The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
April 6, 1908

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EVERYBODY EVERYBODY 10 PAGES NEEDS IT. 10 PAGES READS IT. I I ITsf 11 V lk L I J I I V I III n I I LAST EDITION. am nin TIMED t HI1 ULU llhlLn- Edison Company Resurrects an Old Alleged Petition. Tries to Palm It Off as Present Sentiment. IT IS REPUDIATED. Angry People Telephone and Call on State Journal. Many Say; "We Never Signed it": And Are Emphatically Opposed to Edison Proposition. A page advertisement of the Topeka Edison company appeared in the To peka Capital Sunday morning. This appeared to be a recent petition pre sented to the mayor and councilmen of the city of Topeka. The announcement stated that it was "A copy of a petition filed with the city council a few months ago when the "Edison company's offer for street lighting was 55.00 per lamp per year, now $50.00 per light, a lower price than has been estimated by any of the experts employed by the city, the city relieved of all responsibility, risk and futher investment, the very low price, the lowest In the United States for like service." This advertisement is of the nature of a fake in that it is misleading in many respects and the voters of the city should not be influenced by it. It does not represent present sentiment. The signers were not procured "a few months ago." but nearly a year ago when the subject was up, and was filed with the city council, not a few months ago, but on June 20. This was merely one of two peti tions that were presented to the coun cil at the time. The State Journal looked up both petitions today. There are said to be 302 names on the Edi son company's petition. There are 290 names on the petition protesting against the mayor and council's ac ceptance of the Edison company's proposition. So far as numbers are concerned, the petitions about offset each other. The petition of protest asks for further time and investiga tion. The Edison company's petition as advertised says: "We protest against the issuance of any further bonds for the reconstruction of a lighting plant, and urge upon you the advisability of accepting one of the propositions submitted by the Edison company. We favor the contracting for- the lights at a specific sum and -trust your honorable body may. find- It w ie to close a contract with the Edi son company." This-' was signed last year before the light commission was appointed or the recent investigations made. The mayor and council at that time, last June, decided to follow the other petition; that is, the one favoring the municipal plant, and asking for fur ther time and investigation. Tale of Two Petitions. The other petition, which was not printed in the Sunday Morning Capi tal, was signed by 290 "tax payers, citizens and business men" who said In their petition. "We do hereby con test against abolishing the citv elec tric light plant and letting out the lighting of Topeka by contract or otherwise to any company, concern or corporation on any terms what ever. WTe believe that by spending a comparatively small amount of mon ey on repairs that the present plant can be made to run until sufficient funds can be raised to rebuild or en large the plant to meet the Increased demands of the city and respectfully ask your honorable body to at least give the people plenty of time, by at least thoroughly Investigating the whole matter before deciding to do away with the city's ownership of its own electric plant." So impressed were the mayor and council with this other petition just referred to, that it decided to hold off and make further Investigation. Had the council followed the peti tion printed In the Capital,' the city would have lost J2.500.00 annually on 500 lights, for within the last three days the Edison company has cut its old offer of $55.00 to $50.00 and wrecked a plant doing good service today in its limited capacity. This advertisement as quoted above of $50.00 says the rate is "The lowest of fer in the United States for like ser vice." Toledo is offered the service for $47.00. Lockport, New Tork for $50 for a three-year franchise and Utica, New Tork for $45.00 and we do not bear that those cities are compelled to give the corporation the use of its poles or wires either. But let us analyze the petition printed In Sunday's Capital. Some of the men are dead; some have mov ed away; scores did not understand the situation in June as they do now. The electric commission had not been appointed. Other signers are person ally Interested In the contract be cause they are stockholders of the Edison company or the Topeka Rail way company. Offers a Page. A page advertisement was offered to the State Journal in this way by the Edison company: "We may want a page in the State Journal Monday evening, but if we give it to you, you must not comment on It." The reply was: "We will have to see the copy first before deciding. If the advertisement presents the Edison company's side and we think it should be commented on to present the light question properly before our read ers, we shall certainly comment on it." The Edison company did not wish its advertisement" shot full of holes. The State Journal was anxious to know Just what the Edison company had up its sleeve and was afraid it might wait until- the morning of elec tion, so it was suggested the Sunday Capital might be used. The Edison fell into that trap all right and used It and exposed its hand in time for comment There are a lot of angry people to day who are wrongfully put in the position of favoring the Edison com pany's plan and repudiate the old MONDAY EVENING. petition as favoring their present views. Here is the situation: Quite Different Now. W. M. Forbes: "Conditions are en tirely different now from what they were at the time that petition was circulated. You can- state that I am emphatically in favor of municipal ownership of the light plant. I am in favor of the light bonds to be voted upon tomorrow, and am distinctly against the Edison proposition to furnish lights for this city. We have a light commission now and I be lieve it will prove a success." M. F. Rigby: "The petition re ferred to in that Sunday morning ad vertisement was circulated about a year ago. Conditions have changed We have a light commission now." W. W. Mills: "Something like a year ago some one came in here with a petition to give the Edison company the city lighting contract. I believe I signed it. No sir. those are not my sentiments at this time. I am in fa vor of municipal ownership of the light plant and shall vote for the light bonds. We have a light com mission at this time and I feel sure that it will prove a success. I regard the printing of that list of names as favoring the Edison proposition as a misrepresentation of the sentiments of the men whose names were used. That petition referred to is now ancient history and does not apply at the present time." J. D. Norton: "The Edison com pany's big advertisement in the morn ing paper was vastly misleading. They have published a list of names of per sons alleged to be in favor of turning the city lighting business over to the Edison company, and I was surprised to find my name in the list. In look ing further over the list, I found that it was not a misprint, as I at first supposed, but a clever scheme to work In a list of names which were given more than a year ago, on an en tirely different proposition. Mr. Maunsell, who has been dead a year, introduced a proposition to furnish the city lights, but the scheme did not contemplate the loss of the plant owned by the city. A lot of those names were subscribed to help Maun sell get a foothold In the city, in a hope that a second light plant would break the existing electric monopoly. Maunsell's scheme died with him. and for that reason, any names signed in his behalf, lost all significance. I am for municipal lighting, and would never have lent my name to any such scheme as the Edison company proposes, and I believe that at least two-thirds of the names on that list In the Edison advertisement, were filched from the old Maunsell list. Just as mine was." D. J. Hathaway said: "I may have signed a petition in years gone by but I am positively In favor of the city voting the bonds now. I should also like to see the original of that petition." Warner Potter: Speaking for the firm, Mr. Potter stated that he favored the city furnishing its own light as long as it already owned its plant. He declared that the Sunday morning ad did not reflect his present sentiments at all. He was opposed to accepting the Edison proposition. He did not re member signing the petition- referred to, but if he did", it was a long time ago.. l Know or many men wnose names are in that prlntea list wno to my personal knowledge now oppose the acceptance of the Edison .offer to light this city." J. S. Warner: "Our firm name is printed, but have no knoweldge of signing' it.- I am emphatically for the municipal plan and against the Edison company proposition and will vote for the bonds." A. Marburg, advertised as a signer: "That advertisement does not give my sentiments. The petition they speak of must have been circulated a long time ago. I do not favor the Edison proposition, neither do I favor the bonds to enlarge the light plant. I want to see the plant continue Just as it is, with necessary improvements ad ded to keep It in good shape." E. B. Guild: "I signed that petition a long time ago. Conditions have changed." Robinson, Marshall Co.: Mr. Rob inson, speaking of the Edison adver tisement, said to the reporter today that he had signed It a long time ago. Over a year ago, he thought, and con ditions had changed materially since that time. "If you would interview all the men whose names appear in that list," he said, "I believe you will find that 75 per cent of them have changed their minds since then and their senti ments now are exactly the contrary to what they are represented In that ad. The city now has a light commis sion. I favor municipal ownership of the light plant and the improvement of the plant to meet the demands of the city for street lights. I am not fighting the Edison company. It Is merely a business proposition and for the good of the many in the long run that the city own and operate Its own light plant. Water and light are neces sities and are better In the hands of the city than a corporation, no matter how good the corporation is at this time." Dr. L. T. Grubbs: "I am constitu tionally opposed to voting bonds, though I shall give the matter serious thought before I vote either way Tues day as conditions have changed since I signed that petition." E. W. Hughes: "I don't think I ever signed any such a petition as the one referred to and am sure that I would not If presented at this time." A. H. Marshall: "I may have signed such a petition a year or so ago but conditions have changed since then and I am in favor of the city doing its own lighting under the commission plan. If the Edison company can afford to make the reduction that they have of fered the city they should do some thing for their commercial patrons." S. M. Crow: "I do not know how my name came to be Included In the list published Sunday of those opposed to the issuance of electric light bonds. I did not authorize it." F. A. Snow: "I signed a petition a year or so ago because lots of good business men had and without giving the matter serious thought. Since then I have thought the matter over and am going to vote for the bonds." G. A. Bailey: "I do not recall signing any such petition but suppose that I did." A. J. August: "I don't know anything about the petition published by the Edison company Sunday excepting that I never signed anything of the kind." R. S. Thompson, of Thompson Bros.: "I do not remember of ever signing an electric light petition of any kind and I want to investigate the question further before I vote either way to morrow." (Continued from Page' Three.) READYTO VOTE. The City Election Will Be Held Tt morrow. Lighting Proposition Is Up to the People. THEY MUST DECIDE. Question of Turning Lighting Over to a Corporation. Six Members of the City Coun cil to Be Chosen. The Topeka city election will be held tomorrow. The polls open at 6 o'clock in the morning and close at 6 o'clock in the evening. Six members of the city council are to be chosen and six members of the school board. These are the only offi cers to be chosen at this election. The Interest centers in the lighting ques tlon, however. The people are called upon to decide whether they wish to rebuild the city plant so that it will accommodate the growing require ments of the city or farm the business out to a corporation known as the Edi- son Light company, owned principally by Chicago and eastern capitalists at an annual cost of $25,000 ror ten years, $250,000 in all, the city to furnish its present poles and wire. The Chicago people want the contract and want it bad and they can not be blamed for that. It Is up to the people to say whether they want to give it to tnem. The amount to be voted for is $65,000 but the light commissioners say that only about half this sum will be re quired. Only the amount necessary will be issued and the work of re building will be in charge of the light commission R. L. Cofran, W. W. Mills and Herbert Hackney. The women may vote on the light question. Following are the candidates for all parties: First ward, councilman Republican, C. E. Jordan; Democrat, W. E. Scot ten; Socialist, W. E.' Kearns. First ward, member board of edu cationRepublican, C. C. Nicholson; Democrat, G. F. Kimball; Socialist, J. E. Tarroll. Second ward, councilman Republi can, C. K. Holliday; Democrat, H. P. Miller; Socialist, O. F. Olmstead. Second ward, member board of edu cationRepublican, Rev. F. E. Mal lory; Democrat, Dr. Eva Harding; So cialist, Carl Schults. Third ward, councilman Republican, Charles G Blakely; Democrat, W. F. Logan; Socialist, Micajah Hamilton. Third, ward, member board of educa tion Republican, Ellsha H. Anderson; Democrat, Benjamin ...G Walker ;Sq- clallst, E. M. Larsen. Fourth ward, councilman Republi can. Edwin Montgomery; Democrat, Louis E. Fraser; Socialist, Charles D. Brouyette. Fourth ward, member board of edu cation Republican, Jonathan D. Nor ton; Democrat, George S. Allen So cialist, A. George Bernat. Fifth ward, councilman Republican, William G. Tandy; Democrat, George Skeene; Socialist, Albert A. Avery. Fifth ward, member board of educa tionRepublican, Charles F. Hardy; Democrat, John O. Lungstrum; Social ist. Thomas A. Curry. Sixth ward, councilman Republican, James W. F. Hughes; Socialist, Ernest Brencisen. Sixth ward, member board of educa tionRepublican, A. B. Poole; Social ist, John M. Parr. Records of Councilmen. Councilman Charles E. Jordan Is asking for a second term as a repre sentative of the First ward. He has made an excellent record and was largely responsible for uncovering the Fifth ward sewer scandal. He is active and gives the business of the city his closest attention. He is not in favor of turning the city lighting over to the Edison company. Councilman C. K. Holliday of the Second ward Is asking for re-election. Mr. Holliday is a Topeka boomer. He favors anything that he thinks will result in benefit to the city and has made a good record as councilman. He has been especially solicitous about the interests of- the Second ward and a better representa tive in the city council could not be found. Mr. Holliday has a strong hold upon the people of the Second ward. He is favor of the city retain ing its light plant and rebuilding it along modern lines. C. E. Blakely who is asking to be returned to the council from the Third ward, has served only part of one term, having been appointed to take the place of Wm. Green who was elected mayor. Mr. Blakely has shown a remarkable interest in city affairs and both before and since his appointment as councilman has been on the trail of the sewer grafts in the Fifth ward. He is in favor of the city retaining its lighting system and has made an excellent record and shown unusual ability as a repre sentative of his ward and the city. In the Fourth ward E. Montgomery is asking to be re-elected to the council. He has a lively fight on his hands but his friends say that he will win. Mr. Montgomery is one of the older councilmen, having already served' two terms and is especially qualified, being familiar with all the details of the city's business. He has pushed the Investigation of the sewer scandals and has done a great deal as chairman of the ways and means committee to keep down expenses and save the people's money. He doesn't favor giving a corporation the Job of lighting the city. Mr. Montgomery and his associate councilmen will push the exposure of the sewer graft and outrage through the courts as a civil matter, notwith standing the failure of the grand Jury to indict ex-City Engineer McCabe. The council has evidence, the grand Jury did not get. Councilmen Tandy of the Fifth ward and Hughes of the Sixth have little opposition and both have made good records as councilmen. The list of polUng places, judges, clerks, etc., will be found in today's paper, fifth column, ninth page. The Viaduct as the People Desire It. To the Editor of the Journal: Permit me to make a statement through the columns of your valuable IOPEKA, KANSAS, APRIL paper to the "people" of the East side who will have occasion to use the new Branner street viaducts If the "incline" for pedestrians is more desirable than -"steps" the incline will be put in. This matter was thor oughly understood by toth the council and the parties building the viaduct when the proposition was before the council. The viaduct is not costing the city a cent and will be of great benefit to the people and property interests on the East side. Mr. Lannan and myself will attend to seeing that the change is made and the "incline" substituted for "steps," providing that parties living near the viaduct and have occasion to use the same will have the kindness to confer with us and let us know their wishes. When the matter was before the council the panic was on and it was not so much a question of "steps" and "incline" as It was whether the viaduct would be' built at all. It was at this critical period that the parties building the same, said: "If we send the plans back for correction, the viaduct will not be built, as times are hard and tha money instead of being spent will be saved. Let us go on with the via duct," they continued, "and the 'incline' can be arranged any time." With this understanding the viaduct ordinance was passed. C. K. HOLLIDAY. SHOT NEIGHBOR GIRL. Man of 50 Then Fired Bullet Through His Own Head. Pittsburg, Pa., April 6. Samuel L. Gardner, a prominent resident of Church avenue, McKeesv Rocks, a su burb of this city, shot and instantly killed Dorothy Bradley, 16 years old, and then fired a bullet through his head today, probably fatally injuring himself. Gardnerf was, for several years borough engineer' and with the change of administration he lost his position last month. He is said to have been brooding since that time and had worried greatly. Dorothy Bradley resided next door.- Gardner left his home this morning after breakfast and went up the street. He returned later and shortly before 9 o'clock,-;the shooting took place. The girl was' dead when pick ed up, while Gardner-was hurried to the hospital in an unconscious condi tion. The police ::-are- investigating. Gardner is 50 years old. Gardner had a. wife and several grown up children The prominence of both families and the youth of Miss Bradney, .served to make the shooting sensational. It is alleged Gardner has been In fatuated with ttae. young girl for a long time. It is said he became ex tremely enraged last night when Miss Bradney went to church accompanied by a young man. Gardner left his home this morning and purchased a revdlver. He then went directly to the kitchen of the Bradney home where Dorothy and her mother were engaged in house hold duties. Walking straight to the young girl he pressed the revolver to her breast and iirtt "-one shot. She fell dead,- shot -througti the -heart. Gardner died later .from self inflicted wounds. v. Mrs. Bradney attempted to seize Gardner, but dodging her, he ran to his own residence next door and shot himself. His wife and children were all attracted by the shot and sum moned a physician Later Gardner was taken to a. hospital. The Bnad ney and Gardner families have been on the best of termr.'-r'Sometime ago, it la said, It was noticed Gardner; was showing fondness for the girl and made no effort to conceal the fact. Last summer Mrs. Bradney sent her daughter to the country for six months, hoping that after Dorothy re turned home Gardner would not dis play so much interest in her. MEET IN CONFERENCE Miners and Operators In Joint Session at Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., April 6. South western coal operators and mine representatives met here this morn ing and began their conference to dis cuss a new scale affecting the 35,000 men now out. Leaders of both sides express con fidence that an amicable settlement would be reached and the men would soon be at work again, probably with in another week's time. The miners committee is composed of five men from each of the three districts of the United Mine Workers union, embracing Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and a portion of Texas. George Colville president, of the Missouri association is chairman of the miners scale committee. Charles S. Keith of the Central Coal and Coke company of Kansas City, is representing the operators. The action of the joint commission must finally be referred to the miners and operators for ratification. Governor Joseph W. Folk is ex pected here late today to take part in the conference, while T. L. Lewis, na tional president of the United Mine Workers of America,- will probably arrive Wednesday. GAS METER TESTS. A Majority of Them Found to Be Running Too Fast. New Tork, April 6. Since the es tablishment of the public service commission last year. New Tork has been possessed of a means for the of ficial testing of gas meters. Figures have been compiled by the commis sion showing the number of meters tested and the condition in which found. During the first six months of the commission's existence there were 1,562 tests on complaints of con sumers. Of the meters tested 205 were found to be correct, 809 were fast and 650 slow. Since the first of Jan uary complaints have been much more numerous. For the three months ended March 31 there were 2.805 meters tested on complaints of which 524 were absolutely correct; 1,820 fast and 661 slow. Wandered Away. On last Thursday,"-April 2, a young man about twenty years old, right knee crippled and goes on one crutch; has wandered away from Prospect Park hospital of Atchison, I-as, George W. Wells., proprietor. .dS'rin formation regarding him sent to Mr. Wells will be thankfully received. 6, 1908. TAFT ATJMAIIA. The Secretary of War Arrives on an Early Train. Received at Union Station hy Gen. Gardner and Staff. HE HELD A RECEPTION On the Depot Platform Before Going to Breakfast. Story of How He Was Caught by Picture Machine. Omaha, Neb., April 6. Secretary Taft arrived in -Omaha at 8:30 this morning. He was received at the Union station by General Gardner, commanding the department of Mis souri and his entire staff in full dress uniform, and by a local reception committee. The secretary was taken to the Rome hotel for breakfast. He held an informal reception on the sta tion platform. The programme planned was de viated from partially and the automo bilt trip to Fort Omaha was deferred until Tuesday. The secretary spent three hours during the. morning pre paring his night address and going over his mail which he found vol uminous. The noon luncheon at the Omaha club was the first formal affair in dulged in by Secretary -Taft. Victor Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee, was host, and in addition to the war secretary, the guests were United States Senators Brown and Burkett, Governor Sheldon and the members of the Nebraska delegation to the nation al Republican convention. TAPPS SECOND DAY IN CHICAGO. Round of Receptions, Lunches and Speeches Ends With Banquet. Chicago, April 6. William H. Taft, secretary of war, spent his second busy day in Chicago Saturday, with another round of receptions, luncheons and speeches, winding up with the ban quet of the Commercial club of Chi cago at the Congress hotel. In all his talks the secretary care fully avoided politics, although in the evening address he touched lightly upon a few questions of public import. About 300 members of the Commer cial club attended the evening function. Mr. Taft was given a hearty reception when he was introduced. The bulk of Mr. Taft's speech was devoted to a discussion of conditions in the Orient, especially as they affect American trade in China, Japan, Korea and tha Philippines. He lea up to this by -discussing briefly the progress of construction on the Panama canal, telling the members of the club that if they should repeat their tour of in spection to the canal zone they would find that tremendous strides had been made in the big task there. He called the attention of his auditors to the in fluence that the canal will have upon the Asiatic trade of the United States, traced the growth of the exports of this country to the Far East and then said: "Four- hundred and sixty 'million people on the other side of the Pa cific will soon be within comparatively easy reach of both coasts of the United States. The question is whether we are going to take advantage of the condition favoring us in competition for alt this -trade. "Our sales to the Philippines have Increased from comparatively nothing: to upwards of 6. 000, 000, or about one- fifth of the total imports of those islands. This is by no means what it should be, but it is due to the very backward and blind policy in respect to the Philippines tariff which I sin cerely hope may be changed in the near future." The secretary then turned to China, referring briefly to the "energy and anxiety that Japan and Germany are showing with reference to the Chinese trade." "Where we have one consular representative at work,"- he said, "Japan and Germany have thirty or forty." He added:' "I stop for a moment to point out the utter fatuity of the policy of the United States in respect to the salaries and the housing of her consular and diplomatic representatives through out the world. If the service ren dered by such representatives Is use ful and the experience of all other countries seems to demonstrate that it is then it la worth while for this country to give its representatives a respectable establishment in every country in which our nation is repre sented. "Could anything be more unre publlcan, more plutocratic than a sys tem of salaries and allowances that bar from the diplomatic corpa every one save millionaires? The erection of a suitable embassy, legislation or consulate at every important station in the world, would not only enable the poor man to assume a suitable position, but it would limit the rich man to the same kind of an estab lishment and prevent that ostentation to which some of our representatives are tempted." Mr. Taft then turned his attention to China again, but a little later di gressed once more to urge the pro priety of a ship subsidy for a line of steamers between the Pacific coast, Japan and China. "If the protective principle is wise," he said, "if it is wise to expend government money in the develop ment of internal waterways, I am un able to see why the improvement of our merchant -marine by subsidy is not justifiable, provided the subsidy is open to all who will comply with its provisions." CONSPIRED AGAINST TAFT. How Movlnjr Pictures of the Secretary of War Were Secured. Washington, April 6. It took an or der from the commander-in-chief of the American army to get the secretary of war to stand before an attack from the moving picture machine. "Bill you will have to do it," said Mr. Roosevelt. And thereby hangs the -tale of the most interesting series of moving pictures of any famous American so tar taken, in cidentally it demonstrates that the president of the United States knows that It pays to advertise. He knows that there are 4,000 moving picture the- (Contlnued on Paae ThxeeJ MONDAY EVENING. 'THE LADY OR THE TIGER." The State Journal believes that If the masses of the people wIU get out and express themselves at the polls to morrow that the hands of the city will be upheld in maintaining a city elec tric light plant which will continue to produce light for the city at a lower price than corporations In the past were willing to sell It. A city does not need to make any profits. The Edison company by the competition of our own city plant, de spite that it will not be up to date un til certain improvements are made has forced the Edison company to make a proposition which it says is the lowest in the United States. The Edison com pany forgets about Toledo, Ohio. Utica, New York, and other places which have a lower rate. But our plant Is good enough in its present state to give the people good light as far as it can and to compel a corporation to cut Its price, as it says, to the lowest price In the United States! Is It not worth while to maintain a plant that will do this much for us? The value of a franchise is enormous and a corporation capitalizes it at a big figure. The only way the city has ever been able to capitalize a franchise is not to give It away, but to keep it. Mr. Myers says that our municipal plant and all' municipal plants are failures. We don't know just what constitutes a failure. The Edison Light company In this city is bonded for 3700,000, and It has in addition issued stocks to the amount of $1,260,000. It of course wishes to pay its shareholders something; although it admits it has not paid them any divi dends yet. The bondholders seem to get part of it and the rest of it goes into improvements. Well the city will do a little improving now. The Edison interests will be active tomorrow in getting out votes against the bonds. They have a financial In terest in the matter. They want to prove Topeka's municipal plant a fail ure. The friends of the plant must get out for the principle and for the city and work for "love of the cause." Those who fear they may pay higher taxes if we vote bonds should bear in mind that if the city takes 500 lights from the Edison company it will cost $25,000 annually for lights and we must give up the use of our poles and wires. If we continue the municipal plant the operating expenses will not ex ceed $15,000; the interest on $40,000 in bonds will be $3,000, and the In terest on the outstanding bonds, $28, 000, and for which the city has the present plant to show, will be $1,400, or a total of $18,400 to be raised in taxes against $23,000 on the Edison plan: The city can set aside as much above $18,400 as it desires as a sink' ing fund to pay off the bonds which should be made, payable on or before a certain number of years. We are paying the Edison company now for 32 lights $2,080 annually. This will cover the interest on all the new bonds necessary.' Attention is called to the numerous interviews in another part of this pa per. We could have filled the page with Interviews favoring the city and opposing any backward step, but it was sought today to use only inter views with those who were misrepre sented in the Edison's page advertise' ment going back into ancient history before the people thoroughly under stood the subject and before the elec tric light commission was appointed. Many of the signatures that were secured a year ago were under the representation that bur plant was worn out and would require $65,00 to $85,000 to renew it. It is still doing business at the old stand and the commission says $35,000 is enough to put It up to date for 500 lights. PREMIER RESIGNS. King Edward Has Summoned Her bert Asqulth to His Presence. London, England, April 6. The king has accepted the resignation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the British prime minister. Sir Henry's conditions remains unchanged ac cording to the physician's bulletin. The king, in telegraphing his accept ance of the premier's resignation, conveyed an expression of his regret and esteem with best wishes for Sir Henry's recovery. No further official announcement with regard to cabinet changes has been made, but the king has sum moned Herbert Asquith, chancellor of the exchequer, and the latter will start for Biarritz where the king is sojourning, probably this afternoon.. ATTACK OUR CONSUL Four Japanese Make a Bad Break at Mukden. Mukden, April 6. Four Japanese en tered the American consulate today and brutally attacked the native staff in revenge for a private spite. Consul General Straight made a requisition on the Chinese police and the Japanese were arrested and taken to the Jap anese consulate. No apology has yet been offered and it is probable that the matter will be made a subject of diplomatic action. Mr. Logan Is Confident. "I have made a thorough canvass of the Third ward," said W. F. Logan, "and I feel confident that I will be elected tomorrow to represent the ward in the city council for the next two years. I have lived in Topeka for ten years and in the Third ward for the past four years and from what my friends' tell me there is little doubt of my election. It's merely a question of getting my friends to the polls on elec tion day and then a question as to my majority. If elected I pledge my best energies to the upbuilding of Topeka and its Industries.. TWO CENTO. TRUCE DECLARED. Democrats and Republicans In House Stop Wrangling Long Enough to Pass an Em ployers Liability Bill. IS ALMOST UNANIMOUS Three Hundred Totes Cast for It and One Against. Littlefield of Maine Stood Oat to the Last. Washington. April 6.-A truce be tween the Democrats and Republican, was for a time declared today when under suspension of the rules the house took up for consideration and passed the Sterling employers liability bill. The Democrats broke out Into loud ap plause and hand clapping when the reading- of the measure had been con cluded. Mr. Sterling (111.) explained tha pro visions of the bill, the main features of which have been published. Mr. Star Un stated that the bill would he ap plicable to lnterurban car Unas between states and street railway lines in the territories and the District of Colum bia, The Democrats applauded Mr. Henry (Tex.) when he said the bill was a meritorious and constitutional on and that not a Democratic vote- would be recorded against It.- In the opinion of Mr. Littlefield the section of the bill relating to actions at law in cases of contributory negligence was an innovation on existing laws. Ha delivered a legal argument in support of his contention and declared that the bill was open to the same objection that was raised against the section de clared unconstitutional by the supreme court of the United States. The vote resulted 800 yeas, one nay, Mr. LKtle fleld casting the negative vote. Eight were not present. TO HELP PROHIBITION Senate Subcommittee Has Agreed Upon a Bill. 1 Washington. April 6. After extend ed hearings and exhaustive arguments V... V. An V. L. vjr iuo uicwuciB uiv aeno.iv commit tee on the judiciary that committee today agreed UDon a bill dealinz with the shipment of locals from one state or territory to another state or terrl- tory. The measure will be reported by Senator Knox, who was chairman of the subcommittee, which conducted pie in form, providing that there shall be no "collect on delivery", packages of liquor shipped in interstate com. m PTPA wlura flntftirtii. nflTnA. ava nuil and that the name of the consignor and consignee shall be stated plainly. The provision Is designed to eliminate,, the practice of railroad and express agents acting as agents for -liquor' houses. There were numerous bills before the subcommittee dealing with every phase of the question and particularly' they sought to give to a state the right to control liquor shipments the mo ment they entered the border of the state. Temperance organizations all over the country desired this feature to be incorporated in the bill so as te give the widest latitude to a state in exercising- Its police powers. All of the Kill- kifnM 4-Ka ciKjmmittAA .4 clared unconstitutional by a vote of 1 to 2. A vote was later had on the -bills by the full committee and they, were declared unconstitutional by a vote of 7 to 6. The bill agreed upon eliminates the features that am ha. lieved to have endangered a constitu- tionaf test. In reporting it to the sen ate, Senator Knox will perfect Its phraseology. The report on the bill will be unanimous. At this time the minority on the committee believes that certain other features intended to broaden the scope of the measure should be enacted and it was agreed that the votes of all the members of the committee should be incorporated in the report to the senate. The sub mission to the senate of the views of the minority will transfer the whole matter to the senate floor, with excel lent prospects of a renewed fight -there for what is termed a broad "states right" bill. T THAI' PACC C ciicn Annulment of Marriage Is Asked on Ground of Insanity." New Tork, April 6. Counsel for Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw today filed in the su preme court, the suit for annulment of her marriage with 'Harry -.Kendall Thaw. The annulment is asked on. the ground that Thaw was insane at the time of the marriage. Papers in the proceedings were served on Thaw sev eral weeks ago. A. Russell Feabody, counsel for Harry K. Thaw, and his mother, Mrs. Will iam Thaw, both of whom are named as defendants in the action, filed a notice with the court today consenting to the appointment of a referee to take testi mony. Daniel O'Reilly said that Evelyn Thaw will sail for Europe Saturday. ASK PUBUC AID. Philadelphia TJnem ployed Are Threat- ened With Starvation. Philadelphia, April The city coun- ell will be asked this week to appropri ate not less than $50,000 to relieve the distress among the unemployed and their families, according to action ta ken yesterday at a meeting of unem ployed. A -committee was appointed to go before the council's finance commit tee and Impress that body with the fact that more than 200,000 persons are out of work and that at least $60,000 is needed to prevent women and children from starving. Weather Indications. Chicago, April Forecast for Kan sas: Partly cloudy tonight and Tues day.

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Ladles' Fine Shoes and Oxfords, sizes $2.48 24j to ELLET JOHN I HENRY C SHOE CO, Kansas Avenue 515 RIOTING IN LISBON. Disturbance Follows Election and Troops Fire on the Mob. Lisbon, Portugal, April elections here, which were conducted peaceably with the exception of minor disorders in some of the dis affected districts, were followed last night by serious rlotins; which was only put down by -most vigorous ac tion on the part of the police and troops. The rioting broke out In different parts of the city as though liy a preconcerted plan. Troops were Immediately ordered into action and they repeatedly charged the mobs that in places filled the streets, but without effect. The rioters used clubs, stones and whatever other weapons were at hand, and finally the troops were obliged to fire upon them, killing and wounding a num ber. This determined action on the part of the authorities seemed to have the desired effect, and shortly the mobs were dispersed. At a late hour most of the Republican voters had gone to their homes, but bands of youths oontinued to demonstrate before the churches. They confined their dis orders to shouting, however. Only One "Bromo Quinine" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUINT NTS. Look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. Used the world over to cure a cold in one clay. 26c. Rheumatism is caused by an excess of uric acid in the blood, brought about by the accumulation in the system of refuse matter which the natural avenues of bodily waste have failed to carry off. This waste or refuse matter ferments and sours and generates uric acid which is absorbed into the blood ana distributed to all parts of the body, and Rheumatism, with its torturing pains and aches, inflammation and other disagreeable symptoms, gets pos session of the system. The aches and pains may be relieved and the inflam mation temporarily reduced by the application of a good plaster, penetrating liniment or some other simple home remedy, but the disease can never be cured while the blood remains saturated with the irritating, pain-producing uric acid poison. The cause should be driven from the blood before the trouble reaches the chronic or helpless stage. S. S. S., a purely vegeteble remedy, cures Rheumatism by thoroughly cleansing the blood of every particle of the uric acid poison, and making this vital fluid pure, fresh and health-sustaining. It filters out from the circulation the remotest particle ot the poison, and when S. S. S. has renovated the blood. Rheumatism is thoroughly and permanently cured. Book on Rheumatism and any mT-l advice free. THE SWIET SPECIFIC jC0.,to ATLAHTA, GA. I0LA TEAM A ML Saturday and Sunday Games Taken by Onesided Scores. It was a shame for the local baseball team to take the money yesterday af ternoon. The Iola", team was literally smothered by a score of 17 to 1 and the game from beginning- to end resembled a Democratic landslide in Mississippi. Throughout the entire afternoon- the Topeka team hammered the Iola pitch ers to all corners of the lot and when ihey were not lambasting the horsehide the Iola players did all they could to swell the local score by booting the ball in a fashion far worse than that of the old Topeka Saints in their in itial appearance in Topeka uniforms. Two pitchers by the names of Laster and McKenney worked for Iola and both were as easy as an old bachelor, the latter being a shade the worst. Nothing of a complimentary nature can he said for either of them except that they had no business working yesterday as they are far below the Western Association class. Roy Arnold debutted in the opening part of the game. Roy had not worked a bit until yesterday and consequently was not in the best kind of condition. He pitched a masterly game neverthe less only four bingles being scored against him. When Roy gets into con dition there is not the least doubt but that he will be one of the winners of the Western Association. Pollard pitched the last four innings for the locals and only twelve men faced him, and then only to retire in one, two, three order without a safe connection being made. Pollard looks the best of the lot at the present time and Oooley seems to have made a ten strike when he secured the Evansville doc tor. The feelings of a suffering public will be spared the motony which a narra tion of yesterday s events would cause, and will be allowed to devote all their spare thoughts to the smallpox scare. The Iola Sunday catastrophe: Score by innings: R.H.E, Topeka 30300047 17 17 2 Iola 1000000001 4 1 Summary :Three-baa hits Landreth, Cuthbert, Bartley. Two-base hits Kahl. Ellis. Sacrifice hits Crumrine, Boles. Pollard. Stolen bases Wooley, Landreth, Kahl, Boles, Funk 2, Plank, Pollard. Bases on balls 4Jff Arnold 1: off Lester 1. Struck out By Arnold 1 by Pollard 1; by Lester 4. Hits Off Arnold 4 in 5 innings: off Pollard 0 in 4 innings: off Laster 7 in 6 innings; 'ott McKlnney 10 in 2 innings. Left on bases Topeka 4; Iola 4. Double plays Plank to Kahl to Boles; Boles to Plank to Boles. Passed balls Edwards 8. Hit by pitched ball Wooley, Boles 2, Funk and Brennan of Iola. Time of game 1:15. Attendance 400. Umpire Cooley. SATURDAY'S GAME. The same old story between Topeka and Iola was repeated in allopathic doses last Saturday afternoon before a limited throng of spectators. From the time the game commenced, to the lima it was called In the seventh inning be cause of monotony and cold weather It was but a constant repetition of the day before. The local boys didn't have to hit safe to score runs. All it was necessary for the Cooley sluggers lo do was to send the ball to the outfield and the more the Iola outgardehers tried to stop the ball the further the sphere) would roll. Oeer and Messenger, the two'Iola pitchers, were both easy for the locals. Mershon and Hagerman worked for the locals and although they simply lobbed the ball over the plate they got away pretty easy. The feature of. the game .was the home run of Cyrus Landreth. The hit was a ong fly over the cranium of the center fielder. Funk secured a triple and Hagerman could have done the same had he not failed to touch second base. A new shortstop by the name of Plank who drifted into Topeka was given a tryout. He carries a recom mendation from Parke Wilson, the old National League catcher, and his work Saturday indicates that Cooley has struck another good player. Score by innings: R.H.E. Topeka 6 4 2 0 1 0 12 8 Iola 0 0000000 7 Summary: Home run Landreth. Three-base hit Funk, Cuthbert. Two base hit Ellis. Sacrifice hit Mershon. Stolen bases Landreth, Kahl 2, Boles, Wooliver. Bases on balls Off Mershon 1; off Oeer 2; off Messenger 2.. Struck out By Mershon 3; by Hagerman S; by Geer 1. Left on bases Topeka 3; Iola 6. Double plays Farrell to Brennan to Gray. Passed ball Edwards. Time of game 1:00. Attendance 13. Umpire Hurlburt. Toledo Lets Pitcher Lloyd Go. Toledo, O., April 6. Pitcher Lloyd was the first recruit on Armour's squad to get the ax upon the club's arrival here. Lloyd left for Roanoke, where he will play In the West Vir ginia league. Washington 6, Kansas City 1. Kansas City, April 6. Inability to wield the willow with force and pre cision at times when hits would have meant runs, was the chief cause of the downfall of the Blues in the third and deciding game of the series with Can tlllon's Washington cellar champs. The score, 6 to 1, about indicates the su periority of the victors yesterday. The score: R.H.E. Washington 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 10 1 Kansas City....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 S Batteries Washington, Burns and Street; Kansas City, Wood. Brandom and Leahy. Wichita 9, Pittsburg S. Wichita, Kan., April 6. Wichita out batted Pittsburg Sunday and annexed the long end of the score. 9 to 6. Speer. who went In for the locals during the first five FOR RHEUMATISM Innings, held the -visdtot -down tn one score. Cy Young, formerly of Wichita, was landed on for ten hits, netting six runs. Willis, who was sent in to relieve him, was hit freely, but held the scoring down to three runs. Hans Wagner joined the Pittsburg squad here, arriving with rresiaeni iweyius. Score by innines: RU E. Wichita 3 0 0 3 01 2 0 08 14 3 Pittsburg ..100030 1005 6 0 Batteries Sneer. Scott and" Strinsrer for Wichita; Young, Willis and Phelps for Pittsburg. Denver 2, Joplin 0. Joplln, Mo., April 6. Four fast double plays were features of the opening game at Miners' park Sunday in a series between the Denver team of the Western league and the Joplin team of the Western association. The visitors won 2 to 0. Score by innines: Joplin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 uenver 10OO0010 Q 3 Batteries Joplin; Beckenbaugh, Stinson and Hawkins: Denver: Olm- stead. Page and Zaluskey. Oklahoma City 4, Milwaukee 0. Oklahoma City. Ok.. April 6. "Smiling" Bob Bandy with errorless support Sunday blanked the Milwau kee team In the first of the two exhib ition games to be played here. It was the best game since the season open ed. Another game will be played to day: Score by innings: R.H.E. Oklahoma City 0 0000400 04 5 0 Milwaukee ....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 Saturday's Ball Games. Kansas university 5, Ottawa 1. Cincinnati 1, Chicago Sox 0. Boston Americans L Toledo 0. Kansas City 7, Washington 6. Chicago 9, Memphis 1, Cincinnati 1, Chicago 0. Houston 7, Minneapolis 4. Cleveland 9. New Orleans 2. New York Highlanders 8. Atlanta 5. Detroit Tigers 5, Louisville 2. Washington Seconds 1, Springfield 0. Boston Nationals 8, Lynchburg 0. Bowdoin 6, Princeton 2. Fordham 4. Yale 1. Annapolis 7, Amherst 6. Birmingham 5, Brooklyn 4. BALL PLATERS ARRESTED. The Giants the Victims of a Sunday Crusade at McAlester. M'Alester, Ok., April 6. At the close of the ball game here Sunday afternoon at League park, in which the New York Giants and the New York Colts played an exhibition game. all the participants, including the urn pire and the local manager. E. C. Roungal, were arrested by Sheriff John Harrison. It had been suspected that this would take place and bonds were arranged; President Young sign ed the same. The members of the New York team will leave today for Little Rock and President Young will represent them In court. He said that he would fight the case, though the maximum fine is $1 for each partici pant. It is understood that Sheriff Har rison was forced into the action by the ministers and others. At many churches the local ministers preached on the game and advised that the county officers must act. One minis ter is said to have charged the county attorney with having neither brains nor sense. The game was attended by nearly 3,000 persons. It was a fine exhibition of ball, the Giants winning by a score of 3 to 2. President Young states that there will be another game at the park next Sunday between the lo cal league team and some 'imported team, t TOPEKA CITY LEAGUE. C. K. Holliday tls President of the Organization.. The Topeka City league which has been a much talked of affair for some time past, assumed definite shape at a meeting held at Fullerton's store, 728 Kansas avenue. At this meeting a permanent organization was effected and Topeka will therefore see a pennant race among six teams of the highest amateur standing in the city. Charles K. Holliday, the well known councilman of the Second ward and a Topeka boomer, has been elected to the presidency of the city league and with Mr. Holliday at the head the league will be assured of a successful season. II. W. Clark, of the Santa Fe office team, has been elected manager of the league and will In this position have charge of all the duties which usually fall to the lot of a secretary and treasurer. Mr. Clark was at one time president of the Railway Clerks' league in Chicago and was manager of one of the largest Chicago amateur teams for a number of seasons. Committees were appointed to look after the various details of the organi zation such as the rules and by-laws of the association, and rules govern ing the eligibility of players. A schedule committee was also appoint ed to draw up a schedule with the understanding that the season was to open May 1. It is probable that all the games of the league will be played at Skene's park. The general manage ment of the league will be in charge of an executive committee which will be composed of the managers of the six teams In the league. The teams which will compose the league are: Midgets, H. E. Rlgby, manager; JUagles, w. a. Groom, man ager; Topeka Printing company, L. R. Vesper, manager; Santa Fe offices, R. W. Clark, -manager; Smith Automobile company, L L. Miller, manager, and Democratic Flambeau club, R. B. Smith, manager. Wild Blot at a Game. Glasgow,- April Attendance at the football match between England and Scotland here Saturday was 130,000. A mob of a -thousand broke Into the tnelosure and 40 persona were Injured in the crush. In the progress of, the game stones and bottles were thrown by angry spectators in the rear. Three of the injured were taken to the hospital. Left His Load of Whisky. Ellis. Kan., April 6. A Queer "find" was made by Geo. Taylor Saturday. It con sisted of a wagon load of liquor in Mr. Taylor's buggy shed. How it got there no one appears to know. The mayor was notified and soon the sheriff was on the ground, and the liquids were stored in the county Jtt at Hays. Net Income Increased. New York. April 6. Net earnings for the year ending December SI, 1907, of $8,046,713, an increase of $1,667, 331, as compared with the preceding year, are shown by the annual report of the Delaware Hudson company just made public. The statement of gross earnings shows $20,175,793 for the year, an Increase of $3,125,764 over 1906. Of this Increase $2,415, 932 was from coal t raffle, the income from which was $9,081,644, as com pared with $6,665,732 in 1906. To partially offset the Increase in gross earnings however, there was an in crease of $1,459,451 in operating ex penses. After paying alt charges and interest, with the exception of divi dends, there remained a net income of $6,466,178. This is an Increase of $1,310,035, as compared with the pre ceding year. APPROVES THE PLAN. Lonjc's Garden Oty-. Forest Reserve Proposition Abted Upon. Washington, April The depart ment of agriculture has approved the plan of Senator Long, and, through his intercession, the Joint olan also of the entire delegation, that the Garden City rorest reserve be enlarged, so as to include that sand hill territory running west from Garden City to the Colorado nne, soutn or tne Arkansas river. Senator Long expects that the for mal details will be closed up without great delay, and the proclamation will De issued by the. president during the spring or early summer. The future Garden City reserve will include something like 200,000 acres, and will be put into shape as soon as possible. Much seeding will be done this spring, and more next. The de partment has established a nursery at Garden City for this purpose, upon the request of Senator Long and Judge Madison. t. In the report, the department says: "In view of the fact that the sand hill area is considered of value for tree planting purposes, and the future de mand for fuel, posts, etc., will un questionably be great; and also be cause most of the people living in the small towns, and settlers on farms and ranches adjacent to the sandhills, are in favor of reserving the entire sand hill region lor forestry purposes, it is therefore recommended that boundaries of the Garden City forest be extended to include all the land within the pro posed addition, and also all the sand hill areas immediately south of the Arkansas river, and lying between the west boundary of the. withdrawn aacu tlon and the Colorado state line. The boundaries of this extension should be. as far as practicable, as indicated." Possibly the most important detail of all the work done along this line this winter bv Senator Long and Judge Madison is the fact that, in due time, there will be a resident supervisor with headauarters at Garden City. At pres ent, the administration of this forest is accomplished from Halsey, Nebraska, but the Kansas forest will soon be made a separate unit. At the dinner given the other night bv John C. Nicholson, state agent, to the members of the Kansas delegation their secretaries, and other Kansas attaches and officials at Washington, several stories and incidents were rela ted. One of them was worth noticing. It was related by Senator Long, during the discussion that arose as to Kan sas claims that Mr. -Nicholson had Dressed. The senator recalled, in con nection with the University of Kansas claim for the old Free State hotel, an item for which he and Senator Curtis had placed in the omnibus claims bill, the appearance of himself. Senator Curtis, and John Nicholson one morn ing not long ago before the claims committee. With them went Dr. Ed ward Everett Hale, preacher, orator, author, philosopher, and chaplain of the senate, long since past his eightieth year. Dr. Hale has been much inter ested in the claimr and helped the sen ators. Senator Long said it was re markable that this; man, still active, had been president of an organization still in existence, older than the state Itself, and older t than either-himself. Senator Curtis, or Mr. Nicholson, It was a long time since the- destruction of the building, and .the claim has just got in shape finally, to be paid. Dr. Hale has kept alive, the New England Emigrant Aid society purposely tq, as sign to the university this claim for $20,000 for the destruction of the soci ety's building.- .-s -1 This led Mr. Scott to relate an in cident that had struck him. as re markable. A few years ago there was a claims bill pending and under discussion in the bouse of representa tives to pay some., -persons for some clothing that had been destroyed in St. Louis before rr-just at the begin ning of the war of the rebellion. The government of course had resisted the claim, for more than forty years, on the ground that it had been paid. Robert R. Hitt, a distinguished mem ber of the house, from Illinois, chair man of the committee on foreign af fairs, now dead, arose in his seat, and made a short speech in favor of the bill. He pointed to a tall stack of memoranda and testimony on his desk, and stated that he knew the claim was Just and-should be paid, because, at the time of the original in vestigation of it. more than forty years before, he, Hitt, had been the stenographer who had reported the hearings. The pile of documents, he said, consisted of his notes, transcrib ed in longhand, before the days of typewriters, and data and exhibits fortifying the claim. This passed the bill; but Mr. Scott thought it wonder ful that this distinguished member, old and grey, and full of fame, saved a Just claim against the government by testifying and proving that. in. his early youth, he had reported the in vestigation. This shows the long life of many claims, good and bad, before congress. Mr. Hitt, it may be remem bered, as a very young man, reported the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates In Illinois in 1858. CHICAGO TO N. T. BY TROLLEY. The Trip Was Made to Seven and a Half Days. New York, April 6. From Chicago to New York by trolley car in seven and a half days is the record estab lished by Elliott Flower of Chicago, who arrived here yesterday after trav eling 1,800 miles by local and inter urban. Mr. Flower was to discover the ex tent and value of the enormous de velopment of trolley system through the country. He was able to make a continuous trip for the entire distance with the exception of three small breaks. While satisfied with the result of the experiment, Mr. Flower is firm in his resolution to return to his home on a fast train. "I left Chicago early Sunday morn ing a week ago," said Mr. Flower, "and arrived at Indianapolis the same day. It was necessary to bridge the gap from Kankakee to Lafayette by train, but from there nearly to Buffalo I used trolleys exclusively. There was a break at Hudson, N. Y.. where. I was forced to take a train to Tarry town." Little Things! .There's hundreds of little house bold necessities nmn store over. You f I don't have to buy We Just want to meet you. Red Cross -Pharmacy M. WelgMmaa, !r. 9th and Kansas Avenue In the TO Solicits Your Vote He pledges himself to work. for the best inter ests of the city. He will appreciate your vote. 35 Men Back or the Model Civic Government at Des Moines, Iowa. Reading From Left to Right the Men Are VVeslie Ash, John MacVicar and Charles Schramm. TRIP OF THE FLEET. Admiral Evans Discusses It's Effect Upon Future History. .San Francisco, Cal.; April 6. Admiral Roblcy J. Evans in an'intervlew print ed in the Chronicle says: "The greatest interest of the United States today is in the Pacific. The coming of the fleet to this coast has not only demonstrated to the world that we have sixteen battleships, which can be brought together for a long cruise at a moment's notice, but it has called the attention of the people of our own country to the fact that we have a Pacific coast as well as an Atlantic coast, and that it will be de fended just as much as every inch of land around New York, and that our interests in the Pacific are today greater than in the Atlantic. This is the short road to the countries of the Far East, where the greatest commer cial development is to be. With de velopment will come war, but It will be a commercial war, fought with brain3 and dollars, and not with ten-inch guns. Tt will be generated by such men as Harriman, and the part of the n-ivy is only to be always ready. We do r.ot plan, nor fight, commercial battles. "The coming of the fleet was most opportunely timed by the president, and its arrival in the Pacific has re sulted in the assurance of peace. Not that I ever believed that there was any actual danger of war. The people of both countries realised, too well, wnat a dreadful calamity such a war would have been. "If the navy should ever be called upon to fight In the settlement of our Interests in the Pacific it would be to stop with Its guns the commercial de velopment for which the leaders of in dustry are battling with brains and dollars. "We accomplished much in the cause of peace in the Pacific when we dem onstrated that the efficiency of the fleet Increased with each day of the cruise. When the fleet sailed through the Straits of Magellan into the Pacific the ships were in better condition, and better prepared for action, than they were the day we sailed. That was proved by the target practice at Mag dalen a bay; and the records of that practice, which are most satisfactory, wlU show it." Los Angeles. California. Every day at 11:50 noon a PMllmaa tourist sleeping car leaves Topeka for Los Angeles, Cal.. without change via the Union Pacific R- R- This car stays in Salt Lake City through one day light hours of one day. giving the tourist an opportunity to visit the many points of Interest In the city tor the great inland sea. The Last Traia Lea-ring Topeka for Kansas City in the morning is the Union Pacific No. io at 8:15 a. m., arriving in Kansas City at 10:1$ a. m. The afternoon train returning is the earliest train Into To peka at etlS t. a CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION. A Municipal Revolution Has Taken Place in Dee Moines. Des Moines, la., April 6. Reject ing advice of "rings"- and "cliques" the people of Des Moines who adopted the commission form of gov ernment last spring to rid the com munity of the curse of politics, de feated every politician up for office and put the reins of government in the hands of the common people. The jiew officers elected are: Mayor Judge A. J. Mathis,. former police judge and poor man. Councilmen John MacVicer, popu lar because of previous fights against corporations. Weslie Ash, a coal miner. J, L. Hamery, carpenter. Charles Schramm, former city as sessor and poor man. Wealth counted for nothing in the campaign. Rich and influential busi ness men who sought the positions were turned down. With a big com mittee with unknown means spend ing money advancing their cause business men of the "slate" .were completely vanquished.. The Des Moines plan was heralded as a relief from caucus methods and every movement which had the semblance of a "slate" was crushed.' The city corporation turned over to these five men for conducting the next two years Is valued at 8, 634. 850. They are unhampered in their administration. Under the law they select all their administrative officers. such as attorneys, treasurer, auditor, engineer, police judges, chief of po lice and detectives, etc. It is expected the city government will be. divided and each, councilman assigned a distinct department over which he will have absolute control and assume responsibility. He will be blamed for what goes wrong there and if he fails to do his duty the "recall" section of the "Des Moines plan" law will permit his constituents to dethrone him. Wards and politics were abolished by the law. All the men were elected at large. The election brought out the big gest municipal vote Des Moines has ever had. People have become inter ested in' the management of the city They have placed it in the hands of the people and inasmuch as the Des Moines plan has attracted national attention the result of its administra tion will be watched during the next two years with keenest Interest. The new commissioners enter the administration of affairs burdened with a debt of over $100,000 and a bond issue of $300,000 for a new city hall, the construction of which will become one of their duties. A Convenient Team. For Topeka people who desire a f nil business day in Kansas City Is the Union .Pacific No. 102 which leaves Topeka every ""day at 7:05. a. m., ar riving lo Kansas City at 8:50 a. m. Yon can' get breakfast in the diner on this train aad dinner on No. 101 which leaves Kansas City at p. m reach ing Topeka wt. .7 s 8 Ty OH MILITARY LINES. National Volunteer Emergency Corps Is Being Organized. New York, April 6. General Jamea Evelyn Pilcher, the editor of "The Mil itary Surgeon" Is the new director general of the National Volunteer Em ergency corps. The corps was organ ized in 1900 to render aid in time of national calamity or In the event of war. The corps Is now being re organized upon the lines of the medi cal corps of the United States army. The first of the corps in service will consist of the director general and a staff of eight brigadier generals, the honorary members, among -whom are President' Roosevelt, Cardinal Gibbons, Prince- Louis of Battenburg, governors of many states and several cabinet of ficers. The second corps will be composed of physicians and druggists, trained for emergency relief work, with ranks of lieutenant colonel and major and captain. The third will consist of vol unteer workers and will be divided into brigades in each state and the regimental and company formation, in towns and cities. The fourth corps will be the house health corps and will be charged with the study of sanitation and drainage. This corps will also pub lish a magazine, to be known as the Emergency Service. GOWNED IN" WHITE. Five Hundred Chicago Women Will Be Initiated by the Foresters. Chicago, April 8 Five hundred Chi cago women, all In gowns of white, will be initiated with impressive cere monies into the Independent Order, of Foresters at Young .Men's Christian association hall next Thursday even ing. Some months ago 40 forester lodges in Chicago, began a systematic can vass for members among the women. The result is the coming wholesale ini tiation. The head of the order in the United States and Canada, Supreme Chief Ranger Elliott G. Stevenson of Toronto will be present. A number of dis tinguished foresters from various oth er cities, will also attend. I Family Yashing I 3c to 5c Per Pound All Flat Work Ironed I Topeka Laundry G). t Zaa and (juincy Phones 153

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rrfE TOPCEA DAH.Y CTATE JOPBITAL nOIIDAY CVEimrO. APEH, 6, 1SC3. ENJOINSJHEM. Judge Hudson Gets After Atch ison Saloonkeepers. Rules That It Is Not Necessary to Show Sales Made. FIXTURES EVIDENCE. The General Reputation of Place Held to Be Enough. Owners of PropertyShould Know Without Legal Notice. Atchison, Kan., April 6. In the district court Saturday Judge Hudson granted permanent injunctions against the following properties, and allowed attorney's fees of $75 in each injunction case. ehartes-Klostermeie-r- -and A'SV, Pretzel' property at 712-714 Kansas avenue.;". Lewis Greenup, and the Mclnteer estate, property at 11 1 South Third street; Steve Mayes and the Mclnteer estate, property at 730 Commercial; Jake Schilling and Zlebold Haeglin, property at 114 South' Fourth; Jerry Kermode and Zlebold Haeglin, property at 307 Commercial; W. R. Burke and Mar garet Brandner,- property at 905 Main street: George Irvin and the Mc Cartny heirs, property at Sixth and Main streets; Charles Foster and Dolan Mercantile- company, property at 114 South Fifth street. Judge Hudson overruled every con tention of the attorneys for the de fendants, the two important ones be ing that not a sufficient number of sales were claimed by the state, and property owners were not aware that intoxicating liquors were being sold on their properties. On the first point ratsed. the supreme court has ruled that it is not necessary to show any sales of liquor; that the general reputation of the place and the fix tures are prima facie evidence. On the other point, the supreme court has held that when a place has the reputation of being used for the sale of intoxicating liquors the owners of the property ought to know for what it Is used without having their atten tion pointed to It by legal procedures. These are minor features of the liquor prosecutions. Nearly all of the ex-Jointlsts named above, are sched uled to be tried In the April term of court on the charge of selling In toxicating liquors. It is understood that Attorney General Jackson will make an effort to have those who persistently violated the law serve a term in the county Jail. The Council Grove Dally Quits. Council Grove, Kan., April 6. The Council Grove Daily Appeal has sus pended. The Appeal has thoroughly tested the necessity of a daily and has discovered that such a thing will not be supported by the business men. Its editor says that all paid-in-advance subscriptions will be trans ferred to the Republican. Deatb of Magnus Holmqulst. Sallna, Kan., April 6. Magnus Holmqulst, a Swedish capitalist of this city, 56 years of age, died sud denly Saturday night from heart dis ease. He had been unusually well of late and had not complained of ill ness until within a few minutes of his death. He spent considerable of the afternoon fn the garden, where it True Flavors With great care, by a process en tirely his own, Dr. Price is enabled to extract from each of the true, select fruits, all of its character istic flavor, and place in the rriar- l c ti Kei a ciasa oi navonngs oi rare excellence. Every flavor is of great strength and perfect purity. For flavoring ice-cream, jellies, cake, custards,' etc., Flavoring vm. Extracts S ca be jiaed. with .perfect satisfaction. is thought he overworked himself. About 8:30 o'clock he complained of illness and was dead before medical aid could be summoned. The deceased came to this county in 1869. He lived In Salina thirty eight years and owned considerable farm and city property. He is sur vived by a widow, three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons live in Salt Lake City and one in Nevada. The daughter is a school girl and lives at home. THE OARR HEARING WEDNESDAY Prisoner in Marlon Jail StiU Declares -That He Did Not Kill Bailey. Newton, Kan., April 6. An important link In the chain of evidence against William T. Carr, who' Is in Jail In Mar ion charged with the murder of Ex press Messenger Oscar A. Bailey and the robbery of the express car on train No. 115 last Sunday morning, was dis covered by the police when a witness was found who declares that early Tuesday morning he saw Carr hide the package containing the bloody overcoat with the Jewelry in the pockets' in the closet adjoining the Simmons billiard parlors. He also says he saw Carr with a cigar box under his arm but did not see him hide it. This may have been the box containing the money, iouna unasr tne display win Carr was visited in "the Jail at Mar ion toaay by his wife and children, also his father-in-law,' XV. C. Simmons of Newton. He still maintains his in nocence. He declared that at the time train No. 115 arrived in Newton Sun day morning he was asleep on a couch In the Simmons home. The preliminary will be held in Mar ion next Wednesday morning. Sam Burkhclder, county attorney, will pros ecute, and he will be assisted by W. H. Carpenter, an attorney of Marion, who has been hired by the Wells-Fargo Ex press company. Carr will be represent ed by D. W. Wheeler of Marion. CHASE COUNTY SCHOOL CONTEST. The Winners Pretty Evenly Distributed Over the County. Cottonwood Falls, Kan., April 6. The third annual contest in essay and declamation of the district schools of Chase county was held at the Chase county high school auditorium in this city Saturday afternoon. There were six contestants In essay, each representing a different town ship of the county, and six in declama tion, also from the various' townships. In essay Miss Hazel Ashenfelter of Cedar township won first place with the subject, "Little Things the Build ers of Destiny;" Miss Viva Jones of Toledo township was awarded second place, and Miss Edna Rider of Dia mond Crtek township, third place. The winners In declamation were Miss Dretta Williams of Strong township first place; Mr. Schuyler Garth of To ledo township, second, and Mr. Charles Nichols of Falls township, third. The other contestants, in essay were Miss Maude Browning of Bazaar township Miss Katharine King of Falls town ship, and Miss Susie Klotz of Strong township. In declamation Miss Lucile Cress of Cottonwood township; Miss Grace Dickson of Diamond Creek township, and Miss Blanche Martin of Falls township. SMALLPOX AT NEWTON. A Dozen Cases Develop at the Arcade Hotel Among Employes. Newton, Kan., April 6. Twelve cases of smallpox have developed at the Arcade hotel and as a result, a strict quarantine was established at that place at the close of the dinner hour Saturday afternoon. Those hav ing the disease are employes of the hotel and guests were allowed to leave the building. The hotel will be closed as a re sult of the epidemic, for several days at least. GOV. HOOH A DELEGATE. General Methodist Conference at Winneld Names Present Executive. Wlnfleld. Kah., April 6. The re port of the treasurer of the south west Kansas conference made here shows a total collection for benevo lences for the year of 178,874, which Is $10,166 more than the report last yeiar. V1? n'erence elected as ministerial delegates to the general conference. Dr. F. E. Mossman, presi dent of Southwestern college- W J Martindale, C. J. Howes and' E A, Hoyt. The lay conference elected as lay delegates Gov. E. XT. Hoch and E. R. Burkholder of McPherson James Allison of Wichita and Sam a' Barnes of Pratt. "A Catholic School for Manhattan. Manhattan. Kan., April 6. The Cath olic church of this city has purchased the late Col. J. B. Anderson property including a fine residence and half a block in the residence portion of the town for the purpose of establishing a parochial school to h in hi. m Jl HIV be opened next fall." The property was sold for 114,000. HAVE SEVERAL EMPTY HOUSES. Doleful Tale From Minneapolis of Citizens Moving Away. Minneapolis, Kan., April 6. Mr. P. E. Babcock, the city assessor, says that houses are more plenty for rent as he has found about twenty empty ones. Also that there is about fifty families moved away from here since the last census was taken. The ice plant will be built west of the Union Pacific depot. The com. pany have bought the elevator owned by John Gentry and have commenced work already. Mr. John Hart who was near death's door for several days has so far recovered as to be down town. Richard Baker and family will soon leave for Colorado to make their home permanently. The. street sprinkler is again In ac. tlon. Every business house on Sec ond street pays for sprinkling but one, and that the opera nouse build ing. It looks very queer' to see that space dry and the rest of, the street wet. D. H. McConnell is In. very poor health and was not able to be at his store a part of the past week. THE J CRY FAILED TO AGREE, Eight for Conviction and Four for Acquittal In Poisoned Candy Case. Kansas City, Kan., April 6. After twenty-eight hours of deliberation the Jury which has been sitting in the trial of Mrs. Sarah Morasch, in the Wyan dotte district court, instructed its fore man at 8 o'clock Saturday night to In form the court that It would be lm possible for the members of the Jury to come to an agreement as to the verdict. The last ballot taken result ed in eight for conviction and four for acquitted. For several ballots the vote had been the same and the Jurors despaired of getting at a unanimous decision. Judge Moore dismissed the Jury. The court had instructed the Jury that it must find the defendant guilty of murder In the first degree, or that not guilty must be its verdict. Mrs. Morasch was charged with having rent the poisoned candy which resulted In the death of 6-year-old Ruth Miller of Armourdale, February 12. Found Dead In a Hotel. Pittsburg, Kan., April 6. J. R. Smiley, a transient newspaper man, who has been located In Pittsburg since the early part of January, was found dead In his room in the Court land hotel here Saturday afternoon about 2 o'clock by the porter of the house, who had gone to awaken him so the maid could clean up his room. He had been dead for some time. A Soldier Injured in a "Wreck. Leavenworth, Kan., April 6. An elec tric car on the city line leading to the fort was wrecked Saturday night near a trestle by a drip pan dropping. Tho car was turned over and Sergeant Crane, Thirteenth infantry, suffered a broken leg. The car was loaded with soldiers, but only one was Injured. A Morris County Residence Burns. White City, April 6. The residence of Ivls Walker, living a few miles from town, was totally destroyed by fire Saturday while Mr. and Mrs. Walker were shopping in White City. Every article of household goods and personal effects save what they wore were destroyed. No insurance.

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Much has been said both pro and con on its merits, it has remained however for a Guthrie politician who is in close touch with politics in the new state to compel the following account of what the commission has accom plished in its short existence: Of all the busy branches of the government of the. youngest of the United States, Oklahoma, the state corporation commission is sawing the most wood in these early days of uKianoma s statehood. While the nation and the other states are striving for reforms affect ing public welfare, Oklahoma is se curing many of them in her baby hood. The secret is the almost unlimited power with which under the state constitution this corporation commls sion is invested. The chairman Of1 the commission is J. E. Love ("Jack") a. strapping live stock raiser, whose considerable wealth Is estimated principally in mules and whose characteristic is the western rough-and-ready way of doing things. They say he has never backed up on a bluff, and he is a aeaa snot. When a train carrying a number or delegates to the state convention was delayed for an hour. Love re marked that ir it didn't move on in ten minutes he would take command and move it on himself. It moved. Termed the brains of the commis sion is A. P. Watson, known as "Po tato Watson," so-called on account of his record-breaking, potato farms. He Is also the. conservative member. The third member, is J. J. McAles ter, retired banker.-. Just before his election he was caught in a real, phony, sucker gold-brick game. which cost him $10,000, but he says that is the only time he was ever stung. The commission came into being XNOvemDer 16, 10Y. along with the state. Here is what It has done already: It has caused a reduction in freight rates or 50 per cent on lumber, 30 per cent on coal, 40 per cent on oil and 20 per cent on 'grain, and now plans to readjust the shipping charges on cotton, these conditions being the leaders m the -trade, and traffic of the state, f These reductions will mean a saving! of about $5,600,- 000 annually to the .-people of Okla homa.- Not on hp hm the railroads agreed, put'they'-Kavie declared a willingness to co-operate in the fu ture with the commission, to the end that the greatest good may come both to the railroads and to the peo ple. The commission has restored the trains east, west, north and south, which were discontinued during the railroad's first apprehension. It has made express' and telegraph companies furnisn free1 delivery ser vice within city limits. During its first three months of service the. commission acted upon nearly one hundred complaints of citizens and has improved conditions from ordering weeds cut from the railroad right of way to providing conveniences in depots and requiring a special train to start from the di vision point when a regular train, unless unavoidable, becomes an hour late. It has taken up the elimination of grade crossings In cities and has in stituted an inquiry Into telephone and telegraph rates as now fixed by mon opolies. But the commission Is gaining a reputation for being square. When one railroad showed that the ordered 2-cent rate was confiscatory, the commission promptly- authorized a change to 2 cents.- So far the commission has reserved a decision on the "no seat" com plaint of the traveling public, but at a recent hearing the railroads inti mated a willingness to increase their equipment and endeavor to provide a seat for every passenger. Experts are now r valuing the rail road property In the state. When this report is perfected the commission will have something to say about the elimination of watered stock. George A. Henshaw, assistant at torney general, who Is the commis sion's counselor,' declares that the commission has not been radical and that it still desires only to act fairly and deal Justly with the corporations as well as with the people. After the commission gets further along with Its. present reforms, it will take up the street railways, gas, elec tric lighting and other public service corporations.. Appeal from the commission s find ings is had only to the state supreme court. It Is given "the duty of su pervising, regulating and controlling all transportation and transmission companies doing business In the state." And so far the people of Okla homa are quite satisfied that the commission is making good. TO REACH MUSKOGEE. St. Louis Southwestern Makes Proposi tion to Oklanoma Town. -Muskogee, Ok., April The St. Louis Southwestern railroad has made a proposition to build into Mus kogee for a bonus of $100,000 in cash and right of -way through the town. The proposition was refused and a counter proposition made by the com mercial club offering them $50,000 In cash, with no strings to it If the road builds In. The railroad Is considering the proportion. This is a new road that is being built from Monett, Mo., southwest through Tahlequah, Poruni and to Honey Grove, Texas. Construction work is In progress Jn several .places along the line. To get into Muskogee the railroad will have to build 20 miles more line than Its present survey calls for. Just' as Jesus touched the water and turned it into wine, so he touches the domestic life of the world, and home becomes the best Word in the English language. Rev. F. E. Hopkins, Baptist, Chicago. --J- t AH OLD TOR. (Continued from Page One.) 5,L Scott: "I don't remember of signing any such a petition." F. S. Thomas: "I signed that peti tion a year or so ago and have given the matter no thought since. I will con sider the matter carefully before I cast my vote Tuesday." Mr. Glenn, of the Fair, 'said today: "In a page ad in Sunday morn ing's Capital I notice they have The Fair Mercantile Co., in their list of signers. I do not know how they ob tained this signature as the owners of 94 per cent of the stock are em phatically in favor of tne bonds and opposed to putting the .lighting into the hands of the Edison company. I am unable to see the owners of the other 6 per cent and do not know their opinion of this matter. I was greatly pleased at the way. you showed up the. packed meeting of a few members of the Commercial club and sorry the club lent itself to such a trick as such methods will soon kill the efficiency of the club.- The Edison company are now furnishing the lights at the intersections on Kansas avenue at $65 each. They are very weak. I do not believe they give over nair the light given by those that are run by the city and If it were not for the many private lights along the avenue it would be very poorly lighted.. If we turn the lighting over to the Edison company and they put these same lights all over the city it will be very poorly lighted." Capt. A. M. Fuller, another signer: "I am in favor of the city voting the bonds and that I am myself going to vote for them. If the Edison com pany can furnish lights at $50 and make a profit the city can furnish lights and save the profit." Wm. E. Dreschell: "I would not like to be quoted on the question." Mr. Dreschell said that conditions had changed since the petition above re ferred to had been circulated and signed. Crosby .Bros.: E. H. Crosby, when approached regarding this matter, did not wish to be quoted. He said he did not sign the petition referred to. His brother must have done so. He wanted to investigate the matter. He did not appear to favor the Edison proposi tion. The advertisement did not re flect his personal sentiments. He, how ever, wanted to keep out of the con troversy. T. M. James said today: "I did not sign the petition, but to 'vote against the bonds' means to my mind an ulti mate strangle hold of the city's light ing affairs by a public service corpora tion. If the control of food and water is essentially a city function in the in terest of public health for Instance, why should not the matter of making and locating good, clear, effective and economic lights for the city be of enough consequence and sufficiently material to the people to be controlled by the city.' We would better hold on to the utilities we have till we learn their proper management or become wise enough to farm them out to ad vantage." A. J. and Dave August: "The August Clothing company's name Is printed as advocating directly opposite our own views, if we signed such a petition. it must have been a long while ago, for we don't remember It and are de cidedly in favor of the bonds.'' S. M. Crow: "I have no knowledge of signing any such petition. My views are exactly opposite at the present time." a C. E. Jewell, who Is given as a signer says: I don t think that Topeka should tie itself up to the Edison company for a term of years or any other com pany." Dell Kelzer, whose" name appears on the petition In-the Capital, has been out of business in Topeka since the first of July last and lives in Kansas City. Arthur Capper and Harold T. Chase of the Toreka CaDltal. whose names appear on the old petition, were not interviewed on tneir sentiments at uus time. Several of the signers are dead. Wm. Macfterran: "My name is. signed on that petition, but it does not repre sent my sentiments at this time. I am In favor of the city making its own light and will vote for the proposition tomorrow which will enable it to put its plant up to date." C. S. Eagle: "I may. have signed the petition, but I do not remember doing so. If I did it was a long while ago and I do not hold such sentiments now." Dr. P. J. M. Burkett said: "I notice that my name Is on that petition. I didn't sign it ,and furthermore I am not against the light bonds." Dr. H. B. Hogeboom; "I may have signed a petition asking the council to let the city lighting contract to the Edison company a year or so ago, but a person should have a right to change his mind once during that time. That is Just what I have done and I am in favor of a city lighting plant and will vote for the necessary bonds to rebuild it." L. M. Penwell: "Perhaps I signed that Edison petition a year or so ago. I don't remember about it though, If I did. At any rate it has nothing to do with the conditions today as they are different in many ways from those when the petition was signed." T. C. Whlteker of the commission firm -of Whlteker. Brothers, the in dividual and firm name appearing on the Edison petition which was present ed to the city council about a year ago, said: "I don't remember of signing any such a paper either as an individual or as a firm. That is a small matter however at this time and will make no difference as to my vote for I am In favor of the city ownlngrits own plant. Among those on the list of signers who are no longer In Topeka are: E. W. Polndexter, living in Kansas City, Kan.. Frank Patrick, living In Kansas City, Mo., J. J. Weeke, left Topeka last fall. The Coughlin Hard ware Co.. out of business. Geo. B. Timoi- mow living in Portland, Ore. The name of S. R. Leavitt also ap pears on the petition, mr iavm been dead several months. C C. Nicholson: "I have studied over the matter since I discovered Sunday morning that I signed a petition ask ing the city council to make a light .1 tnpt with the Edison company. I cannot recall the circumstance. I do not feel that the city should throw away the lighting plant which it now has and turn the contract over to the nmranv OT &I1V Other. If i"0"" r ,'z:-j,.,t, 1. k vwi thin municipal far as the waterworks is concerned I do not see why the same principle would not apply to an electric lighting PlJohn F. Switzer: "I do not know how my name ever happened to be affixed to a petition such as was pub lished Sunday morning. I have no recollection of ever having seen the document I am now, always have betnTud tomorrow will be in favor ofthe city owning Its own electric lighting plant." Morgan Leaves for France. gan left. Rome today o Aix, FranceJ Sets These Prices Guaranteed Six Days Only

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Haviland China Ransom Pattern You can make no mistake in buying Ransom Pat tern. Standard the world over and should be the same price. Here are our regular everyday prices. Open Stock: 8-inch Plates, dozen .$4.50 7-inch Plates, dozen. $4.00 6-lnch Plates, dozen $S.50 6-lnch Plates, dozen.... $S.OO 4-lnch Plates, dozen $2.50 Tea Cups and Saucers, dozen. $4.00 Coffee Cups and Saucers, doz.$4.50 4- inch Fruits, dozen. .$2.25 5- ineh Fruits, dozen. .$2.50 We import Haviland China direct, whieh makes it possible for us to quote prices much lower than you have been paying elsewhere. TAFT AT OMAHA. (Continued from Page OnU aters in the United States and that the maneuvers of "Big Bill Taft" will soon be the prime attraction on every sign board of every vaudette and niokelod ion in the United States. But it was no easy task to get the secretary of war before the moving picture camera. For a time the task -tAm itn aa hnn.1.sa "RVT .It was 1.,. f months efforts were futile. Finally the case was put up iu me yraiucm ui the United States himself. sistent expressions in his disinclination to maKe a monisey ul niinocii ur iu .nA4Vkm am a rirfiin riiier." Ha waji told that the average attendance in the 4,000 moving picture theater is from 40 to wv people a uay ana mua -v.a- ail A Am An tii n at ennd views of 1 AAMAt-aw rf -urav Rut tHa a nnPfl lfl of the picture man and the appeals of tne greatest oiuuiii lo.il wcio iumw. Even influential friends, who appealed determination of Mr. Taft. Represent- atlve uenneii oi new xur. task. General Franklin Bell took up the matter. Both failed miserably. Finally Congressman Bennett of New York hied himself to the sanctum of the president and with the facts at x .Aa .nH tnlA ttiA nreaident nis the people, were demanding moving pictures OI ine ororenu i. when the real facts in the case were t Tulriv nrnmlRMI to neln. xnaae jivw In fact, when the moving picture man spoke of the lnieresi wmca uie try felt in the secretary of war, Presl- ti ii-a a much de- oenx iwum'w" lighted" and swinging his arms about the snouiaera ui mo ..t nm nnt at all surprised. It makes me believe more than ever that the American people want to perpetu ate my policies." Then and there the presidentof tne United States entered thl conspiracy to get "Bill" Taft in front of the can,era. The president made immeaww warrior, slapped him on the back and "r,r'.t ii convictions that the fhing would have to be done. "I had to do It. saiu will have to take your dose along with the rest of us." nut when the pictures were finally secured it had to be done by "trategy, BmSTthe secretary of war could not since f nl moving picture antmathy. The strategy was accom Sushed by no .less an expert at the Eomthan Genl Franklin Bell. "You fellows get your blunderbusses ready right there in that quiet nook.'' s? t t mn't eet the secretary take 'a little walk wUh me." It aeemed as- if all nature smiled ror tne Seemeu v.nt itnumhl occasion, ior w kuuivm, .i.i a not selected bv down pi" rr,- Z"W the location Suld 3 Thave been improved by the most expert p. M-TV- among wio portico of the state department build- The camera mu uou wait. Before long the tactful General t-,i wi.w hi. nhntnorranhic nrotege. mil, r w cam la sight. They were enjoying one OI tnoae peauiuiu o". u.v.u- Undernriced cases 50 per cent. Individual Butters, worth, 7$,at "i UA a Tea cups and Saucers, worth $.BO set of six .,.t.86 IMPORTED DUTOKR SET Maiw quls blue and gold; open stock; one of the most beautiful patterna. 4 2 -piece set; regular price $7.50 sale price, this An week. yOAi IMPORTED MEAKIN WAKB conquest, white and gold, new pat. tern, open stock. Just in; moat beautiful and every piece guaran teed not to craze, 4 2-piece set; worth $7.00 sale price, ftA Tfi six days only 4 JOHNSON BROS.' IMPORTED- WltrrE WARE; every pteee guaranteed 4 2 -piece set, worth $5.w; sale .-.,$2X3 price. Soup Coupes, dozen $$.75 Ramloans and Stands, do. .$S.M Creamers, each ...5o Sugar Bowls, each .6 Bo Platters, 10 -Inch, each Mo 7- tnch Bakers, each. .,...$1.10 8- inch Bakers, each .$1.35 Covered Butters, each ..$1.&0 Casseroles, each .$2.00 lngs which make the national capital glorious. The walk had captured the enthusiasm of each. They were happy and laughing. They mounted the steps and stood face to face for a final word of merriment and goodby. And to, though he knew It not, Bfll Taft was performing for the 3,000,000 people who average the dally attendance in the moving picture theaters of America. The camera started its sharp series of whizzing noises and the film began to spin. The victim began to realise something was happening. First he looked at -Bell with a quizalcal sort of expression on his face, then he road a movement as if he were going to duck and run, but the general con fessed and held the secretary on the spot. In less time than It takes to toll; the story the films were hurrying t along, gathering their interesting rec- ord of the secretary of war in anlmat-' ed conversation. Finally the secretary leaned over to General Bell and whla- pered some sort of joke In bis ear, at which they both looked over at the picture machine and the secretary's face slowly gathered the famous smite which has made him popular wherever good nature is appreciated. Good as were these first aeries of films, the picture men were by noj means satisfied and desired more. Al though Mr. Taft was partially accli mated, it again became necessary to.-- This time, with less difficulty, a series of views were secured showing the sec retary of war and General Ben review ing the artillery at Fort Myer. The second series of pictures served to demonstrate that despite his size Mr. Taft is an easy horseman, quick and alert in his movements and with the reins. The pictures will be completed the present month, and not only will their reproduction be an unconscious tribute to the secretary of war, but also to the persistency of the moving picture man, who Insists upon accomplishing' what he seeks. Robert Lee Dun. A Plea to Voters of Topeka. Knowing that too little interest to manifested in the selection of mem bers of the board of education, when It should be a-matter of foremost -concern, owing to the large amount of money expended annually mainly for what not only concerns us for the present, but Immeasurably for the future, party or other, affiliation should not figure in the qualifications, neither Bhould sex bar any one. La dies on the board fn the past 'have been of great advantage. The first ward would especially call the atten tion of the voters throughout the city to the candidacy of Mr. G. F. Kimball, who possesses very superior qualifications as an educated man and whose business uprightness has -never been questioned. A vote for him will be appreciated by voters of both parties, not only in the first ward, but in other wards. J.,W. PRIDDT. Injured by Dynamite.' Arcadia, Kan., April F. M. Grim- -ley. road overseer in Lincoln township. was dangerously Injured Saturday af ternoon by an explosion of dynamite under a big stump In the road. One eye: was destroyed and it is feared he will lose, the other. Be was thrown several feet. r

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THE TOPEHA DAILY OTATS JOTEH Air HOllDAY gVgaEO, AKOL 8, 1SC3. The Committee in Charge of Mr. Fraser s Campaign in the 4 th Ward, Offers the Follow ing Statement in His Behalf: Mr. Louis E. Fraser, the candidate for councilman from the Fourth "Ward, has grown to manhood as a resi dent of this city. He is a young man yet, and has resid ed in the city for over twenty-five years. He is an active business man, capable, conscientious, strictly honest, and therefore well qualified to serve faithfully and well the citizens of the Fourth "Ward if he should be elected. He has attended college at "Washburn and is a member of the grocery firm of Fraser Brothers and has been active ly engaged in business in the Fourth "Ward for over ten years. He is a property owner and a taxpayer. He has shown himself to be a believer in a progressive adminis tration, the enforcement of all laws, and the economical expenditure of the public funds. I 1MMKAKEW5 Items for the North Tcpeka column may be left at tha Petro Woodford drujc tore, SS8 North Kansas avenue, or call the Worth Rtdn reported at br home, led. phone CU.1 Good goods. Pratt Bros. Dr. H. F. Pratt of Rossvllle was in town today on a short business trip. Dr. Clarence McClintock returned to his home in Kansas City today, .being, here the guest of his parents since Thursday. Mr-.Chas. Berry is able to be out a sain after several months serious ill ness. Mr. J. E. Warnlck left last night for Denver, Colo., to remain. Mr. G. W. Smith left this morning for Kansas City on a business trip. Mr. J. B. Peterson and family will move tomorrow from 419 Grant street to 1334 North Jackson street. The funeral of Mrs. Nevada Gallo way, aged 49 years, who died Friday afternoon, was held from the home at 2:30 this afternoon and buried in Ro chester cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gill of Maple Hill spent the day with friends here yester day. Mr. George C. Skinner, aged 50 years, died at his home in Maple Grove addi tion yesterday afternoon with consump tion. The funeral arrangements will be announced later. There were five baptisms at the Bap tist church last night. The funeral of Annja Matthews, the five months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matthews of 724 North Monroe i.treet, was held from the home yester day at two o'clock. Interment was In Rochester cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bradley of Rock Creek, Kan., spent the day yesterday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Meyers. Mrs. A. M. Coleman returned to To peka today after a visit with relatives in Menoken. The surprise party given Saturday evening by Star lodge No. 20 A. O. U. W. In honor of lodge No. 26 was a' suc cess. Despite the inclement weather the attendance was extra large. Miss L. Morgan was declared winner in the contest for guardianship. A prize was given to No. 26 by No. 20, after which light refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Mills left this Hungry Child Cannot study and make proper advances in school. The natural waste of tis sue in a growing child is in creased by study. Improper food soon causes trouble. GrapeNuts Food for breakfast will car ry the youngsters up to noon with clear brains and nor mal appetite for. dinner or lunch. "There's a Reason." morning for Los Angeles, CaL, to re main a month the guest of relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Corley went to Irving, Kansas, today to attend the wedding of their son, Mr. Max Corley, which will take place Wednesday even ing, April 8. Miss Jessie' Anderson returned to work this morning after being off sev eral days with an attack of tonsllitis. Mr. Dan Mallory left this morning for his home in southern Missouri after a few days' visit here with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Nodell of Beatrice, Neb., came here this morning to spend a few days the guests of her. sis ter. Mr. and Mrs. M. Curtis left this morning for San Diego to remain about three months for the benefit of Mr. Curtis' health. Mrs. Susan Smith is able to be out and around again after being ill for several months with an attack of rheu matism. Miss Julia MacLain went to Houston, Texas, this morning for a three weeks' visit with her brother, Mr. Harry Mac Lain. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Johnson of New ton, Kansas, came here this morning to visit their parents for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams left to day for Kansas City, Kansas, where they will make their future Home. Mr. Jack Wilson of Manhattan spent the day here yesterday with friends. Mr. Frank Jones returned to Law rence", Kansas, today after a few day3 visit with relatives. Mr. Albert Carle left today for Pitts burg, Pa., on a month's business trip. Mrs. J. M. Martin is able to be up again after several weeks' serious ill ness. There will be a special meeting of Lindale lodge No. 299 A. O. U. W. at their hal this evening to arrange for the funeral of Brother George C. Skin ner. (Signed), WM. FLUKE, M. W. A big millinery sale on hats at Mrs. Burgen's, 833 North Kansas avenue, commencing Tuesday, April 7. No one can afford to miss this chance of get ting an Easter hat; 300 trimmed hats to select from. Bring in your old hats to be remodeled before the Easter rush. MEAT PRICES BOOSTED AGAIN. An Advance From a Half to Five Cents a Pound In New fork. New York, April 6. Retailers have again put up all meat prices from half to five cents a pound, and when the housewife goes to the market she will find the new scale of prices In effect. Porterhouse steaks that have hereto fore been 30 cents a pound will be 35 cents, and sirloins that have been 28, will be SO cents. Round steaks that could have been bought for 22 cents a pound last week will be 23. Mutton will remain the same, while spring lambs Is to be found in the market in small quantities at 35 cents a pound for the rib chops, and 30 cents a pound for the breast for roasting purposes. Pork has taken a tremendous Jump since the meat prices began to rise ten days ago, and chops are now bringing 18 cents a pound. There are scarcely any pork tenderloins in the market, While roasting pork is bring ing 16 to 18 cents a pound. Talks with wholesale dealers de veloped the fact that there is not likely to be any further change in the prices for a month. About the first of May the cattle raisers of the coun try will be able to ship to the markets some grass fattened cattle and this will make the supply somewhat greater. There are no cornfed cattle on the farms and ranches to speak of, and those that the farmers have are being held back and shipped gradually so as to get the advantage of the high prices now prevailing The export of cattle Is practically at a standstill. Where there were heretofore thousands of cattle sent abroad at this season of the year, the ships are going across practically empty of this class of freight. The shippers are paying their contract prices on the meat Just the same as if it was shipped, saying that it is cheaper for them to do this than to go out Into the markets and buy meat on the hoof at the extremely high prices now prevailing. AS SEEN BY MRS. EVANS Character Sketch of the Admiral Drawn by His Wife. Chicago, April "He is always ready for sea duty, but he is afraid of social festivities." That was the little character sketch of Admiral Robley D. Evans given by the person who knows him best his wife. J Mra-" Evans was' in" Chicago four hours on her way to Join the admiral In California. She was accompanied by her daugh ter Mrs. C. C. Marsh, of Washington, wife of Commander Marsh, at present in command of all the torpedo boats and submarines in the navy. "You see," continued Mrs. Evans, "my husband always responds with alacrity to the demands of duty which call him to the bridge, but he is far less enthusiastic in answering the de mands of that other duty which calls him to the banquet hall or the ball room. "He finds dinners and dances and re ceptions very trying after a hard period of duty on the bridge. During the voy. age around the Horn he has been en tirely unable to attend many of the festivities arranged so lavishly in hon or of the fleet. The rheumatism from which he has been suffering has both ered him a great deal on the voyage. He has been subject to these rheuma tic attacks for many years, and so I am not so anxious about him aa though they were something new. "I have had recent word from him, and I am thankful Indeed to be able to say that he now is feeling a great deal better. The rheumatism is rapidly dis appearing, and he is generally in much better condition than he was a short time ago." Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Marsh will go first to Los Angeles, where they will be the guests of the Los Angeles commit tee which is entertaining fhe battleship fleet. i After the festivities at Los Angeles Mrs. Evans and her daughter will Join the admiral at Paso Robles, later going to San Francisco. Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Marsh left for Los Angeles over the Santa Fe last night and will be at their destination Wednesday. Why Don't We? Many people ask us why we do not keep wag ons? They say: "You have such nice things but it is so much trouble for us to come and get them." Did you ever stop to think that it is through the sav ing in wagon expenses that we put the extra quality in our goods? Come a little further for your goods and be that much better satisfied. Don't forget Weston Bread. IDEAL BAKERY The Place That's Different HE1L SCHAEFER, Props. Phone, 190 121 West Sixth St. CABINET CIIAI.'GES. To' Follow Retirement, of Campbell Bannerman Are Discussed. .indon; Ap?11 6-An fnformai con ference of ministers under the presi Hei-bert K- Asquith, chancel lor of the, exchequer, was held prior to r,f ommenc.ement of today's sitting 2fJParlla,nient and th situation was discussed In a general way. The premier-elect asked to hear the views Of ...v...ca.SuCB relative to the prospec- J!J?lnet.. chanses. -now that the !ts, reconstruction has actually materialized, m view of the lack of success at the recent elections the cabinet will be rearranged so as to avoid as far as possible the election contests made necessary when the members of the house of commons or holders of under secretaryships are elected to cabinet rank.- David Lloyd George, president of the board of trade, is still a hot favorite for the chancellorship, although Mr. Haldane, who shares the liberal im perialist tendencies of Mr. Asquith, is understood to be a candidate for the same portfolio. There is no hurry, however, about the various assign ments, as Mr. Asquith will retain the chancellorship, until the budget has been, introduced after the Easter re cesaf. Should Mr. Birrell, the chief secretary for Ireland, be slated for a change of office, it Is an open secret that John Burns, now president of the local government board, would be quite content to replace Mr. Birrell as head of the Irish office. It seems quite likely that Mr. Lewis Harcaurt, who is considered something of an American because of his American mother and wife, will be Included in the new cab. lnet and the name of Winston Church ill also figures In most of the new cabinet lists. The elevation of Churchill would involve an election from the Manchester constituency, with considerable possibility of defeat and it would necessitate finding a radical complacent enough to give up a safe seat to which Churchill could be elected. Apart from forecasting the new cah inet, the- discussion in the house of commons lobby today turned chiefly er the probable effect of Campbell Bannerman's retirement on the minis terial coalition. It is undisputed that the ex-premier's tact and. popularity were the moral bond holding together the Influential but somewhat discord ant elements which have betfri in pow er up to this time. The liberal leaders appear to be quite well satisfied with the situation, but some of them question the power of such an Imperialist as Asquith to keep the laborites and socialists from breaking away from all allegiance to the government's coalition. On the other hand, Timothy Healy's vitriolic denunciation of Mr. Asquith's attitude, during the recent home rule debate In the house of commons, appears to foreshadow a dangerous tension to the rather slender bond which attaches the Irish nationalists to the existing administration. DECIDE TO STRIKE. Unless an Boor Is Cut Off From the Working Day. Winnipeg, Man., April Street railway employes here held an' all night session last night considertnc a schedule which empires JTuesday,;- The int: ii uBuanu an .eiga nour a ay in stead of nine with the same pay. If this is not granted they have decided to strike Wednesday. Emma Goldman and, other agitator are here encouraging the men to strike. Three year? ago before the present schedule was' granted by the company,- the men struck and were out three weeks. LIVED ON NINE-CENTS A DAT-. Per Capita Cost of Chicago's TTnem- ployed During Winter. Chicago, April 6. In the Chicago board of health bulletin the relief work for homeless men undertaken during the winter by the municipal lodge house Is reviewed. After recalling the necessity of such institutions during the cold months on account of the prevailing conditions, the bulletin states that the city made especial efforts to provide places of shelter and also food for men out of work, with the following results: "1 The Chicago public was pro tected against, contagion. "2 The nomelesa men were kept clean, healthy and free from suffering. "3 Some unworthy, idle and drift ing criminals were forced out of Chi cago. "4 Some innately honest but weak men were shielded from being driven into crime. "5 It was demonstrated that men can be sufficiently fed for health and strength for less than seven cents a day. "6 Feeding, heating, bathing and medical supervision can be done for 9 cents a day." SETTING OF EGGS FOR CARNEGIE Is Spoiled on the Voyage Across the Atlantic New York, April 6. Eighteen eggs arrived abroad the Cunard liner Lu canla. They were carefully enclosed in raw cotton and were part of the baggage of George Irving, employed by Andrew Carnegie. Irving had gone to Scotland to attend the funeral of his brother, and Mr. Carnegie had asked him to bring back 18 of the finest Black Minorca eggs that he could get. Irvin got them and took them to Liverpool in his trunk. On the way over the Lucania got sucn a jostling bv the seas that she had to halt at times to keep the crests from over whelming her. Meanwjiue the em bryonic Minorcas were getting into a condition that promised to make it Im possible for them to become natives of America. Irving still had hopes when he got here, but Customs Inspector Rowland Story, who Is a breeder of fancy chick ens, told him that no alien Minorcas would ever come out of those eighteen eggs because they had been addled by the pitching and tossing of the ship. The Inspector said that if the trip had been a few days longer, Irving would have had merely a large omelet. A WESTERN KANSAS WEDDING. Mr. J. E. Pitman and Miss Anna Mo Gonigal to Be Married In June. Goodland, Kan., April The close friends of J. Ed Pitman, ex-proprietor of Hotel Goodland and well known in western Kansas, and. to marry people over the state, have given It out that Mr. Pitman is to become a benedict in June. The young woman who will become Mrs. v Pitman, is Miss Anna McGonigal, of Colby,: Kan., daughter of Robert M. McGonigal, a prominent politician of the Sixth district and del egate at large from Kansas to the na- CCRESJ ECZEfll QUICKLY New Drug, Poslam, Now O btainable m Small Quantities. Since its dlsco-rery one year ago. ew drug, ponl&m, naa suecees fulljr eared thousands of chronic case of eczema and other distrmring skin amlcrUoiuk Heretofore poslam baa been dispensed solely for the benefit of eosema patients In large Jan suffi cient for a month's treatment. This was tounI to be an lnoo avert! ence to many thousands who use It for minor akin troubles, such as pimples, blaok heada, herpes, acne, scaty scalp, com plexion blemishes, itching feet, piles, etc, whhoh require but a small quantity to cure. To overcome this, ana in response to urgent appeals, the dispensers of poslam have been obliged to adopt, in addition to the regular two-dollar package, a special fifty-cent else, which in future may be found on ftJaJn a TPr-mA A Omw- d other leading drug stores in To- TS. y oe oraerea direct from the Emergency Laboratories, No. II West 25th Street, tittm Vnrk nv I. H ecsema cases poslam stops itching n4u um a.ppuoauon, ana proceeds to heal Immediately; chronic cases being oured in two weeks. In less serious skin troubles, results are seen after: an overnight application. Samples for experimental purpose may still be had, free of charge, byi writing to the laboratories for them. tional Republican convention at Chi cago in June. Miss McGonigal is prominent In the SOCial Circles Of CnlbV. unrl hna a num. ber of acquaintances in Topeka and Kansas City, Where she has frequently visited. Her father is a pioneer of western Kansas, and besides being In terested in several lumber yards of tms section or the state, has also lum ber yards in western Colorado. Mr. Pitman came to Goodland from Sabetha in 1906, and after dealing in real estate for awhile, finally purchas- ea tne nne Dunaing or the Hotel Good land, and became the popular landlord of this hostelry, later selling to J. F. KimmeL After a short honeymoon trip, the young couple will settle down in some "cosy place" and begin to enjoy, their many friends hope, many years of hap piness together. TRIUMPH FOR DUPOIITS. Delaware Will Send an Unin struct ed Delegation to Chicago. Dover, DeL, April The victory of the state organisation of the Republi can party headed -by United States Senators Dupont and Richardson at Saturday's primaries, was so over whelming as attested by today's sum mary of the voting that there is not likely to be any hitch In carrying out the organization program at the Re publican state convention which will be held here tomorrow to elect dele gations to the national convention. The leading feature of the' program Is to permit the state delegations to the na tional convention to go to Chicago un hampered by instructions and free to vote for any candidate for president. It is now conceded that the organiza tion has elected 130 of the 160 dele gates composing the state convention. The outcome of the primaries makes it sure that four of the six delegates te the- national convention will be as fellows: From Newcastle county Senator Dupont and Governor Lea. Kent county Senator .Richardson. Sussex county Congressman Burton. The other two-, delegates will be se lected by the caucus-of leaders prelim inary to the convention, which will be held here tonight. -It Is assured that T. Coleman Dupont, chairman of the Republican state committee will be se lected as the. Delaware member of the Republican national committee to suc ceed J. Edward Ad dicks. The preference of the national dele gates for the presidential nomination are a matter of doubt. The organiza tion leaders maintain, that they have no hostility to Secretary Taft, but on the other hand may favor him, al though they .will not consent to in structions. It is understood, however, that the Duponts and Senator Richardson are very friendly to Senator Knox (Pa.). Not much thought has been given to the platform nor is it probable that It will contain much in addition to an en dorsement of the Roosevelt adminis tration. Another state convention for the nomination of candidates for rep resentative in congress and governor and other state officers, will be held in August or early September, and upon this convention will develop the work of building a platform which will express In detail the views of the Re publicans of Delaware upon national and state issues. Notice to Voters. OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF U ELECTIONS. Residing in the m Sixth Precinct of the Second Ward. Third Precinct of the Fourth Ward. i t nt th. Ri-rth Ward. VTv: iiine nlaees for the city election to be held April 7. 1908. The colling place of the Sixth Precinct of the Second Ward will be at A W. Per ry's barber shop. No. 462 Seward ave The polling place of the Third Precinct fh. Fourth W4 will be at 711 West 4th street. M J The polling place oi i J of the Sixth Ward will be at the boys club house. No. 1027 Pine street A. A X A VJ 0 Seal.1 Commissioner of Elections. HOME-GROWN Green-House Flowers AND Blooming Plants t HUBBARD 520 Kansas Avenue a a a a aa a Phone 184 For Us w Drugs DRUGS Delivered Promptly Phone U Your Needs f. aTsnow 523 Kan. Ave. We Inform You: That this ia to be a season of colorings brilliant color ing in Men's Suits. The' patterned garments will ap peal to you in a hundred dif ferent designs, and they are made with one, two,, three and four-button coats. Soma lapels run low, with a roll, some medium, other high. It's all a matter of taste. Stripes are a big feature, closely followed by checks, some pronounced, some fair ly conservative, but all at tractive and high-class. Nearly all retail clothiers in other cities who handle Hart, Sohaffner A Marx clothes are asking $25 to $28 lor the grades which we are featuring this spring at....... i "We have others at $15, $18, $22, $25, $30 a7 m mm My It', i hmwm Confirmation Suits for Bojz Boys' SuitsThe kind you want for your boy; sizes 7 to 17 years. Double f :v patch pooket, bloomer pants and other J features, new reefers and ton ooaia for -rllr sfy9 2 to 10 little feiiows p to b look U Jt dressy in the new Russian and sailor "4 i- anita utth V. suits with their battleship's name L 11. i on the sleeve at $5 $2.95 Boys' All-Wool Blue Serge Suits, straight or Knickerbocker pants, 7 to 15 years; this suit is a 44 value. Seams are all taped; pants lined throughout. Also child b Norfolk. Suits, 6 to 12 years, special Youths' Nobby "Harvard" Suits in the new col lege fads, single or double breasted blue serge, tan and brown worsteds, and fancy gray rtiix tures; very nifty; equal to the $15 suits shown f elsewhere our special price lor these Pin splendid values at.... yl V Official Statement of the Financial Condition OF THEs State Savings Bank At Topeka, State of Kansas, at the close of business on the 31st day of March, 1908. RESOURCES. Gold coin on hand $185,000.00 Currency and silver 72,416.43 Checks and cash items- 16,444.00 Deposits in Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City Banks ,147.918.70 Deposits in New Tork Banks. 8,949.14 Total Cash Reserve ....,......,........$875,728.27 Government Bonds on hand 47,600.00 Kansas Municipal and Topeka City Bonds 272,718.84 Kansas First Mortgages at and near Topeka 802,299.29 Loans secured by collateral 88,496.90 Interest paid depositors 6,472.95 Expenses paid 3,691.77 Improvements on 15-year lease on bank building. 4,000.00 Safe, Electric Vault and Fixtures 8,000.00 Premium paid for Government Bonds 626.98 $1,063,435.00 LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in. $26,000.00 Surplus Fund Earned 11,000.00 Interest received from loans 15,625.78 Exchange received 805.58 Individual deposits ...$569,978.89 Time certificates 49, 660.90 Cashier's checks 1,964.40 Total Deposits i $1,001,608.89 $1,058,486.00 State of Kansas, County of Shawnee, ss. I Wm Macferran, cashier of said bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true; that said bank has no liabilities, and is not lndorser on any note or obligation, other than shown on. the above statement to the best of my knowledge and belief. So help me God. statement. TO MACFERRAN, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this Sd day of April, 1908. (Seal.) J. D. GOSSETT, Notary Public (Commission expires on the 24th day of April, 1911.) CORRECT. Attest: i WILLARD N. HALL, F. M. STAHL. E. C. ARNOLD, E. L. COPELAND, IR. S. G. STEWART, Directors. To JNO. Q. ROTCE, Bank Commissioner, Topeka, Kan. L ISL PENWELL Undertaker and Embalmer' Sit Qalacy Streefa Bath Pkeass 191 (XOOOOOCICXXXOCOOOCCOCXXXXO Start Now! Bring $1.00 here and open an account. You -will be surprised how fast you can save. German-American State Bank THIRD AND KANSAS AVE. Dr. J. Albert Berry Specialty: Diseases of the ear. nose, throat, stomach and Intes tines. Has moved his office from 725 to 724 Kansas ave., over the Cre merle restaurant." Dr. Geo. Port Astaton DENTIST Both Ibonea. BeD 1188. IT. W. Cor. 8tb 2. CM. Hensley, M. D. PHYSICIAN AJTD SURGBOOf Botb Pnones,

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTJElTAIr IIOIIDAY EVEIIHrO, APML 6, 1CC3. ir K 10 15 Mr. Chauncey Dewey has asked the following friends to aet as ushers at his marriage to,. Miss Elyla Mllls paugh which takes place Easter Mon day: Mr. Paul' E. Walker, Mr. -Dan Hammatt and Mr. Joe Wilson ol To pe ka. Mr. Guy Guernsey and Mr. Charles Ailing of Chicago. His cou sin, Mr. Peterson of Wheeling, West Virginia will attend him him as groomsman. Bishop and Mrs. Frank Rosebrook Mlllspaugh issued invita tions Saturday to their daughter's wedding, half after 7 o'clock In the evening, April 20 at Grace cathedral.

Mr. Dewey will give a dinner for the bridal party Saturday, April 18 at the Topeka club. Well, the Topeka girls are sore for fair. Hal Norton, who belongs here, but who is- working In the Rock Is land passenger office at Horton, Is to be married Wednesday to Miss Mattie Hargls of Troy, a sister of Mr. Arthur Hargls of Topeka. The marriage will take-place at the home of anoth er brother,, Mr. William Hargis, and after a short wedding trip they will come to Topeka (about next Sunday) for a visit to Mr. Norton's parents. Col. and Mrs. John D. Norton. By the way, the new Mrs. Nortrtn" will have Mrs. Ralph Harrington Norton on her visiting cards for that is Hal Norton s real name, although It Is un likely that he knows It .himself. Miss Hargls, who has visited in -Topeka a number of times' is a very attractive young woman, but you-won't get any of the girls to admit it, because Mr. Ralph Harrington, like all the other Nortons, Is a handsome chap with winning ways, and a great social fa vorite. At home In Horton which ought to console the girls who lost out, If anything could.

An informal subscription dance- is planned for tomorrow night, at the Country club. Well, well! What do you know about this? And right under our noses, too. The Wichita Beacon says: A popular young Topeka Journalist used to come every' two weeks to Wichita. Now he comes every two months. He is building a cottage on West Douglas. Now, what does it all mean Col. Fred Bullene, Jay House, El mer Schultz, Howard Everett, Cecil Howes, Augustln Koehler and Bob Smith, please declare yourselves: Generosity could really go no fur ther. When the K. U. men come up to Topeka to see the Washburn girls the Washburn men entertain them at their chapter houses. "But then," -a Washburn man said this morning. "Who's afraid of a K. U. man?"

wish I could rearrange a few matches. Take that big, loud mouth ed rounder, Jones, for instance. He's married to one of the nicest little wo men in the world. Wouldn't it be a fine thing to give her to C who is a decent, hard-working, unassuming, affectionate chap handicapped by a lazy, selfish, extravagant, painted hus sy of a wife!" The Matchmaker. The Kappa Thetas of Washburn will rive a party Saturday- night at the chapter house for their pledges. The Delta Phis of Washburn will give the annual fraternity dinner at iMcRae's April 28. Mrs. E. J. Shakeshaft entertained the Swastika club Saturday afternoon at her home No. 1101 West Tenth ave nue. The girls spent a very happy afternoon sewing little dresses for the mission. Refreshments were served for the following: Miss Sara Stickney, directress; Misses Margaret Shakeshaft, Esther Walker, Edith Parfltt, Mabel Gilchrist, Eva Crow, Frances Perry, Jessie Gilchrist and Lillian McGee. The "I And health In the package with the 'Red Seed,' said a man a few days ago, in referring to Poetum. t When anyone has learn ed that coffee has been causing more or less dam age to his nervous system, and finds health in drink ing Postum, which is made only of wholesome wheat, lie has a right to grow enthusiastic and want others to' "find health In the package With the Red Seal." There's m Reason. Domft Buny Amy Qoltaes; W Then come to our closing out sale of the Marine Clothing Company's stock which opens Wednesday Morning at 9 o'clock. All Accounts Due Marine Clothing Co. Are Payable to Us. J. BERLIN CO 509 Kansas club will meet Saturday afternoon. May 2, at the home of Miss Frances Perry. 713 Fillmore street. As a rule a man's second wife Is enough like his first to be her double.

Mrs. Charles E. Dagerstrom enter tained the Ideal Card club today. The Atlantean club will meet tomor row with Mrs. J. C. McClintock.

The Betas of Washburn will give the annual sorority dinner in May at Hud son's. The West Side Reading club will meet with Mrs. B. T. Welch Tuesday, April 14, instead of tomorrow.

Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. George J. Crosman of Cleveland, O., have come to Topeka to reside permanently. They are at present guests of Mrs. Crosman's brother, Mr. W. W. Mills and have purchased the house adjoining the Mills' residence, 1302 Topeka avenue, where they will be at home as soon as it Is ready for occupancy, in about three weeks. Miss Gertrude McClintock, who is a student at Smith college, North ampton, Mass., and Miss Helen Mc Clintock, who went on to spend the spring recess with her in New York, were week-end guests of Mrs: John S. Pullman, of Bridgeport, Conn. They returned to Northampton today where Miss McClintock will visit until the last of the week when she will re turn to Topeka. Professor Vernon Kellogg of the chair of entymology, Iceland Stanford university, California, is expected to morrow or next day to make a short visit to his brother, Mr. Charles Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg, 500 Lin coln street. Professor Kellogg is on nis way to Europe wnere he win spend the summer. Mrs. Eugene Burr of New York city is the guest of her sister, Mrs. William E. Drechsel. Mr. Chauncey Dewey returned to Chicago yesterday after a few days in town. Mr. and Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey and their daughter,' Jessie, and Mr. and Mrs. James Robinson of Independence, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kellogg, 500 Lincoln street. Mr. Elwyn Alter and Mr. Charles Reynolds, K. II. students, spent Sun day at the Kappa Theta house on College Hill. Mexican Herald: Mrs. C. R. Hud son and her little daughter, Mary Margaret, will leave on Tuesday next for an extended visit with Mrs. Hud son's family in southern California. Miss Bessie Campbell has returned from a visit in Cheney and Is with with her aunt, Mrs. A. A. Robinson. Miss Mabel King leaves tomorrow for a three weeks' visit in Oklahoma City. Mrs. William Falklner returns to morrow from a visit to Mrs. Samuel Larimer in Des Moines, la. Miss Gertrude Burr of Emporia spent Sunday with Miss Edith Moore. Miss Clara Carr spent the week end in Leavenworth and Kansas City. Miss Stella Darby spent Saturday and Sunday in. Ottawa. Mrs. Charles S. Gleed has gone west to meet her daughter. Miss Cor nelia Gleed and Miss Julia Larimer, who have been touring California. Mrs. Charles Skinner is visiting Miss Frances Harris in Ottawa. Mr. Dana Davis will leave Wednes day for Chicago to take a position with a mortgage company. Mrs. Hugh Ewlng is visiting Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Ewlng in Ottawa. Miss Laura Ewlng spent the week-end in Ottawa. Miss Bernlce Fluke, of Lawrence, will come Tuesday to visit her cousin, Miss LaVere Langdon for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Keiser of Law rence spent Sunday in Topeka. Mrs. P. E. Plank, of Severance, is visiting at the home of her son, Mr. L. M. Plank. Mrs. W. S. Anderson has returned from a visit in St. Marys. Miss Augusta L Klinge and Mr. Aug ust W. Fusch or Chicago were mar ried Sunday by Rev. W. W. Horn. Af ter the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. 1812 East Third street. Miss Wilhelmlna Klinge and Mr. William Klinge, Jr., acted as bridesmaid and best man. Other relatives present were Mr. and Mrs. William Klinge, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klinge and son Norbet, Mr. and Mrs. August H. Klinge, Mr. and Mrs. William Erdman, Miss A. Bredel and daughter Miss Lottie Bredel, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Renker.--Mr. and Mrs. Fusch will make their future- home at 1630 East Third street. The Triple Tie members will give an entertainment Tuesday evening, April 7. Refreshments will be served and something of special Interest to all members of Topeka council will take place. No admission. The women of the First Baptist church will hold a social meeting Tuesday at S p. m Mrs. J. P. White will be the guest or. Honor. Poisoned at a Barbecue. Montgomery, Ala., April 6. J. H, Edgeson, member of the Montgomery revenue board and a prominent plan ter, died today as a result of poison in food at a barbecue of politicians Satur day. Several others were made ill, but will recover. T epiniespsiy Avenue. At the Novelty. There is a show at the Novelty theater for this week which will aver age up well with the many. good, ones that have been seen there before it. Mr. Wells, the manager of the house, has secured five acts which furnish a great variety of vaudeville and that's what makes a vaudeville show enter taining. Arthur Bauvais Co., a company of three, comprising Miss Teresa Mar idor, Dan Moyles and Mr. Bauvais, are given the head-line position on the bill. They present an interesting sketch "The Wildflower" in which :Hss Marldor wears a wonderfully fine Indian costume and makes up to look like a real Indian queen. James McDuff does some excellent work as a mimic and Jimmie Cowper is one of the funniest black faced comedians who has been In Topeka this season. Then there are the Bow en brothers, "the college boys" who are most excellent dancers but who almost discount their fine dancing by trying -to sing. And the other act on the bill is an acrobatic turn perform ed by the DeVan brothers and their poodle dog. The dog is an acrobat of no mean ability and the men are wonders in their line. In "The Heart You Lost in Mary land, You'll Find in Tennesee," Miss Lillian Parfltt has a 'fine Illustrated song which 'she -sings in her usually attractive fashion. i.-Mr. Irwin's song is "The Garden of the West." Jake Georgen helps him out with the chor us and the singing of the duo is good. Two series of rexcellent moving- pic tures are shown.: its. At the Majestic Frank Readick and his stock com pany opened their last week's engage ment at the Majestic on yesterday afternoon with that great three act farce comedy, "Good Bye, Hiram.'-" And the many members of the com pany showed themselves 'to be julte as capable actors of comedy roles as they are of serious ones. In fact they are proving themselves to be just about as clever a stock company as has been seen in Topeka and they are playing to big houses at every per formance. Miss Freeman, Miss Bar ney and Miss Phelps again .carry off the honors of the production and Richard St. Vrain again proves him self to be a most capable leading man, who can shine In any sort of a role. Some good specialties are put on between the acts, by Miss -Phelps, Baby Readick, Charles Young and George Robbins. Mr.' Hummell sings an Illustrated song ana some goo a moving pictures are shown. "Good Bye Hiram" will De tne wu until Wednesday when it will give way to "Sapho," which will be pre sented for the rest of the week. There is no doubt about Sapho being one of the real sensational plays of the times. It created a furore In more ways than one when It was first presented In this country eight or nine years ago. In many cities the ministers began agitations against it that resulted in the city authorities stopping the pro duction of the piece until the courts had a chance to rule that Its presen tation could not be Interfered with. It will be given by the Readick com pany in its original form. At the Aurora. The Aurora theater has a unique programme for its show this week. It is a combination of stereopticon slides and moving pictures which is very pleasing. The leading part of the bill is the scenes from the pas- Electric Library Lamps 25 PER CENT OFF Beautiful in design, low in price. The assortment Has the design you have been looking for. Come l in and see them. JAMES 61 HAYDEN JEWELER AND OPTICIAN 727 Kansas Ave. 5 10 15 slon play of Oberammergau, illustrat ing the stirring episodes in the life of Christ. Stereopticon slides which are hand colored are used in the illustration of "That Old Sweetheart of Mine" by James Whitcomb Riley. "The Bachelor's Supper" by the late Sol Smith Russell is well illustrated by stereopticon slides which, are made from the Christy paintings. All the scenes and pictures are fully ex plained by an interesting descriptive lecture. Moving pictures are shown by the famous Aurora light. Miss Elizabeth Gray sings "The Holy City" which is" illustrated by beautiful lan tern slides. On the whole, the bill is a very pleasing one for Its kind and is sure to delight the patrons. Manager Henry F. Schuldt, and his saxophone solo, are missed this week. Lillian Russell Conquered. She came, she saw and she con quered. So did, Lillian-Russell, who appeared in Topeka for the first time at the Grand on Saturday night as the heroine of the breezy and stirring racing drama "Wildfire," which is the work of George Broadhurst and George V. Hobart, And Miss Russell fulfilled all expectations as to reputa tion for being one of the most beauti ful women in face and form on the stage of today and of a few different yesterdays. For a woman of her age, -and she is--a- itewr.ryears this side- of fifty. Miss Russell is something of a marvel for looks and the gowns she wears are quite as beautiful as her self, likewise is the jewelry. Miss Russell made her name on: the stage as a comic opera) queen and she shone as such- until the Weber and Fields combination -.broke up something over two years ago- when she essayed to play, in straights t comedy. She has beer' successfal$n her new line' of work' from the' start. And while she is not a great actress- -she is a good one and in Wildfire" she has a rous ing play. But although" she scintillates in beauty with the-brilliancy of a real star, although she is called the star of the play and probably figures as the star on the salary roll, the true star of the piece is Will Archie,, a diminutive chap,' who plays the part of. Bud, the stable boy. His string of slang talk is marvellous to con template and his scene with Miss Russell in the second act is about the most entertaining piece of work that has ever been seen on the stage at tne Grand. This second act is cer tainly a thriller and was given seven curtain calls. But this number was undoubtedly given to compel the ap pearance of Archie and when he did respond the audience stopped ap plauding and r yelled. Herbert Corthell, as Matt Donovan a trainer of race horses, also did some great work and the other members of the cast were most competent actors. Coming to the Grand. While the -American government has removed the motto "In God We Trust" from its currency, the Hol land government might appropriately place on theirs the motto "God Bless Our Flat?" For compared to other lands, Holland is but the size of a fiat as well as flat on its surface. But what it lacks in size and elevation it more than makes up in oddity. This is very graphically demonstrated by Lyman H. Howe's moving pictures to be seen at the Grand on Sunday and Monday night next. However, it forms but one of many other features of a programme abounding in novelty, charm, and much wholesome amuse ment. Another feature just as unique yet entirely different, gives the audi ence the real sensation of speeding 80 miles an hour in an automobile. It is a strange and exciting experience to travel over curves and gradients at such terrific speed. A magnified study of wild birds at home, French horsemanship, quarrying stones near Cherburg, hunting the the polar bear, life among the savage tribes of Zulu land, routine life on board a French battleship, and numerous other scenes compose a programme of surprising interest. MacMillen, the great American violinist, will give a concert at the Grand on Tuesday, April 14. Death of "Cattle King' Whitaker. Fort Scott, Kan., April 6. Jim Whitaker, commonly known -over Kan sas and the western country as the "Cattle King" was found dead Satur day evening in one of the pastures on his ranch, eight miles southwest of Redfield, according to a telephone message received in this city last night. Mr. Whitaker had started Saturday morning to ride over bis ranch and inspect his stock.' In the evening his dead body was found lying in the pasture by George Ray, who had gone in search of him when he did not re turn home during the day. No marks of violence were found on the body and it is thought that death resulted from heart disease. A Child Burned to Death. Abilene,- Kan.,' April The infant child of Mr. an Mrs. S. H. Lenhart was burned to death and the Lenhart home partly destroyed by a fire result ing from the explosion of a stove Sun day afternoon. A 12-year-old son was attempting to light the stove with gas oline or kerosene and an explosion re sulted. A large collection was taken up- for. the benefit or the family. POLICE MAKE A HAUL Round Up Vagrants and Old Timers in -'W Rock Island Yards. Sunday night the officers made a great haul down in the Rock Island yards where they rounded up a bunch of the following individuals on the charge of vagrancy: J. E. Davis, Ed Coon, Thomas Miller, John Moore, Joe Kelly; Otho Hulton. In police court this morning they gave their places of residence ranging from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. They were a hard looking lot, old timers every one of them, and their early arrest undoubt edly saved some black marks on the Topeka calendar of crime. John Moore especially appeared to be a hard citizen. From his papers the police believe him to be an all around crook. He had newspaper clippings that showed he had been tried and acquit ted in California on the charge of bur glary. He has been all over the coun try. .The police are trying to identify him. Among his effects was found a letter from his mother. The date line and place of address had been torn oft by Moore. The mother wrote a very affecting letter, saying that all her boys had left her in .her old age to care for herself and that she was hav ing a hard time to make both ends meet. She wanted her son to write her. A strange thing about this letter from a mother-to her son -is the fact that she did not sign any name to it, only making four little crosses for her signature. Joe Kelly was sweated by Detective Judkins, who helped make the arrest, and finally admitted that he was a de serter from the United States navy yard at Norfolk. This discovery gives Judkins a chance to make the trip to the coast with his prisoner with his ex penses paid and a twenty dollar bill for his pains. The judge fined this bunch of vags $10 apiece, excepting Moore, who was assessed $25. fi c1 1Tsi-iti nonnm-nanlAri Sheriff Wilkerson to Lansing Sunday with a bunch of countv prisoners, returning last night.. Judge You've been ui before me twice and got long terms each time. Now, is there any reason you can give why sentence should not be passed upon you again. Prisoner Yes, your nonor. Judge Well, speak up. What is it? Prisoner As an American citizen I am constitutionally opposed to a third term. Chicago Examiner, H. Jackson. Josephine Jackson and Marie Wall were rearrested by Chief Eaton Saturday night on commitment charges of maintaining a nuisance. They had been tried and convicted In police court and naa appealed to dis trict court, where the judgment was affirmed Saturday. They were brought to the city jail Saturday night by cnier Eaton to take their medicine. William West, who was the object of Nicholson's attack on the avenue Fri day night for being In. company with Nicholson's wife, 'who was first West's wife,, was fined in police court Satur day evening on charge of disturbing the peace. Nicholson had been as sessed on a similar charge in the morning. P. Mullnex, a boy about 15 years old. was arrested Sunday evening on charge of disturbing the peace of Mr. and Mrs. Going by insulting remarks and actions on Kansas avenue. -xne couple appeared against the boy and as their evidence was positive, me juage assessed a fine of $10, giving orders to hold the lboy in jail until the fine was nald. This boy and a companion, who appeared and testified for him, appear to be tough, fresh boys. .They took the sentence coolly and spoke lightly of going to Jail. They had come here only a short time ago irom .Leaven worth and claimed to be working for a telephone company. Frank Grief and J. M. Livingston were arrested Saturday night on a charge of gambling. They will he tried this afternoon. FAMILY CONSULTATION. Italian Royalty to Talk Over the 'Abruzzi Engagement. Naples. April 6. The Duke of Aosta, eldest cousin of King Victor Em manuel, has been requested by the king to go to Rome and will start this ev ening. It is expected that a family council will be held under the presi dency of the king to discuss the re ported engagement of the Duke of the Abruzzi to Miss Katherine Elklns, daughter of Senator Elkins, of West Virginia. PLACE FOR FRANK BURROW. Elected Cashier of National Bank of Republic at Kansas City. Frank H. Burrow, son of J. R. Bur row, president of the Central National of- Topeka, has been elected cashier of the National Bank of the Republic, in Kansas City. For some years Mr. Bur row was associated with his father in the banking business at Smith Center and recently was appointed national bank examiner. He resigns that posi tion to assume his new office. The National Bank of the Republic has a capital of $500,000 and a surplus of $50,000. Its deposits are $3,000,000. It is one of the newer banks of Kansas City. Mr. Burrow was one of the youngest national bank examiners in the employ of the government, and he will be one of the youngest men to hold such a responsible position as cashier of a bank with half a million capital. A Double Header at Enid. Enid, Ok., April 6. A double header was played here Sunday between El Reno and Enid. Enid won the first 3 to 2. The score by innings: Enid 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 El Reno 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 Batteries Ray and Moss; Morgan, Stanley and Herrington. The visitors turned the tables in the second, winning 6 to 2. The score by innings: El Reno .3 8000000 5 Enid 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 02 Attendance 1,000. St. Paul S, Bartlesville 0. Bartlesville, Ok.. April 6. The first game of the series between the Saints and the Boosters Sunday brought out the largest crowd of the season. It was an easy victory for the Saints. By bunching hits in the fourth St. Paul made four runs. The other score was by Noonan, who lifted the ball over the fence. The score: St. Paul ...0 0 0 4 0 10 0 05 Bartlesville-. ....0 0000000 00 The summary: Bases on balls Off Cheney 6, off Tennison 1. off Smith 1. Two base hits Flood, Roth, Horrell, Nagle. Home run Noonan. Double play Tieuayer to Rowan. Hit by pitch- MILLS' STORE NEWS Monday, April 6, igo8. Embroidery: Fhmtings of Wonderful Beauiyf for $1.25 a Yard Twenty-five entirely different patterns, and all new values up to $2.00 a yard. Beautiful Baby Irish, Grecian Key, Shadow and Heavy Surface em broidery patterns plenty of small, dainty figures, exquisitely wrought upon fine Swisses and other ma terials. These embroideries are 27 inches wide an4 are to be used for waist fronts, or entire waists. The wide embroidered panel in the center and the side designs are separated by spaces of the plain material to be tucked or set with lace insertion as desired. Many of the choicest patterns are displayed in one of our windows. Fine Mi-Over Embroideries Values to $2.50 for $1.25 There are only ten pieces of these all overs but they're rarely fine the qualities of the Swisses and nainsooks of the foundation being superior to any you have seen in embroideries at this price. Patterns are varied all new, and many elaborate designs be ing shown, in fine, close work.- Materials are 22 inches wide. The window shows them. Fine Laces?-$t.00 a dozen yards Beautifully fine French or German Valenoiennef; also Mechlin Edges and Inseations many to match. Widths H to 3 inches. Our price of $1.00 a dozen yards is much less than the value of these laces. Sale of Muslins, Cambrics, Sheets and Sheeting Every Item Less-Priced Here are Values so remarkable and so readily ap- parent to the most careless observer, that the goods will sell themselves on sight. Every wise housekeep er will come tomorrow for her-share. Come early-r-for the supply is not inexhaustible, and the selling will be heavy from the start. f Soft bleached muslin of light weight, 38 inches wide, yd. Qhc Heavier quality bleached muslin, 36 wide, yd. "JfC 12c bleached muslin entirely free from dressing 36 inches wide, yd. 80 Medium weight muslin best quality, bleached, 36 inohes wide, yd. 10o Heavier weight muslin standard grade yd. 12 Mills' Long Cloth sheer quality 36 inches wide 12-yard bolts at 9o yd. Cambric muslin medium weight, pure white, 36 inches wide yd. 12 Cambric of finer quality 36 inches wide yd. 15c Chamois Cambric, very fine, and soft as the name implies yd. 20o Long Cloth of exceptionally fine quality, bolt of 12 yards for $1.95 Butchers' Linon Suiting 36 inches wide yd. 15o Indian Head shrunk muslin for suits, best quality yd. 18o White Cambric Suiting fine quality 36 inohes wide yd. 17c Brown Sheeting 76 inches wide soft round thread yd. 21c Bleached Sheeting 9-4 good quality yd. 25o V Bleached Sheeting 2H yds. wide excellent wearing quality yd. 32Xo 6-4 Bleached Sheeting for single beds, yd. 23o -Pillow Tubing best qualities 36-inch tubing, yd.' 18o 42-inch tubing 20o 45-inoh tubing 22 Seamless Sheets bleached 2itx2K yards made' from standard muslin each 75c Seamless Sheets of best quality extra heavy bleaohed mus- lin torn and hemmed sizes 2Xx2X yds. each 89o Single Sheets bleached torn and hemmed 2K yards long each 69c Flat-Seamed Sheets bleached 2x2X yds eaoh 50o Pillow Cases plain 36x42 or 45 inches good soft muslin, torn and hemmed each lQo Pillow Cases hemstitched made from good muslin 36x42 or 45 inches each 19o r' Better grades of plain Cases-r-made from standard muslin, torn and hemmed 36x42 or 45 inohes each 15c ti IS WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE AN INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE It gives the best service tne money, is the pioneer community, reaches four times as many people in Shawnee County as ail others combined, has the exclusive direct connections with ov er 90 per cent of the local exchanges In Kansas. Nebraska and Missouri, la a Home institution consequently identified with Topeka's T interest, and needs your support. X Call Contract Department No. 1000 and give your order. I THE TOPEKA INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE CO. X 812-814 Jackson Street. er McCollum. Struck put By Tenni son .3, by Smith 4, by Cheney 2, by Womack 1. Earned runs St. Paul 2. Umpires Leroy and Thomason. Ttieater Audience All Masons. New York, April t. A unique event took place at Masonic temple here last night when a performance of Charles Bum Kennedy's mucin discussed play. The Mills Co.. Topeka. t 1 ""i Inin! and the most service fori of good service in thin "The Servant in the House," was given before an audience consisting entirely of Masons. The scenery was moved from the Savoy theater, where the play is running, and a complete per formance was given, under the au spices of Howard lodge of Masons. The play is based on principles of brother- I J .v.v, Billltiai 4. IF U1UH IIVi1 the Masonic fraternity. eX by

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