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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
SUFFRAGE IN ARIZONA.
Just Discovered That Such a Law was
Passed Last Winter

Phoenix, Ariz., June 2.-The discovery
has just been made by a Tucson law
er that the last legislature passed
what appears to be an equal suffrage
law, at least in so far as ii relates to
city elections. Suffrage bills were in-
troduced in both branches of the legis-
Iature, but were killed by overwhelming
majOrities. During the excitement which
attended the closing days of the legisla-
ture Gen O'Neil, mayor of Prescott, Sc
cured the passage of a lengthy measure
regulating municipal affairs in incor-
porated cities. One of the sections of
this bill reads:
At any city election every taxpayer
is entitled to vote, without distinction
of sex But nothing herein shall be
construed as abridging the right OF an
elective franchise possessed by any per
SON.
The women OF the Equal Suffrage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
sEx RAysn

klpling's poem THE Vampire" reads
IKE the experience of a Kansas Dolitf-
clan who had worked hard through a
campaign and then been turned down
Wichita Eagle.
A prehistoric woman has been dis
covered in an Ohio mound. was her
nat on straight Parsons Sun
Between the bank presidents and
burglars, Chicago seems to be able to
pion.
In view of the suppression of the
hlgh hat actors who propose to "ele-
Xate' the stage will now consider eff
forts in that direction unnecessary
Arkansas City Traveller.
An American newspaper recently
sent to dozen eminent politicians
statesmen and public men the query:
can a man be a politician and Chris
tlon?' The briefest and best reply
came from John J. ingalls,. He briefly
answered: All things are possible
with God. OTTAWA Herald.
General Miles arrived in Furope too
late to see the fighting but in plenty of
time to attend banquets. And that is
peter fun than f1ghting.=H
News.
A great many people are like moths
that fly against an incandescent light.
1t is luck and not judgment that saves
them--Lawrence World.
It now turns out that Lieutenant
Peary got his idea of a north pole ex-
petition from d Kansas man. Posi-
bly,, then, the scheme isn't as bad as
we have thought it.-Lawrence Journal.
A war between the powder mills of
California and the dynamite trust of
Europe should prove an interesting
spectacle. Both sides would be well
supplied with warlike material.-Wich-
4ta Beacon.
From present appearances this year
we viii have to get behind the base
burner on the Fourth of July in order
to have things appear natural.-Wich-
ita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
SOLDIERS HOME TO GO.
Disabled Confederate Veterans Build
ing at Atlanta Will Be Sold.

Atlanta, June 2.-The cherished wish
that the Confederate veterans of the
state might be cared for in the beauti-
full home in the eastern part of the city
will never be realized by the philan-
thropic lovers of the lost cause who
donated money and land to the home.
Yesterday the motion for new trial,
which was filed several months ago by
Colonel T. W. Meyers, was Withdrawn
and the property will soon be sold I'M
der the decree of the superior court. Il
is probable that no further efforts will
be made to save the home from the
block, and when the sale occurs the tt
tie to the property will pass into the
hands of the new purchaser.
The story of the movement to secure
a permanent home for disabled soldiers
of the state is one with which the pub
lie is yet familiar, for it was due to
the hearty response of the people that
the land was secured and the building
erected. A number of property own
ers gave the land to the movement,
liberal hearted southerners gave of
their means and many small contribu-
lions of the nickel and dime variety
found their way into the fund that was
being raised. When enough had been
secured the carpenters and brick ma
sons went to work on the foundations
and the stately edifce was created
one of the handsomest buildings in the
state, luxuriant in surroundings and
handsome and commanding in archi-
tectural design and finish.
But the building has never been Oc
cupfed except by bats and owls. When
the structure had been completed the
board of trustees announced to the
state that the property was ready to be
occupied. The state legislature did not
look upon the movement with ap-
Droval and, strange to say, never was
there an appropriation made for the
maintenance of the home and the COM
fort and care of the disabled soldiers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

Every good citizen is compelled to
obey the law.
When you are mad, don't try to look
pleasant; you can't fool anybody.
Many a man who claims to be a
sport is a plain drunkard and black
guard
What on earth do Ioafers think about
when they stand for hours on a street
corner alone?
A model husband lets his wife have
her own way, even when he knows it is
not good for her.
The poorest Jokes we hear are those
prefaced with these words: L have
just heard a good joke must tell
you"
So much attention is called to the
measurement of the straw berry around
the waist that the fat man is escaping
comment.
We don't know Of course if we will
get a crown when we die, but we do
know that it will be most awfuIly unbe-
coming.
A Kansas City man who has control
of eight million dollars, has had nerv-
Gus prostratiOn once, and is threatened
with another attack.
After the baby comes the wife con-
tinues to listen patiently to her hus-
bands complaints of not feeling well,
but she keeps one eye on the baby while
doing it.
We have noticed that married women
who are kept occupied don't excite as
much sympathy as the idle ones, for
the reason that they don't have time
to pine, and do justice to it.
It is a good deal like heaven in Kan
sas at present, with the exception that
they don't have Strawberries and
cream. and pretty girls with blue
sashes on white dresses, in heaven.
It is woman's place to walk the floor
with the baby when it's teeth are COM
ing in. The father has his turn in
walking the floor when he gets dent
lists bills, when the teeth begin to go
out.
There have been so many commence
ment programmes in AtchisOn in the
past two weeks that the loving parents
and friends who attend, are beginning
consecutive quail.
A man who is in love with a woman
always lies to her. and if he marries
her, nothing makes him so mad as to
have her throw his sentimental lies up
to him. This fact causes more trouble
in matrimony than any other one
thing, with the possible exception that
every man thinks he owns his wife,
and every woman thinks she owns her
husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
W Gather Indications

Chicago, June 2.-For Kansas-Partly
cloudy tonight with local rains in east
portiOn; cooler in southeast portion to-
night; Thursday partly cloudy; fresh
nOrtherly winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
IMPROVEMENT IN NEWsPA-
pERe
PERs.

LFrom the Chicago Chronicle.1
What tremendous advancement has
been made in the art of editing an
American newspaper during the last
twenty-five years. said a veteran
dealer. Il remember the makeup of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

club of Phoenix are disappointed be
cause they did not know of the new law
in time to vote at the spring election.
The suffragists Of the entire territory
will combine for the purpose OF de-
handing their legal rights at the polls
in all future city elections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
ROCK SPRINGS DRAGON.
Cinnamon Want $4,000 to Take it to
Salt Lake.

Rock Springs. Wyo., June 2.-The
Chinese residents of this place are
greatly stirred up over negotiations
with the Salt Lake City jubilee COM
mittee for the appearance in salt Lake
in the jubilee parade of The famous Chi
nese dragon which is owned by the
Rock Springs Cinnamon. All Say, the
local Chinese boss, who has been con-
Quoting the negotiations for his coun-
trymen, asks 81 500 for the use of the
dragon for five days. This, All Say
says, seems a large sum. but il includes
the following items of expense attend
ant upon taking the dragon 10 Salt
Lake:
100 men, five days each at SO a day,$l 500
so Chinese silk suits at $S.......- 400
so pairs of Chinese shoes at S2...... loo
Repairing the dragon. $50
Meals for the 100 men.............. $50
Lodging for the 100 men, zoo
Total .-....-..--- Sz.JeO
The dragon is 100 feet long and cost
in China about So, 900. The Chinese are
rather Indignant a the action CT the
Salt Lake committee, which adver-
tises the dragon as one Of the features
of the jubilee before closing the nego-
tiations with them for securing it.
The Santa Fe Route is selling excur-
sion tickets to Nashville, Tenn, and
return, account the exposition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
WOMAN SENDS SAGE MONEY.
Illinois Nephew of the Eastern Mil
Honaire Receives Aid From Boston.

Joliet. Ill, June 2.-The Joliet end of
the Russell Sage affair has another in
teresting phase. The story of the $50
loan to the Illinois nephew reached the
eyes of a philanthropic Boston woman
and she Immediately wrote to an Off
cial here, inclosing IS to help pay off
the mortgage and suggesting that 10
lief citizens take up a fund for that
purpose.
The SIS was sent to Elizur Sage, but
the official informed the Boston lady
that Joliet people would rather use
their charity money on their own poor
than see it reach the Golfers of Mil
ionaire Sage. The Boston woman
met this proposition by promptly for
warding a donation for the Joliet poor
and also another sum for Russell Sage's
nephew. The official viii not divulge
the womans name, but says her father
was postmaster at Boston during the
rebellion, from 1861 to 1865.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

open secret that many we'll known
managers are in water up to their
chinS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

What on earth do loafers think about
when they stand for hours on a street
corner alone?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

When you are mad, don't try to look
pleasant; you can't fool anybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.

rFrom the Atchison GIobe1
Every good citizen is compelled to
obey the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

Many a man who claims to be a
sport is a plain drUnkard and black
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

Our work will please you. Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 and ia W. sth st.
Not how cheap but how good is the
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 and ia West Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

A model husband lets his wife have
her own way, even when he knows it is
not good for her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

A prehistoric woman has been dis
covered in an Ohio mound. was her
hat on straight Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

Kipling's poem 1.-THE Vanonira,, ,.aa7~
like the experience Of a lSansas ,oIjti
clan who had worked hard tbroi7o-b :.
campaign and then been turned CiS,11-,1
Wichita Eagle. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

Between the bank presidents and
burglars, Chicago seems to be able to
dispose Of the surpIus-Atchison Cham
piOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

In view of the suppression of the
hgh nat, actors who propose to "ele-
Nate' the stage will now consider eff
forts in that direction unnecesSa1,,1 =
Arkansas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

/ Plain Black Taffeta.
.... $50. 75c. CSC yard
plain Black TaRetaS, guaran-
teed ......-.SL 00 yard
Checked Tafetas, all size
checks. -75c aad Soc yard
PLAIN Satin Duchess,
|. - -......-......S1 and S125 yard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

The poorest jokes we hear are those
prefaced with these words: I have
just heard good joke I must tel
you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-02

The Santa Fe Route is selling excur-
sion tickets to Nashville, Tenn, and
return, account the exposition
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
PERSONAL.

N. E. de Yoe, banker of Modesto, is at the
Lick.
M. West, a banker of Stockton, is at tie
Grand.
Charles De W. Brownell, o. S. N. is at the
Grand.
H. W. Crabb, a vineyardist of Oakville is at
the Grand.
Louis Jacobs. merchant of San Bernardino,
is al the Palace.
E c. Melbourne, Seattle lawyer, is regis
tered at the Lick.
Lee Hawthorne of Petaluma is staying at
the Cosmopolitan.
P. Reichling, hotel man of Jackson, Anna
dor County, is at the Grand.
DR.. A. G. Henderson of Brooklyn n. Y, az
rived at the Pa ace yesterday.
L. Gerlach, a wholesale butcher OF Stockton,
is a late arrival at the Grand.
F. ID. Heffron, a jeweler of Maiden Lane,
New York City. is at the Palace.
Joseph Schuster of Fresno is at the Cosmo-
politan with his wife and family.
Will Thomas of Stanford University regis
tered yesterday at the California.
D. R. Cameron, q commission merchant of
Hanford, is late arrival at the Lick.
A. C. Bequette. a mining man of Forest Hill,
is in town. He is visiting at the Lick.
DR.. D. W. Riggs, prominent physician OF
Allegheny, Pa, arrived at the Grand yester-
day.
Charles T. Lindsey, Southern Pacific agent
at Visalia, is among the late arrivals at the
Grand.
w. w. Douglas of Sacramento came down
from the capital yesterday and is at the
Grand.
Ell Lowrey, Fresno insurance man, Is
among those registered yesterday at the
Grand.
K Casker of Vallejo, who is esta Dlishing an
electriclight plant at that place, is guest al
the Lick.
j. w. Wilson, one of the judges at Inglesde,
is here from Sacramento and is registered al
the Lick
Alb. Willis, editor of the Sacramento Record
Union, arrived here last night and registered
at the Russ.
E. A. Sutter, one of the firm of Sutter Broth
ers, tobacco dealers of Chicago, is guest at
the California.
EB Kittle, railroad contractor of New
York, arrived in town yesterday and registered
at the Palace.
United States District Judge Erskine N. Ross
of Los Angeles came up from the south yester-
day and is at the Palace.
P.J. McHenry, proprietor and manager OF
the Commercial Hotel, San Luis Obispo, is a
guest at the Cosmopolitan accompanied by
his son.
James H. Rees, one of the Ingleside race
track judges returned to the Baldwin yester-
day from Memphis, Tenn, where he had been
visiting.
George s. Morrison of Chicago and William
H. Burr of New York City. two of the members
of the Deep Water Harbor Board recently in
session in Los Angeles, arrived here yesterday
from the southern part of the State on their
way home They took apartments at the Occi-
dental.
ment of economies of Stanford University,
who is also the wife of the head of the depart
ment of civil engineering, arrived at the Cali
fornia last night. accompanied by Mrs. 7. D.
Wood, vile of DIR. Wood, the professor OF
hygiene.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25

throughout the country will be required
to pay tax of per cent on such note
issues to fixed amount, the tax to be in
creased by a rapidly ascending scale for
additional issues up to maximum OF safe
circulation. The tax is to be held by the
Government to redeem the notes OF such
banks as fail. The graduated tax, OF
course, would have tendency to make
currency flexible, as it would automatl-
cally force it in or out of circulation In
accordance with the urgency of business
demands.
One of the main defects of our present
currency system is its lack of elasticity
Secretary OF the Treasury Window said
in his report for 1890 that our crops had
grown to such enormous proportions that
their movement to market in August and
September annually caused a dangerous
absorption of money. 1t is to remedy
this defect the graduated tax plan is pro-
posed. 1t ls favored by many Of the most
experienced bankers of the country and
will have strong support in Congress.
The more sweeping changes proposed,
such as the so-called "withdrawal OF the
Government from the banking business"
and the retirement OF all United States
notes, will have little chance of success at
present. The people are well satisfied with
the working of our system of green backs,
and the issue of their retirement will have
to be fought out at the polls before Con-
gress would think of venturing upon it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25

miles from Yuma, trip there would be in
teresting. Thousands of acres of land, almost
as level as need be for the application OF
water and covered in many places by huge,
spreading mesquite not close together, but
giving the appearance of a fine Eastern grove
OF walnut or chestnut where the undergroWtn
has been removed, or even OF an Old uncareo
for orchard of apple trees. There is but little
salt in the land. The soil appears to be per-
feet"
The special irrigation edition of the Eseon-
dido AdUocGte was credit to the publishers
and to the town and should be productive OF
much benefit to both. 1t describes the lniand
metropolis of San Diego County, its enter
prise and progress and shows up the lnous-
tries of the country around it, with its citrus
and deciduous fruits, dairying, farming. etc.
The Redlands Ctrograph has started out on
the latter half of its tenth year, volume
20, to-day. Scipio Craig has done well with
the paper, which ranks high among the In
terror journals. In making comparisons OF
the Redlands of a decade ago with the Red
lands OF to-day the Cttrograph says; ''But
what change in the town and surrounding
country! Then two-horse stage made SIX
trips week to San Bernardino; now nearly
thirty passenger trains on three roads enter
and leave the town daily. Then there were
but few scattering orchards; now Redianos
will ship nearly 700 carloads OF oranges this
season, to say nothing of other fruits. Then
there were not enough children to make
school district In fact those interested in the
formation of the Redlands School District
were compelled to wait a short time for the
enlargement of the census by reason OF the
expected arrival of little stranger IN one OF
the principal families of the settlement; now
there are more than 1000 and they are housed
in FIVE commodious and elegant buildings"
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
BENEFITS OF FORESTS.

Some years ago it was common belief
that forests were valuable on account of
the influence which they had on the rain
fall of the region where they grew. Those
who neld the belief supposed it had a
scientific basis, and regarded those who
did not agree to it as ignorant and unread.
The belief no longer finds universal favor,
and has been attacked by the reasoning
and observation of scientific men. The
assaults upon this time honored notion,
however, do not alter the fact that forests
are of great value in other ways besides
their commonly understood utilities OF
lumb Der and frewood.
At the recent meeting of the State Hort
icultural Society of Iowa Professor ]. R.
Sage read a paper, in which he explained
the scientific conceptions Of the great
value of forests to the country generally
aside from their worth for tim ber and fuel
The professor is chief of the Iowa Weather
and Crop Service, and he has high repu-
tation that gives his paper more than
ordinary value. After showing the fallacy
of the long prevalent notion that forests
affected rainfall, the professor stated that
the converse of this idea was undoubtedly
true. North America is the best watered
OF all the continents, and this is the cause
OF the immense forests with which the first
settlers found it covered. This entire
country, he says, never has been and never
can be stricken by general drouth and
famine. There never will be season
when the United States will fail TO produce
sufficient food Tor all the people.
The professors first statement was in
teresting and the second was consoling
but the most important point OF his paper
was the instruction to preserve the rem
nants OF forests that are LETT with reli gious
care and to continue to plant trees per-
sistently. Forests. he explains, while they
do not bring down the rain are yet great
conservators of water when it does fall.
They cause an even distribution OF the
flows, thus preventing the drying up of
wells, springs and streams and checking
injurious floods. Groves of trees more
over. form shelter belts which mitigate
dry, hot winds and prevent rapid evapo-
rati on.
Professor Sage concurs with the opinion
that if tifth of the land was devoted to
timber we could grow more crops on the
remaining four-ifths and prophesies that
in the coming era OF intensive farming
forests and woodlands will be important
factors.
The lesson emphasized by this learned
student of conditions in Iowa is not new,
but it is one which will bear con siderable
iteration. The tenn ptstion to recklessly de-
stroy forest growth, as well as the oppor-
tunIty to plant trees, are always with US,
and reminders of the folly of yielding to
the first and the wisdom of being betimes
in the use of the latter should be kept con-
stantly before the people. Iowa has to be
educated up to the planting of forests.
California has only to learn to preserve
those which nature has given her.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25
AN UNFAIR PROVISION.

The bill introd uced into the State Sem
ate to regulate and govern the operation
of the rock-crushing plant at Folsom and
to provide for the sale of crushed rock
contains provision which, on the face of
it at least, seems to be altogether unfair to
the ouarrymen of the State and should
have thorough investigation before it is
adopted.
The provision in question occurs in Sec
tion 4 and reads thus: "The sale price OF
all crushed rock sold for other than high
way purposes shall be the cost of prGduc-
ton with 20 per centum added delivered
on board cars or other vehicles of trans
portation at the rock-crushing plant, pro-
vided that no crushed rock shall be sold
for other than highway purposes for less
price than 80 cents ton."
1t will be seen that this fixed price for
the sale of rock at Folsom is liable to work
a grave injustice to the rock-quarrying
industry of the State. 1t must be borne
in mind that the plant at Folsom is pro-
vided by taxation upon the people; that
all its machinery and repairs are paid for
by such taxation, that the labor EN- ployed
is that of conyicts, and as consequence
bAt COSI VI GdAnOb Dc RIedt. LII
therefore, the sale OF it is to be fixed at a
20 per cent advance upon that production
it will in all probability be far below any
possible competition by free labor.
Public opinion has long been adverse to
any competition of this kind between the
State and its people. 1t is expedient to
promote the industry OF free men rather
than to crush it out by the power OF the
State. 1t would seem that abundant work
could be furnished to the convicts at Fol-
som in providing crushed rock for our
rural highways without setting them to
the task of competing with the quarry
men who furnish rock for general build.
ing purposes, and if so it would be better
to confne convict labor mainly to that
| work.
In the present demand for improved
highways large amount of crushed rock
will be needed in all parts of the State,
and more will be required than Folsom
can probably furnish. If rock for other
purposes than those of the State and the
counties is TO be produced at Folsom and
sold in the general market at all it should
not be sold at rate unfair, 10 free labor.
This clause of the proposed act, we re-
peat, should be thoroughly investigated.
and if it is found to be in reality as unfair
as it appears on the face it should be
stricken out or else the whole bill should
he reiected