The Evening Herald from Ottawa, Kansas • Page 1

i'lHI ri O'CLOCK VOL. XV. OTTAWA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER tiff' 0, 2'l Su 1 WHY HE STAYED. TWO INJURIES IN ONE GAME. A CHURCH MUSICALE.

ONE BALLOON STILL UP At Lease the Berlin Haa Not Been TAFT AT THE COAST Spoke Todayln WaVa Walla and Was Introduced as "A Good Prescrip-tion'f by Governor Hay. STARVING IN FLOOD Two Thousand Citizens of Black River Falls Are Sending 'Cries for Aid on the Hills Around City, STUBBS PRAISES GUYtH Says He Is the Best Fitted Man In U.a District to Carry Out the Proare. sive Ideas of Alexander Mitchell. Harvest Home'Week in North Ottawa Will Close Tomorrow. The largest crowd that has attended any of the Harvest Week programs at the North Ottawa M.

E. Church was present last night for the musicale. The week's special program will close tomorrow evening by a lecture on Education," by Dr. Wilbur N. Mason, new president of Baker university.

Dr. Mason will preach at the First M. ET Church in the morning, The real harvest program- of the whole week will be held tomorrow! morning. The Rev. H.

A. Cook, pastor of the North Ottawa Church, has a harvest-sermon ready. Products of the soil, including vegetables and flowers, will be used to decorate the rostrum and pulpit. Special music will be heard. B0NDSMEM RELEASED Not All the Names of Bondsmen Had Been Signed.

Men Who Went Stuckey'a Surety For Appearance im Court Will Not Have to Pay the $2,000. According to a decision made by Judge A. smart oi me aisinct court this morning, the men whose names are on the bond which allowed the release of Wallace M. Stuckey, convicted of abduction of Lorena Sutherland, cannot be held for the payment of the $2,000 which was the sum of the bond. When Stuckey disappeared shortly after being released, the state began suit against the bondsmen for collection of the $2,000.

The men who are named in the bond are B. F. Caldwell, J. Price, A. Reed, and John Bollman.

The men who signed the bond are B. F. Caldwell, A. Reid and H. J.

Price, but Mr. Bollman did not sign as he moved to Oklahoma. It was on this fact that Judge Smart made his decision. He held that the bondsmen could not be held when all of the names mentioned in the contents of the bond were not signed at the bottom of it. This the bond void and releases the bondsmen unless the decision is reversed by the supreme court.

Two other judgments were made by Judge Smart this morning. In the case of j'. W. Haggard vs. E.

T. Abbott "for. the recovery of a commls-sion alleged to be due for a land sale. The trial came up several days ago but decision was not made at the time. The Judge gave judgment for $41.25 in favor of the plaintiff.

In the case of W. E. Griffith vs. N. Judge Smart overruled a motion filed by the defendant asking that the plaintiff be required to file more definite information regarding the claims for labor and material which were the basis of the suit.

The suit is the outgrowth of the Lightfoot Brothers litigation. A number of local creditors have assigned their claims to Griffith, who has brought suit against Stucker and the Lightfoot bondsmen. O. U.f 0 WASH. 0.

Two Colleges Played a No-Score Game This Afternoon. The football game between Ottawa and Washburn Universities on the college gridiron this afternoon' result-ed 0 to 0. It was a hard fought battle from start to finish. The game lasted three quarters although the last was longer than either of the others. Ottawa claimed a safety In the second quarter but it was ruled a'touchback and did not count: TOURNAMENT UNFINISHED.

Falrvlew Golf Matches Will Be Played Off Next Week. The first handicap golf tournament of the Fairview Golf Club was begun yesterday afternoon. Only twelve holes of the 18-hoIe match were played by the contestants. The remainder will be played next week. When the playing was finished yesterday the score stood as follows: J.

B. Topping, 82 strokes, F. C. Dobson, 73; 11. M.

Scarritt, 106, J. B. Deford, 101; P. P. Elder, 92, L.

C. Jones, 101; Carey Porter, 82, S. R. Hubbard, 92. SWEDISH SERVICES CLOSE.

Many Come to Attend Special Services This Week. The special meetings being held at the Swedish Mission Church, corner Cedar and Fifth, which began las night, will close tomorrow night. A number of visitors are here from Kansas City and elsewhere. Among those who came In yesterday and today were Mr. and Mrs.

August Peterson, and children, Helen and Effie; Mable Peterson George Peterson; the Rev. and Mra. Theodore Clemmons, all of Kansas City. Mr. Clemmons is on the program.

The Petersons are guests at the S. Johnson home north of the city, Ottawa-Gardner Football Contest Was Painful. Carl Drake, played one of the positions of' half back on the local high school football team in the game yesterday with the Gardner High School was badly injured when came in contact with another player. The players were bunched in a mass play 'and Drake was 'knocked unconscious. His left shoulder was badly wrenched and one tooth was broken off.

His upper lip was badly cut and his left eye is sporting a black lump under it. He was able to be down town this morning at a physician's office but will probably be laid up for several Harry Davis, a Gardner player, was also badly hurt in the game yesterday. He was struck in the chest, and it was thought yesterday afternoon that his right shoulder was probably broken. A NEW SARTA FE GUT OFF ENGINEERS ARE WORKING ON A PROPOSED ROUTE. It Will Extend From Dodge City, to Colmar, N.

and Will Shorten the Road. A corps of Santa Fe engineers began a survey' Tuesday of a propose! cut-off route from Dodge City Kans, to Colmar, N. M. This new route will touch five counties in, the southwestern 'pai of the state. Grant, Haskell, Stanton, Morton and Stevens, which have never had a railroad.

The talk of the Santa Fe's new route started several months ago, but many believed it would only be another "paper" road. The Santa Fe, as a rule 'doesn't build "paper" roads, and the new cut-off seems to be a proof of the fact. Last spring the company- purchased thousands of acres of land in Morton county, and it is said that a division point is to be located there. Richfield, the county seat of Morton, is missed by several miles by the new route and several other old" towns will not be given any consideration. Dodge City is on the main line of the Santa Fe.

The new cut off is of interest because a number of Franklin County men own land in the counties it will go through. It is reported it will take several months to make a survey for the new road. i i FOR A KID BAND. Ottawa Will Train Its Youths In Melody. Gormly's Band will have a new department known as the preparatory school for musicians this It may be called the "kid band" but the real purpose is to train another bunch of young band men, especially reed players, for that class of players is most needed in -the band.

C. E. Gormly, director, and William Von Spiese, will direct and instruct the youthful players'. Will be a beginners' class and, those who want to learri to play clarinets, will be given free instruction. Next Friday night will be the first meeting.

FOR CONVENTION PROGRAM. Judge Chaffee Has Been at Work for the Ottawa Visitors. Probate Judge Chaffee returned from Kansas City, last night where he went to confer with W. B. Hall, superintendent of the School for the Blind at Kansas City.

Superintendent Hall is also secretary of the State Conference of charities and Corrections, of which Judge Chaffee Is president. Yesterday the two officials drew up. a tentative program for the next state meeting, which is to be held at Ottawa Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, November 27, 28, 29. Charles Bouse, a wiper at the round house, had one finger badly mashed yesterday' morning while at work. He was working about an engine and his right hand was caught and one fiinger waft injured.

KIDNAPER TO PEN. F. H. Tilrotson Is Refused New Trial By Supreme Court. Topeka, Oct.

7. The Supreme court denied today the application of H. Tillotson for a new trialf He must serve-a sentence of from one to five years for complicity in the kidnaping of the Incubator Baby Marian Bleakley. The incubator baby case is the well known case" of one of the trials which was held in Lawrence with JudgeSmart on the bench and Judge Benson "one of Mrs. Bleakley's attorneys.

The, baby was to Mrs. Barclay by that decision bnt it was kidnaped from its home by Mrs. Bleakley from whom Tillotson helped kidnap it. The kidnaping party was caught while entering Kansas City by train after their motor bad broken dowa. And Now Andrew Johnson Believes Ottawa Is AN Right.

Queer things will happen and cause a man to change his plans. Andrew Johnson "of this city came to America from Sweden about forty-seven years ago. He did nc find any work and was planning to go to Lawrence from Ottawa. He was offered a position of cutting ryeand mustard from a wheat field of W. F.

Swift on" the latter's farm, northeastof Ottawa. After this was done he mixed mortar for the building on the farm which Mr. Swift had erected and then he decided to remain In Ottawa. He became a barber and has now retired, satisfied that Ottawa is a pretty good place. This story was related this morning among a group of old-timers.

"And I hauled the rock for that house, too, chimed in Mark Whitebread. WENT BAGKTO ST. LOUIS W. T. Smith Deserts His Planing Mill Here.

Embarks on Early Morning Train Leaving. His Business in the Hands of His Creditors Family Left, Too, Yesterday Afternoon. "We went busted here." This expressed, in plainer terms perhaps, what happened to W. T. Smith when he attempted to enlarge his planing mill business by embarking in the contracting business in Ottawa.

The expression quoted above, did not come from Mr. Smith, however. It originated with his 12-year-old son yesterday after his father had left town. The lad came to see Ben Howser who rented the. front office of the Ottawa Planing Mill, for a barber shop.

Mr. Howser had paid a month's rent in advance to Smith the day before. The boy hesitated as he told Howser his message. "If anybody brings work here, why, you tell them that we don't want their work," was the. boy's message.

"Why?" asked Mr. Howser, although he had already been told of the family's intentions. "Well, we're going away. We went busted here and we're going back to St. Louis.

Papa went this morning and we're going this afternoon. He turned over everything to the men he owes." And that is the story almost complete. The conscientious lad acknowledged' to Howser that "we ought to have told you before." The creditors cf Mr. Smith are not many. C.

F. Lamb of the Franklin County State Bank has a mortgage on the machinery, which Mr. Lamb said would pay out. Mr. Lamb closed the mill yesterday.

The retailers cf building material have been selling Mr. Smith considerable, stuff but will lose little, if any. The new residence of N. Van Meter on South Main street is left in an unfinished condition. It will have, to be finished by other workmen.

Several persons have s'mall amounts of lumber in job work in the planing mill. No work has been done in the mill at First and Main streets since Wednesday noon. The carpenters took their tools out at noon and Mr. Smith did not return. He put in the after-' noon packing up his belongings and preparing to leave for his former home in St.

Louis. Mr. Smith came here last year from St. Lcuis at the invitation of the Commercial Club which is out about $100, in the preparation for a site. The moving from the NeJson.shop to the Main street location cost Mr.

Smith some money and also his embarking into the contracting business is said to have been fatal to his interests. He was not a contractor by experience. HUNT PLANK UP. So He Will Have to Plank Down for Family Support. i A 1 I jx.

wan am ua.s uccu issur.u jusi Ice Richards for the arrest of John Plank, husband of Augusta Plank who featured in a case in district court last week when she sued Susan B. Plank for alienating her husband's affections. She obtained judgment for $50. Now she has sworn out the warrant for the arrest of her husband on the charge of wife abandonment and desertion of his children. Plank has been missing for several months and it is thought that he is in Oklahoma.

An attempt will probably be made socn to locate him and bring him here, on the charge which his wife has' preferred against him. NO GAME TOMORROW. There will be no baseball game tomorrow between the Boostes and the Stilwell White Sox. The game was scheduled for tomorrow but. has been postponed by Manager Clark on account of the cold weather.

It will prbably "be played at a later date if the weather grows warmer. Heard From If It Haa Landed -Others Down and Packed, BUM BAG REACHED LAKES BUT IT WA3 BLOWN BACK OVER THE COUNTRY 100 MILES. Many Narrow Escapes Among the Storm Victims of Clouds Berlin May Be In Canada Wilds Now, Kansas City, Oct The) Condor III, the French entry in the Bennett race came down at Mingo, twenty miles east of Des Moines, last night at 9 o'clock, according to dispatches received here today. The Condor had been blown back; over one hundred miles. It had floated over Lake Michigan, St.

Paul and Minneapolis. The balloonists were driven to earth through the lack of supplies, hunger and cold. They landed safely. The Berlin II was the only balloon not reported landed at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It is believed to have landed at some obscure Minnesota point or to be floating over the Canadian wilds.

GAS LEAKS MENDED. Farmers Smelled the Escaping Gas From the Mains. a Joint in the Kansas City line of the Kansas Natural Gas Company sprung a leak, at a point about seven miles northeast of the city, farmers who lived a quarter of a mile away could smell the escaping gas. This was the day before yesterday. It was several hours before the leak was repaired, and probably several thousand feet of gas escaped.

Two other breaks, or leaks, occurred this week, on the Fred Graybill farm, northeast' of the city. They were fixed before the loss of the gas weakened the pressure. A BANDIT SLAfN? Believed to be One of Three Men Who Held. Up Katy Train. Bartlesville, Oct.v 7-T-Frank Amos, believed to be one of the three men who held up a "Katy" train near here Thursday and was killed.

after hours of a running, fight with the sheriff's posse a the Osage Hills north of her today. Amos had been trailed from the scene of the hold-up. HERE IS YOUNGEST KANSAS CLAIMANT WAS BORN IN SEPTEMBER, 1851. J. W.

Davis of McCune, is a Younger Man Than Mr. Stall of Princeton or Burke of K. C. New there is another contestant for the youngest veteran of the Civil War in the state of Kansas and possibly In the United States. The new arrival in the limelight hails from McCune, and his name is J.

W. Davis. The following article appeared in the, Kansas City Star with a McCune date line. "McCune claims the youngest Civil War soldier, J. W.

'Davis of McCune, born September 11, 1851, and enlisted from Putnam County, Missouri, August 18, 1864, in Company" Forty-second Missouri Infantry, under Captain Thompson. Mr. Davis, like Mr. Stall of Ottawa, fudged a little on his age, which he gave as 17 at time of enlistment." The birthdays of the four men who are now before the public's eye as young servants for their country are as follows: J. H.

Getty, Ottawa, December 7, 1849; John B. Stall, Princeton, March 17, 1850; Andrew H. Burke, Kansas City. May 15, 1850; J. W.

Davis, McCune, September 11, 1851. FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE. But the. Pa ram ore Flagstones Will Be Replaced. The oldest piece of sidewalk in town Is to be torn up next Monday and replaced by a new one of cemenL The walk north of the H.

B. Para-more residence. Locust and Second streets, was laid forty years ago by Mr. Paramore's father. The flagstone that went into this walk came from the old Dan Smith place, now the Harrison farm, north of town.

The flagstones, have been somewhat cracked and seamed" In places, by forty winders, and thousands of feet walking over them for four decades have worn them thinner than they were originally. But the walk is stllTia fair STUBBS AT POMONA YESTERDAY FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE HEARD ABOUT STATE AFFAIRS. King and Guyer Each Spoke for a Few Minutes Until the Governor Arrived Spent Night Here. That Judge U. S.

Guyer Is" one ol the cleanest men that ever ran for Congress in this district, is the enthusiastic opinion of Governor W. H. Stubbs, voiced last night at" the Hotel Nelson. Governor Stubbs camo in from Pomona, where he spoke yesterday afternoon at the street-fair picnic, arriving here about 6 o'clock, In time for supper. He spent the nisht here, and took the early train this morning for Kansas City, returning to his home at Topeka this afternoon to spend Sunday.

"Mr. Guyer did as much as any other man to secure the nomination, and later the election of the late A. C. Mitchell as reprcsentatlve from tbo Second District, and Mr. Guyer is the best qualified man to be his successor," said the Governor as he sat and talked to 'a few men in the lobby of the Nelson last night.

"Mr. Guyer is a progressive a man who will make a good successor to Mr. Mitchell, because bo. understands, better than anybody else, the principles for which Mr. Mitchell stood.

The voters of the. Second District will make no mistake in voting for Mr. Guyer." The Governor said he had been too bus to pay as much attention to Second District politics as he. should like, and that he was not qualified to make any predictions concerning Mr. -Guy- er's success, but he thought he would be elected by a good majority.

About three thousand people, heard the governor talk from a platform In the open erected for the occasion In the school house yard at Pomona yesterday afternoon. "How long did I speak? Oh, I quit a few minutes after I got started," said the Governor in bis usual brusque way. "I told the people about what has been done In the various state departments during my thoe, years (Continued on page 8). A. H.

T. A. DELEGATES NAMED WILLIAM SHELDON AND WALTER ATKINS FROM SALEM HALL. To Represent Lodge In Topeka October 18 Emory Greeni May Send Men. When the state meeting of the Kansas A.

H. T. A. Is held at Topeka on October 18, two delegates from Salem Hall lodge, near Wellsville, will be In attendance. William Sheldon and Walter Watklns were chosen delegates, with C.

P. Todd and Tilby Pence as alternate. F. O. McCain ia secretary of Salem Hall lodge, which is probably the strongest A.

IL T. A. in Franklin County. Emory Green C. P.

A. has recently applied for a charter in the, Anti-Horse Thief Association and If the charter comes before the state meeting, Emory Green will be entitled to delegates. Frai-klfn County man had the honor of being one of the nineteen delegates that attended the national assoemtion meeting at Newton, Thursday of this week. Franklin County Anti-Horse Thief members will probably attend the big annual picnic given by the lodge at Osawatomle on Wednesday, October 11. TOO MUCH PROSPERITY Contractor Becomes Abusive and If Locked Up.

J. T. Porter was Jailed last nigh' for using abusive and threatening lat guage to his wife. Mr. Porter livet on East Fourth street and Is a ston contractor.

MISS DAVIS HOME. Mary Coler Davis of this city arrived in New York City Thuriday eft-er making a tour of Europe. She win spend tonight In St. Louis, will be in Kansas City tomorrow and will return to Ottawa Monday morning. MbbV'J.

F. Ofborne and who have been visiting here, 1 home to Baldwin yesterday artcrr.osr WATERS OCCUPY THE TOWil NOT YET "KNOWN IF ANY LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST. Mother of 3-days-old Baby Forced to Fleewith the Babe in Her Arms i While Bed is Washed Away. La Crosse, Oct. 7.

Two thou- sand inhabitants of Black River Falls are without food and shelter after spending the night cn the hills while the waters turned loose by a break in the Black River dam inundated the village. Frantic appeals have been sent ojt for' aid by the hungry inhabitants. It will be several days before the waters recede enough to examine the ruins and ascertain the fatalities, if any. The town is practically wiped out. Only a few of the sixty-one business blocks escaped destruction.

4 At Hatfield, Mrs. J. W. Ebertowskl was forced to flee the. day after the birth of her child.

She walked two miles to a farm house carrying the babe. Today her home is in ruins. The bed on which she lay was 'washed out into the flood: This morning the residents of Melrose on the Black River found the stream had risen twenty feet during the night. The town was flooded and cut off from the outer world. BEER WYANDOTTE ATTORNEY GENERAL LED A RAID IN TAGGART'S CITY.

Personally Conducted Raid Leads to the Finding of. Considerable Booze. i Kansas City, Oct. 7. John S.

Dawson, attorney general of Kansas, accompanied Wyandotte County deputy sheriffs this morning when George Grubel's bottling factory, Second street and State avenue, Kansas was searched on a liquor warrant. Nineteen cases of beer and twenty cases of empty beer bottles were found in the bottling works. Mr. Grubel was not in the place when the raid was made. Mr.

Dawson gave orders that he be arrested. Later Grubel heard of the raid and went to the Wyandotte County sheriff's office and surrendered. He was released on a $500 personal bond. This raid was made in the city of which Joseph Taggart, Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, lives and is prosecuting attorney, and which he declares is free from liquor law violation. A REWARD FOR AID.

M. W. A.f Present a Rug to Bert Bell for Unusual Activity. A handsome large rug was presented to Mr. and Mrs.

Bert Bell last night the meeting of Camp 499 of the M. W. A. It was presented in consideration of the services rendered by Mr. Bell to George Walton when he was seriously hurt at the Le Loup pfemic several weeks ago when the Plummer pop-corn machine blew up.

Mr. Walton and Mr. Bell are Woodmen. Walton was badly cut by the flying steel and glass. The Lamb-Bell ambulance was rushed to the scene in charge of Mr.

Bell and the injured man was brought CASE AFFIRMED. Supreme Court Allows Mrs. Dawson Thayer to Keep Edith Pryse. Attorney W. J.

Costigan received a telegram today from D. Valentine, clerk of the Supreme Court at Topeka stating that the case of Mrs. Laura Pryse-Hickey of Meua, vs. Mrs. Dayson Thayer of this city which was appealed from Ottawa to the Supreme Court had been affirmed.

About six years ago, Mrs. Pryse-Hickey placed her little 2-year-old giri, Edith Pryse in a public home for children in Kansas City. Mrs. C. W.

Goodin of this city brought the child to Ottawa. Mrs. Dawson Thayer reared the vchild and became attached to iL In March, 1909, the mother of the child came here for.lt but Mrs. Thayer would not give it up. She began suit against Mrs.

Thayer for the recovery of the" child. She loh. and appealed it to the Supreme Court, and the word today stat ed that she had been beaten again. HE'S WILLING FOR SECOND DOSE BRYAN REPLIES IN AN EDITORIAL TODAY. i-r Reiterates That no Trust' Magnate Cant Be Convicted in Criminal Court by Present Laws.

Walla. Walla, Wash. Oct. 7. Arriv- Ing here today President Taft was welcomed to the state by Governor Hay at City Park where the President addressed several thousand.

Hay introduced him as a "Good Prescription." Mr. Taft laughed heartily at this and said that if the people want a "Second Dose" he would try to do his best. His address was on agricultural subjects and the tariff vetoes. Lincoln, Oct. 7.

Replying to Taft's Cherryvale, challenge that he produce an example of. restraint of trade not within the scope of the Standard Oil and Tobacco decisions, W. J. Bryan, in an editorial this week -challenges to make public the written and verbal recommendations-upon which he appointed White to a position of Supreme Court Justice over Harlan and the reccmmUnda-tion on which he appointed justices whom he placed on the Supreme Bench. The editorial says: "Mr.

Bryan. has asserted and asserts again, it will be found practically impossible to convict a trust magnate in criminal court." PREPARE FQRfURE FOOD SHOW U. C. T. WILL ORGANIZE INTO PURE FOOD SOCIETY The Date of the Exhibits Here Will Be December Twenty-Third to Thirtieth, Ottawa Council 390, of "the TJ.

C. will hold a special meeting tonight to appoint committees and perfect plans for the Pure Food Exhibit which will be put on in Ottawa next December. The U. C. T.

will probably formally organize as a Pure Food Association at tonight's meeting. The exhibit dates are December 23 to 30. An executive committee composed of L. L. McKim, E.

O. Clark and P. P. Elder, was appointed some time ago, and sub-committees will probably be named tonight and later as needed. The wholesale houses and manufacturers who have salesmen in this territory will be urged to send exhibits to Ottawa.

There will also be music and dancing. A committee composed of F. C. Dobson, L. C.

Jones and Clyde Wallace has been named to have charge of the program. ON A STATE COMMITTEE. Miss McCoy Will Be One of the Examiners to Send Out Quizzes. Superintendent of Public Instruction E. T.

Fairchild sent word today to County Superintendent Etta McCoy of her appointment on the bi-monthly examination committee which sends out the quizzes given every two months. Miss McCoy has the honor of being one of twelve superintendents most of the others being heads of city schools. She served last year as a member of the committee that made out the examinations for the county pupils who received diplomas. FOR ODD FELLOW CONVENTION. A large number of Ottawa and Franklin County members of the I.

O. O. F. will probably, go to Kansas City the first of next week for the district meeting of the lodge. Turnic Smith is delegate from Ottawa, though more may go up.

M. F. Lawrence is delegate from the Pomona lodge and each lodge in the county will be entitled to a delegate. County is a strong Odd Fellow county and a score or more will go, at leasL MIGHT BE CHAMP CLARK. Speaker Is a Possible Democratic Presidential Nominee.

Buffalo, Oct. 27. Naming Champ Clark as a predominant influence in the policies of the House, Chairman Mack of the Democratic National Committee in the October Naeional Monthly presents the speaker as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination..