The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
June 3, 1908

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1 EVERYBODY EVERYBODY 10 PAGES 10 PAGES READS IT. NEEDS IT. A LAST EDITION. WEDNESDAY EVENINQ. EQPlflKA, KANSAS, JUNE 3, 1908. tWEDNESDAY TCVTCKTTNfl. r -WVT KtBtBKXQm" ROOSEVELT IN Hi9 Horse Reared and Fell Backward With Him. Animal and Its Rider Tumbled Into Creek. Both HE WAS NOT INJURED. Although He Dropped 10 Feet Into a Rocky Stream. He Regained His Mount and Continued His Ride. Washington. June 3.-President Roosevelt late yesterday afternoon had an exceedingly narrow escape from a serious accident, while horseback rid ing in Rock Creek park. Mrs. Roose velt was with the president. Rumors of the affair, which gained currency last night were denied at the White House at the time as neither the presi dent or Mrs. Roosevelt spoke of the affair on their return. The rumors came from the occupants of several carriages who saw the accident. The president was riding a new horse, a young animal. The party rode down through a cut in a bank, forded a creek and were ascending the Dana on the other side. The presidents horse reared, the president leaned for ward in the saddle and threw the reins down in loops so as to avoid pulling the horse backwards. Again on reach ing the top of the bank, the horse reared a second time and the president leaned forward again, but the animal Flood up straight on its hind legs and then went over backward into the creek with the president. Feeling that he was going backward the president slipped from the saddle and as Iuck would have it fell into the creek close beside the horse, which landed on its bThe horse fell on the down stream Bide of the president, who realizing that he would be in danger from the ani mal's feet should the horse turn tow ards him got out of the way as rap idly as possible. The horse, however, turned over from the president and got up. He was captured at once the president remounted and rode tor an hour and a half before returning to the White House. The fall from the horse s back to tne stream bed was a distance of more than 10 feet. The stream was about iwo feet deep, with an exceedingly rocky bed. Neither the president nor horse received the slightest injury. President Roosevelt's two regular rid ing horses were out of commission yes terday, both being "disposed The president's orderly wished to try out the new horse, but the president took it upon himself to do this. The presi dent was dressed in khaki and .the lact that he got thoroughly wet did not become apparent to those who saw him after the accident. Several carriages wmch had crossed the ford Jus g ahead of the president stopped and the occu pants "were alarmed at what was hap- P experience with its many seri ous possibilities has not dulled the president's pleasure in riding, anJ M Lkes considerable gratification in the tst of horsemanship as both times the animal reared he instinctively ihrew h niself forward so that his head was directly beside that of the rearing animal and the Teins.hbflv!r to pun loose had no tension whatever to pull the horse backward. three'cars blown up. Crew of One of Them Arrested on Suspicion. Chester, Pa.. June 3. The disorder that has marked the strike of the street car traction employes for several weeks, was renewed last night when three of the compan's trolley cars three of the company's trolley cars were wrecked on Saville avenue in Eddystone and a third at Palmers cor ner on the Media division outside the city. The car at the latter point was blown to pieces and when a squad of v deputy sheriffs reached the scene they arrested the crew of the car on which there had been no passengers, rxeitner V Jured and they were taken into custody lk- pending an investigation. FIRST IN TENTEARS. Executive Council of American Fed eration to Hold Meeting In Chicago. Chicago, June 3. For the first time in 10 years a meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor will be held in Chicago. Ses sions of the council will begin on June 13, and continue six days. It will be a regular quarterly meeting and la bor questions of national importance will be taken up for consideration. Chief among the questions to be discussed will be the political action policy recently adopted by the federa tion. WHISKY DEFINED. Bourbon Can Only Be Made From Corn and in Kentucky. Washington. June 3. The question which as caused so much controversy between government officials and dis tillers as to whether whisky and neutral spirits are like substances, has been Judicially determined by the District of Columbia court of appeals, which holds that they are not like substances, thereby sustaining the view taken by the president and At torney General Bonaparte when the matter was passed upon by them, af ter the distillers had appealed to them from the decision of the department of agriculture. It also was decided that Bourbon whisky can only be made in the state of Kentucky and must be made from a mash, the chief ingredient of which Is corn. The decision was In what is known as the Levy-Url-Uri case, and covers substantially every point of the two whisky test cases instituted by the de GREAT PERIL partment of Justice in Washington and Baltimore, the former being against the James Clark Distilling company for the alleged mislabelling as whisky, a mixture of neutral spirits and whisky and the latter against a Baltimore house for labelling neutral spirits made from molasses In Louisiana as "Bourbon whisky." ALLISON WINS His Majority Over Cummins Is Prob ably 12,000. Des Moines, la., June 3. According to returns received this morning Sena tor W. B. Allison is nominated United States senator by a majority of fully 12.000 over Governor A. B. Cummins. Reports from all over the state point to a large majority for Allison. Counties which two years ago went for Governor Cummins this year re turned a majority for Allison. Renominated by Republicans Over Governor Cummings in a Hotly Contested State Primary. Seven congressional districts give Allison his majority. He carried prac tically every county in the First and Second districts. In the Third district he lost aHrdin county and in the Fifth Cummins secured a majority in three of the counties. The returns are slowly coming in. About one-half of the precincts of the state had reported this morning. B. F. Carroll, Republican, was nom inated for governor by a majority of over 15,000. For lieutenant governor, George Clark of Dallas county, is in the lead with indications that he will be named. The rest of the state ticket has not been reported save In a few isolated in stances, but the indications are for the nomination of the following: John L. Bleakley. Idaho county, for auditor; N. S. Ketchum, Marshall county, railroad commissioner; J. F. Riggs, superintendent of public in struction. Notable victories for congressional honors are reported as follows: J. P. Conner over Frank P. Woods in the Tenth; E. H. Hubbard over W. D. Boies, in the Eleventh; Ellsworth Rominger over Speaker Nate Kendall in the Sixth; Charles Pickett over B. E. Sweet In the Third and reports from the Fifth indicate that James Good has a majority over Senator Trewin, al though both claim to have a majority in the district. A. I. Smith was not in the running against W. P. Hepburn in the Eighth district. The only Democratic contest was in the Second where Mark Walsh of Clin ton, won over J. E. DeArmand of Dav enport, he carrying Scott county against his opponent. UNCLE JOE QUITS AUTO. Will Make Journey Home From Pitts burg by Train. Pittsburg, Pa., June 3. The auto mobile tour of Speaker Cannon and party has been abandoned. Speaker Cannon and Congressman Landis will go west tonight over the Pennsylvania railroad and Senator Hemenway left here last night. In refusing to discuss politics Speaker Cannon said: "I don't wish to discuss politics. However, I am will ing to stand on the record of the last congress. I have had a fine trip and only wish I would continue it in an automobile clear home, but I have had some telegrams calling me home and so as to save time I shall have to take the train here." Congressman Landis referring to a report that the Chicago convention would result in a stampede in favor of President Roosevelt, said: "I have been assured by those close to the president that he has taken measures to prevent the stampede for him. I know that the president docs not want the nomination and will not accept. Of course if the convention should nominate him and then ad journ he would have to take it." IT IS WARM ONCE MORE. Mercury Near the Eighty Degree Mark Today. The weather offering today is of the variety which prompts a man to steal away from his work and search for a shaded spot in some park away from the heat and noise of the day. It has not rained during the past 24 hours, a fact worthy of especial mention when the weather conditions of the week past are considered. The temperatures are a number of degrees higher today than they have been at corresponding hours during the past week or two and the rore cast indicates higher temperatures for Wednesday with a promise of thun der showers tonight or tomorrow. The river measured 12.07 feet this morning at 8 o'clock or a foot and one-half higher than at the corres ponding hour yesterday, a measure ment taken at 2 o'clock this arternoon indicates a fall of 6 inches since o'clock, with the indications pointing to a slow and gradual fall for a num ber of hours to come. The following were the temperatures for the day as recorded in this city: 7 o'clock 70 11 o'clock. .77 8 o'clock 72 12 o'clock 77 9 o'clock 75 .1 o'clock. .78 10 o'clock 77 2 o'clock..... 7 inrifi in nniinriin 1 1 inn p auai i r DEVLIN DIVIDEND. One of Fire Per Cent Is to Be Declared. Claims Amount to Two Million Dollars. ON ABOUT AUGUST 1 The Reports Are Now Being Made Out. Some of the Largest Claims Against the Estate. The first dividend in the Devlin es tate will be formally announced in two months. The trustees have ac cumulated funds approximating $100, 000 with which to meet this dividend. The dividend will be about 5 per cent, not to exceed that sum, will be paid by the trustees of the Devlin estate, bankrupt, sometime this summer, about the first of August. The reports are now being prepared by the cleri cal force upon which the amount of the dividend will be based. "As soon as we get these reports in we will be able to tell how much of a dividend will be declared," said J. S. Dean. "The dividend will be available about August 1, I think." From another source it was learned that the dividend will be close to 5 per cent on the $2,000,000 of claims which have been allowed as provable claims by the referee in bankruptcy. There are 50 large claimants whose claims have been allowed. In addition to these, the state of Kansas has filed for $600,000 which has not been allowed, Elmer H. Adams has filed for $245,350.50, not allowed, Adams is an attorney in Chicago, and the Shaw nee county commissioners have filed for $32,731.05 for funds on deposit in the First National bank for which Devlin went on the surety bond as director of the bank. This claim is now being fought out in the United States courts after the referee had partially allowed upon it. The most valuable asset of the es tate is the Devlin Coal company prop erty at Toluca. 111., and the operation of the mines has been conducted by the trustees at a profit. The mines have been estimated to be worth $1,000,000. though it is probable that with the condition of the money mar ket as it is now that the mines could not be sold, for more than one-half of that sum. The large claims against the estate and which will participate In the divi dends are: E. I. DuPont Co., Wilming ton, Delaware 7,104.30 General Construction Co., Davenport, Iowa 2,448.50 W. W. Twist. Toluca. 111., on notes 15,158.00 American Oil Gas Co.. To- peka 2,065.54 Ricker National bank. Quincy, 111 14,908.64 Franklin MacVeagh Co.. Chicago, 111 2,040.00 General Construction Co.,Dav- enport, Iowa 4,710.08 Union Savings bank, Dav enport, la 2,472.17 First National bank. Daven port, la 2,938.20 Couehlin Hardware Co.. To- oeka 1,966.05 T. J. Couehlin. Topeka 1,675.70 Citizens' National bank. Dav enport, la 4,912.80 State Savings banK, Leav enworth 2,208.44 Forest Citv National bank Rockford, 111 5,000.00 Hughes Real Estate and In vestment Co., Richmond.Mo 2,650.00 Forest ICty National bank Rockford, 111 5.000.00 H. P. "Scott, Davenport, la... 2,500.00 Geo. W. Cable, Davenport, la. 7,000.00 Mary L. Sudlow, Rock Island, HI. 4.500.00 E. Anderson, Chicago 5,025.00 Long Bros. Grocery Co., Kansas City 5,041.36 National Bank of Pittsburg, Kan 35,508.88 Crosby Roller Milling Co., Topeka 1,008.00 Hardscog Mfg. Co., ,Ottumwa, j 1,799.68 Ferguson-McKinneyDryGoods Co., St. Louis 17,439.29 Fort Seaborn National bank, Chicago 20,007.50 Alliance Realty Securities Co., Kansas City 318,269.(4 E. p! Davis 14,500.00 W J. Lanyon, Pittsburg. Kan 14,800.00 J. E. Porterfleld.Spring Valley, HI 3,570.98 First National bank, Leaven worth 32.320.00 Wyeth Hardware Co.. St. Joe 1,976.78 Toluca Lumber Hardware Co., Toluca. Ill 5,211.84 Joab Mulvane, Topeka 9,200.00 C. W. Snyder, Topeka 1,120.75 Leavenworth National Bank. Leavenworth 31.500.00 Joab Mulvane, Topeka 2,000.00 John R- Mulvane, Topeka 2,000.00 Central National bank, Topeka 103,507.06 Matthew L. Matson, Kansas City 23,000.00 National Park bank.New York 35,002.62 John R. Mulvane, Topeka 9.300.00 Edward Carroll, Leavenworth 10,500.00 Manufacturers' National bank Leavenworth 8,500.00 National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City 203,345.82 E. O. Faulkner, Topeka 2,419.75 Carmea A. Miller. Benton, 111. 4.345.86 Kessler Co.. New York 21,000.00 C. E. Denham, Kansas City.. 11,448.00 Chas. G. Gill, Kansas City 19,453.00 Malcolm S. Garrard, Kansas City 15,719.00 W. A. P. McDonald.St. Joseph 5,000.00 Citizens' National bank.Joliet, Illinois 5,000.00 Commercial National bank. Blue Island, 111 5.000.00 H. W. Kelly, Las Vegas, N. M. 72,325.00 Mechanics' National bank. New York 20,000.00 Spring Valley National.Spring Valley, 111 5,500.00 John H. Miller. Huntsville.Ala. 13,221.13 Wenona Zinc Mfg. Co., Ill 7,500.00 Mack M. Penkley.Bushnell.Ill. 8,132.83 Continental National, Chicago 197,076.04 F. E. Wear, Kansas City 10,509.50 First National, Marceline.Mo. 20,317.25 First National. Lacon, 111. 5,002.85 A 100 TO I SHOT Italian Filly Signorinetta" Wins Great English Derby. A Bank Outsider Del eatsFrench, British and American Cracks. THE PURSE A FAT ONE The Largest Crowd in Years at Epsom Downs. The Kin?, Queen and Many Noted Americans Present. London, June 3.- A rank outsider, Signorinetta, owned by E. Ginistrelli, and quoted in the betting at 100 to 1 against, today defeated all American, British and French cracks, and cap tured the derby stakes, valued at 6, 500 sovereigns and. the greatest prize of the 'turf world. The Italian horse simply cantered home from the hot favorite by two lengths. A neck only divided the second horse, the Duke of Portland's Primer, and the third, Barclay Walker's Llangwam. Mercutio led to the mile post, when August Belmont's Norman III drew to the front. The American horse, how ever, going down the hill, was over hauled by Mountain Apple, ridden by Lyne, an American, jockey. Lyne held the lead, with Signorinetta, Primer and Llangwam, ridden by Maher, an other American Jockey in close at tendance until the quarter mile home, when Signorinetta, the only filly In the race, came on with a rush and romped home in easiest of winners. Mountain Apple was rourth. Lured by the fact that at least half of the horses that were to run in the historic derby today were considered possible winners, .the largest crowd that has been seen In many years as sembled at Epsom Downs. Special trains from distant points In the provinces brought thousands and a hundred special trains left the var ious terminals in London crammed to sufTocation for the famous race course. The procession by road made its start during the night. Later the fashionable racegoers came on in coaches and motor cars. King Edward and Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Con naught, and other members of the royal family went down by train. The numerous American contingent included Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, August Belmont and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont; Commander John H. Gibbons, the naval attache at London and Mrs. Gibbons, Captain Sidney A. Cloman.,,, the military at tache and Mrs. CI oman; Miss Phillips. General Leonard "Wood and Mrs. Wood Colonel George Andrews and Richard Croker. The derby was made particularly Interesting from the American point of view by the fact that for the first time in the history of races, Norman III, an American colt, owned by Aug ust Belmont, of New Tork, by Octagon-Nineveh, was the favorite, while William K. Vanderbilt's French bred colt. Seasick II. by Elk-Safsaf, also occupied a very good position In the betting. The derby was won last year by Richard Croker 's Or by, but this year, Mr. Croker had no horse entered. The derby was won in all three times by Americans; by Mr. Croker in 1907, by. Pierre Lorillard in 1881, with Iroquois and by the late William C. Whitney, in 1901. with the English horse Volodyovski, leased for the year from Lady Meux. The oldest derby goers say that there never was such a perfect day or great crowd at Epsom Downs. It is certain that never in recent years has so much enthusiasm been evinced. From early morning all the roads leading to the Downs had been crowded with vehicles. So thick were they there on the main thoroughfare, motor cars and carriages had to move at a snail's pace. Included in the crowd were many Americans and the stars and stripes flew from many coaches and automo biles. The royal party arrived before the first race was run. Richard Crocker also, was one of the early arrivals. He was followed closely by the Vanderbilts and the Belmonts and as the afternoon ad vanced the crowds increased until be tween the races, a black compact mass covered the course from Tattenham corner down to beyond the park. A. Vanderbilt was among the late ar rivals, coming down on his famous coach with a party of Americans. The younger generation was represented by a party of young girls bedecked with the national colors and armed with horns. How the Horses Raced. Some delay was caused at the post by Azote and Vamose breaking the tape, but ultimately a good start was effected. Only one of the favorites flattered his supporters at any point on the course. This was Mountain Apple, who took up the running upon enter ing the straight. He was pursued by Seasick II, Royal Realm, Signorin etta, Primer and Llangwm,. but the pace was too fast for the son of Per simmon and with the quarter mile still to go he dropped back beaten. At this stage the unfancied Italian filly, which had been occupying a nice place In the center raced to the front. Mountain Apple came in fourth. Not since Jeddah, another 100 to 1 outside won the derby in 1898. has there been such an utter rout of the favorites. Signorinetta had never been seen to advantage. She could only reach fifth place in this year's New market stake. It is probable that the filly did not carry more than $25 of the public's money and her victory was received with blank dismay. The quoted price on her 100 to 1 against, was purely nominal; the layers would have given any price asked. Ex cept from the bookmakers, who had reaped perhaps the richest harvest of their lives there was not a cheer to proclaim the victory of the Italian en try. The only horse considered a possible winner to secure a place was Llangwm with Maher up. Both Norman III and Seasick II started well enough and made a run ning in the early part of the race, but they soon fell into tne rucK. POLITICAL GOSSIP J. L. Bristow's Beply to W. Y. Morgan's Joke. Insinuation Concerning His Editorials Is Disproved. MORGAN'S OWN PAPER. It Copied Freely the Produc tions of Salina Editor. Prohibitionists and Socialists Cant Be Kept Off State Ticket. "It would hardly be fair to Mr. Bristow to say that he has no ability, but it is a fact that as an editor he has never written an editorial that was copied." Extract from W. Y Morgan's article on "Choosing a Sena tor." A friend of Joe Bristow's says that this statement is one of Morgan's Jokes, and presents the following facts tor contemplation: J. L. Bristow took charge of the Salina Journal in August. 1905. Dur ing the following six months, the files or the Hutchinson News. Mr. Mor gan's paper, show that Mr. Morgan copied from the Salina Journal and gave credit the following matter on its editorial page alone: August, three articles, 12 inches space. September, four articles, 33 inches space. October, five articles, 27 inches space. November, three articles, 40 Inches space. December, four articles, 42 inches space. January, two articles, 22 inches space. These figures are said to be ap proximately correct, though some editorials may have been overlooked and several may have been reprinted In other portions of the paper. For six months, the Hutchinson News copied from the Salina Journal 21 editorials, a total of about 175 inches. This Is at the rate of 42 edl torials, or about 350 inches a year. During the two years and nine months which Mr. Bristow has been In charge of the Salina Journal, he would have furnished to Mr. Mor gan's paper alone about 114 editorials. or about 75 feet of solid reading mat ter. During the six months period re ferred to the Hutchinson News printed on Its editorial page five edi torials of a highly complimentary and commendatory character of J. L. Bris tow and 'his work in the postofflce department. Some .of these were original, and Some were reprinted irom otner papers. Simply because the Prohibition and Socialist parties can not comply strict ly witn tne letter or the primary law. they can not be excluded from me op eration of that law, is the opinion or Attorney tienerai Jackson, in a let ter written today by John S. Dawson assistant attorney general, to B. C. ioyt or Goodrich, Kan. The law says that nomination ne tltions must contain not less than 3 or more than 10 per cent of the vote of a precinct, under certain conditions. If there- are only five Socialist or Prohibition votes in the precinct, it would be impossible to get less than zo per cent or that total vote. Mr. Dawson says in his letter: "I take it from this rule of statu tory construction that Insofar as the provisions of paragraphs A. B and C. of the primary law cannot be made applicable to the candidates for the Socialist or Prohibition party nomina tions, tney can rely absolutely upon subdivision D, and I advise candidates of those two political parties to se cure at least one signer from the prop er number of precincts and conform as nearly as possible, and such candi dates will be entitled to places on the Socialist and Prohibition tickets even though the minimum number of sign ers should, in fact, exceed the 10 per cent minimum. "In other words, the Socialist and Prohibition parties cast at least one per cent of the total vote of the state at the last general election, and are therefore entitled to have separate bal lots for their candidates from governor to township constable, and where they cannot conform to the technical limi tations of minimum and maximum they should conform as nearly there to as practicable, and will be entitled to have their petitions filed, and ir the county clerk or state board of canvassers refuse to file and honor them, these candidates' rights can be compelled by mandamus." The Garden City Telegram says: "We learn upon inquiry that Judge Mason's petitions contain over 5,100 names and are signed by more than one per cent of the Republican voters In each of the 105 counties in the state. The To peka signers number about 700, of whom over 100 are practicing lawyers. As there are only about 125 practicing lawyers in the city, of whom a consid erable number are Democrats, this ex pression of the Republican members of the bar of the capital city must be substantially unanimous." H. S. Rogers, of Lamed, who is one of the candidates for state senator in the Thirty-eighth district against Fred Dumont Smith, has, in the Lamed Chronoscope, come back at Smith's re cent newspaper articles. Mr. Rogers uses two and a half columns of space and concludes as follows: "For several years I have been local attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad company, which employment came un solicited, and it will probably be said in truth, to quote Dr. Franklin, that I never sought, refused or resigned such employment. That the consideration for such retainer consists of an annual pass in Kansas leads the over-cautious Senator Smith to think some one him self preferred who is untainted by questionable business alliances, should be entrusted with the care of public affairs. Now, since 'bluffs' are in fash ion, I beg to offer one. Smith knows the' source from which attorneys and politicians have received transportation in Kansas. He has known Waggener from the court of visitation act to the present time, and Loom and all the other one time angels of the 'pass toter.' Smith can get the figures. I shall call all of my personal and fam ily transportation complimentary as all f Smith's has been. If Smith can show that I have received on 'reauest' one- tenth as many miles of transportation In eight years as he has received, I shall quit the race. Most of us will probably follow Smith's example and quit using passes when the law for bids or the roads refuse to Issue. And we should probably have the same feeling with regard to Pullman passes, express and telegraph 'franks,' if we had become accustomed to those statesmanlike luxuries. mere are counties in this district without a representative, though the requirement of the constitution is as plain as the first command with- a promise. 'Remember thy Creator, etc' Is it the fault of the 'machiner Smith worked that till. In 1904, it went to pieces like "The One Hoss Shay.' Or of the 'boss-busters?' Smith was among the lustiest of the knockers. Or of the square dealers?' In the twinkling of an eye Smith became one of the strict est sect. Yet the constitution is ravish ed while the legislature's time is spent in quibbling about mere expedients the parole law, the indeterminate sen tence law, etc., and a little 'Miss Nancy sentlmentalism about first offenders and these and others are offered in the true style of a Jacobin as things dear to the 'pee-pul.' "Finally, I am a candidate as a citi zen, as a Republican. I ask no man's vote simply because I am engaged in the practice of law. I trust I shall not lose any man's vote simply because I am not a farmer, a banker or a mer chant. I do not want any man's vote on the theory that I would ask for the farmer or merchant anything more than Justice requires; I do not want any man's vote on the theory that I would ask of the railroads anything less than Justice requires. I do not want any man's vote if he thinks the collection by me of a few accounts for the Standard Oil company will bias my Judgment or deaden my sense of right in a matter where that corporation is interested." OPEIIWITHGARDEIIPARTY Commercial Travelers Will Dedicate Topeka's Roof Garden. It is now expected that the new Na tional hotel will be opened to the public on the 13th of this month, the occasion being a roof garden party to the unit ed Commercial Travelers' lodge of this city and all their friends and members of the order from over the state. There will be music and refreshments on the roof of- the big hostelry that night and a, ireneral eood time. It had been an nounced some time ago that the hotel would be opened last month In time to entertain the Order Eastern 8tar con vention that met here May 15, but the delav in receiving furniture and fix tures and in finishing up the interior of the hotel put oft the opening at least a month. The flnlshine touches to the decora tions are being put on this week and the furniture placed in the rooms. Al bert Reid, the well known local artist, has charere of the decorations and they are verv tasteful and beautiful. The lobbv and hallways, upstairs and down, are finished In eeam-brown and the trimmings are very delicate lines of vellow and srreen. The dining room is the court of elegantis. -It also is finish ed In cream-brown with the same deli cate bordering but in a far more elab orate design. It Is paneled with mis sion oak and has a tiled floor. At each end of the room is a panel painting by George M. Stone. That on the west side pictures an Indian chief and his favorite wife sitting by their camp fire in front of their wigwam. The color effect of the firelight as it lights up the faces of the Indians sitting in tne shadows is excellent. On the east side the picture presents an Indian lad and maiden in a canoe. The green water of the lake is used as a background for the entire picture. The coloring Is very delicate and the silhouette of the Indians is on tne oraer or one oi rem ington's interpretations. The dining room is in the shape of an oval and has a large bay window in the center of the south side. There is an alcove for one private table. The chandeliers and sidelights surpass in their arrange ment. While small, this room is as fine as that of any hotel in the west. The stairway from the lobby Is of marble and golden oak. The hallway on the first floor is as wide as a room and is handsomely decorated. At the terminal of the first stair this hall widens into a ladles' reception room. The new National is strictly modem from basement to the roof garden on the seventh story and is finished as elegantly as money and taste can con trive. After the roof garden party on the 13th there will be another entertain ment a week later. Such a hostelry as this goes to form a part of a greater Topeka. It Is one of the advance guard of the improvements that are being made here of late years. The Knights and Ladies of Security, owners of the building, and Charles L. Wood and Mr. Charles R. Williams, principal proprie tors and managers, are entitled to the thanks and commendation of our peo ple and the public generally for the new National they have given us. SENT THEM A BIG CAKE. Friends of the Clevelands Remember Them on Wedding Anniversary. Princeton, N. J., June 3. The twenty-second wedding anniversary of former President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland was quietly celebrated at their home here. A large wedding cake bearing the inscription "To G. C. and T. F. C. June 2, 1908" was pre sented to the Clevelands by Prince ton friends. Mr. Cleveland is reported to be doing very well though he has not at yet taken his accustomed afternoon drive about Princeton. PLATT SUED AGAIN. This Time for an Old Bill of His Last Wife's. New Tork, June 3: A suit has been brought in the supreme court against United States Senator Thomas C. Piatt by a law firm to recover $2, 471, which the plaintiff claimed it had paid for debts contracted by Mrs. Lil lian Janeway Piatt shortly before her separation agreement with Senator Piatt was executed in 1906. The plaintiff alleges that Piatt was to pay all the bills Incurred by his wife prior to their separation. Weather Indications. Chicago, June 3. Forecast for Kan sas: Showers and thunderstorms to night. Warmer Thursday. 2,000,000 WORDS The Testimony Taken in the J CJ. oianuara OH Hearing. Will Form largest Mass Erer Mown In One Case. ONE MILLION MORE. Will Be Added Before the End Is Beached. Judges Adams, Sandborn and hook Must Bead It AH. New VnrV T 000.000 worrt. t.v -ouuiuujr nave Deen suu to 6ad,y ,n the government's ult to dissolve the Standard Oil com pany, now. on trial K. u, speciu Examiner Franklin Ferries. Before ll T T close "other million VT ""Ulleea will be added. said to be the largest mass or testimony evar rtv- case for the perusal of a court, for not only will the record contain In excess of three million words of testi- m,yLbUt BeVeraJ thousand pagea of exhibits. The number of words In cluded In these exhibits will add still another million words to the record. to be the largest contract wt ,kInd that a triumvirate of w.f.? il48 ev?r been lea upon to wade through. The three federal lUdffM Whi will V i io reaa tne evi dence are Adams, Sanborn and Hook. NEW SUIT STARTING. With Possibility of Fines Aggregating 900,UUU,UUU. Washington .Tuna TS f ciuuiies are to he imposed upon the Standard Oil Sn.ii mke the 29 million u,. recent memory appear uuuer way Dy tne department of justice are carried out. nil"" fSe '"S made now In Chicaao bv rntTi r,, acting under direct order from Attor ney General Bonaparte, for the begin- v luKecuuons that may cost tne bis corporation 68 million dol lars if the maximum fine is imposed. JS. understood that the preliminary rk of ranging evidence is almost completed. The last fine was imposed on the strength of 1,462 cases of rebating The one contemplated will involve more than 3,400 counts. Of these 2,000 are accredited to shipments of tank cars .1 th Chicago, Burlington Quincy. The other cars passed over the Chicago Eastern Illinois,, a part of the Rock Island system. The department of jus tice decline to divulge the name of the judge before whom it will bring the suits. It is generally believed, however, that Judge Landis will be selected to officiate at the hearings, partly be cause of his disposition to punish se verely, but largely because of the in timate knowledge of the subject gained at the previous trial. If he is disposed to be lenient Judge Landis can let the corporation oft with a fine of $3,400,000, the minimum amount that can be as sessed in case of a conviction on all the counts. BRYAH OH THE FIRST. Willis J. Abbott Is Satisfied and Closes His Office. Washington, June 3. In closing his office In Washington yesterday Willis J. Abbott, who has had charge of a publicity bureau devoted to booming Bryan for president. Issued this state ment: "There are now left fifteen states which are yet to hold either conven tions or direct primary votes for dele gates to the Denver convention. I am not much given to prophesying, but I hazard the guess that of these fifteen states, Idaho, Louisiana, Utah, Arkansas, Montana, Kentucky, Colo rado, Oregon, Tennessee, North Caro lina, Vermont and Georgia will send delegations either Instructed or friend ly to Mr. Bryan. I confess to being puzzled about Florida. As nearly as I can find out all the delegates chosen there are Bryan delegates, but certain irregularities compel new primaries. At the same time the new primaries will give no new result. The eighteen votes of Louisiana, which four months ago were regarded aa anti-Bryan, are now assured to him. In fact, the votes of the states which are yet to act will, with scarcely an exception. oe tsryan votes. "Already Mr. Bryan has 653 absol utely Instructed votes. Of the votes not Instructed he has not less than forthy-three friendly delegates. Bet out of the states which yet are to hold their conventions there is scarcely one that is not to be safely regarded as sure to send a Bryan delegation. The practice of the opposition to Mr. Bry an of claiming every uninstructed delegation as an anti-Bryan delega tion is obviously foolish. There are many uninstructed delegations which will vote for the Nebraskan on the first and 'on the following ballots. The tactics of the gentlemen who have been pressing Governor Johnson's campaign have been to make him rather a mere engine for the destruc tion of Bryan than a serious candi date himself. This has seriously hurt him. "In winding up the work of the Washington bureau, which I have con ducted for eighteen months, I may say that I feel that the nomination of Mr. Bryan on the first ballot is assur ed, and that the chief effect of the bitter fight which has been made upon him by certain agencies has been to rally his friends more closely about him to make his nomination assured and to give him even a stronger fol lowing in the campaign than he ever before has possessed." Dr. Sulzbacher Weds. Kansas City, Mo., June 8. Miss Gertrude Rothgiesser of Kansas City and Dr. B. L. Sulzbacher. son of Judge Louis Sulzbacher, former associate Jus tice of the supreme court of Porto Rico and later a federal judge In the Indian Territory, were united in marriage hera today.- Tbey will take a trip wast.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY gTATE JOURITAL T7EDIfrCDAY CVENIITCr, JUNE 3, 1SC3. 4 T0PER1 ST11E JOURML. By FRANK P. 1IAO UEHKA1C. Entered July t liTa, as sacond-clast matter at the postofttoe at Tep. ltaa imger the act or congress-i VOLUME XXXV No. 113 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Tope- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 centTa wwk to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or at the same price In yjn as towns where the paper baa carrier ayatsm. at) By mail, en year M By maU. three molrlhs........"" iM Saturday aditlon of dally, on year... Business Oflflca Ind Vft Business Office Bell 7T Reporters' Room jjod ft Reporters' Room ""Trid. 709 IW.If 1 T m PERMANENT HOMSL Topeka Stat. Joul buUn?V" t KB Kansas avenue. r b'SjSnE Kew York Officei ?"??Vlrth arW Twenty-third street, iiager and Broadway. a,!ffilarpl Chicago Offloet Hartford bulMin suck, manager. i raj, leased wmj bS55kiw. OF THE ASSOCIATED PKJSg. The Stat. Journal VhTftfn Aiy Associated Press ad reoelTeaeiu .w publication In Topeka. Jonr- roe news is wtras for this sol pur- sal building over The verdict declaring Sam Wh" low not guilty of the murder of May Sapp. ts In accord with what seemed to be the general opinion In the premise. Word comes from Washington that the political experts there ar a now seeing a certain victory for Mr. Bryan at the Denver convention. Mf.WM I Has been seeing the same thing for the past few years. Tm a lady." said a Chicago woman to a man who had accosted, her in the street and then to wvthta conten tion of hers beyond peradventure she explained to the court that as an in cident to an assault she m"e on the "gentleman:" "I across the face when he .how. him self a cheep skate." The old soldier vote appears to M the great question of controversy in the campaign that is being waged for he Republican om,"at,n ernor. Both Mr. Leland and Mr. nlalm to have it.. Probably the real fact? of the matter arr that neither Candidate actually knows anything about how the old soldier vote is go ing. n Xot satisfied with not having dis covered the North pole and for which goal he hope, to make another try Lieutenant Peary has developed plans for the discovery of the South pole. He is going to allow besides himself to execute tatter. This borders on the height of generosity. There's n I" sort why he should enjoy all the hon ors of failure. It would be interesting to know the nature of the prayers with which Mr C W. Culp. mayor of Caldwell, opened the meetings of the council of that city, as was his wont, in view of the fact that he is now charged with mal feasance in office. Among the various accusations against him is one of hav ing taken coal belonging to me city. It frequently occurs that poverty stricken Individuals In the lowly sta tions of life are sent to Jail for tax ing coal that does not belong to them. There seems to be no more lucra tive business In the central west these davs than bank robbery. The ease with which a bank Is tapped Is rather remarkable, and it is more remark able that the robbers work with such apparent safety and get away so eas ily. Thera have been a dozen bank robberies in thia section of the coun try within the past month or ao and ejcee.pt In one instance the tnieves have suoeeeded in getting away with the easy money. The failure of peace officers to apprehend these criminals la treat encouragement for others to ply the nefarious trade. It's high time that steps of some sort are taken to put an and to this business. TJve and learn. Is the old and re- apectable adage, but It is doubtful if many persons thought they would live to aee the day when they would learn that persons can become Intoxicated by the too copious use of water Inter nally and externally and that this form of intoxication and intemperance is quite as dangerous as over indulgenea In aleohoL No less, ana aiso no more, an authority than Dr. L. D. Mason, vice president of the American Society for the Study of Inebriety, has pointed out this startling fact. It la almost needless to state that this gentleman's habitat is Chicago. That town is the meeca of all the new and original thought of the day which borders on the ridiculous. Great consternation prevails among those who look on the traditions of the United States senate as being of the hallowed order. It appears that the rulings of Vice President Fair banks on the procedures instituted by the astute Mr. Aldrich, and which put the spectacular filibuster of La Follette against the emergency cur rency bill on the shelf, broke down some of the traditions of the senate which have been maintained for a century. If they are to be followed as a precedent the free and inter minable debate that has been possible In the upper house of congress may be hindered. The people of the coun try generally will applaud this for they are tired and sick of the way debates have been carried on without end and to no purpose on many re cent occasions In the senate. Now that a start has been made In break ing down some of the traditions of the senate it would be a fine plan to continue the good work at the next opportunity and smash a few others. "TTKGLE JOB." NO. 4. (With apologies to no one; also, no ex tra charge.) When the nonpareil line was insert ed under the caption of "No. 3" "to this effect, "With apologies to the reader," there was no Intention of apologizing for any statement that had been made in any of the articles, quite the contrary. No fact in any one of the "Uncle Joe" series has been seriously questioned, so tar as is known, and if anything be disputed, this paper Is pretty well fortified with witnesses and documents to support the truth. The little line was Injected under the heading for the fear that many readers might think that the State Journal was running this "Un cle Joe" business Into the ground, that It might be getting tiresome. In which event the reader was asked to "skip If not interested." The writer thought each Cannon article would be the last, including the first one. The last article, printed June 1, has brought out so many replies to the effect that no apologies for it were necessary that, before dropping the subject, a few further data. In this first and only series of what might be termed "Half Hours With Great Statesmen," may be Interesting and. It Is hoped, readable; the more readable things one can get in, the better, for there are more readers who read readable things than there are the other kind. The State Journal desires to make it clear, even to the extent of what may appear to be unnecessary repetition, that it is not defending Joe Cannon, but it la not to be blamed for an ef fort, ,or attempt, to disillusionize its readers from some erroneous views they have certainly formed, through omission of facts or misrepresentation of facts of a man who was unani mously chosen by the honorable and respectable men whom the state of Kansas and the other states have sent to congress as their Republican rep- resentatlves. These men made Cannon speaker, these men made the rules, and these men rather than Cannon do appear to need some sort of a defense. There are in congress, it is confi dently stated, as many honorable men striving to do the right thing, work ing to know what is right and best to do, to the utmost of their ability and information, as there are the same number of honest men in other lines of public and private life. The truth is often burled and. must be dug up. That means you cannot always get correct impressions, form right conclusions, or do the right thing If you look, work and get over the sur face only. Why should the young men of this country, and the young women too, be told, through the newspapers and from the platform, distorted and un just things about the men we elevate to office? These men must have merit, or they would not have been mentioned for the high places to which they have been elevated by those given the great responsibility of selecting leaders and executives. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is often said to be next In power to the President. Have Congressmen Anthony and Scott and Campbell and Miller and Calderhead and Reader and Murdock and Madison all honorable men and all voting to make Cannon Speaker- done the contemptible thing of stultifying themselves, and the peo pie whom they represent, by placing the kind of a man in the Speaker's chair whom many have been led to believe is presiding over the destinies of Congress, and that by a vote of acclamation after he had served one term in the 'same office? We don't believe It. It has happened by accident, of course, that there is just now run ning, contemporaneously with these sketches in the State Journal, two articles about the same subject in a weekly, which calls itself a National Weekly, by name Collier's. The writer by name is William Hard, who is ap propriately named, for a more brutal. cold-blooded, picture presentation of prominent statesman has hardly ever before appeared in print, and yet Collier's does some good things. This paper can give it credit for that whether Collier's gives Cannon credit for anything good or not; but soma authorities quoted in the Collier's articles of the current issue and the preceding issue, taken together, are from similar authorities which called Lincoln an ape. Grant a murderer and, within six months, Roosevelt a Robeapierre. We of the west who love Roosevelt and his methods and ways, his con stant reiteration urging individual In dustry, family purity and corporate. as well as personal, obedience to the law, always advocating a fair show for the worker and the poor man, but never neglecting to advocate the same square deal for the capitalist ana the corporation, always modifying his strictures of the predatory rich or tne preying poor, with the statement that both have equal rights before the law and should have them before tne pub lie; we or the prairies who see these things In the President, admire them and with him stand for them, fint it difficult to realize the abuse that Is poured upon the head of Roosevelt by certain reputed respectable ele ments in the east; but the truth of the matter is Roosevelt has been more roundly censured In the east bv cer tain powerful classes than Joe Cannon nas been in the west. The writer knows these things, nas heard these things and his ire was aroused more than once during recent uays spent in New York City. The abuse is not uttered by person aione. out appears In paper. One great paper, which prides Itself with luiiu. jh me news mat's nt to print." and is a newspaper which Is greatly admired by this writer for its general high character and general standard upon things whieh are rla-ht has printed things about Roosevelt which were not fit to print, because they were not true and were outrag eous. One of these articles appeared in that paper while the writer was in New Tork. He read It there. We of Kansas, with present prosperi ty and bright prospects about us, do not appreciate the fact that In New Tork those unable to secure work are leaving the country, that outbound ships are laden with laborers, for tunately with foreigners, returning to their native lands and probably for the best for our own people; it is hard for j us to realize in this state of plenty that there are Bread Lines In eastern cities and that while we of Topeka are rais- j ing money for pipe-Organs and band i concerts, better buildings, better pave-j ments, better lights, better comforts, that in certain eastern cities the mer- j chants are raising funds to buy bread; to keep their fellow citizens from starr ing. The writer will name the towns, on application. But fewer loaves of bread are now bought, fewer Idle men are without employment, fewer are leaving In ships, more shops are taking on employes, and business Is Improv ing the country over. It is hard to re alize in the capital city of Kansas, where the newspapers are prosperous and the merchants are advertising heavier than ever before, that In New York City the principal dailies have suffered a loss of revenue of ten thou sand dollars per week, or that one western dally, many miles east of us, suffered a loss In March of six thou sand dollars in advertising over the same month in the previous year; there are a hundred Idle atereotypers In Gotham and a dearth of places presum ably in other lines to a similar extent, but the times are improving marvel ously right now. Roosevelt, years ago, saw railway in iquities, insurance outrages, corpora tion disgraces, and set about to raise higher standards of personal and busi ness life, and in railway, insurance and industrial combinations; he sought to put new foundations under shaky structures and succeeded wonderfully in doing this sort of thing, replacing rebates with fixed tariffs for all, fair competition instead of discrimination, fewer hours and fairer wages for labor, with still fair profits and returns for capital. Extravagance and wild specu lation were checked. The President could not do every thing. Many of the methods of trans portation, of construction, of produc tion, of distribution and consumption were so rotten that those within the houses pulled the structures down upon themselves; that is to say, parts of the structures, small parts fortunate ly. For Roosevelt and the thousands of people lined up with him and with his methods, were unable to accom plish, in time to avert a disaster, that which was as certain as fate, and could only be mitigated, even by the best and most powerful Influences for good and for the welfare of all with the least harm to the innocent. The State Journal has been trying to give its readers a view of a side of Speaker Cannon which has been neglected, and which has been turned from them. The idea has been that readers should have all the facts ob tainable to enable them to form proper and Just estimate of men in the public eye and who are doing the public's work. Cannon Is a great fac tor In that work and Is conspicuous; not a mote, but a beam, in the eyes of some. It is right that the public should know more of the good than has always been ladeled out to them by persons and papers who are serv ing the public Its daily food for thought, and for education toward correct ideas of conduct and careers. The public ought to know all there is to be known about Cannon and such men as he, who are holding of fice, or running for office, in their country's behalf and also in behalf of their own personal ambitions. No newspaper can be fair to its readers and give only one side, or to magnify the good In the candidates of Its own preference, or misrepresent, by exaggeration or untruths, the weak nesses of the candidate of another party, paper or cause. A newspaper is a mirror into which people look for reflections of the actual people and read things which are In passing events. If the mirror is clouded, or warped or dull, the reader cannot get what he is looking for or what he thinks he is paying for. No man or newspaper has monopoly of the best principles and conduct; none Is merely the exponent of all that Is good, and few are as the mere avant courier on a road to perdition for the people. In his heart Cannon must surely be anxious for the welfare of his people and his party; otherwise the representatives who voluntarily made him their alleged "czar" and, by rules of their own drawing, certainly made a hor rible mistake for which there is no excuse. It is said that Cannon is profane and takes an occasional glass. This writer has no personal knowledge on these points. He recalls In his read' ing, however, that when busybodles were telling Lincoln during the crucial times of the civil war that Grant was swilling whisky that Lin coin is said to have replied: wish I knew the brand of whisky Grant Is using, so that I might pre scribe some of It for some of the other generals." As to whisky and profanity, this paper believes that both are abomina tions and are unnecessary, except the former may be all right as a medicine and the latter may do occasionally, without sacrilege, for occasions instanced by the shameful manner in which certain Republican eengn men had "fouled their own nests by condemning Cannon to the people, be cause he would not recognize them, as they said, but when he sent word ne wouia recognise them, and was ready to recognize them, they piayed the rabbit and left him and his party in. the air; but with the knowledge In tne nanus of constituents from w: some of these representatives may ex pect to hear before the Ides or No vember. Must the more than seven Hundred votes and acta in the Interest of or for the welfare of the people who sent blm to congress be Ignored, waived aside and overlooked because Cannon; may have voted otherwise thirty-five times on matters of public policy and, measures. These thirty-five actions may have been mistakes, not neces sarily bad until they are explained,: possibly only questionable or errors of Judgment, but regarded as bad ty those whose hindsight proves better than did the foresight of those who had the matters before them for de-1 cision. Cannon, of course, was wrong on some of the positions he has taken during the past forty years up to date. There can be no doubt about that. He admits it himself. Other men were wrong. Other men have changed their views, with new light and new information.' Cannon is human like the rest of us, and he has a lot of virile manhood, despite his blemishes. While Uncle Joe has made mistakes, which his Infallible critics would not have made, of course, he bears the rep utation around Washington of being straightforward and honest to the core. He will not stand for crooked deals. When he appoints a committee involv ing important measures or appropria tions he is most careful about the com plexion of It and of the home reputa tions of the members he has in mind to select. We get this from unimpeach able sources. It is shameful that such a man should be abused as he has been. This paper In its limited field is glad to have had even its tardy per tinent Information on Joseph G. Can non's character and unique, pleasing, potent personality. Cyrus Leland, a prominent candidate for governor of our state, was against the new tax law, which is probably the best law the legislature of Kan sas ever passed, and which will bring In more revenues to the towns, the cities, the townships, the counties and the state than any other law ever enacted. Still, Mr. Leland is no dragon and he was no doubt Just as anxious to do the best he could by the state when he was in the legislature as were those who gave the law their undi vided support. It has been circulated, during this campaign, that Congressman Miller, of the Fourth district, was a "weak sis ter." Mr. Medill McCormlck, the prin cipal proprietor of "the Chicago Tribune, told this writer that Miller of Kansas, who was on the select committee of the oaDer and duId investigation, had given him the best cross-examination of any member on that committee and that by reason of Miller's pertinent questions he Mr. McCormlck was en abled to bring out some very telling facts of value to the newspaper side of the controversy. Now, Miller may Jack brilliancy, but one day last month 'When the 'Writer was at the Capitol, Miller made a red hot speech and the -house voted the way Miller talked. Miller may be a mollycoddle, but this writer happens to know that Miller engaged in a little verbal combat, a few weeks agor with the President, over a matter of a mil lion dollar claim against the govern ment and over which Miller, as chair man of the committee on claims, had much Influence, In fact controlled, to a large extent. The President thought the claim should be paid at once and he called Miller up on the White House carpet and, it Is understood, wanted to know why he did not act. Miller thought the claim should be postponed and that the government .would- save most of the million dollars and yet do Justice to the claimant, if the matter went over to the next session. Miller convinced the President, it Is said, that this was proper; and the claim went over. Now, the Emporia Gazette, edited by warm personal friend, William Allen White, whose office site is next to the- government building, which Miller secured for Emporia and for which he has just pulled through an additional appropriation of thirty thou sand dollars, is not asked to print this time, but It is at liberty to do so, with out credit, if it so desires, simply stat ing the facts and letting it go at that. The State Journal will supply the docu. ments if there Is any dispute. This much Is said about Miller, be cause Miller is said to be Cannon's man in Kansas. While Miller may be booming Cannon In this state, this pa per denies it Is doing any such thing. The writer told Mr. Cannon to his face that his paper was for Taft and that Kansas Republicans were for Taft, first, last and all the time; and this too before Taft had a sure thing of the nomination, which he now has. in this witness's opinion. Cannon smiled, of course, and the writer at terwards marveled at his own lmpu dence, but It brought out a state and personal pride and this pathetic sentiment from Speaker Cannon who was plainly touched and who said, "Nevertheless you can depend upon It that whether Kansas is for Taft or not, I am proud, very proud, of the fact that my own great state of Il linois has instructed Its delegates, of their own motion, to vote for Joe Can non at the Chicago convention." There was much gratuitous con demnation of Cannon, in New York, at the American newspaper publish ers' annual meeting In April, and ov er the country generally, because Can non had recently appointed what was called a "select committee on pulp and paper investigation." It was de clared by prominent newspaper men to be a subterfuge; what the papers said they wanted was the Stevens bill and wanted it passed quickly. It turned out, during the last hours rrf congress, that the Stevens bill could not have done just what the president and the publishers thought it would do, because of a discovery, new to everybody In charge of the proposi tion and which was made only a short. time before congrs adjourned. Ttaim Is another story and will not be told here. Suffice It to say, that this se lect committee, appointed by Cannon, has done one of the greatest works for the publishers of this country, that has ever been done for them. The mass of valuable information, sworn to, that has been secured covering the production, distribution and con Sumption of print .paper is marvelous and of untold value to the daily news papers or the United States. The com plete report should be In the working library of every newspaper In this country. The investigations bv thia commit tee will result In the reduction In price of paper to publishers, Stevens bill or no Stevens bill. There is no publisher in this country who could not toaay make a lower contract tar his raw material than he could before this committee was appointed. But this is part of the story which mv Come later in these columns. so, newspaper gentleman, whatever you do, do not condemn "Uncle1 Joe" for his course in Appointing and se lecting tne paper and pulp commit tee, at whose head is Honorable Jas. R. Mann, of Chicago, and which com mittee has decided to continue Its valuable "and interesting sessions through the entire summer, in the interests of the newspapers of the Country, as well as the fair and prop er consideration of the great business of the paper makers whose customers like themselves have not always been as fair as they should have been but who have come already to a better understanding through Cannon's committee. It might be stated, in closing, that these rour articles, each headed "Un cle Joe," have been hurriedly written or dictated, each one of them on the same day on which each has appeared In print. The first three were each written after 11 o'clock, appearing In the papers at the supper tables of the Topeka readers the same evening. It is natural that they should be crude and possibly contain slips of the tongue that a more deliberate and careful pre paration would have modified, but on the whole it is believed that no sin gle statement has been made that is not true, and that cannot be sub stantiated by creditable witnesses or documents beyond dispute. This is the last of the articles, un less some statement given as a fact is disputed, when an 'answer may be forthcoming in these columns and the proof furnished. It might be stated that telegrams, letters and replies have been received from many most creditable citizens, many in high standing, thanking the writer for the truth ;that has been told. That alone Is far greater reward than was expected for the little time devoted to the preparation of the Uncle Joe" series, each written mere ly from memory, without a note for reference and covering incidents of a few days when the writer had merely gone over to Washington from a bus! ness trip to New York for a little vacation for his family and himself, not out for blood or business. The demand for the back numbers containing the other three "Uncle Joe" articles has been such that the supply Is not now equal to It. It may be nec essary to get out what might be called an "Uncle Joe" special edition of the State Journal containing them all. If this be done it will not be through a regular Issue of the paper, nor go to regular subscribers, but will be made up merely from the stereotyped pages containing the articles, the matrices for which pages have all been saved, just as every newspaper saves its mats or molds of all its pages for a limited length of time. F. P. M FINIS. JOURNAL ENTRIES A poor man is blessed in one way at least. He cannot afford to be ec centric. Some people have wonderful Imagi nations because they think they can write poetry. The pretty girl does not need to go In for palmistry just for the sake of getting a chance to hold hands. It's remarkable how the artists of the impressionistic school know when they have a picture finished. To the romantically inclined, this conservation of the forests means much. There will be plenty of trees for them to carve their initials on. JA YHA WKER JOTS Dodge City looks with equanimity on the large appropriations of congress. She secures a weather building In the batoh. According to the date line of a recent number-of the Cawker City Ledger It was issued on May 51. This Is consid erably later in the month than usual. An Anthony bank gets up an attrac tive bank "ad" under the head of "The Impending Money Crop." Needless to say it will follow Immediately after the Impending immense wheat crop. Lightning played a peculiar trick at Mlltonvaie If a correspondent from that town can be given credence. It passed through tne root or me uwn home; Into the bed room where Mr. and Mrs. Owens were sleeping; jerked the pillow from under their heads; took the money out of the pocketbopk under the pillow, and then killed some chickens In the cellar. Ray Stone of Caney, who was sent to the state penitentiary to serve an indeterminate sentence of from one to v.,r has been released after serving two years. He did not spend a single night In the penitentiary having been detailed to watch the cattle on the farm run In connection with the prison. Answer to correspondent: The rea son Atchison Papers neversend a so ciety reporter around to write up the costumes the young ladles wear to par- i- whn a nartv is given, ana Susan Jane attends, everyone knows a... lane will wear. It will be jm- iS has worn all summer, and will, wear, made over, next sum- mr. Atohlson. Koe. THE EVENING STORY A Proxy Fktfaer-in-XAw. IBy C. B. Lewls.l i It' was reported of the Hon. John Sharps that he had but two fads, where other schemers and speculators an owners of railroad lines had a dozen. One of his fads was the P. and Q. railroad. In which he owned a con trolling interest. He knew every foot of its roadbed and kept himself posted on all details. His other fad was that his daughter Edith, having finished her school days, should Interest herself In the P. and G. even as he had. If she had been .cut out for an old maid or a business wo man she might have obeyed orders literally, but as it was she had .to as sume an interest she did not reel. The Hon. John lived In Chicago, and his pet line was farther west. When tired of making money and fighting other lines on the stock exchange or by some sly coup, he would order the general superintendent or other offi cial into Chicago to report details and plan improvements. if it wasn't the general superin tendent then it was one off a division. or a civil engineer and bridae builder. He had them at his house that his daughter might hear and secure ex perience. and when they had departed he would go over the matter again with ner to make sure that she understood, When the civil ens-lneer engaged in building the bridge over Centipede creek was called in, he and Miss Edith met. The Hon. John was in high feath er that day. He had secured a mall contract over a rival line, and had been told that the bridge could be built for 125,000 less than the estimated expense. He stretched his courtesy to invite the engineer to dinner, and -to. ask Miss Edith to play the piano afterward. Then two or three things happened that he didn't take cognizance of, al though he was rated a keen and obser vant man. From that night Miss Edith began to take more interest in railroad mat ters, especially in the department of bridge building, and Mr. Havens, the engineer, sent In reports that seemed to necessitate his visiting Chicago much oftener than before. As punctually as the clock, the Hon John Sharpe took a trip over his line in his own private car every three months. Miss Edith had accompanied him twice before her sudden great m terest had come to -the surface, and her enthusiasm over the third ap proaching trip so pleased him that he patted her golden hair and feelingly observed: "You are your own father's daugh ter after all. You will come back bet ter posted on the railroad business than anv other clrl In America." "It must take a very brainy man to construct such a bridge as I have heard you and Mr. Havens talking .bout?" she demurely suggested. "It does, my dear a very brainy man." "And one pretty certain to rise In the world?" "TTm. Y-e-s." The Hon. John had risen In the -nrnriri anil he took care to let the world know It. But he was rather opposed to any one else rising, especially any hnrtTr pmnlnvfd on the P. O. road. "Yea. Mr. Havens may rise In his nrnfeaaion." he reluctantly admitted, "but you must remember the social gulf 'now existing between us. I.- or you and I, are the owners of the P. G. road. Mr. tiavens is an employe. Ten days previous to the start on the third trip the Hon. John discover ed cnnifthltir that threw him into a fervid flutter. It was hot that his daughter in her enthusiasm to learn more about railroad bridge building was writing to the engineer for further information about tne cantilever pnn ni nr that he in reply was tellini ohniit the tensile strength of steel and the strain put upon it under certain conditions. It was that a feeder to his line was about to pass Into other hands unless he could secure enougn proxies to pre this nt the election to be held in Denver. He took off his coat and started in, and he came home one night with beaming race to say to tne uuu

-iuv aHrl. alwavs remember that the first principle of railroading is to n n get possession oi "But if you can't get enough of the stock?" she asaea. "Then get the proxies. Buy, borrow or beg, but get them. It is with proxies that I shall get control of the M. W. I need only a tnousana mure ura, and they are in Denver waiting for mThe Hon. John was rubbing his hands when his car left Chicago. He enjoyed coups, and he was on his way to make one. He felt Just a little sympathy for the already routed enemy. Defeat would come with a dull thud, whereas he rather preferred something of a bat tle first. "Proxies, my dear," he said to his daughter as he took a bundle of them from his pocket and thumbed them over "proxies are the powder and ball to desolate the ranks of the enemy. Blessed be proxies!" At Santa ire ousiness uemuwu half a day. He had scarcely .ien u car when Mr. nvcu pearance and was received with a smile and a blush. The talk between him and Miss Edith began about the bridge over the Centipede, but gradually came down to less scientific and more interesting things. s He referred to a mm. sno u him in her last letter, uu n.u.c that he had acted on it, and he sollc ited her permission to ask her father a certain momentous question berore ?he day had expired. That afternoon when the train had pulled out Miss Edith fluttered around for a bit and then timidly asked: "Father, what will happen If you fail to get that thousand proxies you

are cuunv,.. TVhT why. I'd be knocked Into a cocked'hat. daughter. But I can t rai. T know 3USt wnr a wire at the next stop. I am to see you so interested In the maner Proxies are the powder fd was stamping up and down the car and roaring at the top of his voice. He had received the unexpected wire and had been informed that the party VeWhenChe had got through smashing the English language he at down hard and wiped his forehead and looked at the young lady with despairing eyes. Fatherri doS't think we are beat en yet," she said in reply. "But we are. daughter. Those prox ies are certainly in the hands of that infernal M. W gang and they have got me tight. To think that I left It in the hands of Chilvers to betray me! Why, I deserve to be sent to an Idiot asylum!" .Ui.-- -But the game may not belost after an. fou know you been "Ting to make a railroad woman Of me for year past." "But that miserable Chilvers sold out this stock on me!" shouted the father as he brought his fist down with a great bang. "es. dear, out mat's a pan oi l" railroad business. If Chilvers sold hia stock some one bought it, and some one has the right to vote it m lu" meeting tomorrow." "But the M. W. gang have got it, of course." "Perhaps. It's a part or the rail road business to find out. You didn't want me to stop at grades, sidetracks, switches and bridge building, did you 7 My dear father, remember that the first principle of railroading Is to get Dosseasion of the road: the next to keep track of stock and proxies." "Girl, you know something,' he sal after a long look into her face. "Well, suppose the M. and W. gang didn't get that stock?" He gasped for breath and turned pale. "Suppose that a gentleman Interest ed in the road got it?" The honorable John sat witn turn majith open. "Suppose that a gentleman real nice gentleman a gentleman Inter ested in in you. got tne stock witn the idea of helping us out?" 'By thunder, but I d break ms rips hugging him! Out with It, girl. Don't keep your old dad on the hooks this way." "Well, then, Mr. Havens is in the Pullman ahead. He had to come up to Santa Fe, to hurry the last of the bridge stuff down. As ne Knew now much you wanted control of that feed er, and as he knew how interested I was in the railroad business, he he But the honorable John had sent the porter for Mr. Havens, and Edith skipped away to her stateroom. An nour later tnere was a Knoex on ner door. 4 "Say. young lady, you think you're smart, don't you?" said the father as she appeared. I m your daughter, you know. "Um! Y-e-s! Well. I've told Hav ens that that bridge over the Centi pede has got to be finished before there is any rurtner nonsense. Alter that he will be superintendent of the P. and G., and if you learn any more about the railroad business It will be from him. You are a little too apt for me." (Copyrighted 1908 by As sociated Literary Press). I1VM0R OF THE DAY 'What is H you like best about us girls T" asked the sweet young thing. My arms, answered tne youtn. uos ton Transcript. Mother You must not try to monopolise all the conversation, Ethel. Ethel Must I wait -till rm married. mamma? Yonkers Statesman. "Don't you ever get seasick?" asked the pretty Oallfornlan of the sailor. "Only when rm ashore, miss," replied the tar. Philadelphia Ledger. "Little Willie-Say, pa, is fighting prohi bited by law In all the states? Pa I believe so, my son except in the matrimonial state. Chicago News. First Court Jester I fall to see what the King means. He pays about forty ministers, and they do absolutely nothing. Second Court Jester Ah! "The Idles of the King." The Circle. "So Jack's married a divorcee. Well, that's better than marrying a widow." f How dp you make that out?" '"Well, a widow Isn't likely to throw un to one the virtues of her former husband." Boston Transcript. "This man writes to ask a favor," de clared Herlock Sholmes, without opening the missive. "How can you tell?" demanded Woctor Dotson. "He addresses me aa "Honorable, an swered the great Herlock, tossing the mis sive aside. Louisville Courier-Journal. "I am looking forward to a state of so ciety," said the reformer, "in which every citizen will be happy and comfortable and unmolested by graft." "Of course," answered Mr. Slrlus Bar ker. "Everybody is. We all expect even tually to attain heaven." "Don't be unscrupulous, my boy." "I won't, dad." "That is, don't be unscrupulous in a small way." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Something should be done, I say." "Oh. let well enough alone." "Hello, old man. when did you come into money?" Kansas City Journal. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. Even the kicker must toe the "mark. The swindler Is out for the "good things" of life. The Summer Girl is beginning to sit up and take notice. The de&dly automobile is one thing in which to take a slay ride. Don't make a bluff bet with the ele vator boy. He will always take you up. When you ask a girl to fly with you, you should put the question with a rising inflection. No, Maude, dear: there is no sim ilarity between being on the water wagon and serving a milk route.' Blobbs "They say young Soadde g good for a million." Slobbe "In spite of which he is good for nothing." "There are sermons In stones," quot ed the Wise Guy. "Which explains why even the ministers are out for the rocks," added the Simple Mug. "I am between the devil and the deep sea," remarked the despondent man. "Well, I hope you're a good swimmer," said the comforting friend. He (at the ball game) "That man wearing the mask is the umpire." She "i don't wonder he wears a mask. If I were as homely as ne is I'd wear one too." Muggins "Mrs. Wigwag is a great church worker, isn't she?" Buggins "You bet she is. She worked me for $l worth of tickets for a strawberry festival." POINTED PARAGRAPHS. I From the Chicago News. Many a man who knows his place is unaDie 10 Keep 11. Often a man's wife is visible means of support. his only Many a man attempts to stand up for his friends by lying. Little drops of .water make big dollars for the umbrella man. Do people who kill time expect the dead past to bury the dead? There would be less trouble If no body ever gave anybody advice. When a girl wants a man to kiss her she doesn't want him to think she does. Dare to do right and you will soon have a reputation for being poor but honest. After a woman has been married a few days she begins to think how much better she could have done Sometimes a man can tell what em"..m.an' b? at she doesn't if

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r 1 SKjarsen there never was a full-back like him -six feet six, weighed two-twenty in his Adam clothes, built like a bull and a pile-driver and a thifteen-inch projectile and an automobile all merged into one harmonious whole. You saw his picture in the papers, of course that one with his hair down over his nose-guard, and his ear pulled down over his shoulder. With Ole at full-back, Siwash College had beaten six State Universities by an average of seven touch downs, two goal-kicks, a rib, three jawbones, and four new kinds of yells. But Ole StrucK ent play futball des year. J ban strike." And there follows the most hilariously engaging college story you ever read The Birf StriKe at Siwash. Be sure to read it, in this week's SATUR DAY Evening Post, and get acquainted with the membersof the AlfalfaDelts, the Sigh Whoopsilons, and the Eta Pies, not to men tion Bost, the coach, who put in a ash register and rang up touch-downs on the side lines. At the Newt-studs, 5 cents. $1.30 the year by mail. The Cuktis Publishing) Company philadelphia Omr Boys Are Everywhere Mors boys wanted to act at agents, apply to LOUIS R. SMITH 627 Van Buren Street, Topeka, Kan. Chicago and Return $15.85 The gay scenes of a large city, the glare, glitter and sparine of the theater, the crowds at tne rash-' ionable restraurants. Vanity Fair's daily exhibit on the boule vards, the cool lake with Its pos sibilities for recreation are as alluring- In fact as in contempla tion. This is true of Chicago, particularly this June, because then the Republican National Convention will be held. Tickets on sale June 12-16 inclusive and on June 17 for trains reaching Chica go that date. Final limit June 30, the last day on which you may leave Chicago. Stopovers at and west of Missouri River points within going transit limit and final return limit. Tickets with longer limits at slightly higher rates, on sale daily. Ask for "The Lakes and East" and Republican folder. T. L. KING, City Passenger Agent, Topeka, Kansas All the Way Baked Beans Better than canned ones. Only ten cents per quart. Pretty hot to bake them at home. Ideal Bakery The Place That's Different Heil Schaefer, Props. Phone 190 121 W. 6th I 1 I I tin. I I I I l Our Monthly Payment Plan Will enable you to own your borne. Money borrowed la repay able In monthy payments, same as rent. These payments in clude Interest. Tou provide for these pay ments as you now provide for your rent, and in a few years your home is your own. TbeCapitol Building Loan, Issn M Kanaaa Ave. jt II II II I J M M 1 11111 Ml iJ TAG-YOU'RE IT. Next Saturday the Big: Day in Topeka. Prorident Association Girls Will Be Abroad. THEY NEED THE MONEY So Be Ready When Tag Is Pinned On. Fifty Stations Hare Been Es tablished in the City. According to an edict issued Toy Ihe Topeka Provident association Satur day, June 6, is Tag day in Topeka, and the action has been ratified by the Commercial club and every resident of the city in whose veins a drop of charitable blood flows, has given a hearty amen to the decree. Tag day is an innovation as far as this city Is concerned but it is the moae usea in raising funds for similar causes in many large cities and' has proven wonderfully successful. In Philadelphia $5,000 was raised In a single day In this way for sweet charity. The citizens of Lincoln, Neb donated $3,300. Atlanta, Ga., citizens enriched the treasury or me rrovi dent association of that city $4.ogo through this plan and Louisville, Ky citizens did as well. The cause is a worthy one and there is no doubt that the citizens of To peka will do as well proportionately. Every cent of the money received in this way will be given to charity undei the Hirpctinna of a board of managers which has demonstrated its ability to handle the affairs of the association in a business like manner. The Topeka Provident association is an Institution which has done much good for suffering humanity since Its organization less than four years ago. ruirin. thK nnat seven months the association has furnished beds and meals to the number or isu 10 me needy who have applied for assistance at the Provident building at the corner of Jackson and Fourth streets. Tiirin- th nast tear 2346 garments have been distributed to the poor of the city; 826 visits have Deen maae r ttm hnmes of the destitute; forty- two patients have been cared for by visiting nurses who have given of their time in the name of cnarlty; seventy-five boys have been enrolled in the boys' club and 103 girls were enrolled as members of the cooking and sewing classes. One of the new features which has been established at the Provident as sociation Is a laundry with facilities for washing and ironing Inside of the building. This provides a means y ahlrh washerwomen of the city who are encumbered with small children mav do family wasmngs ana earn a livelihood. The association furnishes water, and gas at half the actual cost to these women who bring family washings to, the Provjden,r association building. If they have small children they are taken care of in the nursery depart ment while the mothers work in the laundry. This department has pro vided means by which many worthy women have been able to become sell sustaining and support their families. The records of the institution shows that 600 washings and 476 ironings have been done since this department was installed a few months ago. The Tag day campaign as planned has a number of unique features but promises to get the money needed by the Provident association to carry on its work. The association has no en dowment fund and the expenses of the Institution must he met by donations made by charitable friends and this is no small matter. It costs $3,500 an nually to conduct the affairs of the as sociation and at the present time there is a deficit of over $1,000. Next Saturday morning fifty tag stations will be established in Topeka, most of them on Kansas avenue, and In charge of Topeka matrons, who will direct the work of the station to which they are assigned. The plans contem plated will locate three tag stations in each block on Kansas avenue and others will be scattered about the city. It will be next to Impossible to move about the city on that day and miss the tag stations and it will not be worth while to try. Working under the directions of the matrons in charge of the Tag stations will be three or four young ladles to each sta tion and the guess is that they will be harder to avoid than the stations themselves. The wandering pedestrian will see a bevy of pretty girls bearing down on him, for they are all hand some specimens of Kansas woman hood. There will be no use to dodge or try to get away for no one will be injured and all that it will cost will be the donation that the captive feels able to give. This will entitle the victim to release and a red tag which should be displayed in a conspicuous place about the person. This red tag will guaran tee protection for the remainder of the day and costs only what the wear er cares to give. Remember, though, in making pay ment for the red tag that the proceeds are for sweet charity and that the com mittee of young ladies will not be per mitted to make change. Tou know that you feel that you have been In tending to do something for the Prov ident association for a long time and this will be an opportunity thrust up on you. The tags will be made ot red tag board and will all appear exactly alike and you will get just as Conspic uous a badge for a dollar as you will for a five or ten dollar bill, but your conscience will tell you whether you have given as much as you should. If after you have walked about for an hour or so you feel that you ha.ve cheated the Provident association and the poor of the city another red tag can be purchased and the pricking conscious relieved by another donation, are $1,690,577.98, leaving $21,965.- 957.48 for distribution to legatees. Appraiser Ore finds that there la $4,088,918 on which the one per cent transfer tax Is collected, and $17,652, 127.48 for the five per cent tax. The stat will receive $928,496.56. His wife, Annie Armstrong Smith, will re ceive tnree minion dollars.. HONOR THEIR HERO. The South Celebrates Anniversary- of Jeff Davis's Birthday. SILENT SMITH'S ESTATE. It Amounts to $21,965,957.48 AXter Ex penses Are' Paid. Vw Tfirfc Inn. Tva n.. n. Appraiser William P.. Gregg of Port nci via iao iitaua xues reyori 10 our rogate John B. Sweezey, on the estate of James Henry Smith, who at the time of his death, while in Japan on a tour around the world resided at Tuxedo Park, Orange county. The personal property Is valued at 12 1 -340.447.96, of which $12,016,035.60 1 In bonds. Debts, -and expenses of administration New Orleans. La., June 3. With appropriate exercises the people of tne south today celebrated the 100 an niversary of the birth of Jefferson Da vis. The day was observed aa whole, or partial holiday in Kentucky. Flori da, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee Texas. South Carolina, Louisiana and Virginia and varied be tween the entire cassation of business and the mere closing of the public schools. In Louisiana the day is a legal holi day. It was made memorable In New Orleans this year, by the dedication of the site here for the monument, which is to be erected to the memory of President Davis by people of the south. The exercises began at 11 o'clock and included addresses by prominent veterans- and patriotic songs by several thousand school children, each of whom wore a rose, the favorite flower of President Davis. The dedication was performed by the Audubon park commission, this park having been chosen as the site for the monument and Mrs. W. L. Behan, president of the Jefferson Davis mon ument association, made the formal acceptance. All of the schools, banks and ex changes of the city were closed In honor of the day. At His Birthplace. Hopkinevllle. Ky., June 3. At Fair- view, the birthplace of Jefferson .Davis, elaborate and largely attended exercises were held today in celebra tion of the 100th anniversary or th birth of the only president of the con federacy. A bountiful dinner was served on the grounds and several ad dresses were delivered in a Memorial church on the site of the log cabin in which Mr. Davis was born. Repre sentatives of the Jefferson Davis Mem orial association were present pre paring plans for the purchase of the old Davis homestead to be converted Into a confederate park similar to the Abraham Lincoln national park In Laura county. ARMED MEN IN BOATS. Are Cruising About the Streets of Hannibal, Mo. Hannibal, Mo., June. 8. -A patrol Of citizens has been organized for the protection of homes that have been temporarily vacated because of high water. Boats bearing armed citizens are cruising through the flooded bot tom, lands and it is the declared inten tion of the citizens to shoot down all persona found looting abandoned houses. The tracks of the Burlington road from Louisiana, Mo.,, northward almost to Hannibal, are under water, which extends for three miles on each side of the MississlDDl's bed. Persons living in the outskirts pri Clarksville, Louisiana and Elsberry, have moved to the bluns and live stock has been driven to high land. No casualties have been reported. Creeping Up the Levee. St. Louis, MA., June 3. -The Missis sippi river is slowly creeping up to the flood stage danger line of 80 feet, the gauge this forenoon measuring 28.8 feet. The water has encroached Upon the levee here until it Is within a few feet of the railroad tracks along the top of the levee. Considerable driftwood and debris is being carried by the city indicating the spread of the flood. Two feet of water is now in some or the cellars of houses fronting on the levee and the basement of the city harbor office which extends over the brow of the levee at the foot of Mar ket street is flooded three feet deep. Reports from points along the Mis souri river indicate that stream is ris ing rapidly. FIRE CHIEF HURT. Collision Causes Htm to Turn an In voluntary Somersault. Des Moines. Ia.. June 3. In a fire which partially destroyed the Adven tist church at the northeast corner of Twelfth and Des Moines streets at an early hour this morning. Fire Chief Burnett ana ms anver, w m.. van Horn, narrowly escaped death. The chief and his assistant were In jured In a collision with a wagon. They were driving at a ternnc pace ana tne impact caused the chief to turn an In voluntary somersault and light in the wagon box which figured in the col lision. He was knocked senseless and badly bruised about the head and face. Van Horn was only slightly Injured. Thirty or more patients confined in the Iowa sanitarium, which adjoins the church, were carried out of the building in the arms of citizens, police men and firemen to escape the volumes of smoke which poured into their apartments. Roosevelt's Old Friend to Wed. St. Louis. June 8. Geore-e Edward Hannon, of Denver, for thirty years a personal friend of President Roose velt, and Mrs. R. Isabel Lynds, a social leader and charity worker of this city, are to be married here tonight. Han non, who became acquainted with the president when the latter was "rough ing it" in the west, has often been a guest at the White House. PENNY POSTAGE, Bate of Two Cents an Dunce on letters Agreed Upon. Between the United States and 'r Great Britain. IN EFFECT OCTOBER 1. Present Bate Is Five Cents for the First Ounce. The Reduction Is Expected to Increase the Revenue. Washington. June 3. Postmaster General Meyer announced today that an agreement had been reached with the British government providing i or a letter postage of two cents an ounce between the United. States and Great Britain and Ireland to become opera tive October 1, 1908. .He stated further that the British postmaster general, Sydney Buxton, was making a like an nouncement to the house of commons today. The matter of a ''penny postage," as It is called in England has been under consideration for some time and as far back as last July, President Roosevelt approved Mr. Meyer's course in urg ing a "restricted union with- England." On October 1, 1907, the universal postal union, which governs the international postal transactions of the various civ-' ilized countries reduced the rate of letter postage from five cents a. half ounce flat, to five cents for the first ounce and three cents for each addi tional ounce, which is the present rate between the United States and Great Britain with which we have direct steamship communication and Is also the rate between the United States and countries with which we do not have direct steamship communication but to mall on which we have to pay ah additional charge to countries through which it passes in transit. Under the articles of the universal union,, how ever, ..any two states can form a re stricted union. Examples of restricted union are those now existing which permit a two cent an Ounce letter rate between the United States and Cuba, the United States and Panama, and the United States and Canada. Postmaster General Meyer believes that this reduction In the rate of post age to the United Kingdom ultimately will result In an increase in receipts because it has always been found that a reduction of the letter rate resulted finally In increasing the revenue. He is also of the opinion that a lower post age will lead to a freer commercial In tercourse. Manufacturers, he Bays are Increas ing their sales in England and must rely .to a great extent upon the mails for orders and increase of trade. "Further," he stated, "this will be a great boon to our adopted English speaking citizens and their connections there particularly those of limited means, as it will enable- 'them' to keep up correspondence 'with" their relations and' friends In the oW.-eountTy at do- mesne woes j -jj SUIT FOR $1,000,000. Has Been Filed Against (he United Oil Company. i Denver, June 3. With reference to the suit filed at Florence, Col., against the United Oil company's officers by Jacob Wallace, a stockholder. In which a receivership, and. 81,000,000 damages are sought, President Crawford Hill of the company said today: "I deny all the charges cited in the complaint and do not know any rea son why the suit should have been instituted. "The affairs of the United Oil com pany have been conducted to the best of my ability since I became its presi dent, eight years ago, after the death of my father, N. P. Hill. The majority of the stock of the United Oil company, is invested in my family and It would assuredly be Inconsistent, if I should wilfully mismanage Its affairs. -"The Standard Oil company buys our oil, as it had done for years, but out side of that we have no business agree ment with that company. I own a small block of stock in the Inland Oil and Refining company,, but I am not a director of that concern. All my in terests are centered in the United Oil company. The trial of th case will prove that it was niea unaer a mis apprehension." OX AN OVERHEAD. CROSSIXG. Biliousness I ban tiaad rmt vslatbl tuentt and and Ma Mrfoet. Couldn't do withont them. I bar bm1 iharn tow aoma im tor lndlgMtlOB nd bll- im.ani mam am now cohdivhit cdiwj, neconv auhd th.m to mmjon: One tried, tou MUX rover Dm wunoa. a ia vna isnii.- fiawm a. Marx. AiDany, X. Best For The Bowels j P!ean. Palatabla. Potant. Taat Onod. Do Good. H.Ter Sickea. Weaken or Gripe. lc, 83c, We. Neret old In bnlk. The genuine (ablet etamped COO. Saanataed to ear or year teener baoa. 8trliaRaattdyC,t Chicago or M.Y. oas A Man Killed by .the Elevated Kail- road in Kansas City, Kan. Kansas City, Kan., June 3. A man, supposed from paper which were found In the pockets of his clothing to be Harry Kauner. 40 years old. of 33 Osage avenue. Arrhourdale. was killed by an eastbouna jacuson avenue car at Sixth street and Reynolds avenue at 11:30 o'clock last night. The street car tracks at this place cross Reynolds avenue overhead. Virgil Chapman, tnotorman, who was running his car, noticed a man lying on the track. He stopped the car- as soon aa possible, but the front wheels nassed over the man. When the car crew and passengers had reached him he was dead. RETURN OF CONFIDENCE. Seen on the Hotel Registers In New York CMy. New Tork, June' 8. Signs of re turning confidence1 are to be seen on the hotel registers all over the city, for the buyers from out-of town firms have been flocking in of late, seem ingly on every train. A remarkable instance of this is at one hotel, where from a single St. Louis dry goods house twenty buyers are staying. In former years fifteen buyers from the larger houses in the west were usually the limit to be seen here at one time and in a presidential year the number was much less,-as a rule.. Kaiisan Buys a Big Ranch. ''Kansas City, Mo., June t. A sale of 24,620 acres- of ranch land -owned by the Union Pacific -.along the right of way of that railroad company and sit uated two miles north of .North Platte, Lincoln county, Neb., was consumma ted here today by X. G. Brownson, rep resenting a land agency with offices In Kansas City,, that is allied with the Union Pacific. The land was purchas ed by John W. Baughman, of Plains, Kan.: one Of the largest landholders rn Ihi pajrt of th country -nd-K twill be transformed into a ranch. Railroad Fare Refunded to Out-of-Town Patrons 4 Trunk, Suit Caies We got a fine lot of Trunks made of genuine .Bass-wood; reinforced and guaranteed; $10.00 Values Our 70 Genuine eow'hid'e leather Suit Cases; strapped, solid steel frames; tt-lnah e ,-4&fi0 value Our Great Mid-Season Demonstration Sale Surprise the Public! Its a sale of good reliable mer chandise, nothing else; proving again beyond the possibil ity of a doubt that Good Buying and Good Low Price Sell ing is bound to attract those who are looking for some-thingout-of-the-ordinary in way of real Clothes Bargains. come this week when all our departments will present the greatest combination o! real bargains this or any other store has ever attempted. One of the most strikine features of the sale is our grand sweeping offer of 650 Hart Sohaffner A Marx $18, $20 and $22.50 suit values, outing and regular styles; beautifully tailored by hand and draped with artistio tTC taste, including every size made for man's wear, at the flat price now of. ...pl3 our great $20 svit oiler (including many superb $25 and $30 valves ia lancy svits, the gems of such well known makers as the Alfred Benjamin Co., and Hart Sohaffner ,;;,Marx) .ought to be proof enough for any Doubting Thomas that our sale is real, earnest ;s nd that. 7our sole object is to save you money; all newest designs, finest fabrics. fTlA price now a pLX it you can use a fine black suitwhy not buy now? Finest o! thibets &n4 unfinished worsteds, single and double breastad; sizes S3 to 44; Venetian or serge lining, beauti- T 1 1? fully hand tailored, $20 and $25 values, in this sale at .7T.... JIJ a grand lot o! men's 2-piece suits in blue serges and gray tropical worsteds, splendid ly tailored, worth $10.00 and $12.50 of any man's money. The Palace offers fn pa these while they last at....".:.....,..... .tPf tJv stylish pure worsted trousers. Many are odd suit trousers, made by Hart Schall- c9t ner Marx, $5 and $6 values, our price while they last Is;.. .....................aPTK' $1.50 Reading hairline cassimere trousers, the genuine darK firays, $2.50 values. a,u sizes wiiiie mey iasc. .vv. ,;vs... M. Demonstration Sale Panama Hats Columbian and Equador Pana ma Hats tele scope and Opti mo shapes $7.50 values oar sale price is. .$5.00 Equador Panamas, in 3 shapes"--nobby S5.00 values C A Sale price....... mOm-fU Demonstration Sale $1.50 W 95c You never saw such values at so low a price, pl'aited or plain, coat or regu lar style; madras, percale, chambraye, Penancs Prunnh eordfl.- nuffa B.ffn.rVar1 M eonai.. ete'-beautiful designs ftC, BLftfJ Demonstration Sale Stetson Shoes A special value2sale of the high grade Stetson Shoes in tans, plain and pat ent leathers nob biest lasts, $5.60 to $8 values now $5.00- CLEAIIII1G UP AT HOME. Bryan on the Iast Day of His Tour of Nebraska. North Platte, Neb., Junej-3. Wil liam Bryan began the. last flay of his Nebraska tour at North Platte, where he arrived at 7:30 this morn ing. He was hurried to the opera house here, where he epoke ror an hour directirit his remarks par ticularly ""'the railways; North Platte Is a" railroad town and Mr. Bryan's audience was made up large ly of that class of men. He con gratulated "them on their efforts to build up a raUroad T. M. C, A. in their town and covered the relation between railroad officials and their employes. "I don't believe railroad managers have a right to threaten a reduction in wages of employes," he said, "in order to coerce them into the cir culation of petitions to prevent the enactment of legislation affecting rail road interests. I have been surprised that in considering such petitions I have been unable 'to learn of an in stance where the officials have sug gested a -reduction of their own salaries as- well -as those of the ordi nary employe.. -I-have often thought there would be' no occasion for even a threat to reduce the wages of an employe if payment of dividends might be withheld from every form of watered stock." MOKY FOR ALASKA ROADS. The Commission Has Allotted $308, 000 for Improvements. Seattle, Wash., June 3. The Alaska road commission composed of army officers which has been in session for several days in this city, has finally made its allotments for the coming season, amounting to a total of $308, 000. The great main winter trail to the interior from Valdez will have $110,000 spent on it to widen it in places, making the 'famous Keystone canyon passable during all kinds of weather and carve a road out of the mountain side on the Big Delta river. Many new mining camps wiU be connected with rivers which are navigable and the other camps will have new roads constructed to hasten their development. TO BOTjD SEW AEROPIiANE. Glenn H. Cnrttss Expects to Construct ft World Beater. New Tork, June 3. Glenn H. Cur tiss is In this city on his" way to Ham mondsport, N. T., from Washington, where he has been in consultation with Dr Alexander Graham Bell, concern ing further experimental wor with a new aeroplane. Mr. Curtiss said that he would arrive at Hammonflsport to day and begin at once to build an aeroplane, which will be No. 3 of the Aerial Experiment association, of which Dr.. Bell is president. He said the machine will be somewhat difer ent from the previous "White Wing." m it will have a long body, covered with canvas, as the extreme rear of which will be the tall. A 40 horse power. $50 For This Week Only SPECIAL. $50 For This Week Only W are selling this fine up-to-date Runabout for tin week only f or $50. Thi Runabout is equipped with long distance, dust proof Codings bell collar, arched axles, wrought iron Bailey body hangers, quick shifting shaft couplings, full leather trimmed. A handsome job, and fully worth a third more. For this week only $50. REHKOPF'EROSi BUI1LDEKS-DEAXERS 207 and 209 West Sixth Street eight-cylinder, air cooled, 145 pound motor, -designed by Mr. Curtiss is ex pected to furnish plenty of power. It will take about three weeks to build the aeroplane and then the experi ments will be made: The engineers who will assist Mr. Curtiss are Lieutenant T. Selfrldge, of the United States army; F. W. Baldwin and J. A. D. McCurdy. Mr. Curtiss Is the man who made the fastest mile ever traveled by a human being, when, two winters ago at Ormond Beach, Fla., he covered a mile in 26 2-5 seconds on a motor cycle. "I think perhaps that my long ex perience in getting over the ground at a high speed has helped me in bai. ancing an aeroplane," said Mr. Curtiss. In the aeroplane. White Wing, he made the longest initial flight of any man In the world 1,017 feet In 1 seconds on May 22, at Hammond--port.

Dr. Bell said: "Mr. Curtiss has perfect cotttrolievev the machine throughout, and the steering was accomplished with ease." Of course even the foreign avtatora are now making longer flights, but none of them nor In fact, nave tho Wright brothers ever made math sv distance as this at their first attempt at flight. "It tends to make a man unafraid of anything that has motion to ride a motor cycle at the rate of 13S miles an hour," continued Mr. Curtiss. "I feet hopeful of most satisfactory results at HamMondsport with this aeroplane that I shall test out the latter part of the present month." Dr. Bell expects to be on hand to witness the flights of the Curtiss machine. CURES o CHR0IIIC ULCEUS 1M m m. a m a a m vv nenever a sore or nicer re: uses to neai it is oecanse we Diooa is lmecE ed with poisonous germs or some old blood taint which corrupts and pollute the circulation. Nothing is more trying than a n on-healing, chronic old ulcer. The very fact that it resists all external applications, and ordinary treatments, is good reason for alarm, for the same germ which produces cancerous ulcers is back of every old sore, and especially is this true if the trouble be from any inherited taint. Surface treatment cannot reach th trouble the blood is at fault and must be purified before a cure can be hoped for. Ia S. S. S. will be found a remedy for sores and ulcers of every kind It is a perfect blood purifier one that goes directly into the circulation and promptly cleanses it of all impurities, poisons and taints. The ulcer can never heal while the blood discharges into it the noxious matter with which it is infected, but when S. S. S. has rid the blood of this cause and freshened and built up the circulation the sore will heal naturally, and Of its own ac cord. S. S. S. besrina at the bottom and heals the nlace aa it should h healed and makes a permanent and lasting cure. Book on Sores and Ulcer and any special medical advice desired will be sent free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CQ.V Cli,

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