100 Year Old Weblog: September 2008

HUMANE MAN WAS SLUGGED. ~ Got a Bruised Head for Interfering With a Farmer.

September 20, 1908

HUMANE MAN WAS SLUGGED.

Got a Bruised Head for Interfering

With a Farmer.

A. R. Young, an employe at the Fulton transfer barn, 121 East Fourth street, last night was standing in front of the barn when a farmer boy rode up on a horse. The boy's father at once flew into him and began to whip him severely for riding the horse.

After the farmer had finished whipping the boy he attempted to handle the horse, which made some objections. Then he began whipping the horse. At that juncture Young took a hand and stated in stentorian tones what he intended to do. Just then something happened. A half brick was cast through the air. It may have been aimlessly or otherwise but nevertheless Young stopped it with the upper, southeast corner of his head. A gash several inches in length and a bump the size of a baseball was the result. Dr. J. Park Neal attended Young at the emergency hospital.

"Do you know who hit you?" the doctor asked Young.

"I don't know his name, no, but I know the man by sight. I am making no howl for police protection. All I have got to say is, hold this dump in readiness for an ambulance call at an early date. I have been slugged, ruthlessly pasted by a member of the horny headed Romanry and---"

"You mean horny handed yoemanry, don't you?" was asked.

"Maybe so. Anyway I was close. 'Get even' is to be the password from now on so clean up this place and get ready for work."

FAIR OPENS NEXT TUESDAY. ~ Independence Has Made Preparations for a Gala Week.

September 20, 1908

FAIR OPENS NEXT TUESDAY.

Independence Has Made Preparations

for a Gala Week.

Independence is to have its third annual fair beginning next Tuesday and continuing for the balance of the week. There will be something doing every minute as plenty of special attractions are provided. The judging of stock etc., will be done in the forenoon and the afternoon will be occupied with harness and running races, to be followed by an airship flight by Charles Strobel of Toledo. He promises to make the flight from Independence to Kansas City if favorable weather prevails.

The grounds cover fifty acres and the seating capacity for the races is 6,000. While the fair is promoted by Independence people and is called the Independence fair it is generally looked on as a Jackson county fair.

FAMILY HOTELS ARE HIVES FOR GOSSIP. ~ THAT'S WHY THEY ARE SO POPULAR, SAY THE BUILDERS.

September 19, 1908

FAMILY HOTELS ARE

HIVES FOR GOSSIP.

THAT'S WHY THEY ARE SO POPU-

LAR, SAY THE BUILDERS.

Flats Beat Residence Property, Too,

Because They Save Housewife's

Health, With Many Con-

veniences Thrown In.

Cheapness of building materials during the last two months has prompted a large number of persons to erect houses, for rent and for homes. According to the figures of one real estate firm the building for September and August is about double what it was for the same months in 1907. Lumber, glass, mortar and brick have all been unusually cheap, lumber especially. Labor has been easy to get and the price of good workmanship has been uniform and not too high. As a result there are many houses being built in the southern and eastern portion of the city.

The regular fall hunt for houses and suitable flats began a week ago, and while most of the desirable flats have been filled by this time there remain many tenable houses. The flat is growing in popularity in Kansas City, according to real estate dealers. In the summer time people who rent houses wish to go away for vacations, and many of them stay as long as one or two months. To be the tenant of a house while on an extended vacation is a hardship upon many and so they prefer to rent flats which can be vacated without any expense.

Many persons have found the flat to be the most convenient kind of residence in the winter. Heat is usually furnished, as is janitor service and light. For this reason those who have to rent or prefer to do so choose the flat or the family hotel.

The family hotel is gaining in popularity with the well-to-do class. There is no heavy work for the housewife and then there are many in the hotel, which gives ample opportunity for gossip. Many of these buildings are being erected in the south part of the city and in most cases every room in them has been leased before the work on the building was fairly begun.

The real estate market is just holding its own. The fall months are not considered the best months in the year for sale of residence property, though many farms and acre tracts change hands after the season's crops have been gathered. Business property does not fluctuate to a great extent in the fall or winter months. No important sales of that class of property have been made of late.

EMBEZZLEMENT THE CHARGE. ~ Took Four Policemen to Arrest Two Greeks Wanted in Chicago.

September 19, 1908

EMBEZZLEMENT THE CHARGE.

Took Four Policemen to Arrest Two

Greeks Wanted in Chicago.

Nicholas Antonopolus and James Anton, Greeks, were arrested yesterday afternoon by Detectives Gent and Wilson and Patrolmen M. Sheehan and Peter Douglas and taken to the Southwest boulevard police station and locked up for investigation. The men are wanted in Chicago, where they are alleged to have embezzled various amounts from creditors. The largest debt is for $600. The police say they were in the grocery business in Chicago until a week ago, when they came to this city and engaged rooms at 1310 West Twenty-fifth street. Requisition papers have been applied for.

WHAT'D THE MEN GIVE TO SEE THIS PARADE. ~ Nothing but Girls, Young Ones, in the Spectacle to Be Given by the Y. W. C. A.

September 19, 1908

WHAT'D THE MEN GIVE

TO SEE THIS PARADE.

Nothing but Girls, Young Ones, in

the Spectacle to Be Given

by the Y. W. C. A.

Gaudy-colored posters in the quiet lunch room of the Y. W. C. A. will next week announce the first of the series of jolly evening planned by that organization for its members. October 1 has been decided upon as the rally day for both the educational departments and the gymnasium, and in place of the usual routine speeches there will be a parade in the gymnasium. It will combine humor, instruction, and beauty. For a few days prior to that eventful night the youngsters will look in vain for their Irish Mail wagons, their coasters and their tricycle automobiles, for these are to be the foundations of the floats.

The pageant will be headed by a band in uniform. This band will render at least three selections. Old horns, jews harps, fine and course tooth combs and all sorts of wonderful instruments are being collected and the band members have promised to rehearse their repertoire before their engagement. The lights in the gymnasium will all be extinguished that the effect of the floats may not be lost. Ahead of each float will march two dominoed torch bearers and the floats will be ablaze with lanterns and candles.

The subject of the floats is still a mystery. "Jackson" will be on hand and will distribute souvenirs indiscriminately. No one need to subscribe anything to obtain them. Each float will throw out handfuls of circulars advertising the department it represents. The gymnasium is to have two floats and promised something unique. The pottery and metal workers are going to show something beautiful in the way of their handicraft. The lunch room, the cooking department, the sewing, the millinery, the extension and language departments will all be represented, and even the dignified members of the Bible classes have promised to march in cap and gown.

A cordial invitation is being extended to everybody except the men.

Kansas City's Y. W. C. A. now stands sixth in the United States in point of membership, and it is said that a large percentage of this number has been gained through the good times originated by the various committees. A large number was also gained through the membership campaign of last year when the organization divided into two bodies and held a war of roses. A campaign for new members will be held again this year, but it will be along different lines and promises to be even more unique.

HIS ATLAS IS OFF A LITTLE. ~ M. M. Sweetman's Book Tells Some Queer Things About Kansas City.

September 18, 1908

HIS ATLAS IS OFF A LITTLE.

M. M. Sweetman's Book Tells Some

Queer Things About Kansas City.

At the meeting of the Manufacturer's and Merchants' Association last night, M. M. Sweetman said that he had been induced to subscribe for an Eastern publication on the representation that with a little added money from the regular subscription list an atlas of the United States, accurate and complete to date, would be furnished.

"Consider my surprise," said Mr. Sweetman, "upon receiving the atlas and perusing the pages. I found Kansas City credited with 163,000 population, that it had four public parks and that the Missouri river is a bee hive of navigation, and hundreds of steamers dot its placid waters at Kansas City."

"What did you do?" asked a member.

"I wrote to the publishers to return my money or I would have them arrested for false pretenses," replied Sweetman.

FORTY-ONE CARS WILL RACE TO OKLAHOMA. ~ START WILL BE MADE EARLY TOMORROW MORNING.

September 18, 1908

FORTY-ONE CARS WILL

RACE TO OKLAHOMA.

START WILL BE MADE EARLY

TOMORROW MORNING.

Eight Days Will Be Consumed in

Making the Return Trip.

Rules Governing the Start.

The forty-one entries in the automobile touring contest were assigned places last night at a meeting of the Automobile Club at the Coates house. The first car to start on the tour will be the pilot car carrying W. G Coumbe and H. G. Blakely, officials in charge of the tour. The car, which will be a six-cylinder Stevens-Duryea, will leave the north end of the lake in Penn Valley park shortly before 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. The other cars will follow each other at intervals of two minutes, the first entrant leaving Penn Valley park at 7 o'clock.

It was given out at the meeting last night that every entrant must make out a report of the condition of his car at the start. The club will furnish two blank reports to each entrant. It is presumed that all cars will be in good condition when starting, but if there be some defect the report must be made before the start in order for the entrant to be able to avoid the starting defect as a penalty in the course. The second blank must be filled out and carried on the tour until taken up by the committee in the official car.

The tour will be to Oklahoma City, Ok., and will extend over a period of eight days. Many of the entrance have announced their desire to take friends and members of their family with them. Each entrant must make out a list of all who will ride in his car and leave one copy of the list with the officials at the start and give the other copy to the committee en route.

The following is the official list of the entrants:

1. Official car.....Stevens-Duryea
2. J. F. Moriarty.....Stevens-Duryea
3. D. B. Munger.....Peerless
4. H. E. Rooklidge.....White Steamer
5. Winfield Demon.....White Steamer
6. A. C. Wurmser.....National
7. C. A. Muehlebach.....Pope-Hartford
8. P. C. Rickey.....Stevens-Duryea
9. W. L. Walls.....Studebaker
10. H. G. Kirkland.....Overland
11. Frank E. Lott.....Premier
12. E. H. Jones.....Maxwell
13. Fletcher Cowherd, Jr. .....Corbin
14. C. J. Simons.....Maxwell
15. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
16. R. C. Greenlease.....Cadillac
17. W. S. Hathaway.....Maxwell
18. H. E. Rooklidge.....Reo
19. H. E. Rooklidge.....Premier
20. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
21. T. C. Brown.....Peerless
22. Charles B. Merrill.....Moon
23. J. F. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
24. Frank Woodward.....Knox
25. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
26. Frank Woodward.....Knox
27. W. S. Hathaway.....Maxwell
28. H. F. Wirth.....Buick
29. E. P. Moriarty.....Chalmers-Detroit
30. H. G. Kirkland.....Brush
31. J. E. Anderson.....Rambler
32. George Hawes.....Stoddard-Dayton
33. H. F. Gleason.....Gleason
34. A. O. Hunsacker.....Acme
35. Charles Norris.....Ford
36. C. A. Boyd.....Ford
37. L. A. Robertson.....Franklin
38. C. F. Ettwein.....The K. C. Wonder
39. Frank Woodward.....Knox
40. G. W. Graham.....Stoddard-Dayton
41. T. B. Funk....Ford

The rules governing the course of the tour will be furnished each entrant at the start.

ELI W. FISH, MERCHANT, DIES. ~ Was in Business on Grand Avenue for Forty Years.

September 18, 1908

ELI W. FISH, MERCHANT, DIES.

Was in Business on Grand Avenue for

Forty Years.

Eli W. Fish, who, since 1867 until last year, conducted his feed and grain business at 1418 Grand avenue, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 3228 Euclid avenue, after an illness of over a year.

Mr. Fish was born in Bedford, Ind., in 1843 and passed his youth on a farm. He was one of sixteen children, many of whom are still living. At the age of 18 years, in 1861, the young man joined the Eighteenth Indiana infantry and marched away to war. He fought in many engagements and afterwards transferred to the Fourth Indiana cavalry.

After four years of service he was mustered out and returned to Bedford to marry a girl from his native town. He then moved to Des Moines, Ia., and engaged in the gain and feed business, but in 1867 moved to this city and took up his quarters where his business stood for the next forty years. The sign which he had displayed, a large fish, is known to many residents of the city. For many year she lived in the rooms above his place of business on Grand avenue, but several years ago he moved into the south side.

Mrs. Fish died seven years ago. A daughter, Mrs. Clint Schley, lives at 3228 Euclid avenue, where Mr. Fish had made his home for several years. A son, Philip C. fish, an electrician, also lives in this city. Mr. Fish was a Republican in politics and was a candidate for the office of county marshal in 1894.

The funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery.

JAMES O'NEILL SEES THE CITY. ~ For the First Time, Although He's Been Coming Here 25 Years.

September 18, 1908

JAMES O'NEILL SEES THE CITY.

For the First Time, Although He's

Been Coming Here 25 Years.

James O'Neill, the veteran actor, who is appearing at the Willis Wood theater this week, has been coming to Kansas City for something like twenty-five years. He even recalls that his first appearance here was during the boom days, when he invested in several pieces of property for speculative purposes. That he was successful in his speculations is not particularly pertinent, but during the twenty-five years he had never had a more extensive view of the city than that which was necessitated through his daily trips from his hotel to the theater.

Yesterday, accompanied by George R. Collins, an old friend, Mr. O'Neill rode over the boulevards and through the parks of the city. It was a revelation to him.

"I was absolutely astonished," he said last night immediately after the last act of the "Abbe Bonaparte." "The cliff drive, particularly, is a thing of remarkable beauty. It reminds me very much of the Palisades in New York. There is something about the boulevards and parks, and again I say particularly the cliff drive, that relieves one of that feeling of the 'made' drive. By that I mean the boulevards and parks that are literally constructed."

REAL AEROPLANE HERE. ~ Only It's Small Enough to Be Shown in Window.

September 18, 1908

REAL AEROPLANE HERE.

Only It's Small Enough to Be Shown

in Window.

High above the autumn flowers it sailed, an exact miniature of the famous aeroplane, which, under the guidance of its inventor, Orville Wright, made so splendid a record at Fort Myer. The "demonstration ground" in this instance was the front window of the store of the William L. Rock Flower Company, 1116 Walnut street, and the aeroplane, although perfect to the last detail, measures only six feet in width. It was secured by William L. Rock while on his recent trip to the East. The great interest in the future of aviation taken by people of all walks of life caused the tiny aeroplane to be widely commented upon.

JUDGE MOSS THREW AN INKSTAND AT A LAWYER. ~ Tilt in Independence Court Room Over a Depreciatory Remark. Apologies Accepted.

September 18, 1908

JUDGE MOSS THREW AN

INKSTAND AT A LAWYER.

Tilt in Independence Court Room

Over a Depreciatory Remark.

Apologies Accepted.

The dodging qualifications of George P. Norton, an attorney, and his ability to come up smiling with an apology when Judge C. E. Moss threw a stand of ink at his head in the county court room at Independence yesterday, won him a railway franchise from the court. Judge Moss appeared pleased when Norton explained, and, as the county seat was known to favor the granting of the franchise, he gave it his sanction.

"There is little sense in what you say," was the remark of the attorney which riled the judge. He acted in a jiffy and bystanders were bespattered when the jar of ink struck a court rom bench right where Norton had been standing.

Judge Moss was questioning Attorney Norton relative to a clause in the franchise for for the Kansas City and Eastern Electric railway, pending in the court. He had asked him who was backing the enterprise. He wished to know if it was financially able to carry through the terms of the franchise and this nettled the attorney cosiderably. Then Judge Moss stated that he objected to a clause which was not binding the company to operate the road within three years.

Norton came up serenely with an apology to the court for his remark. Then Judge Moss, not to be outdone in courtesy, accepted the apology given and framed one for Mr. Norton and it was accepted. Judge Dodd smiled and really seemed tickled. The business of the court was taken up again and the franchise was granted to cross country roads between the limits of Kansas City and Lee's Summit. The right of way, already secured, touches the country farm and a rich farming territory.

FERRETS FOR HOSPITAL RATS. ~ Expert Will Make an Effort to Clear Out the Pest.

September 17, 1908

FERRETS FOR HOSPITAL RATS.

Expert Will Make an Effort to Clear

Out the Pest.

Ferrets are to be employed by the health and hospital authorities in exterminating the numerous rats which infest the old hospital building. Mayor Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr., yesterday issued an order directing the purchase of ferrets to be used at the hospital.

Patients in the wards have been attacked by rats and bitten before the nurses could scare them away. After dark the nurses are afraid to enter the wards on account of the pests.

JAPAN TEA MAY COST MORE. ~ There's a Scarcity of the Good Article in the Orient.

September 17, 1908

JAPAN TEA MAY COST MORE.

There's a Scarcity of the Good Article

in the Orient.

Here's bad news for the tea party ladies. The price of Japan tea will be higher this year than it has ever been before. To be sure, the low grade teas may be cheap, cheaper later on than ever before, but the good cupping teas -- the quality tea -- is scarce, according to Dudley Warner of Tokio, the representative of a Japanese tea manufactory who was her last night.

Mr. Warner explained just why this condition would obtain. He says that the Japanese farmer has been devoting more and more of his attention to the silk culture and has neglected the tender tea shrub. Consequently, the tea farmer is asking more for tea.

"The situation is not at all encouraging," Mr. Warner said. "If, because of the high price of good Japanese cupping teas, the consumers go on drinking the Ceylon tea, they will never go back to the light liquoring tea of Japan. The Ceylon teas are fermented before firing and the taste, once acquired, is lasting. This condition will assist the tea farmers of Ceylon, Java and China to get into the American market. Heretofore, the United States has taken 75 per cent of the Japanese production. Now Java is growing tea, and the coffee tree is becoming an exception.

Mr. Warner arrived in San Francisco a week ago on the steamship Siberia, direct from Tokio. He is an experienced tea man, having spent several years in the Orient. He is tester and buyer for a large tea firm of Tokio.

COLLEGE CROWD IS OFF AGAIN. ~ Boys and Girls Throng Union Depot on Their Way to School.

September 17, 1908

COLLEGE CROWD IS OFF AGAIN.

Boys and Girls Throng Union Depot

on Their Way to School.

If there is one time of the year which is thoroughly enjoyed by the "redcaps" at the Union depot it is the beginning of fall when students start collegeward. Last night the old station and the trainshed were thronged with young men and women, and there were many amusing sights.

The rah-rah boy took his parting form home ties and home friends with a smile and thoughts of the greetings he was was to get from the "fellows" back at school. All through the station could be heard the call of some fraternity man as he whistled a mysterious bar or so, and the joyful answer might come from two or three places in the trainshed.

Not so the girl. Her eyes were bright, but there was a definite trace of tears therein. She stood long upon the car steps, even until the train had passed from the shed, waving her farewell. Not infrequent were the demonstrations of affection which the youths had hoped would pass off for brother and sister love, but the wise "redcaps" had seen too much of that kind of affection and could not be fooled.

"Talk about your spooning parlors," remarked Lee Mitchell, depot master, "what is the use of starting them in churches? Let the lovelorn ones come down here. It's lots safer and less embarrassing, especially at night."

A few minutes after Mr. Mitchell had voiced his opinion, the lights in the tarnished wen tout and all was dark except the shafts of light made from the engine headlights.

"Now, what did I tell you?" he laughed.

THEY WANT FOLK FOR SENATOR. ~ Kansas City Friends of Governor Organize in His Behalf.

September 17, 1908

THEY WANT FOLK FOR SENATOR.

Kansas City Friends of Governor

Organize in His Behalf.

The Folk-for-senator club was organized in the offices of Judge E. P. Gates, Scarritt building, yesterday and the following officers elected: President Judge E. P. Gates; vice presidents, E. L. Scarritt and J. B. Sampson; treasurer, Walton H. Holmes; secretary, Arthur F. Jacoby; chairman executive committe, F. P. Walsh.

The club offices, in the Scarritt building arcade, will be opened today and kept open until after the election. It is the intention of the organization to exert every influence to bring about the election of Governor Folk for senator, and to accomplish this will hold meetings in almost every city and villiage in the state.

During the meeting yesterday about forty were in attendance and marked enthusiasm was shown

DOGS "TALK LOUD AND CURSE." ~ Said a Written Complaint Received by Police Board.

September 17, 1908

DOGS "TALK LOUD AND CURSE."

Said a Written Complaint Received

by Police Board.

A combination of howling dogs, rolling beer kegs and talking men has been annoying residents in the vicinity of Fifteenth street and Baltimore avenue so much of late that complaint was made by two members of the police board yesterday. The complaint was written on post cards and somewhat unique.

"You ought to send someone around here to shoot them howling dogs," it began. "They talk loud and curse all the time and roll beer kegs down the street late in the night. Such men ought to be arrested."

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SEARCH FOR SNAPS. ~ FLUNKERS MAKE THE ROUNDS OF EASY TEACHERS.

September 16, 1908

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

SEARCH FOR SNAPS.

FLUNKERS MAKE THE ROUNDS

OF EASY TEACHERS.

Principals Want Something Done to

Make the Enrollment Stationary.

Must Plan Uniform Sys-

tem of Working.

With three large high schools from which to choose a course of study, the Kansas City boys who go to high school for the fun that there is in it, are working a little scheme that will sooner or later be nipped in the bud by the school principals or superintendents. These boys are making the rounds of the schools hunting for the "soft snaps" in the way of simple subjects and "easy" teachers. Those who were considered failures at the Manual Training high school last year and who thought that faculty had it in for them because the teachers objected to loafing, are registered at the Westport high or at the Central school. Failures from Central used to go to Manual and Manual failures went to Central. Now there are three faculties to work and the transferring scheme is in full swing.

"Boys of high school age are pretty smart fellows," Superintendent J. M. Greenwood said yesterday, "and they know how and where to work their schemes for easy study. Many of them have made the rounds of the high schools, looking over the ground. In a large high school it takes a year for them to be found out. And when they are discovered they move on. We have three large high schools now, and that means three years of easy times to them."

Superintendent Greenwood believes that the time is coming when the city will have to be districted as to manual training high schools and that this year something may have to be done in the transferring of teachers. Westport high school has a faculty of only forty-three teachers while the Manual Training high school has more than seventy. The Central high school, being purely academic, will won't be taken into account.

Even the principals are beginning to feel that something will have to be done to make the schools stationary as to enrollment. Principal E. D. Phillips of the Manual Training high school said yesterday that the present system of allowing pupils to attend any school they please will place the principals in embarrassing positions. If a principal prepares for 1,400 or 1,500 students and the enrollment falls short, it means that his teaching force, for the sake of economy, must be curtailed. On the other hand if he prepares for a small number of pupils and 1,400 or more enroll he will need extra teachers when it is too late to obtain them.

"The whole trouble," says Superintendent Greenwood, "is that the high schools are working too independently of each other and this winter the superintendents are going to get together and plan a uniform system of working and a uniform course of study."

HE WAS LOCKED IN A THEATER. ~ Charles Passantino, Boy, Went to Sleep and Was Overlooked.

September 16, 1908

HE WAS LOCKED IN A THEATER.

Charles Passantino, Boy, Went to

Sleep and Was Overlooked.

Charles Passantino, a 10-year-old boy who lives at 217 East Sixth street, woke up at 10 o'clock last night in a cheap theater near Seventh and Main streets and found that the show was over and that everyone had gone home. The lights were all out and the doors were locked.

Charles yelled. He received no answer and finally got up nerve enough to grope his way into the vestibule, from where he could look out on the street.

He attracted the attention of a passerby, who sent word to police headquarters of the boy's plight.

When Patrolman J. W. Welch arrived he found J. C. Welleford, and inspector for the Missouri District Telegraph company, tugging at a large sign reading, "Matinee today, 2:30 and 3:30 p. m." When the sign was removed a good size ticket window was exposed to view. Charles got into the ticket office by smashing the glass door and turning a lock. He stepped onto a chair in front of the ticket window and was pulled out.

WOULD DIVERT KAW'S CHANNEL. ~ Mayor Announces That It Can Be Done at Cost of $10,000,000.

September 16, 1908

WOULD DIVERT KAW'S CHANNEL.

Mayor Announces That It Can Be

Done at Cost of $10,000,000.

The old plan of diverting the channel of the Kaw river, advanced several times since it was outlined in the report of the Stickney board of engineers, is to be taken up by the Kaw river flood abatement congress. Mayor Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr., at a meeting of the executive committee in the Commercial Club rooms yesterday, announced that Ira G. Hedrick had for some time been working on such a plan, and that it would cost about $10,000,000, the money, proposed by the mayor, to be collected by a tax on land and by contributions from the industries protected.

Mr. Hedrick will attend the next meeting and outline the plan in detail. Mr. J. Hedrick will also be called into consultation with an expert dyke engineer, to be employed by the congress at a cost of $1,000. The employing of such an engineer was recommended by E. R. Crutcher, chairman of the committee on engineering.

SHOULD A SANDWICH BE BREAD. ~ No, Biscuit, Said the Cook, and Slashed Off Waiter's Fingers.

September 15, 1908

SHOULD A SANDWICH BE BREAD.

No, Biscuit, Said the Cook, and

Slashed Off Waiter's Fingers.

Following a dispute as to whether a sandwich should be made out of biscuit or bread, John H. Koester, 24 years old, a waiter in a restaurant at Twelfth and Mulberry streets, was struck with a butcher knife by James Dalton, a cook, and lost the third and fourth fingers of his left hand last midnight. He was taken to the emergency hospital, where Dr. Ford B. Rogers dressed the wound and Dalton was locked up at the St. Louis avenue police station. Koester lives at 810 East Tenth street, but his home is in Chicago. The cook contended that biscuit was the proper planking for the sandwich; the waiter contended for bread.

FROM BALTIMORE TO DENVER. ~ Round Trip Is Being Made by Couple in an Automobile.

September 15, 1908

FROM BALTIMORE TO DENVER.

Round Trip Is Being Made by Couple

in an Automobile.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Snavley of Baltimore, Md., passed through the city yesterday on their return trip from Denver to their home city in an automobile. The trip from Baltimore to the Colorado city, running at the rate of fifteen hours daily, consumed exactly three weeks. They expect to make better time on the return journey.

Mrs. Snavly, who is an expert driver, is in charge of the car, while her husband is acting in the capacity of mechanic. The car before starting was specially equipped for the trip, and during its stop here attracted not a little attention. The interior of the tonneau is fitted with sleeping bunks and everything else necessary for a trip of the character, is to be found therein.

Mrs. Snavley was not backward in expressing her opinion on many stretches of bad road in this and other states. She said, however, that the roads of Kansas were the best encountered. The couple left last night for Independence, where they have friends, and it is expected they will leave for St. Louis today.

NEGROES FEAR VOODOO SPELL. ~ Sorceress Is Said to Be at Work Near Eighteenth and Flora.

September 15, 1908

NEGROES FEAR VOODOO SPELL.

Sorceress Is Said to Be at Work Near

Eighteenth and Flora.

Considerable excitement has been caused in the negro colony adjacent to Eighteenth street and Flora avenue because of the alleged attempt on the part of unknown persons to cast a voodoo over the dwellings of many families. Yesterday afternoon a crowd of negroes gave chase to a woman thought to be responsible for the work, but she disappeared before being overtaken. The woman, who is well advanced in age, is said by the negroes to have come here from the South, for the express purpose of casting the voodoo.

The voodoo, according to the superstitious belief of the older class of negroes, is brought about by a mixture of vinegar, sale and sugar with an equal portion of a hog's internal organs. This combination, according to belief, if splattered on the front door of a house will bring about the voodoo, and bad luck will thereafter follow every member of the family.

Several doors in the negro district are said to have been smeared lately, but every effort to detect the guilty persons at work has proved unsuccessful.

THEY WOULD LIGHT ELEVENTH. ~ Business Men Make Plans From Baltimore to McGee.

September 15, 1908

THEY WOULD LIGHT ELEVENTH.

Business Men Make Plans From Bal-

timore to McGee.

If the plans of the men representing the business houses on Eleventh street, between McGee street and Baltimore avenue, materialize, Eleveth street within those limits will be the mo st artistically lighted street in Kansas City. A committee of six of these business men met at the Hotel Baltimore last night and discussed the plans. They will meet again next Monday at 12:15 o'clock at the Hotel Baltimore when plans and bids will be submitted.

There being an absence of poles on Eleventh street, a different plan from that which obtains in other districts is necessitated. The committee is unanimous in the belief that there must be a uniformity in the lighting of htis street, and that the lights must be artistic. From the discussion last night it is probable that a combined light and pole will be secured at a cost of not less than $50 each. It is estimated that there should be no fewer than three lights on each side of the street.

These men were in the conference last night: C. C. Peters of Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co.,; H. C. Lambert, president of the German-American bank; D. M. Bone, secretary of the Business Mens's League; C. M. Boley, John D. Howe, secretary and treasurer of the Robert Keith Furniture Company, and J. W. Wagner.

WATER IN THE FOUNTAIN. ~ Residents Near Fifteenth and Paseo Amazed When They Saw It.

September 14, 1908

WATER IN THE FOUNTAIN.

Residents Near Fifteenth and Paseo

Amazed When They Saw It.

Scores of people on the Paseo yesterday afternoon stopped in amazement at Fifteenth street to admire the rainbow fountain, the rehabilitation of which was completed Saturday, and the water turned on for the first time yesterday. There is not much of the beautiful or artistic about the fountain, but twenty sprays of water sent from as many pipes afforded much delight to the children.

The sprays are arranged in a circle about the fountain, there being fifteen on the outer rim, four in the center and one on top, all throwing water toward the center.

The sun shining upon the water brings out the colors of the prism, hence the name, "rainbow fountain." This is the old cement pile, completed years ago, which, owing to a miscalculation on the architect's part, was never used. It was found that the quantity of water required to play the fountain would drain the water pipes in that section of the city. The pipes were recently replaced by smaller ones, and the fountain can be used, at least once in a while now without bankrupting the city or cutting off the water supply from the surrounding homes.

BEER IN AN ICE CREAM STORE. ~ Boys Were Drinking It and Police Arrested the Proprietor.

September 14, 1908

BEER IN AN ICE CREAM STORE.

Boys Were Drinking It and Police

Arrested the Proprietor.

A letter sent to the chief of police yesteday morning was responsible for the arrest of John Swartz, 209 Independence avenue, a dealer in ice cream on week days. The letter said that there was gambling and selling of liquor going on in the place every Sunday, and that it was a breeding place for vice and crime in the youths of the neighborhood.

Patrolmen E. L. Martin and W. G. Cox, in plain clothes, were dispatched to the place by Captain Walter Whitsett late yesterday afternoon. When the officers raided the place they found seven boys in the store. Some of them were engaged in playing cards and all of the young men were drinking beer. The police confiscated a case of beer and two quarts of whisky. Swartz was held and the witnesses were told to be in police court this morning.

JAPANESE YOUNG WOMAN SANG. ~ Miss Okajima Entertained Members of the Y. W. C. A. Yesterday.

September 14, 1908

JAPANESE YOUNG WOMAN SANG.

Miss Okajima Entertained Members

of the Y. W. C. A. Yesterday.

Many Japanese and English songs were sung by Miss Okajima, a young woman from Japan, at the Y. W. C. A. rooms on Baltimore avenue yesterday afternoon. Miss Okajima sang for almost an hour and then to the group of admiring young women around her she told stories of Japanese life and of the curious customs observed in her country.

That Japan has taken rapid steps forward by enlightenment and Christianity within the last ten years was championed by the young woman most sturdily, and it is her opinion that a great deal of such advancement comes from the United States. She says that her government is apt to look upon ours as a model and that Japan holds this country in high esteem.

Those who heard Miss Okajima sing declared that she had a remarkably sweet voice with a great range of tone. Some of the renditions were from the old music masters and extremely difficult. The young woman received several years of vocal training in her own country and has come to America to pursue her studies.

"I'LL KILL MYSELF," SAID HE. ~ But James N. Allen's Fellow Workmen Laughed -- He Is Found Dead.

September 14, 1908

"I'LL KILL MYSELF," SAID HE.

But James N. Allen's Fellow Work-

men Laughed -- He Is Found Dead.

For three years James N. Allen had worked as a dishwasher at the Manhattan restaurant. Saturday night he packed up all of his clothes at the restaurant and bid his fellow workers goodby. He informed them that he would commit suicide that night. Believing that Allen was joking, the men suggested various methods of suicide and jested with him until he left the place.

Going to the Henry house, on Walnut street near Fifth, where he roomed, Allen passed through the office, went to his room and locked the door. Then he sat down and wrote a note to his only friend, Sam Grassberger, a cook at the Manhattan restaurant, 420 West Ninth street. The note said: "I am going to end it all by killing myself. God bless you."

Before going to his room, he had purchased a bottle of morphine and the supposition is that he took the contents before going to bed. A maid found his door locked at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and the manager broke it down and found Allen dead.

SCHOOL TERM OPENS TOMORROW MORNING ~ ENROLLMENT WILL BE HEAVIER THAN EVER BEFORE.

September 13, 1908

SCHOOL TERM OPENS

TOMORROW MORNING

ENROLLMENT WILL BE HEAVIER

THAN EVER BEFORE.

Girls, as Always, Outnumber Boys,

in the Three High Schools.

Teachers Receive Their

Orders.

School opens tomorrow in all the public institutions. In the parochial districts the pupils have had a week of it already.

Since last Wednesday enrollments have been received at the various high schools, and the number of students is larger than ever before in the history of the city. Manual high school probably will have the greatest number of students. Up to noon yesterday when the enrollment for the week stopped, 1,334 students had been admitted, and it is thought many others will be taken in before the end of this week.

The Westport high school follows second with an enrollment of 1,290, while Central has but 1,110. Both schools are likely to increase their scholarship after former students have returned from their vacations.

With the public schools there is no definite way to determine the attendance because of children not being enrolled until after they make application on the first day of school. It is certain that the attendance will be considerably in excess of last, or any previous year in the history of the city.

Yesterday morning in the auditorium of Central high school the first teacher's institute of the season was held, during the course of which Superintendent J. M. Greenwood delivered his instructions for the ensuing year. All of the various schools held special institutes yesterday afternoon in which additional instructions were delivered by their respective principals.

Westport high will be prepared for the reception of its students tomorrow although there are several rooms yet incomplete. During the whole of yesterday prospective students and their friends visited the new Westport building, all of whom marveled at its vastness, completeness and beauty. The various class rooms are finished in the latest improved style, such as oak desks and chairs, slate backgrounds, etc., while the gymnasium with its complete apparatus was the cource of much comment from all.

Central has, during the course of the summer, undergone repairs and alterations which will make it one of the best school buildings in the city. The old building has been replastered, while several rooms of the later structure have been improved. The enrollment, although at this time it does not equal that of either of the other high schools, is expected to exceed both before the names cease to come in.

In all high schools the girls are in the majority.

TOOK POTASH AND A CIGARETTE. ~ But Neither Harmed Harry Jacobs, Cook, With a Poison Record.

September 13, 1908

TOOK POTASH AND A CIGARETTE.

But Neither Harmed Harry Jacobs,

Cook, With a Poison Record.

An ambulance call was received at the Walnut street police station last night about 10:30, on a report that a man had tried to commit suicide by poisoning himself. When the ambulance arrived the patient, Harry Jacobs, a cook, living at 1508 Olive street, was found on the front porch smoking a cigarette. He did not deny that he had taken potash, but seemed to have completely recovered.

"You ought to remember me," he said to the surgeon, Dr. Warren T.Thornton, "you pumped a dose of carbolic acid out of me a month ago."

He did not give any reason for the attempt.

SQUARED HIMSELF WITH LODGE. ~ George Runtz Left Money to the Odd Fellows Club By His Will.

September 13, 1908

SQUARED HIMSELF WITH LODGE.

George Runtz Left Money to the Odd

Fellows Club By His Will.

George Runtz, 35 years old, who came to this city a month ago sufferieng form consumption and apparently penniless, will be buried from Eylar's chapel, Fourteenth and Main streets, this afternoon. After his death Runtz was found to have $340 in a bag around his neck. By his will, which was written shortly before his death, most of this money is given to the local lodges of Odd Fellows, who cared for him throughout his illness when he was thought to be indigent.

What disposition he made of his property at his home in Cincinatti, O., is not known. The Odd Fellows will conduct the services. Burial will be in the Odd Fellows' lot in Union cemetery.

RATS ATTACK TWO BABIES. ~ Infants Mutilated by Rodents in the General Hospital.

September 12, 1908

RATS ATTACK TWO BABIES.

Infants Mutilated by Rodents in the

General Hospital.

Rats made an attack upon two babies at the general hospital last night. The faces of the babies, each under two weeks old, were gnawed by the vicious creatures and terribly wounded before a nurse rushed to their aid.

There are eight babies in the infants' ward at general hospital. Miss Muriel Pickering, the nurse, stepped out of the room at midnight to attend another patient. On one bed were four babies, all about the same age. Miss Pickering was gone about two minutes when she heard the cries of the babies. She rushed back into the room and fought the rodents away, and then called Dr. W. T. Thornton.

Dr. Thornton found the rats had harmed but two of the four babies in the bed. Their hands were lacerated terribly and great gashes were cut in their faces. He cauterized the wounds and set a guard to watch the ward during the remainder of the night.

Nurses have been bitten by rats while asleep at the hospital, but this is said to be the first time they ever attacked patients.

STEAMER TENNESSEE IS SUNK BY A SNAG. ~ IN EIGHT FEET OF WATER NEAR MOUTH OF LITTLE BLUE.

September 12, 1908

STEAMER TENNESSEE

IS SUNK BY A SNAG.

IN EIGHT FEET OF WATER NEAR

MOUTH OF LITTLE BLUE.

Much of the Cargo Is Saved and No

One Is Injured -- Extent of

Damage to Boat

Not Known.

With a large hole torn in the bow, the steamer Tennessee, en route to Kansas City from St. Louis, sank in eight feet of water near the mouth of the Little Blue river, about twenty-six miles below Kansas City, yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. Efforts to raise the steamer yesterday afternoon were not successful, although the government snagboat, Missouri, and its crew worked all afternoon. The damage to the cargo will not be great.

The Tennessee, a freight and passenger steamer, which is the property of the Kansas City Transportation and Steamboat Company, was due in Kansas City yesterday afternoon, and had a successful trip from St. Louis until the snag was struck. Owing to the low stage of the river, the pilot was unable to tell the exact position of the snag, and a large hole had been torn in the vessel before the danger was realized. Captain Earp, who was in charge of the boat, gave orders at once that as much of the cargo as possible be removed to the barge, and it was due to his prompt action that much of the freight was saved. The steamer carried a fair load of freight consigned to about 100 different merchants in Kansas City.

Owing to the nature of the river banks at the place where the accident occurred, it was impossible to beach the boat, and it was allowed to sink. Several passengers were aboard, but none was injured. Because of the low stage of the river the steamer's decks are above water.

Word of the accident to the steamer was received in Kansas City about 12 o'clock yesterday, and William Volker, president of the company, left on the snagboat for the scene.

As soon as the snagboat arrived workmen built staging form the steamer to the banks, and much of the cargo was removed. It was impossible for the owners last night to estimate the damage to the steamer.

RUTHEY GOT SCRUBBIN' JOB. ~ Mayor Crittenden's Old Nurse Will Keep General Hospital Clean.

September 12, 1908

RUTHEY GOT SCRUBBIN' JOB.

Mayor Crittenden's Old Nurse Will

Keep General Hospital Clean.

"I nursed you an' bathed you when you was a baby, an' a mighty stubborn chile you was," said Ruthey Miller, a grey-haired negro mammie, to Mayor Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr.

"Well, if there ain't my old black mammie, Ruthey," exclaimed the mayor as he proffered a seat to the woman in his private office yesterday. "What can I do for you, Ruthey?"

"There's a $30 a month job out at the hospital for a scrubbin' woman. I wants that job, I do," replied the old woman.

"You can have it, for you are of that class of negroes of whom I said in my campaign speeches, if they wanted a friend I would walk across the state for them," declared the mayor.

"Ize obliged to you. Ize gwine to be out to that der hospital bright an' early in the mornin'" shouted Ruthey with glee, as she left the city hall.

"That old black mammie has been cook in the governor's mansion for my father, and Governors David R. Francis, John A. Marmaduke and Governor Joseph Folk," remarked the mayor, "and I do wish she wouldn't throw up to me the shortcomings of my boyhood days."

CHARGES HUSBAND WITH ASSAULT. ~ MRS. WILLIAM JOHNSON FILES PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

September 12, 1908

CHARGES HUSBAND

WITH ASSAULT.

MRS. WILLIAM JOHNSON FILES

PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

Buckner Woman Says Her Husband

Either Struck the Blow Himself,

or Knew Who Did It -- She

Is Recovering.

Just four days previous to his preliminary hearing on a charge of assaulting his wife with intent to kill, William Johnson of Buckner, Mo., was served with a copy of his wife's petition for divorce which was filed in the circuit court yesterday.

While sleeping in the same room with her husband at their home near Buckner on the night of August 20, Mrs. Mina Johnson was dangerously injured by being struck on the head with a heavy bludgeon. For days it was feared that Mrs. Johnson would die from her injuries, but she is now recovering. Several days after the assault her husband, William Johnson, who had acted peculiarly since the attack, was arrested and brought to Kansas City. He was locked up in the county jail for only a short time, being allowed to go to the Baltimore hotel to sleep.

He was under close police surveillance all the time and was granted permission to visit his wife. He was never released on bond, as it would not then have been possible to keep detectives with him. His preliminary hearing will come up Tuesday morning in Buckner before Judge James Adams.

NAMES ANOTHER WOMAN.

Mrs. Johnson, in her petition for a divorce, recites that she was married to William Johnson November 22, 1877, at Independence. She accuses him of traveling around the country in company of another woman, and states that he represented the woman to his niece. She also charges that he either struck her himself or that it was done with his knowledge and consent. She asks that he be restrained from going near her, as she fears he will attempt to do her an injury.

The petition sets forth the fact that Johnson is possessed of a large amount of land, and the court is prayed to restrain him from selling or otherwise disposing of his property. The wife asks for temporary alimony and, if granted a divorce, permanent alimony. She names a Miss M. B. Howard, 1603 East Eighth street, Kansas City, as the woman with whom her husband went to Denver, Col, and Roswell, N. M.

HER FIRST ACCUSATION.

While Mrs. Johnson has intimated on previous occasions that she believed her husband had knowledge of the party who so brutally assaulted her, she never directly admitted it until she filed her petition for divorce.

Nearly six months ago Mrs. Johnson decided to sue for a divorce and came to Kansas City to consult a lawyer. Without knowing it she went to a lawyer who was acting as Johnson's attorney. The attorney finally prevailed upon Mrs. Johnson to return home and again try to live with her husband. This she did without bringing a suit. At that time she wanted to file a suit because of her husband's action regarding the Howard woman.

In company with the detective who has guarded him since his arrest, Johnson passed through Independence last night on his way to Kansas City. He was asked about the divorce proceedings brought against him by his wife. He said: "I did not expect divorce proceedings to be brought. It came as a surprise to me. Further than that I do not care to discuss the matter at the present time." Johnson has lost his air of confidence and determination usually apparent, and looks worn and haggard.

TO HOLD COURT IN BEDROOM.

When Johnson's preliminary hearing comes off next Tuesday, the justice will hear the testimony of all the witnesses in his court room in Buckner. Then the judge and his clerk, accompanied by the attorneys, will travel by wagon to the home of Mrs. Johnson, where the court will be reconvened in her bedroom and her testimony taken. After that the justice court will then be transferred to Buckner.

HANGED HERSELF, BUT LIVES. ~ Mrs. Harry Woodruff Made a Rope of Police Station Bedding.

September 12, 1908

HANGED HERSELF, BUT LIVES.

Mrs. Harry Woodruff Made a Rope

of Police Station Bedding.

Frustrated in her attempt to throw herself into the Missouri river early Friday morning, Mrs. Harry Woodruff, Fourth street and Broadway, hanged herself in the cell in the matron's room at police headquarters four hours later. Mike Mullane, a patrolman, saw the woman running toward the river in an excited manner. He gave chase and caught her. While taking her to Second and Main streets the woman broke from him and tried to throw herself in front of a passing freight train. Again the patrolman rescued her and called the patrol wagon from police headquarters. It took four officers to put the maniacal woman in the wagon.

All the way to the station the woman said that she would not live for twelve hours and she defied the officers to save her life. After she had been locked in the matron's office it was thought she was quieted. At 7 o'clock yesterday morning a passing officer heard strange sounds coming from the cell in the matron's room. Entering the room he saw the woman hanging by a cloth rope from the bars. She was taken down almost unconscious and later sent to the Door of Hope.

POLICE HOLDOVER WAS EMPTY FOR ONE HOUR. ~ For First Time in Memory of the Captain in Charge There.

September 11, 1908

POLICE HOLDOVER WAS

EMPTY FOR ONE HOUR.

For First Time in Memory of the

Captain in Charge There.

For one hour, between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the holdover at police headquarters was empty and the doors unlocked and opened wide. Never before in the memory of Captain Walter Whitsett, in charge at the station, has such a thing happened, and the captain was both joyful and sad.

The large cell rooms had a deserted and almost dejected appearance themselves. Lying on the floor of one of the cells was a battered derby hat, brown once, but black now. Close by it lay two paper bags which contained some remnants of sandwiches, and in another cell was one old shoe pointing towards the open door.

The jailer picked up a broom and with a quick stroke, brushed all of the trash out into the corridor and the place made neat, if not clean, for the next batch of prisoners.

As the officers on day duty stepped into the station to report, they were told of the wonderful happenings, and straightway endeavored to find someone to arrest, even if it was only a plain drunk. Officer Robert Hoskins was the lucky man, for just as his watch was pointing to five minutes of 5 o'clock, he heard a woman's screams come from a house at 9 East Seventh street. Upon investigation he found a man, drunk and disturbing the peace.

Exultantly the patrolman marched his prisoner to the nearest call box and summoned the patrol wagon. When it arrived he asked the driver to make the trip to the station as quickly as possible, for there was a chance that his was the first arrest since the jail cleaning. And so it was. At 5 o'clock the arrested man had been books as "drunk and disturbing the peace" under the name of Cole McCormack. After that the officers began bringing prisoners in two at a time, until the old holdover resumed its normal appearance and the inmates, rejoicing over the neatness of the place, whistled and sang and made music on frenchharps to their hearts' content, and the dismay of the police officers.

DR. SOLOMON S. LANDON DIES. ~ Was a Well Known Young Surgeon and Owner of Hospital.

September 11, 1908

DR. SOLOMON S. LANDON DIES.

Was a Well Known Young Surgeon

and Owner of Hospital.

Dr. Solomon S. Landon, owner of the Sheffield hospital, died yesterday morning at Burnett's sanitarium. Dr. Landon was one of the most promising young surgeons in the city and popular with a large circle of acquaintances. He was brought up at London Mills, Ill., and graduated with the bachelor's degree from Knox college in 1892. He came to this city and attended the University Medical school, where he graduated in 1896. For the next two years he was assistant police surgeon at police headquarters and afterwards became surgeon for the Burlington railway. Two years ago he founded the Sheffield hospital. He worked hard there and was very successful, but the strain of overwork caused a mental breakdown which forced him to go to Bunett's sanitarium six months ago.

Dr. Landon was 36 years old and married Miss Dora Schaeffer several years ago. Two young daughters, Margaret and Amy, survive. Dr. Landon was a thirty-second degree Mason, an Elk and a Shriner.

The funeral will be conducted by Temple lodge of Masons from the Schaeffer home at 3922 Pennsylvania avenue at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be in Mount Washington cemetery.

HE'D BEAT WIFEBEATERS. ~ Judge Sims Wants Posts Established by State Law.

September 11, 1908

HE'D BEAT WIFEBEATERS.

Judge Sims Wants Posts Established

by State Law.

C. W. Russell, a street car motorman, was arraigned before Judge John T. Sims in police court, Kansas City, Kas., yesterday morning on the charge of beating his wife. He was not ready for trial and the case was continued until this morning. In default of $500 bond he was locked up. Mrs. Russell, whose face showed evidence of the beating she received, was present in court carrying an infant. She will testify against her husband.

Judge Sims after granting a continuance in the Russell case announced that he favored a public whipping post for all wife beaters. "I hope that the next legislature," said the judge, "will pass a law creating a whipping post in all cities of the first class within the state. There is scarcely a day passes that I am not informed of some brutal husband beating his wife. It is getting terrible."

WILL DEDICATE THEIR MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE. ~ CEREMONIES BEGIN AT B'NAI JEHUDAH THIS EVENING.

September 11, 1908

WILL DEDICATE THEIR

MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE.

CEREMONIES BEGIN AT B'NAI

JEHUDAH THIS EVENING.

Tomorrow Night Clergymen of Other

Denominations Will Be Present

and Speak -- Distinguished

Visitors Here.

Dedication ceremonies of the beautiful new temple of the congregation B'nai Jehudah, Linwood boulevard and Flora avenue, will begin at 7:30 o'clock this evening and conclude tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon there will be special children's services tomorrow night at 8 o'clock a fewllowship meeting, to which all clergymen of other denominations, and the public are invited.

The interior of the temple will be decorated for the occasion. There will be special music by the choir and individuals, and addresses by well known Jewish clergymen from other cities, included among them are Rabbi Henry Berkowitz of the Temple Rodef Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa., Rabbi Louis Bernstein of the Temple Adath Joseph, St. Joseph, Mo., and Rabbi Joseph Krauskauph of the Temple Keneseth Israel of Philadelphia. Many prominent local men, members of the congregation, also will deliver addresses pertaining to the wonderful progress made by the church since its organiztion in 1870.

This evening's services will consist of "Depositing the Scrolls in the Ark," with Nathan Schloss and C. J. Wolf as scroll bearers; invocation by Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, presentation and acceptance of the keys of the building, reading of the scripture by Rabbi Samuel Schulman, dedicatory address by Rabbi H. H. Mayer, pastor of the church, and special vocal and instrumental music. Tomorrow morning's services will consist of addresses by the visiting clergymen and a closing address by Rabbi Mayer.

Rabbi Mayer will preside during the children's services tomorrow afternoo, and visiting clergymen will address the little ones. The service will be brought to the conclusion by the singing of the national anthem, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."

During the fellowship meeting tomorrow evening importand addresses will be delivered by the visiting clergymen, while Rev.Dr. J. C. Schindel, Rev. Charles W. Moore and Rev. Father William J. Dalton, all of this city, also will address the gathering.

WASN'T "THE" ROCKERFELLER. ~ John B. Sounded Like Something Else When Bell Hop Called.

September 10, 1908

WASN'T "THE" ROCKERFELLER.

John B. Sounded Like Something

Else When Bell Hop Called.

"Call for Mr. Rockerfeller!"

A bellhop at the Hotel Baltimore caused the guests in the lobby to drop their papers suddenly last night, and then when the bellhop repeated the call in a louder voice for "Mr. John B. Rockerfeller," a hundred eyes followed the boy until he located the owner of the name. But it wasn't the eminent oil magnate. It was a New York traveling salesman who is frequently annoyed when the bellhops call his name, and particularly the middle initial, in such a manner as to make it sound like John D. Rockerfeller.

WAS DISCOURTEOUS TO WOMEN. ~ So Policeman H. C. Johnson Was Dropped From the Force.

September 10, 1908

WAS DISCOURTEOUS TO WOMEN.

So Policeman H. C. Johnson Was

Dropped From the Force.

Henry C. Johnson, a probation officer walking a beat in the East Bottoms, No. 8 district, was yesterday ordered dropped from the department by the board of police commissioners. Johnson was one of the last batch of forty-one men added to the force. Charges of conduct unbecoming an officer had been filed against him by several women.

It was agreed by the board yesterday that the place to try the case of Patrolman E. F. Stockdale, charged by his wife with abandonment, non-support and cruelty, was in divorce court. When the patrolman's attorney informed the board that suit for divorce had been filed August 25, the case was ordered continued indefinitely.

STOLE GLASSES OFF HIS NOSE. ~ Unusual Robbery of a Skater at Forest Park Rink.

September 10, 1908

STOLE GLASSES OFF HIS NOSE.

Unusual Robbery of a Skater at For-

est Park Rink.

"He just reached around from behind when I was not looking, took my gold eyeglasses off my face and walked away." Paul J. Drescher, 2415 Myrtle avenue, so reported to the police last night, and the report constitutes one of the most unusual robberies ever recorded in the police annals of Kansas City.

According to Drescher, he was in the skating rink at Forest park when the robbery occurred. Drescher says he was skating around the rink and having a good time. He says the man approached him from behind, and although he did not get a good look at him, owing to the absence of the glasses, he was able to give a partial description of the thief.

MILL CREEK PARK PROCEEDINGS BEGIN. ~ PROPERTY OWNERS STILL PROTEST AGAINST HIGH PRICES.

September 9, 1908

MILL CREEK PARK

PROCEEDINGS BEGIN.

PROPERTY OWNERS STILL PRO-

TEST AGAINST HIGH PRICES.

Park Board Blamed for Refusing to

Reopen Case So That Inside

Workings of the Deal

May Be Shown.

Condemnation proceedings were begun in Judge John G. Park's division of the circuit court yesterday by the city against property owners in the Mill creek valley, where it is proposed to lay out a park. The city council on March 30 approved plans for a park, which were presented to the park board. There are 145 title holders who are interested in the court proceedings, besides every taxpayer in the Westport park district.

Shortly after the court had convened, James E. Trogdon, an attorney representing the Westport Improvement Association, entered his appearance in the case. He made an oral argument objecting to the proceedings. Judge Park ruled that the case had started, and he believed it would be best to finish it. He said that as the objectors had not taken any steps to have the city's action in the park matter set aside before, it was too late to stop the condemnation proceedings. After the jury fixes a valuation on the property, the court said it would then listen to any objections the citizens might have.

George E. Kessler, the landscape architect, was a witness in the morning and testified that in his opinion the land was not too valuable for park purposes. A. P. Nichols, a real estate dealer, was on the witness stand all afternoon. The witness was asked the valuation of property in the park district by separate tracts. The property in the valley, which, the land owners claim would be valuable switching property, the witness testified was worth about $2,000 an acre. While the persons owning the land wanted for park use are claiming the property is of more value than the city claims, the residents in the park district who will be required to pay for the improvement say the city is paying too high a price for the land. They also object to the creek valley being used as a park, on the ground that it is a real estate scheme. The condemnation proceedings will last four or five more days.

IMAGINARY TROUBLE MADE TWO GIRLS TRY SUICIDE. ~ One Was Out of Work, the Other Feared She'd Be Docked for Being Late.

September 9, 1908

IMAGINARY TROUBLE MADE

TWO GIRLS TRY SUICIDE.

One Was Out of Work, the Other

Feared She'd Be Docked for

Being Late.

Valna Walker, 17 years old, and Sylvia Miles, 18 years old, inhaled chloroform at the home of the latter, 1507 Washington street, yesterday morning. Miss Walter lives at 10 Rosedale avenue, Rosedale, Kas., but had remained all night with Miss Miles. They were found about 10 o'clock yesterday morning by inmates of the house. Dr. W. L. Gist was called with an ambulance from the emergency hospital and revived them. They were left at 1507 Washington street.

As a reason for the attempt on her life, Valna Waller said that she had recently lost her job at the Metropolitan Cleaners and Dyers, 4637 Troost avenue. Both the girls were out late Monday night at a party and, as a consequence, slept late yesterday morning. Sylvia Miles, who works for the Jones Dry Goods Company, said she feared to be docked for being late, or that she might lose her job altogether, therefore, death was considered the only way to settle her "troubles" for all time to come. Dr. Gist gave the girls a good lecture and showed them how foolish their attempt had been.

"As we didn't succeed," one of them told the doctor, "we have concluded to have nothing published about it."

"Your cases will be placed on record with others," was all the consolation they got.

NEGROES ARM FOR TROUBLE. ~ Symptoms of Race Trouble Out on East Eighteenth Street.

September 8, 1908

NEGROES ARM FOR TROUBLE.

Symptoms of Race Trouble Out on

East Eighteenth Street.

Fear of an attack by whites kept several hundred negroes living in the vicinity of Vine and Twenty-third streets awake until an early hour this morning. Rumors that the "Eighteenth street gang" was going to come with firearms, tar and ropes and make a second Springfield of the district, caused the negroes to arm themselves and stay up at night, watching on the doorsteps of their houses for the approach of the white mob.

Sunday night the undertaking rooms of A. T. Moore, a negro undertaker at 1820 East Eighteenth street, were burned down and the report was spread that the building had been fired by white men. On the same night a crowd of negroes gathered at Twenty-fifth and Vine streets and eleven officers from the Flora avenue police station were sent to disperse them. They went away quietly.

Yesterday Dave Epstien, a pawnbroker at 1418 East Eighteenth street, reported to the police that all the firearms he carried in stock had been sold to negroes. Other dealers in firearms also sold many weapons.

"We don't want to have another Springfield," said one of the negroes at late hour last night, "but we do intend to protect ourselves if the police will not protect us."

Meanwhile, in the headquarters of the redoubtable "Eighteenth street gang" all was peace. There were no preparations being made to attack negroes, so far as could be learned. The police attribute the scare to the malicious tale bearing of idle negroes.

GAVE PAPKE FIRST LESSONS. ~ Ernie Potts, or Kid Selby, Reviews the Fighter's Beginning.

September 8, 1908

GAVE PAPKE FIRST LESSONS.

Ernie Potts, or Kid Selby, Reviews

the Fighter's Beginning.

"So Billy has won again. Well, what do you think of that?"

It wasn't the wail of a disappointed sport who lost money on the fight yesterday. It was the expression of genuine surprise from the man who taught Billy Papke his first lessons in boxing, and who thought two years ago that Papke would never amount to much. Ernie Potts is his name. He, with Mrs. Potts, is doing a bag punching and singing turn at the Orpheum this week.

Two years ago Potts was doing stunts with a show that broke up at LaSalle, Ill. A few days later he drifted down into Spring Valley, and there met a man who asked him if he wouldn't take hold of a young miner who had the ambition to become a prize fighter. The young miner was none other than Billy Papke, who was then going on in preliminaries at $6 per.

Potts's introduction to Papke occurred in a little grocery store in Spring Valley, where he had fixed up a punching bag. After a few rounds Potts saw that the young man might be made a fighter, and at the earnest solicitation of the man who is now Papke's manager he secured work in Spring Valley and gave Papke lessons for six weeks.

"He's a good, tough fellow, with an unlimited amount of endurance," Potts said last night. "I was in his corner in the first professional fight that he ever made. He was inexperienced at the time, as any young fighter would be, and for the first four rounds was inclined to stand up and box with his man. But he was cool -- just as cool as any old fighter I have ever seen, and when I told him to bore in like Nelson does, he went at it and whipped his man in the seventh round.

"But even at that I didn't think much of the kid's possibilities. He was determined, though, and told me time and again that he was going to work his way to the top. I told him to keep at it, just to encourage the boy along."

Potts is a fighter himself. He is better known as Kid Selby, and under that name he has won no less than thirty-four fights. His home is in Minneapolis.

SHE WAS IN A CISTERN WITH A 4-FOOT SNAKE. ~ Kate Stevenson Kicked Up a Great Commotion on the Quiet of Hobo Hill.

September 8, 1908

SHE WAS IN A CISTERN

WITH A 4-FOOT SNAKE.

Kate Stevenson Kicked Up a Great

Commotion on the Quiet of

Hobo Hill.

To be knocked head first into a fifteen-foot cistern, to eventually right herself only to find a four-foot snake for company, was the hair-raising experience of a woman who said her name was Kate Stevenson.

It was 3 o'clock when Patrolman Michael Meany, who walks what is known as the levee beat, heard cries from the vicinity of First and Grand avenue. A small crowd had gathered in front of 110 Grand avenue, whence the sounds seemed to come, but Meany could locate the source of the yells for help though he ransacked the building high and low. Presently some one yelled: "Here she is -- back here. She's in a well with a snake. Hurry up!"

Patrolman Meany then headed the procession to the pinnacle of what is known as "Hobo hill," just behind the building. The cries of "Help! Here! Police! Oh my Lord, but I want out of here!" emanated from a clump of weeds. When the way was blazed by the officer he found the source of the cries. A woman was dancing and kicking at the bottom of a cistern in about four feet of water while a snake, at least four feet long, was scurrying about the circle, apparently as much scared as the screaming woman and evidently doing its best to get away from her, while she was dodging it.

A ladder was ordered by the officer and men ran down the steep hill in four different directions to, if possible, make heroes of themselves by getting back first with the life saving steps to safety. When one arrived, however, the brave and fearless Michael Meany was the first to grab it and thrust it into the cistern.

Now Michael Meany was born and reared in Ireland where there are no snakes. Up to the time he descended the ladder he had not seen the reptile. When he did he stopped still and eyed the wriggling form. The woman in her anxiety to get clear of the snake had mounted the ladder and was making her way toward the top when she encountered the officer, seemingly hypnotized at the sight of the wriggling thing.

"Are ye hurted anywhere 'tall?" asked Meany.

"I am not," replied Miss Stevenson, "but I'm anxious to get clear of that snake. Were you ever in a well with a snake?"

"I was not," shivered Meany as he looked back. "And that's not all -- I'm not goin' to be."

Miss Stevenson, dripping wet, was taken to her room at 10 West Fifth street, where she donned dry clothes. Then she was returned to the station and locked up. She said that she and her escort had made their way to Hobo hill by mistake. When in an argument as to which was the correct way out, her escort grew angry and struck her. AS she fell back she said she "went kerplunk, right into the cistern." What became of the escort? Oh he ran, for he thought he had drowned the woman.