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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16

quit making the Purifier until the
agitation about embalmed milk should
subside little
Another affidavit which is in the
exact. in his freprcof Safe-is one made
by Mr. Gray the United States de-
partment of agriculture chemist who
works at the Continental creamery.
black bottle bearing Mathewson's label
IS solution of eormaldehyde of about
the same strength as is used in en-
balming dead bodies.
If Mathevson sells a solution of for
maldehyde for IS cents quart, he
makes a very fair profit. 1t is esti
mated that the stuff costs about five
cents a gallon.
In regard to other evidence that pre-
serVatiVes are being used in milk and
we have prepared and will present
to the city council, if desired, sworn
statements to the following facts:
We found milk from five diaries
adulterated with formaldehYde and one
with boran compound. We found one
ice cream factory using the stuff in ice
cream We have one sample of
skinned milk containing Tornado
hyde. The place was found where for
maldehyde solution was mixed. bot
tied, labeled Milk Purifier, and sold
to mflkmen. We have the statement of
the manufacturer of this stuff that he
SOA4 ILLS hiliu vi SUN w nave d DOL
tie of the preservative which he made.
The stuff in the bottle we have had
analysed and find it to contain a
strong solution of formaldehyde. We
have statements from dairymen's en-
ployes regarding the common as well as
the careless use OF this dangerous drug
by milkmen.
1T will be my pleasure to present
to the city council next Monday night
a petition asking for the removal of our
present food inspector on the ground
of neglect of dutv'
Mr.. Howard holds the city physician
and board of health as partially re-
sponsible for the alleged neglect of the
pure food laws. He says:
L find by investigation that the food
inspector is placed under the manage
ment of the city physician and board of
health. There seems to be plenty Jof
good ordinances for the prevention of
embalming milk and adultera ting food
if they were only enforced. If the city
physician and food inspector would just
enforce what ordinances we have we
would get along very well, I think.
"A few weeks ago when we asked the
city physician to investigate the causes
of such an unusual amount of sickness
in the city, we were informed by the
state board of health that it had Moth
ing whatever to do with the food in-
spector. DR.. Storrs himself told me that
he had no authority whatever to direct
the food inspector. 1 find Dy reading
the city ordinances. that the inspection
of milk is done by the food inspector
merely as agent for the board OF health
Failing to get any satisfaction from
the authorities. we decided to do some
inspecting ourselves. with the results
which we now have embodied In aft
davits.
las regarding the consequences of
using embalmed milk. I can give some
personal experiences. Since April Is.
have been buying distilled water, cooled
in sealed jars. No hydrant. cistern or
well water was used in my family for
drinking purposes. We used only dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
MAN WITH GOOD MEMORY
Is Grand Opera Conductor N.
Emanuel. Now in BROOKLYN.

Speaking of good memories there is
man sojourning in Brooklyn just now
who, if he were given to boasting, might
lay claim to pretty good one. He has
a good memory, if one is willing to
admit that a memory that carries
around ready for instant use II ,000, 900
musical notes and characters, half
dozen languages and all the number
less odds and ends of "reminiscences and
reco1lections that lumber uD odd cor
ners of the avera ge bright mind, is gqn1.
Several nights every week this Man
publicly gives proof that he really has
all these things on tap in his memory
by conducting an opera without a
score, for he is Chevalier n. B. Eman-
uel who. with Elliot Schenck, presides
over the orchestra OF Henry w Saw
ages Castle Square company, now sing
ing English grand opera at the Acad
envy of Music.
Mr. Emanuel has been a conductor of
operate orchestras for 80 years, in all
the capitals of Europe He knows by
heart from the phrasing of the first
bar to the last note in them, 140 grand
operas, so operettas. cantatas and ora
torios, and, of course, hundreds of or
chestral and instrumental pieces. he
may be called upon to lead an orches-
ira in any one of them at an hours no
tice He has no time to refresh his
memory. even if it were possible at
moments notice to refresh ones MEM
ory on the % or 80 OF 45 or so different
scores that make up the orclleStration
of an opera, to say nothing of the parts,
words and music. of all the principals,
and of all the choruses-generally six
parts to each chorus
He knows theSe-knows them absolute
Iv-knOWS them so well that a mistake OF
a half tone by any member of the orches-
ira or any singer on the stage, though
there may be fifty in the orchestra and
another fifty on the stage will be detected
at once Not only will Conductor EInan
lel know that something is wrong some
where: he will know definitely what IS
wrong and where. what particular voice
or instrument has made a mistake and
upon what particular note and the
errin< musician or singer will find It hard
to convince the director that his memory
was at fault.
This fact was pointedly demonstrated
the other day when favored visitor was
present at a full rehearsal of Nerdl :
Aida" In Aida there is a stage band
to take part in the famous march Both
the orchestra and the band We're in re-
FearsaI when suddenly the conductor
patience seemed to wane, and. stopping
r,layer on the stage and exclaimed Sea
here my friend. why do you play tnaS
fat? The music is in front OF you. LOOK
at IL That's E natural At the time OF
the interruption over forty instruments
were plavine vet the trained ear OF the
a school teacher might a glazing error N
spelling. for instance
And this is only one OF 20 dinereiis
musical productions which Mr.. Emanuel
has conducted When asked how many
Of them he remembers Mr. Emanuel an
swers promptly. Every one And most
Of them he remembers in several Ian
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
HOW TO Get IT.
Commissioners Worrying About
Personal Property Tax.
Several Thousand Dollars Is
Annually Left Unpaid.
MAY SEIZE PROPERTY.
That Is the Plan That Has
Been Evolved.
MAY SEIZE PROPERTY.
Also Talk of Employing Collect
or on Per Cent Plan.

The county commissioners have I'M
der consideration the unpaid personal
tax problem, which has long been a
source of trouble.
Annually Shawnee county loses from
s., 900 to $1,000 in taxes not paid on per-
sonal property listed by the county and
city assessors for taxation.
The list of unpaid personal property
taxes for 1902 gave a total of 81, 500 that
the county had lost. The gentle art of
lodging personal property tax in Shaw
nee is practiced by good many peo-
pie year after year.
The law provides that when the per
sonaI property tax is unpaid that war
rants for the same shall be placed in
the hands of the sheriff and that he
shall collect them. The sheriff is given
the power to seize the personal prop
erty listed for taxation and to sell it
for the unpaid personal property taxes
This. however. has never been done in
Shawnee county. Now the commission
ers are considering the proposition of
calling up the sheriff to seize such
property and make such a public sale
as the last resort
There is no difficulty about the taxes
on real esate. as in case the tax is not
paid the land is held for the tayes.
The county buys uD the land for the
taxes and, after three years, the land is
sold for the accumulated taxes. Occa-
sionally small piece of ground that is
worth less than the taxes is left on the
hands of the county. but such occa sionS
are rare and the county loses practical
~ nothing.
Once before. about four years ago, the
county commissioners decided to make
decided campaign for the collection of
unpaid personal property tax A lawyer
was employed to make the collections on
a percentage basis. Several thousand
dollars was collected for the county and
the expense was but little more than
the Sheriff would have been paid had
he collected the taxes.
The commissioners will consider the
plan of having a collector get what I'M
paid taxes he can on a percentage H.
W. Euler. Fred Miller and w. S Nc
Clintock have submitted propositions to
the commissioners to make such collec-
ton and receive a percentage
If the collection plan is followed the
commissioners may decide that after
the collector has secured all that he can
that the warrants for the rest of the
unpaid personal property tax shall be
placed in the hands of Sheriff Lucas and
he win be ordered to seize whatever
personal property, either household
goods or merchants stock. that he can
find and sell It to the highest bidder
to satisfy the taxes.
The list of those who have not paid
their personal property tax for 1902 is
large. The unpaid amounts range FROM
in a few cases less than a. dollar to
sums of SIS to 500 and in a few cases
of several hundred dollars On the list
of the last three or four years can be
found the names of the same persons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
WOULD GUST HIM
Fight on Food Inspector Hasn't
Been Given Up.
Citizens Will Ask Council to
Remove Him.
HAVE MANY FACTS.
Includes AffidaVitS and Samples
of Embalmed Milk.
City Physicians Neglect Not
Included in Formal Charges.

Armed with a big black bottle. a
bunch of affidavits and a lengthy petit
ton, the people who are making a fight
for the removal of Food Inspector
Farnsworth will come before the city
council Monday night prepared TO
start something"
II. r. Howard, who started the Chris
tan Endeavor people on their anti-tv-
phOid campaign, is also headquarters for
the fight on Farnsworth. His shop on
Kansas avenue is not only an arsenal
for firearms, but for the munitions of
war to be used against the present oc-
cupant of the office of food inspector
of the city of Topeka Among other
things is the big black bottle
This bottle was obtained from a To-
peka milkman. and it contains solu-
ton of formaldehyde for ''emblaming''
milk. 1t bears this label:
MILK PURIFIER
Directions: Use one teaspoonful to
gallon of milk. This quantity will
keep milk sweet Sc hours: to keen it
longer. use a propOrtiOnally larger GUAM
tlty of milk purifier.
For cream. use half as much again as
for milk
Put the milk purifier into a can first.
then pour in the milk and stir well.
Milk purifier allows milk to sour atllr-
ally, and does not make the cream
stringy.
Keep well corked.
Price, s. per gallon. - cents a quart.
e Is. MATHEWSON
Topeka. Kan
There is an affidavit which goes with
this bottle. It is made by a man who
was sent to Mr.. Mathewson at the Iat-
ter's Purifier factory in I.owrnan Hill.
The affidavit states that Mr. Mathew
son said that the Purifier" was manu-
featured according TO a recipe furnished
by MT Mathewson's son, who is a stud
ent a the Kansas State Agricultural
college.
People who have wondered what they
teach a the Agricultural college may
be enlightened by this disclosure.
Mr. Mathewson also told the person
who makes the affidavit that he had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16


who, year after year. dodge the pay
inert of their personal property tax.
These lists show the names of city
and county and state officials and en-
ployes. TIE names of doctors lawyers
and few merchants appear. In at
least IS per cent of the cases it would
be known by anyone familiar with the
city that the persons reported on the
list of the sheriff under the head of mo
property found" are all able TO pay
their personal property tax and that
they have property worth many times
over the amount of the taxes
S. H. Haynes, chairman of the board
of county commissioners, said today:
The board has under consideration
the unpaid personal property list. What
we will decide to do I cannot say until
we consider the matter. 1t may be
that some one will be employed to make
the collections on a percentage basis
and that what is left will be placed in
the hands of the sheriff and he will be
ordered to sell the property for the
taxes. This tax should be paid each
year and the county loses many thou
sands of dollars because of the nom
payment"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
JUDGMENT FOR RENT.
Thomas Cooney Must Pay Elizabeth
Norton $40.

Harold T. Chase, as guardian for
Elizabeth Norton. secured a Judgment
of $40 against Thomas Cooney in the
district court this morning
Chase brought suit to recover unpaid
rent from Cooney for the use of farm
belonging TO his ward, and also to force
Cooney to leave the place. Cooney con-
fessed Judgment The case was orig
inaIly brought before Justice of the
Peace Queen. In the justice court the
point was raised by Cooney's attorney
that the case could not be brought as
dersd to bring the case by the probate
court Justice Queen admitted that he
didn't know what the law was about
that. and that in his Instructions to the
jury. covering the case, he would make
whatever instructions both sides want
ed, which would be to instruct two ways
on the same question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16

titled water ice. My home is as sanitary
as money could build, and is located in
as high and healthy a locality as there
is in Topeka. Myself. my wife and my
baby are ordinarily as healthy and rO-
bust as any Jayha wkers-
My milkman, grocer and butcher
have orders to deliver nothing but the
purest and freshest food. and notw1tn-
standing all these conditions. my baby
was sick three weeks. Mrs. Howard five
weeks, and myself three weeks this sum-
mer all with the same symptoms: in
digestion, disordered stomach, fever, and
Mrs. Howard's case was on the verge
of genuine typhoid.
We were heavy users of dairyman's
milk and one sample of my dairyman' 5
milk was found to contain a strong solu-
ton of formaldehyde. The particular
sample was delivered to a neighbor of
mine Our cases of sickness all showed
the identical effects which forma ldehyde
would produce. That's as close as can
trace it.
parallel to ours. largely among children
living upon milk What lauentabie con-
dition if We allow our children to be muir
dered by the very thing which is sup
posed to give them life
Several cases of meat poisoning are re-
ported Formaldehyde is reported TO have
been found in a spring chicken by To-
peka physician.
1T seems necessary that some one
should die from the effects of these drugs
before We can make case here in To-
pel<a under the present management Our
food inspector says he is getting some
laws in shape for next summer, but some
of us may be long while dead by thac
time. Therefore We want our present food
inspector requested to resign at once He
has ordinances which he could enforce il
he would and the state laws absolutely
prohibit milk adulteration-
"Adulteration of milk ceased at once
some three or four weeks ago when it be-
came known that someone was investigat-
ing. Denver and Kansas City both had
similar experiences to Topeka, but those
cities corralled their dairymen in about
three days time and now have pure milk
If we have not enough milk ordinances,
let's have more at once. but in the mean
time get an inspector who can and Will
1lse what ordinances we have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
a Department of DISSEMINATING.

Chicago, Oct IA new feature in
higher education is announced A de-
partment of dressmaking has been es-
tablished at Ruskin university in Glen
Ellyn. and the new chair has been
rendered to Mrs. Olga Goldzier, of Chi
cago. Mrs. Goldzisr. who has accepted
the post was awarded the gold medal
by the international exhibition of fash
ions in Vienna last year against com
petitors from the Austrian capital, Lon
don and Paris
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16

guages. He has conducted opera in Eng
land France, Germany. Russia, Italy, swe-
some operas in all these languages, and
of many operas in three or more. He
spea ks all of them f1uently, which is for
innate for an Operatic orchestra is usual
" polyglot in its composition and to be
able to address each Individual in his ma
tive tongue is a great administrations
IT, rfkz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
viii Not Start Steamer Line.

Montreal. Oct 16.-The Grand Trunk
railroad officials here annoiinee that
the company has no intention at pres
ent OF starting a steamship line TO Aus
trali3. but has made arrangements with
lines west of Chicago for connections to
Tacoma and from there 10 australia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
Robbers Overlook Pile of Gold.

Seattle. Wash, Oct. IA special to
the Post-Intelligencer from Nome, I'M
der date of October 8, states that two
masked men entered the camp OF r. D.
Hunter of the Northern Light COM
pany. on ODhir creek, Tuesday night
and robbed him of more than $1,000.
nearly all of which was in gold dust.
The men were both heavily armed. In
their hurry they overlooked 400 ounces
of gold which lay in plain view on the
70
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He killed Her at Last.

Oskaloosa. Ia, Oct 16.-At Buxton
today C. H Smith shot and killed Mrs.
Cannaday Smith, who had been before
the grand jury charged with assaulting
the woman with intent to commit muir
der. went to her home and when she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
Gloves

A full and complete line
of Boys Gloves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
Kansas City and Return $2.7o via
Santa Fe

Account Horse show and Livestock
show Tickets on sale Oct. II TO "a in
elusive. Final limit returning Oct. 26.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-16
RED AND BLACK
MissourE& Kansas TeIs Co.

opened the door in response to his
knocks fired two shots. killing her in
stantlY.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
! large measure on the development of

a large measure on the DEVELOPMENT Of
electric equipment. 4
J. D. Hawks, president of the Detroit
Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson, does not
believe electric power will be used to haul
heavy freight. when it comes to- the
question of handling all kinds of freight
including stone. coal. etc, he says, there
are many matters to be taken into consid-
Grafton. There are only two ways to do
it, One is by the single unit system, the
single car, and the other, is in trains. If
the first were adopted it would re-
quire as expensive underneath equipment
as the passenger cars the pay of a motor
man, ETC., to say nothing of the necessary.
increase in the powerhouse machinery to
move these cars. Then the element of
time enters into the question.
I'm most Of what we would call the trunk
electric lines of the state, in fact of all
the states. the engineers have sacrificed
everything to time for the rapid transit
passengers. Where preparations are made
for fast business, it means more expense
in the building and maintenance OF the
roads-more solid roadbed, heavier rails
and the heavier cars, and more power.
ITO handle general freight would inter
fere with the time question. 1t would be
next to impossible to make the time un-
| less the roads were double tracked with
frequent turnouts at that. j. ~ T.
The Electric Train Idsa. .S
Take the train idea. An electric loco
motive costs as much as steam locomo-
| tive, It's life is not so long and it is use
| less until the juice Is turned into it. And
| it takes the juice to run them, can tell
YOU No, do not believe it is the province
! of the electric lines to interfere with the
steam roads in carrying heavy freight A
| light package business is all right and is
really necessary to any we'll loperated sub
urban electric line. f..
! 1T has been my observation that the
electric lines instead of hurting the freight
business Of the steam roads have thrown
to the steam roads fully as much If not
more than they have taken away from
them. The lines are also feeders for the
steam lines in the passenger business.
I'm my opinion the day is coming when
cheaper electric lines than those now being
operated will be built as branch lines or
feeders to the main electric and steam
lines, reaching the parts of the rural dis
tricts now inaccessible to the steam roads
"On these lines the element of fast time
will not enter as much as on the main OF
| trunk electric lines, and it will then be
possible for these roads to haul to and
! from these rural districts freight for the
steam roads. I. think this is one of the
evolutions that is coming, but, as I said
before, I do not think that you will see
the electric lines enter the general freight
business" y
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
A MUNICIPALITIES LEAGUE
Cannon Falls Calls for State Con
j.. vention to Organize One. /.

The Commercial Club of Cannon Falls,
Mimi, of which l.. A. Rosing is president
has issued a call for state convention to
be held in St. Paul. March 49,. to discuss
plans for state organization of munich
palities in order to secure a medium
through which villages and cities may ex-
press themselves on subjects of public in
terest. The convention will be composed
of village and city officers and officers Of
business mems organizations.
The municipalities stand alone, unor-
ganized, while nearly all industries and
professional interests have organizations.
Says circular issued in connection with
the call: -s..s
"In the matter Of freight tariffs nearly
every village and small city in the state
suffers from discriminating rates. We
have been trying to have these wrongs
righted through legislation and commits
sions, and while we have secured the
adoption of good laws we have not reaped
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
cunt. The figures are:
G. N. WILL FIGHT
. . o
Not Satisfied With Commissions Ruling
In LItcf1fieId Case, @a.. Il.

The Great Northern challenges the au-
thority Of the state railroad and ware
house commission in the case of Henry
Klauser Of Litchfeld, who complained of
the rates on coal and lumber from the
twin cities and from Duluth to Litchfield,
in which the commission ordered reduc-
ton. The road has filed its answer and
raises the question Of jurisdiction.
The Great Northern alleges that a part
of it's line between Duluth and Litchfeld
runs through wisconsin, thereby making
the rate an interstate one. 1t further
answers that the present rates are just
and reasonable. The present rate is 9
cents a hundred on lumber and $3.50 a
ton on hard coal from Minneapolis and st.
Paul. I<Iauser wants reduction of six
cents on lumber and 81 a ton on coal. and
the rate Of thirteen cents a hundred and
$3.50 a ton on hard coal from Duluth re-
duced to nine cents on lumber and ST.
on coal. The date for the hearing has
not been set.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-02
TROLLEY TO .DES MONIES
A Connecting Link in Electric Line
Systems Is Announced by the
D. M, I. F. & N.

The connecting link between the inter
urban electric railway systems which VIII
center at Minneapolis and those which
will center at Des Moines, Iowa, has been
provided by the announcement that the
Des Moines. Iowa Falls & Northern Elec-
trio railway is to build into La Crosse,
Wis. The connection between: La Crosse
and Minneapolis has been announced.
Beginning at Iowa. Falls, the Des Moines,
Iowa Falls & Northern line is planned to
run by way Of Charles City, passing
through Franklin, Butler, Floyd, Chicka7
saw, Howard and Winnesheik counties in
Iowa, and Fillmore and Houston counties
in Minnesota. The line will occupy a ter
ritory rich in agricultural and Industrial
wealth, without single competing north
east or southwest line. It. will intersect
the Iowa Central midway between Geneva
and Faulkner, the North Western at Du-
mont, the Burlington at Greene, the ILL
nois Central and Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Paul at Charles City, the Chicago Great
Western at Elma, the Chicago. Milwaukee
& st. Paul at Cresco and again at Caledo-
MIA and converge with it at La Crosse, all
of which lines are east and west or north
west and southeast in their routes. Traf-
fic agreements could be made at all these
intersecting points for transfer business.