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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
ARE ANGRY.
They Don't Like the State
Chipping Order.

Fl. J. Bone. secretary TO Governor
Bailey. whose home is at Ashland, IN
clark county, received a telegram to-
day stating that the cattlemen Of that
county are indignant at the order of the
state live stack sanitary commission
compelling all cattle in the western part
of the state to be dipped for mango be-
fore they are allowed to be shipped A
big meeting of cattlemen will be held
at Ashland tonight to protest against
the order and ask that it be modified 50
as to allow cattle which are not infected
to be moved in the near future
M. c. Campbell, chairman of the COM
mission. owns a ranch IN that county
and is now putting in a dipping plant
and the cattlemen down there are blam-
ing him for the adoption of the order
They aIlege. Furthermore. that Camp
bells cattle have had the mango worse
than any other in the county MI Bone,
however. says that the adoption of the
order was not CampbelPs fault, as he
did not want it so sweeping, but that the
other two members of the commission
outvoted him. believing it for the best
interests of the state at large to take
radical measures at once and stamp the
entire disease out of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
KANSAS BANKERS.
Win Be in Topeka This Week
for Annual Meeting.


on Wednesday sai0 THU selay of this
week the members % the Kansas
Bankers association will be assem- mbled
IN Topeka for their sixteenth annual
meeting. There are many men among
the membership of the association who
are prominent in business and politics
IN Kansas and the membership rolls
snow list about four hundred mem-
bers- The state association is divided
into groups over each of which pre-
sides a vice president
The officers of the organizat ton are:
President. James T. Bradley. Sedan
vice president, Senator G. w Mcknight
of Junction City, secretary C. L.
Brokaw, Kansas city; treasurer. J. N.
Mcdonald, Chanute; group vice presi-
dents. G. A. Guild. Sabetha; p. L Bone
brake, Topeka al w. Markley, Oswego;
Y II. Branch, Beioit; Don Kinney,
Newton; p G. Walton. Anthony. Each
group is provided also with chairman
and secretary. These group officers are.
croup Senator L. H WulfelSuhler
LeavenwOrth, chairman; f. NJ Wilson,
Horton, secretary; group 2-J- P. Har-
ris, ottawa, chairman: A. w Cory.
Dwight, secretary; group &C. A.
Mitchell, Cherryvale. chairman; S. J.
Howard, Cherryvale, secretary; group
&c. w Hanna, Clay Center, chair
man; w. W. Bowman, Concordia, sec
retary; group 5-W- H. Eagan, Hutch
inson, chairman; ]. G. Brinknian,
Great Bend. secretary; group &c. w
Bolinger. Winfield. chairman; C. c.
Taylor. Conway Springs. secretary
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Col and Mrs. Owens said yesterday
that they Will establish a model town at
Topolobampo. They have already had
drawn for them plans of the town with
the principal avenues 200 feet wide The
harbor is the best one on the Pacific
coast for a thousand miles from San
Francisco a stone pier is now COM
pleted. at which the Pacific Coast
Steamship company's vessels dock.
Col and Mrs Owens says that within
a short time they viii be able to watch
from the porch of their proposed new
home vessels from foreign ports enter
their harbor, for the Hamburg, Ant
werp and London companies have sig
nified their Intention of making Topo-
lobampO a port for their steamers
Work is almost completed on rail-
road from Topolobampo to Fuerta City
sixty-two miles, and Col and Mrs,
Owens win be present at the opening Of
the road on July 1. TopOlobampo is only
/ 500 miles from Kansas City, which viii
be the eastern terminal of a railroad
the route of which has been laid out
and which is now under construction.
The town is 500 miles nearer to New
York than San Francisco
Col. and Mrs. Owens say that the
lands which they now own will in less
than ten years be the site of a port sec
ond in Importance only on the Pacific
coast to San Francisco.
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so HOURS
A Body Of Macedonian Insurs
gents Overcome
And the Village Where They
Took Refuge Destroyed.
FOUND In THE RUINS.
One Hundred and Fifty Bodies
Tell the Story
Of the Turks ThorOughness in
Doing His Work.
FOUND In THE RUINS.

Vienna. May 25.-About $50 Mace
donian insurgents were killed at the
village of Smerdesh south of the Lake
of Presba. May p, according to a. dis
patch to the Neu Freie Presse from
Salonica- The insurgents. who had pos
session of quantities of dynamite.
sought refuge in the village and wera
attacked by Turkish troops. The fight
ing lasted 80 hours. and ultimately all
the houses were burned or blown up
by the Turks. One hundred and fifty:
bodies were found in the ruins
A dispatch from Constantfnople, May
- said fighting had gone on all day on
May 4 near the Bulgarian village OF
MoSlias six miles north of Monastir.
London, May 25--The Sofia cores
pondent of the Times says negotiations
between Bulgaria and Turkey have op-
ened favorably in that city. It is evil
dent, he adds, that there is a slackening
IN the struggle in Macedonia but fight
ing IS reported from the districts Of
Kitchevo and Nevrokop, where several
villages are blockaded- Macedonian cir
cles in Sofia are disposed to await the
result of the recent pacific overtures
Vienna, May 25.-It is reported that
the Bulgarian government has present.
ed a note to Russia, Austria and France
announcing its intention of asking for
their support toward the conclusion OF
an agreements with Turkey regarding
Macedonia.
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DIED OF CHAMBERS.
His Doctor Thought at First
That It Was Cancer.

Newark, n. J.. May 25.-Glanders
has caused the death of Simon Wilson.
a colored stableman in this city. This
is the second case recorded here in
which this disease, peculiar to horses,
has attacked a human being. The 9TH
er ease is that of Alfred Meyer, who
is in the last stage of the disease.
The doctor who attended Wilson says
the man became i'll last January with
an affection which at the time was
believed to be cancer of the nose. The
ailment did not respond to the usual
treatment. Within the last few days
the disease spread rapidly through the
tissues of the system, particularly those
of the nose and throat and the ply
sician caused the patient to be sent to
the hospital. Four hours after his ad-
mission to the hospital Wilson died 1t
then was learned that the case was one
Of glanders.
Wilson was employed as hostler and
general utility man in a stable in this
city where an epidemic Of glanders pre-
vailed
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VOTE in SEVENTH.
Victor Mnrdock VIII Be Elected
Tomorrow.
Complications Make His Election
ForegOne Conclusion.
A SHAKING CAMPAIGN.
Wichita Man Has Visited Every
where In District.
Comparison of Vote Of Two
Years Ago.
A SHAKING CAMPAIGN.

Victor Murdock will tomorrow be
elected to congress from the big Sew
enth" congressional district, to succeed
Chester I. Long. in the special congress
sional election. Conditions are such
that there is not a particle of doubt as
to the outcome of the election. and it Is
only a question OF how great Murdock's
plurality viii be.
1t all depends on how well the voters
turn out. It is very busy time with
the farmers. and it will be hard to get
out very large VOTE and Murdocks >
plurality will probably be in keeping
with the size of the total vote.
The fusion vote will be divided Thc
Democrats and Populists both have
candidates and in some counties there
is rivalry to see which Que will poll
the most votes. This will help in those
counties to get out a larger vote pro-
portionately than the Republicans will
poll, but in other counties the fusionist IS
know there is no hope of success and
there IS nothing to encourage them to
turn out to the polls.
victor MurdOck, the Republican NOM
lnee has been making a handshaking
campaign. He has not made a regular
political speech at all during the cam
paign, but he has gone through the
length and breadth of the district, vis-
ty-six counties in the district. getting
acquainted with the people and finding
out what they want of a congressman.
Mr.. Murdock is well known throughout
Kansas as the managing editor of the
Wichita Eagle.
Charles F. Clyne, the Democratic
nominee, who is a bright young attor-
ney of Stafford, has been trying to make
regular old-fashioned. speechmaking
campaign. but it has been uphill work
at this time of year when everybody IS
busy. especially the farmers. W. ].
Babb, the Populist candidate, is we'll
known in Kansas politics. He served
two terms in the legislature from the
city Of Wichita and is now chairman
Of the Populist state central committee.
He has made no campaign, but is sim
ply making the race TO maintain the
Populist organization in the Seventh
district
The Socialists also nominated can
didate. but nothing has been heard OF
him since his nomination He is An
drew Roessler of Barber county.
Last fall Chester /. Long received a
plurality of 1923 over Vernon J. Rose.
the fusion nominee, and a majority of
z .209 of all votes cast. This spring the
fusion vote will be divided between two
candidates. The fusionists carried only
two counties in the district last fall,
Barton and Rush.
The vote of the district for the three
candidates by counties was as follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING.
Sound of Shots Followed by a Girls
Flight

Tarrytown, n. Y, May 25.-There was
a mysterious affair involving the proba-
bic mortal shooting of a man near the
Ardsley club at Ardsley last night. The
wounded man is in the Dobbs Ferry
hospital in precarious condition. A
girl is being held pending the invesuga-
ton of the authorities.
G. H. Hale. superintendent of the club
was standing at the railroad station be-
tween 8 and 10 o'clock when he heard
a shot fired up the road and not far
wondering what had taken place a girl
came running out of the darkness from
the direction of the shot and tried 10
board a train as it started to move
way Mr.. Hale restrained her.
The girls story. which is partially
corrobOrated, is that she went to meet
John Hefferan. Hefferan met her at
the Ardsley station and they started to
make a call in Ardsley. They changed
their minds and went and sat on a
stone wall near the railroad tracks
While they were seated there, the girl
says. a stranger came up suddenly, and
speaking to Hefferan said. Throw up
your hands
What for2' asked Hefferan.
The repIy was a shot, followed by a
second one one bullet took effect in
Hefferan's breast and the other in his
stomach. The girl goes on TO say that
she, frightened, ran to the station with
out knowing really what she did. She
says the man who shot Hefferan ran up
the railroad tracks.
One man. q guest or member of the
club. whose name is refused at the club,
asserted there was sort of a struggle
between the men before the shooting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
HOW GET TEAMS?
That Is the Problem Confront
ing the Wheat Growers,
Mr.. Gerow Talks About the
Situation.
MR.. BLAINE'S FIGURES.
He Thinks the State viii Need
Large Number.
LR. BLAINE'S FIGURES.
Believes That the State Figures
Are Too Low.

The biggest difficulty In the harvest
this year is going to be the question
of teams. said T. B. Gerow. director of
the state free employment bureau to-
day Teams are not very plentiful and
the extra ones win have to be driven in
while the men win as rule go on the
trains. It win be harder. too. to dis
tribute the teams N an eauable mar
ner over the wheat belt, for we cannot
tell where they are going. Barton
county alone has asked for over a
thousand teams That sounds like a big
number, but that is what they call for.
The number of men wanted is stil
climbing up. too. now have estimates
calling for 25, IT'S men"
Mr.. Gerow does not think it advisa bic
to give out to the public the number of
harvest hands wanted at each point in
the wheat belt, for the reason that un-
scrupulous employment agents in the
cities take advantage of this informa-
ton to secure fee from would-be har-
vest hands for securing them employ
ment. Instead this information will be
filed with the aGents of the state bu-
reau in the various cities from when
harvest hands are sent
D. W. Blaine. the Pratt county imple~
ment man who has been mixing in con-
siderably in the harvest hand question.
has also been gathering details and he
has evidently secured the same infor-
nation as Mr.. Gerow in some instances
There viii Drc5ablV be more han1s
needed in Barton county than in any
other in the state. because it is the
second largest wheat county in the
state while its population is compara-
lively small, and Mr.. Blaine takes this
as a basis for his estimates of the num-
Der that viii be needed in the state.
This is not a safe basis, however, for
Sumner county. which raises more
wheat than Barton. does not call for
nearly as many men and teams. The
reason is that there is a considera bic
home supply. There are some good
wheat counties which have reported to
Director Gerow that they viii practical
ly need no outside help, for the reason
that they have enough at home to care
for the crop. and any additional would
create a surplus of unemployed.
To prove that his figures are correct
Mr.. Blaine sends the State Journal the
following figures of the number used
in Barton county last year and the esti-
mated number of those needed this
year. by townships. This statement is
as follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
WAR PREPARATIONS
Are Still Carried on by Both
Russia and Japan.

Victoria. B. c.. May 25.-The steamer
IndravelH brought news from the ORR
ent last night of continued war prepar-
atlons- Japan correspondents at Pekin
tell of large guns arriving over the
1rans- Siberian railway for Newchwang.
The war feeling in Japan continues and
war preparations are still going on.
Heart rending details of suffering and
death as a result of the famine in
Kwangsi were given in Hong Kong pa
pers received by the Indravelli. Mr..
Hess, a missionary at Wuchow. who
has been investigating on behalf of the
Hong Kong charities, says that owing
to three successive failures of crops,
people are starving and dying in hum
dreds- During March and April it is
computed that 10000 people were sold,
men selling themselves for employment
in the Straits Settlements and women
and children being sold into slavery and
for brothels on the coast. Story after
story of distress was told by the mis-
sionary. He told of famished people
dying in the act of eating wnen relief
was brought them; of babies reduced to
skeletons. being abandoned in numbers
by the rOadsldes and of mothers selling
daughters into lives of shame for a
mere bowl of rice. It was shown by the
missionary's report that thousands
would perish unless speedy relief is
given.
Hong Kong papers tell of the piracy
of fishing junk by armed Chinese just
outside of Hong Kong harbor. The
crew was overpowered and the vessel
looted.
Manila papers publish details of the
wreck of the Norwegian bark Prince
George which was on the overdue list
some time ago. She went ashore on the
south coast of Basilan on April T. Her
crew of three were picked UP by the
United States coast guard cutter Tab
las and landed at ZambOanga.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
DRILLING FOR OIL.
Good Progress Being Made on North
Side

Drilling has been in progress for a
week at the prospecting hole being sunk
on the J. H. Skinner property in Shorey
by the Northern Shawnee Development
comDanv. So Ear the drillers have
averaged about ten feet a day. incIud-
ing time taken out for casing the we'll
and pumping out water. which was
struck at a depth of about twenty feet
The greater part of the distance down
has been through bed of clean river
deposit sand. but now the drills are
rather slow. The DEVELOPMENT com
pany is working with a pretty com
plete equipment Of machinery, includ-
ing five or six drills With ordinary
success the shaft ought to be sunk to y
depth at which it is easona Bile to ex-
pect the desired gas or oil formation
within three or four weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
FREE BAND CONCERT.
Coronado Beach Band Will Play
in State House Grounds.

Many brass bands engaged by the
amusement caterers of the city haVs
appeared before Topeka audiences, but
the first organization OF the kind en-
garged by railroad company is the
Coronado Tent City band, which will
give free concert in the state house
grounds tomorrow evening This band
plays at the Tent City. Coronado Beach.
near San Diego, Cal, during the season
and is credited with being one of the
really good bands in the country Prot.
Henry Ohlmeyer. is the director. and has
a reputation as a musician Numbered
among the mebers of the band are So
loists of no little ability. The musical
numbers rendered embrace selections
fom all classes of composition. The
programme of the concert to be given
tomorrow night viii be of a character
to please every one
At intervals during the concert an IL
lustrated lecture describing the trip to
California over the Santa F'e will be de-
hvered by Prof. A. A Weiss of Cincin-
natl. Ohio
Exhibitions of this character are de-
partures from the customary advertised
methods of railroads. and the concert
and lecture are being given by the San
ia Fe with a view of popularizing Calf
fornia as a summer resort. With this
end in view the Santa Fe has just ar
ranged to place on sale Just 1. a ticket
to Coronado Beach and return, in which
will be included railroad transportation,
sleeper car tickets, meals en- route, and
board and lodging at the Grand Canyon
and at the Tent City, at a rate lovsr
than can possibly be had should tickets
and meals and lodging be paid for sep
arately. In other words the plan is
modelled after that of the successful
tourist excursion companies.
Should the weather be such as to
make an outdoor exhibition impossible,
the concert and lecture will be given in
the Auditorium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
ROCK ISLAND TROUBLE.
There Are Many WashOuts and
Delays Are Frequent.

The following bulletin was received
by the State Journal today:
Wichita, Kas., May est is report
ed that a Rock Island passenger train
went into the Clmarron river near
kinghsher, Okla. last night. No par
ticulars. but alarming reports Of many
drowned are heard.
It was afterward found to be a mis-
taLa.
WashOuts floods and softened tracks.
to an extent never paranelel. are delay
ing train service on the roads through
central Oklahoma. The reports of Il
Rock Island passenger train running
into the CimaTrOn river near King
fisher drowning many passengers. was
denied at the division offices here. ana
1t was found to be a mistake Whar
probably started the report was the de-
ra1lment of passenger train af 10-35
Saturday night by soft tracks near
Union City. forty miles south of Ell
Reno. The derailed train was No 20,
known as the Kansas City and Chfcka
Sha accOmmoda ton. Three coaches
We're derailed and the engine turned
completely over. the engineer and IRE
men being slightly bruised but not se-
Verely injured.
The condition prevailing on the okla
homa lines is the worst ever expert
enced. For twenty-five miles north of
Chickasha no train service can be
passed The Rock Island has been run
ming trains from FL Reno north and
from Chickasha south since Saturday
night Between those points inundated
or softened tracks and washouts have
been growing worse since that time on
the line running west to Mangllm an
even worse condition exists along the
Wachita river For miles the tracks
are completely oyeriowed. and it is inn
possible to tell how serious the wash
outs really are. At Anadarko the track
IS reported to be five feet under water
which is restrained from overaowing
the town only by a dyke which
threatens to give away.
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bandving of our own name by a few
papers in an unfair manner. Adyi how
hard it has been to keep from loading
UP our old flock gun and blazing away
aWhilei How long we will permit our
pen to be paralyzed and our lips pad
locked, time alone can tell. The statute
of limitation should expire sometime
certainly, and the awful offense of runs
prlt restored to the rights of ordinary
citizenship
Senator Burton left his Abilene gar
den long enough to go down to ST.
Louis and help secure a concession from
the worlds fair management for re-
production of the city of Jerusalem to
cover ten acres of ground. The COM
pany which will exhibit the holy city
Is known as the Jerusalem Exhibit
company and Senator Burton is presi-
dent OF the company. J. B. Case, of
Abilene, and State Senator John c. car
penter are on the board of directors.
Ex-United States Senator Harris. accord
ing TO the Washington Post, has been try
lng 10 buy back his Kansas stock farm
down IN LinWood. but the present owner,
10 whom Senator Harris sold the place
ABOUT three years ago, wants s. 600 more
still in Washington waiting the appoint
ment of the canal commission, and if he
does deoes not get a place on that It is said
tnat ne Will do the next Dest thing, and
come back to Kansas and 90 to raising
blooded live stock again.
Charles Lands of Osborne county states
positively that he will not be a candida te
for state senator next year but he viii
not be averse to being sent as one of the
Sixth district delegates to the Republican
national convention Others who are talked
of as candidates for national delegates are
L. M. Linton of Lebanon, Charles Hall of
Russell and E. E. Ames Of Norton. A. n.
Mead of Beloit would like TO be a dele
Sate-at-large from Kansas. Each con-
gressional district will have two delegates
and the state viii have six delegates-at-
large.
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SATURDAY NIGHTERS.
Annual Feed Will Take Place at Ho-
tel Throop Tonight.

The twenty third annual banquet of
the Saturday Night club win be held
at the Hotel Throop tonight Follow
ing is the programme:
Presidents address, Z. D. McKeever.
The Last Guess Justice H. F.
Mason.
His Money" L. S. Ferry.
"Ho-pon However R. b WEIGH
Charity Begins at Home" H J.
Allen
THE Farmer in Literature" B. H.
Pugh.
THE Knight of the Condemned Dog. -
G. C. Clemens.
Speaking for the Governor" H J.
Bone.
THE Things We Do Not Know
Judge r. NJ. Pickler.
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his health. which at that time was
notieea bly, falling. Epilepsy is under.
stood to have been the disease. He
was about 80 years of age. and the
youngest member of his family. In To-
pelxa he was widely known and liked.
The other sisters and brothers are
Mrs. W. B. Huston. of Council Bluffs;
Mrs. Isaac Bradley. of Madison, Wis;
Fred z. Dietrich. of Fort Worth, Tex,
and VIM Dietrich. of Denver. The
arrival of Mrs. Lacey aud Mrs. Allen
with the body OF their brother is ex-
pected this evening on the Rock IsIanG
at $40 Arrangem for the funeral,
which IS to occur at 2 p. m. Tuesday.
have about been completed. The serv-
ice will be held in Grace cathedral, and
the burial in the Topeka cemetery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-25
H. C. DIETRICH DEAD.
Young Man Dies After Long
TIlness.

Heber C. Dietrich. well known in To-
peHa. where he was for ten years the
head bookkeeoer of the Hall Iitho-
graphing company. died at Richmond,
Ind. the home of his sister. Mrs. ". J.
Allen. at $40 o'clock Saturday night
Another sister. Mrs. A. ". Lacey. Of
Topeka. was with him at the time Or
his death. and the two sisters are ac>
companying the body back to Topeka
for burial
Mr.. Dietrich's death resulted from n
long illness. In July OF last year he
gave uD his work in To2eka and went
back to Indiana in hope of recovering