The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 31, 1912

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EVERYBODY 10 PAGES READ IT EVERYBODY 10 PAGES NEEDS IT LAST EDITION. TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA. KANSAS, DECEMBER, 31, 1912 TUESDAY lijVttNJVG. Co sale by Mboi at TWO CENTS CntnlmuAMUMtandi FIVE CENTS MAYOR ffl BHIard Says Topeka n n Won't to t i Taj 50 Cents for Gas. Claims Order Is Scheme Bleed Consumers. BOYCOTT GAS IS HIS PLAN Time Brine Companies to Through Over-Supply. Small Inconvenience Will 3Iean Cheaper Prices. CALL ALL CITIES TOGETHER fleeting of Kansas Representa tives in Kansas City. Manager Treleaven Says Cents 3Iust Be Charged. 50 Declaring that the decision of the receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas ccmpany and the federal court to raise the price of the product is noth ing more than a scheme to bleed the consumers for more money. Mayor Billard today threw down the gaunt let for the city of Topeka in the com ing fight this winter. Furthermore, the mayor said the people of Topeka would go without gas before they would pay fifty cents a thousand cubic feet. In answer. Manager Treleaven of the Consumers Light, Heat and Power company stated that his company could not exist under the new dis tributers' price and furnish Topeka gas for the franchise limit of 45 cents a thousand feet. Beautiful outjook for the pending zer- weather this winter, eh? Mayor Billard this afternoon was full of fight. He not only foamed at the mouth when it was hinted that the gas company might charge the franchise maximum price of 45 cents a thousand feet, but he placed himself on record as being opposed to any raise. Then he relented long enough to say that possibly the gas distribu ters were entitled to a five-cent in crease but positively and absolutely, that was all. The order of Judge Pollock charg ing the distributers 31 cents a thou sand cubic feet has not been received in Topeka. But Manager Treleaven is expecting it at any time. Mass Mooting In Kansas City Friday. Mayor Billard announced today a meeting of representatives of Kansas cities in Kansas City Friday. If the majors listen to the Billard logic Fri day they will organize a boycott against the gas companies doing busi ness in this state. "Here is what should be done," ex plained the mayor. "We should under no consideration stand for the unfair increase announced. We should ask our citizens to stand the inconvienence cf no gas for a short time until we can bring the gas firms to time. In other words it is up to the cities to stand fat and not allow the receivers or the Kansas Natural Gas company to ex tort money through the scheme just made public. "Twenty-five cents is enough. But if the companies should show that an in crease is absolutely necessary let them raise it five cents a thousand feet but under no consideration double the cost o the consumers." Manager Treleaven stated that under the new management it would cost the Jocal distributers 31 cents a thousand feet at the city limits. Under the old contract the Kansas Natural company took a certain per cent of the receipts. When they charge 31 cents at the city limits it means that the natural shrink age of from 10 to 15 per cent and the natural loss through unpaid bills would have to.be charged to the local ac counts. This. Mr. Treleaven believes, is worthy of a fifty cent charge. The manager also predicts a big reduction In both the number of consumers and the receipts. The city legal department under W. C. Ralston, attorney, will not fight the proposed raise. "The local company supplies Topeka ana Oakland, he said. Tt is under the Jurisdiction of the state public utilities commission. e are out of It.' STOLE FOR HIS WIFE. Husband 19 Years Old Sent to the Penitentiary. Kansas City. Dec. 31. Tears of pen 1tme and a story of a sick young wife failed to win mercy for William Howari. t years old in the criminal court here to dav. The youthful husband pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery.' He was sentenced to four years in the peniten tiary. The complaint charged Howard with stealing a ring from a South Balti more avenue home. Yesterdav Howard rode through the south part of the city and pointed out several houses that he l;Ai broken into. Shaking with emotion he told the judge how he started thieving in order to care for his sick wife; how he first took fooa sturfs from ice boxes, then when the rent came riue, stole more costly things. "Reing out of employment is no excuse for a young man." Judge Latshaw said. "I feel sorry for your wife, but the court has no sympathy for you. These rob beries must stop." The I.ast Day a Fair Day. The weather man handed out an :de:il brand of weather for the last day of the year and he promises a continuation of the same kind on New Year's day. The day is clear with the temperatures aver aging fourteen degrees above normal for this date. The wind is blowing eight j a" nwur irnm xne west. There is a disturbance in the northwest which may or may not put an end to the fine .weather In Topeka. ThJ- hourly readings: 7. o'clock 31 11 o'clock 40 o'cVock 3112 o'clocK 44 9 o'c .34i 1 o clock 46 10 o'clock 3fij 2 o'clock 49 ..M"fr r-M- M -t"M I I I 1 1 I- I I Kansas City. Dec. 31. The commissioners of Kansas City, Kan., met today and adopted the following resolution: "Whereas, We learn through the press of this date that the report of the receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas company has been made and tl.tit the court appointing said receivers immediately upon receipt of said report promulgated an order effective midnight De- cember 31, 1912. the effect' of which is to increase the price of gas about 100 per cent, and Whereas, We believe this action to be unwarranted by 4 law or morals, and calculated to protect a public corporation "i from the terms of a claimed bad contract at the expense of the people and to impose upon the people the additional hard- ship in the middle of winter of higher gas or none at all, therefore, be it 'Resolved. That we de- nounce these proceedings as high handed and outrageous. That it is calculated to bring j on the people cf Kansas City, Kan., untold additional bur- dens which should be borne by I i i others, and be it further "Resolved, That we regard the history of this receivership as disclosing such a condition as will justify impeachment proceedings." Mayor Henry L. Jost issued a statement today condemning the increase: "I want to say thhat Kansas City will not suffer her gas contract to be impaired and her citizens compelled to pay 50 cents and get nothing," de clared the mayor. l-M-H I I I I I I I .l.!..Ht"M"M"t"M"l- ORDERSGAS RAISE Judge Pollock Sends Price to 50 Cent 3Iark. Distributers .Will Pay 31 Cents for It. Kansas City. Dec. 31. An order was made by Judge Pollock in the federal court, Kansas City, Kan., which per mits the Kansas Natural Gas company to charge 31 cents a thousand cubic feet for gas delivered at the state line. This means that the consumer in both Kansas Cities probably will have to pay 50 cents a thousand for the product de livered. The order provides that the measur ing of the gas shall begin at 12 o'clock tomorrow night. Then the distributing companies the gas companies in the different cities and towns will be given ten days to decide whether they desire to take the gas at the advanced schedule of prices. If they do not care to pay that price the receivers are em powered by the order to discontinue the service. Judge Pollock ordered that there be no discrimination against the towns that pay a smaller rate In the distribu tion of the available supply of gas in the fields. The cities that pay a higher rate are to get no more than their pro portionate share. The price demanded ranges from 16 to 31 a thousand in the 42 towns supplied by the company. The gas receivers made these recom mendations as to the price to be ob- j tained at the gates of the principal other cities. St. Joseph. 35 cents; Atchison, 35 cents: Leavenworth, 33 cents; Topeka, 31 cents; Lawrence, 30: Fort Scott, 22; Parsons, 26; Webb City, 28; Joplin. 28: Coffey ville, 16; Caney, 14; Columbus, 26; Scammon, 27; Weir, 27: Cherokee, 27; Pittsburg. 27; Galena. 27: Ottawa, 24; Chanute, 25; Wellsville, 26: Edger- ton, 27; Gardner, 27; Ola the, 29; Lenexa, 30: Merram, 30; Baldwin, 27; Tonga noxie, 32: Carthage. Mo., 30; Carters ville. 28: Liberty, Mo., IS. The price fo: Independence, Kan., was fixed at 25 cents, but as the city owns the municipal gas privileges the cost to the consumers will be the same. Receivers for K. C. Company. Kansas City. Dec. 31. Receivers for the Kansas City, Missouri Gas com pany were appointed by Judge Van Valkenburg in the federal court here today upon application of attorneys for the company who reported that the Kansas Natural Gas company's new rate approved yesterday by Federal Judge Pollock, made it impossible for the local distributing company to con tinue felling gas to consumers at the prescribed rate. Major W. M. Warner, former United States Senator E. F. Swinney, presi- dent of the First National bank of this city and E. L. Brundrette, president of the gas company were named as receiv ers. They were given five days in which to make a return to the court stating their recommendations as to changes in rates and other affairs of the company necessary to meet new conditions. Attorneys for the company told the court that Judge Pollock's order ap proving the report of receivers for the Kansas Natural Gas company recom mending a rate of 31 cents be charged the distributing company came as a surprise and left the local concern fac ing the proposition of paying more for gas than they could ask from the con sumers. It was said the receivers would seek an advance in the consumers' rate to about 50 cents. Judge Pollock's order of yesterday which resulted in today's action af fected gas distributing companies in many cities and towns of Kansas and Missouri. THEY GO TO SAUNA. Meade Man Heads Auctioneers Coming Year. For Hutchinson, Kan., Dec. 31. The Kansas State Auctioneers association is to meet next year in Salina. The following officers were chosen: President J. I. Stamper. Meade. Vice president. Thomas Dorsey, Offerle. Secretary, W. C. Curphey, Salina. Treasurer, J. S. Wingert. Albert. Sergeant-at-Arme, J. D. Snyder, Hutchinson. Chaplain, F. D. West, Kingsley. I 1 1 WINS BETAND DIES George Harris Drank More Than Four Men Could. Whisky, 6 Bottles Beer, 47 "Tom and Jerries" Fatal. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 31. As a result of overestimating his capacity for as similating intoxicants. George Harris, a miner died suddenly last night. Harris walked into a saloon and offered to bet $10 he could drink as much as any four men in the place. Bert Stanlick took the bet. The loser was to pay for the drinks. Harris drank 4 7 "Tom and Jerries," a pint of whisky and six bottles of beer. The four men who had been se lected to drink against Harris had stopped drinking before Harris start ed on the beer. He had taken only one step when he fell to the floor and was dead in a few minutes. DOLLEY WILL CONTEST State Chairman Will Force Issue Hodges Don't Answer. If In the event that Governor-elect George H. Hodges refuses to accept tne proposition of Chairman J. N. Dolley of the Republican state central vass of the rejected ballots, Dolley intimates that he proposes to enter tain the idea of forcing a contest. The matter of a canvass, however, has not been taken up directly with either Hodges or Henderson S. Martin, chair man of the Democratic state commit tee. Dolley still contends that Arthur Capper was elected governor be sev- erai thousand majority. Other state appointees have similar convictions, Oil Inspector Joe Longshore declares Capper has won by 4,000 and wants a re-count. State Accountant J. C. Gaf ford believes Capper would win in a recount of the rejected ballots but denies that he is urging a contest. "I am waiting to see if Mr. Hodges accepts our plan for a friendly recan vass of the rejected ballots," said Dolley. "If he will not submit to this plan, then I will probably entertain the plan of forcing a contest. Thou sands of people believe that Capper has been honestly elected and they want the matter settled without any machine work or use of legal techni calities." While the plan of the Capper fol lowers seems to be to secure a recount of the rejected ballots, the Democrats nsist that if there is a contest that all ballots; should be counted. They contend that hundreds of ballots were counted for Capper which would have been rejected and that Hodges would receive an even break or better on the rejected ballots. A friendly can vass of these ballots though seems en tirely out of the question and it will probably be up to Dolley as chairman of the state committee to force a con test. Arthur Capper personally an nounced several weeks ago that he would not contest and is not taking an active part in the agitation. Weather Forecast for Kansas. Fair tonight and Wednesday. I READY THEY ARE OFF The Federal Prisoners Convict ed in the Dynamite Trial. Leave Indianapolis for Fort Leavenworth on a Special. NO GNE ALLOWED TO LEAVE Between Starting Point and End of the Journey. Attorneys for Prisoners Have Not Ceased to Fight. Indianapolis, Dec. 31. A special train carrying the 33 labor union of ficials to Leavenworth left Indiana polis at 12:10 today over the Pennsyl vania road. Judge Anderson took under advise ment today a petition for a writ of error, filed by the attorneys for the 33 men under sentence to Leavenworth prison and set Thursday morning at 10 o'clock for a further hearing when a prayer for a writ of supersedeas also I wi" be filed. 100 typewritten pages and several times as Judge Anderson read it he would remark to Judge Chester H. Krum. St. Louis, spokesman for the defense counsel. "Judge you'll have to get a better objection than that." "That is for the higher court to say," replied Mr. Krum. "But that is my judgment," responded Judge An derson. United States District Attorney Charles W. Miller in asking that the court delay action, declared much of the petition was "junk" and that he wished to have time to go over it carefully and eliminate such parts as he said did not correspond to the rec ords. He asked that the matter go over until after New, Year's day. The hearing was in the judge's chambers. Joseph Schwartz, Chicago, who was arrested during the trial on the charge of attempting to obstruct justice by talking to a witness was released from jail today on his. own recognizance af ter Judge Anderson had fixed his hail at J1.000. District Attorney Miller said he would recomrrlend the release of Fred Zeiss of Chicago, who was ar rested on the charge of committing perjury while a witness. James Couglln and James Cooney of Chicago, two of the defendants re leased under suspended sentence said they hoped to spend new year's at home. Prisoners Cheer Loudly. The prisoners left Ihe county jail at 12 o'clock. Just befare they emerged they joined in loud cheering. Ed Lewis of San Francisco, member of the exec utive board of the Iron Workers' union, and J. E. McClory, acting secretary of the union, were present to see the train off. As the prisoners left the county jail McClory and Lewis tried to shake hands with Frank M. Ryan, president FOR THE NEW PAGE By HAL COFFMAN of the union, but were prevented by the guards. Strung along the sidewalk were wives and friends of the convicted men. The husbands lifted their hats to their wives and told them to be of good cheer and to wait patiently the expira tion of their terms. The women cried uninterruptedly. "As the line of prisoners passed along the wall of the county jail, prisoners broke out in ehouts of farewell that could be heard on the side walk. The crowds that watched the melan choly procession were quiet. Those who had friends among the convicted men greeted them and exchanged words of comfort. As soon as the party entered the train the signal for departure was given. There was no cneering as train pulled out. The train was com posed of two coaches and a baggage car. Sixteen of the prisoners with their guards, occupied the first coach and 17 the second. The seats were arrang ed so that two prisoners would occupy each seat and directly facing them would sit their two guards. The pris oners rode backward. As soon as all were aboard the train the doors were locked not to be open ed again until Fort Leavenworth was reached and during the night the pris oners were to be handcuffed. The baggage car carried light lunches for the guards and their prisoners and also the baggage of the newspaper cor respondents. To Keep Route Secret. The convicted men including Presi dent Frank M. Ryan of the Iron Work ers union, who faces a seven years term and his associates, Herbert S. Hockin, Olaf A. Tveltmoe, Eugene A. Clancy, Michael J. Toung, Philip A. Cooley, John T. Butler, J. '-2. Munsey, Frank C. Webb, who received six years ech, and the others awoke in the county jail today assured they were to leave be fore night but uninformed as to the exact time of their departure. It is the purpose of IT. S. Marshal Edward H. Schmidt who will be in charge of the prisoners until they are turned over to the warden at Leaven worth to keep the journey as secret as possible. Getting ready the special train referred to about the federal building as the "dynamiters" special kept a force of clerks in the marshal's office busy almost all night. It was learned that all the prisoners were to be handcuffed before being taken from the jail and then rushed to a section of the city where the train will be In waiting. Once in the train the doors are to be locked and no one in that train is to be allowed to step from it until the stop is made at Leavenworth. Route to Remain Secret. Information by telegraph about the train's route or progress across the several states over which it must pass is to be prevented if the authorities can arrange it. As now planned, the arrival at Leavenworth will be some time on New Year's day, Marry of the, wives- and women rela tives of the prisoners- have appealed. but so far in vain to be allowed to accompany the train. Chester H. Krum and others of the counsel for the convicted labor lead ers stated today they would attempt at once to procure the release of at least some of the men after the pris oners are taken to Leavenworth. Mr. Krum said application would be made here to the United States district court for supersedeas bonds and if the bonds are not granted here they would pro ceed to Chicago in an effort to procure from the United States circuit court of appeals the right to bonds. Plan to Reverse Verdict. "The fact that the men have gone to Leavenworth is no sign they are to remain there," said Mr. Krum. "We intend to go right on with our plans for a reversal of the triaj here. When the right to bonds is granted, the men may be liberated pending their ap peals." Plans for the removal to Los An geles of Ortie E. McManigal. the dyna miter, have been made. He will leave within a short time in charge of Mal colm McLaren, a deputy of Los An geles county, but the time of bis de parture will not be announced. McManigal's confession as a hired destroyer of property, corroborated by witnesses, was responsible for many convictions. He named a half dozen iron workers officials as having met him at the direction of McNamara to show him what Jobs to blow up. Twice he has been "borrowed" by the gov ernment from Los Angeles county. Alter nis disposal out there on his plea of guilty, he is returnable to the leaerai court here for sentence. The xact mat Edward Clark, another dvna miter who pleaded guilty, was allowed ma iioeny is regarded as an ind en tion mat. McManigal will be shown leniency. The district attorney plead- iu me court mat Clark had given valuable assistance to the govern ment. Despite this arrangement however, attorneys for the convicted men went before Federal Judge Albert B. An derson to petition for writs of error and supersedeas bonds. The attorneys headed by Chester H. Krum, said they would appeal to the U. S. circuit court of appeals if the action for bonds was not granted here. If the bonds are granted the men must first provide them before they may obtain liberty pending the out come of appeals. The district court here has within Its power to delay the taking of the men to Leavenworth If in its opinion pending legal actions warrant. About the county jail, however, ev ery arrangement was made for taking the men to the train at a moment's notice. The train was kept In waiting on the side track. It was stated that Ortie FT MeTWant. gal will leave for Los Angeles, Jan. 2. Court Postpones Action. Chicago, Dec. 31. Formal applica tion for writs to prevent the removal of the 33 convicted labor leaders in the dynamite cases from Indianapolis to the federal penitentiary at Leaven worth was made today to Judge Sea man in the United States circuit court of appeals. Judge Seaman refused to take any action, saying that he would be in In dianapolis on Thursday and would con sider the matter' there at that time. Attorney Zoline presented the request for the writs. Judge Seaman made plain that al though the defendants have been taken to Fort Leavenworth they may be re- teasea later on Donas. 01IT!C1L GOSSIP Talk of J. D. Botkin for Am rine's Job at Hutchinson. J. W. Orr Candidate for United States Senator. An effort will be made by friends of M. F. Amrine to have him re tained as superintendent of the Hutchinson reformatory under the theory that he can not be removed by the Democratic administration ex cept for cause. Amrine's appoint ment, however, seems to be in about the same light of other administra tion appointments and in political cir cles it is quite generally believed that Amrine will go with the passing of Stubbs and his appointees. Several men want Amrine's job. And as Amrine was not listed as an especially ardent Hodges supporter in the recent campaign, it is really prob able that some Democrat will be named. Jeremiah D. Botkin of Win field, former congressman from the Third district, and the man who con ducted the advertising crusade against Capper in the recent cam paign, has been suggested for Am rine's place. But Botkin wants to come to Topeka and send his daugh ters to the Topeka schools. He want ed a place on the utilities commission, but was crowded out. Now he is mentioned for superintendent of the Boys' Industrial school north of To peka. But he could probably have Amrine's Job if he desired it. In Hutchinson it is contended that Amrine can not be removed except for cause. let tne same for cause pro vision under which Amrine holds his position, is considered to apply also to other appointees of the governor. For example, Amrine could not be removed in the time intervening be tween the 1911 and 1913 sessions of the legislature except for cause. But with the meeting of the new legisla ture, it is assumed by many people that Hodges may name a new super intendent for the Hutchinson institu tion and as soon as the appointment is confirmed by the senate. Mr. Am rine's term of office expires. W. R. Waggoner, a Hutchinson news paper man, is a candidate for the posi tion of chief clerk of the reformatory. Waggoner Is a well known Seventh dis trict Democrat and it Is quite probable that he will land the appointment. Many Democrats are coming to To peka this winter with a determination to swat the county assessor law. The law creating the office has for several years caused more or less political trouble in many counties of the state and hundreds of tax payers have plead ed with their legislators to change to the old method of securing property valuations. Several members of the in coming legislature are pledged to the repeal of the law. Just what may happen to S. J. Crum bine, secretary of the board of health, is a question that has for several days agitated the Lawrence newspapers. Crumbine, by virtue of his position on the board of health, is dean of the Kansas University school of medicine and the school of medicine wants Crumbine to stay. But somewhere in the statute books It has been found that Crumbine's job (Continued on Page Two.) HIS HAIR THIN President Taft Called Turn on Dan Anthony. Kansan Was Making Big Talk for an Appointment. TAFT WAS PREOCCUPIED He Viewed Growing Baldness With Alarm. Murdock Says He's Independ ent, Jfot Republican. Washington, Dec. Si. Here is a good story going the rounds of the press galleries of congress about Kansas tallest congressman, who happens to represent the First district: Dan R. Anthony, the monollthk) member of the house from Kansas, more than six and a half feet tall, ana three feet wide at the shoulders, gam boled into the White House the other morning to see Will Taft. Ushered into the president's office at the same time, was Congressman Samuel W. Smith of Michigan, who weighs proba bly 93 pounds when clad in his heavy ulster. It was an odd-lodking gathering' the huge president, the colossal Dan of Kansas and the diminutive Smith of Michigan. Mr. Anthony plunged at once Into the matter he had come for an ap pointment he wished to prut through. He talked with much earnestness for four or five minutes while the president stared up at htm like a man looking for a pigeon on top of the Metropoli tan tower. As he came to his perora tion, Dan is said to have worded his sentences with extra care, and tried to make every phrase count. He was within sight of his final period when the president, who had been staring up at him preoccupledly, interrupted him by remarking, irrelevantly and almost in alarm: "Why, Dan, your hair's actually getting thin, isn't it?" The correspondent of the State Jour nal cannot vouch for the truthfulness of this story, but they do say the fore going details are true. "There will be a row in the next ses sion of the house the extra session which will be called in March," re marked Congressman Victor Murdock of Kansas, the original insurgent. "Nobody knows," he added, .''what the Progressives will do, but there will be a row. I do not think any one can forecast the policy to be pursued by the Progressives. There are not many Pro gressives in the present house; the Pro gressives will come into the next house. "For my part. I have no idea what may happen, but the Progressives will be a most Important part of congress; that can be depended on. "Am I a Republican? Not a Repub lican that will go into caucus under the leadership of Minority Leader Mann. "I did not support Mr. Mann In the last caucus, and I shall not in the next. I am an independent; I shall not follow Mr. Mann, or the element in the Re publican party that he represents." H. B. Lapham of Lorton, Vs., a former resident of the Sunflower state, was a member of the Ninth Kansas cavalry during the war. Re cently he applied for a pension. Thereupon this astonishing situation became known; No member of the Ninth Kansas has ever drawn a pen sion and Mr. Lapham is the first to apply for a pension allowance. In or der to have his application considered he must get five other members of the regiment to apply for pensions. Evidently the cry of those opposed to pensions that every man who wore the Blue is now a pensioner of the government is very far Indeed from the truth. During the fiscal year 1912 the bu reau of soils of the department of ag riculture performed 2.320 square miles of detailed soil survey work in the state of Kansas, bringing the total de tailed soil survey work done in the Sunflower state to 2,303 square miles and 39,960 square miles of reconnois sance soil survey work. The work during the past year was performed in Cherokee, Greenwood, Jewell, Reno and Shawnee counties. The Kansas association of postmas ters will hold Its annual convention at Wichita on February 10 and 11, 1913. The postmaster general has is sued an order granting postmasters of the state leave of absence for as many days, not exceeding five, as may be necessary to enablethem to attend tli convention. A number of clerks employed In the Topeka pension agency have been transferred to the general pension of fice at Washington. They have been given easy berths in recognition of their long and faithful services ren dered for many years past in the Kan sas agency. Most of these clerks trans ferred are men who have passed th age of 5QS The Kansas congressional contin gent are spending a very quiet time during the official holiday recess in Washington. But very few of the Kansas congressmen and their wives have entertained here during the hol iday season or at any other time dur ing the vear in the past. TAFT HAS RETURNED. The President's Party Arrives Washington From Panama. In Washington. Dec. 31. President and Mrs. Taft accompanied by Col. and Mrs. George W. Goethals and the party that accompanied the president to the canal zone reached Washir.jton today. President Taft had a number of appointments for the day at the White House offices. CoL Goethals will remain in Wash ington for some time to consult with the congressional committee. T-

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THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JOURNAIi DECEMBER, 31, 1912 LESS FALL WHEAT Board of Agriculture Report on Fall Showing. The Acreage, on November Figures, 7,636,000 Acres. In a report issued late Monday even ing;, the secretary of the state board of agriculture shows that the fall's owinK of wheat In Kansas is 179.000 acres less than the year before. The total acreage In this state according to Mr. Coburn's report is 7.636.000. The estimate constitutes the November fjsures In the secretary's office. The report in full follows: Correspondents of the state board of agriculture, in November estimated that the past fall's sowing of wheat in Kansas would amount to 7,636.000 acres. This is 179,000 acres less than in the year before but it should be noted that sowing has progressed more or less in some portions even until the present time, according to later reports. The November estimate is of course sub ject to revision next spring, and finally will be superseded entirely by the re turns of assessors, but in a general way the present approximations will serve every practical purpose. The November report of correspond ents shows that 63 counties sowed less wheat than a year ago. 43 more, and 9 the same acreage. The western and eastern thirds of the state are where the decreases are most common, but by far the heaviest falling off is in the west, and particularly in seven or eight ofthe northwestern counties. Sheridan leading with 48,000 acres less, and Thomas, adjoining, coming next with a decreae of 46,000 acre. The central third is where more wheat was sown in the main, and especially In the sosuthern half of this third, one of the most Important wheat-growing regions in the world, where the acreage is always large. Each of the railroad less counties in the southwestern cor ner also report increases, but their ag gregates are comparatively small. Reno and Pratt are credited with the great est gains, or 13,350 and 12,411 acres respectively, with Stafford, Kingman, Harper, Sedgwick. Kiowa and Sumner following all in the southern part of the central third. Barton with 274,581 acres, although having slightly less than a year ago is still ahead of any other county. Reno is second, with 253,532 acres; Paw nee third, with 248,199 acres: Stafford fourth, with 242,966 acres: Ford, with a falling off. fifth, with 226.011 acres; and Pratt sixth, with 219,273 acres. No other counties have so much as 200.000 acres in wheat, but 26 have 100,000 or more acres each. Many fields have been and are afford ing luxuriant grazing, and on the whole, the condition is excellent. More moisture would be acceptable every where, not only for the wheat but also to replenish the supplies of stock water which here and there is running low. This suggests to those who now and then find themselves incon venienced by a shortage the desirabil-' ity of sinking wells to the strata of never-failing water, and pumping with gasoline engines, thus doing away for all time with the possibility of this drawback. Moreover, the quality of well water is infinitely superior to that from a pond at its best. The fall weather has been wonder fully mild and pleasant and most favorable for all farm work, and was never more so for feeding operations. The following table gives the number of acres sown to wheat in Kansas in the fall of 1912 and also 1911, the latter as returned by assessors and the farmer ns renorted bv the board s cor respondents, in November, and also the increases or decreases, by counties. IT MADE HER SICK So Girl Told Parents She Had Taken Poison. Youth lVho Made Suicide Pact With Her Jailed. Winter wheat. COUNTIES The State Allen Anderson Atchison Barber Barton Bourbon Brown Butler Chase Chautauqua Cherokee Cheyenne Clark Clay cloud Coffey Comanche Cowley Crawford Decatur Dickinson Doniphan Douglas Kdwards Klk F.llis Kllswortb Kinney Ford Franklin Hoary tiove Graham Grant 5ray Greeley Creenwood Hamilton Harper Harvev Haskell Hodgeman .lackson Jefferson Jewell Johnson Kearny Kingman Kiowa Labette latv leavenworth Lincoln Linn Logan I von Marion Marrhall Mcpherson Meade Miami Mitchell Montgomery Morris Morton Nemaha Neosho Ness Norton Osage Osborne Ottawa Pawnee Phillips Pottawatomie Pratt Rawlins Reno Republic nice Riley Rooks Rush KuHsell Saline Pcott Pedgwick Peward Shawnee Sheridan Sherman Smith Stafford Stanton Stevens Sumner Thomas Trego Wabaunsee AVallace AVashington Wichita Wilson Woodson Wyandotte Sown fall of 1911 Acres. 7,815,342 9,153 7,143 62,565 74,542 277,365 8.04S 58.2(17 10.727 2.527 8.2AS 58.221 43.492 S.972 87,117 130.301 12.7S9 95.155 24.803 32.S17 135.0P9 106,367 89,697 38.398 173.307 5.349 213,389 134.2HO 10,310 237,907 18.S90 19.545 90,658 129,835 1.1S8 60,385 SO 2.751 1,684 125,113 86.541 5.673 49,150 89.065 47.461 73,424 59,014 4.SO 1 32.293 162.776 33.247 54.34) 49.185 113.54.'! 18.511 34.371 11.582 84.641 77,877 141,184 107.102 51.706 "129,738 29,447 8.035 711 S9.S39 15.644 74.865 4.904 16.911 134.096 105,870 243,333 122,744 20.463 3f6.862 130.145 239,182 76.823 147,150 20.055 181.619 196.052 177.694 122.527 17.69-) 138,339 38.226 1S.3S? 118,339 16.003 SS.102 233,622 492 7,593 143.096 161.566 115.349 17.212 2.1 !T 75,996 8.35.8 16.628 5928 10.535 Sown fall of 1912 Acres. 7,636.282 6.865 5.642 50.462 81.996 274,581 4.988 61.117 10.727 2,046 8.K-2 5S.S03 42.622 99,881 89,730 134.210 12.277 9S,0i)9 26,127 29.863 106,728 109.547 41.284 39.54.1 171,574 5,349 194.1S3 136.884 9,588 226.011 15.678 19.545 68.900 116.851 1.209 55.927 545 2,558 1.566 133,870 90.873 6.580 62.099 33,549 46,986 70.47 59,014 4.51,5 141.553 170,914 36.906 46.732 50.6O) 111.292 13.327 20,966 10.423 86.333 76.319 142.595 85.681 44,984 129.73S 25.913 6.026 725 38.552 12.671 80.843 76.872 14,205 131.414 106.92S 248,199 121.516 21.486 219.273 137.953 253.632 74.518 147.160 18.049 176.170 194,091 179,470 127.428 8.845 146.639 36.696 16.357 69.820 20,163 80.846 S.966 615 9.263 150.261 104.5SO 110.735 17.212 1.748 78.276 4.597 17.625 5.928 11,167 Decrease 179,060 2,288 1,501 2.103 2.774 3.058 481 166 870 512 2,954 28,371 1.733 19,206 11,896 3.212 21.758 12.9S4 145 193 118 3.516 475 2.937 211 Increase 7,454 2,9.6 552 2.909 2,613 3,iK 2 ,854 1,244 3,19- 1.5S7 1,151 2,68! 5,342 8,757 4,327 3v7 2.949 7.608 "'251 6.184 13,405 1,159 "i558 21.421 6,722 9.2-V) 8.1SS 2,-9 1,632 i,4ii 3.534 2,009 787 2,973 1S.032 2,706 2,682 1,228 2.305 2.006 6,449 1,961 8.845 L530 11 "5.93S 1.05$ 4,866 242.! 4S.519 "4.256 46.9S6 4,614 437 3!761 1,023 12.411 7,8.8 14,35 1.776 4,901 8,300 4,160 9,3 14 13 1.670 7,155 2.273 si; "6U2 HE ORDERS A CHANGE. Secretary MaeVeagh Revolutionizes Business Methods of Treasury. Washington, Dec. 31. Secretary MaeVeagh has ordered a revolutionary change in the business methods of the treasury department in handling the income and expenditures of the federal government which is expected to les en interference by the treasury with the fiscal operations of the country, make the government deposits in United State depositaries more active and inure to the benefit of the pub lic by obviating the payment of ex change on government checks. Kffective February 1 the accounts of ihe federal disbursing officers' will be placed with the treasurer of the Vnited States and all disbursing offi cers' checks drawn on that official may be cashed by any national bank desig nated as a United States depositary. Banks making such payments may im mediately replenish the specified ac count from federal customs or inter nal revenue receipts deposited. Trie banks thus will forward to the sub treasuTy only the excess of receipts over expenditures. If the expendi tures are greater than the receipts, the subtreasuries will supply the de ficiency. In this manner it is explained, much of the government's business will be transacted without the actual use of currency. It will be an extension of the clearing house principle to the government and the banks will check expenditures against receipts and then make their settlements with the treas ury. All checks in payment of customs and internal revenue receipts which are turned into the subtreasuries, un der the existing system, must be con verted into actual money before they can be paid out on the checks of dis bursing officers. TAFT CHURCH TO BUILD All Souls Unitarian AY ill Erect $300, 04)0 Building. "Washington, Dec. 31. The congre gation of All Souls Unitarian church of which President Taft is a member has decided to -begin at once the erec tion of a new building to cost $300. 000 and which when completed will be the last word in ecclesiastical arch itecture. The announcement was made today that the building would be equipped with a gymnasium, social center rooms and other adjuncts not now a part of the present structure. Efforts will be made to lay the cor nerstone before March 4, so that President Taft may officiate at the attendant Masonic ceremonies hefnm he leaves the Whit House. Kansas City, Dec. 31. Lloyd Hig gins, 16 years old, eon of F. A. Hig gins, a dentist of Ottawa, Kansas, re ceived a miniature photograph of Gol die Barrett of Turner, Kansas, from a friend a year ago. He wrote to Gol die and Goldie wrote to him. After three months' correspondence Lloyd went to Turner to see Goldie. Christ -r as day they told their parents that they wanted to marry, but the parents objected. "When we found we couldn't get married we decided we wanted to die," Lloyd said at the Wyandotte county jail. "So we bough;, a big bottle of poison and each of us took half of it and put our arms around each other and laid down to die, but it made Goldie awful sick, and when she found that she wasn't going to die, she got scared and told her mother what we had done. They sent lor a doctor and lie restored me to con sciousness." AVrote Letter in Cell. The youth's father was called and he took the boy home in a motor car. LJoyd, however, had determined that he would step out in the world and make his own way, so he returned to Kansas City. He wei.t to Turner yes terday afternoon to call on Miss Gol die. While seated in the parlor Joseph Brady and William McMullen, deputy sheriffs, arrested him by re quest of his father. In his cell Lloyd wrote the following letter: My Dear Goldie: I am now sitting on an old iron bed here in the jail, looking out through the window won dering how my little girlie is. I am in here with the rest of the bunch. It is now about 3:30 o'clock. Papa and the sheriff from Ottawa are coming up after me. I don't where I will end up at. I never thought it would come to this. I may not get to write to you for a while, but I will write just as soon as I can. I will mail this when I get a chance. I have been singing our old song, "Beautiful Isle of Some where." Goldie, you will always be true to me and always stick by me, won't you, dear? Well, now, I will close with this little piece of poetry: I sit here in this jail in the saddest of plight, Doomed, I guess, to stay here all night: But when at last I am free, I am going to see how good I can be. W. P. Latman, sheriff of Franklin county, and Mr. Higgins came for the boy and took him home. CASTRO IS HELD UP. Former President of Arenezuela Taken to Ellis Island. after Sunday for two or three weeks in charge of Dr. Edwin Locke, the pastor. ROCKEFELLER TREED. Kvery Avenue- of Escape Is Being Watched by Detectives. New York, ec. 31. Cipriano Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, seeking en trance to this country after a long residence abroad, was take.n off, the steamship La Touraine., at quarantine today and removed to Ellis Island pending a decision whether he will be allowed to enter the United States. Castro is traveling under the assumed name of Ruiz but was easily identified by the officials. They were accompanied by an in terpreter and on boarding La Touraine immediately held a conference with the captain. He directed them to Castro's stateroom where they presented their credentials and explained that they had orders from the government to take him to Ellis Island. "If those are the laws of your coun try, I must comply," was Castro's only comment. His baggage w-as hastily gathered and he was taken on board the govern ment boat. Immigrant, which started immediately for Ellis Island. Castro was dressed in a dark suit and a fur lined overcoat and wore a high silk hat. He carried a gold headed cane. His skin was sallow, but he appeared in good health. Upon Castro's physical condition he is said to have suffered for some time with an infectious disease may to enter the country. Physicians will to enter the country. Physician's will examine him at a meeting of a special board of inquiry late today. It is said an unfavorable finding by them would be sufficient to debar him. Whatever the outcome of the board meeting it was understood that Cas tro would be allowed to make the usual formal application for a re hearing in case the decision today is against him. This would delay pro ceedings for a sufficient time to enable the government to obtain documentary evidence from Venezuela of charges made against him there. As La Touraine neared land, Castro, in wire less messages declared that he was coming to the United States simply for a visit and for travel. One of the messages read: "I am going simply as a traveler for a short sojourn with the idea of see ing for myself the great nation of Washington and Lincoln." Another message read: "My coming proves that I am neith er a revolutionist nor a sick man. Each of these terms excludes the oth er. Truth cannot be distorted. That you should insult me simply because I visit you is inconceivable." The deposed ruler of Venezuela is accompanied by his valet who went with him to Ellis island. At the de tention station. Commissioner Wil liams's secretary said Castro would not be closelv confined. WATCH MEETING. Services Tonight at Euclid Clmrch to Tell Old Tear Goodby. Watch night services will be held tonight at the Euclid Avenue Metho dist church beginning at 7:45 o'clock. The opening services will be a song service under the direction of C. A. Sloan. The Rev. D. A. Shutt, pastor of the East Side Methodist church will preach a sermon followed by a short testimony meeting. At about 10 o'clock an intermission of an hour will be taken during which the Ladies' Aid society will serve refreshments. At about 11 o'clock the watch service proper will begin, ending with' the sac rament of the Lord's supper just be fore midnight. The services will be preparatory to a revival meeting which will begin next Sunday. Beginning Thursday night daily prayer meetings, also pre paratory to the revival, will begin. The protracted services will continue New York, Dec. 31. Both the coun try estate of Wm. Rockefeller at Tar rytown and his Fifth avenue residence and the. New York residences of -his two daughters, Mrs. D, Hunter McAl pin and Mrs. M. H. Dodge; were still surrounded by detectives today ready to trap the oil millionaire-and serve him with a subpoena demanding his presence before. the Pujo money trust investigating committee." So thorough ly has the net'.been spread that Ser-geant-at-Arms .Riddell. of the .house, who is personally -in command of the forces, believes" thatMr. Rockefeller will be served bfore- another 24 Lours. For weeks; past lie has been sought in vain. Every- person entering or leaving the residences under guard is being subjected to the closest scrutiny; every exit is guarded and the guards said today that they were prepared for an indefinite siege. Big Force Employed. Washington, Dec. SI. Practically the entire staff of the office of the sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives has left the capitol to aid in the at tempt to serve William Rockefeller with a subpoena to appear in connection with the money trust inquiry. Most of, the deputies are on guard at the- town house of Mr. Rockefeller in Fifth ave nue, New York city; Acting Sergeant-at-arms Riddell is anxious to serve the oil magnate and get his force back to. Washington be fore the house convenes Thursday. If the subpoena is not served today Mr. Riddell will probably leave the search in charge of one of his deputies and return to Washington. It became known today that to pro tect his interests and-to frustrate any possible attempt by subpoena servers to enter his home forcibly, Mr. Rocke feller has himself employed private detectives. Their faces could be seen in the windows of the Fifth avenue residence today. They are from a rival agency to that which is aiding the government. D. Walter F. Chappel. Mr. Rocke feller's physician entered the Fifth avenue residence today and remained there for some time. This, in the opinion of the subpoena servers indi cated beyond a doubt that Mr. Rocke feller was within. RALLY JN WHEAT A Big Decrease in the Euro pean" Visible Supply. Absence of Moisture Southwest Also Helps the Balls. LIBERAL SUES ADVANCE CORN Buying by Shorts Gives Firm Tone to Oats. Support by Packers Lends Strength to Previsions. Chicago, Dec. Si. WHEAT-Wheat ral lied today on account of a big decrease in the European visible supply. At first, however, the market was weak, the result of favorable weather in Argentine and of large receipts northwest. Absence of -moisture southwest helped the bulls. Opening prices varied from 4e lower to a shade advance. May started at '91Vi 9H4C to 9H4C a loss of c to &c and j Fear of damage owing to lack of snow covering brought about additional firm ness. The effect thouerh faMori tn in,' The closing prices were steady with May He net higher at 91ic. CORN Corn advanced Jn consequence of" liberal sales for shipment, including much to exporters. May opened un changed to a sixteenth higher at 48J448Vic and climbed to 48c. Later the market dropped back as a result of fine weather. -The close was easy with May c net higuer at 48& 48c. OATS Shorts buying of December mads oats firm for all months. May, which started the same as last night to a shade up at S2o to 32(p32c hardened to 32 33c. -PROVISION'S Support from packers gave provisions a show of strength. First sales' ranged from 2c" lower to a like advance with May $18.00 for pork, $9.77i to $9.80 for lard and (9.70 for ribs. RYE No. 2, 63Hc BARLEY 4975o: TIMOTHY 3.CO3.90. CLOVER $10.0018.00. NEW KANSAS LEAGUE, Hutchinson and Emporia May Enter Gafford Circuit. Hutchinson. Kan., Dec. 31. Hutch inson can get a baseball franchise. Baseball men here have a chance to buy the Minneapolis franchise of the Central Kansas League cheap. With the exception of two pitchers, the club is practically intact. Towns of the C. K. League are anx ious to have Hutchinson line up a new Kansas State" League with the fol lowing clubs in .the league: Sallna, Manhattan, Junction City, Emporia, Newton, Hutchinson, Lyons and Great Bend. Emporia. after"having several years of successful pity league baseball is trying to land a berth' in the Central Kansas League, and all of the other towns in the league are anxious to hav;e Hutchinson put a club into the circuit. Great Bend is especially friendly and would help Hutchinson get a berth in the league. POLITICAL GOSSIP. (Continued from Page One.) swings with the penddlum of party success or defeat. And with a change in the state administration, the present secretary of the board of health, is in a position to lose his place. Crumbine has been regarded as a really valuable man on the board. No Democratic can didates have announced themselves as seekers of Crumbine's scalp and in cer tain precincts in Lawrence it is hoped that no change will be made. The re moval of Crumbine means that the ma jority of the medical board will be of Democratic complexion. Governor-Elect George H. Hodges has not indicated his attitude in respect to tne removal ui Crumbine from the board of health. James "W. Orr, of Atchison, is an avowed candidate for the Democratic nomination as United States senator in 1914. The announcement of the -well known Atchison lawyer's candidacy was made public last night. Orr ap parently has the inside track in the speakership tignt in tne liua legisla ture and when the roll call is taken it is probable that his only formidable opponent will be "Iron Jaw" W. L. Brown of Kingman. Orr has been a leader in Democratic politics in the First district and in Kansas for a number of years. In the 1911 legislative session he was one of the minority floor leaders in the lower house. He is a shrewd, tactful lawyer and politician and in the senatorial fight two years hence, he will proba bly cause his running mate much an noyance and perhaps some sleepless nights. Last spring Orr was on the Kansas delegation to the Baltimore conven tion. He was largely instrumental in swinging the Kansas delegation from Clark to Wilson. This move has put him-in high standing with the Wilson forces of the state and likewise won him no plaudits from the more en thusiastic Clark supporters. When the Wilson leaders met in New York re cently, Orr was the only man to rep resent Kansas in the conference which discussed the distribution of national (patronage. It was believed that Orr would be a candidate for some appointment under the Wilson administration. But the Atchison man stoutly declared that he was in no wise a candidate for any appointment. Orr's real desire is to go to the United States senate. And with his early announcement and the strong indication that he may win the house speakership, he should be able tc strengthen his cause long before the real opening of the 1914 campaign. Hattie George proposed to me lat night. Mattie Did he? That must have been right after I refused him. He wasn't sure which he would do. "Which he would do? What do you mean?" "Why, he wasn't certain whether he would pro pose to you or jump in the lake." Cleve land Plain Dealer. A girl has plenty of time to decide on the details of her wedding before the man has figured out whether her eyes are blue or gray. October Lippincott'a. Cbicaco Grain Market. Chicago, Dec. 21. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Dec. 31. WHEAT-Cash Market unchanged. No. 2 hard, 83O0c; No. 3, 82S5c; No. 2 red, $1.0z1.06; No. 3, 94c(?;l.fl5. CORN Market unchanged to 24c higher. No. 2 mixed, 48ffi48c; No. 3, 43y-c; No. 2 white. 48c; No. 3, 43S!43;S4e. OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white, 34i35c; No. 2 mixed, -3334c. RYE 62c. HAT Market unchanged. BUTTER Market unchanged. EGGS Market unchanged. POULTRY Market unchanged. WHEAT Receipts, 54 cars. CLOSE: WHEAT May, 86&86c; July, 83c. CORN May, 463S?4c; July, 47i,4474c. OATS May, 34534c. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, Dec. 31. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery, 27f?iS5c. EGGS Market weak. Receipts, 3.G44 at mark, fresh receipts, cases included, 20323c; refrigerator firsts, 1717c; firsts, 24c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, ie?i 17c; Twins, 16'4S1614c; Young Americas, l3Si(ffl7c: Long Horns. 16c. POTATOES Market steady. Receipts 43 cars. Michigan, 52Q53c; Minnesota and Wisconsin, 5053c. POULTRY; Market" steady. Turkeys, alive, 15c: dressed, 21c; chickens, alive. 12c; springs, alive, I3e. VEAL Market steady, 914c. Sew Tork Produce Market. New York, Dec. 31. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery extras, 37(a,371,4c; held extras. 33ff34c: packing stock, held, 2122c. CHEESE Market quiet. State, whole milk, held, white and colored specials, 18c. EGGS Market steady. Fresh gathered extras, 3l!32c; western gathered whites, 2836e. POULTRY Live, tirmer; western chick ens, 12S13c; fowls, 1214c; turkeys, 203. Dressed, irregular: fresh killed western chickens, 1217c; fowls, 1214c; turkeys, 14i2Sc. New York Stock Market. Wall St., New York, Dec. SI. STOCKS Foreign stock markets held a good- tone and this influence together with the un expectedly favorable condition in the money market at the close of the year, accounted in a large measure for the im provement which the local market showed at the outset today. Bulls operated more confidently and while they restricted their buying at first to the leaders the demand gradually widened so as eventually to em brace a large variety of stocks. Manip ulation was evident in the rapid rise of some minor specialties but the list as a whole shows an undercurrent of strength. Call money renewals were made at 6 per cent as compared with 7 per cent yes terday. Bonds were firm. Fractional advances were general among the important stocks at the openin:? to day. The Harrtman issues aud Lenifb Valley with gains of each led in trie advance and Amalgamated, Reading and United States Steel also gained substantial Hold Joint Installation. Jetmore, Kan., Dec. 31. The local chapter of the Eastern Star and the local lodge of Masons held joint in stallation and banquet at the last regular meeting. The principal of ficers are: W. E. Wilkinson, master; Miss Hazel Wilson, worthy matron. fractions. Republic Steel, which lost a point, was the weak spot in the list. The rise failed to bring out stocks and the bulls encountered no opposition in putting the list higher. Amalgamated Steel, the Harrimans and coalers gained about a point. Xew' York Sugar Market. New York, Dec 31. SUGAR Raw, quiet; Muscovado, 89 test, 3.23; centrifugal, 96 test, 3.73; molasses, 89 test, 2.98; refined, quiet. St. Joe Live Stock Market. St. Joe, Dec. 31. CATTLE Receipts 2,000. Market steady. Steers, $6.7610.00; cows and heifers, 33.75S8.0O; calves, 35.00 HOGS Receipts 8,000. Market slow. Top, 37.35; bulk, J7.!5g'7.25. SHEEP Receipts 1,800. Market strong and active. Lambs, 36.76.50. Chlcaso Live Stock Market. Chicago, Dec. 31. CATTLE Receipts 4,500. Market steady at Monday's close. Beeves. 5.8X&9.60; Texas steers, $4.756.90; western, I5.757.60; stockers and feeders, $4.257.40; cows and heifers, 32.85S'7.60; beeves, t6.OOfsrlO.00. HOGS Receipts 26,000. Market steady to a shade lower. Light, 7.15(g'7.&0; mixed, 37.2087.55; heavy, 37.207;50; rough,, 7.20 7 30; pigs, S5.50G'Z.40; bulk of sales, 37.403 7.50. SHEEP--Receipts 18,000. Market stron? to a shade higher. .Native, 34.35S5.60; western, S4.40r.5.60; yearlings, 36.007.50: lambs, native, J5.00S8.85; western, 36.50(i 8.85. Close Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT Dec. 86 8714 86 87 86 May 91- 91 9U4- MMs 91 July 88 88Vfe 88T4 884 CORN Dec. 47- 47 45H 45-54 47 May ..48 48 48 48- 48 July 49 49 49 49 49 OATS Dec. 32 33 32 32 32TA May 324 32 32 32 32 July 32vg 33-33 32- S2- 32 PORK Jan. ..17.45 17.52 17.45 17.50 1745 May ..18.00 18.05 18.00 18.00 18.02 LARD Jan. 9.60 9.62 9.57 9.57 9.60 May 9.80 9.80 9.77 9.77 9.80 RIBS Jan. 9.57 9.57 9.55 9.55 9.60 May 9.70 9.72 9.70 9.70 9.70 Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City, Dec. "L--CATTLE Re ceipts 9,000, including 400 southerns. Mar ket steady. Native steers, 36.60fgS.25; southern steers, So.OOisi7.55; southern cows and heifers, 33.50fg6.25; native cows and heifers, S3.6QSj.0O; t stockers Mid feeders, 35.007.60; bulls, 34.40&6.&0; calves, S6.0O 10.00; western steers, 35.50ig8.50; western cows, 33.7&6.50. HOGS Receipts 13,000. Market steady. Bulk of sales, 37.157.40; heavy, 37.357.45; packers and butchers. .37.2O7.40; lights, 37.107.30; pigs, 35.50(a.6O. SHEEP Receipts 7,000. Market strona. Muttons, S3.75(a5.35; lambs, 36.50S8.t'0; range wethers and yearlings, S4-5OS7.50; ranee ewes, 33.0O4.75. Kansas City Stock. Yards, Dec. 30, A run of 15,000 cattle here today was sufli cient to remove a little of the bloom ac cumulated last week by the market, sales of beef grades today ranging from steady to 10c lower. Repair work to the extent of 25 tc 60 cents was done on the market lpst week, more than that on fair to good beef steers., though there was some weak ness developed Thursday. Stockers and feeders are steady to 10c higher today, speculators and country buyers showing no timidity on account of the bad acting of the beef cattle market. December cat tle receipts here will foot up fully normal as compared with receipts for the month for a number of years back, and exceed the supply of last Decamber more ".l'.an 40,000 head, or 36 per cent. The be3t ?tiers arc selling $1.50 or more below th-3 high Ume, partly because of a sharp decline two weeks ago, but mostly because Ml the prime cattle are sold before Christmas, as a rule, hence quality or the highest type is absent for a month or more after the holioays. Colorado bred steers, fed in Kansas topped the beef market hero lust week at 39.10. and bulk of beef steers sell at $6.75 to $8.25. Meal fed cattle are running freely, ana tne Dest ones axe sell ing at $6.75 to $7.55 here today. Total run of Southerns here today 93 cars, including considerable Arkansas and Louisiana stuff at $3.60 to $5.00. The hog market is 6c to 10c higher to day, top $7.45, bulk 37.15 to $7.40. Owner3 in the country appear to be having the test of the finish fight now going on be tween them and packers. About the only consolation packers have is 'n the hope thut laer receipts of hogs will carry more finan if thev are not greater than ex pected, and that after the spring pig crop has been aeiiverea, mere win ut? fattening of old brood sows, with lars summer runs of heavy sows. Shor and lambs are strong today, run 5 000 head, top lambs 38.50. Lambs appear safely entrenched above the eight dollar limit, and yearlings are on unsij ncm, up to 37.50 for light ones, wethers worth up to 35.36, ewes $4.75. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. The followins sales were made this morning at the Stock Yards, Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone direct to the State Journal by Clay, Robinson Co-. hve stock com mission merchants, with oClces at -11 markets. Kansas City, Dec. 31. CATTLE Re ceipts 9,000 head. Market steady. HOGS Receipts 13,000 head. Market 5c lower. Bulk of sales. S7.10(S7.35: top, i7.40. SHEEP Receipts 7,000 head. Market steady. Lambs, $8.40. KILLI-NCi STtlSKS. Dec. 31. Xew Year's Day, Eair. Gas Price Up! Then All Vill Want Coal The federal court gives cities a chance to buy gas at a. higher rate or leave it alone. Either way it goes, you are the one that's hit. Just play it safe and Let McCleery Put That Coal In Now! Ail kinds best grades cor rect weights prompt deliveries. Phones 1 866 3593 3599 44 JjKdKJn MtJ 9 Pi W E r it? 0 No. Wt. Priee.lNo. Wt. Price. 42 1287 $8.00 20 1050 $7.45 3S 1173 7.75 38 1098 7.50 24 1031 6.90 15 864 6.00 COWS AND HEIFliK 14 830 6.65 10 920 6.25 4 730 6.50 1 SW 3.S0 1 1050 5.50 34 663 7.10 35 668 7.10 4 1100 6.75 3 874 3.80 ""STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 23 1023 7.35 23 10H8 7.45 44 930 7.25 3 710 6.S0 15 760 6.95 19 908 7.20 83 663 7.05 CALVES. 1 160 10.00 I S 190 0.75 1 140 9.50 I 4 110 9.00 4 230 6.75 J BULLS. 1 1110 6.95 I 1 1530 6.50 1 860 5.25 I HOGS. 8 253 7.40 I 64 231 7.S5 77 210 7.25 I 14 ISO 7.10 Topeka Markets ijrsrnlshed by the Chas. Wolff Packing Co. yards close at noon Saturday. w cannot use pigs, thin sows or hogs weighing less than 170 Jbs. Do not mar ket hogs unless same are well finisoed as we cannot use half fat stuff. W xlv below prices effective at once, until fur tber notice-J Topeka, Kan., Dec. 31 HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS 36.70f6.90 HEAVY 6.75g6.S0 LIGHT STEERS. "OW" prime $5.8Ot?6.50 God to choice (.corn iea 6.304(5.75 Fair to gooa Common to fair killers COWS. TOMORROW We Close at Noon Orders received before 10 a. m. will be delivered. WM. GREEN &SON k Topeka Fruit and Pronnce Market. (.Selling price by Sam'l K. Lux. Wholesale Fruits and Produce. J Topeka, Kan., Dec. 31. A.PLES-Per boi., Jtf.2iii4.i5; per bux, $1.101.75. COCOANUTS Per do., 85c. FIGS Per box S0c. BLACK WALNU'iS Per bu., $1.00. HICKORY NUTS Per bu $1.50. DATES Per lb., 6c. PACKAGE DA'fLo Per box, $2.73. NAVEL ORANGES Pero box, $2.00(2.50. FLORIDA URAPE FKU1X ier box, $3.75. LEMONS Per box, 36.00. CRANBERRIES Per bbl., 9.00. POTATOES R, R. E. Ohio, ti&c; Idaho whites, 65c. HOLLAND CABBAGE Per lb., le. BANANAS Medium sized bunches, per bunch, $2.00ii 2.25; large bunches, per bunch $:i.6M2.75; per lb., iic. ROOT VEGETABLES Beets, pel bu, 60c. Carrots, per bu.. 76c. parsnips, per bu 75c. Turnips, per bu., 40o ONIONS Red Globe, 80c; Yellow, 80c. SPANISH ONIONS Per crate, $1.35. RUTABAGAS Per lb., l!4c. SWEET POTATOES Per bu., 1.00. HOT HOUSE LETTUCE Per baske. 76c. CELERY Jumbo, 76c: Mommoth, 90c. HONEY Per case 33.75. CHEESE Per lb., 20a20o. OYSTERS Per can. iojS0c; per geU, $1.(062.30. Bnttcr and Kks IFurnlshed by The Continer.tal Creamers Co., "'opeka, Kan. Topeka, Kan., Dec. Si. CHICAGO EGGS 25c. NEW YORK EGGS 27TiCSc. C REAMERY BUTTER Chicago, 36'c; N. Y., 375j37Vic; Elgin. 34c; Topeka whole sale, 35c Topeka Hay Market. Furnished by T. A. Beck. Z12-P14 E. 6th.j Topeka, Kin., Die. a. PRAIRIE HAY No. 1. $10.00; No. t $9. CO. NEW ALFALFA Choice, $13.00; No. I. $12.00. Topeka Buticr, Eggs and Poulti'7. (Furnished by the Topeka Packing Co.l Topeka, Kan., Dec. U. p;(-;r;s Fresh country, 22e. lvil'LTRY-Hons, all sizes. 10c: shrlneo. over 2 lbs., 11c; broilers, 2 lbs. and under. 14c; over 2 lbs., 11c; old cocks, 5c; ducks. 9C. eHe. c; staKS, Be. Tl KKKVa luiufys PVfT B IDS., 34c young Toms over 12 lbs., 14c; old Torus! lc HL'TTER-Packing stock, 19e. Topeka Hide Market. IQuotatlons furnished by James C. Smlt lw Hid.; Co., 108 East Third St.1 4.555.2o 4.0U34.50 prime $5.05'g6.00 Good to choice 4.06d4.50 T.-.. y to eood .v,?( i fin Common to 3.00&3.50 Prime $6.05'g6.25 Good to choice 4.555.00 Fair to eood 4.05-&4.50 Common. to fair........... 3.50$H.09 j BU LL6. j Prime,' fat 34.25ti6.09 Fleshy 3.55&4.0O Mediums 3.0063.50 Market price paid for dry lot cattle. If you will favor us with your inquiries advising number of head, quality, a? nd length of time on feed, we will make you an offer or arrange for flu.- buyers to call on you. Topeka, Kan., Dc GREEN CURED HIDES Natives, Ne. 14'4c: No. 2, 13V4c; Side Brands, lOtfLle; Bulls and Stasss. Wi'&lOttc; Horses Hldea, No 1. $3.0CU3.50: No. 2, $2.60. T A LLO W 4ii iloC. DRY 111 OKS Butchers heavy, 20C214J ory salt, 13 15c. Mink, $1.5OS7.O0; Raccoon, 60c$4.60; SkunK (black), $4.50f31.75; Skunk isnurt tripe), $3.25ifl.25; Skunk (narrow stripe), $2.7575c;. Skunk (broad stripe), $1.25'a40c; Opossum, I5cg$1.00; trash worthless; Muski-at. laxse. 76c: Mi'kra.t, medium. 30625c; Muskrat small. RO'A-c. The above price are for prime furs. Topeka Grain Market. (Furnished by B. Billard, corner Kao. sas ave. and Curtis at Topeka, Kan.. Dei. 31 WH F. A T 70575c. OATS 30Q 32c. NEW CORN 42c. STOCK SKIPPERS To Insure Yourselves Best Result Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City W Also Hit' Oar Own Offioa M Cbkaco, 80. St. Joseph, So. Oma ha, DniTfr, Sioux City. 60. M. MmL. E. Buffalo, E. St Loot and trxjrt worttt. LinuJffT,' mi in wi n! 11 mi n-afejgj Sold by the Makers W. W. Kimball Ck 32 Kansas Ave. Topeka.

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THE TOPEKA. DATUT STATE JOTJEITA3K DECEMEER, 31, 1912 3V TIIEKE'LL BE SOME BATTLE WHEN PALZER AXD McCARTY MEET: BOTH ARE SLUGGERS, EITHER MAY WIN WITH LUCKY PUNCH ROW OVER COOK Kansas Farmer Missed Bird From Boost in Tree. Bascbal!, Track and Scandal In Good Condition" Kecords Broken. GREAT SFOBT YEAR I Football Tomes Back 1'ori'ier Glory. Into Champions for 1012. Amateur a'.hlrtios. Jim Thorpe. -Aeroplane, Jules Yrdrinep. Autoniobiijntr, Kalph DePiilmn. Killiarris, amateur. J. I- Pofffprenburjr. rtilliards. professional, IS. V. Hopp:;. Hillirird.-;, pro., IT;.!, O. ioruinpstar. JiiliiaroV, tliree-eu.shifn. John Horsan. Klllfnrds, pocket, Arthur B. Hymaii. Bicycle, Frank Kramer. Bowling:, Iirry Sutton. Boxing;, lightweight, Willie Richie. Boxins, feat herw 'eight. J. Kilbulie. Boxing, bantamweight, J. Coulon. Jolf, ain-itcur, Jerome I. Travcrs. t:olf, oprn, J. J. Mcliermott. Go!f. western, Charles K. 1-Ivans. Harness horse driver, 'i nomas T". alurphy. Jockey, TVter T I J I. Motorcycle, Hay Seymour. Howling, professional, Krnr:t Rarry. Eowlns, amateur, K. B. Butler. Shooting, rifle. Corporal S. Long. Shooting, rovolver, George i.rmstrons. Shooting, nap. V. A. Phillips. Hwimmiiig. Duke Kalianamoku. Tennis, men, Maurice McI.oug'nI:n. Tcrcrp, v.-:mrn. national, Mary Browne. WristMns, Frank Uotcli. Penfation. Pcanclal and runaway races featured the baseball season of 13!2, whl h would hnve bordered on the monotonous If unusual events had not enlivened it. Boston's Red Sox and Nv York's Giants supplied the runaways, the White So;i. Cubs, Cincinnati and Detroit furnish.? 1 the leading sensations and 11. Fogel pro vided the scandal. The year was also notable for several uncommon performances by players In the-way of pitching and imse stealing, for the frequent ('hanging of managers indulged in by club owners, and for the organization of a new players', union along fraternal I'nes as a result of the r.e diy strike engineered by the Tigers The Red Sox were the continuous sur prise of th-s season. With few chans-'ts. except in the ownership and inanaseine,it of the team, it was converted from a sec ond division into a world's championship outfit. I'r.dtr the leadership of Jahe Malil. with Jimmy MeAIecr behind liin the Bostonians started the season at a merry clip and kept increasing their speed until they had the pennant cinched. 1 Hey crowned their performance by copping a world's series which required eight games to decide it- The previous limit had been seven combats. Stahl's men ran second from the start until June Ii, then grabbed the lead and were never knocked out of it. They cinched their American League title S"1!-- terr.Der is ami followed it by t. eating t'ie I jay "'"ll'a ll.t l-'UU JL x panics, UI.C which resulted in a draw. The deciding combat went ten innings befc-re Snod prass made himseif notorious by dropoinj that $-'".(Xl fly ball. The Giants were no surprise. They were expected to repeat, with some opposition from Fittsburg and Chicago, and they did. ..TcGraw's men started out to repeat so hard they nearly broke up the league in the middle of the season. Football Again Successful. TI e football season of 1912 will go down in history as the rr.ost successful and sat isfactory since the rules were changta in the winter of llxfa-'Cu. The caliber cf football played by the leading elevens was the nearest approach to that of the obi regime since the forward pass and ten-yard rule were inaugurated. Most of tile, attacks were directed on and off th" tackles with four downs al lowed to make the required distance, ten yards. Few of the teams took chances of losing the ball with chance plays In v.hien the forward pass was the prin cipal factor. concentrated attacks of the tackles y.ere used for gains in all of the big games, and although the man with the hall could net be pushed or pulled, must of the backs had enough drive in their attacks to make ground even when op position was met. In the central west, "Wisconsin won the undisputed championship of the confer ence colleges. The Badgers went through the season without a defeat, winning by decisive scores. Although Wisconsin can lay claims to the western title, Ivlichigan and Xotre I rame hardly can be overlooked. The j Wolverines did not play any of the "Big i Nine" elevens and it is hard to compare them with the Badgers. Notre. Dame was represented by a strong and powerful ag gregation, one which would have been a worthy opponent for any team In the country. Nebraska took the laurels in the Mis souri Valley conference. The Cornhuskei s played consistent football all season and their right to the title was not disputed, except bv Ames. South Dakota, althoug". not a member of the organization, ha t one of the strongest elevens west of the Mississippi river. South Dakota won from Minnesota and held Michigan to a 1 to ti score. Vanderbilt rr;led supreme In the south. The Commodores met and defeated the strongest aggregations south of the Hi son and Dixon line and gave Harvard one of its he.rdest games of the seasor. Arkansas and Misrissippi were represent ed by strong elevens which played soul football all year. In the east. Harvard captured the tit! with one of the best teams developed 8t Cambridge in years. The Crimson tea.n won from Tale and Frineeton in the big games, while other elevens were defeat d by decisive scores. 38 Track Records Broken. Thirty-eight track and field records were broken or equaled during 1312. Of this number thirty-one marks were shat tered and seven tied. In track events rec ords in seventeen events went by tne hoards, and on the field fourteen marks were hung up. The total number exceeds that of T.fll by seven. Competition in the Olympic games re sulted in eight, new world's records, the lirgest number ever made in such con tests. Only seven of these are regarded as Olympic marks. The eighth was in tne SSO-yard run. in which James MeridiJi clipped the time after lowering the reo- oru in tne w-meter event. America for the fifth time succeeded in wrestling the world honors from the other nations, scoring seven less points than all the other countries combined. On to tal scores, which included all competi tions, Sweden won first place, beating the T'nited States by four points. America took twenty-five firsts and Sweden too'; t f, t Wit K x I -5;'?'sy la V' vSfMvgtl 'sisSftsf-W1??-' f.-.j5,-tir-'--k-' s-'t "J o 'vn'-.;'vPytt iw- -ri.vr'.'i Finds Bird Like Him at Farm of Neighbor. Al Palzer. Sun Francisco, Dec. 31. It is gener ally agreed that there will be a mighty battle when Luther McCarty and Al Palzer meet in this city on New Year's in the heavyweight elimination series. Palzer will have the Job of his life is the opinion of experts who have seen both men fight. Palzer depends to a large extent up on his right hand uppereut, a blow with which he can fell an ox when he" Isnds it. But he seldom uses his left with much effect, merely pushing out with it occasionally, and following with that terrific right up for the body. He cannot readily land this blow on a fighter who faces him in an erect posi tion, but he can slaughter a fellow who fights in a crouch. McCarty is a neater boxer than Pal-' zer, and beinoj a snappy, short hitter and very cool-headed, he stands a good chance of outbexing O'Rourke's man, and eventually putting him away. In his recent six-round bout with Tony Ross, Palzer made a poor showing. He was unable to land his favorite blow on Tony, and as a result the big Italian bested him by a goodly margin But the Palzer-McCarty fight will be a hard one, and the fellow who lands the first hard smash to the jaw will in all probability be the winner. Wichita, Kan.. Dec. 31. There is one Rhode Island rooster on a farm near Goddard that will not appear in the poultry show in this city next month, but he is quite a noted rooster just the same. He has set a whole neighbor hood by the ears, caused two men to come almost to blows, and finally rounded up today In a lawsuit in which one man was fined Jo and costs. And the end is not yet, for the man who was fined has given notice of an appeal, declaring that ho will be "jiggered" If he will let any man take his rooster and then hang a fine on him, if It costs a farm to rlefend his honor. Henry Floyd, a farmer three miles north of Goddard. raised a nice looking i Rhode Island Red rooster this year. This rooster as soon as he was able to look out for himself, formed the habit of flying up in a certain tree on the Floyd place to roost. One day the rooster was missed by Mr. Floyd, who had come to set treat store by him, and he believed he had been stolen. A few days after the rooster disap peared Mr. Floyd saw a fowl resnb ling him in the chicken lot of Ness Peterson, a neighbor, and he immed iately laid claim to him. Mr. Peterson refused to give the rooster up, saying that it was his own and he proposed to keep it. Peterson says Floyd called him bad names and made some demonstrations that he construed into a disturbance of the peace. Quite a bunch of wit nesses for both sides came intj town this morning and the case was tried in the City Court with the result that Floyd not only lost his rooster but was fined ?5 and costs for disturbing tjie peace. 1913 Resolution Your Teeth Are Good Friends of Yours Put ypur teeth in proper shape and then keep them that way. You'll find It's cheaper to visit a dentist every five or six months and attend to the dental discrep ancies while they are of Insignificant char acter. Good, sound, well cared for teeth go a long: way toward insuring health, strength and happiness. Just a little care now and then will nip a whole lot of trouble. Come in, let us examine your teeth: that costs nothing. Have those little, cavities filled before the nerve must be killed; costs less and is more satisfactory. Let us put your teeth in shape for 1913. liEAVES DYXAMITE FOR PAY. t wenty-t h-ree. Willie Hoppe reigned supreme in the 1S.2 balk line billiard world through the year of 1312. Many critics who watched him play in tlia three championship con tests in which he competed in the first half of the season contended that tr o young New Yorker had lost his former skill. Koji Yamada. the Japanese player, was the man who defeated him. Yamada, although ho has played balk line billiards for only three years, already is recognized as a championship possi bility. No player of his age ever ntis made such great strides at balK line. Although Hoppe was unbeaten in tne ic title niav be lost the 1S.1 title to George Sutton of Chicago on March IS. The latter was beaten by Ora Morning star of Pittsburg on May 20, and the lat ter still retains the title. The three-cushion title changed nar.es three times. Joseph, Carney of Denver defeated Alfredo De Oro early in the vear, but lost on March H to John Hr gan of St. Louis. Horgan later defended his honors against John Daly and is t. e present champion. Thoroughbred racing practically stooj still during the season of 1912 in tl e United States, in fact, it aimoM: up. The incentive to race for the purs-s nffer-ni in the limited field where racing is allowed is so small that only those wi.'J already possessed the took campaigned strings of horses. The weathlv sportsmen who maintained expensive stables during the day when New York. California. Louisiana. Tennes see and Louisiana tracks had regularly scheduled meetings of pretension either hace retired from the game or are co.i riucting their operations in France ana Kngland. The exportation of valuable stallio.is and broodmares continues and bids lair to continue until that day arrives, if it ev r does, when running races again take a place of respectability in this country. NO CILVXGK IX KCLES. Football Experts Satisfied With Game as It Is. Chicago, Dec. 31. The 1912 football rules will be retained intact by the national committee when it meets in New York next month, according to a prediction bv Coach A. A. Stagg of the University of Chicago. Stagg, who is a member of the old commit tee now fused with the representatives of the National Collegiate Athletic as sociation, said he doubted that a single radical change would be suggested. Stagg spoke of the probability of the game being unmodified when dis cussing the proceedings of the X. C. A. A. last week in the east, when the present game was endorsed by the collegiate experts. He said the amal gamated body would be as much in favor of a "standpat" policy as it was urgent for a change a year ago. Divorced IVife, Married Again, Begins Suit for Alimony. Leavenworth Divorce' Case Is Again in Court. OKOST JSJJNHURT Two Charges of Backshot Fail to Scare Visitor. Jeannette to Fight Jeff Clark. Joplin, Mo., Dec. 31. Joe Jeannette, through his manager, Dan McKettrick, has accepted a challenge issued by Jimmy Bronson, manager of Jeff Clark, the "fighting ghost," to fight Clark ten rounds in Joplin on Janu ary li. Clark was given a decision over Jeamette after six rounds in Philadelphia on Labor day. Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 31. In the district court Mrs. Cora Chapman Cheever, divorced wife of Eugene A. Kelly, president of the Army National bank, filed suit against her former husband for the recovery of alimony installments of $50 per month since last April, the payment of which she alleges Kelly has defaulted. Kelly does not deny the non-payment of the amount due each month under the judgment of the court. "Of course Kelly hasn't paid the alimony," said Lee Bond, attorney for KelJy. "He quit paying when his wife married Colonel Cheever and if there is any justice in the matter, he ought 1 never to pay another cent. Mrs. Kelly married Cneevcr the day the decree oecome absolute and took effect, six months after the judgment was ren dered In her petition which was filed by A. E Dempsey, Mrs. Cheever alleges that Kelly paid the first few install ments of $5 0 per month on the $10, 000, but since April 4 has refused to make further payments. She further avers that since June 24, 1912, Kelly has refused to contribute to the sup port of their daughter, Helen, and that this has fallen upon her. The valuy of his service, she alleges, amounts to the sum of $50 per month. The plain tiff asks for a judgment of $750. The Kellys and Cheevers lived in the same block here. May 9, 1911, Mis. Kelly filed suit for divorce from Kelly. She charged that he did not support her according to their station in life and that he was uncongenial and unsociable. Kelly filed a general denial. Tho decree was granted and Mrs. Kelly was given $10,000 to be paid in monthly installments of $50. September 9, 1911, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Cheever filed suit for divorce against Colonel Benjamin H. 'Cheever. Flashed Lights Worry Farmer and His Family. Fresport. Kan., Dec. 31. The "ghost," that has been bothering the family of Thomas Davis, near here, by swinging mysterious lights at night, narrowly escaped serious trouble for Mr. Davis took a chance at it with a double barrel gun. letting both rh;ira-es go and using buckshot. Mr. Davis may have been a bit nervous, for he has been worried some of late by the depre dation of the prowler, and he missed his aim. Either that, or the thing really has an ethereal construction. It is a fact that the shot did no damage and the nightly visits of the apparition utve gone on just the same as if noth ing had happened. That there is material association with the ghost must be concluded from the experience of an officer of the law who went after it some nights since. He claims he chased a man almost to the capturing point onlv to be thwarted by a discouraging "flash in the eyes from a detectives' bull's eye which blinded him and caused him to lose his trail. The constable did not have a chance to use his gun. While Mr. Davis is disappointed at not having winged the ghost when he shot at it, he is not discouraged. While he and his family were at Christmas pleasures Wednesday night, neighbors saw the mysterious visitor's brilliant reflections in the Davis locality, but there being no phone at the house they could not notify them. By jthe' time they went afoot to the house the lights n.nj uiijipKu ana tnere was so much joy in the anticipation of the approach of Santa Claus that they desipaired of making any mention of the more un welcome visitor, and the holidav went on just as if there never had been any ghost. There are many theories regarding me iiiBni ngnts mat are flashed at Hotel Man Not I 'leased "With Security for Meal. Lawrence, Kan., Dec. 31. Three sticks of dynamite, two yards of fuse and a handful of caps, wrapped In an old newspaper were handed Paul Luckan, proprietor of the- Place House, in exchange for a meal that he had served a stranger. But Mr. Luckan didn't realize at that time that he was the recipient of an infer nal machine capable of destroying the entire hotel. Mr. Luckan didn't make the discovery until he investi gated the mysterious package to de termine what it contained. Upon realizing what he had sheltered for two days, "Mr. Luckan lost no time in getting the machine out of his place and turned it over to tho city police. The package was left at the hotel by an unknown man who had eaten supper at the hotel. He told Mr. Luckan that he had no money and could not pay for his supper at that time, but -would leave his package at the hotel until he returned with the money, which he said he could get up town. Be- left the hotel and promised to be "back in ai. short time. But he did not return that night or the next day and Mr. Luckan thought that it was time to claim the pack age which had been left as security. The package was turned over to Marshal Meyers of the city police department for safe keepnig. The marshal didn't fancy the job either and ordered one of his men to throw the caps in the river. The fuse and the three sticks are now in the po lice station waiting for the owner to show up. Dr. W. S. Richardson, Mgr. New York Dental Co. Uses Fain ess ethods M We Charge Just What We Advertise We Guar antee Our Work Don't worry about pain. Our methods are absolutely painless. You know that your teeth need attention. You know our prices are within, your reach they are moderate. The only thing you hesitate about is dread of pain. Now Quit Worrying. Come to th Now York Dental Parlors, where dental work la done without pain. Gold Crowns, 22 K $4.00 Silver Filling. 60o Teeth Cleaned ..50a Painless Extraction of Teeth 25o We charge these prices of Topeka folks or out of town patients, all the same. You've had other dental work done and you know that these are money savins prices. We guarantee all work to last as represent ed by the New York Dental company. We make It a point to do our work right so we won't have to do It over. That satis fies you and pleases us. New York Dental Co. 613 Kansas Ave., Topeka Phone 1965 We Have Been Located in Topeka 5 Years PRISOX NEEDS DYNAMITERS. They Will Be Put to Work on New Cell House. Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 31. The coming of the 33 dynamiters to the United States penitentiary is causing no flutter among prison officals here, as prisoners in carload lots are not unusual. Although the prison is crowded almost to capacity, Deputy Warden Mackey stated that accommo dations for the expected arrivals would be found without any great amount of inconvenience. No extra preparation for the re- mnsjt Mtensive trantiers of this section says this is one of the best seasons of his many years experience in securing pelts. Constable has aireaay capiureu $500 worth of furs tnjs season ana expects to at least double that amount before the close of the season. This makes him the champion trapper of this part of the state. SHE CAME BY BOAT. Six Grandchildren Will Be PaU Bear ers for Mrs. McDowell. Kansas City, Dec. 31. Six grand children will be the pall bearers for Mrs. Sarah B. McDowell, 99 years old, who died at the home or ner aaugnter, Mrs. W. C. Hartley, in Kansas City, Kansas. She had been a resident of Kansas City for 43 years, having come to this citv from St. Louis in j.oa dv uoau She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Edith Love and Mrs. w. c Hartley or the Kansas side, and Mrs. Rowena Rnie and Mrs. Frank Mardin of Shaw nee, Kansas; two sons, George Carter Mnlinn rf t hfi ilvnamitpra Tina Vmpn mAc caiii tYi flpmitv urni-den "Thev I and Henrv Carter, both of this city will be treated in the same manner as 1 twenty-eight grandchildren, tnirty-six In her petition she alleged that they i the Davis home, but none has as yet "A Perfect Woman Nob hi Planned To Warn, to Comfort and Command" Nature never intended woman to be delicate, ailing, or a sufferer from "nerves." Women in middle age complain of "hot flashes." Many v.orr.en suffer needlessly from girlhood to womanhood, and from moth CThood to middle life, with backache, or headache, dizziness, faintness or bearing-down sensations. For a permanent relief from these distressing symptoms nothing is so geed as DR. PIERCE'S 'FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION were married March 26, 18S3. fchb charged Colonel Cheever with ex treme cruelty and gross neglect of duty. On the witness stand she testi fied that Cheever had associated with a person that caused scandalous com ment and that he declined to discon tinue such practices. She said his con duct became such that it destroyed her happiness and peace of mind. Clieev er's retired pay, she said, amounted to $2,500 per year. She was given ali mony of $110 per month. Kelly recently was named as co respondent in a cross-petition in a suit in which a Kansas City woman sued for divorce. Kelly's deposition was taken here and a few days later the Kansas City couple settled their differences and the suit was dismissed. as a soothing and strengthening ner vine allays 2nd cubdues nervous excitability. 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Despite the apparent success in congress" ot tne Lever agricultural extension bill, which proposes a government appropriation for county agricultural experts, farm ers in several western ivansas coun- ties are taking matters to hand and; propose to hire experts of their own. i In Kearny and Sherman counties the -j movement is rapidly coming to a fo- cus and in several other counties it is.' making headway. Farm ora in Sher- man fee' that an expert paid by them would c;t out theorisms and pay more attention to profits than an expert pai. by the state and government and fur- nishsd by the agricultural college. They say state agricultural experts today strive for large yields and pay little j or no attention to net F"oceed.5. j offered a reasonable solution mystery. Mr. Davis Is of the opinion that he can olve the problem with a shotgun if he is given a good op portunity and his nerve doesn't desert him. other prisoners. After they have been dressed in' they will be given such employment as seems best suited to each individual." Work on the east cell wing will be gin within a few days, and as there is much structural iron work to be erected, some of the arrivals may be detailed on this work. "If there are any capable struc tural steel workers among the men," said Alva Cole, superintendent of con struction at the prison, "they will be put to work on the new wing." Leavenworth is to be given no chance to see the dynamiters, as the special car is to be switched into the prison yard. great grandchildren and seven great great granacnuoren. PRIZELESS SHOW A SUCCESS. MACKEY KH:LS RED FOX. Depnty Rare Foot of Pierce Boy Ampntatexl. Horton, Kan., Dec. 31. Paul Har ris, who was run over by a freight train at Pierce Junction, nine miles east of here, had his foot amputated at a Horton hospital. The unfortun- Late boy is a son of Mrs. Harris. mother of the Rock Island asr-ent at Pierce, a junction for the Missouri Pacific and Rock Island, and is well known by many passengers who stop here. WE LIKE TO SERVE Coffee Critics Because we are positively sure of the quality of our coffee. Try cither blend. niend Xo. 3, per rb .4.c L Blend Xo. 10, per lb... 50c Chas. McCIintock Warden's Son Finds Game Near Prison. Leavenworth. Kan., Dec. 31. Har old Mackey, son of Deputy Warden W. H. Mackey of the federal prison, sho't and killed a red fox' on the gov ernment reservation, three-fourths of a mile west of the federal prison. This is the first time in the last fourteen years that a red fox hag been killed in this vicinity, says Dick Madison. Young Mackey, with some compan ions, was hunting on the reservation when suddenly the fox sprang from some underbrush. Mackey took quick aim and fired. He intends to tan the hide and keep It as a souvenir. A number of years ago, M. T. Fer ris, a well known farmer of Jefferson county, brought some red foxes over from Missouri. He liberated them on a branch of Walnut creek and for a time they were quite numerous in that part of the country. Poultry Show Draws Great Crowds at Garden City. Garden City, Kan., Dec. 31. The first Finney county poultry show, which has just ended, was a decided success despite the fact no prizes weT3 awarded. J. J. Atherton of Em poria, poultry expert, judged and gave some' birds a grading of 96 and 97. He stated today the show was one of the most successful initial and prize less exhibitions he had ever witnessed and that many of the birds could be profitably entered in eastern shows. As a result It is probable the E. P. Griggs, John Craig and Eggers en tries will be taken to the state show at Wichita next week. CAPTURE THIEF IX STORE. TEA COFFEE SIS Kansas Ave. -CHINA Phone 7-19 Xegro Youth Has Little Defense to Offer. Lawrence, Kan., Dec. 31. With policemen behind him. uolicemen in j front of him, policemen beside him (and policemen all around him, Irv ing Johnson, a young colored boy, was trapped in the Starkweather Shoe store and placed under arrest on a charge of burglary. Young Smith was caught in the wry act and was unable to put up any sort of a def-nse. It is quite probable that he will spend som of his time in the near future at Hutchinson. RUNAWAY CAR KILLS TWO. Caught on Trestle Laborers Were Ground Under Wheels. Pittsburg, Kan., Dee. 31. Two la borers were killed and three injured, each probably fatally, when a runaway box car struck a hand car on which they were riding here. The collision occurred on a trestle, 25 feet high. The men killed were caught beneath the wheels of the box car, while the others were hurled from the trestle. The car was being pushed by a switch engine and was going down grade when, in some manner it be came uncoupled and ran wild. As the runaway car cut off view of the head light on the switch engine, it was not seen by the five men until it was upon them. Whenever You Are in Kansas City, Make This Store Your Down-Town Headquarters Use the Many Conveniences at Your Will L KANSAS CITY. MO. Trap Animals Worth $500. Bennington. Kan.. Dec. 31. Grant Constable, one of the experienced and Pills Pills Headaches. Biliousness. Constipation. Headaches. Biliousness. Constipation. Ayers Pills. Ayer's Pills. Ayer's Pills. If your doctor says this is all right, rememocr it I kSiuTifiz INTEREST in your home brings happiness. Systematic saving and the In terest, accumulating, guarantees happiness in old age. Why not save $5.00 a month for 5 years and receive. $350, or in 10 years $910.00. Larger payments In proportion. Call far booklet. CAPITOIj building and loan association. 534 Kansas Ave. Driyes Off A Terror. The chief executioner of death In the winter and spring months is pneumonia. Its advance agents are colds and grip. In any attack by one of these maladies no time should be lost in talcing the best, medicine obtainable to drive It off. Count less thousands have found this to be I"r. King's New Discovery. "My husband be lieves it has kept htm from having pneu monia three or four times" writes Mrs. George W. Place, Rawsonvllle, V't., "nnd lor connhi. colds and croup we ha -a never found its eo,unl." Guaranteed for all bronchial affections. Price PO ets. and $1.00. Trial bottle fre at Campbell rjrus Co.Adv.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL DECEMBER. 31, 1912 3rp?fc8 tate Journal By nU.VK P. MAC1ESSAS. tEntered July 1. 1TS. a second-class matter at the postofflce at Topeka, Kn, under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXIV No 313 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. rly edition, delivered by carrier, If cents a week to any part of Topekr.. or suburbs, or at the name price In any Kan sas town where the paper baa a carrlar system. By mall oae year By mall, six months J-JJJ a-y mail. 100 days, trial order TELEPHONES. Prtvate branch exchange. Can 101 and ask the State Journal operator for per son or department desired. iopeka State Journal building. 800 aad KJ Kansas avenue, corner Eighth, New York Oftlcs: iSO Fttth avenue. Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Steger building. Paul Block, manager. Boston Office: Txwnont Buildta. Paul &iock. manager. PXXt, LFASTn WIRE REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal la a member of tha Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganisation for the exclusive afteraooa trubllcatton In Topeka. The news Is received In The State Jour nal building over wires tor rnia sole pur- Much of the Christmas shopping that was done early is yet to be paid for. It beats all how the supply of Maine guides holds out. Another one has just been killed accidentally by a hunter. A St. Louis miin has made $64,000 as a rag-picker. Many men, though, have made more than that as rag ch ewers. Mr. Morgan's assertion that there is no money trust seems to be borne out by the difficulty there is in getting it at the banks. If that young English girl, who is being shipped across the Atlantic as freight, is at all pretty, there is little chance she will be handled as such. According to the recent census, there are 125,000 idiots in the country. But of course that doesn't include the men who believe they can fool their wives. Just what might have been expected. A New Tork man killed his wife be cause she had been so extravagant as to provide a beefsteak for the family supper. Is Topeka enjoying a substan tial growth? Well just listen again.! The new dwelling houses that were erected here in the year just closing had an aggregate cost of $560,000. Clarence Mackay's drawing room in his house at Roslyn, L. I., is to cost more than $500,000, but it takes even more than that kind of a drawing room to help to make a happy home. Winter arrived officially some ten days ago. But it hasn't been making the noise for which it is famous. And the folk who are getting along in years are just as well pleased. That Spanish dentist who had the temerity to dun Mulal Hafid, the erst while sultan of Morocco, is a most unsophisticated chap. To collect a bill from a sultan on the job is difficult enough. But to have any such designs against a deposed sultan is the height of folly. If "friends" of Arthur Capper con test the election of Mr. Hodges on their own initiative, it is likely that among them there will be some gen tlemen who are comfortably situated in appointive state offices that they might possibly retain should Mr. Cap per sit in the gubernatorial chair. Nor should the verdict of guilty against the 38 labor union officials for conspiracy in the dynamite outrages of the McXamaras be construed as a stigma against organized labor. These criminals betrayed the myriads of honest men w ho make up the bone and ainew of the labor unions. L 1 Any man who might be elected pres ident would be given just as hearty a reception by his old home town as Staunton, Va., extended, to Woodrov Wilson. Under other circumstances in many instances, though, the results would probably be far from being the same. A raise in the price of gas that the receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas company insist must be made if the concern is to become solvent, would not be so bad, if a good gas pressure is also assured. But a raise In the price of gas and scarcely enough gas for cooking and lighting when the weather gets the least bit cold vould border on the intolerable. Neither was the march of the suf fragettes from New Tork to Albany such a futile undertaking so far as one of the hiking band is concerned, at least. It threw across her path a youthful millionaire sportsman, who happens to be a newspaper reporter on the side, and she made the most of her opportunities. They'll be married soon. Fred Merkle is another of the ball players, who received a share of the receipts for the world's series, to be sued for damages. Fred punched a man who wants monetary balm to the extent of $3,000. In other words, if a man is i.ot blessed with considerable funds, he can get away with almost anything without being- called to account. MOVIXG ONWARD AND UPWARD. In contravention to the ideas of the pessimists that the world in general is deteriorating daily, and that as far as these United States, in particular, are concerned, conditions of all sorts, moral, mental and financial could net bo much worse, and with prospects even poorer ahead, may well be set a few of the opinions in the premises of Henry Clews, the New Tork banker and broker, as he presents them in his annual financial review which he has Just made public. Mr. Clews is undoubtedly the dean among the bankers and financiers of the Wall street district and the nation. As far back as 1887, or a quarter of a century ago, he published his reminiscences of "Twenty-eight years in Wall street." He has always been associated with the legitimate interests of that great financial mart, and is recognized at home and abroad as deep student of economics and sociology. His general observations on the conditions that have prevailed during the past twelve months follows: "This year just clos ing has been crowded with significant experiences. It has been a year of striking social and political unrest. The whole world Is the melting pot as never before, and the United States is doing its part in the process of sep arating the dross from the finer prod ucts of civilization. On social lines the unrest is vividly seen in the desire for better living, both materially and morally. Our material progress has been phenomenal. Wealth has grown enormously, and the way is being slowly and somewhat painfully paved for its ultimately more equitable dis tribution. Our moral progress is amply proved by the signal awaken ing of the public conscience, and by the energetic efforts to eliminate or at least curtail the evils so glaring in our business and social life. Never before was vice of all forms so relentlessly exposed; and never before was there such a determination to restrain or repress it. If there is anything about such movements to warrant hope and confidence in American institutions, it is this development in public standards of conduct. This may be observed in all departments of business and public life, and it is apparent to all familiar with the control of affairs that many things readily permitted a decade ago would on no account be tolerated to day, simply because of an aroused public opinion and the establishment of higher standards of conduct. "There is no doubt that more has been accomplished in this direction by appeals to public opinion than by legislation. The same is true of our political life. The process of purifi cation has been going steadily on, and one of the most encouraging features in this connection is the noticeable bringing into office of men of a high er type than formerly; men not only of ability but of distinctly higher ideas and greater integrity. Such facts are worthy of note, because the era of muck-raking and government Investigations, as well as an apparent outbreak of vice in our great cities, have been so exploited in the public press as to poison the public mind and create an abnormal and unwhole some state of pessimism. For many it is difficult to see under the surface. The average man is befogged by the sensationalism of the day, and falls into the erroneous impression that we are degenerating. Happily the forces of betterment have been quietly but unerringly at work, as is shown by the innumerable discussions and movements in our great cities towards social justice and political purity. Of course no sane person supposes that the millennium Is near at hand; yet as the year closes it is worth while to stop and take stock and see where we stand in regard to those great move ments, social and political, which can either make or ruin this great repub lic. Whatever tends to build a better and safer America will also tend to strengthen and advance our business institutions; and in this respect there is much room for encouragement as well as progress. It is no exaggera tion to say that the outlook for America was never more brilliant. There are great problems ahead that will puzzle our ablest thinkers, and setbacks must be expected; but a new spirit of progress is in the air which is placing quite as much emphasis upon the mental and moral forces as upon the material. With such ideals before us. the future of this republic is safe, provided they are strenuously maintained and raised still higher when opportunity offers." "TRUST REGULATION." There seems to be little similarity between the power necessary to regu late the prices of commodities sold or offered for sale by private corpora tions operating under state charters and that sustained in the so-called trust decisions, writes Albert Fink in the January number of The North American Review. The principle upon which these cases have been decided is that the acts complained of throt tled competition, that free and un trammeled competition was necessary to a healthy commerce, and that any thing which tended to embarrass the former was a restraint of the latter. In other words, a restraint of competi tion was a restraint of trade within the inhibition of the Sherman act. This may be conceded arguendo, but it does not follow that the fixing of prices of commodities would destroy that restraint of competition which in itself is believed a restraint of trade. On the other hand, it would appear that such action would entail the very opposite effect. The regulation of the prices of commodities does not tend either directly or indirectly to prevent restraint of trade. If the American,! Sugar company, having a vlrtucOU monopoly of refined sugar, is prohibit ited by law from charging more than ti M a fixed price, say three cents per pound, how does this destroy or ten? to destroy restraint of competition? The competition has already bee? destroyed by the acquisition of thf monopoly. Certainly the ten per cen of independent, competitors would no. be benefited by prescribing a maxi mum beyond which the trust could not charge. As the minimum charge will secure the trade, so the fixing of a j maximum merely defines the price beyond which the trust cannot sell. But how does this assist the Indepen dent? Must he not meet or reduce this price in order to secure the busi ness. As the competition is not de stroyed by the selling at a maximum by the trust, but, on the other hand, by underselling, so the remedy must necessarily be the fixing of a minimum under which the trust could not sell rather than a maximum beyond which it might not charge, this minimum to be such as to afford competitors a reasonable profit. JOURNAL ENTRIES All times are hard times for the shiftless fellow. Few arguments are brought to satis factory conclusions. Most women, who play cards, are ex perts at delaying the game. Convincing a man he's wrong is dif ficult enough; with a woman it's im possible. fr Many a complainant against the high cost of living forgets to figure in the alimony he's paying. c JAYHAWKER JOTS If old Santa Claus ever hangs up his stocking, thinks the Emporia Gazette, somebody ought to put a pair of shears and a safety razor in it. Perhaps the feminine fad of wear ing a watch on the ankle will induce some man to pay more attention to time, believes the Ottawa Republic. It strikes the Leavenworth Post as singular that the ones who are always writing and making speeches about wedded bliss happen to be old maids or priests. Editor Brady, of the Lawrence Journal -World, advises that if you are going to screw up your courage with strong drink, see that you don't screw it too tight. Pip Daniels, of the Howard Courant, never knew an "ungovernable tem per" that wasn't controlled with re markable ease when the owner bumped into a bigger man. An observation by the Wichita Beacon: Lots of men are figuring now how they can recover from their Christmas liabilities in time to pro vide their wives with new hats at Easter. A hint to the women, from the Lawrence Gazette: It was a woman up in Minnesota this time io found the diamond in the chicken's gizzard. As the diamond has already been found, other women may as well waste no more time looking for it. Only one diamond a year can be taken from chicken gizzards, according to the ethics of journalism. When I was a kid there was not much space wasted in the newspapers advising people to do their Christmas shopping early, says Deacon Beck, of the Holton Recorder. It did not take much time to buy a pair of wooden 2 cent pocket combs for the boy, a pair of 5 cent side combs for the girl, a jumping-jack for the baby and 5 cents' worth of striped stick candy for the bunch. And what was more to the point, it did not take much money either: and what was still more gratifying, the kids were happier than the children of today, whose Christmas gifts cost dollars where in the olden times they cost cents. GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. If it's too good to be true, It isn't. No one is ever overly fond of a man who is too silent. The average wolf drive proceeds a good deal like the Turkish army. people are fairly observing, but a little slow to note mistakes in their favor. Some folks go around in search of Heart Throbs, and neglect their regular work. As a general rule, the gent loudly de manding the Square Deal, wants the best of it. Generally you can tell what you want for Christmas by the fact that you don't get it. An opinion shouldn't be based on hear ing one side of the story, but most of them. are. Popular songs aren't as long as they used to be. How quickly we observe a tendency toward improvement. Making easy money Is so often followed by the hard work of trying to keep ahead of an enterprising sheriff. Is this an eld one: Two brothers were in the coal business. One joined church and the other weighed the coal. Every fat man knows a lot of things to do to reduce his weight. But he keeps on gaining; he doesn't do them. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. A broad minded man is seldom chesty. If you have a shadow of a suspicion keep it dark. Better a tramp In the woods than one In the kitchen. If misery loves company, marriage is apt to make good after all. The world likes to be amused; therefore all the world loves a lover. Even the community that needs shaking up would draw the line at an earthquake. It is never too late to blame it on the other fellow when you make a mistake. The old bachelor says a girl after a man's own heart is usually after some other fellow's. You can't judge a woman by her looks when she looks as if she didn't know you were looking. A lot of people waste their valuable time in trying to get rid of the useless things they don't want. A man always thinks down deep in his heart that a woman la sensible if she re fuses him and usually he is right. Make yourself agreeable to a man. Alonzo, and he will want to borrow money from you. Make yourself agree able to a woman and she will want to marry you. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press.J Maybe It's so hard to Inherit a big brain because it's so easy it It's a big Yiose.1 What makes a girl so sure of the man 'she is engaged to is she never will be IT Vhat makes the baby look so much like Irs father is It is never going to have 4uck in anything. A woman never needs to.-make up her inind when she can make up her hus band's. A man will spend money on borrowed iMgarsiJiat the lender can't afford to Y THE WAY BT HAKVST PARSONS. While he was president of Vene- I zuela, he spoke of them as "American pigs." Maybe he may remember that j when they refuse to let him into their nice little pen. One might gather, from the general chatter, that the Bull gang does not I consider the Democrats a gang of hopeless crooks, after all. Every j "Bull" who is now holding a state job I is touting himself for reappointment. I and is making no secret of the fact that he is in a "receptive mood. The Paris gentleman who cut off his wife's nose to spite her face, may have found it projecting through a thin partition into his own affairs, and offer that as a defense. But we hold that his action was drastic, and it is a blamed good thing for him that he will not be brought before this depart ment for sentence. At last from diagrams furnished by Tom Powell, we get the true In wardness of soccer football. It Is to play polo with the feet. A widow in Kansas City wants to adopt a mother-in-law. Easy job. She should get results by marrying some mamma's pet. The Lamed malodoriferous male factor who stole 27 skunk hides may rest assured that the officers are on the scent. (Here's hoping we got that one first. Ervery paragrapher in the country will work out on that.) It was a Kansas printer who figured that he had smoked 1,200 sacks of flour, 600 pair of shoes and 185 suits of clothes in 25 years. He has it on the Kansas City simp who smoked rags in preference to tobacco, but neglected to try flour and leather. If a man would smoke the kind of cigars he could really afford, after paying Christmas bills, swearing off would be easier. Artists and cartoonists differ on many propositions, but they get to gether on the theory that the New Tear is an infant, and not properly dressed for winter weather. "We have just begun to fight," say the Bull Moose leaders. The Bulls have been doing something or other for several months. But they can't ex pect a fight fan to pay admission and then sit around so long and listen to such a noisy putting on of gloves. Our New Tear's resolution: We will do what ever we want to, if we can. EVENING CHAT BT KUTH OAXHROX. Why Exaggerate? -An article on the servant question was recently brought to my attention by one of my letter friends.she, herself, being a member of the much-discussed class. She objected to the article because of it3 tone of aloofness and superiority. I wonder if the writers of such articles ever realize that the "problem" them selves are just as likely to be among their readers as the mistresses. I recognized that objection, but what irritated me even more about the ar ticle was its exaggerated pessimism. It was made up largely of letters from disgruntled mistresses, and the author assumed that they represented the en tire community. From reading that ar ticle a foreigner would think that it was absolutely impossible in America to get a girl to do general housework, that the average American woman kept at least two servants, paid them from $7 to $10 a week, treated them with kindness and consideration, and still could not keep a maid more than a few weeks. Now, I realize that there certainly Is a servant problem in this country. I realize that we are paying our domestic helpers wages which are all out of pro portion to the wage of other workers who have been obliged to spend time and money in preparation for their work. I realize that even at this wage good maids, and especially good girls for general housework, are hard to get. Nevertheless I still maintain that the whole thing has been ridiculously ex aggerated. In the first place take the statement that the general housework girl is al most extinct. Tommy rot! The ma jority of n.y personal acquaintances do not keep more than one maid and al though they, have their troubles they seem to get along fairly well. Take my aunt's case for example. She lives in a small suburb of a large East ern city. m The home is large and old fashioned" the family has ranged from six to two in the last ten years. The maid does all the washing except the sheets, and yet my aunt has never had any serious .trouble in getting a general housework girl. Nor in the last ten years has she had a maid leave her in dissatisfaction, as they are represented as doing in the comic papers. One left to study the profession of nursing, one to get married, one on account of ill ness, and one or two were dismissed because not satisfactory. Perhaps she has been unusually fort unate, but on the whole I think that her case is as near to the average as that of the woman whom my contemp orary quoted who pays $7, puts out her washing and still cannot keep a maid. Elaborate comments on the servant problem are superfluous. The trouble Is obvious. So long as the demand ex ceeds the supply as largely as It does now, we will have to pay high wages and put up with imperfect servants. If we want to change conditions we will have to make domestic service so at tractive that girls will rush into it and the supply will increase. But in the meantime what's the use of exaggerating matters. It doesn't help any, does it? 'DAFFYDILS BT TJ. NOALU Say Harold, did your antelope with your uncle? (No wonder the banks won't trust tat guy. He's the boob that put the broke in the broker.) If a Chinaman takes his queue, and beats it, will a billiard ball? (All I want for breakfast is some gefitlefish and a radish.) If you couldn't get rid of a spavined mare could the horse-trader? Aw, cut it! If you had a little more sense you might, at least be half-witted. D'ABTAGXAN'S RIDE. Fifty leagues, fifty leagues and I ride, and I ride Fifty leagues as the black crow flies. None of the three are by my side. The bay horse reels, and the bay horse dies But I ride, and I ride To Calais. We were four, we were four and I rids, and I ride We were four, but Porthos lies God knows where by the highway sides. The roan horse reels, and the roan horse dies But I ride, and I ride To Calais. We were three, we were three and I ride, and I ride We were three, but Aramis lies Bludgeoned and bound and' thrown side. The dun horse reels, and the dun horse dies But I ride, and I ride To Calais. We were two, we were two and I ride, and I ride We were two, but Athos lies With a lead-crushed rib and a steel-torn Side. The black horse reels, and the black horse dies But I ride, and I ride To Calais. All alone, all alone and I ride, and I ride All alone, and an ambush lies God knows where by the highway side. The gray horse reels, and the gray horse dies But I ride, and I ride To CsLlfl-is. Yes I ride and I ride and I ride and I ride And I ride and I ride To Calais. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. THE EVENING STORY Loved by Three. (By Joe Cowper.) "Tes, Silas Scott was a good man a good man," sighed Farmer Thomp son as he drove home from the lat ter's funeral one May afternoon. After touching the off horse with the whip he continued: "Alius willln' to lend and Alius bought a new hoe if he broke a borrowed one." The nigh horse needed touching up now, and after it had been done the old farmer mused: "Leaves a good farm and a mighty fine widder woman. I've knowed her since she was a gal, and she's one of the best." A crow sat on the top rail of the roadside fence, and Farmer Thomp son shook the whip at him. "I hate to see a woman left a wid der. They alius have a heap of trou ble to git along. Every piano man and tin peddler that comes along fcheats "em." The off horse stubbed his foot on a stone and came near going on his nose, and Farmer Thompson's mus ing was interrupted for half a min ute. Then it went on. "Let's Bee! Let's see! Hanner'e been dead four years. Give the Wid der Scott a year to mourn and that'll make five. Why shouldn't I do it? By gum, I will! Tes, sir, when the year is up I'll But just then he overtook old Mr. Savin and felt it his duty to stop and offer him a lift. This put an end to any further, musing for the time be ing, although when he reached home the' farmer finished his sentence with: I'n ask her plump out to marry me!" Four weeks later the farm next to the Widow Scott's on the west was sold to a farmer named Harris. He was a widower, and this put the widow between the farms of two widowers. The men were about the same age, and of course they met at an early date. It was the duty of Farmer Thompson to go over to the other farm and say: "Come to be naybur, have ye? "Yes." "Wall. I'm a nayburiy man, ana alius Teady to do anything to obleege. I heard you was a widower." "Tes, and I heard you was." "Just so. Tes. I'm a lonely old man." That was as far as they pursued the subject at that time, but two or three weeks later, having heard that the new arrival had been to call on the Widow Scott, Farmer Thompson threw himself in the other's way to ask: "Don't think of gettin' married agin, I 'spose?" "Oh. I hain't makin no secret of it. I've seen the Widder Scott. It's too soon to begin courtin' now, but I'm goin' to try to win her by and by. Tou are, of course, too old to think of marryin' agin." "Oh, you think so, do you! Say, I'll bet you are ten years older'n I am!" "It's right the other way. Anyhow, you have nothin' to say about it. I'm goin' in to win her." In a day or two Farmer Thompson went over to borrow the widow's hoe, although he had two of his own, and he took occasion to ask: "Widder, I 'spose that man Harris has been around here!" Tes." "What do j-ou think of him?" "Why. he seems to be a nice man." "He's a widower, you know?" "I believe he said something of the sort." "There's somethin" about his looks I don't like. Reminds me of a snake in the grass. I don't want to do any body an injustice, but it was Jest such a lookin' man tha stole my old mare one night six years ago." "Mercy on me, but I hope we haven't got a horsethief In our midst!" "Can't never tell, widder can't never tell. Better treat him rather coldly till we know about him. This is a mighty deceivin' world. I shall look out for you." And the next day Mr. Harris called to ask if sunflowers did well In that locality, and after being assured that they did. he asked: "Tou have, of course, knowed Mr. Thompson several years!'1 "Since I was a little girl." "Was he neyer arrested for- barn burning?" "Good lands! No!" "Ever brought to book for breach-of-promise?" "Never!" "Ever poison anybody's well?" "Why, Mr. Harris, how queer you talk! Mr. Thompson has always been considered one of the best men In the countF. I have never heard 1 the slightest thing against him." "And I hain't sayin' a thing agin' him. widder. I'm simply tellin' you to look out for men who go around mutterin" to theirselves like he does. They are plannin" something bad. I sorter feel it's my duty to look about you. Any time you feel troubled, let me know." i Things went on tor months in. a very "i Uncomfortable wav. and then one day as l-armer Thompson was working, about his barn he was greatly surprised to receive a call from Mr. Harris. They had not exchanged a word for weeks. Look here. Thompson." began the other, "there's a feller comes along here quite often selling sewing machines." "Tes. His name is Davenport." "Wall, he calls at the widder Scott's every time he comes this way." "He sold her a machine two years ago." said Thompson, "and I wonder why he keeps calling?" "That's what me and you have got to find out. Is he married or single? is it on business or love? Is he schem- ing to get her farm away: is ne reaay to become a igamist? I heard that he stayed to supper the other after noon. What d'ye think of that!" "By thunder!" was what Mr. Thomp son thought and ejaculated. "Ever ask you to supper?" "Num." "Nor me neither, though I've thrown out a dozen hints.'' "I'd like to know what business you have throwln' out hints!" shouted farmer Thompson as he bristled up. "Don't strain your system hollerin' at me, but help me do something." "What can we do?" "The feller will come along this af ternoon. We want to meet him and tell him to keep away or we'll break his neck!" "So we will!" Animosity was buried for the nonce, and the two men stationed themselves on the highway and laid for the sewing machine agent. When he came along he was halted and asked to give an ac count of himself or take a licking. The bluff didn't seem to .scare. "None o' your business!" was all they could get out of him, and when they reached for him he descended from his buggy and blacked their eyes and left them piled in a heap in a fence corner. "Well?" queried Farmer Thompson, as the pair finally found themselves. "Well?" was answered. "We've been licked, and that goes to show what a dangerous rascal he is. We must go to the widder and tell her about it." "But he's stopped there, as brassy as you please." "Then v.e'll tell her right before him!' "But don't you go to doin' no brag gin'." "Nor you, either." The widow answered the knock on the door. Seated at his ease, and seeming quite at home, was Mr. Daven port. "Widder. we felt it our duty be gan Mr. Thompson, when she Inter rupted with: "Sakes alive, but where are my man ners! This is my husband, Mr. Daven port!" "But but "I drove to the village yesterday and we were married!" The two widowers walked out to the road and stopped and glared at each other for a long minute. (Copyright, 1912, by the McClure Newspaper Syndi cate.) SAYS UNCLE GAV Pity the man with the "holiday blues." His ironical ailment makes him a skeleton at the feast, a radiator of gloom in the midst of merriment, a stranger in a strange land, although he has known the landmarks from in fancy. It is a very real ailment, this black melancholy tnat seizes some of us along about Christmas time. Its fruits are recklessness, sprees and suicide. If you doubt its existence, watch the miiimna of the dailv oarers, and you will find that violence and woe seem- ingly multiply for the unfortunate quite as rapidly as happiness multiplies to those in kindlier circumstances. That's holiday blues getting in their work. Perhaps you don't care to take the newspaper's word for it. Ask the hotel clerk, the trainman, the ticketseller and the policeman. Ask any one who comes into close contact with the pub lic. Tou'll find that hard luck seems naturally a good deal harder in the midst of a season of joy, loneliness, a good deal more poignant, homelessnese never quite so hopeless. Even the comparatively fortunate art affected. Any one who Is out of tune with the gladsome spirit of the holi days, anyone who has for the time lost his keen sympathy with others, whether that sympathy has been dried up by greed or frozen up by misfortune, is a Ukely victim for the prowling demons of gloom who held high carnival be- side the sprites of joy. Christmas and tv.-w tmt's and the dav in hetween New Year's and the days in between bring an extra freight of tragedy, be cause the contrast between unhappy misfortune and happy good fortune are too sharp for the weak and battered hulks of hard luck to bear. It is not enough to argue that you should have had the foresight and the industry to avoid your condition. Pos sibly, you are only compelled to be away from the home that you miss no more than you are missed there. The sad fact is that for one reason or an other, you are up against the bluest and most discouraging period of your life. You're out of tune with all about you, and among your clouds, the sun light seems very far away. Tou'll grope blindly for comfort and you'll get one bit of brutal advice that will be good for you. Right frequently you'll be advised to forget it. Tou'd better take the advice. Tou'll find lit tle consolation and a good deal of dan ger in brooding over your real or fancied misfortunes. The more you scrutinize them, the blacker they'll get. There's one cure for what ails you and only one think about others for awhile. The spirit of the holiday season is generosity, and through gen erosity, good cheer. Tou may be a homeless hobo looking for a place where you may lay your head without freezing, but there is something that you may do for others that will make you of the mad glad conrapany of them that rejoice. If you can't help your self, reach the other fellow a hand and be of the elect. Don't look for gratitude. The beneficiary may be too busy having a good time. Do him a good turn, anyhow. If you have never been absolutely un selfish in your life, now is the time to try It. Loosen up your heartstrings, stretched to the breaking point by your own troubles, and pass a bit of cheer to some other man In the dumps. The fleeting sense of kinship that comes to the door of a kindly deed makes the world brighter and does a lot toward making life look really attractive. The password, grip and countersign of the free masonry of holiday hap piness is "Pass it on." Tou may nol have much to begin with, but it will grow with exercise. It may be only a smile, but smiles are eternal. It may the the pulse-beats of two desperate men bac to normal if rightly applied, jt you're down in the dumps with holiday blues. It's up to you to get into the glad game and be one of us. You may amount to very little but you'll pass for more than face value if you get yourself into circulation. i Come out of it. Forget it. Smile. KANSAS COMMENT MA?f WHO WAS NOT THANKFUL. j once there was a man who was not thankful. When good things carr. his way he raked them in and never said a word. He never saw any beauty in the fields or the woods and no sunset .ever pleased him. He never heard a bird sing, never said howdy to a stranger and never gave a child a piece of candy. His morning and his evening salutation was r grunt. He dragged along through tta rears nntir the thing was over but he didn't die. He was too dried up to die. He Just sort of shriveled up and blew away. And the happy onlookers who gath ered near saw a green vapor hover for a few minutes over his old clothes and then pass with a weird and mournful sound into an abandoned well. And they filled the old well with tin cans and erected a monument over it in the shape of a cucumber. And this was the epitaph "Here Lies a Grouch. Blessed Are the Grateful." Marlon Record. CITT STREETS NOT ALL SHADY. There are hundreds of very rich folks in the city, many thousands who live up every cent they make, and tena of thousands who would be rated as miserably poor by Jewell county standards. Boys "are lured to the city by a one sided view of city life. They see only the wealth of the great pros perous thoroughfares. They ought to go farther and look at the city's mis ery; then average things and compare it with average country life and coun try opportunities. A failure to make good in the city is a tragedy. Jewell County Republican. FROM OTHER PENS MODEST MR. MORGAN. The money czar of America, as he talked on the witness stand before the congressional committee, probably furnished precisely the information desired to point the way toward legis lation designed to impose salutary re strictions upon the money power. Mr. I'srgan deprecates the power of money and employs an unintelligible apotheosils of credit for the purpose of showing the impotency of mere money. The general public will stum ble in its effort to follow him through this labyrinth of reasoning. It is to be expected that a man would enter tain singular notions of wealth who would deny the exercise of power, as Mr. Morgan did, and who would have to search his memory to recall the trifling investment in banks stocks of "only a million or so." The matter of interest, however, is what the Morgan syndicate does and how it does It. rather than what Mr. Morgan thinks of the proceeding; and this is pretty well disclosed. Apparently the great financier talked frankly without mani festation of desire to withhold any- thing. The manipulation of millions was told with indifferent candor; If Mr. Morgan had terminated the inci dent by lighting a cigar his own fa vorite brand of strong Havana with a $10,000 bill, he would have been sur prised at the wonderment it provoked. St. Paul Dispatch. ANGEL OR FAKE. WHICH? Reports that Portugal intends to) spend $40,000,000 on new warships i ana mat American snipDullders may construct part of them, raise the very j f.m r, money to come from? Portugal is probably the most thoroughly bank rupt nation in Europe. The country was hopelessly insolvent when King Manuel was tossed from his throne and since then the republicans have succeeded only in making a bad con dition worse. Matters are so bad, in deed, that the membe j of the govern ment are in constant fear of a new revolution and the re-establishment of the monarchy as the less of two evils. A few days ago a plot to establish a military dictatorship was discovered and a part of the army was supposed to be involved in it. The warships were cleared for action and those tioops believed to be faithful kept under arms. This is only a sample of alarms which are constantly recur ring. Portugal has no money and lit tie credit. If it spends $40,000,000 on ships it must either squeeze a dry lemon or find an angel. Is some other European country the angel, or is the story a fake Detroit Free Press. "Farming methods have changed, haven't they?" "Yep," replied Farmer Corntossel; "now a man thinks he's un lucky if he has to borrow money on hi place. He used to think he was lucky If he was able to." Washington Star. "I want some concomitants with my oysters." "Just out of 'em, sir, but J'il bring you some crackers and pickles In stead." Baltimore American. "Casey, do you know what corporal punishment is?" "Sure, I do." said Private Casey. "It's having a blackguard over ye who thinks he's as good as his colonel." Birmingham Age-Herald. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From- the Philadelphia Record. The way of the transgressor is hard on the Joy rider. A woman's Idea of good form is largely a question of anatomy. It takes a man with a keen sense of humor to Joke with his dentist. Just because a man is bow-legged would you say he has an arch look? The horse than draws the brewery wagon can truthfully say he Is driven to drink. Many a man's ambition extends no f a ther than to be known as a good fello-. It is human nature to long for a little change, even t.iough it may not be for the better. Hoax "Do you belleve the married ma; always gets in a rut?" Joax "Well, he's apt to drift with the tied." "The quality of mercy Is not strained quoted the Wise Guy. "How unsanitary exclaimed the Simple Mug. Tommy "Pop. what is meant by ttie mother tongue?" Tommy's Pop "Sh-h-hi my son. Don't get her started." Sillicus "Do you believe in a club for women?" Cynlcus "A club is much too gentle for some women. I prefer an ax Blobbs "What a dainty littlo handkei chief she cirries. It looks like a cob web." Sloabs-"Yes, a thing like tl.it isn t to be uneezed at." Wlgg "I believe a widow is entitled u One of tham Is chasing me around triiJs: to make aie her fourth." be only a handclasp, a slap on shoulder, but either will bring HUMOR OP THE DAY J 1

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THE Tn-PT;KA DAILY ST TS JOTTRTTAE DECEMBER, 31, 1912 rrSE i; ij in We are going to start the Neiv Year with a rousing January Sale of Women's Finest Wearing Apparel It will eclipse all our former efforts and we advise you to read carefully every word in our large advertisement in tomorrow evening's Journal Sale Starts Thurs day Morning Jan. 2, 1913 LETS BEARD GROW Ioiran Yisiting at Fowler Has Seven Feet of Whiskers. "Wears Them in Huge Coil on Breast. Fowler. Kan., Dec. 31. J. W. Main of Shenandoah, Iowa, the longest bearded man in the United States, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. L. Paden, at this place. If you should happen to meet Mr. Main on the street you wouldn't notice that his whiskers are any heavier than many other men wear, but by closely observing you will notice that he has his beard tucked down the neck of his shirt. He wears it in a coil on his breast. He has Worn it i thus for forty years, only unsheath ing it for the purpose of dressing and caring for it. Mr. Main is "4 years of age and slightly under 6 feet tall. When he stands on a common chair his beard sweeps the floor. It measures just seven feet In length. He has used no hair tonic to produce such a growth of beard, but merely let it grow. He treasures it very highly and seldom unsheathes it for exhibition, but the people of Fowler are clamor ing for a glimpse of this wonderful chin appendage and a public meeting is being planned when Mr. Main will nll-iw all to have a look at this per--si-inul adornment: of his. Many ask Mr. Main why' he does not go on the road; join himself to some show or start one of his own. but be has no ambition in that direction. He has a nice home hack in Iowa and enough money to keep him and his wife comfortably, and they have no desire to spend the uneven, rough-and-tumble l.e which is common to all who follow the road. Mr. Main has had flattering offers from show com panies, but has turned them all down. As far as is known there is no other living man with such a growth of beard. You often hear of others, but when it comes to finding Mr. Main's equal it has not yet been done. With out doubt Mr. Main's claims are safe. M ARE DODGE RELIGIOUS CENTER Church, Collejre. Hospital and Paper Arc Planned. Iodge City, Kan., Dec. 31. According to Bishop Hennessy. of Wichita, who recently inspected the work here of the Catholic seminary being established In old Soule college, the Catholics want to make Dodge the religious center of the southwest. "I hope to see the church have as much in Dodge as in Wichita." he said, "a college, hospital and publication." Hoisington, Kan., recently offered the Catholics a $12,000 building if the hos pital is established there but it now looks like Dodge will get it. PIONEER EDITOR NEAR DEATH. Ciluiore Has Owned and Published Same Paper Since 1870. Fredonia, Kan., Dec. 31. John S. Oilmore. the veteran Kansas editor, is dangerously ill here. Oilmore estab lished the Wilson County Citizen in April. 1S70. and is believed to be the oldest continuous editor and owner in the state. Sells HaJf a Ton of Turkeys. Russell. Kan., Dec. 31. O. G. Mun eell, a farmer near this city, has the distinction of bringing to Russell for tile New Years trade, the finest load of turkeys that was ever marketed In the county. There were seventy birds, and they welshed more than (t james Jt. jj 605 Kansas Avenue j j Hayden extends to you his best wishes Jar your happi ness and success during the coming year. Topeka January 1st, 1913. hi V "MA F THE NEW YEAR BE A MOST HAPPY AND PROS PEROUS ONE FOR ALL! PROPER APPAREL FOR ttOMEN 605 Kansas Avenue 1,000 pounds, an average of more than fourteen pounds each. A. L. Boyd purchased the load and gave Mr. Munseli a check for $132.60, the larg est check ever Riven for a load of poultry in the history of Russell. SHOOTS AVIFE AND HIMSELF. Probably Fatally Wounded. AA'oman Believes Husband Insane. I'daH, Kan., Dec. 31. Thomas Ash worth, 3 7 years old, a farmer living four miles north of this place, shot his wife. Brittle, 3 5, dangerously wound ing her, and then killed himself. He was believed to be, insane. Ashworth called to his wife to come out of the house at 3 o'clock, saying he wanted to talk to her. When she opened the door, he fired two shots at her from a double barreled shotgun. He then reloaded the weapon and fired a third shot. The first two shots struck the woman in the head, the third tore off her right arm. Ash worth then fired two hots at his child without effect. Turning the weapon upon himself, he committed suicide. Mrs. Ashworth was taken to a hos pital at Winfield. Kan. Her recovery is doubtful. At the hospital Mrs. Ash worth said she believed her husband was insane. "We never have had a quarrel," she said. "Tom always has been very kind to me, but of late he has acted strangely." Ashworth has lived near here tor 30 years. BROOM CORN" MEN ANGRY, Low Prices Will Result In Decreased Acreage. learned, Kan.. Dec. 31. Much dis couragement is noted in the broom corn sections of western .Kansas and. Ok lahoma because of the low market this season. Practically no good has been derived from the widespread move ment to standipat for higher prices and many raiders are planning to discon tinue the crop. This bitterness is es pecially noticeable near Woodward. Ok., where a 100 per cent average crop is bringing but $22.50 to $70 a ton. A considerable acreage reduction is predicted for next season. S YRACTSE WAST MAIL DELIVERY Village System Will Be Tried Out In Kansas. Syracuse. Kan., Dec. 31. The Com mercial club has started a campaign for free mail delivery here under the "village free delivery law" passed by congress last August. Wamego, the only Kansas town now having the ser vice was one 14 originally chosen by the postofflce department to try the new "village" system. St. John, Kan., will become the fifteenth town" in the United States to get the service on January 1. Syracuse aspires to be the sixteenth, giving Kansas the first two new acquisitions. Squirrel Hunter Shoots Girl. Winfield, Kan., Dec. 31. Bernice Gregg was accidentally shot by Wal ter Utt, who was hunting squirrels in a strip of timber near town. Miss Gregg was one of a party of four who were engaged in taking kodak views of the Walnut river, near where Utt was hunting. A .22 caliber bullet fired at a squirrel struck Miss Gregg in tho center of the forehead and imbedded itself in the skin, but not penetrating the skull. The young lady was picked up by her companions, placed in an automobile and hurried to a physician, who extracted the bullet. The wound is not dangerous unless blood poisoning or brain fever results. To Vote on High School Bonds. Manhattan, Kan., Dec. 31. The scnooi Doara ot the city of Manhattan is preparing to call an election to vote on a proposed bond issue of $100,000 to build a modern high school building. m R. R. Peterson, Manager. 111 R 20 YEARS Charles Riggs, Advance 3Ian, Has Been Coming to Topeka. He and L. 31. Crawford Cronies. Old Charles Riggs, advance agent for "Madame Sherry," which will be heard at the Grand January 7. spent Monday in Topeka, renewing auld acquaintance and enumerating the attractions of Gypsie Dale, who carries the role of Yvonne in the show. Mr. Riggs, who is an old crony of L. M. Crawford, In sists that he spent his early days shooting Indians on. the Kansas plains. Afterward he deteriorated and became a mere press agent. He and Mr. Craw ford had a combination circuit. The latter carried plays as far as Phoenix, and Mr. Riggs presented them on the Pacific coast. Mr. Riggs comes of a family of ac tors. He has a grandson, recently grad uated from long clothes, whom he de clares is the future tragedian of the American stage. His son, Ralph Riggs, comes to the Grand February 17 with Kitty Gordon in the "Enchantress," the most expensive comedy on the road. Charlie Riggs is all that a press agent should be genial and full of fun. He's been In town before with "Florodora," "The Telephone Girl." "The Geisha." Fred Innes, and the Military band. In fact, Mr. Riggs has been coming to Topeka for over 20 years. Gypsie Dale, who takes the part of the roguish, convent-bred Yvonne, is an English comedian, and introduced "Madame nerry" in London. She was in Cape Town only a month ago, and has been in Australia for a successful season. According to Mr. Riggs, she is an exceptionally attractive little art ist. "Madame Sherry" is making only a few one-night stands it's in Denver for a week at present, and from To peka goes to Chicago and St. Paul. The play, after four seasons is as pop ular as when Una Abarbanell intro duced it jn New York. WED IN 17 WORDS. Miss Maud Insrersoll and Husband Follow New Ritual. New York,. Dec. 31. A 17 word cere mony was a feature of the marriage of Miss Maude R. Ingersoll, daughter of Col. Robert Ingersoll, the agnostic who died in 1SS9, to Wallace McLean Probasco, of Cincinnati, at the bride's home here. The ceremony was one adopted by the Ethical Culture society and approved by the New York state laws. After an address by Dr. J. L. Elliott, a leader of the society, on the responsibilities of the marriage rela I tion. the bridegroom placed a plain ring on the bride's finger and they re peated this ritual: "With this ring I thee wed in love j and truth for life; till death do us i part." The bride has for some years been actively identified with philantropic and suffrage work. Mr. Probasco is the son of Wallace Probasco, a grand son of the late William McLean, and a nephew of the late John McLean, su preme court justice. RUSSIA TURNS TO OIL. Oil Lands Arc Withdrawn From Pri vate Enterprise. Washington, Dec. 31. Convinced that the supply of coal Is inadequate and that oil will be the fuel of the future, the Russian government is reported by American Consul General Snodgrass, at Moscow, to be making elaborate pre parations to make ready that country for the changing conditions. Millions of acres of rich oil lands have been withdrawn from private en- terprise, but regulations are being; drawn which will encourage private I capital to investigate and develop the properties under strict government supervision. Already there is a rapid increase in the use of oil and naphtha for fuel, says Mr. Snodgrass. and many Russian mills and big manufacturing establishments have remodelled their 1 plants so as to abandon the use of i coal. Harlem Tommy Is Ready. San Francisco, Dec. 31. "Harlem Tommy" Murphy and Frankie Burns of Oakland, lightweights, scheduled for a 20-round fight tomorrow after noon, announced they were fit, and 'trainers and sparring partners in each camp rested. Burns is a 10 to 8 bet ting favorite. i Woman In Responsible Place. j Atlantic City. Dec. 31. It is be-1 lieved that precedent is established in municipal affairs; in this country by j ths appointment iof a w-oman as city Sale Starts Thurs day Morning Jan. 2, 1913 comptroller here. Bliss Bessie Towns end," 24 years old, received the ap pointment at a salary of $1,500 a year. She will have care of over $3,000,000 and the sale of all the city's bonds. The young woman's signature will ton necessary for every cent paid out by the city. JONES ENTERS BIG RAGE Amateur Record Holder Will Try for 1,000 Yard Honors. Ithaca,' X. Y., Dec. 31. It was learned today that John Paul Jones, the Cornell senior who holds the world's amateur record for running a mile, has sent in his entry for the 1,000 yard special scratch race which will feature the games of the Irish American Athletic club in Madison Square garden. New York, on the night of February 6. It is expected Jones will measure strides with such prominent runners as "Tad" Meredith, holder of the world's half mile rec ord; "Mel" Sheppard, the world's 1.000 yard record holder, and Abel Kiviat, the world's 1,500 meter record holder. FINES END OLD GASES Four Railroads WHI Pay 81,000 Each for Violating Law. Chicago, Dec. 31. Four railroad companies were fined $1,000 each yes terday by United States District Judge Carpenter for violation of Interstate Commerce laws. j The Lehigh Valley, and the Nickel Plate were fined for paying rebates on shipments of fish and oysters to A. Booth Co. The Illinois Central and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads were fined for issuing fraud ulent passes to caretakers of bananas on shipments of the fruit to Chicago. All of the roads pleaded guilt-. The indictments In each case were more than three years old. GOETHALS TO CABINET? Builder of Panama Canal May Secretary of War. Be Chicago, Dec. 31. A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington says: "President-elect Wilson may ap point Colonel G. Wr. Goethals, builder of the Panaman canal, as his secretary of war. It is certain that Colonel Goethals will be promoted by law to the grade of major general as a re ward for his services. At the same time Colonel W. C. Gorgas, who has had charge of the sanitation work in the zone, will be promoted to briga dier general." SENDS BRICKS BTMAIL Dealer Sends Out Samples Weighing Three Tons. Gary, Ind., Dec. 31. William H. Fiffe Parry, a brick dealer, startled the force of the Gary postoffice when two big dray wagons drove up to the local postoffice and delivered one thousand heavy paving bricks. The bricks, which weighed six thousand pounds, were wrapped and stamped and are to go out on the parcels post delivery on January 1. Postmaster John W. Callman and Chief Clerk Joseph Tracey and the other clerks spent most of the after noon carrying the bricks into the par cels post section. Parry is sending the bricks out as samples. NO DROUTH IN SIGHT. Million and a Half Drinks of Scotch on One Ship. New York, Dec. 31. Coincident with the vernacular call of "All aboard the water wagon," there were 1.440 000 drinks of Scotch whisky, 72.000 bottles, or 6,000 cases being unloaded at the dock of the steamship' Camer- onia. from Glasgow today. At retail the shipment represents $288,000, one of the largest consignments ever re ceived here in one ship. l55" yand E"Ver- v- a .a. a drawers roll on 12 steel wheels, with a double action that en ables the heaviest drawer to roll in and out at the lightest touch. Mighty interesting;. Come in and see Iiotp it works. Crane and Company Stationers and Printers 110-112 East Eighth Street Ml 256 FIRES That Is Xumber in Topeka for Year 1912. Property Loss Was Only $58, 439, Says Chief. A REMARKABLE RECORD Prompt and Efficient lVork Kept Loss Down. Causes of Fires and Summary of Work for Year. "This has been a year of threatening fires well taken care of," said Fire Chief Wilmarth this morning. "On the whole, I consider 1912 a good year. Although we have had ten more fires than we had last year, damages have been $72,000 less. Not a life has been lost either in the service or out of it. With the co-operation of the property owners I am hoping 1913 may be as satisfactory as the year that is closins today. There have been 256 fires in 1912 and the chief has attended every one of them night and day. "Great values have been at stake," the chief continued. "Often the loss might have exceeded $60,000. If the service had not been quick and effi cient this would have been a bad year." Interesting statistics were unearthed by a State Journal reporter who ex amined the company's books with the aid of an adding machine. It is plain that 1912 has been, as Mr. Wilmarth declared, a year of menacing fires cleverly handled. 'Much," said the chief, "depends upon the property owners. They should co-operate with the service in every possible way. Owners should keep down the fire risks in their own buildings. They should ercise the most exquisite care. A building should be protected, an alarm should be quickly rung in the department will do the .rest to the best of its ability. "Our losses," the chief continued, "are smaller than in most cities the size of Topeka. Credit is due the en tire force. We have one of the best bodies of men in the country. No where is there more efficient service, more thorough service, more punctil- ious discharge of duty than here." 4iii,rt ,v, nn Trrc in. the treasury of the fire service than last year, several important purchases have been made. 'We have our new motor apparatus," explained Mr. Wilmarth, "and the chief's car. I hope to add more this year. The quicker a fire is reached the greater the loss is lessened." Statistics for the two years compare as follows: 1911 total losses, $72,118.25; total insurance, $507,625; insurance paid, $60,800; total valuation, $1,158,710. 1912 total losses, $58,439; total in surance, $483,829; insurance paid, $48,233.05; total valuation, $950,000. The loss, therefore, is actually $72, 118.25 less than it was last year an enormous profit for the fire depart ment.. Of the;loss, $31,232.00 results from destruction of the buildings themselves, and $27,207 from con tents. The insurance on buildings was $314,150, and that on contents $169,679. Despite the decided lessen ing of loss, there have been ten more fires In the last twelve months than there were in the year preceding 246 in 1911, 256 in 1912. These fig ures are approximate, several losses have not been adjusted, and reports are made only until December 28. The causes this year are much the same as last. Old Man Incendiary, who creeps about alleys after dusk, a lighted torch in his hand, is near the head of the list. Several fires entered as "unknown" might doubtless be at tributed to him. Bonfires have been responsible for many a merry blaze. Youngsters scratch matches' on their corduroys, drop the sizzling sulphur into a rubbish heap, and a cottage, a barn, or a playhouse, ultimately dis appear in smoke. The chief has added a new item to his list of "Bewares!" Beware of elec tric Irons! Housewives wont to leave irons on boards, must readjust their ideas of domestic science. An ordin: iron grows cold if you leave it, the electric grows hot. They're one of the ten important causes for fires in 1912. Spontaneous combustion, electric wiring, gas leaks, and sparks on shin gle roofs are enrolled as responsible for a large amount of damage from fire. Gas stoves have caused more losses than anything else. Watch the hot stoves in the cold weather! There are few chemical fires in To peka, few blazes from automobiles, and exceedingly few from defective flues. The fire at which most persons were injured this year was the one occur ring at 215-217 Ji.ast Fifth street natural gas exploded in a rooming house occupied by Mrs. M. E. Rupp- ngnt, ana owned hv Postmaster Rnririrs AlthrncVi tho io -a.aa barelv $150. six ueonle were serionslv burned. The nre resulted in a law 1 suit, filed this month in the first di vision of the district court. The most costly fire of 1912 took place nearly a year ago at the resi dence of A. B. Qulnton, 1243 Topeka avenue. The loss was estimated at $9,358.78. Choice furniture, clothing and jewelry were sacrificed to the god of flame. The fire started from a gas stove, and was well under way before it was discovered. Tiie second large fire of the year was the one occurring February 26 at the Marshall Brothers' drug store, 515 Kansas avenue. An alcohol lamp, carelessly filled, resulted in the loss of $2,638.65. On July 31 Clement Crawford's dry goods house, 419-421 Kansas ave nue, lost about six thousand dollars from an Incendiary fire. The H. B. Howard store, resulting in one of the largest fire sales of the year, burned from an unknown cause on August 30. The loss was estimated at $2,526.50. The middle of October Mrs. E. R. Sweezey fled in her night gown from her burning store. A grocery shop and residence, owned by Harry Keitz man and occupied by Mrs. Sweezey, received damages amounting to $3,926. October 15, by the way. was the record date for expensive fires. Be sides the Keitzman property, the storage house owned by Skinner Gayhart was burned on that day. The blaze was one of the most spectacular of the year. The loss has not yet been adjusted, but damage received on the building itself amounted to more than three thousand dollars. High Rnance. "What do you charge for a glass of milk?" "Ten pfennigs.' "Can I go with you into the shed and have it straight from the cow "Yes,' but that will be 15 pfennigs." FUegentie Blaetter. A Happy New Year TO EVERYONE we extend the felicitations of the season, with heartiest wishes that the New Year of 1913 may bring to one and all happiness and success in gener ous measure N OTE Thursday, at 8 A. M., begins our Semi Annual Sale of Hart, Schaffner Marx $30, $28, $25, -j $22.50 Suits and Overcoats at JL U PATENT OFFICE PAYS. There la Spw a Surplus of Over Seven Million Dollars. Washington, Dec. 31. The marked prosperity of the country is reflected in the receipts of the United States (patent office from fees for applications, according to Edward B. Moore, com missioner of patents in his annual re port today to the secretary of the in terior. The total receipts of the office, for the fiscal year ending June 30, were $2,094,059 compared with $1,987,778 for the previous fiscal year. The total ex penditures were $2,025,912 and the net surplus of receipts over expenditures was $68,147. The grand total of net rxxrav till A vmaTI fl 1 1 1 1 rPH ift HOW 070 g '''u'': ,j v. r,i..inni,r Figures presented by Commissioner 1 Moore Indicate the volume of business of the patent office has materially in creased in the past fiscal year. The number of applications for patents for inventions aggregated 69,236 against 65,- 154. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911. The total number of applications for patents for inventions for designs, for reissue of patents, registration of trade marks, labels, prints, disclaimers to patents and appeals was 81,459 com pared with 76,383 for the fiscal year 1911. The report shows there were 35,539 patents granted, including reissues and designs and 4.63a trade marks, 625 lab els and 268 prints were registered dur ing the last fiscal year. The number of patents that expired was 19,639. The number or allowed applications wmcn were by operation of law forfeited for nonpayment of the final fees was 6, 970. The number of applications for me chanical patents shows an increase of 4,082 over the previous fiscal year or 6.26 per cent, an increase for the ten years since 1903 of 40.72 (per cent. The establishment of the patent of fice as an independent bureau of the government is recommended by Com missioner Moore. In this connection he points out that since the decisions of the commission er are now final within the office and that appeals are no longer made to secretary of the interior, the connec tion of the patent office with the de partment is so slight that it would seem that its separation and establish ment as an independent bureau is em inently desirable." The commissioner also recommends that a new building be erected for the patent office. The present quarters he says are insanitary and crowded and valuable records are in constant dan ger of destruction by fire. DREAM OF FIRE REAL In Sleep Girl Calls Department to Save ramily. New York, Dec. 31. Alone in her father's house in the Bronx, 10-year-old Grace Jess dreamed so realistically of a terrible fire during last night that without being conscious of her act, she rushed to the telephone and spread an alarm that the house was burning. She called for father from his night work and almost simultaneously he and a number of policemen and fire appartus arrivea at me nine i.irte- story frame dwelling to learn that all the fire they had to extinguish was the fever of the little girl's dream. She was found on the floor with the tele phone receiver still in her nand, fast asleep. SPARKS FROM PARIS. Eiffel Tower Wireless Signal Caught at Arlington, Va. Washington, Dec. 31. The navy department's new wireless tower near Arlington, Va., has succeeded in catching the time signal from the Eiffel tower in Paris, a distance of nearly 3,900 miles, according to in formation given out at the navy de partment here today. The fact became known in con nection wun me pians mat are oeing i maue to a.LLinit iu reuuii ine n.uiei tower and other stations throughout: the world at midnight tonight to flash a "New Year's greeting." FROM GERMANY TO KANSAS. Vice Consul From Vnitcd States Visits His Old Schoolmate. Garden City, Kan.. Dec. 31. W. W. Brunswick, United States vice consul to Germany, is in this city spending his vacation with Geo. E. Brown, superintendent of schools. He is a Kansas boy and formerly attendel school in Emporia, Kan. This is his sixth year of consular service and he will return to Germany January 10 to resume his duties. aBBSESHSSEa Auerbach Guettel M CLOTHING COS L. BL PENWELL! Undertaker and Embalmer. THOS. E. JONES, Assistant Phone 193. 508-510 Qulncy St. Foils A Foul Plot. When a shameful plot exists between liver and bowels to cause distress by re fusing to act, take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and end such abuse of your system. They gently compel right action o( tsloii -ach. liver and bowels, and restore your health and all good feelings. 2So at Campbpll Drug Co. Adv. BETRAYED BY A CAT. Jesse Ponieroy Attempts to Escape From Prison. Boston,'. Dec. 31. Jesse Pomeroy, whose crimes startled the country 40 years ago, has attempted unsuccess fully to escalae from the state prison at Charlestownj. The convict left his cell by sawlnjr three bars from the door. The meow ing of a cat which followed Pomeroy along the corridor attracted the. at tention of Thomas Brassel. an attend ant, and when he ordered the mur derer to throw up his hands the pris oner made no resistance. Pomeroy, who is 5 3 years old. was sentenced to be hanged in 18 74 for the brutal murders of a small girl and boy, Katie Curren and H. H. M.ll.m in South Boston. The sentence was com muted to life imprisonment in solitary Guard Brassel had just entered the Fort Russell section of tho prison on hi3 hourly round when "Buster," the yellow bob-tailed prison cat. Jumped out from beside the wall meowing persistently. Brassel looked in that direction and saw a man crouched near the electric light switchbox. The guard recognized Pomeroy. "Throw up 'your handa!" he cried. The prisoner obeyed and reinforced by a "trusty," whom he had called. Brassel marched Pomeroy to another cell. A search of the prisoner's clothimr and his cell revealed two pieces of steel and ono of tin fashioned Into crude saws and drills. He had drilled fine holes through three cell bars and then sawed through them. YOUNGSTERS TO REPORT McGraw Orders Nine Pitchers to Mar lin for Training. New York, Dec. 31. Nine young pitchers have been ordered to report at the New York National League baseball camp at Marlin, Texas, when the spring training begins, to show their qualifications for a place on the Giants' pitching staff. Manager Mc Graw said today he was going to make a greater effort than ever hpfr.ro to build up a strong set of men for the box. Most of the youngsters are right handers. Tho recruits are Fred Smith of the Michigan State league; Fred Schupp of the Three I league; E. K. Perryman of the Virginia league; D. A. Robertson from a small college in the south; Larue Kirby of the Michi gan State league; Tom Hanley of the Ohio State league; Theodore "Gouliat, who pitched last season for Indian apolis; Lou Bader of the Texas league, and Al Demaree. who pitched a few games for the Giants at the end of last season. BIG FIGHT WEDNESDAY Al Palzer Will Outwelph McCarty In New Year's Bout. SanFranclsco, Dec. 31. Al Palzer will weigh at least ten pounds more than Luther McCarty when they en ter the ring for their battle at Ver non tomorrow. Right up to tonight the heavyweights were to continue their conditioning, though they ta pered down their work somewhat to day and eliminated boxing from the program. Even money still prevailed at betting centers today. Indications are that neither of tho men will be- choice when the gonz sounds to start their "quarrel." MORE SHOW Oil COAST Additional Bad Weather Promised Snow 11 Feet Ieep. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 31. With snow 14 feet deep at Cascade Tunnel, Great Northern trains 24 hours or more late, began sliding down the western slope before daybreak today with prospect of landing hundreds of passengers in Seattle before night. The storm appears to have moder ated, but heavy rains continued in the low lands and the weather bureau has issued warnings of another etorm, coming south and southwest. A

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THE Pvdts'KA DAILY STITS .TQTTFtETAli-"' DECEMBER. 31, 1912 SANTA FE MAE Rood Pays $l,l0,Oeo to Kan sas in Last 12 Months. More Than $100,000 a Month Paid to Treasuries. TOPEKA LINE TAXED HiGH Irom This City to Kansas City $1,100 a 31ile. Large Portion of Payments Are Made Here. From a report just compiled by E. T Cart"dg" tax commissioner of the Atchison. To'.ka Santa Fe railway. It is found that this railroad for the vear 1912 paid in property taxes in Kanns mors than J 1. 198.000. This 1 the actual railroad assessment and ioe not include, the thousands of dollar- paid out by the Santa Fo for spe cial taxes, paving, sever;; and outside holdings. Th- Santa Fe oiK-rates 2.SS6 miles of track n Kansas. The most valuable assessed piece of track in the state Is the stretch lietuwn Topeka and Kun sas Citv taxed l.H a mile. The Wichita branch at J264 a. mile is the lowest in the state. The average mil? of taxable right of way and terminals in the state costs the Santa Fe $43-1 in taxes. Fitrured down to tlv minute it costs the Santa Fe four dollars every sixty seconds in tusw a year in this f;tate. The road pays more than $100, 000 a month in this manner. Immrnir Amount on the System. In the annual report it is tl.own thai the road paid out Jt.'.W in system taxes for the lst fiscal year, in ether word;;, the Sjnta Fe paid out more -.hail S'O C' a day in taxes on the system. It is shown hv this report that the roai" pays a pnrtion o its entire assessment in Kan- TUe taxes per mile in several of tile representative states follows: Kansas SI" a mile Missouri a mile Oklahoma $-l a "'1! Texas "o a mile Colorado i: Iowa $1,000 a mi!" It is figured that the taj:es over the system have increased SO per cut in five ears. This is caused, it is stated. hy ad Verse legislation, increased valuation and In a small part by an inert-act i.i the pror-tiiy- Secretary Hitchcock AY ill Prop First Package in Parcels Post. Washington. Dec. 21. The first package to be mailed in Washington tinder the pro risions of the new par cel? post system will be deposited )r the city postoffice immediately alter midnight tonicht by Inst.maatr Gen eral Hitchcock. Surrounded by offi cials of the department and members ".f .he board which bad ch:ir.. of t he work of preparation Mr. Hitchcock, v ill help "to inaugurate, the new ser vice v. ith a touch of official formality. AVhile. fiO.OOO postoffices will be come stat'ons for the receipt of paok KRe mail mattor tomorrow the great majority of them will be open on'y a few hours because of the Xcw Year holiday regulations. Officials of the department hope that the increase of package business will therefore be gradual and postal system will be able to adapt itself to the demands of the new service be fore the end of the week. INJURED MAN IS DEAD E. V. Jacobs Veil Through Window of Pullman. Wicbita, Dec. 31. E. W. .Taeobs. ajre 73, of Minneapolis. Minn., c'.ku at p hos pital here today from wounds caused by falling from a train at Furley, Kansas, Saturday night. He was going to visit his d.iughter at Watonga, Oklahoma. He re!l out of a Tullman ear window. LOCAL MENTION. An alarm from Seventh and .Tacl:son etreets at J o'clock this afternoon called out all down town fire companies. Firr In a conduit causej no damage. Vror. Cain will give a danee at t' 7 Kast Kishth ft rest tonight. New Year's eve. Ki'i.iay evening an old fashioned "luy eel" hall will to given. Dnnviag New A'ear's afternoon and Moonlight ball .u night. Eelle Hughes, charged v.:th forslng a deed to property near Nowata, Ok;.. wes loun(l o"er following a rjreliminti.-- in tht- ounty court late yesterday afternooi". i She is ciiarged with forging the name oi i Juamta Albert! to a deed to props rty owned bj- the latter. The deed was ac knowledged bpfore W. 1. Jamjtfou. Tna woman was positively identifieil by Jami son. All of the parties are said to lc Indians. Charging that, her husband is guilty of habitual u.e of lio.u.tr. .i extremely cruel and charges her with faitlnevpriess. t. -lessie Miller thi- morning fiU suit in the district eoiut against Toy Mille.'. seeking divorce. T'ncy wer m.rriejt fc- t toher 2. li'S, sne says. She wants hj: niaiden name. Jcf sie Payi'.e, restored. A mortgage given by the A;misrmrt.t Syndicate company, siirned hy U. M. aifi Tloy Crawford, to tite MuluaV Life Irur-ar..-c 4-onipany of Net; York, for f..ii.i vi. covering tr? building cfcupieti by tlu: onimercial olnU. was; filed for record i, the office of Rohert F. Tasker. register ffeetls. this morning. T'.ie mortgage is t-j run rix years. nd bosrs ir.teref at tnc rate of r.iL. per cent. It is dated Decem ber 3S, iOU'. Countv Conim! :piorer-e!ec t Freeman Fills Nipris has filed bis bend and oai:i f on ice with KoLe.-t 1 Tasker. registc r i ,of deeds The bond is for JSAVi and is given in the Southwestern Surety Insur ance company It was filed and approvej. by Taslier this morning New York Money Market. New York. Dec. 81. MONKY Money en call firm, higher. 6 tier cent: lowest. oer c-ut: ruling rate 6 per cent: last loan. 3ij, per cent: closing bid 3 per cent: or ganized at Sij per cent: time, loans, weak er; 0 dsys. 6 per cent: SJ Hays, 5.i,i per cent: months. Gt-jiA per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paner. 6 oer Cent. I Sterling exchange firm with actual bus! Bess'in 'nankers' bills at ?-t.M for sr div tillts and at S4.S5.25 for demand. Commr I.i I bills. fl.Si. SILVKK Bar silver, Si'-'Ue-, Mexican dol lars. 4?r. HON"! 'S-rfiovernmcrit bonds st-ady, rail road bonds, firm. lfJr :p-1 T re 4 V-

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-nna Ijoyd, Coaiedirnn SHE LOVES TO LAUGH, Comedienne With 4 "Louisiana I.ou'' Prcutl of Her Part. "I never come to Topeka," said Misrs Anna Eoyd, star of Louisiana Lou, tc be si'.-.g at the Grand tonight, "with-ottt-thinking -of a x-haracter in Charlie Hcyt's 'Stranger in New York.' His name was I. Collyer Down from To j.eiia, end he was one of the funniest chaps 1 have ever i-ecn on the stage." Miss Boyd, refund, gracious, with a deep contralto voice, was rising from a iest.1 in her suit? at the Nation; hotel. She greeted the reporter jovia li- "Yo'i know, I clwuys smile, she cx- nla'ped "it tots to me ioiiv. Some j r f, ,",1f ,t 1 tn comect.-ns a.-e ii;sr.Hcd it yoa rcer -to them as comedians: the desire of thei life is to play roles that are melodra niiitic and tragic. Now, 1 m not tnai j way at all. f have always been in I'm not that i comedy, and always want to he. It's easy to make people cry. It's harder to inc..-.. i... .1.1 ..v. declared Miss Pcyd, ana tr.nt fact." Miss Toy:l was !.i:.t here several sea- fgp.s ago in Dave Henderson's extrava- miivn A l.flrliri tin. frjr imC5V.

once .'.vrs in "A Trip to Chinatown. j which played in Tcpeka about 1SS2. The company goes directly to Wichita j tomorrow, and will spend New Year's i eve en the train. "Yc were in Jopha Tor Christm-ar," Miss Eoyd observed, "wo had a banquet after the perform- j ance a six foot tree and all sorts of presents from the 5 and 10 cent store, j We cidr. t go to bed at all." Miss Hoy;! carries tnc ro:e oi-jennj, the chaprrone. in tha piay this even ing. "I'm the one." hr cX5!ained, that i'.l make you laugh." The actress ij er;-.-cially irtcrcsted in her wcrtcrr. trip. "My ho re cor,? toid me." she declared, "that if I went w?t this season I would find my affinity, Of cc-rrdc." nonchalantly "I've hat one affinity, but thin is to be th" kept one. He's to hive ilond hr.Ir. I met a birr b'.cnii man in Miisiuri. and told him he wits doubtless my fate. Ur.fort- unate'.y. he turned out to be a senator arid a married man. !?nt." concTuded .!:ss Boya. witn tee optimism of her profession. "I am hoping still. AT THE PLAY. The rrjuier.ee hired the bill at the Nov elty this week. They filled the theater and. arter the shof-' was over, poured from th". house in .".n endless stream as tiie water poured down at Lodoro. Queer thing ahout t! -o musical part of the r:-o- gram in the afternoon, at b-ast. not a rlafsical number was-given. This is ths first v.eck one hasr.'t been elec'.ritici with Traviata. Trovatcre. or William Tell iiH:TT,r-ii out lilte two-steps. The hi ef tho rvrfnrmnpra seem.l f. be K'ei,-.. ott. r.nd Nic'.iol.on. in musit K-V4r S', 1 41 life vi V' r 4 r i 3" t tic? vjy it i k i- s i& y w VV' f "-i-S I tr,i It --3 comedy. Tfiev have been in Topefca b-- I ooerat ion in Kansas, Doiley declares. A fore. a. id were received with jo;.-. Klein--copy of the Kansos law witi be sent to if he's. the rosy boy in lat rd flannel.-. j IirJtind he vill rhanininn the Dew mp;i sr '.erd t lv selections with, f un. .rAn'betr? ir when the Hawaii legislature con waat a nice, fat boy 7" ho sobbed, and the ver.eo in February. 4 "i-, -v J' kK yfi ox fn'i, jxit'S4., "W" 1 o Willi Louisiana I.on. audien'-'e apparentlv wanted a good deyi of him. Allr.ian and Ncvins. doing the "Tenor and the Country Girl," had an act that went qui kly, though not especially new. The country girl were plaid fearful and wonderful to see. If she liaa lost a check, the re.suit would have been disaster. EotV. funs: weil. Johnson's dogs opened .the progra:c. The wideawake bull pup and the cocky fcx terriers performed like youngr-ler. and were quite as entertaining. 1 iie feature act was the Bader-La Yct'e trio, comedy cyclists. The girl in the troupe begging her pardon was as agi'e as a monkey, and the clown very funny. Kisie Murphy is the songstress. There han't besn a really star one-person act at the Novelty tlii- year, but Miss Mur rdiv is as ;;ood as any of theiM. Perhaps 1 'explained, "trrvciins by 'yourself Is loi.e some." The proper thing to do to go to the Novelty at 7:15. and the Majestic at Change in colicy at the latter theater has VreP.shov, program daily. "(7oile.Te Chums." rinui)n fhiu t- ot-!r la short, snappy, and Erood to ec les hur,y- buriy than the "Cook J.arlies" Union." Th? scene is a college boy's room wit1'. i f'o regulation pennants and sid jbe.arci. Why have a sideboard in a stuc.rnt a loom. m 1 1. i... .-y Mut ,.u iitr.L v.n: ne. i ne luiiee cmi.ii: tiumv:- i.n''s and I.erov I-.inslow wear ice cream i and. rah-rah cans that ,re ir-oI'-li orite. The-re in iove sun uertruuo J.awreneo ana .iaolir:e lvl'e, :i:vut; t.,i i"' llv tneir aunt uonna iucia oe .-livacurei. y'ps, that was her name. Donna Lucia fails to put i-.i an appearance, and Her c htracu is n-sumea by Jam Ierf whe t'nnsfn'tJ i:ie ..icitj livi iu i;i u:ui please the students. Rrn-j't is a mixui and final ft ii- itou-i adjustment of course. Tho crorus wore somp rretty ciother. and lni some pretty steps. P. Did vou rotice Mary Jane? A. L. H J. R, SIBLEY IS DEAD, i;a,i Wcrini i" Snnl;i l"c in Tonefca Years.

j j j;. siblsv. who served thirtv-five j Vears as a clerk' in the offices of the :.nta Fe in this citv died today at his I home, S03 West Thirteenth street, The cat-se of death was pneumonia, 1 Sibley, for the last fifteen years, ha3 j been clerk in charge of private car line mileage in trie office of John AY. i.','..ii.. tt- .i :..T,V::' h .V.Vf, i IJTJ era! manager. He has beer, one of the vet?ran of fice employees of the road. Bliie Skv I-vr for liawail. Distant Hawaii is now planning to adept the Kansas blue sky law as a part of the?r territorial legislation. A letter 1 was received today hy Viank Commission or J. N. Doiley frora Charles S. Dole, a 1 member of th? Hawaiian legislature in j .which he asks for a copy or the Kansas h?: and 'Cvrlarc3 that a similar bill is to I be introduced in the territorial iesrislature m h ehruary. Many states whi"h have not adopted t! blue sky Jaw. will this winter urge passage of a bill similar to the on? r.v a' s a ni,v OBIENTSHAKEUP Edward Dickinson, General Manager, Loses His Place. M. J. Kennelly, Rock Island 3Ian, Gets Place. Kansas City. Dec. 31. Edward Dick inson has been deposed as general manager of the Kansas City, Mexico Orient railroad and M. J. Kennelly, formerly a division superintendent of the Chicago. Rock Island Pacific rail way named in his place according to an announcement from the railway headquarteM here today. The resigna tion of Frederick Mertzheimer as su perintendent of motive power also was announced. Disagreements among the various re ceivers who hove had t"ie railway com pany in charge for several months is said to have brought about the shake up. Counting the receivers appointed for the subsidiary companies and those named in different states eleven re ceivers have charge of the Orient com pany's; .affairs. There ore three for Kansas and Oklahoma, two for Texas, i two for Mexico, one each for the Kan sas City Outer Belt -railway and the townsite company and two for the In ternational and Union Construction company, the last named, concerns be ing subsidiaries of the Orient.' It was stated, that Mr. Dickinson re tains the place of vice president but has merely a 'thinking' part" in the af fairs of the road. A FIRE CONGRESS. T!io PiTiTntian Association Will Ieot in Topokn February 5. The fire congress proposed at the re cent annual meeting of the Kansas State Fire Prevention association, will be held in Topeka on Wednesday. Feb ruary 5. The congress will be in line with the association's fight for conser vation of the immense fire waste of the state, and promises to be something decidedly out of the ordinary. At least three speakers of national prominence will be on haJid for the oc casion. Richard F. Croker ex-chief of the New York fire department, probably the best known fire fighter in the world, who has now turned his entire atten tion to the matter of fire prevention, is scheduled to be on hand for a.n ad dress. The other speakers include Fire Marshal C. J. Doyle of Illinois and Superintendent Xoane of the Ctah in surance department, both recognized experts in fire prevention lines. The object of the meeting is to arouse public concern and general interest in the state wide movement for better fire prevention facilities. Incendiary fires in the last year, the association claims, haye been exceedingly numerous and expensive. That is one form of Are waste for which a preventative is being sought, and it is likely that more stringent laws will be asked regarding arson. Fires from ordinary sources resulting from carelessness, from excessive ac cumulations of rubbish, or from defec tive electri-1 wiring, from which many conflagrations start, will be discussed and the importance of conserving the wastse attaching to such fires will be discussed. Hacking up the assertions of the as sociation figures are presented show ing that a comparatively small propor tion of the fire loss of the -state is covered with insurance. So not only the fire insurance companies are the losers through the frequency of preventable fires, but the owners of the properties burned lose heavily every time a fire occurs. The committee has" secured the co operation of Governor-Elect George II. Hodges, and expects that he will de liver at least a short address. The members of the new legislature also will be urged to be on hand. Plans are Deing laid to interest every com mercial and civic body in the state in tiie congress, including commercial clubs, credit men's association, etc., the fire chiefs' association, municipal of ficers of every city, good government leagues, and in fact every sort of or ganization in the least interested in the SLArEACHERS. Carter Harrison Accuses Them of Rough Houee' Methods. 1 Chicago, Dec. 1 1 oia not snuD the cie rgymen at all." said Mayor Harrison this afternoon referring to a visit to his office by a body of preacher? yesterday. 'The ministers t emnA to nrotest nemnst an onen new nQiok.otinn "In the first place no word ever l" u.vj tuiiiiufe. 'huiiuij a o4,u uaiiga u i -.j see that no public audiences are given on Mondays which are council meeting dsys. Thirdly, if the minister or any body else at meetings weeks ahead tell the public what they are going to do to the mayor and then, after gather ing up the ragt3g of the streets, enter the city hail in a 'rough house style,' they don't get into my shop. I don't think 'rough house work' the proper thing for ministers any more than it is for anybody else. "There is nothing which makes this a hierarchical form of government and ives the ministers rule over the Mayor and other citv officials. I have a va itiea that I know how to run the office of mayor and I also have, a vague sus picion that the way I run it suits the majority of the people of Chicago." TO STRIKE TONIGHT. New Tork. Dee. 31.- -A strike of I thousands of waiters, cooks. kitchen workers and elevator runners in the big hotels of the city has been set for tonight. New Year's eve, by the in- ternational hotel workers union. The hotel managers oeriae me iaea ana eay there will lie no difficulty in han dling the throngs expected to spend $1,008,000 watching the old year out. The strike was entirely unexpected by the hotel managers and according to union officials several big hotels have agreed to meet their demands. LOUOTRHBOND. A motion to secure for Wells Louns berry. ex-train robber, detained in the county jail until his trial for robbing the government mails, was discussed in the office of Harry Eone, L'njted States district attorney, this morning. The bond was made in the office -of Dv C. Tillotsdn, attorney for Lounsberry, and is signed by the train robber's brother, George H-. Lounsberry, of Duluth. The document, valuing the bandit's liberty at $25,000.- was adjudged correct by Mr. Bone, will be signed and presented to John L. Harrison, federal marshal, ia a couple of days. If it is approved by him. Lounsberry will be out on bond until his trial at the next term of the federal court, which convenes January 13 in Kansas City. Mr. Tillotson is of the opinion that the prisoner will remain quietly in town until the date of his trial. TO KEEPLANGOAGE Smithsonian Institute Sends Representatiye to Ottawa. Older Indians, Who Speak Chip pewa Interviewed. Oitawa, Kan., Dec. 31. The Indian as a race is becoming extinct, but his language is to be preserved to poster ity. This mammoth tasK is being un dertaken by the Smithsonian Institute in AVashington, the nation's great mu seum. And a part of this work has been done in Franklin county by a representative who has Just left lor Oklahoma, where he will complete a great part of hia work. from the institute, went to the Chip pewa Hills. There he spent more than a week interviewing the older among the Indians, both Chippewa and Muncio. The families he visited are the nearest full blood Indians of any now here, and they all speak the genuine Muncie and Chippewa lan- "NORTH SIDE NEWS. The fixtures for the improvised,' Shorey school have arrived and school will open Thursday, January 2. School will be held in three pri vate houses where, -rooms have been rented for the purpose, The board of directors of Soldier township met Monday .afternoon at the Shawnee State bank. The finan cial report showed that when the present members of the board took office the. township -was $2,000 in debt, while now there is a surplus of $2,000. The roads are in good condi tion, and a bridge eight miles north east of town, and one eight miles north have been built. The farmers north of town are strongly protesting against the pro posed installation of crank tele phones by the Bell Telephone com pany. A petition has been circulated and signed asking for a continuation of thei present system. A few crank telephones have been installed, and the subscribers who have them report that the service is not up to the stand- jard of efficiency obtained by the lutein On New Year's eve there will be a watch-night eervice at the Church of the: iGood Sfcephei-a, Episcopal." at 11:10 p. m. Order of service as fol lows: Processional hymn, "A Few More Years. Shall Roll." Litany, after which there will be a few minutes si lent prayer as the old year passes away." On the stroke of midnight the hymn. "The King of Love My Shep herd Is," will be sung. Th-?re will be a celebration of the Holy Kucharist as the year 1913 comes into being, which is also the Feast of the Circum cision of our Lord. The Eucharistic music will be as follows: Kyrie (Gounod). Gloria Tibi (Garrett), Sur sum Corda and Sandus (Camidge), communion hymn, "And Now. Oh Father Mindful of the Lov-e." Gloria in Excelsis (old chant). Nunc Di mittis (Gounod), recessional hymn, "Go Forward, Christian Soldier." Minister in charge, Rev. Albert F. Mack. It is customary among the Rus sians for the children to go around to the houses in their neighborhood on New Year's eve and wish every body a happy New Year. At every house they receive a small coin. Near ly all the families of this nationality are saving pennies, nickels and dimes in preparation for the kiddies. Some of the children collect several dollars in small coins in one evening. Nearly all business houses on the North Side will be closed New Year's. There will be no rural route deliveries from the North Topeka postoffice. In the city one delivery will be made. The pestoffice will be open from 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. The Friscilla club gave a farewell party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Wolfe at the home of Mrs. Charles Suit 1327 North Jackson street. Those pres ent were: Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Suit. Mrs. J. N. Grant. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Neil. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Kelsey. Mrs Nancy Miller. Mr. A. E. Finney, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Walen Shaw, Mrs. G W. Steen, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Copeland. Mrs. C. A. Christianson. Mrs. Ida F. Jordon. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Amos, Masters Howard Amos and George Neil, the Misses Gladys Neil, Louise and Mabel Suit. Xolcs rnd Personals. Mr. C. C. Maze went to Kiro yester day on business. 7lr. and Mrs. C. H. Day of North To peka have gone to Hamilton. Mo. Mrs. M. Harris and daughter Belle left yesterday for Riverside, Cal. Fred Coffman who was injured last week by jumping from n street car lias not improved, ar.d is still in a critical condition. Jim Klnnard of Elmont was In North Topeka on business yesterday. i wmie is.err wno nas Deen m Texas for several years has returned to his home in North Topeka. He is employed by the Hall Lithographing company. Mrs. Charles Courts of Eimont is a North Side visitor. Miss Gladys Cunningham gave a card party Saturday night. The guests were: Miss Mildred Baird, Miss Mabel Jones, Miss Golda Hook. Miss Bertiia Fritch. Miss White. Mrs. Ogden. Miss Bessie Jones. Mr. Charles Tennison. Mr. Ray Ettmire. Mr. Fred Jones of Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Fred Partridge, Mr. Raney, Mr. Ogden, Mr. Walter Wilson, and Mr. Emmet Hopkins. The Ranger class ofthe Kansas Ave nue Methodist church has organized a basketball team. They will practice to morrow afternoon at 3 p. m. in the field north of the church. A usiness meeting will be held by this class in their room at the efcurch. AH the boys arc invited. BREAKS RECORDS Fair Weather in Topeka for November and December. More Sunshine and Even Tem peratures Than 26 Years.' All records in Topeka have been broken in the last two months for sunshine and mild and even tempera tures for a corresponding period. At least that is true in the twenty-six years that the government records have been kept. This fact was brought out in the summary of the weather for the month issued from tho office of the local bureau today. The summary for the year 1912, also issued today, reveals some inter esting items. The report shows that the record was broken for the amount of snowfall 45.4 inches, and. that the year was particularly noted also for its large number of clear days and excessive amount of wind. December was with the possible ex ceptions of December 1S94 and 1905 the most pleasant like period, in .26 year. "Taking the two months of Novem ber and December together," reads the report, "the record shows that the amount of sunshine and mild, even temperatures Topeka has enjoyed breaks' all previous records for Nov ember and December combined and that, in addition to this, there have been the fewest number of days with rain or snow during these two months that have .been recorded .at Topeka during the two closing months of any yea?. "Ther average temperature of De cember was 36 degrees, which is u de grees above normal and makes it the eighth warmest December in 26 years. The highest temperature was 60 de grees on the 2Sth and the lowest 12 degrees on the 12th. Most previous years have experienced higher tem peratures than 60 on some day during December, but only, two have passed without the temperature falling lower on some day of the month than it did thia December. "It. is the second December on rec ord when the temperature rose above freezing every day, yet only eight pre vious Decembers have had .more nights when the temperature fell be low 32 degrees. "The total precipitation of the month was but 0.32 of an inch which is 0.56 of an inch below normal, and practlcaly all of this fell on the fin day of the month as rain. But 5 previous Decembers have had lefcs precipitation and only 4 others have passed without mensurable snowfall. "Accompanying this deficiency in precipitation there was an unusual amount of sunshine: 3 8 days of the month were clear. 9 partly cioudy and 4 were cloudy. December, 1S94. with 10 clear days, is the only one having more clear dayh than this month and no other December on record has had a fewer number of cloudy days. "The average velocity of the wind, 11 miles per hour, was the highest on record for December, but there were no unusually windy days during the month. "The year 1912." reads the annual re port, "was exceptionally favorable at Topeka as far as weather conditions were concerned, as shown by a prelim inary summary of weather conditions issued at the local office of t!.e weather bureau. "It began with nearly R months of the most severe' winter weather eVer recorded at Topeka, but ended with 2 months of the most pleasant weather on record for the ending of any year. "The summary goes on to show that one of the most favorable features of the year's weather was that in spite of the severe weather that lasted un til past the middle of yMareh the weather warmed up steadily and there was no killing frost or freezing weather after the 25th of that month. Spring began with the ground thoroughly soaked from the melting of the unpre cedented snowfall and though the 7 months extending from March to Sep tember, inclusive, averaged, with 4 ex ceptions the driest for that period of the year on record, the rains that fell were timely and sufficed for almost all needs until near the close of August. "The average temperature for the year was 53.1 which is a fraction of a degree below normal. The highest tem perature during the year was 101 on August 2Rth and the lowest was 19 be low on January 12th. Higher tempera tures than the highest of this year have occurred at Tcpeka in 9 previous sum mers and thc--s tave been 4 years with lower ten-peratures than the lowest reached in 1S12. "During the year there were 119 days when the temperature fell below freezing. It when it was below zero and 39 days when the temperature failed to rise above 32 at any time during the day. "The total precipitation for the year was 31.92 inches which is 1.90 inches be low normal. Eleven of the past 26 years have had less precipitation at Topeka. "This year's snowfall totalled 45.4 inches which is the greatest on recortl at Topeka. The average wind velocity. 10 miles an hour, was with the excep tion of that of 1911, the greatest on record also. "During the year 166 diys were clear. 141 partly cloudy and 59 were cloudy. But 4 other years have had more clear days and only 1S?4 had fewer cloudy days." DEATHS ANFUNERAIS. Mrs. Dora M. Wolf. wif of H. A. Wolf, ase 63 years, died at her home. 1211 North Monroe street, late Monday of apoplex Funeral announcements will be made later. Mrs. Caroline K. Knglirh, mother of M. W. Knzlish of '25A Lincoln, who has be-'n a resident of Topeka twenf-five years died Mondav In Eskridge. TTie funer.il will be held at the Lowman Hill chapel at one o'clock Wednesday. The body will be brought to Topeka this evening. Mrs. John Richerter of Silver Lake died early this morning. The funeral will be held at eleven o'clock Thursday from the home in Silver Lake. Mrs. Felicita Brazionis died Monday a her home at SCO Klein street. The funeral was held this morning from the German Catholic church. interment in Mount Calvary cemetery. Wiley Cook Resigns Ills .Job. Wiley Cook, election commissioner in Kansas City. Kansas, will today place his resignation in the hands of Governor Stubb. Cook resigned to enter the office of State Treasurer-elect Earl Akers. lie will become the new special arolstan: treasurer under Akers and will fill the place held by Walter Pnyne under the Mark Tulley administration. Governor Stubbs returned to Topek.x af 2 o'clock this afternoon. It was planned hy Cook to send his resignation to th? governor soon after his return to Topck.i. It is probable tht Governor Fiubbs will tljis afternoon announce Cou s successor. THE WIFE'S WORD 3Irs. Howard Bears Witness for Dead Husband. Testifies in 3Ioodr Murder Trial He Did 'ot Abuse Her. Positive denial that her husband. Morgan Howard, who was shot and kMIed by Henry Moody on July 3. last, had in any way abused or mistreated her. marked the testimony of Mrs. Morgan Howard in the opening oi the trial of Moody for murder thia morn ing. Vnder direct examination lira. Howard, who wa3 one of the first wit nesses called, told incidents of a fight I in which her husband engaged with Moody two days before the Kilting. Cnder cress examination an effort was made to draw from her that she hud been mistreated by Howard. She de nied that there was anything in such a story. "Isn't it true that your husband abused and mistreated you'.'" waj asked. "No, sir," was the positive denial, to which Mrs. Howard clung through her examination. Eye witnesses to the fisticuff were examined doing the morning, the state attempting to show that Moody had all the best of the figlit, and that he was. the aggressor in it. Among jthe witnesses was J. C. Bratton, city ju ills jurjcr:i.'.JI n uu nun uiu, a bikii k distance from the men when the fight stwrted. lie swore that after fighting a few minutes Howard turned and ran around a pile of bricks or stones, or something like that. "Did he try-to -pick tip any stones as he ran?" he was asked. "I don't think so." s "How far did he run?" "Only a little way, then the short man catight up with him." During the examination of the morning's witnesses the combatants were constantly referred to as the "short man" and the "tall man," Moody being considerably shorter than Howard. "Did the short man throw his arms around tho tall man when he caught him?" "No, I think he took hold of his arm." "What did they do then?" "They went to fighting again.'" The witness declared the' last bout lasted about two minutes -as near as lie could tell. "What did they do then?" "They straightened up and looked at one another." "Did they say anything "I couldn't hear anything if they did." "What did they do them?" "They turned and walked off down the street." "Together?" "Yes, together. I thought they had mado up." t. AV. Brooks said he saw the man just, a moment before they started to fight. He didn't know what started the fight. F. L. Coates. an engineer On a rock crusher located at the cor ner of Fifth and Lake streets, iie;Hr where the fight was staged, alt-o wit nessed the fight, practically corrobor ating the evidence of the others. Me was the last witness called before tho boon adjournment. Moody was accompanied yesterday afternoon and this morning bv hia wife and "two little girls. Back of a, torneys for the state Mrs. Howard and her brother-in-law. a brother of th victim, occupy seats. The trial bids fair to take a week to ry. The men who hold Moody's fate In their hands, who finally were chosen before court adjourned last right'are as follows: J. C. Baughman. James Mitchell, Nelsr Olson, M. L. Varner. W. A. Plll ey. Albert Ileser. A. W. Banker. E. Atterbury, G. W. Guy. (J. M. Brass field, A. C. Ticehurst and E. A. Bailey. BOWSER IN TROUBLE. Topekan Charged With Neglecting His Family. Bowser is In trouble. He la not the Bowser that State Journal leaders have read about and laughed about, whose pompous dealings with his wife have amused many. But ne H a reul, flesh and blood man. And he is In juxt R3 bad a fix at the other Bowser frequently finds himself. This present Bowser Is C. D. Bow.r. He has a wife and thred small children whom it is charged, he Is not careful to supply with the necessaries of life. He was arrested a few days ago ciiarged with being a delinquent pHrerit. 'flits morning Probate Judge w. V. Scluxm permitted him his liberty with tiie prcivl'-o that he pay at least S!5 a month for the support of his family until April J. fid thereafter $2U a month until the furtner order of the court. The little Bowsers seriously need their father's help, according to the evidence In the case, and Bowser has been negligent in making suitable provisions. EARL AKERS' BOND. Xv State Treasurer Qualifies More Than Needed. for Earl Akers. state- treasurer-elect, todaj- filed a bond aggregating 1.622,000 as surety for his adminis tration Jn the tr-sasurer's office. Near ly 200 well known Kansans signed the bond and qualified for sums rang ing from 11,000 to $75,000. It. S. Litchfield of Independence signed for $75,008. the largest individual amount for which any of the many bondsmen qualified. The state treasurer is required to give a bond of $1,000,000 as surety to the state for his administration. Akers'. bond exceeds the legal require ment by more than half. George C Guernsey, a well knwn Independence banker, qualified on Akers' bond for $50,000. Governor Stubbs qualified for nn equal amount. Senator James A. Troiitman of Topeka is surety for $4 0,000. Senator Emmerson Carey of Hutchinson signed for $25,000 and Congressman Fred S. Jackson for $10,000. GODDING IS HERE. Priii Warden Aks Governor Jtop "5 Paroles. Warden Codding of the state prison appeared in Governor Stubbs" office this afternoon with napers and peti tions for paroles for 75 convicts Many of these applications arc for ong term men who t,cre convicted so es" uiMi i no Stories of trials have been forgotten bv public- thir tha t I f V V fi.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATS JOURITAE- DECEMBER, 31, 1912 LOUISIANA LOU. Thf Bl Musical Comedy at tlie Grand Tonight. The one new musical play of the eason that tnay be said to be famous from coast to coast as a result of its Chicago hit. "Louisiana Lou. will I given tonight for the first time in this citv in the Grand opera house n tn snecial touring comrany put together t'v Harrv Askin when the immense advrnce s?-e of November and the hrst fortnight of December made it certain that the musical comedy would run the season out in the La i-'alle opera house. Chicago. The new piece is the work of Aa dion Burkhardt. Frederick Donatrhey and Ben M. Jercme; and these threi. are said to have provided a fabric oi play songs and melodies that is matchless in its ideal of an American musical comedy dealing with an Amer ican theme, and with the scenes laid in this countrv. The first act passes in the delightfui old French quarter of the New Orleans of today cn the occa sion of the annual Mardi-Gras festival, j Act two takes place on a picturesque the novel, ere the keen -witted, self reliant and lovable boy, Freckles; The Ansel; McLean, the manaver of the Grand Rapids Lumber company; The Bird "Woman; Mr. anf Mrs. Duncan The Man of Affairs; Lord and Lady O'Moore and Black Jack and Wessner, the timber thieves. An announcement of more than usual interest to Topeka theater goers is that made by Manager Crawford of the Grand theater of the coming of Graham Moffat's universally popu lar Scotch play, "Bur.ty Pulls the Strings." The play will be here for one performance the night of Janu ary 4. Very few plays of modern times have been accorded the widespread comment which followed the produc tion of "The Only Son," which will be seen at the Grand on January 2, with Thomas W. Ross of "Checkers" fame in the title part. Clergymen of several denominations have seen in this new Winchell Smith play a theme ror sermons. And while Mr. Smith has succeeded in telling an unusually powerful story he has not failed to retain much of the humor which made his other plays. "The Fortune Hunter" and "Brewster's Millions," fa- SEEKS JAS0LDiER "God Gave Me a Dandy Dispo sition,' Widow Says. Then Adds, "But Left the Good Looks Out." Washington, Dec. 3t. A Wisconsin soldier's widow in a letter to Commis sioner of Pensions Davenport ex presses the wish today that his bureau had combined with it a matrimonial agency1 through which she might recruit another soldier husband. "I wish you were compelled to find me another nice old soldier," she writes, "with a home and good pension, for I guess I'll have to find another to make me happy. My husband said he couldn't have suited himself better if he'd hunted the whole United States over and he gained from 162 pounds January 14 to 178 pounds March 9 or afternoon at her home 635 Lime street. All members are urged to be present as, arrangements wilf be made- for a tacky party to- be given soon. The Go.Jen Rod club will give their New Year's party tonight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morris, 476 Reno street, for the members and their families. Miss Elizabeth Johnson will return, the last of this week from Leonard ville where she has been spending the Christmas vacation with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. K. Frantz have re-, turned to their home in Chicago, after spending Christmas here with rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Beeler will en-' tertain at a family dinner New Year's day at their home, S23 Madison street.: Mrs. O. D. Johnson, of 419 Lime street, who has been suffering with nervous prostration the past month, was taken to St. Francis hospital yes terday where she will receive treat ment. MLss Ivye Horner, assisted by Miss Ceora Lanham, gave a musicale Mon day evening at her home. 482 Ohio street. There were 60 guests present, and the program was as follows: SNAP SHOTS .AT. HOME NEWS. The "Joys" and "Glooms" With Louisiana Lou at the Grand Tonight. rice plantation on the Mississippi above New Orleans a resort to which all the characters rush when danger threatens the happiness of the two pairs of young lovers whose romance is the basis of the story. The effort? of the two pairs of young lovers to outwit their elders by making use of the fun and gayety r the Mardi-Gras festival form the minor Tomance of "Louisiana Lou." All of the many characters intro duced in the book have been retained in the dramatisation of "Freckles. which plays at the Grand New Year's matinee and night. Of course, the principal characters in the play, as in 25 Lbs. Cane Sugar (When you buy $4.00 worth of other eatables.) You don't have to pay more when you trade at Fraser Bros. you py less. TUESDAY SPECIALS Oatf lakes in bulk, 8 lb. for. .25c Egg-s, April storage, the best dozen 20 Grape Fruit, Florida, the 10c size, 2 for 15 Cabbage, hard Northern lb. 1 50 lb. 45p Apples, choice Jonathan 12 lbs. to the pck 40 Mutton Chops, tasty and ten der, lb Loin Steak, Premium duality, lb 18- Beef Pot Roasts, cut from Premium quality beef, lb. 1 1 Coffee, fresh roasted, lb...23r Pure Hoe: Lard, lb 12c j REGULAR ITEMS Hams, irood cure. Swift Co. pack lb 1C M:c Cornstarch, Kingford's, the best i 3 Uc packages, 2 for 15c Corn Syrup, yellow No. 10 cans... "3c Rice, fancy Japan, 4 lbs. for 2Tc Sauer Kraut, very fine, 1!). 3c; gal. 2.jc Wheat Germ Rreakfast Food, just like Cream of Wheat, a 6 lb. sk. 2."c i Cornmeal, fresh in bulk, lb 2c Sweet Potatoes, nice ones, pk 2."c Pineapple. F. F. C. G. 2."jc cans ..lc Buckwheat, pure 6 lb. for 23c Flour, high patent 4S lb. sack .$1.20 Corn, a standard quality, 4 cans 2."c 'lives, in bulk, nice size, quart. .;Soo Oranges, largest size, dozen :S9c S-'oap, White Rose, 10 large bars CSo Popcorn, White, Pearl.. 3 lbs. for K.vi Cider, per gallon 20c -Matches 3 pkss. l!t mous. Some have even gone so. far as to herald "The Only Son" as the "real American drama." At any rate, Mr. Smith has succeeded in producing a play which is pleasing a vast num ber of people for curtain calls unnum bered have been the rule at all per formances. Mr. Ross in "The Only Sui" is said to have the strongest role in his career. The haunting strains of "Ev'ry Lit tle Movement Has a Meaning All lis Own," which forms the musical theme of "Madame Sherry," will soon be re vealed in all their deep and hidden significance to the playgoers of this city. for "Madame Sherry" is an- nounced for January 7 at the Grand 10, I forget which. So I. did not starve him. "God gav mv a dandy disposition but left the fine looks out. 1 never scold, grumble or find fault, and that is. true, and I was born that way. If you was a matrimonial agency I'd send my description but you're only a commis sioner, and a dandy one too." The commissioner expressed the opinion that owing to the "fine looks out" feature of the letter, it might be necessary that the contest be limited to blind soldiers. !9 ri-v7j Gypsio Dale. Who Takes tlse I'art of Yvonne, in Madam; Sherry, to Be Heard at the Grand January 7. Though there are twenty-two musical numbers in "Madame Sherry," all charming and alluring, the motif song has become epidemic and for many months it has been played, liummed, whistled and sung wherever music is known. SHIPS TO MEET BODY. Natal, Hearing: Hcid Casket. Is Nearing I' iiited Stales Coast. OFF FOR KANSAS CITY Topeka Soccer Team Play There" Xcw Year's Day. OUR STORE will be closed at 11 o'clock TOMORROW Orders received until nine o'clock in the morning will be delivered. New York. Dec. 31. The United SU-.tes battleships Xorth Dakota and Florida steamed from the Brooklyn navy yard to anchorages near the har bor entrance early today to await word from tiie British cruiser Natal, on board which the body of Whitelavv Iieid. ambassador from the L'nited States to Great Britain is being brought home. The two American war ships, under command of Rear Admiral Fiske on board the Florida, are ex ptcted to receive by wireless during the day the exact position of the funeral ship and early tomorrow morr.ing the two vessels will put to sea to meet the Natal, probably off Nantucket, and escort her to this port, j The squadron will anchor in the j Hudson river on Friday when the body will be removed for funeral services on Saturday morning at the Episcopal cathedral of St. John the Divine. ON NEW YEAR'S DAY. The Y. V. and the Y. M. C. A. Will I'nite to Kntertaln. RASERDRQ 6'JPPtt' THE BE."3T rAlvOLTaS E-J TCPU fa. C Cor. fith and Jackson, iicil Phono CUO. The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. havo combined tr furnish entertainment for ttie gfneral public on New Year's day. The school boys of tile city will have their session in the morning at the Cer tral building. Admittance wiil be by cal endar, that Is, every boy must bring p. calendar to be used as a part of a big ex hibit. Prizes will be given at 11:30 o'clock for the best caleners. Beginning at i) o'clock ten representatives from eacn school will compete in relay races. Tlie center of attraction hi the after noon will be at the Y. W. C. A. building. A general reception for the public will be held tro-n 4 to 6 o'clock, but beginning at 3 o'clock a program of iilterest wid be I carrie:! out. In the evening there will uc entertainment in great variety afc th Ce-. tral building. The Topeka soccer footbel! team will leave for Kansas City Wednesday morn ing where in the afternoon at o'clock a game will be pbiyed with the strong team of the K Kansas City Seoccer Foot hall club. A hotly contested game is ex pected, a3 the Topeka team defeated the aggregation from Kansas City in a game plaved at Washburn field several weeks a?o. The Kansas City men will make an effort to get even. Fifteen men will wear TopeUa uniforms Wednesday. The team will be practically the samfe as the one that confronted the squad from Coalton. Oklahoma, on Sun dav. However, the team will not lie piek ed unta New year's clay. The game will be plaved at "The Stadium." coiner of Fortv--seventh and Tracy streets. A num ber of Topekans will accompany the team to Kansas City. According to Tom Powell, manager of the local soccer team, the "fever' for soccer football has just begun. It is his prediction that the game will m the com paratively near future draw large crowds of spectators in Topeka. EAa'f SIUH, -01"l-.- Items for this column may be phoned to 915 or the State Journal office. Little Clara Kgglcston, of Garfield Place North Topeka. underwent an operation last Friday at St. Francis hospital and is rapidly recovering. The Eggleston family formerly lived at 150o Crane street, are well known on the Fast side. The following members of the Last Shunganunga drainage board, William Voight. Sam 'Cunningham. John Lung strum, C. M. Brown and Frank Curry, together with the engineer. Jack Camp bell, attended the mass meeting Sun day' afternoon at the Tomas Whise nand home in Oakland to assist in organizing a North Shunganunga drainage board and discuss the drain age proposition east of Seward ave- "'mt. and Mrs. Robert Amell, of East Hill- are the proud parents of a daugh ter born at St. Francis hospital last Sunday evening. Mrs. Amell was be fore her marriage Miss Ethel Smurr. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Weaver, of To peka! were guests Sunday at the J. H. Weaver home. Shady Glen farm. Mrs. Walter Cox. of McFarland, who underwent an operation last Friday at c irncis hnsiiital and is doing nice ly. Mrs. Cox is the sister of Mrs. Will Redenbaugh of Deer Creek farm. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mattingly and two rons of Hoisirgton arc visiting at the K. D. Mattingly home on East Hill and other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Weaver will en tertain a number of relatives and friends at dinner New Year's day. j a T.vnns frs. C TV Shuraak?r. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Forter and Miss Lula Lyons have returned from Michi gan Valley where they attended the funeral of the grandson and nephew, Oscar Lyons, who has been in poor health the past few years. Mrs. C. D. Webb and daughter Lola, 4S7 Reno street, have returned from Ottawa, where they have been visiting relatives and friends the past week. Mrs. Sol Richardson. 1117 Monroe street, returned today from Fort Scott where she has been visiting her moth er and ether relatives the past, few da vs. Mr. slid Mrs. James Fe3r. of Renub llcan av enue, have i t turned from Kan sas City where they have been visit ing their daughter. t Mrs. Ed Miller will entertain the Sunflower Embroidery club Thursday German-American March Englemann Miss Marjorie Teel. Love's Dream Brown Miss Florence Miller. Harp of Tara.... Watts Miss Emma Dodds. Reading Miss Lanham. YehUKv Jonquills Johanning Miss Cora Miller and Miss Irene Wilson. Will-o'-the-wisp t Jungmann Miss Wilson. Mill in the Black Forest Eilenberg Misd Miller and Miss Teel. Tannhanser March Wagner Miss Teel. Bright Eyes .-....it;...; Orth Miss Ruby -Swallow. Lehigh Polka Dresher Miss Wilson. M'ss Pearl Miller, -1 Miss Dodds. Hungarian Concert Polka Al.solgey Miss Teel. Hum or esq ue Dvorak Miss Teel. Miss Florence Miller. Reading Miss i'.anham. Home Sweet Home........ Slack Miss TJodds, Curlcy Locks .Orth Misp Lueile Lane. Dar.se Eeosaise Baker Miss Miller, Miss Dodds, Miss Teel. Reading Miss Lanham. Narcissus Nevin Miss Wilson Miss Teel. Scaramoniche Godard Miss Dodds. ilk-s Teel. Tripping Through ,the Meadows Eugene Miss 'Wilson. SANTA FE OTES. Items for this column may br phoncd to "015 or the. State Journal office. A. R. Hodges iiad chaxge of the noon hour meeting today in the c.r shops. Everything is in readiness for the second annual New Year's ball to be given this evening by the Santa Fe Apprentice band at Music hall. The boys expect to entertain at least five hundred guests. The hall has been beautifully decorated and Ray Hall's orchestra will furnish the music. The band has a membership of forty. John Price is the present business manager and E. .A. Tinker the leader. Miss Helen Case of the ticket aud itor's office and her mother will spend New Year's day with relatives and friends in Kansas. City. G. G. Hinkle of the freight claim department wil spend a few days this week with friends in Kansas City. Switchman George Rake has return ed from Carrollton, Mo., where he spent a few days last week with friends. The account department of the sys1 tern auditors are holding a meeting this week in Topeka. Those in at tendance besides the Santa Fe officials located here are: W. 'E. Bailey, gen eral auditor; J. E. Baxter, assistant general auditor: A. L. Conrad, assist ant general auditor; C. E. Betts, gen eral accountant; J.' B. Hall, secretary to the general auditor, all from Chi cago; H. P. Hughes, auditor of the S. F. P. P. of Prescott. Ariz.; L. B. Jones, auditor of the coast lines from Los Angeles: A. E.-Meyer, auditor of the Texas lines from Amarillc, and D. W. MeLeod, auditor of the G. C. S. F. from Galveston. Texas. Thomas L. King, city passenger agent, returned yesterday from Ha vana. Cuba, and other southern points, where he has been spending the past two weeks' vacation. T. D. Brown, traveling passenger agent for the Burlington railway, was calling on Santa Fe friends Monday. D. W. Morse of the freight claim department will spend New Year's day with relatives and friends in Osage City. All Santa Fe employees and their friends are cordially invited to call at the R. R. Y. M. C. A. tomorrow. New Year's day. The association as has been the custom for 'a number of years will hold open house. The usual number of callers during' the after noon and evening are- near 4,000. Mrs. Edna Graham of the ticket auditor's office and three children have returned from Buffalo, N. Y., and other eastern points where they visited relatives and friends a few weeks. i C W. Kouns, general manager of the. Santa Fe, is in St. Joseph today on -business. "The- annual congregation dinner of the First United Presbyterian church will-be held Wednesday, noon.-. .Parcels post stamps and the name of the' addresser must be on every of the addressor must' be on every Secretary H. L. Cook and family have gone: to Lincoln, Neb., in a mo tor car. They, will return the last of this 'week.' The Kansas' 'Farmer, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary Saturday, January '4. by a special edition. The paper-is the oldest in the state.' J. Will Kelley and John S. Dawson, attorney general, will be among the speakers of the next meeting, tof the i Kansas Development association in J Newton, j Rev.' C. G. Fishback .will address tha members of the Topeka Minister ial union next Monday morning at the First Presbyterian church on "The Menace of Law." Postmaster Rodgers- announces' that there is to be but one delivery on New Year's. Rural carriers have- a holiday for the day, and the office closes at ten o'clock in the morning,' All members of the Topeka Soccer football team are requested to meet tonight at 532 Kansa3 avenue. The team leaves at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow for Kansas City on the Santa Fe. The city dog tax will be due for the first time in the new year tomorrow. City Clerk Burge makes this an nouncement today. -One dollar for males and five dollars for females. A watch meeting will be held tonight f rom nine; to' twelve o'clock at the Quinton Heights Baptist church. The RevA. D. Phelps, pastor-of the church, wfll have, charge of a program that will b6 given. According to C. C. Starr, superin tendent of the city schools, the re modeled Potwin. school building will be ready for toccupancy by the first of February, and judging from the pro gress that i now being made the Quihton Heights four room building should be ready for use two weeks sooner..- -Case has' been filed in the federal court .'by the' government against the Missouri Pacific. Railway company, charging it with violating the safety appliance act. The government asks judgment for ?300 and costs. The charge is that the locomotive engine was out of repair, and was not properly equipped so ..that the brakes could be operated, Dr. Earnest Fox Nichols, president of Dartmouth college, comes to Topeka Sunday, January 5, to be the guest of his brother, A. L.- Nichols, 721 Fil raore street. Dr. Nichols is the only large college president who can claim the disticction of being a native Kan san. He was educated at the Kansas Agricultural college, was a professor at. Columbia University New York, and accepted the presidency of Dartmouth a, couple of years ago. Since his ad ministration the college has increased materially in every way.' Dartmouth has the most perfectly equipped Admin-, istration Building of any college in the country, with the exception of Yale. In the last few years the Hanover col lege has joined the ranks of the Big Four now acknowledged to be com posed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and and Tonight SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT THE LA SALLE OPERA-HOUSE CO. (Inc.) Mr. Harry Askin, Managing-Director, Makes Known Here the World's Record-Breaking Musical Comedy OUISIANA n ou A Wonderful Story Mary Garden MUECT rnOM.ITS 356 Ii.V SALLE PEIUOnSLVXCES A MUSICAL TRIP TO THE MARDI GRAS g By Addison Burkhardt, Fredcrlek lonajrliey and Ben M. Jerome. Presented by an absolutely correct Company. MR. SAMUEL LIEBERT MISS ANNA BOYD 3Iiss Cecilia Novaslo, Mr. Freddie Nice, Miss Zella Cnll, Mr.-James MeEJliern, Mr. Luto Vrohman, Miss Carolina Ijeonard, Mr. Egbert Roach, Mr. Joe Doner, and Sixty More. BEST CHORUS Dartmouth,.. Twpeka Motor Dealers Association. An organization to be known as the Topeka Motor Dealers association was formed by. local men Monday night at the Commercial club. The organiza tion, which is composed of represen tatives of nine of the prominent jauto establishments of the city will have charge of the big motor car show that will be held in the auditorium, Feb ruary 25-29. The officers: J. S. War ner, president; A. B. Kirkpa trick, vice president: W. H. Imes, secretary, and J. K. Billings, treasurer. Tailor You have inherited a lot or money; why don't you settle my bill? Owens My dear man. I wouldn't have it said for anything that my newly acquire 1 wealth- caused any departure from my simple habits. Boston Transcript. Scats t A At T1,o For The JX-Vi Majestic Louisiana Lou Has Swept the Solid 5oti tli With a Greater Plurality Than Wilson and. Marshall. Singing Dancing Looking Charleston. S. C, News-Courier, Nov. 6, said: Play a Great Success "Louisiana Lou" Scored a Big Triumph at Charleston. "Louisiana Lou." one of the cleverest comic operas ever put together in this country, was presented at the Academy last nlglct to an audience that en cored almost everything that happened. No extended revle of the play is possible. It may be sufficient to say that "it has everything." The music U swaying, the girls are pretty, the principals show to splendid advantage, the scenes are ac curate en.j beautiful, the dances are appealing, the costuming is riehi and artistic, the humor is infectious and the situations are true. Comic operas of this typo can never fall to win en thusiastic applause. If "Louis iana Lou" does not play to packed bouses all along the Hue it will be because the peoble have no warning of how good it is. The best thing that ever came out of Chicago. In the United States ("ew York was and is possibly yet, the producing Mecca of the country, bat 'Louisiana Lou,' born in Chicago, hps a freshness not found In pro. duetions o f the older city." Hugh Ilulm said this in the Memphis C o m.m ercial Appeal. IMPORTANT Owing to the Immensity of production and length of performance curtain will rise promptly at 8:15 in the evening. Carriages and Motors at 10:55 p. m. Price Ore. and Boxes, $2.00; Ore. Circle. $1.50; First SI 5 Rows Balcony, $1.50; Next 3 Rows, $1.00; Rear Balcony, 75c; Gallery, 50c. ESEE5BS FREE LIST ENTIRELY SUSPENDED 1 PRi i 1 IF iMttgmjmai.'..i tin NEW YEAR JH AM 1 A. G. DELAMATER ANNOUNCES The New Song Play MAT. NIGHT Sat. Matinee Night, Jan.4th Messrs. Sluibert and Wm. A. 15rny Present the Success ful Comedy, THE STRINGS Direct from 2 years in Xew York; 2 years in London; 1 yeat in Chicago. XiR'ht 1 50c, 75c. $1.00. $1.50. 2. Mat. 25c, 50e. 73c, $1.00. $1.50. Mail Orders Taken Care of Now. Kegular Scat Sale Thursday. Dramatized by Neil Twomey from the. famous novel By GENE STRATTON-PORTER AUTHOR OF it.'.'!-.' The Girl of the Limberlost and the Harvester A GREAT CAST AND A SUPERB SCENIC PRODUCTION PRICES Night Boxes and Floor, $1.50; Bal., 50c-75c-$1.00; Gal., 25c. Mat. Boxes and Floor, $1.00; Eal., 75c-50c; Gal. 25c. .Seats Selling at the Majestic NOTE: "Eunty Pulls the Strings" goes to the Shubcrt Theater. Kansas City, immedi ately after playing at the Granl for a return engagement. Tuesday January. 7 (The Always Popular Musical Play! MADAM SHERRY A French Vaudeville in Three Acts! PRICES: 50c to $1.50. Boxes, $2.00 SKATS SATURDAY.' fi (L- 10c Daily MaK 3:03 HajeStlC7:45.9:lS Nigh s 1C-2C-3 3C JIAVK YOU CAUGHT OX? The Tabloid Musical Comedy College Chums PRETTY GIRLS CATCHY MUSIC BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES 10-20-80 Cents NOVELTY 7?c5.D9a:'l's If&u3130 1a-20-30c Vaudeville Klein, Ott Nicholson BAADER IA VELLE TRIO 3 OTHER BIG ACTS 3 MOVING PICTURES. CONCERT ORC. if-Ma at 9 m GRAND FRIDAY JANUARY 3rd AFTER, 510 TIMES r1 CHICACO J. M. WELCH (Mgr.) Presents Thos. w. Creator of "The Fortune Hunter," "Checkers' and "Tlie Traveling Salesman -IN- THE ONLY SON A Play of Today by Winchell Smith, Author of "The Fortune Hunter" and "Brewster's Millions." Original Cast and Production Seats Selling at Majrstic. Balcony, S1.00, tffic. Gallery, 50c. Iirf-ar $2.00. rawer Floor. $1.50 M-.M. 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TRV, TOPEKA DAILY PTAvp JOTJH,N AI DECEMBER, 31, 1912 Bidding Hood We Wish for All a Healthy, Prosperous, Happy New Year WE WANT to thank our many friends and customers for their most liberal patronage during the year just closing, as well as for a continuation of the confi dence and lo3ralty that has been ex tended to us during other years that have passed. We deeply appreciate the fact that there are other things to live for be sides dollars and cents. The matter of loyalty and confidence on your part, the friendly interest and co operative spirit you have shown, the close acquaintanceships formed all have helped us immeasureably in our effort to serve you a little better each succeeding month. It has made our relationship with you exceedingly pleasant. It has shaped a condition that can not be priced, or traded or sold. It has made the past year one that will lin ger brightly in our memory, and en ables us to. give our heartfelt ex pression to a wish for a Healthy, Prosperous, Happy New Year. A Happy New Year TO ALL We are deeply grateful jor your patronage daring 1912, and hope that 1913 xvill bestow on you un stinted measure of health, happiness and prosperity. Ideal Bakery 121 West Sixth VACANT HOUSES and FIRE INSURANCE EF YOUR HOUSE IS VACANT And you do not notify your Agent, you may be without insurance. All of our Policies have a Sixty-day Vacancy Permit. Black-Hook Co. 104 West Eighth St. Topeka, Kansas e Journal Want Bye to 1912, I I Ads for Results i OCIETY The reception dance given Monday night at the Elks hall excelled in bril liancy any party tnat nas cera eic.i in Topeka since the charity ball two years ago. The hosts and hostesses were Mr. and Mrs. James L. King. Mr. and Mrs J. D. M. Hamilton, Mr. and I Mrs. R. J. Parker, and Mr. and Mrs. W. W Wikidal. all names that stand twit conspicuously in the list of social leaders of the town and representing a I distinct sway and power in society events for a period of years. The pres !enco ofa good many out-of-town peo- I -c- t.ni-o rni'lnilIV lived pit'. Jltbl Ul "Hum I j in Topeka.. gave an a vied interest to l the arcatry giving it fumcunm, i inc i in rt V Tl (1 I, nature u: e 1 1 i i s .1 Vioio-I-itonl bv the SI 1 1 11 1. 1 1 J 1 V r- i fact that the invitations included young 1 1 and old. and coys ana gins ui .-w... I 1 v. n .i i t l-i (rrnnd.-imes nd i' I' LUtllV LIU- 1 1 1 V 1 1 v. (i... 17: grandsircs. and with debutantes and I.' the young married people. I The Elks club, which was none 'too largo to accommodate me common. which assembled for the party last night, was in holidav dress for the oc casion, no less tSan'the guests. Palms I banked the stage at the end ofthe ball room, and in the supper room, where the serving was done, there were palms and ferns, end the table was decorated in red. preeminently the color of the 1 th,f fpntrr of ii,. o I irt-n basket filled with i i. i ......i wi witii red rib- rwii:unn-iivi I f ton. Red candies were set in silver (candlesticks and silver trays contained red and white bon-bons. On the broad landing of the Ftairs cushioned seats 1 were arranged for the guests and a 'decoration of palms and flowers made the corner attractive. I Previous to the dancing, which began after nine, a formal reception was held. The receiving line stood in front of the !st?ge. and those who stood with the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Wil 1 liams of Towanda. Pennsylvania, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Mudge. and Mr. and Mrs. I. Hale. Mr. and Mrs. King were I first in the receiving line. Mrs. King s gown was white brocaded crepe meteor. The skirt was draped, and on the bodice I white lace was used in surplice effect (and the drapery was eaugui vi.i. i diamond clasp. The yoke was "and- run beaded net. Mr. and Mrs. N n liams. who are guests of the King fam ily received with them. Mrs. W llliams I is a niece of Mrs. King s, and she and iier husband are visiting at the King i home Thev have friends in Topeka, i having visited here before, and those I who know say that they are very I n II 1 that Mrs. Vvll- I weatiny. w"1 liams was richly gowned in a dress ot white satin draped in niacK. lace. She wore a corsage bouquet of violets. Mrs. J. D. M. Hamilton wore black satin, and draping bodice and forming a tunic on the skirt, was a trimming of chiffon heavily beaded with silver bugles and steel ornaments. Mr and Mrs. Hale, who were m the receiving line, 'have lately come to To- Ipeka from Chicago, ana win "i" home here. Mr. Hale is Mr. Hamilton s half-brother, and has a position in To peka as head or tne saieu ..-i... of the Santa Fe. Mr. and Mrs. Hale are now living at the J. D. M. Hamilton home Mrs. Hale, who is a woman or quite'distinetive charm of manner and appearance, wore a black satin gown over which was dra ped a robe of shadow lace in black and. white. She carried a round bouquet of violets. Mrs. Parker wore a gown of cream satin, and the drapery of the skirt, caught at one side, disclosed a V shaped panel of Cloth of gold. At the back of the bodice, a piece of the same cloth was et in and reached below the waist line. The trimming of the bodice was gold heads and embroidery. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Mudge. of Chicago, before her marriage, was Miss Mary Summers, cf Topeka. and Mr. Mudge is the son of Mr. H. U. Mudge, who was formerly a Topeka man.

Mrs. Mudge was gowned in green crepe meteor. draped with white beaded net. forming panniers on the skirt In her hair she wore a bow of green chiffon. Mrs. Wikidal was gowned in white satin. Th skirt was made with a front panel of wmte bro cade and the drapery of the skirt was caught on each side near the hem with pink roe buds. A drapery of flower ed silk was used on the bodice. Her bouquet was a corsage of violets. Among the out of town guests was Mr Arthur Lingafolt of Oklahoma Citv who was formerly Miss Brewer of Topeka. She is noticeably good looking, and last night she was gown ed in vellow satin, the color of the skirt, shading into blue and black. She wore' vellow aigrettes In her hair. Mrs. Ohauricey Dewey of Chicago, who was among the guests, was dressed in black satin with a balero of white lace. Mrs. Drechsel of Leavenworth, who is the guest of Mrs. Charles Mitchell, wore yellow satin and chif fon, and had a Grecian band of beads in her hair. Mrs. E. K. Quinton wore white crepe de chine trimmed in white lace and fur. Mrs. Jack Dillon wore cream crepe meteor, with a piece of embroidered satin set in the front of the bodice. Her skirt had a flounce of lace and her bouquet was orchids and lilies of the valley. Mrs. J. C. Mohler wore white satin with an overdress of white net embroidered in gold in large figures. Mrs. N. P. Koontz was dressed in crimson satin with an overdrape of tolacK lace. Mrs. Marie Price Wear wore pink satin made with a tunic of net embroidered with silver beads. Miss Bertha Hull wore pink crepe meteor with a draped skirt, and a trimming of pink roses. TVfiBst F.theivn Harrison wore blue satin. I the skirt having a flowered border, and the gown araped 111 olue emtlon. Noticeable among the dancers were 1 two small people. Isabel Smith, the little daughter of Mrs. Adelaide Smith. 1 find Junior Mudge, the ycrung son of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Mudge, who wore his white gloves and dress-up clothes with the ease of a real man of the world and social lion. Mrs. W. R. Smlth wore black lace over cream i satin, with a trimming of green velvet j on the bodice. The lace drapery of the skirt was caught with a rhine i stone buckle. Miss Jessica Short wore I blue satin and velvet. The drapery o fthe skirt was fastened at the back with a sash ending in gold tassels. Mrs. Norman Wear's gown was blue brocade. Mrs. Paul Walker wore blue brocaded velvet. Miss Sarah Kouns was strikingly handsome in white satin, with, a scarf of green about her shoulders, and he rhair bound with a Grecian band of green. Mrs. Alvarado M. Fuller wore cream satin, with a panel of' lace in the back, and the bodice embroidered in a floral design. Mrs. George Parkhurst wore a gown of peacock blue trimmed in lace and gold embroidery. Mrs. Frank Ho bart's gown was pink satin trimmed in fink rosebuds and crystal beads. Miss hnrothv Rarber wore white satin with a panel and sash of cerise. Mrs. Vvsr- r-fl c U T'nHprrflff -nrn dre5Sr1 in n blank and white costume, sleveless. and fall ing over the shoulders was a. drapery of the material, caught in bead tassels. Mrs. Roy Crawford wore a gown of yellow satin with an overdress of brown chiffon and lace. The design shown is a new and attractive model in striped mole color velveteen. This rather sombre color is relieved and brightened by the in troduction on bodice and girdle of small pieces of silk passementerie in warm ori-ental -tints. A narrow col lar of self-tone satin roll3 away from a vest of cream shadow lace.' Satin covered buttons and made loops trim I the bodice and skirt. A new sleeve is shown, being a gathered puff s-et into !a drop shoulder and shirred into an inch wide puffing at the eibow. A flaring cuff of the materinl is trimmed .with self-tone satin banding. The girdle is of the satin with flat loop and end hanging at one side. The Helianthus dance tonight will be the interesting event of this date, and some of the guests to the dance will have theater parties before the ball, to see "Louisiana Lou" at the Grand. Among those who will be in theater parties before the danee arc Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barnes. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Akers, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Alden. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wear, and Mr. and Mrs. Eastman. The following guests have been ask ed to a bridge party which Miss Dorothy Sproat will give tonight at her home on Fillmore street: Miss Edith Connell. Miss Alice Lyman, Miss Ethel Chase, Miss Mary Burnett, Miss Hester Barber, Miss Dorothy Nichols. Miss Dorothy Waugh. Miss Ruih Thompson. Marshall CTawford. Verrvn West, Edwin Clark. Victor Biakely, James Perry, Stanley Copeland, Bud Weightman and Archie McKeever.

The Y. W. C. A. and the V. M. C. A. will unite to give New Year's parties Wednesday. in the morning the Y. W- C. A.will have a program from 9 to 11:30, and In the afternoon the Y. M. C. A. will keep open house. From 3 to 3:30 the boys of the Industrial school will give a gymnasium drill, and from 3:30 to 6 there will be a reception for the g-oneral public. The program for th- morning party at the Y. W. C. A. will be furnished by Miss Beuhh Wentworth. violinist, accompanied by Miss Margaret Huey, Miss Ethelyn Harrison, pianist. Miss Enid Strickler. whistler. Miss Meta Legler, Miss Helen Shaver and Miss Alison Shaver, vocalists. The evening program for the Y. M. C. A. will be as follows: Basket ball game from 7:45 to 8:15; tum bling from 8:15 to 8:40: volley ball, from 8:45 to 9:10; wrestling exhibi tion from 9:15 to '9:30 and indoor baseball from' 9:30 to 10. In the swimming pool there will be a boys' contest from S to 8:30, and a men's contest from 8:30 to 9:15: water baseball from 9:30 to 10. In the bowl ing alley there will be a tournament from 7:30 to 10. One of the bowling alleys will be open to everyone from 7 to 10. There will be moving pic tures in Gefnmell hall from 8 to 9. Viotrola music from 8:30 to 9:30; bil liard and pool tournament from 8 to 10, and an orchestra will play in the lobby from 7:30 to 10. The X. I. V. club will give a party for their husbands New Year's after noon and evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Kirkpatrick, 1C35 Polk sti eet. Mrs. W. O. McDonobgh will enter tain the Ceramic Art club at Its meet ing Friday afternoon at her home, 816 Tyler street. Mrs. McDonough and Mrs. W. S. Bishop will be hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. George Tucker and their son of Guls Port. La., are visit ing Mrs. Tucker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Clare. They will be in To peka about two weeks longer, and Mrs. Tucker will be the guest of honor at some informal parties during her visit. Mrs. Luther Burns will have guests at thimbles for her Thursday afternoon, and Mrs. George Stitt will entertain informally for her at bridge Friday afternoon, when Mrs. George Staebler, who will leave soon to make her home in Kansas City, will share honors with her. Xotes and Personal Slention. Mr. J. A. Cole left today on a busi ness trip to Wichita. Mrs. R. G. Merrick and Mrs. L. H. Greenwood and her children spent Monday in St. Marys. Miss Bertha Hull, who has been at tending Rockford seminary. Rockford, Ind., will not return to school after the holidays. Mr. W T. Davis will return tonight from a business trip to Mexico. Miss Rachel Coston is visiting friends in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Air ot Kansas City are guests of Dr. and Mrs. Willis Coston. Miss Nell Kouns will go to Valpa raiso, Ind., the ninth of this month to sing at the wedding of Miss Ethe lyn Gardner and Mr. Porter Sarrard. Miss Gardner and Miss Kouns were in school together in trve National Ca thedral college of Washington. D. C. Mrs. J. C. Darling and daughter. Eva. left Monday for California, where they will spend the winter. Mrs. G. B. Hetnei ington and her children left today for Blackwell, Ok.. to visit Mrs. Hetherington's sister, Mrs. Frank Folz, New Year's day they w ill attend a wolf hunt, which will tak1 place in a territory of 23,000 acres. E. E. Carr, the Socialist who is to J speak in Topeka. will arrive January '19, as at first planned. The Helping Hand society of the First Congregational church will hold an important business meeting Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, at the home of Miss Valentine, 625 Polk street. All the members are urged to be present. I Miss Bernice Emahizer is the guest of Miss Maurrne Stevenson of Salini. Mr. James Walsh of Kansas City has returned after a visit to the Pat rick Walsh family. Mr. and Mrs. John Calvin of Kansas City are visiting Mrs. Calvin's parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Bainter. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Dolman and their daughter of Colorado Springs are visiting friends a few days in To peka. Mr. and Mrs. Enos Keplinger of New Ulysses are guests of the Charles F. Briggs family, 1321 Buchanan street. Mrs. Keplinger fs a sister of Mr. Briggs. Mrs. W. A. Wright of Salt Lake City is visiting Mrs. W. A. Marshall and Mips Myrtle Allen. The members of the Philathea class of the First Christian church Sunday school will receive their friends New Year's day, from 2 until 5 o'clock, at the home of Miss Louie Bagley, 11 OS Throop street. Mr. and Mrs. M. Shapiro, of 616 To peka avenue, have announced the en gagement of their daughter. Rebecca, to Mr. Morris Lleberman of Sedalia, Mo; the wedding to take place in the spring. The announcement was made at a dinner party at the Shapiro home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. N. Lie bcrman. of Sedalia, who came to To peka for the party, have returned home. Mrs. Katherine Boggs entertained the members of Unity New Thought society Monday at a vegetarian lunch eon. About 0 guests were present. Mrs. Claries Hardy was toastmlstress. Miss Eva Corning sang an original song, and Miss Eva Marks and Miss Janet Hardy played a piano duet. Mis tletoe was used in the decorations which were white and yellow. The fa vors were booklets. "The Message of Truth," written bv Mrs. Boggs. THISTEEDlTOLD Paper Issued in "Kingdom of New Mexico" in Court. Title to Tome Rests on Legal ity of Document. Washington, Dec. 31. From a tat tered and torn document written in 1739. the supreme court is endeavor ing to ascertain whether the heirs of the first settlers of Tome. N. M.. in that year are now entitled to the land upon which the town is located or whether the title is in the municipal ity. The case was submitted to it for decision just before the holidays. In the paper it is discernible that Governor Mendoza of the "Kingdom of New Mexico" received a petition from 28 persons, asking for the grant because so many footpaths encroach ed upon them in the town of Albu querque that they were unable to ex tend their cultivation and stock rais ing there. A description by Captain Juan Gonzales Baz. senior justice and war captain of Albuquerque of his putting these petitioners in posses sion of the new grant can be deciph ered. Between the ravages of mice, and the uncertainty of the meaning of the grantor, the question of whether the individual settlers or the settlement as a unit, got the land is not easy of as certainment AN ESCORT FORTAFT. Government's Guard AVonll Accom pany Retiring President. New Haven. Conn., Dec. 31. A pro posal that the government's footguard. one of the oldest military companies In the country, attend the inaugura tion of President Wilson and act as a military escort to President Taft from the White House to his new home in this city. Is being discussed by the guard. The proposition came up at its meet ing last night but no definite action was taken as it is believed that the wishes of the president should be sounded before the novel plan is de cided upon. If carried out. it Is said that it will be -the first time in the Tiistory of the country that a military company has escorted the retiring president from the White House to his home. The governor's foot guards was or ganized in 1775 and fought at Bunker Hill. Its membership today consists of leading business and professional men. OAKLAND NOTES. (Items for this column may be phoned to 3915 or the State Journal office.) The meeting which, was to hava been held New Year's night. Wednes day, at the Oakland Christian chureli has been recalled on account of Rev. E. Brown of Hutchinson, who was tft have charge of the meetings, will re turn home Wednesday morning. A mass meeting was held last Sun day afternoon at the' Thomas Wisen and home on Oakland avenue to or- ganize a North Shunganunga drainage j board. A large number of Kast side people as well as Oakland people in terested m these affairs were in at tendance. Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Spillman of Quincy street spent the day Sunday with Mrs. Spillman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Carothers. Miss Mary Hancock of Strait street left Sunday night for Portland, Ore., where she will remain. Mr. and Mrs. G. Nimir have return ed to their home in Beloit, Kan., aftcx spending a few days here with the-r daugnter, Mrs. Charles Magee. and Mr. Magee of Green street. Mr. and Mrs. Mary C. Hornbaker of Keilam avenue have returned from Olathe, where they spent a few days last week with relatives. Mrs. William Cooper who has been ill at her home on Winfield avenue is slowly improving. The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres byterian church will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. W. H. Draut at her home on Michigan avenue. Miss Ida and Miss M-etlSa Rees who were guests last weefe of their brother, O. T. Rees and family of Winfield ave nue have returned to their home m Sabetha. W. J. Williams who has berf in St. Loui3 the past month on bus-ir.ess is spending a few days here with his family on Forest avenue. Announcements were made last Sun- 11 N f 5155 2SELLAf!GDS ADS ADVERTISING RATES: The rate for inserting Want Ads in The Topeka State Journal i3 one cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents: by the week 5 cents a word, minimum SO cents. OUT OF TOWN advertisements must be accompanied with cash or check in full payment for the same. Note the forego ing instructions about counting the words and the rates per word for The Topeka State Journal. CLOSING HOUR: 'Vant Ads to be classified properly in The Topeka State Journal must be in The State Journal office hpfor i nVlnfi.- "Want Ads received after the noon hour will be inserted under the heading: "Too Late to Classiiy, or next day as desired. COl'XT THE WORDS of your Ad. in cluding four words for State Journal ad dress when such addres3 is used: count ereh "Initial" letter and each number or combination of figures as one word. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Lady's gold bracelet between 3th and Kansas and asylum grounds, Fri day eve. Tel. 3177 W. Reward. WANTED Place to work for board by young man student. Phone 68 W. DRESSMAKING plain or fancy, by the day. Phone 4t23 Red. MEN wanted to learn barber trade. You can't appreciate our offer without our catalogue, mailed free. Moler Barber col lege, Kansas City. Mo. WANTED Boy over 16. City Hand Taundry. LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN and brakemen for nearby railroads $80 to $100 monthly. Age 18 to 35. Experience unnecessary; no strike. Promotion, engineer, con ductor. Railroad employing headquarters over 4C0 men sent to positions monthly. State age; send name. Railway Associa tion, Box Journal. WANTED 2 boys over 16 years at once. Lillian Garment Co., 05& Kansas ave., 2nd floor. MEN WANTED to Jearn barber trade. Iw weeks completes a Mudeut; best a.id latett methods used; positions secured, commissions paid while learning; tools eiven absolutely free with the lowest tr.l tion ever offered. Call or write at one, xopeka Barber College. 332 iiansai nue, Topeka. Kansas. I MADE $50,000 in five years with a small mail order business; began with $3. Send for free booklet. Tells how. Heacock. 518 Lockport. N. Y. WANTED FEMALE HELP, WANTED PMEKGIROOM AH WAnmiEssEs EXPERIENCE NOT NECESSARY. AP PLY TO LOCAL MANAOKR. FRED HARVEY. SANTA FE DEPOT. LADIES wanted to learn hairdressing and kindred professions. You can't apprec iate our offer without our catalogue. Moler College, St. Touis. Mo. WANTED Cook at Topeka hotel, 122 W. 6th. WOMAN to help in boarding house during day. 213 Kloin st. WANTED Capable woman to do house work, hours 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. family of two adult3: references required. Call mornings. 1352 College ave. WANTED Two girls in the domestic de partment. Apply to superintendent, Topka State Hospital. WANTED A reliable girl (white), good cook: can give references; no washinc or housework; assist with ironing. polk. WANTED Experienced cook, 3 in family. Mrs. D. W. Mulvane, 1035 Van Buren. Phone 408. JANTEDJ We pay highest -hs'u prices for second hand furniture. Exchange new goods for old. W. H. Stalons Furniture Co.. 411 Kansas avfc Phone 1724. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal calves. W. C- A. Leitzow. Tel. 157. VEAL CALVES, fat cattle. N. Central ave. 2279 K. 4. H. M. Bush. WANTED To buy from owner, 2 east front lots. Address 25, care Journal. day night that revival meetings would be started next Sunday night at the Oakland Christian church by Mrs. Hazelrigg of Topeka, but owing to the illness of the evangelist the meet ings have been postponed one week. Miss Anna Brock who has been vis iting friends at Springfield, Mo., the past few days has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Roberts enter tained Mrs. H. J. Adams and children of Ashlans, Neb., and Mrs. M. V. Jes sop of Topeka last Friday evening at their home on Keilam avenue. Mr. and Mr3. A. G. Rees cf Sabetha who have been visiting their son Or ton T. Rees and family of Winfield avenue the past few days went to Abi lene last night for a short visit with relative and friends before returning to their home. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hardy have re turned to their home in Mankato after a week's visit here with relatives and friends. The S. O. D. H. Embroidery club which was to have met Wednesday evening has been postponed one week and will meet with Miss Mona Bell ;U her home, 4 65 Reno street. The Good Samaritan class of the Oakland M. E. Sunday school will have their regular monthly business meeting Wednesday evening at the home of J. M. Jones. 450 Wabash avenue. All members of the class are urged to attend as the business for the coming year will be discussed. The Old Lady What's trie matter with the little boy? His Elder Brother Oh. 'e's crying 'cos I'm eatin' my cake and won't give Mm any. The Old Lady Is his own cake finished, then? His Elder Brother Yes. an' 'e cried while I wa eatin' that, too. Sketch. One day a little girl about S years old heard a ranting preacher praying until the roof rang with strength of his sup plications. Turning to hr mother, she whispered: "Mother, don't you think if he lived nearer to God he wouldn't have to talk so loud?" WANTED MiSGELLANEOllS. WE WANT TO BUY YOfTR HOUSEHOLD GOODS. CALL OR PHONE 3749-617 and 619 CjL'INCY. IGFET&A, BEOJgAGE CO. WE PAY tho highest cash price for east off ciothlns, shoes, hats and overcoats. Drop us a can) or call Gordon ''ros.' loan office. Kansfla ave. Tnd. 10T9. PLAIN SEWING-and dressmaking. I;53 Rlnck. 1221 Monroe, flat No. 1 WANTED To buy a straight first mort gage c.t moderate amount on TopeKa city or Shawnee county real estate. Call at 110 West Sixth street. PRIVATE PARTY will store their new plaver piano with a good family who would buy If suited. "J. L. M.." Journal. GOOD milk cows, stock and fat cattle, veal calves. 2075 N-2. WANTED Shooting gallery. State price and descripiion. X. Y.. care Journal. SECOND-HAND clothes. Ladies' and gents' cleaning and dyeing a specialty. All work guaranteed. K. C. Cleaning Dyers, 1021 West 6th. phone 1095. FOB RENT ROOMS. 935 KANSAS AVE.. 4 rooms; 929 Kansas ave. 3 rooms. 2299 Blue. WELL FURNISHED ROOMS, three blocks from capltol, all modern conven iences, coal, clrctrlcity, boarding hou-se close. 1W7 Tyler. Phone 3fs4. TWO nicely furnished front rooms in cot tage for light housekeeping. 4re: Witt'. 700 E. 7TH, 3 furnished housekeeping roomy, fVJ'O. FOR RENT Nicely furnished room in private family. 1030 Quincy. OX E 3 room furnished house. Phone 22TS White. FOR RENT For two months, nicely fur nished housekeeping rooms. 716 Kansas ave., 3rd floor: Edison heat. Call In fore noon or telephone 2176 Red. FOR RENT Furnished front room. Phone 2188 White. FOR RENT 2 furnished front rooms fixed for light housekeeping, or will furnish board. 201 Polk, opposite Continental Crea mery. Will rent reasonable. FOR RENT Modern furnished roomy, first class. 54 Madison. 3 MODERN unfurnished rooms. 'Vath: references required: no children. 14.W. FOR RENT 2 furnished rooms," house keeping; private bath. HQS VaVn Buren. LIGHT housekeeping rooms, gas, coal, 2 per week. 316 Quincy. ONE furnished housekeeping room. month: coal furnace; house modern. 412 West 7th. 615 HARRISON ST.. strictly modern room, hot water heat, for gentleman. lORJENJcyiOJJSES FOR MEET 1135 Brooks ave., 5 rooms, Ill" Brooks. 5 rooms, new 4- room cottage. West side 5- roem cottage, West side .$i:. 12.W 10.00 lS.Ov) 100 West 6th. Phone 1644. 5 ROOM HOUSE, modern. 901 Jefferson St. FOR RENT Good rooming house, or flno for two families. Good 5 room house and barn. Phone 2S25 Re1. 709 BRAXSKR, five rooms, 716 Madison. 715 Chestnut. 2r.8l Red. FOR RENT Furnished house, strictly modern, splendid neighborhood. Will rent reasonable. Desirable tenant. Call 1153 after 11 a. m. FOR RENT 6 room house, 3 lots, car line, school. $5.50 month. .1919. FOR RENT House. 319 Jackson. $13.. A. M. Robinson. Phono 24:77 Black. 1113 W. 6th. 7 rooms, barn. $18. CYRUS GUTHRIE Sc CO. 116 E. 5th. Phone 730 W. 1S23 MONROE. 6 large rooms, partly modern. $15. Phone 513. 5 ROOM modem house. n?n-ly painted and papered. 1122 Tyler. Just what you want. Phone 4361 Red. FOR RENT Six room house, modern, $J6. 417 E. Fifth St. FOR RENT New five roomed cottage, near Washburn colleKe. Call 2921 Klue. FOR RENT 2 modern houses. 622 and 12-13 Topeka ave. phone 2048 Ret.. FOR RENT Nice i room cottage, 12th and Clay. Gas and city water. Call :i4T5. 8 ROOM HOUSE, strictly modern; In Westlawn. Phone 4"40 Red. FOR RENT Nice modern cottage, tlx rooms. 311 West Twelfth. FOR RENT 7 room house, modern, 3'iS E. 9th. 5 ROOMED HOUSE, 3 blocks from East Kansas avenue. Phone TSM Red. 401 E. 8TH, 8 room modern house, xoo4 repair. Desirable lor roomers, phone 00 K-3. 6 ROOMS, modern, 410 IJncoln. 4 room cottage, 2101 Kansas ave. Dr. Roby, Jji Kansas ave. FOR RENT 8 room house, 1271 Tyler, modern, good repair; key at house north. Phone 2411 Blue. FOR RENT 311 Tyler. rooms, modern. Inquire 2o5 Clay. FOR RENT Choice front offices on Kan sas ave, with office furniture, water tnc light. F. S. Tboruas, Slit Kansas 4ve. phone Jtn, 160 ACRE FARM near Menoken. Inquire 2094 Red. SMALL FARM, 1 miles south Vinetiood. Cash rent. Phone 2279 K-4. rOR RENT Store room and basement. 629 Kansas eve. C2fr1 Blue. NOTICE To all real estate deal -r Please caicel lots 30-32 v. 8th iM3 Huntoon. iiCO-iifC Jewel, College place Hannah E. Hartiner. BAF1BERSI0PS R. B. NICHOLS' BARBER SlIOPtr,ir

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THE TW DAILY STATE 31,, .1912 9 t I Mutt Thinks i r- -r lr J.. i 1 v t i 1 ro Lite c to see the guv vJMO INVENTED TH'S "lRB- I &6T SINf.LP THIN&. I AIN'T l) GOT- A CENT, I IN'T EVN r- r. .a iTUAS I SNOW, AND THfc 5AV n FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. LEGAL. I LEGAL. LEGAL. LEGAL, mm. 1 r- r t",''m'. IMJtiliMijWil'l-Mi'l.luWtJtiLi'.MU!JIMnnniTJWfiniilnijulai a(u)r iliiilMlflntliil nwmii imwMiiMnrniriHTri.S.v. If K St -8f If ft- 1 will be New Year s. Why not nia ke a resolution tomorrow that 3913 will see you livina in a home of your own. After dinner take a walk and Inspect 1529 IJncoln.' street;' JIadison pr the new bunjjitlow we are building in Broadmoor. Remember cosy homes like these are sold by us on a small cash payment arid on the easy monthly In stallment plan, location and style of house to suit purchaser. BH4 KANSAS AVE. 1 5 room cottape. sas, cistern, well, cel lar, barn, east front, pavinc; paid; half dozen blocks west. $1,975. .Monthly paj- ments. 'all COTTRELU 107 E. 7th. Tel. 556 R, M08. rOR SAIE Household goods at 1617 Clay. FOR SALE ONE IARGE mom saife Cheap, first class condition; must be sold at once. ISA DORK SCRLNOPSKT, 526s Kansas Ave. FOR SALE Unclaimed rugs, oil- sizes and at attractive prices. O. McCormlck Rua Factory. ZZZ Van Puren st. FOR SALE Fine canaries and gold fish. n'27 Jackson st. FOIt SALE FifYniture; party leaving city now disposing of household furni ture at private sale. No auction. Terms cash. West st. 1 FOR SALE Fine s. C- R. I. Red rocs I erels. SI .0 to $1.50 each. Tel. 1757 K-l. 1 FOR SALE Ixit in Topeka cemetery, well located. W. B. Lowranee, Crawford Bldg.. Topeka. Kan. FOR SALE A twin po-cart. Call 2112 17 feensHs Hve. Mrs. White. AT.FALFA, clover and prairie hay, de livered. Wm. Banta, It, No. 1. Phone 2780 K-2. .FOR SALE Cheap if taken at once, 1 Early English dining room set; other furniture. 365 R. FOR SALE Cord wood, phone isrs K-3. FOIt SALE At a sacrifice furniture of large new rooming house In bulk. House for rent. ;XS E. 7th. cost $2,650, in good condition, for immed iate sale. $425 cash. No trade. COTT- RELL, 107 E. 7th st. Phone 556 R, 3408. FOR EXCHANGE'. SCALD X23ANGE"' i Aales bought, sold, repaired and ex changed electric coffee, mills, meat chop pers and meat cutters. Satisfaction guar anteed. INTERSTATE SCALE CO., 523 NEW ENGLAND BLDO. PHONE 206 W. 320 a. relinquishment in eastern Colo rado; 40 a. in cultivation: 2 room frame (house: barn and other outbuildings. Trade for dwelling in Topeka or grocery stock. I Buy western raw land as an investment. e aae a large list. )M St C0OVEE hone K24. 532 Kansas Ave. New cottage in Sulphur Springs. Benton count, Arkansas, and 25 to Co acres fruit lnd near same town. Trade both for uuuiuan iraci to ai acres, near Topeka COTTRELU 107 E. 7th St. f hone 6i6 R( 3408. the New Year i neKe iv wiT aiMow i .r t vv-i- i i I y &UV lvHO SAYS -MER.R.Y CNTMAS I 5 J NfeWVEAR., I To oU.' I I If AGENCY PHONE 505. A.dvertised yesterday for the Tirst time at this price. Located on West side, blocks of state house, 8 room modern house besides hall and bath, furnace, cement basement, combination lights, well built home, about 6 years old. 1 east front lots, paved street. This place act ually sold for $3,700 cash 4 years ago. Now reduced to $3,100. Tf EELL 107 K. 7th ft. Phone 556 R, Sf. FOi; SALE New cottage, five rooms, barn, well and cistern. 1 Rood driving horse, surrey, harness and road waiton. 1 fine riding pony. 215 Clay st. Phone 2924 Blue. FOR BMA .Dandy 10 acre tract near Rochester school, all in cultivation; no buildings. Price $1,500. v 4 room cottage, 3 lots, in Enid, Okla homa, clear, for T6peka rental; might as sume.' Price $1,600. 8 room, front and bacl porches, cellar, well eras, all in fine repair, 3 lots, near car line. Oakland; terms. Price $1,700. 10 acres, good house,- barn and other improvements, large and small fruit, on gravel road. 1 mile out. Price $4,500. Let us help you to add to your happt ness and prosperity this New Year. C'aU for particulars. J. E, MILLIE E31 Kansas Ave. Phone 15 W. WILIXJW RIVER, B. C Maine line G. T. P., and P. H. B. Rys. entrance great peace River Country. Write Pac. Land Townsites Co., Ltd., 161 Pac. Blast., Vancouver, B. C for maps, plats, printed matter. Agts. wanted. FOR SALE Dandy 6 room house, with one acre. West side. Lots of fruit, grape arbor, barn, cow shed, chicken house and yard; some small fruit cistern and well; cellar and sas. 1-3 down, bal ance in monthly payments. Address "Suburban." care Journal. FOR SALE To close a receivership seven ouarter sections of land, wTell located, in western Kansas. Vv. B. Lowranee, receiver. Crawford Bldg., Topeka. Kan. TWO GTI.T EDGE INVESTMENTS. COTTAGES, 5 blocks west of P. O. One new, 4 rooms, large attic, east front, gas, well: sewer, paving, porches. il.CuO. Terms. One 3 rooms, shade, porch, as, water, sev.er, paving paid, $1,200. Terms. P.r-nts $16.00. CHASE COTOTT FARMS AND RANCHES. 120 acres, 80 acres first bottom, Tiew improvements, mile Strong City; price $R5 per acre: free lists. Klotz Hoel, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. FOR SALE Cheap. 2 good delivery horses, harness and wagon, for delivery pur poses. 1505 W. 15th st. Phone 1803.. FOR SALE Fresh cow. phone 441 Grant ville. FOR SALE 3 fresh cows 325 Arter ave.. Oakland. Phone 2277 K-l. GOOD driving horse. 5 years" old,-1 city broke. 2751 Black. FOR SAL.Br Three fresh cows. Zii Ad ams st. j--' Should Come April 1. Published In The. Topeka State Journal December 31, 1912. OFFICIAL CITY COMMISSION PRO CEEDINGS. Commission Chamber, Topena, Kansas, Monday, December SO; 1912. The city com mission met in regular session at S:00 o clock a. m., with the following com-mtss-loners present: Commissioners Bone .Miller, Stotts and Tandy 4. Mayor Kil iard In the chair. The minutes of the meeting of Decem ber 1.412, were presented, read and. oh taction of Commissioner Tandy, approved aa read. Petition to grade, pave' and curb' wih combined curb and gutter Western avenue tiom the south line of Second street to the center line of First avenue, presented ic commission on December 16, 1912. and inferred to the commissioner of streets and public improvements, was reported .1: ,.Lne "uowing recommendation: v v'i v.uinmissioners: loiir commissioner of streets and public im provements, to whom was referred the within petition, finds that said petition is signed by resident owners of real ..i. representing more than one-half of the real estate, owned by residents, fronting or abutting upon the Western avenue designated in the petition. 1, therefore recommend that the said petition be grant ed and that the city clerk be and he is hereby ordered to spread said petition upon the journal." The report was adopt ed on motion of Commissioner Tandy The petition is in words ana figures follows, to-wit: "Tone.ka, Kansas. Tn v, u l?yZL al" Board of Commissioners of theCity of Topeka: Gentlemen: We, the iJ ucihh 01 me tjity or To peka, Shawnee County, Kansas, and own ers of real estate fronting and abutting uion that portion of Western avenue hereinafter proposed to be Improved by grading, paving and curbing with com bined curb and gutter, hereby respectfully petition your honorable body to grade, P.ve. and curb with -combined cnrtrnmt gutter Western avenue from the south line oecona sireei to tne center line of First avenue; said paving to Je of asphal tic concrete on a 4 inch, concrete base, and to be thirty feet wide. Respectfully submitted, Mary w. Doran. (formerly Mary W. Woodward). Tracts 699 and 700 In Sec. 30, Tp. 11, R. 16, E., 75 feet, W. E. T. Reiehenbach, Tract 701 In See. 30, Tp. 11, R- 16, E., 75 ft., John Isaacson, Tract 698 In Seel 30. Td. 11, R. 16, E., 76 ft.. Geo. A. Kline, Tract -695 B. in Sec. 80. Tp. 11, R. 16, E., 82 ft."? Petition to grade. Dave -and enrh with combined curb and gutter Boswell avenue i from the south line of Tenth avenue to the north line of Sixteenth street, present ed to commission on December 16, 1915, ana reterrra 10 me-- commissioner of streets and public Improvements, was re ported hack with the following recommen dation: "To th 3rd of Commissioners: Your commissioner of streets and public in-.piovements, to whom was referred tha within petition, finds that said petition is signed by resident owners of real estate representing mere -than one-half of the real estate owned, by residents, fronting or Pbutting upon the -JJoswell avenue designated in the. petition. If thereforv. recommend that- the 5 saw petition be granted and that thcity- c'fru be and he is hereby ordered to pre4 said, petition upon the Journal. ,ir Theeport was adopt ed on riiOlion of Commissioner rTandy. The petition is in words and jfigures, as follows, to-wit: "Topeka, Kansas. To the 'Honorable -M.'iyor and Board of Commissioners of he City of Topeka: Gentlemen: We, the undersigned, residents of the City of To peka, Hi.-iWBte County, Kansas, and own ers of real estate fronting and abutting upon that portion of Boswell avenue here inafter proposed to be improved by grad inr. paving and curbing with combined curb ajid gutter, hereby respectfully peti tion -youn honorable body. t grade, pave and curb with combined euro and-gutter Boswell avenue from the south line of Tenth avenue to the north line. of Six teenth street; said paving to be of asphal tlc oonerte 'on a 4 inch concrete base, and to t thirty .feet wide. Respectfully submitted, Ed. Arnold. 454, 456, 458, 460, 462. 468, 470, 506, 508 Klmhurst Add. A. A. Armstrong, 49S, 500 Elmhurst Add.. f Boswell Ave., 401 and S. 4 449 Norton's Add., iiosweu Ave.j C. S. JClliott. 304, 306 Boswell Ave., Col lege place Add., A. E. Billings, M. D.,..308r 310 Boswell Ave., College place Addition. J. C. Mohler,. 45- 47 Boswell Ave., College Hill Addition. J. E. Kirknatrick, 60 and 52 Boswell Ave., College Hill Addition, 1 J .S. Koons. 44, 46, 48 Boswell Ave., College Hill Addition, Robert Weir, Ebbie E. Phinney -Weif, 112 ft front, S. E. corner Boswell and Huntoon, J. P. Wahle, 326 and .328 Boswell, 'College Place Add. r E. R. Simon, 57, 59, 61, 63 Boswell Av.v College Hill Add., 320, 322. 324 Boswell Ave.. College place Add., Anna B. Lerrtgo, 330, 332 Boswell,' College Place Add., Louise G. Putman, 323-and, S25 Boswell Ave.. College place Add., H. E. Tasker. 334 and 336 Boswell Ave, College Place Add., John Tasker. 338 and 340 Boswell Ave., College Place Add., i W. E. Grotewohl, 342 and 344 Boswell Ave., College Place Add., B. E. Cooklnham, 355, 357 Boswell Ave., College Place Add., Anna M. Cookinham, 346. N. half 348 Boswell Ave., College Place Add., Thos. W. Williamson, 350, S. half 348 Boswell Ave.. College place Add. Edith Durant, 339, 341 College Place Add., Boswell Av A. G. Keys, 53, 56, Boswell Ave., "College Hill Add.. Plat "B", A. A. Alderfer, 326 to 334 Stilsoh Bar tholomew Add., and 333 Boswell Avt Brooks Add., H. C; Kurtz, 29S Collaee Place Add., E. L." Taguet C. A. Oristonsen, 343, S45. Vc 347 Boswell Ave.. College Place Add.. 33. 345, S7 S4S College Place Add., C. S. JLoper, !S. 100. 102, 104. H3, 10S Bos well AVe.. College Hill Add., Plat "B". A. H. Kinne, 37, 39 Boswell Ave.,. Col lege Hill Add.. ,v J. M. Quail, 66 to 72 Boswell -Ave., Col lege Hill Add., D. A. Balinger, 301, 303, 305 Boswell Ave.. Elmhurst Add., R. E. Wilson, S. la 377, 579 N. 14 3SI Boswell Ave., College 'Place 'Add., J. I. Davis. Alberta Davis. SO, 82, 84 Boswell Ave., College Hill Add., Plat "B", Francis Lonaker, tio, 67, 6ti 71 West hO feet. College Hill Add.. Matthew Campbell. 65;-.7, 69, 71, E. 100 feet. College Hill Add., W. F. Stahl, 453, 455 Boswell Ave., Nor ton's Add., George H. Stadel. 447; N. 449 Boswell Ave., Norton's Add.. H. L. Wilson, 425, hi '427 Boswell Ave., Norton's Add.. Jerome Stahl. Mrs. M.'.C. Stahl, 431, N, 433 Boswell Ave.,. Norton's Add., J. H. Cochran, 437, 4S9 Boswell Ave., Norton's Add.. J. E. Addington, 461. 46 Boswell Avenue. Norton's Add.. J. A. Patterson. No. '492, 4, 6, Boswell Ave., Elmhurst Add., Eva Harding, 86. SS. 90, 52, 94 96 Bos well Ave., College Hill Add., Plat, "B", Ethel- M. Lawrence, 510, 512 Boswell, W. E. "Miller. 393. 395, 397 Boswetl St., Norton's Add., 'r- 1 1 J. L. Hatton. 360 362 Boswell Are., Stilson Bartholomew. Add., Ellen McDaniels. S. 336, 838 340 Bos well Ave., Stilson Bartholomew Add., M. G. Dean, 435, 467 Boswell Aye., Nor ton's Add., E. H. Hisgins, 5S, 60 jBoswell Ave., Col lege Hill Add., M. A. Ott, lots No. 50?,,5O4 Boswell. Ave., Elmhurst' Add.. Daisy McFarland, 4fi, 486 Elmliurst Annie M.' Green wood lots 438, 440, 442 Elmhurst Add., l- The Havs- Land and Investment Company,- by Le Monroe, Xreas., lot 237 and N. lot 239 Brooks Stw Brooks AHd: D. E. "Welch, 316, 318 qpUege Place Add., Boswell street: -,'t A. -W.'""ance, lots 2"19p 291 Brooks Aad Boswell street, L. J. Baker, lots 3S7:' 3S9, 391 Norton's Add., Prudential Tfiist Co.. Seott Hopkins, Trust 'Officer.' W. W. Mills, president, lots 304, 306, 316, 318, 320, 322. 324, 326 32S, 330, 332. 334, 336. 338, 340, 342, 344, 295, 297, 299, 301. 363. 305. 307. 309, SIR. 317. 33 325. 339. 341 Bos well Ave. College Place Add., 476, 478, 4m, 482 484, 486. 4S8. 490, 501. 503, 505, 511, 513, 51i, 517, 497, '499, Boswell Ave. Elmhurst Add. 338, 340 BosweH Ave., College Place Add. TOpeka. Kansas, December 14. 191 i I, S. E.' Cotob, secretary of the Pruden tial Trust Company, of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that at a regularly called meeting of the Board of Directors of said The Prudential Trust Company, held in the Citv of Topeka, Kansas, on the 14th day of December. 1912. the fol lowing resolution was" presented ami unanimously adopted: 'Resolved, By the Board of Directors of the Prudential Trust Company, of Topeka, Kansas, that WT W. Mills, president of said the Pru dential Trust Company be. and he Is hereby authorized and directed, for and oh behalf of said corporation, to sign a certain petition addressed to the Board of Commissioners of the City of Topek. Kansas, for the grading, curbing and paving of Boswell avenue, from the south line of Tenth avenue to the north, line of Sixteenth street, in said city.' Witness My Hand and the seal of said the Pru dential Trust Company, this 14th day of December, 1912: S. E. Cobb, Secretary. Commissioner Tandy presented for fiist reading, resolutions for the paving of the following: Western avenue from the south line ol Second street to the center- line of First avenue, and k Boswell avenue from the south line oc Tenth avenue to the north line of Six teenth street. The following resoiuuun. f T"'" commission on 1--"-1- missioner Tandy, was taken up for sec ond reading. The resolution is in words and figures, as follows,- to-wlt: B. toTvrn That the mayor and. board of commissioners of the City of Tc nekaT Kansas, deem it necessary for the bt Interests of said city that Fifteenth sTrt from the west line of College ave nueto the east line of MacVicar avenue. 2 graded! curbed with combined curb "Sutter, and paved twenty-eight (2S, ft wide with asphaltic concrete on four (4) inch concrete base. SoSBlIe?0 I TlW and M.yjrBH- tion of Commissioner Tandy, commissi! adjourned to meet Jt W o'clock a. n.. Thursday, January 2, 19m bURGE, Sea-i.j city clerk. TFirst published in The Topeka State 1 J Journal December 31. 1912. mrOTA'ED, That the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the city of Topeka lk-.ncsas deem It necessary for the best infereats of said city that Fifteenth street from the west line of College avenue to the east Kne of MacVicar avenue, be traded f urbed with combined curb and lutfer. and paved twenty-eight (28) feet w d with asphaltic concrete on a four (4) inch concrete base- Q -TAXr)y Commissioner. t, -lr-lr r.f the Citv of Toiieka Kansas, do hereby certify that the above anu iuicSu... correct copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. "seal" C.E BURGE, City Clerk. UNDERTAKING. t, M PESWELL, funeral director and embalmer. T. E- Jones, Ass't. First class gerv.ee 508-510 Quiney st. Telephone 102. Phone 287. Day and Night HAWLKY STEELE. Funeral directors and embalmers. 118 East Sin ave. Mrs.. Robt. Steele, assistant. m m First Published in The Topeka State journal xjtrceuiuvr t, ujicj RESOLVED, That the mayor and board of commissioners of the City of Topeka Kansas, deem it necessary for the best interests of said city that Euclid avenue from the west line of West street to the east line of the alley west of Boswei avenue, be graaed, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved (la) teet wid with asphaltic concrete on a four (4) inci concrete base said fifteen feet to be ti.e north one-half of a proposed thirty loot pavement. -W. G. TANDY, Commissioner. I, C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and cor rect copy of the original resolution now on fi'e in my office.: Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. 1 nESOLVED, That the mayor and boar2 of commissioners of the City of Topeka. Kansas, deem it necessary for the best interests of said city that Eleventh street from the west line of West street to the east line of Garfield avenue, be graded,, curbed with combine curb and gutter, and paved twenty-six (26) feet wide with as phaltic concrete on a four (4) Inch con crete base. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner. I, C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City ot Topeka, Kansas, do- hereby certify thuT the above and foregoing is a true and cor rect copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED, That the mayor and board of commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the be3t interests of said city that Jackson street from the south line of Fourth street to the C. R. I. P. Railway tracks .be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and repaved sixty (60) feet wie'e with vitrified blocks -pn a contTete das-s with grout filler, the. vitrified blocks be ing of a Quality to satisfy, the 1S rattlor test on the City of Topeka's Standard Rattler. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner. I. C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and cor rect copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. t Seal. cr B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED, That the mayor and boaid of commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the bot interests-of Said city that Kansas avenue from the north line of Twenty-first streec to the city limits on the west side of Kan sas avenue, be graded, curbed with com bined curb and gutter, and paved twenty six (26) feet wide with vitrif ieu paving blocks on a four (4), inch, concrete baje with sand filler. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner: I, C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City ot Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and cor rect copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED, That the mayor and board of commissioners of the City of Topeka. Kansas, deem it necessary for the best interests of said city that Tyler street from the south line of Fourteenth street to, tha north line of Douthitt street, be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved thirty (30) feet wide with vitrified paving blocks on a four (41 inch concrete base with asphalt tiller. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner.' I, C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City o Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is; a true and correct-copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. First Published In The Topeka Stats journal .uecemoer RESOLVED, That the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Topeka. Kansas, deem it necessary for the best in terests of said city that Third street from the west line of Clay street to the west line of Buchanan street, be graded, curb ed with combined curb and gutter, and paved thirty (30). feet wide with asphaltic concrete on a four (4) inch concrete base. W. G. TANDY. Commissioner. I. C. 3. Burge, city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby, certify- that the above and foregoing is a true and correct -copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. Seal. C. B BURGE, City Clerk. "RESOLVED, That the Mayor and board 01 Commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the bust In terests of said city that Huntington ave nue from the west line of Topeka avenue to the west line of Tyler street, be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved twenty-six (26) feet wide with asphaltic concrete on a four (4) inch con crete base." W. G. TANDY. Commlssionei 1, C. B. Burge. city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that tuie above and foregoing is a true aid correct copy of the original resolutUn row on file In my office. Seal. C. X BURGE. City Clerk. RESOLVED, That the -Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Topeka. Kansas, deem it 11e.eeps.1rjf for the beot in terests cf said city that Polk street from the north line of Huntington avenue to the north line of Euclid avenue, be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved thirty (30) feet wide with vitri fied blocks on a four (4) Inch concrete base with asphalt filler. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner. I; C: B. Burge. city clerk of theCity ol Toreka. Kansas, do hereby certify tl at the above and foregoing Is a true and correct copy ot the original resolution cow on, file in my office. f Seal. C. B. Bi'RGE, Ci.y ClerkJ RESOLVED, That the Mayo' and Board By 44 of Commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the best in terests of said city that West street, from the south line of Tenth avenue to the north line of Huntoon street, be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved twenty-six (26) feet wide with asphaltic concrete on a four (4) inch con crete base. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner. I, C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City ot Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify thit the auove and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original resolution now on file In r.iy office. Seal. C. B. BURGE. City Clerk. RESOLVED. That the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the best in terests of said city that Lane street from the. south line of Willow avenue to the south line of Fifth street, be graded, curb ed with combined curb and gutter, and raved thirty (30) feet wide with vitrifiei blocks on a four (4) Inch concrete base with asphalt filler. W. O. TANDY, Commissioner. I. C- B. Burge, city clerk of. the City of Topeka, Kansas,, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing a true and correct copy of the original resolution now on rile in my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED. That the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the best in terests of said city that Buchanan street from the south line of First "street' to ihb north line of Third street be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved thirty (30) feet wide with asphaltic concrete on a four (4) inch con crete base. r. w: G. TANDY','' Commissioner. I, C- B. "Burge, city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original resolution now on file In my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE!, City Clerk. RESOLVED, That the mayor and board of commissioners of the city of Topeka, Kansas, deem-' it necesasry for the best interests of said city, that the alleys between Seventh street and Eighth "avenue,- from Fillmore street to Clay street, be graded anu paved twenty (20) feet wide with vitrified paving blocks on a four (4) inch concrete base with sand filler-. W. O. TANDY. Commissioner. I. C. B. Burge.' aty o.lerk of the Cltv of Tc-peka. Kansas, do liereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true anrf correct copy of the original resolution, now on file In my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED. That the mayor and hnarri of commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the best interests of said citv. that the alley between Harrison street and Topeka avenue, from Thirteenth street to Fourteenth street, be graded and paved twenty (zo) leet wide with vitrified paving blocks on a four (4) inch concrete base with sand filler. w. G. TANDY,' Commissioner. I. C. B. Burge, city uleric of the Citv of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original resolution, now on file in my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED. That the mayor and hnarri of commissioners of the City of Topjka, Kansas, deem It necessary for the best interests of said city. that the alley between Topeka avenue and Tyler street, from Fourth street to Fifth street, be graded and paved twenty (20) feet wide with vitrified paving blocks on a four (4) inch, concrete base with sand filler. W. G. TANDY Commissioner. I, C. B. Burge, city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original resolution, now on file in my office. Seal. C. B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED, That the mayor and board of commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary for the best in terests of aid city that Quincy street from the south line of Fairchild street to the south line of Garfield Park, be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved thirty (30) feet wide with asphaltic concrete on a four (4) inch con crete ,hase "W". G. TANDY. Commissioner. I, C- B. Burge city clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original 'resolution now on file in my office. Seal. C- B. BURGE, City Clerk. RESOLVED, That the mayor and board of .commissioners of the City of Topeka, Kansas, deem it necessary, for the best in terests of said city that Lane street from the south line of Fifteenth street to the north line of Sixteenth street, be graded, curbed with combined curb and gutter, and paved thirty 30) feet wide with vitri fied paving blocks on a four (4). inch concrete base with asphalt filler. W. G. TANDY, Commissioner. T," C- B. Burge city clerk of the City pf Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify tl.at the above and foregoing Is a true and correct copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. Seal. C- B. BTTRGBK-Ciy Clerk. MACHiiic SHOPS. GTTNB repattd and cleaned hy experts. JO. rlOWoDil HUDDiy V-O.. 4X9 ave. f 7 CIDER. WANTED Yjour orders for CTDEH, "Washeura 'tidtr Works. Phone 2315 BIk, Bud' Fisher $3,000,000.00 of 6 per cent money to loan on Eastern Kansas farms and on inside Topeka business property. An unlimited amount of low rate money to loan for building homes and on homes already built in Topeka. If you wish a new loan or have a ma turing loan or wish to change your loan, either farm or city, write or call at our office, first floor, New England Bldg. BETZER REALTY LOAN CO. Topeka Mortgage Ixn Representative, U. S Mortgage Trust Co., N. Y. Assets $76.000.000.00. MONEY TO LOAN on pianos and house hold goods. Newest methods, lowest rates. American Loan company. Room 307 Mulvane Bldg. Tel. 645. MONEY to loan or live stock, pianos, or guns, typewriters, household goods and personal security. L. Biscoe, S23 Kan. ave. MONEY TO IXN ON ALL KINDS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Horses, cattle, pianos, household goods, libraries, typewriters, carriages and ma chinery, and to salaried people. Frank S, Thomas, 519 Kansas ave. Tel. 298. MONEY TO LOAN on personal property and collateral security, on easy terms. G. H. Flintham, 906 E. 4th St. MISCELLANEOUS. HATR GOODS made of combings. Miss Nolting,-4577 K-2, Topeka. MISSOURI Fidelity and Causalty. Health and Accident Insurance. Room 7, 513 Kansas ave. Phones. Office 3661; Res. 24i4 Blue. ATTORNEYS AT LAV. HIRAJif C. ROOT. Attorney at I -aw. Abstract and Real Estate and Prolate law. 33. Columbian Bldg., Topeka. PATENTS. J.-A ROSEN, patent attorney, J Kan a ave.. Topeka. Kan. FOR SALE New and second-hand carom and pocket billiard tables and bowling alleys. We lead the world in cheap fix tures; easy payments. Send for catalogue. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.. 3329-31 Main street. Kansas City, Mo.. FURRIER. JOHN PETKZILEK, the only practical furrier in Kansas. 127 W. 7th. Topeka. TRANSFER AND STORAGE. MERCHANTS' Transfer and Stores" Co. furnish expert packers; also look after freight. Phones 1. Skinner Gayhart. AUTO REPAIR SHOPS. NOTICE TO MACHINE MEN, auto own ers, blacksmiths and the public general ly: We Ao all kinds of welding brass, bronze, aluminum, and all kinds of steel and cast iron. Gas cylinders, locomotive and traction engine fire boxes, frames, and boiler tubes repaired. Work absolute ly guaranteed. All kinds of auto repair lnS" ELMORE AUTO CO. Phone 3178. BIS Quincy St HATES for fresh flowers. Weddings and funerals a specialty. 107 West 8th. AUTOMOBILES. ESSENKAY IS THE. BEST SUBSTJ. TUTE FOR WIND in your tires. If you are tired of pumping wind in your tires, have them filled with Essenkay. No punc tures, no blow-outs, no rirn cuts. Abso lutely guaranteed. ELMORE AUTO CO. Phone 3178. 515 Quincy St. PATTERN WORKS. MODELS, patterns, experimental work, wood turning and mission furniture. A A.- Ridings. 912 Jefferson, phone 3177 W. PICTURE FRAMING. FRAMING, regllding, mat making, mount ing done j v J. D. Sullivan, 122 W. Eighth street.- Pal .King, shipping, etc. HOTELS. TOPEKA HOTEL 122 West Sixth St., '.w. AND I1.2S PER DAT. OALANDWqqD. 350 LBS,csail delivered any where !n city, $1; 175 lbs., 50c. Hard dry wood per rick, p delivered. 13th. and Monroe. 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10 THE TPTTgA DAILY STTTT TOTTRITAIr DECEMBER, 31, 1912 RA!LR0AD NEWS "Accident Map" of Union Pa cific in Topeka. Profile of Number and Kind of Hazards. RECORDS BROKEN FOR 1912 Only Two Injuries on System in August, Oiiier Items of Interes: In the Traffic TVorld. An "Accident Hap" of the tTiiion Pacific railroad system has just been received at the loca' office, and has been placed on displs y where it can be seen by the traveling public. Ten years ago the management of Union Pacific inaugurated a campaign for the prevention of accidents to its pat rons, employees and trespassers upon Its property. The "Accident Map" tells what has been accomplished by the campaign and it does it so plainly and clearly that only a glance is re Quired. At first sight, the map looks just like a profile chart of the ups and downs of an automobile road across the Rocky Mountains. However, the observer Boon notes that he has started in at the top of the range and is gradually working downward until he strikes the foothills and then gets into the level country which slopes gradually towards the sea. After an inspection of about a min ute, he sees that, instead of an auto mobile road, he is studying the acci dent map of Union Pacific railroad. At the point at which the road ap peared to reach the summit of the mountains, the number of accidents on the railroad reached the maximum. And, when the automobile gets out on the level plains, the accidents are at their minimum. The "mountains" are labeled 1903" while the '"prairies" are designated by "1312." The map shows the number of ac cidents, regardless of their severity. Perpendicular lines divide it Into months and but a glance is necessary to show the number of accidents in any one month, and to make a com parison with the number of accidents in the corresponding month of another year. Best Showin; in Auffust. The greatest difference in any two months is that between August. 1903. and August, 1912. In the former ap pear the highest peaks of the maip, there having been 6 accidents in that month, while on the low plains of the latter there were but 3. "With but one or two exceptions fewer accidents are shown in any one month than for the month previous. The chart shows In a remarkable manner the relationship existing be tween safety to the patrons and the use of safety appliances by the rail road. It was in 1903 that the manage ment began the installation of every thing in the nature of a safety appli ance that was on the market. At the ,ame time the double tracking of the nystem was started. The obsolete "manual block" signal system was abandoned and every mile of the road was equipped with automatic electric block safety signals. New equipment was purchased. A new system of in specting rolling stock was placed in effect. A more rigid discipline among the employees was enforced. The result can be traced on the "Accident Map." As the improvements were made, the accidents became fewer In number, and the chart shows that, for every 9 accidents in 1903, there is but a single one in 1912. These "Accident Maps" will be placed In every Union Pacific office in the country. look after cars, confer with commer cial clubs, figure on opening streets, building depots, employing and dis charging switchmen, engineers or any body else, the station agent la to be the man with yes or no, and he will be empowered to act on his own judg ment. If his judgment is. wrong he will account to his superior officers. This change in old time railroad pol icy Is to facilitate business. The man agement of the road feels that the In terests of the people In the towns along Its lines are too important to be played with by correspondence with officers 500 or a thousand miles away. IXCREASE IX PAX ASIA NET. Income for Last Fiscal Year Amounted to Xearly $3,000,000. A summary of the annual report of the Panama railroad shows that after meeting the total cost of operation, fixed charges of $39,954 and deprecia tion of rolling stock, floating and plant equipment, which amounted to $232, 4 89 the net income of the railroad and steamship line was $1,762,049 in the fiscal year ended June 30 last, being an increase of $50,969 over the net in come of the preceding year. At the end of the fiscal year the company HEVARNSTHIEVES Ashland Man Says Bowman's Friends Had Better Leave. Cattle Thieves Not Wanted by Clark County People. had $2,318,475 available funds on de posit with its designated depositaries and securities, purchased at a cost of $1,500,000, held in a reserve fund established Sept. 12, 1911, upon which there is now $52,701 of accumulated Interest to be further invested. In accordance with the policy of the United States government in relation to its property, the company on March 4, 1910, discontinued all marine and fire insurance. One of the accompany conditions was that the company was to be reimbursed through the Isthmian canal commission for any losses such as had previously been covered by underwriters. These losses, amounting to about $300,000, remain unpaid, as the interpretation of the law is in liti gation. The indebtedness of the rail road to the government on account of advances for new equipment and con struction and retirement of first mort gage bonds, remains unchanged at $3, 247,332. The profits of the year were earned by the railroad. The steamship line did not contribute as usual to that result STATIOX A6EXTS GIVEN I'OWKK. Frisco Will Have 1,400 "Presidents" to Deal With ptiblic. Chicago, Dec. 31. Hereafter there there will be 1,400 presidents of the Krisco system. For the purpose of dealing with the public there will be as many presidents as there are sta tions on this railroad. In other words, the men on the ground arc to be rlaced in full command. In circulars Just issued by this company it is stat ed that station agents at every point will be in lull charge of all depart ments and will have entire authority to deal with the public and with the employees of the road, the same as an executive. The new deal is for the purpose of eliminating the red tape necessary o get local questions before the general officers of the company, with head quarters in St. Louis and Chicago. To Bettle .claims, arrange train service This Will Stop Your Cough in a Hurry Save 2 by Making Tkla Couch Syrup at Home. This recipe makes a pint of better eough syrup than you could buy ready made for $2.60. A few doses usually conquer the most obstinate cough stops even whooping cough quickly. Sim ple as it is, no better remedy can be had at any price. Mix one pint of granulated sugar with i pint of warm water, and stir for 2 minutes. Put ounces of Pinex (fifty cents' worth) in a pint bottle; then add the Sugar Syrup. It has a pleasant taste and lasts a family a long time. Take a teaspoonful every one, two or three hours. "ou can feel this take hold of a cough zu a way xnai means Dusiness. ias a SAXTA FE GAIX IX KARXFXGS. Xet Increase of 7.7 Per Cent for Month of November. Reports of railroad earnings for November, show a continued large volume of traffic and generally the percentage of gain in net revenues exceeds that of gross, indicating that the big traffic has brought no dis proportionate increase in operating expenses. Here are some of the exhibits for November: Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe gross, increase $880,465, or 8.8 per cent; net, increase $293,593, or 7.7 per cent. Union Pacific, gross, Increase $1, 053,196, or 13.7 per cent; net, in crease $540,096, or 18.3 per cent. Southern Pacific, gross increase $694,505, or 5.8 per cent; net increase $305,640, or 8 per cent. Chicago Northwestern, gross In crease $927,601, or 14.8 per cent; net increase $400,786, or 41.2 per cent. Baltimore Ohio, gross increase $1,457,013, or 19.2 per cent; net in crease, $494,051, or 22.2 per cent. Kansas City Southern, gross In crease $98,086. or 11.4 per cent; net increase $78,309, or 2S.5 per cent. HANG OX TO OLD LIXE. Union PaciHe Will FIglit for Ogden San Francisco Connection. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 31. The Union Pacific will never let go of the old Central Pacific, the line from Ogden to San Francisco, without a fight. Of ficials here contend that if the South ern Pacific insists upon holding onto this portion of the transcontinental system and wins, inside of a year thereafter the Union Pacific will have a continuous line from Omaha to San Francisco. In the event the Union Pa cific should be, forced to let go of the old Central Pacific it will use the San Pedro line to good advantage. The Union Pacific owns the San Pe dro and the plan is, providing an agreement cannot be reached with the Southern Pacific, to build from Cli ente, Nev., almost due west to San Francisco. By using the San Pedro from Salt Lake City to Cliente and by building a line from that point into San Francisco, the distance to the coast would be shortened and a much easier grade than that of the old Cen tral Pacific be obtained. TIIK.EE KILLED IX MISSOURI. Nearly 750 Injured on Roads In State Durins Twelve Months. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 31. The state board of railroad and warehouse commissioners has given out data concerning the deaths and casualties resulting from the operation of rail roads in this state for the year ending June 30. 1912. Only three passengers were killed in that period, but 744 were injured. The greatest number of deaths come under the head of trespassers, such as persons occupying the right-of-way, climbing on moving trains and at rail way crossings. These number 261 killed and 418 injured. One hundred and fourteen employees of the various companies were killed and 4,935 injured. Snow Plow Explodes. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 31. An explo sion of the boiler of a rotary snowplow on the Great Northern and an ava lanche that wrecked a stalled freight train laden with Oriental imports fo rthe east on the Chicago. Milwaukee Puget Sound railroad, complicated con ditions in the Cascade mountains, where the northern transcontinental railroads are fighting one of the worst blizzards of the last 20 years. Five men were injured, two probatoly fatally. In the boiler explosion, and one man was severely hurt in the avalanche. Reopen Frisco Shops. Springfield, Mo., Dec. 31. Three thou sand St Louis San Francisco shop men will return to work Thursday morning in this city after a two weeks' shutdown, the first in 1912. The 'Frisco pood tonic effect, braces up the appetite.Vs said to have enough work In sight ana is slightly laxative, too, which is tiow i helpful. A handv remedv for hoarse ness, croup, bronchitis, asthma and all throat and lung troubles. The effect of pine on the membranes as well known. Pinex is the most valu able concentrated compound of Norvre pian white pine extract, and is rich in puaiaeol and all the natural healing pine elements. Other preparations will not work in this formula. This Pinex and Sugar Syrup recipe bus attained great popularitv throughout the United States and Canada. It has oftn been imitated, though never successfully. A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes with this recipe. Your drugjrfst lias Pinex, or will pt it for you. If not, send to Tha tjuex Co, Ft. Wayae. IatLA7 Wichita, Dec. 31. "In the purported confession of Eairl Bowman of Belvi dere, in which it is said he has Im plicated about forty citizens of Barber, Comanche, Kiowa and Clark counties in the thefts of cattle, there Is reason to believe that Bowman has maligned Clark county," says B. F. Harper, pro bate Judge of Clark county. Mr. Harper declares that Clark county is free of cattle thieves. He declares that it Bowman has any friends In that county i he "better get them out, as this is not a healthy location for undesirable citizens." Bowman was arrested charged with stealing cattle from Tom Taylor, a ranchman of Belvidere. Taylor, Frank Rockefeller and the Scofleld ranch join ed in a crusade against cattle rustlers. They recovered one car of stock, had Bowman, a bachelor, arrested, and It is said that he confessed. C. F. Biddle of this city, formerly deputy United States marshal, who has a ranch near Cold water, stated recently that he had been losing about one car of cattle a year for several years. He has leased his ranch this year, so was not bothered. Mr. Harper, who is from Ashland, says regarding Bowman Implicating citizens of that county In his confes sion: "I am not in a position to say just how many of this class of citizens Barber county can furnish, as It has been several years since I have made any investigation of depredations of cattle thieves in Barber county. I be lieve I am In a position to know and I will make the assertion, and I be lieve every cattleman in the county will bear me out in making it, that there Is less cattle stealing going on in Clark county now than any county in the cattle country of Kansas. "There was a time when we were bothered some with that classs of peo ple, but the untirino energy of the real old-time cattlemen of Clark county made their vocation so unprofitable that they had to go to fresher and greener fields. We stand for law and order, and If Earl Bowman has any friends or accomplices in Clark county he had better get them out, as this is not a healthy location for undesir able citizens." WAXT TO SAVE BOY'S LIFE? Someone Must Furnish Skin for Til roe -"V ear-Old. Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 31. Any one who thinks he has the stuff of w hich heroes are made in him can come to the front now, for there is an excellent opportunity knocking right at the door of a brave man or woman to save the life of the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stevens. To get into this hero class it will cost all the skin of both thighs. It will be removed without any great amount of pain and at the end of ten days the patient will emerge from the hospital in good shape and hailed as a hero. The little boy sustained burns on nis right side on both chest and back about three weeks ago when his clothes became ignited while he was playing with matches. For a time it was thought he would recover. Dr. J. D. Miller, the attending physi cian, now fears it will be necessary, for flesh to be grafted onto his body. There are five or six children in the Stevens family and it is almost im possible for the father or mother to submit to the operation. However, it is understood they are both willing. Mr. Stevens is employed in-the broom factory. It -is only necessary to remove the outer layer of the skin. Strips of flesh from the thigh to the knees will be cut and then peeled off. The per son undergoing the operation, of course, will be under the influence of ether or chloroform. About ten days after the operation has been perform ed the wounds will be healed. This skin will be grafted onto the burned parts of the lad's back and chest. HE TRIES DEATH AS RELIEF. Hutchinson Man's Family Failed to Stay With Him. Hutchinson, Kan.. Dec. 31. Re morse because by his own misconduct he forced his wife and children to leave him and with his family sorrow brought home to him more forcibly by it being Christmas, drove Loren L. Bates, a Hutchinson young man, to at tempt suicide at Great Bend. Bates used chloroform in the at tempt, but was found before his life was extinct and physicians resusci tated him. He was taken to a Great Bend hotel where is now under treat ment. Last summer while Bates' wife thought he was away on a business trip for the company, she discovered that he was living with another wom an at Haven, it was alleged. She went to Haven, and had the husband arrested and he was brought to the county jail and locked up. Later the case was settled and he was re leased, but the wife, who had been left with her children in a destitute condition, refused to return to him, and instituted proceedings for divorce. The case is now pending in the Reno Give the Eye a Fair Deal to insure the shops running on full tiiMs with a full force until spring. (.irl's Burns Probably Fatal. Manhattan Kan., Dec. 31. Delilah Mayhew, '12 years old, daughter of Joe Mayhew, a farmer living thirteen miles northeast of here, was seriously burned when she attempted to start a fire with gasoline, mistaking it for J Kerosene, ine gasoline piuueu over her and she was covereoS. with flames. Her father saw her and i hurried her to a water tank a short distance from the house and extinguished the flames by immersing her. She wf so burned that she will probably die. A younger sister, who was standing 1 near when the gasoline exploded, wasiaiso slight' n.' I When the eye, one of the most delicate organs of the human body, revolt under the great strain to which it sometimes is subject. GIVE IT ATTEXTIOX SCIEXTXFIC ATTEXTIOX It is this young man's mission in life to give relief to weary, ab normal eyes. He goes right to the bottom of the trouble. Examina tion costs you nothing. He can doubtless help you. Dr9 D. R. Paine ye SPECTAJ.IST. 718 Kansas Ave, Phone 724. county district court. Bates has been endeavoring to secure a reconcilia tion and came to Hutchinson last week to plead with his wife to return to him and dismiss the divorce action. He had leased a home and hoped to have his family with him Chr stmas day. But the wife and children did not remain. FLAN GOOD ROAD WORK. Pittsburg Business Men Expect to Im prove Highways This Year. Pittsburg, Kan., Dec. 31. During the coming year the chamber of com merce will spend much time to pro mote the building of good roads in the country, according to a policy out lined by A. Besse, president. Pitts burg will co-operate with farmers to secure better roads to this city. Mr. Besse believes that the future of farm development in Crawford county depends to a great extent upon the action which farmers take in this campaign for better roads. He also believes that the farmers will co operate asr much as they can. Much of the work of carrying out plans will be done by the good roads committee of the chamber of com merce, of which O. K.. Dean is chair man. What course development will pur sue has not been determined. It will be influenced a great deal by laws and cost. One of the first things which will be done, it is planned, will be the fixing of state and county, township and mail route roads so that improve ment can be carried on systematically. THE COLONELS IN MEETING. Auctioneers' Convention Is Being Held at Hutchinson. Hutchinson, Kan., Dec. 31. The Colonels are here. The convention of the Kansas State Auctioneers' associa tion convened Monday in the Commer cial club rooms. Over a hundred of the Colonels are expected to attend. The meeting is the regular state convention which was postponed dur ing the state fair to meet at this time. The state officers of the association are: President, Colonel James I. 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