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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
LUMBERMEN TO HELP.
Mayor Bergundthal Receives
Letter of Inquiry Today.

Mayor Bergundthal received letter
today from r. A. Long, president Of the
Loug-B Bell Lumber company. Of Kansas
City. Mo- asking for information about
the de- nla sc done in Topeka by the flood.
z he mayor gives in reply to this letter
an estimate Of $50 600 which viii be nee
essaly to help out the flood sufferers Of
Topeka. This is the first official esti-
mate so far made on the amount OF
money needed for relief work.
In response the first question, Mayor
Bergundthal fixed the number at 100
whose homes have been entirely lost.
The second question, concerning the
number OF people who did not nave
homes Of their own, but rented, was esti-
mated by Mayor BergundthaI at 1,5e0
This is supposed to refer to families, not
individuals.
No definite answer was given to the
third question. The mayor stated in
answer to the fourth question that the
sixteen hundred families left destitute
rcsd aid to the average amount of $50
for each family, making total amount
needed in the relief fund for establish
ing the sufferers in reasonably comfort
able cireumstanc $50. 900.
The letter is as follows:
The Long Bell Lumber Co, r. A. Long,
President
Kansas City. Mo, June IL, 1903.
Mayor. Topeka, Kansas.
I'ne manufacturers and wholesalers
Of yellow pine lumber have called a
general meeting to be in st. Louis on
Tuesday next looking to the relief Of
the food sufferers in this and other sec
tions of tEa country where misfortune
has befaNea our fellows. ] think 1t VIII
he their purpose to distribute the funds
1aisEd betWeen the different points IN
proportion to their losses. and in eorder
10 40 tnis of course, it Will be neces-
sary TAFT they be in possession of about
the following Information which would
request you 10 deliver to me not later
than Monday morning next. as / leave
for st. Louis on the evening Of that
day.
First-The number of people in your
CITY that have lost their homes entirely.
Second-The number that did not
have homes Of their own, but rented
and lost their furnishings entirely.
Third-The number that are now de-
pending on the public for their imme-
date support. or welfare.
I-ourth-The amount of money you
C7timst e that viii be required to place
these PEOPLE in condition to reasonably
take care of themselves
t. OF course. realize that il viii he 4tn-
possible fer YOU to give drEnlte answer
TO thee questions. but would ike to nave
bic and TO have any other intcrma ton ina;
YOU think would be to our adVantaga ID
errivfng at an i-telhgent conclusion
Thanking YOU in advance Tor as prompt
reply as You can well give, l Deg 70 fe-
main yours truly. r. A. long
one man which some Of the lumbcrm N
have proposed and which will perhaps be
adopted is to advance the sum OF S22N te
/ each property holder who's house was
washed away. to he secured by the prop
ertv on which the building is erected. thls
sum to be repaid in small payments insi lie
Of three or four years. without interest
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EAGLE IS FUNNY.
Frightened About Appropriations By
the Legislature.

Here is very funny thing: The
Wichita Eagle publishes a long editor
ial entitled. GO slow Governor Bail
ey" il which it opposes the calling OF
an extra session of the legislature. It's
idea is that the extra session IS to bs
called to appropriate state money for
rebuilding the bridges across the Kaw
at Kansas City. That is the joke. It
endorses the appropriating of money
for relief Of the suffering. but not for
restitution. or for making good losses
accruing for individual risks corp0-
rate venture or municipal enterprise
No one expects a special session Of
the legislature to rebuild any bridges
with state money. even if one should be
called. No community would even
think of asking 1t. Shawnee county
lost every one Of its Kaw river bridges
except the Mela-- arch bridge at Tope-
ka, FIVE in ali yet it would not thiuls
of expecting state aid in restoring
them.
The only thing expected Of the leg
lsiature in the bridge matter if a special
session should be called would be to
give the counties authority to issue
bonds to rebuild the bridges which they
cannot do without special legislation.
This IS what a special session is needed
for in the bridge business
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LOCAL MENTION.


L M Crawford returned to topeka
Ahursoay'
Mrs. r. r. Dennis. wife of Cashier
Dennis of the Topeka Water company,
is very sick. and her recovery is doubt
full
The A. c. Davis Grain Commission
conaDanv. Of Kansas CITY today sent up
$50 to Ma ior t 7 Anderson as a con-
tribution to the relief fund
There will he a called meeting of the
Ceramic Art club at fbe home of Mrs.
Q q knowles. Wednesday, Iune IL All
the members. are expected to be present
SiV, rolican,on are stationed on Kan
s,e ,ea,,,e -; NJ, rf7ooells az 1feb+
I5asis5es +1,is se,-e+sl 7,7a,rFs,r+s ba,-a
a,1,lo1-a6 e3ecial 4[.a+cbTneu 70 Guard
their stores
There is q. heavy mail coming to May
or Bergundthal every dav. About half
of the letters contain money contribu-
lions. and the other half ask for infor-
nation about missing friends
snacia1 ,,,eatine IF +ba e,nereenc>-
hoard ~ health vas held Thursday
niebf ana If vas decided to take some
eters concerniney tho erection Of wants
- - tl. - - ~. ito.
-, - -, .--t..-s 60. ~
ma VI De- uiiei ~ II IN IN e.
1Nity SSSeSlues a. 80 - $50 l -
pekd pIoNioed 1ls 4opsAe aueiioi 80
would secure the necessary oruel li ION
lhe war us'aIti'leii'. - ii4i
VIII AT once eet ~ oIpsi AOI - Il - ~, -
IS estimated mat 9VV are heeueu lol L.
peka -
MT oscar Rlngel' tne Ven l ioNi
~ - - = - $500 y,
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WHAT THEY PAY.
New Tax Rolls Have Been Made
Up.
Assessed Value of All Property
in Topeka, Sl0,6s9,O95.


The total value of all property in To-
peka, as assessed fer taxation in 1903, is
S10.6S9, 095-
The total assessed valuation of the
real estate is 5s,sS0, e35 and the total as
sessed valuation OF the personal proper
ty is $2,30S, $50
The total assessed valuation of real
estate in North Topeka in 1903 was 874,-
230 and the total assessed valuation of
personal property was z29, $50. All figures
are for March l.
The total assessed valuation of per-
sonai property IN North Topeka in 1902
was 152.435 and the real estate assessed
valuation in 1902 was ISL $50
The taxable value of all personal
property Is placed at one-half of the
value placed on the property. If a tax
payer gives in his property as valued
at $4,000 lit is taxable on S5,000. The
following assessed valuation OF person
al PROPERTY as given by the owner.
Real estate is not included in this list
and in the case Of the Edison company
at only $500 the assessed value Of the
real estate is 500 600 The following
shows some of the assessed valuations
on personal property for 1903.
The total assessed valuation Of real
estate IN the city south Of the river
Tor 1903 was $7506, 405 and the assesse;
valuation of personal property south OF
me river and in the city of Topeka il
1903 was SPOTS, $50
The assessed valuation of real estate
N the city south of the river in 1902 was
Sf,2ssCl0 and the assessed valuation OF
the personal property was $685., 80
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MAJ FAILURES

ENamination Of the monthly record.
says p. @. Qua & CO. S review. disclosss
the fact that the May failures were
higher than usual for that month. and
also exceeded The monthly average for
recent years Moreover. it appears that
May has beer the month of widest vari-
alton in TIE past seven years. i'm 1900
milking the highest record at S23.771.1 51.
aud in tne preceding year the low rec
ord of $500. 6S6. AS to number the May
statistics are not especially striking. al
though ssh in 1899 was abnormaliy low.
With neither quarterly nor annual set
item nts 10 sven the defaults, May
should occupy a medium position as to
insolvlncies, and usually does except
when q sensational bankruptcy distorts
the return. Do is gratifying to find that
losses were not more severe last month
however, because tine month was in
many ways unusually fun of pressure
An almost unchecked fan in securities
that was at times severe. might not
uureasonahly have been expected to
produce bankruptcies in considerable
number, but only one failure for about
hoif million dollars was directly due
20 the fluctuations in securities. A still
greater strain was felt a the various
Cotton Exchanges and collapses were
frequently predicted. but only one large
failure occurred in this connection, and
that was at the south Results Of these
two factors may not yet be fully show %.
and the current month or even more
remote periods win feel the effect of
the fall ia stocks and rise in cotton.
one other unfavorable influence has
also caused much anxiety. but thus far
no serious failures-the labor contro-
versies. Viewed in the light of these
three strains. it is evidence of great sta
hility that the May insolvency returns
are so small.
The most instructive comparisons are
always secured by deducting the few
defaults for over 800 GOO each. The re-
naming failures embrace the great
bulk Of ordinary insolvencies. and the
average loss to each small failure is q
fair representation Of conditions After
eliminating the five large trading de-
faults. the average is only S4745 for
each Of the $50 failures. or the lowest
ratio for any recent year except 1897.
and only S23 larger than that year. In
manufacturing there were four large
failures. After subtracting these. there
remains an average of S11.395, which is
about $1,000 above the two previous
years. but scarcely any excess over the
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MUST BE PAID.
Men Who Cremated Dead Animals
win Get Money.

At the urgent requests Of the men
who composed the dead animal gang in
North Topeka, arrangements are being
made to pay off these men at once
Technically this can't be done without
an ordinance passed by the city coun-
ell. but in the present emergency, a
way has been found to do several things
which were not strictly according to
legal formalities.
There is considerable dissatisfaction
among the men because some of them
claim they were promised more pay
than others. Eastman's gang was get
ting 80 cents an hour for ten hours
work. while Henry Steele's gang is
said to have been promised 50 day
for eight hours work. Here the city
runs up against another provision of
law, which says that it must not work
its men more than hours a day. So
the gang which worked for Eastman
are cIamoring for overtime for the two
hours extra they worked
It will probably cost well toward 81
500 to pay all the debts incurred as a
result Of the cremating of dead ami
mails. The pay rolls are said to amount
to well toward $4,000, and the cost OF
kerosene oil. etc. is very large Hun
dreds of gallons of oil were used.
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MUST GO TO BEDWELLs.
That Is the Fate of Miss Mahals
Lawson


Mahala Lawson, Al years of age. was
adJudged insane this morning in pro-
bate court. The authorities at the state
asylum refused to receive her on the
grounds that they had no room in the
institution, and she will be taken to
Bedwells private asylum temporarily
Inc police We're called to her home
1894 Mulvane street. yesterday after
noon, by an excited neighbor. Sergeant
jenkins and Detective Lucas went out
IN the patrol wagon. and fc1nd her
raNIng and threatening the neigh Dors
with stone. Her language was both
violent and profane. but disconnected.
The officers argued with her, and final
y got her to go into her house and keep
still, but she broke out again before
they got away and ran after a girl VINO
was passing on the sidewalk. She was
put into the wagon and taken to the
county jail. On the trip she made saw
age attempts to bite and kick the Off
GERS who held her, and sWore continual
". At the jail she raved and screamed
broke up chair in her cell and poked
out the window lights with the pieces
The jailOr found it necessary to tie
her hands with straps to keep her from
cutting them on the glass. At the hear
ing before Judge Hazen her father
Joseph Lawson, said that she had been
crazy for twenty years, and subject to
epilepsy. but that he could manage her
all right. and that she was a valuable
help to him at his home. Don't send
her to Osawato nie.'' he pleaded She
was sent there once, and they nearly
killed her.
Lawson is an old soldier who recently
moved to town from farm
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WORK WITH SYSTEM.
Row the . and Club Is Helping
With Relief

No detail of the relief work in Topeka
IS being conducted more systematically
than that Of the q ard I club which has
its headquarters in Mills store on the
third floor in the rooms formerly occu-
pied by Mrs. O'Brien's dressmaking de-
partment. At the meeting of the club
Thursday the workers were divided in
to relays, four women being in charge
of the rooms each day These women
receive the contributions of clothing
and furniture sent il. mend and repair
old clothes and make new ones. They
are succeeded on the following day by
four other members of the club who
continue the work
The club is making a speciality of
helping widows cleaning their houses
or finding them new lodgings and fur
nishing them with beds and bedding,
clothing. dishes. gasoline stoves and
other household necessities All their
cases are reported to the auditorium
relief committee to avoid duplicating
orders, Mrs. Arthur Mills Mrs. Charles
Thomas. Mrs. James L. King, Mrs. L.
H. Mum and Miss Kate Gunther in
vesHgate the cases Of applicants for aid
and all the members report cases of
deserving flood sufferers.
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NAME OFF ROLLS.
DR.. MeTert Notified TO Quit
Practicing Medicine.

Ennoria Kan. June 12.-The county
clerk of Lyon county today took the Mans
of William Memert off the list of licensed
doctors and the sheriff served notice on
AIeHert to quit practicing medicine in
Kansas
The papers in the case were brought
here from Topeka last night by o. NJ
White who for a year has been chair
man of the citizens committee complain
ing against Mefferts action The notices
on file in the clerks office say he Is bar
red fron practicing as doctor on &c
count of gross immortality"
The case has been fought for year N
the courts where the validity of the KAN
cas law in the matter has been tested
from the district court to the supr sme
court in all it's aspects. Meffert talks Of
appealing 10 the United States supreme
court
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BOXES OF GOODS.
A List of Some Things Received at
the Auditorium.


Among the miscellaneous boxes ami
packages of mems, women's and child
ren's clothing, etc, received from out
side points at the Auditorium for the
relief of the Topeka food sufferers are
the following:
HanIey Drug Co, Lincoln. Neb., ter
barrels. four sacks. two grips, three
boxes. one bundle.
Two boxes. Kinsley Kansas.
Two boxes, Mrs. Leavitt Hand. Otta~
wa, Kansas
Porter Drug Co. Larned. Kansas. one
box.
Two boxes. two barrels. Galveston
Texas
One barrel Wellington. Kansas.
One telescope. unknown.
Wis.
IS sacks clothing, W. G. T. U. and
Portia Club, Larned, Kansas.
Three boxes. two sacks, Garnet
Kansas.
Eleven boxes, one bale. Peabody. kan
sas
is sacks of -four. groceries ana
clothirg, Springfield, Mo.
One box clothing, Mrs. P. GeraughtJ
one wagon load of clothes, Topeka
cabbage. G. 6. Burton, Austin, Texas
One box, Citizens Club, Cherryvale.
Kansas
Three boxes. Arthur Simmons. I.eav-
enWOrth, Kansas.
Thirty boxes bed clothing. etc. Hia-
Watha, Kansas.
One box. J. H. Gates. Lincoln. Neb
Thirty boxes, st. Joseph. Mo.
Two boxes, women's and chiIdrenfs
clothing. st. Matthews Guild, Newton,
Kansas
Three boxes. one bundle. EmDoria
Five sacks, Larned. Kansas
one box and basket. Mrs Richard
HRTlnprOn
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UNPACKED BOXES.
State Relief Goods Lie Unopened
in Auditorium.

About sixty boxes Of goods of various
kinds, consigned to William Sims, treas
urer, for The benefit of flood sufferers Of
the state. lie unpacked at the Audi
tolium. These boxes contain shoes for
men and women, womens skirts and UNI
dcrWear, wOmen's oVerskirts, women's
suits. mems coats, women's shirt waists,
childrens clothing, ladies' furnishings,
beddinss, sheetinE and wearing apparel
of all kinds.
In this list are five barrels one box,
one sack. from Overlook, Kan Twen-
ty-six boxes from Winfield. Kan. Six
boxes and six sacks from Newton, Kan.
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To Break UP the School.

Peoria, Ill. June 12-The board of sup
ervisors of Peoria county, at their ses-
sion today petitioned the governor to
pardon all the inmates about 20 of the
Peoria county Industrial school, an in
stitution for dependent children. This
action is taken that the institution be
dispensed with. many of the super
visors do not like the manner in which
II is conducted.
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normal range for each may of the de-
cade- OF the total commercial liabili-
ties of 2,31z. pos, fourteen failures pro
vided over six million dollars, or almost
one-half, and the average for the 929
remaining insolvencies was S6,7S3' ex-
ceeding five Of the preceding ten years
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Guests Given Lunch Boxes.

Chicago. June 12.-The cooks and
walters strike today invaded the lead
ing hotels ana by noon several large
downtown establishments and nearly d
dozen of the most prominent hostelries.
Shortly after 1 o'clock the employees of
the Kaiserhom hotel went out. The
management at once distributed lunch
boxes among the restaurant patrons
with the statement that the tables dur
irg the strike would be at their disposal
free OF charge on which to spread lunch.
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than 400 varieties growing on plot OF
ground an acre in extent, is a proposed
exhibit for the horticulture department
at the Worries fair Prof John T. Stin-
son, superintendent of pomology. has
charge Of the collection Of the plants 1t
is also proposed to have duplicates Of
the plants growing in pots in the horti-
culture palace. bearing ripe fruit when
The eAuosItion doors are openel
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Robbed of $4,000.

New York. June 12.-Robert Nein. a
wealthy resident of Los Angeles, CAL
who was a first cabin passenger on the
White Star liner Germanic. which ar
rived from Liverpool today. reported to
the police on his arrival that he had
been robbed on Wednesday last, while
in nid0cean of drafts and money to the
amount of about $40 600. The money
stolen was the proceeds of the sale OF
an estate in FaIfast
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known to be dead. one is injured and
several missing as the result of an ex
pIosion of a large quantity of powder
on the drying house of the Weldy Pow
der company near Montzeri today The
shock of the explosion was so great that
many lights of glass in the houses in
this city were broken and buildings
trembled as though shaken by an earth
quake
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Fraternal Aid Helms.

DR.. F. B. Lawrence of Eel Dorado was
in Topeka today on his way home from
Lawrence, where he has been attending
a meeting of the advisory board of the
Fraternal Aid association. The board
took action for the relief of the food
sufferers. 1t voted to pay the present
insurance assessments of its members
who are food sufferers out of the as
sociation's funds. 1t also voted an ap-
preparation of $1,000 for general relief
work
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Burrow Makes Hau-

Secretary of State J. r. Burrow has
been missing from his office for several
days, and there could be no meeting Of
the executive council in consequence
Inquiry today reveals the fact that
fam hands are very scarce in Smith
county, and the last seen of Secretary
BurrOw he was seated or mower
making the rounds of an alfalfa field
He is not expected back to Topeka till
he gets his alfalfa put up.
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Suicide Caused by Remorse.

Leavenworth. Kan, June 12.-Thos.
Bay, aged Is years. a hack driver, com
mitted suicide here by cutting his
throat He had been on a drunk for
several days and was Respondent He
was unmarried.
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AlI in Briatow,s Handa.

Washington. June 12.-Postmaster
General Payne who returned today
from Cleveland. was asked regarding
published reports concerning Mr.. Rand,
who was his confidential clerk for some
years and latterly assistant superiaten-
dent of the salary allowance division
Mr.. Payne replied that Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Bristow, who
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Will Succeed Prof Penny.

Lawrence, .Kas. June 12.-The board
Of regents of the University of Kansas
has a2Dointed Charles S. Skilton. Yale
80. now Of Trenton n. ]. as dean of the
school Of fine arts to succeed Prot g.
3. Penny, who resigned to go to To
r,eIya
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Powell and DR. Menninger. This COM
mittee met at noon today, and formu-
lated its report. The report makes GER
tain recommendation regarding the
placing OF drive wells the construction
Of sanitary closets. and the proper use
of lime, eopperas and other disinfect-
ants.
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Huntington. W. Va. June 1.-THE
machinists and boilermakers of the
Chesapeake & Ohio railway have or
de~ed all their men out until a settle
ment of the present trouble here.
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nTrs. EIder,s Donation.

Mrs A c. Elder has donated SIS
worth of hats to the flood relief COM
mittee. When it is impossible to fit
women or children out with hats at the
auditorium or other relief stations they
are given orders on Mrs. Elder and she
furnishes them with suitable hats.
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Boulder, Col. June 12.-Dr. Rudolph
Baird. tried on the charge of having
murdered his wife with poison was to-
day found not guilty by the jury.
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AFTER an uubroken drouth of more
THAI 20 dsys duration it has rained ia
New -osl-
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had charge of the investigation of ar
fairs of the department, has had all the
papers in Mr.. Rand's case in his hands
for three months.
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T'- disra aaes irdicste that all servia
WIS tisd of IFS rulers and reioicsd
,fhan par.y appeared that was Will
ing GU Remove thsm.
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THE oll notion that land which Sc not
fenced oelengs to the man who owns
cait,e seems to prevail, still out in the
snuIl .rass oonntrv.
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To the long list of causes of the flood
aifea'l-- enumerated, spots on the sun
have boon alaea.
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TH.- see-ns 10 he t-se omen season Cor
Emop,sn roT1itr. but pot hunters Ike
tho.c &. rcirt Pc should ba barred.
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Ka~eas Rad enough advertising 81
rerCg disc rs the focd. without that
roH ort ia Cheveaue county.