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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
THEY ARE PLENTIFUL.
Politicians Talk of Several Possible
Candidates For Mayor.

Political gossip at the city hall is no
longer limited to the much discussed
topic of a candidate for mayor. The
other offices to be filed are coming in
for a share of the talk.
There are indications that quite a
fight viii take place for the office Of city
clerk. J. H. Squires will in all prob
ability run for a third term. and he will
have opposition. E. E. Lair. a prom
inent young Republican, and one who
has done active work in past campaigns,
has about decided TO enter the race
Mr.. Squires bases his claims for third
tern on the fact that his predecessors,
S 5. McFadden and George Tauber,
held the office for a great many years
without interruption. There is also
some talk that Miss Hattie Holman,
who until recently was deputy city
clerk, will be a candidate for the nom
nation She would be fully competent
for the place, and would help swing the
women's vote into the Republican col
umn.
For judge of the court of Topeka
there will likely be fight. Dave Gregg,
formerly assistant city attorney, would
like to succeed the present judge, Ar
thur J. McCabe. Mr.. McCabe may him
self decide to run for a third term, on
the ground that district court judges
are elected for more than two terms,
and the same rule should apply to the
city court. George Washington Jack
son, leader of the Twenty third regi-
ment band will be a candidate for mar
shall of the city court. There is not like
~ to be any opposition to City Attorney
Spencer.
Colonel ]. w. F. Hughes is still prov
ing to be a stumbling block in the way
Of the Republican nomina ton for
mayor The Republicans as a general
thing do not want Hughes, because
they believe that if nominated he would
be defeated as he was in the last cleo
ton. But Hughes is determined to
stay on the track, and may try the
same bulldOzing tactics which he used
in the last campaign to force his own
nomination. In the last campaign. the
law and order people were forced to in
dorse Hughes because he declared hs-
would run anyway and smash up the law
and order slate. He is likely to try to
work the same game in the coming
campaign.
The nomination of F. W. Emerson on
the Prohibition ticket for governor puts
him out of the race for the Republican
nominat ton for mayor. Charles NJ Shell
don is still talked of, but it is not likely
that he would consent to acceot the
place. Councilman Bergundthal IS like
~ to be a candidate. bit he will not
accept the Endorsement of the law and
order league. He wants TO be unham-
pered with promises. Councilmen Howe,
Wolf and Swendson are also mentioned
as being acceptable to the law and or
der lea que. 1t is generally believed that
Councilman Weber will get into the
race, and NJ. Snattnger also has many
trends. Neither of these men. however,
would be acceptable to the law and or
der people. BY the time of the Repub-
lican primaries the fight is likely to
narrow down to two or three candidates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
WYANDOTTE LEADS.
Receives SIS, 900 in Taxes From
Railroad Companies.

The railroads, and Pullman. tele-
graph and telephone companies doing
business in Kansas pay taxes amount
ing to an aggregate of S2.2O5. $50 Y. This
is one-sixth of the total amount of
taxes levied for all purposes.
WyandOtte county receives more from
the railroads than any other county,
Sl8039-l1- only one other county any
where near approaches this figure. That
IS Crawford, which receives S63, 645. q.
Cowley, Sedgwick and Sumner counties
receive above $50 COO
Shawnee county gets only S41 927. o..
Eight counties receive more taxes from
the railroads than Shawnee.
There are five counties which have
neither railroads nor telephones and re-
ceive no taxes from these sources. They
are Grant Haskell. NortonA Stanton
and Stevens, all in the extreme south
western part Of the state.
Hodgeman receiV es the smallest
amount of any county which has rail-
road, S234741
The following is the amount Of taxes
paid in each county by the railroad,
Pullman, telephone and telegraph COM
panies, as reported to the state auditor:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
GIVES HIMSELF UP.
Man Accused of numbering Nora
Fuller Surrenders.

San Francisco. June IA special to
the Examiner from Sedro- Wolley,
Wash. says that a man confessing TO
be one of Nora Fuller's murderers has
surrendered himself to the city marshal
at that place. He claims to be John
Bennett, for whom the police have been
searching for several months. In an
interview at the jail Bennett asserted
he would make a full confession, impn-
eating some of the most prominent men
in San Francisco. He particularly mea-
toned a prominent physician in San
Francisco. He ACKNOWLEDGED that he
was mixed I'D in the affair at first, but
claims he is not the real murderer.
He says he has been supplied with
money to aid him in evading the officers
of the law until the last month. when
the financial supplies ceased Bennett
says Nora Fuller went with him to the
Suffer street house of her own free
will.
I have here letters in my pockets show
ing where the real cuIprits have sent
me money to keep out of the way, but
when they have neglected me it gives
me the excuse to end the awful fear
and suspense to which have been sub
jected.
The alleged Bennett answers perfectly
to the description of the supposed muir
derer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24

six weeks" said President Mcneil. I
don't intend to make a move until the
company shows an inclination to settle
the strike I have decided not to go to
Omaha until the management of the
Union Pacific sends for me. They know
my address
Reports from the Union Pacific shops
at Omaha are that 225 men have been
discharged there, pending the settle
ment of the strike; 40 men at the shops
at Cheyenne, WyO., are also let out
A meeting of bOilermakers and Union
Pacific nachinists was held at Omaha
After the meeting President Kennedy:
of the boiler makers union. said it had
been decided to wait a day or two un-
til the car builders union has conclud-
ed an agreement at a conference with
railroad officials. He expressed himself
as confident of the ultimate result, and
intimated that any attempt on the part
of the railroad to force matters by
bring new men would result in a gen
eral strike in all departments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24

November, 1881, he was train dispatcher
for Mexican Central railroad, and train
master of the same road. November /,
1884, to November /. 1885. he served as
superintendent. second division, same
road. From November ], 1885, to March
I, 1888. he was division superintendent
Atlantic & Pacific railway, March l.
1888, to April l, 1889, superintendent first
division Mexican Central railroad. April
1. 1889, to January l. 1892, he was sup
erintendent transportation, Atlantic &
Pacific railroad January l. 1892, to
summer of 1897, superintendent tele-
graph same road. From the summer
of 1897 to March. 1906 he was superin-
tendent telegraph Santa Fe Pacific
railroad: September 1, 1897. to March.
1900, also superintendent telegraph
Southern California railway March 1900
to date, assistant superintendent tele-
graph same road, and San Francisco
& San JOAQUIN Valley railway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
ORIENT-CH0CTAW FIGHT.
Two Days Battle For Crossing at the
State Line.

News has reached Wichita of a fight in
which the Orient and the ChOctaw are
participating as opponents The Orient
construction crew was opposed by the
the ChOctaW tracks at the state line, south
Of Anthony. There has been q battle roy
al for two days, and while the Orient has
not been the victor, it is thought that it
Will win in the end.
Thursday evening the Orient construc-
ton crew stole march on the ChoctaW
watchers ana put their track down over
the ChOctaw and 100 feet beyond, push
it could not be returned.
Friday force OF Workmen for the
ChOctaw tore up the rails and threw them
off the right of way leaving the box car
ing cars was set on the crossing and kept
there ever since Two engines have charge
of it, one handles the train and gets it
out of the way OF the regular trains and
then puts it back again. while the other
engine makes the run to Anthony for
water.
The boarding cars are used because
there are people in them all the time and
there Is no fear on the part of the ChOc-
taw people that the Orient will run
through them, as they might kill some
one. If it was merely battle of rolling
stock neither company would care for
the smashing up of a few cars
1t is claimed by the Orient people that
the Choctaw wishes to discourage their
building to hearten up their townsite PEG
pie in Choctaw towns.
The ChoctaW claims that the Orient has
no right to cross without the usual con-
tract. AS the Orient owns by warranty
deed the land in dispute and the ChOctaw
has never had its right of way condemned
over it. a majority of the opinions ex
pressed are to the effect that it viii Win
out without much trouble Meantime sew
eral Of the head men Of the Orient are en-
route here from Kansas city to take
hand in the fracaS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
CUT DOWN THE FORCE.
Strike Order Issued at Union Pacific
Boiler Shops.

The Union Pacific has posted the fol-
lowing notice in its Kansas City, Kan,
boiler shops
THE company is compelled to make a
30 per cent reduction in the working
force of this department"
The order was signed by Joseph Rob
erts, the master mechanic, and is said
to be the result of the strike of the
boilermakers and their helpers. Those
who are affected by the order are most
" laborers. There were about 125 men
working in the boiler shops before the
strike, and the reduction of 30 per cent
In the working force means that about
twenty five or thirty men will lose their
positions.
The Union Pacific has advertised in
the Kansas City papers for boilermak-
ers. promising permanent positions, but
no men were put to work yesterday.
John Mcneil. president of the National
Boilermakers' union, says the railroad
companies can't get con petent men be-
cause all the good men are affiliated
with the union.
This strike may last a month or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24

ped on their window and asked the way
to Arkansas City. The man answered
the DESCRIPTION of Coffelt.
The state contends that Cohelt killed
Montgomery early in the evening, walk
ed to Arkansas City. took a freight to
Bliss, and then walked to the "101"
ranch.
Mrs. Montgomery was placed on the
stand. She told of the murder and the
scene afterward. She said that Joe
Miller came to see her husband after
the trial at Perry and informed Mont
gomery that he could never convict his
(Miller's) brother.
Cal Ferguson was on the stand and
told of the tracks he had found at the
Montgomery home, and of their fitting
the shoes Of William Johnson, Coffelt's
partner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
FASTENING ON COFFELT.
State Forging Strong Evidence in
Montgomery Murder Case.

Winfield. Kan, June 24.-The states
evidence in the Coffelt murder case is
half in So far. forty witnesses have
been introduced. In the first few days
of the trial, evidence WAS introduced to
show a conspiracy existing on the "101'
ranch to kill Santa Fe Detective Mont
gomery. Later, the state showed COT
felt's Whereabouts and actions up to
and including the date of the murder.
Witnesses testified that they saw him
in Winfield on the day of the murder;
saw him go into Miller's residence. and
along in the evening. saw, in company
with VIII Johnson Charged with con-
spiracy in the same crine). go in the
direction Of Montgomery's home, carry
ing a shotgun. Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison
Carter and their son, who live south of
town. testified that a man came to their
house shortly after the murder and tap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
OiSA7i''i9
can A1l-Day Food"
Wheat and Pure Fruit Combined

There is no other food like it. nothing
with which to compare it. Cero- Fruto is
the logical solution of the Meat Prob
lem"
Much time and money were spent in
scientific research to discover the exact
and proper balance" for its ingredients
as well as perfecting special machinery
for its manufacture, the result being a
food adapted to serving morning, noon or
night; a delicious dish upon which a hun
cry man can make a satisfying. substan-
tial meal or which may be included in
the menu a dainty dessert.
The constituents of Cero-Fruto are the
two most desirable known to man-clean.
sound wheat and Levulose or fruit sugar
So carefully prepared and blended are
these muscle-building and brain-nourish-
ing prcaucts, that the finished food NAV
be eaten by old and young alike with
great benefit as well as relish It Is a
predigested food in all that the word i'm
plies 1t is not placed on the market as
a breakfast food" but as an all-dav food.
Sold in all ffrst-class groceries. If your
grocer does not have it in stock. write tn
US direct and we viii see that you get it.
Sample package for the asking. address
cero-FTuto FOed &c. Ltd. Battle Creek, 1Eish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
MAY CONTEST THE SALE.
Stockholders of the Kansas Telephone
Company Protest Against Its Sale.

Fort Scott Kan. June 24.-Many Of
the small stockholders in the Kansas
Telephone company, which was sold in
X ansas city Saturday to the Bell COM
pany. are protesting and it is intimated
that they may go into court to prevent
the sale.
According to announcement made here
by Grant Hornaday, president of the
Kansas plant, who engineered the sale,
the Bell company paid $4,000 in cash
and S25 goo in Bell company stock for
the Kansas plant Hornaday and his
friends will take the Bell stock and the
small stockholders are told to go TO
Hornadays bank and get what money
they put in the Kansas company. The
Kansas company has been paying 16 per
cent dividends annually and the stock
holders think their stock is worth more
fed that they have their choice of call
ing and getting par for their stock or
going up against the Bell company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
SEWER APPRAESEMENTS.
Committee Makes Reports on Dis
tricts No % and %.

The report of the appraisers for sewer
districts No. % and % have been filed
with the city clerk The report is writ
ten in a book and covers about IS pages
The law concerning this appraise-
ment is very peculiar. and apparently is
so drawn that it prohibits people from
obJecting to the appraisement on their
property unless that objection is made
the council called for June 80 for the
purpose of considering the reports 1t
does not give dissatisfied property hold
ers much of a show, but it is the law,
and there is apparently no way of get
ting around it. The report of the APP
praisers is not published in the official
paper. where people can read it, until
after the meeting is over, and the time
has passed for objections The average
assessor ent on each lot in the district
% sewer is about $780, some of the lots
ranging as high as $500 and some as
low as $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
new SYSTEM NEEDED.
Tax Assessment Varies in Diff
ferent Counties.

There is a wide variation in the rate of
assessment in the various counties of the
state. The county paying the smallest rate
is Cove, away out nearly to the Colorado
line. Tt pays only S2.10 on each 500 valua-
ton. kiowa county. on the other hand,
10 per cent on the assessed value OF the
county The average in the state is S4-e6-
1t is probable, of course, that the rate OF
assessment in KioWa county is low. In
some counties it is only 3 per cent of the
actual value. If this held good in Ki0wa
county the rate would be only a little
more than 2 per cent instead of nearly 10
statement
This simply emphasizes the need of
new system of assessment and taxation
One county assesses property at its full
valuation and another at one-fourth or
one-ffth of what it should be. The result
is a great number OF inequalities and much
diSSatisfac
The following table shows the rate of as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
HELD UP BY APPEAL.
Worlds Fair Surplus Distribution is
Again Delayed.

Chicago. June 24-H. n. Higginboth-
am, president and acting treasurer Of
the board Of directors, has announced
that the S480,0eO surplus Worlds fair
fund will not be distributed until fall
The intention was to divide the fund
this month among the 20, 900 stockhold-
ers. An appeal from the decision in the
final suit against the Worlds fair. the
case having been won by the defend
ants has caused the delay.
The amount in litigation is only s1O.-
600 asked for by W H. Stubbins. who
had the contract for painting and glaz-
ing the manufacturers and liberal arts
building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
BOUNCED THE MAYOR.
Police Judge Has Him Elected
From the Presence.

GAINESVILLE O.. June 24-Mayor James
J. Holden was fOrcibly elected from the
court of Police Judge Reed here today.
The mayor had asked that an affidavit
against a woman charged with intoxi-
cation be withdrawn and when the
judge refused he insisted SO strongly
that the judge ordered Chief of Police
Tracy to eject him. The mayor resisted
and Tracy's brother and others went to
the chiefs assistance. During the
melee the mayor struck the chief on the
jaw and the chief landed on the mayors
head with club
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
Average in state, s4-Os.
WOMEN LABORERS.
They Do Mems Work on a Missouri
Railroad,

Macon, No, June 24-''We have three
women 1aborers on the Pawpaw division
of the St Louis, Memphis and Southeast
ern said James P. Worthington, resident
engineer, who is here this week.
1t staggered me bit when hrst OBJ
served them, but when 1 saw the relent-
less energy with which they liked over
loaded wheelbarows up the dump my pity
went out to the barrows
Instead of being objects of sympathy
one is rather inclined to envy their yigor-
'.rhey werk Just east of Moberly.
THE party is composed of a man, his
wife and his two stalwart sisters. There
is a difference in the ability of husband
and wife to trundle a barrow of clods
and the comparison is all in favor of the
woman. The women say barrow work
pays them a great deal better and IS
much easier than the toll they are ac-
customed to on farm. They take their
full loads in their barrow every trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
IN SERVICE MANY YEARS.
The Late Andrew Smith Had Spent
His Life in Railroad Work.

The late Andrew Smith, assistant sup
erintendent of telegraphs for the Santa
Fe. whose death was announced in
Mondays State Journal. was attended
in his last illness by DR.. Robert Mar
rison. chief surgeon for the Santa F'e
Pacific road A short sketch of Mr..
Smiths railroad career viii be of in
terest to Santa F'e men.
Andrew Smith was born at Waterville,
N Y, and entered railway service about
April, 1862. To July, 1862. he was clerk
to general baggage agent, c. B. & Q.
at Chicago. From July 1862, to January,
1876, successfully train baggage man,
telegraph operator, station agent, con-
ductor assistant train dispatcher and
assistant general baggage agent of the
H & St. Joe r. r.; January, 1876, to
August, 1882, train dispatcher Kansas
City division, St. Louis. Kansas City &
Northern and its successor, the Wa
bash. St Louis & Pacific railway at
Kansas City. Mo. From August, 1882. to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
SAVES SMUGGLING.
Mexican Visitors Can Now Bring Out
500 Worth of Cigarettes.

Monterey. Mexico, June 24.-Aceording
to ruling of the secretary Of the treas
ury of the United States, Leslie Nj
shaw it is possible for any American
returning to the states after q visit
in the republic TO the value of 800 Mr.
Shaw's ruling is based on an interpreta-
ton of that portion of the import laws
that states that one may bring in free
of duty 800 worth of personal effects
This has always been construed here
tofore to mean 500 worth Of wearing
apparel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24

nay food would rot digest. then kidney and
liver trouble AID my back got weak 1 could
scarcely get around. At last had AL thr com
plants at once, the more dSctored the wore
got until six years passed had bzcouls
poorly could oz1y walk Ia the house BY tic
aid Il a chair. and ! got shin / had sssesu -
Die, thinking that could not be eured- Thea
81 nay TgEsOrs ssss, : aka ny advice and
take DR.. Fisgee's GoAdem Medical Dkscawery and
make aew man cat al ycurBeE' The drst
bettie helped Ene So I thREghs I soEid get
another. AID after had ta8c9n eight hoztiss IN
aboat six weeks. ! was wcfghsG- aAd found
stsut and healthy to day. taszlak. As sver was
FRER- DR.. Pieces CozneE Sense
Medical Adviser, paper covers, Is sent free
on receipt Of Al 0ne-cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only Address Dr..
z. V. Pierce. Buffalo. y. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24
The Dinner Pail

Of the American working man is gen
orally we'll filed. In some cases it is
too well filed. It contains too many
kinds of food, and very often the food is
of the wrong kind-hard to digest and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-24

containing little NUT
ton A S a cons
quence many a worl
ing man develops son
form of stom a c
trouble which int
feres with his heal'
and reduces his wOrl
ing capacity.
Where there
is Indigestion or
any other indi- ~
cation of dis II
ease of the stom- o
ach nd its
allied org an s of
digestion and nu-
triton, the use of
DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery
viii almost irvari-
ably produce a per-
feet and perman- (
ent cure.
Mr. Th or as A.
Swarts, Of Sub Station
c. Columbus. O., Box
Io5. writes NJ was
taken with severe
headache, then cramps
-, 49, =
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VI. II. III. s. News Notes.

The Hama Bataka Society of japanese
Maidens recently gave its annual picnic at
Broad Ripple Park.
Preparations are going on for the gradu-
ating exercises to be held at English s
Opera House on the evening of June Is.
Each member of the class will receive eight
invitations.
On June II class day will be observed by
the members of the June, O2. class. Prepa-
ratons are being made for a good time and
several surprises are promised. farce Is
to be presented, the features OF which are
arousing much interest, those in charge
refuse to divulge any of the plans.
No Manual Training High School Annual
Will published this year by the senior class
on account of the work in school being so
crowded. However the school organ, the
Mirror, will get up special edition next
ground that the senior publication has in
the past. 1t is sid to have many interest
ing features and will contain several cuts,
which will add greatly to the appearance of
the sheet. The paper will be made up of
fifty pages.
Every year a day is set apart for out
siders to visit the Manual Training High
School and see the sort of work done in the
institution. On this day all the recitations
are conducted as usual and the shop work
carried on i'm the regular manner. This
year the visitors day promises TO be one of
the best ever given at the NJ T. II. 5. 1t
will be held on June 13 and every effort is
being made to make IL a great success.
strangers through the building and the
boys In the shops are putting forth their
best efforts 10 have some interesting things
on exhibition.