The Leavenworth Times from Leavenworth, Kansas • Page 9

TIME H. EDITORIAL SECTION LEAYENWORTH. KANSAS 'SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 2 1904. PAGFS 9 to 12 mm PARTY BITTERNESS FHE BRITISH PRESS -PROPHESIES THE Ei TJE STATE JOOPL iSIEBS G0LESPJ, BDIOWS flllD DOTDOFF and there sold to the commissioners of the permanent school fund. for.

said fund, each of said bonds for The then commissioners of that fund being "William H. Smallwood, secretary of state; H. D. McCarty, superintendent of public instruction, and A. L.

Williams, as attorney general, but the purchase was made in-Hhe absence of A. L. Williams, the attorney general, and without his knowledge and consent. And these two bonds of said school districts numbered two and three then and there became a part of the permanent-schol funds of this state, and from thence hitherto have remained in and a part of said funds. That said bonds were fraudulent when Issued, fraudulent when sold to the permanent school fund, and are fraudulent now, and not worth the paper they are printed upon, and the same Is equally true with regard to the other $72,000 in bonds fraudulently disposed of as herein before averred.

That when the legislature of Kansas In Their Suit for 346,000 for Libel Because of Charges Made in the Sale of Comanche -County Bonds -The Answer Uncovers All The Fraud. History of the County. over, I -visited the county myself and declare as the result ot actual observation that there are no inhabitants In the county and that there never 'was a bona fide inhabitant there. i "It Marius sat amid the ruins of Carthage and wept, I camped' upon the town site of Smallwood (thy-couHty seat) and feasted upon wild turkey, with no (white) man to molest or make me afraid. In Smallwood there are two log cabins (both deserted of course) without doors, win-daws, sashes, or "About a mile off is another deserted ranch.

and these compose the houses of the "householders' of the county. In this county there is not an acre of land or dolar's worth of property subject to taxation. Its sole inhabitants are the Cheyennes and the coyote, the wolf, the Arapahoes, and its organization Is and always has been a fraud." That when the of Kansas met In January, 1S73, Governor Os-born. In his mesasge to that body, animadverted at length upon the outrageous frauds that had been perpetrated in Comanche and other western counties, and laid before that body the reports of the said A. I Williams," attorey general, and of the said Senator Matheny and Representative Jones' relative thereto.

That when the legislature of 1876 con 4 i land empire Is perfectly.eMsy of defense against the Rusians. who are not -likely toeome down upon the Japanese until they number "three to one but to muster, this force they, must at least, be strong." This would imply that the utmost force that the Japanese will put li the field is 118,000 men. How enlightening! He says, furthermore, that the Jap-, anese are fulry prepared to march on Harbin and. that the cold weather at present does not make it compulsory to suspend operations. It is interesting to know this.

So long as the Japanese can endure the, crushing cold of Sept. 21 it is settled that. they wil march up to Siberia under soft January skle. Altogether, the correspondent' of the Standard had a very busy day. One of the most interesting points brought out In the present war is the way the Japanese wounded heal.

A dispatch from Tokyo states that there are 45,000 wounded now under care in the various Japanese hospitals and that the results of treatment are most gratifying. This can readily be believed. The writer returned from Manchuria to Moji, a part of southern Japan, last May as the wounded were being brought in from the battle of the Yalu and passed some time in the Japan-ese hospitals. The way the soldiers bore up under wounds and recovered was astounding. Patients with fresh bullet holes through their breasts tumbjed out of their cots to be examined standing.

There were no screams of pain. One could not avoid the conclusion that a wound capable of racking white flesh with the extremest torture merely itched the and issuing and selling Its bonds fraudu- 1 (Irish World.) In every free country government derives its own powers from the consent of the governed. The expression of this consent can be evidenced by a vote of the citizens; and, as the casting of each individual vote means yea or nay for candidates or platforms, this again implies two more political parties. Parties, therefore in the politics ot a free reople, are legitimate agents. They cannot be dispensed with.

Aiin differ in their political views, in ether matters, because of their bringing up, their tradition, their association and their interests. Of course, the theory that every citizen should weigh and study every on its merrits and vote according to the ditcates of his cons-ciense. This is the theory, and a goodly percentage of the dti2ens net on this rrinciple. But the greater number are swayed more by association and habit. Since, then, all men cannot be expected to see things in the same light, and since, in the nature of things, there must be different political -parties, we should learn to be tolerant toward those of our fellow citizens who differ with us, recognize their rights, and respect their motives even as we would have them act toward us.

The man who will not respect the political rights of those who differ with him is a despot at heart. He would, if he had the power, destrow the Republic, and make his own will the law of the land. Such a man is not worthy to wear the badge of American citizenship. EVEN CATS CATCH THE WAR SPIRIT. A letter from an American woman who was for a time shut up in Port Arthur gives a curious account of the effect of the bombardment upon the large number of cats that assembled as soon as the shells began to fall: At each gun shot the cat3 arched their backs and stiffened their legs, and seemed both terrified and furious.

Then when a hissing shell arrived it gave the signal for a frightful battle. They jumped at each other like raging tigers seemed to hold each other responsible for what was taking place. The effect was so comical that we could not help laughing, though the occasion was not one to inspire gayety. After having fought, the cats retired for a while, but as soon as the bombardment began again they went through the same business. Recovered Speech and Hearing.

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or mailed by Elv Brothers, 56 Warren New York. met in January, 1874, the said Mowry appeared as a member from said Coman- che county, and was permitted to take his seat. That thereafter, during said session of said legislature, a resolution was pased directing the committee on state affairs of the house to investigate the organization of that county, and that committee, after making such investigation as the weather, the distance, and the short term of the session, allowed, reported that said Mowry was not entitled to his seat in that body but nothing further came of it. That at a special session of the Kansas legislature, held in September, 1874. a joint resolution was passed through both houses, and aproved by the governor, appointing Attorney General A Li.

Williams, Senator Matheny and Representative Jones, a general committee, with instructions to investigate the organization of that and other counties. That said joint committee investigated the organ ization of the said Comanche county, the said attorney general making his report separate from the others, and his. report of said Comanche county was in the words and figures following, to-wit: "COMANCHE COUNTY. "The history of my investigations of Comanche county will be divided into two heads; the first devoted to its inhabitants; the second to its finance. Comanche county has no inhabitants, and never had.

Having no inhabitants, no county seat, no officers and no books, it will be seen that it will be difficult to state-the financial condition of the county- From the person claiming to be respectively treasurer and chairman of county Aboard of said county, and also from a statement of the auditor of state. I find the bonded indebtedness to be as follews: Building court house $29.010 Building bridges 23,000 General expenses 20.000 Total $72,000 "In addition to this, school districts Xos. 2 and 3 have each issued $1,000 in bonds, which. I am sorry to say, are now a part of the permanent school fund, of the state. Under what ctrcumstanes commissioners of the permanent school fund (the superintendent of public instruction, the secretary of state and attorney general) purchased these bonds.

and from whom, should be inquired into by the There is, it will be seen, but little testimony in regard to the population ff Comanche county. But testimony was not needed. It was by every oric ron ceded that no one ever lived there at the time of my investigation. More Topeka, Oct I. The Topeka State Journal has filed in the district court its answer to the suits for libel brought by C.

C. Coleman, J. R- Burrow and I. L. Dahoff.

The suit grows out of the sale of Comanche county bonds to the state school fund commission. The Journal claim-: ed the board was negligent in the performance of its duty in bylng bonds nnt worth rh nfire nam tor I hem. he Journal's reply is as follows: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SHAW NEE OTJ'T'J STATE OF ICAN1" SAS. C. Coleman, Plaintiff, vs.

Frank P. MacLennan, Defendant. ANSWER. Comes now the defendant In the above ntitled action, and, for his answer to the averments contained in plaintiffs petition, says: That prior to the year 1870 the legislature of Kansas created and defined the boundaries of Sumner, Harper, Comanche, Barbour, and other counties out of the -uninhabited portion of the territory of Kansas. That Comanche county, thus created, was out of that portion of Kansas west of Barbour county, and north of and ad- joining the south line of the state of Kansas, the altitude of which said Co- manche county, and its location placed It beyond what was then and is now known as the rain belt, and composed of high bluffs, deep canons, and table land, and.

by reason of its altitude and conformation, was unfit for agriculture, and of Indifferent worth as. a grazing country. That in 1S73 the Indians and hunters were" killing buffalo in the western part of Sumner county, in Harper and Barbour counties, while Comanche county was a wilderness without inhabitants of any kind or character save and except buffalo, coyotes wolves, prairie dogs, owls, rattlesnakes and ocasional bands of marauding Indians. That in 1S74 the Indians penetrated the state of Kansas as far east as Barbour county on one of their forays, and killed some cattle herders there being-no white inhabitants west of Barbour county. That in the -fall of 1873.

A. J- Mowry and others started in a wagon from Hutchinson, the nearest point on a rail way, to said Comanche "county." and some seventy-five miles therefrom, taking with them a city directory of the city of Joseph, in the state of Missouri, and went to Comanche county for the purpose offices. i vened, the said Mowry turned up as a' members of the house from Doniphan county. Kansas, and the question of the said fraudulent organization of the said Comanche county camp up in connection with the crime that had been perpetrated against the people of Kansas in the looting of their school funds when the said school fund cdmmissioners purchased the two bonds for $1,000 each of school districts numbers two and three In Comanche county and the whole subject was referred to the committee of state affairs of the house, who made aj thorough investigation relative thereto. I and reported to the- house the evidence taken by them and their findings of fact therefrom, which report is in words and figures following, towit: "To the Speaker of the House of Representatives: "The undersigned, your committee, under and bv virtue of hmiw resninfinv adopted January, llSTS, and referred by! order of the house to the committee on state affairs January 17.

1S76, of which the following Is a copy: 'Whereas, By the last annual report of the attorney jgenefal of this state. it is reported that, the commissioners of! the permanent sctinqT fund did purchase of Andrew J. Mo-rjv now a member of this house, certain school bonds of uis-tricts Nos. 2 and Comanche county, which bonds are6lapned to be worthless; therefore, be it 4- I it 'Resolved. That committee of.

five whose duty it shall be to tuscertain if said school bonds were negotiated and sid to said commissioners of the permanent school fund by the said Andrew J. Mowry and for the purpose of investigating the same, they are authorized to send for persons and papers and administer oaths and to report to this house, for its proper action thereon. thv facts pertaining to said investigation. by virtue of a certain other res-: adopted by the houe of repres- entatives on the 4th- day of 1576. of which the following is a copy: "'Resolved, Thatf the committee on-state affairs, they make their re-! port" 'on the resolution referred to them, i relating to the -statement of the attorney1 gnral.

that the permanent school fund commissioners had ourchnsed certain (Continued on Page Twelve.) of fraudulently organizing that county, That it was necesary that It be shown to have two hundred and fifty householders to entitle it to organization. That after the said A. J. Mowry and his confreres as aforesaid arrived in Co- manehe county they proceeded to take the census of that county by writln therein the names they found in said di- rectory so taken by them from St. Jos- from wWch thpy made a pre.

tended census for said county and presented the same to the governor of the state of Kansas, by means whereof an w.iut iua.vi iu uigauiAC Dam wuu- That at the same time, and as a part of said fraudulent transaction, the said A. J. Mowry antj his said confreres in crime, all of whom were of a number that one wagon furnished accommodations therefor, pretended to hold an election for county officers, and vote bonds to build a county court house, bridges, and for general expenses of the county; at which election it was pretended that the said A. J. Mowry was elected a member of the legislature for that county for the ensuing year when In fact and in truth there was never any inhabitant and residents of said county of Comanche and never was any election, or any officers to elect, or persons to fill them auring tne year isis.

nor for many years thereafter, and no such election was ever held of any kind or character. That thereafter, in the year 1S73. the said Mowry and his co-cosispirators aforesaid pretended to issue the bonds of said county and signed fictitious names thereto as and for the names of the so-called officers of said county, as follows: County bonds for court house $29,000.00 County bonds for bridges 23,000.00 County bonds for general expenses 20,000.0) Total $72,000.00 And disposed of the same to eastern buyers who had no knowledge of the fraud perpetrated by the issuance of the same; and then and there the said conspirators made way with the money for said bonds, and appropriated the i fame to their own uses and purposes. That, in addition to "the fraudulent manufacture of said $72,000 in county bonds so fraudulently Issued and disposed of as the paid Mowry preten- ded to' organise school ditricts two and three in said Comanche county, and issued, he signinsr the names of the so-c-il'ed officers thereto, two $1,000 bonds. which bonds he carried to Topeka, PORTENDS DISASTER TO RUSSIAN ARMS.

THIS STIMULATES JAPAN Doubts That Port Arthur Squadron WiU Make Another Sortie as Re-Ported, Else Secresy Instead of Publicity Would Prevail Its Correspondents Say Mukden is Unfortified, Tie Pass Weak and Japs Prepared for Campaign. The war reports of the morning are on the whole inconsequential. The Russians, blood-drawn and more spent than ever, are reported to be putting up a last fair fight at Port Three Ltondo papers cover the alleged situation at the fortress, via Iasoyang, via "Llaoyang peninsula," and via the Chefu-Junk alliance. The first arises to state that the speedy capture of the last line of defenses is anticipated. This intelligence was meaningless through repetition last Jul.

The second, "Liaotung peninsula, Sept. 26," by its very date line, is palpably a straining toward the accomplishment of thought-transference by a balked but un-squelched correspondent of the London Chronicle, wh is lost but unwilling to be forgotten. The mere word "junk" incites a hoot of decision. The report that the Russian Port Arthur squadron will make another sortie as soon as the Vladivostok cruisers are ready to repeat the movement of co operation tried Aug. 10 is not to be relied upon.

If such a movement were contemplated by Russian naval leaders It would first of all be shrouded in secrecy unless a ruse of some sort was to be attempted. It is within the range of possibility that some sort of a naval surprise may be sprung, however, in order to cover the entry of supply ships to the harbor. To re-inforce the garrison is believed to be the- reason which inspired the desperate sortie of Aug. 10. Around and before Mukden the situation is cleared little.

If reports are true Oyama is stringing out one of the longest and most attenuated flanking movements in history. It is stated that he i otHo9 VrtritiO' flint TT rrro Ir right as well as left and that the Japanese front now stretches a distance of sixty miles. The actual battle cannot bs bf-gun for a considerable number of days if this is true. The correspondent of thv London Standard at Liaoyang under the dnte Sept. 21 refutes all popular notions about relative positions of the two forces and declares that Mukden is tm fortified, that Tie pass is weak, that the Japanese are prepared to flghc'al! winter and that The Japanese control "th situation generally.

This corespondent adds that the coun. try now held by the forces of the is Arizona, and Incorporators (J 1 imj a mrm rn II ftlU Mi incorporated Undef The Laws' of DIRECTORS. J. BAILEY, J.R.MULVANE, CE. FRIEND, E.

S. SPRINGER, JAS. W. SEXTON, ALBERT PARKER, C. E.

FOOTE. rft Dallas, 1BBE1B W. J. BAILEY, President. 'E S.

Springer, Vice President. E. FOOTE. Secretary. A BERT PAB KER, Treas.

ALABAMA'S USEFUL OBJECT LESSON (Chicago News.) After Investigating the conduct of the militia company which failed to protect a negro prisoner against a lynching mob a few weeks ago an Alabama court-martial has decided that the company was grossly derelict in its duties and should be cashiered from service. The most promising feature of this an. tion is that it sets a new standard for the authorities of the south, both military and civil. It shows the military officials of Alabama in sympathy with the law that now established. The national guardsmen who neglect or refuse to stand firm as against manifestations of mob passion are cowardly mutineers deserving the penalty of dismissal in disgrace.

The lesson can hardly fail to make a deep impression not only upon the peov pie of Alabama but upon those of the entire south. The residents of other southern states cannot afford to adopt a lower standard of military courage than that now established. The nations, guardsmen in those states know now that they cannot disregard their duties In an hour of danger without bringing npon themselves the stigma of cowardice. As a result of the present decision it Is likely that the authorities in the states where lynching has become common henceforth will be more prompt to ust the militia and that this arm of the gov ernment will be more efficient in discharging its assigned duties. It will require only a few experiments to demon-strate that a body of national guardsmen determined 'to enforce can readily dis-persethe most threatening'Hiob.

Alexander Scherno. of barracks, has gone to St. Louis, and of course, will take in the World's Fair. 6 Real Prospects W. -v -ri -r Pro lis ef so nne Names, Business and Address of 1 1 W.

A. Jeffers, Secretary Great Western Stove Company Leavenworth, Kansas P. O'Brein, Manager M. K. Telephone Company Leavenworth, Kansas E.

E. Witherby, Gen. Mrg. United Gas and Electric Leavenworth, Kansas Fellows, Superintendent Electrical Department Leavenworth, Kansas A. P.

Qurin. Capitalist New York J. S. Thompson, Capitalist and OilOperator Texas J. H.

Cohen, Banker v. Kansas C. E. Friend, Lumber Dealer Kansas J. H.

and G. F. Riley, Hardware Dealers Soldier, Kansas S. S. Reed, Physician Soldier, Kansas J.

H. Lynn, Merchant. Soldier, Kansas H. S. Ramey, Manager Lumber Yard Kansas F.

M. Wilson, Banker Kansas P. H. Reed. Stockman Bancroft, Kansas Friend Holston, Lumber Dearers Goffs, Kansas W.

M. McGowen, Merchant Kansas J. B. Baker, Manager Lumber Yard Kansas Willia-m Jacobia, Banker Corning, Kansas W. J.

Bailey, Governor of Kansas Eaileyville, Kansas J. R. Mulvane, President Bank of Topeka Topeka, Kansas Frank Doster, ex-Chief Justice of Kansas Topeka, Kansas Albert Parker, Capitalist, ex-Mayor Topeka, Kansas C. E. Foote.

Attorney and Bond Broker Topeka, Kansas George E. Cole, cx-State Auditor, Manager Illinois Life Insurance Topeka, Kansas N. B. Burge, ex-Deputy Labor Commissioner Kansas C. M.

Hill. Dealer in Wall Paper Topeka, Kansas M. Council, Contractor anJ Topeka, Kansas George D. Lytic. -Oil Independence, Kansas If; Whitford, Real Estate Broker Independence, Kansas Colonel E.

C. Little, Attorney at Abilene Kansas L. M. Koehler, Captain United States Army Leavenworth Kansas E. S.

Springer, Manager Light and Heating Company Leavenworth' Kansas James XV. Sexton. Leavenworth, Kansas S. H. Wilson, Secretary Great Western Manufacturing Co Leavenworth, Kansas F.

A. Pickett, Assistant Secretary Great Western Manufacturing Kansas E. W. Crancer, Manager and Partner in Hardware Company Leavenworth, Kansas The Company's Leases are on 160 acres in Montgomery County, Kansas, situated in the very heart of the WAYSIDE OIL POOL, the most sure and uniform oil field thus far discovered in the West In that pool here were 29 wells brought in in May and 32 in June, without one "dry hole." Absolutely the only field on earth with such a record. These wells averaged 32 barrels production.

6 I WELLS BIO 01 25 Horse Power Pumping Plar AND A S14, now operation on the MON A property, and THREE drilling machines VrM.oivv-c THE STANDARD PIPE LLNE now complete from the MONARCH CRUDE OIL COMPANY property to the great rehnery at Kansas Citv. and Only a Few Thousand Share. The Monarch Crude Oil Company placed 100,000 shares of its stock on the market, and out of that amount ure i onlv pooo shares unsold. These few shares can be procured at 2j CENTS PER SHARE. The par of thiVtock is Si 00 paia and non-assessable.

With 6 wells now connected with one of the finest mnin- nlants in the field, and 'with other wells now being drilled, this little block of 12,000 shares won't last dxU Therefore, if vou want an interest in one of the most promising oil Companies in Kansas, it would well for vou to send vo'ur check and make your order at once. "First come, first served This ill be your lart chance to buy stock in this great Company at 25 cents per share. Address all orders and make all remittances payable to C. C. fOOTC, Secretary, Monarch Crude 0 snmated for its exlenston on east to the Atlantic seaboard.

This great refmcing Company has expended uuu.wu ior us lines irom Whiting, to Bavonne, Is. and it will cost for the line irom Kansas City to Whiting We call attention to' the armve simply to. show the estimate placed on the-Kansas oil field by "he greatest corporation on ear h. The Standard wouH not spend $85,000,000 to take oil out of Kansas and the Territory unless these fields made a showing justifying such a tremendous outlay. Remember that tthe Monarch I Estate Bldg.

Topeka Kansas. Xit Yr iv riWAcTmv5 nc mt and nht. the heart of the NOW GREATEST OIL HELD IN KANSAS, the WA SIDE OIL POOL, 15 jniles southwest of Independence, Montgomery.