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Historical Society SECTION A SECTION A VOLUME XXIX EIGHT PAGES TWO SECTIONS TL DORADO, BUTLER COUNTY. KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1912 NUMBER 43 IllP Bp 'ICS TIWOTHYSEXTON GET READY FOR l. NTERVENI1 DORSE EPIDEMIC The 8-year-old son of W. L. Allen of Leon suffered a broken arm when he KILLS THREE IN SUTLER TWENTY YEARS AGO IN BUTLER COUNTY.

C. L. Turner made to Kansas City. a business trip Jim Sandifer, who has been ill sev eral days, is out on the streets. J.

B. Carpenter and Fremont Hus ton started out after chickens Monday morning. L. C. Gates, S.

G. Pottle C. Ray burn and C. Hodgson spoke to a crowded house at Heizer school hoase Saturday evening. There were 5 or 40 voters at the meeting and it was a success in every way.

The meetin closed at 12 o'clock. J. C. Robinson, of Little Walnut, has bought a farm and moved to Iowa. Mr.

Robinson came to this state a few years ago and has cleared enough money to purchase the afore said farm. We think Mr. Robinson will return to Sunny Kansas ii. a years. At a meeting of the delegates from the different Grand Army posts of the county held in tnAs city Friday, it was decided to hold an old soldiers' meeting in mo ijfauu Army nan 111 mis cny, ucioDer ji, commencing ai clock p.

m. A camp fire in the evening will be one of the events. Arrangements will also be made on that day to hold annual county re unions. AUGUSTA STONE CRUSHER CLOSED FOR 10 DAYS. Augusta, Sept.

5. A large number of men came in from the Santa Fe rock crusher plant south of this city and took trains for other parts of the state. The plant usually shuts down for the winter in Decem ber or earlier if winter weather ar rives sooner. The present closing down of the plant was caused by the scarcity of trackmen to handle the ballast along the right-of-way. It is expected to p.tart the crusher plant again in about, ten days.

In the meantime the force of trackmen now employed will have caught up with the work. When running full force the crushes employs from 15 to 200 men, and puts out a solid trainload of crushed rock every working day. MRS. IDA CAPEN FLEMING TO ATTEND U. OF CHICAGO.

Mrs. Ida Capen-Fleming and her son, Capen Fleming, went to El Do rado Wednesday morning to spend a week or so with Mrs. Fleming's moth er. From there Mrs. Fleming will go on to Chicago, where she will enroll in the Graduate school of the Uni versity of Chicago.

Mrs. Fleming has been professor of Greek and French at Southwestern for several years, and has been granted leave of absense for one year of advanced study. Winfield Courier. PAROLE FROM PRISON Rev. II.

Jas. Crockett returned from Topeka Friday night with a parole for W. Carpenter, who was sent to L.ansing last Epring for grand larceny. Carpenter has been in El Dorado for some time, being called to this city by the death of his little boy. Mr.

Carpenter was told by Warding Codding that if he could secure the necessary signatures to a petition for parole, it would be granted. Should here be no complaint against Mr. Carpenter for two or three years, it probable that a full pardon will be given him, doing away with the full erm sentence. He should live so that no person would have cause to com plain and should be helped in his ef forts to live down the mistake he made. AVIATOR GAVE HIS MACHINE INTO SOUVENIRS.

Augusta, Sept. 6. Very sel dom does an aviator let souvenir hunters get a chance at his wrecked eroplane. Yet Aviator Charles P. I IS I RILED IIP Timothy Sexton, editor of the Au gusta Gazette, is having seven kinds of fits and venting his spleen over what he thinks he has found.

Timothy is laboring under the delusion that the J. I). Joseph slander case i a frame up to beat Mr. Joseph out of the state senatorship. Tim know- better, but then he is a wiley politi cian and endeavors to have a ready explanation at hand at all limes when he thinks an emergency exists.

Timothy, by innuendo, charges the Republican of being in the deal to defeat Joseph for state senator. Mr Sexton might just as well go on and say that the Republican is responsi ble for all the seemingly unexplaina tie letters Mr. Joph wrote to th Woods family in California. Or that the Republican is responsible for the suit filed against the Whitewater State bank of which Joseph is con nected and which it is alleged in the suit that the account of Mrs. X.

Wood was changed over to J. I). Jo seph as guardian of the affairs of Dr. II. L.

Woods, after he was declared insane. To an outsider it looks as though the Augusta editor is trying to pull his candidate out of a seemingly em barrasing position, which he got into by writing letters. If there is a deal on to defeat Mr Joseph the editor of this paper knows nothing whatever about it. But that there was a deal on some time since to keep a strong man from getting into the race, there seems to be no doubt, but the deal failed. Timothy is very apt to be kept pretty busy during the coming cam paign if he attempts to fly onto every one who has something to say about his candidate.

Also Timothy will have to almost live in the auto that is hauling him over the county, in the interests of his champion's campaign The voters of Butler county have just repudiated the manner in which Lori- mer and Stephenson were elected to their seats and it might be possible that they would not want to cham pion a candidate's cause who is spending money so freely for an office that does not pay but $300 in four years. The voters of Butler county have a way of looking into things and they find out when they start to in vestigate. THE WESTERN KANSAS HORSE PLAGUE SPREADING Topeka, Sept. C. The horse plague in Western Kansas continues to spread eastward.

Today came re ports of an outbreak of the disease in Dickinson county, and many new cases in Saline, Russell, Rush and otrwr counties In that section of the state. A case of the disease was reported from north of Topeka today, but veterinaries who examined the animal were not certain that it was the same disease. LABOR DAV CARNIVAL HAD BIG CROWD AT ATLANTA, Atlanta. Sept. day carnival held here brought a large number from many close towns.

The Labor this week of people The pro gram was closed with a ball game ge-tween Atlanta and the Winfield Reds which the farmer team won deeisively by a score of 14 to 0. The Atlanta team has won a number of games in succession and is quite proud of itself. ARE READY TO CUT THE FOURTH ALFALFA CROP. Augusta, Kan, Sept. 0.

The farmers are getting ready for cutting the fourth crop of alfalfa. It is not so heavy as former crops, because there has been very little rain here during the last three weeks. If a heavy rain should come within the next three day6 it will help the fourth growth very much. BON-AIR HOTEL SOLD TO J. H.

LIVINGSTON. From Saturday's Daily. The Bon-Air hotel on North Main street was sold today by C. Cj Johnson to J. H.

Livingston of El Dorado. The deal was closed today and Mr. Livingston will take charge of the hotel this evening. Mr. and Mrs.

Johnson and daughter, Rufcy, will move as soon as a suitable house can be found. Mr. azd Mrs. S. S.

Smith will leave Sunday night for Wichita to visit the D. H. Jackson and irry Bechtel families until Tuesday when they will leave, from Wichita, for their home in Medford, Oregon. I Abraham Leidy. Abraham Leidy, pioneer, farmer, leading citizen and campaign speaker of Butler county for a number of years, died at his home near Leon, August 30, aged 87 years.

The lowing obituary was taken from the Leon News: Abraham Leidy was born at Lancaster, March 18, 1S25. October 17, he was united in marriage to Martha Elizabeth Stith. To this uion tiire children were born, a Effie, preceding him to the better world in 1S97. His wife and sons, Fremont and Clarence, and their fam ilies, survive him. In 1S79, with his family he camt to Kansas.

Early in the '70s he uniied with the Methodist church. He re mained a consistent Christian the re mainder of his life, and until he was disabled was an earnest worker in the church and Sunday school. He lived a life of righteousness, ever kind and true to friend and neighbor. He possessed traits of character that rendered him popular with young and old alike. In the fall of 1S99 he suffered a stroke of aparalysis from which he never recovered.

He gradually grew worse, losing the power to think and converse intelligently, but not forgetting his Heavenly Father, whom he begged daily to relieve him of his miserable condition and take him home to his rest. Sturdyvin. Ed Sturdyvin of Whitewater died at 11 o'clock Sunday morning of an af fection of the facial bone. Hewas born at Pekin, Illinois, in 1S57 on Oc tober 11. He lived a greater part of his life the past ten years in this town, coming here first in April of 1902, in the employ of the Rock Is land.

He came here a fow years lat er and engaged in the meat business, later marrying Mrs. Geo. Roach of this place. He is survived by two children, three of whom were present at the funeral services which were Monday afternoon. "wial was made in the local cemetery.

Whitewater Independent. Taylor. Roily Taylor, aged 73, died at the R. Boucher, home of his daughter, A living southeast of Augusta at 10 o'clock Monday night after a three weeks' sickness. Mr.

Talyor was an early settler, coming from Iowa to Jefferson county, Kansas, in 1861. He moved with his family to Augusta in 1884 and resided ou a farm west of town for several years. His wife died 12 years ago. Since then he made his home with his daughters. He is survived by two daughters.

Mrs. A. R. Boucher and Mrs. J.

L. Shreve, both residing near Augusta. Owens. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis Owens of Riverside died Wednesday evening of stomach trouble following a short illness. The child was two months and thirteen days old. The funeral was held this afternoon at the home and interment was made in Belle Vista cemetery. Rev. H.

James Crockett conducted the ser- ice. Mrs. Owens was Miss Minnie Malosh before her marriage. Abplanalp. Robert Lawrence Abplanalp was born January 18, 1911, and departed this life at the home of his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. H. W. Abplanalp, two miles south and four miles west of Burns, at half past twelve o'clock Thursday, Aug. 29, 1912, age 1 year.

He was the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Abplanalp. Recher. Wednesday night, Sept.

4, Martin Recher, one of the- early settlers of Latham and a highly respected citizen, peacefully passed from this lite to the world beyond, after a long illness. ELMER ESSEX FELL ON POCKET KNIFE Elmer Essex, employed on the Teter farm northeast of El Dorado, suffered a painful Injury Thursday when he fell, running the blade of a pocket knife into his right side. Essex was assisting in tying some shocked corn and had been using the knife to cut the strings with which the shock is tied together. He had just finished tying a shock and put the knife in hi3 watch pocket, on the front side of his trousers, with the blade open and pointing upwards. He stumbled over a corn stalk and fell, driving the knife blades into his side.

He was brought to El Dorado for treatment. The wound which is about 3 inches deep is not serious. HICO UP TO Washington, Sept. 9. Intervention in Mexico and the possibility of President Taft calling a special session of congress to determine whether American troops should be sent across the line were widely discussed here Sunday by public men and in diplomatic circles.

It is known that the government has been pressed on many sides to take such a step and various accounts of what influences were being brought to bear and the objects sought to be accomplished are related among those interested on both sides of the question. President Taft and the state department, however, are holding to the principle that no such action should be taken without authorization of congress. That American soldiers have been sent into China or that American naval forces now are actively engaged in Nicaragua without authorization of congress is held to not be a precedent for sending troops to Mexico. The general staff has complete plans for any such emergency. Should it arise, some war department offi cials could wake up at night, and like Von Moltke, at the outbreak of the France-Prussian war, send to the tele graph wire in a moment, a sheaf of orders that would put an armya- horse and a foot in battle array.

So it is perectly proper to say the war department is ready to invade Mexico at a moment's notice, but it is no more ready to invade Mexico than it is to repel invaders from across the oceans. It has standing or ders with the principal railroads and steamship lines by which it can begin moving an army within twenty-four hours. It has already for instant transportation the supplies and munitions of war to support such an army in a campaign. While they are apprehensive of the situation, army officers hope there will be no intervention. They "say a campaign against Mexican guerillas.

would be a close parallel to the chasd ofter Aguinaldo, a campaign which could not be ended in less than two years and which would have results beyond accurate prediction. ALL NEWS PAID FOR MUST NOW BE LABELED. Under the new postoffice appropri ation bill the government is applying to news the same considerations which have been attempted under federal regulation of food and drugs, and the same principle! which Congress man Murdock claims should be ap plied to textiles. This feature is that commodities which are sold to the public should be labeled what they are, that food if offered as pure food should be so labeled, and if a mixture should bear a label describing tne adulteration. The new postotrice bill says: "That all editorial or other reading matter published in any newspaper, magazine, or periodical for the publication of which money or other valuable consideration is paid, accepted.

or shall be plainly marked "advertisement." Any editor or publisher printing editorial or other reading matter for which compensation is paid, accepted or promised without so marking the same, shall upon conviction in any court having jurisdiction be fined net less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars." DAVID HOWERY SUES FOR JUDGMENT ON NOTE. David Howery brought suit this morning in the district court against Geo. F. Lord for a judgment of $750 with interest at 8 per cent from Dec. 2, 1910.

The plaintiff alleges in his petition that on Dec. 2, 1910, the plaintiff issued his promissory note for $759 with interest at 8 per cent and due on Dec. 2, 1911, that a mortgage was given the plaintiff to secure the note on a part of the northwest quarter of section IS, township 24, range 3, and that the note nor any part of it has not been paid. A LOT TO TRANSPIRE ON SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH. Tuesday, the seventeenth, will be an interesting day in El Dorado as it will be the birthday of Miss Allene Schumacher, the wedding day of Neva Houser, the first carnival queen, in Cassoday; the day Abraham Holderman returns to school in Sweetwater, Tenn and Buffalo Bill's circus will be in town.

Hully gee! CONGRESS fell from a haystack this week. Charles Pollman who farms the Hadley place northeast of Leon, wa kicked by a horse and sustained fractured rib last week. Mrs. Emma Stinson of Augusta ha gone to Los Angeles to spend tw months with her son, Ernest Stinson, and brother. Dr.

J. R. Brown. Walter Westacott of Leon, driving home in his car from Augusta Thurs day was forced from the road into a ditch and almost upset, by a team crowding him. O.

E. Kunkle is completing a new $3,000 home in Leon, one of the nicest in the town. It is 30x30, with two stories, twelve rooms and modern even to two sleeping porches. A lO'-z-pound son was born Septem ber 2 to Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Hamilton and the Augusta Gazette says it has n't made any difference since wheth er the Santa Fe engines could pull trains or not. Albert Kirch of Augusta came in from Shreveport, Saturday and expects to spend a couple of weeks renewing old acquaintances, says the Journal. He has a farm about six miles from Shreveport on the Red river and says he can raise anything he plants. The principal crops aro corn and cotton but some of his land is adapted to alfalfa, of which there are five or six cuttings per year yielding a total of 4 to 5 tons, worth $18.00 per. Geo.

Pruden and Geo. Houser of Cassoday went over to Whitewater on Sunday returning on Monday, while there they visited with John Neilson and family, says the Casso day Times. Geo. Pruden says that John has a god crop, in fact, a bump-erone, and that he likes the country over there all right. John still the same old habit of filling everyone full of the good things of life to eat while they are around him and as a consequence the two Georges re turned home looking as corpulent as John did when he left here.

They brought home with them five water melons that weighed from 40 to 77 pound9 each. Neither one of the two Georges will be able to perform ac tive duty till the watermelons are gone. nintna jAuni 15 HAPPILY ENDED Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips are home from an all summer's trip to the Pacific coast and "way stations." They appear not to have missed a thing and are extremely well and refreshed by the pleasant time.

They spent a great deal of time in Long Beach, where roost of the El Dorado tourists seem to congregate and have a grand time. Mr. Phillips seems to have gained about one hundred pounds. We may be mistaken in the exact number but it must be about that from his appearance. They are glad to get back home.

With about every house in town popping full, the grocery business will be extra fine the coming months as there are many mouths to fill and young people going to school are always hungry. A NEW FARM PAPER STARTS AT HUTCHINSON. Hutchinson, Sept. 5. The Southwest Farmer is the name of the new publication started here Ike E.

Lambert, who is general man ager, and John L. Lovett, who is edi tor. Mr. Lambert is a son of the late I. E.

Lambert, of Emporia, formerly United tSates district attorney for Kansas. The paper is be published twice a month EL DORADO BOY IS NEW EDITOR OF PATRIOT. Medford, Sept. 5. The Medford Patriot appeared today with the name of Earl Croxton as editor and proprietor.

Mr. Croxton is the fourth owner of the Patriot since it passed from the hands of T. J. Palmer, March 8, 1909, who sold it to W. W.

Welter, he to R. T. Simons and he to J. P. Becker, who sold it to Earl Crox-tcn.

Mara, the Aviator, Injured In a Spill. Olean, N. Sept. 6. Bud Mars, the aviator, is in the t': dangerous injuries.

He fell while he was making a flight at the county fair yesterday. His biplane dipped and crashed into the fence. Butler county's second Kaffir Corn 1 carnival will be the biggest thing eer pulled off in the county. The dates are October 16, 17 and 18 at El Do rado. A large number of citizens attended the public meeting Friday niht which time plans for the big enter tainment were talked over and man things definitely decided upon.

J. B. Adams, who was chairman of the executive committee last year, response to invitation by Cha'rma Benson of this year's ooir.ini'eo. stated some of the things tha people of El Dorado and Butler county would I have to do in order to make the show excell the one given last yea SeCretary M. L.

Arnold talked of Lhe booth exnibitions and Btatfcd he beUeved most all of the townships would again be represented this fall I jn jjje carnival Kftijrifjn(r committee composed of Pattison w. F. McGinnis, A J. Holderman, Seth Frazier and F. Allen will call upon the merchants for funds.

It will take more money to run the carnival this year, consequent ly the merchants will be required to donate more liberally. It was decided that a carnival queen and maids of honor be elected in the same manner as last year. The people of El Dorado will entertain the queen and maids. There will eight maids of honor. El Dorado will be eliminated from the contest.

The question of prizes was brought up and it was decided to hike the prizes some. The following prizes for township booths were accepted by the committee: First, $100; second $75; third, $50; fourth, $25; fifth, $15 Prizes for best heads of kaffir corn and other agricultural products will be arranged. The first day of the carnival will be Fraternal day and all fraternal orders of the city and county will be asked to take part. Second day will be known as Queen's day and on the third day the school children of the county will be in attendance. Countv Superintendent C.

F. Smith stated he has talked carnival all winter and found that more pupils than ever were going to take part. There will be plenty of imminent speakers to address the people during the carnival. The committee will en deavor to steer clear of political speechees, but all politicians are in vited to attend and make medicine. Merchants will be asked to deco rate their business houses as was done last year.

The Wichita Merchants association want3 a kaffir corn booth in the Forum during their show the week before the carnival in El Dorado. It is not likely one will be put there. The committee has so far been un able to secure a good carnival com pany but expects to land one most any time. The question of a band was brought up and left vmth the committee to decide. It is probable that the different bands in Butler county will be asked to participate instead of the Ft.

Riley cavalry band. There are six organ ized bands in the county, viz Au gusta, Douglass, Whitewater, Casso- day, Towanda and Leon. While the committee does not believe is possible to hire all the bands all the time, ar rangements will be made to give each band one or two days at the carnival One plan is to have three bands here the first day and three the second and then cn the last day have all the bands. The committee will require each band to be in uniform and will also limit the number of musicians in order to nold the expense down. Though still early in the season kaffir corn has begun coming in, says the Towanda isews.

ciauae Pulver and H. Subie each have sam ples in the News window which look Ptty good; the crop this year is generally late but i frost stays on I 1 meuse rsie.u It is a thousand times better even t0 stumble in an effort to do the right thiES ttan il ls t0 stand stin and not any step at all. In the sight of men are i'Sd bo much by tte an4 regularity of their pro- ss on the way as they are by the direction in which they have set their faces. Kingman Journal. S.

S. Smith and wife of Jackson county. sold to Emma Louise Smith of Cook county. their undivided interest in and to lots 54, 56 and 58 on Main street in E. L.

Lower's ad- dition to El Dorado, other considerations. One dollar and The horse pestilence which is now so widespread over Western Kansas and made its first appearance in Eut-ler county Saturday, has caused thu death of three horses on the Glaca place north of town, but Dr. A. H. Gish reports that two others, sick in Southern Butler, wilt probablv re cover.

One of the sick horses belongs to S. C. Fillmore southwest of Rosalia and the other is on the Sutherland farm southeast of EI Dorado. The epidemic has reached Chase county, Woodson county, 20 miles south of Iola, Hodgeman and Geary counties and the territory near Clav Center. Monday's Topeka Capital says: "Eastern Kansas is not to escape the ravages of the horse pestilence that has been raging in Western and Centra! Kansas, according to reports received by J.

H. Mercer, state live stock sanitary commisioner. Half a dozen counties in the east half of the state are infected. "Last night Governor Stubbs sent over 100 telegrams which he hoDes will shed some light on the disease. It is believed in many quarters that the disease is due to forage poison-ing; that there is something in th pastures thatis killing the horses.

Governor Stubbs asks in his telegrams for information as to the number of horses in livery stables or pri vate barns that have died of the dis ease. If it proves that the number ib comparatively small then it is believed it will be clear that there is something definite in the forage theory." MENINGITIS HAS MADE APPEARANCE AT THE LYMAN GLACE FARM Blind staggers, meningitis or what ever it is that is killing the horses in Kansas, has at last made its appear ance in Butler county. Lyman Glace who lives 8 miles southwest of El Dorado lost a horse Friday night from the disease. C. A.

Smock, who was in El Dorado Saturday morning, stated that he was at the Glace place Friday and learned that one of Mr. Glace's horses had died. A horse was sick and Ed Marshall of that community was doctor- ng the sick animal. A fine mare came up ti a water trough and dranK ome water. In ten minutes the mare was down and chances for its recovering are very doubtful.

Later a colt became affected with the contagion. It is supposed that the sick horse had been drinking from the trough nd the other horses got the disease there. Mr. Glace has not had his horse3 out of the pasture or off the farm, and cannot imagine where they got the disease. A veterinarian at Stockton, laims the horses have meniDeltib nd that he has been successful in curing them by mixmg up a email quantity of lard with several drops of turpentine.

This miiure is poured into the ear and allowed to run well down the opening. The veterinarian claims he cures nine out of ten af fected horses with this treatment It claimed small insects crawl into the horses' ears and cause an infec tion of the membrane which in turn causes meningitis. W. H. HITCHCOCK STORE OPENING NEXT WEEK.

From Saturday's Daily. Augusta Journal: W. H. Hitchcock xpected to open his dry goods store next week but the opening will probably be deferred until the week following. He brought his children.

Miss Frances, Will, and Everett to Augusta last week that they might present at the opening of school. They are boarding with Mrs. Fell. Mrs. Hitchcock's health will prevent er from coming for a time.

Some families in a Kansas town tried living on breakfast food, en tirely, for a week. In a week's time they saved eight to ten dollars which they gave to charity. It is not stated how much tonic they took the follow ing week to make up the strength they had lost on the sawdust diet. Arthur Layton is a new assistant in the O. M.

Jones Candy Kitchen. n-0- v.u a late iau, me crop win ut? mi- tion. When he found the dav after he wrecked his machine that it was be- ond repair he packed the engine and I few braces into cases and eave the rest of the machine to lovers of relics. It didn't take very long until a large number of people were on their way home bearing a piece of the wrecked Cnrtiss biplane. It is stated that-an- other aeroplane will te trcv-Eht in to fill the demands of the contract.

Advertised Letters. Owen Butcher, Miss Grace Clariage, Firnando V. EsqulveL Mrs. Good, A. H.

Kinsall (3), Mrs. Laura Mason, Ed Masson, Mrs. Mary Owen, Fred Pierce, Colin Scott (4), A. D. Wilson.

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