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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
NOT FIT FOR JURORS.
Gov. Taft Says Filipinos Must First
Be Trained.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE hearing of
Governor Taft on the Philippines queS-
ton by the senate committee on the
Philippines began today with a series of
questions by Senator Patterson in re-
gard to the fitness of FilipinoS for jury
duty. Mr. Patterson asked whether the
native population on which the voting
franchise is bestowed could not be
trusted 20 do jury duty. The governor
replied in the negative, saying they are
so used to corruption in the adminiStra-
tion of justice that they could not be
trusted. They need to be trained he
said, Ito have examples; they are not
yet ready for jury duty"
Referring to the code of procedure in
the islands, Governor Ia, said in reply
to a question by Senator Culberson that
it is an American code, rather than
Spanish code Under the Spanish reg
:me. said Governor Taft, the courts were
not only sluggish but VIGOROUSLY cor
rupt and the first courts established by
Gen. Otis were no better. Under Span
ish rule there was no substantial denial
of Justice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
A STEADY WORKER.
Coffee Works Slow But Sure.

Many people use coffee day after day
without an idea of the serious work 1t
does with nerves, stomach, bowels and
sometimes with the eyes, heart and kid
neys. Its work is done gradually, that
is, the poison affects the nerve centers
a little today and little tomorrow and
so on. and finally the nerve cells are
slowly broken down and then Nature
begins the call for help.
1t is a safe proposition that if a man
or woman has headaches, stomach
trouble. or any such aim ents come on
at intervals. something is wrong with.
the food or drink, and this question
should be investigated carefully, for
health is the best capital anyone can
possess and willfully breaking it down
is a piece of childish folly
1t is easy to leave off coffee if one
made, for Postum has a delicious coffee
which changes to a golden brown when
cream is added. and it satisfies TIE
coffee drinker without any of the bad
effects of coffee; on the contrary. the
result of using Postum is the rebuilding
of the broken down nerve centerS by
the food elements contained in it,
Postum is a pure food beverage made
by scientific food makers and can be de-
pended upon absolutely for its purity
and the good results that follow its use
To bring out the flavor and food value
Postum must be boiled at least Is min
Htes after the boiling begins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
NOT FIREPROOF SAFES.
Valuable Papers in Ashes When Pat
erson Vaults Are Opened.

New York. Feb. 17.-Former Attorney
General John W.Griggs saw many thou
sand dollars worth of his bonds and val
liable papers destroyed in Paterson, n.
J., just as he had seen them taken, still
intact from the ruins of the big fire
These papers We're in his private safe
in his office where his splendid law Ii
brary burned. The safe was taken from
the ruins and the doors pried open. Sud
denly the papers burst into flames and
were reduced to ashes. 1t is supposed
gas had generated inside the safe.
Among the papers were eight unreg1s-
tered bonds each of a face value of ST.
900.
Gartner Stewart, having offices near
those of Mr.. Griggs, lost $4,000 in the
same manner. In an adjoining building
were the offices of Kaatz brothers, brew
ers In their safe were bonds valued at
$1O5, 900. When the safe was opened its
contents was found to be in ashes.
Lawyers are said to have lost $3.50 600
in books by the destruction of their IL
braries in last Sundays flames. Few of
them carried insurance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
MINSTREL LYNCHED.
One of Richards & Pringle's
Men Hanged by a Mob.

st. Louis. Feb. IA special to the
Post-Dispatch from New Madrid, Nc,
says that last night a crowd of masked
men overpowered the jailer and took a
negro, Louis Wright, a short distance
from town and hanged him.
Richard & Pringle's negro minstrels
gave an entertainment there Saturday
night when an alteration arose between
one of the musicians and some of the
white town BOYS. Several of the boy S
undertook to take the musicians out,
when the negroes on the stage began to
shoot. Several whites in the audience
were hit but no one was seriously hurt.
The negroes ran out the back way to
their private car, which was soon sur
rounded by armed men, but no violence
was done owing to the arrival of the
town marshal All the negroes were put
in Jail and as the result of an eXami-
nation, the name of the one who did
the shooting was discovered He was
lynched and the others will be released,
Several of the prisoners were badly
beaten Saturday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17

has heard from Mr.. Reed since was
about two weeks later when he wrote
her than he would not live with her any
more
Now she claims, her husband is again
in possession of the farm near James
town, which was their homestead, and
that the transfer to Friend was a. frau
dulent one made for the purpose of aid
ing her husband in defrauding her out
of her share of the homestead when he
deserted her.
She brought suit in the district court
of Cloud county to have the deed TO
Friend set aside, and the jury decided
that the transfer was fraudulent and
rendered a verdict in Mrs. Reeds ia
vor Now Friend has appealed the case
TO the supreme court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
PORTER MAY GO IN.
Rumored That He Wants to Go to
Congress.

There is a possibility that Nat Barnes
may not get the Wyandotte county
delegation for congress after ALL
will enter the congressional race in the
Second district.
The Republican county central COM
mittee met Saturday afternoon and is
sued a call for primaries to be held
next Saturday to decide on a Wyan-
dotte county candidate for governor,
which will of course be E. A. Enright.
and a Wyandotte county candidate for
congress. A few days ago Barnes was
the only man talked of as a candidate
against Bowersock. but now it is init
mated that SilasH Porter may enter the
contest for the Wyandotte county dele
cation. The man who gets the delega-
ton will start out with % of the 81
votes necessary to win. The rest he will
have to pick up from other counties.
The congressional convention viii be
held at Fort Scott on Tuesday, March
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17

established on April 1, as follows, in
Kansas: At Almena, Norton county,
with two carriers; length of route, 1919
miles; population served, 1.155; carriers,
Joseph r. Dole and Mark H. Bridges
postoffice at Payville to be supplied by
rural carriers. Burr Oak, Jewell coun-
ty; four carriers; length of routes, 81
miles; population served, 1, 765; carriers,
Charles c. Lane, Arthur w. Mann, Ben
jamin H Pierce and Willis B. Sytliff;
postoftice at North Branch to be sup
piled by rural carriers.
Manhattan will also get the carrier
system of mail delivery on March 1.
Byron II. Pound and Arthur J. Leonard
will be the regular carriers, and Albert
A. Paige will be substitute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
CUPID AND FARMS.
They Are Somewhat Mixed in Suit in
Supreme Court.

According to the story told by Sa-
naantha Reed. and which Cloud coun-
ty jury believed to be true, Mrs Reed s
husband, Harmon o. Reed, formerly o.
Jamestown. Cloud county, entered into
q conspiracy with Sandy c. Friend,
brother of Reeds first wife, to defraud
the second Mrs. Reed.
Mrs. Reed says she was married to
Harmon o. Reed in the spring of 1899
and the following fall SIr-Reed proposed
to sell their farm near jamestown to
Friend for 81, 500. He said he wanted to
move further east and he persuaded Mrs
Reed to sign a deed for the farm After
the transfer was made Mrs. Reed says
her husband sent her to visit her rela-
tives in Kansas City, stating that ne
would drive through with a team later
She further says that the only time she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
TEBEAU'S NEW CLUB.
Louisville Aggregation Seems Long
on Pitchers.

Louisville. KY, Feb. manager Geo.
Tebeau announces that Louisville's
club in the American association will be
composed of the following:
Pitchers-Ed Dunkle, (Providence);
Roger Denzer. Chicago National
league); P. G. F'laherty, louisville and
Pittsburg National league); Dan Ker-
win, Buffalo); Frank Corridor. CEast-
ern league; Lewis Bruce, Eastern
league, Toronto); Percy Coons (Western
league, Omaha); Gus weighing, 0ouis-
vile and Grand Rapids).
Catchers-Billy Schriver, est. Louis
National league); Tom Raub, eastern
leagues Heinie Spies Cincinnati Ma
tional league and Chicago American
league).
Infielders-Pete Cassiday, Provi-
dence and Louisville National 1eague):
Chas- Carr, Pittsburg National league);
Al Wagner, Pittsburg National league
and Providence, brother of Hans;
Suter Sullivan, cleveland American
1eague); J. Andrews, CBuffaIo).
Outfielders-John F1ourney Rrovi-
dence); Billy elmer. manager, CBuffalo);
VIM. Gannan. Chicago National
league).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
ELIOT COMING WEST.
President of Harvard Will Make a
Lecture Tour.

New York, Feb. 17.-President Eliot.
of Harvard. will start on an extended
western trip Tuesday, says a World
special from Boston. He will return in
time to greet Prince Henry on his visit
to Cambridge.
President Eliot will speak at the cele-
hrations of higher educational institu-
lions and before clubs representative of
graduates who in time past have worn
the crimson. First he will go as far as
st. Louis. being absent for two weeks
He will be at home March g. Starting
again on March IL he will go to the
Pacific coast, and will then take the
southern route eastward, occupying five
weeks. He will visit sixteen cities and
towns in twelve states, and deliver
twenty-five or more addresses at college
exercises and college club dinners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
BLEW TWO SAFES.
Burglars Overlook $500 in One
of Them.

Northanp ton, Mass, Feb. 17.-Five
men blew open two safes in the street
railway company's office here early to-
day after overpowering the Waterman.
They secured about $500 in cash. In
their haste they overlooked $500 in one
of the safes. They escaped, and when
the Waterman succeeded in getting a
gag out of his mouth SO as to give the
alarm trace of them had been lost
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
HARRIS AND DOSTER.
Atchison Democrats Lead Off With
Their Preference.

The Democrats of Atchison county in
the meeting of their county central
committee Saturday afternoon passed
resolutions favoring Senator w. A.
Harris for governor and the renomina-
ton of Judge Doster as chief justice.
The CON mittee further selected dele
cation to the Democratic state conven-
ton at Wichita. 1t will be headed by
Ex-Governor Click, and the other mem
bers will be F. NJ. Baker, ]. w. Orr, G
J. White, e. NJ. Cannon, James En-
right. T. c. Treat, N. E. Howell, Ed
Perdue, Morgan Lynch and L. p Du-
bois. The committee met in the law
office of Waggener, Horton & Orr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17

As q general rule, meat once a day is
sufficient for all classes of men. women
and children, and grains, fruit and vegeta-
bles should constitute the bulk of food
eaten.
But many of the most nutritious foods
are difficult of digestion and it is of no
use to advise brain workers to eat largely
of grains and vegetables where the di-
gestion is too weak to asSimilate them
properly.
1t is always best to get the best results
from our food that some simple and
harmless digestive should be taken after
meals to assist the relaxed digestive Or
proven Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets to be
a very safe. pleasant and effective diges-
tive and a remedy which may be taken
daily with the best results.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets can hardly
be called patent medicine, as they do not
act on the bowels nor any particular or
gan. but only the food eaten. They
supply what weak stomachs lack, pepsin,
diastase, and by stimulating the gastric
glands increase the natural secretion of
hydrochloric acid.
People who make a daily practice of
taking one or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets after each meal are sure to have
health.
There is no danger of forming an in
furious habit the tablets contain abSo-
lutely nothing but natural digestives; CO.
caine, morphine and similar drugs have no
place in the stomach medicine, and Stu
arts Dyspepsia Tablets are certainly the
best known and most popular of all stom-
ach remedies.
Ask your druggist for a soc package of
Stuart'S Dyspepsia Tablets. and after a
weeks use note the improvement in
health, appetite and nervous energy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
HANGED Himself in His Cell.

Butte. Mont, Feb. IA special to
the Butte Miner from Great Falls says
Forger Fred Mamoer made desperate
effort to commit suicide in the general
cell of the county Jail early yesterday
morning. Mamoer with the rope used
by the prisoners as a clothesline hanged
himself to one of the upper bars of the
cell His body swaying against the
sides of the cell, however, awakened
the other prisoners, who rescued him.
Mamoer is awaiting trial for the forg-
ing of thirteen checks amounting to
about $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
Pensions For Kansans.

Washington. Feb. 1.-THE following
pensions have been granted Kansans:
Original, VIM. Plummer, Cedar juno
ton, SIS; Henry Sprague, Kansas City,
Sc. Increase Thomas Marshall, yelling
ton, So: Robert Steele, Beloit, $12; VIM.
Williams, Thayer, SIP; VIM. Phillips.
Phillipsburg, IS; Peter Service, Kansas
City. Sc: Marion Terhune, Wellington,
IS; VIM Savage, Glen Grouse, IS; Tim
othy Willfong, Athol, $24.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
BRAIN FOOD
Is of Little Benefit Unless 1t Is Digested

Nearly everyone will admit that as a ma
ton we eat too much meat and too little
of vegetables and grains.
For business men, office men and clerks,
and in fact every one engaged in seden-
tary or indoor occupations, grains, mil
and vegetables are much more healthful-
Only men engaged in a severe out door
manual labor can live on heavy meat
diet and continue in health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
REEDER GETS ROUTES.
Congressman Continues to Build Back
Fires.

Congressman Reeder has been corral
ing a number of new rural delivery
routes. A Washington dispatch an
nounces that on April 1 rural free de-
livery service will be commenced in
Kansas as follows:
Rural free delivery service will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Ella ]. Casey and husband to D.Pratt.
s., 200, tract on Western avenue.
D. A. Wise and wife to John d. Knox
Jr, 5000, lot 129 and part of 131 Elmwood
avenue, Elm Grove subdivision.
Emil c. Sager and wife to Elmer =.
Hounsom SO, 900. part of northeast quar-
ter and part of northwest quarter, 20
1915.
A. H. Bates to Mary F. Gray, $4,000,
lot 710-712-714-716 Lincoln street, block
49, Martin and Dennis addition
c. r.. Merriam and wife to D. Pratt,
81, tract on Western avenue.
Mary E. Scott ct al to Ella ]. Casey,
SIS, same.
The Financial association to Mary F.
Gray. 81, lot 71O-712-714-716, Lincoln
street, block 49, Martin and Dennis adj
ditien.
P. /. Bonebrake, executor, to Annie B.
Sweet, 81 $50, part of southwest quarter
27-12-16.
It's a mistake to imagine that itching
piles can't be cured; a mistake to suffer
a day longer than you can help.
Doan's Ointn emit brings instant relieI
and permanent cure. At any drug
store, so cents
City Ticket Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-17
City Ticket Office.

Union Pacific r. r.. 62s Kansas ave
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
The GRIEF OF THE TszE.Hs1

me appearance Of the militant EMPRESS
DoWager of China in the role of the weep-
Ing Niobe, at her recent reception of the
women and children of the foreign lega-
lions, was certainly interesting as con-
firmation of the histrionic ability Of this
oriental Borgia. She told the ladies how
gr1eved she was over the unfortunate &C.
currences of 1900, and as mark Of her
sorrow, she bestowed upon Mrs. Conger
all the jewelry she had upon her person.
This vulnerable hypocrite recently an
pointed General Yung Lu grand secretary
in place of the late Ii Hung Chang. The
significance of this selection for the high
office is suggested by the fact that Yune
Lu directed personally the destruction of
half the foreign legation buildings during
the Boxer uprising and the empress
doWager approved the deed, together with
4ung LUIS many murders and massacres.
This bloody scoundrel, who is appointed
to the highest Office in the Chinese en-
p1re, is reactionary of the extreme or
der, and If he and the empress have de-
c1ded upon an outward acceptance OF the
VI SseuI SITUATION, IL IS because thew see
that their game. of war against foreigners
is losing policy, and that it is better
for future Chinese supremacy to follow
the example Of Japan and get into active
operation all the practical western ideas
which can be Of service to strengthen the
empire and make it impervious to foreign
dictation.
The recent edicts of the shrewd old
dame Indicate the trend to this wiser pol
Icy. One Of them gives Manchus the prfy-
ileges Of foreign education as well an
native Cinnamon. and this portends the
Importation of foreign methods as far as
possible.
But these edicts from the imperia,
throne of China are not very reliable.
They may be nulli1ed as were the reform
edicts of Kwang-Su in 1898, although
there is stronger probability that the
empress's program is to get all the ma
terial at home with which to fight the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
The Rows First Gun

A rev days after coming into possession of
my nrSt gun. shotgun that carried birdshot
and boosted recol like a football line. I re-
member to have met the fur bearing animal
that lived under Mrs. Nason's barn and kept
an eve out for chicken bones. eggs and like
forage. OF course no boy ever hesitates to
shoot at anything that wears fur. and I
sighted the New Gun over the fence top and
pulled up the anchor. report that sounded
in those days like the explosion of a few
pounds OF wet gun cotton, combined with a
cloud Of white smoke that hid the neighbor-
hood for several moments, followed. / picked
fathers child out of the cucumber vines and
looked around for game. There was nothing
in sight but very gamy perfume that struck
the neighborhoOd in the face as if it had been
hit with a board Mrs Mason appeared in
the barn door, holding her face in one hand
while she gesticulated with the other left
as quickly as possible and never saw the fur
bearing friend again. I remember; how he
looked. He was black and white and had
bushy tall s,- I'D %
Every boy who has lived: in the east shoots
''patridges," or, if you wish to be particular
shoots at Dartridges. Once in a while he is
known to hit one, but as a general thing the
birds enjoy the sport keenly and the percent
age Of fatalities is fully as small as it is in
smallpox epidemic. There used to be willy
old mother bird who lived in the woods back
of the house. where she had raised families
for many years. Every boy in the neighbor-
hood for several generations had shot at her,
missed, grown old, passed the fowling piece
down to his children, who in turn had shot
at the same bird, missed and passed on. : ~
met this bird one autumn, as all the boys
were accustomed to do, sitting on the ground
among the hazel bushes at the foot of a
mighty beech tree. Everything wavered
around as it always does in the buck ague,
but a managed to discharge the firearm.
were there-and the beech tree. The partridge
marks anywhere.
Since 1 have grown older. in moments of
honest self-examination, I have conceded to
myself that must have fired into the air-or
else the shot had all leaked out because the
newspaper wadding didn't cover them.
Every boy at one time or another in his
life gets his ramrod stuck in the gun and
has to shoot It off. It is a marvel that so
many boys come to maturity. I remember
putting the butt of the gun on a rock, aiming
it straight up in the air, firing" the ramrod
at the zenith and then getting under a big
tree so it would not hit me on the head when
it came down. There was no necessity of so
much caution The ramrod never came back.
The gun store always had an extra supply of
ramrods on hand and did a good bushes in
them with the boys When I was obliged to
confess the wa- in which the ramrod was
lost; l remember my father appeared agitated
and talked strongly about it.
But you can't kill boys. Even should the
gun bust the boy always manages to dodge
the pieces. "A. J. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.,

foreign devils. Our own government has
dealt generously with China throughout
the negotiations last year, and added to-
its beneficence the offer to return to China
the portion Of the Boxer indemnity which
may be in excess of actual damages ana.
expenses, a policy which Great Britain
has announced that she will.follow. Our
government has Joined Great Britain and
Japan in protesting against the effectua-
ton Of the Manchurian treaty, which is
practically stepin the further partition
of China by Russia, as 1t gives exclusive
concessions to Russia, outside of her rail-
way interests, and makes Of Manchuria a
trade through the port of Niuchang.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
. 1t Struck His Flint.

To the Editor of The Journal:
| have seen nothing in the public press fo1
long time which, it seems to me, will so
appeal to the practical common sense Of the
Tree, llberty-loving people of our grand re.
public as the editorial in Monday evening 5
paper on why Special Representatives
should be sent by the United States to at
tend the coronation ceremonies of England's
latest Edward. Such a proceeding is so utter
~ at variance with the spirit of our govern
ment that, now you have placed the matter
before us in its proper light, it will be sur
prising if the project does not meet with a
storm Of protests -.
. The politicians are Directing to the attend
ance of the presidents daughter upon the
coronation ceremonies because Of its .'po-
litical signifcance"! Yet what is the mere
qualification of the natural desire of the pres
ident's young daughter to simply witness shch
pageant as an individual spectator, com
pared to the sending of an accredited repre-
sentative OF our government at the EXPENSE
OF thousands of dollars? We may well pause
before we throw such seeming discredit upon
the principles that underlie our republic, and
thus make our country the laughing stock Of
the nations. L. j. Stephens
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-07
Suing an American Heiress.

story that comes from Berlin is enough
or itself to disrupt the new Deutcho- Ameri-
kanlsher alliance. Lieutenant Carl Won Slut
terheim, former German infantry officer
has begun legal proceedings against Miss
Lillian Middleton, an American heiress Won
Stutterhem seeks to compel Miss Middleton
to pay debts contracted by him in anticipation
of winning the heiress' hand and fortune
The Berlin police have seized all available
assets belonging to Miss Middleton, consist
ing of her wardrobe and jewelryx
Miss sMiddleton's mother broke the engage
ment when she discovered the lieutenant
unsavory past and learned that he had been
discharged from the army. Won Stutterheim
confessed that he expected to support his
wife out of his winnings on the racetrack.
1t has been ascertained that the ex-lieu-
tenant employed detectives to Investigate Miss
Mlddleton's finances and knew pretty well
where her papa stood financially The dis
patches make it clear that Won Stutterheim
is first-class 1t and this nation would like
to hear Miss Middleton's papa's opinion Of
him. .r.E.- So. - E