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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-10
Friendly to Socialism.
Indianapolis News:

lnOldndDOlIS News:
All over the country there are men, who,
in the past, have had horror of state So
cfallsm. who are at the present moment
seriously discussing the question of at least
a temporary operation of the anthracite
eminent has the power so to acquire-arfd
operate the mines we suppose IS reasona-
bly, clear OF course, by government we
do not mean the president but congress
and the president We have of late learned.
many of us to our sorrow that this gov
eminent has power to do pretty much ev-
erything that it may think to be necessary,
and that the constitution is rather elias
tic affair. Certainly the general welfare
clauses has been stretched pretty far and
there is. little reason to doubt that it could
be made to cover the present emergency.
With people of our race the question al
ways is whether a given policy is neces-
sarY. If it is, we are usually willing to
agree to 1t, without regard to logic or
consistency. Bound though We are by
precedents we never hesitate 10 disregard
CID and to make new Ones when find
to be an overruling necessity. But logic
consistency and mere abstract principles
have little part in our political thinking
We do not feel that in the doing of a par
ticular thing we are establishing princi-
pie. For instance, there IS no logieai
reason why the government that carries
the mails should not also operate the tel
egranh. But it does the one and does not
the other. And no one thinks that the do
ing Of the one imposes the slightest ohli-
cation of doing the other. The question:
and the sole question is, what Is best in
each particular case.
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WOMAN AND CHILDREN GONE
Little Girls and Mother Are Sought in
Vain by Keokuk Police.

keokuk, Ia. Oct. 10-Police are search
ing this city and the surrounding country
for Mrs. Kate Houston and her four little
girls. They are the entire family of Will
liam Houston, who came here with them
from La Crosse, Wis, one week ago to
start a feed store.
The family rented a house in a good
part of the city and seemed happy. Hous-
ton reported to the police today that his
wife disappeared last Friday night and
left no trace. The children range from IS
months to IL years in age, and disappeared
with the mother.
The husband communicated with his
wife's sister. Mrs. Julia Logue of Mount
Pleasant. Ia, but his family was not
there Mrs. Logue says Mrs. Houston re-
Gently talked to her about Something
happening" to herself. and she believes
her sister committed suicide after killing
the children. The husband and sister of
Mrs. Houston believe she was insane.
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Roosevelt Sincere

st. Louis Republic:
That the president is sincerely trying to
end the coal strike is evident from the re-
quest which he sent yesterday to the min
ers in the anthracite regions. He asks
them to return to work. after which he
will appoint a commission to investigate
their grievances, the report of this COM
mission to be the basis for favorable rec
concentrations which he will make to con-
gress.
True, this action of the president is no
guarantee that the trouble between the
miners and operators will be settled in ac-
cordance with their wishes, for the prom
Use of third party, the president must
remain, cannot be binding on congress nor
can congress insure satisfaction to either
party. However, it is the best which he
can do under the circumstances
1t is probable that the report of such a
commission would be accepted by the
house of representatives, the members of
which must receive the Endorsement of
their constituents every two years. 1t is
moro difficult to forecast what action
would be taken in the senate a body
which is very deliberate with radical
measures.
The people desire first of all that the
strike be ended on terms which will as
sure the breaking of the coal famine. The
miners viii certainly have public senti-
ment with them if they return to work
pending congressional action. an advan-
tage which IS not to be despised.
This advantage will be the greater when
1t is considered that the coal which is be-
ing hauled across the Atlantic from Wales
is carried by the shipping combine re-
Gently organized by J. P Morgan 1t is
gradually dawning on the public that this
financial king is losing nothing by pre-
venting industrial peace. This most re-
cent vicarious piece of business philan-
thropy only adds to his reputation for
swelling the profits of the concerns in
which he is interested.
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PRESS COMMENTS.
For the Canteen.

Cincinnati Enquirer:
It is claimed by some of those familiar
with military affairs that the temperance
organizations have not accomplished as
much reform among civilians, on an aver
age calculation, as the army canteen has
among the soldiers. The dispensation of
beer and light wine in the military camps
has been discontinued Those soldiers who
are given to drink are said to be going
outside their reservations and patronizing
establishments where liquor that will
make drunk" at forty rods is sold. The
testimony on both sides of the case is
very interesting, and when the army bill
comes up in the next session of congress,
and when the question of "canteen or no
canteen'' is under consideration, there
will be a show day in the house of rep
resentatives.
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Must Suppress Crime.

New York Press: s. b.
Whether the demands of the striking
miners are preposterous or whether the
position of the operator in rejecting
them is unfair to American Ia Dor, there
can be no difference of opinion among
lawloving and law-abiding citizens as
to the need for suppressing violence and
crime in the coal districts and as to the
duty of lawful authority to suppress
them. Whoever is right in the ~triNe
controversy and whatever is to be done
to end it. the first step should be the
suppression of mob rule. If the union
miners are not willing to go to WORK
for the o0erators on their terms there
is no legal or rightful way to make
them go to work. But If there are men
who are willing to work and to give the
public coal they should be free to per-
form what labor they please and on
ccnsidera tons of the merits of the
cause of the operators or the strikers or
both Their right to 60 this should be
reserved to- them, first, by the state Of
fails. by the federal gcVel nmeEt. In
accom-; fishing this work of safeguard
ing opportunity and liberty and of pro-
teetinE life there will be no taking sides
with the operators as such or against
union "a Dor as such. It will he taking
sides not even WITH non union labor as
such, nor with the public. 1t will be
1pholding the right of all men liz this
country and enforcing the law And
with the law enforced. order and peace
restored, and life and property safe. i
will leave every mantle operator. the
union man and the pon-union man in
the possession of his rights We NAV
not have more coal then-if we are to
believe Mr.. Mitchell we shall not have
more-but we shall not need to blush
for sovereign authority in the United
States and to feel shame for official
compoundirg of crime.
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HIS ROMANCE BRIEF.
Farmer Married an Actress Who
Soon Snubbed Him.

Cincinnati. O.. Oct 10.-Charles s.
Young is prosperous nurSeryman'
with a farm near Lebanon, o., and ne
has a peck of trouble on his hands at
present, which he is old enough to have
avoided Young is IS years of age but
bthe hot blood still leaps in his veins, and
in order to give it bit of cooling ne
visited this city last month Things
around town looked pretty to Young,
and of course he saw lots of things that
he does not see around his farm or at
Lebanon. In the course of events
Young dropped into a Vine street con-
cert hall, and amid the glare of mean
descents and the sparkle of Manhattans
and "sars'parilla" he saw Minnie B.
Taylor doing singing and dancing
stunt on the stage for the benefit of
those present. Minnie looked better to
| Charley than anything or anybody he
had seen In the city. and he cast soul
| full eyes at her. She cast eyes back.
and Charley was tickled to death when
/ he met a real actress. a lightning
courtship ensued, at the end of which
Minnie coyly agreed to slip over to
/ Newport and become Mrs. Young On
/ September last Minnie changed her
name and Charley was the husband of
an actress They went to live in the
Germania building, at Canl and Main
streets, and for the time being the farm
and the nurselings were forgotten by
Charley.
The first snag was struck when the
old man made a request that his wife
! IOrSa Ike the fGOJl1~-GtS ana the concert
halls. Minnie shifted and refused. and
of course they quarreled. This led to a
separation last Tuesday on which day
the ole man replevined lot of furni-
ture he had purchased for their nest.
The merits of this replevin suit will be
decided by Squire Winkler tomorrow
Yesterday Minnie made move
against Charley in the shape of Sling
divorce suit through Attorney D. d.
Robinson. She charges him with neg
lecting her ard refusing to give her any
money, and also claims he was cruel i'll
repleyining the furniture so that her
rooms were left bare Minnie also de-
clares in her suit that her husband is
wealthy and that he once showed her
| 50, 900 in gold Minnie perforce. would
like to have little of this gold, 50 she
asks the court to grant a divorce and
alimony.
Yourg proposes to fight out his
| troubles. and has employed Attorney Nj.
C Lylxins. The latter is authority for
the sta tement that Young treated Min
ME like lady" and right after then
marriage had a lot of gold plugged into
her teeth, bought her clothes and a lot
of etceteras. the latter comprehending
such trifies as women consider neces-
sary in a wardrobe, the outlay being
$780, Young is now quartered at the
Columbia hotel, and has not seen his
farm since the eventful day he arrived
here to undergo the cooling process.
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ENGINE TURNS OVER.

Locomotive I'LL. one of the Santa Fe's
big prairie freight engines jumped the
track and keeled over on its side at a
point south of the paint shop, while pull
ing train out eastward at $50 Thursday
evening. Engineer Richie and Fireman
Dahl. who were in the cab, jumped.
neither being seriously injured, although
Dahl suffered sprain to his leg
Had the train been running at high speed
bad wreck would have resulted, but as
it was the locomotive was all that was
damaged.it having much of the machinery
on one side torn away. Strangely enough
this same engine has been off twice in the
same spot and within ten days three To-
comotives, all of this class. have been de-
rallied there. 1t was so heavy that the
wrecking crew was kept busy most of the
night getting it on the track.
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LOCAL MENTION.

There will be a Democratic rally in
Oakland this evening.
A stated meeting of the Scottish Rite
bodies will be held tonight.
Judge Hazen granted Maggie Thomas
divorce this morning from John II.
Thomas.
There will be a meeting of the Gro
GERS association at the rooms of the
Commercial club Monday evening.
The Kansas City high school foot ball
team will be in Topeka Saturday to
play the Topeka high school team at
Washburn park.
A meeting of the directors of the long
since desunct ElInwood club was held
Thursday afternoon and it was decided
to divide up the 5000 which the club
still has on hand between the Orphans
home and Mrs. Thorpe, giving SOTO to
each.
Ensign John Howard in charge of the
Salvation Army in Topeka is advertis-
ing a special meeting at which he an
nounces in largely placarded letters -109
boozers wanted It is to be addressed
by Howard Rinear, a former inebriate.
and the Thompson sisters of Emporia
will sing.
John Steinrauf. a cigafmaker. was
arrested this morning on tie charge Of
stealing a revolver from Aunt Jane"
Davis, an old coiored woman VINO runs
Joint down on Smoky Row. Aunt
Jane keeps such a tough hole that she
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fair name.
Wcrd has lust been received of the
death Of Jenner NJ. Nonamaker, which
occurred in Chicago on September 2S
Mr.. Nonamalzer was a young man OF
fine promise and the only son of S. S
Nonamaker, who was in the drug bust
ness in topeka for a number of years.
The family have many friends and ac-
Quaintances IN the city.
1t is estimated that there are about
$500 resident taxpayers in the cfty Of
Topeka. OF this number it is necessary
to have the autographs Of two-fifths on
TIE petition for special election to vote
bonds for the purchase of tie water
works This would make total of
3,400 names required. or an average OF
about $50 to each ward in the city
Oscar Meyer C. Ststes. Frank Sachs,
Emil Rode and Robert Roediger will go
to Leavenworth Saturday to represent
the Topeka Turnverein at the sixteenth
annual Tagessatzung, or state conven-
tion,to be held in that city Saturday and
Sunday. They viii make an effort.
which win probably be successful, to
bring the funniest to this city next
June.
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DR.. SMITH CHOSEN.
Streator Doctor at Head of the
Santa Fe System.

At the annual election of officers of the
Sa2ta Fe Medical and Surgical society
held at the Santa F'e hospital this fore
noon the result was as follows: President,
Dr. W. L. Smith, Streator Ill; vice pres
ident. DR.. D. l.. Woods. Dighton, Kan.
DIR. James H. Wroth. Albuquerque, N. NJ.
Drs E. c. Chapman, Fort Madison, Ia
and DIR. George w. Miei. Denver. Colo.
secretary, DR.. P. w Mcconnell, Topeka;
treasurer DR.. j. D. Freeman, Topeka.
At its morning session the society also
listened to the presidents annual address
given by DIR. l.. D. Jacobs of Emporia and
a paper by J. D. NJ Hamilton. general
claims attorney for the Santa Fe, of To-
peka Adjournment will take place this
evening
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The Referendum to some.

Chicago News:
Capt William P Black delivered a
crimson speech before the referendum
league the other dav in which he said:
1.-The referendum viii inevitably come.
If it comes soon it will come as -ae
harbinger of peace. but if it is delayed
war" That is good straight anarchis-
tic talk warranted to breed dynamite
bombs in a New England town meeting.
Capt. Black may have observed that the
referendum is Overwhelmingly approved
by the people of this community It is
going to be adcoted before very long
without enough blood-letting to satisfy
the appetite of an ordinary raDacious
mosquito. Then whv should the gal
liant captain palpitate so extravagantly
and conjure up such hejus visions?
Does he run a private anarchist incuba-
tor or what is the matter with him?
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Praise for an Official.

New York Post:
Evidently the campaign in ST. Louis
against the boo1lers of the board of al
dernen and the corruptionists who paid
them money is to be conducted with
thoroughness and celebrity. The prompt
conviction and sentencing to five years
imprisonment of r. NJ SNYDER. the
wealthy banker of Kansas City. who
paid large sums to the boodlers in or
der to promote the Central Traction
franchise, will undoubtedly prove a SER
ious blow to those who were hoping to
escape through some embarrassing pro-
cess in the courts. The municipal
housekeeping is to go forward, and it
will be strange, indeed, if before many
months have passed the Missouri peni-
tertiary does not hold a dozen or more
ex-aldermen of st. Louis. as well as
few of their companions in crime who
gave the bride money. Circuit Attorney
Folk to whom the larger part of the
credit for the exposure of the boodlers
is due, has shown no DISPOSITION to
make a distinction between the DriDe-
giver and the bribe-t aker. He deserves
the utmost praise for his fearlessness
and relentless impartiality. The July
grand Jury which handed down the al
dermanie indictments at st. Louis. has
dissolved by limitation, and the Octo-
Der grand jury has taken it's place. but
there Is to be no let-up in the pursuit
of those responsible for the conditions
of municipal corruption which have
beer laid bare The Missouri courts
appear to act with a swiftness in sharp
contrast with the delays long drawn out
in this city.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

II lit <AtCtlISOI N1ttG+I
Some compliments are insulting.
An Atchisor girls beau is so insignifi-
cant that her friends call him her beau
cite
After you have known a man a few
years you begin hearing him repeat his
stories.
An Atchison couple actually came to
blows before they were married That
breaks the re cord
They used to say that if a boy found an
article three days in succession, it was a
sign he stole all Of them.
Every girl Of 1G seems to regard the
as so many haft Rers-On-
When man is cross and feels tough he
ought to go home and crawl into bed and
hide until he RECEIVERS.
We don't want to grumble. but isn't it
fact that men pay more heed 10 deeerat-
ing the outside of their heads than the
inside?
Church White says he is not afraid OF
the devil. but that he is always afraid Of
dog on approaching a strange house.
There seems to be one way in which Il
woman can distinguish herself which she
aften fails to do: by making her children
mind
When a man is nominated for an office
and suddenly becomes genial people
laugh at him. The best way is to cleo
tioneer'' all the time, by being genial, fair
obliging, industrious and honorable.
The people are getting so old fashioned
that when a boy is born, everyone says:
Goodness. is the one before it able TO
Force of habit is very powerful. A horse
switches his tail in summer from neces-
sity. and keeps it up half the winter from
force of habit
An enga cement will be announced next
week which will surprise no ono more
than the man himself He is not gagged
yet. but the girl has noticed symptoms
and says he will be.
BY the time a man has paid for his little
cottage in full. his family has grown so
large that a new one is Leeded and an
other debt is assumed.
No matter how poor a woman may have
BEEN if she becomes wealthy, she never
makes the mistake of wearing a ping
pong dress to play golf in.
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FOR KILLING A BOY.
Tom Horn Is Placed on Trial
Today.

Cheyenne, Wyo.. Oct 10.-The trial of
Tom Horn for the murder OF Willis
Nickel in the Iron Mountain country.
opened today in the district court. The
court room is inadequate to accommo-
date the crowd Of persons who desire to
hear the evidence.
The venire of jurors was called and
District Attorney Walter R. Stoll made
the opening speech for the prosecution.
It is understood that the defense win
endeavor to prove an alibi for Horn
who was in the employ of leading cat
tlemen at the time OF the murder.
The murdered boy was a son of Kels
Nickel who had taken up a small ranch
in the Iron Mountain country and
placed 5000 sheep there After the muir
der of his son kels Nickel was also
ambushed and badly wounded.
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JAYHAWKER JoTs.

One attraction of the Winfield fair is a
Beven-pound beet.
The dog roisoner is doing successful
work at Medicine Lodge.
A Concordia elm tree planted last spring
Is just putting forth leaves
Owing to too much water the joint mil
1inery opening was failure at Burden.
Another Kansas curio Is a Wellington
horse II years old that has never tasted
corn.
An Emporia iointist who is cripple. de
Iivers beer to his customers in wagon
drawn by a goat. Hence his title, John
the Goat
Doesn't it seem odd to think OF a horse
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A Topeka man who makes the mis-
take of thinking that women do not
know anything about politics submits
the following: There is a rumor. you
know. that Frank Stahl and Tom John
son are liable to go in together and stop
the coal strike in New Jersey. or that
Mark Hanna has bought up the Joint
lists to vote for Stahl. or-or something
like that-well you know what I mean. -
"Oh. yes. indeed. isn't that just lovely
Note.-No, the person who wrote this
is perfectly sane; it is only a sample Of
the average woman's political ideas.
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the station was the first to reach the
street, and he was not the last to vow
never again to indulge even in the tiniest
bit of "a comforting DROP
Policeman Waba1 was called into a
store at 167 Desplaines street during the
morning and given a big satchel which
had been left there by a stranger. Wabal
sent the baggage to the station, and it
was placed in the cellroom. Later in the
day Lieutenant O'Connor and Sergeant
Hawkins went down to investigate the
contents of the valise after the lock was
opened and a dozen rattlers glided over
the thing The signing of the pledge en-
sued.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
The annual report of the commissioner
Of pensions serves every year to remind
the people of this country of the extent
to which INSCRIPTIONS pension agents
have been able to plumber them by causing
the sympathy of those deserving of pen
sions to be directed to procure pensions
for these who do not deserve them Our
pensioners at the end of the fiscal year
closed numbered 999,446 There is doubt
less a round million of them by this time.
for they are increasing. There are alreacy
pending 81 1888 applications for pensions On
account of service in the war with Spain,
nine-tenths OF which are unquestionably
without merit and of which not one in
a hundred would have ever been filed ex-
cept for the unblushing and persistent 50
Letting of the eisreputable crew of pension
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failing Irish Members.
Boston Transcript:

Boston ITanScript:
The Irish members of Darliamen are
making the Irish jails popular political
resorts of late. Eight of them have been
given lodgings through the attention OF
the government officials and six more
are expected to take up similar quarters
as soon as their trials can be attended
to by the busy courts. Many prominent
Nationalist are receiving similar treat
ment at the hands of those in authority.
This course is said to be producing an
increase of the chronic discomfort over
the land question, and the more infiuen-
tial landlords are discussing the plan to
have a conference with the Nationalist
leaders upon the subject.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IF'rom the New York Press.1
Blood viii tell but never age when it is
a woman.
It is very hard for a modest girl TO
prove she is not bow-legged.
In these days it costs more to run the
furnace than it used to cost to run a
battleship.
A woman can be awful big in spots
without letting anybody know it when she
is all dressed uD.
1t is the careful wife who wakes man
out of a deep sleep to ask him if there is
comfortably.
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SIGN THE PLEDGE.
Action of Several Chicago Policemen
Caused by Rattlesnakes.

Chicago. Oct. Fifteen policemen at
tached to the Desplaines street station
signed the pledge today. Some of them
had not tasted liquor in years. but they
signed. nevertheless. And all because the
Is temperance advocates and their less
conservative brethren saw snakes.
There were only u snakes. not quite
enough to apportion one to each of the
pledgetakers. but that was not discovered
till the policemen had a chance to peer
back through grated windows at what
they had fed rom. The stoutest man IN