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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-29
THOMAS GETS $4,000.
Topeka Man Awarded Big Dam
ages Against Santa Fe.

Frank S. Thomas secured a judgment
for SO 900 against the Santa F-e railway
In his recent lawsuit at Oskaloosa in
which President Ripley OF the Santa Fe
was the chief witness
Mr. Thomas sued the Santa Fe for
S4S000. claiming that the company had
agreed to purchase 4,S0O watches of him
for employees along the company's line.
President Ripley denied that he haa
made any such agreement, and the trial
Of the case lasted for about a week
The Santa Fe will no doubt appeal tc
the supreme court
Mr.. Thomas was represented by Ferrs
* DOran and David Overmyer and the
case was bitterly contested from the
start. President Ripley attended the,
trial and took great deal of interest in
the proceedings.
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CROKER DISMISSED.
Fire Chief of New York Found
Guilty of Wrong Doing.

New York Nov ESD wari T. Gro
ker, chief of the fire department who
recently was tried on a series of charges
was declared guilty by Commissioner
Sturgis and was dismissed from the ser
vice, the dismissal to take place on DE
cember !.
Chief Croker was found guilty on the
charges of failure to enforce the re-
guarding the Park Avenue hotel . OF
conversion of public property to his
private use;'' of conduct prejudicIai 10
good order and discipline in prosecuting
and unjustly discriminating against
certain members of the uniformed
force" And of conduct unbecor:lng an
officer and a gentleman and prejudicidl
to good order and discipline
On the charges of '-incompeteney as
chief of the department in management
of great fres,' and of sending false re-
ports.' he was acquitted.
Chief Croker declined to make any
comment on the sentences but il is
known he viii Sight the matter to the
end. On being informed of Commission
er Sturgis' action, Mayor Low lssues.
statement sustaining the commissioner
and expressing the belief he mad acted
in accordance with the law and with the
dictates of his conscience. In his state
ment Mayor Low says:
The charter places upon the fire
commissioner and not upon the mayor
the duty of conducting all trials In The
fire department and it is the sworn duty
of the commissioner to make MS find
ings upon evidence according TO his con-
science. 1t is due to the provisions of
the charter itself that the commission
has been obliged both to formulate the
charges and to try them. The circum-
stances in this case have been such I
have thought it incumbent upon the
mayor to assure himself thai Chief
Croker has had a fair trial Beiug SAT-
isfied as am upon these points there
seemed to be no reason why this trial
should not take its course like anv 9TH
er trial held bv the commissioners. The
discipline of the DEPARTMENT in facr re-
quired that this matter should be dis
posed of in the usual way"
Chief Edward F. Croker is 90 and has
been connected with the department Tor
10 wears. He is a nephew of Richard
Croker.
Deputy Fire Chief Charles D. Pur-
roy, who will become ing Chief is a
brother of Henry d. Purroy. A former
fire commissioner and president of The
board from 1885 to 1889.
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WORK FOR POLICE.
Investigating Sudden Death of Young
Woman in Chicago.

Chicago Nov. 2s.-The police are in
vestigating the death of a young wo-
man said to be Miss Laura L. Pattee of
Springfield. Ill. who died early today
in the Grand Pacific hotel. In company
with a man she came to the hoteI
Thanksgiving day. They We're register
ed under the names of &C. J. O'Donnell
and wife, Duluth Mimi"
Early this morning the man sent word
to the office of the hotel that a doctor
was needed in their room at once, as the
woman with him was dying. DR..
Struggled, the house physician, hur-
ried to the room and upon his arrival
found the woman just breathing her
last There were no marks of violence
upon her body. and appearances go to
prove the story of the man that she died
of heart disease. The police were noti-
fed at once and the man taken into Gus
tody. He declared that O'Donnen was
his name and at first refused to give the
name Of the young woman. Later he
said that she was Miss Laura J. Pattee
of Springfield. Ill O'Donneu will be
held until after the case has been in
vestigated by the coroner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-29
HELP THE C0NvICTS.
Kansas Society of Friendless
FOrmuIates New Plans.

At a meeting of the district superinten-
dents and the board of directors of the
Kansas Society for the FriendlesS, held
here Friday evening, plans for the coming
year were gone over with the idea in mind
of giving more efficient help TO the con-
victs who are discharged from the state
penitentiary than has been done. In the
past there has been some difficulty in
keeping the men who had been released
from prison in work, but hereafter this
is to be obviated. 1t is stated that an eff
fort may be made to have a parole agent
appointed at the prison who shall make it
his special business to look after these
cases. The custom which is in vogue now
with the society is to give this matter
over entirely to General Superintendent
E. A Freidenhagen. who is furnished by
Warden Jewett with papers notifying him
of the time of release of the prisoners. He
meets them at the door of the peniten-
tiary and offers whatever assistance is
possible.
itentiAry do so without sufficient cloth
ing, especially during the winter months,
and in order that the society may be of
more help in this way it has been sug-
gested that friends of the movement send
whatever clothing they can to t707 Lane
street. this city, where it may be taken IN
charge and used accordingly.
1t is likely that the indetermInate SEN
tence law will be favored by the society
at the coming session of the legislature.
1nt PROVISIONS III lliS law are SucH tAdl
a man convicted of crime is sent to
prison for a term dependent upon his own
conduct.
Another statute which the organization
Will ask to have enacted is known as the
probation law which affects juvenile Of
Tenders placing them on probation outside
Of the prison walls and allowing their own
behavior determine whether Or not they
shall in time be incarceratsd.
Members of the Kansas society have
beer much interested in the organization
of similar work throughout Missouri and
at the Friday evening session this was
talked over and il was decided 10 push il
as much as possible. In this state the body
is doing excellent work. not limiting itself
alone to the relief Of eX-convicts, but con-
sidering the subjects of jail and prison
evangelism, the prevention of crime, ind
ing employment for those who have been
released, the reformation of criminals and
Improvement in prison mana cement
Judge T. F. Carver of this city is pres
ident of the society and the three district
superiptendents are: R. A. Hoffman, for
merly chaplain of the state Denitentiary
at Lansing, northwestern district, with
headquarters at Salina: Rev. Frank Brai-
nerd southeastern, Ottawa. and Rev. Geo.
F. Kicker, southwestern, Wichita.
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FLY IN THE WHEAT.
Prof Popenoe, of the Agricultural
College Studying Its Damage.


Abilene, Kan, Nov. v.29.-Professor Pop
enoe, of the chronological department.
of the State Agricultural college, has
been mere a day driving over the coun-
try and investigating the reported dam
age to early soWn wheat from HeSsian
fly and rust. He found some fields near
town in which rust has caused consider
able damage, and also indications of
damage from fly. The former was
shown in the fields first sown and that
came I'D before the end of the early
rains. IfOW much damage the rust will
reports from several parts of the state
and will make a synopsis of ali his
findings. He does not think the injury
will prove at all serious, but the mani
festation is interesting as showing
what the farmers must combat.
There has been established" said he,
certain dates before which wheat ap-
pearing above the ground is subject 10
fly, after which it is less likely. For
Kansas observation has shown this date
to be about October Is. The date is
determined by the appearance of wealth
er that viii destroy the adult fly. The
fly is here in the early fall and waits
for the wheat upon which to feed If
the wheat comes up early it has an oD-
pOrtunitV: if late. a white frost is like
ly to destroy the fly The obvioSs les
son is that farmers should defer SOW
ing until a date that will bring the
wheat up after this white frost
'-Of course, there are eompensations in
early sowing. such as stronger plants
and opportunity for pasture. which may
offset the damage of fly somewhat. and
the old habit of sowing after the mid
September rains is hard to break"
Volunteer wheat in the south part of
the county has fly in it. while late-sown
orally never looked finer and the affect
ed fields are very few.
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A Fire Sweeps Over Rat Port
age, Ontario.
Twenty-Five Million Feet of
Lumber Destroyed.
TX STEAMBOATS, BURN
Two Barges, Eleven Dwellings
and Stable.
Progress of the Blaze Arrested
at Waters Edge.

Rat Portage. Ont, Nov. 29-One of
the worst fires that ever visited the
Rat Portage lumber district started at
Norman, near here, yesterday afternoon
and spread swiftly through immense
piles of lumber to the docks and from
the docks to boats. until stopped in that
direction by the waters edge. Dense
showers of sparks were carried inland
toward the residence section of the city
and one by one the houses went up iii
flames and smoke.
Twenty-Five million feet of lumber
were destroyed as well as Lemays ship
yard, six steamboats,. two barges, eleven
dwellings and one stable.
The steamers destroyed were small
craft, and the six were not valued at
more than $4,000
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PAGE is PRESIDENT.
At Head of TOpeka's Charity
Organization.

There was an informal meeting of the
board of directors of the Charity Asso-
citation of the City of Topeka, Friday
afternoon, at which the following tenn
porary organization was made: Presi-
dent Thomas Page; secretary and
treasurer, Rev. Frank E. Mallory. An
other meeting has been arranged for
Tuesday afternoon. at which time it is
planned to elect officers for the perma,
nent organization.
Several applications rave been made
for the position of general secretary of
the association, and the directors are
considering these applicants closely with
a view of choosing at once the man
who shall be in charge of the interests
of the organization. The plan which
they have in mind is to employ a man
trained in this class of work, who shall
open an office downtown and give it all
of his time.
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DEDICATION PROGRAMME.
One Is Being Prepared for Worlds
Fair at ST. Louis.

st. Louis. Nov. 29-The programme
for the dedication of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition, April 80, 1908, is being
prepared. A committee composed of
President Thomas H. Garter and Com
missioners John n. Allen John M.
Thurston and William Lindsey is con-
ferring with the ceremonies committee
of the exposition company. The pro-
gramme being formulated win be
recommended to the national comIhis-
sion and exposition company for ap-
prevail President Roosevelt has prom
ised to attend the dedication ceremony
which will be distinctly a government
affair. Every branch of the national
government will be represented and
many foreign commissioners are expect
ed to be present.
The proposition OF the board OF lady
managers. Offering to contribute $4,000
towards the erection of a womon's =
building if the national commission
would ask congress for an appropriation
of 100000 for that purpose was rejected
by the commission.
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IN A SMASH UP.
Rock Island Golden State Linn
tied Is Wrecked.
Crashes Into Freight Engine at
HeringtOn.
ALL LEAVE THE TRACK
Not a Car in Fine Train on
Rails.
LII LEAVE THE TRACK
Passengers Uninjured but En-
gineer GrOgan Badly Hurt.

Train 43 cf the Rock Island, the
Golden State Limited crashed into a
light engine standing on the main line
at Herington, Friday afternoon at 3:15,
injuring three people. derailing the SIX
cars which made UP the train and badly
damaging part of the equipment.
Traffic was delayed three hours until
two of the cars Of the wrecked train
could be put in shape and run on
through
T. Grogan, passenger engineer, was
caught and badly crushed. He appear
ed to be paralyzed when taken out of
the wreck. He has been taken to hos
pital at Kansas City and it is doubtful
If he will live. Samuel McCarty, his
fireman, sustained fracture of the col
lar bone and was otherwise bruised. He
is still at Heringtoa and will recover.
A mail clerk. who was in the postal
car. heard the engineer applying the air
brakes and ran to the rear of his car in
time to save himself from serious in
jury, the front part of the car being d
total wreck.
The Limited was running at a speed
OF 80 miles an hour when it struck the
light engine which had been ordered out
for train. The Golden State Limited
was fifteen minutes behind time and
Engineer L. Parrish of the freight loco
motive seems to have misunderstood
this and to have taken his engine out
on the main track without orders. Lo-
comotive 1913 was pulling the belated
Limited and 1882 was the engine which
it struck; both were damaged so that
they will probably never be used, be-
sides the mail car which suffered worse
than any of the equipment, except the
engines. Though every car in the train
left the track not a passenger was hurt,
though they were all considerably shak-
en- UP.
The Golden State Limited is the fast
through train on the Rock Island run
ming from Chicago to San Francisco by
way Of Ell Paso, Texas, using the South
ern Pacific tracks out of Ell Paso. 1t
lefI Topeka Friday afternoon at 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-29
SEE THE GREAT FATHER.
Carlisle Indian Football Players In
troduced to the President

WashingtOn D @, Nov, 2q,-President
Roosevelt received the members of the
Carlisle Indian school football team who
defeated the Georgetown university
team Thanksgiving day. The Indians
were introduced Individually. and the
president had a pleasant word for each
asking about his tribe or some famous
Indian chief. To one the president re-
ferred to the Garlisle-Harvard game.
The Indian who was a Sioux. said thar
they had been defeated "A to 0.
THAT was better than Harvard dia
with Yale observed the president
smiling.
Another strapping big fellow. whose
eye showed the result of bad collision.
said In response to the presidents in,
terrogaion that he played left tackle
The last member of the party was an
Esquimau, and the president detained
him to put several questions about his
people.
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DODGED THE MOB.
A Prisoner Has a Narrow Es-
cape at Ir0ntOn, o.

Ironton O., Nov. 29.-ShortIy before 3
O'Clock this morning a mob attempted
to take William Glasco the assailant of
Mary Maloney. from the county JAIL but
was prevented by an extra force of Off
GERS and the sheriff The mob was form
ing for an attack when Glasco was
spirited away in a carriage toward the
northwest. 1t is believed he was taken
in roundabout way to the Portsmouth
jail. Glasco admitted assaulting Miss
Meloney. and said it was done in re-
venge for her brother striking him. The
girl is in a serious condition Glasco
head, but fled when her screams brought
help. He was traced by bloodhounds.
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Seven yiIled and Fifteen Ser.
iOusly Injured
By Bursting of a Boiler at Chi
cagO Stock Yards.
SWIFT & CO.'S PLANT
Was the Scene of the Horrible
Catastrophe.
Several of the Injured Are Ex-
pected to Die.

Chicago, Nov. 29-Seven men were
killed and fifteen seriously injured at 10:3l
a. m. today by the explosion of Il ooiier
in the electric light plant of Swift & Co.'S
packing establishment at the stock yards
It is stated that two others are buried
under the debris and it is feared, that
there are even more than that lying dead
under the wreckage
Two bodies were recovered Immediately
after the accident. as their horribly man
gled forms had been blown clear of the
ruins. After a search of more than an
hour five other bodies were discovered
and taken to the morgue. The identified
dead:
GEORGE TAFT, fireman.
JOHN OWENS, water tender.
EDWARD WRIGHT colored, fireman
THOMAS HOLMEN. chief engineer OF
the building
CHARLES WEBER, fireman.
NJ WEIGH.
= PARK, foreman of the stevedore
gans
A. NJ. BUSHNELL, clerk in the
voucher department. is missing. His hat
and coat were found but he has not been
seen since the explosion.
THE INJURED.
Frank Weller. voucher clerk, both legs
broken.
N. S. Oliver, condition serious.
Unidentified man. extricated from mass
of debris; dying.
Louis Zierk. teamster, struck by falling
walls condition precarious.
NJ. y. Highly superintendent of pur-
chasing department struck by bricks and
falling timbcrs.
In nearly every case the injured had
been horribly scalded and many of them
were conscious when carried to the am
balances. Several of them it is feared,
will die
The accident is said to be the most dis
astrous in point of lives lost that has af-
hicted the stock yards in years. Thou
sands Of people crowded about the wreck
ed building and the police had a difficult
time in keeping them at distance suffi-
cient to allow rescuers to work unhandi-
capped.
The cause Of the explosion is unknown
The boiler had been inspected recently
and was reported to be in good condition
At 1 o'clock it was reported that four
teen were dead, but this rumor could not
be verified Two of the injured men who
were removed to Mercy hospital are said
to have since died. The damage to tbs
plant is estimated at $4,000.
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To Avoid Infection.

New York. Nov. 29.-In order that the
danger of infection from the hoof and
mouth disease now reported to be prev
alent among the cattle in Massachusetts.
Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut
may not spread in this city and state,
DR. Ernest J. Lederle, president of the
tions. However. most of the meat used
here comes from the western stock
yards and the milk from New Jersey,
New York, and Pennsylvania. Vet
erinary inspectors have been stationed
in New York, Kings, Queens and Rich
mond counties. They have orders to
use the strictest measures to keep out
any cattle which may shoW any signs
Of the disease.
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Neeroes Sold Chean.

Lancaster, KY. Nov. 29-Sheriff Law
son attracted a large crowd before the
court house door today by the sale of
three negroes. two women and a man.
After first reading his order from the
circuit court directing the sale and the
terms thereof he asked for bids. They
came in lively, but were small The
man. Charles Anderson. sold for twelve
months, brought seven dollars, and the
women, Belle Griffin and Emma Reed,
sold for one and three years respective
ly, and brought five dollars each. The
three We're convicted for vagrancy and
were ordered sold to the highest bidder
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STILL MORE PAVING.
Lincoln Is the Street About to BE
Invaded.

Plans are now being made to-peti-
ton for pavement on Lincoln street from
Fifth to Eighth and east on Eighth to
Buchanan. This pavement. if laid, will
reach the governors mansion, and
transform the mudhole which now ex-
lists along the north side of the prop
ertv-
Eighth street between Lincoln and
Buchanan has row of large elm trees
exactly in the middle of the street 1t
is proposed to lay a 15-foot pavement
on each side of the trees. leaving them
in a little park by themselves.
The city council is also talking of
taking into the city the four blocks be-
tween Eighth and Tenth and Lincoln
and West, which have recently been
plated. This tract is all surrounded
by houses. and will soon be thickly
populated. as it is a very desirable res
idence part of town, and is close to the
governors mansion
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Barring IN CHICAGO.
But 1t Is Denied That He VIII
Underwrite Beef Merger.

New York, Nov. ga member of the
banking firm of Barring, Magoun &
Co. of this city today denied a report
from Chicago that J. Pierport Morgan.
aided by Barring Bros. of London will
float the beef merger and underwrite
the necessary 800, 600, 900 of bonds.''
The member of the firm referred to
sad:
Mr. Barring was in Chicago and he
may have called upon Mr.. Armour, but
any report that we and Mr. Morgan are
to float the sO-called beef merger Is
without founda ton
At the office CT j. P Morgan & Co. also
it was said that there was no foundation
for the report.
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NO SNOW IN TOPEKA.
Heavy Rain Is Followed by Freezing
Weather

The snow which fell in central and west
ern Kansas last night did not reach as
far east as Topeka. The storm mere was
in the form of rain and measured As hun
dre5ths of an inch.
The government forecast sent out this
morning was threatening tonight aud
Sunday with possible rain or snow
Warmer tonight" The minimum tempera-
ture recorded for Topeka this morning
was IS. The wind was west blowing II
miles an hour.
Cold weather prevails through the
northwest The minimum temperatures
reported are as follows: Lander II. Prince
Albert 6, Swift Current S. Winnipeg IS,
Calgary 10 KalispeH is.
The hourly temperatures recorded today
by the government thermometer were as
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MORE THAN 1000 DEAD
Fearful Rayages of Smallpox
Reported from Fuerni Islands.

Vienna. Nov. ga shocking story is
published by the Neues Weiner Journal
today of the smallpox scourge in the
Fuerni islands, near Samoas, Greek
archipelago According to the report more
than thousand persons are dead at the
Fuerni islands, which are inhabited by
500 Greek families. When smallpox
broke out the Turkish authorities quar-
antined the islands and the people being
without doctors. resorted to the expedi-
ent of vaccinating the healthy people
with lymph from the sufferers and the
disease spread rapidly in all directions.
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DOM PAUL WRITES.
Asks Joe Chamberlain to Let
Him Come Home.

London. Nov. 29.-General Schalkberg-
er and Messrs. Vessels and Woimarans
the former Boer delegates, sailed today
for South Africa. The general is the
bearer of a letter from Mr.. Kruger to
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain asking
that he be allowed to return to South
Africa.
Messrs. Vessels and Wolmarans had
been refused permits to proceed to the
Transvaal colony, but they hope the
prohibition will be rescinded after their
arrival in Cape colony.
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The rexas starts for Culebra.

Norfolk. Va, Nov 2e.-The United
states battleship Texas has left the
navy yard after thorough overhauling
and is ready for any emergency. The
shin will stop in Hampton Roads long
enough to be inspected and will then
sail for Culebra island to add strength
10 the big feet assembling there.
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Gen. Lew WALLACE Ill.

Chicago, Nov. ga dispatch to the
Chronicle from Charlottesville. Ind
says: The family of General Lew Wal,
lace is quite alarmed over an illness
with which he has been suffering. At
present Re is confined to his bed tn
trouble started with a diseased tooth
and has developed until the general is
in a weakened condition
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angled by His Own Doc

wellington. Kan. Nov PC Gorge
Robinson. a negro. was attacked by a
vicious doc which he was endea .oriag
to keep away from neighbOr girls. There
is fear he will not recover. He kent tbe
dog as a watch dog and when it alta *
ed the girls he ran to their assist.ln,..s-