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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-16
PETER
cOrder Notes.

School will close April 22nd.
Gus Willis of Higginsville was
in town one day last week.
There are still a number of cas-
es of measles in town.
Mrs. Esther Boylan and Elk
zine Kramer were in Higginsville
Tuesday.
Harvey See visited friends in
Concordia last Sunday.
There was a little connection
in town Wednesday evening. A
team of mules belonging to Joe
Van Meter being scared of an
automobile broke lose and ran
away, passing through the Main
street Of the town., but without
damage.
DR.. Tindall of Higginsville was
in town on business one day this
week. Mr.. Tindall may return
and make his office in Corder.
There is going to be a com
bined school picnic at Three
Groves school on Friday, April
22nd. A number of the country
schools have combined and a big
basket dinner viii be included a.
mong other things in the days
program. All are invited to at
tend. 81
Misses Ruth Lewis, Josephine
! Holman and Mildred Bell are
) absent from school this week on
, account of the measles.
Sydney Willis and Dale Wilson
: spent the week end with friends
l and relatives in Malta Bend, re-
/. turning home Sunday evening.
S Miss Ollie Peoples left for
: Kansas City Sunday where she
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Sarvain.
t Mr.. Harris of the Jeffersonian
e printing office was visiting in
j Corder Sunday.
Miss Joda Groves was shopping
r in Kansas City Saturday,
Miss Juahita jackson of Hig.
e ginsville spent last Saturday and
o Sunday in Corder with friends.
Mrs. Benton Lewis and Miss
Mary Carlton were in Kansas
City last week.
a Mrs. Longest of Oklahoma il
visiting in Corder now with Mr.
y and Mrs. Harris Bray.
r Gus Crumpley and famil,
4 moved to Kansas City Thursda!
= where they will live this summer,
y Byron Saunders called on tn
a fairer sex near Lexington Sun
d day.
% Mrs. Henry Lieser fell ant
d, broke her hip bone this week a
y her home in Corder. She is i'm
proving and her speedily recov
t cry is hoped.
n. Miss Jewell Rogers entertain
ed quite a few of her intimat
N friends to a party last Monday a
es the home Of her sister, Mrs, j. l
IS, Burke on South Elizabeth stree.
10 Refreshments were served and a
IS pleasantly enjoyed the evening.
it Mrs. VIM. Bunch of Higgins
/, vile visited X. P. Kramer an
lg family Sunday.
ut Miss Hannah Groves returne
home Friday evening after an e'
= tended visit in different par
Of Missouri and Texas.
Ike John Morgan went to Kans'
City last week and to the su
as prise of the community return'
Saturday with a big Buick tou
ing car. This makes about fol-
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-16

E.. 0. Buck of waverly spent
Wednesday night in Lexington
on business.
Lafayette Gordon, who has
been visiting friends here for the
past few days returned to st.
Louis Tuesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Skinner re-
turned Tuesday from a short
visit in st. Louis.
Mrs. Z. E. Forster, who has
been visiting her son. J. NJ For
ster, returned r. home in
lSweet Springs ~L~~1
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-16
The Decline and Fall of Masonic
College, Lexington, Mo.

occurrence he may flight his
battles DER again" with a COM
rade of mutual enjoyment, and
the entertainment of the genera
ton born since the war.
Thus, "reminiscences of Lex
ington and Masonic College" in
the Lexington News of recent
date by Mr.. D. G. Allen of Liber-
ty, Missouri, are to me panora-
mic:
"ChildhoOd's days appear before
me,
Forms and scenes of long ago;
Like a dream they hover Ger me,
Calm and bright as evenings
glow"
l call out for the friends of my
youth; Billy MusgrOve responds
and l take up my parable.
1 am glad to confirm all that
Mr.. Allen says, for an unkind
thought is foreign to him and if
there is another side to the pie
ture, let it be turned to the wall
and forgotten.
Wherein he is mistaken is that
he still leans to the generous side
as when he makes President VIM.
T. Davis a "Reverand." To the
College also he is partial, 1t is
with the College that | deal, Its
decline and fall, and in retrospect
l see a step-mother to Masonic
orphans, especially those whose
youth called for material tender
ness and got the skim milk Of
kindness.
It was perhaps unavoidable
but orphans all looked alike to he
As for students not pensioners
there was little to attract or re
tain. Few, indeed, graduated
and from 1850 the institution de
clined and died in 1s5S.1s59.
The venture was good, but 10
cal rivalry was a fatal handicap
If my impression is corree
Fayette in Howard county was il
first home. Defeated aspirant
continued to agitate and unitin
at last on Lexington, the Missoul
Grand Lodge voted the chang
thereby antagonizing the friend
of Fayette and losing Central Nj
souri, patronage. There is ev
dence also of UNCONVENTIONAL wiz
pulling for College honors an
emoluments. In 1S52-1S53
Reverend" of the Methods
was the unwelcome president /
was soon let out, and thereaft'
Presbyterians dominated Il
faculty but of the laity Suddat
and Dunlop, Cumberland an
Episcopal respectively, being Il
exceptions, and Akers, itinerant
Methodist, whose clerical prete.
tons were not taken serious
by himself or any one else.
At that time discipline, if the.
ever had been any, was a stan
ing joke. A little before tv
students had fired the buildii
and got fired. Later anoth
drew his jack knife on his pr
lessor in class and still later, o.
morning at chapel on the bla'
board appeared these words
Enforce your laws If y
dare!''
The assembled faculty to-
the matter seriously. After
marks by President Davis, Pr
essor Akers said that he won
substitute:
violate them if you darel
This dare and counter dare "
an index of the feeling betwe
students and faculty. It is
Missouri legend that a man W
will take a dare win steal
sheep. In the present case
respective parties took the m
ter under advisement; judgm'
was suspended, but histori
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-16

spy calves We're carried 10 the
third floor, supplied with fodder
and the Monitor member of the
faculty was bombarded with fire
crackers, his room door fasten-
ed against his exit.
The calf joke was duly rep
rimanded; the perpetrators
were known but not named. They
wouldn't stand the outrage"
and the college lost five or six
of its brightest men whose sue
cess in life lends glory to Cobm-
bia instead of Lexington, only
one of whom Mr.. Allen mentions,
and he, not a celebrity but the
event t%ranspired after Mr.. Aliens
resignation which accounts for
the apparently strange omission.
The coming of "'Ephraim, anil
the going of Bob Carter very
much simplified matters. Carter
was in on any devilment, nut
was without tact, undiplomatic,
knew not his constitutional priv
ilege of silence and just couldn't
lie; hence he was a dangerous
conspirator, ready to ncriminate
himself, ready also to die rather
than incriminate any one else,
and so his departure was appre-
ciated.
"Ephraim' had a room all to
himself and was never known to
leave it. He was a friend of the
boys but a poor mixer and exer-
cised only a passive resistance
when made a scape goat. AT
ter he came insubordination be.
came anarchy and authority
school boys tale of ancient tyran
ny. Whatever happened, in thu
building, at the college, boarding
house, in the town, no matte.
wi ere or what, chargeeble to tn
college was admitted and loade'
upon him. Now "Ephraim wa
+ a dead niger Struggled int
s the college for dissection.
1t some time fell TO VIM. Cam
eron, professor of Greek an'
i Latin, to conduct chapel services
e In the Bible are many chapter
with claims to attention, but TO
s. him there was but one; 9Th
/ Lord is my Shepherd, l shall no
e. want !" but that excepted tn
d college presidency and l recal
an occasion when he did want
IS very much, to make the shelte
.e of the porch pillars, but failed
II Being strictly in his line a lin
Ie from Homer may be trimmed {
h tell how that,
d "The Cretan SNOWFALL reache
le him from afar,
n And plugged his plug hat with
a. mortal jar.
Iy OF laughable Incidents, Jimm
Somebody had the rostrum fC
re his Friday afternoon declam'
d. ton. His selection was "A D
70 scription of a Charrel House,
lg commencing Heavens, what
er solemn scene" Jimmy hesitate
O. looked around and seemed
ne sniff something, then remarke
as announcing a discover
Heavens, what a solemn scent.
)u Another time little Fred's selec
ion was on the death of Frankli
ok Overcome by stage fright, ]
e stood for a moment then begf
If crying and both fists in his ey
Id he screamed in broken syllable
"Frank-lin 's-dead, and boohc
ing beyond control went to b
as seat. "Wel Fred don't take
en- 50 hard, he died a long time age
a was President Davis cajollI
no sympathy. Of course, his v
a brought down the house.
he 1--WE laughed and clapped
at counterfeited glee-
mt At all his jokes and many a 10
cal had he"
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Following Is List of Contestants

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opportunity
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-10
How Votes Are Secured

papers the number Of votes for subscriptions
nsed any time during the contest.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
LLUYD U.lsGUoEi
AT OYSTER BAY
Believed Harmony Flea Was
Made to Roosevelt.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug 16.-Lloyd
G. Griscom, chairman of the New
York county Republican committee,
arrived from New York and proceed
ed directly to Sycamore Hill. Mr..
Griscom refused to discuss the sub
ject of the conference which he was
to have with Colonel Roosevelt, but it
was known he was the bearer of an
important message from President
Taft, whom he visited at Beverly,
Mass. Saturday night
Colonel Roosevelt intimated he
might have something to say at the
conclusion of the conference.
1t was generally believed that Mr..
Griscom took to Colonel Roosevelt an
urgent message looking toward har-
mony between all elements of the
party in the fall campaign. Upon
Colonel Roosevelt's reply, it is be
lieved, will depend in great measure
the future relations between the presi
dent and the ex-president AS the
recognized leader of the progressives
Colonel Roosevelt is looked to by the
administration in the hope that he
will exert all his influence in favor of
party harmony
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
PHYSICIANS ARE
VERY OPTIMISTIC
Say Crisis in Gaynor Case
Has About Passed.
CONDITION NEAR NORMAL

Temperature, Pulse and Respiration
Are Satisfactory, but Mo Decision
Has Been Reached Regarding Re-
moval of the Bullet-Patient Will
Be Removed to the Adirondacks as
Soor as Convaiescent.
New York, Aug. 16.-"One more day
and we will be able to call Mayor Gay
nor convalescent," was the declara-
tion at st. Mary's hospital in Hoboken.
The patients condition continued sat
isfactory when he awoke in the morn.
ing from his seventh night on a hos
pital cot His attendants were frank
ly cheerful and more optimistic than
on any previous occasion
The physicians will watch the pass
ing of the day with keen interest, for
with its safe conclusion the dreaded
bugbear of crisis" will be practical
ly over and they will allow themselves
to consider recovery assured The
official bulletin was as follows:
Mayor Gaynor has passed a good
night and slept well. He has taken
nourishment well and is in good gen
eral condition. Temperature, SO AS;
pulse, 20. and respiration. 16"
The police are engaging themselves
with the theory that James j Gal.
lagher. the wound be assassin. may
have had an accomplice. Gallagher
denies this, but man with a police
record is under suspicion.
Mayor Gaynor will be taken to the
Adirondacks just as soon as his condi-
tion permits, but whether he will un-
dergo an operation to remove the bull
let before his trip to the mountains
has not been fully determined
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
THREE CHILDREN DROWNED
Raft on Which They Are Playing Is
Capsized

Marinette, Wis, Aug. 16-A raft
on which five children, the eldest
fourteen years, was playing at the
Outlet river resort, near Lake Nopue-
bay, twenty miles north of Marinette,
tipped and three children were
drowned They were Hazel Lind
holm, fourteen years old; Eva Dorothy
Rengren and her brother William,
twelve and ten years old
Two other children were on the raft,
Ruth Olsen, eleven years old, and
William Lager, ten years old. The
Lager boy swan ashore. Ruth man
aged to get into shallow water, al.
though she could not swim. An effort
at rescue was made by Mrs. England.
proprietor of the summer hotel. but
she fell into deep hole and was her
self nearly drowned
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
MORE EVIDENCE
ABOUT M'MURRAY
Former District Attorney Tells
Of Indictments.

Sulphur, Okla, Aug. 16.-More de-
tails of J. F. McMurray's alleged activ-
ity at Washington to promote his 10
per cent attorney fees contracts were
related before the congressional in
vestigating committee.
w. B. Johnson, former United States
attorney, testified that certain indict-
ments against McMurray in 1906 were
ordered dismissed by the attorney
general The indictments were re-
turned against McMurray and others
in connection with 100000 expense
account which McMurray's firm had
filed against the Indians In prosecut-
ing citizenship cases. 1t was alleged
in the indictments that the expense
account had been padded"
At the time the indictments were
being investigated Cecil A. Lyon, ma
tional Republican committeeman for
previously had testified he had urged
the attorney general to investigate In.
dictments. but he declared he never
asked that they be dismissed. The
indictments later were ordered dis
missed.
During your term of Office how
many indictments were returned?"
Mr.. Johnson was asked.
about 5000"
"How many of those indictments
were dismissed?"
''Only one-that against McMur.
ray"
Cub Ream, an Indian, testified he
had been prevented from securing the
position of delegate to Washington foe
the Chickasaw tribe because he was
opposed to the contracts.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
LABOR PARTY IN NEW YORK
Organization Hopes to Nominate John
Mitchell for Governor.

New York, Aug. 16.-New York city
is to have brand new political party
Its platform and declaration of prin-
ciples have just been made public 1t
Is the first municipal labor party In
this city since the Henry George cam
paign of 1886
The organization is to be known as
the Federated Labor party of New
York. According to the organizers its
scope is for the present to be only
local, but plans for making 1t ma
tional party are to be launched in
time for the next presidential cam
paign.
The leaders of the movement hope
to nominate John Mitchell lately
lsader of the coal miners, for governor
at the next state election.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
AGAIN CALLS OUT TROOPS
One Thousand Militia Ordered to CO.
Iumbus, o.

Columbus, o., Aug 16-Prepara-
tions are being hastily made to rush
1000 soldiers into the city following
the orders of Governor Harmon call
ing out the troops. The action was
taken because of the increased rioting
In the carmen's strike on the street
railway here, the union carmen de.
manding a recognition OF their union
Governor Harmon acted on the ad.
vice of Adjutant General Weybrecht.
The announcement that troops were
again called out after the dismissal
last week of the 5000 soldiers who
served on strike duty here for ten
days created much excitement on the
streets. The ten days service of the
5000 troops which ended last week
cost the state $150.000.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
WOMEN SUPERIOR TO MEN
Mayor Fitzgerald Accounts for Lack
of Marriages in Soston.

Boston, Aug. 16.-Mayor John F..
Fitzgerald has come out with the
statement that the Boston girls do
not cotton" to the men of the Hub
and the one principal reason is that
the women are vastly much better
educated than the men and that in
many cases their salaries far exceed
those of the men who would mate
with them. Mayor Fitzgerald says:
THE fact that there are so many
women here. however, is not the rea-
son that there are so few marriages
proportionately. The trouble is that
the women and the men are not on a
par mentally"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
Loss viii Reach Millions.

Portland, Ore, Aug. 16.-Until a
general rain comes to break the long
dry period it is evident that the forest
fires now raging in score of districts
all over the Pacific Northwest will re-
main serious menace. The loss at
present can be counted only in mil.
lions, but how many can scarcely be
guessed. The forecaster gives no hope
for rain.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
DEATH LIST MAY
REACH THOUSANDS
Flood Sufferers in Japan in
Destitute Condition.

Toxic. Aug 16-Tokio's unprece.
dented flood has already claimed 700
lives. with the prospects that the to-
tai deaths will run into the thousands,
as the result OF the destitute condi.
tion of the sufferers and the inability
of the authorities to render any but
the slowest relief
There is the gravest danger also of
an epidemic sweeping the city. as it
Is now certain that 1t will be days be.
fore some oil the submerged sections
can be cleaned and disinfected
The waters of the Tonewaga river
have not risen since Sunday. but the
expected subsistence the moment the
crest of the flood was reached has
not yet materialized and the suburbs.
as well as about one-third of the city
proper, are still under water.
The police and 1000 other city au.
thorities are making heroic effort to
distribute food to the flood victims by
means of boats, but the service is
wholly inadequate and thousands are
not being provided. Owing to the cut
ting off of transportation lines the
city's food supply is running short
and the situation bids fair to become
acute.
Even the well to do people of the
city who have not been reached by
the flood are on short rations and
will remain sn until food EunnIiac rap
be brought In. The government is
considering the adyisability of CON
fiscating the stocks of food now on
hand.
Reports that come in from other
cities show conditions elsewhere to be
nearly as bad as in Toxic. Yokohama
and NagasaM have been hard hit ano
the deaths there will reach well into
the hundreds.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
ROBBERY PROBABLE MOTIVE
Wealthy Woman Ranch Owner Muir.
dered in California.

Lancaster, Cal, Aug. 16-In shall
low grave sunk In the sand of her
front yard pet dog uncovered the
body of Mrs. Freda Schultz Castine.
wealthy ranch owner.
Every indication points to murder,
with robbery as the motive. and tele-
grams have been sent to ports and
border cities between Galveston and
San Francisco to arrest the woman's
brother-in-law, Otto Schultz. who left
here after telling the station agent
of the Southern Pacific that he was
bound for Germany
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
Explosions Rrinu Rain.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 16--At Wal
lace, Ida, hundreds of pounds of dyna
mite hung to the limbs of trees on the
high points surrounding the city and
exploded in the hope that the effect
might produce rain to check the for
est fires is said to have result, for
at midnight rain began falling for the
first time in two months. The fall
has been heavy.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
HASKELL DEFlES THE COURTS
Orders Oklahoma State Officials to
Remove to Oklahoma CITY.

Guthrie. Okla, Aug 16-State Off
GERS are facing serious problem fol-
lowing the command of Governor Has
kell that they move their Offices to
Oklahoma City. They stand chance
OF being held in contempt of court il
the Offices are moved and the govern
or asserts he will declare their Offices
vacant IL they are not in Oklahoma
City within twenty-four hours.
This mixup follows the action taken
by the district court here some time
ago, when an order was issued re-
straining all state officers except the
governor from moving their Offices un-
til the capital case has been settled
on its merits.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
South Dakota Valuations.

Pierre, S. D.. Aug. 16.--The total as
sessed valuation of the state with
the figures as completed by the state
assessment board, will be $332,71S,-
600 OF this amount $32,537 900 is
corporate property, which is assessed
by the state board This Is an in
crease of little over $16,O00,000 over
the figures of last year.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
LIND SAYS HE STANDS PAT
Will Refuse Nomination for Governor
of Minnesota.

st. Paul, Aug. 16.-"I cling to my
original decision to refuse to be the
Democratic candidate for governor,
though l am writing without a full
knowledge of the situation"
This is the most important state
ment contained in letter received by
Frank A. Day from John Lind. The
letter was written under date of Aug
IL, the day Mr.. Lind returned from
his Alaskan trip.
Some of the local leaders among
the Democrats are practically agreed
that John Lind will not be the nom
inee. Even those who have clung
most tenaciously to the idea that In
the end Lind would accept are now
saving they have given up hope.
xrsv ST. r ~ 49,
sifsHs~ nE srk.t ssfhs saA,Ass.s :
- 's.u.@es.ioi, ssrotnacf o4D.eS
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
Drouth Kills the Fish.

Prairie du Chen, Wis.,, Aug. 16.--
Unless steps are taken at once to
save the fish the sport here will have
to be practically abandoned for sew.
eral years. Millions of fish are being
literally cooked alive in the shallow
waters of the lakes and sloughs in the
vicinity of this city.
1eWitI's s Witch Hazel SaIve
c.ras Diles. Scfsds. Barns
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
Pushed Under Train and Killed.

the subway an unidentified man was
pushed beneath the wheels and killed
Michael Copoto, laborer of Yonkers,
was arrested ana held pending an in
vestigation He is charged, in addi-
tion, with attempting to throw a sub
way inspector under q subway train.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
Bank in Examiners Hands.

Chelsea, s. D., Aug. 1.-THE State
bank of Chelsea is in the hands of the
state bank examiner II is said mat
ters will be arranged SO the institu-
tion can resume business, possibly un-
der new owners. with no loss to de-
2ositors.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
Brush Fires Checked by Rain.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 16.-Heavy
rains which fell through Northwestern
Washington checked the brush fires
which have been burning since early
in the summer and the rangers be-
lieve there will now be little diff Guilty
in keeping the fires under control.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-16
Passes Half Million Mark.

Washington, Aug. 16-The popula-
tion of Pittsburg is 533,905, an in
crease of S2,393. or 1872 per cent, as
compared with the combined popula-
tion OF Pittsbusg and Allegheny of
l51,512 In 1900.