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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
Congressman Kicks.

Congressman d. R. Anthony
writes to the Capital to say that a
communication which appeared in
this paper on April 14th does him
a graat injustice. In this article
was this statement: "Dsn voted
With Cannon to retsiR duty on
sugar to enable the trust to continue
Its tax of two cents P@und." Mr..
Anthony says that this is true and
that every member of the Ksuses
delegation voted just as he die.
Another Statement IN this article
was, '4He voted wish Cannon 20
prevent the increase Of tax on beea." ;"
Mr. Anthony says viIxt this Is abso-
lutely untrue. He never cast wete
either fec or against a tax on besr.
In fact, 8 domestic tex on beer is
not mentioned ia the Payne tUyiff
bill. 'Hr. Antaoay says, however,
that he has always stood ready to
,voteffor an incfease'in tax whonoyer
the opportunity offered. He taas
voted GA this question whenever the
opportunity Offered as did all the
other seven members of the Con
gressIonal delegation. Coatinuing,
Mr.. Anthony says, "Further along
the article says thet Murdoch and
Madisen's constituents prefer
cheaper sugar and riothiag sa& are
not mach concerned about cheaper
beer aad implies that these Con
gressmen did not vote as 1 did on
the tariff bill, when the facts are
that ufy vote and Murdock's and
Madison's votes were exactly the
same all through or every vote aakeD
on the question of duties during the
consideration of the Payne bill in
the Housc.-Capitsl.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
FLEET TO MEDITERRANEAN.

Warned by the experience of thc
recent nassaores in Txekey the
United States is to maintain a sQua
dron in the Mediterranean hereafter
AS macy Americans are Enown to
have been killed during the reoenl
convulsion in the sultan's realm
there is an excellent reason why oul
goverRpent shOxld take this stop
1t ought to have been taken earlier.
Just how many lives of n0acombs.
tants weoe lost in the disturbance
is not known, but it is known thal
several American missionaries ano
American visitors were amoag the
number.
The British Government informed
Washington early in the melee thai
its vessels would afford protection
to Americaas in the trouble zoae.
This was an evidence of good will
which is appreciated In the United
States. Our Navy Department
ordered two or three cruisers to pro.
ceed to Turkish waters, but as they
had to cross the Atlantic to gel
there, many days necessarily elapsed
before they reached the scene of
the disturbances. SO far as the
general public has heard, they have
not arrived there yet As the
trouble Is supposed to have ended,
however, they may act be urgently
needed now, except to give relief,
as far as possible, to the destitute.
But this and other reasons suR.
gest the adv;sability of the establish
ment Of permanent station in the
Mediterranean. Nobody ean tell
how soon another outbreak will take
place in Turkey. While the
European section OF the empire
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
THIRD DIST. EnITORSMEET

The RepublicaR Third Dist
editorial association met in InGe
pendence last Saturday. There
was a .goOdly attendance and a
most excellent program.
The independence newspaper
boys showed the visiting brethren a
good time IN the shape of autono
bile rides and a fine banquet a.
night. The only trouble about the
matter was the boys waited to make
Independence the permanent place
of neeting. Winfield was finally
chosen as the next place of meeting.
Herbert Cavaaess and A. Fl. Turner
attended from here and Seth Wells
and Jesse Den:ous from Erie.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
Three-quarters of century age,

Three-qnarters of century age,
when we were sending to England
not only for rails and locomotives,
but also for men TO run the latter,
who would have imagined that a
day would come when the United
States would not only exceed Eng
land in railroad mileage, but all OF
Europe? That dav came long ago.
The United States in 1909 has ten
times as many miles of railway man
track as the United Kingdom. 1t
has 40 percent more miles than all
Of Europe. 1t has AZ percent of
the mileage of the entire world.
American built locomotives may be
found on every continent on the
globe. ThS 100000 employees OF
the railways of the United States
constitute as large an army as were
under the Russian and Japanese
commanders combined at the time
when President Roosevelt brought
the truce in 1905 which led to the
peace of Portsmouth.-G Demo
cTat
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14

appears to have accepted Mehemed
V. in good faith the Asiatic and
larger section is still to be heard
from. Then, too, there is always a
chance of trouble on the borders of
the Adriatic, the Aegean and the
Black seas. Europe's powder
magazine is located in the south
western corner of that continent.
While we have no territory there,
and would not accept any if 1t were
ffered to us by the unanimous voice
of all of its inhabitants and OF all
the countries of that continent, yet
we have citizens In that region, on
business or pleasure bent, and are
under some sort of an obligation to
protect them in time of trouble. A
few active American fighting craft
in the Mediterranean would meet
an. urgent need, and President Taft
aud his secretary OF the navy are
justified in placing them there. We
must protect our ewn citizens, and
not, as in the recent trouble, have
to rely on England or some other
country 10 do this for us.-Globe
democrat
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
CHOSE BOOKS TEACHERS
WANTED.

"While the State Text Book
! Commission was in session." said
Governor Stubs yesterday, "the
high school teachers of Topeka sent
the members a letter endorsing a
complete set of books to be adopted
by the commission. The commits
sion was too busy to look at Its mail
and did not open the letter until
after all of the adoptions had been
made. 1t was then opened and i,
developed that the commission had
adopted every single book endorsed
by the Topeka teachers. I call
this a coincidence"
Governor Stubbs learned this
through Rev. Charles M. Sheldon,
a member of the commission. yester-
day. Rev. Mr.. Sheldon stated fur
ther that the meeting was a picnic
for the members and that they were
sorry when it was over. awe
would have enjoyed continuing the
three OF four days more" he said,
"bat it would have been q waste ot
time and the states money. We
llsteaed to the agents one day anc
made the adoptions the second day.
We had been looking over and
through those books for taree week.
aed knew exactly what we wanted. >
Governor Stubbs asked Rev.
Sheldon if he thought a coed lot oi
tosks had bees adopted.
81 know they are good books, ,
was the reply, "thsy are a fine 10,
of bosks and Sast what are needed
in this state"
II am pToad ofthxt commission, y
said Governor Stubbslater. "Here
tofore It has taken 6 week or more
to adopt few books and evcn then
they were not always satisfactory
This commission was appeiated fe'
the purpose of putting the adoption
ON a sound business basis. take q
with ous unembcr :after the meeting
and he told me he could aut have
stated at any time what comps ny
published the different beeks. He
said hesdid not believe aay member
of the 'uommissien paid say ate-n
ton to'ths names of the publishing
houses. They were after the very
best books forrtse least msney, and
while G'can't say personally Il be
lieve that is what they get. 1T is a
pleasure to me to have appoiated
such a set of mea."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
a RAILROAD ANNIVERSARY.

When, GA May 10, 1869, Thoma'
Burant and Leland Stanford drov.
the golden spikes which completed
ths track laying of the iUaion anG
the Central Pacific roads, die
they or anybody else dIeam of the
expansion ia railway construction
which the next forty years would
bring In the United Statesi
Probably not. The meeting OF the
rails ON that day took place RsaI
Ogdea, in Utah There were 45,-
eoe Males of railway main track in
the country at that time. A little
over $40, 900 miles are heSe now.
The railway system of the United
States at this moment has aeapitali'
cation SIS, 900, ooe, 900, which
represents an eighth of the $I2o,
600, 600, 600 of vealth of the entire
couEtry in 1909.
The event in Utah forty gears
ago commenerated the completion
of the 6rst of the transcontineotal
lines of railway, and Transmitted the
dreams of Asa Whitney aud Thomas
H. Benton into fact. To-day six
lines spap the continent in the
United States. The Canadian
Pacific extends from the Atlantic to
the big Western ocean. The Grand
Trunk Pacific, another road crossing
through Canada, Is expected to
touch the Pacific in 1911. The
Canadian Northern, according to
srsssnt plans, will reach there BY
1o1I or earlier. Probably by the
tiue that Canada has its three
.r.nsoentinental roads the United
States will have added ons or two
more to It's own list
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14

The State of New York has built
300 miles of macsdam read in the
past ten years, but during the current
year no contracts for new roads will
be made. All of the appropriation
asked for, 81, soc. 900 will be needed
to repair the roads already built,
which are not on an average over FIVE
years old. The State Highway
Commission is considering new
methods Of road construction; and
apparently there is general agree
meut after such extensive experience
thstths automobile sAd the macIdam
road are Incompatible.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
The Chanute Cement and
Clay Product Co.

1t was our good fortune, one day
this week, to be invited by ]. w.
Pratt, constructing engineer of this
great plant, to take a drive with
him out to the plant and be shown
through.
We had not been out that way for
seme time and were astonished at
the vast amount of work that has
been done on this plant. There is
a wonderful array of immense build.
ings all erected in the very best style
and most substantial manner. The
frame work of most of the buildings
is steel with substantial brick walls.
Most of the machinery Is IN and
Is being placed, still there is con-
siderable yet to come. That our
readers may have some idea of the
size Of the plant, we give the d! :
mansions of the principal buildings:
Cement warehouse, I78 x96 feet;
Engine room, 1877 SO; Tube mill
room, 84x123; Raw material stor-
age building, 72x7o. This building
contains 3 large steel tanks as feet
high by 20 feet in diameter, Dryer
building, I28x45; Boiler house,
1Iex6s; Griffin mill room, u4Sx IS;
Machine shop and storage, I4o 81 !;
Kiln building. 147H 1sS; Crushe:
building, 7ox28.
Near the crusher building are 6
large steel storage tanks IS feet high
and IS feet in diameter, and large
water tank 20 feet high and ~ feet
in diameter, resting on a8 foot posts.
Laboratory 4ex4o. The Gypsum
storage room and some ethors are
still to be built.
The large eaglne to runthis enter
poise is a monster, 1900 horse power,
aad took six or seveu cars to haul
it in sections.
"A large lake has been construct
cd to supply water for the plant,
holding 1000, ooo gallons of water
The total cost of the plane will be-
sbeut s., 600, 900. III is expected
To be ready for operation in July;
When Running it will employ
several huadred men and turn Out
sooe barrels of cement per day.
1t, with the plaat north of town.
will be the dig industries Of Chanuts.
Our weld known townsmaA, JOHN
Pratt, has had fall change Of the
construction of this large plant sad
has added TO his already well known
reputation as careful palnstakins
k1;Idar
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14
Dr. CanfieId'S Burial,

In the Graduate Magazine, VIM.
Allen White thus tells of the burial
of DR.. James H. Garfield, a fsrmer
famous Kansas educator who at his
death was librarian of Columbia
university:
"The death of aay man ia a great
city seem sadder to one wke lives in
the country than the death of man
in 4 smaller community where his
loss comes as a personal sorrow to a
comparatively large circle of friends.
So the death, in New York City,
March a9, of DIR. James H. Can
field, formerly of the University of
Kansas, seemed to me some way
sadder than ordinary deaths, be-
cause, as he was lying in death, the
great city naared about him like a
great ocean going about its eternal
business, without Knowing that men
are born aed live and die. If DR..
Garfield had died in Lawrence after
thirty years of life in Kansas, the
stores would have closed, the uni
versity would have been in mourn
ing, and over ths whole state, in
every city and town, men and wemen
would have been moved perceptibly
as they went aboat their days work
while he was lying still in the
house of death. And when his body
had beea put away forever, 1t would
have been an event Of sad lmper-
tance to hundreds of thousands of
people.
"Bus 10 NewVsrk, wh're he lived
for ten years and died, only few
thousand people were personally
touched by his death. Yet they
were SO deeply moved by the passing
If the strong, gentle spirit that, in
the throng gathered in Kings
chapel on the grounds of Columbia
university TO mourn for him and to
bid him God speed, grief was un-
mIstakable. Paurs great letter TO
the Corinthians with Its noble dis
course on imm ortality was read.
The congregation, led by clear
young voices OF the chapel choir,
sarg, abide With Me- DR..
Butler, president of Columbia uni
versity, spoke briefly and simply.
The prayer for the dead was spoken
and then, upon the shoulders of the
youths who loved him, his body
was borne down the aisle while the
congregation sang, Lead Kindly
Light
"And so they took him out under
the clear blue spring sky that he
loved: and the last hands to min
is:er to him were those of youth;
the boys-the last generation of
the long line of boys, a line going |
back for thirty years-to whom
always he was Jimmy" They
Kept him young and he made them
wise. And it was fitting that in the
ind the sturdy shoulders Of youth
should bear to its last rest the bedy
,f him whose soul, always yeung,
never stopped under the burdens
Thioh youth in its weakness brought
. him."-Kansas City Journal. !
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-27
TELLS OF COLOMBIA PRESIDENT

"i was in Venezuela and Columbia in
1907" said j. G. Howell, of New York
at the Riggs house. President Reyes
Of Columbia had been in power a
couple of years when I was in Bogota,
and already the country was fast get
ting Strengthened out of the revolu-
tionary kinks that he found it in when
he seized the presidency in 1905.
Reyes is an extraordinary man.
There Is not better executive or an
ADLER statesman, or soldier in the
whole Of South America. The Colon
bians are contentious lot, and it re-
CURED the severest measures on the
part of Reyes when he took the presi-
dency to establish safety and order In
the republic. l think he will return
from Paris, as from what I know of
the man it is incomprehensible to me
that he would ever run away from
anything.
TT is not generally known in this
country that Colombia is almost as
large as the whole Of our Middle West.
1t Is an immense country. and full of
limitless opportunities Of all kinds.
"As an illustration of what kind of a
man Reyes is, when l was in Bogota
in 1907 he had the whole Colombian
army, generals and privates, working
on all kinds of public improvements,
especially roads, throughout the coun-
try."-Washington Post.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-27
AMERICANS ABROAD

William A. Brady, the theatrical
manager, when interviewed upon re-
turning from an European trip, had
this to say about American million
aires abroad:
Most of those have met are
snobs. In some way or other they
seem to acquire more snobbishness
with more millions. They get all they
can out of America. They suck the
blood Of the country and then they
go to live abroad because they can get
in Europe something that they can't
get here-the privilege of hobnobbing
with a prince or duke or a marquis.
But the English don't think any
thing more of sheep like these fell
lows than we do. Englishmen may
tolerate expatriated Americans and
take their money, but they have no
illusions about them. The Englishman
thinks the sun, moon and stars were
created just to light his little island. :
Il went to Mr.. Reid's Fourth of
July reception" continued Mr. Brady.
ut was very beautiful spectacle,
with powdered English flunkies every
where. But as one funky called out,
Mrs. Jones Of Chicago with sheer
on his face, another would bawl, Mrs.
Brown of Minneapolis with an ooh, I
say expression that made me sick
I've no criticism to make Of Eng
lishmen," Mr.. Brady concluded. 1.-THE
Englishman is cold and suspicious to
stranger, but once he's your friend
he's your friend for life"
Neither has the Englishman any
criticism to make Of the American who
sails under his true colors. This
expatriated American who affects to
sneer at everything American when
he goes to Europe to spend the money
some one else made for him here can
expect to be looked upon as snob
abroad and at home
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-27

levying Of the road tax when the Of.
feet win mean paved roads through
the country. Do not the farmers
need them as bad as the city folks
and figure the cost the tax payers
of the city property are compelled
to pay when street Is to be paved.
In foreign countries where the land
Is double the value in this country
the roadways are not half as wide as
in the United States. In Germany the
width of the roads are only from 20
TO 20 feet, and the same conditions
prevail in Prussia, and 1t is found that
the roads are amply wide to take care
Of all traffic.
The submission of few figures on
narrowing the highway will be very
important at the present time. The
Gle t approximate figures of miles
of roads in the following states are
Minnesota, $4,000; Wisconsin, 100000;
Michigan, 10000; Iowa 10000; Kansas
10000; Nebraska, 5000; Missouri, So
600; Illinois, $4,000; Indiana, 10000;
Ohio, 10000 making total Of 100000
miles of highway.
Reducing the widths of these public
highways, which now average sixty-six
feet to th1rty-six feet, leaving them
still much wider than the highways Of
Prussia, would give back to the farm
ers OF those states for cultivation,
100000 acres Of generally tillable
land, which at an average valuation of
800 per acre would mean the restora-
ton to the producing values of the
states named Of $3.50, 100000. This
sum has an annual interest value Of
$l250O,000 an amount which might be
recovered, and If applied to the proper
scientific construction of roads in the
United States would in few years
give US the most extensive and finest
country road system In the world.
When it Is taken into considcra-
ton that fully rs per cent Of the high
ways, and this may be taken as a
safe estimate, are not worked for the
betterment of road bed on an aver
age Of once year, it means the lying
idle OF 1,s75,00o acres every year,
which at the rental of 81 per acre
means yearly loss to the state Of
$7500,000 When this needless loss is
taken into consideration, waste that
can be SO easily remedied, it seems
that the time is ripe for some action
along this line, and the movement If
once taken up will undoubtedly receive
the active cooperation of the farmers
of the state
The Iowa press has entered into this
good roads debate in way that means
business.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-27
QUICK IN WIT AS IN WAR.

A good story coming from across
the water concerns the quick wit of a
German attache at the London en-
bassy who was asked whether he had
yet seen Major du Maurier's play, "An
Englishman's Homer"
AS soon as this drama was present
ed, and especially since 1t has been
made accessible as q book, the public
has been keen to know how the Ger
mans view satire which makes the
English volunteer army a laughable
failure in the face of German enemy.
Have you seen An Englishman's
Homer" the attache was asked; to
which he replied:
II saw some military play the other
evening; 1t may have been called AN
Englishman's Home but 1t might just
as we'll have been called What Every
German Knows. "-Harper's.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-27
BLOOMFIELD.

Bloomfield-Dr. and Mrs. H. c..
Young and Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Taylor
drove to Belknap Monday to meet Miss
Miriam Young, who has been visiting
relatives at Hutchinson. Kansas, ana
Mrs. Ella Brouhard and son of Little
River. Kansas, who accompanied Miss
Young home.
Guy Hatton received word from
Mrs. Hatton, who Is at Spokane, Wash.
stating that her brother Is very much
improved.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Cheney and DR..
l.. l.. Pitman left Monday for the land
drawing and to attend the exposition.
s. l.. Berry spent Monday in Drake
vile on business.
Mrs. Mary Bassett Of Cantril, Ia,
was taken to the Shelton hospital on
Tuesday for treatment for cancer.
Miss Vera Mills and Mrs. V. e.
Brown and son Dec will leave Monday
for Trenton, Mo-, to visit Mrs. A. E..
Mrs. G. c. Brunk of Pulaski left
Tuesday for visit in western Nebr.,
and southern Kansas with relatives.
Marshall Matthew who has been
with his uncle, DR.. H. c. Finch of
Pulaski Ave or six years, left Monday
for a visit in Chicago.
Miss Hope Bryan will return this
"~Sh - oiit o''t'Si, 49,, w iAS'S oiic LAS
spent two weeks at the home Of her
sister, Mrs. Harry Norris.
j. w. Eckerd Is now putting in -
900 feet of cement flooring In the base
ment of the new l.. e. Goode residence.
Geo. Johnson Of Unionville, Mo-, is
visiting at the home of Harry Easton
and other relatives in this city.
Al the Methodist Epworth league
social held at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Argus Sturgeon last Wednesday
$685. was taken in.
Miss Eva Putnam entertained a
dozen ladies at a four course eight
O'Clock breakfast Thursday morning in
honor of her sister Mrs. Eta Scran-
ton of Washington, Ia, who has been
a guest at the Putnam home and who
lives for her home Saturday.
w. w. Wishard Is papering his har-
ness store on the east side of the
square this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lowenberg ex-
pect to move into the new Fl. w
Duckworth cottage nearing completion
in the southeast part Of the city.
Miss Minerva Bolts Of Moulton was
the guest Of Mrs. Retta Collins We'd
nesday.
Charles Jacobs and Bruce Kratzer
have bought the w. II. Leon meat
market Mr.. Leon will be employed by
these gentlemen at present.
Mrs. Will Hill and son Eugene left
Thursday for visit at Marshall Mo-
The Royal Neighbors held their pic
mic as scheduled and gave splendid
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-27
A TRIPLE PERSONALITY.

DR.. Clifford tells of an amusing adj
venture which happened on one occa.
sion when he was conducting mis-,
sion service at Carr's Lane Birming.
ham. Arriving only few minutes be,
fore the commencement, the doctor
was refused admission by the police
man at the door.
Il want to go in," said DR.. Clifford
Are you a seat holder?" asked the
official
No, am not"
"Then you can't go in"
81 think" remarked the famous pas
sive register, "that there will be room
for me in the pulpit"
81 am not so sure Of it," retorted the
other.
But am Dr. Clifford, and am
due to preach in another minute and a
half"
ooh, are your said the incredulous
policeman. 81 have let in two DR.
Cliffords already. London Telegraph