Neodesha Register from Neodesha, Kansas • 1

THE NEODESHA REGISTER Published in the Heart of the Natural Gas and Petroleum Oil Region of Southeastern Kansas. NEODESHA, WILSON COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1900. One Dollar per Year. Established in 1872, IT WAS A HOSE PARTY. CHERRYME WANTS GAS.

ALL home print. HEW SCHOOL HOUSE NEEDED. WAR HAS BEGUN IN CHINA. BID COMMITTEE COMES HERE TO FOR LEASES. SHOULD BE DISCUSSED AT MEETING THURSDAY.

BATTLE AT TIEX TSIN. IN WHICH ALLIES WERE REPULSED. Original cookinsr recipes written for The Register by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. John J.

Ingalls, on the 0th page. And this Certain Man Knows There Was Nothing Dry About It. A Neodesha society woman gave a "hose party" Wednesday -night. Maybe you don't know wnat a hose party is" It has nothing whatever to do with dry goods. It was a warm evening and the affair was very impromptu.

She invited only a few of her neighbors three or four of them and no men were allowed to China Has 930,000 Soldiers in the Field, and the Powers are Pour-in" Soldiers in as Rapidly as Possible. THE DELEGATION UXLXSTFCTED. Wants to Pipe it from the East Neode sha Field But Farmers Refuse Them the Right to Bore for It. Let them move Here. The attempt of Cherryvale to deny that it is short of gas and water is take part.

After she had disclosed her plan they all went home again first and put on their old clothes. Then they went back and attached the garden hose to the hydrant. For an hour they fought for it amid screams of laughter and long before that not one of them had a dry thread on her. It was great fun. Then the husband came home.

He Which Means That it Will Not Fight Willits. Dr. T. Blakeslee and Dr. J.

Moor-head held a little senatorial caucus at the city hall this afternoon and elected an uninstructed delegation to represent Neodesha at the Republican senatorial convention at Chanute next Monday. Judge J. W. Sutherland tried to break into the harmony of the operation with a resolution to instruct the delegation for a Neosho county man The Present Crowded Conditions a Detriment to Thorough Methods in T'eachuig. District is in good Shape Financially.

The annual school meeting of this district will be held at the High school building next Thursdaj-. There is one officer to elect and that is secretary. S. P. Shipley now holds the olfioe" and will probably be reelected.

Those who attend the school meeting should remember that a uew school budding in Neodesha is an urgent necessity. The main school building is crowded and the district is not only now renting two rooms but must rent another one. The saving in rent would go nicely toward a substantial building. Professor Campbell says a four room building at least should ba built and believes that two rooms in addition to that will be needed before long. The school district is in good condition now financially.

The debt of the district is about $2,000. A new building adequate to the needs for several years perhaps would cost only $0,000 and the rent now being paid for a tumble down place without a decent play ground i i really ludicrous in the face of its at-temps to get both from out of its own field. It has had to buy a chemical fire engine to replace its former fire protection by wrater works and now it is out hustling in the Neodesha and other surrounding fields for gas. Two Cherryvale men were here within two weeks on that mission but failed to get any leases. They approached several land owners in the field east of town with an offer of fifty cents per acre for boring privileges.

They worked hard on H. II. Arthur but he told them he wouldn't let them have any except by the purchase of his farm. Neodesha and its friends are too wise to lend their gas to the upbuilding of other towns. If factories and smel heard the noise but didn't realize what it was all about till he got to fhe gate The war has begun in China.

Seven thousand foreigners stormed the city of Tien Tsin Friday of last week and were repulsed with heavy loss, five American officers being among the killed. One of these was Col. E. H. Liscum of the Ninth cavalry.

The Chinese prince's army now numbers and open war has been declared with Russia. It is still an open question whether or not the members of the foreign legations in Pekin are safe. Following the reports of their slaughter came to Washington this week reports of their safety. Ten thousand American troops are preparing to leave San Francisco for the seat of war. It seems not unlikely that the world is about to witness the most terrible war in its history.

Napoleon said often that the world should beware of China that China was a sleeping giant. Five years ago the German emperor predicted the present nprisingand warned the powers of it. China can put in the field an army 10,000.000 men greater than all the other powers united, and China is at home on the battlefield. but his resolution was lost. The delegation named is J.

W. Bogue. C. A. Boatman, R.

M. Jones, Dr. T. Blakeslee, G. W.

Black and J. S. Scudder. Thev were uninstructed which is con and got a shower of w7ater that sprinkled him nicely. He stopped and retreating to a safe distance, not having his old clothes on, and demanded an explanation.

This was too rich for the women and they had all the fun with him thev could. He tried all the i i ters want gas and plenty of it let them come to Neodesha where it is. of to get into his own at every turn was met ol water that nearly It was eleven o'clock ways lie Knew door yard but by a battery drowned him. strued to mean that if county can't settle its own troubles Wilson county will try to settle it for them by nominating Percy Willits, provided, of course, that the same programme was carried out in other Wilson count' caucuses today. The candidacy of Percy Willits was practically announced in an editoral in GL.

1 RS IN NEODESHA. before his wife and her friends grew tired of this sport and then they let him in. And all this happened at a Certain house on Third street near Indiana. At tempts Made to Enter Three Houses Wednesday Night. Burglars tried to enter three houses in the vicinity of the high school Wednesday night between eleven and the reaonia Citizen last weeu.

ii Neosho county can't settle on one of its three candidates. Bell, Carpenter or Keefer, Mr. Willits wants it. It is his desire to go to the convention with Wilson county's delegation solidly his if he wants it. His friends here, Dr.

Blakeslee. at their head have been Wounded. -A dispatch to Seymour Killed His New York. Julv 10. twelve o'clock but in each instance were frightened awav.

They first the New York Journal from Tien Tsin, May Build a Christian Parsonage. The members of the Christian congregation are talking over a plan to build a parsonage on the lot they own just north of their church building. They say that with additional money they can raise they can build in the building and loan association for the-rent they are now paying. The parsonage would be built on the north lot and they would then have between it and the church building a splendid lawn on which to hold socials. July 8, says: Ineffectual attempts are made to conceal the fact that Admiral Seymour was compelled to shoot his own wound would cover interest on that.

J. ne oniy satisfactory school building is one built for the purpose. Teachers Who Get Certificates. Of the 00 teachers who took the examination at the county institute this year 72 passed successfully and will get second and third grade certificates. Below is a complete list of those who passed.

The numbers after the names indicates the grade of certificate: Neodesha. Lucy Baldwin, Laura Baumgardner, Mildred Dye. Mrs. Bertha Laverty, 2: W. C.

Moore, Daisy Niswander. 2: Virginia Niswan-der, 3: Pearl Owen. Mabel Squires, Estal Warren, 3: Mary W. Whitaker3. Fredonia.

Marie Anderson, 8. Laura E. Reynolds, 2: Kate Sheedy, 3: Ollie Baker, Dora Bingham, Mamie Sheedy, May Sprague, 3: Pearl Bir-lew, 3: Alfreda Coletnan, 2: Bessie Con-dit, 2: Francis Greene. May Hiatt, Lena Koch. 2.

Lula Laughlin, 3: Wesley I. Matthews, 2: Rena Moss, Eu-o-ene Park. 3: M. D. Stryker.

2: B. E. working hard here to that end and the opposition led actively by Judge Sutherland have been fighting against it. It is the old Gilmore and anti-Gilmore fight over again, the anti's claiming that the candidacy of Willits is a violation of the agreement that this is Neosho's turn to have the nomination. The Gilmoreites want Baker reelected to the Senate and are afraid a Neosho man would vote for Burton.

Col. J- C. Carpenter of Chanute was tried a window in the house of Noab Wakefield but a member of the family heard them and made noise enough to scare them away. They then tried to raise a window at the home of Press Beasley, locomotive engineer. Mr.

Beasley was away on his run but Mrs. Beasley frightened them off. The Wakefields and Beasleys live side by side. Then the man went next door to the Moran home but was frightened away from there, also. Mrs.

Beasley got out a revolver the next morning-, loaded it and shot it off in her back yard to be sure it wras in working order for the next thief. here Wednesdav looking after his in terests in the sentorial fight. He says there will be no need for Mr. Willits or any other outside candidate in the Chanute convention. What Street Do You Live On? Tide Nichols came into The Register office one day last week to tell about a little entertainment that had been at his house.

''What street do you live on?" asked the reporter he was talking to. Tide stared blankly for half a minute. 'Blamed if I he said; "I'll go out and ask And he did, lust for fun now, what street do you ed during the recent disastrous retreat of the Pekin relief expedition. All the wounded and prisoners who fell into the hands of the Chinese were frightfully tortured. When Admiral Seymour, in his retreat, found himself so hard pressed that he was unable longer to carry his wounded with him, he asked them: which do you prefer, to be left to the mercies of the Chinese or to be shot by your own comrades?" As Admiral Seymour put the question the tears were running down his oh odes "Wre prefer death to torture.

Shoot us now, that we may die like was the response of the men. A firing squad was told off, and while the little allied force stopped and beat off with gun fire the Chinese horde that surrounded it, the firing- squad carried out its orders. A few merciful volleys from the rifles in the hands of friends and the harassed expedition was relieved of its burden of wounded and the Cuinese horde was cheated of victims for its torture. "In my he said, "Neosho county will go into the convention solid for one man and none other need apply. Our delegates and candidates will settle their differences in caucus before the convention meets.

live on? Lee Atwood, Furniture. J. J. Hopps Held for Arson. The Caney man, once in business in Neodesha, and now uuder arrest for arson, has been held to the district court.

The Independence Star says of his preliminary hearing: The preliminary trial of J. J. Hopps, of Caney, charged with setting fire to the Bartles-Henderson building, was conluded yesterday and resulted in Hopps being bound over to district court in the sum of $600. It was the ODinion of those who watched the case that Hopps has some pretty stiff evidence to overcome. Joe Nairn Scalded.

Victor Fiemming, Nairn and "Skinny" Wilson started out Sunday on a fishing trip. The first thing Joe Lee At wood is preparing to open as soon as his stock gets here a new furniture store in the Borceaux building at A "Kid" Ball Nine. Nine Neodesha boys have organized for the purpose of showing the older bovs how to play ball. They are in the 12-year-old class and are taking up a collection with which to buy uniforms of a lurid red. They will call themselves the Neodesha Reds and are: Albert Smith, Bob Pettit, Dean Burton.

Ores Osenforth, Ansel Burton, Harley Jenkins. John Brittain, Harry Gray, Gladner Barnard. 114 south Fourth street. The building is being- overhauled and refitted for him this week. He has ordered his Tuesdell, 2: Celia VanAlstine, Solon H.

Wiley, 3: Beulah Wood, 3. Vilas. H. A. Alexander, Walter Mundell, 3.

Dun. Maggie Augustine, Alta C. Hornev, 3. Buffalo. W.

T. Blackwood, Jessie M. Cantv, 2: Bertha Havden, 3. Lafontaine. Myrtle Hobbit, 3: Amy Gallamore, 3: (I.

M. Starns, Alda Tavlor, 3: Edwin G. Taylor, 2: Erie Taylor. 3: Sylvanus B. Vinson, E.

McKinnev, 3. Rest. Flora Brinkley, 2: T. D. Brink-lev, 3: bona Harry Riley, Fanny Magatagan, 2: George C.

Perry 2. Altoona. Ilattie Brundidge, 2: Inez Cissne, 2: Annie Durrin, 3: Ivy Hamb-lin, 2: Lula Townsend, 2: Delia Men-wether, 3: Edith Falls. 3. New Albany.

Frank Crum, 2: Ada Whiteside, 2. Earl ton. Mary Darnell, 3: Annie B. Leonard, 2. Thayer.

Anna N. Gibson, Daisy Hollowav. 3: Elsie Newland, 2. Benedict. H.

C. Roberts. Albert Stroud. 2: Kitty Thompson, Guy L. goods from Kansas City and expects to be able to open sometime next wreek not do an undertaking busi- He will ness.

Kansas Has War Fever. Topeka, July IS. The war fever is spreading in Kansas again. The Jay-hawkers are as anxious to avenge the deaths of the Americau missionaries and diplomats in China as they were to Citv Assessment Fifteen Mills. Nairn did Sunday evening wThen he was getting supper was to overturn on himself a pot of boiling coffee.

It scalded the upper part of his right leg badlv and the party came home, Nat Hutson, on whose farm the bovs were A New Boarding House, Mrs. C. M. Stevenson, late of Leavenworth, has come to Neodesha to live and has opened a boarding house in the J. B.

Morgan buildiug on Eighth street and Indiana. Mrs. Stevenson was here in the spring soliciting donations for the Leavenworth Home of the Friendless and liked Neodesha so much that she decided to move here. camped bringing the scalded boy in his avenge the deaths ot tne sanois vu the Maine. Scores of Kansas young men have sent their applications for enlistment in the army aud navy direct to the war department.

Others are applying- to the governor. All want to go to China. We Send a Commissioner. Washington. July 19.

-W. W. Rock-hill director of the bureau of American republics, has been appointed as special commissioner from this country to go buggy. Mrs. Nellie Ward Dead.

Mrs. Nellie Ward, wife of Ott Ward, died hist Saturday at their home in Jop- At the council meeting Tuesday evening the annual tax levy was put at fifteen mills for the coining year. Ten mills of this is for current expenses and five mills for bond expenses. The total assessed valuation is $108,057. Of this 8118,228 is on real estate, 836,880 on personal property and 12,040 on railroad property.

A New Furniture Store. To My Friends: I will open up anew furniture stock of latest style goods in the Bourceaux building at 114 South Fourth street, next Friday, July 27, and will be pleased to have you call Me-M lin. She was IS years old and before her marriasre was Miss Nellie Drew of Neo Wilson, 2. Buxton. W.

H. Young. 2: Roy Cabe, 3: Emma Miller, 3. Grace Pherson, 2. Guilford.

Estil J. Huffman, 2. Middleton. C. F.

Luhman, 3. desha. She was born here and lived here all her life till her husband moved Three Young Ladies Baptised. The Rev. J.

A. Smith of the Christian church baptised three young women in the Fall river at Cramer's Ford Friday of last week. They were Misses Lucy Mikesell, Edna Muchmore, Callie White and Lula Shipley. Two more made the confession last night and will be baptised Sunday afternoon. They were George Pettit and George Summit.

to Joplin two years ago to work in the mines. She leaves a little girl nearly three jears old to the care of its grand-narents. Mr. and Mrs. M.

L. Ward. and see me. L. L.

Atwood. here. Rebeccas From Altoona. Those who attended the Rebecca installation here last week from Altoona Another Creamery Agitation. Another man is ''looking at" creamer v.

His name is Glenn. the He to China and investigate and report on the situation. Mr. Rockhill is well equipped for the mission, having been secretary of the American legation in Peking for several years. He speaks and writes Chinese fluently.

Success at Last. For a long time now Mayor Black and his Committee of Seizure have been making strenous and laudable efforts to secure industrial institutions of worth for Neodesha. Asylum committees, smelter men, paper mill men, brick yard men and cement men have been here but went away without loca-At however, the commit- Real Estate Transfers. Annie T. Johnson to Maria Delano, et al, hf hf hf se qr se qr Is, 30, 1(5, S500.

Gardner S. Clark to G. J. Green lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10. 11.

12 blk 2 and lots 1 to 12. blk 3, Wviaiid's sub division of se qr 12, 29. 14 8150. S. G.

Watkins wf to Anna Buchanan sw qr se qr 38, 28, 16, 8700. Arkansas Valley Town Land to Mrs. Jane McClure lots 10, 17, IS blk 9. Benedict H. M.

Wilson wf to T. Q. Button, Fire Tower Not Yet Ordered. The council took no decided action in regard to building that fire tower at its meeting Tuesday evening. A fur-tl-pr investio-ation was ordered how were: C.

K. Miller, Ola Miller, M. E. Carver, Lvdia Tomlinson. Ella Rainey, Cora Cronkhite, Mable Wilson, Will Prange, (reorge Scott, Fannie Scott, Annie Prange.

William Lennox to Build. William Lennox who moved here from Sarcoxie, Missouri. last week to :i.r2!i, 1 lives at Manchester. He wants to rent it. Lewis of Winfield failed to meet the stockholders again last.

Saturday, but wrote ag-ain, saying he still had hopes of meeting them in the future. rga iz i ng a Lite ry Club. A number of the ladies of Neodesha have taken prelimenary steps toward oro-anizlncr a literary club. Thev have lot 8, blk 10 Altoona 810. rm vn -rl with J.

U. WilhtsA: wftoO. V. Small hf eUOI Is Uiivc urcu i ever. The tower will be built.

It will be of steel, too, but the committee does not know yet whether it will be sixty feet tall or only fifty. Horse Thieves North of Town. Horse thieves seem to be at work six miles north of town. Andy Dugan had a mule in pasture there and went out to look at it Sunday. It was gone.

Another horse is said to be missing from lot. 4 St 5 feet off side hf lot 4, 6ft start a miilinerv ana notion stoi off ide lot 5. bile 15, t- reaonia, Kz-kno-'iit fix-t arrf of land of J. P. trra a.

y.r not fully decided what the course of study will be. The first regular meet ham north of town ana expects to build a residence there. success. is iu uuc boardine house and a new millinery store. The last smelter that escaped was to have had a pay roll of more than 10,000 per month.

The new boarding house will have a pay roll of nearly $10 a month, which is not so bad after all. Presbyterian Social. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will have an ice cream social Friday evening of next week at the residence of P. M. Gamble.

W. R. Harris ft wf to L. Harris, beginning 234 feet 33 feet of se Cor sw qr 7. 27.

1 186 feet, 201 feet 1 -et to beg. O. V. Small wf to 11. Willits hf nw qr 20 hf sw qr 2 28, 15, 8isi)o.

'Yearling' Meeting Society of Friends to Tucker TamD M. W. A. beg at sw cor of Elk 14. Buffalo, Ks: 4') ft; 100ft: 40 ft: 100 ft to b-'g 8100.

P. D. Dodge wf to M. F. Hall nw qr nw qr 13.

hf ne qr 14 sw qr ne qr 14, SO, 13, 81050. 100,000 Wanted for Philippines. Manila. June 12. "More soldiers' is the same pasture.

A Lawn Social. The Ladies of the Christian church will give an ice cream social on the la vn at the residence of Robert Havs Fridav evening. July 2.. All are invited to come and enjoy the eveniug. ing will be held September 5.

No Brick till Middle of August. AH of the brick plants machinery has not yet come and preparations for the real start are moving on onlv slowly. It is not likely now that brick" making will begin before August 15. County Pays Out 26,000. The total amount of the bills allowed by the county commissioners at their session last week and this was 8044, 84' An Excursion Train for Three.

The Frisco ran an excursion train to W. at When the demand which is coming to General MacArthur from every department of the islands. Recent events have worked to ndicate General Lawton's judgement that 100.000 troops would be needed to establish American sovereignty over the Philippines. Until they attempted to hold provinces of the state meeting of the A. O.

Wintield Wednesdav morning. it left Neodesha it carried two -aches and three passenger-. Christian Endea vor Note. Do you ever think of attending Young PeODle's meeting at the Christ- Cool for Summer. It has been unusuallv cool this week for this time of year and the change was not welcome.

It was unseasonable weather though and not altogether good for good feeling. i inn church? Come next tSundav even-! insr. July 22, at 7 o'clock. A. W.

Shaffer will lead the song service. You will be made welcome. Miss Grace Mike- Independents will Drill. M. P.

Peterson's Newark Independent Volunteers will meet next Sunday at Captain Peterson's home and will have a skirmish drill. All are invited. G. A. R.

Attention For the national encampment Grand Armv of the Republic at Lhicago, August 27th to September 1st, 19 0, the Missouri Pacific railway will sell round trip tickets at one fare. Date of sale August 24 to 27 inclusive. Arrangements will be made for a through car from Neodesha via Kansas City, making twelve hours faster time than any other route. Call at depot for particulars. Chas.

H. Wyman, Agent. 200.000 or 800,000 hostile people witn a regiment or two the American commanders hardly realized the size of the Philippine Islands. Wheatiey and Kirkpatrick Will Speak. S.

S. Kirk ra trick, congressman, and Georo-e W. Wheatiey, candidate for his place" will speak at Lafontaine tomorrow. SaturdaV, evening at 8:30 o'clock under the auspices of the Republican county central committee. Several from Neodesha expect to attend.

Pluck Depot Agent in Kansas. Wichita. July 13. At Loraine, two masked burglars attempted to enter the 'Frisco depot. They tired through the window at the night agent, who hi 1.

Then they attacked the door but the agent got his gun and fired at the desperadoes. He wounded one and they retreated. sell, leader. Roval Neighbors Social. The ladies of the Royal Neighbors will have an ice cream and cake social this evening in the Srewart building at 110 south Fourth street.

Mai ri age Licenses Issued. Charles F. Allen. Meodesha, Kans. Jennie H.

Renfro, Clinton, Mo. WTilliam Slusser, Fredonia, Kans. Mrs. Eila Leech, Middletown, Kans. 22 21 05 50.