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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
1
In James B. Shoemaker's court Prof. Albert Peasley DIARY a magnetic healer faced Mrs. Charles K. Balcom. The jury awarded $100 in damages against the professor after testimony showing her condition worsened under his treatment.
John C. Adkins found G Christopher Leibach dead in his shoe repair shop at 1812 East Ninth Street. An autopsy by deputy coroner Dr. H Parker ruled death from heart disease. Leibach 40, unmarried, lived behind the shop, from Hermann Missouri, in Kansas City eighteen years. Body moved to Newcomer's funeral home.
Pliny L. Soper of Muskogee, national committeeman, said in Kansas City that Oklahoma's regular delegates are instructed for Taft and that the regulars will be seated despite a contest. He noted national committee members may meet in Chicago on May 1, summoned by Harry S. New.
A. D. Hill of King City said blue grass seed from his town ranks with Kentucky’s top regions in quality and quantity. He noted the seed trade expanded over Gentry and nearby counties since the Ficklin brothers helped grow the industry fifteen years ago as the harvest begins each season with community help.
The Kemper Investment Company deeded 246 acres known as the old Wright farm three miles southeast of Hickman Mills to William D. Horn buckle. The purchase price was 845000 with a recorded sale this morning. Crutcher & Sons advertise loans of 100000 for Kansas City real estate.
Partly cloudy with a chance of showers tomorrow. Outside Kansas City frost is expected and a heavy frost occurred last night in the city, with little damage indoors. Temperatures fell across the Southwest and frost reached as far as San Antonio, Texas. Freezing temps prevailed over much of Kansas and Missouri, likely causing damage.
Frank C. Peck of the Stewart Peck Land company buys the Bank of Olathe and a stake in Daffy Furniture and Undertaking Co in Olathe Kansas. The deal includes the oldest private bank and a building in the N G Miller block. Breyfogle represented owners. J C Care of Kansas City advised Peck.
The $60 000 damage suit began in Judge Seehorn's division over the injury of Karl Burns, 15, who lost both legs when a Missouri Pacific locomotive struck him at a switch near Heim's brewery in 1905. He lived at 2409 Guinotte avenue and attended court in an invalids' chair.
Funeral services for Mrs F S Steward who died from injuries in a motor car crash on April 20 will be at 2 30 tomorrow at Newcomer's rooms with burial in Elmwood Cemetery. She formerly Helen Rymes of Boston married to architect F S Steward owner of the Academy of Music building Kansas City. She lived in Kansas City 27 years at 1117 East Fourteenth Street. Three children survive Otto Konrad Oshkosh Fred E Steward and Earl Steward.
Henry Chadwick known as the father of baseball dies April 20 in New York. His will filed in Brooklyn lists $500 real estate and $500 personal property, left to his widow. He also recalls a promise by A G Spalding to erect a grave monument in Greenwood cemetery.
In the first race for 2-year-olds and up selling six furlongs at Chantilly Queen Marguerite led from the start to win at 16 to 5 with Dig Ben second and Heaslip third after a 1:18.45 finish. The second race went to Mark Antony TI at 14 to 5 in a sixteenth longer handicap, Moldsey placed second. Multiple races and results follow with Pearl Point, Tennessee Boy, Ronie G and Amnesty among runners.
Jefferson City April 30 Herbert S Hadley attorney general authorizes publication of a letter to Walter S Dickey Kansas City Republican chairman. He will accept the governor nomination if his health allows and if party insists, though he cites campaigning limits and duty to the people of Missouri.
Walter S. Dickey, chairman of the Republican state committee, reports Hadley’s letter and declares Taft the Chicago convention nominee. He urges loyal party unity to elect Taft, emphasize national campaign strength, and avoid internal strife to ensure a Missouri victory. He portrays Hadley as a vigorous worker committed to maintaining Republican governance.
A meeting of residents at the Boys' hotel on Admiral boulevard and Locust street approved hazing by lifting a sewer manhole lid as an initiation. The plan carried, but a probation officer Edgar Warden intervened and forbade any hazing at the hotel in the future. The report also notes Alvin J. Hummel from McCune Kansas killed after falling beneath a Santa Fe train smoking car near Holly Colorado, and Alpha Floral Company sent flowers to St. Josephs Hospital patients and staff with praise from a nurse.
The German club of the Manual Training High School presented a German playlet in the high school auditorium this morning. The scene depicted a sixteenth century market in Nuremberg and was directed by Miss Gertrude Von Unwerth.
Representative Serena Payne of New York, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, introduced a resolution authorizing the panel to sit during Congress recess and gather information through government agents or other means to prepare a bill revising the tariff.
The Southwestern district conference settled the arbitration section of the contract. A three tier process will refer disputes to the operators' president and International Miners' Union president for final decision or to a jointly chosen neutral if they disagree. The pact aims to end broader differences though indemnity, contract length, blasting powder, and wage rates remain to be decided. The conference continued in the afternoon.
In Barre Montana on April 30 the home of J G Wicklund foreman at Washoe Smelting quarries near Anaconda was blown up by a giant powder charge at midnight. His wife and baby escaped unharmed Wicklund was injured mildly. He had received threats after Amalgamated Copper properties resumed operations last winter. A freight train to the quarry narrowly avoided a wreck when a crowbar was tied to the rails. the engineer stopped it in time.
A federal indictment was returned against attorney W. L. McSpadden and hardware broker W. J. Polson for using the mail to defraud while promoting the Racket Mercantile company. They allegedly obtained goods under false pretenses from the Toledo Cookery company and other wholesale firms, with credit confusion involving a Kansas City firm.
For thirty two years photographer D P Thomson has planned a birthday trip to his mother in Denver. He recalls surviving a cyclone that wrecked his gallery and a move last year that nearly interrupted the visit.
Kansas City officials prepare to appoint three resident, property owner commissioners by Judge McCabe Moore to appraise the Metropolitan Water company plant. City counselor H. L. Alden will file the petition this week.
The Kansas City bank clearings for the month ending today total 15 414 million dollars, up from 13 334 million a year earlier. The increase is 2 034 million and 15.2 percent, the largest April total on record except for October 1907 when they neared 179 million dollars.
A telegram last night from United States district attorney A S Van Valkenburgh prompted inquiries about Senator Warner’s health in Washington. The message confirms the senator’s condition but does not provide further details.
Edward J. Richards testified in a $100000 suit he filed alleging that J C Humes seduced his wife. He named party guests with nicknames from a South Side party in April and recounted cocktails, affectionate conduct, and various personal anecdotes from that evening and others.
In Taft favored Maine Republicans at Portland, four delegates at large and four alternates were chosen, with Horace Mitchell and Richard Webb elected to the national convention. Resolutions endorsed Roosevelt administration and Taft nomination. In Georgia, Fourth District delegates E. J. Hinton and Alph Able were chosen. Roosevelt support endorsed but no presidential instruction given.
John D Rockefeller donated 200 dollars after the church faced shutdown of a twelve voice choir at Fifth Avenue Baptist in New York. An earlier 200 dollar monthly appropriation had run out, prompting the organist Harry Rowe Shelley and trustees to seek support, and the gift was welcomed by choir members.
Eastbound Erie train No 6 leaving Creverano near Cleveland collided with a waiting westbound train after an unknown man operates a switch sending No 6 to the siding. Five passengers were seriously injured, with several cars and two engines badly wrecked. the switch thrower has been arrested.
Victor Morawetz, chairman of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railway executive committee, said he plans to retire temporarily to rest and pursue other work. He stressed his resignation is not due to loss of interest, and praised his relations with the president and board as harmonious.
Mrs Nicolas Longworth daughter of the President owns a fast electric motor car and drives it along Pennsylvania Avenue. Policeman Morris seeks a warrant to arrest for speeding but Assistant Corporation Counsel Feb states evidence is inadequate for the writ.
In Nasuviaux Tennessee on April 30, eleven thousand pounds of green coffee seized by the U S government as adulterated and deleterious were burned under deputy marshal supervision. The stock originated in New Orleans and was consigned to Nashville parties.
The widow and son of C B Warkentin, slain in Syria on April 1, accuse United States ambassador John G A Leishman of slighting them. They complain of passport delays hindering medical repatriation and lodging formal complaints may follow.
Carl Warkentin accuses the ambassador of offering little help after a Turkish prince’s accidental shooting that killed his father, Newton Kansas magnate known as the father of hard wheat. The son and mother later traveled to Constantinople where A L Berger vows action against Leishman in Washington.
The state tax commission received property statements from Atchison county showing nearly 1 million dollars more in property returns for eight men. One man, a son of a state official and railroad attorney, reported $130 valuation in 1907 but $36,650 in personal property this year. The Atchison notes stand out amid broader state gains.
Admiral Yoshimatsu reports an explosion in the Matsushima stern magazine at 4 08 this morning while at anchor in Makang Pesadores islands. The ship sank to the horizon except for the bridge, rescue efforts saved 141 men including some officers, cadets saved 58 of 300.
Washington April 30 The foreign relations committee moved to report a bill authorizing a permanent annual appropriation of one million dollars for the purchase of embassies legations and consular buildings not exceeding ten million dollars this year four and a half million dollars was provided for Berlin Mexico City and Yokohama purchases. Kansas Agriculture Leader Dies in Cox County Lawrence Kansas April 3 H C Cowles president of Cox County Farmers Institute dies after long contest work
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