The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 9, 1908

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t EVERYBODY I EVERYBODY 10 PAGES 10 PAGES READS IT. NEEDS IT. LAST. EDITION. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 9, 1908. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. I BATTLEIN K. C. Religious Fanatics and Police Fight in Street. Guns and Revolvers Used Freely on Both S'd?s. A POLICEMAN KILLED SeTeral Persons Shot, Some of Them Dangerously. Women and Girls Participate iu the Shooting. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 9. "I am not going to die. I am going to get well and live to kill a few more policemen." That is the assertion of Louis Pratt, self sty led "Adam God." the religious fanatic who Is lying in the general hos pital here seriously wounded in a bat tle between his followers and the po lice late yesterday. As a result of the fight, Pratt's 13-year-old daughter. Lulu, and Policeman Albert O. Dalbow are dead and two other policemen are In a critical condition. James- Sharp, knokn as Elijah II, and who was the real head of the little band of religious enthusiasts, is still at large. Shortly after the shooting he walked into a saloon, laid down his revolver with the remark, "I am satis fied I give up." As there were no police present and no one seemed in clined to take him into custody Sharp waited a moment then picked up the weapon, reloaded it and walked out. He has not been seen since. Kansas City, Dec. 9. In a battle between the police and religious fa natics which began at Fourth and Main streets at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and ended at the Missouri river bank, two persons were killed and six were Injured. The trouble came about through the police trying to break up a religious street meeting, at which revolvers and knives were carried by the exhorters.- Just a few minutes before the tragedy occurred George M. Holt, a probation officer, found Mrs. Melissa Sharp. Mrs. Delia Pratt and the lat ter's five children singing near Fifth and Main streets. He asked why the children were not in school, and was answered with an insult. "Do you belong here?" he asked of one of the women. "No, we have a houseboat on the river." she replied. The fanatics. after a collection amounting to about $3 or $4 had been made, started north on Main street with Mr. Holt following. They went into what Is known as the Poor Man's miss-ion, 309 Main street, conducted by J. C. Creighton and wife. Mr. Holt then approached J.. A, Sharp, husband of one of the women, and addressed him and Louis Pratt, the other's hus band. Assaulted Holt. "I am the father of Jesus Christ," said Sharp. "I have been sent to re organize the world. You are no more than damned sheep. Get out of here. I am going to preach with my child ren right in front of that police sta tion. You'll see what they'll do to me. Get out!" With that Sharp drew a big re volver and struck Mr. Holt over the head. He left the "mission" with the fanatics following, all of them but two having revolver?. Sharp with both re volvers and knives. The fanatics con sisted then of Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Pratt and the latter's child dren. Lulu. 14; Lena, 12; Mary. 11; Dewey. 8 and Edna 4 years old. While Mr. Holt hurried into police headquarters, his head bleeding, the fanatics ranged along the curb in front of John Blancon's saloon. 400 Main street, and the men began to flourish revolvers and knives and talk in wild tones about what God had commanded them to do. While all this was going on Patrolman Dalbow. who was sent from the station to see what the trouble was. walked up to James Sham, who styles himself as "Adam God." Witnesses say that Dalbow spoke kindly to the man and told him he must cease, as a crowd was gathering. "I'll Slioot the Sergeant.'' "Do you come as a friend, brother?" Sharp asked. They shook hands. "Yes." replied the officer, "the ser geant wants to see you." "I am going over and shoot the ser geant," said Sharp, his wrath rising again. Just at that juncture Lieutenant Har ry E. Sttge. who had followed Dalbow out of the station, arrived on the scene and said to Sharp. "Drop that knife." at the same time drawing a revolver and pointing it at Sharp. Then the trouble began in real earn est. Louis Pratt, who, up to that time, had stood mute by the curb, a little in the rear and to one side of Sharp, raised a revolver which he was carry ing in his hand and shot at Lieutenant Steze. The ball tore through Stege's cloth ing from the right to the left side along the chest, taking a chunk out of the left arm. Stege retreated, shooting, and a general fusillade was opened on the police. Pratt shot Dalbow through the chest, just as he was drawing his revolver, and one of the women. Mrs. Sharp, witnesses say, shot him in the back as he retreated. Dalbow staggered across the street south to the door of the emergency hospital. As he pushed open the door his revolver fell from his hand. 'I am shot bad," he said to Dr. R. N. Coffey. The officer caught him and carried him to a cot in the hospital. He died in a few minutes without re gaining consciousness. The shooting by that time had at tracted the attention of all the officers In police headquarters. Sergeant Patrick Clark, in his shirt sleeves and unarmed went out and into the thick est of the fray. The big leader. Sharp, was tackled by the sergeant and, though the latter was armed with both a knife and revolver, the sergeant went after him with his fists. Clark was stabbed twice in the face and as he turned, was shot through the shoulder. Battled Asa in st Odds. Captain Walter Whitsett. Inspector Charles Ryan, Detective Edward Boyle and others went into the street, emptied their revolvers and returned for more ammunition. The gamest fight against the Continued on Page Eight.) PLEASANT WEATHER TODAY. Mercury Mounts to Fifty Degrees This Afternoon. Topeka is enjoying the kind of weather that is being advertised in other parts of the country which boasts that thev are winter resorts, and that the weather conditions are cure alls and offer a panacea for every ex isting malady from gout to smallpox. To be frank about the matter the of fering Is .exceptional for this time of the year for coatless men and shirt waist women were on the streets dur ing the noon hour, just as comfortable like as could be. An old trapper from up Mission creek says that this kind of a day is a "weather breeder" but then he is hoping for cold weather and snow covered ground and his hopes may nave been father to his expression. The weather bureau man, however, takes a somewhat similar view and while he forecasts fair weather for to night, he also predicts snow or rain for Thursday. The following were the temperatures and all the time the sun was shining: 7 o'clock 32111 o'clock 42 8 o'clock 31112 o'clock 4 3 9 o'edock 34 1 1 o'clock 4. 10 o'clock 40! 2 o'clock 50 HATRED OF DE SAGAN. Is Charged as Motive of Dc Castellane by lawyers of Print-ess. Paris. Dec. 9. French society crowded the court room in the palace of justice today to hear M. Julemir, speaking in the name of the Princess De Sagan, oppose the suit entered by Count Boni De Castellane in which he petitions that the custody of his three children be given to his mother, the Marquise De Castellane. When Princess De Sagan. formerly Miss Anna Gould, secured a divorce from the Count De Castellane. custody of her children was awarded to her. If M. Bonnet. speaking for the count, did not sfare Prince De Sagan a fortnight ago, M. Julemir was no less denunciatory and bitter in his characterization on this occasion of the count. Castellane's sole motive in entering this suit, .he charged, was hatred of De Sagan; the very thought of the prince occupying a place in the affections of his former wife and living in the superb mansion on the avenue Malakoff goaded De Castellane to fury. The count, said M. Julemir, did every thing possible to hinder the marriage of his former wife to De Sagan and having failed in this, he was now seeking by every means in his power to bring discredit upon the De Sagan household. CASTRO IN EUROPE. He Is There to Settle Venezuela's Dif ferences With the Powers. Santander, Spain," Dec. 9.- The Guadeloupe with President Castro on board came into Santander -today fly ing the flag of Venezuela. In addition to President Castro there were on board his wife, his sister, Senora Car denas, two aides and three physicians. The mystery of the president's trip to Europe was dispelled very soon af ter the Guadeloupe dropped anchor. It was declared that he came to Europe with the double purpose of being ex amined by European specialists and to settle Venezuela's standing differ ences with foreign powers. As Pres ident Castro is his own minister of foreign affairs, he is confident of be ing able to conduct the negotiations to this end to a successful conclusion. Carmelo Castro, one of the presi dent's brothers, who recently arrived in Europe from Caracas by way of Xew York, had come down to San tander to meet the president and with the Venezuelan consul, the port of ficials and a number of journalists he boarded the steamer. President Castro was found in his cabin shaving. He laughed heartily at the fantastic rumors regarding his purpose and plans. The doctors said that the president's general condition was excellent. He spent hours every day promenading the deck and was the life of the ship. The physicians explained that Castro desired to con sult European specialists regarding the advisability of an operation. He has been suffering for some years with a disease that is understood "to be a tumor of the kidneys. President Castro in spite of the reports that he might not be permitted to land in France, announced that he had started for Bordeaux and that was where he was going. His position is that the French government is aware that he is going to France with his hands stretched out In peace. Before he left Venezuela he made the first advance by authorizing the return of several Frenchmen who had been exiled for political reasons and during the voy age over he had several long talks with M. Merelou. the French minister to Peru who was "a fellow passenger. He declared specifically to the French minister that he was ready to make important concessions in order to re store amicable relations with France. M. Merleou assured Castro that he would suffer no disagreeable incident on landing at Bordeaux. In a dis patch from Santander M. Merleou in formed the French government fully of the situation. President Castro, it is said, also ex pects to arrange the difficulties of his government with the United States in cluding the asphalt affair. President Castro declined to talk for publication and kept to his cabin. His wife, however, chatted with the newspaper men. NOW IT'S LAND FRAUDS. Attorney General Thinks There's Been Illegal Homesteading at La kin. Laktn. Dec. 9. Some days afro Assistant Attorney General John S. Dawson was in Lakin looking up some matters concern ing the sale of school lands. Since his re turn to Topeka Attorney General Fred S. Jackson has filed suits in the Kearny county district court to recover three quarter sections of the school land from J. N. White. L. G. Eyman and T. G. Ky man. He claims that these men se cured the land for $1.25 an acre through a conspiracy formed with certain county of ficials here and that the land is worth from $5 to $10 an acre. On account of the alleged fraud perpetrated in securing the land so cheaply, the attorney general wants their deeds to it cancelled, and the property restored to the state. MANY GOVERNORS More Than 30 States Represent ed by Chief Executives At the National Conservation Commission Conference. THE MINERAL SECTION Submits a Report Through Sen ator Flint of California. Says We Are Wasting a Million Dollars a Day. Washington, Dec. 9. The national conservation commission today began a conference with the governors of the different states, with the probable result that some concrete plan will be mapped out for the conservation of the nation's natural resources. More than 30 states were represented by their chief executives. Much of the time at today's session was devoted to reports on water, forest, land and mineral resources, these being in the form of an inventory of resources, a work in which the commission has been vigorously engaged since the White house conference last May. The report of the commission was presented by former Governor Blanchard of Louisiana. Mr. Blanch ard urged the appointment of a per manent conservation commission and said that the investigation of the country's natural resources had not been yet thorough enough to afford an adequate knowledge of how to con serve them. Our national efficiency he declared, depends upon our natural resources and private ownership of them should be regarded as a public trust. The responsibility for the pre servation of the forests, he pointed out, rests upon the co-operation of the states and nation. Senator New-lands of Nevada, spoke of the Importance of the conservation commission work and the need for its permanency with suitable appropria tions, and upon his motion, seconded by Senator Smoot of Utah, a com mittee will be appointed to present the question to congress. Mineral Resources. Senator Flint of California, pre sented the report' of the mineral sec tion of the commission. In submitting the report Senator Flint made an address in explanation. He predicted the supplies of high grade iron ores will be consumed by the mid dle of the present century, high grade available coal by the middle of the next century; copper, lead, zinc and precious metals by the end of the present cen tury and phosphate rock, so essential to soil fertility within 25 yeirs at the present rate of use and waste. He de cried wastes of natural resources, charged that enough natural gas to light all the large cities of the United States of over 1,000 population is escap ing into the atmosphere, and that ap proximately one million dollars a day is being wasted in coal mining and other mineral products. He pointed out that there are only one trillion, four hun dred billion tons of easily accessible available coal for mining under present conditions, three billion, eight hundred and forty million tons of high grade iron ores and 59 billion tons of low grade iron ores. The American people, he contended were ready to pay what ever increase in the cost of the fuel may be necessary to guarantee safety to miners and saving of fuel which be longs to the next generation. The fed eral government, however, must look to the states for such protection. The chief waste in oil supplies, the senator said, is in their extensive use for fuel as for locomotives, for which purpose coal might be substituted, leav ing the principal use for petroleum in isolated districts, where there are no available substitutes. Discovery of other deposits In the middle and western states to prolong the life of petroleum and natural gas was indicated, he added. SHOT IN BACK. Robert Mason Wounded by Nathan Chiles. Robert Mason is in Christ's hospital dangerously wounded and Nathan Chiles is in the county jail. These boys, who with several others about the same age, were hunting near Tecumseh when Chiles dis charged his shot gun into the back of the other boy. The physicians say that the boy has little chance of re covery, and a statement was taken at the hospital this morning. Mason claims that he was shot just after an argument with Chiles, and intimates that it might not have been ac cidental. "He- was trying to trip me up while I was carrying some rabbits," says Mason, "and I saw him move the 'safety' on his gun. I said, 'be care ful with that thing,' and he says, 'I'll just shoot you. And he did." The boy who did the shooting. Chiles, claims that the shooting was entirely accidental. The entire load of shot, fired at a range of only a few inches from the body of the victim, passed through the hip, breaking off the point of the pelvic bone and carrying portions of clothing with the, charge. 1 CORN SHGWTPENS. Twenty-two States Represented at Omaha Exposition. Omaha. Neb.. Dec. 9. The National Corn show was formally opened here this morning, when, in the presence of a crowd that filled to overflowing the big temporary auditorium at Fif teenth and Howard streets, former Congressman John L. Kennedy, as chairman of the meeting read a tele gram of "greeting from President Roosevelt. Greetings and best wishes for a successful exposition were the president's words and the message was cheered by the several thousand persons present. The schools were closed today and thousands of children thronged the vast structure. Twenty-two states are represented and the exhibits occupy 250.000 square feet of floor space. BOMB INAIR SHAFT Missile Dropped Down Opening in Tenement House. Bed Rooms, on, One Side and Bath Rooms on Other. HOUSE IS WRECKED. More Than a Score Injured, Five of Them Seriously. Some Found Half Buried Under Debris, in Their Beds. New York. Dec. 9. More than a score of persons were injured, five of them seriously and a hundred more were thrown into a panic early today when a bomb was hurled into the air shaft of the tenement house at 330 West Sixty-third street. The house was badly wrecked. It was occupied exclusively by Italians, and it de veloped that threatening letters had been received by many of them dur ing the past few months. The explosion was terrific. The concussion shook buildings for brocks away. Thesldes of the airshaft down which the bomb was thrown are lined with sleeping rooms on one side and bath rooms on the other. Practically all of those Injured- were asleep in the bedrooms on the south side. The bath rooms were wrecked, the water pipes torn and broken and the whole building on that side was flooded be fore the water could be cut off in the partially wrecked cellar. Plaster and bricks, mixed with jagged pieces of glass from the shat tered windows were hurled into the sleeping rooms with frightful force and some of those Injured were found, half buried and unconscious under the debris piled upon their beds. The roar of the explosion brought residents into the streets for blocks around and in a few minutes a crowd of hundreds of half clad men and women were gathered in front of the house. It was more than an hour before the excited men and women who thronged the surrounding streets could be quieted and induced to re turn to their homes. KILLED HER CHILD. A Mother Then Fired Three Bullets Into Her Own Body. St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 9. Mrs. Minnie Maget, the Dearborn, Mo., woman who fatally shot her two-year-old son In a ho tel here yesterday and fired three bullets into her own head, 4b under police guard at a. hospital, where .she may recover. A warrant charging nrder will be Issued, if she does not die..' v Mrs. Minnie Maget, wife of a Dearborn, Mo., engineer, came to St.- Josey' yester day with her 2-year-old son, and took a room at a hotel. Late in the afternoon pistol shots In her apartments- were heard and the woman and child wer found on the bed unconscious. The top of the baby's head was literally torn "off and there were three bullet holes in the mother's temple. The child died last night. Mrs. Maget. 26 years old. separated from her husband several weeks ago and had begun divorce proceedings. She Is sup posed to have been made temporarily in sane by her domestic troubles. a A. R. HEADS COMING. Commander in Chief and Staff hi Kansas City Today. Kansas City. Mo.. Dec. 91 Henry M. Nevius, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., arrived in Kansas City this morning from Chicago enroute to Salt Lake City, where he is to make preparations for the grand encamp ment there next year. He was accom panied by members of his staff and by the national officers of the ladies of the G. A. R. The party was given a luncheon at the Coates house which was followed by a tour of the city in automobiles. Tonight a camp fire will be held and the party will leave to morrow morning for Topeka. COURTSHIP OF THREE DAYS. Ex-Member of the Kansas Legislature Sued for Breach of Promise. Kansas City. Dec. 9. Miss Lois M. Stevens of 1413 Charlotte street, brought a breach of promise suit in Judge William A. Powell's division of the circuit court against J. F. Tim mons of Williamsburg. Kan., for $25. 000. Timmons, who is 65 years old. is a retired farmer. He was a repre sentative from Wyandotte county in the Kansas legislature late in the '80s. "I met Mr. Timmons May 17, this year, and he asked me three days later to marry him," she testified. "Before the month was out he changed his mind." HAD LIVED 99 YEARS. One of the Wealthiest Women in the World Is Demi. New York, Dec. 9. The funeral of Miss Mary Goodwin Pinkney .credited with be ing one of the wealthiest women in the world, who died here yesterday at the age of 99 years, was held today. Most of Miss Pinkney's estate is in real estate in Harlem and her wealth was variously estimated at from $10,000,000 to JoO.OOO.UOO. Her death will result in the release of a great deal of valuable property north of the Harlem river. Fruit Shipments Nearly Doubled. San Francisco, Dec. 9. According to figures obtained from the Southern Pacific railroad, the fruit growers of California shipped 12.917 carloads of fruit out of the state during the season which has just closed, an increase of nearly 100 per cent over the shipments for the season of 1907. Following is the record by carload: Table prapes, 3.816 cars; pears, 2.701; apples, 2. 201; peaches, 1.9S0; plums. 1.763; apricots, 231: cherries. 208: miscellaneous. 13. 1 Governor Deneen to Go to School. Urbana, 111.. Dec 9. Governor Charles S. Deneen is to become a student of the agricultural school at the University of Illinois. He will attend the state school during the short course which begins in January, and will seek special instruction, it is said, in cattle and corn Judging. The decision of the chief executive offioer of the state to become a scientific farmer is the result of his attendance at the recent Illinois corn show in Springfield. FOR WATERWAYS. The National Rivers and Har birs Congress Assembles In Fifth Annual Session at Na tional Capital. NOTABLE GATHERING Includes Diplomats and Finan ciers. Address by Vice President Fair banks and Others. Washington, Dec. 9. One of the most notable gatherings ever assem bled in the history of this country in the interest of waterway development was called to order today when the national rivers and harbors congress met in fifth annual convention. The congress is national in its pur poses, representing all sections and all waterways and is endeavoring to im press congress with the necessity of a comprehensive policy for improving rivers, canals and harbors of the na tion. Senators, representatives, diplomats, captains of finance, governors of many states, and others high in official life, were present when Representative Jo seph E. Ransdell, of Louisiana, presi dent of the congress, escorted to the front of the platform, his eminence. Cardinal Gibbons, whose invocation, a prayer of thanksgiving to the giver of all resources, signalized the formal opening of the convention. An address by Vice President Chas. A. Fairbanks followed. Ambassador James Bryce of Great Britain told of the waterways of Great Britain in a notable speech. Others on the programme today were Judge George H. Hillyer of Georgia's railway commission; Samuel Gompers, the la bor leader; Governor George E. Cham berlain of Oregon; Seth Low, former mayor of New York; Governor San ders of Louisiana; Representative Champ Clark of Missouri, and Prof. W. D. Lyman, Whitman college, Wash ington. Coincident was the first annual con vention of the woman's national rivers and harbors congress, which held its session simultaneously in another hall. Fairbank's Address. In extending to the rfvers and har bors congress a cordial welcome to the city of Washington, Vice President Charles W.- Fairbanks said it was perfectly obvious that the improve ment of our waterways had not kept abreast of our industrial needs and our national progress. The time has arrived, he said, when we must give to the subject of securing adequate transportation facilities at a minimum cost intelligent and effective con sideration. V In discussing the cost of improving the American waterways the vice president said that as much of the benefit to be derived from the ex penditures would be for the future, a reasonable share of the amount should be provided for by a bond is sue, so as justly and equitably to dis turb the burden among all the beneficiaries of the expenditures. He believed that the importance and magnitude of the work of improving the waterways were so exceptional in character as to justify the people in anticipating future income by a rea sonable bond issue. The vice presi dent said that while the work of im proving river navigation could not be done all at once, the rate of progress should be determined by an enlightened con sideration of all the facts bearing upon each project. While there might be a wide divergence of individual opinion as to the relative importance of various projects, he had no doubt a common ground of action might be found. The success of so vast an un dertaking, in his judgment, would de pend upon the dissemination of accurate information as to the need and cost of work and upon the arous ing of intelligent interest in it among the people. Appropriation of $50,000,000. President Ransdell called the con gress to order and addressed the dele gate. The need of some imme diate legislation looking to the im provement of the waterways of the country was the keynote of his ad dress. Mr. Ransdell asserted that the time has come for decided action. "I am convinced," he declared, "that we should insist in the strongest manner both in the resolutions of our convention and elsewhere upon the prompt passage of a large river and harbor bill at this session of congress and upon the committal of congress to a broad, liberal policy of waterway improvements and an annual river and harbor bill carrying not less than $50,000,000." He recommended the creation of a commission of nine members to study waterways and suggest to congress a plan for improving them. James Bryce, the British ambassa dor, in the course of his address, said he believed the canals are of the greatest importance for the carrying of heavy freight. He said that he be lieved that far from being hostile to the railroads they are a positive ad vantage to them. "Nature has given you.' concluded the ambassador, "a larger river sys tem than exists anywhere else in the world, except in the tropical forests of South America, and in considering the great plans to which your attention is now being directed you will have the interest and sympathy of everyone who feels that this superb gift of nature ought to be turned to the ut most advantage for the development of the unequalled natural resources which your country possesses." Death of Mrs. G. W. Spiker. Emporia. Dec. 9. Mrs. G. W. Spiker Is dead at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lula Washburn, after an illness of about five months. The funeral services will be held today, and will be conducted by Rev. Joseph Hill of the Normal. Mrs. Spiker was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1830. There she married G. W. Spiker and lived until 1884, when they came to Kan sas. The next ten years was spent on a farm, five miles northeast of town, and in 1S94 they moved to Emporia, where they had since lived. Weather Indications. Chicago, Dec. 9. Forecast for Kansas: Fair tonight and Thursday. Rain or snow Thursday. CYCLERS PEGGING AWAY. Ten of the Eleven Teams In the Six Day Race StiU Lead Record. New York, Dec. 9. Ten of the eleven teams remaining today in the six day bicycle race at Madison Square garden were still maintaining the rec ord breaking pace which has set a new mark for almost every hour since the long contest began. It had been a trying night filled with prolonged sprints, and during the early forenoon the riders contented themselves by plugging along at what has become known as an "easy gait." They were well beyond the best previous record at the end of the 56th hour, however. At that time the leaders, Rutt and Stol, MacFarland and Moran, Hill, and Demara and Fogler and Lawson had covered 1,117 miles 9 laps: Walthour and Root, and Palmer and Walker had gane 1,117 miles 8 laps; Collins and Mitten 1.117 miles and 7 laps; Galvln and Wiley 1.117 miles 6 laps; De vonitch and Drobach 1,117 miles 4 lapse, and Faber and LaFourcade 1,097 miles 1 lap. The best previous record for 56 hours was 1,112 miles 7 laps, made by Miller and Waller in 1899. The score at 9 o'clock was: Rutt and Stold, McFarland and Moran, Fogler and Lawson, Hill and Demara, 1.134 miles 5 laps: Wal though and Root, Palmer and Walker. 1.134 miles 4 laps; Devonoitch and Drobach, 1.134 miles: Collins and Mitten, 1.134 miles 3 laps; Galvin and Wiley, 1,134 miles 2 laps; Anderson and Vanoini, 1,134 miles 1 lap; Faber and LaFourcade, 1,113 miles 7 laps. Former record, 1,130 miles 1 lap made by Walter and Miller in 1899. The score at 2 o'clock this after noon was: Rutt and Stol, Fogler and Lawson. Moran and McFarland and Hill and Demara. 1.227 miles 3 laps; Palmer and Walker and Walthour and Root. 1,227 miles 2 laps; Mitten and Collins, 1,227 miles 1 lap: Wiley and Galvin, 1,227 miles; Vanoni and Anderson, 1.226 miles 9 laps: Devonoitch and Drobach, 1,226 miles 8 laps, and Faber and LaFourcade 1.210 miles 3 laps. The record for the sixty-second hour was 1.221 miles and 7 laps made by Miller and Waller in 1899. TAFT AND CANNON MEET Hold Conference on the Subject of Tariff Revision. Washington. Dec. 9. President Elect Taft and Speaker Cannon today had a conference of an hour and a half at the Boardman residence where Mr. Taft is a guest. At its conclusion each participant announced that an arrangement has been made whereby Mr. Taft was to meet the Republican members of the house committee on ways and means tomorrow afternoon after which a statement would be is sued. Until this statement is made Mr. Taft said he and Mr. Cannon had agreed not to discuss what had taken place between, them. The apparent satisfaction with which "Mr. yaft ex plained the situation was taken as an evidence that matters were very much to his liking:.- It is known of course that the subject under discussion be tween Messrs. Taft and Cannon was the forthcoming revision of the tariff, regarding which Mr. Taft has de clared himself most positively in favor of a thorough revision. It is understood that very little was said concerning the details of the pro posed tariff legislation, but that the conversation dealt entirely with the broad principles involved in that leg islation. Mr. Taft and the speaker proceeded npon the express under standing that they had come together as the representatives or two co-ordinate branches of the government and whatever of difference in details in the future may develop if any to day's discussion was on the friendliest possible basis. The understanding was so far as there was any, that the president's part in the preparation of a new tariff would be confined to such suggestions as he might desire to make and he was assured that while these would be listened to by the house with every possible consideration, he was not led to believe that the house would aban don its prerogative in the preparation of the new law. Nor was there any in dication on Mr. Tart s part that he would expect or desire it to do ao. Both agreed that the tariff should be revised and that the revision should be along the lines indicated by the tariff plank of the Republican plat form. Neither indicated a desire to depart from protective principles in the work to come. When urged for a statement con cerning the interview Speaker Cannon replied that owing to the fact that he had met Mr. Taft at the latter's re quest he could say nothing. DR. KEITH BUYS RESIDENCE. Buys His Former Home From Dr. L. Anton Smith. Dr. H. H. Keith has purchased the residence at 1710 West Tenth street from Dr. L. Anton Smith, the con sideration being $8,000. Dr. Keith owned this property for a number of years and in a moment of forgetful ness disposed of it and has been wanting it back ever since and the opportunity came this week when Dr. Smith offered to dispose of it. The house is a fourteen room structure and the property includes four lots. L. B. SHORT SUES FTR DIVORCE. One Year of Married Life All That He Could Stand. Lewis B. Short, an employe in the Santa Fe offices, is suing for divorce from Lyla Short. They were married a year ago, but life has not been one long sweet dream for the husband. A few days ago, he alleges she divided the household goods in his absence, took the better portion thereof, and went away. He charges her with infidelity and names two men as possible co respondents. The Year's Cotton Crop.. Washington, Dec. 9. The total pro duction of cotton in the United States for the years 1908-1909 will amount to 6,182,970,000 pounds, not including linters, which is equivalent to 12,920. 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, according to the estimate announced by the department of agriculture to day. The estimate of production by bales, includes the following: Texas, 3,917,0Q0; Oklahoma, 640,000. POUTIGAUJOSSIP Senator-Elect Glenn Has Some Reapportionment Plans. Western Members Will Stand Solidly for New Measure. CO UNTIES BACK IN LINE Everyone Cast More Than Re quired Number of Totes. Still Five Have No Representa tives in House. Senator-elect W. M. Glenn of Trlb nue, Greeley county, of the 38th, Du mont Smith's old district, was in To peka this week and announced that he intends to introduce a reapportion ment bill at the next session that will affect representative and senatorial districts in every section of the state. Senator Glenn was present at the meeting at Garden City some two weeks ago at which the western mem bers of the next legislature held a caucus and agreed on a reapportion ment bill. There is no doubt that an organized and determined effort will be made by all the western members to get such a bill through at the next session. The state constitution provides that every county in the state that cast two hundred votes shall be entitled to a representative in the legislature. Now there is not a county in Kansas that did not cast three hundred votes at the last election yet Morton, Stanton, Haskell, Seward and Greeley counties are without representation in the house. The state has a population of 1. 656,000 which would give an average of 41,400 to each of the forty senator ial districts in the state. Senator Glenn has prepared a new apportion ment of the senatorial districts based on the proper average of population and on the natural geographical ar rangement of counties. The table rep resents the pains and labor of Senator Glenn and his friends for several weeks and a large number of legisla tors have been consulted in the mat ter. While there may yet be some slight changes made in this apportion ment, and while suggestions from those interested backed by figures and logic, are still in order, it Is likely that the new senatorial districts of the state will be incorporated in Sena tor Glenn s measure as the nearest possible to a practical and fair reap portionment law. An idea of the present disproportion of the present senatorial districts of the state can be gained from the statement that the Thirty-ninth district is now composed of 13 counties with a popu lation of 81,000 people and the Thirty eighth with 118 counties has 62.000 pop ulation, while Washington and Osage counties, with about 20.000 population each, have separate senators. As regards the representative districts Senator Glenn would have' a represen tative for each of the 105 counties of the state and then .divide the 20 addi tional representatives among the more populous counties. At present Jefferson county with" 15,000 population has two representatives while nine other coun ties, each with over 20,000 population, have but one. Leavenworth county with 40,000 population has three representa tives while Montgomery county with 60,000 people has but two. Senator Glenn would not give two representatives to any county that has not a much larger population than any county having but one. Jefferson. Brown, Osage, Marshall, Butler and Franklin, all counties with about zo, 000 population and now having two rep resentatives each in the house, could Justly give up one to each of the five new representative districts created out of the counties not now represented in the house, and Leavenworth could give to Montgomery the representative due the latter county. The state constitution provides that a reapportionment shall be made every five years, yet there has not been a real change of this kind made since 1891, although there was a slight effort at reapportionment made In the legis lature In 1897 and again in 1901. Even counting these efforts as reapportion ments it has been over five years since any change at all has been made. The reapportionment measure Intro duced at the laat session was beaten by the eastern members, but there i every reason to believe that the west ern members are well organized for the effort to get their bill through at the next session and it does seem that there is Justice in their demands, especially as regards the five counties with no representatives at all. This state of affairs is clearly beyond the letter and spirit of the law. Robt. Loofbourrow, of Neodesha, the new representative from Wilson county, was in the state capital today, and in speaking of legislation that was near to his heart declared that he would In troduce a bill at the next session com pelling all locomotive engines on the railroads of the state to carry electric headlights. Mr. Loofbourrow also declared him self as strongly in favor of good road and forestry legislation. LIVELY BLAZE AT CARBON DALE. Starts in Barber Shop and Consumes live Business Building. Carbondale.'Dec. 9. This town had a bad Are Tuesday which destroyed five frame business buildings on Main street. The fire engine failed to work for a time and good work by the bucket brigade and stone buildings on either side checked the flames. The fire started in Dr. A. B. Earl's barber shop. Clair Hyatt, In starting a fire in the stove, used gasoline in stead of coal oil by mistake. In a moment the whole shop was ablaze and the two independent telephone centrals on the second floor of the building were forced to make a hasty exit. The fire spread to a carpenter shop, then to the barber shop, bowling alley and livery barn. An AU'hison Banquet. Atchison, Kan., Dec. 9. The annual Commercial club banquet- was held last night with one hundred business men present. Rev. Dr. Blayney talked on "Commercial Clubs and the Town" and Prof. E. B. MeCormick of the State Agricultural college on "Good Roads."

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOXTRNAIt WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER ,9, 19CS. GOLDEN WEDDING. s -r Nortonville Celebrates Anniver sary of Mr; and Mrs. I. Maris. The 60 Guests Served Dinner by the Ladies' Exchange. CAME WEST IN 1S57. Present House Within Few Rods cf Original Homestead. Two of theGuests Witnessed the Ceremony 50 Tears Ago. Nortonville. Kan., Dec 9. A notable vent in the history of Nortonville was the1 celebration this week by Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Maris of the fiftieth anni versary of their marriage, at their home, three miles north of Nortonville. The guests, numbering about 60, were Invited from 11 in the morning for the balance of the day, and were served a three-course dinner by the Ladies' Ex change of Nortonville, the third course symbolizing the occasion of the day. The cakes and cream were in gold and white. The two long tables were pret tily decorated in yellow and white chrysanthemums. Mr. and Mrs. Maris began their mar ried life within a few rods of the house in which they celebrated their golden wedding, and among the guests were Mrs. Melworth Stillman and Mrs. Z. S. Hastings, who witnessed the origi nal ceremony 50 years ago, and J. H. Titsworth and wife, who celebrated their golden wedding two years ago, and Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Curry, who had a similar celebration four years a no. The pastors and wives ot the four Nortonville churches were present; also. Rev. Z. S. Hastings, of Effingham. a brother. Mrs. Arthur Gruwell,. of West Branch, Iowa, were also present. Isaac Maris was born near Salem, Ohio. July 16. 1834. In tracing the an cestry of Isaac Maris, it is ascertain ed that his forefather. George Maris, came to this country from Kngland as early as 1681, and was a friend and contemporary of William Penn. The Maris' have been Quakers as far back as their history can be traced. Mr. Maris cast his first vote in 1S5S for John C. Fremont, who was a candidate for president on the Republican ticket, which was then in its organization. He left his old home in September. 1857; and started west to join his brother. Joseph, who had come to Kansas with a Quaker colony. He landed in Atchi son September 14. 1857, and joined the six families that had settled on a lane running east and west. three miles from Nortonville. October 5. seven families of Seven Day Baptists drove overland from Farrington, 111., and took up land adjoining that taken by the Quakers, and this is the foundation of "Seven Day Lane," the name given the road bordering the homes of- these early day colonists. Among the Seven Day Baptists was Miss Alma Buten. who was born in New York in 1836. and whose family had been Seven Day Baptists for many generations. There were only three young women in the 13 families on Sev en Day Lane, and eleven young men. As anyone will know, very little time was lost by these eleven young men In getting a wife, and Isaac- Maris scored first. He had preempted 160 acres of land on arriving on the Lane, and put up a log cabin. He kept bach elor's hall for just 15 months: Decem ber 7, 1858, he was married to Miss Buten. The bridal- couple, accom panied by two "waiters," Caleb Maris, now living in Damascus. Ohio, and Miss Chrisant ha Sunders, who. is now Mrs. Melworth Stillman, drove across the prairie in a spring wagon to the home of the late Pardee Butler, and were married. They had to face a strong north wind, and as there was no cov ering to their rig. as there would be today, they suffered greatly. The next day (50 years ago yesterday) the ther mometer dropped to 18 degrees below zero. Returning to the home of the bride there was a dinner, to which all the Seven Day families had been invi ted. Mr. and Mrs. Maris soon' moved from the log house into a larger frame, and a few years later into their pres ent home, one of the largest and most comfortable on the Lane. They have lived on the same farm for 50 years, and have been happy and prosperous. In the 50 years of their married life, there was never a time when a travel er was turned away, and often there would be so many that beds were made on the floor in every room. In building the last house, one room was sot aside for the passing and homeless stranger. Mrs. Maris observes Satur- BLADDER TROUBLES NEED PROMPT ATTENTION Perhaps you don't know how much work is required of your kidneys and biadder or of how much- importance they are.- Do you know that on these important organs hinges good health? Many an apparently strong, healthy man or woman has been stricken without notice by serious kidney and bladder disease only to realize too late what might have been prevented with proper care and attention. Some of the early symptoms of weak kidneys and bladder are lum bago, rheumatism, catarrh of the blad der, pain or dull ache in the back, joints or muscles, at times have head ache or indigestion, dizziness, you may have a sallow complexion, puffy or dark circles under the eyes, some times feel as though you had heart trouble, may have plenty at ambition but no strength, get weak and waste away. If you find you have some of the symptoms mentioned, you need then a remedy that will reach the seat of the disease and at the same time build up the system generally. Such a remedy is Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder rem edy. In thousands of cases it has ac complished just the work you need performed now. Sample Bottle of Swamp-Koot ITce by Mail. Send to Dr. Kilmer Co., Bing haraton. N. Y.. for a sample bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable informa tion. telling all about the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention the Toneka State Journal For sale at all drug stores. Price fiftv-cents and one-dollar. REVISErTHE LAWS Chairman Dolley Would Have a Special Committee. One From Outside the Legisla ture Is Approved Plan. SAVINGS BANK LAW. Bank Commissioner Albright Would Have One. penditure on the part of the management of the Missouri pacific railroad ipproxl mately $1,000,000. Governor-elect Herberts S. Hadlpy or Missouri will not be able to attend the Kansas day banquet here on January 25. He was to be the guest ot honor. In a letter to Governor Hoch, Hadley said th9t he appreciated the compliment and would like-to come, but that he will have a Missouri legislature on his. hands at that time and it will be impossible for Jiim to get away from Jefferson City. CANNOT BE SHIPPED. Secretary Wilson Places a Bleached Hour. Ban on ROOSEVELT IS WONS. Senator Millard Says Canal Money Was Not Paid to Eranee. Omaha, Neb.. Dec. 9. Ex-Senator J. H. Millard, of Nebraska-, -who was chairman of the senate committee on the Panama canal during the investi gation as to the details of the manner in which this government acquired the canal, states that the French govern- nut ciiiineciea in anv way with the deal. He declared that the Senator Heed Favors Torrens Land Title System. .lav as the Sabbath, and her husband out of respect, has always observed the dav with her. Mr. Maris was oraaineu a minister of the Friends' church in 1869. and is a member of Springdale Meeting. Leavenworth county. The old est Quaker Meeting in Kansas was or ganized in 1855. Being isolated from his own denomination, he has spent mni-h fimn In-Snndav school work, and suDDlving distances, and enduring all sorts of hardships that he might preach the gospel Of the original Quaker colony. Isaac Maris is the only one left today, and Mrs. Joshua Wheeler, Mrs. Eunice Petty, Mrs. Klecta Stillman and Mrs. Melworth Stillman. and Mrs. Maris are the only ones left of the original Seven Day Baptists. WEGGEX FINALLY CAUGHT. Armed losse Captures the Ex-Poliee-nian in a Columbus Corn Field. Columbus, Kan., Dec. 9. Lying prostrate in 12 inches of mud in a corn field, northeast of this city, Paul Weggen and Frank Davis, who escaped from the Parsons jail, were captured late Tuesday afternoon. After an all day chase an armed posse surrounded the men and following a few shots that were dangerously close to the mark, the men surrendered. They were brought here and later taken on a special train to Oswego where they were locked in the county jail. Weggen, a former Parsons police officer, was held in jail pending his hearing for alleged complicity in rob bing a merchantile establishment in that town. Davis was held on a charge of burglary. They escaped from the Parsons jail with three oth ers. Their companions are still at liberty. TEXAS l'EYEll AT WORK. Sumner County Fanner looses Eight Horses From the Disease. Wellington, Kan., Dec. 9. The state veterinarian was called from Manhattan to South Haven, in this county, to look after a case of Texas fever reported from there by a vet erinary surgeon. John Ramsey, a farmer, lost eight horses -by the disease, and it was not until the animals were past help that the nature of tie attack was discover ed. It is thought the infection can be traced to some movers' outfits from Texas who camped in the high road near Ramsey's place. ADOPTS THE COMMISSION. Independence Votes for That Form of Government. Independence, Kan., Dec. 9. Inde pendence voted to adopt the commis sion form of government by a small majority. Postmaster Tmitt Found Dead. Waverly, Kan., Dec. 9. Thomas Truitt, postmaster at Agricola, four miles east of here, and one of the oldest settlers of this county, was found dead in his office Tuesday by a citizen who had gone for his mail. Upon opening the door he stumbled over the postmaster's body. A broom was clutched tightly in his hand, and it is supposed he was sweeping out when stricken with heart disease. A group of three or four senators ana representatives-elect were dis cussing legislation with State Chair man Dolley Tuesday and in the course of their conversation the question of '"visiuii oi me statutes came on lor a nearing. It was suggested to Chair man Dolley that in his capacity as opectivt-r ot me next house that he ap point a committee to do this much needed work. "That has been done before." said Mr. Dolley, "and nothing ever came UJL 11. inen some one suggested that the speaker call a vote the first day of the session on tne proposition to have committee of three appointed outside of the legislature, a commission with instructions to completely revise the statutes trom beginnie to end. Ieavin out ail dead and obsolete matter, and to report to the legislature before the ena ot tne session. This plan was ap proved by Dollev and the other lei lators present and one of the number wus commissioned to draw up a bill to cover the matter. It is expected that such a measure will be"- passed cai ly in me session. Senator J. T. Reed of Smith Center, of the Fortieth district, has served no nce or nis intention to introduce a bill ai tne next session covering the Tor reus land title system now in use in Illinois. Massachusetts and Minnesota. inis Dill if made a law would rpvnln tionize the transfer of land titles and aoout put tne abstracters out of busi ness. It is another Australian impor tation and if it works as well as the Australian ballot system there is every tiimg tor it ana notning against it. Alter tne first expense of gettin it started mis system would be much cheaper and more simple than the present transfer system. The law would become effective -on each piece of property at the lime, of the first transfer after its passa:!. A ree-iKtrv uureau wouta lane tne pface of a reg ister-of deeds' office and land transfers would be handled Just tha sama as stocks and bonds. There would be tnree kinds of certificates, the abso lute, where there is no incumbrance the qualified and the possessory, the latter giving possession under certain restrictions-. These certificates would give all the information about a piece or lana that an,, abstract does and would be Just as valuable. These cer tificates could be transferred the same as bank or any other stock. The cost oi tne nrst transfer would come as high as t24, but after, that the nominal cost would be only about $3 for each transfer. The system was evolved by Sir Ralph Torrens of England and has been used successfully in Australia. It has lately attracted much attention in this country. Senator Reed will try to have Governor-elect Stubbs recommend the passage of a law of this kind in his message to the legis lature. State Bank Commissioner Albright thinks there is need of a savings bank law in this state. The so-called savings banks of Kansas are doing business under commercial bank laws. There should be a more liberal law for savings banks, one allowing them a reserve fund that would enable them to carry a full line of real estate mortgages, county and city bonds and the first mortgage bonds of certain railroads that have always paid interest and dividends promptly. A savings bank, doing business under a purely savings bank law would not cater to a checking business at all, but would secure time deposits and thus fill a want in the larger and older cities of the state where there is a large number of worfc ingmen employed. The commercial banks do not care, so much for the one dollar deposits and accounts while these are the specialty of savings banks and thev build up their business on these small savings. Under the protection of a savings bank law these institutions in the state would multiply and besides doing a flourishing business would be a great aid to the working class of people In saving money. It is estimated by the members of the board of railroad commissioners that the repairs recommended by it as a result of its recent inspection will involve the ex- Washington. Dec. 9. Secretary son. of the department' of agriculture, today announced his decision that flour bleached with nitrogen peroxide is an adulterated product and can not legally be sold in the District of Columbia or in the territories or be transported interstate commerce. Owing to the im mense quantity of bleached flour now on hand, the secretary will recommena no prosecutions of manufacturers or sellers for six months from this date. CUBES'" o BEOOD F 015 OH No case of contagious blood poison is ever cured until the last particle of the virus has been removed from the circulation. The least taint left in the blood will sooner or later, cause a fresh outbreak of the trouble, with all its hideous and destructive symptoms of ulcerated mouth and throat, copper colored splotches, falling hair, sores and ulcers, etc No other medicine so surely cures contagious blood poison as S. S. S. It goes down into the blood and steadily and surely drives out everv nnrtirlf nf th infeotinn it- deal was made thrn,,vh trim. absolutely ana perlecuy purities the blood, and leaves this vital fluid aa fi--li son Cromwell, who acted for the can- rich and healthy as it was before the destructive virus of contagious blood, effort m,fatnh and "?!0 bIocked -very poison entered the circulation. S. S. S. quickly takes effect on the blood, Wil- list of stockholders of th Z 'J "j"'" disappear, uie ceaitn is improved, tne skin whom the $40,000,000 was paid cieareu w au 6pois, sores ana outer Diemisnes, tne Hair stops coming out, senator Millard said that many of the mouth aad throat heal and when S. S. S. has cleansed the system of the poi&oa no irau-c ui ljjc uiaeajse is ieit. o. a. cures contagious blood poison because it is the greatest of all blood purifiers, tested and proven for more than forty years. Book on this disease with suggestions for home treatment, and any medical advice sent free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. HERMIT IS STICKEN. Could Not Be Aroused and Is Taken to Hospital. Gen. Hugh Cameron, the Kansas hermit, was taken to Christ's hospital at 3 o'clock this afternoon in a se rious condition. He came to Topeka to attend the funeral of A. H. Case and spent the night at the Case home. He failed to awake this morning and could not be aroused. He was still unconscious when received at the hospital. His home is near Lawrence. MOLASSES EOII cows. Wisconsin Dairyman Says lie Makes It a Regular nation. Chicago, Dec. 0. In an address before the National Dairy show at the Colise um. W. H. Hoard of Fort Atkinson, Wis., advocated the feeding of molasses to cows. Cows like sweets," he said. "I feed my herd a regular ration of molasses everv day. and I find that it thrives on it. It makes their flesh fat and their skins glossy: It gives zest to their ap petite and helps their digestion, it in creases the quantity and improves the quality of their milk. "Of course, the thing can be over done. Too much molasses is had ror tne cow. But a steady diet of a small quantity is a great (thing for a dairy herd. My cows have got into the habit of looking for it. I feed it to them al! the year round, except in the breeding season. The carbons in it are danger ous then." WOMAN IiOCREI) IN DKWi STORE. Stayed in Telephone Booth So Long Proprietor .Forgot Her. me statements contained in .i...... Roosevelt's letter to Foulke are wrong among them being the statement that the money was paid to the French government. Mr. Millard said that the $40,000,000 was paid to J P Mor gan Co. "The French government had nothing 1?, "lU? th? ?ale "t the canal prop! vic.c-u senator Millard. "About with!-marVvho hac a"ithing to do: oV, SO far as our fommittee was able to earn. was William Nelson Cromwell. We were never able to find the names of the stockholders of the concern he represented. Every leading question We asked which pointed tow ard the real man behind Cromwell was' mrt With a blank refusal to answer.! Who they were we were never able to i find out, although throughout the six weeks of that investigation that ques- I turn was asked time after time. I know! LIMl tne money was paid to J. P. Mor gan Co., instead o the French gov ernment, as stated by Mr. Roosevelt. "And I have reason to believe that the money was sent to France, but whether all or any of it found its way back to the stockholders in this coun try i can not say. But none of it was paid to the French government, as far as I know, and the French government uiu not nave the distribution of it. No CJrulliiijr by Officials. "I am certain that there was no graft ins: on the. part of any government offi cial in this coyntry so far as the payment of the S40,W),i0 was concerned. This money was undoubtedly paid over and none of it stuck to the fingers which handled it before it passed into the pos session of the American Panama Canal company, but, of course, I can not say where it went afterwards." "Was Oouelas Robinson or hhv mF the Tafts members of the syndicate was asked of Senator Millard. "1 don't know. We never could get Cromwell to answer a question as to who the members of that syndicate were. Cromwell knows. Get hold of him and make him answer, and vou will know all about the Panama canal deal." "Did you talk to President Roosevelt about the matter? Did he know the re sult of the investigation made by the senate committee?" "He undoubtedly knew at the time all about the result of the inquiry. He seems to have forgotten a number of things connected with it now." PANIC C1IKCKKI) MARRIAGE HONEY SAVED A Decrease of 20 Per Cent Anion" the "100" in New York. by having your teeth attended by us. Always up-to-date, pain less, reliable and tho largest dental concern in Kansas. Popular Price 3. DRS. IVSrON EEATHERLY Office Established 16 years. Ind. Phone lllls Bit Kansas Ave., Topeka. Kan. Over W. A. L. Thompson Ildw. Oo. Best set of teeth s m Good set of teeth K m Gold crown, 22K S Porcelain crown 400 Bridge work, per tooth inn Silver filling ftta to ,S Cement filling's 60S Kxtractlng teeth. freoing gum praee!60o Extracting teeth without medicine 260 Lsav Topeka 4:30 A.M. 5:00 A.M. 8:00 A.M. 2:10 P.M. 3:25 P.M. 7:25 P.M. 7:55 P.M. Returning Lv. Kansas City 7:55 A.M. 9:45 A.M. 10:40 A.M. 11:20 A.M. 6:10 P.M. 10:00 P.M. 11:15 P.M. DOUBLE TRACK NO STOPS FAST TIME Depot First and Kansas Avenue. Phone 384. Til Chicago. Dec. 9. Miss Mabel Roan, 3308 State street, used a drug store tele phone so long last night that when she came out of the booth the druggust had locked up the place and gone home. It was 11:30 o'clock when she tele nhoned from her prison to the Stanton avenue police station A policeman was sent to the resident of the druggist, Sidnev C. Yoemana Fifty-first street and Wabash aven,e. and it was nearly two hours before he reached the store. While waiting for the druggist to re lease her Miss Roan talked to friends over the telephone. Bl'IlGLuVRS AT MAIZE, Dynamite the Safe of the State Bank, Secure $6,000 and Escape. Wichita. Kan., Dec. 9. The State bank of Maize, Kan., a town located about eighteen miles west of this city, was entered at midnight by burglars, who dynamited the safe, securing 6.000. The explosion arouses the people of the little town, but before thev could gather in force the bur glars had secured the money and gal loped out 01 town. Starts on 17,000 Mile Voyage. Philadelphia, Dec. 9. The government dredge Clatzop started today on a 17.00ft mile Journey to Portland, ore. 'tne dredge is only 183 feet long. Stops for coal will be made at Barbados, Per nambuco, Rio Janeiro, Montevideo, Punta Arenas. Valparaiso, Callao and San Diego. The voyage will be made by way of the straits of Magellan. The Clatzop is ordered not to exceed a uni form speed of eight knots per hour. This has been done so as to save on the coal bill. The voyage barring ac cidents will be made in 125 days. Express Company Tax. The state auditor is sending out notices to the five express companies of the state wherein are statements of the tax of Vz per cent on their gross earnings due the state which are as follows: Gross Tax. earnings. United States Express Company 43S.66 29,000 American 1.99 9.532 Pacific 1,729.16 1V'?.!0 Wells Fargo 1,8X8.70 122,380.41 Adams 105. 8 '-""J. This tax is due this month and it is the duty of the state auditor to make the col lections. Harry Miller Is Hurt. Harry Miller, a carpenter living with his family in Shorey, fell 2.5 feet from a scaffolding about a barn on which he was working Wednesday af ternoon and is in a serious condition as a result. While working on the scaffold one of the boards broke and he fell to the ground striking on his head and shoulders. His collar bone was fractured and it is thought that his skull was fractured by the fall. He was operated on late this afternoon and is thought to be seriously, if not fatally, injured. Prominent Irishman Dies. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 9. P. J. O'Connor, former national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and former national president of the Catholic Knights of America, died here today of pneumonia. John Li. Sullivan Sues for Divorce. Chicago, Dec. 9. John L. Sullivan, former champion of the pugilistic are na, today filed suit for divorce against his wife, now said to be living at Cen terville. R. I. The charge is infidel ity. The marriage took place in 1883. Topeka Lodge No. 17, A. F. Si Brothers: A special communication of the lodge will be held Thursday, Dec. 10 at 1:30 p. m., to attend the funeral of Brother A. H. Case. E. H. ANDERSON. Master. CARL W. NET T 1 IS, Secretary. New York. Dec. Marriaire amnnc- wr. sons in New York who are socially prom inent are on the decline, according to statistics based on names appearing in the Social Register for 1909, just out. A de crease of 21 per cent over last yo-s mar riages is shofvn for New York oTty. with a general falling of of approximately 1 per cent throughout the country. Pitts burg was an exception with 69 "social marriages" this year as against C" last year, and Chicago was stationary with lit. Compilers of the statistics declare that the linancial degression was resoonsihle for the decrease. The figures in New York for last year were 7ti:; and for 1908 only 662. Philadel phia's weddings dropped from 2-12 to 22- and Boston from 3tw to 147. St. Iouis recorded only 9S for 1908 as against 131 for 1907, but San Francisco showed an in crease from 81 to H9. In Baltimore there was a decrease from 116 to 99: in St. Pa'il from 67 to 59; In Minneapolis from 29 to 27. Southern Cities as a whole showed no appreciable change. GOT NO MONEY AT MAIZE. Keiiort Tliat Burglars Secured $0,000 at State Bank Proves a Mistake. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 9. It developed today that the robbers who broke into the State bank of Maize, near here at midnight last night, were scared off without securing any booty. It was reported last night that the men got away with $6,000. Presidential Appointments. Washington. Dec. 9. The president today sent the following nominations to the senate: To be chief of bureau of ordnance, rank of rear admiral, Newton E. Mason; vice governor of the Philippine islands, W. Cameron Forbes, Massachusetts. Members of the Pnnippine commission: Newton C. Gilbert, Indiana: Rafael Palma, Philippine islands. Member of Philip pine commission and secretary of finance and justice, Gregori Anareta, Philippine islands. IDLE MONEY Might as Well Be Earning In terest 4 Per Cent 6-Months' Coupon Time Certificates at The State Savings Bank CORNER SIXTH AND KANSAS AVENUE I'ayable on demand In case of need. t Renewal necessary only ouos in 3 jean CALIi EOH STATEMENT Deposits, $1,000,000.00. 3 Per Cent on Saving Account. The KEELEY TREATMENT Alcohol and Ding Addictions cured by a thorough and scientific course of medication. Ir. Keeley's Itemedles employed exclusively. The largest and best appointed Keeley Institute In the West. For particulars address The Keeley Institute, 716 West Tenth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. COOLEY SIGNS TWO MEN. Volz, a Pitcher, and Curtis. Outfielder, the Acquisitions. How She Sot Rid of Her Fat Dick Cooley, manager of the Topeka Western league baseball team, anpounced this morning that he had signed two new players for his 19C9 team. Harry Volz. a pitcher from Cincinnati, and Don Curtis, an outfielder, are the two new acquisi tions. Volz originally played in the Con necticut league, vhere he made such a record with the Bridgeport team that he was drafted bv Cincinnati at the close of the season of 1907. He was carried by th Cincinnati team all during the past sea son, but was hardly considered of major league caliber although he Is a strong minor leaguer. He is a right hander. Curtis comes from the Clinton, Iowa, team. He is a fast outfielder and a good inside ball player. He is a fair hitter. TO AID O. B. BENTI.EY. Senator Curtis C'ttUs at the White House to Indorse the Kansan. Washington, Dec. 9. Senator Curtis of Kansas was at the White House today in relation to a consular appointment tor EengO Did It. No Starvation Diet, OT B. Uently of Wichita, who has been in Tiresome Exercises necessary. The Free Trial Package Will Convince You. COSTS H0THIHG TO TEY. dorsed by the Kansas delegation lor a j consular position. Jiulsre Clark Is Appointed. Judge Ansel R. Clark of Sterling. Rice county, was today appointed by the supreme court as. a member of the state board of law examiners in place of George A. Van Devir, de ceased. The appeal papers in the case of the State vs.' Jennie Davy, county superintendent and the board of education and county commission ers were filed in the supreme court to day from Harvey county. In this case the defendants are charged with refusal to perform their duty under the special high school law amend ment voted in that county at the elec tion two years ago. 1 No Longer Any Excuse To Be Fat and Sloppy. Use Rengo. It is perfectly safe. You eat it like fruit or candy and easily and safely reduce your fat a pound a day. For sale bv all druggists at J1.00 per full sized box. or by mail prepaid, by The Rengo Co.. 3294 Rengo Bldg., Detroit. Mich. The Company will gladly send you a trial Dackaee free bv mail, it you -will write them direct to Detroit; no free packages at drug stores. Rengo is for sale and recommended in Topeka bv G. W. Stansfield. 63i Kansas ave. Gat'lin Drug Co., 702 Kansas ave. F. A. Snow. 523 Kansas ave. A. W. Lacey. 831 North Kansas ave. A 7 SHELLABARGER SON UNDERTAKERS Parlors 122 W. Fifth St Phone 373 THE GREATEST DESIRE of every familv is to have a home of their own. Not only the wife but the children will scrimp and save when they know the money thu saved pavs for a home. We have the plan whereby the efforts of the family may be con centrated on the one point. OWNING YOUR HOME The Capitol Building and Loan ASSOCIATION 534 Kansa Avenue New Depot at Humboldt. K. C- Shiner, secretary of the state hoard of railway commissioners. toda- re ceived word from VV. Ft. Smith of the Santa' Fe that the road had decided to build a new passenger depot at Humboldt. Work on the new structure will begin next spring. The old depot, which was out of date and had been outgrown by the city, will he moved from Its present site anil used there as a freight depot. Headaches and Neuralgia I roni Colds LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine, the world wide Cold and Grip remedy removes cause. Call for full name, Look for signature E. W. Grove. 25c. The Last Train Leaving Topeka for Kansas City In the morning is the Union Pacific No. 106 at 8:15 a. m., arriving in Kansas City at 10:15 a. m. The aftenoon train returning is the earliest train into To peka at 6:15 p. m. Hoot man! the" Scotch are coming. J. L. EDDY Contractor and Builder Repairing and Jobbing. Store Fronts, Shelving Counters, Hardwood Floors, Plain or Orna mental. Shop 110 E. Ninth St. L M. Penwell Undertaker and Embafmer III Qafocjr Street tatft P bones 113 Special Notice. All contractors and boss plasterera are herebv notified that on and after the first day of March, 1909, the mem bers of the Operative Plasterers' In ternational association, local No. 44. of Topeka and vicinity, will demand 62 cents per hour. .CM HICKMAN. President. D. H. CLARK. Secretary-Treasurer. Portland. Oresmn. Every- night at 7:35 a Pullman tour ist sleeping car leaves Topeka via the Union Pacifis R- R- which goes through to Portland, Oregon, without change. There is no better way to reach all of the great Pacific north west. r

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1 No. of sent Entry u E C c& CO 3 j .a i U o CJ j bo a w D O 5J ."S jg JD O 8 O i S g ft U O w CO Amount of Prize RAiLRO AD NEWS. Affa;r of Ilnck Island Placed in Favorable Condition.. Hardships of System During Panic Overestimated. F1SISC0 TUOUCLE 0VEU Everything Easrd by Financing Contract of Speyer Co. Other Items of Interest in Rail way Circles. The announcoment of the favorable financing of Rock Island matters evi denced .jy the purchase by Speyer Co. of $30,000,000 St. Louis San Francisco 5 per cent gold bonds, and also by the sale, within a few hours of the .opening of bids, of $9, 000, 000 t'hiCHgo. Rock Island Pacific re funding 4s by the same bankers, places the affairs of one more of the greater railroads in a most satisfac tory position. This having been one of the reads which during and suc ceeding the stormy period appeared to be especially under the clouds is all the more reassuring. But the fact is that, notwithstanding all the talk of receivership, Rock Island was never once near the real danger point. It was suffering in the public view of matters from a persistent cam paign to break its credit instanced by the anonymous newspaper offer to sell its notes to points below the market quotation, the seller dis appearing ignomlniously when fol lowed up by a rush of people to buy. And all through the weeks and months of convalescence from the panic was heard ominous talk of large maturing obligations unprovided for, and pessimistic predictions of the ultimate, outcome. During all this time the Rock Island was attending to the business of running and financing a great railroad system. It experienced with other roads a great falling off in business, and its financ ing during the depressed period re quired skill and ability of a high or der, which fortunately it had at its command.. Every obligation was promptly met. and every effort made, from the railroad side, to meet the changed situation with economy in operation and expenditure. J. S. Rache Co., in Weekly Finan'ciai Re view. TWO NEW TRAINS. Are Added to 3Iiwsout1 Pacific Service Out of Wichita. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 9. Under the now time card on the Missouri Pacific railway, two trains are added to the service on this division. A red ball fast freight and stock train was put on between Wichita and Kansas City; end a passenger train, known as "The Baldncr Story in Adulteration Impurity Unhealthfulness Hiffh Price Ml. II fill1 Indifferent Leavening Residue of Rochelle Salts Most Leavening Power Purest Ingredients Moderate Price Recehred High est Award World' Pore Food Exposition Chicago, 1907. THE tMU,ll4fWWIMIIlftli. lIIJilMa.lJM.yM J 3 s wnvr a z i i i sit wr t a car?. m j km- k a -,t.i ii i t a cardsl -i to iaoco ta ta lo w cs oo t i-h t t to irs eo m c-i ff o o o o oo oo oo oo r eo -"j co eo eo eo m o m cm cm HHHHHTHHHi-i1-HHoooaacoot-t-tiNi-tt'i-t't" O C4 i-4 i-l i-t H t- f-t i-H r-t rH i-H l rH i-H H -l in Number CJ o is S a? s: I 1 g -P 41 w 3 -s; o nj r3

a o a OiHNiHHtSIOOOHi-to oeoi-40ooeMfseooeco T-ie-ieoeocot i-tsr-c-iooo te u CJ X) tt C 3 u O a: 3 3 X a u -o OS C C C CO G. s o 3 5 c TO s o 2 S pq a O r? ik m I 2 S fH A A OOCNNCCO OOOO (oiQtaioiaioiota j o HMWVWhMOiN CO V Wichita Shopper" was Inaugurated between Kiowa and Wichita. The addition of the red ball stock and freight train will prove a con venience to the shippers of freight and live stock in this city. The train will leave here for the east at 4:30 p. m. Heretofore the Missouri Pa cific's stock train for the east left at 10 o'clock in the morning. The train not leaving until 4:30 p. m. will allow the Union Stock Yards people, the packing houses and other jobbers six hours, more time in which to load cars for Kansas City and the east. ORIKVT ROAD IS READY. Train Service Can Be Run From Wicliltn to Sweetwater. Kansas City,' Dec. 9. The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient steel high way is ready for the wheels that will carry men and merchandise from Wichita, Kan., to Sweetwater, Texas, 432 miles through a traffic bearing country. The finishing of the nearly half mile bridge over the Pease river in Texas Saturday closed the gap in tho railway. Officials of the new road say through train service will start Jan uary 1. The line is to be extended ninety five miles to San Angelo, at once. The Wichita-Sweetwater line will enable the Orient road to handle Fort Worth and Galveston freight and passenger business via Colorado Southern which is crossed at Diaz, Texas, and also business, for Califor nia, Erl Paso and all points in Mexico by way of the Texas and Pacific which is crossed at Sweetwater. The road also has a connection with the Colorado Southern at Chillicothe, Texas. The completion of the line to San Angelo will give the Orient an important connection with the Santa Fe railroad. IMPROVING ONAGA BRANCH. A Bigr Cut Near Kmmett Is Being Widened and Made Deeper. Onaga, Kan., Dec. 9. There is a large crew and a steam shovel at work on the big railroad cut this side of Em mett. The cut is being widened and deepened Its full length. The steady work on this new line of track shows that it is intended to make it a first- class line in every way. Minor Washington Items. Washington, Dec. 9. George Doug las is appointed postmaster at Banner, Trego county, Kan., vice A. W. Purin ton resigned. The firm of Dieter Wenzel of Wichita have been awarded the con tract for the construction of the public building at Trinidad, Colo., at $65,799. W. E. Simmons of Kansas City, E. S. Downing of Wichita, L. H. Hamil of Ottawa, B. H. Buchanan of Topeka, H. W. Hogan of Rosedale, S. A. Lewln of Loring, J. M. Harris of Quenemo, F. W. Weston of Marvin, K. W. Bell of Chetopa, Ross Carllton of Beloit, J. H. Higden of Potum, Fred L. Smith of Medicine Lodge, J. J. Smith of Marysville, R. A. Ross of St. Marys, H. C. Harper of Fort Scott, W. H. Bush of Toronto, C. L. Smith of To peka, W. D. Settle of Lenexa, C. A. Courter of Paola, L. W. Wyrick of Sa llna, E. W. Holms of Menoken, J. A. Dan of Wellington, J. M. Lydick of Hamlin. A. L. Morris of New Albany, C. E. Carl of Perry, L. A. Brown of Virgil. Carl N. Fitzgerald of Kelly and Albert B. May of Williamstown, Kan., are all appointed railway mail clerks. The Powder a nut-shell. Cheap Baking Powder Trust Baking Powder CALUMET BAKING POWDER 1 TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1908. T3 Z a CO k-i to a) y 00 a; .7 t"! S S 3 ao. g o 5 2 O t-4 C-l CO CO cm co t-h M H M C O C M CM eo v co oo as eo ia n ih m h -h i i- co o C. ctf t, o d bo o 5 a 5 fc, t- !C G -l be em 5 5 3: 3 fa TO c r 3 So Ph fa p: oi oi 5 3 fa bo g 5 K cc ft w s o vi m j b u 3 S S M K B.1 BJ B W 0! o o o o o o IA A a LO m 19 IS CM CM CM io n us ifl C-j CM CM CM CM ia w n CM CM CM CM CM CM CS ID t HHNtlNWNNWiMNNMCCiMMMnMMWM NEED OFTHE HOUR President. Iloosrvelt Says the Time Is Now To Conserve Natural Resources and Improve Waterways. IS ENDORSED BY TAFT If the Current Government Rev enues Are Insufficient They Favor an Issuance cf Honds for the Purpose. Washington, -Dec. 9. President Roosevelt and President-elect Taft have publicly put themselves on record in advocacy of the issuance of govern ment bonds for the construction of permanent public improvements to conserve the natural resources of the nation. President-elect Taft presided at the joint conservation meeting at the Belasco theater in this city, at which President Roosevelt made the prin cipal address. The incumbent of the White House gave his unqualified ap proval for the carrying out of expert plans for the conservation of the na tion's resources. The coming president seconded Mr. Roosevelt's assertions with hearty accord. Governor Chamberlain of Oregon voiced what seemed the advanced ground of the Democratic party in ad vocacy of federal jurisdiction, and an audience which filled the theater and which included Andrew Carnegie, John Mitchell, senators, congressmen and the governors of several states, applauded every sentiment expressed. The joint meeting brought together the members of the conservation com mittee and their helpers, the delegates to the great southern commercial congress, the members of rivers and harbors congress and others interested in working a comprehensive plan for making the most of the lands, min erals, forests and waters that belong to the public domain of the United States. President Roosevelt spoke In part as follows: Judge Taft, governors, representa tives of the states and the great na tional organizations, members of the national conservation commission, ladies and gentlemen: I welcome you to Washington and to the work you have gathered to do. No service to the nation in time of peace could be of greater worth than the work which has brought you to gether. You have 'come here to make this nation's future as great and hap py as its present. It is the largest national task of today, and I thank you for making ready to undertake it. If you do no more than fix the nation al attention upon the problem, you will do vast good. It augurs well for our future that you are here; and it Is to the credit of our country that In this matter it should take the lead among the nations of the world. The prudent business man regularly takes account of stock, so that he may know Just where he stands; but nations have been slow to profit by the wise example. The United States Is substantially the first nation to in ventory its stock on hand, and it has only begun to do so in any definite way within the last few months. Last May the governors of the states and territories met in the White House to confer with each oth er and with the president upon the material basis of our national wel fare.: They united in a memorable declaration which should hang on the wall in every school. One outcome of the conference at which the declar ation was adopted was the appoint ment of the national conservation commission, whose chief duty was to prepare an inventory of the natural resources of our country those re sources which are, in the language of the governors, the foundation of our prosperity. Its report is to be used by the president in transmitting to congress information as to the state or the union so far as natural re sources are concerned. I am especially glad to welcome the co-operation of the states, through their conservation commission and otherwise. Such co-operation gives earnest of mutual assistance between states and nation, and mutual benefits to follow. Without it the great task of perpetuating the national welfare would succeed with difficulty. If states and nation work for it togeth er, all in their several fields, and all joining heartily where the field is i 2

c G) 0) -i 2! fi o c, o J- a.- 50 t si 3 X 2 LJ U2 W2 41 C O r- V, 3 m ft, r i M i.o as pi i o O -CJ 3C eo CO CM ec CI l t t -rfi -V o CJ c -no 2 P3 C CS c o a 9 x: to" i-i Q 5 1-1 o" a a: w cn S P5 n w is e en A RECENT SANPSJIOT OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND HIS FAMILY AS THEY APPEARED IX HOT Sl'RIXGH. H EM'S,- &r WlPWSi, .fVI. i If t a" Mustt miVrtfan (T aidTrufciTiSri -x President-elect William H. Taft, Mrs. Taft and Charlie Taft in the fore ground. General Bell, chief of staff in background. common, we are certain of success in advance. The national organizations con cerned with natural resources, such as the great engineering societies, the national rivers and harbors congress which is now holding its fifth con vention, the southern commercial congress, also in session, which has made as excellent a beginning all these and many others have joined in the work in a way to gladden the heart of every patriotic American. A special word is due the national rivers and harbors congress. It is the one organization that is advocat ing a waterway policy and not a waterway project, and is national in its scope, for it represents practically all the friends of waterway improve ments in these United States. The question of river and harbor improve ments and the benefit that such will bring to the producer and the con sumer has, through its work, been favorably and prominently brought to the attention of the country. Prom inent commercial organizations and men of character and influence throughout practically every section of the country are enlisted in the cause it represents. Its work being strictly national and in no sense sec tional, merits and should receive the support of our citizens. We must not grow hysterical or sen sational in depicting our condition. But neither must we allow a false security based on conditions long DID THE WORK Grew Strong on. Right Food. You can t grow strong by merely exercising. You must have food and that food must be the kind you can digest and assimilate. No matter how much food you eat unless it is digested it adds to the burden the digestive organs' have nat urally to carry. This often means a nervous breakdown. "About a year ago, lady, "I had quite a writes a Mass. serious nervous breakdown caused, as overwork and worry. I believed, by I also suffered untold misery from dyspepsia. "First I gave up my position, then I tried to find a remedy for my' trou bles, something that would make me well and strong, something to rest my tired stomach and build up my worn out nerves and brain. "I tried one kind of medicine after another, but nothing seemed to help me. As a last resort I tried different foods but they all failed me. "Finally a friend recommended Grape-Nuts and with little or no faith in it. I tried a package. That was eight months ago and I have never been without it since. "Grape-Nuts did the work. It help ed me grow strong and well. Grape- Nuts put new lire into me, built up my whole system and made another woman of me!" "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Bat tle Creek. Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one armears from time to time. Thcy are genuine, true, and full of human J interest. o 5 g 3 J3 as aj a. xi c O X -S! si as 5 c S C 1-1 3 50 C i X J W 2E C I. efl C r A s EC O ffi o j a s a o. 02 K H t-1 m eo oo to C"2 i-H CM CO Oi O CM 1 t t-' H (O N 3 a! C TO o fa 3 S o C 3 a to J5 cs cq sfi cn x 3 m ED Z u t- S S. 3 S PS H 3 S3 S faSSSSSSSKSS O i-H -M CO 1.-2 O t C C75 O i-H weoinwMCfiOrtNMlCWt'XiaOHNMViCtOh-XChOHNMlOte ira iq to u3ioi3t3iOi-oi.oco co toots to eo tetet-t-tii-t-itoocc30oco)ftefl;ioiai 3? .a 1 since passed away to prevent us from seeing the facts and applying busi ness common sense to the situation they disclose. The purpose of the in ventory was to give the facts not to create alarm, but to take stock of what we have, and so to lend to the necessary action for its preservation and increase. t Our natural resources are so re lated that the use of one affects the use of all the others. This is es pecially true of our waterways. Every man, woman and child within our borders has an interest in them, through navigation, power, irrigation, or water supply, or through all four. We have neglected our waterways more than any other natural resource and wei must put an end to that neglect. The inland waterways com mission has told us how. First, let us prepare a comprehensive plan for inland waterway development along the lines pointed out by the com mission. Such a plan must consider every use of the waters. It must put the interests of all the people in advance of any private interfsts whatsoever. The preparaCIdns -'of fhis- comprehensive plan should begin at once. Second, let us proceed immediately with the construction of the waterways for which plans have already been approved, and which we are now certain will fit into the outlines of the general plan. Our policy of procrastination, delay, and fitful and partial action, has borne its perfect fruit. Our waterways are deserted, and in return for our vast expenditures we have little or no actual navigation to show. The people are ready for a change. Lei us have it, and at once. If we can pay the cost from current revenues let us do so. If not let us issue bonds. By either method, let .us have the waterways and that quickiy. The plan and the work can and should proceed together. While the work we are sure of is being begun, the plan for the rest can be prepared. The work therefore should begin, at once. But there must not be the slightest recklessness, or waste of money. No work whatever should be undertaken that has not been thoroughly examined and fully approved by competent experts. Above all. not one cent should be expend ed to satisfy special Interests. Whether of a business or a locality, or promote any man's political fortunes. This is too large a matter to be handled in such a yay. We must approach it from the point of view or tne national interest, unaer tne guidance of the wisest experts in en gineering, in transportation, and in all the uses of our streams. Forests and water ways cannot be. separated in any success ful treatment of either. Forest protection and river development must go hand in hand. The three things which should be done without any further delay are there fore: First, to provide for a comprehen sive plan of waterway development. Sec ond, to begin at once on work already planned that will surely fit into the larger plan. Third, to provide amply for forest protection against fire, against reckless cutting, against wanton or reckless de struction of all kinds, and to secure the Appalachian and White Mountain Na tional forests without delay. WOLF HUNT SHOWN. Moving Picture Exhibition in East Room of White House. Washington. Dec. 9. Moving pic tures of wolf hunts turned the east room of the White House last night into a miniature theater. Nearly 100 in vited guests made up the audience. The "stage manager was John Abernathy. friend of the president and United States marshal from Okla homa, who. it is said, catches wolves with his hands. Some nights ago he 1 CD 3

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bo :s!e c c o c c as c TO 0 c c'5 i H E IS c 7 4 c O 5 (S -3 I. K K k. u 3 t- M 41 x oo tr. t. t. fa HI 15 OSS showed the pictures privately to the president and the latter was so delight ed with the exhibition that he decided to inyite some friends to see it. The performance began about 10 o'clock, following a dinner at the White House. COMPLIMENTS the press Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America Adjourns. Philadelphia. Dec. 9. The first federal council of the churches of Christ in America adjourned to meet in December, 1912, at a place to be selected by the executive council of the organization. Strong resolutions were adopted at the final session in opposition to increased armament by the nations of the earth. A feature of the session was an address by Prof. Henry Wade Rogers of Yale univer sity who said the time was at hand for obligatory arbitration of disputes between the nations. He deprecated the un-Christian attitude of the United States and its "mad rivalry" with the nations of Europe in building the largest, swiftest and deadliest battleships. Resolutions were also adopted condemning the divorce evils and commending organizations that have taken up the subject of better divorce laws. The council also passed a resolution calling upon school authorities to give children more time during the week for religious in struction In their homes and churches. The council paid its compliments to the press of the country in the adoption -of the following: "The federal council recognizes the great value of the city and coun try press, the last as well as the first, reaching and serving vast religious as well as civic fields, and cordially in vites all the brotherhood of the press, both secular and religious to co operate with the council as allies in warfare against civic corruptional commercial dishoner, immorality, vice and crime." Distinctiveness Combined With Artistic Merit or Quality As the case may be, gives prestige to the gift chosen from this store. In addition the exceptionally wide variety of merchandise shown here, merchandise for every member of the family and complete for the home, merchandise in a wide range of prices, merchandise that is the product of the world's best talent and selected from the out put of dependable and reputable manufac turersthese things make this Kansas City's Ideal Christmas Store. By Beginning Early Christmas shoppers may en joy in full measure the spirit of the Christmas season. Much of the joy of giving is lost when lists are hur riedly compiled and hastily filled. Shopping NOW has every advantage in the complete ness of assortments. Nothing is to be gained by delay. Remember, we will gladly, store your gift purchases and deliver them at the time re quested up to Christmas Eve. KANSAS CITY, MO. 3 oo Z G 3 O CO r 0) o

3 15 t 4 e a u ifl m CM iit w CO i u s c O (S ZKfa e to m e en C o C u Q CD fc c t, c o o o t too i1 n a s c -s a to O w CO P. j bc S S S 2 3 O TAFT MADE PRESIDENT. Will Be at Head of Red Cross as WeU as tlie Nation. Washington, Dec. 9. President elect Taft, when he is inaugurated next March, will occupy the unique position of being the only president to hold at the same time he occupies that position another office at the head of one of the country's national independ ent organizations. At the annual meeting of the Amer ican National Red Cross society Mr. Taft was unanimously re-elected presi dent of that organization and after ward told the members that it would give him great pleasure to continue at its head. Mr. Taft personally pre sided over the meeting of the lied Cross during the afternoon session. Mrs. Russell Sage in recognition of her services and the gift of $25,000 to the society, and Dr. Louis Klopsch of the Christian Herald, for his work In organizing the China flood relief and executing it in the name of the society, were unanimously elected honorary members. President Roosevelt Is the only other honorary member. Special medals for persons rendering valuable duty to the Red Cross were awarded to Ernest P. Bicknell of Chi cago; Edward J. Devlne of New York; Major Carroll A. Devol, U. S. A.; Major W. Simpson, IT. S. A., and F. W. Dorman of San Francisco, all for their work In connection with the San Francisco earthquake. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Tfia Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature of

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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1908. T0PEK1 STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAC LEXNAS. Centered July 1, 1S75, as second-class matter at the postoffice at Topeka. Kan. under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXV NO. 304 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier system. By mail, one year By mall, three months Ti Saturday edition of daily, one year... 1-w TELEPHONE. Business Office Bell 1JJ Business Office 1. Reporters" Room VB5 2 Reporters' Room Frank P. MacLenran 700 PERMANENT HOME. TopeSta State Journal building, soft and Vft Kaunas avenue, corner of Elcntn. New York Office: Flatiron building, at Twentv-third street, corner Fifth avenue nd Broadwny. Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Hartford -building. Paul Block, innnasrer. ftxt; tj:a!kd wtok hfport op the assoctatft prk?s The State Journal Is t member of the Associated Press ar.d receives the full dy telegraph report of that great news or ganisation for the exclu?lv3 afternoon publication in Topeka. The news is received In The State Jour nal building over wires for this sola pur ro Topeka makes a new bid for fame of tome sort. It appears that there has been a bulldoc in her midst for some time that hod a market vilue of $300. Breaking into rhyme the Chicago Record-Herald calls attention to the truth that She that shops now. while she may, May live to shop some other day. If Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany has any regard for peace among the na tions of the earth, as he has professed to have on occasions, he ought to perish that thought of 'his to make public a diary that he has been keep ing since he ascended the throne.- About the biggest row that the members of the city council have ever undertaken to hoe is the proposition to rename"various of the streets in the city. This is an experience that has been enjoyed by the city fathers In every community when they have tackled a similar proposition. A good many people will soon get over taking any and every word utter ed by Mr. Roosevelt for gospeF If he lays himself open to any more such right handed jolts as the New York "World has administered to him In con nection with the scandal which ap pears to have attended the purchase of the Panama canal property by the United States. John W. Gates' circus will probably J be hailed with glee in those districts where there are fearless young men who will jeopardize their limbs In an effort to ride the trick mule. If Gates runs his circus on the same scale that he has operated other things he'll probably offer not less than a million dollar prize to "any man in the audi ence who can ride the mule." "Everybody boost for the state fair." That's the proper slogan for Topekans and for everyone else in Kansas until the legislature makes an adequate appropriation for this long neglected enterprise. When this has been done it will then be the duty for every Topekan and the many friends of Topeka in this vicinity to boost for the location of the state fair in the capital city. But let the state estab lish an exposition of this sort no mat ter where it is set up. Rather unnecessary emphasis is laid by the directors of the Smithsonian Institute on the fact that Mr. Roose velt is to pay the expenses of himself and son on the great hunting trip irj Africa. It must be remembered that Mr. Roosevelt Is going to get $2 a word for his articles on this trip. In asmuch as his congressional messages show that he is never at a loss for words, the income he will derive from the trip ought to pay all of his ex penses and leave a handsome profit. According to the two John D.'s Rockefeller and Archbold the oil business is a particularly hazardous one. But there are few persons, even among the most careful, who would not take a chance at a business whose earnings are of such Immensity and regularity as those of the Standard Oil and its subsidiaries have been shown to be, regardless of the hazards involved. But instead of being haz ardous this oil business seems to have been something of a surety of a get-Mch-quick scheme for those who got In on the ground floor. Something unusual in the history of municipal affairs in this country is a situation which has developed right here In Topeka. The city voted $60, 000 for the improvement of its electric light plant and the commissioners in charge of the undertaking find that only two-thirds of this sum will be re quired. This is more than a pleasant surprise. It shows that the electric lighting commission Is composed of the right sort of men who have the in terests pf the taxpayers of the city at heart. When the- history- of .-the naval demonstrations of the twentieth cen tury is written, a prominent place will undoubtedly be devoted to the ones which Holland recently made .gainst Venezuela. Three Dutch war ships have sailed majestically along the South American republic's coast at a distance no greater than three thousand yards from the shore of the principal ports. This is equivalent to Queen Wilhelmina giving President Castro a soft slap on the left wrist. Talk about sauciness. Has it ever been equalled in international im broglios Ernest R. Simon, judge of the court of Topeka, will again be a candidate for the Republican nomination for that Judicial position at the coming spring primaries. So far no other aspirant for this honor has come forward. Nor is there likely to be" any opposition whatsoever to his securing this re nomination. Neither Is there the slightest doubt that he will be re-elected to office. And this Is as It should be. During his incumbency. Judge Simon has earned a deserved reputa tion for presiding over the affairs of this court In a fearless and impartial manner. He has gained the respect of the members of the bar in this lo cality and also of the litigants who have had suits before him. It is such men as Judge Simon whose one good term deserves another, and then another HOW TO FIGHT CONSUMPTION. In view of the attitude which has just been assumed by the leading state of ficials, the health authorities, promi nent physicians and others of Kansas, in starting a crusade against tuber culosis, the resolutions of the Interna tional Congress on Tuberculosis tha. was held in Washington' not so long ago, cannot fail to be worthy of repeti tion and of interest. They follow in condensed form: That health authorities should be notified of and should register every case' of tuberculosis. That all means should be used to pre vent contagion from man to. man. which is the most important source of the disease. That ail means should be used to pre vent contagion from bovine tubercu losis and that the possibility of the propagation of this to man be recog nized. That the public and all governments be urged to establish hospitals, sana toria, and camps. That well-considered factory laws, child-labor laws, laws regarding wo men's work, etc., be Insisted on. That instruction in school and per sonal hygiene be given in all schools. That colleges require for entrance and for graduation studies In hygiene and sanitation. There would appear to be no better foundation on which could be laid the nfFni.tu that -i r-Li f. Vi.i maila tn I-fl A i nat I. tuberculosis from Kansas than these I self same resolutions. It is evident that if these resolutions, or recom mendations which they are in reality, were rigidly followed there would be no more cases of consumption in this state within a generation than there are now of malignant contagious diseases, such i as smallpox and diphtheria. f TECHNICAL EDUCATION. "Some years ago, Jamea M. Dodge, then president of the American So ciety of Mechanical Engineers, chose as a subject of his presidential ad dress "The Value of Technical Train ing," says the Iron Trade Review. "In this address Mr. Dodge showed the immense advantage a man educated in a technical school has over a man trained in a trade school, and the far greater opportunity that exists for the latter as compared with a man who has received ail his training in the shop. A few years later, R. T. Crane, who is something of an Iconoclast, as far as thlgs educational are concern ed, made a vigorous attack on college trained men, giving as his view that the time spent in college is wasted, and that a man might better spend his time in the shop. Mr. Crane's opin ions were at variance with those of most of the men qualified to speak on the subject and a rather spirited de bate ensued in the columns of the technical and daily press. Mr. Crane based his assumptions on the exper ience he had with the men in his fac tories, and Mr. Dodge likewise drew on the records of his own shops for hin facts. "Prof Furman gives the opinions of the leading graduates of the institu tion in question on the value of the training they received in college. With one exception, these opinions form a high testimonial to the education they received. "It is conclusively proved by many other papers and records heretofore published, that it will not do to be little the value of technical training. The college-educated man has come to stay, and, while, in the future, many men not so trained may be found in high positions, the great ma jority, of these positions will be filled by men who have passed through the college or technical school. Those that contend otherwise will speak from their ignorance and not from their knowledge." CXEWS ON TARIFF REVISION. The views of Henry Clews, the promi nent New Tork banker, on affairs in the financial, commercial and industrial worlds, are always interesting and gen erally pretty authoritative. In this category may be placed his recent dis cussion of the tariff question, although there will be some who. through fond hopes which will probably be sad ones, will disagree with him in his conclu sions that there will be no radical re ductions in tariff schedules. Regard less of the fact that many such are most needed and desirable, the chances are that Mr. Clews' contentions In this line are the correct ones, although it will be unnecessary to cross such an undesirable bridge until It is reached. On these matters Mr. Clews said re cently: "Tariff agitation is not having the un settling effect upon business at one time feared; the fact that many indus tries are less dependent upon the tariff than formerly and that no radical re ductions are. probable being responsi ble for this state of public opinion. It is very evident that the tariff is going to be reformed by its friends only, and that no serious unsettlement of busi ness is in sight. Even Mr. Carnegie's remarkable statements had little effect, except to excite the opposition of other manufacturers. Upon steel securities the influence was practically nothing. In the merchandise markets prospec tive revision creates little comment, because importers are carrying small stocks and a reduction in rates would help and not depress this line of busi ness. There is no doubt that judicious and ,moderate revision of the tariff would be positively stimulating to bus iness. The only sufferers would be those who are mow enjoying swollen profits, and these concerns could often do equally well by simply using more mod ern and more economical methods. Free raw materials would be a great ad vantage to many manufacturers, es pecially when not produced in this country. The tariff upon lumber should receive attention, because it destroys Instead of protecting one of our most valuable natural resources. The tariff on art is also one of several absurdi ties, since it protects no interests and is positively detrimental to the devel opment of art, which could prosper vastly more in the United States If the best foreign examples were admit- ted free. This country is now so strong industrially that it has little to fear from foreign competition; our superior methods and enterprise often offsetting the advantages of foreign cheap labor. We are quite prepared for a freer in tercourse with foreign nations, and no country in the world is a better ex ample of the advantage of unhamper ed commercial development than the United States with its 40 states and 87,000,000 population enjoying absolute free trade between themselves. Where would this country have been If tariff walls had been erected between its var ious sections?" JOURNAL ENTRIES Mere intentions never go very far in accomplishing anything no matter how good they are. If politeness did not demand it many a Christmas present would fail to bring forth a "thank you.:' Persons who try to forge their way to the front by putting out bogus checks generally end up in jail. Just because a man has no ideas, that's" not a sufficient reason, as it seems to be these days, why he should write a book.

One can never tell the feelings of a woman by the character of the hat she has on for the chances' are that many a doleful wife wears a; "Merry Widow." A firm in Pratt advertises that It has "engaged in the jackrabbit business" to the extent of paying 5 cents each for every good, fresh killed rabbit that is offered to it. Evidently tax-paying in Leaven worth is not indulged in with any great degree of enthusiasm. One hundred pieces 'of property were re cently sold there by the sheriff for taxes. Mrs. Jerry Simpson is making a tour of southwestern Kansas selling her book, "The Story of Jerry Simpson," which was written by Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, and as might be expected, doing well with her venture. The plenitude enjoyed by the aver age Kansas farmer is- shown by a dis aster which recently happened to Tom Shannan, who has a farm near Geneseo. One thousand bushels of corn was too much for the crib it was in and the struc ture fell down. As a sort of a forlorn hope the East ern Stars pf Nickerson are going to give a leap year party on December 12. This is a tip to other girls in the state that the time in which leap year pro posals can be made by them is fast drawing to a close. An Iola law firm has received word from Washington that a case which has been pending in the United States supreme court for twenty-one years has been settled. The suit was be gun in 1877 by a man now dead for possession of eighty acres of land near Elsmore, in Allen county. This is what is called "swift justice." Four families who have made their homes in Amerlcus, are preparing to start for Old "Mexico to form the nu cleus of the first settlement of an ex tensive tract of land there. This is merely worthy of mention as a means of calling attention to the fact that folks who once settle in Kansas don't very often leave it. for richer and greener fields are hard to find. The auall hunter is busy and this means many more lies added to the already long list told by hunters. A quail hunter will He under the new law more than under the old. Now every hunter will come home and swear that he killed exactly the num ber allowed by the law, no matter whether he killed one hundred or had the usual luck and shot nothing but his dog. Wichita Eagle. Joe Jackson, a 16-year-old lad, of Syl via, probably holds the honor of hav ing furnished the largest bond that has ever been given by a Kansas youngster. Joe is working for the Santa Fe at the station In Sylvia. Under the rules of the company his position is such that he had to give a bond for $1,000. He started out to have his bond blanks filled up and applied to W. H. Hinshaw of the Sylvia State hank, W. A. Aus tin of the Sylvia Hardware company and George Coffman. They not only filled out the bond but qualified as bondsmen In the sum of $200,000. Joe must certainly have an enviable repu tation for honesty around Sylvia. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. No one but a boy's mother ever thinks he may be tired. People never get so old that it doesn't hurt them to be scolded. The less some men work, the more they complain about the way other men make money. It is very discouraging to think of but today was the future you hoped for forty years ago. What has become of the old fash ioned woman who used to saythat to open an umbrella in the house was a sure sign of death? Now that the season of good will is approaching, look yourself over, and see if you are devoting too much at tention to other people's affairs. If you are. quit it. Man Is so conceited that, if a woman refuse to kiss him, he puts her down as a very- proper person; she wouldn't wouldn't kiss anyone. That Is the only explanation a man can think of. Life offered great joys to a boy of a generation ago when the girls wore their hair in pigtails, instead of done up in pompadours with big ribbon bows. There wasn't anything awe inspiring or terrifying In a pigtail, and a boy twisted it, pulled it, and tied things to "It with a joy no boy's heart has felt since.. No fun sitting behind a girl at school since the de parture of the pigtail. "In asking people for news, I have noticed this: Most of them say: 'I have been so busy that I haven't had time to hear anything.' Are people as busy as they think they are? As a matter of fact, haven't we all a good deal of idle time on our hands? I have, and I waste time in a shameful manner every day. I might accom plish twice as much as I -actually ac complish. Look yourself over: Haven't you a good deal of Idle time on your hands every day? If you haven't, you are a very unusual per son." -Drake Watson. JAYHAWKER JOTS KANSAS COMMENT LETTING IT ALONE. ij Two Kansas men have committed suicide within the past few days be cause they could not quit the -habits which were destroying their minds and morals. One Wan a fowwiAv ii-Vin liao iAon celebrating, the Fourth of July for -several years. He left a note savins- that he Was nsVtameri ft himself Vl n had been trying to sober up for a long iime, dui it was impossible, so he. had concluded to take the one reliable method of reformation. The other man was n morphine victim; he also had tried to shake -off his old Man of the Sea; and couldn't do it, and so he figured that it would be a mistake, to 1 i v lrvnerer.. It will be observed that these men realized their own degradation,- and tried to escape from it, and couldn't. Death was the one master key that would release their fetters. They probably endured many reproaches, and listened to many appeals to their manhood, before taking the last step; and they doubtless found it impos sible to convince anybody that they were helpless; that something more than an effort xt will power was nec essary to deliver them. They are dead and in' their graves, unhonored andunsung; but the sun shines bright for the eminently re spectable druggists who sold them the dope that killed them, knowing that one was a drunkard, and the other a morphine fiend. The people who sell the poisons, violating laws physical and moral, to gain some dirty money, are less honorable, though more hon ored, than the unfortunate victims, who can find their only surcease of sorrow in the grave. Emporia Ga zette. THE GERMAN HOBSON. When the Germans read the Dr. Hale interview with their kaiser, which was suppressed by the Century Maga zine, only to make its appearance even earlier in the daily newspapers, the wrath which has been burning for a few weeks, because of another imperial interview, will get a fresh start. The kaiser is altogether too anxious for war, according to his .interviews, to suit the rest of the world, particularly his own people, who get enough of the army even in time of peace, and other coun tries besides Germany have reason to be angry at his statements, if they are taken seriously. He has Hobson out classed as a croaker, as he seems to see war in store for most of Europe, as well as for Japan and the United States. Emperor William, by the way. Is the original discoverer of the Yellow Peril, and time seems to act as a mag nifying glass. A war between the Uni ted States and Japan, England losing India, or having to put down a re bellion, and a war devastating France and Russia, is a pretty fair day's work for even so strenuous a prophet as the emperor. But the emperor will say no more about it. Atchison Globe. FROM OTHER PENS MURDOCK AND THE HOUSE. "The American people in the next two years will take a deeper and live lier interest in the rights and privileges and status of the house of representa tives than ever before," ,said Victor Murdock, representative' from the Eight Kansas congressional district, at the Arlington, last night. Mr. Murdock is'a,jmlxer uv nature, and he is the typical son of the west ern prairies, full of ideas and quick to recognize their value. If he were not a Kansan he might be taken for a Frenchman, bo far as his vivacity of manners, alertness of mind, and quickness of speech 4s concerned. Kan sas has been called the France of America, and Mr. Murdock upholds the fame of his native state with grace and dignity. Being from the Sunflower state, Mr. Murdock must have his say. It has been said that there are more news papers and' magazines read in Kansas than in any other state in the Union, and that there are no greater critics nor more independent minds than those who have grown up in the Kan sas atmosphere. "The members of the house of rep resentatives in their individual ca pacity," continued the representative from Kansas, "have no power or standing under the present rules gov erning the house. The whole ppwer of that body, its influence, and ma jesty seems to be merged in one person, and that is the speaker of the house. In the course of political evo lution the speaker has gradually ab sorbed the prerogatives and power and influence and name and fame of the members of congress. Of course there are reasons for this peculiar state of affairs. The president's pow er and influence have grown and in creased since the office was established by our forefathers and so has the power and influence of the United States supreme court whose self se lected duty it seems to be to construe and interpret the laws and acts of con gress. The power and influence of the members of the United States senate has never suffered; the president of that body has never been endowed with despotic powers. But the house of representatives, being such a, large body, gradually delegated its powders to the speaker to balance the power and influence of the senate and other branches of the government. "So much has been delegated to the speaker that the individual rights of the members are well nigh lost. There must be a change. The members must have their individual rights and they must be restored to them; the indi viduality of the house under the pres ent rules is lost. There is a similar fight on in the British parliament where the speaker, has assumed un restained. sway. In France it Is just the other extreme; there the speaker semes to have no power and the conse quence is that very little business is transacted." Washington Herald. EUROPE TURNS TO AMERICA. The Turkish government has 'just purchased 10,000,000 pounds of cop per in the United States, presumably for ammunition purposes. American wheat has risen to the highest price reached in a long while, owing largely to the big demand for it in Europe. Canned meats are going abroad in un precedent quantities Whatever the nations of Europe may do, whether they keep the peace or prepare for war, 'they find 'America the vast storehouse where they can purchase what they need. We are the great metal producer of the world, the leader among grain growers, the larg est coton raiser and the biggest ex porter of meat. These are all necessities, and Eu rope must have them. It is just as certain as that the sun will rise again tomorrow morning that so long as the United States remains the earth's grandest farm and mine combined the country must expand. The lull in business conditions cannot long sur vive when foreign peoples everywhere arc eager to buy what Americans pro- du Philadelphia. Press. A CHRISTMAS GLEE. Come -where the ice-crystals crackle and crinkle! (Over the meadows, oho!) Haste where the flakes of the snow Spangle and sprinkle the fair periwinkle. Whirl where the piping winds blow! (Merrily, love, let us go Out noon folly! be jolly! be Jolly! (Over the meadows, oho!) Bright boughs of holly to flout melan- Beckoning. beckoning! O! gheyteve.. let us go!) ThlsJ vhow green it is!) be for (Over jttiv meadows, oho!) This fbr Faith's passionate glow! This for Hope's clarity, and (for hilarity) Tendrils of blithe mistletoe! (Heart of nbv heart, let iis go!) Clinton Scollard in- December Metropoli tans,; Wife's Right of Search. (Judge tMullownv of Wnshi C., police court, holds that it is legal for a woman to search her husband's clothes while he sleeps. He says a uuiou uuesn t love ner husband un less she goes through his pockets oc casionally. News item.) ,lt You should wake up in the middle of the night and find your wife shak ing the loose change out of your trousers' pockets and transferring it to the place where women keep their fin f.ces' and you should say Indignant- "What are you doing?" And she should reply: "I'm just loving you up. Go back to sleep." What would you know about that? And if the decision of the Washing ton police Judee. who is r-.TTeve-i to be a bachelor, is upheld in the higher courts, St. Louis tailors would not be surprised to see the fashions in trousers pockets turn a double somersault.- Over-loved husbands would want their valuables distributed over their persons in such a way that a diagram would be necessary to find a nickel for carfare. The Tailor: "How do you want your trousers' pockets made, sir?" The Customer: "One below the right knee, with the opening under the left suspender button. Another one in the roa of the left lesr. Make the matah pocket In the seam, about the small of the back. And I'd like 'em rigged up with a battery so that if any one puts their hands In it will ring a bell or nre a gun." St. Louis lawyers think the wife's right to search the husband's pockets is a sound principle of law, and would add much to the interest of police court procedure. "If, as happened in "the Washington case, the man doth protest too much and taken his wife to court," said one, "she would naturally be called on to show what she took from her hus band's pockets. Imagine a collection such as this laid before the judge for inspection: "Exhibit A A circular piece of metal bearing the inscription, 'Two and one half cents at the Imperial, Steeth and So-and-So street.' Husband explains that it's a slug for -use In his pay-as-you-call telephone. Wife unconvinced. "Exhibit B Memorandum on scent ed note paper in unidentified hand writing, saying, 'will start at 2 p. m., promptly: be there without fail. Mag. Husband says it's a tip on a horse race. Wife leaves it to any unprejudiced mind. "Exhibit C Three red and two blue chips, five cards running consecutive ly from the deuce to the six, and a pocket mirror. Husband says he must have put on some one else's trousers by mistake when he left the lodge last night. "Yes, It would be "Interesting if up held in the courts." St. Louis Post Dispatch. Declares Kiss Must Go. "Kissing; Its Evils and Benefits," might well be the title of the argu ment waged here among members of the women s medical fraternity and hospital staffs, and it is all brought about by sensational statements con cerning the danger of osculation which Dr. John V. Shoemaker makes in the November issue of the Monthly Cyclo pedia and Medical Bulletin. In this article Dr. Shoemaker declares that in kissing germs are carried to the mouth and thence to the lungs and stomach. One warm advocate of the antl kissing propaganda is Dr. Clara Scott, a homeopathic physician. "Not only is Dr. Shoemaker correct In his statements about the evils of kisf?ing, but in my opinion he does not go far enough," she said. "The num ber of diseases which kissing causes is unbelievable to one who has not studied the question. I firmly believe that the day will come within a gen eration when a formidable antikissing movement will be established, and when kissing practically will be con fined to the lower classes, the educa ated people having been brought to see the evils of the habit. "Of all forms, however, the kissing of babies Is positively the most dan gerous. More diseases are thus com municated than the world has any idea of. "Next to the evil of kissing babies comes the sweetheart's kiss. This is one of the most dangerous of all. A husband's kiss generally soon loses its fervency, but the kiss of the two sweethearts is the paradise of the tub erculosis germ and the diphtheria germ and other germs too numerous to count. During the long intervals while the sweetheart's kiss continues one may imagine the various germs rushing backward and forward with unholy glee." Philadelphia despatch ot New York Herald. Woman Dies From Cat Scratch. Scratched two weeks ago by a. Mal tese cat, which was her only compan ion; at 2371 Jerome avenue, the Bronx. Mrs. Frances R. Gammon died of blood poisoning Wednesday.' She was a widow and remarkably hand some. She Kept-to nerseir in a.ner- mit-like fashion. The pet cat slept on the bed .with her and never exhibited any sign of viclousness prior to In flctng the wound on her ankle. Mrs. Gammon neglected the scratch, her leg become swollen, and a week, ago she called Dr. J. Fabriccus. living near by. He and another physician were powerless to save her., and she died in great agony .--New York American. REFLECTIONS OP A BACHELOR,

t From the New York Press. The devll .has such a good time' at his regular, business he never takes any 'vacation. A man's wife can't even keep him on the water wagon by telling him how her mother predicts he will fall off. There's nothing a woman can worry more about than her age after 30 ex cept the age of her unmarried daugh ter after 24. If they had all turned out men the Lord would have kept on creating more in the hope of getting something better, but when there was a woman it was safe to stop. The nearest the average man can come to arranging a financial pro gramme for the next year is to over estimate his income and under estimate his-expenditures.. THE EVENING STORY A Thread in the Woof. (By Wallace Snow.) Pietro Vincenzo Riga was dis couraged. It had been a bad day. In fact, it had been a bad month. Gen erally when he and Oambletta took to the road and traveled through this section the nickels and 'dimes -and quarters fell Into Pietro's old felt hat in a most alluring stream. But this year the weather had been for the most; part Tainy, and some how Gambietta seemingly had lost his knack.' of Coaxing coins from stubborn pockets.- What 'few pleasant days there had been had proved far from profitable, for the dimes and nickels and quar ters were conspicuous by their ab sence, and Pietro .and Gambietta must both eat. fair weather or dull. In vain did they plod the dusty highways; in vain, whenever they could find a possible audience, did Gambietta do his cumbersome tricks. Waltz, turn somersaults, die, go lame, wrestle with Pietro as he would, but a few scattered pennies had lodged in the old felt hat. Bank ruptcy, grim and ghastly, stared them in thar face. Moreover. Gambietta was growing painfully thin, even as if he had but recently come from one of his long naps of hibernation, and Pietro was beginning to learn all too frequently that a handful of berries, gathered from the roadside, made a most un satisfactory repast. They plodded up the long hill slope, the man shuffling along with his shoulders stooped and his head bent, and the bear following along at the end of his chain, his head rolling from side to side and his scuffling feet sending up choking clouds of oust mat set him to wheezing and coughing In miserable fashion. They were nearing the top of the hill when a wagon with a portly, well fed man on the seat drew up beside inem. ine well-fed man glared at "i unaisguised contempt. ey, you dago," he called, "what yer doln' with that bear here on the highway? Don't you know there's a regulation against It in this town? Scares horses, it does! Take him through the woods or the fields, but n-cep on me roads you hear?" Pietro pulled off the old felt hat and bowed respectfully: then. h t,t ho could, in broken English, plentifully interspersed with Etruscan dialect, he UK:u piain mat neither he uommria would willingly or Miuwingiy transgress the law; but the man in the wagon understood no wui u ui me servile harangue. iNone or your lip, now," he Inter rupted irritably, at the same time tuning open nis ewat to display a tin star. "I'm a deputv sheriff Tom va an,d that bear keep off the roads or x ii run you Dotn in see? He waved his arm mMnlnviw ward a little wooded nath that from the highway to the left, and sat in nis wagon watching the sorry pair until they had turned into it and were lost to view in its shady depths. Beneath a giant oak tree that stood oesiae me little path Pietro sat down miserably, his head in his hands and a great aespair in nis tired eyes. iamDietta collapsed beside him. i uneu huuui luxuriously lor a moment, men lurnea on nis side and went calmly to sleep. Pietro sat there for a time, a prey to his bitter musine: then he tnn stretched himself beside Gambietta's rusty Drown DUlk and fell into trou bled slumber.. Now it happened that the path a winding wood road which the two had chosen, or rather which the well icu man iiau cnosen ior mem, as a retreat, led to a cascade, where a little stream fell over a series or granite ledges. It was one of the beautv spots of the vicinity a place much frequented by the summer people who came to the mtie town. Even as Pietro and Gambietta slept in the shadows of the oak a smart trap came siowiy down the winding road irom me cascade. In the trap was a stern-faced young man ana an unsmiling young woman. And it took no very great intellect to see that everything was not entirely pleasant Detween mem. Indeed, they had fallen into silence that bitter silence which is harder to endure than threats or recrimina tions or open censure. For some time they drove along, the beauties of the shaded wood road lost to their eves. The man finally broke the silence. "Perhaps it would be better if I got out ana waiKea, ne suggested grimly, "Perhaps It would." said the srirl. and reining In the horse she watched him climb down from the trap. After wnicn sne nicked the cob with the whip and the trap spend down the road. The man stuffed his hands into his pockets, grunted something inarticu late and strode on in her wake. He was a pleasant looking young man. The rrown that furrowed his forehead seem ed sadly out of place. But there was something about the moutn which said he had a will of his own and somewhat more than his share of stubborn pride. Presently, by way of soothing his overwrought nerves, he pulled from his pocket a well-worn briar pipe and be gan to fill It from his tobacco pouch. nut scarcely was the task comple ted, when from ahead there arose a sudden commotion. A cracking of un derbrush, a jabbering of Etruscan dia lect, a half-smothered feminine scream sounded through the stillness. The young man pricked up his ears, and, as the scream sounded once more, he dropped the pipe, and tore down the path at a pace that had won him rec ords on the cinder path. Around a bend In the path he sped and there before him he saw a frantic ally plunging horse, an Etruscan wring ing his hands and Jabbering, helplessly, while a badly frightened bear crawled through the underbrush with many whoofs of genuine alarm. The young man Jumped for the bit, caught, it and clung on desperately. The horse, thoroughly frightened, snorted and plunged and acted generally like a beast bereft of his senses. With all his strength he strove to free himself from the young man's grasp, but that stubborn will was equal to the emergency. Men with mouths like the young man's don't let go, once they have gained a hold. 1 For several minutes it was a battle royal. for the mastery; then the young man's strength and agility and spirit prevailed. The horse, quivering and panting, came down on all fours, and stood there, shaking like a leaf. "You had best get -out for a moment or two," the young man advised, and the girl meekly obeyed. Then she saw his torn coat and blood on his wrist, where the prong of the bit had torn the flesh. "Tom," she cried, quite forgetting the recent unpleasantness. "Tom, dear, are you hurt. There's blood on your hand, and you're all mussed up." He smiled reassuringly. "Not in the least, dearie," said he. Then he looked steadily into her eyes. "But I'd be glad to be if if "If what?" she asked rather breath lessly. "If I could make you understand what an ass I feel myself to be and how sorry I am I quarreled with you." The young woman had her share of common sense. "Well. I rather think we can forgive each other without anything so unnecessary as that," said she. "it was my lault, anyway." "I rather think It wa clared. vas mine," he de- At that moment Pietro Vincenzo Riga, overcome with premonitory fears, ap proached, nearly touching the ground with his forehead, so low were his bows. His gestures were rapid and expresflve. his face a picture of woe. "Not-a my fault! Not-a my fault!" he repeated over and over, his palms up turned in deprecation. The young man turned. "Your fault!" he laughed. "Not a bit of it. my friend. In fact, it's the most fortunate circum stance in the world that tou happened along Just as you did. Here!" And Into the astonished Etruscan's hand he thrust a crisp ten-dollar bill. Pietro stood staring at It stupidly, scarce daring to believe his good fortune, while the young man helped the girl back to the trap. It was only when the trap started on that Pietro realized he was taking some thing and giving nothing In return. "Wait!" he cried. diving into the bushes for the reereat Gambietta. "Walt! Mak-a da bear dance-n da waltz!" "Oh. that's all right," the young man laughed. "You've earned the money!" The trap whisked down the nath. Pietro hauled the bear from the underbrush and made him stand at his clumsy Kalute. His own tattered felt hat was clasped In his hand as he watched iho two young people, sitting clcca together and both talkintr at once, drive out of sight. Then he and Gambietta set forth at a ome wliat livelier pace in search of supper.- (Copyrighted, 1908. by Associate Literary Press.) HUMOR OF THE DAY "We're starting a circulating library for the use of the inmates," said th prison visitor. "Is there any par ticular book you'd like to "hav?" "Yes," replied the convict, "there U one, If I could only get a chance to use it right. I'd like to have a rail road guide." Philadelphia Press. "But, Captain, the most happy mar riages are often made between people who are quite opposites." "That Is the reason why I am looking out for a rich wife." Dallas Post. "Do you intend to Inaugurate any great reforms this year. Senator?" asked the beautiful girl. "No," replied the states man. "My present term will not expire until 1909." Chicago Record-Herald. The food inspector's wife was looking over her husband's notebook. "George," she said, "how do you pronounce the last syllable of this word "butterine?" "The last syllable," the inspector answered, "Is always silent." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. First Clerk Say, Bella, do you remem ber the swell fellow who used to cotip In every day last year, give us a good Jnlly, and buv candy for his grandmother? Sec ond Clerk Yes; he doesn't come any more. Is his grandmother dead? Fir.t Clerk No; he's married to her. Harper's Weekly. Automobillst (to another who has brok en down) Can I be of any assistance to you' The Afflicted One (under the ma chine) Yes. sir. That lady you see la my wife. I'll be obliged If you will kindly an swer her questions and keep her amused while I'm fixing this infernal machine. Woman's Home Companion. "Darling." said the bride. "I had a ter rible feeling of sadness come over me this afternoon a sort of feeling that you wer doing something that would break my heart if I knew of It. Think, sweet, what were you dolnr, now this fTrP"" ,ti. "nearest renlled the nus- band tenderly and reassuringly "at .that them on envelopes. "-Ladles' Home Jour- naL 23 Bust Measure. He I played my first game of gol f this arternoon what am you "'d.,','. -ly) Harris tweeds. The Sketch. Mrs. Jubb Wake up. John. I'm sure i a v-.t-I?:. rfrwn in the pantry, and he eailng all my pies. Mr J -Ye'Ihunet care, so long as he don't die in the house. Philadelphia Inquirer. ndmlre artistes wkV-Oh! hSw 'perfectly lovely: Rurelv there must be a great deal of art in planting Such a beautiful picture? Art?st (not overprosperous)--Not a b art comes in.-The Throne. DVhVHchM.ss Pnssay fifs9 nitorMhav?Vanted h.m a little more time. Life. r. "That1 a hannv thST-hivi father's, I guess. tnt ahnnt some New York i-re. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. t, man's time Is valuable he doesn't kill it. No man has occasion to apologize for doing his duty. button doesn't always ring the gong of success. The lazy man's pay envelope is never afflicted with obesity. r ih dinner bell greWmtnds run in the same channel. B .i.ana for WlSClOTn. A correct gueso i,o even though it Is only a guess. ..iiQd.it with vour lot If vou are nut start a real estate boom and sell it. What a mother likes about a young man is usually what her daughter doesn't. hw .mall the A man aoeu i world is until he tries to dodge hi creditors. Perhaps Lot's wife looked around v,w xnme other woman s dress W e3 hung In tne back. Poverty is one or tne cr.m v,or In sentenced to hard labor for an Indefinite term. A woman's happiness reache the .v.n aYia nossesses a thing tnat 111111b I no other woman can obtain. QUAKER. MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record.l A balloon trust should be easy to flat- 4 11 We all have our own way until get to be about a year old. j i ore not re- Thp Dure iuuu j i sponsible for unadulterated nerve. Offer a penny for the thohU of some people and you will -tck right when"he admit, that he is in the wrong. Blobbs I canea ;VIh I, old hen." SIODDS lay ymg io .half th. It 'seems as JV.- ihl Mnn. hnnr. while the world surtero other half suffers from overeating The people wnu uu about the beauties of the simple life are those wno aie Wigg (at the theater) "This show hasn't a good thing about It." Wagg i i- T imnsrlnA th. jn, X uvu l' man who put up tne money im a. preiijr good thing."

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THE TOFEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1908. 5 Lin DCI UVL n n pn 5) r?ro) 213 EAST SIXTH STREET You don't have to experiment with bargain counter methods We are always there with the goods, and at the right price BBSS ADAM AND EVE BAND. Work of the Party Described Members In Custody. by Kansas City, Dec. 9. Mrs. Pratt, with two of her young daughters, spent last night in the matron's rooms at police headquarters, but Mrs. Sharp who fired two of the shots that struck Policeman Michael Mullane in yester day's street battle, was confined to city jail. i vo Deen in trouble before, was all Mrs. Pratt would say, "and if I can be killed for righteousness sake I shall be eternally happy." Mrs. Pratt bemoaned the death of her other daughter. Lulu, aged 13, who was shot during the second stage of yesterday's battle when the women and her children pulled oft in a row boat in the Missouri river and at tempted to escape. At the hospital this morning it was said that Patrol man Mullane had small chance of recovery, but that Sergeant Patrick Clark's condition was slightly improv ed. A. J. Seizor, the bystander who was hit bya stray bullet, also is ex pected to get well. Mary Pratt, the little 11 year old sister of the dead girl, displayed the same remarkable coolness shown by her elders, when questioned by the po lice. She did not cry when told of her sister's death. "She did it for her God," was the child's answer. Then the girl related the history of their wanderings. "You see we got acquainted with this man Sharp up in North Dakota," she said. "That must- have been two years ago. This summer we began following them. In the houseboat, we started down the Missouri river. We i would stop at each city and preach and sing. Of course, we kids did the singing and it was great fun. We left St. Joseph about a weex ago and float ed down to Kansas City Just as those ice cakes began to appear. "Yes, it got cold on the boat, but you know we were serving the Lord and our master had to endure hard ships when he was on earth. When we stood on the street corners and sang for the people we felt repaid, for we knew we were doing the Lord's work. "Xo, they didn't make us children sing. We did it because we loved to ao so. 1 nose Dig guns which we car ried were for protection. Papa says this la a free country and we could carry fire arms if we wanted to. Then we needed guns to kill rabbits and ducks, when we were floating down with the current. "Did we get hungry?" the child turned her black eyes on the question er. "Of course we did sometimes, but we didn't mind that, Papa and mama went without things to eat too." Mrs. Pratt, later In a statement to the assistant prosecutors told of the band's work. "Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, our leaders," said Mrs. Pratt, "were known to-us as Adam and Eve and we believed their teachings. It was revealed to Mr. Sharp last summer that our meetings were not to be interfered with again. We armed ourselves. 'If the police at tempted to arrest you, shoot.' our leader said. 'They can't kill me I'll live forever.' The first I heard of the trouble yesterday was when Lulu and Mary came running down to the boat and "told me that the shooting was go ing on. "Then the officers came and want ed to take ua away. I got my Win chester down oft the wall, told Lulu to get a gun and we all got into a skin that was tied to the houseboat. I sat In the bow with my gun in my hand. I wasn't going to shoot unless I had to because I had had no chance to ask either Adam or Eve what to do. I am sorry I didn't resist. I'm afraid I have lost my eternal life because I think Adam would have advised me to shoot. "Lulu got into the back of the skiff, which was covered and Mary took the oars and we started across the river. The officers began shooting at the boat. We drifted up to the bank and when I saw blood on Lulu's ear I knew that she was shot. Then Mary and I got out and hung on the side of the. boat. until they captured us." G. A. R. MEN COMING. Will Be Guests of Honor at Campflre Tomorrow Evening. A campflre will be held nt the Audi torium, commencing at 8 o'clock ThursVy evening, December 10. This reunion is upon the occasion of the visit of the commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., Major Henry M. Nevius, his staff, and Mrs. Mary E. Gilman, national president of the Women's Relief Corps, and Mrs. Gen evlve Longfleld. national president of the Ladies or the G. A. R. Commander W. A. Morgan, of the de partment of Kansas, will preside at this meeting. The following programme will be given: Organ Patriotic Airs... Mr. W. F. Roehr Prayer Rev. S. Lampman, Department Chaplain Address of Welcome ....Comrade C. B. Graves. Justice Supreme Court Song "America Forever Modocs City's Welcome Comrade Wm. Green. Mayor Address Maj. Henry M. Nevius, Commander-in-Chief Song .Mrs. Belle C. Harris Address Mrs. Mary E. Gilman. National President W. R. C. Sone-"Kansas" Modocs Address Com rade Frank O. Cole. Adjutant General Song Mrs. Belle C. Harris Address....... ...Mrs. Genevieve Long field. Nafl President L. of G. A. R. Song. ."Boys of the Old Brigade".. Modocs Address Comrade Thos. W. Scott, Member Executive Connmittee Address Wm. H. Arm strong, Member Executive Committee Address Philip Cheek. Member Executive Committee Song "America" By the audience KANSANSARE NAMED. SUED BY SERVANT GIRL. Itosalce Gardenliire Wants $2,000 for Being Accused of Theft. FOR Men Only t FANCY Dress Vest SALE Thursday Morning we offer for sale $3.00 Vests for Men $2.50 Vests for Men .00 Vests for Men YOUR. CHOICE $2 These Vests are made of Silk and Flannel, Pique White Wash Vests, White Wash Vests with small fig ure. Truly $3, 2.50 and l Vests on sale for. 75c J 622 KANSAS AV& The case of Rosalee Gardenhire against Margaret Rowley, for $2,000 damages, was filed in district court to day. The defendant is Mrs. James P. Rowley, and the plaintiff a colored do mestic 'whom, it is alleged in the pe tition, was charged with theft. The petition cites that the defendant. Mrs. Rowley, slandered the plaintiff by felling one Ben Judkins that said Rosalee Gardenhire had stolen a table cloth and some silverware. The plain tiff thinks that her fair name was dam aged about $2,000 worth by this remark to said Judkins, who was an officer of the law. The facts in this case are as follows: About a year ago, the negro girl who is plaintiff in this case, worked for Mrs. Rowley a short time, and then left sud denly. With her disappearance came the realization that several articlesof value were missing from the Rowley home. The case was reported to the police, and Detective Judkins was sent to see Mrs. Rowley. Judkins talked of getting a search warrant for the house where the girl was living, but Mrs. Rowlev did not want to do this, and made no further effort to recover her property. The detective called on the colored girl but got no satisfaction as to the missing articles. "A short time after this," said Mrs. Rowley, "myself and Mr. Rowley began to receive threatening letters and com munications.. We were warned to go to Alma, where the girl lives and 'settle with her. Jamison, an assistant in the county attorney's office, seemed to be the prime mover in this effort to get a settlement. This case raises a new subject of dis cussion as a side line to the "servant question." DATE FOR THE FAIR. President Promotes Four Army IJeuteiiams. Regular Washington, Dec. 9. Four Kansas men, now contract surgeons in the army have been nominated by the president for appointment as first lieutenants with the rank from last July 7. They are William F. Deniedman, Joseph Pinquard, Francis Marion McCallum and James Rudolph Mount. The president also nominated Truby Cheney Martin and Wilbur Rogers of Kansas to be second lieutenants, with rank from last September 257 Kansas postmaster nominated: Orlando A. Che ney. Fort Scott, reappointment; Lewis Pickerel!, Minneapolis, in place of Thos. E. Hurley, resigned; Frank S. McKel vey. Gas City, reappointment; Eli A. Baum, Burden, reappointment. ANOTHER CONTEST IS FILED. J. Ij. Finley Claims Legislative Seat Won by Josiali Crosby. Another contest was filed with the secretary of state this morning, this one from Cheyenne county.-. J. -L. Finley, Republican candidate.- for representative is contesting the elec tion of Josiah Crosby, Democrat. -The returns gave Crosby a majority of four votes. J. S. Stout. Democrat, of the 125th and W. V. Jackson, Republican, of the 99th representative districts have contests on their hands. In the sen ate W. M. Moore of the 32nd and T. A. Milton of the 4th senatorial dis tricts have contests. Both of the latter are Democrats. THOSE LIGHT BONDS. Amount of Issue Will Be $10,000 In stead of $60,000. FLAT DENIAL. is Made by Cardinal Gibbons Cromwell's Statements. to Mill Be Held In the Week mencing September 13. Com- At the annual mee'.ing of the stock holders of the Kansas Exposition com nany held at the Commercial club rooms Tuesday evening a decision was reached to hold the fair next fall dur ing the week commencing September 13. Twenty-two stockholders were present at the meeting and 109 others were represented by proxies. The an nual report of Secretary R. T. Kreipe which was submitted indicates that there remains in the hands of the treasurer of the association $1,415.92. Baltimore, O.. Dec. 9. The atten tion of Cardinal Gibbons has been called to the following statement at tributed to William Nelson Crom well of New York regarding the fail ure of the Fidelity Funding company of New York: "Since the trouble with the funding company began I have been appealed to by many high dignitaries in the church including Cardinal Gibbons, to act in their interests." The cardinal replied by saying he never had any communication verbal or written with Mf. Cromwell on this subject and that he never had any transaction with said company. Halo Sue-eeds Allison. Washington, Dec. 9. A largely at tended caucas of Republican senators today1 unanimously elected Senator Hale as chairman of the Republican caucus to succeed the late Senator Allison. The position carries with it the -chairmanship of the Republican steering committee of the senate which determines all important legislation in that body. Dividend Increased. New York, Dec. 9. The directors of the Western Union Telegraph company today declared a quarterly dividend of of 1 per cent. This is an increase of of. 1 per cent as compared with the previous quarter. r E5 You've never tried us on doing the family washing you can not know how much we can help you. Our charge for Rough Dry Work is only 5c per pound. We starch ev ery piece requiring starch, and iron New Tork Money Market.' New York. Dec. 9. MONEY Money on cull easv. 2Jfi2 cer cent: ruline- rate 2Va per cent, closing bid and offered at 2 per I the flat pieces cent nm loans rirm and dun; w clays, i Try this plan one week and you will montns. ter cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 3iiS44 per cent. Sterllne exchange strom with actual business In bankers' bills at $4.84.50S 4.84.60 for w (lav bills and at $4.86.90 for demand: commercial bills. J4.S4ii4.S4?ji. SILVER Bar silver. 49c; Mexican dol lars. 45c. BONOS Government bonds. heavv: railroad bonds, firm. never do the Family Washing at home it doesn't pay! The Mutual Topeha's Soft Water Laundry 50 Employees, 6 Wirom. Phones 519. A mistake in the report of the city council proceedings made the amount of electric light -bonds to be issued $60,000 when it should have been $40,000. i- Monday night the light commission of the city, which is composed of R. L. Coffran, W. W... Mills and Herbert Hackney, reported 'to the city council that $40,000 was 'sufficient to rebuild the plant and that on 4 per cent Interest instead "of i 5. -This action will be of great interest to the people of the city as it meahs a saving of $20, 000, not tncludirrg'the, half per cent interest: u-i v "The work of issuing the; bonds ts now In the hands" Of the engraver," said Mayor Green' -.this afternoon. "When they are through the printers' hands theywilf be registered, abstract ed and placed on sale. It is expected to have, them ready this week. The work on the plant itself is also progressing as fast as possible. Prac tically all of the bids are in and the commission is almost settled on the bidder. These bids include a vast amount of new machinery and the new plant will haver" twice the capacity of the old one. A new make of street lamps will also be 'used over the city and the old ones disposed of. The commission has turned in its estimates for the boiler plant amounting to $7,500. Stricken Blind. New York. Dec. 9. While playing Greek love melodies and war songs, Anastaslo Salaehlanan, a Greek peddler, has been stricken suddenly blind at his home in Seventieth street. His brother was sit ting near him when the man cried out: "I cannot see the music." He arose stag geringly and cried again: "Now, I can not see at all." A policeman was sum moned and the afflicted man was hurried to a hospital. It was said there that his sight was completely gone. The case is puzzling the physicians. i LOCAL MENTION. Dr. S. Tempie, Osteopath. 735 Kansas ave. Ind. 1642. Res. 5174. Bell 1S85. The ladies of the W. R. C. are re quested by the president, Mrs. Martha Fitzgerald, to meet at the street car lunction on Eighth street, Thursday af ternoon at 2 o'clock, to attend in a body the reception to be given the national officers at the Auditorium that even ing. What would save your wife more drudgery than an Independent tele phone? It is an always ready mes senger, a time saver, a protection in case of Are or burglary. Call con tract department No. 1,000. The final touch in a home is the cor rect choice of pictures. We can help you right there. Coe Bros.' Cut Rate Art store, 828 Kansas avenue. Exacting smokers never fail to appreciate the superior qualities of Eagle's Rose Tint five cent cigars. This ciear has won its w;ay into popularity through pure merit. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of A. H. Case whose death occurred at his home late Mon day afternoon will be held from the family home, 1300 West Tenth ave nue Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Dr. Charles M. Sheldon wili have charge of the services-at the home and the Masonic lodge of those at the ceme tery. Captaln Joseph-G. Waters who has been Intimately acquainted witn Mr. Case for a great many years will deliver an address following the ser vices conducted by Dr. Charles M. Sheldon. A meeting of the Shawnee County Bar association -was held in the dis trict court room this morning and a committee appointed to draw up resolutions of respect. The associa tion will meet Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the corner of Tenth ave nue and Buchanan street and attend the funeral in a body. The follow ing are the pall bearers who have been selected: Judge A. W. Dana, Judge Z. T. Hazen, Howel Jones, Judge A. J. McCabe, Charles Spencer and ex-Senator John Martin. The funeral of Mrs. Guilford Dud ley who was killed in an automobile accident in New York city last week was held from the late residence this afternoon at 2:30.- The services were conducted by Bishop- Millspaugh of the Episcopal church. POLICEPUZZLEO, Unable to Solve the Death cf -Mrs. Ferrar. Husband Arrested Bnt Estab lishes an Alibi. HE IS THEN JKELEASED. But Detectives Are Still Invrs ligating. His Actions.. Woman Was Smothered by Chloroform Say Djclors. Did H. C. Fairer kill his wife or did she commit suicide? That is the ques tion that is bothering the close observ ers of the mysterous death at 418 Van Buren street early Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. Louise Farrer, the white wife of H. C. Farrer. colored, was found dead in her bed at the above mentioned place. Mrs. II, Cv Farrar. Whose Mysterious Death the Authorities Are Attempt ing to Clear Up. Farrer was arrested by Chief Eaton Tuesday and taken to the city jail un til he could be questioned by the offi cers. Detectives went over the house during the absence and searched every thing but not a sign of chloroform could.be found and the items mention ed by the husband were found to be untrue. Farrer said yesterday that he broke in the front door, and smelled carbolic acid the first thing as he en tered. He then claims to?, have, .found the bottle on the-china closet about one fourth full of the acid and directing his little 9-year-old girl to throw it in the stove fearing that the. two children would get hold of it he went upstairs to see what his wife was doing and why she had not fixed his dinner .for him. She was lying on the bed, according to his story, with her hair down and her shoes off. At that time she was still alive but was unconscious and af ter vainly trying to make her speak he rushed down stairs and turned in the alarm to the neighbors and called up the doctor. There are many suspicious things in connection .with the .story. The detec tives searched., the ashes or the stove thoroughly but found no signs of a bot tle.- The. fire was, not very hot and the bottle .could npt. have been entirely melted. This contradicts the story about the disposing of the bottle of carbolic acid. The man's daughter says that he had been home once or twice during the morning and he had sneaked in the back door. She says that he came around- to the front door at noon making believe that he had just returned from work. She also says that he had brought the bottle down from the upstairs' room when he came down after he entered the house and he never found it on the china closet. It is true that the woman was not killed with carbolic,' acid ..as her mouth and the autopsy 'did not show It. But the acid was sprinkled.' pretty thoroughly over the house arid gave a very strong odor throughout the afternoon. The autopsy shows that the weman had been chloroformed but no signs of carbolic acid were found. Farrer was released by the police last night when he proved an alibi that he was working from 8 o'clock in the morn ing until noon. The police- released him but he is still under surveillance. Couple Had Quarreled. Farrer and his wife have been quar reling ever since thier marriage three weeks ago. However, they have been living together about six months. Far rer has a daughter that his first wife is very anxious to procure by any manner or means and she has almost succeeded a number of times. The Farrer woman had a small five-year-old b&y who is also in danger of being kidnaped by relatives and thus their mutual troubles were combined. But this was not sufficient to subdue others and the neighbors state that they have quarreled almost every day since they were married and neighbors ought to know they generally find out some way or other. Farrer himself admits that at one time the moving van was backed to the house and half of his wife's goods loaded before she would give up and come back to him. He says that she has always been Jealous and that the women over the White Star laundry have been telling her bad stories of his conduct. She has threat ened a number of times to kill herself and him also. Neighbors say that she has been out late at night and some times Farrer' locked her out and she has been forced to spend the night wherever she could find a place. Mrs. Farrer has a record that is checkered to say the least. According to the story told by her half brother who lives just outside the city she was half witted. He says that she has al ways been crazy over men and has had trouble with different men. Chief Eaton of the police- force said that Mrs. Farrer was mixed up in the Keil Moore affair about, three years ago when a man named Keil Moore killed his wife and himself on account of jealousy over the husband of this Farrer woman who was then jars. Keil, her husband working" In the Santa Fe shops. It is said that Mrs. Farrer was directly responsible for this double death. She was a rather frail young woman about 25 years of age and at one time was a beautiful girl. She had thick black hair, flashy black It i- v.5 V i-l h' h? I I it Vv. i'7Jwl I Uf 1 'HKRBACH '!r LGUET1EL Mail Orders FUled The Whole Town is Talking About Our $15 OvercoDts A most marvelous assortment, includ ing handsome dressy Paletot or frock overcoat (that cannot be bought else where for less than. $25), the Pro- tector or automobile overcoat, the long full 50-inch coat, short box coat, short box coats and the semi-form tracing; overcoat, in every conceivable shade and pattern; these garments are won derful values at the price; J C you'd really expect to see fn j J them priced much higher than The man wonfa fViA mna ruiwfaAf '4 ting, best tailored Overcoat obtainable for $25 4 r hould visit The Palace; they're made by pure-nun's with wool Hart. Schaftner Marx? linwl ""J-a dye silk and interlined with all ciotn; tne i a Dries are kerseys, patent beavers, herringbone and fancy stripe vicuns; all the popular styles, including the Proctor C model, the "coat of the hour," at...p.3 200 Very Fine Raincoats, water proof, in black and fancy all worsteds. nooDiiy maae, iasmonaDiy cue; also 3UU nne black Kersey Overcoats: II 1. II TT au wuui, velvet tunor, v eiieiiaii cium lining; special values at Initialed Handkerchiefs, Men's Ex celda initialed handkerchiefs, 25c values, a box of 6 special a for J L Kid Gloves Genuine kid suede and dog skin gloves unlined, silk or fleece lined, regular Sl.50 values elsewhere, special, P Perrins, Fownes Glove Pique kid, and medium or heavy cape in all the newest shades of tan j i Cf and brown p 1 .JU Give a Merchandise Bond or Give a Glove Bond $10 Xmas Neckwear A wonderful neckwear dis play of all the newest shades of greens, browns. Helios, etc. French four-in-hands, values that sell for 75c and Jl else 1 where, our price p I Four-in-hands by Lyford. Auerbach Bachraeh. the best makers In this coun try, prices from Jl $3 LEATHER GOODS. CoUar baea. toilet sets, neck tie boxes, poeketbooks and many other useful article 1 j it. prices from 2Ec ip lO We are issuing this year Merchandise Bonds in any denomitation. Wm are issuing Glove Bonds for all sorts of gloves for men at $1.00, $1.50 and up. Topeka to Ireland, England or Scotland, sJ?S $144 ht 7 ixt-tii 'Lfs-ass.. V .-I Topeka European circle tour, including England, France, Germany, Switzer land, the Rhein, the Alps and Italy; returning via the Mediterranean Sea, second cabin, $185.00 and up. Individual tours to all parts of the world. Lowest rates. All steam ship lines represented. CHARLES E. MORTON, Railway and Steamship Passenger Agent. Ticket Office: Rock Island Depot, Topeka, Kansas. Christmas Gifts FOR H 1 Personal Adornment For Women Rings Combs Watches Hat Pins Lorgnettes Coral Jewelry -Bead Necklaces Belt Buckles, Gold and Silver Watch Bracelet, Gold and Silver Dress Watch Guards (New) For Men Rings Watches Scarf Pins Cuff Buttons Eyeglass Cases Watch Fob and Chains Pencils, Gold and Sil ver Tie Clasps, Go!d and Silver Match Boxes, Gold and Silver Diamonds and Precious Gems' In Great Variety of Original Settings ROGERS 1847 SILVERWEAR Complete Line S.FREIDBERG, Jeweler 507 Kansas Avenue eyes and a pretty face. Her marriage to Farrer, who Is a negro of the black est type, created considerable com ment but both seemed to be satisfied and the matter was dropped. Place I:i Searched. Detectives Hutton and. Sauls of the Topeka police force who searched the Farrar place last .evening found noth ing that would make evidence. A few love letters of the gushy variety were found in the woman's clothes. They were written to Farrer and only ex pressed a" desire-that' they might live together aa soon' as possible. It was just before the marriage that these letters were written. A little note was also found warning her to be careful of her rambrings or she would be caught by some mean women. Farrer explained this aa having been written by a young man friend in church not long ago who warned her that a bunch ot women who were Jealoua intended to waylay her. Nothing waa found of the chloroform, although the bedroom in which the woman dh-d was searched carefully. It is a din gy little room just under the roof of the Email frame shack and the beds were crowded In between trunks, packages and boxes. 'The bed Itself was covered with hairpins and tha woman's shoes were lying in the floor at the foot of the bed when she waa first found by the coroner. The bed clothes were laid over her carefully and there were no signs of a struggle. The case is a mysterious one and may be cleared up at the Inquest In the courthouse Friday morning by Coroner Keith. The police and Dr. Keith feel certain that the man killed the woman and they have more proofs for this assertion than can be present ed against it.

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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FOR CONSTIPATION A Medlefnc that Does Not Cost Any thing Unless It Cures. If you suffer from constipation in any form whatever, acute or chronic, we will guarantee to supply you medicine that will surely effect a cure if taken with regularity and according to directions for a reasonable length of time. Should the medicine fail to benefit you to your entire satisfaction, we promise that it shall cost you nothing. No other remedy can be compared with Rexall Orderlies for the easy, pleasant and successful treatment of constipation. The active medicinal ingredient of this remedy which is odorless, tasteless and colorless, is an entirely new discovery. Combined with other extremely valuable in gredients, it forms a preparation which is incomparable as a perfect bowel regulator, intestinal invigorator and strengthener. Rexall Orderlies are notable for their agreeableness to the palate and gentleness of action. They do not cause griping or any dis agreeable effect or inconvenience, and may be. taken at any time, day or night. We particularly recommend Rexall Orderlies for children, delecate or ag-"d persons because they do not con tain anything that could possibly in jure the most delicate organism. They are just as easy to take as candy, and unlike other preparations for a like purpose they do not create a habit, but instead they overcome the cause of habits acquired through the use of ordinary laxatives, cathartics and harsh physic, and permanently re move the cause of constipation or irregular bowel action. We want you to try Rexall Orderlies at our risk. We know that there is nothing that will do you so much good, and we will refund your money without argument if they do not do as we say they will. They are pre pared in tablet form in two sizes of packages: 36 tablets 25c, and 12 tablets 10c. Fred A. Snow, druggist, 623 Kansas avenue. AMUSEMENTS. At the ;rninl. F. Ray romstock will present Wil liams and Walker in their latest mu sical creation. "Bandanna Land." for a one r.iht engagement at the Gran.' Thursday. They will be suiport-d by the same notable can; and elaborate production ?.i presented at the Ma Jesfic meater in New York city for a successful "run" of over four months. Over fifty years ago a little book came from the press. A wonvin named Mary J. Holmes was the writer "Lena Rivers" was the name the book bore. Its success was instant and lias continued ever since. "Lena Rivers" will be at the Grand; Saturday matinee and night. At the Xovelty. Cupid, the educated pony, continues a big attraction at the Novelty theater this week, and at each performance he .does some new stunt that amazes the audience. At the close of the matinee performance next Saturday afternoon the ladies and children in the audience will be permitted to visit Cupid upon the stage and inspect this remarkable animal at close range. At the Maje.-itic. One of the best juggling acts of the season is on the bill at the Majestic this week in Willie Hale Co. Be sides being a good juggling act, one of the team does some great stunts on a revolving globe, while the other plays some high class music on the xylo phone. The other acts of the bill are Fred Ward as "Extra." Louis Cheva lier Co. in a sketch entitled. "A Lucky Liar." the three Kelcey sisters, dancers, and Stale Scheftels, a charm ing vocalist. CONDUCTOR ROBBED. On a Jlorning t ar t illed with Pas sengers. New York. Dec. 9. A score of pas sengers, a third of whom were women, were helpless spectators early this morning during the operation of a gang of toughs who boarded a south bound Kighth avenue car near Four teenth street, knocked down and beat the conductor, robbed him of all the money he had with him and terror ized him into an attitude of non accusation when an officer appeared. The passengers were warned not to leave their seats until the gang had worked Its will with the conductor nd escaoed. In the midst of the fracas the motorman. who had kept the car moving at its usual pace, blew bis whistle for a policeman. When the officer appeared, although the men who had committed the robbery were then on the car. the terrorized con ductor meekly said they had escaped. When theear had rone a few blocks further the conductor was beaten again and severely bruised. Then leaving the car with their loot, the men escaped. FOR GIFTS THAT'S 1TT1 .1 The are $2 The Bis Shoe Store or TY Among the most Important func tions of this week will be the re ception to be given tomorrow by Mrs. Stephen S. Ott, Mrs. Henry B. Lautz and Mrs. J. Bartholomew. Whelan at the home of Mrs. Ott 830 Polk street. The following friends will as sist: Mrs. Fred Snow, Mrs. E. S, dresser, Mrs. A. H. Ott, Mrs. Down ing, Mrs. John Kleinhans, Miss Minnie Ott. Miss Gertrude Bauer. Miss Min nie Bauer and Miss Lula McKee. The Owl alumni, assisted by some of the high school girls, will give a dance at Steinberg's, December 22. Miss Flcrd Robinson asked a few guests informally for this afternoon to meet Miss Phoebe Waterman of Fort Riley. The Portia club will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. C. H. Searle, 1429 Topeka avenue. "Don't talk to me about parties and social popularity," said a man today commenting on a recent engagement. "It's the girl who sits at home and sets her trap, who gets a husband. The girls who go to dances don't get much but criticism from the dowager row." Mrs. Thomas C. Biddle gave a luncheon for twelve today in com pliment to Mrs. Stanley Albaugh of Seattle, Washington, guest of Mrs. Morton Albaugh. After a man's engagement to an other girl is announced the mothers and daughters discover that they never thought very much of him and that if thev couldn't do better than THAT! well! Mrs. L. L. Goodwin has asked guests for an evening Thursday for Mrs. Albaugh. who is a dramatic reader and will furnish part of the programme. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison S. Morn entertained the!" -g;.oorhood Bridge club Xuesuay evening. Miss May Hawley and Mr. Ellis H. Hughes were married at 10-. o'clock this morning at the home of the bride's par ents. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hawley, 718 Taylor street, the Rev. Thomas C. Young of the First Baptist church offi ciating. They left this afternoon "for Wichita, where Mr. Hughes, who was formerly with the Hall company here, is with a lithographing company, and where they will be at home at the Sedg wick.

Mrs. David E. Palmer will entertain the members of her two clubs, the Art and Takota. Friday afternoon in honor of her guest, Mrs. Ada Wallace, of West Union.' Iowa. Miss Emma Bolmar was at home in formally this afternoon for her guest, Miss Frances Winter of Yates Center, who was the guest of honor at an af ternoon party given yesterday by Miss Blanche Rohrer. and who will be given another party tomorrow by Miss Ber nice Emahizer. The average person who talks roman tically of love of home, means love of his own mattress and bath.

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Fleishman, 1515 Clay street, gave a dinner Monday night for Mrs. Lynn Smith of Florida, who is visiting her mother. Mrs. W. F. Parker. Mrs. C. G. Foster gave an in formal luncheon in Mrs. Smith's honor Tuesday. The Ladies' Music club met this af ternoon with Miss Allabelle Troutman. TheFelicity whist club met yesterday af ternoon with Mrs. L. A. Ryder. Mrs. C. G. Foss, Mrs. E. T. Cartlidge, Mrs. A. B. Quinton and Miss Alice Lakin were substitutes. The club will meet in three weeks with Mrs. A. K. Wil son. The alumni association of the Delta Phi fraternity of Washburn college held a "smoker" at the Smith-Cark-huff suite, in the Y. M. C. A. building last nisht. The Cosmos club will meet with Mrs. O. F. Owen, 331 Fillmore street, tomor row afternoon.

The Washburn football team who put up so many good games la-st season, sometimes victorious sometimes other wise, will be entertained tonight by the Y. W. C. A. and the. Y. M. C. A. of Washburn in the college library. The faculty have been asked. i Mrs. H. K. Stewart will entertain the Froebel club at the home of her mother, Mrs. Hamilton, 1180 Clay street, Friday afternoon. y

The Topeka avenue 500 club will meet SURE TO PLEASE" w t- r r. rXnC,IE wnetner n ce ror a uitt or Your Own Individual Wear Paynes Shoes 1 l Shoes" for You to Buy Season's Cleverest Style effects are shown here at kO f the low nrice of PO.UU price It's our "West Point" made of pat ent colt, medium extension sole, Cuban heel button or blucher styles and. is only one of dozens of charm ing gift suggestions ranging in price from 00 to $5.00 715 Kansas Avenue r The Coat Event of Topeka A fYff-nn'irek rOnC!arirm Kotmnnn iUi'n rf -wrt orl -Vi for women and misses affords a rarely equaled opportunity to purchase High Grade Coats at The Values Such values are 'really re-" markable, considering 'the re putation of this line, without superior in the realm of ready-to-wear. The famous Print zess label is in each .garment a '-full guarantee of style, quality and fit. Made of spot-proof broad cloths and kerseys in the fashionable winter, shades of navy, taupe, wine, green, cas tor, etc., and black, also handsome striped coverts and mixtures. Miss Josephine Cohan, lead ing lady of the Broadway pro duction of "The Yankee Prince thus indorses it perfectly stunning fit for a real princess, fit for the queen of style the American wo man." For Coats that have i season at Ell). (a)a &r rt$l501you have trie opportunity to jsuy at, each. I Please keep in mind that an sizes irom 34 to 4U ior jaaies ana li-io-ioior misses ana with Mrs. Charles L. Short, in Potwin, Friday afternoon. Note and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Johji.S. -Pullman of Bridgeport, Conn., ate? thftfp&sentsjof a .daughter, born Sunday.' -"Mrs. Pull man's mother. Mrs. D. L. Lakin, who has been her buest in Bridgeport for a number of weeks, will return to To peka before the holidays. Colonel and Mrs. T. W. Harrison left Tuesday for a visit in Emmetts burg, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. unauncey uqwey ol Chieaeo. e-uests at the Bishop's House will go to Kansas City Friday for a few days and Mrs. Dewey will return here for a day before she returns to Chicago. They will be back again to spend Christmas with her parents. Bishop and Mrs. Millspaugh. Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Stillman of Mor ginville 'ilf be Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. M.carino. Miss Alverlne Wilhelmi of Lawrence. o-npst nf Miss Anna Harrison, went home today. Miss Viva Brown will go ,to Phila delphia to spend thei holidays with ritK'M. Her father. Mr. W. 1. Brown, will accompany her as far as Chicago. i Mrs. L. H. Riddle of Marion is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank roster. She came to see Madame Nazimova in "The Doll's .House." Mr. Clay Hamilton left today for Lawrence and from there will go to Kansas City for a few days. Mr. Burns Williams was in Kansas City Thursday and Friday of last week. Miss Helen Brown of KanssT- City is visiting her aunt. -Miwi-May-JiweUam, and will remain here for the holidays. Dr. J D. Freeman-et- theBaata J hospital will return today from a busi ness trip to Oklahoma. Mrs Charles Kleinhans of Grant ville is the guest of Mrs. W. T. Crosby. Mr. J. D. Jordan will spend Friday in Kansas City. Mr and Mrs. Everett Dallas, who have been visiting Mrs. Dallas' mother Mrs. Anna Wilson, left today for their home in Houston. Texas. Miss Eleanor Wheeler, who is study ing kindergarten in Boston this win ter.! will spend the holidays with rela tives In Providence. R. I., and will probably go up to WstJgoiat.her? she will visit her cousln--wtra'nrst, classman there. Miss Frances Jocelyn of Olathe is expected this week v to visit Miss Eugenia Quinton. Miss Mabel Stone of Emporia, guest of Miss Nadine Lytle, has gone to Lawrence to visit at the Pi Phi house. Miss Emily Seery who was ill with scarlet fever, is recovering and the quarantine has been raised from the home of her parents, Mr.' and Mrs. H. W. Seery. Mr. Adrian F. Sherman of Kansas City is in town. Kansas City Star: Mrs. Henry E. Lantry has returned from a visit with Mrs. R. J. Parker in Newton, Kan. Miss Helen Lantry, who has been the guest for two weeks of Mrs. Alexander Moule in Cottonwood Falls, Kan., has returned home. Hutchinson News: Mrs,. G, F. Grat tan of Topeka is here visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Howes. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Allen of Merl den were in town last night for the Carlton Wood concert. Mrs. Ellis Thompson of Christo pher, 111., who has been visiting in To peka went to Kansas City this morn ing. Mrs. C. T. Trapp has returned from a visit in Miami, Okla. Miss Lillian Trapp and Mrs. Charles Sessions who are attending a house party in Bar tlesville, Okla., will be home the last of the week. Miss Helen Balsley guest of Miss Mary Moore left Tuesday for her home in Oskaloosa. Mrs. Bert Fessler of Duluth., Minn., is the guest of Miss Mabel Foucht. Mrs. Julia D. Perry of Beloit. sup erintendent of the Girls' Industrial school at Beloit. is the guest of Mrs. G. W. Port. 315 West Tenth avenue. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Williams of Fort Haven, Mich., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cleveland. Mrs. C. S. Briggs of Osage City" is the guest of her parents. Dr. and Mrs. R. B. McKee. Miss Elizabeth Gregory has gone to St. Joseph where she will be' a guest for several weeks of her sister, Mrs. Theodore Van Deusen. Mr?. L. A. Dickson of Kansas City is visiting Mrs. EL, L. Higlnbotham and Mrs. F. M. Bonebrake. Mr. and Mrs. Corbin. 104 Stephens street. Auburndale, gave. a reception Tuesday evening for the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mr. Special Purchase of Women's Coats THIS LARGE PURCHASE HAS BEEN regularly ail $7.j this is not.an offering of "samples," undesirable styles, or broken and Mrs. A. Bratridqn. Mr. and Mrs. Pliley, Dr. and Mrs.;!. Eidson, Dr. and Mrs. Nichols, Mr." and Mrs. Warren. Mr. and Mrs. J. H Dumenil, Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Mrs.' Carter, Mrs. Addis, Mrs.' Hohn, Mrs. Terrell, Mrs. Burt of Pueblo, Col., Mrs. C. M. Thatcher, Mrs. M. E. McKitrick, Mrs. J. H. Baker, Mrs. E. -Rv Wrarner and the Rev. Mr. Jones. 1 Mrs. Ward Ottinser will leave to morrow for Herintoj to join her hus band in a permanent residence. CARLTON WOOD RECITAL Young Violinist DeUfflits Audience at tlie 't-wid. Mr.- Carlton wAm&i Topeka violin tat. Vht sitent that 'iftst fb'ur vears in Prague 'and Berlin) fdying music un der S. Thompson ?uti, Sevcik made his first public appeafojhee j.n Topeka since return, ttithe Grand last night He was astfif-jied on program of uncommon merit; Joy Mr. Atf Kling enberg, pianist, 'ajiid Mr. Franklyn Hunt, baritone. MyifHunt who Is now a teacher of voicoHn Kansas "City, formerly lived in'Titpeka and is wejl known in society and musical circles here and. his .return, in concert was an criiL ui iiiuljii jmrirsi. xuv aiunj u lie."' ment of Mr. Klingenberg's appear ance is, in itslf. always sufficient to bring out an audience. of his admirers. Mr. Wtfod, who was. a promising violinist when he left Topeka, and had studied with local and Kansas City teachers, has made marked strides- in his art-during the years -of his absence, and his hearers last night were delighted twith the splendid tome, -and firm technic '.which charact erize his playing. His study in Europe has given him the added precision and a surety of touch which hi. earlier ef forts lacked and laid a solid founda tion for-his future Work in' concert. Intellectually; too, he has broadened and developed, and displays interpre tative gifts of no mean order. It is certain, from his concert last night that he has the making of a first class violinist. Mf. Franklyn Hudit is-the best of khe lingers who have lived in Topeka. He has the voice and the method and the intelligence which make a good singer, and. the physique and person ality which make a'rt impressive stare presence. His. numbers last night were the Pilgrim-Song, of Tschalkow- sky and Maudf Valeria White's King Charles. Mr. Khn-genberg was, as al ways, a masterful and compelling force at the piano-forte. His perform ance was marked last night by the ear nestness of purpose, reverent, adher ence to the letter and spirit of the composers' text, and the enthusiasm which combine to. produce that ideal of interpretative art in wWch the per sonality of the performer blends with that of the composer yet does not lose its identity. In the Mozart sonata with Mf. Wood, in the Barcarolle of Rub enstein, Greig's Ich, Liebo Dich, a Raint-Saens Valse, and Campanella, he had abundant opportunity to prove again his mastery of the piano. Rhy thmical precision, sharply defined ac cents, broad dynamic contrasts and a keen pense of the musical outline and emotional significance of the score are the attributes of Mr. Klingenbfrg's art which set it apart from the mediocre and above the average. World's Oldest BasclMiIl. Jackson. Miss., Dec. 9. What is be lieved to be the oldest baseball in the world will be shipped to Garry Herr man, chairman of the National com mission, by Ed Laughlin. It was used November 8, 1863, in a game played at Williamsport. Fa, for the. state cham pionship, which ended 61 to 25 in favor of Williamsport. -j GIFTS That will be a lasting joy, are to be found in great variety In our stock, Diamonds, KiiiSS Broodies, Scarf Pins, Watches, Hat Pins, Link Buttons, no bet-, ter selection la,, ttie city at prices1 to fit every'1 purse. W. J. LEWIS&CO. Jewelers and Optician 80? Kansas Ai. mnnufnnfnvnKi r-F 4-V n.Airi...n, GROUPED INTO JUST THREE SELLING PRICES, AS For Coats that have sold regularly all season at $16.50 and $19.50 you have the opportunity to buy at, each piease aiso rememDer mis announcement aoes not reter to all Millinery Price Reductions Every hat in the store at 25 per ent reduction. This- in cludes untrimmed hats and trimmings. Special Prices on Fur Caps and Toques We will freshen your old hat, or trim a new one for you at regular price." Staples Lukens 733 lvanas Ave. SANTA FE NEWS. Firemen's Ball Last Xig'Ht a Pleasing Success. The annual ball of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and the Ladies' Auxiliary at Steinberg's hall last night was a success. The crowd which attended was the largest in the history of the brotherhood. Over 200 attended the ball, many of them coming from Santa Fe division points. Fifty-sev'en couples were on the floor at the time of the grand march of which Prof. C. D. Hudson was the di rector and M. D. Metzger. the prompter. The firemen owe their success largely to the help of the Topeka business men and wish to publicly thank them for their interest in the ball.- Those who were in the receiving line were: Mrs. Cassie Furman, Mrs. Mattie McKee, Mrs. Anna Tennyson. Arthur Herzmark, Lewis J. G. Laws, Milton'O. A. Smith, and George Furman. Prof. Hudson was the director of the grand march and M. D. Metzger. the prompter. Those who were present were: -Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. J, A. Bos tie, Mr. and Mrs. Ed "Ash, Mr. and Mrs. George .Woods, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Finch, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Metzger, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cope, Mr. and Mrs. W. M.n Christie, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith, .Mr. and Mrs. William Sher man, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sooney. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Alexander. Miss Char lotte Long. Mrs. C. B. Slanker. Mrs. Ed Sash. Mrs.''C. A. Bates, Mrs. W. H. Tennyson, Mrs. Samuel Hovatter, Miss Rose Stewart, Miss Mrytle Pope, Miss Dicy Wallace, Miss Wohler, Miss Flor ence Combs, Miss Katherine Slusher of Osage City; Miss J. Ford, Miss Isabelle Lewis. Miss Eva Olson. Miss F. W. Bartell, Miss Bertha Deile, Miss Bessie Hurst, Miss Louise Laurent, Miss Elsie Buff, Miss Florence Gustafson, Miss Anna McGivern, Miss Grace Duncan, Miss. McKernan, Miss Anna Sheetz, Miss Jennie Austin. Miss Dolly Jernni- gan of Osage City. Miss Maud Cowdrey, Miss Clara .Metzger. Miss Nellie Fur- vis, Miss verier, miss 4.insinger, .miss Nellie Morton, Miss Blanche Parker, Miss-Edna Slanker, Miss Zadie Kelley, Miss Collette Coughlin, Miss Mary Mc- Graff, Miss Marie Bostrom, Miss Hazel Richerter, Miss Agnes Johnson, Mr. Jas. Spet-ter. Mr. Carl Magnuson. Mr. G. Griffith, Mr. Dan Sherman, Mr. Robert Brentnall, Mr. Tom 'Hayes of Newton, Mr. Chris Ottman. Mr. S. W. Combs, Mr. Robert Rickets. Mr. Arthur Herz mark, Mr. W. D. Lewis, Mr. Jesse Lew is, Mr.. W. A. Shinn. Mr. Roy Pardee, Mr. J. M. Parkes, Mr. Arthur Brown, Mr. W. E. Tutter. Mr. W. J. Pennick, Mr. F. R. West. Mr. Ralph Webber, Mr. Charles Cox, Mr. William McMann, Mr. Lloyd Mitchell, Mr. F. A: Howe, Mr. G. F. Grosch. Mr. O. C. Lake, Mr. C. Col ley. Mr. J., G. Dansey, Mr. J. D. Lae hey, Mr. F. R.,-Kimes. Mr. Joseph Brog den, Mr. V. E. SJordlund of Osage City. Mr. A. L. Freeland. Mr. James Prig, Mr. Rene" Humphrey. Mr. Owen Doy le,-Mr. John McDade, Mr. C. Connel, Mr. Roy YANKEE PRTNTZttRS an average of One-Third $12J0 For Coats that have sold regularly all season at $22.50 and $25.00 you have' the opportunity to buy at, each. sizes but strictly NEW Fresh Garments and can be obtained in National Hotel, Roof Garden TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY AT 8:15 Free Exhibition and Demonstration OF THE- M arcoiii telegraph With complete set of Wireless instruments, send ing messages, ringing fire alarms, lighting electric lights, blowing fog sirens, setting railway sema phores, "all without use of wires." The most wonderful invention of the age. Children not ad mitted unless accompanied by parents. Instru ments on view 10 a.m. to 12:30 and 2 to 4 p.m. daily Kennedy-of Marceline and Mr. John Verlin. The committees in charge of the ball were: Arrangements Carl S. Magnuson, James Bostic. F. R. McNeil, Mrs. Marguerite Bostic. Mrs. Anna Slanker, Mrs. Katherine McNeil. Floor Carl S. Magnuson, James F. Spetter, Chris A. Ottman, James W. Sumey, Mrs. Cecil Davis, Mrs. Delia Rich mond, Mrs. Marguerite Laws. Door Wm. L. Davis, Mrs. Anna Slanker. Notes. Henry B. Lautz, assistant to the gen eral manager, returned to Topeka last night after having been in Winfleld and other Santa Fe points on business. His stenographer, George Hamaker, accompanied him. Avery Turner, general manager of the Pecos valley lines of the Santa Fe, is in Topeka for a few days' confer ence with officials. He will go east before returning to Amarillo., General Manager J. E. Hurley re turned Monday night from an extend ed trip of the system as far west as Albuquerque. Fireman A. Harzmark has been off for several days on runs Nos105 and 106 Between uopeKa ana t. josepn. He will return to work tonight.- Fire man Mitchell has been running in his place. -Engineer Ed Smith is running on Nos. 105 and 106 between Topeka and St. Joseph on the runs belonging to Engineer James Thomas. Rev. Frank E. Maliory will speaK in the machine shops at noon tomorrow. .The Ladies Music club will give tne next entertainment at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. Friday night. The ladies are I Surely a pair of our "Comfy Slip pers"' would-please them ANY COLOR Ladies', or men's $1 and upward Children's 50c, 85c and $1.00 Li W p yjjjggi y, A 9M m The Coat Event of Topeka uui..i-gai men os Less Than Regular Price. OPPORTUNITY Is Knocking at Your Door Backward trade conditions due to the long drawn out mild weather, have left manufacturers overstock ed. That means lower prices lower prices for us and for you. Cold weather is bound to come soon; it's inevitable, the time of the year and the greater pur chasing power of your money urge promptness now in securing vour win ter Coat. We're ready with the garments and the prices that spell 0-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-T-Y FOLLOWS: $15.00 our Winter Coats but only to X joreiess all prominent In Topeka's musical cir cles and a good entertainment is as sured. W. Simpson, who works as con ductor on the cutoff between Kansas City and Newton, is back in the Santa Fe hospital, his condition having re ceived a severe setback. .He was re cently here for thirty days and wn thought to have fully recovered. He Is a member of the O. R. C. and K. L. of S. J. H. McGoff. mechanical superin tendent of the Santa Fe. is in Arkan sas City on business. Before returning home he will visit Guthrfe, Oklahoma City and other points in a business capacity. George Austin, boiler inspector of the Santa Fe system, who has been In Topeka for several days, is now mak ing an inspection trip over the Suth ern Kansas and Oklahoma divisions. Engineer V. M. Pitt of Arkansas City was in Topeka a short time this morning on his way to Kansas City to attend thf funeral of a relative. A. E. Voigt of the electrical depart ment has returned from Newton where he had been called on official business. Louis Follette of the passenger de partment has been promoted to a posi tion as stenographer in the rate room. New Western Postmasters. Washington, Dec. 9. These postmas ters have been appointed: Kansas Milton, Sumner county, Isaac G. Law. vice A. W. Lynn, -resigned. Okl.-ihoma Hillside, Washington county. F. W Johnson, vice J. M. Fisher, resigned: Taft. Musgokee county, Jefferson L. Carver, vice C. T. Kogers, removed. -y 5 QQyQQd 11 7 MM

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7 f m v At Your Respective Street Number, l:v: A- 4 'V Dear Sir: Did you know that the enterprising merchants of Sixth street, are making remarkable reductions to induce you to trade with them? A mere glance at the advertisements appear ing on this page will enlighten you, and make economy easy. By purchasing with these merchants, you will also make your shopping a pleasure rather than a drudge, for you will receive courtesy and prompt attention at their hands. For convenience sake and for economy's sake, we urge you to buy at Sixth street sometime this week. N Yours very truly, SIXTH ST. MERCHANTS. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOXTRITAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1903. f Cut P Eitff-O-Seo, wheat or Corn Flakes, two 10c pkgs. -three 5c Vneeda Bisoult packagea for. Toilet Soap Sweetheart Brand seven 5c bars Graham Crackers packages for.. 15c 10c 25c two 10c FTXl"R Pride of Topeka, Extra High Patent per sack, fc CtZ. $1.35; per hundred P.VJO Corn Makes. Cerallne Brand, four 10c packages, 25c NABISCO Two 15o; one 25c Pke 10c packages, 20c Early 25c 85c Canned Pea.. Polk's Best June, doz 95c; three cans Sweet Corn 3 cans, 25c; dozen I SARDINES -Fancy imported ones, in puro olive oil, regular "I 20c quality, per can SMOKIXO TOBACCO Duke of Tork, Sweet Violet and Lincoln Mixture, seven 5c pkgs. 25c p Finest Standard, Gran- fff iV ugar ted 20 punds 4I.UU 100 Pound Sack (No Stamps) $4,85 COFFEE Our Mojava brand. It has given universal satisfaction. .$1.00 Per lb. 20c; 5 lbs Soap White Russian, Silk, Dia mond C and Lenox, 8 ne bars uOC Tobacco Horse Shoe and Star, per lb. 40c; Creme de Menthe, like Piper Heidsieck, three 10 cents cuts for 20c; nine 10c cuts CC (lb), for OOC Flour Our Big A-l brand sack $1.30; per nun dred. per ..$2.55 Fresh Fig Bars, Vanila Wafers and White Mountain Cookies, JQg Posj Toast ios, 3 pkgs 25c White Line Washing Powder OC. seven 5c pkgs AJ1 Purity Sugar Butter, new, extra fine, pail Potatoes, Colorados, per bu something 25c 80c Syrup, Great Mountain Brand, Ma ple blend, bottle 25c; A C 2 for OC he BiJbMe The Largest Grocery Business in Kansas T I LET US BE YOUR GROCER I We will have a larger, better supply of Candies, all kinds of nuts, fruits and other luxuries to make the Christmas dinner more complete than ever before. You should see our candies and get prices before making your purchase. We will make special rates to churches, schools and societies. Our line of candies includes varieties at 5c, 7lc, 10c and 12c per lb. Chocolates as good as can be purchased anywhere else in the citv, for 40c and 50c a pound, we will sell at 20c and 25c. If you don't want to suffer with the cold when the gas gets low, you should begin right now to drink our 20c Coffee everyone is pleased with it. THE SHAWNEE GROCERY Ind. 415-425- 112 EAST SIXTH STREET PHONES -Bell No. 42S "The Place That's Different AT HOME Pear Madam: You are acquainted with Weston Bread. You have proven the taste and have observed the gemi prnof package in which It Is sent out to the trade. You perhaps know that it Is never sent around town in an unwrapped condition, in an old dusty wagon and thrown around like so much cord wood to gather up the deadly bacteria. But we would like to have you know more about it. We wish you to see just how much pains we are taking to make a better bread than you can make even at your own home. Then we would like to have you see our cakes, pies and delicatessens. So. on Thursday. December 10th. afternoon and evening, we arc going to ask you and all your friends to call and inspect the larpest, best equip ped, and cleanest retail bakery In Kansas. Come, you will enjoy the Inspection. Yours truly, The Ideal Bakery Heil-& Schaefer 121 We.t Sixth Ride With Comfort Storm Aprons, $1.00 and up. Clark's Carriage Heaters (for cold feet) $1.25 and up. Chase Laprobes, $2.25 and up. 207-209 West A FcwiChristmas Suggestions Ladies Handkerchiefs r A large and varied assortment of ladies' hand kerchiefs, including inital, lace and. scolloped edges and bordered ones. They range in f prices from 30c down as low as Ladies Shopping Bags Just received by express, a handsome line of Shopping Bags. All the latest novelties Pn at from $1.75 down as low as D Vw Neckties r A host of pretty patterns in men's Neckties, special at 50c, 25c and 10c Ladies' and Gents' Umbrellas Many suggestions in Umbrellas silver, gold and natural wood handles with good ser viceable tops. Prices range from $3.50 down to Men's Handkerchiefs A large stock of men's fine all-linen inital Handkerchiefs at 25c. Others from 20c down to Dolls for the Children All sizes and prices, from large 22-inch ones with flexible limbs, kid body and real hair -t at $1.25 to small china onea which sell at each.. X W 85c 5c THE TOPEKA CASH STORE 110 East Sixth Street Independent Phone 703 LOW PRICES and a Clean Grocery Store Our trade is steadily increasing, therefore we are holding out the following inducements to our many customers. Fresh Country Eggs, per doz 33c Diamond C or Silk Soap, per box, 100 bars $2.95 Oil Sardines, 6 cans 25c Real Buckwheat Flour, per lb 5c Alfalfa Honey, per rack 15c Fine Canned Apricots, 2 cans 25c Sliced Pine Apples, per can 20c Bartlet Canned Pears 18c 4 boxes Seedless Raisins. 25c A full line of Libby's Soups. 10c BiUard's Yellow Corn Meal. .10c Northern or Kansas Potatoes, pk. 20c Ralston Health Flour, per sack ..40c Good Country Butter, per lb 30c "Wisconsin Full Cream, Brick and Lim burger Cheese, per lb. .20c Evaporated Apricots, 10c; 3 for. .25c Table Syrup, fine, per gal 40c Ginger Cake Molasses, can 124c A. E. Jones, Cash Grocery Call up Phones 885, or come to 111 E.6th We Are Stirring Up The Dust flow? Moving the Mail and Breeze Topeka Transfer and Storage Co. 406 East Sixth Street TOMORROW'S oeey aavir AT PAXTON'S ig Prices The time is at hand to plan your Christmas purchases. If you need to economize, this Big Cash Store can be of great assistance to you by naming the lowest prices. 15c HandKerchiefs 10c Beautiful hemstitched and scalloped edged Handkerchiefs for ladies, made of sheer white Swiss. The needle work on these Handkerchiefs is equal to that on most 25c sellers. 100 dozen of them for to- 1 f)f morrow's selling, each 1 vw 50c Back Combs 25c Some of these Combs are very prettily mounted, brilliant shell effects, highly pol ished. Choice of the lot ?f tomorrow "JU $1.00 Battenburg 89c Extra wide worked edges around a pure linen center, assorted patterns. fiQf Choice of the lot tomorrow. OW 35c Toques 19c Children's worsted Stocking Caps, a cork ing good 35c article, assorted colors. iQr Choice of the lot v $1.25 Fur Sets 98c Infant's Fur Sets, scarf and muff, plain and fancy patterns, a dainty present for QQ a small child. Our $1.25 values 70w; $1.25 Hand Bags 98c A table full of Leather Bags, assorted styles, colors and sizes, Vienna and soft leather handles. $1.25 values. QQ- Choice TOLr 50c Hosiery 25c Ladies' Fancy Lisle Hose, embroidered and check patterns, assorted colors, 50c values in the lot. Per pair CiD 50c Belts 25c Elastic, Tinsel and Leather Belts for ladies, assorted colors, new styles, plain clasps and fancy buckles, values up to 50c. Of Choice of the lot &J 25c Mittens 15c Children's double knit, worsted Mittens, some of them trimmed with silk rib- "l bon bows. Choice of sizes, per pair., lw 35c Cashmere Gloves 25c Women's silk finished cashmere Gloves, stitched back, extra length, two-clasp wrist. 35c sellers everywhere, 0f Per pair LhJ Paxton M Paxton These Prices Will Save You Honey Mighty Shoe Selling Price Slashing Sale To Make December Our Banner Month and as Fitting Climax to Our GREAT MANUFACTURERS' SHOE SALE as well as to show our appreciation for your past patronage we are going to give you shoe values that have never been equalled. Marvelous reduction in prices. We will save you from 40 to 60 per cent on your shoes. Come look our stock over, we have an elegant assortment of styles, better qualities than you have been getting at other so called sales. Ladies' Dress Shoes for $1.48 Ladies' $3.00 Dress Shoes for $t. Ladies' $4.00 and $3.00 Dress Shoes tor $2.55 In all styles and all leathers. Ladies' $6.00 and $5.00 Dress Shoes in all this season's latest fads. Wine, Ox Blood, Tan Choco late. Patent Colts and Patent Kids, Cushion Sole, Shoes in Button or Lace, for $3.45 Girls' $2.00 Shoes, extra good qual ity, for $1.35 Ladies' Strap House Slippers $1.50 Quality x 88c Men's $2.50 Dress Shoes for $1.48 Men's-$3.00 Dress Shoes for $1.98 Men's $4.00 and $3.50 Dress Shoes for $2.45 Men's $6.00 and $5.00 Dress Shoes in Tans, Patent Colt and Patent Kid, Gun Velour and French Calf, Vici and Phoenix Kid, In Button and Lace, all the Latest fall styles, for $3.65 Boys' Shoes, $2.25 Quality for $1.45 Warm Lined and Pelt Shoes for Ladies and Men, Also a Com plete line of Christmas Slippers. CHILDREN'S $1.00 SHOES FOR 73c BABY'S 60c SHOES FOR 35c LION SHOE STORE 106 East Sixth St. J. SNATTINGER 106 East Sixth St A Sooviner Free to Each Person Visiting Our Store Saturday Unequalled Grocery Values Sugar 20 lba. granulated $1.00 Flour 48 lb sack White Lily ..$1.35 Potatoes 60 lb. Fancy Northern. .85c Corn, Triumph Sugar Corn, 3 cans 25c: doz .f 85c Tomatoes dozen -Regular size cans, 10c, i.05 Coffee Fraser's Club, 30c value 20c Coffee Kxtra Fancy ..Rio, lb 15c Ua.n nnnnnn-i1i i A r ,raA lh 2ftC Butterlne Armour's High Grade "Buttercup Brand," 25c value, two lb. brick for 35c 20c Pickles, large Dill, doz. Buterlne Swift's "Lincoln Brand." good quality, 2 lb. brick 25o Toasted Corn-flake, Egg-O-See, 2 packages 15c Rice Fancy Japan, 3 lbs. for....25o Steak From Corn-fed Beef Chuck 10c;'TtounT 15c; Sirloin 18c, Por ter" House 20c Beans New Hand-Picked lbs. i Navy 1 1 SO9 Hams Fowler's Calumet, lb...l24c Breakfast Bacon Armour's Banquet by side, -lb 16c Ginger Snaps Fresh and good, lt 5c Granulated Sugar, 25 lbs. $1.00 With a $5.00 Grocery Order FRASER BROS. C. O.D. STOR S. E. Cor. 6th and Jackson Sts. Both Phones 660 SUITS AND OVERCOATS WE sell Kaufman Pre-Shrunk Clothing, every suit guaranteed to hold its shape. No better line of ready-to-wear suits and overcoats ever produced We will appreciate an opportuuity to show you these exception ally good values. If you are particular about your clothes and want the best, and would appreciate a saving of $5.00 to $8.00 on a suit or overcoat, we can interest you. Men's Suits Blue, Black, Brown or Green all made by the Kaufman Pre-Shrunk process. Prices: $12.50, $15.00, $18.00 and $20.00 Men's Overcoats All newest styles Kaufman make. Prices: $10, $12.50, $15, $18 and $20 Men's Pants Special at $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3,007 $3.50 and $4.00 Boys" Knee Pants Sizes 4 to 15 Prices: 25c and 50c Boys' Knickerbocker Pants Sizes 4 to 16 Prices: 50c, 75c and $1.00 Men's Underwear Department is full of interesting values. Our Shoe Department will save you money Shoes for Chil dren, Ladies, Boys and 'Men. We sell Wizard and Connelly Shoes for Men, Dr. Reed's Cushion Sole Shoes for Ladies. faoiWM&fflMC d EASTSXTffSL Ind. Telephone 1549. Shop early in the day, early in the week, early in December This will be the greatest Christmas favor you can bestow upon the stores, the clerks and yourself. DO IT NOW Rehkopf Bros. Mm St."

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8 TKI. TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAL WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 9, 1908. That Commun ity Silverware is the Best Ware for all Purposes. See Our Assort ment. W. A. L. Thompson Hardware Co. 511-513 Kansas Avenue. Mi L SCOTCH SINGERS COMING VHfc Be at tlie Anditoriuiii on Kriday Evening. The next number on the Organ Lyceum course comes on Friday evening at the Auditorium. It .consists of a concert given by the Srotch Singers a ladies' quartette, under the management of Mis3 Tina Crawford; who 1s known in Scotland nnd England as "the Scottish Jenny Lind." Mr. John Wallace of Glasgow and o;ie of Scotland's most eminent men. in writing about her trip to. America said, "I esteem it a privilege to be one of that numerous band who delight to praise and honor Miss Crawford a band which in cludes everyone who knows her or has come under the wondrous charm of her exquisite- voice. Among those who know nd appreciate good singing in Glasgow, and hosts of other large places, the name of Miss Tina Crawford is a household word." Miss Agnes Hyde, the first contralto of the quartette, besides being a tine singer is also better known as an entertainer. The Boston Herald says of her, "Miss Hyde is a ladv of more than nrdinarv histrionic talent, a favorite with her au dience, and always meets with a warm greeting." The follownig is a specimen programme of this quartette: Quartette "My Love Is Like a Red. Red Rose" Oilbert Scotch Singers. Eong "Scottish Blue Bells" Gleadhiil Miss Jeannette Cuthill. Dramatic Selection "Three Casket (Scenes'" Merchant of Venice Miss Agnes Hyde. Song "Bonnie Loch Lomon" Songs of the North Miss Tina Crawford. Quartette "Annie Laurie" Scott Scotch Singers. Humorous Selection in Scottish Dia lect "Mrs. McWhiter's Silver Wad din" Hyde Miss Agnes Hyde. Eone "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" Knight Miss Tina Crawford. Trio "Of a' the Airts the Win' Can Blaw" Scotch SiTiecrs. Impersonations "The Eclipse cert Company" Miss As-nes Hvde. Burns Con- Hyde Duett "The Auld Hoose" Misses Crawford and Cuthill Nairn Song "The Dear Little Shamrock" i Thomas Mis Tina Crawford. Quartette "Auld Lang Syne".. Scotch Sineers. Admission 23 cents. Reserved seats at Stansfield's. nistino to Captain M. S. V. Columbia, Mo.. Dec. 9. Carl Ristine ol Joplin. Mo., has been elected captain of the Missouri football team for next year. Curly" has held down center on the varsity for two years, in 1907 and 19S. Ristine Is captain of the basket ball team this year, while he also captained the uni versity team last fall, making a total of three athle tic teams that he has led with in two. years. A Convenient Train. For Topeka people' who desire a full husines! day in Kansas City is the Union Pacific No. 102 which leaves To peka every day at 6:50 a. m.. arriv ing in Kansas City at S:35 a. m. You can get breakfast in the diner on this train and dinner on .No. 101 which leaves Kansas City at 6 p. m., reaching Topeka at 7:35 p. m. H.OFCiU"' rOV LIKE things to go well together; that is the idea, underlying our MATCHED JEWELRY. In these Sets net cniy do Scarf Pin.s, Cuff Links, etc., harmon je as to the Gem and Design, hut their tones permit un.ty cf eoler wdh the Cravat and a nice aprcpri ateness as to the general att re. Thus are produced symphonies cf ccJcr." Our Je-melty is above criticism Matched Seis 9i.$o Io $10.00 629-631 Kansas Ave. HE WAS GREEN. Fred Briody Herceri by onfi dunce Men on Train. Two Men I Jentified In Top?ka by Victim. LIVE AT GRANT VILLI:. One f Them Owns the Elevator There. OH Drjffc Sch?m Worked and Slopped a Wedding. W. F. Quinlan and D. D. Bor roughs have been arrested by city de tectives and special railroad detectives from Kansas City on the charge of working a confidence game on a ranchman on a Union Pacific train. Fred Briody, a ranchman of Clov erdale, Oregon, was relieved of $95 by confidence men as an early morn ing U. I', train passed through To peka. The men dropped Off the train at the U. P. and Santa Fe Junction in the east part of the city. Briody went on to Kansas' City where he was met bv F. W. Stevens, a U. P. detective who had been wired by the conductor, Stevens immediately telegraphed tne chief o'! police here to watch all trains and tacing the man doubled back to Topeka. All trains were carefully watched, but no one answering the descriptions of the men was seen un til last night when Stevens and Briody saw these men make for a train. Briody immediately recognized them as the men who got his money. Stev ens and an officer detained the men and phoned for the patrol wagon. One of the men who worked Briody had left hi.i coat on the train. This coat contained a folder bearing much figuring, which figuring is remarkably like that on some paper found in the pockets of Quinlan. Quinlan did not have an overcoat when arrested and this one' fits him very well. Borroughs, besides being held on investigation was tried this morning for carrying a revolver and fined $25 by Judge Urray. Burroughs says he is an elevator man at Grantville and carrying much ne gotiable paper needs' a gun. .He said he brought it to Topeka to be re paired; but he came up Sunday and haa been here ever since and had not had it repaired, so the judge found that he carried it. for other reasons than to be tinkered by a gunsmith. The gun is a big Colt, carried in a hol ster, and was found to be in splendid working order. Quinlan is a farmer living near Newman. His people, are well known and influential. A score of the men's friends and a priest were in confer ence with them this morning. It is eineeted a conviction will he difficult! expected a conviction win De ainicu it on account of any number of alibis. Last night both of the men showed return tickets to their stations, but the promptness with which they thought of this, leads the officers to bi'ieve they had them in reserve as they, are 30 day. tickets. One of the friends who had no rAson to know that Quinlan was without an. overcoat, vol unteered positive information to an officer that he did not have. Conk Jones, the once famous king bee of the Kansas City confidence men had a farm and lived at Perry in the neighborhood of these men when not at his Kansas City headquarters. The special agents from there claim that Borroughs is an old friend of Jones. The game worked by these men on Broidy is a feasible one provided somebody can be found who is green enough. Briody, living 35 miles from a railroad on a dairy ranch in Ore gon, was a fit subject. He wears a series of gold nuggets linked together for a watch chain. He says he saw one of these men in Denver and that is probably where they got an eye on him, or else were notified by some accomplice there. Fred was dreamily speeding on toward Russelville, Ky., to meet and marry a little girl he used to woo. Somewhere before reaching Topeka a man giving the name of Brooks came in and sat down beside him saying that he did not like it up ahead where the passengers were all foreigners. Conversation began and Brooks said he too, was from Ken tucky. His sister's husband had just died in Idaho, he said, and he was shipping the goods to Oklahoma, Just then the other fellow entered and ask ed Briody if he .was Brooks. Brooks, spoke up that he was the man. Then the other, with the air of an official, said there was some more money due on that shipment. Brooks produced a draft for $1,200 and offered it to the man who could not cash it. Brooks then appealed to Briody for some money on the draft until they could cash it. He counted out $93. a reasonably fair price for a $1,200 draft, and turned it over to Brooks who made the payment to the official. Briody says he tried to keep tab on the men, but just as the train was leaving the city they dropped off, which was at the Santa Fe crossing. Briody is now held up until after fhe trial. Meanwhile there is much con sternation among the good people of Jefferson county and a little girl waits longingly in Russelville, Ky for a tardy lover. Lester Shields, a bundle boy for Robinson Marshall, who lives at 414 Lafayette street, has proven himself pretty handy with his fists. Lester was sitting on a motor cycle belonging to Will Jenicke at the Central Cycle shop dreaming of how many more bundles and how much quicker he could deliver, if he just owned it, when the owner asked him to please dismount. Lester did so but 629-631 Kansas Ave. could not resist the temptation of questioning what would have hap pened had he1 refused. Upon gaining that information, he started for the machine as a joke. 'He was promptly intercepted by punches to the ear and jaw. Then he landed a -vicious right, flooring his- man. which operation was repeated when Bill had again gained his-feet. This time Jenicke complain ed of having lost a tooth and set out for a warrant. They had weighed in ra'her unevenly matched. Shields weigning 150 ana Jenicke 170, but tne perfected form of Lester drew the war- rant. Ben Jordan, a 78-year-old negro sol dier and one of the old veteran joint- ists of Topeka. is confined in the city prison on commitment from the dis trict court where his appeal from a fine of $100 in police court for main taining a common nuisance was dis missed with costs of $6.15. The po lice court costs were $3. A total of $100.15 will hold the old man at labor a long time unless his friends come to his assistance. The police department has been in formed that Wm. J. Hewitt, who runs a grocery and shoe shop at Third and Jef ferson, was not supplying his wife and children with food and fuel. The latter lives apart from the husband at 1318 North Harrison street. Hewitt says the informa tion given the police is wholly wrong as he supplies the family every week with necessary food and fuel; gives them baskets of groceries several times a week and hauls coal to them and gave- them money last Saturday. He obieets to any charges Xif this kind and tells the police and others that while he does not live with his family, living over the store him self, he has kept them supplied with food and fuel and money. He wishes to say, however, unless Mrs. Hewitt mends her ways in ner treatment or mm, sne neeu expect little further assistance. that Hewitt does support tnem is evi j denced by the fact that O. G. Coffman coal dealer on East Fourth street, showed orders for coal marked paid wmcn was delivered at the home of Mrs. Hewitt in North Toneka.' A load of SCO pounds was sent over Nov. 28 and a load of 2.060 pounds was sent last Thursday, u hat much coal ought to cover the last cold spell. The meat cutter in the Lannan meat market and grocery says that the little girl or Mrs. Hewitt Duvs meat nearly every day with money given her by Mr. Hewitt. R. D. Blaine, the real estate and loan agent, who has known the Hewitts since coming here from Leayepwortht says the oia man is a Kinn, nonoraoie,. anu uu-i old veteran and is entitled to all respect. About all the colored hotel porters in the city assembled at the police court room yesterday to give testimony in the Geo. Bradford gambling house case. From the evidence George has operated a game in his cleaning and pressing shop in the rear of the Glenwood hotel for a year at least. On account of the arrangement of the room, and a partition with two doors, the officers could never find any money or dice when they got in though they heard the rattle of dice from outside. But last Sunday. Bradford borrowed $S from Harry Bryan to open the game and after wards would not pay it back. Harry got a warrant for both Bradford and for Chas. Turner. Turner, a porter at the Throoo, pleaded guilty and vs fined $10. Besides the testimon of Bryan, that of the entire porter and bell force of the Throop. who had been in games at the Glenwood pressing room, was strong against Bradford, who. it was proved, had taken a "take off" in every game they had seen there. Judge I'rmv fined Brad ford $30 and costs. Bradford appeals. There was taken up and impounded in tne clty Pound or lopcua v. lowlnjf antmal, found running at large contrarv to the ordinances of said etiy, io- wit: One grey horse, weight about 800 pounds, 15 hands high. 11 years old. ham animal, unless claimed, will be. sold at public auction for cash at the pound or on the street Dec. 12 at 10 o'clock a. m. CHANGES IX SCHOOLS. Twenty-Two Are in tlie List of Reeom memlatioiis. State Superintendent Fairchild has about completed the work of prepar ing the recommendations of the educa tional commission for the printer. There are 22 major changes offered besides a mass of miscellaneous matters. These recommendations will be given out for publication from day to day in order that the public generally may gain a definite idea of the changes offered and it is expected that public sentiment will thus be brought to bear on the leg islature in favor of at least many of these proposed reforms in the pTesent school law of the state; -'The following are the more important of the changes urged in the law by the commission: 1. An educational commission to be provided for by legislative resolution. 2. A longer term for rural schools, and state aid for weak districts. 3. Consolidation Of schools. 4. Special aid for certain districts. 5. Employment of teachers for longer periods. 6. Inspection of schools (sanitary). 7. Certification of teachers. 8. Compulsory education. 9. Clerks for county superintendents, and closer supervision of country schools. 10. School libraries and equipment. 11. A change in the date of annual school meetings. 12. Normal courses in high schools. 13. Agriculture in high schools. 14. Fire drills. 15. Regulations relative to the con struction of school buildings. 16. County diploma examination. 17. Take the office of county super intendent out of politics. 18. A large unit of school organiza tion. 19. The Barnes law. 20. Inspectors of schools. 21. County superintendents' annual meetiEg. 22. A uniform law relating to the size and organization of boards of ed ucation. 23. Miscellaneous. BOYS FIND STOLEN MAIL. Locate Buncli of Letters and Money Order Under Itoek at Winfield. Winfield. Kan... Dec. 9. Four boys, William and Boyles Paris and Allen and Russell Whippier, all of East Sixth avenue, while hunting rabbits on the rocky hill just east of Junction pond, found a pile of old musty letters and cards, about flftv in number, dated August 28, 29 arid 30, 1904. A note which read: "Dear old pal, if in need of money go to the old rock," was found with the letters. The boys, who are between the ages of, nine and twelve, reported their find to T. F. Scruby, Missouri Pacific agent, who in turn reported to Postmaster Skinner. Mr. Skinner then sent Assistant Bal lard and the four boys to the old rock to get the mail which had been left by the boys, they bringing to town only a postofflce money order for $9.22, payable to the J. P. Baden Produce company. The mail, all of which had been rifled, was taken to the post office and will be turned over to the postoffice Inspector. The finding of the mail may shed some light on the disappearance of some mail in August, 1904. when a bag from the Frisco northbound train was rifled. The Scotch singers who give a con cert at the Auditorium Friday night are- under the direction of Miss Tina Crawford "The Jenny Llnd" of Scot land, who sings in the quartette and is principal soloist. BATTLE IN KANSAS CITY. (Continued from Page One.) greatest odds was made, by Patrolman Mullane, who ran down Fourth street from Delaware street just in time to meet the enraged fanatics fighting their way toward him. Louis Pratt, Mrs. Sharp and Lulu, the oldest Pratt e-irl oil attacked him. Daying little heed to the shots of others. He at that time was the only policeman in uniform in range. Mullane would shoot at Pratt and when the woman and girl would walk right up to him and shoot at him, the big Irishman, realizing that they were .women, only clubbed his gun and struck atthem. The three cornered fight lasted un til Mullane's gun was empty and they had him cornered behind a small wagon on the north side o.f Fourth street. While he was attempting to get at Pratt the woman and girl pumped shots into him from the rear. He soon followed Sergeant Clark into the station, where' both men fell to the lloor. Doctors attended them there. Thoy were later removed to the emergency hospital, their wounds dressed, and sent to St. Joseph's. Spectator Is Shot. While there were no fewer than 500 spectators in the crowd when the shooting began, only one was shot. That was J. J. Suizer, 2414 Benton boulevard, a retired farmer. He was an onlooker and was hit by- two bul lets, the fanatics evidently taking him for an enemy. He was shot in the right hip first and almost im mediately afterwards in the right chest. -That ball ranged in such a manner that the spinal cord was severed. Mr. Suizer dropped- on the car tracks in front of the city hall. The doctors think he cannot live, as he is paralyzed from the shoulders down. E.eape In Skiff. Information that men and women who had participated in -the shooting had escaped and were making their way to a houseboat they had moored in the river was given to the police. Chief of Police Daniel Ahern ordered Captain Walter Whitsett, Lieutenant Al Ryan and Inspector of Detectives Charles- Ryan to. bo to the river with thirty detectives and patrolmen. w neri the officers arrived at the riv er bank, foot of Main street, they found one woman, two girls and a bov guarding the boat. Inspector Charles Ryan acted as the spokesman for the police and, climbing down the sand embankment, approached the gang plank. He 'was stopped by the wo man, Mrs. Delia Pratt, who threaten ed to shoot. The woman stood at the head of the scow gesticulating with her left hand as she warned the of fiers not to come any nearer, while she kept her right hand on a rifle hidden behind the canvas flap of the boat covering. Lining the top of the bank for -a lock in each direction people stood watching the police trying to toll the woman away from tlie boat. She refused to allow anyone to ap proach the boat nearer than the end of the gang plank. When ordered to come out on- the bank she said she would give herself up if the police would bring Mrs. Melissa Sharp to the river and allow her to talk to her. The police refused to grant her request. Then she asked them to have James Sharp, whom she called Adam, brought to the house boat. f Iterused to Surrender. For 45 minutes the' police argued with the woman and pleaded with her to surrender, but she stubbornly refused. Her two daughters. ,Lula. 14, and Mary. 11, joined the tira.de..against the police. While the officers did not want to shoot the woman and two girls, they were afraid to make a run for the boat, as it was believed that" some of the men might be in it. Finally the woman allowed William Engnell, a 15-year-old boy, to leave the boat and the police officials urged him to try to influence the woman to give up. He returned to the boat, but he did not- have any success and again left the boat and was placed under ar rest. Untying a skiff which was alongside of the small houseboat, the woman or dered the two girls into it. and taking several revolvers and a rifle, the wo man entered it and shoved off toward midstream. As the skiff, which had a canopy over it in the bow floated out into the current loud cheers rent the air from many of the persons in the crowd who sympathized with the wo man and her kind. Ordered Not to Shoot. Mayor Thomas T. Crittenden and Po lice Commissioner Andrew E. Gallagher were spectators upon the river bank. and had ordered the police not to shoot the women and children. But as it was seen that the woman and children would soon be out of reach, Mayor Crittenden gave the police permission to attempt to shoot holes in the boat in an endeavor to compel the woman to put back to shore. Immediately upon receiving the or der. Lieutenant Harry E. Stege, armed with a not gun, shot at the boat and his fire was at once returned by the woman, who used a Winchester. As the bullets from the skiff were aimed at the crowd and were heard to sing as they passed dverhead. the crowd wav ered and finally broke and ran. The police fired volley after volley at the skiff, but could not tell whether their bullets were having any effect. After using all of the ammunition in the boat, the woman sat down and the girls got under the canopy. Mrs. Sharp's Statement. Ed Fisher, a member of the band who is said to have been on the houseboat at the time of the trouble, was taken to the county jail. He was not questioned by the prosecutor. Edna Pratt, 4 years old. was taken to the Detention home. Her story of the happening was unintelligi ble. Mrs. Melissa Sharp, wife of one of the men shot, herself In the county jail, made a statement to I. B, Kimbrell, prosecut ing attorney, last evening. Summarized, she said: "Mv name is Melissa Sharp. I was born in Texas county. Mo., in 1871 on a farm. Twenty years ago I married Sharp. We had three children, of whom one is dead. The other two ieft home. "Six years ago the coming February we began preaching in Woodward, Okla. This afternoon the children held a meet ing to tell the people that the preaching would be at the Poor Men's mission. After- the children got through singing some man came up and said to me: 'Are these your children?' T said yes, because we in the' faith be lieve we are father and mother of all things earthly. The officer told me to keep the children off the street or he Soothing Skin f reams Something to relieve cracked Hps or chapped, hands, and soften the skin. We carry all the reliable brands, also toilet powders. The Red Cross Pharmacy Matt Weightman. Jr. 835. KANSAS AVENUE would take them from me. He spoke rather gruff. I told him we did not belong in Kansas City; that we were evangelists. Again he told me they must be kept off the streets. Revolver In Her Bosom. "Yes, I had a revolver In my bosom. The reason we carried guns was because we had so often been mistreated through the south, where we had been preaching They threw us into Jail there. We did not arm ourselves here, nor do I remember that we bought any ammunition here "There were five children with us Nina Pratt, nearly 13, had a revolver. All the children are PrattsC They joined us two years ago. At one time there were forty two in our band in Oklahoma. We were mistreated there. Where did we get money? All who Joined us put their pos sessions into a common fund. One man carne in who' had $7,000. Another had i "We got this belief of ours in Oklahoma Not from hearing anyone preach. It just came to us and we couldn't help it. We, my husband and I. became convinced that we were not living the right life. One night he said to me: "We are not set ting our children a good example. Let's turn square around and live a different life.' I loved to dance. After that we started praying. I wept and moaned for Lure- tiia ana ne tor tws weeks Then we got the baptism of the holy ghost, sold our farm, gave away the proceeds to the poor and started to preach. Our faith is Just the Bible." "God Gave Us Spirit." Resuming her story of the shooting, Mrs. Sharp said: "Then I went back to the mission. This man who had spoken to me about the children (Mr. Holt) said we must keep them off the streets. I said we would if we wanted to. Then that officer went out and so did the children and some the men started singing. God had revealed to us that If we gave tin the children w wnniH be lost because we hearkened to the voice of man rather than God. "The first hing I knew they were into a shooting. James Sharp and Lewis Pratt, two of our men, were in it. God gave us the spirit to get those revolvers We would rather die than not to serve God, according to our belief. "I saw Lewis Pratt fall. He was not dead at that time. I saw a man fall on the street mot of our band some of our men must have shot him. I suppose. I don't remember shooting. Some officer iook my revolver away. I had It In my hand and was trying to get awav. We had talked matters over and resolved to preach our faith or die." Asked about the education of the chll dren, Mrs. Sharp said that God was re lied on to teach them. "Wre taught them righteousness, God Is able to teach his children more than is man. Jesus Christ never went to school." "Don't you think the Lord was rather late in starting on this 13-year-old girl?" was asked. "We were waiting on the Lord," said the. woman. Often during the statement she sat with her head bowed and hands clasped, as If in prayer. She seems a woman of some in telligence and could be called comely but for the haggard lines her face bore. In distinction from people of her sort, she was clothed with comparative neatness. She was taken back to jail after making her statement. 7VOVKLTY CHANGES PLAX. Price of Loner Floor Seats Is to Be Raised. The Novelty theater makes the an nouncement today that beginning with next Monday night the price of seats on the entire lower floor for the even ing performances will be 20 cents each, thereafter, instead of 15 cents as at present. This change in prices, how ever, applies only to the lower floor seats for the evening performances and there will be no change from present prices for balcony seats or for mati nee performances. "The slight advance in prices of low er floor seats for the night shows, has been necesitated for several reasons," said Mr. H. M. Miller, proprietor of the Novelty, to a State Journal reporter to day. "The great demand for vaudeville performers caused by- the- increase in the number of houses, has necessitated an increase in the salaries of perform ers. Operating expenses are higher than they used to be and besides we desire to present a better grade of pro grammes than have ever before been offered in Topeka at a low price of ad mission. It would not be fair to the public for us to cut down the quality of our programmes in order to dimin ish expenses, so we have decided to make a slight advance in the price of the seats on the lower floor for the ev ening shows and put in a higher grade of attractions. We believe the pat rons of the Novelty will prefer to pay a trifle more for downstairs seats and better shows rather than to have the quality of the bills diminished. "While in Chicago last week, I made arrangements with the booking office of the Western Vaudeville Managers' as sociation to supply the Novelty with the best attractions at their command, which is equivalent to the best in the business and I can assure the people of Topeka, that we will present the best grade of attractions that can be secur ed anywhere." CiaY COO TY FAIR. Stockholders Start Work to Make Fall leetins: a Suet-ess. Clay Center, Kan., Dec. 9. The stockholders of the Clay County Fair association held their regular annual meeting in the court room Tuesday afternoon. There was a good attend ance of members. President J. A. Glace presided and Walter Puckey was secretary. The reports of the secretary and treasurer were read and referred to the auditing committee and were afterwards accepted. It was "agreed that the proceeds of all stock hereafter sold be applied on the payment of the land held by the asso ciation. The stockholders then elected their directors for the ensuing year. The directors will meet and elect of ficers Wednesday, the 16th. Clai- county has one of tne best fair grounds in the state and the fastest half-mile track. The association has expended con siderable money in improvements such as barns, sheds and floral hall and contemplate further improve ments the coming year. The Scotch have their innings at the Auditorium Friday next. Everybody reads the State Journal. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS. Chicago. Dec. 9. WHEAT The local wheat market brought out by lower cables and bv favorable conditions for the fall sown crop. The greatest selling pressure was on the July delivery and this option declined c early in the day. Prices at the start were a shade higher to c lower. Mav opening at Jl.08 to Sl.08 and Julv at $101'&101 to $1.01. After touch ing tl.09il.09. May declined again to $1.08. At the same time July sold off from S1.01T4 to Sl.OlViSJl.OlSs. Minneapolis. Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of 345 cars. Renewed liquqidation of the De cember delivery caused a further decline in prices of that option but distant deliv eries were auite firm owing to scattered demand bv commission houses. Receipts were more than had been expected and demand for cash grain was slack. At the opening prices were c higher to ic lower. Initial quotations on December were at 59 to 59c and on May at G24T 62atc to 623kc. Later December sold oft to 59 c. while May touched 62c. The market was subiected to heavy sell ing pressure all day and prices declined about 2c from the high point of the day. Julv sold off to 99!if.c and May to $1.07E. The close was -weaak at the lowest with Two Ten-Inch Victor Records for 75 c After years of experimenting the Victor Talking Machine Co. have issued the only Perfect Doubled-Sided Record in existence. Our stock of these are complete and the public is accepting them with much favor. We invite you to call and inspect them, or send us your name and we will mail you new catalog of Records each month. W F. R0EHR MUSIC CO. 630 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. (3 STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yoursoivas Best Results Consign To Clay, Robinson Co., Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kansas City. WE ALSO HAVE UR 0W OJTFICM T CHICAGO. 80. ST. JOSEPH, a OMAHA. DENVER. SWUXCtTT, SO. ST. PAUL. BUFFALO! May off l4filc at Jl.07 and July down Va-iyc at 9!rtic. OATS There was an active ceneral de mand for oats and in consequence the market was strong. May opened unchanged to Vc higher at oc to 53c ana sola up io 53fi53V4c. PROVISIONS Provisions were firm ow Ine to a stronsrer market for live hoes. Trade, however, was quiet. Prices at the opening were Ihbc to c higher. RYE: Cash: 76&T6c: December, 74c; Mav. 79Hf(S0c BARLEY Cash: S0ffi64c. TIMOTHY December. $3.85; March, $3.95. CLOVER December. $9.40; March, $9.60. Chicago Grain Market. (Furnished by J. K. Gall. Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks, on ice 110 West Sixth bt. Phone 486. Chicago, Dec. 9. Ooen High Low -..-Justs Yej WHEAT Dec. ...103 M44 102 103- Mav ...MS-109 107rr8 107 l(ilu Julv ...101-4l01 99 99 101- CORN Dec. 59- 59 6S14 ;1S 59- Mav 6L"A- 62 6J-1-B 2-i 2 Julv 62 6L"4 62 62- 62 Julv 62',i 62 62 62- 62Vs OATS Dec. 50 50 50 50.4 504 Mav ...52 53- 52 53-M, 52 Julv 47 4S'A 47 47 47 PORK Jan. .15.87 15.95 15. S7 15.87 15.82 Mav ...16.15 16.22 16.15 16.17 16.(17-10 LARD Jan. 9.15 9.25 9.13 9.17-20 9.12-13 Mav 9.40 9.45 9.40 9.42 9.35 r.lKS Jan. S.25 8.25-27 8.22 S.26 8.20 Mav S.50 S.65 S.5-J S.53 8.45 Kansas City Grain Market. fKurnished bj J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Ottica 110 West Sixth Si. Phone Open High Low Close Te Kansas City, Dec. 9. WHEAT Dec. 97'i 97 May ...102 1024 Julv 95 95 CORN Dec. 57- 57 97 101 93 97 101 93 97 102 95- 57 57'4 Oi 'i May oS July 58 KS3i- 5774-5S 57-58 S-Si 5S 67-5S 57-5S 5Sl4- Kansas Citj Live Stock. Kansas Citv. Mo.. Dec. 9. CATTLE Re ceipts S.O00. including 200 southerns. Mnr ket steadv to weak. Native steers, $4.3oi 7.50: southern steers. $3.36(6 50; southern cows. $2.2O(a4.O0: native cows and heifers. $2.005.75; stockers and feeders. $3.0iKJi5.00; bulls. $2.4014.00; calves. $3.5oi6.50; western steers. $3.7515.50; western cows, $2.75i4.50. HOGS Receipts 17.000. Market strong to 5c higher. Bulk of sales, $a.loio.b0; heavy, SS.505io.70; packers and butchers. $o.ilt 5.60; licht, $5.00f5.35: pigs, $3.50j4.75. SHEEP Receipts 6,000. ivtarKet sieauy. Muttons. $4.o0i5.o0: lambs, $4.50i65o; range wethers, $3.8015.65; fed ewes, $2.50 4.50. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago. Dec. 9. CATTLE Receipts es timated 23.000. Market steady to 10c low er, tleeves. w.ifti t.tu; j exans, j.v.rfi.jt, westerns. $3.3oi5.65; stockers and feeders. $2.6to4.80; cows and heifers, $1.5015.00; calves. $6.00iS.25. HOGS Receipts estimatea w.uuu. aiarKet .3.. ch.. 110-1,... 1 .itrht X.1 M.-tft 5.65: mixed. $5.20i5.S6: heavy, $5.3ti.5.ti7; rone-ht. t5.30ft(5.5u: good to choice heavy. $5.5015.87; pigs. S3.50&4.75; bulk of sales, 15 li 5 75 SHEEP Receipts estimated 22,000. Mar ket steadv. Native. $2.4"i4.7o; western, $2.50i4.70; yearlings. $4.J55.1o; lambs, na tive. $4.2o&6.75; western. $4.2516.75. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. The following sales were mailt: today al the stock yards. Kansas City, Mo., and by Clay. Robinson Co.. live stock com mission merchants, with offices ai all muiketb.1 KaKnsKas Citv, Dec. 9. CATTLK-Receipts S.OoO head. Market dead, weak to lftn lnwr HOGS Receipts 15.000 head. Market 5c to 10c higher. Bulk of sales, 5.20j5.65; top, SHEEP Receipts 6.000 head. Market steady. No. 12.. 17.. Wt Price INo. Wt prl- 955 $4.50 I 46 1270 5.S5 1C69 6.20 I 31 1247 5.10 1093 4.55 I 3 12.N3 4.40 ....1230 4.40 I 3 793 3.50 IMWS A.S'O HUKKKS 1300 3.75 I 1. .1030 4.25 406 4.50 I 4 S60 2.2a S00 3.25 I 10 740 4.40 6S6 4.40 I 54 920 3.25 1010 3.35 I 1.. 10.. 1.. 38.. 36.. 30.. STOCKEr A N'D FEEDKRS. 6S6 ....1020 3.75 I 47... sso 4.25 4.65 4.75 I 6.... 4.00 I CA LVES. 6.00 I 2 5.75 I 1.... BULLS. 2.25 I 3.... HOGS. 5.40 7S 5.70 I 3S 5.10 I .1131 1 glO 2 130 1 110 5 ..1010 4S 202 64 250 37 IBS 250 160 5.5-1 6.00 .1154 3.50 270 172 5.72 5.15 Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas Citv. Mo.. Dec. 9. WHEAT Market unchanged to c lower. Decem ber. 97c: Mav. $1.01: July. ?,c. Cash: No. 2 hard. $l.0rl.04: No. 3. 9Scl$1.03; No. 2 red. $l.C5il.07: No. 3. $1.04ttl.05. CORN Market unchanged. lecemner. 57yc: May. 577,c; July. 57c. Cash: No. 2 mixed. 59c: No. 3. 69S59t4e; No. 2 white, 60i6Oc: No. 3, 59i60c. OATS Market unchanged to c higher. No. 2 white. 4si51c: No. 2 mixed. 47r49c. RYE 745 77c. HAY Market firm. Choice timothy, $9 75!&lo.00: choice prairie. $S.75f9.00. BITTER Market firm. Creamery, 30c; packing. 19e. EXKJS Market steadv. Fresh extras, 34c: current receipts. 29c. WHEAT Receipt, 69 cars. hlcaso Pro' Market. Chicago Dec. 9. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 14il5c; twins, 14il4'i-: young Americas, 14u,c. Pqi'LTRY Alive." firm: turkeys. 14c:-chi-kens. Jic: springs. 11c. POTATOES Mark, t steady.' 6.ii74c. Bl"l TER Market steady. Creamery, 22 3oc: dairy. 21ii25c. EGGS Market firm. Extra' firsts, 32c. Xcu- "ork Produce Market. New York. Dec. 9. BI TTER-Mark't steadv. Creamery specials, 31i;12c (ift; cial price 32c); western factory iiists, 21p 21c. CHEESE Market firm. State full cream specials. 14il5c; September, large and small colored or white, fair, 14c: October, laree and small best, 134c; late made small bets, 13c; good to prime, llil2c: common to fair, 1orgiii.: skims, full to specials. 2c to llo. 1 EGGS Market easier. Western firsts, 37f3Ne: seconds. 32i35c. POULTRY Alive, firm: western chick ens. 14c: fowls. 16c: turkevs. 13c. Dresncd, dull: western springs, 15i20c; fowls, ll'tt 13c; spring turkeys, 12ftil3c. Market Gossip. fFurnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions. Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stock. Office 110 West Sixth St. Phone 4S6.J Liverpool cables: Opening Wheat un-. changed, corn i',4d lower. Second cable; Wheat d lower, corn d' lower. Kansas City car lots today: Wheat 45, corn 8. oats -6. Kansas Citv estimated car lota tomor row: Wheat 59. corn 5, oats 5. Chicairo car lots today: Wheat 31, corn W4.- oats 61. Northwest car lots today 234, last year Clcsintr cables: Wheat d lower, corn d lower. New York Stock Market. Wall St.. New York. Dec. 9. STOCKS First prices of stocks today changed but little from the closing last night. Gaiim were the rule and were most conspicuous in the specialties. Wisconsin Central pre ferred advanced l'i. American Hide and Ixather preferred 1. Reading 1. and Great Northern prefei-red and Iowa Cen tral larure fractions. Low priced and minor stocks were again the most active feature of the early trad ing. Large blocks of Wabash preferred and other stocks of a similar class wei e bouirht at advancing prices. while tlio usual market leaders stood still, or were little altered. Reading was conspicuously strong. Pacific Coast second prcftrred gained 5 points, 1'nited Railway and In vestment preferred 2, Wabash pr-f'i- d 2'.4. Iowa Central preferred 1, Chicago and Alton 1. Reading 1. Mercantile Marine preferred and Hocking Coal 1. and Great Northern preferred. Delaware and Hudson. American locomotive. West ern I'nion and 1'nited Railway and Invest ment 1. Manhattan fell 2 and I tan Cop per 1. There were sensational advances In a. variety of minor railruad stocks, but the nit re Important stocks were aiinost Im movable. Chicago and Alton was rusiied up 4. I.'nited .Railway and Investment preferred 4. National iBscuit 3V and Ches apeake and Ohio and Wisconsin Central preferred 3. Bonds were firm. There was a better representation of the well known stocks in the afternoon rise, the speculation developing a good d-al of srtr.f 1 1 rw.ee Snlit:intl 1 l-i1r inn 11111(1 In be made in the usually obscure stock. bi:t the advance in the usu;tl favorites was moderate. Central Railway of New Jer sey lumped 3. 1'nited Railway and In vestment 4. the preferred 5-V Cnltr-d States leather preferred 3. New York, Chicago and St. Louis 1. the second pre ferred 2. and I'nion Pacific. Southern Pa cific. Great Northern preferred. Ontario and Western. Louisville and Nashville. Anaconda. American Wool-n and Sloss Sheffield 1. Third Avenue sagged 1 uu4 Eryoklvii Union Gas 1. I?nnge of Prtccs on Stock. .Furnished by J. 11. Gall, Commission. Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stock. Office 110 West Sixih St. Phone 4Mi.J New York, Dec. 9 Stocks Op'n High Low CI'hb Yes. Sugar 132 Gas Copper S3 M M S M- B. R. T 56 50-t, 56 r.fi-'i Am. Car Fnilv 46 I'. S. Steel. Com.. 5"4i 36 5ti' 5i' 5.V-, C 3. Steel. Pfd. 1127. 112, 112', 112 Atchison. Com 8Si 99 9V. Atchison. Pi'd 1"' Anaconda 4!l' St. Paul 151 151 15" 11 l-il Rock Island 24 24 21 24 21' i Great Northern 144'4 144 144 144 143- Wabash. Pfd 44 47 44 46 44-, Missouri Pacific... 66 66 66 66 66- Am. Smelting 91 9' 91 'Northern Pacific.. 142 143 142 143 142'- a. i.. i irr.i 11. 7i 1 1 ln Texas Pacific 35 35 35 A 34 s Southern Pacific. ..119 120 113 120 1' Reading 141M. 14 141 H lt ,'Erie. Com.. c 35 Zu Sj So. Railway ,27' l-l'n!. n Pacific 1 1" JS-'" IC. 0 54 56 B jfc '""T ""-J i: n: 123 124 123 124 123 K'atv Pennsylvania 139 1. 130 129 Can P.-icif c 177 177 17h't li,'-. In C F I 41 41 4- 4- Rock Island Pfd.. 61 61 61 61 n; New York Sns"r nnrt OiITt lrkrt. New York. Dec. 9. SI "GAR Raw. .tonriv fair refinine. I.S: Ofliiruuii. .t tlRfi: molasses sugar. H.ll: refined. steadv: crusnen. ..o". powdered, $4.9n; granulated. $4.80. COFFEE Market ciuiet. No. 7 Rio. 6c; No. 4 Santos. 7'Sc. rot io" si.t'-'" Galveston. Tex Dec. 9-COTTON-M..rT kN.we:,YcrkTi"'lec. .rCOTTOX--Snot closed ouiet: middling upland. $.2a; mid. dling gulf. $9.50. Sales. 9o0 bales. i

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