Abilene weekly reflector. [volume], July 24, 1913, Image 2

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PARCEL POST
Increase of Nino Pounds in Maxl-
mom Weight.
EFFECTIVE AUGUST FIFTEENTH
Abandon Rate Map for Individualis
ed Chart and Reduce Rates
In First Two Zones To
' Um Automobile.
t
, Washington. July 21. Plam for
the extension, Improvement and re
duction in rates of the parcel poet
were announced today by Postmas
ter General Burleson. The changes,
which are to become effective Aug
ust IB, Include an increase from
eleven pounds to twenty pounds in
the maximum weight of parcels; a
material reduction in the postage
rates in the first and second zones,
and the abandonment of the parcel
post map as a means of computing
rates and the substitution for it of
a rate chart individualized to every
poBtof fice in the United States. The
plans contemplate the purchase of
a large number of automobiles to
be need exclusively for the delivery
of parcel post matter.
While, for the present, the maxi
mum weight limit Is twenty pounds
k.iuxi: klaylu tai;;;n' to jail
Swan Johnson Fears Burial In Hie
Prison Cemetery, -
Sallna, July 23. Swan Johnson
who on Sunday, July 13, shot and
killed his neighbor, Henry Parohl,
was taken from the hospital to the
county Jail today. The wounds In
fllcted when he made an effort to
cut his throat, have nearly healed
Johnson has now turned his at
tention to his future, and expecting
to spend the remainder of hla life
in the penitentiary, has a dread of
being buried In the cemetery at the
prison. Johnson can neither read
nor write. He is quite well to do
and among other things owns a fine
820 acre farm near Klpp, in this
county. When he realized that his
self-inflicted wounds would not be
fatal, he called his four, sons to bis
bedside at St. Barnabas hospital
and went over his financial affairs
with them. He declared that it was
his wish that before any part of the
estate be spent, that a certain amount
be set' aside, sufficient to Insure
that his body after death be brought
to Saline county for burial, and un
der no circumstances are his sons to
allow the burial to take place at the
prison.
Johnson has not Intimated what
his defense will be, but from his
conversation it is inferred that he
may throw himself on the mercy of
the court with a plea of guilty
Since he is able to talk he states that
Parohl was responsible for much of
his trouble by "butting into", his
family matters. Mrs. Johnson had
ply only to the first and second i applied for a divorce a week prior
tOBes, from any given poete'fflce to the killing. On the day of the
a distance of about 160 miles the shooting Johnson's -four boys , took
change directed today constitutes J dinner at Parqhl's home, and this
the first step towards a universal Johnson aays was more than he
extension in the system and a gen- pould stand, and while he was eat-
eral reduction in the rates of post- tag, dinner at home, alone, he de
age on parcel matter. . Itermined to end the trouble by klll
"It is my expectation and belief", ing Parohl and himself. He failed
said Postmaster General Burleson,
"that eventually and it may be
fJftee$ior twenty years the postal
service will handle practically all
of the small package transportation
business In the United States. The
maximum weight limit!, extended
now from eleven to twenty pounds,
I expect to see increased to 100
in destroying his own life.
STATE GUARDSMEN IN CAMP
Kansas Army Gathered at Fort Riley
Now.
VS0;iii,T
mi mm
Kansas i ; ui::i l j::aenli: uia
An InrreM of $200&M In Excise
Collections.
' Leavenworth, July 23, "The year
ending June 20, 1913, was the most
Drought Brinies Famine All n P"Perous that the people of Kan
ibs nave enjoyed in many years, ac
cording to returned received by Fre
mont Leidy, Internal revenue col
lector. Every lino of business show
ed a marked Increase, he says, over
the previous year. , . ,
The total collections of the rev
enue office for the year were $732,
000, an Increase of over $200,000
over the returns of the year pre
vious. From the corporation , tax
law, $532,000 were derived, the gov
ernment collecting 1 per cent of the
Kansas.
BOARD OF HEALTH IS HELPING
No Rain for Two Months to Replen
ish Subterranean Supplies
Some Place Water Not
Used for Drinking.
Topeka, July 23. At least eleven net receipts above $5000 from ev
Kansas towns are short of water and ery corporation doing , business in
the state board , of health and Its the state. This report shows that
engineers are working nard to help the corporations are In a flourish
the cities get water that Is fit for Ing condition. More oleomargarine
use. Several towns are now using was sold than In the previous years,
water unfit for domestic use and the the tax being $62,000
citizens are prohibited from using it Kahsans are heavy tobacco users
in' their homes. Others have Just according to the returns, the re-
enough water for domestic use and ceipts at the, revenue " office being
the watering of lawns, flower beds $69,000 vas a tax on tobacco and
and gardens and in some instances cigars manufactured in the state.
even the watering of horses and The Sat ta Fe railroad and the Oil
cows from the city supplies is pro- and Gas company pay the biggest
hibited. , tax. but the figures are unobtainable
Washington, Olathe, Onaga, Hays, at the" local office.
Marysvllle, Caldwell. Strong City, "It is the biggest return since
Wichita, Wellington, Plalnville and 1901," said Mr. Leidy. "The in-Kanapolls-
are the towns in . which crease shows that 1912 was a most
there fs water trouble at this time prosperous year. The return indi-
and in which the board of health cates practically every line of busi-
has had official notice about , the ness with the exception of the farm-
water supply. Jng industry and everyone knows
It -has been almost two months (the success of the Kansas farmer
since there was a real rain through-! last year." '
out "Kansas. There have been heavy The records at the revenue -of flee
local rains and many showers,' but show that 159 more1 liquor stamps
no rains that soak the ground and (were Issued by the UnitetT , States
fill the water basins in the gravel government for Kansas for the year
from twenty to two hundred feet lending June 30 than in the year pre-
MiVilUSSON AJMAULT CASK
HAS TWO BIDES TO IT
Concordia, July ,23. The papers
were full of the McPherson county
story last week where a country wo
man vas attacked In her home br a
Nine Ce of Infantile . Paralysis 8tran' Th "tory.went that
Reported ka Kansas. . l" woman got away from the man
ana called help 'over the telephone!
The people of the county were arous
ed and. the blood hounds at Concor
dia were sent for. Sheriff Moore,
owner of the dogs, has returned to
hfa hnma ami thm Klnv...-a- ...i
Doctor JT. Jf. Slppy, of the Board of dence will unfold a little different
STABLE FLY CARRIES " 1
Health, Sends Ont Warning
Against Germ Carrier
Enforcing Quarantine.
story. ' As soon as the dogs arrived
at the house they took the scent of
the man who did the attacking and
went direct to the house of a prom
inent neighbor. The neighbor af
Topeka. July 23. Dr. J. J. Slppy, first claimed he had not been over
epidemiologist for the Kanaaa hnart I a thai trnmaii's liAnA knt .
""w hwwsbs O UVUBD tUV lAifjr
of health, sent out notlcestoday to stated that be had and now the
all the county health officers ' to woman is weakening on the assault
watch for, infantile paralysis and to itory. No arrest have been made
see that ' stable nies especially are and undoubtedly the other side of
Kept away from the patients. With- the big story will not be nubliahed
in uie past three days nine cases of
this disease, the first, to appear in
Kansas this year, have been report
ed. Four of the cases are at Par
sons, one at Wichita, two near Kins
ley, one at Ellsworth and one at
Pittsburg.
'The common housefly does not
carry infantile paralysis," said Dr.
Slppey today., "We have been able
330 ARRESTS IN HUTCHINSON
Blue Sunday May Result from the
; ' Controversy.
Hutchinson, July 23. The ' cru
sade against Sunday shows and parks
in Hutchinson promises to bring
to show almost conclusively that it about a blue Sunday here.
is the stable fly tflat does it. The Today the entlr hn imnn. nr
best preventive we know is to keep tie Isle of Joy company which show
the stables clean, the "manure piles ed at Riverside park Sunday night,
hauled away and the houses screen- was arrested on comnliint. nm
ed thoroughly. We know of no cure to by a. committee' of ministers of
or any eerunt VBlcH will prevent the the cityY K. C. Beck, sheriff of
disease. The state board is enforc- Reno county and owner of the park,
ing as strict a quarantine against was also arrested ' for violation of
inrantne paralysis as is enforced the Sunday labor act.
against any disease." " i The warrant wan served on ShaHff
Beck by a policeman, but he refused
ORGANIZED CATTLE THIEVES j to recoenlzn It nrt mnAA that
Junction City, July 23. After
annrfrv ifolava In tha xfv nf latA
ponnus, ana experience may aem-itraln8 ,ow Qrt and
onstrate the practicability of hand-)h for designated for
ing the parcel business at even th; varlou company Btreet8( the
lower rates man we now Propose. and gecond regImenU of the
I Kansas national guard got them
Washington, July 23. Concerted selves nicely adjusted in their ten
opposition has developed in - con-j days' quarters on, the Fort Riley mil-
gress to Postmaster General Burle- itary reservation yesterday. The
eon's order reducing parcel post last of the troops arrived about mid
rates and increasing the maximum 'night, and the soldiers either pitch-
size of packages to be handled in ed their tents in the moonlight or
the service. The order was irs-ied slept on the ground. In required1
Sunday, to become effective August, but a short time to bring order out
18, and today the senate p:toffice of chaos in the morning and by
committee requested Mr. Burleson noon all of the 1500 men of the
to rppear before the committee next , guard were in camp, with tents up
Thursday with an explanation of the , and everything in readiness for the
authority for his action.
This was the first step in what
promises to be a bitter contest. When
the postmaster general has been
heard, the committee is expected to
encampment.
The camp is laid out on the same
plan as heretofore.'.and occupies the
same site, between the old state
house and Fort Riley proper. The
undertake to -have withdrawn bo-j various companies of the two regi
fore August 15 any authority he ments are quartered in their brown
may claim congress has glv.s him canvas tents, which are stretched
to change rate and sizes. It was in long,' orderly rows on either side
contended in the committee that the of the camp streets.
proposed changes would eutall an
enormous loss to the government
and some of the members complain
ed that the postoffice department
It is conceded that the encamp
ment this year will be on a smaller
scale, and that the maneuvers will
be minor problems, no special pro-
had failed to furnish congress with j gram has been prepared. Orders will
data concerning the operation of the j be Issued from day to day depend
parcel post .Apparently there was Ing largely on the conditions. . Noth
no difference of, opinion in the com- Ing aside from light drilling is ex
mittee ss to whether the postmaster pected during the first few days of
general should change the rates, j the camp. Later on there may be
Democrats and Republicans agree-j a maneuver ending in a sham battle
Ins- that only congress ought to have or something like that, although
there Is nothing definite. . That lies
with the commanding officer and his
staff.
Heretofore, when regular troops
have. participated in the maneuvers,
the camp has been in command of
an officer of the regular army. This
year the guardsmen are by them
selves and the only reason they
have for knowing that Fort Riley Is
on the map is because orders have
been issued granting the use of the
post hospital for militiamen who
take sick while in camp.
hnlnw th e-rminil Then a watAr I vlnnjt . Th rollAftor rfarilnpil in
D I I V lirrtoirnnir ir vci . an I . . . .
basins have gone dry and the cities say how many stamps were issued. " ..oi.nn aMOf n,De served by the proper author-
cannot get enough water from these "The field deputies report, how- j1' the coroner,
basins to keen the mains full. In ever, that there is less liquor being! - Dodge City, July 23. Dodge-City Sheriff Beck, in retaliation, be-
some cities water Is being pumped I sold," said the collector. "I cannot "iait oeiieve tne arrest or c. c. Kan instituting complaints against
from creeks and rivers, the water understand " why so many people I Henaerson ana pert smitn nave, an- a list or almost 350 citizens whom
being available only for, bathing, would qualify to sell liquor. Many covered the operations of an organ- he alleges, have been likewise vio
watering animals and fire protection, of those who took out stamps came ize anS r cattle thieves in west-Mating the Sunday labor act. Seven
Prof. Granville R. Jones, consult- back asking to have them cancelled, " Kansas. Henderson was r- ty-three complaints were issued and
Ing engineer for the board of health, which is infpossible for us . to do. rested m Kansas City with a check tne . ponce court a stock of blanks
has been keot busy for two weeks They say the authorities are mak- ln his pocket for $1800, received was exhausted. Printers are work
trying to solve the water troubles Ing it too warm-for them and are for cattle stolen from a pasture In ing today getting out more complaint
of Kansas cities. Part of the time anxious to get rid of the stamps." Inney county, bmitn was arrested oianas
two assistants have been working ' 1 , - in Dodge as he brought back the Police Judge J. M. Jordan said
with him. Wellington has lust let I HASKELL COUNTY'S PRIZE norses usea to drive tne cattle to cne warrants would De issued. The
a contract for a water supply eleven COYOTE KILLER IS A BOY ueeriieia at nignt ana load tnem nsi inciuaes proprietors ana em
miles away and the olant will cost ' for shipment. Two months ago ployees of garages, livery barns,
Vl million dollars. Other cities are Santa Fe, July 23. Ray Ward has Henderson was here tand engaged drug stores, cigar stores, hotels,
sinking new wells and trying to find killed another coyote. Ward, who is horses from the Hampton livery barn restaurants, news stands, newspa-
m . . 9 ' ij i tt i. - ii I tf o tf 1a A.m I IT a .'' That Hma a I flAl ' Sf ffnoa . o 11 . AtYirilnvoa . A r tlA
ably there are other Kansas towns prize coyote slayer. He sprang m- "ea caiue at wugoion ana re- nuwuimon. imeruruaa railway cob
that are having the same, trouble, I to the limelight a few weeks ago turned" the horses by his helper, pany, employes of the soda ash plant,
but reports of shortage have come when he killed his first coyote by Last week he appeared at the barn Hutchinson's largest factory, tele-
only from the eleven towns. . chasing It down on his cow pony I ana engagea came ponies ana young grnpn oaices, unaeriaxerB ana icie-
and ln a deanerate atruggln ' klllina- Smith ' to help him. From the fact I phone operators. Included in , the
it with the thigh bone of a cow. that he waited here three days be-1 list also are the paid singers of the
GRASSHOPPERS ATTACKED .ira fmm,'..nti hnna wt.r fore leaving the officers believe he church choirs and organizations of
vMpuaa a au aav .va wuv-D j iu( -
alxomobilk irHUiSiKiiiAU n,arbv on th nrafrin - had confederates in Finney county, the various churches.
Since then he has killed eight of watching the herd, to give him the-
Cottonwood Falls, July 23. A tne Deasts, cnasmg eacn until It was"ul" wueu wie opportunity was. Indians Begin Dance.
motor party who has Just come exhausted. The second victim was "iw. . . I Watonga, Ok., July 23. Nearly
through western Kansas and passed kicked to death. In the last chase mnn was taxen to uaraen wty. 3000 Indians of the Cheyenne, Ara-
" - l ..... ... D.m.i.. .... 1I.JJ X. I 1.1.1 '
here today on thelr way east, toIdla was armea witn a rule, wnen i". eey u I pahoe. Kiowa, Osage and Ponca
of the ravages of grasshoppers in I the coyote fell exhausted on the horses. : I tribes began their annual dance to-
the west part of the state. The driv- prairie the boy dismounted to shoot
this power.
The controversy has aroused ex
traordinary interest at the capitol
and ln official circles, since the par
cel post touches more or less di
rectly nearly everybody in the country-
.
Those . who are supporting the
postmaster general in his stand in
sist that the only loss immtnent on-
, der the proposed changes would be
to the express companies, which
now carry the profit-making, large
sfeed packages, while the govern
ment transports the unprofitable,
small ones.
The changes ordered by the post
master general would ' affect only
User 'first or second zones, or terri
tory within a radius of 150 miles of
.the point of mailing. The maximum
weight of parcels would be changed
from eleven to twenty pounds.
BALIE WAGGENER UNDER ,
' KNIFE AT ROCHESTER
Unite to Build Roads.
Muskogee, Ok., July 23. Towns
in' Sequoyah county united and In
one day completed a nine-mile auto
mobile pike between Sallisaw and
Viaa, Ok. It was one it the most
remarkable pices e road-building
ever known in the southwest. Bank
ers worked beside common laborers
j society women cooked meals
esJ f ;rved them beside the washer
in and the farmer's wife.
Atchison. July 23. A telegram
from Rochester, Minn., received
here last night stated that B. P.
Waggener, general solicitor for the
Missouri Pacific railroad, under
went a successful operation at the
Mayo hospital yesttr day. W. P. Wag
gener a son, who sent the message,
says the Mayo brother feel sure Mr.
Waggener will recover rapidly. The
operation was not an abdominal one
as had been generally supposed. In
fected glands of the throat and
mouth were removed. This Is the
fourth operation to which Mr.' Wag
gener hsa submitted twltbia Xwo
year. The previous operations were
for diseases of tcr Intestines.
er showed the leather upholstering,
and cushions on his car which had
been attacked by the hoppers who
had eaten the surface leather off in
large spots all over the leather
work where exposed. In passing
through one county where the pests
were found in swarms, the insects
covererd the bottom of the car an
inch or two deep while the running
boards were also covered by dead
hoppers which were struck by the
wind shield and radiator. Unless
close watch was kept the Insects
would settle on the baggage or one';
clothes and bite holes through them
before detected
it. He was so nervous from the COUNCIL PUTS SUNDAY
THOMPSON OF KANSAS
' AGAINST "TAINTED"
NEWS
.Washington, July 23. Senator
Thompson of. Kansas has "introduc
ed in the senate a bill wbl"! di
rected at "tainted" news It pro
vides that any news agency jwbtch
accepts pay for telegraphing items
of Interest or profit, to tlios, alone
who. pay for getting them la print
must notify- publishers to whom
such items are sent; that they are
advertisements; and the boiler plate
plant must . carefully . - label the
tainted" news It supplies the coun
try editor. i
The bill grows out of the publi
cation of a letter seized by the sen
ate lobby investigating committee in
which one member of the sugar lob
by wrote to another that he had con
tracted with a news syndicate for
publicity ln behalf of the protected
sugar Interests.
Good Day's Work.
Nlles, July 23. NUes claims to
have the champion thresher of the
state. Dal Davidson on July 10,
threshing for L. Lingerfelder.
threshed 2250 bushels in 12 hours.
Mr. Davidson has averaged over
2300 feusisels a day s!aee July J. ";'
exciting rtpase he was afraid to
trust his unst'eady aim, so he club
bed the animal to death with the
gun stock. .
day between Fonda and- Longdale.
It is expected the dance will last for
1 . cm . I
the next two weeks. The Indians
are planning to help celebrate the
Sallna, July 23. -The city council! anniversary at Lawton of the new
of the opinion that the question I country, and members of the various
of the moving picture show on Sun- tribes will participate in the mon
day in Sallna is the business of the 8ter parade which' will be' given for ,
state and county officers, If the posi- the occasion.
FORD COUNTY JAIL.
SILICA DEPOSIT MAKES
FARMER A RICH MAN
Crumbine In Hospital.
Topeka, July 23. Dr; J. S. Crum
bine, secretary of the state board of tlon is to be Judged from the action
U ..Ilk . J a " 1 . I '
UMU"' uuuerwem a BeriouB opera- taken last night. An ordinance had COUNT DOESN'T LIKE
I. m v.eTB.auu, rnaay been introduced following the state
night and probably will be confined law on sunday labor and after some
tO the hOSPital for ten days Or tWOUltannaninn the, r-mnll loir
weeks. Dr. Crumbine has been suf- ,ji , w h Dodge City, July 21. 'Count"
fering from stomach trouble' for vote of seven to two Councilman I Edward A- J- von Wallstatten, who
several months- and while on his Benson and Swedenberg were in cIa,m t0 be. a cousin of Emperor
present eastern trip aeciaea to nave favor of the ordinance with Conn. ranz Josepn oi Austria, is aisrusiea
the operation performed in Cleve- Cnman Peck absent. The rest voted with his quarters in the Ford cown-
iand. Telegrams received today by i.nn.. f nA ty jail. The building has been com
I v aani'VBO wa Lun aaa a L 1.C 1 ' U T KCLL111K S -
pietea less man a montn. ana is as
modern as money could ; make it..
With the court house, it cost the
county $100,000 but the "count" Is
not satisfied. The' food isn't what
he has" been used to, he complains,
but he Is not in a financial condi
tion to make arrangements, with
any cook outside of the one employ
ed by the county. The "count" has
spent five days in jail -awaiting his
bearing July 29 on a charge of em
bezzling $10 .from a china company
for which he was a traveling sales
man. His companions In the jail
are two men accused of selling liq
uor illegally, one of them colored;
one man accused of giving liquor to
a girl under age Tone man charged
with horse 'stealing, and one charg
ed of assaulting his sisten-in-law, a'
girl of II. '
the board of health indicate that the rW cf the proposed ordinance
secretary is resting easy.. While It
will be three or four days before the
result of the operation will be fully
known, It is believed that there is
no occaslod for alarm regarding Dr,
Crumbine's ultimate recovery.
Meade, July 21. Ira McSherry
until a few days ago a farmer in
ordinary circumstances, 1b now
LAWRENCE VOTES NEW
BRIDGE OVER THE KAWr,ch man.
Some weeks ago a deposit of silica
Lawrence, July 23. Douglas Was discovered on . some heretofore
county yesterday voted for a new j worthless bluffs on : McSherry's
bridge across the Kaw river at Law
rence. The majority . was 741. The
new bridge la to be modern concrete.
costing $200,000, the . sum to be
raised by a special tax of two mills,
The old structure has been In use
for about forty years.
GOVERNMENT HOLDS UP
FREIGHT RAISE ON FLOUR
Washington, July 23. An In
crease ln freight rates on flour from
points In Kansas and other middle
western states to California termin
als from sixty-five to seventy-five
cents a hundred pounds was sus
pended today by the interstate com
merce commission until November
when as investigation of the
reposed advance. w;:i be rna3a.
farm. He sent Samples to an east
ern manufacturing concern. ' Tests
showed the deposit to be of super
ior quality and Mr.1 McSherry has
Just signed a contract for two car
loads a week for the next five years,
or vi 5,0 00 tons. He declares,' how
ever, he will continue farming.
FEMALE BOOTLEGGER IN
, STATE ; PENITENTIARY.
Leavenworth, July 21. Mrs. Em
ily Gray of Garden City was receiv
ed at the Kansas penitentiary today
to serve a year for selling liquor.
She was the, first woman to be sen-
tecced to prim under the new Kan
sas law provldlsg penitentiary terms
for vlo'Etloci cf tie prct'MJory law.1
Salt for f5M00.
Wichita July 21. Claiming that
a hole in a pavement caused, his bi
cycle to wobble throwing him under
an interurban 'car, Charles J. Bid
lerback, aged 12, fcas started suit
against the city for $50,000 dam
ages. Rldlerback fell under a car
on April 14 and both legs were so
badly mangled that they had to be
aeptstatel, '