Emporia Gazette, The (Newspaper) - August 25, 1903, Emporia, Kansas RELIANCE BY 52 SECONDS KANSAS TUESDAY EVENING NUMBER THE SHAMROCK APPROVED HERSELF FINELY The Yankee Boat Led From Start to by Experts On the Shamrocks Getaway But On the Captain fringe Pushed the Americans Hard The Most Exciting Rice on eRcord The Reliance again won from the Shamrock III over taking the second of the great international yacht races by a margin of seconds The Reliance crossed the finish line at and at The race two thirds of which was run in a haze during which it was impossible time to dis the two yachts was one of exciting oh record The Reliance turned the first mark at The Reliance turned the second mark at Shamrock at New York Aug second of the international yacht races was run under favorable conditions The prospects for another good con test between and the Shamrock III brought out a great fleet of thousands of spectators The crews of the contestants were out early and before breakfasting had taken the covers off their main sails and raised their jibs and staysails in stops At 7 oclock the Shamrocks crew started to work on the new main sail The Shamrocks new main sail much of an improvement over the old one The Reliance was using only one new sail and that a jib which set a little flatter than her old jib and this too was considered of advantage to that boat on the reach Before the race started Sir Thomas Lipton on the deck of the Erin was inclined to be less communicative than usual He finally said I think we will get a good race today and I hope our new sail may be a Iselin was in excellent good humor and said It looks like good racing weather and it looks like Reliance weather Captain Wringe also was in good spirits The regatta committee decided up on a triangular race the first leg was south giving both boats a beat down the Jersey shore The next was north east by east ane half each which un der the conditions of the wind pre vailing at the time would give both yachts a broad reach from the first of the second mark of starboard tack the next leg was northwest by west to finish at the light ship another broad reach on the port tack At the start the sky although parti ally cloudy did not threaten disagree able weather The wind was blowing about seven knots per hour The preliminary signal was fired at and immediately the fight for position began As usual the Reliance the Shamrock in her various maneuvers about the line neither going very far away from the starting point Contrary to his custom Captain Wringe kept away and was two or three hundred yards to the westward of the committee boat when the Reliance coming astern of the com boat crossed the line at 27 Wringe held away too long before coming about and hold mg for the line with the result that he was under the stern of the com boat the handicap gun was fired Two minutes after the start he ran up to the line on the starboard tack and then came about and headed for the Jersey shore on a Port tack It looked as if he had ost about twentyfive seconds by slowness in reaching the line The Shamrock crossed the line at Ten minutes after the start the yachts were heading for the Jersey shore on a port tack the Reliance in the lead The wind had dropped to about five knots and a thick haze be ffan to set in On getting nearer to the shore the breeze seemed a trifle stronger the Reliance began to gain At the Reliance was from three eighths to half a mile in the lead at the Shamrock had gained a little on the Reliance until she secured a windward position but the Reliance was still a quarter of a mile in the lead Official time Shamrock As the Reliance in starting crossed the line one minute seconds ahead of the Shamrock she will have to lead the challenger at the finish at least three minutes and twentyone seconds to win the race At the Reliance went about on port tack and headed inshore the Shamrock followed at At this time the weather was thick and it was difficult to discern the yachts in the haze By Marconi i ps p the yachts have turned mark arid set spinnakers for the run sec ond mark Captain Barr out his rival Captain Wringe at the outset The experts say Shamrocks handling was amateurish of the excursion steamers is coming in off shore and heading for the light ship It looks as though the yachts had turned the second mark yachts can now be seen and the leading one is apparently one and a half milles ahead s p the leading boat should prove to be the Reliance it looks as though she would win the race by the narrow margin of less than two minutes Shamrock gained in the run for the finish line because she was the rear boat and as the wind was off shore she gained by pointing higher and clearer The wind shifted by south east by almost 16 FEET IN FIVE HOURS A RECORD BREAKER AT MARY VILLE People Rescued in Boats Congress man Calderhead Helped Push the Work The Damage Is Enormous Kansas May Aug spec ial to the Star says A storm last night at Maryville deluged the town and vicinity with rain that was al most a cloud burst The Big Blue river rose sixteen feet in five hours The bottoms filled with water from three to fifteen feet deep Fifty are still with water and the river is still rising People in the bottoms as the water rose took refuge in the trees and on the tops Seventyfive were rescued in boats last night One of ing was headed by Congress man ft is believed none was drowned The Blue Valley branch of the Union Pacific is laid out as is also all telegraph lines The only communication outside is by telephone This town can get no communication down the river and it can not be learned if Blue Rapids was There is no great dam age up the river except to farm lands along the streams RAN IN DEBT AND SUICIDED New York Aug D Pressler until seven months ago a captain in the United army stationed at Seattle hi the paymasters department today shot and killed him self in Carroll park Brooklyn he hac been reported missing from his home near the park for four weeks Pressler was 50 years of age a West Point graduate and had spent his life in the army He was in finan cial straits CLOUDY AND COOLER Aug Partly cloudy tonight day slightly cooler in south west to night variable winds THE OHIO CONTEST The Democratic Convention Warmest in the History of the State the WAITERS AND COOKS OUT Chicago Aug striking waiters and cooks made another des effort put into effect the strike order which yesterday proved almost a Pickets were posted about all the establishments where the strikes were called to stop if possible the men continuing at work Committees also visited other restaurants to call their employes out meetin g with but indifferent success WASHOUT AT SENACA Kansas City Aug rains fell throughout Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas last night At Sen eca the rainfall was the great est in years over four inches being reported at that point The Grand Island tracks were washed out KILLED BY LIGHTNING Peoria Aug a storm today at Mossville George Penco foreman of the telephone construction was killed by a bolt of lightning and three others were injured seriously MASSACRES IN THREE TOWNS Constantinople Aug Bulgarian villages near Vilayet of Adrianople are reported to have been attacked by Circassians and their inhabitants massacred Columbus Ohio Aug pre liminary meetings of the Democratic state convention here today are the most hotly contested in the history of the party in this state The contest between Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland and John L Zimmerman of Springfield for the gubernatorial nomination everything else so that nothing is heard today of the platform pro posed amendments senatorial endorsement or the rest of the state ticket If Johnson wins at the district meetings this afternoon and at the meetings of the conventions tonight he will to make the senator ial candidate and the rest of the ticket and control the new state central committee as well as secure the adoption of his platform and if Zim merman controls the district meetings of the delegates and committees he will be nominated and the conserva tives will return to the control of the party Oil Notes The Chanute Tribune has this to say about the development of the gas and oil fields along this part of the Neosho river Oil and gas developments arc con being pushed farther north and extensive prospecting is being planned between Burlington and Em poria W H Wycoff of the Excelsior Mills at Burlington ind president of the Wyckoff Oil and Gas Comp Base Ball Trip Over The Normal ball team has been on a baseball playing tour over the state and has played most of the good teams in Central and western Kansas In all they played eleven games and won five The boys stood it pretty well except at the the change in the drinking water made most of them slightly sick However they had the time of their lives made a hit with the people of every town they went to except Herrington When the Normal team played the Herrington team herethe Herrings swore vengeance The best town on the route was Marion There a number of the Normal alumni got to gether and showed the Normal boys a fine time The first game of the trip was at Chamite with Benedict Benedict won 4 to 2 Schaner pitched for the Normal At Chanute the night after the game the boys were invited over to Mr Turners Mr Turner is an of the Normal The house was decorated in Normal col ors there were a lot of pretty Cha nute girls there and the boys had a glorious time At Benedict the next day Warren Cook pitched and won Benedict 13 to 6 The following is the schedule of games giving the place where play ed the score and the Normal pitcher Benedict at Chanute 4 to 2 for Chanute Schaner At Benedict 13 to 6 for Normal Cook At Howard 4 to o for Howard Schaner At Howard u to 6 for Normal Cook At Howard 7 to i for Howard At Strong City 5 to o for Normal Wieland At Marion 4 to o for Marion Scha ner At 2 to o for Marion Cook At Herrington 2 to r for Normal Wieland At Herrington 5 to 3 for Herring ton Cook At Chase 6 to 3 for Normal Scha ner Chase is the home town of Wie land one of the Normals pitchers There Wieland was placed in the and Got Bond At Last R A Shipman of Hartford was re leased this afternoon on bond of to appear at the October term of the district court for trial on the charge of breaking the prohibitory law Shipman was agent of Hart ford on the Katy and a short time ago was arrested for selling Since the preliminary trial he has been trying every source to get a bond It was lowered by the court from to and after spending two weeks in jail the bond was secur ed by the signatures of Mrs R A Shipman her father M V Anderson and Ben Spade Spade and Anderson live in the north part of the county was in the city today in the interests of the company which has 3000 acres of holdings seven miles southeast of Emporia near Wyckoff station His company has contracted with Mr of this city for five wells and Mr purchased a Standard rig here yesterday of the Oil Well Supply Company which was shipped north today and will be put to work at once Another com pany has already begun drilling in that vicinity and have started their first well near Hartford five miles south of the Wyckoff holdings The city of Emporia has voted bonds to drill but is now waiting to see what these companies will bring in Since oil has been struck at Le Roy the Wyckoff people have been very hope ful of striking it rich poria and the Normal won At that Jerome Schope who was bound over to the district court on the charge of stealing got the bond last night and was released from jail His father and signed the bond A gasoline stove blew up late this afternoon in the kitchen of the res idence of Rr T E Welch West Twelfth avenue The fire department was called but the flames were under control by the time they arrived The kitchen was quite badly damaged W went to Ohio today for a two weeks vacation game Governor was present and saw the Emporia boys play base ball At first game War reu Cook got a grand stand catch out in the field and that evening he was presented with a boquet of wa ter lillics labeled From the Schaner also made a star play that game The best baseball team a Normal summer school ever had dis banded last Saturday night The team disbanded then because most of the boys were nearer home than to come back to Emporia Most of the players will be in the Normal next year In the newspaper writeups of the games irt every town the boys played except Harrington the paper stated The Normal boys arc the most gentlemanly set of young men that has played here this At Herrington when the Normal won the second game the woman along the side lines beat the boys with their and the Emporia teachers thought they were going to be lynch ed All Barber Shops on and after September ist will adopt the Union lift TAFT TO SUCCEED ROOT RUMOR CONFIRMED BY THE s PRESIDENT pi War Root Will Leave in Governor Taft of Manila Has Accepted the Place The Letter to Mr Root Oyster Bay Aug Roosevelt today authorized the fol lowing statement The months ago tendered the secretaryship of war to Judge taft and at that time it was arranged that he would succeed Sec Root go out of office some Judge Taft will assume the duties shortly The President also authorized the publication of the corres himself arid Sec Root concerning the resignation Secretary Root after lie had ex pressed the wish to private ife as soon as practicable after the establishment of a general staff of he army and completion of his full four years of service as secretary of war I shair carry with me unabated to your administration confi dence in the sound conservatism and unselfishness of your policy and enduring gratitude for the kind iess and consideration with which friendship has honored me I shall not cease to appreciate the sym loyalty Jo President Mc Kinley with which you took and car ied on his work and I shall always he happy to been a part of the administration directed by your sin cre and rugged to right nd devotion to the true interests of he The President in his letter ng Mr Roots resignation I do so not only with keen pcr onal regret but with a deep under tanding of the gap your withdrawal will create in public The President continuing says We have never had a public ser vant of the government who has worked harder than you have worked these four years and a half and this lot merely in point of time but above all in point of intensity and your success has been equal to your labor The only reward you have had or can have is the knowledge of success ful achievement of performance in fullest fashion of a great public duty the doing of which was of vital im portance to the nations welfare Your duties have included more than merely the administration of the department and the reorganization of the army on an You have been the head of a department which dealt with vast and delicate problems involved in our possession the Islands and your success in dealing with this part of work has been ns signal as your success in with the purely military problems To very few statesmen indeed in any country has it been given at one am the same time to achieve signal and striking triumphs in the administration and the reform of the military branch of a government and in the administration of what was in effect a department of insular where the prob lems were new to our people and were in themselves of great Today Henry Smith a small boy thirteen years old was arrested and brought before Judge on charges that the Smith boy threw rocks at some of the neigh bors boys burned a hole through the of a little girl and scorched icr leg and that he is a sassy little boy and instead of correcting him as they should do his parents take part This is what the neighbors say ind Judge Vyne will try this after loon to find out whether it is true or whether the neighbors just have t in for the Smiths The Lyon county Baptist associa ion went to Reading Jast evening nd stayed over today for the meet I ing 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