The Chanute Daily Blade from Chanute, Kansas • 1

VOL. II. NO. 201. FRIDAY AFTERisOON CHANUTE, KANSAS, JANUARY 6, 1905 FRIDAY AFTERNOON four pages: GLASS PLANT COMING INDEPENDENCE FOR CITY OWNERSHIP OF CXS.

ARE THREE CANDIDATES OFFERS MILE OF ROAD ChANUTE GIRLS SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY GO HUNTING TODAY, Independence, Jan. 6. At a mass rueetiog of citizens a resolution of No Danger of Epidemic Uncle Sam's Good Roads Man in the City. Patriots Willing to Serve Cha nute as Poiice Judge. Purchasers of the Mertz Land Disclose Their Plan was passed favoring municipal owner Smallpox.

ship of gas. The plan involves the ontrol or certain gas territory upon which the city now has verbal options, Misses uanita Coats and Florence by Floyd Herbert and Earl Coppock, are hunting on the Neosho bottoms this afternoon. The young ladies are carrying 16-gauge shotguns and they have a wager with their escorts that they will bag more game than they do. The young ladies have been holding private target practice and have r.ejome quite proficient at the trigger. Today is their first experience in field shooting.

CITIZENS MEETING TONIGHT. DISEASE IS WELL IN HAND DRYDEN, BAUGHMAN, ABBOTT WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE ielding about 100 million cubic feet per day, build a municipal plant, or buy the present plant of the Kansas It is Very Mild in Form and is Strictly W. H. Moore, President of National Good Roads Association Will Deliver Address. The Former Bases His Candidacy on An Indorsement of His Administration of Ths Office.

The Syndicate's Representatives Say Plant Will Be in Operation by Warm Weather. Quarantined Wherever it Exists. Natural Gas company. The method would be to get citizens to subscribe to the stock of a corporation that would be formed for the purpose. COLORED LABORER W.

II. Moore, president of the Na Although there are a number of While he is not an avowed candi MAGICIAN JOHN WINDER CREMATED AT IOLA. smallpox cases. among school children, date for the office of police judge, F. J.

E. Franklin and F. II. Ehoades, of the West Virginia syndicate, that purchased the Mertz land ad GIVEN HIS LIBERTY, tional Good Roads association, arrived in Chanute over the Katy railroad this morning by invitation of the especially in the Third ward, the pub Iola. Jan.

6. George Hodges, lic schools will be reopened Monday a colored laborer, employed in the John Winder, one of the men ar Katy officials. He was met at the joining the smelter, announced today morning. store room of the Iola Portland Ce rested Wednesday night for peddling There were no new cases reported M. Abbott would not be averse to accepting the nomination, if it were tend; red him on a silver platter.

He said to a reporter for The Blade today that he was not seeking the police judgeship or any other office, bub that he was always in the hands" of his ment company, was burned to death that the syndicate would install a glass plant on the land and that it jewelry without a license, and held station by Mayor Kennedy, the members of the city council and a committee from the Commercial club and es on suspicion of being implicated in yesterday.and the board of health officers are of the opinion that the disease will not spread in a manner to would be in operation by warm Wednesday night in the Are which consumed the little frame shanty of one room which served as his home. Just as the firemen reached the house iweather. The plant will employ 50 the murder of Policeman Claud Brice at Joplin, was released last night. It developed that he was a magician and become epidemic. Although the di friends when they have legitimate use jra.cilled and 25 unskilled laborers at sease is in a yery mild form the health for him.

officers are maintaining strict quaran Hodges came staggering out of the dcor and fell exhausted beside the first, and later the capacity will be With Mr. Abbott in the field there not a jewelry peddler at all, and that his appearance did not tally in any are three candidates for the po'ice respect with the description of Brice's 1 largely increased. Arrangements were made this after burning building. He died at o'clock- yesterday morning. judgeship nomination.

The other two are II. Clay Dryden, the present assassins. incumbent, and Sam Baughman. JEWELRY PEDDLERS noon by Messrs. Franklin and Ehoades for securing gas at $30 per million i cubic feet.

The gas will be furnished corted to the Oriental hotel, where a conference was held, resulting in the calling of a mass meeting of citizens at the city hall at 8 o'clock tonight. The object of the meeting is to arousei merest in good roads and make arrangements for holding a county convention here at an early date. The government is now building sample pieces of road throughout the west, and Mr. Moore says if the proper interest is manifested in Chanute the government will build a mile of road here half a mile of macadam and half a mile of oil road. Mr.

Moore suggests that in case sat DON KNEELAND WAS NOT MOBBED tine regulations. Eldon Doyle- has fully recovered, and the quarantine has been lifted from his mother's house, 318 West Main street. The little Hart girl is improving satisfactorily, and the child quarantined at the Farmers' restaurant on North, Forest is almost well. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Grant Hazelton, 328 West First street, will Dryden says his candidacy Is an appeal to the people to endorse his ad NOT ASSASSINS. by the Venture Gil and Gas company Chief of Police Meanor returned A report was in circulation here this morning that Don Kneeland, the The syndicate will require 3 million cubic feet of gas daily to operate the this afternoon from Pittsburg and norsethief had been hanged by a mob ministration of the judical department of the city government. Though it is not generally con ider-ed so by the people, the office of police is one of the fattest plums in the gift of the city. It pays as much if nit more than the office of the city clerk, and requires not more than plant after awhile, which is more ao Alonett, Mo last night. The re be out as soon as the ten days' quarantine is up.

Milo Jones, president of the board of education, said today that the port had its foundation in a telephone message received by Mrs. S. S. Meanor than the entire city of Chanute con sunies. from her husband, at Joplin, stat isfactory an augements can be made that one-half mile of the worst road The syndicate have asked for no con small pox cass in town would not ing that word had been received in that city of the mobbing of Knee- cessions of any kind and do not in Arcadia, where he picked up four more horses that had been stolen by Don Kneeland, and located another at Mineral, Kan.

Chief Meanor visited Joplin, in his rounds and had a talk with Chief McManamy. He discovered that the description of Policemtn Brice's assassins did not tally with the appearance of John Dje and D. L. St. Clair, the men arrested here Wednesday evening on the charge of ped land.

The Blade telephoned the city tend to do so. They bought the land i running out of Chanute be selected for the macadam work. The half mile of oil road will be built on the same plan that the government has built a number of miles of road in 14 acres, outright, paying a fancy a fourth of the time of the incumbent. Though the dignity of the office is so overpowering that a scramble for it wou'd be considered little short of indecent, it seems that the prize is not beggirg by any means. Judge Dryden had the right of way for reelection till a week ago.

price for it. Their plans up to thi morning have clothed in mys marshal of Monett, ana he stated that the report was false. Kneeland was placed in the county jail yesterday afternoon. There were threats of violence, but no effort was made to carry them into execution. effect the opening of the schools Monday, lie said the members of the board had reached this decision after carefully canvassiDg the situation.

"The health officers tell us," slid President Jones, "that the disease Is wcli under restraint and that there is rodarigerof it spreading indiscriminately. This being the situation we could see no reason for not reopening the schools according to previous California, and which have proven a signal success. stery, the general belief being that they intended tc install a poultry es dling jewelry without a license, Doe and St. Clair are still in the city jail It is desired that there be a large attendence at the city ha 1 tonight. tabiishment and trreeu house.

Mr. Moore will make an address, ex CHANUTE TRADERS FOLLOW TOM LAWSON. and will probably be tried and con victed of violating the license ortli nance. Not Occupied Yet But one room remains unocrniect PACKED HOUSE AT plaining the plans of the government in the new P.lade building. 1 a detail.

WILLIAMS' THEATRE splendid front basement with iont entrance, well lighted and ventilated. EMPRESS AN A CHRISTAIK? A 11 records were broken at Williams CHANUTE SPORTS Theatre last night. The hou.se "was Expectant soeculators thronged Broker Simmons' office at the opening- the New Yorksto.dc exchange yesterday morning to see what effect Thomas W. Lr.w ion's mmifes'o "To MiniHter Conner and Wife Claims to RUN AMUCK IN IOLA. packed from top to bottom and the certainly got their money's Voith, because Eucker's Korak Won ile Adioeuten.

the treating: ot a Na Have Converted China's Ruler to the 'Scienec" Cult. Sioux Cily, Jan. 6. That the Iola, Jan. 6.

EJward and Wall Street and Its Frenzied Fi John Kelley, who came up from Cha nanciers' was going to nave on me market. For an hour prices ruled nute Wednesday with the avowed in tional Ser lee mill Setting Aaide Great Areus ot Timber. Washington, Jan. 6. In addressing dowager empress of China has been converted to Christianity and Christian science through the influence of string, and Lawson declares that this was due to his buying.

Afterwards the National Forestry congress here, tention of doing Iola, were arrested last night after a fight that caused great excitement in and aro.ind the Tremont hotel, where it started. Both Minister E. H. Conger and his wife, there was a si arp decline in prices, der Co, gave a splendid production of "East Lynne." Tonight the play will be Maud Whitman's great melodrama, "Escaped from Sing-sing," in 4 asts. The admission is 10 and 15 cents.

Tickets are on sale at Bosh-ert Williams'. Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 the company will give a free show. Tomorrow night ''Dad's Girl." THE NEWMAN BQYS ATTACK W. A. ADAMSQN, W.

A. Adamson, a teamster living in the First ward, swore out warrants in the police court this morning for the arrest of Bill, Otis and Virgil Newman, charging them with assault. Specifically, he alleged that the Newmans intercepted him as he was passing through an alley this morning and began cursing and hurling bricks at him, several of the missies taking effect on his body. lie said his assailants were actuated by reveDge in making the attack. They desired to borrow his wagon to haul a 5 ton load, and when he demurred to loaning them the vehicle they became incen President Roosevelt declared in favor of making the national forests and Lawson claims that this condi more useful to the western people.

He said the administration would sup men had been visiting interesting p'aces around town. Concluding that tion was brought ab Hit by his selling. Chanute speculators keep their they had not completed their work of weather eye incessantly on the port more and more vigorously the policy of letting aside national forests and the policy of creating a national forest service. aotkorof "Frenzied it "doing" Iola, tlry started a tight between themselves to ginger things up. They were arrested, paid a tine in is claimed that a number of theui have cleaned up handsome profits by Charles F.

Manderson, general so RACKET CLERK FR0ZN WITH A LADY'S STARE. police court and were piloted out of relying on his predictions. licitor of the Burlington railroad, ex- town on their return trip to Chanute. United States senator from Nebraska, characterized the presenaticn of the timber industry of the country as "the "JUMPING" TOWN "LOTS. y.A wkvo JUDGE FARMER sed and swore vengence upon him.

The Mammoth Racket's special sale on embroideries, laces and like arti- cles, advertised in Tne Blade, is at SUM i 'I Wild Esphenient nt Iloynton. I. T. Mr I SENDS 1 W0 TO JAIL ft When It Declared Government Tom unite. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE paramount issue" and urged the planting and husbanding of timber wherever trees can be grown.

He spoke of the enormous demands' for ties. "Of the ties now uv.on the railroad tracks tracting crowds of This morning one of the male clerks had a lady customer and she selected a piece George Long and John Glover were LECTURE AT HETRICK. Muskogee, I. Jan. 6.

The inte each given jail sentences in Justice rior department has declared Boynton, Fara er's court this afternoon. Long of delicate lace. 'IIow much'" inquired tl clerk. of the country," he said, "ten per cent, have to bo replaced annually. Their average cost is 50 cents, making a town 22 miles west of here, a gov At 8 o'clocV Monday evening, Jan.

pleaded guilty to stealing a ride on ernment townsite. This opens it for "Enough for two pair," replied the the Santa re railroad and was given tv annual expenditure for this purpose original settlement and as soon as the 9th, Edw- A. Kimball, C. S. of will deliver a Christian Science lecture at the Hetrick theatre.

fifteen days. Glover pleaded guilty ot $45,000,000. which is exclusive ot the labor employed and the cost of lady. "Two pair of what?" "Two pair of pillow cases, sir." news reached Boynton ihe wildest excitement prevailed. Men began to to stealing pieces of Neils Esperson's TTEN-TSOX-IISI.

(Dowager Empress and Auiocratlc Ruler local transportation. No feasible sub Mr. Kimball is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lecture jump town lots which have been held drilling rig and selling them, and wa fined $10 and given thirty days. And the customer bestowed a stony stitute has been found for the wooden by others for two and many of of China.) who have been almost eight years at ship of "The First Chuich of Christ, tie." which have been built upon. Citizens stare on the blushing clerk that al- i most.

rnntrp-iled hU hlnnrl 3rmed themselves to protect their Pekin, is the claim made by relatives UKUM TO WIN AT LAST. SAYS COMBINE IS MERCILESS. Scientist," in Boston, Mass. Lecture given under auspices of "First Church of Christ, Scientist," of Chanute, property. The town was settled on of the minister who recently have re- what is known as a dead claim and ceived letters from him direct from Senator Tillmnn'N Opponition to the Pekin.

It also is declared that the em i "LETTERS MUST HAVE POSTAGE, ft- Vnnt Office Depart meiit Ilule Thnt Owner of Itnriil Mail Box lln Xo Control Over It. now has population of 2,500, half col orcd. Now that is is declared a gov Admission free. All are welcome. Xfgro Collector nt Charleston linn Spent Its Force, press has substantial promises that her conversion shall be announced eminent townsite, tormer titles are worthless.

Washington. Jan. 6. The senate BIG FREE SHOW TOMORROW AT 2:30. committee on commerce has author in the most public way.

This public announcemtnt, which is to be made Eoon, is to be followed by steps by the Bucvrus. Jan, 6 Postmaster TALBOT MUST DEMAND TRIAL. ize! a favorable report on the nomina Hall, of this city, has a ruling from empress that will Inaugurate a great the government which is of -reftemmeiii withdrawn Vnly on tion of W. D. Crura to be collector of the port of Charleston, S.

C. Confirmation of the Crura nomination has era of reform throughout the Chinese to every community- where the rural empire. Condition Thut the EplNCopnl Hi sli op loc to Clear Himself. free delivery is in force. A local ear1 been opposed for three sessions of con Attorney General Moody Take Bold Stnnd in 1'roneeution of Alleged 1'ueUern Trout.

Washington, Jan. 6. "That there Is a conspiracy to control the market of the nation for fresh meats; that it does control it, and that its control is merciless and oppressive, are facts known of all men." This ts the stand taken by the administration, for these are the words U3ed by the attorney general of the United States in a brief filed by him in the supreme court as a preliminary to the great oral argument he will make later on. Attorney General Moody, with a directness and honesty which have not always been characteristic with all of those who have held his high office, takes the bull by the horns and charges the packers without equivoca READY TO RE-FORTIFY. gress by Senator Tillman on the Philadelphia, Jan.

6. J. Frederick At Williams' theatre tomorrow at. Rucker's famous Korak Co. will give a free t-how to everybody except children and they will be admitted free if accompanied by their partnts.

Tonight the play will be "Escaped from Sing Sing." Tomorrow night, "Dad's Girl." Night pries. 10 and 15 cents: tickets at Boschert ground "that a colored man is objectionable to a majority of those who Jenklnson, of this city, one of the pre Julian AVill nt Once Renin to Make senters of Episcopal Bishop Talbot, transact business through the Charles ton customs house." Crum is filling after a conference in New York with Herbert Noble and others, arrived hero l'ort Arthur the Grealcitt For-trom in the World. Tokio, Jan. 6. Gen.

Nogi Is pre the position of collector on a third re and handed Rev. Dr. W. B. Bodinel president of the board of inquiry, pared, through agents who have been rier found in a mail box on his route two letters that were intended for the owner of the box and had been put there by some one in passing.

The letters were confiscated and sent to the government at Washington with a request for a ruling. The government approved the action of the carrier and said that -all mail found- in any box without stamps or the proper amount of money for postage must be collected and taken to the post office from Which the route is operated and held for postage. This ruling means that thp owner of the mail box has absolutely no control over it. cess appointment and the indications are that he will now be confirmed by the senate despite the objections of paper withdrawing the presentment recruiting for months, to put a horde of Chinese coolies at work in the re- The presenters reserve the right to Senator Tillman. LEMUEL H.

COLE MAY RUN FOR MAYOR. draw up a new presentment based on fortifying of Port Arthur immediate Where Adnltery la Not Crime. ly that the Russians are disposed of. the charges contained in the one now withdrawn if Bishop Talbot does not himself ask for a trial. tion or evasion with being parties to a conspiracy to control the price of the meat product of the nation.

Vast quantities of cement and timber are ready on the Yalu river for this purpose, while steel plates and other Boise, Jan. 6. In his message to the legislature Gov, Gooding called attention to the fact that adultery is not a crime in Idaho and urged that a law be enacted making it such. He also advised that a law be passed making polygamy a crime. Cowlieril'd It nil Delivery mil.

manufactured necessaries are ready in Japan for transportation 10 the lortress. The Japanese are confident Washington, Jan. 6. Representative Announcement was made today that Lemuel II. Cole would be a candidate for the mayoralty this spring.

A number of his friends have been grooming him for the nomination for some time, and at a meeting last night they decided to formally launch his boom. It is claimed that Mi. Cole has agreed to accept the nomination if conditions in the spring appear to favor his elect i ta. His friends aisert Cowherd, of Missouri, has introduced a bill fixing the rate of postage on that the relortillratlon of Tort Ar Grnndehild Heeoneileii Ilrynn. New Orleans.

Jan. G. William J. Bryan yesterday visited his daughter, Ruth, at her residence here for the first time since her romantic marriage thur will iilate the fortress in a better and merchandise mailed at dis condition than ever, with the Rus GflioHpic Killed II 1m i SIxter. Rising Sun, Jan.

James Gillespie, who with his sister. Mrs. Bell Seward, and Mr. and Mrs. Myron Bar-tir-nr, wps Indicted for the murder of his twin sister, Elizabeth was found guilty and sentenced to life Imprisonment.

The other defendants still to be tried. Miss Elizabeth Gillespie was thot and killed while vithin the parlor of her home to the women's literary club. i tributing post offices of rural free delivery routes at three cents for each to William Homer Leavitt, a portrait sian di-ieets eliminated, long before Russia tan br.siege it. if sueh a thing ever occurs at all. Ammunition, food pound or fraction thereof.

The bill Boston. Tie camo especially Kf-Confedcrntm In I'ntiil Duel. Ardmore, I. Jan. -David S.

Frazer, a well-known citizen of Ardmore and an ex-confederate soldier, was shot and almost Instantly killed on the main street of Ardmore. E. W. Lester, also an ex-confederate, is under arrest prescribes further that 'third and fourth-class mail matter shall be ron- -'fro PalntEr i I daughter. his two-mcnths-old grand- and tni'dicrd supplies to last, for that hisumiuestjioned business ability A reconciliation was ef will he to Port Arthur, Japan be ing het irnl of the mistakes made solldated under the title of "merchan-anci coaservat'sra peculiarly fit him dlse." at a rate of one cent tot two fur tne ounces.

I fected between the distinguished No-braskan and his son-iu-law, the i.