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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-21

AN ambitious advertiser not long
ago offered the government $4,000
for the privilege of having his face
printed on one years issue of post
age stamps. He had motives of
trade and made no secret of it, his
offer being for advertising purposes,
pure and simple. 1t was, of course,
never seriously entertained, but it
would have meant his likeness pub
lished in the biggest circulation of
the country.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-21

SAMPLE ballots, candidates card:
and all manner of election printing
furnished with neatness and dis
patch at The Enterprise office.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-21

Entered ut the Post-Ofice at Virginia MINI.
as second class mail matter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-21

OUR production of pig iron and
finished steel greatly exceeds that
of any other country in the world,
and yet the demand of the home
market has overtaken production
and even gives promises of exceed
ing it. No contracts are now being
made for export, and inportations
from abroad are looked upon as in
evitable in the near future. It is
one of the marVcls Of the times that
the enormous and rapidly increaS-
ing output Of the steel industry in
this country is now insufficient to
meet the demand for home CON
sumption.
THE recent threat Of Minister Wu
to the effect that if the proposed
Chinese exclusion law is passed by
congress his own government
mi ght retaliate by excluding Amer
leans from that country may really
come to pass. 1t it claimed that Pc
titions are being circulated among
the Chinese merchants now in this
country urging their home govern
ment to act according to this sug-
gestion, and declaring that it is the
only way in which the Americans
can be made to see the injustice of
their exclusion OF the Chinese.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
EFFECT is CUMULATIVE.
Anthracite Strike Is Telling on the
Iron Industry

Cleveland, O., Aug 2S.-The Iron and
Steel Review this week says: Comparative
quietness has come upon the iron trade in
sharp contrast with the first half of the
month. The coke supply has improved
slightly in some spots. but with other con-
as great as at any time last week. It is
evident that there can be no increase in
the supply of domestic pig iron, but rather
a tendency the other way. The tendency
in foundry iron is Enthusiastically upward,
and the movement is more marked be-
cause of the refusal of some producers.
livery in 1903. Meantime .$1S Birmingham
is the usual quotation for No. 2, though
there have been sales as high $40
Northern furnaces have been beSet the
past week by foundry customers to whom
the banking of a furnace means the sus-
pension of melting. The effect of the an
be months before it ceases to be felt in
the iron industry. Contracts now being
placed for next year are from a variety
district it is reported that the producers
of Virginia basic iron have made tenders
of iron for shipment late this year at 81 so
s20.75. Foreign iron, bessemer. foundry
and basic, is coming in at an increasing
rate and quotations for Middlesboro iron
duty paid, for No. 3. Cargo lots of Mid
dlesboro iron have been offered at s21 a
ton. Pittsburg. The decline in foreign
German billets be bought at $50, duty
paid, as against s32 and $33 for domestic
steel. Some rail tonnage is still being
placed, the mills booking about $4,000 tons
the past week, including order from
the Wabash railroad for 25,0OO tons. In
the Chicago district quite number of
German material has been placed in that
market and an eastern shipping company
has a round order for plates ard shapes
abroad. One large plate mill is sold ahead
to the middle of 1903.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
BLUE AND GRAY.
They May Meet Together at Wichita
Reunion.

There is a movement on foot at Wich-
ita to bring. about big reunion OF con-
federate veterans in connection with the
G.. A. r. and Spanish-American reunions
70 he held there soon. If it is success
full it will be something out of the or
binary in the way of reunions. For
those who fought on opposite sides OF
the great civil strife to meet in COM
men reunion will be something of
novelty and could hardly happen any
where outside of Kansas.
The only post of confederate veterans
in the state is located at Wichita, ana.
the Wichita Beacon m speaking of the
movement, says:
NColonel Bean, commander of the con-
federate veterans post of this place, IS
putting forth every effort at his com
mand to interest the ex-confederates
of Kansas in the reunion to be held
here next month in connection with
the c. A. r. and the soldiers of the
S,anis---American war. It is not a
hard matter to reach those near W1ch-
tia, as most If not all of them are
members of the post, and are entering
with a great deal of enthusiasm. But
the Wichita post is the only Organiza-
ton of confederate soldiers in Kan
sas, hence it is no easy matter to reach
them. There are great many ex~
confederates in the state and doubtless
a large number Of them would be glad
to attend the reunion here If they
knew Of it.
For the information of such as these,
Col. Bean is preparing letter to be
published in the principal papers of the
state. announcing the reunion and urg-
ing all ex-Confederates who can to at
tend. This letter will be printed in
the papers at an early date and then
it is expected many of the boys who
once wore the gray will be heard from.
Col Bean is in correspondence with
considerable number of ex-Confeder-
ates with whom he is personally ac-
quainted in various parts of the state
and expects through these to interest
Others. He is now confident that the
largest assembly of ex-Confelera les
ever seen IL the west will be here next
month";
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28

They will find his plant not more than
three blocks from the city limits instead
of five miles,
Councilman Weber will bring up the
question of repairs for the West Sixth
Gil meeting. The pavement needs re-
pairs, and the only question is whether
the city at large or the property holders
the street must pay for it, The plan
is to lay brick pavement in place of
cedar blocks.
George Bennett, Willie and Ray Toll
len, had narrow. escape "Wednesday
afternoon by driving off the abutments
of a bridge over Shunganunga creek a
mile southeast of Oakland. They were
riding in a cart when the wheel slipped
over the edge of the unprotected abut-
ment The occupants and the horse
were precipitated into the water The
horse was injured and had to be killed.
Here is an item about Warren D. Gill,
the coach of the Washburn football
team from the Kansas City Journal. It
contains some information which will
be of interest especially concerning the
claw department." Warren D. Gill,
manager of the local Missouri Valley
League ball team, will leave Fort Scott
on September IA, to go to Washburn
college at Topeka, where he will be in
structor of athletics this coming winter.
Gill is purely a Kansas product, having
been reared at Ell Dorado, Kan. He is
a graduate of Washburn in the law de-
partment, and has been captain of the
football team there for two years. In
The coming season he will coach the
team
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
MUCH WANTED WATKINS.
He Is Believed to Be Under Arrest at
Billings, Mont.

Billings, Mont, Aug. 2S-The Billings
officers have a man under arrest be-
lieved to be the much wanted Philip D.
Watkins, who is accused of vicitimiz-
ing banks in San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Seattle and other places throughout the
west. This man answers the descrip-
ton of Watkins and has with him a
woman supposed to be from Omaha
He appeared at Billings under the
alias of G. w. Swaine, and it is alleged
passed on the proprietor of a hotel here
bogus check drawn on q Massa-
chusetts bank. The fraud was discov-
cred and he was apprehended with his
companion at Newcastle, Wyo.
The Billings authorities have received
a message from Sheriff Cudihee of Sc
attic, saying that the prisoner was
wanted at that place on charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
ROW BOAT RUN DOWN.
Five Employees Of Battle Creek
Sanitarium Drowned.


Battle Creek, Mich, Aug. 2S--The bodies
of five employees of the Battle Creek San
itarium, who lost their lives in Lake
Goguac last night. their row boat being
run down by the steamer Welcome. were
recovered today. The bodies of Lizzie
Brady and Mabel Richard, a stenograRher,
were found floating on the water. They
evidently had been killed by the collision,
or else they would have sunk, as did their
companions. The bodies of Della dorsey
of Allegheny, Pa, Fannie willis OF Toron
to- Ont. and c. F. Bennett Of Dallas. rex
as, swere found only after the lake had
been dragged for several hours.
Carrie Eyock, the other occupant OF
the boat, was rescued by a man who put
out from shore in a row boat. She was
the only one of the party who managed to
catch hold of the boat after 1t had been
overturned. Bennett had been rowing the
young women about the lake and the party
was returning to the sanitarium villa about
10 o'clock, just as the steamer Welcome
was leaving her dock with an excursion
party In some manner, as yet unex-
planned, the Welcome ran the rowboat
down. The small boat was struck amid
ships and the hull crushed, all the oecu-
the victims except Miss Richard We're
members of a new class OF nurses at the
Sauitarium,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
YERKES' PLANS.
Double Tracked Subway Nearly zoe
Miles in Extent.

New York, Aug. 28.-Charles T.
Yerkes, who has returned from London
after an absence of nearly eight months,
said regarding the transportation lines
now being constructed in London by
American capitalists:
I'm Is months we expect to have our
lines running. Last year we did not
get very far advanced. but new COM
pany with a capital of $4,000, 900 has
absorbed the old company, which was
capitalized at 81, 200, 900, and also obtain
ed four different franchises. which al
ready had been passed through Darlia-
ment. These four lines. together with
the Metropolitan District railroad. the
present underground railroad scheme of
London, comprise our system.
when completed our lines will go in
an oval under the heart of the city of
London and these different lines will
connect with this oval. This makes
through lines from the mouth of the
Thames at the sea with the town of
Richmond, so miles away. When finished
there will be Sc miles of double track
to connect with other lines 40 miles in
length, all electrically equipped and the
majority of the distance being run
through subways practically the same
as the one now under construction in
New York"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
TREATY Is VALID.
But It Didn't Apply in Case of Fran
co.'s Leberne.

San Francisco Aug 28.-Francois I1e-
berne, former seaman of the French
bark Biarritz, which recently sailed
hence for France has been released
from the custody into which he was or
dered by the French consul general but
has been Immediately rearrested, this
time on a formal charge which puts
him In the hands of the United States
authorities.
United States District Judge Dehaven
ruled that the treaty under which Le-
berne was imprisoned for an offense
committed on shipboard by order of
the French consul general is valid, but
directed the prisoners discharge on the
ground that the clause of the treaty
authorizing the arrest was operative
only during the vessels stay in port
The Biarritz having sailed Leberne is
no longer a member of her crew and
therefore not amenable to the treaty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
COMENG DRAMATIC EVENTS.

The present cool weather is conducive
to theater going and the Grand Opera
house is faring we'll on its opening week.
Last night was newsboys and news car
riers' night and nearly the entire balcony
was filled with the boys who vociferousiy
approved the manner in which Staters
Madison Square Theater company pro-
duced Among the Breakers" The en-
thusiasm of the boys was reflected by the
rest of the audience. The Slater company
seems to be in high favor in Topeka. 1t
will enter upon the second half of its
week tonight. when "A Debt of Honor
will be the bill. Nell Gwynne" is sche-
duled for production tomorrow night
The engagement will close with two per-
formances Saturday, and on Saturday
night a surprise will be sprung by the
management.
George Klimt and Alma Hearn will be
seen in the latest scenic melodramic hit.
1.-The James Boys in Missouri" A ro-
mantle love story is infused, the comedy
bright and the sensational parts of the
play plausible and Intelligent. Every act
is set with scenery of special design.
There is good advance sale at Is, 35
and so cents at Rowley & Shows The
prices for the Saturday matinee will be
Is cents for. children and Is cents for
adults.
There is a large clientele for tramp
plays 1t is announced this portion of the
play going public was never better en-
tertained than it will be Monday, Labor
day, at the New Crawford by "a Chicago
Tramp" The piece is crowded with funny
sayings and situations and music and
specialties abound. A big holiday matt
nee will be given for which reserved seats
are selling at Is, % and 35 cents The
night prices are Is, IS and 50 cents.
1.-The thing that makes life worth the
while is the value of a SMILE This is
apropos of "Pickings from Puck which
will appear at the New Crawford next
Tuesday night The farce goes with a
vim and bounce. and the lines are said to
be like a verbal game of Ping Pong. so
deft are they in their hits Willard
Simms, who is the star. has serious
countenance that cosmetics could give
him. Most funny men are not funny to
all people, but all people feel that Mr..
Simms was cut out for a funny man from
his birth He cuts wide swath and those
who admire his antics when he was chief
comedian with the Lillian Russell Opera
company, will help to crowd the theater
on the night of this tuneful comedy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
FOOD FOR DISCUSSION.
Combination of American and British
Steel InHaresta.

New York, Aug IA combination of
American and English steel and iron ex-
porting interests continues to supply food
for discussion, says a Berlin dispatch to
the Herald.
The announcement Is made that the
English. American, Belgian and German
steel mills have arrived at an agreement
on an order to export steel rails to Cam
ada, of which the United States and Eng
lish works supply 1860 tons and the Ger
man and Belgian works IS, 600 tons.
The leading official of one of the largest
Rhenish and Westphalfan steel works.
which has it's main offices in this city,
is quoted as having said:
1.-The project for mutual understanding
between the steel and iron interests of Ger
many England and the United States is
not so improbable as it may appear to
many I doubt very much if American
capital could break the steel and iron kar-
tells existing in Germany, but that would
not prevent arriving at an understand
ing for mutual benefit to all parties, espe-
cially in regard to exports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
/. OUT OF SORTS.
Pleasant Way to Drive Away the
Blues.

A food that will bring back health and
rosy cheeks to the sick as well as please
the palate of the healthy is a pretty good
food to know about. lady in Mime
apolis says, ct am such an enthusiast
upon the subject of Grape-Nuts that
I want to state a few instances of its
value that have come under my per-
sonal experience.
/ was taken ill with serious stomach
trouble, SO i'll that the slightest move
ment caused me pain and could take
nothing into my stomach or retain even
medicine or water. had been two days
without nourishment when my husband
suggested trying Grape-Nuts.
The nurse prepared some with warm
water, sugar and cream and I took it
hesitatingly at first until found it
caused me no pain and for ten days I
took no other nourishment. The doctor
was surprised at my improvement and
did not resent my attributing the speedy
cure to the virtues of Grape Nuts. He
said he had case on record of teeth
ing baby who grew rosy and fat on the
same diet
Grape-Nuts ape so dainty and delic-
ious that it appeals to the whole house
hold and when either husband or feel
generally out of sOrtS,e-We try confning
ourselves exclusively to the food for s
day or two with the happiest results.
For year 1 have had for neishbor
a delicate girl-an epileptic-when I
first knew her she was mere shadow
weighing 20 pounds and subject to fear
fnl attacks having as many as IL and
Is commissions in 8 day. At such times
she took no nourishment whatever. She
had never tried Grape-Nuts and as any
food seemed to increase her trouble at
such times 1t was with difficulty per-
suaded her to try it. But I told her Of
my experience and induced her to try
a few spoonfuls.
The taste delighted her and ever since
she has made it her chief article OF
diet The result has been wonderful:
her improvement Is the subject OF re-
mark with all who know her The attacks
are less frequent and violent and she
has gained 20 pounds since last Novem-
Der and her family attribute her ims
provement solely to Grape-Nuts." Name
given by Postum Co, Battle Creek.
Mich.
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ought not to have shown a gain instead OF
recount, just as the Lawrence authorities
wanted recount down there some time
Secretary Coburn thinks If an assessor or
two were punished in some way for neg
lect of duty in these matters It might make
the balance more careful No population
figures have been returned from Atch1son
since 1899. The figures for that town have
not been changed for three yesrs
Wyandotte and Norton counties this year
made no statistical returns whatever, al
though it is made Tart of the duties OF
county clerks to make these reports from
the assessors returns and all assessors and
county clerks take an oath to faithfully
perform their duties, which include the
making of these returns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
FIRST RAIN INss YEARS.
Lower California Is Saved From Be
coming Waste.

San Francisco, Aug. 2S.-Timely and
abundant rains-the first for three years
have saved the southern end of the
territory of Lower California from be-
corning a barren waste. j. w. C. Max
we'll, who mas arrived from the Mexican
coast on the steamer Curacao reports
that up 10 the time the steamer left
Cape San Lucas at the very extremity
Of the peninsula. over six inches of rain
had fallen during the last few weeks
The q eeks and arroyos were full and
many CAME ns which had been like lur
races for many months, had running
streams. Early this year there was a
large exodus of people from the barren
districts, only the men remaining III or
der to guard their ranches, in the
hope that rain would fall and prevent q
total less of their small holdings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
Bank of England Statement.

London, Aug. 2s.-The weekly state
ment of the Bank of England shows the
following changes: Total reserve in
creased 49,, 900 pounds: circulation in
creased "a. 600 pounds; bullion, increased
465, 116 pounds; other securities, in
creased 2,102, 900 pounds; public deposits.
decreased $4,000 pounds: notes reserve
increased 448,000 pounds; government
securities, unchanged. The proportion
of the Bank of Englands reserve to the
liabilities is 51.79 per cent. Last week
it was 59.57 per cent. The rate of dis
count is unchanged at per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
ASSESSORS ARE CARELESS.
Why Some Kansas Towns Made q
Poor Showing.

ors of Kansas-soMe of them at least-ars
not very careful in the collection of stats
tics For instance, the returns made by
the assessors who took the census of the
little town of Pleasanton this year show
that the town fell off over 400 in it's pop
ulation- Last year it showed up as the
eighty-frst city in the state, with pop
ulation of 1851. There were 90 towns be-
low it in the one thousand class This
year it drops out of the thousand class en-
tirely. No one believes for q moment that
it lost one-third of it's population during
the past year. There il no reason why &
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
Relics Dug Up.

New York, Aug. 28.-La borers employ
ed in the subway excavation at Aston
and Lafayette places have unearthed
some interesting relics of Colonial times
in the shape of town crier's bell, made
of brass and with an ivory handle: the
hilt of an officers sword and bronze
powder flask. The hilt of the sword evil
IDENTIFY had been studded with precious
stones. The hilt is of silver and at its
base, were the initials "a. W.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
A Weekly Service.

New York, Aug.28.-Oficial announce
ment has been made, according to the
Journal of Commerce that the Mallory
Steamship line will inauguate next
month a regular weekly passenger and
freight Sci vice between New York and
Mobile, Ala. The first steamer on the
new service will be dispatched from
New York on Friday, September 10. and
from Mobile on Saturday. September q.
There will be four vessels on the line.
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jacent to Lake Lanao, in the Moro sec
ton of the island. near Camp Vickers
which is now the headquarters of the
American forces stationed in Mindanao.
General Chaffee's cablegram says the
mountains and rivers and other streams
were greatly disturbed and much dam
age was done
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
Champ Is in Command.

New York, Aug. 2s.-william H.
Champ, secretary of the Baldwin
Zfegler expedition, is in command of the
second Zeigler polar expedition, accord
ing to a London dispatch to the Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
A Diffarence of 100000.

Vancouver B. c., Aug 28-Whether
the total salmon pack of the Fraser
river is just over or just under a quar-
ter million cases will make a difference
of $40, 600 in the amount to be paid by
the Gamers to the fishermen. To de-
termine the exact pack, an official count
is to be made of the cases put up by
all the canneries on the river.
Shirer and Moore, in duette. at Miss
Whittlesey's concert. September 5, 1902.
Auditorium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
Autos Take Notice.

Every owner of an automobile is re-
oi1ested to meet at my office Friday sev-
ening at O'Clock for the purpose Of or
j. N. PADGETT. ss1 Kan. Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28

Everybody should come and hear
Francis Fisher Powers. one Of New
York's noted teachers and singers. at
Miss Whittlesey's concert. September 5.
at Auditorium. Tickets rs cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
BrightsDisease
And Diabetes

They are curing Brieht's Disease
and Diabetes in California. The per-
centage of efficiency (recoveries in
these hitherto incurable diseases aver
ages as high as 81 per cent The de-
stration of the new compounds are 20
conclusive that We at once sent for q
bundle Of the reports and for the new
treatment for urgent cases in this city.
Call or send for one of the reports.
TOPEKA DRUG CO.
TOPEKA, KANSAS