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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

| Two announcements of especial In
terest in Topeka where all the young
people concerned have spent most of
their lives and enjoy even more than
the usual degree of popularity are those
of the engagements of Miss Harriet
March Jones. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Howell Jones to Mr.. Thomas Dick AL
den and Miss Katharine Miller Fleish-
mann, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G.
Fleishmann to Mr.. Don d. Mulvane
The weddings will take place early in
October.
There are an unprecedented number
of fashionable weddings on the autumn
social calendar and with the entertain
ments which are being planned in honor
of the prospective brides and grooms
the fall season promises to be uncom-
monty gay. Besides the Jones-Alden
and Fleishmann- Mulvane weddings
there will be at least five others of inn
portance in October and November.
The brides are all Topeka young wo-
men and the men with two exceptions
either live here now or have at some
time in the past. The dates of most of
the weddings have been decided upon
and the bridal parties selected and the
events will be attended by the usual
pomp and circumstance.
Mrs. Albert Watkins. 427 Buchanan
street will entertain informally next
Tuesday for Mrs. Charles Emery of
Indianapolis.
The Phi Lambda Epsilon fraternity
will have it's tenth annual conclave in
Topeka Thursday, Friday and Satur
day of next week. Invitations have been
extended by the local chapter for a
large dance at Steinberg's hall Friday
evening. The events which will be en-
joyed by the fras exclusively will be
smoker Thursday evening and a BAN
quet Saturday evening. A number of
visiting fraternity men from colleges
and high schools in Missouri, Nebras-
ka Colorado, Iowa and Illinois are ex-
pected to attend the conclave.
Miss Gertrude Kitchell entertained
Informally this afternoon in compli-
ment to Miss Marjorie Davis and Miss
Gleason of Kansas City.
Miss Maud Grimes guests at an in
formal porch party at her home 1885
Harrison street Friday evening were
Miss Blossom Fleming of Enid, Okla
homa Miss Eva smith, Miss Isabel
Smith, Miss Alice willard. Miss Ethel
Morton. Miss Esther Rauch, Miss Vir-
GINA Meade. Mr.. Russell Frost, Mr.
Monte Kistler, Mr.. John Freshman, Mr..
Todd Matthews. Mr.. John Hodson of
Chicago. Mr. Harry Trovillo, Mr.. Tink-
ham Veale Mr.. Harry Freshman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
FLOOD TIME is UP.
Tax Rebate Staten nts Must Be
Filed TONIGHT.

This is the last night that the county
clerks office in the court house will
be open for the filing of statements of
flood loss requesting rebate in taxes.
The time for filing the statements ends
September l but after tonight the APP
piications must be filed during the regu-
lar Office hours. Monday and Tuesday
Will be the last days. The county COM
missioners will investigate all property
reported damaged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
Oldest Illinoisan Dead.

Bloomington, ILL.,. Aug. 29.-FTancis
Anthony. the oldest man in Illinois.
died this morning. after a two weeks
illness with heart failure He was
born May s, 1900. in Ireland. He emf
grated to Canada in 1920, and was a
CAPTAIN in the Canadian army during
the French rebellion of 1897. For thirty
years he has been a resident of Bloom
ington township, and his vitality was
remarkable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
Woman killed Him with an Ak.

Springer, N. NJ, Aug. 29.-Cornelia
Gonzales. on attempting to enter the
home of Mrs. Sarah Solano, who was
at home with her two children. was
killed by the woman with an ak The
woman struck him over the head six
times, breaking the skull in as many
places. Gonzales was brother-in-1aw
of Mrs. Solano and is said to have pre-
viously made improper proposals to her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
End of Bitter Fight.

1.-TWO physicians had a long and stub
born fight with abcess on my right lung"
writes J. F. Hughes of Du Pont. Ga. and
had come. As last resort I tried DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption.
The benefit / received was striking and
was on my feet in few days. Now I've
entirely regained my health" 1t conquers
all coughs, colds and throat and lung trou-
bles. Guaranteed by the Arnold Drug Co.
81 North Kansas avenue. Price soc and
s1.0o. Trial bottles free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
BOARDING SCHOOL 10, eIrI. snd rouna lsdIss.
Notre Dame de Lourdes Academy

FOrt ScOtt. hansaS.
Boarding and day school, conducted
by Sisters of st. Joseph. Course of
study includes every branch necessary
for g. refined and Christian education.
Special course for students preparing
to take teachers examination Best adj
vantages in music, Painting and elo-
cution. French and German without
extra charge. Plain and ornamental
needle work included in the course.
For catalogue and full particulars,
address
SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH,
Fort Scott. Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
1ightning strikes q court HOUSE.

Hazard. KY. Aug. 29.-Lightning
struck the court house and killed John
j. Baker, standing in the doorway. and
stunned six other men in the building.
The court house was fired and prac-
tically consumed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29
s11.5o, St. Louis and Return vi

Tickets on sale August 2Sth to 3fst in
elusive, limited for return not later than
Sept. 7th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

Show Your Talent.
Write a "Vinswood Essay"
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

John Wagner denies the story that he
has any laundering to run for congress
again on the fusion ticket in the First
district. He says he has had enough of
politics. He has sold his possessions in
Leavenworth county and about the mid
die of October will become the cashier
of a new bank at Paola to be organized
by John w. Breidenthal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-29

The Atchison Globe states posi-
lively that A. J. White of that
county, is an anti-Curtis candidate for
congress and is not running in the in
terest of Mr.. Curtis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
THE PUBI.IC {, DOMAIN.
It Is Rapidly Passing Away from
Government Control.
dow Spectators and Others Are Using
2Unwise Laws to Pick the Locks
= Of Our Greatest National
s. 49, Treasure Chest. AZ Il &3 500

: The passage of the national irriga-
ton: act HAS insured the. reclamation
of the vast arid domain of the west,
but it has also brought to the front
the question:: For whose benefit is
this reclamation to be effected? 2" The
spectators have not waited for the
leisurely development of public opin-
ion on this question-they are an
swering without hesitation: "For
ours" They are swallowing the irri-
gable lands by the million acres, and
unless the laws which permit and en-
courage this process be repealed,
Uncle Sam will find by the time his
irrigation system is complete that it's
only use is to water the vast estates
of land monopolists. 80
In the report on the Quarles bill for
the repeal of the timber and stone act,
the desert land act and the commuta-
ton clause of the homestead act, pre-
sented on behalf of the senate COM
mittee on public lands by Senator Glib
son, of Montana, it is said: -.
= ''The records of the land department.
show that under the timber and stone
act our timber lands are rapidly pass
ing from the possession of the nation
to that of spectators and strong cor
porations."
According to the commissioner of
the general land Office, in many in
stances whole townships have been
entered under this law in the interest
of one. person or firm, to whom the
lands have. been conveyed as soon as
receipts for the purchase price were
issued"
The government has been selling
timber land worth 500 an acre or
more at $3.50, and from the merely
pecuniary standpoint it has lost over
500, 100000 on such sales The oper-
atoms under the desert land act have
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
IS HOLDING HIS OWN.
ferdinand Of Bulgaria, Most Disliked
Ruler In Europe, Stronger
Than Ever Before.

Bulgaria is nominally a tributary
state of Turkey; yet in practice it
maintains a more Independent posi-
ton, perhaps, than any other of the
Balkan states. 1t has objected so
strongly to being regarded as con-
nected with Turkey that the United
States government no longer commune
Gates with it through our minister at
ConstantinCple, but has assigned it to
the territory Of the minister to Greece,
who is also accredited to Roumania
and Servia. Ferdinand, the reigning
prince of Bulgaria. is the youngest son
of the late Prince Augustus of Sake
Coburg and Gotha, and was 26 years
old when, in July, 1887, he was elected
by the national assembly of Bulgaria
to succeed prince who had abdicated
in the preceding year. Ferdinand has
had a hard and trying experience, mas
much as the sultan was not willing to
confirm him, and the great powers were
not willing to give him their formal ap-
proval until 1896, when he had been
some nine years on the throne. Ferdi-
nand is not very popular in Bulgaria,
and by common consent the European
press has always made fun of him, the
caricaturists singing him out as the
butt of international ridicule. Yet he
holds his own, and the chances are that
he will so conduct himself as to
strengthen his position and to remain
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07

and everything In the German empire.
When his wrath had effervesced some
what he stated his case as follows Last
I fell in love with young German lady,
and after my return to America became
engaged to her. l have now come for
my bride. The wedding is fixed for next
Thursday; our steamer passages are.
taken day or two later. And find that
the authorities will not allow me to mar
ry unless I present multitude of pa
pers such as l never dreamed of! Some
of them it will take months to get. and
some can never get. My intended bride
is in distress; her family evidently dis
trust me; the wedding is postponed in
definitely; and my business partner is
cabling me to come back to America az
soon as possible. am asked for q
baptismal certificates Taufschein.
Now, so far as know, was never bap-
tized. I am required to present GER
tificate showing the consent of my par
ent to my marriage-I, man 30 years
old and in large business of my own!
1
of my debts in Germany. l owe no such
debts; but know no one who will give
such a bond I am notified that the
banns must be published certain num-
Der of times before the wedding. What
kind of a country is this, anyhow"
We did the best we could. In an inter-
view with the minister of public worship
I was able to SECURE dispensation from
the publishing of the banns; then bond
was drawn up, which I signed and thus
settled the question regarding possible
debts in Germany. AS to the baptismal
certificate, ordered inscribed, on the
largest possible sheet of official paper,
the gentleman's affidavit that, in the
state of Ohio, where he was born, no
Taufschein, or baptismal certificate, was
required at the time of his birth, and to
this was affixed with plenty of wax the
largest seal of the legation. The form
of the affidavit may be judged peculiar;
but it was thought best not to startle the
authorities with the admission that the
man had not been baptized at all. They
could easily believe that state like
Ohio, which some of them doubtless re-
garded as still in the backwoods and
mainly tenanted by the aborigines, might
have omitted, in days gone by, to require
a Taufschein; but that an unbaptized
Christian should offer himself to be
married in Germanywould perhaps have
so paralyzed their powers of belief that
permission for the marriage might never
have been secured.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
ROBBERY SHAW OLIVER.

Recently Appointed Assistant Secretary Of
mission as second lieutenant, and
joined the Fifth Massachusetts cav
airy. ....s5 ...-E. *y.z :
!. Despite his youth; his service was
such as to. attract the attention of his
superiors, and he was made adjutant
of his regiment and later on aid on the
staff of the Twenty-fifth Army corps :.
After the surrender of Gen, Lee, Cen.
Oliver went to the Rio Grande, where
he was mustered out of the service. He
remained out of active service but
short time, however, rejoining the
regular establishment in 1866, when he
was assigned as second lieutenant to
duty in the district of Arizona.
He was promoted to a first lieuten-
ancy and then to captaincy. In 1870
he resigned his commission, and in
November of that year he married
Miss Marion Rathbone, eldest daugh-
ter of Gen. John F. Rathbone, of Al
bany, and went to- Albany to live. He
was made partner in the stove manu-
ldCIuI1u6 :" VI JOuu 1\dCuUOAS q
Son, now known as Rathbone, Sard &:
Co.
In 1880 Gen. Oliver was appointed
by Gov. Cornell inspector general Of
his staff, and with Adjt. Gen. Fred
erick Townsend, was Instrumental in
securing for the state the state camp
at Peekskill. When Gen. T. Ellery
Lord resigned Gen. Oliver succeeded
him as, brigadier general, commanding
the fifth brigade.
Albany clubs. His second daughter
Cora, recently married Joseph H.
Choate, Jr., the son of the ambassa-
dor to the court of st. James. He has
two other daughters, and one son, who
is a graduate of Yale.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07

been equally disastrous. This law, &C
cording to the committees report, was
placed on the statute books Ito ena-
bic a few wealthy men to acquire vast
bodies of land in California" The ia
cilities it offered to rich and unscrupu-
lous land-grabbers have led to the ex-
tension of it's operations to all the
arid and semi-arid states. "Men and
women have in numerous instances
been employed to take up land in con-
tinuous bodies from 5000 acres even
to 100000 acres and to turn them over
to land proprietors to be used chiefly
for grazing purposes"
Similar abuses have been perpetrated
under the communication provision of
the homestead law, by which the re-
quirement of residence is waived after
II months for payment of SLIPS
an acre. The result of these various
facilities offered to spectators is that
our splendid expanse of irrigable land,
the greatest heritage ever possessed
by any nation, is rapidly disappear
ing. In the five years from 1898 to
1902 inclusive the government dis
posed of 66,141,529 acres-an amount
more than twice as great as the whole
extent of England it is estimated
that in 1903 we have lost an addition
al area about as large as the state of
Pennsylvania. If this keeps up for five
years longer, says the senate commit
tee, "the entire public domain suitable
for settlement will be exhausted and
there will be no land left for our peo-
pie who desire to make homes upon
it, The only way of escape from this
calamity, says the New York World,
is to repeal all the laws that favor the
Spectator and monopo1ist, and leave
only one legal way of acquiring title
to- the public land-"a residence of
five years and continuous cultivation
of the soil"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07

6OOkER L. WASHINGTON.
Called by Some the Messiah" Of Our
Colored Population.)
the cities generally gaining at~the ex-
pense of the country districts.
In Charleston, S. c., the colored
population increased in ten years from
$4,000 to $4,000; in Jefferson county,
KY, which includes Louisville, the
colored population increased from 49,
900 to $4,000 in ten years; in Shelby
county, Tenn, which includes Mem
phis, from $1,000 to $4,000; in Fulton
county, Ca, which includes Atlanta,
from $4,000 to $4,000; in Baltimore
from $1,000 to 10000; in Washington
from 10000 to 100000; in Duval coun-
ty, Fla, which includes Jacksonville,
from $4,000 to $4,000; ip Warren coun-
ty, Miss, which includes Vicksburg,
from $4,000 to $4,000; in St. Louis from
$4,000 to $4,000, and in Galveston from
1000 to $500.
Indications of the migration of COL
ored residents to the large cities may
be found in the north as well as in the
south. In the state of Pennsylvania
the increase in the colored population
in ten years was $4,000. Of this $1,000
was in Philad elphia and Pl11sburg
alone.
In New York the increase in the
colored population in ten years was
$4,000, but of this total 10000 was in
New York county, 1000 in Brooklyn,
and 1900 in Richmond and Queens,
and 1000 in the whole rest of the state.
Another reason for the increase in
the colored population of the city, not
given by Mr.. Washington, is the bet
ter wages paid to colored people in the
cities and their larger opportunities
for material advantage
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
WORKS: 81 CHIT HOURS.
Clarence Il. Mackay Busy at His
3 Desk Every Day.
Has Dropped Sport for Work and Now
II q Potent Factor In New FORKS ),
Financial and CONNER.
cial Circles. ~

Scarce turned 20 years of age, Clar-
ence H. Mackay now occupies one Of the
most prominent positions in the bust
ness world as president of the Postal
Telegraph & Commercial Cable COM
panies. So many young men are being
placed il. positions of large responsible
ity that this injection of young blood
into the large corporations of the coun7
try has come to be question Of remark.
Mr.. Mackay is the youngest of these
young leaders of business and finance.
For that reason-because he feels his
youth-he is 10th to bring himself in
to prominence by talking about his af-
fairs. Mr.. Mackay occupies the promi-
nent position he holds as legacy from
his father. His rule for business sue
cess is to devote his attention strictly to
his task and to follow as closely as pos
sible in the Footsteps of his father, John
w. Mackay.
The son had careful schooling in Or
der that he might fill acceptably the po-
sition of the father. AS a director of
the Postal Telegraph company every
branch, every detail of the plant and
service was passed before him. It was
his fathers aim in life to leave his son
prepared to carry on the work he had
begun in various directions, and the
son has accepted and is manfully full
filling his fathers wishes.
While the elder Mackay was engaged
n onfarnricoc fhof ~ h,,i11
cable to the orient was, always his
pet hobby. According to the World in
formant the mechanical obstacles did
not figure for moment in this desire.
Congress, it is said, was the greatest
stumbling block to be- encountered in
building the Pacific cable: The ques-
tons of private ownership were tooth
some morsels for the opponents of the
cable. Government ownership was
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07

can who, having thought that patriotism
required him, in crowded railway car
riage, loudly to denounce Germany, the
German people, and the imperial govern
ment, had passed the night in guard
house; another day it was one who, feel
ing called upon, in a restaurant, to pro-
claim very loudly and grossly his I'M
favorable opinion of the Emperor, was
arrested; on still another occasion it was
one of our fellow-citizens who, having
thought that he ought to be married in
Berlin as easily as in New York, had
found himself entangled in a network of
regulations, prescriptions, and prohibit
tiOns.
OF this latter sort there were in my
time several curious cases. One morn
ing man came rushing into the legation
in high excitement, exclaiming: ''Mr.
Minister, I am in the worst fix that any
decent man was ever in. l want you
to help me out of it, and he then went
on with bitter TRADE against everybody
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
MIGRATION OF NEGR oEs.
Thousands no Leave the Country Every
Year to Find Employment
t%: In the Large Cities.

Booker T. Washington recently gave
two reasons for the general migration
OF the colored population from the
country into the cities-the superior
educational facilities for colored chill
dren and the bettT police protection
afforded by the cities.
The increase in the negro population
of the United States between 1890 and
1900 was 100000, or at the rate OF
about 18 per cent, the white popula-
ton In the same period increasing q
per cent. But this gain in the. colored
population is not evenly distributed,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07

Cleveland children, and has three Sis
tiers and brother.
Grover Cleveland and Miss Frances
Folsom were married in the blue room
of the white house June 2, 1886, during
Mr.. Cleveland's first administration,
when he was 40 years old.
Ruth, the first child, was born at No.
BIG Madison avenue, New York, Octo-
Der 10, 1891. She was named after
Mrs. Cleveland's grandmother, and as
'Baby Ruth" ruled Washington soci-
ETY. during her fathers second term of
Office.
Esther Cleveland is the only child of
a president to be born in the white
house, being ushered into the world
September 9, 1893. 49,.
Marion Cleveland was born at Bug
Yards Bay July. Z, 1896:
Richard Folsom Cleveland, the stur-
dy little chap who has been adopted by
the Princeton students as their own
especial mascot, was born at Prince
ton, N. j., October %. 1897.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
Geronimo Now a bdethOdist.

Geronimo and dozen of his Apache
warriors have Joined the Methodist
church at Fort Sill, Ind. r., having been
baptized in the presence Of a large crowd
of Indians and whites. With the
Comanches sitting on one side of the
tabernacle and the Apaches on the
other, each tribe with its interpreter
standing in the foreground repeating
the words Of the white preacher, the
minister stood and told the story of
Christ. At the close Of the sermon
Geronimo and II of his warriors, pris-
oners at Fort Sill, went forward and
asked to be received into the church..
In the afternoon the baptismal cere-
mony occurred. =s a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
Beats the Human Ostrich.

DR.. Monnier has just reported to the
Paris Academy Of Medicine case of
a young man with an extraordinary
stomach. He entered st. Joseph's hos
pital May 10, suffering from severe
pains. A hard body was felt in the
stomach. He was operated on on June
Is, when the doctor extracted eight tea
spoons, three-pronged fork, sharp
pointed four-inch knife blade, key, a
long tooth comb, and other articles,
numb ering altogetherS25 andsswetghing
half pound. The man now IS recover
ing. and states that he tried suicide In
this way. - IS. b