Arkansas City Daily Traveler from Arkansas City, Kansas • Page 1

iutt Hlttorlctl Arkansas City Daily Traveler. Biggest, Best Daily Paper published in Cowley County and Largest Circulation. If you are seeking a location no town offers you greater Inducement than Arkansas City, Kansas. VOLUME AAV ill ARKANSAS CITY DAILY TRAVELER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1912. Xo.

187. LAUNCH BIG BATTLESHIP. TRYING OUT THE NEW LAW RICHARD BRUCE BECKER GUILTY OF DOESN'T MISTAKE GENERAL DIAZ IS REMOVED Weather. For Kansas Fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer Saturday and west portion tonight.

OWE STATE LARGE SUMS. Building Rock Roads in Cowley Count' Secretary Kennedy Write a Splendid Article on the Subject Publish ed in Kansas Good Roads Advocate. Arkansas City, Kansas, is a firm believer in the gospel of good roads. Of course it was not always thus. It is but a few months ago that the more ardent advocates of good roads were almost inclined to view the proposition much as a polar bear in a cage views his situation with despair.

An address of reasonable length, devoted to good roads, was not possible six months ago. But so quickly have the people of Cowley county, in which are located the cities of Winfield and Arkansas City, caught the spirit that an address on good roads is now listened to with resnertfnl nttention. And cood ntomtnrp with some- thing very like avidity. r. i lie county I'uuimisaiuut'is ui vjw lev county, spurred to action by a wholesale demand that got its first encouragement huui uu v.uuiuitiui clubs of Arkansas City and Winfield "if-iirw" in and equipping that part of the Meri dian road stretching from the state line on the south of the county line on the north, committed to their care.

And the road is being built, too, built to stay built. All but two miles near Winfield will be rock built, a good twelve miles at that. The road between Arkansas City and Winfield, as far as the rock part of it carries, is fourteen feet wide, with a nine inch broken rock base, top ped by four inches of crushed rock. A good, solid commendable, water- bound macadam road. The citizens of Arkansas City dem onstrated to the satisfaction of the COUnty commissioners the practic- I ability of a good rock-built road.

oy putting through what was in itself a mucn desired improvement, name- 1Vf tne building of the new cemetery road. within the city limits. This road is one and one-half miles in length. It is sixteen feet wide, has a nine inch crushed rock basa a four-inch compact top with asphalt binder. This was built by Arkansas City under the immediate supervision of S.

K. Titus, city engineer of Arkansas City. The road cost or to be strictly particular $.7571 per square yard. The brick for both roads was and is being supplied by the Watt Sleeth construction company and the differ- ence qualities of the two roads may be attributed to the dif- ference exercised ln engineering supervision In both roads, II. P.

Franey was the constructing foreman, but only i in the case oi tne cemetery iuau, i wni r. i mis ine sunerv ism, t-u- gineer. Cowley county, through which the Meridian road passess, appro- priated the sum of $4i, 000 i for the construction of its share of the road the hrst county appropriation actually macie for this purpose. The Commercial rlni nf Arkansas Citv. (aided bv the Commercial club of Winfield, the county seat,) settled all legal doubts to thP rieht nf nnv countv to make a tax levy for an international I highway, by testing the matter in the supreme court of the state of Knnsss.

These commercial bodies therefore, nut the entire common- wealth under an obligation of no small import and value. The route of the Meridian road mav be somewhat in dubiety at eer- tain points, but its course, north or, i through and south of Arkansas City is settled by the official logging made recentlv. ThN great international highway, (so fitly termed the Meridian road, to stretch from Winnipeg, Canada to Galveston. Texas, approximately two thousand miles,) will, when completed, traverse the heart of the richest agricultural country in the United States. It will be the great international thoroughfare of this central empire.

It will go through a beautiful level country of easy grades crossing no HIS CHANCE DO LEY WOULD DETRACT YOT- ERS TO OTHERS. SHOULD INCLUDE HIMSELF Wants Yfters to Wnt for Attempts to Defeat Good Men on The Republican Ticket. Special to the Daily Traveler. Topeka, Oct. 25.

"From now on until election day," said Chairman J. X. Dolley, of the republican state central committee, "will be the joy ful season for the campaign liar. He will.be abroad in the land." tnairman Dolley has issued a warning to the voters. He has been In numerous campaigns, managing them, and knows what to expect the last few days and hours of a bitterly fought campaign.

"I don't expect to be able to head off all the lies that will be told," said Chairman Dolley, "but I want to warn the voters. I want the voter who is told a campaign yarn just before the election to think it over before accepting it at its face value. I want him to sit down and analyze the thing: see if it looks good under calm scrutiny. It may be a lie. It may be told for the specific purpose of defeating some good man or set of men.

Most any man can distinguish a campaign lie if he will take the necessary time to think it over. And that's what I would like to have the voters of Kansas do. "It is certain that some of the men who are now our political ene- 1 1 a. a. ivr i.A I uues ni auen.iJi iu get m- voters at the last minute with some damaging tale.

It will be too late for us to run it down and prove its untruth. The only thing I can do is to warn tne voters. nicy Know as well as I do that what I am saying is true If they win stop to turns, DEXTl'R HAS RIG FIRE. Six Buildings and Contents Destroyed Ry Flames. Were Dexter was about one-half wiped out by flames yesterday morning.

The amount of space on which the buildings were standing" measures somewhat over one-half block. Five frame buildings were destroyed and a drug store which was partially of brick was also damaged. The fire broke out at 2 o'clock in the morning from an unknown cause. It destroyed five business buildings and the goods in them. The fire started in K.

J. Hawkins Candy Kitchen, on the west side of Main street, taking the barber shop adjoining, the N. Clemmons pro duce house, the Myers and Moore drug store and was finally stopped bv the two storv brick store of Hales, which was damaged slightly. The loss is heavy, only partly covered by It is thought that leaking gas ex ploded in some way, starting the blaze. There are many theories re garding the origin, but none so far, seem to offer any solution.

Six business places were totally consumed. Lack of water made it hard to control the flames. The whole popu lace was out to assist in saving what they could, but little could be done. TAFT'S PI.AX IS LIKED. Seven Governors Endorse President's Co-operative Rank Scheme.

Beverly, Oct. 25. Presi dent Taft's plan for co-operative banks for the American farmer has been endorsed by seven governors. Ten letters from the state executive discussing the plans have been re ceived here. Governor Baldwin, of Connecticut, is the only governor to express disapproval.

Two letters were received from secretaries to govenors The governors who approved the Most Powerful Vessel in United States to be Launched Soon. "Xew York" is Wonderful Ship. Keel Was Laid More Than a Year Ago. Length 373 Feet. Washington, D.

Oct. 25 The United battleship New York is to Le launched at the Brooklyn navy next week, and President Taft, Secretary of the Navy Meyer, Governor Dix. Mayor Gaynor and many other notables are expected to be on hand to to watch the most -powerful vessel in the United States navy take her first plunge Into the water. The New York and her sister ship, the Texas, are each 2,000 tons heavi er than any other warships that has ever been launched in this country. The New York is G.lTotons heavier than the battleship Florida, the last warship constructed at the Brooklyn navy and which was the biggest of its class afloat at the time of her com pletion only two years aso.

The battleship New York was authorised by congress in 1910. At first bids were asked for, but later these were rejected and it was de- cided to build the vesel the gov- ernment yard at Brooklyn The keel v. as laid on September 11 1911, and a hoisted near the site where the ship grew says: S. S. New Battleship No.

34, Length, 573 feet; breadth 95 feet 2 5-S incher; displacement 27,000 tons; mean draught, 23 feet inch- es. then tne nuge vessel nas grown steadily and when she takes the water she will be nearly 70 per cent completed. Early next fall she is to be completed and ready to take her place as one of the five units in the first divicicn of the Atlantic Fleet, of which she will probably be the flagship. Not only in size but in the calibre of the guns at their main batteries were the New York and Texas designed to be the most formidable battleships ever built Up to the present time the 13-inch gun, which has not been used on any of the newer ships of the navy, has been the limit in, caliber of naval guns. The New mork and however, will each carry ten 14-inch guns, mounted two to a turret, and so arranged that all of them can be fired in a broadside, or aft, at the same time.

The arrangement of three aft' and two forward of the bridge is the work of the Naval construction Corps of the United State navy. Great Britain has followed this closing in her new dreadnoughts, and this is considered one of the highest compliments ever paid American designers and constructers. The New oYrk engines will be of horse-power, 3,000 more than those of the Florida. If the expectations of her designers are fulfilled she will be able to maintain a speed of 21 knots an hour or better The engines are triple expansion, four cylinder reciprocating engines. The armor of the new battleship will be of sufficient thickness for defense against torpedo boat attacks, and there will be strong bulkheads as an additional protection against mines and torpedo explosions.

The New Yorw and Texas will be of the same type as the dreadnoughts Oklahoma and Nevada, which have been authorized by Congress. The two last named, however, will be about ten feet longer and of 500 tons greater displacement than the New York and the Texas. The launching'of a big battleship is an important event in itself, but in the case of the New York the ceremonv will be more notauie because the Navy Department will have demonstated that it is-fully equipped and competent enough to construct the largest battleships in its own shipyards without assistance from private concerns. True, the progress in the construction of the New York has not been so rapid as that of her sister ship Texas, now nearing completion at Newport News, but the fault has not been with the officials or workmen at the Brooklyn navy yard. After the keel of the New York was laid down the work on the ship was stopped for a while by Secretary Meyer until could be surely ascertained that the $6,000,000 provided by congress would be sufficient to cover the ex pense.

Alfalfa Sells for $14 Per Ton Emporia, Oct. 23 The fourth crop of alfalfa hay is selling in Etnporia at $13 and $14 per ton for the baled hay and $11 to $11.50 oose. The crop has been unusual- good this year. New corn is selling on the Emporia market at 50 and 60 cents per bushel. BURNED TO DEATH AXD 7 BITLDIXGS DESTROYED IX FIRE AT ELDORADO SPRIXGS STARTED IS -A THEATRE Cause is Unknown.

Cruce, a Crip ple, Was In Top Story oi Drug Store and Could Not Escape. Eldorado Springs, Oct. 25 Richard Cruce was burned to death and seven buildings destroyed by a $100,000 fire early today. It start- ed in a theatre. The cause is tin- known.

Cruce. a cripple, roomed over the burned drug store and was unable to escape. A FTZG EB 1 XXOCEXT. Appelate Court at St. Louis Reversed Decision of Judge Pollock.

Wichita, Oct. 25 L. S. Nattzger. lormer president ot a Wichita bank, who was found guilty March 19, 1911 by a federal jury of beinsr implicated in traffic in stol en postage stamps was exonerated yesterday bv thetlnited States cir- cuit court of appeals, sitting at St.

Paul, Minn. Col. S. I. Amidon, who represent ed the Wichita banker, cqpitended in an appeal to the higher court that the government had not proven that the stamps which Mr." Naftzger bought and sold had been stolen, nor that they had been" stolen in the state of Kansas, nor that the banker knew that they were stolen.

He asked accordingly that the decision made in the case in WV'hita be re versed and the defendant be charged. die. The court at St. Paul reversed Judge John C. Pollock and ordered if.io,.

nidi LUt ucic tiuaai, li nas iui in uk: i a vonr ln 11T1rW mon tn the penitentiary, be discharged. The United s'tates circuit court of appeals consists of Chief Justice Sanborn, of St. Paul, Judge of Leavenworth, and Judge McPhcr-son of Red Oak, Iowa. RIG FIRE AT WICHITA Fifteen Thousand Dollars Damage to Whitney Paper Co. Wichita, Oct.

25 Paper estimated to be worth $15,000 was damaged by fire and water when the warehouse of the Whitney Paper company 131 North Santa Fe street in the wholesale district, caught fire last night at 9:30 o'clock. Many rolls of paper and paper bays were entirely destroyed by fire and the rest was damaged by the flood of water necessary to quench the blaze The paper is heavily insured. The building is owned by T. H. Griffith was not badly damaged Windows were broken and woodwork charred in the part occupied by the paper company.

The fire burned and smoldered for more than an hour. Slight dam' age by smoke and water was done to the houses of the Wichita Produce company, the T. F. Griffith Mer chandise company and the Aylesbury Mercantile company all of which are located in the same building. The warehouse of the Potts Drug company was 'also filled with sntoke Brick partition walls effectually con fined the fire almost wholly to the Whitney Paper company.

The cause of the fire is unknown It started in the rear of the build ing under the warehouse platform and from there burned through windows and doors in the rear and ignited rolls of paper. CAPTURE OF SERVLl. Regarded as Conclusion of a Ritter War. Athens, Oct. 25.

Crown Prince Constantine, of Greece, formally entered the Turkish city, yesterday. The capture of the town is regarded as the conclusion of the first and most serious stage of tEe war. Servia was taken after a combined attack by three columns of Greeks who compelled the Turks to retreat in disorder. ROOSEVELT AT WORK Dictates Speeches to Progressives And Prepares One. Oyster Bay, Oct.

25 Roosevelt took up active work today. He dictated a number of letters to progressive leaders and took up his pre paration of a -speech he expects to make nest week in New York. a at is ed 1ST DEGREE MURDER JURY DECIDED OX FATE OF DE FENDANT EARLY TODAY. BE SENTENCED WEDNESDAY Becker adn Wife Expected Xo Yer diet But Disagreement. She Is Under the Care of Relatives.

New York, Oct. 25. The jury- returned a verdict of guilty in the first degree of murder at 12:02 o'clock this morning against Lieuten ant Becker for the murder of Gambler Rosenthal. Becker will be sentenced Wednesday, Oct. 30.

John Mclntyre, counsel for Becker, began I preliminary steps looKing to an I i i i 1 a1 ailu bly U1 er denounced what he terms rigorous oartialitv of Justice Goff in his charge to the jury and the conduct of the trial. Neither Becker nor his wife expected a verdict but rath er a disagreement. She is under the care of relatives. It is said the hearing of Becker's will require a year at least. The trial of four gunmen will begin early in November.

WOULD IXVOKE THE RECALL Seeks to Oust Himself as Well as Other Officials. Tulsa Oct. 25 Charging that Commissioner Jay Forsythe of the fire and police department, and Commissioner J. B. Wilson finance and revenue department and.

Mayor Frank Wooden are incompetent Commissioner Charles W. Connelly 0f tne Water and sewer department of Tulsa announced tonight that he wjn immediately circulate a petition for the recan of these three officials including himself The conclusion was reached by Connelly when the mayor and Com nissioners Wilson and. Forsvthe "railroaded through a resolution this afternoon abolishing the office of water superintendent over the protests of Commissioner Connelly, who recommended the appointment of -vater Superintendent W. B. Co jjer -whose position is affected by the resolution.

Commissioner C. M. downing of streets, voted with Con neiiy to retain the water superintend ent Diaz Faces Execution Vera Cruz Oct. 25 General Bel tram federal commander has been I. a iniormeu mut via, ami umci icu-i oiiicers cuuiuieu uic iu uc men strictly according to military code If these orders are carried out they mean Diaz and his comrades will be executed railroads, it win oe a companion quicu transportation iacinues.

will be a feeder; it will be one of the greatest factors in reducing the ex- cessively high cost of living in that it will be an' auxiliary to the quick handling of farm products, surely a consummation most devoutly to be wished. Why the American farmer will stubbornly oppose the building of good roads is what the believer in good roads cannot get away with. The only explanation (satisfactory even in its unsatisfactoriness), is that by holding the nickel too close- ly to the he seeth not the uoi- lar. The farmers of America as want- only wasting. per year Ion bad roads.

And they are doing it in this wise: The cost per ton per mile for the hauling of farm products in Europe is ten cents. The cost per ton per mile in America is twenty-five cents, an excess "of fifteen cents'. The' average haul from the farm to the freight platform in America is seven, miles, in round figures one dollar per ton is wasted. Two hundred and fifty million tons of farm products are hauled by the farmer from his barns and granaries to the freight platforms every twelve months. Two hundred and fifty million dollars wantonly and persistently wasted every year.

Ain't it awfAil' Mabel? The Meridian road when completed, will be a monumental rebuke to this and deliberate waste. Who can tell that within the next decade America may compete with Continental Europe in making it a question of the great -conservators of civilization Europe or America can boast possession of tne perfect system of highways. it WRIT IS GRANTED BY FEDERAL Jl'DGE. TWO OFFICERS ARE KILLED Public is Indignant at Diaz utvl Death Sentence May be Pro- noiiiiceil. Secret Execution.

Mexico City, Oct. 25. A writ removing (Jeneral Diaz, the rebel loader from the jurisdiction of the military court, was granted by the federal judge of the lirst district court here today. The action was taken on a plea of Lieutenant Colonel Men-oz, a cousin of Diaz. The court Will decide whether Diaz be returned to the jurisdiction of the military cout, or tried before a civil tribunal.

Vera Cruz, Oct. 25. Two officers Majors Zarata, and Cuesta were shot by federal troops last night after being sentenced to death by the court martial. The execution was secret. Public opinion is against General Diaz and the death sentence may be pronounced when be is tried before the court martial late this afternoon.

DEPOSITION IS ROSIf. Claimant iu Insurance Case Repudiates Testimony Given nt Asjluiu St. Louis, Oct. 25 Cross examination of fhe Kimmel claimant will bo resuijied when Judge Grimm convenes court nf this morning. The claimant was aubmltted to an examination that lasted nil of yesterday and may occupy tl greater part of today.

Attorney Charles E. Sweet of Dowagiac, questioned tho man who is seeking to establish his identity as that ot George A. Kimmel', the missing banker, and on tho result of which depends the payment of more than $4 0,000 Iu 11 fo insurance. The claimant was able to control himself much better at the present hearing than he did last February In the Federal court when Attorney Seneca N. Taylor conducted the examination The greater part of the day was occupied with tho reading from a lengthy deposition given by tho claimant wlu-n he was an inmate of the Mattewan asylum.

Attorney Sweet would ask him a question and the claimant would elth er say he did not remember If It was his testimony, or he would say Jt was all bosh, and that he was not competent when the deposition was given Tho claimant, was viKibly confused when he was questioned about tho father of George A. Kimmel. Tho claimant, in a deposition, had testified to having been with his father in Philadelphia, and also told of his death. A deposition from the elder Kimmel forms a part of the record in the case, ami the claimant declared all the statements in the Matte-wan deposition were bosh. Seet then asked him what his fathers business was and the claimant hesitated and finally said he was a machinist or something like It.

In another part of his testimony he said the boys at NUes knew Attor ney Taylor and he repeated a nick name called him. Sweet then usk-ed the witness If he did not knour that Mr. Taylor had left Nile In 18G5, two years before Kimmel was born. This was disconcerting, but he said the boy called him tlie name just the Counsel for tho plaintiff wanted to withdraw the. claimant for a short time, and when counsel for the Insurance company declined at o'clock adjourment was taken until this morning.

A Rrivk Rattle. Havana, Oct. 25-A brisk battlo between the conservatives and liberals during 'which several hundreds shots were fired and forty peoplo wounded, occurred In the heart of this city, at the close of a meeting of supporters of Vice President Alfredo and Zayas, candidate for tho presidency. Mother Loyal to Daughter Chicago, Oct. 25 Mrs.

F. Cameron Falconnet, occupies the samo cell In the Rockford Jail, as ber daughter Lucile, tho girl alleged In the Johnson abduction case. In order to be near the girl. -Many Counties are Back on School Laud Money. May Develop Litigation, DeKMiding on Corporate ResiNmsibilirj- of Counties.

Clerks' and Treas. Bonds Involved. Special to the Daily Traveler. Topeka, Oct. 25.

Dozens of counties in Kansas owe the state money on school lands, according to an accounting made by the state accountant, J. C. Gafford. The debts in some instances date back to the organization of the counties and are made up of both principal and interest. Through errors and discrenancies monev nnwl intn th counties on school land has never reached the state treasury.

It is probable that the total in all the counties when the accounting is completed will be between GO, 000 and $70,000. An effort will be made by the state to collect this money. The officials, now that they know just what is due and where it is due, are duty bound, under the laws, to proceed to collect if possible. It will prob- 'l' lu 111 airlu take the initiative. i he state accountant lias been at work on the school land accounts for months.

Far more shortages than were expected were found. It was known that there were some short ages in the newer western counties but when the chock was well under way it was found that some of the oldest counties in the state, where there is now not a foot of school land, were indebted the state The situation may develop a lot of law suits. It depends upon wheth er the counties as corporations are responsible or whether it is the llndsmen of the county clerks and Vl 1,11 county olficers whoso accounts discrepancies have been discovered -ui inelr Donosnien arn response lor them even now, according to attor ncys. I'erhaps the bondsmen are dead, have left the state or are im poverished. It will take a great deal of investigation to get the facts in all of the individual cases So far discrepancies in the school land cases have been found in twen ty-five counties and the records of few of the western counties where there is still school land have been gone into.

They will swell the list materially. WATT SIIERVIXGTOX CAPTURED Alleged Slayer of Jim Murphy Ar rested at Rutler, Mo. He Was Supposed to Have Passed Through ArkansjLs City Last Xight but Plans Miscarried. The sheriff's office at Winfield today received a telegram from officers at Butler Bates County, saying that they had captured Watt slayer of Jim Murphy, city marshal at Fairfax, who was killed two weeks ago. It is supposed that the officers surpris ed Shervington and took him unawares, as it ahd been.said he would never be taken alive.

There was reward for him which read "dead or alive" and all officers were warned not to take any chances with him as he is known to be a bad man and is unusually handy with a gun Sherv ington shot Jim Murphy dead when the officer rode toward him in a buggy intending to arrest him on the charge of stealing a mule. The alleged murdered will be taken to Fairfax for trial. Last night the Winfield and Arkansas City officers had a clue, or rather a "hunch" that Shervington was to pass through Arkansas City and they met a train here with the idea of capturing him. But if he had intended to come here that time the plans miscarried. There was a man here whom the officers had reason to believe was go ing to meet Shervington last night.

This man was from Butler County home of Shervington and he went to Kaw City, today. Shervington is well known here. He the owner of a stock ranch in Butler county. It is said that he pass through Arkansas City a day or two after he committed the murder and that he was at his home a short time the same night that he was seen here. Albert Penrose left yesterday for Kansas City in his Buick automobile He will visit in ElDorado with relatives before continuing his drive to Kansas City.

president's idea are Eberhart, of mountains, and little rough tern-Minnesota: Pothier. of Rhode Is- tory; a road that will take the mo-land; Foss. of Massachusetts; Ves- tor car tourist from the land of cot-sey, of South Dakota: Blease, of ton and subtropical fruits through South Carolina; Goldsborough, of those of alfalfa, corn, wheat and Maryland, and Mann, of Virginia. live stock to the great Canadian The president, in his letter to the northwest, the regoin of lumber and governors, said the question of co- furs and the wonderful new agri-operative credit for farmers at in- culture, a road that will connect by terest rates equal to those paid cap- the shortest route the new Santa Fe ital, was one for the states to take trail.the Omaha and Denver wagon up and suggested that the governors road, the new Overland trail, and in their conference at Richmond, the Twin Cities. auto road; a road early in December, discuss the that will pass through sixty-two cit-matter.

All the executives who re- jes and substantial towns, having plied favorably said they would be good hotels, garages and railroads, glad to consider the matter Instead of being a competitor of the.