The Coffeyville Weekly Journal from Coffeyville, Kansas • Page 5

3 Ing with unmistakable vigor the act of examiner, was in Coffeyville Sunday morning on his way to Sedan to spend the day, with his family Mr. Bradley iA TALK WITH ED BALL Ml HLzjLz 17 iff MITE EXPLOSION THREE SALOONS IN IOLA WRECK ED TODAY. 3 CHARGES FAIL TO 60 OFF Is the Supposition Total Property Damage, $200,000 Mayor Calls Special Council Meeting. Iola, July 10. Three saloons, the Red Light, Blue Front and the Eagle, in West street, in the heart of the business section of Iola were comDletelv wrecked by dynamite early today.

Much damage was done to other property in the vicinity, the loss being estimated at one hundred thou sand dollars. J. E. Thorpe, owner of one saloon, was injured, but not seriously. The dynamite was exploded, appar- entlv.

bv some temperance reformer, There were two distinct explosions, each of terrific force. Besides demol-1 ishing the saloons, the explosions damaged the Palace shoe store, the drag stores of Campbell Burrell and Cowan Ausherman, across the I alley. and shattered dozens of plate class windows. The explosions were heard at Humboldt, nine miles dls- tant. The mayor offered a reward for the miscreant and called a special meeting of the council to con- sider the situation.

There nas been much agitation in Iola recently to close the saloons, which run in viola- tion of the state prohibition law. By a telephone call to the Iola Reg ister this afternoon the Journal gained the following additional information: There were four brick and one frame buildings totally wrecked by the explosion and twelve other buildings damaged. The terrifying part of the catas- trophe came when a charge of 120 sticks of dynamite were found ready charged in a joint on the north side or the square: 112 sticks in a joint on the east side, and 90 sticks in a joint In the west suburb of the city. All had been charged and the tuse ngni- ea, due ronunaieiy ine xuses nau gone 1 A A At. A 1 s.

I out Deiore reaenmg uie ueauiy cajjiu- 1 1 1 sive. Had these other charges all expioaea tne city ox 101a, or at least 1 1 Al. 1 A 1 4- I DM I has charge of the defunct First National Bank at Topeka. Mr. and Mrs.

G. Leslie Callard were passengers to Parsons Sunday morning, where the family are at pres ent making their home. They expect to move to Coffeyville in the fall. Mr. and Mrs.

Callard took with them to their home the newly adopted baby secured through the Provident As sociation. Miss Eva Opdyke has returned to her work as clerk at the Western Union Telegraph office after a vaca tion. Mrs. J. T.

Snow and son Melvin 01 Wann were in Coffeyville Monday do shopping with the local business men. Henry Weis of Waterloo, Iowa, Is visiting his son, Frank Weis, of this city. Mr. Weis is interested in some of Coffewille's leadinsr enternrisps. Mr.

and Mrs. John A. Reeds nnrt son Will left Monday for Fort Scott where Mrs. Reeds will visit several weeks with her parents. Mr.

Reeds will re- turn 10 me city Wednesday to re sume his work in the mechanical de partment of the Journal. Joseph Halter returned Monday morning from Houston, where he has been spending the past month with friends. The lad accompanied his father south about five weeks ago. but Mr. Halter was called home hv the illness of his baby, and left Joseph to continue his visit.

WITH THE OIL MEN. J. H. Moore, a local oil man, spent Friday at Chanute on business. E.

A. Morey of the Kansas National Drill Manufacturing is report ed quite ill. J. W. Hindman of Sistcrsville, W.

arrived in the city Thursday, an will spend some time visiting the dif- erent towns in the Kansas-Indian Territory oil fields. J. M. Burres of Auburn, who is Interested in several properties at Cleveland, was in Coffeyville Fri day on business. He is interested ta the J.

M. Burris Oil Company, who have three producers at Cleveland. Mr. Burres drilled the first well in tho field on Thanksgiving day a year ago. and this well spouted over the der rick, flowing 125 gallons in less than an nour.

The company wells are located on the Katy right-of-way. Mr. Burres says that there are about 100 producing wells in the Cleveland field, with twenty sets of tools still at work. William Dale of Chelsea was In Coffeyville Saturday on oil business. F.

W. Galee was here from Nowata Saturday looking after some oil mat ters. C. O. Barnett of Peru, was in Cof feyville Friday and Saturday on oil matters.

Hy Armstrong, who is drilling In the Coody's Bluff oil fields, was a Coffey ville visitor Saturday. to a crazy man. The thing to do is to keep cool and keep cool and keep cooL MELVIN STILL AT LARGE Iola, July 11. The sheriff stated today that an organized posse is searching for C. L.

Melvin, supposed to be the person who wreckea three saloons yesterday with dynamite and who is still at large. One thousand pounds of dynamite which Melvin is said to have stolen is still unaccount ed for. Melvin's wife today received a let ter from her husband in which he said he had been told in a vision 23 years ago "by God Himself that I was to strike the rum power a blow from the effects of which it would never re cover. Don't expect me home for i am in this fight to a finish." letters to the saloon men. the mayor or 101a, the governor and the state legislature.

He mailed copies of these letters to the Register sometime during the night of the explosion. These letters breathe death, disas ter and high tragedy in every line. They abound in high sounding ti- raues against everybody in general and the negligent officers and saloon i men in particular. They plainly tnreaten the bomb and foretell that the wrongdoers of Iola will soon be blown skyward. The fanatic signed nis lull name to all of them.

The man Melvin was taken to the asylum last January. For some rea- son he was soon released. He is writing a book on reform. Every effort has been made to lo- cate the man, but without avaiL He left his nome at 10:30 the night of the explosion and has not been seen smce. The worst feature Is that he still has In his possession about 1,000 sticks of dynamite.

ine man jvieivin "taiKed or an "or ganization." It does not seem likely i or possible that he worked alone. Th- fuses to the four mines were all lighted at the same time. The Barclay-Shields clothing store wan a heavy loser. Mr. Shields says the damage cannot be replaced for one thousand dollars.

Five of the ex pensive display cases were broken ail to pieces. All of the front large plate glass windows were broken, out and the force of the explosion cracked the building at tne rear and it may be necessary to rebuild the wall. TTT ii. 11 1 i 1. vv.

uie wen ivnown engi At At A I 01 una city, was very mucn in-1 terested in learning the details of the eiuiusiuii. xiis Drotnenniaw 01 tne 1 TT1 1 A. il I at that this firm suffered twenty-three broken windows, eight of them plate glass. There were 571 window glasses broken that are known of. Doubtless many more will be reported from the residence districts.

MARRIED IN SPOKANE Guy M. Smith, Old Coffeyville Boy, Commits Matrimony. Bride's Name Also Smith. A newspaper of Spokane. Washing ton, Washington, on July 4th, contain ttoU.s: Change Her Name." Guy M.

Smith and Minnie M. ried last night at the home of Rev. W. S. Lake, in Union Park.

They will make their home in Mr. Smith is well known here in Coffeyville. He is the son of Mrs. Clara E. Hicks, of 503 South Maple Street.

I tio 0-. in nffni I herp About two years ago, he, with about IaJ WILIL CURE any case of KIDNEY or BLADDER DISEASE that is not beyond tne reach of medicine. No can do more. WAS GIVEN UP TO DIE, B. Spieerel.

1204 N. Virginia Evansville, writes: "For over five years I was troubled with kidney and uiauucr auctions wnicn causea me much pain and worry. I lost flesh and was all run down, and a year ago had to abandon work entirely. I had three of me oest physicians who did me no good and I was Dracticallv civen tin to die. Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended and the hrst bottle gave me great relief, and after taking the second bottle I was entirely cured." TWO SIZES, 50c AND $1.00.

SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY 8L0SS0N CO. The New York town is the former home of the family. Peter Miller returned to his home at Cherryvale Friday, after spending a few days with his brother, Nick Miller, who is confined in the hospital. A. Li.

Manchester returned from Cherryvale Saturday morning, where he has been in the interest of the Woodmen circle. Joseph Green, model maker at the Western Roofing Tile plant, has been at Cherryvale this week doing work for the company. Rev. N. H.

Barragar of Deering, was In the city Saturday enroute to Hep- ler, Crawford county, where he preaches each two weeks. Miss Elizabeth Bryant spent Friday trading with the Coffeyville merchants and returned to her home at Dewey on the evening train. B. B. Halter and family will leave Monday for Los Angeles, which place they expect to make their future home.

Mr. Halter recently retired from the grocery firm of Matthews Halter. J. M. Chastaln is sticking a few extra pegs into the soles and smiles in a satisfied way about his work today, all because of a bit of news that his Uncle Samuel conveyed to him from Kansas City and was to the effect that he was again grandpa and that the mother, his daughter, Mrs.

G. H. McCarthy, and child were doing well and grandpa is in a fair way recover. Miss Bertha Peterson, who has been employed at the Fair store for some time, Is enjoying a two weeks' vacation, following which she will accept employment at the Condon store. James T.

Bradley, national bank DC mm3 nrm 01 uamppeii uurren, is in dus-have iness there. The Iola papers report The Glory of Maiemityi Nature, if left alone, will care for itself this might have been true at some pre-historic time, but since for ages it has not been left alone; but has been bound down and fettered by the observances and mandates of society, it can no longer care for Jstll. At no time does the truth of this appeal to as more strongly than at that period of a woman's life when she is about to become a mother. Nature must be assisted at this crisis, and for this very contingency EflOYHER'S FRIEND has been devised that the muscles and tissues imprisoned and weakened as they have been by the dress of our higher civilization, may fulfill without undue suffering and possible lasting harm, the functions for which the Creator intended them. Mother's Friend by its kindly offices softens and relaxes these parts and enables the mother to be, to pass through the parturient period and actual crisis with practically no suffering to herself and an easy delivery cf her offspring.

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CA. CITY NEWS BRIEFS. Mrs. O. E.

Burk of Wann, spent Thursday trading with the Coffeyville merchants. Sam Hayes has gone to Pawhuska to spend a week looking after some business interests. A. M. Irwin and daughter of Hominy Post, spent Thursday in Cof feyville, shopping at the various stores, and returned home on the evening train.

Mrs. Emma Lemon and daughter, of 1 410 Mulberrv street havp to Bartlesville to snenri wepkq anrl will rohahlv makfi ihmr home the territory town Miss Jessie Wilcox ha? returned from "RTTmnrif whpro ehp Visics enpnt the roast two vears in attendance at the State Normal. Miss Wilcox has been elected to a position as instructor in the Coffeyville schools. H. L.

Wood, formerly of the Bartles- ville Examiner, was in the city Friday morning. He is now field man for the Oil City Derrick, and has all that part 6f the earth west of the Missouri river. He finds the work a pleasant diversion from the shop and is get ting everything of interest for the Derrick. Thomas Mosier, formerly an Indian interpreter at the Osage agency, is spending this week in Coffeyville, and intends to remain here visiting friends until the appearance of the Carl Hagenbeck show. Mr.

Mosier Is well known throughout thisi section, having been in this vicinity the past thirty-five years. F. M. Hosh of the country two and one-half miles southwest is just home ffom trip down into Oklahoma, wucie iic iiaa ueen lur me past lurcu months. He visited Oklahoma City, paeeand others of the good towns terniory ana reports mem au a gooa uusmess.

bays uk a- UIUct 1S octoming quite a wiue- sale town and is getting a part of the business that formerly came from Wichita. "if 1 1 lif a eniner, wno nas Deen evening. was accompanied to VUie Aiirea urummona, son of the postmaster at Hominy. Miss niancne urummond, who has been a guest of Miss Gussie Rhule the past week, also returned to her home, where she will visit until the begin- ninS of school, when she will return ntnnnU -r tu vuixcjf viiic iu unena me xxigu school. The Edna Enterprise has discon tinued publication.

Alf D. Carpenter or tne Oswego Democrat has purchas- in i. 111 i cu tne uuiui uuu win move it uu Oswego next week. Matt and Miss Edith Riddle have gone to Orestes, where they will attend the wedding of their brother. James, and visit with other relatives during the summer.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bigelow.

who live west 01 town on rural route No. 4, left Friday morning for Albany, N. where they will spend tne summer. Earl Locke of Coody's Bluff. rQl he is in the oil business, is in Coffey- "ie XS villa fnr.

nr 0 15 UnCier W.iy IU UU BU, ville for visit with BELIEVES COFFEYVILLE IS AS SURED OF A GREAT FUTURE. MUNCIE'S BIRTH AND GROWTH Careless Waste of Gas Most to Be Guarded Against Work On Plant Here. Total Output Last Fire. iae journal cuuor nau a picasant and Profitable talk Friday night with an, wno as menuoneu terday's paper. Is in the city for a few days looking after the Improvements and changes in his fruit jar factory here.

Mr. Ball warned us at the beginning he had nothing starting to givo out but we presevered and felt well lcna ueu- Bal1 Brothers are kings of the fruit Jar industrj'. Add to this tho facts tnat tncy nave tno name of kns men, popular alike with their as sociates and employes, and you have an idea of the personality and work of the owners of one of Cofleyville's leading manufactories. Mr. uall spoke of now himself and brother, then located at Buffalo, N.

came to establish a jar factory at Muncie, now their principal manfacturing point. It was the natural gas for fuel that brought them to Munice, then a town of and a poor town, too, for tho size. They first established a temporary plant of the crudest kind, expecting to stay only two or three year3, as they thought the gas would run out by that time. But it did not, and they added to their factory and made it a moro permanent structure. By the time the gas did run out they had improved their plant to a point where they could not afford to move.

They arc now burning 150 tons of coal a day. The gas is about gene, but Muncie 13 a prosperous ana ocaumui cuy 01 30,000. "When gas was discovered in In diana," said Mr. Ball, "it ranked about last as a manufacturing state. Now it ranks in the first flight, and wil for a long time after the gas gone." Mr.

Ball believes southeast Kansas is destined to become a great manu facturing center. It takes time. One of the first things to do is to protect the gas from wanton and' careless waste by our own people. Once manufacturers come to realize that or an ef-they will come here by the score, and those I llllll. UIC UtlO Will iij uuv.

that are here will improve and mako 11 A He was glad to note that Mont gomery county had a gas inspector and thought he could and would da a great work for this county. In speaking of the difference be tween the gas fields hero and in Indiana, the fruit jar man eaifl: "The gas in my state covered an area about 50 miles wide by 150 miles lonir and all seemed to be Is onTtamso pocTeC III. a This made it an easy task for mo pipe line companies with their 40,00 horse power engines, to pump it out in a short space of time. Out here is different. The gas is in different pockets, covers a larger area of ter- ritory and seems to be in mucn n.n in the raso ii i triiici i uauinico, 4T, ra hundred ui inn a nn iuciv eager cities in Ohio and Illinois, on nf 11Q rrvlni? for a- wnIl0 lntHincr nv ro many ,,7 Ither are they v.

UnA niir ag ZTrtAnulh nt home abroa(I such I we would have had gas for a hundred years, you may nave uere that period and even longer. At tho worst you will have it for many years yet, and" I look for Coffeyville to become a great manufacturing center. 21" 4W thn time, and the citizens making efforts to protect the gas and treating mo manufacturers fairly and cordially, that the latter will most of them make permanent improvements, and that means a permanent city of progress and prosperity. There is much work to be done on the fruit jar factory here this sum- in. i mer.

Mr. uau summeu up mis wuin. mI. 4f nh1ert to "'7" ui 1 hPttPr and Te whlte liner department er. oancltv and pay roll of the plant probably enlarged some, but the main work would consist in improving the buildings and changing things around, replacing and remodeling generally.

This Is a good sign end speaks eloquently of Ball Brothers' future intentions. In fact, Mr. liau mu-mated pretty plainly that there would be big things doing here next sum- thTfruiHar factory? Another interesting statement 1f, fhft total fei jar factories no11 1at Are I fill LI UllVU UUi reached a total cr C5 million jars, a foj nearly eyery man woman anfj TTntto RtntP And theT trouble disposing of nave no treat thn manufacturing point for these Jaw, tween Coffeyville and Marlon for secona place. Old papers for sale at this cflce. 3ET Cbllf WMftI All till fAill.

fii BmI Couch bmo. TuM Goud. UM in i m. homi rrw arorvTKm. a- A A .1 I of life might have been appalling.

A most disturbing feature develops, Last week 1,500 pounds of dynamite were stolen from the cenment plant by men with a wagon. It is certain that about 400 pounds of this were used last night. This would leave over I 1,000 pounds of the deadly stuff yet in the hands of these desperate criminals. Until they are captured the city will be terrorized by the thought of being blown up any minute. J.

G. Spencer and W. E. Stone have been arrested in connection with the outrage, but it is not believed either are guilty. A man recently returned from the asylum is under suspicion, but at least four men must have had a hand in the diabolical affair, as the fuses were all lighted at about the same.

If the guilty parties are caught they will be lynched at once. Iola Register: The appalling outrage which resulted in the destruction of a hundred thousand dollars' worth of property in Iola last night can be attributed to no set of men and no faction. Cool, level headed men are a unit In the opinion that the deed could have been committed by no other than a demented man a man with a diseased mind. Nobody can be responsible for the acts of a lunatic, and that a lunatic is responsible for last night's outrage is as certain as anything in this world can pussiiuy ue. Whether or not it develops that the A A a mm 4 caiasropne can De iraceu 10 uie uuuu of C.

L. Melvin, the insane man who lately was released from the state hospital, and for Whom the Officers 11.1 a 1 1V rCttnrwts I tn Dusiness section, wouia toaay been a heap of ruins and the loss thirty others, emigrated to Spokane, Ye 01 iu7 wun ne where he is now employed as returned to her duties as poSt-a conductor' on the Spokane street mlstress at Hominy, Thursday are searching, it is an indisputable you have both take Kennedy's Lax-fact that the whole dreadful affair was Uh on ri Ata th an over Sunday his family. HIT T-X T- I. TJ1 and left during the day for Muskogee, where he will build a drilling rig fori Roth and Argue. Mr.

and Mrs. A. E. Stewart of Bar- tlesville, were in Coffeyville Friday on their way from Yates Center, where they spent the Fourth of July with friends and relatives. Mr.

Stewart Is a team boss for the Stand ard Oil Company. to Bartlesville Monday where Mr. Whitacre is Interested in the Canton Oil company. Jacob Guthrie went to Bartlesville Monday to look after his oil interests at that place. -Jxr I at Wagoner.

I. last week that is Fred Holt brought in a fine gasser said to be something especially gooa. i tit ine VSSiy of Wagoner. Mr. Holt Is a Coffey- ville man.

F. C. Hetzler, of Rock Land, arrived In Coffeyville Sunday. Mr. Hetzler, who is an oil well driller.

If on his first visit to the Kansas- Tninm rpaM-lfnFIT ft QlH OTIrl Will Indian Territory oil field, and accept employment with Roth, Argue Mayer, in the Ramona field. J. D. Clark and W. S.

Like, of ivxarion, spent Sunday in Coffey ville visiting former Indiana acquain- tances. They were oa their way from a visit at uneisea ana isowaia, ana left the evening train tor Bl vide to look after some oil property. Fred Fletcher, a driller for KIdd Bailey in the Bartlesville field, was in Coffeyville Sunday afternoon calling on friends. He was on his way from Sedan where he spent the Fourth of July with relatives. His company is drilling on lot 3 in the Osage and are working on well No.

7. L. T. Harned went to Bartlesville juonaay morning 10 iook. aner uu u-i terests of the Delokee Oil company of which he Is general manager.

This company brought in another good well the" past week on the Mary Thursday i lease, south of Bartlesville. The com pany has now four wells on this lease. J. B. Taggart was here from Bart lesville Tuesday on oil matters.

O. P. Boggs, a well known operator in the Bartlesville oil field, was In Coffeyville Monday and Tuesday. J. M.

Clover, an Independence oil man, was in Coffeyville Monday eve- ning. on his way to Cleveland, 4rr tt tt W. H. Hoffman, a local oil man, who I has been operating in the Goody'; Bluff field, -as returned from a three! a mm ntAAlro' Trie) 4rt Tlffl rl fl hnmO "co Z- a -ofZ at Syracuse, N. and other eastern points.

J. H. Ritchie, of Cherryvale, pub- uv nAvrni rti Wans and vice president of the Uncle Sam Refinery company, was in Coffeyville ci ixi Lex i ilui yum to nuci xs uc um been loking after oil interests. He was accompanied by V. B.

Stone. Mr. and Mrs. S. D.

Grant and daughter, Miss Nellie, left Tuesday for Portsmouth, Ohio, where they will visit several weeks. The family will make their home in the east, either at Cincinnati or Akron, Ohio. Mr. Grant was formerly associated with the Kansas National Drill and Manu i I I I I You Are Eligible to Attend railway. He has a great number of friends hn hpn ftf hu good- fortune.

tu, rn! wa tn rip mrt -orhon vnn ho nn coneh whn vou hav nlil tn rnro vnnrself when I bowels Best for C0Ughs, colds, croup, whooping cough, etc. Sold bv 1 I Lang Sons. A LIKELY PREDICTION Vice-President of M. K. Accom panied by Cthcr Officials, Here Talks of Coffeyville.

A. A. Allen, vice-president and gen- eral manager of the M. K. accompanied by E.

M. Alford, general superintendent, of St. Louis, and C. Lb Harris, division superintendent, of Parsons, were in Coffeyville a few minutes Tuesday morning, in Mr. Allen's private car 01 attached to the south-bound morning train.

The officials are on an inspection trip. To a Journal reporter Mr. Allen said: "You'll have a big city here some day for you have all the resources to make Coffeyville a good sized place. I am glad to see the Commercial club of your city locating new industries here." A household necessity. Dr.

Thomas' Electric Oil. Heals burns, cuts, wounds of any sort; cures sore throat. croup, catarrh, asthma; never fails. Paving Half Finished. The paving contracted for by the city is about half finished.

There are seventeen blocks of paving In to date. Three blocks or concrete are finished that have not been covered with brick. The contract to McGuire Stanton calls for thirty-six blocks ef street paving. Twelve thousand feet of the feet of required curbing are already In i conceived in tne irresponsible brain of a man wno suoma uave uceu iU iunauc asyium insteau ui ruumug large, a menace 10 me puuuu Nobody put him tip to it. Nobody can be held responsible for his actions.

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