The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
November 12, 1909

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r EVERYBODY 14 PAGES reads rr. BVERBODY 14 PAGES NEEDS IT. LAS1 EDITION. FRIDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 12, 199. FRIDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS, LUST F0RBL00D. It Takes Possession of the Peo ple of Cairo, Causing Them to Lynch Two Men and Seek Another. MISS PELLEY'S SLAYER Is Taken From Officers, Hanged and Shot to Pieces. A Wife Murderer Is Taken From Jail and Dispatched. Cairo, 111.. Nov. 12. A double lynch ing took place here last night. After a search lasting over 24 hours, a mob found -Froggy" James, the negro ac cused of the murder of Annie Felley and hanged him and riddled his body with bullets. Shortly afterwards the mob stormed the jail, took Henry Salzener from his cell after battering the doors down with sledgehammers, hanged him and fired such a fusillade of shots into his body that the rope was cut by a bullet. James was strung up to the public arch, the rope broke and at least 500 shots were poured into his body. He made a partial confession and impli cated the negro, Arthur Alexander, and the mob Immediately began a search for him. James was lynched in the most prominent square of the city, Eighth and Commercial streets. Women present were the first to pull the rope. When it broke the frenzy ot the mob was uncontrollable and they fired volley after volley into his body, shooting the negro to pieces. The mob then dragged the body over the streets for more than a mile to Twenty-sixth and Elm streets in an alley and burned it where the murder was committed. Overpowered Officers. At least 10,000 people witnessed the lynching. James wis discovered wit'i Sheriff Davis between Karnak, 111., and Belknap, by the Cairo crowd, who went up yesterday afternoon. The crowd overpowered the officers and took the negro from them and after a conference it was decided to bring the negro back tn this Htv and lvnch him here. Fully 1,000 people went up to help find the negro and when they arrived in j Cairo they were met by a howling mob of at least 5.000 more. They marched direct to the arch sweeping everything before them. Many j women were out to help do the work. Sheriff Davis pleaded for the life of the negro, but without avail and when ..Vi T V i v 1 ivas tflken in-' charge by a part of the mob. while the rest rushed the negro rapidly to the scene of action. The mob which searched for the negro was so large that it covered the entire country from Karnak to Vienna. 111., a distance o.' about 16 miles. When found the negro was handcuffed between the two offi cers and they were lying on the bank of a creek. All three were so weak lrom hunger and exposure that they were not able to make much resistance. Crowd Was Too Large. Sheriff Davis said he deplored the lynching and made every possible re sistance in his power, but the crowd .as too large. The sheriff said that after leaving the train at Dongola he made an effort to secure a rig, but found it impossible as the farmers knew the crime the ne gro had committed and they refused him assistance. He was scarcely able to get anything to eat. At every point toward which the sheriff headed to board a train he was confronted by B mob. Sheriff Davis said it was impos sible to turn in any direction and es cape the vigilance committees. He was surrounded at all times. James was found at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and news was sent along the line to the scattered mob to board the Big Four train and meet the captors at Belknap The mob came near getting oft the train tefore it reached the city and lynching James, but it was finally decided to bring the regro into Cairo and give the Cairo people an opportunity to assist In the hanging. While in custody of the mob at Belk nap and coming here on the train, the negro would not talk, but when he ttood under the arch he weakened and confessed. James said that the assault had been committed on the girl before teing murdered and that Arthur Alex ander helped him with the crime. Lynching of Salzener. Henry Salzener, a white man and a photographer by trade, who killed his wife last July with an axe, was taken out of the county jail at 11:1' o'clock by the mob and hanged to a telegraph pole and his body riddled with V-illeU. This lynching followed closely that of Will James, the negro, earlier in the evening. The mob gave Salzener a chance to confess after the rope was around his neck but he was so frightened that he could only mumble that his sisters did the killing. The mob became furious at this and it was hard work to keep them off him long enough to give him a chance to pray. The mob finally subsided and a ehort religious service for the uplift of Bis soul was held after which he was (Wrung up, the rope being placed over a telegraph pole at Twenty-first and Washington streets. Salzener was born and reared here, being the son of William Salzener, a hide and wool buyer. Salzener was a photographer and had been married about two years. Last July Salzener's wife was found at her home with her skull fractured end a bloody axe was found under tp bed. The two babies were playing in the blood. Salzener had been seen by the neighbors about the house early in the evening and after the crime was discovered Salzener was found at the home of his mother where he often slept at night. Mrs. Salzener recoverei enough before she did to accuse her husband of the crime. Time Hung Heavy. The public was incensed against him and while part of the mob was scouring the city for the negro Alexander, time hung heavy on the hands of the bal ance of the mob and when some one suggested Salzener, the mob rushed for the county jail where the man wanted was held in a steel cage. The sheriff and his crowd of deputies were pushed (Continued oft fags Eight) ONLY A IJCHT RAINFALL. .motmted to Eleven Hundredths of an Inch in Topeka. The rainfall today amounted to eleven one hundredths of an inch, and more of the same is expected tonight rnd tomorrow. There has been very !:'ttle change-in temperature today, and the same steadiness of temperature will prevail tonight and Saturday. Rainy weather may be expected ali over the state during the next 24 hours, but no freezing temperatures. This ufternoon the wind blows 12 miles an hour from the northeast, and the hour ly temperatures are: 7 o'clock 4 4 1 1 1 o'clock 46 8 o'clock 4412 o'clock 43 9 o'clock 44j 1 o'clock 44 10 o'clock 4 5 2 o'clock 44 CAR EXPLODES. "Was Going at the Rate of 70 Miles an Hour. Nobody Hurt But the Track Is Set on Fire. Atlanta, Nov. 12. H. L. Kilpatrick and his mechanician. R. Church, nar rowly escaped death today when Kil patrick's car exploded and was burned. Kilpatrick, holder of the straight away record of 37 seconds for the mile, made on Long Island last year, had just made a lap of two miles in his best effort of tiie present meet in 1:35. He had com pleted the second turn when a cylinder exploded. The machine was going 70 miles an hour. 1 The spectators believed neither driver r.or assistant could escape. A rush was made across the paddock, but both men were found expostulating with the am bulance physician against going to the hospital. They had merely been scratch ed. j The asphaltum covering of the track was ignited by the burning wreck and furnished a fiery spectacle before it could be extinguished. The machine. which was destroyed was built to enter the Va'nderbilt cup race. DEGREE FOR TAFT. Wesleyan Univetsity Makes the Presi dent an LL. D. Middletown, Conn., Nov. 12. Presi dent Taft arrived here from New Ha ven over the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad at 8:15. The president's visit to Middletown was, primarily to attend the installa tion of Dr. William Arnold Shanklin a3 president of Wesleyan university. At the installation. President Taft's address which he delivered extempor aneously, came next to last on the long program. Eminent educators, university and college presidents from all sections of the country attended. The degree of doctor of laws was conferred on President Taft, "Vice President Sherman, Senator Root; El mer Ellsworth Brown, United States commissioner of education; Bishop William Burt of the Methodist Epis copal church, and Dean Samuel Hart, of Berkeley Divinity school. STORM MOVES SLOWLY. Tropical Disturbance Is Headed To ward Windward Passage. Washington,' Nov. 12. The tropical disturbance which undoubtedly caused considerable damage on the island of Jamaica since last Saturday was mov ing slowly today toward the Windward passage and heading almost directly for the Bahamas and Bermudas. The disturbance is nearer to Hayti than to Cuba and reports to the weath er bureau indicate it is moving very slowly. Meteorological experts of the weath er bureau said they believed the storm had lingered over Jamaica for some days. Most of the damage to the is land, they believe, must have resulted from the heavy rains which accompan ied the storm, rather than from wind. No trouble is expected along the At lantic coast. ConununicaUon Still Cut Off. New York, Nov. 12. Communication with Kingston. Jamaica, and other in terior points on the island remained as completely cue off today as it has been rince last Tuesday, but the local cable companies reported from their stations at Holland bay that the weather has moderated. Al' the cables between Jamaica and points east are interrupted and Porto Rico. St. Thomas and other places in the West Indies are cut off. The ocean transportation companies are anxiously awaiting news of the ex tent of the disturbance. WET SNOW FALLING. Storm Prevails Over Large Section of Mountain Territory. Denver, Colo., Nov. 12. A heavy, wet snow is falling today over Colorado, southwestern Wyoming, southern Utah and northern New Mexico and Arizona. Pueblo and Colorado Springs report six inches of snow and in the mountains the fall is somewhat heavier. Tele graph service was somewhat crippled during the morning but railroads re- I port no delay. COURIER ARRIVES. Reports All Members of the Roosevelt Parly Well. Nakuru, Naivasha Province, British East Africa, Nov. 12. A courier who ar rived here today from Gaus Ingishu plateau reported that all members of the American hunting expedition now in the plateau were well. A careful scrutiny of cable dispatches sent out from here during the past sev eral days proves that the rumor that Col. Roosevelt had met with an acci dent did not originate here. Weather Indications. Chicago, Nov. 12. Forecast for Kan sas: Rain tonight and probably Satur day; not much change In temperature. AS IN AJJREAM. Mnie. Steinheil Hears the State's Attorney Sum Up In Dispassionate Language the Evidence Against Her. TELLTALE INK STAINS Found on Her Knee Made to Serve His Purpose. Declares She Acted With Intent to Deceive Throughout. Paris, Nov. 12. Many well dressed, stylish appearing women managed to gain entrance to the gloomy, stifling court room today to hear the conclud ing arguments in the trial of Mme. Steinheil. The accused woman, deathly pale, walked unaided to her seat but her step was mechanical and her arms hung limply at her side. When she had taken her place she sat with low ered eyes like one in a dream. Beginning with the words: "We will live again the tragic night," Trouard Riolle who had opened his summing up for the prosecution yesterday, in cold, dispassionate words undertook to reconstruct the scenes in the Steinheil home on the night of the tragedy and on the morning following. He mar shaled the testimony of the witnesses to establish his contention that the burglar story was a fabrication and the pretended binding of Mme. Steinheil a farce; that the money claimed to have been stolen never existed and that the jewels which the widow as serted had been taken from the house were afterward found in her posses sion. Ink Stains on Her Knees. M. Riolle dwelt particularly on the telltale ink stains which the two phy sicians who examined the injuries of Mme. Steinheil claimed to have found on her knee. The prosecutor claimed that during the binding of Mme. Japy an ink stand in her room had been overturned, the fluid being spattered upon the bedding and upon the ac cused. He Insisted the evidence proved the apparent illness of the accused after the commission of the crime had been simulated and that subsequent developments had confirmed the sus picion that she had acted with hy pocrisy throughout. It was when the police had definite ly rejected her story of the Gaberdine clad burglars and she saw her lover Borderel slipping from her net be cause the mystery was unsolved,- the prosecutor said, that Mme Steinheil in desperation began to accuse inno cent persons. He added: "She wished to avoid the probabil ity of a non-suit in her favor because such an outcome of the case would not satisfy Borderel. and so, unhesitat ingly, she placed the accusing pearl in the pocket of her servant, Remyi Couillard." As the advocate general proceeded he became increasingly severe in his de nunciation of the prisoner and fre quently murmurs of dissent came from those in the court room. As she heard herself described as a cold, calculating fiend with a soft ex terior. Mme. Steinheil bit her lips and raised her clenched hands in mute pro test. At the conclusion of his descrip tion of the night scene when the widow made her alleged false statements to the journalist, the prosecutor shouted: "She can't tell the truth because she is guilty." SNOW AND RAIN. Kansas Is Being Treated to Variety of Weather Today. Snow in the northwest. Rain in the southwest. Drizzle in the southeast. Rain in the northeast. Rain in the central. This is the way Kansas! is taking the weather today. The Rock Island reports a downy fall on their Colorado division and the weather is cold and damp. On its eastern Kansas division the Rock Island weather man, Superin tendent Swortwood. says that the weather is a ditto of the variety in To peka. The Santa Fe reports rain all last night down near Chanute and Arkansas City. In the southwest they report a very light rain. In the southeast it is the same. Thus Kansas is one continual damp. dreary, drizzle and cold today. It is a "blue" day, especially since its long list of predecessors days that have re minded one of spring and summer com bined. BRANDENBURG ON TRIAL Abduction Case Is Being Heard In St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 12. The taking of testimony in the trial of Broughton Brandenburg, a magazine writer, charged with abducting James S. Ca banne III, began here today. A Jury was obtained late yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Cabanne-Brandenburg, mother of the boy who was found with Bran denburg when he was arrested tn San Francisco, is to testify for her husband. ST. JOE A TERMINAL. Missouri Town Made Terminus for All Central Branch Trains. St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 12. Begin ning November 15, St. Joseph will be the eastern terminus for freight trains on the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific railway. It is understood that January 1 St. Joseph will be made the terminus for all Central Branch passenger trains. The Missouri Pacific recently spent $1,000,000 in Improving its terminals here. Atchison is now the eastern terminus of the road. POVERTYJLAMED That It Is the Chief Cause for Infantile Mortality Is Maintained by Dr. Woods Hutchinson of New York. CUKE, HIGHER WAGES. High Birth Bate Means High Death Bate, He Says. Declares Mothers Should Be Paid to Bear Children. New Haven, Conn., Nov. 12. "Let us establish homes for mothers and their children, where both can receive proper care." This was the plea made by various speakers at today's session of the con lerence on the prevention of infant mortality. The session was devoted to a discussion of the institutional pre vention of death among babies. Several rather popular ideas were given a severe jolt in the address of Dr. Woods Hutchinson on "Results of Philanthropic Experiments in Increas ing and Decreasing Infant Mortality." Dr. Hutchinson remarked that the sub ject had been assigned to him as the Devil's Advocate of the section. "The general progress of modern civilization has markedly diminished infant mor- tality," he said, "together w ith all other death rates,' though not in the same proportion. How far have the well meant experiments of philan thropy assisted, and how far have they hindered?" Answering his query, he said that one of its first and most nat ural attempts, the institutional care of children,- had been weighed and now t Imost unanimously found wanting. Another experiment which he said was of doubtful value had been that of preaching contentment with their wages and that station to which it has pleased Providence to call them, to the' poor. The better way would have been to encourage them, to fight for higher wages and a fairer share of the 1 roducts of their toil. Poverty the Chief Cause. "The chief cause of infant mortal ity," he continued, "is poverty; the second and third are its children, ig norance and dirt. The only radical cure for poverty is higher wages. Philanthropy has not addressed itself yet to the positive side of its problem raising wages and shortening hours. Poverty is not a permanent or neces sary state; still less a desirable one and a means of grace. It is an acci dent a disease and a preventable one at that. Everything we do on the positive side toward preventing pov erty will prevent disease, infant mor tality, dependency, pauperism and crime in double ratio. "Another experirhent of doubtful value is that of encouraging mothers to go on working up to and directly after child birth, and to neglect the nursing of their own children. Any thing that helps to make this easier such as creches and day nurseries, especially such as receiva infants at ten- days old, ought to balance very carefully the good they may do I against the harm they certainly do. j Ward of the State. "The child is the ward of the state just as certainly before he becomes an orphan as afterward. The best i and most paying job that the com- munity can set any mother at is that of raising her own child to the high est pitch of efficiency and intelli gence. Some day we will have sense enough to pay her to do it and feed herself well in the process; though the ultimate, most desirable and per manent solution would be to give higher wages to the father. "Lastly, it is to be doubted whether the habit in philanthropic circles of encouraging mothers of the working class to bear large families, or offer ing prizes or exemptions from taxes for all children above a certain num ber, and at the same time discourag ing any deliberate attempt to limit the number of children, is either a helpful or an intelligent one. A high birth rate practically always means a high death rate and a high infant mortality. The production of a larger number of children than can be ade quately and properly reared and trained is one of the most serious complications of poverty and obstacles 1 to social progress. The quality of children reared is vastly more impor tant than the quantity. A large j amount of human raw material is re quired tor purposes or selection, but some of that selection had better be made before birth instead of after." COOLEY IS AT HOME. Announces That He Has Secured Ashley for Next Year. Dick Cooley returned today from the meeting of the National Associa tion of Minor Leagues at Memphis, and reports an exceptionally good meeting. Cooley's only deal on this trip was the purchase of Pitcher Ashley. of Cincinnati. With this acquisition, he now considers his pitching staff for the 1910 season complete. The staff consists of this recent purchase. Kauf man, Wright, Jackson, recently pur chased for $500 from Pueblo, and "Oklahoma Cy" Young, drafted from Oklahoma City. Cooley says that he has his eye on several players and .hopes to secure some new faces soon. Ashley pitched the latter part of last season for To peka and made a good showing. He was formerly in the Western associa tion There was a rumor that Cooley would sell the Topeka team but he says that he has made no deal though several offers were made. He says that he has two or three opportunities to branch out in baseball, one of which he would accept in the event he sells the Topeka team. Cooley says that he believes St. Joe will get a berth in the Western league. Bradford Sillier Slightly Better. At a late hour this afternoon there was no visible change in the condition of Bradford Miller. A week ago today, when he was stricken with apoplexy, the physicians did not believe he would live through the first night. As his condition has not improved, little rope for his recovery is entertained, l.ut his unusual vitality has ben a sur prise to physicians and relatives. MUCHVORKAKEAD For the Fourth Session of Pan American Congress Which Will Meet in Buenos Ayres Next July. MATTERS LEFT OVER From Previous Meetings Will Be Discussed. Also Wireless Telegraphy and Aerial Navigation. Washington, Nov. 12. The fourth of a series of great conferences that are steadily strengthening the bonds be tween the republics of the Western hemisphere is to be held in Buenos Ayres, Argentine republic, between the 15th and 20th of next July, and already the Argentine government, which is to be the host in this case, has been do ing much to prepare for the meeting, j The date originally fixed for the Fourth j International Conference of American States was May 20th, 1910, but the fact that a great exposition was to be held in the same capital in that month, which might overshadow the impor tance of the international conference, led to the postponement of the latter. Moreover the month of July, being in the middle of the Argentine winter, is certain to make the visit to Buenos Ayres more agreeable to the delegates from the north. The governing board of the Bureau of American Republics already has dis patched to every South and Central American capital a tentative program of the subiects to be considered by the conference and the various foreign of- j fices have been at work upon this wrtth the purpose of submitting objections or suggesting amendments. Much pro gress has been made and it is hoped that it soon will be possible to promul gate the final program, which, accord ing to present indications will not vary considerably from that prepared by the board of governors. f,Preceding Conferences. The three preceding conferences have moved along the lines of least resist ance; that is to say, the delegates hav adopted as basic principles such prorl sitlons as have secured the easy ad hesion of the great majority but no ef fort was made to coerce the minority of the states into acceptance of rules which, at first presentation, were ob noxious to them. Instead, when these were of real importance, they were thoroughly debated and then remanded for further consideration at the next conference. 'In this way the confer ences have been made educational, and experience has shown that a sound proposition is almost certain to secure adhesion. So it happens that the tentative program includes some sub jects that already have figured in the debates of the preceding conferences. Thus, for instance, will again come up the subject of compulsory arbitra tion. WThile the Hague conference ac cepted this in principle it declined to recommend a general treaty of arbi tration, though strongly urging to the states represented the making of snecial treaties among themselves to carry out the idea. The United States already has done this with eleven of the other American republics, and the subject will come before the fourth conference and receive further en couragement at the beginning of the proceedings, when each delegation will be required to report what action has been taken by their respective governments to carry out, the wish of the third conference. Steamship Lilies. Another project broached at a pre ceding meeting which will be again threshed out will be the establish ment of steam navigation lines con necting the principal ports of the American countries, on the basis of a uniform system of contract. The bureau of American republics is to be strengthened and continued for another ten year term of life at the least and it is hoped that the com mission of international jurists will be able to report something in the nature of a code of international law that will be adopted for the government of the American, republics in their diplo- i matic relations. If this report is sat- isfactory the fourth conference will 1 embody in a treaty this basic code, which is expected to have the hap piest results in the settlement of any disUirbing questions that may arise in the future between the republics. The Pan-American railway; postal rates and parcel posts; a uniform sys tem of collection of census and com mercial statistics and consular meth ods; supervision of food supply; the protection of the public health, and the regulation of rates of internation al exchange are other matters left by preceding conferences for the con sideration of that which is to meet at Buenos Ayres. Aerial Navigation. New and up-to-date subjects are wireless telegraphy and aerial navigai tion, for it has begun to be realized by the governing board that there soon will be need of regulations for the government of these new modes of communication and travel. An ef fort also will be made to arrive at some sound basis of regulation of for eign immigration and naturalization, and to define real neutrality in time of war. t An effort will be made to obtain the co-operation of all the Pan-American states with the Argentine national cen tenary commemoration of independence Most of the centenaries fall in or around 1910. The success of the inter change of professors and students be tween American and European univer sities has resulted in the projection of a plan for a similar exchange between the American republics and finally, ar rangements will be made for a general participation of the republics in the ceremonies attendant upon the opening of the Panama canal. The prospects fcr a successful con ference are bright in the opinion of the officials of the bureau of Amer ican republics. One cloud that threat ened was the breach of relations be tween Argentine and Bolivia. But it is believed that even if the efforts now making to re-establish these re lations should prove abortive yet as the host, Argentine on this occasion would regard herself as the represen tative of all the American republics and walvine all cersonaj coixsid&ra.- tions, gracefully extend to Bolivia the invitation which would secure the at tendance of her delegates at the conference. COCHRAN RESIGNS. Head of Missouri Pacific Legal Depart mcnt Quits. St. Louis, Nov. 12. Vice President and General Solicitor Alex. G. Cochran cf the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain railroad ahs tendered his resignation to the directors and will retire from the helm of the legal department on December 1. Soon after his return from Europe at the latter end of the summer Judge Cochran intimated to Vice President Clarke and likewise to the officials in New Tork that he felt after twenty years of service the time had come for him to relinquish the strenuous duties of the position and sek a little rest and i-ecreation. He proposes to take life very quietly in the coming year and ultimately he may engage in private practice. Judge Cochran is well known among lecal and state politicians and railroad cflicials. MAN HIGHER UP. Grand Jury Says It Is James F. Bendernaget. Indicted in Connection With Sugar Weighing Frauds. New Tork, Nov. 12. James F. Bendernaget. for many years general superintendent of the Williamsburg j p units 01 me American sugar Kenir ing company was today indicted by the federal grand jury in connection with the alleged sugar weighing frauds. Bendernaget's resignation was accepted yesterday. v. ARE DOCTORS NOW. Governor Stubbs, Congressman Scott and Others Receive Degrees LL. D. Manhatan, Kan., Nov. 12. Presi dent Henry Jackson Waters, formerly dean of the school of agriculture at the University of Missouri, late yester day afternoon was formally inaugu rated into office by W. E. Blackburn, president of the board of regents. Following his introduction as presi dent he was enthusiastically saluted by the faculty and regents and the audi ence rosa while- the 2.000 students in the big auditorium gave the. lusty yell of the institution: "Jay,' Rah, Gee, Haw, JayhaWk, Saw, K. S. A. G. Rah, Rah. Rah." The audience sang the college song. President Waters then delivered his in augural address, which was. both sensi ble and scholarly. Preceding the afternoon program in the auditorium the 500 cadets of the institution under ceoimand of a regular army officer maneuvered on the cam pus before several thousand persons. Many of these were Kansas farmers -with sons and daughters students at the institution who had come to see the new president installed. Stubbs Makes a Hit. Governor Stubbs at the late after noon session spoke of "duty of the state to higher education." He said that every dollar appropriated by the legislature for state educational in stitutions of Kansas returned 1,000 per cent on the investment in im proved citizenship. An echo of the recent tax con troversy crept into the governor's re marks. He said that the state educa tional institutions had not received enough money properly to conduct them until the advent of the last legislature. Only two states have a lower per cent of illiteracy than Kan sas. Those who cry high taxes, he said, should visit these states, which range forty-fourth or forty-fifth in enlight enment. Then, he said, they would find no fault with the money Kansas is spending to improve its citizenship. The governor advocated giving the institu tions every dollar they needed. The big audience noisily approved the gov ernor's talk. Waters Is Practical. President Waters in his address said he believed in taking the college to the people as well as bringing the people to the college and that he is an advocate of farmers' institutes, conventions, demonstration farms and instruction farms. He advocated the milling of Kansas wheat in Kansas. He said little atten tion had been given to problems other than production problems, and he be Veved there should be research in the natter of agricultural manufactures pnd the development of factories near the source of production. Speaking of the exodus from the farm. President Waters said that he thought improved farm houses, churches, schools and roads would do a great deal to solve the problem. "This tendency cityward," said he, "has been to a great degree due to the half education which has prevailed in the rural districts and which has given the farm boy glimpses of the more at iractive city life without teaching him at the same time how he may attain such a life at home." More "Doctors" Receive Diplomas. Letters and telegrams were received by the board of regents from practi cally every state university and state agricultural college In the United States congratulating Kansas on the acquisi tion of President Waters and contain ing well wishes. A letter from James Wilson, sesretary of agriculture, highly complimentary to President Waters, was read. Following the Inaugural ad dress of President Waters the honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred cn Governor W. R. Stubbs, Chancel lor Frank Strong, President Joseph H. Hill, Edwin T. Fairchild. Secretary F. D. Coburn, Walter Williams and Rep resentative Charles F. Seott. The Kansas State Agricultural col lege will begin its forty-seventh year with an enrollment of about two thou sand five hundred students. The luncheon cooked and served by the students of the Domestic Science Department was thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated by the visit- HERE FOlU TEST. Mme. Palladino, the Noted Euro pean Spiritualistic Medium, To Submit Her Work to Ameri can Scientists. A COMMITTEE OF 18. Including Prof Robert Kennedy Duncan of K. U. Will Pass Upon the Genuineness of Her Manifestations. New Tork, Nov. 12. The names of some of the scientists who will partici pate in the seances of Mme. Eusapia Palladino, the noted spiritualistic medi um who has reached here from Europe have been made known. The scientists will test the genuine ness of Madame Palladino's manifesta tions. There wiil be 18 members of the com mittee including Prof. William James. Dr. Jastrow of Wisconsin university; Dr. G. Stanley Hall of Clark universi ty; Prof. Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard university; Dr. Norton Prince, Dr. Charles A. Dana of this city, and Prof. Robert Kennedy Duncan of the Univer sity of Kansas. Eusapia Palladino. the Neapolitan medium, has baffled scientists from all over Europe by her spiritualistic sean ces. When the ship on which she came over arrived officers and passengers said that the illiterate woman had given three seances on board that were of amazing character. She is brought to mis country by Hereward Carnngton of this city, a member of several soci eties of psychical research. Some of Her Work. Surrounded by scientists, doctors, opera singers and ship's officers, Palla dino caused white bands to appear and flutter before their eyes. White faced peered out of the folds of curtains, a heavy table rose two feet in the air without a hand near it and uncanny voices were heard whispering messages said to be from the dead. Every pre caution was taken to provide against fraud and the officers and physicians of the Princess Irene say that it waa impossible for any human confederate to have aided the medium. The first demonstration of the Nea- politan's mediumistic powers given aboard ship was in the cabin of Dr. Valentine Duranti, the royal Italian commissioner. There were present In, the cabin besides the captain of the ship, Dr. H. Jeldin, the ship's doctor; Dr. E. Oterf, a widely known Italian practitioner; Mrs. Robert Underwood Johnson of Memphis, Tenn.; Giueseppt Bomfiglio, ballet master for the Metro politan Opera house, and Mrs. Bom figlio. None had ever met Palladino be fore and she was brought into their presence without the preliminary of an introduction. AVent Into a. Trance. When the short, broad shouldered llt tie woman sat down to the table about which the passengers and officers wera grouped, Mr. Carrington made her show that her hands were empty and that nothing was concealed in the folds of her dress. Then, after she had lapsed into a trance, she began her demon stration. First Dr. Oteri was asked If he would like to receive a message from his father. He assented and ques tions were asked and responded to by raps. The knocks were heard in all parts of the cabin. The medium spoke for the spirit of the physician's father, duplicating the voice of the dead, Oterl said. Then she spoke for the doctor's mother, and the physician was so affected that he wept. The doors and windows of the cabin were shut and dim lights were burning. Following the communion with the spirits a cold wind was felt in the cabin, though it could not have come from an aperture. Then a white han.l appeared on the curtains. A murmur of horror ran around the cabin, whicli was followed by startled cries when a face glowed out of the darkness above the medium. Then the white hand fluttered about the room and came and fell on the shoulder of Dr. Oteri. Blows were felt by all those present. Palladino can neither read nor write Italian and she speaks no English. She knowj nothing of metaphysics. ATCHISON IS KIT. Central Branch Removing Terminal to St. Joe. Atchison, Nov. 12. Is the Missouri Pacific "back firing' already as a re sult of the agitation against the Cen tral Branch? An order was issued today from the offices at St. Louis, making the ter- j minus of Central Branch freight i trains number 553 and 564 in St. Jos eph, which will probably necessitate i the removal of two crews from Atch j ison to St. Joseph: ten men all told. rue new order becomes enective jso vember 15. It is talk that the change of the two freights is only a forerunner of what will happen within the next thirty days, that of making St. Joseph the terminus of all Central Branch freight and passenger trains. This would mean a big loss to Atchison in popu lation. It would not fall short of one hundred should the change be made. There would be a general shakeup in Central Branch affairs. Several months ago a report was sent out from St. Joseph that the change would be made within a year. It was strongly denied at the Missouri Pacific offices in Atchison at that time. Jno. Dawson, attorney for the state railroad board said today when shown the above dispatch that this report is at variance with all his information on the subject. He says that he has been assured that the Central Branch has taken steps both to improve the track and the service and today the board authorized the company to borrow $29,000,000 for this purpose. Killed by His Cook. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 12. Samuel F. Morley, farm manager of a large estate on Bloomfleld Hills, near here, died to day from being shot, according to his dying statement, by Miss Bertaa Lletzav. The woman wanted to marry him, Morley said, and shot him because, he refused her. Miss Lietzay who wa the cook at the farm, is In JalL

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12,1909. PRIDE MEST. Two Undefeated Football Teams Clash at Madison. Minnesota and Wisconsin De cide Supremacy Tomorrow. A ItUSIl FOR SEATS Large Delegation From Chicago and Twin Cities. Items of Interest in the World of Sport. Madison, Wis., Nov. 12. Preparations are being made for handling the big gest crowd in the history of football at Wisconsin for the Minnesota-Wisconsin championship contest at Camp Randall tomorrow. Great banks of Beats are to be erected at each end of the field to accommodate the crowds that have al accompanied by drafts or money or ders can be honored. Blocks of seats have been ordered lor. sale in Chicago, Milwaukee and Eau Claire, and ft i expected that there will not be a re served seat left unsold on the morning; of the game. No general admission tickets will be eold elsewhere than at the gate, and these will admit only to seats at the ends of the field, all of the space at the sides being con verted into reserved seats to accommo date the crowd. .To increase the seating capacity suf ficiently, it has been necessary to erect bleachers in front of the grandstand, low enough not to interfere with the view. These and the two huge bleach ers to be put up at the east and west ends of the field will fill the space heretofore occupied by automobiles, tally-hos and carriages, so that there will bs no opportunity to view the game from vehicles. HILDRETH'S HORSES LEAD. "Von $165,277 on the American Turf This Season. New York, Nov. 12. S. C. Hildreth's stable of horses won the most money on the American turf in the season of 3909. the amount being $163,277. This in cludes about $58,000 won in California, Canada and Fimlico. James R. Keene is second on the list with $110,633, all won on the Metropolitan tracks. H. G. Bedwell with $5o,833 is third on the list, ready indicated their intention of at- followed by B. Schreiber with $52,425; GOTCH JSSUED. Champion Wrestler Defendant in Breach of Promise. Miss Sadie Cnrrie Asks Modest Sum of $25,000. HE ENTERS A DENIAL. Claims That Doesn't Ereri Know the Woman. Endearing Letters Enter Into the Case. Chicago, Nov. 12. Frank A. Gotch, champion wrestler of the world, was made defendant in a $25,000 breach of promise suit filed in the circuit court yesterday on behalf of Miss Sadie Cur rie. "Dearest Baby." "My Loveliest Love," and "Dearest Darling are a lew or the pet names he is declared to have is nothing to it. and I ought to know," and with that he reached the door and squeezed his way into the jam. ready to con his wrestling trunks and retain his title of champion. Love Letters in Lawyer's Hands. "Gotch is foolish to deny acquaint anceship with Miss Currie." said Attor ney Pattison. "because his memory is likely to be badly jolted when the hear ing is held. Miss Currie is 21 and handsome. But she is unsophisticated and believed all the tales of love he whispered into her ears. He met her in Minneapolis a little more than two years ago. and his courtship has been of the mot ardent type. "Miss Currie placed in my hands nearly 60 love letters covering the en tire period between their first meeting and a short time ago, when his love appeared to grotv cold. No lover ever called his sweetheart more affectionate r femes or made more promises than did the athlete to Miss Currie." O'NEILL OX NATIOXAL BOARD. i v i I --vM I r ft li- fsfj -.f I wv I- r- XtAf- jvii y I ?SmMm ammmmmxt f.j- jfcmxxxxxix j'! EsS' leading from left to right the players on the top row are: Culver, halfback; Jakisch; guard; Keckie. quarter back; Junmie Dean, right end. Below on left Frank Boyle, left tackle; on right, Osthoff, right tackle. tending. From Milwaukee a large party is ar ranging to come to the game in auto mobiles, James T. Drought, law "75. of the Wisconsin Automatic club being director of this party. The Chicago alumni, numbering 600 are planning to attend the game in a body. Other par ties are coming from La Crosse. Bau Claire, Janesville, Beleit, Waiertown, Oshkosh and Racine. As thi3 will be the only big game in the west, Chicago playing at Ithaca. N. Y., and Michigan at Philadelphia it is anticipated that most of the grid ion enthusiasts of the northwest will take advantage of the opportunity to see what will practically be the decis ive championship game of the Big N1r.. Seats will be provided for 10.000 peo ple, and a large section of the north bleachers will be reserved for Wiscon sin rooters, who will form a solid block of some 5.000. The Minnesota crowd, numbering at least 1.000, will oc.iP" a block of seats in the grand stand opposite. The Gopher students will bo accompanied by their military band and a large delegation of grid Iron enthusiasts from the Twin Cities. In order to accommodate the thou sands of alumni from out of town, large sections of desirable seats on both sides of the field have been re served for mail order sale. Because of the big demand for seats only orders P. T. Chlnn. with $47,045; the Montpelier stable with $46000; F. A. Forsythe $34, 345; R. L. Thomas with $31,675; James MacManus with $30,620: St. James sta ble with $30,040: William Walger with $29,920; J. E. Madden with $24,623; Keene Brothers with $20,570, and G. M. Odom with $21,340. B. Schreiber's colors have been in front 138 times in 1909: H. G. Bedwell has won 109 races: S. C. Hildreth 7 J. R. Keene 21; P. T. Chinn 89; Mont pelier stable 43; St. James stable 60; J. E. Madden 13; G. M. Odom 33; A. Belmont 11; Beverwyck stable 25; H. P. Whitney 10. PARIS WAXTS THE FIGHT. Would Make Jeffries-Johnson Battle a Society Event. New York, Nov. 12. Norman Selby, tiptter linown as Kid McCoy; the for mer pugilist, arrived in New York last right on the Lusitania, carrying a bid from a Paris syndicate for the Jeffries Johnson fight. "We hope to persuade the champ. on3 to fight in the Circle de Paris next June during the week of the Grand Prix." caid Selby. "T am authorized to offer 250,000 trances ($50,000) and other inducements. If the fight goes to Paris the occasion will be made a great society event, and a third of the spectators will be women." Help Baby's Bowels Free Any mother with a child given to c mstipatlon should send her name and address to Dr. Caldwell and secure a free sample bottle of a remedy especially adapted to the cure of this trouble in children. There is no remedy on the (American market today more widely used for this purpose than Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It is in thousands of homes for just this purpose. It is the best child's remedy obtainable, and any mother having trouble with her children's bowels owes it to herself and the child to make a free test to see for herself whether these claims are justified. Thousands say they are, but you should find out for yourself, or send your address today for a free sample bottle. Then, after having used it, if you are convinced it is the remedy you need, do as other moth ers are doing and go to your druggist and buy it in the regular way at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle. The dollar bottle is for families. Every household should have such a remedy at hand, as one can never tell when some member of the family will suffer from contipation, indigestion, liver trouble, sour stomach, sick headache, etc. Here you have a laxative that the youngest child can use with safety, and yet is effective on the strongest constitution. No child will refuse it, s it is very palatable, and it never gripes. Results are absolutely guaranteed or money will be refunded. You can see from the testimonials printed here and in other announcements how enthusiastic people are about the remedy. This should In Itself prompt you to begin its use, but if you do. not want- to be put to any expense before being convinced then send to Dr. Caldwell for the free sample bottle. After that you will always have it at hand. Use Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin I am taking Syrup Pepsin and think It Is the grandest medicine I have ever taken for constipation and I have taken al others I could hear of. I cannot praise It enough for what it has done for me and also my children. May your great medi cine be in every home. MRS. S. A. BRANSTITTER, Chlckasha. Oka. I must say that I am on the second fcottle of Syrup Pepsin and it has done me more good than all of the medicine I ever took. I cannot speak too highly of it. I feel thankful that I ever wrote you about the medicine. I can eat most anything and it don't distress me. MRS. ELLEN DUNGAN, Muncie, Ind. Dr. Caldwell personalis will be pleased to give you any medical advice -you may desire for yourself or family per taining to the stomach, liver or bowels, absolutely free sol charge. Explain your case In a letter and he will reply to you In detail. For the free sample simply send your name address on a postal card or otherwise. For either request the docor's address la Dr. W. B.. Caldwell, K. SOS Caldwell Bldg., Monticello. Hi. lavished on the young woman who seeks a money balm for her wounded affec tions. Her legal representatives, Pat tis.on Shaw, declared they had some thing like 60 letters of the "mushy" kind to back up her-claim jn court. The identity of the claimant is shrouded in mystery. Gotch declared he does not know her and never heard of her, but her lawyers said he was 'only fooling." They said her parents live in Minneapolis, and that she came to Chicago and established a residence some time aeo. Thev refused to per mit her to be interviewed at this time. Perhaps Gotch is trying to spare the feeling of Miss Minnie Warner, resid ing with her brother at S33 Forty eighth street, who is rumored to be the fiancee of the mat actor Miss War ner is superintendent of the telephone service for the Western Vaudeville Managers' association. Hovers Near the Switchboard. The engagement of the couple was reported last spring, but Gotcil imme diately came forward with a denial and Miss Warner corroborated his state ment. Nevertheless, people about the theater last night said that Gotch has been "putting in about half of his time near the switchboard." In March, 1907, stories were telegraph ed over the country to the effect that Gotch was about to wed Ida Emerson, the divorced actress wife of Joe How ard, songw ritcr and playwright, but this also went by the boards. Gotch was trying to force his way through the crowd for his contest at the Coliseum when approached by a re porter. When shown a reference to the suit a slight smile broke on his face, and he handed back the refer ence with a look of annoyance. There is nothing to it, he said when pressed further. "I never heard of that woman. No,. I cannot recall th name. Don't know her." 'Could it be the young woman whose name was linked with yours, in an en gagement announcement last spring?" "No, that was Miss Warner. Thare President of Western League Succeeds O'Brien Xext Meeting In Chicago. Memphis, Tenn.. Nov. 12. The exten sion of the life of the National Asso ciation of professional baseball clubs until September 6. 1921, and the selec tion of Chicago as the next meeting place were the principal features of the closing session of the annual meeting of the association. The National board of arbitration will probably remain here until Saturday disposing of the large number of cases on its calendar. It was decided to follow" in the wake of the major league in the punishment of contract and reserve jumpers. The tiew rule provides a suspension of five years for breaking a contract and three years for violating a reserve. The National board decided the fol lowing cases today: Fort Smith vs. Ok lahoma City for alleged tampering with players, claim withdrawn. Player Loftus was awarded to Sa pulpa, Ok. Players Ludes and Pollard were awarded tc EIReno, Ok. The claim of the Lincoln club to Player Williams and $300 against the Monmouth club was decided in favor of the Lincoln club. Jack Messerly, Chicago, was reinsta ted on payment of $100. Before a recess after the long day's grind ;he National board appointed Norrls L. O'Neill president of the West ern League a member to fill the va cancy caueed by the resignation of Jos. D. O'Brien, president of the American Association. The election of O'Neil gives class "A" full representation on the National board of arbitration. LAST DAY'S SESSIOX. Baseball Magnates Winding n Their Business. Memphis. Tenn.. Nov. 12. The "Na tional Association of Minor leagues met In this city in what probably will be the closing session of the 1909 meet ing. The report of the committees of the revision of the constitution and thc selection of the place for the meeting for 1910 were the principal events of the session. Seven cities Chicago, Louisville, Ro chester, Denver, Rock Island, Colum bus and Seattle have made efforts to secure the next meeting of the associa tion but it was expected that Chicago would win the honor. The central lo cation of Chicago is the main argument advanced in its favor, and President Norris L. O'Neil, of the Western league, was the leader in advancing the claims of that city. The national board of arbitration mot today and tookl Jup many cases, the great majority -of which were of minor importance. The?e are still more than 90 cases to go before the board. J. Carl Ewing, the president of the Pacific Coast league, and a member of the board, has left for San Francisco for the annual meeting of his league No vember 15. Kling's Pool Championship Slipping. Kansas City, Nov. 12. The third block in the S00 ball play for the pool championship of the world between Champions John G. Kling and Thomas Hueston of St. Louis resulted in Hues-i ton increasing his total lead to 129 balls last nijrht. Hueston scored 194 to Kling's 128. The total score for the three nights' play now stands: Hues ton 603; Kling 474, The final block will be played tonight. Paplce Gets a Draw. Pittsburg, Pa.. Nov. 12. The best the National Sporting club members could give Billy Pajke. the Illinois thunder bolt after his fight of six rounds last night at the Duq-jesne gardens with Frank Klaus, the East Pittsburg mid dleweight, was a; draw. Detroit Wins In Cuba. Havana, Nov. 12. The Detroit American baseball team again defeated ihe Havana club yesterday by a score of 2 to 0. GRIDIRON GOSSIP. season and naturally both are anxious to win this particular game as the vic tor will have a chance to carry off the Missouri valley championship. If Mis souri wins she will have to defeat Kan sas on Thanksgiving day at Kansas City in order to have a clear title, while urake has Ames to meet after the con test with the Tigers. Another good game in the Missouri valley tomorrow will be the one at Iowa City between Ames and Inwa. Washburn plays Creighton college at Omaha. The Manhattan Aggies meet the Oklahoma Aggies at Manhattan. The Haskell Indians go up against the strong Denver university eleven at Den ver. Kansas has no game tomorrow, but the coaches and a number of players will be on the side lines at the Drake Missouri game getting pointers for the Thanksgiving day struggle with the Tigers at Kansas City. K. U.'s next game is with Iowa at Lawrence No vember 20. This will be the biggest eame piayea at Lawrence in years. The big game in the west will be be. tween Minnesota and Wisconsin at Madison. The west also plays the east tomorrow, Chicago lining up against Cornell, while Michigan journeys to Philadelphia to clash with Pennsylva nia. In the east the big game is at iNew itaven Detween Yale and Prince, ton. The Topeka high school will have a game on the home grounds tomorrow with the Sophomore team of the State Agricultural college. The defensive play of the high school has been improved and the line is prepared to stop the rushes of the farmers. The forward pass has also been developed. The line up which will be used is: Left guard. Gall; left tackle. Haynes; left guard, Kutz; center, Hawes: right euard. Slaughter; right tackle, Olander; right cna, ueArmona, Koyce, Smiley; quar ter. Heil. Johnson: left half, Meade; right half. Smiley. (Capt.) Trobert; iuiiDacK. van juorp. The Wafhburn football team will leave this evening at 7:55 o'clock on the Santa Fe for Omaha where thev have their initial battle with the Creighton university tearj tomorrow. The squad taken will consist of 16 men besides the coach and manager. All are in good condition. Those who will be taien are: Whitney, center; Peazin and Johnstone, guaras; tsenton ana Titus, tackles; Larimer and Foster, ends; Wnitcomb, full; MacCarroll and Nipps, halves. tmiley, who has recovered from his in juries in the K. U. game will be back again at quarter. DeFrantz. McKnight. .Mcintosh, coivllle. Hardy, will complete the squad. John Robb will not be taken as his Injuries do not mend. Burkhart will also be left at home to bolster up his ankle. PUSHED HER OFF BRIDGE Farmer Confesses to Police That Ho Killed His Wife. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 12." Ed ward Hoff, a farmer, has confessed to the police that the body of the woman found in the river near here last Mon day, was that of his wife and that he caused her death by pushing her from the bridge of the Indiana Union Trac tion company which crosses the river at Broad ripple, just north of the city. See J. THOMAS LUMBER CO. for lumber and DEWEY PORTLAND CE MENT. Guaranteed the best manu To encourage the employer, who pays Hvinc wacroe mnlr iinfrtm ttihIa pivara ASriDPEKAHffl naBjSjgssjBSMHKtapMV The big game tomorrow in the Mis souri valley is the one between Drake university of Des Moines and Missouri university to be played at Columbia. Neither team has been defeated this Wj7c N r:;;; Jji fey Frank Gotch, Champion Wrestler of. the World,., Who JIas Been Sued, tor Brca,ch of Promise. 7 .Items for the East Topeka column siay t telephoned to Ind. phons 1751. J W. A. Fritz and sons. Bradford and Clarence of Freedom, Okla., are here making an extended visit with his daughter, Mrs. C. O. Cooper of 315 Lake street. The engineers wives held their reg ular meeting this evening at the K. and L. of S. hall. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beeler will return to their home in Argentine to morrow after spending several days here, the guests of relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Helton of Southwick, Idaho, who have been spending several months visiting rela tives in Kansas, are now the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Mischke of 236 German avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Helton have not visited Kansas for the past nineteen years, but still have a num ber of friends here. Mrs. Helton is an invalid and would be glad at any time to see any of her old friends who wish to call. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bates of 400 Chandler street, are the parents of a son born Wednesday morning. Mrs. Rose Coe of East Fifth street, who has been ill for several days is improving and is able to be out and around. The quarantine has been raised from the Frank Vetter. home at 205 Branner street. Mack, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Vetter has been 111 with an attack of diphtheria. Mrs. Peckenpaugh entertained the Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church at her home Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Minnie Dolstrom is unable to be out on account of illness. She is Buffering with a severe cold. Tmncono "Rovitt Hnilffhtpr nf Air and Mrs. Arthur Bevitt is ill with an attack of diphtheria, Mrs. J. Liggett of Baldwin, Kan., who has been quite ill is reported to be improving. Miss Flossie Hobbs of Seneca, Kan., will leave soon for home after making a visit here for a few days, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parcells of 422 Quincy street. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kuhene moved Wednesday from 220 Chandler street to the Kuhene home between Elev enth and Twelfth on Quincy street. Mrs. Florence Bunce has returned home from Baldwin, Kan., where she spent a week visiting relatives and friends. Miss Clara Smith of 834 Madison street will spend Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City, the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. H. Barger. Mrs. Richard Wilson is seriously ill at her home, 325 Klein street Rev. J. E. Hollar or Kansas, uity, Kan., will come here Sunday to assist Rev. J W. Johnston. ,pastor of the Parkdale M. E. church in a three i weeks evangelistic campaign, starting Sunday evening and continuing every night in the week. The Oakland club of old soldiers will meet Friday evening at the home of Mr. J. Dunn, 159 Michigan avenue, to help him celebrate his 61st birthday. Mrs. Ora Kelley and son Willis, wire of Engineer Kelley of Argentine, Kan., are visitors at the home of James Kelley and family of 286 Oakland avenue. Cella. the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Clarke of 183 Oakland is suffering with an attack of diph theria and membraneous croup. Hi p You Will Like What You Get That is why so many people come to this store. We know die best clothing styles and qualities suited to Men and Women People who wish to spend only a reasonable amount for their clothing come here we are glad to trust them for their purchases so that hj they can Open an Account and Pay Gradually While Wearing There is no easier way of buying the best of clothes for yourself and family than on our Easy Payment Way H. B. RIDGLEY MDSE. CO. a H. DAVIS. Manager 114 West Eighth Street DEFENDANT IN A FIT. It Becomes Necessary to Adjourn the Read Blackmail Trial. Denver, Nov. 12. Seized with violent convulsions during her trial on the charge of attempting to secure $100,000 from Mrs. Genevieve Chandler-Phipps on the threat of death by dynamite, Mrs. Allen F. Read lies at the point of death at the home of her sister. Miss Jennie Campbell. The trial will probably be suspended pending her recovery. Mrs. Phipps, the complaining: witness again took the stand and was cross ex amined by Mrs. Read's attorney. In an swer to questions by Attorney Waterman regarding methods by which Mrsi Read had secured an interview with her, Mrs. Phipps said that Mrs. Read had told her that a spy in the Phipps household who was endeavoring to secure material for a sequel to Joseph Medill Patterson's "A Little Brother of the Rich" had been placed there by Henry Phipps of New York, an uncle of her divorced husband, Lawrence Phipps, in the effort to prove that she regarded money far beyond her children, and she was an unfit person to have the custody of her two daughters. In spite of the grilling examination Mrs. Phipps adhered strictly to the story which she had told on direct examination. She again told the story of how Mrs. Read had proposed to return the amount she attempted to force from Mrs. Phipps by insurine her life for the same amount and committing suicide by dynamite while vis iting a marble quarry. Mrs. Read was surrounded bv alienists and should she be able to face the tribunal after her attack her attorneys will intro duce the plea of insanity. SET FIRE TO HIS HOUSE. Somebody Tried to Burn Prof. Payne and Family AUve. Chicago, Nov. 12. An attempt to burn alive Prof. James Payne, a ne gro spiritualist and his family, whose home was recently raided was made last night by unknown persons who poured kerosene oil over the front porch of the Payne house and in the hallway and then set fire to the place. Noise made by perpetrators of the crime awakened Payne and as he ran down the hall stairs to investigate a can of oil exploded a few feet from him. The front of. the house was then in flames. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FfelD AY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 190& RAILROAD NEWS. New Santa Fe Track Is to Be Model of Construction. Special Ballast, Treated Japan ese Ties and Heavy Rails. OTHERS WILL WATCH New Experiments Attract At tention of Western Roads. Other Items of Interest in Rail way Circles. Work -will be commenced next week on the new track for the first division of the Santa Fe, between Sylvia and Kinsley, which will be laid with special ballast and specially prepared Japanese pine ties, treated with creosote, and 30 pound rails secured with screw spikes. This track will extend about 53 miles and the laying and wear of the track will be watched with interest by all of the railroads of the west. The new track is an experiment and especially the use of the screw spikes which is considered to be better in holding the rail and will not work loose. This is the first track of its kind in the con tinent and, if it proves successful, ail of the railroads will make use of it. There will be one stretch of the track composed of ties from the Hawaiian Islands called Jap oak. which is sim ilar to the English or white walnut. This wood was used in making idols and is known to have lasted for 800 years. These ties will not be treated w ith creosote. One carload will be used, consisting of about 244 ties. The holes in the ties for the spikes are bored by a machine and the spikes screwed down by the machine. Only one machine is available now and it will take a year to complete the track. Ties are being unloaded now at Sum merville ready to begin the work at the first of the week. Alexander West, roadmaster of the first division of the Santa Fe, was pro moted inspector under the new ruling and will inspect all the work. Jacoo Haas, of Dodge City, will come to Hutchinson, and take charge of the work of the roadmaster of the first di vision, and take up the former work of Mr. West. DAVTDSOX GIVES REASOXS. Frisco President States That He Re signed to Take Long Rest. A. J. Davidson, president of the Frisco, who returned to St. Louis headquarters yesterday from New York with Vice President C. "R. Gray, made the following announcement last evening: "My resignation as president of the St. Louis San Francisco Railroad company has been tendered to the chairman of the executive committee of the company In New York, to be come effective upon any date .that is convenient to him, and I assume ac tion with respect to filling the vacancy at the next meeting of the board of Tlirectors, which will be held within thirty days. "While I regret exceedingly to sever pleasant relations with St. Louis and her commercial interests, the step taken by me will result In material advantage to myself. I expect to leave, with Mrs. Davidson, within the next day or two for a two months' trip to California ad will enjoy a good rest before returning to St. Louis." MISSOURI PACIFIC FIXE SHOWING Net Results and Earnings in Septem ber Best in History of Road. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 12. It is un derstood that the Missouri Pacific in September earned at the rate of 10 per cent on the stock. The net results were the best in the company's history for that month. The car movements one day in September exceeded any thing that the company has ever done. The cash balance of the Missouri Pa cific just now, it is claimed, is suffi cient to take care of current needs in epite of improvements of considerable lze, so that the demand or the new Issue of bonds is not an urgent one. MONORAIL RAILWAY SUCCESS. Marvelous Pemonstration of New Means of Transportation Witnessed. London. Nov. 12. The new mono rail railway, which works on the prin ciple of a gyroscope and which was first shown in model form eighteen months ago before the Royal society by its inventor, Louis Brennan, C. B., has received its first public demonstra tion on a full scale in the war office grounds near Chatham. The guests witnessed a spectacle as marvelous and as revolutionary from the standpoint of transportation as that which aeroplanes have furnished In the last two years. They saw a car 40 feet long. 10 feet wide, and 13 feet high weighing 22 tons mounted A man who owns a fine coffee plantation in Jamaica said "Four years ago I discovered that coffee was ruining my health and I quit and have been using Postum ever since." Experience taught this man that he could not drink his own high-grade coffee. Its active drug caffeine irri tates the nervous system, inter feres with digestion, and trouble is sure to follow. Some folks may take the hint end change to Postum. It is absolutely free from drugs, boiled 15 minutes, it has a de licious taste similar to the high grade Javas, with the natural vital food elements of tri fi1rl grains that repair the damage m ee done oy corres. Read that"little health classic," "The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. "There's a Reason." on a single rail, running freely about curves of all sorts and carrying 40 passengers with safety as complete and with vibration far less than the ordinary passenger car. The vehicle runs in a circle an eighth of a mile in circumference at a speed of 25 miles an hour, with eighty horse power without the slightest tendency to leave the rail. LIVE UP TO 16-HOUR LAW. Wabash Train and Engine Crews Abandon Tlielr Trains. Alton, 111.. Nov. 12. Two crews on Wabash extra trains after completing the lesal limit of sixteen hours work last nisht abandoned their trains near here and went to sleep in the cabooses. A special train frdir here pushed the two stalled trains into Al ton where new crews took charse of them. Albert McRae, publisher of the Santa Fe Employes' magazine, was in Topeka Tuesday on a business trip. W. D. Davis, assistant electrician of the Santa Fe. left yesterday on a few days' business trip to Ottawa and Cha nute. Col. F. S. Savage, advertising agent for the Santa Fe, returned Wednesday from a trip to Garden City. R. B. Elhfritz, assistant superin tendent of the Harvey eating houses of the eastern division, returned to New ton Wednesday after spending several days here on a business trip. Conductor Verlin is unable to be at work on account of Illness. Fireman J. B. Pennington has been assigned to runs 1 and 2 and 5 and 6 between Topeka and Marcelline with Engineer Beeler. L. Stanley, trainmaster at Emporia, spent Wednesday in Topeka on a busi ness trip. Arthur Johnson returned to work to day in the machine shop after being off several days on account of illness. Fireman. Al Fields has been assigned to runs and 6 between Topeka and Newton with Engineer Jolley. Rev. Mr. Scrivner spoke to the men in the machine shop at the noon meet ing Thursday. A large crowd was pres ent. Fireman Mitchell has been assigned to runs 5 and 6 with Engineer Schall. Next Tuesday evening at the Young Men's Social and Investigation club of the R. R. Y. M. C. A. a debate will be given upon the following subject: "Re solved, That the cow is a more useful animal than the horse." The affirma tive will be represented by Clyde Ham ilton and Lee Emerson and the nega tive side by Louis Waidelich and H. S. Walker. A good time is in store an-i every young man is invited to attend. Claude Lester of the machine shop Is laying off for a few days. Engine 121 is back on the Kansas Southwestern railway In operation after securing some repairs in the shopa here. Arkansas City Traveler: J. L. Thom as, an employe of the shops, left on the noon train today for Topeka, where he will become a patient in the Santa Fe hospital. Mr. Thomas has been very sick and he is going to a hospital where he will receive the best medical atten tion obtainable. The service of the in stitution referred to above is unex celled. It is hoped by Mr. Thomas friends that he will soon regain his former good health. Arkansas City Traveler: The new treating plant at the pump house still refuses to work properly. Mr. Ham mers, traveling chemist, has gone to Topeka to consult W. Powers, chief chemist, in regard to the matter. When he returns he will probably be informed as to what the principal trouble with the new plant is and remedy it. The difficulty Is in the machinery. Arthur Green, carpenter In the coach shop, is unable to be at work on ac count of an injured hand. Jack Campion of the machine shop has taken a room at the R. R. Y. M. C. A. Gus Awes, scale Inspector, is spend ing a few days in the city on a busi ness trip. C. T. McClellan of Emporia is spend ing several days in the city on a busi ness trip. Fred Seaman of the machine shop Is laying off. Fireman Joe Coy has been assigned to runs 62 and 63 with Engineer Polley. C C. Merrill, general agent of the New York Central line, stationed at Kansas City, was in the city yesterday paying" his friends a visit. Mr. Merrill is a big hearted, big bodied man and has a number of friends here who greet him very cordially upon his visits. A. C. Devlin of Florence has come to Topeka to take the position of night ticket agent. R. G. Robinson, who formerly held that position, has taken the place of Mr. Browning, day man, who has gone to Kansas City to take charge of the city ticket office there. Mr. A. B. C. Dutcher, manager of thi Topeka Harvey house, and Miss Mabel McAmis of Kansas City were married Tuesday evening at 2 o'clock at the In dependence Avenue M. E. church. Rev. L. L. Banks officiating. The wedding was a ouiet one, only relatives and in timate friends being present. The bride is a very attractive young lady and very much admired. Mr. Dutcher was formerly of Chicago and although he has been inthis city buC a short time he has made a host of friends, espe cially among the Santa Fe people, who extend to him and his bride their best wishes and hearty congratulations. Mr. and Mrs. Dutcher came to Topeka Wednesday evening to make their per manent home. After Dec. 1st they will be at home to their friends in the Har vey house. NORTON BRICK PLANT SOLD. City School Buildings to Be Equipped With lire Escapes. Norton, Kan., Nov. 12. What is generally known as the Paul Broquet I rick yards of this place were sold to day to G. G. Guthrie upon whose land the plant stands, adjoining the town tite. The plant alone was estimated at $5,000, though Mr. Guthrie becomes the owner at the same time of ,25,000 newly baked brick. A superior quality of brick Is made here. Before any steps were taken to erect the plant, two and a half years ago, the clay was subjected to experts in St. Louis end Chicago for tests. The city school building will at once fce equipped with fire escapes meeting the requirements of the state inspector. The building has long been supplied with 'fire escapes which are efficient tut of an antiquated type. Norton County Revivalist Successful. Norton, Kan., Nov. 12. Four miles from this place is being held a re vival at the Darling school house, con ducted by Rev. Mattie Mumma, at at which there were twenty conver sions during the first week. Mrs. Mumma was recently called to the pastorate of the United Brethren church at thia place. WESTERNPLUCK. Dodge City's Big Department Store to Be Rebuilt at Once. Burned Two Weeks Ago, Entail ing Loss of $100,000. WAS PRIDE OF TOWN Building Was Owned by Lieu tenant Governor Fitzgerald. Owners of Stock Reorganize and W ill Start Over Again. Dodge City. Kan., Nov. 12. "As oon as the insurance is adjusted, we shall begin work on a new building." This was the utterance of Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald, principal owner of the structure occupied by the Dodge City Mercantile company, before the ftre which destroyed the building and rtock last week. Since then the ad justers have met and it can now be announced that the building will be constructed as rapidly as men and money can do. it, giving the big mer cantile company a new home as soon as possible. In the meantime the com pany will be reorganized and will get in shape to occupy Its new building as toon as possible. City Rejoices at Announcement. All Dodge City is glad that the store i to be rebuilt and the company to risume business. As the greatest de lartment store in the western half of Kansas, the Dodge City Mercantile company developed the fact that Dodge City is a splendid trading point. It drew trade for fifty miles around. Farmers came in automobiles and by wagon from great distances and car ried home large loads of merchandise. Not all of it was purchased from ine I ig department store, but other Dodge fitv concerns likewise received patron- sge after the buyers had been attracted by the bargains ottereo oy me mer cantile company. Fire Heavy Blow to Company. The fire was a great blow to the members of the company, but not so sjreat as to put them out of business. Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald's loss relatively small. He was principal owner of the building, but on the building the insurance was within a few thousand dollars or enougn io cover the loss. He had reduced his holding in the mercantile company at the time it was organized to go into the building specially erected for it until he held only $17,000 In the con cern. His total personal loss Is in the neighborhood of $22,000, after the in surance money is paid, which is not at all a severe blow to the governor, who has a large ranch and many other properties of various kinds. His ranch ilone has yielded him a net income of $10,000 a year fgr the last several years, so that he can stand a jolt of this kind without it affecting him seri ously. Governor Fitzgerald Watched Fire Incidentally, the fire gave another illustration of the gameness and equanimity that are so large a part of Governor Fitzgerald's personality. The story told by his friends of his conduct at the time ol the fire furnishes the lustration. As an officer of the com rany and one of the owners of the building, he had a private office on the second floor of the building to the rear, 'ooking out on another building one rtory lower, occupied also by the mer cantile company for hardware imple ments. Incidentally, this building did rot burn, thanks to the efficiency of the volunteer fire company. A very few minutes after the fire broke out an employe rushed into the governor's office and told him the building was in flames. He left his of fice and went to the lower floor, to the stairway leading to the basement. Al ready the fire was under such head way that he saw the building was doomed. He hastily returned, told the cashier to get his money, checks, etc., from the safe, lock it and make his escape. The order was complied with so far as possible, but so fierce were the flames and so rapid their progress that the cashier did not have time even to close the doors tightly and they were left slightly ajar and were not yet fully closed when the safe was dug out of the debris. But the safe happened to fall face upward and went through the names with contents practically undamaged, the silver blackened but a roll of bills in tact. Left Burning Building by Window. Leaving the cashier, Mr. Fitzgerald returned to his private office where his safe, containing his individual papers, bonds, notes, stock certificates, insurance policies, etc., were kept. He commanded his stenographer to hasten from the building but himself set about gathering up the valuable papers with which they had at the moment been working. These he took and carefully deposited in proper drawers, got what cash there was and put into his pocket, pushed the va rious drawers In, closed the Inner doors and locked them with a key, threw the large outer doors to and turned the combination. Before he had completed the task the flames were all around the room he was occupying and peeking in at the win dows. An employe came rushing through from an office adjoining and literally plunged through a window on to the roof of the adjoining building ten feet below, taking the screen with him, heedless of the advice of the governor to wait a moment, so ns not to create a draft by throwing up an nutor window. His work completed Gov. Fitzgerald proceeded to the same window, out not at tne maa rate of sneed at which the employe traveled. He went to the side window nnnosite from where the flames seemed worst, let himsr if through and swung around to that side of the window as far as possible, before al lowing himself to drop. Fitzgerald's Hair Was Singed. He reached the roof safely and the rest of it was easy, but he bears several burns on his ear lobe, singed hair on one side of his head and a singed eyebrow for his delay. It was an exhibition of nerve, presence of mind and will power rarely exhibited. A different sort of gameness and fortitude, but no less admirable, is displayed in his declara tion immediately after the fire. "Yes, it's too bad. but we shall simplv have to get busy, erect a new building and begin over again." And that's what is to be done. The fire practically wiped Out financially some of the members of the big mer cantile company, but they are as game as the governor and as eager to get back to work, although for some of them it will mean Indeed "starting all over again." 1 OBERLIN MILL REOPENED. Occasion -Was One of Feasting and Merry Making. Oberlin, Kan., Nov. 12. Christmas morning, 1908, the Oberlin grist mill was destroyed by fire. Today a new, more commodious, modern roller grist mill has taken its place. The owner, H. Q. Banta, thought it was fitting to give his friends a general invitation, to visit the new plant and inspect It. They came in good numbers. A few j days later he Issued special Invitations to his customers from outside of Oberlin to come and look through the new mill. And they came, and they, were glad of the opportunity. The burned mill had a capacity of 75 barrels of flour daily, while the new plant can turn out 100 barrels of flour, while the elevator capacity can han dle 25,000 bushels dally. The new plant cost not less than $20,000. In the last two years the trade of the old mill has aggregated about $60,000 annually: the new plant will largely increase these figures. The new business enterprise is a credit to Oberlin and northwest Kan sas. When it was In doubt whether Mr. Banta would rebuild the mill the business men of the town as well as his customers in other places, came to him and while tendering him sym pathy they offered him solid financial aid. With such earnest feeling he rebuilt his mill. A fine lunch was served his friends at the mill, prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Banta, at which talks were made by a number of outside guests, after which the proprietor escorted them to the opera house to witness a theatrical entertainment. UNIVERSITY STUDENT SHOT. Was Running From Holdup When He Was Wounded. Lawrence,. Kan., Nov. 12. As Mat thew Sarell, a freshman in the col ge, was going through South park, a man jumped out from behind a tree end demanded that he halt. Sarell was only a few steps from his room and started to run, and again the man commanded him to stop and throw up his hands. This time Sarell ran faster than ever. A revolver cracked and Sarell stum bled as the bullet crashed through his foot, but pluckily regained his balance end hobbled on into the house where he told fellow roomers of the holdup and shooting. Sarell is a freshman in the univer sity and his home is In Wamego, Kan. He had been down town and was cut ting across the park as was his usual -ustom. Where the man advanced on him with a gun Is the darkest spot In the park and he could get no descrip tion whatever of his assailant and could hot even tell whether he wore a mask or not. FARMERS NEED CORN HCSKERS. Husky Huskers Can Get Jobs in Reno County. Hutchinson, Kan., Nov. 12. Reports are coming in from every section of the county and neighboring counties is well, that men are wanted to husk corn. There seems to be a shortage of help on the farms, and the corn is ftanding in many fields unhusked, be cause, while the fields are ready, the laborers are few. "They told us that there wouldn't Le any corn to amount to anything this year," remarked one farmer. "Well, you ought to see the job ahead of me, trying to ge the corn on my I lace ready for market. I'm only of fered 55 cents now, but I intend to hold for better prices. HUNTERS VIOLATING LAW. fevcral Are Accused of Pot Hunting and Shipping Game. Winfield, Kan., Nov. 12. Some sur prising stories of local "sportsmen" pot hunting are coming to light. It is raid that quail by the dozens of dozens lave been carried out in suit cases, and marketed at the hotels at Kansas City. One instance is known of a valise full of quail being sent by express to a friend in the city who delivered it to the chef at the Midland hotel. One of those potters killed sixty dozen quail in two days and disposed COTTOLENE' is a core medium, made from refined cottonseed oil. There is not an ounce of hog fat in it to make food unwholesome, greasy and indigestible. As evidence of its superiority, COTTOLENE received Grand Prize (highest possible award) at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi A CLOSE SHAVE St? Many of Them Happening Every Day But Soon Forgotten. Close shaves would be of more fre quent occurrence but for the tender faces of many men, which will not permit of shaving often. Heretofore, nothing has been said In these columns about poslam, a new skin discovery, in connection with its use after shaving. Its publicity and sales have been con fined almost exclusively to Its remark able properties as an eczema care; it stops the itching at once and cures the worst cases in a few days. While the application: of poslam after shav ing is one of its minor uses, such as for pimples, the complexion, etc., shavers will find it a revelation, as it does for abrasions, roughness, and se vere scrapings what it does for all manner of skin difficulties heals and cures in a few hours.. It is the only article possessing real antiseptic and curative value that has ever been ex ploited for this purpose, and will soothe and tone up the skin as no toilet preparation could possibly do. Poslam can be had for fifty cents at any reliable druggist's, particularly the Rosser Drug Company, 623 Kansas avenue, who make a speoialty of it. Or the Emergency Laboratories, No. S3 West 25th street. New York city, will send a trial supply free by mall to any one who will write for it. Thia .is sufficient to show results in 24 hours. of them at two dollars a dozen, mak ing $120. This sort of thing, it is said, is done not only In the open season, but in the closed season also. Sports men and the deputy game wardens are keeping close watch, and have declared that friendship will no longer be a protection. WOMEN BAR FIVE CLUBS. Eighth District Federation Meeting Ends With Election. Wichita, Kan.. Nov. 12. The Eighth district federation of women's clubs closed its third annual session Thursday evening. The feature of the session was the ruling out of five clubs which were not members of the state federation. They are: Themlan club, Newton; Falrmount Literary club, Wichita; Outlook club, Augusta; pro gressive Literary club, McPherson; Research club, Caldwell.' The action caused a great deal of discussion. The new officers elected are: President Mrs. R. S. Miller of El Dorado. First Vice President Mrs. I. N. Singer of Wichita. Second Vice President Mrs. John Roland of McPherson. Treasurer Mrs. W. C. Seaman of Sedgwick. EI Dorado was named as the place for the next convention. LOW TO SELL STOCK FARM. All of His Fine Horses and Cattle to Go at Public Sale. Horton, Kan., Nov. 12. M. A. Low has decided to go out of the livestock business. Mr. Low has one of the finest stock farms in Kansas, known as Walnut Grove farm, located in Brown county a few miles from here. He is now offering it for sale and announces a public auction in this city on November 18 of all his high class Percherons, grade drafts, com bination saddlers, light harness and carriage horses, together with all his Shorthorn cattle and farm imple ments. Mr. Low has some of the finest horses and cattle in Kansas, all of which will be sold at this time. WHIPPED THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE. Colored Maid Objected to Reproof hy Housewife. Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 12. One c ay in last October Mrs. Leary, wife rf Captain Leary of Fort Leavenworth, reproved her colored servant. Nellie Kelley, whereupon Nellie Jumped on her and beat her up badly and then ceat a hasty retreat. She left at once lor Oklahoma and has been gone until "'Vithin a day or two when she returned to this city. Detective Glynn and Officer Burton located the woman and took her befose TJnted States Commissioner Lee Bond, who set her preliminary for Saturday. The Swine or the Flower? Oh me! I saw a huge and loathsome sty, Wherein a drove of wallowing swine were barred, Whose banquet shocked the nostril and the eye; .'7-. Then spoke a voice, "Behold the source of LARDI" I fled, and saw a field that seemed at first One glistening mass of roses pure and white, With dewy buds 'mid dark green foliage nursed; And as I lingered o'er the lovely sight, The summer breeze that cooled that Southern scene, Whispered, "Behold the source of COTTOLENE!" "Nature's Gift from and wholesome frying and shortening: Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago. TM s u 99 is the type of fellow who enjoys the distinctive features of hand tailored clothes MOT gaudy not freakish, not loud. Just good taste, perfect hand tailored, clothes. Pure wool and mixed wool fabrics, faultlessly finished, cut on clever lines, fashioned in foremost styles, guaran teed to fit perfectly. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1909. PLENTYJF GAS. S.L. Brown, Montgomery County Inspector, Makes Tests. Shows That Southern Kansas Wells Are Holding Out. BUT LITTLE DECREASE Though They Have Been Drawn on for Tears. Tolume of Eight Wells Over 100 Million Feet a Day. The weakness in the pressure on the tig gas pipe line from southern Kan sas a few weeks ago gave rise to a lot of bear stories about the failure of the gas in these fields. The stories were based upon about the same foun dation as the report th'at Roosevelt was killed in Africa last week. Sealey L. Brown, gas inspector for Montgomery county, located in the heart of the gas fields, today sent a report to the State Journal on ten big wells in his field that he had tested the day before. These wells are all old veils that have been drawn on for gas for many years, yet their volume per iay has not decreased to any notice able extent, and what is more impor tant, their rock pressure is as strong ;ib ever. Inspector Brown will allow a pipe line company to take but 50 per rent of the natural flow of a well and this precaution doubles the life of the well. The Kansas Natural Gas company, which has the contract to supply To peka, Kansas City and other Kansas and Missouri cities with gas, has some three hundred gas wells in Montgom ery county alone. The inspector's re port covers eight of the odlest of these wells, all connected with the pipe line, db follows: Pounds Volume, rock. feet Farm. pressure. per day Compton 150 18.S23.520 Compton 160 23,226,740 G. Smith 155 6.2S6.0S0 B. Johnson 145 12,568.000 J. Klumpp 146 12.S62.4SO J. Klumpp 145 10.100,000 A. Klumpp 145 11,520.000 Witcher 145 8,126,760 Total volume 100.3ns.580 Well No. 8. Average flow per day per well, 12537.947 feet. When it is considered that these eight wells have a total volume of over 100 million feet per day, and that the Kansas Natural has 300 other wells, over half of them capped up, there is to need to worry over the failure of the gas supply in the next ten years. Montgomery county's gas wells have a total volume per day of a billion and a half feet. These wells are protected and conserved by a county gas in rpector. His reports on their condi tion, made twice a year, show that all the big wells are holding their own in remarkable fashion. When the gas pressure in the big jIpe line gets low, or even fails alto gether, the trouble lies with the pump ing stations or a break in the line or a failure of some of the other small wells in the northern Held. Be sure of cue thing, there is plenty of gas in the big wells of Montgomery county, further south, and will be for many years to come. "Isn't that Just like a man?" exclaimed the Arctic explorer's wife. ''Whafs the matter?" "He's eaten nothing but pem mican for two years, and today he kicked because I had a warmed-over dinner Detroit Free Press. The juice of canned Peaches, strawberries, Apricots, pineapples, Poured over Post Toasties Then some Cream and Sugar, And there you are. "Tid-Bits made with Toasties" The booklet in pkgs. Tells how to prepare many Fascinating dishes For home folks or company. Pkgs. JOc and 15c. SHAPIRO: H.ENDUCH. Another Extraordinary Special Sale Ir8 1 7oSO As we have proved to the public before. "Positively the Greatest Offering of the Season" on sale here tomorrow, Sat urday, consisting of Diagonal Suits -Broadcloth Suits Cheviot Suits -Hard Finish Worsteds In different models and all the Come and See Our A BROADTAIL l Fur garments for evening wear are quite different in cut from the more tailored styles Intended for street use. This broadcloth wrap is in the chasuble shape; that is, a scant cape, slashed up at the sides and with the shoulders elongated Into loose sleeves. The wrap is lined, like most of the handsome fur evening garments this winter, with very rich brocaded satin In a pastel shade, and the big muff is also lined with this color. Narrow pleatings of black satin ribbon trim the collar and there is a broad tie of black satin. ACT ON EXPRESS RATES Railroad Board Decides That It Has Authority. The state railroad board decided to day that it had jurisdiction in the mat ter of the suit of a 25 per cent reduc tion in express rates filed by their at torney, John Dawson, some time ago. The attorneys for the express com panies, in their reply to Dawson's peti tion, had alleged that the board had no jurisdiction in this matter of a rate re duction. The members of the board will leave tomorrow for Washington, D. C, to at tend the national convention of state railway commissioners which convenes there next Tuesday. John Dawson, attorney for the board, left today for Washington to press th2 suit for equitable coal rates before, the interstate commerce commission. MAY BORROW MONEY. Missouri Pacific Gets Authority for 20 Million Bond Issue. The Missouri Pacific railway today, through its attorney, Balie Waggener, of Atchison, filed a request with the state board of railway commissioners to issue $29,806,000 in bonds for the purpose of paying interest and old debts, and the balance to be used in betterments for the road. The board, after consultation with John Dawson, its attorney, gave written consent to the issue, but before this was granted George-Kenavel of the board asked the attorney if these contemplated improvements embraced the Central Branch line of the road in their scope. Mr. Waggoner replied that it was his understanding from a last conversa tion with the officials, that the Cen tral Branch would profit more than any other part of the road in the ex penditure of the improvement money from the sale of these bonds'. To this statement Mr. Knavel re plied as follows: "Well, they had bet ter fix up the Central Branch or they will have a lot of trouble with the board in the near future." In its petition to the board the Pa cific narrates the fact that its future plan of improvement and extension embraces an issue of 175 millions in first mortgage fifty-year b6nds bear ing 5 per cent interest. This state ment of intentions would indicate that the Pacific proposes to keep up with the procession of railroad improve ments of the next fifty years. The issue of 29 millions for whicb SPBCTAHST3 Of APPAREL 733 KahsasAve,Topeka. Kan.. SPECIAL Values $20 to $30 new Autumn shades. Great Values EVENING WRAP. permission was granted today by the board to be placed on the market at once is divided into three classes as follows: On debts and betterments, $19, 7700,000. For new stock in Iron Mountain road, $5,300,000. For new roads, extensions, depots and terminal facilities, $4,806,000. The Central Branch of the Mis souri Pacific, about which there has been so much complaint made by the traveling public, extends from Atchi son to Downs and there is a branch from Downs to Lenora and to Stock ton clear out in Rooks county. "How did you enjoy your trip to Eu rope?" "First rate," answered Mr. Cum rox, "but the home-coming was a disap pointment." "Did you' have troube with the cumstoms peope?" "Yes. They pacled such a valuation on our stuff that mother and the girls were postively insulted." Washington Star. $17.50 GUNSARECLEANED Local Sportsmen Preparing for Real Big Quail Season. Mrs. Quail Will Be at Home Not. 15 to Dec. 15. GUNNERS ON THE WAY Postponed Summer Vacations Coming Due. Game Was Never So Plentiful in Kansas. Commencing Sunday the pastors of the churches over the city are going to find a host of husbandless wives to greet at the doorway when the morn ing services are over and the hand shaking begins. "I have missed your husband today," will be the comment of the minister as he grabs the hand of a brave little wife. "Yes, he was called out of town," she will answer and then with a rush she will dodge his searching eye and ut ter a prayer for forgiveness. It was the call of the wild that has appealed to the husbands of these faithful wives. Yes. they were called out of town and the voices of Mrs. Quail, Mr. and Mrs. Cottontail, Mr.Drake and Mrs. Duck have haunted tnem cur ing their business hours, their 3leeping hours and all the time between. Everv man in Toneka with the "buck" fever and a rusty old shotgun is plan ning to desert his happy home and take to the wilds. Monday. November 15, is the first dav that the law allows for the pursuit of Mrs. Quail and for four long weeks the said lady will hear the whistling shots fly past her wing also the oaths and growls of disappointed hunters. Give a man a. eun. a few shells, a dog that will look good running along beside an automobile and a machine and he will forget every commandment he ever learned. But this is quau sea son and a month when man is allowed the free use of his animal instincts. Demand for Ammunition. The Tooeka dealers in hunting sup plies are the busiest men In Topeka. The requests for guns, shells and other accessories were never so heavy. Thi year is one of the best years in the state for shooting and the man with the fever in his system Is going to en joy himself. Right around Topeka tnere are ver few quail. Mrs. Quail does not haw much use for the city likewise the laj of the land in this part of the county. Out in the western part of the state i; the tall grass and in the low protecte hollows she is spending her last days Quail are ruralists. Rabbit? ire plentiful in the viclnlt of this cii. The cottontails are jump ins in aril out of almost every hidm place along the' country roads, acros the fields and up and down the sive The hunters say that they were nevt so thick as they are this year and the were never so active. Not only a: these two features, contributing to tn sport in hunting them but they have good fresh mellow taste. The condi tions this year have been especially favorable to their digestive organs and they have added to their regular meals some of the better and more classy herbs. Ducks are on the average. They have to be caught on the go this year. There are a few ponds around the city where hunters have been lying in wait and it is well to pluralize the word "hunters" just as far as it will go, because every pond has many more hunters than ducks. A few of the old head sports men say that there have been a large number of ducks on the river if a man cares to get up in the morning about the time the policemen are taking their last snore lap but for every man who crawls out of bed at this time are ten who would rather let the ducks fly by in peace. Must Obtain Permission. To hunt this .year a man must ob tain permission from the farmer on whose land he wishes to seek game. A number of the farmers are willing to. have the sportsmen around for their company it helps to liven up the cold dreary days of the fall. Others have guns of their own and they prefer to conduct their own game preserves. But on the whole the Topeka hunters have found very little trouble in wasting their ammunition around this part of the country. The farmers are all good natured and good hearted and some of the hunters even report good old fashioned meals in connection with their haunts all of which are thrown in as good measure, from the ruralists with the southern instinct. The heaviest season between now and Thanksgiving has commenced. Hundreds of summer vacations have been postponed to the present time and the hunt is on. Many a rare old story will find ENDLESS JOB Tlhe Talk off ftlhie Town Our Mammoth Sale of Eastern Made Pianos FOR SATURDAY ONLY g 8Lg 1 Plain Mahogany Finish, regular price $350.00 &Orft CO f'gSi Sale price.... $UU 1 Plain Mahogany Finish, regular price $250.00 lOff 2 Sale price plOJ g 1 Plain Mahogony Finish, regular price $225.00 dl AjOk g" Sale price... p 1 S 1 Plain Mahogany Finish, regular price $250.00 dl Ss? -yt Sale price $lbU 2 g o CH 2 slightly used, good as new, regular price $275 fc 1 Qf M S-s OS Sale price plOU Saturday Only- Store open until 10 P. M. Saturday. Don't lose sight of this op portunity to save some money. Will arrange terms to suit you. .Bell Bros. Piano Co 814- Kansas Avenue berth during this exodus of Topeka sportsmen enough to last until the fishing season comes on once more. COULDN'T FIND COW. C. A. Nyberg Sent to Jail for Failure to Produce Her. C. A. Nyberg, a liveryman of North Topeka, was committed to the county :ail this morning by Judge E. R. Simon -l the court of Topeka for hiding-a ow which the marshal of the court nought to replevin. This is an unusual ccurrence in that the prisoner prefers o go to jail than allow the law to take its course in the decision as re--ards the lawful possession of the east. At a hearing yesterday Nyberg as given until today to disclose the hereabouts of the cow or go to Jail, 'le insisted this morning he did not now where the brute was. The detained liveryman had traded horse, a trading horse, to a minor .ember of the Oldham family for the iw. He tied a rope on the animal, it in his buggy, and drove hurriedly another place and traded the cow r a wagon and harness, according to io story as learned by the court mar al. Now, however, he refuses to re ember where he drove that day to uike the trade and can not imagine ."here he left that cow. The trouble started when Mrs. Sarah Oldham learned that her prize milker was gone. She immediately filed a replevin suit in the city court to re gain possession only to meet with the opposition of forgetfulness on the part of Nvberer. A clause in the commitment provides- that Nyberg shall sojourn in the coun ty bastile until such time as he shall fhoose to reveal the whereabouts of Mrs. Oldham's cow. AROUSING THE INTEREST Effort Will Be Made to Boost National Good Roads Meeting. The good roads committee of the Commercial club met this noon and dis cussed plans for the convention of the National Good Roads association to be held in Topeka December 14 and 15. President Arthur C. Jackson of the Na tional association being present. It was decided to do everything posj sible to make the convention the big gest event of the kind in the history of the association. Governor Stubbs will personally ap point a delegate from each county of the state. Mayor Green will write every mayor in the state to consider himself a delegate. Engineer Parkhurst will send out invitations to each engineer and each township board, and the coun ty commissioners will send' invitations to the county boards. It was proposed to ask the manufac turers of road building material to put in sample strips of good road in the vicinity of Topeka for the benefit of the visitors and the advertisement of their materials. A meeting of the Marysvllle-Topeka FOR THE SEXTON. Trains to Leir Topak 4:80 A.M. B:00 A.M. TrSB A.M. S :05 P.M. :25 P.M. 7:20 P.M. 7:55 P.M. KANSAS Returning ErrS USE D saTm. THE UUCti lSlclliU 10:40 A3!. ll:SO A.M. 6:10 P.M. 10:00 P.M. 11:00 P.M CKKX)00000000X0000000 o TRY THAT Saturday Candy 29c per lb. at ROSSER'S 523 Kansas Ave. 0X0XX0X0XX00l(00 extension committee of the club was held this noon, and the negotiations which have been carried on by the com mittee with a view to securing a morn ing train into Topeka from Marysvilte over the new Union Pacific extension which would return in the evening, were considered in every way favor able. It is the plan to entertain the people residing along the extension in the near future but no definite action was taken. INVITE RAILROAD MEN. President Ripley and Attorney Loomis Asked to Attend Meeting. Governor Stubbs has written Presi dent Ripley of the Santa Fe, President Yoakum of the Rock Island and Gen eral Attorney Loomis of the Union Pa cific to invite them to attend the Na tional Good Roads convention to be held in Topeka December 14 and 15. These eentlemen are all exDected to address the good roads convention, j t-urtner tnan tnis tney are urged to I ersonally appoint every station agent i n the lines of their railroads in this state as delegates to the convention. cw York Money Market. New York, Nov. 12. MONEY Money on call strong, 4-6 per cent: ruling rate and closing bid 5, offered at 5'4 percent. Time loans, firm; 60 days, o!nyt per cent; 90 days, 5 per cent; six months, 4 per cent. CT..OSK: Prime mercantile paper 6V& per cent. Sterling exchang-e steadv with actual business in bankers' bills at S4.82.90U4 SS.10 for 60 day bills and at I4.S7.25 for demand; commercial bills 4.S2',i'a4.S2:!i. SILVER Bar silver, 5ic; Mexican dol lars, 43c. BONDS Government bonds and railroad bonds, steady. 3 CITY Vnst Time. JTo Stops. Double Track. 1 -1 1 NEXT TIME "ever Too Busy to Answer Qnestions. Phone 384 H. H. HUNT City Pass. Agent GET OUT of the old beaten track and make a fresh trail Start paying cash, or spend part of your money here any way, and you will make by it. Even the blind can see that our prices are right. n SPECIAL TOMORROW Small sound, red Cranberries, qt 5c (These Cranberries are as good as any.) Finest Celery we have had yet, big white stalks, each, (worth 8c) 5c Bulk or Link Sausage, lb. for 10e Basket Grapes at about cost. Every-Day Prices Our Fine Bread, lb. loaf 5c This is undoubtedly the place to buy flour. if you can get it home: Get our prices. 19 lbs. fine Gran. Sugar $1.00 Very best White Beans, five pounds 25c Best Make Sugar-Butter (maple and cane, 30c pail for 21c Best make Premium Choco late, 25c cake 18c 25c Box Cocoa, best 20c White Colo., Potatoes, very nice, pk t9e Hard Cabbage, lb 1K Sweet Rutabaga Turnip's, Northern, lb 2: Best 20c Butterine in the market, lb. carton 18c Best 25c Butterine in the market, lb. carton. .24c Anything that happens to be left over in our fine Bak ery Goods goes the next day at half price; this might in terest you. f 206 E- 4th. 3 Big Busy Stores 1 "23 K. a. 1505 W. 10th. I Buying a Piano I Is j I A Serious Matter i 5 It is bought for a lifetime. It x 4, should be chosen with care and X deliberation, for it must have quality if it is to afford the T pleasure you anticipate. To- T T day more than ever we recom- T 4. mend T I Bush Gcrts f J PIANOS to people who seek beauty and 2 high artistic quality at a mod- T erate price. $300 to $3S0 I $7.00 a Month t Bush ncrta Pionna 4 ".""J io us direct from fartnm on T sold at prices striped of middle profits. I King's Piano Rooms 127 W. 7th St.

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8 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1909, Good The North Pole OUR ANNUAL Thanksgiving Sale BEGINS Next Monday Morning LUST FOR BLOOD. (Continued from Page One.) aside, and the door of the cage battered down -with sledgehammers. The mob found some difficulty in breaking the cage as it is an entirely Fteel structure, but after a half hour cf telling- blows upon' the door it gave vay and Salzener was taken. The mob rushed him out of the back door of the Jail, which is in the basement of the court house, around the building, through the yard and out into Wash ington avenue and up to Twenty-first street, which is a prominent corner and has a public square and where there was room enough to hold the gaping crowd. Salzener was so badly fright ened that he was little more than a crazy man. He cried and begged pite ously for his life, which was met by cries and blows from the mob. When Salzener was asked lor his last statement, a man, a stranger in the crowd, stepped forward and said lie believed Salenzer was innocent, thereupon the mob fell upon him, kicking, striking him and finally knocked him down and it was by hard work by the cooler heads of ,the mob that V.5e, lifa IVQU DQVOrl He was compelled to beg mercy from the mob and announced in a laud voice that Salzener should be lynched, after which he was driven from the mob j and all attention was given to Salenzer, J who cried and begged and mumbled j Ms sisters had killed his wife. His nanner did not appeal to the mob and i It clamored for his execution. j After Salzener was hanged and while the body was being riddled with bullets the rope broke and the body fell to the ground where it now lies, the mob gc ing away and leaving it. Search for the negro Alexander still continues and jt will take his execution to appease the fury of the mob. BUSY NIGHT FOR DEXEES. Governor Vp Vntil 3 O'clock Directing the Cairo Situation. Chicago, Nov. 12. Governor Chas. Deneen retired at 3 o'clock this morn ing at his apartment in the Union League club after directing Acting Adjutant General Dickson at Spring field to make arrangements for rush ing a second regiment to Cairo early today In case of another violent out burst of rioting following the night of terror in which two men were lynch ed by a mob of Illinois citizens. Before retiring the governor con versed over the long distance tele phone with Deputy Sheriff Woodward, at Cairo. Deputy Woodward said the mob still was restless, though greatly reduced In numbers. "There are at least 1,500 men at he river front," the deputy sheriff reported. "And they are searching all the freight cars in the yards looking for Alexander, who was implicated by James in the killing of the Pelley girl. "What we now fear most is that the prejudices aroused tonight may result in the burning of houses and that more serious riots will occur." "Will one regiment of troops be enough?" Governor Deneen asked Woodward. "The Carbondale com pany," he explained to the deputy, "will be there early this morning, at least five other companies will reach there before 9 o'clock and the entire regiment wil be on the ground by noon at the latest. I have all plans arranged for the immediate transpor tation of another regiment in the morning." Wants Saloons Closed. The governor told the deputy to keep in touch with him and to call him on the telephone at any moment when the situation might become se rious. He asked the Cairo official if the saloons had been ordered closed, and when informed that saloons run by the white inhabitants were still open and that many in the mob were drinking freely he suggested that all saloons be closed at once and be kept shut until all danger had passed. Deputy Woodward said Mayor Par Want to please a pretty girl? Candy's the thing. -A box or Celebrated Candies noth ing sweeter except the girl, of course. Dotb Phones 450. Fret) Delivery. 1 News Waists Are Here Those who were disappoint ed in getting a North Pole Waist when we sold so many so quickly a few weeks ago, will be glad to know we have received a second ship ment and if you come promptly tomorrow you can secure one. Made of "Linene" (a linen finished fabric) in six tasty tailored styles of Shifli Embroidery and pleats two styles in the new side opening. All are closed with ocean pearl buttons. 'While they last the price will be $1.00 ea. sons and the chief of police had not issued such orders and that they were being guarded at their homes, because the infuriated mob had threatened them with harm. The citizens were angered because the local authorities had permitted James and Alexander to get away after the killing of Miss Pelley. Governor Deneen told Adjutant General Scott that he expected to can cel an engagement to speak in Chi cago tonight and that he probably would leave for Springfield before noon today. The adjutant general was instruct ed to remain at Springfield to keep in touch with the movements of the Fourth infantry and preparations for mobilization of a second regiment, and to await the governor's orders. "This affair," said the governor, "is not as serious thus far as it might have been, but it Is serious enough now and a disgrace to the state of Il linois. The disgrace will be more keen ly felt by the citizens of the com monwealth because it is the second time within a few years that lynchings and riots have stained the name of their state. Troops are essential In such disturbances and I hope that the presence of the militia at Cairo today will bring the unorganized mob to its senses. MOB DISBANDS Ithough Another Victim Wanted Was at Hand: Cairo, 111.. Nov. 12. Arthur A der, the negro implicated in the assault and murder of Miss Anna Pelley by i iic iueion on tne lyncned negro, lames, wa3 safely lodged in the muntv Jail this morn.ng. Alexander was hid hi mt: cny oy me omcers, who put a policeman's uniform on him. The mob learned that he was in the jail .and could have easily taken him out but it was thought best to let the matter rest for the present and the moh The city is calm and quiet this morn ing. Company K of Cairo has ben -oiiofl out and is in actual charge of the city. major rarsons said today that he did not think any official should he hlamorf for the lynching last night. He ex pressed the opinion that a maloritv of the citizens of Cairo deplored the dis grace to ine city and state, but that these same citizens believed the result wouia De salutary. mere has not been an official execution in Cairo for ten or fifteen years," the mayor said, "and yet the city has had its share -of mfirders. Juries have failed to convict in homicide cases, or have convicted only ior minor degrees, in iact murder in Cairo, has. I regret to say, been tolerably safe. "The feeling against crime that has so long been suppressed found vent, and I believe that Cairo will be peace ful and law abiding hereafter." FIRE LOSS IN NORTON COUNTY. Other Items of Interest From Same Beciion or me state. Norton, Kan.. Nov. 17. A large barn, cow shed, a horse, two calves, three harness and a large quantity of hay burned on a farm belonging to J. E. Reike, seven miles northwest of this place. Loss about $1,100 and no insurance. The chattel property be longed to Lewis Shaw, a renter. Of the origin of the fire nothing is known, as no one had been near the barn since 7 o clock in the morning. No men were on the place and water was scarce and distant and Mrs. Shaw- could do nothing to fight the fire. James Simmons, living eight miles southwest of here, fell from a road grader and broke both the bones in his right leg Just above the ankle. L. L. Guthrie sold a team of black geldings to J. H. Duncan for $405 cash at a public farm sale. Ft. Riley Officers Were Second. New Ynrk W 19 TVi n T- .-v. cavalry officers at the horse show last nigBi won ineir tnira victory in the Jumping competition open to all na tions. Lieutenants Yorke and Sebag Montefiore riding abreast in full uni form on government horses, were first over the obstacles. Lieut. Gordon Johnson and I. S. Martin of Fort Riley, Kan., were second. Bandits Hold f p a Hotel. Salt Lake City, Utah. Nov. 12. Two masked highwaymen held up a hotel at Midale, near here last night and robbed the smelter's employes of pay checks and cash aggregating $600. One man covered the crowd with a revolver while his companion swiftly went through the pockets of each. Bank Dynamited and Robbed. Watertown, S. D., Nov. 12. The Bank of Norden, S. D., was dynamited today and $2,384 taken by the robbers, who escaped. The safe and buildins: were wrecked by the explosion P0LIT1CALG0SSIP. Tom McNeal Makes Another Re ply to Herbert. His "Last Word" in Extended 1 Controversy. QUOTE TAMFFFIGTJRES Uses Them to Allege Hiawatha Man Blundered. Mr. Eeeder Makes Statement Re plying to the Star. The McNeal-Herbert controversy on the tariff continues, but this is to be the last chapter, according to Mr. Mc Neal, who answers the Herbert argu ments of last week, one by one, in painstaking detail, as follows: I am not at all certain it is either profitable or interesting to your read ers to give space in your columns to the articles written by either Mr. Her bert or myself, and so far as I am con cerned no matter what Herbert does, I expect this to be the last attention I shall give him. His last article is if possible more filled with utterly absurd statements than any of his former effusions, so utterly ridiculous in fact that I hardly think any of the readers of the State Journal will take tnem seriously. The price of -print paper has risen somewhat. Congressman James Mann, w ho had always been known as a rtandpat member of the lower house. was placed on a committee, appointed at the instance of President Roosevelt in a message urging the placing ot rrint paper and paper pulp on the free list, to investigate the question. That committee made a most exhaustive in vestigation of the whole wood pulp and print paper business and recom mended free pulp and a duty on print caDer of not to exceed two dollars per :cn with a reciprocal arrangement with Canada by which we would get the advantage of the vast spruce for ests of our neighbor on the north. That I.roposition was fougnt Ditteriy py me rtiln mills On this side and defeated. Congressman Mann, standpatter as he v.as, had become so thoroughly satis fied that his position was correct that he refused to vote for tne tarirr Dili and predicted that as if passed it would be of no benent io tne pur chasers of paper on this side of the i ne but that on the contrary the price of print paper would probably be raised. He seems to have been a true prophet. "It further appears," said Senator Rristow in his speech giving his rea- rons for voting against the bill on its final passage, from the provisions or this bill that the duty on wood pulp will probably be increased 6t cents a ".on above the present duty." So much lor print paper. "With free hides and a lower duty cn all that is used in shoes," asks Herbert, "why has the price of shoes advanced?" "It was widely published," says Sen-:-tor Bristow in the same able speech, "lhat the duty on shoes had been re-: uced to 10 per cent. But an examin- Cold Weather Necessities Sweater Coats $1 to $6.SO Wool Underwear Wool Over-Shirts Wool Hosiery Wool Caps Corduroy Caps The best line of Fancy Vests shown in the city. COME AND SEE THE TOGGERY 602 Kansas Ave. Is v CM atlon of the conference report shows that the 10 per cent duty on shoes ap plies only to those, the uppers of which are made from cow hide or sole leather." Herbert might possibly buy brogans cheaper than before this law passed, but the people of Kansas don't wear cow hide shoes. So much for his inquiry about shoes, Buying Capacity of Corn. He makes the marvelous statement that under the Dingley and Payne bills the farmer gets four times as much for what he has to sail as he received under the Democratic low tariff. There is no defense to be made for the Wilson-Gorman bill that was bitterly condemned by Grover Cleveland and which he re fused to sign, but then there is no use for any man to make such an utterly false and absurd statement as Herbert has made. Let me analyze his statement con cerning the farmer's BOO bushels of corn that tie sold under the Wilson bill and the other 500 that he sold under the Dingley bilL. The average price of corn in the United States during the years 1893-4-5-6 according to the Republican campaign book .of last year, was 82 cents a bushel. Five hundred bushels of corn at that price would bring the sum of $162.50. According to the same authority the average price of corn during the years 19-04-5-6-7 under the Dingley bill was 44 1-5 cents a bushel. Durin the latter period the farmer would get for hisr 500 bushels the sum ot $221, or $58.50 more than he received un der the Wilson bill. I have consulted the leading carriage merchants of this city and find that the price of bug gies has advanced since 1896, the last year of Cleveland's administration, but supposing that the price is the same as the farmer-only gets $58.50 more for his 500 bushels of corn than he got when Cleveland was president out of this amount Herbert would have the readers of the State Journal believe that he could buy a self binder, a sulky plow, a suit of clothes and have a wad of money still left out of the $58.50. Admires a Liar But I rather admire an artistic liar, but Herbert is so ignorant and so clumsy that he is disgusting. I might make a few other com parisons that would not be so favor able to the Dingley tariff. For ex ample in 1896 the price of sheeting was 5 9-10 cents per yard. For the $162.50 that he received for his 500 bushels of corn the farmer in 1896 could have purchased 2,982 yards of sheeting. In 1907 the price of sheeting was 8 7-10 cents per yard and for the $221 that he got for his corn he could have purchas ed 2,647 yards of sheeting or 335 yards less than he got for his corn in 1896. The -price of ingrain carpet (I quote from our Republican campaign book of last year) in 1896 was 40 4-5 cents per yard and for the $162.50 that the farm er got. for his corn he could nave pur chased 398 1t5 yards of such carpets as the common people buy. In 1907, according to the same auth ority, the price of this carpet had risen to 57 3-5 cents per yard and with the $221 that, .the farmer received for his 500 bushels of corn that year he could purchase 386 7-10 yards or just 14 yards less than he got for his 500 bush els in 1896. The price of shingles in 1896 was. ac cording to our Republican hand book, which we all used, $2.50 per thousand. For the $162.50 which the farmer got for his 500 bushels of corn that unfort unate year of Democratic rule he could Duy 64,uuo shingles ana nave ou cents left to buy his dinner. In 1907 the price .of shingles was $4.23 per thousand and for the $221 the farm er got for his 500 bushels of corn that year he would onlv be able to buy 52,- 000 shingles or 12.000 less than his 500 bushels would purchase for him in isat. It is not well for us as Republicans to try to connect prices of corn with the tariff. The fact is mat tne oniy time since I have been in Kansas when corn actually sold for ten cents a bush el was in 1889 when Benjamin Harri son was president. That low price or corn was not due to the protective tar iff. Any student of economics knows that the j price of -,the farmers wneat and corn, barring the tact that pecu liar local conditions which have noth ins: to do with the tariff, may creat. a higher price locally, is fixed by the nrice in Liverpool. But why continue this any further? How does this man Herbert get into this ea.me anvwav? Is his chieftain, Mr. Anthony, afraid to come out and defend l is record and therefore pushes Herbert out to take his place? Disadvantage of Heavy Growth of Hair I can waste no more time on Herbert. Perhaps I have wasted too much al ready. For ignorance and mendacity he is the limit. He hungers for noto riety as a lean hound pup hankers for sweet milk and without sense or shame goes braying and snorting about tho country like a -wild ass of the desert. Nature equipped him with some brains but for many years he has used his head entirely for the purpose of grow ing hair instead of accumulating in formation. This abnormal accumula tion of hair has kept from his skull the necessary air and sunlight and as a re sult his brain has become mouldy and what he takes for ideas is only the fungus growth of a decaying mentality. If he would wear a veil when he walks on the street he would not offend the eyes of the passersby and if he wou'd keep his mouth shut they wojild not learn of his advanced stage of paresis. But I presume he will do neither. Respectfully, T. A. McNEAL. Recder Defends His Record. To the Editor of the State Journal: Pardon my further intrusion, for space in your valuable paper, but in its issue of November 9th, the Kansas City Star, is attempting, under the headline of "The Case of Mr. Reeder," to get away from the falsehood that it published in Its issue of November 6th where in substance it stated, that I went to Washington after making certain promises, and at once lined up with the Cannon forces, at the or ganization of the Sixty-first congress. The Star utterly ignores the fact that I went into the Republican caucus of the Sixty-first congress, and nominated Judge Walter I Smith for speaker, and tried to bolster up its misrepresentations by saying that I failed to keep my promise to my con j nrnvp It nuotes from the Congressional Record, to show that I voted for Mr. Cannon for speaker. Of course I voted for Mr. Cannon for sneaker, after my party in caucus assembled had selected him as our candidate, and after I naa exnausieu all honorable means within my right Ti.n-a Smith to IllIIlIllrlLrT ..uu The Star then intimates, that in order to act in good faith witn my people, that I should have later on, bolted the nr.n taken bv mv party and voted for my good friend Champ Clark, of Missouri, for speaker, and thereby turn the organization of the house over to the Democratic party. It is not surprising that the Kansas City Star should think that I should bolt the caucus, and my party, and pro ,i marmot- tvmt would have been revolutionary; the whole history of that in its dealings in politics; only a few years since it was howling for Grover Cleveland and "free trade;" later on for Taft and "protection," and now it seeks to discredit the Republican delegation in congress from Kansas, because they would not join with the "insurgents" In an attempt to turn the house of rep resentatives over to the control of tha Democratic party. This all goes to show, that I am right in my position in stating that the Star is a Democratic free trade sheet, and as I remarked to the State Journal, my letter of November 7th, "It can not longer fool the people of Kansas." Very respectfully, W. A. REEDER. THEY GOT COLD FEET. Young Duelists Agreed to Fire In the Air. Decatur, 111., Nov. 12. Watching with horrified suspense, duly appointed sec onds officiated in a duel in a cemetery between De Forrest Fairbanks, nephew of former Vice President Fairbanks, and Edgar Stevens, whose parents live in Alton. The principals are students in Millikm university. Fairbanks is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W .D. Fairbanks, of this city, the affair was the result of a a estrangement over Miss Bee McCon nell, a high school student. Getting into wordy combat, which nearly ended in fisticuffs, in an argu ment over the young woman last Sat urday, and resulting from the jibes of friends, the young men appointed sec onds. James Walters and Albert Miller represented the participants. In the meantime.- and without the knowledge of their seconds, the pros pect of being punctured by a bullet was not pleasing to Fairbanks or Stevens, and they came to an amicable agree ment, known only to themselves. .following tne pleading and tearful protestations of their seconds, the prin cipals faced each other in Calvary cem etery and fired. Both shots went into the air. Immediately after the tenseness fol lowing the shots, the seconds saw Fair banks and Stevens with their arms around each other singing "Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me." The news had spread to the city, and great excitement resulted. Mrs. Fair banks was nearly prostrated with anxiety. Miss McConnell said that the young men were great favorites of hers and that she could evidence no partiality. Wesley Hale Case Ended. WprIpv TTnlo nnn tx-police officer and drayman, was ar raigned before Police Judge S. S. "i-rmy late yesterday where proof of ten illicit liquor sales, also of main taining a nuisance, was made. The uia.giiiLLB wuunem nis aecision ana is having a transcript of the case pre pared. Tn MRA tho PAnvUtlnn Io n f 1 1 .V IO dl firmed the minimum penalty will ag- i a. nne ot uu ana nine montns imprisonment in the municipal bastile. Jap fantail gold fish 25c, fresh water plant 5 and 10 cent bunches. 409 Kan sas. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS flllinn trn KTntr 10 urtTw a m tt x v A- r ij.jL.Ai uiiuermm- ity regarding the Argentine crop was still a factor In the wheat market here today, there being renewed buying as a result Of VCtPrr? ar'c ronnrt nnnl y -fv v.n.uiuuig previous claims of damage by locusts. Sentiment, a S "r""- Acaa uuuisn owing 10 i.. iciiipciaiure in me nortnwest, which, it was thought, might increase the movement in that Petition. Wet weath er in the winter wheat belt also had a de pressing effect. Prices opened unchanged to c higher. With TlPPPmhor 1 iTCi 1 t the December option advanced to $1.05,- i-feuiana ior jjecemoer by shorts was lire-Ant all Aav Kon., n 1. j j j strpno-ht i- f AQol-i .-nrKan- ;n a 1 1 j jt. vuu ty ucai 111 111c 11UI lilWeSL and southwest. The situation in the pit uc"o cAurmciy uuuisn late in tne ses- The market closed strong with December CORN-Wet weather and a brisk de mand for the cash grain prompted con siderable buying of corn during early trn nirt CT r-. miltino- In -.nln..n j The December delivery opened unchanged .f 78V- uiguci u.l inriv tu avsu ana soia up to 595&c. The bulge in wheat was the principal w"n"uui it aim liic mar ket displayed considerable strength. The iuoc naa mill witu O-'CCCIIlDer -k(ttC higher at 59iio59c. OATS Trading in oats was dull and the ..ua vi 1 oag uwillg LU 111- ceasing stocks and a slow demand for the cash grain. The December option opened unchanged to a shade highe at 3S4c to tQlA n n Q03 i 1 that ange. PROVISIONS Povisions advanced sharply at the start because of the active general demand based on the continuation ftf lfcrVlt rofOlnO nf lt-ra hnr.. 41 1 the west. Demand for January pork was raiicuitiiiy uisci!t ttiia ine price 01 xnat product advanced 0 cents from the closing i&uio Luc icivua xa.y r I ict'S HL tne opening were 2c to 17fec higher. RTE Oash' 7Sff5?74-- TUTav TC BARLEY Cash: 5266c. TIMOTHY November. &.75; March, $4.10 CLLOVER-Nothing doing. Chicago Grain Market. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, drains. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth St. Phone 486. Chlcaeo. Nov. 12. Open High Low Close Tea WHEAT- Dec. May July CORN Dee. May July OATS Dec. May July POKK-- Jan. May LARD Jan. May Nov. RIBS Jan. May 1054-107 105 NM-lOfiSg 104- 97y- 97 97 106 10514-14 105 104ii 97 97V4 t4- 59H 59 59- 59 61 60 60- 60 60 60 60 60 60 39 39 39 39 39 41 41 41- 41- 41- 39 39- 39 39- 39 .21.17-2021.52 21.17 21.60 21.15 20.17-3030.32 20.17 20.32 20.12 .11.90 11.95 11.87-9011.90 11.85 .11.42 11.42-5 11.42 11.42 11.40 ,12.90 12.95 12.90 12.90 12.80 .10.65-6710.75-7 10.65 .10.50 10.55 10.47 10.67-7010.55 10.47 10.42 Kansas City Grain Market. LFurnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth St. Phone 486. Kansas City, Nov. 12. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT Dec. ...100-101 100 101 100 May ...101 102-101 102-101 CORN -Dec. -...'57 67- 67 57 57- Mav 60 60-1,4 60 60- 69 July 59 59 59 69 59- Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 12. WHEAT Cash: Market uncnangea. no. z nara, $1.02ai.06; No. 3, H.OKgiLOS; No. 2 red, II testis on- No. 3. S1.13(51.18. CORN Market unchanged. No. 2 mixed and No. 3, 57c; No. z wniie, osc; jno. 3, 58c. OATS Market unchang-ed. No. 2 white, 4042c; No. 2 mixed, 39&40c. RYE 7072c HAY Market unchanged. BUTTER Ceamery extras, 30c; firsts, 2Rr?- sennnds. 26c: oacking stock. 21 c. EGGS Extras. 28c; firsts, 26c; seconds and dirties, ISc; current receipts, 20c; southerns, loss off, 14c. WHEAT Receipts, 13o cars. CLOSE: WHEAT December, $1.01; Mav. tl.02ffil.02. CORN December, 57c; May, 0eoc; July. 59c. YOU WANT A SQUARE DEAL the highest market price for your hides, quick returns in fact A REAL SQUARE DEAL then ship your hides to us. If you have any hides on hand now or will have in the near future it will be to your advantage to send them to us on our absolute guarantee that you get a SQUARE DEAL all the time. Write for shipping tags. Postal card is sufficient CXVX U4ATCJT ww inn STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Results Consign To Clay, Robinson Co., Live Stock Commission Merchants Stack Yards, Kansas City, WE ALSO HATE UUB OW SO. OMAHA. DENVER. SIOUX Chit'ago Produce Market. Chicacro. Nov. 1? RTTTTER Market steady. Creameries, 2630c; dairies, 2 28c. EGGS Market firm. ReceiDts 4.701 cases at mark, cases Included, 2025c; firsts, 2i c; prime nrsts, asc. CHEESE Market firm. Daisies, 16 16c; -Twins, 15(-16c; Young Amelcras, 16 16c; Long Horns, 1516c. POTATOES Market steady. Choice to fancy, X&45c; fair to good, 3035c. POULTRY Market firm. Turkeys, 16c; chickens, li'c; spinrgs, 12c. VEAL Market steady. 50 to 60 lb. wts., 77c; 60 to SS lb. wts., 79c; 86 to 110 lb. wts., DWUc. j New York lroduoe Market. New York. Nov. 12. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery specials, 31c; ex tras, 30c; third to first, 2629c; process, 2629c; western factory, 2425c; imitation creamery, 2627c. CHEESE Market firm. State full cream specials, 16i&17c; ditto September fancy, 16c; ditto October best, 16c; ditto com mon to good, 1415c; skims full to special. 6(fi!Hc. EGGS Market easy. Refrigerator spec ial marks, fancy, 25c; first. 2324c; sec onds, 21ff22c; western extras, first, 3335c; firsts. 29'932e; seconds, 2527c. POULTRY Alive, firm; western chick ens, 15c; fowls, 14c; turkeys, 1216c. Dressed, steady; western chickens, broil ers, 1521c; fowls, 1214c; turkeys, 1620c. Market Gossip. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth St. Phone 486.1 Liverpool cables: Opening Wheat un changed; corn unchanged. Second cable: Wheat d higher; corn d higher. Chicago ear lots today: Wheat 28, corn 193 oats 130. Chicago estimated car lots today: Wheat 31, corn 197, oats 140. Kansas City car lots today: Wheat 135, corn 26, oats 8. Northwest car lots today 570, last year 727. Closing- cables: Wheat unchanged to d higher; corn d higher. New York Stock Market. Wall St., New York, Nov. 12. STOCKS Very light orders appeared for execution when the stock market opened today. Prices moved sluggishly and irregularly but the principal issues were lower-, threat Northerri preferred and Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie declined large fractions. Western Union rose 1. The decline In the market brought In buying orders and prices advanced slowly until all of the Important stocks were selling fractionally above yesterday's clos ing. A number of specialties showed some activity at rising prices. Western Union improved 2. Pacific Telephone 1. Pa cific Mail 1. Louisville and Nashville, Southern Railway, Delaware and Hudson Corn Products, International Paper and Interborough Metropolitan preferred 1. Northwestern fell 1 and American Sugar 1. Business dwindled but there was no im provement yielding of prices. Wabash preferred got up 1 and Union Pacific. St. Louis Southwestern and Tennessee Copper 1. Ranse of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office U0 West Sixth St. Phone 4S6J New York, Nov. 12. blocks Op'n High Low Cl'se Yes. Sugar 129 130 129 129 130 Gas 113 113 113 113 113 Copper SS 89 8S S9 89 B. R. T 75 76 75 76y 74 Am. Car Fndy.. 74 74 74 74 74 U. S. Steel, Com... 89 90 89 90 89 U S Steel, Pfd....l26 126 125 126 126 Atchison, Com 119 120 119 119 119 K. C. Southern.... 43 43 42 42 43 Anaconda 49 49 48 49 49 St. Paul 156 156 155 155 156 Rock Island... 39 40 39 40 40 Great Northern. ...141 142 141 142 141 Wabash, Pfd 50 52 50 52 50 Missouri Pacific... 69 69 69 69 69 Am. Smelting 98 9S 9S 98 98 Northern Pacific. .144 145 144 145 144 N. Y. Central 131 1S1-T& 131 131 131 Texas Pacific 35 35 34 34 38 Southern Pacific. .12S 12S 12S 128 12S Reading 161 161 161 161 161 Erie, Com 32 32 32 32 32 So. Railway 30 31 30 31 30 Union Pacific 200 201 200 200 200 C. 0 87 87 87 87 87 B.- 0 116 116 115 115 116 L. N 151 162 151 152 151 Katy 46 47 46 47 46 Pennsylvania 140 140 ,139 140 140 Can. Pacific 184 184'l84 184 184 National Lead 87 87 87 87 87 C. F. I 48 49 4S 48 48 Rock Island, Pfd.. wfc w o so New York Sugar and Coffee Market. New York, Nov. 12. SUGAR Raw, firm; fair refining, $.95; centrifugal. 96 test, $4.45; molasses sugar, $3.70; refined, steady; crushed, $5.95; powdered, $5.35; granulated, $6.25. COFFEE Market steady. No. 7 Rio, 8 -8c nominal; No. 4 Santos, 8c. Cotton Market. New York. Nov. 12. COTTON Spot closed quiet, 20 points lower; middling up lands. $14.75; middling, gulf, $15.00. Sales, 1,000 bales. Galveston, Tex.. Nov. 12. COTTON Market steady. 14 5-16c. Kansas City Live Stoou Market. Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. 12 CATTLE Receipts 3,000, Including 400 southerns. Market steady. Native steers, $4.758.50; southern steers, $3.50S5.25: southern cows, $2.75'&4.00: native cows and heifers, $2.25 5.75; stockers and feeders, $3.254.90; bulls, $2.75S4.10; calves; $4.0066.00; western steers, $4.005.50; western cows, $3.00.4.50. HOGS Receipts 6.000. Market 5c to 10c higher. Bulk -of sales. $7.707.95; heavy, $7.90&S.00; packers-and butchers, $7.707.95; light, $7.RXg7.90; pigs. $6.507.25. SHEEP Receipts 3,000. Maket strong. Muttons, $4.255.25; lambs, $5.75f7.56; anrge wethers and yearlings, $4.03.6.00; range ewes, $3.2506.25. Chicago Uvc Stock Market. 5 Chicago, Nov. 12. CATTLE Receipts estimated at 2,000. Market steady. Beeves, $3.90(59.25; Texas steers, $3.804.85; western steers. $4.25&7.60; stockers and feeders, $3.10S.2o; cows and heifers, $2.106.7S; calves. $6.258.50. HOGS Receipts estimated at 16,000. Mar ket, 6510c higher. Light, $7.60(g.05: mix ed, $7.658.15; heavy, $7.75(58.20; rough, $7 65 &7.S0: good to choice heavy. $7.808.20; pigs. $5.9037.65; bulk of sales. $7,851x8.10. SHEEP Receipts estimated at 10.000. Market strong. Native, $2.75S5.75: west ern, $3.005.20; vearlings, $5.00i.30; lambs, mUlva. tiJZ&'ltt: western, $4.75g7.50. HIDES SMITH rilDh. COMPANY TOPEKA KANSAS "Ivn'S'""- u- CITY. SO. ST. PAUL, E. BUFFALO. DAILY MOVEMENT OF PRODUCE. WHEAT Receipts, 75,600 bushels; ship ments, 76.700 bushels. CORN Receipts 200,000 bushels: ship ments, 151,300 bushals. Car lot receipts: Wheat 23 cars, with nf nnntrnct m-o,, -too i i 0 v. 1 11 v. a 1 mm o 1 ut contract grade; oats 130 cars. rcceipLs 01 wneat ai unicagt), Min neapolis and Duluth today were 670 cars, compared with 875 cars last week and 783 cars the corresponding day a year ago. Kansas City lIto Stock Sales, The following sales were mads this morning at the Stock Yards, Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone direct to the State Journal by Clay Robinson Co., live stock commis sion merchants, with offices at all mar kets. .S?"832'01. Nov. 12, CATTLE Receipts 3,000 head. Market steady to strong. HOGS Receipts 8,000 head. Market 5c i ?c !'Sher- Bulk: of sales, $7.758.00; SHEEP Receipts 3,000 head. Market strong to 10c higher. Lambs, $7.60. KILLING STESRS. ino. wt. Price. INo. Wt. Pries. $5.00 365 5.25 6.50 3.86 .4.45 4.00 6.50 3.15 5.00 6.50 25.. 864 $7.75 2.. .1065 840 .1180 104.. 2.. 68.. .1173 .1120 5.15 3.55 6.46 1., 54., .1190 20. .1231 COWS AND HEIFERS. 668 4.00 36 862 48.. 76.. 1.. 10.. 741 830 ..1260 960 160 321 205 4.00 3.25 4.50 3.50 32... 44... 13... 656 921 620 730 210 180 27.. CALVES. 1... 80... 10... 7.00 I 1... 4.50 1... 6.00 BULLS. 3.00 I 1... 2.75 1... 3.00 I 1... .1240 .1330 .1370 196 186 420 205 277 560 400 920 .1250 .1370 3.25 3.00 3.00 8.05 7.65 7.97 8.00 8.00 8.20 HOGS. 87... 84... 1... 7.90 7.85 8.26 7.40 8.00 8.20 8.00 56. 254 164 230 210 344 410 115. 62. 68. 16. 1. 51., 1.. 6. Tnnplra Ta.V-nt Furnished by the Chas. Wolff Packlne w.ftrVilncr tHan 1 7A IV.- I nr rt v V vV 1 not mar Do not mar- 1 "vc" unisned. v. eLuii, we glV'0 uwuw jjuues enecuve tit once, until fur ther notice.l Topeka, Kan., Nov 1" HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS $7.457.70 HEAVY 7.65I&7.75 LIGHT 7 So'& GO Can"t use thin hogs or those under i? pounds. CATTLE. Per cwi Grass cows (good) $3 00(S3 5 Grass cows (medium) 2 50a3 00 Grass heifers (good) a'SySXS Calves (100 to 200 lbs.) 400I5 m ClHlvoa rover 200 lhs Y .?9? Cattle must be good. CannoV'usethin stuff. Market price paid for dry lot cattla. BUTTER AND EGGS Furnished by The Continental Creamery Co., Topeka, Kan.J "-reamer CHICAGO EGGS 27c. N. Y. EGGS Fresh country, doz., 293 CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago. 30c; ELGIN BUTTER 31c. Wholesale prices furnished by Com a Co.. 134 Kansas Ave J EGGS Fresh country, candled. 25c POULTRY Hens, live weight SUc spring broilers. 1 to 2 lbs., lie: ZV4 and heavier, 9c. ana TURKEYS Hens and young Toms, per lb.. 15c; old Toms, per lb., 14c 3' per (Prospects for heavy receipts of turkeys for Thanksgiving. We think Is advisable for growers to hold for Christmas BUTTER Packing stock, per lb 21e WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE. Furnished by Sam'i E. Lux, Wholesale Fruit and Produce. APPLES Jonathan, per obi $5 00 Gano, per bbl., $4.25; Ben Davis, per bbl $4.00; Grimes Golden, per box, $2.00; Jon athans, per box, $2.00. BANANAS Medium sized bunches, $2 00 2.25; Jumbo bunches, $2.252.75. Per lb., CRANBERRIES Wisconsin Bell and Cherry brand, per bbl., $7.25; Fancy Jer sey Sunrise brand, per bbl.. $7 25- extra fancy Late Reds, per bbl., $7.50. FLORIDA ORANGES Per box. $3.50. GRA PES Per basket, 23c. ALMERIA GRAPES Per bbl., $6 50 BLACK WALNUTS Per bushell.lS. CALIFORNIA PEARS-Per box! $2.65. CABBAGE Per lb.. lc. FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT Per box. $5.00. NEW TURNIPS AND BEETS Per tu PARSNIPS Per bu., 75c. DU- CARROTS Per bu.. 75c. 60c. NEW HONEY Per crate. $3.50. NEW FIGS Per box. 70c. LEMONS California, per box $5 00 KAW VALLEY POTATOES-av, h,t 70c. r IsORTHERN POTATOES Minnesota Rural, per bu.. 70c: Minnesota. Tin rHanlra 70c. SWEET POTATOES-Per bu., 0c. OYSTERS New York Counts r- 50c: New York Extra Selects, per can, 45c; v iwm i-i.ii, 1 utiu, uc; wnesapeake Standards, per can, 35c. CELERY Mammoth, per bunch, 75c Jumbo, per bunch, 60c; Blue Ribbon. 45c. CHEESE Wis. Y. A. Cheese, per lb.. 18c; Llmberger, per lb., 18c: Wis. Yellow, per lb., 18c; Wisconsin White, per lb.. 18c; Yellow Daisy, 20 lbs., 18c; New Wis. Brick, 18c; Domestic Style Swiss. (25 to 30 lbs per lb.. 19c. BULK OYSTERS Standards, 1.60.Plaln Selects, $1.80; Extra Selects, $2.00; New York Counts, $2,20. Topek Hide Market. Quotations furnished by James C. Smith Hide Co.. 108 Rant Third El 1 HIDES No. 1 G. S hides, I3c; No 1 G S hides, 12c;. side brands, lis flat glue hids, 7c flat; No. 1 G. S. bull hides. llc; No. 2 G. S. bull hides. 10c; Deacons 25c to 35c; slunks. 15c to 25c; No. 1 horse hides, $2.50 to 3.25; No. 2 horse hides, $1 50 to $2.50; No. 3 horse hides. 75c; dry flint butcher, heavies, 17c; dry flint fallen, 16c dry flint lights, 1718c; dry salts. 14c: dry culls, 11. Grain Market. Furnished by J. B. Billard, corner Kan sas ave. and Curtis St. Topeka, Kan.. Nor it WHEAT No. 2. $1.00. OLD CORN 55c. NEW CORN-ia OATS38,

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, If OVEMBER 12, 1909. 9, ALL PARALYSIS NOTJOPELESS This Man Had a Form That Was Curable and There Are Hundreds of Cases like His. There are Btill people who say that no form of paralysis can be cured. If you have partial paralysis or some Other severe nervous disorder, do you think it is better to be treated by some one who insists that you are incurable, or to take a treatment that grateful patients throughout the United States testify has cured them? There are several forms of paralysis that are curable by the tonic treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and re markable proof of the fact that the dis ease can be cured is found in the case of Mr. Willard P. Creech, of No. 315 Maple street, Kansas City, Mo., who is hipping clerk for Bracken Turpin. He says: "About twelve years ago, when living at Appleton, Wis., I was paralyzed from xny hips down. I became in this condi tion shortly after a fall while playing at school. There was not a particle of feeling in my legs and I could not use them, I could not feel electricity from a battery. I had to be lifted out of bed. Z had no strength at all and lost a great deal in flesh. There was a steady, dull pain across my back, wliich kept me in misery all of the time. My kidneys were affected and I was in bed for two years. "I was treated by several physicians, who pronounced my case spinal" trouble. The last physician, that I had, treated me for about a year and finally told me that he could do nothing more for me. Through my grandmother I decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I took several boxes when I noticed a decided change for the better. I had confidence in the pills and took them until cured." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are guaran teed by the manufacturers to contain no opiate or narcotic nor anything that could injure the most delicate system. Those who are interested in the treat ment which cured this case can obtain further information by writing for the booklet, "Nervotfs Disorders," which we send free on request. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by au arnggists, or will be sent, postpaid, on reoeipt of price, 50 cents per box; six boxes for $3.50 by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Reliable Dentistry 15 years of suc cess, doing as we advertise. Special Gold Crowns that others charge $8 to J 10 we'll make for $4 Best set of Teeth $7 Silver Filling 50c Teeth Extracted, Painless 25c Work All Guaranteed Twenty Years. HOURS: 8 to 6. Sunday 9 to 12. Wednes day and Saturday eveninsrs till 8 p.m. New York Dental Co. 618 Kansas Ave. Ind. 196S A PROFITABLE PLAN For the person who desires to save is to take monthly payment shares In this Association. Shares earn six per cent per an num. Mature In 3 to 10 years. .Call for Booklet. The Capital Building and Loan Ass'n 453 Kansas Avenue DR. GEO. PORT ASHTON DENTIST Bsll Phons 1 183 Ind. 328. N. W. Cornsr Eighth and Kansas ve. L. M. Penvvefl Undertaker and Embalmer 811 Qiincy Strtet Both Phones 192 r f f "ttt -..-'J PARENTSJLAMED Mrs. Thorpe, Police Matron, Says Immorality Is Due to Neglect. Every Girl Would Be Saved by Proper Influence. GIVE HER EXPERIENCE Forty-Two Girls Taken to In dustrial School Cited. All Hut Two Children of Di vorced or Quarreling Parents. Holton, Kan., Nov. 12. Dealing with the underworld and sounding: a note for the betterment of social conditions everywhere, Mrs. Laura E. Thorpe, po lice matron at Topeka, addressed the W. C. T. U. convention here today tracing causes of dissipation, and of fering a remedy in many cases. She said in part: "I once attended a woman's meeting in aneaster city where a police matron was to give an address, and the earnest ladies in waiting were entertained by her with a discourse on Sunshine' but I it is the shadows with which I will deal, 1 for I believe we should know something about the dark side of life that we ma-" have more concern for the children in .our homes and the school. "There are always indolent people to say: 'Oh, well, these evils have always been, and always will be,' and just 30 they said of slavery in the fifties and slavery is dead; just so they have said of intemperance, and intemperance Is dying. If the commonsense men and women of our country get the crowbars of the law under the root of the evil and lift together, this curse also will be annihilated. Immorality Dne to Neglect. "Here are two facts to be written down, indelibly, In your memory: "1 More than half of the immorality is due to the ignorance of neglected youth. "2 Every normal child in whom you take a personal interest, can be saved from these vices. "The extent of the social evil in the United States, Is said to be, numerical ly, more than 300,000 girls whose lives can average but from five to seven years. Some 60,000 recruits enter the ranks of sorrow and shame every year. om whence do they come? From every city and village. an1 nelo-hhnr- hood one here and another there i sinKing continually. The youth flock to the cities to get employment and in ineir ignorance are easy victims. Thou sands of girls from foreign countries seeking employment, are enticed or iorced into white slavery' by those en gaged in that traffic. "United States District Attorney cwms or jnicago. jn rerretlng out this a Domination, learned that the 'traders receive from $150 to $400 for each girl accoraing to her personal beautv. Be l'fire the publicity was given the traffic the trade was as regular as that of farm products or of cattle and sheeD "In the year before the interference of the Jaw, (190S) not less than 15.000 girls were Imported for this awful life, and that was said to be a mere frac tion as compared with the number se cured from the home fields. Disease, Insanity, murder, suicide, remorse, and bitterness incurable, are me results, ana these tacts are well known. The children of dissipated par ents seem helpless against this evil not so much because of heredity as be cause of environment and lack of coun fee: and courage. "Of 42 girls taken by me to the state industrial school, during the past 10 or 15 years, 40 of them had divorced, or auarreling parents. And scarcely a child ever comes into the juvenile court but has been almost, criminally neglect ed at home." BANKERS REPORT PROSPERITY. Group Four of Kansas Association Meets at Junction City. Junction City, Kan., Nov. 12. Group 4 of the Kansas Bankers' as sociation held its annual meeting here In the Commercial club room, with more than 100 members in attendance and nearly every county in the west ern and northwestern part of the state represented. In addition there were present a number of Kansas City bankers State Bank Commissioner Dolley, Senator Bristow, Congressman Calderhead and Ex-Governor W. J. Bailey. The meeting was called to order by T. B. Kennedy, president. The ad dress of welcome was made by Major W. F. Muenzenmayer, and G. W. Hanna of Clay Center responded. There was an invocation by Rev. Dr. A. H. Harshaw and a reading by Miss Edith Mackey. The roll call showed prosperity in every county, indicated by the rapidly increasing business of the banks. Senator Bristow addressed the 250 Discount Saturday and On small trimmed hats and children s hats. We are showing plush, felt, silk and velvet in small styles for those who can not wear the large hats. OFT of Off on children's hats. Every 1 thing goes red, brown, blue, or white. Caps all colors, all sizes. Chil dren's trimmed hats. Children's Beavers $4.00. now $3.00. 25 off Saturday and Monday. 25 off on Hair Goods. Mrs. C. H. Morrison 603 Kanwui Avenue bankers. His talk was informal. Congressman Calderhead discussed banking: laws and the currency He said he was not in favor of chang ing the present banking system to one providing a central national bank. He explained concisely the action of the last congress on financial matters and also touched upon the tariff. State Bank Commissioner Dolley made a short talk'on the new tax law as It pertains to banks. During the evening the bankers were given a banquet at the Bartell house. SYSTEMATIC SEARCH. For Missing Choir Singer by Her Companions. New York, Nov. 12. Twenty-five young women from th choir of St. Peters German Lutheran church in the Bronx are conducting a sys tematic search to find Emma Hoff man, 17 years old, who was a member of the choir and whose strange dis appearance from her home Monday morning has been unexplained. Each young woman acquaintance has been assigned to travel con tinuously on a certain street car line, or to search through a particular dis trict while others have been in structed to call at all homes and busi ness places where Miss Hoffman might have gone. Other choir singers are canvassing all institutions to which the girl might have been taken if ill or the victim of an ac cident. JOHNSON BUYS PROPERTY Negro Pugilist Invests In Chicago Real Estate. Chicago. Nov. 12. John Arthur John son, chamrjion heavyweight pugilist, be came a taxpayer in Chicago yesterday when a deed was filed lor record mas ing him sole owner of property which comprises a three story brick dwelling on a lot 50 bv 164 feet. The house and lot was purchased for m.ooo. A garage will be built in the rear, where Johnson will keep his fast au tomobiles, and he plans to make room for at least four machines. Adjacent to the garage will bo a gymnasium. Johnson's brother will leave Monday for Galveston. Texas, the former home of the negro heavyweight, and will bring his mother to Chicago. END IS REACHED. Big Four Officials Look for No More Developments In Warriner Shortage. Cincinnati, Nov. 12. Charles L. War riner. deposed local treasurer, charged with the shortage. of $643,000 in his ac counts with the Big Four railroad, is rearly a physical wreck, his friends said today. Big Four railroad officials expressed the belief that there would be no more important developments in the big de falcation so far as the Cincinnati offices were concerned. GIVEN TO YOUNG JOHN. Rockefeller Makes a Transfer of Some More Property. New York, Nov. 12. Following his policy adopted some time ago John D. Rockefeller has transferred more of his property to his son. John D. Rockefeller, jr. The property now transferred comprises the west side neighborhood house. Armitage Chapel, and a model flat house at Tenth avenue and Fiftieth street. The settlement house has been run by young Mr. Rockefeller's Sunday school class. LYON COUNTY PIONEER DEAD. John Wesley Floyd Has Lived Near Americus Since War. Emporia. Kan.. Nov. 12. John Wesley Fioyd. one of the pioneer settlers of Lyon county, is dead, at the age of 78 years. Mr. J? 10yd was a native or North Carolina, but moved to Kansas In 1861, and has since lived in or near Americus. During the civil war he served in Company D. of the Kansas militia. Mr. Floyd had suffered from several partial strokes of paralysis, and for considerably more than a year had been practically helpless. He was taken worse one week ago and gradually grew weaker and more helpless until the end. He leaves a wife, one daughter and three sons, all of whom were with him and helped to care for him during his last hours. The children are Mrs. Anna McCaw. John Floyd. George Floyd and James Floyd. James lived at home and had cared for his parents in their de clining years. The other three children, with their families, live in Americus. Three children, a daughter and two sons, died in childhood. GRAY TO HEAD FRISCO. First Vice President Js Elevated to the Presidency. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 12. Carl R. Gray, first vice president of the St. Louis San Francisco Railroad company, will succeed A. J. Davidson as president of that system, according to the statement made by one of the directors. A. J. Davidson denied a report that the inauguration of a policy of re trenchment had caused his retirement from the presidency. "There is nothing in that," he said. Nor did the retiring executive attach any importance to the fact that he bad not been re-elected a member of the board of directors. His resignation, he said, was In the hands of B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the executive board, Monday when Vice President Gray was chosen to succeed him on the board. Carl Raymond Gray Is 42 years old. He was graduated at the Arkansas In dustrial university and entered the rail road service in 1882. He has been with the San Francisco 27 years, rising from telegraph operator to first vice presi dent. He was a deciding force in estab lishing the supremacy of the Yoakum Interests in the Rock Island-Frisco lines. Mr. Gray is a southwesterner by birth and experience. After serving as ope rator and agent he got into the traffic department in 1887 as clerk, and ad vanced to division freight agent. He entered the operating department in 1900 as division superintendent. In 1904 he was made superintendent of trans portation; In 1904 general manager, and in 1904 second vice president, succeed ing R. R. Hammond in affairs of opera tion. He has represented the system in many important conferences affecting operation and traffic, and has showii marked ability in directing conferences with municipal and legislative author ities on various subjects from time to time. HOTELS ARE CROWDED. Horse Show Brings Many Visitors to New York.- New York, Nov. 12. For the first time in several years, excepting the period of the Hudson-Fulton celebra tion, every hotel in New York is now crowded to its capacity. The horse show is partly responsible for this condition, but hotel managers declare that mostly it is a reflection of the wave of prosperity that is reported as sweeping over the country. None of the large hotels is supply ing suites and no matter how distin guished a guest may be he must be contented with a single bedroom. Beds have been placed in all available rooms and every bed is taken. The Waldorf Astoria alone has 1,500 names on its register. NEW CODE OF RULES. Employes of Chicago Railways Com pany Must Be Polite. Chicago, Nov. 12. Employes of the Chicago Railways company must be polite to pasengers and seek to cul tivate the good will of patrons, of the lines. In a letter addressed-' to all motor men and conductors the company has laid down a new code of rules. If a passenger offers a conductor a trans fer that is useless and swears because it Is refused, the conductor must smile sweetly and give the passenger detail ed reasons for not accepting the slip. Women with children are supposed to be special wards of conductors and, !n the new rules, the employes are required to help such passengers to get on and off the cars. Old and infirm persons must be given special attention whenever possible. FOUGHT FIERCE PRAIRIE FIRE. Scott County Fanners Rushed to Scene in Automobiles. Garden City, Kan.. Nov. 12. The prairie fire which started at Tennis, a station on the Garden City, Gulf and Northern rail road, was checked about 4 o'clock after the flames had swept over a strip of pas ture land, a half mile wide and five miles long. Soon after the fire began telephones were used to secure as much assistance as possible. Over 70 responded, a number of men coming from Valley- and Lake townships in Scott county and others from Terry and Pleasant valley townships in Finney county. For three straight boors the battle of fire fighting continued until at last after the greatest effort the flames were ex tinguished. The damage done in the course of the fire was confined to the burning of sheds on the place of Karl Kiehl. tele phone poles, and stacks of feed belonging to W. T. Clark. Further destruction might have been accomplished if the men In the neighborhood had not responded as largely as they did. Material assistance was later furnished by Scott City which sent several automo biles down to fight the flames. The Gar den City, Gulf and Northern railroad work gangs were directed by the men in charge to help and with the Increased force thus afforded the fire was finally conquered. Monday The cut represents a $5.00 hat less 25 J I '.Electric Sign. Made For You ia PIGEON'S FAST FLIGHT. Makes 900 Miles in 31 Hours, Kansas City to Colorado. Kansas City, Nov. 12. Thirty-one hours and forty minutes was the tim3 it took the pigeon released from the top of the Long building Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock to reach Its desti nation, Center, Colo. A dispatch from Colorado, received last night, said that the pigeon reached Center at 4:40 o'clock, mountain time, Thursday after noon. The bird was in good condition. This is one hour earlier than central time. Harly Wilson, who released the bird, had a 5 to 1 wager that it would fly the distance to Center in 36 hours. He won his wager with four hours and twenty minutes to spare. Mr. Wilson was in St. Joseph when the news of the pigeon's successful flight was received. When his sister Mrs. M. J. Hall. 702 West Eleventh street, was told the I news she said: "My brother was not worrying about the flight.- He knew the pigeon would win. He had learned the rate with which the birds fly from Edward Grat man of Center, the owner of the pigeon. Mr. Wilson was in southern Colorad.0 last summer painting. While there he became acquainted with Mr. Gratman Last Saturday when he came back he brought the pigeon with him. "I took care of it while it was here. I liked it so well that I hated to have him turn it loose. It seemed so far for it to fly the whole way to Colorado without any maps to go by. The pigeon was hatched last spring and had never been taken away from the farm before. While it was here I fed it bread and grain just like I would any other bird. It was a dark colored pigeon. The only difference I noticed between it and any other pigeon was its long bill." If a man were to go to Center by the ordinary mode of travel it would take him thirty-six hours providing he made all connections. He would leave Kansas City at 10:05 o'clock or 10:25 o'clock at night and arrive in Denver the next afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. At 7 o'clock that night he would start for Monte Vista, arriving there-at 7:50 O'clock the next morn ing. Center lies on the stage line fifteen miles north of Monte Vista. The trip by stage takes more than two hours. The distance from Kan sas City to Center is 921 miles by rail. The pigeon's route by air line probably was about one hundred miles shorter. There was no delay of making train connections.. As soon as the pigeon was released from the R. A Long building it flew across the plains and mountain passes straight to the little town of Center. A man would have to study the map a long time if he were to make the trip un aided. Even with this aid of the map he probably would lose his way. But the pigeon needed no map. It wanted to go home and its instinct was ail it needed. LEAVENWORTH TROOPS POSED. Paraded in Review for a Moving Pic ture Concern. Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 12. All the soldiers in the brisade at Fort Leavenworth paraded in review for moving pictures, rne omcer ana soldiers appeared in full dress cere mony uniforms, the second time in many years they marched in this manner. The 3,000 troops were first formed In line, massed in battalions and a moving panoramic picture taken of them. They were then marched past the reviewing point in rehearsal. This was 'followed by the en gineers and infantry, the foot soldiers marching by in company front double lines in grand review. The artillery formed in battery front and came by in a gallop as though going into ac tion. The cavalry squadron, 400 horse men, formed in eight platoon lines, and came by in a fast cavalry charge. Moving pictures will be taken of spar and pontoon bridge building, calisthenio and signal drill, wall scaling and fancy cavalry riding. These moving pictures are to be shown in Europe, as well as through out America. Killed by a Street Car. Chicago, Nov. 12. George T. Evans, president of the Acme-Evans Milling company of Indianapolis, one of the most prominent millers of the west, was struck by a street car at 23rd street and Indiana avenue grog sp'io spffirttr gges&sl jf Advertise 1 W Your Business DAY AND NIGHT Rent One for a Few Cents Per Day If interested,, telephone 369, both phones. Federal Co. representative is with us for a few days and will call. THE Topeka Edison Co, 734 Kansas Svenskar sen hit Hvi hava den storsta svenska speceributik i Topeka. Och hava just fott hem ett nytt lager of Lingon, lutfisk, Anchovis, sill, Knackebrod, komminost Samt en hel del andra saker. Om ni inte ar en utaf vora kunder, so borde in vara. Kom och bliven bekanta mad oss. Glad Bros. Co. 134 Quincy Street Phones 868 receiving injuries -which caused his death at St. Lukes hospital early this morning. Mr. Evans was in Chicago with his wife and was a guest at the Congress hotel. "HE IS JUST MEAN." Father of Boy Bandit Says His Son Is Not Insane. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 12. The con dition of John K. Woodward, presi dent of the Merchant's National bank of New Albany, and James Tucker, the negro chauffeur who were wound ed yesterday by Thomas Jefferson Hall, the boy bandit, was practically unchanged today. President Wood ward is in a serious condition. The negro is not expected to live. Hall, who will have to answer later for the murder of Cashier J. Hangary Fawcett, takes his arrest coolly. His stepmother, who visited him early to day, was asked what sort of novels the boy read. "Oh, I don't know their names," was the reply, "but he always kept three or four new ones in the house." The boy's father says the lad is not Insane. "He is just mean." Henry Alexander, the janitor of the bank, was arrested last night on the charge of complicity in the robbery. VIOLETS IN BLOOM. Chicago School Children Selling Them at 15 Cents a Bnnch. Chicago, Nov. 12. Violets are in full bloom in the woods north of Evanston. School children of the suburb are earning candy money by selling the flowers at 15 cents a bunch. Old residents of Evanston cannot recall a time when wild violets could be picked so latd in the season. C. B. Atwell, city forester and professor of botany at Northwestern university said he had never known of the sec ond bloom appearing later than Oc tober. Amusements. A well known critic has said that "Lyman's H. Howe's festival of travel inspires thought and con versation for weeks to come." It is more enjoyable than actual travel for there is no bad weather, fear of ac cidents or other disappointments to mar the pleasure of "Howe's tourists." Those who will "Travel with Lyman H. Howe" two days and matinee commencing tonight will see a new conquest of the world in perfect photography. The new program is really a picture gallery of countless scenes of the world's wonders. Correct forms, reception and visiting cards, wedding invitations. Adams Brothers. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Hse Kind Yen Have Always Bong! Bears the Signature of Avenue TWO DAYS STARTING TONIGHT MATINEE SATURDAY SEETHE DASH FOR THE NORTH POLE (ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC) STIRRING of nRAMATIC CENES the UlSCOVERY AEROPLANE RACES Ships of the Air in Full Flight A High Speed (Guaranteed Positively Genuine) PRICES-25-35-50c JVIATINEE-Children 15c, Adult 25c MAJESTIC PRICES 1 5c-25c NORTH BROS.' STOCK CO. THIS WEEK 1 MRS. DANE'S DEFENCE MATINEE TODAY. Sale of Seats Six Days in Advance. Next Week Alabama. MfWCI TV HIGH-CLASS I1UVI.LI I VAUDEVILLE THREE SHOWS 2:30 7:459:15 TODAY 5 ALL STAR ACTS 5 Balcony lOo Floor 20-30c MATINEE DAILY, 10c Lincoln Circle No. 1 Ladies' of the Grand Army of the Republic will hold their Bazaar atl day Saturday of this week at Lincoln Post Hall. ChickenrDinner 25c Lunch at Supper Time Program Afternoon and Evening FluiJS. Come to Umner. THE0D0R BOHLMANN Piano Lecture Recital Washburn College CHAPEL Monday, November 15, 8:15 P. M. Tickets 50c at the College TRAVEL

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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUBNAIt FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1909. POT ISJOIUNG. Candidates for Mayor Have Been Slated by Politicians. Republicans Will Hare Four, Democrats Support Two. CAMPAIGN AN ISSUE. Those Who Supported Commis sion Form Have Enemies. Jordan, Green, Hughes, Howard, Heery and Penwell Candidates. Despite the fact that the primary tlectlon of the candidates for mayor nd commissioners under the now com mission form of government is six months away the political pot has start ed to boll and the first batch of likely city officials have been turned into steam. The Republicans of Topeka that is few of the inner circle, have aeciaea upon four good strong heavy candidates lor mayor, me imucraw navo ed upon two. The duty of the primary election is to sift these aspirants down in ian in number. Then the big pro position is to see who will be these two ihlgh men. In the Republican camp there are many divisions. If the old saying "mi "a house divided against itself cannot stand" is true It looks as though there would be a lot of "sitting" among the Republicans. In fact, out of the four candidates now striving to gain the shades of the plum tree, every one of them will work with all his power, and powers, to gain the nomi nation. Each rran has very little use for the other and it is a sure sign that the Demociats will be able to place one of their men on the first ticket with ease. The four men who will fight behina the Republican walls for supremacy are Mayor "William Green. Councilman J. W. F. Hughes. Councilman C. E. Jor dan and Councilman H. R. Howard. Their forces of supporters are all prac tically organized and when the flag falls there is going to be one of the prettiest battles in the history of. To peka city politics. Green, Hughes and Jordan have al ways been looked upon as canaiaau. But Howard is a new one. He has been brought out through the Informal an nouncements of a -host of his friends omnnir th vouneer set in the city. It Is a well known fact that a majority of the younger voters in me cny nave organized with a new idea In view. "A Clean Sweep" is their war cry and "A New Broom" their emblem. Young Man the Plea. "We want some young man who is active in the life of the city we want a man who is always on the popular sid of popular movements we want a man who has the nerve to stand up for his rights in the city council and we want to make a clean sweep of municipal conditions." These were the words of one of the young men this morning. It seems that the young men want a man who has not been especially prominent in politics and who will run as their candidate from their class. Councilman Jordan Is another young man who will make a beautiful fight He has been one of the chief lights in the city council for the last five years. He is a man of stern conviction and Is instrumental in forming for the people of Topeka some of their best ordin ances. He was the man who dug out the big McCabe scandal a number of years ago and saved the city from thousands of dollars of graft. Probably there isn't another man in Topeka who is as well acquainted with the city ordinances and the city offices as Coun cilman Jordan from the First ward. Green Is Strong. Mayor Green will undoubtedly be a stumbling Mock for all other candi dates. He has been in office for a term and a half and has conducted a popu lar administration. But the mayor will have the theatrical and drug interests against him. He has made a number of enemies with his reform method3 and they have long been waiting for a good chance to wreak vengeance. The mayor will have a number of his sup porters divided between the Jordan and Howard elements all of which will tend to weaken his stride. But he will be a hard man to defeat. Councilman Hughes has always been a bidder for first honors. He will havo the enemies of the "blue laws" with him together with his conceded mag netism which has won battles for him when it looked as though all was lost. The general is a glad hand politician and will play his hand for a new vote every time. The Democrats are going to make one more attempt to land their hero, Roy Penwell. Penwell has served Shawnee county as a representative in the legislature and he has a fol lowing in Topeka that has worked wonders for him politically. The Democrats have tried before to secure him as a banner to flag in the face of the Republicans but he has always refused. To be mayor under the old system has never appealed to Mr. Penwell. But since the commission form has been adopted it looks as though the popular representative will run for mayor. The Democrats want Penwell. However if Mr. Penwell re fuses to accept the Democrats are. not without strength. "Mike" Heery. one of the old time councilmen will fill the mayor's chair with entire satisfac tion if Penwell refuses to fill the bill. Both men are well known in Topeka and on account of their not being affiliated with the commission cam paign they will receive the applause of many. No Partisan Lines. Political lines will not be drawn in this contest and it is ridiculous to ad vocate any one because he is a Demo crat or Republican. One big thing the commission form is for is to eliminate all partisanship from the city affairs, and the names will not go on the ticket under any party head. What the people shoulud demand and what they will insist upon is the selection of substantial citizens who have not made politics their business and they will hardly stop to inquire whether they are Democrats or Re publicans. JAPANESE SEE K. C. Honorary Commissioners Guests of Commercial Club. IV" Ml I V M I fSp e f- -rr 0 ecm 7! Tr" 7 F ri ower wmvi s MUMS s75c, $1,00, $1.50 doj. OSES S 50c, 75c, $1.00 doj. These are all fresh and will arrive Saturday morning. Get in your orders early. 807 Kansas Ave. Telephones: Ind. 1061 Bell 176 LL CRAFT Florist car ft 6 Ik M "r Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. 12. The hon orary commercial commissioners from t nB00. nriair In TCansas City. JCXCLll i' LI. J. Lwuuj Following a drive over the city as the guests of the commercial ciuo, me vis itors inspected a packing house and several factories in the west bottoms. They also visited the Westport high school, where isaron nnou aauua n ,1 o cViriit aHiresA. t. tt. -Vf rsldrjn.iner wife of the secretary of the commercial ciuo, cii of the Darty at the Country club ajid later they attended a tea at the noma mrs. w. x. poi son. HAI SUIT CASE FULL OF LIQUOR. J. C. Ury Arrested as He Leaves Train Pleads Guilty. J. C. Ury, arrested last night and charged with bootlegging, pleaded guilty in police court this morning when arraigned, and was fined $100 and committed to jail for thirty days. He was arrested last night by Detec tive Lawson when he alighted from a train from Kansas City. Ury carried a suit case In which 12 pint and 12 half pint bottles were wrapped in i ewspapers. "Bud" Barnes Is Hanged. Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 12. Heze kiah W. ("Bud") Barnes, was hanged today at the penitentiary here for the murder of Mrs. Anna Aldrich, an aged woman. Barnes denied his guilt to the last. Barnes was convicted on circum stantial evidence on his second trial. It Extra 1 1 1 Our wonderful showing of Men's Suits and Overcoats At popular prices has established a new mark in vame-givwg. At $15 $18 $20 We offer Suits and Overcoats that are actually hand tailored not machine! Pr? made). Bright, new, pa1- $Z T terns out of purr i&f worsteds and selecte WV? 1 j if 'VWl wvuiciia, ate useu in their construction. They are tailored in the smartest styles of the day. Our assortments are so large that we can fit you instantly in these clothes. Try on here tomorrow V. 11 i i t Snedal Sale Boys' and Children's Suits and Overcoats Here Tomorrow 1 Don't miss it. Extra values in Men's Underwear 50c to $7.50 I 629-631 Kansas Avenue I Charles Bradshaw, colored, is build ing a two story house at Seventh and yuincy. The T. M. and T. W. C. A. of Wash burn are planning a football party for tne near future. The evangelistic council will meet at the Central Y. M.'C. A. Sunday after- roon at o ciock. Repairs will be made in the near future in connection with the First Congregational church. The quail season will open on Mon day and the usual disappearance o hunters will take place. A men's adult Bible class has been organized at the First Methodist church with seventeen members. The members of the Washburn col lege Y. W. C. A. have been urged to give their city sisters their support. Work will begin on the addition to the Chas. Wolff Packing plant in 30 days. The estimated cost Is J150.000. The Westminster Presbyterian church has recently raised $1,800. The church building will undergo some necessary repairs. The high school football team will meet a team from the State Agricul tural college on Washburn field tomor row afternoon. Barney McGrath, the Lincoln base ball pitcher whose home is in Carbon dale, is working at present in the Santa Fe office building. Harold T. Chase will speak at the Central Y. M. C. A. on Sunday after-i r con at 4 o'clock on "The Bible and Other Scriptures." The Davis Mercantile company build ing at First and Kansas avenue has been finished. It is one of the best wholesale buildings in the west. One real estate dealer in Topeka re ports that three men working in small outlying towns have been successful in interesting people in local property. Beginning tomorrow evening a course of 10 lectures on psychology will be given at the First Methodist church by Dr. Emll C. Wilm of Washburn college. The Washburn football supporters have about given up the sponge this year but it is predicted that the team next year will be the best in the history of he college. It is said that the new directory of the Independent Telephone will con tain 10,000 names. Order an Independ ent phone now if you want your name in the new book. It is understood that all the enemies of the commission form of government are going to come out at election time and defeat the candidates who support ed tne plan Derore it was adopted. The city attorney of Topeka has de feated two suits against the city -whicn amounted to $12,000. This is enough saved to pay for a big raise in the sal aries of the firemen who need it bad. President Henry J. Waters of K. S. A. C. and Chancellor Frank Strong of lhe state university will address the convention of the National Good Roads association to be held in Topeka De cember 14 and 15. The aerial truck from station No. 2 made a run over the Edison excavation this morning and the bump caused by the run over the temporary bridge al most threw the firemen from the wagon. Cecil Forter, assistant to the city en gineer, has completed the plans for the new North side pumping station. City Engineer Rogers will attempt to find a Topeka made pump that will serve the purpose. Governor W. R. Stubbs and Presi dent Arthur C. Jackson of the National Good Roads association returned to gether this morning from Manhattan where they attended the K. S. A. C. ceremonies. Traffic on the Melan and street car bridges was suspended for a short time this afternoon in order to keep back the public during the blasting of piles in and around the vicinity of the river bed near the two bridges. The city and county engineers are getting together over- on the Central avenue bridge today; The two engineers are building the bridge with their sepa rate funds. The bridge will be artistic as well as substantial when finished. The latest announcement for com missioner under the new form of gov ernment comes from Councilman E. F. Stanley from the Sixth ward. The Sixth ward councilmen are making frantic efforts to get under the plum tree. j Street Commissioner Snyder report's that the experiment of using dynamite as a means of removing the piling from the river along the street railway bridge proved most successful. It will require two or three days to finish the work. r The street force under the supervision of Street Commissioner Frank Snyder and with the help of the Santa Fe rail way is blowing up the piles under the Melan and street car bridges. The city has followed the example of the Santa TYPEWRITER REPAIRING We want your old typewriter to repair and overhaul. We have all the facilities for turn ing out first-class work, and a guarantee is made on every job. We have three expert re pair men and if you'll call DOUBLE-EIGHTEEN We'll show our efficiency. WILSON OFFICE SUPPLY CO. 107.W. Sixth Both Phones 1818 City Agency for L. C Smith Bros. y Typewriters WHY PAY MORE? old get 18c CHICKENS Young or one for Sunday's dinner, lb .DWARF CELERY tender and fresh, 6 fine stalks in Ori bunch Ordinary celery, 2 large bunohes 15c PEACHES Yuba Dam brand large yellow free-stones, 25 C 2 cans BEANS Nice clean navy beans, hand picked, per 4fO CC bushel W'DO Hotels and Restaurants this is a great bargain. CONCORD GRAPES Small bask ets, nice solid grapes, I5c ENGLISH WALNUTS new and bright, 1909 crop, "1 (Sr lb x'x' GRAPE JUICE regular 25c size bottles, to clean up season, Of" each... "C BACON Wolf's Sunflower brand, excellent quality by strip, 1 7 lb. 1 C EATING APPLES large, red, Ga nos, from Colo., op pctk. OOC COCOANUTS Extra nice each 7c PICKWICK CATSUP large 25c bottle tomorrow, Ofl for.. UC SNYDER'S OYSTER COCKTAIL SOc value, per bottle, 2?C tomorrow PEANUT BUTTER Beechnut brand, cheaper than ordinary O Ct butter, large jars Fe and-wHl blow- out the stubs with dynamite. iS. Barnum, Fred Fuller, Arthur Wolf, Albert Kirkpatrick and Harry Woif compose the Y. M. C. A. bowling team which hopes to contend successfully this season with all comers. A game is being arranged with the Athletic club of Lawrence. A-series of bowling contests is being arranged to be played on the alleys of the Central T. M.:C. A. The preaqhers are scheduled to play the bankers and lawyers, and there will be matches be tween the longs and shorts and the leans and the fats. There are a number of firemen in To peka who have wives and families and all of them state that it is impossible to keep down the grocery bill less than $40 per month. With a salary of $65 it looks as though there would have to be some scrimping for clothes and rent. Although Street Commissioner Sny der expressed himself as believing that it was all right to burn leaves on the ordinary pavements of the city, he feels that great care should be exer cised so that it won't be 'necessary for the fire department to work overtime. Tomorrow is the last day of prayer :it the Central T. M. C. A. Supplica tion will be made for the national committee of Young Men's Christian associations throughout the world, and for the world's committee. W. W. Bowman will be the leader at the noon hour. Work is progressing rapidly in con nection with the alterations being made at the Central Y. M. C. A. building. Six educational rooms will be available on the fourth floor including a hall with a seating capacity of 250. There will be H new sleeping apartments on the second floor which will replace the educational rooms. Many people of but small means are contributing generously to the Y. W. C. A. building fund. If a few of the peo ple who hold the "rocks" would re spond equally generously the success of H AWNEE LAI lGR0C 112 E. 6th. HUGHES ROBERTSON. Phones 425. the campaign would be immediately as sured. However, 'no one doubts the ultimate success of the undertaking, for Topeka Kan Topeka Will. One of the leading builders of To peka says that a considerable number of additional carpenters and bricklay ers could be used in the city at the r resent time. The contractors are not having quite as much difficulty in ob taining building material as they had two or three months ago, although when steel is wanted it must be or dered well in advance. The revival services under the leader ship of the McPherson brothers at the First Christian church show arrowing interest and an increase in attendance every night. Already there have been thirty-two additions to the church. There will be baptismal services to night. The Bible school is a power in itself. There will be orchestra music and also special music every Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock- Governor Stubbs will speak next Sunday Morn ing. Come and hear him. MILL GET NO DAMAGES. Judge Dana Doesn't Let Whitworth Case Go to the Jury. Sarah E. Whitworth, of Dodge City, lost her suit against the city of To peka for $5,000 damages last evening when Judge Dana of the district court sustained a demurrer to her evidence asked by City Attorney Ralston. Mrs. Whitworth was injured on tha evening of December 2. 1908, by fall ing on the flagstone sidewalk at the intersection of the alley an-i Fifth street, between Kansas avenue ami wuincy street, one was a guest at tne Fifth Avenue tiotel at the time. In go ing along the south side of the street tQ Kansas avenue she tripped up on a ragged rock, according to her petition, and fell, dislocating her left shoulder. A 2 gallon bowl. 3 fish, castle plant and food, all $1. 409 Kansas. n A Remarkable Opportunity Is Yours, Ladies, if You Act Quick New Fail! Smtts Something New in Winter Coats Imported diagonal cloth, the extra wide wale that is most stylish now, in aUf the wanted shades. Half satin lined, with fvll pleated flounce at 195 $19. Other Coats priced from $4.95 to $50.00 Price Sells 707 Kansas Ave. at This is a special lot of Suits that our immense cash buy ing power enabled us to take advantage of. Every suit is guaranteed all-wool. Think what this means A new Fall Suit at $9.95 Quality-Tells KANSAS CITY MO. TOPEKA KANS. 707 Kansas Ave.

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