The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 31, 1910

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NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. SATURDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 31 1910. SATURDAY EVENING. FIVE CENTS. lit t THE HANDCF ESAU It Appears in Goyern'or Discus sion Now Going On. But the Voice Is That of Jacob. MADISON IS BALKING. Objects to Be Shunted Onto Side Track. Mr. Dolley jMay Not Submit Jto "Elimination." Dispatches from Wa$hington today deny the report that Congressman Ed Madison of the Seventh district of Kansas will make the race for goveF nor of his state in 1912. There is a lot of talk going the rounds now in connection with all the booms recently started for gubernatorial candidates, and the Madison denial bears out some of the conjectures and suspicions of the politicians. Who started the Madison boom, and why? There was some authority for its launching In spite of the suddenness and mystery of the call for the Seventh district statesman. Some man or set of men gave out the glad tid ings for publication. And these men, these patriots, It was not that they loved Madison or Kansas more, but that they loved defeat of their per sonal plans and ambitions less. At least that is the way some of the To peka politicians argue. When the Nation boom was launched that event excited no sus picion of a conspiracy. It was mere ly the logical event to follow four years service as the best auditor Kan sas ever had. There was no wheel within a wheel there. It was a nat ural ambition, ambition working in the cog with reward of merit. The same thing can be said of the Denton boom. But thin Madison boom, started with confidence, and yet without ap parent cause, excites suspicion of a plot within. The men who started it had evidently discussed the subject with Madison, and while they failed to win his consent to make the race, yet they evidently got him to listen to them and to go to the top of the mountain and look at the worlds be low. That was enough for them and they proceeded next to run him as the compromise candidate for. gover- nMadison is a progressive and the progressives named him as the man to suit both factions. Naturally they con sidered a progressive as the only and proper man to fill this bill. A regy lar would never do for a compro mise. Impossible! But who picked Madison? The pa pers printed the Madison story, but the name of the author was not made known Was it Bristow, the Junior senator from Salina? Some folks think so. Or was it Governor Stubbs? Maybe. The Stubbs papers rrlnted it first. If Madison runs for governor he cannot run for the United States sen ate at the same time. That is certain. But if the Seventh district congress man in removed from Stubbs' path will he be in Bristow's way four years from now? Or. if he is left alone in congress will he not be the logical choice for Bristow's toga anyway? But better still, if he can be dragged Into the gubernatorial fight and beaten at the primary, or what is possible if the factional fight Is to continue, beaten at the election, then all senatorial problems would be solved for some time to come and Stubbs and Bristow both be happy. It is true that there still remains Mr. Murdock of the Eighth congres sional district. But the red-headed statesman, in spite of his brilliant tal ents and quick-won reputation, is not Madison. The Seventh district man s rie has been slower DUt more sure than the meteoric flight of the man from Wichita, and bids fair to be more lasting. will Tollev Submit? But there is still another phase to the question, and that is the constant repetition of the word, "eliminated" as a T 'V Tlrtllpv rhflirmnn nf HppHVU iu the state committee. This word is used by certain of the progressive n,3 laa.r. olnrava try Vi a I T" discussion of Dolley's candidacy for Tf,1 1 1 1. governor. v ny f"" j o 11 "eliminated" no one seems to know. n-. mA cav en n n H tViev seem to think that ought to be enough. But LJolley lias a recuru ui ma u vwi m nti.a .i -w1 .fnllnwino, rt Viia own that contradicts the meaning of v. "eliminated." Now if Dollev WtlS uguiiug "ii atp he would be .boosted for governor r 3 1- .1 lrAJ:,,An a long Willi mm UUCK auu. .UOUiOUll. xu. Dolley, as is well known, would like him in line as a logical man for the honor. He has been called upon to manage two state campaigns and served as speaker of the last house and is now bank commissioner. It is true that he was beaten for the legislature in his own little county of Wabaunsee by local issues. out a lirupuei la u.i ,.-ltl,n,it- hnnnr in his own coun try. Maybe his neighbors were jealous of his state honors. Bristow was beaten in his county, and so was Con gressman-elect young, ana so was me great T. R. in the recent New York elections. n.,1 .nn. nn nnlitidnn nf note. suppose Dolley should refuse to be eliminated, and should say, "Gentle men, I am going to run for governor anyway, and we will all be eliminated together." Then what would the con spirators who are seeking a compro mise candidate by the name of Madi- tid nnmnlpition of a Dro- BUU gressive say? What would they do? Would tney nave me ncive iu uic the last ditch and fight it out with Dol ley in the primary for the nomination while some regular like Gene Den ton or Charlie Scott, or Jim Nation walked off with the prize? Leaders and a few newspapers can not, dictate nominaxiuns uiiuer lire iji i mary plan. The primary has its disad vantages for the men who made it as well as Its advantages. Dolley has a right to run for governor and his ser vices entitle him to equal consideration rnt.rsiv. in the state. Wlin tuny vn'i t" No one will doul?t but that the man who HiiiQiv a-nrt two state cam- won l WU 111 J paigns for other people and who knows the ins and out3 of the Kansas game like a child knows, its nursery rhymes will be able to make a good campaign for himself and get many votes. But after all, suppose Dolley won the primary, nomination, he would still have to race the election with the standpat ters camping on his trail. The fact is. unless there is some understanding reached within the party the next No vember election will be the knottiest problem of all for the leaders to solve. Stubbs would have been beaten last No vember but for Democratic votes. a he next Republican nominee, in case the faction is not patched up, must be a man who can gather in about 20,000 Democratic votes to win. Dolley can afford to make the elimi nation fight with his enemies among the progressives and his enemies among the regulars as well as any other man. He may do it. What then? The Democrats will be happy, and the conspirators, Dolley and all, will be undone. It is suggested that at the next pro gressive conference the proposition of a compromise with Dolley be discussed as well aa a compromise with the regu lars. The trouble with the gubernatorial situation seems to be that it is hooked up with the senatorial fights. The Re publican gubernatorial candidate must either be a sheep led to slaughter, or a stool pigeon, or a goat for the ides of November, 1912. The gossip about the state capital, these days, while filled to overflowing with speculation, is not without interest. EXIT THE RAFFLE. Chief Jenkins Puts Lid on Candy Dealers. Dealers Notified That "the Boards" Must Go. The lately popular raffle boards and gaming devices of the cigar and candy shops were ordered abolished today by Chief of Police Morris Jenkins. Theae raffles of candies, cigars, pipes, tank ards and mugs, etc., were put out by nearly all candy companies, distribut ers, wholesalers and others to meet the demand by the shop keepers. In many cities of the country formal orders creating much comment have been issued ordering the disuse of these gambling devices. Chief Jenkins has gone about his task in as quiet a way as possible. He has merely sent his men to the various places where the boards are kept and asked them to dis continue their use. Most of the drug stores and shops were advised of the order in this way today. A great many of the handlers of the boards, were expecting the or der and have closed out most of them on hand. They took their tip from Kansas City and Lawrence orders. In Kansas City the snops were given un til tonisrht to diSDOse of their stock on hand, although the order was made a fortnight ago. Dealers here have attempted to take some of the odor of gaming from their raffles by giving a stick of gum with each number drawn. As a suck of gum is not an adequate purchase for a nickel, dime or 15 cents, now ever, the ruse was too thin and Jen kins does not consider it at all. There will be no more chances avauaDie when the New Tear breaks Monday morning. FIVE SENT TO JAIL Court Begins to Execute Sentence on Vote SeUers. West TTnion. Dec. 31. Judge A. Z. Blair sent five Manchester men to jail this morning on vote selling charges. These are the first jail sentences act ually executed, although a suspended sentence has been hung over every one of the guilty men in the wholesale bri bery investigation. Court opened at 5:30 o'clock this morning, the county seat being filled with voters from the extreme eastern section, who had walk ed in, tramping all night to arrive early and make their pleas of guilty. The total indictments to date are 1,141. Lesie Henderson. Kelly Henderson, Jack Bentley, Thos. Smith and Will iam Parr were each sentenced to a fin nf S100 and eieht months in the workhouse with disfranchisement for five years. OIL EXPORTS FALL OFF. A Decrease of 56,000,000 Gallons From Last Year. Philadelphia, Dec. 31 With the de nurtnrn tnrlnv of the British frteam ohin PhAvAtino fVi a lfr1cts sinn1 R.ivnna. with 2,000,000 gallons of oil and the Dutch steamship La Campine for Ant- worn Txrirn 71111 1 1 ill. p-sii-uiiM. (.lit; Ltii.i exports of petroleum from this port 4-v. 1 t-ci'.j i Vi (1 a n- proximately 310,000,000 gallons or a daily average 01 soa.'oa gauuiis. with Avrtnrt shinmpnts in iono tvia voni- 0V1 auk n decrease of more than 56,000,000 gallons. "Various -3 fnlllnr. causes were asaigneu L'n wic iai""B off, chief of which was the keen com petition encountered by thj Standard Oil company xrom .uiupcan yiu ducers. TURNS OUT LESS GOLD. Alaska Sliows a Marked Falling Oft in Production. Washington, Dec. 31. A marked falling off in the production of gold in Alaska, due to the failure of placer mines in the Fairbanks and Seward peninsula districts, is reported in the preliminary statement of the geologi cal survey upon Alaska mining con- ditions for 1810 Production within the year has been approximately $16,360,000, compared with J20,371,000 in 1909. The decline, which has been apparent for some time, is blamed almost entirely upon the working out of the beach placers about Nome and the other placer mines of the two districts named. Conductors Got an IiMTcase. Mauchchunk. Pa., Dec. 31. Lehigh Valley railroad conductors, effective January 1, will get an increase vary ing from 30 to 50 cents a day, accord ing to the territory they cover. BLOW UmANKS Robbers at Waterville Get Eight Thousand Dollars. Fire Men in Motor Car Cut Down Telephone Lines. CLOCK WAS STOPPED Hands Point to 1 :20 O'Clock In dicating Time of Work. Gang Operating in Kansas Is Thought Responsible. Marysville, Kan.." Dec. 31. Robbers who cut the telephone lines leading to Marysville, this morning, blew up the safes in the Citizens' and State banks at Waterville, Kan., and escaped with about $8,000. The Citizens' bank lost $6,000 and the State bank $2,000. Both the buildings were wrecked. mere were five men in the party. They escaped in a motor car. It is be lieved that the men entered town last night and waited until about 1 o'clock to do their work. A clock in one of the banks was stopped at 1:20 o'clock, a xact that is suposed to indicate the time of the explosion. Arter the explosion, the four robbers ran south through the business section and entered the motor car. Several per sons were awakened by the report and several shots were fired by the robbers, ostensibly to guard against an attack. sheriff James Sullivan, of Marshall county, and his deputies are working on the case. It is believed that the rob bers are the same ones that recently robbed the State bank of Beattie of more than $2,000. Other robberies of banks in this section recently are laid to the sine men. They are believed to have their headquarters at Wymore, Neb. Awakened bv the noise of the first explosion, which was in the' Citizens' bank, Tom Wolverton, an old soldier. living near the bank, hurriedly gath ered boots, trousers and shotgun and hurried into the street. The robbers were just leaving the State bank, wol verton fired both barrels. Stopping oc casionally to return the fire the rob bers ran down the street pursued by the old soldier. The fusillade was kept up until the robbers reached the edge of the village, where they jumped into the waiting automobile and sped away. Wolverton, who was unhurt, said -he wounded one of the robbers. He alarmed the village and a posse was hurriedly organized. Another Report Says $6,800. Blue Rapids, Kan.. Deo. 31. Robbers. who this morning blew the safes in two banks at Waterville, near here, oDtain- ed $3,800 from the Waterville State bank and $3,000 from the Thorne Thomas bank. Th authorities are work ing on the case but so far have no clew further than that five men did the work then escaped in a motor car. Get $2,200 In Oklahoma. Enid. Okla., Dec. 31. The safe in the bank of Driftwood, at Driftwood, Okla., 25 miles northwest of here, was blown early today and $2,200 in cur rency stolen. Driftwood citizens organized a posse and, with bloodhounds, are pursuing the robbers. Disgrace to State, Says Dolley. State Bank Commissioner J. N. Dol ley, who has been agitating the matter of protection of banks of Kansas from robbers, speaking today of the Water ville bank robbery, said: 'From the information I have re ceived this morning it seems that four gentlemen from Nebraska drove down to Waterville on a visit, entering the Kansas town during- the earlv morning hours in an automobile. They used modern methods only. After entering town they separated, two going east to one bank and two north to the other. They cracked both banks and got some $7,000 before the villagers knew of the visit at all. Within ten minutes after the alarm had been given the robbers were in their auto and leaving town. One man took a shot at them with a (Continued on Page Four.) MANUEL'S FLIGHT. First Authentic Story of, the Events of October 4. Portuguese King Had Been Warned of Revolution. WAS PLATING BRIDGE. When Signal Gun Was Fired at 2 O'Clock. He Walked Out Unmolested Through Crowded Streets. Paris, Dec. 31. Rumors of politi cal intrigues in Portugal, the insecur ity of the provisional government and a plot to restore the dethroned King Manuel have revived stories of the revolution and today Marquis Lav rado who was the secretary to the Portuguese monarch gave in an inter view what is described as the first authentic account of what happened at the Necessidades palace on the night of October 4. The Marquis says that the kine and the ministers had been warned of the conspiracy against the house of Bra ganza, but they wholly misjudged the gravity of the situation. They counted implicitly on the loyalty of the army and navy. King Manuel was playing bridge with his companions at the pal ace when the revolutionary signal gun was fired at 2 o'clock in the morning. Hurried investigation showed that every telephone wire to the palace had been cut. Consternation prevailed in the royal home. The servants to a man de serted, leaving a single loyal regiment to guard the person of the mpnarch. Soon a message came from Premier Teixeira de Sousa advising the king to depart at once. Manuel refused the advice and donning the uniform of the commander-in-chief of military, announced his intention of placing himself at the head of the loyal troops. When, however, a second message arrived notifying him of the impend ing bombardment of the palace, the king changed his attire for civilian clothes and left the palace unescorted save by a few companions and walked through the excited crowd in the streets unmolested. MARRIAGE IS ANNULLED. Julia Kuttner Farle Is Freed From Her Artist Husband. New York, Dec. 31. Mrs. Julia Kuttner Earle has obtained in the ap pellate division of the state supreme court an annullment of her marriage to Ferdinand Pinney Earle at Venice, Italy, on March 17. 1908. Earle vas divorced from Marie Emilie Fishbacker in Paris in 1908 on her suit for desertion. Her failure to transcribe a portion of the decree in the register where the marriage was recorded until three months after Earle's marriage to his second wife, suspended the divorce for that period, and gave the second Mrs. Earle grounds to contest the validity of her marriage. JERE LILLIS RETIRES. He Is Xo Longer President of Western Exchange Bank. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. '31. Jere S. Lillis, whom John P. Cudahy cut with a knife March 5, last, has retired as president of the Western Exchange bank here. Lillis made no announce ment in regard to his plans for the future. His holdings in the institu tion were bought by J. Z. Miller, jr., who will succeed Lillis as president. Mr. Miller is a millionaire banker of Belton, Texas. He is the owner of stock in many Texas banks and is well known in southwestern financial cir cles. HIS FAREWELL. 3 rrJ 3 2": (ho;santj(illed. Aviator Is Pitched Head First From His Machine. While at a Distance of 100 Feet Above Ground. WAS TRYING TO LAND When His Bleriot Monoplane Turned Head Downward. Neck Was Broken and Death Almost Instantaneous. New .Orleans, Dec. 31. John B. Moisant, daring American aviator, con fident of adding to his many laurels of the air the. Michelin cup record for 1910, fell to his death at 9:55 this morning while making a preliminary flight. The Daring American Aviator Killed at New Orleans Today. While preparing to make a landing on a special field selected for the Michelin cup trial, twelve miles west of New Orleans and along the bank of the Mississippi river, Moisant was throwa from a Bleriot monoplane and landed on his head 35 feet from where the machine" struck the grounds His neck was broken, producing death within ten seconds, according to the coroner. A moment after Moisant struck the earth, falling in high weeds to the right of the field, some workmen picked him up. A special train or flat cars was standing near the scene of the accident J.?1 i "Vv V fi W1, i and the body was placed aboard and brought to the city,- Wind apparently was the cause or i the accident. Moisant, guided by tha white flags which lined the course. rounded the cirele twice in an effort to find a landing place. The third time around, the wind, which was blowing about 15 miles across the course, drove the machine toward the earth. Moisant, in trying to get back over the grounds, swervea. suddenly, to tne leit, men ai-temDted-his famous right circle, con sidered so dangerous that it is said but one other man ever attempted it. At this instant the wind caught the machine. It tiDoed. pointed its nooe directly at the ground and came down like a flash, while Moisant was nuriea forth and fell head first. Moisant had a sister married, living in San Francisco. Two sisters were with him here. Marlda and Lulu. One brother. Alfred J., was the president of the International Aviators' association. He was not present when the accident occurred. Moisant also has two or o til ers In Salvador interested in the bank ing business. No arrangements have been made as to the disposition of the body but it probably will be sent to Chicago. Moisant "Was in Rene Barrier's nTty horsepower Bleriot monoplane, a ma chine which he had used but two or three times. At the front of the ma chine, almost directly beneath the en gine, was strapped a 35 gallon brass gasoline tank built especially for the Michelin cup trial. Moisant ascended at- the city park aviation field at 9:35 a. m., flew across the city and along the banks of the Mississippi river to the special four mile course. He appeared to have perfect control of the machine and probabiy no one will ever be able to explain just what caused the accident. He had inclined his monoplane to ward the earth for a landing before it took the fatal plunge. It fell like a plummet and buried the propeller in the soft earth. His Record as an Aviator. New York, Dec. 31. John B. Mois ant on October 30 last flew from Bel mont park around the Statue of Liber ty and back to the aviation field, thereby wresting from the English man, Claude Grahame-White, one of most highly prized of the trophies of aerial feats. From the start his career as an aviator was marked with daring ex ploits. He first came into world prominence so recently as August last, when he started on a flight from Paris to London with a passenger, Al bert Fileaux. He successfully crossed the English channel, being the first aviator to accomplish this feat with a passenger. Moisant was born in Chicago in 1870. When 19 years old he went to Central America and became a sol dier of fortune. He was driven from San Salvador and his property was confiscated by the government. He was wealthy at the time. Moisant arrived in New York from Europe October 8, last, and was one of the most interesting figures in the aviation meet in Belmont Park. He took second place in the international aviation race when Grahame-White captured the trophy that Glenn H. Curtiss had brought to this country from France the year before. Gra hame-White went around the statue of liberty in 35 minutes 21.30 seconds. Moisant made the flight 42 1-2 seconds under Grahame-White's rec ord. His time was 34 minutes 3S.84 seconds. Moisant had a narrow escape from death last Tuesday in New Orleans. After being blown five miles from his course by a 40-mile wind he glided down from an altitude of nearly 9,000 feet and barely escaped a rough land ing in a clump of trees. Moisant was the thirty-fourth man to lose his life in the development of avi ation. Of this number, 29 were killed during the present year; four were kill ed in 1909 and one, Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, U. S. A., in 1908. The death role includes George Chavez, the Pe ruvian, who flew over the Alps only to be fatally injured in landing; Ralph Johnstone, of Kansas City, who had just before broken the world's altitude record; Charles S. Rolls, the popular English sportsman; Leon de la Grange, the Frenchman and Cecil Grace, of New York, who after flying from Do ver to Calais was lost, probably in the North sea during his return trip. Brings Gloom to Ixs Angeles. Los Angeles, Dec. 31. The tragedy In New Orleans which cost John B, Moisant his life, left deep its mark of sorrow in this city. In addition to the dozen or so noted aviators, friends and associates or Moisant now in Los An geles, Stanley Moisant, the 14-year- old son of the dead aviator is here vis iting friends. He came accompanied by Barton Weyl, an attorney of San Fran cisco, who is the husband of a sister of John B. Moisant. Today the boy was at the hotel on the Summit of Mount Lowe. He had not been informed of the death of his father and Mr. Weyl requested the newspapermen not to let him know of the tragedy until he returned to Los Angeles tonight. "The boy has been enjoying himself so much that I want him to have one more day before he learns of the tragedy," said Mr. Weyl. Expressions of profound sorrow were heard on all sides at aviation field over the death of Moisant. Gienn H. Curtiss said of Moisant: "I am deeply grieved. I knew Moisant well, having first met him at Rheims. France, at the International meet in 1909. It was then that Moisant first became interested in aviation and we met at my quarters on several occa sions and discussed aviation. He was a most interesting and amiable man and was popular with every one. At Bel mont park last fall we renewed our ac quaintance. He seemed to delight in flying just for the aport of the thing. 'I know nothing of the details of the accident and therefore can give ho opinion as to the cause." "Moisant was too daring for a man of his experience with aeroplanes. He took too many chances and ever since I saw him perform at Belmont Park I have been expecting his death," said James 'Radley, the English aviator, when informed of Moisant's death. Radley drives a Bleriot, the same type of monoplane Moisant was piloting when he was killed today. "Once at Belmont Park," Radley went on, "Moisant dived from a great height with his powerful motor going full speedy He struck the ground with such terrific force that his mono plane rebounded nearly a hundred feet in the air. "No air machine can stand that sort of thing." Carnegie Gives SI, 250,000. Berlin, Dec. 31. Andrew Carnegie has given $1,250,000 to establish a hero fund in Germany. Weather Indications. Chicago, Dec. 31. Forecast for Kan sas: Unsettled today and Sunday; colder Sunday. WILL BENO POMP. Inaugural Ceremonies in Topeka Will Be Simple. No Ball and Even Auto Trip Has Been Eliminated. WILL BE A RECEPTION. Forty Dignitaries in Line at State House. All Members of the Legislature Are Expected. There will be the usual ceremonies Monday, January 9, when the newly elected state officers take the oath of office, followed by a reception in the. rotunda of the state house at night. It had been thought for a time that the pomp and circumstance of inau gural day would be omitted this time, as the Topeka Commercial club had. up to yesterday, maintained a distant attitude in regard to the matter. But the whole show is going to be put on aa usual and there will be no ball. That was abolished by the Populists. me program has not vet been fully made up, but it is certain that the ceremonies will be held in repre sentative hall at the state house at high noon. Chief Justice Johnston will administer the oath of office and Governor Stubbs will deliver his in augural address. That night a grand reception will be held in the state house with some forty dignitaries in line and the la dies, of course, will be there. There will be flowers and music and possibly refreshments will be served. Last year's plan of having an auto parade will not be attempted this time. The weather is sure to be too disagreeable to make this feature a success. All the members of the leg islature will be here to attend the in augural and reception ceremonies and Topeka will be the center of state at traction a week from next Monday. The officials who will take the oath. are: Governor W. R. Stubbs. re-elected. Lieutenant Governor Richard J. Hopkins; succeeds W. J. Fitzgerald. Secretary of State Charles Ses sions; succeeds C. E. Denton. Auditor W. E. Davis; succeeds J. M. Nation. Treasurer Mark Tulley, re-elected. Attorney General John S. Dawson; succeeds F. S. Jackson. Superintendent of Public Instruc tion E. T. Fairchild, re-elected. Superintendent of Insurance Isaac Lewis; succeeds Charles Barnes. Justices Supreme Court Silas Por ter, re-elected; J. S. West; succeeds C. B. Graves. Railroad Commissioners Frank Ryan, re-elected. John T. White and George Plumb, succeed George Kana vel and C. W. Ryker. ROBIN MAY LIVE. Physicians Regard His Chances Recovery as Good. of New York, Dec. 31. Physicians said today that Joseph G. Robin, the bank director, who swallowed poison just be fore the hour of his arraignment on an indictment of grand larceny from the Washington Savings bank, had an even chance of recovery. The indicted bank er lies in the prison ward of Bellevue hospital. No date has been set for his arraign ment on the larceny charge but with the assembling of the January grand jury the district attorney will lay the varied transactions of Robin before that body. Word was received at the district at torney's office that Robin showed de cided improvement during the morn ing hours and that the chances for his recovery were good. CENSUS RETURNS. Beaumont, Texas, More Than Doubles Her Population. Washington, Dec. 3L Population sta tistics of the thirteenth census Issued to day by the census bureau include the fol lowing cities: Minnesota. Place 1910. 1900. Vlginia 10,473 2,963 Crookston 7,5T9 6,353 Texas. Beaumont 20,640 9,427 Dennison 13,632 11.S07 Palestine 10,482 8.2T.7 Paris 11.2S9 9,3Ti8 Sherman 12,412 10,243 Tyler 10,400 8,069 TO CLEAR KAW BY LAW. Attorney General Jackson Sues for Land Within Harbor Lines. Kansas City, Dec. 81, F. S. Jack son, attorney general of Kansas, brought suit in the name of the state for possession of all land within the 734-foot harbor line of the Kaw river. The suit Is brought by the state for the Kaw river drainage board. The contractors have been delayed on the work of river improvement by some disputes over the rights of way along the banks where dikes are to be built. Weather W1U Be Colder. Cold weather Is in store for tomor row. The same temperature as last night, which was not- below 30 de grees, is expected tonight, but the wind, which now is blowing from-the south, will swing to the north In the morning and sweep down a package right on the ice. The temperature in Canada today is 22 below zero. There will be, a tinge of that in the north wind tomorrow. A snow flurry may accompany it. The forecast reads: Unsettled weather tonight and Sun day; colder Sunday. The wind is blow ing 25 miles an hour. The temperatures today: 7 o'clock 31111 o'clock 35 8 o'clock 31 12 o'clock 3(5 9 o'clock 32 1 o'clock 39 10 o'clock 341 2 o'clock 41

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V THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1910. AT YOURSERVICE That Is What Alderman. Writes to Woodward. Also Says He Is Glad of Trans fer. WHITNEY IS A STAR. Larry Sutton Says He Has Them Beaten a Mile. First Baseman Is Good Pitcher Upton Signed. Del "Tessie" Alderman has passed the new management of the Topeka baseball club a line which ought to be considered In the light of recent talk of his quitting the game. The gist of It is "nothing to it." Here is what the southpaw writes President Wood ward of the' association. "Dear Sir: Your letter of recent date at hand and I am at a loss just how to answer it. I am very glad, indeed, that I have passed into the hands of the new Topeka manage ment, for when I left Sioux City last fall it was with the firm determina tion to quit baseball. And with that end in view I took over this business, and while it is a money-maker, it has proven a disappointment. If af fairs can be arranged satisfactorily, I might be able to play again this com ing season. "I wish Topeka and its fans all the luck in the world and hope they will he blest with a winner. Although they ought not to plan for so much, the joy of a flag copper would be fioubly joysome. 'If I can be of any assistance or service to you, I am yours to com mand. "D. G. ALDERMAN." The handsome twirler's business is operating the Alderman Monument "Works at Lyons, Neb., from where he writes. When the fine spring weather opens up, it is a safe bet that the proprietor will drop his chisels and take to the baseball past ures. Topeka has landed another pitcher, who, if he makes good, will be the biggest slab artist In the league- His name is Dan Upton and he has never Been the inside of a league. But for several seasons he has been the vil lage cut-up of the diamond at Iola and can back it up with 200 pounds of brawn, some of which is over six feet above the ground. Then there is another boxman which Brooklyn has just about promised to let Moore use for a season. In the letter from the Brooklyn management considering the use or sale of this pitcher, Moore was congratulated on landing Firstsaoker Whitney, who was procured through Brooklyn. Before Whitney was finally nailed, Larry Sutton, scout of the Brooklyn club wrote Moore, "Get Whitney hy all means. He's got anything in the Western beat a mile. I know for I spent two months around that circuit last summer. He will be head and shoulders above any firstbaseman !n the league. Stay after him. Topeka is a good ball town and will stay by a good team. Get McLaurin, also, if you can. He would be a. classy man in your league." Moore has them both. A little more about the pitching staff is what John G. Kling. Cub catcher, who ought to know a pitcher, says about Sergeant Leak.. bought out of the army at Fort Leavenworth. Writing to Fred Moore, he says: "In reply, to your favor, will say that I consider Sergeant Leak fast enough for your league and if you can land him, I think you will be getting a winner. Ha has pitched quite a few games against big league clubs, in cluding the Detroit club, which he held 2 to 0, and I consider that going some for a youngster." The murmurings from Topeka fan dom are all praises for the work of the new management and strong in the belief that the 1911 Topeka team !w!ll develop Into a winning combina tion of fast material. WAS A GREAT GAME. No Score Harvard-Southern Post Season Battle Spectacular. Nashville, Tenn.. Dec. 31. Capt. Hamilton Fish's eleven, composed of Harvard law school students, played the Vanderbllt-Sewanee stars a spec tacular football game, in which neither side scored, on the vanderbilt university field Friday afternoon. In spite of a muddy field, the game was fast. The feature was the run of Hamilton Fish for 100 yards with a clear field and only Neeley Browne, the celebrated Sewanee player, in pur suit. Browne caught up with Fish, end downed him 10 yards from the rVanderbilt-Sewanee goal. Harvard used forward passes to ad. vantage and played a magnificent de fensive game. The Sewanee and "Van derbilt forces were assisted by Smith and Schultze, the former Michigan etars. and Fielding Tost, or Michigan coached the Tennessee players. Mc- Humphreys' Seventy-Seven Breaks Tip Grip and "Seventy-seven" meets the exigency of epidemic Grip with all its symptoms of Influenza, Catarrh, Pains and Sore n ess In the Head and Chest, Cough, Sore Throat, General Prostration and 1 Vjvpt. Taken early it cuts it short prompt ly. Taken daring its prevalence, it preoccupies the system and prevents Its invasion; Taken while suffering from it, a relief is speedily realized, which may be continued up to an en tire cure. At Drug Stores 25c or mailed Humphreys' Homeo. Medicine Co., Cor. .William and Ana Streets, New York. Epidemic Grip Gugin, the Vanderbilt coach, played left guard for the locals and did much brilliant punting. UNREST IN MISSOURI VALLFT5T. Conference Ruling on Turkey Day Games Uncertain. Omaha, Dec. 31. Among the ques tions for discussion at the meeting of the representatives of the Missouri Valley conference schools in Des Moines on January 6 will be one rela tive to the Thanksgiving1 day football contests. By an edict of the faculty delegates at a meeting: In Kansas City last spring the Turkey day contests were ordered off the menu after 1910, to none of the managers of the confer ence schools are' scheduling games for next Thanksgiving. Through this new ruling Kansas, Missouri, Ames, Drake and Nebraska all were dealt severe blows. The Kan sas City game between Kansas and Missouri, "has always been' the sustain ing pole that has kept the athletic de partments of -those schools on easy street. This game has each fall netted both schools large sums, and has given them a large profit in the treasury at the end of each athletic year. Now, with the Turkey day game stricken off the list, these schools must suffer greatly. Columbia, where the University of Missouri Is located, af fords a poor place for a football con test. It is a small town, difficult to reach by railroads, and not favored" as a place for games by other schools in the valley. Lawrence, the home of the Jayhawkers, is much better located as regards railroad facilities, but It also is a small town, and would not produce a crowd that could be compared favor ably with, the masses that rushed to the games of the two schools in the city on the Kaw. Nebraska has always made severtt! thousands off Its Thanksgiving day contest. The last season was a great success finacially because of the large crowd which was in attendance at the game with the Haskell Indians in Lin coln. Ames and Drake, who have bean playing in the Stadium at, Des Moines on Turkey day for several years, have attracted large crowds, and they will be losers by several thousand dollars as a result of the action of the faculty men. Kansas City. Mo.. Dec. 31. Local fol lowers of football do not intend to tet the annual Kansas-Missouri game be taken away from here without a-fieht. It was announced prior to the Thanks giving game this year that it would be the last, the ensuing contests going t" the seats of the two schools. At ths request of the Commercial club an? patrons of the game, Mayor Darius A. Brown last night wrote to the authori ties of the two universities asking them to attend a dinner here at which the question of continuing the contests here will be discussed. The date for the meeting has not been set. BATTLER IN FREE FIGHT. Dane Thought "Bananas" Tried to Land Knockout Cleaned House.. Pittsburg, Pa.. Dec. 31. By whiDDinsr one fresh local prize fighter and three stage hands in a free-for-all on the stage of the Academy of Music Bat tling Nelson demonstrated to an audi ence of about 1,000 that he could come back. Frank Diamond, a husky local singer, known as "Bananas," wa- put against Nelson in an exhibition 'bout and it is averred by Nelson that "Ba nanas" tried to "slip one over." or knock him out. Nelson, enraged, knock ed Diamond down repeatedly, and when stage hands came rushing to the as sistance of the fallen local man. Nel son began knocking them down as fast as they came. It required one dozen men, including the theater fire police, to stop Nelson. At midnight Nelson was still mad. He saia: "The Diamond tried to knock me out. It was understood that we were to go easy and do some nice sparring, but he saw what he thought was an opening and tried to put me out. It was a mean and rotten trick for him to attempt. Of course, he didn't land on me, for I was watching him, but the fact that he was trying to cheat made me so mad that I saw red, and I just lammed into him like all fury and I had him all over the floor in a minute. His gang behind the scenes, his people among the stage hands, then rushed to his res cue and tried to maul me about and well, I just cut loose on the whole out fit and I was still going good when the rest of the theater people and the po lice piled on me." BAN JOHNSON SATS NO. National Commission Would Not Raise A. A. ana Kastern. Chicago, Dec. 31. If officials of the American Association and the Eastern League appeal to the National base ball commission, which meets in Cin cinnati next week for higher rank, the request will be refused, according to B. B. Johnson, president ef the American League, and member of the National commission. "I don't think the American Associa tion or Eastern League will ask to be promoted or to be permitted to with draw peacefully from the National As sociation," said Johnson last night. "The request will be denied, however, and if either of the leagues attempt to jump over the traces, there will be something stirring in the ranks of or ganized ball." Brewer Beats Omaha Lad. Oklahoma City, Dec. 31. Harry Brewer, of Kansas City, last night won a fast bout from Clarence English, of Omaha, on points, the fight going the scheduled 15 rounds. Brewer knocked English down three times in the first round and handled the Omaha man at will throughout the fight Giants Beat Railroaders. The Y. M. C. A." Giants severely walloped the Railroad Y. M. C. A. in a city league basketball game at the Central floor by a score of $4 to 6. Lack of team work on the, part of the Railroaders permitted the Giants to score almost at will and Bolton and Woodward of the high school five did exceptional work. Jack Sullivan Gets Decision. New York, Dec 3L Jack tTwin) Sullivan, of Boston, earned the popu lar decision over Frank Mantell, of Pawtucket, R. I., last night in a 10 round bout before the National Sport ing club. TRY TO SAVE WARREN. Socialists Adopt Resolutions of Pro test Against Imprisonment. New York, Dec. 81. Resolutions protesting against the death sentence imposed upon Denjiro Kotoku and 25 other Japanese, convicted of plotting against the life of the emperor and also against the imprisonment of F. G. Warren, editor of the Appeal to Reason, have been adopted by the In tercollegiate Socialist society gathered here in its annual convention. It was announced that 69 colleges were represented at the meeting, which was attended by 250 persons. Upton Sinclair piAa- RAILROAD NEWS. mi Annual Exchange of Passes Now in Effect on All Lines. Gifts of the New Tear Find Way Into Many Local Offices. NEW RULINGS NOT OUT Plans of Interstate Commerce Commission Postponed. Other Items of General Inter est in Traffic World. Take off your hat to the -railway offi cial who has every color, variety- and size of annual passes from otner rail roads. Topeka is full of them officials and passes. The annual exchange of passes be tween railway officials of different sys tems is now in progress, and employees whose duties make it necessary for them to use passes on other systems than their own are also being remem bered, in addition the new forms for trtp passes have now reached the hands of those who issue them and the sig natures of chief clerks and other offi cials who issue them are being attach ed. An important rulins: relative to the issuance of passes by railroads has been made by the interstate comjnerce com mission, in which that body announces a postponement of the enforcement of the order prepared some time ago bear ing upon the handling,, recording and issuing of passes. The statement made public by the commission reads, in part, as follows: "Owing to the limited time avail able for proper consideration of criti cism and suggestions, invited in the previous circular, which presented ten tative plans for uniform methods of handling, recording and issuing passes, and in order not to embarrass the car riers in their arrangements for issuing passes next year it has been deter mined that the proposed pass order will not be made effective January 1." in order that more definite informa tion relative to the subject may be ob tained a request has been made by the commission that the railroads forward to the officers of that body a copy of their rules and regulations governing tne use and issuance of passes, togeth er with a sample of each kind of pass. The railroads will be expected to fur nish this information not later than February 1 next. It is expected that after a further consideration of the sub ject a uniform plan relative to the is suance of passes will be agreed upon and made effective January L 1912. It is hoped that in evolving this scheme an arrangement will be made for af fording aid to .the inspectors of the commission in their task of making periodical examinations of railroad pass lists. The commission has submitted to .the railroads a list of 47 questions bear ing on the pass question and a re quest has been made for an answer to each inquiry. Among these questions are the following: how many passes have been Issued, 4nd what is the form of each one? Who are the officers responsible for the issuance of these passes? What records relative to these passes are you keeping? What methods are followed in making requests for passes? What reports are made by conductors relative to passes that are used? What precautions are taken to pre vent intrastate passes from being used in connection with interstate transpor tation? BIG YEAR ON GREAT LAKES. Will Exceed by 8,700,000 Tons the Record Year of 1907. The bureau of statistics of the de partment of commerce and labor esti mates that the year 1910 will prove to be the largest in the history, of commerce on tne great laKes. it will exceed by 8,500,000 tons the record year of 1907, if the months of Novem ber and December come within 3,000,- 000 tons of the corresponding months of last year. The total shipments for the season are expected to be about 87,000,000 tons. The season record for the first ten months of the year was in excess by more than 9,000,000 tons those of the corresponding period last year and 5,000,000 greater than those of the record year, 1907. The season receipts of iron ore to the end of October are stated as 38,388,162 long tons, compared with 84,569,354 long tons received during the corre sponding, period in 1909. MORE HERINOTON-TOPEKA TALK New Telegraph Pole lane' Stirs Up Old Rumor. Herington, Kan., Dec 31. The Rock Island has begun distributing telegraph poles preparatory to better equip their telegraph service and have the poles laid as far as White City, and have begun stringing the wire at To peka and points this side. The posts that are now being put in, aa observed by a passenger on the train a few days ago, are placed a considerable dis tance from the former poles, which Is an Indication that in the near future they expect to double track along this line. Another indication of their in tention to double track Is that all the bridges that have been built within the past year are double width. The traffic over this road has increased to such proportions that three new stations have been added with sev eral miles of switch track recently. The double track idea is not a matter of speculation, but is considered by those in authority to know that it is becoming a necessity as well as a con venience. This will greatly increase the freight traffic of other systems over this line as well as lessen the hazard of passenger traffic e CANADA TAKES UP PASS RULE. Sentiment Started Against Free Trans portatlon of Private Car Employees. At a mass meeting of representatives of southwestern, western, Canadian and northern lines, a resolution has been adopted "subject to the concur rence of three lines represented, and others not represented by which, if finally made effective, no free trans portation will hereafter be granted to employees or servants tof private or special cars, which are not the prop erty of common carriers and where such employees are not on the payroll of such common carrier." There is a possibility that the proposition will not receive unanimous approval, and with out which it can not be made opera tive. Indeed some of the lines inter ested have made it plain that they are not in favor of it, one of them taking the ground that it was justified in con tinuing the practice of granting, such free transportation, its attorney having held it to be entirely legal if covered in tariffs, and it proposed so to change the phraseology of its tariffs that there would be no question about it. AN INCREASE IN IDLE CRS. Surplus of More Than 53,000 In the Last Report. The American railway association committee on relations between rail roads in its statement of car sur pluses and shortages as of December 7, says: "The surplus shows an Increase of 10,849 cars between November 23 and December 7, bringing the total to 53, 915. For the same period in 1909 the surplus was 57,470, or 3,555 cars more than at the date of this bulletin. "The increase in the surplus during the corresponding fortnight last year was 17,942 cars. "The shortage for this period is 11,901 care. While this total is 6,692 cars less than the shortage on the cor responding date of 1909, the decrease in shortage since our last bulletin is only 2,772 cars, as against a decrease of 8,903 cars in the corresponding period last year. The increase in sur plus for the entire country as between box and coal cars was in proportion to the existing surplus of three classes, being 4,427 cars for the former and 3,532 for the latter, with 2,511 in crease in miscellaneous." SANTA FE NOTES. Earl Vincent, of Coffeyville, has come to Topeka and has accepted a position in the shoDS. S. E. Number, scale inspector of Chi cago, isTiere spending several days on a business trip. Homer Catell of Knoxville, Tenn is here spending some time on a business trip. Charles Sebert, of the machine shop, has been' called to Philadelphia on ac count of the serious illness of his wife. Gus Awes, scale Inspector, is in the local hospital receiving treatment, It is expected that he will have to under go an operation. Charles Koontz, night yard foreman at Emporia is ill in the local hospital suffering with an attack of appendicitis. His wife is also- in Topeka and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Tinsley. Switchman Benj. Williams,! who has been quite sick for several weeks with an attack of rheumatism, is improving and will soon be able to return to work. D. B. Stegg, of the Pecos lines,, sta tioned at Kansas City, spent Friday in the city on a business trip. Galen Crook will return to work Mon day after being off a few days on ac count of illness. Osear Miller will return to work Tues- Fred Bailey left yesterday for his home in Missouri after spending sev- ANOTHER LAME DUCK ALLEY. Do You Kaw Valley Mince Meat Government Inspection Call for Kaw Valley Easy eral weeks with friends and relatives here. day after "being off a week visiting rel atives in Wichita. Amel Cole, of, the machine shop. s improving after 'being sick several days with an attack of the grip. Miss M. Beeler, of the general offices, will spend the New Year's vacation in Fit. Madison the guest of Engineer and Mrs. Charles Sharp. Arthur Henry, of the freight sheds, will spend Sunday and Monday in Atchison the guest of his folks. Roy Duffy, who learned his trade in the local blacksmith shop, and who has been working in San Francisco, Cal., for the past year, is spending a few days here with his mother, Mrs. W. A. Duffy, of 323 Jackson street, while en route to New York city where on January he will sail on a steamer of the Hamberg Line, for Colombia. South America, He has accepted a position as blacksmith with a construction com pany who will dam a river on the pro perty of the Pato Mines company. Mr. Duffy will be accompanied to South America by two other workmen, A. H. Gifford and E. D. Pruesner, who will meet him in New York. Mr. Duffy's home has been in Topeka for a number of years, and has host of friends here who extend to him their every -good wish for success in his work in the strange land. Like Fie? then it follows that you like, mince pie when it's made right. isr the best pie filler in-the world made of every thing that's good and worth while. none but the best of meats, fruits, and spices go into Kaw Valley Mince Meat. is made of every ingredient used in Wolff's products this applies to Mince Meat as well as other products to say easy to eat. Wolff Packing Co. Topeka, Kansas. SBI GbiL COAL Jr m COAL, coal m 1 coal m Wig For the best see J0J V Gillette Nicholson if llft. 100 Kansas Ave. fy Jlltils. Both Phones 390 I Dead horses and cows removed free within 5 miles. $1.50 paid for LIVE horses delivered. 35c per hundred paid for hogs delivered. Topeka Rendering Co. Both Phones 361 Start The Day Right, Feel Keen, Spirited FIT BATHE WITH HAND SAPOLIO .v It gives your skin an exhilarating tingle makes every pore respond. It revives circulation Invigorates CLEASTSES. All Grocer mad Druittsta THE LARGEST LINE OF BICYCLES (1911 MODELS) Ever put into one room in Topeka. Ranging from $25 to $55 Its a sight worth seeing. Look now and buy when you get ready. J. BRUMMITT CO 206-208 Wert Sixth Street i

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THE TOPE ETA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31,1910. BLAMEDJIS WIFE Wichita Young Man Killed Self and left Accusing Note. Decided After a Quarrel to Take Carbolic Acid. LAST SAW PICTURES. Placed Them Where Dying Gaze Could Fall Upon Theni. Other Items of General Interest to Kansas Headers. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 31. After writ ing a note in which he charged his wife with being his murderer and inti mating that she had proved false to him, Jason Lee Monasmith, formerly of Wichita, took carbolic acid at his home In Kansas City and died soon after. Monasmith's parents live on a farm near the Burton car works and they have ordered the body of their son sent here for burial. Monasmith had been having some trouble with his wife, who had told him that she could not live with him any longer. Placing her pictures where his dying gaze could fall upon them, he lay down upon a bed and drank the poison. His wife found him Just as he was breathing his last. Following is the text of the letter which Monasmith left beside the pic tures of his wife before he drank the acid: "Darling Blanche How I have lov ed you and still love you God alone knows. I have waited for you all morning, watched and you have not come. What I suffered the last twelve hours of my life is beyond human imagination. Blanche, just try to real ize what you have done. Paint the true picture and then study it and you will see yourself a murderess. Can vour conscience let you live and look anvone in the face? Think of what vou did this morning when I came al most on my knees to you and you sneered and would not answer me even through a locked door Will Haunt You Jjike Curse. "Blanche, I will be before you al wavs. You will not be able to cast off the" memory like you have cast me off, for I have a feeling that cannot be false, that it will haunt you to your dving day like a curse. You have been love, life and everything else to me. Xow you are my murderer. The death I choose will be painful, but it will seem easy after what I have suffered in the last twelve hours. I prayed, yes, I praved right down on my knees, prayed to God to give you to roe but you did not come, and now l will go on my happy journey without seeing you. And while you are with a man who cannot love like I do I will lav me down on my lonesome bed and while you are I will surelv die and let you be happy if you are so sure that you can be. I love vou still with my last breath. Good-bye. (Signed) LEE. Loved Him No Longer. When asked" concerning the quarrel with her husband, Mrs.- Monasmith said thev hd had some trouble Tues day afternoon and she left to work at a roomine house where she was em ployed and did not return night before last, and she thought it was this that made him despondent. "What did you quarrel about? Bhe was asked. "It was a trifling thing. I told him I didn't love him any more and didn't want to live with him." "Why didn't you want to live with him?" "He was ill. He -had catarrh very badly and It was unpleasant to be around." "In his letter he refers to some oth er man?" "Yes; but there is no other man. He was jealous and imagined there was because I iid I didn't love him any more," she replied. RELATIVES MEET STRAXGELY. Half Sisters Live' In Same Town and Neither Are Aware of It. Pratt, Kan., Dec. 31. One of the peculiar things that happen in life occurred In Pratt when Mrs. Albert Carlson and Mrs. Jasoer Brower dis covered that they were half sisters. Mrs Carlson is the wife of Fireman Carison on the Rock Island and has been living in Pratt for the last year or more, while Mrs. Brower has been here all the time and hadn't seen her sister for twenty years. Mr. Brower happened to be in the express office when a man by the name of Carlson called for a package and he asked a few questions which re vealed the fact that they had married sisters. Of course the reunion was a pleasant event and the "girls" have enjoyed the renewal of their girlhood acquaintance immensely. M ould Be Murderer Kelurns. Lawrence, Kan., Dec 31. William Wermsen, a young white man who shot Maggie Mack, a negro girl, was found bv officers at the girl's home. Anxiety "over her condition is said to caused him to return. Wermsen and the-girl had quarreled and Wermsen shot her. the bullet entering her right arm. Wermsen is now out on parole for petty larceny. He insists that the Ehooting was accidental. nsli Ery at Blue Rapids. Marvsville. Kan., Dec. 31. The Blue Rapids Fish Fry association wilf hold its annual fish fry in the base ment of the opera house this evening md it is expected between. five hun dred and six hundred persons will be Remedies are Needed J Were we perfect, which we are not, medicines would not often be needed. But sinoe our systems have be come weakened, impaired and broken down through indiscretions which have gone on from the early ages, through countless generations, remedies art needed to aid Nature in correcting our inherited and otherwise acquired weaknesses. To reach the seat of stomach weakness and consequent digestive troubles, there is nothing so gooa as ur. fierce s uoiaen mminu cry, a glyceric compound, extracted from native medio- inal roots sola lor over iony years wiiu grcni uwvuuu Weak Stomach, Biliousness, Liver Complaint, Pain in the Stomach after eating, u Ha A Rmth. Rxlchintf of food. Chronic Diarrhea and other Intestinal a iCBa iuu. 1 a Derangements, tne uiscovery is a The genuine has oil tts nntftiSa wraooer the Signature You can't afford to accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this non-alcoholic, medicine of known composition, not even though the urgent dealer may thereby make a little bigger profit. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, Irver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as candy. present. Plates will be laid for 250 persons at a sitting. Dean E. H. Web ster of the State Agricultural college will be the principal speaker. Ad dresses will also be made by Judge Sam Kimble of Manhattan, Balie P. Waggener and Forest Warren of Atch ison and Professor J. H. Clement, superintendent of the Blue Rapids schools. SISTERS MEET AFTER 25 YEARS, Each Believed Other to Be Dead But Letter Brought Reunion. Ottawa, Kan. Dec. 31. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Allen of North Ottawa have returned from Algonac, Mich.. where they had been on a visit which resulted in the meeting of sisters who had not seen each other in twenty five years, each believing the other to be dead. Thirty years ago, when Mrs. Allen was about four years eld and her sis ter Louise about one year old they were separated. Their name was Douglas and they lived in East China, Mich. Both parents died within a few months and the little girls were taken by neighboring families. The present Mrs. Allen was taken to De catur, 111., and reared there. The per sons who had her in charge told her that all of her near relatives were dead, and it was not until after her marriage to Mr. Allen, that she got a clew to the fact that a sister was still alive. A few months ago the woman who had adopted her, who is hope lessly sick, wrote to her and informed her of her birthplace. Mrs. Allen at once wrote to parties at East -China, and learned that the sister was not only alive but that she lived in Al gonac. She was married to a man by the name of Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Allen went to Michigan a few weeks ago and there was a meeting between the long separated sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Allen removed to Ot tawa a few months ago Mr. Allen is a traveling man; his headquarters are at St. Louis. ELACK PAID HER A PENSION. Now a Poor Abilene AYidow Is Being Sued for Money. Abilene, Kan., Dec. 31. The re ceiver of the Abilene State bank has sued Mrs. Mary Dalhmamer for $468 pension money paid her by the de faulting cashier, John Flack. She is a poor widow, and Flack, who looked after her affairs, lost her pension pa pers. For four years he paid her pen sion regularly with the bank's money. Effort is being made to reinstate her pension. The Abilene Baseball association has just paid to the bank by special assess ment $1,200 which Flack took with him. Depositors have been ordered to file sworn statements o? claims, but no certificates under the guaranty law have been issued. TRUST ON THE RUN. Bath Tub Combine Seeks a Compro mise With Uncle Sam. Washington, Dec. 31. Attorneys for the individuals indicted as members of the so-called "bath tub trust" for al leged violation of the Sherman act, came to the department of justice to day in tne interest of their clients. These, in the event of their conviction and of the court's acceptance of the declared policy of Attorney General Wiekersham to "stand for' no more fines," are threatened with jail sen tences. The trio of lawyers was headed by Rush Taggart of New York and includ ed William L. Carpenter and Leo But- zel of Detroit. After an hour's con ference with W. S. Kenyon. Mr. Wick ersham's assistant and "special trust buster," to whom the attorney general has delegated the whole matter with power to act, the lawyers refused to say a word as to the curpose or re sult of the conference. It was said at the department that they had been given no reason to be lieve that the attorney general would consent to the acceptance of a plea of guilty and the imposition of fines rather than imprisonment. They were given to understand, it was said, that jail sentences will be insisted upon and were informed that their clients will be expected in the United States circuit court at Detroit on January 4, to give $4,000 bail each. The offer of compromise said to have been tendered was that the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing com pany and other defendants in the civil action should appear before the United States circuit court at Baltimore and consent to the permanent injunction the government asks, if the govern ment would be satisfied with fines and no jail sentences in the criminal ac tion. It was pointed out that an effec tual dissolution of the offensive com bination the government charges would be effected if the injunction were agreed to. The department of justice, however, thinks the combination is as good as dissolved. This week it learned that four concerns in the combine sent out notices to the trade that they were no longer parties to the alleged price fixing agreement. The recent declaration of Attorney General Wiekersham following the window glass trust case in Pittsburg, that he would insist on prison sen tences in all future convictions in anti trust cases, was the answer to the second proposition. Gold Pieces for New Tears. Boston, Dec. 31. Thirty-five hun dred men, employed as motormen, conductors, elevated trainmen, start ers, station masters and inspectors by the Boston Elevated' Railway company will receive gold pieces as New Year presents. The company will distribute about $82,000, in which more than 80 per cent of the car service employees will share. Approximately 2, BOO men will receive $25 each and 1,000 men $20 each. For

ume pruven uai ami cukkw w. j v Aa aO HE WASNT THERE Friends of W. 0. Anderson Will Be Disappointed If They Call at Old Office at 206 Kansas Avenue. GO TO NEW BUILDING. Located at Crane and Kansas Avenues. More Boom and Better Facilities for Handling Goods. No, that red brick building at 132 and 134 North Kansas avenue, with the formidable bars across the win dows is not a jail. It is the new home of W. O. Anderson's wholesale New Wholesale House. Corner Crane by V. O. Anderson business. Nearly twenty years ago "Billy" Anderson cut his kite loose in the wholeale ky under the firm name of Cope Anderson. "I had just $125 of my own money," said Mr. Anderson today, "and Mr. Cope had a wagon, probably worth $125. We borrowed a horse from Mr. Bateman east of town, we bought harness for $12 and began business at 921 Kansas avenue." From this place the firm shifted stands, first to Tenth and Kansas avenue, then to the Keith building, three years at 831 on the avenue, when S. E. Lux formed partnership with Anderson, then alone, the move was made to 210 Kansas avenue. When later Mr. Anderson sold his in terest in the establishment to Mr. Lux he went with Mr. T. E. Armstrong in the building just vacated at 206, the avenue. A year ago the last 'day of January, Anderson became -aole owner when Mr. Armstrong sold out his in terest to his partner. Every Monday morning, along back in 1891-2-3, a ruddy young chap might have been seen to swing onto the ca boose end of the rackety, clackvty lit tle snake of a combination called through courtesy, the Missouri Pacific accommodation, which wriggled its wav through the sloughs and swamps to Overbrook and on to Fort Scott. That fellow was Anderson. He bought the overflow produce in Over brook, brought it to Topeka, sold it to the people who were too busy to go over to Overbrook for their butter and eggs. "In the summertime," said Ander son, "we got our strawberries, black berries and other fruits by local ship ments from Lecompton and Lawrence and small towns around Topeka. We bought all our oranges, bananas and such fruits in Kansas City, paid 50 cents per hundred pounds expressage from Kansas City over here. Straw berries came from Arkansas to Kan sas City at $1 expressage per hundred pounds, then another 50 cents was tacked on for the ride from Kansas City over to Topeka." Previous to the season of 1898 An derson, like all other dealers paid the $1.50 and kept right on smiling. That year when everybody in pantaloons wanted to fight everybody with black whiskers or garlic in their hair, when the Spaniards blew up the Maine, Billy Anderson declared war on the Kansas City brokerage men's berry rates, with consent from congress. That year he copied the name of the grower from the boxes he received and the following season wrote direct to the mountaineers, shipped his ber ries direct to Topeka and thus saved an extra 25-cent rate and the Kansas Citv merchants' profits. The following year, 1900, Anderson shipped the first carload of strawber ries ever received in Topeka. And Anderson sold the fruit, regardless of the frisht and criticism When Cope Anderson began busi ness, sales of $100 a day were great; today W. O. Wlte sales range from $1,500 to $2,000. This difference de mands the new home. In the new building, air circulation and convenience for handling produce are the main advantages. "One man will be able to do the work of three in loading produce," explained Mr. Anderson. "The rooms are airy for the fruit and the offices are so arranged that every man and employee in the building will be in close communication with the clerical department." So take the first opportunity to visit Anderson in his new business home. They packed bag and baggage and moved from the old stand to the new Monday morning and are ready to transact business -better, quicker and more economically. FOREIGN TRADE BIG Indications That a New, Record Will Be Set in 1910.' Washington, Dec. ZXj The foreign commerce of the Uinted States for 1910, including both exports and imports, (promises to set a new record in the his tory of the nation. The eleven months ending with November for which the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor has secured com plete figures have brought the. grand total of exports and imports to the enormous sum of $3,063,384,956. Only the banner year of 1907 compares with this figure. The total commerce for the first eleVen months of that year was $3,047,234,045. The trade figures for December the closing month of this vear are expected to swell the total of the nation's foreign commerce to nearly $3,400,000,000. The breaking of commercial records will not apply to exports. The imports will reach the highest figure for any year in the history of the United States but the sum of the exports will proba bly fall $75,000,000 short of that of 1907. Notwithstanding this decline and their increase in the imports of the country the balance will still be close to $300, 000,000 in favor of the exports side of the account. The greater quantity of material imported is due to the develop ment of manufacturing industries which import crude materials, or import ar ticles partly manufactured in order to complete the manufacture in this coun try. The slower development of the ex port trade is due mainly to the fact that the United States is exporting a smaller quantity of breadstuffs and oth er food products each year and is more nearly consuming its total output of such articles. The full year's figures for exports are expected to be $1,840,000,000 and the im ports $1,550,000,000, this is an increase of 90 per cent in imports over the year 1900 and an increase in exports of 25 per cent over that year. The importa tion of crude materials and materials for further manufacture more than doubled 'in that time. On the export side the value of the outgoing foodstuff for 1910 is but $340,000,000 compared with Street and Kansas Avenue, Occupied Wholesale Film. exports of $540,000,000 of such products in 1900. This is a decline of more than 35 per cent. The export of manufactured articles, on the other hand, shows a gain of 65 percent in the ten years. POET VAN DYKE'SlUTY "To Do Each Day's Task as It Comes Vp," He Declares. Princeton, N. J., Dec. 31. Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, preacher and poet, has become poet and preacher, for he has resigned both his pastorate and his professorship in Princeton uni versity, and announces in reply to a query as to whether he has any defi nite plans for the future that he mere ly expects "to do each day's duty as it comes up." That seems to be the poet's way of looking at life rather than the preacher's, says one of 'Dr. van Dyke's old friends. The former professor is going on the lecture platform, discussing chiefly "The Greater English Poets" and "Nineteenth Century English Poets." He will take the platform early in Jan uary. Next March he will deliver at the University of North Carolina a se ries of lectures on "Poetry and Life." Dr. van Dyke is in great demand for occasional sermons also. On Christmas day Dr. van Dyke gave a novel entertainment by read ing an original Christmas story in the Brick Presbyterian church. New York. 1 renews and sustains the strength of weak, failing babies; pale, delicate chil dren tired, nervous women and feeble, aged people. It contains no alcohol, no drug, no harmful ingredient whatever; it builds up and strengthens the young as well as the old. ALL DRUGGISTS if- V4;vJ U sJr x A 1 rtfi&3& Mt' A l' f FOR POSTAL BANK Postmaster Watson of Pittsburg Beady to Open Branch. Beturns From Washington Where He Got Instructions. FIRST KANSAS TRIAL Anyone More Than Ten Tears Old May Use Station. Tuesday Will See Beginning of New Government Plan. Pittsburg, Kan.. Dec. 31. Tuesday, the first business day of the new year, the newly authorized postal savings bank will open for the receipt of de posits in the postoffice at Pittsburg. Postmaster W. J. Watson, on his re turn from Washington, made this an nouncement and at the same time ex plained some of the details of the plan under which it will be conducted. In the last session of congress the postal savings bank bill was passed and the work of organizing the sys tem was placed in the hands of a board comprising the postmaster gen eral, the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general of the United States. Ever since last summer the heads of departments in the postoffice department at Washington have been working out innumerable details con nected with the inauguration of the system. On October 22 the first step in the organization of postal savings banks was made public in the an nouncement by Postmaster General Hitchcock of the names of the cities chosen to start the ball rolling. One postoffice in each state was selected and to Pittsburg fell the distinguished honor of representing Kansas. In designating the forty-eight cities the postmaster general endeavored to se lect industrial centers, taking the bank deposits, postofllce receipts, money or der records and other facts into con sideration, including the standing and ability of the postmaster. 1V reign Patronage Expected. A large patronage of the service is expected by the officials from foreign born Americans in these cities who are now sending considerable sums to their native countries, usually in the form of money orders. Many of the places selected, particularly those in the west, are not adequately provided with other savings institutions. In common with the postmasters in the other forty-seven cities selected, Captain Watson received a telegram about ten days ago directing him to report at the postoffice department at Washington for instructions on the inauguration of the postal savings bank. On Wednesday, December 21, the forty-eight postmasters met in the office of the postmaster general with the committee comprising the heads of departments and, together, they went over the whole subject from Alpha to Omega. The principal regulations to be enforced follow: Deposits will be received at the pos tal savings bank from any individual, or on his order. This rule renders it impossible for parents to withdraw the savings of their children without their consent or for wives and hus bands to interfere with each other's deposits without consent. No de posits will be accepted from firms, companies, or corporations, or anyone acting in a judiciary capacity. Deposits Are Limited. Deposits will be received in sums of one dollar or any multiple of one dollar up to $100 but no more than $100 will be received from any one person in one month nor more than $500 in one year. Cards will be sold for ten cents each containing one stamp and with space provided for affixing nine more stamps which will be sold by the bank. When the holder of one of these cards has affixed the ten stamps to the card he can exchange it at the bank for a certificate of deposit for. one dollar. These stamps are not good for postage and no number less than ten. or one dollar, will be accepted in exchange for a certificate of deposit. Certificates of deposit will be issued, in sums of $1, $2. $5, $10 and $20. They are non-negotiable and not transfera ble and cannot be endorsed over to other persons as are checks on. a bank. They will be issued only to patrons of the postoffice that is, persons apply ing to the local postoffice for the privi lege of depositing in the postal savings bank, must certify their postoffice ad dress is Pittsburg and this includes residents of the rural routes. Interest Given on Deposits. The certificates of deposit draw in terest at Z per cent per annum, com puted annually, and the interest be gins the first of the month following the date of deposit. Should the deposi tor withdraw his money before the year has expired he would lose the in terest entirely. A depositor may withdraw all, or any part of his money, at any -time, by presenting his certificate properly en dorsed with the words "received pay ment in full" and signed by his name. On the date set for paying interest the depositor can draw his interest money in cash or deposit it with the princi pal. Funds received at the postal sav ings banks are not taken out of the community in which they are deposited. The postmaster deposits the money in such local banks as desire to receive it and comply with the -regulations of the postoffice department as to security, etc. Provision is made in the new nostal savings bank act for the issuance of interest-bearing bonds. When a de positor has accumulated certificates of deposits in amounts of $10, $40, $60 or $80 he may make application to the postmaster, surrender his certificates and receive in -return therefor, interest bearing postal savings bonds of the United States government. The ex change of certificates for bonds will be made on January 1 or July 1, provid ing any bonds are available. WARREN TO JAIL JANUARY 21. Crowd Will Escort Editor of Appeal to Reason. Girard, Kan., Dec. 31. Fred D. War ren, editor of the Appeal to Reason, goes to jail at Fort Scott on January 21 to serve six months' sentence by the federal court. Eugene V. Debs has ar rived here to take his place. This week's paper says: "The day Warren leaves Girard for Fort Scott to surrender himself to the sheriff the Appeal will close down and its employees, acting as his personal escort, will march with their comrade beloved to the prison doors. Other comrades from surrounding points, many hundreds, perhaps thousands, will be there to attest their personal loyalty and pledge their fidelity and devotion to the cause. Let These Stenographers and Employers Tell You How Dougherty's Shorthand compares under the test of practical use in all kinds of stenographic work How it helps to shorthand success because it joins To extreme simp licity making it easy to learn and easy to write Absolute accuracy making it easy to read, and to read rapidly no matter how technical or unfamiliar the matter, and no matter .how long after it is written. C. R. Naff, Head of Law Dept., V. S. Land Office, Log Angeles. "In the last five years I have writ ten no shorthand, but as a matter of interest I tried again to write it and I can still take dictation faster and read my notes better than the sten ographer assigned to me by the gov ernment. The simplicity of your sys tem enabled me to retain it to such f. extent that I could write It with little diminution in speed and none in legibility. J'1 ?Pent flve or six months studying the Graham system and tried several other systems. Then, seeing the sim plicity of Dougherty's Shorthand, I began a course by mail. I could write Dougherty's Shorthand better after studying it three weeks than I could write Graham after studying It three months. I finished the course in about six weeks, under Mr. Dougherty's per sonal instruction, and feel confident that my progress was due to the mer its of this system." W. L. Harvey, Formerly Assistant Reporter. Kan sas Supreme Court. Now County At torney in Idaho. "In three months study I acquired, owing to the simplicity of your sys tem, a very creditable working knowl edge of stenography. The simplicity and working efficiency of your Short hand System make it easy to learn and hard to forget." E. M. Denning, Chief Clerk. Mexican Northern Ry., Escalon, Mexico. "I learned Dougherty's Shorthand during spare moments outside of busi ness. If It had not been for its sim plicity I should not have learned short- hand, as the difficulties presented by most systems are insurmountable to one who tries to learn at odd times. I have been promoted and have more than doubled my salary. I found Dougherty's Shorthand very easy to take Spanish with. I have taken and easily transcribed letters dictated in Spanish." Miss Bertha Norwood, With the Woman's Home Compan ion, Chicago. "I have held my present position with the largest publishing firm in the West for four years. I have never re gretted taking up Dougherty's Short hand and the more I learn of other systems the more convinced I am that I chose wisely. "Before I made my final decision I went to a number of prominent sten ographers and business men in To peka. Among the stenographers was Mr. Nettles, one of the best court re porters in the country. He used the Pitman himself, but he advised me by all means to take up Dougherty's System in preference to any other. His enthusiastic endorsement added to the high praise of the work of their stenographers by all business men who had pupils of Mr. Dougherty's in their employ, decided me." (The above was written to a Pitman teacher un der whom Miss Norwood spent sev eral months before changing to Dougherty's Shorthand.) Miss Lillian Yount, "I had been a writer of a "Standard' system for about six years; then I entered Dougherty's night school and devoted my spare time only for about three months, and on leav ing the school wrote one hundred words per minute on new magazine matter. I have corresponded with other Dougherty writers In shorthand and have had no difficulty in making myself understood or reading what was written to me." C. H. Evans, "After a careful examination of other systems and a short course in one, I decided upon Dougherty's Short hand. After less than two months' studv I was able successfully to fill a difficult position requiring both speed and accuracy." Dougherty's is easiest to learn. easiest to write rapidly, and as easily readable as longhand, no matter how long after it is writ ten without depending upon memory or con text. It is ah accurate record of all sounds vowels as well as consonants. It has no awkward, time losing shifts of position above and below the line. Miss Amelia Henrie, With the American Radiator Com pany, Kansas City. "I have been with this company tw years in charge of the advertising de partment. I have used my shorthand and typewriting to splendid advantage ever since I left school, and could hav done no better than I did by taking the one shortest and best shorthand system in existence." Chas. A. Brown, For four years official court report e of the fifth district of Kansas, now do ing a large court reporting business in Kansas City, is a writer of Dough erty's Shorthand. He and his partner reported the Hyde murder trial last fall in half-hour shifts, between them. One dictated to the phonograph whila the other was in court, and the com plete transcript was turned over to the attorneys within a half hour after the adjournment of court each day. This was a remarkable record in court reporting work. J. D. Johnston, Official Court Reporter of the Tenth District of Kansas, and Fred Pite, Official Court Reporter, Jasper, Alabama, are writers of Dougher ty's Shorthand. 0. D. Wellman, Court Reporter in the Federal Courts in Topeka and Kansas City. is a writer of Dougherty's Shorthand. He ascribes a large part of tliie credit of his success to the merits of this System George P. Beck, Read or the Foreign Department of the American Express Company. New York City used Dougherty's Shorthand as a direct stepping-stone to his present high position. J. C. Mohler, Assistant Secretary of the Kansas. Board of Agriculture. "As one who received his steno graphic training in the Dougherty school, I am glad to commend th institution to others as one of th State's foremost business training schools. Dougherty's Shorthand Sys tem was the foundation for the school and its growing popularity justifies your faith in its excellence." Arthur Capper, Publisher Capital, Farmers' Mall and Breeze, etc. "Mr. Dougherty's Shorthand Sys tem is remarkably simple and unusu-t ally efficient in all kinds of work." James R. Wick, Formerly Court Reporter in Topeka (A Pitman Writer.) Dougherty's Shorthand meets all the requirements and is undoubtedly equal to any of the older and longer established systems. The fact that there are so few word signs and spe cial contractions is an item of special advantage. Under the old systems the student must remember hundreds of special outlines, contractions and word signs, and nearly all good stenog raphers will admit the advisabtlity of putting the strain upon the hand rather than upon the brain. I most heartily recommend tne Dougherty System as equal to any emergency., Chas. S. Elliott, Secretary Capitol Building and Loan Association. "As an employer of stenographers using Dougherty's Shorthand. I have been wonderfully impressed with th facility with which it is mastered and the satisfactory manner in which iit users are able to transcribe their notes, I have found it equal to any emergency. It has proven practical In every operation and I most heartily recommend it." Shorthand It is like longhand in the way its lines run its forms are distinctive, and not liable be confused their combina tions are facile, and make A natural, continuous stroke.;? 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1910. HEIRS KANSAS 21rs. Bourgeoise to Organize AH Calvert Claimants. Next Will Yisit This State In Fight for Millions. NOW HAS FOUND 3,300. Genealogist Expects That They Finally Will Get Estate. Property Valued at $400,000 000 in Baltimore, St. Louis, Dec. 31. Mrs. Anita Cal vert Bourgeoise, president of the Cal vert Heirs association, has returned from Baltimore with the announce ment that she has organized the 3,300 Calvert heirs Into one- association. The estate as claimed by the heirs embraces the greater part of Balti more and is valued at $400,000,000. Sir Cecil Calvert, grandson of Sir George Calvert, lord of Baltimore and founder of Maryland, bound over-ihe large estate to the heirs under a ninety-nine year lease in revenge on his eleven sons, who fought against his wishes with the Americans in the Revolutionary war. That it will be regained by the heirs is the firm belief of Mrs, Bourgeoise. She declares she brings back with her documentary proofs which will give the Calvert heirs unquestioned title. Finds 3,300 of the Heirs. Mrs. Bourgeoise. who Is a trained genealogist as well as a lawyer, has devoted two years to the tracing of the different heirs. "I have found that the Calvert heirs number 3.300." said Mrs. Bourgeoise. "About 0 of these live in St. Louis. The others are scattered over Fairfax county, Va.; Pince William county, ,Va.; Maryland, Kansas and Missouri. "Present conditions in Baltimore are complicated. Not one foot of ground can be bought with a clear title. It is sold under the form of ground rent, the one buying ground rent paying the tax&". "The Calvert heirs in Maryland do not want to recognise any one outside the state as a lineal descendant. But we know the property is there and we have the proof which will eventually regain this estate. Every Calvert heir will come into his own." Associations Are Formed, When Mrs. Bourgeoise first began the search she did so to satisfy herself of the truth of the claim. Later she began the work of forming the Calvert Heirs' association in Missouri. Cal vert heirs in other states formed simi lar associations. According to Mrs. Bourgeoise most of the leases expired in 1875, when the Cal vert heirs were advertised for. The heirs, Ttcause of lack of organiazton, let the matter drift.. C. C. Calhoun. United States district at torney at Washington, will aid the heirs In prosecuting their claims. The Calvert Heirs' association has appointed a ways and means committee, of which John T. Hodgins, a St. Louis merchant, is chair man. The oldest Calvert heir in Missouri is Belvin Calvert. S4 years old. The oldest of the heirs is Mrs. Fanny Calvert. 99 years old, Mrs. Bourgeoise traces her branch back to Gen. Burr Harrison and Lord Fairfax. Mrs. Bourgeoise next will organize the Calvert heirs in Kansas. LEXOW IS DEAD. He Is Uie Man Who Cleaned Up New York in J894. New York, Dec. 31.- Clarence Lexow, formerly ehairtian of the sen ate committee to investigate the city government of New Tork, Is dead at his home In Nyack, N. V. He was 58 years old. Mr. Lexow was known the country over from the committee to which his name was given. It was in 1894 that Mr. Lexow, as a member of the New Tork legislature, introduced a bill to investigate the police department methods In New York City. He. headed th Lexow committee. The results were startling. For the first time, the public at large heard of tha police "system." The illicit alliance between officers high in the department and gamblers. proprietors of disorderly houses, hotels and saloons that violated the excise laws and others was uncovered. The Rev. Dr. Charles Parkhurst gave tes timony that shocked the whole coun try as well as the city. Inspector Byrnes, at that time per haps the best known police officer in the world, resigned. The wh.ole de partment was shaken from top to bot torn. The exeise laws were revised and "Raines law" hotels began to be known. In fact, the methods and much of the material of the Lexow committee have been fruitfully avail able ever since for many Cities In the throes of reform. Hossey Makes a Hiyh Flight. Los Angeles.- Dec. 31. Flying for al titude. Arch Hoxsey of the Wright team of aviators, established a new American endurance record at Avia tion 0eld when he remained in the air three hours and sevt-nteen minutes The old mark was three hours and eleven minutes. Wants Divorce After Three Weeks, Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 31. Mrs Ethel Klay, a bride of less than three weeks, has filed a guit for divorce from Herman Klay In the district court here. Mrs. Klay i" only 16 years oid. She alleges that her husband who is a baker 30 years old, left her two days ago. We wish you all a Prosperous and Happy -Mew':'.Yearr 614 Kansas Ave. Topeka's Popular Priced Clothiers Open tonight till 11:09 COMES TO RESCUE Poor Downtrodden 31 an Helped by Supreme Court. Wife Can Not Collect Damages for His Beatings. WILL SAVE MONEY. Judge West Figures It Will Amount to Thousands Here. U. S. Attorney Orders Extra Copies of the Opinion. Rights of the patient, plodding and long suffering married man have .been upheld in a decision of the United States supreme court, reported to the office of Harry J. Bone, United States attorney, in which the court says that no matter how much a man may abuse, beat or humiliate that second party to the matrimonial bond, his wife, she can not collect a judgment against him for personal damages. In one lone contention Charles N. Thompson, a resident of the District of Columbia, is saved the payment of 370,000 for the chastisement' of his better half and Judge West, member elect of the supreme court, has fig ured that in Kansas alone the already much wronged husbands will be saved the payment of $100,000 personal damages thei first year th! ruling is generally -understood. This,- rtnough, does not' mean' that the, meek-eyed man of, the house mav chastise, .his weaker companion without answering to the criminal law for his action. It only means that wifey can, not levy on hubby's bank account In a civil ac tion and secure the price o "an auto mobile or trip to Europe as a. conse quence. For. the first time in the history of civil procedure, a case of this kind reached the United States courts and already the Topeka office has ordered an extra" lot of these decisions to meet the demand from men anxious .to keep posted as to the privileges in their own household. Jessie E. Thompson said in her peti tion that Charles N. Thompson was her husband In the ordinary form, and in seven counts she charges divers as saults upon her person by her hus band, for which she sought to recover damages in the amount of 370,000 for assault and battery upon her person. An issyie of Jaw being made to the uemuner to tne oeiennani. piejus, n,c supreme court of the District of Co lumbia held that such action would not lie under the statutes. In discussing the law in the matter. Judge West said: "At the common law the husband and wife were regarded as one. The legal existence of the wife during the coverture being merged in that of the husband, and, generally speaking, the wife was incapable of making con tracts, of acquiring property, or dis posing of the same without her hus band's consent. Thev could not enter into contracts with each other, nor' were they liable for tort committed by one against the other. In pursu-. anee of a more liberal policy in favor of the wife, statutes have been passed in many of the states looking to the relief Of a married woman from the disabilities imposed upon her as a femme covert by the common law. Under these laws she has been em powered to control and dispose of her own property free from the constraint of the husband, in many instances to carry on trade and business, and to deal with third persons as though she were a single woman. The wife has further been enabled by the passage of such statutes to sue for trespass upon her rights in property and to protect the security of her person against the wrongs and assaults of others. The obvious purpose is, in some respects, to treat the wife as a femme sole, and to a large extent to alter the common law theory of the unity of husband and wife." Had Mrs. Thompson won her fa mous case against her husband, law yers say there would have immediate ly been an uprising in the nation to secure judgments for personal dam ages for alleged abuse and upbraia- ings and opinions regarding big judg ments are not based on actions in the past, but the probable active litiga tion of the future. If Mrs. Thompson s idea that $10,- 000 is a just remuneration for each whipping, Topeka police court records show that the monthly assessments against the heads of households would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. STUBBS "COMES BACK," Telegraphs President Ripley T'liait He "Begs the. Question." Governor Stubbs continues his con troversy with President Ripley of the Santa Fe. Commenting on the presi dent's refusal to allow the Stubbs ac countant to dig at will into the Santa Fe books, the governor has the fol lowing to say in a long telegram to President Ripley: "Topeka, Kan.. Dec. 30, 1910. "Hon. E. P. Ripley, President A. T. S. F, Ry. Co., Santa Barbara, Cal. "Your telegram makes your situa tion more ridiculous than before. The president of the biggest railroad In America ought not to be compelled to hide behind the interstate commerce commission to keep the public frm knowing what the Santa Fe records and books actually show. "You know and I know that the in terstate commerce commission system of bookkeeping does not pretend to show cost of production nor physical valuation of railroad property. Your letters to me discussed these two vital questions at length. The interstate commerce commission has repeatedly asked authority to ascertain the phy sical valuation of railroads and the big railroads throughout the country have fought bitterly and successfully aerainst such authority being granted. In discussing this subject In Chicago in October. Interstate Commerce Com missioner Lane stated "that it would not be possible for the commission to determine the cost or value or railroads by their system of bookkeeping,", all of which makes your last statements, Mr. Ripley, as presiaent or the aanta Jf e, sound foolish. My accountant employed to examine your books is so conscientious that neither you nor I have money enough to hire him to make a false report. Your own auditor was at his elbow every mo ment that he worked on your books. He was ,my chief accountant on work that involved several million dollars and rendered excellent service. You beg the Question bv attacking him. I was securing information from your own records and books concerning the cost; of reproduction of the physical propertyiowned by the Santa Fe. Can you explain why you do not want these facts made public? W. R. STUBBS, Governor, r TRADE CIRCLES QUIET. Business Is Experiencing Customary After Holiday Stagnation. New York. Dec. 31. Bradstreet's says: Post holiday quiet rules in general tvoA. in InltatTV "RVrtTTI rpt ill lCTH generally the reports are of a good tnougn not in an cajsea, ci; vol ume of holiday trade. Reports for the week as to collec tinna y- i.of -f-mm tViA la.rarer west ern centers and the south. Some west ern points note tne eneci oi iesa isfactory prices secured by farmers for their cereal crops. Slowness continues cmei cimia.jici -trnn o n H steel market. Pig iron is very quiet though cast iron tntat. hqvj. Vinnpht a. little in i i' 111.1 l.T.u u u n the east. Prices are weaker if any thing. Flnlehea tines eonunus "u" Business failures in the United States for the week ending Decem ber 29 were 246 against 271 last week; 157 in tne lute ween, oi 299 in 1908; 185 in 1907. and 220 in 1906. u ilnroa in Canfi-da for the J U ID 1 J. V.. week number 35, which compares with 27 last srek and 22 in the corre sponding week last year. Wheat in cluding flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week end ing December z, aggregate koi,u .,iin.t 723.817 last week and 3,689,455 this week last year. Corn exports lor we wee me limn himhola ncainst 1.038.85S last week and 1.151,151 in 1909. Bank Clearings. i, niao.lnlm rMinrt for uie wee. nus ....j aBBregate of $2,462,009,000 against $3,138. lSfooO last week and $2,930,843,000 in the corresponding ween ihsi ""J; 1 lowing is a list of the cities: Pet. Pet. i r i Amount-. jmv. iww York 11.396, 430,000 24. J Chicago 226.339.000 1.8 Boston Philadelphia St lillia 128,518,000 11. 134,424,000 12. i 64,329,000 5.T 46,942,000 1.6 43,365,000 6.1 36,241,000 3.6 28,372,090 4. 21.607,009 7-7 18,800,000 25 2 19.885.000 u.J 17,672,000 15.1 13,758,000 5.5 12.249,000 1.0 13,473,000 17.8 10,939,000 5.5 11,350,000 17.6 8,478,000 16.1 9,054,000 4.4 7,326,000 7.4 7,672,000 6.2 7,294,000 3.6 8.884,000 24,5 6,279,000 8.8 5.43,000 7-8 7,661,000 5,516.000 7.4 3,134,000 14 3 2.120,000 3.5 2,785.000 20.6 3,178,000 11.8 1,992,000 13.1 1.814.0OO 4.1 1.60,000 16.2 1,517,000 10.7 1,282.000 1.3 1,459,000 19.4 1,731,000 63.4. 24,633,000 2.3 19,204.000 12.4, 0 I ...I Mil!.!. t Kansas City .fiUSDurg San Francisco Baltimore Cincinnati Minneapolis New Orleans Cleveland Detroit Omaha Los Angeles Louisville Milwaukee Seattle St. Paul Buffalo Denver Indianapolis Richmond Fort Worth Salt Lake City.... Washington, D. C. St. Joseph Des Moines Sioux City Wichita Augusta. Ga Evansville Oklahoma Little Rock Chattanooga Lincoln Mobile TOPEKA Houston Galveston w BALL FOR HELEN TAFT. An Addition to the East Room Built for Orchestra. Washington, Dec. 31. For tha hall held last night at the White House in honor of Miss Helen Taft, the East room was enlarged by the building of a small wooden house outside one of the windows for the accommodation of the marino band orchestra, which furnished the music. This gave con siderable more floor space for dancing. The musician's house, which looked like a large woodshed, was on the roof of the east colonade of the execu tive mansion.- Several hundred young people glided about under the mas sive green festooned chandeliers. Among the guests were: Miss Louise TafL, daughter of Charles P. Taft, who, with her father, is a White House guest. Several of Miss Helen's college chums and friends of her brother, Robert, were present. r Beautifully banked in the green and red rooms were vases full of rich roses which the Christmas season had brought to the White House. Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen received the guests in the blue room. A buffet supper was served after ward. mn IfKUIIA K TAMP Buffalo Bone Has Conquered Leader of the Herd. The latest bulletin from Roy L. Bone, city commissioner, who is in Pontjac, Mich., capturing the herd of seven buffalo for zoo purposes, as follows Pontiac. Mich., Dec, 31. Still waiting for car. Everything all right. A, child could play with Old Joshua today. They have started that "Buffalo Bone" business here. I am preaching com mission government doctrine here while waiting as they are to vote on it in the spring. Pontiae Press-Gazette wants motion picture cartoon made by Cartoonist Parsons of Topeka State Journal. "BUFFALO BONE." FARM SCHOOL OF 1.000 ENDED After a Week's Conference at Manhat tan, Farmers and Wives Return. Manhattan, Kan., Dec. 31. The an nual state institute meeting of farm era, which began last Monday at the State Agricultural college, has ad journed. More than a thousand farm er families attended. At 7:30 o'clock last night seven hundred farmers and their wives attended the closing ses sion of the conference on rural schools and churches. The Kansas Corn Breeders associ ation elected these officers for 1911: E. W. Wilson, Lawrence, president; W. R. Hildreth, Altamont, vice presi dent; E. ti. scnaeier, Manhattan, sec retary, and R. A. Willis. Manhattan, treasurer. Wins British Michelin Cup. Aldershot, Eng:, Dec. SI. Captain Frank Cody, head of the ballooning department of the British war offices, today won the British Michelin cup for duration and distance for 1910 by flving 190 miles in four hours and 50 minutes. The flight ended when Cody's aeroplane accidentally touched the ground. T. Sopworth, also com peting today, made 150 miles over a marked circuit. The best previous flight in this competition was made by A. O. Ogilvle, w-ho flew 130 miles on Wednesday la LOST m GOWN, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Hasn't a Thing to Wear To the New Tear's Reception at the White House. SHIPPED BY EXPRESS It Disappeared and Detectives Are Called In. Declares She Won't Go Without a New Dress. New York, Dec. 31. Express com pany detectives and policemen are scouring New York today tor some clue to the whereabouts of a gown which Mrs. Nicholas Longworth hopes to wear at President Taft's New Year's reception at the White 'House Monday afternoon. In. anticipation of the reception. Mrs. Longworth came to New York some time ago and had her dressmakers measure her for a gown. The gown was finished a few days ago and shipped by express to Mrs. Longworth. Yesterday the dressmakers received a telegram from Mrs. Longworth ask ing why the gown had not arrived. Hurried inquiry of the express com pany seemed to Indicate that it had been stolen from a wagon during the holiday rush., If no trace of the missing apparel is found before tonight, the modistes will put a special force of dressmakers at work in an effort to construct a du plicate of the gown in time for the re ception. Mrs. Longworth declares that she will not attend except in a brand new gown. BLOW UP TWO BANKS. (Continued from Page One.) double barrel shotgun at close range, but it is not known that he did any damage. "It is a shame and a disgrace to the state that these bank robberies should occur with such frequency. It reads bad in London and in all the centers of commerce and civilization in the world. They will think that Kansas is inhabited by savages. Kansas has had more bank robberies this year than any other twenty states in the union. I hope that this last outrage will stir the bankers and the people up to the point of taking some concerted action as I have been urging for months past. This kind of thing can be stopped if money and attention are devoted to it. These robbers are organized and work on concerted lines. They have headquar ters at Wymore, Neb. The southern end of the state is raided time and again by robbers who have headquar ters in Oklahoma or Wichita." CHOOSING A SENATOR. Democrats Will Talk It Over at the Dix Inauguration. Albany, Dec. 31. With the arrival of Charles F, Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall and other prominent Democrats who are expected in Albany today to attend the inauguration of Governor elect John A. Dix, interesting develop ments in the contest for the United States senatorship are looked for. Not since the days of the late David B. Hill have the Democrats of New York had an opportunity to send a man to the national senate and rivalry among the candidates is keen. Some time between now and January 17 the Democrats and Republicans in both houses will hold caucuses to name the candidates. The Democrats most mentioned are William F, Sheehan, Ed ward M, Shepard, Justice Gerard, J. Sergeant Cram and Daniel F. Cohalan. The Republicans are expected to give the empty honor of their vote to Sena tor Depew, On the second Tuesday after the meet ing an organization of the legislature which this year falls on January 17, the law provides that both houses, acting independently must- vote on the candi date, openly by a viva voce vote. The following day at noon both houses Joint ly, eompare Journals and the candidate receiving the majority of the votes of both houses is declared elected. In the event of a deadlock voting shall con tinue at noon daily until the senator is elected. BOY SCOUT SHOT. Sham Battle Between Factions Be comes a Ral One. Cincinnati, Dec. 31. Several previ ous bloodless battles between rival factions of the "boy scout" movement have been followed by a shooting In Covington, Ky., in which Harry Hig gins, 15 years old. was probably fatal ly wounaeo. Karl Clark, 13 years old, son of a Covington polleeman, is oeing neia, cnargeq with naving nred the shot from a small rifle, and a half dozen youngsters are held as witnesses. rne snooting came as a sequel to a spirited conflict between the fac tions as to possession of a hill in the outskirts of Covington. The Higgins faction, it is claimed, had chased Clark and his friends from the place on two former occasions. There was a renewal of the trouble and in the course of an altercation a shot was fired. WYAHDOTTE HERALD SUSPENDS Vincent J, laine, Proprietor, Stops It Rather Than Give Up Control. Kansas City, Dec. 31. The last issue of the Wyandotte Herald, a weekly pa per published in Kansas City, Kan., for the last 39 years, was placed in the malls yesterday. The suspension of the paper was made by Vincent J. Iane, the veteran editor, not because of fin ancial difficulties, but because senti ment would not allow him to pass its editorial control to anyone outside his family. In the first column of the first page of the farewell issue, under the head ing, "A list Word to Our Readers," Mr. Lane tells the reasons for suspen sion: "When a man's span of life reaches three score years he is naturally in clined to seek rest and leisure. The writer's life has been extended beyond the three score and ten years allotted to man and several years beyond the WHEAT IS HELD UP Crop Damage in India and Big Home Consumption Tend to Giye the Market a Bull, ish Tone. M SLIGHT LOSS IN CORN: Buyers More Numerous Than Sellers in Chicago Pit. Provisions Hard to Get, Go Up With Hogs. Chicago, Dec 81. WHEAT Crop darn aS reports from India lifted wheat prices a little today. Severe cold in the Punjab was said to have injured the growing STam; ,There was also gossip that with me United States consuming at the pres ent rate the outlook was for a much bet ter milling demand in January and Feb ruary. The fact that pit offerings were !,.tenied "kewise to give the market a bullish tone. The opening was the same as last night i to.86 higher. May started at 96V; to 6(597c showing the same variation ftl market as a whole, rose to 97V4c and reacted to 96c. oHf5I-Kh croD figures handed out by the ?lSn government led to a slight re action but were offset by news of discour aging prospects In western Europe, espec mLX The close waa with ?&liiclJnc- aJlet ait shade. CORN BuyerB, though few in the corn Pit, were more numerous than sellers and there was a feeling of firmness in eonse SJfJS06, ?fay opened unchanged to a isie "WW! ana advanced to -i f the buylnS. such as it was. In corn hh.W,.lf8 and Prices fel1 off somewhat. lower at 4Sry WUn net OATS Dot; ..(u.lj i wheat an corn but had scarcely any other j eacny wnere It closed. 34834c and rose to 34Ac. J0XISPNS-provlalon8 -e hard get hold of and ascended with hogs. First sales were a shade to 15c higher with fuwLi f"- i"r porn; jw.nw, to tl0.2Q for lard and $9.80 for ribs. four score -mark, and for that reason and the desire to seek leisure, and these reasons lone ii v ..i 1J '.nviuJtu VL bus- ipend further publication of the Her- Wll-n present issue, which closes wig vuiuine xxxix. ''Until a recent rtao Ti -nrao r. i.i get the consent of his own mind to do a". -jm a matter or tact it would have been gratifying to him to have the pub lication of the Herald continued and it might have been done, as several dif ferent purchasers wanted to buy, some of them very recently, but he was not wuung mat iz snouia be controlled out side of the family, and as his on, B, T T tin li -i c i .1 iictw nau any inclina tion or taste for editorial work, and as he has been its sole and only editor, he concluded it would afford him more Pleasure to have no successor than the money he could realize from the sale wuuiq aixora mm. The mailing list of the naper in eluded subscribers in every state in the Union and .Alaska, Switzerland and .craucc. w.-Lane came to old Quin daro In l$tx from Indiana. He later moved to Wyandotte. He worked for tne Kansas City Times when it first sLarieu, ana later etartea the Wyan dotte Herald. RAINS BILLS ON KIM. Heiress Proves Her "Baby" Only "D. sertetl" Hex to Celebrate, tat. louis. Dec. 31. Mrs. Louise Stoinkemper Sutton, St. Louis heiress occupying room 618 at the Maryland hotel, laRt night denied in vigorous terms that her husband, to whom she was wedded in Clayton, St. Louis Gretna Green, last Saturday night, had left her, and to prove her assertion she invited a reporter into her room, and there stood her husband, William C. Sutton, "I was worried, or course, about my baby," said Mrs. Sutton, "but after I found he had only been out for a good time, why, naturally, I was all right, because Billy is accustomed to such as that." In denying they were separated. Mrs. Sutton said: "Just watch me." She bounded across the room and raiined kisses on her new-found hus band. "V.ou have money, haven't you, baby?" she said almost hysterically. Reaching into her purse she drew forth several $100 bills. "If you haven't got the coin, why, I have." Sutton admitted he had been on the "biggest one in his life." He said he and his wife would go to Chicago to morrow or to Toronto, Canada, where Sutton's mother resides, Mrs. Sutton, under the name of Laura Louise Scott, created a sensa tion in Chicago recently in connection with a taxicab robbery and a hobble skirt the hobble skirt preventing the robber from getting her money. Her father, a North St. Louis banker, died about a year ago. She said traveling salesmen had taken her husband ut to celebrate his honeymoon, andr that a taxicab owner had charged her husband J54 for four hours' rida They paid the chauffeur $22, and will stand a law suit before they will pay another cent, WOMEN TRY TO SHIRK. Appeal to- Governor for Exemption From Jury Service. Olympia, Wash., Dec. 31. Governor Marion E. Hay has denied the re quest of Sunnyside women who sent him a petition that he recommend to the legislature a hill exempting women from Jury duty. He said: "Ladies who recently served on a 1urv here, the first since suffrage took effect, are earnest and sincere in their belief that women should serve on juries.- The trial Judge of that case praises their services highiy ana urged that women Jurors be generally called upon. I have been advised that prominent women of the state gener ally favor service on Juries, and I shall make no recommecdation other wise." Reids Are Coining .Home. London, Dec. 31. Whitelaw Reid. the American ambassador to Great Britain, and Mrs. Reid sailed for New York on the Caronia today for a two months' holiday at home. Ambassa dor and Mrs. Reid probably will spend much of their vacation in California. They are accompanied by their eon, Ogden Reid, and will bp. Joined by their daughter, Mrs. John H. Ward, who will sail (or New York on Janu ary 7- STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Results Consign to CLAY ROBINSON CO. Live stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City 5? J-S'J?0 200 P1" aucmeo. So. St. Joseph, So. Om- RTE Cash: 81c. BARLEY Cash: 090c. TIMOTHY Cash: ss.ooM.7S: March. $10.25. CLOVER Cash: $10.0O14.25; March, $15.25. Chicago Grain Market. Open High Low. Close WHEAT- CllCRS0' DeC" Dec. 9274 92 924 92- May 96- 974 96 96TS-87 July 93 93iA- m.- 93- Sept. H4 60 GO 50' Dec 47 47-48 46 464 May 4S 48 48- July 49- 49 49ii-H Ts5 Dec. 31i 31 30 31 May 34-34 34 33-34 34 July 31 34-34 33 33 1'iiRK Jan 19.67 19.70 19.60 19.65 May 18.75-8518.87 18.70-2 18.82 LARD Jan 10.52 10.52 10.42 10.45 May 10.17 10.25 10,15-17 10.20 K1BS Jan 10.35 10.30 10.27 10.32 May 9.80 9.81 9.77 9.82 Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Dec. 31. WHEAT Cash: Market unchanged to lo rower. No. 2 hard. 9097c; No. 3, 89S6c; No. 2 re, 98699c No. 3. 95(S9Sc. CORN Market unchanged to c lower. No. 2 mixed, 42c; No. 3, 4141o; No. 2 white, 42c; No. 3, 4141c. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 32(g33c; No. 2 mixe, 31ffi31c. RYE No. 2, 76c. HAY Market unchanged to 50c up to 50o own. Choice timothy, $14.00&H.50. choice prairie, $11.50(812.00. BUTTER Creamery, 28c; firsts, 25c; sec onds," 23c; packing stock, Hc. EGGS Extras, 30c: firsts, 2Se; seconds, W6c i CLOSE: WHEAT May, 940 sellers; July, 89e bid. CORN May, 4646c bid; July, 47 47c bid.' Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, Dec. 21. BUTTER Market steady. Creameries, 2328c; dairies, 21 25c. EGGS Market steady.' Receipts, 1,905 cases; at mark, cases included, 18&22c; firsts. 99c nrime firsts. 31c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 15 1514c; Twins, 14e.l4c; loung Ajneijutus, 1SUi1!V? Tjoner Horns. 1515ic. POTATOES Market steady. Choice to fancy, 434460; fair to good, dsjKo, POULTRY Market easy. Turkeys, live, 17ct dressed, 21e; chickens, live, 12c jdressed, 12c; springs, live, 12c; dressed, 12c, ut-AI Market stead v. 50 to 60 lb. wts., 7Sc; 60 to 85 lb. wts., 8&10c; 85 to 110 ID. wis.xwfftic. r New Tork Prodnce Market. New York, Dee. 31. BUTTER Market 1. 1 unAoffils 3rti' x 1 ra 29c: third to first, 2327c; creamery nem pc f. v, jrr.t.z- mon 10 line, -.1 tv" -r v-' f CHEESE Market steady. State whole milk. September quality, specials. 15c ditto October quality, f me, I414c 8lEGGS?Market easy. State Pennsyl vania and nearby hennery white, fancy, 448c; ditto gathered white, 364oc, ditto hennery brown, fancy, 3S40c; ditto gath ered crown, aisu. POULTRY Alive, firm; western chlck ens;i213c; fowls, 1414c; turkeys. 14 18o. Dressed, irregular; western chick ens, Ul7c; fowls, ll&loc; turkeys, 16g:22c. New York Stock Market. Wall St., New York, Dec. SI. SJOCKS Tha stock market opened dull and with general fractional Aeclines. Southern Ra. cific and Great Northern Ore certificates dropped each and some heaviness was shown by such active Issues as Lnited States Steel Atchison and Amalgamated CoppeV. Western Maryland advanced on extremely moderate offerings. With speculation promising to bj the smal selling ui""-;L" pacific gamatea L.oppei ,r,ti inclination The mK"eor the year on the stock drew to a close W J d grade. demonstrauuu New ork Stoct List, Last Sale. New York, Dec. 31. Amalgamated Copper 42 American Beet Sugar w... American j-r, 68A American Cotton OH 38 73 .103B .114B American Jj'ng Reiining. American Smeiu"s Dfd.. Amer. Smelting g?'" American Sugar Refining Anaconda Mining -o. 38 101 ....117 ....105 754 ....195 80 1413iB ....123B 31 56 B l5it 2SB 6SB 27 B ....123 56 131B 19 53 144B 463 S3 Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore 0iio Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Chicago or0hwesier;B:: Chicalo. Mil BFaul... Colorado Fuel Iron Colorado Southern Delaware Hudson Denver Rio Grande....... Denver Rio Grande pfd.. Erie Vj""'' Great Northern ptd. Great Northern Ore Cfts... Illinois Central Interborough-Met. llnterborough-Met. ptd. Louisville Nashville Missouri Pacific Mi-amiri. Kansas Texas.. National Biscuit WW'.'. 54B 117B New York Central Norfolk Western Northern Pacific rttv Pacific Mall Pennsylvania l!!i05B .128 Pullman Palace Car loB Reading Pnct Tslann Co. Rock Island Co. pfd Southern Pacific Southern Railway....... Union Pacific Jnlted States Steel United States Steel pfd Wabash Wabash pfd Western XTnion Standard Oil Lehigh Valley 59 116X4 26B I '0 72 .'..116 168 33B TiVt 617 175 Xew Tork Money Market, call nominal. Time loans, dull; 60 days and 80 days. 3 per cent; six months S 4 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 45 per cent. Sterling exchange strong at actual busi ness ill bankers' bills at $4.824.82.25 for 60 dav bills and at $4.S5.20.4.&3 15 for demand. Commercial bills $4.S184 ,81 SILVER Bar silver, 54e; Mexican dol- IaBONDS Government bonds steady, rail road bonds steady. New York Sugar and Coffee Market. New York, Dec. 31. SUGAR Raw, holi day, COFFEE Spot quiet; No. 7 Rio, 13c; No, 4 Santos, 13c. 1 f cotton Market. Galveston, Tex.. Dec JL COTTON Markat ataadjr. lo- Kansas city Live Stock Market. Kansas City, Dec. 31. CATTLE Re S?lEts 1,00- Market steady. Native steers. $o.O96.50; southern steers, $4.75Sf6.O0; southern cows, $3.004.50; native cows and heifers, $2.756.00; stockers and feeders. $4005.40; bulls, $3.756.00; calves, $4.50 S.60; western steers, 14.7506.00; western, cows, $2.755.00. HOGS Receipts 1.600. Market 5c higher. Bulk of sales, 7.757.82; heavy, $7.807.85; packers and butchers, $7.757.85 lights, $7.707.80. SHEEP Receipts none. Market steady. Muttons, $3.504.35; lambs, 5.50ff6.3O; fed wethers and yearlings, 8.KKg6.50; fed western ewes, $3.003.90. Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago, Dec. SL CATTLE Receipt estimated at 3,000. Market steady. Beeves, $4.707.00; Texas steers, $4.26Q6.40; western steers, $4.256.00; stockers and feeders. $3.5045.8O; cows 'and heifers, $2.606.3O; calves $7.009.00. HOGS Receipts estimated at 9.000. Mar ket 5c higher. Light, $7.57.96; mixed. $7.658.00; heavy, $7.65g7.95; rough, $7.68 (.75; good to choice heavy, $7.757.S6; pigs, $7.3O8.05; bulk of sales, $7.807.95. SHEEP Receipts estimated at 1.000. Market steady. Native, $2.604.35; western, $2.764.30; yearlings, $4.T56.80; lamps, na- wve, 4.oua.j; western, 4. i&sjfcw. DAILY MOVEMENT OF PRODUCE. WHEAT Receipts, 25,200 bushels; ship ments, 24,000 bushels. CORN Receipts, 337,500 bushelS; Ship-: ments, 255,100 bushels. Car lot receipts: Wheat 20 cars, with of contract grade; corn 384 cars, with 4 of contract grade; oats 2SI cars. Total receipts of wheat at Chicago, Min neapolis and Duiuth today were 219 cars, compared with 380 cars last week and holiday the corresponding day a year ago. Topeka Markets. Furnished by the Chas Wolff Packing Co.. yards close at noon Saturday. We cannot use pigs, thin sows or hoys weighing less than 170 lbs. Do not mar ket hogs unless same are well finished, as we cannot use half fat stuff. We glv below prices effective at once, until fur ther notice. Topeka, Kan., Dee. 31. Market closed ah day Monday, Decem ber 26th, and Monday. January -i 19U. HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS.. $7.40S7.4S HEAVY 7.407.46 LIGHT 7.357.42 Can't use thin hogs or thosB iiu2er i;i pounds.1 CATTLE. Cows, good to choice. 50S4 2$ Cows, medium to good i.otfl:3'sa Heifers, good to choice. .754.54 Heifers, medium to good........... 8 00(33.71 Bulls, good to choice Bulls, medium to good....... 2 75S35a Veal, extra to good, light 6.0OS5 59 Veal, good to choice, heavy .00Sso (Cattle must be good. Cannot use thia stuff.) Market pr,na.djfoDdO(tsC,Ifc Furnished ftinnui Creamery CHICAGO EGGS 29c. N. Y. EGGS 33 "534o. CREAMERY BUTTER Chlcaao s. NY., 2930c; Elgin. 30c. Wholesale prices furnished by Con.'. 1 City Market House. C tope EGGS Fresh country, candled, 27c unm.TRY Hens, heavy. Bp- broilers, 1 and 2 lbs.. 12c; S and 3 Ib 9c; course young roosters 80 old roosteni' 6c. Turkeys, 7 lbs. and over, lSn- rJA Toms. 17c. Ducks F. F. F., lie Geese F F. F.. 8c. Pigeons, per doz., 60c-aiA Dieeons in S doz. lots. Too per dot NO. 1 RABBITS-Per doz.. Sic; dressed rabbits, per doz.. $1.10. resse GUINEAS Per doz., $2.59. BUTTER Packing stock par Jb M Dairy butter to Jars and pouiul primal WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRnnTTCP IFunU-Ue-y, Samn ELuj wiffi?. bunch. $2.60(32.75; per lb., Sc. ucoes' ALMERIA GRAPES Per fob!., rim BOX APPLES Fancy York ImDertflta per box. $1.50: Fancy Ben Davisf per box 1.50; fancy uanos, per box, $175- Fancv Wlnesaps, per box, $1.75; Fancy Arkansas Blacks, per box, $2.00; Fancy Missouri Pippins, per box, $1.75. JONATHAN APPLES Per box $2 00 CALIFORNIA LEMONS Per box Xl'ai NAVEL ORANGES Per box. $2 Jom FLORIDA GRAPE WRUlT-TZ2r&- $4.254.50. UJ- CR?BViAS1Ba ny McFarland.' per bbl., $10.50. BOXED CRANBERRIES Per box no Fancy Jerseys, per box, in i box lots' iSMt PACKAGE FIGS-Per box, U carton PACKAGT! DATES Per box. US. HALLOW! DATES Per lb.. 7e. COLORADO HONEY Per 24-raclr $3.75. OTSiBns-?lniiroa per can a;. New York Plain Selects, per can. New York Extra Selects, per can. New York Counts, per can. 60c; rftahdl ards. per gallon. $1.50; New Tork Plain Selects, per gal., $1.80; New York 'Extra Selects, per gal., $2.00; New York Counts 45c; $1.45: Shell oysters. 1.400 size, per 100 $ii' CELERY Mammoth, per bunco.' 0c Jumbo, per bunch, 75c. "HFSP CABBAGE Per crated, $l.o0. SWEET POTATOES Per bu., $1.30 TABLE POTATOES Colorado Ruralei per bu., 86c; Western Slope, Colorados nor bu 90c. y SPANISH ONIONS Per crate. $LB0 FANCY- INDIANA RED GLOBB ONIONS Per bu.. $1.25. 0 WHITE ONIONS Per bu., $1.40. CALIFORNIA CAULIFLOWER p. crate. $2.Tb." rmm ROOT VEGETABLES Turnips, per bu 60c; beets, per bu., 75c: parsnips, per bu BSc; carrots, per bu., 85c; Rutabagas, per ib., lc. u CHEESE L. H. cheese, per lb., IgVic Limburger, per lb.. 17c; Wis. yellow M lbs., per lb., 17c: Wis. white. $0 lbs.. 'De7 lb., 17c; New Wisconsin Brick, per lb 17c; Block Swiss, 25 to SO lbs, each. Der lb., 17c. Topeka Bide Market, (Quotations furnished by James C. Rmifta 1 Hide Co.. li East TWrd gtj Topeka. Kan.. Dec si GREEN CURED. 5L Hides-Natives, short haired, No. 1. sc-" No. 2, Sc; side brands, over 40 flat N 1, gc;side brands under 40 flat. No 1 7c; bulls and stags. No. 1, gc; N" i 7c; bulls side branded, flat. No. 1 ie green salt cured glue, flat, No tV" green salt cured deacons, each, fioaffi.' slunks, each, 2a&15c. u-u. Green uncured hides lc less than same grade cured. mo Green frozen hides are No, j. Green half cured. io less than rri Horse hides, green No. J. j7si,?t hore hides. No. 2, $l.752.25i gres'n mSV hides. 75c$l-50: sheep pelts. fen. $1.00; dry. according to wool, per lb.. 13 TALLOW No. 1. gos No. 2. Be. BEESWAX-1525e. DRT HIDE3 Dry flint. bnteh.rrf heavy. 18e; dry flint culls, 10c drv Silt heavy, (18 lbs. and up), 14c; dry salt lLh (under 18 lbs.). 12c; dry sheep pelts Rf WOOIHeavy fine, 10l2e; Colorado New Mexico. Utah and Texas- L?ft medium, 1416c; light fine, 13Hc' l,elv fine. 10S.12c; Missouri, Iowa and '.ffi!; Choice medium combing, 18oc- mSfl, clothing, 1618o; low and braid li,1. light fine and fine medium. Haiee- hEvv' fine. 1012c; Kansas. NebrkskS and Oklll noma: bright medium, 14J6c; darfc roe turn. 12l4c: light fine. 128l4o. vVKr Market. WHEAT No. irSS$& Ka" NEW CORN SSc v OAT3-30C

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31,1910. 5W O YOU WANT THIS KIND OF DLNTIS'l RY7 IF SO THERE. IS BUT ONE MAN TO CONSULT If you want'teeth filled or JeglSn extracted without pain, have no U4 fFZTHll AH'niK. U4 Kan. mYYYyv) A8"' hesitancy in patronizing Painless Komine, 1 had him take out 7 old, sore teeth, and do you know there was not a bit of pain. His method is just fine. Signed, Mrs. E. F. Greenwood, 1219 Washburn Ave. I came all the way from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to have Painless Romine extract ten teeth and crown six and am sure glad I came. He did not hurt a bit and his prices were less than half I would have paid at home. He is sure a painless dentist. Signed, O. G. Owins. HE IS THE DENTIST THAT DOLiNT HURT! Also Doe the Best Dental Work at the Most Reasonable Prices Note my special prices until Jan. 1 5. Compare them to wtat you have been paying nd see where yen can save money by patronizing me Silver Filling Set of Teeth. Rubber Base Pure Gold Crowns. Bridge Work White Crowns Teeth Without Plates S4- Porcelain Fillings t. Enamel Fillings Porcelains Inlays Cleaning Teeth A WRITTEX GUARANTEE FOR TWENTY YEARS WITH AIjTj WORK. ;SOc If you live out of the city you can well afford to pay railroad fare hundreds of miles to take advantage of my Special Prices. I am not only able to SAVE YOU MONET, BUT ALSO THE PAIN of having your teeth fixed, as all dental operations performed In my offices are absolutely PAINLESS to the patient. Remember the location and name, be sure you are in the office of PAINLESS ROMINE Office Honrs 8 to 6. 704 KANSAS AVENUE Sunday 10 to 12. TOPEKA KANSAS Evenings 7 to 8. LEFT $6559,000 The Estate of 'John Stewart "Kennedy Is Appraised. Large Sums Left to Churches and Charities. New Tork, Dec. 31. The appraisal of tho estate of John Stewart Ken nedy, the New York banker, who died October 31, 1909, leaving huge be quests to various charitable and edu cational institutions, show that the total amount to be distributed is $65, 659,000. The principal institutions to i share in the residuary estate and the amounts they receive are given as follows: Presbyterian Hospital, New York, $2,858,000; New York Public Library, $2,858,000; Metropolitan Museum of Art, $2,858,000; Columbia College, $2,858,000; Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church, $2,858,000; Board of Church Erection Fund, Pres byterian Church, $2,858,000; Presby STUBBS CANCELS HUNT. Defers Cherished Holiday Plan Stalk Woodg for Raccoon. to Lawrence, Kan., Dec. 31. Gover nor Stubbs finds that being executive of a great state like Kansas is an in fringment of the constitution. It re stricts his personal liberties. The auburn-haired Quaker had planned a coon and possum hunt Thursday night of this week as the "piece de resist ence" of his holiday vacation.. In stead of being able to carry out his cherished plan the governor had to go down to Kansas City to prevent the further pollution of the Missouri river. He inaugurated a stubborn war on the deadly sewerage germs, but he was compelled to abandon his slaugh ter of Kaw coons raccoons that is, not Ethiopians. Shortly before Christmas Governor Stubbs promised his two boys, Roscoe and Paul, 15 and 10 years of age, that when he came home for the holidays he would take them on a real olJ fash ioned coon hunt. The kind he used to attend when the farms along the Kaw were less densely populated. Ti boys had anticipated the event with an expectancy eclipsing that of the ar rival of Santa Claus. "When Gover nor Stubbs found that he would have to postpone the hunt his disappoint ment was even more keen than that of his sons. The hunt was to occur Thursday night and besides the Stubbs boys, several others in the neighborhood" were to be allowed to join the party under the governor's chaperonage. Hounds and lanterns were the only Implement of capture to be permitted on the hunt. It was to be strictly an old-fashioned affair, two reporters, who begged hard, being the only mod ern superfluity to be tolerated. When Governor Stubba found he would be unable to- attend the hunt, he carefully instructed his young sons into the mysteries of treeing coons, even going out in the back yard and shinning up a small maple to show tho best manner of protecting the climber's face from the claws of the treed animal. The boya sallied forth and returned last night with two live possums, which they had trapped in a decayed cottonwood near Cameron's bluff. The governor promises that, next year the hunt will be held in spite of affairs of the state. DES MOINES ENJOfNED. THE LATEST ARRIVAL. Wpi Ordinance Reducing Price of Gas Is Held Vp by Court. Des Moines, Dec. 31. Judge Smith McPherson filed an opinion in the fed eral court today restraining the Des Moines city council from enforcing an ordinance reducing the price of gas to 90 cents per. 1,000 cubic feet pend ing a hearing at Council Bluffs next Friday. The new ordinance was to have taken effect Monday. Judge McPherson also Issued a re straining order preventing the Iowa railroad commission from enforcing its order for a material reduction of freight rates on coal and set next Fri day at Council Bluffs for a hearing ns to a -permanent injunction. The plaintiffs in the case are the Rock Is land, Northwestern Milwaukee, Great Western and Burlington railroads. 11 CARPENTER'S WONDERFUL CURE OF PSORIASIS 'I hve been afflicted for twenty years with an obstinate skin disease, called by some M. D.'s. psoriasis, and others leprosy, com menctns on my scalp; and in spite of all 1 could do, with the help of the most skilful doctors, it slowly but surely extended until a year ago this winter it covered my entire person in the form of dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any labor, and suffering intensely all the time. Every morning there would be nearly a dust panful of scales taken from the sheet on my bed, some of them half as large as the enve lope containing this letter. In the latter part of winter my skin commenced cracking open. I tried everything, almost, that could be thought of, without any relief. The 12th of June I started West, in hopes I could reach tne not springs, i reacneu uetroit ana was so low I thought I should have to go to the hosDital. but finally got as far as Lansing Mich., where I had a sister living. One Dr. treated me about two weeks, but did me no good. All thought I had but a short time to live. I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the skin all over my back, across my ribs, arms, hands, limbs; feet badly swollen; toe-nails came off; finger-nails dead and hard as a bone; hair dead, dry and lifeless as old straw. O my God! how I did suffer. "My sister wouldn't give up; said, 'We will try Cuticura.' Some was applied on one hand and arm. Eurekat there was relief; (tapped the terrible burning snsation from the word go. They immediately got Cuticura Resolvent, Ointment and Soap. I commenced bv taking Cuticura Resolvent three times a day after meals bad a bath once a day, water about blood heat; used Cuticura Soap freely; applied Cuticura Ointment morning and even ing. Result: returned to my home in just six weeks from the time I left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet of paper. Hiram E. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y." The above remarkable testimonial was written January 19, 1880. and is republished because of tha permanency or the cure. Under date of April 22. J 910, Mr. Carpenter wrote from his present home. filO Walnut Bt. So., Lansing, Mich.: "I have never suffered a return of the psoriasis and .'although many years have passed I have ot forgotten the terrible suffering I endured btfora using the Cuticura Remedies." LOOKS LIKE A BIG NIGHT New Tork Celebration Will Be Noisier and Costlier Than Ever. OFFER MONEY FOR GAS. Farmers Want Wells Sunk on Their Farms Near Ellsworth. Ellsworth, Kan., Dec. 31. The pres sure at the Ellsworth gas well now is Increasing. At the first test it was throwing out 102,000 cubic feet but now has increased to 135,000 cubic feet and is steadily increasing. The gas well is being preserved and will not be shot until everything need ed is on the grounds. A special pack age of packing, to be used for the bottom of the well has been ordered by express. About 210 pounds of nitrogelatine-will be used for shooting the well. The well was put down simply as a test and no attempt Was made to con trol it. But now it is assumed the gas well will be of practical use. J. J. Dolepek, a wealthy farmer, liv ing two miles west of Ellsworth, has made a proposition to the men who sunk the original well. He offers them SI. 500 to sink a well at his place. Arthur Larkin, another wealthy farmer, has made a somewhat similar proposition to have a well sunk on his farm directly west of the present well. Meanwhile the Ellsworth Salt com pany is completing the arrangements 'or sinking three wells at its place. This company now uses S80 worth of oal daily and natural gas would be a great saving. THE BIBLE INSTITUTE. An Excellent Program Has Already Been Prepared. A strong program has been ar ranged for the Bible institute to be1 held at Washburn February 7-10. The institute lr.st year proved a great suc cess and it was decided at that time to make it an annual affair. President Frank K. Sanders will give four lessons covering the ground1 of the 1911 Sunday school work. Presi dent Thayer of Fairmount college will discuss the "Life and Influence of Paul" in two lessons. Dr. Frank Bailey of Denver, one of the greatest pulpit orators of the west, will give five lectures on the general theme, "How to Understand the Bible." Miss Margaret Slattery of Boston, famous in the Sunday school work of all denominations in the United States, will give three lectures on Sunday school methods. Professor Iden, known the world over, will tell of "The Upper Room," that organization at the Emporia State Normal that retains over 2,000 young men, scattered over the entire world, on its correspondence list. Professor McKeever of K. S. A. C. will discuss "Newer Ideals of Christian Manhood." He will speak from the viewpoint of a teacher of philosophy. Dr. J. B. Silox of the Westminster church, Kansas City, will speak on the "Revival of Relig'on." Such a subject from one of Missouri's great est orators and thinker? should be worth the attention of every minister and church worker. Dr. F. L. Loveland, whom Topeka has so quickly learned to know and love, will give an address on a sub ject to be announced later. Dean F. T. Lee of the Washburn Bible school will show how the latest researches in the Orient are throwing "Light on the Old Testament from the monuments." Warden J. K. Codding of the state penitentiary will discuss modern prison methods in an address headed "Religious Training at the Peniten tiary." Supt. Rev. J. Sidney Gould will give, with use of the stereoptieon, the lec ture that figured so prominently at the Frankfort assembly last summer, "The Evolution of the Greatest Eng lish Classic, or How We Got an Eng lish Bible." Last, but not least, a discussion of the "Modern Newspaper" in half-hour addresses by Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon and Messrs. Frank MacLennan of the Journal and Arthur Capper of the Capital. Officers of the institute are: Presi dent. Dr. Charles M. Sheldon; vice president. Dr. J. H. J. Rice; secretary treasurer, the Rev. J. E. Ingham. The executive committee is composed of President Frank K. Sanders, Dean Lee. Dr. A. E. Holt and the Rev. Mr. Ingham. KNOWN BY TWO NAMES. New Tork, Dec. 31. All signs indi cate that New Tork city's New Tear's celebration tonight will surpass all previous efforts. It wi?i be costlier, noisier and more generally observed than ever before. Several hundred thousand persons will serve on the reception committee, which will welcome 1911 at midnight and the hotels and restaurant men figure that Mr., and Mrs. New Tork will incidentally put more than a mil lion dollars into circulation. The major portion of this sum will go for wet goods,' mostly champagne, al though the fact that New Tear Is ar riving on Saturday night means that the sale of liquid cheer will cease promptly at 12 o'clock. Mayor Gay nor several days ago refused to coun tenance any suspension of the usual Saturday night rule, but it will be pos sible for celebrators to purchase suffi cient before midnight to last until any desired hour. Every chair in every important pub lic dining room in the city will be fill ed for the evening, many of the seats in the more popular restaurants hav ing been reserved as far back as last August. The police will be out in" force to see that the celebration is kept within bounds. "Ticklers," confetti and rowdyism are barred by official edict, The men's Sunday afternoon but there will be no attempt to put the theater meeting of the new year will terian Board for Aid for Colleges and Academies, $952,000; Church Exten sion Committee, Presbyterian Church, $1,905,000; American Bible Society, $952,000; United Charities, $1,905,000; University of City of New York, $952, 000; Robert College, Constantinople, $1,905,000; Charity Organization So ciety, New York, $952,000. In addition Mr. Kennedy made a great number of specific bequests to institutions of various character. These range from $10,000 to $100,000. Mr. Kennedy owned $1,175,000 worth of real estate, had $1,675,000 on deposit in various banks and left personal property worth $725,000. Most of his fortune was in stocks and bonds. He had 160,000 sharfs of Northern Pacific, worth at the time of his death $22,880,000; 100,000 shares of Great Northern preferred, valued at $14,000,000; 96,000 shares of Great Northern Iron Ore property, appraised at $7,775,000, and 3,000 shares of Standard Oil, worth $2,000, 000. His other holdings included $6, 000,0(M) in bonds and nearly 30,000 shares of stock in various railroads and banking corporations. Unlike most men who leave great estates, Mr. Kennedy owned few worthless stocks. Nearly all his hold ings were gilt-edged. The three exec utors of the estate divide commissions amounting to $1,954,740. Mrs. Ken nedy inherits $15,400,000 and the state will collect a fee of $2,500,000. CODDING TO SPEAK. Happy New Year .-Ta: Ydu;M.;';':;.- WT7 take this opportunity to offer our best thanks for your kind patronage during 1910: We've endeavored to please you to the best of our ability and if you'll let us we will try again during 1911. Auerbach Guettel JCLOTHINQ CC Open Tonight Until 10:30 Closed All Day Monday 3 It t a W. H. Bomgardner Funeral Director and Embalmer Careful, Conscientious Work Is Our Aim 621 Jackson St., Topeka Phones 146 Will Deliver New Year's Address at Novelty Tomorrow. soft pedal on noise. SAYS HE SAY HEAVEN. Iowan Declares Jjord Told Him Return to Earth and Preach. to be held tomorrow afternoon at the Novelty with Warden J. K. Codding, of the state penitentiary, as the speaker. Warden Codding will talk on "The New Criminology," the ad dress to be full of facts and conclu sions which Mr. Codding has sever before presented. For That Reason Two Announcements of Death Are Published. Chicago, Dec. 31. To notify friends of the demise of his late wife, Walter M. Jackson today published two an nouncements of her death. The rea son for this unusual procedure was furnished by the husband. Mrs. Jack son was known by two names. Mrs. Nellie E. Jackson and Mrs. Nellie E. Tyler. "Before we married a year ago, my wife's name was Mrs. Tyler," said Mr. Jackson. "She was in business under that name and Bhe continued to use it professionally after we were mar ried. "More people knew her by the name of Tyler than Jackson. If I had used only the name Jackson in the notice, only a few persons might have recog nized it." Woman Dies at Age of 115 Years, Calumet, Mich., Dec. 31. Mrs. Mary Beniche, widow of the late Chief Beniche of the Chippewa tribe of Indians, died yesterday at her home in Baraga, Mich, at the age of 115 years.. She spent her entire life in the upper peninsula, except a few years spent at La Pointe, Wis. She leaves two children, 17 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and five great preat grandchildren. At Fountains Elsewhere Ask for "HORLICK'8" The Original and Genuine HALTED Ml LIC The Food-drink for All Ages. At restaurants, hotels, and fountains. Delicious, Invigorating and sustaining. Keep it on your sideboard at home. Don't travel without it. quick lunch prepared in a minute, fake no imitation. Just sayliORLICK'S." In Ho Combine or Trust .-A i i U Des Moines, la., Dec. 31. Mark Fitz gerald, a wealthy citizen of Clarke county living near Truro, claims he was raised from a sick bed after his spirit had left the body and made a visit to the very gates of heaven where he ob tained permission to return to this earth by agreeing to devote the remain der of his life to the interest of human ity. Mr. Fitzgerald is a prosperous farmer about 35 years old and a few weeks ago lying in his bed was pronounced by physicians to be on the point of death. His son and brother were summoned and it was feared he would not live to recognize them. The relatives and friends were astonished one morning when he arose and to their utter amaze ment, dressed himself and appeared well and strong as ever. Then he re counted his marvelous experience. He says he died, or at least his spirit visit ed heaven where he says he saw and conversed with members of his family long since passed away from this earth. But he says the Lord told him not to touch them as he was yet unclean. He says he told the Lord that if permit ted to return to earth he would devote the rest of, his life to the interest of humanity. Now he says he is completely cured and expects to sell all his stock and give the remainder of his years to re ligious work. On the evening of Sunday, December 18, he told his marvelous ex perience to friends and neighbors in the church at Truro. SIX WORKMEN HURT. h Z z r- V- t 4 f Dynamite Explodes In Tunnel Feet Below Earth's Surface. 100 Warden J. K. Codding, who speaks Sunday afternoon at the Novelty Theater. A special feature of the meeting will be the music. From 3:00 to 3:30 o'clock the Baptist Singing society will give a concert, with Lewis E. Smith, of Boston, Mass., as soloist. One critic said of Mr. Smith: "Kiss Me My Honey, Kiss Me" is a special Edison Record now on saie by J. C. HARDING CO. Phones 148 5 Ask or write for Phonograph Catalogs Add 6c per Record when ordered by mail 106 East Sixth St SCOURING YOUR SCALP. Will Remove the Ijoose Dandruffs Scale But Won't Cure Dandmff. If your hair is brittle and thinning, you have dandruff. The mere scouring of the scalp of the loose scales, won't cure dandruff; because dandruff is nothing but scales of scalp being thrown up by a pestiferous little germ in burrowing its way to the root of the hair where it saps the vitality, causing falling hair and, in time, baldness. Now you can't stop dandruff nor falling hair, nor prevent bald ness unless you destroy that germ; and the only preparation that can do it is the new scientific discovery, Newbro's Herpicide. In fact no other hair preparation claims to kill the dan druff germ all of them will clean the scalp; soap and water will do that, but only Newbro's Herpicide gets at the root of the trouble and kills the dandruff germ. Sold bv leading drug--gists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to the Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. One dollar bottles guaranteed. able to drag himself upward through the snow until he reached daylight. Then he cut in on the telephone wire and with his pocket telephone set, called' Cleelum. The rescuers located Hutchinson on a precipitous bank of snow. They sent for a party of line men who were repairing a cable not far away. A swinging seat used by linemen was brought out. Starting a quarter of a mile awav; two linemen slowlv His j pulled themselves on the cable toward methods are instructive, for he not only can sing, but can almost evoke music from a cigar store Indian. If the song drags he starts in a little ahead with his big voice, and pulls and pulls, and very soon he's pulled all the others up into tune, time, and rythm. "When he wants the congregation to steam up a little he begins to work New York, Dec. 31. An explosion of dynamite in a tunnel 100 feet be low the surface of the East river, be tween Manhattan and Brooklyn early his arms, and the thing is dtyie. Some today resulted in the injury of six times he cuts the singing short and workmen, at least one of whom will j tells a story." die. The tunnel, a tremendous engi- j Mr. Lewis has been leading evange neering project, is being bored through 1 listic singing all over New England the mud and rock of the river bed for years. His methods are as enjoy and when finished will contain a huge service pipe to supply the island of Manhattan with gas manufactured in an outlying suburb of Brooklyn. The six men were at work in the tunnel when the explosion occurred. They had set off a number of dyna mite blasts during the night, but sev eral of them apparently failed to ex plode. The men, thinking they had gone oft, went back into the shaft to work. As they entered, the ex plosion came, blowing them through the long shaft into the open, along with a mass of debris and mud. FEWER HOGS SHIPPED. I jive stock Received at Chicago for TTear Totals 14,829,200 Head. able as they are effective. Dr. E. S. Pettyjohn will act as pre siding officer, and Commissioner M. C. Holman will lead the congregation singing. FROZEN TO A POLE. Sensational Rescue of a Telephone Lineman In Mountains. Ellensburg, "Wash., Dee. 31. Man's courage and the latest devices of me chanical science battled picturesquely for the life of a telephone lineman who was buried in "a snowslide on the Cascade mountains. The lineman, J. C. Hutchinson, found himself close to a telephone pole. With its aid. he was Chicago, Dec 31. Live stock to the amount of 14,829,200 head were ship ped into Chicago during the year 1910, according to the annual report of the Union Stock Tarda company just is sued. The report shows an increase of 141,000 cattle; 90,000 calves; 792,000 sheep and a decrease of 1,000,000 hogs, and 82,000 horses as compared with the previous year. It took 256,700 cars to haul the live stock which is valued at $350,000,000. To Begin the New Year. Subscribe for one or more of your favorite magazines. They are not ex pensive. Ask for prices. F. E. Jor dan, publishers' agent, 708 Topeka avenue. Ind. 1160. Old Colds Do not know what to take? Then why not find out? Your doctor knows. Leave it all to him. If he says, "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral," then take it If he says some- ffiinrtolco ftt-ofiof J O.AyerCo.. UUttg WiOV LUlb 111UL, t. Lowell, Mm. the imperiled man, After he had been imprisoned three hours or more, Hutchinson was reached. The rescuers found him froz en to the pole. It was with great difficulty that the suffering man was released and placed' in the cable seat. He was taken to Cleelum hospital for treatment. NO BABIES IN 2015.. TJnited States Must Then Them From France. Import m TOPEKA MotoKCar Co. I -AGENTS FOR- Studebaker E. M. F. 30s AND Flanders 20s Call and see us The Garage with the S equipment. J Steam-heated. 2 i Lester Davis, f Theo. Johnston Both Phones 706 ENDS WINTER'S TROUBLES. To many, winter is a season of trouble. The trost bitten toes and fingers, chapped hands and lips, chilblains, cold sores, red and rough skins, prove this. But sucO troubles fly before Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A trial convinces. Greatest healer of Burns, Boils, Piles, Cuts, Sores, Eczema arrl sprains. Only 25c at all drugeists. 7 ED DING INVITATIONS Elevator Drops Killing One. New Tork, Dec. 31. An unidenti fied man was killed almost instantly and another probably was fatally in jured shortly before last midnight when an elevator car in an apartment house on-West 112th street, in which both men were riding, ascended rapid ly to the top of the shaft, snapped ita cables and l dropped eight stories into the cellaiv St. Louis, Dec. 31. There will be no children in the TJnited States under 5 years of age in the year 2020. Babies mi mi Fme Copper File sd Utter accordingly, will have disappeared from Wf V Pf Pmductiom. Engmed j j i otaaoiiery. This is the mathematical conclusion of ADAMS BROTHERS rflMPANT tn.s a: i ulcbsui vt diici A iiii.ua, v nell university, announced to the Amer ican Statistical association at its con cluding session. The only hope of see ing babies in the TJnited States after 2020, according to Professor Wlllcox a calculation, is in possible importation from France. France, he says, will con tinue to have babies 80 years after the TJnited States has quit. "There is proportionately more race suicide in the United States than in France," said Professor Willcox. An endowment for the stork was rec ommended to the American Sociologi cal association by George Kliot Howard, iprofessor of sociology in the University of Nebraska. In an address on "the social control of domestic relations." he declared the state should honor moth erhood by endowing mothers. "Parents who raise families," he said, "are entitled to payment and security from the state the same as the soldier or the judge or any other public ser vant. The woman who gives a child to the state should be allowed an income by the state for taking care of that child. That would make the mother the ruler in the home. That would be social justice." If your party gown has become soil ed during the holiday festivities, the safe thing to do is to send it to the Enterprise for cleaning. Phones 173. bin It's nice getting them in, gat ting them out But there's a way CASCARETS-are known to hundreds of thousands for the natural and easy way they clean out the system of over drinking. Be prepared, a box in your pocket of CASCAKETS take one or two sure when you go to bed then to morrow will be pleasant. g$e CASCiRETS ioc box Week's treat- merit. AU drafrEists- Biggest seller ia ul au-ut. u lllion a ssoaUu

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c THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31,1910. r Letter Files FOR 1911 The G. W. Unit Files Grow with your business and your business grows with them. ItAsnc Filing CAbinets Wood r Steel ft UPRIGHT .ILflJLi Stationery Co. Desks Chairs THE AUDITORIUM The Poultry Show Jan. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 The highest quality poultry show ever held in the United States as for west as Topeka. Birds on display from Massa chusetts to California from the yards t of the most famous fanciers. The first uniformly cooped show ever held in Kansas. Every citizen of Topeka should see the Topeka Poultry Show. See the exhibit from the famous Crystal White Orpington Farm of Ernest Kellerstras. A Wonderful Display of Pigeons OPEN ALL DAY AND EVENING Admission 25c Children 10c Receivers for Robin Property. .New York, Dec. 31. Receivers were appointed today by Judge Chatfield of the federal court in Brooklyn for th-3 Sputh Shore Traction company which Is largely owned by Jos. G. Robin. The company operates trolley lines on Long Island and Is capitalized for two mil lion. The receivership was asked for by creditors and stockholders. t Sexton Loses Two Horses. :C. A. Sexton, who lives at 1412 North Jackson street, reported to the police today that some one had stolen two horses from his barn in North Topeka. The thief took the animals some time Friday night. Sexton says one of the horses was 20 years old and the other animal was foaled 12 years ago. Both cf the horses weigh about 1,000 pounds. Sirs, filler Seeks Divorce. suit for divorce was filed in the district .court this afternoon by Ruth Fuller against Ernest Fuller. The petition says that the marriage took place in Lawrence September '8, 1910, and charges that the husband was cruel and had abandoned his wife that he would not allow her to receive her relatives or visit her friends. Kreiie Estate In Court. Arguments are being heard in the probate court this afternoon to decHo whether the-debts of the Theo Kreipe estate, amounting to $5,000, should be made a part cf the ar3ts of the estate or charged to kreipe's son. Kreipe, who lived near Tecumseh, died last summer. Postoffloe Closed Monday. The postoffice will be closed after 10 o'clock Monday with the exception of the general delivery window, which will be open between 5 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon. THSE GOODS IN STOCK,, H NAMESJHE MAN, Hank Eaton of Denver Appears in Weaver Case. Wife Admits That He Bought Her Expensive Furs. FIGHT FOR A CHILD. I Question Whether Father Shall Keep Little Girl. Judge Dana Is Listening to the Evidence. On the witness stand this mornin Mrs. Ruby Weaver told Judge Dana that "Hank" Eaton of Denver bought her J50 furs, that she attended the baseball games, that she associated with men and women of questionable character, but for all of this, she said, there was just and ample explanation Mrs. Weaver's statements were brought out by Attorney W. E. Atchi son in the habeas corpus proceedings to decide the possession of 5-year-old Norma Louise Weaver. The testimony of Mrs. Weaver occu pied the greater part of the morning session and the court showed a tend ency to admit every point in the evi dence that would aid in deciding the future good of the little girl. Even the sensational newspaper clippings from the Denver papers are in evi dence, although the complainant says thev are grossly inaccurate. or time it looked as though the affidavits from Mrs. Southerland and other Den ver women concerning the character of Mrs. Weaver would so into the records, but Judge Dana held against this testimony, as there were no op portunities for cross examination or investigation of the parties. It was onlv after the defense had admitted to accept of the copy of the Denver divorce decree and the piaintm ac cepted the defendant's reply that the court was able to proceea witn me evidence. Even then there was a ianele concerning the defendant s claim that the divorce was procured through fraud on the foreign court. An objection to this statement in the reply was overruled. Both sides sub mitted familiar Kansas opinions in the case and these were taken into con sideration. The plaintiff offered a ci tation from the supreme court deci sions in the Blakley-Barclay incubator baby case, but Judge Dana was oi the opinion that the decision bore more on the parentage of the child than on the possession. Mrs. Weaver said on cross-examina tion that if Norma Louise were given in her care, it will not be in the cus tody of the grandmother, known in Topeka as Mrs. Beems. The record of Mrs. Beems for chastity is attacked most vigorously by the defense, and they will attempt to show that she is not a fit nerson to have possession of the child, and that the record estab lished bv th mother does not warrant the court giving Louise into her pos session. On tne otner nana, weave. says if the child is awarded nun, sne will be given a home with his sister- in-law. Mrs. George Jf. weaver, ui 1710 Madison street. Says Denver Stories Are Untrne. P!arlv in the examination Mrs. Weaver identified the clippings from the Denver newspapers, and tne pict ures of herself and other women. She said that Mrs. Southerland wafc known in Denver as the "Living Venus," but denied that she posed in nude form in rnhii. nlaces. Mrs. Weaver charged that accounts of the trial as given by the newspapers were untrue and that Judge Allen was misquoted in the lect ure he gave ner at tne ciose ji me first hearing. She admitted tne juage had told her to go back and live with her husband and had "scorched" her because she was a baseball fan. She then identified certain signatures to papers purported to be affidavits in the case. These affidavits concerned her character. The papers am nui ht. filini? marks from tne Denver court and Judge Dana ruled them out, nd offered as a furtner reason mat there was no opportunity to examine the supposed witnesses. Furs, a Christmas Present. "Where did you get that hat?" asked Atchison, as ne suoaeniy changed his tactics with the witness. "Harry bought it," replied the wit ness as she indicated her former hus band by the toss of her head. "Isn't it true that you quarreled be cause other men bought you $40 hats, those $150 furs, suits and other articles?" "No, sir." "Where did you get those furs? "Why, 'Hank' Eaton bought them for me as a Christmas present." "What reason did he have for buying those furs?" "I don't know unless he just wanted to buy me a present." "len't it true those furs cost about $150?" "No. sir, it is not. They didn't cost near that much." "Isn't it true that you had an ap pointment with and met Hank Eaton since you came to Topeka?" 'No, sir, I did not have an appoint ment with him, although I have seen him since I have been in Topeka.". "Didn't he come to Topeka with you from Denver?" "No." When asked how she made a living, the witness said she earned $8 a week as a hair dresser since separating from her husband. She denied that Eaton had bought her other articles than ths furs, but admitted that her husband once found a note from him, in which she was to meet him in Denver. Sh? said her mother had furnished most of the clothes for herself and baby and that many times while they Were in the home of her mother, now Mrs. BenniwortH. it was at the suggestion of her husband, whom she said had raised no question as to the chastity of any of the parties until after filing of the divorce proceedings. Asked if the Denver police had not followed her to certain rooms in Den ver, the witness said such was not true. She denied she had neglected to wear her more expensive clothes to the court room for fear it might prejudice her cause in the mind of the court. Says Husband Beat Her.. On redirect examination, the witness said she accompanied a friend to the ball games because the friend did not wish to go alone. She said the trips to the baseball park had never cost her husband a penny. She said the ac quaintanceship with the "Living Venus," originated the day before the filing of the divorce procedings, when her husband beat her and she was car ried to the home of the Southerland woman, who lived a few doors distance. Morris Jenkins, chief of the police, told of the reputation of the Beems wo man while she lived in Topeka and said she "was several times arrested on a charge of keeping a disorderly house. He said he was not acquainted with the reputation of the plaintiff. Other members of the police. .force this af ternoon bore out the statements 'made by Chief Jenkins. Little 5-year-old Norma Louise Wea ver will probably go to the witness stand this afternoon and, according to advance statements, will tell tiie court she wants to make her home with her mamma. Many of statements made by Mrs. Weaver probably will be offset this af ternoon by the former husband, who will be called to the stand in his own behalf. According .to former state ments. Weaver will testify that he took his young .wife away from Topeka in order that she might escape evil in fluence and that her conduct in Den ver was not all it should have been. Weaver said this morning he would testify that the company his wife kept had an immoral effect on the mind of their child and that the little one should be taken from her custody. SOCIETY WROUGHT UP. Diplomatic Circles Discuss Alleged Elopement of Mrs. Hicliborn. Washington, Dec. 31. Society at the capital is wrought up over the dis appearance of beautiful young Mrs. Philip Hichborn, who is said to have taken passage on the steamship Mau- retania on its recent record voyage back to England. Horace Wylie, a Washington clubman, is reported to have taken passage on the same ship. Mr. Wylie is married. Mrs. Hichborn was Miss Constance Hoyt and is a daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt solicitor for the state department. Her husband is a son of Rear Admiral Hichborn of the navy. sua Diplomatic, army and navy circles are busy discussing the rumors re garding the two. Both the Hichborn and the Wylie families deny the al leged elopement, saying there is not a word of truth in the story. The Hich borns say that Mrs. Hichborn has gone to Atlantic City, being in ill health, and that she is in a hospital there. it is simply club and dinner gossip, say the relatives of Mr. Wylie. Green Case Goes Over. Motion for a new trial in the Dalrym- ple-Green breach of promise suit was passed this morning in the district court. Attorney McKeever for the plain tiff said he was ready to argue the mo tion and dispose of the case, but the attorneys for former Mayor William Green asked that the arguments be postponed. According to McKeever, an effort will be made to settle the mo tion when the weekly batch of motions are reached next Saturday by Judge Dana. Topeka Club Case in January. The case of the state against the To peka club to test the nuisance law may not be tried until sometime during the January term of the district court. Such a condition was signified this morning when J. J. Schenck, county attorney asked that the bars be left down for continuing the action from day to day. The trial of the case was on the cal endar for next Monday, but will not be reached at that time. Knapp Is Sworn In. Washington, Dec. 31. Chairman Martin A. Knapp of the interstate commerce commission today took the oath of office as additional circuit judge of the United States, thus be coming automatically a member of the new commerce court and severing his connection of more than twenty years with the interstate commerce com mission. WILLI K a.. VJl -A (VfMrLB THE Y0UN6 MAN M0LD5THE Tall in m ucrj6Kt -tositiow- .i rWiTH'-Tew STEPS --s l!C r PORWXRO T WILL .SHIFT) ffl 0 MY WEIGHT TO THE jrAlL M' W;. A kick tub Ideax me. can xt BE.-posaiBceS' GENERAL IMPROVEMENT. Marks Last Week of Year in Stock Market. New York, Dec. 31. Tho last week of the year in the stock market was characterized by general improvement, although busi ness was in such small volume and so thoroughly professional as to rob it of practically all significance. Price changes were generally upward and the most satisfactory feature was the continued demand for bonds and other high-grade securities. Much of .the trading in these issues was by direct sale to banks and individual investors. A more cheerful tone pervaded the "street" and there was a disposition to view the immediate future with some encouragement. Trade in general see ma to have bet tered, but conditions in the steel trade make for further pessimism. The sit uation' in the copper business is equal ly discouraging, with no increased de maud for the metal, despite curtail ment of production and price conces sions. Money in this market showed a slightly harder tendency toward the end of the year and liberal buying of commercial paper by banking institu tions was one of the features in the monetary situation. GREETING BY WIRELESS. Sent by the President to the Battleship Fleet. Washington, Dec. Ii Although the Atlantic battleship fleet is at sea, wire less telegraph enabled Rear Admiral Schroeder to receive and acknowledge New Tear s greeting which today were sent by the president to every vesseL naval station and army post of the United States. In response to the pres ident's greeting Rear Admiral Schroe der wired Secretary of the Navy Meyer: "The Atlantic fleet thanks the presi dent for his New Tear greetings and wishes him and you Happy New Tear." GOTCH BACKS OUT. Says He'll Xot Return to the Mat After All. Des Moines, Dec. 31. Farmer Burns, after a forenoon conference with Frank Gotch at Humboldt, dur ing which he was unable to persuade Gotch to return to the mat, said he would back Mahmout against Hacken schmidt in place of Gotch. SOLVE THE WATER PROBLEM. Farmers Learning to Make One Drop Do What Two Did Before. J. W. Longstreth of Lakin, Kearny county, who is connected with the irri gation investigation department of the United States department of agricul ture with headquarters at Lakin ex periment stattion, called on Secretary F. D. Coburn today. Mr. Longstreth declared that the tillers of the soil throughout the entire country, in the humid as well as the arid portions, are deeply interested in the subject of irrigation and beginning to realize the value of making the most of the water at hand whether it falls from the clouds or comes from the irrigation ditches. They are solving the problem of making one drop of water do what two did before. Scientific farming means the doubling of the output per acre. The irrigation expert stated that the government appropriation for ex Derimental work is only $75,000 per year for the entire Union. Of this sum $7,500 goes to California alone, and the state adds ,&uu to mat sum. There is now less than 100,000 acres nf land in Kansas under tne aitcn, or about 2 per cent of the arid land of the state. This irrigated land acreage could be doubled, Mr. Longstreth be lieves, with the water now used for that purpose. Of course, the streams in the arid portions oi vans-as are not dependable for irrigation on a large enough scale to furnish all the land with water, but the acreage of tillable land that is now almost worthless for want of moisture should be reduced every year. Arrested for Following a Woman. Arthur Foster was arrested near the Ptncu Island derjot Friday night on a charge of disorderly conduct, it is claimed Foster had followed a woman several blocks and that she finally made complaint to Patrolman England. who arrested the man. He gave bona for his appearance and will be tried in police court this afternoon. Broken Rail Causes a Wreck. Dallas .Dec. 31. Wer-tbound Texas Pacific passenger train No. 7 was wrecked near Mesnuite, near here, to day. Two chair cars turned over and ten passengers were injured, none seri ously. The wreck was caused by a broken rail. WISK. OPEX SEASON OX APRIL 12. American League Will Reverse Last I Season Openers. Chicago, Dec. 31. If plans an nounced by-President Johnson of the American league mature at the meet ing of the major league schedule makers at Cincinnati Monday, the sea son of 1911 will.be set in motion April 12, with Chicago at St. Louis. Detroit at Cleveland, Washington at Philadel phia and New Tork at Boston. Work is being pushed on the ar rangement of schedules to govern in the National and American leagues, and President Johnson will leave to night for Cincinnati to confer with Messrs. Lynch, Dreyfuss and Heydler of the National circuit with the view of mapping out dates -as a preliminavy issue to the annual meeting of the national commission Tuesday. "It will, be .no task to frame our schedule," said President Johnson yes terday. "We propose to reverse the schedule of 1910. When the cham pionship season opened on April 14 St. Louis played in this city. Cleve land apeared at Detroit, Philadelphia was the card at Washington and Bos ton opened at New Tork. There may be a few minor details in need of over hauling, but in the main our schedule will be ready for adoption Monday." WILL SHOOT FOR E. C. CUP. Championship Meet Will Be Held Next Saturday. Chicago, Dec. 31. Championship honors in the trap shooting world will be settled next Saturday at the grounds of the Chicago Gun club, where the historic "E. C." cup will be shot for. Announcement of the tournament, which will Include several other open events, was made yesterday following a cnauenge ror tne trophy issued by Lester S. German, expert trap shot of Aberdeen, Maryland, and former ma jor league pitcher. The challenge bv German was aimed at W. R. Crosby of o r anon, in., member or the local club and present possessor of the cup won at Chicago on October 13, 1900, from tco uiibert. The challenge of German was ac cepted immediately by Crosby, who has already won the trophy five times and the honors emblemttic of the all around inanimate target shooting championship of the world. The history of the "E. C." cup dates back to 1896, when it was first placed in competition and won by Fred Gil bert at Weehawken, N. J. LOCAL MENTION. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hill are enter taining Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lagerstrom and sons at a week-end house party Lodges and labor organizations wanting to change halls should see Elmer Deck, 418 Kansas ave., or Glen wood hotel. President Frank K. Sanders of Washburn college will lecture before the Archaeological society tonight at 8 o clock at the Guild hall of Grace Cathedral on "Palestine Exploration." The publio ia invited. On Mondav nieht. Jan. 2. the National Annuity association will have its first meeting in Bates hall, having hereto fore met on Tuesday evening in K. of P. hall. GEO. STEVENSON, Sec'y. H. P. Billard filed suit in the dis trict court this morning against Ray- mond P. Near, Lottie Near and Antra Ik Scudder, to recover interest and principal on a promissory note for $400. Skate the "Old Tear out, New Tear in;" tonight at the rink. A marriage license was issued today to Courtney G. Elliott, aged 21 years, and Bessie Spilman. aged 19 years, both residents of Topeka. This is the second New Tear's for the Outlook Suit and Cloak store in Topeka. Messrs. Shapiro Endlich like Topeka and its people and feel that they have prospered since coming to this city. They desire to extend to their friends, patrons and all the peo ple of Topeka a most cordial greeting for the coming New Year. Judae Dana today granted a tem porary injunction against the place conducted by Frita Duerin on East Fourth street. Duerin was arrested a week aeo on a charge Of selling in toxicating liquor and several cases of beer were found in the rooms he. oc cupied. Christmas morning J. L. Massie, 334 Green street, Oakland, found an excel lent wheel chair in his room, tne girt of several of his immediate friends an! neighbors. Mr. Massie has been a suf ferer for several years and nas Deen confined to his room most of the tim. He is as proud of his new chair as a boy with a new pair of boots. He takes this method of expressing his apprecia tion of the kindness shown him by his friends. The defense in the case of J. C. Russell against the Western Union Telegraph company today asked the court to strike out certain sections in the plaintiff's petition. The matter was taken under advisement. Russell is suing the Western Union for $1,500 damages for the alleged failure to de liver a message to his home in proper space of time. Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Hunnell and daughter, of Des Moines, la., have re turned home after spending several weeka with Mr- and Mrs. C. M. Hill. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mrs. "Helen A. Curdy, wife of W. "VV. Curdy, and formerly prominent in the women's clubs of Topeka, died at her home in Kansas City yesterday. Since moving to Kansas City, Mrs. Curdy has become a member of the Athenaeum and was at the head of the philosophy and science department. She was 72 years old. Her husband is a dry goods mer chant in Kansas City, Kan., but the home was at 3644 Troost avenue. Three sons also survive. They are Albert E. Curdy, instructor in Tale university; Dr. Robert J. Curdy, Kansas City oculist, and Wil liam S. Curdy, a New Tork publisher. Word has been received from Des Moines, New Mexico, of the death of Mrs. Lottie Miller, wife of Ches. Miller, 1430 Lincoln, general foreman of the city wa terworks. The body is expected to arrive here some time Sunday. The Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Morton, 1159 Lincoln street, died yesterday evening. The funeral was held from the home at 10 o'clock this morn ing. Burial was in ML Auburn ceme tery. The funeral of Mrs. Lottie Miller, 47 years old, who died at Des M&nes, N. M., will be held Sunday after noon at the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal church at 2:30 o'clock. In terment in Mount Hope cemetery. I Our New" Year Greeting A-16 shadows fall on the dying year and we enter into the new with its promises and possibilities, this store wishes to thank its friends and patrons for the generous support which has made possible the greatest year m our history, and to wish each and every one a truly Happy NewYear. In this store, however, there is no resting on laurels already won. The success of the past years only serves as an incentive to greater and better achievements in the years that lie before. Incidentally, we are planning' much in the direc tion of store service and in the raising of quality stand ards wherever possible. We know all these things will appeal to you and we bespeak your close attention to our announcements as they daily appear in the public press an index to the happenings in this wonderfully agressive, busy and soon-to-be attractive store. May the year 1911 bring a realization of your highest ambitions, a fulfillment of your fondest hopes, is the sincere wish of this store. SWIMMING RECORD IS LOWERED Ozkar Demjan Goes 500 Metres In 8:27 1-5. New Tork. Dec. 31. The following let ter has been received by James E. Sul livan, secretary of the Amateur Athletic union, from the secretary of the Ger man Swimming association in relation to a new swimming record for 500 metres: "We have the honor to inform you that Ozkar Demjan, a member of the Budapest Torna club. Budapest, has bettered the world's record in breast stroke swimming over 500 metres on the 27th day of November." 1910, at the meeting of the Wiener Athletic Sport club. The time was 8:27 1-5." Hallowell Divorce Postponed. ed the defendant with the $50 for de- iense as oraerea Dy Judge Dana,' the divorce suit of Hallowell vs. Hallowell will go over until the January session. This action was signified by attorneys for both .parties, when the motion was called this morning in the district court. Moving Pictures to Speak. Paris, Dec. 31. Dr. Arthur Koern, professor of physics at the University Of Munich. Whose PTnprimpntq in lrntr aisxance pnotography attracted much attention a few years ago, exhibited oerore tne Academy of Sciences today his invention for synchronizing the phonograph and cinemetograph by means of which -the mnvin? riintnron appear to speak. Mrs. Dietz Offers Bond. Euclaire. Wis.. Dec 31. Mrs. .T. Dietz appeared before Judge Wickham today and presented bonds for her nusband as follows: Rogich case, $5,000; Giblin cases, $10,000: Horel case, $7,500; all signed by Bangor, Wis., men. Judge Wickham declined to act on the bonds and suggested Mrs. Dietz get an attorney to attend to the matter. Weekly Bank Statement. New Tork, Dec. 31. The statement of clearing house banks for the week (five days) shows that the banks hold $7,842,600 more than the requirements of the 25 per cent reserve rule. This is a decrease of $2,225,350 In the proportionate cash re serve as compared with last week. rne statement follows: Increase Loans $1.234.194. 4 io 4Si -xin Specie 23S.330.300 1,164.700 Legal tender 69.9M.900 2.069,300 Deposits 1,201.586,400 12.619,800 Circulation 47,728.300 650.100 Reserve 308.239,000 906.000 Reserve required 300,396,000 3.130.000 Surplus 7.842,600 2.225.350 Ex-U. S. deposits l,66O,S0O 107,000 Actual condition: Loans $1,238,174,600 S13.993.800 Specie 236.711.600 2,490,4O0 Legal tender 71.075,800 3.047.000 Deposit 1,206.406.300 17.066.400 Circulation 47.680.800 208,400 Reserve 307,787,000 567.000 Reserve reauired 301.cni.ooo 4 2fi fion Surplus 6.1K6.000 3,71O,OO0 EI-U. S. deposits 1,6.6.800 4,100 Summary of state banks and trust com panies in Great New Tork not reporting to the New Tork clearing house: Loans ..$1,107,623,500 $1,219,100 Specie 117.587.200 452.900 Legal tenders 21,129,600 2S8.300 Total deposits 1,153,178,200 124,100i First Mortgages On Improved Oklahoma Farms The following is a partial list of those we have on hand, subject to' prior sale: Loan Security County 500.00 160 acres Bea ver 550.00 160 acres Jackson 600.00 104 acres Jackson 600.00 80 acres Jackson 660.00 80 acre Jackson 700.00 160 acres Jackson 1000.00 160 acres Jackson 3000.00 160 acres Beaver IOfiO.00 166 acres Jackson 1100.00 160 acres Jackson 1200.00 157 acres Jackson 1200.00 160 acres Jackson 1200.00 80 acres Comanche 1250.00 80 acres Harmon 1400.00 360 acres Jackson 1500.00 160 acres Comanche 1500.00 180 acres Jackson 1600.00 360 acres Jackson 1700.00 160 acres Harmon' 2000.00 160 acres Tillman 2200.00 160 acres Tillman 2300.00 160 acres Jackson 2400.00 3 60 acres Comanche 2400.00 360 acres Jackson 2500.00 360 acres Jefferson 2500.00 160 acres Harmon 2500.00 360 acres Tillman 2500.00 360 acres Jefferson 2600.00 160 acres Tillman THE PIONEER MORTGAGE CO. Mulvane Building, Topeka 8 1 MINE CAR RUNS AWAY. Eight Men Killed and Two Injured at Blucfield. Bluefleld, W. Va., Dec. 31. Eight men were killed and two injured In the Lyclr Fork mine of the Red Jackel Coal com pany near Thacker, when a mine car ran away knocking props down and al- 4. lowing thousands .of tons of coal to fall on the victims. NAVY IS TO PLAY PRINCETON. Carlisle Indians Have Been Dropped by Middies. Annapolis, Md., Dec. 81. -It Is an nounced that the navy football team will play Princeton next season at Annapolis, the match having been definitely arranged for either October 21 or October 23. It will be the big game of the season on thfe Annapolis field. The middies will open their season on October T, when- a game is sched uled with Johns Hopkins. The Car lisle Indians and Lehigh have been crossed off the navy schedule for next year. CHILD'S DRESS CATCHES FIRE. Three-Year-Old Daughter of Sir. and Mrs. Henry Barnes Badly Burned. The 3-year-old daughter of "Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barnes, living 'at 202 Grav avenue, was severely burned last night when, in her mother's absence in an other room, sbe played too near the stove and caught her dress on fire. The child was burned about the chest and abdomen before her mother, at tracted by her cries, could extinguish the flames. Dr. C. M. Hensley was called immediately and dressed tha burns. While there is now no danger of a fatal result, the injury, was a seri ous one. AV. O. T. V. Reception. The East Topeka W. C. T. U. will give a New Tear's reception at the home of Mrs. Clsiro Tolr ii oj Washburn avenue, Monday at 2:30 p. m. .ponowing is tne program: Singing "All Round the World." Bible Lesson Mrs. Park. Prayer. Song "The Gleaners" Stella Swickard and Ruth Park Recitation Stella Swickard. Don't Want Much for Christmas" 1 Rllth Purlr New Tear's Greeting Mrs. Lillian M. Mitchner, State President. -"Words of Wisdom"- Mrs. L. A. King, State Secretary. Social hour and refreshments. Everybody welcome. Lang and Langford Matched. New Tork, Dec. 31. Sam Langford and Bill Lang have been matched to fight for a purse of $20,000 in London on February 16, according to advices re ceived here. Value $3000.00 4sno. 1700. 1900.00 2000.00-. 1600.00 3000.00 3200.00 2800.00 2900.00 3500.00 3200.00 3000.01 3000.0.'! 4009.0J 6000.00 5000.00 5000.00 4400.00 5300.(10 5100.00 5500 00 6400.00 6100.00 6600.C-J 6100.00 6800.00 7500.n 6800.09 2

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7 Right Julius Gerstley The Gerstley-Crawf ord Shoe Co. We hope 1911 will bring you health, prosperity, happiness and contentment. We wish to thank the people of Topeka who have patronized us so liberally, during the part of the past year which we have been in business, yet we honestly believe it has been mutually profitable to both us and you. In 1911 we hope to have the privilege of making your feet glad and yourself happy by fitting you with the right shoes for comfort, style, wear and economy. Shake hands on it Store Open Tonight Until 1 1 O'clock NORTH SIDE NEWS W. E. Jones of Sardou Avenue Early Landscape Gardener. Set Oat Trees on Present Beth any College Campus. FOR C. K. HOLLIDAY. Speaks Highly of Late Topeka Founder. Recalls Speaking to Gladstone Near Wales Home. W. K. Jones, who lives alone In a small house on Sardou avenue just south of East Gordon street, has an other buffalo skull at his home In addition to the one he presented to J. J. King of 1226 North Jackson street. The King buffalo skull was described in the State Journal. Mr. Jones saw the article and called a visitor's atten tion this morning to the fact that he had found another skull In the sands of the Kaw about forty-six years ago. At that sane time the first mentioned was discovered. The skull at the Jones home Is not quite as large as Mr. King's buffalo skull, which measured three feet from tip to tip of horns. The finder was a landscape gardener in the early days of Topeka and set out many of the trees on what is now the Bethany college campus, on Topeka avenue, as well as many trees on other part of the avenue and other streets of Topeka. He also worked In the garden kept by the late C. K. Holli day, sr., one of the founders of To peka. Mr. Holliday had a large garden on the east side of South Madison street between Sixth avenue and Seventh street where the Santa Fe hos pital now Is. Mr. Jones was born In Wales, May 9, 1833. At one time he lived not far from Mawarden Castle, the home of Glad stone, "the grand old man," and speaks of having seen him. Mr. Jones learned landscape garden ing, the profession of his father. When about 15 he came to America. He lived at New London, Canada, later in Wis consin and about 1869 he moved to Kansas and located in Topeka. In 1871 he built the stone house at the east end of Gordon street near his present home. Nearly all of his life he has followed the landscape gardening profession. He is the father of Mrs. Jones on South Polk street. His wife died about ten years ago. "I used to see Mr. Gladstone quite often when I was a boy," said Mr. Jones this morning. "He always spoke to me, in fact he spoke to every one and was held in great liking by all of his country people. "Why did I come to America? Be cause I thought it was a better coun try than Wales. I think so yet. "And I think Mr. Holliday was one of the best men I ever knew. I liked to work for him. "Yes, it is a great satisfaction to see trees growing and thriving which you planted many years ago, and to feel that you helped to beautify beau tiful Topeka. Besides those planted near Bethany college when by the way, rishop Vail was here, I set out trees near the manual training school, and John Elliott's house on Harrison street as well as on several other places over town. "I have been here pretty steady, but in 1893 I went to Wales to visit my mother. While there she gave me a wooden firkin, a bucket, which has been in our family since 1728. I have a notion to present it to the State His torical society as I have no use for it." One of the features of New Tear's Sunday observance at the North Side Baptist church will be the special music by the Van Ness choir. This organiza tion is locally famous and may be the nucleus of a North side choral union of the choirs of the other churches. Let Your Laundry Troubles Pass Out With 1910 Let satisfaction and pleasing laundry work come in with 1911 and make it AH appy for Topeka Laundry Co. Main Off ice and DLAflfla 1 CO Up-town Branch wks. 2nd Quincy Ste. TOOIieS .1 DO 116 We,t 8th St. Heartily We Wish A Happy New Year I and Julius Dan and I The members of this choir follow: Di rector. W. M. Van Ness; sopranos. Miss Florence Rowe, Miss Minnie McCall, Mrs. M. H. Austin, Mrs. J. A. Wolfe, Mrs. I. C. Boyce, Mrs. W. M. Van Ness, Mrs A See, Mrs W E Scotton, Mrs. L. P. Fraser, Miss Lucile Lukens, Miss Pearl Head, Miss Hazel Boast. Miss Ruth Kmmert, Miss Jeanette Emmert Miss Margery Cole. Miss Bess Bower man, Miss Hazel Kincaid; tenors, C. C. Berry, L. P. Fraser. C. C. Nicholson. Claud Shields, A. T. Rowe, A. See: altos, Mrs. Ira Williams. Mrs. L. e. Anderson, Mrs. W. L. Hofer, Mrs. Ken neth Clark, Mrs. J. E. Warnock, Mrs. C. J. Swank. Mrs. Pond, Miss Ruth Mc Kinley. Miss Josephine Hitchcock, Miss Edna Pence, Miss Elanor Caldwell; bass, Paul Van Ness, L. E. Anderson. E. Crites. C. Martin, W. Zarker, R. K. Diffenderfer. W. E. Scotten, O. Rowe, M. Bowreman, F. Williams. The church orchestra follows: Direc tor, W. M. Van Ness: organist, Mrs. C. C. Berry; pianist. Miss Grace Luk ens; first violins, Kenneth Clark and Walter Clark; second violin, John Will iams; cornet, W. L. Hofer. Notes and Personals. Mrs. TJ. S. G. Hughes and son, Wes ley, of Kansas City, Mo., are visiting at the home of Mrs. Hughes' parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brown, of 12S1 North Madison street. Mrs. J. A. Kestler is ill at her home, 1023 North Jackson street. Miss Jeanett Miller of Kansas City is visiting at the home of Mrs. Cooper on North Quincy street. Miss Christine Bowie of Omaha, Neb., arrived this morning for a yisit at the Thomas Page home, 1027 North Monroe street. A. M. Petro, druggist. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kistler of 310 Park street will spend New Tears with relatives in St. Marys. A North side boy is so bashful that he wishes he could put his face in his pocket whenever he sees a girl approaching. Mr. and Mrs. Andy McGrew of Chi cago, who have been visiting at the home of Mrs. McGrew's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Browning, on Indian creek, left for their home last even ing. Miss Jessie M. Hoover left this' morning for a visit in Fargo, N. D. The eastbound plug due here 8:15 a. m. was one hour and 50 minutes late this morning. The engine blew out a cylinder head at Belvue and time was lost until a freight engine was secured to haul the train. The Takl Hashi Embroidery club will meet Monday afternoon at the home of T. M. Forbes 1001 North Monroe street. J. C. Travis of 912 North Topeka avenue has returned from Lincoln, Ark., where he has been on land busi ness. John Booth is ill at his room, 1001 North Monroe street. E. W. Houghton has arrived from Lawrence to take the place of car clerk at the Union Pacific freight de pot. The position was held by Har rison Dana, who was given the cash iership when Claude Sherburne, chief clerk, went to the Kaw mills. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kipis of Hays are visiting at the home of J. F. Hefe ner, 618 North Topeka avenue. Walter Coleman and George Ward of Menoken are North side visitors today. Miss Emma Grear and Miss Gladys Grear of Cleveland, Mo., who have been visiting at the home of their cousin. Miss Nellie Purdum, of 32 3 West Gordon street, returned home to day. Miss Purdum accompanied them as far as Kansas City, where she will make a short visit. Ed Graft of Severy is visiting rela tives here. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock there will be a celebration of the Holy Eu charist at the Church of the Good Shepherd, with Canon Talbot as cele brant. Evening prayer and sermon at 8 o'clock. A watch meeting will be held at the Baptist church tonight. The Van Ness choir will repeat the Christmas music at the even ing service only tomorrow at the North Side Baptist church. Mrs. A. M. Balrd is in Kansas City on business. The engagement is announced of Mrs. Lottie Coon of 912 North Topeka ave nue, and Mr. Edward Bowman of Lin coln, Neb. They will be be married the New Year you. Yoa Dan Crawford latter part of January and will make their home in Lincoln. Talk is being made of organizing a choir at the Second Presbyterian church. The new minister. Rev. W. C. Meeker, recently here from Edgerton, is proving popular and interest is being taken in all of the lines of church work. Charles Ekel has returned to Hum boldt after a visit with his mother, Mrs. Mary Ekel, of 317 East Gordon street. A. F. Greer of Los Angeles, Cal., a former North side merchant, has dona ted two buffalo to the First ward in the shape of a picture postcard of the ani mals which he sent to friends here. Mrs. L. W. Smith, of 1103 Central avenue, and daughter Freda, are visit ing relatives in Kansas City. Mrs. John Wendell, of Rochester, is improving after an illness. Mrs. W. A. Thompson, of 1225 Norh Jackson street, is recovering from an attack of grip. Alice Waldron, the little daughter of Rev. J. W. Waldron, of 510 Park street is ill with diphtheria. The house is quarantined. The young people of the Congrega tional church will give a watch party at the church tomorrow night. The regular monthly meeting of the Shorey Sunday school board was held at the home of Mrs. J. M. Spraol last evening. Mrs. L. Robinson, of 827 North Jack son street, is visiting at the home of Mrs. Dessie Bradbury in Lincoln. John Crawford, switch foreman for the Union Pacific, is able to be at work again after being laid oft on account of illness. Mrs. William Boast, of 909 North Jackson street, went to Kansas City today for medical treatment. Beginning Monday evening, a three weeks' series of revival meetings will be held at the Kansas Avenue Metho dist church, in charge of Rev. Zooks, pastor of the Walnut Grove M. E. church. Sunday morning Rev. G. Wil son will preach and in the evening Evangelist Hicks. Rev. W. J. Waldron will be unable to be present, as his home is quarantined on account of scarlet fever. The bridge across Indian creek on the Grantville road, near Calhoun bluffs, is being repaired. It has been in bad condition for some time and was considered dangerous. T. J. Stamp of Piatt county, Mis souri, arrived today for a visit at the home of M. Waldman. 517 Grant street. Mr. Stamp is a "chickenist" and will exhibit some Aconas and other fancy fowl at the poultry show here next week. The basketball team of the North Side Baptist church will practice to night at the Provident association gymnasium. Wade Reed of Grantville is confined to his home with scarlet fever. Mrs. Gertrude Heis of Lecompton is visiting at the home of Mrs. Geoige Ffizbie, in Grantville. The annual meeting of the Silver Lake Telephone company will be held at the F. P. Van Orsdol place Tuesday, January 3. Services at the North Side Baptist church will be as follows tomorrow: Sunday school, 9 a. m.: preaching, 11 a. m., subject, "Our Celebration of the Goodness of God"; Junior B. Y. P. U. meeting, 3 p. m; 6:30 p m.. Senior and Intermediate B. T. P. U. meeting. Preaching, 7:30 p. m. subject, "How to Begin the New Tear." Special mu sic at ail services. Mrs. R. E. Jackson of Marshall town, Iowa, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Haley, 2501 Union avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Trip and family of 1132 Central avenue, who have been visiting relatives in Meriden, have re turned home. i Mrs. Howard Hannah of Cleveland, Ok., has returned home after a visit with friends and relatives here. CAPPEK'S AXXCAL BLOWOUT. Gives Entertainment at Auditorium for His Employees. Arthur Capper, whose publications and associated interests include the Topeka Daily Capital, Farmers Mail and Breeze, Kansas Weekly Capital, Missouri Ruralist, Missouri Valley Farmer, Nebraska Farm Journal, Topeka Sunday Capital, the Household, Poultry Culture, The Mail Printing House. Capper Engraving Com pany. Topeka, Kansas City. Wichita, Post Card department, gave his sixth annual entertainment for his employees in the auditorium last night. About 600 people on the Capper payrolls were present be sides a host of invited guests. The top liner of the program was Joseph E. Howard, the actor and song writer, who preceded by a day his show, "The Goddess of Liberty," which shows at the Grand today and tonight. The composer sang from a repertory or his pwn com positions, playing his own accompany ments and found it difficult to earn a retreat. A grand march in fancy costume was a feature of the bill. Santa Claus in an electric auto, led the procession. When the procession stooped St. Nick Dresented a huge sheath of roses to Mrs. Capper from her husband's employees. Judges, Mrs. James L. King, Dave Leahy and Charles Sessions were appoint ed for the temerity roles of naming the most beautiful and the most uniquely cos tumed of the masqueraders. Miss Minnie Seller, as an Indian maid, won the beauty prize and Ralph Mitchell, a dago organ grinaer, ieaaing tjiarence scott s money, took the honors for impersonation. A yama-yama chorus of Capper girls witn tuneiui songs ana pnantom step, coached by Mrs. Mabel Renwick-Hughes, made a hit with the jolly throng and were joined by a chorus of male voices, trained by the same coach, for a completion of the musical program. Small boys attempted to ride a donkey for the amusement of the crowd. This burro was labeled the "Missouri Ruralist. the latest of the Capper acouisitions. A miniature of the Daily Capital, full of local jokes and jabs at employees, was cir culated. In fact, the performance was as varied as a hippodrome and because of the condition of mind of Use audience was as great a success. WAR ONJJLD EtlEN City Civil Service Commissioner Doubts Their Abilities. G. E. Barnaby Will Change City Employment Customs. MUST HAVE STRENGTH. No More Political "Pulls" Will Get a Man a Position. Only One of Sixty Applicants Fails to Pass. War has been declared on the aged men in the employ of the city, by G. E. Barnaby, secretary of the Topeka civil service commission. Claiming it is time that such labor on the part of the city should be abolished and that unless' a man is physically able to perform all the duties of the office, he will not be passed by the commission, Mr. Barnaby has made New Tear's resolutions fof 1911. At this time there are in the employ of the city government many old men men who have been given their offices both on account of efficiency and on account of the sentiment and laws re garding the positions given to old sol diers. If the determination of Secre tary Barnaby of the civil service com mission holds out, there will be very few places for the old soldiers next year under a new administration. Mr; Barnaby has just completed the annual report of the civil service com mission to the mayor and commission ers. "I have tried to carry out the duties of the offices to such an extent that To Feka will have a payroll of strong com petent employees," said Mr. Barnaby, "and in the future I will say that the rules are going to be more strict than ever, "I have every reverence for an old man I am getting along in years my self. I will never antagonize an old man. if it i3 possible to help it. But as a civil service commissioner of the city of Topeka I am doing my best to give the city the best class of labor possible no more political labor. "Next year ail of the clerks and city officials with the exception of the elec tive officers and a number of others, will come under the civil service ex amination. This means that a man must be sound in every way especial ly physically. I don't see how we are going to allow so many old men in the employ of the city as formerly and we will carry out the laws." The fact that practically every la borer and clerk in the city's employ must take the civil service examination before they are given a position next year has aroused the" employees at the city hall. At the next meeting of the civil service commission the ap plications for positions will be filed by the score. Here is the law on the subject: "The provisions of this section shall apply to all appointive othcers ana em ployees of said cjty, except city at torney. the members of the fire de partment where they have already adopted the civil service plan, city clerk, city treasurer, city auditor, city engineer, superintendent or streets, superintendent of waterworks, chief of police, city physiican, judge of police court, superintendent of public parks, city assessor, commissioners of any kind (laborers whose occupation re quires no special skill or fitness), elec tion officials, and mayor's secretary and assistant attorney, where such of ficers are appointed." Since last April the civil service commission has examined 60 appli cants for city positions and only one was rejected. The positions asked for were as follows: For police. 34; for sanitary work, 9; for engineer's office, 8; miscellaneous, 9. The commissioners have recom mended that there be six meetings a year instead of four and that the city physician be paid a fee of 50. SHE MAY GET HER PENSION. Case of Mrs. Blary Dalhamer Is a Peculiar One. Following an examination by H. W. Morrow, special pension examiner, Mrs. Mary Dalhamer, of Salina, may be compelled to pay to the receiver of the Abilene State bank $468 pension money paid to her by John A. Flack, the defaulting cashier, as told in Fri day's State Journal. The trouble started eight weeks ago when Mrs. Dalhamer failed to receive her Novem ber pension. When Mrs. Dalhamer reported her case to the pension office at Washing ton, the case was immediately referred to the Topeka office and Mr. Morrow went to Abilene to investigate the matter. Mrs. Dalhamer said that for years Flack had paid her the little pension which she thought was due her from the government. At the time Morrow took the case, the bank officials knew nothing of the trans action. An investigation showed that for several years Flack had paid the woman 412 a month pension and charged- the account to the bank. It now appears that the pension papers had been in Flack's possession for safe-keeping. In some manner the papers were lost and the bank cashier continued to make payments at the expense of the institution with which he was connected. He was never re imbursed, so far as the pension office was able to learn, and the case proved to be one of the most mysterious the local office had ever handled. The gov ernment was willing to pay the wom an's pension, but when no word was received from her, the name was dropped from the pension rolls. "An effort will now be made to have Mrs. Dalhamer reinstated and to secure the payment of the back pension cover ing a lapse of more than four years. If this application ia approved, the Abilene woman will probably assign the back payments to the creditors of the defunct institution. MANY PEOPLE are calling at our "store for Week'sBreak-Up-A-Cold Tablets for colds and 'la-grippe. Sample on request. CAMPBELL DRUG CO. 810 N. Kansas Avenue Items for the East Topeka column may be telephoned to Ind. phone 1751 Charles Leachman of Butte Mont., is here visiting his aunt, Mrs. Burdett, of 418 Madison street. Mrs. E. J. Wilson of 420 Madison street is suffering with an attack of pneumonia. Fred and Frank Manera of Winfleld, Kansas, are here spending a few days visiting friends and relatives. Charles Beakley of 418 Madison will accompany his aunt, Mrs. Tiner, to her home in Overbrook to spend two weeks. Mrs. Tiner has spent the Christmas vacation with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Ashel Hevlin of Par sons, Kansas, are the parents of a son, born December 24. Mrs. Hevlin was formerly Miss Letha Altman, daugh ter of Mrs. H. R. Altman of 314 Bran ner street. Mrs. George Rhodes and children of Hutchinson are here visiting her mother, Mrs. McConnell of Leland street. Mr. Edward Gibbons has gone to Sapulpa, Okla., where he will spend a week visiting his aunt, Mrs. J. H. Quinn. Mrs. George Baldwin of Osage City and sister. Miss Grace Long of Car bondale are here visiting friends for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Chappie of 420 Madi son street are spending this week with relatives in Beloit, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Burdett of Wich ita, Mr. and Mrs. Tyner and daughter Lethe of Overbrook spent the holi days here the guests of Mrs. Burdett of Madison street. Mr. Harry v Athon is spending a week in Oklahoma City visiting -friends. Miss Mabel Beeler left yesterday for Fort Madison, Iowa, to remain over New Year's, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sharp. Mr. and Mrs. John Feldner and daughter Florence have returned from McPherson where they spent Christ mas with relatives and friends. Mr, Albert Campbell left Tuesday for Los Angeles and San Bernardino, Cal., to visit his grandmother, Mrs. Campbell,.and uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Reed, former residents of Topeka. Mrs. Clarence Herrington and daughter Ruth were guests of Mrs. R. B. Cathers Wednesday. Mrs. Ellison of Lake street, who was severely burned last Monday, is report ed to be slowly but steadily improv ing. Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson of Car r ndale spent Sunday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Owens of Chandler street. Mr. Clarence Dalstrom will return to work Monday after being off a week on account of illness. Miss Ola Finley and brother, Philip Finley, have returned to their home in Carbondale after spending a short time here visiting firends. William and Joseph Bailey have re turned to their homes in Kansas City after spending a week here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bailey, of 1413 East Sixth street. Mrs. Lawrence Bell of Atchison is here spending a week with her moth er, Mrs. M. Mulvihill. Mrs. Koontz has returned to her home in Emporia after spending a short time here, the guest of Mrs. T. C Tinsley of East Fiftth street. She was called here by the illness of her son who is In the Santa Fe hospital suffering with an attack of appendicitis. Miss Nettie Hagenbuch of Eudora is here visiting friends and relatives for a few days. Miss Esther Everett is improving after being sick for the past week with an attack of fever. Mrs. Thomas Mulvihill of Hoising ton, Kansas, is here spending a week the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. Mulvihill of Norris avenue. Mrs. J. T. White and Mr. and Mrs. Earbaugher have returned from Kan sas City, where they spent several days, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eiler. Rev. W. H. Scrivner returned Thursday eevning from Liberty, Mo., where he was called last Monday by the death of his brother. Helen, the little daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Everett of East Sixth avenue, who has been ill for some time with an attack of pneumonia but who was much improved, has taken a backset, and is quite sick again. Miss Elizabeth Wilson is quite sick at her home on Seward avenue with an atack of the grip. She is reported to be improving. There will be regular services at the Christian church Sunday Sunday school at 9:80, communion and preaching at 11, Junior Endeavor at 3, Intermediate Endeavor at 5:30, Senior Endeavor at 6:15, and evening sermon at 7:30, Rev. W. H. Scrivner, pastor in charge. The services at the Presbyterian church for Sunday will be: Sunday school at 9:45, Mr. J. B. Norton, su perintendent; preaching at 11 by the pastor. Rev. J. C. Everett. Subject of morning sermon, "A Life Worth Liv ing, in a Land Worth Living In." Junior Endeavor at 2:30, Miss Floy Higgins, superintendent; Senior En deavor at 6:15, Frank Ellenberger, president, and evening service at 7:30. The Lord's supper will be observed, as well as the reception of new members will be given. There will be regular services held Sunday in East side M. E. church in charge of the pastor, Rev. D. A. Shutt. Good singing by the chorus, under the direction of John Lungstrom. Preach ing services at 11 and 7:30. COMPLAINS OP PROVIDENT ASSO.

Captain Evans says He Wasn't Treated Right While There. The Topeka Provident Association is the subject of discussion by a former In mate. Capt. W. A. Evans is the com municant. He writes as follows "Poor Farm, Topeka. "Mr. Editor: Seeing an article in a morning paper with regard to me being helped by the Provident Association and that they finally thought it would be bet ter for1 me -to come out here, there was never a bigger falsehood printed. Now some time ago. I had my ribs hurt and werft to St. Francis hospital and was treated by Dr. Stewart. He and the Sis ters especially were very kind to me. "So far as the Provident Association taking care of me Is concerned, it is un true for they got a dollar a week -from me for the four weeks I was there lying in a room with five other men, one above the other. "Now for the 'charitable treatment. The first week I was there I- could not sleep for vermin in my bed. I told the janitor about It and two days later he came witn anomer man to ciean k up, but they found, so many of the vermin, they had to take the mattress into the yard and burn it up. He then made up a bed of three old -comforts for me. "Kor three days I' could not go out as I was sick with pains;- No person came down to see me at all so I gave a man a quarter to go and -get me some hot coffee and hot soup. He went upstairs to get I a jug or can to put, it In, and when he I asked for it, they told him to go back We wish you A Happy New Year and a full measure of health and prosperity for every day of 1911 1911 ere's our hand you for the New H to Year. May you all be prosperous and happy in well lighted and heated homes use Gas Consumers' L. H. P. Co. A 1911 Resolve You'll Be Enthusiastic About Keeping Start Right Start Now Buy all your groceries at the Owl Stores where dollars buy more where qualities are standard. January 1st, 1911, is a good time to begin tak ing advantage of our lower-cost of -living, cash-at-the-counter plan. "We thank you who know us for a most success ful year in 1910 wish the rest of you happiness and prosperity in 1911 by urging you to trade at the Owl Grocery Stores We wish our friends and patrons a prosperous and pleasant 1911 NEW FLOWERS for a NEW YEAR American Beauties and Violets FRESH AS DEW HOLLCRAFT'S Phone your orders Bell 176-1 807 Kansas Avenue V. we tiave moved -sfSfcs. to 419 Kansas Avenue t and are in a position to accommodate more fe? people for New Year dinner. We will serve a&jZCa turkey and all the good things that make aW a goo east Better come try a good meal ijr at our new location. Good home cooking. The New England Restaurant F. L. MORRIS, Prop. and they would Bend something down. In about an hour and a half, the man who drives the wagon came down to me with a cup of tea. It was cold. And It was not what I wanted. The next morning the chief of police and also Mr. King came to see me and said they would see some of my people and get me away from there. I also saw Mr. Thomas, clerk of the court. These people did the charity act to me not the association. "I could say a little more but It ia not necessary. But I must say that the Chris tian Science people have done mora good to me in word and thought than any others. Tours truly. "CAPT. W. A. EVANS." "He's a military looking young chap" "Ought to be. He's a veteran of nine wars." "Impossible! Why, he's only 22 years old." "I know but he once spent six months In Soutb America "Cleve land Leader.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1910. THEATRICAL NEWS Sunflower Apostle of Motion Gives Prairie Pest Credit. Haude Fulton Was Tutored. by Kansas Tumbleweed. 1IAS S750 A WEEK JOB. Born in Eldorado Where Her Father Had Newspaper. Killing of Stanford White Was a Setback to Debut. COMING ATTRACTIOXS. At the Grand. Tonight "The Goddess of Liber ty." January 2 "The Climax." January 7 Margaret Illington. January 13 James K. Hackett. January 14 'The Honeymoon Trail." January 17 "The Kissing Girl." January 20-21 "The Newlyweds." At the Majestic. North Brothers Stock Company in "Northern Lights." At the Xovelty. Vaudeville. The tumbleweeds of Kansas taught dancing to Maude Fulton back in the late 80's and early 90's. She didn't realize it then, but she does now and she's glad of the lessons, for she and "William Rock are making $750 a week dancing on the Orpheum circuit now. "Can you think of anything more expressive of dreariness and desola tion than the rolling of tumbleweeds before a Kansas wind?" Miss Fulton asked a caller in Kansas City last week. "They make a powerful pic ture, don't they? Oh, if you've never seen them you don't know what you have missed." m 1 1 ilfti, ,y.ah Miss Maude Fulton. The caller had seen them and he quite agreed with Miss Fulton that they conveyed the idea of dreariness Just fine, but what had that to do with dancing? Anyway, he hadn't noticed anything so very dreary about Miss Fulton's dance and he told her o right out. "Very kind," and her big blue, eyes sparkled, "but here is what I was get ting at. There was nothing in those tumbleweeds except motion. There was no regularity of movement, no "ancy steps, but Just that moving along, and it was more eloquent even than the howling wind. I've always believed that motion is the most ef fective mode of expression and mo tion is dancing. Dancing doesn't mean fancy steps and clogs. You can scarcely Induce a theater crowd to fall for a buck and wing any more, but they do like dancing that tells something, and that's the kind the tumbleweeds do, or used to do when I lived In Kansas. A Few Things She Has Done. "I was born out here in ElDorado. My father, T. P. Fulton, used to edit a weekly paper there and I used to try to help him set type. I always wanted to be moving. "We went to Olathe to live when I was a young ster and then we came here to Kan sas City and lived a few years. When I was 12 I went to St. Louis and worked as an apprentice In a milli ner's shop. Then I was a stenogra pher In St. Louis and from there I anttea to uetroit, wnere I was a stenographer and learned telegra phy on the side. My next move was to South Dakota, where I worked as a telegraph operator. "It must have been that tumbleweed spirit, I guess, that kept me Jumping from one place to another. I got more of that spirit In South Dakota. I lived for a time on a ranch there and rode horseback and wrote a few little stories that I was able to get into a magazine. Then came the stage yearning. I didn't know that I wanted to dance. I didn't find that out until several months after I had been in New York when I got a place as a sort of third soubrette in 'Made moiselle Champagne. I was wait ing in the wings for my time to go on and trembling a whole lot, too, the opening night of the show in Madison Square Garden, when I heard the shots that killed Stanford "White. Then I had to wait until the next night for my stage debut. "Ever since that little part in Mademoiselle Champagne' I have been dancing and "That was only four and a half years ago," the caller interrupted. "I guess that's right. It seems like twenty-five. I've done twenty-five years of work since then, anyhow." "Kicking appears to be about the easiest thing in your dances," ven tured the caller. Keep It Up Forever Not. "Ttx kicking itself wasn't so hard to learn. The struggle came in trying &J?,rn !V. look as lf 1 enjoyed it! hT'V1 1Sn t a bit of ful t kick, but we have to make it look like fun to the audience." "And dancing is your life work, I suppose." "I suppose not Now the tumble rs Vyou know can lean up against a barb wire fence and rest when it is tired of racing across the prairie. If I could do that I d never do anything except dance, but I can t. I'm no mirTe une with one Performance un til I hear the orchestra playing for my next. And lots of times I think of those cozy fences with their banks of resting tumbleweeds and wish I could Just dance into a fine long rest "ke that, but I can't. Now I know this is just what many a stage wom an has said, but it's the truth with me; I'm going to buy a Kansas farm right soon and quit this dancing game." "But they don't raise tumbleweeds in Kansas any more," the caller warned. Kansas vs. Broadway. "Well, there's the more cheerful mo tion of the waving wheat fields and the nodding cornstalks. It means more than dear old Broadway that you hear so much about." "Kansas isn't very largely repre sented among the dancers, is it?" "I'm the only one, so far as I know, but you can't keep Kansas out of things. Dancing is just becoming pop ular and there'll be plenty of Kan sans at it before- just as I said. There's my music. Come out to my farm next summer. All right, Rock sy." And the tumbleweeds pupil had bounded up the stairs to recite her lesson. Singer Prides Goddess of Liberty. In these days when so many so called "musical comedies' and the like are being passed off on the pub lic when they should long ago have found their rightful place in the waste basket of the author who had the real interest of the theater-going people of the land at heart, it is with self pride that Mort H. Singer offers "The Goddess of Liberty" with Jcseph E. Howard at the Grand to night. It is a well known fact that it takes a good production to run a long time with as much success as has attend ed "The Goddess of Liberty" at the Princess theater in Chicago. It is because of this fact, that Mort H. Singer, the producer of 'The Goddess of Liberty," backed up by the uni versal commendation of the Chicago critics and public, that packed the theater for more than one solid year, is glad to offer his play elsewhere. Glories in Her Cowardice. Miss Florence Webber, the Adelina in Joseph Weber's The Climax com pany, which comes to the Grand on Monday night, admits that she is a coward and glories in the fact to a certain extent. Miss Webber and Mrs. Charles Hamilton, wife of the aviator, were school girl chums several years ago. When Hamilton made his wonderful flight from New York to Philadelphia and return Miss Webber was one of the guests entertained by the officers at Fort Jay, Governor's Island, on the day of the flight. In the long wait, when Hamilton came to grass on the Jersey marshes, the little ac tress spent her time cheering Mrs. Hamilton. When the aviator did ar rive, at dusk, he offered to give Miss Webber a ride around the Statue of Liberty. "Get out of that seat, Charlie." was the response. "I'm afraid to leave the ground and would not go with you for a million dollars." Wants "Liquidated Damages." The first case in which a manager booking through the Western Vaude ville Managers' association seeks "liquidate damages" fro man act un der the Illinois state law comes up in the Chicago courts on January 9. The case is one in which M. P. Sham burg, manager of the Columbia thea ter at Kansas City, wants $175 from B-i-m-m, B-o-m-m, B-r-r-r act, which opened on the circuit at Topeka sev eral weeks ago. While Shamberg books through H. M. Miller, who has a desk in the association, it is by no means an association fight and is manager against an act. It appears that Shamberg runs the Orpheum in Leavenworth. Kan., and f it

sp- -jf s i-' 4 V'-.t. ''.-,ttt m- t a tJ ,4 Joseph E. Howard In "The Goddess of Liberty." the Columbia in Kansas City. The con- while the northern lights are seen the tracts for the Orpheum call for the acts' services where required and Manager Shamberg desired to place his entire show at the soldiers" home in Leavenworth on Friday night of the week in which B-i-m-m, B-o-m-m, B-r-r-r played him. He often does this and transfers the baggage and effects of acts to and from the home. B-i-m-m, B-o-m-m, B-r-r-r had worked Wichi ta, Kan., and Oklahoma City, Okla., for .$225 and had made a cut for Leavenworth and Kansas City to $175. They could not see the idea of tak ing down their big musical act, mov ing out to the home, coming back to the Orpheum and setting it up again unless they got $25 extra. The act is said to have told repre sentatives of the White Rats that the management promised this extra re muneration. At any event it did not work at Kansas City, taking the pic tures from the lobby as late as 11 a. m. on the opening day. The Grand Albini was obtained to relace the act and when B-i-m-m, B-o-m-m, B-r-r-r went to the Trev ett their salary was attached for $175. H. M. Miller says that the manager will furnish depositions showing that the act canceled. Other reports are to the effect that the manager can celed the act. There have been a number of com plaints of a similar nature heard at the White Rats headquarters. The Musical Goolmans, a product of To peka. are said to have been one act which considered the removal of their apparatus worth remuneration. At the Majestic. The offering of the North Brothers Stock company at the Majestic be ginning Monday matinee, will be "Northern Lights," Edwin Barbour's great Indian play. The story told is of legendary nature, beinrr written around the belief of the Indians that I f 1 It i 1 ft j ft K J I e -vi-Mi-it titii nnrt iifwit rn i rn Wain Florence Webber as Adelina in "The Climax. Great Spirit calls upon them to go to war. The scenes are laid in and around Fort Terry in the country of the feioux and Ogallalas in the Indian outbreaks of 1876, at the time of the Custer massacre on the Little Big Horn. Colonel Jack Gray, General Crook (the Gray Fox) and other not ed Indian fighters are introduced in the play. Harry North will play the leading part, that of Sidney; Sher wood, surgeon of Fort Terry: Mr. Spurrier plays the part of Wallace Grey, the coward; Mr. Blaylock ap pears as an educated Indian, John Swiftwind; Miss Russell will play Helen Dare, a strong emotional lead ing role. The rest of the company are cast in congenial roles, and in addition several extra people are used in the production. Beginning January 9, the management will give to each per son attending tne Monday night per formance the first of a series of pic tures of every member of the com pany, and every Monday night there after a photograph of some one mem Der oi tne company will be given away. At the Novelty. The management of the Novelty theater thinks that the ideal vaude ville bill should have a Dlavlet. Acro batic and novelty acts always appeal to a certain class, while song and dance and comedy numbers always are more or less entertaining. It is not easy, however, to obtain a sketch or playlet, strong enough to fill the headline position on the ideal vaude ville bill. When it comes to the best playlets of vaudeville, there are less than a dozen that will qualify. The ideal sketch must contain a consis tent story, briefly told, the players must be more capable than those ap pearing In the legitimate drama, for they must "get their audience" with their first lines, and furthermore, the playlet must have scenic equipment and effects and at the same time follow a line of thought so consis tently that it will give the audience something to think about when they reach home. The management feels assured that in "The Operator," a dramatic sketch by Charles Kenyon, -rhich will head the bill at the Novelty theater opening matinee New Year's day, has been obtained a sketch answering all of the aforementioned requirements. The story is of an operator at a small tank station in the Nevada desert, on the S. P. R. R., who has been on duty 70 hours without relief. Finally overcome with loss of sleep, he allows two trains to approach each other on the same track. Madame Zaleska, who appears as the ODera- tor's wife, is a niece of the late Mad am Modjeska, and has inherited from that great tragedienne her strong emotional power and histrionic abil ity. She is supported by Floyd Moore, a well known leading man. in the title role. A striking feature of "The Operator" is the realistic stage train. NOTES OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Manager C. C. North of the North Brothers Stock company has gone to Oklahoma City, where one of his com panies has an indefinite engagement at the Metropolitan. Mr. North will take part in the cast of "Goins. Some" next week, appearing as Larry Glass. Robert Blaylock, dramatic director in the North Brothers Stock company, had supper the other noght with Mrs. Fred Moore, wife of the Toeka West ern league club manager. They both are natives of Hazleton, Pa., jand had not seen each other in sixteen years. In a similar number of years, Mr. Blaylock was the first person from Hazleton that Mrs. Moore has seen. Chester A. Beach, formerly of the North Brothers' Stock company in Topeka, now has a part in "Lower Berth Thirteen," a musical show that is scoring a success in Chicago. Ar thur Deming. known to Topeka vaudeville as "The White Black Bird," is playing the lead. The last number, sung by Miss Texas Guinan in the third act of "The Kissing Girl," is coquettishly acted by the pretty actress and is finished by her throwing to the audience a genu ine gold ring for the possession of which a lively scramble always fol lows. One of the largest and most suc cessful musical plays of the theatrical season, "The Newlyweds and Their Baby," founded on George McManus' famous cartoons, is announced for an early presentation at the Grand opera house. Professor Lehnbach's famous paint ing of Ernst Von Possart, the great German actor who is soon to appear in this country for a limited engagement at the Irving Place theater, under the management of Gustav Amber, is now on the way to this country, and is to be exhibited in one of the leading Fifth avenue art galleries while he is playing in New York city. This paint ing won the first prize in the art ex hibition in Munich last summer, and was then seen by thousands of Ameri cans who visited Munich or stopped mere tor a day or two on their way to Oberammergau. Margaret Illmgton-Frohman-Bowes. wife of the wealthy Seattle real estate man, who is managing her company playing "The Whirlwind," has been booked as the attraction at the Grand on January 7. It is said that the bill is one of the most magnificently staged that ever has been put before the American public. The southern tour of the "Ben-Hur" company under the direction of Klaw Erlanger has broken all records for attendance. This is the twelfth season of this greatest of Biblical plays, but the interest of the public In General Lew Wallace's story has increased ratn- er than shown any evidences of abate ment. In Augusta. Columbia and Jack sonville, every performance was sold out before the company arrived in the city and extra performances had to be arranged. "Ben-Hur" will be sent west after its southern and southwestern tour. Miss Katharine Kaelred has been se lected to play in Mr. Jones' new com edy, "We Can't Be as Bad as All That." So has William Hawtrey. George Randolph Chester, to whose stories Mr. Cohan was inspired to write 'Get Rich Quick' Wallingtord," is a native of Connersville, Ind. His asso- j ciates in that city recall the day in his father-in-law's jewelry store on Main street when he exhibited the first check I he received for his iilerary work. W. A. Brady is anxious to eradicate the annoying impression that the At tick playwright was obsessed by a sense of the lugubrious. Therefore he an nounces that he will alternate per formances of Aristophanes' "The Birds" 1 with Miss Margaret Mayo s "Baby Mine" the enterprise to be under the auspices of an anonymous university of the middle west. Miss Clara Laughlin. author of "Fe licity."' has a new novel impending wirh one of the incidental heroi-3 an ac tor said to be taken from life. Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern al ready announce "King Lear" as their Shakespearean revival for next season. Miss Denise Orme (the Hon. Mrs. Yarde Buller) made her appearance in vaudeville a few evenings ago at the London Coliseum. She sang several lit tle song fragments and accompanied herself on the violin. Henry Bernstein's new play is in re hearsal at the Comedle-Francaisc. witli Mr. Le Bargy and Mme. Bartet in the dominant parts. Into it, the corres pondents says, he has distilled "a deli cate sensuality." BELLEW'S WORLFtOUR Actor Flans Stopping to Charter Steamship at English Ports. New York,. Dec. 31. Kyrle Bellew, the actor is making plans with Charles Frohman and a steamship company in London to charter a steam shin and make a tour around the world with a dramatic and a musical 3 Sou. v 1&&&3 GRAND gggg MONDAY, JAN. 2 NO MATINEE EVENING PERFORMANCE ONLY Jos. M. Weber Offers His N. Y. Cast in Edward Locke's Brilliant Drama Music by Jos. C Breil. Great Cast Including Mitt Florence Webber What Kansas City Critics Said Kansas CSty Journal, Doc. 19th by Marshall. "The Climax" is clean, wholesome and entertaining. A specially effective feature of the production seen at the Willis-Wood last night, is the fact that for the first time an adequate musical val uation is given to the story. The cast gives a thoroughly pleasing performance throughout. Kansas City Post, Dec. 19th by Goewey. You will probably like the company better than the original cast. The performance is a consistent and satisfying one. Everybody was enthusiastic and the company was made to respond to numer ous curtain calls. Seats Now Selling Lower Boxes and Orch. $1.50; Orch. Circle and Upper Boxes, $1.00; Balcony, 75o and 50c; Gallery, 25c GRAND TONIGHT Mort H. Singer An nounces (First Appearance) JOSEPH E. HOWARD, America's Foremost Author, Composer and Singer in todies. Tantalizing T1 t 11 C I 'I .1 comedy success of 1 he bocidess or Liberty Mesmerizing1 Melodies. Tantalizing: Tunes. Musical the Century. rtYPLEBELLEWi comedy company and give theatrical performances in all parts where Eng lish is spoken and in adjacent terri tory. The tour planned will take two years and a half and will cover 47,000 miles. Mr. Bellew, who was born at sea and spent half his youth there, purposes to charter a vessel of 3,000 tons and ht it with a theater. He expects to visit not only every port where he played with Mrs. James Brown Potter, but any point where there is an English settlement. His dramatic company will have a repertory of twenty plays. WE SOLICIT Checking Accounts! We Also Pay Interest ON Time Deposits! The Topeka STATE BANK 8th and Kan. Ave. C C SMITH Merchant Police Ind. Tel. 2014 Red, 214 E. Tent fc MAJESTIC Always a Little More Than Your Money's Worth -STARTING- Monday NEW YEAR. 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k v 1 t i r 1 J V THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1910. THE iii 3 l..:e J sum, 1(8 to 9 Under the Direction of the U. G.T. of :Topeka igger and Better Than Ever! More Exhibits Than Ever! igger .and Better.:- Attractions.! 15,000 Will Go On at the Advance Sale Price of lOc Jan. 1st Better get yours before they are all gone; they'll go fast. You can get them at Rowley's Drug Store, Price's Smoke House, Flad's Drug Store, Mission Smoke House, Stansfield's Drug Store, Matt. Weightman, F. A: Snow.C K Jpslin, A. M. Petro and N. G. Edelblutt. eact.tlie Attractions Booked for the Big-Vaudeville Show The Warricks and Their Trick Club House The Fassio Troupe of Equilibrists The Four Flying Banvards The Braminos, European Comedy Eccentriques The Eugene Trio, European Triple Bar Artists La Belle Helene !eorfe Leaping Grey Hounds Leon Morris tMn Trained Ponies Leom and Leoni, Comedy Trapeze and King Acts There Will Be Plenty of Music Every Afternoon and Evening by Bands and Orchestras Every Available Space for Exhibition Purposes By Manufacturers.. and Retailers Will Be Taken and Valuable Samples Distributed Free By These Enterprising Firms l 1 1 '1','ff Mill. it,,. .i. I i vvp .k if -''-1 V- f J. i', 1-5 ;Vl V'. .:r s I Api i iih MAY INVADE CUBA United States Contemplates Sending Troops to Island. Bloodshed Is Expected Before Staple Government Prevails. Washington, Dec 31. Like a thun derbolt in a clear sky to the average American citizen cornea the rumor, ap parently emanating from a reliable source, that within six weeks the United States will in all probability be called upon to invade Cuba with troops; that ammunitions of war are being held in readiness for this move, and that bloodshed is expected before a staple government is again inaugur ated in the island republic. In view of the threat mad by President Taft in 1908 that if the stars and stripes should ever again fly over Cuba they would not be withdrawn, this has spe cial significance. Bold graft, as well as other forms of unsound government are to bring about the crisisv Petty jealousies and wilful, intent have prevented the pas sage of any bills in i congress which could be interpreted as being of inter est to the people of Cuba, and condi tions are in a most precarious state. After a careful investigation, backed bv the reports of John B. Jackson, minister to Cuba, it has been found that at least two specific cases or graft have worked great harm to the city of Havana. One. is in regurd to the "ar senal property" in the water front, which was traded to the United lail iw'ays of Havana, a Canadian concern, for their terminal property, valued at from $7,000,000 to, $10,000,0-00 less. It is estimated that $300,000 was paid to influence this legislation. It was fostered by President Gomez. After President Gomez got his real estate transfer measure through con r e--8 he made a deai with a telephone i;;;anf procuring a franchise for f::1em. Some one received $350,000 Cuban Water Vront, showing the "Arsenal property" Involved in the $300, 000 Iiegislative Graft Scandal. Below, at I' ft. President Jose Miguel Gomes of Cuba. Above, Ir. lYane isco Carrera Y. Justiz, Minister of Cuba to United States. Right, General Edwards, V. S. A. '.In Honor of Muhlenberg. Gen. John Peter Muhlenberg was one' of the most distinguished of those Americans who were one remove from the German fatherland. It is fitting, therefore, that he should be honored, and it is little credit to this state that it has officially done nothing in the premises, but has left it to a local so ciety to erect a monument in his mem ory. .Most of those Germans who settled in this state lived here and died here, leaving descendants to follow the same course. John Peter was one of many distinguished sons of a distinguished father, and he came as near being cos mopolitan as any American of his time. Born in Trappe, this state, he was edu cated in Germany, wher he had some military training. Returning to this country he lived for a time In New England, but was settled as a Virginia pastor when the war broke out. He was the confidential friend of Wash ington, who had induced him to enter the service. His last appearance, in ehurch was in uniform," which was cov ered with the customary black gown of his day. After the benediction he threw off his gown and announced the now familiar words: -"There is a -time for all things, a time to preach and a thne to fight; now is the time for fighting." He enlisted 300 members of his congregation on that Sabbath day. Muhlenberg fought through the war from the Canadian border to the Geor gia line. Settling in his native state he was four times, a. member of, congress. He was elected a senator from this state as a Jeffersonian Republican, but never took his seat. It is an interesting com mentary on the state of affairs in those times that he resigned to take the posi tion of revenue collector, which had a small salary attached. In peace and war he was ever active. There was none of the traditional phleg matism of his race in his temperament. He was alert, and his advice was looked upon as being worth as much as his sword. The monument which has been erected is a fitting tribute to the services of a man who has been too much for gotten by the present' generation.. In his time he played as many parts as almost any man in our history, and all of them were well nlaved. Philadelphia Inquirer. eOOK NOTES. Dr. J. C. McClintock has published for private circulation a book contain ing a few "of his letters while he was abroad last summer. The letters are interesting and original but the doc tor is too modest to give them, general circulation. R. R. Nelson of Topeka has pub lished as a holiday souvenir a little volume of prose and verse which will prove that Mr. JNelson has time to think of other things besides the or dinary woes of business. He is mana ger or the southwestern ifurmture company. Kansas people will be pleased to know that Mrs. Margaret Hill McCar- ter's book. "The Price of the Prairie," Is the best selling book published this year by McClurg. It is in the sixth edition while Randall Parish's "Keith of the Border" is in the fifth. Zane Grey has made use in this new novel. "The Heritage of the Desert," of actual people and experiences. When he went to the Purple Desert he haa a giant Mormon for a guide, and this guide served as a moaei lor Augusx Naab. His sons, all desert riders, were also an inspiration. And many of the incidents of "The Heritage of the Desert," such as the stampede of the sheep, the catching and breaking of a wild stallion, the descent into the canyon and swimming a horse through the rapids, the sand storms, riding the ranges, and heat, coia, w'na, snow ana thirst, and sand blindness, travel hunt ing trails, the sights and sounds all these have been matters of the au thor's own experience. Houghton Mifflin Co. report that the holiday sales have necessitated the following new printings: Fourth im pressions of "The Corsican, a Diary of Napoleon," and of "The Life of Mary Lyon" by Beth B. Gilchrist; second impressions of "The Digressions of V" by Elihu Vedder, "Pages Prom the Book of Paris" by Claude C. Wash burn, "The Farm Book" by E. Boyd Smith, "Among Friends" by Samuel M. Crothers, "In the Footprints of Heine" by Henry J. Forman, "In the Catskills" by John Burroughs,- "Our House and the People in It" by Eliza beth Robins Pennell, and the new il lustrated edition of "Rebecca of Sun nybrook Farm" by Kate Douglas Wig gin. Ed Howe's West Indian Travel book was too late lor the holiday trade but it will sell, nevertheless. Recent publications of the Macmil- lan company for the week ending De cember 17 include "Overland to In dia" in two octavo volumes, illustrated, by Sven Hedin; "A Course in Qualita tive Chemical Analysis" by Charles Baskerville, professor in the depart ment of chemistry in the College of the City of New Tork, and Louis J. Curt- man of the same college; and "The Histories of Tacitus," books I and II edited by Frank Gardner Moore, pro fessor of Classical Philology in Co lumbia University, published in "Mac millan's Latin Classics" series. In officially selecting Major Mc Laughlin's "My Friend the Indian" for supplemental reading in the Indian schools, Commissioner Robert G. Val entine writes as follows: It is a pleasure to have this valuable contri bution to the history of the American Indian given a place on the library shelves of our Indian schools and agencies. It is a book which I wish those in the Indian service to study and endeavor in its suggestions to get nearer to the human side of the Indian, to more thoroughly understand hia characteristics and thus be enabled to develop that which s best and good in him, in addition to any utilitarian or economic viewpoint. The book should prove an inspiration in this re gard and continue to spread the same influence for the Indian uplift which Major McLaughlin's life and adminis trative work have done and will con tinue to do for them." Two of the newest books of biog raphy, very far apart in theme, have a sentimental bond between them which makes their publication during the same month seem unintentionally appropriate. The books are "Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, and Lord Rosebery's book, "Lord Chatham." From the Edison boo"kit is learned that Thomas Edi son's elder brother was named Wil liam Pitt after the great English statesman and friend of America who is the subject of Lord Rosebery's book. CHINA'S RAIL PLANS. Network of TruitH Line? to Open Up Country. i-. Pekin, China, DecC SI.-- Among the many stupendous advances contem plated by the new China none-Is of more far reaching importance than the proposed extension to her present meager transportation facilities. Tang-Shao-Yi,. president of the board of communications, has formulated com prehensive plans and is hopeful of making great advances during the next two or three years. When all the projected railroads are completed China Will have one of the most comprehensive transportation systems to be found in the Orient and this will in turn mean much in opening up the interior and advancing civilisa tion throughout the empire. Artist's Sacrifice for Model. A canvas, slashed and torn until It scarcely can be recognized as a paint ing; "a Canadian girl hurrying home away from the glamour of Chicago's bohemia, and an artist who made a great sacrifice when moved by a girl's tears these things are all that is left of one of the little tragedies of the local artists' world. Briefly, the romance centers about young and pretty giri Miss. Marion 11c Kenzie, who, tired of the humdrum ex istence in a country town near Winsor, Canada, came to Chicago in the hope life here would be more enjoyable. Her air castles soon tumbled after arriv ing, and within three weeks she was alone, friendless, and without money. Pride prevented her from writing her parents of her misfortune, and she re solved to struggle on alone. While looking through the want ads a newspaper, an advertisement for an artist's model caught her eye, and she answered it. The reply that came back brought joy to her heart, and she went to the address given, the studio .of Wellington' Reynolds, in the Tree -Stu-,dio building, at State and Ontario streets. Her. pretty face, beautiful form, and type of beauty appealed to the-artist, and she was immediately engaged as the model for his new painting, "The Asphodel Gatherer." Wbea informed that KhA Wrvt,l,4 laii. .1 .3 ,.v. iiL.it ivwutp J 11 jitiua, she refused, nd left the studio. Later she came tack and reluctantly consent ed. ...r i-.V The painting vwasY completed. Rey nolds fellow-artists gathered in his studio and enthusiastically told the art ist the picture would be the sensation at the coming art exhibition.' -The girt came to see the painting for which she was a model. Shame-faced she gaaed at it, then burst into tears, and begged that it be destroyed. Overcome by her emotion, Reynolds took" his palette scraper and slashed it into strips, ruin ing his chance for a prize. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Dew Hunters' Close' Call. A North Adams deer hunter who was seeking game to the north of North Adams returned without a deer, but with a story that, if it is een by two hunters, ought to make them give thanks. He said that he was standing quietly looking and listening when he saw an object that he became con vinced was a deer, partly concealed in underbrush. He raised his shotgun and covered the animal, and then de cided to wait for a more favorable mark. He declared that he held his gun at his shoulder for several min utes, and that he nearly fainted when two hunters stepped forward into the opening. They had been standing mo-' tionless, -as he had been doing, and it desired to make a dead shot that he desired to make a dead shat that he hesitated about pressing the trigger of his gun. He says he has had enough hunting, for, if he can corns so close to making a fatal mistake, he is quite positive that there are others who may make one with him at the receiving end. Springfield Republican. Map of Proposed and Existing Railroads. Solid Black Lines Indicate TfailroRds Already Constrtaoted. Heavy Dotted Lines, Proposed for Completion to the Immediate Future. Open Dotted Lines, Proposed tout Not to Be Completed for Some Time. Tang-Shao Yi, President of the Board of Communication, Who Has Been Ae pointed for the Purpose of Poshing Official Flans for a Comprehensive System of Trunk Lines.

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t i it 1 v-J. I rin h 'r- t I J; of time: I 1 If THE LAST LAP OF 1910. h 4 'J h d G ALL THE WORLD'S A LINKS. Old Golfer Time now tees the ball And shouts the warning "Fore!" And many a foozle will be made Ere 1911 la o'er! UNMISTAKABLE SYMPTOMS. Ragged Ruf us Say, pard, I feel all out of sorts. I'm afeerd I'm goin' ter be sick. Dusty Bill Umph! You must be thinkin' about workin'. INVITATION TO THE WALTZ. MP i Ufa Ilk1 4 fff LEST WE FORGET. The old year goes Upon Its way. It brought some woes. Yet we can say It brought a lot Of real cheer. And It was not A bad old year. Although some days It brought were blue, A word of praise Is but Its due. We owe It much; 'Tls very clear It wasn't such A bad old year. A REFORMED CH -RACTER. Mistuh January, Here you is once more! You's lookin' mighty spruce an fine. To what you looked befo'. ju used to come a-blusterin' roun An' shakin' all de trees, n' makin' coal an' wood so scarce We thought we gwinter freeze." Mistuh January, You hab a winnin' smile Dat keeps de sky a-laughin' In, a mos' refreshin' style. De folks is talkin' 'bout you All aroun de neighborhood. Yoh New Year's resolution Mas' 'a' done a heap o' good. k- I v WML MMm RETROSPECT OF 1910. Father Time Great Scott! I don't know what I'll do if people keep on taking me by the forelock. There are only six hairs left. IK Now Year Debutante: "Come in, youngster. The old man has gone. Happy sting. Don't be shy." greeting. SISTER M ANDY'S NEW YEAR. SNOWBALL SEASON IN GREATER FROGHTJRST. r Parson Black: "l youh gwine ter do enny moh ehu'ch 'tenaonco dis yeah, Sister Mandy?" Sister Mandy: "If de Lawd got one ob dam X ray machines he must know dat I need moh clothes befoh I kin do enny resolushun bisness. Ef he resolve I needs dem, den I mak' aood." A STATE OF PREPAREDNESS. "You wish to marry my daughter? Can you support her?" "Don't worry. I am a member of the beef trust." LANGUAGE OF CLOTHES. "What do wrinkled coattails bearing dusty toe marks indicate?" "That the wearer has spoken to the girl's father." i FORECAST CORRECT. Man wants but little here below, So reads the poet's lay. He was a prophet, for he saw The cost of things today. THE SIMPLE LIFE IN WINTEB. j m!S f. I. I'-p.'' Jt s RESOLVED. Mammy: "Well,' chile, what resolvin' is youh gwine ter make fo' de new yeah?" j Josephus: "Dat I'll ask youh, mammy, t' put some paddin' in de seat ob mah pants." Economical. "Going to swear off smoSlng this year?" "Not entirely. I've decided to re duce the number of cigars two thirds next c year.' I shall smoke only when friends giv me the weed.'. Has Heard It Now. "Heard the story about the gas?"t T biteno." "It hasn't leaked out yet." A Child of Nature. "What do you say to the kind gentleman for giving you that candy?" -"More, please." OLD YEAR'S ADVICE -TO THE CUB. 3M "Now, young man, don't try to burn that at both ends." if.' 4 THOSE NEW YEAR ROUNDS. mm i I li.lliliilUl.' 'fill i r-MHMJJj m mm liiiiii' :-U!irtS!i I 1' K.1 1 7W C T C!rl' W aro to make the New Year calls together -CaH: "I'm busy turning over new leaves. Have to work t rf u ---ri. don't you think calling is wopirA wor d II X I v i! v is t 'Jr

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v LOCAL NEWS EVENTS OF THE SUNDAY. Toeka was presented with ideal Christmas weather minus the snow, PERIODOFGROWTH More Than Million and Half Dol lars in Permits. Million Dollars Spent in Topeka Homes in 1910. PROGRESS IS RAPID. Amount Pnt In Building in Four 4 Years -$5,000,000. Three Hundred New Dwellings Built In 1910. More than a million and a half dol lars in building permits. This is the record for 1910 as shown by the books in the office of the city fire chief, or, to be more exact, 11,525,630. The showine is significant, and makes clear the fact that the capital citv is enjoying a period of unprece dented prosperity. There was never a time in the history of Topeka when contractors were so rushed to keep up with the demands made upon them. While, to be sure, the total amount in permits fell somewhat short of equal ing the figure of last year $1,862, 811 there were great buildings, hard ly begun in 1909, which have either been completed, or nearly so, this sea son. Another reason why the 1910 show ing is almost phenomenal is that money conditions have not been as favorable as in the previous year, the tendency having been to hoard the coin guardedly and not "turn loose." For buildings other than dwellings and not including the new Y. W. C. A. home, costing more than $3,000, per mits have been issued aggregating $630,000. Work on forty structures costing more than $3,000 each was started this year. Among the build ings included in the list is the Guil ford Dudley business building erected at 827 Kansas avenue at a cost of $16,000; the G. A. R. Memorial build ing, listed at $185,000, work on which began this year; the city garbage plant, built at a cost of $17,600; a brick and stone cold storage building at the Charles Wolff Packing plant listed at $60,000; the Warren M. Cros by three story building at 613-17 Kan sas avenue, which is nearing comple tion, and which is shown by the rec ord to be costing $50,000, not includ ing the fixtures, etc; the Santa Fe $26,000 paint shop; the "Van Buren school which is being built at a cost of $42,000; the stock pavilion which entailed an expenditure of upwards of $23,000 by the Kansas State Fair as sociation; the addition of a seventh story on the National hotel building by the Knights and Ladies of Secur ity at a cost of $17,000; the J. C. Gor don $50,000 business building on the old Copeland hotel site. Ninth and Kansas avenue, which is in course of of Home Building. And while the showing for this was excellent in respect to business build ings, 1910 was essentially a year of home building. Permits were issued calling for the erection of 312 dwell ings at a total cost of $760,000 in round numbers, or an average cost of $2,341. This includes the T. W. C A. home. V Aside from this 168 homes were re faired or remodeled at a total expen diture of $65,000, or an average $358 ier dwelling. This makes nearly a lialf thousand dwellings which were 'either erected in the city in 1910 or WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY The Only New unabridged dic tionary in many years. Contains the pith and essence of an authoritative library. Covers every field of knowl edge. An Encyclopedia in a single book. The Only dictionary with the New Divided Page. 400,000 Words. 2700 Pages. 6000 Illustrations. Cost over half a million dollars. Post yourself on this most re markable single volume. for sample pages, full par ticular, etc. fame this paper and TO Will end tree a set of Pocket Maps G.&C.MerrUmCa. Springfield, Mass. j: I e reyv-.i LjiLjtSMk write THIS MONDAY. This day was dedicated to the store workers who needed a rest. were made practically new by repairs and alterations. A third of the cost of the super structure ia a safe estimate of the cost of purchasing the odd 3 and ends that are necessary to complete a home, and it can be said with truth that a mil lion dollars has been expended this last year in the capital city in homes in fact, this is a most conservative estimate. Seventy of the '312 homes erected or which are in course of construc tion were listed at $3,000 or over the total cost of the 70 residences amount ing to $337,315. or an average of $4,600. The most costly of these residences is the handsome brick veneer home now in course of construction by E. H. Crosby at 901 Harrison street, which is costing $20,000. Some of the oth er residences deserving cf special men tion are the C. H, Chandler, two and a half story $6,500 dwelling at 1204 Tyler street; the H. C. Kibbee home at 355 Buchanan street, costing $8, 400; the Thomas Page residence on West Sixth avenue, which is a $15,000 proposition; the Charles E. Barber home at 1242 Western avenue, cost ing $6,000: the J. F. Norton $7,000 residence at 1200 Tyler street, and the Brown flats at 901-903 West Sixth avenue, which were built at a cost of $17,000. Toneka's Growth. A glance over a period of twenty years in the record books reveals some interesting facts. In that time per mits aggregating upwards of $10,000,- 000 have been issued. It Is shown that in 1906-07 signs of increased prosper ity were apparent, and in the next year Topeka began to leap ahead in leaps and bounds in respect to her building activities. The climax was reached the year ending April 1, 1910, when almost $2,000,000 in permits were Issued. In the four years ending April 1, of this year, the five million mark in permits was more than reached, which means that as much building was done in those four years as was completed in the previous sixteen years. Following are the figures showing the amount in permits Issued each year since 1890: 1890- 91 161,733 1891- 92 149,950 1892-93 162,257 1893- 94 155,810 1894- 95 287,600 1895- 96 103,020 1896- 97 115,001 1897- 98 207,710 1898- 99 207,005 1899- 1900 321,190 1900-01 464,134 1501-02 641,622 1902-03 505,458 1903- 04 728,958 1904- 05 644,076 1905- 06 548,080 1906- 07 861,484 1907- 08 1,191.927 1908- 09 1,050,012 1909- 10 1,950,876 1809-91 $161,733 Total $10,457,853 By months permits were issued this year as follows: January, $35,865; Feb ruary, $83,970; March. $171,750; April. $290,070; May, $103,435; June, $156,910; July, $283,296; August, $123,755; Septem ber, $39,740; October, $d?,509; Novem ber, $32,655; December, $47,675. Permits issued in December aggre gated $50,000 in round numbers, as against $25,000 last year. The permits called for the erection of 15 dwellings at a cost of $33,100. Many Fine Homes. Following Is a list of the dwellings for which permits were issued this year costing $3,000 or over: H. C. Goodrich, two story dwell ing, 618-20 Buchanan street $3,000 L. M. Elliot, two story frame dwelling, 4S3 Tyler street 3,000 J. F. Norton, two story frame dwelling, 1200 Tyler street 7,000 E. G. Foster, two story brick tenement flat,610-612 Topeka ave 10,000 O. O. Onderkirk, two story brick dwelling, 721 Home street 3.000 Harry Wright, two story dwelling, 1215 Garfield avenue 3,000 E. D. Spickerman, two story dwelling, 1418 Buchanan street 3,300 Alice S. Pratt, two story dwelling, 1521 Mulvane street 3,000 J. S. Harner, dwelling, 923 West Eighth avenue 3,000 Geo. P. Pratt, dwelling, 1319 Bu chanan street 3,000 E. Lange, addition to dwelling, 705 Branner street 3,000 T. J. Kimbrough, two story dwell ing, 1028 Lincoln street 3,200 H. Chandler, two and a half story dwelling, 1204 Tyler street... 6,500 W. H. Spangler, dwelling. 935 Tyler street 5,000 C. E. Olander. dwelling. 1235 Kan sas avenue 3,000 H. C. Kibbee, two story brick dwelling, 335-39 Buchanan st... 8,400 S. A. Maxwell, dwelling 1192 Mul vane street 3,200 Thomas Page, three story brick dwelling, West Sixth avenue... 15,000 Arthur J. Carruth, Jr., two story dwelling, 1219 Mulvane street.... 3,000 R. L Gamble, dwelling, 1415 Fill more street 3.000 Mrs. J. T. Bell, two story dwell ing, 835 Fillmore street 3,675 Wm. A. Freger, dwelling, 1231 Fillmore street 3,000 Mrs. D. A. Sheppard, dwelling, 815 Garfield avenue 3.200 L. F. Garlinghouse, dwelling, 1543 Western avenue 3,500 W. M. Mills, bungalow, 302 Green wood avenue 4.000 A. R. Springer, two story frame dwelling, 1017 Polk street 3,000 Dr. D. A. and Ella Sipes. two story frame dwelling, 1311 College ave. 3,500 T. H. Brennaman, 2 story frame dwelling, 1219 West street 3,000 George H. Beach, bungalow, 1441 West street T 4,000 O. R. Glick, addition and remodel dwelling, 612 Tyler street 3,000 Elizabeth Walter. 2 story frame dwelling. 601 Fillmore street 3,000 TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1910. TBESDAT. T&wtf 6EN City discovers that some city prop erty has been sold for taxes. Elmo D. Murphy, two story dwell ing, 1024 Lincoln street 3,500 L. H. Agard, two story dwelling, 1616 West Sixth avenue 3,500 A. L. Wiseman, two story dwell ing, 528 Fillmore street 3,000 R. I. Jones, addition to tenement house, 901-5 Clay street 3,000 Mrs. S. W. McColllster, two story frame tenement flat 519 W. 6th. 4,000 Geo. Hughes, dwelling, 1627 Bu chanan street 3,840 Mrs. A. D. Bartel, dwelling, 1536 Harrison street 3,500 W. A. Sloo, two story dwelling, 1300 Buchanan street 3,500 3. L. Callahan, two story dwell ing, 917 Lincoln street 3.100 I. W. Felix, one story dwelling, 1197 Fillmore street 3,400 C. M. Walter, two story dwelling, 605 Fillmore street 3,000 C. E. Olander, two story dwelling. 1135 Western avenue 3,000 Dr. E. A. Edgar Billings, two story dwelling, 1257 College ave. 4,000 L. L. Adams, two story dwelling, 1253 College avenue 4,000 Mrs. J. E. Johnson. 1298 College avenue 3,000 B. K. Forbes, cement two story dwelling, between Garfield and Munsen avenues 3,000 Geo. Brown, business and tene ment flat, 901-903 W. Sixth ave. 17,000 Stanley Medlicott. dwelling, 1226 Filmore street 3,700 T. W. C. A., three story concrete and brick building, 631-35 Van Buren street 65,000 L. H. Lane, Euclid avenue 3,000 D. Charles E. Barber, two story frame dwelling, 1242 Western av. 6.000 Juliet S. Smith, dwelling, 908-12 Quincy street 3,000 F. C. Tulien. dwelling, 328 Taylor street 3,000 M. Darnier. dwelling, 1294 College avenue 3.000 E. H. Crosby, two story brick ve neer dwelling, 901 Harrison St.. 20,000 J. P. Wahle, two story dwelling, 1332 Buchanan street 3.000 F. V. Borst, three story tenement flat, 704 Tyler street 5,500 Bertha Tommasson, dwelling, 1124 Washburn avenue 3,000 E. Murphy, two story dwelling, 634 Lincoln street 3,wu E. H. Hogueland, dwelling, 1144 Mulvane street 3.590 A. Dawson, two story dwelling, 1019-23 West Tenth avenue 3,200 W. F. Cochran, two story dwell ing, 1600-02 Fillmore street 3.500 The Business Structures. Folio wine- are the buildings other than dwellings costing $3,000 or over for which permits were issued: Wm. B. Lourance, one story brick bus. bldg., 121-123 Kansas ave.. 3,500 Fowler and Ross, one story stone and brick business building, 119 Kansas avenue 10.000 Frith and Short, garagand office bldg., 911 N. Kansas avenue... 10,000 E. G. Kingsley, carriage manu factory, 422 Jackson street 3.000 Gilford Dudley, three story brick bus. bldg., 435 Kansas avenue.. 16,000 G. A. R. Memorial and Historical bldg., 108-122 W. Tenth ave.. ..185,000 M. F. Rigby, two story stone and brick bus. bldg., 435 Kan. ave.. 14,500 City of Topeka, crematory 17,600 Trustees Second Baptist church, brick church. 266 Topeka ave. 6,000 V. T. Roby, two story stone and brick bus. bldg., 112 E. 4th st... 5,000 Chas. Wolff Packing Co., 3 story brick and stone cold storage building 60.000 The Crosby Bros. Co., remodel to 3 story stone and brick bus iness bldg., 718-22 Kansas ave.. 3,500 Warren M. Crosby Co.. 3 story brick and stone business bldg., 613-15-17 Kansas avenue 50,000 Forbes Bros., remodel mill and -elevator 4.000 Fowler Ross, addition to hotel. 119 Kansas avenue 6.200 A. T. S. F. Ry. Co., brick paint shop inside yards 26.000 Board of Education, two story brick public school building, 1601-15 Van Buren street 42,000 Kansas State Fair Association, brick and concrete live stock pavilion 23.000 John Seaton, one story business building, 34-36 N. Kansas ave. 15,000 A. T. S. F. hospital laundry building 8,000 Knights and Ladies of Security, remodel National hotel 17,000 The Crosby Bros. Co.. three story brick business building, 708-10 Jackson street 12.000 Mrs. W. M. Crosby, three story brick bus. bldg., 713 Kan. ave.. 6.000 Board of Education, addition to school bldg., 504-8 Madison St.. 3,000 Wilson Neiswanger, dwelling. 1532 Boswell avenue 3,000 Wilson Neiswanger. 1430 Bos well avenue 3,150 Mina Thomas O'Neil, dwelling, 1517 Buchanan street 4,000 Mrs. Alice Love, tenement flat. 1274 Van Buren street 4,500 J. P. C. W. Kelly, dwelling, 310 East Seventh street 4,000 W. E. Ireland, dwelling, 372-74 Garfield avenue 3,500 J. C. Gordon, three story business bldg., 900-2 Kansas avenue 50,000 C. R. I. P.' Ry Co., express of fice, 101-3 Jackson street 3,000 W. B. Kirkpatrick. one story stone and brick business bldg.. 121-123 East Seventh street 10,000 A WOMAN'S APPEAL all knowing sufferers of rheumatism, whether muscular or of the Joints, sciati ca, lumoagroa, DacKache, pains in the kidneys or neuralgia pains. .o wTlte to repeatedly cured all of these tortures. She feels it her duty- to send it to all a i.r... iuu cure yourseix at home as thousands will testify no change uwu iikgohu. j.mB simple discovery banishes uric acid from the blood, loosens the stiffened Joints, purl fies the blood, and brightens the eyes, giving elasticity and tone to the whole 1 nrrvf mlrfrvti Hfoa Kr f t n te6- V1 IV; N PAST WEEK AS DEPICTED BY WEDNESDAY. Lawyers hold banquet, and Uncle Joe Waters acts as toastmaster. JOE HOWARD HERE "Musical Comedy King" Rejoins Show After Two Weeks. Time Spent in Chicago Where He Has Bought Home. 1 DAY OF NEW IDEAS. Public Now Demands Drama Trimmed With Music. Must Be Served on Silver Tray, Declares Song Writer. Joseph E. Howard, formerly of Lawrence,- Kan., who as a boy on the streets of Denver lifted his voice in song as he stood upon the street corner and sold papers; who now is known as the "King of Musical Comedy" and who also is known as the most prolific song writer of America, arrived in To pewa last night from Lawrence, where he stopped and visited on his way here to rejoin "The Goddess of Liberty," the Grand matinee attraction, which will be repeated tonight. He returns to th3 show after a two weeks' absence in Chicago. Discussing musical shows, following his arrival, Howard said that the time of the dance and spangles is past and that the public now demands heroic melodrama served on a silver tray and surrounded with trimmings. He opens in Chicago on March 22, in "Love in Politics," a bill of that type which he recently completed with Hough Ad ams. Howard now has fourteen musical shows on the road and has finished the work' of writing all the shows that Mort H. Singer will produce next sea son. Not having anything else to do this winter and being able to write songs on the road as well as in Chi cago, Howard is taking what he calls a vacation, playing the one night r.tands and week star.ds over the coun try. No unknown writer has any chance with songs, according to Howard, un less he can interest some star in his work and get that particular star to sing his songs. If some star can be in terested and the song proves a hit then the fortune of the author is made, says Howard, who declares that the stars can and do dictate to the managers what son&j they use. "What is my favorite of all the songs I ever wrote?" repeated Howard, following a question. "That's hard to pick. In fact I don't believe I'd like to pick out one above all the rest. I like them all. Some times I think one song is the prettiest but after a few days I'll switch to an other one. Finally I give it up and say they're all my favorites." His Best Selling Songs. "Well, what have been the best sell ers?" 'Good By, My Lady Love,' went over a million copies. So did 'Hello, My Baby.' They were individual popular songs that made hits without being sung in any musical show. Two other big sellers that almost hit the million mark were Waning Honeymoon ana 'Lonesome for You,' which I wrote for 'Honeymoon Trail.' 'You Look Awfully Good to Father' was another big hit. It went up above 700,000 copies in little more than a single season. It was sung in 'The Umpire,' if you remember. I could name nearly forty more, but it looks now as though I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, is going to surpass them all. "The day of big song hits seems to be passing. Time was once when there were not so many musical shows pro duced, and consequently there were fewer songs that people who go to the theater became intimately acquainted with But now, when managers are putting on scores of shows every year, it is an unusual thing for a song to become s-'ch a sailer that it can go up into the hundreds of thousands. One that goes to a million is a wonder, indeed." "How did you get into the song writ ing business?" Howard was asked. "Oh, just naturally drifted into it." was the answer. "I have been con nected with the stage since I was 10 years old. At that age I joined the Mc Nish. Johnson and Slavin minstrels. From that I got into Pat Riley's 'The p-arl of Pekin.' From the very first tunes seemed to go drifting through my head, and I'd sing them or play them, and other people would appreciate them and put them into shows. Got Start in VaudeviUe. "Well, I got into vaudeville and used some of my own stuff, and it seemed to eo as well as any I could get elsewhere. So I kept up writing down the bits of airs that came to me. I knocked around in vaudeville and played with Eddy Foy and a lot of other stars with the Palace Theater Stock company in Denver. For ten years or so I was in Colorado, principally in Denver and Leadville. I was in vaudeville with Bob Fitzsimmons. Ida Emerson and I were together in the team of Howard and clmerson and played all over the coun try in audeville. Finally I thought I'd write a whole show. The first one was 'Chow Chow.' I wrote it and staged it in Chicago. I did the same thing witTi 'The Paraders' and with 'Tom- Tom,' 'Rubes and Roses.' "The Isle of Bong Wong,' and 'His Highness the Bey. "Then followed the long list of shows I wrote for Mort Singer. They 'ncluded 'The Umpire,' 'The Time, the Place and the Girl," The Girl Ques tion,' 'Honeymoon Trail,' 'A Stubborn Cinderella," 'The Goddess of Liberty.' i a i 3 i THURSDAY. II II '-ili', Round 10 of the Stubbs-Railroad fight is a swift one. The Flirting Princess. The Prince of Tonight,' and 'Miss Nobody from Star land.' Then there were my own pro ductions, 'The Flower of the Ranoft,' and 'The District Leader.' "How many songs have you writ ten altogether?" Oh, some 400. There are some of them that I have forgotten. It just comes easy to dash them off, and un less I am particularly fond of one, or it makes a big hit, often I lose track of it until I hear it being played some place, and then I recognize it. Its like running across a relative you have not seen in years and years. You want to shake it by the hand and say 'hello.' "When do you expect to stop writ ing songs?" "When I die. I'm at it all the time. Sometimes I sit down to a piano and without any thought will pound out a strain that I jot down on the spur of the moment and later work out something worth while. I could just as well give up eating as writing songs. There would not be anything in life for me if I couldn't pound out a tune every now and then. "I'll tell you, though, how I put it over the small hotelkeepers who don't have a piano in my room. I carry a phonograph and blank records with me all of the time and when a tune strikes me I hum it into the machine. Why, all I have to do is turn it over to some one and tell them to put it down in musical characters. "In that way I sometimes compose the music and a new song in about two minutes. To Be Burled; In Lawrence. "But speaking of when I die," Howard declared, "I'll be brought back to Kansas for burial. Lawrence really is my home, you know. William Moak, my foster brother, owns the livery stable there, two pool halls and the race track. Even though I have my home in Waukegan and have bought a three-story flat along the Chicago lake front, still Lawrence is my home. I always like to come back there and in fancy live over my boy hood." i- Aside from being a writer of musi cal scores, Howard is a punster. While in Lawrence he visited his foster brother, William Moak, who this week shipped to Chicago for the use of Ma' bel Barrison. Howard's wife, two colts out of the blooded "White Stocking." "How much did 'you pay for the breaking of those colts?" Howard asked. "Forty-one dollars," was the reply. "Then here is the amount," and Howard handed Moak a check. "But "Never mind, but you've given me the colts, it's only fair that I should pay for the breaking," came from Howard. "Anyhow, I want to know that I've paid something for them. It's safer." Moak looked up in surprise. "How's that?" he questioned. "Why, if you ever took a notion to sell them I'd know you couldn't," Howard replied. "Guess I'll take that money," Moak said laughingly. "It's the first I ever gave you in my life, isn't it?" said Howard, and Moak agreed. Wife's Illness Not Serious, Howard declared that the reported attack of consumption suffered by his wife, Mabel Barrison, who is starring in "Lulu's Husbands," in reality was only a slight attack of tuberculosis and that it had not reached her lungs. He said that he had bought the three story flat along the lake front just above the Chicago Beach hotel so that he might build for her a glass room in the open air where she could rest or sleep, enjoy the sunshine and have the advantages of it without going to the tuberculosis camps of Colorado or New Mexico. "There she will not have to live a monotonous life like in the small towns of the southwest," he said. "She can go to the opera when she likes, enjoy the society of the metropolis and drive the spirited team that brother has shipped to her from Lawrence.' Of course, the horses come from warm blooded stock and she will have to have her man with her when she drives, still they will be safe in that way and isn't it better for her to spend the rest of the winter and the summer tnere in tnat way tnan to be buried away off somewhere in the lonesome desert." The Important Problem confronting anyone ia need of a laxa tive is not a question of a' single ac tion only, but of permanently bene ficial effects, which will follow proper efforts to live in a healthful way, with the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, whenever it is re quired, a3 it cleanses the system gently yet promptly, without Irritation and wilV therefore always have the preference of all who wish the best of family laxatives. The combination has the approval of physicians because it is known to be truly beneficial, and because It has given satisfaction to the millions of well-informed families who have used it for many years past. To get its beneficial effects, always buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. FRIDAY. Kansas City Star introduces another Kansas gubernatorial "possibility." CRUCE SHIES AT DANCE Oklahoma Governor-Elect Refuses to Wear "Clawhammer" Coat. Oklahoma City, Okla.. Dec. 31. The society women of Oklahoma have suf fered a bitter disappointment. They have been planning to make the in augural ball the biggest social event in the history of the state, with formal evening dress of both men and women guests a condition precedent to admis sion. But Governor-Elect Lee Cruce has balked. He will wear, his jim swinger, but not a clawhammer. "I never wear a dress suit," Said Mr. Cruce. "Dress suits are all right, and ,1 know it is a custom to wear them on occasions of this kind, but I see no reason for changing my custom of never wearing one." The governor-elect also refuses, to lead the dance. TO FLY AROUND WORLD Captain Baldwin Expects to Make Globe Circuit in Three years. San Francisco, Dec. 31. Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, 60 years old. has started from this city to fly around the world in a biplane of his own make. Captain Baldwin expects to make about 30,000 miles in his globe circuit and to be gone about three years in achieving the great feat. So far as is known he is the only aviator who has even dreamed of circumnav igating the globe aerially. It is only about a year since Bald win began to do aeroplane flying. Prior to that time he. was the most noted of the baHoonists. For thirty years he has made balloon ascensions. Twenty-five years ago he made a cir cuit of the world, giving exhibitions in parachute jumping in various cities. When the dirigible balloon became popular Baldwin turned to that and invented a new type of .dirigible in which .he lade various" flights. At the St. Louis aviation meeting in the fall of 1909 the veteran was present with his dirigible, but when he saw the aeroplanists flying he determined to get strictly up to date, so he set to work and built a biplane after his own pattern. He "broke" his new air colt in short order and soon became a skill ful aviator. "The Door we have always with us. "Well, they can't afford to spend their winters uoutn." lttsourg rosi. V V-' "-tf if

I'--' l 11 PARSONS SATURDAY. This is the day for bidding farewells to little vices. fosd LOVES AjjED MAN Congressman McQuires Former Life Worships Indian. Washington Has No Charm for Oklahoma Woman. WAflTS 'GEORGE' NEAR. Attache of Osage Agency Is the Prototype of "Strongheart, Play Woyen About Incidents When K. U. Student. Pawhuska, Okla., Dec. 81. (Forsak ing a life in Washington as the wife of a congressman, Mrs. Bird S. McGuire, former wife of Congressman McGuiro of the First Oklahoma district, is now the wife George Gregory LaMotte, an I Indian attache of the United States Osage Indian agency at Pawhuska. Mrs. George Gregory LaMotte She does not care for the entrancm strains of the military band or th glamour of the Washington season. "Oklahoma is good enough for me," she says, "if I can only have my George near me." She spoke his name In a caressing manner. It seemed as though she re luctantly lets the word leave her lips. Agreed to a Divorce. By mutual agreement, the McGtxlrea went Into court. A divorce was grant ed the wife early last summer, but friends of the husband believed that the filing and trial of the divorce suit would cause him to lose many votes in the election. He .viewed the sub ject from this angle and then Mrs. Mc- Guire offered the solution. She proposed to take the stump In his behalf, despite the fact that their divorce suit had stirred the so ciety circles of the state.' For six weeks sne campaigned in a manner which, would .have done credit to an old timer. She shook' hands, made public speeches, mixed with the voters in general and all the -while urged them to support the man she would no longer have as a" husband. She made the argument that he was an able congressman and that the resi dents of the districts owed it to them selves to return him to his seat in Washington. The 'campaign over, McGuiro had won by a safe majority and then Mrs. McGuire -and LaMotte .plaimed their marriage. It was performed at Paw huska. At the same time. Congress man. McGuire, was at his apartments in Washington, his mind centered on the- marshalship fight which had de veloped through the resignation ,of Marshal John R. Abernathy. -The Prototype of "Strongheart." LaMotte is- of French and Indian descent. He comes of the old Chip pewas and was born near Stillwater, Minn.- He was reared near there and in Wisconsin. Canada and Michigan, living about the lake coast country. He attended a private school in Que bec and, then went to Kansas university at Lawrence. While there he became well known throughout the Mississip pi valley territory as an athlete in football, baseball, track and field branches of college sports. He la an all-round athlete. While in college his reputation as an athlete attracted the attention of the playwright who wrote "Strong heart." The play was woven about in cident of his 111. 1 1 WIWWMWWIWJP'I.WWiW' j!'' 5, p-ff t j T j

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12 ,THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1910. Old History for New Study. The International Sunday School Les son for January 1 Is "The Kingdom Divided." I Kings 12:1-24. WILLIAM T. ELLIS. ROM the Jews who wall by the remnant of the old Tem ple In Jerusalem, or peddle small wares In the ghettoes of the great cities, it is a far rrv to the elories of Sol- mon, when the Jewish empire stretch ed from Egypt on the south to the Lebanon on the north, and from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. Even at its zenith the kingdom of Solomon did not reach the extent, of many of the other powers of the ancient and modern world. Yet no other nation has ever affected human thought, and the currents of history so profoundly as have the Jews, Now that the mighty host of the Sunday schools through-out the world are to spend a year In studying the history of the divided kingdom of Is rael. It is well to bear In mind the basic facta which every Intelligent person should know. The Promised Land extends from the River Oron tes north of the Lebanon range, to the Egyptian desert on the south, and from the sea on the west to the des ert on the east. The boundaries have frequently changed, and there is really no geographical division known as Palestine. The territory so desig nated la In that strip of Asia border ing on tho Mediterranean sea, -north of Egypt; it is approximately 160 miles long and 75 miles wide. Its present populaUn Is about 700.000 persons. Tho present government is Turkish. A Historic Territory. Many of the great nations of history Jiave held sway over It, In whole or in part, since the children of Israel, under Joshua, wrested It from the tribes whom they found In possession. The empire of Phoenicia, which was coexistent with Solomon's reign, stretched along tho coast line around Sidon and Tyre. The tourist may rather the fragments of shells from which the famous Tyrlan purple was extracted; and he may buy either a Phoenician sarcophagus or a tear bottle." of Iridescent Phoenician Klass, as his purse and fancy may dio- Tombs and other relics of these successive conquests abound In estlne. Hlttite, Roman. Egyptian As syrian. Babylonian, Greek and Frank (or Crusader) antiquities are a" ob tainable by a person Interested. These various powers have all disappeared, they have had their day and gone. But the Jewish people persist as a separate entity. This Is one of the marvels of history. Force has been unable to crush them or cunning to absorb them. From the tour cor ners of the earth they gather in Je rusalem In increasing numbers, and as, a few days ago. I watched that pthetic line of young and old, male and female, fervently kissing the tem- n t) -niiuA of wailing. I jiic ot-vnc-, v. thM wnripnt oassion or the Jew for the city of David which he has fortified has grown no less with the years. Solomon tho Magnificent. It is the fashion of .those who affect the detachment of modern scholar shin to sDeak of the Jews as If they vinri hTi throughout their history a mT-o Via ful nomnaratively. of pas- tnrai nnrf utml-nomadic people. We nnt tm-trat that under Solomon the Hebrew nation was a great world power, the vanquisher of Egypt and Assyria, and a marvel of prosperity a n,omiAiiiii. From down at 4 Vi a. lrvwat And of Arabia came the Queen of Sheba to behold the state rih ami wise king, who had alliances with the other great rulers of his day. a. nm nt fh European nations imnir tnAiLv Imperialism bear hardly upon the common people. Sol omon's state had to be supported by the humble tollers. His armaments, his stables (still shown beneath the temple area in Jerusalem), his pal aces, his thrones, all coat the money of the countrr. One look Into Solomon's quarries will show what was Involved In the forced labor of the people dur ing all dls magnificent building era. There Is always an under side to the glory of kings, and the ordinary folk know It best. A Utile Land and Its Hills. Palestine is land of ups and 'downs, fertile valleys and rolling hills and mountains. It Is well adapted for settlement by different groups of people: to this day its population Is split Into regions of Druses, Syrians, Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics, Maronltes, Armenians, Mitawelah, Bedulns and Jews. The separation of the twelve tribes accords with the natural division of the region. David and Solomon had united the people; but there were rival religious capitals. Sechem, on the slope or aiu nratm claimed priority over Mt. Klon. even as it does today. Last vMk the hls:h nrlest of the Samari tans, Jacob, son of Aaron, handed me a oamohlet setting forth the claims of Sechem. where he and his dimin ishing sect maintain a tiny syna gogue. A range of hills divided the land into northern and southern parts, so- that the line of cleavage was al- wnva nrAKATlt The history of Israel has centered about Its mountains, from Sinai to Oli vet; the point Is one deserving fuller study. The Cry of the Poor. The slopes of Gerazlm and Ebal are now bare and rocky, though Jacob's well and Joseph's tomb may still be seen In the valley between. What they must have looked like when verdure clad and covered with the pnramneii ho its of Israel we may only image. The city of Shechem. To which Israel resorted- to crown Reho boam as his father's successor. Is the modern Nablus, a dirty, smelly city with curious vaulted streets, and a Mooted Moslem nopulation. The small boys throw stones at the foreigners who visit it Alwavs exoltable. the city was nev er more ao than when the Jews gath ered to consider the state of the na tion, and to present their bill of griev ances to the new king. They were restive under the heavy yoke of Solo mon. The gold and glitter ana pomp had been a sore burden. The peo ple took advantage of the new regime tn attempt to secure reforms. It was the old. old human cry of the overborne and heavy laden: "Make our yoke lighter." The world in cinmant with the- same appeal to day. Never were the poor and the lnhnrinr and the ill treated so insis tent as now in calling aloud for jus tice. Woe unto capital and power when they follow the example or rooi- Id lsh Rehobaom. For the last word la always with the masses. A Young Man's Folly. There was the making of a wise man in Rehoboam; he must have In herited some of his father's good traits, for he cautiously asked the people to give him threo days in which to make decisions, i Usually, youth is precipitate. We might have expected some Impulsive and arrogant answer on the instant. A grave ques tion of national policy vat at Issue for consideration and for seeking coun sel. What a three days of hubub and debate and impatience that must have been In old Shechem! Gesticulating Jews squatted about the gates, or stood In front of the bazars, or sat in the khans, discussing the probable decision of the king, and declaring what they would do in cose he should refuse their demands. Those were anxious times In Shechem, for king and people. Most persons ask advice when they desire only approval. Rehoboam re jected the counsel of the elder states men, that he deal leniently with the people, and accepted that of his flat- teres, because the wine of new power had gone to his head. He had youth s Intolerance and impatience and cock- aureness and conceit. He blundered, as countless others have done before and since. In regarding the rights of special privilege, while disregarding its responsibilities. He had power ana knew It; but he had not yet attained to a sense of stewardship. The vicari ous Impulse, which would have made him put the people s welfare ahead of his own, had not developed In his character. So, urged on by sycophants as heady" and Irresponsible a3 himself, he returned an unfeeling and insolent answer to the subjects from whom he had got his throne. They exercised the primitive human right to "strike" or rebel, or whatever else it may be called. The cry, "To your tents, O Israel!" arose, and there was a defec tion of ten tribes from the standard of Judah. Soon Rehoboam was flee ing across the plain and the hills for his very life. Too late he perceived he had played the fool. The kingdom of his father was divided, never again to be reunited. Fronting; the Future. Terse Comments for January 1, "Un trodden Ways," Josh. 3:1-17. BT WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Even the best may be bettered: In deed, It must be bettered If It Is not to grow worse. So nobody ever gets beyond the necessity for saying, with the apostle, "Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold; bvit one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press onward unto the goal, unto the prize of the high calling of God In Christ Jesus." "The secret of success." says Dis raeli, "la constancy to purpose." Both God and the world hold a man responsible not only for what he Is, but also for what he may become. We are as answerable for our opportuni ties as for our deeds. A more than ordinary good resolu tion for every day of the new year is that written by Bishop John H. Vin cent: "I will this day try to live a simple, sincere and serene Hfe, repell ing promptly every thought of discon tent, anxiety, discouragement and self seeking, cultivating cheerfulness, mag nanimity, charity and the habit of holy silence, exercising economy in expen diture, carefulness in conversation, dil igence In appointed service, fidelity In every task, and a child-like trust in God." This -wonderful new vear of 1911 clamors for men and women of larger vunua. ine oia woria seems to be in a making over process these davs persons wno are alive now are more fortunate than any who hava vtr he. fore lived. To enter fully Into the in- nentance or the new year reouirea n took ana ouuook, wiaer norlzons high er aspirations, deeper purposes. This is no time lor petty existence for mean enas. "We are living, we are dwelling. In a grand and awful time; In an age on ages telling, To be living la sublime." The purposeless life is a rudder- less ship. Before there can be great resolu tions In life or In lot, there must first be good resolution? In the Indi vidual heart. At last we have come to the flying! machine age. In our congratulation over this stupendous achievement we may not forget, however, that the need ror soaring souls is still more impor tant than the need for flying bodies. it takes more than flying machines to cure man of his tendency to nlod. and to be satisfied with himself In a hum drum life. Only a frequently re freshed resolution to keep his spirit untrammeled and free can enable man to maintain his Inheritance which is super-earthly. In the realm of character, possibil ity is obligation. What a person can do, he ought to do. "Every year Is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made new; Ye who are weary of sorrow and sin ning, Here is a beautiful hope for you, A hope for me and a hope for you." The life yielded to God Is wielded by God. With God as guide paths are easy. the hardest God's plans for us In the new year are greater than our ambitions for ourselves. It will be the best year If we let it pe ft la year. NEWS AND NOTES. Throughout the whole of Eastern Europe an evangelical revival is In progress under the ministry of the Baptist churches, which, it Li said, bids fair to change the religious aspect of the Near East. Efforts are being made to establish without delay a Bap tist college where pastors and workers for Russian and Southerr. Europe can be trained, in the hope of keeping pace with the demands or this work. Count Tolstoi was burled on his own estate, without the rites of the Orthodox church, but a remarkable number of students and peasants at tended. A In London there are to be found 1,600 churches, besides about 650 chapels, mission hails and ether places of worship. one or the most practical forms or Christian effort Is that known as the Travelers' Aid, maintained by the Y. W. C. A. of Chicago. In all, 3,000 young women, strangers In the city, have received direct aid from this or ganization In a single year. St. George s church, London, punt in 1713, Is to be torn down, the multi millionaire Duke of Westminster, who owns the ground on which It stands, refusing to renew the lease. For the Morris Brown College and School for Colored Youth at Atlanta, the African Methodist church has just raised an endowment of $25,000, to which no white man, nor even any colored man outside the denomination, was allowed to contribute a cent. This is said to be the largest educational fund ever got together by colored donors. The will of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Ed dy leaves to the Christian Science church practically all her estate, about Jl, 500, 000. The American Bible society very appropriately in view of its almost one hundred years of service In dis tributing this translation of the Scrip tures has taken the initiative in pro posing a celebration of the third cen tennial of the publication of the King James English Bible, now popularly called the authorized version. The society observes that only the year of publication 1611 is known and not the specific date of the appearance of the book within that year. In the ob servanse, therefore, of a known his toric da for the celebration. It is the society's proposal that observance of the tricentenary should be arranged ror Sunday, April 23, 1911. and the week succeeding. An open letter to the public Just issued from the Bible society headquarters, Bible House, As tor place. New York, appeals to minis ters, Sunday BChool superintendents, presidents of institutions of learning, governmental officials, members of the judiciary and the bar, and all Journal ists to co-operate In bringing clearly to popular attention on this great oc casion the marvelous Influence of the English Bible in the progress of re ligion, liberty, education, literature and all other aspects of civilization among Anglo-Saxon peoples." SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. Bishop Whipple. Ah,' but a man's Teach should exceed hl3 grasp. Or what's a Heaven for? Browning. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose some- think. .Emerson.

The world Is held back from true progress not so much by the badness of bad men, as by the obstinacy of good men who have' stopped growing. Anon. Many of our troubles are God's dragging us, and they would end if we would stand on our feet and go whith er he would have us. Beecher. Be at war with your vices, at neace with your neighbors, and let every year nna you a Detter man. franklin. Hope. Child! Tomorrow hope, and then again tomorrow. Ana tnen tomorrow still! Trust in a future day, Hope, and each morn the skies new light from dawn shall borrow; As God Is there to bless let us be there to pray. Victor Hugo. NO MORE COLLECTION PLATES, Illinois Methodists Adopt New Plan For Raisins Church Funds. Good night contribution boxes, col lection plates, rummage sales, money raising socials, missionary envelopes and all the old fashioned methods of raising church funds are to be done away with by the Methodista of Cook counry, in Illinois. Under the new system the men of me Metnoaist church will assume en tire financial responsibility and the women and their societies will be re lieved of all the care about the matter. The plan was brought to a point at a meeting in central church, Evanston, in., tne otner night. The treasurer of the church. 1ntpr views each male member and secures rrom him a pledge of anything from 1 cent, to $1,000. the oledtre bein Tin v- able at any period SDecifled. When tne total is summed up, appropriations can be made In a general budget for uie minister s salary, cnurch mainte nance, special collections for home and foreign missionaries, charities and oth er calls for financial support. ine proposition first came ud a vear ago, when certain churches agreed to give n a xnorougn trial. Results were declared to have been highly satisfac tory in each case. We tried this plan for a vear." an nounced the Rev. Alfred Leach, twistor of a west side church, "and not only have found our revenue increased, but also the attendance, the latter because of the absence of appeals for funds from the pulpit. Where before we found it hard to raise $1 200 we raised $4,000 this year without trouble." True Christian Endeavor. We are beginning to hear a good deal nowadays of social work under taken by the churches, and probably this broadening of church activities Is, as it should be, a growing movement. In Bangor, Me., a few weeks ago one of the young people's societies of Christian Endeavor devoted ite regu lar meeting to the subject of play ground work. The attendance was unusually large, and the principal ad dTess was made by the supervisor of the Bangor playgrounds, who showed In how many ways the young people of the churches could aid the move ment. Speaking generally, such meet ings as this are doubtless one of the best ways to vitalize church organiza tions. Methodist Year Book's Editor. The Rev. Dr. Oliver S. Baketel of the New Hampshire conference has been appointed editor of the Methodist year book and the general minutes, a position made vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. S. V. R. Ford. Dr. Bake- tel is a native of Ohio and an alum nus of Mount Union college. He has served twelve years as presiding elder and has twice been a delegate in the general conference. His first detached service was as 'field secretary of the Sunday School union for New England. Since the board of Sunday schools was set apart his time has been largely given to the cause. CATHEDRAL FOK HELENA. Catholics Erectlnc One or Pattern of Votive Church at Vienna. The Catholic corporation of Helena, Mont., under Bishop John Patrick Car roll, will spend more than $1,000,000 In that city this year for educational and church structures. A new ca thedral Is being built, patterned after the famous Votive church of Vienna- It will be an exact though smaller copy of that edifice. It is In the form of a Latin cross. The exterior will be a series of towers, battlements, pedi ments, pinnacles, windows, doorways and bold projections. The extreme di mensions will be 150 by 246 feet. On the gable of the facade will be placed a statue of St. Helena twelve feet tall. The college when completed will be a structure three times tne size or Montana's capitoL This structure will not be wholly completed at nrst, mis dimension being the ultimate plan. It will be three stories In height and pat terned roughly after the White House at Washington. The bishop has been greatly aiaea by wealthy men of Montana. The late Peter Larson or Helena pequeatneu nearly $200,000 to Bishop Carroll for his different enterprises. The ground for the new cathedral was aonateo by Colonel Thomas Cruse, the Helena banker. 'Tews of the PatTiots." The number of "pews of the patri ots" at the Washington Memorial chapel. Valley Forge, has been com pleted bv that dedicated to Colonel John Nixon, a gift of his great-grand daughter. When on July 5. 177, con gress resolved that the Declaration of Independence Should be publicly read In the state house yard three days later Colonel Nixon was chosen to per form the duty. This pew, like the others, is of quartered oak. richly carved. A brass plate bears the Nixon arms and the following lncription: To the elorv of God and in memory of Colonel John Nixon, 1 733-December 21, 1808, who first publicly reaa tne Declaration of Independence, July 8, 1776, commanded the Third battalion, Philadelphia associators, in the battle of Princeton, shared the sufferings at Valley Forge and served this country as soldier, -statesman ana nnancier. This pew is the gift of his great granddaughter, Ellen Wain Harrison, 1 909. Churchman. Mission Work In China. The last enumeration of missionaries In China srlves their number as 8,270. The native church is doubling about every seven years and the missionary force every ten years. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. Gems Gleaned From the Teachings of All Denominations. A man's life will not be any higher or deeper or nobler than the standards he has lifted and tne principle ne nas idealized. Rev. C. E. Locke, Metho dist, Los Angeles, Cal. LIGHTENING ONE'S TASK. He who takes time to do a kindly action lightens his own task and Il lumes his own face. Rev. J. B. Rem ensnyder, Lutheran, New York. PROGRESS. Progress is obtained not by the best man saving himself, but by his saving the weakest at the expense or his own safety. Rev. Thomas F. Burke, Ro man Catholic. New York. SPORT AND PLAY. Snort and Dlay are intended to pre pare for real life. They are to be preparation not for more play, but for the real things or lire. iiev. jnowara N. Brown. Unitarian. Boston. DEVELOPING VIRTUES. Character Is developed by hardship. Strength, fortitude and reliability are developed by being exposea. uiessea is the man that endureth. Rev. A. B. Meldrum, Presbyterian, Cleveland, O. HONESTY IN WORSHIPING. It Is better to worship in a barn among social outcasts with an Inferior minister ir tne laeais or mat Bervice reDresent your honest convictions. Rev. Harry E. Gilchrist. Unitarian, New Orleans. WORLD A BEAUTIFUL PALACE. The world Is the Father's house, and all men are brothers. The children must not p-lt each other with stones nor lftot the beautiful palace. Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hlllis, Congrega tionalism Brooklyn. GOD'S SUPREME GIFT. The fellowship of married love and the home which it builds is uoa's su preme gift to man and the supreme safeguard of civilization Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D. v., jvietnoaist epis copal, Omaha, Neb. CHURCH'S SUPREME MISSION. To restore man to himself, to his place in nature, to society and to God was the comprehensive mission of the Son of Man. and it is the supreme mission of his church in the twentieth century. Rev. James B. Clayton, Bap tist, Washington. A FIRM FOUNDATION. Every man is potentially a son of God. Any one who thus emphasizes the inherent worth and dignity of everv soul has had a firm foundation upon which he may build a life of practical usefulness. Rev. M. LeRoy Burton, Congregationalism New Ha ven, Conn. THE WHOLE MAN. In months of great emotion we find the whole man, past and present, called up for action. All identify this inner, deeper, richer self with the real self, and in that self they find the point vf contact of the individual and the eternal God. Rev. W. F. Green- man, Unitarian. Milwaukee, Wis. MUTUAL AID. We must help each other to get along; we must feel that we are all one family. If one member suffers our whole body must suffer. We must be ready to do God's work, not only come forward ourselves, but nelp otners.- Rev. Byron Holley, Episcopalian, New Orleans. THE KEY OF THE FUTURE For the solving of the great riddle of life the Christian has the key of the future. The skeptic has only the one event, death, which happens to us all. He sees disorders, dislocation, the righteous suffering and the wicked flourishing. Rev.W. P. George, Mstho- odist, Denver. LOVE THAT IS LOVE INDEED. God asks of us a love that is love in deed, "For better, for worse, for rich er, for poorer, In sickness and In health, till death do us part." The truest relation between Christ and the soul is "Jesus, lover of my soul," "the lover of women and men, with a love that puts to shame all passions of mor tal ken." Rev. Dr. William H. Oxtoby, Presbyterian, Philadelphia. WORKERS WITH GOD. The church of Jesus Christ is largely a church of -laboring men. Its best workers are from the ranks of wage earners. Fellow workmen, never for get that we are one with God in his work. He has designed a glorious plan for his temple of humanity that pal ace of the great King. Fellow Chris- tlans, we are living stones, the hu man, material. Christ Is the master workman. All souls are precious In his sight We know not which are to occupy the most Important place." Many an unlovely character Is needed for the perfecting of the work of the Incarnate Son of God. The rejected stone may become the head of the corner. Right Rev. Samuel Fallows, Reformed Episcopal, Chicago. LOVE NECESSARY IN RELIGION. When our brother sins against the laws of his state, his home, his mother, his race and his God and for those sins has become a byword and a hiss ing it is not your pleasure unless you are a demon lnearnate to spend your time whispering your brother's sins to the community's gossips or publishing them from the housetops to all the world. Christ teaches us that we are all brothers and sisters, and if wa be lieve him we will treat all men Just as we would treat the brothers and sisters who are born of the same earth ly parents, even were they the twins or our souls. The way to show our love to the brother In the common heritage of faith Is to shield his good name, encourage his efforts, help his endeavors. Rev. Dr. Robert Hugh Morris, Presbyterian, Evanston, 111. Bible Study HI. Isaiah 1-12; Judah and Jerusa Text: lem. Memory Verse: 1-18. 1. Name the four malor prophets. 2. When did Isaiah see his vision? 3. Who were more foolish than the ox or ass? 4. What Is Israel's leading sin? 5. What Is the material condition of Judah when Isaiah speaks to them? To what did Judah s material prosperity tend? 7. What sin is recorded against the daughters of Zion? 8. How many pictures of Jerusalem does Isaiah portray? 9. What story did the prophet sing to his countrymen? 10. When did Uzziah die? 11. Whose confession of sin was fol lowed by forgiveness, attested by a seraph 12. In Isaiah s vision, bow was his sin purged? 1 3. How did Isaiah answer the voice of God? 14. Whom does Ahaz fear? 15. Who Is sent to Ahaz to teach him the right thing to do? 16. Who refused to ask a sign from the Lord? 17. What revelation concerning the Redeemer was given Aha? as a sign 18. Of what is the longest word in the Bible the name? 19. What was Isaiah s wife called? 20. Who was to be Judah's scourge? 21. What prophecy did Isaiah make concerning the light of Christianity? 22. How does he declare the aavent of a Messianic king? 23. By how many titles wms ne to be known? 24. From whom does Isaiah say the Christ will come? 25. What wUl be the striking char acteristic of the Messiah 26. Who besides man will be blessed by His coming? The lessons will do taicen up at me usual time and places, Tuesday, Janu ary 3. From a program irom mi faun Tex.. I ouota the following: How to make the New Year full of peace and blessing, the following di rections are given: I will read the Bible faithfully. Psalm 119:165. I will cultivate the habit or prayer. Col. 4:2. I will be faithful to the services or God's house. Psalm 122:1. I will endeavor to lead others to Christ. Prov. 11:30. I will be charitable, kind ana earn est in my thoughts and endeavors. Ephesians 4:32. I will strive to tie neipiui ana ao good to those about me. Mark 10?6. I will constantly iook to innsi ior grace to do His will. 2 Cor. 12-9. MRS. C. r JM l-.iN i.-v ivn.. CHURCH NOTICES. First" Congregational chnrch, Rev. Francis L. Hayes, D. D., pastor. Morning, service for the New Year. Evening, "A. Look at Ourselves in an Old Mirror." Choir and chorus of six teen voices at both services. The Church of Christ meets at chap el at 11 o'clock a. m. for communion services, also at 6 o'clock p. m. for Bible study. Kansas Avenue M. E. church. North Topeka. Preaching at 11 by Rev. George Wilson. In evening at 7:30 Evangelist Hicks will have charge or i the services and will preach. Each I night next week (except Saturday night) special evangelistic services will be held at 7:30. and Rev. C. B. zooK, D as tor of the Walnut Grove M. E. 1 church will preach. i Wesleyan Methodist church. Rev. T. J. Pomeroy, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p, m. Morning theme, 'A Noble Purpose." Evening subject, Greatness of Conversion." First Unitarian church, Rev. J. H. Jones, pastor. Service at 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor. First Presbyterian church, Rev. Stephen S. Eetey, D. D., pastor. Morning service at 11 a. m. Com munion and public reception of new members. 7:30 p. m., evening service. Sermon by the pastor. German Baptist church. Rev. Paul A. Schenk. pastor. There will be no services Sunday morning. In the evening at 7 o'clock services in the English language, preacning Dy ev. G. Barrett. Subject, "I Have Set Be fore Thee an Open Door and No Man Can Shut It." Second United Brethren church. Rev. J: -Lewis, pastor.- Sermon at 11 a. m. Subject, "Christ's Desire for Recognition." Sermon-at 7:30 p. m. Church of St. Simon, the Cyrenlan (Episcopal), Rev-. H.- B. Brown, priest. 7:30-a. m. celebration- of the holy eucharlst. 11 a. m. choral celebration with sermon.- Subject, "The Divine Sonship." 4:30 p. m. choral celebra tion with- sermon. Subject. "Em manuel." Qulnton Heights Baptist church, Rev. -Arthur D. Phelps, pastor. Morn ing worship at 11' o'clock. Subject, "The Fatherhood of God." Toung people's meeting at- 6:30 p. m. Even ing service at 7:S0 o'clock. Preach ing by F. H. Leonard. The week of prayer will be observed; Seward Avenue M. E church. Rev. J Wesley Johnston,, pastor. Sermon at 11 a, m. by Rev. R. W. Estep. Quarterly meeting service at 7:80 p. m. Sermon by Rev T. J. Ream. Highland Park sermon at 3:15 p. m. by Rev. G. A. MarveL German Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. John Koehler. pastor. New v oar's .service at 10:45 a. m. Sub ject, "Our New Year Motto: Delight Thyself in God." Evening service at 7:30. "God Rules." Central Park Christian Rev. Albert T. Fltts, pastor. church, Preach- A PURE PRODUCT OF Seaintered U. S.l'at. 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Sold only by MARSHALL BROTHERS TWO LARGE STORES Second Kansas Avenue and 515 Kansas Arena DERMA VIVA Whitens the Skin Is used in place of powder has same effect, but does not show. Cures Eruption, Freckles, Moth or Liver Spots. Brown arms or neck made whiter at once. Price 50c Sold by THE ARNOLD DRUG CO. 523 Kansas Avenne 523 SAVED FROM AWFUL DEATH How an appalling calamity in his family was prevented is ioia Dy a. xj. jawviiu. of FayetteviUe, N. C. R. F. D. No. 8. "My ulster had consumption," he writes, s "she was very thin and pale, had no appe- i tits and seemed to grow weaker every day, as all remedies failed, till Dr. King's Isew uiscovery wu iricu, ojii w pletely cured her, that she has not been troubled with a cough aince. Its the best medicine I ever saw or beard of." For nmiffha. ralAa larloDe. sjsthma. croup. hemorrhage, all bronchial troubles, it has nt equal, 60c L00. Trial bottle free. Guar anteed by all druggists. ing at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Re- Dorts of all departments or tne cnurcn will be given Saturday night. Third" Presbyterian church, Rev. Jay Carroll Everett, pastor. Morning service at 11 a. m. Special theme for New Tear's, "A Tear Worth Living in; a Land Worth Living in." -Communion and reception of new mem bers into the church in the evening at 7:30. International Bible Students con vention Sunday and Monday, January 1 and 2. at Commercial club rooms. No services at 218 West Sixth avenue on this date. First Church of Christ Scientist Services at 11 a. m. Subject. "God." Sunday evening service at 8 o'clock. Second Church of Christ Scientist. Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sub ject, "God." The Westminster Presbyterian church. Rev. Ralph Ward pastor. The sacrament of the Lord's supper will be celebrated at the morning service at 11 o'clock. Sermon in the evening by the pastor on the theme, "The Great Gain." Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Marvin Culpepper, pas tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. by Rev. Peterson. The pastor will preach in the evening at 7:20 on "Now;" First United Brethren church. The pastor, O. T. Deever, will preach at 11 a. m. on the subject, "A Changeless Record." At 7:80 p. m. on the sub- A .PERFECT PROCESS aKer s Breaktast Cocoa Is 'absolutely pure, healthful, and makes a most delicious drink Get the genuine totth out trade-mark on the package 52 Highest Awards in Europe and America WALTER BAKER Co. Ltd. EttablUhed 1780 Dorchester, Mass. 1 Travelers' Checks Kansas City Fart Tim. No Steps Doable Track Rock Island NEXT TIME toe Busy to Answer Questions H. H. HUNT, City Pass. Agt. JANUARY Beginning of the Year BEGIN A Systematic Saving Account The Capitol Building Loan Association 534 Kansas Ave.' OFFICIAL Watch Inspector 07 THE Santa Ft- Railroad The xnosV skillful Watch Adjostlag Service in the city. A fall and complete lh of High Grade Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry. Repairing a Specialty. R. H. MOREHOUSE BIO Fourth St, Topeka. Kan. ho M. 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