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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
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ing stone cutters which has formed an
alliance with labor unions connected
with the trade in Greater New York.
The firm charges specifically that
members of the association regularly
added 10 Der cent. to all bids for stone
work, and after averaging bids the as
sociation's officers apportion the con-
tracts so that this added 10 per cent
amounts annually to about $500 O00
which is divided with the unions, the
latter receiving about $60;000 the bal
ance going to the association. The
president of the corporation, E. f.
Giberson. threatens an appeal to the
work. In his statement Ciberson al
leges that the unions were taken into
the plan in order to force all the en-
pioyers to become members, of the as
ISOLATION, and that the walking dele
gates agreed to harass employers who
refused to sign.
The members of the association. he
than that included in the bonus All
Dds, he says. are submitted to the as
ISOLATION. The average bid is then
taken as basis for the lowest bid, and
the others are revised before they are
submitted to the architect or con-
tractor who has invited the bids.
The association decided. according to
the statement, who is to submit the
average bid, in this way apnortioning
the work among its members BY this
means the lowest bid becomes from 10
10 20 per cent. higher than the work
would cost the builder were it not for
the association
It IS said some of the employers ad-
NIT having agreed to add 10 per cent
on all contracts in New York. but 6env
having made any arrangements for
dividing with the unions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

Clay Clement in 1.-The New Domin-
ion'' is at the New Crawford Friday
night Few actors or plays have made
so good and lasting an impression as
THE New Dominion Nothing like
this refined German baron has ever
been placed on the stage before. both
from the standpoint of the actor who
portrayS the character and the play
wright who conceived it. Mr.. Clement
has the utmost reason to feel proud CT
his work
sidered the most successful American
comedy of American life, comes to the
New Crawford Saturday. matinee and
night. The cast is a good one, inctuG-
ing Jas. A Devlin as Maverick
A1ilt G. Barlow as the minister to Da-
honey" the Texas Steer quartette,
Will t. Chatterton as Major Yell. y
Josephine Fox as Mrs. Brander."
Thomas Haskell as Captain Bright
May Duclos as Mrs Campbell" VIM.
Marble, jr., as GRASSY GALL and other
clever actors.
The sale starts at a. m. tomorrow
for when Johnny Comes Marching
Home" at the New Crawford Sunday
night. when Johnny Comes Marching
Home" is a, musical comedy, or perhaps
more nearly an opera, which has had an
uuHllSldkdDlo success curing the past
season. 1t has been seen in only a few
of the eastern houses until the begin
ming of this summer. when it was
shown at Chicago. 1t is still less than
a year old, and has taken very high
rank among the musical entertainments
of the day. Edwards and STANCE. the
very clever makers of Dolly Warden"
are responsible for johnny and they
are said to have fallen but little short
of creating a, classic.
The realism of the fire scene in Lady
AuAley's Secret as presented by George
Vessels was amply proved a night or
two ago when Mr.. Vessels had his
clothing badly burned and Mildred Hall,
who is playing Lady Audley, set fire
to her dress. This will not, however,
interfere with the production of the play
at the New Crawford on Tuesday for
one night only as announced, as neither
of the actors was injured.
The Caldownie sisters. the famous
Fred E. Wright's production of the
Kerr-Shelley musical extravaganza,
THE Beauty Doctor. which will be
seen at the New Crawford next Wednes-
day night. These well known artists are
featured in several spectacular dancing
numbers, and in a new national dancing
ensemble which Composer Kerr has ar
ranged they have the support of the en-
tire chorus and ballet. while Herr Won
Palm has devised a novel lighting
scheme which gives the number a de-
cidedly spectacular effect. This is only
one of the new features of Mr.. Wright s
production, which is said to be the most
elaborate seen in musical comedy in
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

loading coal, caught the boy and held
him while he pressed a revolver against
the lads shoulder and sent three bullets
into his body. The boy lived long
enough to tell who killed him. Smith
and Coombs' son had quarrelled and the
latter had been subjected to a severe
drubbing by the two Smith brothers,
boys of 10 and IS. Coombs' deed was
clearly premeditated and very cold
blooded. He was sent to Jail on a muir
der charge but when his case was call
ed for trial no jury could be secured.
Seward county is one of the remote
western counties. The entire population
eligible to jury service numbered only
about 125. His case was continued but
he was not allowed bail. He brought
habeas corpus proceedings and secured
his release.
In January, following, Salvation army
revival services were held in Liberal.
Coombs attended regularly and after
several nights created a stir by arising
and announcing his conversion. He con-
feSSed to the murder of the boy and
said that sleeping or waking the face
of Arthur Smith was constantly before
him. Then as proof that his conversion
was sincere he went out and made a
deed of his house and lot in town 10 the
the promise that every month he would
set apart $40 of his earnings for her use
| For one month Coombs kept this
promise. On the second month he gave
Mrs Smith but SIS und during the fol-
| lowing month he cut the stipend down
to $40. Since that he has given her
nothing. Vainly trying to compel him
to abide by his word Mrs. Smith COM
menced civil proceedings against him for
damages and got out a writ of attach
ment upon piece of land and a drove
of cattle belonging to him. But Coombs
had already disposed of these, giving
the land to his attorneys, Mike Sutton
and T. A. Skates of Dodge City He
had sold the cattle Coombs Is again
working in his place as foreman on
the Rock Island.
The status of the prosecution against
him is rather uncertain. At the time of
his conversion he agreed to go into
court and confess his crime but when
court opened he announced his willing
ness to admit to no more serious an
offense than murder in the fourth de-
gree. The judge refused to accept the
plea. The charge of murder still stands
against him, although, had he kept his
promise to Mrs. Smith, it is unlikely if
it would have ever been prosecuted. He
has never been tried in court and ac-
quilted so that there seems to be no
reason why he may not be rearrested
and tried at the next term of court. In
years time there have been changes
in the population of Seward county so
that It is probable there will be no diff
ficulty in securing a jury of men who
are not familiar with the details of the
murder and do not have opinions con-
corning the prisoners guilt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Teachers at Hutchinson.

Hutchinson. Kan. Oct. 2s.-The Cen
trail Kansas Teachers association will
hold their regular Thanksgiving meet
ing at Hutchinson. This is the time for
the annual gathering of the teachers in
their district associations. The meeting
will be unusually interesting to teachers.
The railroads have granted a one and
a third fare, certificate plan. Reduced
rates at hotels. Plenty of accommoda-
lions for all. This session of the Cen
trail Kansas Teachers, association prom
Uses to be the best in the history of the
association
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Little Child scaldad

Wellington, Kas., Oct. 2S.-The little
year and a half old adopted daughter
OF Harry Fruit. living at the corner of
A ana Eleventh streets, was very Sc
vereIy scalded Tuesday by pulling the
plug from a washing machine filled
with boiling water. The water poured
out over head neck and body. scaling
ner SO badly that a part of her hair
came off, and her flesh where the water
struck her was completely cooked. Her
recovery is very doubtful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Death of John E. Russell.

Worcester, Mass, Oct 2S-Former
Congressman John E. Russell died to-
day at his home in Leicester of heart
disease. He was a member of the For
ty-second congress and subsequently
was twice the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party for governor, but was de-
fea ted each time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

out of $22 through a marriage proposal.
Myers says this is the third time he has
been swindIed through a matrimonial
agency. A widow in Chicago and an
old maid in Indiana victimized him last
summer. but he did not prosecute them
because they We're so far away. 1t is
about time he had a guardian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
The Old Camper

in his supply-Borden's Eagle Brand
Condensed Milk. 1t gives to soldiers,
sailors, hunters, campers and miners a
daily comfort. f-Hke@<the old home"
Delicious in coffee. tea and chocolate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
OLD SORES
ULCERS
Assesses

the system to become congested with impurities whc
wherever the flesh is bruised scratched fostering
boil or blister, pimpe burn often develops into
the unhealthy condition of the blood and the place will
reaching the bones and causing them to decay unless
the blood is purged and purified and the system thor
oughly ceansed of all morbid and unhealthy accumu-
lations This cannot be done with Washes salves and
soaps which only afford temporary relief.
Such things neither make the blood any purer
the system any cleaner and to depend upon them alone
is suicidal and senseess The ulcer is only
symptom, outlet for the poisons circulating in the
blood and as long it remains impure the will
heal It may scab and appear to be getting
WE'LL but fresh outpour of from the diseased
blood starts it again. and thus it goes on sometimes
years. slowly sappng away the life of the patient
The only way to get rid of these disgusting evil
dences of impure blood is to remove the cause by
purifying the polluted blood and nothing does this
surely and effectively S. S. S. 1t drives of the
circulation impurities and germs of every kind; and
under the topic effect of this great remedy the general
health rapidly recuperates and brokendown constitu
tons built and strength and vigor restored
to all parts of the system When S. S. S. gets into the
circulation, impurities that have been cogging the
blood and causing the old ulcer, driven
through the natural channels of the body. and the
place begins heal the discharge gradually ceases
eli oil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
That County Attorney Matter.

Wellington, Kan, Oct. 2S.-Judge Jas.
Lawrence, as president of the yelling
ton Bar association, has called meet
ing of the association for this afternoon.
He states that it is his understanding
that while the call is a general one, the
real object of the meeting is to consider
the Wilson county attorney matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Camhridgeshire Stakes winner.

London. Oct. 2S.-Hackler's Pride won
the Cambridgeshire stakes at New
market today Burses was second and
Kilglass came in third. Twenty-secven
horses ran.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

Col. A. S. Johnson was in Kansas
City Tuesday.
There is one place at least where the
price of soft coal is higher than in To-
peka. At Garden City soft coal costs
81 a ton.
Prof. George B. Penny, of Washburn
college, will deliver two lectures on The
Rise of Opera and Oratorio" in Emporia
this winter.
Otis E. Dalton who is very low with
typhoid fever at the Santa Fe hospital
is slightly improved but there is little
hope of his recovery.
The Ohio Association of Topeka has
elected the following offieersi President
Harry Wright; vice president, Harry
Lang; secretary, John Alexander; treas
urer, Walter Shaw.
About fifty members of the st. Johns
"A. NJ Z church will go down to Law
renee Thursday night to give the can
tata, Queen Esther which was put
on in Topeka a couple of times last
summer.
Kansas avenue is not very clean on
the south side of the river, but in North
something appalling. And yet the city
council has decided to dispense with
the white wing force altogether.
Topeka is once more guarded against
an armed invading force as the local
warriors have returned from the Fort
Riley maneuverS. Topeka sent Com
pany A, First infantry, Battery B and
Brigadier General James W. F. Hughes,
all of the Kansas national guard.
Judge Hazen has granted City Attor-
ney Spencer'S petition to file a new COM
plant against Charles w. Kohl, who
was arrested by the police charged with
selling liquor illegally, but was NOT tried
in the district court when his case was
appealed because the papers in the case
were lost.
Captain H. NJ. Philips has returned
from the Fort Riley maneuvers where
he campaigned against the Browns in
mimic warfare. He will now buckle on
his political armor and prepare to re-
sumo his duties as chairman of the Re
publican county central committee and
manage the political campaign next
Spring.
Pool Grinstead, of Wathena, was in
Topeka Tuesday renewing his acquaint-
ance with the United States district at
torney's Office. Mr. Crinstead is under
indictment for misuse of the mail
service and has motion to Quash
pending in the district court He
dropped in yesterday to see what the
prospects were for getting a ruling.
Col. w. w. Smith. private secretary
to Senator J. r. Burton, of Kansas, was
in Kansas City yesterday. He said
Senator Burton had arranged to go to
Washington November 4. In the mean
time the senator is talking to the peo-
pie of western Kansas about irriga-
ton. He has five dates for public
speeches to fill before leaving for the
capital.
An indictment is pending in the L. S
district court against Mrs. Ella Cook.
the woman who swindled J. w. Myers
ranchman of southwestern Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

This stately brown-ey'd maid
Comes slowly from the shade
Through valley, mead and glade
For autumn'S masquerade.
Her lips are red as red can be,
Kiss'd by the zephyr king;
IT'S autumn's jubilee
The tripping measures ring
With signing melody.
The leaves fall rustling down
With autumns crimson wiles;
She claims her russell crown
With a courtier's winning smiles
Or a tyrant's low ring frown.
She weaves her robe of state
With a thousand Tyrian dyes;
Why should chill winter wait
To claim the jewel prize
From autumn'S dead estate?
Dame Nature grandly weaves
Autumn'S red royal shroud;
She 1irnns the reaper's sheaveS
With a brown rustling cloud
OF fallen leaves
-Junius L. Hampstead in New Orleans
PiCayune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
ELKINS Is DYING.
End of Philadelphia Millionaire Mo-
mentarily Expected.

Philadelphia, Oct 2S.-William L. Ell
kins is dying. Early today he began to
SINK and the end is momentarily ex-
pected- All of the members of his fam
lily are at his bedside.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

A ST. Louis Worlds Fair Information
bureau has been established al 903 Main
street, Kansas City. in charge of Mr.
L. S. Mcclellan. where information viii
be cheerfuily furnished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
NEW KIND OF COMBINE.
Employers Form Organization
and Unite With Labor Union.

New York, Oct 2S-In a statement
to the public issued by the firm of Will
liam Bardley & Son, contracting stone
cutters, in Brooklyn, it is alleged that
their employees. about 100 in number.
have been ordered on strike at the in
stigation of an association of employ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
Report Is Not completed.

New York, Oct 2S-Assistant Receiv-
er Diegnan, of the United States Ship
Building company, said today that the
report of Receiver Smith had not yet
been completed and would probably not
be ready for publication before Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28
SURE INDICATIONS
OF BAD BLOOD

There is better evidence of bad condition
and unhealthy state of the system than that won't
testerng dschargng Ulcer Abscess There
by which the blood become and poisoned
long spell of aara fever other facilitating Sickness
diseases inactive kidneys
and lack of nourishng food weaken and
with impurities which taken by the blood
rused scratched fostering dschargng ulcer begins
burn often develops into ghfu looking because
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

Kenton, Ohio, Aug. "a 1903.
Seine eight years ago = small blister
appeared on nay upper lip. tried several
local applications in effort to heal it, but
without avail. Finally I consulted doctor
but the sore did not yield to his .treatmszt,
consulted another without any better
results. The third doctor pronouncssd it
Eczema. The sore In the meantinae had
spread quite little and tho skin abeu4 the
sore was discelored. After treating Il for
Eczema and not getttag any better, the doc
tor pronounced it Kpfthelioma Cancer. and
advised that GO to Chicago and have it out
out. did not do this. but having had s. 8. S.
recommended to me by ooapls Of friends,
began it's use, and the sore soon began to
heal, and after using some six bottles Of the
medicine it healed up entirely. and has never
returned. Several years have elapsed since
its disappearance. JOHN L. SANS.
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~ oUA II ~ tSA oS"OAOPo 1AtO
of the blood, and the place will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-28

New Castle, Pa.
was the victim of severe burn having
stepped into cruciblS of molten iron. Ny
right foot to the shoe top was fearfully
burned You can get an idea of it's severity
by my telling you that was unable to walk
for months. I suppose my blood was bad,
as the place did not seem to heal Get
ting dsseourag at the slow progress
towards recovery, decided to use S. S. g..
and pleased to say that the medicine did
its work well. 1t went into the circulation
thoroughly cleansed and enriched my blood,
and in due time the affected area began to
heal To-day it is entirely healed, and S. S. S.
deserves great credit for what it did for me.
40 Pearson St. CHARLES HUNTER.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-17
VALLEY FORGE DAY.

Tomorrow is Valley Forge day. To the reproach
of the country be it admitted that the anniversary has
been observed for twenty years, but the
state of Pennsylvania will do that which the whole
try should oirEgive honor to the memories of those
heroic who followed the Father of his Country at
Valley Forge June 10, I777, beginning that march that
really stopped until the surrender at Yorktown.
Twenty-Five years ago there small beginning
made looking to the establishment of national park
the ground made sacred by the suerngs of the patriots
who followed Washington At that time the state of
Pennsylvania set aside of ground to be
improved and parked The inspiration of the centennial
anniversary having passed the park project almost
forgotten until within few months Latterly some 500
additional have been secured by the and
now possible that something tangible will be done to-
ward the carrying of the original plans of the park
promoters. The state of Pennsylvania appropriated
$4,000 at the last session. this be expended in clearing
out the old trenches which filled with the accu-
mutations of hundred and twenty-five years. laying
out walks and planting trees.
The work of restoring the original intrenchments
will involve great deal Of labor but it should not be
spared There that in the story of Valley Forge that
should be inspiration to all Americans. The awful
suferings of the of the Continental army have been
told in song and story, but still do not fully appre
cate what that dreadful winter was, when famine We'd
with pestilence and cruel foe in decinatng the ranks
of the patriots.
The observance that has been planned for tomorrow
is on scale Of fitting magnitude The governors of
the colonial states will all be present and is estimated
that two hundred thousand people may be present We
have too few of these monuments of that revolution
which meant more for the progress of man than any
event since the world began.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-17
June c1imax-the June sweet girl graduate, thu
June bride and the June divorce.
APPEALS TO THE Jury.

It would be extremely hardhearted man who,
when confronted by delicate, weeping and five
small, helpless children would hesitate before send
ing to the scaod to states prison for life the hus
band of that woman the father of those children Just
children had to do with the acquta of Kohler Monday
probable that they will discuss the But
doubts that, had Kohler been single with no one
dependent him, he have suffered the penalty of
his crime
Courts of law make every effort secure impartial
jurymen, but they admit the court room relatives
whose wan, wistul faces fearful eyes and trembling
forms do to make those urymen biased than any
preconceived opinion they may have formed in regard
to the merits of the
Still fresh in the mind of the public is certain
famous New York murder trial. during the progress of
which white haired old faher-a who enjoyed the
respect of the COMMUNICATE day after day beside the
son who battling for life his agonzed eyes search
ing the faces of the jurymen, the impassive
countenance of his beloved child Who will believe that
the spectacle Of that old man. and troubled but re-
solved and brave had influence the jury?
will never be tried on its merits alone so long
as disraught and sorrowing relatives are permitted in
court for jurymen human and is the impulse of the
average to help a who is in trouble 1t
would cruel decree that would Danish the re1a
tiveS of from the during the prog
of sz:, but to insure fair of that trial
there other Koh1er certainly has his
wife and his little to thank for his unexpected re-
lease Had she turned against him and refused to sup
port him in his time of trouble, he would not now be
walking the streets of St Paul free
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-17
CAVERN OF MYSTERY
FOUND IN MONTANA
Frank McKinnon Breaks THROUGH
Earth and Finds Fairy Palace.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
ANACONDA, Mont, June 16.-While
prospecting in the mountains ten miles
west Of here yesterday Frank McKin-
non broke through the earth into one
OF the most peculiar caverns ever dis
covered in this section. MeKinnon had
sunk a shaft possibly twenty feet. Sud-
denly the earth gave way beneath his
feet and he was precipitated into a
great underground chamber.
Filled with staIactites and stalag-
mites of all kinds, the place was veri
table fairy palace. The only opening
into or exit from the cave seemed to
be the opening into which the man had
fallen. In the cave was a small lake,
and near this were the skeleton Of
man and the bones Of a mountain lion.
Cold drafts passed over the lake con-
unually, showing that it was connect
ed with the outside world, yet the clos
est search failed to reveal the opening
McK1nnon, who was accompanied by
a friend, made an inspection of the
cave and was later pulled to the sur
face with rope.
1t has been known for a long time
that there was something mysterious
about the mountains where the cave
is located, as the Indians cannot be in
duced to go there, claiming the local
ity is haunted.