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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-23

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@SS' ONTINTAL performances
by a houSeful OF colored per
sons at 102 North Jefferson
street resulted in a chariot
ride for the entire OUTFIT
during the small hours of Thursday
night. Sergeant Golf headed deleSa-
ton of the pick of the force. Officers
Smith, Hutton, James, Black, Mcintosh,
Aye and Mortland and swooped down
on the luckless jewellers like dark
blue avalanche. Not one escaped Ten
victims rode to their new lodging place
in the dark Maria" while the squad or
blue knights marched solemnly around
the carriage. Worse luck awaited t1e
dusky flock at Castle Stahl- Not one or
the ten could give bond, and they We're
all requested to stay over night. This
is the largest collection OF colored VS.
itors who have honored the jail docket
with their autographs for long time.
Kate Parish, Simon Jones and Robert
Haskell were valued at $50 and charged
with keeping a disorderly house; the
remaining seven We're of the $25 size in
mates, Anna Ellis, Lizzie Keel P1nkle
Vetter and "1zzy' Young, and guests
Louis Vaughn, foot" Youngman and
Jess London. The raid was a complete
surprise, in fact it was "one on the
house" nYells of fear and rage rent the
ambient atmosphere for blocks around
but the grim "coppers'' We're not fright
ened The waded bravely in and cap
tured everything in sight
Thursday evening G. Fl. Prichard. a
49, n
around and identified J. r. Coulter,
one-eyed citizen of bad repute who cap
tured the clothing and money OF Prtch-
ard while he bathed in Soldier creek
about q week ago. Coulter told every
body that he was just as bad as ne
looked and was a brother of the Coulter
boy who murdered boy on load OF
sand a few years ago and then stole
his team. Coulter was turned over to
the county because the scene OF his
ernbezzlement was outside the city Inn
it's ALI Stone another prisoner, was
turned over to the state and Will be sent
to the reformatory. Lii Jordan was
also transmitted to the gentle care or
the county Jailer- She viii be tried Tor
arson because she wanted to fumlgate
the city Jail last Wednesday morning.
Mr. Mcsomething-o r-other Of Redmond
vile has been hanging around police court
for several days trying to get a complaint
against two very bad boys in his neigh
bOrhoOd who. he alleges, cast prlcks ana
vile language a his person and his happy
home. At last his patience was rewarded
and a policeman was sent INTO the pau
lands and sand hills to capture the bold,
bad children. The peace guardian was
badly surprised to find two children of q
tender age one 5 and the other years
old. who answered TO the names on the
youthful culprits We're of a chocolate ma
room hue, although a woman who claimed
wishing 10 be bothered with such small
over AT o'clock which she did. Mr.. Nc
Something-or-o was on hand and told
the court an about it. The parents of the
bad ones also clipped in with a. supply
Of Information. A war Of words followed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-23
INCREASED LIMITS.
Buffalo and Return via the santa Fe
Route.

$500 good to leave Buffalo not later
than fifteen days after leaving Topeka.
S34.65 good twenty days.
See T. L. King. Agent. A. 7. & 8 F.
for further particulars. etc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-23
The Onlv Headache cure.

Frank J. Baker of Colorado Springs
says: 'Krause's Headache Capsules Is
the only remedy that ever checked my
sick headache. and I have cured scores
of my friends with them. Price 25c
Sold by George W. Stansfield, $50 Kansas
avenue; Marshall Bros 10 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-23

New York. Aug 23ZTWo thousand five
hundred girl shirtwaist ma kers are now
in a strike at seven workshops in this
city and it is said that I'VE more strikes
will be ordered today Involving siA
hundred additional work women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-23
STATE TO GET SI,OOO,OOO.
How New York's Inheritance Tax
Operates.

New York, Aug 23.-Tax collectors
for the city and state OF New York
and the state OF New Jersey are close
" watching the work of Valuing the
estate of the late Jacob $. Rogers, who
left the greater part of his five or SID
millions to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. 1t is estimated that the tax
on the estate VIII amount TO Sitg19,1oV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-23
Time to Buv Coal.

Usage city shaft, $2.75 per ton, de-
livered. Southwestern Fuel Co. 734
Kansas avenue. Phones I'll. 19s. Ia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-23

The woman thought, that the fact that
she had a negro husband was not a good
reason for. the complaining witness to
who does not indulge in the noble past
time of convicting babies on the evidence
of aggrieved individuals did the Gus
tomary stunt of showering threats and
good advice on the children and let them
20, at the same time warning the injured
party that he would be included in the
list Of fines If he brought any more such
complaints to the police court
Nickolo Di Capo is the musical name
of a musical indiVidu1l who has been
doing Topeka with one of those muir
derous ''hurdY- gurdy - otherwise known
as a street piano. He don't seem to find
Topeka a very lucrative field for musical
performances Thursday night he called
on the chief to see about a license That
official told him he could operate for 81. 90
a day NikOlO blandly Informed him that
'.ninety-h cent the extent of his
days earnings. and he wanted a cheaper
brand of permit He was told to take his
chances Of arrest or find the other withal
TO meet the bill Mr.. Di CaDo said he
would depart the town at an early hour
this morning. as the Inhabitants didn' t
seem to appreciate good music He VIII
seek a greener field where music which
is alleged to have charms that sooth
the savage breast will better his bank
account instead of leaving him insolvent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
sEABOARD TO BE BALLAslED.
1t Will Require SO Million Tons of Stone and
Cost So. GOO, 900.

The work of ballasting the entire Sea-
board Air Line system will begin shortly,
according to dispatch from Columbia
S. c. Approximately 1000 miles of track
will be ballasted at cost of s5,OOO,000
and it will require five years to COM
plete the work.
The start will be made shortly at Hen
derson, n. c., where there is az rock
crushing plant with capacity of LOCO
tons a day and an immense supply of
rock. This plant is the property OF the
system, and it was originally intended
that the road should do the work, but
Mr.. \Barr, the new general manager, de-
cided that railroad officials were not
good quarrymen and that it would be
better to have the work done by con-
tract. The contract has been let to the
A. R. Stewart Contracting Company, of
Columbia.
When, because of distance, it becomes
inexpedient to ballast with rock from
Henderson the plant will probably be
removed to Columbia, where there are
extensive guarries and an inexhaustible
supply of stone.
The rock will be laid from II to Is
inches deep and to feet in width.
This will require for the system about
$4,000, GOO tons of crushed rock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26

mission from their own earnings. And
while it would cost much to begin such
a work the whole cost would in time be
returned with interest, and far better
than that with great encouragement to
an unfortunate people. This venture
would help and not pauperize the peo-
ple. We prefer small farming COM
munities. rather than towns, because we
believe that the cultivation of the soil
as a means of livelihood should be en-
couraged and that for long time to
come the masses of the colored people
will and must live in the rural districts.
This plan is for the consideration of
philanthropic friends DESTROYS of aiding
the colored people and fitting them for
citizenship in the State and member
ship in the church of God
j. H. M. POLLARD.
Archdeacon.
Raleigh, N. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
STATE NEWS.

John Robinson's circus will be in
Greensboro on October 7th and in Colds
boro on October 11th
The drowned infant, found in bag in
the bottom Of branch near Monroe
week ago, turns out to Be a cat
The tax books of Cumberland county
show an increase in valuation of half
million this year over last year.
A petition is being circulated in Rowan
county for the pardon of James Howell
who was sent up for three years for house
burning.
Asheville is now connected by long
distance telephone with all the large
northern and western cities. The line
was completed Tuesday.
The Wilmington Star reports Bladen
county farmer as saying the crops this
year in that county are practically a
complete failure. He attributes that
condition much to the heavy rains of the
past spring and summer large portions
OF Bladen county having been inundated
during much of the season.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
A 'Spiritualist" in the Pen.
(Winston Sentinel.)

District Attorney Holton is in receipt
of a letter advising him that Louis
Charles-Pauline de Ricorde, alias Earn
est Orbis, who claims to be a spiritual
list, has been convicted in the courts of
Florida and sentenced to the State S
prison for term of three years. Bills
were returned in the United States courts
at Charlotte and Asheville against this
man, on the charge of practicing fraud
upon different persons. He would write
to a man and tell him that he could To-
cate fortune if the party would send
him $50 toward paying his expenses. In
number of instances the money was
sent but nothing more was heard from
Orbis For time he resided and oper-
ated his business in Ashevillc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
THE FARMERS MEETING.

We greet with glad hand the men who
are here attending the meeting of cotton
Raleigh are glad to welcome them, and
hope that they may find their stay in
the capital city both pleasant and profita-
Bile.
1t is meeting of representative North
Carolina farmers. Over sixty delegates
are in attendance-conservati well-to-
do men-and all the twenty principal cot
ton growing counties of the State are
represented.
1t is is a business meeting, and it went
about it's business in the right spirit. I'VE
are not here to fight the oil mill men, -
said Mr.. T. b. Parker. in the opening adj
dress. ..but to learn the price and value
OF our cotton seed. We come here to
secure information and not to fight any
one" And this is the sentiment that
pcrvaded the deliberations yesterday and
last night.
The meeting is not an effort, as some
have seemed to think, to compel the oil
mills to pay more for seed than the mill
men consider them worth. 1t is simply a
conference 10 discuss the seed situation
the value of cotton seed to the farmer
as fertilizer or food fer cattle-to the
end that an intelligent decision may be
reached as to whether it is better to sell
at the price offered by the mills or to
keep the seed on the farm.
This is not only legitimate, but emf
nently proper. Every right-thinking per-
son is in sympathy with any effort on
the part of our farmers to protect their
interests, and no fair minded man can
deny that the time seems to have arrlv-
ed when some sort of organization look
ing to this end is absolutely necessary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
THE SUCCESSFUL FARMER.

Do farmers study the markets?
There is reason to believe that many
Of them do not, though to do so would
be greatly to their profit
Take for instance the lessons taught
by Yesterdays market report:
Cotton, 5 to S1a cents a pound.
Corn, so cents bushel.
Wheat, rs cents bushel.
North Carolina bacon IL to liz cents.
North Carolina hams, IA to 141a cents.
Clear rib sides, 10 cents.
Lard, 101A to IL cents.
Tie first lesson taught by the above
figures, and the one that we would here
impress, is that food products COM
mand a better price on the market
pound for pound, than cotton. The ex-
cuse of the all-cotton farmer has always
been that he could buy his provisions
cheaper than he could sell his cotton,
and that so long as he had a margin he
was justified in raising only cotton.
Without stopping to examine into the
unsoundness of such an argument, we
find by examination of the above f1g-
ures that such margin no longer exists;
that notwithstanding the fact that this
is a short cotton crop year. the margin
is now largely on the provision side of
the market
And this suggests the question: Can
a man afford to raise cotton at 8 cents
per pound, and trade it with bonus OF
from / to 3 cents per pound for ribs,
ham and lard? Is not the man who cuts
out his cotton crop altogether and devotes
his entire attention" to food crops inf
nitely better off, as prices now stand?
To be sure middle ground is prefer
able to either of these extremes, but in
any event the all-cotton or all-t0bacco
farmer is sure to get the worst end of
} the bargain. Sustenance is the first law
of domestic economy, and as long as
corn, wheat and bacon are the staple
articles of the provision market, the
Imam who raises. them is independent,
Whether he has pound of cotton or
mot.
The most successful farmer is he who
has full smoke house and corn-crib.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
THE YACHT RACE TO-DAY.

The first race between the Columbia
and the Shamrock for the Cup takes place
today.
While nobody can tell which will be
the victor, yachting experts seem to think
the American boat has the best show to
win, and the betting odds are backing
that opinion.
Much, of course, depends upon the
weather. A notable difference in the two
boats is that the English vessel has the
greater depth and swell of the central
portion She will displace and move more
water, and for this reason it is thought
the Columbia will sail the faster in light
winds, or in drifting match, but in a
stiff trccze there may be another story
to tell.
The sail area of the Shamrock is very
great, and on account Of it "a time allow
ance" must be conceded to the Columbia
OF 43 seconds. Such an allowance in a
drifting match will, it is believed, defeat
1.-The Shamrock.
May the best boat win, and may our
boat be the best.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
NEW RAILROAD PROJECTS.
The Routes for all of Them are Now Being
Surveyed
Raleigh, N. c.

Three new and important railroad pro-
jects are now on foot in this State, and
just over the line in South Carolina. The
proposed routes are from Winston Sa-
lem TO Wadesboro in North Car
DINA, and from Sumter to Nc
Bee, South Carolina, and from McBee
to Monroe, n G. 1t is probable that all
three will be built within the course of
L. months as the routes have been or are
now being Surveyed.
The road from Winston Salem to
Wadesboro will traverse the fertile val
ley of the Yadkin or Pedee river and will
establish a connection between the cotton
producing and cotton manufacturing Sec
lions. Besides, it will complete star
line route from Winston Salem to Char
leston-from the Blue Ridge to the
sea- 1t is understood that Charleston cap
italsts' are the prime movers in this pro-
ject and it has been intimated that the
Norfolk and Western system is interest
ed in it, The route is now being survey
ed and the ultimate success of the plan is
assured.
The Sumter McBee company has been
chartered and the Charleston people are
also interested in it. From this, the
thought has been suggested that through
line is being engineered by the same par
ties from Charleston to Sumter and
Wadesboro and Winston Salem. This
idea however, is frustrated by the road
that is soon to be built from McBee to
Monroe, n. G.
McBee is On the Seaboard Air Line
about 30 miles from Cheraw. The road
from there to Sumter will put the latter
city into connection with the productive
regions of Darlington and Chesterfield
counties.
The road from McBee to Monroe has
been surveyed Preparations are being
made to begin work at once.
These systems all taken together, will
he of incalculable benefit to a large Sec
ton of this State and of our sister State
The fertile adjoining counties of Arson
in North Carolina and Chesterfield in
South Carolina, which now have the
poorest ra''~oad facilities, will be given
the best The manufacturing cities, Sum-
ter, Wadesboro and Winston Salem will
be in direct communication with the re-
gion that produces the raw product The
producing region will have good markets,
and the now latent resources will be laid
open to thorough development
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
sELF-HELP FOE cOLORED RACE
The Plan NowIin Operation in Virginia First
Proposed by Rev Pollard

To the Editor: AS a reader of the
News and Observer / noticed the men
ton you made of recent plan propos,
ed by gentleman in Virginia for the ad-
yancement of the colored people, and as
a plan almost similar to the same was
proposed by me and published in the
Episcopal church papers of New York,
Philadelphia and Richmond in February,
1901 and in several other papers, take
the liberty of sending you copy of the
same. All of us want the negro to be-
come a good citizen, a producer as we'll
as a consumer of products and thus help
to build UP the waste places of the coun-
try l am doing all l can to advance
the cause of education, religion and
good citizenship in North Carolina, and
to work out the best interest of both
races in my adopted State.
j. H. M. POLLARD.
Raleigh, n. c., September rs, 1901.
CHURCH SETTLEMENTS.
To the Editor of the Churchman: For
many years l have been considering
plan which would meet more success
fully the conditions among the colored
people and at the same time bring them
more largely under the influences of the
church. A great deal of money has
been spent during the last thirty years
for church extension and in some quar-
tiers the results have been thought to be
very unsatisfactory. But when it is
known that the colored people gave,
from their own earnings, last year, the
amount of $4,000, think there is cause
for congratulation. This indicates that
they are learning the Importance of self
help. If other and better methods had
been used, they would have given great
deal more. The introduction of wrong
methods led to many fruitless results.
My plan is as follows: | would pur-
chase large tract of land in healthy
section: select a central location for the
mission, with about fifty acres as an eX-
detrimental station and model farm, on
which the farmers in the neighborhood
could be taught the most practical
methods of agriculture. The mission
should be provided with a neat, COM
Portable chapel to seat 500 persons, a
school house properly equipped and a
house for the missionary and his help
ers. and also barn, stable and other
buildings necessary to a complete outfit.
The other part of the land could beldi-
vidcd into small farms of from five to
twenty acres each, but in no case more
than twenty, and sold at price to in
clude the original cost of the land, the
! making out of necessary legal papers,
surveys and q reasonable interest on
the money invested, giving the purchas-
ers five years or more in which to pay
for it. If anyone failed to pay on or be-
fore the expiration of the time agreed
upon, the land could be sold to others,
and thus no loss sustained.
This would bring community of per-
| sons around the mission and insure its
permanence both in the attendance of the
school and the chapel 1t is a we'll
known fact that persons who are settled
| in homes do not. S rule, move an
nually from place to place. In this way
: in few years the community would
increase in number and become strong
enough to sustain the school and the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
Spirit of the Press.
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

New York Commercial.
The very excellent showing now being
made by railroads is due TO the wise
policy of increasing the earning power
through improvements in right of-way
and in rolling stock When the era of
railroad building began in the United
States-and in fact, until within the last
ten years-engineers laying out a pro-
posed line would make wide detour,
adding materially to the length of the
line, rather than undertake the cutting
of deep grades or the building of tun-
nels. Mountains were skirted rather
than pierced, and on many of the roads
the efficiency of motive power was Sc
riously handicapped by the grades en-
countered In the last ten years mil
lions of dollars have been expended in
the improvement of right f-way and in
the purchase of heavier locomotives and
cars that will carry greater loads. The
general manager of one of the principal
Granger roads, under whose direction
more than S10,OOO0 1000 has been expended
in the last five years, has said that sta
tistics prove that this money will bring
a return of 20 per cent a year. In other
words, in five years time the company
has through saving in operating expen-
ses paid for it's improvements, and from
that time on stockholders get the whole
benefit of these vast Improvements.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26
THE MoRMONs IN MAINE.

Savannah News.
A dispatch from Bangor, Me-, says
that the Mormons have been carrying
on vigorous missionary work in that
State. The dispatch further contains
the illuminating intelligence that with
in few weeks the Mormons have made
thirty converts. ''all spinsters over for
ty years old. who are well pleased with
their prospects of new life in Utah.
The elders sent into Maine, it is said,
were Intelligent and good looking
men,, This, it seems, is very nearly
akin to securing goods under false pre-
tense. Those Maine maidens lover for
ty" are no doubt going to Utah with the
idea that they will be provided with
Intelligent and good-looking" husbands,
like the elders. But they will find
themselves mistaken. Polygamy is
against the law these days, even in
Utah and there is not a heavy surplus
age of men in that State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26

The Winston Sentinel remarks that
Pritchsrd seems to have secured a sat
isfactory understanding with the new
President, and that the Senator will re-
main the ] Republican commander-in-
chief in North Carolina. The Sentinel
forgets that Loge Harris and his Great
Democratic Republican Combination
Scheme had not been consulted when all
this was done, The plan now is to kick
out Pritchard and put Tompkins or some
other mckinley Democrat in COM
mand. 1t is to be regretted that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Senator Pritchard
were not appraised of these changes be-
fore they formed their plans for the fu-
ture.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-26

The friends of Schley read with great
regret the news of the death OF Judge
Jere M. Wilson. one of the Admiral's
counsel. Judge Wilson was an able at
torney and would doubtless have been
Of much service to Schley in the prepa-
ration and presentation of the case, but
Attorney General Rayner, the other at
torney for the applicant. has been the
leading counsel and is said to be entirely
capable Of handling the case in such way
that Schley's interests will not be jeop-
ardized for lack of proper presenta-
tton.