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a a SIX 25c MONTHS The Channie Weekly "CHANUTE WEEKLY TRIBUNE AND CHANUTE WEEKLY TIMES" CONSOLIDATED AUGUST 7. 1913. Volume XII Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas, Friday, January 28, 1916. WAR HAS NO GLORY COLD-BLOODED, SCIENTIFIC, CALCULATED KILLING. CHARLES SCOTT DESCRIBES CONFLICT Scott asserted emphatically.

Gold-Blooded Killing. From Monday's Daily. "I came home firm in the conviction that the United States should tolerate almost any affront except an open attack rather than plunge into maelstrom which is engulfing Europe," declared Charles F. Scott in the Methodist church last night, after a vivid description of the appalling sights he beheld zone of hostilities when he visited, Belgium last year. "I am not concerned about any war that we may have to fight in the future, but I do want the United States to keep out of this war," Mr.

"There may have been a time when war was glorious," he said. "Until the present men came out into the open and fought, matching courage and strength and skill against skill and strength and courage SO that each had an equal chance. "Now, though, war has become a matter of cold-blooded, scientific killing by machinery, and all the glory it ever possessed has departed from it. The nation that declares war except in self-defense or to uphold its national honor and dignity commits treason against humanity and a crime against civilization. "Even the present war, though, terrible as it is, may become of benefit to the world if through it mankind comes to realize the foolishness and futility of resorting to such methods as a means of settling their differences." A Fight to a Finish.

Concerning the probable duration of the present conflict Mr. Scott said: "It was kindled by racial antagonism and antipathy, by national jealousy and prejudice, by the desire for commercial supremacy, and the tragedy, as well as the glory, of it is that the nations involved believe that their existence is at stake. "Under these circumstances the war is not to come to a conclusign until the belligerents, are completely exhausted. doubt bother any other conclusion would worth while. If a truce were dePea now each hostile nation uld at once begin feverishly to Id 1 up its military machine with intention of renewing the conflict a finish as soon as it thought it strong enough to win." Of preparedness by the United ites Mr.

Scott sand: "I believe need a standing army that will large enough to police the counand to furnish a first line of deuse in time of war. I believe we ed a navy large enough to give an traveling abroad a sense security and of national dignity. "We have had these for the past years; we have them now, and I believe they are all we shall need in the future. The United States has never been in less danger of war than it will be for fifty years after the present war has ended, because it will not end until the financial and economic exhaustion of all taking part in it." Germany vs. England.

Mr. Scott's address, while brilliantly vivid in its description of the conditions he saw, was calm and unimpassioned. It was a matter-of-fact narrative, without prejudice and partiality. "The idea was driven home in my mind," he said, "that it is a war between Germany and England. For France Germany feels only pity, for Pussia merely contempt, but for ungland there is hatred.

'God punh the school children of Germany say when they meet for the day's lessons. 'God punish England' is printed upon the face of the currency issued by Germany. Less Animosity in England. "Germany feels that England had no business in the war, but that she got into it merely to dispose of a commercial rival whom she feared would threaten the British empire. "In England the spirit of animosity is not so high, but the British feel, too, that the fate of their nation is at stake.

They claim that Germany selected a time to strike when she believed, because of the Ulster troubles, that Ireland would rise against the United Kingdom, that rioting and disorder would break forth in India. and that England's great colonies would secede from their allegiance." London Calm. Mr. Scott said that he found littie indication in London that England was at war. "'Business a8 usual while the map of Europe is being remade' is the motton there, and it is only at night, when the the appearance of the capital of a lights are a dimmed, that London has nation engaged in a great war," he explained.

air. Scott was particularly interested in the publicity campaign conducted by England to obtain solrs. He quoted such phrases as it fits you, put it on." under the cure of a soldier's cap; "Of rse you are proud of your pals, what will they thiuk of you?" and of the picture of garrison shouting aressed would as relief arrives in the shape of the new army, England's Plight. "It would he remarked, "as if these should be enough to summon every full-blooded Englishman capable of bearing arms to the colors, but we know that for the first time in a long while England has had to resort to conscription to get men to fill its ranks." Mr. Scott declared that at no time has England held more than thirtyseven miles of the line in France and Belgium, while little Belgium has guarded seventeen miles and the French more than 500 miles.

Belgium a Prison. "Belgium is a prison, ringed about on three sides by German steel and on the fourth side by the North sea," he declared. "One cannot go from one city to a village a mile distant without a pass from the military commander. No matter where you go you are liable to be halted at any time by a gray-green clad German soldier- and when he says stop, you stop," Mr. 1 Scott commented, grimly.

Mr. Scott's trip to Europe was to look after the distribution of the provisions for the relief of Belgium furni hed by Kansas. He declared that the succor the Belgians was the most prodigious commissary undertaking ever achieved. Feeding the Belgians. "Germany has done a wonderful thing in provisioning its millions of men," he said, "but Germany had prepared thirty years for this very thing.

The Belgian relief commis(Continued 0't Page Four.) GOOD ROAD MATERIALS COMMUNITY SHOULD USE BEST IT CAN AFFORD. TIOCA WILL GET A COOD CONCRETE JOB From last Friday's Daily Gravel, if it is available, is cheaper for road building than rock, A. R. Losh of the Kansas State Agricultural College told the members of the Chanute Farmers' Institute at its meeting yesterday. "If a gravel bed is accessible to the proposed road, it can be built cheaper and will cost less to maintain than a macadam he declared.

Mr. Losh declared that a brick road represents the highest type of highway construction, and that next to brick ranks concrete. "The construction of concrete highways is going to develop into an important project in Kansas," he predicted. "It will not be used on all roads, of course, but there will doubtless be 1,000 miles of it laid in this state. A Good Concrete Road Here.

"I understand that you are going to experiment with concrete here. I have no doubt that you will get a good job. The road building department of the cement manufacturers' association will see to that." Mr. Losh explained that the successful building of a concrete road depends upon competent engineering. He estimated that such a highway would, cost from $8,000 to $10,000 a mile, exclusive of bridges and culverts and more than ordinary work of grading.

He said the concrete should be laid from six to eight inches thick on a good sub-grade, and that expansion joints should be provided every thirty feet. The Allen County Job. "We can't build concrete roads here as they do in California," he said. "We have to allow for frost and atmospheric and climatic conditions that do not exist in California." He referred to the concrete job in Bassett, Allen county, for which the agricultural college furnished specifications. "It was laid under unfavorable conditions," he said.

"The work was not started until so late in the season that it was December when it was finished. The next summer was very hot and it was found that not enough space had been left for expansion. The paving began to heave, chunks had to be cut out to give room for expansion because of heat." Next to brick and concrete, Mr. Losh placed bituminous macadamcrushed rock with the surface treated with light oil of an asphaltic nature. He recommended that this be finished on top, not with dust, but with coarse screenings.

"If you have a good supply of gravel, though, there is nothing he reiterated. He also spoke of a bituminous earth road, made by spreading a layer of oil, then a layer of earth, and so on until the mixture is six inches thick. This would cost about 1.500 a mile for a 16-foot roadway, he estimated. The oil should be heavy, with an 80 per cent asphaltic base. The road should be constructed in the summer time and the oil heated to a temperature of 300 degrees before it is spread.

He also thought good results could be obtained by sprinkling light oil on the surface of earth roads, using three-fourths of a gallon to the square yard. The best results from this method are obtained on sandy roads, he said. (Continued on Page 8)' YOU CAN HAVE A GUESS NEODESHA'S POPULATION IS A MOOTED QUESTION. LIFE AND DEATH MATTER WITH OIL TOWN Fredonia, Jan. 22.

-The population of Neodesha still continues to be a subject of much discussion in this county. County Clerk the state board of agriculture that Puckett maintains he reported, to it was 3,496, instead of 3,011, as given out at Topeka. It is a life and death matter with Neodesha, as the report given out at Topeka means a loss of 469 in the last ten years, while the correct report shows a gain of 26, and Neodesha wants no loss with Fredonia an increase for that period 1,218. showing, Not only does the county clerk say he sent in the correct figures, but he says when Neodesha reported only 2,500 he sent it back for correction, and not only sent it back once, but the second time. To add to the complication, Secretary Moeler writes from Topeka under date of January 19, as follows: "I have your letter of January 16, relating to the population of Neodesha according to the census returns of 1915 and as shown in the press bulletin which issued.

We have looked the up and recently, find that our compilation was correct and the report as issued by the board of 3,011 is just exactly what the returns which you certified here reveal. We find, however, in looking over the original returns, that there are 326 Spaniards and Mexicans reported in Neodesha township, and it may be the folks of the city of Neodesha are counting this number as a part of the population of the town. If so, that would make the total population of Neodesha city 3,337, although the returns which were sent to this office through you clearly show that their place of residence is in Neodesha township, and in a letter from you of August 3 you say, 'the suburbs of Neodesha city are in the township of and in other correspondence from your office we gathered that a good many of the foreigners employed at the smelter lived in Neodesha township. To change it now would merely mean a shifting of that many people from the township to the city. The census returns we have on file here, however, make no other showing possible than has already been reported." Fiftieth Anniversary.

Tuesday of this week Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Paulen celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

They were married near Springfield, January 18, 1866. They are the parents of six children: State Senator Ben F. Paulen, who is associated with his father in business at Fredonia; Laura E. Howell of El Reno, Minnie Burke of Fredonia, Mildred Fitzmorris of Fall River, Ray Paulen and Blanche Thomas of Fredonia. Mr.

Paulen was born in Sangoman county, Illinois, in 1838, and is of German parentage. He served in Company 130th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, first as second lieutenant and then as first lieutenant. His last commission, however, did not go into effect until after the war, as he was a prisoner for fourteen months in the rebel prison at Tyler, Tex. He cast his first vote for President Lincoin and has the distinction of having voted for every Republican presidential candidate. He located in Wilson county in 1 1869.

Mrs. Paulen was born in 1848 near Frankfort, Ky. District Court Proceedings. The district court of Wilson coumty convened, disposed of all cases ready for trial and adjourned within a period of two weeks. This is much less time than usually consumed--less than half of the time often devoted to the January session.

The cases disposed of are as follows: E. N. Arndt et al VS. Edward Arndt et al. An action in partition wherein a motion to strike interpleader's affidavit from the files was sustained and ten days given to file a new affidavit.

Interpleader given twenty days to make interplea more definite and certain, and other parties ten days thereafter to plead thereto. Benedict State bank vs. O. K. Mitchell et al.

Plaintiff given a judgment against defendants in the sum of $526.70 with interest at 10 per cent. Attachment proceedings confirmed, attached property ordered to be sold in the manner provided by law and the proceeds applied in payment of costs and judgment; any residue to be paid to Grace E. Bitcheel-Bartlett. S. W.

Boyd vs. J. L. Yen et al. Judgment rendered quieting plaintiff's title as prayed for and canceling the lease in controversy of record.

The clerk of the court is ordered to enter release of said lease the record in the office of the register of deeds. Emanuel Friendlich vs. A. H. Ward et al.

Creditors' suit, in which action is dismissed at cost of the plaintiff without prejudice to a future action. W. H. Hamblin vs. C.

M. Palmer et al. This action came on for hearing on motion for a new trial, which motion was overruled. Mary E. Hamilton vs.

William T. Adell. On motion of plaintiff the sale of premises heretofore made is confirmed and the period of redemption therein reduced to six months. Harriett May Lowell vs. Loraine C.

Lowell. Motion to strike certain portion of defendant's answer from sustained as to all grounds exceptes the sixteenth and twentyfirst. Defendant given ten days to amend and the plaintiff given ten days thereafter to plead. Anna McDonald vs. Elmer MeDonald et al.

Sale in partition confirmed and deed ordered to be executed to purchaser. T. E. Ryan vs. William Erbe et al.

Defendants given ten days to file reply therein. W. H. Admundson, administrator, vs. T.

C. Ball, administrator. This action grew out of the disposition of the personal property owned by Amanda E. Ryan and T. E.

Ryan at the time T. E. Ryan was convicted of the murder of his wife. By agreement of parties, T. C.

Ball, istrator of the estate of Amanda E. Ryan, took charge of all the personal property belonging to the family and at public sale disposed of the same for something like $2,810. The court held that after the expense of sale and care of certain property had been paid that T. C. Ball, as administrator of the estate of Amanda E.

Ryan, should pay one-half of the proceeds to W. H. Edmundson, istrator of the estate of T. E. Ryan, who is, in the eyes of the law, as (Continued on Page 8).

CHINA AFTER BIG STICK PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION WILL FOLLOW TRANSITION. DR, NG POON CHEW A REVOLUTIONIST From Tuesday's Dally. The Chinese giant is getting ready to stretch himself and take hold of a Big Stick with which to swat those who have been imposing upon him, is the opinion of Dr. Ng Poon Chew. who will lecture in the Hetrick this evening.

"We are getting 50 we believe in having a Big St. said Dr. speaking on behalf of his nation. "China has never been a military power, because the profession of a soldier was always looked down upon. "Now the government is trying to impress the 'young men of China with the idea that soldiering is honorable, so that it can get its best people interested in military affairs and members of its army.

"In the past." Dr. Ng explained, "it has always been our idea that to be a scholar was most honorable. Soldiering was looked down upon so that only our worst classes joined the army. This has kept us from carrying out any policy of He Was a Revolutionist. Dr.

Ng is the editor of a newspaper in San Francisco, but he registered from Canton, China. "I have not been in my native country for four years now," he said. He was in China during the revolution, in which he took an active part in changing the oldest mnonarchy in the world into the youngest republic. He was a member of the Democratic party in China- -the party that stands for giving the people of that country a greater degree of share in its government. Wants Republic Retained.

"I doubt whether. the change of the republic to a monarchy will be consummated." he declared. "The Democratic party is stronger than the imperialists imagine, in my opin- ion. "China is going through a period of transition which will be followed by one of construction," he declared. "It is easier to tear down than it is to build up, if you will permit me to use what your press terms a "The revolution was a tearing down process.

Since that time we," probably meaning the Democratic party of China, "have been trying to hold the country together under the new form of government SO that constructive work could be started. "I should hate to see China return to a monarchial form of Dr. Ng declared with emphasis. "China and Her Problems." His lecture will be one in those of the series provided by the lecture course. The subject will be "China and Her "I have taken my lectures to pieces," he explained.

"selecting other, what I considered the best and building them into a new address. It has to do with the questions that confront China, especially in relation to the changes that are being wrought in the affairs of the world by the European war." The doctor has a lively sense of. humor, which has caused him to be termed the "Chinese Mark Twain." He greeted a newspaper reporter as and it was not very long before he what he termed a "fellow sufferer," was asking questions about the population of the city, its school system and equipment, its industries and the like, so that the interviewer had to beat it to keep from being interviewed. WELCOME BOOSTERS SOUTHLAND SHOWS TRAVELERS TRUE HOSPITALITY. NASHVILLE GREETING WILL BE REMEMBERED BY A.

P. DUNCAN. On Board the Booster Special, Nashville, Jan. -However much of a reception any other city gives the Southeastern Kansans on this jaunt, none will be able to efface the memory of Nashville from their minds. Eight members of the associations of Nashville business men and manufacturers boarded the boosters' special nine miles out of the city.

They were not inside the vestibules until they were recognized as a bunch of honest-to-goodness, regular fellows. One just felt it. And the minute the special entered the yards every locomotive and factory whistle was opened wide. They blew and screeched and the din was fearful, but it was really external of a rousing personal reception awaiting the Southeast Kansas men at the railroad station, where several hundred business men and a band were ready with hearty greetings. The Nashville people went through the exhibit cars and then escorted their guests their five-story building containing their permanent tone exhibit of Nashville manufactured articles.

After the exhibits came a feed, a smoker and entertainment at a vaudeville theatre. Mayor Kerr of Independence presided for the Kansans and the speakers were "Tom" Wagstaff of Independence and A. E. Goldman of Pittsburg. Where Idea Started.

The reception at Nashville was merely another instance of a note the boosters have made: The cities that show the most cordiality in reception are themselves boosters. As a Nashville man said, it's reciprocity. Next month the Nashville association will take its thirteenth annual boosters' trip. In fact, they claim to be the originators of the idea. The boosters' arrival in Chattanooga, the city of battlefields and patent medicines, was not heraleded by noises like a German bombardment or a general fire alarm, the hour of ingress being 6 a.

m. But promptly at 7 o'clock, which is honestly early in a southern city, an enthusiastic committee from the allied commercial bodies was on hand with printed programs providing for every minute of six hours to be spent with them. The first visit was to the manufacturers' building, similar to that in Nashville. Then special cars on the street railway were in waiting to carry the visitors first to historic Lookout correctly "mountain," according to one of the genial colored guides -and later to Signal mountain, where General Grant maintained his headquarters. Lookout mountain is 2,500 feet above sea level and 1,750 feet above Chattanooga.

Its ascent is made in a cable car cut on the bias so one may remain in the seats. The maximum rise is sixty-eight feet in a horizonal distance of 100 feet, which is a grade of 68 per cent. Two per cent is a heavy grade on a railroad. From Lookout Point the boosters were shown Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga park. Southern Hospitality.

The boosters have learned that the traditional hospitality of the South is not a supersititon. If there ever were any doubts they are dispelled. The hospitality is a vivid reality. For welcoming publicity without a doubt Knoxville offered more than any booster special was ever offered before. The Sentinel got out a Southeastern Kansas extra and when the train pulled in at the station newsboys were on hand to give a free copy to every passenger.

The first page was devoted entirely to booster train dope, news about Southeast Kansas and the latest telegraph items from the "home towns." Surely it made some hit and within half an hour, boosters had mailed a bushel of them back to the home towns. The home edition contained a long first-page story about the boosters, including a photograph of the general-in-chief, George T. Guernsey, Jr. Knoxville is a -live city, of 000 inhabitants, including the manufacturing suburbs. The leading business men are members of the Board Commerce, organization which welcomed the boosters, visited the exhibit cars and gave a smoker.

Until the Knoxville reception Mr. Guernsey, chairman of the train committee, had evaded the speaking, Knoxville demanded a word from leader. The other but, Knoxville speakers were Mayor Kerr of Independence, Father Pompeney of Pittsburg and Frank Benefiel of Coffeyville. Visit Munition Factory. The thrill of the Knoxville stop, for several fortunate ones among the boosters, was a visit to munition factory.

It was the William J. Oliver Manufacturing Company's plant, which ordinarily makes locomotives, pile drivers, plows and the like. Now it is turning out 200 shells a day for the Russians and 200. a day for the Italians. They are 12-inch shells Russians and 6-inch shells for the Italians.

The contract, which is the only one landed by a southern factory, is worth something like $3,000,000. Partly because the factory yards were picketed by a large force of men, the Kansans were carried close to the big war. With Military Honors. Stops of thirty minutes each were made this afternoon at Cleveland, Athens, Sweetwater and Lenoir City, in Tennessee, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. The scheduled stops were too short at each place, SO great were the welcoming crowds.

The mayor of Athens met the train and accompanied the boosters from Chattanooga. The public schools in Athens closed for the occasion. At Sweetwater the boosters were received with military honors by a battalion of students from the Tennessee Military institute and its band. "Welcome to Kansas Boosters by Sweetwater, Best Town in Tennessee," said huge banner susthen pended across the street leading to the depot. At Mammoth Cave.

Tuesday the boosters spent four hours in Mammoth Cave, reputed to be one of the seven wonders of the world. For safety the party was divided into two squads with a guide in charge of each, and every second man carried a torch. The orders of the guide were for close order formation and, as the rules were obeyed, no one was lost. They say that 150 miles of the cave have been explored, but it was a big task for the boosters to take in five miles of it. The expedition included all the most interesting sights with the exception of (Continued on Page 4.) BOLD BANK ROBBERY FOUR BANDITS TOOK FROM 000 TO $15,000.

MADE ESCAPE IN UNNUMBERED AUTO Chicago, Jan. -Four robbers armed with revolvers entered the Washington Park National bank in East Sixty-third street today, threatened the lives of the cashier, clerks and twenty depositors and escaped with between $12,000 and $15,000. None of the depositors, who were fordered to stand facing a wall, was searched by the bandits, who gave their sole attention to the money in the teller's cage. After grabbing the money the robhers hastily backed to the door and escaped in an automobile. Policemen and detectives were summoned at once and the search for the bandits begun.

J. Garland Stahl, manager of the Boston Americans when that ball club won the world's championship in 1912, is vice-president of the Washington Park National bank. Stahl became connected with the bank on leaving the Boston team. Every detail of the robbery seemed carefully planned, according to Mr. Stahl, who was forced to main seated at his desk facing a revolver while one of the robbers entered the teller's cage and took the money from the drawer.

was sitting at my desk," said Mr. Stahl, "shortly before 9 o'clock when four men, their faces masked black and each carrying two revolvers, entered. There were about ten persons in line at, the cashier's wicket. Ten clerks, some of the bank officials and two stenographers were in the room. Three of the men threatened us with their weapons while the fourth entered the cage and took the money.

They then backed to the door and ran to an automobile. "The engine. of the car, a small four-passenger automobile with a 'License Applied For' sign on it, had not been stopped and they went down the street at about forty miles an hour. "They got more than $12,000." A. C.

Yockey Dies. A. C. Yockey, a pioneer: resident of Neosho county, died in Erie at noon Tuesday. The funeral services were held in Urbana, being conducted in the church there yesterday by Rev.

I. B. Prather, pastor of the United Brethren church of this city. Interment was in the Urbana cemetery. Mr.

Yockey was 68 years old. Death was caused by paralysis, from which he had suffered several years. He is survived by three childrentwo daughters and a son. The daughters live in Chanute. They are Mrs.

Cecil Logan and Mrs. George Sharp. The son, Schuyler Yockey, lives in Urbana. Mr. Yockey came to this county in 1882 from Iowa.

He was an earthwork contractor, doing much levee and railroad work in this vicinity. Part of the time he was in partnership with his brother, I. F. Yockey, a former sheriff of the county. He is survived by five brothers and two sisters.

Band Concert Sunday. The band will give a concert in the Hetrick Sunday afternoon. Announcement concerning the program will be made tomorrow or Saturday. The band has been rehearsing larly since its director, Thurlow Lieurance, returned from Kansas City, and will have some attractive 'numbers to present. NEW YORK'S ROAD PLAN W.

C. RICH, GUEST OF W. A. MOON, EXPLAINS IT. STATE STILL USING WATER-BOUND MACADAM From last Friday's Daily Walter C.

Rich of New York, who is here visiting his brother-in-law, W. A. Moon, road foreman of engines on the Southern Kansas division of the Santa Fe railroad, attended the good road sessions of the farmers' institute yesterday and gave much interesting information concerning the state road system in New York. A. R.

Losh, the state agricultural college speaker, asserted that the New York system is the most elaborate that has been devised. Mr. Rich was associated with the New York state highway commission for a time and is now in the road contracting business. He handles big jobs, one of his contracts being for $147,000. Still Using Macadam.

water says that macadam, there is a the return same to as has been laid in this vicinity, in New York, in spite of the fact that state has the distinction of expending at the rate of $880,000 a mile for roads. This was an exception though and only a quarter of a mile was built at this rate. It was a scenic line on a mountain near the Hudson river. Water-bound macadam was the first hard road material used in New York state, Mr. Rich says.

Then concrete and brick were taken up, and many miles of them have been laid. Now, though," he remarked, "there is a tendency to go back to water-bound Constant Maintenance. He explained, also, that provision is made for constant maintenance. This begins as soon as a road is laid. The system in most general use is what is called the patrol method.

A road is divided into sections six or ten miles long. A repair man is hired for each of these sections. He has a horse and a light wagon, and when he finds a place where the macadam is beginning to unravel, he fixes it right away. In addition to this, the macadam is oiled once or twice a year. Three Classes of Roads.

Under the New York system, Mr. Rich says, the roads are divided into three classes. The most important are the state roads. There are three of these crossing the state from east to west. These are connected by north and south roads, the entire system linking together all the the important towns in the state.

The expense of building and maintaining these roads is met by issuing bonds fifty years, the first issue being for $50,000,000. Then there is a system of what are termed county roads. The state pays 50 per cent of the cost of constructing these, the country through which they are laid 35 per cent and the towns with which they connect 15 per cent. There are also "town" roads, Mr. Rich explaining that "town" has a meaning similar to that of township in Kansas.

These are mostly of gravel. "The he says, 'is a system of roads built of material adapted to the traffic which each highway will have to carry. The highway commissioner is appointive, but the engineering department is under civil service rules. The cost of engineering is about 5 per cent of the amount expended for road making. "Erie county, in which Buffalo is located, was the pioneer in brick road making, and has a larger mileage of hard roads than any other county in the state.

"Under the New York plan, the cities bear the main burden of building the roads. New York City alone pays 85 per cent of the taxes collected in the state, and this money has gone to help give Erie county at the other end of the state more good roads than any other county in the Mr. Rich admits that there are some weak places in the New York method. For instance, he does not think sufficient allowance is made for maintenance. Ten per cent of the original investment is set aside for the purpose.

He thinks, though, that this will be worked out all right eventually. "I also doubt," he "whether it is right to issue 50-year bonds for work some of which will not last last that long. It looks to me as if it is making the people of the future pay for what those of the present enjoy." Wind Blew Furiously. The windstorm which unroofed a barn did other damage near Galesburg night before last hit Chanute a side swipe last Wednesday It blew furiously here for ten or fifteen minutes between 3 and 3:30 o'clock. The only damage, reported was to the Main building becupied by M.

J. Miller, where a plate glass window was blown in. The window had been cracked by the cold weather SO that it couldn't stand, get against up in the the gale. night Mr. and Miller come down town through the rain to board up the opening..