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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
JAYHAwKER Jors.

A Wichita hunter paid SIS for killing
quail out of season.
Grasshoppers are trimming the wheat
fields around Solomon Rapids.
A rainbow the past week was just the
shape to fit over Great Bend.
Ellis has laid the shale excitement
aside for a ping-pong tourney.
A strange woman wearing mems gar
ments is mystifying the Aliceville COS.
sips.
Mr.. Curl is an ottawa barber Ladies
with kinky hair will kindly take his
chair.
An ottawa man is asked to pay $50
simply because a rock he threw broke
a neighbours cows leg.
A Winchester citizen had his hand
crushed by a washing machine. A man
should stick to his knitting.
Santa Fe firemen and engineers have
been granted salary raise. AS they
get transportation this should be a
pick W.
The first few times of practice of the
Hugotcn brass band has pushed the
prairie dogs further back into the short
grass country.
A Waterville man desiring to find out
if his buzz saw was running stuck his
finger under it He will use that same
finger no more as a tester
A Franklin county sunfiower still mods
and bends in the breezes.
"A Se0gWlcK county couple nave just
celebrated their sixtieth wedding ami
versary. The groom is 81, hale and
hearty, and of course never touched
liquor or tobacco.
The Wellington police arrested a queer
character the ether night asleep in a
box car He wore a straw hat, linen
buster and no socks. The following day
he paid S2,100 cash on land deal.
A dozen years ago Congressman Chas
Scott knew clever young fellow with
bright prospects before him. In Topeka
recently the same party. unshaven and
unshorr. struck him for a quarter to
get a drink with.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Declines to Pardon Gamblers.

Colorado Springs Gazette:
Governor Ormon has carefully consid
cred the petitions addressed to him for
and against the pardoning of the Colo
RADIO City gamblers, who were recently
sent to Jail by Judge Cunningham and
has refused to exercise the right of par
don conferred upon him by the laws.
The reasons that have induced the
governor to take this action We're uu-
dcubtedly those set forth in the strong
statement made by the district judge at
the time the sentences were pronounced.
In cases where sentences had been re
peatedly and many times suspended
upon promise Of future compliance with
the law, and such promises had been in
variably broken, where threats and
warnings had proved futile. and where
the law was not only broken but openly
and persistently defed. the judge of the
district court found himself with no
other alternative than to enforce the
law or to confess the failure and weak
ness &C the law.
And when these facts were presented
to the governor, supported by the
strongest evidences of public sentiment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
Strike Commissions Work.

Brooklyn Eagle:
Whatever the outcome of the investl-
cation of the coal strike by the presi-
dents commission may be, there is no
question of the thoroughness of the pre-
limlnary study of conditions. For the
first time men outside of the coal busl-
ness, having power to regulate the COLI
duct of that business, have made Il
study of the way it is conducted at first
hand. These commissioners have been
down IN the mines with miners safety
lamps, they have acquired realizing
sense Of the dangers of the work as well
as its inconveniences and the chances
of accident, from which they have not
been exempt. They have seen one strike
in action and they ought to know the
sort of material of which the striking
mobs are composed, as well as the ma
terial with which the operators must
deal in carrying on their business They
have stopped in several mining towns
and they must have studied the Iithu
anians and Slavs, upon whom it is INF
possible to enforce more than a veneer
of civilization and upon whom appeals
to violence or to riot act as a light does
on the fire damp that the commission
ers have passed through.
For years the conditions of mine labor
have been unsa tisfactory to both sides
Operators have confessed it and labor
agitators have magnfied the evils of the
situation. The claim of the operators
has been that they were doing the best
they could do with the facts as they
SlOOu, ana they nave deSpdlfeu at tie
thought of making the complexities anu
difficulties of that situation clear to the
outside public. Now they have tribunal
which has, at great pains and manifold
inconvenience. made itself familiar
with the conditions. The knowledge thus
acquired will be a valuable guide III
judging the testimony which the COM
mission is still to hear. and it ought TO
give weight to the recommendations Of
the commission when they finally are
made. In two fundamental propositions
the public is vitality concerned. Those
are the right to work and the right to
strike, the right to organize and the
right to stay outside of any organization
at will. and the deduction that the right
to strike does not include the right to
murder or to destroy property The
country will listen with sympathetic
good will to any recommendations which
the committee may make that do not
interfere with those fundamentals of
liberty and of organized government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
a eRowINe PENsIoN L1sT.

Mr.. Wares report on the operations
of the pension bureau for the year end
ing June 30, 1902, shows that it now re-
quires seven figures to enumerate the
number of persons on the list for the
first time in the history of the country.
The disbursements for pensions by
the United States from July l, 1890, to
June 30. 1865. were $50. 445, 444.23 Since
1865 the disbursements for pensions
were S2.SO4, 4OS.S57.22 and for cost of
maintenance and expenses $91. 654, III. 80,
or total of 50, S96, 063, 57512. making the
entire cost of the maintenance of the
pension system since the foundation of
the government nearly SO. 900 COO 900. OF
the amount that has been expended for
pensions since the foundation of the
government $4,000, 600. was on account
of the war of the Revolution: $45 OPS. 297
on account of service in the war of 1872;
IS, S14 ,206 on account of service in the
Indian wars; $31. $751; 37 on account of
service in the Mexican war; 3,275, 1874
on account of the war with Spain, and
$2,72S, 87S,276 on account of the war of
the rebellion.
The foregoing amounts are startling
in character, says the report, yet they
are the results of the disbursements
made pursuant to the pension laws.
The annual value of the pension roll,
the amount required annually to pay
the regular pension certificates out
standing at the close of the fiscal year,
was s132, 1852, 800. The average annual
value of each pension was $132.23, a
slight increase over that of the former
year The average annual value of
general law pensions has increased to
$17L28; of pensions under act of June
27, 1890, to s10859. while the average
annual value of Spanish war pensions
has decreased to $14O.7S. Over one-half
of the pensions are $40 per month and
under.
In 81 .551 cases allowed there were first
payments averaging $685. each.
amounting to SS,677, 548. Not unfre-
quently these first payments are over
has been long pending.
A large increase is shown in the num-
Der of pensions and increase of pens
sions by special acts of congress, the
number being l. ia. causing an increase
in the annual expenditures of $182, 825.
Since 1861 there have been granted by
special acts of congress 1896 pensions,
including increase of pension.
The number of attorneys on the roll
June 30, 1902, was 20, 71S, and the amount
paid as attorney fees during the year
was 1882 5S1. These fees are paid to at
torneys direct by the United States
from the pensioners allowance, and at
torneys are not permitted to collect fees
from claimants.
-Four thousand three hundred and
ffty-five examining surgeons are en-
pIOVed to make medical examinations
of claimants for pension. and the
amount appropriated for their payment
during the year was 100000 of which
$573, 621 had been expended for the first
nine months of the fiscal year. Most
of the surgeons are organized into
boards of three members each, while 1873
designated specialists are distributed
throughout the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27

pulling out of Pittsburg. If these cars
were started east in a single train, they
would reach from Pittsburg almost to
Baltimore" From Pittsburg to Chicago
or to Baltimore is not bad "a hours
run for a freight locomotive. and one
can imagine the promptness with which
trains must have been made up and sent
from the yards on the five routes over
which they were dispatched when the
streams of freight flowed away at the
aggregate average speed of a Iocomo-
tive. In five hours &c freight trains
were started for Altoona. or. approx
mately, one train every three minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
The Advance of Wages.

Rochester Democrat:
The action of the Pennsylvania, the
other railroads in increasing the pay of
their thousands of employees is not based
on sentimental considerations or alb
stract principles of justice. Corpora
lions do not make martyrs of them
selves knowingly andd intentionally,
though as a rule they are fairer than
cynics and demagogues represent them
as being.
Railroads are run on business prin-
ciples. In determining upon any line
of policy they first sit down and count
the cost. The question is, will it pay
judging from such data and prospects
as are at hand?
The significance of the course of the
railroads in the matter of raising the
highest degree encouraging to the bust
ness and financial interests of the coun-
try. The managers of these great cor
pOrations are in touch with the business
affairs of the people on every hand.
Their outlook is large in its scope and ac-
They command the best professional tai
ent of the country. They figure closely
not only respecting rates but concern
ing wages.
When. therefore they decide to in
crease their expenditures to a vast ex-
teri by raising the pay of their men
they must have concluded that the out
look for business in this country for
considerable time to come is such as to
warrant such action. Indirectly the eff
feet upon the financial and business
situation must Emulate confidence
among business men. Directly, it will
distribute vast sums of money among
render life easier and pleasanter for
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27

The great freight blockade at Pitts
burg has been broken. The perfection
of organization in the modern railway
was exemplified by the Pennsylvania
system when 1925 cars of freight, made
UP into 929 trains, were handled at It's
terminals in that city. All previous rec
ords were broken. The object was to re-
heve traffic congestion at Pittsburg
Conditions almost normal were restored
on the Pennsylvania railroad there We're
started 294 trains of AGO cars. The
Fort Wayne division received $50 trans
of 5000 cars. On the Panhandle We're
placed 245 trains of L. OPS cars. The Bal
timore & Ohio took 20 trains of 400
cars. and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie 100
trains of e,00O cars. The total tonnage
is estimated at 1,756,5 tons The man
who makes the figures for the Baltimore
News says: IF the number of freight
cars handled in the Pennsylvania terrni-
nails at Pittsburg in "a hours had been
placed in a single train hitehed to a
mighty locomotive and started for Chi
Gago, the locomotive would be pretty
near to that city when the last car was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27

before the brakeman's eyes.
We've spent three hours lookin' for
you under this wreck, and here you are
asleep in bed. Don't suppose it made
any difference to you If every man on
the train wus under the wreck
Il knowed you wus all right, and l
knowed the Sandwich man and the
fireman or the engineer wus all right.
because l see you all jump" replied
'Slumber." Il knowed we would be
here eight or ten hours, SO / thought 1
might as well ketch up on little sleep"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
Rheumatism Cured in "a Hours.

T. J. BIackmore of Haller & Blackmore,
Pittsburg, Pa says: "A short time since
me out of the house in "A hours / took to
my bed with rheumatism 8 months ago
and Mystic Cure is the only medicine that
did me any good. I had five of the best
physicians in the city, but I received very
little relief from them. know the Mys-
tic Cure to be what it is represented and
take pleasure in recommending it to other
poor sufferers. Sold by Rowley & Snow
druggists, Sixth street and Kansas ave
1T was almost a miracle. Burdock
Blood Bitters cured me of a terrible
breaking out all over the body / am
very grateful Miss Julia Filbridge.
West Cornwell, Conn.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press-1
Nowadays fathers are blocks of the
young chip.
Some men seem to think that women
are nothing but pincushiohs
A girl who has a round, jolly laugh
has something to make the world happy.
Men learn to swear fixing the furnace,
and they keep in practice stocking it.
To read old love letters makes a woman
blush with pleasure and man With
shame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27

The heads of the army object to the
Punishment of the post canteens be
cause saloons take their places. Then
why doesn't congress Danish the saloons
also? Let a. law be passed forbidding sa-
looms in or about government property
and beginning the execution of it by
turning out those located in the capitol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27
HAVE YOU TRIED

The new Fiber Kindlers? They are
twice the size of those offered last year
and cost no more-ten cents per pack
age containing ten kindlers. Each kind
Ter will easily start fire The South
western Fuel Co, sole agents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27

It cannot injure and may do wonder
full good For wrinkles. blemishes
smarting, irritation, try Satin-Skin
Cream, a tissue builder and skin food.
25c. The Model.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27

Read the State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-27

So, to this day of GROWING cheer.
By easy course thy steps did tend
Since, with each day of all the year
Some grateful leaven thou didst blend
No chance thy prize from thee can wrest
While life shall last thou shall not part
With that good gift COT all the best)
The treasure of thankful heart.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-04-17

was ca..cl TO oro.r nj 10 O'Clock. tW o
hours in advance Of the usual hour OF
meeting. This hour was fixed in order
10 permit more extended debate on the
Chinese exclusion bill. prior TO tho
voting on the measure. which began a,
! O'Clock. The attendance Was very
slim. only three senators. Messrs.
pettus. kcan and kittrcdge. faced Mr..
Fry. when he called the senate to
order
The president pro TEN. laid before
lhc senate "A number Of kilograms
bearing upon the Chinese bill Mr.
Turner tWash.) then took the floor
TO reply 10 the speech made hy MIR.
Spoouer Tuesday. but before he could
proceed Mr. Culherson suggested the
absence oi a quorum This was at
lo IL and il took - minutes To get a
quorum.
Mr. Turner then proceeded. IL said
that the shipping interests and the
transeoniinental railroads have agents
In Washington using their strongest
efforts To defeat the pending bill.
Mr. Turner then entered upon dis
Cussion of the merits OF the exclusion
bin lie spoke of the Chinese. declar-
ing that two oiac.dness is "A character
istic of that people from which not
even the emperor Is free.
Mr. Patterson tColo.t defended the
provisions in the Mitchell bill excluding
Chinese from American ships. declar
inr that IL IL essential to the protection
OF American labor on the sea. The op-
position TO this provision meant. he
said. that IL was intended To subsi-
digc the ships and then allow their
owners TO 20 into IN. cheapest mar.
lets To secure labor. leaving the Amer
lean s.amcn to his fate.
Mr.. Hanna was the next speaker.
He supported the present exclusion
hill. as amended. Mr.. Hanna referred
10 the address of Mr.. Lodge on this
bill. quoting the statement OF the latter
10 the effect that the omission oi the
Chinese exclusion legislation would be
resented at the polls by the working
classes. Il am sorry. he said. that
Senator Lodge has such an uniavora
hlo onin;on ol the workinemen OF this
country. and rs a friend OF that class
resen, this characterization OF their
motives.
Continuing. he said he did no' be
licyc that tho laborns men oil the
limited States would threaten senator's
IN this way If their Judgment was not
entirely In accord with their own Oh
any given subject.
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Could Not Breathe.

Coughs, colds. Group, grip, bronchitis,
other throat and lung troubles are
quickly cured by One Minute Cough
Cure. One Minute Cough Cure is not a
mere expectorant, which gives only tenn
porary relief. 1t so:tens and liquiti> s
the mucous. draws out the inflammation
and removes the cause OF the disease
Absolutely safe. Acts at ouce. "One
Minute Cough Cure will do all that is
claimed for il. says Justice Of the Peace
J. @. Hood. Crosby. Miss. My wife
could not get hsr breath and was re-
lived 10y the first dose. 1t has been a
benefit TO all m! fpnily.'
Cook & ODEFt
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-04-17
WISCONSIN PAPER MILLS.
Strike Situation as Described by EN-
pover and EmpIoye.

Appleton. Wis. April l7.-National
Organizer William Hamilton of the
United brotherhood OF Papermakers.
who is al present at Stevens Point,
says that the Brotherhood is holding
its own The Wausau mill is still idle.
and the mills at Stevens Point are run
ming as they have been for some time,
very much Handicapped. The Nekoosa
mill is in the worst shape of any unless
il is the Wausau mill Superintendent
Fogarty and non-union machine ten
der by the name Of Galiagan are en-
deayorng 70 sent 5ae of the machines
running AT Grand Rapids the mill is
running for only small portion OF the
day. shutting down at night.
George A. Whiting of Nenasha states
most positively that tn Stevens Point
mills are getting out as much paper
and as good paper as they ever did.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1902-04-17
PUBLIC TO GET HALF.
Morgan and Others Take c fi6.OOO.OOO
Of British Loan.

London, April 17.-It was said dur,
ing the day that J. Piorpont Morgan,
the Barings and the Rothschilds have
secured an aggregate of tl6,OGo.ooo of
the new British loan Of E32 2ooo.ooo
The remaining fl6. 6.ooo,oo will he OF
fered to the public
Onicial confirmation Of the above
vas forthcoming during the afternoon.
the Bank of England giving notice that
half the loan had been privately sub,
scrihed for. and offering the other half
for public subscription at "S'2. with
interest at 2a, per cent. The subscrip-
ton list will be closed on or before
April Fl.
There was tremendous rush TO sub
scribe to the new loan Of t32 .oooooo.
AZ the Bank of England it was esti-
mated that tho loan had been ten times
oyer.subscrihed. The lists VIII PROB
nhlv close at once.
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WILL CAUSE SENSATION.
Proposed Restriction by One Of the
Cabinet Officials.

Washington, April 17.-One of the
cabinet officers, man who believes
In establishing reforms in the depart
mental service of Washington, is con.
sidering a proposition, which, if car.
ried into effect, will create a great SEN
sation.
The secretary is thinking seriously
of issuing a circular order to the ef-
feet that no employe under his juris-
diction shall visit saloons or buffets,
and II this rule Is not complied with,
third offense will warrant dismissal.
The order will be resisted. no doubt,
but that it will become subject of
cabinet discussion nov seems certain.
1t is urged by those who favor the rule
that those who are temperate, honest
and Industrious will not be affected
anyway, while those who are addicted
to visiting clubs and cafes where there
are saloons attachments will have to
brace up if they hold their positions.
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GREAT BRITAIN ACCEPTS.
Conference to Regulate Use OF wire
less TcIegraphy.

Berlin. April 17.-Great Britain mas
accepted Germany's proposition ior an
international conference to regulate
tho use of wireless tclegraphy. The
other powers to which the proposition
was made-the United States. france
and Russia--have not yet responded.
but the officials here confidently eN-
pect favorable answers. especlaiis
from the United States. which mas TAX
On much interest In the matter.
Germany's suggestion enlolA..S
r,oralv calling a conference but with
ant definitely formulated propositions
for discussion.
Germany has also asked the powers
IN set forth in their answers II they
wished Germany to formulate PROPOSE
tions to lay before the conference or
leave the matter entirely to the con-
C.ranpe-
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WILL COST $4,000.
Chicago Man Constructing Three Big
Airehils.

Chicago. April 17.-ln the works Of
the Mcdonnell Odometer company at
West Thirty fifth street and kenzie
avenue, engines and framework are
being constructed Tor three big air
ships, in which Patrick +. Mcdonnell
hopes to reach the North Pole next
summer. says The Chronicle. He is
confident that his machines will work,
as the model has proven very success
full
The airship will be built on the diri-
gible balloon plan and viii be more
than 400 feet long.
II is claimed that several Chicago
capitalists are interested in Mr.. Nc
Donnells venture, the cost Of which
is expected to be within $4,000.
Sergeant julius r. Frederick. sur
vivor of the Greedy expedition. has
promised to be one Of the party 10
make the journey provided the tests Of
the machine are successful.