The Weekly News du lieu suivant : Kansas City, Kansas • 1

THE KANSAS CITY KANSAS NEWS. PEOPLE DEMAND LOWER TAXES AND VALUE RECEIVED FOR FRANCHISES. Continuation of VOL, 5. No. 53.

KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, MAY 3, 1901. $1.00 PER YEA The Wyandotte Chieftain. MK. DICK'S VIEWS. Public Ownership of Utilities Advocated by the Ohio Republican Chairman, Congressman Charles F.

Dick, chairman of the Ohio Republican state committee, declared himself in favor of government control of telephone and telegraph lines, in an address before the Presidential Postmasters' Association of Ohio last week. A All means of communication, he declared, should be under government supervision telegraphic and telephonic, as well as the mail system. This, he said, is certain to come. The United States finds that the surplus of its products must be disposed of in the markets of the world. It must not only protect, but aid its commercial interests, and in commerce it is an advantage that communication be not only swift, but inexpensive.

If a message can be sent by the government for 5 cents, then a private corporation must not, he declared, be permitted to charge and collect 25 cents for that service. The means of communication ought to be the government's monopoly and not that of a private corporation. It is barely possible that Congressman Dick took his "cue" from the attitude of both political parties toward the unjust privileges enjoyed by the corportions in this city, which were fully discussed during our recent municipal campaign. And if so, Kansas still leads. Mercantile 4 lub Doing Business.

The meeting of the Mercantile Club Monday night was regaled with prospects and promises. A letter was read from the Commercial Club of Kansas City, offering its influence in hasthe repairs on the James street viaduct. The Mercantile Club committee on union depot reported that it intended to wor kto accomplish the purpose for which it was appointed. Its work will probably be done with the railroads themselves, to induce them to build a depot in the neighborhood of the present one, and available for, both Kansas Citys. If the Commercial Club decides to urge upon the railroads the construction of a new depot on the present site or near it the Mercantile Club will work in conjunction with it.

G. W. Knapp suggested that the urge the building of a bridge across the Missouri at Quindaro, for the purpose of inducing the proposed Kansas CitySt. Joseph electric line to include Kansas City, Kansas, in the The suggestion was referred to the trade extension committee. President McAnany appointed W.

T. Atkinson chairman of the municipal legislation committee, to succeed Ken'neth Browne, resigned; and Harry Friedburg chairman of the entertainment committee, vice C. L. Brokaw, resigned. The entertainment committee intimated that it was arranging a programme for the benefit of the club members and their wives during the next few months.

One feature mentioned was a trip to Leavenworth over the electric line. Old Soldiers Are It. The old soldiers of Kansas can now have things their own way. The new law gives them the preference for all appointive positions in city, county and state. The law reads: In grateful recognition of the services, sacrifices and sufferings of persons who served in the army navy of the United States in the of the rebelanar lion and have been honorably disenarged therefrom, they shall be preferred for appointment to positions in every public department of the state and of the counties and towns of the state, over other persons of equal qualifications, and the person so preferred shall not be disqualified from holding such position on account of age or by reason of physical disabilities, providing such age' or disabilities do not render them incompetent to perform the public duties.

Any state, county or city officer or the members of any board composed of state, county or city officers, or any public board whatever, who shall willfully disobey the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanbe subject to impeachment and adjudged to have forfeited his office. This law will strike all second and third class cities at once. Under the law the mayor of a second or third class city must make all of his appointments at the first meeting of the council in May. This law will take effect just in time to catch the mayors of those towns this time. Under it the old soldiers are entitled to every office within the gift of the mayor, and if he fails to give all the offices to them they can have him impeached and removed from office.

It will also hit the new mayor of Topeka, whoever he may be. On account of the contest no appointments have been made there. They will be made next week some time. The old soldiers can claim every office, and get it, too, or cause the mayor a heap of trouble. DR.

QUAYLE TO COME JUNE 23. E. A. Hosier, chairman of the pulpit dist Church, Kansas City, Missouri, received word Tuesday from Dr. W.

A. Quayle, in Indianapolis, that he would come to Kansas City to take the pastorate of the Grand avenue church on Sunday, June 23. This will be three months and a half earlier than he had expected he would be able to obtain his release from the church in Indianapolis of which he is now pastor. It was with reluctance that his resignation was accepted and it was originally planned that he should remain in Indianapolis until fall. It is thought that the church has succeeded earlier than was anticipated in securing a successor.

Nicaragua has established a museum in Managua, the capital, for the public display of foreign products. Samples and articles for exhibition, free of cost, are solicited. HONORS FOR DR. C. B.

STEMEN. The Father of Three Kansas City, Physicians Now a Trustee of Purdue. Dr. B. Stemen of Fort Wayne, father of Dr.

C. M. Stemen, Dr. W. E.

Stemen and Dr. Katharine Hughes of Kansas City, Kansas, has been appointed on the board of trustees of Purdue university (Lafayette, to succeed ex-President Benjamin Harrison. Dr. Stemen is well known in Kansas City, Kansas, having made frequent visits here. He was graduated from Baldwin university at Berea, when a young man, and began life as a school teacher.

Later he attended the Cincinnati Medical college, and during his long and successful career he has been several eduprofessional, cational institutions. He time president of university, at. Upland, Indiana, and for several years he was dean of Fort Wayne Medical college. He was for many years chief surgeon of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne Chicago railroad. City Council Meeting.

At the council meeting Tuesday evening the Parker Paving company was awared the contract for paving Kansas avenue, from Argentine boulevard to Packard street, in Kansas City Kan. The only bid for the paving was by this company, a at $2.10 per square yard, but the mayor and city council agreed that the bid would have to be accepted. "The mayor's hands are tied in this said Mayor Craddock. "The statutes prescribe that the petition for paving give specific description of the materal to be used. Our only ion is in another statute, which says the engineer shall make an estimate of the cost of paving above which the bids can not go.

Alderman McFadden thought the statute might be construed to mean that the kind of paving, or brick or blocks or asphalt, was meant. City Counselor Pollock was asked for an ion, and said the specific material must be mentioned. "This takes the selection of the material out of the hands of the mayor and council," he said, "and puts it with property owners who petition for the pavement." The contract was awared to the ParkerWashington company, on motion of Pocock, seconded by Hagan. THE MAYOR'S INTERVIEW WITH TROUP. Mayor Craddock gave a report of his interview with Assessor D.

W. Troup. saying that the information he obtained was so trifling as to be of little value in determining wheather Mr. Troup was making a proper assessment of the large corporations or not. He suggested an ordinance, which was passed, requiring the assessor to report his findings of the valuation of corporations to the city council between March 1 and May 10 of each year.

If, from these reports, it appears that the assessor is not doing his full duty, the city counsellor is to file a complaint against him with the mayor, and he is to be tried by the council in accordance with the ordinance passed at the first meeting of the council. Assessor. Troup reported in writing that he had not yet made assessments on the large corporations named in the mayor's order, but that he had begun investigations in most of the cases. The council resolved to turn out in a body on Memorial day, in response to an invitation of Burnside post, G. A.

R. A motion to hire carriages for the councilmen was voted down, at the instance of Councilman McFadden. MAYOR ANNOUNCES COMMITTEES The mayor announced the committees among most important of which are the following: Auditing--Zane, Write, Miller. Finance--McFadden, Pocock, Phillips. Claims and accounts-Kampmeier, Rotert, Kopp.

Ordinances--Laughlin, Grubel, Hagan. Streets land grades-Kopp, Wright, Rotert, Gruble, Pocock, Laughlin, Sewers--McFadden, Phillips, Kempmeier, Zane, Hagan, Miler. Franchises- McFadden, Kopp. Wright. Measure, Mr.

J. W. Dobson assumed the duties of deputy warden at the penitentiary, May 1st. No better appointment has been made under the Stanley administration than Jim Dobson's. He is judicious and possesses the very best executive ability.

He has been a strong political factor in the 7th congressional district for years, and was entitled to much credit (which others gobbled), for Stanley's nomination the first time. Jim, we congratulate you. The Western Seminary. It should be a matter of interest to our people that the Western Theological Seminary of the eGneral Synod, temporarily located at Atchison, is likely to be moved, and that Kansas City is regarded as the most desirable place for its permanent location. The pastor and others in the city have been asked to look out a suitable site, and see what might be done in order to bring the institution to our city.

The Seminary is supported by the Board of Education of the General Synod, and would. materially strengthen the Lutheran forces here. It seems to us that it would be a wise move to put forth strenuous effort to induce those having the matter in hand to locate permanently in Kansas City. Accordingly, if you haev a site to nate, or a cash bonus to offer, or a building to rent for use for a year or two until suitable site can be secured and buildings erected, let us know and we will report to the proper committee. What you do, do quickly.

WILLIG IS CLAIM AGENT. Bob Bowling Becomes Detective Other Appointments. Two appointments of interest were announced Tuesday in this city. Fred Willig, a coal dealer, succeeds George Horstman as claim agent. Robert Bowling, son of Tom Bowling, an old time democrat, was given Richard Wilson's place on the detective force.

On the police force William D. Richardson succeeds F. J. Jennings; Ben Foster, negro, succeeds Sanford Brown, negro, and Alfred McElroy, a negro, succeeds F. P.

Kennedy, Bernice Gross, takes the place of Elias Tilman, negro, as bell boy at fire headquarters. The officers appointed by the new administration took charge of their deZimmer as and James E. partments Wednesday, morning, Henry Porter as street commissioner. Mr. Porter will have an office at Sixth street and Tauromee avenue, where the storage room of the street department is now located.

A New Hospital Building. State Architect W. E. Harris of this city has recently completed the plans and staked off the ground for a new hospital building on the asylum grounds at Osawatomie, Kansas. It is estimated that the building will cost about 000.

The contract will be let on the 7th of May. Work Delayed on Federal Building. Work on the new postoffice building has been temporarily delayed because the iron to be used in the flooring has not been supplied. The contract the iron of the first to be let, but on account of the heavy demand, the mills have been unable to fill the order. First 1 Blue Ribbon Sale.

The first Blue Ribbon sale of fine horses is now in progress in the Blue Ribbon Driving Park. at the west end of Minnesota avenue, Nearly three hundred horses are on the grounds for sale, and a large number of buyers from all parts of the country are here for the sole purpose of buying some of the many good ones. The Reception, A reception will be given to the new members and the church choir in the parlors of the church on Tuesday eevning, May 7th. The primary aim of this 'entertainment is acquaintance. The ladies will serev light refreshments free, and are desirous that all the members and friends of the church come out.

No written invitations will be issued but let everybody consider himself or herself specially invited. Judge Thomson Renominated. At the judicial convention for the 35th district held at Alma, Tuesday, Judge Wiliam Thomson was nominated for the fourth time, without opposition. The district is composed of Pattawatomie, Wabaunsee and Osage counties. Judge Thomson was appointed by Governor Humphreey in 1889, when the district was formed, and has held the office' continuously since that time.

He of the ablest jurists in Kansas. No New Postmaster at Present. Congressman J. D. Bowersock was in the city Wednesday afternoon circulating among the statesmen on Minnesota avenue, and the would-be postmasters.

Mr. Bowersock will make no recommendations for postmaster some time yet, and it may be several- months before he decides upon a man to manage "Uncle Sam's" postal affairs in the metropolis of Kansas. A Republican Measure. Alderman W. J.

Wright, Republican from the Fourth ward, during the latter part of March offered a resolution in the city council providing for the sale of the city's internal improvement bonds to the lowest responsible bidder. By virtue of this resolution, the new city council awarded the contract for the sale of these bonds to the local banks, they being the lowest bidder. This is a move in the right direction, and the new mayor and councilmen are entitled to their full share of credit in the matter. Death of Mrs. John Hennessy Mrs.

John Hennessy, 60 years old, died Tuesday afternoon of pneumonia, at. the family home, 1938 North Fourth street, after an illness of one week. She had lived in Kansas City, twelve years and was the mother of nine children, four of whom survive her. They are Mrs. 0.

H. Carter, Mrs. Margaret Raterman, John Hennessy, and Miss Margaret Hennessy. One daughter died only a week ago and another two months ago. The funeral of Mrs.

Hennessy was held yesterday morning at 8 o'clock at St. Mary's church. The body was taken to Leavenworth for burial. Marriage Market is Brisk. Probate Judge Snyder issued marriage licenses Tuesday, as follows: William E.

Tuggle, Kansas City, 21; Bessie Eads, Kansas City, 18. Benjamin Wright, Jaggard, 24; Tabitha Kirbey, Bonner Springs, 18. William T. Edwards, Kansas City, 25; Nellie V. Fry, Angolia, 21.

Oliver Phillips, Kansas City, 25; Ella Reyburn, Kansas City, 23. James Holliday, Kansas City, 65; Susan Washington, Kansas City, 49. Aaron Bramer, Rosedale, 23; Rose Doll, Rosedale, 23. John Valle, Kansas City, 28; Mary Kinech, Kansas City, 17. James F.

Nolad. Rosedale, 24; Rose Gaffney, Rosedale, 23. Miss Evalyn spent a few weeks at St. Joseph, Mo. She has returned home.

LOCAL NEWS. Annual oratorical contest of the high school pupils next Monday evening. The Blue Ribbon Driving Club will, as usual, give Saturday matinees during the summer. A reception was given by the nurses of Bethany Hospital the board of directors and medical staff last night. Mrs.

H. S. Leonard, who has been seriously ill for the past week, is reported better, with good prespects for recovery. Children's Day exercises are being planned for. Can we not make, it SO great a success as our Easter? Let us try.

Orchards are in good condition. The late spring held back the buds and saved the blossoms from danger of frost. The sale of Aberdeen cattle which closed Tuesday afternoon was fairly successful; 103 head being sold for $20,975, an average of $203. The Star waltz and Portsmouth Suttle were Century a prize dance Tuesday, night in Hall. Miss Tighe and Mr.

awarded the prizes. The Union Pacific will soon establish a depot at Manhattan, Kansas, for feeding. watering and resting many thousands of sheep before reaching this market. "Christina Rossetti" was the subject of an address by Rev. D.

Baines-Griffiths before the Tuesday Evening Club. He also gave admirable readings from her poems. Mr. Householder has been confined to his home for a few days with nasal hemorrhages. At this writing he is somewhat better, with assurances from the doctor that he will soon be all right again.

The drill of the Oratorio Society last Monday night in Convention Hall was a great success. The society had the pleasure of hearing Mrs. Van Valkenberg, the contralto soloist, who has been engaged for the May festival. Willis Neff, charged with robbing the mails, had his preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Earhart, Tuesday, and was bound over to the United States grand jury in the gum of $2,000. Rev.

Samuel Sparks, the colored preacher who was charged with impersonating a government officer and extorting pension fees, pleaded guilty. Judge Hook suspended judgment for further consideration. Mr. Baer spent the last week of April in New Orleans, looking after his interests there. He hopes that the final pull will be entirely in his faovr.

His friends trust that his fondest expectations may be more than realized. The payment of debts that have been hanging over the church for years and drawing a large per cent of interest, amounting in round numbers to $1,000, is a splendid record for the Ladies Society since January 1, 1901. A special note of thanks is due the ladies. Henry Zimmer, chief of police; J. E.

Porter, street commissioner; James O'Brien, captain of police: Robert McAlpine, city engineer, and other minor municipal officers appointed by Mayor Craddock, took the oath of office and entered upon the discharge of their new duties today. The fact that the pastor has been somewhat indisposed for a couple of weeks has interfered with his pastorial visits. But he has been told that these can well be omitted for a week or two just now. For the ladies do not wish Ito see callers during house-cleaning time. At.

the monthly Sunday-school conference held Wednesday evening, April 3rd, Mr. D. W. Witmer was chosen superintendent, and Mr. B.

F. Black. assistant. Then Mr. E.

E. Nelson was elected secretary to take the place vacated by Mr. Black. The offices are all filled again, Miss Rogers eading the music. Japanese Railroads, T.

Nagura of Tokio, the traffic auditor of the government railways in Japan, who has been examining the railroads of this country, is in Philadelphia. am he says, according to the Philadelphia Press, "that my country has a hard road to travel before she can even approach American ideas of comfort and speed in railway travel. I might add, also, that the same thing is true of other countries I have visited since I began my traevls. We began work in Japan. We built the first road with the narrow threefoot six- gauge, and we kept on building roads to suit that measure.

It is too expensive a matter now for us to change to the standard gauge, though I suppose we must make our minds to it some day. But we must order all our locomotives and equipment made narrow gauge, and it costs 11S more. Japan orders almost all her railway machinery from the United States. The orders to Baldwins and other firms increase each year. We build very few engines in Japan.

Labor is cheap there, but we have very little raw material. Old Boy's Club Meeting. The Old Boys' Lincoln Republican Club will meet in regular session next Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, May 6th, at the Fifth street Opera hous. There should be a full attendance at this meeting, as business of importance may come before the club. Story of a Coffin.

A poor widow in Koethen has been put in a quandary by a generous donor. He used to be a coffin manufacturer, and when he broke up his business he made her a present of a beautiful coffin. It was delivered, but the neighbors of the widow in the tenement house object to its presence. Now she will have to move, and she is short of funds. Nobody wants to the coffin, as the coffin manufacturer spoiled the market when sold his goods at auction.

The donor refuses to take his gift Tageblatt. Harrison's Two Fortunes. It is not generally known that on account of the opposition of his children to his second marriage--an opposition he acknowledged to have some justice in it--ex-President Harrison distributed his fortune among his children, retaining only his house and lot in Indianapolis. He then started out to make a second fortune and made one larger than his first, which he has now left solely to his second wife and child. The action was characteristic of the man and illustrates the stern stuff of which he was made.

-Chicago News. Yellow Shades for Windows. There is nothing like soft yellow in a window. It always suggests sunlight even on the gloomiest day. A celebrated wit making a tour of a lady's apartment.

and coming upon a bath room in which there was a window with yellow panes, said "I see you bathe in In dark bedrooms, therefore, or in windows only a few feet away from an opposite wall, yellow is strongly urged. When this cannot be done with drapery or when windows with leaded panes of yellow glass are not possible, resort may be had to varnish, mixed with a little raw sienna or the Venetian pink which gives a yellow. I know one window coming against a house some 12 feet away, which when so treated gave perfect privacy to the occupant of the room, besides adding an agreeable light. Even at night the window was Bazar. Arsenic in English Beer.

The English victims of arsenic poison in beer now number more than 115 dead and more than 1,000 ill, says Popular Science. The area affected is confined within a hundred-mile radius from Manchester, but the panic among beer-drinkers has spread almost throughout the whole country. It has been competely established that the cause of the poisoning is arsenic in the sulphuric acid used in the manufacture of glucose sugar which the English brewers employ in place of malt and hops in making cheap beer. The poison has thus far been traced to only one establishment, which supplied glucose sugar to several breweries in the midlands and the north. u1 SMOUS A uv eulos beers sold in saloons contain arsenic sufficient easily to kill any persistent drinker, as much as one-sixth of a grain being found in a pint.

The fact that arsenic is a cumulative poison makes it more dangerous. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. It's not very often you find a man's wife the bosom friend of the woman who thinks she has a mission to help him. A meal to a man means a piece of meat and a cigar; to a woman it means something new to talk about and a fluffy dessert. A man's letters to a girl never begin to be really dangerous till after he gets too far along to bother with quoting poetry in them.

It is the opinion of nine women out of ten that the average man believes he isn't getting everything that is coming to him unless he is leading a double life. It is much more likely that women are angels than it is that angels are women. Marriage is a great thing for a man; it makes him ashamed to talk about his small troubles. If the men got up a "'Fathers' Club" and talked nothing but baby-talk, all the women would believe they did nothing but drink cocktails. A woman can get engaged and have the wedding all talked over in less time than she can decide with another woman what is the best kind of canary seed.

It is easier for a woman to find a reason than it is for her to find a hairpin, and harder for a man to find any reason than it is for him to find her pocket. Affection is love with the lining worn out. There was never a hero who wasn't a hero-worshiper. The way out of an agreement is never the same way you got in. Two years after marriage, the banquet of love is cold, picked-up supper on the girl's afternoon out.

One of the things a girl will never forgive a man for is when he makes exactly the same quotation that she was intending to. The kind of a play that a girl never forgets is the one that had one scene in it that was so exciting that she broke her garter. -New York Press. ARTHUR J. LIND, M.

13th and Road. Tel. West 158. Office Over Smith's Store, Kansas City Kansas. WHY THIS IS A FREE COUNTRYWe Can Do Many Things Here We Could Not Do in Europe.

After all there seems be reasons for calling this country "free America," in fact, the only free country the sun shines on, as judged from the followfrom the Cincinnati Enquirer: As an American you have a perfect right to take as much water as you like cut of the sea and do whatever you choose wit it; but if you drew a tumblerful of sea water on a French beach you could be commanded to pour it back instantly, and you would have to obey. Should you attempt to carry any away you would be summoned and fined anything up to $20. The second offense would procure you a fine of $250 or more, and if you stole any French sea a third time you would find yourself in prison. This because salt is a government monopoly in France, and nobody but an official is allowed to draw sea water, for fear they might separate it and obtain the salt. The same laws govern Italy and Portugal.

You have a perfect right to open or shut your own windows whenever you like, but were you a Spaniard the local authorities have the power to order all your windows closed, and kept closed. after a certain time at night, or even altogether for a week on end. This is done in times of epidemic, to keep the disease from entering the houses, though it is more likely to shut sickness in than shut it out. An American may smoke what tobacco he pleases, but for a Frenchman there is only one kind of tobacco, and that is the kind his government makes. In France nobody else is allowed to make or sell tobacco, or to smoke any but, the government brand.

If he does he is fined. Nobody can dictate to you how long you may keep a dog if you have one in America, but if you were a Dane you would be compelled by law to kill your dog as soon as it was twelve years old. This law is enforced on humanitarian grounds, to prevent old dogs lingering on in suffering, but as there are of dogs that are quite spry at twelve, it is an arbitrary rule. An American's house is his castle. It always has been, and always will be.

but if you were a Frenchman, every now and then a police inspector would come and examine all the stoves and fire places in your rooms, to see if they were safe. and "drew" properly. If they did not would order you to have them altered. and be quick about it, and a delay would procure you a fine of $60. The police haev no need of a warrant to enter a house outside of America, and exercise their powers as much as they please.

When you have bought a railway ticket, paid for it and your train is waiting for you, you may get in. But if you were a German Saxony, would be hauled off Thor footboard you by the scuff of the neck if you attempted to get in before the guard himself, as roughly as he pleased--and heaven help you if you for he a government official, you would proteested, have been arrested and fined. The railways belong to the state, and are answerable to man, and nobody ever thinks of disputing with a servant of the government. Historic Senate Desks, The desks of the senate are all more or less sacred from use, but no sort of tradition attaches to the desks of the house of representatives, SO far is known to the present employes. secret mark is kept on all the senate desks, so that the holder of the list can tell which desk was used by Webster, or Clay, or Conkling, or Logan, or any of the men who have made names for themselves in that body, says the Washington correspondent of 'The New York Times.

But the desks of the house are liked by the men who have used them for one session, and some of these admirers of furniture sanctified by their use are to have a chance to own their desks. According to the plan arranged for an enlarged membership in the fifty -eighth congress, the desks are to be smaller, and the old ones are to be sold. It was announced that the sale would be by auction, but that members desiring to buy their desks at cost or appraised valuation might secure them by applying in time to the clerk of the house. The desire to possess the old desks is almost unanimous, for the clerk has received some 300 notifications of a desire on the part of old members to own A desk. It does not appear that the desks used by Reed, Dingley, Holman, Wilson, Breckenridge, Bryan, Sulzer, or Lentz were marked by any secret sign known only to the clerk, or that there has been any request for desks used by such men as Ben Butler, A.

H. Stephens, Garfield, Cox, Proctor Knott. Thaddeus Stevens or Henry Clay, although it is asserted that they 111- doubtedly are among the desks recently used in the house. The number of desks in the house has been SO much greater than that in the senate, and members of the house are SO apt to change their desks with successive segsions, that it is difficult track of those made interesting by the temporary use of prominent men. They are all made of mahogany, but are not specially commodious or elegant.

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