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THE KANSAS CITY STAR THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1912. NO BIDS FOR BIG SHIPS? EIGHT- LAW MAY KEEP OUT PRIVATE CONTRACTORS. The Oklahoma and Nevada Are to Be the Most Powerful Fighting Craft waver To Carry Ten 14-Inch Rifles. WASHINGTON, Jan. interest and some apprehension was manifested in naval quarters over the opening today of bids for the construction of the latest and most powerful AmerIcan super-dreadnoughts, the Oklahoma and Nevada.

Because of the recent Interpretation of the Hour Law by the Department of Justice, doubt had been expressed, seek that the any contracta. private shipbuilders The new vessels will have a displacement of approximately thousand tons and will carry the most powerful main batteries ever put afloat. Four turrets will house ten 14-inch rifles, three of the big guns going Into each of two turrets. The main armor belts will be fourteen inches thick. Congress appropriated 6 million dollars each for these vessels, exclusive of armor and armament.

In general design the ships will be almost exact duplicate of the New York and Texas, now building. They are to have a speed of about knots an hour and will use oil for fuel. RELICS OF THE CIVIL WAR. A Package of Old Envelopes Shows the Sentiment of the North In 1861. From the Boston Herald.

From down in the bottom of an old trunk there has just come to light a packet, of the "war" Rebellion. envelopes How used long in they the have been stowed away is not known, but it is safe to presume that between forty and fifty years have elapsed since they were put away with other relics of the struggle between North and South. The envelopes are unique in that on the left hand side of each is a sketch with appropriate words printed beneath. One is a small cartoon portraying Jefferson Davis tickling the ear of a lion with a piece of cotton on the end of a stick. It is headed "Jefferson trying to tickle the British lion with cotton," and underneath is the reply of the lion, as follows: "Jeff, it's no use.

I can do nothing for you till you bring a certificate of good character from your old Uncle Sam." Another is a sketch of a Union soldier in uniform, and underneath it is the quotation from Ellsworth: "He who noteth even the fall of a sparrow, will have some purpose even in the fate of one like me." The Stars and Stripes in colors decorates the upper left hand corner a white envelope of very light quality. In the flag there are twenty-four stars. Beneath it is the famous declaration of Gen. John A. Dix: "Shoot the first man that attempts to pull down American flag An envelope which was originally of yellowish tint bears a sketch of John C.

Fremont, the first Republican candidate for President of the United States. History relates that he carried eleven states, and would have been elected he carried Pennsylvania and Illinois. Beneath his -picture is an American flag, and alongside one of his famous utterances: "Above every consideration is our country as we have learned to love itone and indivisible, now and forever! and so we will maintain 1t." The American eagle in flight with shield in its claws, is reproduced on a white envelope, with the quotation from "The Star Spangled Banner." "Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust." And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. General Scott is shown protecting Washington on another envelope. "Washington" is reproduced as a large cut of beef; General Scott as a burly bulldog, while on the collar of a much smaller canine is printed "Jeff" for Jefferson Davis.

From the mouth of the big bulldog are coming the words: "Why don't you take it?" WISCONSIN TO BUILD ROADS. Improvements Will Be Made in Five Hundred Towns This Year. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Madison, Wis. -Wisconsin will build 632 miles of improved road in 1912 in 501 towns, sixty-four counties of the state having applied for state aid under the good roads laws of 1911.

The total amount to be expended in the state this coming year for good roads is $1,097,940, one-third coming from the state, from the counties and one-third one third towns, while for bridge construction on state roads the expenditure will be approximately $150,000 in 123 towns, the state giving one-fifth of the amount. Of the new roads to be built or permanently improved, 213 miles will be of stone, 152 of gravel, twenty-one of shale and 245 of dirt. Dane County heads the list of counties with its program for the year twenty-tour miles of stone roads, two of gravel and three of dirt, twentynine miles all told. Next comes Sauk County with twenty-two miles, of which eighteen miles be of stone. Milwaukee County, with a total of $226,048 to be spent, is down for only ten miles, but this was to be one hundred feet wide and, according to the ruling of Attorney General Bancroft, recently delivered upon the request of the district attorney's office of Milwaukee County, the aid from the state cannot be used for improving a road more than eighteen feet wide, or, if a wider road is desired, the state aid can be used for only the 18-foot portion.

Wisconsin's good roads law is the result of agitation which has been in progress for five or six years and which finally resulted in the passage of a constitutional amendment in 1908 permitting the use of state funds for highway improvement, A Welfare Board In Independence. Allen C. Southern, city counselor of Independence, has recommended to the city council the organization of a board of public welfare, to be composed of Mayor Llewellyn Jones and the members of the Associated Charities of that city, to have control over soliciting for charity on the streets. At present there are no restrictions on solicitors for alleged charitable Or religious organizations and it is the opinion of Mayor Jones and members of the city council that some of the solicitors are impostors and that those who are genuine ought to be provided with city credentials. Knights Templars in Independence.

Palestine Comandery, Knights Tem- plars, of Independence, will have a public installation of officers tonight in the Masonic hall on South Main Street. Dr. W. F. Kuhn of this city will be the chief installing officer.

EVI COL. CHARLES MORGAN DEAD BOTH DEMOCRATS AND ELECTED JOPLIN MAN TO CONGRESS. Promoted for Gallantry in the Civil War and Five Times He Escaped From Confederates, Once From Libby Prison. JOPLIN, Jan, Col. Charles H.

Morgan, who had the unusual distinction of having been elected to Congress both as a Democrat and as a Republican, died here today. Colonel Morgan also had a fine war record, including an escape from Libby prison, and four other escapes before he fipally reached the Union lines. Death resulted from an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Morgan was born in 1853, in Allegheny County, New York, and was reared on a farm in Wisconsin.

After serving in the war and being admitted to the bar he came to Missouri, settling at Lamar. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Barton County in 1872, and served one term in the Missouri General Assembly and was lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Missouri Infantry in the Spanish-American war. Mr. Morgan was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, eighth and Spanish-American Forty-ninth War congresses. he After became a Republican and was elected to the Sixty-first Congress, where he led fight for a tariff on zinc ores, the main mining product of the Fifteenth defeated for re-election by James Daugherty two years ago.

Since then he has been secretary of the zine ore producers' association and made home in Joplin. He left a widow several children. haha When President Lincoln called for troops in 1861, Charles Henry Morgan. 18 years old, was a pupil of the Fond Du Lac, High School. He went into the First Wisconsin Infantry a8 a private and was not far away when Beauregard whipped General McDowell in the disastrous first battle of Bull Run.

He fought all through the war, took part in eleven pitched battles, escaped five times from Libby Prison, and marched as captain at the head of Company Twenty-first Wisconsin Infantry, in the grand review at Washington. His promotion to a captaincy came to him for gallantry in action, At the close of the war, one man in each of the volunteer brigades was recommended for a commission in the regular army. Captain Morgan was named from his brigade, but preferring a taste of civil life after five years of war, he refused the commission and took up the study of law at the Albany Law School. After obtaining his degree he went to Southwest Missouri and practiced until 1884 when he went into minIng. He was elected to Congress in 1874 and of the men he served with in that session only Joseph G.

Cannon, speaker of the House and still a member of Congress, survives. When war was declared against Spair in 1898, Mr. Morgan offered his sword to his state and was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Missouri Infantry, serving with that regiment until it was mustered out. The most interesting part of Colonel Morgan's career was his various adventures as a Confederate captive. captured first at Perrysville, when his regiment was surrounded.

He was then a second lieutenant in the Twenty first Wisconsin. He was first and afterwards exchanged. He rejoined his regiment at Murfreesboro and fought at Chickamauga. His regiment surrendered there and for the second time he was a prisoner. He was gent to Libby Prison.

He arrived there in October, 1863, and was assigned to the top floor of the old tobacco warehouse. In February, 1864, Morgan, with 108 others escaped through the tunnel, but he was recaptured a few days later. Sev. eral weeks he was kept in the dungeon of Libby Prison. Three months later he, with.

other prisoners was loaded into a train of box cars to be taken to Macon, Ga. The prisoners in the car immediately began digging a hole through the floor. When the train stopped at Milan, Morgan crawled through the hole. Several days later, with two other men who had escaped, The was captured by a miller and taken to Macon. In the prison there the prisoners immediately laid plans to escape, but one of the prisoners turned traitor.

Later Morgan and several hundred of the prisoners were taken to Charleston. On the way plans were made to overpower the guards, capture one of the fortifications and then co-operate with the federal blockading fleet to capture the city. At the last moment some of men backed out. Later the prisoners were sent to Columbia, where Morgan escaped once and was recaptured the next day. When Sherman's army approached the prisoners were again loaded on cars and started for Savannah.

Again Morgan escaped through a hole cut in one of the cars, and finally, after being hidden by negroes, joined Sherman's army. He was Ill and was sent home to recuperate, but in thirty days joined his company at Richmond, having while a prisoner, been promoted captain. A few months later the Confederacy fell and Morgan marched his company to Washington, down Pennsylvania Avenue in the grand review and then into civil life. POLICE JUST MISSED A CALL. The James Family, Returning From a Ride, Had a Burglar Scare.

(Contributed to The Star.) BY NELL. AN UNNECESSARY FRIGHT. One evening in November, Mr. James, his wife and daughters went out for an electric ride. Upon returning, they saw lights all over the house.

This didn't frighten them much, for they thought it was only Mrs. James's mother. Mr. James ran the electric into the garage and proceeded to turn it around. Mrs.

James took the baby and went up to the house. She knew she couldn't get into the house, but tried the door anyway. "Oh, Frank," she said. "Burglars are in the house. The door is wide open." Mr.

James went up to the house. Sure enough, the door is open. He went into the front hall. Everything was lighted up. He started upstairs, but Mrs.

James called him back for fear the burglars were in ambush. "Who's there?" called Mr. James, Dead silence followed. "Who's there?" he called again: Dead silence again. "Let's call police," suggested his wife.

"Take the children on the front porch while I telephone." While she looked up the number a voice slowly answered from upstairs, "It's only me." On going up, they found Mrs. James's mother, "FREE JUSTICE IS FOLLY." Milton Campbell Says It To not Possible in the Universe. To The Star: There la abundance of "Free Justice" in the world If it 18 looked for in the proper place. Whenever and wherever kindly and upright people deal with each other in any relation of life they voluntarily do unto each other as they expect the others to do unto them. This is the free justice you seek.

No other free justice is possible in the universe. The very instant people start an Irreconcilable dispute about their rights they banish both freedom and Justice Force must be called in to decide between them and this destroys freedom. The primitive force that settled such cases was the individual strong arm, Even now the day very far gone since the universal acceptance of The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. To get rid of resulting anarchy, the most powerful monopolized the tyranny and the robbery and compelled order by the rules which are called laws. Exactly the same sort of force has marked governmental action under whatever form It ever appeared.

It is cised by our state and national governments today, and by every foreign government on earth. These governments, in their corporate capacity, enact the rules of order among their citizens, or subjects, and the latter have no choice except obedience, or punishment. These corporate rulers designate the agents, from among their servants, who are to have special laws both in matters of interpretation and of enforcement. They bind these Judges by rules of procedure, constitutions and curity bonds to conform Judgment statutes and by solemn oaths, and seand execution to the law, but they never did and they never will bind their agents upon justice, or to execute justice. The law may be to press the slavery upon the necks of half the people; or to burn dissenters from a prescribed belief at the stake; or to banish a foreign born person from the country for that reason alone; or to a voluntary bankrupt to swear himself free from his debts; or to make a losing business profitable favorites by taxing everybody else to aid in its support.

Or, the rule may be really fair, equitable and just. The point is that these Judges are bound by the inexorable law, and have 110 Inquiry to make except "Is this the law?" The rule is not always so clear as to be easily understood. The judge must then search for the law by "the rules of reason," and in so doing inquire whether the lawmakers sought to do injustice, or to violate the constitution by breaking their own oaths of office. This technicality is lately in disfavor and the judges are threatened with the abolishment of the light of reason in their inquiries. At present it is the only sidelight by which they can get a glimpse of justice, and that only to help them get at the meaning of the lawmakers.

It follows that there is, not, nor was there ever, any such a governmental agency a an 'Administration of Justice." Everywhere it is an "Administration of the Law," totally regardless of justice, it the meaning is undisputed. Under such a system, it is unpardonable folly to talk of freedom, and equal folly to blame the judge, who can do no other than carry out his charge. Thes system gives to the lawyers no power whatever, on the the law points shall of or determining what shall be its interpretation after it is made. It is made by lawmakers and construed by judges. Opposing lawyers representing opposing clients can only present arguments about the facts proven, or the law enacted.

The state, by its own paid judge, decides the law. MILTON CAMPBELL. PILOTED THE ELL.A MAY HERE. Capt. N.

M. Brown's Record Recalled by an Old Time River Man. Harlem, -To The Star: In regard to a writing in The Star for December 28, with reference to the ferry boat Ella May, you never mentioned the venerable, onetime owner the Ella May, Capt. N. M.

Brown. Ills record is unblemished on the records of captains, pilots and engineers, both on the Mississippi and the Missouri, since 1863. Captain Brown piloted the Ella May from Quincy, to Kansas City, her last resting place. This venerable gentleman has done a lot to increase the business between Kansas City and Clay County. He was loved and respected by all.

He was a splendid captain and a kind husband. His wife still lives in Harlem, where she is well known for her hospitality and her wonderful meals, catering from the highest official to the lowest of the firm of McClintic Marshall Construetion Company, who built the new Bridge. It. was that bridge that relieved her late husband's boat from active service. The Ella May was named after Mrs.

Brown. AN OLD TIME RIVER MAN. POSTAL RECEIPTS RAN HIGH. An Increase of $82,320.33 Over the Previous Year. The receipts of the postoffice of Kansas City during the year Just closed aggregated $2,421,541.82.

This 320.33 more than, the receipts was. which were $2,339,221.49. St. Louis, which is three times as large as Kansas City, made an increase in its postoffice receipts last vear of 273.97, only $18,000 more than the increase of Kansas City. The total receipts there were $4,639,459.07.

John G. Waples of Texas Dead. FORT WORTH, Jan. G. Waples, one of the most widely known business men in Texas, died at his home in this city last night after a long illness.

He was 63 years old. Mr. Waples was vice president of Waples-Platter Wholesale Grocery Company, with fifteen houses in this state; president of the Waples Lumber Company of Galveston; director of the Frisco lines of Texas; vice-president of the Strawn Coal and Mining Company, and vicepresident of the Waples-Painter Lumber Company of Gainesville. The funeral will be held in Denison tomorrow. U.

W. Haley Dead. U. W. Haley, 76 years old, a retired farmer, died last night at his home, 1017 North Lynn Street, Independence.

He was born in Kentucky. He had lived in Jackson County fifty-three years. A They celebrated their golden wedding widow, Sirs. Sarah Haley, survives him. anniversary January 1, 1910.

Mrs. Mary Webb Dead. Mrs. Mary Webb Tripp. years old, Tripp, died New Year's morning in Martinsville, Ind.

The bural will be in Topeka tomorrow. She leaves a son, Frank C. Tripp, 2316 Mersington Avenue, this city, and a daughter, Mrs. L. Hobart, Holden, Mo.

A HEN THAT WOULD RIDE. Hobo Pallet Was Put off Train Three Times by the Conductor. From the Indianapolis News. Rushville, Cambridge City hen rode all the way to Rushville on a southbound passenger train, after being put off three times by the conductor, to see the sights of Rushville, but it did not live long after its arrival and It was served at dinner for Thomas Horr and family, to whom it was given by the conductor. Perched on a step at the front end of the first passenger coach and viewing the scenery, the hobo hen was found by the conductor as the train pulled into Cambridge City, It was "shooed" away and the conductor thought no more of the episode until the train reached Falmouth, when he found the hen back in its old place, This time the conductor pushed the hen from the train with his foot and it disappeared with a few indignant squawks, When the train reached Gings, a small town a short distance north of here, the hen was back on the steps, and the conductor kicked it into a near-by field, remarking that "I guess that will settle you," He did not belleve the pullet would have the nerve to board the train again, but out of curiosity he went to the steps of the front car when the train arrived at Rushville and found the hen in the act of getting off the step.

By this time the conductor had become gry was about to ring the hen's neck when Thomas Horr appeared. The hen's life was spared on the promise by Horr that he would hold it securely till the train pulled out and then eat it for his New Year's dinner. Ohio Follows Kansas Example. From Columbus Obto State Journal. Inspired by an article which recently appeared in a weekly publication, A.

P. Sandles, secretary of the state board of agriculture, has mailed copies of the issue to each of the delegates accompanied by a letter applying its lessons to Ohio, The article told how Kansas drove out those who offered wild-cat speculation in return for perfectly good money. If $300 to $350 is about the amount you wish to pay for your Piano-look here--at the $6 monthly. Full size, upright grand, in very handsome mahogany case. Equal Pianos sold in most stores for $350 and even more.

Examine the WHITTIER'S tone and construction F. G. Smith Piano Company Manufacturers of Grand, Upright and Player Pianos Grand Avenue, 1013-1015. Society Brand Suits, $15 -Regular $25 and $30 Fancy Suits, Serge and Silk lined--all snappy college styles--now being sacrificed in our Annual Mid-winter Clearance. 12th and 12th and Walnut Walnut Boley's Things to bat" 1108-10 Walnut Street Lake Trout Peanut Butter Fresh caught Lake Trout from the Made from fresh roasted and caregreat lakes; not too fat; they are fully selected Spanish Peanuts and just the thing for baking or boil- bottled for us.

Regular per 1ng; weight. from 17c jars, 15c; special, 2 25c pounds up, Codfish Arizona Oranges Most select strips from the choicest Owing to a backward season Call- part of genuine Codfish, put up in fornia Navel Oranges are not as 2-pound wooden boxes to preserve good as usual. We have just in Its moisture and cleanliness; 2- Arizona Navel Oranges grown by 1b box, regular 50c. irrigation that are really 50c Special 40c sweet, doz. Viennese Candies Blended Black Tea Fouree's Candy Gooseberries, Cur- A combination of India, Ceylon, rants, Raspberries, with surpris- and China Black Teas; remarkably ingly delightful flavor; a fresh im- pleasing; most economical to use.

lb. portation, regular 75c 60c Regular package 40c; 30c Currant Cup Cakes Portugal Port Those old-fashioned Wholesome Would you like a bottle of good Cakes. children are so fond of: sound Portugal Port Wine in the best butter, sugar, eggs and milk house? We import a good one at lar 15c dozen bottle used in the making. Regu- 75c bottle. Special, 12c gallon 60c The Tiffin Room A quiet, restful place for "Good Things to Eat" Service is now prompt.

Keith's January Clearance Sale includes good furniture for living room, dining room, bedroom, den and hall-Axminster Rugs, Wilton Rugs, Velvet Rugs, Brussels Rugs and a very large, choice collection of Oriental Rugs- Curtains, Upholstery Fabrics, Draperies, etc. This month will prove a very advantageous time for you to furnish your home complete, or buy any one article in the above mentioned lines. This plain statement of facts will appeal to you, therefore we advise you to come down. Robert Keith furniture Carpet Co. Grand Avenue Eleventh Street Economy Sale-A Day of Great Values! Trimmed Hats 400 bright, new hats, in all spto $7.50 proved colors; values $1.75 200 dressy models, with none of the "newness" worn off; values to $10; specially priced tomorrow at $2.50 Stockinette Caps The children appreciate these nice, warm caps.

They stay on, Just the thing to wear Untrimmed Shapes skating. Desirable large and small vet, corduroy, satin Special shapes in velvet, stitched velfelt, camprices, el's hair felt and two-tone re15c and 25c values versible to felt $3 50c P. Adler Millinery Co. 1210-1214 Main Street Two Shops on Petticoat Lane All Winter Footwear Reduced in Carlat's Semi-Annual Clearance Sale. $7 and $8 Styles $5.95 $6 Styles and $7.

$4.95 Styles $6. $3.95 $4 Styles 4.54.50 $3.45 $3.50 $4 Styles $2.95 button; tan dull; cut Alpine Boot, 8-inch, 16- $5.95 buck; Black, $8, white, cut gray or brown $6.95 cut to 12-inch 24-button, tan or dull; $6.95 NOT A PAIR RESERVED Velvets Suedes Satins Tans Gunmetals Patents This Entire Stock Street Boots Dress Boots Storm Boots Evening Slippers Motor Boots Carriage Boots At Clearance Prices $3 Shoes Waterproof for boys. Tan School $1.95 Tan inch Cresto, eight $3 for School girls or Dress Shoes $1.95 to cut from $5 duced Mail price Orders catalogue. Filled--Send for re- $3.95 Carlats Booteries. 8 East Eleventh and 12 East Eleventh H.

H. WATTS OPTICAL CO. FREE An eye shade, worth 25 cents, will be given free of charge to all adults who present this advertisement at our new store during the month of Shade Folded. January. Shade in Use.

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