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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1911-04-27
Holds Their Feet 10 he Fire.

Your Uncle Johnny Barnes got in
some good work for his constituents
Monday after the question Of restor-
log the courthouse had been settled. |
For the past fifty or sixty years the
county aud city have had an arrange
ment whereby the county paid two
thirds and the city one-third OF the
cost of maintaining the courthouse.
cost Of juries. and the pay vf The
Commonwealth's Attorney. Sheriff.
and Clerk. all OF whom arc Joint Of
ecerS: that IS. officers for both the
town and county. This double bar
relied arrangement was made 70 save
money 20 both parties. For the
past two years the county people
have been trying to make another
arrangement whereby they would
paw one-half and the city Of VII
| Eamsburg one-half. they bslsving IL
lils5 and fair that that proportion
/ should hold. The Board OF Super
| visors put the matter up 10 the coun-
Gil ard had kept il there. but with
no success. Only at the last meet
i,g Of the codncn Mr.. Henley sp-
. pe1red for-the beard and asked the
co Incil 70 take some action looking
toward making a Joint arrangement
{ as requested. Il amounted 20 moth.
ing. the council treating Il as Of nc
importance. or ~ least not worth
considering seriously.
Then cane the destruction Of IA,
D courthouse upon which there va
: IS. 200 insurance. The county hsC
: paid s1OO of the insurance premium
and the city $50. or IN the ratio o
one-third and two-thirds. The boar,
made no objections 20 this. Bu
when the policy was paid. slouI
comes the city and claims one-kal
IS of the $1,000. saying il was ioir
ownership. But the board was nC
u ignorant of the status OF affairs an
~ promptly laid claim 70 two-third.
Of and It was here that YOUR Uuc
~ Johnny got in his work. and tt
o. way he held the city councils fcI
= 70 the fire vas distressing 70 sc
y Uncle Johnny made his demand az
made Il long and loud. We ha'
~ asked Williamsburg 70 come IN ar
he bear the joint cost Of the courthou
en and county and city officers. ar
ne now they must DO il or We are goii
To- 70 claim two-thiTds Of the insurau
money. and also have two-thirds
the say as 70 what kind OF a cou
sia house We are going 10 have. w
re- liamsburg must now pay an eqS
At amount for the maintenance OF I
IS courthouse and joint officers.
Re-. Williamsburg must dig down and
all another sum equal 70 one-third
ore IS. 900. which a quick oalaulati
shows would be something Il
sl6o6. We have asked you eour
ously 70 take up shis matter and
far as know you have never es
sidered il. Now. We want this thi
the settled before we so any further.
in Mr.. Marston and Mr.. Lee 5
vas the advantage and they took a sts
are with their oonferre, with the res
ms that the council agreed to stand OF
one half of ali the courthouse expsn
to beginning July !. 1911. if Jan
on. City would divide up the insure,
IA swag. And that vas how Un
the Johnny held the councils feetto
eed fiEe and saved the taxpayers
are James City about $3.50 a year. wh
ad- viii now come out Of the pockets
hall the taxpayers of Williamsburg.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1911-04-27

Mr.. D. D. Cotton has returned
from Texas. where ne spent the win
ter. After his sale on May 4th be
will return to Ohio TO live.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1911-04-27
TAKE NOTICE. that E

P. Griffith. of Newport News, Va,
will have a first-class operator at the
studio on England street. next TO the
Gazette office. every Monday from
800 A. NJ. to 500 P. NJ. TO do all
classes of Photographic work.
Reasonable prices. guaranteed
work, courteous treatment.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
FAILED 70 WRECK MAIL TRAIN
Bolt Wired to Track Was Intended
to Ditch Frisco Passenger
Train.

Springfield, Mo.--The state railroad
and warehouse commissioners had 9
narrow escape when the train OF
which they were riding ran v an
obstacle placed on the tracks near
Gerster, sixty miles north of Spring
field, instead of going into the ditch.
A large iron bolt several feet long
and three inches in diameter had been
placed on the tracks in a position in.
dicating intent to wreck the Kansas
City, Clinton G. Springfield passenger
train bound for Kansas City and due
a short time after the accident hap
pened.
The train, a special with the in.
spection coach pushed by an engine,
was running at a ten mile an hour
rate and the accident was only avoid
ed by the slow time. The wheels
bounded from the rails but lit square
ly instead of taking the ditch.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
MISSOURI STATE NEWS
Y. M. C. A. Sues Banker.

The Sedalia Young Mems Christian
Association has sued William II. Pow
ell, cashier of the Citizens National
Bank, for $4,000 and interest. Powell
Is trustee of a fund raised several
years ago to erect q convention hail
The project feh through and since
then Powell has held the money on
deposit. Recently the Y. M. G. A.
erected a $4,000 building and the d.
rectors of the convention hall fund re
quested Powell to turn over the
money in his custody to the associa-
ton. Powell refused to do SO on the
ground that the directors had no AL
thority to direct him to divert the
money to any use other than that for
which 1t was raised.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Held on Child's Word.

A stranger was taken to Springfield
from Ash Grove and lodged in Jail on
a charge of attempting to attack a little
girl. The prisoners u is Jane
Eaton, the 10-year-old daughter OF w.
d Eaton, whose home is al Nor.
wood, Mo. The girl said she positive.
ly Identified the man. Eaton and his
children were seated in the Frisco
station at Ash Grove when he made
the acquaintance Of the man. The
girl wanted a drink of water and the
man offered to accompany her to a
we'll near the station. The father con.
scented, The girl was brought to the
station shortly afterward almost in.
sensible and her face badly battered.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
RECIPROCITY IS UP TO CANADA
Dissolution Of Parliament and General
Election May Be Necessary to
Reach Agreement.

ottawa, Ont.-The C OF reel.
procity now Is up to Canada.
The favorable action by the United
States senate on the agreement puts
the Dominion government in a some
what stronger position, but 1t Is con
ceded IL will not prove a factor In
breaking the present deadlock on the
question in the Canadian Commons.
Under parliamentary rules the ma
1ority cannot force closure on a ques-
tion Of this kind. The opposition
can delay a vote indefinitely by pro-
viding speakers to continue debate and
this line of attack will be continued
when parliament re.assembles.
A dissolution Of parliament and an
appeal to the country in a general
election with reciprocity as the issue
is the only course left the govern.
ment. Thirty days will be required
to get the election machinery in or
der and voting, therefore, cannot take
place until October.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Merchant Was HoIdup.

Verne Wilson. a Baxter Springs
merchant was shot and killed while
attempting to hold mp John Hickens,
a farmer, and his wife while they
were driving home from church. vii.
son. who comes Of a highly respected
Cherokee county family. and Is mar.
ried, was successful in two holdups
prior to the fatal attempt on Hick-
ems. The discovery of the dual life
of Wilson a a great surprise to the
entire county.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27

Mai. George o. Souier Of the maneuv.
Or division has Just returned to Wash.
ington, enthusiastic over the possibili.
ties of the wireless telegraph In time
Of war.
A Bavarian paper reports the ar.
rest of a Japanese major who was
caught examining the recoil mechan.
ism Of the new Bavarian field gun.
Wal strictly up to date is to be
played off the Chesapeake capes in
September. The game will be for a
fleet of u of the largest battle ships
to ward off simultaneous attacks from
torpedo boats, submarines and aero
planes.
The oklahoma broom corn crop Is
short and OF poor quality but farmers
are receiving the best price in years.
Arrangements have beeen made for
O tri.city balloon ace to be held at
Topeka within the next two or three
weeks. The aero clubs OF st. Louis.
Kansas City and Topeka have entered
balloons.
BE polite to the farmer" is the
latest railroad motto in the general
campaign for courtesy which is being
waged by many Of the leading roads.
The Chicago city council has passed
ordinances whereby no motor car or
motorcycle can be operated without a
muffler within the city limits.
Individual deposits in national
banks OF Oklahoma amounted to
s52,253.25O.59 at the close of business
June {.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
FLASHES Of THE WEEK
JOTTlNCS FROM KILOGRAMS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts Of the World CONDENSED
Into Small Space for tie Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.
National Capital.

Postmaster General Hitchcock has
ordered the establishment of a fast
ocean mail service between the
principal ports on. the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans and Panama and Colon.
\ force of Investigators has started
our to run down charges that the
business Of supplying milk to most
of the large cities in the country is
controlled by combines.
one little gunboat to safeguard
American interests in Haiti isn't
enough, 50 the navy department is
With the Petrol, now at Goneves, the
United states will have four war.
ships surrounding the little republic.
The navy has a typhoid epidemic at
the Norfolk recruiting station, where
~ men have been stricken with the
disease.
I'll" treaty between the United
States and Great Britain providing
for the arbitration of %pecuniary
claims between the two countries
has been ratified by the senate.
\ gun that will carry its ~projectile
II miles is the type that is to be
placed in the iurrets of the new battle
ships of ia" New York type.
The mOsr drastic campaign public
fly legislation ever passed in either
branch Of congress was adopted by
the scud'", limiting the amount the
senatorial or congressional candidate
may spend IN any election, and pro-
hihi'tng tn" making of all campaign
pledges
\ report recommending dismissal
Of Consul General W. II. Michael. at
calcutta, and Thomas Morrison of
the s'at" department, was adopted by
the ho1s" committee, after investiga-
ton OF the missing voucher for Jus.
tice Day : portrait.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
MORE EXCELLENT
REPORTS FROM
. WESTERN CANADA
Grains Are Heading Out
Rapidly and Harvest Is
Now Approaching With
a Great Demand for
Harvest Help.

Last week Il was pointed out In
these columns that there would be a
yield Of about 200, 000, 900 bushels OF
wheat throughout Western Canada, an
Increase OF about 100, 000, 900 over the
previous year, and that the demand
for farm help was very great. Con-
frmation Of this news is to hand and
the cry still Is for more help. The
Canadian authorities are hopeful that
the friends of the 400, 900 or 500, 900
Americans who have gone to Canada
during the last few years will come to
the help of these people and induce
as many able-bodied men as they pos
sibly can to take advantage Of the
low rate which is being offered from
all points on the Canadian Boundary,
and particulars of which can be had
from any Of the following Agents OF
the Canadian Government: M. v. Nc
lines, 176 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit,
Mich; G. A. Laurier, Marquette.
Mich; J. S. Crawford, Syracuse, N.
Y; ThSs. Hetherington, Room 202, 70
fremont Street, Boston, Mass; II. M.
Williams, 413 Gardner Bldg, Toledo,
Ohio: Geo. Arid, ZIG Traction-Termin-
al Bldg, Indianapolis, Indiana; C. j..
Broughton. Room 4i2, NJ. l.. & T. Bldg,
Chicago, ILL.,; Geo. A. Hall, End Floor,
1875 Second Street, Milwaukee, Wis;
E. T. Holmes, 315 Jackson Street. st.
Paul, Mimi; Chas. Pilling, Clifford
Block, Grand Forks, N. D.; ]. b. Car.
bonneau, Jr., 217 Main Street, Bidde-
ford, Me-; J. NJ. MacLachlan, Box
1877. WATERFOWL, S. D.; w. V. Bennett,
Room 4, Bee Bldg, Omaha. Neb.:
w. II. Rogers, 1875 West 9th Street.
Kansas City, Mo; Benz. Davies, Room
6, Dunn Block, Great Falls, Montana;
J. N. Grieve, Auditorium Building,
Spokane, Wash.
Every facility will be afforded men
Of the right stamp to secure advantage
of these low rates. To those who pro.
pose to 60. 1t may be said that they
will have this splendid opportunity Of
securing first hand information as to
the excellent producing character OF
the lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta. They will have the op.
%portunity Of seeing some of the great
est wheat fields in the world and prob
ably the largest yield of wheat, oats
and barley that has ever been grown
on the Continent. And all this on
land some of which cost the settler
only the $1,000 necessary to enter for
his homestead, or, if he purchased,
In some cases, costing him from $500
to $1,000 pc. acre, but which is now
worth from $500 to $4,000 per acre.
Even at these prices the land is re-
markedly cheap as will be realized
when the statement is made that from
20 to % bushels per acre and over
of wheat are grown, netting the farm
err from $500 to $1,000 per acre; and
this on land that he got for nothing
or paid merely a nominal price. In
fact the production shows that $500
to $4,000 per acre would be a nominal
price for land that would produce as
these lands produce.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Work for Extinction Of tuberculosis

work Tor Extinction OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Exhibitions showing in graphic form
The prevention of consumption have
been shown in every state In the
Uuited States, except Nevada, Arizona,
New Mexico and Wyoming. and also
in most of the Canadian provinces and
in Mexico, Porto Rico and Cuba. &C.
cording to a statement made by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis. There
are now 25 states and l6 cities hay
ing permanent and travelling exhibits
besides the two operated by the Ma
tional association itself, and the total
number of similar displays Is over
200, including about $50 small school
exhibits. The first tuberculosis ex'
hibit in America was shown by the
Maryland tuberculosis commission In
January, 1904. In 1906 there were
four such exhibits.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
BIG NEW BATTLE SHIP HELPLESS
Turbine Engine on North Dakota Has
Made Trouble Since Vessel
Was Completed.

New York.-For some time past
the battle ship North Dakota, one OF
the biggest fighting units Of the
United States ANY which was com
pleted IS months ago at a cost of $lO,'
900, 600, has been lying helpless at
the Brooklyn navy yards.
In some way the rotor Of n Of its
monster turbine engines became
jammed and every effort to raise it
by the power of men or machinery has
failed,
The turbine engines of the North
Dakota have caused trouble from the
day the ship was finished.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Hez Rasco test. joseph.

Hez Rasco, convicted OF the muir.
der of the Oda Hubbell family of four
near Barnard, November 20, 1910,
was brought to the Buchanan county
Jail at St. Joseph upon order of the
county court Of Nodaway county
Saks had been found in Rasco's cell
and he was removed to prevent him
from attempting to escape. Rasco
is now awaiting the result of an ap-
peal to the supreme court.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27


A we'll recently drilled on the
Gathers farm near Neodesha, Kan,
will yield from lno to 900 barrels Of
oil a day after il is shot. The oil is
said to be of the highest grade.
Missouri's peach belt is to cole.
brate the rip,Ling Of the luscious
fruit with a carnival at Brandsville
July 2S.
The first joint raid in C~;alcna, Kan,
since his appointment vas made by
the assistant attorney general. r. r.
Burr.
The Socialists Of Girard. Kan. have
adopted resolutions declaring they
Will oppose tn" payment of poll tax.
Two men are dead and two were
injured by the explosion of the big
turbine engin" in III" Illinois Trac.
ton system N"rhouSc at River.
ton. near Springfield, III.
IN antitrust suit may be started
against what are known as the
'uui0n" fire Insurance COMPANIES do.
Ing business in Kansas.
1t Is doubtful if the movement to
recall Mayor j. II Graham of Wich.
ita, Kan, on charGcs Of incompetencv.
VIII result in an election, Many per.
sons who signed the petitions are
now asking that their names be taken
off.
\ civil suit has been filed in the
f'd'ra court at Denver against the
American Smelling and Refining com.
pany for $2,50o,OnO damages for fraud
in acquiring 2,il5 acres of coal lands
in the Trinidad coal fields.
Two mon entered a Kansas City
t"welry store in daylight, taking a
tray of diamonds. and shooting a by.
stander while escaping. One man
was captured.
Members of the Chicago Seyent Y
Cent Gas league have prepared to ad,
vocaie penny telephones in place of
the unlimited and measured classes
OF service now furnished.
Fear of a cholera invasion has becu
considerably aIlayed by the govern
W'htS OF the United States and Italy
90 operating with the New York health
department.
The United States court has denied
O motion for a receiver in the case
Of the Texas Oil company against the
Central Fuel Oil company Of Bartles
vile. Ok.
Mrs. Sarah T.. Cotton has given the
Sedalia Young Mems Christian Asso
oiaticn n check for $4,000 for theil
new building.
Although the New York legislator,
was the t~hirty'irst to indorse the in
come tax 1t now appears certain tina
T. cannot become operative this year
The requisite number of states hay,
not acted IA yorably.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Kansas Has No Drouqht Now,

TOpeka.-Kansas got some good
soaking corn making rains at last.
The eastern third of the state gener.
ally was greatly benefited, though
rains are reported on the Santa Fe
from Kansas City to Dodge City. One
storm moved into the state from Me-
braska and took a southeasterly direc.
ton. All of northeastern Kansas got
very heavy rains.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Starts Trolley Line SURVEY.

Fifteen surveyors have started
work out Of Excelsior Springs on the
two proposed routes of the Kansas
City, Clay County & St. Joseph
electric line. 1t is reported here the
promoters have purchased a 4O0.acre
farm north of Liberty on which the
proposed junction Of the lines will
be formed, one branch reaching En-
celsior Springs, the other extending
to St. Joseph.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
PERSONAL.

ScfsOnSl
Mrs. Addie Caldwell of Shawnee,
Ok. is the first woman in the state to
be given a commission as a deputy
state enforcement officer.
While h%andcuffed and shackled,
Luther Lewis, a prisoner. jumped
through a window of a moving train
near Muskogee, Ok.
George Morey. one of the founders
or F~rontenac, Kan, was killed in a
mine by a fall of rock.
The Conley sisters still hold Huron
cemetery in Kansas City. Kan, and
no effort has been made to dislodge
them.
Prof. A. NJ. Teneyck will be retain.
ed as Superintendent of the Fort
Hays, Kan, experiment station.
Lewis Strang the widely known
motor car racer was killed at Blue
River, Wis, when the car which he
was driving in the state reliability
tour jumped an embankment.
DR.. Hermann Adler, chief rabbi of
the United Hebrew congregations of
the British empire. is dead.
Gen. Porfirio Diaz Is preparing to
leave Germany for Paris. From Paris
Diaz will go to Switzerland for the
summer.
Ben Mitchell of Asher, Ok, said
to be well to do, was found guilty by
a jury on the charge of vagrancy.
The maximum penalty is 500 fine
and 30 days In Jail. Mitchell con-
Quoted a gambling house.
John w. Gates, the %fnancier who
Is i'll in Paris, continues to gain
slowly.
Philip Duash died in 30 minutes at
Dubois, Pa. from the sting of a honey
be. He was 81 years old.
Chief of Police William Tilghman,
who made a reputation by clearing
Dodge City, Kan, of bad men, has
started an anti-liquor fight In Okla
homa City. Ok.
Baron Oswald o Richthofen, who
killed wilhelm Won Caffron in a duel
In Berlin May 10, was sentenced to
two years imprisonment in a fortress.
Mrs. Charles King and daughter,
Mrs. Luella Bruce, have been rear,
rested at Junction City, Kan, charged
with the murder Of the formers hus.
band.
Frank Riley. a Missouri Pacific
brakeman ia dead from burns re
ceived when the Palace hotel a;
] Wichita burned.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
6ootIegeers on Vacation"

Members Of the special grand
jury of the Galway circuit court
slipped quietly into Fulton and re-
opened their session. 1t was thought
adjournment had been taken in June
when the jury stopped it's delibera-
TOMS. The ~roconvening following
closely after the activities of the
United States marshals, has caused
the "~bootleggerS' to quake, and the
exodus for Summer vacations" %
tinues.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
They Make Rope From Grass.

An industry which has sprung up in
certain manufacturing centers has
been the direct cause of creating 3
market for 10000 acres Of bottom hay
in southern Bates and Vernon coun-
ties-that of making rope from the
tough bottom grass. However, this
industry does not consume the entire
crop by any means, as thousands Of
tons are annually fed by cattlemen
to stock. The first weeks cutting
ended with a shipment of forty.fve
cars, the average market price OBJ.
tanned being 81 per ton.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Middies Lost In Mountains.

Bergen, Norway.-Two Of the cad
cts Of the American practice squad
ron, which is now here, have been
missing since they left here with an
excursion party and it is feared they
are lost in the mountains.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Swim Across Golden Gate.

San Francisco.-Walter Pomeroy
and George Bond of the Olympic Ath-
letic club swan across the Golden
Gate from Fort Point to Lime Point,
a distance of one mile. 1t was the
first time the feat has been accom-
plishsd in twenty years.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Asylum Uses Scientific Farming.

Scientific farming. practiced on the
big farm connected with state hos.
pital for the insane at St. Joseph is
proving successful. The garden is
in bad shape. and the pastures are
dried up. but despite this the big
dairy herd. which now numbers about
ITO COWS. LIS being kept In good con
6tiol-
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Salvation Army Fire.

St. Louis.-One man lost his life
and forty more narrowly escaped in
jury or death in a fire which prac-
tically destroyed the Salvation Army
paper warehouse and lodging house,
known as the Salvation Army Bar
racks.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
The Man Who Sued the Widow.

A st. Louis man is suing a widow
for $780, 900 for refusing to marry
him. He must be one Of those iron
gray whIskered men who want to sit
on the front porch of a house that was
built with money earned by another
man.-Houston Post.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-07-27
Drives Auto Over Bank

Ernest c. Mueller, a wealthy farm
er north of st. Joseph was impaled
on a pole and probably fatally in
1ured, when his automobile went over
a ten foot embankment. He was
driving with his three ons The eld-
est boy was badly hurt but the two
youngest escaped without injury.