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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
From National Capital.

Representative Murdoch of Kansas
has introduced in congress a resolu
ton charging the express companies
with causing the postal deficit and
asking an investigation.
r resolution introduced by Senator
Simmons calling for an estimate on
the cost of establishing harbor OF
refuge at Cape Fear, passed the senate.
Senator Curtis bill prohibiting the
importation of liquor into Hawaii
passed the senate.
Debate has commenced in the COM
mittee of the whole house on the forti-
fication appropriation.
The senate in executive session
confirmed the nomination Of C. c.
Eberhardt of Salina, Kansas, to be
consul general at large.
The state department has received
with much satisfaction information
Heading to the belief that Secretary
Knox's plan for an international court
lof arbitral justice will receive favor
able consideration from several of the
principal powers of Europe.
Senator Root has presented to the
senate a bill granting to Mrs. Grover
Cleveland a pension of $4,000 a year.
The Judiciary Committee has unani-
mously reported resolution for con-
stitutional amendment postponing fu-
ture inaugurations until the last
Thursday in April.
Chairman Alexander of the rivers
and harbors committee states that an
appropriation will be recommended for
the Missouri river of all the money the
engineers can expend the first year
and that the permanent improvement
plans recommended by Maj. Schultz
will be adopted.
The supreme court of the United
States has upheld the power of the
Interstate Commerce commission to
distribute railroad cars among differ
ent coal companies.
Senator Elkins who has record for
conservatism in railroad legislation
will have charge of the administration
bill for the amendment Of the Inter-
state commerce law.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
Corpse Was Sitting Upright.

Sylvia.-D. Pickett, a Hutchinson
contractor who was working as fore
man of gang building the school
house in this city, was found by work
meN sitting upright on the steps of
the school house, dead. He sat down
but few minutes before to look over
some plans. The workmen who found
him called doctor, although he had
evidently died instantly, supposedly
of heart failure. The father died in
the same manner at Langdon about
five years ago.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
A Woman,s Diplomacy.

1t was the Chicago mans turn. and
he told this one:
Diplomacy, you know, is remark
able agent. The other day lady said
to her husband:
"James, have decided to do with
out a new fall dress, and with the
money it would cost shall have
mother here for nice long visit
James turned on her excitedly.
What, wear that old brown cloth thing
another season? l guess not!' he ex-
claimed, vehement'y. You go right
down to your tailor's to-day and order
something handsome. Remember,
please, that as my wife you have a
certain position to maintain
1.-The wife bowed her head in sub
mission On her lips played a peculiar
smile. '-Lippincott's Magazine.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

An ice gorge in the Mississippi river
| at St. Louis caused the river to rise
| to 319 feet When the gorge broke
it fell five feet in three hours. The
| property loss is estimated at 100000.
The st. Joseph. Mo-, hospital for the
insane has been quarantined against
visitors because of the prevalence OF
smallpox in that part of the state.
Another heavy snow covers North
ern Nebraska, Southern South Dakota
and Northern Wyoming adding to the
suffering of live stock on the range.
Citizens of Chicago who formerly
lived in Missouri have organized So
ciety.
In address before the New England
Railroad club at Boston President
Brown of the New York Central said
that unless we increase production to
the acre by intelligent methods we
will soon cease to produce sufficient
food for our own people.
A new grand jury in New York re-
news the report that an attempt is to
admitted sugar frauds upon officials of
the sugar trust.
The American National Live Stock
association approve the conservation
policies of former President Roosevelt
and endorse the management of the
bureau by Clifford Pinchot.
In Nordaway county, Missouri the
land sales the pastryear amount to
more than $1,5OOOOO the price ranging
from 500 to $165 per acre.
William Porter was attacked by a
barber at McKeesport, Pa, while being
shaved and nearly killed. The barber
suddenly became insane.
Gov. Stubs called the sheriff of
Crawford county, Kansas to Topeka
and endeavored to learn why the laws
were not enforced in that county. The
governor told the sheriff that he would
send deputy attorney general there
and that the laws would be enforced
there If he had to call out the militia
to accomplish it.
The Nebraska insurgents have Sc
lected date for a state rally. 1t is
expected resolutions will be passed
praising the record of the Nebraska
insurgents in congress.
A new counterfeit one dollar silver
certificate has made it's appearance
that is said to be good enough to de-
ceive anyone not a specialist
The speculative cotton market has
declined rapidly until it is now eight
dollars per bale below the highest
quotations.
A million dollar corporation is being
planned to build a factory to furnish
work for the striking shirtwaist max
ers of New York.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
Domestic Items.

Another sharp decline in the price
OF cotton brings the May price to 1870
or about SIS bale less than the re-
cent high mark.
Five prominent men of Pittsburg,
Pa, have been indicted for connection
with the aldermanic graft cases.
Denver daily papers are having
trouble with the pressmen who have
demanded more pay, shorter hours and
$4,000 in back pay.
The federal grand jury investigat-
ing the sugar frauds has returned in
,dictments against the secretary and
treasurer of the American Sugar Re-
timing company and FIVE other persons.
1t is reported that syndicate head
ed by F. s. Pearson and backed by
,powerful London and Canadian bank
ing interests has obtained control OF
the Rock Island railroad.
A storm which according to the
New York weather forecaster reached
the proportions Of blizzard held the
east in it's grasp two days.
The bill granting statehood to Ari-
zona and New Mexico will be reported
favorably by the house committee.
Arrangements have been made to
prospect for silver under the townsite
of Foraker. Ok.
The brokerage firm of S. B. Chaplin
& Co. has been suspended for 30 days
from the New York stock exchange for
the part taken in the manipulation
of Rock Island stock which nearly
caused a panic.
Negotiations are in progress for a
cement merger that will include at
first the Nicholson plants in Kansas,
Texas, Tennessee and Iowa and later
other important independent mills in
Kansas and Oklahoma will be added
Murdo Mackenzie former president
of the American National Live Stock
association denied in the Denver
meeting Of the, society that there was
a shortage Of beef in the country and
entered into a sharp debate with the
packers representatives over the ques-
tion.
Harvard this year has 6.SOs stu
dents enrolled sand there are 739 in
structors.
A suit TO test the constitutionality Of
the federal corporation tax has been
commenced at Cleveland. o.
The Kansas state board of health
has ordered 10 prosecutions of drug
gists and physicians for failure to
compound drugs according to stand
ards prescribed by the board.
When the dormitory building Of the
New York military academy at Cornell
on the Hudson burned, the lives Of
many Of the 300 students we're saved
by the bugle call which awakened
them Just in time.
Two men were killed third severe
Nv beaten and about 20 men robbed at
breezy Hin a small mining town in
crawford county. Kansas by masked
robbers
-Four EMPLOYEES Of the American
SUGAR Refining company convicted Of
sefrauding the government by false
weights have been sentenced TO one
year IN prison.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
Has Fine New School House.

Republic City.-A new three-story
five-room school building has just
been completed at this place at a
cost of $4,000 and was occupied for
the first time this week. The building
Ia one of the finest and most mod
ernly equipped in north central Kan
sas, consisting of two stories and a
basement. The latter is to be used
as a gymnasium. Besides the five
rooms, there is a recitation room,
cloak room and a principals office.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
Atohison Cemetery Dispute Settled

Atchison.-The Mount Vernon ceme-
terry trouble here, which has attracted
attention because of rumors of ex-
orbitant profits and a cemetery trust,
came to peaceful end. The former
stockholders turned over the books
and all profits on hand to the newly
elected directors, who will conduct the
cemetery on the mutual plan, having
no stockholders or profits.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
Smallpox in Riley County.

Manhattan.-A smallpox scare is
raging in the vicinity of Cleburne, in
the north part of Riley county. Nine
cases were reported to the county
health officer last week and notice
has been received of six more pa
tents. So far no deaths have result
ed and ]. C. Montgomery, county
health officer, says that the epidemic
does not promise to be very serious as
most of the cases are mild.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
"Did George kiss herr"
All Tired Out.

Do you feel dull, occasionally-out of
sorts? Headaches and Dizziness? The
liver. The safe, sure and easy way to get
rid of either trouble is to take NATURES
REMEDY. Take an Mr. Tablet to night
It will sweeten the stomach and regulate
the liver, kidneys and bowels. Easy-sure
to act. Get 25c Box. The A. II. Lewis
Medicine Co.. St Louis Mo.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
Excused.

Shame on you! You came home
last night actually tipsy."
$50 l did, my dear. l just couldn't
resist the pleasure of seeing two OF
you at once"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

what belle of the season do you
find most attractive?"
"The dinner bell"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

There are limitations, don't be fooled.
There is no substituted Tell the dealer you
want Lewis Single Binder cigar.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

Money talks in spite of the fact
that lots of men want to keep 1t quiet.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

What a glorious country this would
be to live in if turkeys were as easily
raised as cats!
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
ALL SERENE.

"De minister, he says dat at der last
day every man will be judged by his
works!"
well, dat needn't worry us any. We
never worked"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

Men deserve respect only as they
give it,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums, reduces In
ammation allays palm cures wind colo Csc bottle
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

OF course, man can't help admin
less he pays the freight.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

DON'T SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES.
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them
white as snow. All grocers, Be package.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21

How loafers crate upon the nerves
of busy person.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
PILES CURED INsTO DAYS

PAZO QlNTME NT is guaranteed to cure any case
Of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles IL
ITO IL day 5 or money refunded. Soc.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
WHAT'S
Your Health Worth?

You start sickness by nistreating nature
and i generally shows FIRST IN the bowels
and liver. A Ioc box (week s treatrnent)
Of cAScARETS will help nature help
you. They will do more-using them
regularly as YOU need them-than any
medicine on Earth. Get a box today;
take a cASCARET tonight Better IN
the morning. IT'S The result that makes
millions take them sl
CUT THIS OUT. mall II with your address 70
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago, III, and receixe
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-21
Georue Refrained.

George declared he would kiss the
first woman that passed under the
mistletoe, and she was the colored
cook"
did George kiss herr"
kiss her! l guess not Nobody
dares to take any liberties with the
cook"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
POI1'S

/When Victor Smallay's one act
 play .'Handcuffed'' is presented at
 Po1i's next week as headline feat
 ure of the bill it will mark it's sec
 onG week in vaudeville and it has forty solid weeks of booking to go. though it was produced for the first time on any stage at the Fifth Ave nue Theatre last Sunday night. This week it is at Percy Williams Green point theatre and for the next ten weeks it will be on the Po11 circuit after which it returns to New York Manager Polls agents were on hand Sunday night and were the, first to secure contracts with the owner of Ryan and company and is quite the most novel offering of the present season. The special feature of the Moore Mo S late % stars A of if The The ' Merry cry Whirl' and comedians of the first class. The added feature will be Elphye Snowden, the much photo girl who is remembered for her cap- ita1 work with Genee in 'HThe Silver Slipper" and with the f'Follies of she is assisted by Earl Benham, late of Cohan and Harris Minstrels. On the same bill will appear Carbrey feet; Robertus and his wonderful dog
 tCurneP'; Goldsmith and Hoppe in ffThe Commercial Traveller and the Bounding Gordons, marvellous ath-
 This weeks bill is a, corking good one headed by Clara Belle Jerome and her ToodIes Girls in tJoyland'' and with Elizabeth Brice and Charles King as the associate headline act. Then too there is Murray Livingston and company in one of udeviIIe's best dramatic offerings; Floyd Mack, acrobatic daner par excellence; Claude Ranf, wonderful wire walker: Clipper Quartet and Four Floods. There will be a special matinee for the children on Saturday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
SURPRISE STORE MEETS WE'LL EARNED SUCCESS
 SINCE COMING HERE

We all like surprises, provided they are either pleasant, profitable or. 1n- structive. The buying public of Bridgeport received one several years ago having all these three attributes from which it hasn't recovered, yet The surprise came in the form of the Introduction into our midst of '"Fhe Surprise Store Co., who set up and exclusive clothing store catering to men in the city. This large concern who operate four other stores in the East began business here in 1906 un- der the local management of J. H. Barker, and met with immediate sue cess at their present headquarters, 1lls-1l2S ~ Main street The saIlene features of this big and popular store are these: It manufactures absolutely every garment it sells at the com pany's factories in New York and Gin clnnati; 1t guarantees to the limit every stitch of clothing that it sells, replacing the same or refunding your money in case of dissatisfaction; II alters and repairs free of charge all garments purchased, and last and probably most important of all carries the largest and most varied stock or mems and youths clothes in Bridge port. The Surprise store occupies commanding position in the heart of the business zone of the city, and the building is com1nodious and archftec- turaHy fitted to display the immense stock of clothing and furnishings to advantage. There are two entrances. one on Main street and the other on Elm street. By the latter entrance you are ushered into the children's~ and youths department which is stocked with the latest and classiest things in juvenile attire. The store proper is devoted to mems furnishings and clothing, the former displayed to ad- vantage iR the handsome show eases in the fore front of the store, while the latter is given ample room on thes scores of tables which practically fill up the entire floor. The Surprise store which operates on a. strictly cash basis, owes not a little of it's vogue to the. efficient tailoring and altering department it conducts. This is to be found in the basement where eight or ten experts are continually readjusting things to suit the taste of the stores patrons.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
PROHIBITlONISTS
 NOMINATE TICKET

The prohibitionists of Bridgeport were addressed, last night, by Oliver w. Stewart, a former member sof the Illinois legislature, and a noted fight the tail Of a, cart. on Cannon street and again in Good Templars hall with eloquence and soundness. Can didates of the prohibition party. were nominated as follows. Probate judge, Theodore T. Phillips: representatives, Jeremiah Holmes and Charles L. Beach; senatorial, J. D. Mcleod in Holmes; senatorial, J. D. Mcleod in 21st; Oliver c. Beard in the 18th. Nominations for the 22nd and 23rd were postponed. County Organizer B. L. Richards of Cannon Station di- rected the procedure. Oliver G. Beard of Huntington was chosen chairman and F. B. FTorian, secretary. Cliff worker, was nominated for sheriff.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
When the Plague Ragged.

Sir Walter Besant in one of his books says of the author of Robinson Crusoe' and Journal of the Plague:'' ''De Foe was born in the year 1861. His father lived in Cripplegate, where, as we know, he had a shop. The child. therefore, was four years of age in the plague year. A child of four observes a great deal and may remem- Der a great deal. De Foe says: When any one bought joint of meat he would not take it out of the butchers hand, but took it off the hooks him. self. On the other hand, the butcher would not touch the money. but put it into a pot full of vinegar which he kept for the purpose This must sure ly have been seen by the child and remembered. It happened in his fa- ther's shop before his eyes," @
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
What Is an EIencnt7

In his little book ca1led ''The Ele- ments'' Sir William A. Tilden defines an element as "a substance from which by the operation of ordinary chemical processes only one kind of matter can be obtained" This is some thing quite different from the four ele- ments of Aristotle-dre, water, earth and air-or the salt, sulphur and mer- cury of the alchelnists. Even in mod ern times the conception of what an element really is has changed some what Sir William adds: Until quite recently the clements of the inorganic world were supposed to be fixed; inn mutable with the lapse of ages or un- der the mighty forces concerned in the making of, worlds. But within few years we have learned that the atoms at least are continually crumbling away. 1t is impossible to say whether all may not be suffering a slow waste which in the long run may lead back to the primal chaos-''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
ROBERT EDISON IN "NHERE THE TRAIL DIVIDES

Appearing for the first time in the duaI role of star and playwright Rob ert Edeson will be presented at Jack sons theatre Friday and Saturday of next week with a special Saturday own play tsWhere the Trail Divides Taking as his basis win Lillibridge's novel of the same name, MT Edeson has written a play of the great West and of the Indian race. which gives promise of becoming his greatest suc- cess. It is essentially a play of the outdoors. and the characters are the red blooded. whole souled people of the west and not the parlor puppets of the. typical drawing room play; MT. Edeson as in his previous great success "sStrongheart'' will enact an Indian of civilized manner and dress. He will play How Landor, a Sioux Indian, of fine education who has been brought up in white family, and has absorbed the best traits of the race without acquiring the meaner vices. The opening of the play finds him engaged to marry a white girl who loves him thoroughly with never a thought of the fact of his red skin making any difference A white man loves her also and in his desire to prevent her marriage to the Indian.
 he brings to bear upon her all the old arguments of interacia1 marriage. Failing he tries to stop the marriage
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23

by force but is foiled by How. The marriage takes place and the girl is imm edfately summed by all her white friends and leads a rather lonely life while the white man remains on the scene and they see entirely too much of each other, until How finally dis covers his wife in the white mans s arms. He reasons the whole matter out with himself and decides that the proper course is to allow his wife to secure a divorce and marry the white man. This he actually does and the girl after few months of married life with the white man discovers her error and Athe fact that the Indian is in every respect more a man than the white. With such triangle estab- lished it can be readily understood that the play works itself out in a number of tense situations while a climax satisfactory to the audience is finally reached. The scenes of the play are laid in South Dakota and Manager Henry B. Harris has given the piece a magnificent mounting Mr.
 Edeson's leading woman this year will be Miss Eva Dennison who will be remembered for her splendid charac- terization of Nora O'Brien in f'The Chrous Lady" Others in the cast are Cordelia Mcdonald, George w. Bar mum, Malcolm Duncan, Joseph Raw ley, Charles Chappel1e, Ship Camp, John Prescott and E.. M. Dresser.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23
PREPARING THE WAY.
(New Haven Register.)


 The Register has maintained, and still believe, that the demand of a few persons of advanced ideas is not a valid demand for such a change in mary. Could we by any means have direct primary now, before the ma jority understand the need of it, it would but fall into the hands of po- litical manapu1ators, and our last state would be worse than our first.
 It seems to be the proper thing in in political convention to raise the cry of bribery or bought votes" against the successful. He won' when I had the delegates; hence he How much there is in this contention in any particular case, or in all the cases put together, it is impossible to say. The ones who could tell in teresting things live in such fragile houses themselves that they very prudentIy hesita ate to open the stone principle, however. that fire is a neces- sary precedent to smoke. That prin- cipIe holds true. probably, in this in stance It is wholly possible, how ever,e for a very insignificant fire to make a large smoke.
 The smoke, is annoying, but it will serve a good end. It gets into the think tgH5 or about Dt Ae it's Cause % dncidentaiiy they may reflect that politics is bad because they don't make it better, and that corruption prevails because they don't take a hand and clean it out. In other words, the professionals so to speak, run the nominating con- ventions and some of the professionals are getting as bad as they are ex- pert. When the good citizens, who constitute the majority of every com rnunity, are fully awake to the neces- sity of their action, they will cast Then they will find the direct primary unless meanwhile a -better- agency