The Ottawa Herald from Ottawa, Kansas • Page 1

0 WEE VOL. XXIII. OTTAWA, KANSAS, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1903. NO.

Slate His- 0cX? A TT IT A 'Iff pricp AT TV a K-m a jf asms DIVIDING ON HEARST. WENT OUT FOR A WALK. erans, among whom were Major Rem-J ington, of Osawatomie; D. B. D.

II SOLDIERS' FEAST THE JUDGE TALKE Smeltzer, of Iola; and W. E. Kibbe, of Princeton. DEFENDS MYRTLE COMPTON. W.

A. Deford Called to Salina Criminal Case. in a W. A. Deford left last Wednesday for Topeka, and from there expected to go to Salina Thursday to act as attorney for Myrtle Compton, who is to be tried to be sentenced to the industrial school.

Myrtle Compton is a former Ottawa girl, whose mother now lives on Poplar street. She was arrested some time ago charged with being an accomplice in the murder of Harvey Bardonnar, but was discharged. Previous to that she had been sentenced to the reform school for being in a house of prostitution, and had married a man named Gordon at Abilene. Gordon, it was afterwards discovered, had four other wives, and he has been sent to Lansing for five years for bigamy. Myrtle Compton's marriage thus being illegal an attempt is again being made to send her to the reform school and Mr.

Deford is A FIRE UNDER HI WHAT THE ODD FELLOWS PROM ISE TO DO TO TROUTMAN. THE MOVE TO HELP THE STATE Request Made to Governor Bailey Thursday Means That Grand Lodge Committee is With County Attorney Pleasant. A.7- announced in the Herald Thurs the Odd Fellows grand lodge of Kansas, has decided to interest itself in the suit filed by the state, through County Attorney Pleasant, to secure the Silkville orphans' home property from Troutman Stone. A Topeka dispatch discusses the conference held by grand lodge representatives with Governor Bailey Thursday, and quotes B. P.

Wagoner as saying that the state undoubtedly has the right to the property. The dispatch follows "The suit already brought in Franklin county is in the name of the state and it is probable that no authority was necessary other than that but to make sure Grand Master Davies deemed it best to secure formal authority from Governor Bailey to use the name of the state. "The effect of the Franklin county suit, of successful, would be to give the property to the state. A constitutional provision states that where there are no heirs to an estate it shall go to the state school fund. If the claim of Troutman Stone to the property is set aside through the alien land law the property would therefore go to the state school fund.

It is estates going to the state school fund the legislature pass a law giving the property back to the Odd Fellows, but as the provision concerning unclaimed setates going to the state school fund is in the constitution, it isdifficult to see howT this could be done. "Deputy Grand Master G. W. Alla-man, whose home is in Atchison, has been in frequent conferences with Balie Waggener who has been retained in the case. Together they have examined closely the history of the De Boissiere estate as well as the state laws bearing upon the disposition of the estates of aliens.

To Mr. Allaman who was in Topeka Wednesday, Mr. Waggener expressed the opinion that the action brought in the name of the state was a valid one and that one similar to it in essential particulars had once been successfully prosecuted before the Kansas supreme court. 'We intend to build a fire under Mr. Troutman, all said Grand Master Davies Thursday.

We believe that the Odd Fellows' orphans of Kansas are entitled to that property, and we propose to get for them if Lyman E. Preston died Saturday at two o'clock at his home two miles north of town. Mr. Preston has been ill about six months. Death was caused by cancer of the stomach.

Mr. Preston was about sixty-five years og age and had been a residnet of Franklin was in business about twenty years ago with E. T. Thomas for two years. He leaves a wife and two children.

Mrs. Netty Happy and Lyman Before Mr. Jeffers Came Back He Was Robbed of Six Dollars. Complaint was made Thursday. about midnight by Harry Jefters, or Agricola, that he had been robbed of six dollars, in the vicinity of the Santa Fe depot.

Jeffers is the son ofthe Santa Fe sec tion boss at Agricola, and was on his way to Chanute to spend Christmas with his grandparents. He says he was induced to take a walk by a ne gro woman, who tried to get him to go away to some other part of town with her. He refused to go, but walked up and down the walk with her for a few moments and when he went back into the station found that his money was gone. He turned in the alarm to the police and the woman was remembered by the police from the boy's description of her. She had a male companion with her, also, and warrants were issued for both.

Judging from the young man's de scription, the officers arrested Pearl Logan, and she plead not guilty in police court. Her case was set for to morrow at nine clock. A warrant 1.9 1 1 was aiso issuea ior a negro man named Simpson, but he had left for Kansas City before the warrant could be served. IF DAYTON, OHIO, MEN SOLVE THE PROBLEM AT LAST. THREE MILES AGAINST A WIND At Kitty Hawk, N.

the Messrs. Wright Gave a Remarkable Demonstration Propellers Worked by an Engine No Balloon. Norfolk, W. Dec. 18.

A successful trial of a flying machine has been made near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, by Wilbur and Orville WTright, of Dayton, Ohio. Their machine flew for three miles in the face of a wind blowing twenty-one miles an hour, then gracefully decended to a spot selected by the navigator. The machine has no ballooa attachment but gets the force from pro-pellors worked by small engines. TO TEACHERS. Superintendent Baker Discusses the Coming State Convention.

The state teachers' association is from December 29 to 31. You're going of course. An interesting program has been prepared. Attend the round tables that bear directly upon your grade of work. Attend the general meetings.

I shall be pleased to show you through the state university on our return home, so that we can see the collection of famous paintings on exhibition there. We will leave here Tuesday morning on the Lawrence train. Mr Long, of the Oxford hotel, writes he can take care of seventy from Franklin county. Terms: Four persons in room two beds $1.00 each per day. Two persons in room one bed $1.25 each per day.

One person in room $1.50 per day. How is your school progressing? Are your pupils satisfied? Are you satisfied? Will you by January 1 have half the year's work done? Do you get out of the reading lessons "all there is? Are you laying a foundation for a love of good reading? Do your pupils read anything outside of text books? What do your educational journals say on this subject? No pupil will get out-of physiology, geography, civics, history or even arithmetic what he should unless he be a good reader. Do you show your pupils how to read correctly, or do you let them stumble into becoming good readers? What are you doing to ornament the schol room, make it more homelike? A few pictures tastefully arranged, a clean floor an orderly desk impress pupils for good. Remember that "not doing things well is doing things ill." Prepare yourself fully on every subject you teach. A patron wrote me the other day and asked, "If the blind lead the blind?" Will you answer all these questions to your own satisfaction? Encourage your boys and girls.

Impress upon them the beauty and value of cultured minds and hearts. Yours sincerely, J. E. Baker, county superintendent. An organization of girls at Luther is known as the Chattering Chums.

One of the features of the initiation is to have a mouse placed up the girl's and see if she can refrain from any expressions of anxiety. Kansas Democrats Take up the Presi dential Question. Topeka. Dc. 21.

Some of the dem ocratic leaders have It-en trying to force ex-Senator W. A. Harris to run for governor, but he won't have iL If he doesn't get a position cn the canal commission, he says he will retire from politics and devote his time to personal interests. W. H.

was boomed a while for governor, t.ut that talk has now died out. It may yet devolve upon Cole el Bill Sapp, of Galena, to run for gov ernor, feapp wants to make the race some time, but isn't anxious to do it now. However, he may have to do it it this time. No other democrat in the state has signified his desire to ever make the race. Sapp is rich and.

would make a spectacular campaign. In the First district they hope a disturbance will make it possible. for an independent to get a start. In tho Second, John Peter St. John is mentioned as a possible candidate.

In tho Third, E. C. Weilup, of Galena. Tom Grisham for the Fourth; Mattison, of Smith county, in the Sixth; Ed Hackney in the Seventh; and so far no one mentioned in the Fifth. More Interest is being evinced in delegates to the national convention than in candidates for congress or on state ticket.

It is lining up as a struggle for and against a Hearst delegation. ft Efl PRINCETON DEPOT WAS BURNED TO CONCEAL ROBBERY. TICKETS IN KANSAS CTY Detectives Locate the Depot Property in a Scalper's Office Robbery First Arson Afterward The Scalper is Arretted. The Kansas City Journal has lb following story: "For the last three weeks the Santa Fe railroad company has been trying to locate the source of an extensive sale of fraudulent tickets on its lines. On November 21 the Santa Fe depot at Princeton.

burned and at first ii was supposed that the $50,000 worth of tickets had been destroyed. When these 'jckets began to appear, however, It seemed evident that the station had first been robbed and then burned to cover up the robbery. Railroad detectives traced, it is alleged, fifteen or twenty of the tickets to the railroad ticket agency of Geo. A. Welles, at 1030' Union avenue, just across from the union depot.

Welles was arrested last evening by detectives Hayde and Dwyer, and is now being held at the central police station on a charge of investigation. When arraigned in court the charge will probably be that of receiving stolen property. In Welles office were found large bundles of the tickets which had been in the station at Princeton before the fire and the rubber stamps, perforators, punches and implements necessary to furnish tickets the same as were formerly made out at that station. The warrant charges Welles with having received the tickets from the following list, which was in the depot before the fire, and other property: EI hty-seven coupon tickets, 1.8C2 rov.r trip tickets, 133C erne way tickets, 10G special tickets, 120 card tickets, 24 prepaid orders, 182 paper tickets, 1 iron date perforator, 1 ticket cutter, rubber type, 3 conductors punches, book cf instructions. CHRISTMAS POVERTY.

Cleveland Machinest Shot His Family and Himself. Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 21. Because of the impoverished condition of the family purse and the near approach of Christmas, Roscoe V. Derby, a machinist, exterminated his family yesterday by shooting bis wife, his three children and then himself.

The crimer, were extraordinary in their thoroughness and there was evidently no mishap in thoir enactment. The wife was killed first while sleeping at her husband's side in bed; two of the children were killed as they ran hither and thither through the house in the darkness of early morning, endeavoring to escape their merciless parent The third child was killed In its bed after its elder brother and Ulster had been killed. The dead are Roscoe W. Derby, the father; Mrs. Delia Derby, the wife; Harold Derby, 8 years old; Alice Derby.

7 years old; Tbomas Derby, 5 years old. MYSTERY SQLV if OTTAVA GETS THE WARNER FENCE FACTORY. TO BEGIH BUILDING AT ONCE Company Secures a Lease on the San ta Fe Right-of-Way, and Will Start the Building Immediately. The contract was signed Thursday between the representatives of the nusinpss Men's association and the Warner fence factory, which will lo cate the factory in Ottawa. The parties to the contract had been in conference for several days almost continually, and finally got to gether on terms Thursday.

The com tract provides that the city shall pay to the Warner brothers the sum two thousand dollars upon completion of the factory building, and that War Urnthprs shall build a building to cost not less than $2,000 and shall operate a fence factory here for at least five years. If the plant should be removed or abandoned within five years, the two thousand dollars shall be returned to the subscribers. Superintendent Barnes, of the Santa Fe was in town Thursday afternoon and Messrs. Warner and Kitzelman leased a plot of ground on the Santa Fe right-of-way for the location of the factory. The location is between the tracks and King street, north of Logan.

It is the intention to rush work with all possible speed, and start operating as soon as possible. The machines kwill be moved from the factories at Waverly and Melvern. The company expects to operate ten fence machi-nes and two barb machines from the first, and will work probably about thirty men from the start. "The demand is practically unlimited for our product because we make so many different kinds of fence," said Mr. Eugene Warner, who will have charge of the plant.

The price of the fence ranges from about one to seven dollars per rod. We make a number of kinds of ornamental fence, which come high, but are very saleable." The plant will be capitalized at one third belonging to Kitzelman Brothers, at Muncie, and two-thirds to Warner Brothers. Mr. Kitzelmn left Thursday for Wav erly, and from there expects to go to the oil fields at Independence. He has considerable interests in the oil fields, owning leases on 3,800 acres of land, with a number of good wells.

F. A. A. FESTIVITIES. A Social Evening and a Larqe In- crease in Membership.

On Wednesday evening about one hundred and fifty persons attended a social at F. A. A. hall, given by the entertainment committee of this order. Jhe evening's program consisted of 'literary and musical numbers of more than usual merit.

Next in order was the Serving of elegant refreshments, including a goodly supply of the famous White House coffee. Refreshments being disposed of the floor was cleared and the young people spent the remainder of the evening with music and dancing. Just before the doors were thrown open to the public the local council held a short business session, electing seventeen applicants to membership. Since the council here received its charter this order has paid to widows and orphans in Ottawa homes over $28,000, beside caring for sick and needy members out of its local fund. SCHOOLS CLOSED TODAY.

Public Schools and Ottawa University Will Have Two Weeks' Vacation. The public schools dismissed this afternoon for the Christmas holidays. School will take up again on Jaunary 4, making a seventeen days' vacation. There were Christmas exercises held in most all the rooms this afternoon. In none of the rooms was any treat given to the pupils.

The teachers drew their third month's pay this afternoon, Miss Muzzy delivering the checks at the Washington building. According to the custom, two weeks' pay is held back as a guarantee for the fulfillment of their contract The college also closed today for two weeks. AN ARGUMENT FROM THE BENCH IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CASE. APOLOGY NOT AN ADMISSION Judge Smart Expressed Some Earnest Views Regarding the School Difficulty Matter Continued Settlement Probable. The high school mandamus action has been continued until the Jaunary term of court.

Pending this hearing of the matter, both sides to the controversy are given the benefit of some very earnest and practical advice from Judge Smart. The case by which Fred W. Brink- erhoff seeks to compel the board of education to reinstate him in school, came up for hearing in district court Saturday morning. The entire faculty of the high school, the board of educa tion, a large number of the high school students and a crowd of interested friends and relatives which more than half filled the court room were pres ent to hear and take part in the proceedings. Fred Brinkerhoff was the first witness put on the stand.

He was examined on the charges made in the answer of the school board to the petition filed in bringing the suit. The examination covered the entire range of high school events supposed to have led up to the present difficulty, in the past year. Judge Benson con ducted the cross examination for the board. At the conclusion of the testimony, which lasted for an hour and a half, Judge Smart remarked that he could not see how an action for mandamus could be sustained, since a mandamus was contemplated to be used only in case no other remedy Lwas available. The evidence showed.

4lwt cniA hot ha nm 1.11 V- L. OCX A VI 9 lliai tll KJKJtM A uuu J'tvr vided a way for the return of the students, and this seemod to afford a remedy which would bar the necessity for a mandamus order. Attorney Costigan objected that the board's action necessitated an apology and an apology, as he interpreted it, contemplated an admission of wrong. The plaintiff in this action denied that he had done any wrong. Judge Smart took a different view of the matter.

An apology, he said, does not neces sarily mean an admission of wrong. Every controversy had two sides, each of which believes it is right. An apology may express a regret for a wrong if any has been done; a man who is complained of may and should if he is willing to be fair express sorrow for the wrong if he has done any. In this case it should be a pleasure for the high school students to meet their instructors with an apology for any wrong that they may in the judgment of the faculty, have committed. This does not mean a personal plea of guilty to wrong-doing.

Judge Smart talked earnestly of the case, and showed a deep interest, aside from his official responsibility, in having it settled. Discipline must be maintained in the schools, he said, and the school board is given authority to accomplish this end. School authorities and all others dealing with young men must, however, the court said, recognize that boys are boys they are not to be governed Ly Ce same judgment which regulates mature men. Judge Smart said he woul not give much for a boy who dlJn'i occasionally yell his class yells, and display his spirit. Judge Smart said he was personally acquainted with the boys interested in the school controversy; that he knew them to be young men of good intentions, liable to the same impulses and mistakes of judgments which come to every normal boy.

The judge said that he could not grant the mandamus asked for at present, since he believed that the board had provided a fair means for the boys to return to school. He would, however, continue the case until the January term, and he sincerely hoped that in the meantime the case could be settled and the dispute dropped. Judge Smart's talk seemed to put the matter on a reasonable basis which is likely to appeal strongly to the young men who were suspended. The opinion was expressed among the students this afternoon that the board's regulation would be complied with and "the incident closed." Light Locomotives. The first locomotive weighed three to five tons.

An Imported English locomotive weighing ten tons was too heavy. Tenty-Sre engines of tart day would make one of to-day. THE ANNUAL 3ANQUET OF GEO. H. THOMAS FOST.

THE CIVILIZING INFLUENCE Judge Smart Speaks of the American Army as the Agency Which Has Led the March of Progress The Other Last Wednesday was the 39th anniversary of the Battle of Nashville, one of the greatest battles of the war, which produced one of the war's greatest heroes, General Geo. H. Thomas. According to their custom on that date the members of Geo. H.

Thomas post, G. A. R. held their regular annual meeting and banquet Wednesday night. The banquet was served at the Marsh house, and covers were laid for one hundred and five.

The banqueters included the members of the post and their wives, several G. A. R. members from surrounding towns and a number of young people, guests of the post. After a very elaborate banquet had been served an entertaining program was given, with Commander E.

H. Corwin presiding as toastmast-er. Mr. Corwrin made a few introductory remarks setting forth the occasion of the meeting and telling briefly the causes that led up to the battle of Nashville. "This is a very solemn hour," he said, "when we remember what it commemorates.

Thirty-nine years ago. tonight I was being carried from the field in an ambulance, badly wounded, in the battle of Nashville, for whose hero our post is named." He then introduced Miss Minnie Marsh, who sang a very pleasing solo. This was followed by an address by John Quin on "The Bivouac and the Banquet Table." Mr. Quin spoke earnestly and effectively. He said, "It becomes an honor more and more distinguished as the years pass by to be permitted to address a company of veterans of the Civil war." He pictured the con trast between the bivouac and the banquet table, between 'G3 and '03, the contrast between the occupation of the veterans and the spirit manifested between north and south.

Miss Bertha Clark very charmingly entertained the company with a select reading. Judge C. A. Smart was introduced. He made a splendid address upon the subject of the "American Army." lhe speaker said he objected to hearing the war veteran called old soldiers, "tor" he said, "I could fill every office in the United States from president down, with civil war veter ans and our government would go on just the same." The speaker said that he disliked the slurring allusion often made to the work of the Ameri can missionaries, by saying that the American army preceded Christianity into a country and shot the religion and civilization into its inhabitants.

"History teaches that enlightenment, civilization, culture, and a better order of things have ever followed in the wake of the American army. Go to the south, the new south, and ask the representative citizen from what he dates the better order of things, and he will tell you from the surrender at Appomattox. And I doubt not that in a few years, if you should ask the cultured Filipino what was the first day of civilization he ever knew, he would tell you that it was the day civilization was belched forth to him on May 1, 189S from the American guns." The speaker mentioned the surprising rapidity with which an army of citizens was transformed into an army of soldiers and back again, and closed with eloquent tributes to the leaders of the army of the Civil war. The toastmaster then introduced "the greatest surprise of the evening," Judge Parkinson in the role of a poet, who would read from his own works. In introducing his effort Mr.

Parkinson explained that no one but an old soldier could invent a story large enough to call what he was going to read a poem. Rev. Nusbaum made a short talk in which he prophecied a greater struggle than the war of the rebellion had been, a struggle between labor and capital. He then sang a very pleasing solo, which was followed by a song by Mrs. Peterson.

Prof. Kline read an excellent selection from Mr. Dooley and responded to an encore with a humorous selection from Kipling, "The Post That Fitted." Miss Ilo Harris sang a solo which was very highly appreciated, and the meeting closed with impromptu remarks from a number of visiting vet-.