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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-01-30
The Mines.

After a lawsuit involving the
validity of every one Of its leases
the l. & o. company, operating
south of this city. has come ou'
victorious in the Federal courts,
and the ground is being opened
up again. This Is the rich shall
low ground for which the Baxter
camp is noted. With the open
ing of this ground we expect to
see a big mining, boom on the
south of u.s.. The company won
the fight at every turn. however,
and now the company is going to
push the deve opment of its lands
and leases. This is one company
in the district which makes low
royalties, and on this basis the
company expects to open up one
of the biggest poor mans dig
gings" in the lead and zinc dis
trict. Mr.. Abrams is jubilant
over the prospect.
The Mission is undergoing re-
pairs and will be put into cOmmis-
sion very soon now. The water
Is out of the ground, and as soon
as the repairs are completed dirt
will begin coming out of the mine.
Down at the Sweeney mine the
mill is running steadily, and the
output of ore is very satisfactory.
This property produces both lead
and jack.
Chris Newlands has his new
shaft into the ore body and will
soon begin producing ore. He
will cut the new shaft to a con-
uection with the mill shaft and
work on the connection is going
on now.
Tom lakewood is making a
lot of ore from his lease OF the
White Eagle property, and the
figures are showing up on the
right side of the book. All this
is of course very satisfactory to
Tom.
Ed Miller is making a lot OF
ore at his Last Chance diggings,
where he is cleaning the dirt on
a battery of hand jigs.
After maintaining a schedule
of prices without a variation in a
period of six weeks, operators OF
the Joplin district were unable to
cope with the downward turn OF
the market which started at the
commencement of the week and
as a result the end of the present
purchasing period found the Of
fering two and three dollars un-
der that prevailing up to this
time. Sales at the last. OF the
week were considered under those
earlier. The majority of the OPP
orators were successful in NOV.
ing the week tonnage before the
lower prices were in the posses
sion of the market. The ship
inents for the week were about
normal. The zinc range tor the
week was $51 to $54. The high
settling price reported was $SS.
The calamine shipments for
the week were considerably heav-
Ter than those prevailing for
some time. The range for this
ore made evident an upturn in
prices, being $31 to $3s.
With no improvement in the To-
cal lead market, buyers were un.
able to secure the desired ton.
mage. Operators are confident
that better prices are to prevail.
The range was $50 to $54.
We can hardly imagine why
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-01-30

The, Relief Corps will give
their quarterly dinner Feb. 4th.
Corps and Post members 10c and
1sc. Others zoe. Everybody in.
vited to come. Ida Simmons,
Press Cor.
The fire whistle sounded early
Tuesday morning and it was
found that a dwelling in the
Third ward, belonging to D. M.
Shipman, and occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Jas. Smith, was on fire.
The fire was soon extinguished,
but not until all the clothing of
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith had been
destroyed. The crowd which COL
lected got practically everything
out of the house except the cloth.
ing which was most all in a big
closet.
Yes, harness is still going up.
Are you going to wait until they
get higher7 If you are intend
ing to buy harness this season,
now is the time. We have as
big, if not the largest stock of
harness in Cherokee county. Come
10 and make your selection.
Hoods handle nothing but the
genuine Harmau SandfOrd har-
uefs, made at Springfield, Mo.
They cater to the Southwest
Missouri trade, which means
durability to stand the heavy
teaming in that locality.
S. w. Coglizer was over from
Joplin Monday. H., says his
country down in the Rio Grande
Valley of Texas looks like a big
flower garden now. He has some
winter crops in, and says they
look fine. Winter crops are ale
ready being shipped, and. will be
worth lots of money this winter
and spring. Shipments will con-
tinue until May LIST. The hard
freeze in California this winter is
going to make the Texas crops
bring fabulous prices. They
would bring big prices anyway,
but the California freeze means
thousands of dollars additional to
the lower Rio Graude valley. The
lower Rio Grande country Is be.
tween three hundred and four
hundred miles south of Southern
cslifOruiS,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-01-30

d. EuVlish' PAOus '%
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-01-30

The, Relief Corps will give
their quarterly dinner Feb. 4th.
Corps and Post members 10c and
1sc. Others zoe. Everybody in.
vited to come. Ida Simmons,
Drnnc Cor
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
Suit Again in Court

Nington, Sept. 30. The
halntury old West Virginia
deEntroversy in which the SUI
precourt more than a year
aged $1,000, 900 as the share
Wgirginia should pay, of the
puldebt of original state, was
brot to Washington again to.
danen Attorney General Will
liaDf Virginia filed a motion
asl for a final decree.
supreme court did not pass
uphe question of interest, in
vog approximately $14, OOO,-
0 ( leaving that to com
miners representing two
sti The commissioners have
notermined the matter and
Viia now wants the court to
settle matter. Attorney Will
liaexpects to appear before
thurt when the fall term be-
gDctober Ia.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
How About Golf?

A few West Virginia republi-
can newspapers continue to take
a fling every now and then at
Mr.. Bryan for lecturing for pay
while he is serving the govern
ment as secretary of state.
But these same newspapers
have not word to say against
Senator Golf spending a pleasant
season touring Europe while the
great legislative body of which
he is a member considers such
matters Of vital Importance to
the people as the tariff and the
currency.
And it should be remembered,
too, that Senator Golf is drawing
a double salary from the United
States government, the two to-
falling considerable more than
Mr.. Bryan. - Huntington Adver-
tiser.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
Worst Convict Escapes From
''Pen"

MoundsviIle, w. Va, Sept. 20.
Alexander Childs, colored.
known as the worst convict in
the Moundsville penitentiary. " is
at large. He was found to be
missing at Z o'clock this morning
when the men were being check
ed up in the shops. AS the gate
had not yet been opened and
no person had passed outside
through any of the exits at that
hour it is the belief of Warden
M. L. Brown. Capt, J. E. Bloyd
and other prisoner officials that
he may be hiding within the
walls. A rigid search of every
inch of space within the inclos-
ure, however, failed to reveal
any clue to his presence.
Childs is known to have been
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
Better Picking for DemmieS

Washington, D. c., Sept. 20. -
There is encouraging news for
those Democrats who have been
compelled to stand by and see
Republicans holding good posi-
tons which they would be glad
to hold themselves and perhaps
would hold but for the provisions
of the civil service laws.
Senator Overman of North
Carolina today got a favorable
report from the senate commit
tee on appropriations on his bill
to remove deputy collectors of in
ternal revenue and deputy mar
shals from the protection of the
civil service Senator Overman to-
night expressed the belief that
the senate will pass his bill and
that it will go through the house
with little difficulty.
His measure, should it'become a
law, would throw open hundreds
of Offices in the United States
and create perhaps fifty places in
West Virginia alone which could
be filled without regard to the
civil service.
Collector Hays of the internal
revenue offices would them have
the right to appoint whomsoever
he pleased to the positions in his
district, which includes the en-
tire state, and the two Demo-
cratic marshals soon to be APP
pointed would have the right to
name their own deputies without
taking civil service restrictions
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
ElkinS Aviator Falls in Crowd

Elkins. Oct. l. Caught by a
drift of wind, an aereplane driv-
en- by Irving Conley, of Buffalo.
N. Y, fell about so feet late to-
day at the fair ground. injuring
several persons, two perhaps ia
tally.
Willard Nallon, colored, struck
by the motor, had his skull frac-
tured, and Mrs. ]. A. Boylyn, of
Cumberland, Md, had her right
hand severed and body cut and
bruised.
Others were struck by the
aeroplane but were able to be
taken to their homes.
Conley, the aviator, had his
back sprained.
The machine, as it fell hit a
fence which is built around the
race track thereby preventing a
large number of persons from be-
ing hurt.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
Estab lished June IL. 1888.

pupils acompelled to play in
the pubroad. Much has al
ready b said at the teachers
instituted through the school
press Of unsanitary, insight
ly, imnl school privies in
use in NJ places. What must
be the nj sense of a communi-
ty whiclll permit such condi-
tons tost? 1t is through the
teacherat.t the appeal is made
on FridOctober tenth to clean
up and lie sanitary the school
grounds outbuildings.
But It's not all. Many times
the builss are not any better
inside tlout. Very frequent
ly paints much needed with
in as wut. Pictures on the
wall ha,ot been we'll chosen,
the deare pencil marked and
the flooeed scrubbing.
But teachers ask: How
can thisdone in one day? 1t
can't. more can be accomp-
lished 4 any one has ever
dreame The people of Missou-
ri in rease to a call from their
governoerformed work on the
public IS of the state in two
days, tlalue of which was es-
timatet 100000. Should
we ass that each of the six
thousalrural schools in the
state In attendance ten boys
and giRrge enough to assist
in theork of Cleanup and
Beautiay, a conservative esti-
mate oe actual work accomp-
lished Id certainly not be less
than Thousand dollars to the
state.
If yre teaching in the coun-
try enEhe boys and girls. the
fatherd mother, the school
trustehe ministers and every
body { Let them bring their
dinnend make of it an all
day je Much lumber, paints,
tools, will be furnished for
the aug. After it's done
spend hour or two celebrat-
ing.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
ain Health Talk

Meink whiskey, and that
clogs valves; he drinks beer,
and t clogs the wheels; he
drowilemonade, ginger ale,
butteik. ice tea. coffee and
what, and then wonders why
the bfs do not burn. If you
shoulke an OK and put him
throua like performance he
would dead in a month. The
simpl and plainest laws of
healC outraged every day by
the rage man. Did Adam
smok Did Eve wear a corset?
Did Snon chew tobacco? Did
Ruthw gum? Did the child
rem crael make for the beer
gardafter crossing the Red
Sea?id Rebecca chew choco-
late bons and ice cream and
call toda water? Adam was
the fman and was made per-
feet N head to heel. How
longuld he remain so after
eatiie before going to bed?
SUPP he slept in a bed room
5 bywith the windows closed
downe doors shut, and two
dogsder the bed.
Spse Eve had been laced
up icorset, worn tight shoes,
hobRg leaves and sat up all
houf the night. eating chick
en- q and WEIGH rarebits and
tryto keep on four pounds of
deaeoples hair?-Ex.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
Grantsville, w. Va, Thursday, October 8. 1918

in his cell at lookup time last
night at 9 o'clock. After that
hour the night captain talked to
him. Therefore his escape must
have occurred, the officials hold,
between the time the cells were
opened this morning and the
checking-up period in the shops,
which begins at 7 o'clock.
A close investigation of the
walls failed to show any means
by which he could have scaled
over unless given help from the
outside.
Childs was a bad man." He
was serving his second term.
having been sent up from Fayette
county for burglary. He was
given 10 years on the burglary
charge and five years additional
for having served a former term.
He had served about four years.
He is about SO years Of age.
weighs about Ids pounds. is
about 5 feet 8 inches in height
and was clothed in the prison
uniform of plain gray.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
PRoGRgss OF THE
NEW TARIFF BILL.

Tho following shows the chron-
illogical history of the Under
Wood-6tmmons tariff bin:
Jan 20 Psb. Hearings, house
ways and means committee.
April T-4ni introduced by Mr..
Underwood and referred to tho
ways and means committee
Aprn n-niil reported by Mr.. Un-
AA<wo0d after Democratic caucus
had approved Il.
May s-PaAsed house OF represent
attves-yeaR. 81; nays. 139.
May SReoetved ~ the senate
and referred to finance committee.
Juno 2o-0nl completed by senate
finance oommkttee and referred to
Democratic caucus.
July u-Bin reported to senate by
Chairman Simmons with recon-
mendatton that II pass.
July n-Mado unfinSshed busiaess
OF sonata
Scpt s-PAssed by senate-yeas,
~; nays. 81.
Sept. u-Houss nonconcurs in SEN
alto amsnamants, and bill goes to
conference
Sept 2s-conferees reach nnal ad-
tuBtment.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
Cleanup and Beautify Day

Why should school grounds not
be as coy and homelike as the
prettiest home in the community 4?
More and more teachers are COM
ing to realize that the physical
conditions Of the school buildings
and grounds have much to do
with the mental development of
the children in attendance.
With these things in mind Super
intendent M. p. Shawkey has set
apart a day each fall for the past
three years when teachers thru
out the state are to give united
atten ton to the cleaning up of
school grounds and the improve
nent of school buildings. This
lay has come to be known as
Cleanup and Beautify Day.
Much has already been done
lut much more still remains.
iany school grounds especially
n rural communities do not have
I single tree or shrub growing in
he school yard though the school
house has been in service a gen
GRAFTON or more. Even yet the
ash pile" of former years is still
permitted to take up the greater
part of the play ground while the
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
31st Year, Whole No. 154S

ference committee after considerable
deadlock yielded to the senate.
The senate also free listed slabs,
blooms. loops and other products OF
iron more advanced than pig iron.
which the house had made dutiable at
& per cent. The conference agreed to
this. The senate cut the duty on round
iron or steel wire from 20 per cent In
the house bill to 10 per cent. and tho
conference accepted the senate reduc-
ton.
Agricultural Schedule.
The conference committee agreed 90
the senate amendment, which struck
out the 10 per cent duty on cattle pro-
vfded by the house bill and the 10 per
cent rate on sheep and transferring
both 10 the free list. The conference
committee also put wheat on tho free
DIST, where the senate had placed IL.
BY striking out duty OF 10 cents a
bushel provided by the house bill.
The house won n victory In the duty
on lemons and other citrus fruit when
the conference committee restored the
classification based on tho cubic feet
ucts are imported, which results In a
slight decrease OF the duty.
The senate also lost in the struggle
over a proposed duty on bananas when
the conference committee struck out
the senate rate and restored bananas
to the free list 81 the house bill.
Wooden Schedule.
g.
wooden schedule. The senate was sus-
tanned by the conference committee In
It's amendments fixing the dates when
wool duties shall 20 into effect Com
promises were made by the conference
committee between senate and house
rates, by which wool tops will bear a
duty OF 10 per cent and yarns a duty
Of 16 per cent.
The senate sought to reduce the duty
on wooden blankets and to free list
blankets valued at not more than 40
cents pound, but the conference COM
mittee rejected the amendment, and
all blankets will bear duty at % per
cent ad valorem. The house rates OF
90 per cent ad valorem on carpets and
rugs were adopted by the conference.
A compromise was reached on tho
paragraphs relating to angora goat
hair. alpaca, by which the hair will
pay duty of 10 per cent; tops from
such hair, % per cent, and pushes, vel
vet and other fabrics, 10 per cent
9undriss.
The conference committee adopted
the action Of the senate, placing full
inmates and gunpowder ON the free
list There was n compromise on the
paragraph relating to furs, but general
~ the house rates were restored.
The senate rates prevailed as to lace
curtains and laces and the house won
by having restored the paragraph In
the house bill covering channels skins
and glove feathers, by which the for
mer were made dutiable at 10 per cent
and the latter at 10 per cent. There
was compromise on the glove sched-
ule between senate and house rates
and the senate's action In free listing
harness, saddles and saddlery parts
was approved by the conference COM
mittee. although the house bill had
made them dutiable at 20 per cent
The only substantial victory won by
the house in the free list was as to
free art.
Here are rates OF the new tariff com.
pared with the Payne-Aldrtch law:
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
A Much Abused Word

VI
word when it is applied to the
high tariff system which the re-
dictionary Republican party fa-
vors. 1t never serves the poll
ticians and office seekers of that
party so well as during cam
paign preceding an election. At
such times it is defined as a sys-
tenn designed.to benefit the wage
worker. At all other times it is
system which protects a favor
ed few in the employment of spe-
cial privilege at the expense of
the many.
No fair minded man will be
missed by Republican campaign
statements on this subject, if he
will take the trouble to investi-
gate, nor will he have to investi-
gate very deeply. Let him take
any highly protected industry
and ascertain where the profits
have gone that the manufacturer
has collected through Republi-
can tariff act which excludes the
foreign product and enables the
domestic manufacturer to fix his
own price to the American con-
sumner. The first striking proof
Of the benefits of the system that
will come to his notice will be the
swollen fortunes of a hand full of
men-protected manufacturers.
If he goes a little deeper he will
discover that all the great trusts
and monopolies that have throt.
tied competition, and closed the
doors of opportunity to men of
moderate means have grown up
under the system.
But what of protection to
American labor?" He will not
find any tangible evidence of
that; he will find that all the
profits of protection have gone
into the pockets of Big Business.
He will find that the best, the
only real protection which Amer
lean labor has enjoyed has come
to it through organization. Big
Business has reaped the benefits
of Republican law-making, but
the Big Business has not passed
the benefits along the working
classes. Big Business has parad-
ed the spectre of hard times"
and has threatened any intimi-
dated labor whenever an election
was near, and chuckled content
eddy when the dupes voted for a
continuation of the system
If the Republican leaders were
half as much interested in the
protection of American labor as
they pretend to be, they would
protect it against the so-called
'pauper labor of Europe" in an
other and more practical way.
American labor does not need
any protection against "pauper
labor of Europe" in Europe.
What it does need is protection
against the "pauper labor of
Europe" in America. That pro-
lection can only be given by wise
immigration laws. and by a
broader recognition of the rights
of labor than labor has received
from Republican tariff benefci-
aries. Register.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
Better Roads for Farmers

Detroit. Secretary Houston.
of the United States department
of agriculture, in an address be-
fore the American Road Con-
gress expressed his approval of
the efforts of the organization
and explained the interest of the
federal government with refer
ence to road building. He urged
good roads for the farmer in
preference to great trans-conti-
mental highways for AUTOMOBILE
lists, and at the same time, he
said he did not underestimate the
valuable service rendered by
automobiles in the propaganda
for road building.
The suggestion of great ma
tional trans-continental roads ap-
peals to my Imagination, as does
the suggestion of interstate roads
connecting capitals or cities of
commercial Importance to my
logical faculty and the sense of
pleasure that | experienced in
riding about the country in my
friends automobiles. But that
the essential thing to be done is
the providing of good roads
which shall get products from
the community farms to the near
est station and make rural life
more profitable, comfortable.
pleasurable, | entertained no
sort of doubt; and it is obvious
that the representatives of the
peple in congress are like mind
ed. For in making their recent
appropriation of half million dol
lors for good roads they stipulat-
ed that it should be used in i'm
proving the condition of post
roads with a view to the economy
and efficiency of postal delivery
and for the transportation of
farm products to the market.
Such roads are equally essen
tial to the establishment and Cd
Grafton of decent elementary and
secondary schools for the bene-
fit of the country boys and girls.
l do not eliminate other things
from consideration and / do not
underestimate the rights and
pleasures of Automobiles and
the service they have rendered
in the propaganda for road build
ing.
In the suggestion of federal
aid to road building raises grave
questions and involves possible
dangers, no thoughtful citizen
doubts. There are proposals be-
fore the public mind which would
bankrupt the federal treasury
and suggest possible abuses be-
fore which those of the worst
pork barrel bills of the past would
pale into insignificance. No pro-
posal which does not carry with
the assurance of safeguarding
the treasury in this direction
seems to me to stand the ghost of
a chance of federal considera-
ton.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
sWIseAorsB

Wiseacre" has It's origin IN Bon
Jonson's retort TO a oountrymap who
boosted interminably o his acres. TIL
Ben said What signify to us your
dirt and your clods7 Where you have
An acre OF land I have ten acres OF
Wit The countrymsn rstorted By
calling Ben Good Mr. Wiseaere."
Thts Y good story. bat perhaps the
tegn wiseacre comes fS0m the oogpaR-
ttaA - The German. Wsisssssr. = wise
nAgag.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-10-09
PROVISIONS OF
new TARIFF BILL
Measure Is Expected TO Yield
Large Revenue.
RATES LOWERED BY SENATE

- Prepared ~ the House the Aver
sos pvtIss Wen About 80 Per Cent
asS 80 Finally Adopted the Average
10 About ~ Per Csnt-The Payne
Adrieh Bill Carried Average Duties
- IS Per c~nt-Free List Is In
oreased.