The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 29, 1912

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T4 EVERYBODY 16 PAGES READ IT. EVERYBODY 16 PAGES NEEDS IT. VAfVv L!V L LAST EDITION. THURSDAY EVENING. On eale by newsboys at TWO CENTS On trmiiM and rewwunJl Fl V t. CENTS TOPEKA, m KANSAS. FEBRUARY 29, 1912 THURSDAY EVENING. if fJS jt lit V I t REVOLT If Troops of Yuan Shi Kai Inau gurate a Riot. Wreck and Set Fire to Houses and Loot Shops. MUCH RECKLESS SHOOTING A Shell Jails ear the Ameri can Legation. The Foreigners Are Fleeing to Places of Safety. Pekin, Feb. 29. A revolt has broken out among a portion of Yuan tf Iji Kai't troops, some hundreds of whom start ed a riot this evening at S o'clock. They wrecked and set fire to houses It IT ft.. A One of til Main Streets of lekln, Scone of Today's lliotinir. and paraded the streets, shooting in discriminately. A strong force of loyai soldiers ha.s been ordred out and is endeavoring to restora order. The streets axe crowded and the greatest alarm prevails. The mutineers at 9:30 o'clock this morning numbered about 2,000. Hun dreds of shops already have been loot ed. Much reckless shooting took place outside the Chinamen gate of the for Didden city, near which the legation quarter is situated. Inside the city proper the situation is quieting and it is hoped by the authorities that order will be restor ed by midnight. The rioters claim that their wages have not been paid. A shell fired from one of the guns in the hands of the mutineers fe'.I within the confines of the America!' legation but it did not explode. Foreigners in the capital are being brought into their respective legations. TAFT TO GET BUSY. Vill Do Much. Campaigning lictwcen Now and June 18. Washington, Feb. 29. President Taft will soon start a vigorous speechmaking campaign to explain his position on cur rent questions and further his candidacy for renomination. Before the Republican national conven tion meets in June, the president will epend many days on the road, and is ex pected to deliver scores of speeches. He will travel as far west as Chicago, aa far north as Xew Hampshire, and south at least as far as Oeorgia. Other engage ments may be made in the next few weeks. Ever since the Taft renomination head quarters were opened here. "Republican leaders have urged the president to get Into the campaign. He began following this advice when he accepted an invita tion to attend the fiftieth annual dinner of the Swedish-American Republican club in Chicago. A Day in Now Hampshire. Manchester. X. M., Feb. 29. President Taft wili visit four cities in New Hamp shire on March 13. The announcement of the president's intention to make a whirl t wind tour of this state, of w hich Robert P. Bass, one of the adherents of Colonel Roosevelt, is governor, was made in a telegram from United States Senator ijallinger. DENY SHERMAN STOR Iarty Leaders Say Tlierc Is Xo Trutli in It. Washington, Feb. 29 Reports widel circulated last night that Vice Presi dent Sherman had practically beer, decided on as a running mate for Pres ident Taft before the Republican na tional convention were denied today by party leaders. It was learned at Hie White House that President Tuft did not discuss the question of .Sher man's candidacy with William Karne? Jr.. Republican state chairman of New York, who was a White House din nor guest Tuesday night. Denial also was made that any mem ber of President Taft's cabinet had come out in support of the vice presi dent for renomination. Sherman him self saw the president, introducing a former law rartner. As he left the White House he was asked if he had anything to say about the report. "No, sir. not a word,"' he said. MAY BE GOAL STRIKE. Miners' Ofticcrs Say It Is lp to tlie OiM-rators. New York, Feb. 23. The representa tives of the anthracite coal miners who have been here for several days, for mulating their demands for higher wages, have concluded their delibera tions for the present. They will return to meet the operators at a conference in this city on March IS. President White, of the United Mine Workers, us soon as he returns to Indianapolis, will arrange for conferences over the de mands of the bituminous workers. As to the chances for a strike, the miners leaders are non-committal. "We are not looking for a strike," de- clared Mr. White befor leaving Xew York, "but will insist on our demands. Th miners are better organized than they ever were before. There are 700.000 coal mine workers in this country, and according to the last official returns, 350.O0O of them are in the union. "The coming conference with the an thracite operators will not occupy a great deal of time. Whether there will be a -strike or not would depend a good deal on the attitude of the operators." SEVEN DIE IN STORM. Victims Had Gone on the Range to Protect Their Herds. Dalhart. Feb. 2f. At least seven persons in northwest Texas and east ern New Mexico lost their lives in a storm that swept across the Texas panhandle Sunday. Passengers ar riving on delayed trains here today declare there were two deaths at Romero, Tex.; two at Amstad; two at Naravisa, X'. M., and one death n ear Dal hart. In each case the victim had gone on the range to care for cattle suf fering in the blizzard. S LONDON SEES T. R. Cartoon of the Colonel Appears Westminster Gazette. London, Feb. 29. Teddy Roosevelt's come to town I pen his spotted pony. He's thrown nis hat into the ring Against his former crony. So sings Sir F. Caruthers Cold the brilliant cartoonist of the Westminster Gazette in a drawing on Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy. The cartoon shows Mr. Roosevelt as a Rough Rider with a faint resemblance to a theatrical Na poleon, mounted on a piebald ponv dis tinctively suggestive of the circus" CONVENTION SPLITS. One l-"a-iioii Klocts Roosevt-lt Dele gates, tlie Oilier for Taft. Excelsior Springs, Mo., Feb. 29. Third District Delegates to Republi can National Convention Frank B. Channel and A. M. Hyde were in structed for Roosevelt. The conven tion split into two factions. The Taft men will name delegates later. Weather Is Still Cold. This is the coldest Fehru; y 29 on record in Topeka. but at that the weather is pleasant. The north wind is holding the temperature down. Fri day morning the mercury will prob ably slide down to the S degree point. The snow flurries that were predicted did not materialize. The hourly read- in ets: 7 o'clock 10 8 o'clock 11 9 o'clock 14 1 1 o'clock 12 o'clock. 1 o'clock. 2 o'clock. io o'clock.. 15 t 1 A, TODAY IS LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL DAY. (INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNERS.) By John T. McCutcheon. JJiiw Ml M First read instructions carefully, then rig up a cozy corner, and into effacing hi.nself for indefinite period. Array self with appropriate gorgeousness and appear surprised when tell HIM that HE has the most uncomfortable chair in the room and that the new cozy corner. Tell HIM you and mamma have fixed up the cozy corner so that papa could have a comfy place to smoke. (This will show HIM that thoughtfulness is a family trait). Also casually refer to the fact that papa and mamma have been married years and have never had a quarrel. (This will dem onstrate that married bliss runs in the family.) Then discover that the lamp is smoking and turn it down. The family album is a good excuse for close harmony. Another saving in kerosene will give the psychological degree of dimness and some palm reading will help considerably. Tell HIM that HE is never going to be married and will live to be 80. That will scare HIM. A few moments for reflection and then POP. OPPOSE TARIFF CUT. Iva'ioi- Leaders I'iglit Reduction Steel Hates. n the Washington, Feb. 2 9. More labor leaders appeared before the senate finance committee today and protest ed against the proposed steel tariff re duction. Leon C. Sutton and M. I. Pierson of New York and Frank R. Vreeland of Bayonne, N. J., were among those who testified. Mr. Sutton s?aid if the tariff was re duced American manufacturers would make wholesale reduction ii wages. Mr. Pierson said the wages of photoengravers in this country was 50 per cent higher than abroad. He said if the pronosed reductions were made publishers' generally would have their engravings and etchings made abroad and brought to this country. Mr. Vreeland told the committee that tariff reductions would create a feeling of unrest in labor circles and stagnate business. lARE IS TOO SMALL. Railroads Complain That They Get Little Out of Express Business. Washington, Feb. 29. According to testimony at the interstate commerce commission's express inquiry, the ex press business yields only 2 per cent of the revenue of the railroad. The statement was made by W. A. Worth ington. assistant director of main tenance and operation for the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems. "The express traffic does not pay its fair share of the railroad opera tion he added. "I do not mean that it does not pay. but that there is no class of traffic that is so unremunera tive to the railroads as express traffic." In the judgment of Mr. Worthington despite the increases which had been made in the compensation of the rail road companies for the transportation of express matter, the railroads were not yet receiving adequate compensa- AMERICANS IN JAIL Autoist and Driver Imprisoned Mexico. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 2 9. T. J. Beaudot, a Los Angeles automobile driver, on a trip to Mexico City, was arrested today at Atzcapotzalco, five miles from his goal, and the state de partment at Washington has been asked to obtain his release. Don Lee. a local automobile agent, received a telegram in which Beaudot Copyright: I91: By John- T. MoCutcheon. t,.1r ,1L ..II .1 J said that he and his mechanic, whose home is in Mexico City, had been arrested and thrown into jail. Mr. Lee immediately sent a telegram to Washington placing the facts before the state department. TODAY IN CONGRESS. Discu.- ion of Agricultural Appropria tion Hill Is Resumed. Washington, Feb. 23. Senate in ses sion 2 p. m. Dr. Wiley fnd wholesale grocers' representatives waged war against each other before manufac turers committee on proposed net weight amendment to pure food law. House met at noon. Resumed discus sion of agricultural appropriation bill. Florida everglades investigation contin ued with drainage engineer Morehouse on the stand. Committee from American Bankers association advocated Lever agricul tural extension work bill before agri culture committee. Reduction of wages would result from house steel tariff bill. labor representa tives told senate finance committee. Representative Hughes introduced bill incorporating President Taft's re commendation for an industrial rela tions commission to investigate indus trial problems. Immigration committee declined to report favorably a bill barring illiterate immigrants. 0 BOOM THE COLONEL A Cai lpaign Committee Will lie Or ganized at Washington. Washington, Feb. 29. A general Roosevelt committee, including in its membership Medill McCormick, Gifford Pinchot. Amos Pinchot. Senator Dixon, of Montana, and probably James A. Garfield, and other close friends of Col. Roosevelt, will be organized here next week to take charge of the Roosevelt campaign. It has not been determined whether the Washington headquarters will dominate activities throughout the country but it will at least work in en tire harmony with the Chicago and other Roosevelt headquarter. The Washington Roosevelt head quarters was opened by McCormick after his withdrawal from the support of Senator LaFollette. McCormick left Washington yesterday and he will have a conference with Col. Roosevelt. Weather Indications. Chicago. Feb. 2 9. Forecast for Kansas: Generally fair tonight and Friday: somewhat colder in south portion tonight. then subsidize younger brother HE arrives. When HE sits down HE simply must come in and see 1- 1 W f-fl JURY MUST DECIDE. Third Trial Serves Only to Increase Kinimel Mystery. St. Louis, Feb. 29. Attorneys today commenced arguments to twelve men in the Cnited States district court here upon whom the government has placed the task of solving tlie Kimmel identity mys tery, involving the payment of a $5,000 life insurance policy. Other policies, with their accrued interest and refundable premiums make the amount at stake S40.0GU. The receiver of a defunct bank of Xiies, Mich., brought suit in l&H against an in surance company of Xew York to recovex payment on a policy on the life of Geo. A. Kimmel, an Arkansas City, Kan., banker, who mysteriously disappeared July 3), 183JS. Kimmel's sister, Edna Kiiu mel, now Mrs. Edna Bonslett, was the beneficiary and assigned the policy to the bank. The twenty days of this the third hearing, have been featured by con tradictions which have increased, rather than solved, the mystery. The insurance company has attempted to prove that a man it has produced is the missing Kim mel. The plaintiff in the case refer to him only as "The claimant." Mrs. Kimmel's dramatic denial of her motherhood of "The claimant" was hard ly less dramatic than his repudiation of her for that denial, although he insisted to the end in calling her "My mother." The plaintiff has attempted to prove, that Kimmel disappeared; that he was killed during a treasure hunt in Oregon and that the claimant is not the missing banker. Bertillon experts and ophthalmol ogists have clashed, seeking to prove that measurement of the claimant and his eyes either do or do not stamp him as Kimmel, according to the side for which thev testify. Witnesses for the defense have contra dicted almost every material statement of the plaintiff and both sides of the contro versy are eagerly awaiting the time when the jury shall say which side has won. SAME OLD TICKET. It Is Likely to Read Taft and Sherman This Year. Washington, Feb. 29. Unless present plans of president Taft's campaign man agers go awry. Vice President Sherman will again go on the Republican ticket for vice president, according to a report here. A member of the cabinet who is the most active among the president's official family is quoted as saying: We had not intended to consider Mr. Sherman for vice president in this cam paign, but the emergency confronting us compels us to do so." This is said to have been the object of the recent visit to Washington of Republican State Chair man Barnes, of New York. Mr. Barnes, it Is said, told President Taft that witnsehr man on the ticket. New York could be carried for Taft CITY WILL WATCH Will See That Telephone Kates Are ot Raised. 31 ax i inu m Charge 'ot Fixed for Bell Company. IS WITHOUT A FRANCHISE Bell Bights Ban Out in Topeka Five Years Ago. Independent Company Operates Under Maximum Ordinance. Topeka need have no fear of high telephone rate3 resulting from the pur chase of the Independent Telephone company by the Bell company. The board of city commissioners will regu late the maximum rates to be charged in this city if the new combination at tempts to demand higher rental from the 10 000 patrons. The city has taken no action since the announcement of the consolidation of the two companies in Topeka but it is planned soon to pass a franchise ordinance fixing a maximum charge for the use of telephones. It has been discovered at the city hall, since the Bell-Indvpendent action, that the Bell company is in Topeka without a franchise. The original fran chise obtained by this company in 1SS7 was good only for 20 years. Five years ago the time limit expired. The Inde pendent franchise is good until 1930. Under their old franchise the Bc'.l company could charge any rate it saw fit. The city in 187 failed to fix a maximum rate and the Hell company was free to make any charge that the public would stand. This franchise has been out of effect for five years and if the commissioners draw up a new one they will look after the rate clause. When the city granted the Independ ent company a franchise in 1900 th-.? council ruled that the company should not charge more than &M5 a year for commercial telephones and not more than J.'iO a year for the residence 'phones. This rule always has been observed. The Independent company did not approach the maximum allow ance in their rates. If they had failed to observe this rule the city would cause them to forfeit their rights in the city. This sectior of the franchise ordinance reads: "If said K. p". Pankj?y. his succes sors and assigns shall fail or refuse to furnish telephone service at the rates provided for by this ordinance, or which may hereafter be fixed by the mayor and council of the city of Topeka or to comply with each and all of the provisions of this ordinance, then all rights, franchises and. privi leges hereby granted shall at once lie forfeited and revert to the city of To peka without any action being com menced in court." If the city commissioners find it nec essary to regulate the new Bell tele phone rates a clause similar to the clause quoted above will be Inserted. DR. WILEYDENIES IT. Says Report That He Thought of Re signing Is False. Washington, Feb. 29. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, denied today that he had any intention of resigning from office. He characterized as "preposter ous" and "pure fiction" the rumors that he was considering such action and that he probably would come out with a statement attacking Secretary Wilson find the administration. Dr. Wiley declared that the rumors un doubtedly came from enemies who re cently had attacked him In other ways. As to the report that after resigning he would be a candidate for vice presi dent on the Democratic ticket tho doc tor laughed and said: "I could not run on that ticket. I am a whole Democrat: that is, the others are only semi-Democrats. I believe in the equal rights of man, the right of women as well as men to vote. There fore I am a whole Democrat." BUTT OBTAINS LEAVE. President's Aide Will Go Abroad In Search of Health. Washington, Feb. 29.- Major Butt, personal aide to President Taft, to day was granted leave of absence by the war department for one month and twenty-four days, and Saturday will sail from New York for the Mediterranean. The leave was granted on a sur geon's certificate. Major Butt was taken ill on the president's trip west last fall and was confined to his room in Mr. Taft's private car. Ever since his health has been poor and finally army doctors ordered him to take a vacation. TASKER HAS A SON. Child of Register or Deeds to Have One Birthday in Four Years. Robert Tasker. register of deeds. Is at home today celebrating the arrival of a new boy. who can hold but one b'rthday party every four years. The boy came to the TaskeT home this morning. "Don't know just how I will arrance about the leap yar parti's." Tasiier stated over the telephone, after having recited all the good points about the new heir, "but if the calendar won t provide but one party every four years, sonic thing will have to be done to make tual one worth while. Say, but it's the finest boy in town." Then Tasker hung up the receiver to hasten to the bedside and inquire if th; youngster was cutting teeth. Tasker. jr.. was the only leap year arrival reported in Topeka at noon today. LAY DOWN TOOLS Over Three-Quarters of a Mil lion Coal Miners In tlie United Kinsrdom (Jo on a Strike. WILL PASS MILLION MARK Unless Unexpected ("hansre Comes Over the Situation. Other Trades Will He Forced Into the .Movement. London, Feb. 29. l"pwardn of thf' quarters of a million coal miners had laid down their tools and gone on trik-' by 2 o'clock this afternrxm when the day shift in the mints ended. The army of striking colliers Dwelled hourly throughout the morning when it became known that no settlement had been reached. Before nightfall unless om unex pected change comes over the situa tion more than a million men and boy now employed in the mines will t Idle and tens of thousands in other trd-u will be forced Into a similar condition, Tlie delegates of the miners ft approached early this morning by S r George Asquith with some of his col leagues of th board of trade and sev eral labor members of tlie houss of commons with a view of finding mam way out of the crisis. At th same time the coal owners gathered again at the foreign office where they con ferred with Asquith and severe I mem bers of the cabinet. Each side is now blaming the otvr for the failure of the negotiation. The miners say the coal owners did n"t show a conciliatory attitude white tn owners insist that the miners were d termined to strike no matter whr. t terms were offered. It Is ..ndcrstor i the government has drafted n mini mum wage bill with safeguards for th owners and Is ready to rush it throuc.i parliament in cjise of necessity. Meetings wrre held by th cn.il miners' federation and the coal own ers' association but apparently on!, resulted in a reiteration of the r.-f u i of the part icipants to move from !he;r positions. Further meetings were announced but little is expected to result from them, and h.s a consequen.-e the cabi net completed arrangements to hurrv legislation which may prov ncci sjwry to compel a resumption of work. Meetings of railroad employee adopted resolutions pledging them selves to abstain from handling troop trains a!T'T"" coaT'Jpfoduced by non unionists. It is said tonight with some authority that there is a prospect of a break in the deadlock between the owl nvinf.i and the miners. Premier Asquith has submitted a new proposal to the miners who It i asserted have now signified their wil lingness to negotiate on the rju'tton f safeguards which the owners dt-m ind as a corollary to the establishment f a minimum wage. Asquith Is said to have given an in surance to the miners delegates thwt means would be found to compel th minority of the coal owners to fall Info line with the majority on the question of the concession of a minimum wag. FIVE CARS l!i DITCH. N'o. 6 on the Book Inland Derailed In Illinois. Davenport, Iowa. Feb. 2. Five Pull man coaches of train No. 6 on th Rock Island left the track near Atkins. I1L, this morning about 6 o'clock and tum bled over Into a ditrh. At the Chicago, Rock Island Paclfl'! general offices here It was said the wreck occurred three miles east of At kins, III., and that no one was weriously Injured. All of the passengers in the derailed section of the train were trans. ferred to other coaches and proced-ei to Chicago. A broken rail is believed to have caused the accident. Miss A. M. Nell is. Scran ton, Pw.; Mrs. W. R. Kserick, Decatur, and Mrs. Melns, Des Moines, were among thoin injured. Several other passenger were hurt but none seriously. Traction Train re ke.1. St. Ivjuis. Feb. 23. Fourteen passen gers were injured when a sleeper train of three cars on the Illinois traction system was derailed and turned over in a ditch at Benld, 111., .V miles northeast of St. Txuis early today. A report from the company's divis ion headquarters at Staunton. 111 wa i that every passenger on th" train wa hurt, the most serious Injury bir.g that of a man whose nose was broke;, The other passengers, among tm m sev eral women, were cut arid bruled when the cars turned over. KANSAS NUN SUES. Sister Mary f lerclimaiiH sock t I; cover I'alher'H $2(M,MOO IXlalc. New YriTk, Feb. 29. The fight beiae n Fister Mary Hcrchmans of I ue Sisters r Charity of St. Vlni-ent de Paul and ti e beneficiaries under the will t CharP: Heed, the "mystie" pi, blither who Uied last March. P aving m, aruj hw death was supposed to have he n hRter; ed by a "spirit call" from hin wife, m u -transferred yesterday fr"m liniicpi,:-. Conn., to this city. Jme A. Ailn i No. Wall street held a tu-arlmi i secret, the Connecticut court having or dered the papers sealed. Sister Mary Ben-hmans appe;r In i court paiers as Jeasie K. H-eU, lu lighter of Reed by his first wife. She H a teacher in St. Oahriel academy. No. 231 East Thirty-sixth street. K'-e,) a,i his first wife were divorced hiihi trv daughter was 2 yean. oi l. Reed wlile.l his estate to Iir. James P. Flke of 7 West KiKbty-slsth street, his piivsteian, and Mrs. William Grant Brown. th mt'e of his lawyer, who drew the will. No mention was made of a diuirhter. At the proceedings yesterday two n.nn testified. I Sister Mary Berrhman was former J principal of St. Marv's aeademv at I.e--enworth. She left there two rears ko.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 29, 1912 THEY CAtTT MOVE Eebels at Juarez Lose Railroad Equipment. Officials Send Cars to the American Side. THEY LOOK TO GENERAL CROZCQ Expected to Direct Movement Against Chihuahua. Resignation from Federal Army Takes Effect March 1. El Paso, Feb. 29. After General Salazar had prepared a train of thirty- six box and fiat cars to move his army against Chihuahua today, railroad offi cials of both the Mexican Central and the Mexico Northwestern by a sudden strategic move ran every bit of motive power in the Juarez yards to the American side. Most of the cars also were removed to the neutral side of the river. This coup, temporarily at least, pre vents Salazar from leaving Juarez with his eight hundred men. He had pro claimed that he intended forming a junction with other rebels in the west for the attack of Chihuahua. The entire movement, he declared, was to be directed by Pasqual Orozco. whose resignation from the federal army becomes effective March 1. Saloons Are Closed. General Salazar in command of the captured town anouneed at noon that all gambling in saloons had been closed and would remain closed indefi nitely. Arter a conference of the command ers this morning it was declared that all but two hundred of the men would remain in Juarez Friday and go south to attack Chihuahua. Two hundred men are to be left to hold Juarez. Mexican Cousul K. C. Llorente an nounced today that he had orders from Mexico City as early as Monday not to resist the rebels if they attacked Juarez and that the pretense at de fense was only a bluff to keep the rebels out. Kesent American Interference. Kansas City, Feb. 29. Any Mexican government that should consent to the occupation of a toot ot Mexican sou bv any foreign power would be torn to pieces, declared Senaor "Vera Esta nol, minister of public instruction in the last cabinet of Diaz of Mexico, in an interview here. Senor Estanoi is to address the Kansas City Bar as sociation thl3 evening. The intel ligent Mexicans, he continued, who are now striving for a stable government for law and order, credit and the pro tection of property, would be wholly unable to control the situation if American troops once crossed the border. The United States I hope never will take so ill advised a step "President Madero has tiiven much cause for dissatisfaction. By his rash and unstatesmanlike promises he has armed the leaders of the present move ment. At the time of the former up rising he made the usual bid for the support of the laboring,, classes by promising better wages and a divis ion of the land. These? promises are returning upon his head. "Another mistake was the breaking of the agrement whereby Fransico Vasquez Gomez was to have been elected vice president on the ticket with Madero." CUT OFF FREE PHONES Government Officials Must Pay for Private Service, Washington, Feb. 29. One hundred and seven government officials will lose fre telephones when the appro priation committee of the house re ports the supply bill for the legislative, Judicial and executive departments. The committee has found that the United States is paying for this num ber of residences telephones in Wash ington. One mmeber characterized the practice as "petty graft." Secretary of the Navy Meyer is the only official who has more than one government telephone in his home. Justice Lurton is the only supreme court justice with a free telephone. RAID STATION NEXT Robbers Blow Safe Under Noses of Kansas City Police. Kan sag City, Feb. 29. Robbers to day blew open the safe of Max Stern's pawn shop at 634 Walnut street, within two blocks of police headquarters, se cured (4,000 in jewelry and money and escaped. The police believe the robbery was the work of experts and the wrecked safe Indicates that nitroglycerin was the fxplosive used. The sound of the explosion was so well muffled that officers in the immediate neighbor hood did not know what was happen ing and the robbery was not reported until hours after it occurred. WILEY TURNED DOWN Secretary Wilson Refuses to Make Baking: Powder Evidence Public. Washington, Feb. 29. Secretary Wil son has denied a request of Dr. Wiley, head of the pure food board, thst all the correspondence in a recent baking powder decision be made public. The request was made by Dr. Wiley be cause of the charge against him by the editor of a food publication, who de clared that in the baking powder deci sion Wiley "acted at variance with his oft-repeated statement that in cases of doubt he always gavi the doubt to the public." Secretary Wilson said nothing would be made public regarding the matter until after the Remsen board had re ported. REDUCE SUGAR TARIFF Will Be One Cent Per Pound if Report Is Adopted. Washington, Feb. 29. The house committee on ways and means today agreed on a sugar tariff revision bill which will be submitted soon to a Democratic caucus of the house. It is understood the tariff is reduced to one cent a pound and that the large loss of revenue involved will be met by increased tariff on silks or other luxuries. KNOX VIEWS THE CANAL He Will Leave Colon for Costa Rica This Afternoon. Panama City, Feb. 29. Secretary of State Knox left here this morning at 8 o'clock with the intention of making a leisurely trip to Colon with fre quent stops on the way for inspecting the Panama canal. When taking leave of the large party of government of ficials who accompanied him to the station Mr. Knox told them he was immensely pleased with the cordial- rC. KNOX ity of the welcome. Mr. Knox and his companions will return on board the cruiser Washing ton this afternoon, when anchor will be at once weighed and the warship will proceed to Port Limon, Costa Rica, where the party expects to ar rive tomorrow and continue the jour ney to the capital, San Jose. The newspapers here continue today to express friendly sentiments toward the United States and appreciation of the visit of the secretary of state. The Star and Herald says: "Secretary Knox does not leave the capital on a mere junket. His visit is an event of no little importance, for weighty questions are pending. "We trust, that everywhere he will rieet with a reception calculated to tmoot hthe way for the success of his mission." The Panama City council has. adopted resolutions complimentary to the visit -of Mr. Knox. Makes First Sjeech. Panama. Feb. 29. The American secre tary of state. Philander C. Knox, made his first formal appeal for a closer union of the American republics. The occasion was a state dinner given by the acting president of Panama, Rodolfo Chiari, in honor of Mr. Knox, and judging by the applause, the secretary's remarks were received in a spirit that was markedly sympathetic and cordial. In response, the Panama minister of foreign relations, Aristides Arjona, the only other speaker of the evening, said: "We know that your mission is for in ternational concord and union. Tell your government that we are linked by an in dissoluble tie a thousand reasons ot gratitude binding the United States and Panama, and we know how to respond td an invitation of an American." FOUND FROZEN BODY Dalhardt, Tex., Feb. 29. Seeking her husband who had gone out on the plains to attend to cattle suffering from a Panhandle blizzard, Mrs. M. Joseph Saylor was lost in Sunday night's storm. Mr. Saylor immediately organized a rescue party but the ranchwoman had been swallowed in the thickest of the blizzard. Her frozen body was found lying on the range. The Saylors came here from Mendota. Illinois. TAFT FAVORS IT President AVould Push the Work of Agricultural Extension. Washington. February 29. President Taft told a committee from the Amer ican Bankers' association here that he favored legislation to establish fed eral agricultural extension work in connection with state agricultural col leges which now receive federal bene fits. Both Representative McKinley, manager of the Taft campaign, and Represetnative Lever of South Caro lina have bills before the house for this legislation. The banks will urge the legislation before congress and count now on Mr. Taft's suuport. NO MORE TROOPS Governor Halts the Movement to Mex ican Border. Lawton. Feb. 29. Orders were re ceived here Wednesday from the war department revoking orders previously received for the troops at Fort Sill to be in readiness to move to the Mexi can border. The orders are taken here to indicate that the government believes it has sufficient troops near the Mexican borders. Protests Against Reduction in Steel Tariff. Washington, Feb. 29. Labor join ed in the protest before the senate finance committee today against the tariff reductions on steel and tin plate as contained in the house steel bill. John Williams' of Pittsburg, presi dent of the amalgamated association of iron and steel workers declared that the reduction would precipitate a conflict between capital and labor. jtC F p jlP tn GOT IN WRONG BUNDLE Actor's Shirts an Exhibit in Story Divorce Suit. New Tork, Feb. 29. A number of shirts belonging to Stanley S. Forde, an actor, which pretty Mrs. Helen Hilton Story is alleged to have sent out in a bundle of laundry, may be an import ant factor in the divorce action brought by Allen Lawrence Story, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Story, trial of which was begun here in the supreme court. Mrs. Storey is a granddaughter of the lata Tiidp. Hpnrv T-filtOTv and heiress i,f his large estate. The Storys had an apartment in East 39th street. Mr. Sorey met Stanley Forde, became in timate with him and introduced him to MAP .SHOWING. KNOX'S TRIP his wife. In outlining his client's case, Story's attorney said Mr. Story was in bad health and went south. Returning un expectedly one morning he dropped in Co Forde's bachelor apartment in West Thirty-second street and found there Mrs. Story and Miss Forde, the actor's sister. He remonstrated against an as sociation between his wife and Forde, which he deemed undesirable. "He will show," said the attorney, "that as many as eleven of Stanley Forde's shirts were sent out from the Story apartment in one bundle. We will also show that Mrs. Story had told the elevator boys not to admit anyone when Forde was visiting her." The attorney said Mrs. Story and Mr. Forde and the latter's sister took a cottage for the summer at Navesink Beach. Story couldn't go along because iic i viLiy tfai imis a wees alio so could not afford it. Miss Forde remain- I ed at the cottage only a week, the it- 1 torney said, and Forde and Mrs. Story staid there alone for two months. GREEK DANCER HELD Wife Accuses Husband of Using Her as a White Slave. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 2 9. Pittsburg police today took into custody an en tire family of beautiful Athenians, who came here from Philadelphia to give a series of Greek classic dances for Pittsburg society functions. The family consists of Leonitas Vic toros, his wife, Angelica Victoros, and two beautiful daughters. They re cently gave their Greek dances before the Wellesley club of Philadelphia, some of the best known society women of that city acting as patronesses. Mme. Victoros told the police that her supposed husband had brought her to this country as a white slave and that he had attempted to rid himself of her during the past week that he might sell her daughters into slavery. The women sought police protection, showing marks of frightful abuse. The husband and three women are being held by the police, who have asked the local immigrant station to deport the women. Victoros says the woman is insane. INDEPENDENT SELLS. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Coni pauy Acquire Plant. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 29. -announcement was made today that the Pacir; Telephone Telegraph company has absorbed the Independent Telephone company of Seattle, and, as soon as practicable, will consolidate the two systems. This information was con veyed in a letter to Mayor George W. Dilling from E. C. Bradley, vice presi dent and general manager of the Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph company. Records of the city utilities depart ment show that the Independent plant is valued at $1,540,000 and the Pacific plant at $2,227,000. WIFE SPURNS HUSBAND Aged Man Seeks Comfort in Death After Quarrel. Louisville, Ky.. Feb. 29. Failing to effect a reconciliation with his wife, who had left him upon their first quar rel after forty years of married life. Something Good to Drink McCiintock's Coffee You will notice the difference. No. 3 Blend, per lb. 45c Will please you. TEA COFFEE CHINA 815 Kansas Ave. Phones 749 Raben Traud, 69 years old, went to the old home just outside the city, where they had lived together, and committed suicide late yesterday aiLernoon by drinking carbolic acid. BACK AT HIS DESK. Roosevelt Is Receiving Calls and Invi tations to Speak. New Tork, Feb. 29. Back from his trip to Boston, Theodore Roosevelt resumed his work at hJs editorial office here today. It was his first day in New York since his announcement that he was willing to large number of politicians went to Bee mm. Mr. Roosevelt said he expected to re main in New York until tomorrow after noon, when he will go to Oyster Bay. He said that he had made no definite plans for the time before the Republican national convention in June. He has re ceived many invitations to speak but said he did not wish to make extended trips if he could avoid it. One invitation, however, he has ac cepted. It is to speak before the conven tion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the battlefield of Gettys burg, Pa., on Memorial day. Medill McCormick of Chicago, who has been managing the Roosevelt head quarters in Washington was on hand when Mr. Roosevelt reached his office, prepared for an all-day discussion of the situation. Mr. McCormick denied the statement that he had come over from Washington because of a mis understanding. It had been said he was disappointed when Mr. Roosevelt stated he favored the selection of Sen ator Dixon of Montana as the national manager for the movement. McCormick said he was a good soldier in the Roose velt fight and made it clear that he had not insisted upon being in entire charge. "For ten days," he said, "I have done everything possible to induce Senator Dixon to undertake direction of the campaign for Air. Roosevelt's nomination. Other friends of Mr. Roosevelt have seen Seanor Dixon for the same purpose and I hope that he may decide to undertake the work, although it means a very great sacri fice for him. The statement that I was put out is singularly silly." Mr. Roosevelt himself said he could say nothing. IS FREE No Admission Charged Effort Made to Bring Fanciers Together. The annual show of the Western Pigeon club is now in full swing in the old Arnold building at 523 Jackson street. There are 184 birds on exhibition of 15 varieafs, and some of the best birds that can be seen at any show are included in the list of en tries. However, the show this year is essen tially a local affair, its object being primarily to get the Topeka fanciers to gether to stimulate interest in the hobby one might call it of keeping the birds. There is no entrance fee, and the man agement of the association would be pleased to meet all the boys in town to have started out in the pigeon business on either a large or small scale. No ad mission fee is charged. George Godfrey Moore's famous parlor tumbler that has the world's record for its ability to roll, is In the show, and William Holmgren has on exhibit a Fan tail hen that is considered the best bird of the variety west of New York City. Roy Payne is displaying 59 Dragoon pigeons. Their peculiar wattles and eye "cere" give them an odd aspect. The old timers in the pigeon business in Topeka will recall that the Western Pigeon club was organized nearly twenty years ago, or to be precise, on April 4. SH2. The president was John Haman, who is now in Chicago, and the secretary was M. F. Hankla. Other charter members were Peter Plamondon, John Ramsbarger and C. C. Henshaw. The membership has increased in the twenty years from 5 to 33, and now there are representatives from several states; TRAIN IS ANNULLED. Rolling Stock All Got Out of Repair at Once. El Paso, Feb. 29. A committee said to represent Kmilio Gomez arrived here today from San Antonio and was in conference with Colonel Ponce and other rebel officers at Juarez. Al though the Mexican rolling stock rushed to El Paso yesterday was still in the American yards, the insurrectos continued plans for an advance south which they declared would be made by rail. Railroad officials were out with a new version of the reason for withdrawing locomotives from the Juarez side as they declare this move was made because the engines and cars needed repairs. They left the in ference that the outfit would be re turned to Juarez, but would not say so in so many words. The peculiar coincidence that the entire troop train made up yesterday to take the rebel army to Chihuahua should suddenly be found unfit at the same moment was left unexplained. A new manifesto addressed to Gov ernor Abram Gonzales of the state of Chihuahua and signed by "Revolu tonists of the North" made its appear ance. It called upon "Gonzales of the trembling knees" to resign, declaring that he, like President Madero, was a traitor to his country. George C. Kauffmann, general man ager of the American Smelting Re fining company for Mexico, states that if the railroads do not resume opera tions In that country before March 7, the big smelter and mines at Velar dena will have to close as the present fuel supply will be exhausted. WIFE GAN TAKElT. Money hi Husband's Pockets Belongs to Her, Court Rules. Philadelphia, Feb. 29. According" to a decision by Magistrate MacFarland here, a wife has a perfect right to rifle the pockets of her husband, take his last cent, and the husband has no re dress. The decision was made in the case i of John Dorcas, arrested for nonsup I port. Dorcas pleaded that he wao forced to leave his wife, because she insisted upon going through his pock ets nightly and relieving him of every cent she could find. The magistrate announced that according to law, that which belonged to Dorcas also belonged to Mrs. Dorcas, and it did not make any difference how she got it. Taft Gets a Gold Snake. Washington. Feb. 29. The White House mail today brought President Taft a silk shamrock and a gold snake from Mary F. Flattery of New Tork which the president will wear in the lapel of his coat when he rides at the head ,of the St. Patrick's day parade in Boston, Monday, March 18. WHEATJS WEAKjf STOCK SHIPPERS Lightness of Argentine Ship ments Counts Against Bears. Profit Taking In Evidence From Opening of Market. SHORTS ABE GOOD BUYERS Scarcity of Pit Offerings Makes Corn Prices Firm. Big Run of Hogs Causes Weak ness in Provisions. Chicago, Feb. 29. WHEAT As a result of cables showing a fair response to bullish reports about American reserves, wheat prices today scored a fresh ad vance. Profit taking, however, was in evidence from the outset and for a time pulled down quotations. New crop deliv eries were easy, in comparison with near by months. Lightness of Argentine ship ments though counted against the bears and so did cold weather in the LTnited States. The opening was a shade lower to l,ic up. May started at $1.02 to $1.02, a gain of Vs'S Vic to Virlc, touched $1.02, fell back to $1.021,itil.02fg and then rose to .VS'(llZ's. Subsequently all the gain was lost and more. Heavy selling by a leading house caused the break. It developed that an error of 20,000,000 bushels had been made in the estimates of the so-called reserves. The close was steady with May lili-Sc net lower at $1.02. CORN Scarcity of pit offerings made the corn market firm. Shorts were good buyers. There was an active demand too from commission houses. May opened c to c higher at 69-vic to 69Vic, reacted to 69&69ic and rallied to 69c. A feature was the relatively strong tone of July; that month worked to a premium over the near opening. Closing figures were easy with May at 69c, a net ad vance of e. OATS Elevator concerns bought oats freely. Accordingly the cereal developed strength independent of other grain. May started unchanged to c above at 52c to 527&C and ascended to 53c. PROVISIONS Provisions showed weak ness owing to a big run of hogs and lower values at the yards. Initial sales were 10 cents lower to a shade up, with May de livery $15.25 for pork, $9.15 for lard and $S.55 to $8.57'A for ribs. PRICES ARE RAISED. Baltimore Hotels Violate Agreement, Vrey Woodson Says. Owensboro, Ky., Feb. 29. In spite of the assurances of Robert Crain, chair man of the Baltimore convention commit tee, that hotel rates will not be raised in Baltimore during the national convention, Urey Woodson, secretary of the Demo cratic national committee, insists that complaints of exorbitant rates are "al most general among members of the na tional committee." When informed of Mr. Crain's state ment, Mr. Woodson said: "I wish to deny that my complaint against Baltimore hotel rates was based upon treatment of myself, for the Ken tucky delegation alone. This complaint is almost general among members of the national committee of exorbitant rates. Baltimore hotels cannot deny they signed an agreement not to raise rates and the proof is abundant that the contracts they are exacting of members of the national committee show they have raised rates outrageously. I ask Mr. Crain to pro duce these contracts. Let us have the truth. I deny Mr. Cram, though he has been very kind in trying to do so, suc ceeding in getting for Kentucky or any other state, so far as I am advised, a reasonable rate." H. BULGER NEAR DEATH Star in Flirting Princess Overcome by Gas. nnh-ocitftn To-v- TVH 2Q HarfV Bui ger, the comedian, starring in the 'tti irtino- Prinnesg." and his wife who accompanied him, were dragged from their room in the Hotel Royal at 5 o'clock this morning unconscious irom gas and only heroic measures saved their lives. In her frenzied scramble to escape, Mrs. Bulger broke her left leg above the ankle. A defective gas radiator in their room was responsible for the accident. One of the windows in the room was about half open and to this the two owe their lives. When foiyid both were unconscious and two of the rescuing party were overcome after breaking in the door and dragging Bulger and his wife out. GET GOOD CONTRACT, Cuthbert Sons Will Build PhUIips burg Court House. James Cuthbert Sons, local con tractors, have been awarded the contract for the Phillipsburg court house. The contract price is $(50,000. Work will begin April 1 and the building must be com pleted within a year. The building will be of Bedford stone which will be cut and dressed in Topeka and shipped to Phillipsburg POTWIN GROCERY 501 West Street Good Things to Eat Specials for Friday, Mar. 1 Wolff's Purest C. C. Lard lOcJLb. Casino Shrimp 19c Per Can Fancy Red Salmon 19c Per Can W.E. ALLT0N PROPRIETOR Bell 222 Ind. 925 To Insure Yourselves Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City Wa Also Emte Onr Own Offloca at Ctilcara, S. St. Joseph. So. Onu- ha. IX-nrer. Sioux City. So. St. i'ort Worth. RYE No. 2, &04c. B ARLE Y $1.0Ci 1.30. TIMOTHY $1.00'ai4.50. CLOVER SEED-$16.0u-22.00. Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, Feb. 29. ClOB Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT Mav ..1C2H- 103'i 102-102V102Vi 102i-H Julv 96-97 97Vs-ii 96 V4 i4. !-97 Sept 95-95'i 9blM 94Vi 94 96 COrtN- Mav 69";- 69?4 69-,.i 9 July 69'4-l.i 697,j-70 69U 69V4-1 9 Sept 69 TO 69U 69'.-6 69 OATS May 52i-Ti 63-534 52!i-!i 62H- 52'i July 48a-S 49 4S' 486ii 48-',4 Sept 41- 41 4114 41V 41 POUK May ..15.25 15. 42r4 15.25 15. 35 15.35 July ..15.55 15.7214 15.55 15.624 16.67V4 Sept ..15.82'4 15.92'i 15.W 15.85 15.S7V LA RD Ala v 9.15 9.25 9.15 9.224 9174 Julv 9.32'4 9.421A 9.32',4 9.37Hi 9-35 Sept 9.50 9.60 9.50 9.50 9.50 fUBrf May 8.57H 8.624 8.55 8.55 8. SO July 8.2i4 8.67M: 8-62 8.62 8.65 Sept 8.80 8.85 8.75 8.77V4 8-77V4 New York Stock Market. Wall 8t., New York, B'eb. 29. STOCKS Before noon cables from London indicated the probable failure of the coal confer ence. This and the announcement that several hundred thousand miners had joined the ranks of the proposed strikers produced depression in Iondon's markets but the news was without effect hero be yond Rivins? pause to those traders com mitted to the long account. Board room gossip attributed much of this morning's selliiif? to an operator prominent in yes terday's buying: movement. The market grew increasingly irregular before mid day, with one point declines in Reading, Interborough-Metropolitan preferred. Elsewhere movements were unimportant save for a. three point gain In American Tobacco and Sears Roebuck. Bonds were steady. Fractional declines were the rule at the opening of today's stock market. Read ing was the weakest feature, declining V4 to with smaller losses in United Slates Steel, the Eries, Baltimore and Ohio, "Western Union, Interborough-Met. pre ferred and Virginia Carolina Chemical. Amalgamated Copper and Union. Pacific were up small fractions. Some recoveries followed the opening dip in prices but little interest was taken in the market, traders preferring to await developments in the English coal trade situation. A few stocks moved upward in vigorous fashion, including American transportation and Louisville and Nash ville. Losses in the active stocks were can celled when the list took a turn upward in the afternoon. United States Steeel, Amalgamated Coppper and Union Pacific were in special demand, but some of the coalers lagged. The market closed steady. Weakness of Reading, which sold at the lowest, caused a general reaction. Standard stocks, however, met support when prices had returned to parity with yes terday's closing and the undertone was better in the final dealings. New York Money Market. New York, Feb. 29. MONEY Money on call steady, 2V4t24 per cent; ruling rate, 214 per cent; closing bid 2 per cent: of fered at 2 per cent. Time loans, firmer; 60 days, 2, ft 3 per cent; 90 days, 3S3V4 per cent; 6 months, 21A'd'SlA per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 3 to VA Per cent. Sterling exchange steady at decline at actual business in bankers' bills at 14.84.25 for 60 day bills and at $4.87.10 for demand. Commercial bills, $4.8!4. SILVER Bar silver, 58c; Mexican dol lars, 47c. BONDS Government and railroad bonds steady. New York Sugar Market. New York, Feb. 29. SUGAR Raw, mod inal; Muscovado, 89 test, J4.23; centrifugal, 96 test, J4.73; molasses, 89 test, 3.98; re fined, quiet. Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., Feb. 29. COTTON Market unchanged, V);c. Xcv York Produco Market. New York, Feb. 29. BUTTER Market steady. Process specials, Titi'iiVzc. CHEESE Market firm. Skims, 1414c. EGGS Market weak. Fresh gathered extras, 28t!29c; western gathered white, 27(6 28c. POULTRY Dressed, dull; -western chickens. 12-ffil5c; fowls. lS'i-Siec; tur keys, 12(U21c; western chickens, 13c; fowls, 15V516C; turkeys, ISc. Chicago Produca Market. Chicago, Feb. 29. BUTTER Market steady. Creameries, 2&tZ8c; dairies, 22 26c. EGGS Market weak. Receipts, 4.514 cases; at mark, cases included, 21''23c; ordinary firsts, 2324c; firsts, 26270. CHEESE Market steady. IaJsies, 17'4S 17y.c: Twins, 16z:17c; Young Americas, 17i,i h 17V4C; Long Horns, 17Vn 17V4C POTATOES Market steady. Receipts, 61 cars. Wisconsin, tl.05&1.10; Michigan and Minnesota, JLOS-aMO. POULTRY Market firm. Turkeys, live, 14c; dressed, 18c; chickens, live, 15c; dress ed, 15c; springs, live, 15Vic; dressed, 15c. VEAL Market steady, 7Cillc. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Feb. 29. WHEAT Cash: Market c to lc higher. No. 2 hard, $1.00 (5-1.08 No. 3, 98i4c&1.06i4; No. 2 red, 84 99c; No. 3, 9697c. CORN Market 1ilc higher. No. 2 mixed, 67ft6Sc; No. 3, 66V4c; No. 2 white, 67VWS69c; No. 3, 677i4c. OATS Market strong. No. 2 white, 53 5314c; No. 2 mixed, WWttSHc. y E 9'''fz94c. HAY Market steady. Choice tlmofhy, $20 00j21.5O; choice prairie, 14.50iS15.00. BITTER Creamery, 27c; firsts, 24c; seconds, 22c; packing stock, 22'4c. EGGS Extras, 25H26c; firsts, 23'524c; seconds, 20c. WHEAT Receipts, 10 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT May, 1.0Oyy&1.0O; Tulv 1 i,-?T915ic sellers. CORN May, 6914c sellers; July, 69V4c sellers. St. Joe Live Stock Market St. Joe, Feb. 29. CATTLE Receipts 2,500. Market slow and lower. Steers, $4.508.00; cows and heifers, $3.256.50; calves. $4.25'57.50. HOGS Receipts 10,000. Market 5c to 10c lower. Top, $6.30; bulk of sales, $6.10 6.23. SHEEP Receipts 4,00. Market weak. Lambs, $5.00C.40. Chicago Lite Stock Market. Chicago. Feb. 29. CATTLE Receipts 9,000. Market slow, 10 to 15c off. Beeves, $4.958.60; Texas steers, $4.60t6.90; west ern steers, $5.007.00; stockers and feeders, $4.0CKa6.20: cows and heifers, $2.15ti6.65; calves, $5.758.25. HOGS Receipts 41.000. Market dull to 10c off. Lieht, $6.15-&6.46; mixed. $6.15t6.45; heavr, $6.15'&6.45; rough, 6.15ti6.2S; pigs, $4.6CKu6.25; bulk of sales, $6.30tifi.45. SHEEP Receipts 20,00fl. Market steady to 10c lower. Ntftive, $3.25&-4.8Q; western, Paul., E. Buffalo. K. St. Louis and $3.75f4.S0; yearlings, $4.9Vf?5.7o: lambs, na tive, t4.5CKi.96; western. I0.0CK37.CW. Knns City Live Stock Market. Kansas City, Feb. 23. CATTLE Re ceipts 6,000, including 500 southerns. Mr ket steady to 10c lower. Native steers. Jo.75'(.40; southern steers. $5.0to.lu; southern cows and heifers. t,;.0o5.25: na tive cows and hplfers, f3.00t.50; stackers and feeders, $4.2f,'.6.25; bulls. $3.757 5 5; calves. $4.50'ii8.00; western steers, $5.U"m 7.25; western cows. $3.0v(i5.25. HOGS Receipts 11.00. Market Be lowr. Bulk of sales, $6.lK'i6.10; heavy, $6.2i. ri; packers and butchers. I6.15&6.35; lights, $5.9fKn6.25; pigs, $4.7o'n5.25. SHEEP Receipts 10.0UO. Market oteady. Muttons, $3.50'i4.75: lambs, u 50; fd wethers and yearlings, $4.0tHiu.60. fed ewes, $2.7514.25. Kansas (1t Live Stock Sales. (The following sales wer. mee this morning at the Stock Yard. Ktnaoi City, and reported over Ions distance telephone direct to the State Journal by Clay. Robinson ti Co.. live Block com tnUslon merchants, witb offices at J markets. Kansas City, Feb. 29. CATTLE Re ceipts 6,000 head. Market weak to l'Jc lower. HOGS Receipts 11,000 head. Market i to 10c lower. Bulk of sales, $6.0u. M; ton. $6 35. SHEEP Receipts 10.000 head. Market steady. KILLING STEERS. No. Wt. PrirelNo. Wt 3 12S4 $6 30 24 U3 Tn- $4 6$ 18 9(0 6.25 I COW 3 AND HEIFERS 24... 1... 2... 733 ....1220 S.40 I 28 15 46 I 3 1130 3S 5.W I 1 '.lir.0 4 f.$ 6.55 S 7W $.7$ 1220 746 52. STOC KLERH AND FEEDKRS. 18. 12. 1. I. 1. 930 620 5.85 1 .1029 $.75 &.S5 CALVES. 6.50 I 6.00 4... 6.00 I 1... BULLS. 2.75 I 4... 4.25 I 1... 120 230 210 142 110 t IK 7.00 I 4.50 S!'4 .2 4.7 1... 8... ..1040 ..1034 205 394 176 .....1020 10 HOGS. 58. 22. 46. 6.10 6.15 C.05 66. 80. 11. 2 1 77 Topeka Markets, frurnished ty the Chas. Wolff rtotnii Co., yarus close at noon Saturday. We cannot use pigs, thin sows or bn weighing less than 170 lbs. Do not mar ket boss unless same are -well rtniaM as wa cannot use bail fat i-Ct. Wa flva below prices eQecUva at aaca, until fur ther notice-1 Topeka, Kan, JTah. 21. HOGB. MIXED AND BUTCHERS HEAVY S LIGHT M (Can't uaa this boss or those iimw ila DOU&ii&. 8TEER3. Prime corn fed..., IS ITI Good to choice (corn fed) 4-"0 4 ii Fair to good (corn fed) 4 6 Common to fair killers Livim COW Prime .4 (WtH.M Good to ehotca 4 ;HM Fair to good 4j 4.o Common to ialrggi .uwJi4 Prima $4 n Good to choice 4'4M Fair to (rood..- IHiNM Common to fair... Ai3.M BULLS. Prime fat Jf4.7 Fleshy g4 t Mediums $.8083.71 VEALHeavy, 205 to 40 Lbs. Good to choice $4 OK 4 7$ Fair to (rood $.0."a4.0 VEAL 200 Lbs and under. Good to choice $8 T Fair to good ii;,t,(4 (Cattle must be good. Cannot uaa tbia tuff. Market price paid for flry lot cattle. If you will favor tts with your inqutrle advlelna; number of head, quality. a and length of time on feed, we will ma J you an offer or arrange for ai.r buyers to sail an you. Topeka Bntter, Tggn anil PotiTtrT. Furnished by the Topeka Packing Ca Topoka, K"an., Feb. 2$. EGGS Fresh country, 22c. POULTRY Hens, 4 lbs. and over, lej under 4 lbs., 8c; springs. 10o; old eocks, 5c; ducks, 10c; rreese, 8c: fat young tur keys, 14c; old turkeys, 12c. BUTTER Packing stock, 19c Topeka Crstn Market. Furnished by J. B. BUIard, corner Kaa, aas ave. and Curtis atJ Topeka, Kan., Feb. tJ. WHEAT 95cS $1.00. KAFFIR CORN Per cwt., tl.O03t.Mb OATS 45350c. CORN GWUVic. Topeka Hay Market. Furnished Dy T. A. Beck, 212-214 E. tn.J Topeka, Kan.. Feb. 2 PR A RI E HAY No.- 1, $14.00; alfalfa. choice, $16.0017.00; No. X. $15.00. Butter end Fets. tFurnlsned by I tie C ontinental Creamer Co., Topeka, Kan-J Topeka, Kan., Feb NEW YORK EGGS-29V4C CHICAGO EGGS 30c. CREAMERY Hl!TTBR-rh!Bi. N. Y., 30c; Eltfln, 28c; Topeka whol'eaaie. 30c. Trnvlia f.Vnlt anrf ni HBL. Furnished by Sam'l E. Lua, Wholesale Fruits and Produce.J Topeka, Kan.. Feb COCOANUTS Per doi., 65c OYSTERS Per gal., bulk. $1,604?? la BAfiANAS-lleuium sizeu OunZnaal em bunch. $1.6uzl.7s; large buru.. ii" bunch, J2.lwu2i; Per lb., 2Vac NAVEL OHAMilK-Per box. KA BARREL APPLKS-Jonath-. bbl., $5.25; Ben Davis, per bbl.. $3.&u 'caim per bbl., $3.76; Missouri Pippins, bbl is Wtnesaps, bbl., $u.2&; Lawyers, per bJi CRANBERRIES Per bbl.. ju 00- bo. per lb., 11c. POTATOES Per rill., ft n SWEET POTATOES Liu., $1.50, Topeka Hide Market. Quotations furnished by James C. Emlta Hide Co.. Jus Li 'luird at-J Topeka, Kan., Feb. 29. UHY HIDES-Hutchera beavy -.r no 14 t 1 A.. llcj Ui J v, -l-v inv. GREEN CURED HIDiilS Natives fsu 1, IZ'itC; No. 2, lie; Side Brands. s'aiuo Bulls and Stags, ii)c; Horse Tilde.! No. 1, $3.0OS3.50; No. 2, $2.0uii2 50 H TALLOW 6 u4!4c. w" DRY HILEU Butchers heavy it. dry salt. UaVi mink No. 1 largo $4 si f 50; No. 1 lueuium. $3.60 to $4 J- No. T email, $2 00 to $3.00; raccoon No ilfl. $l.Za to $2.00; No. 1 medium, $100 t 1!" No. 1 small, 65c to 90c; skunk. Ijla.-i 1 to $4.00; short stripe, $2.00 to $2.50 narrn2 stripe. $1.35 to $1.60; broad stripe -I O'Possum No. 1 large, 40c to fcoc- v 1 medium. lUc to 4'jc; No. 1 small ise 20c; muskrat. No. 1 large. 35c to ioc v 'medium, 30c to SSc; No. I small. ?V 25c; Cfvlt No. 1 larae. 35c to iSn' s-0 oedium. 25c to 40c; Nj. 1 small. 25c to

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATU JOURNAL FEBRUARY 29, 1912 READY FOR WQRfRira"i;: Santa Fe Prepared to -Build Dodge City Line. When Snow Melts Graders "Will Start TYork. CARTLIDGE AT HEAD OF IT Tax Commissioner in Topeka Handles Land Deals. Santa Fe Places Ban on Blue Sky Speculators. Officials in Topeka state that the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway company will begin work on the Dodge City-Colmer cut-off as soon as the snow melts. Graders with their outfits are on the ground ready to start on the first 75 mile stretch, which is all that has bee" positively worked out by the officials. Starting at Dodge City, the new road will be almost an air line, entering Ciray county about midway of its east ern boundary, through Gray and Has kell in a southwesterly direction to a point in the northeast corner of Stev e s county. Where the road will go from there is a question for determina tion in the near future. An effort will lie made to reach the five railroadless counties of southwestern Kansas Has kell, Stanton, Grant, Stevens and Mor ton. To aid in the development of the rail roadless counties the Santa Fe caused to be formed a holding company which purchased 245.000 acres of land in the counties named, including Gray county. which is not entirely railroadless, the Santa Fe touching it in the northeast ern corner. The holding concern, known as the Santa Fe Land Improvement company, has decided to place 76,000 acres of this land on the market at once. The land offered for sate lies east .f the w it line of range 35 west, which includes the land in Gray and Haskell counties, and the east tier of township? In Stevens and Grant counties. The land uill be sold for cash or on time under contract, the prices ranging from JI600 to $2400 per quarter section. Cartliiiue Will Sell Land. E. T. Cartlidge, tax commissioner of the Santa Fe. Topeka. will sell the land for the holding company, and home Foekers interested write him for infor mation. By purchasing a large number of small tracts of land in the southwest before announcing that it would build the Dodge City-Colmer cut off. the Santa Fe i.-s able to offer inducements to actual home seekers which they coul not have obtained had the land gone into the hands of speculator". While the Santa Fe has no objection to land speculation, its main object in this case was to develop southwestern Kan pas, which could only be done with ac tual settlers. A railroad without people Is not a profitable Investment, and a county without people won't amount to much. To make a good Investment and build np southwestern Kansas, the Fanta Fe bought a lot of cheap land to sell to settlers at low prices and on liberal terms. On ''me sales of this land, the cash payment will be not less than one eighth of the purchase pr'ce. and de ferred payments will draw 6 per cent interest per annum, to be made as fol lows: First year, only interest on bal ance due, at the end of the second year, ne-elghth of principal and one year's Interest on balance, and so on for seven years thus giving eight years to pay for the land. Payments of principal will be accepted in advance at any time and unearned interest rebated. The purchaser will be required to pay all t: es due after the date of the con tract. "SMILE IF NOTHING ELSE.'1 Advice of Bessie liabb at Novelty This Week. "If you can't do anything else smile and leave your audience smiling." This is the advice of Bessie Babb, the girl who is doing a singing and talking act at the Novelty this week. Her act also includes singling out men, preferably fat ones, out in the audi ences, joking at them, much to their embarrassment and the amusement of the audience. "I pick out the men I Intend to 'Jolly" while singing my first and sec ond song." said Miss Babb this after noon. "I try to choose the good na tured ones and so far every place I "My, Look at Those Pimples!" Tiiere's No Excuse for Iilotehes, Black heads and Pimples. The Right Way to Get Rid of Them Is by Taking Stuart's Ca lcium Wafers. Trial Package Sent Free to Prove It. Many people are continually using lotions and creams on the lace ana wondering why they make so little permanent impression upon pimples, blotches and blackheads. It's because pimples and eruptions come from the inside from impure blood and you can't cure them by rubbing stuff on the outside of the face. Purify the blood and the blem ishes will disappear. Stuart's Calcium Wafters will often clear the complexion in a few days' time. That's the wonderful part of it they act right off in a hurry. That's because they're made of Just the ingredients needed to drive all poisons and impurities from the blood. That's why doctors prescribe them so constantly. You will speedily enjoy a beautiful complexion if you use these wonder ful little Wafers. Your face will be come as clear and pure as a rose. No body likes to have pimply-faced people around. With Stuart's Calcium Wa fers you don't have to wait for months before getting results. Even boils have been cured in a few days' time trith. these remarkably effective blood Sleansers. Your whole system will feel etter in a marvelously short time, ttid my, what a difference in your looks. Write today for a free trial pack age of Stuart s Calcium Wafers. Ad dress F. A. Stuart Co., 175 Stuart Bldg., Marshall, Mich. Then, when you've proved to yourself how good they are, you can get a full-sized package at any urug store tor 60 cent. me to always smile if I couldn't do anything else and to never leave the stage with any one offended at me. Fortunately it is not often hard work to make them smile and most of my 'victims' seem to like me to 'kid' them, j But you know the old saying, 'smile.' Here Miss Babb smiled and left the I proverbial admonition to be guessed kahsIsWrst. Coburn Tells Land Show Visitors of State's Resources. Kansas City, Mo.. Feb. 29 Wednes day was Kansas Day at the Kansas City Land Show and the afternoon was 1 rcomed fn'an address by Mayor D. A. Brown. F. D. Coburn. secretary of the state board of agriculture of Kansas, dis cussed the question "Agricultural Re- k" V tt athV ,,f Kansas Agricultural, sources" of his state, was iuuucru college, at Manhattan. Charles I. Zirkle. president of the Kansas Association of Real Estate dealers, gave an illustrated lecture dur ing the afternoon. Mr. Coburn said in part: Beware of the Jayhawker who asks you simple questions. In your large eeoti- i vou may elaborately discuss some proposition on which he is much t."A inn r,r,r, ti wall of many a Kansas farm house wd.u ui menu rln hangs a college diploma Also do not talk in condescending manner of the "toiling masses" to the man in the overalls. It might interest you to later ascertain that he has a thousand acres of fat land and enough good hard com In tne .f irst national to uuy you ana sell you and forget to tell hie wife about it. Walk softly in Kansas, for there the law of appearances has gone glimmering. Kansas stands first over all as the producer of winter wheat, and bread an" pastry made from its flours are de- anded and feasted upon by the epi cures of two continents. Her pre eminence in this is so conspicuous as to leave with the superficial an impres sion that wheat must be her chief source of wealth, yet in the last two decades the corn crops have out-valued the wheat by more than $200,000,000, or 26 per cent. In the 10 years, ending with 1910, Kansas raised more wheat, hard, soft, winter and spring, than any other tate, or an aggregate of 750,150.000 nusnels. l nis rar exceeded tne yield or her nearest competitor and was worth at home $5d4. 538,000. In the past twelve i years, as shown by the government re- ports, Kansas has raised more wheat than any other state by 37,000,000 bushels. In corn Kansas Is a billionaire. In the last twenty years the state has raised 3,009.646,905 bushels, worth on the farms where grown over $1,041,084,985. Corn is our monarch cereal and the barometer of our prosperity. Besides the foregoing, we raised in the twenty years $107,000,000 worth of Kaffir-corn a health-giving delicacy for man and beast, of which the farmers of most other states are pitifully ignorant. After all. the pleasant scene to con template is the situation of the futuro Kansan. Born within those parallels where Nature's prodigality in gifts of earth and air and sky, of seed time and harvest, of energizing days and repose ful nights has largest manifestation; in an atmosphere electric with wholeaome ness for physical, moral and mental well-being: with a parentac- in which has blended the best of the robust, the venturesome, the coolly masterful and the uplifting blood of all the worthier civilizations transmuted by the alchemy of the centuries; of a statute proven by all tests most enviable for achievement in peace or in war. Beneficiary of a past richer than fell to Czar or Caesar, and looking out with enlightened vision upon a future-presenting promise and possibility In which are coined a consummation and cuini nation of all the best for which man kind ha.s wrought since time began, this Kansan will typify the fruition of the ages. Surely the product of such an environment and such an age, so rich in opportunities, should be counted the most enviable of God's creations. DOLLEY'S PLAN READY Will Try to Force Presidential Pri mary in Kansas. State Chairman Dolley has his col laborated primary plan drawn up and as soon as it is printed he will send it out to the 2,200 precinct commit teemen of the state for approval. Dol ley, White, Jackson and John Mar shall all took a hand In drawing up the new document for picking presi dents. As soon as the state chairman hears from the commit teemen in regard to the plan he will issue the call for the state committee meeting. Mr. Dolley's primary plan is a patched up affair and has wrinkles and mixed cloths, but it is the only substitute for the convention plan. Of course the state convention will have to ratify the result of the voluntary primary. The county committee will have charge of the county primaries. The polls will open at noon and close at 7 o'clock. The regular primary elec'on plan will be followed as clos ly as possible. The names of the can dates for delegate will appear on the primary ballot and the candidates for president. The ballots are to be seal ed and delivered to the state commit tee. So far Independence is the only town asking for the Republican state convention. The location of the town is its only handicap. It is down in the -"mthr-ast corner of the state, but it has good railroad facilities. It may land the big meeting INVENTA NEW FLOW. Farmers Interested in Motor Device Built by Kansan. Chapman. Kan., Feb. 29. The in vention of a new self contained plow here is interesting the farmers of this section of Kansas. The machine is equipped with a four cylinder gaso line motor of the throttle governor type, and two 16 inch blades. Any speed desired can be secured. It has but one tractor wheel, which follows in the last furrow, giving a solid foot ing. It will plow an acre an hour with the two blades, with a consump tion of less than two gallons of gaso line to the acre. Arrangements are being made for the manufacture of the plow either here or at Salina. The new machine has met every test submitted and passed them all. The owners are well known men who started business in a small way here 2 0 years ago. FIGHT FOR TRADE Grand Trunk and Canadian Line in Same Territory. Monopoly Impossible When Field Tapped Is Rich. BOSTON THE OBJECTIVE POINT President Mellen Admits It to New York Board. Money Investigation Must Rely on Bank's Statements. New York, Feb. 29. Charles S. Mellen, president of the New York t New Haven Hartford Railroad corn- pany, is quoted as having said to the public service commission sitting at Albany recently that he is now satis fied that the Grand Trunk railway will succeed in its attempt to pene trate and bisect New England. The Grand Trunk, through its practical w ji me cnnn vcnuum roa? company and the railroad whose southern terminal is at New London, orin" had railroad authority in New i England long before Mr. Mellen con- templated uifyin into one exclusive system the railroad lines of New England. The Grand Trunk also was years ago the owner of a line stretch ing from Montreal to Portland, Maine. But it was apparently the view of President Mellen that such railroad terminals as the Grand Trunk possess ed at New London or at Portland, Me., were not sufficient to enable the Grand Trunk seriously to interfere with the plans of the New Haven company. Re cently a subsidiary railroad company sponsored and really owned by the Grand Trunk, but operating under charters received from the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has undertaken to build a line from a point some fifteen miles east of Springfield, Mass., to Providence, R. I. At the point where this new road begins the Grand Trunk, through its Central Vermont alliance, is brought into actual physical connection with this new railroad. Providence it was clear to all rail way managers who took an interest in the important struggle in progress in Xew England could not be the sole objective point of the Grand Trunk, For although Providence has a line harbor, a large commerce by sea and originates as well as distributes very large manufacturing transportation nevertheless the city of Providence, with all its advantages, did not seem to be of sufficient consequence to jus tify the desperate and at last success ful attempts made by the Grand Trunk railroad to secure terminals there un less the Grand Trunk's real objective was Boston. Now that President Mellen has con fessed, as reported, to the public utili ties commission of New York that in his opinion the Grand Trunk railroad is certain to succeed in its attempt to make great advances into New Eng land territory, it is inevitable that there should be a very important economic lesson in this New England railroad activity. Competition Is Certain. President Mellen's professed plan has been so to concentrate and unify the rail way systems of New England that a very economical service could be given to the manufacturers and merchants of New England, and its manufacturing op portunities be greatly developed. It seemed, however, according to President Mellen's philosophy, necessary practically to control the entire railway systems of New England, lie has made steady and successful approaches to the Boston Maine system and by means of a very close community of interest with the New York Central has gained all the advant ages which he saw in the Boston Al bany railway and is soon to secure the Rutland railroad. Yet, notwithstanding President Mellen's success in unifying and concentrating the railway systems of New England, until occasionally there has been heard the plaint that all of New England was to oe dominated by a railroad monopoly, never theless, just as Mr. Mellen's plans are to be fully consummated, the Grand Trunlc of Canada, one of the vast railway sys tems of the world, with stupendous cap ital and resources behind it, soon to reach across the continent, has ventured to make advances into New England and with intent to enter into competition with the New Haven railroad for transporta tion business. This would seem to prove the accuracy of the statement whichi has often been made that successful railway combina tion, whose purpose has been to secure a monopoly of transportation in certain zones or belts, stretching even across the continent, is sure to develop powerful competition. New England is a compact, comparatively speaking small district ol the country. But it is very rich in ac cumulated capital, in its manufactures, and it is soon to develop on a large scaie certain lines of agriculture. Mr. Mellen. more than any other man in the railroad business, at least of New England citizenship has realized the op portunities which Boston offers as a sea port. His aim has been to stimulate the growth, of Boston as a commercial cen ter and he has realized that the superb harbor needed only adequate docks and piers and sufficient terminal facilities to THE DOCTOR HABIT And How She Overcame It. When well selected food has help ed the honest physician place his pa tient in sturdy health and free from the "doctor habit" it is a source of satisfaction to all parties. A Chicago woman says: "We have not had a doctor in the house during all the 5 years that we have been using Grape-Nuts food. Before we began, however, we had "the doctor habit" and scarcely a week went by without a call on our physician. "When our youngest boy arrived, 5 years ago, I was very much run down and nervous, suffering from indiges tion and almost continuous head aches. I was not able to attend to my ordinary domestic duties and was so nervous that I could scarcely con trol myself. Under advice I took to Grape-Nuts. "I am now, and have been ever since we began to use Grape-Nuts food, able to do all my own work. The dyspepsia, headaches, nervousness and rheumatism which used to drive me fairly wild, have entirely disap peared. "My husband finds' that in the night work in which he is engaged, Grape-Nuts food supplies him the most wholesome, strengthening and satisfying lunch he ever took with him." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a re. -son." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. make that harbor of equal if not pre eminent consequence so tar as ocean carrying freight from the northwest and from the northern part of the west is concerned. Boston Their Ultimate Point, In this view President Mellen is warmly supported by the executive authorities of the Grand Trunk. They now admit that Boston is their ultimate objective point. They declare that if they can obtain au thority from the states of New Hamp shire and Massachusetts they will extend the Grand Trunk system into Boston. These officers base in part this determi nation upon what they allege to be many requests they have received from mer chants and manufacturers so to extend their line in New England as to reacn Boston. If they succeed in this purpose other parts of the country, and especially Chicago, Indiana and Michigan, will aid in the upbuilding of Boston as a com mercial port. Fr although the Grand Trunk is chiefly a Canadian railroad and is one of the few transcontinental sys tems of North America, nevertheless it is also to a greater extent than many people imagine a railway system of the United States. In New England alone it is now operating about seven hundred miles of railway, inclusive of the Central Ver mont and the New London line, and in the United States it has in the aggregate a little under three thousand miles of railway and steamboat lines in operation, while its entire system in the United States is operated by fourteen subsidiary corporations which have received char ters from twelve states. For the country at large this attempt of the Grand Trunk railroad to cross New England and to establish vast termi nals at Boston is of interest since it shows how real the tendency is to enter into competition for railroad traffic, even with a powerful unified and thoroughly concentrated railway system which con trols all but a very little of a region like that of New England. A Fruitful Field. It is not easy to line out a method of investigation for the committee which s to explore the mysteries of the so-called money trust unless there be thorough knowledge of banking and monetary conditions in the state of New York. For instance, how can the surmised opera tions of the money trust, if there be one, be traced and exposed to the considera tion of an investigating committee unless some study of the condition of the sav ings banks in New York state be made. These institutions are presumed to be heavy buyers of certain approved securi ties. The state of New York tried to find a market within them when it was offer ing its 3 per cent canal bonds, for sale. In the panic of 1907, when the federal government was offering deposits of fed eral money to banks upon the condition that the banks would put up satisfactory securities, the savings banks of New York city and to some extent of the state lent many millions of these securities to the banks. The savings institutions have furnished one of the chief markets for the purchase of certain high grade bonds. George C. Van Tuyl, jr., who is superin tendent of the state banking department, has just made a report which shows that on the first of January of this year the total resources in the savings banks in New York state were one billion, seven hundred and eighty-one millions in round numbers. In a single year these re sources have increased by as much as eighty-five million dollars. The daily wage earners of New York state, supple mented by those who receive small sal aries, have now on deposit in the savings banks one billion, six hundred and nine teen million dollars, and this is a gain of seventy-six millions in a single year. A little under one-half of the total popula tion of New York state are the owners of these deposits. The aggregate deposit is equivalent to about one-half of the total money in circulation in the United States. And it is for this reason that many per sons are asking whether there can be an exhaustive investigation of the money power, so called, unless the relations which the savings banks of New Y'ork state have to concentrated wealth are clearly understood. The savings banks of New York now carry nearly seven hundred and fifty million dollars of in vestments in stocks and bonds. These stocks and bonds represent in part some, of the larger promotions, although they are. of course, confined to securities ap proved by the state banking department. The savings banks of New York state on January 1 had either in their vaults or in the form of deposits in national or state banks a hundred and one million dollars. Ninety-one millions of this money was deposited in state or national banks. And it is inconceivable that there should be gained any clear understanding of the movements of money and the man ner in which it is concentrated unless the savings banks of New York state cordial ly furnish all the information which' an investigating committee of congress may ask. HOLLAND. ENORMOUS PROFITS. Made by Steel Trust on Supplies Sold to Its Employees. Washington, Feb. 2 9. That the United States Steel corporation has earned $4,339,140 in eight years through its subsidiary, the Union Sup ply company, which sells goods to em ployees, is the conclusion of an ex hibit submitted to the house Steel trust investigating committee in con nection with the report on the Steel corporation's books and minutes made bv the committee's expert, Farquhar J. McRae. The expert Includes in his report the following quotation from the testi mony of Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the Steel corporation, before the committee last summer: "Where the Steel corporation has stores and we have not very many, we made it certain that the goods were not sold to the men at prices less than they could purchase the same things for elsewhere." The report also refers to the state ment made before the committee re cently Ly Percival Roberts, jr., a di rector of the Steel corporation, to the effect that the corporation had "done more for laborers than any other agency in the United States." Then the report sets forth facts and figures tending to show that through j xne union ouyyijf tuinijaiij mo corporation has made 100 per cent on its1 investment. The exhibit represents: That 366 2-3 per cent dividends were paid by the Union Supply com pany, limited, from January 1 to Oc tober 1, 1S98, before the Steel corpora tion was formed, these data being sup plemented with extracts from minutes of directors' meetings of the H. C. Friek Coke company, taken over later by the Steel corporation. That 200 per cent dividends were paid bv the company for the year 1900; 100 per cent dividends paid in 1901, and that the dividends in 1902, after the reorganization of the com pany, amounted to $413,066.66. The total earnings of the Union Sup plv company from 1902 to 1910 in clusive were $4,339,140. and the divi dends in that period $3,550,000. The cost of the Union Supply company, the report shows to have been $274,000, while the corporation claims interest on an investment of $1,398,873.53, which includes a surplus of $615, 641.52. Baltimore Ohio Railroad Winter tours to Florida points and Havana, Cuba, via Washington, D. C, or Balti more, Md. Liberal stopovers. Variable route tickets via rail and water or all rail, at reduced fares. Send for illus trated booklet. W. A. Preston. T. P. A., or B. N. Austin, G. P. A., Chicago. HOUND DOG SONG. Words of the Missouri Democratic Political "Ditty." Here is the complete Missouri Eoun" Dog song which has suddenly become popular and made the war song of the Clark Democrats: Wunst me 'n Lem Brlggs 'n ol' Bill crown Tuk a load of cawn to town, An' ol" Jim-dawg, the onry cuss. He jes nachelly follered us. CHORUS. Every time I come to town The boys keep kickin" my dawg aroun'; Makes no difference if he is a houn'. They gotta quit kickin" my dawg aroun". As we driv past Sam Johnson's store, Passel o' yapes kem out th' door; When Jim he stops to smell a box They shied at him a bunch o' rocks. CHORUS. They tied a tin can to his tall, An' run him apast the county jail; 'N' that plumb nachelly makes me sore, 'N' Lem he cussed 'n Bill he swore. CHORUS. Me' n Lem Briggs "n ol' Bill Brown, We lost no time in ajumpin' down. An' we wiped them ducks up on th' Frniin' Fer kickin' my ol' dawg aroun'. CHORUS. Folks say a dawg kaint hold no grudge, But wunst when I got too much budge, Them town ducks tried to do me up. But they didn't count on ol' Jim-pup. CHORUS. Jim seed his duty thar an' then. An' he lit into them gentlemen. An' he shore mussed up the cote house square With rags 'n meat 'n hide 'n hair! CHORUS. FALSE TO LA FOLLETTE Houser Says Roosevelt Helped to Get Him into I lace. Portland, Ore., Feb. 2 9. In an in terview, Walter L. Houser, national campaign manager for Senator Robert M. LaFollette, condemned the action of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in en tering the race for the Republican nomination for President. Mr. Houser declared Colonel Roose velt was one of those who induced Senator LaFollette to enter the race for the presidential nomination. Roosevelt, Houser declared, through a mutual trusted friend, sent Seantor LaFollette word that Roosevelt would not have his name considered in any manner as a candidate. SCHULTZ IS HELPED. Gives Full Particulars Regard ing Trouble. Wife Also Obtained Surprising Results in Short Time. RECOMMENDS METHOD. Unusual Value of Product Rap idly Being Proven. Statements of Flatterign Nature Received Daily. Herman Schultz of 324 KJine street, made the following statement in con nection with "Tona Vita" the new tonic that is now being introduced in this city at the Arnold Drug Com pany. Mr. Schultz said: "I have been in a run down condition lor the past few months, felt tired, had headache a great deal of the time and I could n't eat like I should. "My wife was also suffering with the same ailments as myself and con stipation. We tried a bottle of 'Tona Vita' and it surely has done us a great good. We feel better in every way and gladly recommend this to all suf fering from a run down condition." The specialists who are introducing "Tona Vita" in Topeka are giving de monstrations of what the tonic will do in five minutes. All day long they meet callers at the store where they are located and try to produce a no ticeable improvement in all cases of nervous debility within five minutes; the people who take the tonic to be the judges. There is no charge for this demonstration and several hun dred people tried the experiment yes terday wtihout a single failure. One of the' specialists said: 'Tona Vita' will break all records In To peka. People are just beginning to realize what a great preparation it is. We are instructed by our company to take no money for the tonic unless it proves satisfactory. Hundreds upon hundreds in this and other large cit ies are afflicted with general debility, caused by metropolitan life. The en tire system becomes affected in such cases and nervousness, stomach trou ble, headache, backache, despondency and loss of vitality result. 'Tona Vita' will work wonders In such cases in a remarkably short time. If it doesn't we want nothing from those who wish to try it other than the time it takes to come and get it." The specialists will be at tha Ar nold Drug Company's Store, 523 Kan sas Avenue, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 8 p. m., to meet all callers and explain the nature of this new preparation. TCotch COLLAR Easy to put on, easy to take off, easy to tie the tie in. Cloett, Peabody Company, M&krr,. Ttot, N. T Arrow From Forty-Five to Fifty Are Much Benefited by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The "change of life is a most critical period in a woman's ex istence, and the anxiety felt by women as it draws near is not without reason. "When her system is in a de ranged condition, she may be predisposed to apoplexy, or con gestion of some organ. At this time, also, cancers and tumors are more liable to form and begin their destructive work. Such warning symptoms as sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, backaches, dread of impending evil, timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, vari able appetite, weakness and inquietude, and dizziness, are promptly heeded by intelligent women who are approaching the period in life when woman's great change may be expected. These symptoms are calls from nature for help. The nerves are crying out for assistance and the cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is prepared to meet the needs of women's system at this trying period of her life. It invigorates and strengthens the female organism and builds up the weakened nervous system. It has carried many women safely through this crisis. Onioini Pacific KANSAS CITY LAND SHOW Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 26th to March 9th, AT CONVENTION HALL Use the Union Pacific to Kansas Cily Trains leave Topeka daily at 7:25 a. m., 8:15 a. rn., 2:20 p. m. and 5:10 p. m. Leave Kansas City for Topeka daily at 8:05 a. m., 10:30 a. m., 4:10 p. m., 6:00 p. m. H Special Colonist Trains o airoinia March 2, 3 and 4 VIA 1 ock isiaii Electric Lighted Tourist Sleepers Free Buffet-Library-Lounging Cars LEAVE TOPEKA l:OS A M. Runs Via El Paso Short Line One Way Fare $2S Fnr Rrth Reiervation or i "We Also Have Through Serrice Via Denver" Peabody Wants Rehearing. Washington, February 29. On the ground that the recent decision of the Supreme court of the United States in the "grain elevator ca.se" is D. ITlrs.Estella Gillisple ONE CASK OUT OF MANY TO 1'KOVE OUR CLAI3IS. St. Anne, 111. I was passing through the change of life and I was a perfect wreck from female troubles. I had a displacement and bearing down pains, weak fain' in g spells, dizziness, then numb and cold feelings. Son.e times my feet and limbs were swollen. I was irregular and bad so much backache and headache, was nervous, irritable and was despondent. Sometimes my ap jietite was good but more often it was not. Jly kidneys troubled me at times and I could walk only a short distance. "I saw your advertisement in a paper and took Lydia K. link ham's Vegetable Compound, and I was helped from the first. At the end of two months the swel ling had gone down, I was re lieved of pain, and could walk with ease. I continued with the medicine and now I do almost all my housework. I know your medicine has saved me from tha grave and I am willing for you to publish anything I write to you, for the good of others." 5lrs. ESTEI.I-A tILLISPIK, K.F.D. No. 4, Box 34, St. Anne, Illinois. City Ticket Office, 525 Kansns Avenue, Phones 53. Depot Phones 34. TO lies p

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUttNAI. FEBRUARY 29, 1912 By ."SWANK P. MAC IKXNAK. Entered July 1, 1878, as second-class matter at the postoffice at Topeka, Kan., tinder the act of congress. 3 No. 52 VOLUM3 XXX Villi... Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION". Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 centa a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier system. By mail one year ..$3. GO By mail, six months 1.30 Br mail. 100 days, trial order l.0 BELL TELEPHONES. postness Office... Stcporters Room. INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE 3. Private branch exchange. Call 107 and fcBk the State Journal operator for per son r department desired. Topeka State Journal building'. 800 and 02 Kansas avenue, comer Eighth. New York Office: 230 Fifth avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Steger building. Paul Block, manaerer. Boston Office: Tremont Building, Paul Block, manager. ITI.L LEAPKD WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press and recel-es the full day telegraph repcrt of that gTeat news or ganization for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news is received in The State Jour nal building over wires for this sole purpose. Delegates arc what counts in a con vention and not straw votes. CHAPTER XCVL Concerning Public Opinion. Never does the State Journal recol lect seeing in Its exchanges so much adverse criticism of Theodore Roose velt. One s'xunge thing: about it all is its unanimity. Out of thirty promi nent papers in various portions of the east from New England to the middle west, only one editorial upon the sub ject was other than condemnatory, and that was lukewarm. One makes a brief editorial with a heading1 "The Ananias Club' 'and quotes from Roosevelt's statement in 1304 that he would never again accept the nomination for the presidency and his later saying on Monday that he would accent. .197 I one ot the most remarkable of these 577 I editorials is from the Philadelphia Record, wherein it is said: "He has betrayed himself, his friends and his party. He has be trayed himself, for he pledged his honor that he would under no cir cumstanees again be a candidate for president, declaring that he regarded the substance and not the form, and having had two terms, he would not entertain a thought of the third. He has thus sacrificed his honor to his ambition. "He has betrayed his friend because it was at his earnest solicitation that Mr. Taft gave up the judicial ambition of a lifetime and sought the presi dency. The long established political practice entitled Mr. Taft to a renom ination and all the obligations of hon or and friendship forbid Theodore Roosevelt from seeking to deprive him of the renomination. He has sac rificed his friend to his ambition. "He has betrayed his party for no party can refuse to give its president a second nomination without creating a division in it that must imperil its success at the polls." operate the trains, for they are the men who do the work which ts worth while; that conservation of the people is im portant, men should be conserved and elevated; it Is easier to persuade than to compel, a great man must have a mind above the level of the average, but to be truly great and noble he must keep his heart on the level with the hearts of men. It was the thoughts along these lines, so happily expressed by Governor Wilson, that made his ad dress stand cut as one of the notable political numbers of the campaign in Kansas. (Chapter XCVII tomorrow.) JAYHAWKER jots Mexico should be able to organize a large D. A. R. society by thi3 time. Senator Lodge "and Congressman Longworth already have taken to the woods. It would be interesting to many per sons, to know what is behind the Wil son boom. Lillian Russell must look to hei laurels. The Princess Chimay is about to marry again. Congress appears to have changed from a law making body to an in vestigating body. Mexico is becoming Americanized. Madero lays the blame for his troubles on the newspapers. What the insurgents appear to want is a Democrat president wear ing a Republican label. Probably it will be but a few years until presidential candidates of 1912 will be holding reunions. The governor of Arizoi-a was once head waiter in a hotel. It is easy to see where he got his campaign fund. Col. Roosevelt has been drawn on a jury in his home town. The other eleven men would seem to be superf.u- Ida Tarbell has joined the anti woman suffragists. This should in sure the enlistment of John I. Rocke feller on the other side. The straw vote taken among gov ernors has resulted, according to the latest available returns: Taft 9, Roose velt 7. Harmon 3. It is proposed to take the tariff from sugar and place it on silk stockings. This is a shifting of the burden which will not appeal to the girls. What they save on candy must go for hosiery. The express companies are strong ly opposed to the establishment of a parcels post. It seems not to have occurred to them that they might ruad off the movement ty a substan tial reduction in rates. The following version of Champ Clark's "Dawg .song'' is direct from Boston: "It is imperative that your pedal extremities should no longer come into contemptuous conjunction with my canine companion." One New York jury returned a ver dict for $1,750 for the loss of a wif. Anothe- gave a verdict of $12,770 for k broken leg. Probably they were act ing on the theory that a man can get another wife but not another leg. A single steamship brought 67.956 sacks of potatoes into New York the other day, on which the duties amounted to $47,579. It is estimated that fully 1.000.000 sacks will have been brought from abroad by the end of the season, thus netting the govern ment $700,000. Is it any wonder po tatoes are high when consumers are forced to pay a tax of $47,579 on one cargo. A correspondent of the Boston Her ald suggests that the name "JJully crats" be adopted for the followers of Colonel Roosevelt, arguing that they are net all plutocrats, would not like to be called aristocrats and can not style themselves Democrats because that name already belongs to the party of Thomas Jefferson, William Jen nings Bryan and some others, but they are "crats" of some description and their leader is a "bully" fellow. Governor Bass' claim that New Hampshire is for Roosevelt, says the Waterbury American, makes the Re publicans of the state, as represented in the press, laugh. Or else it makes them mad. Most of them intimate that Mr. Bass is like some of his progres sive tribe a rash and hasty young man. Most of them tell him that New Hampshire is sure to send a solid Taft delegation to the national convention. They give him the right of preferring Roosevelt, but protest against his pledging the state to an impossible I?re.pcsiUea, One of the most level-headed, con scientious, sensible, editors whose pa pers come to this table is Charles Hopkins Clark, editor of the Hartford Courant. a paper of the highest stand ing. His editorial comment on Roose velt is so singularly appropriate and interesting that is herewith printed. He says pertinently and pathetically: "Our regret is chiefly, almost whol ly, for Theodore Roosevelt. He has not given himself a square deal. Colo nel Roosevelt has no better friends living than those who hoped he would rle his own restless ambitious spirit, turn a deaf ear to the tempters, with in and without, conserve a reputation which he held in trust for the United States of America. We do regret deep ly that the colonel has made what we must consider a most unwise, unfor tunate decision." The State Journal can endorse every word of that. Here is the editorial in full. "Our regret is chiefly almost wholly for Theodore Roosevelt. He has not given himself a square deal in this mat ter. As to the president, we were not a bit more cheerfully confident of his renomination last Monday than we are today. All the arguments which Theo dore Roosevelt urged so earnestly for Taft's first nomination are far stronger in 1912 than they w-ere in 190S; they have been supplemented and reinforced by years of extraordinarily faithful and efficient service. For the Republican party to go back now on Taft and make the Democrats the unhoped-for present of the third-term issue into the bargain would be simply to invite po litical disaster. The Republican party is not going to commit any such folly as that. "Colonel Roosevelt has no better friends living than those who hoped that he would rule his own restless, impatient spirit, turn a deaf ear to the tempters within and without and con serve a reputation which he held in trust for the United States of America. Since the Ohio journey and speech, it has been a case of hoping against hope; now even that is ended. In the letter published today, he tells the eight in quiring governors that he will accept the nomination if it conies his way, that he will be a candidate for it up to the decisive ballot in the Republican national convention, and that lie would like a presidential primary. He docs not tell them he wiH abide by the na tional convention's decision should it be adverse to his candidature, but perhaps he may have meant that to be inferred. "We shall say no word in haste or in anger of Colonel Roosevelt's singularly belated 'Yes:' as little are we minded vo exaggerate its importance. He paused a long time on the brink of his personal Rubicon: now- that he has at last jump ed in with a splash, we look for no such grave result? as followed in the Julius Caesar case. We regret deeply that the Colonel has made what we must consider a most unwise and un fortunate decision. He does not make at all clear in his letter the reasons of his present readiness to accept what he solemnly declared he would under no circumstances accept: he will doubtless be voluble in explanation later on, and the public will learn that good Dr. Ly man Abbott's coffee-cup allegory was official." Most of the other editorials are on harsher lines. The number of them, and the fact that they are critical in the same direction mv.st reflect a general sentiment. These editorials would cover a page if printed only in pait, but inasmuch as our readers are ap parently interested in this sort of thing, a page of this sort will be given up in Saturday's issue. The reader may then read as much as he desires, and form lus own conclusions of the effect of Colonel Roosevelt's remark able determination to make the third term race. Welington Is making arrangements so establish a Great White way. Mrs. Ruth Godwin is a candidate for county treasurer in Rooks county. The Blue Mound Sun sees visions of a revival of the Teddy bear craze this year. The long missing old fashioned "spelling match" has been located at Ft. Scott. Lawrence is about to be enlightened on the subject of the commission form of government. News mater must be scarce In Sa lina. The Journal is agitating the subject of a union depot. The Sedgwick FantagTaph com pares the job of being president of Mexico to that of being mayor of Hun newell. A hearse containing a corpse stood in a snow drift all Sunday night in Saline county, because the burial par ty was unable to reach the cemetery. This one is from the Jennings Re porter: "Blevins Brooks and Clarence Green went to Norton Sunday and were immersed In the Baptist church." The Atchison Globe tells of a "blow out" which is to be held March 8 at Muscotah and says 250 lbs. of Wiener wursts have been ordered for the occasion. Much progres for the woman suf frage cause in Kansas is indicated by the fact that many of the country pa pers are devoting considerable space to its advancement. i Irate subscribers, itinerant book ag ents and bill collectors are cordially invited to call upon the editor at his' residence with the assurance that he will give them more than they ask for says the editor of the Etebon Times, who is quarantined in his home be cause he has a well developed attack of smallpox. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.. SY THE WAY BY HARVEY PARSONS. While visiting Beanful Boston, Col. .Koosevelt was "nuraued by reporters. From which one gathers that his cam paign ha3 not reached the stage where they travel as his "staff." They took a large number of pictures of him without giving him time to change his hat, and in so doing un doubtedly established a precedent in newspaper enterprise by chasing a hat in taxicabs. Musical critics have discovered an affinity between Alexander's Rag-time Band and Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, but up to a late hour this after noon the similarity of the theme of the "Dawg" song to that of "See, the Con quering Hero Comes," has not been located. From the Chicago News. Towns are not as red as they are painted. A one sided view is all right if it is the right side. People have no sympathy for the sting er who gets stung. If you want a fool to do a certain thing, dare him to do it. An egotist is any person who thinks he is better than you are. Nearly every man thinks he gives more to charity than lie can afford. You don't get much if you are satisfied with what the world gives you. When a man feels like making a fool of himself it's a sign he is in love. You can't judge how a woman will run for office by the way she runs for a cat. It's the easiest thing in the w-orld to bring up children in the way they should go if you haven't any. As to that "electric sea:;" we are 5n receipt of a communication from no leS3 an authority on skins, furs t cetra than Hon Tom Powell, who heart ily endorses our definition of "electric seal," and further, for the information of the public, diagnoses the "near-electric seal," mentioned by Dofld Gaston, as the pelt of the well-known "rana catesbiana." There Is nothing: so useful as an abil ity to readily classify any "skin" one may meet; which is one or tne values of Ben Kerns' treatise on assorted "skins," "The Grafter." An Emporia bigamist pleaded guilty, changed his mind and revised it to read not guilty, and then as a third guess, renewed his first plea, making, thereby, what might be termed a "not guilty sandwich." And it is said that it re sembles the common, or restaurant brand of sandwich, inasmuch as the central part is much "thinner" than the rest. When a man marries a superfluity of wives, he gets his; but when a woman commits a similar faux pas by acquir ing title to several husbands, the popu lar verdict seems to be: "Let her go; it serves 'em right." Churches make the mistake, as a rule, of putting the pretty Sunday school teacher in charge of the juvenile class, and the old long-whiskered crab in charge of the young men's class. A west-side woman who refers to her husband as a "sound" sleeper adds that she wouldn't mind it so much if he would stick to one sound instead of putting on the imitation of an Afri can jungle. The man who keeps his hands In his pockets is not liable to be suspected of putting them in the other man's pock ets. Since noting that 101 deaths occurred in Shawnee county during the month of January, and it is hardly possible for the 8S births of that period to balance the loss, we are constrained to revise our estimate of Charley Curtis' coming majority. SUMMONS. House thyself, soul! Forget the sweet Or the sad murmurings of the desolate seas. As winged, upward turn and beat Resistless against the breeze. Greet the cold vigor of the winter air Rushing from out the hollow, clamor ous caves of hills. To smite and backward blow thv hair And sting thy slow pulse till it thrills. Fight on! The soil shall nerve thy wings; Thine the vast, pregnant, lonely plains and starlit skies. And rushing winds that bear great things And thoughts in wlilch great quiet lies. Samuel McCoy, In Ainslee's Magazine. THE EVENING STORY SAYS UNCLE GAV REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, From the New York Press." A man who owns a bank always acts as if he owned all the public's money in it. Wanting to do for your fellow man is a theory; being done by your fellow man is a fact. Three square meals a day make for morality more successfully than the Ten Commandments. The longest story a man ever hears is the one he wanted to tell himself, but some other fellow got ahead of him. There is no doubt that Woodrow Wilson made many friends among the Democrats when he was in Topeka last week and strengthened the ties to his devotees, for his speech was an excellent one and contained much which should receive a full endorse ment of every good citizen, regardless of his party affiliations. He is an easy, graceful talker. Following a number of good, ordi nary speeches, which were neverthe less more or less in the nature of po litical harangues, Wilson's flowers of speech were as refreshing as the odors of a bouquet and as satisfying as the most substantial food for thought. When he said that it was a worthy mission to restore hope, or maintain it, in the minds of the hewers of wood and carriers of water, the mission was a w orthy cne; that more credit should be given to the actual workers, not alone to the Goulds and the Harrimans of the great transportation systems, but to the men who build the bridges, grade thm roadways, put down the rails and Stage-Door Philosophy. "I see," said the stage-struck youth, as he scratched his back against the door jamb, "that Three Romeos' has made a hit. and looks like it would make good for the rest of the, season." "Yep." said the stage doorkeeper, as he extractea a straw ironi a con venient broom preparatory to cleaning his pipe, 'Three Romeos seems to have touched the public s fickle fancy. "I rather imagine that me old Iriencl Bill Shakespeare will get the aerial news about now and snuggle down cozily into his marble tomb and snick er. He will De periectiy ium lo lei those people who objected to his copy rights on his own worn. Dring nome the Bacon. This is one of the times when he can afford to smile around to his collarbutton and let the American managers go on with the mutilation of one of his masterpieces without a murmur. "It must be some funny play at that. Them Montagues and Epaulets must have a worse time than formerly keepin' their family affairs out of the police court. "Of course, it only stands to reason that all of the Romeos look alike, the same as the 'Three Twins,' and I can just imagine the look of wonder on the desk sergeant's face when one of the Romeos is booked for disturbin' the peace. He no sooner has him un der lock and key when in comes Miss Juliet's father with another one, and wants him enjoined from makin' goo goo eyes at his daughter. And about the time the legal formalities are through with another one is brought in in the little blue wagon with a gong, charged with porch climbin'. Honestly, it do be gettin' in the same class with a French farce." "Say, you rummy!" interjected the stage-struck youth, "this show hag nothin' to do with Shakespeare dope. It's a musical comedy." "I should think it would be." said the S. D. K., "a musical comedy, and maybe a touch of burlesque. But I'm glad to hear that they haven't tried to improve on the Bard of Avon's masterpiec, barrin' 'Hamlet' and a few other plays. But my mistake was a natural one. When I broke into the theatrical business the show that was gettin' the coin was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' with two Toms, three little Evas, a half dozen Topsies, and ten Marks." Baltimore News. The man who "caters" to others has bought and paid for a first-class, one way, no-stop-over ticket to ignominy. He has yet to see the light of day who ever made good at anything after he had lost his self-respect. Three fourths of success is the work you do and the rest is attitude. To the rising man, life is war or an an ed truce. He literally fences his way to his goal and it is a very low order of man indeed who depends entirely upon material weapons for his progress. He who achieves real success depends for the most part upon moral and mental means of offense and defense, but these means are weapons just the same. We are wont to say that success is largely bluff and in a sense it is. The con querer in the battles of industry or politics attacks with an Idea and par ries a thrust with another. His breast works are usually an attitude that be comes transmuted into a reputation, which in turn overaw ..j the weak and cowardly, leaving him to work his will with little interference. And such mor al fortifications are iiot built up by "catering" to any one. We are all more or less aware of and ashamed of our weaknesses. All of us are quick to suspect that others have discovered the fault in our armor. But the contrary is true. Given a passable amount of merit and strength suffi cient to ordinary needs, and we need only to assume an attitude of con scious power to make sure of the de ference of our fellows. And this defer ence Is our fortification. It is better that others should say of us, "Beware how you cross him; he is not to be trifled with," than to have the brain of a Machiavelli and the demeanor of a mouse. And he who pleads, hesitates or compromises may have such a brain and be a failure stiil. "Catering" is self surrender, and if he but give himself over In propitiation a mental Sampson may become the sport of the witless, brawling Philistine. (Copyright, 1912, by W. E. Williams.) DAFFYDILS BY TJ. NOALL. If Alexander Hamilton is dust is Henry Clay? (Kill him! Kill him:! He speaks of "beautiful snow.") If a girl's parents objected to her going up in an aeroplane would a bot tle stopper? (Now doctor! The stretcher.) If Lake Tahoe is a beauty is Lake Cham plain? (Quick, Watson, my gun. Our man has escaped.) GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. Very few leaders are as wise as those following them imagine. No fool motion ever had to wait long for a second to the motion. A sermon is seldom so short that the congregation will risk an encore. Delegates should be able bodied men capable of carrying a badge around. Plowing isn't so much fun lor the plow man as it is for the poets and blackbirds. Nearly every man who doesn't own one thinks automobiles should be loaded to capacity. Some men really catch fish, but most of the other markets for patience pay higher prices. Quite often a man is a lion In his lodge, who doesn't talk very loud when he is around home. Tramps are a little more cautious than other migratory birds about starting north in the spring. A steady workman has less time to de vote to being led into temptation, among his other advantages. Although properly grateful to great men, we must confess that their birth days don't excite us greatly. If you don't like a man, you can't see his good points even if you are looking for them, which) you are not. Sometimes a liar says the truth won't hurt. Just like that; as if he had tried it. The painful fact is there are many painful facts. Doubtless there are many prominent club men who don't advertise by- chasing around with chorus girls and getting shot, or even half shot The Three Spears. (By Maude J. Perkins.) A girl was riding toward Holcomb, riding like the wind on a wiry pinto. Behind her was an escort of four Yaqul maidens, who did not display the grace and abandon of their leader. She brought her horse up standing within a few feet of Holcomb's own, and the adventurer saw that she was not Indian at all, but pure Spanish. Her creamy oval face, full scarlet lips and eyes like pools of black water made her very attractive. The black eyes appraised Holcomb swiftly. He sat his horse like a cow boy, but the pack animal behind was laden with the outfit of the prospector He was bronzed by hot suns, and his handsome face carried an expression of bold fearlessness that just escaped recklessness. "Senor," she said abruptly in Span ish, "don't go to the 'Three Spears.' "Why," demanded Holcomb abrupt ly. For an instant his eyes sought the shimmering southwest, where three slender peaks arose from the gray of the desert into the hard blue of the sky. "Danger!" With the single word the girl wheeled her horse abruptly and set off at a gallop toward the river with her cavalcade. Their goal was a herd of cattle which was stray ing from the vicinity of the settle ment. Holcomb, pondering, rode on to the Yaqui town. It was situated near the only water within forty miles, a stream sunk deep in a cleft of the rocks. It was far below the level of the half desert prairie that stretched away to the mountains. The huts and tents of the town were grouped on a shelf just above high water. Two-score yards below the town, near where the women were washing clothes, the river dived Into a deep j orifice In the mountainside. Running, at right angles with the stream was a range of mountains to the west, ter minating in the distance with the "Three Spears." Picking his way down to the river, along a trail steep and dangerous, Holcomb replenished his water supply, bought meal of the sullen Indians, and set out on his way to the west again. As he climbed to the plateau a chief halted him with upraised hand a tall man with stern brown face and nar row eyes. "The stranger must not go to the "Three Spears," he grunted. Holcomb returned the hostile gaze with calmness. He rolled a husk cig arette, lighted it and shook the reins. "I heard you, chief," he answered. The Indian stepped ungraciously aside. An hour later Holcomb noted four dots on the northern horizon two mounted Yaquis with pack horses, swinging out and ahead of him in a wide half-circle. Holcomb was up next morning at the earliest break of dawn, for the "Three Spears" were less than a day's journey away and he was anxious to reach them. At noon, when he stop ped for a hasty lunch, he was wtthin the mouth of the defile which led to the higher fastnesses. j He was tightening the cinch of his horse, for the trail ahead was steep and narrow, when a sound caused him to wheel. The Spanish girl of the day be' e was coming toward him. Her thin dress was torn and her moccasins were cut to shreds. There were angry bruises on her bare arms and she limped as she walked. "You must go back," she cried urgently in Spanish; "the 'Three Spears' mean death." His mouth set in an obstinate line "I've traveled for six weeks to see the 'Three Spears.' They say there's gold there; that's why the Indians guard them so closely." The girl laid an imploring hand on his arm. "No, no!" Her earnestness could not be mistaken. "There is no gold there. But in the valley of the 'Three Spears' is the burial place of the tribe. The Great Father comes there. And the white man must not see. "If he profanes the valley with his footsteps he dies. Even now the guards are waiting. They will kill you if vou go on." Holcomb's face fell. "I don t care much about graveyards." he muttered. "Tf there's no gold I'm not curious. But," he asked abruptly, "what are you doing with this tribe?" "My father hail a ranch there. She" pointed to the southwest. "He died three months ago, and the Yaquis ;.i nur cattle and horses. I am a prisoner, though they treat me kindly. Thev are afraid I would bring the rurales if they freed me." "How did you get here? "The senor saw where the water flows into the mountain? At Eimdown. when thev were not watching. I let mvself into the river, and was carried through to the other side. I had seen the boys do it in play. "It was very dark, and the current is swift. Sometimes I struck upon the rocks, but the dear Virgin protected me and I came into tne uiesseu an again. After one passes through the mountain there is a secret path, much shorter than the horse must take, to the 'Three Spears.' So I was in time to warn the senor." Holcomb seized the girl's hands Im pulsively in his own. "You did that for me? he asked wonaenngjj. xm. were hurt you must have been injured on the cruel rocks." "No," she replied: "a few bruises. They are nothing. And I did it for my self, too, senor. I wanted to be free again." The cowboy-prospector burst into English: "You're sure a plucky little kid! I'll get you back to civilization, or bust a laig! 'Texas' Holcomb may have been a pretty tough citizen, but he ain't an ongrateful one. tiow ao we get our of here? Them Injuns may come surgin' down any time. An' I ain't goin' t take chances with you along." The girl smiled and colored at the look in his brown eyes. "The four horses are hidden just below," she re plied, also in English and wsthout ac cent. "We must take them and go north. If you do not come soon Into their valley, they will creep back and find our footsteps. If we leave the horses they will follow." "Good; we'll take the horses then. Lead on: I'll follow. What may I call you, ma'am?" "My name is Isabella de la Barro, but father called b 'Ctiquita.' 'Chiquita' that means 'little one." Chiquita it is!" They found the hidden animals with out trouble. The pack animals were laden with food, and with water in skins. This, explained Chiquita, was because the two Yaquis were going on a search for poorly-guarded cattle after Holcomb had been disposed of and nis belongings appropriated. The girl swung Into the saddle of one of the horses, and they were off. By sundown they had put several miles be tween themselves and the dangerous "Three Spears." Chiquita cooked sup per on the fire which Holcomb built, and never had the prospector tasted a meal more delicious. Holcomb treated her as he would have his sister treated under similar circumstances. At night she slept the sleep of Innocence and honest fatigue in his one blanket, while he shivered and dozed, since it grew chill when the sun went down. By day they plodded northward at a good pace, Holcomb, "with his head on his shoulder," for there was danger of pu-rsuit. But the Yaquis, evidently dis couraged because of the start which the fugitives had obtained, and the number of fresh horses at their command, made no sign. Chiquita was an ideal traveling com panion. She was always bright and gay, delighted with what the moment brought, and taking no thought of the morrow. She was quick to see the changing beauties of the vast country and point them out to Holcomb. Some times, with childish Impulsiveness, she tugged at his sleeve or clasped his browned wrist, and he thrilled at her touch as the strings of the harp re spond to the hand of the player. After two weeks they came at last to the sight of a town nestling in a hollow below the ridge of hills on which they stood. It was mid forenoon. The clear air etched the hamlet with won derful distinctness. They could see the toy men and women in the streets. "There's Ascension, Chiquita," said Holcomb; "aren't you glad?" "Yes," replied the eirl. listlessly Th adorable sparkle had died out of her piquant face. "So am went on the prospector. Do you know why, little one?" ..J?e turned grave eyes upon him. Why. my f.-iend?" "Because there's a priest there. Un- id.CS Virt .1 .1 1 i f auueu xiumDiy, alter a KANSAS COMMENT 3 pause, "you don't want me, am r good enough I know I The girl, rosy with happiness, flun nerseir into his arms. "Whv. rle.arot one she said, in her liquid Spanish. l have loved thee ahavs right. 1912, Press. by Associated Literary EVENING CHAT BY RUTH CAMERON. y f"end' said Mrs. Ixjuise Noble, e" ?n(?- anfI red- young, heedless, cjnical, living )n this reckless town of th1W ,?,rk'."iay laUKh sometimes at old things i like the law and religion when thov say thou shalt not.' We may think tha"t phrase was written for old fogies. And 7lLify Jneer at 'The -"'ages of sin is death But my friend, there comes to all of us sometimes the knowledge that the law and religion are right. What they say we shall not do that we cannot do without suffering. I have learned that. Also I have learned that the wages of sin is death. Its worse than death it's a Hell on earth." Louise Suydam was the wife of Walter Lispenard Suydam, a New York million aire. After eiirht rears nf nan4,i.s decided that she was niismated and eloned with ireoenck Noble, a plumber. .Mr. fcuydam divorced her and she married Mr. Noble. After llvlne ton-other- ic than six months, less than three weeks after their marriage, these two unhappy people committed suicide. And the rea son for this act was that they had found that the love which raud them tn defy conventions and morality, which thev looked upon as an eternal affinity decreed by God and nature, and not to be denied, no longer existed. The mnnntnnv anrt common-placeness of ordinary married life had killed this love, which was so great that they were willing to sacrifice everything to it, in less than three weeks. Probably you know most of these facts. They were chronicled widely enough. r am merely relating them for those who did not chance to read them, and recall ing them for those who aid. In the words I have quoted, I fhink Louise Suydam Noble preached as power ful a sermon as any minister ever gave. For the minister tells us that the wages of sin is death, because that is what he believes. She tells us that because she knows. She had received that wages, and more than that "a Hell on earth." in an ordinary married life, where the marriage is between two people who love eacn other dearly, where there is a rea sonable degree of prosperity, where there are many friends and many in terests and activities to add to the happi ness of both parties, there Is, neverthe less, much stress and strain upon the af fection that these two feel. There are times when the irritating little cares of married life grow- irksome, there are days when one wears upon the other, there are moments when tempers flare up and things are said that should not be. Now- tell me, if there is all this stress and strain in normal married life where there is everything to favor happiness, what will thc-e be in that union, which. by defying conventions, has thrown away standing and friends and the joys of Ft lawful respected domestic hearth with happy children about it, and very likely! laterial prosperity to boot? J In every married life, the lovers' love. in which passion is a prime element, must gradually change. The love may become the affection of habit w hlch one feels for anyone with whom he lives. It may cool into something little more than mutual sufferance. It mny degenerate into actual dislike, It may develop into sweet and en- durng friendship end tenderness, which to me is the most beautful love on earth. What chances is there for this happy out come in a marriage like that of Louise Suydam and her afTinity? "Affinity" Earle couldn't live with his first wife because he decided they weren't mated. He broke up his home and made his little child fatherless to go to his "affinity." Julia Kuttner. who he said, was his true soul male. In about two years she appeared in the divorce courts, testifying that her coul mate choked and beat her. "But, my friend." says Louise Noble, "there comes to all of us sometimes the knowledge that the law and religion are right, what they say we shall not do That we cannot do without suffering." To any man or woman who Is tempted to defy convention in any way and set up a higher standard, of morality for herself or himself, I commend these words of Louise Suydam Noble. You may not believe ministers. or friends, or your family. You may say they are theorizine. You must believe her. She knew. God help her. THE PRICE OF HAPPINESS. So many people, seeing one thing, caw not see anything else. Woodrow Wii.oR lately confessed that his is sinjtle-tracH mind, but it is of something different w are thinking: single track and narrow narrow gauije are some. And of such a these must be a woman magazine wrin who lately pointed out that money tnai ters and the tightwad tendencies of hus bands arc the cause of most of the do mestic infelicity. Often enough, inde 1. the male member of th- familv has mil!) the mistake of not being born rich, re quiring riches, or having riches thruM upon him. In such a home, the wife lsn'l likely to have an allowance beyond tn dreams of avarice. There re even men who have to stay up late to count tii casii who aren't very liberal with their families. But there are so many signs pointing the way to the divorce court that il isn't fair to select one and say this i The cause of marital madness, or even the principal cause. And. least of all, can money matters be blamed. To the credit of American husbands, and equal ly to the credit of American wives. It cn be said, in rebuttal, tlvat the majority ol happy homes are tJi, onos ln whj,.n inn ciai matters need careful consideration, and wherein husband and wife m i?t wors together to keep thn.irs going, and pacifr the bill collectors. That is true he-ai: most homes are like that; most marrmefi are reasonably satisfactory, although fil ing short of honeymoon dreams, and th average income is far short of sufficient from allowing either ide of the house, or both, to take off the limit. And where that limit Is lifted: amon those families where both side are ri-h in their own right, one fails to f :r. til highest happiness. If he observes th li-l of those routed over the road to Indeed, the alimony association Is com posed largely of those who can afford t pay it without much Inconvenience, and trial marriages are more frequent on Easy street than in Poverty Flat or the wide territory in between. Many poor guessers break Into print, but to this marriage writer's search for the cause of the divorce evil certainiv goes the cake and the rest of the pastry posted for prizes in that line Atchison Globe. FROM OTHER PEIl RECALL OF CONSTITUTIONS. The recall of judicial decisions a? plan ned by Colonel Roosevelt is In effect noth ing less than the recall of constitutions. A constitution is an ordinance of self-restraint adopted by a people in a of-r mood. In It the people axree that the power of the majority will never in- in voked, while that constitution stands la do certain tilings. It is a sort of Maura Charta of the minority. Bv It the mi nority is assured HKainM a variety of o: -pressive acts by tna majorltv. It Is as sured, for example. guin,t attainder, against the taking of property except by due process of law. against denial of the writ or habeas corpus and a variety of other things. Of how much force snd effect Is this Folemn agreement bv the majority to re spect the rights of the minority If'folonel Roosevelt's plan is adopted and the ma jority obtains the right to interpret as it sees fit its own promises? It is useless to maintain that a rorsnH tution whoso provisions were subject f recall in this way would cwupy the his toric place of (he written constitution among American institutions. Nor him!. the recall long be limited to state con stitutions If It came to be adopted. A federal constitution not subject to popular interpretation would foon be felt to be an intolerable obstacle to true "popular government," since It is much harder t-i amend by existing processes than Mat a constitutions us.ually are. Nw 1 orie Tribune. ADVERTISING TALKS BY WILLIAM C. FREEMAN thta This is the roth day of February. It is an extra day given to us year. What are we going to do with It? Are we grateful for it? Ts It not a good tune since ther .165 days this year without today to tin some mendini?? W hat Is there about our business that should be improved? Are we so satisfied with ourselves that we can't improve? Let us see. Are we as considerate of our associates as we should be." Do we. by our treatment or them. the maximum of their lojalty and their ent h usiasm Do we pay them as much as we hiiiii,f to command their best work? Are we as particular as we (.liould t-i in giving everybody a dollar of value in return for the dollar given to us? Do we try, day in and ilnv out. tj practice the golden rule of busm-. which is being square toward r tj- -body? Or, on the other hand. Is It sn every, day struggle with us "to do'' the other fellow to get the better of hfrn if we can, no matter how we do it? Do we regard the procurement of mon no matter who we grind tu g i it a the chief aim of life? Do we ever stop to think that there is something besides money-nuking in this world? Ho we co afler the cend thine as should ---such as the acquir-ment of a sr.n,! name and a reputation for lena just In our estimates of our fellows? Do w e, w ho are in the std ertlslna- bui ness, tell the truth do we trv to get tn better of Die ndvertiser or do wo rcal y and honestly try to help him' Do advertisers tell the truth always? Do they try, by false nromlxe. f) Cet the better of the advertising representa tives as to rates, positions, contract h, etc There are a (treat many things for ti all to think about on this extra day hut all summed ur they are Let's play fair in business. Let's be just to competitors. Let's try to be real men. (To be continued.) QUAKER MKIMTATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record J It doesn't take much pull to start a tf. low down hill. Many a fellow is left because his wat-'i isn't right. Over-eating isn't always what make. m. man over-rated. The broad-minded man Is seldom the one who is chesty. A woman hater is merely never flatters. a man whi HUMOR OF THE DAY J The Stranger Queer place for a factory right in the heart of your business sec tion. The Native Yes, that's where they manufacture the pure country sausage. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Never strike a man larger than your self." "Better still, never strike a man who is short." Life. Patience How long will their honey moon last, do you suppose? Patrice Why, I can't tell. I don't know just how much money he's ot. Yonkera Statesman. Kven the wise saws don't cut much with some people. Ail that glitters Isn't gold, but It aeem, to satisfy a lot of people. The only thing that some people win,, lota of money can't afford Is happine.-s. Lots of people expect to get their r ward in heaven, and no oucst (,r. r. The easiest thin in the world Is to te i others what we would do if we were it fellow is goin Irl one- n -1. i vjincu.1 comaire. r-afeot their place. Sllliciie "If cards for game "fV, vnii 1 1 L. V "-w..t; mTfl aregerma mn i microbes ln money?" asked Man -Sir replied theVb.to.-rt! V? merely a billionaire, not a bacteri, lorit ioi.y a woman h been ""That 4 right. Some fellow one. told i if.'-i she was the salt of tae eartk .!5 .t turned hn- h.-,i eartn, and I

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THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 29, 1912 WANT WE PAY Trainmen and Conductors of Santa Fe Make Demands. Here in Force for Topeka An. nual Conference. BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS Representatives Here Headed 1j General Chairmen. 3iCAV Interpretation of Present Schedules. the fifty officers and representatives of the Order of Kailway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Train men are in Topeka this week to make demands from the management of the Atchison, Topeka .Santa Fe railway relating to the general working con ditions of the trainmen on the lines of the Santa Fe. The representatives of tho Santa Fe trainmen are in confer ence with officers of the road with headquarters in Topeka and with F. C Fox. general manager of the west ern lines of the Santa Fe. Althousrh both railway officials and union representatives refure to go into detail on the nature of the demands from the railway company it is known that the trainmen want new interpre tations in the wage schedules w hich in the end mean that they want more pay from the road. Many of the working conditions if changed will mean in creased wages indirectly. At the head of the trainmen and conductors in their requests from the Santa Fe are two well known general officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Kailway Conductors. They are H. C. Vaughn general chairman of the O. R. C. and 31. 51. Sweezey. general chairman of the n. R. T. Both have their head quarters at Kansas City. The conferences are being held in the top tloor of the old general office build ing of "..he Sam a Fe Jti Tonck i. The Santa Fe i represented by F. C. Fox. general manager of the western lines :nd the two representatives of C. AV. Kmras. general manager of the eastern lines R. J. Parker, general superin tendent at Topeka and II. B. Lautz, assistant to the general manager in this citj-. It is not known what attitude the Santa Fe will take in meeting the demands of the trainmen article.-. Ir: past conferences it -as been customary for the trainmen and conductors to satisfy themselves with only a por tion of what was asked. Both sides in the controversies show their best hand and then they get together or. ttsnt is left. Sacrifices are made by both parties. There are thousand? of trainmen in the employ of the Santa Fe and all of them will be affected directly by the results of this Topeka conference. Fifty men compose the comn itt.e-2 con ferring with the three Santa Fe offi cers. They represent each division o: the organization with their general ha inner. The negotiations win last until some time next week or possibly longer. It depends upon how long it will take the representatives to agree on their de-mauds. THE WASHBURN COLLEGE DEBATING TEAM WHICH WILL MEET THE NEBRASKA WESLEYAN DEBATORS IN TOPEKA FRIDAY NIGHT. I i (f T ""1st f fri W$&M I itefe ml1' 1 fife Jpv WIFE IN THE PLOT, Planned Murder of Her Husband at Oklahoma City. Rolla Harger f Genn Logan The third annual debate between representatives of the Nebraska Wes leyan university of University Place, Xeb., and Washburn college will be held in Mac Vicar chapel Friday even ing. The question which will be de bated is: "Resolved, That the tariff of the United States should be fixed by a nonpartisan board of tariff ex perts." The Washburn team will take the affirmative side of the question. The Washburn team will be com posed of Samuel Leger, Glenn Logan and Rolla Harger. Samuel Leger, the captain of the team, was a member of the team that defeated Baker univer sity in 1911 and is one of Washburn's foremost students in oratory and de bate. Logan has had considerable ex perience in high school debating, and is a very fluent and easy talker. Har der has made a reputation for himself in inter-society debating by the sound logic of his argument. Nebraska Wesleyan will be repre sented by Clarence Davis, Dwight Gris wold and Weldon Crossland. Nebraska Wesleyan has won for itself a good record in forensic work and a close contest is looked for. C. A. Dykstra, W. L. Burdick and Dean Blackmar, all of Kansas university, will judge the contest. GRAND OPERA HERE. 'Herodiade'' Will Be Given by French Oouipany I-Vklay. TAFT STRONGEST MAN If lie Can't Be Klected No Republican Can, Says His Brother's laper. Cincinnati. Feb. 29. Under the cap tion "Who Can Win?" the Cincinnati Times-Star, owned by Charles P. Taft. halfbrother to the president, editor ially tells its readers why Mr. Roose velt is not the logical man to be nom inated for president. After referring to the colonel as being very popular in 1904. but that "much water has run under the bridge since then,'' the edi iori.il concludes: "There is not much chance that Mr. Roosevelt will be nominated at Chi cago. If he j-hould be nominated the third term argument would be there 10 be used against him with increas ing effect until it defeated him on lection day. Taft. on the other hand, will grow steadily stronger as the at tention of tiie people is focussed on the issues under the glaring light of a na tional campaign. Even today Mr. 'i'aft's enemies in the party have prac tically nothing concrete to urge against him. They have tried hard for an is sue, but in the end they find them selves supporting not principles but men and individual interests. "ff Taft is renominated, he will pro bably be re-elected. If Taft can not be re-elected, it is certain that no other Republican can.'' Graz's French Opera company opens at the Grand, presenting on Friday night. "Herodiade"' and on Saturday matinee "Lakme." with "Rigoletto" Saturday night. This company when it opened in San Francisco, displayed to the delighted auditors a night similar to that of seasons gone by, before the fire, when the Metropolitan forces came to tn coast, playing in Los Angeles and San Francisco only. Grazi's singers are just as capable, artistic, dramatic and lyric as those of the Metropolitan, the Boston or the Chicago opera and there is no reason why the music lovers of Topeka should not revel in the oper atic beauties of their performance-. Hammerstein was wise, he opened his season at the Manhattan with "Hero diade," pronouncing it the greatest opera he had ever heard, and when ycu consider the number of people turned away, it will be understood why "He rodiade" has since been extensively m demand. "Herodiade'' is in every sense of the word sensational. To begin with, the text is anything but tame and Mas senet -has allowed none of its possibili ties to escape him. but what is great est in the work is the utter sincerity of the composer and his genius for cre ating a poetic atmosphere. M. Gar rone has been decorated with the Red Ribbon, and is considered one of the great tenors of the French grand opera at the Academy. M. Kspa-Carrie will sing "Herod." He has a baritone upon which both nature and culture have lavished themselves. Mine. Val mont as "Salome" finds a part requir ing great versatility, a character which she portrays faultlessly. For ten years .he has been singing at the Paris Comique and the Paris Grand Opera. M. Coiglio w ill be heard as "Phanuel." M. Garand. tenor, will sing the role of "The Voice." ON SAME BIRTHDAY. Mother and Daughter Celebrate Anni versary of Both. KIgin. III.. Feb. 29. A double birthday celebration will be held here today and will be unique in that it will be the thirteenth birthday of a mother and the lourth of her daughter. Mrs. Henry Heidemann is not so young as this would make her appear either. She is 56 years old and her daughter, Annie, is CO. Both were born on February 29. MISS WILSON HELD UP Marooned by Storm at Dalhart; Elks Entertain Her. Dalhart. Feb. 29. Miss Nellie Wilson, daughter of Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, is encountering adverse cir cumstances in her journey from north central Mexico to Trenton. First, she was held up in the state of Chihua hua by failure of train service that resulted from activities of bandits. Her second detention took place here. Arriving Sunday night she has been held up by storms that prevent th movement of trains. The Elks of the town discovered Miss Wilson's presence yesterday and last night gave her a dance party. She declares the delay does not bother her. Miss Wilson ex pects to be on her way to New Jersey tomorrow. -f".' -jr v- 4V V :;1P N s l 1 v M I V-A j 7 N Mine Valmont, Soprano in Herodiade Massenet Grand Opera at the Grand Kriday Night. SNEED JURY HANGS. A l'aihirc to Agree Is Followed by Its Discharge. Fort Worth, Feb. 25. Standing seven for acquittal and Ave, for conviction the jury which tried John Beal Sneed for the murder of Captain A. G. Boyce, the aged Panhandle cattle king, was discharged today. Sneed. a wealthy banker of Amarillo believed Captain Boyce had tried to assist hi3 son, in abducting Mrs. Sneed and shot Captain Boyce at a Fo Worth hotel. The jury was out 112 hours. Facts for Weak Women Nine-tenths of all the sickness of women is due to seme derangement or dis ease of the organs distinctly feminine. Such sickness can be cured is cured every day by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription It Makes Weak Women Strong, Sick Women Well. It acts directly on the organs affected and is at the same time a general restora tive tonic for the whole system. It cures female complaint right in the privacy of homj. It makes unnecessary the disagreeable questioning, examinations and local treatment so universally insisted upon by doctors, and so abhorrent to every modest woman. We shall not particularize here as to the symptoms ol those peculiar affections incident to women, but those wanting full information as to their symptoms and means of positive cure are referred to the People's Com mon Sense Medical Adviser 1008 pages, newly revised and up-to-date Edition, stt.t free on receipt of 31 one cent stamps to cover cost of wrapping and mailing only, in French cloth binding. Address: Dr. R. V. Pierce, N. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. t J2..7 STALLED IN SNOW. Santa I-"c Must 1'eed and Amuse I'as ingers of I'onr Through Trains. Chicago, Feb. 29. The Santa I'e railroad, it was learned today, lias on Sulzberger said the volume of his company's business was between $90, 000.000 and $100,000,000 a year. On "redirect examination by Govern ment Counsel Sheean, the witness said his company sold its hides for from S to 10 cents a pound in 907-08, when the packers made no allowance for hides in figuring their test cost of beef. "Have you ever authorized anv of its hands the joo of providing food j your employees to exchange margins and amusement free of cost for the passengers of four of its big coast trains which are stalled by snow along its line in Kansas. Many Chicagoans are on these trains. One of the trains, the California Limited, was due in Chicago on Mon day. It was admitted by officials of the road today that the passengers might reach Chicago Friday "if they are lucky." No definite information as to the ex act location of thetrains was obtain able at the Santa offices. It was taid one train was reported in the neigh borhood of Newton. Kan., and anoth er near Dodge City, Kan. All four trains have been tied up since the blizzard swept the Kansas plains last Sunday. SUPPLY AND DEMAND They Alone Kigured in Price of Beef, Says Sulzberger. with representatives of Armour. Swift Morris or tic National Packing com pany since you were a member of the old beef pool in 1902?" "I have not." "Have you knowledge that anv of your employees did exchange such margins?" "1 have not." WEDS, SAVES "$75,000 Charles Corbin Ilceovers Part I'ather's Legacy by Marriage. of Chicago. Feb. 2 9. Attorney John S. Miller continued the cross examination of Ferdinand Sulzberger, president of the Sulzberger Sons company, when the packers' trial was resumed today. Witness said the selling price of meat was determined by the law of supply and demand, that the test cost and margin system used by the pack ers had no direct effect on the selling price and that the selling price of the same grade of beef often differed on the same day at different branch houses of the same company in the same city. This, he said, could not be avoided because of the peculiar nature of the dressed beef business. Attorney Miller attempted to show by the witness that the percentage of profit earned by the packers on the actual money invested in the business was not exorbitant, but the court sus tained an objection by the government. Mansfield, Mass., Feb. 29. Charles Cor bin, son of the late multimillionaire founder of the hardware trust, Phillip Corbin, came forth from his long exile wuay ana married Airs. Mona Babbitt. It was purely a love match, friends of the couple say, but incidentally by presenting the marriage certificate to Judge Gaff aney at New Britain. Corbin will hence forth receive the income from SISOO'O In stead of $75,001). The elder Corbin left several millions but only $73,000 went to his spendthrift son, with another $75,000 set aside for him if he married and settled down before January 1 of next year. Several hundred persons gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Prince Drew, the bride's parents, to get a glimpse of "Charlie" Corbin, whom many have not seen since his father exiled him to Mar tha's Vineyard, 17 years ago, after a wild career had caused his first wife to di vorce him and his father to lose all con fidence in him. Corbin appeared today a florid faced man of more than fiftv, with scanty gray hair. When asked for a statement he would only say that he and his bride would spend a month on their honeymoon and later take up their resi dence in the Corbin mansion in New Britain. Corbin's daughter, Minnie, lives in Hert ford, the wife of George Kolm, a wealthy jeweler, and their son, known throughout the state as "Pete," driver of a $15,000 racing car, has private apartments in New Britain. He was one of the few witnesses at the ceremony. i Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 29. Jesse K. Mackey, for whose sake Thomas J. Gentry, a prominent citi zen of Oklahoma City, was murdered in his home several months ago, on the witness stand here turned state's evidence and related details of a grue some plot by Gentry's wife and Mau rice Weigbtman, brother-in-law of the murdered man. Mackey swore that both Gentry's wife and Weightman wanted to do the -job" and that they drew straws to determine who should have the privilege of killing Gentry. Mackey said he met Mrs. Gentry and Weightman the evening of the murder and the three went over the final details. They went to the Gen try home where Gentry was killed in his library. Mrs. Gentry secured pos session of her husband's diamonds in order to make it appear that he had been killed for the purpose of rob bery. Immediately after the murder Mackey and Mrs. Gentry went to a local hotel where they were joined shortly afterward by Weightman, who exclaimed as he, came into the room: "You thought I would turn rabbit, didn't you: but I didn't." WASHBURirNEWS. Gf Friday for OC Boys' 15c Hose sizes 5& to 9. Auerbach Guettel ici o iniNG COL 25c fri. lor Doyi Knickerbocker Pant, 50c qual ity, all sizes. The Washburn basketball team will play the William Jewell team this evening at the Thomas gym nasium. As a curtain raiser a game will be played between the freshmen and sophomore girl teams. The first game will start at 7:30 and will be immediately followed by the varsity game. William Jewell and Washburn have met once before this season and the Missouri boys won by a score of 20 to 16. In the first half Washburn had the lead, 16 to 14, but failed to score a single point the second period, while WTilliam Jewell added six to their credit. It should be remem bersd also that Washburn was away from home on a hard trip. Tonight will finish what has been a disastrous season for Washburn in basketball. Starting with all of last year's team, which had tied Baker for the Kansas championship, pros pects were bright for an all victorious and state champion team. But for some reason or other the team has played erratically, rarely showing its promised form and has finishing a losing season. William Jewell comes with a rec ord of ten consecutive victories, but Washburn will endeavor to pull down the big end of the score, notwith standing the fact that the team is badly crippled. Captain Smiley and l.ishop are both sick and will be un ableto play. Janney has also been sick, but will start the game. Coach 1'jriver gave out the following lineup to start the game: Forwards, Crum hine and MeNeish; center. Chaney; guards, Janney and Trobert. The girls' game, which will be played as a curtain raiser, is the first of a scries of three games between the freshmen and sophomores for the class championship and is the first gills' game to be played in the gym nasium this year. J ne otner two games will be played soon. Besides a trip to Sr. Louis, it is probable that the Washburn foot ball team will go to Denver, Colo., for a game with Denver university. "We have been, offered a liberal guarantee for this game," said Man ager Driver, "and it is quite probable that we will aocept. The different Colorado schools areendeavoring to secure games with eastern schools. Baker has two games scheduled with Colorado teams and K. S. A. C. one." The Washburn schedule is being rapidly filled and promises to be a hard one. Besides games with Wash ington university at St. Louis and Denver university at Denver, there are games with Kansas university, Oklahoma university and the Kansas Aggies. The other dates will prob ably be filled with Kansas colleges. Spring football practice at Wash burn will start March 9 and continue for three weeks. It will give the Washburn players a chance to learn the new rules and will give Coach Driver a chance to perfect new plays for next fall. Considerable interest is manifested by the student body and because Captain Tomlinson is a medic, that department will send out a strong bunch of candidates for the spring tryout. To stimulate interest among the players several cups will be given at the close of practice for proficiency in punting, goal kicking, tackling and running with the ball. Washburn baseball practice will start March 0th, or as soon as spring football practice is over. A series of in'rcIa3S games will be played for the Voorhees trophy. The situaiton lor a varsity baseball team is still up in the air. The athletic board of con trol has the matter under advisement, hilt it is not yet settled. It is quite probable that a varsity team will be organized and a short schedule ph'yed. Washburn will open the debating season tomorrow night at the college chapel by a debate with Nebraska Wesleyan college on the question, "Kesolved. That the tariff of the United States should be determined by a non-partisan board, constitu tionally granted." Nebraska has twice defeated Washburn in debate, but the sons of Ichabod hope to turn the trick tomorrow night. The Wash burn team is composed of Samuel Leger. Glenn Logan and Rolla Har ger. The judges are Prof. W. L. Burdick, Prof. F. W. Blackmar and Professor Dyche, all of Kansas uni versity. After the debate a recep tion will be held in the library to which the public is invited. The annual meeting of the Kansas College Prohibition association will be held at Manhattan Friday and Saturday. On Friday business ses sions will be held in the morning and afternoon, a banquet at 5:30 and the state oratorical contest at S p. m. On Saturday will be reports of officers and committees and election of offi cers. Twelve colleges have entered orators and seven of these qualified lor the contest. Washburn will be represented by Ben Franklin. His oration will be "The Home Defend er." The Kansas orator has won the interstate three times and the na tional contest once. The Missouri colleges have per fected an organization similar to the Kansas conference among the Kan sas colleges. The following schools belong to the conference: William Jewell. Drury, Westminster. Central, Missouri Valley, Missouri Wesleyan! Tarkio, Kirksville, Springfield and Warrensburg. Journal Ads Get Results. A Big Bargain Friday Boys' $4 Suits with 2 pairs CO fC of Knickerbocker Pants vJ' You parents who are economical will be here early for this unusual bargain in boys' combination suits. Just received an other new lot of these suits and they jro on sale tomorrow for the first time. All crisp, new, stylish Boys' Suits in 1912 cjI orings, such as smoke grays, blues and tans. Made up in the new Norfolk and double breasted model 5 to 17 years every coat has two pairs of knickerbocker pants to match all seams double stitched. Extra well tailored in every way. Suit alone 13 worth $3, extra pants are worth $1; your choice Friday for Suit and extra pants for only EZ"7 Tf C Friday for Young Men's Classy College Suits T OU made of beautiful all wool blue serges, f f black unfinished worsteds, fancy worsteds and fancy cassimeres. This winter's newest color ings and patterns, in 2 and 3 button models, magnificent fab rics, handsomely tailored; odds and ends that formerly sold for $10, $12.50 and $15; all sizes, 15 to 20 years. tfr Friday for JUC Suits, odds and ends of Children's Wash 5c and $1.00 quality, 2 to 8 years. Friday for Children's Hose IOC Supporters, Century Brand, 25c quality. OC Friday for children's llomp- blue and white check. 2 to 6 years. Hoys' and C'uht and Caps, ,'i"c 9C. Friday for OOC rrn's Hats and 75e quality. ne Friday fur Hues' H!our- OC Waists :ml Shirts. lie and 75c quality. All sizes. Friday for l!n;s' Hong Trousers, in trav and neat dark pattern?. $l.r0 quality. 59c FOR MEN! $1.00, 75c 50c shirts Men: This is a big Shirt opportunity. Get yours Friday. Pleated bosoms and negligee models: coat style, cuffs attached m i'lras. percales. and French prints; light and dark shades: also plain whiles and np blues; sizes 14 to 20 neckband; these Shirts were made to yell if at $1.00. Your unreserved choice Friday for tm Men's Neckwear OC Friday you Men will find splendid 50c values we're scllina a' 25c each. Beautiful silk four-in-hands: light and dark shades: knitted, plain and fancy weaves. Choice and as many as on like. Bargain Hose Sale Men's linen toe and heel, plain lisle, silk lisle and fine ma u cotton hose, in black, white, tan. navy, grey, smoke, brown, purple, red heiio and lavender, our regular 25c qualities. Friday. 25c 10c Grows hair and we can prove it Hair Becomes Soft, Fluffy, Lus trous and Beautiful Immediately After a Danderine Hair Cleanse "V V" Get a 25 Cent Bottle Now and Forever Stop Falling Hair, Itching Scalp and Dandruff A little Danderine now will immediately double the beauty of your hair No difference how'dull, faded, brittle and scraggy, just moisten a cloth with Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair taking- one small strand at a time. The effect is immediate and amazing your hair will be light, fluffy and wavy and have an appearance of abun dance; an incomparable lustre, softness and luxu riance, the beauty and shimmer of true hair health. Try s you will after an application of Danderine, you cannot find a single trace of dandruff or a loose or falling hair and your scalp will not itch, but what will please you most will be after a few week's use when you will actually see new hair, fine and downy at first yes but really new hair sprouting all over the scalp. Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots, invigorates and strengthens them. Its life producing properties cause the hair to grow abun dantly long, strong and beautiful. Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowhon's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and prove to yourself tonight now that your hair s a pretty and soft as any that it has been neglected jr injured by careless treatment that's all you urely can have beautiful hair and lots of it, if you will just try a little. Danderine. Real surprise awaits you. I n r h i V FEEL SHAKY, HEADACHY, BILIOUS OR f ONSTIPATF.n TAKE PA SPA RETS Sick headaches: Always trace them to lazy liver, delayed, fermenting food in the bowels or a sick stomach. Poisonous matter, instead of being thrown out, is reabsorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches th delicate brain tissue it causes congest ton and that dull, awful throbbing, sickening headache. Cascarets remove the cause by stimulating the liver, and making the waste move on and out of the bowels. One taken tonight will etr.-tuhtvn y"ou out by morning a 10-cent box means a clear head for months. bun t forget the children. 10 CCXltS Never gripe, or ucken. 'CASCARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP,"

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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBEUABY 29, 1912 NORTH SIDE NEWS orth Topeka 31. W. A. 'o. 1243 to "Withdraw"! "Will Talk Secession at Meeting Tonight. SAY NEW RATES ARE TOO HIGH Locknane, State Deputy, Sajs "Simply Quitting." Withdrawal From the Parent LiOdare Impossible. A mealing of camp 1 24- North Topeka M. W. A., will be hold lonight at the hall. 1000 North Kansas avenue, to discuss secession from the national body. The withdrawal has been pro posed on account of the new higher rates which will be in effect after Jan uary 1, 1913. Some of the members of this camp seem to feel that the new T-ullns is iot ju.-t. However, C S. Iocknane, state deputy of the order, tays that withdrawal of n Woodman lodce means simply disorganizing al together. He states that no other To peka lodge ts thinking of such a plan and that the members of the North Topeka lodge who are doing so have a wrong ir.ea. This he thinks is based i:pon The fact that the Kansas State A. O. IT. W. withdrew from the grand loiice not wishing to pay the high death rate for the older Ftate lodges. However, the M. W. A. is differently org-a nixed with jut one national headquarters at Rock Island. 111., and Join the Bigger Crop Club! Help make the yield per acre of Kansas land equal to that of other States. Help correct the im pression that goes with the report that Kansas can raise only 13'A bushels of wheat to the acre while Nebraska is averaging IS. How this may be done is described in detail in a new bulletin just issued by the Santa Fe, entitled Better Crops in iCs.nsa.s- and How to Grow Them This bulletin is made up of a aeries of articles by such authorities as Prof. W. M. Jardine, Prof. T.,. K. Call. Prof. E. G. Schafer, Prof. A. FT. Leidig-n. and Prof T J Headlee of the Agricultural college at Manhat tan, and Mr. C. O. Townsend of ;he XI. B. Land and Sugar Company, Garden City. Every farmer In Kansas should have a copy on his library table; I e should read it and follow the farm practice described. If this could be done the yield of Kansas farms would be doubled in a season and the cost of production would be lessened, for Kansas soil can't be beat. That means profit to you It costs nothing to get a copy ex cept the one cent to send a postal card. I want you to send that postal today. I will see that you get the bulletin by return mail. C I. Sea graves. Genera! Colonization Asent A. T. S. F. Ky. 1117 Railway Exchange, Chicago. Try It While Coffee Is So Dear. The Best Is An Economy. 300 CUPS TO THE POUND. ONE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CUPS. Published by the Growers of India Tea that an independent branch would not oe recognized. v L. W arriner, sec- retary of the Xorth Topeka camp also takes this view. Mr. Locknane cites a letter received from Ike Lewis, state superintendent of insurance. Mr. Lewis says that no independent lodge which might be formed by disruption from a parent lodge, would be permitted to do busi ness or issue insurance without each applicant for membership passing .again a rigid medical examination re gardless of his standing with the lodge. Mr. Locknane says that the new rate will be to establish a reserve fund so that the funds coming from new mem bers will not be drained too heavily by an increasing death rate. The old schedule calls for 50 cents monthly dues per $1,000 of insurance from 18 to 50 years of age. The new ruling is 25 cents more per month up to 50 years. Those over 54 will have to pay $3 per $1,000. Notes and Personals. A. c. Merritt, county road overseer, reports that the upper and lower Sil ver Lake roads. which have been blockaded by snow since Sunday, are now open for travel. A gang of men have worked on them since Monday morning. He also says that the cross roads are nearly impassable and on this account the Mrs. Browning fun eral coming from Indian creek to the Rochester cemetery had to go four miles out of their way to get to the cemetery Wednesday. The annual meeting of the Prairie Home Cemetery association will !e held tomorrow afternoon at the Prairin Home church. The Arts and Craft Embroidery club will meet tomorrow afternoon at the home or Mrs. J. It. Johnson, 1116 North Jackson street. WOODMEN ATTENTION. Camp 1243 Modern Woodmen of America, will hold meeting Thursday evening, February 29, for the purpose of considering secession from the nationa' body. Music by the band and cigars. Every member is requested to be pres ent. All Woodmen are invited. Come out and look after your interest. BY ORDER OF C A MP. The Loyal Sons Bible class of the Central Avenue Christian church at their meeting at the Whitehead home. 1414 North Quincy street, last night held a debate on the subject, "Re solved. That Roosevelt Should Accept a Third Term.'' The negatives won. It was impromptu. Eight young men picked out slips from a hat with the words "yes" and "no," and were given the affirmative and negative side ac cordingly. The debaters follow: Af firmative Paul Rayse. Fred White- Blamed A Good Worker. "I blamed my heart for severe distress in my left side for two years," writes W. Evans. Danville, Va., "but I know now it was indigestion, as Dr. King's New Life Pills completely cured me." Best for stomach, liver and kidney troubles, con stipation, headache or debility. 25c. at Campbell Drug Co. What Cash Will Do We are not prepared to de liver to all parts of the city, but in our own vicinity we will de liver anythingi PRICES FOR miDAY AXD SATURDAY Spare Ribs, lb lOc Good Roast Beef, lb 10c Boiling Beef, lb 6c and 8c Pork Roast, lb 12c Link Sausage, lb 10c Bananas, doz 10c Oranges, doz 15c J. F. ROOSE 1215 Kansas Ave. Incl. 068 Bell 828 WE TRUST YOU As We Have Trusted All the Rest! A DIAMOND or a fine Elgin Watch is your best introduction. They are a good investment and In a quiet, subtle way, lend to you a refined pres tige that can be sained in no other way. The Harris-Goar Easy Payment Plan is the eafeand economical way adopted by thrifty buyers in all parts of the country. We Sell Your Friend. We should sell you. Send for our big; Free Catalog or see our Topeka representative, MR. R. E. MARLING, at 611 Kansas Ave., 2nd floor, or if you wish him to call, phone him at 1125 Indp. You will find Mr. Marlins; a quiet, reliable, sensible yonns man, always glad to accommo date you in any way possible. HARRIS-GOAR JEWELRY CO., Kansas City, Mo. H A head. Floyd Whitehead and Rocky singrer. Iveg-ative Martin Nystrom Walter Anderson, C. P. Mitchell and Paul Parrish. The judges were Mr, and Mrs. Whitehead and Don Well- man, teacher of the class. Their de cision was unanimous. The affirmative argued that Roosevelt should accept the nomination for the third term on account of the good work he has done his two terms previous. The negatives declared that he should not go against the precedent set by Washington in retusing a third term. A. M. Petro, druggist. Foucht's hardware sells $30 bicycles at ?2o to close out stock SACCHARINE MUST GO Its Presence iii Prepared Foods AVill .No Longer Be Permitted. Washington. Feb. 29. By a vote of 2 to 1 the board of cabinet officers charged with the enforcement of the pure food law today entered a final decision against the use of saccharine in prepared foods. Secretary ilson and Secretary Nagel confirmed the de cision that food containing saccharine was adulterated. Secretary MacVeagh dissented. One month's grace will be given manufacturers to arrange for the elimination. The decision settles a controversy of nearly four years; standing. Secretary Wilson, by direction of former Presi dent Roosevelt referred the question of the use of saccharine in foods to the Remsen board of scientific experts for their investigation and report. After three years of experiments this board reported that the addition of saccharine to food as a substitute for sugar "must be regarded as a sub stitution involving a reduction in the food value of the sweetened product and hence a reduction in its quality." A decision then was made that the use of saccharine would be prohibited after July 1. 1911. On appeals from the manufacturers the time was ex tended. Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh signed the original decision prohibiting the use of saccharine hut further hearings which were held evidently convinced him that its use in very small quantities should be allowed, so that he dissented from the opinion rendered today. "The argument that it may be used in small quantities," said Dr. Wiley, in the brief submitted, "is the old fa miliar one which adulterators and those who seek to adulterate have used from the very beginning of things. If we admit one injurious substance in small quantities we can not with any justice exclude the other. "The argument of small quantities has absolutely no ethical, logical or legal foundation and is most danger ous. No more dangerous concession to the interests seeking to debase and adulterate and misbrand food prod ucts could be made. I urge the im portance of refusing in any way to condone the use of saccharine in food." GET 3 MOONSHINERS. Troublesome Creek Section Scene of Big Raid. Whitesburg. Ky., Feb. 29. Revenue raiders, who have been searching every mountain cove in the Carr's Fork sec tion of Knott county, Kentucky, be ttween Troublesome Creek and the Valley of the Kingdom Come, discov ered a big still and surprised the look out and captured three moonshiners, who were covered by the officers' guns before they could offer resistance. The still was destroyed and the reve nue officers are on their wav across the mountains to this place with thier prisoners. OAKX.AND NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thompson have re turned to their home in Ottawa after spending a week here visiting relatives and on a business trip. Mrs. Nellie Young is spending this week in Overbrook, visiting her parents and other relatives and friends. Miss Grace French of Lawrence is here spending two weeks visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Oliver West has gone to Kansa3 City to attend the great land show. While In the city he will be the guest of MrT and Mrs. Layton, former residents of Oakland. Mr. Oakley Snyder of Williainsport spent Tuesday and Wednesday here vis iting relatives and friends. Miss Mabel Stewart is improving after being quite sick for the past two weeks with an attack of the grip. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson of Bur liname visited friends here Wednesday while en route to Kansas City, where they will attend the land show, and visit their sister, Mrs. Fred Tyner. Mr. C. R. Cole returned last night from Cherokee where he has spent the past ten days visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Pate, and family. Mrs. A. W. Ward of Forest avenue. who has been quite sick for a number of days, is feeling some better at present. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stone of Burlingame are expected to come here in a short time to spend three weeks with their parents and other relatives and friends. The Priscilla club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. C. Cbristensen, Twelfth and Oakland avenues, Friday, March 1. It will be an all day meeting. Mrs. Chrtstensen and Mrs. Willard Amos will be hostesses. EAST SIDE NOTES. Miss Grace Miller Is spending this week with relaLK-es and friends at her home on West Twelfth street. Miss Mabel Scott is improving after be ing quite sick for the past two weeks with an attack of the -;rip. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomas went to Kansas City today to spend two weeks visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Alex Daniels has returned to his home in western Kansas after SDendinsr two weeks with relatives and friends here on a business trip. The regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Christian church, was held in the church Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Geo. Woods of 501 East Eighth avenue entertained the Westminster Guild of the Presbyterian church at her home Wednesday afternoon. air. ana Mrs. rank Williams are spending this week in Kansas City and Lenexa on a business trip. The regular meeting of the Vesta Em broidery club -will be held with Mrs. k-rnest Eckwell at her home, 456 Ohio street. Miss Julia Grant is improving after be ing quite sick for the past two weeks with an attack of the grip. Mr. Fred Rogers of Flagstaff. Ariz.. will arrive here the first of the week to visit relatives. He will accompany his wife and daughter, who have been visit- ng rere. to their home in Arizona. A number of people on the East sid are celebrating birthday anniversaries today. A pastime they seldom enjoy. Rev. W. H. Scrivner left today for Kan. is Citv to remain permanently. His family will join him on Saturday. They will make their home v.t 5219 Wilbum Court. Kansas City. Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mav have sold their farm north of Topeka and have pur chased an eighty acre tract six miles south of Auburn, where they will move In a short time. Mr. and Mrs. May are former residents of the East side, hav ing lived on Branner street for a num ber of years. i HEIRESS TO HAVVLEY MILLIONS, T-vvvvv jy' yyyy' k& A$ r?. 4t I A St, rP ;v?J i r 7 New York. Feb. 29. The protegee of the late Edwin Hawley, who de clares that she has found a will which makes her the heiress of that estate, has assumed charge of Hawley's mag nificent home at Babylon, Long Island, and the late railroad king's retainers have accepted her authority. Whether or not a third will making her chief SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. Harvey Worrall has had printed a sheet which he calls a "pronouncing alphabet." The regular March meeting of the board of education will be held next Monday night. The Commercial club has leased the rooms at present occupied by the club for another year. The Y. W. C. A. has purchased a com plete medical outfit to have on hand lu case of emergency. The front has been installed in the south portion of the J. C. Gordon block, corner Ninth street and Kansas avenue. One citizen has already offered to give a prize In connection with the back yard garden work that the school children will undertake this spring and summer. "The Man With a Hoe" is the subject upon which Dr. Thomas McClary, "the Irish philosopher and wit," will speak Sunday afternoon at the Novelty theater. New furniture has been purchased for some of the Y. W. C. A. dormitory rooms which were not completely furnished at the time that the building was first oc cupied. Superintendent C. C. Starr of the city schools is attending a meeting of the department of superintendents in connec tion with the National Education asso ciation. The city has set aside $10,070 asan appro priation to pay the expense of erecting the detention hospital which has been ap proved by the board of city and county commissioners. "They'll slaughter that man Roosevelt yet," remarked M. C. Holman today. "He'll never get the nomination. Taft, in my opinion, is the brainiest man since j Harrison's time." I The Men's club of the First Baptist I church has distributed all over the city i advertising matter pertaining to the plan for getting the people interested in read ing the Gospel of John. Secretary and Mrs. H. L. Cook are ex pested to return in 10 days from California, where they have been sojourning the last few weeks. This is the slack season in the work of a fair secretary- F. C. Fox, general manager of the west ern lines of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe. is in Topeka this week in conference with the officials and representatives of the trainmen of the road. "All persons wanting to get their names on the program for the Karnival Knights Klub minstrel show should report at the Commercial club next Monday evening," said Charles JosHn of the club today. Big time at the city hall this after noon. The building is crowded with pav ing contractors, brick manufacturers and manufacturers of asphait filler. They are trying to land the 1912 contract for i blocks of brick paving. A socialist paper issued in Topeka says City Commissioner Stotts at one time tried to organize a reporters' union. The socialists shame Stotts because they said he tried to get more money when report ers were making "four dollars a day." Miss Madge Moore, principal of the Cen tral Park school, is enjoying a "leap year" birthday today. The pupils of the school are aware of the fact that her birthday comes but once in four years, and are helping in the celebration of the event. W. O. Howard has some English car rier pigeons on display at the show of the Western Pigeon club in the Arnold building on Jackson street that are at tracting attention. The show will con tinue the rest of the week. The admis sion is free. N. B. Burge has written a letter to the board of city commissioners, asking them to put themselves on record concerning the prospect of a new sewer covering the west Elmhurst and Lowman Hill districts. The city has been working on this sewer for many months. Dr. Arthur S. Henderson of the First Congregational church will speak this evening at the church on "The Frontier." This is the fourth of a series of talks on missions. Immediately following the ad dress the Christian Endeavor society will hold a business meeting. Mrs. Thomas J. Foy of 239 Madison street has asked the city commissioners for a settlement of her Injuries received from slipping on a sidewalk at Fourth and Jefferson streets January Mrs. Foy says she was crippled for life. She wishes the matter to be settled out- of court. J. A. Ramsey, a Topeka fruit man. has sent a communication to the board of city commissioners asking them to in- j sert a clause in the paving contracts ask ing that Topeka and Shawnee county la- rwA ffA it- CAMERON beneficiary, is sustained in court. Miss Margaret Cameron is comfortably rich for life through gifts of gems and stocks from the late millionaire. Ac cording to those close to Mr. Hawley it is no secret that he intended to marry Miss Cameron, and that she was looking forward to a honeymoon in the near future. bor be employed this summer if possible, 'i his is to stop contra-ctors from bringing in outside gangs. A stage has recently been built in the assembly room of the Y. W. C. A. build ing and numerous entertainments will be given this spring by the association to pay for it, and to raise money to defray the ex penses of a delegate or delegates to the annual Lake Geneva conference this sum mer. The chorus, under Miss Berenice Fuller, will soon present an operetta. Photographers all over the city are ex hibiting today pictures they have taken of the snow covered streets in Topeka. Several excellent photographs were taken. The gas this week has been under low pressure at meal times and in the even ings when patrons attempted to keep their houses warm. But Topekans have learned to have a supply of coal on hand. Coal dealers report a good steady business. All of those who are paid up members of the "K. K. K." will be entitled to at tend the big smoker and entertainment that will be held next Monday evening in the parlors of the Commercial club. Those who come to the entertainment with dollar in hand and signify their In tention of entering into the activities of the popular organization of Karnival Knights will also be welcome at the function. Secretary J. Will Kelley had this to say about the" story to the effect that the Commercial club would probably occupy the two upper floors of a 12-story sky scraper building to be built on the north east corner of Eighth and Kansas ave nues: "A man came to me six weeks aaro and said there was a possibility of his erecting a building. I saw him a few days ago and he stated that the thing was probably off." A series of "live talks on live issues by live men" has been arranged to be given at the Central Y. M. C. A. Wednesday noon commencing next week. The talks in the order that they will come are: "The White Plague," Dr. W. S. Hunter; "Advertising, Yesterday and Today," Marco Morrow: "Greater lopeka, J. Will Kelley, secretary of the Commercial club; "Over the Back Yard Fence," George MoDermott. ARMS CAN GO IN. Uucle Sam Will Not Prohibit Exporta tion to Mexico. Washington, Feb. 29. The United States will not prohibit legitimate ex portations, Including munitions of war, from El Paso, Tex., into the rebel town of Juarez, Mexico. This conclusion was reached today at conferences among officials of the department of state, justice and treas-u-v. The attitude of the United States in dealing with Juarez merely is a reitera tion of the policy adopted during the Madero revolution. Shipments of arms and ammunition which to all appear ances are legitimate sent from a ship per In this country to a dealer in Mexico will not be intercepted. Agent of the departments of justice and treas ury on the southern border have been instructed however, to see that neu trality is preserved. Munitions of war which seem to be part of a conspiracy against the rec ognized government of Mexico will not be permitted to go out. JOIN WITHOUT PAY. Last Attempt to Boost Commercial Club Membership. Tne announcement was made today by Secretary J. Will Kelley of the Commer cial club that the membership campaign will be extended to April 1. March 1 was the date previously set, but due to the fact that Mr. Kelley was out of the city for three weeks and could not personally attend to pushing the campaign the decis ion to continue the campaign was made. After April 1, the membership fee will be $10 as usual. The fee is now eliminated entirely, bo this is the opportune time to .ioin the live organization. "We now have nearly 1,100 members," said Secretary J. Will Kelley, "and we shall work for the goal that we set some time ago 1,200 members. I believe that it will be possible to interest a great many fanners in joining the club by re ducing the dues for those who live out of the city." JUST FORGHARITY Mrs. Filbert Says She Employed 3Irs. Gage's Husband. Wealthy Widow Defendant in Big Damage Suit. THE FAMILY IS LEFT ALONE Gage Remained Long Time at Woman's Home. Sow Wife Puts High Trice on His Love. Susan Filbert, 1620 Stronsr street, a wealthy gTass widow, is today defend ing an action in Judge Whitcomb's court for the alienation of the affec tions of Thomas Gage, a Douglas county farmer. Sarah Gago, the farm er's aggrieved wife, is the complainant in the suit for $5,000 for the loss of the attentions of her life's soul mate. Near the Shawnee-Douglas county line. Mrs. Filbert lived for several years a close neighbor of the Gapes. Often Gage was employed on the. Fil bert farm, where he performed odd jobs. In the fall of 1910, Mrs. Filbert bought a $3,600 home on Strong street, in West Topeka. It is charged that when she came to town. Gage came also. His stay at the Filbert home was all too long to suit the fancy of the wife on the Douglas county farm and last summer the Topeka grass widow was sued for damages. I jcaves Wife Alone In Wintor. On the witness stand today, Mrs. Gage was sure that it was Mrs. Fil bert's smiles and endearing expressions and not the whtto way that lured Gag from his happy home. It is charped that In Topeka Gage, lived under the same roof with his new soul mate. Out on the lonely farm that winter, Mrs. Gage cut the wood, milked the cows and gathered the. eggs with no one. lo aid her in the support of the family. Spring came. But Gage was still en amored with his new surroundings ami failed to return to the quiet, routine life on the farm. In July the action for damages was filed. More than 40 witnesses from the com munity in which Gage and his wife lived, have been summoned to tell pf the love affairs of the farmer and th.i grass widow. Many of these witnesses are women. For nearly 20 years the Filbert and Gage families had lived "n the same neighborhood and (Jape's am bition to find occasional employment -n the widow's farm Is said to have been matters of common gossip. Gage Wouldn't "Slioo" Away. Against this testimony, is the story of Susan Filbert and her IS year old daughter. The widow is "horrified" be cause of the embarrassment and hu miliation of the sensational suit. She i emphatic in her denial that she wa ever Gage's affinity. Time after time she says, she made persistent efforts to shoo Gage from the premises. But Gage was quite well suited and always found some new job that required his atten tion. In a statement made last summer, Mrs. Filbert heralded her disdain for Dan Cupid and his quaint pursuits. She fell for the palpitations of a nervous heart once, she said, but that one time was enough for her. "There's nothing in it leastwise not for me," Mrs. Filbert stated in an in terview given several months ago, "so I got a divorce. That was 15 years ago. I haven't tried any of this sentimental nonsense since that time," continued the widow, "and I don't propose to start all over again now. At least, not with some other woman's husband." Employed Him as Charity. Just at the present time, Mrs. Fil nert is neanng her 43d summer. Any heart thrills or love lore she might have possessed in days gone by, Mrs. Filbert declares, has been forgotten and she has resigned herself to a more prac tical existence. She owns a farm val ued at $8,000 and other property valued at about $6,000. So. why marry? It was just charity for the Gage family, she vows, that persuaded her to give the farmer frequent employment Anyway, Gage is 67 years old. He was married to Mrs. Gage in 18S5 and is at tending the present trial. It is probable that he will be called as a witness by the defense. Gage Is expected to sub stantiate the defendant's testimony that no love dreams were developed in his employment by the wealthy widow The trial of the case will occupy the attention of the court a couple of days. Most of the witnesses will remain throughout the entire trial. CRUMP GETS 5 YEARS Bigamous Kansan Had Two "W ives Too Many. Kmptfa, Kan., Feb. 29. Walter W. Crump of this city who last Tuesday pleaded guilty In the district court to bigamy, today was sentenced to five years in the prison. Crump has three wives, Edna Gray Crump, of Idabell, Oklahoma; Mary LHicey Crump, of Parsons, Kansas, and Minnie McGregor Carr Crump of .Em poria. amusements; In 'Herodiade," which is to be the bill at the Grand Friday night, will ap pear a Parisian girl, who has appeareu in France and Algiers for several sea sons with great success, and who it aoDearine in the United States for the first time with this company. Mmc. I Valmont sings the role of Salome i:; Massenet's work. The tenor robusto, M. Garronne. is John the Baptist, and Kspa-Carrie, a rare baritone, is the Herod. In this curious work of Mas" senei. the Paris Grand Opera company is heard to particular advantage, anil it was deemed especially fitting, there fore, to present this opera here. Tick ets are on sale at the Majestic for the three performances. Beautiful girls, expuisite scenic en vironment, clever comedians, startling electrical surprises, all sweet singing, graceful dancing, picturesque group ings, witty dialogue, brilliant lyrics catchy songs and tuneful music art said to be the chief ingredients which have been responsible for the univer sal praise with which that piquan musical mixture, "Three Twins." haj been accorded in every large city in which it has been presented. The en tire production, as shown during its Xe.w York, Chicago and Hrwton runs, will be presented at the Grand on March S. TOMORROW GRAPES Fancy Almerias, 3 Pounds 2Sc POULTRY Fresh killed, drawn with heads and feet off. Light hens and heavy young roosters Per lb. 14 c JAM A One-Pound Glass Jar Pure Fruit and Sugar a 25c seller all flavors Per Jar DC POTATOES TV"e will unload a car of Ked River Krly Ohio Seed Pota toes Alonday, get our price. EGGS Ask our price on r-ggs. Our average regular price I lower than most dealers "special..'' MORNS MYERS 900 N. Kansas Ave. Ind. 4190 Bell 428 8 BAKIWG That Makes the Baking Bittir Fafl u res are almost Impossible with Calumet. We know that it will five you better results. We know that the bale in c will be puror more wholesome We know that it will be more evenly rained. And we know that CaTamet in more economical, both in its use and cot. We know these things because we bave put the quality into it wo have seen it tried out in every way. It is used nnwin millions of home and its ales are ft-rowing daily. It is the modern baking: powder. Have you tried it? Calumet is highest in qualit moderate in price. Received Hifhest Award World's Pure Food Expos itioeu BAKING POWDEf fjrt .tT M MADE 8YTHE ikuV-T mm in tt tttti rntilil Most Complete Line of Hudriut's Toilet Preparations in the City Below are some quisite luxuries for tahle: of the ex- the toilet XlOljhTT SKC Toilet Water r,.lm'hri Sfx' f IWder HAL DK Ql INrXK CAIUMN It, l or tlin Ifalr MAnVMiOl S CXI,I OUEAM I-'or tie Ski i VIOI-iET ALMO.M) MEAL I'or Om Skin COXCTU-7TK TI.NCTI-KK BEX. VIOIJ r SEC l AlLlM Eor tlin Skin AIM STHE Kor Mi,g,T XaII, LIQEM GKEKN- MJAI' I-or Shampoo vioi,kt six sine IE.M Al l X E TOOTH j. Vs 1 1 lor the Teeti, STANSFIELD'S DRUG STORE 3 632 Kansas Arsnu, Hi w i he

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATU JOURNAL FEBBUABY 29, 1912 RAILR0AD NEWS Congestion on Western Roads Due to Snow. Htay Traffic Helps in Tan gling "Work on Lines. ROCK ISLA!0A!ID SfflA FE Big Increase in Their Car Load ings for Week. Other Items of General Interest in Traffic World. Ilai!r,ad of the west are working up to their full capacity for the season of the vear, says; the New York Even ing Post. There has been no letup in the tonnage movement, and every ef fort is being: made to remove the con- t hopn r-rpatpd bv re- ,nt unfavorable weather conditional iiverv railroad handled as much, if not j more" freight last week., than U i );J .1,.. ..,.1. in .lanuarv: also ua i"1! iii ctchii t....v- as compared with a year ago, and some roads increased their loadings lo to 27 per cent over 1911. Good progress in moving cars was made in the early vart of the week when weather anu traffic conditions were excellent. in Oklahoma three feet of snow fe... which, while highly beneficial to tnt crop, delayed the movement of trains. In southern and central Illinois the snowfall was unusually heavy. Centrd iia. 111., having three to si feet- with bis drifts, which materially blocKec, traffic, and made it impossible to mo-,e lssengcr trains on time, and necessi tated the abandoning of freight. The-.e n a scarcity of boxcars for the move ment of corn and miscellaneous freight. Coal cars are also scarce, as every ruilroad Ls making a special effort tJ ino-e all the cars possible, and ai loadine and handling more cars at this season than in any previous year. Southwestern lines did a heavy bus ines the Santa Fe loadings increas ing "7 per cent over last year. It Krain traffic increased 70.) cars, and miscellaneous freight 3.0)0 cars over a vear as". The Rock Island s earnings, which have been running behind, are showing a satisfactory increase in the laot two weeks, with indications that the returns for February wtll sho letter than last year. The road is working up to the full capacity of it equipment. The Northwestern is hand ling about the same tonnage as a year ago. although its business has im proved as compared with last rnontlt Miscellaneous freight, live stock, and -rain showed substantial increases, while the coal traffic is about the same as last year. Merchandise husiness is moving al"n-. in" a conservative way. More buyers last week than last year, and their purchase were about an average vol ume The outlook is for a continua tion' of moderate buying to supply im mediate wants, ith no disposition to branch out. The big showing in the gram traffic last week was made by the Burling ton which handled 26 per cent of the total by all railroads. The Northwest ern and St. Paul practically tied, with 1", per cent each. The Kock Island had 11 per cent, the Illinois Central anta Fe 5. Oreat Western and Alton 4 per cent each. Kastern Illinois 3 pel cent, and Wabash 2 per cent. COPKLAM) CAKllIKS A SMILE. 5lis of Ilailroad Work in Topeka to Wichita Churchmen. "Man can obtain the best success in business if he is a Christian." was the F.nswer made recently by E. L. Cope land of Topeka, treasurer of the yanta Ke railway in a speech at the First Haptist church in Wichita in answer to the question, "Can a man be a Chris tian and be a successful business man?" The speaker thought that Christians make ideal railway men. Mr. Copeland drew largely from his own experience with the Santa Fe and told how the Santa Fe had established uplifting features for the benefit of workingmen. He said that the ele ment of personal interest entered into relation between employer and em ployee today more than ever before. Mr. Copeland said that he works in an office in which 1,200 men are era yloved. He always tries to have a cheerful face and to speak a kind word to each man. It was his belief that the principles of Christianity as MILLIONS USUI kV. b WITH MOST SATISFACTORY CALIFORNIA FSG SYRUP CO. IN THE CIRCLE. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is especially adapted to the needs of men, women and children, to cleanse the system gently, yet effectively, to dispel colds and headaches, to prevent indigestion, sour stomach, gas and fermentation due to constipation and biliousness. As It is free from every injurious or objectionable substance, it Is equally beneficial for young and old. HOTE NAME OF CO. Printed straight across near the bottom and also In the circle near the too of everv package of the genuine; for sale by all leading druggists; regular Tha growing popularity of the genuino Syrup of Fi3 and Elixir of Senna has led un scrupulous manufacturers to offer imitations in order to make a larger prof it at the expensa of their customers. If a dealer asks which siza you wish, or what make you wish, when you ask for Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, he is preparing to deceiva you. Tell him that you wish the genuine. Manufactured by tha CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. TO GET ITS BENEFICIAL EFFECTS. DECLINE ALL IMITATIONS taught by Christ be followed by every man in everyday business. DECREASE IX HAIL. DEATHS. In July. August and September, 1911, 201 Persons Were Killed. Two hundred and one persons were killed and 4,283 injured in train acci dents during the months of July, Au gust and September, 1911, according to Accident Bulletin No. 41, issued by the interstate commerce commission. This was a decrease of 120 killed and an increase of 391 injured, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1910. Accidents of other kinds on rail roads at grade crossings, on tracks, bridges, etc., bring the total number of casualties up to 2.758 killed and 19,107 injured for the quarter, a de crease from the number in the corre sponding period of the previous year. During the quarter 131 employees of railroads were killed and 23,650 in jured on railroad premises in accidents in which the movement of cars or lo comotives was not involved. Ninety-eight persons were killed and 1.094 injured on interstate electric lines. JIAILWAV NOTES. Business is good, according to offi cials of the Rock Island and Santa Fe in Topeka. But snow blockades hin der traffic. While the live stock traffic was cut down last week by the heavy snow storms which delayed the movement of trains, as well as loading stock in the west, aggregate deliveries were in excess of recent years. At western packing centers there was a decrease of 104.000 for the week, and an in crease of 68.100 over last year. Cat tle decreased 16,300. hogs 71,000 and sheep 16,700 for the week, while as compared with last year cattle de creased 20.300. hogs increased 81,000, and i-heep increased 7,400. The German railways had a favor able year in 1911. For eleven months there was an increase of about 5 per cent in passenger earnings, and 9 per cent in freight earnings. The extra ordinary drouth which was calamitous to the "agricultural interests, actually ini-reased. for the time, the railway traffic, the water being so low in nearly all rivers that thi.r traffic was turned to the railways. An agreement has just been entered into between the Grand Trunk and the Northern Ontario railway, by which the former will have running rights over the Temiskaming Northern Ontario railways lines, which run from North Bay to Cochrane. This is the title of the new depart ment which has been established by the Canadian Pacific to have charge of the land, irrigation, coal mining, and timber departments of the company's service. The headquarters will be at Calgarv. and the department will be in charge of J. S. Dennis, recently ap pointed assistant to the president. The Western Pacific's wharf at Stockton, Cal.. has been freely opened to independent steamships on the riv er run to and from San Francisco, the idea being to encourage these carriers to handle the railroad s freight, as the Western Pacific will rot put on a line of its own steamers. So popular is the free wharf that it has recently be come necessary to add a 300 foot ex tension. THIRTY MILLION A YEAR How Railroads Would Benefit by Ex press Company Change. Washington, Feb. 29. In a statement given Wednesday at the Investiga tion of rates and methods of express companies before the interstate com merce commission, it was indicated by Frank Lyon, attorney for the commis sion, that the change from a tonnage to a percentage basis of settlement be tween the express companies and the railroads would benefit the railroads to the extent of approximately $30,000, 000 a year. M. T. Jones, traffic manager of the United States Express company, con sidered with Commissioner Lane a tentative form for an express bill of lading suggested by Mr. Lane. It was objected to by Mr. Jones because it would require every wagon driver to quote rates. "That is just the point," said Com missioner Lane. "We want express rates so simplified that anybody can understand them." Mr. Jones declined to commit him self to the proposed bill before he had had time carefully to consider it. Chicago Grand Jury Quits. Chicago, February 29. The regular federal grand jury was adjourned to day for five weeks, after which It is understood the jury will hear testi mony relative to the actions of wit nesses In the Lorimer hearing before the United States senate committee. FAMILIES V A A m m RESULTS. iCtdl. OF ALCOHOLS p. t MINIATrBE PICTTJEK OF PACKAGE fS3 T F PUWtUtIIMK it is urro GEAR To Develop Pitchers and Catch ers for Kaws. Local Outfield Looks Good at This Distance. ilFIELD SHOULD BE FAIR Fugate and Alderman Must Fight It Out. Tigers Wire Gear for Third Southern Game. Will the pitchers and catchers make good? That is the question with the new ball team. If Gear can develop some classy twirlers and a couple of good backstops he should enter the race with as fair a start as any team in the league. Xot that the pennant will look easy or any of that dope, but, according to all signs and indications. it is weakness in these departments that must be overcome. Baseball prophecy is a thing of evil. And before such a thing all wise ones quail. J. ruts ih uui in nit; imiuic forecast. But it is no prophecy to say mat an outneia composeu n rvms. Rickert and Gear will look fairly good to local fans. Faults may develop but at present tnt-y aiv nui pmunjf viil.. Add a youngster of promising appear ance and the outer garden shouldn't cause much trouble if there are no injuries. Then drop back to the inner gar den. Gardner should be good on first Dase ii ne comes up to 1111. advance stuff received here concern ing him. Only the season will show whether he will or not but it is fair 1 111 k. ff to presume mat ne win at icaa. i. average playing ability. On the sec ond station there are Walsh and Ivrepps. une m mtrm iiuuivj good. Walsh will have to if he pries himself hasn't lost any position yet, and he is a fair second baseman. I.ee is touted as a wonder at short and if the dope on him is not good then Sor rensen or Merrill has more of a chance for a job. Emory is said to have plaved beyond his speed last year. If he "slumps or fail? to come in there is Fisher to fall back on and another third sacker whose name has not yet been announced, by the manager. And so it looks like a fair infield may be assembled. This leaves it up to the batteries. On his last trip to Topeka Mana ger Gear slated to the writer that he probablv would not carry more than one southpaw this season. On who makes the best showing depends which one this will be. Probably the place will lie between Alderman and Fugate. Alderman is an older head, knows more and works harder. Fugate is less experienced, has a good curve and mixture, but is possessed with an overcoming aversion for work. It is up to Jack if he wants a chance and he will have to do some hustling to land the place regularly. Just now the dope favors Alderman. From the 15 others signed Gear is to cnoose m njs""- staff. Twirlers who will show well at the start or tne season a cn aJ who will keep it up when the batters evea get better must be found, tried out and held. Separating the weaker candidates from the stronger ones is not an easy job. .itv, When Gear returns from Texas witn the team he expects to know his men thoroughly. He will take them into real baseball battles against the fin est ball teams in the world, and if there is anv way of showing up the youngsters the Athletes. Tigers, Giants and White Sox are likely to find L them out. It is what Gear wants. It wi show him who will do and who will not That is one of the whys of the Trip "rd the training of the men WiGear PbeHeTes that when he returns from his four weeks' Journey through the south he- will be able to tell the fan- just what the players may be exuected to do. Of course they may appoint him. In that case other win have to be secured. But fn the meantime Gear hopes that he has enough material from which to chooe a fairly good team, one that win be in the fighting, and he seems to have chosen the proper way to get 1 line on their ability before the sea- SIn0aetelePhone message from Gear it is announced that the Detroit team k, akfd for a third game with the K?wf somewhere in Texas The te ams first clash on the 17th of March at "nreveport. They play again on the next day. Xow Jennings wants a third elme during the training trip with the foc?l hopes They seem to think pret i ,ell of the Gear aggregation. Orr one of Cooley's finds, bids fair to become a successor for Joe Tinker at Short ome of these days. Dick pick out some good ones, but he is also known as an excellent salesman. EigRt weeks may make a difference in his prospects. And it will evidently be some time before the work of sanding the diamond is completed, Harrv Chapman, who is on his way to join "the Cubs, will carry to Murphy s team the interest or every fan in north east Kansas. Most of them watche;! Chapman pl?y town lot ball. He was always known as a pretty good back stop but when he broken into the Cen tral Kansas League his admirers were surprised that he stuck. Then wrier, he came to Topeka it was thought that he had reached the zenith of his base ball career. When he was sold to the majors his friends gasped. All of which goes to show that a lot of good base ball material went to waste before the organization of the smaller leagues in Kansas. Wichita has obtained contracts from 14 of the 30 men upon whom the club now has claim. The others wijl likely come in if the snow ever disappears for a week. Wright and Jarnigan are the only ones the management expects to lose. KANSAS AXDXEBRASKA FOR IT Three Games Will Decide Cliampion ship of Valley. Lawrence. Kan.. Feb. 29. The two defeats of Kansas at the hands of the Washington university basketball players have not discouraged the Jay hawkers in the least and Hamilton's men are -working hard in preparation for the two games with Nebraska which will be played in Lincoln next Friday and Saturday. Kansas has won the championship In the southern division of the conference and Ne braska has tucked the pennant away in the northern .division and conse quently the two games this week should be interesting, although they J will have no direct bearing on the j conference title. The two scheduled i contests are mere practice games. Ne- j i 7 1 i i i i k .1 ueieateu ivaiuxio i w i cm i- i the season, but it is generally recog nized that the Jayhawkers are playing a far different brand of ball now. After the tangles this week three games to decide the conference title will be scheduled between Kansas and Nebraska. One of thern will prob ably be played in Lincoln, one in Lawrence and the other in Kansas City. BAKER PLANS HARD SCHEDCLE Plays K. r. at Lawrence Early iii Season. Baldwin, Kan., Feb. 29. The Baker university football schedule, which is now almost complete for next year, has upon it some of the best teams of Kansas, Missuuri and Colorado. The first game scheduled so far is with K. IJ. at Lawrence October 12. but Coach Scherer is attempting to schedule at least one game and per haps two to be' played before the K. U. game. It is probable that Camp bell college will play here September 28 and for October 5 Coach Scherer expects to play the Haskell Indians. November 2 is also an open date at this time, but it is practically assured that the Warrensburg Normals will be at Baldwin for a game on that date. Baker will again go to Denver to meet the Denver university team there. This game is one of the biggest of the Baker schedule and is one of the best paying games from a financial stand point. The schedule includes games with two of the strongest teams of the Topeka conference, Emporia college and Fairmount. Games with these two schools -will practically de cide the college state championship. Coach Scherer has prospects for a strong team next year. The schedule as completed to date is: Oct. 12 Kansas university at Law rence. Oct. win. Oct. win. Nov. -Emporia college at Bald--William Jewell at Bald- 2 Open. Nov. S Denver IT. at Denver. Nov. 15 Ottawa university at Ot tawa. Nov. 22- -Fairmount at Baldwin. FROWNS ON WRESTLING. Chicago Mayor Doesn't Believe in Mat Game. Chicago. Feb. 29. Mayor Harrison has issued a permit for the wrestling match between Mahmout and Pederseu which is scheduled to take place Fri day night. In doing eo, however, the mayor expressed his personal displeas ure. He wrote across the face of the permit: "Issued because the city council does not give me power to refuse the ap plication. (Signed) -CARTER W. HARRISON." At the same time the mayor sent the following letter to Chief of Police McWeney "I am returning herewith application of the New Empire Athletic club for a permit for a wrestling bout between Pedersen and Mahmout to be heid March 1. "I am 'oking- this permit because, under existing ordinance, I am advis ed by the law department there are r.o valid grounds on which I could refuse it. Personally, had I the power to do so. I would-absolutely refuse to issue a permit to an organization which pulled off' such a wrestling match as that between Gotch and Hacken sehmidr." Athletics Lose to San Antonio. San Antonio, Feb. 29. The young ster division of the Philadelphia Amer iean League team was beaten, 8 to 6. by the San Antonio team of the Texas League in their first exhibition game of the year. Score: R.H.E. San Antonio 4 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 8 10 3 Philadelphia ...2 0000201 16 8 :5 Batteries McGranger. Neill and Smith; Gipe, Salmon, Brown and Esan. Want Sox and Giants Play. Waco, Tex., Feb. 29. When President Comiskey, of the Chicago Americans, arrives here Saturday with the re mainder of the team, Waco business men will petition him to agree that his aggregation play the New York Nation als here in addition to the regular schedule of games previously arrang ed. The New York men are in train ing at Marlin, Tex., where Manager McGraw is soon due. "Got My Sore Foot in It Right! TIZ J9 "A TTZ Bath, My Boy, a TTZ Ba.th.1 You Can't Beat It for Sore Feet, Corns and Bunions. Is this man a tender-foot? No. He is a joy-walker one who uses TTZ and get from the feet a happiness one never felt before. I U.o TTZ Time for Feet Trouble." When your feet are so tired they feel like stumps, when they ache so that they hurt way up to your heart, when you shamble your feet along: and it seems as though all the misery you ever had has settled in your feet, look at the happy TIZ man in the picture. Tou can be happy-footed just the same. If you have corns and bunions that everybody seems to step on, Just think of this happy TIZ man. He had corn, and bunions, too. This man used TIZ, and now he ha no more tender, raw, chafed, blistered, swollen, tired, smelly feet, corns, cal louses or bunions. Aa soon as you put your feet in a TTZ bath, you feel the happiness soaking in. If like mountain ozone to lungs. Nothing else but TIZ can give you this happy foot feeling. Don't accept any substitutes. TTZ. 25 cents a box, sold everywhere or eent direct, on receipt of price, by "Walter Luther Dodge Co., Chicago, 111. Recommended by all Drug I Stores, department and genera stores. rrV Everr V8 5 X Amy Ttw Mart t (MMndabl MtrchalKllM Unusual Offering in Shoes for Friday and $3.00 and $3.50 Your Choice a Pair Final clearance of broken this season's latest styles vamps, medium heel and high toe in suedes, gun metal velvets, patents and vici kid. All sizes are represented in thfi lot. Thev'll be disDiaved on tables in our shoe department in "The Annex." Come Friday or Saturday, but there is an advantage in coming the first day. New Location of Our Drapery and Rug Departments We have moved our Drap eries and Rugs to the 3rd Floor. Where we have plenty of dis play space and daylight. We in vite you to make an early visit to these departments and see the new spring hangings and floor coverings. Take the elevator to 3rd Floor. This Beautiful Russian Crash Pillow Top FREE Yes, absolutely free, together with hack, illustrated diagram lesson and list of latest embroidery de signs, by purchasing 6 skeins of Belding's Embroidery Silks for 25c. We make this startling offer to prove the superiority of Belding's Kmbroidery Silk. Anyone can easily embroider this beautiful pillow top. Come in tomorrow and let us show you what you get free. 1 mim' II 11. Ml ILl.f-TliVVUiJ ..kiv:-- n er rarents vvetiT to ChdtfOTfiiBz Oiey irsveled on oionis That, in brief, is the history of many who have taken advantage of these excursions. You May Do $25 NEDRA Face Powder Pure, fragrant and delicate a toilet necessity for women of refine ment. Three tints. 50c box. PI-R8E SIZK I'V.-MAIL ONLY. JOSEPHINE I.eFFVKE COMPANY PHILADELPHIA Arnold Drug t o. Brunt Drag Co. CXEVEL-VNDERS GO SOUTH. Davis Takes Twelve Memliers on Karly Trip to Slobile. Cleveland. O., Feb. 29. Twelve mem bers of the Cleveland team of the American League leave today for their spring practice in the south. They will be under the leadership of Manager Davis. The immediate destination of the Ik Star at Oapaadafcia Mpen4ta Women's Saturday Shoes lines in short 15c Turkish Bath Towels bleached ,size 18x38 inches very heavy nap; good wear ing quality. Special for Fri day and Saturday, 40 dozen to sell at, each 12V24 10 dozen Bleached Sheets seamed, sizes 72x90 inches. Special Friday and Saturday, each 39 65c Bleached Sheets seam less, size 81x90 inches. Spec ial for Friday and Saturday, each 15c Pillow Cases bleached, size 42x36 and 45x36 inches, good quality, Friday and Sat urday, each 12Vz 27c Bleached Sheeting 81 inches wide, Friday and Sat urday -a yard 24 25c Unbleached Sheeting 81 inches wide Friday and Saturday, yard 22 f 10c Seersucker Ginghams in blue and grey stripes very desirable for shirts, childrens waists, etc. Friday and Sat urday, yard 8 1-3 10c Percales, 36 inches wide, light and medium col ors, eight patterns to close out, Friday and Saturday, at yard 6V2ff Men's Neckwear All silk four-in-hand re versible and flowing end ties regular 25c values on sale Friday and Saturday at 15c each. Ladies' Collars A new showing of ladies' stiff and tailored embroider ed collars, 15 each; 2 for 25i. i. if N. TAT i icRg ts Just As Well from Topeka and al most every Santa Fe station in Kansas. f i y X 1 Tickets on sale. daily March 1 to April 15 Inclusive. Iow Pullman fares. Tourist sleepers and chair cars to California every day on fast trains. Harvey meaJa. Liberal stopover privileges. For reservation, tickets and descriptive literature apply to T. L. KING. City Pajisenner Aint. J IWhen nothing else will start dirt You KNOW SAPOLIO WILL DO IT Works Without Waste CLEANS-SCOURS-POLISHES team is Mobile, whence they will leave for New Orleans on March 18, return I ing to Cleveland on April 11. 1 Try a State Journal Want. r 11 O f Q 11! Colonist .TfH-f All d "THE. iSTAKT ON THE SANTA FE, mmfu a. jmm u ilh.'1-r.i.rvTrstRirt CMNCl5.r1C.VTKC AirALrA.irTTrL scaTtiE o:l, tox Jl,CTcna'0:SA': we'rc err re A KIDHTOTt-.L BEACHES. 4 IN CALIFORNIA A YEAR. LATEf I k. and at. March toApril 15 A farm is waiting for you In Arizona and California. Go this Spring. Go on the Santa Fe. Ride in a tourist sleeper berth rate low. Eat Fred Harvey meals. A fast run on the Fast Mail two other trains to choose from. T. L King, City P. tt Wrife. C. I,. Gen. CowMiiiiMi tea Ctaicafo, 8n lonlr Vl'ty rtS tic montSi irr-r tuiv criptioo iTfc Erth.'" Kansas City Land Show February 26 to March 9 An eye-opener for tha rity man whose thoughts turn l.cl to the farm. An object lesson for the farmer looking; for hint on up-to-daJe farminr. Intense ly Interesting and entertaining lectures on a variety of ubjcts. Moving pictures and other lw of many section of th Snuth west. Exhibit of Improved ma chinery that Iceaena labor, save time and increase results. Better go. Take your fanoijy and friend with you. Free Lecture. Excellent Music A liberal education tlor.f lion that will interest you and vry member of your family irrespec tive of age or sex. For further particular call on f 4 T. L. KING. City Passenger Agent .Topeka, Kansas Almost Lost Ilia Life. S. A. Slid, of Mason. Mich, wl'.l never fon;et hin terrible exposure to a m.r- leas torni. "It gave me a dreadful eoid, he writes, "lhat caused severe pun ia my t hefit, so it was h.rd tor me breathe. A neighbor navn me tewtl does of Ir. KinK i N! Durov.ry whicn brought irreat relief. The doc-tor t was on the verge of tmeaiiioiila.. b Jt t continue, with tiie Uiitocivrry. I did nd two bottlen completely cured m ise only tills quk-lc. t-af, rt!iat;e medi cine for coiiBhs. colds, or any throat or luns tro'ible. Price Sik snri 41. TrlsJ bottie tree. CiuuaiU4 by Caaiu Vtus Co. AO MIL IP "Jpy fey Ew&r fvnisl r a r e-e fa 1 Mil lli.LL' Fe yTZ3 t lgS Kna.

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