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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
WAS AT HOME
His Children Make Affidavit
in Pardon Case.

John H. StoWell of Seneca. attorney
for George II. Dobbs and Mrs Emilia
New in their application for a pardon
from the penitentiary, is arguing the
application before Governor Bailey this
afternoon He has filed with the. gov
ernor bound volume of letters per-
tanning to the case and other informal
ton, most OF which have been used be-
fore other governors in asking for
pardon The only new documents are
recent affidavits made by the children
of Dobbs, Lulu Dobbs, now Is years
old, and Charles Dobbs, three years old
er. Since their father has been in
prison they have been living with an
uncle at Redlands. Cal They We're re-
spectively s and II years old a the tim 2
of the murder. Both make affidavit
that they remember distinctly the night
before the news of the murder was
brought to the home near Eureka, and
both swear that their father spent the
night in the house. The girl, who was
little girl then. says she slept with her
father.
The Dobbs-New case has been
threshed through the courts for years.
States supreme court got through with
it. refusing a writ which would have
secured a new trial Applications were
made to both Governors Leedy and
Stanley for pardons for Dobbs and Mrs.
New and Leedy finally commuted Mrs.
News sentence from life Imprisonment
to 40 years imprisonment, which was
practically the same thing.
Governor Bailey said today that ne
would not retry any cases IN hearing ap-
plications for pardons: that ne VIII net
pass on the Evidence which has been before
a court and on which a jury has fcu1d the
defendants guilty. The only grounds thslt
he will consider for a pardon are new eNl-
dence which shows that the Defendants
are not guilty. or the statements of jurors
who say that they we're Influenced by
popular sentiment to md the defendants
guilty and would now vote otherwise II
The county attorney Of Greenwood coun-
tv is here to oppose the granting OF
parcion to Dobbs and Mrs New.
Tie pair We're convicted on strong cir
c1rnstantial evidence of conspirIng to klu
Mrs. News Husband. New was shot in
the back late one Qight at the door Of ms
house 1t is alleged by the friends OF the
pair that they were not property defended
al their trial and that they V ere them
selves the victims # a conspiracy.
Although the crime was committed IN
Greenwood county. Hvo Nemaha LAWYERS
John IL Stowell and s. p. Mold. have be
come Interested in TIN case and pushed it
in The supreme cours Of the state and
United States. and lave been trying to
secure the pardon for The pair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
LIKELY NO GONE.
Prof Penny WI Probably Come to
Topeka

Prof. George D. Penny viii probably
accept the position of dean of the
Washburn School of Fine Arts, but he
denies the report printed IN the Law
renee Gazette that the question has been
settled
It all rests where it has rested for
the past two weeks said Mr. Penny to-
day If the city will purchase a pipe
organ for the Auditorium. l win come
to Topeka. Some of the pipe organ men
arrived today from New York. At a
conference with the college authorities
this morning, some of the minor details
OF the matter were satisfactorily settled,
and the whole matter now hinges on
the pipe organ question
The question of the location of the
school has been discussed at some
length, and has been one of the matters
upon which Prof. Penny's acceptance
has depended. Prof. Penny will have
rooms provided f9r his department
down town. rs we'll es at the college.
ana VIII thus be able 20 keep in close
touch with the musical people of To
peka- When the proposed fine arts
Dullding IS constructed it will have
70 be determined whether it would be
better to locate it on the college campus
under consideration
Topeka, Of course win now give it's
assurance OF the great pipe organ and
secure Penny to the city and Washburn
and make this a great musical center.
1t IS understood that with Prof. Penny
al the head Of the school of fine arts,
there viii be associated with him in
addition to4the present faculty a Wash
burn, Mr.. and Mrs. Klingenberg, in
strumental and vocal; George NJ. Stone
painting; Albert Reid, drawing and
possibly Il. NJ Hadley. architecture
The report published in the Lawrence
Gazette IS as follows:
Prof. Geo B. Penny, who had been
at the head Of the school of fine arts
of the State university for the past ten
years. has decided to accept the offer
OF WaShburn college and the Topeka
Choral society to become dean of the
school of music of Washburn college
The salary will be $1,000 a year. Wash
burn giving Prof. Penny the same as
Kansas university and the extra $500
being made up by the Choral society.
It is Prof. Pennys intention to estab-
lish a school of fine arts at Washburn
patterned after the State university.
His decision to go to Topeka rested on
the purchase of a fine pipe organ for
the auditorium and as he has secured
promises of this purchase his accept
ance is assured. His resignation viii
take effect at the close Of the school
year in June
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12

Coal

Hartford Courant:
Looking backward at thei disturbance
which came with the coal strike. there
are several things which come into
view One Of them is the Diteous con
dition in which the coal companies
would be left in case they had to raise
wages It was a questions OF extinc-
ton for them.
Now so buy coal or read your stock
market reports 1t is 81 ton. if you
Wanf any coal and this Isl the most
profitable year the coal com panies have
ever experienced, although they had 70
do what was going to ruin them and
ralSed the pay of their help It is an
noun eed in Wall street that. the Della
ware & Hudson company iskgmaking 20
per osent- year, or hetters at present
pricesf- and production
IheS fact is that the coaf companies
have been carefully rui1ied into the.
GREATEST prosperity that they have
ever known. They had to raise wages
sapd then they raised coal, too. and We
1he hAankepy public, are paying for
boFh increases, and the increase has
Rean so judiciously arranged that the
let profit is greater thaEa ever before
Ia is z safe prediction that long before
coal gives out something VIII be dis
&C vered thar viii make its Llace good:
and whe Their that can be coimered too
is not to be told until the discovery
co. mes. Probably il viii beg too abuu-
dalat ai2d available to be controlled.
Eut tn 1T is somewhat remote. and has
Urec40us little to do with seven dollar
coal The question is what we are rs
do now from dag to day, with ccal
pegged IN where it is ands the peggers
encOuragin. ely announcing that it will
be higher each month if another strike
has to be Ostered to boost it. Appar-
emily the oCly thing to do is TO pay
seven dollars and shut up.
But, meanwhile. each American citi@
zen can waite u the price of the coal
tocl<s and ia ke a national pride in the
fact that thos great concerns have esA
c. ped the destruction that even the II
sh rewd managers foresaw so distinctly
for them and are more pro 1table III A.,
ever in their history. Some caIamities
prove blessings, and the strike has
turned out that way for the ccmbiua-
ton. which. he wing been forced to do
something for labor. has taken the d.
portunity totdo the public for something
more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
MUNICIPAL PAYILIONs
Planned in Connection With st
Louis Model City.

St. Louis. May Pit is likely that
considerable number of American cities
viii maintain municipal pavilion as a
part of the model city" or install mu-
nicipal exhibit part of the general
exhibition of the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position. The committee on legislation
has begun a movement to induce the mu-
nicipal lawmalzing bodies to make appro-
priations to this end. New York city has
already made an appropriation of $4,000
Boston is at work on a similar appropria-
-tion. and reliuinary steps have been
taken in Washington, d. c. Secretary
Charles E. Reeves of the committee on
legislation has addressed to the mayors
of the twenty-five largest cities of the
United States letter urging that each
city make d representative exhibit as a
part of the general municipal exhibition.
1t is the purpose of the exposition to in
stall the most comprehensive municipal
exhibits possible. illustrative of the civic
development and progress of a selected
number of the largest cities in the United
States. These city exhibits will be ar
ranged according to their proper ella ssifica-
ton in THE departments of social economy
or liberal arts. or in the case of a city
which IS a great industrial center, its
exhibit may be placed with that depart
ment Of the exposition to which it is most
closely related.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
BlSCHOFF TO EUROPE.
Will Encourage Emigration of
Beet Sugar Farmers.

Oscar Bischofft leaves next Sunday for
an extended European trip, during
which he will encourage immigration
from the thrifty farming classes of
some of the old countries to the beet
sugar region of Kansas and Colorado.
He will sail on the Campania, of the
Cunard line, on May 80. He expects to
spend a month in England. some time
in Ireland, and four months or more in
Germany, visiting Switzerland before
he returns.
Mr.. Bischoff visited the state board
of agriculture today and loaded up on
literature concerning Kansas agricul-
ture, which he will use in portray ing
the advantages of. farming in Kansas
THE emigration laws of Germany are
very strict he said today, but 1 hope
to be able to tell some of my friends
about Kansas and Colorado and interest
them in coming over here Those thrifty
German farmers can become independ
emily rich raising alfalfa and sugar
beets in western Kansas. with the same
effort that it takes for a bare living
over there. The land in the old country
is not near as good as Kansas land and
it costs a great deal more Land over
there requires a great amount OF fertil-
izer and stall it will not produce as
Kansas land will.
The German farmers are as a rule
well versed in sugar beet culture, so
that it viii be nothing new to them
believe that the beet sugar industry is
Just in its infancy in this country and
that a great many mills will be built
in the not dis slant future. if there are
beets enough raised to supply them. 1t
is my intention to interest some of
those thrifty German farmers in this
business and see if I cannot get them
started over here to settle in the beet
sugar districts i Kansas and Colorado
| believe the II be a greater imni-
grafton to the United States during the
next year or two than ever before, on
account of the high taxes over there,
the prospect for war and other rea-
sons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
ROLLED UNDER THE TENT.
A Negro Circus Employe Narrowly
Escapes Lynching.

Chicago, May IA dispatch to the
Chronicle from Columbia, Mo, says
A negro employee of a circus here was
Obliged to fee from the tent at the per-
Torrance last night to escape lynching
by mob Of Missouri university stu
dents During a rush for seats the negro
struck Stanley Sisson of Toledo, Ohio,
a student. a blow on the head with a
tent pole, causing a dangerous but not
fatal wound. The students. on seeing
the blood flow, rushed over the ropes and
one Of the football team caught the
negro with his fist on the point of the
chin. The negro rolled under the tent
and escaped in the darkness. The stu
dents assaulted a number of the en-
plovesi and they demanded the negro be
given up that they might string him to
the center pole, but he could not be
found. The circus was allowed TO pro-
coed. but when a negro singer appeared
in tae concert the performance was
broken up in an uproar of groans and
Kisses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12

East Indian group, 35 millions in Africa,
and less than millions in the West
indies. OF the Dutch colonies, So NIL
mons are in the East Indian group. and
$4,000 in the West Indies. of the French
colonies, about %. millions are in the
East Indian group. % millions in Africa
and 100000 in the West Indies.
The report shows that the commerce
Of the colonies amounts to about three
billions Of dollars, of which about one
half is imports, and a large proportion
drawn from the governing country;
while in turn, the colonies supply a
large proportion of the tropical and sub
tropical products required Ily the coun-
h es which administer their govern
men.
The commercial relation 5 between the
-oloaies md their goverlAipg countries
are also discussed at, considerable
Isnatb. shown. that the colonies in
practically all Ca ses take a larger pro-
portion of their inn 'orts Sfrs IN the gov
erning country than fre'm OF her parts Of
the world. and that the de n ands of the
governing country (located as they are
in the temperate zones) for. { he products
Of the colonies Qocated as hey are in
the tropics are constantly Increasing
and thus commerce Abetweent the colony
and the governing country rapidly
PROVING
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
LYONS IN TROUBLE.
He Refused to Tell Things in
Alum Investigation.

St Louis, May 12.-Former Senator
W. F. Lyons Of Kansas City, author of
the anti-alum law. was a witness be-
fore the st. Louis grand jury for more
than an hour and after being excused
as a witness was taken to a private
room, where he was held for the grand
jury
1t is believed that Lyons is standing
on his constitutional rights" in refus-
ing to give testimony that might in
criminate himself and the grand jury
wishes him to tell some facts that he
has failed to tell.
According to Lyons he introduced the
bill which the baking powder trust ia
vcred at the 1899 session simply because
he considered alum a harmful ingre-
dent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12

In discussion of the San Salvador
Incident wherein that country refuses
to pay debt Of 100000 due citizens Of
the United States and awarded by ar
arbitration tribunal the Washington
Post says. Aside from the savagery
of the custom Of destroying and killing
for the collection of private debts, it is
a gross injustice to the people to use
their money for such purpose There
IS not an iota os moral right in usinG
the navy. which is the property of all
the people and the cost of which is not
light in collecting debts of A, B and
c. And if the people are not satisfied
that their navy win not be used for any
but the most honorable Durposes-for
public. not private ends-they will cease
to take pride in it and viii object to
heavy taxation for its maintenance"
There are those who believe that the
same theory is applicable 20 the collec-
ton of private debts due from one citi~
zen to another. wherein the entire ma
chinery Of the courts is set in motion t.
enforce a contract in which the taxpay-
ers are in no way concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
THE WORLD AND IT'S COLONIES

The area, population, commerce and
methods of government of the colonies
of the world are discussed in detail by
a monograph just issued by the treas
ury bureau Of statistics entitled Col
onial Administration. 1SO0-1900."
1t shows that the colonies. so-called,
of the world, including in this term all
territory not contiguous to the country
By whose government it is controlled.
occupy two-hfths of the land surface of
the globe and contain one-third of the
worlds population. or about 100000, 900
people. OF this colonial population Of
500oo0O0O only three small groups num-
bering less than Is, 900. 900 population. or
3 per cent of the whole, are composed
in any considerable degree of the people
of the governing country or their de-
scendants. The principal colonies com
posed of people from the governing
country or their descendants are the
English colonies of British North Amer
lea, Australia and South Africa. The
remaining 4S5.O00,0oo people. governed
by countries not contiguous to that
which they occupy. are of different
stock from that of the governing coun-
try and less than per cent Of their
population is of the nationality which
administers the government
Practically all Of Africa. Oceania and
southern Asia are governed by coun-
tries not contiguous to the territory in
question All of the governing coun-
tries are located in the temperate zone
and practically all of the territory gov
erned as colonies is. with the exception
of Canada. southern Australia and New
Zealand, tropical or sub-tropical
The population Of the British colonies
IS IA round numbers $50 million: that Of
the French colonies S. millions. Neither
lands colonies. 35 millions; Belgian colo
mics. 80 millions; German colonies Is
millions. Portuguese colonies. 3 millions.
and Spanish colonies. 135.000 while the
non-contguOus territory governed by
the United States has a populs ton of
about 10 millions. OF the population of
$50 millions thus governed by Great
Britain, nearly 800 millions are IN TIE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom % Chicago News.l

lFrom the Chicago News.l
Many who marry in haste repent in the
divorce court
Consistency may be a jewel, but it IS
as scarce as hens teeth.
Spring fever by any other name would
be lazness Just the same.
If a man is little weak in the garnet Il
white vest viii not save him.
If You have no faith in a mars words it
is a waste of time to listen 10 him
You can never tell what kind Of stunt
a woman or halky horse win do next.
A mans mind isn't necessarily well bal
anced because he parts his hair in the
middle.
The wise man starteth in small and
eroweth large. but the fool starteth n
large and cuiteth small
What the average man knows and what
ne thinks he knows are in comparison as
the fly is to the elephant
There are some children who should he
chastised-and there are some parents also
who shou-d get what's COMING 70 than.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
POMEROY PRESIDENT.
At Head of Gideon Organization in
Kansas.

The "Gideons7 have made a state or
ganization in Kansas with the following
officers:
President-A. B. Pomeroy, Topeka.
First vice PRESIDENT. W. S. Taylor,
Leavenworth.
Second vice president-E. 0. Wright.
Wichita
Third vice president-E. G. Reed. Par
sons.
Fourth vice president-w. M. Boyd.
Olathe
Secretary and treasurer-W. D.'Perry.
Topeka
chaplain-H. W. Bomgardner. Tope-
ka.
They are the only national org aniza-
ton of Christian Commercial Ira yelling
men, and now nu5aber about 5000 The
obiect of the organizat ton is for Chris
.tian recognition and fellowship
Frank A. Gonlick of Chicago is piiesi-
dent and Chas. A. Palmer and H. E
iChapnan who were here Sunday are
among the national suDerintendents.-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12

During April the circulation of the
country was enlarged to the extent OF
so. 595, III. largely through issues of new
gold coin and coin certificates. though
there was also marked increase III
the amount of bank notes. The total
volume Of money now in circulation in
the United States. as computed by the
treasury department, is S2,374. 1853. 72o
compared with s2.260.750,2 42 a year ago
and $3.50 0O7.0s two years ago. In
seven years the total increase has been
1894 346 637. There was time when such
an increase in the currency would have
been termed Imitation" and probably
would have been considered dangerous
to business. but people have come to rec
ognize the fact that increasing trade
demands an expanding currency and
one cannot exist any great length Of
time without the other. 1t is this that
has caused the clamor for an automatic
currency system which viii adjust itself
to the needs cf commerce. The Grand
Rapids Press thinks everybody ought
to be satisfied. since 1--WE have the gold
standard for which the majority de
cided. and we have also the initiation
which the minority thought necessary %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
DOOR is WIDE OPEN.
Passports Are No Longer Re-
quired in Manchuria.

PeIzin, May 12-The Russian charge.
NJ. Plancon has reinsurance regarding
Manchuria. He has issued an official
notice that al Manchluia is omen to
foreign travel and adds that passports
are no longer required. There were 500
Russian soldiers at New Chwang who
were removed about the date fixed for
the evacation and the same number re-
turned to New Chwang. 1t appears that
the Russian force which returned to the
Lao forts merely used the forts as tenn
porary resting places while j0urneying
southwark to their station on the pen
insula.
The United Stsstes consul at New
Chwang has arrived here to confer with
Minister Conger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
QUAKER Ref sTIoNs.

From the Philadelphia Record
Don't sit on another mans point Of
view
A little lie generally travels faster
than a great truth.
The undertaken makes his money by
charging stiff prices.
A woman doesn't have to be a conjurer
to change her mind.
The outcome Of theatrical venture de-
ponds upon the income.
The refcrmer sometimes succeeds in
merely stirring up the mud.
The man who sees an opportunity should
be quick to seize it.
The bald-headed man realizes that there
is plenty of room at the top.
You can't blow your own horn unless
you are able to raise the wind.
The average actress SEE ms to think she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
MORE WAGONS GOING.
Laundries in OMAHA May Open
ThursdaF.

omaha. May 12.-Thae was ma
teriaI increase in the number of wagons
running today Deputy ;heriffs accom-
panied the wagons but NJ attempt was
made to modest drivers
A. meeting today the laundry
nroprIetors it was decided 10 open the
is,1rf7r-ies Thursday. The. locked OUT
employees will be given an Opportunity to
work and in case of their rfusal to do
stfilrers il was given out thu the fight
would be carried to the exreme and
that other union men. perhaps the bar
hers and street employees, mag be asked
to strike in sympathy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-12
REFLECTIONS o. a BAcH ET.oF

TFTom the New Y 0Tk FTess-I
Nagging has driven more men to Acrime
than all the vices in the world.
The trouble with present-day humanity
IS that it is being coddled into wressk and
ruin.
girl can blush so easily that size will
do ii even when she is reading in a, novel
where the heroine begins her hone moon.
The more man explains a thin to a
woman the surer she is she could under
stand it better without the reasons being
made clear
II is very thoughtless of girl " no de-
serves to be kissed TO wear one of, those
Dig hats that act to a man the way a
battleships torpedo net acts