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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-09

AZ l have never seen any letters from TINS
place 1 viii write 10 iet the Haps know
that there IS another 1a-year-old boy who
wishes 70 Join your club. 1 live on n
farm, four miles southwest OF town, ana
have one pet, q dog named Porter, A new
Hap, Elgln Blnlock.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-09

Brenham. Texas-Dear Haps ! nave nut
one pet. 1t is a cat / like to play win
him when come from school like TO
read the paper. ! think II very interest.
ing, | have lot OF chickens. | think
haven't written since Christmas before last
Love 10 Mrs. Foster ana the laps
Ihekla H. LYMAN
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-09

nave been silent reader ~ your happy
band for the last four years hut could
never get up courage enough 70 write be.
some pretty fine ones, but yesterday / had
an extra hard time. for ] went with one
cattle home. and IL rained the biggest
part Of the time we were gone and when
VIC got about half way back home we found
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
FIXED At LAST.
The Water Works Petition Is
Now Satisfactory.

City Attorney Spencer and Judge ]. d.
Mcfarland have now completed the pre-
paration of the petition for special cleo
ton to vote on the waterworks bond pro-
position. The petitions are being printed,
and it is thought that by Thursday the
work of securing signers will be in pro-
gress The petition reads as follows:
ITO the Hon. Albert Parker, Mayor of the
City of Topeka:
1--WE, the undersigned resident tax pay
ers of the city of Topeka shown by the
last assessment roll of said city, do here
by petition you, pursuant to the provisions
of chapter 50 of the session laws of 1891
of the legislature of the state of Kansas
as amended by chapter 107 of the session
laws of 1901 of the legislature of the state
of Kansas, to issue proclamation for a
city election, for the purpose of submit
ting to the electors of said city a PROPOSE
ton to issue the bonds of said city in the
sum of three hundred fifty thousand dol
lars 1856. 600, 600, to be used in payment OF
the purchase of the water plant furnish
ing water in the city of Topeka, subject to
a mortgage of $4,000 due July l. 1926 with
interest at the rate of per cent per an
mum, payable semi-annually"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
PLOUGHED UP A RELIC.

AS in Southeys familiar poem a
plough turns up a human skull that re-
calls a hard-fought battle of other
times, so, at this place the other day, a
new made furrow disclosed an interest
ing relic of the American revolution. 1t
was fourteen pound cannon ball re-
duced by rust to the weight of twelve
pounds. For 126 years it had lain in the
soil where 1t had fallen from one of
those crude pieces of field artillery that
have so long since accomplished their
high mission and passed into silence
and forgetfulness.
The ball was found only day or two
ago on the farm of b. E. Johnson, on
which still stands the picturesque and
historic Johnson homestead, one of the
best known landmarks in Bucks county,
whence was made the start for the ia
nous crossing of the Delaware that was
to end In the victories of Trenton and
Princeton. 1t was there that Knox and
Hamilton had established their head
quarters at the time that this new
found ball fell into the resting place
where it was to lie so long unseen.
These generals had with them at the
time several pieces of Washington's
light artillery, and it was evidently to
one of these guns that the ball be-
longed.
1t was ploughed up within a few
yards of the house where the generals
stayed.-Philadelph Press.
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RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN
PETROLEUM.

The present condition of the coal sup
ply of the United States and the posi-
bilities of the large substitution of pc
troleum for coal as a fuel give an in
creased interest to the statistics of Rus
sian petroleum reported in mineral
resources of the United States, 1901. soon
to be published by the United States
geological survey.
Since the year 1897. Russia has pro-
duced more petroleum than the United
States. Beginning with 1897, the Rus
sian production has been increasing by
an average of over y per cent each
year to the close of 1901. In round num-
bers the figures of production for the
two countries are as follows: 1s97ARus-
STA, 81 600 barrels United States. co.
O00,o00 barrels; 1SaS-Russia, 81, 600 900
barrels. United States, $4,000 eco barrels
1S99-Russia, $4,000. COO barrels. United
States, 57.000.00O barrels: 1900-Russia,
100000 barrels. United States. $4,000
900 barrels; 1901-Russia. IS, eO0, 900 bar
rels, United States 90 600. geo barrels.
The average annual increase during the
five years for Russia has been 1877 per
cent; for the United States. 2.S9 per cent
there having been a small decrease In
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the production of the United States in
1887. and large decrease in 1888.
The facilities for handling the large
Russian production are at present
crude, and wasteful The markets are
far away from the production The
main foreign shipping port at Batum.
on the Black sea, is separated by noun
tain chains from the chief center of pro-
duction, Baku, on the Caspian Sea. To
bring the oil to the seaboard. 400 miles
of railroad must be Travelled to the
terminus of the pipe line. and then $50
miles still remain before reaching
Baum. The capacity of the pipe line is
almost double the capacity of the rail-
road, so that the amount taken to Ba-
tunl depends upon the capacity of the
railroad. The Volga river is an outlet
for so per cent of the production. and
reaches many miles into the heart of
the Russian empire. But the Volga is
frozen up for several months in the year
and is subject to months of low water
stages in the summer and fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
auAKER REFLECTIONS.

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
Giving advice is a good bit like pouring
water ducks back
Some fellows who claim that they are
driven to drink are really led.
He is gullible man who will buy hair
tonic from a bald-headed barber.
No. Maude dear; there is similarity
between a football coach and tailyho.
A mans opinion of his neighbors is gen
erallv governed by isneighbors opinion
of him.
Truth VIII have to get up pretty early in
the morning to be stronger than some of
the current fiction.
We don't hear so much about the fatal
effects of football since the automobile
goes the pace that kills.
If it is true that corporal tons have no
souls there will probably be no future
punishment for the trust magnates.
Muggins-"Have you an encyclopedia ~
Buggins-"Well, no. not exactly. but my
daughter is home from a young ladies'
seminary"
put on such airs. His grandfather was a
coal HEAVIER" Wagg-"Well, maybe it was
his own coal"
Willie's Mother-"It's terrible the way
you wear out your shoes; You keep me
poor buying new ones" Wnlie-"Yo u
ought to be glad I amt a centpede."
"Self-esteen is all right if it isn't car
ried too far" says the Manayunk Phil
osopher. Even the postage stamp loses
its usefulness when it gets stuck on it
self"
Blobbs-"What makes YOU think that
waiter used to be a baseball umpire p
SloDbs-"F From the way he yelled: THE
batter is out! when ! asked for hot cakes
this morning"
There are sermons in stones,
And i also seems droll
That in deep muttered tones
There are cuss words in coal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
TRIED TO BUY SQUIRRELS.
TAmeness Led Lady Henry Somerset
to Desire a Few for Her Estate.

New York. oct. 21.-Lady Henry Som
erset, accompanied by a clergyman,
visited the office of Director John w.
Smith of the Central Park menagerie
yesterday afternoon and asked him if
he would let her have some Of the gray
squirrels she had seen running about
the park She said she was anxious to
buy some of them to take to her Eng
lish estate, as there was none of the ami
mails in England
These squirrels belong to the city
and may not sell Them" said Mr..
Smith.
They are cute little things and seem
to be extremely tame. Why, I saw one
of them come up to a child and take
food from her hand 1 would like very
much to have "a number of them at my
country home in England" Lady SOM
erSet said.
She asked the director if he thought
the squirrels would live in England He
replied that he knew of no reason why
they should not and gave her the names
OF several animal dealers from whom
she might be able to get some of the
SQUIRRELS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
LOCAL MENTION.

Ducks are reported as being plentiful
at Silver Lake
Sarah Shull left today for Kansas City
to visit her sister. Mrs. Walter A. Moe,
for a week OF ten days.
Miss Anna Lang, of Greensburg, Ind,
has returned from Kansas City, where
she has been visiting Mrs. P. w. Lang.
TIE county commissioners will allow
the county school teachers association,
the use of the G. A r. room in tho
court house.
The annual sale of unclaimed baggage
Of the Santa Fe is being held at the old
freight house. on the north side OF
Fourth street.
On account CT the derailment of two
coal cars in the yards, the Santa Fe
wreclcing crew was retained on duty
half of Monday night
NJ. Basler. Santa Fe machinist help
er, fell II feet into an engine pit in the
round-house at Z o'clock Monday morn
himself seriously.
The announcement in last Fridays
State Journal that the Fisher Shoe and
Clothing Co. 11S East 9Th st. would
quit business. crowded their store all
day Saturday and Monday.
There are now six dispatchers for the
Rock Island in Topeka instead of three
as formerly. The entire ST Joseph
branch has been given over to the jur-
isdiction of the Kansas division.
The bOx-indicator and gong at fire
department headquarters has been
moved out of the sentry box and placed
above the main entrance. where it can
be plainly seen by the drivers on the
wagons
While helping shingle house in North
Topc,-a Monday evening, F. E. Williams,
a carpenter living at S24 North Monroe
street, fol- ten feet, severely injuring his
back. and probably hurting himself in
ternan--
The commissioners have decided to
allow Page Hawkins, who is in the
county +ail serving time for adultery.
his freedom. He will pay his fine and
costs. amounting to sea. on the INSTALL
ment elan.
Ramsey 81 Ramsey Save signed tie
contract with the county commissioners
for the placing of the macadam on the
West Sixth avenue road. The work is
to be finished by April 1. and a penalty
CT S. day will be charged after that
time
Richards & Pringles' Georgia min
strels arrived from st. Joseph. Mo- this
morning. TIE company transferred, go
ing west to Csage City, while the car
was run into the Santa Fe shops here
Ger truck repairs. They appear in To-
peka Friday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
AGAIN GOES OVER.
II earring in Gas Case Is Once More
Postponed.

Again the hearing of testimony in the
dollar gas case has been postponed. It
was to have been resumed tomorrow
morning at o'clock, but it is now an
nounced that nothing will be done until
next Monday. The latest order for con-
tinuance comes from Robert ]. Brock,
special master, but the reason for the con-
tinuance is not known.
Mr. Brock was appointed special master
on September 90 and at that time Judge
w C. Hook sharply reminded the attor
neys that the case had been allowed TO
drag along too slowly. and that he would
expect the hearing to be completed within
two months Half of the time Is almost
gone. and the hearing has been in pro-
gress only two days. The testimony of the
first witness has not yet been completed.
At this rate it will be complaining time
before anything is done The hearing has
rbeen postponed three times.
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manded that the contention factions
should consent to settle their quarrel
by arbitration.
PRESIDENT WOULDN'T ACCEPT
DEFEAT.
Philadelphia Press i
The result is a great personal triumph
for President Roosevelt. For time it
looked as il the presidents efforts to
avert the calamity of a coal famine
were destined to be fruitless. President
Roosevelt is not easily defeated, how
ever. He refused to let go, and in the
end brought both parties to the accept
ance of arbitra ton.
LESSONS OF THE CONTEST.
Philadelphia Record:
1t will be time enough to take up the
important questions that have been so
startlingly thrust upon the attention of
the country when there shall be an eff
fort to deal with them by state and fed
eral legislation. For the present it is
sufficient to know that the idle miners
VIII soon be at work again, and that
the shadow of a great calamity no long
er darkens the prospect.
PUBLIC TO BE CONGRATULATED
Philadelphia Inquirer:
Beyond all others the great public
citizenship of the United States is to be
congratulated. 1t was the people them
selves, the innocent masses, who were
the real sufferers. They have been re-
lieved from disease and death and the
country at large from most danger
GUS cOnulllOn. Inc enQ or the strike
yindicates the principle of arbitration.
The operators have been forced to re-
spect it, and that is perhaps the great
est victory which the miners have won.
POWER OF PUBLIC OPINION.
Boston HeraId:
1t seems not unlikely that much the
same result that has now been reached
could have been obtained five months
ago if the subject had been approached
by either side with a greater degree of
forbearance. One side certainly and the
other side possibly have been brought
by the pressure of public opinion to
view the matter in a new but proper
light, but this end has been secured at
an enormous expense to millions of the
American people.
OPERATORS CAPITULATED.
PittSbCrg Gazette:
President Roosevelt has gathered a large
sheaf of fresh laurels by the settlement OF
the coal strike. When he called the con-
tending parties into conference the coal
operators refused to agree to any arbitra-
ton, and virtually rebuked the president
for his interference. but they could not
prevent him from sharply defining an is
sue between corporate arrogance and pub
lie necessity. The result is that the OPP
orators found their position untenable, and
they have capitulated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
ARE A QUANDARY.
Republican Committee Doesn't Know
About Bailey's Dates.

The Republican state central commit
tee is in a quandary about what to do
with regard to W. J. Bailey's speaking
dates in case Mr.. Bailey cannot fill
them, as he probably will not be able
to do. While he is at Fort Scott today
he is keeping in close communication
with his friends al Baileyville regarding
his fathers condition. If he receives
word that there is no immediate danger
he will fill his date at Olathe tomorrow,
otherwise he will hasten home again
from Fort Scott.
Il would never forgive myself if I
should be away and my father should
die he told a friend a day or two ago
Mr.. Bailey's father is 81 years old and
his physicians say that he is gradually
sinking His brother, six years his jun
ior, came on from Illinois two weeks
go and is staying with him. He is con
scious all of the time, and when his son
is away campaigning he keeps inquiring
when willis viii return" Father and
son are very fond of one another
The state committee is anxious to spare
he is constantly thinking of his father, but
there are few speakers in the state who
can take his place. 1t has been proposed
that Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
BristOw shall take up Baileys dates, but
he has not yet been communicated with
on the subject. Besides he is just coming
home from Washington and probably
would not be sufficiently familiar with the
campaign in its present stage 70 take up
Mr. Baileys dates without a few days
for preparation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
JAYHAwKER Jors.

A Pratt county pig stole a ten mile
ride on the coweatcher in safety.
A Wamego man honestly thinks that his
potatoe crop runs over 400 bushels to the
acre.
.Modesty seems to be the best policy
Ware
A Phillips county farmer is hustling in
his wheat with four drills run by one
engine.
There were ffty-two sweet potatoes in
one hill of a Dickinson county farmers
raising.
A Linn county farmer pays the editor
off with ten pound beets and. five pound
potatoes.
A woman near Dennis has applied for a
divorce. She evidently wants to be named
after the town.
Weary of being drowned out by sudden
and unlocked for floods Alton is petition
ing for a signal service,
Mr.. Apt of Kingman county, wants on
the Democratic ticket but he is not apt to.
To him this is no joke.
Just to offset the big beet and potato
stories a Concordia man went out and
killed a 24-pound raccoon.
Newtons carnival queen is strikingly
handsome woman but you wouldn't sus-
pect it by reading her name.
A Nemaha county farmer has so bushel
10 the acre crop on land tnaI mas Deen Ill
corn continuously since 1863.
Remembering that sooner or later they
will move out that way Hoisington citi-
zens have improved their cemetery.
Fourteen foolish boys picking apples for
Pottawatomie county farmer at $3.50 per
day went on a strike Now they arc
loafing.
A Logan sweet sixteen miss had her age
engraved in theicing of her birthday cake.
But that is permissible for the first six
teen years.
When 2aola druggist went to fill up
an empty beer case for return shipment
he found five rattlesnakes comfortably &C.
cupying the space.
A Leavenworth county farmer is COM
planning of four successive frosts. And
yet he has doubtless seen the time when
four jacks would have won him a home
An Osborne county rural route carrier
is taking a vacation in Nebraska, leaving
the work to hts wife She should be able
to acquire enough new gossip to last until
4 Christmas.
Wichita has a grandfather's clock 12s
years old. It's really entitled to be a
great great grandfather How did WITCH
ita's modesty permit the opportunity to
escape?
It's safe enough to kick a when
he's down but it's a bad policy to try or
a polecat. At least that's the experience
of an Osborne man who will be compelled
to buy new winter suit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
PRESS ON END OF STRIKE.

Chicago News:
After having withstood the pressure of
public sentiment for weeks after having
rejected one proposal Of arbitration and
condemned the president for submitting
it, the anthracite coal operators have
been obliged to accept arbitration after
all They have been compelled to rec
ognize that no man and no group of men
is strong enough to resist the aroused
sentiment C an entire nation President
Roosevelt brought matters to a focus
by demonstrating in n conspicuous man.
ner where lay the. real obstruction to Il
settlement. But the power which has
forced the operators to terms was the
determination Of the people not to sub
nit to the outrage Of being denied fuel
to give them warmth and to keep their
industries running. The fact that an
important election is pending doubtless
quicfened the activities OF influential
peacemakers in certain quarters. but
sooner or later the wishes of the public
must have prevailed at any time.
ARBITRATION NOW COMPULSORY.
Philadelphia North American:
The qualities OF leadership shown by
Mitchell have won fO~ III, ito admira-
tor of unpreiuoiced men. and his sin
certify cOr1man = the respect of those
who are inclined to class all strike man
ayers as ''agitators'' and deluders of the
workingman. Arbitration is established
as the American method of settling la
Dor disputes. and If not made comDul-
sorry by statute law it is compulsory by
tie higher law of tire will of the peo-
pie
SETTLED BY PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Philadelphia Ledger-Times:
The settlement of the strike was rot
omplished BIZ forceful means. The
/ implies, to that Irresistible force OF pub
lie sentiment wisely. skillfully- and
/ firmly directed and used by the oresi-
ldent of the United States. which de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21

A marked REDUCTION in the wages of
labor in England is reported in the
Chamber Of Commerce Journal, the Of
fetal organ of the London chamber of
commerce, a copy of which has just
reached the treasury bureau of statis-
tics. There is a warning" it says, Ito
masters and men alike in the official
report on the changes in rates of wages
and hours of labor during 1901 1t fore
shadows a relapse from the prosperity
of the last few years, decline in wages
having to be recorded for the first time
Since 1895. Moreover. during the first
half of the present year, the tendency
is still towards lower wages. The num-
Der of work people affected by reduc
tons in 1901 was greater than any year
in the period 1s93-1901, the computed
amount of the reductions being more
than the total reductions recorded in
the previous eight years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
ITS OWN PAPER MILL.
Kansas City Newspaper to Make
Its Raw Material.

Kansas City. Mo. Oct N.-The Kan
sas City Star bought today a block of
ground 300 by 255 in feet in size. in the
east bottoms, and will build upon it. a
mill which will manufacture all of the
white paper used in the publication of
this newspaper.
When this mill is completed the Star
will be the first daily newspaper in
America making its own paper. So far
as can be learned here no daily news
paper in the world manufactures the
paper it uses.
The Stars mill will have a capacity of
1000 tons of white paper a month. and
win employ about 100 people The plant
will cost upwards of $3.50, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21
STEPS ON PUTS HILL.
MIS-. Adams, of New York, Succeeds
in Having Them Cut.

Greenwich. Conn, Oct. 21.-After this
week the native can take the visitor to
the top of Puts Hill and. pointing at
some dozen steps cut in the ledge of rocks
at the top of which is a boulder with a
bronze plate telling Of the bravery of Gen
Putnam prove the apparent truth of the
story
This is owing to the foresight of Mrs
Henry H. Adams. of New York who is
Regent of the Putnam Hill Chapter D.
A. r.. of Greenwich. She suggested to
Thomas Egan, the road superintendent
in the rock SO the people could climb 20
the monument from the road fifty feet
below This suggestion is now being car
ried out and five steps are completed.
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A much better feeling is reported as
prevailing on the stock exchange, due
to easier conditions in the money mar
ket, caused by the decision of the secre-
tary of the treasury to buy a large
amount Of bonds and the settlement of
the coal strike. For the latter says
Henry Clews &, Co.'S Financial Review,
president Roosevelt is entitled to re-
eeive a full share of credit. At first
many questioned the wisdom of his in
PREVENTION in a dispute between capital
and labor, but the outcome has justified
his action The intrusion of this ques-
ton into party politics is unfortunate;
but fortunately President Roosevelt
cannot be accused of political motives
the reason for his intervention being
rather a recognition of the fact that the
public have rights superior to those of
moncpOlies of labor or capital when
these parties take positions which pre-
vent the public from securing a com
mon necessity. The public must have
coal; and there being no legislation for
removing the deadlock between proprie-
tors and miners the president, in the
absence of suitable laws, was justified
In overstepping the usual conventions
alities and using his great influence for
a settlement"
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Methodist Missionary Convention.

Cleveland, o., Oct. 1.-Two thousand
delegates and a large number of visitors
were present today in Gray's armory
when the first general missionary conven-
ton of the NJ. f. church was called to
order by Bishop Andrews of New York
The delegates represented all pSrts of the
world. Among the bishops present We're
Foss, Fowler Hartzell. Moore. McCabe
and Thoburn, all of whom will deliver
addresses during the convention.