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The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
WOULD like CITY TO
OWN SPRINKLER
Johnson Believes Street Sprink-
Ing a Public, Not Private
Enterprise

The much discussed street sprink-
ling question was brought up in
Commissioners meeting once again
by Commissioner Johnson at FRI
days session. Johnson prefaced
his remarks by saying that he was
simply expressing his ideas and did
not want the commission to act on
the question now.
In part Mr.. Johnson said of the
streets are sprlnkled until they are
soaking wet, and are sprinkled in
such a manner as will give the man
with the cart no chance to clean,
then the street will be in just the
condition that it was a yearago +
do not believe that sprinkling can
be done very successfully as pri-
vate enterprise, and for thatrea7on.
| believe it would be better for the
city to own their own sprinkler.
There are times when street
sprinkler would be b .nefcial. On
windy days most of the dust is
blown in from the side streets and
they are the ones to which attention
should be paid. 1t is probable
that the streets would be better if
Sprinkled during the intensely hot
weather, even tina. is question.
Some say 1t mikes them hotter and
some cooler The Mayor then
spoke of the cost 10 the cny of
sprinkler Of its own.
Johnson SAID "WelI, you will get
the expense coming or going one.
Ii you own a sprinkler you get 1t
one way. If you don't you get 1t in
another, and if they make the
streets muddy, then it will! be un-
satisfactory"
"rhis flushing the stress is
wearing the hose out too much, SO
it will have to be done less often,
unless some means for Transporting
the hose is found"
"It has been the practice to flush
the streets three times per week
this spr ng to keep them in condi-
tion.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
Mrs. J. G. Biles
Dies Suddenly
Chanute Pioneer Died Sunday
at Nine o'clock Funeral
From Home at 2 o'clock.

Mrs. Sarah Biles, wife of J. c.
Blles died Sunday morning at their
home 100 South Highland avenue,
shortly before nine O'Clock from the
effects of bursted blood vessel.
Although Mrs. Biles had been in
poor health for nearly month,
death came very suddenly. She
had arisen and eaten breakfast
about seven thirty Sunday morning
and felt apparently as we'll as she
had been feeling for the past few
weeks.
Mrs. Bles is survived by her hus-
band and their daughter Mrs. Edith
Bies Allison, South Santa Fe avenue
Mrs. Biles was born in Mercer
county, Pa, April 81, IS42, and in
1867 was married to ]. c. Biles.
Tnev came TO Kansas, settling on a
farm just west of the present Santa
Fe round house in April of 1870.
During the summer following the
Lown of Chanute was plated and
they have lived here ever since
there was town, moving to the
home On South Highland numb I
of years ago.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
ROY GOOD IN PROFESSIONAL CLASS

Roy Good, the motorcycle rider
from Coffeyville who is also we'll
known to Chanute motorists having
raced at the Fair here last fall is
now In Cleveland, Ohio according
to letter received by Ora Clossen
of the Oriental garage. Good
started racing In the amateur class
at Cleveland some time ago but
made such time that he has entered
the professional ring. St. Louis,
Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and
Pittsburg, Pa, are still in league
and are doing some fancy motor
cycle riding. Good is one of the
members of the Cleveland motor.
cycle team and the league season
will be opened shortly.
Good writes that he las had three,
bad falls since he began riding for
Cleveland. Once his machine took
fire and the other two times the
falls were caused by tire blow outs.
Good was in a class all by himself
when he raced here last fall, easily
the motorcycle races pulled
off at the Fair. Ora Clossen now
owns and rides the mrchine Good
rode last fall.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
PRINCE OF PREVARlCATORS
Tuesdays Timesett

A man giving the name of John
Rutter, sad eyed and wistful, entered
the Timesett Office this morning in a
courtly manner as do the other score
or more of collectors who visit this
establishment monthly, and calmly
asked for two bits to make up his
already collected fund to purchase
ticket to Joplin John Rutter has
the distinction of being a little the
most versatile panhardler that has
ever worked our side of the street.
my name is John Rutter," he began
81 have just been released from the
Oklahoma Asylum for the Insane. I
entered refrigerator car at Tulsa to
sleep and was locked in. | knew the
car was moving and for three days /
was imprisoned in the CIR without
food or drink. BY chance the car
was opened in the Chanute yards and
| was liberated, too weak to walk.
III never forget that three days i'm.
priSonment and had plenty of time to
think who would meet me in the other
world Rather sad story was is it
not? The man shed copious tears
while telling of his once happy home
and his little children. Even the Of
flee devil, who, for the first time in
his official career was known to melt.
picked up piece of waste and further
smeared his inky features in a futile
attempt to blot the tears.
John Rutter is most successful
solicitor. He is versatile-were the |
same energy directed along business |
lines he would become rich. The re-
freshing part about Rutters stories
are that no two are alike. A bran
new one is sprung upon every victim
and they are generally so interesting
that they get results.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
BEST MEDICINE EoR COLDS

When a druggist recommends a
remedy for colds, throat and lung
troubles, you can feel sure that he
knows what he is talking about G,
Lower, Druggist. of Marian, Ohio,
writes of DR. Kings New Discovery.
81 know DIR. Kings New Discovery
is the best throat and lung medicine
/ sell. 1t cured my wife of a severe
bronchial cold after all other rem
edies failed" 1t will do the same
for you IL you are suffering with a
cold or any bronchial, throat or lung
cough. Keep a bottle on hand al
the time for everyone in the family
to use II is q home doctor. Price
SOC and 81. Guaranteed by All Drug
gists.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
APRIL BIRTHS ANO DEATHS

During the month of April accord
ing to the records of George T. Amyx,
City Clerk there were twenty.two
births and only nine deaths. OF the
twenty-five children born fourteen
were boys and eight were girls. OF
the deaths nine were females and two
males, Five Of the deaths were those
OF Infants, ranging in age from three
hours to three months,
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
ARRESTED FOR ABANDONMENT

John T. Lawhorn was arrested
Saturday and taken TO jail to Erie
TO await trial Thursday, on the com
pIaint filed by his wife, Emmi Law
h-rn, through the county attorney,
charging Lawhoin with abaGdonment
and desertiLn LaWhorn was at the
small town Of LebO near Wichita
when arrested He had been absent
from home for some time, hut claims
he was working there and that was
his only reason for being from home.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
WOODSON'S COUNTY SEAT GROWlEG

The improvements that are being
made in the town of Yates Center,
the county seat OF WoOdson county
consist of sewer system, new resi-
dences and new business buildings.
| 1t Is claimed that YATES Center IL
putting up more new buildings th!>
spring that at any time previously in
many years 1t is not the boom klnd
Uf growth but the improvements
made are necessary improvement S
and they are needed because OF the
natural growth OF the town, ana It's
prosperous condition. Several sub.
Stantial business houses are uuder
way at the present time. Each one Is
a brick building and will be used tuI
store and office ro1ms. New dwellings
are also being erected, some Of tht m
heing under course Of construction
now.
Perhaps the created improvement
is that of the S75, 1000 sewer
system being installed, and which
viii be completed by the last of the
year. The digging Of bitches is under
way but construction work has bet n
delayed by lack Of sufficient workmen.
Crop reports from that section Of h
country are also most promising. The
fruit has not been rjured by frost
that farmers have their corn planted
and wheat and oats are ia splendid
shane.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
SANTA fE ENTERTAINMENT

The Merrymakers Concert company
travelling out Of Chicago, Ill will
l,v,an entertatCment at the Baptist
cnurch TuesdayIevening There are
five per sons in the company and ac-
corddg to S. E. Busser, superinten-
dent of the Reading rooms, they are
worthy the name Merrymakers.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
RECOVERED FROM SEVERE INJURIES

Emil Switzer who some three or
-tcur weeks ago was badly injured by
being run ovec by disc plow, has
almost fully recovered from the
wounds iuficted. The cuts are healed
aicely and his face will be only slight
Scared The attending pnysiciSo at
tributes his speedy recovery greatly
to his sound constitution.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
Orville Harrold's Date Changed

From Wednesdays Timesett.
The ST. Cecilia club received this
morning the contract for the appear
ance here on Thursday May 2sth of
Orville Harold, the great tenor, in
grand opera. The change of the date
was made from the 22d because OF a
matinee and evening concert to be
given in Kansas City on May 2Sd, and
for which it was necessary for Mr..
Harold to have at least one davis
rest.
The change from the 22d to the
10Th is very agreeable to the Club as
the excitement accompanying the
Booster trip, State Federation OF
Glubs meeting and closing school ex.
ercises will be over, and larger audi
ence will be expected.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
OIL WAS GOOD

Mr.. Mallory OF the firm OF Mallory,
Crosby & Mitchell Of Tulsa, Okla,
who have been drilling for oil on the
Barney Thielen land sent FIVE gallons
of their Oil to the Kansas and Texas
Oil refinery at Tulsa and it was tested
out IN the small still OF their refinery.
The oil was pronounced to be a very
high class lubricating oil.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
MARRIED SUNDAY

Mrs. Effle Polk and Jasper Mitchell
we're married Sunday morning at the
home of Mrs. Sue Hudkins, North
Evergreen avenue, at nine O'Clock.
Justice of the Peace B. F. Nye offici-
ated. Mr.. Nye has been justice Of
the peace but few months and this
was his initial performance ,in the
role of matrimonial promoter.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
Quit for the Summer

The Chanute Business College, un.
der the management Of Taylor Broth
ers and Miss Sheedy, has suspended
work for the summer. There will be
no classed held in any Of the depart
ments from now until September 2
when the fall term will open. The
last classes we're held Friday afternoon
No special exercises marked the close
Of school.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
FIVE PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORDS

Five of the rooms in the Alcott and
Murray Hill buildings with an aggre-
gate of POI pupils had perfect records
for the week just past They were the
rooms of Miss Grace Post, Alcott with
AZ pupils, The other rooms were at
Murray Hill and the teachers, Princi-
pal VIM. Cough with "A students.
Miss Hare, with "a, Mrs, Sare 43 and
Miss Wagner 2s.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
CONSTIPATION CURED

DR.. Kings New Life Pills will re-
lieve nstipation promptly and get
your bowels in healthy condition
again John Supsic of Sanbnry, Pa :,
says: "Thev are the bes p lis | ever
used, and / advise everyone to us :
them for constipation, indiges'i n
and liver comp aint." Will he p
you. Price 25c. Reeomm nded by
All Druggiss
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
WONDERFUL SKIN sA1.vE

Bucklen's Arnica Salve is known
everywhere as the best remedy made
for all diseases of the skin, and also
for burns, bruises and boils. Re-
dueesi Inflammation and is soothing
and healing. ]. T. Sossaman, pub
Usher of News, of Cornelius, N. @.
writes that one box helped his serious
skin ailment after other remedies
failed. Only 25c. Recommended by
All Druggists.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09

A child can't get strong and robust
while intestinal worms eat away its
vitality. To give the child chance
10 grow these parasites must be des-
troyed and expelled. Whites Cream
VermifDge is guaranteed TO remove
the worms; 1t also puts the vital or
cans IN healthy, vigorous condition.
Price 25c per bottle. Sold by d, b.
Hickey Drug Store.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
GAS BILLS WERE
LIGHTER IN APRIL
Other Receipts on the Aver
age---Dog Tax Coming
in Slowly

The report of City Clerk AmyS
is out for the month of April and
shows the receipts and disburse- =
ments for the month In spite OF
the drop off in the receipts in the
gas fund, occasioned by warmer
weather the disbursements ran a
little behind the receipts for the
month. Receipts totalling ST. 8o4.-
"a and the disbursements $II,I56,-
y Water and electric light receipts
are still running little over a
thousand dollars per month, whiIe
the expenses in those two depart
ments for the month will average
but eight hundred dollars.
The dog taxes are showing up
slow. OF the numerous dogs Ill
the town that are taxed at dollar
and quarter and five dollars, taxes
have been paid during the month
of April on bat sufficient number
to amount to $5I@25. Taxes on
dogs are doable the last of this
month.
The bank balances for May IS
were.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09
A HAIE.IRuIR

According to the Oklahoman there
is a sign in Oklahoma City which
reads: Pants Pressed in the Rear
While You wait"-the waiting room
being presumably in the front of the
house.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09

When your food does not digest
well and you feel blue, tired and dis
couraged you should use a little Her
bine at bedtime. 1t opens the bowels
purifies the system and restores a
tine feeling of health and energy.
Price SOC. Sold by D. B. Hickey
Drug Store.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09

Mr.. and Mrs. George weigsnd re-
turned Monday from visit in Well
ington.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09

]. W. Brisco who came down from
Kansas City a week ago has gone to
work in the engineering department
of the Sanra Fe here.
The Chanute times., 1913-05-09

Bert Allen of Lawrence visited over
with friends in Chanute.
Mohave County miner., 1913-03-15
An Epidemic of Coughing

is sweeping over the town and young and old are alike affected. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is a quick safe reliable family medicine for coughs and colds. A. s. Jones of Lee Pharmacy, Chico, Calif., says:-"I con- slider Foley's Honey and Tar Con- pound has no equal, and is the one cough medicine 1 can recommend to my friends, as containing no narcotics or other harmful properties" Refuse all substitutes and take only Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. H. H. Watkins, Druggist.
Mohave County miner., 1913-03-15
Dasheen to Rival Potato.

The discovery is announced of a vegetable that can be substituted for the potato. It is described as semi tropical tuber, grown with much suc- cess in Florida and Central and South America, and called the dasheen. Like many things that are good in side, it has rough exterior. Served Tn any way that taste may dictate, it resem bles the potato so closely that only connoisseur could detect the difference.
 It appears that the dasheen has been eaten at banquets of the National Geo. graphical Society and pronounced de- cidedly good, and mem bers of this dls- tinguished organization are among the epcures of whom the country can boast. When Secretary Wilson en- tertains a doubt about the edibility of any newly discovered food product he invariably has it served at ban quet of the National Geographical Society: if it causes no disturbance there, it is recommended without hesitation to the general public.
 The National Geographical Society having partaken of the dasheen, the Department of Agriculture IS now dis tributing, through representatives in Congress, 1000 bushels of the tubar seed that it may be propagated south of Mason and Dixon's line. One of the many good things about the dasheen is that it will thrive in the moist warm regions of Dixie where the Irish potato fails to develop. Tests already made show, it is said, that crop of from 400 to 450 bushels to the acre of dasheens can be raised.-Parker Post
Mohave County miner., 1913-03-15
For Sale By
 H. H. WATKINS PIONEER DRUGSTORE
SUMMONS.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF MOHAVE County State of Arizona. B. L. KIRBY, Plaintiff
 Vs
 FRANCES KIRBY, Defendant. Action brought in the Superior Court of Mo- have County, State of Arizona, and the com- plaint filed in the office of the Clerk of said Su- perior Court
 In the Name of the State of Arizona, To FRANCES KIRBY, Defendant, Greeting: You are hereby summoned and required to ap- pear in action brought against you by the above named plaintiff in the Superior Court of the County of Mohave, State of Arizona, and answer the Complaint therein filed with the Clerk of this Court, at Kingman, in said County, within twenty days after the service upon you of this Summons, within thirty days thereafter, the times above mentioned being exclusive of the day of service, or judgment by default will be taken against you.
 Given under my hand and seal of the Su- perior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County of Mohave, this 11th day of March, 1913.
 Seal L. M. TEALE,
 Clerk of the Superior Court of said
 Mohave County. First insertion March l5-l2 April.
Mohave County miner., 1913-03-15
The Riches of the Comstock.

The famous old COmStOck lode at Virginia City, New, IS known to every schoolboy as one of the greatest min ing regions of the world. The very word "Comstock" is a name to conjure with in mining, and yet there are few persons who have any accurate idea of the size and richness of the ore bodies there. The record of the Consolidated Virginia and the California mines, as summarized in recent report by Superintendents Mccormack and Julian of the two properties, will bring home to many fresh conception of the truly wonderful ore bodies of the great lode.
 ''From 1873 to 1881, inclusive, Con- solidated Virginia produced 776,265 tons of ore, from which the bullion recovery averaged S3.9lS per ton and totaled 65, l33, ,39l.95s, from which dividends amounting to 42,930, ,000S were paid.
 "In the same period the California produced 594,0l3 tons of ore, from which the bullion recovery averaged 76.66S per ton and totaled 47,3l1, 94S.S2S, from which dividends amount. ing to 3l, ,32), ,O00$ were paid.
 "From tho two mines together the to- tai production was, l,370,270 tons of ore, from which the average bullion recovery was S2.07S per ton and the total recovery was 1l2,45l ,340. l7S, from which dividends amounting to 74,250,OOoS were paid.
 ''It should be noted in passing, how ever, that the stated bullion production is extremely misleading, as it gives much less than full credit to the be- nanza, for the average extraction re- ported in the last six years of the period is less than n per cent. and it is not probable that there was as high an extraction in the three previous years during which Consolidated Vir. ginia produced 22,0O0,000$. If, for a rough estimation, we call the extrac- tion 75 per cent. it appears that one. third as much as the value of the bull lion produced, or 37,4S3, 700$, fell to the milling company as a taling per- quisite and large proportion of this was recovered by that company in further treatment of the tailings.
 "The tailings thus appear to have averaged at least 27$ per ton, and after being worked by the original milling company to grade of perhaps 7$ per ton they were reworked. It may be assumed with safety that there are none of them left with an average value in excess of IS per ton. On this assumption the ultimate bullion pro. duction from the ore under consider ation was probably 3l,5OO,OOOs, more than appears in the records.
 ''It can, in short, hardly be doubted that the ore produced in the bonanza period has yielded bullion to a value of IA, ,0O0,0 ,000S instead of ll2,000, ,OOOs, as commonly supposed, and the total production of bullion from the mine to date has thus been l65,00O, ,0OO$, in. stead of l35,5OO, ,OOO$ popularly at trbuted to it.
 "A just conception of these figures can best be had by comparison, and so it may be mentioned that while the l,3lO feet of the lode belonging to us have yielded l65, ,OOO, ,OOOs and paid over 7S,000,OO0$ in dividends, recent. pub. lication attributes to the whole camp of Tonopah since 1901 production of but 5l,OOO,OO0S, and dividends some- what in excess of h. GOO OOOSD
Mohave County miner., 1913-03-15

Bisbee mines have had lead-silver values quite aside from their copper ore bodies for many years, although silver has been not unimportant by product of the copper ores, in com. pany with the gold side values play ing an important part in paying the costs of copper production. The Cop per Queen mines many years ago de. termined the presence of large lead, silver ore bodies in various portions of the properties, mainly along the north side and in close proximity to the Higgins line. Exploitation of these ore bodies has never been car risd to full length they having in fact been but little explored for the reason that the company has given its large efforts to copper mining, being well satisfied to leave the lead-silver ore resources stand as the very valuable asset they represent. Very likely the decline in silver, coupled with the fact that the company did not need the additional production, had much to do with business decision to let these metal values stand until silver should again rise in price. The last several years the market silver has. with few exceptions in, slight breaks, added steadily to the ualue of these untouch- ed resources of the company.-Blsbee Review.
Mohave County miner., 1913-03-15
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
 OF The Mountain States Tele. phone and Telegraph
 Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES ENTS That. WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of the statutes of Colorado relating to the consoli- dation of corporations the directors of The Colo rado Telephone Company and The Tri.State Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, both being cor porations organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, did, at meetings held respectively on on the 3lst day of May, A D. 1911 and the 29th day of May, A. D. 1911, call a meeting of the stockholders of their said respective corporations to be held the l7th day of July, A. D 1911, for the purpose of considering proposition to con- solidate the said companies: and
 WHEREAS, at said meetings the stockholders of said companies respectively did, on said last mentioned date. by vote of more than three fourths of the stock of each company, respective ly and severally, approve of the written proposi- ton of consolidation of The Colorado Telephone Company and the Tri-State Telephone and Tele- graph Company, by uniting the properties and concerns of said corporations; and
 WHEREAS, the directors of The Colorado Telephone Company did, on the 17th day of July, A. D. 1911, elect E. B. Field, E. M Burgess, Philip Fedhauser, Edwin S. Kasser. Crawford portion of the directors to manage the affairs of the consolidated company; and
 WHEREAS, the directors of The Tr-State Telephone and Telegraph Company did, the 17th day of July, A. D. 1911. elect Edw. B. Fi eld Jr, Philip Hamlin, and J. E. Macdonald as it's proportion of the directors to manage the affairs of the consolidated company; and
 WHEREAS, at joint meeting of the directors so elected as aforesaid the sad directors did, on the l7th day of July. A. D. 1911 elect L. C. Phipps, Jr., director of the said consolidated company. all directors elected to constitute a board of directors for said consolidated company; | and
 WHEREAS, at said joint meeting of said di- rectors as aforesaid the following persons were elected officers and to fill the office set opposite their respective names, to-wit:
 President ......... F. B. FIELD,
 First Vice-President. EDW B. FIELD Jr Secretary ....J. F MACDONALD, Assistant Secretary ..... RODERICK REID, Treasurer ....... EDW. B FIELD. Jr
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