Fort Scott Daily Monitor from Fort Scott, Kansas • Page 5

THE FORT SCOTT MONITOR, MONDAY, APRIL 28. 11 H1mi 3G0RE. MAROONS OPEN UP BASE BALL SEASON BY SHUTTING OUT THE SCHMELZERS. game in Fort Scott. If the Maroons continue to play the same great ball during the season that they, did in the practice game of yesterday not a whimper will be heard from the lips of a fan this year.

Yesterday's playing was the kind of work that wins pennants. WESTERN SCHOOL JOURNAL HAS A FEW INTERESTNG FACTS AND FIGURES. mill FORT SGOTl SCHOOLS THE SCHOOLS ARE HI6HLY PRAISED. IT WAS ONLY A PRACTICE GAME. The Elks are beginning to talk base ball and it is believed that the -'Best People" will soon organize a nine.

The Elks have some good material for their base ball team and might form a championship amateur club. The clerks are wishing that the Elks would organize, as they want the first Crack at them. They say they can wipe the ground up with the Elks in one, two, three times. and Squeal if the grocer offers you another kind, Fling around blow him up holler and stamp, your lungs smile keep your temper, But keep it up hold out for Scotch Oats. At every Grocery Store.

Kick Use dcor.cn uats witn barrel never. And tne Kiitea piper on every don't believe that any other SCOTCH remember, is the food that puts its whole strength straight into the system. And no other food in the world does that. Hold out for Scotch Oats. Official Schedule Missouri Valley League.

i at Joplin At Spring'd At Iola At Coffsyv'e At Ft. Scott At Nevada At Sedalia At Jeff. City May 6, 7, 8 June 31, 22, 28 May 31 Jun 1 2 June 4, 5, June 7, 8, 9 May 17, 18. 19 May 14, 15, 16 Jopli June 28, 29, 30 Aug. 6, 6, 7 July 2, 8, 4 July 26, 27, 28 July 23, 24, 25 July 8, 10 July 12, 18, 14 Aug.

27, 28, 29 Sept. 22, 83, 24 Sept. 19, 20. 91 Sept. 3, 4, 5 Sept.

6, 7, 8 Aug. 16, 17, 18 Aug. 13, 14, 15 May 9, 11, 12 May 28. 29, 30 June 18, 19, 20 June 7, 8, 9 June 4, 5, 6 May 14 15, 16 May 17, 18, 19 Springfield June 25. 26, 27 July 5, 6, 7 Aug.

9, 10, 11 July 23, 24,25 July 28, 27, 28 July 12, 13, 14 July 8, 9. 10 Aug 30 SI Sep 1 Sept. 25, 26, 17 Sept. 22, 23, 24 Sept. 6, 7, 8 Sept.

3, 4, 5 Aug. 13, 14. 15 Aug. 16, 17, 18 June 18, 19, 21 May 31 Jun 1 2 May 6, 7, 8 May 17, 18, 19 May 14, 15. 16 June 7, 8.

9 June 4, 5, tf Iola Aug. 9, 10, 11 July 2, 8, 4 June 28, 29, 30 July 8, 9, 10 July 12, 13, 14 July 23, 24, 25 July 26, 27, 28 Spt. 16, 17, 18 Sept. 19, 20, 21 Aug. 27, 28, 29 Aug.

16, 17, 18 Aug. 13, 14, 15 Sept. 6, 7. 8 Sept. 8.

4, 5 May 28, 29, 30 June 21, 22, 23 May 10, 11, 12 May 14, 15, 16 May 17, 18, 19 June 4, 5, 6, June 7, 8, 9 Cokfe July 6,6, 7 Aug.5,6,7 27 July 12, 13, 14 July 23, 24. 25 Sept 26, 26, 27 Sept. 16, 17, 18 Ag 30, 31, Sep 1 Aug. 13, 14, 15 Aug. 16, 17, 18 Sept.

3, 4, 5 Sept. 6, 7, 8 June 11, 12, 13 June 14, 15. 16 May 24, 25, 26 May 20, 21,22 May 6, 7, 8, June 21, 22, 23 May 81, Jun 12 Fort Scott July 19, 20, 21 July 16, 17, 18 July 30, 31 Ag 1 Aug. 2, 3, 4 June 28, 29, 80 Aug. 5, 6, 7 July 8, 3, 4 Sept.

10, 11, 12 Sept. 18, 14. 15 Aug. 23, 24, 25, Aug. 20, 21, 22 Aug.

27, 28, 29 Sept. 16, 17, 18 Sept. 19, 20, 21 June 14, 15, 16 June 11, 12, 13 May 20. 21,22 May 24, 25, 26 May 10, 11, 12. May 28.29, 30 June 21, 22, 23 Nevada July 16, 17, 18 July 19, 20, 21 Aug.

2, 3, 4 July 30 31, Ag 1 June 28, 26, 27 July 5. 6. 7 Aug. 5, 6, 7 Sept 13, 14, 15 Sept. 10, 11, 12 Aug.

20, 21, 22 Aug. 23, 24, 25 Ag 30 81, Sep. 1 Sept. 25, 26, 27 Sept. 22, 23, 24 May 20, 21,22 May 24, 25, 26 June 14.

15, A6 June 11, 12, 13 Juoe 18, 19, 20 May 31 Jun 1 2 May 6. 7, 8 Sedalia Aug, 2. 3, 4 July 31. 31 Ag 1 July 16, July 19, 20, 21 Aug 9, 10, 11 July 2, 8. 4, June 28, 29, 30 Aug.

20,21, 22 Aug. 23, 24 25 Sept. 13, 15 Sept. 10, 11, 12 jSept. 22, 23, 24 Sept 19, 20, 21 Aug.

27, 28, 29 May24, 25,26 June 11, 12, 13 June 14. 15, 16 (May 28, 29, 30 June 18, 19. 20 MaylO, 11. 12 Jefferson City July 30,31. Agl Aug.

2. 3, 4 July 19, 20, 21 July 16, 17, 18 i July 5. 6, 7 Aug. 9,10.11 June 25. 26.

27 Aug. 23, 24, 25 Aug. 5tf, 21, 22 Sept. 10, 11, 12 Sept. 13.

14, 15 Sept. 25, 26, 27 Sept. 16, 17, 18 Ag 30, 81, Sep 1 Score was 6 to 0 Fans Are Delighted With the Superb Work of Fort Scott's Base Ball Team All Three Pitchers Tried Out in the Game. All the base ball fanatics in town went out to the Fort Scott Driving park yesterday afternoon to stare at the first big base ball game of the season only a practice game with the Kansas City Schmelzers. The fans went out expecting to see Fort Scott acquit herself with honor.

They were not disappointed. Fort Scott put it on Kansas City to the tune of 6 to 0. It was a bunch of professionals up against a gang of amateurs, and perhaps the Maroons should have beat them worse, but they didn't. It was more the superb fielding of the home team than it was the stick work of the Maroons. Their game was almost errorless a mishap of Shorty Howell, dropping the ball while attempting to throw it, being the only error made during the game.

The lineup follows: Fort Scott. Huffman Gordon Green Lane McDill Howell Perkins Poorman Bouldin Schmelzers. Ford Martz Wilson Crumm Straight Cox Shannon Keys Trestial Catcher Pitcher 1st Base 2d Base 3d Base Short Stop Left Field Center Right Field Score by Innings. 123456789 Fort Scott 2 2001100 9 Schmelzers ..0 0000000 0 0 Hits Fort Scott, Kansas City, 1. Errors Ft.

Scott, 1 Kansas City, 4. Fort Scott took the field, with the new man, Gordon, in the box. He pitched three innings and did well. He has the speed and throws a good curve. The visitors could not get a run off him, but got one hit the only hit they made.

In order to practice Bouldin was put in the box tor the next three innings. Bouldin has a left wing that is a wonder. The Missourians could not even see the ball and he struck them out in one, two, three order. Cravens occupied the box during the last three innings. He pitched the same good ball that made him a favorite with the fanatics last year.

He didn't allow the enemy a hit and struck them out in something the same way that Bouldin had before him. All the pitchers are good, and with the excellen support behind them are going to make things hum in the Missouri Valley league this season. Although Fort Scott shut out the visitors and held them down to one hit, it might seem queer that the Maroons could only count up six runs on the visitors. Possibly Fort Scott is a little weak with the stick, though seven hits were secured in yesterday's game. However, it must be remembered that Kansas City had a pitcher on the ground who was pretty much of something himself.

Little Martz could twirl them a few perhaps just as well as the bulk of the league pitchers. The heaviest hitting of the game was done by McDill and Perkins. McDill. knocked a home run over right field, securing a run, and followed this up next time he came to bat with a three-bagger. Perkins landed on the ball hard, but was unlucky enough most every time to place the ball almost in the hands of some far-away fielder.

The exhibition was featured by no star plays, unless the fielding of Sec-one Baseman Crum of Kansas City in two instances may be mentioned as "grand stand." Catcher Huffman caught all three pitchers in great style and was perfectly fresh at the finish. Huffman is the best catcher ever in Fort Scott and no better man could be asked for to make up the plate end of the battery Greene, the new man on first, could not be improved upon in that position. He played a strong game from the tap of the gong. All the old players who were here last year and In the same good form as they were in the days gone by. Poorman, the new center fieleder, is an active little chap and can swing on to the ball.

He is a fine pitcher and gives satisfaction The lads from the metropolis are no chumps when it comes to acting out on the diamond. They put np a good, stiff game, but were outclassed, as they probably knew before they came down. The crowd in attendance was one of the largest that ever attended a ball Thla Many Details of Interest Concerning the Different Schools of the City Views of the Veteran School Editor, Mr. John McDonald. A short time ago we took panoramic and bird's eye views of the Fort Scott schools The city has eight or nine school buildings, an enrollment of 2,400, with fifty teachers.

There are 325 pupils in the high school and nine teachers. The best evidence that Superintendent D. M. Bowen is doing his work to the satisfaction of the people is that he has been thirteen years in the schools, five as principal, and the last eight years as superintendent. Principal W.

C. Lansdon of the Fort Scott High school is one of the best equipped teachers in the west. He served nine years as instructor with D. E. Sanders in the old Knsas Normal college, and he is now finishing his sixth year in the High school.

The Fort Scott High school has a fine working library and the selections of books have been made with great wisdom. There are twenty sets of cloth-bound classics and there are from twenty to forty volumes in each set, so that a large class can be supplied. Typewriting and shorthand are a part of the course. Miss Sara D. Bates, the primary teacher in the Central building, has been teaching in the Fort Scott schools thirty-one years, twenty-nine of these in the first grade.

An effective way to secure regular attendance in her room is the placing of two small flags on each desk in the row of seats which has had no absence dur ing the week. The flags remain until captured by some other row. Superintendent Bowen has a train ing school for teachers, usually about twelve in number. From this class teachers are selected as they may be reeded. The walls of every school room we were in perhaps thirty in number were anely decorated with good p'c tures.

John McDonald, in Western School Journal. THEY WANT TO QUIT THE MEMBERS OF THE GAS COM MITTEE ARE READY TO STOP DRILLING. BELIEVE THERE IS NO USE OF IT. Nearly All the Members of the Com mittee Have Signed a Communication- the Council Giving Their Views of the Matter Council Yet to Act. The members of the gas committee have made up their minds to drop the gas work and have prepared and most of them signed a paper saying that they believe there is no use in going further with the prospecting.

The let ter is as follows: Fort Scott, April 28. To the Honorable Mayor and City Council, Fort Scott, Gentlemen: We, the undersigned members of the gas committee appointed by you, beg leave to state that Prof. Haworth having pronounced the last specimen found in well No. 4, on the Galloway farm, Mississippi limestone flint, we recommend the payment of the bill due Patton Plun-kett, which has been approved by your committee. Having performed our duty for the past six months and used our best judgment in prospecting for natural gas in the vicinity of Fort Scott, we now deem it useless and a waste of money to continue the work, believing that, gas of sufficient volume for commercial purposes cannot be found in this locality, and for that reason ask that our resignations be accepted and work discontinued.

George Kennedy, C. C. Nelson, O. A. Cheney, B.

J. Chapin, C. O. Tallman, E. S.

Redman, A. Schaffer, M. Liep-man, D. B. Bryant.

Pawnee Brown is the only member that is outspoken in his desire to go on with the drilling. He says he is sure there is gas not very far from Fort Scott, but the rest of the committee are a unit in their opinion that there is no chance for the city to gain any advantage from further drilling. Messrs. H. L.

Page and J. T. Beatty, the other members, are not in the city. During the special meeting of the council this afternoon the mayor informed the members that quite a few members of the gas committee were favoring abandoning the present drilling for gas. He told the council that CHENEY LANDED IT.

LONG STANDING CLAIMS OF MAIL CARRIERS HAS FINALLY BEEN ALLOWED. FIVE PEOPLE EACH TO RECEIVE $100. Eli Thomas, C. F. Chapin, O.

M. Morse, Mrs. J. R. Firestone and James C.

Cuthbertson the Lucky Ones Sum Will Reach Nearly Six Hundred Dollars. An old act of congress, approved May 24, 1888, gave authority for letter carriers to bring suit in the United States court of claims for pay for all time over eight hours at the same rate per hour as their regular salary. Judge Cheney was given the claims of the Fort Scott carriers and associated with Mr. Foot, an attorney of Washington, to assist him in securing judgment. The suits were brought in May, 1895, on the trial of these cases.

The court of claims held that all the claims for overtime that had been running six years or more were barred by the statutes of limitation. This decision practically held that every month a carrier received his pay that was a full settlement and could not be disturbed after six years. The attorney for claimants held that it was a running account; also that the statute of limitation was practically fixed by the act of 18S8 and the attorneys for the carriers appealed from this part of the decision, and the supreme court of the United States reversed the de cision of the court of claims some two years ago. This claim, like all claims against the government, can only be paid by an appropriation of congress. The committee on appropriations has recommended the passage of the act to pay the balance due on the claims, and it is probable that the act will become a law, although it reached the same stage last year and died on the calendar.

Judge Cheney states that Mrs. Firestone's claim on account of her son James, who was one of the letter carriers here, has been through the courts twice, and that he first applied for her rs the only heir of her son. The court of claims rejected it on the ground that the applicantion should be made by an administrator. He then had Mrs. Firestone apply as administra trix of her sons' estate and refiled the petition.

The court of claims held that the whole claim wras barred, as more than six years had elapsed be-tween the time of his last work and the application made by the adminis tratrix. Judge Cheney appealed from this de cision that tne statute ot limitation was suspended after Mr. Firestone's death until his administratrix was ap pointed, and further that the application filed by his mother as sole and only heir was a proper and valid ap plication and that no administrator was necessary. Tnis case was reversed by the supreme court upon the same basis as the others. The court of claims held that she was entitled to the sum of $168.34, but that $114.05 of said amount was barred, as more than six years had elapsed on that much of the claim prior to the filing of her affidavit.

The carriers who will be benefited by this bill and the amounts due are as follows: Eli Thomas, C. F. Chapin, $83; O. M. Morse, J.

Firestone, James Cuthbertson, $114.05. Total, $551.64. Judge Cheney the claimants are to be congratulated upon their success in securing even a prospective settle ment of their claims. Tom Nelson says he left the Georgetown university the year before Arthur Duffy, the famous sprinter, came there. He knows a great deal about him, how ever, and says he is a wonder.

Tom thinks that Clyde Blair will show them all up in the course of another year. He says that Blair was on a strange field Saturday and that he was confronted by a howling crowd of rooters who were enough to scare the life out of a fellow who was not accustomed to their yells signature is on erery box of the genuine uaxaiive oromoUuinine Tablets dox, never from a A. is at all like it. Jim, the fire horse who was injured a week ago while trying to get up in his stall, has not shown much signs of improvement. He is thought, however, to be only slightly injured and will be able to be put back to work in a short time.

Chief Ausman's horse is being used in his stead. Mrs. Ed Penniman, who has been very ill with pneumonia, is reported to be just a trifle better today, al though she is still in a very dangerous condition. She has been uncons- ious for two whole days and last night was very restless. The crisis will soon be over.

Some people seem to have the idea that the big piece of cornice near the top of the Drake block, which was partially dislodged by the wind of night before last, is still loose and consequently avoid that side of the street. On the contrary it has been fixed and there is no danger. Mr. Congdon, of the cornice works, wired it up securely. $25.00 Kansas City TO California DURING MAECH and APRIL VIA GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE Best tourist car service from Kansas City to Pacific coast.

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Kansas City, Ma Jno. Sebastion, G. P. Chicago. tion resulted, but in the end the animals were stopped and quieted down.

APPOINT APPRAISERS. E. J. Chapin, L. C.

Hanna and J. A. Durkee Chosen by the Council to Determine Value of Property. Late this afternoon the special meeting of the city council decided on the following gentleman to act as appraisers of the property along Main street from Market to Second streets: E. J.

Chapin, L. C. Hanna and J. H. Dur-kett.

Mr. Chapin was made chairman of this committee. The gentlemen will be notified at once of their appointments and will begin their work immediately, as this work will have to be completed before the paving be gins. Paul Brooks says the thug who assaulted Mr.Hobsontbe other night and was fined $100 in policejcourt afterward tried to strike him with a club the same night. Brooks was on Main street when the fellow accosted him.

He refused to give the tramp anything and the "bur ley" tried hard to land on Paul's head. Brooks made a harried get away, however. The United States circuit court will be in session here next week. The county district court will also be in session and the lawyers are all brush- iog up on the various cases they have in the two different courts. Beach am Rhodes has been given an increase in his pension of from $24 to $30.

J. S. McCallister, also of this city, has been granted a pension of $12. Judge Cheney presented the claims for each of these gentlemen. It wouldn't be surprising if Fort Scott were to develop some feminine baseball fans this year.

It was noticeable at the game yesterday that many of the ladies were sitting up in the grand stand and they all seemed to enjoy the sport immensely, a The men welcome the fair sex to to the games and many the husband who wishes that his wife would take the same interest in baseball that he does. the bonds were to convince the people that there was no gas in these parts and that he favored further drilling. He also said that he thought the holes should be drilled deeper. Councilman Hahn also spoke on this question. He said that in his opinion the drilling should be kept up and ad vocated drilling near the city.

He explained further that in the case that gas were found at a distance of fifteen or twenty miles from the city it would not do us much good. Hahn was followed by H. B. Brown. He thought that there was gas inside of three miles from the city and said that he was far from being discouraged.

He told the council that he be lieved, since they voted bonds, they should be thoroughly convinced that there was no gas in these regions be fore they threw up the sponge. The council will probably decide to con tinue the drilling until the funds ap propriated for that purpose are expended. If further drilling is done it will be near Fort Scott. Mr. C.

H. Harbison, who was quite badly shaken up in an accident that occurred last Saturday evening, is not in a serious condition, though his bruises are very painful and he is confined to his room. The accident was caused by the fact that his horse shied away from a street car and ji so doing struck an express wagon that was standing near. This frightened the animal, which made a lunge and threw the buggy against the curbing with such force as to overturn it. Mr.

Harbison was thrown oat, bat hang on to the reins and was dragged some distance before the horse freed himself and broke away from the buggy entirely. It was a very close call and all who saw it expected him to be killed before help could reach him. There came near being a serious runaway on Market square this morning, but it was prevented before any damage was done. The team attache! to the smaller of the two Standard Oil wagons took fright at a street car which was being taken from the power house and bolted. A great commo- the remedy that cores cold in oae day,.