The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 21, 1907

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9 EVERYBODY 10 PAGES EVERYBODY 10 PAGES NEEDS IT. L it READS IT. i 'i h i I-AST EDITION. SAYS HPS CRAZY Keren Alienists Make Affidarit That Thaw Is Insane. One SwearsIIe Is Too Dangerous to Be at Large. CALL IT PARANOIA. Testify That He Knew He Was Shooting to Kill White And That It Was Something He Ought Not to Do. MR. DEL2IAS HAS QUIT. W ill HaTe Nothing to Do W ith Lunacy Commission. Will Appear Again if Jury Hearing Is Resumed. New York. March 21. The sever, alien ists employed by District Attorney Jer ome in the Thaw case today signed af fidavits for petition to Judge Fitzger ald in the argument this afternoon for the appointment of a commission in lunacy to examine Thaw. Six of the aliemists In thtir affidavits declared that Thaw was suffering from a form of paranoia, that he should not be dis charged from custody, that if he should be discharged he would be dangerous to public pece and safety and that It is reasonably certain that he will not re cover. The seventh alienist, Dr. Hirsch. agreed with his colleagues, except that he declared that Thaw cannot possibly recover. The document includes also an affida vit by Irving S. Cobb, a reporter, de scribing n note given to him a fe'.v weeks agj by Thaw in which Thaw commented upon his wife's testimony and upon the conduct of the prosecu tion. The affidavits are signed by Doc tors Flint. Mabon. MacDonald. Fritch ard. Ferris. Hirsch and DIffenderf. The alienists oeclared on their affi davits that Thaw knew the nature and duality of his act in shooting Stanford White. Together the affidavits make 22 printed pages. Dr. Carlos MacDonald in his affida vit declares: "After careful examination of the ex T-ibits and the hypothetical question, nnd the teotnraiox and affidavits of Mr. Crbb. and assuming" evidence stated in the case to be true, my personal obser vation in court during the trial and also including ceilarr1 observations that I made of the defendant in the library of the district attorney's office on June 27. 1906. I am or the opinion that the iefendant is now and for some time rast, has been suffering from a form of mental disease commonly known among men skilled in mental diseases as paranoia. Yet it is my opinion, based upon what has just been enum erated that when the defendant killed Stanford White, on June 25. 1906. he was then suffering from said mental disease, commonly known as paranoia, but that his then mental state was such that he knew the nature and quality of the act that he was doing and that it was wrong, namely, that he then snd there knew that he was discharg ing into the body of Stanford White, a londed revolver; that It was Stanford White into whose body he was dis charging a loaded revolver and that he then and there knew that such dis charging was likely to produce death and that he thn and there knew such act on his part was against the cur rent morality of the people of this state end in violation of law. "I am of the opinion, upon the facts above enumerated, that the mental dis ease commonly known as paranoia, from which the defendant was suffer in? on the niht of June 25. 1906. is a form of mental disease from which it is reasonably certain he will not re cover, and that the discharge of the paid Harry K. Thaw would be danger ous to public peace and safety, and that he should be committed to an in stitution for the insane. I am further of the opinion, on th facts above stat ed, that the said Harry K. Thaw is now and for sometime past has been In such a state of lunacy or insanity ns to be incapable of understanding the proceedings against him or mak ing his defense. Exhibit A, to which Dr. MacDonald a'iuded is the district attorney's hypo thetical question. Harry K. Thaw had a conference in the Tombs prison today with A. R. Pea bod v. of his counsel, over the ques tion whether Thaw should be permit ted to hear the argument over the ap pointment of a lunacy commission to Investigate his mental condition. Thaw wanted his counsel to assure him that h would be allowed to attend the hearing in court this afternoon, but Mr. Peabody did not promise him the desired permission. Thaw's counsel was said to be of the opinion that he ought not to hear the rruments. TTiaw's wife and his sister, the ftuntess of Yarmouth, also visited him today, and remained with him for aboit an hour. John B. Oieason of counsel for Thaw said today that Mr. Delmas is re-ponsible if a commission is ap pointed ns it was be who called Dr. Allen JlcLane Hamilton to the wit ness stand, "and told Mr. Jerome to go ahead and ask the witness any thing h wished to." Mr. Delmas said he would gladly nssumo all responsibility. Daniel O'Reilly of Thaw's counsel, said to day that Thaw's counsel had no doubt of being abie to convince the court or an insanity- commission of Thaw's sanity. He said that each one of the counsel would submit an affidavit to the effect that Thaw had been during the trial and is now capable of advis ing with his attorneys. PrcxTpdinfts In Court. All of the attorneys were in court this afternoon at the time set for fil ing affidavits, petitions, etc.. in sup port or denial of the district attorney's rugcrestion that Thaw is in no fit men tal state to be on trial for his life. Mr. Jerome brought the affidavits of his alienists to the effect that Thaw is iuffering from an Incurable form of axanoia, and at present is unable to THURSDAY EVENING. advise counsel and realize the nature of the proceedings against him. Justice Fitzgerald said that the. dis trict attorney having suggested that if tne real racts were known he would have no right to be trying Harry Thaw for his life, he was prepared to hear wnat either side had to offer. "Have you affidavits or testimony, Mr. District Attorney?" asked Jus tice Fitzgerald. "Both," replied Jerome. Mr. Delmas arose and said he had not been served with copies of the af fidavits prepared under the direction of the district attorney until 12:18 p m. today. In a matter of such impor tance he thought the defense should have more time to prepare Its answer. Jerome said he had served the copies of the affidavits on counsel at the earliest moment he possibly could. Harry Thaw was not allowed to come Into court during today's pro ceedings. Jerome said he would have to ask that Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton be orally examined, as the defense might desire to plead professional privilege In bar of his testimony. Dr. Hamilton having visited Thaw after the tragedy at the behest of his then counsel. Justice Fitzgerald said he would re ceive the affidavits the district attorney had prepared. These included the affi davit of Irwin S. Cobb, the newspaper man Thaw selected to give out his statement concerning the prosecution backed by black legs," at the conclus ion of his wife's cross examination by Mr. Jerome and the affidavits of the alienists who testified for the state. Among those expressing the opinion that Thaw is now and has for a long time been suffering from paranoia are Doctors Austin Flint, Carlos MacDon ald, William Mabon, A. R. Deiffendorf, Warren Ferris, William Hirsch and William B. Pritchard. Jerome Explains. After presenting his affidavits, Mr. Jerome said he wished to make his statement of his position In order to clear himself of any suspicion that he has been in possession of knowledge which had been withheld from the court. "Your honor may have gathered from my remarks of yesterday." said Jerome, "that it was my personal opinion that Thaw is and has for some time been of unsound mind." "I did so gather," interrupted the judge. "It has long been my personal opin ion," said Mr. Jerome, "that Thaw is of unsound mind. But the court did not want tny personal opinion. The court had to have something tangible before it could act. Likewise I was bound by my oath only to act when I had something to act upon. That opportunity was not presented until the defense called Dr. Hamilton to the stand. He is the one man who has the information which is of the utmost importance in determining the course of this proceeding. "As long ago as February 13 last Dr. Austin Flint, one of the state's alien ists, came to my office and told me that after watching Thaw in court everv day of the trial he was solemnly of the opinion that the defendant was not capable of instructing his counsel. I was much concerned, and with my aselsuwt and Doctors McDonald and Mahon held a long conference. I told the- alienists, who were of one accord. that they must hold their minds open." Thaw s counsel objected to a further examination cf Dr. Hamilton by Mr. Jerome and Justice Fitzgerald declin ed to allow the examination. The hearing was adjourned until to morrow morning when the jury will again be excused until Monday. Justice Fitzgerald allowed both sides until Saturday afternoon to present addition al affidavits. Delmas Retires. New York. March 21. That Jus tice Fitzgerald will appoint a commis sion in lunacy to inquire into the pres ent mental condition of Harry K. Thaw seems a foregone conclusion. He will hear argument of counsel on both sides of the famous case and he plain ly intimated yesterday that he would appoint a commission. That this com mission will find that Thaw is now in sane is the opinion of most of those who have closely followed the trial. That the attorneys for the defense will make a hard fight to prevent the judge from appointing the commission is probable. From the first the fight had been to secure an acquittal and it is not probable that it will be given up so long as there is the slightest chance that It may be successful. On the other hand. Mr. Jerome is convinced that Thaw is now Insane and he will fight as hard for the appointment of the commission. Today's session be ing informal, the rules of law and evi dence will not be enforced, and either eide may place before the court any evidence that it desires to show the montni condition of the defendant. The jury will not be present and the sole object of the proceedings is that the I judge may be Informed of all the facts in tne case, ana on mem ucliuc wnm er or not he will stop the trial until a leeal commission has decided whether Thaw is in such a condition as to per mit his case going to the jury. The law of New York state speci fies that the only insanity that can ex cuse a crme is a mental derangement which makes the person charged with a crime incapable of knowing the na ture or quality of his act when it is committed, and incapable of knowing that it Is wrong. This law, which is founded on an old English decision. Is far behind the times, according to alienists. Many a man. they say, has an overpowering impulse to commit a crime, an Impulse which he is unable to conquer, and which forces him to commit the crime, but if his mental state is such that he realizes that he is doing wrong the law does not take into account the Insane impulse which he is unable to overcome. An example of this was the case of Taylor, which was cited by District Attorney Jerome in his argument yes terday. Taylor was a paranoiac and committed "murder while suffering from a delusion. It was admitted that he was Insane, but the alienists would not swear that his insanity was of such a character that he did not know that his act was wrong. The appellate court also admitted that Taylor was without doubt insane, but that under the law his insanity was not of such a character that it excused his act, and he was executed. Another case In point is that of Aran Taschkian. an Armenian, who has just been transferred to the Dannemora hospital for the criminal Insane after ten days in Sing Sing prison, where he was sent on a conviction of murder in the second degree for killing his brother and cutting the Sony to pieces. Dr. Carlos McDonald ar.d Dr. Austin Flint, both of whom have been wit nesses for the prosecution In the Thaw case, testified as experts for the prose cution In the Tashkian case. Both were convinced that the Armenian was insane, but were not able to swear (Continued on Page Six.) MUST QUIT JULY I Old State .Hoard of Equalization Then Expires. New Commission Won't Take Charge for Ten Days. TAKE UP THE WORK. Tax Commissioners Mimt Equal- ize This dear's Taxes. Will Find the Task Only Half Completed. It has been discovered that the new assessment and taxation law puts the old state board of equalization out of business on July 1, which is 10 days before the law authorizes the old board to meet and equalize assess ments. It will therefore be necessary for the new state board of assessment and taxation to take up the work of equal izing this year's assessments, which everybody had supposed would all be finished before the new law went Into effect. The old state board of equalization Is composed of the state auditor, state treasurer and secretary or state. The law specifies that they shall -meet to equalize assessments on the second Wednesday in July, which falls on July 10 this year. When July 10 ar rives, there will be no state board of equalization, as at present constitu ted. It ceases to exist on July 1, and the state board of assessment and tax ation, composed of Samuel T. Howe. S. C. Crummer and James Humphrey uses us piace. It will be a difficult lob for the new ooara to take up the half-completed work of the old board and finish it. but that Is what it will have to do. The new law further complicates the situation by providing a lot of pre liminary steps which the board of as sessment and taxation must take be fore making the equalization. It will probably be utterly impossible for all these provisions of the new law to be complied with. The tangle Is almost as bad as that which confronted the state officers when they set about put ting the state depository law into op eration, two years ago. Looking for Quarters. A difficult task will be presented to the executive council of the state in finding suitable quarters for the new board of assessment and taxation. This board will need a spacious suite of offices, and it should also be located In close proximity to the offices of the state auditor and state treasurer, with which the board of assessment and taxation will be closely allied. It is possible that the board may be given the rooms now occupied by the state insurance department, and the insurance department be changed to some other part of the state house. It will be necessary to find quarters for the insurance department where there will will be a fireproof vault accessible. There would not be so much difficulty in finding rooms for the insurance commissioner If it were not for this requisite. The time seems to be rapidly ap proaching where the overcrowded con dition of the state house will make it necessary for the state to buy land and erect a suitable building adjacent to capitol square for the accommoda tion of the state historical society, state agricultural society, state horti cultural society, academy of science and Goss ornithological collection. Such a building has been talked of considerably of late years, and it is enly a question of time until it will have to be built All the available offices in the state house proper are being utilized by the rapidly growing business of the administrative offices of the state. Ilai I road Assessors to Meet Soon. The state board of railroad assessors will be called together about April 1 to make their regular assessment of the railroad property of the state. The reports from the various railroads are now coming in to the office of the state auditor. This will be the last meeting of the state board of railrad assessors. It will go out of business for keeps when tn new assessment and taxation law Koes into effect on July 1 HOT DAY IN MARCH. Mercury Reaches the 90 Degree Mark Today. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the tem perature in Topeka reached the 90 de gree mark. This mark lacks but one degree of being the hottest day which has ever been recorded in March. March 28. 1905, was the hottest day which March has even seen in Kan sas. However, before the sun sets this mark may be surpassed, as the temper ature was on the ascent at 2 o'clock. The discomfiture which is caused by the high temperature is also greatly augmented by a high wind of twenty one miles an hour from the southwest, which carries a great deal of dust and dirt in front of it. Even Secretary Co burn would find it hard at times to look across Kansas avenue when the dust is soughing at a lively gait. For tomorrow the prospects are not as encouraging as they might be. The same fair weather will continue, with a possible chance for the mercury to soar still higher. The following is a figurative account of a hot time in Topeka: 7 o'clock 65 I 11 o'clock SO o'clock 67 I 12 o'clock 84 o'clock. 72 I 1 o'clock 87 10 o'clock 76 2 o'clock 90 SMALLPOX AT WICHITA. Forty-Two Cases I"nder Quarantine In That City. Wichita, Kan.. March 21. Within three weeks forty-two cases of small pox have developed In the city. The disease is quite prevalent In the south ern part of the county. The county physicians quarantined seven houses while on one trip in that direction Monday. TOPEKA. KANSAS,- LIVE COALS LV TROISERS. Practical Joke by Fellow Club Mem ber May Result "ataHy. tt. Louis. Mo.. March 21. .Tnsenh Schindele, president of the Hamburger wiuo, is expected to die or injuries re sulting from a practical joke Dlaved upon him by a fellow club member.who pourea not coals into his trousers leg. xuree pnysicians are constantly attend ing him. The Bamburger club, an anti ua organization, was formed several months ago by Schindele. -One night Schindele fell asleep when winers were playing poker. One mem ber collected live coals on a shovel and poured them down Schindele's right trousers leg. several days later inflam matlon set in and blood noisonine fol lowed. Today his condition is critical, Mrs. schindele, his mother, complain ed to the police and the 1oker was ta. ken to her son's bedside. He burst into tears and asked forgiveness, offering to pay an expenses of medieal attention and nursing. HOPKINS WON'T QUIT. WiU Make Still Hunt Against Anthony at Primary. Though Dan Anthony's name is the only one to appear on the official ballot as printed for the First congressiona primary on March 29. it is claimed that a sly movement -is on foot to write In the name of John S. Hopkins Dy those opposed to the nomination of Anthony. Though friends of Honkins would be inclined to do this anyway, it is stated that plan is one hatched on generous proportions and includes not only tne trlends of Hopkins but sev eral of the other candidates who have withdrawn as well. tsrieny. Anthony partisans are scenting a plot that partakes of combination and are preparing for it so that they may not be surprised if tneir suspicions prove correct. An thony will meet the executive com mittee of the Shawnee Republican central committee at the Copeland this evening. The meeting is called for the purpose of fixing the polling places both in the city and the townships in me county. Since there is no well founded op position to Anthony, the polling places will not be held in every precinct in the city. The plan which will receive the approval of the committee pro vides that one polling place shall be fixed in each ward where it will be accessible to all. On this account and the fact that no other issue is up the vote will probably be very light. John S. Hopkins resents the story that is being circulated that he is not in the race just because he has not paid his assessment. He announces that he is campaigning the district and making speeches in the interest cf his nomination. He was at-Atcnison last evening and has already visitet Lan caster, Effingham, etc. Hopkins would like to arrange for a debate with Anthony, the idea back of It being an exposition of tiie reasons why each man solicits support yfor the nomination. There Is not much ex pectation, however, that any arrange ment of the sort will come to pass. TAYLOR ON THE MOVE. Goes to Horton to Interest People In His Proposed Xew Road. W. L. Taylor, chairman of the trans portatlon committee of the Topeka Commercial club, left for the norths eastern section of the state this morn ing where he will work in the interests of the proposed railway extension north of Topeka which will bring a direct line through Topeka from Omana to the gulf. This afternoon he is In conculta tion with the commercial club of Hor ton and this evening he will drive to Willis where he will address a meeting. Willis is the town in Brown county where the proposed extension will con ncct with the line of the Missouri Fa cific from Omaha to Kansai Jity. He will return to Topeka tomorrow. IN WESTERN LEAGUE. Official Confirmation of the Fact Re ceived Today. After several weeks of waiting the anxious baseball fans can now rest as sured that Topeka will be in the West ern league. What is considered as good as official sanction of the draft of Topeka reached the management of the Topeka team today. The contracts for the new play ers which were signed up last week were sent to Farrell and today they came back approving the contracts of the players with "The Topeka Western League Team." This action is consid ered all that is necessary to confirm the sale to the Western league. GROWING BURDENSOME George Gould Says Bill For Labor Is Hard to Carry. New York, March 21. In his annual report to the stockholders of the Texas and Pacific railroad yesterday President. George J. Gould pointed out that of the increase $1,664,757 in operating expenses, 64 per cent represented the increased cost of labor and of fuel. Mr. Gould added that the labor question in the southwest continues to present a ser ious problem as it does all over the country and that the demands of labor are growing a burden, which it is diffi cult to carry from year to year. WAS SICK FOR MONTHS Decth of General Wint Caused Surprise at Washington. So Washington. March 21. The news of General Wint's death was not a surprise to his fellow officers in Washington for he had been In ill health for many months past. Philadephia. March 21. General Wint's death was due to heart disease. He came to this city and entered the Presbyterian hospital for treatment, but later engaged apartments at a hotel where he was attended by a heart specialist- MARCH 21, 1907. WANT NO BOTCH. Rebuilding: East Steps of Capitol Is in Doubt. Ten Thousand Appropriated May Not Be Enough. MB. FAIRCHILD'S IDEA Wants Work Done on Plan of North Entrance. Would Waft for Action of Next Legislature. Ten thousand dollars was approprl ated at the last session of the legisla ture with which to rebuild the east steps of the state capitol, replacing the crumbling limestone steps with quarry granite. The question now arises. Does the state want these steps rebuilt on the present design. Several of the members of the exec utive council, who will have charge of me expenaiture ol the $10,000. think that the steps should be reconstructed with broad, massive entrance such as adorns the north and south wines, in stead of being simply rebuilt on the present plan of a direct stairway up to tne main entrance. But to rebuild the old steps on the new plan would cost a good deal more than $10,000. The estimate of $10,000 was made by State Architect Stanton on the basis of simply replacing the existing steps with granite steps. If the executive council comes to the con ciusion tnat tne more elaborate en trance should be constructed, the $10.- 000 appropriated may be turned back into the treasury, and the next legisla ture requested to increase the allow ance. There is a radical difference of opin ion about the advisability of changing the present plan of the entrance. The state architect, who made the estimate on the cost of replacing the present steps with granite, is inclined to the opinion that architecturally the present plan of steps is more suitable. E. T. Fairchild. state superintendent of education, is a strong convert to the other view of the case. 'In my opinion." he said this morn ing, "the north entrance to the state house is one of the most massive and altogether pleasing architectural effects in the country. It seems to me that in reconstructing the east steps we should follow that plan of construction as far as possible. The present steps are cer tainly not very handsome and I believe that while we are rebuilding them, we should do it right. It will probably cost more than $10,000, and if so, we had better wait a couple of years for the next legislature to make an appropria tion large enough to do the work pro perly. 1 The executive council will probaniv take up the matter of advertising for bids on the construction of the new- steps as soon as the plans can be pre pared by the state architect. The material to he used, accoraing to the state architects plan. Is "quarry granite." This Is. the granite taken di rect from the underground strata of granite. The north and south steps are made of surface or boulder granite, which is less expensive. PRESIDENT'S PLANS. After Trips West and to Jamestown He Will Go to Oyster Bay. Washington. March 21. President Roosevelt will establish a summer capi tal at Oyster Bay some time between June 20 and 25. He will open the Jamestown exposi tion April 26 and will attend again on Georgia Day in May. He will be in ndianaoolis Decoiation Day to attend the unveiling of the statue -of General Lawton and on May 31 he will deliver an address at the agricultural college at Lansing, Mich. Alexander Cummlng, president of the Yale Political club, invited him to de liver an address before its members, but he said his engagements would not permit. BIG JOB AHEAD. Senator Stone Thinks We May Have to Whip Japan. Kansas City. Mo.. March 21. United States Senator William J. Stone, In the course of a speech last night at the monthly dinner of the Knife and Fork club said: If we are ever to nave seritous trou ble with any nation It will be with apan. Japan wants tne Philippines. am not sure wnetner it would not De best for all concerned if she should get them, but one thing Is certain, and that is that she will never get them with our consent. But we may have trouble in keeping them. Japan would seize the archipelago in a week and we could only send over a big enough fleet to wipe Japan from the sea. That ould be a huge and costly task." SIX MONTHS IN JAIL. Omaha Coal Trnst Head Is Sentenced for Conspiracy. Omaha. March 21 S. E. Howell, pres ident of the Omaha Coal exchange, was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and serve six months in the county Jail for onspiracy in restraint of trade. Howell and fifty other members or the coal exchange were indicted last fall by the county grand jury on the allegation of maintaining a trust, to fix and con trol prices on coal. The case is appealed to the supreme court. Warships to Run by Gas. London, March 21. The prediction was made in an addres before the In stitution of Naval Architects, that war ships in the future would be propelled by gas engines Instead of by steam. This, it was stated, would make it possible to do away with funnels so that all of the big guns could be fired through a much greater arc than at present.. Under the new order boilers will also disappear. THURSDAY EVENING. W. J. STAGG AFTER IT. Wants to Be Secretary of the Tax Commission. W. J. Stagg of Topeka is after the Job of secretary for the state tax commis sion. He has invoked the "old soldier preference Jaw" in his behalf, and stands a good show of landing the place. Mr. Stag Is an expert accountant. Mr. Stagg says in his letter of application: "First Upon my experience and qualifications. "Second Upon the fact that I am a veteran of the civil war having served in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-second regiment, Indiana Volunteer infantry and hold an honorable dis charge therefrom. I have resided in Topeka, Kan., since 1866 and am in good physical health. I can perform, well, the duties of the position sought. This application is made under the sol diers' and sailors' preference law as amended by house bill No. 33, approved February 9, 1907." The leading candidate against Stagg is D. Y. Wilson, of Belleville. Mr. Wil son was chief clerk of the house of rep resentatives, and has a good record. "BIG FELLOW" IS NAMED Supervisor Lonergan Says Gallagher Distributed Bribe Money. San Francisco, Cal., March 21. The grand jury met at 10 o'clock this morning and resumed Its investigation of the alleged telephone graft. Assis tant District Attorney Heney and Se cret Service Agent Burns were present and interrogated employes of the Pa cific States Telephone Telegraph company which have been summoned to appear before the inquisitorial body. Although 27 Indictments have already been secured in connection with the granting of a bill of $25,000 and the alleged payment to the su pervisors of $62,000 for a franchise said to be worth $1,000,000 to the home company in the attempt on the part of the Pacific company to pre vent the advent of competition in this city, Burnp has declared that the probing of the telephone scandal has but commenced. The nature of the secret indict ments, which were withheld yester day, is being closely guarded by Heney and Burns but It is rumored that a telephone official is among those named In the true bill. In an interview published this morning. Supervisor Thomas Lonergan was quoted as saying that he never had any direct dealings with Ruef in the matter of bribes but received the money from Supervisor James L. Gal lagher who distributed the alleged bribe funds to the board and was known as the "big fellow." Lonergan declared that much of the money he had received in this manner was lost when his home was destroyed during the disaster last April. That the alleged corrupt city fath ers will be removed if they do not re sist Is practically admitted by Dis trict Attorney Langdon, but just -what steps will be taken and when, has not yet been decided. Heney, Burns and Langdon have been too busy present ing evidence to the grand jury to con sider the method of .procedure by which the supervisors may be moved. re- SANTA FE WINS. Given Preference for $57,000 Against Devlin Estate. The Santa I'e has been declared a preferred creditor of the Devlin estate to the extent of $57,000 under a decision just handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals reversing the opinion of Judge Pollock of the United States distilct cot rt and jn. H. Loomis, pecial referee in bankruptcy. The Santa t e advanced the Mount Carmel Coal company, a Devlin cor poration, $57,000 to pay the men em ployed by the company just prior to the Devlin failure. The contract entered nto at the time between the two par ties provided that in lieu of the money the Mount Carmel Coal company should supply the Santa Fe with coal. When the trustees took charge of the estate and Included in this, the Mount Carmel Coal company, they re fused to continue this contract and consider the claim a preferred one. Action was brought against the trus tees by the Santa Fe to force them to make such a preference before the special referee and also In the United States district court. In both instances the decision went against the railroad. An appeal was taken to the higher court with the" above result. The negotiations for the disposal of the securities cf the First National bank in a lump to Chicago parties have not yet been entirely broken off. Receiver James T. Bradley and the Chi cago firm have been unsuccessful in securing any agreement but It is still hoped that the deal may go through. Mr. Bradley stated today that the probabilities favored the continuation of the receivership through the sum mer. FOR MILEAGE BOOKS They Will Be Ready for Public May 1. It has been decided by the railroads that the new mileage books required under the mileage book law enacted at the recent session of the legislature will be put on sale May 1. W. R. Smith, general attorney, and J. M. Conneli, general passenger agent of the Santa Fe, called upon, the state board of rail road commissioners yesterday, and ex plained that some little time will be re quired to have the tickets lithographed, and arrangements made for a clearing house for the interchangeable books. The board decided to allow the rail roads until May 1 to complete these ar rangements. Until that time, the peo ple of Kansas will either have to pay the full 3 cent fare or get a political free pass from some friend. Drowned In tho Breakers. Santa Monica. Cal., March 21. While bathing in the surf at Ocean Park yesterday, C. K.' McClure, who recently came with his family from Minnesota, was seized with a cramp and was drowned In the breakers. The body was recovered. Weather Indications. Chicago. March 21 Forecast for Kan sas: Generally fair tonight and Friday; continued high temperature.. TWO CENTS. BURT0NF0UND IT. People Concerned in His Pros ecution Ail Adranced. Has Had Jielatires Looking Up the Facts. AT ROOSEVELT'S DOOR. Charges That President Was Personally Interested. Mr. llooserelt W ill Admit That This Is True. Washington, March 21. Either in his speech In Abilene, Kan., or in the special story he intends to run in his weekly newspaper, ex-Senator Burton, who will be released from Jail Satur day, will present an analysis of the ap pointments and methods of Theodora Roosevelt. Since the announcement wa made that tho ex-senator, whose term of service at Ironton is about to expire, would deliver a speech at Abi lene, his home town. It has become known that on several occasions he caused relatives to seek information In Washington regarding the presi dent's appointments. It has always been Burton s conten tion that he has been persecuted by the president, and one of the pet theories of the convicted senator has been that the president sought to se cure the support of Justice Harlan by appointing his son to office. When the announcement of James S. Harlan's name for member of the Interstate commerce commission was announced one of Burton's relatives immediately began to seek information concerning it. It has long been gossip among Bur ton's friends that he could never bo persuaded that the president did not influence the supreme court in its de cision, and it Is said that he will make this direct charge in his Abilen speech. If Burton should attempt to show that the president has been concerned in securing his conviction he will not find it a difficult undertaking. The president himself will not deny it. A chain of circumstances will supply him with a plausible story. He will be able to show that almost everybody who interested himself In the prosecution of Burton has received a promotion from the present administration. The judge before whom he was con victed has been promoted from the dis- trict to the circuit bench. Colonel D. P. Dyer, the United States district attor ney who prosecuted Burton, has Just been appointed district Judge in St. Louis. Mr. Robb, ex-assistant attorney general, who assisted in Burton's pros- r ecutlon, has been elevated to the su preme bench of the District of Colum bia. The chief postoffice' inspector at' the time Burton was indicted and th man who followed the case most close-, iy, William E. Cochran, has been made I purchasing agent for the postoffice de partment at an increased salary. Sev eral of the postoffice inspectors who worked on the case have been advanced. These things probably have convinced Burton that the one over-shadowing de sire of the president was to convict him of some crime. The cne particular Indi vidual however, whom Burton and hh friends most thoroughly hate is Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster general at the time of his indictment. BrlFtow was never advanced, but Robert J. Wynne, at the time first as- sistant postmaster general, was made postmaster general and still later mada consul general to London. These pro motions ought to furnish a plausible orator with quite a theme for exploita tion. However energetically the forces of the administration may have entered upon the prosecution of Burton, It should not be forgotten that the man who first furnished th evidence In the case was not a federal officer, but the present governor of Missouri. Joseph W. Folk. In a raid on the St. Louis "get-rich-quick" concerns, the Burton letters were first obtained. They passed into the possession of Folk and were by him turned over to the federal authorities. Long before this, however. Burton and the president were at outs. There has never been any concealment on the president's part that he insisted upon a most vigorous prosecution of Burton. PRINTERS LOSE. And Street Car Men Win in Butte, Montana. Strikes. Butte, Mont., March 21. Nothing defi nite has yet developed in the newspaper situation, though It is admitted by some of the members of the Typographical union that the printers have lost their fight with the publishers and that they have been ordered by the International Typographical union to return to work on the terms demanded by the publish ers. The printers were in session dur ing yesterday and after a long discus sion adjournment was taken until this evening, when John Baker, district or ganizer, sent here by President Lynch of the I. T. U. will give out a state ment. It seems practically settled that the printers are to return to work at the old scale in effect prior to May 31, 1906. It Is probable that the newspapers will resume publication early next week, or as eoon as the necessary operating forces can be gotten together. The street car situation was cleared up last night by the street 'railway company giving in to the workingmen's union and agreeing to pay the scale of $3.50 per day. ROLLED 200 FEET. Engine and Tender Tumbled Down an Embankment at a Curve. Antonita. Col., March 21. East bound Denver Rio Grande passen ger train No. 116, left the track at a curve between Osier and Toltec gorge. 30 miles west of here last night. Thir ty-five passengers had a miraculous escape from death. The engine and tender rolled down an embankment .two hundred feet to the bottom of a chasm. All the coaches left the track, several turning completely over and the rest alighting on their sides.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTRNAIr-THUBgDy jSinG, MARCH 21, 1907. M'GRAW PUZZLED Who Will Corer Second Base Is Bothersomo" Problem. Young Infielder Hannifin Hammering the Ball. Is YERY FAST SHORTSTOP For Three V ears Kan ked In the Nutmeg League. Corcoran, Shaj and JIuIlin Are Other Aspirants. Chicago, March 21. According to re ports from the Giants' training camp, at Los -Angeles, the question of who will cover second base for the Giants hag 'not been decided by Manager Mc CJraw. A tew days ago it was report ed that Jack Hannifin, the young in tielder McGraw secured last fall from the New Haven club, of the Connecti cut League, would be .farmed out to the is'ewark Eastern League team. Since thet- Hannifin has .been clouting the ball at the rate of two, three and four hits a game, and he looked very sweet to McGraw as a batsman. There never vai any doubt as- to Hannlfln's ability as an infielder. For three -years he ranked, as the best shortstop in the Nutmeg State league. He also did good work as a second baseman. When Hannifin Joined the Giants last fall. McGraw gave him several chances to play. After shaking off the natural stage fright a young player goes through when he gets into fast com pany, Hannifin did seme work that made a hit with the fans. He is a pood man on ground balls and has an arm of -iron. He lines the ball across the diamond like a rifle shot. Hannifin, Tommy Corcoran, Danny Shay and Mike Mullin are now in the running for Billy Gilbert's old job at second -base. Hannifin is the youngest player of the quartet. Concoran has Bpent many years at shortstop and has also done considerable work around second base.. Danny Shay has played rhort and second since he has been In baseball and Mvliin has covered sec ond for the Manhattan college team, the Athletics, Washington and Balti more. Frank Burke, who came to the Gi ants with Hannifin from the New Ha ven club, led the Connecticut League In batting last season with the tine percentage cf .340. Hr-took part in the outfield, playing in .115 -games. BurKO has been murdering the ball in the practice games oh the coast. No man with the team has done any better stick work. McGraw figures that if Mike Donlin continues to hold out for that $600 raise that Burke will be a pood man tc have around as substitute outfielder, if h doesn't work his way in as a regular member of the team. Burke was formerly a catcher. He caught Ed Walsh, of the world's cham nion White Sox. when that noted spit- ball artist pitched his first .professional game. It was played In the mining regions of Pennsylvania and Burke and .Walsh were each playing for 45 a month. Before Joining the New Haven team Burke caught for the Hoboken semiprof 3Es;onal team and the Meriden Connecticut League team. not In position to pay the salary that the New York club, is after winning- a championship and running' one, two. But as long as I have a contract calling for, the big money: I am entitled to it. or else should be given my ten days' release. Then I would be free to sign anywhere."-1 Mertes looks thin in the face and has discarded all of the fat he carried dur ing his last year with McGraw. He' Is fit to play .a fast game of ball as ever in his career, and if he has retained his hitting eye after last year's slump, Bos ton is expected to have a strong recruit for her outer gardens. PITCHER FROM WICHITA. NEWOOTNERY Plant Being Installed by New Yorkers at' Pern. Deal lias lieen Closed to Utilize the Glass Works.! r DAILY 1,000 BARRELS They Claim They Will Make Commercial Turpentine. 1,200 Barrels Crude Oil, Indianapolis Releases Ono of Their Twlrlers to Kansas. Wichita, Kan., March 21. The Beacon says: There is a possibility that Pitcher From will nlav with the local team again this season. Manager Holland A ISO 1,000 Barrels OluaSfrOtU received wora irom tne management ui the Indianapolis team In the American association this morning that "the pro position pitcher" had been released to the Wiehita club. Although he has nothing against Wichita or the Jobbers' management. From does not wish to return to this city. He wants to play with a team far ther east In order that he will be nearer his family, who reside in Plymouth, Ohio. President Breese and Manager Hol land sent From's contract to him. It was acompanied by a letter telling the Indianapolis twirler that he need not report here this season, if he could trade himself to some club for a good catcher, or could purchase his release for the same price the local management paid the Indiana team for him. Manager Holland said this morning: "It Is possible that From will pitch for us but we have granted him permission to negotiate some kind of a trade for a catcher, which will give us a good backstop and will allow him to play farther east as he desires." From was considered es good a pitch er as ever wore a Wichita uniform. Be sides having twirling ability he was a fine batter and fielder. He is a ball player, of whom -there are many, who could make good in high company if given a chance. From has never had the opportunity to show what kind of timber he is made of. SIGN WITH MEXICAN TEAM. MERTES TO SEE HERRMANN. Has Claim Aeainst St. Louis Club on His 19frT-Contract. Chicago, March, 21.-Sandow Mertes, outfielder, has gone to St. Louis to lay his baseball case before Garry Herr mann of the National baseball commis sion. Mertes left the New York Giants to go with the Cardinals in St. Louis. He displays a personal letter signed by the leading official of the club, which agrees that his salary for 1907 shall not be cut below that of the 1906 contract, which was $4,000. When St. Louis sold him to Boston, George Dovey sent Mer tes a contract calling for J2,400. a little over a 50 per cent cut. Mertes says: "I'm willing to play, in Boston and I'm willing to acknowledge that Boston is Free Hair Remedy Qnlckly Removes Dandruff, Stops Falling Hair and Itching Scalp, Changes Gray or Faded Hair to Its' Natural Color. Grows New Hair. TRY A FREE PACKAGE AT ONCE A lis i JryL" Erv V Nothing Quite So Nice as a Beautiful Head of Hair. Remember, Foso actually grows hair, stops hair falling out. removes dandruff: Insures a new growth of eyebrows and eyelashes, and changes gray or faded hair to its natural color. I don't ask you to take my word for it. Fill out free cou pon below and mail today. Altrock and Hart Will Play Ball There Next Winter. Chicago. March 21. Nick Altrock and Hub Hart next winter will don sombreros, talk Spanish and wear red sashes. That was the conclusion which local fans drew when it was learned that the pair had signed with Manager Byrne of .one of th-s Mexico City teams for a. winter, term, cf ser vice. The Chicago American leaguers were billed to arrive in San Antonio at noon Tuesday, .wnile half of the team stops off there with President Conii&key for exhibitor! games, while tlie i est of the biz parly proceeds to N-ff Orleans. Sedan. Kan., March 21. The little town of Peru, in Chautauqua county, is to have a real refinery.- Recently Peru took the two supply stores away from &eaan ana now it is to become a tenn lng point. A number of New York gen tlemen came out to Kansas City to build a refinery. There H. E. West ran across them and -invited them down to Peru. A deal was closed for. 'the "old glass works end at the present time workmen are engaged in installing ma chinery for a refinery. Mr. West prom ises to see that the plant has enough crude oil to run it. At first only about 40 barrels of oil a day will be used. it is the intention of the company to "show" the New York investors what can be done before starting out on a big scale. Chemist Turner, who with Mr. Speer, is on the ground, it is stated, claims to be able to make a commercial turpen tine of crude oil and also by taking oxygen from water to be-able by a cer- tain mixture to make 1,200 barrels' of gas from 1,000 barrels of-crude, oil, and he wants to demonstrate this before any vast Investment Is made. It Is stated that Mr. Turner was eighteen months getting his patents perfected in Washington. So carefully have the arrangements for this plant been carried on that this is the first announcement to the public. SCHNECK STILL IN JAIL. IS AFTER PITCHER M'GILlj. He President Hedges Finds That Doesn't Play Sunday Ball. Austin, Texas, March 21. President Hedges of the St. Louis Browns is after Pitcher McGill and txpects to have on understanding with him in a few ".ays. McGill has accepted terms, but he is not certain as to whether l.e cares to continue playing taseball. He Is a uni versity boy and does not play on jrfun- There Are No New Developments In Centropolis Murder Case. Ottawa. Kan., March 21. Frank Schneck, arrested on the suspicion that he was connected with the mys terious death of his wife and two chil dren at Centropolis recently, is still in the county Jail. He is being held on the charge of embezzlement of prop erty. Sheriff Ccday said today that Schneck will be held until his examin ation, when the question of bail will come up. Schneck, it is understood hopes to arrange for a bond. There are no new developments in the Centropolis murder case," said the sheriff. "We have obtained a great deal of new information, but it is all of minor Importance and there has been no direct evidence to implicate anyone in the crime so far brought to light." A TWO MILLION GAS WELbi Highlanders May Get "Tj Cobb. New York... March 21. "Ty" Cobb. the young outfielder whom Manager Armour developed Into one of the greatesr hitting youngsters last season, may shortly become i Highlander. Word was received here from Atlanta to the effect that a trade is beinsr en gineered in which Cobb will be sent to Naw York. His acquisition by Gi'jf- the 16 Drillers Think They Have Struck It Rich at Emporia. Iola, Kan., March 21. A small flow of oil has been struck' at the deep well and the drillers are now piercing the gas sand. The flow of oil although very good, will not prevent the work from continuing as rapidly as possible. The drillers expect to get a two million gas well. Then the flow of gas will be shut off by casing ana tne work will continue as before. The fact that the drillers have reached a depth of 850 feet carrying inch hole is remarkable. In fin would materially strengthen ;he outfield of the Highlanders. Lucky Dog Is Burned to Death. Memphis,' Tenn.. March 21. The thor oughbred stallion Lucky Dog, by imp. Darebln, donated by G. C. Bennett re cently to Governor Vardaman for breed ing purposes in the Mississippi bureau, was burned to death during a fire which destroyed stables at Oakley farm in Mississippi. Lucky Dog had been rescued, but broke from his groom and dashed back Into the building. most wells in this country the sides have caved in long before this time. Good fortune seems to favor the work regardless of the fact that it looked for a time as if luck was against it. MANY CHICKENS DYING. the conductor and O. J. Silverwood. principal of the Newton high school, D.- E. Conner,, principal of the Burrton schools, and Bennett Grove, principal of the McKinley' school in Newton, will be the" instructors. The Institute will close with the examinations for teachers' certificates, which will -beheld on Friday, June 28. HE SUES 1IIE DOCTORS. -ii-r George Fouch of Columbus Thinks He Was Wrongfully Treated. Pittsburg, Kan., March 21. George Fouch of Columbus is today, through his attorneys, Oyler Barnes, In the district court of Crawford, county, suing Drs. M0 berg Gibbs, physicians .at Mt. Carmel hospital of Pittsburg for the sum of $15.'JJ0. Mr. Fouch was injured about the first of last -May bv fnlllna- from a ladder while working for the powder works near Co lumous. i t e was taken to tne Alounc Ajar mel hospital tor treatment. He suffered a complete fracture of the thigh bone, which he claims in his-petition, that the doctors failed to locate and reduce in the five days that he remained there. It was necessary for him to leave the hospital and go to LoiumDus tor succesrui treatment, 'tno fact that he had to wait so long for treat-: meet caused his left leg and left hiD tc be permanently, injured, for which he asks J10.000, and JS.00O for m RAIIlROAD NEWS Actions, of Santa, Fe Indicate an JExnectatioiV of Strike.: Are Breaking In ''Students", for JBrakemen and Conductors. opfku is m:j:cTED. mental distress. DEATH SAVED KANSAS INTEREST Frank B. Lawrence, Who Sold Land to I lUversity, Dead In Philadelphia. Lawrence, Kan., March 21. Word has been received in this city of the death of Frank B. Lawrence in Phil adelphia. Lawrence was a nephew of ex-Governor-Robinson and was deed ed forty acres of land adjoining the university by his uncle. When the regents wanted the land he gave them terr acres, provided they would buy the remaining thirty acres for $10,000, the state to pay him 6 cent interest' upon the amount as long as he lived. The agreement was made. but the state had to pay interest bnly three years. A Kansas Farmer Accidentally Shot. McPherSon. Kan., March 21. Paul Mugler, an old settler of McPherson county, was found dead from a gun shot wound last night near his home. seven miles southeast of McPherson.. Mr. Mugler had taken his shotgun and gone rabbit .hunting. The coroner s Jury brought In a verdict of acciden tal shooting. -.Mr. Mugler was 69 years old and a native of Germany.. HARPSTER S NEW TRIAL Employes liefase to Accept Compromise Increase. Other Items of 5 Interest to .Hail road People. Confession Of Dying Man May Free a Convicted Murderer Cholera Is Carrying Off the Poultry Around Council Grove. Reports are coming in that chickens are dying with cholera, some having lost more than a hundred chickens in the last few days. vvnen a cnicKen nas tne cnoiera there is probably no cure, but most any cholera remedy handled by all druggists will prevent other chickens New York Man Taken l"rom PprHmie f rem taking the disease. Instead of ieeaing corn muie gruuuu iwuu snuuiu be used, and a change from the old chicken coops and yards should be made. Council Grove Appeal. IMPRISONED OX CLIFF LEDGE. Position on Catalina Island. Los Angeles, Cat, March 20. Tmnris. oned for two days and two nights on a narrow ledge of crumbling rock on Catalina island, and unable to com municate his danger to boating parties aiiuosi wiimn sound or nis voice, E. L. Sand, a tourist from Ardslev-on-the- THE INSTITUTE AT NEWTON. Harvey County Normal Will Be Held in June. Newton, Kan., March 21. County iiuason jsew York, was rescued by a Superintendent E. C. Willis has com. J i ii in tx tiiiiui Lion n n- i i i ,i he a rpanwmprrs inr I t-tar- proaching collapse. v-v -olintv Institute, which will open fllmttlnt J 1 1 viuiiuuio uuii me lace or tnA r itr in Tjo-t Mnnria-v nine a lo bathe at tne mouth of n unfre quented canon. Sand found himself un able to retrace his st?ps because of the crumbling character of the rock above. During the hours of daylight hnatlnir vxi Lies weie ajiiiust constantly in sight, but his predicament was not observed ana ne remained unrescued until today. DISCUSSED THE KOEHLER CASE. Superintendent D. F. Shirk will be Secretary Taft and Senator Lonj Hold a Conference The Decision Soon. FREE PACKAGE COUPON. Fill in your name and address on dotted lines below and mail it to J. F. Stokes, Mgr., 7032, Foso bldg., Cincin nati. O., and by return mail you will receive prepaid a free 10 cent trial package that will delight you. Give fun address write plainly. Washington. March 21. Secretary- Taft and Senator Lon discussed the case of Captain Louis Koehler with President Roosevelt yesterday. Later Mr. Taft said that the president would take action today or Fridav on th findings of the court martial that tried Captain Koehler. President Roose velt has not given any intimation as to now ne win aispose of the case. captain Koehler, Fourth cavai was tried on a charge of usinr disre spectful language concerning Major General Wood after havinar been repri manded by order of a Philippines court martial. He is a brother-in-law of D. R. Anthony. MISS RUSSELL TO SELL HOME. When "Barbara's Millions" Failed the Actress Guessed She'd Sell. New York, March 21. The Fifth ave nue real estate firms are advertising for sale -Lillian Russell's three-story brick house at 161 West Fifty-seventh street. Miss Russell bought it from Mrs. Mary A. Frultnight for $61,000 April 1, 1903 and has since lived there while in New York. When "Barbara's Millions" failed last fall and Miss -Russell started west with "The Butterfly," she announced that she "guessed she'd sell her home 'The Butterfly" is now in Missouri. A price of (70,000 la set on the house. NATURE'S WARNING Topoka People Must Recognize and Heed It. v. Kidney Ills come ..quietly mysteri ously. But nature always warns you through the urine. Notice the kidney secretions. See if the color is'unriealthy If there are settlings and sediment. Passages too frequent, scanty, pain ful. It's time then to use Doan's Kidney Pills, To ward off Bri"ht's disease or dia betes. Doan's have done exeat work in To peka. George Hanley, 1015 Tavlor street. Topeka, Kansas, says: "Six years ago. or in the spring of 1899, Doan's Kid ney Pills brought me such great rolief that I was sriad to tell the people of Topeka what means to employ if they suffered from weak or overtaxed kid neys. In my statement I said that for two years or more I had a slight kid ney disorder which at. times was quite annoying. There was not much back ache, but the kidney secretions were disordered, too frequent in action, and at times accompanied with pain. The use of Doan's Kidney Pills quickly cured me and left no unpleasant after effects. I have no inclination to re tract anything I said, but Instead can add that the cure then effected has remained complete. Not a trace of the complaints has eyer returned. It af fords me pleasure to recommend a remedy of such sterling merit as Doan's Kidney Pills." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. 1 Newklrk. O. T., March 21. The jury in the case, of Al Harpster, now on trial for the murder of. Martin JuHan, has been secured, and the introduction of testimony commenced by the prose cution. The first witness called was Delia Lewis, the girl who. was with Julian on -the night-he was shot and killed. She told the same story that she told at the former trial a. year ago. Mrs. Abel, who lived east of Ponca City, and to whose house the Lewis girl drove with Julian after the shoot- ng, was on thestand and told of Jul ian's death at. her home. J. F. Snyder, owner of the nca City hotel, where Harpster made ,iis home, was on, the stand -this afternoon. .'r; He has already served neariyia year in the penitentiary at Lansing,-' Kan., nd had almost given up hope- of ever hplnf fri.. tvivn fVirmrcrh hthc 1.1 clemency, whii Ate ..dying coBfssipri, of a, man- claiming' to bej" the real mur'.-,; derer was-, presented to .the -governor'. f Oklahoma, .and his release secured from the trial court. v Following his conviction In the dis trict court here he was sentenced to serve ninety-nine. years In the peniten tiary. v On the night of June 24, 1905. Mar tin Julian, a bartender, while riding jn a buggy- east of Sonca City with Delia Lewis of Arkansas City was shot and. killed. Harpster, who was a bartender in the same town, was out driving with Nellie Edwards, a friend of Delia Lew is, and also from Arkansas City. Both couples drove in. the same, direction. It was about 10to'clock and the bug gies were not in r sight of each other, when a man, who could not rbe identi fied on account of the darkness, stepped from the side of the road -and com manded Julian to stop. Not waiting for Julian to obey the command, the man placed a revolver of heavy cali per against junan s snoulder and fired The bullet passed through Julian's body. The Lawis gisl drove to a farm house nearby and summoned help, but Julian died within a few minutes. He was conscious to the last and knew he w;as going to die. His actions led those who were wltn him to the belief that he knew the Identity of his assailant. He talked, but when asked who shot him refused to answer. The girl could not Identify the murderer. Harpster was arrested a short time after the killing upon the theory that he had killed Julian because of Jealousy on account of the latter being with the Lewis glrL The footprints found at the scene of vhe shooting corresponded to the size of the shoes worn by Harpster and other evidence of a like nature was introduced sufficient to cause the Jury to bring in a verdict finding Harp ster guilty of rriurder. Byron Core, the man whose confes sion is responsible for Harpster's new trial and which 13 believed will In the end clear him of the murder charge, was a resident of Ponca City at the time the murder was committed. He lived with his mother and stepfather, a man named Ward. A year later Cole was wanted on an other charge. The Garfield county ofn cers located him and with a posse sur rounded him' in a cornfield. When ov ertaken Ward turned upon the officers and made a vain effort to stand them off single handed. He opened fire, as did also the pursuers, and Ward fell pierced by three bullets. In the field. where he lay "mortally wounded, he confessed that he was the murderer of Martin Julian and' that Harpster was serving a term in trie penitentiary. The wounded man was taken to Enid, 'where he made a more detailed confession be fore he died. gave as his reason for the crime the Intention to rob Julian. --Kansas City, March 21. Manv ex tra brakemen,. known .on the road- as stuaentr prakenien,.'; have been em ployed by the Atchison, Topeka t Santa Fe Railway company.- About twenty-five .new names have been placed on the "extra board" at the shops in Argentine.' .New men -are be ing added to the working force. at all ine division poults, on. .the Santa Fe system. Employes believe that the: railroad company is employing the -Vstudent brakemen" in anticipation of a strike. The new. men are rapidly-being "brok en. m so that, In. case of a strike, they, would know soinething about the management of trains. It has been customary for-only- one new man at atime to be sent out-, with a train crew The Santa Fe.- however. is now showing some, haste -in .having tne "students learn the worfc The crew of local freight train No. 29, which left Argentine-for the west at-!j:30.. o'clock .last night,, had --two students under W. E. Douglas, the conductor, an experienced- man.---. ine trainmen in -Argentine were laughing -this morning about the try ing, experiences that Douglas is. hav- ingln managing his ,traln with two green men. It was reported that the local freight, had lost seven hours in going from Argentine- .to Lawrence, tne distance of forty-eight, miles. Reg ular brakemen attributed this to the presence of green men on the train. "The students," a "brakeman said to day, "do. not belong to the brother hood and are not eligible .until they have worked a year. So the company coma aepena on them in case of- strike. But I don't think they would be-.or much use. They get their sig nals mixed. -They learn thepi from the book and stand -the examination all right, but they get rattled when it comes to tne actual work." The Brotherhood of Railway Train men asked for an eight-hour working day and other concessions about a month ago...:The railroad -officials of fered to compromise with a 10 per cent increase in salary. The union has rejected the offer and. it Is thought that perhaps a-3trike will be ordered. WILL STRIKE IF NECESSARY. BIG RANCH TO; BE CUT UP., Sold for a MiUion and Will Be Divided Into Farms. Houston, Texasr March 21, An nouncement was j made today-of the sale of the L..X. ranch, consisting of approximately 200;000 acres, situated in the Texas Panhandle. The exact consideration is not stated, but it Is said to be about $1,000,000. The con veyance is from the American .Pas toral company of London, England, to P. S. Allen Co. of Houston. The ranch is to be cut into farms. Worked Like a Charm. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that sricy Journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va., says: T ran a nail in my foot last week and at once applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve. No inflammation followed; the salve simp ly healed the wound." Heals every sore, burn and skin disease. Guaranteed at the Arnold Drug Co.. 82J N. Kansas avenue. Price S5 cents. Western .Traiumen Overwhelmingly Reject Advance in Wages. Chicago, 'March- -21. Trainmen and conCactcrs on all railroad systems run ning west of Chicago have by an or-?r--whelming majority rejectedr. the -t- -Vanceiiln-fWagsaiegredsby' t&4. raHi'oad ind-ha-ejvoted, ta-strikerif jae.ee.ssary fo erforcqi -iheic demands, This information reached the city last night in advance o the official canvass of the vote, which 'will begin on Thursday,-but. will not be officially announced before the beginning of next wesk. Unless the railroad managers recede frorn their, position and make further concessions', a strike appears imminent. When the conferences be tween the railroad' managers and the representatives of,- the trainmen and conductors termli ated February 2f, it was with the understanding that; an other conference would be held after the men had taken a vote on the offer made by the ger eral managers. This" eonferenco, it is expected, will take place here" next week. Anticipath g an unfavorable vote, the railroad managers offered" to submit the entire controversy to arbitration. The men are not" -in favor of" arbitration and have made no secret of their posi tion in that direction, but; whether they can call a strike that would paralyze traffic In the face or an offer to arbl trate, is something which they must determine next week. -The offer made by the railroad man agers before, th-2 conference' broke up was-a flat increase of 10 per cent to men In the freight- servicf: of all- the roads. 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Chicago; .James Spear, .Boston, ana William Killas, New. Haven, Conn. president Dunn was Quoted as say ing that ,a strike of boilermakers on th Harriman lines -would, be called within fortyeight hours in the event favorable action is not taken between now and, mat time -on me ueiuaiius made jsome tim'e...ago by, employesof the Chicago Alton railroad -and which are.stlll pending. The memh'ers Of the executive committee which met at Lorain, where a strike is in progress at" the::ship.;yard, left that city, last night 'jor.', Cleveland, according to re ports, and it has been impossible so far to obtain an authoritative state ment from any, of them. WILL RUSH COXSTRrCTIOX. Orient AVU1 Be in Operation Between Wichita, and ElDorado August. I. An .official from, the general offices of the Orient railway in Kansas City says: "Material is ordered and will rushed to KIDorado as fast as possible to complete the road to Elinor and to Wichita which they hope to have done by August 1. ElDorado to be the dis tributing station ior the material. The brldEe across the Arkansas, south of Wichita Is half .way across the river and It will. be. finished In a couple of. weeks. It is definitely known, that, the Orient will use the Frisco depot Jointly with the Frisco :Tlje"work on the' Orient road in Oklahoma is" progressing rapidly, and toi-ini for building, between the various towns is arriving without de lay so that tne wormiKn c ciw enc'ing .no difficulty inwork. INCREASE IX prrrPENPS. Earnings on Great Northern Increase 4 Per Cent in Ten Years. ,.en. March 21.-H. A. Gray..comp: Mori hern Pacific Kairrona corrpany, appeared before the Interstate commerce commissioners. Mr. Prouty and Mr Harlan, today to supplement the in o?maUon giver, yesterday -regarding tl.B vat T of the railroad properties held by tlie ccmpan iVliei ek!d for the valuation of the n fivc prNrWt o-- the railroad Mf. 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II it could be only under government-ownership of all the- roads-In the country, or if all the roads were under tins control of-av single management. Even were it attempted to make the change without interruption to traffic, the work could be done only by laying a. third rail outside the present tracks and complica tions would be certain to arise. -The ex isting distance between parallel, tracks, where there Is 'a double-track road, is not great enough to allow of two parallel broad-gauge tracks,' as;the proposed- new and wider cars could .not pass without colPS'on. s v f The cost Involved tn-making -the change would amount -to many billions of dollars, and at a time when It-la so-difficult for tne roads to get money enough to equ'o themselves properly to handle all the freight that-Is being forced upon them w'th anything like reasonable prompt ness -The tie-supply epjestion-wotild be another .serious difficulty. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTRNAI-THUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 19071 GIVEN AM OFF. The Thaw Jury Is Excused Un til Friday Morning While-Lawyers Prepare Proof Regarding Defendant's Sanity. A LUNACY COMMISSION 33 a j Be Appointed by Jnstlce Fitzgerald Then. Taking of Testimony Comes to an Abrupt End. New York. March 21. District At tornej. Jerome yesterday afternoon made the move which has been a menace to the defense in the trial of Harry K. Thaw ever since the hearing of his case was begun nine weeks ago, by asking Justice Fitzgerald to hear evidence as to the appointment of a commission in lunacy to determine the present state of the defendant's mind. The trial was immediately halted, the Jury was excused until Friday morn ing and Justice Fitzgerald adjourned court until this afternoon when he will receive affidavits from opposing coun sel and determine whether a lunacy commission shall be appointed. Justice Fitzgerald called for every bit of available information and an nounced he wished to appoint no one who had been consulted in the case by either side. He therefore requested counsel to submit to him a list of all alienists connected with the proceed ings. Thaw, who appeared pale and tired when the day's session began, turned crimson over the exciting scenes which attended the adjournment of court on Mr. Jerome's motion for a lunacy commission. He bit his nails, fidgetted about in his chair and finally assumed an attitude of despondency. Justice Fitzgerald's radical action changing the entire aspect of the trial was precipitated by the introduction of Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton as a witness for the defense. District At torney Jerome said he would not ob ject to Dr. Hamilton's testifying, pro vided the defense would consent that he should tell all he knew of the case. Mr. Delmas sought to have the doc tor's testimony limited to the four vis Its he paid to Thaw. Then came the storm. Attorney Delmas,. for the de fense, accused Mr. Jerome of wanting to exclude important testimony. Mr. Jerome replied that the defense had prevented testimony- going before the court which would result in an aban donment of the trial in favor of a commission in lunacy. Justice Fitzgerald ordered the jury to retire and Mr. Jerome then deliver ed an address in which he declared Thaw incapable of advising his coun sel. He declared the state's experts also were of that opinion, but in testi fying they had been bound down to a hypothetical question based on insuf ficient evidence. Mr. Jerome declared there was evidence in his own hands and in the hands -ot counsel for thej defense which -would' convince the' court that the trial should proceed no further. Mr. Delmas began a fight against the district attorney's move, but the matter was soon taken out of his hands by John B. Gleason, who de manded that Dr. Hamilton's testimony be immediately taken as to whether he believed Thaw incapable of advis ing counsel. Justice Fitzgerald allowed Mr. Glea ron to put the question. "I believe." said Dr. Hamilton, "that he is incapable of advising counsel." This seemed to impress Justice Fitz gerald. "My conscience has been appealed to In this matter," said the court, '".mi upon the statement made by the ills trict attorney I can not allow the trial to proceed without first hearing all the evidence that may be In the possession of either Eide. I will hear this evidence in the form of affidavits, depositions, etc., tomorrow at 2 o'clock. The juty will be excused until Friday morning. If Justice Fitzgerald decides in favor of a commission it means that the trial will be suspended until the commission rtports. If the commission decides Thaw Is row insane, the trial will, of coarse be abandoned, and the defendant commit ted to an asylum. Mr. Jerome was manifestly pleased with the now turn of affairs. Thaw's counsel also professe I to be pleased, declaring Mr. Jerome's move was an acknowledgment that he was defeated. "It's very, very fortunate for th de fense and a victory," said Mr. Hart ridge. For a moment during the argumentr all. the lawyrrs were tulking excitedly at once and Justice Fitzgerald wis forced to rap sharply with his gav 1. Fiml'y Mr. Jerome made himself heard "The court has asked for all the fac"s I have in my possession and I w;ll will ingly furnish th?m. I will giv-y them In the form of an affidavit. I will also fur nish the affidavit of Doctors Mabo.i ind MacDonald and if his professioun i privilege is waived I will have an affi davit from Dr. Hamilton." "The learned district attorney has Just said that this defndant i3 at this moment so insane as not to be able to instruct his counsel." broke in Mr. Gle.i eon in an angry tone, "and he niw aks that this man whom he has dubb?d in sane waive a privilege." "His attorneys can waive It for him." aid Mr. Jerome. "The district attorney knows that feel the exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and fear. Every woman should know that the danger, pain and horrot of child-birth can be entirely avoided by the use of Mother's Friend, a scientific liniment for external use only, which toughens and renders nliariT nil th. nnrfa anA assists nature in its sublime I if work. By its aid thousands of women have passed this great crisis in perfect 6afety and without pain. Sold at tx.es per bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless value to all women sent free. Address eHarELD REGULATOR OOm Atlmmtm, Oa. that can not be done," was the reply; "We will get the other affidavits first," said Justice Fitzgerald, "and then we will discuss that matter." At this point Mr. Gleason again broke in: "I wish before this court adjourns to ask one question of Dr. Hamilton," he said, then turning to Mr. Jerome, Mr. Gleason continued: "No man can come into this court and accuse me of unpro fessional conduct. I have practiced in this country for 28 years and no such charges have before been made againsv me." "Go ahead,", said Justice Fitzger ald; "ask him all the questions you want to." "Doctor Hamilton," said Mr. Glea son, "in your opinion, is this defend ant incapable of advising counsel?" "I think he is," replied the alienist. "I don't think he is capable of in structing his counsel because of his mental condition." "Did you not tell me recently that you thought he was capable of do ing so?" asked Mr. Gleason. "I don't think so," replied the wit ness. Then anither arrgument followed, all the attorneys gathering in an ex cited group in front of the Judge's bench. At the end of the argument Mr. Jerome said to the court that when he had stated that there was a part of the case he would call to the at tention of the appellate division of the supreme court he did not mean to charge any of the attorneys for the de fense with unprofessional conduct. "I want to state here to the court." broke in Mr. Gleason again, "that I l Deueve this defendant is perfectly capable of instructing his attorneys, and I know that all of his counsel think the same thing." "I will be glad to have an- affidavits along these lines which you care to prepare. said justice Fitzgerald. Mr. Jerome then stated that he would be able to have hi affi davits readv by this afternoon, and asked the court to adjourn the hearing untn mat time. To this the attorneys for the defense agreed. The jury. wnicn naa Deen sent out when the dis cussion began, was called back and ex cused until Friday morning. "If I should decide to annoint a commission to take any other step in me matter on 'riaay." announced Jus tice Fitzgerald. "I would wish to name alienists who have not been in the case before. I therefore ask both the dis trict attorney and the counsel for the defense to furnish me by Friday morn ing lists of names of all the experts who have been in any way connected with the case." This the attorneys agreed to, and Mr. Jerome asked that the hearing go over rntil 2 o'clock this after noon Justice Fitzgerald was willing, but Insisted on having the consent of each one of the defendant's counsel. "I don't want to take such an ad journment and then find that I did not have the consent of the right man," he said. All agreed, and court finally ad journed until today at 2 o'clock. Mr. Delmas said last night that until the trial was resumed he would have no connection with the case. Mr. Glea son. 6S ho understood it was in charge. Mr. Gleason said: "Dr. Hamilton was called by Mr. Delmas as a witness. But the state ment of Dr. Hamilton as to the com petency of Thaw at the present time was contrary to his oral statements to me and to his written memoranda as I have understood them. "The application for a commission is addressed to the discretion of the court. The application will be opposed on the ground that the trial heine- enmnteted ,it is more orderly that the question of me gum or tne aerendant should be submitted ta the present jury." Mr. Gleason explained further that Mr. Delmas' action in calling Dr. Ham ilton to the stand was much opposed by the other Thaw lawyers and that Mr. Delmas was able to do so only by making use of his authority as "trial lawyer" to call any witness he chose. Mr. Gleason added that he deemed it wisest to ask Dr. Hamilton to state his opin'on as to Thaw's present mental condition, inasmuch as Dr. Hamilton would get In his testimony sooner or lat?r, and it was best to have it over with quickly. "As a matter of fact." he continued, "we have been expecting-Mr. Jerome to call for a commission ever since the trial started, and although we were surprised to hear Dr. Hamilton testify to Thaw's Insanity, we were not at all surprised that the d'strict attorney should make this move. So far as any opposition to the motion Is concerned, we shall make but little. All the dis trict attorney need to do is to present to the Judge sufficient reasons to ap peal to the Judge's conscience that he may be trying an Insane man and the commission will be appointed." Mr. Delmrs statement follows: "Henceforth, until the trial is re sumed I shall have no connection with the case whatsoever, Mr. Gleason is in charge as I 'understand it." When asked if Mr. Gleason's posi tion had been determined at the outset of the trial Mr. Delmas answered: "There was no such arrangement. And If you mean that there was an agree ment among counsel that I should step arir.e and Mr. Gleason take the reins in thfr event of o commission in lunacy being applied for, I say that there was no such agreement." M-. Hartridge said: "I do not believe the court will ap point a commission and if It should I do r.ot believe a commission would find Thaw now insane. He has a perfect knowledge of all that occurred in court." Daniel O'Reilly said: "After the replies made by Dr. Ham ilton to Mr. Gleason's question I sup pose the court can do nothing else but appoint a lunacy commission." Thhw wa3 said to be cheerful over the situation. "If I am insane, who is sane?" he is said to nave asked. "I am ready for the bug commission." Mver Jawkins never misses an oppor tunity to state that he is a gentleman. Oyer Yes. and he has made the asser tion so often th?.t he almost believes it rimself. Chicago Daily News. Is the jcy of the household, for without it. no happiness can be complete. How sweet the picture of mother and babe, angels smile at' and commend the thoughts and aspirations of the mother bending over the cradle. The ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass, how ever, is so full of danger and suffering that she looks forward to the hour when she shall I T?nsni?nn.7ii ENORMOUS GRAFT Biggest Municipal Steal of Modern Times Unearthed After Six Months' TYork of San Francisco Grand Jury. LIKE OLD TWEED KING Slxly.flre Indictments Filed Against Abraham Reuf. Ail the Boodle. Alleged to Have Come Through Him. San Francisco, March 21. The grand Jury probing the municipal graft cases has filed with the presiding Judge Coffey of the superior court seventy-five indictments charging bribery, which were found on evidence presented to the grand Jury after six months investigat ing the municipal affairs of this city by Assistant District Attorney F.-ancts J. Heney and Secret Service Agent Wil liam J. Burns, and which reveal an amazing story of alleged graft and cor ruption that surpasses the boodle cases of St. Louis, ranks with the Minneap olis expose, and is only eclipsed in the mount of money passed, but not in its ramifications and' organization, by the famous Tweed ring of New York. Of the indictments returned sixty-five are against Abraham Ruef, for yea.s the political boss of San Francisco, charging him with bribing the board of supervisors to grant franchises to the United railroads, the Home Tele phone company, the San Francisco Gas and Electric company, and the so-called prize fight "trust." Ten are against T. V. Halsey, former general agent of the Pacific States Tel ephone and Telegraph company, who Is charged with having bribed the super visors not to grant a franchise to the rival company. One indictment against Ruef and four more against Halsey. which, it is under stood, were also returned, were not filed in open court. Several more indict ments, the exact number and against what person, Heney and Burns refuse to divulge until the accused par ties have been arrested, were returned by the grand Jury but not filed, Heney and Burns not even trusting the secret file. Of the sixty-five counts of bribery against Ruef fourteen are in connec tion with the granting of the over head trolley franchise to the United Railroad company immediately after the disaster of last April. Seventeen are based upon the money alleged to have been spent by the gas company to secure an 85-cent gas rate as against a 75-cent rate; thirteen refer to the passing of money by the Home Tele phone company to obtain a franchise for a bid of $25,000 and which it has been declared was worth at least $1. 000,000: and eighteen indictments are based upon the alleged bribing of the supervisors by Ruef to grant fight per mits only to the so-called fight trust of this city, which is composed of Ed die GraneV. Morris Levy,. James Cof froth and Willis Britt. The money In all these cases is al leged to have been handled by Riwf, who, according to Heney and Burns, was the agent and broker between the public service corporations and the board of supervisors, and a sort of gen eral distributing agent for all who de sired the privilege from the supervis ors. The indictments against Halsey charge the agent of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company with having bribed fourteen members of the board of supervisors to refuse ths rival company a franchise. Judge Coffey fixed the bail at $10,000 on each indictment, or a total of $640,000 for Ruef and $100,000 for Halsey. The latter Is a brother-in-law of the late John I. Sabin, formerly president of the Pacific States Tele phone and Telegraph company, the lat ter at the head of the telephone sys tem in Chicago, and a brother-in-law of Louis Glass, president of the Philip pine Telephone company. Halsey has been in Manila installing a telephone system. He has been under surveil lance for several days, and papers for extradition are being taken out and orders for his arrest have been cabled. In the overhead trolley deal Ruef, according to Burns, was given $485,000 by the United railroads, of which the political boss Is alleged to have divided $91,000. Of this amount $4,000 is said to have been given to each of fourteen supervisors; two received $10,000 each and one $15,000. In the restricting of boxing permits to the big four of the fight trust the Indictments charge that $500 was given to each of eighteen su pervisors, or a total of $9,000. al though a fund of $20,000 was said to have been collected for Ruef. In the alleged deal by which the gas company was given an 85-cent rate, $12,000, It is charged, was divided among sixteen of the supervisors in sums of $750 each, but the amount supposed to have been received by Gallagher is not known. Besides the $25,000 bid for its franchise. Ruef Is charged with having divided among thirteen of the city fathers the sum of $62,000 received from the Home Tele phone company for the granting of a franchise to Install their system in this city. In this" connection it is noteworthy that fourteen of these supervisors are alleged to have also taken $5,000 each from Halsey to prevent the granting of the franchise to the Home com pany, and it is understood on these counts that fourteen indictments were returned against Halsey, only 'ten of which were filed today. Assistant District Attorney Heney made the following statement to the Associated Press: "Of the sixty-six indictments charg ing Abraham Ruef with bribery, eigh teen are for the alleged bribing of the board of supervisors In connection with the granting of fight permits to the so-called fight trust. Ruef is charged with having paid each one of the eighteen supervisors $500, and one indictment was returned for each .su pervisor alleged to have, been bribed. "Eighteen Indictments against Ruef are for bribing the eighteen supervis ors to vote for 85-cent gas- Instead of a 75-cent rate. It being charged that each one of the supervisors wa3 paid $750 by Ruef. Thirteen indictments against him are for the alleged brib ing of thirteen supervisors in connec tion with the granting of a franchise to the Home Telephone company. The telephone company bid and paid to the city $25,000 for the franchise. In connection with the same matter, fourteen indictments were returned against T. V. Halsey; formerly gener al agent of the Pacific States Tele phone company, for the alleged brib ing of fourteen supervisors to vote against the granting or a franchise to the rival company." According to Heney, Halsey. Is charged with having paid thirteen su pervisors $5,000 each, and to one, James L. Gallagher. $10,000. Halsey, It is said, agreed to pay each supervis or $2,600 additional if the franchise was not granted to the Home com pany. Of the fourteen survivors who it Is charged were bribed by Halsey, nine, Mr. Heney said, turned-around and took money from the other company to vote for the franchise, two of whom returned part of the money they re ceived. The Home Telephone company, beside the $25,000 bid -for the franchise, total of $62,000 to the supervisors, said Mr. Heney, all of which passed through the hands of Abraham Ruef. Eight super visors, who it is charged were biibed by Halsey with $5,000 each, also are al leged to have taken $3,500 from Ruef to grant the franchise of the Home Tel ephone company. Four supervisors who Mr.. Heney said did not accept a bribe from the Pacific States Telephone and- Telegraph com pany to oppose the granting of the franchise to the rival 'company, are alleged to have taken a bribe of $6, 000 each fiom Ruef, of the money fur nished the latter by the Home com pany. One, Supervisor Rea. according to Mr. Heney, did not accept any money in connection with the granting of the telepnor.e francl ise. Supervisor Gal lagher, Mr. Heney declared, handled the money for the board In connection with Ruef, and all are said to have received 110,000. Seventeen indictments charge Ruef with bribery in connection with the g! anting of the trolley franchise to the United Railroads immediately follow ing the earthquake last April. Supei visor Rea not receiving any money in connection with the matter. Fifteen supervisors, said Mr. Heney, accepted from Ruef $4,000 each to vote for the trolley franchise. One,, former Super visor Wilson, now a state railroad commissioner, was paid .$10,000 and Gal lagher $15,000. j Mr. Heney said all the supervisors with the exception of Duffy, now pres ident of the board of public works, .have testified fully before the grand jury and confessed ell their paiticipation in the acceptance of bribes. "Duffy is willing to testify and will be before the grand Jury Thursday," he said. "Whether he will be permit ted to do so will depend upon certain conditions that we w 111 put up to him. We want to know certain things that have happened in the board of public works, where we know that Duffy has continued his graft. I got Sanderson's confession at Palo Alto last Sunday." Sanderson was a former schoolmate of Heney s, and was supposed to have been the first supervisor to confess to the lat ter, several months ago. At that time he was supposed to be on his deathbed, and immediately afterward went to Arizona, re turning only a few days ago. As a matter of fact, said Mr. Heney.- Sanderson did not make any admissions until he knew that, f the young prosecuting attorney who be came famous in the Oregon land fraud J cases, had practically everything in his own hand and required only Sanderson's verification. Ex-Supervisor Duffy, president of the board of public works, is the one member of the board last spring who was said ;ill along was not charged with having ac cepted bribes and in an Interview this mornins: purported to have been given by him, expressing amazement that men- could sen their honor ana soul lor goia. The statement that he was one of the al leged grafting fathers, comes as a sur prise to many. The discrepancy in the number of in dictments as given by Heney, it was ex plained by the fact as stated, that Ave Assistant Attorney Heney stated that the indictments "was the beginning of the end of Ruef." but merely the beginning of the work of exposing the municipal cor ruption in San Francisco and the prosecution- of those "high up. who are responsi ble for such conditions In this city." District Attorney Lanirdon said immedi ately after the indictments had been filed: "The remarkable organization of this grafting and corruption; in the munlclp.il affairs in San Francisco,' its amazing ram ifications. Involving millionaires and the better class of citizens, will appal not on ly the city, but the entire country, when it is fully laid bare." "This is only the beginning," declared Secret Service Agent Burns. "The evi dence in the indictments filed today and others that have been returned, but- for the present will remain secret, is abso lutely conclusive and as perfect as the ev idence in any case of Investigation with which I have been connected." "Ruef acted as broker and agent," hr continued, "between the corporations and the board of supervisors in all mntttrs pertaining to the obtaining of privileges from the city fathers." Arrested in Manila. San Francisco. March 21. T. V. Halsey. the "outside man" for the Pa cific States Telephone company, who, It is charged, handled the bribe money for the supervisors from the telephone company, has been arrested in Manila as he was about to begin his journey back to San Francisco to face trial on the indictments filed against him yes terday by the grand Jury. Halsey waived extradition. Denies Agreement AVltli ScJimltz. San Francisco, Cal., March 21. Secret Service Agent William J. Burns, vehemently denied that an agreemant had been entered into with Mayor Schmltz. Although twenty-seven indictments have so far been returned in connec tion with the alleged telephone graft. Burns asserted that the proving of that alleged graft had but Just begun. During the grand jury session yester day F. H. Zimmer and former Audi tor Sherwln of the Pacific State Tele phone and Telegraph company were under fire. Zimmer admits that he was closely questioned about the af fairs of the telephone company while Vie had charee of the books and was also interrogated about former Gen-j eral Agent Halsey. SHAW CAN'T COME TO KAXSAS. Duties r.s n Tnist Company Head Force Him to Break a Tcpeka Date. Washington. March 21. Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury, will be unable to attend the meeting of the Kansas State Bankers' association in Topeka May 21. Before he left the treasurv Mr. Shaw tentatively accept- No human hand touches WHEAT FLAKE CELERY from its first process of manu facture until it is served for the table. It is composed of Wheat, Celery and Salt. Not a trace of any other substance. Its daily use has a tonic and laxative ef fect. 88 IO cents a package. 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He purposes to look into the various interstate commerce acts to ascertain if there is any law under which the government can proceed against Wall street. Mr. -Campbell was a' White House caller Wednesday and discussed the re cent upheavals in the stock market with President Roosevelt. After his talk with the president, he said: "Ev ery business man realizes that the pros perity of the country is threatened by the panics in Wall street due to the manipulation of stock gamblers. The cry that is raised every time that there Is a slump in the market causes a feel ing of apprehension that makes capital timid and thus disturbs the general business situation. It is in this way that such panics become a positive menace to the country's welfare. I shall go over the interstate acts to see if there is not some law that will put an end to tremendous gambling operations in New York. It seems to me that there should be legislation to prevent stock operators from gambling in the securities of common carriers that transport interstate commerce. I do not know that there is any such law and if not then congress should enact one. "If the situation cannot be reached entirely by the federal government, congress should cooperate with the states In reaching it. State legislatures can enact legislation that will prevent the maintenance of places where people can buy and sell stocks on margins. I shell make a thorough investigation and bring the matter to the attention of congiess at the next session." Mr. Campbell, who has just returned from a lecture tour In Pennsylvania and the New England states, put in today looking after departmental business. He called on the supervising architect of the treasury and arranged with that official fov a speedy decision in the Pittsburg. Kan-, public building site contioveisy. Congress appropriated $20,000 for the purchase of a site there. The selection of the site has developed an interesting contest between the peo ple of the ncrtn and south parts of the town The supervising architect will send an inspector to Pittsburg next week to decide the matter. PLANS ARE STOLEN. Drawings of, the Battleship Nebraska Are Gone. Seattle, W"ash.. Marcn 2 1. It was learned yesterday that the plans of the battleship Nebraska, which show the distribution of armor and batter ies, have been stolen from the desk of J. H. Fox, superintendent of construc tion "at the Moran Brothers yard in this city. The drawings have been mirsing fifteen days. Today the fol lowing notice was posted in the yard: "To Whom it May Concern: "In reference to the booklet of plans cf the Nebraska taken from Mr. Fox's desk, notice is hereby given that these plans must be returned 1 within two days or steps will be taken toward their immediate recovery." The battleship Nebraska is practi cally completed and ready to be turn ed over to the government. About five hundred men are now at work giving the finishing touches. The Nebraska was started before the Japanese-Russian war and the ship has been changed considerably. The fact that the plans are missing and the peremptory lan guage of the notice are causing con siderable suppressed excitement about the Moran yards. A THEATER FOR MRS. CARTER. The Actress Will First Go on the Road "With "Du Barry" and "Zf-za." New York, March 2L Arrangements have been completed by which Mrs. 111 It What We Preach It's To Your Liking Our own exclusive method of bak ing in modern ovens retains this nutriment in Takoma Biscuit. The perfect soda cracker always fresh your grocer likes to sell Takoma Biscuit. of specially supplies the 75,000 Independent Telephone They act like Exercise. Os-for the Bowels TenO "-Z" All Cents Druggists! whom you can reach by no other system. Our lines reach every Business of Importance. It will be to your advantage to use the System which gives you best service. 6000 names.in our new directory Just issued. i Topeka Independent Telephone Co. Leslie Carter secures the Astor theater for a term of years. She will inaugu rate her season there after a short road tour in November in a play especially written for her. Mrs. Carter will start out next week on a long tour which will begin in Nor folk, Va., April 1 and end in Duluth in July. Mrs. Carter will play "DuBarry" and "Zaza." GIVES $225,000. Two Additional Gifts From Mrs. Sage Announced. New York, March 21. Announce ment was made today that Mrs. Rus sell Sage has donated $150,000 to the American Seaman's Friend Society, to be used by it in the erection of a pro posed sailors" home and institute. Mrs. Sage also has given $75,000 to the Syrian Protestant college of Beirut, Syria. DUE TO NEWSPAPERS. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone Ask Change of Venue. Caldwell, Id., March 21. 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Articles pur porting to give the main features of Harry Orchard's confession were held by the defense to be so prejudicial to the prisoners that a fair trial could not be had where the paper that printed the articles had a general circulation. ALL MUST MARRY. Compulsory Ordinance Passed by Fort Dodge, Iowa, Council. Fort Dodge. II., March 21. Every man, in Fort Dodge between the ages of 25 and 45 years must become a married man. as the result of an ordinance introduced by Mayor Charles Bennett, and passed by the city council. Any man failing to c im ply with the law will be fined. The ordi nance in part provides: "That all able bodied men between the ages of 25 and 45 years, whose mental and physical propensities and capabilities ara normal and who are not married, shall he required to obtain a license and bride and straightway be exalted to a state of con nubial bliss. 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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAIr THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 21,1907. TOPERA STATE JOURNAL By FRAXK P. MAC IiEJfyAJf. IKntered July 1. 1S7S, as aecond-claaa Blatter at the postofflee at Topeka. Kul, Mnaer the act of congrm l VOLUME XXXIV No. 70 Official Paper City of Topeka. Official Paper Kansas State Federation Women's Cluba. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier. 10 emu a week to any part of Topeaa. or auburba, or at the some price In any Kan aaa towns where the paper baa a carrUr By mall, one year By mall, three months fiaturdav Alfrlftn tt rfflflr nni year.... 1-W -rti if? Bu.lne.ia Office l!a.- YH Reporters' Room fVi rat Reporters Room In2' 7 tirui vc'T HOME. TVpeVa State Journal building, m and n Kanas avenue, corner of Eight. New York of Bee: Flatlron bulldtnif. Twenty-third street, corner Fifth avenue and Broadway, raul a io- ChJcaeo ofrVe: 1540 Unity building. Paul Block, maMter. FULL IEASKD WIRE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal Is m5r,,r,S ij Aaaoclsted Press and receives the full da telegraph report of that gret J1'" r" fanlsat'on for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is received In The State Jour B" tautunc over wires for this sole pur- po. Been two or three days now since Mr. Harriman has talked any. When the proper person wished the ni- to ton. It stopped. Tne question Is, who did It? The Kaw Is really a pretty decent river after all. Just notice how badly the Ohio Is behaving. GOOI FOB NORTH TOPEKA. Some of the wide-awake, pushing citizens of North Topeka are putting forth efforts to make the district north of the river an attractive locality. They have inaugurated a campaign not only to "clean up," but to Improve. One of the best methods of making hand some homes Is by cultivating lawns. flowers and shrubbery, and It Is pro posed to furnish grass seed for lawns at a low price, and public meetings have been inaugurated to help the good work along. Moct of North Topeka's handsome lawns were ruined by the flood of four years ago, but many of them have since been replaced, and the enthusiastic cit izens of the North Side Intend that more of them shall be grown. As a result of the systematic efforts now be ing put forth, the rest of Topeka is lia ble to wake some morning and find the First Ward one of the handsomest and most attractive residence districts of the city not a locality of pretentious palaces perhaps, but one of pretty homes, each with Its plot of well-kept grass, set off with flowers and shrub bery. It doesn't take a big Income to make a cozy and attractive home. A little paint for woodwork combined with what nature does when given a chance with soil and sunlight, will make a cottage attractive as well as a mansion. Incidentally it would be well for the rest of the city to profit by North To peka's example. Thousands of Topeka people make their premises attractive with the help of nature, but others do not. Taken as a whole, Topeka is un doubtedly the handsomest city in Kan sas, but it could be made much more so If every house, no matter how hum ble, had its little plat of grass, edged with a few flowers and foliage. probably thought the cashing of thousand dollar bill would attract no 1 attention. KANSAS COMMENT One of Mr. Jerome's experts says he does not believe Harry Thaw had a brain storm. Perhaps he goe3 on the theory that a brain storm presupposes a brain. JO URIUL ENTRIES It this Pittsburg flood were of a kind that would cleanse that town, It wouldn't be such a calamity. This brain storm theory may. ac count for Tillman. Many 'a man who puts sand in the sue-ar and who sells shoddy stuff for all wool, prides himself on the way he always pays his debts. This department wishes to commend the executive council: It has re-em ployed Ed Bass as gardener of the state house grounds. The eovernment has lust counted Its cash in the Chicago subtreasury and all doubt Is removed that $173,000 has been stolen. But if Tom Kelly had the opportunity he could doubtless prove that the shortage is only appar ent, caused by clipped coupons, etc., etc. JAYHA WKER JOTS i Th i-oRt of the country will be gen- 'erous. It won't try to take any of Wall Btreet's panics away from it. Abe Ruef is about to be tried, al though the past few weeks have al ready been a hard trial for mm. Let us be thankful that panics are Tio longer catching, or, if they are, that the country is vaccinated against tnem. A cartoonist pictures Senator Smoot In the same boat as Thomas Collier si.ti Thi is a rank injustice to Smoot. L St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. Who will be the modern bt Patrick who will drive the octopi out of America? The railroad magnates are evidently anxious that President Roosevelt shall give Wall Street something for that panicky fetling. The Utah state senate has passed a law against gambling. The Mormons never did care much about matching pennies anyway. THE USE OF THE MAILS. The postoffice department is "com ing down" on publications that are mailed to subscribers at only a nomi nal subscription price. It has barred from the privilege of second-class rates a St. Louis publication that was put out at ten cents a year, on the ground that it was published chiefly as an ad vertising medium. Yet the St. Louis publication was doubtless far more legitimate than many other publica tions that are put out at such cheap rates, for it rejected all objectionable advertising. All publications that have the privi lege of second-class rates ought to charge a reasonable subscription price and stick to it. Some publications se cure large lists of names to which pa pers are sent free when the recipients do not care for them and would not have them at any price. Of course the publication cf such periodicals is prob ably legitimate, but they ought not to go at second-class postage rates. It all depends on whether the paper la published to carry reading matter or advertising to its readers. Anna Gould protested against a bill of $175,000 for her divorce. If It had been cut to $174,998 it would probably have been all right. Some statesmen are busy now ex plaining why they voted as they did. The right kind of statesmen do not have to do any explaining. The Jewell Republican rises to ex plain that the motion to adjourn got through the senate because the rail roads had no objection to it. This is the time of year when the road drag is most effectual, and It is to be hoped that its use will be general throughout the state during the spring. We Judge that Mr. Ripley does not contemplate joining the long line of railroad presidents who are awaiting their turn at the front door of the White House. You haven't noticed any collapse in Kansas land values, have you, because of the Wall street panic? Kansas land doesn't need to have any water squeezed out of it. Somebody has started the story that Fairbanks looks like Lincoln. Fair franks is about the same length up and down that Lincoln was, but that Is the only possible resemblance. There Is considerable mystery about what has become of all the water that has been squeezed out of Wall Street stocks recently. Has anyone ques tioned Pittsburg? It has just had a flood. President Roosevelt is considerably criticised on account of his conference lth Governor Deneen. Why should the president waste good time on a mere governor when railroad presidents are waiting to talk to him! An enormous acreage of trees is cut every year in France to supply Paris with firewood. The French, however, are provident enough to plant a tree whenever they cut one down. In America it is different. In speaking of the recent flurry in Wall Street, Mr. Harriman said: "Some of those men have made a lot of money as a result, but I don't think it will do them much good in the end." From which It may be presumed that Mr. Harriman intends to take It away from them. In recording the railroad magnates who are calling on the president, do not overlook Governor Deneen, of Il linois. By virtue of his office, Gover nor Deneen Is a director of the Illi nois Central. He called on the presi dent by request, however, in which he dlffera from some of the president's other callera. The railroad magnates say that ad verse legislation in many states caused the panto, and they are blaming Presi dent Roosevelt for it. It must be they think Roosevelt Is bossing all the leg islatures as well as congress. There are a few legislatures, however, that can prove an alibi: The railroads are mtlU bossing them. PROSPERITY AND THE CROPS After all, this question of DrosDeritv nnauy gets pack to tne crops. -The bountiful harvest of last summer and fall has been given the credit for pro viding the foundations of the unusual run of business for the nine months past. Naturally there is wide interest in the story the farms will tell during iuf. Already the area under fall til lage is pretty accurately known: it ex ceeds the fall tillage record for 1906 by about 300,000 acres. In regard to spring tillage, estimates as yet are at wide variance. Some state that the increase over the corresponding tillaee in ii)6 win reach 500,000 acres; oth ers hold that it may not be greater than 300.000 acres. Perhaps it will not record so heavy a gain as the min imum figures, hut there is no reason for doubting that the acreage under cultivation for the 1907 harvest will be very much in excess of that for the previous year. Whether or not agri cultural conditions will prove favor able between the present and the time the yield is gathered, is also a point of uncertainty, of course. So far as definite Information is to be had. how ever, the prospect is that the farmer is to nave at least as bountiful a year as in the one just closed. The Iron Trade Review. It Is generally stated In financial circles that the iron trade is the surest Index of commercial conditions, be cause every other industry is more or less dependent upon it; bat after all. as the Iron Trade Review says, the question of prosperity or hard times firally gets back to the crops. The farmers are the real builders of the nation's wealth. If no crops should be produced for a single year, what would be the result? Suffering and disaster everywhere. But with good crops, prosperity smiles on all classes, and the arteries of trade and com merce pulsate with life and energy. It Is also a noticeable fact that the farmer is no longer dependent on the big financial interests. Flurries and panics in stocks, depressions in finan cial conditions, no longer affect him. Wall Street might have a panic every day. but the farmer would not feel it. He has money of his own. and if oc casion requires it. he might loan some to the needy millionaires who get pinched now and then. It is certainly gratifying to note that the outlook for the farmer is good the coming year. Not only does he de serve it, but it means good times for other people, too. Scientists have been trying to as certain the weight of a soul, and have decided that it is about half an ounce It is difficult to believe that some men's souls weigh that much. A carload of automobiles was un loaded at the little town of Canton, McPherson county, a few days ago. A Rossvllle woman has made 1,374 pounds of butter the past year, and sold it for $247.32, all from eight cows. Monday is known as "hog day" in stead of "wash day" at Logan. xne farmers bring in their hogs on Mon days. Mack Cretcher, who prints a news paper, has become convinced mat me price of everything has doubled ex cept newspaper subscriptions. The editor of the Clay Center Dis patch is also president of a gold min ing company, but ne prooaoiy values his newspaper more than he does the gold mine. Sedewick Pantagraph: This is a fast age. We ordered sample 1908 cal endars in February only to find that traveling aerents had worked tne neia ahead of us. Need anything for 1910? Speaking of the way western Kan sas lands are advancing in value, the Colbv Tribune notes that a Thomas county man has refused ,buu lor farm that he bought a year ago for $2,600. And it is high prairie, too, A western Kansas man announces his candidacy for a city job as fol lows: "Owing to the earnest solicita tion of those to whom I owe money, I have consented to become candidate ublect to the usual disclosure of character." Will Palmer's wisdom: When you get up on a spring morning feeling like von haven't had a fair chance in life and that the whole world is against vou. trv a few swigs of sassafras tea The thing you nate worst is the thing to do first. What is wealth? Not money, and mortgages and cattle and farms; but a contented mind. Are you rich this morning? It seems to a married man as if an old Dacneior arms along down the stream of life as easily as a loose log. 'We'd like to watch a Christian scientist having a tooth bored out and that infernal lit tle wire dingus run down into the root. A talent for gambling is a talent for trouble. This country is getting freer and freer every day. You can now write on both sides of postal cards. The rail roads are not bigger than the state of Kansas, but they are smarter when it comes to electing senators. If you don't hang onto your troubles, perhaps the March winds will blow them away. jy0 you know any boys these days who are learning trades? Won't we soon have a gen eration of men who will not know how to do anything but to run to the post- office every time the train comes in to get their post cards? The kind of "maple sugar Kansas gets doesn't dare call Itself maple sugar any more. DAVID OVEEMTER. Lavid Overmyer was not present in e?" at ihe late Democratc banquet, out his spirit, his personality clothed m '""mortality was felt as much by !e Democrats of Kansas assembled at that banquet board as David Over ly" Presence would have been in llle. This Was the first tlms In tn.cn ty-flve years that he did not respond i VI? ca!1 of Democracy he had gone to that broad haven of rest, where equal, where a man's purposes in life are weighed in that rais mm it rises or rails with its pre ponaerance of-good or bad. No more will mighty audiences be swayed by "'aS"elc eloquence, nor converted JJ19 JOt iri nrp-nmAntu I' n i,n o c;ea.r, concise, convincing; his detesta tion of shams, subterfuge and hypoc risy- WaS SO" woll lrn-w- that u-han David Overmyer made a statement, men knew it to be his conviction. The Democratic- nartv has lost n imiIai. and the counsel and advinn rT one whom thev trusted and lrwori onH jansas Has lost a successful man. II nas Deen fittingly said. "The man who achieves success" is he who has lived his life well, loved much and enjoyed the trust of good women, the of Intellectual men and the love of nine cniidren. who has accomplished his life's work and has left the world Detter man he, found it, whether by a penect poem or a rescued soul, who has never failed to express his appre ciation of earth's beauties, who has always looked for the best In others ana given them the best he had in return, whose life was an inspiration ana wnose memory is a benediction. No more tender tribute could be paid to man, than when with the delicate sensibilities of woman, three hundred strong active men at that banquet board, rose with bowed heads, and in silence drank to the memory of that man or men, David Overmyer, whose spirt is and will be with Kansas Demo crats forever more. Olathe Register. LOAN SHARKS. Topeka is raising a row because the loan sharks in the pawnbrokers' shops charge 2 per cent a month for money loaned. It would be better In most cases if they charged 50 per cent a monw. Most monev loaned hv these sharks is loaned to young fellows who are living beyond their incomes and are ashamed to confess their profligate nauiia io respectable people and seek mans irom tnem. The monev so se- cured is usually gambled awav or masieu ior sometniner worse than tram. onng. It is hard for a person who absolutely must borrow money to nave to pay exorbitant rates, but when money is to be used for honest and respectable purposes, it Is almost al ways possible to borrow It at reason- auie rates rrom reputable money loaners. ine monev sharks are hail but they are no worse than the aver age of their customers. Lawrence w oria. THIS "HELPED." One of the important elements en tering Into the defeat of the straight two cent railroad fare bill was the great number of letters from Missouri wnoiesaie dealers who wanted the law because It lessened the PTnenspq of their men traveling in Kansas. There is no reason why this should have in fluenced the real merits tlf the but there is a preludice against rtnin things just to heln the Missouri rl,r jobbers. wicnita Beacon. THE OTHER MAN'S JOB. It s pretty soft for the motorman he rides tne -whole dav Inner. With nothing to do but 8 tart the car and tap a warning gong. The rest of us have to pay 6 cents when ever we want to rU t- Lacking; the fare, we must use Shank's mare when we do our homeward gnae. It's pretty soft for the doctor, who deals in numan ills; Though at 2 a. m. he must leave his bed, armed with a. box of niils. At times he must face the wintery wind that stlngeth like a knout. But the rest of us have to take the dope tne aoctor aisnes out. It's pretty soft for the lawyer, who labors over nia Dne. And prays to the court that his client be granted said relief. He must read a thousand volumes, all bound in musty calf. But the rest of us, when we break our legs, must give tne lawyer nan. It's pretty soft for the hod-carrier he Alls his hod with briok. And beats it up the ladder it's easy to learn me trick, He climbs to the ton of the building. where all is mortar and muss. But most of the bricks get loosened and tan on the rest or us. Let us gather around the table, while oui hearts with envy throb. And drain a flask to the easiest task The Other Fellow's Job! N. Y. American. Misplaced Sympathy. "There's no telling anything about people in New York," sighed the little Canadian woman, looking puzzled "When we came here In October and took our little flat I was much inter ested In the marketing and sought out the biggest and best looking shops. On the corner of our street Is a shab by little grocery and candy store, kept by a miserable looking hunchback. His clothes are threadbare and his hands always tucked under his apron, as if they never were warm. One eve ning my husband noticed him and suggested my buying small articles in there occasionally, just to help the poor fellow along. I did, and listened to many a complaint about hard times, and how the little dealers were being pushed to the wall. 'Yes, I said to him the other day, 'and then you have to pay a lot of rent for this tiny place don't you He almost straightened the bump out of his back and exclaimed, 'Rent! Why, I own this building and the next two. I'm your landlord. "Tipping"' in Europe. According to immemorial usage, European servants are entitled to tips as an assured part of their Income. At the hotels the theory Is that the land lord furnishes a guest a private room and the use of the public rooms, heat and light, food and dishes, but not menial service. For convenience he keeps at hand a corps of servants who will respond to the guest s summons. but at his expense. In old times trav elers were attended by their own servants to wait on them, i The mod ern custom echoes the ancient. The traveler no longer carries with him a retinue of servants, because he can hire temporarily those of the land lord. The customary fees are the pay ment. To avoid feeing Is really to cheat the servants, who need all they can get, heaven knows. A chamber maid at the best hotels receives as wages only about $2 a month. Tip ping servants in America is a regret- able Imitation of the European cus- THE E VENING STOR Y Revoking His Order. (By' Henry Moore.) The division superintendent on the western end of the K. and L. road had not risen from the ranks. If he had, he would have been more popular with the force under him. He had ob tained his place throueh "influence, and nineteen times out of twenty, such men are cordially hated for the best of reasons. He had many trainmen in hot water within a month, but in all appeals he was sustained.' A division superintendent, on his own ground, is an autocrat. What he says goes. He is monarch of the rails in his territory, He is responsible only to headquarters. xne it. and L. had no use lor wo men telegraphers. It had long been the rule of the road to turn all such applicants down in the curtest man ner. In some way that seemed mys terious to the other operators on the division, a young lady had taken charge of the office at Stapleton. The place was only a hamlet, and tnere was not much freight or passenger traffic, but there was the great bridge over the Big Blue river just to the west of it, and there was the deep cut extending for half a mile in which several landslides had occurred, so, in a way, the post was an important one The agent and operator In question was Miss Carrie Williams, and she had been crowded In, so to speak, by one of the big stockholders who had help ed the president out of a hole. She had learned telegraphy at a school. and this was her first place. A hun dred miles down the line lived her widowed mother, and the girl was working for the support of both. When the operators came to under stand all this they "went slow" on her. Had she been a man, they would have let her sink or swim. She made mis takes and they covered them up. She became confused and tangled up, and they helped her to straighten things out. She got discouraged, and they flashed her words of sympathy and hope. They would have done nothing of the sort for a beginner of the male sex. He wouldn't have held his Job beyond the first month. It was a bit strange that Charles Morton, the new D. S.," had been in power for six months before he ascer tained that there was a woman on the line. Even hi3 private operator had sheltered her. Then an accident to his train at her station brought the two face to face. The man was brusque and pompous in his authority and he was provoked and impatient at his delay. He saw that the girl was a lady, and that her office was well kept and that she understood her business. but even before he had addressed her, he had made up his mind to have her out of that at the end of the month She was told plainly that his division had no use for her. He was not run ning a kindergarten. At the end of twenty days, she would be replaced He had no complaint or excuse to offer. In fact, he was not a man to make excuses. What astonished and pioued him a bit was the way the young lady received his orders. She was not In the least nustratea and lost none of her dignity. While treating him with the respect due his position he somehow felt that there was a feel- tom, without its resting on the reas- l ing of contempt for him in her de- onable basis of the foreign tions. The Travel Magazine. OVERLOOKED SOME. ine calling of the memhora o ty. house back to the legislature after many or tnem had returned homn gave ineir constituents a chance to prepare a receDtion fnr-. thnn Q chance, however, which some of me constituents overlooked Parsons TUI1. i. ONE EXPLANATION. When a representative -t,mc his constituencv these dav. nt asked what he has done for his coun try he can say, "Well, I was fined a barrel of apples." Osborne Farmer. r FROM OTHER PENS 0 GLOBE SIGHTS. The patrons of those eighteen-hour trains on the New York Central and Pennsylvania are petitioning those roads to. make the schedule 20 hours. j ut iidiiuiis v uum preier to take a little longer for the trip and be sure of getting there alive. Mark Twain has an alleged farm In New York which he has named "Quarry Farm." Back there they have to dig out the rocks before making a farm. In Kansas they make the farm first and then it yields the "rocks." Some of those thousand dollar bills that were stolen from the Chicago subtreasury have turned up In Los Angeles. So many millionaires spend i the winter out there that the thief than you intend to. From the Atchison Globe. There is the instinct of the beggar In everyone. When a new man engages In busi ness, how polite he Is! Tobacco heart probably kills more people than broken heart. All the world's a stage, and all the supernumeraries are critics. When a woman does wrong she usually thinks she has been wronged. When a woman loses anythiner. she nearly always believes someone stole it. Women are very tender hearted when it comes to killing anything but a man. Some women Just naturally can not get along unless they have a love af fair on hand. There is so little excuse for conceit that we wonder so many are afflicted with it. No matter how much money a man Is making people will not believe it when he brags. There is apt to be -something wrong with the man who is continually mak Ing explanations. It is another sign of old age when a man pays more attention to religious matters tnan to politics. The College of Hard Knocks has a larger alumni of successful men than any Institution we know of. After all, is there any one In the world more stupid than the man who comes in at the wrong time? During coH weather there is noth ing but a pair of stockings between a woman and freezing to death. You hear of lots of unusual thines Ever hear of a bank examiner becoming a detective or an expert accountant? What has become of the old fash ioned boy who celebrated Easter by seeing now many eggs ne could eat? A woman who Imasines she is orettv Is bad enough, but a man who thinks he Is good lookinsr is the limit. What has become of the old fash ioned mother who told her children that they would drive her distracted? mere lsn t much In the bioeranhlea of successful men as to what saloon was the ravorlte hangout of the youth. There would be no such thin? as an old maid school teacher If boys made a practice of marrying their first love. mere is always this to remember in ume or trouble: it is never as dark outside as it looks to be when stepping ii u i ii me aoor. Are you one of the kind of people who know it all? Then you may depend upon It that you get It good and proper, behind your back. Steer clear of sympathetic people when you are In trouble; for if you are not very careful, you will tell more CONSCIENCE FUND RECORD. Kant, the Koenigsburg philosonhsr. expressed the ennobling sentiment that two things always excited his reverence for the world in which he lived bevond anything else that he knew and under stood. One was the heavens above him and their matchless harmonies, and the other was the moral law within him which drove or led men in the nath of right. It is before thi3 court of last appeal that men plead guilty and set inemseives right by making restitution. The courts of law may fall to bring about justice, but the conscience which is not at ease with Itself is the more effective kind of a constable. Wall Street Journal. O POWER OF PUBLIC OPINION. Harriman, Frick and others are learn ing not slowly, but surely, that they cannot disregard newspaper advice, if they would stay out of the poorhouse. They do not yet appear to realize the fact, but their assumed ignorance is only an affectation, and that the sheriff man will "catch 'em ef they won't watch out!" Brooklyn Eagle. NOT ALWAYslpUNCTUAL. It seems that when a Russian official is notined that he will be killed at a certain hour, he must make some al lowance for unavoidable delays. The terrorists, like other people, cannot al ways be punctual. Indianapolis News. FIGHTING TWO-CENT RATE. The Indications are that the railroads will spend more money in fighting the two-cent fare laws through all the courts than they will lose by their op eration. Philadelphia lnqulrler. NOT A CHANCE! Married men will certainly appreciate the grim humor of the Staten Island school boy who wrote in an epic, "their foes in front, their wives behind im possible was flight." New York Her ald. THEY LISTEN. Under a hew ruling telephone girls In France must respond, "I listen." In this country that is Just what we are kicking about. Pittsburg Gazette. NEVER THREATENED IRELAND. The only country that American newspapers have never threatened to go to war with is Ireland Charleston News and Courier. FAILURE. Everybody hates a successful man, declares Mr. Harriman; so the only way to be popular is to be a pronounced failure. Pittsburg Gazette. WHISKERS. The Ohio man who recovered $101 for the loss of his whiskers by a gas ex plosion evidently wasn't tried by a Jury of clean-shaven men. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Meager Wages In Japan. Up with the sun Is the Japanese farmer. Rather, he Is up before day break and at work In his sterile fields, whose productivity has been exhausted except under high fertilization. He returns to his little shanty at nightfall. To the view of the foreigner, he never rests, and for this never ending labor he raises a crop of rice or corn that does not support his family for the year. His clothing consists of a loin cloth In summer and a coarse cotton suit in the winter. He simply is an ex ample of all the laborers and artisans of Japan. All work hard to live and all receive a compensation commen surate with that of the farmer. This is an average scale of daily returns: Laborer, 10 cents; mason. 15 cents: artisan, 10 to 20 cents; clerk 40 to 60 cents. Chicago Tribune. His Xarrow Escape. Mr. Ferguson, two of whose down. town friends had Just dined with him. had taken them into the library for a smoke. 'I must tell you a good one on mv wife." he said. "She's been roastine me because I look at the headlines in the papers once in a while to see if anything Important Is happening in the Thaw trial. Well, the other after noon, while the girl was away, she put a pan of biscuits In the oven to bake, and while she was waiting she picked up a paper and began to read the stuff herself. She jrot so interest ed in it that she let the biscuits At this moment Mrs. Ferguson came into the library for a book. "And the Joke of It was," continued Mr. Ferguson, without a moment's pause, that they found the cow next morning in a forty-acre lot." "Ha! ha! ha!" roared the guests, laughing till the tears ran down their cheeks but not at the story. Chicago Tribune. White as Mourning Color. The news that a European has been noticed in Jamaica wearing white as mourning for a relative lost In the re cent catastrophe recalls the fact that that color was originally employed in many countries to indicate reverence for the dead. In fact, the custom obtained in Europe as late as the reign of Charles VIII of France, and in Italy, too. It lingered, though for women only, the men wearing brown. In Ethiopia the white soon changed to gray and In Egypt to yellow. China, however, employs it to this dav. Other -colors have had their vogue blue, for instance, which even now is used in Turkey. Armenia and Syria. The latter signifies the heaven ly region, white stands for purity, gray and brown typify our mother earth, and black, most repellent of mourn ing colors, would seem to suggest an eternity of night. London cnronicie. How It Impressed Him. Ex-Senator "Billy" Mason tells of a political campaign In South Dakota wherein he had been caned upon oy the state committee to take a part. When Mason arrived at his first town. where he was to deliver a speech tne mTt dav. he found that the two so- called hotels were crowded to the doors. TMot having telearanhed for accom modations. the Illinois man discovered that he would have to make snut as best he could. He was compelled for that night to sleep on a wire cot that had only some hianirets and a sheet on it. As Mr. Mason Is a man of considerable avoir dnnnia he found his improvised bed anything but comfortable. "Well," asked the proprietor, when the politician appeared In the morn ing, "how did you sleep?" "Fairly well," answered Mason, "but I certainly looked like a waffle when I got up." Harper's Weekly. instltu- meanor. He took his departure a bit ashamed of himself, and yet furious that the whole division had conspired against him. Within an hour It was known the length- of the division that Miss Williams had got the pack because she was a mere woman. She had the sym pathy of all the operators, and more than one counseled her to appeal to headquarters. She thanked them for their kind words and said that she would be all ready to step out of the office when the new man arrived. The D. S. should have saved his dignity, but the feeling that he had been out witted kept him boiling hot. and wltn- in the next ten days he discharged five operators and struck terror to .the hearts of all the rest. For inefficiency," was the report he made at headquarters, and that went in each case. The president of a rail road never sees reports of such trifling affairs, and would not read them if they were placed under his eyes. It therefore followed that the president of the K. L. knew nothing of what had happened and was going to hap pen at Stapleton. It might have al tered the case if he had been appealed to. but the girl, knowing that she had been crowded out through no fault of her own, would make no sign. Fifteen of the twenty days allowed. her to finish her month had passed. It was early spring and there were constant rains. The track gang was watching the big bridge and the deep cut, but the floods rolled under the one, and the banks of the other showed no signs of giving way. The Stapleton office was cut out of the circuit after the passage of the 7 o'clock train in tho evening. Then the girl operator went to her bearding house for the night and resumed duty at 8 next morning. The office at Marion, the next one east, was run on the same schedule. At 6 o'clock in the evening of the fifteenth day the track gang came in and reported all safe. At 7 the passenger train whizzed by without stopping, and ten minutes later the girl was ready to go home. As she stepped out Into the rain and dark ness she heard shouting down the tracks, and five minutes later an af frighted hobo appeared and called out "Say, now, me partner is buried un der about four million tons of dirt back dere in de cut!" "Do you mean that one of the banks ha3 caved in r was asuea. "More'n an acre of it. It'll take a whole week to dig me partner out. Better git de telegraph workin'. If a train runs into dat heap you won't nuttin' but splinters left." The girl turned and ran back to the office, and as soon as she could light a lamp she began calling for Marion. The through freight was due soon af ter 8. It must be notified and held. Her calls were not answered. The op erator wis off duty, as he had a right to be. There was no telephone ser vice between the towns. The tramp had disappeared into the night, as if fearing the railroad company would hold him responsible for the cave-in. The depot was a good half mile from the village. In fifteen minutes after the tramp's first report the girl was readv. With matches in her pocket. and a red light in her hand, she was making her way down tne tracks in the face of the wind and the rain. Yes. there had been a cave-in and a bad one. For a space of a hundred feet the tracks had been buried ten feet deep. The girl s only way was to clamber over the dirt and rocks and brush. Sometimes she was caught and held, and sometimes she met with a fall, and twice her lantern was extin guished and had to be relighted. She pushed aneaa, nowever, until sne reached the western end of the long bridge. It was standing stanchly. She saw the light of a locomotive a mile beyond and began waving tne danger signal. By and by the train came to a ston almost at her reet. It wasn't tne freia-ht. but a special, and among the anxious men who left the coaches and came running along to make lnquiriei was the division superintendent. Cloak ed and bedraggled aa she was, the man did not recognize his discharged oper ator. "How did It come about? Why dldn t a man come to give warning?" he ask ed. "A tramp told me of it, and there was no man to send," she replied. "You must be from the village, and perhaps you can tell me where the girl operator boards. I must get Into the station and try ana rajse yiuotuim wj telegraph." Ten men rouowea me iigiu irl's lantern over the great heap of lohrls and to the depot. The V. 8. was surprised when she unlocked the door and entered. He was more surprised when she laid aside her sooaen nat ana cloak and sat down to the key and be gan calling each way and finally re ceived a response. He gave her no In structions. He simply listened and waited. She ordered a wrecking crew to the spot and then turned from the key to meet his eyes. "1 aw D-?g paraon, no saiu. "I don't understand, sir," she re plied. "Ycu re aw miss wiiiiama. "Certainly." "And two weeks ago I I "Discharged me for being a woman, have five days yet, I believe. You will find everything in order when the day comes." "But. Miss Williams: l was labor ing under a misapprehension, it seems. You bc "I am a woman, sir. and there can be no misapprehension, end I bid you good night!" Six weeks later the D. s. stepped down and out. The president of the road had sat up to take notice, and the discharged girl was bossing things In one of the best offices on the line. (Copyrighted, 1907, by P. C. East- ment) 1 HUMOR OF THE DAY Do you believe every man ha hi price?" .No: but I believe everv man wishes ha did." Houston Post. "Tom, you're the idol of my heart." Her cheek caressed her head he knew "touch" was comlna: "Nix. th irinl'a broke," he said. Boston Transcript. Ah! Gabriel's trumn at last!" exclaim ed the man, rising from the grave on tha last day. What is itT lnauired his female neigh bor. "I say it's Gabriel's trump." "I know, but what is it?" Philadeloh!:!. Press. De Rlter tells me.!' ..m Gartdie. "that for a whole year he didn't write a thing that we.s worth while." Yes. I believe it took him a vtir to write that latest novel of his." Philadel phia Press. "Dis paper." said Languid Lewis, "tella erbout a hoss runnln' away with a woman an' she was laid up for six weeks." JJat am t so worse." reioined Boastful Ben.iamln. "A friend uv mine wunst run away with a hoss an' he wus laid up fer six years. -mcago uany isews. "I thought I would Just run over in mv new automobile." 'Well, whom did you run over?" Balti more American. Wigwag Love, you know, will find a war. Harduppe Yes. but I m lookina- for something that will pay the way. Phila delphia Record. Bibliophile (aghast) I beg your pardon. madam, but that book your little girl ia playing with is an old and exceedingly rare first edition. Caller Oh. that's all rlirht. Mr. Vibbert. It will amuse her lust as much aa If it were nice and new. Chicago Tribune. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Even a blind man can find trouble without much difficulty. It's about all some people can do to keep from being done. It Is difficult to greet misfortune with a smile when It is always frowning. Women love secrets because of tho pleasure they derive from letting them escape. A friend In need usually needs all ho can induce you to give up and then some. Instead of throwing stones people who live in glass houses should er.'W violets at a dollar a bunch. Women would have but little use for minds and complexions if It were im possible to change them. Usually a man who doubts the truth fulness of the Bible has unlimited faith In a patant medicine almanac. It takes a cute girl to get so closa to a man that when ho tries tc kiss her it's impossible for her to get away. The average woman makes a strenu ous effort to discover her husband's faults for the purpose of hiding them from other people. The average woman seems to think she Is responsible for all her husbon.i's joys, but that all his sorrows are duo to his own foolish actions. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From. the Philadelphia Record. Most trees require rich soil, but the family tree thrives on rocks. Patriotism is often one-third love of country and two-thirds rum. Clothes don't make a man any more than a complexion makes a wo man. "Every man to his trade" Is a good motto, but few of us are good traders. The girl who says she would marry nothing less than a foreign nobleman really couldn't. Perhaps it is possible for a woman to keep a secret, but most of them are i terribly out of practice. Hoax "He says his new Invention is a world-beater." Joax "What Is it?" Hoax "An egg-beater." Nell "Miss Skinandbones is a rath er sharp girl." Belle "Do you refer to her intellect or her elbow?" A sad-eyed man went into the Mar riage License Bureau yesterday and asked for a lottery ticket. Some fellows are in such a hurry to do things that they hate to lose time finding out how to do thern. Wigg "Its queer how suddenly a great man can go up in smoke." Wagg i es, an mats necessary is to have a five-cent cigar named after him." nEFLECTIOSS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. People are awful rich when th. aren't afraid to go to a wedding In l street car. A good way to make the furnace hum well is to have a warm spell of weaih er. The best way for a woman to pre serve her ideals about a man is not to marry him. Money is a very useful thing not to have In your pocket when anybody tries to borrow from you. A woman would rather have her hus band lie about how he likes to go to admh.dJLd0 U than to

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ETHE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAL THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1907. PUBLIC (Items for this column may be leCt at neaston'a barber shop.) Geo. Draut has gone to Fort Worth, Texas. Miss Clara Peake visited during the fore part of the week In Baldwin. TVTr -M T Davidson, the former Jani tor of the school, has been visiting in Oakland. .T A. Dennv of Valley Falls is visit ing his daughter, Mrs. Allen of Michi gan avenue. Mr. E. Byers of Arter avenue is mov ing to Lyndon, Osage county, to e cage in farming. The painters have finished painting TV. E. Reece's house on Chester avenue Let others go and do likewise and beau tify our city. Emmett Walters left Wednesday for Seattle, Washington, to work. His wife and mother will go later to make it their future home. Mr. Walter Anderson and KJIfes Blanche Hungate, both residents of this place, were united In marriage last evening. The wedding took place Just after 8 o'clock and other celebrations held a little later. Mr. Walter Anderson has resided here for twenty years. Miss Hungate was a popular girl among the operators of the Independent telephone. Those present were Mrs. J. M. Joiner of Kansas City.grandmotner or tne groom; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Anderson and fam ily. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ludington. Mr and Mrs. Homer Foltz. Mrs. T. Crom well, Mrs. Daisy Bookout and Mr. Clay Tucker. Rev. H. Foltz officiated. The young couple will go to housekeeping in a few days at Kansas City, Kan. The Oakland W. C. T. U. met at Mrs. J. G. Huey's yesterday afternoon in honor of one of their charter members, Mrs. J. W. Reed. She and family de part Friday for Council Grove where they will reside for the next conference year. The following persons were pres ent: Mrs. Ensign, Mrs. Leonard, Mrs. J. W. Reed, Mrs. Dr. Heller, Mrs. Overton, Mrs. J. B. Reed, Miss Watt, Mrs. J. G. Huey. After visiting and talking over W. C. T. IT. work they sat down to a table about 5 o'clock loaded down with good things and Roman fashion did justice in storing away the eatables, after which bidding their guest of honor goodby and wishing her well in her new field of work departed for their homes. Mark Twain Buys a Farm. Middletown, Conn., March 21. Mark Twain has purchased a tract of land of about 200 acres in West Redding, this state. The property lies in the beautiful rection known as "The Glen." The purchase was made through Al- PILE.S Pastor's Wife In Southern City Re stored to Health by the Wonder ful Pyramid Pile Cure. We Want Every Pile Sufferer to Test Tliis Great Cure at Our Expense. Send Tonr Name and Address For a Free Trial Package. "In 1900. my wife was attacked with piles and suffered from them 4 years and was unable to attend to her domes tic work. We tried many remedies, but all failed, and she gave up in despair. Mr. .Ddwln Shaver, of Salisbury. N. C. who was cured with your Pyramid Pile Cure, recommended It as a sure cure to me. I have used o boxes of it, and part of a box of salve, on my wife, and ehe has been cured. May God bless you and your remedy. Yours very truly, M. G. Hosklns. Pastor Nottaway, Va Presby terian church." We want to send you a free trial of this remedy at once, so you can see with your own eyes what It can do. You cure yourself with perfect ease, in your own home, and for little ex pense. Pyramid Pile Cure gives you prompt relief. It heals sores and ulcers, reduces congestion and inflammation, and takes away pain. Itching and irritation. After you have tried the sample treat ment, and you are satisfied, you can get a full regular-sized treatment of Pyramid Pile Cure at your druggist's for 50 cents. If he hasn't It, send us the money and we will send you the treatment at once, by mail, in plain sealed package. Send your name and address at once Tor a trial of this marv elous, quick, sure sure. Address Pyramid Drug Co., 54 Pyramid Bldg., Marshall, Mich. NOTICE LATEST PIANOS SELLING FREELY ALSO ARRIVING DAILY SO WE HAVE ABOUT SIXTY (60) NEW. HANDSOME PIANOS IN OUR WAREROOM NOW. EVERY MODERN STYLE. TWELVE DIFFERENT WELL KNOWN MAKES. A DOZEN OR MORE AT $165. $175. '$185, $190. $200, $215 AND UP TO THE VERY HIGHEST GRADE AT $375, $390. Visitors Welcome, Whether Ready- to Buy or Not. Cpsn Evening! This Week E. B. GUILD MUSIC CO. 722 Kas. Ave., O Topeka, Kan. bert B. Paine, editor of St. Nicholas Mngazine, who had previously bought an old house and farm near the West Redding station. Mark Twain intends to make a handsome country seat of nis purcnare. The plans for the dwel ling house, as finally accepted, are the wont or John IX Howells. an architect, who is a son of William Dean Howells. The latter and Mark Twain are nearly the same age, are close personal friends and belong to the literary staff of the fiarper publications. KANSAS UNIVERSITY AROUSED. Vigorously Opposing the Demands of the Missouri University. Kansas City, March 21. The au thorities of the Kansas State univer slty have employed Attorney John Sullivan to represent them in the matter of the location of the branch of the medical school of the Missouri State university here. The curators of the latter Institution are asking Kansas City to put up $150,000 for the ounaings, donate a site and give the Missouri school complete control of the Kansas City hospital. it is the latter provision which is being most vigorously opposed by the Kansas authorities. "The Kansas State university." said Mr. Sullivan yesterday, "has already $200,000 invested in its school on the Southwest boulevard and when com pleted will have $470,000. It Is not asking for a cent of donations, did not ask a site and did not demand exclu sive control of the city hospital. Most of the members of its faculty are Kan sas City physicians and surgeons, and the poor of Kansas City receive treat ment from the best medical and sur gical talent in the city free of charge. v e can not, of course, oppose the granting to any other school of privi leges which we enjoy, but it Is man ifestly unfair that any school should be given exclusive control of a half million dollar plant. The Missouri authorities say they 'will make terms w:tn other schools." but that ia a dan gerously loose promise. What if the terms are such that no other school can accept them? The only fair and equitable solution of the matter is to let all schools have an equal standing let tne city retain control of Its own nstltutlon and give no school or or ganization exclusive control of hospit al facilities." ALMOST A BUILDIXG BOOM. Permits for Small Places at the Rate of 910,000 a Day. More than $10,000 a day. That's the record of the building permits for the past two days: The following permits have been issued, amounting to a total of $20,725: C. T. Sears, dwelling, lots 14-18. Van Buren street. $1,000; Joseph Brenner man, 1335 and 1337 Fillmore street. $2.- 000 and $3,000; L. S. Link, addition to dwelling, 1039 Pine street, $250; John Killlan, addition to dwelling. 212 Mon roe street, $375; W. T. Lawless, addi tion to livery stable. 519 Ouincv street $600; David Rose worn, dwelling. 1529 Kansas avenue. J2.000; A. Murand, dwel ling, 429 Clay street. $800: Church of the Assumption. 721-723 Jackson street. $6. 000; O. F. Vaughn, dwelling, 1021 Lane street, $1,200; R. A. Coon, addition to dwelling. 716 Jefferson street, $250; Marion Hedges, dwelling, 1136 Wood ward avenue, $1,050; O. W. Bray, dwell ing, 732 Tyler, $2,200. A LONG SHOT PUT. F. Weed Sends Twelve Pounds 32 Feet 10 Inches at V. M. C. A. The games at the Central Y. M. C. A. gymnasium marked the advent of the final series of contests of the season. Four new teams of mn are now competing and the series car ries into May. Last night in the in dividual competition F. Weed put the 12 pound shot 32 feet 10 inches, while G. Russell and S. Sears were close sec ond and third. This establishes a rec ord for the event In the new gymnasi um. Charles Darlington succeeded in breaking the department running high kick record yesterday. Curtis Smith touched the pan at 7 feet SH Inches sev eral weeks ago. while Darlington suc ceeded in raising It to 8 feet 2 Inches. The Cubs won the rope climb, 1 lap hurdles and basketball game and the Athletes the first two events and the indoo' baseball games. Next Wednesday evening the events will be: Stretch kick, high dive, asso ciation track ball, indoor baseball and basketball. May Fight for Food. Shanghai, March 21. Viceroy Tuan Fang is convinced that the situation In the famine districts is so serious that a general uprising will be un avoidable unless prompt relief Is af forded. He has therefore, memor ialized the throne asking for $750, 000 for the purchase of rice In Slam. BULLETIN FRANCE'S INCOME TAX Many Difficulties Are Anticipated in Connection With It. Paris, March 21. The introduction of tne income tax bill has resulted in the publication of manv interesting statis tics drawn up either by opponents of the measure with the view of pointing uui me aiiiicuities to be grappled with uy me treasury collectors In case it be comes law or by supporters of the scneme who desire to extend its scope, uetraetors call the attention of the autnoritles to the enormous number of small holders of the rente, about whom minute inquiries will have to be insti tuted in order to discover whether they ran oe maae naDie ror the new tax un der any of the schedules. Quoting from the official returns thev phuw mu mere are 3.039.525 investors in government rentes who receive less tnan 1,500 francs interest annually; 601, iot uraw less man 30 Irancs and no iewer tnan 1,593,220 less than 20 francs. while of the last figure 634.206 persons receive unaer 10 rrancs annually. On the other hand manv legislator! favor further additions so as to gather inio me nscai at least some of those who now escape very liehtlv. at the same Ume lightening the burden of mose. little able, to bear fresh calls on their purses. M. Coutant is, for Instance, desirous of increasing the percentage ptua oy single persons and reducing the impost on tatners or families in pro portion to the number of iheir proeenv He is to propose the insertion nf n clause Increasing the suggested income tax by one per cent in the case of bachelors and spinsters and widows and widowers without children. There are or this class no less than six million in round figures in France, all between the ages of 18 and 50, counting divorcees of both sexes In the figure and all of them escape more or less from the in direct taxes weighing so heavily on the parents who have large families to pro vide for. This latter M. Coutant would relieve In the following proportions when their total income in the case of workmen is under 3,000 francs: Those having two children would have their taxes reduced by 10 per cent; those with three by 20 per cent; those with four by 30 per cent; those with five by 40 per cent; tnose with six by 50 per cent, while a man and a wife possessing more than six would be entirely free from taxa tion. REVIVAL OF INDEPENDENCE. Ex-Governor Crawford on the Present Public Situation. vvasnington, March 21. "We are having a revival of independent think ing in this country Just now, but I wonder how long it will last," remark ed former Governor Samuel J. Craw- rord or Kansas, at the Ebbitt house the other night. "Independence is asserting itself in business, politics and religion," he continued. "We are liv ing in an era of change. Men are turning from the old moorings and looking toward better things. The governmental cribs are being cleaned, and financial evils are being over thrown, to some extent at least, and men are thinking for themselves in religion. Perhaps we have hardly be gun, and the changes will be sweeping before we are through. "The pendulum will swing backward as it always does, but the world moves in cycles. The parasites and syco phants, political and industrial, stand back for a while, but when we become less independent and suffer a relapse from the strong Individuality we are displaying today, they will come back again like chickens coming home to roost. The political boss and the trust may then assert themselves again. I am not a pessimist. Far from it. We shall never fall back again to where we were before and we have a wonder ful future. But we must be vigilant lest we relapse." Danny Maher Rides Winner. Liverpool. March 21. Danny Maher. the American Jockey, won the Liver pool spring cup here today on Bridge of Canny. Many good, healthful dishes are made from Grape Nuts Salads, Puddings, Cakes, etc Try it. There's a. Reason EECIPES IB" PKGB. The Kappa Thela fraternity of Wash burn will give a. line jfarty at the Grand tonight to see Paul Gilmore In At Yale. The theater party will, be preceded hy an miormal dinner at the Throop. Dr. and Mrs. John H. Out land will chaperone the party which will Include: Miss Lulu Healey, Miss Daisy Monroe. Miss Helen Scott. Miss Maud Markham, Miss Mary Gall, Miss Grace Page, Miss Grace Boles, Miss Anna Henderson, Miss Nadine Lytic, Mi3s Mary Fisher, Miss De Lisle Spear, Miss Celia Smith. Miss Crace Hill. Miss La Vexe Langdon, Miss Clara Daniels, Mr. Preston Coleman, Mr. Arthur Smi ley, Mr. Walter Stahl, Mr. Leslie Mont gomery, Mr. Reuben Markham, Mr. Walter Boles, Mr. Raymond Street, Mr. Erwin Selle, Mr. Fred Hill, Mr. Jesse Litton, Mr. Houston Porter, Mr. Paul McNeely, Mr. LJcyd Jensen, Mr. Frank Boggs, Mr. Edward Flood. The Overmyer-Rafter wedding took place at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of the bride's mother. Mis. David Overmyer, Eleventh and Quincy streets. The Rev. J. H. Jones of Unity church pertormed the' ceremony in the presence of relatives only. The bride. Miss Amy Overmyer, the older daugh ter of Mrs. Overmyer and the late David Overmyer, Wore a traveling toil et In the new apricot shades and car ried white roses. The house was dec orated with jonquils and other spring flowers. Out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Rafter of Holton, par ents of the groom, and Mr. and Mrs. Eldo Hicks of North Vernon, Ind., rel atives of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Raf ter left last night for a short wedding Journey and will return the first of next week to spend a few days with the Ov ermyer family before they go to Holton where their house is ready lor tnem and where they will receive their friends after May 1. No actor who comes to Topeka has more personal friends in the town than Mr. Paul Gilmore. who will present his new college play. At Yale, at the Grand tonight. Mr. Gilmore has been coming to Topeka for a number of years and every year his audiences have grown in size and appreciation. Tonight he will have a capacity house. Every year he has made new friends among the newspaper people and others with whom he has been associated profes sionally or by chanee and everybody whr has met him is delighted with him. He has the most charming personality imaginable, is "corkin" good lookin'," well groomed, clever and entertaining. All this is of course incidental to the main fact that he Is one of the best actors who visits Topeka and that ev eryone who sees him in one play are eager to see him again. Mr. Gilmore collaborated with the author of At Yale and indeed wrote all the comedy lines. He spent a number of weeks at vnio nnri studied the character of Kennedy, the Yale athletic coach, who Is In the play, irom me, wnn air. ncu nedy's acquiescence and assistance. Mrs. niirriorfi. a verv attractive young wo- mon miinllv accompanies Mr. Gilmore on his tours, altnougn sne is not aim has never been on the stage, and is with him this time. They are stopping at the Thrcop. w Th Good Government club will have an adjourned meeting tomorrow arter- noon with Mrs. j. v. (awianu. The Kappa Thetas of Washburn are

wearing colors for .Mr. rani tsoggs, a medical student. The TMvlne Tragedy. Longfellow's dramatic poem with a musical setting will ba eiven at .the .f irst meinoais church tomorrow night for the benefit of the philanthropy committee of the citv federation. The federation will devote the proceeds to the Topeka Omhans' home, a most deserving in stitution which accomplishes perhaps more practical good than any other charity in the state. The admission is twenty-five cents and the entertainment will be excellent in every respect. The drama is to be given in costume and the principal soloist will be Madame Lunde Souther, soprano, assisted by the girls' chorus from the, Washburn music school. Madame soutner win sing number of established favorites among sacred solos like The Holy City and the Palms. The object for which the enter tainment is given is so absolutely worthy and the drama is so appropriate to the approaching seasons of Holy Week and Easter that a large audience should be assured. Mrs. W. D. C. Smith gave a luncheon Wednesday in honor of her sister. Mis. Mason, of Chicago. Covers were laid for twelve. Paul Gilmore!" a gushing matinee girl said today. "Isn't it a coincidence that his initials also stand for Perfectly Grand?" The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Huntoon, has given a contract for Hook-Hastings pipe organ which will be installed by the first of May. Miss Lulu Healy entertained the Or. phelin club today. Dr. A. S. Embree gave a dinner last night for Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Dur ham and their guest, Mrs. J. A. Boyd or .Denver. Mrs. J. F. Lvtle entertained inform ally this aftrnoon for her sister, Mrs. Linn of Mattoon, 111.

Mrs. G. F. Worley and Mrs. M. M. Miller entertained the following guests esteraay arternoon at the worlev nome in f oiwm f .ace: Mrs. L. B, McClintock. Mrs. A. K. Rodgers. Mrs. W. F. Hughes, Mrs. Man- Holmes. Mrs. John E. Moon, Mrs. J. D. Walker. Mrs. E. J. Whiteker. Mrs. Thomas, airs. s. s. .fcistey, Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Stevens. Mrs. Frank Brown, Miss Hat- le Drake. Mrs. Ed Grote. Mrs. W. B. Whitton. Mrs. Eli G. Foster. Mrs. C T. Trapp. Mrs. R. S. Magee. Mrs. L. t. fetrlckler, Mrs. .Levi Hawkins. Mrs. D. H. Scott and Mrs. De Witte Givens, Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. J. R. Shelton of Grand Rapids, Mich., is the guest of her parents, Major and Mrs. N F. Handy. Mrs. E. E. Carpenter is visiting in Rossville. Mrs. C. W. Higglnbotham and Miss Edith Higginbotham of Rossville are spending the week with Mrs. A, C. Sherman. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hurd are spend ing a few days in Chicago. Mrs. W. G. Dickie will leave tomor row for her home in Tulsa, I. T.. after spending a few weeks with her father, Mr. A. L. Williams. Mr. Harry Overholt of California is visiting his daughter. Miss Mary Over- holt. Mrs. Channing 'J. Brown of Blue Rapids, Kan., is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Willis Gleed. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Etter of Albu- querque. .N. M., are the parents of a son to whom they have given the name of William Kirby II. Mr. and Mrs. Nat Black left for Chi cago today for a short stay.- Mrs. George E. Heyden has return ed from a visit In Albuquerque, N. M. Mrs. T. T. Kelly is spending several days in Paola. Mrs. J. A. Boyd of Denver is' the guest of Mrs. T. W. Durham. Mrs. H. A. Auerbach will spend to day in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Allen have gone to Bloomlngton,. 111., called by the death of Mrs. Allen's father. Mr. H. Hedderman. 710 Polk street. left last night for New Mexico in re sponse to a telegram announcing the death of his brother, James Hedder man. Dr. R. A. 'Kimbrough of Mississippi is the guest of his brother, Ur. 1. J Kimbrough and Mrs. Kimbrough. Mr. Charles Hull left yesterday for Pueblo, Colo., called on account of the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Mar garet Hull. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Bowers enter tained at their home on College Hill Sunday the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Swain, Mr. and Mrs. De Bow. Mr. and Mrs. John Bowers, Mrs, Thomas, Mrs. Maggie Shaffer, Mr. Vainhill, Miss Queenie Bowers. The Progressive Bee club will meet with Mr. George O. Boone, 613 Bu chanan street, Friday afternoon. SAVED HIS BOOKS. School Principal. Loses Fortune Play ing. Slot Machines. Alton, 111., March 21. With an arm ful of treasured French, Greek and Latin books. Prof, C. Williams, aged 60 years, lormerly principal of the Humboldt school and also of the pub lie schools at North Alton, was admit ted to the Madison county poor farm today. He was removed from his po sition as school principal five years ago. A year later his wife obtained a di vorce. He became addicted to playing slot machines and since the loss of his position has lost his entire fortune of $12,000 in siot machines and is now pen niless. VVOffl EN GO TO JAIL Martyrs to tlie Cause of Suffrage in England. London, March 21. Seventy-six "suf fracettes," who were arrested yester day for brawling within the precincts of parliament, were sentenced this morning to from $5 or a fortnight In prison, to $10 or a month's imprison ment. They all elected to go to jail and were taken sway in the prison vans among cheers and Jeers of the crowds outside the ponce court. STEEL STRIKE ENDS. Workmen Accept an Increase of 10 Per Cent in Wages. Hammond, Ind., March 21. The strike at the plants of the Republic Iron and Steel company, and the In terstate Steel company at East Chi cago, was settled today, the men ac cepting a 10 per cent Increase. All of the men returned to work. Woman Tossed by a Cow. Middletown',' N. Y.; March 21. Mrs. George S. White of near Bullville, was feeding a cow when it impaled her on its horns and she was tossed high in the air, falling on the floor beneath the animal. She was soon rescued, but her condition is regarded as critical. A Dozen Trains Stranded. San Francisco, Cal., March 21. While the swollen waters of the San Joaquin are falling flood conditions still prevail in the valleys. There are a dozen stranded passenger trains at this place. I TAILOR COSTUME IN The accompanying drawing shows a good design for a street" suit for early spring or the late winter season.- The model was of dark blue light weight cloth, over the surface of which indistinct green lines formed a vague check. The coat was cut in hip length and was trimmed with stitched bands of cloth In plain dark blue. The jacket was plaited on each side of the front and in the back. The cloth bands on each side of the front were drawn through slashes in the revers. The three-ouarter lornrth isvii van trimmed with stitched bands of the cloth and cloth-covered buttons. The skirt was made with four tucked panels, the lower part being trimmed with Duape j uanas 01 cium. ima aesign veiling- trimmed with bands of silk. TO RAISE THE DAM. Twenty Feet to Be Added to the As souan Structure. Cairo, Egypt, March 21. The coun cil of ministers today adopted the proposition to increase the height of the Assouan dam sufficient 'to raise the water stored in that reservoir by near ly 20 feet above the present maximum. It is calculated that this will give suf ficient new water to irrigate another million acres of northern Egypt which it is. estimated would yield an increased cotton crop to the value of $17,500, 000 to $20,000,000 annually. It Is stated that the work will take six years to complete and will cost $7,500,000. WAVES MOVE BOULDERS A Brenk In the I'nlon Paclnc's Salt Lake Cutoff. Ogden, Utah, March 21. Train ser vice on the Southern Pacific west of Ogden was annulled last night by the washing out of a part of the Ogden -Lucin cutoff across Great Salt lake. A heavy wind storm lashed the water Into mighty waves that moved huge boulders Dlaced to protect the em bankment and trestling on the west approach to the lake. At midnight the tracks at Rambo. 35 miles west of Ogden, were submerged and hence there were no trains from the west which have reached Ogden. FIGHT OVER AN ESTATE. Norton County Family Before the Su preme Court. Anneal was taken today to the su preme court from the district court of Norton county in the peculiar case of Gertrude I. Gelvin against Mrs. Ella f: Burnett. Mrs. Emeline Ashworth, v' S. Mclntyre, George R. Mclntyre, r o McTntvre and Ira O. Mclntyre. The plaintiff in the case lives at Oregon, Holt county, mo., ana is me daughter by a first marriage of George Mclntvre. sr.. now dead. The defend ants are all children of George Mc Intire. sr., by a second marriage. Ira U. Mclntyre, one of the children by th KHnnil marriaee. is dead, and Ger trude I. Gelvin claims a right to a 1-14 share of her father's estate as an in horitanrs from Ira Mclntyre. The defense to this petition was that George Mclntyre, sr., had been di vorced from his first wife, the mother of Gertrude, the plalnHrr. ana unaer a Hroo r.r the court had paid to the mother the sum of $500 for the benefit of the child. The children Dy me sec ond marriage claimed that this had fully discharged all obligation to the child by the first marriage, me pmiu tiff in thp nresent case. Tho irwer court held that this was not a good defense; that Gertrude Mc lntyre Gelvin is tntiiiea 10 ner iuu of her father's estate inherited by the deceased child, ira raciniyre. The estate leu Dy unuise m"""!' era! large farms and some city proper ty in Norton county. Confessed Embezzlement. Columbus, O., March 21. Charles G. Irwin, formerly cierK or me jus tice's- court in this city, who was in Hitori f-.n three counts for embezzle ment, nleaded guilty today to one of the counts and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and to jay a fine ot $4&0. How to Remain Young. To continue young in health anil strength do as Mrs. N. F. Rowan. Mc- Donough, Ga., did She saya: "Three bot tles of Electric Jit.ters cured me of chron ic liver and stomach trouble, complicated with such an unhealthy condition of th blood that my skin turned red as flannel. I am now practically 20 years younger tnan nerore 1 iook umric Miners. 1 can now do all my work with ease and assist in my husband's store. Guaranteed at the Arnold urug uo., 6Ji x. Kansas avenue. Price 50c. BLUE CHECK CLOTH. wouia also be excellent for mohair or Aurora Bargain Friday Youths' and Boys Confirmation Suit Sales! Special New models for spring In Boys' Combination Suits, 8 to 17 years, plain or belt coat and two pairs of Knickerbocker pants. Each pair has two hip pockets. We have taken Jive patterns of this popular suit thai were originally planned to be marked e.nu and ana priced them specially for today's selling at only $5.00 Knee Pant $2.95 Boys' Fine Blue Serge Knee Pant Suits, ages 7 to 16 years, nobbiest cuts, $4.00 Suits, Friday New spring combination Norfolk suits 7 to 16 years, for $3.45. We closed out the whole lot at a tremendous saving and we follow our customary plan of giving you the benefit of all our economies. Think of what you can get for $3.45. a double breasted Nor folk coat, two pairs of Knickerbocker pants to match, made of pure wools, new spring patterns and colorings, tailored to wear like iron. Suit alone worth $4, extra pants $1, 4P 2 1 n but we ask for complete Ikl outfit only Boys' Stanch Winter Knockerboeker Norfolk Suits, 9 to 15: alno Russian Overcoats, 3 to 9 years; pretty gray ana Drown mixtures, ior mer $3.60 to $3.95 values, for only $1.85 17 distinct new spring models In Children s Keeters, to 10 years specially priced ror to $3.45 day's selling at $5, $3.95 and New Juvenile Suits, spring '07; Rus sians, 2V4 to 1 years; Sailors, 6 to 10 years; crisp, snappy models, without exception tne most exquisite col orlngs ever created: im ;s ever created: im- r r? ft ie assortment at $10.00, TO.lJil $7.60 and,,...., JJ-rW mense $8.50, Youths' Single and Double Breasted suits, 14 to 20 years, of gp -fl g rr pure all-wool navy blue Ik I 1 1 Ml J serge, nicely tailored, at .r w Youths' Black Confirmation Suits. nne jiay worsted ano $6.85 Thibet, all wool, $10 grades Friday Youths' and Boys' fine 'White Shirts, correct for confirmation wear, cluin or Dlaited bosom, cuffs attached or detached, sizes 12 to 14H. Qr,r Friday at Boys' and Youths' White 95c Vests, special Boys' Telescope College Hats, AO all colors Boys' Knickerbocker all wool, 6 to 17 years. Special Friday Knee pents, 7Sc Boys' Jersey Sweaters, all col- 70r ors, Friday 1 7W Lo Angeles, San Francisco, and many other California points $25.00. Tickets on sale March, April, Septem ber and October. Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and other points in the Northwest, $25.00. Tick ets on sale March, April, September and October. Homeseekers Excursion tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays. Rate in many cases less than one fare and limit twenty-one and thirty days, according to destination. Winter Tourist tickets on sale daily Very low rate. Limit Jane 1st. For farther particulars apply to T. L. KINO, C. P. T. A. L. M. PEN WELL Undertaker and Embalmer. Bit Qulocjr Straoti Eotb Phonos 192 Geo. N. Rax. Assistant. EEWIS'SINGLTTBINDER simkvt5ci6ar You 'pay 10 forXigars not so good Carnations 75c to $1.50 per doz. Roses $1.50 per doz. 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THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JOUENAL THURSDAY; EVENING, MARCH 21, 1907. TELLS HIS STORY Buffalo Jonos Talks of Ex perience With Wild Animals. Passing of the American Bison Graphically Told. VOW OF SKIN HUXTEH. Would SaTe the Noble Urast From Extinction. Sloflng Pictures of Game in Yellowstone Park. A large crowd listened Intently last night to the lecture delivered by Colonel Charles J. Jones, or "Buffalo" Jones as he Is better known in his address on the subject, "A Lifetime Spent With Wild Animals," which he delivered at the First Christian church. Mf. Jones is not a finished lecturer but he is an interesting speaker as ev erything he says comes from a. lifetime of earnest and devoted work among the wild animals of western America. Mr. Tones in order to lecture last night was habit of killing the valuable animals and realizing a profit upon their hides. Colonel Jones did not talk very long as he was not able to do so. He could have told of his experiences for hours and held the attention of his audience at all times but after a brief talk he had the lights turned out and a large number of elides were projected upon the screen. These views showed the great trou ble he has had In preserving his game and accustoming them to domestic life. Views of the coyotes, bears, rat tlesnakes and other animal life of the great west was shown. Moving pictures of Yellowstone Park were shown and the lecture closed with a moving picture of a rop ing contest on the 101 ranch at Bliss, O. T. CALLS EXTRA SESSION. Governor Folk Tells the legislature What He Wishes It to Do. Jefferson City. March 21. Governor Folk has issued his proclamation call ing an extra session of the legislature, with April 9 as the date for its recon vening. April 2, the date originally contemplated, being abandoned be cause on that date municipal and school elections will be generally held over the state. The matters to which the governor calls attention include all those which have been mentioned in forecasts, with several others, making seven, in all one of which is an appropriation for the expenses of the session, mis. BOOST FREIGHT RATES. Railroads File Notice of Increase In Grain, Coal and Iron. Buffalo Jones, Who Delivered His Lecture on Wild Animal Life at Topeka Last Night. compelled to leave a- sick, bedj against the advice of hi3 physician. Colonel Jones prefaced, his remarks by alluding to cn Incident cf his boy hood days which he says laid the foun dation for his carr, -Ittwas the cap ture of a squirrel which he accomplished in a forest as a twelve year old lad when his father had sent him out to cut wood. The squirrel was captured after an exciting time and was later sold for two dollars. It was his first financial experience and from it he drew the les son of making every dollar which he made honestly. He said that the method wnich a child employed to make his first money would be the method of ac quiring it all through life and it was the duty of parents to see that their children made their money in legitimate ways. When Colonel Jones had attained his majority he set out for the plains of Kansas which wej-e at that time filled with roving herds of the American bison. He tried catching them for a while and thenselllng-them into captiv ity for domestic purposes but there were so many of them that people could get all they wanted themselves. It was necessary in some way to make a liveli hood so there was nothing left for the young scout to do but to join a party which was making a business of slaugh tering the buffalo for his hide. Mr. Jones was not in love with this voca tion. He said that the look of sadness in the dying buffalo and their moans made the cold chills run up his back and that every night he would resolve to discard his gun and seek the un fortunate brutes no longer. However, when he would go back to camp he would reflect on the business and when he would see that it only made about fifteen minutes in the life of the buffalo whether he continued or not, he stayed with it for some time. "However," said Mr. Jones. "I then and there made a ow that if there was ever an opportuni ty presented to me to do anything for the buffalo I would do all that it was within my power to do. I am glad to say that I have helped to perpetuata this race of valuable animals. In Yel lowstone Park we have a herd of over fifteen hundred animals. These came from small herd of eighty-three, fifty two of which I captured myself. I am now resting with a clear conscience as I think I have done my duty and paid my vow." "Buffalo" Jones also told of his ef forts in crossing the bison with cattle and the product of which he has named the "cattalo." This animal is destined in the opinion of Mr. Jones to be one of the greatest blessings to mankind. From every standpoint it is much more valuable than the common cattle and it inherits enough of the instincts of its buffalo progenitors to gather its own living from the plains. It will thrive In the coldest winter weather with snow four reet .deep on the ground without the attention of man. Kach animal is worth nearly a thousand dollars. He has also suc ceeded in getting good results by crossing the buffalo with Persian sheep. The buffalo in the estimation of Mr. Jones is the greatest blessing that ever came to Kansas. The fertile soil which makes it possible to raise any product In Kansas is due to the buffalo who has enriched the soil and even at his wards improving the soil. For several years Colonel Jones was game warden of the Yellowstone Na tional park and while In that capacity he bad a great deal of influence in perpetuating the early wild animals of America. He has had a part in killing off the mountain Hons and other ene mies of the elk and antelope. In this connection Colonel Jones scored the soldiers who are sent to the park as guards as many of them are in tbe however, does not mean that attention will not be directed to still other sub jects, because the proclamation, after enumerating the several measures which are to be considered, says and "to consider any other subject that may be submitted by special message aurins such session. Nothing can be learned as to the probable nature of special messages. should there be any under considera tion at this time, but it is believed that county supervision of schools will be one. Home rule, dramshop legislation. the recall or "fuo warranto" and the suppression of race track gambling and the enabling act are the principal features of the proclamation, which, in full, follows: "By virtue of authority in me vested by the constitution of the state of Mis sourl, I, Joseph W. Folk, governor of Missouri, do hereby convene the Forty-fourth general assembly of the state of Missouri in extra session, at the capitol In Jefferson City, on Tues day, April 9, 1907, at 12 o'clock noon, for the following purposes: "First To enact such legislation as may be necessary to provide for the regulation of the rates of public utility corporations. "Second To enact legislation regu lating and controlling dramshops. "Third To provide legislative en actments for the enforcement of the dramshop laws throughout the state. "Fourth To provide for the re moval or recall of derelict officials. "Fifth To enact laws relating to the police systems of cities of this state of 100,000 Inhabitants or over. "Sixth To provide an enactment, with emergency clause, for the sup pression of race track gambling. "Seventh To consider any other subject that may be submitted by spe cial message during such session. "Eighth To make an appropriation for the expenses of this extra session of the general assembly." GETS A PRIZE -AND DIES. Town Belle Expires After Skating Four Hours in a Rink. .Rayville, La.. March 21. "I feel so tired, gasped Miss Mary Hixon, 20 years old, the belle of the town, last midnight after she had skated four hours in a roller rink without missing a number. Miss Hixon fell back Into the arms of her escort. Roland Wil liams, and was dead in a few seconds. A physician said that the night's ex ertion had affected the girl's heart. Miss Hixon recently adopted the roller craze, and had become a proficient skater. An hour before being stricken she and her partner had been awarded the prize for the most graceful couple on the floor. Another Transcontinental Line. San Francisco, Cal., March 21. The Brock syndicate of Philadelphia, has it is said, purchased the Mono Lake railway in Mono county,, this state, together with 100 million feet of standing timber in that section. The road is 3 2 miles long. It Is to b broad gauged and will be connected with the Tonopah and Goldfield road, which the Brock people own, by filling in the 35 mile gap between Tonopah Junction Nev.. and Bodi, Cal. It is expected" that by connections with the Sierra railway and thence by new lines contemplated via Manhattan, E1V and Salt Lake, another transcontinen tial railway will be established. The Pope To Be Godfather. Rome. March 21. The pope has ac cepted the invitation to be godfather to the expected child of Kine Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain. Chicago, March .21. A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Washington says: In retaliation for the action of state legislatures in providing for 2-rfient fares, and the public agitation against them, the railroads of the west have served notice on the interstate com merce commission of an increase of freight rates on grain, coal and iron. This will result in a test of the con stitutionality of the. rate law. The roads will endeavor to show that they are now unable to carry these com modities ar a profit under the rate which has been in effect for the last two years, and that an increase is nec essary. Notice has been sent to the commis sion by all the trunk lines out of Chi cago that the rate on grain from Chi cago to New York will be increased after April 1 from 17 cents a hun dred pounds to 19 cents. Coal mine operators and shippers in Illinois have been before the commission for two days protesting against a proposed in- I crease in tne rate: on coal,, and the same is true on iron. One of the i causes assigned by the railroads for the increase is that they find it difficult, on account of the public agitation against mem, to Dorrow money with which to make betterments. and that they can get this money only at high rates: added cost of money, together with the increased cost of labor and material, and general increase of operating ex penses leave nothing to be done but to increase freight rates. In the repre sentations so far made to the commie sion not a single road has taken into consideration the increase in its reve nues because of the cutting off of re bates and free transportation, a most important item, according to the rail road presidents who appeared before the interstate commerce commission of the senate and house. E. H. Harriman, during his recent visit to Washine-ton, in explaining the Increased cost of borrowing money. said it was due entirely to the public agitation against the railroads, which had so frightened the money lenders that they demanded from 25 to 30 per cent more than ever before. The determination of the railroads to increase rates all along the line has been apparent to the Interstate com merce commission for several weeks. With the increase the test of the validity of the new rate regulation law will come. The commission will then be compelled to decide what "a just and reasonable" rate is. Members of the commission believe that any de cision made lowering the rates fixed by the railroads will be immediately taken into the courts to test the con stitutionality of the act. Already the commission is planning to get quick action by the supreme court should the roads desire to test the law. The department of justice will ask that a decision be had at the very earliest moment. LAWS ENOUGH NOW. Harriman Says All That Is Needed Is Enforcement. New York. March 21. E. H. Har riman. in an interview published to-J aay in tne American, replies to tne statement credited to John D. Rocke feller, in which the latter declared against overcapitalization of railways and other corporations, and in favor pt government control of railroads. Mr. Harriman was asked what he thought of Mr. Rockefeller's statement that there should be federal control of railroads.-and replied: "There is federal control now. That arm of the government to which Is delegated the power for supervision of railroads is equipped with enormous responsibility. There! are laws enough on the statute hooks- now more than enough.. All that is accessary is to have them Judiciously and wisely ad ministered. There Is no need for sup plemental supervision." Mr. Harriman declared the roads are not overcapitalised for the country and its capabilities. "Take any road, say the Pennsylva nia you have been over it. Did you ever notice' the miles and miles of abandoned "tracks? You have seen them criss-crossing everywhere you go. In stead or tnat you will now see the straight lines, the wonderful ballasting. In counting your capitalization think of the money that has gone into the abandoned lines, bridges, and termi nals. They must be, considered a part of the constructive cost and when you take that in you will find that you have not over-capitalized. "Now take the dividend matter. There are not. a great many roads in the country paying 6 per cent dividends. Look at the matter in this light: A man who takes a preferred security must be contented with smaller interest re turns. Suppose ybur bonds return 3 or 3 per cent your preferred stock 4 or 5. Now take your average divi dend and you will find that you have not over-capitalized. TRIAL OF SCHOOL BOY. MARKETSTODAY. Wheat Opens Weak on the Lower Cables. Same Conditions Also Hake Corn EasJor. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Aro Steady NatiTes Bring 4.50 to 6.35. Hogs Are Weak to Fir Cents Lower. Euill Thomas Charged With Killing James Johnson at Pratt. GIRL BALKS AT ALTAR. Miss McCormick, Aged 18. Refuses to Wed After She Had Eloped. Chicago, March 21. "No, I -won't; I won't get married. I've changed my mind. Take me back to mamma. I love you, Arthur, and I'd like to, but- Miss Geraldine McCormick, 18 years old, refused to carry out her part of the program at Crown Point, Ind., to day, in a drama in which Arthur Rupp. 22 years old; livingMn' Chicago, was cast for the hero's part7 The couple went to Crown Point from Chi cago to get married. Miss McCormick had defied her parents, who op posed the match, and had announced that nothing would prevent her from becoming Mrs. Arthur Rupp. On the strength of her assurance Rupp had invested in a new tie and a marriage license. When the justice was about to make them one, the near-bride re belled. "What did you come down here for, then?" protested Rupp. "But I'm afraid. I'm afraid to get married." replied the heroine. No amount of pleading and argu ment could Induce Miss McCormick to alter her mind. Neither would she explain further her reason for the ac tion. Rupp is keeping the license in a for lorn hope. "They would not give me my back, anyway," he said. 92 Legal Rattle in Three States. Los Angeles, Cal., March 21. A le gal battle for possession of the two minor daughters of Mr. and Mrs. God frey which haa been waged in the courts of Indiana and Ohio and Cali fornia, was decided yesterday by Judge Bordwell of the superior court. The court awards permanent posses sion of the two daughters to the mother. Pratt, Kan., March 21. The district court is in cession here and the trial of Emil Thomas, charged with the murder of James Johnson of this county, is now in progress. The regular impanel led jury was. scon exhausted and 30 extra mon were called, out of which a jury was selected. This case is creating no small amount of Interest as Thomas, the defendant, was a pupil of th,e high school here come time ago and was well liked. Mrs. Johnson, the, widow of the mur dersd man, appeared dressed In black, holding her. infant,, born since the death of the father.- Mrs.,Johnson is a come ly looking lady with a face that shows emotion easily. She wept while At torney Crawford was making his state ment to the Jury, telling them evidence would prove that; Thomas knocked Jchnson down and' that a large scar was visible to the coroner's jury, which corresponded identically with the club that was found near the dead man. Witnesses- are here from all over western Kansas and the case promises a hard fight, on both sides. A. F. WILUAJS SCORES. Gets a Street -Railway Franchise at Sulphur, I. T. Sulphur, I. T., March. 21. City coun cil Monday, night. granted franchises as follows: Electric Street railway to Archibald F. Williams, Topeka, Kan.; natural gas, V. Cs' Wall, Sulphur, I. T.; second telephone system, E. J. Hines, Tulsa. I. T. FOCXD FLAYING WITH WOLF. Animal Had Escaed From Its Cage and Killed Two Dogs. Beaver, Pa., March 21. Discovering that the cage within which it was con fined was insecure, a gray wolf that Wilson Watterson has had in captivity escaped and terrorized the town and Its suburbs, killing while it was free two large dogs. On the afternoon that the animal was at large. Mrs. Binge, a resident of the lower pait of town, went out to look for her daughter, Nina, 5 years old, who had been sled riding, and found the tot standing by the big gray wolf in the center of the street patting him and gurgling ;'Nice doggie, nice dog gie!" The mother almost fainted. She call ed to her child to come away from the "nice doggie who might bite," and with tears the little one obeyed. She had i Chicago.March 21. WHEAT The wheat market today opened weak because of lower cables and reports received by var ious commission houses declaring fall's own crop to be in excellent condition. The strength of corn and oats was a bull ish factor. May wheat opened 6c-to c lower, at 7475c, sold at 74-c, and tnen railed to 75c. Minneapolis, -Duluih and Chicago reported receipts of 371 cars. Later the market became strong on re ports of hot weather in Kansas and Okla homa. May sold up to 75c, and closed strong, at 75e, (&c above yesterday's close. CORN The corn market opened easier because of lower cables, but quickly ral lied on buying by commission houros which was based upon the fact that local receipt today were more than 100 cars be low the estmate.May corn opened a shade lower, at 4tic, sold at 4646c, and then advanced to 40 He. The close was firm, c higher, at 46&46c. OATS The oats market opened easier, but rallied in sympathy with corn. May opened unchanged to He lower, at 41(ii 4174c. and advanced to 42e. PROVISIONS The provisions market was weak because of a 5c decline in live hogs. Trading was very quiet. May pork opened 12igl7c lower, at $15.5o15.55. Lard was down 5!12c. at S. 7Kg.77 Ribs were 1215c lower, at $8.50. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, 74a'i4c; No. S red, 73g74c; No. 2 hard, 73S'76c; No. 3 hard, 66ia74c: No. 1 northern. S86c; No. 2 northern, S0S5c; No. 3 spring, 75gS3c. CORN No. 3, 43g'44c. OATS No. 2. 42c; No. 3, 41c. RYE Cash: 6869c. BARLEY Cash 62571c. Chicago Markets. CFurnishe.l by 1. E. Oall. commission Grains. Provisions C.'llori and Stocks Office 110 West Sixth street. Phone 4S 1 Chicaso, March 21. May July Sept CORN May July Sept OATS May July Sept PORK May July LAKD May July RIBS May July Open High Low Closo ie. 7t5-74 73 74 75 75- 76 77 76 77'- 76 77- 78 77 78 77 .46 47 46- 46- 46- 45 46 46 46 45 46- 46 40 46 46 41- 42- 41 42 41 36-37 37- 36 37 3, 32 32 32 32 32 .15 55 16 65 15 50 15 62 15 67' .15 70 15 75 15 65 15 75 15 77 8 70-77 8 77 8 65 8 67 8 S2 8 80-87 8 87 8 75 8 77 8 02 8 50-52 8 60-62 8 47 8 57 8 62-65 8 72-60 8 72 8 60 8 67-70 8 75 National Board- of Trade. Kansas City. (.Furnished Dy J. K. Gall. Commissions, Grains. Provisions. Cotton and StocKs. Office U0 West Sixth street. Phone 4S6.1 .r Kansas City. March 21. Open Hlga Low Clo.a Ves. "R'HFAT-" May ...68 69 6S 69 68 SHEFPEEIS TOCK To Insura Yourselves Best Results Consign To Clay, Robinson Go., Lira Stock Commission Merchants; Stock Yards, Kansas Cilj. WE ALSO HAVE nil OWN OFPKEI T CHICAGO. 63. 51. jossrn v fi MiToKAMA. OEaVZ. I0UX CJIY. .80. STT PAUL E. BUfFALO, JJ July 69 Sept 71 CORN May 41 July 41 Sept'... 42 OATS May- 40-40- 40 July ...;35- 36 PORK May ,;.15 40 July ..:15 60 Lard May 8 67 July 8 60 RIRS May 8 45 71 69 71-72 71 '71 70-H ,71-72 71 rl 41 41 40 41 41 41- 41-' 42- 42 42 42 4O-40 40' 40-40 35- 86-36 35- 15 52 15 o 8 67 8 SO 15 40' 15 57 8 62 8' 72 15 52 15 65 8 62 8 72 15 67 15 67 8 77 8 87 R .v 8 4S 8 52 8 57-G0 July 8 65-67 8 65-67 8 62-65 8 62-65 8 70 Kkikim "it l.lv W-. J Kansas City. Mo., March 21. CATTLE Receiepts today, 3,000 head, including 400 head of southerns. Market .steady. Na tive steers. 4.506.35; southern steers. J3. (5 5.25; southern cows. $2.754.00; native cows and heifers, t3.005.25; stockers ind feeders, $3.755.25; bulls, $3.004.25; calves, $3.2607.00; western fed steers, $4.00o..5; western fed sows, $3.0CKg4.50. HOGS Receipts today, 11.000 head. Mar ket weak to 5c lower. "Bulk of snles, 6.30i6.35; heavy, 6.326.37 packers, .30Si3.40;-plgs and light, $o.50.40. SHEEP Receipts today, 4.000 head. Market steady. Muttons. $5.20-60: 'a'"03; 7.257.50; range wethers, $5.o06.i5; ea ewes, $5.005-75. Chicago I-ive Stock Market. Chicago. 111., March 21. CATTLE I5" ceipts today, 7.000 head. Market weak. Beeves, $4.00!fi6.70; cows, J1.654.S0: heifers, $2.605.25; calves, 5.0O7.25; good to prirne steers, $5.35(86.70; poor to medium, $4-&(8 5.30; stockers and feeders, $2.754.80. HOGS Receipts today, 27,000 head. Mar ket 5c lower. Light, $6.a.60; mixed, 6.40 6S.72: heavy, $6.256.57; rough,- $6.25'9 6.35: pies. $5.S56.50; good to choice heavy. $6.4&"a6.o7. SHEEP Receipts today, 12,000 Market weak. Natives. $4.0Oifi.2O; westerns, $4.00 i.20; yearlings. $6.00(S.90; lambs, $6.0oy 6.90; ewes, $6.007.90. Knnsaa City Live Stock Sales Today. I't'lie fcllowing sales were made today at the stock yards, Kansas City, Mo., and telephoned to The Topeka State Journal' by Clay, Robinson Co.. live stock com mission merchant.' with offices at ail uuu'kets.J Kansas City, March 21. CATTLE Receipts today,. 3.000 head. Market steady to weak. HOGS Receipts today, 12,000 head. Mar ket 510c lower. Bulk of sales, $6.&iS6-30; top, .3HI6.32. SHEEP Receipts today, 4,000 Market steady. killing steers. No. WL price-INo. Wt. 15. 9S0 $4.75 I 32... 1130 6 1000 5.10 20 840 18 1010 4.45 I COWS AND 1-lfc.l.r HirtM head. Prlca $5.05 4.15 1 .'550 1 620 1 1084 10... 840 3 1016 1 1310 9 618 2.00 3.50 4.00 8.75 3.40 .4.35 4.90 720 .1030 2.. 1. 21 698 5 960 4 1212 11 6S6 BTOCKERS Aiff FEEDKRS. stunned but a short distance from the big wolf when the crack of a rifle and the w-nistie oi a. duuci tiuuuuca me n lml's death knell. Watterson and another man had been nearby trying to get a shot at the wolf when the child ran up ana began to ion- dle it. SAYS HE'S CRAZY. (Continued from Page One.) that his insanity was such that he was inanable of knowing nis act was wronar as reaulred by the statute. "I believe the Thaw case and the Taschkian case to be be exactly par ailel." District Attorney Jerome said today. "Both are insane, and both are suffering from paranoia. The trial of Thaw is an outrage. He should be sent to an insane asylum. But under the law I have not been able to show- that he is insane. I am bound by the legal aspect of the case and the moral side of it. I am not allowed to forge into it. My very experts, who have testified that they do not believe that Thaw's mental condition was such that ho did not know the nature and quality of his act and that it was wrong, are readv to testifv that they believe him to be insane. I have tried throughout this case to bring In this moral aspect, but I have been balked at every step. Therefore there has been nothing for me to do but to conduct the case along the strict legal lines. I believe Thaw- Is insane, and I believe the insane hos pital is the place for him. Not one of the alienists who has been on the stand has examined Thaw since Octo ber, and not one work of testimony re garding his mental condition since that time has been put in evidence. BITES FTXGER OF A ROBBER. Queen WlUielmina and Her Plucky H usband. Prince Henry. Who Helped uo.-i.Kvii, vi in c wrecked Steamer Heron. New Tork, March 21. Attacked by two highwaymen In the hallway of her daughter's house, 279 East Third street, Mrs. Beckie Tuster got one of the fingers of her assailant between her teeth and held on while he screamed with pain. His yells brought out the tenants of the house, and both men- fled. Mrs. Tuster lost two of her front teeth. Mrs Tuster wore a pair of diamond earrings and the man whose finger she bit strove to get them, but in grasping for her cars in the dark hall wav his hand went into her mouth. Mr3. Tuster lives at 51 Seventh streets. She is short and stout and sturdy. Last night she went to call on her daughter. Mrs. Tillie Bienstock. at the Third street address. She entered the vestibule of the tene ment and at the same instant two men sprang at her. One man threw his arm" around her head and face to stifle her' cries, and the other caught her around the waist. Together they threw her to the floor. One man tried to seize her cars to tear out the dia monds, but Mrs. Tuster. writhing un der the grasp of her captors, moved her head about so quickly that the right forefinger of the robber went Into her mouth. Her teeth closed on it like a trap, and he was held fast. He strove fiercely to get his finger free, and with his other hand he struck Mrs. Tuster in the face, but she held on to the finger. With a scream the robber Jerked his finger, out of the woman's mouth and fled with his companion. When Mrs. Tuster was carried into" her daughter's rooms she found-two of her teeth were gone, but she had her earrings. 1 510. 4 420 55. .1019 21 976 2........ 825 2 313 120 6.... 1.. 58.. 4.. 41. 2 1... 1480 5 1160 No. 60. Wt. 197 250 4.75 3.35 4.85 4.75 3.35 CALVKS. 4.25 1 4. 7.00 f HULLS. 3.85 I 2. 3.50 JiOGS. Price.INo, $6.25 54 473 710 691 570 610 S40 ..1320 No. 19S 6.27 69 2S7 8.10 3.50 4.35 3.5 4.35 4.65 4.00 3.85 4.40 3.75 4.40 3.75 3.75 Pric. $6.25 6.30 Knn Cltv l'Totluce Jlnrket. Kansas City, March 21. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 75 cars. Market un changed, wth quotations as follows: May, 69c: July. 71c; Sept., 71c. Cash: No. 2 hard. 7073e; No. 3 hard. 6772c; No. 2 red, 74u75c; No. 3 red, 6Si&73c. CORN Market unchanged to c higher. May, 41c; July. 41c; Sept., 42c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 4142c; No. 3 mixed. 41c; No. 2 white. 43c; No. 3 white, 4242c. OATS Market (gc higher. No.. 2 white, 4242c; No. 2 mixed, 4040c. RYE Market steady, 620-630.. HAY Market steady. Choice timothy, $14 50ffl5 W; choice prairie, $11.25fg-12.00. BUTTER Market firm to higher.Cream eery. 29c; packing. ?0c. EGGS Market higher. Fresh, 15c. Chicago Produce Slurket. Chicago, 111., March 21. CHEESE Mar ket firm. Daisies, 15c; Twins, 14'&I5c; Young Americas, 1516c. POULTRY Alive poultry steady. Tur kevs. 12c; ehlckcns and springs, 13c. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery, 22 29c: dairy, 2027c. EGGS Market steady. At mark, cases Included, 16c J'w York Produce Market. New York, March 21. BUTTER Mar ket firm. Western Imitation creamery, ex tras. 2fi27c. CHEESE Market firm. State full cream colored small October best, 14314c: same n-hite, 1314c; same good to prime, 13(r 13ic; winter made average best. -3c; large Ceptember fancy. 14c; same Oc tober best, 13(ftl4c; same good to prime, i-iffi.iiic: inferior. ll12c: state full cream small, September fancy, 15c; saia EGGS Market firmer. Western firsts. lSf?lSc; official price. I8c; seconds, 1 g:18c. POULTRY Alive poultry steady. West ern chickens, Kxa12c; fowls, 17c; turkeys. 13c. Dressed poultry steady. Western chickens, 10c; turkeys, 1015c; fowls, 11 15c. Market Gossip- Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commission. Grains, Provisions. Cotton snd Stuck. Office 110 West Sixth street. Phons lao.i T.iveroool opening cables: Wheat d lower; corn nlraa lower. Liverpool. 1 :30 p. m. Wheat d lower; corn 3a lower. New York Stocks. Wall St.. New York.March 21. STOCX3 The stocK marxet openea ratner lever ish and irregular. Some stocks followed London to a higher level, but there were rharp declines in other prominent -issues American Smelting fell 2 points. I.-nlon Poclflc and Erie 1 points. Southern Pa cific IVi points. Amalgamated Copper 1 points and Psnnsylvanla, Reading, North western and Northern Pacific a- plnt. Operations were limited. Supporting orders checked the decline before the opening losses had been much extending. Smelting was the prncipal weak feature and only managed to make up half of Its former loss, although other stocks scored pretty full recoveries. The market fluctuated nervously after the re covery and dealings were small. An advance in Union Pacific to 1 points over last nisht pulled the general market it with It. Prices were unstable at the advance and fluctuated constantly on tight dealings. St. Paul preferred de clined 4 points, Canadian Pacific and Kan sas City Southern preferred 1 point. St. Louis and San Francisco second prefer red rose 2 ponts. Great Northern pre ferred 2 points. General Electric 1 points and Sugar 1 point. Bonds were heavy. Continued absorption on a light scale, of Reading and Union Pacific gave a set back and Union Pacific gave a further up ward impetus to prices- but the demand was not sustained after the western stocks began to get strong. Business was practically at e. standstill and prices were drooping at 1 o'clock. Great Northern preferred's rise reached 3 points. Reading and Union Pacific 1 points, Kansas and Texas preferred 1 points. Northern Pa cific VA. points and St". Paul and Great Northern Ore certificates 1 i-oint. i nnse of Price on Stock. FFurnlshed by J. E. GalL Commissions. -Grains. Provisions, Coiion ajiti Stock. .Office 110 W. Sixth St. Phont 4PS.1 New York. Murch 2L Op'n High Low Ol'se Ye 121 122 121 122 121 89 89 89 89 SS 93 94 91 93 33 54 54 53 64 54 37 36 37 37 36. 37 T7 U-. S. Steel. pfd...l00 100 99 1C0 99 Atchison,-com 81 92 90 92 91 14 144 13- 14 Igsi 130 132 130 132 130 21 22 21 22 21 25 25 25 25 26 72 734 -72 73 72 JlYi 1JUB HO 130 111 'Stocks Sugar People's Gas Amal. Copper B. R. T Am. C. F. U. S. Steel, com G. W. St. Paul R. -I., com Wabash, pfd Mo. Pacific Am. Smelting N. Y. Central 118 11S 117 118 118 Texas Pacific So. Pacific Reading Erie So. Railway Union Pacific C. O B. O L. N. Katy Pennsylvania Can. Pac. 28 28 28 i 2 25 80 81 80 I 81 81 103 105 103 105 10; 28 2S 27 28 29 22 23 22 23 22 135 137 133 137 135 41 41 41 41 41 99 99 99 9Jt 117 118 117 .118 117-i 64 65 64 65 64 121 123 121 12' 122 171 172 171 171 171 C. F. I. 35 35 35 35 35' Xfw Tork Money Market. "New York, March 21. MONEY Money on call steady, 334 per cent; ruling rate 4 per cent closing bid 3 per cent, and offered at 4 per cent. Time loans strong. Sixty and 90 days and 6 months, 6 per cent bid. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 86 per cent; sterling exchange firm, with ac tual business In bankers' bills at $4.839 4.8330 for demand and at $4.7SVW'4.7865 for 00 day bills; posted rates. $4.8Or4.80 and $4.S4ff4 85; commercial bUls, $4.78. SILVER Bar silver, OGf jc; Mexican dol lars. 51c. BONDS Government bonds steady. Sngar unci CofTew Market. New York, March 2L SUGAR-Raw su gar firm. Fair refining, 3c; centrifugal, it test, 3c; molasses sugar, 2c. Refined sugar steady. Crushed, $540; powdered, $4.S0; granulated, $4.70. COFFEE Market steady. No. 7 Rio, 7c; .No. 4 Santos, Sc. Cotton .Market. New York, March 21. COTTON Sales today, 1,800 bales. Spot cotton closed steady and 10 points hgher. Mddtoig up lands, $11.10; middling gulf. $11.35. Topeka Market. Furnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co. Yards close at noon Saturdays. Topeka, Match 21. HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS' ..$5.85 (ff 00 HEAVY 0 5.95 LIGHT 5.80 fe.o0 Stags $1.001.50 less than hogs, accord ing to quality. a CALVES CALVES. 200 lbs. AND UNDER-$4.0fVff4.2S CALVES, HEAVY, 25035l 2.00$i.iA CORN FED COWS. EXTRA GOOD 3.003.15 MEDIUM 2.503.40 FAIR KILLERS .......v--. 2.00u)2.a) CORN FED HEIFERS. EXTRA GOOD T15a3.0 MEDIUM 2.6OW3.0O FAIR KILLERS 2.OO&2.50 CORN FED BULLS. CHOICE .....-$2.50-! 75 KILLING 2"S-'? TRIMMERS -..,2.fl02.a. GRAIN MARKET. Furnished by J. B. Blllard. Cerral Mills, 534 North Kansas ave.J NO. 2 WHEAT j 62o NO. 3 WHEAT 60o NO. 4 WHEAT So NO. GRADE WHEAT 57c CORN -r 38o NO. 2 OATS S2o NO. 3 OATS SOo BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY. Furnished by Topeka Packing Co., 114 116 West Laurent stJ POULTRY Broilers, 2 lbs., 10c; hens, 9c lb.; coarse young roosters, 6c; spring chickens, 8c; live turkeys, 12c; ducks, 9c EGG3 Freshcountry, 13c. BUTTER Fresh country, 1822c FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. TFurnlshed by S. E. Lux. 210 Kan. a.ve.1 CALIFORNIA ORAiNGES. Per box ...$3.7t GRAPE FRUITS. Per box ....$6.50 NEW LEMONS.- Per box .$4.09 TANGERINES. Per box ..$2.00 BANANAS. Medium sized bunches ....$1.7592.00 Large bunches 2.262.&0 GRAPES. Almeria.per bbi 46.508.00 FRESH VEGETABLES. Radishes, per dos. Beets per doz Turnips, per doz Horseradish, per lb Snlnanh. ter bu Parsley, per doz 40o Rutabagas, per lb lo Lettuce, per basket 75Jf.J0o CRANBERRIES. Per barrel $S.2t COCOAKUT8. Per dozen 45o Per sack- $4.00 COLORADO AMJ UTAH HONEY. Strictly 1st class, per 24 rack case$3.2SS3.10 APPLES. Per bu.-barrel $3.0034. 00 NEW. FIGS. Per box .....v. i. 73i DATES. Hallowl ,per lb 1. 6a Salr, per lb ,6i STRAWBERRIES. Per 24 qt.-crate $s 80 Per bu $i.;e MISSOURI HICKORY NUTS. PACKAGE DATES. Per box $2.00 SEED POTATOES. Bliss Triumphs, per bu 85 Early Rose, per bu ............R6a Kaw Valley, per bu ss0 Early Ohio, per bu..... SWEET POTATOES. Per bu. -rCABBAGE: 4W02'. fer lb- oNioNs: Yellow $l.is Kea 1.35 Bets Spanish CELERY. Per doz.bunches OYSTERS. Standard, per can N. Y. Extra select, can N. Y. Counts, can.. BULK OYSTERS. N.-Y.' Counts, gal ....w Extra Selects, gal Standard, gal FULL CREAM CHEESE. Kansas Y. A., lb N..Y. State, white, lb Block Swiss, lb Brick, lb. Limburger. lb Daisy (30-lb. bulks. Ib. Dairy Twin 2 to box) lb Wisconsin White, lb HAY. Furnished by the City Hay Market. 411 Quincy street. SRIHIEBa"1, ,1100S1 Ke. m ALFALFA Loose, $14.00. 1 Topeka Hide Mnrket. Prices paid in Topeka this week, base on Boston quotations. Tnnolra ir GREEN SALT CURED....." ini- NO. 1 HORSE $2 Sort's NO. 1 TALLOW W-MWS.flt ....40o ....40o 60o J.oo ......-.$1.85 KS5o 25fl" 35o 46o $2 00 1 85 1.50 ....16a ....170 15a 18a ....16o ....lo 16a ....17o

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THE TOPEKA DAWE STATE JQTJRNAIr-THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH -21 1907. 7 THE GANZ CONCERT. Great Pianist Delights a Larsc Audi ence In Topeka, The Rudolph Gam piano concert fared better with local concert goers than Lhevinne's given earlier In the sea eon at the Grand and for Topeka the audience that greeted the Swiss pianist at the Auditorium last night was large The Washburn music school was of coarse well represented, the dean, Mr. Alf Kllngenberg, having secured the engagement,, and most of the musical elect of the town were there but still there were not enough paid admissions to meet all the expenses of the engage ment. "Mr. Klingenberg had not hoped to do more than this. He brought JVir, Uanx here from artistic not financial motives and said this morning that he was grateful for the patronage of his friends who attended the concert, ana thus proved the sincerity of their In terest In a trulv artistic performance. It Is taken for granted, nowadays, that every concert pianist is equipped with an adequate technic that no play er arrears before the public unless ne is technician enough to express what the composers have said. Moredver, Ru dolph Ganz's fame is established. He has won an enviable position In the world of music. His audience last night therefore expected to hear a great plan- 1st to enjoy a thoroughly satisfactory performance. In his first numbers. Brahm's Rhapsody In G minor and Capriccio In B minor, Dohnanyi's Rhapsodies In F sharp minor and in C sharp minor, he entirely came up to the average expectations of his audience but it was not until he had begun on the Schumann F sharp minor concerto that he aroused any frreat degree or en thusiasm. In this he proved that he had a good deal besides mere technic. He showed poetical intuition and pro nounced musical instinct and the beau tiful quality of his tone has not been excelled by any pianist who has played In Topeka In fact is not excelled by any of the great concert pianists. It Is the most delightful and memorable thins about his performance tnat ex quisite, limid, flawless tone that sang out so enchantlngly even in the faintest pianissimo In the different movements of the Schumann sonata and in the Chopin G minor Nocturne. "The music of Mr. Ganz," a clever woman said this morning, "Is pervad ed by a certain fine sentiment distinct from sentimentality." And this char acterizes perfectly the spirit of his art. There Is something fresh and whole some and sane and natural about his interpretations that is most delight ful. His absolute lack of pose, of mannerisms, either in his performance or his personality, inspire one with im mediate respect and confidence; and he has a modest and straightforward bearing which Instantly inclines his hearers in his favor. For a final encore last night, follow ing the List E minor polonaise. Mr. Ganz played by special request of Mr. Kllngenberg a composition new to To peka audiences and typical of the most modern school, IV Isles Joyeuse of Dubussy. It was a delicious thing apart from its complete novelty a scintillating, sparkling, dazzling, vivacious creation, to the admirable interpretation of which Mr. Ganz brought the clearest, crispest technic, that crystalline tone quality always In evidence in his performance, and a faultless style.-- The concert was one of the real events of the social musical season." Nobody who heard It cotifd have failed to succumb to the fascina tions of Ganz the sweep of his tem perament, the beauty of his tone above all. the delicacy and poetry of his conceptions and his translations of these Into tone color. SIEGEL HOWIE LOOTED. Valuable Paintings Cut From Frames and Stolen. New "Fork. March 21. The summer, nome at aiamaroneck of Henry Siege, proprietor of several department stores in New York and other ctties. was looted by thieves last night. The house was occupied only by caretak ers, Mr. Siegel being in Boston and Mrs. Siegel in New York. Six or seven valuable oil paintings were cut from their frames and stolen. Costly bric-a-brac which adorned the house was thrown about and closets and bureaus were ransacked and their contents scattered about the floors. Ntcaragna Reports a Victory. Paris, March 21. The following dis patch was received today by the Nlca raguan legation from the minister of foreign affairs of Nacarrigua: "Five thousand Salvadoreans and Hondu reans have been decisively defeated at Portillos de Namasique, after a bloody three days' battle." 503 Kansas Ave. UP-TO-DATE Moving Pictures AND Illustrated Songs CONTINUOUS SHOW BIG PROGRAM FEATURING THE ITROFE.O BASK ROBBERY With many other popular succ.ss.. SPECIAL Children's Matinee Saturday CHILDREN C ADMITTED FOR O O NEXT WEEK SPECIAL THE HARDY SISTERS "The Texas Nightingales" AND Miss Edna Mileham IN POHULAR SONUS 5c Admission 5c THE "VflV" SMALL HAT OF DRAPED Pale blue velvet was used for the toque shown in the sketch, the trim ming consisting of a large pinkish lav ender rose with foliage, and a cache peigne of tulle to match the velvet. The model would also be good in black velvet, with an American beauty rose and black tulle, or in various other combinations to match the costume for which the hat Is designed. NOUTU TOFEKA. 11 Leave Items for this ooluran with. K-imMii ranting uou. K3 North Kauiaas avenua. George Fiederlmg of station "A" Is taking a day oft. George Frisbie was In town today from Grantville. Dr. Frisbie, of Silver Lake, was a North side visitor today. Mrs. Hart, of Elmont. was the Kuest yesterday of North side friends. G. E. Blevins, of Jackson county. was a North side visitor yesterday. P. H. Steward was down from Hoyt yesterday looking after business mat ters. Fore Sale Bed, dresser and couch. good as new. 1113 Jackson street, see ond floor. H. Hall has sold his rrorertv on itlorse street to Mr. Newberry of Ev ans' addition. Charles Fisher, of St. Louis, formerly of North Topeka, is In town visiting inenas ana relatives. Progress and Reformation-'-' will be the subject of Evangelist Coombs" ser mon this evening at the Central Ave- nuj Christum cnurch, J. J. King has sold the Dronertv at 415 Ohio street to Mr. Droneberger of 112 Fuirchild street; who will move Into his new home Saturday. Mr. George Garrett of fire station No 1 took a day off yesterday and moved his family into their new home which he has lately purchased oh Logan street. Mr. and Mrs. Whyte and -fajnllv of coiumDus are visiting- Mrs. Whyte's sister and brother. Miss Hattle Wellke and Mr. Joe Wellke of 917 North Kan sas avenue. Mrs. J. H. Dearborn arrived yester day Irom Newkirk, Ok., where she has been visiting; her daughter, Mrs. Walter fenarer ana left on the eveninsr train for a visit to her old .home at Silver Lake. After a short stay there she will go to Bozeman, Mont., to be with her son, Mr. Charles Dearborn, who is instructor m the state agricultural col lege there. Mrs. Charles Robinson will arrive next week from Denison, Kan., for a short visit to her brother, D. T. Gabriel and family of Kansas avenue and Fair child street. From here she will go to Emporia to spend Easter Sunday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Gabriel. Miss Wilma Bergundthal entertained at dinner yesterday' at her home, 1131 Jackson street. Covers were laid for Miss Nellie Willitts, Miss Winnie Mc Donald and Miss Frances Taylor.- Miss Florence Hamilton of 1317 Qu'n cy street was given a pleasant surprise party last evening by a number of her schoolmates who successfully planned the affair. The hostess was assisted in entertaining her guests by her Bister. Mis3 Grace Hamilton. Those present were Freda Betts, Juanita Putnam, Mollle Stipes, Grace Myers, Nina Thompson. Laura Sturgis, Stella Hol man, Grace Zinn. Blanche Shirley, Ora Kemper, Elmer Forbes, Marshall Ken nedy, Fred Dana, Ralph Cross, Ed mund Hanlon, Ivan Dibble, Melan Mul ligan, Russell Hamilton and Ed B!s sell. A farm team driven by J. E. Graft caused some excitement yesterday af ternoon by running away. They went east on Laurent street till they reach ed Qulncy street where the outside hull of the wagon struck one of the tele phone poles with such force that Mr. Uralt was tnrown trom the wagon to tne pavement. He was considerably i bruised but no serious injury resulted from the fall. That he was not in stantly killed was most fortunate as his hoad came within six inches of striking against the telephone pole. The har ness was rather weak and when the wagon hit the pole the team broke away from the wagon and when last seen were going west on St. John street. Mr, Graft, who is the father of Harry Graft of North Monroe street, went to his farm west of town last evening on the train. The mass meeting at Lukens" opera house last night for the purpose of mak ing plans for beautifying the yards and parkings of North Topeka was well attended. Through the efforts of the North Topeka Civic club a number of elm and maple trees and a quantity of grass seed has been secured which will be sold to the people at reasonable prices. The address by W. H. Barnes, secretary of the State Horticultural so ciety was interesting and Instructive. It related to the care of-lawns, the plant ing of trees and their care afterwards, to the use of vacant lots and to the general Improvement of streets and alleys. He advocated the tearing down of unsightly fences and bill boards, the destruction of weeds and told how to destroy worms and insects. The earth, he said, should be packed firmly around trees when set out and all seed beds FELT OR VELVET. and lawns should be rolled evenly. The lawn itself is improved by frequent rolling and oftentimes by reseeding. September is the best month for sowing blue grass but it may often be sowed at other times before a rain, using seed freely. It is not economy to be too sparing of seed, nor to be content with trees that are not of the best. At the meeting of the Civic club last night it was decided to set apart next Tuesday afternoon as North Topeka Arbor day, ond to ask all business houses to close and help In a general clearing up and tree planting, a reaucea price has been securea for trees and all persons want ing them should apply to D. J. Hatha way that arrangements may be made to engage all that may be wanted. North Topeka Is coming out in a new Easter dress. Through the efforts of Miss Juliet Smith of New York city who has been spending the past winter In North To peka in the Interest of the Church of the Good- Shepherd, the church is to have a parish house. Miss Smith has raised the necessary funds for this building and a suitable house has been found, which has been purchased and will be at once moved to the church lot. The house decided upon is a six room place now situated at 1110 North Taylor street' The- work tf -moving will com mence th'fs week. 'When In place on the lot at the rear of the church the house will have a frontage on Laurent street with a lawn of thirty feet between the house and the church. The arrange ment of this house is well adopted for a parish house. The large front room will be fitted up as a meeting place for the church guild, the sewing school and other clubs which may be organized In connection with the church. Bazaars and social entertainments can also be held in this place. Mr. C. W. Nau who has charge of the work at the Church of the Good Shepherd will have his liv ing room3 in the second story. As soon as the house Is ready for occupancy, which it is thought will be early this spring, Mr. Nau will move from his present home in Vail hall to the Good Shepherd parish house. Extensive. Im provements will also -be made to' the church yard such as planting trees and sowing grass seed and putting up a fence across the alley. This parish house will not only add to the value of the Church of the Good Shepherd but will be a great addition to that section of North Topeka.- Since coming to North Topeka Miss Smith has not only taught two very interesting Bible classes, one on Sunday morning and one on Wed nesday afternoon but she has also or ganized a sewing class which now num bers twenty little girls. This class meets every Saturday morning In the vestry of the church. Miss Smith ex pects to leave ror new 1 orK ine nrsi week in April but she will return to North Topeka next fall for another winter's work. STEALER BEACHED. She Is Supposed to Have Struck Floating Mine. Hakodate, March 21. The British steamer Fernley, from Tacoma, Feb ruary 10. to Taku, has been beached near here after having sustained ex tensive damages. It is supposed she struck a floating mine In the straits of Tsugaru. Divers are examining the vessel, which must discharge ner cargo before proceeding The straits of Tsugaru, Between the main island of Japan, Hondo, and the northern island, Yezso, was under- stood to have been carefully defended by submarine mines, etc., during the war with Russia. The strait, was the nearest passage into the sea of Japan by which ves sels could gain the Pacific from Vladi vostok. Card of Thanks. The family of the lote Mrs. Catharine Roller desire hereby to extend to their neighbors and friends their sincere thanks for the favors received, and kindness manifested in the sickness and death of their mother. To the fra ternal orders and kind friends whose offerings of beautiful flowers and floral designs as a token of their respect and consolation, additional thanks are ex tended for their consideration. 'El Mocho" Disappears. New York, March .21. General Jose Manuel Hernandez of Venezuela, better known as "El Mocho." an avowed enemy of President Castro, has disappeared from his usual, haunts here. Friends say he has gone to Lon don. General Hernandez arrived here recently after a year's stay in Colom bia and Panama.. He did not. deny a report that he was engaged In obtain ing money for an insurrection.: against Castro. I PAUL GILmORE HERE. Win Give His College Play ''At Tale' Tonight- Paul GUmore came to Topeka today 10 present- his new play, "'At Yale, the Grand orjera house tonia-ht. Mr. Gilmore is Just as youthful as of yore and his manner Is more bouyant than ever, due Drobably to the fact that his present tour is the most successful in nis experience. 'Re was in Omaha last night and this ls.wnat the Bee said about him: "Paul Gilmore and the Omaha. Hleh school boys had a real good time at tne tsoya theater last night. Mr. Gil more as Dick Seeley, .Yale '06, led his victorious oarsmen- in a 'long' cheer for Omaha High, and Omaha High got right back at Mr. Gilmore with a 'long' one for him, and each Inquired of the other 'Who's all right?' and answered 11 as tne case might be with 'Gilmore wr vjinana Mign. it was a very errec tive feature of the niece, add thing of a 'college' atmosphere to the performance, which Is otherwise height ened by similar incidents. In the last act, where the nentr-uo animal snirits 01 me crew that has Just broken train ing rinas an outlet In a war dance around a messenger boy, while they rub his red head for -luck and roast him for wearing Harvard's colors, the ebullition swept over the footlights again, and the enthusiasts down In front cheered back at the boys on the stage. All In all, it was a real chum my affair, and both sides seemed to UKe it. Anyhow. Mr, Gilmore said h did, and the .Omaha High boys and otners present certainly seemed to. "I think I've been haDDlest In Dlav lng 'At Yale' to the collesre boys and girls In colleere towns," said Mr. Gil more. "They have treated me royally and took the play splendidly. It Is very thrilling to hear them, out in the auditorium, give their yells with my name lor tne last cheer; it quite over wneims me sometimes. "But." continued Mr. Gilmore, 'a college play really appeals to every one. The young people love It be cauRP it 1n cf u n .I nhmit r Vi t r-r-i nnri thi older people are given a temporary renewal or spirit ana It takes them back, for a few moments, to the tim when they too, were boy3 and girls. Every one is glad to find''a lost illu slon; the one who can retain, illusions never grows old. "College plays have been criticised by some as being, only representations of the frolicsome side of youth. This Is not altogether true, however. I be lieve the American people so to the theater to be amused and not to be taught lessons and given serious thoughts to reflect upon Then, too I if college plays were not approved of by the public, they would not go through' so successfully as they have r for the past two seasons. Experience j has shown that nothing can puff into success a piay or an hciot uuattein- .aole to tne general puDiic, Among the best reasons the college play is so popular Is the fact that it is so clean','-" It therefore, attracts the best, that is to say. the largest ele ment In eVery community. 'At Yale.' besides being a clean sparkling comedy, is quite thrilling in several of Its situations. It Is not un when they,' too, were- boys and girls, usual for the ladles in the audi ence to grow as enthusiastic as the boys, during our great racing scene and stand uo and cry out.' Come on Yale,' and 'Goodt' Good!" Just as though It were a real racer" LNES UKrANifllAL Homeless Girt LeadsiiLife of Abuse Since Christmas. New York, March 21. Nearly famished and with .only a few rags to shield her from the weather, Mary Schemers,: homeless waif, fled Into a baker's shop on North avenue, As toria, early, this morning, closely pur sued by a mongrel cur. The child, for she is only 15 years old, though want and privation have Indelibly seared their marks ci her prematurely aged face, has been since last Christmas without a root to cover her head. Wandering from house to house, she became a drudsre for the neighbors, patiently taking the abuse which was frequently hurlea at ner ana eageriy devouring the scanty scraps of food which were given. Sometimes she was allowed to sleep In the house where she had worked, but more often than not. her labors being finished she was driven -Into the streets to seek what shelter she coulfd find. At night, huddled in a drafty hall way, hugging her poor, scanty clothes around her, she lay shivering till the dawn announced toe coming or a new day with all its horrors, or again creeping like some poor, hunted ani mal, into a dog kennel she slept with her headd pillowed on the animal's ehacev coat. As morning broke-- she went the rounds of the tenement houses, beg einsr for bread and in return perform iner the various household duties till she almost dropped from exhaustion. onlv to start the weary; round again. This morning was omy tne beginning of another of these sad. days for Mary, but it ended differently.,. The baker, into whose shop she ran shrieking from the dog. calmed her fears, igave her food, and then sent for the police, and the poor little friendless waif was taken In a patrol wagon to Hunter's Point Dolice station. After she had been fed and warmer clothed bv the matron, by dint of sren tic questioning she told her whole piti ful story, thousrh tne suffering through which she had passed had so blunted her Intellect that' sometimes -she be came absolutely incoherent, and only uttered meaningless sounds in reply to her questioners. The police notified the Brooklyn So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Mary Schemers was con veyed to that institution."- Before she left the station, however, the policemen took up a collection for her and it was the first time In her1 poor sad- life that she had ever been spoken to kindly. In the superintendent's office of the society a reporter saw- Mary Schemers after she had slept comfortably and re ceived a warm bath. v; "My mother died when I was 2 years old," she said, "and then some time later my father married again. My stepmother treated me -cruelly.- She used to make me stop down In the -cellar when my work was done, throwing my food to me down the steps. I re member my father speaking to her about the way she treated me and-asking her why she did not let me play with her children, for she was a widow when my father married her, but she used to. turn on him and say It served me right, that I was getting all I deserved, and then I was treated worse than ever. "Some time after my father died and it seemed to me that the only friend I had in the world had gone my stepmother married again. She used to make me work till I nearly dropped I had no clothes except some rags I had picked up and-n the coldest win ters I had to go Into the yard and chop -wood or run errands and I had to sleep-lp the cold cellar on some old sacks. i "When Christmas came and I saw other children all so happy with their little presents I could stand It no longer, so I determined to run away. "I had only an old skirt and a blouse and my boots were nearly worn through, but I thought someone would give me a home.. The first day I got work and food and the woman let me sleep there for the night, but she told me that the next day I must shift for myself, as she could no long er shelter me. "The next night I slept In some stables and I' got some food from an ash can, but If was so hard I could scarcely" eat it. This morning I open ed the gate of A yard and then a dog flew at me and I ran screaming down tho street." At the recollection the child burst I Into tears, and the little pain-racked waif lived again the. horrors through which she had passed, but this was soon, over and with a. sad smile she said: "I am quite happy now, with all tnese kind people. JACKPOL $9,000. Biggest Poker Game in Chicago's His tory Is in Progress. Chicago, March a. A poker game. one of the largest in the history of Chlcago'3 cporttng fraternity, in which f $100,000 has alrendy ehanged hands and In which the limit is 5200 and the chips of the smallest denomination are worth $5 each has been in continuous progress at the Magnet hotel, 238 North Clark street, since Monday afternoon and un less it is Interfered with is good for a week longer. In the game are some well known Chicagoans, Including Mont Tennes. Tennes at one stage was 32a,000 loser, but at an early hour this morning he had reduced the loss to $10,000 with no Intention of quitting. The game started with four persons and last night two more were sent for so that it Is now six handed. The four original players have not slept since tney sat down to the table ana nave eaten very little. Mont Tennes told a friend last night that he had not been to bed for 24 hours and that he did not intend to seek any sleep until he be opened for the full amount contain ed his losses. The came beean rather mildly with a $10 limit and pretty soon rounded to Into table r takes, with the proviso that no player could buy less than $10 worth of chips at a time. From this It was worked up before midnight into a $200 limit, the play being still for all that each man had In front of him up to $200, with the amount purchasable placed at. a minimum 01 jzuu. 11 was crovlded. however, that Jackpots could be opened for the full maount contain ed In them. Intense earnestness nov- marked the plays, and pretty nearly every Jack pot was worth $500. some of them much morei The men seesawed along about even until a little after midnight when Mont Tennes began to lose, and maae It more and more to come In when he had the say. Finally there was a Jack not on the table worth about J80U, the largest one yet contended for. Jack Pot of $9,000. Tennes opened It for the amount In It, making it worth $1,600 altogether, and two of the other three players stayed for the same amount each. bringing its value up to $3,2UU. Tennes drew three cards and bet $200. The man next to him raised him $200 and the third man saw that raise and made made it $200 more to come in. There was now $4,200 in tne pot ana It was Tennes' say. It cost him $400 to come in, but ne never batted, an eyelid, but shoved in blue chips covering the amount as non chalantly as if they were worth no more to him than tne value or tne celluloid of which they were made. and with them $200 more. The next man, who had drawn one card, saw the raise and pushed in an other $200. making the total amount now to be played for $4,800. The third man, who had drawn three cards, dropped out. throwing three aces face upward on the table. Tennes' partner raised again to the limit, which had been taken off so far as any player had a right to a "sight" for the money in front of him. Tennes reciprocated, and so It went on until there was nearly $9,000 in the pot. Then the little fellow who had been sticking with Tennes, and whose name was not revealed last night, called. Pairs and Flushes. 'I've got two pairs," said Tennes, con fidently. Not worth anything," said the little man. "I've got a nusn." And he threw down his hand and started to rake in the pot. 'Mv two pairs are Just alike," said Tennes. "Two pairs of deuces." "My flush Is a straight flush nine. ten. Jack, queen and king of spades," said the little man The laugh was bn the big gambler as the little fellow gathered in theVhlps. Tennes then won- several large pots and wasin.a fahs- way to get even again when he was unfortunately caugnt bluffing -h a. pair of sixes which he had caught In drawing to a diamond bobtail... On this hand he dropped $6,000. So the play went on until Tennes was $10,000 in the hole' and determined to get even if, as he expressed It, he had to play until a certain superheated spot f roxe over, About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the game ceased for dinner and then began with redoubled fervor. The two other players who joined the quartet came in about 5' o'clock in the evening. About 9 o'clotk a seventn player ar rived and was refused a seat, although he offered -to-, pay $1,000 for the mere privilege of sitting In. Dr. CookinhatrTs Many Patients RjECOMMEND fllS METHODS FOR CT7RTXG BLOOD POISON, SKTX DISEASES. SORES. VARICOSE OR HYDKOCYSTIC ENLARGEMENTS, EMBARRASSING WEAKNESS. VRINARY TROU BLES. NERVOUS DECLINE, PILES. FISTULA. KIDNEY BLADDER OR ANY AFFECTION PECULIAR TO MEN ree Consultation and Examination Dr. Cookhiham's methods, perfected by him and- decommended by his many pa tients, demonstrate their speedy and .ef fectual, results in cases given up--as "In curable by his would-be -competitors, and thejr proven value 5s beat known to the eat- number of afflicted people who ore cured by. Dr. Cookinham after being many times unsuccessfully treated elsewhere. Hours'; 9 to 12, 2 to S, 7 to 8. Sundays: 9:30 to 12. DR. D. A. COOKINHAM 1 106 West Eighth St Topeka, Kansas. I I THE DIFFERENCE between oil r price and what you are paying will give you a nice bank ac count at the end of the year. Read this partial list: Northern Potatoes, per bu.....70o Colorado Potatoes, per, bu. .85c Apples, per peck. 25c to SOc High Patent Flour, per sack. $1.00 3 cans Tomatoes for. .25c 1 can Corn for Sc 1. can Peas for 3c 1 can Baked Beans for Sc 1 can Beets Re 8 large cans Pumpkin 15c 3 can Mustard Sardines 5c 1 can Kidney Beans. .So 1-3 lb. can .Pears Joe WEBER SANTA FE NOTES Items Chiefly Personal Concern- 11 tag Railroad Men. j Harry,- W. Townsend, axle light in spector of the Santa Fe at Argentine and Kansas City, is In Topeka today on business. Charles Kelzer has resiarned his po sition in the blacksmith shops and has left for San Francisco where he has accepted a railroad position. C. H. Gaunt, assistant general man ager and superintendent of telegraph of the Santa Fe, returned this morn ing from a trip to Texas, where he has been for the past few days. Meyer Hurley, chairman of the grievance committee of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, was in the city yesterday on business. Train No. 3 was an hour-late today owing to the heavy' traffic on the Illi nois division. W. H. Hamilton, master mechanic of Argentine, -is In Topeka today on business connected" with- the mechan ical department. Dr. J. P. Kaster. chief surgeon of the Santa Fe, has returned from a trip to Las Vegas and other New Mexico points. Rev. Kimbrough, the evangelist at the First Baptist church, assisted by Rev. Young. pastor of the Baptist church, and Rev. E.' G. Paddock of Oakland, conducted a large meeting In the coach shops this noon- Train No. 4 was several hours late this morning on account of the high water in the west. W. H. Hutton, chairman of the grievance committee of the O. R. C, has gone to Chicago where he will at tend a meeting of the railway conduc tors and general, managers relative to a raise in wages.' T. E. Prout, secretary of the Rail road Y. M. C. A., has returned from a trip to Kansas City. 1 He was accom panied by Mrs. Prout.. E. L. Oopeland, treasurer of the Santa Fe, left on a trip west this morn ing. He will remain for several days. Irving Wellman, traveling road fore-' man of engines, went to Kansas City this morning on No. 4 after haying been In Topeka on business. Trainmaster Lloyd Stanley passed through Topeka today en route from Kansas City to Emporia. Fireman W. A. Davis is laying off on runs Nos. 17 and 18 between To peka' and Newton, on account of ill ness. Workmen- were'.put to work this morning digging a trench for a new air pipe line In the yards Just north of Fourth street. The work will be completed in a few days. Brakeman. Earl Middaugh of Em poria, who has been working out of Argentine for the past two weeks, has returned to Emporia, passing through Topeka yesterday. Eneineer John Higgins, who has been laying off for some time on ac count of sickness, has returned to work on runs Nos. 109 and 110, the plug runs between Topeka and Kansas City. He relieved Engineer H. C. Barry, who has returned to his work on the extra board. DANCE TO BUY URNS. Cremation Clnb Gets Enough Money to Incinerate Several Members. Waterbury, Conn., March 21. The Waterbury branch, No. 32, of the Cremation Association of America has given a dance to provide for a sinking fund. At the conclusion of the festivities It was announced en thusiastically by the president that enough cash had been taken In at the door to transform half a dozen mem bers Into ashes and buy them fancy urns besides. The announcement was received with cheers. The association will keep en dancing until the future welfare of all the members has been provided for. The dance hall walls bore the cheerful motto, "Our Bones Shall Never Molder Under Ground," which in itself was enough to explain the bright smile on every ?ice and the fact that there was not a single wall flower present. In fact, everybody had such a good time that the presi dent. Max Meissinger, thought it up to him to explain the exuberance of the assemblage to a handful of under takers who looked In on the dance on their way home from the meeting of their benevolent and protective asso ciation. "Now, why should we not have a good time?" argued the president. "People who have sense enough to have their bodies burned In pure fire instead of having them dug six feet deep among the worms are entitled to enjoy themselves. We who are to be comes ashes must certainly be more in the humor to dance than those who look-forward to a tombstone." The president went on to explain that the "sinking fund" was a mis nomer as far as the crematories were concerned and that for the next dance the term would be changed to "smoke, fund." FATAL ACCIDENT IN RINK. Fall of Fair and Fat Roller Proves Disastrous. Skater Vandergrift, Pa., March 21. Abner McGary, a wealthy merchant and re tiring president of the Vandergrift city council, is dying at his home as a re sult of a peculiar accident in the Apol lo roller skating rink. McGary, who is a good roller skater, notwithstand ing he is GO years old. was showing his skill as a fancy skater when he tripped and feil.: Immediately behind him was a woman weighing over 200 pounds. neither size nor age being any bar to roller skating at Vandergrift. The woman fell on McGary s prostrate body and In a moment he was being- skaters. crushed under a mass of struggling When McGary was rescued he was i 1 Can French Sardines. ,5c 1 lb. Basket Fired Japan Tea 30o 2 pkgs. Grape Sugar-Flakes. 16c 1 can Table Peaches.. 10c 2 pkgs. Zest..... 15a 2 pkgs. Oat Flake. .I5Ci New Kansas Honey, per box. 15c Fancy Bacon, Lean. 16c Lard, per lb loc Salt Pork, per lb JOc 2 lbv White Fish. 2 for ...15c 25c can1 K.' C. Baking Powder 15c 'White Gas Globes 15c CO. 43 1 Kansas Avenue. GENTLEMEN! Manicuring and treatment of the nails by an expert at SI3 Kansas Avenue Suite 4, Upstairs. 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. MHIIt'ft'H I I M I MM Ladies Clara Anderson flats of the Antiseptic Parlors)- has opened T a well lighted, well ventilated. and modern furnished suite of X rooms at 813 Kansas Avenue Z Suite 4, I'p Stairs Where all the latest methods and appliances are employed,. In ladles' Shampoo, Manicure and Facial Massage An expert In the treatment of the scalp and Bkin graduated from .the ;best schools In that line with flatering recommen- datlons from- former patrons.- I T shall be pleased to receive all J ladies who desire good work, in X pleasant surroundings. 1 I t4 H Ml I H I I ThcBU "B" First class country produce. -No cut prices or graft to catch trade. Phones 1193 1 300 Quince eat MOTHER'S BREAD Just like home-made No dinner complete without it. Vesper Makes It a l The Grocer Who supplies you, knows It's to his Interest to send you IDEAL BREAD. And why? Because it always gives perfect satisfac- c tion; It is absolutely pure; I weighs, a full pound, and its I quality Is the same year In and year out. When you order jj bread Just say IDEAL. The Ideal Bakery unconscious. An examination by a physician developed that the man's pelvic bone was crushed and that he had sustained other Internal and dan gerous Injuries. The 200-pound woman was also in sensible when picked up, but soon re covered. Facts About Brazil. Consider the -great republic of Bra zil, larger in territory than the United States, without Alaska, and lying al most wholly within the tropics. Where can one learn of the thousands of miles of railroads that are building In every section of the country, of the subsidized steamship line, Lloyd Bra zilian, running large passenger and freight steamers from Rio Janeiro to Ignitos, 10,000 miles up the Amazon, to New York and Buenos Ayres? Where Is one to learn that this same line has ordered two 12, 000-ton steam ers to make the trip from New York to Rio In eleven days? Who has heard of the three 15,000-ton battleships ordered by Brazil last summer? Who knows that Manaos, a thousand miles up the Amazon, has an opera house which cost 12.000,000, over 200 mile of electric street railway, asphalted streets, electric lights,' wireless tele graphy and a telephone system second to none? Who has heard of the cap! tal of the great state of Mlnas, Belle Horgate (beautiful view), a model city built and completed in four- years, with everything that a state capital should have? Where could one learn that the federal capital, Ro Janeiro; has expended $100,000,000 In the past four years to transform herself from a characteristic Latin city, such arf roA mantle writers delight in. to one of the most modern cities In the western hemisphere? Reo Bennett in the '.Metropolitan Magazine.

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8 LIKE A NEW CITY. ISuilding of Homes Near the Santa Fe Shops. Many Additions Opened and Lots Find Ready Sale. 1 EXTENSIONS AllE MADE tJas and Telephone Companies Reach This Section. Increase in Santa Fe .Shops Creates the Demand. A short trip through the district a! Jacent to the new addition to the Santa Fe shops is sufficient to convince the most skeptical that a building boom of no mean proportions is now and has been in progress for sometime. Less than one year ago the houses In this section of the city were few and far between and much of the land was i& farms which have since been platted and is now beins sold for resld-.-nce lot. A conservative estimate of the new buildings erected in this section of the city during the past 12 months places the number at 200 and those who are familiar with the district estimate that at least half that number will be erect ed during the coming summer and fall. Everywhere as though in a western boom town the noise of the carpenters' ftaws and hammers is to be heard and buildings spring up within a day or so as though by magic. The buildings in course of construc tion are substantial, though not large. Th?y are the homes of the great army cf employes of the Santa Fe shops, but they are homes of happy families con tent in the knowledge that they are liv ing jn their own properties and not paying rentals to landlords. Most of the nouses have from four to eight rooms, according to the needf of the families occupying thvm. They are as modem as they can be made un der the existing circumstances i-nd most of them are pip.d for gas as the main of the gas company have been recently laid to that portion of the city. The Independent Telephone company has recently extended its lines to this sec lion of the city and another modern feature will soon be at the doors of the owner of these homes. It has been less than 12 months sin the Santa Fe purchased nine- acres of lnnd from the W. W. Webb t:act and commenced the erection of an addlttor to their present extensive shop one of the buildings being SSO feet in length by 225 in width. Hundreds of men are now housed in this new addition and as soon as a full complement of employes have been secured hundreds of more will be add ed and it is from this small army of men and their families that this por tion of the city has been settled. The demand for lots upon which they could uild their homes was so great that three new additions were almost im mediately placed on the market and it is in these that the building has been done. V. W. Webb placed a tract of eight acres on the market divided into 108 city lots and in this additoin 25 houses have been erected. In this as In the other additions the owners of the land stand ready to erect homes for the pur chasers of lots on a small payment down, when they are not in financial condition to finance the project. The homes are built in accordance with the plans of the prospective own ers who pay from 6 to 8 per cent in terest and from ten to fifteen dollars per month in payment on the proper ty in lieu of rent. South of the shops is a vacant piece of land owned by S. C. Nichols which is soon to be platted and placed on the market. Directly east of the new shops is what is known as the Pleasant Valley addition of 68 lots which is handled by the Shawnee Agency, though more than half of this property has been disposed of and buildings erected or in course of erection. One cf the large additions in that rection of the city is known as the Ieisvanger tract comprising about 20 acres handled by Neiswanger Wil son of 116 West Sixth avenue. Lots in this tract are sold at from J200 to $300 and such residences erected as the prospective purchasers -desire. These are r Id for outright or on the installment plant Just as the future owner may desire. The Fensky tract Is directly north of the new shops and comprises 130 lots and is filling up rapidly with new dwellings which are to be the shopmen's homes. The Doron tract is the largest, orig inally composing 160 acres. In it the Bale has been almost phenomenal, Mr. Doron having disposed of the bulk of the property in a single sale. Homes are springing up all over the property, which is beautifully situated. The location of the two hundred and upwards of new homes for the shop men is but the nucleus of what bids fair to be one of the big additions to the city. The shops are not as busy now as they will be later on when the men are working full time and all the departments are being operated to their capacity. When this time arrives It will mean the advent of several hun dred more families, who must be pro vided with homes; and the new addi tions adjacent to the shops offer to them inducements equaled nowhere else in the city. Where they have not the money with which to buy outright the lots and erect their own homes, capital and it Is Topeka capital stands ready to assist them. With the improvements which have been made during' the past year the section of the city adjacent to the shop district has lost its former identity, and the farms have been suc ceeded by an addition filled with new and comfortable homes. While this transformation has been taking place right in the dooryard of Topeka proper it has been a quiet, steady improvement brought about by conditions Incident to the growth of the city, and hardly noticeable except ing to the residents of that section. There is but one drawback to this sec tion of the city for residential pur poses, and that Is the lack of proper fire protection, and the fact that the city has not extended Its mains long before this time is wondered at by all who know of the wonderful growth which it has made. There are a number of natural ad vantages which are attractions worthy of note, and not the least of these is a walnut grove of twenty acres which could with little expense be made one of the most attractive parks adjacent to the city. This property is owned by S. C. Xichols of the Santa Fe, an through it winds the Shunganunga which could be dammed and would af ford numerous latroons to add to its picturesnueness. The trees are among the oldest and largest in the vicinity of the city, and tower high Into the air. landmarks of a century ago. many- or them being ten to twelve feet in circumference GOLD MEDAL IS HERE. Will Be Awarded to Best Rifleman on Topeka Team. The National Riflemen's Associa tion of America, which is under the supervision of the United States gov ernment, is going to give a $25 gold medal to the best rifle shot in the To peka rifle club. The prize Is on ex hibition at Howard's gun store. SQUARE DEAL MEETING. Will Be Held Saturday tn New 'Tele phone Building. The call for the Square Deal mass meeting to be held here Saturday af ternoon in the new Independent Tele phone company's building is as fol lows: About 300 Shawnee county Republi cans have united in a call for a meet ing on Saturday, the 23d Inst., at .1:30 p. m., for the purpose of forming county organization, with ward and township auxiliaries, with the object of promoting the interests of Square Deal legislation mat was lert in a some what imperfect and incomplete stcte upon the recent adjournment of the leg islature. The meeting will be held In the new Independent telephone building on Jackson street, between Kighth and Ninth. It is hoped that you can be present, and that you will ask some of your Republican friends and neighbors to also attend the meeting. It will not last long, and it will be time well spent in perfecting an organization now, by which effective resuits can be accom plished in the next campaign. y ours very truly. Thomas Page. J. E. Guild, Grant E. Kelsey. W. T. Purdum, W. A. Forbes S. G. Watkins, F. M. Stahl, W. H. Mof- fatt, G. AI. Beard, Bartley Coyne, John I. Troutman, A. E. Jones. A. D. Thrasher, J. N. Graft. P. C. Moore, N. Sawyer, H. Clarkson, Herbert Hack ney, Scott Kelsey, Hugh MacFarland, John W. Parr. BALK AT VACCINATION. Two Hundred High School Pupils Stay at Home. Buy the lot. the house will soon follow. Central Park Lots Fine building lots on Buchanan St., Just west of the nark, between 13th and 15th sts.. all modern improve ments, cheapest in the city. S35t and $450 per lot. Prices go up soon. Davis, Wellcome Co. 107 West Sixth St. Both Phones 1026. When the attendance at high school was checked up this morning a sum mary showed a shortage of between 175 and 200 pupils not in their accustomed places which is accounted for by a rul ing made by the board of health which went into effect today, requiring all pupils to be provided with certificates from their family doctors attesting the fact that they have been vaccinated. This ruling is the result of a case of smallpox which was discovered in the high school last week but not until many of the pupils had been exposed as well as several of the teachers. The teachers and many of the pupils Im mediately took the precaution of vac clnation and already lame arms as well as well defined limps are notice able. Today was set by the board of health as the limit when the pupils must be vaccinat ed or remain away from school and the lameness in the attendance this morn lng Indicates that something like 200 of the pupils have preferred to remain at home rather than submit to the vac cination ordeal. We have had no trouble about the matter," said Principal Miller of the high school this morning, "as the pupils have accepted the order as com ing from the board of health and not from the school board and have either obeyed it or remained at' home. There were a few on hand this morning who were unable to show the necessary cer tificates and they were sent home and will either obey the order or remain out of school until such a time as the board of health notifies us that It will be safe to permit them to return." The Riflemen's Gold Medal. A 500-yard range is being surveyed near Vinewood park today, and the shooting may commence next week. The contest will be on 200, 300 and 500 yard shooting. The local team, which now contains 57 members, will get a chance to lay aside their deadly 22's, which would be Ineffective at the range, and work out with army 30 40's. The rifleman having the highest score at the end of the shoot-fest will get the medal, and be entitled to entry in the National tournament this sum mer. The local club rQId a team shoot at their gallery on st Eighth avenue, last night. The "Musketeers' shot against the "Telescopes," and a tie was the result. The following is the remarkable score of the evening, and it is doubtful if so many shots ever resulted in a tie before: Mt'SKETEERS. I TELESCOPES. Harry Goodrich.. 231, Robt. Thompson. 229 H. B. Howard... 217: Terry Stafford 235 H. Uiinnan sii Harry Lyman 212 cheapest.- This has been the plan of operations during the past year. It is claimed that the plan of having a purchasing agent to do this work has brought better results ,than the com petitive bidding-systemr HOCH FOR POWERS Wants Kansas to Help the Kentucky Official. Former Frank Seybold... 21S Chas. Morton 216 Chas. Jennings... 214John Strickrott... 210 C. C. Trimmer... 214 Stewart AW A. O. Sharon 201 1717 Johnson 20S J. H. Leonard 2rt John Kleinhans.. 204 1717 ,"The conviction cf Caleb Powers," said Governor Hoch this mornlns, "was one of the-most horrible traves ties on Justice the world ever saw. The legislature of Kentucky appro priated $100,000 not to convict the slayer of William Gcebel, but to find victims, and save the Democratic party in Kentucky from being over whelmed." This statement of Governor Hoch was made as a result of an Interview which he had yesterday with James H. Moore of Kentucky, a friend of Powers, who is travelling about trying to raise funds to help In the defense of Powers, whoso money Is now almost exhausted. Moore does not take the money himself.-: He directs that all checks be made payable direct to Powers. Caleb Powers was the Republican secretary of state of Kentucky. In the previous campaign. W.-S. Taylor. Republican, had been declared elected governor over Wm. Goebel, Demo crat. .Goebel contested the election, before the legislature. While the contest was pending Goebel was as sassinated. It was claimed that the shot which killed him was fired from the window of the office of the secre tary of state. Powers himself was at the time not in the city, but he was arrested charged' with conspiracy. He has been three times convicted, and each time the higher court composed of Democrats, has reversed the deci sion. The present effort to raise mon ey is for the purpose of preparing for the fourth trial of the case. HART R I D G E REBUKE D Justice Fitzgerald Tells l Walt. Him ."to RIDGEWAY IS N A IVIED. Will Take Charge or Xew Station at Ogallah. Forestry BIDS FOR STATE STATIONERY". They Will Be Received This Year on May 20. It has been decided by the executive council of the state to advertise for bids for the state's supply of stationery and stationery supplies for the coming year. The bids will be received May 20. This plan was tried a year ago, and when the bids came in it was found that they were all practically the same, and the executive council de cided that they were in the hands of combine, and turned down all the bids. Instead of buying from bids the council authorized the secretary of state to go into the markets and buy supplies wherever he could buy them Governor Hoch this morning an nounced the appointment of Francis H. Ridgeway to the office of commis sioner of forestry- In charge of the forestry station at Ogallah. This is a new position created at the recent ses sion of the legislature. There has been one forestry commissioner at the Dodge City station, but it was found to be about as economical to have one at Dodge and one at Ogallah. The appointment of Ridgeway was recommended by Representative Jones of Trego county and other western Kansas politicians,. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mrs. Wllla Hazel Stone, wife of A. C. Stone, died at the: home of her fathsr. W. D. Hawkins, 249 Forest avenue, in Oakland, at five o'clock this morning. Death was caused) by stomach trouble. The funeral will be held Sunday after noon at 2 o'clock from the Oakland Methodist church and the intermen,' will take place in Topeka cemetery. New York. March 2L Just before the adjournment of the Thaw case Mr. Jerome continuing his speech said: "I then called In other alienists and after submitting to them all the evi dence I had in possession they Joined with the others in declaring Thaw a paranoiac. They vail told me Thaw ought to be in an asylum and not -on trial for bis life. I framed my hypo thetical question but I was unable to get into it much of the evidence I pre sented privately to the alienists. An swering the hypothetical question they could go no further than they could go and say Thaw knew the nature and quality of his act. "It was not until Dr. Hamilton was called that I could call the court's at tention to the knowledge possessed by that learned gentleman. I have known Dr. Hamiltonfor some tir?e. Last sum mer alter he had examined Thaw we often rode out to our country places to gether. Dr. Hamilton tried persistent ly to persuade me that it- was my duty to apply for a commission in lnuacy. He told me that Thaw was a paranoiac. I replied that I did net believe it. Now Dr. Hamilton is here and under oath and can state tha facts as he knows them." Mr. Hartridge of Thaw's counsel here arose and asked to be heard, but Jus tice Fitzgerald rapped sharply with his gavel and said: "When I want to hear from you in this proceeding. Mr. Hartridge, I will let you know." Mr. Hartridge sat down and Justice Fitzgerald said he would like the dis trict attorney to clear up one impres sion which was in his mind. He asked why the district attorney objected when Mr. Hartridge. in cross examina tion of Dr. Mabon, asked the alienist if he was of the opinion that Thaw suffered from any form of insanity the night he killed Stanford White. Mr. Jerome said he objected to the question as it was not in proper form and he could not understand what im pression the court had gained from it. Mr. Hartridge again attempted to be heard, but the Judge said there was no occasion for a statement from him. Mr. Jerome asked if Mr, Delmas would waive the right of professional privilege in the case of Dr. Hamilton. Mr. Delmas replied: "If my client is plunged in that depth of insanity which -prevents him from conferring intelligently with his counsel, how can I waive any rights for him?" iwestor If we can show you a safe investment with every reason to expect 100 p?r cent a year from it. of course you are -INTERESTED MANY OF THEIVI CRAZY. Dr. Flint Tells of Much Insanity In the Thaw family. SWOFFORD BROS. SELL. Business Goes to a Wichita Syndicate for a Million. Kansas City, Mo.. March 21. It was announced here today that negotiations had practically been concluded for the purchase of the interests of Swofford Brothers' Dry Goods company of Kan sas City, a big wholesale concern, by a Wichita syndicate known as Dodson, Lawrence Co., for a consideration said to be close to $1,000,000. LOCAL MENTION. Mrs. M. L. Chamberlain is entertain ing informally this afternoon for Mrs. O. M. Bowman of Herington, who is her guest. A Sunday school will be organized next Sundas at Prairie Home school house about six miles northwest of To peka. The Sunday school will be a union of the various denominations in that vicinity and Rev. Mr. Lyon of To peka will preach both morning and evening at the first meeting after the organization next Sunday, Match 24. The Tsuneo Taka Hashi Embroidery club will meet with Mrs. F. J. Ross, 830 Quirtcy street, Friday afternoon. Acknowledgment. We desire to express to our friends who were so kind during the late Ill ness and death of our father, our heartfelt appreciation of the many courtesies and favors bestowed. ISAAC HAYES, WIFE AND SISTERS. Through the sickness and death of our mother, Mrs. O'Hara, we desire to thank the operators of the Inde pendent Telephone exchange; Capital Degree Staff, K. L. of S. No. 50; S. D. of Justice, also our many friends for their sympathy and beautiful floral offerings in the time of our be reavement.. MR. and MRS. C. G; DAILY. MISS BELE O'HARA. Jim iiit'-ippi, m. vJga&$! mm mm mm. Mil il V Vwi "TVV. I New Tork, March' 21. Dr. Austin Flint declared in his affidavit regard ing Harry Thaw's mental state, that he had been informed by Dr. Bingham an of. Pittsburg, that Thaw's aunt, Mrs. Hersch, was an epileptic. Dr. Flint also declared that Dr. John T. Deem ar of Klttanning, Pa., informed him that N. W. Copley, brother of Harry Thaw's mother, was an imbecile from birth, and that Josiah Copley, another brother of Mrs. William Thaw, was violently insane and confined in an asylum. -v Dr. Flint adds thiit Dr.- Deemar also told him that John Ross, son of one of the maternal aunts of Harry- 51. Thaw, was an epileptic from Infancy and prior to his incarceration had maniacal out bursts, In which he attacked his mother with a chair and that he also attacked his sister and his family physician. Dr. Flint expressed the same conclus ions as did Dr. MacDonald and the oth er physicians. .MAN GETS 5 YEARS. I sit count i from it THE ORCHESTRINO COMPANY controls throughout the "United. States three entirely new musical instruments. It Is incorporated for J 100, 000.. The stock is Xull-paid and non-assessable. It Is all cpmmon stock and all shares have equal earning and voting power. Parties who buy this stock may large returns A sale of but two instruments a month In each county In Kansas, at a net profit of but $10.00 per instrument, net Income to the pany of $25,000 a while an average sale as above in each county In per Instrument, means a net income to the company of over $600,000 a year. If you wish to Investigate our company with a view of becoming a stockholder in it we will be glad to ex plain to you our plans in full and show how we can reach the above figures. (Special offer this week.) Address: means corn- year 5 5 THE ORCHESTRINO COMPANY OXFORD BUILDING INDEPENDENT PHONE S5S TOPEKA. KANSAS TREES CUKED BY SURGERY. mm m it ,!t, iff fn.SW' AM -ilW I "2 1 Held Responsible For a Wreck on the Elevated. New York. March 21. Cornelius A Jackson, the towerman whose absence from his post of 4iuty at a critical time was held responsible for the accident at Fifty-third street and Ninth avenue late in 190o, when a southbound Ninth ave nue elevated train jumped the track, killing 12 persons and- injuring several others, has beer, sentenced to five years in prison. Abscesses Caused by Parasites Opened and Treated Antiseptically. ONE OF NEW YORK'S F0TJK HUNDRED AT PALM BEAC3. AT this time of year Florida draws many "weather dodsers" from th. k north, and Palm Eeach is thronged with society folk from New-York -Newport, Lenox, Philadelphia and other cities. The social soasaa U at i: height Luxurious private cars of millionaires dot the railroad yards, aaO, the toilets of the ladles are the vety latest creation? of the World's create.; modistes. Spread of Women's Rights. What, then, is the present status, political, social, legal, of this being who has always been found so stimu lating to the imagination that her true nature still remains obscure? A spectacular evidence of its pro gress was the parliament that this half emancipated ex held last summer in Copenhagen. Ten countries sent dele gates to this International Women's Suffrage alliance. Some, of these had ineffectual political rights, or none; others were full citizens. They met to discuss the means for. obtaining full citizenship for all women a disinter ested and picturesque endeavor. It is no wonder that the whole world found Itself stealing glances at those remark able sessions In the Concert Palais, for a notable bit of history was being enacted. Australian women, serene ly unfettered, were there to tell how it felt to enjoy citizenship without re strictions. Russian women had a somewhat sorrowful history of their own efforts during the preceding two year3 to conduct a suffrage union without a president or a conceriea plan of action factors which in that country the morbid radicals of the moment can not endure. Scandina vian women were full of tales of achievement, for theirs are, after all, the countries most hospitable to wo man's independence. The Latin coun tries present a most unfortunate con trast with the northern ones for the kind of chivalry that women demand nowadays, and the cold', remote little country of Iceland is the most advanc- j ed of all. Between their extraordinary j sessions, which were held in three i languages, and presided over by that extremely able American woman, Mrs. Chapman Catt. the women met for animated polyglot teas and talked of purely human matters. None of these zealous, banner-bearers was In the least formidable, and most or tnem would be conventionally described as "charming." Everybody's Magazine. Gen. Wint Is Dead. Philadelphia, Pa.. March 21. Brig. Gen. J Wint. U. S. A., commanding the department of Missouri, with head quarter.o at Omaha, died suddenly at a hotel-here today. He came to Phila delphia to undergo medical treatment. He was 62 years of age. Mrs. Quigley Vndcr Surgeon's Knife. XT- c Oufctev- wife of the mana ger of athletics at St. Marys college. St. Marys, was operated on at Stormont hos pital this morning for appendicitis: Though her condition Is serious, the 'phy sicians in charge of the case anticipate an early recovery. I The. successful treatment of trees by surgery is the subject of a-rerert made recently by a botanist named Eber hardt to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. M. Eberhardt has practiced it, he says, with entire success In Indo China. He has performed operations on tea plants, mulberry trees, orange trees, and other tropical plants Experiments in cold 'Climates have not met with success so far. but it is believed the system can be used with advantage in the southern regions of Europe. The operations are not am putations, neither are they mere sub cutaneous injections, such as have been made sucessfully in Eurone fo the cure -of some parasitic diseases of plants, lhey are surgical in the strict ly modern sense. The method is adopted when trees are attacked by insects, which pene trate the bark and deposit their eggs in the wood. The long-horned beetle is a serious placue in Idno-Chma. The larvae hollow out galleries in the tissue of the trunk and branches these interrupt the circulation of the sap, and the tree speeaiiy withers ana dies. Eberhardt's method consists of opening up the gallery with a scalpel removing the larvae with a forceps or curetting instrument, and then flush lng out the cavity with an antiseptic fluid consisting of forty parts glycerine, 110 of formaline, and 850 of water. Three or four washmgs are given at intervals extending over about fif teen days, and at the end of that time cushions of vegetable tissue begin to arjpear along the ede-e of the scar. which heals completely in from six to eight months. It is essential during the first two or three months to pro tect the- wound from light, which seems to stoi) the formation of new tissue. When the trunk is so seriously at tacked as to render so radical an cper ation undesirable, M. Eberhardt cricks the cavity in the tree with a trocar, to which he affixes a syringe, and injects a solution of 180 parts of formaline, sixty of glycerine, and 760 of water. This he forces in until the cavitv is filled to overflowing. Either the larvae come to the surface when thev are extracted with the forceps r- !ce thp-r are nolsoned. Two iniections are usually made at eicrht da-s intervals. The formaline hardly seems to penetrate me wooay fiber beyond the surrace DroKen apwn by the paiasltes. The wound heals in time, and the tree seems to suffer no damage from the treatment, while its inevitable desruction by the para site is prevented. Painful burns,' any sore of skin hurt quickly healed by Satin skin cream. 26c. ALCOHOL FUMES INTOXICATE. Xew Employes cr laxuiermy Snop Collect Jas Unconsciously. If one should chance to ?e a young man staggering about in the halls or neighborhood of the National Museum, do. not assume that he .is under the in fluence of ardent spirits, says the Washington Post. The young man may not b3 in. the least to blame for the condition in which one beholds him. As a matter of fact, according to ths stories of those who labor in the taxi dermy shop in the basement of the Museum, the condition of Inebriety can be. and is, produced -by inhaling the odors of alcohol, which stream plen teous'.y from great jars of the pre servative durinjr the operation of treating animal skins. "Gee whizz!' said a young: assistant in taxidermy; "I'll never forget the first df"-- I work there. I never thought anything about the alcohol fumes., and i the thing: I knew I was beginning to j feel queer like; not exactly sick, you; understand, but like I wanted to sing j and dance. Then my legs began to get unsteady, and I felt stupid, sol that I hardly knew where I was. Pret-. ty'soon I was rubblnjr the table in stead of the skin, which had slid down ofx-the- floor, and which-1 .bean -to -use as -a mat. At this the boss, who saw1 the condition I was in, told me to go home and go to bed, for I was drunk. "And sure enough, I was, and stag gered all the way home. I was not fit for any more work that day. Now, they have to season fellows to work in the. taxidermy room when .big skina are to be treated. They work for perhaps an hour and then take sev eral walks around the block until the alcohol fumes have worn away, when they begin again." Needless to say, taxidermy forms an important part of the operations per formed at the Smithsonian Institution which the public visitors do not see. Very expert, too, are the persons who are engaged in this art. ORANGES AND ICE. In California Foth Are Harvested tJ;e Sum- Time. at One of the unique features of the Pa cific coast region is witnessed every winter in Nevada county, a little north and east of Sacramento, where a big ice crop has been harvested and within a few mile3 a big orange crop gather ed, both harvests going on at the sam time. Nevada county Is on- of the smallest counties in California, but at Truckee, which lies at an elevation of about 6,- 000 feet, sleighing. Fkating and Ice cut ting were the order of the day during January, while 5,00 feet below straw berries, oranges ana roses were Deing picked, these widely separated occupa tions being carried on by the partlcl- pants almost In right of one another. What to Eat. President for Playgrounds.. President Roosevelt lenas the weight of his authority to the increasing de mand for children s playgrounds. In nearly every city there is a quickeningr sense of tho duty which a municipal ity owes to its boys and -girls in this respect. It is as natural, proper anl necessary for children to play as for squirrels or kittens. To make play Im possible is to subject children to un natural and unwholesome conditions. Country boys have all outdoors In which to disport themselves, those who live in small towns can easily reach the open fields on the outskirts. In large cities playgrounds must be provided or the children are driven to the dangerous and pernicious freedom of the streets. Philadelphia Press. w BLENDED A New Combination The Square Deal Realty Co. and the Kansas Real Estate Ajency have con solidated, and the busi ness will be continued at 433 Kansas Ave. With this combination of efforts and the consoli dation of lists, we are in a better position to sorve you than ever. "SQUARE DEAL REALTY CO." 433 Kansas Ave.

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