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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
BAD BOYS SENT HOME.
Those Sent to Reform School by
Justices Are Returned.

The authorities of the Industrial school
for boys are now sending back to their
respective counties the boys who were
sent to the school by justices of the
peace. Under Il recent decision of the
supreme court justices have no author
ity to issue commitments of boys to the
Reform school, and all boys SO sentenced
can be released if they are disposed to
bring habeas corpus proceedings in the
courts.
Realizing that they have no authority
for holding such boys,the Reform school
authorities are now sending them home,
not all at once. but a few at time
Thus far eight have been sent home to
Sedgwick county. two to Bourbon, one
to Mcpherson, two to Reno. and two to
Dickinson. There are still about 20 more
who were sentenced by justices.
1t was commonly supposed that most
of these boys would be recommitted by
court of record, either the probate or
district court, but in most instances it
seems that the authorities have not
deemed it worth while to send them
back. 1t is likely that the most of them
will be allowed to remain at home I'M
less they get into some new trouble. OF
the Is sent home thus far only two have
been returned. one from Mcpherson and
one from Bourbon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TF'rom.the Atchison Globe.1
Half the complaint is the result OF no
investigation
Cantaloupe and fried sausage met at
breakfast this year.
The only time tip amounts to anything
is when you don't use it.
A man may enjoy eating grape pie, but
he sounds awful while doing it.
You might make a visit to your poor
kin fashionable by calling it ''slum work >
We never expect to see the sultan bluff
ed, Curtis Jett of Kentucky hanged.
Make any man show his assets and you
will find they consist largely of two birds
in bush
An Atchison woman not only laughs At
her husbands jokes, but claims she thinks
they are funny.
We would like to know if it is true
that our fathers did as much before
breakfast we do all day.
When a man is made a professor in a
college these days the higher up his POI
sitiOn the bigger fool things he says
Every young man should provide for the
rainy day when some girl will want him
to marry her right off, if he can afford it
not
We have long desired to see a girl who
could curl her lip they do in the
books. A lip must be as long as a black
snake to be curled.
An Atchison contractor is liable to drop
dead within the next few days: he is com
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
quaker REFLEoTIoNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The palmist is usually looking for a
hand out
If all is fair in love the blonde should
rejoice.
Marriages should be performed at
union rates.
Even dead past may sometimes
come to life.
When a girl bushes the other girls
say: well, 1 like her cheek!"
The smallest thoughts are sometimes
expressed in the largest words.
There are few men who allow their
religion to interfere with business.
When there's the devil to pay he
usually charges a high rate. of interest.
If we had our lives to live over again
we might make even a worse job of it.
Wigg-" Harduppe seems to have quite
a large following" Wagg-"Yes; of bill
collectors"
The fellow who wastes his time doesn't
seem to realize that he will need it all
before he dies.
The man with a good opinion of him
self is always willing to share it with
the rest of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
GAMBLING In MEXICO.
Most Persons Will Do It, So the
States Let It Go On.

Martin Stecker, who publishes a weekly
paper in Lnares, Mexico, is in Jail there
censuring in my paper the mayor ana
town clerk for keeping cows and hogS IN
their yards and letting the wafer run
through bitches in the town without SUI
thus causing water to stagnate and ultic
mately to bring about an epidemic Of
yellow fever of such virulence that
think it could not be any worse.
Editor Stecker has been living among
the Mexicans for a dozen years now, ana
he testifies that the love of gambling is
born in them. Everybody buys lottery
tickets. The chief attractions at all Mex
Jean fairs are the bullfshts and the gam5-
ling games. When he was new 10 Mexl-
can ways the gambling in Linares aston
ished him He knew it was contrary 70
Mexican law. yet he saw games running in
the town hall itself and in school houses
Another thing that puzzled him was
monthly announcement of this sort in the
public spirited people of this city have
given So .33 toward the construction OF
state capitol building. Being in Monterey
one day he asked the commissioner OF
planned that the queer looking gifts We're
monthly installments of the sum demand
ed and paid for the exclusive gambling
house privilege in the city.
That's the sort of thing that is going on
pretty nearly all over Mexico except In
the federal district (the capital and its
environmentl. where President Diaz Is en-
ment clerks were summariiy bounced the
other day for throwing dice The govern
or of Tamaulipas is one of the lest men
in the republic-educated enlightened.
moral no gambler and no friend Of gamb-
ling Yet he recently sold the exclusive
privilege in Tampico for $39, 600 year
Editor Stecker demonstrated with MN IN
will gamble, no matter what laws are
made, said Gov. Pedro Arguelles, lit is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE.
Credit Given to England When It
Should Be to America.

Erroneous statements that have ema-
mated from the statistical year book of
Natal South Africa have been correct
ed by the central bureau for the prepa-
ration of commercial treaties with the
result that America is given full credit
for expectations to South Africa that
never before appeared in the lists. The
correction has been sent to the depart
ment of commerce and labor by Deputy
Consul General Simon w. Hanauer, sta
toned at Frankfort. Germany, and
whose report says. in part:
THE importation of cheese from Eng
land is put at $148.000 in value and from
America at $3.50. 1t would be more cor
rect to reverse the table. The given
cheese coming from England, but the
article is an American product shipped
originally to England.
Imports of cordage to the amount of
1881 pounds is credited to England and
only 12s pounds to America. This Is I'M
doubtedIy an error as far as the coun-
try Of original manufacture is con-
cerned.
Furniture to the amount of $50
pounds is said to be imported from Eng
land and but 1899 pounds frcm the
United States. These figures are all the
more confounding as American furniture
is the leading article of every country
store in the colony, and is also largely
dealt in by city stores.
Import statistics of Cape Colony for
the year 1900 give 800 pounds OF type
writer's from England and 3,432 pounds
from the United States. Now. it is well
known that most of the typewriting ma
chimes in use by the whole world are of
American make England not owning IA
single manufacturing plant.
1.-The statistical tables, in order to
give a correct view. should state the
country of original production. Wash
4 ington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
FIGHT IN THE STREETS
Five Strikers Killed and a Large
Number Wounded.

Bilbao. Spain. Oct. 2S.-During fight
ing which took place in the streets this
afternoon five strikers were killed and
a large number were wounded.
The troops are guarding the banks
and public buildings and are occupying
strategic positions throughout the
city. in order to prevent the massing of
strikers
AS result of the strike situation, the
foreign consuls have demanded from the
military authorities protection for the
ships of their nationalities now in port.
Serious fighting has occurred in the
streets between troops and strikers. It
was started by a rioter shooting from a
window while an infantry regiment was
passing The soldiers thereupon charged
the crowd. Many persons. including a
captain, were wounded. In yesterdays
rioting a woman was killed and score
of people were wounded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

Cleveland Leader: When rich and long
established railroads. with steady bust
ness founded on the whole commercial
and industrial life of the American peo-
pie, cut down their working forces.
while their income shows handsome
gains over any previous year, on the
same mileage, it is impossible not to
question the wisdom of such action. 1t
looks like nervousness or excessive eau
ton. The effect is inevitably depressing.
Less wealthy and secure business. con
Germs feel that there is something behind
the unpleasant economics of the rail-
ways which may call for general re-
trenchment. There is a check upon en-
terprise. deadening of certain sensi-
tive forms of trade. and a cherries at
mosphere is created. so far as the in
fiuence of these changes goes. in finan-
cial centers. And sentiment plays an
enormously important part in the in
dustrial and commercial life of the
American people. 1t is felt all over the
world, but most seriously in countries
which have nervous. alert, and very ac-
tive inhabitants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Photographing by Liehtnine.

A series of extraordinary instances
of photography by lightning are report
ed by Prof. Andres Poey, formerly di-
rector of the Havana observatory.
Among his instances were several very
notable ones. A tree in which was a
boy in the act of robbing birds nest
was struck by lightning. Upon the
breast of the boy appeared the images
of branches of the tree. with the nest
lodged in them and the young birds in
the nest. Upon the back of a sailor
struck dead by lightning appeared q
photograph of a horseshoe fastened to
the foremost against which he had been
standing. Another mariner had left
upon his chest the inscription "a, A."
just as it appeared upon one NJ the
nasts. Again, a young man struck
when wearing a belt IN which ne had
concealed a quantity of coins carried 20
his grave the Photographic impression
of these coins. More remarkable sun
was the case of a lady upon whose leg
was imprinted the impression of
flower which happened to be IN the
path of the electric current, and was
photographed through brick wall
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
GHENT SUIT Is OVER.
Troubles of Two Wives Adjusted Out
of Court.

The suit for damages brought by Mrs.
Emma Client against Mrs. Irene F'risbe
in the district court has been dismissed.
Mrs. Client sued her husband, Byron
"; Ghent: for divorce and charged Mrs:
troubles. The divorce was granted Be-
fore six months, which makes the decree
absolute, Client and Mrs. Frisbie were
married. Before the divorce was granted
Mrs. Client sued Mrs. Frisbie for 5000
damages for alternating the affections of
her husband The jury granted Mrs.
Client $4,000 damages. A new trial of the
case was granted by Judge Hazen, but be-
fore the case was called for trial the sec
ond time, which would have been during
this term of court. Mrs. Client and Mrs
case was dismissed Tuesday afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

A lynching mob murdered Charles w.
Mitchell at Urbana, Ohio, in 1897 Now
the taxpayers of Champaign county
have been obliged to pay $1,000 for the
lynehers' amusement. There is a law
In Ohio making county liable for dam
ages to the estate of a person who is
killed bv a mob within the county
MitchelPs heirs sueI Champaign coun-
ty under that law. and after a long
fight Champaign county had to pay up.
But since mobs are always made up of
the best citizens and the best citi-
zens usually are taxpayers. perhaps the
people of Champaign county win not
mind paying $4,000 for the amount of
satisfaction they had.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

returned to Washington from a western
trip is quoted as saying: I'm a five
weeks journey through Missouri, Kan
sas, Colorado. Utah. Idaho, Montana,
Wyoming, and Indian Territory, 1 heard
not one dissenting voice from the uni
versal acclaim of prosperity. I talked
with men in all walks of life, from the
farm hand to the bank president. Trav-
cling men said they could not get goods
to their customers fast enough. Farm
ers said crops were bountiful, and prices
all that could be wished. Railroad men
said their only trouble was to handle
the enormous volume of traffic Manu-
facturers said their only difficulty was
in getting the additions to their plants
completed so they could catch up with
their orders. The warehousemen had no
more room in their elevators; the bank
ers had vaults filled with deposits and a
ready demand for money; contractors
and builders had work in sight for d
year ahead; even the cattle in the fields
and the horses in the streets looked
sleek The mortgage on the farm has
been paid off. and the farmer has money
to loan Industrials are making money
and railroads are paying dividends.
The earth has been prolific; buying,
selling, carrying, developing, all are 60
ing forward with a hum of industry that
can almost be heard. Confidence is
strong and faith in the future is firm
That is the kind of report that pleases,
moreover it is not fanciful sketch. It
is of piece with other reports and il
means prosperity for the whole country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

The charming young widow looks out for
No. l by looking out for No. 2.
When it comes to stepping into a for
tune no man objects to putting his foot
in it,
When a woman marries she not only
takes mans name, but everything else
he has.
When you hear a man speak of a baby
it you can safely bet that he's
bachelor.
Some men work overtime in trying to
lay up something for the rainy days OF
their grandchildren.
The female who is homely enough to
stop clock isn't success when it comes
to stopping a street car.
Love may laugh at locksniths, but it
never even gives the poor installment col
lector a pleasant look.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
WESTERN PROSPERITY.

[From the Hartford Post.l
That the people Of the west are pros
porous is made evident by various signs,
but none of them is of more value than
the reports that are brought back by
those who have been through the west
and have investigated conditions there.
Good crops. freedom from debt and
money in the bank seem to be the gen.
eral situation with the farmers of the
west and they represent the backbone
of that great country.
A competent witness who has recently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
BURROW WILL MOVE.
Secretary of State to Live at the
Copeland.

Secretary of State Burrow has taken
rooms at the Copeland for the winter,
and he will shortly bring Mrs. Burrow
and children to Topeka to spend the
winter. Mr.. Burrow says he is getting
tired of going back and forth between
Topeka and Smith Center so much
Mrs Rurrow and the children return
ed from the east only last week. They
spent the summer in New Hampshire
and have beSn in ST. Louis for the past
two months for the benefit of the chill
dren'S health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

In five years the money in, circula-
ton in this country has run up from
$L816,516,S92 to $2.4O4. GIT ,o69, an increase
of $5Ss, 02067 OF this growth, 1888, 604,-
s72 has been in gold, coin and certifi-
Gates. an annual addition in that form
of nearly $4,000, OOO That precious
metal including the certificates stanl-
ing for it, is now 1927 of the total, and
Its share advances steadily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

Chicago will vote next April on the
proposition of municipal ownership of
street railways and the sentiment of
that city is such that it is likely to
be adopted. San Francisco recently vo-
ted down a similar proposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

All recent efforts to start an old
fashioned panic in this country have
failed. and seem destined to no better
success in the future. There is too
much money in the country and the
means for moving it from place to
place are too good to. admit of anv Sc
rious disturbance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
ATTHE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

The Van Dyke company gave Miss
Hursey from Jersey at the Crawford
last night and did it surprisingly we'll
The farce is much like Facing the Mu-
Sic put on here by S. Miller Kent
week ago and the production by the Van
Dyke company doesn't suffer by com
parison, though Kent charged 81 whiie
the price last night was 30 cents.
In a TO- 20. 80 show the company, al
ways gives the people more for their
money than the 81 or $1.50 attraction
The extras are in the form of vaudeviiie
sandwiched between the acts and which
is usually very bad but the Van. Dyke
company has team that is worth see
ing The mans name appears on the
bills a S James Mccoy and the woman s
as Bessie Jackson. They did one of the
cleVerest musical specialties ever seen
in Topeka and Mr.. Mccoy did Jug
Cling act that would make the usual
juggler sick
There was only one disagreeable fea-
ture and that was a speech by Mr. Van
Dyke. If he would confipe himself to the
character he represents in the play the
people would be much better pleased
"A dose in time saves lives" DR..
Woods Norway Pine Syrup; natures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Yates Grants a Reprieve.

Springfield. Ill, Oct. 2S.-Gov Yates to-
day granted a reprieve until November %
to John McCrea (colored). who is under
sentence to be hanged at Peoria next Fri
DAY for the murder of Police Officer Muir
ply of that city. The petition praying for
the reprieve states that new witnesses
have been found who will testify in Nc
Crea' s behalf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

One of the twentieth century features
will be the establishment of political
portrait galleries in every voting pre-
einct in order to acquaint the people
with the men who are willing to serve
them without putting them to the trou-
bic of personal canvass.-Omaha Bee
The plan is doomed to failure unless
there be an automatic Handwriting de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

The numerous postal robberies re-
ported from the rural districts recently
may be due to the fact that a number
of experts in this line of business have
lately left Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

Those persons who thought Senator
Platt was too old to again enter the
matrimonial state with propriety are re-
minded that he is quite youth in COM
parison with Senator Stewart who has
just been married the second time at the
age of rs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Rowan Pave tha State.

County Treasurer Bowen this morning
sent to State Treasurer Kelly a check
for $5.1O4.74, being the amount of state
taxes from Shawnee county due the state
treasurer. Tuesday State Auditor Wells
allowed the double and erroneous assess
ments due to the credit of Shawnee coun-
ty and then Treasurer Bowen Immediately
paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

my opinion that it is better for the gamb-
lers to pay their cash to the state direc5
rather than to corrupt the judges and the
police with brides to shut their eyes
Hartford Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

Dowie devoted the time of his meet
Ing esterday to a criticism of Mrs
Eddy and her cult. yet it is Droha BILE
that nobody ever thought of sending
the Christian Science leader a bogus
check.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

If last years rate of immigration be
maintained it ought not to be long un-
til we shall have more Italians thar
there are in italy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

These self busting" trusts that
Henry Clews tells us about are likely
to put the political trust buster out
of a lob
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganiza ton for exclusive afternoon publica
ton in Topeka
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur,
pose busy throughout the entire day A
complete copy of the night report is also
received
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
LOU DILLON AGAIN.
Goes the Mile In Two Minutes to
u Wagon at Memphis.

Memphis, Oct. 2S.-Lou Dillon broke
the worlds trotting record to wagon,
going the mile in 200.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

Low has become high in the betting in
New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Joseph Sargent. 70 years of age, died
Tuesday at the home of his daG-hter,
Mrs. L. M Jones, of Highland Park.
Mr.. Sargent was an old settler and a
veteran of the civil war. He leaves a
wife and six children. The funeral will
be held Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock
from 1917 Topeka avenue.
city Ticket Office. Union Pacife
Railroad. SIS Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

"A dose in time saves lives" DR..
Woods Norway Pine Syrup; natures
remedy for coughs. colds, pulmonary
diseases of every sort. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
La Junta tribune., 1903-06-20

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aid dehs n1e paid 81 tks ssle ef sasd led nnAes
fos-elosus-. and for costs of suits ineindinU =
per cent of the fae- u aid hned ~ sstOsnST's
fes sDs fos-cln.ins said Drsd of Trust; 10 1pes-
cid,~e aud cut out any interest," in the iand go.
yeyed By aid Assd claimed b. deleedAnA., -
AarshAll os tieosUs J-1srvin, As vfil O0ss fully
spp-sf fron the oooplsins In said seetue "a
which r-f-rsa1@ l. h~rc asd~. eoVJ a Which
is served herewith
And yoa are hereby snsiAed that IL yue fail -
sptesr, and To IT, said complaint -
above rr-9uir~d. ths ssid plsfssi9 viu tai.
judy.-nt b. default Aec"rdins - tAs prayer a
Given under my hand and o6s<iAi .sel - L
yusss. In ssid eoonsy, this ~ dag of ASrii. 4.
ID. iAH
isKAI JB PEARCE Clerk.
Fnkp A. s.nfS. Attorney for Plaintiff
First publication. June II, iHH-
Last publication. July II. iHn-
La Junta tribune., 1903-06-20
ve.s q cs.s,ea.

Several plank culverts have been
torn out lately and the planks
stacked up on the side Of the street
with the big spikes sticking up.
where a person IN the dark OF
children playing on the Pl.nks
would be sure TO get hurt II they
happen to fall on them Afte'
the city pays few thousand dol
lars in damages the street and al
ley committee will probably know
enough to instruct its workmen &c
turn the planks SO the nails will
be down. or better still, either pull
them out or bend them down fiat
with the plank BY the time they
discharge t~o OF three workmen
for such carlessness they will learn
something.