The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 11, 1905

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i jiff ri rf r EVERYBODY 5 16 PAGES 'P?- 'T J EVERYBODY 16 PAGES NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. SATURDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 11, 1905. SATURDAY EVENING. THREE CENTS. -Vji AJ 0T (1 Sit j ASii&lDrf t!en. Kuropatkin's Army Ig All Cut to Pieces. Retreat Is Progressing Under Great Difficulties. ON BOTH HIS FLANKS. The Japanese Harass His De moralized Troops. The Number of Russians Sur rounded Is Yet Unknown. Slav Losses Placed at 120,000 Men and 300 Guns. The broken Russian army is desper ately struggling northward after enor mous losses in men and guns and sup plies. The rout seems complete and an unofficial report from St. Peters burg says that Kuropatkin has lost 60,000 prisoners. To the east and west of the retreating army the Japanese army are closing- in and it is apparent that Russia has met with the crown ing disaster of the war. Official reports from Tokio say that thousands of Rus sians are crowded into the district be tween the railway and the Mukden road while the Japanese are pouring an annihilating fire upon the demoral ized mass. In a dispatch to the emperor General Kuropatkin announces that he is in full retreat and adds: "How many are surrounded is un known." On three sides the enveloping Japa nese are drawing in their lines and it swms possible that Oyama's supreme effort to interpose a strong force be tween the main Russian army and the north may be successful. St. Petersburg. March 11.-3:10 p. m. fian forces are now retiring from Muk den, northward. They are flanked on both sides by the Japanese troops in pursuit, and are suffering heavy losses. St. Peetrsburg, March 11. 3:10 p. m. The Associated Press learns that the dispatch received by Emperor Nicholas from General Kuropatkin last night in addition to announcing the retreat of the Russian armies added: "Our retreat is being conducted with the enemy har assing both our flanks. "The second army under Bildering has suffered the heaviest both in killed, wounded and prisoners. How many are surrounded is unknown. The army is still in danger." St. Petersburg, March 11, 6:50 p. m. It is reported in the military clubs this afternoon that General Kuropat kin has lost 300 suns and about 60.000 prisoners besides about the same num ber of killed and wounded. 13 Miles North of Mukden. London, March 11. A dispatch to the Japanese legation from Tokio says: A Japanese detachment has reached the Pu river. 13 miles north of Mukden and is inflicting consider able damage on the retreating enemy. It Is ii Rout. Washington. March 11. The Japa nese legation has received the follow ing cablegram from Tokio: Report received on the night of March 10: In the direction of Sing king our detachment is now attacking superior enemy who holds height in the north of Fushim. In the direction of Sha Ho we expelled enemy to right bank of Hun river and are enveloping and attacking him to the east and north of Mukden. Since noon of the 10th, a large number of enemy, worn out and in complete disorder, are re turning northward along the district between Mukden road and the rail way and swarming in the district ex tending from the neighborhood of Mukden to Sanwa seven miles north of Mukdey while our infantry and artillery was concentrating tire upon that enemy till nightfall. Another detachment reached Pu Ho, thirteen miles north of Mukden on the evening of the 10th and is inflicting considerable damage upon retreating enemy. Annies in a I taw. Tokio, March 11, 6 p. m. Later in the day the following dispatch was re ceived from the headquarters of the Japanese armies in the field: "Our force in the Singking direction pfter carrying the enemy's position on the north heights of Fushun pursued him as far as Huyuagpao, rive miles north of Fushun, and at 11 o'clock last night resumed a vigorous pursuit if him. "Today we captured a few hundred light railway wagons and other spoils which are under investigation." Admiral Ito. chief of the general staff and Admiral Yamamoto, minister Tf the navy, have telegraphed their soiigratulations to Field Marshal Oyama. No Word I-Vom Kuropatkin. St. Petersburg. March 11. 3 p. m. The curtain which shrouds the ex tent of the Russian disaster at Muk den has" not been pierced. Nothing is known of the situation, not even Gen eral Kuropatkin's own whereabouts. The commander-in-chief's message announcing that all the armies were in full retreat is the last definite word from the battlefield. The absence of news gives fine play to imagination and the city is ril'ed with the most pessimistic reports. The public generally believes that the situation is much worse than is of ficially admitted here. While the mil itary men minimize the Russian de feat, the failure of Tokio to report of ficially the exact situation affords a glimmer of hone that the position of Kuropatkin's army is not so black as painted. The fact that' 1,200 cars loaded with artillery and carrying wounded men northward from Muk den left during the last 10 davs is in terpreted as giving ground for hope I that Field Marshal Oyama s plunder will not be as great as reported. TIis dust storm and the exhausted state of the Japanese armies after their Her culean efforts during the 10 days bal tle may also have rendered the re treating armies good service. But the main point, namely, how large a pro portion of the army is surrounded and whether it has been captured or still has a chance to cut its way out is not elucidated. Kerything indicates, how ever, that Kuropatkin has suffered a catastrophe of the first magnitude. While the air is full of peace ru mors following the Russian defeat there is undoubtedly necessity for massing a new army at Harbin if the war is to be continued. Neither Em peror Nicholas nor the government has taken a step in the direction of peace and probably they will require several days to reach a decision on this point. The report that France has already been asked to intervene is, however, positively untrue. The Associated Press is enabled to make the following statement: The moment might prove .oppor tune, but the question of peace lies with Japan and not wih Russia. Rus sia would welcome peace and peace could be arranged not through a third power, but by direct negotiations be tween the two countries if the Jap anese would propose moderate terms. As the victor Japan is in a position to take the first step. Russia can not and will not sue for peace. Neither could she accept terms which did not recognize Russia as a power in the far east. It is idle to speculate on the concrete terms. The only thing is that Russia's position in the far east must be recognized with Japan. The victor should show moderation. Oth erwise no end of the war is yet in sight. Russians Badly Confused. Tokio, March 11. Noon The Jap anese wedge driven through the Rus sian center on the Hun river continues to advance north. It has already ar rived at Hampu some distance north east of, Mukden. It is reported that the Russians are retiring north along the railway, evi dently very badly confused, being caught between the wedge and the ex treme Japanese left northwest of Muk den. They have been heavily punished dur ing their retreat along the described route, the Japanese shelling the dis ordered masses of the Russians. Minister of War Teraoutchi has tele graphed his congratulations to Field Marshal Oyama, the officers and men of his army on their victory. Field Marshal Oyama's reply ascribes his success to the emperor and the gal lantry and bravery of his officers and men. Many Thousands of Prisoners. Tokio, March 11. 8 a. m. The full extent of the Russian disaster is still unknown here. It is known, how ever, that the casualties and losses in guns and munitions of war are enor mous, liven approximate figures are unobtainable as yet. It is expected that the prisoners will number many thousands. Local estimates of the number taken vary from 20,000 to 50,000. It is not clear yet whether General Kuropatkin planned to stand and hold his line north of the Hun river or re tire until he found it was too late to accomplish his plan with the forces at his command, owing to his con fidence in the ability of the Russian army to withstand assault. His action in heavily reinforcing his right in the neighborhood of Mukden, incline many to the belief that he planned to hold the line on the Hun river and attempted to check flank attacks. By a desperate onslaught, the Jap anese drove a wedge through the line of the Hun river and then pressing northward, practically created a giant cordon around Mukden, bagging a tremendous force of the Russians by the operation completed yesterday. Desperate fiq-hting continued during the night, the Russians striving to break the encircling barrier. It is now known that as a result of the operations yesterday if the Jap anese army succeeds in obstructing the line of retreat between Fushun and Tie pass, but a small fraction of Kuropatkin's army will emerge from the disaster, ,Iapancc Are Not Hurrying. With the Western Japanese Armies, March 10, 1 p. m., via Fusan, delayed in transmission. During the night General Oku's army advanced almost to the railway despite a desperate re sistance, occupied Sujaton station, the main Russian supply depot and cap tured enormous ouantities of supplies, including six million rifle cartridges and other supplies in proportion. The Japanese are not hurrying their movements, being determined to lose no chance to make victory certain and decisive. They are confident of the success of their plans. Don't Know About Rojestverfsky. New York, March 11. Admiral Ro jestvensky is not returning to Euro pean waters, according to a Times dis patch from St. Petersburg, which as serts that the battleships in the fleet are unable to pass Suez canal without unloading. The admiralty declares it is una ware of Rojestvensky's intentions, as he does not report his movements. "Send Another Army." St. Petersburg, March 116:45 P. M. North of Mukden when this dispatch was filed, the situation of the Russian army was depicted as not so bad as generally believed here at that hour, but of course due allowance must be made for the censor's restrictions. No official disratch was issued today. The temper cf the imperial family can perhaps be judged by Grand Duke Vladimir's response when asked what would be Russia's reply to General Ku ropatkin's defeat. "Send another army," was his answer. Shellinir Retreating Russians. Tokio, March 11, 7 p. m. The fol lowing dispatch from the headquarters of the Japanese army in the field was made public today: "In the Singking (Yencien) direction our forces are now attacking a super ior force of enemy occupying the northern height near Fushun. "All our forces in the Shakhe river, direction entirely dislodged the enemy on the rirtit bank of the Hun river Friday and surrounded the enemy east and north of Mukden. "According to several reports from noon, March 10, Russians filled the district between the railroad and the Mukden road in great confusion and in a state of utter exhaustion. Thous ands upon thousands of Russians are in the district between anwa. eight miles north of Mukden and Mukden, retreating north in a miserable condi tion. Our artillery and infantry in the vicinity are pouring a fierce fire I upon them, inflicting heavy damage. "On Friday our detachment hurried ly advanced from Singlingtien, on the Hun river between Mukden and Fu- i shun and reached the Pu river 13 i miles north of Mukden and at sunset (Continued on Page Six.) STANDARD BUYS. Prairie Oil and Gas Company Has One Purchaser. Officers in Both Companies Are Identical. YOUNG'S ADMISSIONS. Pine Lines Were Built With Stardard's Funds. President of Prairie Company Owns Standard Stock. Independence, Kan., March 11. The taking of testimony in the proceeding taken in Sedan against the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe and other roads for alleged violation of the anti-trust law began here Friday. John Aber of Moran said the Moran Gas and Crude Oil company had built up a fuel oil trade in Kansas City, but when the advance in rates came last fall it was compelled to shut down its plant and to let its tank cars remain idle. He said the company owned two tank cars and that when they were in service the Missouri Pacific paid mileage on them but he could not not say how much. Wr. J. Young, of Pittsburg, Pa., presi dent of the Prairie Oil Gas company, said he owned all except four shares of the stock of the company the other shares being held by the directors. There has been issued by the company 2 million of debenture bonds and these are held by the National Transit com pany of Pennsylvania. He said he owned 100 shares in the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. He admitted that the Prairie's controller is John Buschnell of 26 Broadway,' New York, head of the Standard Oil. He also ad mitted Theodore N. Towl, the well known taxing agent for the Union Tank company, the Buckeye Pipe Line com pany and of the various Standard Oil companies of the states as well as the holding company was also the taxing agent of the Prairie. He admitted that the entire stock together with $2,500,000 of the debenture bonds of the Prairie were all turned over to the National Transit company, one of the Standard's federated and working companies. In other words the entire corporate body save the necessary five shares to hold a nominal residence in Kansas was own ed by the National Transit company in Pittsburg. Mr. Young further admitted that he himself owned 100 Standard Oil certificates of the Dar value of $100 each that represented interest in 19 federated Standard Oil companies which certifi cates he had exchanged for the trust's successor, towit: the one hundred mil lion dollar New Jersey Standard Oil company. No other witness in the west could have supplied this missing link with the original or competent and satisfactory evidence. He did not know there had been an advance in freight rates on crude pe troleum last fall. The Prairie Oil and Gas company is the successor of Forest Oil company. The Forest Oil company sold to the South Pennsylvania company. Mr. Young did not know anything about the South Pennsylvania Oil company ex cept that it has an office in Pittsburg, Pa., he knew the Prairie Oil and Gas company had been constructing some pipe lines in the state and one to Whit ing, Ind. He did not know what pipe lines terminated at Whiting. Mr. Young was examined by F. S. Monett. He brought no books nor papers with him. Mr. Young was on the stand for more than four hours and to Kansas people who are perfectly familiar with the relationship between the Prairie Oil and Gas company and the Standard Oil company his ignorance was appal ling. Mr. Young was a very unwil ling witness. He was caught on the fly by a deputy sheriff a few days ago. The attorneys were able, however, to get some admissions from him which will make a stronn record in the case against the Standard in the case now pending in the state supreme court. Mr. Younsr admitted that the Stand ard Oil company is doing business in Kansas and that it is buying on. 'ibis fact came out in the following ques tions and answers during: the exami nation O. Will vou kindly state to whom you sell your crude petroleum or have been sellinsr it trom tne various points in Kansas? A. To the Standard Oil company of Kansas at Neodesha and the Sugar Creek refinery. Most of the oil on board cars has been sold to the Stand ard Oil company of Chicago. Q. You sneak of the Standard Oil company of Kansas with headquarters at what point? A. Their head office is at Wichita I think. Q. Who is the man to whom you sell your oil in Kansas if you know? A. Don't sell to any one in Kansas. Q. To whom do you deliver it? A. Deliver it to the refinery at Neo desha. to the refinery at Sugar Creek, and what fuel oil is sold deliver on board cars at the joints where our tankage is located. Q. What do you receive in vouch ers for pay for runs through your pipe line? A. Get checks from George W. Stahl, treasurer at Chicago. Q. And rou sen to no other pur chasing agency but the Standard Oil company? A. WTe have never had any other purchaser. If anybody else wanted to buy we would sell. In regard to the recent order of the Prairie Oil and Gas company that it would take no more oil in Kansas be low the gravity of 30 degrees, Mr. Young appeared very ignorant, but fin ally it developed after the attorneys had put him through the paces that the order was issued at the instigation' of J. A. Moffat, the superintendent of refineries of the Standard Oil company., During the cross examination of Mr. Young bv Mr. Dunlap there was an adroit attempt made by the latter to show that the enforcement of the pro vision of the new common carrier law would be impossible because the var ious grades of oi! would mix when running them throurrh the pipelines unless the different grades were run at different times. Mr. Dunlap was ask ed this question: Q. If put in the pipe line oils of different specific gravities they would be apt to mix wben running through the pipeline? A. Well that Here Mr. Dunlap saw that the ans wer was liable to lead the witness into an admission that such a thine was possible and be withdrew the jiues- When Mr. Young- also said that al though he had been a stockholder in the Standard Oil company for more than fifteen years, he had never at tended a stockholders' meetine. could not possibly remember the names of the directors and did not remember to whom he had sent his proxy. There was nothing in the testimony given by Mr. Young to show directly that the Standard Oil company is in a deal with the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company or with any other railroad company operating ing Kansas, but all of the statements made by him will be of great value in the case against the Standard Oil com pany now pending in the supreme court. This is a case to oust the Standard from Kansas, and the ad missions are of a character which will make proof that the company is ope rating here easy of establishment. W. F. Gates, superintendent of pipe lines for the Prairie Oil and Gas com pany, was more ignorant of the ope rations of his department than Mr. Young- was as to the general opera tions of the company. He said he did not know how many miles of pipe line had been laid in this state under his supervision. He did not know what railroads hauled the pipe to Independ ence, and he never had seen a freight bill and did not know what the rate was. John Smith was the only shipper examined. He was well informed and came armed with his freight receipts and books to prove up what he said. The following was asked him: Q. Can you give an instance of shipping bill or freight bill, giving the date and commodity, weight and rate and point from, where, shipped on lumber? A. The first shipment of lumber that I made in Kansas was from- G. W. Williams, Chanute to Peru, over the Santa Fe railroad. The shipment consisted of what we call a carpen ter's rig of lumber for a derrick, June 8, 1903, and weight of car was 53,100 pounds. The rate was ten cents per hundred. Freight paid was $53.10, June 9, 1903. Q. Had you any transactions with the same railroad company at or about this time in the transportation from Chanute of what is known as oil well supplies, if so give the details as to the commodity and weight, rate or price paid. A. In the shipment of a stem and a rope socket called oil supplies July 20, laos, l shipped it at a weight cf 5,000 pounds; the rate per hundred pounds was 29 cents. The actual weight was about 1,500 pounds; freight paid. $14.50. Higher Than the Lumber Rate. Q. Do you know what is the rate on its actual weight? A. It would be a trifle over three times the amount of the actual rate, about 87 cents per hundred pounds actual weight. Q. How would that compare with the lumber rate or similar com-, modities for the same instance? A. It would be a little over eight times, or 800 per cent more. This testimony is regarded as im portant, as showing collusion between the Standard Oil company and the railroads whereby the rate on all oil well supplies was raised to an ex orbitant point in order to prevent the people in the section from getting drill machinery and keeping down the development of the field. These rates were not put into effect till the Stand ard began issuing its warning orders telling the producers they would have to reduce production. Garfield at Standard Headquarters New York, March 11. Commissioner Garfield of the bureau of corporations spent a crowded hour Thursday after noon with the lawyers of the Standard Oil company, prior to beginning an in vestigation of the trust and its meth ods, with especial regard to the recent developments in Kansas. A busy 48 hours had been spent in preparing for his reception, and there was ready for him at No. 26 Broadway, a mass of material relating to the affairs of the Kansas branch of the trust. The Rockefeller lawyers were reen forced by the officials of the Prairie Oil and Gas company, the Kansas branch and the Standard Oil, together with all the books and documents necessary to explain the situation fully to Mr. Gar field. Mr. Gntfield will go to Kansas from New York, where he will make as ex tended an investigation as possible of the conditions there. FAIRCHILD IN IT. Ellsworth Man Will Try to Succeed Dayhoff. It is understood that Supt. E. T. Fairchild, of Ellsworth, -will be a can didate for state superintendent of pub lic instruction before the next Repub lican state convention. Supt. Fair child is among the best known edu cators in Kansas. He has lived in Ellsworth for twenty years, and during all that time has been superintendent of the Ellsworth city schools, except during the time that he served two terms as county superintendent, so that he is pretty well acquainted with the common school problems of Kan sas. He has also been a member of the board of regents of the state agricul tural college for a number of years. This, combined with the fact that his county was the first in Kansas to start the consolidation of rural schools a proposition which ought to be pushed much more than it is at present, makes him specially fitted for the place, and he will have strong backing for it among the Republicans of the Sixth district. DATE FOR REVOLT. Russian Revolutionists Have Appointed May 1. St. Paul, Minn., March 11. A spe cial to the Dispatch from Sioux City, Iowa, says: Aaron Emden, who came from Rus sia four months ago and joined the Russian colony here, today received a letter from a member of the Russian revolutionary party saying that April 18 of the Russian calendar, or May 1, American calendar, has been named for the opening of the national revo lution. Since the St. Petersburg mas sacre the revolutionists in the cities have been repressed until orders could be conveyed to all the cities and provinces for a universal uprising on such a scale that to cope with it would be impossible. All railroads and industries will be tied up and mobs will take possession of every city. It is claimed that support-of many of the troops is pledged. Emden has heretofore received information from Russia which has proved accurate. IT'S OURSAT LAST Formal Transfer of Water Plant Takes Place. Bonds Turned Oyer at 2 O'clock Today. THE DEED IS FILED. Through It Topeka Comes Into Its Own. Slight Delay Caused by Regis tration of Bonds. Superintendent Shaw Will Now Beport to Council. The formal transfer of the property of the Topeka waterworks to the city of Topeka was made this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the office of the city at torney at the city building. Mayor Bergundthal, City Attorney Charles Spencer, City Clerk Squires and City Treasurer M. M. Hale appeared in behalf of the city, while Charles F. Street appeared as the representative of the Topeka Waterworks company. The whole transaction took but a few minutes and was very informal in its nature. The registration of the $350 000 4 per cent bonds of the city of Topeka which took place this morn ing at the auditor of state's office was completed by 11 o'clock. City Treas urer Hale and City Clerk Squires were present during the registration. The securities were carried back to the city building tucked under the arm of City Clerk Squires. The $350,000 bonds made a bulky bundle, but the open ness with which they were displayed in the transfer from the state house back to the city building would have misiea anyone as to their value Ordinary common binding twine was wrapped about the mass of green paper which represented over half of the purchase price of $620,000 paid for the plant. The cost of the regis tration of the bonds at the auditor's offce to the city was $175. With the payment of this sum of money the ordinary looking bulk of green paper was transferred into a mass of se curities representing thousands of dollars. The deed registered at the court house was turned over by Mr. Street to tne city omcials and in return he accepted the bonds. These will be shipped via express to New York. Mr. Street will return to New York today. Commencing with Monday morning the employes of the water works company receive orders from a new boss. The citizens of Topeka, through the city omcials, are the su preme head of the waterworks prop erty. The money which has been grudgingly given for water rentals to the octopus on Wall street will now stream into the coffers of the city. The present employes remain in charge until Mayor Bergundthal or his successor appoints the board of trustees. However, before this can be done the citizens of Topeka, under the provisions of the law just recently passed by the legislature, must ratify by a vote upon the adoption of the law. The vote is to be taken at the coming city election. The city officials, when they heard of the removal of the final obstacles to the transfer, heaved a general sigh of relief. After legal technicalities which looked unsurmountable at first the city has come into its own. The entire history of the attempt by the city to take over the water works plant would fill the seven columns of a newspaper. Resolutions and motions to fill a dictionary have been presented to the city council and passed with reference to the municipal ownership of the long-sought prop erty. Lawsuits to reduce the rates were brought by the city during a course of time extending over some 15 years. No conclusion was ever arrived at, however, and the matter was finally dropped. Away back in April of 19 02, three years ago, the Topeka Water company made the proposition to sell out for $620,000, and it looked very much at that time as if the transfer might be effected. The great tangle in which the title of the prop erty was at the time, however, kept the city from purchasing. Along in the fall of that year the company en deavored to clear away some of the underbrush by foreclosure proceed ings. The status of the matter re mained, however, .indefinitely fixed until the forepart of 1904, when activ ity again was renewed only to suffer a relapse through the Parkhurst-Davis fire of February 13, which showed the condition of the power of the plant in no enviable light. Hope died out in the breasts of the coun- cilmen. Then along in April of the same year bonds were issued by the city to purchase the plant and again everything looked serene. Delay after delay occurred, however, until the 1st of January. 1905, when the council triumphantly announced its intention of making the transfer. The triumph was previous. The city attorney and the special attorney, J. D. McFarland, who were employed in going through the title, found a great mass of flaws. The council subsided into their seats with a groan. The attorneys fought among themselves and argued pro and con. The council sat dumb and dazed with the flow of legal outpour ing. It was the night before the dawn, however, and the legal techni calities finally were cleared away. The city has come into its own. How Deal Was Closed. The city will take formal possession of the property of the Topeka Water works company early next week, prob ably on Monday. The question of the exact time hinges with the state audi tor's office. The registration of the $350,000 bonds of the city of Topeka, which will be offered in payment of the plant, will have to be done by that office before they are valid and negoti able and can be turned over by Charles F. Street, trustee for the ccmpany. Mayor Bergundthal at last night's ad journed meeting of the council with drew his objections against taking over the plant previous to April 1 and upon his statement and the report of the special committee appointed from among the members of the council to go over the books and accounting of the company the council deemed it ad visable to take the necessary prepara tory steps to taking over the plant. City Attorney Spencer has examined the deed to the property -which, passed into the possession of the city and approved of the same. The special committee appointed by the mayor to go over the books and the miscellaneous property and the bonds turned over made its report to the council last night. In its report the committee recommended that the prop erty be accepted as from March 1. The committee after examining the accounts made the following summary: Net collections from the flat rates for the first quarter com mencing January 1, 1905 $5,188.34 One-third of amount due the city 1.729.45 Amount of unpaid rates for the quarter 961.57 One-third due the city 320.52 Total amount of unpaid bills in cluding meter bills for Febru ary 6,101.55 The city should pay the company one month's interest at 4 per cent on $350, 000 bonds of city from which bonds all past due coupons including coupon due April 1, should be detached. This amounts to $1,166.66; two months' hy drant rental, $2,550; cash, supplies on hand March 1, new meters, sundry spec ial purchases paid for by company on or before March 10, $632.13; total, $4, 348.79. The company should pay the city for meter deposits, $1,656.50; interest for January and February on $270,000 bonds of the Topeka Water company, assumed by the city, $2,250; Knox tract right of way. $500; trespass on lot 1, Lindenwood addition, $150; one third flat rate collected up to March 1, $1, 729.45; total, $6,285.95. Balance, cash due the city from Topeka Water company on transfer, $1,937.95. The committee further states: "The large number of meter accounts make it practicably impossible to close the accounts of the company and open the accounts of the city at any definite time. Under the plan suggested in the report the transfer can be made by: "First Payment by the company to the city of check of $1,937.16. "Second Exchange of the city's bonds for the deeds to the property." With the adoption of the report by the council the following two resolutions were presented by the members of the same committee. These two resolutions practically represent the gist of their findings and their further, adoption by the city council confirms the necessary steps in making the transfer. The res olutions: Be it resolved, that the mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to Charles F. Street, trustee, $350,000 4 per cent bonds of the city of Topeka, bearing date April 1, 1904, and due April 1, 1924, after having detached and cancelled the coupon maturing April 1, 1905, and all previous coupons, and upon receiving from Charles F. Street, trustee, a deed to the property of the waterworks in the city of To peka and the surrender of the posses sion thereof. Second Be it resolved by the mayor and council that the present employes of the water company be paid the same salaries as they are now receiving un til further notice, and Be it resolved that Jesse Shaw as manager be and he is hereby instructed to report to the mayor and receive in structions from him as to the purchase of supplies, etc., and as to the general conduct of the business until the mayor and council can adopt a permanent sys tem of management, and Resolved that the city clerk is hereby directed to notify the employes of the water company of the change of own ership of the property as soon aa the transfer is consummated. The receivership of Mr. O'Neill ceases virtually with the transfer of the deed of the property by the waterworks company to Charles F. Street as trustee. The deed in question showing Street's authority for making the transfer of the property to the city has been turn ed over by the latter to the city attor ney. The factor therefore of the re ceivership has ceased to exist. The only thing which is awaiting for the trans fer is the registration of the bonds. The city pays $620,000 for the property assuming a bonded first mortgage al ready in force amounting to $270,000 and pays additionally $350,000 bonds of the city of Topeka. .City Attorney Spencer read his sup plemental report before the members of the city council as regards his opinion of the title to the property. His report coincided with that of Judge Hazen whose report was already in possession of the council, and furthermore relates of additional requirements which have been met by the Topeka Water eom nanv with regard to clearing up the title. NO PLACE FOR VERNON. Kansas Negro Educator to Get No Federal Appointment. Washington, March 11. It is quite doubtful whether a position of import ance under the new Roosevelt adminis tration can be secured for Dr. William T. Vernon, president of Quindaro uni versity. The Kansas delegation had some hope of the position of register of the treasury, always filled by a negro. The present incumbent, Judson W. Ly ons of Georgia, however, who has held the place eight years, will not resign, and is so satisfactory an of ficial that he will not be removed. There seems at present no other position of dignity and importance suitable to Dr. Veinon open at present. The Kansans very much wish to assist him if possi ble and something may open up later. The president considers Vernon "a very high grade man." Dr. Vernon has gone to Philadelphia, after his two days" visit here. George I. Harvey, formerly city sup erintendent of schools in Burlington and Ottawa and well known in Kansas, is here seeking reinstatement in the In dian service with the view to appoint ment as inspector. This recalls the bit ter fight against Harvey a year ago, when he resigned as superintendent of the Indian school at Pawnee, Ok. Har vey was accused of striking an Indian girl and of lack of integrity in busi ness matters. The latter charge fell fiat and the former, he confessed, to the extent -that it was a simple chastise ment for offenses committed repeated ly. The Indian Rights association, of which the present Indian Commissioner Leupp, was a prominent member, hounded Harvey for months and he fin ally resigned. Senator Long and Rep resentatives Curtis and Miller are seek ing his reinstatement. Representative Curtis left for Topeka Friday. He will proceed directly to his home. 1 Representative Victor Murdock, Mrs. Murdock and the latter's father. E. T. Allen of Wichita, left for Kansas today. Temperatures in Ijarge Cities. Chicago, March 11. 7 a. m. temper atures: New York, Boston, 26; Phila delphia, W'ashington and Cincinnati, 32; Chicago, 16; Minneapolis, 4; St. Louis, 24. WAS KILLED BY HIS OWN BOLE Terrorist Agent Blown to Atoms in a Hotel. Wife of an Officer Met Death hy the Explosion. IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. Owner Tas Plainly After Some Russian Official. An Innocent Looking Man Be lieved to Be French. St. Petersburg, March 11 The explos ion of a bomb at the Hotel Bristol, ad Joining the Hotel D'Angleterre, hera just before daylight this morning blew to atoms the owner of the bomb, a man with an English passport and giving the name of Alfred Henry McCulIough, and wrecked the adjoining rooms kill ing the wife of an officer and injuring several other lodgers. The explosion was heard blocks away and created a tremendous sensation. There is not the slightest doubt that the man killed was connected with terrorist plots. The bomb was of the same power as those which killed the late minister of the interior, Von Plehve, and Grand Duke Sergius creating the same havoc as did the explosion at Hotel DuNord last spring. The preliminary investigation of the police leads them to believe that Mc CulIough was engaged either in pack ing his effects as the Hotel Bristol waa to be vacated today or in preparing for" some desperate enterprise today when the bomb which, like all the infernal machines of the terrorists, was provid ed with gravity tubes, fell and exploded as the one at the Hotel DuNord did. The police immediately surrounded the hotel, mounted gendarmes, allowing no one to go within B0 paces. An independent investigation made by the Associated Press seems to estab lish beyond question that the man kill ed was a terrorist leader. His passport" of course was fictitious, but the man was a foreigner, not a Russian. At the Hotel de Paris, where he had been stopping from time to time since the middle of January. McCulIough was described as a very innocent looking man, between 30 and 40 years of age, resembling more a Frenchman than an Englishman, speaking French with the fluency of a native. He also spoke Eng lish which, however, he had little oc casion, to use at the hotel where he kept much to himself, going away on frequent short trips. Just before Grand Duke Sergius was assassinated, the man was absent for two days which, might connect him directly with the grand duke's murder. McCulIough pro fessed to be engaged in business, but in view of what has happened his move ments are admitted to have been mys terious. Some of the police are inclined to think McCulIough was a direct emis sary of the Paris revolutionary organiz ation. HOMER HOCH TO STAY. Will Probably Be Re-instated in Post office Department. Washington, March 11. Repre sentative Calderhead and Senator Long are interesting themselves en deavoring to secure the reinstatement in the treasury department of Homer Hoch, son of Governor Hoch. The lat ter, who was not in the civil servico was dismissed by R. J. Wynne, just as he was leaving the office of postmas ter general. Mr. Calderhead saw Postmaster General Cortelyou yesterday and re ceived encouragement. Mr. Cortel you also spoke favorably of the re tention of Wm. R. Spillman of Man hattan as superintendent of rural frea delivery. It is expected that Mr. Hoch win either be reinstated as chief of the appointment division or given another good place in the postoffice depart-, ment. v ATTACKS EVIDENCE. Mrs. Cliadwlck's Attorney Continues His Argument. Cleveland, O., March li. J. P. Dawley, senior counsel for Mrs. Chad wick, resumed .his argument today. Mr. Dawley made a vigorous on slaught on the evidence submitted by the government. He declared that absolutely nothing had been submit ted tending to prove that prior to securing the certification of checks by Spear she had made any agreement or arrangement to that effect with him. He strongly urged the jury to remember that Mrs. Chadwick was not on trial for getting certified cheeks illegally, but agreeing beforehand with Beckwith and Spear to procure their certification. He dwelt at great length upon the difference between the combination of an act and a con spiracy to procure its combination, and asked the jury to remember that there is as much difference aa be tween a horse chestnut and a chestnut horse. WEATHER COLDER TODAY. The temperature at 8 o'clock this morning crept down to 26. This is the coldest temperature recorded since the cold snell in February. The wind is veering round to the south and t'.ii; win bring wltn it a rise in tne mer cury. The maximum recorded for yesterday was 4 9. The following are the hourly tem perature readings recorded by the government thermometer: 7 o'clock 26111 o'clock 34 8 o'clock 27112 o'clock 37 9 o'clock 281 1 o'clock 38 10 o'clock. .311 2 o'clock 41 The wind at 2 o'clock was blowing from the southeast at a rate of 17 miles per hour. Weather Indications. Chicago, March 11. Forecast for Kansas: Rain, or snow tonight and Sunday; warmer tonight; fresh east erly winds.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNi, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. 2 A 13,, 11 1i1pm rl 1 till MJUliai 3 lan I will ray outright for your first dollar bottle of Br. Ehoop'i Restorative. I ask no deposit no promise. Tou take "no risk you pay nothing, either now or later. The dollar bottle is free to those who have not tried 'my remedy. I want no references no security. The poor have the name opportunity as the rich. To one and all I say "Merely write and ask." I will send you an order on your druggist. He will give you free, the full dol lar package. I can afford to offer a full dollar's worth free because mine is no ordinary remedy. Ordinary remedies treat symptoms. My remedy treats the causes that produce the symptoms. Symptom treatment must be kept up for ever as lon as the cause is there. My treatment may be stopped as soon as it has removed the cause, for that Is always the end of trouble. There is no mystery no miracle. I can explain my treatment to you as easily as I can tell you why cold freezes water and why heat melts ice. Nor do I claim' a discovery. For every detail of my treatment Is based Inside Nerves Only one out of evry 98 has perfect health. Of the 97 sick or.es, some are bed ridden, loma are half sick, and some are onlv dull and listless. But most of the sickness comes from a common cause. The narvea are weak. Not the nerves you or dinarily think about not ths nerves that fovern your movements and your nought. But ths nsrves that, tinguided and un known, night and da.y, keep your heart in motion control your digestiva apparatus regulata your liver operate your kid neys. Thss ars the nerves that wear out and break down. It does no good to treat the ailing organ tha irreg-ular heart the disordered liver th rebellious stomach the deranged kidneys. They are not te blame. But go baok ta the nerves that control them. There you will find the seat of the trou ble. There is nothine new about this noth tea any physician would dispute. But it remained for Dr. Bhoop to apply this knowledge to put It to practical use. Dr. 6 hoop's Restorative Is the result of a Quarter century of endeavor along this very line. It does not doe the organ or deadfi the pain but it does go at once to the nerve -tne inside nerve the power rrve and builds It up, and strengthens ejv3 make it welL For Stomach Troubles The. stomach Is controlled by a delicate nerve called the solar plexus. Prize fight ers know that a blow over the stomach a solar plexus blow means a sure knock cut. For tals nerve is ten times as sensi tive as the pupil of your eye. Tet the so lar plexus is only one of the canters of the great Inside nerve the power nerve. 11 is one of tne master nerves. The stom ae Is its slave. Practically all the stom ach trouble Is nerve trouble Inside nerve trouble solar rlexus trouble. Dr. Snoop's Restorative strengthens the inside nerves strengthens the solar plexus and the stomach trouble disappears. H KAflSASJlEVS. AY ell Known Salina Young Man Writes From India. Speaks of Ilis Tleasant Trip Through the Mediterranean. PORT SAID A VILE CITY Saw Thousands of Ducks in Suez Canal. Ships Are. Allowed to Go Only FiTe Miles Hourly. ReV. Benson Baker, a formerly well known Salina young- man, has recently grona to India as a missionary. He writes an Interesting letter to his par ents. "We had wonderful and pleasant trip through the Mediterranean sea, passing: many beautiful islands, one of which. Galitia, is supposed to be the one upon which St. Paul was wrecked. "When we came out on the deck Thursday morning we at once noticed the change in the water. From a beau tiful blue green the color was changed to a rather light yellow, muddy color. KSTo were passing the mouth of the Nile. "At ten minutes past 9 the little pilot boat steamed up to our side and the pilot clambered aboard. "We were at Port Said harbor and none but an experienced pilot could puide us in. The way was marked out by buoys, very narrow channel be ing kept open by constant dredging. The harbor is formed by two huge break-waters built of (concrete, the east em one being more than a mile in length. It is quite a distance up to the landing stage, and as we sailed very slowly, -we had a fine opportunity for seeing the city. Port Said is built on 'made-land.' that is, the whole plat of ground upon which the city rests has been filled in, and recovered from the sea. On the north side of the city It seems that the waves wash right up to the doors of the houses built on the low sand. I at once thought of the possibility of another disaster such as the Galveston flood. Facing the har bor is a very fine statue of M. De Lesseps, the Frenchman who mad possible the canal. "The first person who met us was a guide, who proffered his services at so much per hour. We had no need of a guide, and told him so at once, then again and again. During most of ou stay on land we told this same guide that we had no need of his services, for he followed us most of the way! How it was I do not know, but he at once discovered that McMurray ini myself were Americans, and not Eng lishmen, and so our friend said 'Me TABHURSTFOU,T HARROW IS CENTS EACH 2 FOR 35 CENTS CLU6TT, PEABCD Y CO.. B TfeAjffl IM.II fffiT Worth any Ailing Many Ailments-One Cause I have called these the Inside nerves for elmnllcitv's sake. Their usual name is the "sympathetic" nerves. Physicians call them by this name because they are so closely allied because each is in such close sympathy with the others. The re sult is that when one branch is allowed to become impaired, the others weaken. That is why one kind of sickness leads into an other. That is why cases become com plicated." For this delicate nerve is the most sensitive part of the human system. Does this not explain to you some of the uncertainties of medicine is it not a good reason to your mind why other kinds of treatment mav have failed? Don't you see that THIS is NEW in medicine? That this is NOT the mere patchwork of a stimulant the mere sooth ing of a narcotic? Don't you see that ft goes right to the root or the trouble ana eradicates the cause? But r do not ask you to take a single statement of mine I do not ask you to believe a word I say until you have tried my medicine in your own home at my ex pense absolutely. Could I offer you a full dollar's worth free if there were any mis representations? Could 1 let you go to your drugirist whom you know and pick out any bottle he has on his shelves of my medicine were it not UNIFORMLY help ful? Could I AFFORD to do this if I were not reasonably SURE that my med icine will help you? For Kidney Troubles The kidneys are the blood filters. They are operated solely by the inside nerves. The branch which operates them and reg ulates them is called the renal plexus. "When the renal plexus is weak or irregu lar, the kidneys become clogged with the very poisons they should throw off. No kidney treatment can clean them out or cure them and one stage leads into an other until after a while the kidneys themselves begin to break down and dis solve. There is only one way to reach kidney trouble that is through the inside nerves that control them, which Dr. Shoop's Restorative alone strengthens and restores. Tankee Doodle Dandy! Me just coma from New York,' and the boys on the street would run after us shouting 'Tank! Yank!' "We stepped off the landing-stage and at once were in the heart of the city. Interesting Port Said, said to be the wickedest and most vile city in the world, yet containing so much of inter est to a westerner. Streets narrow but clean, the buildings low and small, lit tle tiny street cars with a track 18 Inch gauge, quaint old carts pulled by an cient donkeys, men all wearing loose clothing and the Inevitable 'fez,' wo men with faces all covered except the eyes. We headed first for the post office, as we had many letters to mail. We found a very fine building, built around an open court, into which you walk and transact your business, stand ing out of doors. We passed some very good hotels, but most of the stores were very small, much of the merchan dise on the walks and streets. The merchants follow you .down the street trying to make a bargain with you. You literally have to force your way through the crowd of merchants of all sorts and degrees, who are trying to force you to buy. We purch&sed some 'tooees' or hats, such as are worn in India and other hot countries, great helmet like concerns, lined with cork and having an open-air arrangement around the inside band. Then I bought some 'Turkish-delight,' and an English paper a week old, that is the paper was a week old, but I think the candy was about a year old. "We only had an hour in this town and I longed for a day to spend there. We were rowed back in safety, and at S o'clock started again on our long voyage to Bombay. "The Suez canal Is 102 miles Ion?, and not wide enough for two ships to pass except one of them is tied up to the bank. The first few miles of the canal is built through low marshy ground, what at one time was a lake, now mostly dried up. On the lake we saw thousands of ducks. But soon we had passed this and were in the canal proper, low banks with dreary stretches of sand on either side. And here is where you get your idea of the desert. Nothing but sand, no trees or grass or houses. Just sand, and not smooth, as I had imagined, but all in little mounds of unequal size stretching away as tar as you can see. It must be most ter rible tc be lost in sin:h a p'.a-'e. "Every hundred feet or so there Is set into the banks on either side stout posts or piles. To these one of th- ships must tie up when two are pass ing. Native boatmen are carried along for the purpose of rowing to the shore and making fast the ropes. The ships are allowed to go only five miles an hour, and with the frequent tyings up you mav know our progress was not very rapid. The banks are faced with stone or else the washing of tne waves made by the ships would soon destroy the banks of sand. Every precaution Is taken for the safety ot the vessels. Pilots are furnished, and every few miles is a station connected with telegraph. These stations have signals by which the ships; are con trolled. Some of these stations are very beautiful, having pretty buildings nicely painted, though small, sur rounded by great palm trees and green grass, especially beautiful because seen in contrast with the desert so barren. We passed some of the most beautiful parts of the canal, including two lakes, the city of Ismailia and some monuments, during the night and so we missed them. "When I awoke next morning and went on deck, it was hard to realize that we were living in the 20th cen tury, but rather that I was taken back about 2.000 years. For there stretch ed the great desert about which I had read so often, with the occasional Arab hut. and fewer palm trees. Then the next moment I was reminded of Bible times and the story of Mary and Joseph and Mary, for there was a man riding one of those litle donkeys, fol lowed by his wife patiently striding behind, and we just about this time passed the ford of the old camel trail from Syria to Egypt. But more than any of these was the sight along the canal. The waterway was being widened, and they were at work oa Free one Kef use? on truths so fundamental that none can deny them. And every IngTedient of my medicine is as old as the hills it grows on. I simply applied the truths and com bined the ingredients into a remedy that is practically certain. The paragraphs below will show you the reason why. But my years of patient experiment will avail you nothing If you do not accept my offer. For facts and reason and even belief will not cure. Only the remedy can do that. So now I have made this offer. I disregard the evi dence. I lay aside the fact that mine is the largest medical practice in the world, and come to you as a stranger. I ask you to believe not one word that I say till you have proven It for yourself. I offer to give you outright a full dollar's worth of Dr. Snoop's Restora tive. No one else has ever tried so hard to remove every possible cause for doubt. It is the utmost my unbounded confidence can suggest. It is open and frank and fair. It is the supreme test of my limitless belief. Simply Write Me The first free bottle may be enough to effect a cure but I do not promise that. Nor do I fear a loss of possible profit if it does. For such a test will surely con vince the cured one beyond doubt, or dis pute, or disbelief, that every word I say is true. This offer is open to everyone, every where. But you must write ME for the free dollar bottle order. All druggists do not grant the test. I will then direct you to one .that does. He will pass it down to 3'ou from his stock as freely as though your dollar laid before him. Write for the order today. The offer may not remain open. I will send you the book you ask for beside. It is free. It will help you to understand your case. What more can I do to convince you of my interest of my sincerity? For a free order Rook 1 on Dyspepsia, for a full dollar Eook 3 on the Heart, bottle you must Rook 3 on the Kidneys address Dr. Shoop, Book 4 for Women. Box 5729, Racine, Book 5 for Men. Wis. State which Book S on Rheuma book you want. tism. Mild cases are often cured by a single bottle. For sale at forty thousand drug stores. For Heart Trouble Your heart beats more than 10,000 times a day. And every heart beat is an im pulse of the Inside nerve branch called the cardiac plexus. The heart is a muscle, but it is the nerve that makes the muscle do the work. An irregular or weak heart is, almost in every instance, the direct result of a weak or irregular nerve in side nerve. To cure heart trouble, restore the nerve to normal. Dr. Shoop's Restor ative will restore the cardiac plexus, just as it restores the solar plexus and the renal plexus. For all are equal parts of the great inside nerve system the power nerves the master nerves. the right bank as we passed. There were the droves of camels at work, some loaded with working tools, ma terial, etc., but most of them were used in moving dirt. With a box on either side the big beasts would kneel until loaded by the men, then they would get up and away with their burden-. The workmen wore long, loose, flowing gowns or robes and looked so funny at their work, almost as awkward as a woman. "We passed some beautiful stations, and I took pictures of two of them. "By 10 o'clock we were at the little town of Suez (please pronounce this Su-ez, with the emphasis on first syl lable) at the further end of the canal, and after dropping our pilot were soon steaming awiy through the Red sea, or rather the Gulf of Suez. It was here that we could see the Sin aitic range, but Sinai was hidden by intervening ranges." Salina Journal. CRISHED BY THE CARS. An Unknown Man Killed in the Onaga Railroad Camp. An unknown man was killed at Bartlett's railroad camp on the Onaga and Northwestern this morning. He was an absolute stranger, presumably going to the camp for work. When he came to the place where the dump cars stop near the foot of the hill, he climbed onto an empty car, to get a ride up the hill. He was warned to not try to ride up, but he did not heed the warning. The cars went but a lit tle way and stopped. The stranger was sitting on the end of the car he had got onto. When the train start" 1 again he fell between the cars. His head fell on the track and was struck by the car wheel following. The lower part of his skull was completely crushed. He continued to breath for some time, but died without uttering a word. The deceased was fairly well dressed and carried a brown overcoat. He had light complezion and mus tache: was about 49 years old; small stature: weight about 150 pounds. Onaga Republican. Home Made Whisky Cheap. The man selling recipes for making goodf?) whisky was here last week. He says he can make in five minutes as good whisky as any twenty year old Kentucky whisky ever made. He also says that when he approaches a whisky man all he has to do is to make some of the goods and put along side of the dealer's best when he is not looking, then let him try to tell which is which. The cost of the stuff is only SO cents a gallon for his best. Pratt Union. Bis Yield of Kaffir. The biggest yield of kaffir corn to the acre that has been reported to this office is 67 bushels. O. L. Stoop threshed his kaffir corn last week and from three and a third acres he threshed 225 bushels or 67 bushels per acre. rPratt Union. Were Married Twice. Charles H. Hatch and Mrs. Mary A. Hatch, of Edwards county, were here Monday, and Judge Hess performed a marriage ceremony for them. They had lived together 30 years, and a lit- MISCALLED HAIR TOMCS." Most Hair Preparations Are Merely Scalp Irritants, of No Value. Most hair preparations are merely scalp Irritants, miscalled hair tonics. When hair is brittle, lusterless and begins to fall out, the dandruff germ is getting in its deadly work at the root, sapping the vi tality. Since science discovered that dan druff is a gerrn disease there has been only one preparation put on the market that will actually destroy the dandruff germ, and that is Newbro's Herpicide. It quickly reduces scalp fever, destrovs the germ; and the falling hair stops, and hair grows luxuriantly. Ask your druggist for Herpicide. It allays itching instantly and permits the hair to grow. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co Detroit, Mich. Rowley Snow, special aaeuta. tie over two years ago they separated and got a divorce. After studying over the matter, they decided that they had lived together so long that they had best finish the journey that way, so came in and were again mar ried. Pratt Union. SHOT A WICHITA MAS. James Oliver Killed 3. C. Casey to Avenge Losses in a Failure. Wichita, Kas., March 11. J- C. Casey, head of the Casey Mercantile company, was shot and killed by James Oliver late Friday. Oliver was a stock holder in the late Casey Garst Wholesale Grocery and Confectionery company ,and lost heavily by its fail ure about three months ago. He had spoken frequently to Casey about his losses. Oliver went to the company's office and after Casey had entered and sat down at a desk with his back to him, Oliver drew a revolver from his pocket and shot Casey three times In the back of his head. Oliver then walked out of the office and to the police station where he gave himself up. Casey had been in business in this city many years and was generally re snected. Oliver came here from II linois about three years ago. Shortly before the failure of the old company he was induced to put tzi.uuu into the business. He is 5 5 years old and bore a good reputation. It is thought the loss of his money, together with the fact that he has been ill nearly a year, unbalanced his reason. In ex tenuation of his act Oliver said Casey had robbed him of all he had and left his wife and children to starve. FAltMEUS MAKE PROTEST. Turner Men Do Sot Want Lands In cluded in Drainage Dls-triet. Turner. March 11.' At the Kaw Valley Commercial club's meeting in Armourdale several farmers who live near Turner were present and made a protest against being included in the drainage district which has been proposed. Petitions signed by the re quired number of resident taxpayers in the district are now in the hands of the county commissioners, asking for the creation of the drainage district, and the commissioners will consider the matter next Thursday. The mem bers of the Kaw Valley club will at tend their meeting in a body to urge the granting of the petitions. The club also adopted a resolution asking the mayor and city council to emplov a man to watch the sewers and floods gates in Armourdale and keep them in good condition. Several Heirs Contest. Emporia. Kas., March 11. Rela tives of the late Moses Jacobs have been informed that a second woman representing herself as his widow has filed claim to his estate. When Jacobs, a pioneer who came to Lyon countv in 1S57, dropped dead here last summer it was supposed his sister, Mrs. Charlotte Schoeck, was the only heir. Since then two women, one in Oswego, Kas., and one in western Kansas, each claiming to be his widow, and a woman In Philadelphia, who says she is a daughter by the first wife, have begun contests for the estate, which is. in Seattle, Wash. Prior to his death his sister aia not know that Jacobs ever had married. Prof. Blake Makes Deal. Lawrence. Kan., March 11. Prof, Lucien I. Blake of the university, re turned yesterday from Boston wnere he disposed of his c patents, recently completed, on a system or snip com munieation. to the Submarine Signa comnanv. an international corporation. Prof. Blake began his experiments with the signal system here on the Kaw river in 1890. He later permitted the government to proceed with the Invention. Dr. Blake's new system is a method of using water for telephon ing signals to prevent collisions be tween ships and to determine the po sitions in fogs and storms when a dan gerous shore is near. Hustling for Separate Schools. Kansas City. Kas., March 11. Those who wish to have the proposition for bonds for a new negro high school are making an effort to get every one registered before the poll books close ten days before tne spring election. Mayor Gilbert has not yet set a date for the bond election, but should it be soon after the regular election a lew rinvs onlv may remain in which to register and it is the plan to have all register before the books close, and thus avoid taking any chances. Coffey ville Unaffected. CofTevville. Kan., March 11. Cof feyville oil is unaffected by the action of the Standard Oil company in re fusing to buv any more Kansas oil that tests under 30 degrees. With the nTcmtlnn of a very small per cent. Coffevville oil tests over 30, and as hiirh as 3 3. The average grade is 31. The Standard is continuing its buying in this district, and the amount taken daily is increasing at a gia.Lu.yiiig.juie. Operations are picking up steadily, and by April nearly every company in the local field will be engaged once more in actual development. An Accidental Killing. Leavenworth, Kan.. March 11. Tv.n snrin? n well known Leaven worth county farmer, was accidentally killed while driving to his home near Tjniir,!r Tie was driving a fractious team, which ran away, throwing him to the ground. He leaves a widow and several children. Gasoline Stove Exploded. n'in t- "Mo rr Vi 1 1 AT TS. H. Li. Woods, wife of the publisher of thi. wolilnctnn n.q Iv Isews, surcerea pairfful injuries bv the explosion of a gasoline stove at her home. Both arms were seriously burned, but the flames were put out in time to save uci mc, Wellington Wedding. vt-iiitr, tens. March 11. Mrs Lizzie Wheatlv, who recently returned from the Philippines, where she was engaged in the government hospital service was married at her.-ome near Dalton. FiMay, to Orth E. 'Raricks, of Caldwell, Kas. New Rural Routes. Washington, March 11. The fol lowing rural routes were ordered es tablished April 15 in Kansas: Lewis, Edwards county, route 1. population 4 80, houses 120: Pratt. Pratt county, route 4, population 440, houses 110. Redwing, Barton county, route 1. pop ulation 444, houses 111. Woodpeckers Made a Bridge Unsafe. Emporia, Kas., March 11. Because woodpeckers honeycombed the tim bers of a large county bridge across Eagle creek, known as the King bridge, the countv commissioners con demned the bridge today as unsafe. It is the oldest toridge in Lyon county. To Cure a Cold In One Day Taka Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it tails to cure. E. W. Grove s signature la on each box. 25c SPORTIflGJIEVS. Ralph Rose Thinks A. W. Coe Is a Hardy Foe. The Former at the C. A. A. for Contest With Easterner. THE WEIGHT TROUBLES Hose Says It's Easy to Break Becords Someways. For Instance Take a Leather Bag Filled With Shot. Chicago, March 11. Ralph Rose, who is training in the gymnasium of the Chicago Athletic association for the shot events he is entered in. expects a hard fight when he meets W. W. Coe., Jr., of Summerville, Mass. "Coe is a hardy foe, a good fellow and he has the form," says Rose. "It was not his fault that his indoor rec ord was not accepted. He took the shot they had for him to work with and got the distance. At the same time only the standard metal ball is used and accepted in championship events. It is recognized that the leather bag, filled with shot, can be handled like a baseball and a good throw made with it, particularly if it is at all worn and some of the shot lost. You can -make a short-arm throw with that kind and get any kind of a record. "With this Rose picked up an old bagshot ball from the floor and put or threw it more than fifty feet several times. r "I am putting in some hard work, for Coe is a good one, and unless I get a move on myself he will break that mark of mine made at the con ference meet last year," added the big athlete, as he returned to his exercise on the chest developer. When asked where he would go to school next year, Rose said that he did not know. "I am sorry that all that talk came out about the trouble over at Michi gan," said he, "because I feel very, kindly toward" the school. Yost and Fitzpatrick are two of the finest! coaches in the country and I have no doubt they will get teams that will win this year." Rose believes the conference meet will be the closest held in years and that Chicago and Michigan will prob ably fight it out. "Chicago might already be conceded the middle-distance runs, he said "Michigan will not have the sure thing it did last year in the weight events, but you can trust Fitzpatrick to de velop some one. Michigan ought to stand a good chance in the dashes, but that is a little too far off to think about just now. I shall get down to the meet if I am not in school then and I gues3 it will be worth seeing Just now I am taking a rest- When I left Michigan I went to Florida and stayed there for several months and 1 wanted to get away from the place. The only school I visited while in the east was Cornell. I have- not been around any since, then, but I am going down to Chicago university Some day and watch them work in the gymnas ium there." Elberfield and Gauzel Shy. Montgomery, Ala., March 11. Ow ing to the damp weather and soggy field Griffith would not allow any of the pitchers to warm up. Griffith himself did all the pitching to the batters, and every one wanted to get a bat, as they always do when the manager's slow delivery is on tap. Elberfield Is still among the missing, and no word has been received from him. He has passed the winter on his farm in Tennessee, near Chattanooga. He imagines he has a. grievance with the club over the salary question, but Griffith has wired him to join the team here, as the matter can be settled here as well as in New York. The kid is a headstrong, stubborn bit of hu manity, however, and has as yet re fused to answer. Ganzel is still holding off, hoping that he may be released, so as to be free to manage his. Grand Rapids club, but it is a visionary hope. Griffith was disappointed that Fultz did not show up with the regulars this morn ing. It caused him to remark: "Fultz has got to show more interest in the club and the game than he did last year or he will quit, that's all." Short Bont at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, March 11. Billy Finu cane, of Chicago won in the second round on a foul from Young Oleary of Milwaukee in what was scheduled as an eight round bout before the Badger Athletic club last night. Gotcli Wins Two Straight. Utica, N. 'Y., March 11. Frank Gotch the 'wrestler, won two straight falls from Jim Parr the English cham pion, here last night. Los Angeles Defeated Chicago. Los Angeles, Cal., March 11. Los An geles beat the Chicago National league team in the third game of the series here by a score of 5 to 1. but the "An gels never would have gotten away Wliy We Recommend Orrine To Cure Drunkenness. In taking the agencv for Orrine. -the liquor habit cure, we thoroughly sat isfied ourselves that it was an article of genuine merit, and that the com pany, which is located In Washingttoii, D. C, deals squarely and lives ud strictly to the guarantee. "If the cure is not made the money will be re funded." Since selling Orrine numerous cases have come to our knowledge that have been cured of the horrible liquor habit by this meritorious article, which strengthens the nervous system and destroys the craving for whiskey. beer or other aicononc stimulants. Orrine is prepared In two forms. No. 1 should be given to cure the patient without his knowledge. It can be put nto coffee or food, as it is tasteless, colorless and odorless. We think that wnen tne excessive drinker is approached properly he will be willine to be cured. If he con sents, purchase Orrine No. 2, which is DUt un in Dill form, .riiner turm sens at $1 per package. Step into our store and receive full information regarding Orrine, the remedy that really cures the liquor habit. If you will write to the Orrine Company, Inc., Washing ton, D. C, they will send you free a book on "Drunkenness," in a plain paper wrapper. We have great confidence that Or rine cures the drink habit, and highly recommend it to you. Geo. W. Stans- fls-ld, druggist, 632 Kansas avenue, Topeka, I with the victory had it not been for an error by Jimmy Casey. A wild throw by the latter allowed a man, who had got to third on Kling's bad throw to second, to get home and tie the score. Then things happened in quick succes sion, and Los Angeles piled up its five runs. The trouble all happened after there were two outs, too. HOW NED HASLON FEELS. Thinks His Teara Is O. K. Doesn't Feel Friendly to Sheckard. New York, March 11. If the Brooklyn National league baseball team does not make a better showing in the coming season than It did last year Manager Ned Hanlon will not be at fault. Han Ion, looking in good health, came to town from Baltimore for the purpose of completing all arrangements for the departure of his players for their trip south, where they will be put through three weeks of the hardest kind of training. President Charley Ebbets and a reporter met Hanlon and the two of ficials had a long talk about the play ers engaged for the nine this year. "When will the players leave for the south?" asked the correspondent of Hanlon. "We leave a week from next Mon day." replied Hanlon. "How many players will you take with you?" "As many as I can get possibly 25 or 28." "Is it true that you have sold Capt. Frank Dillon to the Los Angeles (Cal) team for $1,700?" "Yes, we have let Dillon go to that club." "What about that story which comes from Lancaster, Pa., that that team is anxious to get Jimmy Sheckard, and would buy his release from you?" "I read about such a deal for Sheck ard, and in reply will say this: If Sheckard cannot play better ball than he did for me last season the Lancas ter team can have him and 1 am will ing to let him go. The ball which Sheckard played last year was nothing like that which he played in 1903. For the first two months he was hitting only .150 per cent. He played the same kind of ball that a $1,200 player would put up. "The only two good games which Sheckard played last season were the ones in which our team played the Gi ants at the Polo grounds. Sheckard got $3,000 last year, but he won't get that amount this season. I have decided to cut him down $600, and if he doesn't like the cut he knows what he can do." K. U. Making Good Showing. Lawrence, Kas., March 11. The first track team tryout of the season was held in the Kansas university gymnasium Friday afternoon. Cap tain Bailey is very confident of de feating Missouri at the indoor meet, to be held in Convention hall, March 17, for many of the records of last year's contest were broken in the trials. Seven men are trying for the high jump. Parker, of Kansas City, took first place, jumping 5 feet 3 inches with ease. If Parker continues to improve, he can break the high jump record of Kansas university. He was a member of the Central high school track team last year and jumped 5 feet 7 inches. Young and. Lapham were second and third, re spectively. Ackerman, the football player, put the shot 3 feet 1 inch." Mc Coy and Morrow are also, in good form. The highest measurement in the pole vault was 9 feet 4 inches, made by Butler. Justice, a freshman, is a close second and a hard worker for first. During the afternoon Captain Bailey took out a squad of long dis tance" men, who all finished in good time. Dr. Nalsmith gave out the state ment that "the men who made the best showing were not necessarily the ones who would be picked for the in door meet, for in the next week un foreseen incidents, which would cause a change, might happen." Hoppe's Good Work. New York, March 11. By defeating Walton Aborn in the balk-line billiard tournament at McLaughlin's academy, Frank Hoope became professional shortstop champion of Greater New York. The score was 250 to 20 5. The winner's high runs were 37 and 30, and his average 4 23-53. Aborn's high runs were 29 and 24 and his average 4. Schaefer's Hand Grows Better. Chicago, March 11. "Wizard Jake" Schaefer began practice at billiards to day and hopes to be able to play regu larly in two weeks. His hand, injured by a bad fall in Pittsburg, has mended almost completely. "I never felt better In my life," said the great player today. "They can not keep old 'Jake' down. I'm sorry that this fall made me abandon my tour. However, I expect soon to go east." McGlnnity to Join. New York. March 11. "Will loin team next week in good shape. No truth in the report that I am holding out for more money. "J. P. McGINNITY." The foregoing telegram from Joe McGinnitv. the star pitcher of the Na tional league, sets at rest an rumors of his quitting the Oiants. Racing at Frisco. San Francisco, March 11. Fifteen horses faced the barrier In the opening race at Emeryville and the winner turned uo In Toltre, an outsider. Fior ina Belle, at 60 to 1, was second. Mo gregor was another winner at long odds. Belle Reed and True Wing also took the money at good odds. Racing at New Orleans. New Orleans, March 11. Pompano, Duke of Kendall and Subtle were the beaten favorites at the Crescent City track. Track slow and lump; weather clear. Racing at City Park. New Orleans, March 11. At the City Park track only two of the seven favorites won. ine tratu, uiuukh cuii heavy in spots from the recent rains, is drying out rapidly. Tannchill Goes South. Nashville. Tenn.. March 11. Jesse Tannehill and Norwood Gibson, the crack Boston American league pitch ers have left for Macon, Ga,, to begin spring training. The Payers have been visiting Gibson's 500 acre farm near this city for the past two weeks. HaskeH Girls Defeated. T.lnooln. Neb.. March 11. The Has kell Indian girls were outmatched at basketbalTialt night by the girls of Ne braska university. The score was 39 to 16. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protrud ing Piles. Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 50c. Can't you eat. sleep or work? Bad liver? Holllster's Rocky Mountain Tea makes rich, red blood, gives strength and health. Cures when all others fa"-. No cu pay.. 85 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Drug Co. m GONFIDEnCE It Is Inspired by Resumption of Work and Labor Situation. Most Gratifying Reports From the Iron Industry. RAILWAY EARNINGS. Show Only a Slight Decline From February, 1904. They Are Handling' a Large Traffic This Month. New York, March 11. R. G. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trads says: Confidence has become general through resumption of work. Improving of spring trade and expectation that the war will soon terminate. Weather conditions are favorable in most sec tions of the country and there is little interruption because of labor contro versies. Some inconvenience was caused by the local strike and retail trade suffered temporarily but in the aggregate the commercial loss was not extensive. The most gratifying news of the week emanates from the iron and steel Industry. Commodities are in good demand. Dun's- Index number ad vancing slightly to $101,932 on March 1, against $101,042 a month previous, which indicates that the people are consuming freely. This is also shown by the large inerease in merchandise imported of late although for the last week there was a decrease of $2,964,228 compared with last year. Exports gained $2,071, 012, traffic conditions are getting better, few complaints of delay being heard and railway earnings for February wera only 4.06 pet smaller than in 1904. Hides continue firm, considering the season. Failures this week numbered 244 in the United States aganist 259 last year and 25 in Canada, against 25 a year ago. Bradstreet says: The merchandise movement In practi cally all save a portion of the south has expanded considerably. The railways have begun to come out of the conges ted troubles and are handling a large traffic. Preparations for an active building season are reflected in the market for material and the iron and steel and allied Industries report keen demand and unprecedented consump tion for this season, the only complaint being that deliveries of crude and fin ished products are not up to consum ers' needs. No diminution in the hith erto existing confidence regarding the outlook for the year's trade is visihle and aa immense turnover at profitable rates is evidently expected. Business failures in the United States for the week ending March 9. number 190 against 206 last week, 200 in the like week in 1904; 176 in 1903, 224 in 1902 and 207 in 1901. In Canada failures for the week number 40 as against 22 last week and 27 in this week a year ago. Wheat, including flour exports for the week ending March 9 are 1,25,956 bush els against 907,937 last week: 1.834.632 this week last year. 3.366,796 in 1903, and 2,906,250 in 1902. From July 1 to date the exports are 44.f0 ''02 bushels against 110,324.315 last year, 115,043,930 in 1903 and 182,643.201 in VM2. Corn exports for the week are 1,756. 706 bushels against 4.171.279 last week, 2,026,810 a year ago; 3,257,999 in 1903 and 183,414 in 1902. From July 1 to date the exports of corn are 48,229,!8 bushels against 41. 967,091 bushels in 1904; 37,750,103 in 1903 and 22,160,871 in 1902. Bank Clearings. New York.M5irch 11. The following table, compiled by Bradstreet. shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended March 9, with the per centage of increase and decrease, as com pared with the corresponding week last vm r City Clearings. New York $1.826. 7HH.M3 Inc. Dec. 85.4 11.7 26.5 41.1 4.2 3.3 31 .9 14.1 16.4 11.1 11.0 20.3 9.3 21.2 19.9 9 29.5 13.8 24.9 12.9 5.0 5.4 15. S 5 18.4 3S.1 23.3 77.1 8.4 3.0 32.2 15.4 11.7 16.9 61.9 6.9 27.5 67. 5 19.1 Chioasto 199.4Vi.247 Boston 137.567. 1 123. 416. 4W Philadelphia St. Ixmis Pittsburg San Francisco Cincinnati Baltimore Kansas City New Orleans Minneapolis Cleveland Louisville !troit Milwaukee Omaha Providence Loh Angeles Buffalo Indianapolis 69.21S.362 46.296.614 37,'lfi9) 24, 562.010 23.674. (S6 23,9-2,i5S 17.S61.641 15.83.45i 13.lTl.56i 12.128,333 10.4K2.8! 7.M4.475 10.479,875 6.P7'4irt 9.741.767 5.818,524 5,140.4ri6 6,Cl.Rl9 5.2x0,725 6.0.S5, 659 4,LJ,327 6.417,77 1,122.25 1.016.571 1,168.617 S.a.579 1,564.446 lf4 612 1.1&82 11.567.4M 11,060. 0U0 St. Paul Memphis St. Joseph Richmond Ienver Washington Fort Worth Charleston, S. C. Wilmington, Del. Wichita Wilkeeharre Davenport Little Rock Topeka Houston Qalveston Totals in TJ. S...2,7B5.2tt.47 Outside N. Y C8.514,&.f4 "From what district is Representa tive Seaupe?" "Oh, he's a congress-man-at-large." "He is, eh? Well, if there's many more investigations he'll be lucky to remain that way!" Cleve land Leader. GOOD NEWS, Many Topeka Readers Have Heard It And Fronted, lnereby. "Rood news travels fast." and the thousands of bad back sufferers in To peka are giau to icarii uwi prompt re lief is within their reach. Many a lame, weak and aching back is bad no more, thanks to Doan's Kidney Pills. Our citizens are telling the good news of their experience, with the Old Quaker Remedy. Here is an example worth reading: J. A. Brown, of 801 Morris Avo., employed at the Star Grocery Store, says: "My first attack of kidney com plaint was felt across the small of my back. I paid little attention to th dull aching pains at first, but they kept getting worse, bothering ma mostly In the morning. When work ing about the barn a sudden twlngu caught me across my loins and almost threw me to the ground. The pain was so acute that I could hardly fet to the house. Seeing Doan's Kidney Pills highly recommended I procured a box at Rowley A Snow's drug store. Before finishing it the pain in my back disappeared and there has been no recurrence." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y., sola agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's find tak no other.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDA Y EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. HE LIKESDAillLA. Why Teter Wall of Topeka Will Go Back. Has Been 31anagerof the Manila Times. TO TRY IT AGAIN. Will Again Take Charge of the Paper. Costs G7 Cents a Word for Amer ican News. Peter F. Wall, son of M. F. Wall, of Topeka, will start back to Manila next week, to resume the management of the Manila Times, the leading Efternonn daily of that city. Mr. Wall says he is going back to Manila because he feels more at home there than he does in the Vnited States. "It's a fact," says Mr. Wall, "that I know more people in Manila than I do here. I went over there In 1900 with the regulars, and took charge of the Manila Times after securing my discharge from the army i:i 1901. Myself and my partner op erated the Times under a lease until the middle of 194. when our 4ease ex pired and 1 decided to come home for a visit. Things have changed so much Peter I". Wall, Topeka Man, Who Will Times. that I don't feel as much at home here as I do in Manila, and I am about to start back. I have an option for a renewal of the lease on the Times, and expect to take charge of that paper at once." When Mr. Wall and his partner took charge of the Times in 1S(01 it was a financial wreck. There was a debt of $60,000 against the paper, which was entirely paid off by the lessees in the course of three years, besides making a good thing out of the proposition for themselves. Mr. Wall obtained his business experience with the Hall Lithographing company in Topeka. He tells some very inter esting things about the newspaper business in Manila. E2

5 3: iV- CE LI ORATED v is 1 K- Vvijiyij i I i- pm 55 k r5 TKE GENUINE HAS OUR THE HOSTETTGIR9S "We have a correspondent in San Francisco who sends us every day a twenty-word summary or the news of the world by cable. It costs us, at press rates, 67 cents a word. Some times we string out that twenty-word dispatch into three or four columns of news. We always try to tell the truth, but if we get the main facts right that is the principal thing. Peo ple forget all about what we have said by the time the daily papers come in a month or two later. We had one dispatch that cost us over $100. We had that part of the St. Louis plat form relating to the Philippines wired to us entire. "Our local news, from the city of Manila, we gather us very much as it is gathered over here, we have seven reporters, all Americans, who can speak Spanish. They get from J100 to J150 a month apiece, and they go into a good many places which a re porter over here would not like to go. For instance, smallpox and bu bonic plague are so thick sometimes that we don t think much about them As a matter of fact, bubonic plague very seldom attacks white people. It gets the cninese. we go along me streets there in Manila and see a big yellow sign with 'bubonic plague' on It without any more excitement than you would see a scarlet fever sign over here. Cholera is much more to be feared than either bubonic plague or smallpox. We don't have any yellow fever. "However. Manila is the cleanest city I ever was in, with the possible excep tion of San Francisco. It is scrupu lously clean: there is a vast amount cf money spent to keep it so. It is also a healthy city. hen I speak of the con tagious diseases, I simply do so to show what a different way we nave or look ing at such things over there. There is very little sickness among the Amer icans. We have splendid water service Return to Manila to Manager the in Manila, and a fire department which is, since its reorganization under the di rection of Chief Bonner of New York, the equal or superior of any fire de partment in the United States. We have no underground sewers; the old 'can system' is still in use. But the bonds to pay for a complete sewer system to cost several million dollars have been issued. "We have two small cylinder presses in the Times office, and all our stuff is hand composition. We have 30 native compositors who can't speak English. They set type mechanically, from type written manuscript. They don't know what they set; they merely 'follow copy' strictly. There is no such thing as hurrying one of them; if you try to FINEST FOR SICKLY GIRLS AND WOMEN IS 5 Thousands of sickly girls and women now take the Bitters in preference to all other women's remedies. They were persuaded to try it and found it far superior to all others as a Monthly Regulator and Tonio for their weak organs. They also found that it cured them of Backache, Cramps, Nervous Headaches, Dizziness, Nausea, Fainting Spells, Heartburn, Bloating, Indiges tion, Dyspepsia and Constipation One bottle will be sufficient to convince you of its value. Try it without delay and you'll be thankful for the hint. Here's proof Sirs. M. J. Odell, Odcll, W. Va.. says: "I have used your Bitters for General Weakness and Loss of Appetite with good results. I heartily endorse It." Sirs. J. C. Klein, Krnpp, Sfieh., says: "I have used jour Bitters in my family with splendid results. I can truthfully recommend it. PRIVATE STAMP OVER THE hurry them, they go right straight up in the air, and you can't get them to work at all. This makes it impossible to get in rush news right at the end of the afternoon, before the forms close. "We have a double monetary system; gold is worth double the other coinage. The fractional currency is called Conant money from the name of the man who devised the system. When you go into a store, you must look around and see whether the proprietor does business on the gold basis or on the Conant sys tem. They all have a sign up stating which. There is no Mexican, Spanish or Chinese money in circulation in Ma nila now. It is all the new United denominations are used on the coins; States coinage. The Spanish monetary centatives and pesos instead of cents and dollars. "All the capital, with the exception of the International bank, is in the hands of the British. The International bank is an American concern, but it has a British manager. The "British have been there for 20 years, and know me country. They are conservative, and until the Americans have had time to learn the ropes, we must depend on the British for our banking. But the Americans are certain to displace the British sooner or later, because the British methods are far too slow. It takes half an hour to deposit money or get a draft in a British bank. "With the exception of the Moros and a few ladrones, the islands are now at peace. The natives like the American rule and are contented. The ladrones are what we would call highwaymen over here. The only difference is that they are such cowards that they travel in big bands of fifty or a hundred, and are therefore sort of a military force. The Moros are bad ones; they are so utterly different from us in every way that it will take many years for them to submit to our laws and customs. They will have to be educated up to it gradually." Mr. Wall thinks there Is a great field in Manila for the Times. It now has 4 000 subscribers, and carries, he says, about three times as much advertising a does the State Journal. The rate is about 25 cents an inch. The subscrip tion price of the paper is $1 per month. CASES THAT ARE APPEALED. Rock Island Asks That Two Cases Be Reversed. The Rock Island railway has filed in the supreme court appeals in two dam age suits in which they had been de feated in the lower courts. One was the case of Jacob W. Dres-sel.-a man who worked for the Rock Island at Smith Center during the 1903 ice harvest. A 300-pound cake of ice fell on Dressel, and just about put him out of business. He sued for $2,000; the jury allowed him $500, and the iiock Is land has appealed from the verdict. The other damage suit was brought by William Wimmer, an SO-year-old i 1:..,..- mith pmintv. iiiail WHO uvea txi. .-vi""t. Wimmer was getting off the train at Athoi. wnen tne train uum iuuuciiij, and the jury allowed him the full amount he claimed. Lewark Reynolds, wno own a uu line at Coffeyvllle, have appealed from the verdict of the lower court, giving iHia. COl'Illti x utMiJuM i 'u wmcn sne sujsluiiicu m in... one of the busses owned by the com pany. Mrs. Parkinson says that the driver of the bus team was not doing his duty, and that it was his fault that the team ran away. Cotton Industry of India. Amonir thp cotton e-rowir.fir countries of the world our own ranks first; the second place is held by British India. Taking one year with another, India's cotton crop is about 2.000,000 bales say, one-fifth of the American cotton crop. There are about 30),i0.000 of people in India the greater number of them living in hot lowlands and needms? cotton clothes, in lfca-J tncre wasn't a cotton mill In India, At the be ginning of the fiscal year 1S8-H thcrs were 137 cotton mills, having an equipment of 3.5S9.6S1 spindles and employing 130.570 oneratives. At the end of that fiscal year there were 2i cotton mills, 5.213.344 spin dles and 1SS.271 operatives. During the fis cal vear India exported SSS,2Sl.O00 pounds of raw cotton. 252.000, (KO pounds of twist and yarn. 76,000,V vards of cotton piece goods; she imported 2.083,000,000 yards of cotton piece goods. Her yearly purchase of cotton manufactures (all kinds) from abroad is now about $!;3,5uo,000. -4- -4- KECK OF THE BOTTLE. RAILROAD NEW Charges of Jlismanagement Made Against James M. Barr. Was Formerly Third Vice Pres ident of Santa Fe. NOW WITH SEABOARD. Was Given a $100,000 Bonus to Join Seaboard. Gossip and Matters of Interest in Railway Circles. 'Charges of gross misraanageinen incompetence, or intentional injury to the properties of the fcjeabta.rd. Air Line, have been made against James M. Karr, president of the Seaboard, by the banking: firm of John L. Williams Sons, which firm has ben largely lueiitjjit'ti vvilii Liie itLnruaa in a nnan- ciai manner. James Barr was formerly third vici: president of the Santa Fe railroad. He came to the Santa Fe in 189 9 when the position of third vice president was created. He was in the service of the Santa Fe for about a year and a half and it is generally understood that he found it more convenient to leave the Santa Fe than to stay with the company for the reason that his ideas did not coincide with those of the other officers and directors. Mr. Barr went to the Seaboard as vice president and general manager under a five year contract. He was later made president. It is related that he was given a bonus of $100,000 to join the Seaboard. Recently there has been consider able dispute and much feeling ex pressed Dy the contending factions in the Seaboard in regard to the matttr of the poor showings which have ap parently been made with the property. The banking iirm of William .?c Sons has isued a pamphlet of 28 pasjes xi 1 inches, printed in small type. containing a sensational arraignment of Mr. Barr and censuring him on ac count of alleged mismanagement, dilatory and careless administration and incompetence, and characterizing him as being wholly unfit to be in charge of railways affairs. The pamphlet relates that the bank ing firm of Williams Sons and an other financial institution interested in the Seaboard, personally paid M Barr the bonus of $100,000 in order that the sum need not be taken from the amount of money to be divided among the stockholders as dividends. The pamphlet recites that the first two years of Mr. Barr's administra tion did not show satisfactory results but that they had hoped for better results the third year. The third year, it is alleged, has also proven dis appointing. The re-iew of Mr. Barr's adminis tration of the affairs of the Seaboard alleges lack of competence in hand ling the maintenance of way and maintenance of equipment matters; lack of competence exhibited in the construction of the Atlantic and Birm ingham railroad which cost the com pany four times as much to build as it cost a competing line of road to build between the same points, with the topographical aspect in favor of the Seaboard's route; and a woeful exhibit in the record of comparisons of wrecks, and persons injured under the Barr management. The 28 pages of matter compose a most severe arraignment of the methods and administration of Mr. Barr. It is being sent to all stock holders of the road and to railway of ficials in all pnrts of the country. Copies of the pamphlet hive been received by railway men in Topeka. To date nothing has been received from Mr. Barr refuting the charges. Very likely some refutation may fol low later. Up to the present time, however. Mr. Barr has hnd the best of the controversy. All efforts on the part of the hanking institution to oust him have been unsuccessful. Mr. rjipley in Kefmi-d to Mr. Morton. The Chicago Tribune prints the fol lowing letter from E. P. Ripley, presi dent of the Santa Fe railway: Editor of the Tribune Permit me to break what I had intended to be a permanent silence for the purpose of replying to an editorial in your, issue of February 12, bearing the heading "Paul Morton." I have become accustomed to false statements and unwarranted conclu sions. I have realized that Mr. Mor ton's political prominence made him the target of unjust attack and that it would probably have little effect to protest, but when a paper of the standing of the Tribune makes such comments as are contained- in the article in question I can no longer re main quiescent. First let me deny that "there is a peculiar code of ethics in railroad circles" and that "some men are per mitted to do things for their own profit or for the profit of persons closely related to them, which, if they were done in any other kind of busi ness, would bring down upon them the censure of the whole commercial world." I know of no higher standard of ethics or of honesty and fidelity to stockholders than that which exists among railroad men if there are ex ceptions they prove the rule. Mr. Morton is not an exception, as every body, knows who knows him. Tou instance three cases of alleged wrong-doing on Mr. Morton's part, viz. First The Hutchinson salt case. It is true that Mr. Morton's brothers' were interested in the salt business at Hutchinson, but that is hardly Mr. Morton's fault the arrangement made with them was not made with the Santa Fe company alone, but by all the roads entering Hutchinson, and was a benefit for all of them. It was precisely the same kind of arrange ment that was made and is still m force in hundreds of other places all over the country a fact well known at all times to the interstate com merce commission. Second The case of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. Mr. Morton did not "ruin or drive out of business the chief competitor" of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, or anybody else; it is not true that he had been for years the principal officer of that company; it is not true that he was at any time while an officer of the Santa Fe company interested in the least degree in the fortunes of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company or had anything whatever to do with its management. The rules of the com pany expressly forbid Its officers from having any personal interest in any in dustry along the line or with which thy are likely to have any sort of deal ings. Third Mr. Morton has testified before the commission in times past that he himself violated the law. For this he is to be honored because he had the frank ness and straightforwardness to admit what others concealed he was not lASfUTY ft BROfWEH X y- 1 -'5" Sr f 7 s. 's? x x 37 Jf s y Catarrh of Ear Results in leainess. I MRS DLL1A C CAMEROj. 1 B,' Catarrh of Bronchial Tubes Cured by Pe-ra-na. Mrs. Delia C. Cameron, Hart ford, la., member Daughters of America, writes "Having tried matfiy remedies for i chronic catarrh of the bronchial 1 tubes, and not receiving any ben efit, I began to think there was no help for me until I began to use 1 Peruna. "In a short time the broncliial i tubes began to be clear, I did not have that Trog in my throat' con- timially, my voice was not nearly so liusky, and the wheezing noise 1 disappeared. 'I was soon able to believe that I was entirely free from catarrh and 1 as this was several moths ajo, I do not believe that it will return. worse than others his voice has always been for plain dealing and open meth ods; if he violated the law it was be cause of the impossibility of the law itself. It is pretty well known to every body that the law was not respected for many years prior to the injunctions ob tained on the passage of the Elkins bill. Mr. Morton endeavored by his admis sion to help the commission enforce the law a fact which has been publicly ad mitted even by Mr. Commissioner Prouty, who certainly cannot be ac cused of a favorable bias. I am not defending violations of law, but there are laws on the statute books that violate all principles of equity and are contradictory in themselves, and the interstate law is one of them; it has been as well observed as the pro hibitory laws of the various states and better than the laws ot your own state in regard to the taxation of personal property, for instance, which, as is well known, is observed by practically no body. Whether or not Mr. Morton sftouid have been asked" to be secretary of the navy, and whether it was a "mis take" on the part of the president to ask him, is a matter concerning which my opinion is of no value, but I may say that it is apparently a mis take on the part of any good citizen to accept public employment in this country in a position of any promi nence. Mr. Morton as all his friends know, accepted the navy portfolio under pressure and with great reluctance Xaile Care Of If our Heart. It is the engine that forces the blood to every part of the body this blood conveys the nourishment that makes flesh, bone and muscle; it also car ries off the worn-out particles. If the heart flutters or palpi tates, it is weak, and is work ing' imperfectly, so that the body does not get this nourish ment it also fails to throw off the impurities, and they re main to poison the system. If it is irregular, skips beats, or is painful, the heart is prob ably "leaky" and the circulation poor. These conditions are dangerous. You- can make your heart well, and keep it so, with Dr. Miles' Heart Cure, which is a heart medicine and tonic that strengthens the heart nerves and muscles. "I have been a sufferer for years from nervousness and weak heart, and I have tried all the doctors in the community. They all told me that I had heart trouble, but they failed to help me. My druggist prevailed upon me to try fjr. Miles' Heart Cure, and Restorative Nervine, saying that if the first bottle did not benefit me he would return the money. Kvery dose helped me from the time I began tak ing it, and after awhile my trouble was eon entirely." BURDETTE DeKAT, Cuba, N. T. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If It fails he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind :RI DREAD CA :-RU-NA THE Hacking, Spitting, Coughing, Sneezing arc i falo, N. Y., Music association, writes: "I liad a the ear. 1 had a full, frequently noises in the "I had to the cold sensitive to Catarrh Causes Disa greeable Symptoms. Catarrh of the head gives rise to a great variety of disagreeable "I can one who has symptoms. Catarrh may invade the middle ear, causing ringing noises and dull hearing. It may invade the frontal sinuses, causing periodical headaches. It is quite apt to become fixed as nasal catarrh, destroying the sense of smell. The proverbial "frog in the throat" is caused by catarrh of the pharynx. While many remedies have been in vented to give momentary relief to some of the symptoms, there is only one remedy that brings permanent cure. This remedy, which is Peruna, is al ready known in every household in the and at great personal sacrifice. That he has made and will make a most competent and faithful official, that the cabinet has no more efficient or honorable member, and that there never was and never will be the slightest ground for aspersions on his integrity and his code of ethics, is equally true. He has nothing to be ashamed of or that he need apologize for, and, while his position has made him the target" for villincation and abuse, it also to a great extent pre vents him from defending himself. His friends, however, are not disquali fied from-protest, and hence this let ter. E. P. RIPLEY. The letter is followed by the follow ing note by the editor of the Trlbun: JCOTE "The Tribune" does not care to have a controversy at present with Mr. Ripley nor to insist upon any criticisms of the official conduct of Mr. Paul Morton, for whom, in common with most persons who know him, it entertains sentiments of high personal regard. It does seem to the editor of "The Tribune," however, that Mr. Ripley indulges in an un worthy quibble when he says: "It is not true that he (Mr. Morton) had been for years the principal officer of that (the Colorado Fuel and Iron) company." Mr. Morton was, if not "the" principal officer, "a" principal officer of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company for about five years. He was second vice president and a director of that company during the period from 1890 to 189 5, as abundantly ap pears in all tha official records. Again. Mr. Ripley sets up a man of straw for the purpose of demolishing it when he says: "It is not true that he was at any time while an officer of the Santa Fe company interested in the least de gree in the fortunes of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company." "The Tri bune" was careful not to make any statement of the kind, and Mr. Ripley has no right to imply that it did. We will not go further into the question of "the code of ethics," etc., because we do not wish here and now to en gage in an acrimonious controversy. Editor Tribune. LIMIT ALTOX APPROPRIATION". Rock Island Interests Want Expendi tures Cut Down. S. M. Felton, president of the Chi cago Alton, is in New Tork attend- Wrtrt-Hr,a- if tVi TT.'irrimaTl SVKtpm directorate for the purpose of deciding on tne appropriations lvj io.uc the coming fiscal year for the various roads of the system. Before the Rock Island Interests se cured a half interest in the Alton Mr. Harriman intended to spend about $1, 000,000 the coming year on that road. This sum probably will be consider ably reduced by the Harriman direct- r mootini. now in nrogress. The Rock Island interests are said to be opposed to tne expenunuie ui o-ny more money on the Alton than is actually necessary. The traffic showing so far this year is not so good as last, when Mr. Har riman ordered plans prepared for ex tensive improvements. WTXIi IfOT LEAVE SANTA FE. II. XT. Mudge Denies Report That He Is Going to Rock Island. Denver, March 11. H. TJ. Mudge, general manager of the Santa Fe rail way, when asked about the report that he was going to leave that road for the Rock Island, made a positive denial. There has been no authori tative talk of his leaving the Santa Fe. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kldnevs, stimulate the liver and cleanse the blood. A great tonic and muscle pro ducing remedy. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Drug Co. SR PROTECTION AH Disagreeable Symptoms of Catarrh. Mrs. W. T. Bromwell, 713 H St., N. W., Washington, D. C, writes: "Catarrh of the head had made me despondent and hopeless of ever being weu again, unui i was inaucea to try Peruna. Several bottles have made me well, i Btroog ua nappy. A cannot til anJK you enxmgn tor t"1 aiuableremedy. Miss Agnea Howard, 198 Lafayette Ave., Buf Treasurer and Critic of Tfayette i "Peruna has cured me so effectually that 1 1 want to express my appreciation of the medicine, j great deal of trouble from catarrh of was troubled with deafness at times. uncomfortable feeling in the ear, and suffered from cracking or buzzing head. earache a great deal and when exposed i I suffered much pain. I was extremely 1 loud noises. "My physician prescribed for me, and I also i tried many remedies suggested by my friends, but 1 obtained permanent relief omyarter taking I'eruna. heartily recommend the remedy to any i catarrk. land. It has been taken by over twenty millions of people. The demand for Peruna is constant ly increasing and it has become the standard for catarrh in all of the English speaking countries of the world. Pe-ru-na Contains o Xarcotics. One reason why Peruna has found permanent use in so many homes is that it contains no narcotic of any kind. Peruna is perfectly harmless. It can be used any length of time without acquiring a drug habit. Pe runa. does not produce temporary re sults. It is permanent in its effect. SPEXCEK DEXIES IT. Says That City Bills Were Xot Xeg lected in Legislature. City Attorney Spencer takes exception to a statement which Representative Bird is credited with making. Bird said that neither the city attorney of To peka, the mayor, or any of the city offi cials made any effort to secure the pas sage of new laws on the subject of pub lic utilities. Bird offered the above ex planation as his reason for not pushing such character of bills more actively. Mr. Spencer said this morning: "I notice that Bird says that I did not show any interest in the passage of bills of municipal interest. I do not ex actly know why Bird should make such a statement when it is known that I have been up there at the legislature any number of times in an attempt to secure the passage of those bills. I my self prepared and spent several days in doing so a public utilities bill and or dered it printed and sent the bill around to a number of the city attor neys over the state and to the council men. My bill did not suit Leavenworti so they introduced a bill of their own through their representative, Ohlhausen, which bill was known as the Ohlhausen bill. I prepared five bills affecting municipal affairs and had each of them printed, two of them passed, one was lost and the other two failed of passage. I have been up there a number of times and been at the legislature every time Mr. Bird has sent for me. As far as Mr. Bird is concerned, as far as I know, he has done as much as he could to wards advancing the city's interests and the bill." Mayor Bergundthal as well as Coun cilman Howe spent considerable time at the state house in endeavoring to se cure the passage of bills in which tha city was interested. In addition others of the council were present as well as a number of the city officials. In tha face of the fate that Senator Betts kill ed the repaying bill through his own efforts in a committee meeting as against the representations of the city council and that the public utilities bill drawn up by Spencer and endorsed by the city council was smothered in an effective manner through a compromise measure in the house committee of the cities of the first class, of which com mittee Bird is chairman. Bird's charges do not appear to hold good. Are You Going East? In making your arrangements for your vacation this summer it would be well to consider convenience ana saving of time. The Wabash with its own rails to St. Louis, Detroit, To ledo, Pittsburg and Buffalo is the shortest line, makes the best time, and furnishes the best accommodations. Through service to New York and Boston. Ask your local ticket agent for tickets over the Wabash; they all sell them. Biliousness is a common complaint, very annoying and often serious if the proper remedy be not administered. The secretive organs must be put in a thorough working condition. If you would lika to have a relief act as if from a charn just use ieecfiam's Pills Sold Everywhere. Eroxcs 10c. and 2SflU i

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THE TOPEKA. STATE JOUUNAIi, SATURDAY EVENIXG, MAKCH 11, 1905. CLUBS. TOPEKA. j WICHITA. LEAVENWORTH SEDAL1A. JOPLLX. SPRINGFIELD. GUTHRIE. OKLAHOMA. Mav s 0 in 11 June 26 27 2S29 Julv 6. 7. 8, 9 May 23. 26. 27, 28 May 29. 30, 31 May 4 5. 6, 7 Apr. 29, 30. May L 2 TOPFK. j K jSfva?" a Julv IS. 19. 20 June 13. 14, 15 June 16. 17, 18 July .30, 31. Aug. 1 July 27. 25. 29 TOPEKA Sept. "9.' .10, "ll Aug. 30, 31 Sept. 12, 13. 14 Aug. U. 12, -13 Aug. 8, 9, 10 Aug. 24. 24. 25 Aug. 21. 22, 23 July eT" 7 8 9 June 26. 27. 28. 29 May 29. 30, 30, 31 May 25. 26, 27, 28 Apr. 29, .30, May 1, 2 May 4. 5, 6. 7 f y -J Julv IS i! '20 July 21. 22. 23 June 16, 17. 1S June 13. 14. 15 July 27, 2S. 29 July "30. 31, Aug. 1 WICHITA Sept. 15. 16." .17 Sept. l j 13. 14 Aug. 29. 30, 31 Aug. 8. 9. 10 Aug. 11. 12, 13 Aug. 21, 22. 23 Aug. 24. 24, 25 June 9 10 .11 June V Julv 1 Ala v 19. 20. 21. 23 April 29, 30, May L 2 May 3. 4, 6, May 27, 38. 29 May 24. 25. 2S LEVVEVWOnTH J v To 11 1' 11 J ,"vl4 13 .16 July 24, 25, 26 July 27. 28, 29 July "SO, 31, Aug. 1 June 32, 13, 14. 15 Juno 16. 17, 18. 19 Jul 0.1 1-13 sept. L2. 3 Sept. 15. 16, 17 Aug. 20. 21 23 Aug. 23. 24. 25 Aug. 11. 12, 13 Aug. 8. 9, 10 irt .11 Mav 7 8 9 10 May 3. 4, 5, 6 Apr. 29, 30, May 1, 2 May 24, 25. 2fi May 27, 28, 29 EEDALIA julv u: 13, 16 3y k U. 12. 13 Ma? -ai. V 31 ."J .A-- 1 J" 19 Sept. 1. 2. 3 Aug. 26. .27, 28 Sept. 9, 10, 11 Aug. 23. 24, 2j Aug. -1, Aug. 8, 3, 10 Aug. 11, 12. l3 "June 1. 2. 3. 4 JunTs. 7. 8 May 11. 12. 13. 14 May 15 16 17 18 May 19. 20. .21. 22 June 2S. 27. 28 29 Jno SO, July 1. 2. 2 Tnpl.l- t i. m i June "0 21 "2 June 23, 24, 25 July 4. 4. 5 July 14, 1, 16 Julv 18, 19, 20 JFLIN sept t X 8 Sept. V 5 Aug 17, 18.' 19 Aug. U. 15. 16 Sept. 13, 16, 17 Sept. 12. 13. 14 Sept. 9." .10. 11 June 5. 6. 7. 8 June 1. 2. 3. -4 May 15. 3. 17. 18 May 11. 12. 13. .14 May .7. S 9 10 June 30. July 1, 2, .2 June 26. 27, 28, 29 SPRINGFIELD Aug. 5. 7 Aug. 2. 3. 4 June 23, 24, 25 June 2o. 21, 22 June 9 10 '11 July 18. 19. 20 July 14 lo .16 Sept. 4, i4. 3 Sept. 7, 8 Aug. 14. 15. 16 Aug. 17, 18, 19 Aug. 2b, 27. 28 Sept. 9, 10, 11 Sept. 12. 13. 14 May 12. 13, .14. 15 May 16. 17. 18. 19 June 1. 2. 3, 4 June 5, 6 7 S July 6 7 A8, 9 July 10. 11. 12 13 May 20, 21, 22. 23 GUTHRIE June 2, 21. 22 June 23. 24, '25 July 4, 4, 5 Aug. 5. 6. 7 July 24, 2o, 26 July 21, 22. r23 June 9 10, 11 Aug. IS, 19. 20 Aug. 15, 36, 17 Aug. 2, 3. 4 Sept. 4. '4.5 Sept. 1. 2, 3 Aug. 29, 30, ol Sept 15' 16, 17 May 16. 17, 18. 19 May 32. 13. -14. 15 June 5. 7. 8 June 1, 2,1 '4 July 30. 11. 12 13 July 6 1 8, 9 May 8 9, 10. 11 OKLAHOMA June 23. 24, .23 June 20. 21, 22 Aug. 5. 1 r July 4 .4 5 July 21 22. 23 July 24, 2a, 26 k'.w' Aug. 15. 16. 17 Aug. IS. 19. 20 Sept. 4. 4, 5 Aug. 2. 3. 4 Aug. 29, 30. 31 Sept. 1. 2, 3 Aug. 26, 27, 28 Sundays or Holidays. TO nEETMOIIDAY New State Printer Commission "Will Hold a Session. Are to Decide About New Print ing Plant. TO SELECT A SITE. Building Will Be Erected Soon as Possible. Certain to lie Near Tenth and Jackson. It la expected that the first meeting cf the commission appointed to pur chase a site for a state printery and build and equip the plant will be held next Monday. George E. Tucker of Eureka and T. B. Murdock of Wichita will come to To peka Monday and the meeting with C. 43. tJleed will then take place. These Xhxee comprise the board. Each mem er of the commission must give a $10, 000 bond. The members of the commis sion will get $5 a day for their work, and their expenses.but the total amount to be paid out in this way must not ex ceed Jl.OuO to the entire board. The first thing the commission will have to do after organizing will be to elect a site. This may take a week. The state architect must then prepare plans for the building, which will take two or three weeks. The contract for the building can not very well be let before May 15. and it will probably take lour or five months to complete the building. This will take it up to Octo ber 1. Tom McNeal's term of office be gins on July 1. 14 Is therefore considerable of a pro blem what McNeal will do between Juiy 1 and October 1. Mr. Mcls'eal said to day: I suppose some arrangement will have to be made so that the state can use the present printing plant in the interim." If anybody has a piece of land which he thinks is suitable for the location of the printing plant, now is the time to tpeak up. It must be remembered, however, that the legislature very un kindly fixed $6,000 as the amount which should be the limit on the purchase price of a site. The commission has no authority to pay more than $6,000 for the land upon which to put the plant. The bill also says: "In selecting a tile for said building, the said commissioners shall consider the advisability of the state furnishing Its own light, heat and power from Its present plant." This means that the site for the print ing plant should be as close to the pres ent heating plant at Tenth and Jackson as possible. There are four sites which fill the blii. and which are likely to be offered to the commisson. They are as fol lows 1. Four lots, comprising a tract 100 by 130 feet on which Jackson school now stands. 2. Five lots just east of the Jackson echool, comprising a tract 125 by 130 feet. 3. Three lots at the southwest cor ner, now occupied by the Baptist tab ernacle. 4. Lots adjoining the state heating plant site on the east. It is stated that the Topeka board of educatic.n, which owns the Jackson school site, is willing- to sell that prop erty for $6,000, and will make that port of an offer when the time comes. The old stone butldins now on those lots has been condemned as unsafe, find is used as a school building only In emergencies. The site is a splendid one. and one which is certain to in crease greatly in value in years to come. It is well worth $6,000, and probably there would be some who would criticise the board for accept ing that amount for it. The old stone building which stands on it is the orig inal "Washburn College." It was built In 186 5 by Harvey D. Rice and a few other pioneers and named Lincoln col lege. The name was changed subse quently and the new college building erected at the present site west of town. This would probably be the best for the printing plant that could be found, as it faces the east side of the capitol square, and is in the same block with the Santa Fe general of fices. The five lots east of Jackson school are the ones which were formerly the site of the horse car barns. They are owned by the Topeka Railway "com pany. The railway company wants $10,000 for this tract and was expect ing to sell the land to the state at that figure. The lots are good ones, but not as desirable as the Jackson school tract- The lots where the Baptist taber nacle now stands are excellent for the purpose, and could probably be pur chased for less than the Jackson y MOTHER CRAY'S f "Xl SWEET POWDERS L? FOR CHILDREN. fV A tvtunOun loiFrTerUhnnm X jTt Js. Count ipal ion. Headache. y I ftiomach Troablee, Teethlog 1 fc 1 IMsordera, ud Dcirlr.T Vnllief 6m, Worms. TbrBrfnk op t old KniwinChikl- In S4 hourm. At. liDruire-,fi, SSctfc ron' Horn. Sample isaatlM FK.-.S. AddrWB, XoiiXftj. A. S. OLMSTED. L Roy. N. Y. WESTERN ASSOCIATION SCHEDULE, SEASON 1905 school tract. There is not quite so much land in the tabernacle tract as in the school tract. This tract is owned by Chas. J. Devlin. The lots adjoining the heating plant on the east are now occupied by dwellings, and could probably be pur chased at a reasonable figure. There has been some talk of pur chasing a small amount of additional land at the east of the present heat ing plant, and remodeling the heat ing plant so that it will be a two-story building and comprise the heat, light, power and printery establishments all under one roof. This plan does not meet with favor from all the parties interested. State Printer McNeal thinks that it Would be better to have the printery a separate building. He thinks that it would be impossible to remodel the heating plant, which is at present a very handsome little building, so that it would be a thing of architectural beauty. The commission has $30,000 to spend for a building in addition to the $6,000 allowed for a site. This will build a very nice structure and it is to be hoped that the state will not spoil the present heating1 plant by piling another building on top of it. Before commencing the construc tion of the building for the printing plant, the state must advertise In the official state paper for bids. At the time fixed for the opening of bids, the commission must meet in public, and all bids must be given out for publica tion. The contract must be let to the lowest responsible bidder, with the right reserved to reject any and all bids. For the equipment of the plant, the commission is allowed to expend $32, 000. It is generally believed that an arrangement will be made by which all the equipment of the present state printing establishment will be taken over by the state, and a number of additional machines added. The in tertion is to put in a battery of lino type machines, a thing which the state printery has never possessed. CONGRESS OF MOTHERS Holds Final Session of Its Convention at "Washington. Washington, March 11. The Na tional Congress of Mothers held its final business session today, with delegates present from seventeen states. Including California and Texas. In an address Mrs. Frederick Schoff, of Philadelphia, president of the con gress, spoke of the part taken by the organization in pressing the inquiry into Senator Smoot's right to his seat. On that point she said: "The National Congress of Moth ers has taken an active part in secur ing investigation of the right of a Mormon apostle to a seat in the United States senate. Your president laid the facts before the senators, urging help in checking the growth cf polygamy and church domination in the school and in civil affairs. The election of an apostle of the Mormon hierarchy was regarded as very se rious, and the mothers' congress can not ignore conditions which degrade womanhood and wifehood and which give to children false ideas of home and marriage." ROBBED HOTEL MAN. Proprietor Has Porter and Two Chambermaids Arrested. Detective Josiah Ross this afternoon arrested two chambermaids and a col ored porter at one of the largest ho tels in the city on the charge of petty thieving. They are accused of taking clothes from boarders. The proprietor of the hotel did not want the name of his hostelry made public, nor the identity of the persons who have been robbing him, because he feared it would hurt his house. The three suspects were brought to the station and locked up. They will not be prosecuted. A temporary confine ment, the hotel keeper thinks, will show them the error of stealing. CRAWFORD MUST PAY. Special Master AVill IJe Named to Fignre St. Joseph Ilentals. In the United States district court today. Quinton Quinton, attorneys for Mary E. Quinton against L. M. Crawford of this city, pleaded before Judge Pollock for the appointment of a special master to determine the amount of rent due the plaintiff for the defendant's use of the Crawford opera house in St. Joseph, Mo. The court granted the request but did not make the appointment today. ASK FOR A RECEIVER. Hearing In Pyramids' Case Before tin? C S. Court. The hearing of the arguments before Judge Pollock of the Fnited States cir cuit court, began this afternoon to have a receiver appointed for the National Order of Pyramids, against which mem bers of the order have preferred charges of improper conduct of business. The arguments will not be completed before Monday. Robbers Secure $2,800. Stockton, Cal., March 11. The sa loon of E. Beilich Co., at Angels camp, a Calaveras mining town, was broken into last night and the safe removed to the back yard, where it was placed bottom side up. a hole made in the bottom with tools stolen from a blacksmith shop at Altaville, three miles distant, and J2,S00 in cash stolen. VOIGT AND WILSON. Recount in Second Ward Changes One Nominee. W. A. Voigt, councilman from the Second ward, majority 12 votes: W. H. Wilson, member of the board of education. Second ward, majority 10 votes. This is the result of the re count as made by the special commit tee appointed from the Republican city central committee. The recount was completed late yesterday after noon. W. A. Voijrt, Nominee for Councilman in Second Ward. As the result of the recount Voigt gains three votes, his first majority as announced being nine votes. George H. Smith lost, as the result of the recount, 11 votes, his majority ac cording to the returns from the five election boards having been in the first instance one vote. The committee will make its report to the Republican city central com mittee at the meeting of the latter body in the court house thfs evening. It is expected that the report will be adopted.- The entire number of votes cast out by the committee in the re count of the total of the Second ward was 126 75 males and 31 females. vlR. STAHL "KNOWS." Chief of Police Gives the Programme of Jointists. Chief of Police Frank Stahl has made a rather peculiar forecast as to the way in which the jointists will act during the next two months. This is what he said this morning: "From the inside ring I have obtained information that during this present month, right up to the date of the election, the joints will run wide open and make it just as hot for me as possible, so as to make the town ap pear real bad just as I go out of office. Then during the first month of the new administration the joints are to practically close up and be very quiet and peaceable, so as to make people think that the next two years are go ing to be as pure as white roses.. But the second month of Davis' term they are to be let loose. Now that is the fact of the matter. It is an agree ment among the jointists. I know what I am talking about, and you watch and see if my forecast does not come true." 1IOLLIDAY IN CHICAGO. He Is Completing Organization of Kansas Natural Gas Company. C. K. Holliday, president of the Commercial club, will return from Chicago tonight, at which place he has been busy since Wednesday morn ing putting the finishing touches on the organization of the Topeka Nat ural Gas company, of which he is to be president. Before leaving he said: "When I return I will be able to give out all the facts and figures of the matter. I shall be able then to tell the people of Topeka just what they are going to have, the prices and everything. I shall meet in Chicago several parties who are interested and the final or ganization will be made." Wer Will Go On. Washington, March 11. If an echo of peac e should come out of Pt. Petersburg no official in Washington would be more surprised than the Russian embassador whe has all along been positively in formed that nothing but victory for General Kurcpatkin can bring an end to the war. "After Liao Yang there was talk of peace. Russia's answer was reinforce ments. Iikc Liao Yang Mukden is the scene cf another retreat and again Rus sia's answer will be large reinforce ments, but of peace not a word." This was the emnhatic statement of Count Cassini. the Russian ambassador today In the light of the morning dis patches telling of the Russian retreat. The only official news he hrts received in the last few days from his govern- FINE LAUNDERING Cleaning, Dyeing. Pressing TOPEKA LAUNDRY CO. Second and Quincy Sts. Phones 153 ment regarding the operations Is con tained in a brief cablegram which came last night saying that General Ku ropatkin was retreating after days of fierce fighting. The ambassador, how ever, was acquainted several weeks ago with the final decision of the emperor that Russia would continue the war until Russian arms were victorious re gardless of the time it would require and already preparations are being made for large reinforcements to Gen. Kuropatgin. AGE LIMIT FIXED. In Employing Strikers on the New York Subway. New York. March 11. Although nearly two days have passed since the local leaders of the unions involved in the big street ralway strike were repudiated by their national officers and the strikers ordered back to work. conditions on the affected lines have not become normal. Trains were run ning today on every branch of the Interborough Rapid Transit company's system, but on reduced and in some cases irregular schedules. As has been the case from the first the subway was the least affected by the conditions. All trains were badly crowded, how ever, and much more time was con sumed in making- runs than is pro vided for in the regular schedules. Third avenue elevated trains were run ning on from 15 to 2 0 minutes head way early in the day far away from the regular schedule and the cars were much crowded. On the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines, conditions were better, but the trains moved slowly and much more infrequently than un der the regular schedule. It is prob able now that many of the former em ployes of the company who went on strike nevor will be re-employed. It has been announced that all of those taken back would have to return as in dividuals. That they had forfeited their rights of seniority by their ac tion in joining the strikers and that they would be obliged to accent a lower rate of wages than they had re ceived. Later it was said the company had decided not to take on any of th men over 4 0 years of age. If this plan is carried out it will effect hundreds of men who had been employed on the elevated for many years. SCHOOL FOR WIVES. Necessity For One Is Discovered In Chicago. Chicago, March 11. A school or at least a special room for child wives may be established by. the Chicago board of education as a result of in vestigations completed today by the compulsory education department. A search for wives of compulsory school age, made by Superintendent Bodine has disclosed the fact that more than a score of wives under the age of 14 years are living in one Italian tenenant district alone. The investigation is also said to have proved the existence of a traffic in child wives between this country and Europe. LAVSON AT IT AGAIN. He Starts a Boom in Copper In Boston Market. Boston, March 11. Trading in copper shares opened with exceptional strength on the Boston stock exchange today. Copper Range being the princi pal attraction. The movement follow ed a buoyant tendency noted for two or three days past but the boom in Copper Range was attributed to a per sonal newspaper advertisement preced ing a high mark for this stock which appeared today signed by a Boston op erator. Copper Range which opened at 77, an advance of lli from last night's closing within ten minutes had reached SO, 3.500 shares changing hands, an un usual volume of business for this mar ket in so brief an interval. BOWLERS WITHDRAW. Western League Says Neiv York Con trols the National. Seattle. Wash.. March II. The western bowling leagues which took part in the recent national competi tion at Milwaukee are expected to withdraw from the Natronal le.igue. The principal western cities ai e "lc to concur in tb withdrawal orono- sition. A meeting of the clubs, which j include Butte. Ogden. Sa!t Lake. S?n Francisco, Spokane and Seattle, is j planned to to held shortly at which I the question will be definitely settle As a reason for the breaking from the National association ..e western clubs gave the fact that th New Yorkers practically control the league's affairs and regulate it dutes j and rules. They say that if this con- dition continues all chance of getting i a national meet at a western city is lost. Is Miss Roosevelt's Cousin. San Diego, Cal.. March 11. Miss Rosmon Saltonstall, of Boston, is win ner in the final frame for the woman's goif championship. She is a cousin of Miss Alie Roosevelt. WifliOtit Result. Tefferson City. Mo., March 11. The ballot today for senator was still with out result .nd practically unchanged fiom yesterday. We wish to extend our thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown in cur time of trouble and sorrow, by the loss of wife and mother. F. P. BAKER AND CHILDREN. BITIGET HITS IT AGAIN. Deaf Mute Who Predicted Mr. Davis,' Victory. Malon Burget, the deaf mute elec tion prophet, has scored again. Two weeks, ago he brought to the State Journal office, in written form, a statement to the effect that Davis would heat "R prpim t i -j 1 That to thing about Burget which is very sat isfactory. He can't say anything wimoui puiiing ic in writing, eo there is never any question about his exact ,j Malon Burget, the Deaf Mute Election Guesser. Burget is a stauncli Democrat. He made himself famous in Topeka the first time by prophesying that Albert Parker would be elected mayor. Peo ple laughed at him; there didn t seem to be any show for Parker. After wards it waa Burget who did the laughing. There was no mistake about Burget having a "hunch" in regard to the last city ejection. He put his forecast on file at-a time when Davis didn't seem to hae much show, so there is no doubt that it was genuine, simon pure prophesy. HOLLIDAY IN COURT. Former Topeka Druggist Subpoenaed in Drug Trust Case. Indianapolis, Ind., March 11. Pur suant to a subpoena issued by the United States court, Frank E. Hoi liday, vice chairman, and Joseph E. Toms, secretary, of the National Wholesale Druggists' association, and John N. Carey, chairman of the Pro prietary Association of America, ap peared before Noble C. Butler, clerk of the United States court, today to give testimony as to the existence of the alleged combination controlling the drug business of the United States. The case is in the federal court of Philadelphia and is being brought by O. G. A. Loder, a retail druggist of that city. The amount of business controlled by the combination is placed at $400, 000,000 annually, and it is charged the methods of the trust cost the con sumers at least $40,000,000 each year. The evidence to be collected in In dianapolis will probably require a week or. ten days of examination into the books of the association. The suit is brought, under the pro vision of the Sherman anti-trust law. Damages for $100,000 are asked. The organization it is charged fixes and controls the prices of medical prepa rations and requires the local retail associations to give out periodically a schedule of prices. SUES TAYLOR GRAIN CO. A Dickinson County Farmer Thinks He Has a Grievance. Abilene. Kan., March 11. Geo. D. Greenough has filed suit against J. R. Mulvane of Topeka, the Taylor Grain company et al, to cancel and set aside a' deed to his farm. He alleges that he deeded his l;;nd to the defendants in payment for $5,000 worth of stock in the Taylor Grain company but he further nileses that the deed was ob tained by fraud and misrepresentation. !ZeiI3" Cures Colds and Li U Grip' pt::c and simple is known by Influenza, pains and soreness in the Head and Chest, Cough, Sore Throat, Gereral Prostration and Fever Dr. Humphreys' Specific "Seventy-seven" win break it up. When Grip is complicated with Rheumatism or Lumbago, then alter nate Specifics 15 and T7. If with Dyspepsia. Indigestion or Weak Stomach try Specifics 10 and 77. If with Kidney or Bladder trouble. ,i is often the case. Specifics 27 and 77- will cure vcu. For other com plications consult Dr. Humphreys' Manual at your druggists or mailed free. At drpggis'ts. 25 cents, or mailed. Humphreys' Homeo. Medicine Co., cor. William and John sts.. New York. 4 1 'l&'S? A If Mills' Store News After Seven-thirty The evenings are getting more pleasant now, so that you can come down town comfortably after supper. Therefore tonight we inaugurate our After 7:30 Special Sale for the coming Spring and Summer. Those who formed the habit last Fall of coming here every Saturday evening will remember the un usual values that we always offer at this time. For tonight we advertise just two things, yet our counters will show many others. Women's Muslin Gowns Four styles in the lot two styles with lace yokes, two styles with embroidery yokes. Only three to a customer. 35c each. Women's Corset Covers Lace and ribbon trimmed square, round or Y shaped necks. 17c SAN DOMINGO'S DEBT. It Totals a Little More Than $24, 000.000. Washington, March 11. Data com piled by Senator Morgan relating to the debt of Santo Domlrco and ne gotiations that have been had looking to their settlement, including the 31st annual report of the council of the corporation of foreign bondholders, has been printed by the senate as a public document. The document gives a history of .the foreis-n debt, begin ning with the year 1869 and continu ing to the present time. Incorporated in the document is the full text of the protocol under which the United States undertook the settlement of the claim of the San Domingo Improvement company and the text of the award of the arbitrators. The document gives the total in debtedness of Santo Domingto in the following condensed form: Foreign bonds, (less those to be de livered to the Dominican government under the protocol) $14,842,697; im provement company debt $4,500,000; general internal floating debt $1,674, 644; special internal floating debt $1, 552,900; bills of the national bank, about $1,500,000 nominal at average redemption prices, $215,000; interna tional claims $373,146; unclassified In ternal debt estimated at $1,000,000; arrears of interest under French-Belgian contract, about $475,000; arrears of installment under protocol with United States for benefit of improve ment company, $225,000. Total $24, 643,387. CAUGHT GOULD AT LAST. Columbia Sophomores Finally Succeed in Hazing Him. New York, March 11. Hazers at Col umbia university have, it is reported, finally succeeded in exercising their arts on Kinkdon Gould, son of George Gould, who caused considerable excite ment some time ago by drawing a re volver and driving off a band of sopho mores when they attempted to capture him. Six sophomores representing a secret organization of the sophomores are said to have taken young Gould by surprise as he was leaving the university. They placed him under parole until night, when he was duly hazed and the class was avenged for the manner in which he spoiled their plans to make him an unwilling guest at their dinner. Union Pacific Earnings. Earnings of the Union Pacific as shown in the statement for January exhibit an increase of 9 per cent in gross earnings and an increase of 11 per cent in net earnings. For seven months since June 30 gross earnings show an increase of $1,920,209, or 5.6 per cent, and net earnings an increase of $1,245,772, or 7 per cent. The large gain in net earnings is probably due to saving in costs of con ducting transportation. In the fiscal year 1903-04 the company's costs of conducting transportation increased only 4d,i9i, uitinjusn til ings from rail lines increased $5,- 006-856' i. 1 The recent rapid rise in the stock ha3 resulted in large conversions of bonds into stock. Up to February 10, 1905. about $30,200,000 of the $100.- nnn nno convertible bonds had been converted into common stock, about 1 500.000 having oeen conveneu since the close of the last fiscal year. It is estimated that the Union Pa ifi,. id oarnine over 13 per cent, on its common stock and convertible hnnil or about 10 per cent, on me present market price of the common. This is shown as follows: nividVmls accrued on rtnern Surplus over charges liWd-'-H limit. Securities t inv r.i 7 mi.cm total surinu, jo-u-t Less 4 per cent on pfd stock 3.9&2,li6 isrHJU $14,014,935 Ir-t paid on convertible bonds 3,4$0.OX Fruity in No. Securities and So. clmm net 7 m'.V ioM-OS i i .1.245.772 Total S26.5ZV: rr-i. iii.- in -Vorihern Securities ?nd Southern Pacific is figured on the a .a- .ont undivided earnings on the former stock and o per cent undivided on the latter. 9 90 707 ficrured in the above table is equal to over 13 per cent on tne nio,uuu,ra and convertible bonds outstanding. Fairbanks Appoints His Son. -ttr..itr. March 11. Vice Presi dent Fairbanks has appointed as his private secretary his son. Fred C. Fairbanks. He was graduated from Princeton in the class of 1903. Opened First Training School. t x Tnd March 11. Mrs. Eudora'E. Hailman, of this city, who with Flizabeth E. reaooay upneu firt kindergarten training school in the United States, is dead at Jvorth Reading, Mass. each. AMUSEMENTS. Advertised In the State Journal. THE STAR VAUDEVILLE THEATER. Ground Floor 418 Kansas Ave. Management of L F. Sleferd. Matinee at 2:30 p. m. Daily. Evening, two shows, 7:30, 9:00. Admission 10 cents to all. MARCH 12 TO 18. Leonliardt. eccentric comedy Jug gler. Wincfretl Green, wooden shoe dancer and singer. The Le Xoirs, miniature manonett the atre. Ilieliards D. Walters, illus trating "I Want My Mamma." Kinodromo Life of an American Fireman, The Extension Table, A Drama in the Air, Clarence the Cop. Falls of the B.hine, I Want My Dinner. Entire change of programme each week. Ladles' Souvenir day, Friday. Children's matinee, Saturday, 6c. HAND SAPOLIO FOR TOILET AND BATH Fingers roughened by needlework catch every stain and look hopelessly dirty. Hand Sapolio removes not only the dirt, but also the loosened, injured cuticle, and restores the fingers to their natural beauty. ALL GROCERS AND DRUGGISTS SATIN smooth skin securod using Satin Skin Cream and Satin Skirt Powder. 25c. How Does tlie liobin Know? I recently observed a robin boring for grubs in a country dooryard. It is a com mon enough sight to witness one seize an angleworm and drag it from its burrow in the turf, but I am not sure thnt I ever before saw one drill for grubs and bring the big white morsel to the surface. The robin I am speaking of had a nest of young in a maple near by, and she work ed the neighborhood very industriously for food. She would run along over the short grass r.fter the manner of robins, stopping every few feet, her form stilt and erect. Now and then she would sud denly bend her head toward the ground and "bring eye or ear for a moment to bear intently upon it. Then slic would spring to boring the turf vigorously with her bill, changing her attitude at each stroke, alert and watchful, throwing up the grass roots and little .lets of soli, stabbing deeper and deeper, growing every moment more and more excited, till finally a fat grub is seized and Drought forth. Time after time, during several days, I saw her min for grubs in this way and drag them forth. How did she know where to drill? The insect waa in every case an inch below tUe. surface. Did she hear it gnawing the roots of the grasses, or did she see a movement in the turf be neath which the grub was at work? I know not. I only know that she struck her game unerringly aacil time. Only twice did I see her malie a few thrust and then desist, as if ie had been for the moment deceived. From Outing. An Oklahoma Dank Robbery. Renfrow, Okla., March 11. Rob bers entered the Bank of Renfrow at Renfrow, Okla., at an early hour this morning, blew open the safe and es caped with $2,700 in cash. An armed posse is in pursuit- LOCAL MENTION. The Willard W. C. T. V. will meet with Mrs. Stafford on Seventeenth street, near Buchanan, on Tuesday at 3 D. m. One Way Rates. Every day from March 1st to May 15th, 1905, the Union Pacific will sell One-way Colonist tickets at the follow ing rates, from Missouri River terml anls. Council Bluffs, to Kansas City in clusive: $20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. $20.00 to Butte, Anaconda and Hel ena. $22.50 to Spokane and Wenatchee, Wash. $25.00 to Everett, Fairhaven, What com, Vancouver and Victoria, via Huntington and Spokane. $25.00 to Tacoma and Seattle, via Huntington and Spokane. $25.00 to Portland and Astoria, or Ashland. Roseburg, Eugene. Albany and Salem via Portland. $25.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Corespondlngly low rates to many other California. Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah 'and Idaho points. Through Tourist cars run every d.iv on Union Pacific between Missouri River and Pacific Coats: double berth $5.75. For full information cal! on or address nearest Union Pacific n;ent.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATTJKD AY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. 5 3 A i f je f i r tat. Is In buying food-articles, you must con sider several things Economy, Results, Easy Handling, Reliability; but the most important is Health. Health means everything. In clothes, furniture, etc., if the buyer gets a poor of imitation article, the only harm is loss of money. In buying food -articles, if imi tations are supplied, there is a loss of money, and probably an injury to health which 13 beyond price Remember these facts when buying baking powder. V 1?, AKHHO? ABSOLUTELY PURE l Women s jjClub NewsJ Emerson: What ig life but an endless flight of winged facts or events? In splend'd variety these changes come, all putting questions to the human spirit. Mrs. DeWitt C. Nellis in the Kansas Federation's Book of Quotations. The Daughters of the American Rev olution will have the honor of being the lirst Topeka club to exhibit the travel ing art gallery or the state federation ft clubs. The chapter has chosen March 27 and 2S as the dates or the ex hibition, the place not yet being decid ed. The approach of the April meeting- of the city federation, which is the n nual business meeting makes it neces sary to remind the club women of the payment of the club dues. The new del egates must be elected and the club dues paid into the city federation be fore the meeting in order that a- club be allowed representation and a vote at the meeting. Mrs. D. K. Esterley Is the hostess of the Alta Vista club at its March meet ings. The Atlantean club will have Its reg ular weekly meeting and annual elec tion officers Monday at the residence of Sirs. T. F. Garver. Mrs. II. L. Shirer. Mrs. W. C. Fisk and Mrs. C. A. McGuire will be the hostesses of the Topeka chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at a social and business meeting to morrow afternoon at the residence of the first, 1137 Fillmore street. The Art club will meet Monday with Mrs. Harrison Morgan. All members are requested to be present for elec tion of officers and other business of Importance. The Good Government club elected of ficers at its meeting at the residence of Mrs. C. IT. Guibor Thursday after noon. Mrs. Dr. Deborah Longshore was chosen president, Mrs. W. S. Lindsay, first vice president. Mrs. Levi Hawkins, second vice president, Mrs. J. D. Mc Farland secretary and Mrs. Lee Monroe treasurer. The new advisory board in cludes Mrs. P. I. Bonebrake. Mrs. W. A. Johnston and Mrs. A. H. Horton. An edjournei meeting will be held with Mrs. Guibor next Thursday when the I 1oWK eY3 I fT every ftcr." ("CjO Every Scaled Package 1 J Lowney's J I Chocolate Bonbons 1 S 's guaranteed to be in perfect I 1 g condition or money refunded. 1 1 H A guarantee slip in each pack- B I age of half-pound or more. 1 I I Tb0 1 owner Package an Full Weight I Senl fr I-oxrnry Receipt Book. I i TSi Walter M. Lowney Co., J I BOSTON, MASS. j& 1 r-i I f I the H POW1 delegates to the city and state federa tion meetings will be chosen. Miss Cole of the W. T. K. club read an interesting paper on the early settlement of To peka at this week's meeting. The West Side Reading club met Tuesday with Mrs. Wellman. The next meeting, Tuesday, March 21, will be with Mrs. John Sargent and the annual election of officers will be held. The Calidorean club will meet next Monday with Mrs. E. D. McKeever. At the meeting, of the Nautilus club Tuesday with Mrs. D. L McEachron the following officers were chosen: Mrs. J. R. Silver, president, Mrs. H. L. Whiting vice president, Mrs. Frank Dains, secre tary, Mrs. Neiswanger. corresponding secretary and Miss Emma Wallace, treaurer. The next meeting will be with Mrs. E. B. Merriam. The Portia's club's new officers chosen Thursday at a meeting with Mrs. D. C. Tiliotson are Mrs. W. B. Koby, president: Mrs. D. C. Tiliotson, vice president; Mrs. G. F. Worley, sec retary. Mrs. Roby and Mrs. S. J. Crumbine are the delegates to the city federation, and Mrs. Tiliotson and Mrs. E. J. Whittaker alternates. Mrs. James C. Allison is the delegate to the state federation and Mrs. Whittaker the alternate. The Current Literature club Is meeting this month with Mrs. William Eberly. Papers were read at Tues day's meeting by Mrs. Eberly, Mrs. J. W. Thurston and Mrs. C. E. Wardin. The Chaminade Music club will be entertained at its meeting next Friday by two associate members, Mrs. Adrian L. Greene and Mrs. E. D. McKeever at the residence of the former, 1257 Western avenue. A paper on Grieg will be read br Mrs. W. J. V. Deacon. Mrs. L. L. Goodwin has the progamme arrangements in' charge. The Reviewers' club will meet with Mrs. W. J. Lewis, 1119 Monroe street, next Thursday afternoon. All mem bers are requested to be present for election of officers and payment of club dues. The meeting of the W. T. K. club has been changed from the home of Mrs. T. N. Davis to that of Mrs. R. R Plummer, 914 Xorth Quincv street. It will occur on March 14 at the usual hour. The Ramblers' club had a verv de lightful meeting with Mrs. F. D. htevens Tuesday. Miss Nation Her- ren gave readings, and there were some piano numbers. The annual election was held and these officers chosen: Mrs. Fanny Sutherland, president: Mrs. E. D. Robertson, vice president: Mrs. Melville Metcnlf sec retary; Mrs. Dora Carr, corresponding Tucwiy, ana ivirs. M. M. Hale and Mrs. Dora Carr delegates to the city federation. The next meeting will be with Mrs. J. Howard Stuart, 513 Fill more street, in two weeks. The Junior Atlantean club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Thomas Gray Kennedy at the home of Mrs. F. Bowen, 1032 Van Buren street. The Ninde C. L. S. C. will meet Tuesday evening. March 14, with Mrs. W. S. Miller, 709 Tyler street. The programme is as follows: Music roll call, answered by current events Ten Frenchmen of the Nineteenth Century Zola," Mrs. W. S. Miller; German Town and Country Byways," Mrs. A. O. Beach; reading. Dr. West erfield. The Mistletoe club will meet here after on the second and fourth Thurs days of each month. About twanty members spent a verv delightful af ternoon yesterday with Mrs. Clara Barry. The next meeting will be March 23. at the home of Mrs. S. R Saylor, 119 North Locust street. English Boxers Kail to Arrive. New York, Match 11. Jabez White, the English light-weisrht champion, and Jem Bowker, the bantamrweight champion of the same country, who were expected to arrive in this country on the steamshii Oceanic, were not passengers on the liner. A large crowd of sporting men were on the pier to see the English fighters, hut after waiting until iv lit .r,.. senger had left the shin and neither nor niie snowea up, they walked away disappointed. White i J atata1 T moot r i w,u..a '-j oiiiiiw nuiL some time in April, while Bowker will uj re-niaicnea to ngnt Jf'rankie Neil for the bantam-weight rtiamtiininWn of the world. It is expected that the Enerlish fi e-h t Pr vi 1 1 orrfva V I v. ut.it ntuiui a week or ten days. T7 TrT? I! AirarrsjiG JOB District Judge Who Will Try Santa Fe Case. Violation of Kansas Anti Trust Laws in Question. RAISES MANY POINTS. Conspiracy With Standard Oil One of Charges. Also a Deal With the Beef Trust. Granville P. Aikman of El Dorado, Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial district, will hear one of the most important suits ever brought in a court of law in Kansas, the action against the Santa Fe railroad, asking that the charter of the company be revoked: that an in junction be issued restraining that com pany from carrying out certain agree ments entered into with other railroad companies, and asking for a receiver for the properties of the railroad company. Granville P. Aikman is 4S years old. He was born in Laurel county, Ken tucky, on December 27. 1S57, and he came to Kansas with his father in 1S71 as one of the pioneers to Butler county where he still resides. He was admit ted to the bar in Kansas in 1SS0, and I fit I I'! 'I i l ill' VfS-.u 'l 'Mill 1U' Hi Judge G. P. Aikman. or El Dorado, Pt'fore Wliom tlie Santa Fe Case Will Be Tried. he is now serving his third term as judge of the district. The Accusations. Here are the accusations against the Santa Fe which Mr. Aikman will have to pass upon: Violating the rights, privileges and franchises granted it by the state as a common carrier. Entering into an agreement with other railways, coiporations and companies to prevent competition and to regulate prices in restraint of trade. Establishing non-competitive Joint freight and passenger rates. Entering into an agreement with the Standard Oil company to regulate the price of oil in Kansas. Entering into an agreement with the big packers of Chicago and Kansas City to regulate the price and freight rates on meat. The Kelief. Here is the relief which is asked for by the plaintiff in the suit against the Santa Fe: The plaintiff prays that the charter, franchises, rights and privileges of the corporate existence of said defendant shall forthwith cease. Plaintiff prays that the defendant company be restrained from further carrying out and continuing to carry out the said monopolistic contracts. The planitiff also prays for a receiver of and for the effects of the Santa Fe and that an accounting be taken of its property and assets, and a proper dis tribution thereof made among the cred itors and persons entitled thereto. The suit filed against the company in Mr. Aikman's court at Sedan in Chautauqua county, by Charles D. Shu- kers, county attorney of Chautauqua county, recites that the Santa Fe rail road operates a railroad in Kansas and "that by virtue of the terms of the charter it is made a common. carrier of freight and passenger traffic in and through said county of Chautauqua and state of Kansas and other counties in Kansas; that, as such common carrier of freight, commodities and of passen ger traffic, it has wholly violated the rights, privileges and franchises grant ed to it by the said state of Kansas, and has abused its powers as such corpora tion not conferred by law and in viola tion of the statutes of the state of Kan sas, and of the common law of the state of Kansas." Violates Anti-Trust Lows. The plaintiff avers that in violation HE MEANS SCOTT'S Your doctor says you must take cod liver oil. Probably he means Scott's Emulsion be cause you cannot take the clear oil no one can take the clear oil who needs cod liver oil. The doctor understands that and doubtless means Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil which everybody can take because it is emulsified and prepared so that it can be very easily digested by the most sensitive stomach. Most everybody likes it. SCOTT BO W-NZ,J9 Pearl Street, Hew York. and abuBe of its said corporate powers and in the exercise of rights, privileges and franchises not conferred upon it, and 'in violation of the anti-trust laws of Kansas, the defendant company en tered into and became a party to cer tain trust agreements on or before the first day of January, lMOo. The plain tiff alleges that the agreements were made with an association of railroad officials, board of directors and stock holders of competing roads, to-wlt: The Missouri Pacific Railway Co. The Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway Co. The Kansas City Southern Railway Company. The Kansas City Belt Railway Co. The Kansas City, Fort Scott Mem phis Railway Co. The Missouri. Kansas Texas Rail way Co. The St. Louis San Francisco Rail way Co. The Union Pacific Railway Co. The Leavenworth, Kansas West ern Railway Co. The Standard Oil Co. The Union Tank Line Co. The telegraph department Of the Buckeve Pipe Line Co. The telegraph department of the Union Tank Line Co. Through and by means of an asso ciation of officers of said transporta tion companies, commonly known as the Trans-Continental Freight Bureau. The Trans-Missouri Freight Bureau. The Western Trunk Line committee. The Southwestern Traffic committee. The Western Passenger association. The Southwestern Passenger bureau. The Trans-Continental Passenger as sociation. The Armour Refrigerator line. The Armour Packing Co. Armour Co. Fruit Growers' Express. Kansas City Fruit Express. The Continental Fruit Express Boyd, Lyman Co. Kansas City Dressed Beef line. Barbarossa Refrigerator line. Tropical Ref rigerattor Express. Swift Refrigerator line. California Fruit Transportation. Continental Transportation. Libby, McNeil Libby. Morris Refrigerator line. Nelson, Morris Co. American Live Stock company, N. K. Fairbanks. George H. Hammond Co. National Car line. Anglo-American Refrigerator line. The said associations last named be ing organized for the purpose of con certed and uniform action and for establishing non-competitive joint freight rates and non-competitive pas senger rates for the said transporta tion of commodities within the state of Kansas, consisting of wheat, corn, beef, coal, coke, salt, oil. hay and live stock, the farm products and manu facturing materials in and through the state of Kansas, and absolutely non competitive passenger rates for the transportation of passengers through out the state of Kansas. The Pool of Prices. The plaintiff further avers that by means of said intercorporate action and by means of the authorized actions of the stockholders, directors and officers of said defendant companies and its allied corporate interests and its com bination with the above named asso ciations, said defendant company has thereby unlawfully entered into and is now unlawfully executing and car rying out contracts, obligations and agreements for the transportation and distribution of al! the articles of com merce and of trade and of merchandise that are used and consumed in the state of Kansas at a figure above the normal and competitive price of said commodities to the purchaser thereof, and at an enhanced and increased price over and above the normal and competitive price to the consumers thereof. That by reason of said combina tions, agreements and obligations the 'full text whereof said plaintiff is unable at this time to state more fully, the defendant is exercisinrr its franchises, rights and privileges, granted by. this state, and in violation of the law, com mon and statutory, of the state of Whereof, plaintiff prays that the character, franchises, rights and privi leges, and the corporate existence of said defendant company shall forth with cease, and determine, in compli ance with the aforesaid provisions of the general statutes of 1901; and that the cost of this proceeding be adjudged against the defendant, and that the said defendant be restrained from fur ther carrying out and continuing to carry out the said illegal and monopo listic contracts; and that a receiver of and for the property and effects of the defendant be appointed and an accounting be taken of its property and assets, and a proper distribution thereof made among: the creditors and persons entitled thereto, in compliance with sections 5144 and 5155 of the general statutes of Kansas of 1901, and the amendments thereto, and for all proper relief. Accompanying the petition the plaintiff filed a motion praying that the court compel the defendant com pany to show up Its books, and all its alleged contracts and secret agree ments, etc., with the various railroads and transportation companies named in the petition. The shortest line from Kansas City to St. Louis is the Wabash. Best trains day and night. Ask your local agent for tickets via the Wabash. A Red School House Quality is the safest guarantee under which to buy shoes. It has stood twenty years for honest footwear. The RED SCHOOL HOUSE TRADE MARK on a shoe means that it's the economical one to buy. It costs no more than any other good shoe and wears longer. The famous led School I Shoes I are sold for Boys, Girls, ,yfiii:ji;J&a Men and Women f'i WATSON-PLUMMER SHOE CO. CHICAGO j Makers of Stylish, Serviceable, Shoes -y l 1 Ak your Shoe Man for them t vA Showing iht solid interior construe rffTJ -z? Hon of Rtd School House Shoes. m "V A !X c.l r stitching 7711 ZPZT-:::J:S!! THESOLE LEATHER IMf 1 OUTS OLE X1HEEL p 1 U I Nil8 ?1 jsmn&m t P i A First Lutheran church, corner Fifth and Harrison streets. Rev. H. A. Ott pastor. Services with sermon at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning sub ject, "The Temptation of Christ." Evening subject, "The Wanderer, the first of a series of popular evening services illustrative of favorite gospel hymns. Sunday school at 8:24 a. m. Christian Endeavor service at 7 p. m. Oakland Presbyterian, Rev. S. A. Alt, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Services at 11 a. m., subject, "Th? Bible Idea of Sickness." Junior and Senior C. E. at 5:30 and 6:30 p. m.. respectively. Evening service at 7:30 o'clock, subject, "The Mortgage Fore closed." Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Central Congregational church, cor ner Huntoon and Buchanan. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. At 11 o'clock the pastor preaches the second of his sermons primarily for children. Junior Endfavor at 4 o'clock p. m., topic, "God's house and why we should honor it." Senior Endeavor consecra tion meeting and roll call at 7 o'clock. Topic, "Christ, the Great Physician." The pastor speaks to the society on the Endeavor topic at 8 o'clock. Change in service at Grace Cathedral Sunday next, and every Sunday here after. The evening service wil be held at 4:30 in the afternoon instead of 7:30 in the evening. The service will be fully choral and on Sunday next the follow ing numbers will be rendered: Magnificat by Sir John Stainer. Nunc demittis by Sir John Stainer. Contralto solo by Miss Nina Thomas "Rest in the Lord." Anthem by the choir "Come unto me." The evening service at 7:00 will be held in the chapel of Christ hospital. First Church of Christ, Scientist, cor ner of Huntoon and Polk streets. Ser vices at 11 a. m., subject: "Matter." Children's Sunday -school at 9:45 a. m. Wednesday evening meeting at 8:00 o'clock. Reading room in church edifice. open every afternoon from 1:30 to 5 o'clock, except Sunday. The Westminster Presbyterian church, corner Huntoon street and College ave nue. Ralph Ward pastor. Regular ser vices tomorrow. Sabbath school at 9:43 Plump Kernels are Kept Shriveled grains of wheat are excluded from the heavy grains full of nutri tion before -the process of manufac turing California Wheatine begins. Flaked wheat food for breakfast. All good grocers. Pacific Cereal Association Sam Frudtt ioose T a. m. morning worship at 11 o'clock; Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m.; even ing worship at 7:30 o'clock. Midweek meeting on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. First Presbyterian church, Harrison street, opposite state house. Rev. Stephen S. Estey, Ph. D., pastor. 9:4 5 a. m. Sabbath school. 11a. m., church service. Sermon by the pastor. 3 p. m. Redden chapel school, 300 East First avenue. 6:15 p. m. Senior and Intermediate C. E. meetings. 7:30 p. m. evening service. Sermon by the pastor. Midweek meeting, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. First United Brethren church, Twelfth and Quincy streets. Rev. T. D. Crites, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 10 a. m. Toung People's Christian union 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30. There will be no preaching ser vice Sunday evening. The congrega tion is requested to meet in the union Y. M. C. A. meeting at the Auditorium Sunday evening. The Society of Friends will hold ser vices Sunday, March 12, at 2 p. m. in the Baptist tabernacle, corner Tenth and Jackson street. Rev. I. Emory Pearson will conduct the services. Evangelical church, corner of Fourth and Monroe streets. Rev. P. Schuman, pastor: residence 329 Monroe street. Sunday school 9:30 a. m.. preaching 10:30 a- m., and 7:30 p. m., Toung Peo ple's alliance 6:30 p. m., prayer meet ing Wednesday, 8 p. m.. Aid society Thursday, 2 p. m. First Unitarian church, 912 Topeka avenue. Services at 11 conducted by the minister, Rev. Abram Wyman. Ser mon topic, "The Contagiousness of Health." Sunday school at 10; lesson topic, "The Lord's Prayer." Adult class at noon. Young People's Society at 5; address by Dr. C. B. Van Horn on the work of the Associated Charities. Walnut Grove M. E. church, corner Sixteenth and Harrison streets, J. K. Miller, pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Preaching by the pastor 11 a. m. Sub ject, "The Reserve Fund in God's Treasury." Epworth League service 6:30 p. m. Preaching 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. First Spiritualist church. Services Sunday evening 8 o'clock. Security hall, Seventh and Kansas avenue, Mrs. Etta S. Bledsoe, pastor; Mrs. Ineas Wagner, medium. Seats free. All. welcome. First Congregational church, Seventh and Harrison streets, Francis L. Hayes, D. D-, pastor. Services at 11 and 7:30. Morning, worship and sermon by the pastor. Evening subject, "The Suffi cient Morality." Sunday school 9:45. Christian Endeavor 6:15. Central Park Christian church, cor ner Sixteenth and Clay streets. Bible school 9:40. Preaching and Communion at 11. Junior Endeavor at 3 p. m. Sen ior Endeavor 6:15. Preaching at 7:30. Both morning and evening sermon will be delivered by Rev. R. V. Leeson. Seward Avenue Tabernacle. Sunday school at 2:15 p. m. Preaching- at 7:30 p. m. by Rev. J. -G. Maver. Special music by quartet. The First Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Harrison street and Sixth avenue, William Copeland Evans, D. T., pastor. Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m., subject, "Is Christianity Passing or Permanent," and at 7:30 p. m., subject, "Cause and Cure of Un rest." Sunday school at 9:30 a. m., J. V. Abrahams, superintendent. Jefferson street Sunday school at 3 p. m., E. W. Hughes, superintendent. Junior Ep worth League at 3 p. m. Senior and In termediate Epworth League at 6:15 p. m. Quinton Heights school house. Sun day school 3:15 p. m. Mr. Albert Reitz will sing and speak at 7:30. Subject, "Consecration." Third Presbyterian chruch, corner Branner and East Fourth streets. Sab bath school 9:45 a. m. Preaching 11 a. m. Junior Endeavor 2:30 p. m. Senior tJ-Ar.r .m r m T II H 1 Tl T 7 ?fl T ni. Men's chorus at evening service. Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. Bible study class 8:30 p. m. W. M. Cleveland, pastor. Second United Presbyterian church, Fillmore and Huntoon streets. Preaching by the pastor. Rev. John P. White, at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Morning subject, "Christ's Treatment of His Church"; evening service, Bible study of the Book of Numbers. Sab bath school at 10 a.m.; Y. P. C. U. at 6:30 p. m.; Intermediate at 6:30 p. m.; Junior at 4 p. m. First United Presbyterian church, corner Eighth and Topeka avenues; Rev. J. A. Renwick, pastor. Preach ing at 11 a. m. by the pastor. At 7:30 p. m., annual thank offering serv ice, in charge of the woman's Mis sionary society. Sabbath school, 10 a. m.; Christian Endeavor, 6:30 p.m. Midweek prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. An "echo meeting," led by Mrs. C. A. Conroe, will be held at the Young Women's Christian association Sunday afternoon at 4:15. Miss. Ada Taylor will sing. All women invited. Euclid Avenue M. E. church; J. J. Skinner, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Class meeting, 12 m.; Junior League, 2:30 p. m. Epworth League, 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30 p. m., led by Brother Anderson. Sunday will be the last service before conference. First Christian church, on Topeki avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets. Charles A. Finch. pastor. Bible school 9:45 a. m. Communion and preaching 11 a. m. Juniors 4 p. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6:15 p. m. Preach ing 7:30 p. m. Bible class Monday 7:30 p. m. Prayer and teachers' meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. Third Christian church, corner of Third and Lake streets. F. E. Mal lory, minister.. Bible school at 9:30 a. m. Lord's supper and preaching at 10:45 a. m. Junior Christian En deavor at 3 p. m. Senior Christian Endeavor at 6 p. m. Preaching at 7:30 p. m., subject, "The True Church." Second Wesleyan church, corner of Fifth and Leland streets. Services: Preaching. 11a. m., subject "The Book of First Corinthians and Its Teach ing." Preaching 7:30 p. m., subject, "The Apostolic Benediction." Bible reading 6:30 p. m., subject "Grace.' Rrinir vour Bibles. Sabbath school l'J a. m., Mrs. Bunds, superintendent. T. S. Walter, pastor. First Cumberland Presbyterian church Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.-. preaching at iinm w the rastnr: Junior C. K. at 3 p. m.: Sptiior C. E. at 6:30 p. m. presoh ing at 7:30 p. in. by Dr. Embree; Mrs. Steward will slncf at 11 a, m.; meetings will continue all next week: preacninsc each evening by various pastors of the city. Mrs. Cooper will sing. Second Church or t-nrisi. acifniist. x-t West Ninth street Services Sunday at il a. m.: subject, '-Matter;" Sunday school at 9:40 a. m. Wednesday evening testi monial meeting at 8 a. m.: reading room at same number, open every ayiernouu fmm i tr s o'clock. All Christ ian Sci ence literature on the reading table lor the use of the public. iirwinn CURED ON APPROVAL New External Remedy so Successful That the Makers Are Willing to Wait For Their Pay Until the Work is Done. SEND YOUR NAME TODAY. We want to send free to try to every rheumatic sufferer In the land, a pair of Magic Foot lrafts, the gre.it Michigan external cure for rheuma tism of every kind no matter where located or how severe. Send us your name today. The Drafts will coma prepaid by return mail. If you are satisfied with the relief they bring you. then you can send us One Dollar. If not, they cost you nothing. This n the only way we sell the Drafts. 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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. WJfcaEB! ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A Good Investment If you are, it will the Almaden Mines Stock can iu Leu is The surest way to make a satisfactory investigation of this Company is to write directly to our Office and request our Manager to state just where our property is located, of what it consists, the quality of ore, etc. When we have satisfied your inquiries, we will allow you the privilege of buying shares at Fifty Cents Per Share Seven Lode Mining Claims; a great tunnel forcing its way into the mountain to a distance of 1,000 feet; ore assaying from S70 to S100 per ton (we can pay dividends from ore running 810 per ton); an honest, progressive managment, and other things, make this Company safe and sound. We expect to be paying dividends soon, then you can't buy shares at any price. Write at once to THE Almaden Mines Co. GEO. KEIIi, President. T. W. DICKERSON, Manager. 8!9 Kansas Ave. (Room 17, upstairs) Topeka, CARR TAYLOR NAMED. He Will Be Attorney for the Railroad Commissioner. As has been expected for several days. Governor Hoch has named Carr W. Taylor, of Hutchinson, as attorney for the state board of railroad com missioners under the new railroad law. The plu.ee is one of great import ance, for upon this attorney devolves the duty of setting in motion the ma chinery to secure equitable freight rates in Kansas, and the prosecution of all complaints filed before the board unless the complainants wish to em ploy other counsel. The final decision of whether exist ing rates are unjust or not will, of course, rest with the commissioners themselves. Mr. Taylor has had some experience In "trust busting." It was he who Jirst started the litigation which re sulted recently in the decision of the United States supreme court upholding the Farrelly anti-trust law. Four years ago Mr. Taylor was county attorney of Reno county. The farmers' co-operative shipping" move ment took a strong hold down there but ran up against the grain trust. Mr. Taylor instituted proceedings against the trust, summoning E. J. iSmiley. secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers' association, as one of the wit nesses. Smiley refused to answer some of the questions put to him. and Taylor had him committed to jail by the late Judge M. P. Simpson for con tempt of court. Smiley immediately brought habeas corpus proceedings in the supreme court for his release. After Taylor had started suit against the grain trust, a similar action was started in Rush county in which Mr. Fmiley was named as one of the de fendants. That action was prosecuted trough the district court and Mr. Smiley was found guilty. That case was also appealed, and that and Tay lor's case were argued together in the state supreme court, which found against Smiley. Then an appeal was taken to Washington in the name of the Rush county case, as that was a criminal action ami could be pushed more rapidly than the other, and the decision upholding the anti-trust law lias just resulted. After- Mr. Taylor had served the customary two terms as county attor ney of Reno county he was succeeded by his law partner. J. IT. Brown, and Taylor has since been the deputy. Taylor was the boss buster leader in Reno county a year ago, and did much towards the success of the Hoch campaign. He was director of the Re publican speakers' bureau during the campaign, and was a candidate for l;:ink commissioner since. When the new railroad law was passed recently, carrying with it a $2,500 attorneyship, Taylor's boom was switched to that I lace and Governor Hoch appointed him. The law goes into effect at once, and Mr. Taylor can get busy just as quick as he likes. He can file complaints before the board alleging unjust rates, and he also prosecutes all other com plaints made before the board free of charge. This allows any citizen in the state to bring a complaint before the board without cost to the com plainant. If a shipper desires other consel, however, he can employ it. No Interclianeeable Baggajre Book. Commercial travelers seeking to se cure an interchangeable excess bne gage ticket and a reduction of one third in the rate now charged havs been turned down by the roads in the Central Passenger association. The railways plead the old excuse that they pre carrying this business at ruinous c?es already, and that to grant thi.s ""5iuest would be only another step tit the downward path toward bank ruptcy. At the same time they were bound to acknowledge that the roads In the association derive a revenue of $730,000 annually from this source. Jhe excess baggage rate is 12 per cent of the regular first class fare for each 100 pounds over the ISO pounds allowed on every ticket. It is pre sumed that the charge for hauling tri 150 pounds is figured in the price of the ticket. At the present rate it essts 37.5 cents a hundred pounds for Jjrery 100 miles on excess baggage, and the reduction asked bf the com pay you to investigate Company Developing be bought at Per 3tiare Kan. mercial travelers would make it 25 cents. The formal announcement was that nothing definite has been settled. The matter is still left technically in th hands of the committee, but it is un derstood that it is dead. NORTH TOPEKA. Leave items for this column with Klm- oau printing Co.. 912 N. Kansas avenue. Poultry wire. Pratt -Bros. T. C. Howell was in town yesterday from Silver Lake. Mrs. Denison is very critically ill at her home in Menoken. J. H. Foucht left last evening for Denver, Col., to look after business in terests. At the Baptist church tomorrow, Rev. Mr. Whitehead will preach both morn ing and evening. Mrs. Jones and Miss Gertie Cunning ham were in town yesterday from Grantville shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Conaway and family will move next week from 1124 Central ave nue to Kellam avenue, Oakland. Mrs. W. A. Cory and son, Russell, of Leavenworth, are visiting Mis. W. A. Conklin of 1031 Quincy street. The W. T. K. club will meet Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. S. Plummer, 914 Qoulncy street. At the Church of the Good Shepherd tomorrow there will be morning prayer at 11 o'clock. No evening service. Mrs. E. C. Graft, of Maple Hill, is vis iting her brother and sister, Mr. anil Mrs. O. C. Nieswender of 1032 Jackson street. Mrs. Frank Brown, of Lawrence, is the guest for a few days of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mull of 1220 Van Buren street. Mrs. J. E. Griest and children of El lis, Kan., are visiting Mrs. Griest's par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Jt T. Campbell of 831 Quincy street. Mr. Sipes, whose home is six miles northeast of town, fell down cellar the other night and bruised and cut his face severely in several places. Victor council No. 4 K. and L. of S., will give a pie social Monday evening for the members of the order only, oth er councils cordially invited. Rev. H. H. Fowler arrived last even ing from Drew Theological school, New jersey, ana leit today in company with his little daughter. Anna May Fowler, for Ottawa to visit his mother. Canon De Lou Burke, who was at Christ-hospital this week, where he went to have his tonsils removed, is again at his home, 1112 Western avenue, south. At the Congregational church tomor row, there will be Sunday school at 9:45; preaching with Communion service at 11 o'clock; Y. P. C. E. at 6:30 p. m., and preaching in the evening at 7:30. Rev. and Mrs. E. .S. Riley, of Garnett. are expected- in Topeka the first week in April to visit friends. From here they will go to Manhattan to spend a week. Rev. Mr. Riley was formerly pastor of the Baptist church here and also at Manhattan. The Woman's Missionary society of the Presbyterian church held one of the best meetings of the year with the pres ident. Mrs. J. P. Wilson, of 830 Quincy street, yesterday afternoon. It was a delight to have present with us as of old. Mrs. Samuel Jameson, who has been unable to meet with the ladies for some time. She participated in the exercises and enjoyed the occasion much as did Mrs. King, an old friend. During the afternoon the hostess served a most ap petizing luncheon. She was assisted by Mrs. Beaudry, who made herself help ful in various ways. The result of the election gave satisfaction to everyone. The officers are. Mrs. J. P. Wilson, pres ident: Mrs. J. F. Buck, vice president; Mrs. M. M. Hale, secretary; Mrs. L. C. Arnold, treasurer. The April meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. C. ii Heywood, S27 Topeka avenue. California 525.00 via Santa Fe. During March and April tickets will be sold to Los Angeles, San Francisco Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, and oth-r points in California and the Northwest Through tourist car service at. slight addiUc-"i s-st. Free chair cars all --y and only three rights out to the above points Santa Fe all the y. Write lorn Iitture free for the asking. 4-.2?ess T. L. KING C V T. A.. Topeka, NO DEPOTTIIERE. Famous Berryton Case Is Fi nally Decided. Other Cases Decided Today in Supreme Court. The Berryton depot case has run the gauntlet of the courts and it is finally determined in the court of last resort that Berryton gets no depot. The su preme court this morning handed down a decision upholding Judge Hazen's de cision in the Shawnee county district court. About a year and a half ago the peo ple around Berryton on the Missouri Pacific, southeast of Topeka, filed a complaint with the state board of rail road commissioners asking that the Missouri Pacific be compelled to re-establish an agent and station there. The company claimed BeiTyton was too close to Tevis to maintain a station profitably, but the railroad board order ed the station established. The company then brought an action before Judge Hazen to have the order annulled, and upon the trial of the case Judge Hazen held for the railroad com pany, and the railroad commissioners, backed by the complainants, appealed the case. The supreme court today af firmed the lower court. Iola Telephone Row. J. V. Crouch, of Iola, cannot compel the Iola Telephone company to give him back his telephone, oltnough it was arbitrarily taken from him after seven years of service. The supreme court was not a unit in its decision, however. as Chief Justice Johnston and Justices Cunningham and Clark A. Smith, dis sented from the other four justices. Crouch lived just outside the city lim its of Iola. but it took only 30 feet of wire to connect his house with the tel ephone company's line. He had had a telephone from the company for seven years, but after a row about the extra charges it was taken out. He brought a mandamus suit to compel the com pany to put the phone back on the ground that others outside the city lim its were so served and he was discrimi nated against. The majority of the court decided that Crouch was not in the same class as others outside the city, as they furnish ed their own poles and lines. The dis senting judges contend that a telephone company is a common carrier of news and that it cannot discriminate; that after once having served Crouch out side the city limits without objection, it could not then arbitrarily discontinue the service. The state school fund will not get the estate of John Gaynor. who died some time ago leaving a half section of good land in Butler county. Gaynor was a bachelor and died without leaving a will. He was a native of Ireland and his parents were always aliens. After his death his brothers and sisters ana other relatives claimed his estate, but the state of Kansas also claimed it un der the provision that the estates of persons who die intestate and without heirs shall go to tne state scnooi runu. The case has gone through the courts and was today decided by the supreme court against the state. The state con tended that Gaynor's relatives would have to inherit through his parents, which they could not do as the parents were aliens. W.' M. Ferguson of Wellington, who was one of the Democratic candidates for railroad commissioner last fall won a tax suit against Sumner county in the supreme court today. Ferguson in the spring of 1902 had 852 head of cattle in Beaver county. Oklahoma, and paid taxes on them there. Later he brought them over to Sumner countv and kent them during the sum mer. The Sumner county authorities insisted on taxing them there, and Ferguson was obliged to get a re straining order to keep them from do ing it. The county appealed to the supreme court but lost. If a man attempts to get on a mov ing train it is not contributory negli gence if anything happens to him, ac cording to the supreme court that is. if the train is not going too fast and he is used to that sort of thing. Two or three years ago James M. Hollowav, a traveling man, wanted to board a "Santa Fe train at Strong City. While he was waiting in the depot a freight came along on the track nearest the depot, and the passenger train came in beyond the freight. By the time the freight passed the pas senger was also just starting. Hol loway tried to get on when it was running about four miles an hour, but he slipped and was badly injured. He got judgment against the railroid company, but the company appealed, alleging contributory negligence. The supreme court holds that the passen ger train ought to have waited until after the freight passed before start ing, and it wasn't contributory negli gence for Hollowav to try to get on anyway, as long as he was used to do ing that sort of thing. The list of decisions handed down by the supreme court today is as fol lows: JOHNSTON. C. J. St. L. S. F. Railroad Co.. vs W. R. League, et al; error from Butler county. Affirmed. N. B. Brown Co.. vs The St. John Trust Co.; error from Reno county. Affirmed. Mason, J., not sitting. M. W. A. vs Rachael Heath; error from Butler county. Proceeding in error dismissed. A. T. S. F. Railway Co.. vs Jas. M. Holloway; error from Lyon county. Affirmed. Erie township, a Municipal Two. etc., vs Wm. Beamer; error from Neo sho county. Affirmed. The State of Kansas vs Phillip Mil ler; appeal from Barton county. Re versed and remanded for new trial. WM. R .SMITH. J. The Western Sash Door Co.. vs J .C. Heiman. et al; error from Leav enworth county. Affirmed. Frank V. Crouch vs J. D. Arnett, et al; error from Allen county. Affirmed. Johnson, C. J.. Cunningham, C. A., Smith, J. J., dissenting. James M. Helling et al, vs B. F. Darby; error from Pratt county. Af firmed. Sidney Walter et al. vs Missouri Pacific Railway Co.; error from Mar shall county. Affirmed. John Fraser et a!, vs Leah J. Seeley et al; error from Greenwood county. Affirmed? Board of R. R. Conimissioners of the State of Kansas vs Missouri Pacitic Railway Co.; error from Shawnee county. Affirmed. Cunningham, J., disfcrcing. CUNNINGHAM, J. L. G. Howard et al. vs Otelia R. Carter et al; error from Leavenworth county. Affirmed. C. W. Burdsal vs J. B. Shields:; er ror from Sedgwick county. Reversed and remanded for further proceedings. The Missouri and Kansas Telephone Co., vs H. C. Vandervort; error from! Sumner county. Modified by directing! the deduction of J109.75 as of the date of rendition of Judgment, and as thus modified affirmed. GREENE. J. Geo. W. Hayden vs Chas. Stewart; error from Cherokee county. Reversed and remanded for further proceedings. Board of county commissioners of Seward county vs Albert A. Sheppard, Excr., etc.; error from Seward county. Reversed and remanded for further proceedings. The Consolidated Barb Wire Co., vs W. H. Stevenson; error from Douglas county. Affirmed. State Bank -of Commerce vs W. A. Dody et al; error from Marion county. Affirmed. W. T. Dunlap etal, vs C. G. W. Railway Co. error from Wyandotte District court. Affirmed. BURCH, J. The Atchison Eastern Bridge Co. vs. Lena M. Miller, administratrix. etc.;' error from Atchison county. Reversed and remanded with -directions to enter judgment for the de fendant on the findings of fact; Greene and Clark A. Smith, JJ., con curring specially. Benjamin Hill vs. W. R. Maxwell; error from Sedgwick county. Re versed and remanded for a new trial. The Aultman Threshing and En gine Co. vs. Henry Knoll; error from Ottawa county. Affirmed. The Board of County Commission ers of Trego County vs. W. F. Cross; error from Trego county. Reversed and remanded with directions to dis miss the appeal. The Foster Lumber Co. vs. Harlan County Bank; error from Phillips county. Affirmed. The Midland Savings, etc., Co. vs. Joseph S. Soloman et al.; error from Allen county. Reversed and remand ed with directions to overrule the de murrer to the petition. E. F. Madden vs.' J. P. Riedel; error from Ellis countv. Reversed. MASON, J. C. J. Gunklevs. State of Kansas ex Tel. Maud McClure; error from Lyon county. Affirmed. E. P. Ross, partners, etc., vs. W. A Cook; error from Lyon county. Af firmed. Ned Armstead et al. vs. D. J. Jones error from Lyon county. Affirmed. J. M. Lingenfelter, sheriff, etc. et al. vs. W. M. Ferguson; error from Sumner county. Affirmed. The Kansas State Mutual Hail As sociation vs. E. C. Prather; error from Gove county. Reversed and remand ed for further proceedings. CLARK A. SMITH, J. John T. Stewart vs. Ivan D. Rogers, administrator, etc.; error from Sum ner county. Affirmed. I. D. Burdick et al. vs. Carbondale Investment Co.; error from Lyon county. Affirmed. S. L. Sullivan vs. A. O. Jahren et al.: error from Butler county. Reversed. The state of Kansas vs. Catherine Ellis et al.; error from Butler county. Affirmed. H. F. Jackman. executor, etc., vs. N. Lambertson; error from Ottawa county. Reversed and remanded with instructions to render judgment in favor of the plaintiff in error on the facts as found. PER CURIAN. Carrie Zinkeisen vs. Osro N. Lewis et al.; error from Anderson county. Proceeding in error dismissed. Walter B. Welsh vs. Samuel H, Kelsey; error from Atchison county. Affirmed. A. T. S. F. Railway Co. vs. Win. W. Ringle: error from Montgomery county. Reversed and remanded for further proceedings. The state of Kansas vs. Peter Krapff etaL: error from Russell coun ty. Affirmed. A. O. Jahren vs. Emma J. Palmer; error from Marion county. Affirmed. State of Kansas vs. Catherine Ellis et ai.; error from Butler county. Af firmed. The United Zinc Chemical Co. et al. vs. Henry Morrison error from Allen county. Proceeding in error dismissed. City of Eureka vs. John Neville; error from Greenwood county. Af firmed. C. G. W. Railway Co. vs. David Troupe, etc.: error from Wayandote county. Affirmed. Board of commissioners of Russell county vs. R. W. Sumner; error from Russell county. Affirmed. SMASHED. (Continued from First Page.) was inflicting heavy damage to the remnants of the army. "Our detachment is now trying to annihilate them." Will Push On to Harbin. Washington, March 11. With Mukden as his new base Marshal Oyama has determined to push north ward in the direction of Harbin with a large part of his army in the effort to follow up his recent victory as rapidly as possible and accomplish his one great purpose of administer ing a really crushing defeat to Gen eral Kuropatkin. This information has reached Washington from an au thoritative source and accurately sets forth the present programme of the Tokio war office. After receiving sev eral cablegrams telling of the victories of the Japanese around Mukden, Takahira, the Japanese minister, al though the host at a brilliant recep tion last night which lasted past mid night, was an early visitor at the state department today, where he had half an hour's conversation with Secretary Hay. As he was leaving tne department the minister was asked what effect, in his opinion, the battle of Mukden would have upon the ultimate issue of the war. "For us it is but a chapter in the great conflict, though a most impor tant one." the minister replied. "It is difficult for me to say how much the battle of Mukden will contribute toward peace, for overtures for peace must necessarily come from the other side." "Will vour government suggest peace in the light of Oyama's vic tory?" the minister was asked as he entered his carriage. "The initiative, I repeat, can scarce ly be looked for from Tokio," he re plied. Knssian Strength. Tokio. March 11. The general staff estimates the number of Rus sians engaged in the present battle at 300.000 infantry, 26.000 cavalry, and 1.368 guns. The infantry calculation allows for 376 battalions with an aver age of 800 men each. IT COST THEM DEARLY. Boys v.t Bsker Who Egged a Referee, Fined and Expelled. Baldwin, Kas., March 11. The four boys who es-ged the Ottawa university referee of a basketball same, as he was boarding a train here a few nights ago, have been discovered, arrested and fined. The little piece of fun cost the boys $10 each besides their prom ise to make good the clothing they spoiled. Two of the offenders were students in Baker university and the faculty has suspended them for the rest of the college year. MARKETS TODAY. Wheat Is Firm on Demand. a Fair toventg by Shorts Causes Strength in Corn. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Light Keceipts of Cattle and Prices Unchanged. Hogs quoted Five and Ten Cents Higher. Chicaaro. March 11 v w a -r standing lower prices at Liverpool the -..to.,, iiianci nere toaay was ulte firm on a fair demand from commission houses. Receipts in the northwest were quite small and this fact was a strength ening influence. The May option was ratner nervous. After opening a shade to Bc lower, at Jl.13tfil.lSii, the price ot uriitaj uroppeu to out quick- .uicu agiun to i.is; juiy opened a shade lower to gc higner, at 92'&92c. vii-tri- luuunrair z-e tne Drira sold nn tn 93o. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of 273 cars, against 336 v. i i ta. J' Cell ajo. Later the market developed extreme weakness and closed almost at the lowest l""11 oi me nay. final quotations on May were down 1!i2c. at $1.11. July was off CORN Active covering hv chnWs o,-..., ed a firm undertone in th. r-nm mari,u May opened unchanged to e higher, at 48 huge being purchaser of a line of 2,500,000 mcr uuvancing to 4Sc May closed unchanged, at 48c OATS Sentiment in the oats market was bearish. May opened a shade to He low er, at 31e to 314j31c, sold at 31o, and then reacted to 314j31o. Local receipts PROVISIONS Provisions were steady. aiay porK was up 214c, at $12.55. Lard was ?tt 8oSs 82 6'fe0' RibS W6re "P 21&5c' at HEAT Cash: No. 2 red, $1.134T1.16 No. 3 red. $1.08ftl.l3: No 2 h,rd m iftw.i 19 No. 3 hard, $1.0ogl.l0; No. 1 northemr $1.15 fa 1.16; No. 2 northern, $1.0S4j.-1.13; No. 3 CORN No. 2, 4747c; No. 3, 4646c. OATS No. 2, 31c; No. 3, 3l4e Ri'B-March, 78c: Mav, 781A-4i79e. FLAX Cash: N.-W., $1.3S; C.-W., $1.27; May, $1.27. IMOTHY-March, $3.05; April, $3.05; CLOVER March, $12.50. BARLEY Cash: 40&49c. Range of Price. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth stieet. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christy Grain and Stock Co., Kansas Citv, Mo. Chicago, March 11. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT May ...11314 113 1 11 111 113 July 92- 88 91- 91- 92- Sept 86- mi S5V4 S5- Sb- CORN May 48-48 4S 48 48 48 July 4S- 46 48H 48 4S- Sept 48- 48 48 48 48 OATS May 31 31 31 31 3V,'S July 31 31- 31 31 31- Sept 29 29 29 29 29 PORK May 12 55 12 57 12 47 12 52 12 52 July 12 70 12 7 12 67 12 67 12 67 LARD May 6 97 7 00 6 95-97 6 97 6 95 July... .7 12 7 12-15 7 10 7 12 7 10 Sept 7 5 7 25-27 7 22 7 25 7 10 RIBS Mav 6 SO 685 680 680 677 July 6 97 700 697 697 695 Sept' 7 12-15 7 15 7 12 7 12 7 10 Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 48S. Correspondent Curlsty Grain and Stock Co.. Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, March 11, Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT May 97- 97- 95 95- 9T July 81-?i 81 80 80 81 CORN May July 45Vi 45 45- 4534 45 45 45 45Vi 46-i 45 Market Gossip. Furnished by A. M. McDermott Commis sion Co., Stocks, tjrains, provisions ana Investment Securities. Room 12, Colum bian building. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat d lower: corn unchanged. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat. 21 cars; graded, 0. Corn, 474 cars; graded, 46. Oats, 256 cars; graded, 43. Chicago Lire Stock Market. Chicago, March 11. CATTLE Receipts today, 200 head. Market steady. Good to Drime steers. 5. 155.25: noor to medium. 3.75'&4.S0; stockersand feeders, $2.5it4.65; cows. $2.8O(ii4.60: he fers. K.GOfo.OO: canners $1,6042.40; bulls, $2.S0!&4.25; calves, $3.00 HOGS Receipts today. 9.000 head: esti mated Monday. 40.1'Ou head. Market steady. Mixed and butchers', $4.85(gS.10; good to cnoice heavy, $a.wat.iVz: rougn neavy, $4. 80 Ji 4. 95; light, $4.70jz5.071-; bulk of sales, $5.005.10. BHEEI' Receipts today, 2,000 neaa. Sheep strong; lambs steady. Good to choice wethers. $5.6OH6.10: fair to choice mixed, $4.705.40: western sheep, $a.oocati w; native lambs, $j.00i 1.6O; western lamps, ?6.00il7.70. t Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas Citv. Mo.. March 11. CATTLE Receipts today, 300 head. Market unchang ed. Native steers, $4.0O&5.75; southern steers, $3.5054. to: southern cows, $2.2oM.65; native cows and heifers, $2.&xu4.7o: stock ers and feeders. S3.00.4.65: bulls. S2.504iP4.10: calves, $3.0Ot6.23: western fed steers, X4.00 d.Zo: western- led cows, $2.orer4.40. HOGS Receipts todav. 3.000 head. Mar- Lket 56100 higher. Bulk of sales, J4.904io.05; heavy, $o.OOd.07Vo; packers, $4.9Oo.0d; pigs and lights. $4.15fti4.95. SHEEP Market nominally steady. Mut tons, $4.75f75.65: lambs, $G.504;7.35: range wethers, $5.43q,6.65; fed ewes, $4.75u5.35. St. Louis Live Stock. St. Louis, Mo.. March 11. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 250 head. Market steady. Beef steers, $3.25i3.tM: stockers and feed ers, $2.50414.50; cows and heifers, $2.354.35; Texas steers, $2.754J5.00; Texas cows and heifers, $2.00(53.75. HOGS Receipts today, 1.500 head. Mar ket steady. Pigs and lights, $4.75.0O: packers', So.OOfiS.la; butchers' and best heavv, $5,1545.25. SHEER Receipts today, 500 head. Market steady. Natives, $3.004Jfi.OO; lambs, $5.0O-g7.00. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, March 11 BUTTER Market steady. Creamery, 205 -24c; dairy, 184) 23c. EGGS Market easy. At mark, cases in cluded, 18:C. CHEESE Market firm. Daisies. 13fg IS'Ac; Twins, 124jl2c; Young Americas, 13fil.Tc. LIVE POULTRY Market firm. Tur keys, 13c; chickens, 12c; springs, 12c. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. March 11. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 77 cars. Quotations were steady to lower. May, 95.fi95c: Ju ly, 80c. Cash: No. 2 hard, $1.024jl.03; No. 3 hard, $1.0O4?l.O2: No. 4 hard, SOcW1.00; No. 2 red, $1.03ftl.06; No. 3 red, $1.01ml.04; No. 4 red. 9cJfi$l.CO. CORN Market lower. May, 45c; July. 45ic. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 45HC; No. 3 mixed, 454i45c; No. 2 white, 46c; No. 3 white. 45c. OATS Market steady. No. Z white, 33 33c; No. i mixed, 22c. RYE Market stead v. 7Sc S11-?',-0? tintay, ty.50g10.00; choice egg a Market higher., Fresh, 16c Grain Letter. WHEAT The wheat market this week has been a very nervous and unsettled nj' and while the market had its ups uowns, todays close ot the May op tion ShOWR a. riOTltnh l f 91 ha July and September were relatively much w eaiter than the May. they showing a de cline of 6 cents and 5 cents per bushel respectively. It looks to us as though we about hit the nail on the head when we said some three weeks ago that it was our opinion that the same people who were manipulating the May option were selling July wheat, and looking for a favorable opportunity to get out of their '""s may wneat ana ride down with tne aecune In the July which was bound t come .and which they evidently have cone. iie government renort on farm re serves which comes out today has been generally estimated at about one hundred minion Dushels, and if the estimate 1 mat much or more it will undoubtedly b considered a bie- "bear'' factor and th market undoubtedly sell oft quite sharply. loaay s market indicated that bulls or long interests anticipated bearish re port ,ana tne market broke early a cen a bushel duriner the last hour of the ses sion. The only "bull" argument of any consequence circulated this week was 1 report of the Hessian nv in some portion of Kansas Wheat belt. This stimulated the market temporarily, but as there were so many and stronger "bear"' arguments and statistics the fly wa soon lost track of and completely forgotten. Minneapolis reports large onenngs 01. wheat from the country for shipment. Diiliith's wheat stock Is 5.000.000 bushels which is an increase of 20,000 bushels for the week. Wheat and flour on ocean passage amounts to 45,632.000 bushels as compared with 39,624,000 bushels a year ago or n increase of 6,000,000 Dusneis. ATinnennnlis wheHt stocks increased 115, 000 bushels during the first three, days of tne week. Total stocks of wheat in th united States. Canada, Europe and afloat on March 1. 1905. were 175.752.000 bushels March 1. 1904 1 67.361 .000 bushels: 1903. 170, 558,000 bushels. These figures show stocks this year to De s.ow.uuo Dusneis sreaicr than in 1904, and 5,000,000 bushels greater than in 1903. May wheat closed today at i.id' per himhp Mav whpnr ciosea one .vetii n today at 94c per bushel ,or 19c per bushel below today s price. mv wheat- closed todav at 4c per bushel above the high price at which May wheat sold for In 1904. We have favored the snort side oi wneai right along and do yet. rnpw The. enrn marekt has been rath Hut a vptv stronsr- one this upeii and whll today's closing prices show a fraction declina from tne nign int YtA wdv the market is relatively stronger than at any time during the present season. ne maniu big broad one and it is our opinion that the big advance is yet to come. May corn closed today at 4o per bushel less than a year ago today. iov nrr, r,iH at FX cents oer bushel In 1IKM Or JUSt lO Cents per lunnc-i nuu. A1noin nrla nn thnl ontion. The government report will probably show between 900 and 950 million bushels or about 100 million Dusneis nioie i" last year and 100 million bushels less than in 1903. T. Tri. cn n consider that July corn declined c per bushel this week as against a 6 cent per bushel decline in Jul wl.Qo. it n-m heln vou to realize the ot-ano, nf the COm Situation. w twriria vpr trans- i i. v, i r hnsH of trade was made on Monday at which time 1 000,000 bushels of May corn cniuiKeu T 48c to 4SV2c per bushel. After the trans action had been made the seller made a proposition to cancel the trade, but the purcnaser an-unra invi...".., lieving that the corn was well worth tne UT 1 rvihl for it and that he would be unable to accumulate a line of that magnitude In smaller quantities at any thing like as low a price. The export feed- ng and general aeraiiuu thing enormous, and it our op.u, 50c per DU3nei win iw v...,- July option in the very near future If v,o,o sr.m boiiKht our advice is to add to your line. If you haven't any, our advice is to ouy -vjr' while you can do so to aaYanta, believe com offers the best possibilities for profit with less risk than anything that the market offers, at the present "n.Tiuto. I. little to be said about t 2 it th c-eneral situati rema tai T poetically unchanged. Oats will of conrs T sympathize with corn to a cer tain extSnt but as stocks are heavy and in al? Probability W.5H;""VS of present stocss i v, t,,iw next crop year we believe that the July on all hard spots, as lu V tion should be a sale. fhS government report will Probably show stocks in farmers' hands to be some thing over 300 million bushels or probably 50 to million bushels more than a year apROVISIONS-The provision market has been rather a quiet one this week and i1,?? "i, o. far? as fluctuations were v,.,o Y.e.art a narrow one. volume of business uuub, miite large and some of the large packing quite t lih.-oi buyers interests were reported as liberal buyers on all soft spots. We still favor the iong that they win oveiuunu, r chaser good money egm( future closed a year 'ago today at $13.87. May ribs closed today at $6.77 and a year aThe foHowing are the high prices at which aMy ribs and May pork sold for flVMaS aribssold at $8.i5; 1903. J10.03; 19?n me'porkold $16.67; 1903, $19.10; The Chicago stock of mess pork on the 1st of March was 7.500 barrels less than a year ago. Chicago rib stocks on March j "Bnmvmn mnnds less than a year aeo Hois today are selling at within a few cents per 100 pounds of the Vrlc? which they sold a year ago, and as both ribs and pork are selling at less. than the packers can afford to produce and deliver K for, we belve they are good, safe purchases and will make you money, and our attvice is to buy both ribs and pork for July delivery. COTTON The cotton market has not been yerv active this week, but the gen eral tendency has been upward. Foreign markets have shown considerable strength and it is also reported that Japan has been buying large quantities of coarse cotton goods at prices warranting the mills paving from 10 to 11 cents .for the raw material. While the market has fa vored the bulls for sometime it is our opinion that prices are getting pretty close to where the market should be a sale and at around 7o we favor the short rather than the long side of the market. New York Stocks. Wall St., New York, March 11. STOCKS Opening trading in stocks today was ex cited in the trunk lines, especially in the Pennsylvania group. Chesapeake and Ohio i 1.. '..irti.nth- rvn heavv realizing, run ning sales of 4.500 shares' fa"Sing hands at 6 and 55. compared with 57 labt nieht Six thousand shares of Pennsylva nia sold at 146 and 146. compared with 145 last night and 9.000 shares of Norfolk and Western sold at 86 and S6;4. com pared with 85 last night. vaC.. C and St. Louis rose 214 points. Ontario and Western lVs points and New 1 orH Central point. Among the specialties Consolidated Gas arud National Lead gained a point and Sugar ano Tennessee Coal a large fraction The Pacifies and Grangers were rather heavy and Interna tional Power broke 3 points. Excited buving of the Pennsylvania eroup of stocks continued under which Chesapeake and Ohio shot up to near its rrV level of yesterday and Norfolk and Western touched 88. Pennsylvania rose a full point. Asiae iiwu ic fhe eastern stocks the eastern stocks lag ged and showed hesitancy. Traders evi dently sold on the concentration of inter est lh -the Pennsylvania stocks. Cana dian Pacific and Corn Products fell a point under the previous close and Northwest ern m-eferred 4 points. Among the gams were cieveiana. v.. ,t ths preferred V points. North western 2points, the preferred l' points. Federal Mining 2 points and Central Rail-: road of New Jersey, Illinois Central.Pitts- I ''(Hlr'Hk-A-' J MONEY TALKS If you speculate In grain or stocks, do so with responsible brokers, wher you get fair i treatment, and where your mar- gins and profits can be obtained the minute you close your deals. I offer you the highest banking and commercial references, and J references and testimonials- of J well known people who have made a great deal of money through my advice. J t THOMAS J. MYERS, Broker. Grain, Stocks, and Bonds. Ground floor; Columbian bklg., Topeka, Kas. burg, C. C. and St. Louis, Northwestern, and Smelting 1 to 1V4 points. The southern group of railways pushed up for a time and when they fell back New York Central became very strong. The sympathetic influence of these move ments was restricted to affiliatetl stock and the general list was affected by real izing. Members of the Canadian group, Nasnville, Chattanooga and St. louis, Tennessee Coal, Smelling, the Virginia Carolina Chemical stocks and New York Dock preferred fell a point or more undwr last night, Realty second and Chesapeake and Ohio relapsed to the low point. Gains reached weie Atlantic Coast Line SVi, Louisville' and Nashville 2. Southern Railway and Texas and Pacilio 1, New York Central 2, Cleveland, C, C. and St. Louis 7., Lackawanna and Central of New Jersey 2, Lake trie and Western preferred, Wisconsin. Central preferred. Locomotive preferred. Woolen preterreo. United Railway and Investment prefer red and Paper 1 to 114 points. Beet Sugar preterred rose zs points. .Missouri faclna moved up a large traction in the late deal ings, but the closing was irregular and active. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telepliona 486. Correspondent Christy Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, ,'io.l New York, March 11. Stocks On'n Hiih Low Cl se Yes Sugar 146 145 144 H5'i 14i People's Gas 111 111 1111 111 m- Amal. Copper Sl"z 81 Wi's. 8 Sl'i a. ti. i T. C. I U. S. Steel U. S. Steel, pfd 6i 67 661. 66 92 92 91 91 92 1 S 37 36 37 3h 96 96 9is 96 6 92 92 93 92 92 "23 23 23 23 23 181 1814s 180 imp 181 35 36 35 35 35 23 23 23 23 23 47 47 46 47 46 109 110 1091 110 100 i7i in;4 170 in"' m- 16014, 162 159 161 159 3K 40 3 39 i:r-t 70 70 70 W'i 70 98 96 98 98 98 48 48 48 48 4S 134 131 134 134 135 56 57 56 5 57Vi Atchison, com C. G. W St. Paul R. I., com Wabash, com Wabas h, pfd Mo. Pacific Western Union Manhattan N. Y. Central Texas Pacifto So. Pacific Reading Erie Union Pacific C. O B. O. 111 IMS' 111 111 nV.Z 110 L. N 142 145 142Vi 134 143 Katy 66 60 60 66 6&4J Pennsylvania. 146 140 14 145 145 u. a. ueainer 1.1 1- 1.5 Is F. 1. 62 52 52 52; 52 New York Money. New York. March 1L MONEY Moner on call nominal; no loansi time loan easy; 60 and 90 days, 3S3 per cent; a months, 3i44j3 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. 3 4 4 per cent: sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.86804.8685 for demand and at $4.S47(H 4.84 for 00 day bills; posted rates, $4.5j and $4.87; commercial bills, $4.854i4.8&. SILVER Bar silver, 58c; Mexican dol lars, 45c. BONDS Government bonds steady. New York Butter. New York. March 11. BUTTER Mar ket unchanged. Sugar and Coffee In New York New York. March 11. SUGAR Raw su gar weak. Fair refining. 4c; centrifugal. y3 test, &c; molasses sugar, 4c. Itennea sugar quiet. Crushed, $6. i; powdered, $6.15; granulated, $6.05. CUFFEE Market quiet. No. 7 Rio. 7c. Cotton Market. Galveston. Tex., March 11. COTTON-- Market higher at 9 l-16c per pound. New York, .March 11. COTTON Soles today, 29 bales. Siiot cotton closed quiet. Quotations per iuo pounds: MidUline up lands, $7.90; middling gulf, $8.15. Wool Market. St. Louis, Mo., March 11. WOOL Mar ket steady. Territory and western medi ums, 22'a23c; fine medium, 194i21c: fine. 1712 18c Topeka Market. Topeka, March 11. Furnished by Charts Wolff Packing Co.l HOGS. MIXED AND. BUTCHERS' $4.454?4. HEAVY. 4.65,(7 4.70 LIGHT 4.4064.60 CORN FED CATTLE. rFurnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co.l COWS $2.W3.oO HEIFERS 2 50 y3.60 BULLS. 2.0O.&2..V) LIGHT CALVES 8.00'a4.OO HEAVY CALVES 2.50:83.00 GRAIN. Furnished by J. B. Blllard. Central Mills, 534 North Kansas Ave NO. 2 WHEAT 9a NO. 3 WHEAT Mo NO. 4 WHEAT ssc NO GRADE WHEAT 804is,,- CORN 4So NO. 2 OATS 320 NO. 3 OATS 30c FRUITS AN L VEGETABLES. Furnished by S. E. Lux, 210 Kansas Ave.J ORANGES Navels, $2.K32 25 per box LEMONS California, $2.5 per box. BANANAS S1.75&2.75 per bunch. APPLES Fancy, $4.O04i4.25 per bbl. HONEY $2.40 per 24-rack case. COCOA NUTS 65c per doz. FIGS 70c per box. GRAPE FRUIT $4.00 per box. NEW DATES 44j4c per lb. CALIFORNIA TANGEKINES-$2.5 per box. PARSNIPS 50c per bu. POTATOES Colorado, 474j4Sc per bu SWEET POTATOES $3.00 per bbl. CABBAGE $1.50 per cwt. TURNIPS hSc per bu. CARROTS 5-'c per bu. n'in'S-$1.35 per bu. CRANBERRIES -$7.75 per bbl. rEI. FRY Jumbo, S5c per bunch: T?in Ribbon. 65c per bunch. SEEJJ ruiaiux.o-r,ariy onio, 602S5o ner bu. LETTUCE Per banket, 90c. OYSTERS. NEW YORK COUNTS 45c per can NEW YORK EXTRA SELECTS 35c per can. TT STANDARDS $1.40 per gallon. EXTRA stbti.ia-M.to per gallon. FULL CREAM CHEESE. KANSAS Y. A. I4c per lb. NEW YORK STATE (White), 15o per lb. BRICK 15c per lb. LIMBL'ROER- 15c per lb. BLOCK SWISS lSc per lb. BUTTER, EGGS. POULTRY. (Jobbers' Prices.) Furnished by Cope Co., 134 Kansas -Avenue. POULTRY Hens. Sc lb.; springs. Hrge, 8c lb.; broilers, 12c lb.; turkeys, goblers, 12c lb.: hens, -15c lb. EGGS Fresh, lie. COUNTRY BUTTER 1SS20C per lb. HAY. Furnished by City Hay Market, 417 Quin cy street. PRAIRIE Loose, per ton $7,004?) g 00 PRAIRIE Baled 7.5'Xa 8.0) ALFALFA Loose 9.004x11 06 TIMOTHY S.Wcii s.fio CANE 5.504i 6.fi0 STRAW Per ton 4.5044 5.50 Tope'ia Hide Market. Topeka, March 11. Prices paid In Topeka this week, based on Boston quotations: GREEN SALT CURED 94

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAIr, SATURDAY EVENING, MAEC2H 11, 190i 7 nnnnnn?-? U hi !NM: I. 1 sj J Li wJ P3 h n i i i M.I Li U W ith A COMPLETE I am proving- that my PAW-PAW and my Inhaler positively cures catarrh. No matter how chronic or how long standing: or how manv doctors have failed to CURE; I know that I have the moat ra tional and positive cure that has ever been found. I know that my Paw-Paw will not onlv cure Indigestion and CA TARRH of the stomach, but that it will positively eradicate every particle of ca tarrhal poison from the blood. I make thin tntement on the testimony of thou sands it has cured. Its vitalizing forcesi lmmc-diatelv build tip the wnoie nervousy system. It digests almost everything that It touches. You cant oe aesponaem, you can't have dyspepsia, you can't be nervous, vera can't have Insomnia if you will take Paw-Paw. but there are certain forms of Catarrh, such as CATARRH of the nose, head and throat, that positively must have local treatment. Nothing that has ever been discovered Is doing so much for the cure of Catarrhal: deafness as this treatment. It allays the Inflammation of the Eustachian tubers, so that tiie swollen and inflamed mem brane is reduced and the hearing is grad ually but positively restored. To make my catarrh treatment com plete in every respect, 1 am giving away mv $1.3 inhaler, also a package of Paw Paw pills and a package of Catarrh Tab lets, absolutely free with each bottle of Paw-Paw. I want people to take my Paw-Paw at least four times a day: use the inhaler as often as convenient, and be sure and take a Paw-Paw pill every night on re tiring and to snuff or inject into the nos trils the solution made trom the Catarrh Tablets. I know this treatment will cure Catarrh. I know it will cure indigestion. I know it will cure nervousness. 1 know it will build tip the general system. If your druggist can not furnish the complete treatment, send me one dollar and I will send it by express, all charges prepaid. MUNYON, Philadelphia, Pa. GOOD ME- WJXIj STAY. Administration Slakes an Announce ment Regarding OffieehoUlers. Washington. March 11. A genera, policy as to federal appointments was determined upon by the president and his cabinet at their semi-weekly meet ing. At the conclusion of the meeting It was announced that, for the present at least, the uniform policy would be to retain incumbents in office during satisfactory service. This policy will hold, it was stated further, entirely ir respective of the length of service of the incumbent. The policy announced is to apply gen erally to all departments of the govern ment. It is in precise line with the de termination reached and announced some time ago regarding postmasters. That announcement was that the case of each postmaster would be determined on its merits and it would make no dif ference necessarily whether the incum bent had served one or two or more terms. In line with the general policy of civil appointments Secretary Taft said it also had been determined not to appoint as brigadier generals on the active list army officers who had served forty years including service in the civil war. These officers are not eligible to retire ment as brigadier generals and it is not the purpose of the administration to make them brigadier generals on the active list. The secretary said there were approximately 40 such officers, all of whom would be permitted to retire as brigadier generals or to continue in their present grade at their option. The adoption of this policy will open the way for the appointment as brigadier generals of many younger officers than heretofore have held that grade. Postmaster General Cortelyou said after the meeting that although a decis ion had been reached as to the appoint ment of a fourth assistant postmaster general he was not ready yet to make the announcement. He indicated that probably in a few days' he would an nounce the appointment of both the fourth assistant and the acting chair man of the Republican national com mittee. Gives Health, Vigor antl Tone. Herbine is a boon for sufferers from aneamia. By its use the blood is quick ly regenerated and the color becomes nor mal. The drooping strength is revived. The languor is diminished. Health, vigor find tone predominate. New life and hap pv activitv results. Mrs. Belle H. Shirel, Middlesbofough. Ill-, writes: "I have been troubled with liver complaint and poor blood and have found nothing to benefit me like Herbine. I hope never to be with out it. I have wished that I had known Of it in my husband's lifetime." 5Cc. Sold by Rowley Snow and W. S. Miller. Low Kate to California. Tou cart go to California any day between now and May 15 for $25, a little more than half fare one way. Travel comfortably in tourist Pull man or chair car. Santa Fe all the way. An unusual opportunity to Inspect California farm lands. Ask T. I King, ticket agent, A. T. A S. F. Ry., Topeka, Kansas. f""""l r 1 3 LL jt"Aik. JbL however, by the use of Mother's Friend before baby comes, as this great liniment always prepares the body for the strain upon it, and preserves the symmetry of her form. Mother' Friend overcomes all the danger of child-birth, and carries the expectant mother safely through this critical period without pain. It is woman's greatest blessing. Thousands gratefully tell of the benefit and relief derived from tha use of this wondertul remedy. Sold by all druggists at i. co per bottle. Our little book, telling all about this liniment, will be sent free. Ha Ens?-!. Essslitsr C8 Al'nts, Cs. UUulUJ 11 nnnn n n TJ3 "I11 I, 3 J Myt-Jiyyiii

Also a Package of Catarrh Tab lets and a Package of Paw Paw Pills Given Absolutely Free! CURE FOR M$ If li I 1. 15 The Inhaler reaches the sore spots, heals the raw places and goes right to the seat .of the disease. It sends clouds of med cation to the air pas sages that are In flamed It washes them, it soothes them and puts them in a healthy condition. HORSE NOTES. Geers once more has King Direct, 2:05 Vi. Pittsburg parties have secured TJna dilla Chief, 2:21 4. The famous old Belle Hamlin, 2:12, is now owned by William Hamlin, of Buffalo. It is announced that Budd Doble has finally decided not to race Kinney Lou this year. Conduct, 2:20, recently reduced the five-mile ice record of Canada to 12:30 Vi at Ottawa, It is intended to train the blind stallion New Richmond, 2:07Vi, for a lower record this year. The Golt horse show, the leading affair of the kind in Canada, this year will be held June 1 to 3. Dorothy Dale, by Quartermaster, has been sent to E. L. Davis, Columbia, S. C to be shaped up for racing. Trainer Hopkins, of Detroit, will race Major Woodland, 2:19V4. by Woodland Boy, through the grand circuit. G. W. Goodrich. Rutland, Vt., has purchased the pacing mare Lady Pat ten, trial 2:10, by Baron Posey, paying $2,600. H. F. Wolfersburger, of Waynes boro, has purchased Raven B., 2:19 Vi. from John A. Bollman, of Lebanon. Joe Leiter, of Chicago, has leased the young stallion Sandy McWhorter, by Will Davis, 2:17Vi, dam Alcemai, by Alcyone. John Van Tassell, of Hudson, N. Y., has 'leased the driving park at that place and will run a trotting meeting in June. The promising Erie, Pa., pacers Harry Sultan. 2: 14 Vi, and Beware, 2:23V4, will be trained and raced by Edward Duvall this year. The 2:10 trotter Jim Kenton, 2:15. by Henry F., purchased from David Shaw, of Pittsburg, by Thomas Mur phy, will be raced this season. The trotter George M., by Baron Star, will probably be nominated in the Detroit $10,000 M. M. stake this year. He is owned by Reading horse men. Tom Arnold, the New England trot ter, has been showing a clean pair of heels to all the horses at Concord, X. H-, in the snow races. Kinney Lou. 2:07, the fastest en tire son of McKinney, 2:llVi, will not be raced this year, as was announced recently. He is now in California un der the charge of the veteran driver Budd Doble, and occupies a stall next to Lou Dillon. He may be raced in 1906. Strikes Hidden Kocks. When your ship of health strikes the hidden rocks of consumption, pneumonia, etc., you are lost if you don't get help from Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption. J. W. McKinnon of Talladega Springs, Ala., writes: "I had been very ill with pneumonia, under the care of two doctors, but was getting no better, when I began to take Dr. King's New Discov ery. The first dose gave relief, and one bottle cured me." Sure cure for sore throat, bronchitis, coughs and colds. Guar anteed at Arnold Drug Co., 821 North Kansas avenue. Price 50e and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Every woman covets a shapely, pretty figure, and many of them deplore the loss of their girlish forms after marriage. -The bearing of children is often destructive to the mother's shapeliness. All of this can bo avoided. n SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Spring lettuce is on the market. A few farmers have sown oats and speltz. Many of the country schools close the term in five weeks. E. B. H. Remley was in Kansas City on business yesterday. Gen. J. W. F. Hughes is confined to his home with a cold. f Graphophone concerts are being given at the country school houses. The Kansas City Schmelzers will play the Saints in Topeka on April 9. The two snow storms of Friday may have been the clearing up storms. The Continental Creamery company will install a skimming station at Rich land. Now is the time to make your garden patch for early lettuce and radishes. General Manager H. T7. Mudge, of the Santa Fe. will return home tomorrow or Monday. Baseball practice is now part of the regular afternoon programme at Washburn. Do you remember which way the ground hog made his prediction on February 2? The annual encampment of the Kan sas G. A. R. will commence at Par sons, May 22. The flower beds in the state house grounds are being made. Tulips will soon be in bloom. D. D. McDowell has procured a build ing permit to erect a two story frame dwelling at 1265 Garfield. Lumber is higher this spring than ever. It is about time for somebody to investigate the lumber trust. Speaker W. R. Stubbs and his fam ily will be in Topeka for some days. Mr. Stubbs is looking after political matters. Dr. C. B. Van Horn will give an address Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at Unity church on "The Work of Asso ciated Charities." The following birth report has been handed in to the office of, the city physician: Charles Crawford, 1024 Chase street, girl. Street sprinklers and street sweepers were brought from their winter storage places on Friday night and set to work on Kansas avenue. Monday night Noami Rebecca lodge will give a social and a farce entitled "Wanted a Housekeeper." at Odd Fel lows' hall, 521 Quincy street. Judge J. T. Clark filed a deed yes terday giving the property on lot 28 7, on Topeka avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets, to the Y. W- C. A., after his death. The Democrats are planning to make a big fight in the coming city election. They are expecting to elect a city attorney, police judge, one or two councilmen and possibly a mayor. L. H. Seaver, of Ellsworth county, a member of the house of representa tives, who has been seriously ill at his room in the Copeland for the past ton days, is now able to return home. He has been under the care of Dr. Berry. E. W. Walker of St. George, Wa baunsee county, has been commissioned a notary public by Governor Hoch. Walker was first commissioned in 1869, and when this commission expires he will have been a notary for 40 years continuously. The Electrical Dry Cleaning Co., from Boston, have established a place of business at 113 West 10th, with all new machinery. Gentleman's suit cleaned and pressed for $1, ladies' skirt 50 cents, Waist 50 cents. These prices are good for two weeks only. Fred Vandegrift has a kick. He says that the thermometer which hung in representative hall is recog nized by statute as his property at the end of each session of the legislature. Somebody else got the thermometer this year. The session of the legislature Just closed enacted 54S new lawa. The session two years ago put 57 new laws on the books. At each session there was an "omnibus" vacation bill, combining over 100 local bills for the vacation of streets or additions. Robert Frantz, of the Louisville American association team, was in Topeka on Friday. He has seen Quigley, the new shortstop signed by Topeka, play in eastern teams, and declares that he will be by long odds the best shortstop in the Western asso ciation. A number of building permits calling for additions were issued today from the office of the fire marshal. Addi tion costing $290, 304 Branner street, George Furman; addition to residence, cost $300, lots 88, 90 Clay street, J. H. McCleskey; addition, cost $125, 626 Lime street, John M. Baumgartner; barn by same, cost $125: addition to residence, cost $600, 704 Jefferson street. Wm. C. Sherman. The annual meeting of the Kansas Authors' club is called for Monday evening, March 13. at the residence of Col. J. C. Smith, 421 Topeka avenue, Topeka, An entertaining program is prepared, in which poems, papers and short talks are to be rendered by Mrs. Atchison, Mrs. Garvey, Miss Eliz R. Barr, Dr. J. E. Morrison, and others. An election of officers for the ensuing year is also to be held. This evening the seniors at Wash burn college will give their play, "A Modern Rip Van Winkle." Indica tions are that the crowd will be a record breaker. The play was writ ten by members of the class, and is sort of a take off on some of the events in the history of the college. It starts In with a scene 20 years ago, and in volves a number of the old time pro fessors at the college. The Saints will wear blue and white uniforms this year. The uniforms are to be blue and the caps white. The stockings are to be blue with a large white band midway between knee and ankle. The suits will have white trimmings at the cuff and about the collar and pockets. It is probable that Instead of spelling out the word Topeka across the breast the letter "T" will be placed on one side of the shirt. It is reported that there is a gang of boys in Potwin whose special delight is tormenting dumb animals. It is told that on one occasion they chloroformed a cat, took its eyes out and painted them in order to see how the cat acted when it "came to;" that another favor ite occupation is to cut open live chick ens' breasts and impale sparrows on knife blades to watch them die. If these reports are true there seems to be work for a humane officer In that lo cality. The Emporia Gazette gives the fol lowing observations under the heading of "True Devotion": There are several Emporia couples who hold good rec ords for being devoted. but William Jefferson who appeared here Tuesday night in "The Rivals," makes a better showing than any of the Emporia lov ers, married or single. After playing here, at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morn ing he left for Kansas City, -where his wife, Christy McDonald, is playing a leading role in the "Sho Gun," George Ade's comic opera. He returned to To peka the next day. where his company appeared and then made another trip to Kansas City. "The Rivals" appeared at Leavenworth yesterday and will be at Atchison tonight, and Jefferson is still making his trips. It is said that Jefferson writes his wife four letters a Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert McClurg, Who Will Give Their Lec ture, "Panoramic Colorado, at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. Monday Evening. R 'VV V."" f "si On Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert McClurg of Colorado Springs will present their stereopticon lecture, "Panoramic Colorado" its pre-Columbian past and romantic development at the- Railroad Y. M. C. A., Topeka, at 8 o'clock. This entertaining lecture on the "Switzerland of America" is illus trated with two hundred colored lant ern projections. Mr. and Mrs. Mc Clurg have appeared before the senate, diplomatic and official world of Washington; leading universities, institutes and lyceums, throughout the United States and have been com mended by the metropolitan press. Mrs. McClurg, decorated by the French government, for her archae ological studies, is regent of the Colo rado Cliff Dwelling association and is a well known explorer, lecturer, poet, and club woman, recognized as an au thority on the pre-historic life in the southwest. Mrs. McClurg will tell the story of the Cliff Dwellers and the people of the Pueblos; of their stone ruins built centuries before Columbus: their serpent and sun worship; occu pations and arts. Mrs. McClurg has contributed sonnets to the Century. Cosmopolitan, and Review of Review and, according to the Boston Woman's day, and one day she received 19. Be sides this she usually gets a long dis tance telephone message from him. And they have been married three years. Assistant State Auditor Jas. Nation put in Friday evening at his office registering the new Topeka water works bonds. There were $350,000 worth of them, in denominations of $1,000 each. Rev. T. C. Crites will address the City Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on the subject, "The Young Man as a Home Maker." Mr. A. S. Reitz will sing a solo in the musical program. Since Herman Crow took charge of the Topeka Athletic association he has held a revival which has increased the membership caused such paper ing, cleaning and painting that the old members are beginning to refer to the place as "their club." Paving will be commenced upon Twelfth street from Jackson to Kan sas avenue. This block was excavated last year but nothing has been done un til good weather was assured. The block will be rerolled and the work of paving will commence with Monday or Tuesday of next week. The concrete work on the Chandler street bridge over the Shunganunga has been completed. The abutments and retaining wall are entirely completed and the bridge is now ready for the structural iron. This is being shipped from Pittsburg, Pa., and will arrive in a few days. The workmen are now en gaged upon the concrete work on the Van Buren street bridge. Principal Miller, of the high school has suspended several boys from the school because they wear the collars of their blue flannel shirts turned up. There is a small insurrection on for the boys claim that the principal of a high school has nothing to do with the style in which they shall wear their shirt collars. Are flannel shirt collars turned up any worse than the stocks worn a few years ago by the very fash ionable young men? A meeting of the Berryton Telephone company was called to see if an assess ment of $7 per share upon the stock should be made to provide funds for the building of the metallic circuit to To peka already under contract. The pro position failed to receive support and the meeting adjourned. The original plan of the directors will now be car ried out, that is, a cash payment of $10 in advance by any subscriber, secures free service to Topeka for a term of five years. Chief Stahl has twelve packs of playing cards at his office in the po lice station, which he took when he raided the poker game at the Cope land hotel a week ago last night. "What are you going to do with them?" -waa asked of him. "Oh, was his answer, "I am going to examine them very closely. I have been told that gamblers are able by making marks on the cards to read them from the back when they are in the hands of opposing players. I want to see if I cannot find these marks.' There is scarcely a town in either the Western association or the new Missouri Valley league that has not announced a game betwen its own aggregation and the Kansas City Schmelzers some time between the Coming of warm weather and the opening of the scheduled season. Those Schmelzers will be busier than bird-dogs if they keep all the engage ments which have been made for them. Topeka claims a date with them In this city on April 9. Carnegie Goes Home. Cleveland, O.. March 11. Andrew Car negie left for New York yesterday af ternoon. He came to Cleveland Satur day evening, having been subpoenaed as a witness in the trial of Mrs. Chadwick but waa not called upon to testify. Family of Rats End Life Together In the yard of a local residence, a pa thetic sight was seen the other morning. Near the water faucet was a family of dead rats. They had eaten Steams' Elec tric Rat and Roach paste and rushed out of the house to the nearest point where there waa water, and gave up life togeth er. Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Paste is sure death. It is easy to use and absolutely guaranteed to kill cockroaches, water bugs, rats, mice, etc., driving them out of the house to die. Druggists gen erally have the paste for sale, or package will be sent, express prepaid on receipt of price by the Stearns' Electric Paste Co., Chicago, 111., U. S. A. Small size, 25c; ho tel size, eight times the quantity, $1.00. Journal, "is easily the first of Colo rado poets." Mr. McClurg has held many posi tions of public importance and honor in Colorado and last year was lecturer for the board of public education of New York city. For three years, he directed the National Irrigation Con gress; and organized Colorado's Quarto Centennial Jubilee of State hood of which Mr. Roosevelt was the guest of honor. Mr. McClurg takes up the story of "Peak, Pass and Plain" with the dis covery of Pike's Peak and shows vivid pictures, with graphic description, of Indian attacks; Rocky mountain big game; crimson and gold sunrises on tlie crest of the continent; gold and silver prospecting, mining and smelt ing; sugar beet culture and the cattle industry; the cities of mountain sun shine and turqoise sky; and the glori ous plains. Interspersed with epigram, Indian legend and Spanish romance are lively and amusing anecdotes of pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. McClurg gave their lecture about two weeks ago at both the Kansas Avenue M. E. church and the First Methodist church. No ad mission is charged for the McClurg lectures, and it will be remembered that upon their first visit the lecture proved a delightful treat. GUAIX OX HAND. Mnch of tast Year's Crop Still Held by Farmers. Washington. March 11. The monthly report of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture will show the amount of wheat remaining in farmers' hands on March 1, to have been about 111.000,000 or 20.1 per cent of last year'3 crop, as compared with 20.8 per cent of the crop of 1903 on hand on March 1, 1904, and 24.5 per cent of the crop cf 1902, on hand at the corresponding date of 1903. The corn in farmers' hands is estima ted at about 954,000.000 bushels or 38.7 per cent of last year's crop, against 37.4 per cent of the crop of 1903, on hand March 1, 1904. and 41.6 per cent of the crop of 1902 on hand, at the correspond ing date in 390S. Of oats there were reported to be about 347,000,000 bushels or 3S.8 per cent of last year's crop, still in farmers' hands as compared with 34.9 per cent of the crop of 1903, on hand on March 1, 1904, and 36.9 per cent of the crop of 1902, on hand at the corresponding date in 1903. Railroad Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Gospel meeting Sunday at 3:30 p. m., will be addressed by Rev. J. A. Renwick of the United Presbyterian church. Mr. Renwick's subject will be "The Parable of the Sower," it will be illustrated by twenty-foot pictures with a new lantern. The illustrated song "Just Set a Light," will be ren dered. These meeting are becoming more popular each week. One hund red and seventy-six men were present last Sunday. All men are welcome. At 2:30 p. m., Sunday will be the Personal Workers' Bible class led by General Secretary T. E. Prout, subject. "God's Method of Training Workers." All men welcome. The membership committee held an important meeting and are now out after those whose memberships expire. The committee reported 1,400 member ships. Tuesday evening, March 14, Assist ant Chief Engineer C. A. Morse will give a practical talk. Rev. J. W. Howard addressed the shop rrieeting last Thursday noon. A large number of men were present. The entertainment next Friday even ing will be given by Mr. George Beardsley. This sromises to be a great treat as Mr. Beardsley is well known for the very successful program he provided last year. The Educational classes are begin ning to get ready to take their exam inations which will be held the first week in April. A Continual Strain. Many men and women are constantly ubjected to what they commonly term "a continual strain" because of some financial or family trouble. It wears and distresses them both mentally and physl cally, affecting their nerves badly and bringing on liver and kidney ailments, with the attendant evils of constipation, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, low vitality and despondency. They can not, as a rule get rid of this continual strain," but they can remedy its health-destroying effects by taking frequent doses of Green's August Flower. It tons up the liver, stimulates the kidneys, insures healthy bodily functions, gives vim and spirit to one's whole being, and event ually dispels the physical or mental dis tress caused by that "continual strain." Trial bottle of August Flower, 25c; reg ular size. Too. For sale by Rowley and Snow. Special iJomeseekers Rates via Santa Fe. March 21 special home'seekers" tickets will be sold to Galveston, Ft, Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and other Texas points at the extremely low rate of $15.00 for the round trip. Points in Pecos Valley and return $20. El Paso and return $26.50. Rate of one fare plus $2.00 to points in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arizona, New Mexico, Arkansas and Texas, tickets limited to 21 days from date of sale and stop overs allowed on the going trip within 15 dayB. For full information, literature, etc., address T. L. King. C. P. and T. A.. Topeka, Kan. Stajrtlins Mortality. Statistics show startling mortality from appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent and cure this awful disease there is just one reliable remedy. Dr. King's New Life Pills M. Flannery of 14 Custom House Place, Chicago, says: "They have no eoual for constipation and biliousness. 25e at Arnold Drug So.. 821 North Kansas avenue. PAWIfc n n Indicates That Your Kidneys Are Diseased. Warner's Safe Cure Absolutely and Permanently Cures All Diseases of the Kidneys, IJver, Bladder, Blood, Urinary Organs, and Rheumatism and Diabetes. It Is Kidney Disease Thousands of Men and Women Have Kidney and Bladder Disease and Do Not Know It Until it Is Too Late. If Any of Your Family Has Had Kid ney Disease, or if You Have Pains in the Back, Test Your Urine and Find Out If Your Kidneys Are Diseased. HENRY I. GOLDSTEIN, 13 Barton St.. Boston, Nov. 9. 19H, wrote: "Gentlemen: I am taking the opportunity of recommending your mint worthy medicine. About 6 months ago I started to have trouble with my kidney and had bad backache. I felt all run down and was very weak from loss of sleep. Constipa tion had set in and I was almost in despair. I consulted my family physician and other specialists without any improvement. I was getting worse every day and was afraid that that dread disease, Bright's disease, had me in its clutches. I had Just given up hope when Warner's Safe Cure came to my notice and I tried It. After taking the first bottle I felt a decided change for the better, and hava taken It ever ince. All. my energy has returned and am now full of lite and vigor, and itmakea me feel like a new man and I think it saved my life. I am now stronger and healthier and never felt so well, all of which I owe to your great remedy. THIS TEST WILL TELL Put some urine in a glass or bottle. After it has stood 24 hours If It is a reddish or brown color, if particles float about in in it. or if it is cloudy, your kidneys are diseased and unable to do their work, and if not attended to immediately, Bright s disease, diabetes, rheumatism, gout, uric acid, inflammation of the bladder, all stones or urinary troubles will develop and prove fatal in a short time. AM A I VCIC CDPP It after making this test you have any doubt as to the de nllnLi rnLLi Ve!opment of the disease in your system, send a sample of your urine to the medical department, Warner Safe Cure Co., Rochester, N. Y., and our doctors will anaiyze it and send advice and interesting medical booklet free. You can buy Safe Cure at any drug store or direct. 50c and $1 a bottle. Beware of so-called kidney cures which are full of sediment and of bad odor they are positively harmful and do not cure. Warner's Safe Pills move the bowels gently and aid a speedy cure. 1 ii in, n- -1 You May Stray Away But you will always come back to the Favorite. Geo, Burghart, Maker, Low Rate To Sunny All the way. Ask T. L. KINO, Ticket Agent VI U fciiHBiiar iiBitlfiii'iiii you want good work, ask for figures from The Independent Electrical Construction Company Bell Phone 1082 1 19 W. Seventh Ind. Phono 1429 E. WINANS. J- W. KEELE. All repair -work promptly attended to. Farmer j Every farmer in snawnee county snouia nave an jnae t nendent Telephone. We solicit your patronage and have is new propositions along this line. Call and see us. The Independent Telephone Co. Central Office 519 Kansas Avenue. SMOKG KLAUER'S GOLD BUQ fa CENT CIGAR. CONVINCE YOURSELF Of the merits of the Five Cents a Day Telephone. A number of instruments have been installed and you have only to talk with those who have them to becomo convinced of its merits. Mo. Kansas Tele. Co. "Phone 999. Respite for Rudolph. Jefferson City, Mo., March XLGov ernor Folk has granted a respite of 30 cays to William Rudolph, convicted of the murder of Detective Charles Schu macher at Union. Mo., and sentenced to be hanged on March 17. A petition for the respite was signed by large numbers of Irish Catholics, who pro tested against an execution on St. Pat rick's day. A knowledge of economy is valuable, but not so valuable as a knowledge of how to get along without it. A Spring Trips California You can go to California any day between March 1st and May 1 5th for $25, a little more than half fare one way. Travel comfortably in tourist Pullman or chair car. An unusual opportunity to inspect Cali fornia farm lands. A. T. S. F. Ry., Topeka, Kansas. Telephones A NIGHT SCHOOL FOR ME! Steam and Electrical Engineering. Mechanical Drawing Course. Also studies in other subjects. For full information apply to Y. M. Q. A. 117 East Eighth. A. W. HOPKINS, Merchant Police. Private work a specialty, and prlvata watchmen furnished. Residence, 1024 Kansas Avenue, Tojx ka. Kansas. SMOKERS FIND LEWIS SINGLE BINDER 5t Cigar better Quality thin most lOf Cigar A superior ramatly for catarrhal affections of the throatm A rold hnHmUonm.

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8 TfTE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. Automatic Stone flachine Co., of Waterloo, Iowa. Makes the Popular Building Materia!. Hollow Cement Building Stone has eome to stay. You want a machine that sella on its own merits. Our ma chine makes the following sizes: Every block a perfect block. Easy Strong 1. Sides and ends of mold box pened and finished stone lifted from mold by one movement. 2. One backward turn of crank closes mold box and locks it securely. S. Machine strong enough to stand heavy tamping. 4. Length, width and depth, of I am in a position to sell these machines right, after securing the exclu sive sale of same in this state. Write today for catalogue and prices. Address r LIQUOR MEN ATTACK. They Deny the Kiht to Bring In junction Suit. The new tack taken by the State Temperance union a week ago by filing- injunctions against six alleged liquor sellers in this city, to prevent the sale of liquor at their present places of business, will be contested by the defendants on the ground that such proceedings are violative and re pugnant to the first section of the fourteenth amendment -of the consti tution of the United States. Demurrers to this effect were filed with the clerk of the Shawnee count' district court this morning by Charles Magaw in the cases of the state against Lee Jones and the state against Dan Finney, against whom in junctions were asked. The owners of the buildings also come into the matter, and it is the in terests of these parties that give especial strength to the plea in the demurrer. The owners of the build ings where the liquor is alleged to have been sold, were made party de fendants in all of the cases. In the third ground of demurring It is said:' "The statute upon which said petition is based and which it seeks to enforce, and defines and de nounces as a common nuisance any place where intoxicating liquor3 are manufactured, bartered and given a?ay in violation of law, or where persons are permitted to resort for the purpose of drinking intoxicating Horuors as a beverage, or where intoxi cating liquors are kept for barter or delivery In violation of the law, and aJl fntoxicating liquors, bottles, glasses, pumps, bars and other property kept In and used in maintaining such a place, and chapter 338 of the Kansas session laws of 1903, which authorizes the abatement and perpetual enjoining of any alleged nuisance defined and denounced by said statute are, each of them, void as in conflict with sec tion 10 of article 15. and with section IS of article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas." The fifth ground for demurring al leges a correlation between the Kan sas and the United States constitution In this manner: "Sections 2463 and 2493 of the general statutes of Kansas of 1901 and chapter 338 of the Kan sas session laws of" 1903, which are The J. C. Ayer Co. Will Print Formulas of Medicines on Bottle Having heard that the J. C. Ayer company had decided to give to the public the complete formula of each of Its medicines, we interviewed the treas urer and general manager, Dr. Charles H. Stowell, in order to ascertain if this was true. Dr. Stowell said that it cer tainly was true, and that it was simply the conclusion of a plan which he had been working upon for a long time. When asked what effect it would have npon the proprietary medicine business if all houses were obliged to publish their formulas, he said, in his opinion, it would favorably affect the sale of all those medicines founded upon merit, all those prepaiations that were genuine medicines. On the other hand, he be lieved just as strongly that it would mean the complete ruin of frauds, fakes, and swindles "It is a well-known fact that the public is being swindled out of hun dreds of thousands, even millions of dollars each year, because of wildly ex aggerated and positively untrthfnl statements, glaringly displayed by the most lavish outlay of money. The J. C. Ayer company has nothing to hide. We know our medicines are good. We simply take the public into our confi dence and frankly tell them just what they are getting for their money. That is all there is about it." 1 Concerning the great agitation which, has been raised in certain quarters be cause some cf these medicines contain alcohol. Dr. Stowell said: "Just use a little common sense and figure it out toi yourself. The formula which will 6 to 16 inches wide. 2 to 32 inches long. 4 Vs to 9 inches high. to operate. Simple to adjust. Points mold box easily adjusted. 5. AVe make a little attachment which makes it possible to make any length of block on a 32-inch bottom plate. No other machine has this. 6. Every block comes out of the mold perfect. No chipping after making. H. J. KERNS, Plainville, Kansas. the only bases of this action, are, each and all of them, repugnant to the first section of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States in that they abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in that they deprive persons of liberty and prop erty without due process of law, and in that they deny to persons within the jurisdiction of the state of Kansas the equal protection of the laws." ARGUHENTHEARD. Supreme Court Listens to Attorneys in the Colorado Contest. Denver, Colo., March 11. The state supreme court today heard arguments on the question of taking up the in terrogatories submitted by the gen eral assembly with the view of test ing the legality of the proposition to oust Governor Alva Adams and seat Lieut. Governor Jesse F. McDonald as governor. Attorneys for James H. Peabody, contestor for the governorship, argued that the court could take cognizance of the questions but that the legisla ture could not legally seat the lieu tenant governor as governor, and if a vacancy were declared former Gov ernor Peabody would thereby be re installed in the office which he sur rendered to Alva Adams after the legislature canvassed the returns and declared him elected. The anti-Peabody Republicans' proposition that the legislature has a right to declare a vacancy In the office of governor and seat the lieu tenant governor, was advocated by several attorneys. Senator Edward T. Taylor, as amicus curial, contended that the court had no right to assume juris diction or answer the interrogatories. Editor Munn Is Dead. New York, March 11. Henry Xor cross Munn, editor of the Scientific American, is dead at his home in this city. He was a member of the firm which publishes that paper. The Toung Heretio "Pooh! I don't believe in Valentine's day!" "Oo-oo-ooh! you wicked boy! I'm a-goin' to tell your Sunday school teacher on you!" Cleveland Leader. soon appear on each bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla will show that the person gets about ten minims of alcohol in each teaspoonful of the medicine, which is the ordinary dose. Now in a glass of beer (which is the ordinary dose) there are about two hundred minims of alco hol. In other words, one dose of beer contains twenty times as much alcohol as one dose of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. But let us carry this analysis a little further: You would have to drink about half a bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla to get as much alcohol as is found in an ordinary schooner' oi beer. The Sarsaparilla would cost the man nearly half a dollar, while the beer would cost him only five cents. We have yet to hear of any per son who ever acquired a love for the taste of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. The fact is, it is a medicine, a positive medicine, and has the taste of a medicine. But we aro told that a taste for beer is soon acquired. In view of this, can you imagine anything more perfectly ridicu lous than all of this terrible cry about the alcohol in this medicine? And then we know very well that the alcohol is used, must be used, to extract the various medicinal ingredients from the roots, barks, etc., which form an impor tant part of this medicine. It is not added simply because of any stimulating effect it may have of itself." We are informed that this is the first time in the history of the proprietary medicine business that the formulas have been thus boldly given to the pablic, and the outcome will be watched with intense interest. Lowell SunFeb. SSOo. IFeopie e:;dhig Items to this aepartmeii of the State Journal will confer a favor by giving the lull first name or two initial?, with all proper names. tno must t accompanied iy the name ami address of the wjitcr or they can cot be published. The second week in Lent promises to be as piousiy observed as you like in local society circles. There is not even a musicale or a lecture, always permissible Lenten diversions, or so much as a charity tea. On the 22nd, however, Madame Maconda comes for the fifth of the series of entertain ments of the Pipe Organ association at the Auditorium. The Musical Art society, organized this winter for the study of some of the modern choruses, will assist on Maconda's programme, and the concert will be an event of much importance both musically and socially. The members of the Musical Art society are: Mrs. George Park hurst, Mrs. John Kleinhans. Mrs. Frank Thomas, Miss Widney and Miss Reddick. sopranos; Miss Nina Thomas, Mrs. Florence Fox Thacher, Mrs. Frank Foster, Mrs. L. S. Ferry. Miss Ada Taylor. contraltos; Mr. Harry Pribble, Mr. H. L. Shirer. Mr. Jay Smith, Mr. Ross Tracy, Mr. Elmer Hill, tenors; Mr. James Moore, Mr. William Shaver, Mr. Ernest Oonant, Mr. Elmer Fox and Mr. David Bowie, bassos, with Mrs. Robert Diller Garver at the piano. Madame Maconda is a relative of Miss Karolyn B. Whit tlesey and will be her guest while she is in town. But that is week after next. Next week will have only the card club meetings, which it seems do not come under the ban, although cards on any other occasion are quite out of the cuestion. Monday the D. D. Whist club meets with Mrs. Schuyler Nichols, Tuesday the Felicity Whist with Mrs. George Stansfield, Wednesday the Wednesday Afternoon Whist with Mrs. John Baird Nicholson, Thursday Mrs. Charles Gault entertains her bridge club and Mrs. David Palmer the Maids and Matrons. The Duplicate Whist meets with Mrs. Eugene Quinton Fri day. Two very delightful literary evenings, a form of entertainment sure of popu larity at this season. were events of last night and the only criticism to be passed upon them is that -they were given on the same evening, much to the regret and confusion of those for tunate enough to be asked to both. Dr. and Mrs. John C. "McClintock gave the one at their house on Fillmore street, where a large number of guests .were asked informally to hear Mr. Charles I Graham Dunlap of the chair of Eng lish of the University of Kansas, in a lecture on Robert Louis Stevenson. Mrs. McClintock is greatly interested in the university extension movement for which Mr. Dunlap has done so much in Kansas, and the entertainment last night was given with a view to its furtherance. Mr. Dunlap's talk was in a delightful vein, revealing to his hear ers with the clairvoyance of a fine, critical insight, backed by a broad cul ture, new beauties and significances to the familiar details of the life and thought of "the beloved R. L. S." Af terwards Mr. Thomas E. Dewey read a number of Stevenson's verses, the Lamplighter, the Land of Counterpane, Goodnight and a prose selection from his Travels With a Donkey, investing the lovely fanciful lines and lucid, pic turesque prose with the charm of a singulaily rich and melodious voice and a notably poetical and intellectual inter pretation. Mrs. McClintock was assist ed in the dining room by her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Mohler and Mrs. B. F. Alt ers. There were about 75 guests. The other entertainment was at Uni ty church where the reception room and auditorium were crowded wfth the guests of the Travelers' club, asked for a literary and musical programme, fol lowed by a reception. Mr. Harry G. Larimer's lecture on Voltaire, a sub ject to which he brought a thorough acquaintance with the Voltaire biblio graphy, a vigorous, vital, mentally and a most entertaining and delightful style, was the feature of the evening. The musical numbers included Kev in's O That We Two Were Maying, by Miss May Reddick and Mr. Ross Tracy, Schumann's The Two Gren adiers, by Mr. David Bowie and Liszt's Knowst Thou the Land by Miss Red dick. with Miss Gertrude Tracy at the piano. The church was effectively dec orated with many palms, forming a background for the rostrum, and with tall bouquets of La France roses. At the reception following the programme the receiving line included Mrs. L. H. Worthington. Miss Gertrude Morton, Miss Mary Morton, Miss Mabel Cham bers. Miss Nellie Chambers. Miss Loret ta Strickler, Miss Mary Gernon, Miss Jean Farnsworth. and Miss Marie Westerfield. Assisting at the punch bowls were Misses Louise Worthington, Grace Anderson, Enid Strickler, Helen Koontz and Helen Crawford. Mrs. Augustus Zahner will entertain the Monday WThist club Monday, March 20. The annual business meeting and election of the lnjrleside association was held yesterday afternoon and these officers chosen: Mrs. Jonathan Thom as, president: Mrs. Joab Mulvane, first vice president; Mrs, Abram Hammatt, secretary; Mrs. George E. Penfield, treasurer. The reports of the commit tees read showed the prosperity of the organization and the success of the year's work. Four women were taken into the Ingleside home last year and it was voted yesterday to receive an other. There are a number of appli cations on the waiting list. The man agement of the booths at the Mid winter exposition netted the associa tion $500. The Sigma Delta Psi sorority of Washburn will give a dinner Friday evening at the home of Miss Minnie Bauer. The marriage of Miss Marv Glasgow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Glas gow, and Mr. Emil George Wagner of Dayton, Ohio4 will be celebrated Tues- day evening, March 21, at the home of the bride's rjarents. i14 west, street. Miss Ethel Traver will act as maid of honor and the wedding music will be played by the bride's sister. Miss Mar jorie Glasgow. The Musical Art society will meet Monday evening with Mrs. George Parkhurst. The new officers of the Chaminade music club are Mrs. E. G. Foster, pres ident; Mrs. Morton Albaugh and Mrs. W. J. V. Deacon, vice presidents; Mrs. George Overmyer, secretary; Miss Bes sie Elder, assistant secretary; mrs. Harry Finley, treasurer. Delegates to the city federation: Mrs. Foster, Mrs. R. H. Morehouse and Mrs. Ralph Skin ner; alternates: Mrs. Albaugh, MrsJ L. L. Goodwin and Mrs. George Over myer. The S. S. club met yesterday with Mrs. John T. Chaney and elected Mrs. W. E. McVey. president and Mrs. James Malcom Brier, secretary and treasurer. Guests of the club were Mrs. L. L. Kiene. Mrs. John Nowers, Mrs. D. G. Kline and Miss Virginia Philipps of Los Angeles. Miss Phil- ipps who is a pianist of considerable attainment, played some numbers. The club will meet in two weeks with Mrs. P. J. Dielman, corner of Twelfth and Tyler streets. The Alta Vista club will meet with Mrs. D. E. Esterley Monday afternoon. The study for the month is Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Froebel Mothers' union will meet next week Friday with Mrs. J. E. Nissley, 4 31 Clav street. Central Park C. L. S. C. will meet with Mrs. W. W. Harvey, 1709 Bu chanan street, Tuesday evening, March 14. Roll call, descriptive para graphs; Ten Frenchmen of the Nine teenth Century, "Balzac," Mrs. Har vey; music. Miss Frances Smith; Ger man Town and Country, Mr. W. J. Rickenbacher; reading from Elizabeth and her German Garden, Miss Eva Corning. Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Louise Kellam, who has been in New York and Boston for about two months, is expected home tomor row. Miss Amy Smith of St. Louis, Miss Vida Wood's guest, went to St. Marys today to spend Sunday with Mrs. Frank Moss. Next week she will visit in Holton, returning to Topeka before she eoes home. Mr. Charles Graham Dunlap of tht University of Kansas, who is the guest of Colonel and Mrs. T. W. Harrison and the Misses Harrison, will stay over Sunday, returning to Lawrence Monday morning. Dr. Edgar Powell of Valparaiso, Ind., a son of the late Rev. Mr. Enoch Powell who once lived in Topeka. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fos ter and the Rev. Abram Wyman. Mrs. Emma Averil of San Francisco is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Roy Johnston, 1000 Topeka avenue. She will be here a fortnight before leav ing for New York to spend a number of weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Alf Klingenberg ex spect to spend the summer in Europe. Mrs. H. M. Hadley is visiting in Frankfort. Mrs. W. E. McVey and her daugh ters Maud and Pauline have gone to Valley Falls to spend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L L. Kiene and Dr. Otto. Kiene will spend Sunday in Valencia. Mr. Edwin Scott, of Denver, Colo., is expected next week to visit Mr. A. B. Quinton. Mrs. S. S. Baker, of Colorado Springs, will leave Monday for St. Louis to visit her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Smith. Mrs. Baker was the guest of honor at a card party given by Mrs. J. P. Howe Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Coolbaugh. of -Stock ton, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. N. O. Neher at 1900 Lincoln. They will also visit Mr. Coolbaugh s cousin, Mrs. J. L. King. Miss Hazel Howe. Miss Isadel Heath, Miss Mary Sutherland and Miss Na dine Lytle went to Wichita yesterday to establish a chapter of the Lambda Alpha Lambda sorority at the Lewis academy. They will return Sunday night. Mrs. William Smith returned today from a visit to Atchison and is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Dell Keizer. Mrs. C. H. Brandis, of Chicago, is expected the latter part of next week to visit Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Maunsell. Mrs. Irving Boyer, of Hot Springs, Ark., is expected soon to visit her sister, Mrs. N. W. Reddick. Miss Celeste Nellis and Miss Anna Marie Nellis are in Chicago to spend Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Grey Kennedy will go to Junction City this evening to spend a few days with Mr. Kennedy and make preparations to go there for a permanent residence. She will be back in Topeka next week. Mr. and Mrs. George Snyder are at the Virginia. Miss Juanita Lord will go to Law- rence today to spend Sunday with her sister. Mrs. Brinton ooawara. Mr. J. R. Shelton will arrive next week from Grand Rapids. Mich, to spend a few days with Mrs. Shelton, who is the guest of her parents. Judge and Mrs. N..F. Handy. Mrs. Rachel Weaver and her sister Mrs. S. R. Weaver, from Cincinnati, who went to Florida to spend the win ter, are now in Cuba. Mrs. Edward Medlicott wil return Sunday from a few days stay in Kan sas City. Miss Beulnh Donoho. 519 West First street, eave a birthday party Friday night which was attended by Gladys RESULTS OF FOOD Health and Natural Conditions Come From Right Feeding:. Man, physically, should be like a per fectly regulated machine, each part working easily in its appropriate place. A slight derangement causes undue friction and wear, and frequently ruins the entire system. A well-known educator of Boston found a way to keep the brain and the body in that harmonious co-operation which makes a joy of living: "Two years ago." she writes: "being in a condition of nervous exhaustion, I resigned my position as teacher, which I had held for over 40 years. Since then the entire rest has, of course, been a benefit, but the iise of Grape Nuts has removed one great cause of illness in the past, namely, constipation, and its attendant evils. "I generally make my entire break fast on a raw egg beaten into four spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, with a little hot milk or hot water added. I like it extremely, my food assimilates, and my bowels take care of themselves. I find my brain power and physical en durance much greater and I know that the use of the Grape-Nuts has contrib uted largely to this result. "It is with feelings of gratitude that I write this testimonial, and trust it may be the means of aiding others in their search for health." Name given by Pcstum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Look in each pkg. for the little book, "The Road to Wellviile." i Miller, Edith Yeggenberger, Margaret jjxeer, neien jnincnoil, Anna Chincholl JNeme coulter. Zilla Lowe, Dixie Mc- iary, tutn Leonard, Grace Gaines, Goldie Hanway.. Miss Jane Isenhaier. assisted the hostess. Mr. G. C. Thompson came from Kansas city last night to spend Sun day with friends. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Poindexter have gone to Excelsior Springs to spend a weeK. Miss Jeannette Wolcott has re turned from a visit in Kansas City and Atchison. Miss Mildred Poindexter went to Atchison yesterday to spend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kendall ex pect to leave next month for a perma nent home in Rush City, Minn. Miss Nellie Hill has gone to Pueb'o, Col., to visit her uncle, Mr. E. M. Her riott, who is very ill. Mrs. E. A. O'Brien left this afternoon for New York to spend two weeks. Mrs. G. H. McCol lister and son, Max well, returned Tuesday from the south, where they spent the winter. Mr. Mu Collister will return later. Mrs. Wiley invites all ladies who would like to join a cooking and do mestic science class, to meet her Wed nesday morning or afternoon at the dining room of Steinberg's hall, south, outside entrance. IN THE CITY COUNCIL. Another Turn to Crematory Muddle Interm-ban Railway Election. An attempt to settle the vexatious crematory question was sidetracked again at the meeting of the council last night. The streets and walks committee recommended that the city enter into a contract with the Topeka Desiccating company under a form of contract devised and recommended by the city board of health. As soon as the rec ommendation was read opposition ap peared. Councilman Griley who had offered a resolution at the former meeting of the council calline for a Dona election to provide for the eree tion ot a crematory demanded that the council take some action upon his resolution. Councilman Green also asked for a similar delay. It was in timated that the streets and waiks committee were endeavoring to rail road their wishes through the council. The whole matter settled itself amicably,, however, through a motion to deter action upon both the resoiu tion and contract until the next meet ing of the council. The contract which is in the hahri.s of the streets and walks committee calls for a period in the life of the contract of 10 years, the same form rates for disposal of the garbage as now apply, the payment to the city of an annual license tax of $300 and the payment by the city to the com pany the sum of S50 per month for the removal and disposal of dead ani mals and garbage for which no collec tion can be made from individuals. The city council formally passed a resolution calling for a vote upon the issuance of $30,000 bonds upon Tues day, April 4. in exchange for 300 shares ot uie capital stock of the Topeka, Eskridge Council Grove railroad. The council acted upon the recom mendation of the judiciary committee who recommended that the petition of the taxpayers asking for the election be granted. The committee stated that the necessary two-fifths of the names of the resident taxpayers was attached to the petition. To elimi nate as much expense as possible the vote will be taken at the general spring election April 4. The railroad company has agreed to meet all the expense incident to the election. Brooks Gilmore, the contractors on the Fifth ward sewer, appeared before the council and asked that the city pay interest on the deferred monthly esti mates already allowed but remaining unpaid. The money which is due to the contractors has been tied up. To pay for the improvement the city issued $55,000 bonds but owing to legal techni calities, already published, the sale of the bonds was not consummated until just recently when Spitzer Co. of To ledo, made the purchase, two other firms having refused to accept the is sue. In the interim the city has been allowing the monthly -estimates which fell due but has been unable to pay them. Brooks Gilmore stated that they were forced to pay 8 per cent on the money borrowed to tide them over in meeting their monthly obligations and that they would like to have the city pay this rate of interest on the de ferred payments. The city council gen erally agreed that it was only justice to the contractors to pay a rate of in terest but there was a perceptible balk at paying 8 per cent. The matter was finally reported to the committee on ways and means with instructions to Brooks Gilmore to present their claim to the same. The Excelsior Coke and Gas com pany heard from the council last night. A motion introduced by Councilman Green instructing the gas company to pay $125 per year for the privilege of using the Melan bridge ror its gas main to the north side was unanimously passed. The motion was an amendment to one instructing and permitting the gas company to place its main on the temporary wooden approach while work is in progress upon the permanent ap proach. The company will on the com pletion of that work place their main underneath the pavement on the bridge. The following resolution was carried: "Resolved, by the mayor and council that all corporations asking for fran chises and elections to vote bonds be required to pay all cost of printing, ad vertising, holding elections, and for the cost of promoting the said franchises in any way." The sale of the Sixth ward sewer bonds and the pavement bonds was done on very profitable basis. The con tracts were awarded last night. The $80,000 Sixth ward sewer bonds went to Farson, Leach Co. of Chicago, who pay a premium of $2,030. par and ac crued interest. The Knights and Ladies of Security offered a premium of $1,600. The $55,000 pavement bonds went to the State Savings bank, par, accrued inter est and 1.68 per cent premium on the to tal issue. The Knights and Ladies of Security offered a 2 per cent premium without accrued interest. A resolution calling for the payment of the last monthly salary to Deputy Street Commissioner Van Vechtea, which was stricken from the pay roll on account of illness, was passed. A petition for a brick sidewalk on the west side of Madison street be tween Saywell and Kious streets was referred to the streets and walks com mittee. A similar petition asking for the construction of a walk on the east side of Monroe street from Fifteenth to Twelfth streets was referred to the same committee. A similar disposi tion was made of the petition tor a sidewalk on The Drive between Hill street and Hawthorne. A resolution was presented and passed instructing the street commissioner to order the repair of the sidewalk at 404 ila.rt Fourth street. A resolution asking for the appoint- pointment of a special committee to take under consideration the removal BABFS AWFOl SKIN HUMOR- Many Doctors Called It Chronic and Said Sores Never Could Be Healed. CURED Y Child Was Getting So Bad Mother Didn't Know What to Bo Hospital Physicians Said There Was No Hope Complete and Permanent Cure by Cuticura at Expense of $1.75. "Words cannot express the what Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent have done for me. My son had Eczema as bad a3 any child could have it. I had sev eral doctors treat him, but they helped him only for the time being-,. i."Z 2 1 me consolation and courage, but I thought the change for the bet ter was only temporary, as it had been with all the other medicines ordered by the doctors and hospitals. I continued with Cuticura, and by the time I had used one and a half boxes of Ointment, one small bottle of Resolvent, and one cake of Soap, I found that that the cure was complete and permanent from that day to this, two years and a half. My boy is now five years old, and has not had a sign of a sore since I began with Cuticura. I shall never be with out Cuticura Soap, I find it so good for every purpose of the toilet and for the children." MRS. J. SCHEPPERLE. 218 Frost St. Brooklyn, N. Y. Instant relief and refreshing sleep for skin-tortured hahies and rest fur tired, fretted mothers in warm baths with Cuticura Soap, and gentle annointings with Cuticura ointment, the great skin cure and purest of emollients, to he followed in severe cases by mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent Pills. This Is the purest, .sweetest, most speedy, permanent and economical treatment for torturing, disfiguring. i;ch ing, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted and pimply skin and sculp humors, eczrmas, rashes and irritations with loss of hair, of infants and children, as well as adults, and is sure to succeed when all other remedies and physicians fall.--A single s t costing but One Dollar is often sufficient to cure the most distressing cases. I 'arents, think of the future of such afflicted children and act now. Cures made in child hood are speedy and permanent. Potter Drug Ac Chemical Corp., Sole props., Bos ton. 1 Mailed free, "How to Cure Everji Humor of Infancy and Age. AUDITORIU an one Gh The Greatest Colorantura Singer in America, ASSISTED BY The Musical Art Association. Admission 50 cents. Reserved seats at Stansfield's. Chart opens Saturday, March 18. A RE you in need of Electric Fixtures? Electric and Combination Fixtures furnished by the. Independent Electrical Construction Co. 119 V. Bell Phone 1082 E. WINANS. ALL REPAIR WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. nhatrnctions in the stream of Sol dier creek-was referred to the ways and means committee. An ordinance amending section S of ordinance 2942, relating to the use of Auditorium by conventions and for public purposes was passed. The resolution of Wm. Green print ed at the last proceedings of the coun cil relating to the legal payment of "spotter service" provided that such remuneration should not exceed $75 for each man so serving was referred to the ways and means committee. A resolution to purchase a flag for the Auditorium was passed. The bond of J. Kirk White, plumb CU TICURA gratitude I feel towards you for and after they discontinued treating him his head would begin to get sore again, almost the next day. It got bo bad I really didn't know what to do. At last we took him to the hos pital, where the doctors said he had Chronic Eczema. They gave me a wash for it, but said it was foolish to think of it ever being cured. "The child was failing, so I thought I must do something, and reading about the Cuticura Reme dies, decided to try them. I went right to the nearest drug store and purchased a bottle of Cuticura Re solvent, one box of Cuticura Oint ment and a cake of Cuticura Soap, and began using it. I used half of it and found some relief and im provement. Of course that gave Wednesday, March 22. 8: 15 P ueconaa Seventh Ind. Phone 1429 J. W. KEELE. er, was approved. The bond was for $2,000. The council adjourned to meet next week, Thursday, March 16. A canvass was made by the council of the special bond election held for the Branner street bridge Feb ruary 13. Colorado and Return. $27.50. Colorado and return every day to April 30, 1905, inclusive, with final re turn limit June 1, 1905, via Union Pa cific, $27.50 from Topeka. Be sure your ticket reads over the Union Pa cific. Inquire of J. C. Fulton, Depot Aeent; F. A. JLewis. Citr Agent. 52 State Journal, 10c a Week.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOUBNAi; SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. 9 MAMA NEXT. Distinguished Soprano Coming to the Auditorium. Will Be Heard Here Wednesday March 22. GRAND OPERA SEASON. Conried's Grand Opera Organi zation at Kansas City. Performance or "Parsifal" Be gins at 5 O'clock. Maconda, the distinguished soprano, comes to the Auditorium on Wednes day evening, March 22. Her appear ance here Is the fourth event in the series of entertainments in the Pipe Organ association course, and the profits of the concert will apply to the pipe organ fund. Madame Maconda has won for her ee'.f an international reputation. Aside from this fact her appearance is of particular interest in Topeka on ac count of her relationship to Miss Karolive E. Whittlesey, one of the leading: local musicians. Maconda needs no introduction to the music loving- public because she has appeared in all the principal Maconda, the Famons Young Singer cities In recital, concert and oratorio, besides appearing- at many musical festivals in both the east and west. "With a vocal organ of richest quality and remarkable range, a harming personality, and that inde finable something called magnetism, this great artist charms her hearers and has won the highest praise every where. The New York World says: The series of Sunday concerts organized by Mr. Daniel Frohman began at the Metropolitan opera house last even ing. It was a felicitous beginning a large audience and a concert of ad mirable finality. Maconda was the vocalist a wel come appearance of a superior artist who is seldom free to sing in Xew York. She sang an air from Mozart's II Re Pasture" with delightful sim plicity and the bell song from "Iikme" with delicious daintiness. Walter Pamrosch conducted the orchestra. It was in good form and its work was all the more appreciated when contrasted with recent orches tral performances at the opera house. The Xew York Telegram says: Walter Dnmrosoh opened the concert with Goldmark's "Spring" overture, and immediately thereafter Mme. Ma conda sang, with violin obligato, Moairt's air from "II He Pastore" de lightfully. I know of no American coloratura roprano. save one who can equal her The voice itself is of first qualiiv. velvety and round, and disereetiv used. She phrased her Mozart with excellent attention to tradition. GRAND OPERA. Important Musical Event at Conven tion Hall, Kansas City. Musical enthusiasts in different parts of America have made the long journey across the Atlantic to Beyreuth for the special privilege of witnessing the pro duction of Richard Wagner's dedication al festival play. "Parsifal." which is his last message to the world, and is recog nized as his masterpiece, and now the great southwest will be privileged to en- INTERESTING SUNDAY. T. M. C. A. receives J3.000 at Audi torium mass meeting. r-, if ZJ Joy this wonderful production at Con vention hall. Kansas City, Friday after noon, March 21, at five o'clock, when the certain will rise, on a production of "Parsifal" which is more magnificent than the performances produced at Bey reuth, presented by the entire Conried Metropolitan Opera- company, which comes direct from a triumphal season at the Metropolitan opera house in New York City. The first act will conclude at 6:45, when there will be an Intermis sion for dinner until 8:45. The whole performance will end at 11:30. The performance of "Parsifal," how ever, is but the inaugural of the Kan sas Citv season of grand opera, as on two o'clock Saturday afternoon, April I, Meverbeer's masterpiece, "Les Hugue nots," will be presented. This work is .probablv the favorite of all grand op eras which are given at the grand opera house in Paris. It is the most noble and impressive of the works of Meyerbeer. Written with a special view of the ex igencies of the French Republic, it com bines drama, spectacle and music in its most effective forms. The plot is a stage story of the massacre of St. Bar tholomew, with the preceding quarrels of the Huguenots and Catholics. It is interwoven with one of the most thril ling heart stirring love romances in ex istence. The cast selected for the pres entation of this- work is simply invinci ble, as it includes Mmes. Nordica, Sem brich, Homer, Bauermeister, Messrs. Dippel, Scotti, Bars, Van Rooy, Jour net, etc., etc. The Kansas City season of grand op era will close with a fitting climax, as a grand double bill has been selected of two operas which represent the great est achievements in the composition of modern Italian composers. The first of these will be Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," that little chef d' oeuvre of passion and song, which Is the best work of Mascagni, who has succeeded in packing into his musical Who Will Appear at the Auditorium. setting of the tragic love story first told by the Italian writer, Verga, enough interest to fill acts of an ordinary opera. In this work the west will have an op portunity for the first time of hearing the wonderful Italian dramatic soprano, Mme. De Macchi. The second opera will be the equally famous short opera of Leoncavallo, which rivals it in charm, power and pathos. Both works will give marvel ous expression to the violence and emo tion of Italy. Nothing the world famous tenor Caruso, achieves is more sensa tional or beautiful than his singing of the last song in the first act of "PagliaccL" The performance will be given under the personal direction of Mr. Heinrich Conried and by his entire company which comes direct from the Metropol itan opera house in New York City. Mr. Conried pledges ideal grand opera to Kansas City and the southwest. The operas will be presented in Convention hall in such a manner as never before known in the big auditorium. All the massive stage settings and revolving scenery that was used in New York will be used in Kansas City. The artists to be heard in Kansas City will be identi cal with those who have distinguished the Xew York performances. Spec ial reduced rates have been made on all railroads within a radius of 250 miles of Kansas City. At this time only sea son tickets are available, but on and af ter March IT, seats for single perform ances will be offered for sale. Kven thus early orders for season tickets only have amounted to ten thousand dollars. The great southwest has promptly recognized this extraordinary opportun ity, as large opera parties are being organized in most of the principal places in Kansas. Missouri, and in ad dition. Nebraska. Iowa, Oklahoma and Indian Territory will be well rep resented. The season of grand opera in Kansas City is under the business management of Barrett Oakford Co., J. W. Jenkins Sons Music company. Beautiful pros pectus and souvenir tour books giving cast and full particulars in regard to LOCAL NEWS EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK AS DEPICTED BY THE M03TDAT. XTOSDAY. WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY. W53S3J 9 fffegypa. Story of a sensational visit to Tope ka's slums is told. the season of grand opera will be avail able free of cost for all those in Topeka who are interested in grand opera. An nouncements will follow soon. ACTORS' SLANG. Xext Slans dictionary Will Doubtless Contain Stage Vernacular. When the next slang dictionary is compiled several pages undoubtedly will be reserved for the vernacular of the stage, which is being added to daily. To hear a group of "troupers" talking shop along Broadway the un initiated would think he was listening to the jargon of thieves. Weird, un canny expressions fall glibly from the lips of actors, principally of the vaudeville world, and are as readily understood as the purest English. It would be a difficult matter to de termine the origin of some words. Many of them are coined on the spot and pass along to take their place in theatrical vocabulary. The veteran actor never stops to ask the transla tion of some word unknown to him. He treasures it up, digests its applica tion and utilizes it at the most con venient opportunity. The more euphonious the word the wider its cir culation. "Gonzwab," for instance, is a noun sometimes used as an adjective. Us ually it means the play or sketch in which the actor is appearing. Some times it is used to designate a car or train. When applied to a person it Is meant slightingly. To refer to a man as a "gonzwab" is to express the most profound contempt The word is not to be confounded with "gonzwebo," however, which is confined solely to articles of house hold use. It may mean anything from a sugar bowl to a bed. "Jigger" is likewise wide in its ap plication, but is tised mainly to de scribe some article previously mention ed in conversation, but which for the moment has slipped the mind of the speaker. To stop and think of the missing word would enable somebody else to break in and thus deprive the actor of a chance to orate. So he sub stitutes "jigger" and goes serenely on, knowing that he is thoroughly under stood. Cigarettes are known as "sticks" and cigars as "bands.- A box of cigars, however, is usually called an "orches tra." Drink of any kind falls under the head of "tub." Thus, if an actor, telling his friends of a meeting with a manager who may be unpopular, says: "The gonzwab asked me to have a tub and opened a fresh orchestra," his hearers nod understandingly. There is one word which means a whole sentence, to be translated at the pleasure of the hearer. The nearest approach to spelling it is "Ploffh," and it is used in a disparaging sense. An actor, criticising the performance of a fellow artist, will say: "He was all right until that great scene, then ploffh." When accompanied by a waving of the aims it means that the actor un der discussion was considered absolute ly inadequate for the role. It saves a lot of description for the speaker and his meaning is appreciated. Another tells of his visit to a mana ger seeking for an engagement. "What did he say?" asks the friend. Ploffh!" And there is no further need of words. The theater call board Is known as "sign" or "shingle." W'ardrohe is re ferred to as "rags" or "raiment," ac cording to the texture and value. Good and poor roles are called "pork" and "beans," respectively. The orchestra leader is called "swinger" or sometimes "batter." The manager well, it all de pends upon the degree of estimation in which he is held. TARKIXGTOX'S PLAY. "Gentleman rVom Indiana" Presented for First Time Last Week. The play that Booth Tarkington has made from his own novel, "The Gen tleman from Indiana," was acted in In dianapolis last week. It was the theat rical event of a generation. It was al most as though your own brother had written a play and asked all the neigh bors to see it acted, says the Indianap olis News. Every one in Indiana calls Tarkington "Booth," and as much of the state as could be crammed into the theater went to see "Booth's" play. In their enthusiasm for the author the spectators almost forgot the piece and the actors. This is the way in which they received Tarkington: "The moment came at the end of the third act. From the lower floor and the boxes came the cries of 'Speech! Mr. Tarkington, speech!' but from the gal lery nothing was heard but yells of 'Booth! Booth!' which testified to the popularity of the author and to the spirit of 'hail-fellow-well-met' with which he has always been regarded in his home town. At first he could not be found, and Mr. Morgan had to come on and say that Mr. Tarkington was hid ing in one of the dressing rooms. He promised, though, that Mr. Tarkington should be found in a moment, and soon, sure enough, while the applause con tinued, Mr. Presbrey, the producer of the play, came on, leading Mr. Tarking ton by the hand. "Nervousness was hardly the word for Mr. Tarkington's condition, but he made one of the best curtain speeches that have ever been made by an author on his first night, when he stammered out simply the word 'Thanks.' Then he got off the stage as quickly as may be. "But they called him back. The ap plause was insistent, prolonged, loud. And in response to it Mr. Tarkington came in front of the curtain and said: 'I meant thanks for the company as well as myself. If you didn't like it no one wouid. I guess that's about all.' It wasn't. Some one in the audience promptly yelled: 'Dear old Tark!' and the rest took up the cry. "No wonder that under such circum stances none of the reviews give a very clear idea of the piece itself. The first act is explanatory, picturing the In diana village where it passes, and .set ting forth the relations of the charac ters. A few bold souls dared to call it Chief Stahl heard that his spotter bills are allowed. 'slow, even on that first night. The second was also explanatory, and, again, according to those same brave souls, 'slow." At the end-came th shot that the Whitecaps fire at the hero, Harkless, and then the attempt to ab duct him. Then suspense began. It continued through the third act, where the villagers-discover Harkness, shame fully maltreated, and prepare to take the revenge of extermination on the Whitecaps. Harkness pleads desper ately with the mob, and finally per suades it 'to save the honor of the town." This scene is evidently the chief reason for the play. The fourth act looks explanatory, and even 'slow again. It nominates Harkness for con gress, when he believes he has been de feated, and brings him the lady of his heart on a balcony with all the towns folk cheering beneath. "If it is not a great play, it is a very human play a beautiful, poetic fancy of the struggle that is universal be tween right and wrong. Even 'the beau tiful and the universal!' have to be made interesting on the stage. But there will be a whole summer before New York sees the piece, in which Tarkington can do that." SOME STORIES OF THE! STAGE. George Ade is on the Pacific ocean en route to Japan, where he will remain for some time, putting the finishing touches to several new plays and musical come dies he has contracted to write. He will remain -in the orient for several months and return by way of the Suez canal to Europe, completing a trip around the world. He is expected to reach this coun try the latter part of June. Thomas Jefferson, the son of Joseph Jef ferson, happened in New York one day and called upon an old friend, an alder man. During the call an Italian couple came and asked if the alderman would unite them in marriage. The alderman performed the ceremony and after accept ing his fee politely handed to the bride an umbrella. Mr. Jefferson eyed the proceedings gravely and after the couple went out, asked: "Do you always do that, Charles?" "Do what? Marry them? Oh, yes." "No. I mean bestow a present upon the bride." "A present! Why, wasn't that her um brella?" gasped the alderman. "No, It was mine," replied Mr. Jeffer son sadly. As an example of the stolidity of the English when seeing the point of a joke is concerned. Raymond Hitchcock told the following story at Wallack's theater last week: "During my visit to foggy London last summer I was a member of a dinner party and was requested to tell the party a few stories. I gave them some of our American humor and wound up by asking: 'What goes around a button?' The silience was oppressive and even when I said 'a goat' the gloom continued. Final ly one of the women spoke up. 'Why,' she said, 'I didn't know they ate buttons.' Just before the close of the second act of "Leah Kleselma" in the Manhattan theater last Thursday night an excited boy ran into the theater and demanded that Mr. Cohen be summoned from the audience at once. x "His store's on fire," said the boy, when he was. asked why he wanted Cohen, "and he's in the theater with a lady." The bov was told that Mr. Cohen could not be disturbed and he hurried away. When the act was over the ushers went among the audience asking Mr. Cohen to step out to the box office. According to Treasurer Samuelson elev en Cohens appeared at the box office with in five minutes. Six admitted owning stores. The other live showed no interest in fires. The six storekeepers got their coats in a hurry and started away, each in a different direction. But all save one probably the victim of the fire came back. When Raymond Hitchcock, the star of the "Yankee Consul" was down- to hard pan with a barn storming troune and it wasn't so very many years ago he was called upon to play the, heroic role in a blood-curdling melodrama:. During the play the hero is tied to -a railroad track. "My character," said the comedian in telling the story recently, "was that of a brave section hand, and if I remember rightly the heroine was the daughter of the village boarding house keeper. The mean villain first locked the suffering he roine in the flagman's ehanty and then after a terrible encounter he bested me and tied me to the track. Now the prop erty man on this occasion had forgotten to place the ax with which the heroine was to break down the door and liberate me from my perilous position. The lady iimpersonating the heroine was rushing around like Richard of old shouting in hoarse whispers. 'An ax, an ax.' The men in charge of the train were overzeai ous and without waiting until the neces sary ax was secured started the train. Eight day coaches and a baggage car passed over me, to say nothing of the pasteboard engine, yet I was ready in the next act to deal out deferred retribution to that deep-dyed villain." Josenh Jefferson will take his leave of the Boston stage in p:aster week. He will not act. but will deliver a little address between the acts of "Rip "Van WinfUe," which is to be presented by his two sons Thomas and Joseph. Economy of Mourning. On a Pennsylvania ferry boat bound trainward from Twenty-third street the other afternoon two women met. One was in half mourning and her friend asked why. "Well, you see, my dear," explained the woman in black, "I am going to Florida for two months. I jus-t couldn't afford to buy a lot of spring clothes and wear them out down there, leaving me in need of another outfit when I return, so I just decided to let the folks think some one of my husband's relatives had departed. I'll have just as good a time at the hotels and won't have to put on a deferent gown every night." New York Sun. The Northwestern Line. One of the most interesting series of articles on the subject of the great rail ways of the country that. has appeared recently is that from the pen of Frank H. Spearman recently published in the Saturday Evening Post, and which has since been printed in book form by Scribners. The chapter descriptive of the Chicago Northwestern railway has been published by the passenger department of that line in pamphlet form for general destribution and will be sent to any address on receipt of 2c for postage. W. B. Knisker, P. T. M., Chicago. Republican city primary stirs up in terest at last moment. Tib ERY&ME I as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play when in health and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injuri ous or objectionable nature, and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform all reputa ble physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most beneficially and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste therefore it is not a secret remedy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co. plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is 'equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. Gems Gleaned From the Teachings of AU Denominations. If you could see God your soul would be drawn out of you and up ward as a happy flame. Rev. Dr. Frank Crane, Unitarian, Worcester, HOLD ON TO GOOD RESOLUTIONS Never throw away a good resolu tion because you have broken it. Mend it, and it will be better than ever. Mend it every time it breaks and keep on using it. -Rev. R, J. Burdette, Bap tist, Los Angeles, Cal. RULES OF CONDUCT. Let our rule of conduct be never to regard as of little consequence any thing which concerns our life as chil dren of God nor count as trifling any thing that may endanger our soul. Rev. Father Jackson, Roman Catholic, Atlanta, Ga DEFEATS AND VICTORIES. f Defeat and failure in business or life in our ambitions or plans, are re sults we never welcome. Yet there ar; many victories which are worse than defeats and many apparent fail ures which are victories. Rev. F. L. Phelari, Unitarian, Worcester, Mass. GOD'S SORROW. No mother bending over the cradle of her suffering child knows such sor row as our Heavenly Father, bending over this lost world of humanity, sor rowing because of sin sick souls and waiting that he may save.- Rev. S. W. McKelvey, Presbyterian. Pittsburg. SPIRIT OF JUSTICE. We must be just not only to our selves, but to society. If there is a place where I can right a wrong or correct an error, and if I have cow ardly failed to do it, I am an enemy to society and have failed to justify God, who gave me the spirit of justice.- Rev. Robert Y"ost, Congregationalist, Omaha. POWERFUL EVANGELISM. Evangelism needs this note to make it powerful: A Christ conquered per sonality is always and everywhere a conquering evangelism. Rev. Dr. John E. White, Baptist, Atlanta, Ga. OUR BEST SELVES. In order to attain our best selves, three things are necessary environ ment, protection from the past and touch with a vitalizing moral force. Rev. J. H. Boyd, Presbyterian, Evans ton, 111. HOPE AND WORK. Planting his thoughts and words like seeds, man must wait for his har vest, and hope helps him. Daily it is his staff and support. Indeed, with out this joy producing faculty man could not live. THE WORLD'S GOOD BEGINNING. Whatever the condition of the world now, the beginning was good, and this Attorney Monett begins Santa Fe Standard Oil investigation. 1 1- i-7 D-D0tA good was to be man's permanent pos session. The first scene is all happi ness, all heauty. To remember it now is like a dream. Rev. Dr. Stafford, Roman Catholic, Washington. SECRET OF SUCCESS. To know what path in life to enter is the secret of success. No man wants to wander aimlessly. It is an awful thing to lose one's way and be lost. It is more tragic to have lost one's way in life and not know it. Dr. Charles B. Mitchell, Methodist, Cleveland, O. HOW WE CAN INSPIRE OTHERS. No man lives to himself. While no man goes down without dragging some one with him, it is also true that no man climbs upon the rock of salvatiori without being an inspiration and help to other strugglers in the sea of life. Rev. E. B. .JBagby, Disciple, Washing ton. SOCIETY. Society today is organized along in dustrial lines, and it is in large meas ure along industrial lines that the so lution of its- problems must come. Rev. WTillard B. Thorp, Congregation alist, Chicago. DEFINITION OF THE SIMPLE LIFE The simple life is a genuine life in contradistinction to the life that is ar tificial, unnatural and spurious. It is a life in which self is master and posses sions and conditions are servants. It is a life which springs from an attitude of mind and soul. It is what is meant by the spiritual life. It is a life in the living of which lie the highest human realization and the deepest happiness. Rabbi Alexander J. Lyons, Brooklyn. HOW TO MEASURE LIFE. Silver and gold piled mountain high can never bring peace to the troubled conscience. Business success, social posi tion, worldly honors, political prefer ment these things cannot measure life. The soul wants more than things it cries out after the living God. Rev. Earle M. Ellsworth, Methodist, Cincin nati. THE SABBATH. The American Sunday may, as some say, be in need of the crutch of human legislation, but not so with the Bible Sunday, the true Lord's day, which rests upon a precept of Jehovah handed down from Sinai. It neither is in need of nor asks for any law compelling Its observance. Rev. G. B. Thompson, Second Adventist, Washington. ENDURANCE AND PATIENCE. Patience is the calm endurance of those changes and sufferings that may come to us. Sailors say it is but lying to and riding out the gale, Paul says our God is a God of patience. His great patience is shown in the patience and perfection of creation awaiting and abiding its proper time and order. Rev. C. O. Jones, Episcopalian, Atlanta, Ga. JOY IS COMING TO CHRIST. The way of Christ is never altogether easy. There are many hindrances. The STATE JOURNAL TOIDAY Lieutenant Governor Hanna officially closes the Kansas senate. 1 3 many worldly attractions and earthly preferences interfere, and the unwillini? heart offers the greatest obstacle and frames the most excuses. But really where there is a will there will be giv en the. privilege and joy of coming to Christ. The fact is it is worth all the trouble and self sacrifice to find him and be found accepted of him. Rev. W. H. Fehr, Lutheran, Pittsburg. POWER OF HOLINESS. Holiness heightens influence, gives rest to the mind, makes prayer real and helpful, sanctifies love and glorifies work and service. Such a life alone can be acceptable.to God. Half heartedness pleases no one, and a divided life ia im possible. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." Shams may pass among men, but they are not able to decei"a the great Judge of all the earth. Only realitv, truth, honesty, will serve with him. Rev. J. P. Maxlatt, Methodist, Ta coma, Wash. THE TRUE AMERICAN. Americanism is not in birth nor yet in adoption. It is something of tho heart and the spirit. Honorable ances try is an honor to us if we, being hon orable, honor our ancestry. Not length of years, but depth of love; not length of lineage, but depth of devotion to American Ideals and American prin ciples, makes the American. The Amer ican belongs to the whole nation; ha knows no sectionalism; he maintains no solid north or solid south. Rabbi Gries, Cleveland, O. A GUIDING BEACON. Our divine light is a quickening and transforming light. It is also a guid ing light. It not only calls into spir itual activity those human seeds buried in the quagmires of sin; it guides to Christ those wandering souls which, like a mariner who has lost his reck oning, are drifting toward the rocks of destruction. How many a weary soul tossed in the storm, with hope and courage failing, may find strength and spirit revive as it sees the divina light kindled by the grace of God in your soul shining out clear and true, as the sailor is cheered by the sight of the Diamond shoals light, which signals year in and year out fifteen miles to seaward off Carie Hatteras, or the Cape Charles light burns upon the water front of old Virginia, or thu Hog island shoals lighthouse burns off Rhode Island, or the Braddock point lighthouse stands sentinel upon the banks of Lake Ontario! How neces sary that the Christian's light should be always bright and shining! How many souls there may be looking to it for guidance through the storms of life! If it failed to burn, those souia might lose their wav, as, were the Barnegat light snuffed out, some no ble ship freighted with precious Uvea might in the darkness go crashing on the reefs. Rev. Dr. Frank De Witt Talmage, Presbyterian, Los Angeles; Cal. CARTOONIST. SATURDAY. Washburn seniors impersonate the old timers In a class play.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY -EVENING, "MARCH 11, 1905. P Another book on the race problem has appeared It is "The Master Word," by L. H. Hammond, just published by the fcfacrnillan company of New York. The book is receiving favorable notice end is considered an excellent presenta tion of the case from a southern stand point, though it is more moderate than some of the recent contributions to this field of literature. There is no phase of the race prob lem in the south today harder of solu tion than that concerned with the negro half castes or mulattoes, says one of the reviewers. Through an infusion of white blood these people have a super ior mental capacity, which influenced by other racial strains tends to maice them either more useful members of eociety than the full-blooded negro or more .dangrerous, as the case may be At their worst they seem the embodi ment of all that is vicious in both peo ples, and upon the. negroes with whom their lot is cast they act like the evil genius of the race. At their best they are the strongest power on earth to uplift and regenerate their ignorant and brutal fellows and to help on the dark race in its slow upward struggle. In "The Master Word" the subject of miscegenation is treated in story form by a southern wBman, who feels deeply cn the question and writes fluently. Her point of view is essentially a woman's point of view, making up in emotional interest what it lacks in Dreaatn ana outlook. During the serious illness of ber husband. Margaret Lawton dis covers that he is the father of a negro woman's child. She cannot and does rot forgive his unfaithfulness until af ter his death. Then in remorse she tries to do what she can to right the wrong which he had committed, and to that end has the child brought to her own house, where, as the niece of en old favorite servant, she cares for her and educates her. So Viry, the child, grows up with Margaret's own daughter Bess, and with Dick, Bess" brother, and Bruce, Margaret's protege. Viry is educated to become a teachr In a negro school, but she loathes and detests negroes, end her life as a teacher is unbearable. She belongs to that unfortunate class of mulatto that, almost white in blood end entirely white in feeling, yet is doomed ever to be cut off from associ ation with what is really its own kind. Of the majority of mulattoes whom Virv met at school she found they dif fered from her in this: "They had white blood, but it merely served to quicken the black nature; while for her the black blood had poisoned a white wom an's life.' This is the tragedy of life for Viry for which her unknown father was re sponsible, and this was a part of her husband's guilt that Margaret had ov erlooked. The situation is pathetic in the extreme, but the author seeks to show that it need not be hopeless; that such a life in spite of its suffering and shame has a golden opportunity for a noble and unselfish work. For the rest the story Is laid in the phosphate regions near Nashville, Tenn., and Bess, with her pretty face and her lovers, dances through the pages attractively. and Dick and Bruce in their work with the phosphate de posits have their hands full developing the new industry and holding in check the turbulent elements of humanity, black and white, which swarm about the mines. One of the delightful additions to the iove stories of today is Alice Win ter's "The Prize to the Hard," just published by the Bobbs-Merrill com pany. The scene of events is St. Ktlenne, a quickly grown-up city of the American northwest. Conspicu ous amonr the characters is a sturdy old millionaire magnate, who remem bers when the city's site was wild land, end who married, in his pioneer days, the beautiful young Indian girl he saved from drowning almost in sight of the wljwams of her people. He has retained tender memories of that bride, long dead, has this pioneer. They make him very loving to his half-breed daughter, Vera grown to charming young womanhood and showing the least trace of her Indian j Know What We judge from our records that one borne in five, the country over, ha ome one whom Liquozone has cured. Some have been cured of little ills; some know that their lives have been eaved by it. And most of those homes etill use Liquozone dally, as we do. to keea well. Those homes are scattered every where. Your neighbors and friends live in some of them. If you will only e.sk about Liquozone there are plenty to tell you about it. Why will you suf fer with any germ disease while mil lions know how to end it? Don't you realize that a product which is used like this must have re markable merit? We have never asked a. soul to buy Liquozone. We have published no testimonials, no evidence of cures. We have simply asked the sick to let us buy the first bottle to let the product itself prove what it can do. And we ask that of you, if you need it. If you are still using drugs to cure germ troubles, let us, at our ex pense, show you something better. What Liquozone Is. Liquozone is a product which, in the past two years has sprung into world wide use in the treatment of germ dis eases. It is now used by the sick of nine nations; by physicians and hospi tals everywhere. It is daily used in millions of homes in America. The virtues of Liquozone are derived olely from gas, made in large part from the best oxygen producers. No drugs, no alcohol nothing but this gas enters into it. The process of making takes 14 days, and requires immense apparatus. At the end of two weeks we get one cubic inch of Liquozone for each 1.250 cubic inches of gas used. The attainment of this product has, for more than 20 years, been the constant ubject of scientific and chf-mical re search. The main result is. to get into a li quid, and thus into the blood, a power ful, yet harmless germicide. And the product ia so helpful so good for you r 1 At ,i -11 11 11 v. blood. This Vera Is Miss Winter's heroine. She is the prize, and the en during winner is a manly young lover, coming from the same far New Eng land which had been her father's birthland. According to figures recently com piled by Dr. J. H. Canfleld of Colum bia university, formerly a member of the Kansas State university faculty. the more notable of our college and university libraries now rank as fol lows in resnect to size of collections: VOLUMES Bound. Unbound. Harvard 670.0O University of Chicago 4'1." Columbia StB.( Yale 315.wl Cornell 26.5. University of Pa, 2o,7"0 Princeton 181,800 Brown university 130.WK) 39i.OX 20O.000 100.000 300, 6n6 4t,500 fjO.OV) 48,000 30.000 University of California.. .124,C'0 John Hopkins university.. 117, 100,000 Amherst 81,000 25,000 Iceland Stanford university S0.81S 25,000 University of Nebraska 65,000 13.000 Williams 62,000 20,000 The figures are based on reports re ceived durinff the current year, and though some of them are partly esti mates and all are in round numbers, "they may in general," says Dr. Can fleld, "be depended on as correct and as furnishing an interesting statement of the present actual and comparative status of these libraries." Following are some of the prices real ized in a recent sale of rare books in Boston, as reported in the New York Post: Burn's 'Poems,' Kilmarnock, 1786, full levant morocco, by Pratt, fetched $625. A copy sold in London within a year for 220. Cicero's 'Cato Major,' Philadelphia, 1744, printed by Benjamin Franklin, in blue morocco, gilt top, with a number of uncut leaves, fetched $160. Hawthorne's 'Fanshawe,' Boston, 1828, an immaculate copy, realized $621. the record price having been $840, which was pain in October, 1902. In the French-Chubbock sal one year ago two copies were sold, bringing respectively $450 and $4r5. This copy was the fresh est of the three, and the price may be fairly indicative of the revival of auc tion prices. Keats' "Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes,' London, 1S20, morocco by Zachnsdorf, brought $67. An uncut copy is worth about 90 in London, which shows the importance of buying uncut books. "The Mystery Revealed, or Truth Brought to Light, etc., London, 1759. morocco, by Riviere. This volume con tains a statement of affairs, and an analysis of them from the Peace of Utrecht till after Braddock's defeat. The second part contains original documents for the narrative, etc., including such papers as Washington's and Braddock's. It fetched the goodly sum of $79. The Second Folio Shakespere, London, 1632, full crushed levant-morocco, by Riviere Son, with title-page remarg ined, the first leaf "To the Reader" and the last leaf in facsimile, brought $420. The Fourth Folio Shakespere, London, 1685, morocco by Riviere Son, with portrait and verses beneath, in facssi mile, fetched $325. FitzGerald's translation of the 'Rubai- yat of Omar Khayyam,' London, 1859, the first edition in full crushed levant- morocco, with some manuscript correc tions, said to be In the translator 3 handwriting, realized $317. I Tom Watson's Magazine has made its appearance. It is a well printed periodical and free, for the time at least, from illustrations. Mr. Watson occupies the first eleven pages with a personal survey of the political situ ation. Carefully studied, he says, 'the election of November 8, 1904. offers more encouragement to reform ers than any event which has hap pend since the civil war." "To W, J. B." and "To President Roosevelt" are two of the sub-titles in the sgile Georgian's own department. Dr. John H. Girdner writes of "Franchise Wealth and Municipal Ownership." W. S. Morgan's paper is headed "What Liquozone Can Do. under any condition that even a well person feels its instant benefit. We Paid $100,000. For the American rights to Liquo zone, and the rights In other countries have sold for proportionate sums. We mention this fact to indicate the value of Liquozone the value to you. Men have never before paid such a price for any discovery used in the cure of sick ness. We need not tell you that we proved Liquozone well before buying it. For years it was tested through phy sicians and hospitals. In this country and others. It was employed in every stage of every germ disease; in all the most difficult cases obtainable. With thousands of sick ones, considered in curable, we proved that it did what medicine could not do. Then, and then only, did we pay the price. Since then we have spent nearly $2,000,000 to make Liquozone known. We have bought the first bottle and given it free to every sick one we learn ed of. These people told others, and the others told others. The result is that Liquozone is now more widely employ ed than any medicine ever was. And no one can doubt that it is doing more for sick humanity than all the drugs in use combined. Kills Inside Germs. The greatest value of Liquozone lies in the fact that it kills germs in the body without killing the tissues, too. And no man knows another way to do it. Any drug that kills germs is a poison, and it cannot be taken inter nally. For that reason, medicine is almost helpless in any germ disease. Liquozone is a germicide so certain that we publish on every bottle an of fer of $1,000 for a disease germ that it cannot kill. Yet it Is not only harmless but of wonderful benefit better than anything else in the world for you. No one is so well that he cannot be helped by it. The reason Is that germs are -vegetables; and Liquozone like an excess Ml Buzzsaw Morgan Thinks," TV. J. Ghent contributes "The Butcheries of Peace a reckoning of deaths by dis aster, and besides other specials mere is an abundance of good fiction. Tom Watson's is a magazine that means to stay. BOOK NOTES. Various Items Aborct Books That Are Attracting Attention, Topeka people and other Kansans who knew Cyrus Townsend Brady when he was archdeacon of the Episcopal diocese of Kansas will be pleased to know that he has written a new sea story, "The' Two Captains." which has just been published by thfi Macmillan company. One of the new volumes in the Mac millan Pocket Classics Series will con sist of "Selections from Mathew Ar nold's Poems," edited by J. C. Castle man, assistant principal and teacher of English in the Bloomingdale, Ind.. high school. In the same convenient series have recently appeared an edi tion Of "Hawthorne's Wonder Book'' and one of "Alice in Wonderland." Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, the secretary in this country of the English-American committee which is establishing the Keats-Shelley memo rial house in Rome, has secured from Arthur Stringer the manuscript copy of his poem on Keats which appeared in a recent number of the Reader Magazine. The poem is to be framed and hung in the historic! house in the Piazza di Spagna. "Jack London: A Sketch of His Life and Work, with Portrait," is the title of a pamphlet recently issued by Mr. London's publishers, the Macmil lan company. Just now Mr. London is writing a play for Miss Ethel Barry- more. Next fall he begins a series of lectures and readings which will prob ably occupy him most of the winter and take him all over the United States. The March number of the Interna tional Socialist Review opens with an article by Ernest Untermann which is a distinct contribution to socialist thought on a side that has been neg lected, while at the same time it is written in easy, popular style. His subject is "The Evolution of the Theory of Evolution." The article dis cusses in a masterly fashion the foun dation principles of the materialistic monism of which the materialistic conception of history is a related part. A. C. McClurg Co.'s spring an nouncements include "Letters from an Oregon Ranch," by "Katharine"; "From the West to the West," by Abigail Scott Duniway a journey across the plains in the early fifties; "Iowa, the First Free State of the Louisiana Purchase." by William Sal ter; "The Athlete's Garland," sporting verse, compiled by Wallace Rice; "A Selection from the Great English Poets," by Sherwin Cody, and the Scammon Lectures before the Art in stitute of Chicago by Russell Sturgis. McClure-Phillips, the authorized publishers in America of Charles Wag ner's books, are bringing out as fast as possible the books by Mr. Wagner that have not yet been translated. They are adding to their list this spring "Wayside Sermons," (L Longue du Chemin) "The Spirit of Nature," (L'Ame des Choses "Justice," (Jus tice). This will place within the reach of American admirers of Mr. Wagner practically all his more Important books. An important treatise on the sci ence and art of orjran building' will soon be published by Dodd, Mead Co. The work is by George Ashdown Audsley, the result of thirty years' study of the subject of organ construc tion in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the United States, and in addition the author has been directly assisted by all the lead ing organ builders in the world. It will be fully illustrated and issued in a limited edition. The illustrations are drawn by the author and are in all cases true to scale. They will be re produced by photo-engraving and in serted in the text for easy reference. i It would be difficult to say .when there has been as much interest dis played in the life story of a famous man as is bein manifested in the forthcoming autobiography of Theo dore Thomas. The development of music in America is so closely con nected withe the career of the great conductor that in some ways the story of one is the story of the other. The work is likely to be regarded in this ilght and will undoubtedly find its way into every library of importance. Who Else Will of oxygen is deadly to vegetal matter. To the human body Liquozone is ex hilarating, vitalizing, purifying the most needful, the most helpful thing possible. But to germs it ia certain destruction; and these facts are true of nothing else in existence. Germ Diseases. These are the known germ diseases; all due to germs or to the poisons which germs create. These are the diseases to which medicine does not apply, for drugs cannot kill inside germs. All that medicine can do for these troubles is to act as a tonic, aiding Nature to overcome the germs. But those results are indirect and uncertain, depending on the patient's condition. A cure Is always doubtful when drugs are used, and some of these diseases medicine' never cures. Liquozone alone can destroy the cause of these troubles. It goes wher ever the blood goes, so that no germ can escape it. The results are almost Inevitable. Diseases which have resist ed medicine for years yield at once to Liquozone. "Incurable" diseases are cured by it. In any stage of any dis ease in this list the results are so cer tain that we will gladly send to any patient who asks it an absolute guar anty. Asthma Hay Fever Influenza Abscess Anaemia Kidney Diseases Bronchitis La Grippe Blood Poison Leucorrhea Bright's Disease Liver Troubles Bowel Troubles Many Heart Troubles Coughs Colds Malaria Neuralgia Consumption Piles Pneumonia Colic Croup v Pleurisy Quinsy Constipation Rheumatism Catarrh Cancer Scrofula Dysentery-Diarrhoea Skin Diseases Dandruff Dropsy Stomach Troubles Dyspepsia Throat Troubles Eczema Ervslpelas Tuberculosis Tumors Ulcers Fevers Gall Stones Varicose veins. Goitre Gout Women's Diseases. All diseases that begin with fever all Inflammation all catarrh all contagious diseases all the results of impure or poi soned blood. Moo Mo public, private, or musical, in this country. The publication date of the autobiography is announced for April 5, and it will be issued in two volumes (one of programmes), edited by tjreo. P. Upton, Mr. Thomas" lifelong- friend.

An experiment which will be watch ed with much interest by librarians is now being tried by the public library of Grand Rapids, Mich. It is an at tempt to establish in the homes of its patrons card catalogues of such classes of books as they may be especially in terested in. Each one participating In the scheme signifies the class of books of which he desires such a catalogue, duplicate cards (or all of the works of that class now In the library are furnished him, and as fast as new works of this class ere added to the library cards for these seit, so that his catalogue is always complete and up to date. The utility of the scheme is apparent, as it will enable the busy man not only to use the library without any waste of time, but to have always at hand an up to date bibliography of the subject in which he is interested. Through the use of printed cards the cost of this service is reduced to a minimum, the charge made being one cent for each card, whether supplied singly or in quantities. An account of the relations of the United States with the Barbary powers a century or more ago is told hy Dr. Gardner W. Allen in a romantic and remarkably interesting form. The vol ume has just appeared under the title of "Our Navy and the Barbary Cor sairs" from the press of Houghton, Mifflin Co., and while the book is classified under "History" the pictur esque exploits of Preble and Decatur and the adventures of our American seamen and consuls with the famous pirates of the Mediterranean give the entire work a flavor of true romance. It is hard to realize the extent to which the Mo hammedan states on the north coast of Africa levied tribute on the European nations until thir piracy was checked by the United States. In the first years of our "national existence our govern ment followed the example of European powers and tried to protect our ship ping by making money payments; but when Tripoli demanded larger sums, our refusal led to war. Dr. Allen's book tells fully the circumstances of this episode and of the admirible rec ord which our little navy mace in the Mediterranean during the first yoais of the 19th century. The birthday of Charles Dickens was celebrated in London, on February 7, by a dinner of the Boa club, at which the chairman. Lord James of Hereford, dwelt upon the novelist's influence as a social reformer. The Poor Laws, for in stance, were administered now with far greater clemency than when "Oliver Twist" was written. Lord Chancellor Halsbury. while extolling Dickens as a writer, doubted whether his fame was increased by putting him forward eith er as a politician or as a social reform er. Mr. Choate said that "the man who could make the whole world in dulge in honest laughter was one of the great benefactors of the world." But his main theme was the popularity of Dickens' stories in America, illustrating his point by relating an incident which happened in New York at the time of the publication of 'Dombey and Son' (1846-48). The last number received here had left it doubtful whether Paul would live. WThen the next steamer arrived at the docks, the passengers saw with considerable alarm a great crowd of people on the quays. Their fears- were dispelled, however, when they discovered that what the crowd wanted was to know whether Paul Dombey died or no." Booth Tarkington. whose new book, "In the Arena," is just out, has added an other trade to the many in which he is alreadv known to be an expert, and has shown himself already an adept in it. To day it Is Booth TarkinKton the playwright who is talked about. He recently under took the dramatization of his first suc cessful book. "The Gentleman from Indi ana," and the manager to whom it was submitted declared that he had never had submitted to him a play so cleverly han dled or so well adapted to the stage. So Mr. Tarkington, who was known in col lege for hi3 singing, then for his draw ing, then for his vtrse making, appearing before the public first as a novelist, is now on his way to win laurels in the dramatic arena. The work of Howard Chandler Christy, the artist, so far as the periodical press is concerned, will hereafter appear only In The Reader Magazine, an arrangement to this effect having lately been complet ed. This announcement will be received with delight by the Reader s readers, as will the further announcement that an early number of the magazine will con tain several Christy drawings in colors. In v4ew of Mr. Christy's popularity and the demand among publishers for his work, the fact that the Reader Magazine has secured the exclusive rights to his services once more illustrates the enter- eies Try t Free? In nervous debility Liquozone acts as a vitalizer, accomplishing what no drugs can do. 50c Bottle Free. If you need Liquozone, and have never used it, please send us the cou pon below. We will then send you an order on a local druggist for a full sized bottle a 50c bottle and will pay the druggist ourselves for It. This ap plies only to the first bottle, of course to those who have never used it. The acceptance of this offer places you under no obligations. We simply wish to convince you; to let the product itself show you what it can do. Then you can Judge by results as to whether you wish to continue. This offer itself should convince you that Liquozone does as we claim. We would certainly not buy a bottle and give it to you, if there was any doubt of results. You want these results; you want to be well and to keep well. Then be fair with yourself; ac cept our offer today. Let us show you, at our expense what this wonderful product means to you. Liquozone costs 60c and $1. CUT OUT THIS COUPON for this offer may not appear again. Fill out the blanks and mail to The Liquozone Company, 458-464 Wabash avenue, Chicago. My disease is I have never tried Liquozone, but if you will supply me a 50c bottle free, I will take it. MX 672B Give full address- -write plainly. Any physician or hospital not yet using Liquozone will be gladly supplied for a test. prise of that publication, which is now ?isnlzed 88 he raost successful high years masazine established in many "SIMPLE" MR. BOWSER. He Continues to live Life. Simple (Continued from last week.) Next morning after Mr. Bowser had made his start to live a "Simple Life after the lines laid down by the Rev. Charles Wagner, he woke as hungry aJ?e.ar' and uPn his descending to the dining room and finding a dish of rnm nd.a glas8 of waer await ing hrm his face seemed to lengthen out a foot longer. It wouldn't do to go back on himself, however, and he put on a smile as he sat down and began to eat. Mrs. Bowser had provided herself with eggs and bacon and rolls and cof ;we'.an.dihe meatally made up his mind ,f..he f ver came to an eni f his simplicity he would hake her heart ache for thus tantalizing and defying him at the same time. "Are you going to wear those old duds to the office?" she asked after awhile, seeing that he had on the same old suit. "Certainly," was his reply. "Clothes do not make the man. The people of this nation are paying out millions and millions of dollars a year for silks and broadcloths, when plainer goods would do far better. I shall be as consistent in my dress as in my eating." "And how about your lunch at noon?" "I shall seek some restaurant where I can get a glass of milk and a crust of bread." "And our dinner tonight?" "If you will kindly have a baked potato and a cut from a stale loaf of bread ready for me, it will be amply sufficient. You can go ahead and gorge yourself and die as soon as you please." Mr. Bowser had a rather bad day of it. When he got out to the corner he decided that consistency demanded that he should walk instead of tatino- th. street car. He had gone about two blocks when his feet suddenly went out from under him and he came down like a house. Before he could remember the new role he was playing he had ut tered about 16 cuss words, and as he scrambled around on the ice a woman turned aside and extended him a Vianrt and said: "Poor old man! You don't look as if you had anything to eat for three or four days, and those old clothes won't keep you from freezing. I pity you, and yet I must warn you against that awful habit of swearing." iJ J w n'.: i i i. uCJ nci am W1LU BL grunt, but five minutes later had an other adventure. A grocer's wagon had stopped on the cross-walk, and forget- I HE WALKED UP AND DOWN ting that he was "Simple" Bowser, the pedestrian halted to exclaim: "Here, you, boy drive on! Don't you know that you are blocking the walk, and that you could be arrested for it?" "What's struck you, old tramp?" was the impudent reply of the boy. Mr. Bowser had just drawn a full breath to blast him after the old Bow serian fashion, when a policeman came along and took him by the collar and threw him into a snowdrift and called after him: "That's the kind of a hair mattress you are looking for, you old fake!" During the day he was asked at least twenty times if he had been in swim ming and left his good clothes on the bank, or if he had made a change and gone into the old clothes business, and nothing but his settled determination to hang on to himself prevented half a dozen rows. At noon he ate the sort of a luncheon he had described to Mrs. Bowser, and when he started for home at five o'clock he was as hungry as a wolf. He departed from his rule and took a street car, but he had cause to wish he hadn't. He was hanging to a strap and wobbling about when he step ped on a woman's foot, and though bf at once begged pardon she faced him and said: "I am constantly asked to contribute to charity and told how badly the poor need money, and here ia one of you spending his cash to ride in a street car! You seem to have a pair of strong legs under you, and it's your business to walk." "Madam, I have got my old clothes on," replied Mr. Bowser. "I have got my old clothes on because I have start ed out to live "Well, you start out of this!" ex claimed the conductor, as he took his arm and led him to the rear platform and jammed his back against the rail ing. When Mr. Bowser reached his own gate he was so mad that he waited a moment to jump up and down and then kick at a passing dog, but he had got control of himself and worked up a emile a3 he entered the house. Mrs. Bowser met him as usual and added: "I have been thinking of you all day long. It is very brave In you to start out to live an entirely new life at your age, and you can depend upon me to encourage you in every possible way. If I spoke discouragingly last night I am sorry for it, and it shan't happen again. I have got your simple dinner ready for you." So she had. It was a big potato with its jacket on. and it had been baking all the afternoon. Beside it was a gob let of ice cold water. For her own dinner Mrs. Bowser had fried oysters, celery, asparagus, canned peas, bis cuit and honey, and fragrant tea, Mr. Bowser looked over at it with a smile on his face, but in his heart he said he would never forgive her if he lived a thousand years longer. The smell of those fried oysters as tney were Drougm on to the table lifted him a foot high, and the aroma of the tea and the sight of the clover honey made him wriggle around as if he had struck a tack. He realized that it was a put-up job to hurt his feelings, and he stiffen ed his heart and ate and drank with such gusto that Mrs. Bowser was al most deceived. She naturally asked how he had got through the day, and he naturally lied like a trooper when he said that he hadn't enjoyed himself so well in 20 years. He even went beyond that and said he had made four or five converts, and that he was thinking of going out into the country to live in a cave and subsist on roots. Mr. Bowser lingered over his dinner as long as he could, end several times expressed his pity for the rich and their ignorance in overloading their stomachs, and he smiled in a fatherly way at the cook as they left the table for the sitting room. When they were seated Mrs. Bowser said: m sjb His Feet Suddenly Went Out from Under Him. "You are right about the theater. It is no place for such simple people as us. You were also" right about botany and natural history. I sent over to the drug store today for some roots and herbs, and we will now take uo botany. I have also captured two cockroaches and a house-fly, and we will put them under the microscope and stick pins in their backs and learn all we can about natural history." Mr. Bowser turned red in the face and choked up. Never in all his life before had he so wanted to jump up and down and yell "woman!" at her, and never had he been so handicap ped. "Is it your collar that's choking you, dear?" solicitously 'queried Mrs. Bowser. "If I was you, I wouldn't put one on tomorrow morning when I got up. It is a useless piece of dress, and the day will yet come when the most fashionable man will consider an old stocking tied around his neck plenty good enough for all AND THE BNOWFAKES FLEW. purposes." There was no jawbone of an ass lying around for Mr. Bowser to slay with, and so he had to smile and go ahead with botany and natural his tory and keep his wrath bottled up. He was dissembling fairly well when Mrs. Bowser said: "You brought home two bottles of port the other day, and today, when a lady called to tell me about several sick families I gave her the two to take away. Of course, you will have no further need of wine." "What!" he exclaimed. "And I rigged a tramp out in one of your suits and gave him some extra collars and cuffs. He was very thank ful, and when I spoke about his turn ing to a more simple life he said he was going naked and live on burdock leaves next summer. He may call this evening'to get some pointers from you. "If he does I'll be hanged if I don't "What did yon say, dear?" "I I said, my love, that if he call ed I'd be glad to talk with him." "Yes, of course you will. I spoke to the man today about turning off the gas. It's a useless waste. Tallow candles are plenty good enough for us. The cook knows what to get for your breakfast. It will be bread soak ed in water and fried, and a dish of codfish. Are you going to take a walk before bedtime, as the pastoral people of Egypt used to do?" Mr. Bowser went out and walked. He walked up and down, and the snowflakes flew and the wind howled around his ears, and now and then he shut his teeth together and hissed into the darkness and the storm: "You just wait, old lady you just waist!" (Copyright, 1905, by T. C. McClure.) (Continued next week.) Traits of the Indian. He believes when a man is so un fortunate as to lose an eye he is en titled to two wives, and he generally gets them. The wolf has a regular name, and "is never mentioned as a wolf, but is accredited with having a soul and is considered almost human. An Indian never goes on a hunt soon after attending a funeral, knowing that game will detect his whereabouts readily after being at a funeral. The medicine man always takes charge of all in camp when on a hunt. He places his medicines in the ground with great pomp before builds ing his camp nre. xnc ue removed while the hunt is in prog ress. Knowing that a shot through the milt of a deer is fatal, the Indian always roasts and eats this part be fore he eats his supper after bringing in the carcass. The Indian has not yet attained that degree of civilization necessary to kill, while in anger, his father, mother, brother, sister or child. rNew York Tribune. Cured Consumption. Mrs B. W. Evans, Charwater, Kan., writes- "My husband lay sick for three months. The doctors said he had quick consumption. We procured a bottle of Ba'lard's Hbrehound Syrup and it cured him That was six years ago and since then we have always kept a bottle in the houe. We can not do without it. For coughs and colds it has no equal." 25c, 60c, and $1.00. Sold by Rowley Snow and W. S. Miller. IKI It -v, II 111 f Will tri ,1 xlt n1 v,? WHAT lj ill J 'f WHY? Because they are the mildest, sweetest and most satisfactory A trial will convince you. For sale by all dealers. CHAS. WOLFF PACKING CO. TOPEKA T'HERE are twenty beM reasons why ft j. you mould wear a w a. Erect FormConet. The best reuon the twenty i that the comet is int. The nearest dealer will tell you the other nineteen, rrices upward irom st. WEISGARTEN BROS., Makers 377-379 Broadway. New YerH G. O. DsMosa. L. 21. Painriu. DeMOSS&PENWELl Funeral Directors and Embalrners. FIRST-CLASS SERVIC3. Ill Qulncy St Both Phaet 19 TOPEKA, KANSAS. 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it fsr. lhS either eorr. non!aia or Bramftl tttndanc. FRANCES BAKER, M.D.. Pres.. 624 Kins. As..Taka. Kan. State Journal, 10c a Veek. lib iv.'vck ID) it'-- t. I l 3 si 1 i

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'TIS ELLEN CLEMINTINE HOWARTH. Gcnnan Words by the Composer. Andante. oi. bow tern er in its Denk nral -i-r V bt a roan dars Ta ches that pen, Angrer is one of the sinews of the soul; he that lacks it has a maimed mind. Thomas Fuller. There's really no ponse in being usly at least that's what Mrs. John Vance Cheney says you can think youisfif beautiful. It's some more of the sub jective mind business the influence of spirit over matter, that Rod is good and all is I-ove find all that sort of thins:, you know. "We've heard it about health and money troubles for years indeed ne have loads and loads of local dis ciples of the New Thought and you can't throw a stone without hitting: i O. S. but few of them have son? so far as to pay you could change your complexion without the 'aid of cosmetics or diet, and blondine your hair without peroxide. Hut Mrs. John Vance Chenev says you can at least that's the logi cal inference. If you can make yourself beautiful I suppose you an choose your Ftyle classic or irregularly piquant: blonde or brunette or auburn: Gibson or Stanlaws or Harrison Fisher. For years the trirls have been doinjr it the clever ones t-hc-isinp their style and making themselves up for it but they have used a rabbit's foot (silver mount ed and dipped in an imported Parisian beauty-box) rather than a "good thought." Mrs. Cheney, however, is poing to change all that. ron't bothr with cold creams and complexion brushes, she says, but just think about it. Only put your mind upon it and you art bound to be beautiful. "I wonder if it will prow hair," said Cynthia, filling: the cups. "I've tried most everything:. "Why not? Of course." responded the other who was explaining the new theory to which she had been converted after reading Mrs. Cheney's exposition of it. "he says any one may try it DRUNKENNESS CURED TO STAY CURED BY Vhite Ribbon Remedy. No ta-ito. Xo odor. Any woman can plve it in slass of water, tea. eoftee or food without patient's knowledge. W hile KlMon Remedy will cure or de stroy the diseased ar-petito for all alco holic drink's, whether tne .:tient is a con lii med inehriau a "tipp!er." social drink er or drunkard. Impossible for ;:ny one to have jin ai petite tor alcoholic Ikjuors after using White Ribbon Kemedy. It has made many thousands of permanent cures and in eddition restores the victim to normal health, steadying the nervts. in creasing the will power and determination to rtsist temptation. Undoixod by 'em!ers of a Woman's Christian Temperance I'nion, Physicians. Hospitals, Clergy men and Temperance. Workers Write Dr. W. R. Brown. 21S Trcmont St.. Boston, for trial package and letter of tdvice in plain sealed envelope. All let ters confidential and destroyed as soon as answerer!. White Ribbon Remedy sold by druggists everywhere, also sent by mail in plain package, price i!.i. Sold and rec ommended by svseei.al apent in Topeka. Wilghtman' Drug Store, 833 Kansas Avenue. W r -T -5 5y -r" j -e i i -f- BUT A LITTLE FADED FLOWER NUR EINE KT FINE WELKE BLUTE. jp,p v Pv- fond ly dear! im-mer dax! in roost core, wohl nicht stent Twill bring mo back Sie ruft zu ruck Some fond re mem Von scho nen Stan wea ry mtk da rear. Jrvhr. more?, irebt? I mar Die "ftVit Who hnth Wer wahrt are no die ver Copyright 1900, by the Arcerican Mulody and advises it for the working girls especially. Some morning- they're all Koing to be missing and their employ ers will find they're staying at home thinking themselves beautiful." "But there's nothing in it," said Cyn thia. "I've seen it tried. Don't you re member Sallie Morton who graduated with us at Madame Blank's and after wards taught at Smith's? She always had the beauty craze. That's why she taught she thought being employed, having an object, would beautify her. Just when sht- got a good start she found that she was aging. Her vaca tion used to be simply one strenuous 1 quest of beauty and health. But she got older every minute and more fad ed. Finally she married didn't care much about the man but thought it might help some. He was awfully de voted, and she knew he'd wait on her, and having found the doctrine of the strenuous life a failure she was inclined to try ignoble ease,' awhile. So she gave herself up to a life of luxury and sybaritism breakfast in bed, driving everywhere she went, and all that, with the serious intent of becoming beautiful. And did she? Not she. She tried so hard that she became worn and thin in the struggle. I tell you, it's the girls who never think about it who look the best faces, figures, clothes and every thing. It's forgetting your looks instead of thinking about them that does it. In difference it's the greatest blessing in the world except health. A combina tion of the two is the one formula for contentment. All things may come to him who waits I don't know but it's a cinch they do if he forgets what he's waiting for." She paused to refill her cup. "And then Mrs. Cheney goes on to ask if your bull's-eye is working right?" said the other girl. "Your what!" gasped Cy nthia. "Yes, the bull's-eye of your deepest consciousness, you know. If it is, you're a perfectly harmonious beinc and that's better than beauty in fact it is beauty psyemcauy speaking and that's the only way we ought to speak, you know. It's the only way Mrs. Cheney speaks." "Dear me," sighed Cynthia. Millinery openings have begun. These are always interesting, for hats begin to look heavy and rather shabby aftsr the first of March, and new ones ire very attractive, says a writer in the New York Post. Generalizing from the models shown so far, it may be said that the hat has in a measure super seded the turban in summer millinery. There are turbans to be had. certainiv but most women will prefer the h-its made small and close by folding and twisting the broad and flexible brims. The new sunk braids a,re beautiful, and some of the simplest hrtts are made very expensive on account of the fine ness of the material. A satin straw braid, rather coarse and looselv woven was marked $:1S. It was a sort of a toque, and had not a particle of trim ming except bows and loops of the braid. The workmanship, however, vva:i exo.uisite. It was apparent that the hat to wear over the face. usually made with a brim turned up sharply in the back is to te a typical model. Dozens of those have been seen, but no two at all alike. Another characteristic feature of the new hats is the extremely high bandeau AH hats sit hirh on the head. This is trying to sonu faces, but decidedly be coming to others. Surely the big pom padour will have to be abandoned if this model is to become onnnlar a for shapes, it may be said that crowns K r 1 ga i -Mz 1. 'Tis but a lit tie fad ed flow er, But l! Nut ei ne klei ne wel he Bia te, Doch heart that does not keep, With Here, in des sen Tie fen Ein tfcrJ?z- m r5f;.,: j j 1-4 I fr X' Ur-J J, 18 Z 1- J. 1 i lr I i--f-gi::g:f I r g THE TOPEKA STATE JAQUES MENDELSOHN. one pold-en mir dei ne brance, hid-den den, die ent hosj aa to deep schlie fen, 3tn not to the world im part almt nicht die Zaa ber-kraft, not saved some trifling thrng, sich n'oht ein klei nes Ding, Company, Nctt York. are both medium and bigh, few If any low or flat crowns being shown, and the brims are bent into all kinds of shapes, but are seldom left smooth and flat. A few round sailor shapes have been seen. A great deal of mauve and violet seems to be called for. In fact, those appear to be the color of the season f-o far. A charming model, which stood out among dozens of hats at a late week opening, was a pale violet chip turban rolled up in the back, with a high bandeau which tipped the hat far forward over the brow. The under part of the brim was lined with malines in a matching shade, and the entire crown of the hat was- covered with- exquisite lilacs. There were more lilacs to droop over the hair at the back, with ribbon bows and ends mingled. This was chamingly simple and effective. The fashion of trimming hats with several varieties of floivers is hard to grow enthusiastic over. One little hat of the poke bonnet order was trimmed around the brim with pansies, rosebuds lilacs, cowslips, and green leaves. The effect was good enough, as far as the color combination was concerned, but the mixture was too incongruous. One would not have greatly cared to see so many flowers heaped together m a gar den. Some combinations are attractive. A green tulle turban trimmed with pale lilacs and a few pansies was delightful. Likewise a sailor of lilac straw wreath ed with deeper lilacs and very gorgeous pansies. Much discretion should enter into any combination of flowers. ve have long outgrown the miscellaneous bouquet with a lace paper frill around it. Millinery should be consistent. The lingerie hat has been brought to a state of perfection. The handsomest of these are extremely simple, and de pend on their daintiness and the beau ty of their materials for their charm. I USED ROUND THE WORLD Q Walter laier k (ks hocolatc and ocoa The Leader for 124 Years X.OOIC FOR THIS TRADE-MARK r in J World s Grand Pnze(Sh World's Fair Ouis Walter Baker Co. Ltd. Established i7So DORCHESTER, MASS. a r- HIGHEST AWARDS IN t-S EUROPE AND AMERICA XT 1 V 1 JOUKNAL, SATURDAY .Through Dorch Of Von The Die More Mehr They are trimmed hardly at all. a large bow of ribbon or ribbon rosettes serving for sole ornamentation. A typical mod el was a sort of Tarn O'Shanter in em broidered mull over a lining of sky blue silk. The silk, very full and plisse, appeared in the brim and two great choux of the silk on one side completed the hat. The poke bonnet will be popular for children, and some young women with a bent towards the picturesque may adopt it. A number of most attractive models are being shown. One of coftee-coioreu lace straw lined with white tulle and trimmed with r-.inlt and white roses and Lgreen ribbon was -noticed. The right type OI girl wouia nave uccn .w., charming in that bonnet. However, the poke is rather too conspicuous for or dinary wear. It should be reserved for garden parties, weddings, and other dressy occasions. Margy wrapped her bath towel around her as she sprang dripping from the tub and rushed to the door. "What is it?" she demanded, and backed behind "Laundry," came from the other side. "Well, I should think so," said Margy. "It's a whole week late." "A fire next-door does it," explained thp hnv adrlimr .t1.25." "Goodness! Can't you leave it? I'm not dressed yet." "Can't leave it without it's paid. "Then I'll have to shut you out, and don't you dare leave!" she commanded. She tripped her way to her desk, made out a check and exchanged it for the bundle of clothes. "They are just in time, if I am to get up there at all, she communed with herself, discarding the row of things she had taken off when preparing for the water. Then, when the whistle of the boy faded from the steps, she opened the bundle. There were three white waistcoats, eleven collars. No. 17; five night shirts and a bunch of half hose, about $3.50 worth of them. She reached the party very late. So did he. "To tell the truth," he admit ted "my wash got hung up somewhere and I was short of collars. I got a package all underwear and pretty things. But say, I couldn't wear them. Then said she, "Oh!" Cincinnati En quirer. Although, an amazing amount of material is needed for the fashionable gown, the fashions are rather favor able for those of us who make over our clothes. Sometimes a short length of silk or other fabric, say twelve yards, is on hand. Just now one may use such lengths very well. Most of the material is put into the skirt, which must be full. The waist is com nnH mainlv of lace, dyed to match, or otherwise brought into harmony with the gown color, with strips of the material applied, bretelles. or a short bolero over the lace. A gown of porcelain blue chiffon taffeta had a skirt laid in shallow plaits all around and a very high pointed girdle. The blouse was of all-over lace dyed to a little lighter blue. This was overlaid with a lattice of taffeta strips, very narrow strins stitched fiat to the lace. The shoulders were trimmed with three-inch bands of tne sun, into whifh the lnttice strips ran. The dress was informal, but very pretty. A o-rent manv linen gowns are Deing marte with stimi boleros, or sleeveless jackets. In the latter case the collar of the jacket is like a cape and droops over the b!ouse sleeve. Some heavy linen shirtwaist suits are maae witn low round necks and short puffed sleeves to wear over a guimpe ana sleeves of thin linen, embroidered or bee trimmed. This IS a pretty lasn- ion also for pongee and foulard silks. Very -simple gowns or nanoKercmei linen verv fine and sheer, are em broidered freely on both skirt and waist. Such gowns are especially rec ommended for elderly w-omen. Five out of ten of the summer trowns alre.-idv seen are made with guimpes or chemisettes, and the shops are showing tempting little hand made mull and thin linen affairs, laced and embroidered. Ingenious fingers should be able to make very pretty guimpes at home especially if one be EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. -N V 'i so cret of its power............ But trans ib. rem Daft ent quillt In mei prized than jew -els rare A fad s ed flowr, wert sis al les Gold............. SfB Blfba lien welk. gn f- j2 y-i eres-cen-do. j J yUg r-rfTl f 'fizfz: f g J 7' J J p L- r trl 4 n r m i r is p r' p J. j ,1 I iJ J S kwn kt fad d ftowY. t. Wien is tb U mean Seh m skSk 2. Wo fc Am r w I,.. 1 i 1 r .y (Zi- I a! T f J K? 1 I 1 crescendo. r- r. 1 T J c f7- r. 11 bo ten ricg, A taaaa of ad-n bvodh Mr Seta rax tin XOckmn koldt. MMU. t coUa voce, in- HP -t rrri J .v. -77T- WJB SSI A JADED nOVES. SDd pan. purchased for a model. The new model linen shirtwaists are made with broad tucks running from shoulder to waist, sometimes with smaller tucks between. A very good model in a shop known for the per fection of. its waists has three tucks a full inch wide running the length of the 'waist, with groups of tiny tucks between, the latter stitched for a few inches only. The back of the waist shows a group of small tucks running aown the middle. An extremely attractive dress of natural colored linen was seen in a city shop. It had the usual plaited skirt and had a blouse with a deep round yoke, which was embroidered with sprays of white wheat. There was a great deal ot the embroidery, and the yoke was bordered at the col larless neck, and also where it joined the blouse, with a conventional de sign in white. A broad fold of the linen in the front of the gown was era broidered with wheat sprays, as were the full sleeves. The sleeves were gathered into a high cuff, fastened on the outside with white linen buttons and loops. The belt was embroidered in the conventional design used in the yoke border. Judging as nearly as one may from between season styles, the walking length skirt is an established institu tion for walking gowns. The ten dency to make all other gowns with long skirts is plain. Trains do not ap pear, but skirts lie well on the ground all around, except directly in front. The skirt five inches below the feet in front has happily disappeared. TJn doubtedly that skirt looked well in a nhotograDh. and when the wearer stood still. It was a torture to walk in. THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL. Few People Know How Useful It Is !u Preserving Health and Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that cbar- coal is the safest and most efficient dis infectant and purifier in nature, but few realize its vaiue when taken into the human system for the same cleans ing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy tnat tne more you take of it the better; it is not a drug at all, but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of the system. Charcoal sweetens tne breath after smoking, anji-king or alter eating onions and other odorous vegetables. Charcoal effectually clears and im proves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and further acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic. It absorbs tne injurious gases wnicn collect in the stomach and bowels; It disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrn. All druggists sen cnarcoal in one form or another, but probably the best charcoal and the most for the money is in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges; they nre composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics in tablet lorm or rather in the form of large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey. The daily use ot tnese lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health, better complex ion, sweeter breatn ana purer blood, nnri the beauty of it is, that no possible harm can result from their continued use. but on the contrary, great bene fit. A Buffalo pnysician in speaKing or the benefits of charcoal, says: "I ad vise Stuart s tjnareoai j,ozenges to an patients suffering from gas in stomach snd bowels, and to clear the complex ion and purify the breath, mouth and throat; I also believe the liver is great ly benefited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box ot drusr stores, and although in some sense a patent preparation, yet I be lieve I get more and better charcoal in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges than in vnv of the ordinary charcoal tablets." -N- tired fa soy nam Her-ean Tailored gowns for dressy wear are made with skirts that just escape the ground. This was demonstrated in a new redingote gown of dark blue Bur lingham silk trimmed in velvet of the same shade. The skirt of the red ingote was very full, and laid in in verted plaits all around. It was trim med at the foot with, a broad band of velvet, with two narrow bands of vel vet above. The waist was confined in a girdle of velvet sharply pointed at the xront, short on the hips and quite high, giving a short-waisted effect to the bodice. This was cut square in the neck, showing a guimpe of cream lace. Rows of velvet to match the skirt trimming appeared on the waist, and the same scheme was apparent on the cuffs of the elbow sleeve. The un der sleeve was formed of full ruffles of cream lace. The underskirt of the gown was plaited, and had no trim ming of any sort. The redingote falls quite to the ankles.leaving only a few inches of the underskirt showing. This length is much more graceful than the three quarters length coats so much worn. Still, short women should avoid wear ing even this style, as a divided line across the skirt invariably takes away from the apparent height. Long, un broken lines are indicated for the short woman. If broad hips be added to shortness of limb, even plaited skirts are barred, unless the tailor is a genius. Nothing is uglier than a stout woman in a full, plaited skirt Of course, dinner and evening gowns are made with long skirts. "That story that's going the rounds at tributed to Hihton Perrv. the New York sculptor, reminds me," said a club man. hat story? inquired the other. "Perry asks the scrubwoman who cares for his studio how many children she has. 'It's sivin I have, sir." she answers. 'Four be the third wife of me'second husband, and three be the second wife of me first." "What does it remind you of?" "Of a family I knew well here in Prov idence several years ago. They've moved away .since. A widower with two boys and a girl and a widow with two girls and a boy were married. This marrying and remarrying, along with the divorces, and results in some queer complications, and this didn't begin to be a mixed case as compared with hundreds that might be mentioned. But when it was necessary to distinguish Detween tne broods it was funny to hear the new wife refer to 'your children' and 'my children.' And later the situation so developed that when he returned home at night she used to ex plain tne day s doings in this fashion 'Your children went to school this morn ing, Arthur. I took my chilidren shopping with mo, ana our cnuaren naven t oeen out of the nursery except to come to the table.' "providence Journal. Wliimsical Charities. Many persons who wish to bestow charity have strange ways of carrying out their ideas. Some years ago an Knglishman named James Moss left $500 to be invested in land, the rent of which was to provide five gowns, ac cording to the will "of a sad blue color'' for as many aged and poor men living in the town. Some years ago a Frenchman named Bourne died and left to the poor of his town a few acres of no great value. For more than two centuries the lands yielded only a few dollars a year. The nearest large town began to spread and soon took in these lands. The value in creased amazingly, so that today the revenue from them amounts to over $10,000 a year. From this sum 68 poor people draw pensions of $50 a year and 24 old men and women live rent free and enjoy an annual present of $.20 be sides. A similar charity, which has benefited many people, is that founded by Will iam France. At his death ho left lands valued at a few thousand dollars for Christmas gifts to his needy fellow townsmen. The revenue has now pass ed into hundreds, and the sum of $22. 500 is now distributed annually in the town. Of this sum $15,000 has been con tributed to a local technical school and an infirmary. One of the strangest of there charities provided a sum of mon ey with the direction that "on Sunday after divine service was performed there should be an annual ceremony of H dim. is .Win moet heart, I derschafft TJnd (Omit cmslasscn ,!!li(ft"!i'i.'!f,,!f!!'ii!!r!itiii(i;.i'ii!n,!U'!!!!!;n'(ti!i'ij In the long run, that it pays in more ways than one to let us do your transfer work. Phone 320 Topeka Transfer and, Storage Co. 406 East Sixth Street sit mm i-rremtrv Don't tie the top of yoor Jelly and preserve Jars in ibeold fashioned way. Be&i f thera by the now, quick, absolutely euro wqv by M ..1 a. thin riont.lno- tit Vnr Reiined Parulllne. Has no lanto or odor. Is air tight and acM proof. JbuAlir uonlled. I eful In adozon other s aoout the houne. directions with each cake, bold everywhere. Midely STANDARD OIL CO. re throwing bread and cheese out of thi church steeple among the spectators and giving them ale." The custom was established by two women. Another beneficent act was by a man named Henry Greene, of London. He was an odd character, who lived in the eigh teenth century and had considerable money. He left a sum of money, the interest of which was to be spent an nually in providing "four old women with green waistcoats, to be laced with green ga'loon lace and to be delivered to the women on or before December 20, so that they may be worn on Christ mas day." William Robinson, one time sheriff of the town in which he lived, contrived to have his memory kept green at a much smaller cost than many men would pay for even a limited mortality. By his will he directed that every Christmas day 12 loaves of bread should be given to as many poor widows. But in order to qualify for the loaves the widows must present themselves at the testator's grave and receive their Christmas gifts over the bones of their benefactor. Calvert. 1r "What was the date of the admission of Utah?" Baity Moore "Which admission.' She has Deen making so many damaging ones of late." Baltimore American. S Sa r i .3 V 1, BIANBARP OIL CO. j 4

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURD AY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. 12 TOPERA STATE JQUR5AL. ET FRANK P. MAC liENNAN. Entered July 1. 1S75, as second class mutter at the postoftice at Topeka. Kaiu UDder thts act of concress.) .VOLUME XXXII ...No. 60 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edmon. delivered by carrier, 19 cents a week to any part of Topeka. or uburb.i, or et the wn price In any Ivan aa towu where the paper baa a. carrier l item. By mail, one year By mall, three months Weekly edition, one year -ri Saturday edition ct dally, one year.... iw I TELEPHONES. t Business Office i.il Bu.lness Office Jfl .".'rr.'..'.."!.'..'".'-id- f Heporttra' Room PERMANENT HOME. Tonelcri State Journal building. S ana CB Kanies avenue, corner of E-ignta. HEW YORK OFFICE; m Var-derbilt Biag. 4 Paul Block. Mgr. CHICAGO OFFIOE: 1540 X'nitv Bid!?. Paul Block. Mgr. ffCXZ. tSASEO "WISE HEFCP.T CP gS3 ASSOCIATED P&SS-S. THm Mrt Tint i i a 1 1 a member ot the Associated Press 4nd receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganization for exclusive afternoon, pubil-.-atton In Topeka. The news is received In the 8tate Jour nal Dulidlna- over wires for thia sole puj- pcrae. The next thins Is to register. Mr. Gorky, of Russia, should have no difficulty in selling his stuff to the mag azines after all the advertising he has had. There Is pending In the Pennsylvania legislature what is known as the Phuhl bill. Kansas had a lot of the same kind. This is the time of year to take pre cautions against the worms that de stroy the foliage on the elm trees later on. Now what sort of a reception do you suppose they will get upTtor Kuropatkin when he goes back to St. Petersburg if he goes? The report of Mrs. Chadwick's col lapse seems to Indicate that there, is a lot of difference between her nerve and her nerves. It Is suspected that Commissioner Garfield was looking through the wrong end of the telescope when he was look ing at the beef trust profits. Reports from the Kansas wheat belt indicate that the pessimists still have opportunity to kill oft the wheat crop eix or eight times before harvest. The Ottawa county jail up at Minne apolis hasn't been used for three months, and the Messenger offers it as a hotel for violators of the anti-trust law. The announcement that Kuropatkin planned to end the war in a month fseems to have been subject to amend ment and debate. And Oyama did the amending. If John D. has Instructed his press clipping bureau to omit all clippings with the word Kansas in them, as re ported, it will greatly lessen the work of that Institution. An exchange pays that the Standard Oil company has never pdoin any fear of anything yet. Still, It must be re membered that John D. never went up against Kansas btfore. The Washington Post refers to the beef trust resolution passed by the Kansas legislature as a legislative Etump speech, but the Post says Kan sas Is right in the matter. Jim Jeffries is correct in his state ment that no pugilist is any good after he is 40 years old. The statement might be amended by striking out the last six words and still hold good. A Denver man has found out why Dr. Osier said what he did. He had Just spent two days In the senate gal lery In Washington, listening to the speeches. That's why he said It. Instead of passing resolutions of sym pathy with Kansas in the Standard Oil fight, why doesn't' some of the legisla ture resolute a little sympathy for the beef trust because of its small profits. Mrs. Nation's denunciation of Kansas officials as "devils, anarchists and hell hound hypocrites," leads the Washing ton Post to suspect that Mr. Rockefel ler is glad to have some one say it for him. The business of Chicago marl order houses Increased between 15 and 20 per cent the past year, and two houses did the bulk of It. The business amounted to $65,000,000, and it all came from ad vertising. It seems that Mr. Paul Morton didn't say It after all. It was his subordinate, Mr. Biddle, who remarked that the Santa Fe tried th costly experiment of being honest and found that they lost business by it. Although the state senate Oslerized the resolution to publish the Rowett re port, a majority of the members of the house went on record In favor of telling the people of Kansas Just what Mr. Rowett discovered. There Is this difference between the Russians and Japs: Many of the Japs in America contribute regularly to their national war fund. Do you sup pose any of the Russians in America contribute to the czar? It Is too bad Phil Campbell's parents were not considerate enough of their pen's future to move to Kansas from Nova Scotia a few months sooner. Thir delay has knocked Mr. Campbell out of a good boom for president. The only things that did not ad vance in price in Washington during inauguration week were whisky and cigars. Some Individuals would prob ably find in this an excuse to use an abundance of those articles. THE FALL OF MCKBEX. The week ending March 11, 1903, will go down in history as the date of one of the greatest of world-battles, the Battle of' Mukden. In it almost fight hundred thousand men have been en gaged actively engaged. In the Bus1 sian army alone were ten times as many men as there are inhabitants in the city of Topeka. The Japanese army was smaller by 20,000 than the, Russian, but both armies were so large that even this great number made no appreciable difference between them in point of numbers. In the days of our own great Civil war an army of 40,000 was a tremendous force, yet Kuropatkin has had ten times that number fighting under him at Mukden this week, while Field Mar shal Oyama has had 3S0.O0O, and reports from the seat of war indicate that they have practically all been actively en gaged in the battle. There have been tremendous armies in ancient times, but they were equip ped with comparatively crude arms. A million men armed with spears and bows would not equal ten thousand car rying modern arms and with field ar tillery to back them up. In the popular mind the outcome of the war has been decided ever since Port Arthur was taken, but the dis aster which has overtaken the Russian army in the fall of Mukden seems to certainly enh Russian supremacy in Manchuria and eastern Asia generally. Will it end the war? TALE, LEGISLATURE! This week Topeka kissed the legisla ture of 1905 goodby and sent it home. Judging from the expressions that were dropped from time to time, the legislature had a good time in To peka, and of course Topeka always enjoys entertaining a legislature. Taken altogether, it was a pretty good sort of a legislature. Of course it may have done a few foolish things a legislature cannot be expected to be perfect, and one looks for some things which will not go down In his tory as entirely creditable but taken as a whole the legislature of 1905 was a pretty decent sort. It didn't boodle or if It did it kept the matter well covered up. Of course there may have been a little small boodllng a sort of petty larceny but there was none of the open, shameless kind like Colorado and California have been afflicted with, and which Is the regular thing in Illinois and used to be in Missouri. The legislature of 1905 was a some what strenuous one. It didn't mean to be, but when the oil producers got behind it, it got excited. It wasn't any more factional than the exigencies of the case demanded. neither did it lavish the state's money on itself nor on useless employes. Taken as a whole, Topeka will put Its stamp of approval on the legisla ture of 1905, and she is sorry to part with it, but still we will try to worry along without it, collectively, for an other two years. Individually we would like to see most of the legisla ture back any time it can raise the price or fret a pass. Goodby, legislature, take keer of yerself KANSAS IS SAFE AND KANE. Inquiries, are made in various parts of the country whether Kansas is not going crazy on the subject of trust busting. Some people are suggesting that perhaps the people of this com monwealth will frighten capital out of their state by overdoing the matter of "regulating" trusts. The reverse is true. Kansas is still safe and sane. Instead of fighting capi tal out of the state, Kansas intends to encourage capital to come into the state. She does not intend to hurt Standard Oil nor any other trust so long as they behave and do not try to run. things, but if they attempt to throttle competition and say that no body else shall do business in Kansas, Kansas proposes to make it safe for outside capital to come in and do busi ness regardless of the trusts. The outside world may have got the idea Kansas is overdoing this matter be cause of the determination Kansas has expressed. Kansas doesn't do things by halves. When the task In hand is accomplished Kansas will turn to some thing else until the trusts again need her attention. But just because Kan sas shows a little enthusiasm and de termination In the matter of regulating a few law-breaking trusts is not sign that she Is going crazy. THAT REAPPORTIONMENT. One of Its duties in which the legis lature of 1905 failed was the reap portionment of the state into eight congressional districts. The alleged reapportionment act that was passed does not reapportion. It i9 simply a makeshift passed to fulfill a platforin pledge. Already two districts contain twice the population of the new Eighth, and they are gaining at a rapid rate, while the three smallest districts are actually losing in popu lation. Here are the population figures for the eight districts as they were on March 1, 1904, and showing the loss or gain for the year preceding that date: First 220,511, a gain of 30. Second 252, S69, a gain of 12,259. Third 255.98 3, a gain of 22,147. Fourth 1C0, 6 60, a loss of 609. Fifth 164,215, a loss of 1.922. Sixth 173,560, a gain of 5,200. Seventh 163,529, a gain of 6.543. Eighth 136,984, a loss of 522. The two largest districts are gain ing at a tremendous rate, white the three smallest ones are losing. In an other year the Third will go over the 300.000 mark, while the Eighth will have only 40 per cent of that figure. Counting the same gain or loss for the year ending March 1, 1905, as for the previous year, the Third district today has a population of 278,130, more than twice as many as th; Eighth, and it Is gaining at the rate of 22.000 a year. If Cowley county had been put in the new Eighth, aa originally Intended by the Brandon bill, it would have improved matters a little, but the main defect would not have been remedied. The entire trouble was In creating the new district in the wrong place. It should have been formed chiefly out of the rapid-growing Sec ond and Third districts. This, as the State Journal has repeatedly pointed out, would have left each of the pres ent congressmen undisturbed, so far as district boundaries are concerned. The alleged apportionment law as passed either legislates out of con gress one of the most useful members Kansas has, Congressman-at-Large Charles F. Scott, or it compels him to defeat some one else for the Second district nomination. One of the principal dangers from this makeshift reapportionment Is that future legislatures may accept it as an excuse to refrain from a real redisricting Of the state. It is to be hoped, however, that the next legis lature will really reapportion the state Into eight approximately equal districts. GOVERNOR. HOCK'S OPPOR- TCNITY. Now that the legislature has comple ted its biennial task and adjourned, the time has come for the new administra tion to get down to the actual work of putting Into effect the things proposed during the last campaign and others provided for by the legislature. Among these, three stand out prominently the putting Into operation of the state oil refinery, the abolishment of freight rate evils, and last but not least, the expos ure and punishment of dishonesty in state affairs. This last was emphatically promised by Governor Hoch during the campaign and the people of Kansas expect him to fulfill that promise to the utmost. The legislature has placed a large ap propriation at his disposal for that pur pose, and the governor has stated his determination to have the fullest pos sible investigation. There is a Good Book that says, "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." The people of Kansas, as a whole, have faith in Governor Hoch's honesty of purpose, and they see no reason why he should not purge the state of dis honor. Great is his opportunity, but at the same time great is his responsi bility. No one wishes that an injustice may be done to any Individual, but there is more danger of injustice to the state than to the individual, and it de volves upon Governor Hoch to guard against that. It is not merely a ques tion of the personal guilt or innocence of persons accused of crime against the state, but involved in this matter is the issue of whether the younger gen eration of Kansans, who will soon take charge of affairs, Is to be taught that crimes may be committed against the state, and the criminals glorified and applauded for their shrewdness, or whether dishonesty and corruption in public officials will be punished the same as in private Individuals. It is a question of whether graft and dishonor shall be rewarded or punished. Kansas has come to the dividing of the ways in this matter, and upon Governor Hoch rests the responsibility of starting the state and its citizens in the right way. He will meet with difficulties, but his friends have faith that he will rise su perior to them when the test comes. THE GOSPEL OF GOOD SEED. In a few weeks more upwards of seven million acres of rich Kansas land will be planted to corn. It is Kansas' greatest crop, both in bulk and in value. Accordingly it means much to the Kan sas farmer and therefore to the people of the state as a whole, and every farmer is doubtless anxious to do every thing he can to insure a good yield. The testimony of corn experts, and it is borne out by the experience of other big corn states, is that good seed Is a most important item in securing a good crop. This, of course, will be con ceded, but there may be a difference of opinion as to what constitutes good seed. For instance, the past winter has been an extremely cold one. A considerable amount of corn may look extremely fine and yet the germ in it may have been totally destroyed by the cold or weakened until it will produce only barren or weak stalks. Some farmers will doubtless, plant that kind of corn and then wonder why they do not get a good stand, and why the stand they do get brings forth few ears and not very good ones at that. The lesson of which is that all seed corn should be tested, especially this spring. What doth it profit a farmer to work hard planting his corn and then have only half of it come up, and the half be very poor? In Iowa, and Illinois, and Nebraska, the seedtesting idea has gained a firm hold on the farmers, and 1f the seed picked out by an up-to-date farmer does not show that it will practically all grow, he throws it away and gets some that will grow. In Iowa last year the railroads ran special trains through some of the prin cipal corn counties bearing Professor P. O. Holden, who preached the gospel of good peed corn at every station. As a result It is estimated that Iowa's corn crop was larger by a good many mil lion bushels last year than It would otherwise have been. It means that several million dollars were added to the net profits of Iowa farmers last year, with no extra effort on their part except the testing of their seed corn in the spring. This spring similar trains are running through other counties, and more farmers will hear the gospel. The same thing is being done In Nebraska. No corn-gospel trains are running in Kansas this year, but the Kansas, corn farmer ought to be intelligent enough to look after this matter himself if it is brought to his attention. Perhaps it would have more weight if Secretary Coburn would issue one of his concise but comprehensive bulletins on the sub ject. If the Kansas farmer should get an average of one good stalk to the hill, and one good ear to the stalk, it would mean something over fifty bushels per acre, or a total of over three hundred million bushels for the entire Kansas crop. Instead of that last year Kansas got only about 170.000.000 from over six and a half million acres. The increase in value last year if one good ear per hill had been secured would have been something over forty million dollars. Is that not worth trying for? i THE SAVING IN TRUSTS. It cannot be denied that the argu ments put forth by the supporters of railroad consolidation and "mergers" have considerable merit in them. Consolidated ttads can be operated In conjunction much, cheaper than each can be operated separately. This Is the argument in favor of the trust, and the trust would be a good thing if it did not use its power unjustly to make excessive profits and to stifle competition. n-f An example of how a great saving can be effected in railroad consolida tion is told in the current number of the World's Work, concerning a new step taken by Mr. E. H. Harriman in operating his system of roads. Here tofore it has been the custom of rail road magnates to operate their differ ent systems Independent of each other, but Mr. Harriman saw the lack of system in this and he has gone about to ehange it. The Southern Pacific may have had one kind of equipment, the Union Pacific another, and the Oregon Short Line still another. Dif ferent kinds of traffic arrangements were In force on different parts of the same system. But Mr. Harriman is changing this. He has appointed a director of traffic who is systematizing traffic arrange ments on all the Harriman roads. An other man is director of maintenance, and another is director of purchases. These men are bringing all of Mr. Harriman's roads together into one system of management, and here is a sample of a single item of saving: Suppose the Oregon Short Line is short one hundred cars at Spokane. Formerly the purchasing agent of the road would buy the necessary cars. Now he notifies the director of pur chases of the entire system. Tire di rector of purchases takes the matter to the director of maintenance, and he in turn looks over his data and dis covers that the Southern Pacific has a hundred cars not in use at Galveston. The Southern Pacific cars are imme diately rushed northwest and in far less time than the cars could have been otherwise secured they are re lieving the strengency, and that, too, without any outlay. This is one of the advantages of railroad consolidation. In many in stances these savings are utilized for the benefit of the public, but not al ways. THE ETHICS OF IT. T!e Ktory that comes with extreme regularity after every Republican pri mary rlection in Topeka, that Demo crats participated in the primary, Is repeated this week. And some of the returns indicate that there is at least a grain of truth in the assertion. Which b; ings up the question of the ethics of the case. "L think it is perfectly dreadful the way Democrats vote in Republican primaries," said a Topeka woman this week. "To be sure," she added, as an afterthought, "I can't say very much. for I am a sort of Democrat myself, and I voted." WTiich is the way most of the offenders look lit the matter: It is wrong for any considerable number of voters to go into the primaries of the deposition party, they say, but in in stances where one is personally inter esed It is excusable. Laws are made prohibiting this very practice, but it continues and doubtless will continue to a greater or less extent. For while everybody will denounce the practice in the abstract, they will excuse it in the concrete. Sociologists usually pronounce the practice as a great evil, but there is another side to it. In Topeka, for in stance, where there is an overwhelm ing Republican majority, questions of municipal government are usually set tled in the Republican city primaries. Persons who claim to be independent in politics or members of some other party have no voice in municipal affairs. They may expect to vote for the Republican candidate for mayor in the election, but it is technically wrong for them to partake In the pri maries which decide who that candi date shall be. Doubtless nearly all party Prohibitionists, for instance, sup port the Republican city ticket, as a rule, but technically they ought to have no voice in nominating that ticket. Such voters are confronted with the problem: "Is it better to vio late the primary law and vote in Re publican primaries, or neglect my citizenship and be practically dis franchised?" The party primary Is an evil, but It seems to be a necessary one. In cities where the vote Is closer than In To peka It sometimes results In a small minority governing a large majority In municipal affairs Unless those of opposition parties defy rules and statutes and take part In the primaries of the majority party. WHAT'S IN A NAME? There has been heard of late con siderable talk to the effect that the time has come for Washburn college to change its name; to drop the "WTashburn" as lacking in significance, and the "college" as being misleading as to the present real standing of the big Topeka Institution. Washburn has in the last few years grown from a college into a univer sity. It has not only the collegiate course, but it has a musical conserva tory with an attendance of several hundred; the leading art school in the west; a large medical school; a first class law department; and the plans have been laid for the opening next fall of a dental school and architec tural department. Washburn has an enrollment of 700; in a fewyears It will pass the 1,000 mark. It is bound to grow; its location in the capital city of Kansas insures its future greatness. From a strictly denominational school Washburn is broadening out to include all classes and creeds; it draws its patronage from the west, not from Congregationallsts; its teach ers represent nearly all the leading de nominations. Washburn depends on all denominations for Its existence; it can not longer be considered exclu sively a "church school," though it can assume the dignified position of a Christian university. As such it Is certain to be a success. A Congregational deacon back In Massachusetts who had made his pile in the wire business, gave Washburn $25,000 a great many years ago when the college had nothing but prospects. In recognition of this donation the col lege was named Washburn, and for nearly forty years has borne that name. So far as known, Mr. Wash burn never took any special interest In the college bearing his name ex cept to give $25,000. Since that time, several benefactors have given larger sums than $25,000 to the college. Ap parently Deacon Washburn's friends have such slight regard for the honor of having a college named after him that they do not even know where that college Is, except that it is In "one of the western states." They would probably not be at all grieved If the name of the school should be changed. It seems to be entirely a question of whether it would be the best policy for Washburn college to transform itself into the University of Topeka, or Into a university under some other name. University of Topeka is the natural name for such a school to assume. Perhaps a better one could be suggest ed. Perhaps for some reasons the name of Washburn should be retained. But it Is worth thinking about. BELL RODNEY'S KANSAS HEAVEN. Bill Rodney was an eastern man, with a hollow, hacking cough: Bill's doctor said consumption's flight would surely take him off. Unless he left Connecticut and got a change of air. His chances for Elysium were better far than fair. So Bill, who'd raised tobacco in the good old Nutmeg state. Began to prospect round about for air to change his fate. He sold his fifty acre farm, considered quite the best In rugged old Connecticut, and started for the west. Along the way Bill kept his eyes and keen ears open wide; He heard of Pennsylvania coal, and oil and gas beside. He marveled at the tales of steel, and mines that sounded fair; But tales that won Bill's heart just then were those of Kansas air. "It heals the sick;" "it makes you young:" "weak folks grow strong and stout;" Were comments of the people Bill heard when coming out. And when Bill reached Topeka, he said without a sigh: "I'm going to try Young Kansas; I can't do more than die." Bill hunted up an agent and bought some Kansas land, A quarter section, good for wheat, and sought to try his hand. He got some mules, he plowed the soil, put in his winter wheat; Got ready for the winter on his Kansas country seat. Said Bill: "I'll make a good hard try; and say I'm better off, If I can come out even and suppress this cussed coue-h." 'Twas back in ninety-eight that Bill went out upon xnat larm, And hoped he'd get a decent crop and sun to keep him warm. He prayed the change would do him good, the Lord he'd daily praise, If Kansas drouth and cyclones let him live out half his days. Bill built a shack out on his ranch, ve randa, wide around, And all that spring he watched the wheat uprising from the ground; B And when that crop was harvested Bill found more cash in hand Than he had ever had from all his good tobacco land. He bought more land, he sowed more wheat, forgot about his cough. And when the third year came around Bill paid his mortgage off. He planted corn, went in for stock, then down below the soil Bill sunk a well, and lucky man he struck a trend of oil. Then William built a spacious house and took to him a wife. With face turned toward the future years, he took new hold on life. Surveying all his fair domain, sweet pleas ure filled his eyes. He felt that Kansas, oft-maligned, was quite a Paradise. "Twas then Bill got a letter of the sym pathetic kind; That pictured his misfortune to the cold ly eastern mind. It hoped that Bill had fortitude; should they not meet agen Commended him to heaven as the com forter of men. Bill rend their words, and thought Of that old farm where he was born. Then of his horses, mules and swine, and growing wheat and corn. Wan thankful for his blessings and the virtue of the soil. Whose surface gave so much and yet whose bowels yielded oil. He sent a letter way back east, a note short and direct. That told his western story as no east folk could expect. It ran like this: "Dear Folks at Home: Don't waste no fears on me. I'm in the land of wheat and oil and hos pitality. I've got two thousand acres of the best land under sun, I'm doing well, I thank you, though, of course, I've just begun. I've put my trust in heaven, and the heav en where I be, Is the heaven of Young Kansas, and It's good enough for me." G. L. DICKINSON, Hartford, Conn. That Philadelphia minister who said he didn't believe the good people of that town could accomplish any thing by praying for such a sinner as the mayor but they might try it as an experiment, seems to have been just a little bit shy on faith. After looking under the bed every j maid finally found a man there, When he tried to escape she shot him. After looking for a man for twenty years she didn't propose to let him get away. There is ho reason why a trust should fear Investigation if, it can just pick out its own investigator. jayiiavki:u JOTS. Potter Is one of the few towns in Kansas that isn't talking baseball. Onaga has gotten a new railroad. It has also gotten a town full of tramps. Mukden isn't the only place a battle is on. A heavy war prevails among the saloon men of Great Bend. Potter citizens arn't worried about the loss of the peach crop. Apples and cherries promise to be plentiful. Honestly doesn't it seem funny about' Kansas telling Missouri the kind of men to elect United States senators? The city marshal has closed Alma's saloon and the residents generally are roaring that it will mean a flood of joints and dives. Smith Center has aroused no politi cal excitement up to the present. Not a soul has announced himself for mayor or fish warden. At Pratt a boy plays the horn at all hours of the day and night. His neighbor who has no horn gets up in the night and makes his dog fight. A Lakin Citizen is "improving" his place by setting out box elder trees. Many people would call that anything but an improvement. This is a good year for Kansas. Up in Wabaunsee county a pig is strutting around with four legs, six feet and twenty-four toes. A Preston man thinks the express companies needed a trifle of attention bv the legislature. A 7 pound pack age from Hutchinson cost him 35 cents. Several Effingham boys "swore oft" the first of the year and have re- jlO 'V V jy If yotrr longs are weak they need food-strength. There .'is a vegetable remedy which is to the lungs Just what bread is to ilia system food, strength. It is DIL BELL'S FINE -TAIL-HOMEY. 2a the first place, this remedy cnta oat phlegm which may be) present on the long tissues. Then comes its healing and soothing effect. It stimulates the blood to aa active circulation through the lungs, and the germs of disease are destroyed by the antiseptic properties of this scientific remedy. It enables the blood to receive and retain its natural supply of oxygen, hmg food, health, strength. Ia any Cough, Long or Bronchial affection no remedy is so helpfuL Over 4,000,000 bottle were mold during the year ID04, on an absolute gaaraatao, Out ol thin YMt number of Males moaerr wtt refunded on only mix iottleo. i lots pmportfano twrf of mmmti ran rt narary mamea a ripple ta toe aotia puaianx or maztsriea are nnpreceaemea recora or tno most wonderful comrh medicine on tan LOOK BELL ON 25 oat 50 ants Pre cared bj E. E. SUTH ERLAND Do You Want ICE CREAM OR MILK? Phones i TOPEKA PURE MILK CO.

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H EHHsriMiiufmBrai OF TOPEKA. KANSAS. X Depository of the State of Kansas, Shawnee County and the City of TopeV a. Paid-up Capital, 300,OOO.OG INTEREST PAID OH TIME DEPOSITS I Officers -Wm. Sims, President. C. E. Hawlbt, Cashier. Foreign drafts on all principal points. Letters of credit issued. X Small accounts as well as large receive the same careful attention. t mained true to their resolve so far. Has the home brew gotten so bad as that? The Arkansas City Traveler claims to be the only paper in the city using natural gas. Gentle reader do you ever remember of being around any printery office that didn't use more or less gas? GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. We all think we get the worst of it. A singer never really knows whether he can sing or not. Is life worth living? It depends al together on the stomach. A wife never gets through expecting her husband's conscience to wake up. Quantrell, the guerrilla, was a very cruel man. No wonder; he had dys pepsia- We suppose the slang expression, "Cut that out," originated with the doc tor?. We are disposed to admit that every man has a right to have worthless days. Of course no one thinks a man should cry when he is in trouble, but hasn't he a perfect right? If a woman is young she always gets considerable wear out of a garment be fore the bill comes in. It is said that a certain Atchison dressmaker can give the Czar of Russia pointers upon being a tyrant. One of these days the princess in ev ery family marries a man without a ti tle, and then there is trouble. While a woman will agree that her husband is superior to his family, she will not admit he is the equal of hers. The man too modest to think he is better than others, takes great pride in the reflection that he is "different." Tv. discovered a lot of important things in my time; but most of them have turned out to be untrue." Parson Twine. Somehow a misspelled word in a love letter never looks so bad as one in a letter written just before committing suicide. Every woman believes her dress maker has a house full of handsome patch work quilts, and that Bhe helped to buy the pieces. When a man is poor, he is usually good to his wife, but when he gets $200 a month, the blondes usually get him. Now that the visiting season is draw ing near, those who paid their board when in St. Louis last summer are feel ing better about it. A farmer living near Atchison can make the best butter, and the best sau sage, and the best bacon; It's a pity he never tried something big. An Atchison man had the title of "doctor" conferred upon him by a lit the school in Illinois. When referred to as "Mister" the other day, he was Insulted. NG e,O0O,00Ota mo exceedingly cuBZosserm, I aim je aanrtoet. FOR THE THE BOTTLE. mom Sl.M Bottles MEDICINE CO. Padtwta- Kt, x t t 537 W. H. Rosswqtow, Vke-pres. C. S. Bowman, Asst. Cashier REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR From the New York Press. A good way to respect people is not to get too intimate with them. The prize idiot is the man who Imag ines he is interested In a woman's mind. A woman could like geography bettor If all the boundary lines were hem stitched. Every girl would like to elope only it would seem so awful not' to be home before dark. It's funny how evening clothes slay on a woman when they seem to be specially built to slip off. It will be time enough for women to ride astraddle when men sit down on the floor to put on their stockings. You can put it down for a fact that when a husband and wife get along together they don't have to keep tell ing everybody so. A girl can get so mad with you for mussing up her hair that she will for get to be mad with you for the reason you did it. Women have extracted more value and happiness from a cook book than from all the works that ever were written on mental philosophy. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record.J A friend In need will keep yon broke. All's well that ends well, if you be gin right. The thief is only disreputable if he is a small thief. After a man has succeeded he los'es interest in those who are trying. The average man is known by the company he keeps, but the fool is known by the conversation he hands out. Many a woman goes to a missionary meeting while her children are acting like a lot of young savages at home. A land flowing with milk and honey wouldn't appeal so much to some peo ple as a land flowing with beer and pretzels. When a girl and a fellow begin to exchange "useful" presents all their friends commence to sniff for orange blossoms. TVigg "Old Gotrox Impresses me as a man who wants the earth." Waxg "Yes, and he's even gone to Cariabad to take the waters." He was evidently discouraged. "Still, I shall keep a stiff upper lip," he said. The girl looked grieved. "But it isn't pleasant to kiss a man with a stiff up per lip," she complained. After that it was plain sailing. A Print In His Favor. "Was your watchman well recommended?" "Oh. not directly. I used to see him In church, and as he stayed awake all through the sermon I concluded he waa just the man I wanted." Bick-Me-Up. 0D.V7 I

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13 n THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1905. n rn vk iptm r? rn nv rp I n i I l j I i I li i j LlLl Uzi S Lill Lbiru U ML uUU Ci.i UQl) Li L3VJ LhJ Li Li lii LivJ UD LS LiJ U o)nnnn fCfi Everybody enthusiastic and remittances are pouring in from every corner of the United States. Over forty thousand ($40,000) dollars already subscribed by conservative investors for 4 cent stock, while letters are coming in by the basketful and enough deals are now pending to sell all the ground floor stock three times over Th passing of the Anti-Discrimination Bill last week was a clincher in favor of the independent refinery, absolutely insuring great profits and makes the stock of the Uncle Sam Refinery Company worth at least eight (8c) cents per share. The Uncle Sam Company will offer stock at the ground floor price of 4c per share a few days longer. S40 WILL PURCHASE 1,000 SHARES, PAR VALUE $1,000 $30 WILL PURCHASE 2,000 SHARES, PAR VALUE $2,000 $100 WILL PURCHASE 2,500 SHARES, PAR VALUE ...$2,500 $200 WILL PURCHASE 5,000 SHARES, PAR VALUE $5,000 $400 WILL PURCHASE 10,000 SHARES, PAR VALUE.: $10,000 Th3 Company will sell to one man 50,030 shares, par yalne S50,C9D, for $1,950 One Man Invested $1,200 in Uncle Sam Stock Today. The time to Join any company is when that company Is sell ing its ground floor stock. The Uncle Sam Refinery company has been organized only fifteen days. In that time it "has gone for ward faster than any company in the Central West. Shares of treasury stock were placed on the market less than two weeks ago, and since that time prudent investors from all over the United States have been buying heavily. One man out in West ern Kansas today who made big money on the stock of the Pub lishers' Oil company put in $1,200 in the Uncle Sam company at straight 4 cents per share. A thousand dollars invested in this company now will make any man a small fortune. The stock will never remain at 4 cents long; it is bound to advance to at least 15 or 20 cents in the next four months. Tou can buy ten thousand shares by sending draft or check at once for $400. Work On the Refinery Has Already Commenced. The first stakes for the refinery were driven at 2:30 sharp last Wednesday, or in Just two weeks after the company was organized. At that time the managers had enough money prom ised so they were safe in going ahead. Teams are now hauling brick onto the ground and other work will be pushed with all due haste, as the Uncie Sam jpompany desires to place the re fined oil on the market not later than June. Will Commence Building Big Storage Tanks at Once. The Uncle Sam company will have work commenced on big twenty thousand barrel storage tanks almost by the time this paper reaches its readers. The company will build and equip close to three hundred thousand barrel capacity storage tanks in the next six months. The managers have been in telegraphic communication with several big steel tank concerns in the East for the last week. Tba time for any man to buy stock in this company is before the machinery gets onto the grounds and additional oil lands are secured. The managers of the Uncle Sam company are practical oil men and are going at things from a practical standpoint. Not one cent will be wasted, because the men at the helm of this company are oil men; they represent and control one of the greatest oil producing companies in the oil belt, and the Uncle Sam company almost by the time this reaches you will be In control of another large producing com pany. The refinery company is building solid we will own the oil lands, drill the wells, own our own tank cars, and from the one thousand feet from under the ground this company will bring forth the oil and carry it through the different stages until it will be burning in your lamp. The Uncle Sam company is the greatest refinery company ever launched in the Central West, and it will grow stronger every hour. Why not help yourself and this company, too, by putting in from $40 to $1,000 while the stock is selling at cost, and be one of the ground floor men? Splendid 20-acre Refinery Site With Valuable Water Rights. The Uncle Sam company placed on record over ten days ago a warranty deed for one of the most valuable refinery sites in the oil fields. The company also secured the water rights on a large body of never failing water adjoining the twenty-acre tract, and will have all the company, will need in the refining of oil. If you have $2,000 or $3,000 you wish to invest with a company that will surprise the world with its rapid growth, come down and go out and look the company's property over. The Passing of the Anti-Discrimination Bill Means Gold Dollars to the Uncle Sam Company. There is close to $5.50 per barrel profit in refining oil at the present prices a 250-barrel refinery at the prices that are being paid by the consumer at present would earn close to $1,400 per day. The Uncle Sam company, however, expects to cut the pres ent high price right in two, and the large number of stockholders it already has, and with the strength and support of the Pub lishers' stockholders, will be able to secure and maintain a good market for all the refined oil the company can put out. The anti-discrimination bill affords absolute protection to the Uncle Sam company, and makes this stock worth right now more than double the price being asked. Remittances Coming in From Every Corner of the United States. Since the first announcement of the Uncle Sam company ap peared in the newspapers about ten days ago. the letters have been coming in by the basketfuls; stock has been ordered by wire, men are coming in on every train until right tonight there are deals now pending for three times as much stock as the com pany will sell fit the ground floor price of 4 cents per share. Why should you delay and let this stock get out of your reach? The managers of this company are in telegraphic communication with over 100 men and they are investors, too, who may take all this stock any day between the rising and the setting of the sun. There is no business on earth that will pay as well as the refining of oil. It is a question of raising sufficient capital, and you can bet your old hat that the managers of the JJncle Sam company will get the money together, and in short order, too. In two weeks over $40,000 has been rounded up. The company will raise at least $50,000 more right off, then watch this stock go up to- about two times this 4-cent price. Now, you know that just as sure as you read this advertisement that this stock will ad vance. The company is under the management of successful men they succeeded with the Publishers' company and they will win out with this one. Announcements in Full Were Pub lished a Few Days Ago in the Following Papers: Anyone who reads over this advertisement and desires more information is requested to either write to the home office at Cherryvale, or look up a Kansas City Star of Wednesday, Feb ruary 22, or the Kansas City Journal of Sunday. February 26, also the Topeka State Journal, Topeka State Capital, Topcka Her ald, Wichita Eagle, all of the same date, also the Kansas City World of February 28, also the Drovers' Telegram of March 1, and the Joplin Globe of the same date, also the Kansas Farmer and the Mail and Breeze of last week. Time is money on this deal with anyone. Work is being crowded. If you have money you desire to invest where good dividends are assured and where the increase in value will be tenfold, you should buy this stock. Par Value of the Stock is $1.00 Per Share. Stock Should Go to Par in a Year. There is not another investment in the United States today that offers the returns as the United Sam Hefinerv companv. This company, judging the future by the past, should be ad vanced to whore this stock will be worth at least 60 cents per share in a year and possibly par of $1 per share. Publishers' stock under the same management as this Uncle Sam company started out at 4 cents per share and you cannot buy a share to day under $1 from the company's treasury and the stock is earn ing dividends and the company has forty-eight oilers. The Uncle Sam company will be a producer as well as a refining dompany and will have rlose to 100 wells completed in a year. The com pany will be strong enough to protect its interests. For further particulars look up the papers of the dates mentioned above or write or wire. f! Remittances and telegraphic orders tor Uncle Sam 4-cent stock coming from the four corners of the globe. From Cherryvale Daily News, March 1, 1905. n I First independent oil refinery in the field in which We vJCL ci rCclllieiJ i the public is asked to participate. Site purchased, machinery ordered, dirt flying, stock selling and work being rapidly pushed. Yesterday evening the management of the Uncle Sam Re finery and Developing company, of Cherryvale, closed a deal whereby it secured a splendid tract of twenty acres and valuable concessions for the site on which to build its refinery plant and work has already commenced on the construction of suitable buildings preliminary to receiving the necessary machinery, for which rush orders have been placed. The site lies just west of the Catholic cemetery, about one mile southwest of the city limits, and lies along the right-of-way of the Southern Kansas line of the Santa Fe. The tract was secured from N. F. Veeder, who has taken great interest in this, as he always has in every matter that was for the upbuilding of Cherryvale and her in terests. In parting with this valuable tract of land for the pur pose Mr. Veeder again showed that public spiritedness that has ever characterized him. The plant will have a capacity of from 250 to 300 barrels daily and is expected to be in full operation early in the sum mer. The men behind the movement are the same who made the Publishers' Oil company, of Cherryvale, a dividend-paying proposition In less than one year, and that they made n. success is proven by the fact that stockholders of the Publishers' are now the heaviest takers of stock in the Uncle Sam Refinery com pany. This new industry means much to Cherryvale and will add materially to the wealth of this city. The Uncle Sam re finery will be conducted along the same strict business lines that made the Publishers' Oil company such a marvel of success, and as the stock will be owned largely by the same stockholders and the affairs managed by the same oflicers, it too will be a paying, successful enterprise, and bids fair to develop into one "of the greatest stock companies In the land. Not since the great Edgar zinc smelters were located here has there been a more promising event in the history of Cherryvale than the locating of the Uncle Sam Refinery and Development company. The company will have over $2,000,000 back of it before the end of the year. That the popular subscription to the stock meets with favor is con clusively proven by the letters and telegrams that come pouring into the company office every day. Then here's to the success of the Uncle Sam Refinery and Development company, of Cherryvale! n TUCKER, JR ecretary, CHERRYVALE, KANSAS. ijjMij 1 'im j a SI f: n 1 1 1 .,i.n m 1 14 til n i 1 1 1 m ini b V Proposed Uncle Sam Refinery Now Under Construction at CherryvaSe. jess 'Kg 3E E2 J'3 SAFE BLOWERS HELD. They Must Furnish. 81,500 Bond or Stay in Jail. In the court of Topeka on Friday afternoon. Judge McCabe bound over Fred Kohl, J. C. Cameron, "William Henderson and William Coleman to the Shawnee counti- district court for trial under bond of $1,500 each. They are the men charged with blowing the safe of the Anderson-Armstrong Commision company on the night of February 8. The case occupied all day yesterday. Assistant City Attorney Reitz of Kan sas City defended the men. County Attorney Hungate and his assistant. J. R. McXarj' conducted the prosecution. Fourteen witnesses were placed on the stand. The main testimony against the men was the following of foot prints leading from the robbed store to the boarding house of Rube Rand- lett at Seventh and Jefferson streets, where the four were found asleep. It was stated by the officers, how ever, that tracks of but two men were found, and from this standpoint Mr. Reitz argued that it would not be right to hold these four men. unless it could be proven which ones if any were guilty. Judge McCabe said that some of them at least were implicated and for that reason he would bind them over to the district court for trial. None of the men gave bond and they were put back into the county jail. Tlie Colonel's Waterloo. Colonel John M. Fuller ot Honey Grove Tex., nearly met his Waterloo from liver and kidney trouble. In h reeent letter he says: "I was nearly dead ot these com plaints, and. although I tried my family doctor, he did me no good: po I pot a 5:c bottle of your great Electric Bitters, which cured me. I consider them the best med ieine on enrth and thank God who eave you the knowledge to mnke them." Sold and guaranteed to cure dyspepsia, bilious ness and kidney disease, by Arnold Drug Co.. 821 North Kansas avenue, at 50c a bottle. EXTENDS CIVIL, SERVICE. The President Makes It Apply to the I-and Office: Washington, March 11. The president has recently promulgated several amendments to the civil service rules, and their general effect is to increase the scope of what is known as the com petitive service. By the most import ant of these amendments inspectors of surveys generally and district land of fices, and special agents of the general land office ere hereafter to be appoint ed only after an examination. These po sitions were formerly in the excepted classes and were filled by the secretary of the interior without competition. To this rule there is an exception in the case of five positions of special agent of the general land office, of men to investigate fraudulent entries and other matters of a criminal nature. They are still to be appointed without examination. Another amendment eliminates the requirement for a con tract in the employment of physicians for the Indians. VIIX DISCUSS THE BOYCOTT. Oil Men to Have Meeting nt Independ ence Next Week. The oil producers are greatly agi tated bv the boycott order of the Stan, dard Oil company,' and are arranging a mass meeting of oil producers to be held at Independence on March 18. Governor Hoch, Congressman Camp bell, Senator Fred Dumont Smith and Senator Fitzpatrick have been invited to make speeches. It is also expected that Frank S. Monett and Ida M. Tar bell will be there. The oil producers have hired Smith and Fitzpatrick to act as their attor neys, in the fight against the boycott order. The order provides that the Standard will buy no more Kansas oil which tests less than 30 degrees gravity. This bars out the larger portion of the oil produced in Kansas. AVeekly Bank Statement. New Tork, March 11. The state ment of averages of the clearing house banks of this city for the week shows: Loans $1,132,926,300, decrease $1, 505,000. Deposits $1,187,665,800, decrease $2,304,200. Circulation $42,864,500, increase $13,200. Legal tenders $85,004,900, decrease $1,248,900. Specie $221,189,700, increase $1, 561.300. Reserve $306,194,600, increase $312, 400. Reserve required $296,916,450, de crease $576,055. Surplus $9,278,150, increase $888, 450. Ex-United States deposits $14,22 3, 000, increase $855,100. Charged With Taking Funds. Junction City. Kas., March 11. As one ot the results of the work of the court-martial that was convened at Fort Riley, to Investigate the shortage in the post exchange accounts while Lieutenant Orson Early was in charge, J. F. Gaylor of Kansas City, an em ploye of the exchange, was arrested on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Roark. Gaylor is charg ed with taking post exchange funds. A Bis Ranch Sale. Reading, Kas., March 11. J. L. Newman sold his ranch adjoining Reading to C. C. Patten for $25,000. There are 320 acres in the ranch. Mr. Newman paid $18,000 for it two years ago. It is known as the Hood ranch and was formerly owned by Calvin Hood of Emporia. Tle Best Cough Syrup. S L Apple, ex-probate judge. Ottawa Co' Kansas, writes: "This Is to say that I have used Ballard's Horehound Syrup for years, and that I do not hesitate to recommend It as the best cough syrup J have ever used." 25c, 50c and $1.00. Sold by Rowley Snow and W. S. Miller. State Journal, 10c a Week. Young C'orbctt fJoes East. San Francisco, March 11. Young Coi -bett will quit the const for Philadelphia in the near future. He announced that he has accepted an offer to meet Terry McGovern or some other man of equal caliber in a six-round affair at Phila delphia. The victim of Kattling Nelson will fight in the east under the manage ment of Al Herford. The latter has al ready left here, and is on his honey moon. He married a chorus girl of the "Runaways" company, who is said to have deserted high society in Louisville for the stage. Haim Wagner Signs. Pittsburg, March 11. Hans Wagner, star member of the local National league team, signed his 19f5 contract, but says he will not go to Hot Springs to train with the other players, unless his sick father shows signs of immedi ate recovery. Hives are a terrible torment to the little folks and to some older ones. Easily cured. Roan's Ointment never fails. In stant relief, permanent cure. At any drug store. 50 cents.

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