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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
WOOL MANUFACTURERS
In Annual Session, With Noted Mem
bers Present.

New York, Jan. s.-Breaking its usual
custom Of holding its annual meeting
in Boston. the National Association of
Wool Manufacturers viii gather in the
Hotel Savoy in this city today. The
meeting will be followed in the evening
by a dinner.
After the transaction of the regular
business in the afternoon a paper on
Humidity in the Wool Manufacture
Will be read by Prof. Edward W. France,
school.
Speakers at the banquet viii be SEN
ator Warren OF Wyoming, who is one of
the largest wool growers in the United
States; William R. Merriam, director
of the Twelfth census; Representative
Charles A. Russell and Theodore C.
Search Of Philadelphia, president of the
Association of Manufacturers Charles
II. Harding OF Philadelphia. president
OF the association, viii preside at the
banquet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
HEARD 20 MILES.
Explosion Of a Carload of Black
Powder on the Jersey Central.

Wflkesbarre, Pa, Jan 9.-By col
Hsion on the Central railroad Of New
Jersey near Laurel Run, a car filed
with black powder exploded with such
force that the report was heard dis
lance of 20 miles
The car was attached to a freight
train bound south and was the third car
from the rear. When near Laurel Run
station an empty engine following crash
ed into the freight Tt ploughed its way
through the caboose. a car filed with
beer and went half way through the
powder car. The powder did not ex-
piode at once, but hot Goals from the
fire box of the wrecked engine set fire
to it. Then every pound Of powder IN
the car exploded. The locomotive was
bent and twisted into a shapeless mass
kind1ing wood. The trucks OF the cars
were hurled hundreds of feet away and
underneath the powder car great hole
was torn in the ground.
The crew of the empty engine, seeing
that a collision was unavoidable, jump
ed after the engineer had reversed the
locomotive. The engineer knew that
train ahead and he told the trainmen
to get away from the scene Of the col
lsion as far as possible This is the
only thing that saved their lives
Peter Str0me, the conductor of the
freight train, performed a heroic act
Just before the powder car exploded he
cut" a car loaded with dynamite, which
was coupled to the powder car and
gave the engineer the signal to 90 ahead
place OF safety before the explosion oc-
CURED.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
Plans For Prosecuting Geological and
Other Surveys.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The plans for
work in Alaska for the geological sur
vey for the coming field season purport
to make a detailed mapping and geo.
logical investigation Of areas in which
mining development has already begun,
or valuable mineral is known to exist,
and the exploration and survey Of areas
of which little is known Outfits and
supplies have been transported to Berg
man on the Koyukuk river and it is
thought that advance sections Of the
parties operating from this point will
reach Bergman by April 4. An Arctic
party viii be dispatched from this point,
which will proceed up the Allen Kakat
river to the divide from which it heads
against streams flowing north to the
Arctic ocean and thence down such a
stream to the Arctic and along the
coast southwark and westward until
the party shall be picked up. Another
party will start from Bergman carrying
geologic and exploring work westward
up some as yet undetermined tributary
of the Koyulxuk and down the Kowak
river to the Kotzebue sound.
Another party will be delegated this
season to continue the topographic map
ping and geological investigation of the
Copper river region
The total cost Of this work will be
1000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
ACCEPTs A BACK SEAT.
Nj. Cave, Prairie Dog Exterminator,
Doesn't Want Promi hence.

Speaker Barker was besieged with
house members today looking for choice
places on committees, but Stephen F.
Cave. OF Haskell was not one Of them
He IS a stalWart specimen from the
short grass country. He has served
three terms as county clerk Of Haskell
county, and has been in the politics OF
his county ever since IL was organized
in 1887. but being a state legislator is
decidedly new and he Is as shy as a
1aclrabbit-
They wanted me to go on these
committees he said at the close OF
his Arst days experience as a legislator,
but 4 told them not to be too fast /
said when you break in a colt and go
70 putting collar on him right away
he's liable to go to buckin' and snortin'
around and raise Cain generally. Ny
shoulders are tender yet, and told
them not to so to ladin' them too heavy
at first"
Speaking of shoulders, Cave has a
pair In breadth that are massive, and
the rest Of his physique is on the same
high and broad plan He would make
a desirable model for Atlas, and it would
seem that 1T would take an enormous
weight, even OF responsibility, to break
them down.
II am the sprairie-dog man. :" asserted
Cave 1T is q. serious question with the
people Of Cray and Haskell counties
whether we are going to drive out the
prairie dogs or let them drive out the
csttlemen''
looking to the determination Of the
prairie dogs Discussing his proposed
measure. he said:
THE matter has got beyond what
the people can do locally with It Put
ting a bounty on them would do no
good You could send the Twentieth
Kansas out into a dog town for a
months shooting and it wouldn't make
an impression.
1.-THE state viii have to take hold
The war viii have to be carried on
scientifically somehow I don't know
exactly how. myself The state should
make an appropriation for experiments
to find some formula that will destroy
the pests by the wholesale To break
up the dog towns viii be a paying
proposition for the state in the end. be-
cause it viii reclaim thousands Of acres
OF land that the dogs own now and
render va1ueleSs.
You see the dogs not only destroy the
grass. but wherever they are rattle
snakes abound. This is what hurts the
cattlemen- They lose hundreds of cat
tie through being bitten by rattlers
while grazing We will have to clear
out dogs and rattlesnalSes, too. But II
the prairie dogs are exterminated the
rattlesnakes viii disappear also. I think
an appropriation of 1000 would be
about right to start the work. The case
rests this way prairie dogs or cattle,
one or the other have got to move out"
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TO INSTALL new RABBI.
The Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hasho-
ma7vm Secures Rev. I S. Moses

New York. Jan. s.-Formal installation
OF the Rev Isaac S. Moses as rabbi of the
congregation Ahawath Chesed Shaar
Hashomayyrn. this city, will take place on
next Friday evening.
The Rev. Mr. Moses was born in Posen
in 1913. He came to America in 1872. His
first charge was the reformed cOngrega.-
ton in Quincy, Ill, where he remained for
five years In 1879 he received a call from
Milwaukee to occupy the pulpit of the
Temple Emau FL and after eight years.
service there he accepted a call from
Nashville, Tenn The following year he
was called to the congregation Anshe
Maariv and resigned his pulpit in 1895
Since that time he has been the rabbi OF
the Temple Israel of Chicago.
The Rev. Dr. Moses is a fOrcfble speaker
in English as well as in German "A re-
ception in his honor win be held in Tux
edo hall on January II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
LARGE RE.ENFORCEMENTS.
Earl Roberts Plan For Inducing the
Beers to Submit

New York, Jan. e.--A dispatch to tie
Tribune from London. says:
Earl Roberts has been closely occu-
pied at the war Office, and it is believed
that achievements will be ordered on
vincing Kruger and the Beers IN the
field that resistance is futile and that
Lord Kitcheners overtures should be
accepted.
The rapidity with which the details Of
the favorable military operations At
1IagaIiesberg are received ezciteS the
suspicion that affairs are not going
equally well in other quarters whence
no authentic news can be obtained Gen
French's cavalry division has again out
manoeuvered and defeated Delarey and
possibly has driven his force out of the
7Witwatersrand district. although this IS
not quite clear from the dispatches The
mountain strongho1ds are less import
ant to the Beers than formerly, since
they are making little use OF artillery
and are depending almost entirely on
their rifles and horses. Gen. French ap =
pa1ently has the body Of mounted men
requisite for the hot pursuit OF Delar-
ey's burghers, but they will probably
divide and break up into small bands.
From Kpox's headquarters there is less
information than fromMag aliesberg and
the fears Of military men that some
thing has gone wrong are not dlspelled-
The scene OF operations against De Wet
is, however, at a distance from the rail-
way and communications are slow.
Defensive operations against the raid
Dutch districts of Cape Colony are con-
Quoted on a large scale but no active
measures for following or heading off
invaders are reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
CARPET TRUST STARTED.
Kidder, Peabody & Co. Are Financing
the Concern

Hartford. Conn. Jan. e.-The directors
OF the Hartford Carpet company whose
works are at Thompsonvflle. have re-
ceIved an offer from Kidder. Peabody &
Co. through the banking house of H
Il Skinner Of Hartford. of par in cash
for the company's stock, or 81 per cent
IN preferred and. the same amount in
common stock Of a company that is to
be created by combining this company
with the T. s Higgins company of New
York The Hartford directors unan-
1mouBiy voted to recommend the stock
holders to accept the offer. The capital
OF the Hartford company is 81, 500 900
and of the new company win be 2,000,-
mon stock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09

Aspen, Colo, Jan. Sat midnight last
night a party Of miners coming or shift
discovered fire burning about 400 feet
from the mouth OF the Cowenhoven
tunnel. The fire was on the side next to
the Smuggler mine and It IS supposed
started in the black shale. This Is where
the great Smuggler fire two years ago
originated Watchmen have been sta
toned to prevent the spreading Of the
fire The CoWenhoven tunnel is the
means OF draining the great producers
Of Smuggler mountain. Should the tun-
mel become damaged seriously it would
stop work In a number OF the famous
producers 81 this camp.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
FARMERS ARE HERE.
Open Session at Representative Hall
Tonight.

The thirtieth annual meeting of the
Kansas state board OF agriculture con-
vened this afternoon at O'Clock in the
office of Secretary OF Agriculture r. y.
Coburn. in the State house. The fol-
lowing is the programme for today and
tomorrow:
Roll call.
Report Of committee on credentials.
Reading. minutes Of preceding meeting
Reports of officers
The following topics will be taken up
and considered, as near as may be, IN
the order in which they are given. Papers
will be subject to pertinent discussion and
discussions Others present, of whom
there is likely to be a large number, will,
participating in the discussions, and are
cordially invited to do so.
T. EN- M s,5-ssl ~ .oy ~ C1xDLts Al
REPRESENTATIVE HALL.
Address of welcome-Governor ". E.
Address OF welcome on behalf Of city.
Responsible president, T. A. Hubbard.
Home and Abroad''-A B. Matthews,
''The Angora Goat'-R G Johnston.
THURSDAY
MORNING SESSTON-9:S0 O'CLOCK.
Practical Experience With the Silo in
kansas'-M. s. Babcock, Nortonville.
The Hand Separator and Its Bearing
on the Operation Of Kansas Creameries''
George Morgan, Council Grove
&C uliiyS,erts and Drainage in Road-Mal-
AFTERNOON SESSION.: 30 O'CLOCK
Conditions, Possibilities and Future of
Southwest Kansas''-F'- R. French, Lakin.
THE Practical Side OF Kansas Horse
Breeding H Terry, Bavaria
THE Hog, From Birth to Sale''-John
COWnie, Des Moines, Ia
EVENING sEssTON-7:so O'CLOCK
Some Agricultural Problems of the
Twentieth Century Herbert 1Tyrick
Springfield, Mass
Relation OF the Travelling Library to
the farmers Home''-AIrs Annie L.
Digs, State Librarian, Topeka
Kansas, the Mecca Of Mans Noblest
Servant The Rev. J. W. Thompson,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
SOME FINE SHOOTING.
Colorado Springs Man Kills Twenty
Birds Without Miss

New York.Jan.s.-G. D. B. Bondbright
OF Colorado Springs. Col. caught the
fancy Of the spectators in a handicap
at 20 live birds in Interstate park by the
manner in which he succeeded in grass
ing his allotment OF the 16 shooters who
faced the traps he alone made a. perfect
score. which enabled him to carry of
the lions share of the sweepstakes. He
made 20 hits without a miss.
Z here were three ties for second place,
with totals of 10 apiece: J. NJ. Thompson
Of Yonkers. S H. VanAllen OF Jamaica
ana Ansley f. Fox Of Baltimore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
Admiral Phelps Has Pneumonia.

New York, jan s.-Rear Admiral
Thomas s. Phelps. who has been on the
retired list since 1884 was taken to the
New York hospital last night. SUFFERING
from pneumonia Admiral Phelps IN to
the time OF his retirement from active
service, saw twenty-five years Of duty
on board ship. besides fifteen years Of
shore duty He Is in his seventy
seventh year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09

speak good Lydia r.
pkas Vegetable Compound For years bad ovarian trouble and
and abdomen had consulted different but decided to
tnued its and feeling like physically and
NJ a LEWIS. Valentine New
York., N. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09

must say 1t IS the grandest medicine on earth
and have advised a great many suffering with
female troubles to take it. tell people wish
could go the platform and lecture on it.
Ny trouble was extreme nervousness caused
by painful rnenstruation- Thesuffering endured
pen cannot describe was treated by one of our
most prominent physicians here for five months
and found myself getting worse instead of better.
At the end of the fifth month he told me he had
done all he could for me, and that had better go to
the hospital. NY sister advised to try Lydia r.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as it had cured
her of bacxaches. did and took it faithfully,
and am now cured of my trouble and in perfect
health Many thanks to your medicine. MRS
Fl. S. BALL, 461 Orchard St., New Haven Conn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-09
To Nervous Women.

'sI feel should fly thousand pieces!" ST
just can't stand it another minute /"
Do you ever make of these expressonsG
"Why, yes" you say. "Pm and unstrung,
and can't help it,"
Do you know what makes you SO nervousq
ooh, everything don't know and don't care what
it is wish was dead!"
STOP and listen
People do not sympathze with yOu do theyG They
think you help getting wrought up this way you
will They tell you to "keep coo;" not to close your
head;" to cal yourself" to avoid excitement They
viii not understand that you SICK and that you really
"cant help it." You yourself just what the
trouble You have been to your DOCTOR but his medicine
has had effect. Every day you get You
almost beside yourself with every small responsibility
and way out of it.
Why don't you write to Mrs. Pnkhamq
Has occurred to you that the pains you every
month and the dragging sensation caused by the
] trouble that makes you nervous?
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham. She viii
understand your perfectly, viii you with
kindness Her advice free and the address Lynn,
Mass. No regretted writing her. and she
has helped thousands Her medicine Lydia e. Pnkhams
Vegetable Compound is the true help for
It regulates the monthly and all those
uterine arrangements that excite the This is
the easy and the right way to get the help you need
Read the letters from she has helped.
When you ask for Mrs. Pinkham's medicine at your
druggists be persuaded take something said
to just good" Nothing the world good for
womens ills
Lydia E PhakkksansSS
Vegetable Compound.
5000 a 3! y! !!.'!':!!;'::
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A Few Letters from Women.

MRS. help but feel that + duty
medicine
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"DEAR Mrs. PTEKHAx Words cannot ez-
press my gratitude to you for the good I have
derived from the use Of Lydia r. Piukham's
Vegetable Compound. What have suffered
since the birth of my babe, no one can know I
mad severe pains in lower part of abdomen and
such soreness in my left side. My womb was
babe.
II have taken two bottles Of your vege-
table Compound and feel almost like a new
woman. shall always praise your medicine and
wish that every woman in the land could know
of and use your Vegetable Compound, for know
it win cure all suffering common to our SEX
MRS. NJ NJ BOYD, La Due, Mo.
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Lydia Pnhams
II medicine
LOUISA BETZ, Beech Street, Pottstown
"DEAR MRS PINKHAMFo long time, have
chronic Inflammation Of the womb abdomen
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WORK IN ALASKA.

At 20 ?. al. adjourned
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28
COONEY ORDERED BACK TO DUTY
u17RPuy DIsuIssFs CHARGE AGAINST CAP
TAIN IN WHOSE DISTRICT "AL"
ADAMS HAD Headquarters.

II was ascertaned yesterday that Police Comnis-
sloner Murphy had dismissed several long standing
complaints against policemen. some of them going
back TO the days of the Roosevelt board. Among
those complaints which the Police
accusing him OF receiving money for the designa-
ton OF a polling place on the West Farms Road
when he was a sergeant at the fremont station.
Another complaint dismissed was that brought
against Policeman Patrick T. Waters in 1897. The
reform board fought that case for some time.
There had been a charge that Captain Sheehan,
now in the Tenderoin. had allowed policy shops in
his precinct and Waters was accused OF getting
false testimony by a negro witness The case
might have gone hard against Waters. but Com
missioner Parker obtained writ of prohibition
preventing the trial of the policeman on the
charges
Commissioner Murphy admitted that he had dis
posed of the charge against Captain Cooney. i'm
whose precinct Ar Adams policy headquarters
were maintained He was asked If he VAS consider
EWhy no" replied the Commissioner What
can I do In the cooney case? have already ad-
fourned the Cooney sine die. and dismissed III,
and ordered Cooney back 10 duty. .
DO you then consider than an adjournment OF
Coonsy's case sine die means the oiSn''SS" OF '"e
You can put any construction you want on II,
replied tho Commissioner. 49,
"Then does that end the case
81, ends IN az far as | am concerned
can Captain Cooney he put on trial AGAIN.
HE II they bring other charges against
him" .,.. 49,. .,aru,s ,,, 49,.
ii don't know. Heaven only knows. They are
likely TO do anything.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28

work of which is necessarily continued. MI
Whalens opinion is in answer 10 a letter VIII
ten by Borough President George CromWeh Oh
Richmond who wanted to know just how inuoh
latitude he had in dismissing Tammany men
Mr.. Whslen says:
The questions suggested by ySHr r D6 ony the
status OF the employees in the departInenttS you you
recruitment at the commencement Of your new Of
fetal term and they present in the
amended charter any specific provision covering
them
Mr. Whalen then suggests that Section l'o43
might he used to furnish a working scheme'
SO that a sufficient number Of employees could
he secured. but he adds that this would also
prove difficult to accomplish Continuing, he
says:
udtb The powers and duties devolved upon you by
pertaining to the departments over g Ni,lg Soe @
through whom YOU could exercise those powers and
EeT1oIIn Et f al s6e Work in these departments
As regards the employees themselves they "oulo
suffer unnecessary hardship They Mo1id eitner
transfer from the Civil Service list or to wait Tor
boards thus for positions in which knowl-
Sds ss G fh h B very u night get
from other boroughs having no such local know-
interruptien Of the citys business is not rendered
necessary 10 the action of the amended charter.
MIR Whalen after quoting Section 1,5i3 of
the charter continues:
The section is evidently intended 10 cover the
cases Of persons whose positions are abolished by
the effect OF the charter or whose services are
rendered entirely unnecessary. not those OF en-
ployes whose duties transferred but rem
dered unnecessary For il is evident that the
fer you of the powers and duties OF the abolished
department does not abolish render unnecessary
the offices emplOyments Of subordinates therein
The only change Is in the of the department
performing the work This work itself is still
necessary. and for its performance the employment
of subordinates by yourself. President OF the
Borough is necessary.
I think. therefore that the solution of the oues-
tions concerning which YOU have written is to be
found In holding that the transfer of the powers
and duties the abolished departments the bor-
ough presidents carries with it transfer of the
New-York tribune., 1901-12-28

necessary working force OF those departments with
II tne several boroughs Having reached this poInr
~ becomes important TO determine what YOUR DOW
efs are IN regard TO the employees transferred
mink IL is evident that you have exactly the
same powers as those possessed by the heads OF
ne former departments If you find upon January
that the employees. so transferred you more
numerous than is necessary for the work of your
borough. or that some Offices or employments are
unnecessary, you have ample power under Section
i.o4S OF suspending. without pay. all unnecessary
enp3oges IL there are any employees transferred to
YOU whose duties wholly within your borough
Shd VINO come under Schedule IA OF the classt-
neo NlNll Service, you can Immediately dismiss
such persons IL you choose and appoint others in
their place ~ IA
concerning the notice TO be given on suspension
or dismissal Mr. Whalen writes:
tnink that when you ready to dismiss :hem
You snoulo give them written notice to take ofecf
lnrnediateiy or al such time as you may choose In
foeh case IL will be your duty irnrne6iateIy 20
no,iiy the Municipal Civil Service Commission Of
the suspensions in question. -
In closing Mr.. Whalen says:
A question which you will have to meet inne
led WIZ ne the somewhat difficult one OF what
ofnces or empioyments abolished nv the onera :
uon OF that statute. | do not think it wise tn az
tempt 10 lay down for your guidance any rules or
tnis sunJect because believe that this is a c,es
uon which should be left the decision NJ M,
successor, whose duty IL will be TO advise xo,;
nile your questions do not call for an opinion on
that 1T viii be very important that on Januarv :
tn.re SHAH be an accurate inventory made of prom
cry transferred 10 you by the departments 10
which you succeed. io