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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-17
WOULD GUST DELAY.
Prohibitionists Are. Dissatisfied With
Their Chairman.

There is a tempest among the third
party Prohibitionists of Kansas. Tne
charges against Earl r. Delay. of En-
poria, chairman of the Prohibition state
central committee that he had violated
an agreement with f. NJ. Stoves. pub
Usher of The Fulcrum, Prohibition
organ, have been again revived and
conference of about twenty Prohinl-
tionists was held last night at which
the matter was discussed.
A resolution was introduced asking
Delay and the members of the state
central committee who are backing him
to resign, but as neither Delay nor any
of the others directly implicated We're
present to defend themselves, the reso-
luton was not adopted
The trouble grows out of the fact
that Delay started Prohibition paper
of his own at Emporia, which he made
the official organ of the party. 1t IS
alleged that contract was signed be-
tween Delay and Stoves in which the
former agreed to do the editorial work
on The F'ulcrum and that it should be
the official paper Later some OF the
members of the state committee signed
a statement that The Fulcrum is not
the official paper.
The row still seems to be lin statu
Quo''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-17
FLOOD BILLS IN.
Audit Shows That They Amount
to 7,419.S7.
City and County Will Divide the
Cost.
THERE WAS A LEAK.
All Tools Purchased for Flood
All Tools Purchased for Flood
Use Are Gone.
List Of the Bills Presented and
Paid.

An itemized statement of all the bills
contracted at the time of the flood,
which viii be paid half by the county
and half by the city, has been sent by
City Clerk Squires to the county au-
ditor. Chas. D. WEIGH.
The total amount of the bills is 81,
1887. The county's half will therefore
be So. 7os.s3.
The entire bill has been paid by the
city, and it is now up to- the county
to reimburse the city
The aggregate of $7,41987 does not in
cIude some of the first bills contracted.
which were paid out of the emergency
fund raised and handled through the
Commercial club. 1t merely includes
the emergency expenses which followed
close upon the flood; the burning of
dead animals all along the Kansas
river valley, the building of the pontoon
bridge, the temporary bridge and the
employment of special physicians and
health officers.
There is some mystery as to what be-
came of the immense quantities of sup
plies which We're purchased. Very lit
tie remains in the possession of the city
or county. The supposition is that the
supplies, worth probably upwards OF
81, 900, were stolen Dy tne HlCh WIZ
used them There were dozens OF axes
and hatchets at 81 apiece; hundreds o OF
feet of heavy cables and rope, great
numbers of shovelS, pitchforks, ana
others kinds of hardware. Al are gone ne,
There were a great many DlIls Tor
labor paid on vouchers, but the follow
ing are the amounts paid out on regu-
lar pay rolls to laboring men: -,
Dead animal burning gang. 80, 70 80
Pontoon bridge gang ...--.-...-. o oOs' 80 80
Bridge approach gang -.--...---- SOa-Sz
Emergency physicians 340-9O
Practically all the work of burning
dead animals near Rossville, Silver Lake
and other points outside of Topeka was
done by people living near those points,
and was paid by voucher. Hence they
do not appear in the pay rolls.
been filed with the city and paid There
NAV be a few more to come in. The
county has paid over, about $1,000 all
ready to reimburse the city, and VIII
allow the balance due at its next meet
ing. -ua4-. -.
The following is complete l1St OF the
bills so far presented to the county, eX.
elusive of the pay rolls mentioned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-17
BY MRS. PARKER.
Author of Pastoral Dramas
Discusses Playwrights.
Difference Between Men and
Women Authors.
HUMOR is DIFFERENT.
Women Aim to Secure Sympa-
thy Of Audience.
Public Has Been Slow to Accept
Women Dramatists.

Lottie Blair Parker. who wrote
Under Southern Skies and '"Way
Down East" enjoyed unique distinc-
tion while in Philadelphia during the
engagement of those plays recently
concluded. She is the only woman
author who ever saw two of her pieces
running simultaneously at local the
aters Mrs. Parker has written the fol-
lowing article on Women as Writers
of Plays:
On the evening that Under Southern
Skies was done in Philadelphia local
newsoa per man whom I know very
well came to me in the cloakroom with
the remar.z:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-17
In Praise of Cham berlain's Collie,
Cholsra and Diarrhoea Re NJ adv.

ALLOW me to give you few words in
praise of Chamberlain Collie Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, says Mr.. John
Hamlet of Eagle Pass, Tex. II suffered
one week with bowel trouble and took all
kinds of medicine without getting any re-
lief. when my friend, Mr. c. Johnson, a
merchant here, advised me to take this
remedy. After taking one dose / felt
greatly relieved and when 1 had taken the
third dose was entirely cured. 1 thank
you from the bottom of my heart for
putting this great remedy in the hands of
mankind For sale by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-17
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Mr.. Gruber Gets Gut of Trouble
and Then In.
Arrested Second Time for
Swearing at NeighbOr.
JOINTS ARE RAIDED.
George Klauer Is Again Among
the Victims.
First Noble Red Man of the
Season Appears.

Henry Gruber a Pennsylvania Ger
man by trade and a steinmason by pro-
fession has a system of getting into po-
lice court which is unique All he does
is to swear in a vile combination of
Pennsylvania Dutch and English. and
he is forthwith pinched On Monday
Mr.. Gruber was graduated for so
speaking to neighbor, Mrs. Swear
ingen. He "cussed" and talked loud
until Mrs. Swearingen became wearied
thereby, and she called up the gem
darmes. Mr.. Gruber was fined $25, yet.
But he was not satisfied. He appealed
the case, went straight home, peeled off
his surplus clothing and opening the
windows toward Mrs. Swearingen's
dOmicile, he sWOre good and plenty He
seemed to be laboring under the i'm
preston that if he remained in his own
house to do his swearing he was i'm
mune from the law. But not so, as he
soon discovered. In twenty minutes by
the postoffice clock he was again
pinched and in need of bond. Just
what the court win do to Mr.. Gruber,
he of the little group of whiskers and
bad temper, will be evident after four
y. m. this eve
Last night the police decided that the
Joints were working overtime, contrary,
etc, to the laws, etc So they went
out in three clusters, and pinched at
three separate and distinct pinches,
Messrs. George Klauer. Bee Adams
and Fred Ross. At each place the bar
was pulled up by the roots and hauled
away in the Dark Marie. Also several
cold, calm kegs were added to the col
lection. After pulling these joints there
was still some time left. so they went
ahead and pulled pair of disorderly
houses. Mesdames Jennie Kline and
Vera Noel were the principal victims.
and Nellie Edwards, Leila Black and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-17
$780,.

Chicago and Return via Rock Island
System.
Tickets on sale September 26. 27 ana
%, final return limit leaving CHICAGO
October 5. For full information zee
Rock Island agents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
A MODEL DEPARTMENT.

There will come UP in the House to-
day a bill to give the Insurance De-
partment an additional $1,000 for clerical
assistance Those who know the increase
in the business OF this department and
the work that is required will approve
the bill which is recommended by the
Governor. During the Fast three years
the efficient Insurance Commissioner has
turned into the State Treasury $2G,211
in fees that formerly went to the pri-
vate account of the Secretary of State.
The entire receipts of the department
have increased from $4,000 to $142, OOO or
seventy per cent.
One argument for this increase that
will appeal to all is this: the Insurance
Commissioner is required to spend much
time away from his office investigating
fires and ferretting out insurance frauds.
He has done this and other work so we'll
as to make the North Carolina Insur-
ance Department a model for the whole
country The increase is one that ought
to be granted. c}
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
Tobacco Chat.
(Southern Tobacco Journal.)

(Southern Iobacc0 Journal
1t seems that the tobacconists of Will
Nington, c., are determined to make
that enterprising city an important leaf
market. 1t is said that two new ware
houses and stemmery will be establish
ed at an early date, and other arrange
ments made for the handling of large
amount of the weed. Wilmington is well
Situated and there is no reason why she
should not become an important leaf
market, especially with such men as her
we'll known tobacco dealers pushing the
movement.
Ever since the Rocky Mount meeting.
Col. John S. Cunningham has been busy
going about the State in the effort to Sc
cure a better organization of the tobacco
growers. e is endeavoring to make ar
rangements whereby competent and prac-
teal speakers may be secured and sent to
the different townships in the tobacco
growing sections with view to giving
the farmers useful instruction about the
planting and curing of the different va
rieties of the weed. This is an excellent
move and is only another evidence of the
deep interest which Colonl Cunningham
takes in everything pertaining to the
welfare of the farmers.
We learn that experiments in the Gull
ture of a fine variety of bright tobacco
will be tried during the coming year in
a number of counties in this State, which
have heretofore given little attention to
the cultivation of the weed. Such a
movement is to be encouraged. There
is no reason in the world why there
should not be grown in the different sec
tons of North Carolina as good quality
of bright tobacco as can be found any
where. Everything is adapted to the cul-
ture' Of such a variety Of the weed. II
more attention would be paid to inten-
| sive farming with the idea of raising
/ better quality of tobacco, instead OF an
| immense quantity, the cry OF falling
prices would not be heard so often.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
IN. G. GONZALES.
HONOR WHERE HONOR IS DUE

1t is too often the case that prophet
is not without honor save in his own
country. 1t happens too often that men
do not appreciate the worth, the talent,
the ability of the man they see every day
or hear preach every Sunday, and permit
him to go through life with rarely a
word of praise or cheer, while lavishing
it upon the visitor who is seen or heard
at his best once or twice. The Green's
boro Record cannot be charged with that
spirit of not approaching the home man.
In it's Mondays issue it paid a hand
some compliment to a native of Green's
boro who was so highly appreciated in
his birth place that he was called to
succeed his father when the venerable
Dr. j. Henry Smith, Greensboro's Pres>y-
terrain pastor, passed away. We quote:
Sometimes a preacher delivers most
powerful discourse and does not seem to
know it. Herein lies it's chief charm.
In the opinion of many perfectly compe-
tent to judge, DR.. Smith yesterday morn
ing preached the most brilliant and
powerful sermon ever heard in Green's
boro, not excepting Dr. Pearson and the
other imported ministers here in re-
cent years"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
SO NEAR, AND YET SO FAR.

sad case of grip caught from microbes in
the old carpet, he would be glad to
give a detailed history of the life OF
this grand character, borne in a little
log cabin and becoming the chieftain OF
the South, the noble son of the noun
tains.
At the conclusion of Mr. Freemans re-
marks, Mr.. Owen, of Sampson, second
ed the nomination OF Senator Pritchard
and said he was not only as able a
Senator as North Carolina ever had but
recognized today as the ablest United
States Senator from the Southern States.
Mr. Murphey then moved that if there
were no more Obituaries to be heard, he
would renew his motion.
The roll was called, and great many
names Of public men were voted: Among
them being c.. B. Aycock. James A.
Lockhart, James T. Morehead, Jacob
Battle, r. A. Doughton, ]. A. Walker,
c. NJ Steadman, F. D. Winston, M. D.
w Stevenson, w. A. Hoke, F. G. James, n.
A. Mclean, w NJ Bond, l.. S. Overman,
C. B. Watson, Locke Craig, H. A. London,
John S. Cunningham, j. S. Carr, S. B..
Alexander, ]. Haywood Sawyer, w. H.
Lucas, w T. Crawford, Hugh Chatham,
A. C. Zollicoffer, H. l.. Cook, George H.
Brown, w. A. Dunn, w. M. Bond, j. G.
Hall. E. ]. Justice, NJ. H. Justice, R. A.
Doughton, ]. Avis Walker.
At 1:1O o'clock the Speaker announced
the result of the ballot.
There being no election of Senator, on
motion. the House at 1:25 o'clock adj
journed to meet today at 1920 o'clock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
WHY TIE APPALACHIAN BILL IS
PIGEON--HOLED.

Few peoDle are aware of the Won
derful possibilities in the Appalachian
Park. Mr. Moody made his whole fight
for reelection to the House upon the
ground that he could do more to secure
the passage of the Park bill than
Gudger. For four years now vigorous
effort has been made to get a vote on
the bill, ana North Carolina has part
of the time had two Republicans in the
Senate and three Republicans in the
House. They have been unable to do
anything. 1t is said that a majority OF
the members of the House have signed
q paper asking the Speaker Of the House
to permit the Appalachian bill to come
up for consideration, pledging themselves
to vote for it, but that he refuses to
permit it. If the proposed Park was to
be established in or near Iowa, Mr.. Hen
derson would long ago have given it the
right of way. Representative Pou, OF
the Fourth district, is quoted as saying:
81 don't believe the park bill will pass
for the simple reason that the House
has made the Speaker an autocrat.
While members of the delegation would
do all in their power to force considera-
ton of the bill under the rules of the
House, they are powerless to accomplish
anything"
Mr. Pou is right. There are many
people in all parties who approved Reeds
rules so far as they compelled members
present to vote or to be counted to make
a quorum. That was to give the majority
power to transact business and take away
all opportunity from the minority to
make effective opposition. But that is a
very different thing from giving power to
the Speaker to refuse the House permits
sion to vote on a measure when ma
jority of the members wish to do so.
Senator's Pritchard and Butler, and
Representatives Moody and Blackburn
have no doubt been sincere in their adj
vocacy of the Appalachian bill, but. back
ed as they are by the Presidents letter
of approval, it is passing strange that
lUcy COuiu hot lAlC lSCpuDiNSeAA
Speaker to permit a vote on the bill.
The reason they have been unable to
do anything is this: Tfd Republican
leaders in Congress never vote to spend
one dollar in the South without getting
at the same time ninety nine dollars to
spend in their district. The Appala-
chan bill did not provide that method
of distribution and so the bill is pigeon
hOled
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
For the London Bill.

Especial to the News and Observer)
Scotland Neck, N. c., Jan. 20.-The
people here favor the London bill on the
LIQUOR question and perhaps more in
terest is manifested in the cause of tenn
nerance than has been known before.
The pastors of the Baptist and Metho-
dist churches have arranged to preach
each for the other on temperance, and
Sunday night the congregation from the
Methodist church went to the Baptist
church to worship. Rev. T. P. Bowen,
nastor of the Methodist church, preach
ed on the subject of temperance and de-
lighted his audience.
Soon Rev M. L. Kesler, pastor of the
Baptist church, will preach on the same
subject in the Methodist church
Yesterday the remains of Mr.. Richard
Winfield We're carried to Petersburg, Va,
young man came to this community on a
visit, was taken sick and died of typhoid
pneumonia Sunday morning
Mr.. T.. Shields has moved his Hitting
mill from this place to Manchester, Va.
1t is said that the scarcity of labor
caused him to move.
The negro who swindled Bryan & Whit
ley out of $500 few days ago, under the
name Of ]. W. Battle, is named Hyman.
He has been a teacher in Edgecombe,
but thus far there has been found no
clue as to where he is now.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
A Well-KnoWn Gentleman
Makes a Remarkable Statement
he Assures Rheumatic Sufferers That
One Bottle of
Paine'S Celery
Compound
BaniSh0d His Pains and AgOnieS

The startling and happy cures wrought
by Paine's Celery Compound for rheu
matte sufferers have deeply impressed
medical men everywhere, and today, the
best practitioners are recognizing the
great value of the Compound, and pre-
scribe it with confidence
Paine's Celery Compound stands un-
equaled as a cure for all the varied
forms of rheumatism. AT this season it's
Sood work is apparent in thousands of
American homes. Men and women, lame
and crippled, and utterly helpless from
the terrible disease are being restored
to activity, health and strength. Paine's
Celery Compound is the only medicine
that reScueS and saves the despairing
victim who is told that he or she is
incurable. Mr.. l.. A. Freshman, Gap
Mills, West Va, writes about his happy
experience with Paines Celery Com
pound; he says
81 had rheumatism in my left arm and
shoulder, could not sleep, and had no
Frankfort, and she told me that she had
been afflicted just as 1 was and Paine's
Celery Compound had done her more
good than anything she had tried, and
she advised me to use it. | got one bot
tie and used it, and the result was |
slept well, had good appetite, and the
pains of rheuma tism left me and / have
not felt them since; in fact, it has cured
me and feel like new man"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21

Democrats disagree and divide; Repub-
licans never. For twenty years, only two
Republicans in the North Carolina Iegis-
lature have failed to vote as the rail-
roads wanted them to vote And those
two were at once'repudiated For that
reason, nobody was surprised that all the
Republicans on the Railroad and Rail
road Commission Committee voted
Commission the power to compel the
erection Of union stations. Like Bot
Glenn's goat, they had dome voted
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
TIE DIVORCE EVIL.

The Durham papers say that there are
ten divorce suits on the calendar of Dur
ham court to be tried this week. Re-
ports of diyorc, trials from most of the
counties multiply. The tendency seems
to be toward easy divorces. The last
legislation in North Carolina is partly
responsible for this evil.
Already at this session of the General
Assembly one bill has been introduced
to let down the bars to easy divorces.
1t ought to be killed instanter, and the
bill that sought to reduce the causes for
divorce. defeated in the last General AS
sembly, ought to be enacted.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21

raise amounting to about ten per cent
of the wages paid. The raise dating back
to January list. In some cases it amounts
to a great deal more than ten per cent
in others not so much. The scale is
made so that all men who receive $40 per
month or less should have 81 a month
added to their wages, while those who
receive over $40 should have So added to
their pay roll. This is to share the
present prosperity of the company OF
which we hear so much and to enable the
wage Garner to meet the prosperity prices
of living.
The employees of the Coast Line all
feel the greatest confidence in the man
agement of their line than their interests
will always be cared for and it helps
a man nightly in his work
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
NOT IN NORTH CAROLINA.

The Washington Post publishes an in
terview with Judge Tolleson, of Mis-
souri,. upon the reason why "the South
does not send able men to Congress as
in former days when it had such repre-
sentatives as Ben Hill, L. @. c. Lamar,
and Zebulon B. Vance" Presenting that
his statement is true, Judge Tolleson
gives as his reasons the following:
1.-THE South's bright men do not care SO
much nowadays to come to Washington
The pay is too trihing, compared with
what they can make in private business
Hence men of inferior mental caliber are
often elected because the ablest men in
a district will not sacrifice their personal
interests
Evidently Judge Tolleson has not kept
up with the pending Senatorial contest
in North Carolina. If so he never would
have said that 1.-The South's bright men
do not care so much nowadays to come
to Washington" for he would see some
of the brightest struggling with might
and main to get to the Senate. 1t may
be true that 1.-The pay is too trihing" in
Missouri but in North Carolina a salary
OF $4,000 is not looked upon as 'trifling,
but as a very tempting salary. If Judge
Tolleson could have attended the Con-
gressional conventions last year at Fay
etteville, Monroe, Morganton and Hen
Jacksonville, where the brightest men OF
their districts eagerly sought the nomi-
nation for the House of Representatives,
he would at least have excepted North
Carolina from those States where the
bright men do not care so much nova
days to come to Washington" 1t may be
doubted if there ever was a time when
so many bright men were ambitious to
go to Washington
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21
RAILROADS FIGHT CANALS.

The New York Times says that Gov
ernor Odell's "cold words and back hand
ed argument" on the question of deep
ening the canals has strengthened the
belief that the railroads expect the Re-
publicans to defeat the canal PROPOSE
ton. 1t is the railroad influence in the
Empire State that has hitherto pre-
vented the deepening of the canals
through the State OF New York by which
great vessels could leave Chicago
through the latter and go direct to New
York city The people of New York, ap-
preciating the immense Importance OF
such an inland canal, are asking the
LEGISLATURE to submit to vote of the
people of the State the question Of a
bond issue to construct the canal. The
railroads are fighting it, and the Times
sounds the note of warning.
AS long as C. p Huntington maintain
ed his. wonderfully effective lobby at
Washington, it was impossible to get a
vote on the Nlcdrasua ceiai' winch i
died the lobby fell to pieces. Before an
other master hand could reconstruct it. a
bill passed Congress under whip and spur.
But work on the canal has not YET
begun, and if the railroads can continue
to beeloud the matter by getting up a
fight over routes, it will be decade
before spade of dirt will be thrown IN
the work of construction.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21

If the bill introduced by Senator Sim
mons to add another Circuit Judge to this
Federal district passes, it will make
soft berth for Senator Pritchard upon
his retirement from the Senate. And 1t
will probably pass. Pritchard will be an
Improvement on Simontop. 1t is again
rumored that Simonton will retire in
December. He will probably stay long
enough to issue another injunction
against the railroad tax levy in North
Carolina next June.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-21

Marion Butler and Zeb Vance Walser
are the latest visiting statesmen" to
visit the President and urge him to
stand by Pritchard's policy The at
tempt of all the leaders in the fight
against the amendment to force them
selves to the forefront in North Caro-
lima politics is grist to the Democratic
mill. Put this in your pipe and smoke
It: No man who fought the Constitu-
tional amendment can ever regain lead
ership in North Carolina. That was the
objectionable sin.