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jfy I i i i Tl VOLUME XXIV ELDORADO, BUTLER COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1906 NUMBER 0QOOOOOGOOGO3OOO000OQ3O00C A MAN WHO CAN'T BE BLUFFED WICHITA AND LEAVENWORTH ALSO LP AGAINST IT NATURAL GAS COMPANY TO PUT IN NEW PLANT 8 ARE NOT HERE 00CO3COOOOOCOCOCOOCOOOQ00O LaFoIIette Has Shown What One Courageous Senator Can Accomplish. USTER SUITS WERE FILED H. Howard Herpst, auditor of the in the Supreme Court by Attor Wichita Natural Gas Company and the Western Distributing Company, ney General Coleman Thurs and Bert Stephens, of the same com MORLEDGE. W. H.

Morledge, aged S3 years, died Tuesday mornicg, November 20, at his home in Sycamore township, the cause of his death was old age. He was a member of the I. O. O. F.

lodge and an old settler of Sycamore. The funeral was held from the Methodist church in Cassoday, Wednesday November 21 at 12 o'clock. ooosoooooocxxxxxxsoooc OOOO 3 LOVE LINKED WAY-BARE At the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. F. B.

Oliver, on Wednesday, November 20, Miss Mamie Way and Oliver D. Bare, of Douglass, were married, Rev. Markham officiating. The wedding was witnessed by only a few near relatives. The groom recently moved to Douglass from Marion, and is a son of David Bare of that city.

The young couple received numerous presents and congratulations. They have commenced housekeeping in the northern part of Douglass. panies were in the city today looking under consideration. LaFollette's "unfinished business" the bill to limit the hours of railway trainmen, etc became the regular order Scott of West Virginia, manager of the "pork barrel" asked LaFoIIette to let his bill wait. "I demand the regular order," was the calm and firm announcement of La Follette.

A delegation non-partisan propoz-k delegation hurried over to LaFollette's desk and began to gesticulate His face was like a mask. Hale saw that the raid must be repelled at any cost, and he sounded forces to arms. "Very well," he declared, "then I will move to lay aside the unfinished businss, and we will have a roll call on that." after business for the company. Thev say the company will put in an entire From Collier's Weekly. During his first four months in the United States Senate Robert M.

LaFoIIette exposed and stopped the sale and leasing of coal and asphalt lands in Indian Territory. He led the fight which kept the records open until there can be a full investigation of alleged grafts in Indian Territory. He delivered the most exhaustive speech that was made on the railway day evening against Mayor Finiay Ross of Wichita, against Mayor Peter Everhardy of Leavenworth and against the municipalities of Wichita and Leavenworth and all their officers which means that Wichita and Leavenworth saloon keepers must quit new plant here also a reducing station Three car loads of pipe are here now and the balance is on tha road. They expect to commence work in fifteen to twenty days and say they can put in the plant complete in two or three weeks, with the force of men they will This was steel against steel, and rate bill. He forced the passage of an employers liability act.

He forced the passage of a resolution authorizing interstate commerce commission to investigate railway and elevator com SN'IVELEY S. S. Harsh and Mrs. J. B.

Parsons, of Sycamore township, received a telegram today announcing the death of their sister, Mrs. Katberine Snively, at her home in Canton, Ohio. They leave tomorrow to attend the funeral. Mrs. Snively spent a year with her brother and sister.

Mr. Snively, of Canton, Ohio, is a brother of G. W. Snively, of Sycamore Springs. business.

Both cities will spend large sums of money fighting these suits and in the end whiskey will continue to be sold as aforetime. Leastwise that ha3 always happened before. LaFoIIette parried. use. "Of coure, my bill merely affects A.

P. Ingram and Bert Stephens will the public safety," said LaFoIIette HRAXDOX-I5ASKETT At the residence of Rev. Hinshaw, at Mulvane, on Saturday, November 27, Miss Dessie Brandon and N. Baskett, both of Douglass were married. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs.

Mary Brandon, of Douglass, a graduate of the Mulvane schools, have charge of the company's business with gentle sarcasm. "I know it here and expect to open an office next Our old time friend G. W. Snively who has lived in Sycamore township since the spring of 1870, has 960 acres week. Mr.

Herpst says there remains only about twenty miles of the main line OTTAWA A FINE TOWN A FACTORY WORTH WHILE to bs completed between Rose Hill and Atlanta and that a big force of men is would be voted down as against a bill of the character of the one under consideration." LaFoIIette is demonstrating what has long been a matter admitted in theory that one man may be a host in the Senate: if only he be willing to pay the price, and to play the game. It is a bold game. But he has plucked the tail feathers from several magnificent gentleman. The game is still young. His enemies will remember.

But the people will not forget. panies for the purpose of discovering whether a combination exists between them bv which the farmer is robbed. He forced the Senate to consider his resolution reducing the hours of labor on railroads in the interest of public safety. He introduced bills providing for the block system on all railways of the country. 5- enator LaFoIIette is a true embodiment of the popular spirit of disap proval which has been aroused against the body of which he is a new member.

He hangs on the flanks of his col working on each end of the line. It looks like jm Dorado will be Uoing natural gas about January 1. "VTTAWA, Franklin county, is of the best towns in the state, besides one of the most prosperous. They have a Woven Fence Company that makes all kinds of wire fence for Kansas people. This Factory receive plain wire from the Pueblo Mills bj the train load, which is converted into fences of every description, from the plainest barb wire to the most ornamental and useful garden fences.

District Court Notes. THURSDAY A. Walters vsE. J. Hewitt, damage, plaintiff was given leave to file an amended bill of particulars upon pay of well improved land in that township andis still farming it himself, who is quite well to do, happy and contented wa3 in to see us Thursday and renewed his subscription also for two other copies of this paper he if sending to relatives, just as he has been doing for years.

Mr. and Mrs. Snively are among the best people in the county. Mrs. Clara Allison of Hopedale, Ohio, their daughter, who is here visiting, accompanied Mr.

Snively to town. Fred Betts, who has quit railroading for good, nas moved with wife and son to the John Betts farm on West Branch. In the meantime the ex-railroader in putting in a portion of his time killing rabbits and other game. He says there is no money in working and an excellent young lady. Her father, the late Nathan Brandon, died some years ago; but was an early settler in this county.

The groom is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Basket, and is an energetic and respected young man. The young couple have been acquaintances from childhood.

Jefferson J. Dudley, son of Mrs. E. Owens, of this city, is attending Draughons College Kansas City, Mo. The young man is 19 years old, has been making his own way for several years, saved his money and is using it to secure an education.

He worked for R. H. Hazlett here for nearly two years. Such young men are to be commended and helped along whenever the opportunity presents itself. ment of costs made at this term of FROM FRIDAY'S DAILY George D.

Campbell went to Cedar Point, this morning. Samuel Dowse has returned from a trip to Western Kansas. Death no longer rides a "pale horse," preferring an auto instead. Mrs. Olive Sullivan, of Towanda, is They make bull strong, horse night leagues and watches for opportunities to raid.

He surprises the enemy and watches them in awkward situations. This is what happened in the case of the employers' liability bill. The senatorial army was sweating through the narrow and dangerous defile of and pig tight fencing by the mile and sell it to the ends of the earth. It is one of the greatest manufacturing con the five-minute-rule debate on the cerns in the state. railway rate bill when LaFoIIette on a salary of $05 a month and sup flashed upon the flanks and offered court in said case and the case was passed to March term.

Samuel Waldorf vs J. L. Foster et al, suit to enforce contract is now on trial. Attorney N. A.

Yeager of Augusta was attending court, Thursday. Information was filed Wednesday against Guy Hash, for disturbing the peace. FRIDAY. C. H.

Dean vs Whitewater Milling and Elevator damage, verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $1000. Samuel Waldorf vs J. L. Foster et suit to enforce contract, dismissed REAL POSSUM STORY porting a family, and he prefers farm the liability bill as an amendment. It MAY HOLD YOU A MINUTE ing anyhow.

was germane, in order, and it had been knocking for consideration for The average man who keeps clean inside and outside, who looks at the Of course everybody likes possum. exactlv twentv years. The eves of the here visiting her sister, Mrs. L. D.

Miller. Imported Macaroni, jumbo sweet oranges and fancy fruits at Wack-erle's. 197tf. Mrs. C.

O. Ball, of Coffeyville, is here visiting her mother, Mrs. A. Hardie. Master Howard Ramsey has returned to DeGraff after visiting Master Tom Ewing.

Born, Friday, November 23, to Mr. flower and not the dust, who reads the country were on the Senate chamber, An industrious farmer boy, who is also a mighty hunter, brought his daddy LaFoIIette demanded a roll-call Bible and loves his wife and family is the best citizen. He is worth more to vote. He said he would not argue a fat young possum from the farm-Saturday, for Thanksgiving. Daddy Our esteemed farmer friend, Fred Betts, who used to go fishing with us to catch the fish and keep us from falling into the creek, gives us three young rabbits for our Sunday dinner.

What is nicer eating than a youag rabbit? H. H. Tucker of Douglass was on the Kansas City market, Friday with two carloads of cattle, which brought an average of 25. Ed Doornbos of Douglass was also on the market with two cars of cattle, which brought an average of $5 05. He wanted only a vote.

Thev could without prejudice. thanked tha son for his thoughfulness, the community than the individual who has a mansion and a library and stocks and bonds and, inside, the satac of stlfishness. I. N. Pennington vs C.

S. Martin, but no sooner had the son turned the suit on note, dismissed with prejudice. corner than daddy carried the possum vote for or against it as they pleased, but vote they would or they should not advance another step. Aldrich, Elkins and Kean (members of the interstate commerce committee, and Mrs. Issaac Cable of Fairview Aus Bales vs I.

J. Gililand, recover to a neighbor, who greatly loves bak township, a baby girl. of money, dismissed without prejudice. E. A.

Abbott vs Emma Abbott, of ed possum. The neighbor was profuse in his thanks. Prairie hay is selling at 112 to $15 where the bill was being smothered Augusta, divorce granted. a ton retail, in Kansas City, while But when daddy had gone the neigh grabbed a white flag and rushed out Phineas Osborn vs K. M.

corn is from 45c to 50j a bushel. Ry. appeal from Ry. set Mrs. Joseph Tack of Wichita has Since the announcement was made that the United States has become an hundred-billion dollar country in wealth, a ready calculator says that this amount in dollar bills would reach to the moon and back.

But this is nothing to the moonshine comparison a greenbacker could get up. Two hundred and fifty rabbits is counted a fair day's vork for a neigh tied out of court. gone to St. Joseph, and Atchi son for a ten days' visit and will vis H. A.

J. Coppins vs F. S. Green et al, suit to recovery on contract, is on it her many friends here on her re trial. turn home.

to make terms. They promised anything. Withdraw the amendment, and they would report the liability bill next Friday any old time Their promises were recorded in the Record, and LaFoIIette had won his fight. The twenty years' campaign was ended, and a bill hardly less important than the rate bill had been added to the national statutes. Again in the closing hours of the session LaFoIIette fell on the cohorts xae meaty Mutual Liife Ins.

Co. vs A man on the street told us this E. R. Horine, al. recovery of bond, The state University at Lawrence is not a rich man's school.

It is shown that fifty-six per cent of the pupils in attendance are either partially or wholly self-supporting, while an hundred boys and girls earn their expenses while attending the school. About fifty friends of Thomas Lew-ellen gave him a surprise party, Friday evening at his home in Chelsea, the occasion being his twenty-first birthday. The evening was spent very pleasantly playing various games, after which an oyster supper was served. morning that we do not practice what dismissed as to John MaeRitchie and we preach. Weli, does anybody? We bor gave the possum to an old codger who was carrying wood into the neigh-bors cellar.

The old codger told him he liked possum, especially if it was roasted with sweet potatoes. And. would you believe it, about this time came along a colored boy with the neghbors family wash, so the old codger handed the fat young possura to the colored boy, who was delighted over the prospect of a possum bake. Everybody likes possum, you know. When the colored boy arrived home he remarked to himself that he "wasn't goin' to clean nobody's old possum," so he gave it to his dog, who took a sniff at it and went off and laid down on the back porch.

In the Mrs. M. S. Ball and judgment rend try to do about the righ thing but ered against Horine for $537. miserably fail every hour of the day All of the jury cases have been borhood in the buffalo chipless desert.

The Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. As they don't have much to eat out on the plains the Lord sends them rabbits in plenty with many boys to catch them. We have secured the agency for Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new laxative that makes the liver lively, or course you cannot have a satis of the regulars. He demanded consider tried and as soon as the Coppins vs Green jury comes in, all the jurymen factory Thanksgiving dinner without ation for the bill to limit the hours of a turkey, oysters, fish, game, celery or will be dismissed. railway employees.

In the conges choice meats of some kind. Nicode- Attorney N. A. Yeager of Augusta. mus market is the place to get what tion of business, when little could go forward without unanimous consent, W.

E. Barnhart of Kansas City and purifies the breath, cures headache you want. A. M. Denny of Wichita, Rieht of and Regulates the digestive organs Way men for the Orient, Attorney meantime tha possum which was alive The old codgers, who spend these days in the old codgers' club room Cures chronic constipation.

Ask us A school marm may be a fine teacher, but may not be suited to the school she is teaching. She may be a But that is not the case in this county this year. Our school teachers are all getting on fine and are conducting successful schools. John Eaton of Kansas City, John Mc crawled under the house. He is there about it.

Sold by all druggists. seem to be getting the most out of life. Ritchie of Glencoe, Rev. L. L.

Mor- yet. iney nave oomiortaoie quarters ana ony of Iola, Ray Tarmin of Augusta The stone arch bridge over West lots of good society while something is and Frank Green of Wichita, former HOME TALENT "SNAPSHOTS" STRIKES THE SPOT The only trouble is they are not being ly of Fairview township were attend doing every hour of the day. This paper received two new sub ing court, Friday. Branch on North Main street, which has two arches, 44 feet each, will be completed in a month provided the weather is good, says Councilman Mercer. Joseph Sharp has the contract for the work.

paid enough. A new way of paying your sub SATURDAY. he stationed himself in the middle of the legislative road and drew his oratorical sword. he demanded. "Vote to take up this bill and make it unfinished business Otherwise I obstruct." The senatorial army halted.

There were nine roll calls. Each new call on the motion showed the absence of a quorum; but each call for a quorum showed a quorum present. What did this mean? Simply that senators were skulking. They were failing to respond to their names when the roll was called, for the reason that thev did not dare vote against scribers after supper last night and two "Snapshots" for the Episcopal ben The eight damage cases against the before late breakfast this morning, scription: a subscriber writes on a Frisco railroad, were continued. while it added two more to the list piece of paper the newspaper address, efit, witnessed by three hundred and thirty people in the parquet and two deep in the gallery of Ellet's opera J.

R. Griffith vs Augusta Oil, Gas, before noon. People all over the land Mining and Prospecting Company, seem to like this square deal organ signing his name and pasting it on one side of a dollar, on the other side he puts the postage stamp and that suit to recover money, continued by house, Friday night, was brilliantly successful, a veritiable home runner. The one who can smile and look People would not make such a kick on three cents a mile railway fare if the roads got their passenger trains in on time. A little snow should not make every railway train in the state from one to ten hours late.

agreement. pleasant when everything goes crook The cast comprised forty "up and H. A. J. Coppins vs F.

S. Green, et ed, is a saint; and we have observed doing" El Dorado matrons, girls and al, suit to recover on contract, judg boys. that the older one get the quicker we flies off the handle. So it must be settled it. Comrade Greenup Merger leaves next "ck for Kentucky to spent a few weeks eating corn pone, sweet potatoes, persimmons, nuts of all kinds, waoing around in the "mountain dev'' and visiting the girls.

That they are not indifferent actors ment for plaintiff in the sum of $115 and defendant, J. F. Glendenning, $50 against the defendants, Green and the motion of LaFoIIette and their affiliations with the railway and other vested interests were such that they did not dare vote for the motion. concluded that old people are not all was evident in every line of their live- saints. perfectly rehearsed, laughable Tarman.

The Avon Club will attack the Baconian theory by discussing the following: ''Resolved, that if Shakespeare did cot write his works, they were written by another person by the same name." There sat Burrows, of Michigan, and production which captivated the spec Court adjourned until Friday, No never peeped. There was the good tators and elicited at every turn the vember 30. Mr. Lodge disappearing into the oud and hearty applause of a well A Dynamometer pleased crowd. cloak room when the Ls were reached.

There were a dozen senators pretend attached to the A special car was Harry Brickley of the Little Walnut country, was a caller today. S. S. Brickley settled in Rosalia township alocg in 1375. They had four boys, Harry being one of them, and three girls, who with them went through the sorghum and sod corn struggle in the pioneer days and we are glad they stayed.

They have all Miss Kathleen Weller, manager and Santa Fe passenger train engtne ing that the issue was a partisan one, and taking refuge in the plea that A Butler county school teacher asked one of her boys to give a definition of "dry dock." His nearest guess was that a "dry dock" was a doctor going after a drink. The following question will be up for discussion at the next meeting of tie Forest Hill Debating Society: Revived i "That the best looking girl la town is married." Thursday morning, which contained a dynamometer, an instrument that they were "paired" with an absent colleague. Loy D. Chaney, aged 20 and Miss Ursula G. Gale, 20, both of Murdock township and Albert C.

HarraL and Miss Iva Elizabeth Elliot, both of Little Walnut township are licensed to wed. A Marshall county school boy broke out last Saturday morning and husk registers the strength of the draw bar 11 3 J3 1 But LaFoIIette held the pass, and uuue weii a.uu ie tuuuieu among me pull of the engine, amount of water and coal used by the engine, the ton director, who is unmistakably gifted in thi3 line, is everywhere congratula-ed upon the good result of her hard work and worry, which is inevitably entailed in staging a play. All did so well and each appeared so handsome, that we would be glad to give each a personal write up, but space forbids. The gross receipts were $157.76. most prosperous people as well a3 our best citizens.

refused to be moved. They gathered round his desk and fed him with nage it pulls, the speed of the tram, i also the per cent of grade over which ed fifty bushels of corn before dark the train travels. and had time to study his Sunday The New York story that Rockefeller lost 40 million collars in one day, by the decline in price of Standard Oil stock is doubtless not true. It is a very expensive and delicate school lesson before bed time. nstrument, belongs to the Interna There is a matrimonhl affair that tiona! Correspondence School and honeyed words.

They breathed of dire consequences if he persisted. But it was of no use. Finally Hale arose and announced surrender. He told his colleagues who were skulking behind "pairs" to come out and vote. A third time LaFoIIette fell upon th-enemy.

On this occasion the senatorial soldiers were gathered together in a quiet place for a division of the loot. The public building bill, otherwise known as the "pork barrel," was It is not unlawful to take a gun and some bait and go hunting, but you must be careful what you kill. Some things you can kill, while killing other things is unlawful. The county attorney can tell you all about it. "How dear to our hearts is the steady subscriber, who pay3 in advance at the first of each year." William Price, whose misfortune it was.

to be detained at home the past week with the grip, drove down town this afternoon, with his wife, unable to resist the allurement of the sunshine. He made this office the first move, and paid for "time to come" on his Daily and the Weekly sent his daughter, Mrs. Philip Eastman of Topeka. none of you know anything about and will not know anything about until it happens. Mr.

and Mrs. Irvin Mclnitre of Burns visited his sister, Mrs. Louise five representatives of that school make the experiments for the railroads. Trainmaster J. C.

Shaffer of this division was with the car and showed a representative of this paper the instrument. A really old-fashioned country boy scorns over shoes and rubbers; he merely greases bis boots when it suows. The very latest complaint is that the ears of corn are all too long and too big to go through the 6heller. Ralston pancake flour, Binford's. McDowell, Sunday, returning home today.

Logans are selling lots of goods. Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Hoyt left Sunday for a two weeks' visit vhh hi parents in Bellevrie, Ohio. Ralston's health flour, Binford's.