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Option on S,e,ens House. Lake Piscld,
Declined.

UTICA, Nov. 10 Messrs. j. A, 4 q.
Stevens proprietors Of the Stevens House.
Lake Placid. were notified last SATURDAY
by President Ovphant Of the Delaware
and Hudson Railroad Company that the
directors ~ that road had voted to deeline
he option given to them In August upon
the Stevens House property. The option
was given 10y the Massrs Stevens aSter
much persuasion, and IL was felt that the
hR'ire named, 10000, was very low for
this valuable property.
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(OiI 1T $3.50 or SIOo
Dealers VIII Not Sell TOR In,n ediate DE.
livery sad Only Ton ~ Time.

Coal dealers refused yesterday In sell
anthracite for immediate delivery and would
sell only ton AT time.
The schedule" price Of freshly mined
coal is still $6JD a ton, hut some houa,
holdars who tried to buy yesterday were
told they could not have coal under SO
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Palstirr Cafe Attached.

ELIlABgTH y. J., Nov. io-Alfred
Deutsch, a saloon keeper. who recently
purchased the Paatire Cafe. on Union
street IL missing and has left his wife and
one year-old child destitute. His wife is
i'll Deutech has been absent since las,
THURSDAY. Attachments by the ward sre
posted over the place, which will be sold
out In few days
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ThInk Niesins Man killed Himself.

SAYyIII.E, l.. |, Nov 10 Louis Handler
n / O'Clock on Monday morning, clad only
in his night clothes. A bottle that had
contained carl Ollie acid WIS found In the
house and il il IN" general opinion that
he has killed himself. No trace nf him
after h, left the house has been sound
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Brakeman Killed D, nm Engine.

stephen "anser, 20 years old, Of ,ss
Tcnth street, Jersey City, a Pennnsylyani.
railroad bra keman. was killed early yeeter-
gay morning by din engine in tho yards
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HoN"LrLu. Nov. 3, via San Francisco.
Nov. 10. j. Lewis Crew, wealthy Phis-
q" lphiau,, died here on Oct. 20 AT the are ~
re leaves two daughters. ono Of Phis.
delphia and the other OF Sh ewsburv y
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". 4. kIEREY MISSING.
known n Keller. He IVES 81 One TSns
Engineer at New York 1hestVe.

S"S"V'' " WV bVSW IWeSSS1s
Tho Jersey City police were notified ~
ierday tina, Henry Albert Kierey. who va
formerly employed As en- ensineNr At the
New York Theatre. has been missing from
his home, 200 Van Horn street. Jereey City,
since Aug 4.
He was known a. the theatre 40 n.
Keller.
Kicrey il - years old He il 8 feet Z
inches tall and weighs 2O4 pounds.
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VIM Read The Sun,

Persons with money. and brain, n .nord
II wisely Therefore. II you've anything
70 sell that's worth buying, advertise Il 10
yak SrHs-Aag. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atehison Globe.l
The trouble with tact is, that you are
apt to catch people using it.
That sad season is approaching when
you can't get spring chicken to eat
When man quits smoking and goes to
chewing, he is not much of a hero.
1t is not necessarily serious if a man
calls you a liar; if you're not, you're all
right.
An Atchison man who thinks he is hot
stuff. is really so cold that when he cries,
his tears form icicles.
Did you ever notice that when a man
has very sanguine disposition you do
not pay much attention to his opinion2
An Atchison servant girl is such a poor
cook that the Humane society will take
up the case of the family for which she
works
When a woman comes down town in a
hurry and evidently has great deal to
do. we know what's the matter she has a
ribbon to match.
When dog follows his master and the
master disappears through a door which
the dog cannot pass. ever notice how the
dog longs to get in?
Every married woman. when she be-
comes confidential relates that she lay
awake and cried all night the night before
her marriage because she was about TO
Leave Home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

At least sixty-five Christmas trees will
make their Dough to the public in Topeka.
i. Wichita has a plague of boxelder bugs
It might be legislators; they have no kick
coming.
Two Atchison cows committed suicide
by watering the milk too freely before
pailing time.
Fort Scott citizens scold their phone
girls the year around and give them a
merry Christmas
OF course it was a Lyon county man
that had Thomas Reed two terms as a
pupil at Portland.
For heavens sake why don't Winfield
give their automobile man show. He
Trice to do the best he can.
The latest fad at Wellington is taking
Sunday dinners at hotels and restaurants.
1t gives more time for hair curling.
Wellington officers are asked to throw
away their star for the trif1ing offense OF
throwing away their c1ub-at small boy
The first annual opening has taken
place. says the Emporia Republican.
Two girls fell through the Cottonwood
ice
The charge is made that an Abilene man
invested the $50 he flched from COM
panion in a plug hat and silk lined rag
Ian.
Fort Scott prisoners have enough of
molasses. They are weary of the jailor
sticking it on their bill of fare so reg
An Abilene man offers for sale a ping
pong set and a lounge That's a Rip Van
Wrinkle sort of a combination that should
please.
A Topeka woman dreamed last night
that she was run over by an automobile.
BY stretch of imagination that was Il
nightmare.
One Leavcnworth politician claims TO
have been defeated by whisky votes Still
it doesn't take much of a pull to open a
saloon door.
Milk has raised at Ottawa. Patrons
sorroT fully complain they pay the adj
ded cent that they cannot say as much
for the cream
The Beloit Call hopes the council can
see their way clear to put in more electric
lights The city dads probably do
more seeing after the lights are put in.
Since the Emporia council got together
long enough to sell the electric light bonds
they deny the existence of Town Row.
They say they are only arguments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
SANTA FE CHANGES.
Runner of designations of Macy
Iy and Biddle Denied.

There was a rumor today that W. B.
Biddle, of Chicago. freight traffic man
ager of the Santa Fe, and F. G. Maegly,
assistant general freight agent, with
headquarters here at To9eka. had re-
signed their positions.
Both Mr.. Maegly and Mr. Biddle are
now at Albuquerque, n. M, attending
the meeting of the traffic representa-
tives of the Santa Fe. Chas. w. Cooh,
Mr.. Maegly's assistant, and w. j. Black,
general passenger agent, are also at Al
bucuercue.
General Manager H. u. Nudge said,
Il do not think there is any truth in the
report l have heard nothing about it,
and while Of course know nothing OF
Mr.. Biddle's or Mr.. Maegly's privat t.
affairs. I think l should have heard CT
it If they were expecting to leave us
w c. Musty. Mr. Maegly's clerk,
stated today that he had not heard of
any prospective change.
f. J. Shakeshaft. chief clerk to W. J.
Black, also stated that so far as he
knew, there were no changes in sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
KANSAS cArA1pA FARMS.

1.-The Hardy Catalpa.'' a bulletin just
published. forms another contribution
to the series of studies of American COM
mercial trees which the bureau of for
estry has undertaken. The value of this
publication viii be greatest in the mid
die west where the catalpa has been
planted for many years with varying
success and where even now 1t is i'm
perfectly understood. The farmer of the
prairie states who desires to put part
of his lands into catalpa, either for profit
in selling posts and ties, or to supply his
farm with timber, will find in the bull
letin valuable information clearly and
simply given.
The bulletin is in two parts. VIM L.
Hall. superintendent of tree planting
discusses The Hardy Catalpa in Com
mercial Plantations" while DR. Herman
Won Schrenk. of the bureau of plant in
dustry writes of THE Diseases of the
Hardy Catalpa." Mr. Hall gives the
results of careful studies of the Munger
darlington. Hunnewell and Yaggy plan
tations. all in Kansas. The most i'm
portant facts developed by him are as
follows:
Hardy catalpa makes its best growth
on very rich, deep soil. In the Farling-
ton forest the best returns on the best
soil are almost five times as great as on
the poorest.
Grown in pure stand, the catalpa
should be protected from the wind by
shelter belts of taller trees. A thin bet
of cottonwood on the windward side Of
a plantation will protect the edge trees
and allow them to make much taller and
straighter growth: even an Usage orange
hedge. though not growing so tall, will
generally protect them.
1t is much cheaper for the planter 10
grow his trees from seed than to buv
them from the nursery. if a large nm
Der are to be planted. In the Munger
plantation the cost of trees grown on
while those from a nursery. with freight.
cost about "a per thousand. The cost
of establishing the Yaggy plantation
with homegrown trees. including cut
ting back and two years tillage. was
$l1.70 per acre: the cost Of establishing
the darlington forest by contract. IN
Guiding the same amount of tillage, but
TO cutting back. was $50 per acre.
The proper spacing used in planting il
from 4 by 4 to by feet. The catalEa
planter who sets his trees thinly upon
the ground will find them growing with
spreading tops in spite Of his most care
portant advantage of close planting for
the catalpa is that it kills the lateral
branches while young. If the lateral
branches die before becoming more than
one-half inch in diameter, they are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
HARDWARE MEN HERE.
They Are Talking About Glass
ificatiOn of Rates.

About fifteen hardware men, composing
the Missouri River Hardware Jol berS' as
ISOLATION. have been in semi-a2nual ses-
sion al the Throop hotel today. Represen-
tatives are here from Kansas City, Omaha.
Sioux City, Council Bluffs and other points,
and the gathering is one for the purpose
of mutual benefit to the dealers in each
of those localities While the organization
is understood to be rather an informal one
the members meet twice a year and dis
cuss better business methods and in gen.
eraI topics that will improve their coudi-
lions.
Today there was nothing of great imror-
tance attached to the meeting b. The mem
bers who could be induced to talk for pub
LEGATION. The principal subject discussed
was the matter of securing a classification
of rates on hardware goods similar to
those rules which exist in the east. 1t IS
said that eastern dealers are favored
greatly over those of the west by the rail-
roads. and ii is proposed to endeavor to
ad Just this so that both shall be able to
handle the business on the same basis.
Among the PR minent members present
today are f. NJ. Andreesen, Omaha, Neb- :;
F. H. Hill, Council Bluffs. Ia: a. J. War
ner ST. Joseph, Mo; w S Wright. Oma-
ha Neb.: w H. Harwi and ]. B. Silliman
Atchison, Kan; Col, Richards Kansas
City, Mo. George f. Garland, Kansas City,
Mo-. and l. n. Hockaday Wichita.
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easily pushed off by the tree and do no
damage; but if they reach a larger size
than this, as they are sure to do in thin
planting, they cling to the tree for
years, even after they die.
The development of large side branch
es units the Cataipa for practical use
While the stand NAV become so dense
as finally to shade them out. they cling
with such persistence to the growing
trunk that it can not cast them off. New
wood is deposited around the dead
branches, but does not unite with them.
The holes thus formed lead straight into
the heart of the tree, and the angle OF
the branches is just right to conduct
water and germs OF decay into the
trunk. When the branch is finally re-
leased it leaves a great hole leading to
the decayed heart of the tree. The tree
thus ruined sooner or later breaks down
complete loss.
Cutting back the young trees after
two or three seasons, so as to develop a
single sDrout from the stump, greatly
hastens height growth and prevents low
side branches.
With close planting and cutting back
two years afterward, thinning will be-
come necessary within eight or ten
years from the time of planting. Some
of the trees will be large enough for
fence posts, and if the work is judic-
iously done good returns may be secur-
ed from this first cutting
When the first growth is bushy and
undesirable, a better growth can usual
ly be secured by cutting the stand clean
and reproducing it by sprouts.
A cIean-cut stand should be protected
by occasional strips of timber left I'M
cut for the protection of the succeeding
crop of sprouts. This is especially nee
essary on the prairies where heavy
winds prevail, for the young sprouts are
very tender and easily broken off dur
ing the first year or two of their growth
The protective strips are best run east
and west. as the most damaging winds
are from the south.
The best growth of Catalpa is not OBJ
tanned in pure plantations. This state
ment is contrary to general practice and
belief, for almost all Catalpa plantations
throughout the country are pure plant
ed The advantage of a suitable asso-
ciate tree is that by shading the ground.
it will keep out weeds and grasses and
kill off the lateral branches of the Ca
talpa, thus giving the tree a straight,
clean bole to the height of IS to 20 feet.
The best trees for planting with Catalpa
in the middle west are Usage Orange
and Russian Mulberry.
Growers need not hesitate to force the
growth of their Catalpas. as the wood is
apparently just as good when grown
fast as slow. The rate of growth makes
no difference in the sale of the product.
Only shape and size count.
DR.. Won Schrenk finds that Catalpa
wood, if cut from the living tree. is one
of the most durable timbers known No
fungus has yet been found that will
grow in the dead wood. The wood of
living trees is attacked by two fungi,
one causing soft rot, the other a
brown rot. DR. Won Schrenk discusses
these two diseases and recommends
methods of preventing them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
MINER IS IN DEMAND.
No One Appears to Know Where He
Is, However.

There are several people in Topeka
who miss F. H Miner They long to
greet him once again. not because they
think he is a good citizen, but because
he owes them.
Miner, who for the past eight months
has been the professor" of a railroad
and telegraph school" at 527 Kansas
avenue disa ppeared last Saturday, ana
with him disappeared certain type
writer's and other valuables belonging 10
other people.
Miner was doing a good business a.
his graft He had between thirty ana
thirty-five students on his list. 1t was
necessary to have tyDewriters to use
in his school, so he approached local
distributor of machines He wanted
him to go in with him as a partner in
doubt, to get a partner who had type
writer's. But the agent is an old OpeT-
ator and does not believe in teaching
too many youths to manipulate the key.
and he failed to see any good points Ia
Mr. Miners proposition. Miner, how
ever, bought eight machines and put
them in his school, to be paid for at
some future date. Ere long the agent
became suspicious and took the ma j.
chimes away from Miner, and subse-
uuent events proved that ne was wise
in so doing. Then the professor secured
two Densmore and six Remington type
writer's from the respective local agents,
and the machines are now numbered
with the missing.
During his sojourn in the city Mr..
Miner purchased several pieces of fur
niture from Emehizer & Mills, the fur
niture dealers who bought out Motif.
Not long ago he brought in a check for
500 which they cashed for him The
check subsequently proved to be good,
therefore when he came with another
check just after banking hours last Sat
urdav they had no hesitation in cashing
it for him. The check was similar to the
ether one they had cashed. and called
for $54 a the Bank of Topeka. Some
time shortly after presenting the check
Mr. Miner folded his tent and stole
away He not only stole away, but it is
supposed he stole the tvpewriters he
had secured from the Remington ard
Densmore people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
FLOODED THE STORE.
Topeka Cash Dry Goods Com
pany Suffers Loss from Water.

Failure of float in the receiving tank
of a watercloset top to operate properly
caused an estimated damage of $500 to
the shoe stock of the Topeka Cash Dry
Goods company. 713-7i5 Kansas avenue.
The water poured down a partition wall
from the second floor where the closet
was located and probably flooded the mer-
chandise for hours before discovered and
shut off.
Discovery of the damage was made at
1880 o'clock Tuesday night. 1t was i'm
possible to manipulate the valves in the
water pipes SO that the flow could be
checked until members of the firm had
been summoned and entered the store
building where the valve was accessible.
Then the water stood an inch deep over
he floor of the store and much of the
footwear had been damaged to an extent
much greater than might have been the
case had the goods been of another class.
Several hundred pairs had to be taken
out of the water-soaked pasteboard boxes
and spread to dry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
AFTER DAVE HANNA.
Women Keep Chasing the New
Lieutenant Governor.

There is a considerable number of
Sixth district politicians in Topeka to-
day, though the most of them deny that
they are here for any special purpose.
Among the number are CIV Anderson of
Rawlins, F. NJ. Lockard of Norton. John
Q. Royce of Phillips, C. c. Evans and
Senator Charles Buschow of Thomas,
Lieutenant Governor D. J. Hanna of
Graham, S. A. Jones of Mitchell. and
Sheriff Joe Jackson. T. r. McAdarns and
A. r. Buick of Lincoln.
Mr.. McAdamS wants to be member
of the state livestock sanitary commits
sion under the new administration. and
he came to Topeka to meet Governor
elect Bailey when the latter shall come
down from BaileyviIle. He lives at Syl-
van Grove and is well known stock
man in that part of the state.
John Q. Royce, who is Congressman
Reeder's manager. says that he did not
know anybody else from the Sixth dis
just came down for the fun of the
thing.
Seward Jones. editor of the Beioit
Call, has been classed as a Populist. but
along with the Republican politicians.
He came out for Reeder during the re
cent campaign and is now running his
paper along Independent lines.
Lieutenant Governor-elect D. J.Hanna
has been staying strictly at home at
and this is the first time he has come
to Topeka. Re says he has given little
attention to political matters since Geo
ton and has decided on the appoint
ment of no committees for the senate
this winter. So far as satisfactory. how
ever, the committees will probably be
left as they We're two years ago.
None of those eastern girls who have
been writing to you have succeeded in
marrying you yet, have they?" Mr..
Hanna was asked.
Not that i have heard off, he replied.
1T is a fact. though, that l have reeeiv-
ed a lot of letters on the subject, but 1
cont suppose that I have received any
where near as many as Bailey has.
Some Of the letters which have come TO
me have evidently been written by re-
fined and cultured women. too. 4 good
many enclose newspaper clippings on
the subject to introduce the matttr. and
they still keep coming. l got one lust
before I left home from some girl up
in Minnesota"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
FIGHT ON BRISTOW.
Loud Said to BE Slated for the
kansan's Place.

Washington, Dec. 10-Efforts have
been renewed to secure the retirement
from his present position of J. L. Bris-
tow, of Kansas, fourth assistant post
master general. 1t is announced on APP
parently Telia BILE authority that the pO-
sition has been rendered to Eugens
Loud chairman of the house committee
Oh post Offices and post roads, who was
defeated for reelection in the Fifth Cal
ifornia district. Mr. Loud has been q
member OF congress for twelve years
and has been d member of the commit
tee on post offices and post roads since
he came to the house. and has been
chairman for six years He has taken
an active and aggressive part in postal
legislation. When Mr.. Loud arrived
from California a few days ago. he had
q conference with the president, who
expressed a desire to do something for
MIN, in view C his service in congress
and his work for the party. Since THAI
conference it has been announced that
Mr.. Loud has been slated for appoint
ment to succeed Mr.. Bristow
This is not the first time by any
means, that an effort has ben made to
secure the retirement of Bristow from
the postal service. He has the bitter
opposition of the friends of Rathbone,
Nicely and others who were implicated
in the Cuban postal frauds, and hardly
a month has passed in the last two
years but some candidate has been
brought forward for Mr.. Bristows posi-
ton He has opposition from prominent
pohuclans IN his own state, and has
been the object of attacks from politi-
clans of other states whose ideas of
postoffice patronage he has refused to
adopt. In the meantime, General Bris-
tow has gone along attending very close
~ to the business of his department.
and apparently refusing to be disturbed
by the efforts that have been made to
d1Splace him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
CORPSE" SPOKE HIS NAME
And Deputy Coroner Took Him to
Hospital, Not Morgue.

Pittsburg. Pa. Dec. 10.-Deputy Coro-
ner John Kerr met with a startling sur
prise when he went to the union depot
today to remove to the morgue the body
of an unknown and supposed dead man,
who had been badly mangled on the
Pennsylvania railroad. AS he wah
about to place the body in the morgue
casket the supposed corpse groaned anc
muttered the name Jack" by which
Kerr is Familiarity known.
The man is now in the West Penn
hospital, where an operation was per-
formed, and he may recover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
LOCAL MENTION.

A case of scarlet fever is report in the
family of w. o. Anderson, 1866 Tyler
street.
F. /. Vandegrift. who has been sick
at his home in Kansas City, is reported
much better.
A. II. Vance, formerly of Topeka who
was sick at his home in Oklahoma City,
has recovered.
Herbert Jamison, a high school stu
dent who was threatened with typhoid
fever, is reported to be rapidly i'm
proving.
! NJ Kortz, who died Tuesday, was
the father of Charles Kortz and Mrs.
n. Stanley of Topeka. and o. D. Kortz
of Chicago and Frank B. kortz of Ida
Grove Iowa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
SHOT GIRL IN MANS GARB.
Young Woman, Masquerading, Scares
Women and Children.

Kingston, N. Y, Dec 1O.-Eva Hem
derson. 10 years old, was shot in the leg
last night by a policeman while she
was trying to escape arerst. She was
dressed in mems clothes.
The policeman was detailed to watch
for a mysterious man who had been
terrifying women and children at night
by prowling around houses and trying
door knobs and windows.
The policeman arrested Miss Hender-
son, who said she had been having fun
frightening neighbors. The girl broke
away from her captor twice, and the
second time he shot, the bullet striking
her in the leg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-10
E. B. GUILD MUSIC co.

Valentine, clerk of the supreme court. is
today sending out the following announce
ment to the attorneys who have cases up
for hearing at the January sitting:
1T has been ordered by the supreme
court that their January session be post
poned one week. The printed docket shows
that court will sit on January 6. and re-
main in session Until the 9Th inclusive. Ac-
cording to the courts order you are here
by rotiied that the January session will
commence on January 13 and continue till
January &c inclusive Cases assigned on
the printed docket for the 9Th Will be con
tinued for hearing till the 18th: cases on
the 7th till the 14th: cases on the Sth till
the 18th: cases on the 9Th TIL the 18th