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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
MCFARLAND CHAIRMAN.
Chosen as Head of Board of
Legal Examiners.


]. d. Mcfarland. of Topeka. was this
afternoon elected chairman of the state
board of legal examination which was
created by act of the legislature last
winter. S. H. Perkins of Lawrence was
elected secretary.
Inc board is holding its session at
the office of the clerk of the supreme
court 1t is the first meeting of the
board, and besides organizing, it is en-
gagged in discussion of the education
al qualifications which will be required
In the future of all applicants for adj
mission to the bar, and of the kind of an
examination Which will be given to de-
termlne the applicants qualifications.
Ihose present at the meeting are G.
II. Buchanan of Winfield, c. F. Hutch
ms Oh Kansas City, Kan, l. H. Thomp-
son OF Morton. L. H. Perkins of Law
renee and ]. d. Mcfarland of Topeka.
me first session of the board for ex-
animation of candidates for admission
10 the bar will be held in Topeka Octo-
Der II at the supreme court rooms.
From now on lawyers will be admitted
to the bar in Kansas only after examin-
alton before this board.
1t is certain that in addition to GER
tain le5 NJ qualification, the new board
VIII require that applicants be we'll pre-
pared in other branches. They may
compel candidates foS admission to the
bar to take an examination in algebra,
physics, history and other things of
similar nature. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
FOR NEW PARTY.
RefOrmers Get Out Timbers for
Erection of New Edifice.

Denver, Col, July 2S-About 50 OF the
leaders Of the Peoples Party and other
political movements were present at tho
st. James hotel when the conference of
political reform leaders was called to or
der. The conference was called to order
by ]. A. Edgerton. secretary of the Pom
ulist national committee, who called the
conference. He spoke briefly, outlining
the work it was hoped to accomplish by
the conference in the amalgamation of the
various reform forces of the nation into
one party Mr. Edgerton was made the
permanent chairman of the conference
with Milton Park of Texas as vice chair
man, and J. H. Calderhead of Montana
secretary. The afternoon was taken up
IN the work of organization and short adj
dresses. me principal speech was made
by former United States Senator w. V.
Allen of Nebraska. Senator Allen favored
a reorganization of the reform forces
which should embrace the various factions
now embracing practically the same politi-
cal doctrines and differing mainly in re-
gard to methods. At the evening session
committee was named to draft resolutions
and an address to the people and report
to the conference this afternoon. The
committee is as follows: Ex-senator w
V. Allen, chairman: ]. s. Fetter. Illinois;
]. M. Mallette, Texas; Judge Frank w
Owens: Colorado: DIT R. H; Reemeln.
ter, Nebraska. The chairman, vice chair
man and secretary were made committee
to nominate a committee on organization
to undertake the work of forming a new
party out of the reform forces of the
country. The names selected are to be re-
ported to the conference today. The rest
es containing suggestions for the resolu-
tionS committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
FIRST CROP THRESHED.
History Of a Graham County
Farm That Is Pleasing.

Hill City, Ks, July 2S.-The immense
wheat crop of Graham county has COM
menced to move and the elevators will
be taxed to their uttermost to handle
the grain The first crop to be threshed
was the crop of w. B. Fulkerson. of
Bogue, and the yield was surprising
even to the most optimistic forecaster.
The product of fifty acres of land
which has been in cultivation since the
year 1888 was 1,564 bushels, over 81
bushels per acre, and 120 acres OF new
land raising its first crop yield
ed an average of twenty-seven and two
thirds bushels.
There is a little story connected with
this crop which, while it will seem even
as a dream of the pipe to an eastern
man, is simple narrative of facts and
figures: In the spring of the year of
1902 F'ulkerson bought from D. ]. Hanna
a quarter section of u. P. land adjoin-
ing the town of Bogue at price of
ten dollors per acre, paying, as is The
custom in buying these lands, only one
tenth of the purchase price in cash the
balance running on ten years time;
during the season Mr.. F'ulkerson had 100
acres of breaking done on the land and
in the fall the land was disced and
from this ground averaged exactly
twenty-seVen and two-thirdS bushels
per acre. This was sold and has been de-
livered to buyer Frank Smith, of Bogue,
for fifty-seven cents per bushel each
acres crop selling for S1577. The cost
of producing the crop is figured to be
$4.37 per acre, based on these estimates:
discing and drilling per acre, rs cents
cost OF seed, 90 cents. heading and
stacking per acre. $3.50 and cents per
bushel for threshing. The cost of the
breaking from which Mr.. Fulkerson has
already gathered sod crop. was $1.25
per acre which together with the cost
of the crop added to the cost of the
land makes a total of $15.62 per acre.
1t will be seen that in this one crop
Mr.. Fulkerson can pay the entire pur-
chase of the farm. all expenses in
CURED in preparing the soil and all cost
of seeding, harvesting and threshing the
crop and still have money left out of the
amount received from the sale of the
crop
This crop is not mentioned for the
reason that ii is better than the average
crop in that vicinity but because it is
the first crop to go to market in this
county and therefore the first case In
which actual figures are to be had.
There are thousands upon thousands of
Graham county acres which will do as
well or better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
EMPLOYS AsPECIAL TRAIN
In Haste to Reach New York Broker
Pays a Dollar a Mile.

Chicago, July 2S.-Speeding along at
sixty miles an hour, hurrying desper-
ately in cab across Chicago, tumbling
into dummy at Englewood, dashing
aboard a waiting car, riding alone in a
swaying blind baggage after flying
engine, then a breathless dash for the
Twentieth Century flyer just as it
pulled through the Toledo station-that
was the way that j. Hagerman Eos
ter, millionaire broker of New York
made record trip across the country
so as to be in time for the stock ex-
change opening on Wall street today.
Two hundred and tllirty-five miles, dol
lar spent at every mile post Even the des-
perate haste of the Whizzing train seemed
all too slow, the New York capitalist
seemed to hear in every chug of the trucks
the sound of a ticker. and wondered what
its message would be if he were not there
on time
j. H. Foster of the firm of Foster &
Lounsbury, brokers, got summons at st.
Paul.
AT once, New York" it read. Then he
started.
He reached Chicago II minutes after the
flyer had left, but his special train caught
it at Toledo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Nortonville complains of too much
fast driving on the streets on Sunday
Grasshoppers are so common around
Formosa that they dine on sunf1owers.
A Little River citizen has harvested
his lemon crop. 1t weighed 91k ounces.
Jewell county has an epidemic of
rats Old settlers declare that's a sign
of good crops.
A brave Jefferson county woman
donned some of her husbands garments
and did good work throughout the har-
vest.
Owners of chickens around Fairplay
that are being carried off by the foxes
are in favor of changing the name of
the town.
The outlook for Thanksgiving dinners
in Jewell county is gloomy. The farm
ers say that turkeys are an unknown
quantity.
In addition to doing her regular house
work the other day the wife of a farm
er at Chase slaughtered two snakes. a
turtle and a mouse.
Smith Center has yet so dogs upon
which the taxes are unpaid and a half
dozen men who insist upon waiting
until Saturday nights for haircuts.
There is such a dearth of water and
so many curious men in Rice county
that two young ladies of that section
are going clear to the Pacific ocean
for a wading party.
A fash of lightning struck Sharon
Springs woman on the back of the head
and bounced off like a rubber ball. II
didn't even cause her to exclaim ouch. y
CRATER found the demand for soap
and electric belts at Fredonia brisk
enough to allow him to ride out of town
in a Pullman instead of on the blind
baggage. So -
Occasionally truthful fishermen are
found. A Topeka man and wife re
turning from the Wakarusa freely adj
nit that they caught no ten or. fifteen
pound bass. @Ws9
An Atchison monkey gets drunk every
time anyone gives him the whisky. But
why mention Atchison. There are 500
towns in Kansas where similar con-
dition exists.
certain Topeka woman insists on
her mother using the faith cure for her
ailments. But the mother declares that
physic can't help but be the best be-
cause it has the inside track.
A bottle of mineral water exploded
and the glass severely injured a Cedar
vale woman's eye. If that had been her
husband and a bottle of beer she would
have scefingly remarked. Serves you
right
The Pottawatomie Indians are to
give their annual green corn dance at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
JUST SUPPOSE.

IFrom the Abilene Refiector.1
Just suppose Jim Troutman had been
elected governor and some political and
personal friend of Senator Burton were
on the u. S. district court bench, placed
there through his influence.
Suppose the legislature had at the
regular session wasted $4,000 in salaries
to needless employees.
Suppose the flood time legislature
through the influence of Troutman,
grant Kansas sufferers any relief and
had appropriated $4,000 to it's own
members for a 4S-houI session.
Suppose Frank Grimes, Tom Kelley
and Bill Mackey had been given $4,000
each for a few months work as trus-
tees of an insurance company and Dave
Mulvane $4,000 as their legal advisor.
Suppose there had been whitewash-
ing of insane asylum scandals and fac
tional prejudice in every department of
the state administration.
Would not there be a tremendous and
awful series of conniption fits, blind
staggers, delirium tremens and mad
dening effervescence in the offices of the
Emporia Gazette, Hutchinson News,
Ottawa Herald, Salina Journal and
other syndicate organs? Wouldn't the
present machine" politicians be horri-
fed
Now it is all on the other side and
how meek, sugary and soothing they
are! They see no wrong, they shield
and cover and excuse.
But just suppose it were the other
xx.vt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28

farmers are getting so desperate that
they are stopping express trains and
going through, offering large wages for
men to get off and work in the fields
At the same time we are receiving one
hundred thousand immigrants monthly,
and the question naturally arises as
to what becames of them
In Texas they are interested In the
Kansas wheat harvest. though Texas
itself raises a little mess of 25,000. 600
bushels this year, The Texas Stock
Journal, published at Fort Worth. says;
''It was thought that wild western
days had passed, but 'holdups' are
again prevalent in Kansas. The farm
ers have been stopping trains and i'm
portuning passengers to work for them
in the harvest fields, offering $40 and
IS per day for hands In some cases.
it is claimed. that force was used to
get help. Desperate conditions require
desperate remedies. but probably no
man has been compelled to serve an.
other against his will"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28

to your face. In neither case do con-
slider the circumstances extenuating in
the least. The crime can be called moth
ing else than murder"
+, The value of this utterance lies in the
fact that coming from a justice of the
supreme court it will be published in
all the newspapers of the country and
so get attention. in communities where
the opinion expressed will be received
with surprise. What Justice Brewer
said is the veriest commonplace in NOR
ais as well as in law, but nothing is
more obvious than that in a good part
of our country the definition which he
gives of lynching will seem strained and
novel. In New Orleans a crowd gather
ed around a Jail containing negro ac-
cused of attacking and-robbing a white
woman and demanded that he be given
up, plainly expecting only show of
resistance from the sheriff." according
to the dispatches. The mob was finally
persuaded to disDerse by Senator Fos-
ter, who assured it that the negro would
be adequately punished without delay If
found guilty, and begged it not to bring
disgrace upon the state by taking the
law into its own hands.
The three or four hundred persons
who composed that New Orleans mob
will be surprised, no doubt if they learn
that what they were dissuaded from
doing was murder. Evidently the au-
thorities had small confidence in the
InofouSnneSS OF tnelr conversion. lor d
few hours later the negro, having con-
fessed and been sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for "a years. was removed TO
the parish prison for safety. Meanwhile
Senator Foster is receiving merited COM
mendation from the "better element of
the city, who feel that he has saved
Louisiana from serious disgrace. They
would have better reason for congratu-
lating themselves if the would-be muir
derers had been treated by the officers
of the law in the light of Justice Brew
er's definition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
HIS THROAT WAS CUT.
Body of a Mcpherson County
Citizen Found in a Well.

Mcpherson, Kan, July 2S.-The body
of ]. w. McAnarney was found in an
old well in pasture adjoining his home
Sunday. His throat was cut and sew
eral large bruises were found on the
back of his head and shoulder, appar-
emily inflicted with a club. The alarm
was given by his son George, who dis
appeared then for time. He asked
neighbor to go for a doctor. When the
latter arrived he found Mrs. McAnar
ney suffering from a severe nervous
shock.
The son, George. was arrested and
placed in jail. When questioned as to
the disappearance of his fathers body
he said that there had been trouble be-
tween his mother and father and that in
the afternoon his father had come home
and whipped his mother and then left
the house; that after this he (George)
left the house to go to the pasture and
oil the wagon and when he reached the
well he found the platform broken in
and supposed that his father had broken
through and fallen. On looking in he
found the body of his father. The body
was taken out and the throat was found
cut with some dull and ragged instru-
ment.
The son said he supposed his father
had stood at the top of the well and,
cutting his throat, plunged in. His
story was doubted and search of the
premises disclosed, about a hundred
Yards from the house, behind a hedge,
a place where a severe struggle evil
IDENTIFY had occurred. A large pool of
blood had soaked into the ground. There
were tracks toward the well in the pas
ture and marks on the ground where
the heels of the body apparently had
been dragged. Near the scene of the
struggle large club was found that
might have been used in making the
bruises on the back of the head and
shoulders, also an oyster can all COW
cred with blood that seems to have
been used in cutting the mans throat.
Hundreds of the neighbors are visiting
the scene For some time there has been
trouble between McAnarney and his
wife and boys, it is said At the time
of the opening of the strip his wife in
duced him to sign over his property to
her for the purpose of allowing him to
go to the territory and take more land.
but it is reported. failing in this and re-
turning home. his wife is said to have
objected to his returning and to have
driven him from home with the assist
ance of the boys. Since then he has
reneatedly returned, demanding his
property. Each time he was apparently
driven away. He returned last Satur-
dav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
GRANT BUILDING PERMIT.
The Milk Pasteurizing Plant to Cost
$1,000.

A permit to build has been issued for
the erection of a milk purifying station
at the corner of Fourth and, Jackson
by the company IA. Which j. e. Nissley,
Peter HeiptF siasR3{d .qthetFI Topeka milk
i' George M,1HebIa. ara A. D. wash
burn are ,aiso fit lterested III the project.
The building is to be a two story brick
affair. and will cost, $1,000. 1t is to be
equipped with considerable amount of
expensive machinery inside and viii. be
ready for operation about November 1.
A. D. Washburn. in whose name the
permit was issued. stated today that all
most all the milkmen are interested in
the pasturizing concern and that milk
furnished by them will be handled in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
BIG HANDWRITING GROUND
Riley County Farmers Offer Uncle
Sam 10000 Acres.

Fort Riley, Kan, July Psf the war de-
partment accept the offer made by the
ships for the use of their lands for man
euvering purposes each year, 5000 acres
will be available for such a purpose. A
thorough canvass of these two townships
has been made and every owner and renter
with the exception of three or four offer
ed their lands for government use in the
fail with the understanding that the gov
eminent reimburse them for the actual
damage incurred This would be but
slight, as all crops are harvested long be-
fore the maneuver period. These two
townships offer the best typographical
features for such purpose, the country
being marked by high and low lands,
woods and several water courses.
If the department accepts this PROPOSE
ton Fort Riley's maneuvering possibilities
will surpass anything by long odds in the
country. Troops can then be bivouacked
miles apart from each other, thus making
the problems of attack and defense on a
par with those practiced by European
armies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28

1t is being made rather clear that the
employment agents and the transport
tation companies were more anxious to
have harvest hands go to Kansas than
the farmers were.-Wa shingtOn Post.
The Post paragrapher in an effort to
write something bright has done unin-
tentionally, of course. an Injustice 10
those who were. in fact, responsible for
the harvest hand movement. Kansas
farmers really needed the men and no
blame should attach out here if many
persons started so late that when they
arrived here the harvest was over. The
reaping of grain rarely lasts more than
ten days or two weeks in any one local
ity. but beginning al the south line of
the state it takes from a month to six
weeks to reach Nebraska. When wheat
is ripe in any section of the state the
farmers thereabouts are almost certain
TO need help any year when the crop is
good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
LOCAL MENTION.

City Treasurer M. NJ. Hale is spend
ing today in Lawrence visiting his son.
Mrs. A. L. Engle is spending a two
weeks vacation with friends in Chicago.
H L. Wintrode left yesterday for
Manhattan, Kas., to spend his vacation.
DR.. E. E. Carpenter leaves tomorrow
for Union Pier, Michigan, where he will
join his family for a midsummer out
ing.
Mrs. William Christman and daugh-
ter, Miss Ethel, of Omaha, are visiting
their uncle, Mr.. BENZ. Boyd, of 1114
Taylor street.
Mr. and Mrs. Amasa Akers, of 519
West Tenth street, left at noon today
for three weeks visit with friends
and relatives at Syracuse, Kas.
Postmaster John Guthrie has a letter
from Arthur Smith of Omaha, inquiring
the whereabouts of DR.. w. Taylor his
uncle, from whom he has not heard
since the flood. Smith gives his address
as in care of E. L. Dodder, 1924 Cum
mings street., Omaha.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
Walnut Grove NJ. E. church will give
Van Buren, street. tonight at o'clock.
About forty of the Endeavorers will at
tend. Games and refreshments will be
the order of the evening.
Following is the Lawrence Worlds
estimate of LecomDton: DIR. J. d. Nc
compton Sunday night. An effort is
going to be made to organize a Meth
odist church in that town. --ecompton
is one of the best towns in the state,
and Methodist church ought to -four
ish there
New paint, svarnish and whitewash
have been employed in the general
renovation to which the state printing
plant has been subjected since the ad-
ministratiOn of George Clark. the lie "
state printer, began. The building has
new outside steps and a new sign over
the entrance. A new finishing room is
to be built and equipped next month
The preliminary hearing before Com
missioner A F. Williams of Werts Bell
and Joe Fizer, two negroes charged with
shooting at United States mail box on
a rural mail route south Of town, is be-
ing held this afternoon. The boys claim
that they We're shooting at a woodpecker
when the mail box got in the road"
Shooting up" government mail boxes
is an amusement not approved by the
federal authorities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
Arguments for Mob Law.

New York Press:
Chicago's chief Of police, we submit,
has offered better way to solve the
problem of outrages against law and
order than Justice Brewers suggestion
of public discussion of the subject. When
riotors in Chicago threw bricks from the
shelter of a building at teamsters who
were driving wagons as they were en-
ployed to do and as it is their right to
do, the police chased them out of the
When a mob blocked the street in the
way of the trucks the police opened a
passage for traffic with their clubs.
When the mob began to pelt the police
from what is considered to be a safe
distance. a few of the uniformed men
charged it and in less than three min
utes every member of the mob who
could use his feet was doing so. The
arguments for mob disorders are swift
and firm exertion of legal authority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28

While it remains to be proved that.
says the Financial Review, the over
doing of the last few years has been
sufficiently discounted, or that the
higher rates for money have exerted
their full effect. it is important not
to overlook corrective forces which are
actively at work and the effect of a
good harvest, such as is now within
reasonable expectation. Wheat, corn.
cotton and all important crops made
good progress during the past month
Pessimism is chiefly confined to Wall
street, while all through the west, the
northwest the southwest and the south
there is every evidence of business ac-
tivity and progress. The railroads in
these sections are taxed to their fullest
capacity in spite of recent large addi-
tions to equipment. and officials show
more or less fear OF a car shortage
when the crop moving season begins.
II there is a note of hesitation any
where outside of New York and New
England, it has its source in the ex-
cesses OF which Wall street has been
the centsrs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
Spilled Liquor in the Street.

Ardmore. /. T., July 2S-United States
officers today seized a large quantity of
whisky and beer before it had been re-
moved from the train which brought it
here and spilled it in the street. United
States Marshal Colbert has issued an
order prohibiting the introduction of
liquor into the Indian Territory. Sub
stitutes can TO longer be sold in this
nation as officials say the artificial
drink dives are blinds for the sale of In
toxicants Bootleggers are becoming
numerous rs a result of the execution of
the prohibition law.