The Ottawa Daily Republic from Ottawa, Kansas • Page 1

DAI TED TEn "OTTO'TT ITTI XJOJCj CIRCULATION OOKS OPEN T0 A trnr YYT7TT I Weekly Edition Established 1 870. VUL. AA.V11. I consolidated with Dally Oct.l .1906 I OTTAWA, KANSAS. FRIDAY, JUNE 14.

1907 NO. 142 OTTAWA LY LET THE ANIMALS DECIDE IT. JUDGE PARKINSON DEAO THE BOYCOTT GROWING TOPEKA UNION RESOLUTES AGAINST OUR ASSEMBLY. eling salesman happened to mention that he had gone to church in another town Sunday and had heard the letter read. "The assembly board and the majority of the people of Ottawa feel that as long as preachers are willing to draw salaries they are not in a 'position to complain because admission is to be charged to a religious program that is acknowledged far superior to any home offering that could possibly be," is one way one of the directors puts it.

ENTIRE TIME TO COFFEYVILLE ASSEMBLY. The Coffeyville Journal, in the course of a half column story of Mr. ROBERTS MAKES REPLY THE END CAME AT 7:40 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. He Had Been Unconscious Since Yesterday Noon and Passed Away Peacefully His Long and Active Career as Soldier, Lawyer, Manu-facturer and Public Official. Judge William L.

Parkinson died at his home, 514 Locast street, at 7:40 a. m. today. He was 02 years old. His health began to fail three months ago and for fhree weeks his condition had been regarded as critical.

Complications arising from derangement of the liver caused his end. He was unconscious from yesterday noon Mid he passed away without a struggle. Tl funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. Judge Parkinson's Mrs. B.

G. Howard, will ar-i i from Dallas, tonight. John Parkinson of Rock Lick, was a leading and highly respected citizen and prosperous farmer of Marshall county in that part of the state which became West Virginia. lie was an inflexible union man and one of two of his district who voted for Mr. Lincoln in 1S00, in open defiance of the threats of bis neighbors.

Four of his sons joined the union army, in a region tkat furnished many confederate volunteers, and where it involved much personal sacrifice and danger. William L. Parkinson was one of these sons and served faithfully in the campaign in Wet Virginia and in the Shenandoah valley in the First Virginia infantry, enlist-ing in 1S61. He was slightly wounded at Blue Gap, and his military record is stainless. He was educated at Waynesburg college, where he also read law.

His first practice was at Wheeling, W. He was married to Mariva Carter, at Brownsville, in 1867, and removed from Wheeling to Ottawa, in 1870. Here he was in partnership with Col. Mason, and the firm erected an office on the court square on Third street. In 1873 Major Benson took the place of Col.

Mason in that firm and Benson Parkinson continued the practice there until 1878 or 1879, when Mr. Parkinson retired from practice to engage in sugar manufacturing, a business which had been undertaken in a small way in this city. At first corn syrup was made, but in 1884, the Franklin Sugar company was organized with Mr. Parkinson as manager and a factory erected where the Star nursery packing house is now located. He entered into this business with great zeal, studied the subject carefully, and brought into the new business great practical knowledge of machinery and a mind trained to discovery and invention.

The venture was successful in the manufacture of sugar, but the expense of manufacture was such as to preclude profits. Mr. Parkinson sought the aid of Senator Plumb, and our congressional delegation and succeeded in obtaining bounties from the government and the establishment of a laboratory, quite important locally, and helpful to the development of processes which were afterwards more effectively carried out at Fort Scott, when he organized a company and erected the Parkinson Sugar Works; an undertaking still successfully carried on under the management of his sons. He also organized companies and built extensive sugar mills at Topeka, Meade, Ark-alon and Liberal. For several years he was engaged as the representative of mining interests in southwest Missouri in forming companies and selling stock in this country and England which country he visited several times.

In 1S97 and 1898 he represented the capitalists Kountz Bros, in their town and deep water enterprise at Sabine Pass, the rival town of Port Arthur. He represented that company before committees of congress, in the public press, and with capitalists and settlers, and successfully maintained the enterprise, against Mr. Stilwell, the promoter of the rival town, so long as he was in the employ of the Sabine people. Later he was the editor of an agricultural paper at Beaumont especially devoted to the development of the rice and fruit industries in the Gulf regions of Texas. While there his health was impaired, and he returned to Ottawa where he has since remained.

In 1879 and 1SS0, he was extensively engaged in farming on Mud creek and also owned lands adjoining Ottawa on the north. He held the offices of county attorney, president of the board of education, state commissioner to the Centennial Exposition, State senator, police judge and city attorney, holding the last named office at the time of his death. He often con- (Continned on Page Four.) Outside Newspapers Take Up the Controversy, the Kansas City Journal Today Publishing a "Scare-Head" Story Regarding the Dis-sention Over Assembly Sunday Plans In Ottawa. 1 The letter sent out by the Ottawa Ministerial union to the pastors over the state in connection with their crusade against Assembly Sunday at the Ottawa Chautauqua is already bearing fruit. The Topeka local union of young people's societies this week adopted the following resolutions as a result of the letter in question being presented to it: "Whereas: The Chautauqua Assembly of Ottawa, has seen fit to hold a session on the Sabbath and charge admission to the grounds; and whereas railroad excursions are being planned for that day, thereby secularizing and taking away the sanctity of the Sabbath Day; and whereas the ministers of the city of Ottawa urge the co-operation of Christian people everywhere in recommending such course.

Be it Resolved: "That we, the members of the Topeka Local Union of Young People's societies, representing the various churches of the city of Topeka, believing this action of the Ottawa Assembly to be a direct violation of the fourth commandment, do unreservedly declare ourselves to do all in our power to DISCOURAGE THE PATRONAGE OF THE OTTAWA ASSEMBLY SO LONG AS THIS ACTION RELATING TO THE SABBATH STANDS. Done at regular meeting of the Local Union Congress held in First Baptist church, June 10, 1907. B. HOWARD, President." It is a noticeable fact that the opposition to the Ottawa Assembly's Sunday program is being stirred up in those towns which have so-called Chautauqua Assemblies of their own. Topeka, for instance, is to have an assembly" this summer.

It is an insignificant affair compared with the Ottawa Assembly, which has always drawn many people from the state capital. It may readily be assumed that the present controversy has been seized upon to advance the interests of the Topeka assembly by "boycotting" the Ottawa Assembly. In Coffeyville, too, the same ground for opposition to the Ottawa Assembly would obtain with people unscrupulous enough to use the opportunity. Coffeyville has an alleged Chautauqua assembly, of which Rev. Cyrus S.

Nusbaum is general manager. Last year at the Cof-feyville assembly a Sunday program was pat on and an admission fee charged at the gate. It is unfortunate that the protest of the Ottawa ministers against what they believe to be Sabbath desecration should be used in the towns having assemblies of their own to injure, not merely the Sunday program but the whole Ottawa assembly. A KANSAS CITY JOURNAL INTERVIEW. Just how much attention the controversy is receiving in indicated by the fact that the Kansas City Journal today tells of the "split" in a scare-head story whien concludes with the following interview with Henry Durst, secretary of the assembly board, who was in Kansas City yesterday: "The programs are very expensive and the cost is borne by the business men of the town.

It is this fact that has caused intense feeling against the action of the ministers. In past years it has been the custom to charge no admission to the park on Assembly For several seasons the board has failed to pay expenses, however, and it was decided to arrange a special religious program for Sunday and charge the regular 25 cents admission. Governor Henry A. Buchtel of Colorado, will be the principal speaker, and in the evening several high-priced soloists from Chicago will appear. "Part of the trouble seems to have arisen on account of excursions which the Santa Fe has agreed to run on 'Assembly Before agreeing to run these excursions the railroad demanded a $300 guarantee which was paid.

Following this action the Ottawa ministers compiled a letter and sent copies to every pastor along the line of the proposed excursions. These letters were read in churches all over the state last Sunday, and the first the assembly directors knew of it was when a trav Nusbaum 's resignation as president of the Ottawa Assembly, says: Rev. C. S. Nusbaum has resigned as' Resident and superintendent of the Olt.wa Chautauqua Assembly, the oldest assembly in the west.

He mailed his resignation to the secretary of the boartl of directors at Ottawa Monday night. No publicity has been given the matter yet and there is a probability that the Ottawa people will try their best to persuade Mr. Nusbaum to reconsider his action and continue with them. He will now de-voie his entire spare time to the Coffeyville Chautauqua of which he is manager and superintendent. "The cause of his action was a difference of opinion regarding the running of Sunday excursion trains to the assembly there this year." THE NEWS OVER KANSAS.

Newton, June 14. The parents of Lieutenant D. M. Randall, the second lieutenant of marines, reported to have been on the launch at Hampton Roads, received a telegram yesterday saying that he had missed the launch and was safe and sound in Norfolk. Chapman, June 14.

Johann Haffman, whose body was found in a haystack near Grand Island, was a miller here for many years. He did not drink and left here with time money for a trip through the northwest wheat country several weeks ago. He was aged 35 years. Manhattan, June 14. Ex-Senator J.

R. Burton spoke for an hour and a half last night at the opera house on "The Political Community of Interests," before an audience of about 300. He was heartily applauded throughout his speech. He spoke here under the auspices of" the G. A.

R. Abilene, June 14. A peculiar situation growing out of a plan to avoid appointing an old soldier as marshal has resulted in Mayor A. W. Rice putting on the star and being marshal himself in the absence of the appointed officer, who is east on a visit.

Though past 70 years of age he looks after the town in an energetic manner. PLACE YOUR TEHT ORDERS NOW Prospective Assembly Campers Can Be Accommodated Tickets Are on Sale. Assembly patrons who desire tents must place their orders at once. While already more tents have been reserved than were ordered last year, the management can supply all demands. The secretary's office was removed to the park this afternoon.

Tickets for the Assembly are on sale at all drugstores. The prices are: Adults $2, stockholders $1.50, children under 15 75 cents, single admission 25 cents, all day tickets 40 cents. Stockholders are privileged to buy one ticket for each paid share of stock. GERMAN'S POLICY ANMOOIICEO At the Hague It Will Oppose Disarmament and Other Projected Peace Plans. Berlin, June 14.

It is authoritatively announced that Germany, at The Hague congress, will oppose disarmament or limitation of armaments and fight all attempts to abolish floating mines. It will support the conversion of merchant ships into war vessels in time of war, making it compulsory upon nations to observe a certain interval between the declaration of war and opening of hostilities. TODAY'S WEATHER FORECAST Furnished by the Bell Telephone Company. Kansas City, June 14. U.

S. weather forecast for Kansas and Missouri Kansas Probably fair tonight and Saturday; continued warmer. Missouri Showers tonight and Saturday. IN DEPTHS OF CREEK. Picnic Party Came Near Ending In a Tragedy.

Pittsburg, June 14. A party of young folks left the city yesterday for an outing, about twenty-five of them going to the Thompson farm west of Opolis. Among the number was Miss Clara Nail, formerly of this city, but now of Ottawa. In the sports of the day the young folks took hold of a grape vine and swung out over Cow creek, which at that place is quite deep. In tbais swinging Miss Nail Jost her holdnipon the vine and fell into the water sinking from sight.

Those with her screamed, and Charlie and John McNally ran to her assistance, jumping into the stream, but as John was unable to swim and took cramp, it looked as if two would find watery graves. A long pole was finally secured and with its aid the three in the water were finally brought to the shore, where it was found Miss Nail was unconscious. Prompt measures were resorted to, and the young lady was re-suscitatedwith no bad results save those arising from her wetting. SHAKER VILLAGE BURNED. Three Aged Women Reported Cremated In Fire Today.

Cincinnati, June 14. Shaker village, the home of the religious sect of that name in a remote section of Hamilton county, was burned today. Three old women are reported to have burned to death. DEGREE FOR OTTAWAN. Denison University Confers D.

D. Upon President Price. Granville, 0., June 14. At the commencement day exercises at Denison University yesterday the title of D. D.

was conferred upon Rev. S. E. Price of Ottawa, Kan. tl MEMBERS ACCUSED OF CONSPIRING AGAINST CZAR.

Russian Premier Today Demanded Arrest of 16 and the Expulsion of 55, Declaring Plots to Establish a Republic Had Been Made and Entered Into by Them. St. Petersburg, June 14. Plots to overthrow the government and assassinate the Czar and then establish a democratic republic were revealed this morning by Premier Stolypin, following the early assassination of Colonel Kotlaroff, deputy commissioner of St. Petersburg, by workman.

The assassin was captured. M. Stolypin appeared in the lower house, demanding the immediate arrest of sixteen members whom he accused of forming a conspiracy the government. He demanded thit the house expel 55 members whom he named, all belonging to the extreme democratic element in the Douma. He said the parliment would be immediately dissolved unless the members complied with his orders.

MAY DISSOLVE DOU A HOGH FOR PRESIDENT? THE GOVERNOR OF KANSAS SAYS "OH, NO." Interviewed by an Indiana Newspaper the Executive Declines Any Aspirations for the White House and Then Outlines His Ideas of the 1908 Campaign. Topeka, June 14. The Daily Capital says today: It is a well established fact that one has to go away from home to learn facts about his home and neighbors. This applies fairly well in the case of Governor Hoch who is with the party of state officials in the East. Kansas people had not expected that the governor nor anyone else harbored the idea that Governor Hoch had thought of "accepting" the nomination for the presidency.

But that is the question put to him by a representative of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The party stopped in Richmond for several hours and drove over the town to the points of interest in carriages. Here is the result of the Times-Dispatch interview: "Is it true," said the newspaper man, "that you will consent to the use of your name as a candidate for the Republican nomination for president next year?" "I am not a candidate for president," was the quick response. "Indeed, I have no political aspirations. I never had any.

I did not seek the office of governor either time, and both nominations came to me Do you expect to continue your interest in public affairs?" "I most assuredly do," said the Western executive, his clear-cut features showing animation and his eyes lighting up as though the subject was one that appealed to him strongly. "Along what lines do you think the presidential battle of 190S will be fought?" "The paramount issue of the campaign in my judgment will be the great industrial problem. I shall not say the trust problem for that is too narrow. "We are in the transition period," he continued, "in which necessarily the relation of government to new and changed conditions must be modified. "In the evolution of civilization and modern ommerce there has been a complete revolution in business methods, and this necessitates a readjustment of the relation of government to state and interstate commerce.

"This industrial problem is a difficult one, and its settlement will require the wisest statesmenship. The problem is this how to allow the largest possible exercise of individual talent, and at the same time protect the people from corporate greed." "Governor, this sounds like Democratic doctrine," interspersed the newspaper man. "Call it anything you will," replied His Excellency, "but it is sound doctrine." Robert Wynn and Henry Forning, delegates to the college Y. M. C.

A. convention to be held at Lake Geneva, June 14 to 24, left for that city last night. SAYS ROOSEVELT IS BADLY MIXED ON WOLVES. Nature Writer Declares That the President Knows Nothing About the Wolves In the Northeastern Part of AmericaArrived Home From Europe Today. New York, June 14.

Charles G. D. Roberts, the nature writer, who was recently attacked by President Roosevelt as a "nature faker," explains that Roosevelt is mixed on wolves. He says the president knows nothing of the wild animals of the northeastern section of the country, which are wildly different from those of the western states, where the president has hunted. Mr.

Roberts returned from Europe today and thus defends himself against the charge that his writings are "fairy tales." THEY HELD UH SANITARIUM Armed Robbers Threw Nervous Patients Into a Panic and Got Away With $2,000. Chicago, June 14. Three armed masked men at a health resort in Winnetka, a fashionable sanitarium for nervous treatments, ransacked the place and threw the 37 patients into terror, leaving some in a critical con- i dition. They forced the nurses to accompany them through the corridors and find the patients' clothing, quieting the alarmed ones at the point of a revolver. They secured $2,000 and much jewelry and escaped.

ARE CELEBRATING FLAG DAY The 130th Anniversary of "Old Glory" Observed In Many States Today. Washington, June 14. The American Flag Association, in accordance with its custom for the past ten years, has sent out notices for governors of all the states, calling attention to the anniversary of the adoption of the flag by the United States, and report that there is a more general acquiescence in the request than there has ever been in any one year. Many of the governors have by, their proclamations called public attention to the day, and have ordered the flag displayed upon the state buildings, while mayors have ordered the flag displayed on municipal buildings. On many private buildings private citizens have, in compliance with the requests 'f mayors displayed the flag in abundance.

Many editors have especially called attention to the national standard, which floats from more flagpoles that it has ever done before on the day of its anniversary. I.