Chariton Courier from Keytesville, Missouri • Page 4

OHARIT0N COURIER C. P. VANOIVER, ED. AND PROP. KEYTE.SUILLE:.

MISSOURI. intered at the Post-office at Keytesville, as second-class matter. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authoiized toannonnce T. li.

K. EWINU as a candidate for clerk and ex-officio assessor of Keytesville towwship, subject to the decision of the townsnip election Tuesuay, March 31, 1903. We are authorized to an nounce J. ELLIOTT MARTIN as a candidate for Clerk and ex-Offlcio Assassor of Keytesville township, subject to the decision of the township election Tuesday, March 31, 1903. We are authorized to announce fe.

F. McNEW as a candidate for Clerk and ex-Offlcio Assessor of Keytesville township, subject to she decision sf the township election Tuesday, March 31, 1903. We are authorized to announce J. F. JOHNSON as a candidate for Clerk andex-offlcio Assessor of Keytesville township, subject to the action of the township election Tuesday, March 31, 803.

CONSTABLE. We are authorized to announce J. C. PHILLIPS. as a candidate for Constable of Keytesville township, subject to the decision of the township election Tuesday, March 31, 1903.

We are authorized to announce B. F.JOHNSON as a candidate for Constable of Keytesville township, subject to me decision oi me township election Tuesday, March 31, ,1903. COLLECTOR. We are authorized to announce A. S.WILKS.

as a candidate for Collector of Keytesville township, subject to the decision of the town shipeiection Tuesday, March 3i, 1903. COLLECTOR. We are authorized to announce THOS. TULLY as a candidate for Collector of Keytesville township, subject to the decision of the town ship election Tuesday, March 31, 1903. We are authorized to announce J.

W. ROBERTSON as a candidate for Collector of Keytesville township, sobject to the decision or the town' snip election Tuesday, Marcn in. JUSTICE OP THE PEACE AND MEMBER OF THE TOWNSHIP BOARD- We are authorized to announce D. H. HANCOCK as as a candidate for Justice of the Peace and Member of the Township Board of Keytesville township, subject to the decision oi me township election Tuesday, March 31, 1903.

are authorized to announce W. P. JARED as a candidate for Justice of the Peace and Member of the Township Board of Keytesville township-subject to the lecision of the town-Bhip election Tuesday. March 31, 1903. We are authorized to announce II A.

WHEELER as a candidate for Justice of the Peace and Member of the Township Board of Keytesville township, subject to the decision of the township election to -be held Tuesday March 31, 19fo TRUSTEE. We ere authorized to announce A. D. HURT, Jr. as a candidate for Trustee of Keytesville township, subject to the decision of the township election Tuesday, March 31, 1SK.

We are authorized to announce as a candidate for Trustee of Keytesville xl II myjix township, subject to the decision of the, town ship election Tuesday March 31, 1903. We are authorized to announce L- C. WELLS, as a candidate for Trustea ol Keytesvilie township, subject to the action of the township election Tuesday, March 31, 1903. ROAD OVERSEER. We are authorized to announce D.

E. JOHNSON as a candidate for Road Overseer of Dis- trict No 3 of Keytesville township, subject to the decision ot the township election to I beheld Tuesday, March 31, 1903. COUXTT SCHOOL COMMISSIONER We are authorized to announce W. P. NOEL as a candidate for County School Commis-dnnpr nf Chariton Countv.

subject to the de cision of the anneal school election to be-held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April, 1903. We are authorized to announce W. DRACE as a candidate for County School Commis- sinner of Charison County, subject to the de- decision of the annual school election to be held the first Tuesdayaf ter the first Monday in April, 1903. We are authorized to announce J. W.

TAYLOR as a candidate for County School Commission er of Chariton County, subject to the decision of the annual school election to be held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April, Senator Quay is the IT of the United States senate The Hon. "Gas" Addieks is still gassing in Delaware. Mark Hanna has at last made his mark -with the ex-slaves. The Kansas legislature 300 door-keepers to look after three or four doors. There is very good ground for the belief that the critical stage of the Venezuelan imbroglio has passed.

If public sentiment means any fhino-thH trusts had better 2 slow. The people are mighty when aroused. An effort is being made tp give Alaska a territorial form of government. Alaska has been too long neglected. A Chicago embilmer was recently asked as to the nature of his business.

He replied that he "followed the medical profes The lower house of the Oregon legislature has just adopted a memorial favoring the election of United States senators by-people. the Carrie! Nation says she is a lineal descendant of Alexander Campbell, Duke of Argyle. The poor duke never knew what he missed. The strongest fleet ever assembled in American waters is within two days of the Venezuelan coast, and that fleet flies the American flag. A number of Frenchmen are going to South Africa to marry the Boer widows and orphans to prevent an extinction of the race How touching! According to the Hartford Post, one way to make the average woman admire your judgment is to tell her she has a stately bearing.

The sultan of Morocco has purchased an automobile and his fanatical subjects are so incensed they are seeking to drive him from the country. The proportion of homes own ed in the western states is far greater in proportion to population than in any other section of the country. The Boxer spirit in China is re viving and there are indications that a general uprising will soon occur. That old dowager empress is very much alive. Hillsboro, Texas, ministers have decided not to marry people in buggies or on horseback.

Why not have an eye to the "needful" and double the fee? It would be entirely safe for Tillman to attack Miss Clara Barton of the Red Cross society. Under the rules of that organization she must be a non-com batant. Ppesident Roosevelt declares that he will call an extra session of congress unless something is done by the present congress in the Cuban matter and trust legislation. The brazen effrontery of John D. Rockefeller is just an added CQ jn the wheel that will finally place the election or united States senators in the hands Of the people.

Capt. Richmond P. Hobson, the kissable hero of the Merri- mac, has resigned from the navy and the thunder of his guns will hereafter be heard from the lecture platform. Some of the pension sharks are already working the former slaves to the tune of a dollar a piece on the ground of influencing congress to pass that silly bill of Senator Hanna's. Cole Younger seems to be right in it since his release from the Minnesota legislature.

The Kansas City World is said to have offered him a position on its editorial staff at a large sal ary. Senator Cullom does we.l to call a halt on legislation grant- ing the American officials, the right to accept titles and deco- rations from European poten- tates. We want no flunkyism in this country. It is more than possible that within half a eentuary of the maintainanceof the Monro doc- tnnethe greater part or central ana South America, will come under the sovereignty or the United Skates. Three Chicago politicians went to Milwaukee a few days ago on a junketing expedition afrer light on the municipal question.

They were promptly clapped in jail by the Milwaukee police on suspicion of being crooks. John D. Rockefeller has entered a new field of operations. He has become a stockholder in a New York hotel exclusively for women. It may only be a question of time when he will organize a woman trust.

A Montana legislator has introduced a bill in the general as sembly fixing a scale of charges to be made by physicians. The bill should also provide that in case the patient dies the money should be returned to him. The triple alliance will kindly take notice that there are about eleven million men capable of bearing arms in defense of the united otates. we also nave a few ships that are. still capable of doing a little business in an emergency.

The legislature is at work af ter a fashion, but it does seem to us not to be the kind of work that brings speedy or valuable legis lation. There is too much wrang ling over trival matters which is characteristic of statesmen of small caliber. The mechanism of exchange in the Philippines has been thrown into complete disorder by the fall of the price of silver, and it is imperative that congress relieve the situation by establishing an amended monetary system with out unnecessary delay. The farmers of the Northwest will certainly share their sup plies with the starving people of Sweden if a special food collect ing train is sent out from Chicago. There are no liberal-minded people on earth than these same farmers of the We must have an expansion of the American navy equal to prob able demands in upholding by force both the Monroe doctrine and the isthmian canal.

There sponsibilittes of the Unitied States are increasing: and it will be in- excusable folly if its effective ar mament is not increased in the same proportion. Here's a good one. Emperor William of Germany wanted to thrash President Castro because he wouldn't pay his debts. And a. it now leaks out that the Em peror himselt borrowed over 100,000,000 marks from Krupp the great gun-maker.

He hasn't paid it back, and Krupp's estate is nearly bankrupted. The addition of the department of commerce and industry to the cabinet is a step in the right di- rection, and the appointment the Hon. Geprge B. Cortelyou to be the secretary gives genera satisfaction. It is to be hoped that in the discharge of his new duties Mr.

Cortelyou will be able to do something in the way curbiner the power of the trusts tj a The Rev. Thomas Dixon Cleveland, Ohio, predicts a race war in this country which, he savs. is as sure to come as the sun is to rise and set. On one side will be the Anglo-Saxon race and on the other the negi people. He says the colored man as a slave was all right, and he is all right as a laborer, bu as an educated man he is a monstrosity.

There is some hope for the American millionaires after all. The salvation army has heretofore let ihia species of two-legged animals severely alone, possibly considering them beyond redemption. But now -the wori goes, from General Booth that in the near future he and his army will make a desperate "effort to arrest the downward course of the meek and lowly gentlemen of shekels. A Chicago jury in a recent murder case began deliberation with a prayer for guidance and ight to reach a just and impar tial verdict. Such a mode of procedure may be foreign to the average diplomat, yet Minister Bowen might employ similar means to advantage by lassoing: the British and German am bassadors and forcing: them to heir knees for a few moments of pious deliberation.

uongress win be called upon to appoint a commission of three men, expert in financial affairs, to act as representatives of the United States in an international monetary conference cn'the lines indicated by China and Mexico, which is to the effect that gov ernments who have dependencies where silver is used should co operate with governments of sil ver using countries for formulating some plan for establishing a definite relationship between their gold and silver monies, and to take proper measure for maintaining such a relafionship. It begins to look as if Senator Hanna had killed two birds with one stone. The enthusiasm with which his ex-slave pension bill was received by the black Re publicans of the South is apparently shared by certain white Democrats. It would be truly surprising if the senator should find himselt in a position to choose betweeu the Republican and Democratic nominations for president, but late news from Dixie shows that even organized confederate veterans are beginning to look upon theOhioan as a good man, or at least as a good thing. "The Negro in Politcs" is creat ing quite a stir over the country.

The speech of Secretary Root has been taken up and widely discussed by the press of the country and the opinion seems to prevail that the negro as a suffragist is a failure. The people of the South are vehement in their demands (hat he be eliminated from politics, and this course finds more or less support in the North. It is by no means impossible that Mr. Root's speech may be the forerunner of sweeipng changes to be made in the future. It is certain that the future status of the negro must soon be defined.

Not until this government de cided to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama did the full significance our future relations with South America become a matter of acute concern. Now, as never before in the history of the chronic disturbances in South American territory, has the United States felt the necessity of the most careful exercise of judgment and diplomacy. The future of the vast territory lying south of us has within the past year grown into immense proportions and the powerful protection afforded it by the Monroe doctrine will insuro it against possible absorption by any European power. The lower house of the legislature has passed the bill establishing a binder twine plant in the penitentiary, which needs now the approval of the governor to become a law. The adoption of this law by a few more of the states will break up one of the gigantic trusts that has preyed upon the farmers of late years.

To put the law into operation the estimated cost is 175.000. itemized as follows: I 9SR Oftft fnr maohinprv. 15.000 for a building and $125,000 for material. The last named amount will come back as the product of the' plant disposed of. The twine will be furnished to farmers at actual cost and will doubtless be a great saving to them.

The war cloud in the Balkans may prove a good thing for this country, if the clouds will only open and let out a few showers of sr.ot and shell. The unspeakable Turk is massing 240,000 J0 Uf Si hardware fteadquartem You should not forget wtien you need anything in the line of hardware that W. D.Vaughn can supply your wants. You will likely do some fencing this spring and the llweed Meg fetiee is the best. I keep it.

AI30 poultry netting in all sizes. I have just received a big stock of FINE DECORATED QUEENSWARE, which is both ornamental and useful. for shallow or deep wells are world-beaters, but if you prefer other kinds I have them. Everybody knows that the Superior Cooking Stoves are true to name, and while they are leaders, I have cheaper makes that will give you good satisfaction. Gardening time will soon be here and I am prepared to furnish you with everything in the way of Carden Tools, Hoes, Rakes, Forks, Etc.

Washing Machines, Cutlery, Tinware and Hardware of all kinds. Yours Truly, it i il) ft i ili ifl i it ti it (1 it) to ill il il ii W. D. VAUQHAN, Ul The Hardware Man, KEYTESVILLE 4v --2-a--s-2-a2 troops on the frontier and is preparing for a campaign of extermination against the Christians. This campaign is inevitable, and once it is genuinely launched all Europe will be involved in one way or another.

And these vast armies must all be fed, and the great eource of supply will be the United States. If war must come, let it do so. We can fee 3 all so long as they have the money to pay for it. Then when their resources are exhausted perhaps they will realize the folly war except in cases of the gravest character. Overloaded railroads are as dangerous to life and property as overloaded ships.

The indications are strong that the rail roads of the country are nearly, if not quite, all overloaded at the present time, and that they have been in that condition for two or three years past. Not only is this true, but there is a burdensome congestion in the freight carrying business of the trunk lines of the country. A few days ago there were enough freight cars congested in Chicago to reach a straight line from Chicago tc Philadelphia, and every car loaded to. the limit. The great increase in the freight traffic of the country has become a serious problem with the railroad companies, as it is impossible to secure enough engines to haul the trains.

A storm of indignation as been raised by some of the people at Jefferson City against Rev. Clayton S. Brooks, pastor of the Christian church at that because of his crusade against gambling and Sabbath desecration in that city. They say that this preacher and his cruaade are responsible for the resolution recently adopted in the lower house of the legislature and the re -agitation of capital removal which has followed. Some of the denizens of that city have suggested that a proposition to take the reverend gentleman "to the city limits and send him on his way with a kick and instructions never to come back would find plenty of advocates." We would suggest to these infuriated people that the better way would be to ascertain whether or not the preacher has misstated facts in reference to the prevalent vices of their city, before they become so violent in denouncing him.

Perhaps it is the truth that hurts. I The best of everything in flour The election committee of the and fee(j at the new grain ex. lower house of congress made re- change. H. C.

Hyde, Jr. port Tuesday of its finding in the Wagoner-Butler contest from If you want fresh groceries Louis, tcje effect that Wagon-'go to Jf F. White3ides. MISSOURI .0.00.0. 00.00..

er was elected and therefore entitled to the seat. This conclusion was reached, as the committee avers, after throwing out the votes of 41 precincts which were reported to have given Butler large majorities, giving as a reason that there was so much evidence of fraud in these precincts that it was difficult to tell for whom the majority of legal votes were cast, hence the committee declared there was no election held in them. This is the second time that Jim Butler's seat in congress has been contested. Two years ago the committee de cided there had been no election in the district and that neither of the candidates was entitled to the seat. ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Corn Contest. The Courier is authorized by. C. N. Butts of Knoxville, to offer a year's subscription to the Courier for the best dozen ear9 of white and the best dozen ears of yellow corn.

For the second best of each variety Mr. Butts will give a photograph of a cabir built of his celebrated log cabin corn Parties who wish to con -test for these prizes are requested to bring the corn to this office. Our father, A. C. Vandiver, has consented to act as judge of the" contest.

Bring in your corn. Corn Wanted. We will piy tha ai'li i3S mir- et price for all of the merch art-able corn delivered to us at eith-ker Keytesville station orDalton. McMahill Marsh, Keytesville. VanBusxirk McMahill, Dalton.

Try a few pounds of Murdock's coffee, from 15o to 35c a pound. W. M. Willett. SU ll vtuu.

I have concluded to ore-anize a i suit club, the order in which suits are received to be determined by lot. Everybody gets value received. For further particulars call on i Harms, the Tailor. Horse tor Sale. A first-class family animal.

serviceable anywhere. Nine years old this spring. See P. P. jChrane, Musselfork, Mo.

i Modesty is by some regarded as a back number -yet it is still the most valuable card in the deck. -l .7 ra-i nV.