The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 16, 1905

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EVERYBODY I i 14 PAGES 5 READS IT. r EVEREODY 14 PAGES NEEDS IT. LAST EDITI01I- SATTJKDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 16, 1905. SATURDAY EVENING. THREE CENTS. i r i mm "1 N HOUSE F!KES DAY Holiday Recess Will L'egin in Congress December 21 And Continue Until January 4, of the New Year. INSURANCE DEBATE Continues With Almost Every body Wanting to Talk. Tillman Calls for Testimony in Santa Fe Rebate Case. Washington, Deo. 18. The house today fixed the holiday recess by providing- for adjournment next Thurs day, December 21, until January 4. The insurance debate was then re sumed. More than 15 members have applied for recognition on the subject and there is no disposition to limit the debate. Representative Norris (Neb.) open ed the debate. A bill to prevent the marine band from compearing with civilian musi cians was introduced today by Repre sentative Bartholdt (Mo.). In the Senate. Washington. Dec. If,. When the Pana ma canal appropriation bill was taken up bv th senate today Mr. Bacon took the floor in support of his amendment, requir ing quarterly estimates of the salaries and other expenses of the canal commis sion. resolution bv Mr. Tillmnn was adopt ed requesting the interstate commerce commission to send to the senate the tes timonv in the Atchison, Topeka and San ta Fe'case, where rebates were alleged to have been given. CRASHElfoTRmii. Accident on Santa Fe at Lamar, Colorado. Santa Fe passenger train No. 6 crashed into the rear of an extra freight train a short distance west of Lamar, Col., at 3:30 o'clock this morning but there were no disastrous consequences. The freight had pulled up about a thousand feet west of the Lamar sta tion just a few minutes before No. 6 was due and a trainman was sent back to flag the passenger train. He had got back only about a hundred yards when the passenger train came along. En gineer Schrum on the passenger loco motive saw the flag and applied the emergency brakes but he was so close to the freight that it was impossible to avert a crash. The caboose and three freiaht. cars were thrown off the track and piled up in a heap in the ditch and this wreck age caught lire from the overturning of the stove in the caboose. Luckily there was no one in the caboose at the time of the crash. Passengers on the train were given a good shaking up but none of thern were injured. In fact the only injury re ported in the advices of the wreck re ceived at the Santa Fe general offices was a slight scalp wound sustained by Engineer Schrum. It took about six hours to clear away the wreck and traffic was delayed that long accord ingly. TOI'EKA CASH GETS THE BULK. Will Furnish All Queensware for the State Institutions. Topeka firms will supply practically all of the queensware and stationery supplies used in the state institutions during the next six months. The contracts on these supplies were let this morning by the state board of control. All of the- queensware, except that for Osawatomie and Kansas City, will he furnished by the Topeka Cash Dry Goods company. Kansas City arid and Osawatomie contracts were not let. and these institutions will buy whatever supplies they need on trie open market. Nearly all of the stationery supplies were awarded to the Hall Stationery company, of Topeka, which was the only bidder on many Items. The To peka Cash Dry Goods company se cured the contracts for bunch toilet paper, crayons, Spencerian pens and note paper. M.MUv MASON IS NAMED. Local Politician ApjHiintcd License Collector by Mayor Davis. Mark Mason has been appointed by Mayor Davis as license inspector, vice Raymond Clough, who tendered his resignation at the first of the month. The new appointee was formerly sewer inspector under the Parker ad ministration. Mr. Clough. who resigns because of poor health, was one of the test license inspectors that has been on the city pay roll for several years. His collections from the time of his ap pointment in April to the first of De cember were in excess by $2,000 of any amount collected for a similar length of time in previous administra tions. Mr. Clough left today for Cali fornia, where he hopes the climate will benefit his health. The position rays $30 a month. MARQUETTE SHAKEN. By the Explosion of 1.100 Pounds or Nitro Glycerine. Detroit. Mich.. Dec. 16. A Uews sne cial from Marquette Mich., savs five j ma n were killed by an explosion today j at the Dupont company's dynamite works here of 1,400 pounds of nitro glycerine. New Jury Is Drawn. The following names were drawn this morning and will be the jury for the January term of district court: George Chrirtman, M. F. Rigby. S. Reub. George Hanky, A. J. Prigys. Simon Hoe. J. W McCIure. T. J. Coughlin. H. F. Pankev, John Griley. W. C. Stein. C. E. Jewell, J. W. Farnsworth, M. L. Zercher, W. L Osborne, F. A. Lwis of Topeka. Adam Dagg and Dave Harmon of Dover, S. H. Strump of Rrssville. Mort Hutchinson of Mencken, James Murphy of Tecum seh. Charles Kramer of Mission town thin. Freeman Sardou and James Hayes it Topeka township. LOSE ANOTHEIl NAME. Lincoln Street Paving Gets One More Setback. Mrs. Katherine Kelly, wife of State Treasurer Thomas Kelly, had her name removed from the petition re questing the paving of Lincoln street between Eighth avenue and Tenth avenue. City Engineer McCabe in quired of the state treasurer w here he maintained his official residence. The reply came that the state treasurer voted at Paola in Miami county. Un der the city charter act a nonresident property owner has no right to sign a paving petition and the city engineer informed the state treasurer that the signature of Mrs. Kelly would have to be removed. This further increases the lead that the opposing property owners have over those who desire the pavement. WEDDING DATE SET. Miss Alice Will Wear Her Wedding Gown. Mother's Washington, Dec. 16. Arrange ments for the wedding of Mr. Long worth and Miss Roosevelt, which will probably take place February 17, are being begun quietly. In all probability the ceremony will be the most brilliant affair of its kind ever witnessed in the White House. Miss Ethel Roosevelt will be maid of honor, and the other attendants will be chosen from among the many cousins of the bride-elect in New York. and from Washington friends. Mr. Longworth has not yet announced who his best man will be. Miss Roosevelt, it is understood, will wear her mother's wedding gown, which has been carefully preserved by her grandmother. Mrs. George C. Lee, of Brooklyn, Mass. Mr. Longworth is yet unable to say whether he will have time to go on a long European trip right after the wedding. He has many pressing du ties to attend to, and may be unable to get away m February. However, it is certain tnat a long trip will be taken atter the adjournment of con gress. The romance which has terminated so happily between Miss Roosevelt and Representative Longworth, began the night ot Miss Roosevelt's debut, when the young member was a guest and was among those who were attracted from the first by the president's daughter. He has been her devoted attendant during these four years and there was no mistaking his meaning. Society recalls with interest that the first time Mr. Longworth manifested any proprietary rights in his prospec tive bride was during her visit to the World's fair in St Louis. Mr. Long- worth very unceremoniously joined the party in St. Loui3 and the gilded youth of that city were kert at a distance dur ing this e'.isode. It was admitted Inst spring that the president and Mrs. Roosevelt approved the match, or they would not have al lowed Miss Alice to make one of Secre tary Taft's party to the Orient. Mr. Longworth's devotion during this long and trying journey was the subject of much kindly comment. Among the first congratulations the you;? couple received were those of the sj-retary of war and Mrs. Taft, who nat-iraily re joice at the successful wooing of their fellow-townsman. WEARS (V10T0R BOOTS. The Inventor Travels at Kate of 25 Miles an Hour. Chicago, Dec. IS. A dispatch the Tribune from Paris says: to Parisians were startled yesterday by seeing a big booted man whizzing along the Avenue des Champs plysees and thence to the Bois de Boulogne at the rate of 25 miles an hour. It was Constantini. the inventor of motor boots, displaying his new footwear. The boots resemble tiny automo biks, 15 inches long, fixed on high boots. Each has four rubber tired wheels 8 inches in diameter'. Accumu lators are carried in a belt. They transmit by wires one and one-fourth horse power to each motor. The motors can be run at a speed ranging from six to fifty miles an hour. Each boot weighs 16 pounds but as the feet are not lifted up the weight does not matter. Constantini claims to have traveled several hundred miles with them. He intends to travel from Paris to i-'t. Petersburg on them. When asked what would hapnen if one motor started at the rate of six miles hour and the other at the rate of thirty miles an hour, he became dif fident and declined to discuss the subject. A WHISTLEIt SELLS FOR $25,000. Portrait of Irving as Philip IE W'U Come to America. London, Dec. 16. The famous Whist ler portrait of the late Sir Hery Irving as King Philip II of Spain, was sold at auction today among the remainder of the actor's effects for $2f,000. Sargent's port'-it of Ellen Terry in the character of Lady Macbeth realized The Whistler picture goes to America. DEATHS AND FEDERALS. Luke Conev. father of P. H. Coney, died at the home of his son at 3:30 this morn ing. He was P4 years of age and came to Topeka IS vears ago. He was a native of Ireland, emigrated to New York and then came here. The funeral will take place at 9 O'clock Sundav mornine from the Church of the Assumption. Interment in the Catholic cemetery. Grenit Thostin. aged 53 years, died of heart trouble at 414 Kast First street, oil Friday. The funeral will be held Sun day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the St. John A. M. K. church. Interment in To peka cemetery. The funeral of Fnimett Rasrsdnle. son of Ceorge Ragsdnle. who died at Roswell, N. M., will be held from Penweil's under taking rooms Sunday afternoon at 2:"1 o'clock. Interment in Topeka cemetery. Myron J. Clark, acred 55 ve:irs. died of Rriprht's disease at im Rid.'e street, on Thursday evenintr. The funeral will take place Sunday afternoon at 2 Vcloek from the residence. Interment in Topeka cem etery. Mr. Clark wis a member of A. O. C YV. lodge No. 3 and was a foreman in the Santa Fe shops. Names Postmaster for Chicago. Washington. Dec-. 16. President Roosevelt today sent to the senate the nomination of Fred B. Busse to be post master at Chicago. L.1RS. HEW STAYS Governor Hoch Will Not Cure Her a Pardon. Says That Sentiment Is Opposed to Her Release. PENDLETON DENIED. Emporia Man Who Had Two Wives Reiused Parole. Several Convicts Receive Their Good .Behavior Releases. Governor Hoch has decided to re ject the application of Amelia New, of Greenwood county, for a pardon from the penitentiary. He said today: "Nothing will be done in this mat ter of the New pardon, at least for the present. The officials of Greenwood county seem to be opposed to the par don, and the people living in the country adjacent to where the crime was committed are also opposed to It. In the town perhaps a great many favor the pardon. Personally, I do not think it would do anybody any harm to turn this old woman loose. but I do not feel justified in taking action contrary to existing sentiment. The crime for which Mrs. New is serving a sentence is the murder of her husband. She was convicted as accessory. The New family lived on a farm five miles from Eureka: Geo. Dobbs lived on a neighboring farm. it was shown that Dobbs and Mrs. New were somewhat interested in each other. One evening about o'clock Mr. New went out to the shed to investigate a noise in the henhouse and was shot dead. On purely cir cumstantial evidence Dobbs was con victed of the murder, with Mrs. New as accessory. Dobbs died in the peni tentiary a year ago. Mrs. New"s sen tence is for forty years. Pendleton Parole Refused. The governor has also refused to sign the parole from the penitentiary or James N. Pendleton, who was sen tenced to serve five years for bigamy. Pendelton is an Emporia man who round himself in the embarrassing po sition of having two wives on his hands. He went to Oklahoma, and reported Himself dead. To carry out the fake. ne arranged a mock funeral, and a casket supposed to contain his remains was laid away in due order. Some time after, Pendleton sent a box of .flowers to his first wife, and the result was tire exposure of the whole scheme. He was arrested and sen tenced. As soon as the Emporia people dis covered that Pendleton was after a parole, they sent a big protest to the governor. Two paroles for Shawnee county prisoners at the state penitentiary were issued today. One is for Joseph John son. sent up for assault with intent to kill, and James Bradford, convicted of grand larceny. Other paroles signed were these Eugene Baker, Crawford county, man slaughter in the fourth degree; James Hayden, Morris county, grand larceny J. N. Brown, Neosho county, embezzle raent: George Bentley, Reno county, grand larceny; J. H. Green. Leaven worth county, embezzlement; Harvey Patterson, Elk county, grand larceny, GETS25,Q0Q MORE. Mutiial Benefit Company Pays Devlin Insurance. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company of Newark, New Jersey, paid over $25,000 to James T. Bradley, re ceiver of the defunct First National bank, this morning. The insurance was on a policy of the late C. J. Devlin which had been assigned to the bank. But two premiums had been paid on the policy and the cost had amounted to $2,410. It was a very profitable assign ment for the bank therefore. The pay ment was made through John E. Lord the local agent for the company. "There was a funny thing about this policy." said Mr. Ixnd. "The company had turned down Mr. Devlin's applica tion several years ago before I became connected with them, because Mr. Dev lin was overweight. As soon as I be came connected with the company I got after them to accept the application of Mr. Devlin and finally they wrote the policy. In a short while afterwards Mr. Devlin died and the policy had to be met." WILL TRY ARTESIAN WELLS. Edison Company Will Sink Several to Get Water Supply. The city waterworks department is going to iose one of its best customers in the Edison electric company who will sink four artesian wells for their plant on Jackson street. The company's bilis for water amount to $225 a month; they use close to 2 million gallons of water a cai. Mr. Maunsell says: "We are trying to pave as much as possible and have de cided to sink prtesian wells for our water supply. We have just constructed a water system of our own. included in which are two large reserve tanks holding about 75.000 gallons each. We are now negotiating with some Topeka parties for the drilling and will send the wells down from 500 to 700 feet. The holes will be fourteen inches in diame tef. STATE'S CASE WEAK. Not Making a Strong Showing in Hill City Murder Trial. Hill City. Kas., Dec. 16. After a hard legal fight in the Charles Wetzel murder case here the state rested at 10:30 today. Except the testimony of Roberts that Kelcher was present at the time of the killing, there was little evidence against Kelcher. Roberts' testimony was weakened by previous contradictory confes sions. The defense claims it wiil prove a strong alibi. 1017 IT WAS DOiIE W. A. Roberts, Who Engineered Cooper Marriage on the Stand. Explains How He Brought About a Meeting. THOUGHT GOOD THING. 31 r. Cooper Wanted to Hurry the Marriage. Insisted, However, on Ante- Nuptial Contract. W. A. Roberts, a real estate agent who seems to have conducted a matrimonial agency as a side line, has been on the witness stand all forenoon in the Cooper divorce case. Nearly the entire morn ing was taken up by the examination and the cross-examination will probably consume the remainder of the afternoon. Judge Dana has announced that the case will be completed today if it Is in the power of the court to do so. There will in all probability, be a night ses sion of the court if the evidence is not all in before that time. Mr. Roberts, who has been on the stand all morning testifying to his re lations in the case, said: "I have known the parties to this suit for a long time, and when Mr. Cooper came to me and told me that he wanted to get mar ried I Immediately thought of my friend Miss Stookeye. I made arrangements for Miss Stookeye to visit at my home on Christmas day and then I invited Mr. Cooper out to dinner and introduced him to the lady whom he afterwards married. "I did not know that the introduction would result in their marriage for I was not sure what Miss Stookeye would think of Mr. Cooper. I had told her that he was a wealthy retired farmer and that I considered him a man of ex cellent standing in this community and that I had recommended her to him for a wife. They met at my home and there made arrangements to see each other the following Sunday. "The next Sunday myself and wife and Miss Stookeye and Mr. Cooper went down and looked over his home prop erty and as he showed us about the place he told us of the city property and farm that he owns. He seemed well pleased with Miss Stookeye and in sisted that the arrangements for the marriage be hurried along. "Miss Stookeye expressed herself as being well pleased with the 'old man' and the matter just drifted along for awhile. Mr. Cooper was very anxious to get married but he insisted upon hav ing an ante-nuptual agreement signed up before the marriage ceremony was performed as he said so that they would be protected from.-' the claims of his other wife from whom he had obtainec a divorce a short time before. "After the matter was settled as to the ante-nuptial contract, another hitch came as to where the marriage was to be performed. Mr. Cooper wanted to be married at his own home in this city and invite in his friends to witness the ceremony, while Miss Stookeye wanted the ceremony performed in Kansas City. They finally agreed that the ceremony was to be performed in this city but that there should be no wedding party. Mr. Cooper wanted the ceremony per formed by Judge Dana of the district court and explained that he had a cast pending before Judge Dana and that if he gave him the job of marrying them that it might help him in his case when it should come up for trial." On cross examination Mr. Roberts ad mitted that he thought that the mar riage would be a good thing for all con cerned and that he gave Mr. Cooper a good send-off to the lady who after wards became Mrs. Cooper. At noon Mr. Roberts waa still on trie stand un der a heavy tire of cross questions by the attorneys for the plaintiff. A little spice was adTded to the trial of the case Friday afternoon when Mrs. McKay was on the witness stand under cross examination by the attor ney for the defendant. Mr. Hazen in sisted on the witness giving her age and this seemed to he a delicate point with her. "How old are you?" asked Attor ney Hazen. "Well. I am old enough to testify in this case," replied Mrs. Mc Kay, and while Attorney Hazen is bound to admit that much, he is still guessing as to the age of the witness. Again Attorney Hazen was insisting upon an answer to the question, "Did von, or did you not, tell the defendant in this case that you thought that her attorney must be an old fool to bring a case when there are so many things against her winning." This question seemed to embarrass the witness for a moment, but upon be?1E pressed for a reply she said, "Yes. I said that and I still think the same thing." KANSAS FAIR CIRCUITS. Officers Elected at Wichita Meeting and Dates Are Set. Wichita. Kan., Dec. 16. The annual meeting of the secretaries of the Kan sas grand circuit of fairs was held at the Carey hotel here last night. The following officers were elected: Dr. J. T. Axtell. Newton, president: W. J. Wilson. Winfield. Kan., vice president; C. M. Porter, Ottawa. Kan., secretary and treasurer. On account of the large number of towns in the circuit it was decided to divide the circuit in two di visions, known as the east and west di visions. The schedule adopted is as fol lows East division Parsons, August r, Coffevville, August 14: Eureka, August 21; Chanute, August 28; Ottawa, Sep tember 3; Topeka. September 10; Iola, September 17; Fredonia, September 24: Erie, October 1; El Dorado, October 8: Burlington, October 13. West division Blackwell, August 7; Anthony. August 14; Kingman. August 21: St. John, August 2: Great Bend, September 3; McPhrson, September 10: Hutchinson, September 17: Newton, September 24: Winfield. October 1: Newkirk, October 8; Harper, October 15. Another meeting will be held in New ton, Kan., December 27. Temperatures of TLarg-e Cities. Chicago, Dec. IS. 7 a. m. tempera tures: "New York. Chicago and Cin cinnati, 30: Boston, 22; Philadelphia and Washington, 28; Minneapolis and St. Louis, 24. TO QUIT TOfllGI Federal Grand Jury Will Make Final Report. No More Indictments for Illegal Fencing Expected. ARE ONLY FOR FRAUD. United States Marshal After Those Indicted. Will Be Expected to Appear for Trial January 8. At noon today J. S. Dean, United States district attorney, stated that the special federal grand jury now tn ses sion investigating the land fraud cases would return a final report to night at 6 o'clock, and then probably adjourn permanently. He could not give out an idea of the number of indictments which will be presented to the court. Asked if there would be a half dozen, he re plied: "I do not think that there will be more than that, but then I do not know. Much depends on how the work we are on today results. It is pretty definitely understood that there will be no cases for illegal fencing returned, but that all will be for fraud. Some of the cases are de cidedly important, but whether they can be made to "stick" is another question, and the officials are going very slow. If the cases are not ab solutely clear then they will not be returned, for the charges are severe and would blight the character of those attacked for life, in case they would not "make good" in the trial. The jury began its work early this morning and will be at it probably until nightfall. Judge Pollock will be here to receive the report. He no tified the local officials yesterday that he would come here from Kansas City to accept the indictments jf any are returned tonight. Will Try on January 8. The United States marshal's office today issued capiases for the twenty four persons indicted by the grand jury last week, and the deputies were at once instructed to take to the field. serve them, and order the defendants to give bond. They will not have to come here to give bond, but can do so wherever they are found. In none j of the instances will the guarantee for appearance be more than $1,000. All of them are orderd to report at the Kansas City, Kas., term of the federal court, which begins on January 8, for trial. j Commissioner Says Little. j The commissioner of the land de partment at Washington has issued his annual statement of land affairs in the United States. But very little is said relative to illegal land enclosures or fraudulent entries. But one direct reference is made to Kansas and that is relative to timber culture entries. It states that investigation is being made of the Wakeeney and Dodge City land offices relative to the re newal of timber culture entries. This is one of the questions to be thorough ly threshed out before the investiga tion in Kansas is finished. The com missioner does not throw blame upon any one. The point to be arrived at, is whether people when asking for a renewal of their timber culture en tries made the proper effort to com ply with the law when they first took the land. There are lots of cases where perjury was committed. The land offices are not expected to go out and make a personal investigation each time a man filed his proofs of complying with the law. The govern ment is after the men who made fraudulent proofs. The Wakeeney office was abolished in February. The paragraph relating to these two offices in the commission er's report is as follows: Under acts of March 3, 1873 (17 Stat. L. 605), March 18. 1874. (18 Stat. L., 21), and June 14, 1878 (20 Stat. L., 113) repealed bv act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. L., 1905), there have been made 65,543 final and commuted entries, aggregating, approximately, 9,785,594 acres. Of such entries there were still pending, on July 1, 1905, unadjudicated. about 608 entries, cov ering approximately, 97.280 acres, with hut very few exceptions, such pending entries were made long after the expiration of the time fixed bv statute, and mainly in the Dodge City and Wakeeney, Kan., and Akron, Col., land districts. Investigation to ascer tain the facts as to these entries in the districts named is in progress. GETSS60,000 MORE. Mrs. Devlin Gets Another Big Pay ment of Insurance. The insurance money received by Mrs. C. J. Devlin upon the life of the late C. J. Devlin was further supplemented today by the receipt of $60,000 from the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance company of Phil adelphia. Weather Still Pleasant. True to the prediction made yester day the weather conditions are all that could be expected today. The sky is clear and the temperature is of that variety which prompts the birds to sing. The day is more like a day in early spring than one of midwinter. The hourly temperatures for today were 7 o'clock 19'11 o'clock 37 S o'clock 1812 o'clock 41 9 o'clock 251 1 o'clock 46 10 o'clock 30 2 o'clock 47 Wind nine miles from the south at 2 p. m. G. E. Lytle to Build Houses. A contract has been let to E. D. Murphv bv G. E. Lytle for the erection of five houses, to cost $3,200 apiece. The houses will be of frame, eight rooms each, and modern in every par ticular. The houses will be erected in Investment addition, just laid out between Eighth andTenth avenues and from Lincoln to West streets, and will face Lane. West and Eighth streets. Weather Indications. Chicago. Dec. 16. Forecast for Kansas: Fair tonight and Sunday. THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OVER. The Rev. Henry Brown Will Be Ad vanced, to the Priesthood. The Kansas Theological school, cor ner Ninth street and Topeka avenue, closed its Advent session for 1905 yes terday. It was a very successful ses sion and much improvement was shown in the work done by the students. The Rev. Henry Brown has completed the full course of study prescribed by the school and he will soon be advanced to to the priesthood by the bishop. The faculty consists of the following professors: The Rt. Rev. Frank R. Millspaugh, D. D.: the Rt. Rev. Francis Kay Brooke, D. D. the Rev. Irving E. Baxter, the Very Rev. Dean Kaye. During this session of the school the chair of New Testament, history and literature was filled by the Rev. John Bennett of Kansas City. There were twelve students in at tendance the names of whom are as fol lows: Deacons Edward L. Skinner, Ernest R. Allman, Allen G. Wilson, David Curran, Henry B. Brown. Postulants Thomas Dyke, W. B. It. Simmons, John Grainger, Fredrick W. Pratt, Harry G. Smith. Rowland O. Mackintosh, Harold G. Hennessy. LAWSON FACES RUIN. The "System" Is Pounding the Finan cial Life Out of Him. New York, Dec. 16. The friends of Thomas W. Lawson who asserted that the Boston operator, who has been trying to bear Amalgamated Copper, had "joined the procession" and cleared up a fortune with the rise of copper, were as far from the facts as Lawson was from the safe side of the market. The facts are that Lawson lost instead of winning a fortune by his failure to force "coppers" down. Lawson admits that H. H. Rogers, the Rockefellers and their Standard Oil crowd landed a smashing blow on him in retaliation for his attacks on the "system" and his revelations as to "Frenzied Finance." The Boston operator has issued a statement in which he admits a loss to date of $3,400,000. The Standard Oil crowd pushed up all Amalgamated to 102, establish ing a new high record since the boom of 1901, and verifying their prediction of ten days ago that the stock would cross par before Christmas. With grave faces they assured the public that the reason why Copper was going up was because it was scarce. The Standard Oil clique freely predicted 20-cent copper, and assured their friends in Wall street that Amalga mated would go to 110 before New Year's day. Law-son's Admission. Lawson's admission of his losses comes in advertisements in the New York papers, headed "To the System." He says: "In beginning my operations today, which will be along lines I have pre viously laid down, I would have this frank world with Wall street and the system. My portion of the $6,600,000 remaining of my first pool of 10 mil lion dollars and of the 5 million dollars additional, $11,600,000, embraces every dollar of my fortune. If my operation is unsuccessful, I shall lose all of it, which will mean I shall have lost 15 million dollars belonging to myself and to those who have had faith enough in me to join me. It will mean I have sacrificed every dollar and thing of worth belonging to me upon which I could raise a dollar to back up the principles I have publicly set forth. Therefore, this is the opportunity for the street and the system once and for all to do me up and get me off their trail, ho, with my eyes open, I begin the work, and thus far have made great financial losses, but in the doing I have shown this fact so that all can see. "The system in the face of the expo sure of its frauds has no better defense than a counter demonstration in the maket. Its reply to just denunciation of its methods is to use its countless millions to put up the price of stocks so, at any cost, I may be discredited. If my operations which begin today are successful I expect to secure profits of 100 to 200 per cent upon the amount, with which I will tackle the system. My shares of these profits I will devote to the further exposure of the system's methods until such time as I destroy it. If I fail, the world will know it by my public bankruptcy, in which event I shall be compelled to fall back upon my pen, unaided with moneyq, to fight the battle to a finish. ''In this final word, I would say to the public and that large following which I have been so many years building up, that I promise in my present operation either to vindicate my past advices or to give the system such a quick and merry battle that they and the world will know they have been to the wars." Why the Delay? A president of Oberlin college ence profited by a transaction with an insur ance company. He had carried insur ance on his household goods for twenty years, but his wife observing that the insurance business was largely a matter of paying premiums, the policy was permitted to lapse. The president was one day persuaded by an energetic agent to take out anew policy. That very afternoon Oberlin was thrown into the greatest excitement by the appearance of clouds of Emoke pouring from the windows of the presi dent's residence. After the chemical ex tinguishers had done their work, it was found that a whole closetful of Mrs. Barorws' best gowns had fed the flames from an overturned chafing dish. The loss was promptly paid, and Dr. Barrows got keen enjoyment from Mrs. Barrows' change of heart in regard to insurance. An additional twinkle came into his eyes when he recalled the letter from the insurance company, which read as follows: President Oberlin College: "Dear Sir: Inclosed find draft for $500. We note that this policy went into effect at noon, and fire did not occur till four I o'clock. Why this delay?" Text Front the Wrong Side. A Boston lawyer who was recently asked to talk to the boys of a business school prefaced his address by a few extemporaneous remarks. "My young friends." he said, "as I approached the entrance to this room I noticed on the panel of the door a word eminently appropriate to an in stitution of this kind. It expresses the one thing most useful to the average man when he steps into the arena of life. It was "Pull!" shouted the boys, with a roar of laughter, while the horrified lawyer recognized that he had taken his text from the wrong side of the door. Exchange. PAY riOTAXES. Russia V'Invisible Government" Issues a Manifesto. Urging the Proletariat to Keep Their Money. TREASURY BANKRUPT They Declare and Financial Ruin Is Impending. W orkmen Are Urged to Demand Payment in Coin. St. Petersburg, Friday, Dec. 15. Morning, via Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Dec. 16. The proletariat organs through the invisible government." threw- a. bombshell into the camp of the official government during the night by issuing a manifesto following the form of a reg ular imperial document, declaring the bankruptcy of the treasury and ordering the proletariat army everywhere fo refuse to pay taxes of any description, to in sist on the payment of wages in gold or silver and to withdraw all their de posits from the savings banks in gold. The manifesto is a terrible indictment of the manner in which the bureaucracy has brought the country to financial ruin, asserting that the government has squandered not only the country's in come but the proceeds of the foreign loans on railways, the army and the fleet, leaving the people without schools or roads, yet it is declared, there is no money to feed the soldiers and every where there are insurrections ol tha beggared and starved troops and sail ors. The manifesto even charges the government with using the deposits in the government savings banks to spec ulate on the bourse and with covering; up its chronic deficits in the interest of the immense debt by the proceeds of the foreign loans which are at last exhaust ed. The rich, it is further declared, have already taken warning and are converting their property into securities and gold and are sending them abroad. The only salvation for the country, ac cording to the manifesto is the over throw of the autocracy by a constituent assembly and the sooner the government falls the better. Therefore the last source of the existence of the old regime its financial revenue must be stop ped. The document is signed by the mem bers of the workmen's council, the committee of the Pan-Russian union and the central committees o the social Democrats, social revolutionists and socialists of Poland. This great step of the revolutionaries which throws down the gage of bat tle to the government was prepared with such secrecy that the authorities were taken off their guard and did not even attempt to prevent its publication in the newspapers. The revolutionary leaders expect It will be followed by reprisals and arrests, but all this has been foreseen. The leaders laid their plans deeply before issuing the mani festo. New committees of the various organizations have been elected in the third and fourth degree. If one set of committees is put behind the bars an other will take its place and carry on the work. The league of leagues was not asked to join in the manifesto, being regarded with some jealousy by the proletariat organizations which claim to be bear ing the brunt of the revolution and to be entitled to the fruits thereof. The proletariat leaders claim to have abso lute knowledge that the government has just issued $125,000,000 in paper money. Under the provisions of the press laws, the editor of every paper which printed the manifesto has rendered himself liable to eight months impris onment and $1,500 fine. Now must come the test of the government's power. It develops that among the pa pers of M. Krustaleff, the president of the executive committee of the work men's council, seized at the time of his arrest were documents which furnish evidence of a well planned conspiracy to seize and carry off Premier Witte. Linevitch in Trouble. New York, Dec. 16. A cable dis patch to the World dated St. Peters burg, December 14, via Helsingfors, Finland, December 15, says: "I can not combat the growth and spread of revolutionary movement In the army, already more than mutin ous," General Linevktch telegraphed from Manchuria. "The reserves de mand to be sent home immediately and refuse to take paper money. Telegraph instructions. Urgent." The End in View. Ex-Senatot Lake Jones of Wayne county, Ohio, who is known all over a3 the "hound pup statesman," from his passionate love of fox hunting, was talking with a party of old time friend3 in the lobby of a Columbus hotel re cently. "I have an aunt," said Jones, "who has most pronounced ideas of right and wrong, and a rather exaggerated sense of Justice. Nearly thirty years ago she bought a piece of prcjerty from her brother in St. Louis. "In a dozen years the property had quadrupled in value. Today it is worth ten or fifteen times what she paid for it. As the value advanced her worry increased. Finally she mailed him a check for $15,000, explaining that she felt she had not paid him what the property was really worth. "He promptly returned it, saying she had paid him all he asked for it, and all it was worth at the time of the sale. But sbe wouldn't take no for an answer, and sent it back to him. "Now. don't you know" laughed Jones, "that check has been passing back and forth through the mails be tween our families for the past fifteen years." "Did it ever fall into your hands. Lake?" asked Major Eddy, Jones' friend of a lifetime, smiling meaningly. "No," admitted Jones, half sadly, "not yet." Pittsburg Dispatch. Undeveloped. There was a noticeable hoarseness in Bessie's voice as she came to breakfast. "You'll have to take something for that frog in your throat, child," said her mother. "I dess not. mamma," said Bessie. "It isn't a fwog. It's only a little poU7 wog. Chicago Tribune.

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THE TQTUHA DAILY JOTJENAE. SATURDAY HIGHT. OIUL h Address to People of Kansas on Semi-Centennial No Words Are Wasted in the Text. CONTENTION CALLED. IV ill Jlect in Topeka on January 29. Permanent Organization Will Then Be Made. To the People of Kansas: The state of Kansas was admitted to the Union on January 29, 1861, and it is proposed to celebrate this great his toric event in an appropriate manner during the year 1911. Kansas territory was the battle ground of freedom, and lis admission to the American Union 3 a free state precipitated the civil war and forever settled the question of slavery in the United States. The prop osition to appropriately celebrate this great historic event and the mighty progress made by Kansas in fifty years ought to appeal to the patriotism and pride of every citizen of the state, and to the people of the whole United States as well. At a preliminary meeting held in To peka on November 1, temporary com mittees were appointed to present the matter to the people of the state and your attention is invited to the accom panying call for a delegate convention in the city of Topeka with a request that the greatest publicity be given the subject, and that you each directly in terest yourself in an undertaking of so much importance to the people of the whole commonwealth. J. E. JUNKIN, Sterling, Chairman, (WILLIAM A. WHITE, Emporia, 3. M. CONNELL, Topeka, D. W. MULVANE, Topeka, THOS. M. POTTER, Peabodv. Committee. In accordance with the action taken at the preliminary meeting held in the city cf Topeka on November 1, 1905, a dele pate convention is herebv called to meet in the city of Topeka, at representative hall, on Monday, January 29, 1906 tthe anniversary of the admission of Kansas to the Union), at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of perfecting a permanent organization and proceeding with the work of appropriately celebrating in 1911 the fiftieth anniversary of the ad mission of Kansas to the Union. The board of county commissioners of each county is requested to appoint one dele gate and one alternate; the mayor of each city one delegate and one alternate, and an additional delegate and alternate for each 5,000 population and major fraction thereof, and report the names of the delegates and alternates to T. J. iAnderson, temporary secretary, Topeka. E. F. WARE, Topeka, Chairman, SV. R. KTUBB3, Lawrence, OTIS L. BENTON. Oberlin, N. H. LOOMIS, Topeka, T. A. HUBBARD, Rome, Committee. Short, terse, concise, and sweet is the address issued today to the people of Kansas by the temporary semi centennial committee relative to the exposition to be held in this state and of this state in 1911, commemorative of its fiftieth advent into the union. Though he is not a member of the publicity committee, the address was written by Secretary T. J. Anderson of the Topeka Commercial club. Its di rect and striking exposition of the matter in a few short words was deemed better than a long rambling piece of "fine writing," and for that reason it was adopted. Ten thousand copies have been printed in the first issue. One will be sent to every newspaper in Kansas to be published. The rest will be dis tributed over the state generally through the mails. More will be printed later on, and it is probable that in all 25.000 or 30,000 will be sent out. Business men in all the towns of Kansas will be urged to place copies in their mail and in that way aid in the distribution. Formal announcement is made of the date of the holding of a state convention to meet in the city of To peka on Kansas Day, in Representa tive hall, on Monday, January 2 9. At this time delegates from all over the state are expected to come and de termine whether the exposition will be held, and where. The board of county commissioners of each county is re quested to send a delegate, the mayor of each city a delegate and an addi tional delegate for each 5,000 popula tion and major fraction thereof. This will bring here a magnificent repre sentation of the state, and it can do the work better and more satisfac torily than through any other method. The following are the members of the temporary committee: John E. Frost, chairman, Topeka. E. F. Ware, Topeka. Wm. Allen White, Emporia. J. M. Connell, Topeka. A. C. Stich, Independence. Otis L. Benton, OberiJn. T. A. Hubbard. Wellington. J. E. Junkin. Sterling. N. II. Loomis. Topeka. Thos. M. Potter, Peabody. W. R. Stubbs, Lawrence. M. A. Low, Topeka. Grant Hornaday, Fort Scott. D. W. Mulvane, Topeka. E. V,". Wellington, Ellsworth. Thos. L. Bond, Salina. Robert J. Brock. Manhattan. Weekly Bank Statement. "New York, Dee. 16. The weekly statement of the clearing house banks for this week shows tnat the banks hold a surplus over the legal reserve requirements of $3,961,075. Last week there was a deficit of $1,246,525. Loans. $1,004,564,000; decrease. $11. 756,800. Deposits, $98 3,88 8,500; de crease. $8,347,200. Circulation, $53. 060,700; decrease, $208,000. Legal tenders. $75,714,100; increase, $2,428. P00. Specie. $174,219,100; increase, $692,800. Reserve, $24 9,933,200; in crease. $3,120,800. Reserve required, $245,972,1 25: decrease, $2,OS6,800. Surplus, S3, 961. 075; increase, $5,207, 600. Ex-U. S. deposits, $6,112,475; in crease, $5,216,925. Mandolin Club Music. Mandolin club music and a big din ner at the Cremerie Sunday, ner at the Cremerie Sunday. Lutes can get your photos out for gmas. 511 Kansas avenue. OBJECT TO LANE. Appointment Held Up Because He Is a Democrat. Washington, Dec. 16. The senate committee on interstate commerce hag considered the nomination of Frank lin Lane of California, to be a member of the interstate commerce commission. It was known to mem bers of the commission there was op position to the confirmation of Mr. Lane and therefore it was referred to a subcommittee, which will hear all objections and report to the full com mittee. No formal protest against the nomi nation has been made although it has been declared by certain Pacific coast senators that they believe the appoint ment should have been given to a Re publican. The same view is believed to be held by many eastern senators and it is predicted that the nomination may be held up for some time. It was stated today that Senator Cullom desired that no action be taken until he could consider the case. The nomination of Lane is to succeed Com missioner Fifpr, who announced that he would resign on account of ill health. His health has been better re cently and it is rumored that an effort will be made to have him withdraw his resignation and continue to serve. NOnillATIOHS SENT III. Include William Harrison Bradley Consul General to Manchester. Washington, Dec. 18. The presi dent has sent the following nomina tions to the senate: Consul general, William Harrison Bradley, Illinois, at Manchester, Eng land. United States attorney, Oscar Law ler. Southern district of California. Surveyor general of New Mexico, Morgan O. Llewellyn. Registers of land offices, Thomas H. Bartlctt, at Lewiston, Idaho; Manuel Otero, at Santa Fe. N. M. Edward W. Fox, at Clayton, N. M.; Howard Tel Ian, at Roswell, N. M. Receivers of public moneys, Fred erick Mueller, at Santa Fe, N. M.; Henry D. Bowman, at Lasi Cruces, N. M. KILLED THE BABY. Discharged Insane Patient Has a He- lapse on Seeing Infant. Cleveland, O., Dec. 16. William Guy, released from the Newberg in sane asylum after 36 months' confine ment and finding his wife with an 18-months-old baby, today killed the baby, his wife's brother and fatally wounded a woman to whose house Mrs. Guy had fled. The sight of the baby apparently renewed Guy's maniacal frenzy and he procured a re volver. He talked freely of his crime and expressed no regret except of fail ing to kill his wife. FOURTH JUROR. Accepted in Beef Trust Cases Is a Bank President. Chicago, Dec. 16 The fourth juror, George W. Mundie, was accepted in the "beef trust" case today. He is a retired grain dealer and president of a national bank at Earlville in the in terior of the state. The other three men who have been accepted are farmers. HASTY WITH A GUN. Kills One Theatrical Man and Wounds Another. Gaffeny, S. C, Dec. 16. Milan Ben nett, musical director of the "Nothing But Money" company, was shot and killed here yesterday by George Hasty, one of the proprietors of the Piedmont inn, where the company was stopping. Abbott Davidson, leading man of the same company, also was shot through the abdomen and is said to be serious ly injured. The shooting is said to have been the result of Hasty at tempting to enter the room of a mem ber of the company. SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S REPORT. Shows Big Business and a Surplus for Year of $3,426,798. New York, Dec. 16. Total receipts of the year of $98,140,582, an Increase of $2,617,590 over the preceding year are shown in the annual report of the Southern Pacific Railway company, which has b-en made public. Of this amount $95,515,158 was transportation receipts from rail and water lines. This is an increase of $2,581,927 over last yea r. Total operating expenses and taxes for the year amounted to $66,593,620, an increase of $368,915 over 1904, and the net earnings were $31,546,962, an increase of $2,248,675 as compared with last year. The surplus for the year, after payment of interest on the preferred stock of $2,769,431 and $4, 827,943 for betterments, additions and equipment was $3,426,798. This year's payment for betterments, additions and equipments was $4,050,540 less than the amount expended for these pur poses in 1904. Culmination of a Long Courtship. Iowa City, la., Dec. 16. A courtship of 10 years' standing was terminated when Rufus Choate, cousin of the noted lawyer of that name, was wedded to Miss Edna Dennis, niece of former Attorney General Milton Rem ley. Theodore Roosevelt, cousin of President Roosevelt, acted as best man. The bridegroom is a civil en gineer. Freight Wreck Interrupts Traffic Colorado Springs, Dec. 16. Traffic on the D. R. G. railroad is interrupt ed by a freight wreck between this city and Pueblo. Railroad officials state that a wrecker has gone to the scene from Pueblo. Delay to traffic will be brief and no one was injured. Gillman Made President. Milwaukee, Dec. 16. Daniel C. Gill man of Baltimore, Md., has been elected to the presidency of the Na tional Civil Service Reform league. Holiday Rates Ala Rock Island. One and one-third fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale Dec. 22 to 25 30-31 and Jan. 1 limited for return Jan. 4, 1906. See P.ock Island agents. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itchinsr. blind, bleeding. nrotrudine- m'loe Tom- drutrsrist will refund money Jf PAZO ijir.. x j.iii!j cure in a iu 14 aays. IS m SATISFIED, Carr Taylor Not Through With Freight Kate Fight. Displeased With Hoard's De cision in Grain Case. COLD BLOODED BLUFF. That Is What He Calls Threat Against Slillers. He Has More Complaints Ready to File. Carr Taylor is not through with his fight for better freight rates in Kan sas, nor is he satisfied with the de cision of the board of railroad com missioners in the grain rate case. "It seems to be practically conceded by two members of the board," says Mr. Taylor, "that the reduction in, rates should have been at least 15 per cent. This would undoubtedly have been the order of the board had not one of the two members feared that a 15 per cent reduction would bring about a cancellation of the milling in transit privilege. "That threat of the railroads was the most cold blooded bluff that was ever perpetrated in the state of Kan sas. In my honest opinion, the rail roads had no intention of putting such a threat Into effect. "Is this board of railroad commis sioners going to allow the railroads to retain this club in their possession, to be used whenever occasion arises to reduce rates? I say that now was the time for the board to fight this thing out with the railroads. We can't af ford to leave the railroads in the posi tion of hold a big stick over the board, as they did in this case, and saying, lf you reduce such and such rates, we will take away this milling in transit privilege, and destroy the milling in terests of the state.' "It is just exactly the same way in which a highwayman operates his business. He sticks a big six-shooter into the face of his victim and says, 'Give me your valuables or I will blow your head off." And that is exactly what the railroads have done to the board of railroad commissioners. They have said, 'If you reduce the grain rates, we will destroy $20,000,000 worth of milling property in the state of Kansas." The state of Kansas can not afford to be bulldozed in this fash ion. If the railroads can't be com pelled to do what is right, it shows that there is something wrong with the laws. "I have nc desire to injure the rail roads, but I was appointed to the posi tion which I occupy for the purpose of securing for Kansas a square deal for the railroads and a square deal for the people. I believe that rates in many instances are too high. "This reduction in grain rates which the board has granted will of course be worth a great deal of money in the aggregate. I figure that it will save shippers about $4.75 per car, or a total of $150,000 for the shipments of a year. If we had received the reduction of 15 per cent that one member of the board was willing to give, it would have saved the shippers: $450,000, and if we had se cured the reduction which I recom mended, it would have saved shippers nearly $1,000,000. "I have not Deen informed exactly the nature of the order which the board will issue in the grocery commodity case, but I am informed that it is a substan tial victory for the interior jobbers in the principal points at issue.' The in terior jobbeis wanted a rate by which they would get back part way into east ern Kansas, but the board decided that it would be giving them a fair deal if it gave them a light advantage on western Kansas business. This is the principal thing at issue in the case, and I think the interior jobbers will be fair ly well satisfied." Has Other Complaints to File, Asked concerning his plans for future actions against the railroads, Mr. Tay lor said: "There are a good many other things here in th state which need attention, and I expect to take them up after the first of tht year. Nothirtg more in the way of new cases will be commenced for the present. The board has still to decide the coal case and the salt case, and this will give it considerable work for a time. The coal case I consider one of the most important cases yet presented to the board. It affects di rectly so many consumers in the state of Kansas. "One of the things which needs atten tion is the high maximum rates which prevail for local shipments. I realize that the railroads should be allowed to charge more for local business than for through hauls, but I believe that the existing rates are ntw entirely too high. I expect to bring some of these local rates to the attention of the board, and see what can be done about them. There will be plenty of work to keep us all busy, even after the pending rate cases are all settled." MR. G AFFORD IS BUSY. Begins Work on Books of the Secre tary of State. State Accountant J. C. Gafford has commenced an investigation of the financial accounts in the office of Sec retary of State J. R. Burrow. All the cash items and cash receipts of the secretary will be checked over, as is required by the new state accountant law. It is not expected that any discrep ancies of importance will be found in the office of the secretary of state. There is not a very large amount of money handled in that office. The principal source of income is from charters. Mr. Gafford and his assistant, Miss Emma Viets. is now at work checkin? up the receipts fromn otarial commis sions. "The labor involved in examining the office of the secretary of state." said Mr. Gafford today, '"is not very extensive, as compared with the ex amination of the treasury. Mr. Mor ris will take no part In tnrs examina tion. It will be conducted by the state department." Diamond Rings at Cost. A new stock of watches, jewelry, etc., selling at cost, to make room for a larger stock of optical goods. Chas. Bennett, optician, 730 Kansas avenue. Mandolin Club Music. Mandolin club music and a big din ner at the Cremerie Sunday. Lutes can get your photos out for Xmas. 511 Kansas avenue. MdETS TODAY. Prices Are a Trifle Lower in W heat Pit. Local Traders Are Fair Sellers of Corn. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Unchanged Natives Bring $1 to $0.25. Hogs Steady Bulk Sales $4.80 to 4.90. Chicago. Dec. 16. WHEAT Prices were a trine lower in the wheat pit today and the prevailing sentiment was bearish. There was some profit taking and selling for short account by pit traders. The chief source of weakness was a favorable report on harvest conditions in Argen tina. May opened unchanged to Vic lower, at 8bsi'u!sS;ic, and sold off to 8Sc. Min neapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of 53 cars, against 641 curs a year ago. The market slumped sharply late in the day. May declining to 67c on profit tak ing. The close was weak, May off Ik'nlc, at Si(os;e. CORN Eoeal traders were fair sellers of corn because of the depression in wheat. This fact and continued fair weather throughout the corn belt tended to depress prices. May opened a shade to 5c lower, at 41o to 4Vy ii'-jC, and eased off to 44!-'ij44c The market continued dull and steady. Ine close was fairly firm, with May off a shade, at 4!c. OATS The heavy tone of wheat and A0IITI1 TOPEKA. f Leave Items for this column with Kim-' ball Printing Co.. 912 N. Kansas ave.) J. B Fiederling was in town today from Elmont. Mrs. George Horning was in town today from Grantville. George Johnson was a north side visitor yesterday from Silver Lake. Will Jamieson went to Rossville to day to look after business matters. Amity lodge 231 K. of P. will confer the third rank upon candidates Mondav evening. ,Blue Cross Ark No. lis initiated thirteen candidates at their meeting last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Bic-klehaupt of Silver Lalli visited Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Her ring Thursday and Friday. WANTED The ladies of North To peka to see our line of Kellv's shoes. just arrived. T. D. Joseph, 836 North Kansas avenue. John Bradley of Denver is in Topeka for a short visit to his mother, Mrs. Bradley Norris of 923 Van Buren street, and Mrs. Bradley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sheetz. The diphtheria quarantine has been raised from the Murrell home at 1228 Harrison street and from the house south at 122 6 Harrison street. Rev. Mr. H. H. Fowler, pastor of the M. E. church at Hoyt, accompanied by his little daughter, Anna May Fowler, were north side visitors today. The members of the Argonauts, the choir, teachers and 'officers of the Bap tist Sunday school will 'compose a pri vate skating party next Wednesday evening at Lukens' opera house. Miss Maud Taggart arrived today from Valley Falls and will be the guest until Sunday of Misses Jessie and An nie Myers of 1205 Western avenue. Mr. B. Ford of Rossville was a north side visitor today. Mr. Ford and Mr. G. McGuire of Menoken expect to leave shortly for Oklahoma where they will farm. W. H. Lyons of Dodge City was in North Topeka today and from here he went to Hoyt where he will visit his daughter, Mrs. Henry Stadell, until after the holidays. Golden Rule lodge No. 90, A. F. and A. M., and Helena chapter No. 210, O. E. S., will give a reception followed by a banquet this evening at Masonic hall in the Green building. The two children of Frank Giffen of 1116 Central avenue are quite ill with diphtheria and Lillie, the little daugh ter of Mr. Kraus, in the same block also has the disease. It is said that there are a good many cases in town. One physician reports that he had five diphtheria calls last evening in five hours. There was a slight change for the bet ter this morning in the condition of O. D. Wilkeison. His wife who has been telegraphed for from Washington, D. C, is expected either Sunday evening or Monday morning, as when she received the message she was just changing her residence fiom one house to another. The venerable father of J. M. Wilker son is still alive though very low. Mrs. G. Clarke and Mrs. R. Lenon entertained the ladies of the Central Avenue Christian church Thursday af ternoon at the home of Mrs. R. Lenon, 1521 Tyler street. The house was dec orated with ferns and carnations and the hours from two to five were spent visiting. Refreshments were served at the close pf the afternoon. Those pres ent were: Mrs. Oliver. Mrs. D. M. Foltz, Mrs. Fanny Gash. Mrs. J. F. Shultz, Mrs. Fannie Whitney. Mrs. Carrie Petro, Mrs. Rena Dibble, Mrs. Homonson, Mrs. T. J. Parrish, Mrs. F. H. Bentley, Mrs. C. C. Maurer, Mrs. S. H. Thomas, Mrs. E. Irvin, Mrs. Delia Haynes, Mrs. Chas. Killian, Mrs. Oscar Beeler, Mrs. J. M. Kortz, Mrs. G. Clark, Mrs. Emily Lenon, Miss Jessie Parrish, Miss Mabel Marlatt. Miss Marian Zackarasen, Miss Ethel Davis. Leona B. Lenon, Dwight Beeler, Willard Killian and Baby Kil lian. An exciting runaway was witnessed on the avenue Thursday evening about six o'clock when a pair of colts started on the Melan bridge to run and kept going at a livelv gait through North Topeka. When just at the north end of the Melan bridge the contents of the wagon weie spilled along the avenue. Mr. Simms of the Gem Laundry picked up all the parcels and took them to his home where he had quite an array, in cluding' a man's hat. a woman's pocket- book containing some money, and a box of Christmas tovs. He notified the offi cers of his find and this morning Officer Betts informed him that the chief of police had received a letter from a Mr. Adams of Osawkie asking him if he could find his lost goods. Everything described is found with the exception of a crokonole board which was prob ably lost further up the line. Mr. Simms will keep the things at his place until Mr. Adams calls for them. In the letter Mr. Adams stated that the team ran until they crossed the Central avenue bridere on Soldier creek before he was able to stop them. Neither Mr. Adams or his wife was injured. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails tocure. m w.orove'S sisnature on each box.25c. corn affected the oats market. May de clined to 32c after opening unchanged to a shade higher, at 32(?S26 to 32c. PROVISIONS Provisions were quiet and steady. May pork was off 5c, at $12.65. Lard and ribs were each unchanged, at $7.30 and $7.1254(57.15 respectively. WHEAT Cash No. 2 red. 8.sv.((?90e: No. 3 red, ST'iSSSc; No. 2 hard, S5ti7e; No. 3 hard, 80f;N3c; No. 1 northern, SOWi Sc No. 2 northern, SofaSSc; No. 3 spring, 83 (u S7c. CORN No. 2, 47?47c; No. 3. 42(ff 4314c OATS No. 2, SlVic; No. 3, 80Sj.SIc. RYE Cash: 64V; Dec, 67c; May, 71c. FLAX Cash: N.-W., $1.07; S.-W., $1.01. TIMOTHY Cash: $13.00. BARLEY Cash: 38t'54c. Cliicago Marketa. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 W. Sixth st. Telephone 488.J Chicago, Dec. 16. Low Close Yes Open WHEAT High Dec 86 86 S4 R4-S5 80 May SS 87 87-S8 SS"i COIiKT 83 K!''i 839 81 Dec 45"4 45 45 45 45- May ...-441,- 444 44 '4 44 44M- July ...44 44 4456- 44-H 44 OATS Dec 30 30 3n jtoi 30 May 3254 32 32-fs 3254- 3254-' PORK Jan ....13 03 13 05 13 00 13 02 J3 07 May .13 25 13 25 13 22 13 25 13 DO LARD J an 7 30 7 32 7 30 7 32 7 30 May 7 30 7 30 7 27 7 27-30 7 30 RIBS Jan 6 90-92 6 90-92 6 90-92 6 90-92 6 92 May 7 12-15 7 12-15 7 12 7 12 7 12-1 National Board of Trade, Kansas City. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stock3. Office 110 W. Sixth St. Telephone 4sS.J Kansas City, Dec. 16. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT Dec. 79 79 7954 7fl 794 May ....0 80 80 8054-54 -si July 7654 7654 75- 7574 7654 CORN Dec 3014 39 39 3914 3914 May 39- 8!"- 39- 39 3.')- July 3!- 31t- 3952- 39- 39- OATS Dec 3n'4 3014 3014 30 30 May ...3154 3154 3154 3154- 31- PORK Jan 12 90 32 95 12 90 12 92 12 97 May ...13 13 13 15 13 15 13 15 13 30 LARD Jan 7 25 7 25 7 25 7 25 7 25 May 7 25 7 25 7 22 7 22 7 25 RI BS Jan 6 95 6 95 6 93 6 95 6 R7-90 May 7 07 7 07 7 07 7 07 7 07 Kansas City Like Stock Market Kansas City, Mo., Den. 16. CATTLE Receipts today, 200 head. Market un chang. Native steers, $4.0016.25; southern steers, $2.1KWt4.50; southern cows, $2,004(3.25; native cows and heifers. $2,005(3.00; stack ers and feeders. $2.50f(4.fi0; bulls, $2.25fi 4.10; calves, $3.007.25; western steers, $3.25 4.80; western cows, $2. 25 y .'1.50. HOGS Receipts today, 6.0OO head. Mar ket steady. Bulk of sales. $4.S0it4.90 ;heavy, $4.V(i4.95; packers', $4.S0(4.90; pigs and lights. $4.70c4.87. SHEEP Market nominally steady.Mut tons, ?(.50(tii;.(K); lambs, $5.755i7.50; range wethers, $5.50fi5.60; fed ewes, $4.505.40. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago.Doc. 16. CATTLE Receipts to day, 300 head. Market steadv. Beeves, $3.15(6.75; cows, $1.35;4.35; heifers, $2.15 4. Mi; natives, t5.5i'tiS.i0; poor to medium, $3. lott 5. 15 good to prime steers, $5,251(6.75; stockors and feeders. $2.154.10. HOGS Receipts today, 10,000 head; esti mated Monday. 52,0o0 head. Market steady. Mixed and butchers'. $4. 75'a5.00:good heavy, $4.9(5.00; rough heavy, $4,7054.80; light, JLT.Vai. 95; pigs, $4.40ii4.90; bulk of sales, $4.851,4.95. SliEUP- Receipts today, 2.500 head. Mnrktt steady. Sheep. $3.50Vjrt.oO; year lings, $0,751(0.30; lambs, $5.753S.OO. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Dec. 16. Close WHEAT wore steady and as follows: Dec, 7954c; i.i.iv. juij, w-ic. v.asn: ro. z nard, 8oli'.c; No. 3 hard. 775?t!slc; No. 2 red 9uSi 93c; No. 3 red. S5(c91c. CORN Market steadv. Dec, 39c: May, S9c; July, 39c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 40c; No. 2 white, 4oV4c: No. 3 white, 40c. OATS Market steady. No. 2 white, 32c; No. 2 mixed, 30'S301c RYE Market steady, 63W65c HAY Market steady. Choice timothy, $11. Otrff 11.50; choice prairie. $9.75'al0.00. BETTER Market steadv.Creamery, 22c. EGGS Market steadv. Fresh, 23c Cr-icnjro Produce Market. Chicago, 111., Dec. 16. BUTTER Mar ket steady. Creamery, 17ft'23c; dairy, 17 Si 20c. EGGS Market steady. At mark, cases included, lSWIc. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 13c; Twins. lUTnic; Young- Americas, 13c. POULTRY .-vlive poultry steady. Tur keys, 13c; chickens and springs, 9Vic. New York Prodnce Market. New York. Dec. 16. BUTTER Market firm. Street price: Extra creamery, 24 2454c. Official prices: Creamery, common to extra, 10o24c; western factory, com mon to firsts. 15t?17V2C; western imitation creamery, extras. lS5419c; western imita tion creamery, firsts. 171A'71Sc. EGGS Market weak. State of Pennsyl vania and nearby, fancy -selected white, 36c; state of Pennsylvania and nearby, choice. .TW34C POULTRY Alive poultry quiet. West ern chickens, 1154c; fowls, 1254c; turkeys, 14c. Dressed poultry irregular. Western chickens, SS15c; turkeys, 12$jl9c; fowls, 9 13c. Market Gossip. Furnished by the A. M. McDermott Cora Mission Co., Stocks, Grains, Provisions and Investment Securities, Room la Columbian bldg. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat un-changt-d to d higher; corn unchanged to 5sd lower. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat. 23 cars; graded, 1. Corn, 4'12 cars; graded, 1. Oats, 153 cars; graded, 27. Northwest grain receipts today: Minne apolis, 460 cars; Duluth, 54 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, s.2 cars; i-miutn, n.i cars. Grain receipts at Kansas City today: Wheat, 81 cars; corn, 154 cars; oats, 12 cars. Grain Letter. View of the grain market furnished by Thomas J. Myers, broker, ground floor Columbian building, Topeka, Kan. CORN The figures given out by the government at Washington as to the size of the 19i)5 corn crop were 2,70S,000,000 bu. Believing the estimate to be correct I have felt bearish on the price of corn and have looked for lower prices. The follow ing letter, written by O. W. clapp Co., of Chicago, I offer for the information of corn producers and corn speculators: "Nebraska correspondents who have been over the state and carefully exam ined many fields, says huskings show the crop has been overestimated fully 50 mil lion bu., and that it will be found out when it is too late to benefit the renter or poorer class of farmers, who are forced to sell early. Our many advices from Illi nois confirm the statements of Mr. J. H. Hackett of Jaeksonville. He says: 'We never raised 2, 700,000.10 bu. of corn in any one vear in this country. If we grew 2, 5D'),iwO.(io bu. in 1904 2,3o.00o.00O bu in 1903. anr 2,500.000.000 bu. in 19u2, making three of the largest crops ever grown, will Sec retary Wilson rise and tell us where it has all gone? What has become of these three immense crops? There is none left, and we exported but little, and everybody knows the country never was as bare of corn the first of November. Cattle feed ing has been less than usual. The gov ernment estimates have been altogether too high.' Mr. Hackett furthfr says: 'Perhaps the responsibility of these over estimates come from the farmer of op timistic views who overestimates his crop and possibly from the grain dealers who aro interested in lowering the market price. It is the consuming east against the producing west. Possibly undue in fluence is brought to bear upon those who make up these reports, but whatever the cause, the fact remains that we are not raising the corn crop we aro credited FREE TO STOCKMEN tt 5S5uA'rful six-leaf calendar will be sent by us ABSOLUTELY FREE TO EV-t-Ki blockMAN who may ship his cattle, hogs or sheep to market and who will write us answering these questions: 1. How many bead of stock have you? 2. What kind of stock have you, not including horsST 3. When do you expect to market your stock T 4. To what market will you likely ship? 6. In what paper did you see this advertisement t This calendar will be ready for distribution in January. It Is n exeeptlonaHJ beautiful, artistic and costly production, printed tn several colors, representing fox hunting scenes. It was made especially for us, can not be obtained elsewhere, and is worthy a place tn the finest home. WRITE U3 TODAY, giving this infer mation and insure getting this calendar. Address CLAY, ROBINSON 3 CO., Stock Yards, Kansas City. We also have our own houses at CHICAGO SOUTH OMAHA SIOUX CITY. S. ST. JOE DENVER SOUTH 3T. PAUL EAST BUFFALO with. Possibly the public generally have as little confidence in the government's estimate as I have. Farmers are not rushing to sell their corn.' "A correspondent at Marshfield, Ind., says: T am a firm believer the govern ment crop report is entirely too high. The government makes our state average 40.7 bu. per acre and the first best corn state, with Illinois second, averaging 39.8 bu., Pennsylvania third, averaging bu., Ohio fourth, averaging 37.8 bu., Wis consin fifth, averaging 37.6 bu., Iowa sixth, averaging 34.8 bu., Michigan sevj enth, averaging 34 bu., Missouri eighth, averaging 33.8 bu., Nebraska ninth, aver aging 32. S bu., Indian Territory tenth, av eraging 32.7 bu., Minnesota eleventh, av eraging 32.5 bu. Looking over the corn states we find the largest minimum aver age the iast ten years shows Nebraska grew S6.4 bu., which now shows a de crease of 3.6 bu., Illinois shows an in crease of 5.6 bu., Ohio increased 5.6 bu., Pennsylvania increased 4.9 bu., Indiana increased 7.5 bu. and Iowa 2.3 bu., Wis consin 5 bu., Michigan 5 bu., Minnesota 3.5 bu., Missouri 6.1 bu. This county of Warren has always been considered about on average in everything, but the state was never before considered a banner corn state. We join the Wabash river and Illinois. Land is worth from $100 to $150 per acre. Since husking, all admit estimates were too high. v lnas, nail and storms have been very severe. There is considerable blighted or rotten corn, and some ears are short and not filled out at the tip. There is plenty of corn on these clay knobs that will not make 10 bu. per acre. None will make over 40 bu. on the very best land. I cannot see where there can be an average of over 40 bu. of corn in Indiana.' "The above reports confirm our general advices from every surplus state, prov ing to us that the government report is more out of the way than last year, when it must have been 10 per cent too large. We believe the Nebraska report given above practically holds good in each of the seven surplus states. We believe that the agricultural department's estimates are a delusion and a snare and more costly to the grain growers alone than the expense of any one department in the affairs of the government at Washing ton. Why it Is, we can not tell. From appearances it looks like life insurance methods, and the tactics used in report ing cotton crops a few years ago, and should be dealt with as heroically to rein state more truthful estimates. The false customs in reporting cotton estimates kept the price for years below half its present value. Cotton growers and fac tories had to rise en masse to get better justice. Something strenuous should be done to either prevent forecasting a crop or radically overestimating it. The de partment was not created to depress val ues of one class of nroduct for the bene fie of another, but to aid the husbandman.- The Crop Reported, published by authority of the secretary of agriculture in Washington, D. C, monthly, in report ing the visible grain supplies, counts grain grown and stored in Canada as our own but in making un reports of grain grown in the United States or exported from the United States, only counts the grain grown in the United States. It is misleading and depresses values. Why is it done? The secretary of the treas ury does not count the money in Canada as our money. The secretary 01 war aoes not count the battleships of other coun tries as our ships. Why should Secre tary Wilson continuously count grain grown in Canada as part of our visible supply? There is a duty on Canadian wheat of 25c per bu. "Nine United States primary markets in 1902 received 125.000.000 bu. of corn, Chi cago getting 50,000,0()0 bu. of it. In 1903 primary receipts were 191 million bu,, Chi cago g'ettlng 93 million bu. Last year primary receipts were 19 million bu., Chi cago getting over 100 million bu. of it. It is noticeable that Chicago receives more than all other Umted States primary markets combined. These nine primary markets received in the last three years 505 million bu. Government reports show the three crops equalled 7.235.000,000 bu. Thus it can be seen that less than 7 per cent of these crops reached primary mar kets and tended to dictate the price of the other 93 per cent. Why should our agri cultural department, with the seal, stamp and authority of the United States, aid the elevator and bear and the railway in terests to keep down the price of Ameri can grain for the benefit of the European buyer? Europe this year admits that she wants more of each of our cereals than ever before. "We look for higher prices than any recorded during the past few years and favor buying May corn for investment or speculation." Weekly Market Letter. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 W. Sixth St. Telephone 4S6. WHEAT In this cereal the market has been very dull during the past week and at times turned very weak, but the Ar mour interest seemed to support it around SS'iC. From the real value of this cereal the price is high enough, most writers are arguing that the price is 20 per cent low er than a year ago, therefore May wheat is a fine purchase. This I will leave to you to decide, as there were not many that made money that bought May at $1.10 last vear, they were trying to show vou $1.50 for wheat right then and they made it appear very plain. It is true our visible decreased last Monday, but the scarcity of wheat did not cause it. It was a matter of bad weather in the northwest that curtailed the movement. According to Broomhall's advice on the total supply of wheat and flour at the princinal points of accumulation in this country and the amount afloat and in store in European countries, amount to "01 55 ooo bu. Dec. 1. as compared to 170, 679.'0uO bu. Nov. 1, and with 202.021.000 bu. Dec 1, 1904. as compiled by the statisti cian. Howard, the daily trade bulletin, according to the same authority, says there is at present In sight in the U. S. and Canada 115.S03.000 bu.. against 93,441,000 bu. at this time a year ago. CORN This market ruled very dull and lower, with the bears very confident of lower prices. The market strengthened a little on New Orleans wiring that ocean room for December loading 4.500.000 bustl e's and 1 610.000 at Chicago and only 1. 500 01X1 loaded to date. There is a large aniount sold for shipment, but I don't think movements will be large, therefore I can't feel bearish on corn, but believe it w-ill offer one of the nicest, best scalp ing markets for some time to come, and for a long pull I believe the corn is worth the money. PROVISIONS Provisions have been verv weak this week, recovering slightly from the break. The light stocks of pro visions of lard makes the situation ap pear strong. New Tork Stocks. Wall St., New York, Dec. 16. STOCKS Opening prices in the stock market were irregularly changed from last night, the Inuues being among the internationally listed stocks. Rock Island fell 1 points on the understanding that the dividend is to be suspended. There was a rise of 154 points in Sugar, Great Northern prefer red rose 14 points. People's Gas, Nation al Biscuit. Hide and Leather preferred and Virginia-Carolina Chemical about a point and Union Pacific and Amalgamat ed Copper point. Conflicting price movements in several stocks that exercise a large influence on speculative sentiment confused sentiment and there was little effort made to oper ate extensively one way or the other. The general list, after maintaining a neu tral attitude for some time, finally began to weaken. The following changes on both sides show the irregularity of the market. Advances: Northern Pacific 6, Great Northern preferred 454. Colorado pUPl 9U, Sugar 2li. Beet Sugar 3H. the preferred 1, Pacific Coast 2 and Kansas TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. LOST A pair of "shure on" eye glasses. Return to Young's drug store for reward. City Southern, U. S. Rubber second pre ferred, Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Dis tillers Securities 1 or more points. De clines: Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling 5, St. Louis and San Francisco first pre ferred and second preferred 2'4, Rock Is land preferred 2, Southern Pacific 1, Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis preferred 154 and Rock Island, Texas and Pacific, American Car and American Lo comotive 1 point. Prices made some slight improvement on the good bank statement and then sold off rather sharply. Southern Pacific was sold heavily at a decline of 254 points, St. Louis and San Francisco second prefer red fell 4. Union Pacific, Kansas and Texas, New York Central und Cleveland, C, C. and St. Louis 1 point. Linseed pre ferred and Smelting 1, the preferred and U. S. Rubber 1 point, Consolidated Gas 1M points. General Electric 2 and Metropol itan Street Railway 1 points. American Beet Sugar extended its rise to 44, tht preferred 2, Rubber Goods 3 and Repub lic Steel preferred 1 nolnt. Suear wsa carried about 4 points above last night In the late dealings and was the steadying effect on the list, but there was renewed breaks in prices and the closing was ir regular. Itanjre of Prices on stock. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 W. Sixth st. Telephone 436.1 New York, Dec IS. Stocks Op'n High Low Cl'se Yes Sugar 14954 15154 14S 151 148 People's Gas 10S lo9 107 107 108 A nial Copper 101 101 100 100 lojit R- T. 91 91 9054 90 90 J C. 1 14354 14454 1 143 143 U. S. Steel 3X54 3854 38 38 38 U. S. Steel, pfd.. 105 105 105' 105 106 Atchison, com SS SS 87 87 Atchison, pfd 104 104 C. G. W 21 21 St. Paul 180 180 179 179 179 R. I., com 23 23 22 22 23 Wabash, com 201 Wabash, pfd 41 41 40 4(1 41 Mo. Pacific 103 103 102 102 lo" N. Y. Central 147 147 146 146 147 Texas Pacific 34 34 Z3t, 33 34 So. Pacific 68 68?4 66 67 69 Reading 137 138 137 137 138 Erie 47 47 47 47 4S Union Pacific 145 145 144 144 144 C. 0 64 55 B- O. 112 113 112 112 113 L. N 152 152 152 152 152"4 Katy 3754 37 3754 37 3754 Pennsylvania 141 141 141 141 141H C- F. I. 52 54 51 53 615j Met. Traction 121 121 120 120 121 New Tork Money. New York, Dec. 16. MONEY Money ot call nominal; no loans. Time loans firm! 60( 90 days and 6 months, 6 per cent, with a commission for short periods, making the rate 7 to 8 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, B 6 per cent; sterling exchange strong, witt actual business in bankers' bills at $4 8S" (4.8654 for demand and at $4.82 for day bills; posted rates, $4.83 and $4.86a 4.87; commercial bills, $4.S24.S2. SILVER Bar silver, 65c; Mexican dol lars, 60c. BONDS Government bonds steady. Sngar mid Coffee at New Yorlt. New York, Dec 16. SUGAR Raw su gar steady. Fair refining, 3c; centrifu gal, 96 test, 3c; molasses sugar, 2c. Re fined sugar steady. Crushed, $3.40; pow dered, $4.80; granulated, $4.70. COFFEE Market steady. No. 7 Rto, 7c Cotton Mairtcm. New York, Dec. 16. COTTON Sales to day, 200 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet. Quotations per 10(5 pounds: Middling up lands, $11.20; middling gulf, $12.45. Galveston, Tex., Dec. 16. COTTON Market steady, at llc per pound. Topeka Market. Topeka, Dec. 16. tFurnlshed by Charles Wolff Packing Co. Yards close at noon oa Saturdays. 1 HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS' ..$4.45 (4.60 HEAVY 4.55 4.65 LIGHT 4.35 (&4.50 CORN FED CATTLE. STEERS JS.SO'SX.SO HEIFERS 2.60-S3.2S COWS 2.OO'a3.O0 BULLS 2.0Cii2.5J CALVES 3-OOaS ia FAT CALVES 1502C0 lbs.) 40, Send in only good calves, not half fat stock. Furnished by J. B. Billard. Central Mills. 534 North Kansas Ave. NO. 2 WHEAT .73.ffrs0 NO. 3 WHEAT 7l73a NO. 4 WHEAT wKa NO GRADE WHEAT aa CORN 3335o NO. 2 OATS 3on NO. 3 OATS 28a FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Furnished by 8. E. Lux. 210 Kansas ave.1 FRUITS. COCOANUTS Per doz., 85c. HICKORY NUTS Per bu., .401.46. FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT Per box, $5 50. ORANGES Per box, $2.75(53.00. APPLES Per bbl., $4.00(54.60. BELLE FLEUR APPLES Per box.fl 5Q HALLO WT DATES Per lb., 5c; pack age dates, per box, $2.25. LEMONS Per box, $4.004.75. GRAPES Catawba, 2i22o;Almeria, pei bbl.. $6.507.00. v CRANBERRIES Jersey, $18.00 per bbLi Late Howes' $13.25 per bbl, FIGS Per box, 80(a85c. BANANAS $2.00(52.85 per bunch. KEIFFER PEARS Per box. $2.25. VEGETABLES. CET.FHT-Blue ribbon, per bunch, 65c POTATOES-Kaw Valley, per bu., 70c' Colorado, per bu., 80c; Nebraska, per bu! 70c SWEET POTATOES Per bu.. 75c CABBAGE Per cwt., $1.75. ONIONS-Per bu., 80SfSa SPANISH ONIONS Per crate, B.99 CANADA RUTABAGAS Per lb., lTic HUBBARD SQUASH-Per doz., $j FULL CREAM CHEESfil KANSAS Y. A. 14c lb. NEW YORK STATE (white) 15o lbr BLOCK SWISS 16c lb. BRICK-15C lb,TsTERa NEW TORK EXTRA SELECT3-Pal Caarr VnDARD Per can, 25o. NEW YORK COUNT 3 Per can. n BULK OYSTERS. STANDARDS Per gal.. $1.40. EXTRA SELECTS Per gal., $1.75. BUTTER, EGGS. POULTRY Jobbers' Prices Furnished by Cobs A 1 Co., 134 Kansas Ave P POTTLTRY Hens, 7c lb.; large sprlmr 7c lb.; medium to small. SfilOe lb tifr keys, live. Wo lb.; ducks, live, 9J, Sir Eeese, live, 8c lb. jtgGS Fresh, 24o per doz. KGGS Fresh, 2fio per dos. COUNTRY BUTTER-Fresh. ls520o lb. Furnished by the City Hay Market f" Ouincy street I PRAIRIE-Lopse, per ton $7.005 u Tv. AIRIE Baled 1 7. Bo-,; 8 ftj 1 8.00(S9.6 6 54 1 10.04 6.0( 6 ALFA LF A Loose CANE ALFALFA Baled STRAW Per ton KAFFIR CORN Baled Topeka IUde Market. oppfca, T)ef to. NCTTrLLOWT?P.ek.a.hi8 ee. on Boston Quotation's 1 GREEN SALT CURED

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inn DAILY STATU JOUniTAL. SATURDAY NIGHT. A-i, 3 h Ffinnnifo fin yttii It i of but little use to try to doctor the kidnevs themselves. Such treatment is wrong. "For the kidneys are not usual ly to blame for their weaknesses ei regularities. They have no P0'':'-"0 self-control. They are operated and ac tuated bv a tiny shred of a nerve which is iartcelv responsible for their condl"ori; If the" kidney nerve is strong and heaitny the kidneys are strong and healthv. 11 the kidney nerve Roes wrong, you know It by the inevitable result-kidney tiou- b This tender nerve is only one of a great Evslem of nerves. This system controls r.ot onlv the kidneys, but the heart, and the liver, and the stomach. For simplic ity's sake Ltr. Mioop has called this great nerve svstem the "Inside Nerves. lhey are not the nerves of feeling not the nerves that enable you to walk, to talk, to act, to think. They are the master nerves and every vital oig:m is their slave. The common name for these nerves Is the "sympathetic nerves "because each set is in such close sympathy with the others, that weakness anywhere usunllv results in weakness everywhere. The one remedy which aims to treat not the kidneys themselves, but the rerves which are to blame, is known by physi cians and druggists everywhere as Dr. fhoop's Kestorative (tablets or liquid.!. Tills remedy is not a symptom remedy It is stricriy a cause remedy. While It usually brings speedy relief, its effects are also lasung. If you would like to read an interesting hftok nn Inside nerve diseases, write Dr. 6'noop. With the book he will also send the "Health Token" an Intended pass port to Rood health. Both the book and the "Health Token" are free. For the free book he "Health To- Book Book Book neys. Book Book Book tism. 1 on 2 on 3 on Dyspepsia the Heart. Kid- end t Ken tl ress 1TJ3, fctate want. you must ad Dr. Snoop, box Racine, Wis., which book you Prepared in both Liquid and Tablet form. For sale at 40-OXi drug stores. Mild cases are often reached by a single pka. SIGSBEE'S LOXG CKOSE. One Planned Which Will Last Nearly a Year. Washington, Dec. 16. Sailing orders are now in preparation for the third division of the second squadron of the North Atlantic fleet which, in command of Rear Admiral Charles D, Sigsbee, is about to sail from Tomkinsville on a large cruise in foreign waters. The squadron has been ready for sea for several weeks but her departure has been delayed because of the disorder in the southern part of Russia and the in ternational naval demonstration in Turkish w aters, the government, it is stated, wishing to avoid any move that might be intei preted as affecting either situation. The state department now regaids The Mediterranean situation as Warranting the appearance of the Amer ican wai ships in a friendly cruise. It has been more than a year since a di vision of battleships in command of Rear Admiral A. S. Barker cruised in the Mediterranean and it was decided last summer that the flag should he shown there at the first opportunity by a squadron of cruisers. Resides the armored cruiser Brook lyn, Admiral Sigsbee's flagship, tne squadron consists of the protected cruis ers Chattanooga, Commander Alexander Sharp; Galveston, Commander William 1. Cutler, and Tacoma, Commander Reginald F. Nicholson. After a cruise in the Mediterranean and visits to a number of ports the squadron will pass through the Suez canal and will then separate, the Chattanooga and Galves ton taking leave of the flag and going to the Asiatic station. With the Brook lyn and Tacoma Admiral Sigsbee will continue his cruise down the east coast of Africa, visiting various ports, round Ins? the Cape of Good Hope and crossing to the east coast of South America, visiting the larger ports there. Admiral Slgbee's squadron will re turn to home waters in the late spring or early summer of next year when he will be detached and ordered ashore. Claims Against Vncle Sam. Washington, Dec. 1(5. President Roosevelt has transmitted to the house reports from the secretary of state re garding a. famoan claim of Germany against the United States for $20,000; nlso the claim for damages of the Cana dian Rlectric Right company of Nevis, ljuebec. for damage to cable by the steamship Kssex: also the claim of the French Cable company for damages to tables in Cuba during the Spanish American war. The claims were re ferred to appropriate committees. Hill to Stop Land Frauds. Washington, Dec. 16. The secre tary of the interior has sent to eon press a draft of a bill fixing a maxi mum penalty of $10,000 tine or 10 years- imprisonment. or both for fraudulent attemp to obtain title to public lands. Ir. Oslor Coming Iiack. Liverpool, Dec. 16. The Cunard line steamer Carona. which sails from here today for New York, takes among her passengers Dr. William Osier, reguis professor of medicine at Oxford, and Mrs. Osier. 1 The comfort of a Clueit Coat Shirt be gins when you start to get into it. Ask your dealer for the COAT SHIRT gl.soand no. in white or color-fast patterns. CLUETT. PEAB0DY CO.Jroy, K. Y. Largest makers of Shtrfa and Collar In toe World. iUuliUu 4 for omen. 5 for Men. 6 on Rheuma tism. 'QcitrApnfiifa Nil u mi TiL a mm Town The Present Tear Has Been Prosperous for Russell. A 500 Barrel Grist Sill and Elevator Going Up. FINE DWELLINGS Firm From Salina Is Putting in a Large Elevator. Wooden Sidewalks Are Giving Away to Cement. Russell, Dec. 16.. The year just clos ing has been a busy one for Russell. One of her oldest and best known citizens said that the building operations here this year have surpassed any ten years prior to 1905, and that the improve ments will aggregate more than $50,000. The increase in population has shown a wonderful gain. In 1SS6 Russell had a population between 1,600 and 1,700. The loss ot crops those years, and build ing operations standing idle, many cf her population left the place on account of the failure, and empty buildings were" scattered all over the town. Seasons of prosperity and raising good crops won out again, and for the last six years and more the Russell county farmers have swelled the bank deposits In raising big crops, and today the town has a good 1,400 population of as, thrifty, content ed people as can be found anywhere in Kansas. Anybody who wants and will work need not lose a day. Merchants carry large stocks and build fine houses, the modern home of Albert Yoxall, cashier oj. the Russell State bank, cost ing not less than $7,000. Cement and brick walks take the place of the old board walks. For thrift, push and good naturednesL, the Rursell people will not climb down and off the front seat for any town. One of the substantial improvements now under way is the erection of the o00-bar'-l grist mill with elevator com bined, by the Russell Milling company, built mostly by home capital; another big improvement is that of the Shella barger .Sill company, of Sallna.who are erecting an elevator about three miies west of Russell; another is the building of immense sneds by the Russell Lum ber company, and rumor says that the Russell has two solid banks, the Russell county, will early in the spring com mence the erection of a new bank build ing at a cost of upwards of $15,000, on one of the busiest corners of the town. Russell has two solid banks, the uRssel! State bank founded in 1876. On the first of this year the deposits showed up $2S0. 122. and on the 9th of November last, $310,000, a splendid increase. The offi cers of this bank are: Otis L. Ather ton, ex-treasurer and ex-member of the legislature, is president; J. H. Hill, ex-member of the legislature and one of the successful business men of Rus sell, is vice president; Albert Yoxall is cashier, and E. D. Miles is assistant cashier. The capital stock is $50,000, and the surplus and reserve is $52,500. The Farmers' State bank commenced business in March, 1903. The last state ment of this bank, issued November 9. last, showed the deposits to be $137,575. The officers of this bank are: F. S. Rockefeller president; H. A. Frier and M. P. Miller, vice presidents; V. K. Hoover, cashier. Few banks as young as this can show up better. There is room for both of them, the stockholders being among the best citizens and far mers who have built up Russell and the splendid county of Russell. The new court house is a credit to the true western push and grit of the people of Russell county, who came heie in an early day, and watched the ups and downs, and hot winds thrown in, until today every farmer has a bank account, and the large mass of them are out of debt. One of the stayers in Russell is the real estate and immigration bureau of Edwin W. Voorhis and A. L. "Voorhis, who have been in continuous business since 1SS3. Other old timers are Chas. E. Hall, present member of the legislature, and Geo. W. Holland, who are partners in the real estate and loan business. Both of them carry "side lines." the former being the possessor of the only set of abstracts in Russeil county, while the latter is one of the most successful at torneys in the Sixth congressional dis trict. They also have political ambi tion, Charley Hall wanting the office of secretary of state and Geo. Holland will not object to succeeding Congressman Reeder. There has never been a time since the town was staked off when Russell and her people were so happily contented as now. Most of her business buildings ar econstructed of brick and stone, in cluding her roomy school house. Her homes, most of them, are models of neatness, her several churches are well supported, and the two newspapers de Rerve the pood patronage they receive. Her people are loyal to town and coun ty. ROBBED MAIL BOXES. Young Indian in Bourbon County Has Stolen Letters on Him. Fort Scott, Kan., Dec. 16. Joe Li berger, nine years old, was arrested Friday at Garland, this county, charged with rifling rural mail boxes and open ing letters in search of money. Many of the stolen letters were found on his person. He was taken before the fed eral officers and by them transferred to the juveline court. He is probably the youngest postal thief the government ever had to deal w ith. The boy is half Indian, and re garded as Irresponsible. On account of his Indian parentage he would inherit $4,000 worth of property when of age. His mother Is dead and his father is foreman of the Missouri Pacific extra gang here. A Natural Gas Explosion. Leavenworth. Kan., Dec. 16. The main pipe of the Kansas Natural Gas company exploded with terrific force where it passes through an orchard on the farm of C. C. Mayer, five miles southwest of Leavenworth, Friday noon. Telephone reports from that neighborhood say the report could be heard for a long distance. No one was hurt, and the gas was ordered shut off at Tonganoxie until the break could be repaired. Atchison to Reduce Its Debt. Atchison, Dec. 16. Atchison will pay off $10,000 of her old bonded in debtedness on January 1, 1906, which wi'l save $500 a year in the interest charge. It is the second ten thousand of what is known as the "Park" bonds, refunded when B. P. Waggener was mayor. He provided for a small sinking fund to take up the bonds at the rate of $10,000 every five years. This will reduce the old bor.dod in debtedness to $673,850 in 1906. It is actually $700 more than that amount. One $700 bond, due July 1, 1898, has never been presented for payment, but the city is so all fired honest that it keeps carrying the debt on its books. In addition to this is the $30,000, lately voted for coal stock, and which can hardly be classified as old bonded debt. Add to these items paving and sewer aeDts, and it makes a total obligation against the city of $930,363. AT THE NULL TRIAL. Evidence of a Section Foreman Bad for Defendant. Kingman, Kan., Dec. 16. The Null poisoning case is progressing very slow ly, but interest was revived, when the evidence of Peter Bergan, a section foreman at Cullison, was introduced. There is an effort being made by the prosecution to show a conspiracy be tween the defendant, Mrs. Rosa Null, and Clyde Kelley to get Null out of the way, and an effort is being made to jointly connect them with his death. The evidence of Bergan was very dam aging to the defendant, as he gave in stances of intimacy between them and related a conversation he had with Kelley of a compromising character. W. S. Hockett also gave testimoney of a character tending to show conspiracy between the defendant and Kelley and indicated an intimacy. So far no direct testimony has been introduced by the state to positively connect the defendant with the crime, and if convictions follow it will be from evidence of a purely circumstan tial character. About fifteen witnesses w-ere examined and there is a large number yet to examine. It is hardly probable that the case will be finished today. HEARST'S NEW PLAN. Will Ask Legislature to Pass a Law Providing for Recount. New York, Dec. 16. A novel plan for forcing a iecount of the votes in the fight of William R. Hearst against the re-election of Mayor McClellan is an nounced by Clarence J. Shearn, Mr. Hearst's personal counsel. "We shall have a bill introduced in the legislature providing for a recount of all the ballots cast in the election," said Mr. Shearn. "It will be in the form of an amendment to the election law, which would be retroactive, but it wi'l provide for the reopening of all the ballot boxes for a recount in view of the evidence already obtained that there was fraud in the count.' HIS TENTH TERM. C. L. Wood Again Elected Secretary of Hotel Men's Association. Kansas City, Dec. 16. At the meeting of the Kansas-Missouri Hotel Men's as sociation, A. J. Dean, manager of the Midland hotel and member of the municipal park board, was elected pres ident to succeed Colonel H. C. Whitley, of Emporia, Kan. Kansas City was de cided upon as the permanent meeting place of the body and the Midland hotel was selected as the permanent headquarters. Other officers elected were: Vice pres idents, George Boone, St. Joseph, Mo.; Frank Miller, St. Joseph, Mo.; S. M. Rasbach, Parsons, Kan.; D. J. Dean, W. J. Kupper, George Keif and D. C. Smith, Kansas City; Mark Putnam. Topeka, Kan.; J. K. McKinney, Horton, Kan.; T. L. Barns. Topeka, Kan.; Peter Baker, Euieka, Kan., and A. F. Colson, Concordia, Kan.; secretary-treasurer, Charle3 L. Wood, Topeka, Kan.; mem bers of executive committee, C. H. Childs, F. P. Ewins, D. J. Dean, Sam B. Campbell, George Relf and P. P. Nerling, Kansas City. Mr. iWood was re-elected secretary-treasurer for the tenth time. It was decided that the association adopt an insignia for use on menu cards, and C. H. Childs, of Kansas City, and O. M. Wilhite, of Emporia, Kan., were named a committee to take up this matter. RING AND OFFICE. Given to One of His Personal Guards by the President. Washington. Dec. 16. Frank H. Tyree, who is widely known as one of the personal guards of President Roose velt, has resigned from tfS; LTnited States secret service and in a few days will assume the duties of United States marshal of the southern district of West Virginia, to which office he re cently was appointed. The president presented to him a handsome seal ring in appreciation of the personal services rendered him by Mr. Tyree. CHICAGO AND RETURN $16.00 Via Santa Fe Account International Live Stock Exposition. Tickets on sale December 16th to 19th inclusive. Final iin- returning, Decem ber 24th. T. L. KING. C. P. T. A., Topeka, Kansas. Block Burns In Des Moines. Des Moines, la., Dec. 16. The Roth well block at Sixth and Walnut streets was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. Loss $110,000. Hawaiian Delegate Offers a Bill. Washington, Dec. 16. Delegate Kalanianarole of Hawaii has intro duced a bill setting aside 75 per cent of Hawaii's revenues for federal pub lic works and buildings. Dr. Humphreys' Serenty ScTcn breaks up Grip and n Ml H t V 4S A Fresh Cold often yields to "77" after the first dose. A Neglected Cold takes longer but gives way before "77" eventually. A Stubborn Cold sometimes seems to grow worse! but the effect of "77" is cumulative and after a tussle the Cold is broken up. A book on Dr. Humphreys' System of Cure mailed free. Humphreys' Homeo. Medicine Co.. Cor, William and John streets. New York. ilrqad news. Rock Island Passes January Dividend on Preferred Stock. Also Keduces Quarterly DiTidend From 2 to 1 1-2 Per Cent. MAST IMPROVEMENTS. Millions Authorized for Equip, ment and Betterments. Uossip and Matters of Interest in Railroad Circles. New York, Dec. 16. At a meeting of the directors of the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway company, the operating company of the Rock Island system, which was held here yesterday and which was attended by the directors of the financing com pany, it was decided to reduce the quarterly dividend on the stock from 2 per cent to 1 per cent, putting the stock on a 6 per cent instead of an 8 per cent basis. Announcement was made that it was the opinion of the directors thit the January dividends upon the pre ferred stock should be passed. The IVz per cent dividend is payable Jan uary 2. The payment of this dividend out of the net arnings leaves in the treasury of the company surplus net earnings for the period covered by the dividend of $862,000. Authorization was made by the di rectors of the expenditure of $4,800, 000 for additions and improvements to the physical condition of the prop erties. This is in addition to the ex penditures heretofore authorized, on which a balance of $2,000,000 is yet to be expended. The directors also authorized the purchase of motive power and equip ment to cost $4,262,000 in addition to equipment and motive power recently purchased and not yet delivered cost ing $3,525,000. These authorized ex penditures for additional improve ments and equipment total $14,587, 000. "In view of the programme for ex penditures upon the property," says the official statement which w-as issued concerning the meeting, "it was the unanimous opinion of the directors present that the January dividend on the preferred stock of the company should be passed." HARRLMAN'S GREAT ACTIVITY. Will Increase Length of His Roads by 863 Miles. Harriman railroads have adopted plans for providing for the construc tion of S63 miles of new road in 1906. This does not include 170 miles of new double track which will be laid. The total improvements contemplated will cost, as estimated, about $50,000,000, nearly one-half of which will be ex pended on the Southern Pacific lines. The mileage of that road is to be in creased 387 miles, while the Union Pa cific will have added to It 201 miles. The Oregon Short Line will be in creased by 140 miles and the Oregon Railway and Navigation company by 135 miles. The last named road is to build a branch from Elgin, Ore, to Joseph, a distance of sixty-three miles, the pur pose of which is to develop the Wal lowa valley, now largely used for stock raising purposes, but which Is said to be rich in agricultural possibilities. Another extension of the road will be from Reparia to Lewiston, a distance of seventy-two miles. This work is being done in carrying out an agree ment entered into with the Hill inter ests, which will build from Lewiston to Grangeville, Idaho, and the entire line from Reparia to Grangeville will be used Jointly by both interests. The Oregon Short Line has three extensions on hand. One is on the western line of Yellowstone Park and runs up the Henry Fork of the Snake river. This line runs through an agricultural section and a heavy tim bered country. Another line runs from Garland, Utah, to Malad City, Idaho, traversing a beet sugar belt and a rich agricultural section. The third is comprised of a number of spurs in southern Idaho and northern Utah through the beet sugar fields. The Union Pacific has planned a line from Hershey, Neb., to Northport, 150 miles, running through the corn belt. What is known as the Omaha cut-off, running from Lane, Neb., to South Omaha, will reduce the dis tance between these points by about ten miles and reduce the grade ma terially. It will be double tracked the entire distance. An extension will be built from Topeka to Onaga, Kan., forty miles, through an agricultural section. The Southern Pacific will build 234 miles through a timber country in Oregon, sixteen miles in Nevada, to open up an irrigated section, eighty five miles in California and fifty-two miles in Mexico. The last named will serve to develop agricultural and min ing sections. CLUB ROOM FOR EMPLOYES. Santa Fe Proposes to Build One for Its Men at Shawnee. Plans have been decided on by the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway company for the construction of a li brary and rest house for the use of those of its employes who run into Shawnee, Ok. Such a building has been under consideration for some time but it is only recently that the matter was finally determined upon and the plans and specifications for the structure are now nearly complete. It will not be long before actual work on it will begin. The building, which will be of brick, will be erected at a cost of about $9, 500. It will contain a library, reading and rest rooms, bath rooms, a game room and numerous sleeping rooms for the benefit of trainmen who come in at night after long runs. The entire build ing will be modern in all its details and will confer a great benefit ution the growing force of men who are em ployed in and about the yards and shops at Shawnee. NEW PULLMAN OFFICE. A Division Superintendent for Santa Fe Lines at Albuquerque. Albuquerque, N. M., Dec. 16. No longer will the tourist in this neck of the woods with a complaint against the Pullman company have to go to Kansas City to register any grievance he may have against the company for the Pullman management has decided to establish a division headquarters office at the Albuquerque station of the Santa Fo. T. H. Rhodes, formerly of Chicago, Kansas City and Colorado Springs, and one of the oldest employes of the Pull man company, has been placed in charge of the newly established offlce. This is the game Mr. Rhodes who is known among railroad men from New York to California as "Dusty Rhodes." His new title is superintendent of the Pullman service on the Santa Fe lines and he has ninety-seven cars under his supervision. MR. ARMOUR EXPLAINS. Says Rebate Indictments Merely Raise Technical Questions. Chicago, Dec. 16. In an interview here last night regarding the indict ments returned by the federal grand jury at Kansas City, J. Ogden Armour, head of the Armour Packing company, said: "I understand the charges relate enT tirely to shipments from Kansas City to Europe. In each case the packers have paid the full rate established by the railroad upon such shipments. This rate was open to anybody making such shipments and there was not any 're bate, concession or discrimination' whatever to the shipper in respect of this transaction. It has long been a question between the interstate com merce commission and the railroads whether the transportation of property from interior cities of the United States upon a through rate over railroads and ocean steamships to foreign countries Is w-ithin the provision of the interstate commerce act or the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission. I understand the Burlington railroad has consistently maintained the position that it is not and so has refused to file such tariffs with the interstate com merce commission. So far as I can see, the question raised by these indict ments is whether the railroads are re quired to file with the interstate com merce commission and publish the through tariff on such through ship ments to Europe. With that question, the shippers like the packers here would have no control or concern. The indictment against the Armour com pany for instance involves two ship ments, one to Christiana, Norway, and the other to Hamburg. The tariff charged by the railroad and paid by the Armour company was the regular through rate established by the rail roads which was open to everybody who might wish to ship, and the ship per did not either solicit or receive any rebate or concession from such estab lished rates. It will be seen that if the government desires to have the con tention of the railroads that they are not required to file or publish these tariffs passed upon by the courts, and I understand the railroad companies have frequently urged that course upon the interstate commerce commission, it could be better accomplished by some other proceedings or method than by the indictment of shippers. I under stand the foreign shipments of cotton are and always have been required to be made in the same way as shipments which are made the basis of these in dictments against the packers. This is no new thing. It has been openly go ing on for years, without complaint and with the knowleged of the interstate commerce commission, not only with the Burlington road, but other roads which have maintained the same posi tion upon the question as the Burling ton, and with all foreign shippers with out discrimination." ABOUT CON TROL OF M., K. T. New York Financial Circles Believe Hill Wants Property. New York, Dec. 16. Notwithstand ing repeated denials that James J. Hill recently attempted to acquire control of the Missouri, Kansas Texas rail way system, the opinion is strong in New York financial circles that the head of the Hill system did succeed in getting nearly sufficient stock but not quite enough. That he did not obtain enough securities to assure control is considered to be the real motive of his trip to Holland. It is thought now that he made the voyage to Europe with the object of submitting a proposition to the Dutch security holders and that he did make an offer, but that the offer was not accepted. New York brokers say that Missouri, Kansas Texas securities had been bought quietly in the open market, be fore the trip to Amsterdam, by the brokerage firm which generally acts for Mr. Hill. Financiers and railroad men natural ly infer, from this presumption, that the purchases were made for Mr. Hill. The opinion prevailing at this time is that Hill has not quite enough holdings to assert control. Little importance is attached to the statement that Mr. Hill would not deem the Missouri, Kansas Texas to be a desirable property on account of some grades. It is pointed out that the,road would be a good one for the Hill sys tem, that it traverses a productive ter ritory and that it has a large local traf fic. New York financiers believe that, if Mr. Hill does not already control the Missouri, Kansas Texas, his holdings almost equal control. "NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES." That Will Be the Future Title of All Vanderbilt Roads. New York, Dec. 16. By order of the boards of directors of the various Vanderbilt roads, there will no longer be any such title as the Vanderbilt system recognized. Every car, every railroad station, locomotive, book and sheet of paper in use on the system wiil be lettered "New York Central lines." There are fifty-four different railroad corporations in this combina tion, and the only exception made to the new rule is the New York, Chicago St. Louis (Nickel Plate). Although this road is owned by the Lake Shore, it can not technically be merged into the New York Central system, because of prohibitory clauses in the laws of Ohio. It parallels the Lake Shore in that state. CALLED A THIEF, NOW SUES. Lawyer Wants Damages From Texas Road for an Experience. El Paso, Tex., Tec. 16. Wlnfield Buckner is suing in the district court here the El Paso Northwestern Rail way company for $2,500 damages. He alleges that he and his wife were pas sengers on a Pullman car on the de fendant's road between Alamogordo and El Paso on October 18. 1904. Being weak and ill he requested the negro porter to make up his berth. The latter re fused to do so, compelling him to sit up for two hours before he could get his berth, and that the neero finally, at the command of the conductor, did made it up and while doing so threw something WHITER IS HERE But is your system strong enough to withstand the severe cold and inclem ent weather. If not, you're liable to attacks of Chills, Colds, Grippe, or Pneumonia. Strengthen the entire system by taking HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS before it is too late. It also cures Heart-burn, Bloat iiifj. Belching, Indi gestion, Dyspepsia, Insomnia, and Ma laria. Get a bottle today, also ask your druggist for a free copy of our 1906 illustrated Almanac. 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On the other side, hundreds of men and women are piling and un filing stocks of goods, patiently answering questions, restraining a natural desire to be impertinent in reply to impertinence, and alto gethgether having a ver unpleasant and nerve-taxing experience. "We ask the readers of this column to do their shopping EARLY, to get as far as possible ahead of the rush, and try and make things a little easier for the clerks and salespeople by being as POLITE as they expect those who serve them to be. "Tliis is the time of year the employees in the stores look for ward to witli dread. The Christmas spirit of good will to all Is too often kept in cold storage till Christmas. "Why not try this year to nse some of it in advance, to make welcome Christmas presents of tolerance and good nature to the girl who tries to find exactly the shade of ribbon you want, or to the young man who hunts all over his shelves to find a smoking jacket for your husband?" behind the seat near the berth. About five minutes after Buckner re tired he alleges that a young man and woman came along and said: "What does this mean?" and went for the con ductor. Returning, the conductor of the train dragged him out of the berth, ac cusing him of stealing a satchel con taining $10; that the Pull man conductor, the young man and woman and the negro porter, also approached and accused him of being a thief, and ordered him out of his berth and wanted to search his valise. He says the conductor took him before John Franklin, attorney for the road, who was on the train. He does not know the names of any of the employes. Buckner says he is a lawyer; that at the time of the incident his practice was worth $5,000 a year; that the affair caused him much worry and anxiety, and prolonged his illness to the detri ment of his practice. TALK ON NAVAJO INDIANS. One of the Features at Sunday After noon Meeting at Y. W. C. A. An interesting programme has been arranged for the 4 o'clock meeting at the Young Women's Christian Associa tion rooms Sunday afternoon. Mrs. C. A. Conroe's Bible class will have charge of the meeting and there will be inter esting talks about the work being done for the Navajo Indians. Letters will be read from Mr. Fred Mitchell, for merly of Topeka. Mrs. J. B. Larimer will give an account of her visit to the Navajos. Special music has been ar ranged for. AGENT GETS JAIL SENTENCE. Man Who Stole Mail Pouch Has Jekyll and Hyde Cliaract eristics. St. Louis, Dee. 16. Arthur J. Yorker, the station agent of the Rock Island road at Union, Mo., who stole a mail pouch September 3, pleaded guilty to the charge cf mail robbery in the United States district court the other day and was sentenced to seven months in the Iron county jail. The light sentence was due to the recommendations for leniency made by District Attorney Dyer and Postoffice Inspector A. D. Bunsen. Judge Firkelnburg commented on the charge as being a grave offense, and said that the position of the district at torney in the matter was all that saved the defendant from going to the peniten tiary. Inspector Bunsen staTed to the court that he had reached the conclus ion that Yorker was mentally unbal anced at times. The inspector is inclined to view Yorker as a man with a dual personali ty. His case has become known to the St. Louis Inspectors as that of the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde man." Yorker persisted from the day of his arrest that he had not stolen the pouch, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he was induced to enter a plea of guilty. The evidence was all against him, and let ters taken from tne pouch were found in the grip he was cifrrying when ar rested at the depot waiting for a train on which he was going to leave Union. 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To convince every suf ferer from rheumatism that WARNER'S SAFH (Rheumatism) CURE will cure them, a trial bottle will be sent ABSOLUTELY FREE to anyone who will write the WARNER SAFE CURE CO., Roch ester, N. Y., and mention having seen this liberal J, and remembered nothing of what he had done afterwarrt. The rdtibery was not discovered until after he was ar rested by the railroad company for mis appropriating an express money pack age. He acknowledged taking the ex press package and was given a short sentence in Jail. Yorker lived at Kansas City, Kan., before coming to Union. He formerly had money ,and was prominent in poli tics some years ago in Dakota, where he was a member of the territorial leg islature several terms. Union Pacific's New Time Card. The winter time card of the Union Pacific P.ailway company will go into effect on Sunday next. There are changes in the running time of but three of the trains in and out of To peka. 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JOT7HN E. "SAT Ult D AY HIGH T. 'US TOPE SA.,D A! L 3 I i UN Uii! ml It WilEOcea at the Auditorium Monday. Ci'Mi Randall Joins the Com pany in Topeta. ARE IIANY GOOD ACTS. An Excellent General Yaude Tilie 13111 Arranged. Boxing Exhibition by Sullivan and "cCormick. Programme for the John L. Pnllivin ihow at the Auditorium next week: Eldridge. sand, picture artist. Miller, the greatest of all handcuff Itlngs. 1 SaUie Randall, singing and dancing iet. Eilveno, the great English shadow- winter. It is vouched for and direct ed by Frank Hall. Prominent on the list 1s the work of Miss Sallie Randall, who will appear in dancing and singing. Fhe was-fer-merly of Hoyt's "Black Sheep" com pany, "The Telephone Girl." "The Burgomaster," "Trip to Buffalo," "In J 492" and "The Runaways." She is one of the feature acta of the show, and has been engaged especially for the Topeka engagement. Eldridge. known as a sand picture artist, presents a new European nov elty. He does some very pretty work with colored sand, and reproduces many pictures of famous scenes, espe cially burning buildings. The Detroit Free Press had this about him re cently: "The Avenue theater has a novelty this week in Eldridge, the man who makes pictures out of the different colored beach sands. He has saucers of black, white, green, blue and bright red sand. He has three large frames In which are stretched some peculiar cloth. Standing behind the frames, one after the other, he scatters his colored sands on his cloth with many airy gestures and flour ishes. And in two minutes he has a beautiful picture of a ship on fire at sea, made upside down. Next comes a snow scene covered with glistening powder, making a rich snow effect. His third picture, the masterpiece, is 'The Burning of the Iroquois theater, Chicago," made in the same manner; he sprinkles alcohol In the windows, r 2tf .-t -f ..y ivitXty RECORMOpll.' Holiday Trade Has Never Befbre Been Equaled. There Has Been Also a Steady Movement in Staples. IIIGIIEIt WAGE SCALES. Are Announced in Many Places for January 1. These. Are Voluntary on the Part of the Employers. Sallie Randall, SotibrMte,, Who Will Join the John Xi. SnIUvan Company in .1 y Topeka. graphist The Teale sisters, song and dance artists. The Boyd family, European acro bats. The Grim family, comedians. John L. Sullivan, In his monologue. Cole and Toung, miisical team. Bradys, bag punchers. John L. Sullivan versus Jim Mc Corrnick, In a three-round sparring contest. Moving pictures James J. Corbett versus Kid McCoy, in their five-round battle. On Monday night in the Auditorium, under the auspices of the local aerie cf Eagles, the great and only John I. Sullivan, one of the idols of the American people, will begin a series ef four performances with his com pany of sixteen people. Judging from the rapidity with which the advance ticket sale Is go ing, a crowded house will tie the rule during the entire run of the shows, Performances will be given on Mon day, Tuesday and "Wednesday nights, and a matinee on Wednesday after noon. "While a great many people will be willing to pay the price of admission, 25 cents, for the special privilege of seeing John L. in action with Jim Mc- Cormick, the big Texan, yet It will be found by the general goer that the rest of the bill is far above the aver age, In fact one of the best vaudeville shows which will come to Topeka. this FOOD OR STIMULANT. Ask your doctor if when, he orders a patient to drink lots of pure milk he advises the addition of a large quantity of whiskey. He'll tell you no very emphati cally. Yet there are people who, when ordered to get Scott's Emulsion, will accept some wine, cordial or extract cf cod liver oil and think it is the same thing or better. If you want and-need cod liver oil in its best, purest and most easily digested form, get C sett's Emulsion. If you Tis.nt whiskey, that's another matter, but don't look for the sxir.e results. TX JSWSB, og Petri 6t Msw York. doors and on the roof, lights it with a match, and it actually burns, show ing the real flames and the firemen at work with several streams of water on the building. The orchestra is working the clang of the fire bell, horses' hoofs and whistles, and there you have a good reproduction of the Iroquois fire. Miller is a hand-cuff artist. He astonishes crowds with the agility and ease with which he can extricate himself from ropes, hand-cuffs, and other thinks with which the attend ants try to make him helpless. Silveno is a remarkable shadow- graphist. His work is exceedingly clever, and this year he 13 bringing out with him a lot of new stunts. The Teale sisters are among the best song and dance artists alive. Their work has gained them excep tional notice everywhere they have been. The Boyd family presents European acrobatic tricks. This is one of the best acts of its kind on the road. The Grim family will furnish the slapstick comedy for the show. They are noted gizzard-splitters. John L. Sullivan in one of his famous monologues will be a much awaited event on the programme by people who go to see the show. rlhe old man is a good stage artist and he is as handy with English as with his fists. James and Kitty Brady have a sur prising act to show what really good, first class bag punching is. They also do a singing and dancing specialty Miss Brady certainly shows what a 1 woman can do if she trys and she stands before the public today as one of the best developed women on the stage. Brougnt about by her own consciencious efforts. Every muscle in her body is fully developed. She, believing that boxing is one of the most health giving exercises, and while it was thought impossible for her to live to the age of twenty years, and was practically given up physi cians ten years ago when she took to boxing for a health giver, and the re sult is, she now knows more about boxing today than nine-tentha of the men. She claims that It has brought every muscle of her body into play, has made her brains more active and quickened the eye, for when boxing one has, not only to depend upon every muscle. In the body, but the eye has the most important part to play to know where the opponent is going to strike, and by a quick guard they will not only keep the blow from landing, but will enable the party on the defense to deliver a blow. John L. Sullivan vs. Jim McCormick, three rounds, Queensbury rules, fur nishes naturally the big attraction of the evening. The two go at it ham mer and tongs and give a real genuine reproduction of the great sparring game. Some especially good moving pic tures of the fight of Jim Corbett and Kid McCoy in tHeir great' five round fight contest will conclude the show. These pictures are among the best on the market. New York, Dec. 16. R. G. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Holiday trade has become the principal feature, retail sales sur passing all records, while it has been found necessary to place liberal sup plemental orders. Yet this activity in specialties detracts little from the steady movement of staples, and in jobbing and manufacturing depart ments there Is unprecedented prepa ration for the spring season. Little machinery is idle, and the outlook for the future is brightened by several announcements of higher wage scales to become effective January 1. These are in every instance voluntary on the part of the employers, and one con cern will thereby distribute about SI, 000,000 more per annum. Building activities are scarcely retarded "by the advancing season, new permits being constantly granted and dealers m some materials find their stocks nearing ex- naustion. Railway earnings steadllv show gains over last year's figures for December, thus far exceeding those of 1304 by 4.4 per cent. Foreign com merce returns for November made a much better exhibit as to exports than was expected, partly because of the outgo of breadstuffs. which surpassed all monthly records for over two' years. At this port for the last week all ex ports were valued at $3,842,862 more than a year ago, while imports in creased $1,496,099. "Two gratifying -features are noted in reports regarding the iron and steel industry. New business continues to come forward, raising therate of pro- auction above all previous records while conservatism'-.'' prevails as to quotations, and there is still no evi dence of the reckless Inflation that has brought a sudden setback in so many previous periods of similar activity. Baic production shows no indication of surpassing requirements. Yet the higher prices for cotton goods natur ally produce a little hesitation among ouyers, ana contracts tor future deliv ery are somewhat restricted. As to woolen goods, the men's wear season is opening slowly on lines for next fall, and the only urgency comes from the past season s unsatisfactory deliveries. '"Hides are remarkably sustained, con sidering the seasonable deterioration in quality and the liberal receipts of cat tle. JLeather is quiet, but firm. Trav eling salesmen' in the West and south are sending New England shoe manu facturers large supplementary orders for spring goods, and the shops have so much advance business that they 'are in a decidedly independent position re garding new contracts. i allures for the Week numbered 239 In the United States, against 276 last year, and twenty-seven in Canada, com pared with twenty-five a year ago." transportation. conditions. Foreign trade in November was a record breaker for that month .with breadstuffs showing the greatest gains.." '"In textile mariufacuring lines there Is no notable change. Conservatism by sellers is still the feature. A large vol ume of spring business has ceen dookcu and prices are strongly held. In raw wool buying is moderate, but prices are strong and about on a par with last year at this time. Much depends the coming heavyweight season. The light weight season showed "nS' most ac tive for worsteds. If, as is hoped, wool ens find favor, shorter clothing wools, which are in liberal supply, will be stim ulated. r .'"Business failures i- United States for the week ending December 14 num ber 216 against 203 last week, 239 in the like week of 1904. 239 in 1903, 225 In 19 and 262 in 1901. In Canada failures for the A-eek number 32, as against 31 last week and 37 in this week a year ago. AT'. THE -CAPITAL. Bank Clearings. The following table, compiled by Brad street, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended De cember 14, with the percentage ot in crease and dfcrease, as compared itn the. corresponding week last yeat City- New York Chicago Boston Philadelphia Bt. Louis Pittsburg San Francisco Baltimore New Orleans Kansas City Cincinnati Minneapolis Houston Cleveland Galveston l,ouisville Detroit Bos Angeles Milwaukee Omaha Providence Indianapolis Memphis St. Paul Buffalo Denver Fort Worth Richmond Seattle ..-..i Columbus Suit Lake City Savannah Rochester Washington Albany Atlanta Portland. Ore. St. Joseph Toledo Spokane i Tacoma Peoria Nashville Hartford Dps Moines Norfolk Grand Rapids Newi Haven Sioux. City Birmingham Springfield. Mass.. Portland, Me Dayton Augusta, Ga. Little Rock Charleston, S. C. F.vansville Worcester Syracuse Jacksonville, Fla.. Fall River Knoxville Wilmington, Del. Chattanooga Wichita Wiikesbarre Davenport Topeka Clearings. $2,199,752, &S9 221,751,26 179,015,469 139, f 189,342 62,784.494 50.8S2.993 39,129,131) 2S,t.57,S'i5 28,321,396 26.9S5.6S2 24,tW9,6i0 22,093,128 19.935,659 16,362,045 35,939,000 13.215.390 13,051, 3S4 10,517.524 10,331,287 9,967,493 i. 567,8' "O S.404,730 8,450,720 7,SS3,205 7.7'Ti,ft9S 7.137.4V27 6,962,765 t,722,897 6.696,033 6,433,51X1 6,26g,464 6.131.76S 5.9S3.207 5,730.360 5.226.263 5,167,266 1 5.111,969 5,067.191 4,602, 0S9 4.2S9.051 4,09O,S0S 4.024,155 3,712.614 3,235,241 2.686,141 2.677,50fi 2.42S, 462 2.317.SS2 2.100.023 2.05S.713 1,986,749 1,843,120 1,822,227 1.7.S8.24S 1,697,171 1.640.770 1.6J5.S53 1.560,414 3,483,709 1,366.454 1,296.571 1,267.684 1.244.R90 1,213,717 1.142.758 1.043,229 926.754 SIS, 237 Inc. Dec. .4 9.6 11.1 6.2 2.5 10.1 17.9 7.6 13.5 11.5 .8 29.5 .17.1 27.0 10.6 9.3 16.2 11.0 7.5 8.1 17.7 25.9 10.9 18.2 -12.9-25.2. 36.0 64.1 30.5 50.4 23.4 27.6 27.6 16.6 25 .9 48 27.1 2s!5 15.9 10.6 36.5 20.4 20.9 17 ;5 44.0 23.4 9.0 17.1 39.9 42.4 ii.'i 8.0 31.0 84.3 3.9 10.6 39.7 29.7 is'.o 3.7 10. s 5.1 6.3 Gossip About Pension Business in Congress. Always Many -Hore Bills In troduced Than Passed. CALDERIIEAD'S WORK. Kansas' Kember of Committee on Intalid Pensions. Tries to Discourage Grist of Private Measures. 5.8 5.6 23'.2 Bratlsfreet's. Bradstreet's says: "Holiday trade has absorbed attention this week and reports from all over the country are unanimous that all records for this stage of this season have been surpassed. In retail trade proper there is some complaint -of mild weather re tarding sales of heavy clothing and foot wear. Wholesale trade is quiet except where liberal orders for holiday goods have reached jobbers from the retail ers. The usual end .of the year inven tories are being prepared for by first hands, while jobbers are making some special sales of goods adaed to the season. Spring trade reports thus far are satisfactory. "Manufacturing Industry is still as active as ever, notable in this respect being iron and steel, but new buying of the cruder forms, such as pig iron, is less active. Finished products note no diminution in demand and certainly no reduction in high premiums paid for prompt deliveries, particularly of struc tural material. Mild weather has ta vored freer shipments of coal from mines and retarded consumption, thus helping dealers to provide against win ter condition later on. Cars are still scarce, special eomnlatnt being made bv the iron, lumber and grain trades, but are claimed to be in better supply west of the Missouri, with no improve ment at the east. Collections are ir regular, varying with weather and Salina Oratorical Contest. Salina, Kan., Dec. 15. At the oratori cal contest held at Wesleyan university the first place was won by W. E. Graves, whose subject was "The Mis sion of the Democracy." Second place was won by Miss Mary Hollen. "Judg ment of the World" was her subject. Mr. Graves will represent the college in the state contest to be held in Febru ary. In addition he won a prize of $25 t. ft sued bv ii. D. Ljee. Totals in IT. S...J3.294.532.894 Outside N. Y.... 1,094,780,205 HE RETURNS 'ALONE. But Young Mr. JklcCall Brings a State ment from Hamilton. Vii,! -Twgsipr "sesr r Paris, Dec. 16. John d. McCall. son of John A. McCall, president of the New York Life Insurance, com pany, who came to Paris for the pur pose of having Andrew Hamilton, the former confidential legislative repre sentative of, the insurance company at Albany, accompany him back to New. York, sailed alone today on the steam er La Lorraine from Havre. Mr. Mc Call took with him Mr. Hamilton's re port concerning his connection with the insurance company's affairs. The following statement was furnished from an authoritative source: "Mr. McCall found upon his arrival here that Mr. Hamilton was under the care of Dr. Riveria, a famous special ist. Mr. McCall delayed his departure at Mr. Hamilton's request in order to see if the treatment would enable Mr. Hamilton to return, but the doctor finally stated that the trip Mr. Hamil ton contemplated and his return to business would surely be followed by a serious illness. inereiore ausuiuie rest for several months will be necessary- In lieu of his return Mr. Hamil ton has prepared and sent a full and explicit statement covering his con nection with the affairs of the insur ance company." It is understood that Mr. Hamilton s response to the legislative committee takes the form of going over the en tire ground of the investigation. Both Mr. McCall and Mr. Hamilton de clined to go into details of the report on the ground Of courtesy xo the com mittee. However, it is Clear that the report was taken to the United States today and that it embraces a state ment of Mr. Hamilton's operations since his connection with the New York Life Insurance .company. EXCURSION TO SOUTHWEST. V She Knew I What Si Wanted I i and refused substitutes. Those who 1 I f have used Lowney's know why they 1 I II prefer it. Purity, Flavor, Strength- J i Y Lo-ivneyi Rectipt Bock Free. J Jl Washington, Dec. 15. representa tive W. A. Calderhead of the Fifth dia- j trlct, has about all he can do this win-; ter as a member of the house of rep resentatives committee on invalid pen sions. Mr. Calderhead entered congress in 1895, and save -one term has been here since. He is one of the best authori ties in the house of representatives on pension subjects and legislation. Dur ing his congressional service he has been a member of the committee on invalid pensions. It 13 estimated that already more than 6,000 private pension bills have been introduced in the house represen tatives, and have been referred to the committee on invalid pensions. Of this number, fully 4,000 will go to Mr. Cal derhead'a subcommittee. Here is one thing, though, in the matter of private pension bills: It has growrf to be the custom of many mem bers to introduce every pension bill that is requested of them; and the abuse is something frightful. To many members it matters not that only an in finitesimal fraction of bills introduced can become laws; they are -willing to smother their consciences, and accept the results, rather than refuse a vet eran who asks for special legislation. Many others do not even consider whether the bills they introduce are possible of passage at all; that is, w hether the cases come under the rules adopted by the committee setting forth what cases shall be, and what not, en titled to relief by private act of congress. It is to the credit of Mr. Calderhead that for years he has sought to induce members not to engage in the whole sale introduction of bills; but to be frank and tell the veterans that they can secure the passage of only a very few bills; and that these must be for the most needy and deserving and suf fering veterans, whose cases come clearly within the rules. Mr. Calderhead himself seldom in troduces more than five or six bills a session, which is about all any mem ber of the house can expect to secure the passage of in one session of con gress. He has not even introduced this number as yet this session, waiting to sift out from among the large number of requests he has the very best and most-deserving cases. Mr. Campbell of the Third district seldom introduces more than five bills a session. He, also, .has refrained so far this session from introducing any at 'all-." Later, he will introduce- the number, five, and secure their passage. Senator Long is careful about this.' So far he has introduced only an even dozen of private pension bills. A sen ator Can secure the passage of more bills than a representative, but not to exceed the number Senator Long has introduced. But other members are not so cau tious and wise. For instance, Mr. Brownlow of Tennessee introduced, on the first day of the session, about 400 private pension bills. These he will send out to the recipients of his favor, and then, as the session draws to a close, there will be about 400 unsatis fied applicants who will ask Mr. Brownlow what has become of their bills. He may reply many members do that the committee on invalid pen sions is to blame; that the committee will not- report the bill. Then the sol diers will write Mr. Calderhead, and other members of the committee, and grow very indignant because the com mittee has, in their judgment, been very lax in its desire to assist the vet erans! All of this Mr. Calderhead and the committee on pensions in congress has to bear, because of the action of members like Mr. Brownlow. It may take "nerve" to write a vet eran in your district or your state and tell him that you cannot aid him by special act of congress in his case, when he will likely write back that his friend in such-and-such a district or state is so aided by his member but if you write the letter in a full and entirely frank manner, calling atten tion to the very many deserving cases where soldiers are destitute and suf- ferinsTj and ask the veteran if he will not admit that such cases should first receive relief, the chances are your correspondent will become mollified in time, and say you have done the right thing. But if you comply with his request, and introauce unlimited bills thereby, without examination, and, sending each applicant a printed codv of his bill let the matter end there then that soldier is likely, after eat h CI al m of S3 1 ,0 0 0 Pole! :;By-Metropolitan' Life Insurance Company Friday. This company has over nine millions of policies in force, arid assets $150,000,000, which proves the popularity of this company and its strength. H. O. MADDOX, Supt., Topeka, Kansas. Room 40 Columbian Building. RECEIVER'S OFFICE THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK No. 2646. Topeka, Kansas JAMES T.-BRADLeY,. Receiver Topeka. Kansas', December, isih, 1905 Mr. H. O: Maddox, Superintendent, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, Topeka, Kansas. Dear Sir: I take pleasure in acknowleding receipt of full payment of policies No. 138041 and No. 138042, issued fiy the Metropolitan. Life Insurance Company on the life of Charles J. Devlin, which were assigned to this, bank for $31,000. Tlie life insurance of Mr Devlin has been a great relief to the creditors of this trust'.':. The payment of all the poticies assigned to the Bank will enable the Receiver to pay about 40 per cent more of the claims, within a reasonably short time, than he could have done in the absence of any fund from this source, AND ISA FORCIBLE DEMONSTRATION of the value of life insurance as a protection to a man's business. Thanking you for your uniform, courtesy in the adjustment of your policies, I remain, Yours very truly, December 19, via Santa Fe. Especially; low rates- In effect this date; in many eases less than one fare. Tickets sold to all sections of the great Southwest that land of .opportunity now attracting the attention of dis cerning and shrewd investors, home seekers and others. Unexcelled train service. For particulars apply to T. L. King, city passenger agent, Topeka, Kan. Holiday, Excursion Rates. To accommodate holiday travelers a late of one fare and one-third for the round trip to many points on the Union Pacific and its connecting lines has been placed in effect by the Union Pacific. Dates of sale, Dec. 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1905, and Jan. 1. 1906; with final return limit Jan. 4, 1906. Additional dates of sale and longer limit for students and teachers holding certificates. Inquire of F. A. Lewis, city ticket agent, or J. C. Fulton, depot agent, Lutes can get your photos- out "for Xmas. 511 Kansas avenue, Revolution Immluent.- A sure sign of approaching revolt and serious trouble in your system is nerv .,neji. BleenlRKKness. or stomach upsets. Klectric Bitter will "quickly dismember the troublesome causes. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver and clar ifv the Wood. Run down systems benefit particularly and all the usual attending aches vanish.-.-under its searching and thorough effectiveness. Electric Bitters is only 50c, and that is returned if it don't erive perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by the Arnold Drug Co., bJl N. Kansas ave. 1 Lutes can get your photoa out for J-raaa. 511 Kansas avenue. A handful of ignorant, down trodden, helpless, defeated English strikers have accom pEshed, .in. their desperation, what the most powerful busi ness man in the world might well be proud of. With the profits of their merchandise, sold to them selves and their neighbors, at regular prices, they provide for the education of children and insurance on lives and p -r q p erty, hospitals,, and growth 6f their business some 47,000 stores with over $140,000,000.00 capital. This is the subject of Rus sell's masterly article, "Sol diers "of the Common Good," in Everybody's for Christmas. ETCrrbodr's Magiine. 15 eente 1.50 a year j a while, to become Mr. Member of Congress's sworn enemy. But many members' cannot see it that way." And so the pension bill abuse goes on, Mr. Miller of the Kansas Fourth reaped as largely by reason of the committee changes as any member of the Kansas delegation probably more so. He secured the chairmanship of the committee on claims. He retained his place as secphd, or ranking, mem- Der on me committee on elections JSo. 2. He was jumped from third to sec ond place on the committee on public lands. He is in fine condition so far as committee assignments are concerned. The chairmanship of the committee on claims, while important, however, is not necessarily desirable. There must be a claims committee; and some one must be chairman and do the work; but it is hard for that one. For forty years, impossible claims have come to congress, growing out of -the war of the rebellion. For forty years more there will be others of like char acter. Then there are personal-injury cases; aamages cases; loss of property cases anything in the world, good, bad, or indifferent, that will permit any worthy or unworthy person to come anywhere near extracting -aid and com fort and satisfaction from this great government. It is a thankless task running this committee but Mr. Mil ler has the job for two years, at least. SELFISH, COWARDLY. Words AYhicli Express President Eliot's Views of Exclusion Policy. Boston, Dec. 16.- In an address bor fore the Economic club of Boston, President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, speaking on "Immigration," said: "It is the labor unions who teach the doctrine of contract labor exclusion. That is the source of all the agitation along these lines. The Americans who have got into the good trades, want to keep out all the new comers from those trades. Mr. Gompers the other day .in New York, opposed the admission of Chinese students and educated travel er on the ground that Chinese coolies might smuggle themselves into the country in that disguise. I want to pro test against that line of argument, that we should try to keep out new arrivals because our earnings will be reduced. That is not the real danger. Have wages fallen in the last fifty years or risen? Yet immigrants have been coming by the millions. Our laboring class if I may use such a term hold a very unmannerly opinion about the new comers. The,y have not confidence enough in their own superiority re sulting from their own advantages. We ought to have a profound confidence from our own experence on this soil of the trustworthy effects of freedom for every man. "I am no kind of a restrletionist to .anybody, either in education, religion or immigration. We are all of us pret ty content with the results .of .the im migration of the last eight generations. It has been the source of our civiliza tion and of our ideals. The only pos sible doubt about the present immigra tion contrasted with former is this: "Are the races that are coming notv as sound physically, morally and men tally as the races that have ieome since 1612? There is a good deal of race and religious prejudice in the matter. Men say: 'Can we digeet this mass of Roman Catholics?' Well, w-e have di gested many millions of them and they have turned out humane, excellent citi zens. What race have we digested with more difficulty than the Irish? Yet, in President Roosevelt there are 1 two strains of blood, one Dutch and. the "other Irish. What shall we say of the yellow race? Last week in New York, an attempt was made to draw a clear cut distinction. The labor orators de nounced the Chinese and Japanese, im plying that these races were physical ly, mentally and morally differentiated .from us in such a degree that they; could not be lived with and all we' want to know about a race- is can we live with it? A minister who had long, lived in China, replied that that nation, had produced a high civilization when -the ancestors of every man in the room were living in fur clothing in the wilderness. "We have had an excellent oppor- tunity to see what the Japanese are like. See what an exhibition they have given us in physical strength and power in their mastery of the art of war. They actually taught the English -how-to fight a naval battle. No fleet in the world ever made such intelligent preparations for battle as the surgeons of Togo's fleet. And witness the intel lectual insight in the conduct of the j struggle and the moral qualities in its conclusion. Yet we have the insolence r to conceive of excluding Japanese fromr this country, because of their inferiori ty. As to contract labor, the law can not he enforced, never has been en forced and never ought to be en forced." Lutes can get your photos out for Xmas. 511 Kansas avenue. Holiday Rates Santa Fe. For the Christmas and New Years holidays tickets will be sold to point on Santa Fe lines and connecting, linoay at rate- of one and one-third fare.. Tickets on sale December 22, 2 3, 24, 25, 30, 31 and January 1. Final re- turn limit January 4, 1906. a For further particulars, address T. L. KING, C. P. T. A.. Topeka, Kansas. Lutes can get your photos out for Xmas. 511 Kansas avenue. Holiday Rates Santa Fe. For the Christmas' and New Year holidays tickets- wilt "be- sold -to point t on Santa Fe lines and connecting lines at rate of one and one-third fare. Ticket1; on sale December 22, 23, 24, 25. 30,'31 and January -1. Final re turn limit January 4, 1906. For further particulars, address T. L. KING, C. Pi T. A., i Topeka, Kan Lutes can get your photos out for Xmas. ,511 Kansas a venue. LaBouchere Will' Retire. London, Dec. I6.Henry La Bouchere, the well known editor and liberal member of parliament for North ampton, will not be a candidate for re election to parliament at the coming elections. He gives advancing age as the reason for his retirement. He first entered parliament forty years ago. ueucaze reii. Tbe children cannot- possibly have good health unless the bowels re in proper condition. A "sluggish liver gives a coated tongue, bad breath, constipated bowels. Correct all these by giving smaU doses of Ayer's Pills. Genuine liver pills, gently laxative. tkiHMHmul Wt ?b!ik sc. the UrwBiiit ot il our astdidnw. Siw" iiw.' i

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DAILY STATU J O U H ii A I B A T UED A Y WIGHT. 3 dBiqi fcLiii U iiOUitUu Tie Hanlon-Uerman Eattl8 Was a Fierce One. Two Lightweights in Action From First to Last. EDDIE FORCED PACE. San Francisco Lad Had Chicago Fighter Nearly Out. The Decision Was GiTen to Herman on Points. Lcs Angeles, Dec. 16. Kid Herman of Chicago last night was given the decis ion over Eddie Hanlcn of San Francisco In the fiercest twenty round fight ever iecn in Los Angeles. There was not a moment from start to finish of every round that the two lightweights were not in action, and the gong found them fighting. Hanlon forced the pace and made it a terrific one from the very start and never for an instant gave ground. To a great extent he gave up his crouch and stood up and boxed with Herman. At this style of fighting he was at a disadvantage as Herman was far the cleverer of the two, and his blows were nearly all clean and well timed. It rray be said that Herman won the fight with one hand, as he did all his work after the twelfth round with his right, using his left only to make an opening. He punished Hanlon se verely about the body with ripping rtghf hand blows on the. ribs and under the heart, and at close range uppercut Hanlon repeatedly about the face. Hanlon, as usual, directed his atten tion to the body and was less successful in landing on Herman than he has been with most of his opponents. Herman h;id an effective block for his body blows and barring a bloody nose near the finish came out of the fight without a mark. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twen tieth rounds were about the best of the contest, H.'inlon appearing to have the advantage in strength. In the twentieth round Hanlon had Herman very tired end as the Chicago man lost his guard on the stomach Hanlon pounded him about the body and had him staggering at the finish. Referee Eyton's decision was popular. Hanlon was the fav uite in the betting at 10 to 8, but Herman was strongly supported by the mstern racing men. Hanlon weighed 133 and Herman gave his weight at l'-llVx- EMPOJilA FOOTBALL CAPTAIN'S. Etlgar I'orrte at the Normal and Scott Payne at College. Emporia, Dec. 16. At a meeting of the Normal football team Edgar Forde, lf-ft tackle this year, was elect ed captain of next year's eleven. Foi'de was :the best available man for the place. He has played two years with the Normal squad, and played with the college eleven before that. He Is playing better football every year. The election of captain .it the col leao has not yet been held, but the re sult can be predicted pretty surely. In all probability Scot" Payne will be made captain. He has played on the tam three years, and a next year is his senior year, he will likely be given thi honor. Swimming Marks Lowered. Chicago, Dec. 10. In the monthly handicap meet, of the Centra! Y. M. C. A. swimming, held in the association tank, H. J. Handy bettered two Ameri can records and set six new Y. M. C. A. records. The new marks were made in the fifiO-yard swim, in which Handy contested from scratch against Weber and Solomon, both of whom had good handicaps, but which Handy won. The American records bettered were the 1550-yard, in which the Y. M. C. A. Btar lowerefl the mark of Spencer of the New York Athletic club, from 8:21 1-5 to 7:31 3-f, and the 660-yard, in which he lowered the mark of Brewer of the Olympic club of San Francisco from 9:41 to 9:04 2-5. Neither of these will stand as records as they were made in a closed meet. The new Y. M. C. A. records were: 44 yards. 0:24; 100 yards, 1:03 2-5; 110 yards, 1:11 2-5; 440 yards, B:F5 4-3. and the two national marks. The medal for the highest number of points also was won by Handy with a total of ten. For a New Oklahoma Ijeague. Muskogee. I. T.. Dec. 16. L. J. Gal breath of Shawnee, Ok., has called a meeting of basebiill men in Oklahoma and Indian Territory in Muskogee on January 11. The purpose of the meet ing will be to organize the Indiahoma Baseball league, and representatives will be here from Shawnee, Guthrie, Pawnee, Stllwater and Cleveland, in Ok lahoma, and from Bartlesville, Vinita, Muskogee, South McAlester and Wag ner, in Indian Territory, and Fort Smith, Ark. It is proposed to form a six of eight-club circuit in the class D of the American Protective association. The Cardinals Claim Slattery. Milwaukee. Wis., Dec. 16. Down in St. Louis, Stanley Iobison. owner of the St. Louis Nationals, is saying that Jack iSlattery, a backstop on the Milwaukee team two years ago. will next season be a Cardinal. Havenor doesn't know A Cream ef Tartar Powder, free from alum or phos phatic acid KOYAl BAKINO POWDER CO KEW YORK. j I f 3

anything about It up to this time. The two Milwaukeeans eligible for drafting have been secured Robinson and.kod win. Slattery belongs to Milwaukee, and, unless hs is purchased from Mil waukee, he cannot play with St. Louis. Slattery did not return here last year, because the money inducements did net suit him. He played with Independent teams in Boston ard New York and also put in a few games with the Tri state outlaw league. He ia a suspended player. XOKDYKE A GOOD FTND. A Player Predicts Success for the Coast Player. St. -Louis, Dec. 16. "Rusty" Hall, who pitched for the Cardinals when Tim Hurst was having a stormy career as manager ot that nine and who is now managing the Seattle team of the Pacific Coast league, was a visitor in St. Louis this week on his way to his home, near Louisville, Ky. While here Hall called on President Hedges of the Browns. Hall saw Shay and Beckley on the coast befote he left and reports that they are looking good and having their share of prosperity. Beckley is arr offi cial at one of the tracks, while Shay is trying to make the ponies pay him a salary during the off season. He says that Joe Corbett, who made such a fail ure here with the Cardinals, is out of baseball and running a hat store. Cor bett did not recover his form on the coast, and Hall thinks he is done with baseball for good. Speaking of Nordyke, the new first baseman of the Browns, Hall said: NORDYKE A GOOD MAN. "Nordyke is a mighty good man, and he should make good in fast company. He is a steady-going, hard-working chap, and anxious to get to the top, and there is no reason why he should not. Nordyke has everything that goes to make a grand ball player, and he is a hustler from the word go. He covers a lot of ground and takes chances when necessary, regardless of the possibility of being charged up with errors. The only man I have seen that handles as many chances as Nordyke is Chase ,the youngster Pittsburg has landed." Wiscoiisln-Michigau Dates. Madison, Wis Dec. 16. Graduate Manager Downer has announced the schedule with Michigan he arranged while in Chicago the early part of the week. The indoor track meet with Michigan will be held either March 17 or 19 at Madison. Two baseball games have been agreed upon to be played in Madison on May 14 and a regular game with Ann Arbor on May 19. The Michigan-Wisconsin foot ball game will be played at Madison on November 6. Additional proof that Wisconsin intends to sever athletic rela tions with Minnesota was offered yes terday when Graduate Manager Reed held a conlerence with Downer regard ing athletic dates. They talked matters over In a fiiendly manner, but arrived at no conclusion. Racing at Los Anp-eles. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 16. According to the closing orders but two favorites won at Ascot. Hammer Away and Good Luck, both Tichenor colts. But the third race went to Miss Bett, backed from 20 down to 6, and there was glee galore when the young lady led to the wire by a short half length. The fea ture race was won by McGrathiana Prince. As usual, Minnasquaw went out in front like a brown streak and the way little McDaniel set her down on the back stretch looked very much like the money but McGrathiana was too much for her. Fighters Think Scat Prices Low. San Francisco. Dec 16. Jack O'Brien and Leon Friedman, manager of Fitz simmons, are emphatic in their denun ciation of the scale of prices fixed by Coffroth for the coming fight. O'Brien said: "This is a championship battle and I do not think box seats shou'- v sold for less than $20. Coffroth has put the price at $10." Friedman's opinion coincided with that of the Philadelphian; He thought it was unfair to put the price so low. The sporting evperts think Coffroth, who is the shrewdest man in the Dusmess nere, has acted wisely and that his schedule will bring the best results for all con cerned. Four Favorites Defeated. New Orleans, Dec. 16. The heavy track at the fair grounds was respon sible for the defeat of four favoiites. Remington and Augur being the only successful choices. Remington scored by an extremely narrow margin, as Hol loway, weakly ridden and having tak en the worst of the going, was but a neck behind him at the finish. Jack Lory won the fifth race in hollow style. Weather cold and cloudy. Raced in the Rain. San Francisco, Dec. 16. Rain fell in torrents at Ingleside. Despite the change in track concfttions, however, three favorites and three second choices took the honors of the day. The feature event, a mile dash for 3-year-olds, was won by Gregor K.. who finished- two lengths ahead of St. George, jr. Gateway, the favorite, made a poor showing. W'eather rainy; track good for first two races. Clay Center 16. Concordia 14. Clay Center, Kan., Dec. 16. A game of basket ball between the Clay coun ty high school and Concordia high school was played here Friday after noon and resulted in a victory for the home team by a scort of 16 to 14. The game is new in this town and the pub lic was generally surprised at the scien tific character of the game. Attendance 300. Disagreeable at New Orleans. New Orleans, Dec. 16. Cold and thor oughly disagreeable weather did not ap pear to affect the sport at City park. Favorites and non-favorites divided the card, but all the winners were well backed. J. G. Brown's Cold Zone threw his rider and ran away a mile after the horses had gone to the post for the first race. Neither boy for horse was injured and the horse was excused under the rules and twenty minutes were allowed for a new book. Basket Ball at Haskell. Lawrence, Kan.. Dec. 16. The basket ball season begins at Haskell institute Saturday evening, and last until the middle of March. There are eight basket ball teams in the institute, six boys' teams and two girls'. Matched games will be played during the w inter and at the end of the season prizes will be given to the winning teams. The suits worn by the players are very striking and no two are alike. Walter Eyke Marries. Muskegon, Mich., Dec. 16. Another of Yost's football proteges has joined the ranks of the benedicts. Walter Eyke of Muskegon, an old varsity baseball pitcher and candidate for football hon ors, was married recently in Windsor, Ont., to Emogene Flaggert of Muskegon Denver Battle a Tame Affair. Denver, Dec. 16. George Memsic and Adam Ryan, both of Chicago, fought ten rounds at the Democratic club last night. Memsic received the decision. The fight was a tame affair and fre auently dseiv hlsse3 from the spectators. Ulii.l ill LiluO Ui Yale's Representative Gives Ideas on Football Changes. Declares Committee Must 3Ieet Public Demand. RULES TO BE UNIFORM. Ten Yards Should Be Gained in Three Downs. Low Tackling Dangerous and Should Be Barred. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 16. Wal ter Camp, secretary of the intercol legiate football rules committee, has elaborately outlined its position on football reforms as follows, announc ing that the proposed meeting had been postponed one week because of the Harvard representatives' failure to attend the meeting this week: "It seems too bad that there Ia to be further delay In the matter of ac tion by the rules committee. The public and the various faculties throughout the country certainly ex pected prompt action by this com mittee, and I think the members of the committee would for the large part have been ready to act last Sat urday, and certainly all expected to be able to by this week Friday. If Har vard, however, asks for further delay, as I understand Mr. Reid does, we must in courtesy consent, "The rules committee, which was originally a number of individuals asked on account of the football in terest by the university athletic club to formulate rules, never did more than this. No one was obliged to ac cept their rules unless they wished to. Slust Meet Public Demand. "If the committee fails to answer the demand that has been growing for decided action along two points the opening of the game and the lessen ing of accidents and unnecessary roughness it surely will not live up to the very object of its being. Last year the ten yard rule was proposed, but was not adopted. When the original five yard rule was adopted the outcry was similar, but at that time I was more in the minority in its favor than I am now in favor of the ten yard rule. "Let me make perfectly clear what I think about this ten yard rule, as it seems to me to be important that every one interested should under-; stand the situation. "A team is now required to gain! five yards in three attempts or forfeit j the ball. The proposition is that they must gain just double that distance in the same number of attempts. Mass, j tandem and formation plays are, at the best, figured on to net about six yards in the three downs, hence the fact that a team must do one of two things either openthe game by mak ing longer runs or else kick the ball means that the heavy hammering plays defeat themselves. Argument Is Not New. "It has been argued that this will mean simply a kicking game; that if a team has some difficulty now in gain ing its five yards in three downs it cannot possibly be expected to gain ten yards in three downs. "That is just what was argued re garding the original five-yard rule, and, so far as it goes, may be true, but any one who studies it must see that the value of possession of the ball 18 thus greatly lessened and hence a quarter back will do just what we want him to do, namely, take a bigger chance on an open play because he feels that even if he does lose the ball on it, his op ponnts, when they secure it, will not then hammer by short gains of two yards at a time straight down for half the field to a touchdown without losing possession of the ball. "It is very probable that the enact ment of this rule would lead to more kicking, but even that would be, in the eyes of the public, an iprovement on the present close plays. Still further, it will make unnecessary roughness less possible of concealment. "This brings up the question of the other part of the legislation which should be coupled with the ten-yard rule. Accidents are inseparable from any game like our modern football, but we wish to minimize them as much as possible and to free the game from un necessary roughness. No Tackling Below Knees. "It the opening of the igame is ef fected there should be a return to the old style of tackling, at any rate no tackling below the knees, and as corol lary to this a rule forbidding hurdling. This means that a man when running in the open will not be seized by the feet, as he is at present, and at the same time forbids a man who is running from at tempting to jump over his opponent's head and thus leading to the very kind of tackling which is most dangerous. "Upon these points, opening the play and lessening the accidents and unneces sary roughness, I am most earnest. I have reason to believe that, although the experience of the players here at Nev Haven has been such as already mentioned, to make them (the players) feel that the game, even at present is a very good game, yet the authorities at New Haven, feeling a grave sense of responsibility in view of the position Yale has maintained in the game, will stand absolutely for these points. "I would not be arbitrary on the ex act wording of these two rules, but I am sure we must insist absolutely that the purpose for Which these two rules are offered shall be carried out. I feel that the committee has now reached a point where its effort is foredoomed to failure if it does not meet the public demand on these two points. Rules Must Be Filiform. "I do not wish to seem too overinsist ent, but how can Yale meet her re sponsibility if the committee will not answer to such a demand as the pres ent one? It does ncVt do the sport any good to have the committee make rules which are contrary to public demand, because that will merely result in very YCU MUST PUT BACK I daily by proper food what use takes from the Brain. j Graos-Nuts a. i scientifically prepared, contains just the right food elements. i I Tea days trial proves! many sets of rules being made about the country, which must result in a chaotic condition. "The temper of the committee is ap parent regarding unnecessary roughness and brutality. Increased penalties, as well as the giving of distance, are prac tically sure of adoption, as well as the suggestion I made in Harper's Wreekly several wetks ago of the choosing of a central body to appoint competent offi cials. "It Is also very desirable that more rigid definition Ehould be given to the position in which Uie linemen should keep their hands and arms in order to prevent concealed fouls or unfair tac tics, and to do away with a suspicion of these. This could easily be made also to Include the restriction of the use of the open hand, save by the run ner with the ball. Halves Should Be Shorter. "I believe also that a shortening of time of the halves would aid in lessen ing injuries and is desirable; that a distance penalty should be given when time is taken out at the request of a captain, provided the player for whose benefit it is called continues in the game. This will surely lessen the temptation to continue playing a tired or exhausted man, who, when in that condition, is peculiarly subject to in jury. "I also think that some alteration in the rules for a fair catch, protect ing the catcher more decidedly, and perhaps even at a loss of some of our spectacular runs, would help by less ening the dangers of these more se rious collisions. "I am sure that there will be no disposition on the part of Yale or on my part not to adopt any reasonable findings of the committee, provided that the two main features, the ten yard rule and the higher tackling, be passed. It will not do to offer a lot of experimental legislation which has not been discussed by the public. It must be direct. "As to making the tackling higher, that requires no study. The public understands perfectly well what ie meant when a law is passed that a man may not tackle an opponent be low the knees, and the public also knows that this would in some meas ure at least save men from ugly falls. "I believe that a rule declaring the ball dead as soon as any part of the runner save his feet touched the ground would also aid." Los Angeles Team Wins. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 16. The Los Angeles team has won the Pacific UCoast league pennant for 1905 by de- ieating lacoma, 3 to 1. This gave the locals five of the nine post-season games to be played with Tacoma for the championship, each team having won half of th3 divided season. SENIOR PLAY PLEASED. An Excellent Aamateur Performance at the High School. Before an audience of eight hundred friends and patrons the pupils of the senior class of the Topeka High school presented the four act drama, "The Deacon's Tabulations," last evening. The pupils who presented the'play la3t night are in the main the same as those who presented the "Taming of the Shrew" at the auditorium early last May. Their rendition of the little drama last night which dealt with a brandy loving deacon and his wife was consid erable above the average as far as ama teur productions are concerned. One marked innovation was the fact that at no time in the play did a single one in the cast forget his lines. Of course the curtains did not work just right and the lights were turned on when they should have been turned off and wer eturned off when they should have been turned on, but that was really a part of the play, and without these shortcomings it would have been easy to have mistaken the play for one of Crawford's. There is no criticism to be offered, for the little drama was really rendered in a manner which reflected credit on the entire cast. There were no hitches nor long waits between acts as is usually the case in amateur performances. The part of Deacon Thornton, who has a weakness for brandy, was taken by Edwin F. Taft whose interpretation of the part was clever. Ethel Miller, in the part of the deacon's wife, with a burning desire to reform the deacon and have him live true to the teachings of his church was above the averase. The star black face"bn the bill was Clinton Zercher whose interpretation of the part which he is supposed to por tray was the applause winner of the evening. The music was furnished by the high school orchestra and is deserv ing of the praise which it received. There were no breaking of violin strings, no long waits while some youngster tried for the correct pitch, and there were no notes left over after the selec tion was supposed to be completed. The rendition of the little drama was so well done that excepting the stage settings it might easily have been mis taken for a professional aggregation. 2.500 ENTRIES At the International Live Stock Show in Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 16. The annual ex hibition of the International Live Stock show opened today in the new building erected for the purpose at the stock yards. Breeders from all parts of the country and many from Canada are represented and the affair promises to is the largest of its kind ever held in the west. Animals num bering 2,500 are entered. The judging of the merits of live stock by the stu dents of the various agricultural col leges in the west has become a great feature of the show and rivalry be tween the different institutions is keen. BILLY MORGAN'S BOOK. His Breezy Letters of Travel Put in Permanent Form. W. Y. Morgan's book. "A Journey of a Jayhawker" with illustrations by Albert T. Reid, has just come from the press of Crane Co. Cnlike most books of travel, the Morgan book is in teresting. The matter contained in the book in cludes the excellent European letters in Mr. Morgan's paper while "The Jour ney of the Jayhawker" was in progress. It starts in with the first plans for the trip to Europe, and tells in a humorous and entertaining style a lot of interest ing things about the people Mr. Mor gan met abroad. He sizes tip the dif ferent nationalities in a characteristic Kansan way, and tells their strong and weak points. It is certainly one of the best collections of letters ever printed. Mr. Morgan says in the Hutchinson News that in order to be safe, he plan ned his book so that the cover would be red, whether the inside was read or hot. But anyone who starts in to look over Mr. Morgan's book will be pos- Under the Auspices 311 The Greatest of All HANDCUFF KINGS Th man who can break out of any prison that was ever made. Must Bo Seen to Be Believed A $300 Act. SILVENO Tfae Great English Shadow graphist A $150 Act. Monaayf y f i r l fed rr a ir ij sjMILLfefl See JOHN L. SULLIVAN IN H1$ monologue The Idol of the American People. The man who has always been on the square and on the level. This Is a grand opportunity to bring your mother, sisters and daughters and the little ones In the after noons, and see and hear the man who has been talked about more than any human being. John L. gives his monologues, telling funny stories of his travels around the world, and gives his 3-round Sparring Exhi bition with his sparring partner, Big Jim McCormick. This is a show worth traveling 100 miles to see, as thjs is your last chance to see John L. in this part of the country. See Cole and Young, tfcs Greatest Musical Team ca Eartb. They play almost every musical instrument conceived by man. Joliio for twelve long years champion of the world under the Marquis of Queensberry rules, and the Present Champion of the World Under the London Prize Ring Rules, VERSUS Jim McCormick in a 3 Round Sparring Contest Here is an opportunity for you to see John L. Sullivan with the Gloves on at Popular Prices and many thousands of people have paid from $3 to $25 a seat to see "the noblest Roman of them all"" don the gloves. James J. Corbett vs. Kid McCoy in Their Great 5 Round Battle. See the Wonderful Pictures taken of the great fight fought between JAMES J. CORBETT and Km McCOY in Madison Square Garden, New Tork city, N. T. Every blow and every movement that was made in this famous contest in the twenty-four-foot ring is as plain as the nose on your face, and everything Is life-size, showing every move made by the ten thousand people present and the knock-out of McCoy by James J. Corbett. Everything is as natural as if you were sitting at the ring side on the night of the con test These pictures alone are worth traveling 500 miles to see and are the only ones in existence today and are the property of John L. Sullivan. j Popular Prices. 25c Gives You Any Seat in the Douse. TONIGHTS STATE J0U1NAL And ELvery Issue Until Christmas Filled with the best holiday offerings ob tainable. "Good goods at reasonable prices is the slogan. In no other city in America can you obtain better values than the merchants of Topeka are offering Shop Early j rt r-on ri n. There sesseu wmi x ucout w is no doubt that the thousand copies issued will be "reaa insiuc 0.0 cw "red" out. Here is his unique dedication: 10 the people of Hutchinson who have stood for much from the same source and for whom there is no relief in sight. -1 T 1 of the Fraternal Order MATINEE, WEDNERDAY, DEC. 20. n t LL.0 u THE CHAMPION OF ALL CHAMPIONS WITH HIS SPARRING PARTNER ruiicli of Galveston, Teos AND FRANK HALL'S TT ft JOHN U. SULLIVAN and Avoid the .Christmas Rush c- this book is respectfully dedicated." The illustrations are an excellent feature which goes without saying when it is known they were made by Mr. Reid. Barton Hall Burns. Constantinople, Dec. 16.- -Barton i i 4 Eagles, Aerie No. 58 11 4 V lj ilk Wai n x 1 1 M V y lj v The Teals Sisters The Greatest Song and Dance Artists Alive, from the 40 Minutes on Broadway, New York Co. AS200 Act. The Boyd Family The Greatest of All European Acrobats. The Grim Family The Greatest of All Comediana A Laugh from Start to Finish and a Good Laugh is Good for All Headaches. fl Hall, the American college for girls in the suburbs of Szuetari, was prac tically destroyed by a fire last night. The students, including a number of boarders, were in bed when the flames were discovered. All the inmates wer rescued. 20 li I i I I j M H 1 tit 3 ii 1 4 f

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t'i T "T? Pi f TJ T! 4 Ui il U X P AILY JOUr.IT.AIi SATURDAY 1TIG1X7. "J A if i i'-S V A EX FRANK P. MAC LEN'XAN. Issued far Every Day In the Year, (Entered Julv 1, 1S7S. as second c! Efattar at the ietofrice at Topeaa, ii-an.. ?ndr the net of congTs.3 VOLUME XXXII .No. 308 OSici.il Paper City ot Tepeka. Official Paper Kansas State Federation Women's- Ciuto. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Week Lay Edition and Edition ior Sun day Homing 10 Cents Per Week jKveryv.bero. City, i'own or Country. TELEPHONES. Business Office fell VS. usineu Office I"-; iJ Reporters' Room sii importers' Room -In.d irank P. MacLennan ln1-' I O T- LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PR.MJJ. WEEK DAY A VD rLlY PRESS REPORT ON SATURDAY MGH1 FOR THE EDI1ION OR SUNDAY MORNING. The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives ..he full cay te'erapfi report of that great news er rsni'zation for exclusive evening PuuU The Etate Journal receives for exclusive ptbUcstion the leased wire report or publishers' Press for the edition for bun Jay morning. Tr- The rows is received in the State Jour nal building over wires for this sole pur pose. Anyway Mr. 'Harriman doesn't try to pose as a philanthropist. Still, Kansas avenue Is no worse than some country roads in muddy weather. Speaking of wireless telegraphy, was that Nantucket lightship saved by the DeForrest or Marconi system? The federal grand Jury will ask for Its discharge Saturday evening. Very likely the cattle barons will be willing for it to quit. It seems that even the lower house of congress is getting up enough nerve to "pass" the senate. Things are looking dangerous for a certain class of Kansas editors and poli ticians since these rabbit canneries are starting in Kansas. After February we will probably be ppared the semi-monthly rumor of Miss Roosevelt's matrimonial, inten tions, followed by the usual neat and tasty denial. L Homer Hoch says he heard one of the best preachers in Marion swear the other day, but he takes all the joy out tif it for the gossip by adding, "but it was before a notary." The new president of the Mutual receives only the same salary., as the president of the United States, but this doesn't necessarily indicate that he is only one-third as capable as Mr. Mc Curdy. The North Pole hunters look with scorn upon an explorer that can, not do better than discover a Northwest Pass age or a magnetic pole. A magnetic pole, in their estimation, is only a base Imitation. We now have a triumvirate of emi nent philanthropists: Jondee Rocke feller, Mr. Mct'urdy and Thomas R. Ryan. It isn't so very hard to be an eminent philanthropist when other people furnish the money. It seems to be as hard to convict a jointist in Kansas City, Kan., as it is in Wichita. As a rule in such joint cases it isn't so much a question of the defendant's guilt as it is a question of keeping the prosecution from proving it. If Mr. Rockefeller is as good as he has been painted, w hy is he so anxious to evade service when he is wanted to tell a few things in court? Unless he has some things to conceal, why should not Mr. Rockefeller be willing to an swer questions? An exchange gives the recipe for mak ing the whitewash which the govern ment has used for more than thirty years in the White House and the sea coast lighthouses. This should not be confounded, however, with the white wash used sometimes by legislative in vestigating committees. "Webster Pa vis,", says the Star, "shows'a disposition to crowd Edward C. Little off the mourners' bench." Wrong. Edward C. Little got past the mourners' bench stage so long ago that a full-fledged Republican congression al boom is now hot on his trail and is liable to catch up with him at any moment. It really ought not to hurt the feel ings of the readers of the Marion Rec ord even if the governor does conclude to go on the lecture platform instead of back to his newspaper office -after his term in the state house is finished. The Record was never any better, if as good, as it has been since Homer Hoch came home from Washington and took hold of it. It is first class. "Incidentally," remarks the Kansas City Star, "the grand jury's exposure of the land frauds in western Kansas is a hard blow at the barb wire trust." The Star should guess again. The in dictments mean that the cattle barons will have to use a few more miles of barb wire to run their fences around the government land so as to bring that land outside of their pastures. The barb wire business really ought to be pretty good in the cattle country just now. In referring to the. attempt to saddle gubernatorial boom, onto him and make him stand for it, D. R. Anthony saya: "Several Kansas newspaper men, among them Tom Cordry of the Parsons Sun and Rent Murdock of the El Dora, do Republican, both of whom hereto fore considered our friends, have re cently mentioned the editor of The Times in connection with the office of governor of Kansas. We have never knowingly ofrenciea either of these editors or the able and influential jour nals whose destinies they control.'- SOME KANSAS WRITERS." In the current number of the Club Woman its editor, Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, takes occasion to say some very pleasant things about a number of Kansas writers. She mentions some whose names are well known in the literary world, and others of the Kan sas folk who are not so well known. To each she pays a very nice compli ment, possibly more or less deserved. Those whom Mrs. McCarter mentions are Jessie Wright Whiteomb. Mrs. J, K. Hudson, Myra Williams Jarrell, T. E. Dewey, Dr. Henry W. Roby, J. E. House, William Allen White, J. W. Glecd, Mrs. May Beilevilie. Brown, E. F. Ware and Clarence H. Matson. There are a few omissions in the list which will readily occur to those who are familiar with Kansans who write. Very likely Mrs. McCarter did not in tend to make the list complete- to do so would be to take up a considerable amount of good space, for the number of Kansas people who write, and write well, is almost legion. But there are a few names that sug gest themselves as among the foremost of Kansas w riters. One of these is the man with the most versatile pen in the Sunflower state, Charles M. Harger of Abilene. Mr. Harger can do equally well a poem, a piece of fiction, an essay, a descriptive article, or a piece of news. Of no other Kansas man can this be said. Among Kansas poets Roy Farrell Green of Arkansas City must be placed near the top, if not at the very head of the list. His verses are always good. Another Kansas writer has the dis tinction of being the author of the book which has attained the greatest circulation of any piece of fiction ever written, Charles M. Sheldon. Mr. Shel don's works have been more widely- read several times over than those of any other Kansas author. And last but not least, a name that should be on Mrs. McCarter's list, but which perhaps was not included from a sense of modesty, is that of the editor herself. Mrs. McCarter ranks high, not only among the women of Kansas who write, but among those of the west. There Is a finish and a. beauty about her writings that makes one often wonder why she doesn't give more pleasure and profit to the world by doing more of it. THAT GRAIN' RATE. The decision of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners in the grain rate cases serves to emphasize the evil of arbitrary worked out on a theory of favoring or discriminating against certain industries or individuals instead of on a basis of right and justice. Had two members of the commission not considered the habit of the railroads to arbitrarily raise and lower special rates, the farmers of Kansas would have fared far better in the grain rate decision than they did. It is stated that Commissioner Wheat ley was in favor of ordering a fifteen per cent reduction in the grain rates. If Mr. Wheatley's idea had prevailed it would have added several hundred thou sand dollars to the profits of the grain growers. But the other members of the commission, Messrs. Walker "'and Robi son, refused to consent to a reduction of more than five per cent, on the plea that the railroads might carry out their threat to take away the milling-in-transit privilege from the millers. Now the milling-in-transit privilege is either just or it is unjust. If it is unjust the railroad commissioners cer tainly ought not to have allowed it to stand in the way of a just reduction of the grain rates; if it i3 just they ought to insist on its being accorded the millers and not arbitrarily taken away from them by the railroads. The milling-in-transit privilege allows a mill to buy a car of wheat at some point further west, ship it to the mill and stop it there, but to send on a car of flour to Kansas City at the same rate as though the original car of wheat had gone on through. For instance ,a To peka mill buys a car cf wheat in Barton county. The through rate to Kansas City is 15 cents. Without the milling-in-transit privilege the mill would have to pay the local rate, 14 cents, on the wheat from Barton county to Topeka, and 6 cents on the flour from Topeka to Kansas City, a total of twenty cents, or five cents more than the through rate. This would give grain dealers and Kan sas City mills 5 cents a hundred advan tage over Kansas mills. It is to the interest of the railroads to develop the milling industry in Kan sas, as it makes business both ways for the roads, so that the milling-in-transit privilege is certainly just and to the ad vantage of all concerned. It is quite probable that the railroads would have adjusted the milling rates to corre spond with whatever the grain rates might be, but if they did not the rail road commissioners could easily take a hand in the matter and adjust it. A reduction of fifteen per cent instead of only five per cent in the grain rates would have benefited the grain growers of Kansas at least half a million dollars. It is to Commissioner Wheatley's credit that he stood for the fifteen per cent reduction. REJANE'S KICK. "Tall oaks from little acorns grow." "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" These remarks are not strictly original. They are suggested by a train of thought started by a few re marks in the Chicago Inter-Ocean concerning the beginning of the up heavals which have been shaking the financial world during recent months. It was all brought about by Mine. Rejane's kick. This term is not used here in any slang sense, meaning a vigorous objection in words. Mme. Rejane's kick was the real thing an elevation of the pedal extremity. It did no reveal only a fleeting vision of dainty lingerie such as the patrons of a certain class of theatricals are famil iar with, but .this historic kick of Re jane's inadvertently removed the lid from the management of the great in surance companies and revealed a con dition that appalled not only the policy holders, but the rest of the world as well. "In recent years," says the Inter Ocean, in commenting upon this sub ject, "no more powerful single factor has operated to bring about an up heaval in the finances of this country than Mme. Rejane's kick. All pre vious fiscal disturbances were due to combinations of circumstances rather than to any cause in particular, but the distracting stiuation which has resulted from the exposure of life insurance management, and the depressing effect which this exposure has had upon the past, present, and future of some of our leading financiers and statesmen, is attributable directly to the artistic kicking with which Mme. Rejane re galed a happy company brought to gether by James Hazen Hyde at the expense of the Equitable policy holders. "If Mme. Rejane had not done the can-can on a table," argues the Inter Ocean, "nothing would have been said about the Hyde dinner, and the Hyde dinner was the beginning of that long series of troubles to which Mr. Hughes of New York is now devoting his legal talcnt3. So it was Mme. Rejane's kick that was responsible. If she had not kick ed at the Hyde dinner, the elder Mc Curdy would still be drawing a salary of $150,000 a year and living in four magnificent and sumptuously furnished mansions, while his son, his son-in-law, and all of his relatives by blood and marriage would still be fattening on the Mutual premiums." If Mme. Rejane had not kicked, con templates this Chicago philosopher, wo should never have heard of a can tankerous person up the river, Chaun cey M. Pepevv would still be an after dinner talker, Thomas C. Piatt would not have taken us all into his confi dence regarding the collection of cam paign contributions, Mr. McCall would not be waiting to have others make up his mind, Mr. Ryan would not have to answer questions from which he in stinctively shrinks, Mr. Alexander would not have taken to the Pennsyl vania woods, young Mr. Hyde would not be out of a job, and Grover Cleve land would not be sitting up nights striving to differentiate between good and doubtful risks. In short, the Inter-Ocean concludes, if Mme. Rejane had not kicked, the outlook, which once seemed filled with perpetual sunshine for all the captains of industry, would not now be filled with deep gloom. Little did Mme. Re jane think little did those who were fortunate enough to be present at the Hyde dinner think -as she kicked amidst the champagne glasses on the table, that she was kicking holes that never could be mended in so many brights prospects and so many unim peachable reputations. JOURNAL ENTRIES Art criticism: In the current issue of Collier's Weekly is a drawing of a face that might pass for a good-natured Dutchman, by Charles Dana Gibson. It is a round, fat jolly, moon-face. The drawing is a good one, but the trouble is with its label, "Mr. Dooley." Now, in the words of Uncle John Beaton, we do not de sire to be captious, but It would be just as appropriate to print the picture of a Chinaman and label it "Mr. Dooley," as to do what Collier's has done. It is doubtful if Mr. Gibson ever intended the drawing for Mr. Dooley. It bears no more resemblance to a gen uine son of the Emerald Isle than would a photograph of Patrick O'Flannigan bear to Herr Speigelberger. The bore: Did you ever have any ex perience with a persistent, dved-in-the-wool 44-calibre bore? He is the individ ual who comes around at the most inop portune time and insists on telling you jokes that you originated yourself perhaps it is only a just punishment for you. It is impossible to suppress him. He persists in giving you information on subjects you know so much better than he does that you have lost inter est in them. Deliver us from the bore. Love may be blind, but he usually sees a lot of things in his Heart's De sire that her dearest girl friend cannot perceive, even by the greatest stretch of imagination. It used to be the acme of the ambi tion of every young man, in the matter of Christmas presents, to give the Dear est Girl in the world a plush photograph album. Now the plush photograph al bum is entirely out of fashion. Why? The man who owns an automobile is always blowing his own norn, but no one thinks it is out of the way. It is simply a signal for the other fellow to get out of the way. JAYHAWKER JOTS Fort Scott set out to be good a while ago and now it is going so far as to prohibit automobile scorching and sell ing cigarettes to boys. A Seneca man was killed in a free for all fight, in a joint. The coroner's jury found that he was "accidentally" killed inasmuch as he was only an in nocent bystander. Some figures by Bent Murdock: "T H. Keplinger, who floated in from the Flint Hills to see the ditches dug for the creek to run in, brought with him his wa-shed-out claybank, Daisy, and Daisy has been going ever since. Kep linger has been constable and under sheriff most all these ears and' every time he goes out to serve papers Daisy goes with him. Daisy is a broncho. Keplinger says he thinks he has aver aged ten miles a day from the begin ning. This figures up 75,000 miles. Kep carries a straight stick and in going a mile taps Daisy eleven times, so the washed-out claybank broncho has been whacked over the back 7,543,969 times. But Daisy doesn't mind it. She is slick and fat and lazy and smiles every time she gets a whack." Half the people in Kansas know Chariie Pattison and the other half ought. He began active business as a young boy out in Dickinson countv and he has achieved success at everything he has turned his hand to, until he has become several kinds of a magnate. The Abilene Reflector contains this lat est item cf news about him: "C. H. Pattison has just purchased a $20,000 home splendidly located on Warwick boulevarde, Kansas City, one of the fin est residence portions of the city. The house, a handsome large modern brick and stone dwelling, is not yet completed but will be ready about Januady 15 when the family will occupy it. Charlie's automobile won the first prize a huge silver loving cup. given by the board of trade at the recent automo bile races in Kansas City, distancing thir ty competitors on a five-mile race. It also took trje obstacle jace cud. Natur ally a man who formerly won all the central Kansas foot races would not have a machine unless it were the swift est made." KANSAS COMMENT' BRING OS TOUR COMET. A double comet has been discovered, four degrees from the polar star, not large in size, supposed to be near the earth, and coming west. A double comet has no terrors for Kansas, In fact would be welcome. We are sim ply rusting out for want of some new excitement. Chanute Sun. o A SUGGESTION. Dictionary people who think they want a definition of the word "graft," have asked Governor Folk, of Mis souri, about it. Why not consult Joseph Ralph Burton? El Dorado Republican. ONE TROUBLE. There is one misfortune about the new congress it has so many mem bers, who want to play to the galleries and make names for themselves, that there will not be much time for the needed legislation. Parsons Eclipse. WHEN TO BELIEVE IT. The champion pipe dream of the season is the story that Henry Allen and Congressman Bowersock have formed an alliance. Believe that when you hear of churches being turned into dance halls, and are advised that Coffeyville and Independence have quit padding their census rolls. Cha nute Tribune. WHERE. POSTALS ARE MADE. From a :little town in Maine, Rum ford Mills, there goes out every day two and a half car loads of postal cards to the various) subagencies of the United States. In four years the company which has the contract for making and printing the cards made 3,300 million of them. In testing the sheets for flaws the sensitive fingers of a score of girls trained in the busi ness is the. best and final test. They every day reject scores of sheets which the workmen who use only the eye have passed as fit. Many of the larger Offices in the United States receive their cards in, car load shipments. Iola Record. A PROVISO. Senator Elkins favors the Roosevelt plan of regulating the railroads, pro vided congress can be prevailed upon to put in a lot of legal side tracks. Parsons Sun. THE NOBEL PRIZES. It will be a cold day when any Amer-4 lean gets a Nobel prize. The four just awarded will stay in Europe where all the others have been distributed. The loss of the $40,000 prize money isn't hurting much, but the honor would be highly appreciated by some deserving man and his country-men on this side of the water. Chanute Sun. BENT MURDOCK'S SAT. Mr. Speaker Cannon announced the committees of the Fifty-ninth congress, Monday, and we fail to find the name of any Kansas congressman mentioned as chairman of any one of the first thirty-two committees. These include all the important committees of the house of representatives. Twenty chairmen of the first twenty commit tees run the house; and if a member of congress, who has served for eight, ten or a dozen years, can't get into this twenty or thirty class, he should re sign and come home. El Dorado Re publican. AS EXCTTTNG AS EVER. Our old friend, the Congressional Record, is coming again and now graces ouF exchange table. The Con gressional Recwtf is good for only two purposes insomnia and fuel. Holton Signal. ADVICE TO COREY. -They are having a great time in the east over a high salaried man who is desertine his wife for an actress. The high salaried man Ehould cut it out and read the lite or Nan Patterson. Council Grove Guard. FROM OTHER PENS DANGEROUS. Football at Princeton, It appears is rather a rough game for the spectators as well. Philadelphia Press. -o FORTUNATE. Charles E. Hughes is a lucky man. Up to this time his fool friends have not started a presidential boom for him. -Chicago Record-Herald. ONE WAY. At the Republican banquet in Fort Worth one of the topics discussed was, "How to Make Texas Republican." One way is to poison a quarter of a million Democratic voters. Houston Post. AMPUTATED. Columbia university has cut the dog's tail off just back of his ears. Cleveland Leadef. USED TO IT. Mr. Lawson need not flatter himself that he has put the United States sen ate on the defensive; it has been there a long time. Detroit Free Press. SURE. We don't know what salary Witte will receive as boss of all the Russlas, but he is pretty certain to earn it. Hartford Times. r PLENTY TO DO. Tho man whose duty it is to keep tabs on the football mortality is earn ing his salary this year. New York News. o TOUGH ON THE PORTER. However, if the railways were under government ownership nobody would feel under the slightest obligation to fee the porter. Chicago Tribune. WHERE IT STARTED. If the czar had not treated his sub jects like they were a lot of policy holders, all this trouble might not have come about. Dallas News. LET 'EM FIGHT. The president refuses to interfere in the fight between Odell and Senator Piatt. The president doubtless feels that both are entitled to all the pun ishment they can give each other. Washington Post (Ind.). WILL ACCOMMODATE THEM. John W. Gates now is in Texas. Those Texans who would liketo make some million dollar bets should make their wants known. Houston Post. o COMFORTING. Now the football season's ended, foot fall players can be mended, and their mothers be of cheer for at least an other year. New York American. THE PRICE. Eternal vigilance on the part of the private citizen is the price of public freedom from graft and political boss Ism. Atlanta Constitution. WHERE TO BEGIN. So long as an American university is measured by the greatness of its foot ball team It will be difficult to reform that Kame. Atlanta Constitution. j MY TREASURERS. I have riches almost beyond counting. Of jewels ai d of geld I've a store. There's none in the world that I envy. Nor ever I murmur for more. These treasures I guard, oh, how closely! My life's blood's 140 nearer to rne. They're locked from all danerer of stealing Arid my heart holds the mystical key. The gold is all tumbling and waving In a mass of the sunniest cjrls On the head of a four-year-old lassie, Ine dearest of dear little girls. And4when the light turns it to glory, Bright framing a sweet little face, I've a picture none of the great masters Could touch with a winsomer grace. My jewels are the diamonds that sparkle In the depth of her big, sapphire eyes. And crown jewels beyond price, no mon arch Could ever more jealously prize. The tiny teeth, snowv and dazzling. Are pearls that gleam as she trips; Dewy fresh in their red glowing beauty, My rubies, her two laughing lips. I envy no millionaire princes V ith this mine- of riches my own; only 6 treasures aU nilne and mine I envy no king on his throne. My world may be small, but 'tis happy .A"d Peaceful, far from the mad whirl. And the day s toil is lost and forgotten In the kiss of my wee baby gifl. Baltimore American. The Villain Who Pursued Too Long. Upon a Time, two Domestic-Minded trogs started housekeeping in a Retir ed Pool. They Joined the Local Choir and George voted the Straight Prohi bition Ticket. One morning a Pious Milkman stop ped at their Happy Home. He had been late Getting Started, so, hastily rilled a Pail with Alleged Aqua Pura, he dis tributed it through his Cans and Went His Way, never dreaming- he had play ed the Home Wrecker. The Young Couple at once realized that here was a Soft Drink to be shun ned. Long and Vigorously thev strove to keep their Heads Above Milk, but at last the Madame sank with a Final Gurgle. George kept hustling. Then the Pious milkman reached town. And behold! as he opened the First Can, there sat George lazily float ing on a Generous Pat of butter. 4 Which Moral Tale proves conclusively that the efforts of Strenuous Kicker, when Well Directed, will beat even a Milkman. But wait for the Concluding Chapter of this Realistic Romance. The Pious Milkman, who had been Brought up to recognize a Good Thing without a Special Introduction, forth with added a Butter Route to his busi ness. Hp rnrralloil all V, u.l,;,nl Kickers of His Neighborhood and kept them Hustling. Wherefore his Pats of Butter Multiplied Mightly. Likewise his Bank account. Then came a day when his Cultivated Clientele began to Look With Suspic ion upon both milk and butter. "It looks Fishy," said one. "And Smells More So," added Anoth er. "Investigate," was the Laconic Com ment of a third. So thev ir voot i o-a tori When their Outraged Stomachs quit rT',..., 1., t- a Am 111115 j-vuuuu, nicy irtose in tneir W'rath and sent the Milkman where he COUld Consort With Legislators and nth. er Gratfera. He got Ten Years for L' EN VOI: Too much Kicking is not Au Fait in Select Society. Teaching Him to Be Honest. Fifteen or twenty years ago Bill Smith was a well lffnown character in a Missouri town whose name need not be mentioned here. Bill was a colored coy who roamed the streets at will, One day he found a pocketbook con taining $40, and the owner's name was stamped on the book. But Bill hurnorl the pocketbook and spent the $40 in riotous living. Of course, it wua found out, and Bill was arrested, tried, and found builty, and sent to the peniten tiary tor two years. He served his time, and when he emergo-1 he knew something about making shoos. The day he returned to his home town an old acquaintance met him and asked: "Well, what did they put you at in the prison. Bill "Dey started in to make an honest boy out n me, sah. "That's good, Bill, and I hope they succeeded. "Dey did, sah." "And how did they teach you to be honest, Bill?" "Dey done put me in de shoe shop, sah, nailing pasteboard onter shoes fo soles, sah." The Commoner. Was Also Short. Anyone fortunate enough to be ac quainted with Judge F. M. Bixby of the police court of Brocktofi, Mass. knows that he is much longer in wit than he is in inches, of which fact the following episode is a forcible illustra tion: One morning one of the usual crop of "drunks," on hearing the usual judicial decree of "ten dollars" fall from Judge Bixby's lips, made this plea for clemency: Couldn t yer make it five? I'm a little short, judge." Quick as a flash came the retort: "No sorry can't do it. I'm a little short judge myself." Cleveland Plain Dealer. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. The fellotv who cuts off his nose to spite his face can't very well blow about it. It isn't always well to blow your own horn, unless you happen to be a chauf feur. The best illustration of a wo.v.an whose color comes and goes is an act ress makins up. Lots of charitable people help the poor who draw the line at their cwr. poor relations. If there happens to be a loose lack on the floor a fellow never steps on it till he has taken his shoes off. Nell "Miss Antique says she always tries to get her beauty sleep." Belle "Well, all I can'say is she must suffer frightfully .from insomnia." Blobbs "A burglar broke into Bor rowell's house the other night." Slobbs "Did he get anything?" Blobbs "Who, Borrowell? No: the burglar was broke." Muggins "My wife has been doing her Christmas shopping for two weeks." Buggins Ts that so? Mine hasn't bought a thing." Muggins "Neither has mine." "Your husband seems very attentive to that new chorus girl," said the sou brette. "Aren't you Jealous? "Not at all," replied the leading lady. "She's my mother." To catch a man requires a net, And thus the girls enfold him;'. But foolish maidens quite torget It takes a cage to hold him. REFLECTION'S OF A BACHELOR. From the New- York. Press. The man who sits in the front seat thinks he is the whole show. When a girl smokes cigarettes gen erally it is a sign she wishes she weren't doing it. i It is easier for a woman to have blond hair than curly hair, and it doesn't cost any more. The people who think they know Jt all seem to get much more satisfaction out of it than those- who do. No matter what a man has done to make his wife- unhappy she will never forgive hinj for it unless he denies it. THE EVENING STORY Ring's Barssiin. TBy Laura Alton Payne. "What dat, Bings?" cooed the dim pled cherub, patting the bald spot that spread like a, small shining desert in an oasis of thick blonde hair on Bings' well-shaped head. Whitlock grinned. "Mamma's pet mustn't be naughty," said the pretty widow, turning her brown eyes apologetically on Bings. "Come to mamma, dearie. Mr. Bings isn't used to babies." But the dimpled cherub, otherwise Baby Moffatt, who had purposely, and after many backsiidings, climbed upon the rustic seat occupied by Bings, for whom she had evinced a decided par tiality from the start, only snuggled the closer to the -6ecretly delighted Bings, and cooed, "Baby 'ove Bings." Then as a happy afterthought, "Mamma 'ove Bings." At which frank and whol ly unexpected revelation of her small daughter, the pretty widow's face riv aled Bings'. Whitlock guffawed. "Now's your chance, Bings," he urged, with mali cious levity at his rival's discomfiture. But Bings, with a hasty adieu, fled, leaving the cherub disconsolate. Bings metaphorically kicked himself all the way home for not taking ad vantage of the best opportunity he had ever had, even if it was before the sneering Whitlock, and for his coward ly desertion of the pretty widow to Whitlock's caustic rallery. Bings paused at his own gate and gazed miserably at the. big silent house. He shut his eyes a moment and imagined he saw the pretty widow and the cherub sitting on the front porch. It was a blissful vision, but Bings felt that it would never become a blissful reality unless a miracle happened. Bings was a bachelor. Bings was big and blonde and bald. Bings was bashful. In fact, Bings was a whole swarm of "b's." He narrowly escaped being a beauty, with his baby com- plexion and innocent blue eyes. His size was the only thing that saved him from this terrible fate. Moreover, Bings was a bargain fiend. No woman could scent a bargain sale farther off than could Billy Bings. Incidentally, "Billy"' was the climax to Bings' woes. But no persuasion on his part could convince his friends of the absurdity of calling a six-footer "Billy." Bings' bachelorhood was a condition of neither birth nor achievement it was thrust upon him. During his evo lution into that state there had been any one of a dozen maids and widows tiiat Bings would have been only too happy to have endowed with half his wordly goods, but for his excessive bashfulness. Never yet had he been able to screw his courage up to the point of proposal, though he had made almost superhuman efforts in that di rection. This seemed a pit-, for Bings was undeniably cut out for a benedict. He thought all women angels and all babies cherubs. As he started uptown on the momen tous morning after his precipitate flight, Bings had a particular cherub in mind a pretty, brown-eyed, dimpled cherub that he would have given half he wos worth to possess, and the other half to possess the cherub's pretty, brown-eyed mother. But, so far, every glance from Mrs. Jessie Moffatt's roguish eyes had produced the unfortunate effect of in stantaneous paralysis of poor Bings tongue, so that he could only stand dumb or blush and stammer like any silly schoolboy. This was not the first time, by any means, that Bing3 had performed that metaphorical feat. It had been at least a semi-weekly -occurrence for several months paot. Each time Bings vowed that the next time he would not act the fool.. But he did. He had reached the point where the inevitable mental feat was copiously punctuated with a vig orous ejaculation that would have shocked the pretty widow, had she heard it. Bings felt his helplessness bitterly. So absorbed was he in this thought as he picked his way along the shady street, that he failed to observe the widow a block or so ahead of him. A deep gloom enveloped Bings' soul that bright June morning. "Confound it!" he muttered, "if some thing doesn't Happen soon, I'll "Going going gone!" Bings pricked up his ears and hasten ed his steps. An auction, and he t not to know it? Turning a corner, he came full uion a familiar scene just as a table was knocked down to the highest bidder. Bings' eyes gloated over the unusual display of household goods spread before him. "Fifty cents," bid a voice in the crowd, as the auctioneer held up an article. It was Whitlock's voice Bings wrath flamed up, and before he had time to think he was bidding furiously against his rival. Fast in the grip of "bargain fever' and whetted on by Whitlock, Bings rapidly became pos sessor of various articles that were of as much us to him at that period of his existence as a celestial harp and a pair of wings. Had Bings intercepted the exchange of winks between Wrhit lock and the auctioneer, he might have been more cautious. Asr it was, the barricade around Bings grew and grew. "Going going gone!" shouted the auctioneer. "Dirt cheap at that, Mr. Bings. Here, Sam, wheel this peram bulator around to Mr Bings." Perambulator! Heavens! had he bought a perambulator? Bings wiped his perspiring brow and glared defiant lv ai-fiimd. "Whv, Billy Bings!" cried a laughing feminine voice at his elbow. "What do you want with a perambulator?" Bings' exasperated gaze encountered that of Mrs. Marston, a merry-faced woman. By her side stood the pretty widow -with the coveted cherub cling ing to her hand. Bings turned fiery red and caught wildlv at his hat, or where he supposed it. to be, only to find that he was fan ning himEelf with it. Making an em barrassed bow, he beean to mop his perspiring face violently. "Here's yer p'ramb'lat'r," said Sam, laconically, pausing in front of Bings. Bings turned fascinated eyes on the thing which seemed to him to have greatlv increased in size during us progress from the. auctioneer's stand. "And a baby's high chair," announced another laughing voice, as the speaker craned forward and inspected Bings' barricade. There was a general craning of necks. "And a little red rocker," exclaimed another. "A doll and a doll carriage. "A child's cot." "Footstool, work basket, sewing chair and sewing machine," enumerated Whit lock, pushing nearer, "tireat jupuer. Bings! Wrhat does this mean?" with mock seventy. Poor Bings thanked his stars that none of them knew of that cradle in the pttic, the result of a former, aberration. He gazed helplessly around at his tormen tnrs than at his barricade. What on earth had induced him to bid In all that stuff? He had made himseir so riaicuious in her eyes, he'd not stand a ghost of a show now. The only thing left for him 1 to do was to make his escape as best j he could. i Bings glanced futively around, but all avenues were closed by laughing faces. He grew desperate. Just as he 1 was contemplating a dash for liberty along the line of the least resistance, the miracle that he had been so skepti cal about happened. A fractiou horse, a woman's scream, a scene of confusion,, and when Bings came to he found his arms around the pretty widow1, who- was clasping the dimpled cherub to her breast and sob-' bing hysterically on his shoulder; "Oh,'; Billydear, dear Billy! Save me, .save me." At these inspiring words Bings' cour age rose to the occasion, his bashful ness slipping from him like a cloak. Bo fore the astonished eyes of the whole staring crowd he bent and kissed the pretty widow and the dimpled cherub. "There, there, sweetheart," he said soothingly, "the danger is past. Then turning to the gaping crowd, Bings lied magnificently. "I was going to explain," said he, "when that confounded horse inter fered, that I bought these things for my wife and child. The fact is "Mr. Bings!" protested a shocked but smothered voice. Mrs. Moflatt and I expect to be married just a week from today, and I take this occasion to Invite "Billy Bings! how dare you?" the whole crowd to attend. The fact is" the sight of Whitlock's amaz ed anl wholly skeptical countenance stimulated Bings to greater invention "we would have announced our en gagement sooner, but for certain un foreseen circumstances that er caused us to er await a more propitious tlm. But "Oh. Billy, hush!". after next Thursday,-we'll be at home to our friends. You all know tha way to The Elms, where you'll always find "Oh, Billy, dearr a welcome." (Copyright, 1505, by McCJure, Phillip Co.) HUMOR OF THE VJY Maid It's Mrs. Thompson, ma'am. Mistress Teil her my "at home" day, is Tuesday. Maid I did. ma'am, and she said that she was merely making a courtesy cail, ma'am. A huge tourins car tore past with the extra-emergency tire strapped secuively to its side. Two street gamins gazed af ter it intently. "Say, Jimmie, what's that round thing a-hangin' on the side?" "Gee! don't you know? That's a life preserver, en when they're in danger o runnin' over enybody they jes' throws -that overboard to 'em. Lippincott's Magazine. "The ring of sincerity was in his voice when he told me of his love." "It should have been in his hand. A ring In the hand Is worth two in tha voice." Houston Post. "Have you prepared your Christmas list?" "Partially. Just now it is merely a list of those stores where I think I can get credit." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Anna Are you going to help trim the Christmas tree? s Cholly No; this year we are all going to pool our efforts in trimming dad. Puck. "Is your husband even tempered?" "Yes," answered Mrs. Wuryd."He's just about as irritable one day as another." New York American. "You say he is a financial wreck. Then why is it that he appears so happy?" "Well. I guess his credit's so poor that he can't even borrow trouble." Cleve land Leader. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Advice is like-medicine: A little goes a long way. f, If you are so mean you are bound to make an enemy, pick out a lazy man. Remark heard at every street cor ner: "I wonder what He sees in Her." Why tell your troubles to a lawyer? That is the way he makes his living. A talkative employe around his place of business does not earn his salary. The latest song Is entitled. "I Don't Expect No One to Never Do Nothing for Me." The average man has so little, that there is never any excuse for him hav ing rough hair. What has become "of the old fash ioned custom of giving Bibles as Christmas gifts? The only way to insure that your gift will not be passed on another year is to give a calendar. Occasionally one of the best things that happens to a man is to call at a doctor's office, and find the doctor out. We would hate to be a Christian Scientist, and know that when we got sick, every one smiled behind our back. If a little fairy should appear, and make visible the load everyone car ries on his back, some startling dis coveries would be made. The woman who boards and the woman who keeps house are seldom congenial company, because 'of the envy each feels of the other. Speaking of self-help: Ever know a man capable of helping himself without assistance to the clean un derwear he puts on on Sunday? If a man finds a button off, he grum bles, and his wife looks at the five, ni- six left on, and wonders how any one can ue so ungraterui. The men claim that they care-nothing for fashions, but we notice that all the widowers seem to know it is no longer iasnionabie to wear a band of crepe on one's hat. The theory that we get all our heaven and hell in this life would find more advocates if we didn't believe that the other man has had all the heaven and we have had all the hell. A number of years ago a girl's Best Beloved gave her "Lucille" for her Christmas gift. Then it was a toilet set in a plush case, but Best Beloveds this year are giving fancy perfume sets. A drinking man is bad enough and it is hard to put up with a man who beats his wife and children: we all despise a stingy man, but, after all if a vote were. taken as to the most un popular man, the tiresome man would be buried beneath them. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Mirthfulness and the hln. iitrver chummy. It's a poor watchmaker who is unJiliio to make a go of it. Many a man who refuses to labor tris to workgther men. Unless a servant Imnn-i -1 need not expect to keep it. Many a wife "hag lost her mind by giv ing it to her husband in chunks. Barn-storming actors are likely to sea more headlights than footlights. Tt is far easier fnr a it, 1 "..iiau lusnarpen a man's wits than a lead penftl. A girl s education is not complete un til she car read a man like book. According to the eternal fitness of things a contortionixfj chmu j uidw a. duoble salary. A irirl's idea of a cTrv,,- one who has failed to Jl t" ,,a mussing habit. r f

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DAILY STATE JO TJ SIT AH OAT TIED AY HIGH' 1 UCp tVsJ 1 4 f h c j -us' tfs tot 3d Tens of thousands have known no cdier soap since birth. For pre serving, purifying, and beautifykig the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes and chafings, and for many sana tive, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to moth ers, as weii as for the toilet, bath, and nursery, Cuticura Soap, as sisted by Cuticura Ointment, the great Skirt Cure, is priceless. Oaticura Soap combines dUca. medicinal Bad cm. St properties drrirea from C.ticora, ute great Skin Cure, with tig. pnreet of ereanatog ijrgreaieau and tba IDftffi refreahin or flower odnrs up Seed for "Ail AbM tin Skin, Scalp, and HJfc" MR. HOUSE'S BOOK IS OUT. An Interostiiis Contribution to the Local Library Offerings. About once a year, usually just in time for the holiday trade, the aspiring-local authors and authoresses, bring out new books, presumably because they need the money. The local newspapers are expected to say nice things about them and boost their sale. and every newspaper man knows just how much the talk about local amateur stunts of any sort, means to the man who writes it. Usually the amateur author or authoress is as touchy about his Works as the ama teur actor about his Art, therefore it is something of a relief to review a Made-in-Topeka-U. 6?. A. book written by a Man Who "Understands (as El bert Hubbard would say) and who doesn't expect one to spread it on. The latest publication by a Topeka writer is a book of sketches, At the Grass Koots by Jay Elmer House (Dodd Gaston). Mr. House is a well known newspaper man and his sketches comprise some of the best work that he has done for his depart ment of the Topeka Capital, On Sec ond Thoug-ht. He is an entertaining writer always and is at his best in the sort of thing- which makes up At The Grass Roots brief, graphic sketches of rural and country town life in Kna fas, pictures of people, conditions and events with which every Kansan is more or less familiar. The Christmas of 1S?3 records the impressions of the first Christmas in a new and strange western home. There are other sketches descriptive of rural "society," the dance at Rowden's Ford and the country "literary." One of the best things in the book is called In Mem ory of an Ornery Pup. It is one of Iodd Gaston's "tremolo stop" things, and some of his readers like Gaston best in such. "Back at Griggsby's Station" is a perfect picture of a Sun day in a little country town any little country town in Kansas. Albert T. Reid did the frontispiece of the book- a caricature of the au thor. There has been some complaint that Mr. Reid has flattered his subject by giving him too much hair but of course that is the first requisite of a uccessful portrait maker to flatter his subjects. Crane Company are the publishers of the book which is attractively gotten up in the matter of typography and binding. The Capital National Bank. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Capital National Bank of Topeka, Kansas, will be held at its banking rooms on Tuesday, January 9, 3 906, between the hours of 2 and 4 o'clock p. m. for the election of direc tors and the transaction of any other business that may legally come before them. Lutes can get your photos out for Xmas. all Kansas avenue. INTERESTING s 4 7 -3. Drunken crank calls on Governor Hoch pretending to be Jesus Christ. 'I VC A jr l v VACAT lOii iiO I ESi The Atchison Kan Describes Hardships of Trip. Also the Fleasures and Pastimes on Ship. SERVICES ABOARD. The Missionary Goes to Sleep Darius Sermon. Sea Is Smooth as Glass Western Pacific. in I seem to be becoming slow in this warm climate. I am ashamed of the length of time I lately require in dress ing; I am becoming as slow as a wo man. Next thing, I will sit on the floot to put on my shoes and stock ings. I awoke this morning at 4 o'clock, and wanted a drink. The water does not agree with me, and while think ing that the bar was closed, and I couldn't get a lemonade, i remem bered that there was part of a pine apple in the room, which I found and enjoyed. Then I went to sleep again, and slept until seven. After dressing, I fell asleep again on the couch be fore breakfast. The best part of aa ocean voyage is the sleeping. I witnessed a queer row in the smoking room last night: a passen ger was ill-natured, and refused to put his destination on a wine card he had signed. The Chinese waiter insisted, and the passenger threatened to throw the waiter overboard. Another waiter finally settled the row by writing "Shanghai" in the card; he knew the passenger's destination. The passenger was bored, and willing to quarrel; we are all becoming bored. I had a peculiar dream about Atchi son last night: I dreamed that court house Sam King was getting up a company to start a bank in Highland, and that whoever wanted to take stock, left his money in the passage way to Sam's cellar. In my dream I went by the cellar, and saw several packages of money lying on the cel lar steps; five dollar bills, and little piles of silver. It struck me as a pe culiar way to organize a bank, so I started down to The Globe office to write an item about it; but when I reached Fifth and Commercial street, I found the Fifth street culvert wash ed out. I wish I had a dream book. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12." A Japanese man in the steerage died last night and was buried at 9 o'clock this morning. The ship's en gines stopped, which attracted atten tipn, but the burial was over before I reached the stern, where it took place. A passenger who was present says an officer of the ship read the burial service; at the conclusion of this, the body was thrown into the sea. It was wrapped in a sack, and weight ed, and disappeared feet foremost. Then the engines were started, and the incident was soon forgotten. The Jap was very low with consumption when he came on board, the captain says. The body of the Chinaman who died east of Honolulu, is being taken to China, where it will be delivered to his friends. Every Chinaman who sails westward has a contract that, in case of death, his body will be carried on to China. this mnrnin?. VesterdAv Afternoon a notice was posted saying that Rev. (I have forgotten his name) would hold services in the music room Sunday morning, and the programme was carried out. I attended, the ser vices, in sheer desperation, for there was nothing else going on. About twenty-five others attended, but the captain was not there, nor were any of the ship's officers. The man select ed to conduct the services was one of four missionaries on board. When the services began, I do not believe ten persons were present, but several oth ers dropped in. First, there was a hymn, "All hail the power of Jesus' name, let angels prostrate fall," which was pretty well rendered, as all those present knew it. Then the mission ary prayed for the rulers of the world, for those at home, for the officers of the ship, returned thanks for the safe voyage, etc. The next hymn did not go so well, as very few seemed to know it. Then the missionary preach ed: The entire services lasted an hour and a quarter. The music room is a fine apartment In plush, and, in the centre, there is a. well looking down into the dining saloon; at the top of this well, there is a really beau tiful dome. Among those in attendance was the man I had heard arguing against mis sionaries the night before, in the smok ing room, and he sang heartily, and remained until the doxology was pro ncunced. The ship provided songr books and bibles, all marked "P. M. S. S. Co."; the hymn books were of the kind used In the Episcopal church. I noted that the missionary in charge was a man I had not seen before, but I knew he was the father of a boy I had seen on deck a good deal; they looked ex actly alike, and pronounced their "r's" in the same way. The missionary I picked up at Williams, Arizona, was present with the baby. This he leads about the deck with a strap. The mis sionary went to sleep, and, during the sermon, the baby bumped around LOCAL NEWS EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK AS DEPICTED BY THE tlClTDAT. City Attorney Drenning starts after the express companies for refusing; to pay, licenses. If ni f -pfp among the worshippers, until led away by one of the woman. The fact that my missionary went to sleep amused us ali; I suppose he will say he was en joying the sermon, and let the baby get away in a moment of bliss, but we all know he was asleep. Henry George was present, and for a won der, behaved pretty well. The little girl wholooks like Ruth Blair.of Atch ison, sat beside me, and I held her hand as a recollection of home. A wo man I could not see played the hymns on a piano, and the presiding mission ary led them: We sang five verses of each one, which seemed to me a good many. The missionary took a text from John, and preached three-quarters of an hour, I had not attended church before in many years, but everything the speaker said seemed strangely fa miliar; I had heard the sermon dozens of times before. He spoke of meeting loved ones beyond the grave, and a pale young woman who sat near me, put her handkerchief to her eyes. The sermon was divided into three parts, and a summing up: I think he had notes in the back of the hymn book he held in his hand. The missionary was a poor talker, and I am sure the other missionaries present told their wives afterward that they could have done better. The missionary spoke of his trip to the home land (as he called it) but found no fault; I found no fault with the sermon, ex cept that it was extremely dull. Then he gave out another hymn, but he was the only person present who knew the tune, and as he couldn't sing very well: this part of the service was almost ludicrous. At the conclu sion of the missionary's solo, the dox ology was pronounced, and the con gregation scattered about the decks. When I went back to the smoking room. I found four of the men who had attended the service, abusing mis sionaries. One of the men said the missionary who delivered the sermon was returning to his work in China with a second wife, whom he had married in the states about a month ago. "Speaking of the states," one of the other men said, "they are good enough for me. They may talk about the beauties of Tokio, and Shanghai and Colombo, but the little old states are good enough for me. The trou ble with this trip is, when you once start, you can't get back for a month." There is a man on board who wants the passengers to know that he is a singer. He hums a good deal, and I heard him regretting awhile ao that there was no one on board to play accompaniments. But there is; I have seen a certain shrinking woman wavering about the piano. These two will finally get together, and there will be trouble. So far, there has been no piano playing, and no singing. Elsephere I have used the Hawaiian word poi. In case you want to pro nounce it, pronounce it as an Irishman pronounces pie (poi). MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13. This is the tenth day out from San Francisco, and the sea is as smooth as glass. The roll and pitch continue, but so gentle that no one notices it. The young girls on board feel so well that they are talking of making fudge; I heard them wondering awhile ago if the head steward would allow it. Last night, at 6:30, with the first gong for dinner sounding in my ears, I saw the full moon rise out of the water. We figured it out, and con cluded that it was near midnight at home. At first we saw what looked like the reflection of a fire away to eastward. Then the rim of the moon began to appear; it was a dull yellow in color, and seemed many times lar ger than the moon. When the great orb appeared above the water, it look ed like a large pumpkin prepared by boys on Hallowe'en. Later it looked like a golden balloon, lighted on the inside, rising from the ocean. All the passengers were out to look at the moon rise, and they remained un til the second and final gong for din ner sounded at seven o'clock. I am conscious that these letters are becoming pretty dull. When they be come more tiresome than reprint (that is, time copy cut from other pa pers), it will be the duty of the man aging editor to throw them avay. I know it would require a good deal of nerve for the managing editor to kill the old man's stuff, but the necessary authority is hereby granted. My intention is simply to tell the dull rou tine of a ship at sea; possibly such a recital will be of benefit to those who are misearable, because they cannot take a "trip." There is a lot of hard ship in "taking a trip"; every trav eler will admit that. I do not know whether what I write is good or bad; I have never known during my twenty-eight years' connec tion with The Globe. Every man who writes for public print has the con sciousness that if he pleases half his readers he will do well; that the other half of his readers will turn up their noses. And this is equally true in everything; a man is a success, who pleases a few: the great majority sneer at vacation jNOtes, ai new nats, new suits, new plays, new books, new babies, new brides, etc. I am often impressed with the ig norance of intelligent men. I was talking this morning with an intelli gent Englishman: a prominent citi zen of Manchester. He had been thinking several days of Kansas as a town. Of our form of government. he knows almost nothing; aa little as I know of England and the English. I made crude maps for him, and he apologized in a hearty way for his ig norance, saying he nao peen Dusy in other ways. Yet he is an important man in his native city. He is a walk ing cyclopedia of English affairs, but America has only interested him as a show place, in a general way. as Sing apore interests me. Without looking it up. answer this question: Where is Singapore? Until I started on this trip, and began looking up such things, I had the city located in the wrong country. An intelligent child in the eighth e-rade at school knows TTOSBAT. Alice Nielsen and- company try grand opera ia Topeka. PUSH, THAT'S ALL How to Make Topeka a Bigger, Eetter Cltj. Commercial Club Wide Awake to the Situation. TALK IT ALL OVER. Will Look After Discouraging Clearing House Reports. Help Make the Exposition Success. To Extend a Helping Hand to Industries. Though the comparison might sound paradoxical, Friday night was field day with the Commercial club at its last meeting of 1905 for suggestions as to how Topeka can be made bigger, stronger and better next year. The following were points brought up by members who were" present: The taking of Topeka out of the weekly clearing house report, or the making of a more complete and ac curate report of Topeka's clearances. Co-operating with the school board to raise the pay of teachers. The improvement of Topeka's parks. Topeka's entire co-operation with the state in making the exposition of 1911 a success. The passage of a new city ordinance relative to the determination of the safety of buildings from fire, and the appointment of a special inspector. The platting of a location with free joint switching tracks for the benefit of concerns that wish to establish them selves in Topeka. The organization of a Business Men's Camp of the Woodmen of the World of 1,000 members for the purpose of bringing the headquarters of the lodge here from Omaha if removed as con templated. The arrangements by Topeka manu facturers to set aside several Saturday afternoons to receive visiting traveling men, so as to get them to talk about what Topeka is doing, when they are out on the road. Terming it "negative advertising," R. S. Brigham took occasion before the Commercial club last night, when the free-for-all opportunity was given for members to say something about mat ters in this city which need attention, to declare that either Topeka ought to be taken out of the clearing house re port published in all the newspapers by Bradstreet and Dun every Saturday, or some measure ought to be taken here in the city to issue a more full and complete statement than is regu larly sent out. "I believe it best to take the name of this city out all together," said Mr. Brigham. "The clearing house reports here have shown a decrease for the past two years. I understand that not all the banks of this city are members of the clearance house association. Wichita has been running ahead of To peka. I have noticed comparisons made with cities completely out of To peka's class, as with Omaha, Buffalo and Kansas City. The clearings of Kansas City weekly amount to some where in the neighborhood of $24,000, 000, of Omaha about $10,000,000 a week, of Buffalo about six or eight mil lion dollars. I don't believe that Kan sas City and Omaha do a bigger busi ness than Buffalo. I don't believe that the clearing reports show the actual standing of the town. I do not be lieve that AVichita can show better than Topeka. Mr. Devlin's failure naturally cut into Topeka's standing to some ex tent. Topeka ought to get out of the clearing house reports. Lincoln did several years ago. There are several towns bigger and more important than Topeka which are not in. It is bad advertisement." President Holliday replied to Mr. Brigham in this manner: "I question whether it would be advisable to drop them out. I think that next year we will show some good healthy increases. If we could get some of our clearing house people to figure with more fren zied finance we might do as well as Wichita." John E. Frost suggested the appoint ment of a committee of five to go about to all banks and other financial institu tions which can legitimately be mem bers and get them to join the clearance association. In this way it Is hoped to raise the rating. A communication was read from the Wichita Commercial club callin atten tion to the fact that the mayor of Wichita has called a public, meeting in October to discuss the railroad situa tion. The purpose is to form a state organization. After the communication was read President Holliday said: "There seems to be some politics mixed un in this. We will let the, transporta tion committee handle the matter and make a report. By letter President Norman Plass of Washburn college suggested that the more geography than I do. And after the child passes out of the eighth grade it will forget its geography in studying other thin?"- the young lady who ac companies me, lately graduated from an expensive school, knows as little geography as I do. We learn and we forget, we retain only a little. E. W. H. WEDNESDAY. Witnesses In rate hearing give the wrong kind c2 evidence. FT Orlr t'is J. fc -i,--r "rls manufacturers of Topeka set aside three or four Saturdays on which to "receive" the officers of the Commercial club and the Toneka commercial travelers, and Fconduct them over the manufactories. The matter was popular with the meet ing and the manufacturers' committee will try to make such arrangements. N. H. Wolff appeared In behalf of the possible removal of the Woodmen of the World building and headquarters from Omaha, Neb., to Topeka In case the Nebraska supreme court rules that the orde$ must pay tax on emergency fund. Mr. Wolff said that he under stood that what the order wants is not a bonus or building site, but the interest of the business men of the city. "We ought to get about a thousand members in this city from among the business men in the city," said Mr. Wolff." so that if removal Is ordered we will be able to go after the headquarters. I would like to have a committee appoint ed to go among the business men of the city and get them to loin. Jj. hi. Penwell, speaking in behalf of the same matter said: "We ought to get ready, and if the Woodmen decide to move, we ought to get right on the train and go to Omaha. We ought to be on tne alert and get right on the ground and get in good licks. President Holliday stated that he will name a committee of three to take up the matter. A. H. Bennett suggested that To peka lacks locations to offer to peo ple who wish to bring new manufac turing concerns tiere, especially witn regard to good railroad switching ar rangements. "There are no joint tracks here as in Wichita," said Mr. Bennett, "where free switching is of fered. The switching charges are very high as the arrangement is here in Topeka. We' ought to try to get a location where joint switching can be arranged. The. place can be platted and given to concerns which wish to come here to Topeka." The suggestion of Mr. Bennett met with favor and a special committee will be appointed to look into the matter. W. C. Stephenson suggested that a special committee of the city council cr the Commercial club should de termine the safety from fire of build ings rather than Chief Wilmarth. "The reason I say this," said Mr. Stephenson, "is that the Swift Packing company wanted to locate in Topeka in a certain building, but that Chief Wilmarth declared the place unsafe and therefore the industry was lost to this city." "It is a shame if that is the case." said President Holliday. "We have to work hard enough to get industries without having to suffer in this way." L- M. Wood declared that the city ordinance on the matter is a frost, and that a building Inspector ought to be appointed. President Holliday said that he would appoint a committee of three to look into the matter and make a re port to the Commercial club at the next meeting. John E. Frost stated that every citizen of Topeka ought to take it upon himself to join in making the Kansas Semi-Centennial exposition a success. "We ought to all join hands in making this matter a success," he said. "Another thing I want to men tion is to increase the pay of school teachers in Kansas. That is some thing that ought to be done. They are a class of efficient, hard working people and ought to be better paid. "Another important thing is the matter of parka in Topeka. One of the best things we ever had in the city was the Civic Improvement society. We are doing good work along that line, and we must keep it up." L. M. Penwell rose after Mr. Frost had finished and said: "I am opposed to taking up this matter of raising teachers' salaries until we look about us and see how many men are work ing for $40 a month and have wives and families to support." W. L. Taylor was called upon to say what had further been done relative to getting lower coal rates to Topeka. THURSDAY. Washburn shows the Railroad Xr II. C. A, how to piay basket ball. MS Land of lit; -t, f 1 Tiie L'locEern Sofia Crcclier Bounded on the North by the Purity of the Snows; on the South by the Nutritious Wealth of the Tropics; on the JLast by the Health fulness of Scientific Baking on the West by the Energizing Power of the Mountains. IM&TJLQKAL BISCUIT COHPAHY He said that the recent Investigation by the board of railroad commission ers naturally has delayed matters to some extent, and therefore the con templated meeting between the local merchants and the railroad officials will not take place for some time yet. "We will get a reduction on lump coal all right," said Mr. Taylor, "although just what the amount will be I do not! know." Dr. W. T. Taylor, who is working on the plan to bring the proposed Odd Fellows' home to Topeka, stated that the local lodges of the order en tertained the board here on Thurs day and offered a tract of land and $5,000. "WTe offered them one of three places the .Adams tract on the North side, the Cofran property southeast of the city, and a tract south of Washburn college. It will be some time, however, until we shall hear the decision of the board.'" The club ordered the printing in pamphlet form of the statistical speech of Secretary Anderson at the banquet at the Throop notel. This speech related to a full extent the work which the Commercial club has done in Topeka, A copy will be sent to every business man in Topeka. The next meeting of the Commercial club will take place on the evening of the second Friday In January, 1906. H. W. McAfee and C. W. Horn were elected delegates from the Commercial club to the National Live Stock conven tion at Denver, Colo. The Commercial club will furnish the music for the State Teachers' asso ciation which meets here during the Christmas holidays. A good orchestra will be employed. The entertainment committee was instructed to prepare a lunch for the annual meeting in January. The "feast" will take place in the Commercial club rooms. McLeod Bros., manufacturers of automatic scales and packaging ma chines, of Marietta, Kan., want to lo cate their plant in some larger town, preferably Topeka. The manufactur ers' committee will look after the matter. George S. TTpshaw of the Standard Upholstering company, was admitted to membership. But one application was made. A letter was read from the national board of trade inviting the Commercial club of Topeka to become a constituent member. The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the organization will be held at Washington, D. C, on January 16. The national body considers mat ters important to the business inter ests of the country. The committee on state and national legislation will con sider this matter. A resolution adopted by the chamber of commerce of Pittsburg. Pa., calling attention to tariff and reciprocity be tween the United States and European nations was referred to the legislative committee. The American Civic association call ed attention in a pamphlet to some of its work done in Cleveland, O. An in vitation to become a member was ex tended. The matter was referred to the committee on parks. Xotice. Capital council No. 1, K. L. of will give a literary entertainment Tues day evening, December 1" under the di rection of Miss Crumb. Admission fee 10c. C. L. SMITH, President. Holiday Kates via Rock Island. One and one-third fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale Dec. 22 to 25, 30-31 and Jan. 1 limited for return Jan. i, 1906. See Rock Island agenta. Lutes can get your photos out for Xmas. 511 Kansas avenue. STATE JOURNAL CARTOONIST. FRIDAY (GljKS we can Railroad board orders a five per cent cut in grain rates. (VIE HATE To S rv, ruit RUT L-" C C7 1 1 g n r y rvrr i V at9" aB5r-. a, I JajjaUXiaL, to keep in good trim must, look well to ths condition of the skin, to this end the bath should be taken with HA N B- All Grocers nS Druggist Evening Classes Y. M. C A. Book-keeping1, Commercial Arith metic, Penmanship, Business Eng lish, Business Spelling. All Com mon School Studies, and Instru mental Music. Five. Teachers. CLASSES NOW IX SKSSIOX. SAFE AND SOUND. Safe In its securities all first mort gages on homes under careful ap praisement, by men experienced in, real estate values. Sound In its prin ciples which have stood the test oj years. Surely a safe place to invest your money. Call or send for book let. The Capitol Building and Loan Association. 531 Kansas ATcnue. L. XL PENWELL, Undertaker and Embalner, Sll Qulney Etreet GEO. X. KAY. Assistant. Open Di Res. 620 Monroe St. Ind. phone 77.'i mnd Night. Both phones 193. smokers mm LEWIS SINGLE 01 NDEF? 5t Cifcar better Quality than most lOf Citr CONVINCE YOURSELF Of the merits of the 3Tiv r 1 T f You have only to talk with those who have thm to be- come convinced of its merits. Missouri Kansas Tel. Co, iphr.na fiATTTTDAT Federal grand jurjr clgses its work after a busy time, a 1

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j x U X is JU. Jti Li A.JLjj X J a tiULtXtimiL r a m tt t D X in out. oi iieslc lor ,1 All OFFICE CHAIR A FOUNTAIN PEN SECTIONAL BOOKCASES CUT GLASS INKSTANDS EKGSAVEB STATIONERY MacBowell Office Supply Co. The Easiness Man's Department Store 710 KANSAS AVENUE IFeopie sending items to this department of The State Journal will confer a favor by giving the full firet name or two Initials, with all proper nanaes. Items must be accompanied by the name and published. Mr. and Mrs. Homer C. Bowman and Mr. end Mrs. William H. Vernon chaperoned the 'Varsity club dance at Steinberg's last night. The dance was. attended by Miss Lulu Healy, Miss Louise McNeal, Miss Nellie Millspaugh. Miss Eva Smith, Miss Isabel Smith. Miss Aline Dietrich, Miss Lora Neil, Miss Agnes Burdge, Miss Charlotte Lyle, Miss Margaret Go ing, Miss Alice Meade, Miss Virginia Meade, Miss Edna Thompson; Miss Hazel Jones, Miss La Vere Langdon, Miss Florence Bailey, Miss- Edith Ingham, Miss Helen Ingham, Miss Hazel Larkin. Miss Fan Reed,. Miss Ka Hotchkiss, Miss Edna Heap, Miss Daisy Monroe, Miss Anna Strauss, -Miss Mabel Thomas, Miss Eleanor Lukens, Miss celia Smith, Miss Vivian Tuttle, Miss Gert rude Mulvane, Miss Eleanor Sim, Miss Madelina Whitney, Miss Allie Wingett, Miss Nettie Zimmerman,. Mr. Howard Carruth. Mr. Tinkhnm Veale, Mr. Irwin Snattinger, Mr. Russell Frost, Mr. Elmer Hill, Mr. Ed Lennan, Mr. "Wil liam Snyder. Mr. Oscar Smit- Mr. John Van de Mark, Mr. Otis Van de Mark, Mr. Bob Steele, Mr. Proctor Foucht, Mr. Grover Taylor, Mr. Will Thomp son, Mr. Glen Millice. Mr. Harold Tice, Mr. Eldon Tice, Mr. (lien Haughey, Mr. Leo Haughey, Mr. James Hayes, Mr. Hal Hotchkiss, Mr. George White. Mr. William Heap, Mr. Will Cook, Mr. Todd Matthews, Mr. Ralph Forbes, Mr. John Clark, Mr. Irwin Piatt Mr. Albe King, Mr. Roy I'fford, Mr. Harry Cowgill, Tn: Otto Kiene, Mr. Ward Street, Mr. James Small, Mr. Carl Bowman. Mrs. Carl Woodbury Nellis is enter taining a few of the friends of her mother, Mrs. Edwin Lange. of Denver, who is her guest, Informally this after noon. The guests are Mrs. Helen Col lins, Miss Grace Collins, Mrs. A. O. Roxser, Mrs. C. N. Nelson, Mrs. A. T. Waggoner, Mrs. William Troutman, Mrs. William Connors. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dick Aldjn will entertain the Saturday Night oridge club this evening. The Delta Phis of Washburn will en tertain this evening for the new pledges, Mr. Quinton Adams. Mr. George White and Mr. Wister Williams. Miss Mary MacLennan will entertain a few of the girls and boys of her set informally this evening. Mrs. Wilbur J. Greer gave an informal nfternoon tea yesterday for Mr. Greer's mother, Mrs. Greer of Oxford, O.. who leaves next week for her home after a visit of a few weeks in Topeka. The quests were the ladies of the Washburn faculty and a few of her friends. The Sigma Delta Psi orority of Washburn is eiving a Kensington at the chapter house on Bolles avenue this afternoon for the new pledges, Miss Marion Thompson, Miss Katharine Kel lam. Miss Marguerite Mills, Miss Clara Daniels, Miss Clara Fleishman, Miss Charlotte Lyle, Miss Edna, Thompson, fttiss Edith Thompson, Miss La Vere Langdon and Miss Madeline Whitney. The Christmas recital of advanced pupils in the department of music of the College of the Sisters of Bethany was given Friday afternoon. The pupils of Miss Ward and Miss Hobart In the piano school, and Miss Widnev !n the department of voice gave the programme. It included: Festzug from "Wedding March" Jensen Misses Culver and Ward (a) Chanson di Mai Borowski (b) Spinning Wheel Wilm Miss Theodora Marsh. Trot of the Cavalry. .Rubehstein Miss Olive Laderer. Miss Mary H. Glbbs of Detroit tells In llic last edition ot the Diamond Dye An nua about ber grtat succees In dyeine siilrts, petticoats and tailor made suits. 2n her article she says: "I have had suca success in dyeing my skins whole that I cave never ripped a garment to iye it. Even ruffled ptticoais I put ix inl as they are. I could not get along wi snout uiamona xjyes. Bright women are constantly finding new uses tor Diamond Dyes. They are so eav to use. OnJy cost 10 cents at snv rirJgiit'. Ask your drucrjist lor the Diamond Dye Direction Book. TlA"rn"I nV'FS, BarHnrton, vt. tnristmasc Russian Dance Charles Dennee Miss Ora Lower. (a) Come to the Garden, Love.. Salter (b) A Proposal Salter Miss Lillion Parfitt. (a) Over the Russian Steppes .Schutte (b) "Chopin" Godard Miss Dessa Culver. (al Murmuring Spring Bohra (b) Mazurka Horvath Miss Helen Pcgram. Two Indian Love Songs Finden Miss Geneva Henderson. Novelette Schumann Miss Olive Laderer. Trio Gypsey Life Schumann At the meeting of the E. O. W. club club yesterday with Mrs. J. W. Farns worth, Mrs. Ward Burlingame played for Mrs. R. M. Spivey. and Miss Etta Beck for Mrs. J. B. Johnson. Mrs. E. D. Giles will be the next hostess. The Washburn seniors had a skat ing party at the rink on Jackson street Thursday night followed by supper at the home of Bliss' Lenore Monroe. In the party were Miss Monroe. Miss Edith Ingham, Miss Florence Tucker, Miss Flossie Burge, Miss Mary Gay lord, Miss Lucy Dickinson, Miss Bessie Forbes, Miss Lugrace Whitmer, Miss Janet McNee. Miss Eleanor Lukens, Miss Mary Wilson, Miss Mary Axtell, Mr. Eldon Tice, Mr. John Van de Mark, Mr. Glen Millice, Mr. Arthur Johnson, Mr. Seth Cox, Mr. Irving Piatt, Mr. Pliny Snvder, Mr. Orley Miller, Mr. Walter Carkhuff, Mr. Ed win Bales. Miss Minnie Chamberlain's guests at a linen shower given last night for Miss Bessie Wright, whose wedding to Dr. S. E. Gilman of Oakley takes place the last of the month, were Miss Blanche Sheldon, Miss Lilly Marklev, Miss Mabel Adams, Miss Mabel Ben nett, Miss Bertha Bennett, Miss Johns. Miss Johnson, Miss Clara Disney of Richland. The house was decorated with festoons of red paper hearts and Christmas greens. Friday evening of next week Mrs. C. It. Thrapp will en tertain for Miss Wright and the after noon of December 2 6 Miss Pansy Johnson will entertain for her. Notes and Personal Mention. Bishop and Mrs. Millspaugh will spend tomorrow with Major and Mrs. Swift at Fort Leavenworth. Mrs. Charles S. Haines of Sabetha and her son Harvey Hartzell arrive to night from Newkirk', Okla., where they have been visiting and will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Moon until Monday or Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Moon and Miss Helen Moon will spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Haines in Sabetha. Mrs. Clara B. Ellis lias gone to Kan sas City to spend Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Melville L. Metcalfe. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalfe will spend Christmas with Mrs. Ellis at the Blower house. Mrs. Charles Moore of Montrose, Colo., is expected Tuesday for a visit to Mrs. Charles Wolff. Mr. Elon S. Clark has returned from a business trip to Kansas City. Mr. Jim Mott of Kansas City will spend Christmas with the Howel Jones family. Mr. Howel Jones, second, will be home from the ranch at Cedar Point for the holidays. Miss Calla Cuttell and Miss Louise Kellam returned today from Kansas City where they -were guests of Mrs. Eli Lewis part of the week. Mr. Will Rice is home from the Fni versity of Pennsylvania for the holi days. Mr. Clarkson Millspaugh will be home Tuesday from St. John's school, Salina, to spend the holidays. Mr. George Chambers of Lawrence and a party of friends were In Topeka in Mr. Chambers' touring car'yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bruce Walker will come from Kansas City next week to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hayden. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden will go to California the first of the year to spend a few months. Miss Iris Andrews will leave next week for Ohio to visit her parents and will spend part of the Christmas va cation in New York. Miss Berenice Healy and Miss Hazel Nelson went to Leavenworth today to spend Sunday with Miss Mary Con nors at Mount St. Mary's academy. Miss Nell McDonald will be home next week from Northwestern univer sity. Evanston. 111., for the holidays. Mrs. A. A. Godard leaves next week fof Poughkeepsie. N. Y.. to visit hr daughter. Miss Ouenn Godard. who is at Vassar. They wiil visit New York citv during the holiaays. Mj. Frank Southwick returned to day from Lewis institute, Chicago, for the Christmas vacation. Mr. Fred Glick, of Pittsburg, Kas., came today to join Mrs. Glick on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. John Green and accompany her to Junction City, where they will make a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Rice and their family will go to Temple, Tex., next week to spend the holidays with rela tives. Miss Eva Mayberry, of Clinton, Ky., will spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Mayberry. Mrs. May. Belleville Brown, of Sa lina, is the guest of Mrs. Lee Monroe. Governor and Mrs. Hoch went to Marion today to spend Sunday. Mrs. A. L. Redden is here from Walter, Okla..:- where sne Is spending the winter with Mrs. Fred Gordon, to visit Mrs. C. B. Smith. Mrs. W. H. Smith, of Pasadena, Cal., and Mrs. J. A. Clark, of New York, who were guests of Mrs. Ed ward A. Austin, and Mrs. C. W. Smith, of Pasadena, who was the guest of Mrs. George Hackney, left Thursday for California. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Cain and Miss Virgil Cain returned today from Den ver, where Miss Cain attends Miss Walcott's school. Miss Norma Holman went to Man hattan today to attend the wedding of Miss Lulu O'Daniel and Mr. Alvin Springer. Mrs. I. S. Lauk and Mr. Allen Lauck will go- to Oldsburg next week to visit Dr. and Mrs. Wilson Lauck. Mr. Osborne Larimer will be home from Ann Arbor for the holidays. He is expected next week. Mr. Jay Smith, tenor, will sing a solo, and Mr. Smith, Mrs. Walker Combs, soprano, and Miss Nina Thomas, contralto, a trio, at the First M. E. church tomorrow morning. SNAP SHOTS AT II03IE NEWS. The federal grand jury will probably adjourn tonight. The man who can explain where all this smoke comes from may get into the Carnegie medal class. Some of the streets in the western part of the city got their much needed annual sweeping yesteraay. There will be a meting of the W. C. T. U. at the First Methodist church Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The members of the Ohio club will give a tacky party at their rooms, 117 West Sixth street, Monday evening. Sate Oil Inspector Husey yesterday filed his report for November, and turn ed over to the state $2,1!)6 collected in fees. The Topeka high school "basket ball team defeated the Campbell college team at Holton Friday by a score of 3 5 to 13. Mrs. W. E. Stanley has presented to the state a fine oil portrait of her hus band to be hung in the office of the governor. John L. Sullivan and his show will be at the Auditorium Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday night, and for a Wed nesday matinee. Rev. W. M. Backus of Chicago, sec retary of the Western Unitarian con ference, will preach at Unity church to morrow morning. E. B. Guild has donated the Y. M. C. A., colored department, an orgaa and piano stool to be used at their rooms, 406 Kansas avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Putnam, of the Union Pacific hotel, returned from Kansas City this morning, where they have been visiting this week. The, furniture and fixtures of the Topeka club are being moved from their old quarters across the street into their new building today. Governor Hoch's office has been dec orated with a big 20-foot U. S. flag, and a picture of Roosevelt. They cover one of the walls of the private office. The Melan bridge is being wired for the electric lights which the citizens of North Topeka have' been fig'iting for ever since the brtage was com pleted. I. L. Dayhoff, state superintendent of instruction, came to Topeka yesterday and started for home sick a few hours later. He has been laid up in bed for a couple of weeks. The Union Pacific hotel has two rather unusual guests in the personage of G. T. AVakimote and Y. Inoyu, the Japanese contractors who are superin tending the railroad work now being done on the north side of the river. The parents of the pupils of the j North Topeka Quincy school are be coming alarmed at the pre valency of diphtheria in that portion of the city. There are now sixteen pupils out of the school on account of the disease. L. F. Graham, now employed as clerk at the office of T. E. Dewey, supreme court reporter, went to Baldwin, Kan., last night and acted as judge on deliv ery in the preliminary oratorical con test to select the representative of Baker to the state contest. Superintendent Maunsell of the Edi son company says that some one is traveling over the city pretending to represent the company and making col lections. He is described as a man of medium build with a sandy mustache. Mr. Maunsell says their collectors have letters of authority. The Stewart-Peck Sand company to day filed their separate answer in the suit brought against the Imier Belt rail road, a company allleged to have been organized at Kansas City for the pur pose of getting possession of a strip of river front under condemnation pro ceedings. Department Commander P. H. Coney speaks at Thayer this evening. His itinerary for next week and early in January follows: El Dorado, December 21; Newton. December 30; Topeka, Jan uary 6: Manhattan, January 9: Con cordia. January 10; Smith Center, Jan uary 12; Belleville, January 13. The old Kansas nvenue bridge across the Shunganunga creek is be ing torn down and a portion of the material used in the construction of the new bridge in the center of the street. The old bridge, which was constructed a great many years ago, was not parallel with the street at this point and had become dangerous to traffic. Holiday Rates via Rock Island. One and one-third fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale Dec. 22 to 25. 30-31 and Jan. 1 limited for return Jan. 4, 1906. See Rock Island agents. Music at the Cremerie. Get your Sunday dinner at the Cremerie. Music. We do fine work on TABLE LINEN WHITE VESTS SHIRTS, COL LARS, CUFFS, AND FAMILY ....WASHING.... Topeka Laundry Co. Second and Quincy. Phone 153. 1 i j el?uurTaii?foi? Will Contain HANS ZUPP AT SENIOR PLAY. Describes His Emotions While Ab sorbed in the Plot. Ven I vas a kid I vas a agtif member uf a amett-or barn-storming bunch. I alvays played der Family Skellington, und shifted skenery on der side. I vas vifidy reminded uf myselluf lasd night, ven I vent py der High School und opserf der drammer entitled "Der Deak ing's lobulations." Id vos a ellegant drammer, .und I veep so ofer der hero-wine dot a usher mit hiss hair parted in der midst come aroudt und say, "Misder "Zupp, I dondt like to be sassy, but I asks you like von chendleman ad anoder, vill you pleas veep in :-our hat?" "Vot." aay3 I sobbishly, "iss der anser?" Und he say, "Der blaster uf der class room beneat iss on der bum, und I fear me id vill drop oop uf id iss soaked too many." Chust den a pair uf villyuns comes in, squattishly, und proceed to frisk der shack, making a grabbency uf seferal dousand duccats in stage coin. ?d safe der ceiling in der lower room, fer I dry my tears und iaff myselluf almosd to deaf. I Der drammer consisd uf four spas sums und seferai Bkenes. Dere vos no doubles in derCast, vich you candt say uf der aferach ein, zwei, trf show ad der j! Vt?. iO mmmmm jU.oL 17! I 7 V 7? v TSr.TU) Ti A "FT -NOW RUNNING IN- ATTRACTING THE ATTENTION O F Tomorrow s a Synopsis o! All hapter XV, A Dangerous Moment. apter a Chapter XTO, Torch of iebellion. Crowfood te-a-ter. Each von vos itselluf, egsept ven der door mat vas remoofed from der mug uf der boss villyun und he vas sompody else. I vos so egsited ven der villyuns lug avay der liddle goil, dot I almosd chump oop und take chibrs. Ven id vas ofer I feldt'besser. Mandolin Club at Cremerie. Be at the Cremerie for dinner Sun day. Music by mandolin club from 12 till 2 o'clock. Lutes can get your photos out for Xmas. 511 Kansas avenue. CUTTING REPORT ISN'T TRUE. T. X. McGuire Writes of the Reported Affray on East Side. To the Editor of the State Journal: In your issue of Tuesday evening there appeared an article relative to a cutting affray on East Sixth avenue be tween two young men in which John Bennett is charged with stabbing an other boy named Clyde Moneypenny of Vtnewood. The first impulse of the average reader on glancing at this weird news is to shudder and think that Parkdale is the home of the tough and the footpad. Now, no blame is attach ed to the reporter who chronicled this item nor to the State Journal for pub lishing it, because newspaper men are often imposed upon by some un scrupulous persons who start stories of this kind from a jealous motive. The plain facts In this case are, that there was no cutting affray of any kind oc curred Monday evening on the cor ner of Sixth avenue and Lake street. The young- boy, Clyde Monneypenny, who was reported to have been stab bed, was out home at Vinewood at the time the occurrence is supposed to have happened. A number of school boys had asserrtbled in front of Kelly's drug More, as they do every evening, and were discussing school matters, baseball matters and such things as in terest young America at this time of the vear. John Bennett and George Bennett, sons-of the well known Santa Fe shop foreman, were in the crowd. The boys were all talking at once as school boys are -wont to do. They all have their say and then skip to their respective homes: this is a daily occur rence. No fight occurred, no cutting took place. Several ladles who were bystanders make this statement. Mr. G. L. Bennett said: "When I went home from the shops and took up the State Journal, I was almost paralyzed to see my boy's name in connection with this crime. I called up the police station over the 'phone and they knew nothing of the crime. For the last three months I have un derstood that there were certain people in Parkdale trying to down me for no other motive than that I hold a lucra tive position in the Santa Fe shops and attend strictly to my own affairs. I owe nobody any ill will and the story that my little boy stabbed another boy is a I i QF LOV Ec??? ADVENT URE JO i It That Has Been Installment Traitor to the Cause. base lie and the one who told it to the State Journal knew it." As a friend of Mr. Bennett I write this statement in the article of justice. T. N. McGUIRE. 417 Lafayette street. Music at the Cremerie. Get your Sunday dinner at the Cremerie. Music. LOCAL MENTION. Two cases of diphtheria "were re ported to the city health department today. They are in the families of D. B. Kratis, 1113 Central avenue, and Henry Williams, 1157 Lane street. The following building permits have been issued from the office of Fire Marshal Wilmarth: Dwelling, lot 28 Harrison street, R. Strickrott; new front, 708 Kansas avenue, $900, F. Mawhinney; dwelling. Frank M. Wel ton, $2,000, 1634 Harrison street. George N. Goodrich, driver of the aerial truck at No. 2 fire station, is sufferring from a sprined wrist and thumb which he received in a bad fall at his home, 922 Madison street. Attention. Capital lodge No. 3, A. O. V. W., will meet at hall, corner Sixth and Quincy, at 2:30 Sunday, December 17, 1905, to attend the funeral of Brother M. J. Clark. A full attendance is de sired. W. A. L. THOMPSON, President. F. W. FREEMAN, Vice-Pesident. Th i Merchants National Banll S TOPEKA. Capital Stock, Sioo.ooo.oo Surplus and Profits, $37,000.00 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF DEPOSITS December 15, 1900 478,818.40 December 15, 1901 640,337.40 December 15, 19 )2 587,288.90 December 15, 1903 610,900.24 December 15-, 1904 788,469.63 December 15, 190S $1,040,234.77 ACCOUNTS INVITED. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT 1 i i if. x w v v A MOST ENGROSSING NOVEL f-f I T.-O T 5 P. Vt f Published and J FAMILY WISH LAUJBRY 1004 N. Kani Ave. Washing, 50 Pieces 50c Bell Phone 1169 Ind. Phone 5213 3,000 INVITATIONS. For the First Official Reception of Ambassador White. Rome, Dec. 16. Thomas J. O'Brien, the American minister to Denmark, af ter a short stay in Rome, left here for Copenhagen today. Three thousand in vitations have been issued for the first official reception of Ambassador White, December 27, at which the king's mas ter of ceremonies will officially intro duce the ambassador and his wife to the dignitaries of state and leaders of Roman society. Bryan Is Headed for Manila. Manila. Dec. 16. William J. Bryan will arrive here on December 22. Mandolin Club at Cremerie. Be at the Cremerie for dinner Sun day. Music by mandolin club frofn 12 till 2 o'clock. F. M. BONEBRAKE, Cashier. E. A. TIRRJLL, Asg't Cashier. II KANSAS i 5 t i 3 j

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'HE TOPEHA DAILY STATS JOURNAL-SATURDAY NIGHT. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. BEST YET. BEST YET. 10 room residence near 12th and Clay st. Price reduced to $2,330. Fine cottage, furnace heat, 2 lots, Clay St., near Huntoon. Snap. Reduced to $5,100. ty. 8 rooms and halls, new residence, strictly modern, finished floors, Fillmore St., east front, never been occupied, finest neighborhood. Want offer. f room residence, barn, 2 lots, 8th St., close out, quick, about $2,100. Cottage, east front, hard wood finish, water at sink, Western ave., $1,250. T rooms and hall, bath, large barn, near Sth and Fillmore st. Sure snap, $1,800. Cottage 10th St., fine shade, $900. Cottage Sth St., paved. $450. LOT SNAPS! LOT SNAPS! Corner 10th and Polk St., very fine. Corner 10th and Fillmore. Corner 12th and Polk. Corner 9th and Buchanan. Orchard Place, Douthitt Place. Fine lots northeast of Washburn, $125. ACRE TRACTS. ACRE TRACTS. 11 acres near Lowman car line. 10 acres Burlingame road. I acres Highland Park. FARMS! FAEM3I 40 acres near Vlnewood. 10 acres near Vinewood. tO acres east Pauline. 80 acres, well improved, 8 miles out, 2,800. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR BARGAINS. BARNES REAL ESTATE CO., FIFTH JACKSON ST. PHONES 2G2. GEOKGE M. NOBLE CO. GSORGS M. NOBLES CO. REAL ESTATE, LOANS OPPOSITE! THE POSTOFFICE. $3,200 for 7 room house on Monroe St., near Sth, modern except heat, large cistern, large barn, very favorable terms for payment. Rec. 321. $1,350 for 2 cottages on Hancock St., 3 rooms each, rent for $6.50 and $7, good condition, fine investment for home or for income. Rec. 199. $6,000 for 3 fine corner lots on Madison St., with all modern, east front, ten room house, new furnace, new plumbing, a very fine residence. Rpc. 333. $1,200 for a 5 room house and 1 lot, on Kansas ave., near l'Jth St., and $1,000 for 4 room cottage, on adjoining lot. barn, city water and other conveniences, one house renting for $12, the other for Rec. 334. $1,500 for 6 room house at No. 1718 Buchanan St., newly papered and painted, fine legation, paved St. Easy terms. We have a large number of houses in the Santa Fe call district, all sizes and prices, which make desirable homes or profitable Investments for rental purposes. $1,800 for a 5 acre tract 2 miles north of city, a 5 room house, barn, chicken house, all kinds of fruit and berries; would furnish good home and profitable business. Rec. 93. $40 per acre for 200 acres In Jackson county, close to R. R., all cultivated ex cept 80 acres in timber, all good soil, new 7 room house, 2 large barns, large corn crib, all varieties of fruits and berries, school on corner. Rec. 551. $40 per a-'re for 147 acres in Wabaunsee county, convenient to railroad, nearly 11 tillable, 60 acres now in pasture and meadow, balance in valuable timber, good, newly painted house, barns and shade, orchard, running water. Rec. 551. $40 per acre for quarter section in Jackson county, all tillable, half second bot ton. nearly all cultivated. 10 acres orchard, all kinds of fruit, some blue grass, good houne, large barn, shade, corrals, convenient to railroad. Rec. 531. $50 rer acre for 200 acres 7 miles north of Topeka, H mile from railroad sta tion, with 9 room house, large barns and sheds, 120 acres cultivated, 40 acres tim ber. 4 acres orchard, balance blue grass pasture. This is a bargain. Rec. 91. We have a verv large list of farms In Shawnee and adjoining counties, all sizes, all prices and terms to suit the purchaser. We make loans on improved farms at low rates. BOTH 'PHONES 444. 435 KANSAS AVE., TOPEKA, KAN. READ, BUY AND BE HAPPY. READ, BUY AND BE HAPPY. 11,300 Cottage, 2 lots, 427 Western avenue. 1.S00 Cottage, well, cistern, barn, 2 lots, 5th" and Shawnee. 4.0008 room house, modern, barn, 824 ft front, Western ave. ",7509 room house, barn, well, cistern, 8 lots, near Washburn college. 1,5003 room house, barn, cellar, city water, The Drive. 73 Lot 160 and north lot 162 Lafayette st. SO Each Lots in Highland Park. Choice farms in Shawnee county. Bargains In all parts of the city. Insurance In all Its branches. H. C. BOWMAN, IND. TEL. 6S1. 42 COLUMBIAN BLDG. BENEDICT CO., BENEDICT CO. w 6 rooms, 5 lots, good stable, well, cellar, porch, east front, house newly paint de. Price $1,000, on small payment down, balance like rent. Good S room house near 6th St.. macadam road, city water in house, cistern, ba-n; owner has gone away and very anxious to sell. Make us an offer. 2 good rental properties near Santa Fe shops, will rent for $25 a month. Can be bought for $2,200. Both of these houses are in good shape. A bargain. 5 room house. l'A lots, near 3d and Van Buren. Price $1,400. 7 room house, 1V4 lots. '2 block of state house. Price $2,500. Nice home on W. fith St., 6 rooms, city water and cistern in house, on pave ment, 1 block of car line. H 9 This 80 acre farm is Vt mile from R. R. town. 10 miles from Topeka, mile to school, daily mail and telephone, good 6 room l'-i story frame house with cellar, barn for 6 horses and 10 cows, smoke house, hen house, etc., 80 bearing fruit trees, 40 acres under cultivation, balance pasture and meadow. Price $4,200 2,500 cash, 10 years time on balance. DROP UP AND SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY. BENEDICT 'PHONE OVER 10 CENT STORE. HOMES FOR $200 DOWN. Good 6 room cottage, 1M: lots, city wa ter, sewer, gas, a short walk west of P. O., also 5 room house, l'A lots, city water, barn, near loth st. and avenue; also 5 room house, well, cistern, barn, near Washburn college; also 5 room house be tween 5th and 6th on Jefferson St., pay ments on above properties will be about like rent. PARTNERSHIP REAL ESTATE CO., Ind. Tel. 972. Office 107 W. Fifth St. FOR SALE: Near 6th and Clay St., cottage of 6 rooms, gas, city water, cistern water in side, barn, sewer connection, good repair, rents at $17. Big bargain for immediate ale. J. E. TORRINGTON, 109 W. Sixth. $3,750. J rooms, bath, gas, li lots, new barn. 4 blocks of state house grounds, $1,000 Cash, balance at 6 per cent. THE SHELDON REAL ESTATE CO., Ind. Tel. 1610. S19 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE: 4 room cottage, 4 lots. 522 Lake. st. M'QUARY, FIRESTONE) WINGETT, tad. TeL 144. 606 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. BEST YET. BEST YET. LOT SNAPS! LOT SNAPS! ACRE TRACTS. ACRE TRACTS. FARMS! FARMS! GEORGE M. NOBLE CO. GEORGE it. KOBLB CO. AND INSURANCE. TOPEKA. KAN. READ, BUY AND BE HAPPY: READ, BUY AND BE HAPPY. BENEDICT CO BENEDICT CO. CO., 97. 627 KANSAS AVI THE CAPITOL REAL ESTATE CO 'Phone 84$. 116 W. Sixth St. FOR SALE: Nice 4 room cottage Mulvane st. 2 lots, new house 7 rooms, hard pine finish, large porches, college neighbor hood, $2,300. 11 room modern house Harrison st. lots, east front. Price right. Modern 7 room house. 2 lots.house near ly new, 1 block of Central Park. Price $2.S0O. 5 room cottage, east front, near car line, nice location, wTest side, $1,700. 5 room house, 1 lot, Washburn neighbor hood, $SS0. V& lots Garfield, for sale on payments, $23 cash, balance monthly. 3 vacant east front lots near Central Park, cheap. 1 fine lot near 10th on Buchanan. 4 vacant lots Garfield ave., near pro posed park, $123 each. WILSON NEISWANGER. HOME AT BARGAIN. 1'4 lots, 6 rooms, bath complete, city water, cistern, cellar, 10 minutes' walk west of business center. Price for quick sale, Sl.SOO. PARTNERSHIP REAL ESTATE CO., Ind. Tel. 972. Office 107 W. Fifth St. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. J J. E. SHAFFER CO.. IND. TEL. 950. TOPEKA, CUT PRICES WE 40 acres 23 miles west of Topeka, 5 miles from R. R. town, 2S acres in cultiva tion, 6 acres wild grass meadow, 6 acres English blue grass, good 2 room house and basement, well, stable, crim, listed at $1,600. Price $1,500. 53 acres 11 miles east of Topeka, 1 mile from R. R. station, mile to church and school, 28 acres in cultivation, balance timber pasture with living water, good 3 room house, orchard, well, stable. Listed at $1,500. Price $1,400. 40 acres 20 miles northeast of Topeka, adjoining a good R. R. town, not one foot of rough or stony land, all fine first and second bottom land, 17 acres in corn, 8 acres timothy, 14 acres timothy pasture, good orchard, good house, 3 large rooms, barn, crib, poultry house. Listeed at $1,S00. Price $1,600. 80 acres 6 miles from Topeka, mile to school, 2 miles from electric cars, 40 acres in cultivation, balance good timber, seeded to tame grass, creek of living water, good 3 room house, cellar, well, cistern, barn, good orchard and berries. An excellent fruit, dairy and poultry farm. Listed at $3,600, Price $3,200. Easy terms. 120 acres 12 miles southwest from Topeka. all good smooth upland, and good soil, 40 acres in corn, 25 acres English bluegrass, 4 acres bearing orchard, balance fine pasture, well watered, 80 acres fenced hog tight, good 2 story frame barn 40 by 60, with hay fork, good frame house 4 rooms and basement, large crib, poul try house, nice shade, good well. Listed at $5,000. Price $4,600. 160 acres 14 miles west of Topeka, 3 miles all good, smooth, rich upland, nearly all tillable, 90 acres in cultivation, 2 acres good orchard, balance meadow, with living spring, good 4 room house, with tele phone, on R. F. D., good large barn, cow barn for 16 cows, crib for 1,600 bushels. renting for $350. Price $5,200. Our clients authorize us to cut them loose at the above prices. If sold before January 1st. After that the prices will be or any other information you may desire. KNOX OFFICE PHONE 609. RESIDENCE PHONES 735-3 5663. We have a ten acre farm near the reform school to exchange for a property in North Topeka or Shorey, worth about There is a good 6 room house, barn, shop ber and stone quarry on the place. Price at 6 per cent. Call us up on this soon, as the offer Is OFFICE 103 E. RESIDENCE PHONES 735-3 5663. CENTRAL PARK Will not last long at the present rate week. No nicer location in the city, and where you can find the price so reason able and terms so easy anybody can commence to secure a home. Consult the Agency. BK it ORCHARD We have a few lots scattered over the on very easy terms. SHAWNEE IND. TEL. 505. CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP! A fine large two story frame house of parlor, hard wood finish, house newly painted, lVz lots, well, cellar, new barn 14 by 20, fruit trees, fine neighborhood. This Price only $1,050. MOON, CHARLES MOON, IND. TEL. 1624. 116 E. FIFTH ST. CITY PROPERTIES FOR FARMS. We have 5 good residence properties to trade for farms, also a large number of acre tracts for sale. PARTNERSHIP REAL ESTATE CO., Ind. Tel. 972. Office 107 W. Fifth St. FOR SALE 2 small houses on Lawrence st.. handv to shops, first payment $2b, balance monthly; 7 rooms, east front.near Bethany, only $250 cash, balance monthly. Fine suburban tract west tract, cheap, on terms. F. J. Brown, Columbian bldg. EMMETT E. ROUDEBUSH. HOUSES. 6 room house on Polk St., $1,400. A fine corner on park, west side, 5 room cottage, $1,373. 7 room new house on high ground, near Washburn, 1 lots, $2,250. 6 room house, 1 lots, on Monroe, close In, bath, gas, $3,200. 9 room house, enameled bath, hot and cold water, new furnace, ground 125x150 feet, large barn, chicken houses, etc., 105 Elmwood ave., $3,500 4 acres with house $6,000. 7 room new house, ready for a furnace and bath, Garfield ave., $2,700. 3 acres, new cottage, bath, barn, adjoin ing city, 4 blocks to car, $3,750. Might trade part on house closer in. 8 room new house, bath, gas, furnace, shade, 60 feet front, $3,600. This is a bar gain. 6 room house, W. 6th St., bath, furnace, IVi east front lots, $2,400. 4 room cottage, shop district, $S50. 12 acres, 5 room cottage, a snap at $2, 600. Good bargains east side. VACANT. 6 acres near Washburn college, $200 per acre. 6 lots, new foundation and cistern, near Gage's Park, $350. Houses for rent. Safety deposit boxes $3 per year. Western Kansas land for sale. EMMETT E. ROUDEBUSH, Stormont Bldg. 107 W. Sixth St. FOR SALE: 4 room cottage and barn, IV2 lots, on Lawrence st., $tmi. M'QUARY, FIRESTONE WINGETT, Ind. Tel. 1641. 606 Kan. Ave. LOTS. LOTS. LOTS. 1V4 lots near 15th and Van Buren, $475. l'fe lots near 16th and Harrison, $400. l3i lots near 14th and Tyler St., $500. Fine east front, Buchanan St., near the governor's mansion, $425 each. Snap V& lots near 13th and Fillmore st., $525. 1,000 lots for sale. PARTNERSHIP REAL ESTATE CO., Ind. Tel. 972. Office 107 W. Fifth St. FOR SALE OR TRADE. 5 rooms, 10 lots, sightly location, east of Washburn college, good barn and out buildings, splendid well and cistern. See the Agency for particulars. PAYMENT PLAN. 1511 Tyler, 2 lots, 5 rooms, good cellar. connected with sewer, closets, house new ly papered and painted throughout, new outbuildings. Price only $1,250. West, near 15th, 6 rooms, 114 lots, city water and sewer, newly papered, close to pavement, and but 2 blocks from car line, see the Agency for price and easy terms. SHAWNEE AGENCY, Ind. Tel. 505. B34 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. J. E. SHAFFER CO., 112 E. SIXTH ST. KAN. MUST SELL. from R. R. station, mile to school. raised. Write for our free printed list SPACHT, 103 E. FIFTH ST. $8,000 to $10,000. and chicken house, well, creek, tim $2,000. Can give time on the difference good only for three or four days. FIFTH ST. IND. TEL. 609. PLACE LOTS. of selling. Five sold during the past PLACE. addition, well located, some can be sold AGENCY, 534 KANSAS AVE. CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP! 6 rooms, bay window, sliding doors in is a fine property and would rent forl2. FOR SALE: 8 room modern house, barn, nice yard. Tyler st., near 12th. $3,400. 5 room cottage, good as new, excellent well, cistern, cellar, nice yard, on Tyler St., near 3d, $1,600. 4 rooms, cellar under all, on Tyler St., near 3d, $1,100. 3 lots near 15th and West St., $100 each. 2 acres, 5 rooms, barn, cellar, cistern. well, close to school, paved street and car, $1,500. 40 acres, improved, mile to railroad station, 15 miles to Topeka, would take small house near shops for part pay. 17 acres 3 miles west of Topeka, $1,500. 20 acres, house and barn, Kaw bottom. south side, 3 miles to business part of Topeka, $2,000. 40 acres, house, outbuildings, orchard, cistern, well, smooth land, 3 miles to railroad, 25 miles to Topeka, $1,300. 20 acres, good buildings, orchard, mile to school, 3 miles to Topeka, $2,100. 160 acres smooth prairie meadow, 6 miles to railway station, 18 miles to Topeka, $3, 600. 70 acres smooth land 6 miles southwest of Topeka, good 7 room house, barn, or chard, near school, $3,200. WESTERFIELD CO., Central National Bank Bldg Ind. Tel. 1536. Topeka, Kan. FOR SALE: 6 room modern new house, close in, on Taylor St. Make us an offer. M'QUARY. FIRESTONE WINGETT, Ind. Tel. 1644. 606 Kan. Ave. FARMS. FARMS. W. M. FORBES, 107 W. SEVENTH ST. 80 improved 7 miles of Auburn and Har veyville, 3 room house, stable, fenced and cross fenced, SO fruit trees, well, spring and pond, only $2,150. SO highly improved, 7 miles southwest, $4,200; 1-3 cash, balance 9 years time. 110 out W. loth St., improved. $3,200. 160 improved, line, 2V2 miles Pauline, $7, 000. Fine 80, good fruit, 10 miles S. W., $4,000. 160 well improved, 7 miles north, $50, 14 cash. 400, large buildings, 10 miles" S. E., $45. 70, 4 miles Auburn, 8 acres orchard, $1, 600. 40 A., improved, 1 mi. of St. Car, S. W., $3,000. 20, 2-3 mi. St. car, $2,600; 5 rms., big barn. 10, 3 mi. of city, high ground, $500. 5 acres fenced, west of city, $000. TRADE. TRADE. 10 a. 3 mi. out for $700. City house. 40 a. Ark. house lots in Gas City, Ks., for 6 rni. North Topeka house. 2 good houses Jackson St., Nor. Top. rente about $350, for farm. 8 rm. modern house S. W. for S. W. suburb. 10 acres fruit, S rin. house, for city. 80, 1st class upland, imprd farm, 10 mi. of city, 4 of station, take suburb. 160 grass 13 mi. out, take Nor. Top. part. SO Linn Co. for $1,500. City house. Store in Doniphan for city house. CHEAPEST WESTERN LAND, 160 5 mi. of Pendennis, $900; level 160 Logan Co.. 5 mi. county seat, $4, easy terms; 320 12 mi. Monument, $6.50; 2 sections I-iogan Co., 4 or 5 mi. Co. seat, $4 $4.25, easy terms; 1,040 6 mi. Hoxie (Co. seat) 2 ml. of station. $7, Vt cash; ISO 10 ml. S. W. Meade, $550 640 Gray Co., $1,500; 640 Gove Co., cross ed by river, 9 mi. of station, $5; 160 Sherman Co.. 24 mi. of Ruleton, $1,050. See us for snaps. Country city houses lots. Largest rental list. 8 insurance Co's. Collections, loans. We look after your property. Leave it with us. W. M. FORBES, 107 W. 7th st. Both 'phones. FOR SALE. 4 room cottage, 4 lots. 522 Lake st. McQUARY, FIRESTONE WINGETT, 606 Kansas Ave. Ind. phone 1644. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. DAVIS, WELLCOME Co., SOME CHRISTMAS 7 room house, new, strictly modern from cellar to garret, east front, fine lo cation, a bargain at $3,800. A very choice 8 room house, nearly new, modern throughout, large mantel and grate. 2 lots, east front, close in. Owner leaving town, $5,500. This will pay to look up. 2 blocks from state house, west side, a very fine location, 11 rooms, modern throughout, barn, everything in good condition, 2 lots, east front. For quick sale reduced from $9,000 to $7,500.Terms to suit. 2 new modern stylish houses, nearly completed, Hth and Polk, will be finished in oak downstairs. It will be a pleasure to us to show these houses. Neat 5 room cottage, in good trim, city and cistern water, barn, 1 lots, east front, west side, 5 blocks from Kansas ave. Cheap at $2,250. Please call or phone us for prices on a large number of other properties that can be sold just now at a bargain. Prices ranging from $1,500 upward. We have the bargains. Come and see us. Real Estate, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. DAVIS, WELLCOME Co., BOTH PHONES 1026. S. M. WOOD CO. Snap E. Sth St., near Jefferson, 5 room cottage, quick sale, $1,230. 3 lots, E. front, corner, good cottage, Van Buren, near 1st., $1,500. Bargain E. 6th st., car line, 5 lots, house 5 or 6 rooms, $1,500. House 7 rooms, barn, Topeka ave., $1,150. Denver, Colo., 10 fine lots, University Heights, for Topeka property, $1,500. Large house, 2V2 lots, near 8th and Madison St., $3,000. Look at 6 fine lots corner Huntoon and Lincoln, cars by them, $1,800. Smooth 80 hay land, fenced, water, near Pauline. See me. FOR RENT A good list of houses and stores. FOR RENT A 680 farm to the right man. Sell cattle, tools, etc. S. M. WOOD CO., 534 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE CHOICE BARGAINS. Special orders from a non-resident owner to close out 34 lots, all in 1 block, good location, within city limits, west side. Owner says sell. If you want a snap, be quick. See me about It. A non-resident lot on Kansas ave., north of 10th st. A snap at $2,300. 5 lots on east side, in Veale's addition, one on car line, the other four less than a block from the car line. Owner says sell all together. Want offer. I am sole agent for the above. See me quick. First come first served. R. A. RICHARDS, 111 W. SIXTH AVE. TOPEKA, KAN. DAWSON PIERSGN, 'PHONE 1038. 80 acres 8 miles out, 4 room cottage, good cistern, well and spring, large cattle and horse barn, 2t acres In cultivation, 4 acres in orchard, 15 acres in meadow, 37 acres in pasture, Vi mile to school and church. Price $3,200. 80 acres 10 miles out, fair improvements, mostly all in cultivation. Price $2,700. Would exchange for city property. 115 acres 12 miles out, 50 acres in cultivation, 35 acres of hay land, 20 acres in orchard, balance pasture, new 5 room house, barn, corn crib and chicken house, etc., mile of R. R. station. Price $5,000. Fine grass 80 acres 8 miles out, unimproved, living water. Price $2,650. 6 lots, new 4 room house, large cellar, 100 barrel cistern, good well, barn. Price $1,250; cash, balance payments. OAKLAND SNAP. OAKLAND SNAP. 3 lots, new 5 room house, bath, cellar, smoke house, grape arbor, coal house, in good repair. Price $1,250. List your property with us for quick sale and see us before you buy. DAWSON PIERSON. A. D. JONES, IND. TEL. 845. About 1,000,000 acres in Pecos Valley of New Mexico, and 3,000,000 acres in Pan handle of Texas, $4.00 and $10.00 per acre. 100,000 acres in western Kansas, $2.00 to $20.00 per acre. 100 farms close to Topeka, $30.00 to $50.00 per acre. Several small tracts from 1 tQj20 acres. And city property of all kinds for sale and exchange. See me at office. A. D. JONES, 600 KANSAS AVE. TOPEKA, KAN. FOR SALE: 4 room cottage and 4 lots, on Lake St., $1,100. M'QUARY. FIRESTONE WINGETT, Ind. Tel. 1644. 606 Kan. Ave. LOTS! 3 groups of 3 lots each, near Washburn college, nice high location. Price on each group, $375. 2 corner lots, high location, Douthitt tract, $150 each. 2 lots on Topeka ave., $425 ea.ch. See these and make tis an offer. Farms and city property for sale and exchange. THE SHELDON REAL ESTATE CO.. Ind. Tel. 1616. 819 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE: 4 room cottage and barn, all In good repair, on east 6th st. If sold soon, $1,100. M'QUARY, FIRESTONE WINGETT, Ind. Tel. 1644. 606 Kan. Ave. FOR SALE Or will trade for 6 room cot tage, a 6 room house, city and cistern water, good cellar, hall, 3 closets and bath, V-fc lots. Address or call 301 West ern ave. FOR SALE Choice grain and stock farm 12 miles from Topeka, S from R. R. sta tion; 480 ecres, 250 in cultivation, 65 acres wheat, 75 alfalfa. 20 clover, fine pasture, ample water, two dwellings, new barn and stock sheds. L. Van Hook, 16 Colum bian bldg., Topeka, or Valencia, Kas. FOR SALE No. 262 Wabash ave., Oak land. This fine home has 7 rooms, cel lar, well, fruit, shade, barn, 4 lots, a dwelling in good repair. Immediate pos session. A bargain at $1,500. P. C. MOORE, cor. Wabash and Indiana avenues. Oakland. Ind. tel, 3951. jjusnEssnAfCE WE SELL the genuine "Chase robes" and "Northern Ohio blankets." Call and see us. Prices reduced. G. F. WORLEY, 51S KANSAS AVE. MY magazine. "Investment for Profit," for Dec. (which I'll send free) is worth $10 a copy to any man who intends to in vest any money, however small; who has money invested unprofitably, or who can save $5 or more per month, but who has not learned the art of investing for profit. It demonstrates the real earning power of money the knowledge of financiers and bankers hide from the masses. It shows how to invest small sums and how to make them grow into fortunes -the actual possibilities of intelligent in vestments. It reveals the enormous profits bankers make and shows how one can make the same profits safely. It explains how stu pendous fortunes are made and why they are made how $1,000 grows to $22,000. To introduce my magazine, write me now. mention this paper, and I'll send it 'jr.s year free. KDITOR GftpOiP.T, 79 Jackson Bldg., Chicago. WILL buv list of names or mail order book buyers, also addresses of followers of cults, fads. etc. Give details. Royal Supply Co., 112 Monroe St., Chicago. WE SELL the genuine "Chase robes" and "Northern Ohio blankets." Call and see us. Prices reduced. G. F. WORLEY, 518 KANSAS AVE. WANTED Responsible man to manage branch office and depot for large coffee and spice company owning its own mills; salary up to $200 monthly and commis sions; references and investment of $1,000 required. Address Manager, 18 River st.. 1 Chicago. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. BARGAINS. 107 W. SIXTH ST. S. M. WOOD CO. DAWSON PIERSON. 110 E. SIXTH ST. REAL ESTATE, LOANS. INSURANCE. 600 KANSAS AVE. TOPEKA. KAN. MODERN COTTAGE. Attractive cottage, built about 3 years, having reception hall. 3 Jarsre living rooms. 2 bedrooms, complete bath with porcelain fixtures, pantry, cemented cel lar, gas and fixtures, hard wood finish, newly papered and in fine repair, large front and side porch, nearly 2 lots, east front, and in one of the best neighbor hoods on West side, walking distance of me state house ana Santa le offices; owner leaving state. Price $2,600. DAVIS. WELLCOME CO., Phones 1026. 107 W. Sixth St. HOVET. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE in large or small amounts on long or Bhort time, payable monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually, as desired. No delay; money ready when papers are signed and every reasonable accommoda tion extended. Frank S. Thomas, 601 Kan sas avenue. 'Phone 298. HOME MONEY! HOMB MONEY! TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE. Monthly, Quarterly, Seml-Annual or An nual Payments, or Straight 5 Years with Privilege of Payments. STATE SAVINGS BANK, 601 KANSAS AVE. MONEY TO LOAK on live stock, pianos, rrg&ns. typewriters, household goods sod personal security. L. Biscoe. 523 Kan. AUPAPER GO TO G. A. WOOD for that wall paper and paintlne. 32 Kansas ave. Tel. S80 1 rVr)KRTKERS. L. M. PENWELL. funeral director and enibalmer. First class service, reasona ble prices. Ell Qulncy st. Both 'phones Uil KALLITTIRTX PAUT.OR HAIR GOODS Mrs. M. L. Field, 819 Kan sas eve., with Swearinsen. the Jeweler. BARKER. SIK1P. D. a. JOHNSON, shave 10c; shampoo, hair cut, masiagc, 15c. to and Qulncr- STORACE. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER Sc ETORAOS Co.. packs, ships and stores household rood. TeL UA. Ciarenos Skinaar. CJ tjumcy st. AUCTION. C. M. CREWS, gen. auctioneer, auction Sth and Quincy. 123 E. 6th Phones 789. CLAIRVOYANT. THE old. reliable Mrs. Seering, reveals everything or no charee. 610 E. 5th at. TOPEKA FREE D18PEN8AKK. suuts- jist corner l2to and iyr to 3 p. m.. except Sundays. Conducted by regular practicing pbysiclitns lor tn benefit of persons without mesne W need medical attention ana iremmuv. tlents are assured of careful and consid erate treatment. Medicine furnished ia most cases. THE 3. C. DARLING CO.. 734 Kan. ave. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. Prices low. Catalog; free. Tel. MAJJrFACTTRKRS. E. G. KIN LEY. Manufacturer and dealer la all kinds o! vehicles. See us about that delivery wagon. IK W. 6th St. MACHINE SHOPS. ELECTRIC contracts; get prices o.t "Gol den Rule." Tel. 603. 603 Kansas ave. BICYCLES AI KKPAIRIVO. U. B. CYCLE CO.. IIS E. Sth St. National A Iver-Johnson bicycles, supplies, repairs. LEGAL. Published in The Topeka State Journal ijecemoei ad, Aavj.j ORDINANCE NO. 2644. AN ORDINANCE APFROVIMU ANJ adopting rules ana reguiaurns ior ina management of the system of water works of the city of Topeka, and es tablishing rates to consumers of water furnished by the water works depart ment of the city of Topeka. Be It Ordained by the Mayor and Coun- cilmen of the City or xopeKa: Section 1. That all rules and regulations for the management of the system of wa ter works of the city of Topeka, recom mended by the board of water works trustees of said city, are hereby approved and adopted by the mayor and council of the city of Topeka. Sec. 2. The following are hereby estab lished as the rates which consumers shall pay for water furnished them by the wa ter Works department of the city of To peka: SCHEDULE OF ANNUAL RATES. Bakery, each oven, from $10 to $20 OS Barber shop, first chair 5.00 Each additional chair ?.00 Bath, private, without heating appa ratus 3.00 Bath, private, with heating apparatus 5. 00 Bath, in hoarding or tenement house 5 i) Bath, public U.'jl Billiard hall, 1st table 5 00 Each additional table 2.00 Boarding house, per room l.oo But no license less than lo.m Book bindery 0.00 Brick work, per 1,000 (kiln measure..) .10 Brick yard, each gang of h inds 20 i 0 Candy manufactory, from $15 to 50.n0 Church, from $5 to 15 00 Church for baptistry, from $5 to 15.00 Cigar manufactory, per hand 1.00 But no license less than 5.il Club room from $25 to 0O.00 Concrete, per cubic j'ara.. 10 Confectionery, from $15 to 25.00 Cow 1.00 Dying and scouring, from $15 to 10. OU FIRE PROTECTION. STAND PIPE. (Meter Rates.) Forge, 1st one 3.00 Each additional forge 2.j0 Fouatain. for 6 months, running not more than 4 hours per day. spe cial or meter rates. Hall, from $5 to 3'V 00 Horse 260 Hose for private stable o.O Hose for livery or sale stable, me ter rates. Hose for washing pavements, per front foot 10 Hotel, per room, meter rates. Ice cream parlor, from $10 to 20. 'M) Laboratory, from $20 to 200.00 Laundry, meter rates. Livery stable, meter rates. Locomotives, meter rates. Office, from $5 to 20:00 Packing house, meter rates. Photograph gallery, from $3 to 30.';0 Plastering, per square yard 0 Residence, occupied by 1 family only, 1 to 4 rooms 5.vt Residence, occupied by 1 family orly, 5 to 6 rooms 6 00 Residence, occupied by 1 family only. 7 to 8 rooms 7.00 Residence, occupied by 1 family onlv. 9 to 10 rooms 8.00 Residence, occupied by 1 familv onlv, 11 to 12 rooms 9 )0 Residence, occupied by 1 family onlv, Residence, occupied by 1 familv nlv, 15 to 16 rooms 11.00 Residence, occupied by 1 familv onlv, 17 to 18 rooms 12.00 Residence, occupied by 1 family onlv, 19 to 20 rooms 13.09 Residence, occupied by 1 family onlv, with more rooms, in the same ratio. Charges the same for use of yard hv drants as if the pipes entered the building. Restaurants, from $15 to 50 00 Sale stable, meter rates. School, private, for every scholar o.i Shop, from $5 to 20.f0 Slaughter house, meter rates. SPRINKLING RATES. No license less than 5 (K) Sprinkling public gardens, mecjr rates. Sprinkling streets with sprinkling cart, per square, meter rates. Sprinkling to center of streets, side walks and washing fronts of busi ness streets, per front foot 15 Sprinkling lawns, when water is ta ken for lawn only, including front park, per front foot (season rate).. .20 When taken for house and lawn, in cluding front park ,55 Corner lots, with side park extra measured as extra front. Sprinkling through automatic means (sprinkler fixed supports, etc.), spe cial. Sprinkling streets in front of resi dences, special. Steam boilers, special or meter rates. Steam boilers, no license less thn.. lil.no Steam heating, private residences ,'nt Steam heating business bouses, $10 to 20.00 Stock yards, meter rates. Stone work, per perch 5c, or per cord, measured in wall 53 Stores, $5 to 2o'i O Tenement, per room "l (v But no license less than 5 (,j Tobacco manufactory, per hand..!! i'ijo But no license less than 51 Urinal basin, self-closing, from $3 to 1) 00 Urinal basin, private Vault for residence n tJ. Vault accommodating double ho ise each house 3 q,. Vault for tenement or boarding house, every 15 rooms r vehicle V,l Water closet, private S'J! Water closet, hotel, pPr bowl c 01 METER RATES. Per month 1 to gno cubic feet1!?' 801 to 1.600 cubic feet.. 1.601 to 2.400 cubic feet Ji0 2.4H1 to 3.2"0 cubic feet..' ?,,,c 3.201 to 4,000 cubic feet a 4,001 to 6.000 cubic feet 6,001 to 8.000 cubic feet 'i- -a 8,001 to 10.000 cubic feet ?n c 10.001 to 15.000 cubic feet.. 15.001 to 20,000 cubic feet .'r3 20,001 to 25,000 cubic feet 25.001 to 30,000 cubic feet ..-,,e 30.001 to 35,000 cubic feet "it 0 35,001 to 40.000 cubic feet 0 40.001 to 45.iioo cubic feet 5"; '5 45.001 to 50,000 cubic feet" i,a 50.001 to 55,0yO cubic feet 7 55.001 to 60,000 cubic feet 60.1X11 to xo.ooo cubic feet i-',jn 80,001 to 100.000 cubic feet i? c 100.001 to 120,000 cubic feet 120.000 cubic feet up Seven and one-half (7)' Baiion'i"Vn (1) cubic foot. gallons to 0113 No charge on meter rate sh-,n v. than 40 cents rer month be les: S.ftS-,Th's ordinance shall tpke e-,t and be in force from and after irs cation in the official citv paper r'"u Attest: I.H.ttU1"'-''

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