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The new era., 1910-02-17

Col Wesley Richard Andrews, sol.
dier, editor and statesman. died at III
tusville, Pa, on the 5th inst, at the
age of seventy-two. He was the found
er of the Meadville. Pa. Republican.
The only relative surviving is William
H. Andrews. delegate in Congress from
New Mexico.
At Niagara few days since young
woman. thought to be Miss Beatrice
R. Snyder of Buffalo. committed sui
eide today by wading into the river
just above Prospect point and going
over the American falls. AS her body
swept over the brink of the cataract
she turned her face toward her would
be rescuers and smiled farewell to
item.
President Lewis OF the United Mine
Workers of America Is confident, ac-
cording to an official statement given
out at Wheeling, that the coal miners
and bituminous operators will get to-
gether again before the expiration Of
the present wage contract, April LIST.
and that the result will be the con-
cession of substantial wage increase
for the miners all over the country.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont has invited
the negro women of New York to join
the Political Equality Club, of which
she is president. Ultimately they may
form suffrage associations of their
own, but for the present as many as
wish will be admitted to the Political
Equality Club. Forty enrolled at a
meeting Addressed by Mrs. Belmont
in negro church.
After three days of incessant labor,
only four feet of many miles OF the
subterranean passages of the ST. Paul
mine at Cherry, ILL.,. were opened and
it is problematical when the one hun
dred and sixty-seven bodies will be
brought to the surface. Rocks as large
as steamer trunks are piled as high
as the roof and it may take weeks to
clear the levels.
During the year 1909 forty-three
more associations for the prevention
OF tuberculosis were formed than dur
ing the precious twelve months, and
sixty-two more hospitals and sanato-
ria were established. On January
1st, 1910, there were in the United
States 394 anti-tuberculosis associa-
tions, 1856 hospitals and tuberculosis
sanatoria and 265 special tuberculosis
dispensaries.
The New York insurance department
has issued the report of its examina-
ton of16e New York grand lodge of
the AhItent Order of United Work
men. This shows that on August 31st
the total assets were $47.6S3, while the
liabilities were $5O6,sO6, OF which
s5O5.4O5 were unpaid death claims.
The report says that the condition is
Que to the inadequacy of former rates.
Eighteen women who have voted
for president of the United
States have formed an organ.
ization in New York to spread
the gospel of equal suffrage. They
have named themselves the League of
Women Who Have Voted for Presi-
dent" and the Martha Washington ho-
tel is their headquarters. Miss Alice
]. Saunders. Of Colorado and New
York, is chairman of the executive
committee. and Mrs. A. G. Fiske Q,
Denver is secretary and treasurer.
The new era., 1910-02-17
For Shame, Mr. staaaers.

"Our splendid cook left to-day and
had to take her place" said Mrs. Stag
gers. Il hope shall be successful in
initiating her."
Il certainly hope you will be sue
cessful in following in her footsteps"
suggestively remarked old man Stag
gers as he chewed on a crisp-boiled
potato
The new era., 1910-02-17
VOICE OF. EXPERIENCE

Excuse me, gents, would you mind
givin' dime to er poor feller wot was
shot in der war?"
Where were you shot?"
"In der spinal column, sir"
Beat it! There wasn't any such
battle!"
The new era., 1910-02-17
SUGAR Trusts Fine.

New York.-Six hundred thousand
dollars is the amount the National
sugar Refining Company will pay the
government as restitution for back
duties for the underweighing of sugar.
The new era., 1910-02-17
So Touching.

SO Touching.
Anxious Suitor-But, sir, thrill at
your daughters slightest touch.
Practical Father-Young man, find
her slightest touch is usually for .
hundred dollars.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10

VIZ ITH a navy increasing in size, the
Wv estimates for the expense of the
naval establishment for the next ifs
cal year show a saving of over 81,
100000, as compared with the amount
appropriated last year. For the pres
ent fiscal year the estimates were
$10,0e0,000 less than the appropria-
tons for the preceding year. The
two years taken together show econ
omy with increased efficiency.
Competition in the fleet has been
encouraged and has resulted in better
target practise, economy in coal con-
sumption and in consumption of sup
plies. Full power trials of vessels
under cruising conditions have been
conducted. The fastest battleships
on the recent full power trials were
the only ones repaired at navy yards
under the present system of navy
yard organization.
The greatest progress in the navy
has been in target practise. 1t has
been due to carefully conducted com
petitions, where ship has been pitted
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10

VXJASHINGTON.-C of the
Wv Currency Murray is now hard at
work in making sharper and more
searching the official supervision and
control of the national banks. He re-
quires the examiners to make their
Investigations more complete and ex-
acting. He has changed examiners
from one district to another, and if
they thus lose something of knowledge
about local conditions, they are set
free from influences which breed par
TALLY and prejudice. Official inquiry
is in this way lifted above cliques and
the mastery of one or two institutions
in city.
The latest step is to call on the ex-
aminers in the several districts to
make out lists of the concerns which
are largest borrowers at the banks.
Such reports from the II districts are
to be tabulated at the Washington
Office which will be SO created clear
ing house of commercial credits. The
record is to be kept in confidence,
and the names of banks carrying
heavy lines of paper will not be ex-
posed.
Individuals and corporations which
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10

TT HE legal battle which has ragged
Al in Kentucky for several genera
tions over the validity of so-called
blanket" grants of land by Virginia,
the mother state, and even Kentucky
itself during the earlier years of
statehood, mas come before the Su-
preme court of the United States for
decision. Titles to lands now said to
be worth at least SO, 100000 depend
upon the decision of the court Orig
inally some of the land was procured
at 2 cents an acre.
Arguments were made as to the
constitutionality of the Kentucky
statute under which 1t is claimed a
forfeiture of the title to 10000 acres
of land, held by the Kentucky Union
company, would be worked in favor
of the occupants of the land Imme-
diately after this case, it is expected
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Supreme Court May Unsquat 100000

the suits involving the title of the
eastern Kentucky lands will be taken
up.
About 100000 acres of land are
said to lie under the doubtful title of
these blanket grants. On the other
hand, 800, 900 citizens of Kentucky
have entered these lands. Claimants
under the blanket grants call them
"squatters.''
The attorney general of the com
monwealth of Kentucky has ap-
peared in the supreme @ourt to as
sert in defense of their claim of title
that they are the people who have
built up the state, and erected a COM
monwealth, with its court houses and
school houses, it's municipalities and
internal improvements.
They have for years, the attorney
general has said in brief, filed with
the court, paid taxes on the land.
while a search of the records, where
such information would be found, he
says, shows that the sum total of all
taxes paid by the claimants under the
Virginia grants in litigation, since
the organization of Kentucky in 1892,
to the present time. does not exceed
SIS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Moi can Met Els Match.

John R. Mclean stepped in front OF
a lurching Irishman one evening and
obstructed the sidewalk so that tho
Irishman was obliged to stop and look
at him. Mclean said:
Here's that half dollar l borrowed
of you. Now you must quit telling
the neighbors that 1 never pay my
debts"
Half drunk, and wholly dazed, the
Irishman took the silver piece, looked
at it intently, and then said:
BE dad, yez can't get of thot aisy-
It wor whole dollar that yeZ
borryd; so fork over"
And he forked over another half
dollar, and went his way, laughing
heartily at the quick wit of the Irish
man--I1lustrated Sunday Magazine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10

THE government of the United
i States has turned its whole detec-
tive machinery toward unearthing and
destroying the white slave traffic, as
1t exists between the states or between
foreign countries and the United
States. 1t is the plan of the depart
ment of justice to make one sweep on
all the large cities at once. and strike.
If possible, one staggering blow at the
traffic.
The governments authority comes
from the Mann act, imposing upon the
Interstate aspects of the crime penal
ties of FIVE years Imprisonment or a
fine of Sc, 900. According to informa-
ton already received at Washington.
Pittsburs is the center of the trade,
though clues discovered in Chicago
make that city an important substa-
uon- The frsts swoop. l. is intended.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
To Police Doniphan Lake.

A movement is on foot to stop sein-
ing in Doniphan lake, the best fishing
resort in Kansas. The fact that the
lake is not wholly in Kansas compli-
Gates the matter, but J. w. Orr, repre-
sentative for Atchison county, wiz in
troduce bill to conform to measure
passed by the last congress to provide
for the policing of disputed territory
where the boundary of Kansas and
Missouri shifts with the river A
similar measure will be introduced
and urged in the Missouri legislature
by representatives of Buchanan coun-
ty. The measure also will cover liquor
dealing on disputed territory, which
has caused Atchison county, Kan, and
Platte county, Mo, trouble.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Latest Kansas Events.
Western Kansas Soil Survey.


The department of agriculture has
Just finished a reconnaissance soil
survey covering the entire western
half of the state of Kansas A report
and map covering the section sur
veyed are now being prepared. This
survey covers an erea OF 10000
square miles and embraces the 46
western counties of the state. The
survey has shown that Western Kan
sas contains very little land which
cannot be used for agricultural pur-
poses. number of different types of
soil were encountered, upon some of
which the chances for successful
agriculture are much greater than
upon others. In general, the soil may
be divided into the loans, or silt
loans, which cover by far the great
er part of the state, and which are
locally spoken of as hard or
tight" the sandy loans, the sand
hills, the red lands, occurring in the
southeastern section of the area sur
veyed, and the alluvia1 bottoms. The
investigation showed that the chances
for successful agriculture in average
years is best for most crops on the
sandy loan soils. This is especially
true of cultivated crops, like kaffir
corn, milo maize, sorghum and
broomcorn, while shallow-rooted crops
like wheat, do better upon the hard
land. Alfalfa does best upon the
alluvial bottom soils, although in the
eastern part of the survey it is grown
with success upon the uplands. In
the eastern half of the survey the
rainfall is usually sufficient to insure
good crops, and this section consti-
tutes one of the best agricultural
parts of the state. In the western
part the rainfall is less than 20 inches
and is often insufficient for general
farm crops, except those that are
adapted to semi-arid conditions. This
section of the state is largely unde-
veloped agriculturally, but the sue
cess which is being attained in the
growing of broomcorn, kaffir corn,
milo maize, sorghum and similar
crops would indicate that it can sup
port, if proper methods of soil man
agement are adopted, a much larger
agricultural population.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Uncle Sam Goes After White Slavers

Will be started simultaneously in New
York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago
and San Francisco.
Officers at ports of entry have been
asked to increase their vigilance and
to inspect female immigrants with pc
culiar care Meanwhile officers at in
land cities will watch and report the
movements of all suspects.
In New York some months ago Dis
trict Attorney Whitman made an eff
fort to trap some of the men back
of the trade in that city, but they es-
capped The only way to capture the
offenders, according to the agents of
the department of justice, is to have
the authorities of all the large cities
act together. The government agents
will not try to clean up the vari-
Gus cities They will simply go after
the leaders of the syndicate.
In Chicago some arrests have been
made. but these are only the begin
ming of the general crusade, it is
said In several cases 1T was found
that men in that city had brought
women from France Some of the
lines developed in Chicago by these
arrests can be traced throughout the
country
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
SANITATION IN SCHOOLS
Physical Health and Strength Are 20
sentiaI to a Vigorous
Mind.

Keeping the skin in good condition
Is so important to the general health
that it should receive especial atten-
ton at school. The school laVatory as
well as the home bathroom, should Do
furnished with Resino1 Soap, because
1t removes the germ-laden dust OF
the playground and street atmosphere
better than anything else. It prevents
the advent of contagious skin trou-
bles and keeps the complexion fresh.
rosy and smooth as that OF youth
should be. No child should be ham,
pered or disfigured with skin erup-
lions when a few applications of Resi-
mol Ointment will cure them. Eczema
Acne, Rashes, Sores, Pimples and
blotches are quickly cured with this
easily applied remedy. and it should
be kept in every home so that 1t can
be used at the first appearance o.
skin troubles.
Students who shave will find the
Resinol Medicated Shaving Stick the
best It is highly recommended by
physicians and skin specialists to keep
the face free from pimples and erup-
tions It's soothing, healing lathef
counteracts any irritation or tender
ness from shaving too close. Resinol
Soap and Ointment can be obtained
wherever the best toilet articles are
sold.
Booklet on "Care of the Skin and
Complexion" sent free. Resinol Chem,
ical Co, Baltimore, Md.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Hardly a compIlment.

In the excitement of the moment
public speakers often say the opposite
of what they mean to convey, and
when Henry Irving gave reading In
the Ulster hall, in 1875" says Bran
Stoker, in Personal "reminiscences
of Henry Irving" ''one speaker made
as pretty an Irish bull as could be
found, though the bull is generally sup
posed to belong to other provinces
than the hard-headed Ulster. In des-
canting on the many virtues of the
guest of the evening he mentioned the
excellence of his moral nature and rect
itude of his private life in these
terms: "Mr. Irving, sir, is a gentle
man what leads a life of unbroken
bIemiSh'"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Kansas CITY Theaters.

The engagement of the Lew Fields
company in 1.-THE Jolly Bachelors" al
the Shubert has been extended to the
night of December z. This is good
news to theater goers who enjoy a
good laugh. The last half of the week
"Kermess' will be given by local
dancers.
At the Willis Wood for the week be-
ginning Sunday, December 4, David
Belasco's production of the delightful
comedy rs Matrimony a Failure? ?"
will be the attraction. The cast is
one of unusual strength and excellence
and comes directly from a long run
at the Republic theater in New York.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Savings Made in the Naval Service

against ship. man against man and of
ficer against officer. In this way every
one has been put upon his mettle and
results have closely measured the
relative worth of the various ships
and officers.
The cost of work at navy yards
has fallen materially. Steel castings
made at navy yards have been re-
duced from about 9 cents a pound to
about 5 cents, and iron castings have
been cut from about Az cents
pound to 21k.
Although the navy has increased in
size, the cost of the coal is expected
to be about $1,000,0O0 less during the
current fiscal year than during the
previous one. The estimates for fuel
for the coming year have been de-
creased by $1,O00,0OO. Improvement
has been made in the use of lubri-
eating oil. The cost of supplies has
been reduced by more than 20 per
cent, and in freight and transporta-
ton of supplies there has been
saving of about 100000.
The most serious waste of funds
under the navy department has prob
ably been that due to expenditures
part in any future war. There are
many of these vessels that will prob
ably be relegated to the reserve or
be placed out of commission in the
near future.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10

strain their credit soon get beyond the
resources of their home banks They
go abroad for loans Note brokers de-
When failures occur it often happens
that the bankrupt is debtor to banks
at points remote from each other.
One lender does not know how many
others have been buying the same
sort of paper. Reliance on business
statements becomes trust on broken
reeds by changed conditions as well
as by over-sanguine estimates.
The new policy of Comptroller Muir
ends of the transaction. Borrowers
who expand unduly will take warning
when they learn that record of all
their loans is kept for review. They
will discern the need of caution in put
ting out their obligations, and will do
less business on other peoples cap
ital. They will feel some alarm at the
broad semi-publicity of their affairs
and will reduce their appeals to lend
ers. The weakest of the large Dor
rowers will first be compelled to re-
much on borrowing will see the veil
lifted from their operations and will
come to act knowing that they are do
ing business in the open. Those who
are fairly entitled to the credit which
they ask can get no harm The dan
ger of the output of bad paper will be
diminished, and banks will be warned
against assets not desirable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Finds Pot of Old Money.

Chris Gous, who lives in Kickapoo
township, was digging a trench when
he unearthed an iron pot containing a
large quantity of paper money The
money, amounting to several thou
sand dollars, had been buried SO long
that 1t crumbled to pieces as soon as
exposed to the air. 1t is not believed
II will be redeemed. The scene of the
finding of the treasure was the center
of much turmoil during the border
wars in Kansas and it is believed the
money was buried at that time.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Iron Ore Near saIina.

A composition said to be ore contain
ing iron, lead and zinc was found
about 100 feet below the surface of the
Elmer Headquist and Gust Pilburg
farms, eight miles west of Salina. II
is said to be in paying quantities and
there is considerable excitement
among the farmers of that neighbor.
hood Two men from Denver, who
made the discovery, offered a large
price for the farms but the offers were
declined.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Only Half Pass Examination.

All the examination papers of those
who took the quiz before the state
board of pharmacy at Pittsburg have
been graded and just half of the So
candidates passed. Those who failed
made an average of less than &c 2-3
per cent, or fell below so per cent in
one subject The applicants were ex-
amined in chemistry, pharmacy, ma
terra medica and Identification.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
A Normal Asks s2eo. 600.

Increased need of more buildings
and general enlargement of the state
manual training normal school here
caused superintendent A. H. Bushey,
secretary to the board of regents for
state normal schools, to recommend
that the next legislature be asked for
an appropriation of 1926, 900 for main
tenance for two years S150,000 of this
sum will be used for two new build
ings.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Troy to Buy Electricity.

Two towns in northeast Kansas are
soon to add electric lights to their
list of modern conveniences. Troy.
Doniphan county, viii be supplied
with electricity from the plant of the
Atchison Light company by the first
of December. Wetmore, in Nemaha
county, recently opened bids for the
erection and installation of a munic
ipal electrict light plant.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
cut Electric Liaht Cables.

Under the direction of Mayor
Hanna of Clay Center ten men led BY
City Clerk Guy Martin cut down the
poles and severed the main cable of
the local electric light company in an
effort to destroy the service of the
company Litigation growing out of
the differences between the city ad-
ministration and the company is now
pending in the courts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
A. Cousin of HadIey Dead.

Mrs Abner Hadley, cousin of
Herbert Hadley governor of Missouri,
died recently at the home of a rela-
tive in Emporia. The Hadleys came
to Kansas from Indiana in 1855 and
Mrs. Hadley was the first woman on
the townsite of Emporia, the day the
town was surveyed, February II, 1857.
She was born in North Carolina in
1880. The Hadleys lived in Emporia
% years, then moved to Garden City,
which since has been their home.
Mrs. Hadley was a charter member of
the First Methodist church of EN-
poria and a W. C. T. u worker
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
LEROY Flour Mill Burns.

The three-story -four mill of the
Neosho Valley Milling company at Lee
Roy burned recently with all contents
The loss is about s25,000 and the in
surance $4,000 on the building and
machinery and $1,000 on wheat and
flour. Five thousand bushels of wheat
and five carloads of -four burned.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Kansas Police Chiefs to Meet

The chiefs of police and the town
marshals of Kansas will meet in
Wichita in the Christmas holidays to
discuss the best method of keeping
down the liquor law violations in
Kansas. 1t will be the first meeting
of the kind to be held in this state.
Crime of all sorts will be discussed
and preventive measures will be sug-
gested.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10

Fifteen hundred schoolboys turned
out the other day and cleaned the
streets In the Sixth ward of Kansas
City, without asking any pay for their
services 1t was found when the
work was completed that not a boy
had sustained broken collar bone or
suffered bruises that made 1t neces-
nary for him to be taken to a hospital.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
chanute Bonds Issue Held up.

1t will require an act of the legis-
lature, it is thought, to validate Cha
nute's new bond issue of $4,000
for waterworks extension The attor-
ney for the Commerce Trust com
pany, purchasers of the bonds, has
filed an opinion declaring the issue
faulty for two reasons. First that
the proclamation for election was
not published every day for three
weeks as required by law. Second
that in the preparation of the ballots
used in the election strange liberties
had been taken with the wording as
prescribed by statute.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-12-10
Clay Center Library Site Purchased

Clay OeHter LIBRARY SIte FuTCHdSeut
The corner lots at Sixth street and
Lincoln avenue, block from the cor
ner where the new postoffice building
is to be located, have been bought
by the women of Clay Center assist
ed by the men, on which will be To-
Gated Carnegie library ana the club
house of the women's league of this
city