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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
ALL FOR EXPANSION.

Now is the time for big things. 1t is
evinced in a myriad of ways, but par
ticularly is the suggestion assertive
when one goes about the railroads The
matter of expansion is something that
has appeared in America as a timely
aid to the great territorial widening
out that the United States has expert
enced within a few years.
1t is the bigness of the locomotive as
it is now constructed that first and
most strongly i'm presses the man who
observes. Enter into the comparison a
little closer if you wish: Take the trou-
BILE to walk through the Topeka shops
of the Santa Fe and you will see just
what the movement for enlargement iii
this direction has been. Any day there
are a number of small eight-wheel en-
gines having tractive power of about
half what the monsters which now
thunder over the road possess brought
in to be dissected. In many cases they
are good pieces of equipment or with
little repair can be made so, but their
sphere of activity is becoming limited
They must give way to the great 10
wheelers that can do twice their work
at less than double the expense 1t has
been the policy of the new head of the
mechanical department to make strons
improvements in this way. Every little
while the representative of some east
ern railroad supply house comes in and
looks over the batch of the small loco
motives standing on the scrap tracks
of the Santa Fe awaiting their turn
to get into the hospital for debility re-
pairs.
In the meantime the parts of the sys-
tenn which have known them for years
sees them not A larger type of en-
CINE displaces them, which already has
been obliged to give place to a still
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Editor Howe hopes it won't rain ON
circus day.
Baseball on the main streets is a pro-
tested summer amusement at Howard.
The Salind girl who complains of muddy
stockings
a woman in a decollete gown is supposed
to have won her by neck.
Pottawatomie county farmers complain
that the catfish washed in by the flood
are destroying their corn crop.
Some inhuman wretch poisoned two
Clay Center horses by giving them water
's0oped with concentrated lye.
Washington is having a Free Methodist
camp-meeting. But that doesn't mean
that the hat will not be passed.
Pratt is troubled with a pepper. And
still there Is plenty of spare hemp in
town.
Nothing less than an urgent message to
the physician or a cry of fire will be re-
ceived at the Solomon phone office after
midnight.
For the first time in score of years
birds have failed to nest in Farmer Ram
sey's orchard at Solomon What does
it portend?
The Santa Fe fast mair' played ping
pong. with the Strong City town herd.
table this week
A letter mailed in 1864 by a Centralia
banker, while in the Confederate army.
has just been returned to him from the
dead letter office.
A Topeka man called to have his teeth
filled and wound up by robbing the dent
lst. 1t takes more than a dentist to kill
some peoples nerve.
An Usage county farmer spent Sunday
threshing on his wheat crop. Would it
not be well TIC keep some of our mission
aries home from india?
A Topeka man who failed to drive an
auto at first trial is consoling himself
with the thought that such work requires
more than horse sense, anyway.
The Atchison Globe laments what it
terms Topekas worship of Congressman
Curtis, but overlooks a similar "toadying
at home to Postmaster ChiSham.
If the wife of the Cloud county farmer
who lost 400 fat hogs in the flood expects
a fawn colored cloak this fall she might
as well put up the shutters at once.
A Pratt crop insurance company was
pleased to find upon investigation that
the hail had fallen upon a Complaining
farmers wheat the day after it was har-
vested.
A pair of newly imported Arkansas
goats are all the attraction at Moline now
much to the disgust of the low necked,
elbow sleeve costumed sweet sixteen
maidenS.
The drummer who Jumped a small
board bill al Parsons and afterward paid
SIS court costs, now recalls that a shady
experience makes man wiser and poorer
simultaneously.
An Osborne man cherishes the fond nope
that he will soon bring to Kansas from
Alaska Noah's Ark. The one good fea-
ture of castles in the air is that you
don't have to pay rent on them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

cally every ruling was in favor of the
who wished a thorough investigation.
Evidence which might have easily prov
en- the man insane beyond a doubt was
not admitted as the statutes exclude
such testimony. The physicians who
were suddenly summoned to give expert
testimony knew nothing about the case.
They had had less than an hour In
which to form their opinion and no
means of getting to the bottom of the
case. The four jurymen weighed the
evidence. AS very little detrimental to
the mans case was admitted the jury
declared him sane. A thorough investi-
cation of the case by persons who have
some expert knowledge on insanity
might have revealed far different
state of affairs than the jury found
The man in this particular case had
been a very dangerous character. At
two different times he shot and danger
ously wounded people against whom he
had real or imagined grievances
Through long series of years he dem
onstrated that ne was not a fit person to
be at large. Still after a superficial exam
nation lasting short time the man is
again given his liberty and thrown onto
the community he has repeatedly out
ragged.
1t seems that the laws need more re-
vising. Every effort should be made
to reveal all the facts. The statutes
should provide for thorough investi-
cation instead of limiting the evidence.
The statutes need fixing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
THAT PAVING COMBINE.

The paving question in Topeka has
taken on a queer look which may act
as a damper on the construction OF
pavement in the future If the citizens
of Topeka realize that they are putting
themselves at the mercy of a pavement
combine when they sign a pavement
petition, it is practically certain that
pavement petitions will be scarce arti-
Gle.
1t is claimed by those in a position
to know that such a combine actually
exists; that manufacturers of brick
meet and agree that such a plant shall
furnish SO many thousand brick, and
some other plant SO many thousand,
that contractors agree that this street
shall be paved by one man, and that
street by another man. 1t looks as
though the competitive bidding on pave
ment is at an end.
There may be other things which act
with equal force to stifie competitive
bidding. 1t is claimed that the city is
using certain kinds of patented de-
vices and processes in it's pavement
which can be furnished only by one
concern, and that the soliciting of bids
on furnishing such processes or devices
is a mere form It is also claimed that
exclusively by one firm, and that other
firms are barred from bidding such
material. There is not much competi
ton when such things are allowed to
exist.
1t is possible for a great amount of
questionable work to be done in the Sc
curing of paven ent petitions. Evidence
has been produced before the council
comm itfaac which caoy,ood RI r,rovo fhof
inducements in the way of money or
free pavement had been offered to large
property holders to sign petitions and
thus secure the required majority of
feet and force small property owners to
pave at the risk of losing their property.
Property owners are induced by such
means, also. to take an undue amount
of interest in the adoption of some par
ticular make of brick, or some special
kind of curbing.
About the only protection which tax
payers have from being numerically
robbed on paving contracts is the esti-
mate of the city engineer. Under the
law, the bids must be below this esti-
mate. At present the estimates are low
engineer has had reason to believe that
brick makers are able to furnish brick
at lower prices than in the past. The
cut is not made at the expense of the
men who lay the pavement The present
low estimates stand between the property
holder and the combine, and it is now
claimed that the combine will direct it's
efforts to smashing down this barrier,
and forcing the engineer to raise his
estimates.
1t is not probable that the council
will allow such a thing to be done. 1t
has already taken some action calcu-
lated to prevent the offering of induce
ments to people to sign petitions and
to prevent the working up of pavement
petitions by professional solicitors. But
it is well to be on guard, and the future
policy of the alleged combine will GER
tainly bear watching.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

Newark News: There is no telling
what sort of an earthquake would have
upheaved and shattered our imperialism
had not Senator Burton, of Kansas, de-
vlsed that committee to investigate the
commercial and industrial conditions of
Hawaii The fact that the senator him.
self is a member of the committee, and
IN all probability the only member that
Will go to do the Investigating, enables
us to cease worrying about Hawaii all
together. 1t also assures Kansas of a
little rest from Burton during the heat
or the summer. All this is worth the
money that it will cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

with great probability that it may
never go up; that the boy win not have
the extra years schooling. and that the
girl must learn a trade and prepare to
bear her share of the burden when the
time comes
That is the horror and pathos of
these spectacular movements on
change.
The argument that no man CANDLES
in corn unless he wants to. might be
equally well applied to faro or roulette,
but the law forbids the maintenance of
these games
There are some people who think
that a modification of the ancient Gus
tom as to corners in grain suited to the
changed condition of things might not
be so bad,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
MENACE TO THE PUBLIC.

The last legislature passed some laws
which We're intended to improve the sys-
tenn of investigating persons as to their
sanity, but a recent case before the
probate court of Shawnee county in
which the letter of the law was fol-
lowed, shows the legal machinery to be
sorely defective.
John Tfmm came before the court on
what was a form of habeas corpus. He
asked for his release from the Topeka
insane asylum. At 1890 O'Clock in the
morning the proceedings were started,
and at 1:30 O'Clock the case was heard
by a jury of four men. In his rulings
the court followed the law. but practi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
CORNER IN GRAIN.

The corner in corn this week moves
the New York American to make the
following comments on grain gambling
in general:
when the world was not so gentle
and civilized as it is. a man who cor
nered the food supply, or who put up
the price of grain. or created an artificial
scarcity in the markets. was nailed by
the ears to the church door and the
people were encouraged to gather and
add to the culprit's appreciation of the
enormity of his offense by remarks that
they considered pertinent to the occa-
sion.
But even had he lived in that ruder
day, Mr.. John W. Gates would not
have been in danger as to his ears, for
though he attempted to corner corn, and
ran the price of it up so high that all
the corn in the country sought Chicago
as a market, the price of breakfast ee-
real and the flour for mullins has not
seriously changed.
There have been many years when
the corn crop was shorter than it was
last year. or will be in 1902, and corn
did not go to SO.
THE Gates movement is simply CO.
600, 900 for him or loses a million or two
really makes no grave difference to Mr.
Gates. He has plenty more millions.
THE particular moral to be drawn
from the corn episode is that a game
in which the Gateses make the limit and
deal the cards is no pastime for the or
binary citizen who works for his money
and husbands it as provision for his
old age, or for his wife and children.
If the Gates pool lost money in the
deal it amounts to little more than a
changing of figures on bankers books;
but the losses of the small gambler.
who trailed after the magnates, are real
His investment is gone; he played with
real money, and not with counters, and
the rocketting and collapse of corn
means in his case that the little house
that was to be built will have to wait
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
ExoNERATEs THE ARMY.

The Boston Journal thinks that the
action of Major General Cbaffee in dis
approving the court martial findings IN
favor of Major Waller and Lieutenant
Day effectually answers the army crit
les who claimed that the Americans
were waging a war of determination
in the Philippines.
The Journals comment is worth read
ing and is as follows:
1t is striking proof of the rigid disci-
pline of the United States army and of
its high Interpretation of humanity
that Major General Chaffee should dis
approye the formal finding of the court
martial in the case of Major Waller and
Lieutenant Day of the marine corps,
who were charged with the murder Of
native guides in Samar.
General Chaffee does not go SO far
as to insist that a verdict of guilty on
this grave accusation should have been
rendered, but ne does declare that the
court should at least have convicted
Major Waller and Lieutenant Day of q
minor offense He holds that the execu-
ton of the ''cargadores'' was not justi-
fable by military law or necessity.
General Chaffee's review is, in effect,
a heavy censure of the two marine
officers, but having once been tried and
acquitted, they cannot be brought be-
fore a court again.
The significant point in this affair is
that the United States army is probabl
the only army in the world where Of
ficers who did as Waller and Day did
would ever have been brought to trial.
Such a thing would have been passed
over without notice in foreign services
&c ill.,
in the stress of the interna tional march
upon Pekin. Major Waller and Lieuten-
ant Day, with force of marines. had
been lost in the Samar wilderness Their
food gave out 1t was suspected that
the native guides or bearers with the
Americans were deliberately misleading
them A European officer, under such
conditions would have shot the natives
off-hand, and never have made any re-
port of it. Major Waller waited until
his exhausted party had reached the
coast, where there could be a better
chance for at least hasty investiga-
ton, which seems to have been made
irregularly, of course-by private
soldier specially detailed. This soldier
was both judge and executioner.
Yet the American general command
ing will not acknowledge that there
were pailiating circumstances. He
maintains that the accused officers
ought to have been convicted, not of
murder, indeed. but of lesser crime.
and suitably punished. The outcome of
this episode is a sharp rebuff of the
headlong critics who, without any
knowledge of military law or usage,
have been exploiting Walters conduct
as fair example OF what was habit
ually being done with the sanction, if
not be the encouragement, of the Amer
lean military authorities in the Philip
pines. This case has been cited as dem
onstrating that the United States was
really bent upon a war of extermina-
ton. How foolish and how false such
chatter now appears in the light of the
action of Gen. Chaffeei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

The white men of Decatur, Indiana,
have succeeded in Kidding their town of
the last negro to be found in it, and
they announce that it will hereafter be
kept clear of colored people. After all
it is not so certain that the colored peo-
pie in the north have many advantages
over those in the south on an average.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

At last the country knows why Co,
Bryan didn't attend the Tilden club
banquet. He has told the whole story
to the club in a letter. One reason why
he was not there is that he didn't get
his invitation in time; another is he
would not have gone under any cir
cumstances after learning that Cleve-
land would attend
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
aspny during the summer may haze
the PAPER mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month. address changed as
often as desired While out of tO7cn
the State journal zpiH be to -yOw like
a daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

1t seems odd that so many people sue
seed SO much better in killing other
persons than they do when they attempt
their own lives. Shawnee county now
has two shining illustrations of this
fact confined in the Jail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

Senator Burton's efforts, says the
Hartford Post, to prove to Kansas that
all along he has loved, admired and
supported President Roosevelt are caus-
ing some rather discourteous hoarse-
hooting in the SunfloWer state -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

Tracy would make a valuable addi-
ton to Major Ponds collection of plat
form attractions, but he is so hard a
man with whom to open up commune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

The Washington Post will give Sena-
tor Burton a short rest. The para
grapher on that paper has gone on his
vacation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

Hobson has a press agent who would
bring him a fortune if the hero of the
Merrimac should enter the theatrical
profession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

After looking at the picture of the
young woman whom Hobson rescued
from the water at ST. Louis one Won
ders why he didn't let her stay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

In order to extract some interest from
the campaign the Arkansas Republicans
have nominated two candidates for gov
ernOr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

All the Castellane boys have been ac-
eused of corrupting the voters. 1t seems
safe to wager that Boni furnished the
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

John w. Gates is said to have turned
the corn corner in such a hurry that
he only made about 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

Vermont is so far behind the tim es
that the state political campaign is be-
ing fought on the whiskey issue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

If Tracy should die at any time soor.
probably it will be from laughing al
the officers pursuing him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

Hartford Post: The sweet scent OF
the new mown hay isn't SO sweet to the
man who has newly mown it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

money.
Evening star., 1902-04-23
Old Building as Substitute.

Under the permit granted the American
Ice Company by the District authorities
the work Of repairing the old ice house on
the west side Of the wharf at the foot of
9th street has been begun. This old build
ing was abandoned several years ago as
beyond repair, but as permission cannot
be obtained from the Commissioners to re-
build the ice house, which was destroy ed
by fire several days ago. the Ice company
has taken advantage lof the permission
house in condition to use large force
weeks in putting the Building in order for
uSe. * 4 H.
Nearly all the ice which was in the burn
ed building of the company has been re-
moved to other ice houses, and was found
to be in better condition for use than was
expected. tia -
The owner Of the large brick building at
the corner of 7th and Mkstreets south
west, the roof of which was set afre and
burned off by embers from the ice house
fire, are having it replaced, by a tin roof.
Repairs are also being made to the other
buildings damaged at the same time.
Evening star., 1902-04-23
TO HAVE TWO INVESTIGATIONS
Curious Tangle in Case. of Surveyor
General Perra11lt ay.-.

A dispatch from Boise, idaho says: The
matter Of the investigation of the charges
against Surveyor General Perrault has
taken a very interesting turn.
1t transpires that difference arose con-
corning the manner in which the investiga-
tion should be conducted. Inspector Kemp
it seems, construed his instructions to be
that the investigation should be secret no
one being admitted, not even the accused.
Inspector Greene, on the other hand, be-
lfeved it was the intention to have the in
vestigation held in public, the surveyor
general being present and any others who
might wish to attend, and that the wit
nesses should be subject to cross-eXamina-
ton by Mr.. Perrault some one represent
ing him. On this point the two disagreed
so completely that each appealed to Wash
fngton. Inspector Kemp received a reply
from President Proctor of the civil service
commission stating that the investigation
should be secret, but Inspector Greene
might be present. Inspector Greene's reply
was of a different tenor, the Secretary of
the Interior notifying him that the inves-
tigation should be held in public Under
the circumstances there will be two inves-
LEGATIONS. The specific charges to be inves-
tigated are to the effect that the surveyor
general eXacted campaign contributions
from employees Of his office and the charge
that Robert McCracken was dismissed in
violation of civil service law, but other
questions may be gone into.
Evening star., 1902-04-23
CAPITAL PRIZE 100000,
Conditions for Great Airship Race at
St IoI1is

st. Louis dispatch says: General condi-
tions to be observed in the airship race for
the capital prize of 100000 offered by the
worlds fair management have been agreed
upon by the committee of aerostatic ex-
perts. The entire field, including time of
the runs, shape of the course, qualifications
OF contestants, conditions of entry, facili-
ties for construction, repair and expert
ments, allowance for size of machine and
weight of engines, bearing of weather con-
ditfons, was gone over, and tentative rules
decided upon. These rules will have to be
submitted to the subcommittee of the ex-
ecutive committee and to the executive
committee itself before they can be made
public in their entirety. 1t has been de-
cided that the subcommittee shall submit
drafts of the rules to engineers, students,
aeronauts and aeronautical societies in
America and Europe, and obtain their views
on the subject, changing the rules if that
course seems best.
1t was decided definitely that the s2OO,O
appropriated for the contest by the board
OF directors of the exposition shall be di-
vided as follows s10O,000 for a grand capi-
tai prize, $4,000 to be divided into number
of subsidiary prizes, $4,000 devoted to the
conduct of the competition and the payment
of it's expenses.
Evening star., 1902-04-23
Lilliputian, but Manly.
From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.
He was a tiny little fellow, surely not
more than five years old, and as he called
for his afternoon papers at the corner OF
18th and Market streets many people gazed
at him with mingled amusement and pity.
He had long. brown curls. wet with the
drenching rain, and his shrill little voice
had baby lisp. A very stout. elderly wo-
man, apparently weighing close to 200
pounds. paused at the south side of Market
street and looked askance at the miniature
river Of slush and water and at the passing
procession of wagons and trolley cars The
little newsboy was quick to size up the sit
uation. Running up to her he exclaimed:
Don't be afraid. lady; I'll help you across"
Reaching up his tiny little hand, he clutched
her by the arm, and together the ridiculous
pair threaded their way to the opposite
curb Then the stout woman opened her
purse, gravely handed the little fellow q
coin and disappeared into the Reading ter
minal.