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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
READY FOR WORK.
Census Enumerators Will Begin
ON Twelfth Census June 1.

Washington, May 3O.-After fifteen
months of preparation the preliminary
work in connection with taking the
twelfth census is practically over the
actual field work commencing on the
first day of June. Nearly 300 super
visors have been selected $500 enumer-
ators, something over 1000 special
agents, a clerical force is now at work
numbering 1000, and examinations are
in force that will provide some 1900
more. Over Is millions of schedules
have been prepared and sent to differ
ent parts of the United States for use
in taking the enumeration and requiring
other facts in connection with the man
ufacturing and agricultural inquiries.
lions there will have been spent on the
first of June about $4,000.
The field work now commencing,
which will involve the use of all the
enumerators and special agents, con-
sisting of nearly $1,000 men, probably
will not begin until in September. When
the returns are made from this vast
aggregate ton of information hunters the
real work of the census will begin. The
count of the population will be hurried
so as to complete it by the time congress
convenes in order that a proper appor-
tionment bill may be provided for at the
next session of the national legislature.
The work of compilation, tabulation and
printing will follow, and this alone will
be a work of great magnitude. It is
hoped to finish the principal part of the
census work within the next two years.
It is not unlikely that the cost of the
census when completed will be between
fifteen and sixteen millions of dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
MRS. BAKERS DAUGHTER.
She Elopes With Prominent Fort
Scott Politician.

Mrs. Lucille B. Baker, the well known
newspaper writer, formerly of Topeka,
has caused warrants to be issued in
Fort Scott for the arrest of Nina Baker,
her daughter and Timothy Noonan, a
prominent young politician of that city.
A Fort Scott paper has the following to
say concerning the affair:
.On complaint of Mrs. Lucille Baker
who has had offices in the Hill block for
several months, warrants were this af
ternOon issued for the arrest of Coun-
Gilman Tim Noonan and Mrs. Baker S
young daughter. Nina. who lives with
her mother in Hill block. The complaint
charges a misdemeanor only. Sheriff
Brooks took the warrants but has been
unable to find Tim who is said to have
gone to Kansas City last night. Miss
Baker is the girl whom Councilman
Noonan was reported to have married
a few weeks ago when he and she went
to Kansas City. Mrs. Baker, mother of
the girl, is handling a patent medicine
here. She is known in many large cities
as newspaper correspondent under the
nom de plume of Becky Sharpe The
daughter came here from Chicago about
three months ago to join her. She is also
missing. The sheriff learned that she
and Tim were at the Lockwood House
about o'clock last night"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
london Bakers. 1a1o.

TF7rom the Gentleman's Magazinel
In 1910 we find the following Bow bak-
loaves deficient in weight; Sara B'oting,
Christina Terrice, Godiyeva. Foting, Ma
tilda de Bolingstone, Christina Prichet
Isabella Sporting, Alice Pegges, Johanna
de Cauntebrigge and Isabella Pouveste.
One wonders why the husbands were not
summoned. In a similar case, in 1916.
when Agnes Foting's bread was seized, it
was 'adjudged that her bread should be
forfeited and given to the prisoners in
Neugate, because her husband did not
come to avow (own) the bread" Are we
to assume that in the absence of the hus-
bands the bread was merely forfeited
without the infiiction of a fine?
An indication of the Importance of the
greakmaking business is also found in an
enactment of the reign of Henry III, to
the effect that every cart of Bremble
(Bromley-by-BO or Stevenhethe (Step-
ney) that comes into the city with bread
shall pay each day one half-penny''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
FAVOR CELEBRATION.
Commercial Clubs Favor Semi
Centennial Celebration.

AT the convention of the Kansas Com
mercial clubs Tuesday the following
resolution, introduced by Mr.. Jno. E.
Frost, vice president of the Topeka
Commercial club, was unanimously
adopted, VIZ:
Resolved. That we favor the cele-
bration of the 5Oth anniversary of the
organization of the great territory of
Kansas, by an exposition in 1904; that
we endorse all legitimate measures
looking toward that end and earnestly
urge the hearty cooperation therein of
the commercial clubs of the state"
The discussion of the foregoing reso-
luton elected much enthusiasm and in
dictates that the people of the state are
taking hold of the 1904 celebration idea
very earnestly, and there will undoubt-
eddy be a full representation at the
meeting called by the governor and eX-
ecutive council to meet here June 5 to
perfect an organization for the expOsi-
ton to celebrate the semi
anniversary of the creation of the ter
fitory of Kansas.
After passing a vote of thanks to the
Topeka Commercial club for its hos
pitality, the convention adjourned last
evening to meet in Topeka July 18th,
to complete the permanent organization
of the federation of the commercial
clubs of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
Depths of Mines.

IFrOm the Nineteenth Century.
The produce of coal seam 8 feet thick
IS 5000 tons per acre, and taking this as
an average thickness, the area of coal
annually worked amounts to nearly go, GOO
acres or four times the area of the conn
ty of London. With this rapid rate of
consumption anxiety as to the duration
of the British coal fields is well founded.
Professor Hull estimates that the total
quantity of coal within depth Of 1000
feet still remaining is 81, $50, 900 0e9 tons.
This estimate is reassuring, although it is
not in accord with the less optimistic and
divergent views on the question expressed
by Prof. Stanley JeXons, by the Right
Honorable Leonard H. Courtney, by Mr..
r. Price-W Williams. and by Mr.. T. Forster
Brown. All these estimates are OF slight
value, owing to the impossiblity of pro-
pheSying either the rate of/increaSe in
production and consumption or the limits
at which mining may be carried on with
profit. Early N the last century q shaft
100 feet In depth was an object of wonder,
depths hitherto mentioned clearly shows
the remarkably rapid progress that has
ent time the greatest depth at which IN
Great Britain mining operations are car
ried on has been reached at the Pendle-
ton Colliery, near Manchester, where the
deepest working are nearly $500 feet be-
low the surface.
This enormous depth has, however. been
exceeded in other countries. notably in
the Lake Superior district, where the Red
Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla
copper mine has now attained the record
depth of 1890 feet; and in Belgium. where
a colliery at Mons is 1887 feet deep
Depths such as these show that the limit
of depth of 1900 feet adopted by Profess
scr Hull and by the Royal Coal Commits
sioners in 1870, though ridieuled at the
time was Well within the BOUNDS OF pos
/ sibility. In view of the marvellous eff
cheney of modern winding. engines, no con-
siderations of a mechanical nature need
limit the prospective depths of shafts. By
far the most important obstacle to very
deep mining, is the certain and proportion
ate increase of temperature according to
depth. At the ParuschoWitz borehole in
Silesia, the deepest in the world recently
fxrt
depth of 6573 feet. this Increase of
| temperature with depth has been found to
/ be 1 degree Fair. for til feet Taking
! this as a fair average a coal seam at a
4 depth of 1900 feet would be- without the
/ cooling action of an artificial ventilating
current 81 degrees warmer than ground
/ the SlIrfacR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
PAST IS BURIED.
Continued from First Page.)

by the grandest purpose that ever
moved nation to arms. That events
under a higher guidance than our own
carried US to a point we did not see
from the beginning, did not he said,
lessen our responsibility. Now he ask
ed what are the ethical requirements
of the situation with which every
patriotic consideration comedies? Plain
~, he answered, to hold the title,
sovereignty and control of our new
possessions in trust for civilization and
discharge the duties which dominion
and responsibility impose
He concluded with an eloquent por-
trayal of a vision of ineffable splendor
which burst upon his imagination when
he. contemplated the supremacy of that
lofty standard of patriotism which
would guide our footsteps in the sure
pathway to national duty and honor.
More music followed and s. W. Nc
Eldery then read Linceln's immortal
Gettysburg address.
Captain H. A. Castle delivered an
address. our Comrades Did Not Die in
VAIN" in which he paid a touching
tribute to the valor of the nations
dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
MAY BUILD A FACTORY.
Congress Takes Steps to Stop Armor
Plate Steals.

Washington, May. 30.-The house, by
a vote of 1O7 to 124, has refused to ac-
cept the senate amendment to the naval
appropriation bill relating to armor
plate and adopted a modified PROPOSE
ton reading as follows:
That the secretary of the navy is
hereby authorized to procure by con-
tract armor of the best quality for any
or all vessels above referred to, pro-
vided such contracts can be made at
a price which in his judgment is reason
able and equitable; but in case he is
unable to make contracts for armor
by authorized, in his discretion, to pro-
cure a site for and to erect thereon a
factory for the manufacture of armor
and the sum of "a 600, 600 is hereby APP
propriated toward the erection of said
factory
With regard to ocean and lake sur
veyS the house refused any apprOpria-
up the conferees with instructions. It
also refused to concur in the senate
amendment to abolish the two years
sea cruise for naval cadets. With the
above action the naval bill was sent
back to conference, the conference re-
port on the other items have been
agreed to.
The conference report on the post
office appropriation bill, agreeing on all
items except the senate amendment APP
preparation of 1925, 600 for pneumatic
tube service was adopted and the
house then concurred in the excepted
amendment. The opponents of the ex-
tended service in the house reconciled
their concurrence in this action upor
the ground that the 1925 600 simply car
ried out the existing contract. The bill
now goes to the president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
AFRAID OF RICH.
Mr.. RathbOne Wants Protection
From Kansas Man Whom He
Imposed Upon.

Havana, May 30.-Shortly after the
postal scandal was first exposed Mr..
Rathbone, it is said, requested General
Wood to give him a guard, as he feared
personal violence of Corydon Rich, the
postal employee who confessed to a
knowledge of many of the fraudulent
transactions. General Wood suggested
to Mr.. Rathbone that if guard were
always near him people would take it
for granted that he was under arrest,
and the request was withdrawn.
Yesterday the reason for making it
became known. 1t seems that on the
day that Q. F. w. Nicely was arraigned
Mr. Rich went to Mr. Rathbone and
wanted to explain that the stealings
were heavy. He was refused a hearing
when the nature of his communication
was known, and then he went to Cen
eral Wood and told him all he knew.
Mr.. Rathbone denies that Mr.. Rich ever
said a word to him on the subject.
Mr.. Rich declares that when Nicely left
he (Tdch) by Mr.. RathbOne's orders,
gave Nicely an advance payment on his
salary to the amount of about $500, &C
cepting Neely's receipt.
When the scandal was exposed, ac-
Cording to Mr.. RichS statement, Mr..
Eathbone told him it would be better
to withdraw the receipt Immediately
and to replace the cash, promising to see
him reimbursed by the disbursing Off
Ger. This. Mr.. Rich says, he did, but
Mr.. Rath bone ordered the diSburSing
officer not to reimburse him. The result
is that, in consequence of obeying Mr..
Rathbone he is without funds, and he
can see no way of obtaining redress.
Clerks in the postoffice say it was well
known there at the time that Mr.. Rath-
bone had asked General Wood for pro-
lection, as Mr.. Rich had threatened him
physically. General Wood does not
deny that Mr.. Rathbone made the re-
ported request
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
MADDEN FOR JUDGE.
May Defeat Randolph in Lyon-Chase-
Cofey District.

Dennis Madden of Emporia seems to
have good prospects for the nomination
for judge in the district composed of
Lyon, Chase and Coffey counties.
Opposing Madden is w. A. Randolph
several years. He is seeking a re-elec-
ton.
The Randolph forces on the judicial
committee have been contending that
an apportionment of delegates should
be made which would give each county
a larger number of representatives
than is accorded by the basis of repre-
sentation adopted for the state and
congressional conventions. Madden
contended for the latter representation
and won in the committee meeting yes
terday.
The contest has been spirited for sew
eral weeks and as the date for the con-
ventiOn approaches, July %, it is in
creasing both in activity and bitter
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
TAYLOR TO RUN AGAIN.
Kentuckian Makes announcement
From an Indiana Health Resort.

Kentuckian Makes Announcement
From an Indiana Health Resort.
Indianapolis. Ind, May 30.-W s.
Taylor recent claimant for the COVER
norship of Kentucky who is now at
the Martinsville, Ind, mineral springs,
has announced that he will make the
race again this fall on an anti-Goebel
and ani-Goebel election law platform.
The announcement was made at the
conclusion of a four hours conference
attended by Mr.. Taylor, Charles Finley,
ex-secretary of state of Kentucky; A.
D James, United States marshal for
the Fifth district of Kentucky, of Louis
vile; Q. A. Blakenship former IN
diana state legislator and a delegate
elect from the Fifth Indiana district
to the Republican national convention
in Philadelphia and w. K. Bells of
Indianapolis.
TayloT1s announcement after saying
that he will remain in Indiana until
his health is recuperated was as fol-
lows, and was telegraphed to his po-
litical friends in Kentucky:
Il will not seek nor decline the Re-
publican nomination for governor of
Kentucky. The mandate of the lib
erty-loving people of Kentucky should
be Obeyed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
STATE HOUSE CLOSED.
Memorial Day is Properly Observed
by officials.

The people who work for the state al
ways observe holidays and this is no
exception to the rule. All of the state
Offices were closed today except the
bank commissioner department, and
one man was doing some overtime work
in the Office of the auditor and super
intendent of insurance.
Governor Stanley's proclamation ask
ing that all public offices be closed in
honor of the day was not fully observed
by members of his own official family,
but as a general rule the offices We're
closed this afternoon. Before dinner it
was possible to gain access to any of
the departments, although the outer
doris were locked to prevent a genel al
invasion.
The main entrance to the building was
open and there was a throng of vis-
itors through the corridors all day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
mo markets today account Decoration
Day.l
Chicago Livestock Market.

Chicago. May 30.-CATTI E-Receipts,
1900; including 500 Texans. Handy dress
ed beef steers, 3 to 10 cents lower; export
and heavy steers, 10 to 10 cents lower:
butcher stock Is to % cents lower. Good
to prime steers. S490Q5-60: poor to medium,
$4.35d4S0; stockers and feeders, 50. 75d5.10;
cows, S3.00d4.30; heifers, S3.10d4.90; cam
ners, $2.25G2S0: bulls. S2.75d425; calves.
S5.0ed7.25: Texas fed steers, S400q5.10;
Texas bulls, 50. 206l3.75
HOGS-Receipts today, 81, 900; tomorrow.
&c. 900; left over, 3,59S. Ten cents lower;
top, Sis. Mixed and butchers. $49od5-15;
good to choice heavy. S5.05G5.15; rough
heavy, S4.S005.O0; light, $4.s5Q515; bulk Of
sales. s. 05d510.
SHEEP-Receipts. 1900; strong: lambs,
10 to Is cents higher good to choice
wethers, S5.0Gd5.50; fair to choice mixed,
a. 40N4.S5; western sheep. s4.S5d5-40- year
lings, $5.5O0600; native lambs, S500lt7 As I;
western lambs, s6.0e07.50; spring lambs,
$5.00d7.75.
Official for yesterday:
RECEIPTS-Cattle, 4,4O5s hogs, "a, S1S;
sheep, 5429.
SHIPNIENTS-Cattle, 1,S70; hogs, 4,3S4;
sheep, none.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
AZURMAN RELEASED.
Midway Turk Who Broke Negroes
Arm Acquitted.

Police Judge Magaw spent the morn
ing listening to the evidence in the case
OF Robert RansOme charging 7. J.
Mundy and Azurnlan, the Turk from
the midway, with assault and battery
After hearing the evidence the defend
ants were discharged.
Ransome and his friends were very
certain that they We're perfectly peace
able and that the Turk broke Ran
sone's arm without provocation. The
midway people were also certain that
they had been perfectly genteel in their
manners. and that the other side was at
fault. The judge seemed to take it all
with good deal of salt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
Steam Boat Wrecked.

Mackinaw, Mich, May 30.-In a dense
fog the steel steamer Seeuin, bound
down light, ran ashore half a mile west
of McGulpin's Point this morning. She
is Canadian craft, valued at $50, 900.
The fog is SO dense that captains can
not see half the length CT their craft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
MUD VOLCANOES ACTIVE.
People in California Excited Over
Strange Disturbances.

Loyalton, Cal. May 30.-The mud
volcanoes situated in this-vicinity have
burst into alarming activity. The first
intimation the inhabitants had of the
phenomenon was when an immense
cloud of vapor issued from the mouth
of the craters, accompanied by a sound
like far away thunder. The disturbance
is so violent that great red wood trees
are swayed when the mud and vapor
shoots high over the rims of the craters
and flows down the hillside like a lava
stream into one of the tributaries of the
Eel river.
The murky craters are filed with a
blush mud of about the consistency
of boiling tar but the mud is icy cold.
The roar of the volcanoes can be heard
for miles around. They are situated 20
miles from the ocean and consist of a
number of mounds about six feet high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
Forgot to Close de SWITCH.

Westfeld, N Y, May 30.-The mys-
terry connected with the wrecking of the
Lake Shore fast mail train recently, in
which two lives were lost. has been
cleared up by the admission of John
Franz, a track walker, that he had
opened a switch to make repairs and
had forgotten to close it until it was
too late. Franz expressed great grief
for his carelessness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
TERRIBLE HAIL STORM.
Floods Tie Up Several Railroads in
the Vicinity.

Peoria, H., May 30.-A terrible thun-
der and hail storm broke over this Sec
ton last evening and considerable dam
age was done by floods. The Vandalia
road is tied up owing to the damaging
of two bridges near Farmdale and the
track can not be repaired until the wa
ter goes down. Trains are all abandon
ed and the piling up of driftwood is
raising the water still higher The
Lake Erie and Western trains were de-
layed four or five hours by damages to
a bridge at Crandan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
ON CHARGE OF SEDITION
Many Secret Arrests Being Made in
Russia.

London, May 30-The Standard pub
fishes the following from Kieff, Russia,
dated Tuesday:
''Seventy-siX arrests have been made
in Odessa. at the instance of the secret
political police, eighteen in kief and %
in Warsaw. There is much mystery in
volved, but the arrests appear TO be
connected with the same charges Of
sedition which, two months ago, led to
two hundred arrests in St. Petersburg
and to one hundred in Warsaw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
A Good Cough Medicine.

It speaks well for Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy when druggists use it in their
own families in preference to any other
I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy for the past five years with complete
satisfaction to myself and customers.
says Druggist J. Goldsmith, Van Etten,
y. Y. Z have always used it in my own
family both for ordinary coughs and
colds and for fhe cough following la
grippe, and find it very efficaciOus' For
sale by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
kansas CITY Livestock Markes.

Kansas City, May 30.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts, 1900: market steady; native steers.
S4.00a5.55: Texas steers, 50. 95a4S5; Texas
cows, $3.25G4-T5; native cows and heifers.
S1.50d4S5; stockers and feeders, s.. 70Q5.30;
bulls. 50. 40d425.
Receipts. Is 900; market weak to
cents lower; bulk of sales, S4.50U4.90;
heavy, S4.s0a5.OO; packers, S475u4-92ls:
mixed, S470Q4-S5; light, S4-7215G4-90; york
ers. S4S50490; pigs, S4.60d4.S5.
SHEEP-Receipts, 1000; market strong.
Lambs, S5.25Q7.50; muttons, $3.00Q5.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
VINCENT A WINNER.
He is Nominated For State Senator
by Republicans.

W ASSPANAASoGSs
In the senatorial district composed of
Reno, Pratt and Kingman counties
Frank Vincent was nominated for state
senator Vincent lives at Hutchinson.
He is president of the Kansas Salt
company. The nomination of Vincent
was a surprise because he has not been
a candidate. The men who have been
seeking the place are: Frank S. White
law, Thomas Keddie, A NJ. Switzer and
Theodosius Botkin of Reno, r. c.
Hutchinson of Pratt, and w NJ. Ritter
and Charles B. Hardy of Kingman.
The convention spent yesterday fore
noon ballOting.
The convention was deadlocked The
Reno county delegates, after two eau
cuses, substituted Vincents name for
the bunch of candidates from Reno, af-
ter which Vincent was easily nomi-
mated. The convention took no action
on the senatorial question, but Vincent
is a supporter of J. r. Burton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
: CONFERENCE QUITS.
United Presbyterians Adjourn Sine
Die at Chicago.

Chicago, May 30.-After fixing up a few
odds and ends of business today the
United Presby terian conference adjourned
until the next conference at Des Moines,
Ia Reports of minor committees were
made and arrangements were made for
carrying on the bushes of the assembly
till the next meeting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
injured in a steeplechasa.

Boston, May 3o.-Robert Goelet of
New York who was badly injured by
being thrown by his horse in the Ma
tional Hunt club steeple chase at the
Century club yesterday, was still IN
conscious at the hospital today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-30
BIG WISCONSIN FIRE.
Town of Iron River Threatened
With Destruction.

Iron River. Wis, May 3O-F'ire. start
ed shortly after noon in the power house
and spread quickly to the Alexander &
Edgar lumber mill It then spread
toward the lumber yards, which contain
16 million feet of lumber The wind is
from the west and the whole town is in
danger. A call has been made to Su-
perior for engines and help