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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
AUTUMN FoLIAaR-

For the first time in a number of
years the trees in this part of Kansas
are taking on those brilliant colors Of
collage for which the autumn season in
this state was once noted. The condi-
lions are right for beautiful display of
natures coloring-frosty nights, bright
days and an entire absence of rain.
Commenting on this change in foliage
coloring, from green to red, brown, yell
low and chocolate the Cincinnati Com
merciaI Tribune says:
As yet learned arboriculturists ara
unable to offer a satisfactory explana-
ton for the changes in the color of the
leaves at this season. All they know is
that. some naples change TO q YELLOW
and others not many feet aVvaET rbauea
10 scarlet Some oaks take on the
most vivid reds, and others near nv
change to brown and chocolate without
a reason 1t is said that American ma
pies planted in England keep I'D their
haolt OF changing colors in the fall
While the English naples planted in
america act as they did in England
that IS, they pass from the deep green
to the brown state without the inter-
mediary scarlet.
Some attribute the change to loss. of
vitality, and cite the cases of leaves
upon dying branches developing brfghr
scarlets and yellOWs even in midsljrn-
mef- But this IS exceptional, and does
not account for all the changes No
one has been able to tell why one leaf
takes on brilliant red, another yellow.
another purple, and still others differ
ent shades of brown. And more, an oak
viii be yellow at a certain time, while
one Of the same species not a rod away
viii be resplendent in scarlet
Yet it matters but little The WHY
and the wherefore are not Important
except as an addition to mans store of
knowledge The fact remains that the
glories Of autumnal foliage are a pleas
ure to the tired eyes OF man, and that
as the season rolls around, millions love
fng why.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

The patient was scared. The young
doctor was worried.
rs there no other remedy % he asked.
only one know off, said the older
what is that?" asked the younger
physician.
I'VE must relieve her head from that
weight of hair he said, holding up her
long, beautiful braids. "Hand me those
mo, you DON'T yelled the woman,
as the young man reached for pair of
yes. we,do." said the older man.
I'm see if you do" said the patient,
as she jumped out of bed and fed from
the room.
Guess she's cured" said the older
man. as he left the house.
st don't see any excitement in this
yacht race" said AnaniaS Fisher, as he
read about Sir Thomas and his racer.
a why, where is the fun? Both those
boats had to holler for steam to haul
them home. How would it be for a
couple of race horses to start around
the track. go half way, balk and have
to be hauled under the wire with a dray
team? That wouldn't be as exciting as
a potato race.
''In tell you that the best kind Of
boat races I ever heard of was out here
on the prairies before there were any
fences. What kind of boats did we run
OF course.
I'VE fitted them up with spanker club
sail, jtb bow SPIRITS, pillow slip top sails
and lots of main braces. I'll tell you
when we spread all that collection of
bed quilts and horse blanket sails with
a good little thirty-nile breeze we made
time,
I'VE had one here we called the Pride
of the West and the one the fellows out
at Dodge had was the Shooting STAR
We arranged for a 20 mile race one Sat
urday and started the two schooners from
Buffalo Mound. Gee Whiz but they went.
Didn't have to get tug boats to pull them
in;
when the captain Of the Pride of the
West hollered for more sail. There WASH t
any more sails but two men stood in the
mind end and held up a blanket They
taking the other boat when the captain
saw big boulder right in front. The
fellow who was guiding her did not see
q 'Geer yelled the captain.
=" What? said the fellow who was
i" 'Geel shouted the captain.
." What's that? said the steerer.
the captain.
just then the boomsprit swung across the
header box we had for pop deck and
knocked half of US overheard,
The blamed thing ran right for the
:. Put on the brake yelled the captain.
=" Yachts don't have brakes rOared the
spanker bow spirit and clear the decks for
action said the pilot near as can re-
member
Anyway the Pride of the West ran
leaked we lost the race, but I'll tell you
that was excitement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

"a Kansas City Doom publication is
trying to work lola for write-up.
This is the last day for filing nominal
ton papers.
An Atchison man is weighted down
with Hekelnkaemper as a name.
The Arkansas City Traveller still re-
fers to ex-senator PETER as a Popu-
list.
A woman has corralIed the contract
for carrying the mail on a star route in
Stafford county.
Ed Howe says that the Leavenworth
KlOndi5e has proved to be Governor
Stanley's White Horse Pass.
And now just as Kansas was getting
ready to buy a few carloads, it is an
nounced that a diamond famine is
threatened.
Between Dewey and the yacht race
Dom Paul has been crowded out his po-
sition top-of-column- eading-
matter in Kansas papers this week
Concordia is so literary that when
one wants to get David Harum' from
the public library it is necessary to
speak for it six weeks in advance.
While a Salina newspaper man was
listening to the story of a man who had
had his pocket picked at the street fair
IN that town, another pickpocket' touch
ed the reporter.
One of the floats in a parade in kan
sas City was labeled. What Has Made
Kansas City" and on the float were
several hogs 1t is needless to say that
they came from Kansas. Kansas City
owes everything it has to Kansas.
The street fairs and carnivals in
Kansas this year are largely RESPONSE
bic for the fact the Kansas City street
lair was a failure. The people of Kan
sas have learned to amuse themselves
and spend their money at home instead
of going to Kansas CITY to spend II
WIN White estimates that Emporia peo-
pie would have gone to Kansas Cyity
ana spent $4,000 this week If they had
not had street fair OF their own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
NAttbb VHO ENEBH -
Almost Inhuman Treatment of
a Young Boy.
Ran Away From AtchisOn Or
phans' Home
TO SEE DYING MOTHER
Walked All the Way to Kansas
City, Kansas.
Met at the Door by an Attend
ant and Taken to Jail.
Sent Back Without Admission
to Sick Room.

Kansas City, Oct. Little Philip
Young ran away from the soldiers or
phans' home at Atehison and walked
all the way to Kansas City, Kan, to
attend his mother on her death bed,
and when he arrived at the little home
on Troup avenue where the woman lay
unconscious and dying he was not al
lowed by the attendants to see her, but
was turned over to the police to be
sent back to Atchison.
Tired and weary after his long tramp,
the lad was led crying and sobbing to
the county Jail, where he was locked up
and where he will be held until provis-
ion can be made for sending him back
to the home to which he was commit
ted by the probate court several months
ago because his widowed mother, sick
and helpless was not able to support
him,
Little Philip learned Monday that his
mother was dying. He asked the super
intendent of the home to let him come
and see her before the end came, but
however soft the superintendent heart
might have been there were no funds
at hand to buy the child a ticket and
his request was refused, But the knOWl-
edge that his mother was soon to pass
from this world weighed upon him and
when he went back to his work with the
other boys and girls at the home, their
cheerfulness made him more sad and as
night came he resolved to run away.
He escaped successfully and without
stopping a single time on the way he
walked the entire distance to Kansas
City, Kan, and went straight to the lit
tie home where his mother lay.
In a three-room cottage at 1139 Troup
avenue Mrs Young, the mother of the
brave lad and the widow of a Union
soldier, lies at the point of death. Mrs.
Young has been critically i'll for many
DAYS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
AFTER BAoK TAxEs.
Bourbon County Sues For What Is
Alleged to Be Due.

Fort Scott, Oct. IA unique suit was
brought in the district court here to
recover SIS. 900 of back taxes alleged to
be due from the estate of the late Jas.
McCord of this city. If the county
should be successful the system of as
sessing personal property now in vogue
would be reVolutionized.
Mr.. McCord died leaving an estate of
about $500 900 to his nephew, G. H. Har-
bison, who is executor of the will The
petition alleges that in the year 1892
Mr.. McCord reported to the assessor
that he had $25. $40 of personal property
and failed to return s130, 060 of addition
al property which he had.
The amounts alleged to have been I'M
reported from year to year increase an
nually until in 1899 he is alleged to have
withheld $217, 675 of personal property.
The petition specifically alleges that the
amount of back taxes due on this pro-
perty is SOS. 92a- % and that the penalties
accruing increase it to SIS, 3S4 SO, for
which amount suit is brought. If it
wins this suit the county proposes to
bring suit against a number of other
taxpayers to recover on the same
ground.
Mr., McCord is acknowledged to have,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
WENT WRONG AT AroH1soN.
W. a. Booth, Who Is Charged With a
Series of Swindles.

Atchison, Oct. Wv. H. Booth, who,
it is alleged, secured $3.50 from the Ex-
change National bank of Atchison a
month ago under false pretenses, is I'M
der arrest at Milwaukee and will be
brought back for trial. He came here
claiming to be manufacturer of yell
low pine lumber at Wise, Ark, and
opened an Office which he said was for
his firms western trade. He made
draft on the alleged firm of Booth Bros.
at Wise for $500 and induced the bank
to advance him a part of the money.
The draft was returned, no such firm
being found at Wise, and when it reach
ed Atchison Booth was gone.
At Milwaukee Booth went under the
name of Hemingway, and started out to
open a branch of a Norfolk and New
port News oyster house, but the police
there seem to have been onto him and
he was arrest for vagraney. He is said
to be the same man who was arrested
at Omaha last June for defrauding a
bank out of $1,000, but who settled with
the bank and escaped prosecution.
The AtchiSon bank offered $50 reward
for Booths arrest. When he left Atch-
ison he owed a hotel bill and other ac-
counts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
DODGE CITY's TROUBLE.
The Waterworks Company Will Shut
OF City Water October 10.

Dodge City. Oct. THE waterworks
company give notice that they will shut
off the supply of water to the city on
the 18th inst. The city and waterworks
company have failed to agree upon a
basis for supplying the city with water,
niShing water under an old contract,
and the city claiming that the contract
had expired.
The city has made tender of $75 in
warrants a month for use of the water,
but the WaterWorkS company has re-
fused to accept this tender. Should the
waterworks company shut off the sup
ply of water to the city, there can be no
use of the water in case of fire. The
probability of an increase in insurance
rates and other disadvantages will like
ly result in case the company adheres
to the demand against the city. The
situation is not likely to change with
out much litigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
Po1NTEp PARAeRAPHs.

LFrom the Chicago News.1
The seat of learning is often worn
threadbare.
Talk is cheap-probably because Of
the overprOduction.
A hole is the only thing a. man can
keep in an empty pocket.
The gossip delivers many a telling
blow, but they are always foul,
Oysters, like ambitions, soon disap-
pear after they get into stew.
He who builds according to every
mans advice will have a queer struc-
ture.
The man who is satisfied with himself
is usually disappointed with other peo-
PIE.
Sometimes a mans will is broken af
ter his demise and sometimes after his
marriage.
A girl pulls the wool over a mans
eyes and then laughs at him because he
looks sheepish-
No matter how good a mans reputa-
ton for veracity may be, his friends
always doubt his fish stories
Some men are so fond of an argu-
ment that they will dispute with a
guide board about the distance to the
next town
The average woman would never be
successful in running for office; she
would have to stop too often to see if
her hat was on straight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
RECEIVERS STOLEN CATTLE.
N. A. Corbins, After a Long Chase,
Saves 81, 400.

Fort Scott, Oct Twenty EIGHT
head of 2-year-old steers were stolen
from n. A. Corbin's pasture near Blue
Mound last Monday night, and Corbin,
who is a wealthy stock raiser, has just
recovered them from a. man who was
driving them through the Indian terri
tory
The steers were valued at 81, 400 and
were supposed to have been stolen by
professional cattle thieves, who have
been stripping all summer from Fall
River, small town near F'redonia. The
man in whose possession they were
found claims to have bought them from
a stranger Mr.. Corbin followed the
cattle about 100 miles and spent much
money employing men and means to as
sist in their recoYerY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
FORT SCOTT MAIDS OF HONOR.
Animated Election Held In Nine Diff
ferent Towns.

Fort Scott, Oct. Fourteen Kansas
and Missouri towns will send maids of
honors to this city next week to attend
Queen Ariadne of the Fort Scott street
fair carnival. The election of these
maids has been by coupon vote in their
respective towns and in some places
more than 20, 600 votes have been cast,
showing great interest. In every town
the contest was animated. Nine towns
have named their maids of honor, as
follows: Parsons, Miss Addie Maynard;
Galena Miss Pauline Webb; Coffeyville,
Miss Bonnie Curry; ElDorado, Miss
JEANETTE Gardner; Liberal, Miss Rene
Mayer; Columbus, Miss Mamie Allison;
lola, Miss Katie Aush herman; Webb
City, Miss Eva Ashcroft; Lamar, Ger
trude Faulkner.
The queen whom they will attend is
Miss Hattie Combs, daughter of Col Q.
b. Combs, of this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
WAS he POISONED P
]. W. Sipes Believed to Have Been
Murdered by Use of Arsenic.

Emporia, Oct IL. w. Sipes, a we'll
known resident of Madison, 20 miles
south of here, in Greenwood county, on
Saturday last was taken with a violent
fit of cramps in the stomach, and al
though medical aid was Immediately
called in, died the next day in terrible
agony. He had all the symptoms of
having been poisoned with arsenic. so
medical examination was ordered,
which, being had, developed unmistak-
able evidence of poison. The stomach
had three holes eaten through it.
Portions of the liver and stomach
have been sent to Kansas City for a
more thorough analysis. The impression
is that Sipes was poisoned, the poison
having been put in his food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
ROBBED OF $500
Arkansas City Hotel Suffers Finan-
cially From Clerks OareIsssness.

Arkansas City, Oct. This morning
between the hours of 9 and u the safe
at the Gladstone hotel was robbed Of
about $780, The clerk Of the hotel left
the office about o'clock and forgot to
lock the safe, although he shut the
doors. There was no occasion to re-
open the safe until noon, when the rob
berry was discovered.
There were guests in the office where
the safe is all the time during the
morning. There is no clue to the rob-
bers. The exact amount is not known
but it is near $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
More Fire Brands Ducked

Fire Brands have been having trouble
in that community It seems they had
a meeting Sunday night and a number
of men in the neighborhood had de-
clared they would wipe the sect out OF
existence. They took a young man By
the name of Hershey and gave him q
good ducking. The older Hershey also
came in for his share of grief and had
his face badly bruised. There have been
no arrests as these peculiar people do
not believe in retaliating upon their
narseclItor s.-A bilene Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

Washington Star: Gen. Funston once
said he doubted whether his state would
offer him any Office which he would feel
like accepting. By nominating him for
congress. his estimate of the import
ance Of the national legislative body
win be definitely placed on record. The
general should remember that all Kan
sas congressman are not alike. There
have been some very admirable speci-
mems
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
Buys 1000 Bushels of Onions.

Teams from Abilene yesterday
brought the first consignment of a big
purchase of White Spanish onions, 1000
bushels in all, bought by a local grocer
of f. M. Whitlaw of that city. The on
ions are of superfine quality and run
large and even. Mr.. Whitlaw owns a
large farm and orchard southeast Of
Abilene, on the river, and has in fine
irrigating plant He raises thousands
of bushels of onions, potatoes and APP
pies yearly and many acres of melons,
cabbage, etc.-Salina Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

Cherryvale, Oct. Whistler or not
Montgomery county will have room at
her poor farm for the accommodation
of all the paupers in the county will be
an issue of the coming election, Novem-
Der z. At their last meeting the COM
rnissioners decided to submit a prOpo-
sition to the people authorizing them to
use 81, 600 or less in erecting another
building at the poor farm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
BLOOMING FOR THIRD TIME.
Queer Freak of Apple Tree In Lar
ned Orchard.

Larned, Oct. 7.-Charles J. Chaddiclx,
a resident of this city, has an Early
Harvest apple tree growing in his door
yard which has produced two crops of
apples this year, and is now in full
bloom for the third time. The freak is
attracting the attention of and eliciting
much comment and speculation from
fruit growers of this town and county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

10, 1898, w. c. Boyd was killed here by
Harry Postlethwaite in Mrs. Postleth-
waite's restaurant. Clark was the fam
1y's attorney and was suspected of be-
ing connected with the killing. Harry
Postlethwaite confessed the crime and
sWOre that Clark advised him to kill
BOyd, furnishing the weapon and help
ed dispose of the body. Clark was con-
Yicted, but the case was returned from
the Supreme court on a technically for
a new trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

If it were not for an occasional hap
pening like that of the killing Of some
hundreds of mules on board the trans
port Siam during a storm in Philippine
waters, the world might ultimately be
overrun by these long-eared animals.
Nobody ever heard Of a mules dying
peacefully in bed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

In his manner of accepting the offer
of a home in Washington, Admiral
Dewey has displayed the same tact and
common sense which has characterized
his every act and utterance since he
came so prominently before the public
as the result of his victory over the
Spanish in Manila Bay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

Nebraska Republicans in state con-
vention declared in favor of a revision
of the national constitution, and this
too, after the supreme court has spent
a century in efforts to make US under
stand the one we now have and is still
working on the same job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
ANT1-RUs1O1T PAPER
B. ". Allen, of:smith Center to Run
a Straight Democratic Sheet.

Smith Center, Oct. 7.-R. ". Allen.
proprietor of the marble yard of this
late Jack Stewards paper, and will
change the name to the Smith County
Democrat" Mr.. Allen will enlarge the
paper and make it advocate anti-fu-
sion Democracy. The former editor, T.
T. Long. will go back to teaching
school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
lola Pnatnfaca Gains.

lola, Oct. lola. postoffice has done
a gross business of $S,OS7.s1 during the
year ending October 1. That is a gaiI
of 81, 400, or more than 40 per cent oVel
the business of last year:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

they can beat Carter Harrison, Illinois
likely man in the state. If George R.
Peck can't do it probably nobody can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

The United States paid $50, OOO, 900 for
the Philippines and Germany has just
handed over to Spain $1,000. 900 for the
Carolines and yet there is not what
would be called a boom in the real es-
tate market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
Sues the County.

Junction City, Oct. Robert J. Rim
pie, the soldier who fell from the Re
publican river bridge, landing 20 feet
on a pile of stones, has bill in before
the county commissioners for $3.O50
damages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

A signed statement from Admiral
Dewey, that he will not under any cir
cumstances accept a nomination for the
presidency, is what the politicians of
both parties would like to see. Then
they could go ahead fighting over the
money question and the spoiIs, undis-
fT1rhad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
A REJECTED suTroR.
William Zinck Fatally Shoots an
Atchison Woman, Then Kills
Himself

Atchison, Oct. 7.-Mre Fannie Gan.
ter was shot and killed last night by
William Zinck, a tailor who then shot
and killed himself Mrs. Ganter's re-
fusal to marry him is supposed to have
prompted Zinck to commit the crime.
Mrs. Ganter, who leaves two small chill
dren, ran a grocery west Of town. zinck
was dissipated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

BY the time Admiral Dewey wit
nesses some of the football games this
fail, he will come to the conclusion that
his little affair in Manila bay was not so
much Of a scrimmage after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

Congressman-el elect Brigham H. Rob
erts of Utah is getting rest A num-
Der of big church conventions have
been held lately at which his name was
not unentioned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

Mexico has discovered a use for vice
presidents. She sends them to attend
entertainments gotten up outside the
country, when the president is invited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

The weather during the week closing
today will recall to the mind of the
older settler the time when Kansas had
weeks of such during the autumn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
CLARK CONVICTED.
Hutchinson Lawyer Found Guilty of
Murder In Second Degree.

Hutchinson, Oct. 7.-E c. Clark, a
member of the Reno county bar, was
convicted last evening Of being aces
sorry after the fact to murder in the
second degree. On the night of May
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07

AS a further evidence of a reunited
country, the bands at Quincy played
Dixie" on the occasion OF the Presi-
dents arrival yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-07
Your Minister

VIII furnish you a bottle of Beggs'
Cherry Cough Syrup free If you have not
the money to pay for it. It stops cough
ing in church Cures Coughs and Colds.
r. w. SQuiress pharmacist.
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been one of the most liberal payers of
personal taxes and if his estate is La
BILE others will be equally so.