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PAGE FOUR THE LEAVENWORTH POST. MONDAY, JAN. 14, 1907. SUCCEED THEMSELVES SENTENCE COMMUTED Clairvoyant PURE FOOD NO DEARER BROWN BECAME SHERIFF TODAY RECOMMENDED COL. C.

B. HALL friends in Leavenworth county are glad to see that in leaving one position he is but doing it to enter upon the duties of one of greater importance and in which the financial gain to him will be just as great. The office of clerk of the district court is not new to Mr. McFarland. He learned every nook and crook of the office during the time that he was Frank Ryan's deputy.

As clerk of the city court he has been an able official, and in the office of clerk of the district court he is sure to give the taxpayers of the county first class service. A Number of County Officials Were Re-Elected. Who Jule Niehaus, county clerk; Thomas Johnson, probate judge; J. H. Jeffries, register of deeds, H.

C. Perkins, surveyor; Lee Bond, county attorney and Judge David Flynn, judge of the city court, started upon their second terms today. They were re-elected because they had made excellent records in office. Those offices were never in better sape than they are today. HOME BUDDING IS ACTIVE It Means Much for the Owner and Community at Large.

"It is more homes that we need," said an observing citizen yesterday, "more homes for the constantly growing population of Leavenworth. 1 have confidence in the commercial and industrial advance of the city if have assurances that the people dwell in their own homes. It makes a citizenship solid contented, and inspires a local pride that a municipal achievement itself could not produce. "The sentiment has been expressed by more than one, and it is interesting to notice that home build-nig has been, and is now, the largest activity of Leavenworth. In every district of the city homes are being built.

Some are magnificent mansions, located on choice sites in the most exclusive residence districts; others are humble cottages in the more cosmopolitan sections. But in every case where it represents a "home," and not a rent house, it means much, not only for the family who are to dwell within, but for the community at large." IS THEIR LAST DAY CAPT AND MRS. LAWRENCE TO LEAVE LEAVENWORTH. A Supper In Their Honor Tonight Have Done Great Good In Leavenworth. Capt.

and Mrs. Thomas Lawrence are putting in their last day as the heads of the Salvation Army in Leavenworth. Tonight they will be guests at a cake and coffee supper at Salvation Army hall. There is intense regret in Leavenworth that Capt. Lawrence has been transferred to another field.

He has undoubtedly accomplished great good in Leavenworth. The report of the Army during the six months that Capt. Lawrence has been in charge here, follows: Lodgings were furnished ninety-feven homeless men and women at a cost of $24.25. Meals were furnished 180 transients at a cost of $27. Three tons of coal were furnished the poor at a cost of $11.25.

Poor families to the number of twenty-nine were furnished groceries at a cost of $59.87. Clothing was distributed in the following amount: 760 garments and sixty-five pairs of shoes. Thanksgiving day" 176 baskets of food each containing sufficient for a meal for five persons given out. Christmas day the Army gave out 227 baskets of food to the poor, each containing food sufficient for five persons one meal. Transportation furnished to five parties stranded here: $6.45.

Medicine furnished nine sick persons at a cost of $3.25. Employment was found for nine teen men and fifteen women. There were 194 conversions and thirty-one members were added to the Army. In the hall 240 meetings were held; on the streets, 270, and hours spent in visitation, 864. CONNER JS CLEARED Miss Zona Heckert Looked Him Over In Guard House at Post.

Miss Zona Heckert, the Santa Fe agent at DeSota, who was assaulted and seriously injured by a robber sometime ago, came to Fort Leavenworth at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and looked at Private Leonard Conner who was suspected of being her assailant. She said positively that Conner was not the man. Conner is now serving a sentence in the guard house, but he will not be tried for desertion for breaking away from a sentry at the Post. ALLOWED NEW DISTRICT County Commissioners Have Granted Prayers of Petitioners. The board of county commissioners in session Saturday afternoon settled the fight for a new school district in districts 2, 8 and 51 by allowing the petition of thoc- Tho favored the new district.

tioners claimed that they i) send their children too iar to reach school and they v.anted a new district formed in order that the distance would be shortened. 'Wait until the car Kansas John V. Laurin Will Get Out Prison February 1. of Governor Hoch Saturday com- Tnuted the prison sentence of John W. Laurin of Geary county who is serving time in the State peniten tiary for robbery In the first degree.

Laurin was sentenced November 1, 1904, by the district court of Geary county to serve a sentence of from 10 to 20 years. For some time he has been a trusty in the dining room at the penitentiary. His sentence is commuted to expire February 1. SWIMMING IS GOOD AT LAKES For the First Winter in Ten Years There's No Skating. "No, but the swimmin' is fine," spoke a Soldiers' Home attache through the telephone yesterday in reply to an inquiry if there was any skating yet on Lake Jeannette.

1'I answer that very same question a hundred times a continued the employe, "and I'm beginning to get tired. This is the first winter in ten that there has not been enough ice on the lake to admit skating, and this fact is particularly discourag ing to the boys, especially those young chaps who received Christ mas presents of skates from Santa Claus. A boy with a well developed bump for both humor and the ridic ulous a day or so ago put a toy boat or two in Merritt Lake at Fort Leav enworth, and when the boy with Santa Claus skates visited the vicin ity with his skates in expectation of finding ice he concluded that it would have been more appropriate to have taken his bathing suit and fishing outfit along. KOEHLER MUST PAY CABLEGRAM SENT BY HIM WAS PRIVATE BUSINESS. He Asked for Revocation of Order Convening the Court for His Trial.

The Judge Advocate General of the Army was last week called upon to decide whether or not a cablegram sent to the Military Secretary some weeks ago by Capt. Lewis M. Koehler, 4th in which he requested a revocation of the order convening the court for his trial and asked that a new court be convened in the United States, was government business. The military secretary decided that the message could not properly be considered be on government business and the cable company, having been informed of this decision, collected the amount due on the message from Captain Koehler. Captain Koehler now protests against being required to pay full rates.

Judge Advocate General Davis was called upon to decide whether correspondence in the military branch of the government, such as this, is in the nature of a "Governmental message." He said in part as follows: No governmental authority exists for the sending of a half-rate message, by persons in the military service unless such messages are on the business of the government and paid for by the government. In the case before us the message sent by Captain Koehler was a governmental message or it was not. If it was payment should have been made entirely by the government; if it was not, commercial rates should have been paid by Captain Koehler. Captain Koehler was of the opinion that he could not obtain a lair trial in the Philippines. He would appear to have represented this fact to the commanding general, Philippines Division, and requested that a cablegram having for its object a revocation of the order for his court, and his trial in the United States be sent.

When the division commander declined to send the cablegram Captain Koehler sent it himself and has been very properly called upon to pay for it, since, obviously, such a cablegram was in no sense a government message, but one sent by an officer on his personal business." CHANGE IN CORONERSKIP C. Smith Relinquished Office to Dr. H. H. Johnson.

Clarence C. Smith has viewed the last corpse in an official capacity. At noon today he gave up the office of coroner of Leavenworth county, and was succeeded by Dr. H. H.

Johnson, the successful candidate at the late election. Smith made a great record as coroner. During the two terms that he held the office he had more business to attend to than any of his predecessors and not a single criticism of his work has been made. was always careful in his investiga tions of cases that came before him and it is a fact greatly to his credit that he saved the county consider- able money. "Don't try to board a moving i car," Kansas City-Western.

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IN WHAT LOCAL DEALERS SAY Retailers State That Preparation for New Conditions Is Responsible for Increase in Cost of Living. "There is no probability," said one of the largest retail grocers and food purveyors in the city today, "ihat the passage of the pure food law will cause any further rise in prices, at least in excess of the normal tendency always observable in times of prosperity. I have no hesitation in declaring that the law is in the best Interests of the public health and I see no reason why any reputable teller of food products should complain of it. "But in the matter of prices the manufacturers have for the past six months practically put the pure food law into operation themselves. They have looked into the future and made their prices accordingly.

This accounts for much of the increased cost of living which has been so generally complained of for some months past. "Those who buy their food products of reputable dealers have always been able to get pure foods by paying pure food prices therefor. There are, of course, many thousands who have been victimized by unscrupulous manufacturers and the law will curb the greed of' this class. The public will get what it pays for and it will have no reason to complain of higher prices if it gets pure foods, which are worth correspondingly more than cheap and dishonest adulterations. "The law permits harmless adulterations.

Many people have gained the idea trat it prohibits any adul teration whatever. But the aim and 'nte'nt of the new law is to let the people know exactly what they are buying and to keep off the market products which are deleterious to health. "There may be instances of fanciful discrimination and provisions Ihat seem unreasonable. But, in the iong run, the law will work out to the preservation of the public health and that is something which is worth all that it The pure food law does not af fect very materially the meat products, though it will require the re-vomal of deceptive labels. But prices will not be affected, in the opinion of large butchers, who dis cussed the subject yesterday.

"The people will pay just as much for the sausage that has been label ed 'farm he said, "but the quality of the product will not be changed. Probably, between you nd me, few people were deceived by these labels. The average man knew perfectly well that the vast majority of the meat products he eats does not come from the farm nd he had sense enough to know that the packers did not try to make him believe their products came from the farm. But the labels must tell the truth to the letter, while nothing will be changed in the long run. The products which have been advertised as being composed almost entirely of chicken, turkey, ham, tongue, will be sold for the same price and they will contain the same ingredients.

But the labels will say that the meats are simply 'flavored' with the product that gives the tins their name. It is probable that the general public found out the truth long ago." Retailers generally hasten to dis claim responsiblity for the deceptions that have been practiced in the past. They have to sell what is sold to them, and they are just as anxious to sell pure foods as the public is to buy them. They are at the mercy of the manufacturer and jobber, ihat the burden is placed on the producer rather than the retailer, who is only the agent of the consumer. "Lots of the stuff I sell," confess ed a retailer, is a lie on the face of it, but for the most part it is a 'ie that doesn't hurt very much.

People who buy cheap stuff must ex pect cheap articles of food, but I am not in sympathy with any harmful sdulternations and would not knowingly sell them at any price. The rery p6or, who patronize the cheapest places, are the ones who have suffered the most in the past, and it is right that they should be the ones most protected by the new law, for they are the ones most in need of protection. I am not talking entirely for myself when I say that it is cheapest in the long run to buy ironi reputable dealers, even at increased prices, and get not only absolutely pure, but the very best food products. There is no saving in buying sanded sugar at twenty pounds for $1 or chicory and peanuts for coffee at 15 cents a pound, or apple tree leaves for tea at 30 cents, when pure stuff can be bought lor twice that amount. The best is always the cheapest.

The new law will accomplish the best results by teaching this lesson and protecting those who have not yet learned it" WANTS HLM APPOINTED BRIGADIER GENERAL. HIS PROMOTION ASSURED Believed He Will Get Place When First Vacancy Arises There Will Be Other Promotions. It is understood that General Bell has recommended the appointment of Col. Charles B. Hall, mh Infantry, who is now in command of the Infantry and Cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth, to be a brigadier general as soon as a vacancy exists in that grade.

With General Godfrey in command at Fort Riley and with Colonel Hall a brigadier general in command at Fort Leavenworth, the policy of the secretary Sf war to have general officers in xommand of the Service schools will have been followed out. Eventually, also, a brigadier general who has served in the artillery will be in command of the Artillery school at Fort Monroe and a brigadier general will command at the Military academy. As a result oi me prumunuu mat week of Colonel Godfrey to be a brigadier general the following pro motions in the cavalry arm will take I place: Lieut. Col. P.

S. Bomus to be colonel; Major M. D. Day to be lieutenant colonel, and Capt. A.

M. Fuller to be major. Captain Fuller has been found physically disquali-(fied for further active service, and will be placed on the retired list as a major. This will promote Capt. J.

B. McDonald to be major, and as he has been detailed to the Quartermaster's department will make a in that department, which will probably be filled by a detail of captain of cavalry. Thus there will be three first lieutenants and three Becond lieutenants promoted, but it is not yet possible to state definitely the names of the officers in those grades who will be promoted, as some of them have not been examined. It appears that the president has labored under a misapprehension with regard to the excellent duty performed by Colonel Godfrey during the Wounded Knee engagement and for this reason he hesitated some time before appointing him a brigadier general. The secretary of war and General Bell, however, convinced the president that Colonel Godfrey had only done his duty at the Wounded Knee fight and had always served most gallantly and was entitled to the promotion.

He will retire in August, 1907, and until then will remain on duty as commandant at Fort Riley, Kans. OLD KIGKAPOQ GANNON DEATH OF I. G.LOSEE REVIVES INTEREST IN IT. At an Election at Kickapoo in 1858 Over a Thousand Ballots Were i Found in Ballot Box. The death of I.

G. Losee, which occurred in Leavenworth a few days ago, has revived an interest in the old Kickapoo cannon, in the capture of which Mr. Losee took a prominent part, says the Potter Kansan. An election for state officers took place January 4, 185S forty-nine years ago. Kickapoo polled 1,000 votes at least that many were claimed to have been found in the ballot box.

Mr. Losee was the Free State challenger. Many voters were armed, and the cannon covered the polls. Describing the capture of the cannon, H. C.

Fields, a companion of Losee, says: "This action so aroused the Free State men of that they resolved to take the Kickapoo cannon at all hazards. The companies of Capts. Geo. P. Buell, James Dickson, H.

C. Haas, with other leading Free State men, some 300 or 400 strong, marched to Kickapoo on Wednesday morning after said election, got there about daylight, and captured the cannon. On our return we were met at the outskirts of the city by a large concourse of people, and when we marched down Delaware street, there were more than 1,000 people in the procession." The Kickapoo people threatened to retake the cannon, but that night "General Losee, Mr. Fields and two others took it to Lawrence. It was brought back to Leavenworth soon afterwards where it remained for many years in the custody of the Leavenworth Turnverein.

It now belongs to the Kansas State Historical Society, and is one of the most Interesting relics to be 8een in their rooms in the capital at Topeka. It Is claimed that it was captured from the Mexicans by General Doniphan. After the Mexican war it was kept ai L.iDeriy, mo. uunng the border troubles it was taken to Weston, and from there to Kickapoo. MEYERS TURNED OVER THE OFFICE AT NOON.

HIS EXCELLENT ASSISTANTS Has Been Wise in the Selection His Under Sheriff and Deputies A Great Record Predicted For Him. of At exactly 12 o'clock today Thomas J. Brown was sworn in as sheriff of Leavenworth, county. At the same hour Stance Meyers, sheriff since January, 1903, turned over to his successor all the property belonging to the office. Sheriff Brown's assistants also entered upon their duties at noon to-ray.

They are W. A. Doidge, under sheriff; Tom Larkin, first deputy; Pomp Graham, second deputy; Oscar Pasewark, day jailer; Patrick H. Kennedy, night jailer and Philip llusser, guard of prisoners on rock pile. Sheriff Brown has chosen an excellent lot of men as his assistants.

Will Doidge, the new under sheriff, was deputy sheriff under Sheriff Meyers and he made an enviable record. His record as sergeant of police during the Ryan administration is too well known to need comment. Throughout his long life in Leavenworth he has conducted him self in a manner to win the respect of everybody. Everybody knows Tom Larkin. He quit a position on the police force to accept the position of de puty sheriff under Sheriff Brown.

When he did that the police depart ment lost one of the ablest officers the city of Leavenworth ever had. Tom Larkin was instrumental sending more desperate criminals to the penitentiary than any other man who ever served on the police force in Leavenworth, and as deputy sher iff he will be sure to continue his great record. Sheriff Brown is in deed fortunate to secure the ser vices of Mr. Larkin. Oscar Pasewark, Pomp Graham, H.

Kennedy and Phil Husser, all served under Sheriff Meyers and the out-going sheriff has nothing except praise for their work. The people of Leavenworth coun ty regardless of politics believe Tom Brown will make a great record as sheriff. Predictions are already made that two years hence he will have no opposition to his candidacy lor re-election. As under sheriff he was an excellent official and to his hard work may be attributed a good deal of the success the sheriff's of fice attained in the last four years. NEW SUPERINTENDENT J.

B. KELSEY SUCCEEDED J. GILMAN TODAY. M. Mr.

Gilnian Made a Great Record In Office and Success Is Predicted for His Successor. J. B. Kelsey became county su perintendent of public instruction of Leavenworth county at noon today. He succeeds J.

M. Gilman who made one of the best officers the position Leavenworth county ever had. Ey the hardest kind of work, coupled with his wide knowledge of fchool affairs, Mr. Gilman has put the public schools of the county in better shape than they ever before attained. J.

B. Kelsey has been a teacher in the public schools of the county many years and no teacher in the county is better known or more popular. His friends predict that his term as superintendent of public instruction will be a success from the start. Mr. Kelsey's last positioD outside of the superintendent's office was that of principal of the Lansing public school.

M'FARLAHD GOES IN HE IS NOW CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT. F. J. Ryan Will Not Be Able to Make His Official "Turn Over" Before Thursday. Robert G.

McFarland was sworn in as clerk of the district court of Leavenworth county at noon today, but Frank J. Ryan will not be able to bid adieu to the office before Thursday. He is in Topeka today being sworn in as member of the 'roard of railroad commissioners nd will net be able to return here oefore si' Frank made Leaven worth a pai it. iking, capable public official and at the close of his third term the affairs of the office of clerk of the district court are found in excellent shape. His thousands of ADVICE OF AN ARCHITECT Build to Suit Yourself and and No one Else.

Family "When you decide to build," said an architect today, "you should consult a competent architect, give him your ideas of the kind of structure wanted, the number of rooms, number of closets and other conveniences; kind of materials, and particularly the amount of money yon are willing to expend. Then have him make you a study in pencil of what you want. Carefully look his sketches over and h'ave him make changes that present themselves, until you are satisfied. "Many, inexperienced in building, will want a $3,000 house for $2,500, and will expect an architect to get it for them, when, in fact, he has nothing to do with te cost further than the study of economy and your interest in general. If you build a nouse cheap you must use cheap material and employ cheap labor, which are never satisfactory.

"Do you expect your architect to plan your house to suit you and at the same time please all of your friends, neighbors, your contractors and any one else who may see fit to dictate or chance to call around. Build to suit yourself and family, and no one else; otherwise, you will be disappointed, and that is one rea-bon why you need the services of an architect, who devotes his whole time to planning houses and everything in connection with a house, therefore, he is competent to advise." NEW CLERK OF CITY COURT Al. Ernian Succeeded R. G. McFarland at Noon Today.

When R. G. McFarland stepped out of the office of clerk of the city court at noon today he was succeed ed by an efficient and popular young man. Al. Ernian, will have to make a great record if he duplicates the record made by Bob McFarland, but his friends are predicting that he will succeed.

PROSPECTS FOR THIS YEAR Plenty of Hope and Encouragement for Lively Trade. The real estate dealers and oper ators besrin the new year with plenty of hopes to encourage them The last year was one of such abund ant success that In nearly every in stance they closed the year with very large increment to their bank accounts or to their real estate pos sessions. Probably few of them are richer in concrete dollars than they were at the beginning of the year, but in all instances they are vastly richer in their real estate holdings. The big fellows among them have not all put back their profits into larger investments of one kind or another. The wisest of them have concentrated their wealth into par cels of central business property, either improved when they bought.

or which they are proceeding to im prove. EARNED $67,491,39 The State Penitentiary Cleared That Amount In Two Years. The Kansas state penitentiary, earned in the past two years in excess of expenditures. The twine plant has been improved and its capacity increased 20 per cent. The board recommends an increase of $10 a month in the salary of the guards.

A night school is urged for the prisoners. Wyandotte county furnished the greater number of the prisoners, seventy-six; Shawnee was second with fifty-three; and Leavenworth third with fifty-one. One hundred and eighty-six of the prisoners are native Kansans 157 are from Missouri and seventy-one are Texans. Of the prisoners of foreign birth 18 are from Germany, 8 from Ireland, one from Jamaic-i and two were born at sea. There are sixty prisoners with death sentences, fifty-four imprisoned for life, one for sixty years, three for fifty years and one for forty years.

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