan, July 2o.-Senator
Chester l. Long, care Longs Sen
atorial headquarters, Topeka, Kan.
''Sir-When at the state conven-
ton you announced your candidacy
tor reelection, you stated that you
proposed to make the race upon the
record of your service. Your votes
in the Senate show that you are
opposed to limiting the capitali-
cation of public service corpora
tions; that you are opposed to CIV
ing the Interstate Commerce COM
mission authority and means to
ascertain the value of the railroads;
that you are opposed to giving the
Interstate Commerce commission
authority to fix rates and correct
unjust and discriminatory schedules
upon its own initiative; that you are
opposed to changing the present
long and short haul clause under
which Kansas is SO grossly dis
eliminated against; that you are op-
posed to the election of United
States Senators by direct vote of
the people, that you are opposed to
requiring publicity of campaign
contributions and expenditures.
81 hold that these things which
your votes show that you are op-
posed to are right and should be
enacted into law. | therefore invite
you to enter into series of six joint
debates one to be held in the Audi
torium at Topeka on some evening
other than Saturday, and at such
other places agreed upon during the
last week of the campaign before
the primaries, wherein you will
defend the things you stand for as
shown by your votes, and [ will un-
dertake to show that yor are wrong.
If you state that you are now favor
of any or all of the policies above
referred to, then l ask you to show
the reasons why you voted against
them.
(Signed.) Yours truly,
]. L. BRISTOW.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23
Let Us Reason Together.

We believe you can buy your
Bread, Pies and Cakes from us q.
cheaper than you can make them.
Try us and see. Bread 6 tickets =
for 25 cents, Pies 10 cents, Cook .
eys 10 cents per dozen, Cakes Is :
cents up to any size you order.
Clean pure and healthful goods IS !.
our aim. We want your trade
and will treat you right. Phone :
Is. H. A. GRAMNoNT, Prop.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23
PIANO and VOICE RECITAL
Phelps Opera House
Monday Night, July 81.

Phyllis Fuhr will give a piano
and voice recital at the Phelps Opera
House Monday night.
The program will consist of pop
ular and classical music. 4 small
admission fee will be charged at
the door to pay for the use of the
operahouse.
Doors open at o'clock. Re-
cital will begin promptly at S:45.
PROGRAM
PART
Piano
Valse Caprice Rubinstine
Air de Ballet Chaminade
Voice
The Violet Mildenberg
Piano
(a) Hunting Song Schumann
(b) Caprice Pagininni Schumann
(c) Etude Chopin
Voice
Leave Me Not Mattel
PART II
Piano
Concerto op. 90, Allegretto
Jadassohn
Voice
Four Leaf Clover Combs
Piano
Polka DeConcert Newland
Voice
Slumber Sweetly Randegger
Piano
Blue Violets Koeling
Voice
Loves Way s Brown
Piano
Rhapsody No. 2 Liszt
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23
Married.

Mr.. George Hinsdale and Miss
Mildred S. Watt were married
Wednesday by Rev. Millsap, at
the NJ. E. Parsonage. Both these
young pc ople are well known in this
community and the News extends
congratulations.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23

The county board will be il
session next Monday and a large
crowd of Meade merchants and
citizens will go before them and see
what can be done about the road to
the Cimmarron bridge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23
EaII Game.

In a game characterized by heavy
batting on the part of locals, the
Meade team redeemed themselves
by severely trouncing the Minneola
aggregation by score of IL to l..
Sweet, for the home team, pitched
fine game holding the visitors safe
at all times and allowing only three
scratch hits. The opposing pitcher
was batted at will, four home runs
being gained off his delivery. Both
teams helded good. The score:
Runs. Hits. Errors.
Meade, II II 8
Minneola, 8
Umpire-Dalgarn. Attendance
100. Time, 1870. The feature of
the game was two home runs by
Leo McMeel.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-07-23

We need road to the Cimarron
bridge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
Chairman Ards Report
have.

In another column of this paper will be found the report of Chairman J. B. Aird of the democratic executive com mittee of Jefferson county, setting forth receipts and disbursements for the county primary held May Is. It would have been published earlier but for MT. Ards absence from the city After paying all the primary expenses $361.5 remained, which was refunded to the candidates July 10.
 In these days when publicity of cam paign expenses is demanded, the ob- ject is chiefly to detect on the part of individual candidates anything like a corrupt use of money; and in calling for publicity of contributions to the national committee the people merely seek to know to whom the occupant of the White House will be under obliga- tions. In other words, publicity is democratic watchword. Every one who knows Chairman Aird and members of the county committee appreciates the valuable public service they render. They do their work without compensa- tion and they are entitled to honor and thanks.
 The report of the chairman Is alto gether satisfactory, just such report as might have been expected. And its publication is simply in line with the best modern party practice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
Lord CrOmer'S Warning

Lord Cromer is a Barring and he sets at present in the house of lords, where he is opposing the governments old-age pension bill, and he did succeed in attaching to it a provision that it should last but seven years. The com mons can be trusted to reject the Cromer amendment however.
 Lord Cromer's argument against old-age pensions consisted chiefly Tn a declaration that war is coming-that the peace of Europe is to be broken, and that the government, instead of asking for old-age pensions should be getting ready for war.
 The declarations of Lord Cromer have created a sensation in England, something more than our own Captain Hobson has been able to do in this dlInOuSh DOth ulO WOl war-alarms for all they are worth. Cap tain Hobson points his fingers openly at Japan, While Lord Cromer is more secretive. The latter probably has Germany, who is muddling the Turk ish waters of the Black sea and the l Mediterranean in mind. But Abdul Hamid has granted the people con stitution, and Germany may be. de- prived of all reasonable opportunity l for mah,ng trouble in that portion of the world.
 All in all Lord Cromer's war alarm probably has just about as much real. ity in it as Captain Hobson's. Amer ica does not take the latter's war alarms seriously, and England Is pro. ceeding to perfect an old-age pension bill wholly regardless of Lord Cromer s war alarms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
Interest In Horticulture.

T see that Commissioner of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson reports greatly increased interest in matters agricultural over Ala bama," said a gentleman last night.
 Since the general conditions in the farming districts are being greatly inn proved 1t Is natural that the farmer be inspired with fresh ambition to make his profession more profitable as well as at tractive.
 Tt is said that new school building is being built in Alabama for every day in the year just now. The state is help ing to build these schools, majority of which are in the rural districts. This is helping to make farm life more at tractive.
 Added to this and numerous other things is the practical encouragement that is being given by the federal and state agricultural departments in send ing practical, experienced men onto the farms to advise with and instruct the planters in the arts of agriculture.
 Alabama with all its industrial in- terests is essentially an agricultural state and it Is encouraging to note the prog ress that is being made in farm opera tions."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

he is to have a voice in their manage ment. That voice may we'll be the real control of the Gould roads after they are lifted by the wizard of ths financial world out of the hole into which they had fallen.
 This district has long desired an ex- tension to it of the Gould lines of the southwest, and possibly we have found in MT. Hartman the missing link. Possibly the Hartman lines that now extend to and through this district to Savannah will bring in the Gould lines without the expenditure of an addi- tional dollar. Much, of course, de- bends upon the extent of the Harrl- man influence over the Gould roads. If. however, he succeeds in financing those roads out of receiverships there will be little doubt as to his power over them. Once let 1t become known that the Gould roads are Hartman roads this district need not longer trouble itself over the building of a Gould link. A Hartman link would in that case fill the bill, and that we hava
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
War on the Weeds

It is to be hoped that the present en- ergy directed against the weeds grow ing in this city will be maintained un- iii every property owner has been conl- pelled to do his duty to his neighbors and to the city as a whole. 1t would be unjust to those who have cut weeds to slacken all effort before the task is fully accomplished. The property own CT who has political pull should not be overlooked, for weeds are weeds uo matter on whose property they grow.
 Weeds in cities are not only land- scape blemish, but they are harbors for mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are apt to create malarial diseases. No weed should be left standing within the city's bounds This is the way to se- cure public health and public beauty. There are tons of weeds standing to- day on vacant lots and even along the sidewalks in the streets, and there will needs be great energy on the part of Mayor Ward and his assistants if the city is to be rid of these undesirable growths.
 It would be we'll indeed if the action of Birmingham in relation to weeds were duplicated in every other town in Alabama. Some of them are as full of weeds as the weeds are full of red bugs, and crusade against them would be highly beneficial aesthetic ally and physically. Alabama has too many weeds, and this is good time eo cut them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
Iron Content of MeSabi Ores

The American iron and steel asso- citation furnishes the information that the quantity of limestone used is con stantly incr easing per ton of pig iron produced. The consumption of lime stone did not about ten years ago ex- ceed thousand pounds per ton of pig iron. It is now about 1250 pounds per ton, and the tendency is upward.
 The country contains plenty of lime- stone, and no famine is expected. But the increased use of limestone is evi- dence that the iron content in Amerl- can ores is decreasing. Ten years ago 36 listed Mesabi mines yielded ores that had an average iron content of 56.36 per cent Last year "A ores from the Mesabi range showed an av- craze iron content of 51.73 per cent. The shrinkage in ten years was 4.63 units, and a similar shrinkage in the next ten years would rob the Lake Superior ores of their reputation as high containers of metallic irons.
 The lower the iron content the larger the limestone consumption and the higher the cost per ton of producing pig iron. The statements at hand do not cover southern ores. Possibly the quantity of limestone consumed in southern furnaces is also increasing If so, the low furnace costs of 1897 can never be duplicated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
Legislatures Four Years Apart

This state no doubt needs legislation every two years. Growing, prosperous states generally do. But if we are to have biennial legislatures then, indeed, we should have a governor and other state officers who hold office for a like term. To elect governor in 1910 and governor in 1912, for example, is to invite disagreement and discord, for the governor might have one policy as to given subject and the legislature a contradictory policy. And yet both must sit out their terms, no matter how perplexing the situation becomes.
 To ensure good government both the executive and legislative branches of the government should be put on a common footing. The federal govern. ment does not do this, and quite often deadlock ensues, but what the fed eral government does the state need not and should not do. The state should endeavor to have a government that will work throughout harmoni ously. Valuable constructive legisla
 ton cahpot be secured in any other way.
 To elect governor in 1910 wno
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
cIanton Lawyer In City.

Tipton Mullins, one of the most prom inent lawyers of Clanton, was in the city yesterday, returning from visit to Mississippi 'I consider Bryan a win ner this year." he said. 'I have been a Bryan elector once in my life, but have never known the Nebraskan's chances to be so good as they are in the coming election.
 If l mistake not Bryan will win the office by an enormous majority, for he has the people with him. His strength will increase as the day approaches. while Taft is weakening all the time.
 we are having little politics in our county right now. Mallory is the only active candidate for governor yet in the field, and he has many active friends in Clanton where he will no doubt poll a big vote.
 The farmers report bigger and better crops this year than have been known for some time. The prospects seem to be very encouraging"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
Hartman and the Gould Lines

When George J. Gould invaded the territory of the Pennsylvania railroad in the east and the territory of MT. Hartman in the middle west and the far west he bit of more than he could chew. He tried to build line from Baltimore to San Francisco with end- less feeders or side lines, but he was caught in the effort by the October financial storm, and four of his roads were compelled to seek safety in rs- ceiverships.
 Right at this point comes along the conouering MT. Hartman and a peace compact between these two financial pveriords has been agreed upon MT. Hartman is to assist in financing nA embarrassed Gould lines and n rsnrn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02

to do it. We are going ahead and no organizers or officers are to be free for one moment from the dastardly deeds of the men who are under them. Every man must stand not only for himself but for his followers.
 If murder Is done, hold responsible the officers of the corporation which commits 1t or sanctions 1t or winks at it. Get at the fountain source. I am in favor of martial law in the lawless districts and if 1t were real martial law no honest man would object to being questioned or asked as to his movements or as to what he had upon his person or in his home. Only the criminal would be punished.
 There has been whole lot of dallying, and things done in this district in years gone by which are subject to criticism; but the district is open now. It Is wide open. It is big, and wide, and broad, and no labor leader. nor mine operator or any alleged politician has anything to do with it. The business people are going to run this district on strictly honest and fair grounds. We people who are inter ested in Birmingham are going ahead and are going to have a hand in it.
 We are here to live and be happy; and raise our families in contentment and do the best we can for them. without plac- ing ourselves in position of being blown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Building Activity.

'The real building activity of Birming- ham and the immediate vicinity, which to all intents and purposes Is part of the city Is not shown in the monthly state- ment of the city building inspector, said a contractor yesterday.
 While the largest buildings, of course, are going up in the city proper, the ag- gregate amount that is being put into res- idences and other buildings in the imme- diate suburbs is simply wonderful, and would add greatly to the monthly re- port if it could be included.
 "The fact is, there is really more ae- tivity in the building of residences in the outlying territory than in the city. This activity is not confined, either, to one or a few sections. It is general all over the district, and is a significant index to the good faith the people have in the continued prosperity of the district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
MEMS CLOTHING FOR FALL.

From the Kansas City Times.
 Retail ciothers are making due prepa- ration for the fall, and are calling for their stocks of suits, trousers and over coats to be delivered in time for an early showing. The woolen suit in dark shade, made in sack coat style, Is the heaviest seller. On the English walking suit pat terms the clothiers are also to make a complete showing of fall styles. The light topcoat for the fall is to be made from fancy materials. and the herring bone fabrics are showing considerable pulling qualities. On boys suits tho prices for the fall will be from 10 to 20 per cent under the last year, and the gar- ments are to be made up mostly in wool- ems and mixtures. The trousers for fall, as shown In the wholesale lines, are in striped worsteds and quiet plaid effects. Heavy winter overcoats are not selling to the retail trade in large volume. The retailers arp waiting for the final decision from abroad as to what class of cloths will be in vogue. Rough faced goods are expected by some to occupy a prominent place this winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
AN OCEAN LINERS CARGO.
Four Hundred Longshoremen Rush Day and Night to Load One Ship.

Ernest Poole, in the August Every
 body's.
 Down on the wharf the rush was at its height. Under the sputtering bluish arc lights, amid endless clang and rum ble, the produce of America came in From the prairies, the mines and the mills, from the forests. the cotton plan tations, tobacco fields, orchards and vineyards, from the oil fields and meat packing houses. from the grimy factor les large and small: ponderous engines of steel, harvesters, reapers. automo- piles, bars of silver and yellow bricks of gold, bales of cotton and wool and hides and tobacco. meats, barrels of -four, and boxes of fruit, hogsheads Of oil and casks of wine; tens of thou sands of things and machines to make things-piled up on the wharf by tie acre. And still all night the teams clattered In and the tugs puffed up with the barges; and from hundreds of miles away the trains were rushing hither bringing more boxes and barrels and bags to be packed in at the last mo- ment.
 In gangs at every hatchway the 400 men were trundling heaving, straining, a rough crowd, cursing and Joking at the hoarse shouts of the foremen, while from the darkness outside heavy black rope nets dropped down to gath CT gigantic handfuls of cargo, swing them back up to the deck of the ship and then down into her hold So all through the night and right up to the h our of sailing the rush went on. For the great ocean liners work is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a month And tn ship must sail on time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-02
AMERICA USES MANY BARRELS

From the American Grocer.
 Upward of 150.oooooo barrels and cir- cular packages are manufactured in the United States annually. Few people, ex- cept those whose business 1t is to know, realize the extensiveness of the cooper age industry In this country.
 The heaviest demand comes from the cement business. The flour business ranks next, closely followed by sugar. Containers for fence staples, bolts, nuts, nails and packages of roasted coffee, spices. crockery. fruits and vegetables follow in the order named, while glass manufacturers. baking powder companies, liquor dstillers and candy, tobacco and cheese packers are big users of barrels. The demand for barrels for molasses. oil, lard and pork is also enormous, while dry paint, glue, snuff, oatmeal, screws, castings and general hardwood articles annually increase the demand on tho cooperage supply.
 While the amount of the expenditure for barrels can be quite closely estimated for a given year, 1t is not possible to say how many barrels are in actual use. The life of a barrel is put down at one year by the trade, but this is far from true. A majority of barrels are used many times. They begin as sugar or flour bar rels, and are then sold to the farmer for shipping his produce to the market. 1t may be that they are returned to him sew eral times, carrying his potatoes to the market on the first trip and tobacco or lettuce on the next, each cargo being lighter in weight than the previous one. owing to the weakened condition of the barrel Finally the barrel may serve out It's life work as a refuse receptacle, and in the end 1t can be used as fuel. Thus it may be said that barrel fills as use- full a career as almost any other manu- factured article, and its life is much longer than a season.