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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
EXPECTED TO QUIT.
ffidavits Concerning City Rail-
way Abandoning Fifth Street,

In defense of the injunction suit against
the Topeka City railway.a lot of affidavits
will be filed today by the plaintiff which
is the city. Judge Hazen allowed the
attorneys for the city until Monday to
file their affdavits. The work of prepar-
ing the affidavits is being done atthe office
of Ferry & Doran-
Among other affidavits filed is one by
c. O. Knowles, in which is embraced a
COPY of the affidavit which c. C. Baker,
as president of the city railway, filed in
the district court ten years ago in sup
port of the injunction suit which was
started to prevent the city railway tearing
UP its Fifth street track. In this affidavit
Mr. Baker claims that the city railway
intended to abandon operating its cars on
East Fifth.
Other affidavits are filed by Sam Radges,
d. H. Thomas. Chas. K Holiday, Chas.
Rahrer and w. w. Gavitt, property own
ers on East Fifth. They are much alike
in general tenor. They assert that East
Fifth has been left in dangerous condition
by the railway, much to the damage of
property on that street. They also des-
cribe the bad kind of a track which the
city railway has started to lay
Mayor Parker makes affidavit stat
ing that the city railway secured no per-
NIT to excavate on the street, and that c.
c. Baker promised to telephone to him
concerning the matter before beginning
work on the new track, and failed to do
so.
City Engineer McCabe makes q similar
affidavit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
HOME TO VOTE.
The State House Is Nearly De-
serted Today.

Practically every voter in the state house
who does not live in Topeka has gone
home to vote and business is at a stand
still.
Harry Brent is the only person in the
governors office. Gov Stanley himself is
in Wichita and mis- private secretary w.
D. Ford, went home TO Galena last Satur-
day.
Secretary of State Clark still keeps Ills
residence at Junction City and he Went
there this afternoon to vote. Hill p Viii
son, assistant secretary of state, has gone
to Hays City, Chief Clerk Whitmore 10
Washington and E. S. knight to Good
land.
Superintendent Frank Nelson was here
this morning. but left at noon for Linds-
borg to speak and vote. Assistant Super
intendent D. w. Little left for Wallace
several days ago.
Sanders, L H. Cole. bond clerk, and A.
to era wford and NeOsho counties.
State Treasurer Grimes has gone away
out to IAeoti the assistant treasurer is
down at Paola, John Dawson is at 1iu
City and Walter Reid, booxkeeper in the
tressurer's office, is at Concordia, where
he is running for register Of deeds of
Cloud county
In the supreme court Judge DOster votes
at Marion, Judge Johnston at Minneapolis,
Judge Smith at Kansas City, Kan. Judge
Pollock at Winfield. Judge Green at New
ton Judge Cunningham at Emporia and
Judge Burch at Salina. D. A. Valentine,
clerk of the supreme court, has 0een n
home at Clay Center for a number of days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
GLOBE s1GHTs.

FROM the Atch1SOn GlObe.1
When boy is lonesome it helps a good
deal if you feed him.
When man squeezes wonAns hand
it doesn't mean anything unless she
squeezes back.
All some city people know is whether
their part of town is reached by a green
or yellow car
1t is the complaint of an Atchison wo-
man that while she Is old, she is not old
enough to become colonial
Women of wealth sometimes forget to
speak to laboring women, but they are
afraid to show such pride to the dress
makers.
It makes no difference to what church
the family belongs. the daughter usually
selects the most fashionable to be married
in.
When a young man gets married, the
most sincere mourners at the wedding
are his sisters. to whom he has been in
the habit of giving spending money.
A force of habit story: A man attend
ed the free show last night at the theater,
and went up in the gallery when he could
have sat in the parquet.
The old fashioned country dog lives
down south of town: yesterday morning
he took hold of one of John c. Tomlin-
sons hogs, and chewed away until he
killed it..
An Atchison man who is nearly ffty
years old had some of his youthful folly
recalled lately and blushed so hot and
red that there was some danger of his
setting the house on fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
A New American Aristocracy.

New York Press.
Unenlightened folk who may be
tempted to scott at the little understood
labors of the antiquarians and an
thropologists who are slowly revealing
the wonders of the lost ages to appre-
ciative eyes. and those who would de-
precate the results attained as of no
unitarian value, should not fail to note
one incaiculably important disclosure
recently recorded. The international
Congress of Americanists has listened to
Mr.. W. J. McGee's profitable account OF
his chronological researches in the arid
regions of the southwest, where in the
time of Coronado ten times the present
population was supported, and where
before. the Apache wars there were SO0,-
600 people. Mr.. MCGEE says the bureau
of American ethnology sent worker
into that territory who discovered
well-developed system of heraldry
among various southwestern tribes.
quite similar to the heraldic systems OF
Europe. Indeed the American systems
show an earlier development, though
along similar lines than the European
The potential practical value of this
discovery scarcely needs to be enlarged
upon for the benefit of those familiar
with the enormous demand in the Uni
ted States today for family crests and
coats-cf-arms, daily demand which
taxes the ingenuity and inventive men
dacity of high-priced stGtioners, jewel
ers and carriage builders.
Iaken IN connection WIN MI Nc
Gees announcement the Significance of
the unearthing of the Lansing man" in
Kansas is astounding. Ethnologists at
the Congress of Americanists affirm the
age of the man discovered at Lansing
to be not less than 10000 years. If the
usually unerring signs by which adj
vanced antiquarians know exactly in
what year he died are not misread. IL
the individual belong to the Kansas ar
istocracy in that remote period, and If
he was involved in the comprehensive
heraIdic scheme that Mr.. MCGEE de-
scribes the import of the two reveal
tons, when allowed to reach the imagi-
nation with one in the light of the other,
is overwhelming. People in Kansas who
have not boosted of a Mayfiower ances-
try or whose forbears were not con
cerned with the early Morse or the Ca
bot or Columbus expeditions. or who
are not irrevOcably committed to a d.
rect descent from the Kings of Ierusa-
lem or the Norman or Breton or Irish
kings, are now face to face with COL
den opportunity. The undoubtedly pre-
Adamite existence of the Kansas pio-
neers seems so firmly established that
an earnest and determined band of
western ethnologists can go to work at
once and grow thousands of family
trees back to the Lansing man." or so
far toward the first gentleman of 10000
years ago that the already discredited
ancestral liar of the east would appear
commonplace by contrast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
OFF FOR OYSTER BAY.
The President Stopped in Wash
ington But a Short Time.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 3.-President
Roosevelt and party left here at 11:45
o'clock this morning on a special train
over the Pennsylvania railroad for Oys-
ter Bay where the president will vote.
No newspaper men accompanied the
president as permission to do so was
refused. The only members of the par
ty besides the president were Secretary
Cortelyou, Assistant Secretary Loeb, DIR.
Lung, the presidents physician and
four secret service men,
The special will reach New York at
Sis p. m. and Oyster Bay at z p. m.
4 had a great time he said. 1T was
splendid sport. I did not shoot any
thing, to be sure, but it was the outing
that I wanted. That was all 1 was
after, anyway. and I got it. l enjoyed
it immensely
The president was in exceedingly good
humor and laughed heartily over the
remarks about his luck on the shooting
trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
CHEAP SETTLERS RATES TO THE FAR
WEST AND NORTHWEST.

The Burlington Route renews the low
one-way settlers rate of $500 from
Missouri river to California. Portland
and the Puget Sound country every day
during September and October, with
correspOndingly low rates to the SDo-
kane district and the Butte-Helena dis
trict; also proportionate rates from
interior Missouri, Kansas and south
west territory.
The Burlington Northern Pacific Ex-
press is the great through train leav
ing Kansas City daily, for the north
west Through Coaches, Chair Cars
(seats free). Standard and Tourist
Sleepers to Butte, Helena, Spokane.
Tacoma, Seattle, Portland. Connecting
train from Denver at night joining this
northwest train at Alliance. Neb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

In a "sociaI' controversy at Parsons
the white man was quickest on the
trigger, but the cartridge was a blank.
An industrious Ottawa man who is
compelled to work hard all day for a
living is painting his house by moon
light.
By lively hustling a Burlington man
and his incubator can hatch chickens
as fast as the thieves can haul them
away.
Municipal ownership of lights in We'll
lington does not seem to give satisfac-
ton. Too many citizens attach to the
free meter.
An unassuming Wellington woman is
in reality so wise that she knows the
color and texture Of a brides dress be-
fore it is purchased.
homegrown potatoes will be eaten by
the ordinary Kansas citizens this win
ter. The asylum inmates will be fed
on Colorado and Northern.
The chief claim Of Hutchinson cit
izen is that he can stand on one leg for
half hour without changing For a
politician this is remarkable
An Ottawa fox terrier who had been
absent for two years without his owners
permission came home bright and early
the other morning to have his eye
dressed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
AN ELECTION STORY.
How Stebbins Didn't Rob a
Widow

Among the late charges that L. A
Stebbins, one of the candidates for
county attorney, is 50 bold, bad man,"
is one which appeared in the Sunday
morning paper to the effect that ne rob
bed a poor widow, even taking from her
insurance money. This woman. Zerilda
Mckiernan, comes out today in letter
in which she denies that Mr.. Stebbins
did anything of the kind: that he was
her friend and was worthy of her trust
and confidence: that if she could vote
she would vote for him and do all she
could for his success: that she told Mr.
Stebbins that she had been ;ll-trea ted
by another attorney and that when Mr.
Stebbins beard of it he released the
whole debt and refunded a fee she had
paid him; that he absolutely got Moth
ing himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
Beauty Not the Great Prize.

Tacoma Ledger:
To be beautiful may be a blessing. It
pleasing to the eye. 1t must be doubIy
a pleasure to have the consciousness Of
being beautiful. of knowing that curve
and color appeal to the senses. To max :
the most of natures gifts is natural and
seemly. Once in while there is a sud
den lesson that beauty alone does not
suffice. The fact that is perfect in con-
ComeHness without character is a snare
to the pOssessor and to all who come
within range.
In California there was a girl of
beauty most remarkable. Her figure
was by artists pronounced ideal. She
posed as the model for statuary. Her
picture. with all the scantineSs Of
drapery permissible was often in the
papers. For her beauty she was wooed
Naturally the marriage was unhappy.
The tie was soon broken. and she drift
ed into a bohemian life in the city
There was one of her associates W o
became infatuated with her. She would
not marry him: farbade his presence,
and the poor fool Killed her. He killed
himself as well. but while this did not
seem particularly Objectiona BILE, it did
not mitigate the grossness of his first
crime.
This girl was the victim Of her own
beauty. 1t was her sole capital. 1t was
not enough to lead her to a proper
womanhood Not that she was a bad
person, or inclined to wiekedness. but
she was accustomed to alteration. At
last one CT her adorers slew her. Mental
gifts, normal perceptions, ideals of ordi-
nary standard might have saved her to
usefulness; beauty was her sole capital.
and it was not enough Nature that
seemed to have been lavish, in reality
had been unkind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.


lfTOm the EniladelDnia Record
Every wife. should be labeled: Handle
wi care
There is always 4 tuning ONT, even 10
2 dudes trousers
A man is sometimes known by the things
he lea-ts Endone.
In storing away clothes, enc camrhor
ball is worth three CT the pawnbroker' s.
The automobile never gets a rest. but
the automobiles often gets arrested
It is seldom the black sheep of the fam
lily who has the wool pulled over his eyes
No. Maude, dear. there is no reason why
deaf mute should not be a sign painter
The fewer friends have the less dis
agreeable things we hear about ourselves
For every se1f-made man there are Il
hundred who claim they gave him his first
start
DO you wurstr' exclaimed the melo-
dramatic dog. as they led him to the sau-
sage mill
Give woman her own way. says the
cynical bachelor. and she is dissatisfied
because everything Is so easy.
Nels-Mr- LigEtpurse is close friend
of yours isn't hep BELIEVES, he's about
as close as they make en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
The President's Victorv.

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
In many ways and for many years
the influence of the intervention of the
president of the United States in the
great coal strike will be felt as a great
deed and a power for good 1t met
crisis with the holiness of sincerity and
is another instance of the Sagacity in
public affairs of the chief magistrate.
More and more the country sees in the
strong men around him and near him
the reflection of his character, the can
dor of his courage and the excellence of
profoundly impressed the world proved
that Theodore Roosevelt has won his
victories with his inherent forces and
upon principles to which he is steadfast.
All the world has heard the president.
The ringing words of his appeal to the
strikers and the opera tors-ferce to
fight to the finish of reconnaissance
read in Europe with deep sympathy and
admiration. The president was the fore
most man to measure the occasion, and
his action though rapid was deliberate.
There was an cutlery when the opera
tors assumed an untenable position that
the president had exhausted his re-
sources and failed. He was like Paul
Jones, who, when asked whether he had
surrendered, replied that he had Just
begun to fight"
He proposed to appoint commission
of investigation, and upon it's report he
would call an extra session of congress,
and he proposed, also, to keep order if
the disorderlies took advantage of the
general excitement and the widespread
calamity. There was victory for him in
the air. His words were deeds. The
people were joyful when he arose to the
OCCASION and they felt there was no
mistake that a statesman and hero was
In command of the ship of state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
Evil of Spells System.


PhitadelDnla Record.
OF the curse of the spoils system some
idea may be formed from facts relating
to the government of Illinois, which
have been placed before the state board
of charities. In the past ten years the
state has had three different governors
and there have been three clean sweeps
of $500 officials and subordinates under
the control of the governor. 1t is not
denied that each succeeding governor
has removed every official and every
employee of the state charitable and
penal institutions solely in order to give
places to his friends. No sooner have
men become familiar with their official
duties and studied out systems OF re
form than they have had to make way
for the political supporters of the new
governor. 1t is not surprising that the
institutions have suffered from ineffi-
cheney and that scandals have devel-
oped. 1t is estimated that fully one-half
the governors time is given to the pa
tronage problems. That the cost of the
charities and prisons in Illinois is great
er than In states where there Is a limit
to the political changes is a matter of
course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
VISIT THE OLD HOME-EAST.

Home visitors excursions to points IN
Ohio and Indiana: dates of sale Sep
TENDER 2. 9, 16 and %: limit 80 days
Also excursion rates to Ohio and In
diana during the first week of October
at the time of the big Grand Army re-
union in Washington, D. C.
TO CHICAGO-The Burlington's IA.
nous Ell" is the best known and most
popular train from Kansas City and ST.
Joseph to Chicago.
TO ST. LOUIS-Two daily trains
carrying all classes of standard PR
lington equipn ent.
HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS.
On the first and third TUESDAYS of
August, September and October. to
many sections of the west and north
west.
Consult nearest ticket agent or write
the undersigned for full information
printed matter and the least cost of
your proposed trip.
R. H. CRoZIER, l. W. wAKELEY
T, p. A, s23 Main St. GenY Pass,r Aga,t
Kansas City. Mo. St Louis Mo-
c. NJ. LEvEY
General Manager
St Louis, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
Retribution for a Practical Joker.

Washington Star:
Probably Mr.. George A. Demming OF
Pittsburg will now swear off from that
detestable habit of playing practical
jokes on his friends. He has had a long
career at this kind of fun" He has
annoyed bridal couples by tagging their
trunks and betraying their newly wedd-
ed state throughout their honeymoon,
even hundreds of miles from home He
has gone through life making other peo-
pie wretched. Now ne has had the
tables turned on him. He was married
the other evening. In anticipation Of
tie event his former victims. married
and single. organized a spectacle for the
delectation of the town and the refor-
nation of Demming. It was rather hard
on the young woman. of course but II
seemed a necessary measure to cure {.
desperate case. The conspirators kept
quiet until the bridal couple left the
house for the train. and then captured
them and thrust them into a Gagged cx-
press wagon, which was Apr opIiatel
covered with banners and illuminated by
four boys burning pans of red fire. The
wagon was then sent over a prescribed
route, along which handbills had been
scattered announcing the advent of a
circus" the chief attraction being a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
WEST VIRGINIA.

Wheeling, w Va. Nov 3-The Re-
publican managers claim Dovenor will
be returned to congress from the First
district with an increased majority. In
the Second district John T. McGraw, the
Democratic candidate, has made an ex-
cellent campaign, and his managers feel
that Mr.. Dayton, the Republican candi-
date for reelection, if elected will have
a close call. In the Third district, Mil
Ter, the Democrat. has been making a
hot fight against Gaines, the Republican.
The Fourth and Fifth congressional dis
tricts are claimed by both sides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03

Those who may contemplate voting
tomorrow. without having the right to
do so will do we'll TO remember that a
man in st. Louis has lust been SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary
for exercising the right of franchise IL
legally. Commenting on the circum-
stance the Dispatch says: This
conviction was procured in the ordinary
course of procedure, without any spec
ial effort. 1t signifies that such often
ses are dangerous to the perpetrators.
who are never out of the peril invited
by their misdeed. 1t is not difficult to
make a case against ballot box suffers,
repeaters and doctors of the count Gen
orally speaking. it is question of will
ingness on the part of witnesses to tes-
ify. Such offenses are not committed
n corner and cannot escape the OBJ
servation of honest men, who, IL they
nave the courage Of their integrity, can
10 the state an invaluable service by
soming forward and exposing the crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03

The commissioner of education re-
ports that last year the total number
of pupils in the schools of this country
was II, 299. 23O (Which number includes
those attending the higher institutions)
Of these 15.71OS94 attend schools sup
ported by general and local taxes fur
nished by states and municipalities In
addition to these a half million pupils
are attending special technical, bust
ness and evening schools. The value OF
property used for school purposes is
placed at 1915. 500, 0S9 and the expendi-
ture for common schools (omitting all
institutions of higher learning) was
S226. O4s, 296. or s2.93 per capita.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Sioux Falls. S. D.. Nov 3-The Re
pubHcans not only claim the election
of their state ticket and congressman,
but that they will have a majority of
from five to ten in the legislature in
suring the reelection of United States
Senator Kittredge. A vote of about rs
per cent of that cast two years ago is
looked for. The Democrats claim the
Republicans will not have a majority
for their state ticket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
NORTH CAROLINA.

Raleigh, N. c., Nova judge of the
state supreme court, mem bers of the leg
islature and congressman will be elected
in this state The chances favor the re-
election of Justice Walter Clark and the
legislature will be Democratic. Locke
Craig is the leading Democratic candi-
date for the United States senate to
succeed Senator Pritchard The Demo-
Gratis claim nine of the ten members
of congress. Only ten thousand negroes
have Registered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03

chief at the next national encamoment
The Kansas department made great
hit at the Washington encampment with
its display Of Kansas products, and it
brought Kansas into great prominence
Kansas has more old soldiers in proper
ton to its population than any other
state in the union, but it has never fur
Grand Army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Charleston, S c.. Nov. 3.-The Demo-
Gratis will return a solid delegation to
congress from South Carolina. Duncan
c. Hayward will be elected governor
without opposition. The legislature will
send Asbury c. Lattimer to the U 5
senate as the successor of John L. Nc
Laurin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
Mrs. olga Hamilton Divorced.

London. Nov. 3.-Mrs. Olga Hamilton
a daughter Of Col. Augustus Charles
Frederick Fitzgeorge, was granted di-
vorce today from her husband c. F. A.
deserted her and had been guilty of mis-
conduct with an unknown woman. Mrs
Hamilton is a granddaughter of the
duke of Cambridge. Mr. Hamilton is
a son of Sir T. A Hamilton, baronet
and is a distant relative CT the duke OF
A he-cO-n.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03

1t is reported that William R. Hearst.
editor of the New York American. has
spent $4,000 on his campaign for con-
gress, regardless of the fact that he
could have been elected without laying
out a cent The district in which he
is running, the Eleventh, is overwhelm-
ingIy Democratic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-03
VIRGINIA.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 3.-Virginia win
elect ten congressman. In each district
there is opposition to the Democratic
nominees, though in practically all in
stances the opposition is nominal. This
is the first election under the new con-
stitution and less than Is per cent of the
negroes are registered.