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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-11-21
Notice for Publication

Department Of the Interior, U. S. Land Office
at Woodward, Oklahoma, Oct, u, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that Lille II. Davis, OF
Flors, Oklahoma, who, On June Is, 1906. made
Homestead Entry No. 2Sl3O-Oi3579, for South
Half ct the South East Quarter Of Section 20,
ana South Halfof the South West Quarter of
Section 2s. Township s, n. OF Range %. +. G.. NJ.
Has fled notice Of intention tn make Final
Three Year Proof to establish claim TO the land
above described before Thomas p. Braidwood
Z. S. commissioner. al his office In Beaver, OK
ahoma, on the 25th day OF November, 1912.
Claimant names as Witnesses Gilbert Bell
Ell G. Bell Charley Topinka, Mary Topinka
al Of Floris, Oklahoma.
la ll.2l 5w GEo Z. ORNER, Register
Notice For Publication.
Department OF the Interior. q. $. Land Office al
Woodward, Okla, Oct. I, 1872.
Notice is hereby given that John II. Dexter, ol
Hatten, Oklah oma, who, on February %, 1919
made Homestead Entry No. Ol9l30, for NEl4 OF
Nwh. Section 2s, Township 8, North OF Rang,
=, l.. G, NJ.
Has fled no tce Of intention to make ilnal three
year Proof, TO establish claim to the land aboy,
described before o. +. Pruett, Clerk OF the Dis
trict Court In his office at Beaver, Oklahoma, oil
tho 22d day OF November 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses; Amos Brown
William Girk, J. p. Hatton, Henry Turner, all o
Hstten, Oklahoma.
ll-2l GEo. d. 0RNER, Register
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-11-21

Money TO loan on farms. See John
W. Savage, first building east of the
Court House.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-11-21

by Z. L. flckELi Under eherln
Hi E-l2 5w ]
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
PUBLIC UTILITIES.

The big corporations opposed a
public utilities law in Kansas but
now that 1t is working it is the best
friend they have. 1t has enabled
the Bell Telephone Company to alb
sorb practically all the independent
telephone systems which is good
thing for the public. Under the law
rates may be fixed and regulated and
when this is done competition means
only added expense to the user of
phones.
The utilities board has also re-
fused to allow a competing electric
light plant in towns already properly
served by the existing plants, hold
ing that with state regulation Of
rates there is no sense in wasting
money in double service. 1t will
probably also refuse the construc-
ton of municipal plants in competi-
tion with existing private plants as
a waste OF taxpayers money. That
is the Wisconsin law. The city may
buy the other plant but 1t cannot
put in a second plant where one
serves the public we'll. The fact
that most municipal plants are very
expensive both to consumers and to
taxpayers makes this a good rule.
Good service and no waste Of money
should be the aim Of al public utili-
ties and that Is wat a good law win
accomplish.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
ruE IdoAL NEwsPAPERs.

Hearst's Chicago American has a
tribute to the American local news
paper this Is highly deserved. This
newspaper" 1t says, has tried oc-
casionally to emphasize the value OF
the thousands of local newspapers
that attend to notional police work
in this country. Perhaps that is
not understood. but II SO It is be-
cause It is overlooked, because peo-
pie do not stop to consider just what
function the local newspapers scat
tered through the thousands OF small
communities really perform to JUS
tify their existence. The Hearst pa
pers think It surprising that the big
advertisers do little to support the
small publications upon which this
country relies for its, political NOR
atty and its material progress. "
There are some 10000 such small
newspapers published in the United
States. In a. way they fulfill the
place of the old time town-meeting.
And in way they are police
force, the publicity they furnish be-
ing more feared by would-be evil
doors than the laws against crime.
"If other metropolitan papers fail
to give credit to local newspapers,
80 much the worse for them" says
the American. "They are neglect
ing an opportunity to build up the
country. Every locality needs its
strong, we'll supported newspaper,
protecting the local interests in its
neighborhood."
There is nothing that would pay
the business world better, says the
Topeka Capital. The local news
paper deserves to be not grudgingly
and slen1derly supported, but strong
w. SO that it can be what it is pos
sible for it to be, an independent,
vigorous protector of the negihbor-
hood and champion of every good
and desirable interest. The local
as a matter of fact, de-
serve the things the Hearst papers
say of them, for they keep up the
good fight for ,decency and good
morals, as we'll as local industries
and interests, keep the community
public spirit alive and their univer-
sal characteristic is optimism and
faith in the town, the county and
the state.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
Az no SEtNG rAxED.

Q Il
Some advocate Of the single tax
sends us q communication bubblinG
over with enthusiasm for his theory.
He ovates this way:
He buys a farm. The taxes are
very low, as 1t Is unimproved land
He clears an acre and II Is taxed
He builds house and It is taxed
He sets put fruit trees and ,they
are taxed.
He builds a barn and II Is taxed
So II goes. Every time he puts
in months work 1t Is taxed, whilt
adjoining land, held by the specu'
lator. doesn't pay cent more taxes
yet each day grows in value as the
settler clears and improves his farm
So your single taxer would tax the
unoccupied, unimproved, uncultivat-
ed land, which is not worth any
thing, and make It's owner bear the
burden, or the chief burden, OF all
the cost of government. But what
is the use OF government, or civiliza-
tion, or improvements. or society, to
the absentee owner of desert waste?
Whom are they for?
Why is the farmer taxed? Why
is the home-owner taxed? Why is
anybody taxed?
The farmer wants roads and he
is taxed for them. Could he get along
without roads?
The farmer wants schools and he
is taxed for them. Could the farmer
get along without schools?
The farmer wants police protection
and he is taxed for 1t. Could the
farmer get along without police
protection?
The farmer wants courts Of justice
and he is taxedi'for them. Could the
farmer get along without courts?
The farmer wants markets, society,
comfort, health, mails, churches and
the thousand and one conveniences
and necessities that make up the
daily life of a dweller in a civilized
community; and he must pay for
them through his contribution to gov
eminent What are ibis improve
ments, his house, his barn, his cul-
tivated fields, his fruit trees, worth
except as they are made valuable
by the efforts of others and the de-
and movement of organ
lied society?
or course the farmer is taxed. or
course everybody is taxed. If land is
to pay all the tax, where does the
poor farmer come out in the distri-
button of costs and benefits.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
SENSIBLE MINNEAPOLIS.

Last summer in a spasm Of ex
element fostered by dreamers who
promised the people wonders Min
neapolis voted bonds to build city
electric light plant. Then the tax
payers commenced to figure. They
investigated and found that to build
a city plant meant either higher
rates for light than the local CON-
pany is giving or the taxpayers must
meet the deficit lin higter taxes;
also that with the exception of one
or two city plants that are run at
loss, aud Abilene where the lowest
rate in this section is given, no city
in Kansas Is getting light cheaper
than the local light company is fur
nishing It.
So, the Messenger says, the coun-
Gil will not issue the bonds but ar
range with the local light company
to go on doing business. The Mes
senger says: Here are the rea-
sons why the city does not want to
build: First, suitable plant can
not be erected for the amount of
bonds already voted, and taxes will
be high enough for comfort next
year without more burdens; second.
to build with the Jackman plant
in the field means competition ruin
Gus to both plants, a profitless city
plant and consequent increased taxes,
and a town row-and probably ex-
pensive litigation: third, the city
has enough public utility works on
its hands in the water works, and
wants to perfect its management be-
fore taking on more"
Abilene commends its neighbor on
its good sense. The folly of building
an extra light plant as burden to
taxpayers is clear. Minneapolis will
get a rate of 1919 cents on small
quantities of light running down to s
cents. Abilene has 10 cents with
discounts. Abilene made big blum
der when 1t failed to take advantage
of a cheap street lighting plant with
a so cent minimum for houses but
1t will not make the larger blunder
Of wasting money on another light
plant. Minneapolis shows good
judgment in its action.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

Congressman Rees OF this district
has refused to support Roosevelt.
He is for Taft and against Roose-
velt's recall and initiative and refer
endum ideas. This Is an interview
with him In Washington:
IL believe that Colonel Roosevelt
is the most popular presidential can
didate in the Republican party and
| personally admire him and would
be glad to support him. At the same
time cannot give my unqualified
endorsement to some of the positions
he he's taken. | refer especially to
the initiatiye and the recall, do
not believe that the time has arrived
when the national platform OF the
Republican party should endorse eth
er the initiative or the recall.
believe that both of these plans Will
work very well in a municipality,
and perhaps even in a state, but the
nation can afford to wait until these
new i1stfumentalities of government
have been more Thoroughly tested
in the states that have adopted them
before entering upon what might
prove to be dangerous experiment"
The Kansas delegation in con-
gress is now lined up thus:
Senator Curtis for Taft.
Senator Bristow for La Toilette.
Anthony, Campbell, Rees, Young
for Taft.
Jackson for Roosevelt.
Murdoch, non-committal, probably
for Roosevelt.
Neeley and Taggart, Democrats,
for Wilson.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
AUTHORITY:

There must be authority or the
world will be in chaos. There must
be authority in the, family. in the
state and in the nation. In the earl
lest pages of sacred history, divine
authority was established by the Ten
Commandments. States have their
constitutions, and the Federal gov
ern1hent has It's fundamental laws,
framed more than a century ago by
the most illustrious patriots of Amer
lean history.
Wherever authority is established,
1t provokes resistance. The boy or
the girl who opposes parental re-
straint defies the authority of the
father and mother. The thousands
that crowd our state prisons are
there because they defied the auth
ority of the state. Every one of
them believes that he has a good
excuse for his defiance. The more
hardened the heart, the firmer the
conviction of the obdurate man that
he is right and everybody else is
wrong.
We have preachers denying the
inerrancy OF the Scriptures. church
men soothing at the inspiration OF
the pages of sacred history, college
professors challenging the founda-
tions of society as misplaced, am
bilious statesmen demanding that the
Constitution be rewritten and that,
at the within of the people, judges
be subject to recall whenever their
decisions fail to please the crowd.
Demagogues rant about a pure
democracy and the peoples rights.
They paint glowing pictures about
things that never have been nor
will be. They perplex the people
with problems which they call new,
while they are as old as the world.
and that centuries have not solved.
They are urging the people to fol-
low the will O. the wisps, and good
many are doing so. Yet there is
not a man. woman or child in the
who doesn't hunger for pros
perity more than for all the fads Of
our foolish time.
Our real problem is the common
welfare of all the people-the full
dinner pail, the full flour barrel,
the full bank book. the full pay, en-
velope. the full factory, the full
and the full church,
These are the things that make for
the common welfare, social, moral
and politiCal.-Leslie's Weekly.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
ARE WEIGHING THE MAIL.
Uncle Sam VIII Count Every Piece
Delivered Here.

AT, the end of this week Uncle
Sans mail carriers will know just
who is the most popular girl in town
and the exact number of letters she
received-but they won't tell Be-
ginning Monday the local postal
force is counting every piece of mail
entering and leaving the local office.
Not only will the men in gray know
the number of letters all receive
but they will know whether they
answered promptly. Uncle Sam has
ordered count Of both incoming
and outgoing mail.
Last year a count Of mail was
made during the same week, and
the recount this year is intended as
sort of check on the accuracy of
the former figures and for the de-
termination of the increase, If any,
in the business of the local office.
Under the instructions received it
will be necessary to count and classi-
fly every piece of mail handled, and
finally to weigh the whole. The
counting and weighing will continue
for just one week. Because OF this
additional labor required OF the car
riers, it is likely that deliveries will
be made slightly later on most city
routes.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
vrCTrM; NOT PERPETRATORS.

j. r. Koontz, general freight agent
OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway company. lately made de-
monstration in so towns to ascertain
the freight charges paid by family
of five receiving an income of $3.50
year and spending 1t for the house
hold. Mr.. Koontz traced the freight
rate from the fields and pastures to
the mills, factories and packing
houses, thence to the retail dealer,
adding the freight charges at each
stage. He found that the highest
total freight charges that could be
taxed any family on the list would
be $7.79. The single item of fuel
was not counted in the demonstra-
tion, because natural gas was used
in more than half the towns in the
list.
The high cost of living has been
under discussion two or three years.
1t started because of a general ad
vance on the price OF the things folks
have to buy. Everything in the
world, from beefsteak to matches
has increased in price. except freight
rates. The Santa Re, therefore.
would be pleased to have an oppor-
tunity to assure the people along
It's lines that its modest charge for
freight transportation has been grad
uaily revised downward for the last
20 years; also that while the Santa
Re Is paying from IS to 100 per
cent more than 1t did ten years ago.
q & not adding the increase to the
freight charges. and thus make the
people bear the burden. The Santa
Re isnct . berpetrator Of the high
cost 81 nvine; It Is victim
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
A BUSINESS sERMON.

E. w. Howe in Howe's Magazine:
A silly preacher in New York City
is trying to prove that a business
man cannot be honest, and succeed.
AS matter of fact, a businessman
cannot succeed unless he is honest.
In my time, l have known hundreds
of good businessmen to fail because
they. were naturally tricky, and could
not overcome the disposition. On
the other hand, have known thous-
ands of men of small ability to sue
coed because they established a rep
utation for reliability. l do not
know a really successful business
man who is not honest. A preacher
might as we'll teach that virtuous
woman cannot succeed as to say an
honest man cannot succeed. The
silly New York parson says he has
been told by a great many honor
able men" that honesty is impossi-
BILE for the man who is determined to
SuCcCu. w nat q AOOAAohs uhSA NSAAA u.s.
mischievous statement! l do not be-
Iieye any honorable businessman
ever made any such statement. If
you cannot learn from the pulpit
that the more steadily a business
man practices honesty, the greater
his chances for success, then learn
it from me. A man who doubts
this, and makes inquiries to prove
his position. not only lacks sense, but
there is faint of dishonesty in his
makeup. The talk that the greater
the rogue. the greater his fortune,
originated with thieves, and they
have failed to make their doctrine
good. Tie lesson, taught most per-
sistently by human experience Is
that for his own sake, q man should
behave himself; e doubt z Il levi
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

dence of moral and intellectual weak
ness. If you want to hear that
there is no chastity among women,
associate with women. who are
wretched outcasts because of the lack
of chastity; If you want to hear that
successful man cannot be honest,
associate with men who are them
selves unclean in thought and pfac-
tice. Ask an old thief the greatest
regret of his life, and he will tell
you it is regret that he did not lead
an honest life, which would have
made him successful and respected,
instead of an outcast and public
charge. Why is it that some one
is daily bringing up the exploded
charge that an honest man cannot
succeed in life? Why is it that we
cannot agree upon the simplest NOR
al fact? Millions of men are tricky,
and unsuccessful because Of teaching,
constantly reiterated, that If man
hopes to succeed, he must be a thief.
The world Is rotten with this notion,
which is as paIpably false as that a
man may get along better with one
arm than with two. Any man who
takes advantage of another, is a
thief at heart. 1t is this man, apollo
giving for his own conduct, who
gives the impression that an honest
man cannot succeed in business.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

The statement of Professor Scott
in his address on banking reform
that in a panic or financial crisis
over so per cent Of all the firms
that are compelled to go into receiv-
ers hands pay 100 cents on the dol
lar showing that they are actually
solvent. is striking comment on fin
ancial conditions. 1t means that
business is at the mercy Of bad cur
rency conditions. There ought to
be system that would make such a
situation impossible.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

The county commissioners OF Dick
inson county, with the cooperation
OF the township trustees, have enter
ed on good roads movement that
is in many ways the most tangible
aud sensible proposed by any county
in the state. The plan was outlined
by Commissioner Mccullough and in
general terms provides for 100 miles
of county roads kept up jointly by
the county and townships. It will
go far toward making Dickinson
county known as one of the most pro-
gressive counties in the state.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
AMERICAN CREDIT.

Sir Gilbert Parker, the famous
English novelist, is spending the
winter in Arizona for his health. In
an interview the other day he re-
marked on the large amount of mon
ey invested in England in the Sc
curities of the Santa Fe and other
American railways. 1t is mostly
the money of small family estates,
universities, colleges, hospitals. or
phan asylums, etc. Every assault
on the railroads means an assault
on this class of small investors and
the radical laws and the poll
tical attacks that. have reduced rail-
way earnings have damaged the small
investor more than it has the capt.
talist. The unfolding of American
credit is essential to our prosperity
and good standing in the world.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07
DINNER PARTY STORIES.

An Atchison Globe reporter recent
ly attended a dinner party and made
notes of the different things that
were talked about Some of them
are as follows: One woman told a
story about a farmer who heard a
noise in his hen house. He united
! his bulldog and arming himself with
shot gun went out to investigate.
He stuck his head in the window
of the hen house and said: who's
in there?' Away back in a corner
little squeaky voice answered:
Nobody but us chickens" An
other woman was told that she had
to tell story. She didn't know any
story but she remembered a toast
she had heard some place Woman
came after man-and she has been
after him ever SINCE" she said. -.
Among the gentlemen at the table
was Jim Byram. He said that he
recently attended the performance
Of Madame X" at the theatre He
said that Sam Bronse sobbed so loud
during the show that his wife threat
ened to take him out of the theatre
and home. Mr.. Byram said he walk
ed up the street with them and that
Mr.. Brouse actually cried all the way
home. "It's all over; you needn't cry
now" his wife kept saying to him
but Mr.. Byram says she might as
we'll have tried tn dam UP the Mis-
souri, river as to stop her husbands
tears. The question of operations
was discussed. Mrs. Frank Brown
told about her experiences when she
was in a hospital. Finally some wo-
man had the perve to ask her why
she went to a hospital. Mrs. Brown
confessed that she went to hospi-
tai to have two wisdom teeth remov-
ed. She was In a hospital day
and half and ether was administer
ed when the teeth were removed. -.
Mrs. Jim Byram told story on her.
self. Years ago Jess Henderson.
colored, worked fer the Browns He
has grown quite stout and when she
met I'm on tho straet recently she
didn't know who he was at first
Just as he passed she recalled his
face. Turning her head che saidy
why hello Jess. You've grown so
heavy that l didn't recognize you
at first" 81 was thinking the same
about you, Mrs. Byram" replied Hen
derson. The father of one of the
ladies present formerly Conducted a.
sore in Atchison anu he worked
lard for the farmer business. His
wife also endeavored to mike friends
with the farmers. When she was a
little girl barely able to walk her
mother had her down town. Her
mother met some acquaintanees from
the country and stood on the street
talking. The little girl acted very
cute. She went mp and shook hands
with the farmers wife and said she
wanted to be kissed. You know"
said her mother. ''she Just loves peo-
pie from the country Yes I do"
aid the little girl. papa says its
good for the trade. /. In talking
about antomobIles-they are always
at q dinner party come
'ns made the assertion that Ralph
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

A suffragette at Socialist meet
ing in Kansas City the other night
said once she reverenced Old Glory
but now she reverenced the red flag
and waved one hysteriClally while
the audience cheered. Queer kind
Of people who put the red flag of
anarchy above the Stars and Stripes.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

Representative G. A, Case is be-
ing favorably mentioned for dele
gate to the Republican National con-
vention from the Fifth district. He
IN known as a fair and really repre-
sentative Republican and would make
. fine man for the place. Dickinson
is entitled to a delegate this year
and win get behind Mr.. Case en-
enthusiastically.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

Thus does William Alien White
drop the La Toilette baby on
strange doorstep and run: Before
joining the procession, carrying a
transparency, one may be forgiven
forshedding tear for Poor Old La
Toilette"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

Shelly, one of the most expert driv-
ers in Atchison, cannot ride in an
automobile five minutes without
either going to sleep or becoming
deathly sick-that is, unless he is
driving it himself. When he drives
the machine himself, he isn't both
cred in the least.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07

The presidential primary plan pro-
posed by Chairman Dolley is probably
as good as any that could be devised
but no primary that is not legalized
and does not have strict regulations
surrounding it will be worth whoop
as an indication of the voters ideas
on nomination Of any candidate.