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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-05-04

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Smiths Drug Store, Audubon.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
SANTA FE WILL LAY OFF HELP
DECISION IN RAVE CASES DIS
PLEASES MR.. RIPLEY.
Chicago Northwestern officers Say
No General Reduction Is
Planned.

Chicago.-E. R. Ripley, president of
the Atchison, Topeka C Santa Fe
railroad, said that unless business
conditions improve it will be neces-
sary to reduce the sixty thousand en-
ployes of that company.
Prospects for any substantial bet
terment in the general volume of bus
mess are not very bright, in my
opinion" Mr.. Ripley said. THE de-
cision of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in the Inter-Mountain rate
cases already has had a sentimental
effect that has not been beneficial"
An order issued by the management
of the Chicago G. Northwestern rail-
road dispensing with the services Of
about two hundred clerical workers
led to report that a drastic policy
of retrenchment was being enforced.
Our shops are employing full forces
and no reduction Of general nature
among our employees is contemplated"
said R. H. Ashton, vice-president Of
the company. "Our force today is
about the saem as it was last year.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
CANNOT RUIN NIAGARA FALLS
Closing Hours of Congress Marked
Victory of Beauty Over
Utility.

Washington, d. C.-The closing
minutes of the extra session of con-
gress were marked by a victory OF
beauty over utility. Congress con-
tinued until March, 1912, the regula-
ton for the control of the waters OF
Niagara Falls. The power companies
had made hard fight to be given free
rein in converting the falls from .
scenic wonder into an industrial ex-
hibit. The American Civic associa.
ton made the fight to save the falls.
Its secretary, Richard B. Watrous.
said:
Congress has reaffirmed the prin-
ciple that scenery is national asset,
and must be regarded as such in ap-
position to the selfish interests of in
dividuals and corporations which
would despoil scenery for financial
returns"
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
GROWS NEW VARIETY OF WHEAT
Introduced Into U. S. From TurkestaF
BY the Department Of
Agriculture.

Chico, Cal-After four years ex
perimenting at the National Plant
Introduction Gardens near this city
with a variety of wheat known a,
chule, introduced into the United
States from Turkestan, H. e. Blanch
ard, western cereal expert Of the de
partment of agriculture, has succeeded
in separating pure white seed from
the mixture which has contaminated
it practically ever since it's introduc
eion. In tests just completed the new
wheat has averaged fifteen to twenty
bushels more to the acre than the
white Australian variety which is ac
cepted as standard by the farmers Of
the west.
Mr.. Blanchard considers the segre
gaeion of the new grain one of the
greatest forward steps in wheat cult
ure in many years.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
KANSAS GIRLS LEARN TO COOK
OVER 100 HOME ECONOMICS
CLUBS ORGANIZED.
State Agricultural College Sends Les
sons Every Week and They Meet
at Their Homes.

Manhattan, Kan.-The Kansas Agri.
cultural College has announced that
one hundred and thirty home eco
nomics clubs have been organized in
Kansas and more are being formed
every day. Ihe clubs have mem.
bership of 2,260 girls from 10 to 20
years old. The extension department
OF the agricultural college organized
the clubs and sends them lessons
every week. The girls meet in turn
at each members home or in room
of their own. Only little equipment
is necessary for a laboratory and IN
many places the girls 'chipped in"
and furnished a vacant room some-
where with the necessary apparatus,
The purpose Of the clubs is to af-
ford an opportunity to learn cook
ing, and sewing for girls VINO cannot
go to domestic science schools. There
are twenty lessons in each course
and every member is furnished with
printed lessons, recipes and pamph-
let's.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
BREAKFAST FOODS PROFITABLE
Manufacturers at Battle Creek Sell
Product at Three Times Cost
of Raw Material.

Washington, ID C.-Battle Creek.
the chief home of ready-toeat break.
fast foods, turned out manufactured
products valued at $20,174,000 in 1909,
according to census report just pub
lished. The cost of materials used
was $7,06S,000, about one-third the
value of the finished product. Salaries
and wages amounted to $3,610,000 and
miscellaneous expenses $5,6S5,0O0.
Employees numbered 4,175 wage earn.
ers and 1,011 salaried clerks and Off.
cials-one clerk or officer for every
four wage earners, The amount Of
capital employed is $19,176,000. Ap.
parent net profits were about 20 per
cent on the capital. Presumably soma
other industries than the manufacture
of breakfast foods are included in the
figures.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
TWO RACERS DEAD;
STANDS HURT 20
David Buck and Sam Jacobs Killed
When Machine Turns Turtle.

Elgin, ILL.,, Aug. 2S.-Two dead, the
result of an automobile turning a
somersault, and score of injured in
the collapse of two sections of the
grandstand is the toll enacted in the
3O5-mile automobile road race complet-
ed here this afternoon. Rushing along
at the terrific pace Of sitxy-four miles
an hour, David Buck, veteran rae
er of Chicago, was within eleven laps
of the finish when his right forward
wheel threw a tire. The machine left
the track and turned turtle. Sam ia
cobs, a mechanician, was killed in
stantly, his neck being broken when
he was pinned under the wrecked ma
chine. Bucks leg was broken and he
received internal injuries from which
he died in St. Joseph's hospital.
News of the accident was conveyed
to Mrs. Buck who was in the grand
stand by a messenger.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
NEVADA MINE FIRE KILLS TEN
Were Working-Hoisted
Through Fire.

Ely, Nev.-Of ten men who were
working at the 1,400-foot level of the
new compartment shaft of the Circus
Consolidated mine when it caught fire,
six are dead and four lie at the point
of death after passing through the
flames to reach the surface.
The men heard noise which they
thought was caused by an explosion.
They looked upward and saw the shaft
in flames. They at once boarded the
cage and started for the surface, but
encountered the flames at the 1900
fot level and stopped.
John Wilhelmy and four other men
left the cage. The five men remain
ing in the cage gave the signal to
hoist and were pulled through the
blazing shaft. One was dead when
the top was reached and the other
four were taken to hospital.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
TO TAX BEER IN LEAVENWORTH H
Commissioners Plan to Place Tax on
Every Package Brought in
From Missouri.

Leavenworth, Kan.-If an ordinance
prepared by City Attorney Endres at
the last meeting OF the city commits.
sioners is finally passed Leavenworth
will reap big profit from the large
quantities of beer and liquor delivered
from Stillings, Mo-, daily. The ordt
nance was placed on it's first r~ading
and unanimously passed.
The ordinance is unprecedented in
Kansas, and if held to be legal will
provide a new revenue for border
towns in Kansas. 1t provides that
every person or firm introducing in.
toXicants from Missouri into Leaven.
worth and using the city's streets
and alleys for delivering with wagons,
shall pay a license tax for the priv
ilege.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
A NEGRO MURDERER DIED HARD
Breaking Straps on Electric
Chair.

Eddinville, Kentucky.-When oliver
Locke, negro wife murderer, was
paying the penalty for his crime at
the penitentiary here the condemned
man, through whose body 1000 volts
of electricity were coursing, strug-
gled 2S minutes and finally broke the
leather straps that bound his arms
and legs to the death chair. After
breaking the straps the negro toppled
to the floor and apparently sue
cumbed, but an examination by the
prison physicians revealed the fact
that he was slowly reviving. He was
again strapped to the chair and $500
volts of electricity turned on. Several
minutes elapsed before life was
extinct.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
EXPECT NEW OIL AND GAS FIELD
Leases Closed Near Beattie, Kansas,
and Test Hole to Be Sunk
Sam "a.
- 1C,nx

Marysville, Kap.-Betnl and gas
are believed lfrom surface conforma-
tion to exist in an area fourteen miles
long and several miles wide centering
around Beattie, fourteen miles east of
here. DR.. H. F. Hersch, an expert
mineralogist Of lola, has been here
several days looking over the field and
has just closed leases to more than
six thousand acres of land in the area
A test hole will be sunk soon, and if
either oil or gas shows in sufficient
quantities to warrant opening and de-
veloping the field it will be done at
once.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
IMPROVING LEXINGTON BRANCH
Missouri's Rival of Central Branch In
Kansas, Gets Rock
Ballast.

Higginsville, Mo.-Real rock ballast
is being placed on the Lexington
branch of the Missouri Pacific, and
between Higginsville and Lexington
heavy steel rails are being put down.
The rock ballasting began here and
will reach Lexington. Where the bal
last and new steel have been put
down the line is solid enough for the
heaviest traffic. Local officials say the
worst places along the line are to be
attended to first, but that the work
will finally extend the entire length
of the branch.
A year ago the Lexington braRch
rivaled the Central branch in Kansas
for poor roadbed and poor service.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
PUTS STRIKE UP TO The MEN
kruttschnitt Said Roads Had Never
Refused to Confer with
Men.

Omaha, Neb.-Julius Kruttschnitt,
vice-president and director of main.
tenance and operation of the Harri
man railway system, was in Omaha
going west on the Union Pacific fast
mail. He conferred with A. l.. Mohler
vice-president and general manager
of the Union Pacific, for an hour dur
ing his stay here.
In an interview Mr.. Kruttschnitt de.
-clared that the matter of a strike on
the Hartman system was up to the
men and that the roads had never
refused to confer with the employees.
Mr.. Kruttschnitt refused to discuss
the question of recognizing the fed.
Grated labor organization.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Bio Gun for Panama Canal.

Sandy Hook, N. J.. Aug. 2s.-The big
l6-inch gun on the coast defenses here
may be taken away by the war de
partment to become a part Of the de-
fenses Of the Panama canal. The gun
has been shown by official tests to be
the most powerful piece of ordnance
in the world At its extreme range 1t
will send a 2.400-pound projectile
through the thickest armOr known to
naval construction and then explode a
charge equal 20 14O pounds of the
highest explosive.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
DROUGHT SENDS MEAT SKYWARD
Can Buy Meat In
Short Time.

Kansas City, Mo.-The high price
of meat which the packers prophesied
would result from this summers
drought, has arrived. The wholesale
price of the best grades of beef has
jumped three cents in the last 60 days.
Pork also is on the advance. In.
ferior beef may be bought now at
about the same price as 60 days ago.
but the packers say there is light
demand for the cheaper quality.
Wholesale beef dealers say they are
unable to tell when the advance would
stop. The price on good beef may
continue to advance until it will be inn
possible for even the epicureans to
buy it.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01

New York-Harry N. Atwood, the
American aviator, ended his long rec
ord breaking aeroplane flight from st.
Louis when he landed at Governors
Island. Atwood flew to town from
Nyack, a distance Of thirty miles, in
forty-five minutes, completing in
twelve days an unprecedented aero
plane flight of more than 1895 miles.
1t is the first time a man has ever
gone this distance in heavier-than-
air machine.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Ruined Socialist Newspaper.

Topeka-An appeal for state pro-
lection by o. R. D. S. Oaford, editor
of Socialist paper at Garden City,
Kan, has just been received by Gov
ernor Stubbs. The appeal followed a
raid on Oakford's newspaper office
by unknown persons, who dumped
his type out in the street and left
a warning to Oakford to leave town
within twenty-four hours, threatening
violence to him if he did not go.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Rlu Monex In Alfalfa crops.

Humboldt, Kan.-Alfalfa is yielding
big profits around Humboldt this
year, and there has been more of it
planted than ever before. ]. c. Dorm.
bergh has just threshed one hundred
bushels of seed from eight acres,
which gave him profit of $125 per
acre, while H. F. Schmidt obtained
twenty-four bushels from three acres,
giving him $50 an acre. The seed
sold for $40 bushel
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
EVADE OKLAHOMA jim CROW LAW
Muskogee Street Car Patrons Now
Want Separate Compartments to
Make Enforcement Easier.

Muskogee, Oklahoma.-Muskogee is
going to make an attempt to force
strict compliance of the Jim Crow
law on its street cars. A petition was
sent to the state corporation commits
sion for a hearing and for an order
that will compel the strict enforce.
ment of the law. The white people
demand separate compartments for
the negroes, which no street car lines
in Oklahoma now furnish.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Fears ReciprocitY.

Victoria, B. C.-Premier Mcbride
recently said regarding reciprocity
that the resources of the United States
had been wasted and the new material
was nearing exhaustion and that the
United States trusts and combina-
tions were now looking toward Canada
with the hope of controlling its re-
sources by means of the reciprocity
pact.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Negro Burned for Assault.

Purcell, Ok.-Peter Carter, identi-
fed as the negro who attacked Mrs.
Minnie Spraggins and set fire to her,
was burned to dea.-- on a brush pile
placed in the main street of Purcell.
Two deputy sheriffs, who we're max
ing desperate effort to prevent the
burning of the negro, were locked
in room in the courthouse by the
mob.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Don't Want Neqro Girls, School.

Springfield, Mo.-At mass meeting
of residents of Douglas county at Ava
resolutions were adopted protesting
against the location of state in.
dustrial school for negro girls in that
county. A copy of the resolutions
will be forwarded to the governor
and members of the board of locators
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Important Papers Gone.

Oklahoma City, Ok.-That import
ant papers bearing on the present in
quiry into charges against the state
board of education have disappeared
from the files, was announced by Gov
ernor Cruce.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
peIaved Paw causes Strike.

Wichita, Kansas.-One hundred and
eighty-seven employees of the Kansas
City, Mexico & Orient shops here
walked out on a strike on the COM
plant that they had not been paid
promptly.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Frisco Train peraiIed.

Augusta, Kan.-A westbound pas.
senger train on the st. Louis C San
Francisco railroad from Kansas City
was partly derailed four miles west
of here by defective rail. Three
coaches left Lne rails. No one WIS in.
jured.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Mo Luncheon for Tooo

Vancouver, British Columbia-Ad-
miral Togo will not be guest of the
city at a luncheon Sunday as was
planned. This was decided by the
city council following many protests
against Sabbath desecration."
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Manuel Loses Pension.

Lisbon.-The government has aseer.
tanned that ex-King Manuel is in
debted to the country to the sum Of
s10,O00,000 and accordingly will with
draw Manuel's remittance. as his prop
srty is valued at only s5.00O.OOo.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Wiley Supporters Win.

Duluth, Minh.-Lucius P. Brown OF
Tennessee, supporter of DR.. II. w.
Wiley, has been elected president Of
the Pure Food association. Dr. w. p.
Cutler of Kansas City was the candI
date for the anti-Wiley forces.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
A Human Skull in Stone.

Laramie, Wyoming.-E. B. Adair Of
Lost Springs, has unearthed human
skull inbedded in stone and believed
by archaeologists to have antedated
the Biblical flood. The skull is well
preserved.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Harvestlna Wheat. At Nlqht.

Argyle, Minn.-Eugene Labine, q
Marshall county farmer. is harvesting
five hundred acres OF wheat with one
machine, working day and night. The
binder is run with eight horses, fou
to a shift, and a headlight is used
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Electric Storm at Springfield.

Springfield. Missouri-One house
was destroyed and several others
damage is an electrical storm here.
It was accompanied by a heavy rain.
Nearly two inches OF rain fell here
within "A hours
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
A aKaty" Conductor Killed.

Parsons, Kan.-W. ]. Souttar, con-
ductor on the Missouri, Kansas G.
Texas railway, fell from his train two
miles south of Nelagony, and was
killed.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Bush for Indian Lands.

Minot, n. D.-Twelve thousand two
hundred eighty-three persons have
registered for land at the opening OF
the Berthold Indian reservation.
Eleven of the eighteen days of the
registration period are over.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Won RirIe Shoot

Camp Perry, Ok.-By winning the
national individual match here, Sergt.
C. M. King of the Fifty-third Iowa
infantry wins the army rifle champion
ship OF the United States.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Thieves Take Mail Pouohees.

Kirksville, Mo.-Four pouches con-
tanning registered mail brought here
for transfer to the wabash railroad
were stolen from the Kirksville post.
Office by burglars who pried open
window.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Erost In Month Dakota.

st. Paul, misunderstanding to
reports received from North Dakota
and Canadian points the first frost OF
the season has formed near Williston,
and Bismark, n. D. The frost at Will
liston was heavy.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
peace Has It's DANGERS.

Chicago-Gen. Kaid Belton, who
conquered Morocco and placed Mulai
Hafid on the throne in 1908, was the
victim OF an aeroplane accident here.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Has Found New race Of People.

New York-A race Of people who
had never before beheld a white man
or an Indian has been discovered in
the Arctic regions OF British Colum-
bia by the American Museums scien-
tino expedition.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01

Canonsburg, Pa, Aug. 2S-There was
a rush for the exit and in moment
there was writhing, screaming mass
of humanity ten feet high in the mar
row stairway leading to the entrance
of the theater. The panic it was said
was senseless.
Most of the dead were smothered. A
majority Of the audience was compos-
ed of women and children. In the
fierce rush for the exit they were
thrown from their feet and trampled.
Others were thrown upon them and
those at the bottom of the human pile
were suffocated.
When two volunteer fire depart
ment sreached the theater the sight
staggered them. Those of the audience
who had escaped from the building
and other persons drawn to the scene
were rushing ineffectively about the
front of the building. No person was
making any effort to aid the strug-
Cling mass within the theater
The firemen pushed into the build
ing and threw persons into the streef.
AS the elected ones regained their
feet they ran shrieking in trror about
the streets. AS the firemen neared
the bottom of the pile they began to
bring out the unconscious forms OF the
injured and later came the dead
The dead were laid in row along
the sidewalk Relatives fought and
struggled to break past the guards and
reach the victims.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
TWENTY-S|X DEAD;
SIXTY ARE HURT
WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE
PILED UP TEN FEET HIGH.
MOVING PICTURE SHOW FIRE
Accident Happens in Theater Twenty
Miles From Pittsburg, Pa.-Panie
FolloWs-Audience Composed
Mostly of Women and
Children.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 28.-Twenty-six
persons are known to be dead and 6o
injured following the explosion OF a
moving picture film in the Morgan
& Grant opera house at Canonsburg,
Pa, twenty miles from this city, to-
night
When the film exploded everyone
shouted "Fire!" The house was
crowded with men and children. They
all rushed to the hall leading to the
stairway and got jammed on the
stairs. Few thought to use the fire
escape.
Many were knocked down and tram
pied on. Most of the dead were
smotheerd in the mass of persons VINO
Tough to gain the street.
John McCulloch, operator of the
moving picture machine, had just
thrown the subject of series OF pic
lures on the screen entitled, "A Little
Girl Shall Lead Them" when the film
eploded and the asbestos cabinet was
filled with flames. For several MIN
utes the audience, numbering upwards
of 1900, was unaware of the accident,
and the operator heroically extin'
guished the flames.
Then his hands burned and almost
suffocated, he opened the door OF the
little box and staggered out. with
the opening of the door a dense cloud
of smoke poured into the auditorium.
At this moment some person yelled
"Fire!" The spectators turned i'll thelr
seats saw the smoke, jumped to their
feet and simultaneously all started IN
the awful rush for the line doorway
leading to the eight-foot stairway.
At the stairway the fleeing women
and children ran into others who were
awaiting admission. Immediately the
narrow stairway was packed ten feet
high with the dead and dying, the in
jured and those who somehow escaped
unhurt.
The Chanute times., 1911-09-01
Review of the
Kingdom Of Judah
Sunday School Lesson for Sept. ,. 1911
Specially Arranged for This Paper

GOLDEN TEJtT.-"Depart from evil
and do good; seek peace, and pursue It."
-.Psa. 34:14.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-14

We are so glad to report that Kan
sas is one of the ten states that m ade
gain OF over 1000 members over
all losses and now has member
ship of 1906 1t certainly means
much to the state OF Kansas that
there are that many homes where
mothers are praying for the over
throw of the liquor traffic.
Our state president reported at
this great convention that Kansas
has the lowest death rate, lowest
percent of illiteracy and the largest
number of students in college of any
state in the union"
Can we estimate the value of our
prohibitory law even though it is vi
olated at times and places7
(To be continued.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-14
Special Prizes.

To the candidate making the
highest gain in the piano contest
between November 20 and Dec
ember 20, the M. & M. Drug Co,
will present handsome 26-piece
set of silverware. Same can be
seen at the drug store. This is
an inducement for those who are
in the to putforth special effort
as the lady who gets this set will
have something to be proud OF.
Remember the lady making the
highest gain between the 20 OF
November and the 20 of Decem-
Der gets it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-14
New Zealand "Tattooed Rocks"

Mr.. Clement Wragge who has in.
6pected what are known as the tat.
tooed rocks" on the coast near Rag.
han. New Zealand, is distinctly OF opin.
lion that they are the work of neither
Tamil nor Maori, but are the inserip.
tons Of very ancient race Of sun
worship people. antedating the advent
OF the Maori by untold centuries The
spiral circle. oVals. crosses and
squares, he says, are most significant,
and confirm his opinion that New Zea-
land has been inhabited by early man.
He considers the inscriptions are
probably connected with those at
Easter Island and Central and South
America, and are Atlantean or Le-
murian in origin; further, that the
Maori copied the spiral from the
relics of ancient people, and did not
initiate 1t.