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T WENT Y -FOURTH YEAR. Yearly Subscription $1.00. WA-KEENEY, KAN., SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1902. H.S.GIVLER, Prop. NUMBER 35.
"Board erf Arbitration
SOME OF THE STOCKHOLM BUS WHO
A TTEJfDED A Jiff A L 'RAIL WAV MEE TIftG.
To Settle Labor T)irptite.
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The appointment by President
Roosevelt of a board of arbitrators to
decide between operators and miners
brought to an end the long and costly
strike in the Pennsylvania coal re
gions. The decision of the board is to
be final. Its personnel is as follows:
General John M. Wilson.
General John M. Wilson ("an officer
in the engineer corps of either the mil
itary or naval service of the United
States") is the late chief of the en
gineer department of the United
States. He was born in 1837, was
graduated from West Point ' in 1860,
entering the artillery branch of the
service. He was transferred to the
engineers in 1862. - He reached the
grade of lieutenant colonel at the end
of the war, although in the war he
was breveted colonel of volunteers for
gallantry in various battles. For thir
ty years he has had charge of engi
neering work on rivers, harbors,
canals 'and other public enterprises.
He retired in October, 1901.
Bishop Spalding of Peoria, III.
Spalding, John Lancaster, R. O.,
Bishop of Peoria, 111.' ("A representa
. tive of the United Mineworkers of
Judge George Gray.
Judge George Gray of Wilmington,
Del. ("One of the judges of the United
States courts"), was born in New Cas
tle, Del., on May 4, 1840. He is a grad
uate of Princeton, 1859 (A. M. 1863,
LL. D. 1889), and studied law at Har
vard. He was admitted to the bar in
1863 and practiced at New Castle and
afterward at Wilmington. He was at
torney general of Delaware from 1879
to 1885; United States senator 1885
'99; was a member of the foreign re
lations and judiciary committees in
the senate. Though a Democrat, in
1896 he was affiliated with the nation
al (gold) Democrats. He was ap
pointed a member of the Spanish
peace commission which sat in Paris,
and a member of the joint high com
mission at Quebec. He was also a
member of the international commit
tee of arbitration under The Hague
convention.
Edward Wheeler Parker.
Edward Wheeler Parker, statistician
of the United States Geological Sur
vey, expert special agent of the
twelfth census, and editor of the En
gineering and Mining Journc! of New
school education. Mr, Parker Is th
author of the annual reports on pro
duction of coal in the United States;
production of coke in the Unitet
States r production of good salt in th
United States, and other chapters ii
the annual volumes of the United
States Geological Survey. . .
Edgar E. Clark.
Edgar E. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
grand chief of the order of Railwaj
Conductors and member of the execu
tive committee of the National Civi
Federation. ("A man of prominence
eminent as a sociologist.") President
Roosevelt in appointing Mr. Clark as
sumes that for the purposes of such a
commission the term sociologlsl
means a man who has thought and
studied deeply on social questions and
has practically applied his knowledge
Thomas H. Watkins.
Thomas H. Watkins of Scranton, Pa
("A man who by active participation
in mining and selling coal is familial
with the physical and commercial fea
tures of the business.")
Carroll D. Wright, Recorder.
Carroll D. Wright, United States
Commissioner of Labor, will act as re
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" I corder ot the Board of Arbitration.
5 XSSSxWv- I He is one of the best known labor au-
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At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Illinois Central Rail
road company in Chicago recently mil
lionaires and section men brushed el
bows and farmers and business men
exchanged confidences, all being own
ers of stock in the company. The
youngest capitalist present was a boy
15 years old, who owns two shares.
There were women, too,' who owned
stock.
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt, look
ing the part of a leader of fashion
in hi3 faultless attire, could not boast
any more frequent attendance at
these meetings than Charles Bacon,
who has come every year from Ham
mond, La., to vote his shares on any
question of the management of the
great system which might require his
personal consideration.
A section boss from Iowa who sat
in a rear seat never moved his posi-
NEW MINISTER TO SPAIN.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy Has Had
Much Diplomatic Experience.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy, appointed
minister to Spain in the recent diplo
matic shifts, is a son of New England.
His father was the late Hon. Alpheus
Hardy. Born in Andover, Mass., in
1847, he was graduated from West
Point, served as a second lieutenant
in the Third artillery, and was pro-
tion or opened his lips except to vote
"aye" during the entire meeting, but
neither did John Jacob Astor, who sat
beside him. Both rat with their legs
crossed and while Mr. Astor displayed
silk lavender half hose, the Iowan
showed white wool socks below his
short, baggy trousers.
One of the character types was Mr.
TREASURY IS WELL PROTECTED.
America"). His grace- was born in
Lebanon, Ky, in 1840. He was edu
cated at Mount St. Mary's College,
Emmitsbnrg, Md., the University of
Louvain, Belgium, and in Rome. He
was secretary to the Bishop of Louis
ville in 18S5, and in 1869 built St. Au
gustine's church for Catholic Negroes
of Louisville; chancellor diocese of
Louisville, 1871; in New York, 1872-7.
Bishop Spaldng is the author of the
life of the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding,
of essays and reviews; Religious Mis
sion of the Irish People. He is a lec
turer on education and the higher life.
He has held the bishopric of Peoria
since 1877.
Makes Interesting Campaign. '
J. F. C. Talbott and William Tyler
Page are respectively democratic and
republican candidates for congress in
the second Maryland district. One
feature of the contest makes it unique
among all the 386 congressional cam
paigns. Twenty years ago Mr. Page
was a page in the house of representa
tives of which Mr. Talbott was a
member. The district is a close one.
Mr. Talbott is a veteran politician,
having represented the district in the
forty-sixth, forty-eighth and fifty -third
congresses.
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Schemes of Diamond Thieves.
Probably there are more ingenious
thieves in Kimberley than in any city
of Its size in the world, and they are
all after diamonds. One day a French
man appeared at Kimberley. He wore
boots, fitted with Parisian heels, two
inches or more in height. A trifling
matter of being seen talking confiden
tially with a native woman directed
attention to him. His boot heels were
hollow and filled with diamonds.
York. "An expert mining engineer,
experienced in the mining of coal and
other minerals, and not in any way
connected with coal mining proper
ties, either anthracite or bituminous."
Mr. Parker was born in Port Deposit,
Md.,' in 1860. He receved a common
Good Memory for Faces.
The late Lord Charles Russell of
Killowen had a wonderful memory for
faces. On one occasion he visited a
theater in Manchester and between
acts went behind the scenes to see an
old friend. While they were chatting
and actor passd and Lord Charles
said to his friend: "I remember that
man. He was the original Father
Tom in the 'Colleen Bawn. I saw
him in that character the night the
play was produced t.wenty years ago.
Though Russell had not seen the ac
tor in all that time he remembered
him at once.
Vassar Graduate's Good Luck.
A Vassar graduate of 1889, Miss
Helen D. Thompson, is turning her
knowledge of sanitation and social
work to the advantage of a whole com
munity at Orange, N. J., where she has
been made sanitary inspector. Her
efforts to instruct people in unsanitary
surroundings in better ways of living
have met with success where men
have failed in their attempts.
The membership of the board Is a
satisfactory to the miners as any se
lection that could have been made, and
in convention the men agreed to abide
by the decision. Public opinion, which
has all along been on the side of the
strikers, was so largely in favor of this
method of ending the strike that prac
tically no other course was open to
them. The shortage of coal had be
come a serious menace and the coun
try demanded a settlement.
Indian Girl a Society Favorite.
One of the most interesting passen
gers among those brought to New
York by the American liner St. Paul
on her latest trip from Southamptor
was Miss Grace Nailor, 16 years old
and a full-blooded Indian. After th
battle of Wounded Knee, which wa
fought in South Dakota fifteen yean
ago, a soldier found a baby girl on the
battle-field and took her to Capt
Nailor. Mrs. Nailor adopted
cated her, took her abroad and now
Miss Grace is a Washington favorite.
The Largest Cave in Europe.
In the MuotathaL near Schwyn,
Switzerland, there is probably the
largest cave in Europe. The existence
of the cave had long been known, but
as It could only be entered by crawl
ing no one bad troubled to investi
gate the interior. This summer, how
ever, three separate parties have ex
plored it. The distance traversed
amounts altogether to no less than
8,000 yards, and the end of the cavers
has not yet been reached. . .-
fessor of mathematics at Dartmouth
college. He wrote novels, the best
known of which were "But Yet a
Woman" and "Passe Rose." During
his career as a diplomat he has been
minister resident and consul general
at Teheran, Persia; minister to
Greece, Roumania and Servia, and
minister to Switzerland, having been
assigned to the last named post in
December of 1900 by, President Mc
Kinley. Princess a Successful Author.
King Edward's second daughter,
Princess Charles of Denmark, is. mak
ing a success in literature from a roy
alist standpoint. She has written a
book, but it has not been printed. It
is circulated in manuscript among the
crowned heads of Europe. Not to be
outdone by her royal literary aunt,
Queen Helena of Italy has written a
poem, which is to appear shortly in
the German review, Berliner Leben.
It is entitled "The Other Crown," and
gives the reverse of the medal of roy
alty as usually seen by popular eyes.
Burglars Would Have Hard Work Se
curing Nation's Wealth.
The treasury of the United States
at Washington, .containing an - im
mense amount of gold and silver coin,
is guarded both by men and modern
mechanism. Every vault is connected,
with an electric alarm so sensitive
that the slightest touch of the hand
will sound a warning at the office of
the guards and in the police stations
of the city of Washington. False
alarms have occasionally sent armed
men hurrying to the treasury. A sig
nal allowed to continue would bring
out the troops at Fort Meyer, three
miles away. Besides these mechani
cal safeguards, seventy-two men, un
der a captain, are engaged in watch
ing the treasury. Of these, one-fifth
are detailed for day service and two
fifths for each of the two watches of
the night.
Bacon, whose long beard and hair
showed aversion to the barber, and
who had made a soiled white muffler
take the place of a collar. Then'
again there were a number of appar
ently well-to-do business men and sev
eral women who had come to partici
pate in the annual deliberations of the
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FOE OF PRESIDENT CASTRO.
Gen. Matos Leads Revolutionary
Forces In Venezuela.
Gen. Matos is the leader of the
revolutionary forces opposed to Pres
ident Castro in Venezuela, and at the
present writing it looks as if the.
movement would be successful. Gen.,
Matos is an able man and has the' con
fidence of a majority of the citizens of
the republic, but the army is divided-
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TRUE DAUGHTER OF AMERICA
Child of the Late Marcus Daly Wanted
No Foreign Title.
Mrs. H. Carroll Brown before mar
riage was Miss Margaret Daly, the
elder daughter of the late Marcus
Daly, the capitalist and mine owner
of Montana. , She has inherited a
large fortune. With her sister she
passed several years in Paris, where
she was educated in a convent. About
a year and a half ago she became the
wife of Mr. Brown, a Baltimore man,'
who is a member of the Maryland
club, the Elkridge Fox Hunt club and
has been master of the hounds of the'
Green Spring Valley Hunt club. She
always declared, even during her resi
dence abroad, where she was much
sought after by tho nobility, that she
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in its allegianc. President Castro is
believed to have accumulated much
money during his incumbency, and If
defeated will follow the usual course,
of deposed heads of South American,
republics proceed to Europe and en-,
joy life in luxury.
Credit to the Negro Race.
Moses Leonard Frazier, the only
negro who was ever graduated from
the school of political science in Co
lumbia university. New York city, is
a shining light. He has been gradu
ated from three colleges, conducts -a
real estate business and finds time to
manage a barber shop.. He is a mas
ter of philosophy, a bachelor of philos
ophy, a master of arts and an invent
or. Mr. Frazier was born in 1860 and
be was 35 years old before he had
earned sufficient money to enable him
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Pelletan Between Two Fires.
The launching of the French steel
cruiser Kleber, which took place at
Bordeaux the other day, has given rise
to an amusing dispute. La Lanterne,
and some other Paris papers strongly,
urged Camille Pelletan, the minister,
of marine, to affirm his convictions by
forbidding the religious ceremony of
christening the vesseL A crusade on)
the other side was started by the re
actionary organs. The latter gained!
their point. The Kleber was solemnly)
baptized and blessed by Abbe Har
mahn. M. Pelletan is now accused ofi
being a man without the courage oft
his convictions by the socialist and
free thought press.
Mrs. H. Carroll Brown.
would . wed an American or . remain
single. Her father despised foreign
fortune-hunters, whatever their titles.
Has Much Valuable Jewelry.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Englishi
actress, has a great love for jewelry!
of every kind and wears some beauti
ful rings and necklaces. One of her
rirgs consists of one large pearl which'
opens and shuts and contains a por
trait of Mrs. Campbell's late husband. .
She is also the proud possessor of
four very beautiful and valuable dogs,
which are simply devoted to her and
follow her almost everywhere. Mrs.
Campbell has no great love for so
ciety, but she often- entertains her
friends in her charming flat In Ashley,
Gardens. London.