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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-13
NORTH TOPEKA.

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Girl wanted at Bakers.
Mrs. Carter. Of Silver Lake, was in
town today.
Mrs. Frank Grear went to St. Joseph
today on a business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kull are the par
ents of a son. born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank McNally are the
parents of a son, born yesterday.
Miss Lizzie Conkling has taken a po-
sition at the Mills Dry Goods company.
Gate City court No %, Tribe of Ben
Hur, initiated twelve members last
n,onts.
John Gordinier left today for Chicago,
where he has a position in the Rock Is
land offices.
C. C. Nicholson. ]. c. Smith and Will
Bridge went up the river today on
duck h-nt.
The Aletheans met last evening at the
home of Miss Hazel Forbes. on the
Rochester road
The S. K d. D. club entertained last
evening at the home of Miss Eta Clam
pitt on Kansas avenue
A. L. Cook. who lives on the Arnold
farm near Silver Lake is making prepa-
rations to move to West Virginia
Rev and Mrs 3. F. Masterson, of
Englewood Cal. are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. D. NJ. froltz. of 1920 Tyler
street.
Mrs w D. Woodford returned last
evening from visit of several days to
friends and relatives at Ottawa and
Lawrence.
One dozen ladies' Newmarket coats,
worth $500, Friday for $4.9S Ladies
silk skirts worth $4,000 for $3.50. Will
liam NJ Costley.
Don't forget Mrs Courtney's millinery
sale Friday and Saturday. Two stores
SOB Kansas avenue south upstairs, 81
Kansas avenue north.
Miss Marie Bobb daughter of A. Y.
Bobb, is seriously i'll at the family home
on Harrison street Her condition has
been about the same for the past four
DAYS.
We have school shoes for all the boys
and girls in the city and surrounding
country. Try a pair. and if not salts
fed let US know about it. William NJ
Cost!e-t.
Elmer Forbes and family have rented
furnished the G. w. NJ White house on
shortly for The Needles, Cal. to spend
the winter visiting her daughter, Mrs
Stevens.
Morns & Myers had on sale today sew
eraI boxes of fine Strawberries which
had been brought in from the Cheney
farm north Of town. These berries were
not raised under glass but out in the
open air, and were the second crop from
the patch.
Friday bargains: Two dozen ladies'
corsets Friday for 29c; Mennens talcum
powder 14c oer box: two dozen ladies'
trimmed hats. SIC each, one lot at CSC
each. Ten per cent off on all other mil
linerv Friday and Saturday. William
NJ. Costle-.
Miss Annie Crouch. OF Maple Hill. is
here visiting her brother and sister, Mr.
and Mrs George Crouch, OF 935 Monroe
street. Miss Crouch is one OF the Maple
Hill teachers. hut on account of TIE
diohtheria scare the schools have been
closed Coz a time.
Last evening the members of Florence
lodge No. of the Lo.ral Star gave a
pleasant surprise on Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Garland at their home, 1928 Harrison
street The time was passed in pIa wing
progressive high five, and the first prize
was won by Mrs Madeulet, and the con-
ISOLATION by Mrs. Briesy. After the scor-
| ing refreshments We're served.
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preparations, strychnine, and the long
list of poisons that are daily admins
tered by our friends 90 the M. DIS,
but by properly fitted glasses that re-
move the strain upon the delicate mus
cles of the eye, conserving the nerve
force and giving nature a chance to re-
store and broken-down and wasted It's
sues
| did not come before the medical
board to obtain the right to use the pre-
fix DR.. but to prove to them and the
world at large that the professional. OPP
ticians are competent and know their
business and are entitled to be classed
as professional men.
In this city 1 find the streets lined
with the following signs: DR.. Lux. dent
list: DIR. Lyons, dentist; DR. Pritchard.
veterinary: DR.. DeObert. dentist; Drs.
Lyman & Lyman. dentists; DR.. Solecki.
dentist; DIR. WATSON, dentist: Dr. Reed,
dentist; DR.. West. dentist: and my sign
reads DIR. Littlefield's Optical Parlor."
Have you served notice on each one of
these people and DR.. Mcfarland and DIR.
Countermine that they must drop the
prefix Dr.? That those magic letters
belong exclusively to the M. DIS, and
to a fine of 5000? Or have 1 been singled
out as a special sinner against the
medical code of ethics and am to be
punished by due process of 2ersec!---o1
under the guise of the medical law
Does the medical board look upon me
as an easier proposition than McCor-
mick of Chicago, and for that reason
have dropped the case against his grad
uate and now start after me?
Perhaps in no better way can we show
to the world the advantages of our sys-
tenn of healing over drug medication
than to have this contention decided in
the courts and show it to the people
through the public press.
I thank you for the courtesy of adj
dressing me in your letter DIR. J. E. Lit
tlefeld." I have earned my title by
years of hard work and research. have
proven my right to use it by passing
your examination. and I will never re-
lincuish my claims to the title without
a struggle. Can you blame me?
Respectfully yours,
DIR. J. E. LITTLEFTELD.
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Fair Commissioner Gives Dinner.

Berlin, Nov. 13.-Fair Commissioner
Cridler gave dinner today to the mem
bers of the United States embassy, Fair
Commissioner Bruecker and Consuls
Mason. Guenther Hughes. Muench
Mona CHAN and LANCER. Expedients for
promoting interest in the ST Louis ex-
position were determined upon. Mr..
Cridler goes to Italy tonight to meet
delegates from the italian chambers of
commerce at Florence Thence Mr.
Cridler will go to Rome with the dele
gates, November "a, to attend the open
ing of parliament of which body an ap-
preparation will be asked. Commission
er Kohlsaat is at Hamburg on st. Louis
exposition business. He will join Mr.
Cridler at Rome.
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COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

With a strong supporting cast and a
melodrama dealing with the incidents of
western mining camp, Elsa Ryan comes
to the New Crawford tonight. This dsin-
ty little lady whose pretty face and ex-
eellent portrayal of Alice in THE Run
away Girl three years ago at Daly's
theater, New York set the seal of metro
politan success upon her work, is but
twenty years of age and has surprised
her most intimate friends by the rapid
rise she has made from the ranks to a
first position as star. Nevada is a
play of the Augustus Thomas STYLE
breathing the atmosphere of western life.
AS Dolly Gray child woman she
loves without knowing it, Jack Mar
shall' who as her fathers protector in
a moment of peril and his tutelage of the
hayward little mining camp product is
both touching and lovable- Miss Ryan,
as Dolly was never more artistic than in
this child of the camp
Mortimer Murdock's romances of the
sea have made his name a household
word with the playgoers of England
Down by the Sea" is one of his most
popular stories and has been an immense
success as play over there for the past
eight years For its presentation III this
country. the story has been slightly
changed and the action now takes place
on the Long Island shore instead of the
English coast. It comes to the New
Crawford tomorrow night
Complications in the plot of a play may
prove interesting to some, but the gen.
eral public is more easily amused by di-
rect simplicity to engage their attention
spieed by those necessary condiments
wit and ginger" This latter method
was adopted by Hoyt when he wrote his
comedy "A Bunch of Keys The fact
that the pubic ear is entranced by mel
odies did not escape Mr.. Hoyt "a
Bunch of Keys" will be seen both matinee
and night at the New Crawford.
In THE Secret Dispatch" David Tig-
gins has succeeded in accomplishing what
many authors have failed in doing He
the civil war, upon original lines. The
play furnishes a pleasing contrast bs.-
tween scenes at the seat of war and pic
lures of life in quiet Ohio village This
attraction will be given at the New Craw-
ford theater Monday by a strong COM
pany-
julie Walters comedy Gust Struck
Town. will be produced at the New
Crawford on Wednesday evening The
first act shows a familiar spot to all who
have ever visited the country: that of a
cross-road. with the typical country store.
Across the road is large barn with a
loft faill of hay, old plows and other farm
machinery are strewn about the
cattle yards, the farm pump and trough.
a railroad track with cattle-guards and
warning posts. ~ .ook out for the cars
when the whistle blows
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Notes and Personal Mention.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Williams, Mrs.
Frank FARRELL, Mrs. Harry Williams,
Mr.. Burns Williams and Mr.. W. L.
Dickey went to Kansas City Wednes-
day to see Edward Sothern in IF I
Were King" at the Willis Wood. Mr..
and Mrs Williams went on from Kan
sas City to Quincy, ILL.,, to visit their
daughter, Mrs. H L. Bert and the 9TH
ers returned that night accompanied
by Mrs. w. L. Dickey who has been
in Kansas City all week.
Mrs. Albert Patten will spend Satur-
day in Kansas City and go from there
to Leavenworth where Mr.. Patten will
join her to stay over Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Berry who will also
have as guests Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Fruer and Mrs. John Green
Miss Meta Robinson returned today
from Chicago. Mrs. ]. H. Hampson of
the City of Mexico. who accompanied
her, will remain about a week longer
and will stop in Topeka on her way
home. fIf=B%
Miss Faye Johnston, who has been
at the home of Judge and Mrs. Abram
Bergen for several weeks will go to
Dunavant Friday to visit her cousin
Mrs. John Lawrence Work and from
there return to her home in ST. Louis
On Friday evening, Nov. IA, there will
be musicale and literary entertain
ment followed by dance. under the
auspices of degree team of Ancient Or
der of Pyramids at 40 Kan. ave. Adj
mission l5c- hattie L. Carson. chair
man committee: j. P. Farnsworth, sec
rotary.
DR.. Hal Hazlett is the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Kleinhans for a
weeks shooting at Pres de LEau,"
their country home near Granville.
Mrs. Almira Brown and Miss RATHER
Inc Brown will occupy one of the
apartments in the new Gleed flats at
the corner of Sixth and Topeka ave-
nues
Mrs. c. c. Goddard of Leavenworth
will attend the reception at the Gov
ernor's House next Thursday.
Mrs. Frank s. Crane was called to
Colorado Springs Wednesday by the
serious illness of her brother, Mr.. Louis
B. Smith.
Mr.. George B. Palmer is at Lake View
for a few days shooting.
Mr. A. L. Sproule of Chicago was in
town Wednesday.
Mr.. Frank Crane and Mr.. w A Nor
ton have been in Lake View for several
days duck shooting this week.
Mrs. J. N. Roberts Of Lawrence spent
Wednesday with her daughter, Mrs.
Herbert Armstrong.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H South of Utica, N
Y, are visiting Mr.. South's uncle, Mr..
H. D. South.
Miss Kate Adams of Little Rock, Ark.
and Miss Maude Polly of Corsicana,
Tex, who have been visiting Mrs E A
Peabody, leave Saturday for their
homes.
The Golden Rule club will meet Fri
day afternoon, November IA, with Mrs.
George Moffitt 1121 Lane street.
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ROBERT GOBLET FINED $50
Charged That He Ran His Automo-
bile Twenty Miles an Hour.

New York, Nov. 13-Robert w. Goelet,
of No. 9 West Seventeenth street, who
was arrested November last by a bicycle
policeman for travelling at the rate of
twenty miles an hour in his automobile
at Central Park West and Eighty-fffth
street, was arraigned IN special sessions
this morning, and fined $50, which he
paid Mr. Goelet offered no defense.
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Pcst-Dispatch from Columbia, Mo. says
that arguments in the case of Colonel Ed
Butler, the St. Louis millionaire and
politician, being tried on the charge Of
attempted bribery, began today before
Judge HOckaday. The Judge allowed
three and one-half hours to each side c.
Orrick Bishop opened for the state and
was followed by Judge c. H Krum for
the defense
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Miss aoge Died of Pneumonia.

Washington. Nov 13.-Deputy Coro-
ner Glasebrook today performed an
autopsy on the body of Miss Louise
Hcge of Evanston ILL.,. who has been
for several weeks. for typhoid fever and
who died here last night. The result of
the autopsy was a decision that Miss
Hoge died of pneumonia.
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Republican Candidate Gives up.

Albany N Y Nov I3.-Deputy At
torney General Henry 3. Conan. who
was the Republican candidate for attor-
nep general at the recent election, today
gave out a ste tement conceding the
election of John Cunneen of Buffalo, his
opponent for the office on the Demo-
cratic and Prohibition tickets.
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The Pennsylvania Advances Wages.

Pittsburg, Nov. 13.-Notices signed by J.
NJ. Waits. general superintendent of the
West Pennsylvania railroad were posted
in the offices of the company at Allegheny
TODAY to the effect that an advance of 10
per cent would BE- made IN the wages of
all employees permanentIy in the service
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Startling, but True.

IF everyone knew what a grand med.-
cine Dr. Kings New Life Pills Is, writes
D. H. Turner. Dempseytown, Pa. you d
sell all YOU have in a day.. Two wee
use has made new man of me-. Infal-
troubles. 25c at Arnold Drug Co. 81 N.
Kansas avenue.
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Apollo Recital.

There will be free public recital this
evening at of both classical and popu-
lar music on the new Apollo Piano Player
at TIE wareroorns OF the E. B. Guild
Music Co.
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Football, Haskell Us. z. U, Lawrence
and Return 79c, Santa Fe.

Lawrence and return 7Sc Santa Fe.
Tickets on sale Saturday, November Is:
final limit. November IL.
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For DECEMBER

Il cents per copy Sold by all News
dealers and Butterick Agents. Send
S1.oo now and get the Magazine for an
entire year.
IKE BvrrnRrek Co.. Il West 18th ST.. New York
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Mrs. William Gardner Snyser's after
noon tea. between the hours of 3 and s
O'Clock today was in compliment to
Mrs. c. D. Purdon of ST Louis. Chrys-
anthemums, ferns and palms were used
in decoration and the assisting women
were Mrs. Henry Stevenson of Turon.
Mrs. c. G.. Foster, Mrs c. w Kounss
Mrs. T. J. Hankla, Mrs. Bowman and
Miss Bessie West. Miss Meta Robinson,
Miss Anna Marie Nellis poured.
Mrs. F. w. Freeman entertained eight
young women for luncheon and the
compliment to Mrs. Charles Wilmarth
Of Los Angeles, Cal.
Mrs Frank FARRELL is entertaining a
very small company informally this
afternoon for Mrs. William Walker Of
Bethlehem. Pa.
Mr. and Mrs C. E. Hawley entertained
the members of the Shakespeare club,
their husbands and men friends in
formally Wednesday evening at their
home, 1905 Harrison street, to meet Mr..
and Mrs. Everett Hawley of Washing
ton, D. G.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. B. Doncyson. Mr..
and Mrs. w G. Dickie, Mr. and Mrs.
Edith Metcalf. Miss Julia Whitmer,
Miss Eda Smyth, Miss Ned Griffitt, Mr..
Walter D. Goodwin, MI. Sam McAdams,
Mr.. Ernest Robson, Mr.. Perkie and Mr..
Morris Stevenson are the members of
new card club which had its first meet
Miss Fordyce- Mrs. D. E. Esterley
substituted for Mrs. Doncyson. The
club will meet in three weeks with Miss
Eda Smyth.
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Mrs. Frank FARRELL is entertaining a
very small company informally this
afternoon for Mrs. William Walker of
Bethlehem. Pa.
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of the pennsylvania system, east of Pitts
burg, who are now receiving less than s2tG
a month TO take effect November /. 1902.
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a Yule-Tide
Dinner

Quaint and appetizing, is finely
Illustrated in the December num-
Der of THE ELINEAToR. Recipes
and directions for it are given in
full, and for many other season.
able dishes in the department of
" THE KITCHEN"
New-York tribune., 1902-08-10

could only see the tops of each others hats. Its
bore is large enough to accommodate fun
grown man.
The projecte for this immense gun will
be 8 feet inches long, if stood on end,
and will weigh 2,370 pounds 1t Will re-
quire $40 pounds of smokeless powder to
propel it, and 1,176 pounds of the old fash
ioned black powder. 1t has been calculated by
expert artilerists that if the gun mounted
at Sandy Hook and fired toward Manhattan the
shot would carry as far north Central Park,
or could be dropped in any part of Brooklyn.
If mounted at the Battery it could send shot
far north s Hastings. far as Perth Amboy
on the south, TO Hampstead on the east and
Chatham, n. j., on the west This prOjectiIe
could penetrate 1924 inches of steel at the
muzzle and nothing thus far known in the line
of defensive armOr could resist it.
In spite of it's enormous bulk and power this
giant piece of mechanism is as easily operated
the lightest feldpiece. The breech block
weighs even ton but the strength of a child
is all sufficient to operate the machinery which
opens it and swings it clear of the gun. Three
separate movements required to open the
breech, but they all controlled by a set of
worm gearing that is simplicity itself in opera
New-York tribune., 1902-08-10

Salem to visit her son. and there for the hrst
time in her life saw the Atlantic Ocean
Nothing has afforded Mrs. Johnson greater
pleasure in the last few years than the visit
raid her in Jun last by the venerable DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale who is connected with her
family by marriage and who was in Northamp-
ton at the time deliver the commencement
Grafton at Smith College. The meeting was also
4 delight to the doctor for they went back to
common ground of seventy-five years ago when
Mrs. johnson, as "A school teacher boarded in
the family of DR.. Hale's grandfather then the
,-thodox parson in the ncighborinS town of
NIssthamUton, whore the Doctors parents were
wont to bring their children for occasional Wis
its. The doctor laughed heartily at her recol-
lection of his mischevous pranks, and was par
lcularly amused her story of a bit of ad-
Tice given her day by his grandfather. The
,arson was counsellnG her about religion and
Earned her earnestly not to be Ted astray by
the new hercsy." referring to Unitaransm, Of
which his grandson is to-day one of the foremost
opponents
New-York tribune., 1902-08-10

pounds. The British Government has an Arm
strong gun which comes the nearest in power
to the Watervliet 16-inch gun. 1t is a 1926
inch gun. and throws a shot weighing 1SGO
pounds with muzze velocity of 100 feet a
second. Yet this big British gun is only about
ID per cent powerful as the Watervlet piece.
which can. therefore. be rightly termed the
most powerful gun in the world
The simple inscription on the muzzle of the
gun is this: ''16-inch No. !. Ord Dept y. s. A.
Model 1895. WatervIiet Arsenal 1902 Under
this are countersunk the letters j. p F. Inspt,"
which the initials of Colonel J. p. Farley,
who has had the responsibility and personal
charge Of the work of construction on this gun
since the inception of the plan to build it, Cello
mel Farley naturally feels proud of this gun,
and has said he would rather have his name
it than anywhere else in the world. AS the
colonel will soon retire. this Will be the crown
ing achievement of his life
New-York tribune., 1902-08-10
A BIG PIECE OF ORDNANCE.
THE NEW SIXTEEN-INCH RIFLED CAN
NON CONSTRUCTED AT WATERVLIET

Sandy Hook is making ready to receive from
Watervliet arsenal one of the biggest guns ever
made one that will be able to fire ii shot the
entire length of Manhattan Island and have the
effect of a small cyclone when ii strikes Ihe
great 16-inch rifle manufactured at the army
gun factory at the Watervliet arsenal, which
has attracted the attention of the world IN
the years taken up in its construction, is com
pIeted and on July 30 orders were received by
the commandant at Watervliet. Colonel Farley,
to begin preparations for the shipment of the
gun down the Hudson River 10y barge to Sandy
Hook
Those who saw the gun tube in its first stages
of preparation would not recognize that piece
of metal in the finished gun, with its high
polish dclicatcy adjusted mechanism and
big gun in its parts deHcately adjusted is
the breech mechanism and fine and true are
the lines Of its interior surface that it might he
considered the work of some giant jeWeller
rather than that of i maker Of ordnance. The
mechanical adjustment 10y which the easy reVo-
tuition Of 4 crank starts a sequence of move
mcnts which after the projectile has been placed
close to the br.ech. closes the breech of the gun
and prepares it for the primer and the dis
charge is a marvellous illustration Of the small
amount OF energy required in the gunner to
lease the almost incaculable amount of energy
involved in the movement of the huge messen-
ger OF destruction
New-York tribune., 1902-08-10

children and five grandchildren comprise
her surviving descendants.
The aged woman carries her weight OF years
..ith remarkable Vigor and cheerfulness, partial
deafness being her only noteworthy infrrnity
she walks about with ease and confidence, reads
the daily papers and keeps herself conversant
with the leading events and questions of the
Nay. She delights in conversation, particularly
with young people, and frequently displays a
sharp native humor. Her memory of events
turing the first half century of her life is Won
Gcrfuliy full and clear She recalls meeting
Lafayette in Northampton during his tour Of the
country in 1924, and remembers that in reply
90 her greeting the general said, You make me
very happy" 1t is a noteworthy fact that at
tIle aga of ninety-three Mrs. Johnson went to
New-York tribune., 1902-08-10

quired.
Every part of the great gun is built as 40
curateIy as the works of watch. The gun nav
be fired either by electricity by the ordinary
friction primer.
There have been other guns built by other
countries which have been of little larqer
caIibre but none of them could approach j.
power this new gun of Uncle Sans The Ita1ia
Government had a gun built that possessed :
caIibre of 1915 inches and threw proiectiIa =.
,, 900 pounds But il only had a muzzle eper,
of about 10000 foot tons, while this new Ameri-
can 16-inch gun has muzzle energy of SS,OO0
foot tons. France has 16-5 inch gun, but If
has a muzzle energy of only 10000 foot ton,
and carries a projectile weighing onIy zoo
New-York tribune., 1902-08-10

The shipment of this gigantic rifle TO SAMMY
Hook must be by boat as the railroad coih-
panies have refused to undertake the risk OF
conveying heavy piece of freight Ihe dc-
companying photograph was taken just as the
first preparations for moving the gun from the
factory where it was constructed were being
made In a week the greatest gun IN
the world will be at Sandy Hook where 1T VIII
be tested and watched by the ordnance experts
of the universe.
The gun is 80 feet long and weighs 13o tons
1t is heavier than the heaviest locomotive and
if stood its breech in three story and base
ment house enough of the barrel would pro-
trude above the roof to form a big chimney.
When lying fiat the ground two men OF
ordinary height standing opposite sides