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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-03

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-03

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for men, It is the SELF shoe TO be
had only at 2l7 So. Main st.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13
REPUBLICAN HARMONY.

Bob Cousins, lazy, Longing Bob, the
irrcprcssiblc congressman from Upton
has given the republican newspapers
something to talk about during the hot
summer days. His speech at the Des
Moincs convention has set the brethren
by the cars and every newspaper that
has a Job under Roosevelt says it is the
doggondcst best speech that ever was
given on the republican platform.
Those who have no jobs under the adj
ministration and arc sore about it, say
it was measley, mously kick, a dis
turbing element, the fly in the ointment,
that it was "bug house" and not fit for
publication. Talk about republican
harmony; it is big joke. The republic
cans are fighting like cats and dogs, and
when they fight, it does not mean more
cats and dogs, it means trouble for some
one. Allison, the soft spoken old gentle
man, poured oil upon the troubled
waters, but the scrap goes on and
the end is not even in sight. Sic 'em
Tige. Eat 'cm up, Gunner! Let the
| fight go on. Washington Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13

The New York Times ',.calls attention
to the inequality of representation in
the college of cardinals. Italy, with
32,000,000 Catholic population, has 80
cardinals more than all other countries
have together. France has the next
greatest number seven for her 41,O00,-
900 populations; Austria five, for her
27,OO0,009; Spain five for her 1S,O0O,00O,
and the United States only one for her
100000. This leaves out of view
South America, which has not single
vote in the college, in spite Of her large
Catholic population. Probably this
question of uneven representation will
become more important as time goes on
and these great Catholic populations
beyond the European boundaries be-
come insistent for vote in proportion
to their strength.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13
can organ, is to be believed:

can organ, is to be believed:
"Hon. Robert G.. Cousins made a bril-
liant and beautiful speech announcing
his adhcrance to and belief in the pro-
tective tariff, which has now been i'll
operation six years, criticising nobody.
Any one is invited to read the speech in
full and render verdict upon it as to
it's republicanism. it's manner and the
matter contained. Yet the convention
had not been out ten minutes until GER
tain men were around the hotels and
public places cursing and swearing at
Cousins in most Incorporate way. Re-
publicans yesterday, to some extent,
who disagreed with the speech, We're
still swearing. AT the state house
prominent and influential men in various
parts of the building were in rage at
Cousins, giving uttcrance to the strong
est dcnunciation, criticising him person
ally. What is the occasion for all this?
We regret to sec the political affairs of
this state take such a turn"
Republican state officials and big wigs
"cussing' the great republican orator
Cousins for making ''stand pat repub-
lican speech is certainly not a convinc-
ing proof of harmony i'll Iowa. Was not
General David Bremncr Henderson a
stand-pattcr, and did he not voluntarily
retire from congress and the speaker
ship of the house rather than bow to the
Iowa idea? Wonder if the Cummins
gang are going to drive Cousins and
Larcey and Hepburn out of the party:
How will they fill the holes big holes
which these eminent "stand patters
will leave? Verify, verify, republican
harmony is a queer thing.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13
THE STATE ASSESSMENT.

The members of the executive coun-
Gil in accepting the reports of the corn-
ty assessors for the purpose of arriving
at the value OF Iowa real estate have
taken the only course that was open to
them, unless they desired to set up
their individual opinions as to values
in counties, many of which they have
but little personal acquaintance with.
The law provides no method by which
the council may determine actual
values, apart from the county assess
ments, and this is a defect that the COM
ing Legislature must remedy il it still
insists on an actual cash valuation, as
we believe the sentiment of the state
demands. The executive council
should be given independent authority
to conduct an examination into the
values, in some systematic system
While it is apparent that the assess
ors have not reported real estate at it's
actual value, the assessment as whole
will be satisfactory to the state, because
of the uncertainty as to tax levies. A
very material increase in the total as
ScSSmcnt of the state was not desired
until there was definite assurance
that it would not result in an increase
of the burden of taxation. Sufficient
taxes are being collected by state
county and town for all legitimate pur-
poses, and an increase in the assessed
valuation should be attended by re.
duction in the percentage to be made
taxable in the tax levies.
The increase in the railway assess
mcnt corresponds with that in the rea
estate assessment. There has been 6
very material increase in the total mil
cage Of the state which accounts fol
part of the millions that have been add
ed to the total assessment. Aside from
that Northwestern and milwaukee,
especially have been raised on theil
old mileage very materially while ever.
important road in the state bears some
share of the increase.
If the coming Legislature again takes
up the matter of securing an actua
cash valua ton Of property as the stat
ute provides, it will find that there arr
many additions that should be made t.
the present law, even if the whole meth
cd Of assessing property ought not tx
be revolutionized. Many states have
taken corporation and other such taxes
for state purposes and abolished thu
direct tax. 1t then becomes unimpor
tant how any county assesses itself tt
any one but the county itself, and TIA,
payers may usually be trusted to see tx
it that the burden Of taxation is fairl,
equalized by local officials, who arr
within reach. States that have adopt
ed this system escape many trouble
some problems, and in no instance ha.
ever returned to reliance upon direc
taxation. Register and Leader.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13

But few of the average run of people
are aware of the great difference in the
wage scale of this country and that of
the old world. Taking 1902 as an eS-
ample, the average wages paid arc:
Great Britain, s1.45 per day; France,
$1.34; United States, $3.50, and other
countries in proportion to England and
France. With this difference, and an
abundance of work and money, it is not
to be wondered at that immigrants are
coming in from all over the world.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13

A call has been sent out from Atlanta
for national convention of colored
people to consider the question Of their
removal from the country. 1t declares
that the American negro is treated as
an alien in the land where he was born
and where his fathers have lived for
generations. "North, east, south and
west" it says, "are all taking hand in
robbing us of our franchise" The
negroes way out of the evils and injus-
tice that beset his pathway in one of
the most serious problems Of our civil
cation.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13

Figures in the pension department
show that the old soldiers are passing
away at the rate of 100000 year. Ten
years hence the parades must be by men
past 70, and in 20 years but a small
band of the mighty host will be left. OBJ
jections to pensions have almost ceased,
and were never warranted by the facts
in the case. The nation that does not
honor the men whom it calls to the field
to offer their lives as patriots, is not
worthy the sacrifice demanded. No one
has yet been able to say that the United
States is such degenerate country.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13

Good morning, Carrie! Mrs. Nation
compels recognition this time. Being a
trit1e vexed with her saudience, she
challenged them with this propositions:
sResolved. That the republican party
is the bitterest enemy to the rights of
the American public" Nobody had the
temerity to deny that sclf-eyident
truth. The audience sat glum and de-
feated. There was an impression that
Carrie was looking for cinch.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13

Governor Cummins denounces as an
unqualified falsehood the report that
some one at Washington has letter
signed by him indicating a willingness
to accept a nomiilstion as vice-presi.
dent. The governor has, however, been
sounded repeatedly as to the vice-presi-
dency. Without doubt he would ac-
cept the nomination if it were offered
although he does not believe he is seri-
ously considered, as he has not the for
tune requisite.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13

Since 1897, when Mr.. Mckinley was
inaugurated, there have been three sec
retaries of state, two secretaries of the
interior, two secretaries of war, two OF
the treasury, two of the navy, three
postmaster generals and three attorney
generals. There is only one survivor il
Office Of the original Mckinley cabinet
appointed March 4, 1897. He is secre
tary Of Agriculture, James Wilson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13
Advertising Rates.

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Legal advertising at legal rates.
Church and other notices where an admission fee is
charged will be charged for at the rate OF cents per
line.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

For Governor,
JEREMIAH b. SULLIVAN,
of Crcston.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN ID. BUTLER,
of North English.
For Supreme Justice,
JOHN r.. CALDWELL,
of Tama County.
For Superintendent Of Public lnstruc
ton,
A. r. M'COOK,
of Howard County.
For Railroad Commissioner,
W. S. PORTER,
of Harding County.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-08-13
Dakota Lands
5000 to $3.50 per acre.

We have 100 quarter sections of land
for sale in Hand, Hyde, sully, Faux,
Hughes, Potts and Edmonds counties,
South Dakota. Prices ranging from Sc
to $3.50 per acre. Some of it can be
traded for good income property. Be
sure and see us before going to Dakota.
We also have nice line Of farms in De-
catur county for sale; also town prop
erty, stocks of merchandise and farms
for sale or trade. List your property
with us and we will get good results.
Also call on us for Missouri and Arkansas
lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07

against the Sunday theater While
Mr.. Bentley is greatly opposed to the
opening of the play houses on Sunday
he did not handle the question from the
religious standpoint, but spoke of the
injustice in expecting and demanding
fellow men to work seven days out of
the week and receiving for the over
work no extra pay. What labor union"
said Mr.. Bentley, would stand this?"
The theatrical contracts are signed in
the east and call for only six nightly
performances, SO when a company is
forced to play on Sunday they do it
for nothing. The actor has no redress
as he can not strike. MANY times"
continued Rev. Mr.. Bentley, when
company has to fill a Sunday engage
ment they have to skip the Saturday
nights performance to make their Sum
day date and consequently are docked:"
Mr.. Bentley is a pleasant and fluent
speaker and his address was of unusual
interest, putting the subjects before the
people in an entirely different light.
Both services were well attended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
IN THE HOUSE
800 Members Listen to Reading
of Presidents Message.

Washington, Dec. 7.-Speaker Cannon
brought down the gavel at noon today
convening the house for the first day of
the regular session of the Fifty-eighth
congress. The roll was called by states
to develop that a quorum was present.
Mr.. Pinckney CTex.) was sworn in.
The speaker announced the presence
of a quorum, 303 members having re-
sponded to the roll call.
The speaker appointed a committee
consisting of Messrs. Hepburn Qa.),
Hemenway Qnd.) and Williams miss. }
to join a committee from the senate to
wait upon the president and notify him
that quorum of the two houses was
present and ready to receive any COM
munication from him.
A resolution was adopted providing
that the clerk notify the senate of the
presence of quorum in the house. The
list of contests having been announced
are as follows:
California, Fourth district; Illinois.
Sixth district; Massachusetts, Ninth
district; Missouri, Eleventh and
Twelfth districts: North Carolina
Tenth district; Pennsylvania, Tenth
district; Oklahoma. delegate at large;
South Carolina, First and Seventh dis
tricts; Tennessee, Eighth district: Colo
RADIO. First district.
At 1:49 Mr.. Barnes, assistant secre-
tary to the president, bearing the pres
dents message to congress, was an
nounced. The message was read to
the house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
BAILEY IN NO HURRY.
Atkinson People Believe That They
Will Land Judge.

Although Governor Bailey asserts
that he has not yet determined on a
supreme judge to succeed Judge Pol
lock. the friends of w. D. Atkinson. of
Parsons are extremely confident that
they VIII land their man. They think
the appointment of Atkinson will be
announced within a day or two. The
Atkinson boomers have all gone home
except Wallace Ryan, who is standing
guard IN Topeka to see that nothing
happens to upset the plans of the La
bette county contingent.
Governor Bailey says that he is not
yet ready to make the appointment.
There is no need to hurry about it
now, said the governor today. The
January session, so I might as well take
my time to it and consider the mat
Ter carefully. want to be sure am
right before I appoint anyone"
Judge S. L. Ryan of Hiawatha. is
here in person today to look after his
boom and present his claims to the jul
dicial appointment to Governor Bailey
He has Just returned from Texas, where
he has been to attend the funeral of
his brother. During his absence his
friends started his candidacy for Judge
Pollock's place on the supreme bench
and have been working up his endorse
ments. A delegation of his friends, in
GLIDING Cyrus Leland, called on the
governor late Saturday afternoon.
Judge Ryan has endorsements from
the bars of Brown, Doniphan, Jackson
Marshall and some from Nemaha coun-
ty. The latter, however, has a candid
ate of its own, Abijah Wells. In Jack
son county the endorsements for Judge
who has himself been mentioned for
the place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
LELAND VISITS BAILEY.
Said That the Visit Had No Political
Significance.

There was some surprise among the
politicians at the state house today
because Cyrus Leland made a friendly
call alone on Governor Bailey. This is
the first time he has done so for about
three months.
The two have met occasionally, but
they have had little to do with one
another in a friendly way. Saturday
Mr.. Leland called on the governor
with the delegation from Brown and
Doniphan counties which endorsed S.
L. Ryan of Hiawatha for the supreme
judgeship, but it was merely as a for
NAL endorsement of Ryan. He seems
to have met such cordial reception
that he went back and visited the gov
ernOr today. Both declared the visit
had no significance.
Cyrus Leland says the story that
President Roosevelt made the Kansas
congressional delegation the referee in
the judgeship contest is incorrect.
TT is plain on the face of it that it
was not the presidents action said
Mr.. Leland. 1.-THE movement which set
the Kansas delegation to balloting on
the judge was started here in Kansas
months ago. Away along last summer
the Kansas delegation held a meeting
here in Topeka and talked the matter
over. Afterwards Senator Burton and
some Of the others announced that there
would be no further meetings of the
delegation until congress convened,
when the meeting would be held in
Washington. The president was told
that the Kansas delegation had taken
the matter up as a delegation, and he
able to agree on some man, but at no
time did he make the delegation the
referee, and it places him in the wrong
light to say that he did do So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07

DR.. Violet arranged the writings ac-
cOrding to the languages they were
written in and the various periods. The
latest documents are of the times of the
Crusades, but as Damascus was never
in the hands of the Crusaders the writ
ings must have been seized by the
Moslems as booty. First of all these are
Latin writings, q considera BILE number
of prayers and psalms. with notes of
different systems particularly fine
specimen is the letter of safe conduct
of King Baldwin V of Jerusalem to a
merchant Prof. Tobler will shortly
make a report about the old French dis
coveries.
ence in the mosque treasury of a consid-
cradle number of Hebrew fragments Of
literature. Prof Werth has undertaken
to arrange them in groups. These writ
ings consist of profane documents, mar
rage contracts and others, SynagOge lit
URGES and Old Testament fragments
But the fragments in Samaritanic Ian
guage and writing will claim the great
est interest. One of them has been
proved to be calendar. The whole is
further proof of the existence of a Sa-
marianne diaspora community in Da-
nascus. Most surprisingly bulky is the
group of fragments in the Armenian
language, deciphered by DR.. Gjandsche-
zian. A small number of fragments in
Georgian letters have not yet been de-
ciphered. A few fragments Of Egyp-
tan origin were in the Kubbet. The
principal Christian fragments are, of
course, remains of Syrian and rGecian
course, remains of Syrian and Grecian
the former, but there is nothing much
of Importance.
Undoubtedly the most valuable are the
rather bulky, partly connected frag-
ments in Palestinensic Aranaic letters
and language out of the Old Testament.
as well as out of the Gospels. Those out
of St Paul's letters are for the most
part unique.-London News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
DAMASCUS MANUSCRIPTS.
Early Christian Writings in the
Vaults of Mosque.

Visiting the mosque of Damascus.
Prof. Won Loden heard that in one of
the three little vaults there precious
Christian documents were preserved, but
that the sultan's permission was requir-
ed before the so-calIed Kubbet ell Chaze
treasury could be opened. Prof. Won
Loden asked the German government
for its aid and succeeded in obtaining
permission. DR.. Violet, a young savant,
was sent TO Damascus to visit the treas
ury For zine months he examined the
writings, and after the German govern
ment had promised that they would re-
main in possession of the Turks-the
contents of the mosque being unstable
according to Mohammedan ru1es-the
writings were handed over to the Ger
man government for a certain space of
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
RELIGION IN RUSSIA.
Tt Pervades Even the Saloon-Engi-
neer May Worship from His Cab.


"One who takes trip through Rus
STA cannot fail to be impressed with the
righteousness of the people, poor and
rich,' said S. Meyer, a business man
who has just returned from an extend
ed tour of that country, Denmark,
is about the only place where the poor
and rich classes meet in Russia" con-
tinued Mr.. Meyer "They are both alike
in church. Poor and rich have to stand
there. The churches are not equipped
with pews and seats like ours.
The Greek Orthodox church is the
church of the Russians. On every side,
in the hotels, in the drinking places, on
the walls of buildings in the streets,
everywhere that one may go, is seen
the icon the image which the members
of that church worship. 1t takes the
place of the crucifix. The icon is pic
some other holy representation, Enclosed
usually in a metal case. The face of
the icon is partly covered with this
metal, Just enough of it being cut away
to permit the figures in the picture to
be seen. Every good member of the
church lifts his hat and crosses himself
when he sees an icon. Sometimes a per-
son win pass half dozen icons in a
single block. Little chapels in the rail-
road stations contain icons. In the
train sheds outside, on a level with the
eyes of the engineers in their cabs, there
are icons, so that the engineers may
worship them as they pull out for long
trims on the steel rails. One finds an
icon in every room of the hotels. Every
drinking place has it's icon. AS a re-
suit the patrons of these places drink
with barred heads. 1 suppose holy pic
lures might be regarded as being out OF
place in an American saloon. But the
Russian drinking place is on a higher
level than some Of our saloons. The
people in a cheap drinking place there
behave as we'll as they do in church,
T2uffaIo FsxDreSS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
just Oxygen.

Liquozone is simply liquid oxygen; drugs
hol in it. Tt is the discovery Paul. the
chemist. 20 tearing how to 1iquify
oxygen. His object get al oxygen
in stable form into the blood that germ could live
membrane tissue
Lquozone does that. Oxygen blood food
tonic the of the blood It oxygen
the blue blood to red in the lungs. 1t oxygen that
eliminates the waste tissue builds up
could not live three minutes without
Of oxygen is certain destruction to germs it
only germ killer which isn't harmful
is paid 100000 American rights.
first tested it for two through physicians and
hospitals. in this country and others. We proved in
the most difficult obtainable.
fails a germ trouble. We with it
diseases which medicine cured We demonstrated,
mans doubt that it would do more sick
humanity than all the drugs in the world combined.
staked our fortunes and regulations
Iiquozone is Endorsed by the best medical au-
thorities prescribed by every physician
employed in hospital where it
employed by those who succeed, for
there is no destroy the a germ
trouble
doing part to let the sick know of
Iiquozone. spending $500000 to give it away.
will do their Dartif they will ask for t-those,
which caused by will end And they
rarely be ended without it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
KAISER IS GRATEFUL.
Pleased With American Express
siOns of Sympathy.

Berlin, Dec. 7.-Chanceilor Won Bue-
low, in view of alarming reports abroad
concerning Emperor Williams health
and in response to amessage of sympa-
thy from American friends of the en-
peror, authorizes the Associated Press
to express his sincere thanks for the
good wishes of his imperial majesty.
The chancellor brought the MESSAGES TO
the emperor's knowledge and authorizes
the Associated Press to say that the
emperor expressed his pleasure over
these. testimonies of sympathy.
Chancellor Won BueIow is willing that
the Associated Press should name him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-07
Not Enough Reeisters.

The police department is liable to
have some trouble over cash registers
taken from joints by order of the chief
Several cash registers accumulated over
Sunday, and were given back to the
owners today Anyone, it seems, can
get cash register from the chief with
out much trouble, and there were not
enough by one to go around today. The
object in seizing the registers is not
visible to the naked eye, when they are
Immediately given up to the hrst caller.