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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

The Lowe murder case will open the
festivities of this weeks term of the
district court.
The ponds and bayous in North To-
peka are becoming favorite places for
hunters to go frogging.
Mrs. G.. III. Inflow, of the Palladium.
Hoxie Kas., is in Topeka visiting her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Hart
GaleE Nichols, now of Kansas City,
u. S. A. is here to assist in the prose-
cution of the Lowe murder trial.
Panama hats can be bought for a
good deal less than they cost year
ago. Style seems to affect the value.
This is the season for a few fake prize
fights to be pulled off in the country.
but - far the sports" have been
ouietR
John Coyne SAYS that he has several
potatoes in his patch in Pleasant Val
ley that will weigh six pounds. He
didn't say how MANY.
Some people made the time-worn re-
mark Saturday that This is a quiet
observation, Don't you think it noisier
today than usual?"
Snyder's grove and Charles Smith 5
| hotel at Wakarusa We're the usual
points of interest for several hundred
people on July 4. The national holiday
is always celebrated in style at that
station.
The county commissioners are hold
ing open sessions for small boys who
report the saving OF bridge timbers in
the flood. The boys receive 10 per cent.
of the value of the timbcrs as a re.
ward for saving them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
RAILROAD MAN SHOT.
Drunken Miner Does Fatal Shooting
in Tennessee

Knoxville. Tenn, July CD. J. Con-
don, railroad contractor of this citv
was killed al Crawford, Tenn. last
saturday night. Condor was engaged
in building a branch from the Tonnes
see Central to Crawford. Hearing a
disturbance in the commissarv he de-
manded the cause. A drunken miner
turned on him and emptied a load of
buckshot into his body. Condor seized
a rife and shot his assailant, fatally
wounding him. but not until after he
had fired a second shot which killed
Condor. The dead man is a brother of
Martin J. Condor, president of the
American Snuff company. with head
quarters in New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
DIR. CRAGIN'S WORK.
He Will Write a History of the Early
Far West.

Dr. F. w Cragin, formerly for nine
years professor of natural history in
Washburn college, Topeka, and who for
the past twelve years has been pro-
fessor of geology in Colorado college.
Colorado Springs. has resigned his pc
sition in the latter institution, laying
aside the profession of teaching.
Though not permanently relinquishing
the field of geology, he will now devote
himself to literary and historical work.
and especially for the next two or three
years to the preparation of Topical
History of the Early Far West"
DR.. Cragin has been engaged upon
this work at intervals for several year.
past and expects to make it now the
principal object of his time and re-
search. 1t will be a sort of dictionary.
cyclopaedia, or alphabetically arranged
handbook, of American, French and
Spanish pioneer (also Indian) people
places and events in that part of the
United States which is west of the Mis-
sissippi river 1t will be illustrated
with many authentic pioneer and abo-
riginal portraits, and with maps. views,
plans or restorat tons of old landmarks
Altogether it promises to be such a
work of reference as the west has long
needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

AS soon as the Guichen was sighted
the Sherness flotilla of torpedo boat de-
stroyers steamed out to meet her and
escorted the French cruiser through a
double line of British battleships and
cruisers, extending 21a miles and form
ing the most imposing naval display
ever seen off Dover.
All the vessels were dressed from
stem to stern and their crews manned
ship and mingled their cheers with the
road of the guns firing salutes and the
strains of the "Marseillaise'' from the
naval bands. Each ship gave the presi-
dent a salute of twenty-one guns as the
Guichen passed and the band of each
vessel in turn took up the "Marseil-
laise."
The Guichen anchored off Dover
shortly after l o'clock and exchanged
salutes with Dover castle. The admirals
and captains of the British fleet imme-
diately repaired on board the French
cruiser and paid official visits to Presi-
dent Loubet.
LOUBET IN LONDON.
London, July 6.-President Loubet
arrived at Victoria railroad station here.
from Dover at 4:15 p. m. and was ac~
corded a great reception.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
Edna wallace Hopper Sues.

Seattle Wash, July 6.-Edna Wallace
Hopper arrived here with her attorney.
Judge E. p. Coyne, of New York They
are on their way to Victoria, B. G.,
where Miss Hopper's suit against James
Dunsmuir, ex-Dremier of British Co.
lumbia, is to be heard Tuesday. She is
bringing action to have the will of her
stepfather, Alexander Dunsmuir set
aside on the grounds of undue influence
and incompetency. He left a fortune OF
So. 900 to his brother. James Duns>
muir, and died shrotly afterWard of
alcoholic dementia. The will cut of
Mrs. Dunsmuir, Mrs. Hopper's mother,
without a dollar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

however, when cased showed a pressure
of 125 pounds to the square inch and
the instrument used in measuring the
capacity of wells registered a flow of
about 1900, 900 cubic feet every twenty
four hours. The roar of the well is
deafening but when it was attempted to
light it it would not burn. The product
was piped into the engine but would
not ignite. 1t simply famed the flames
and produced an intense heat like a pair
of bellows does. A pipe was run to a
large bonfire, but still it would not ig
mite. It is said that there are two air
wells near Corsicana, Tex, but they are
not nearly so big as the famous Dex
ter we'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
CARS CRASH TOGETHER
Twenty-Five Injured in a PhiIa-
delphia Accident.

Philadelphia, July 6.-Twenty-fiv
persons were injured last night by two
trolley cars filled with people crashing
together on the steep hill near the en-
trance to Chestnut Hill park Four of
the twenty-five were so seriously hurt
that they were taken to the hospital
The two cars We're going down the
hill when the rear car, which was close
~ following the first, got beyond the
control OF the motorman. 1t dashed
down the incline and as it did so many
of the passengers either fell or jumped
or. The car crashed into the forward
car and both were badly wrecked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
Take Notice.

Notice is hereby given dealers and
the public that the new Railroad Card
Game, which has become so popular,
known as Gavitts Stock Exchange was
invented by Harry E Gavitt, manager
of the Gavitt Printing & Publishing Co.
The directions for playing this game. as
well as similar games. were copyright
ed and patent applied for on cards dur
ing the first part of April.
All dealers and others selling, using
or infringing on our rights are liable
under the copyright and patent laws of
the United States.
W. W. Gavitt Printing and Publish
ing Co., Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

W. A. Neiswanger and wife to ]. E.
Atwood, $500. Lot and e. q feet, 20
Chestnut St. College Place add.
Martha A. Lee and husband to E. A
and L. J. Palmer. 81. 1000 pit. lot 1853 West
10th ave, Young's add.
II. L. Sage to J. c. Smith 500. lots
1902 and 4 Taylor St, Gould's add.
Tax deed to J. Chubb. lot 104 Michi-
gan ave, Sunnyside add
Emma c. Spaulding ct al to E. A.
Thrill. 81. lots 366 and 36S Monroe St,
Ritchie's add
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

Barnes. Kan, July 6.-R. P. Whip
pei, the balloOnist, was badly, perhaps
seriously hurt here Saturday evening.
His balloon was not sufficiently inflated,
and when about 200 feet high he cut
loose. The parachute failed to open
and he fell. striking on his back. Two
ribs were broken, some muscles wrench
ed and internal injury near the kidneys
resulted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
IN DOVER.
President of French Republic
Given an English Ovation.
His Ship Met by Fleet of Tor
pedO Boats.
LONG LINE OF VESSELS
They Extended Two and a Half
Miles.
As He Steamed Between Them
Each Fired Statutes.
LONG LINE OF VESSELS

Dover, Eng. July 6.-The French
cruiser Guichen. having President Lou
bet on board, was sighted at 12:4O D. m.
Immense crowds of people lined the
sea front. which presented a gala ap-
pearance, the decoration being on
scale far in excess of anything previous
" attempted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
River Breaks a Levee.

Yuma, Ariz., July 6.-The Colorado
river broke through the levee two miles
south of here and is now flooding n
large fertile valley. Considerable dam
age to ranches in the vicinity is ex-
Dected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
Movements of Gen. N. A. Miles.

New Orleans, July 6.-Gen. Nelson A
Miles Sunday visited the river forts
He will leave today with former Gov
ernOr HOgg of Texas for a trip through
the oil fields
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

The new town of Lidderdale. Carroll
county. on the Omaha extension of the
Chicago Great Western railway will be
opened to the public by an auction sale
of lots about the middle of July. For
particulars address Edwin D. Magill,
Mgr, Townsite Dept, Fort Dodge. Ia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
Cincinnati's Hot Sunday.

Cincinnati. July 6.-Four of the pros
trations from heat here Sunday re-
suited fatally. Cool winds brought re-
lief last night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
An Arizona Shooting.

Bisbee. Ariz., July "a special to the
Review from Douglas, states that Off
Ger Dayton Graham shot and fatally
wounded a man named Smith supposed
TO be the man who killed Officer Thorn
as Vaughn and wounded Graham at
Douglas, May 16. Shooting Sunday
night occurred in a saloon. Graham
recognized Smith and drew a gun on
him, demanding that he throw up his
hands. Smith reached for his gun and
Graham shot him in the neck Thou
sands of people were attending carnival
and with difficulty Smith was removed
to the hospital where Captain Rynning
of Rangers placed q guard of two men,
High feeling exists against Smith and
should he recover it will be difficult
for the officers to protect him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

Z. A little life may be sacrificed to an
hours delay. Cholera infantum, dysen-
terry. diarrhoea come suddenly. Only
safe plan is to have DR.. Fowler's Elk
tract Of Wild Strawberry always on
hand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

There, little boy, don't cry.
You have blistered your thumbs. I know,
And your right eye blue,
And your left one. too,
Are things of the long ago.
Hush! Little boy, don't cry.
You are smarting. 1 know, with pain,
But Wen pull you through
And next Fourth you'll do
The same thing over again.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31
LAWS $500 YEARS OLD

Tho complexlty OF the law OF mar.
rlage settlements point TO q state o.
civilization like that OF modern go
ciety. save In exceptional circum.
stances only one wife was LOCAL.
Slavery existed. but marriage between
slaves ard free women was recor.
nized; and II the slaves wife lived
under the roof OF his master. that
master acquired no rights over her or
her property. The Issue OF the mar
riage were apparently free. and en-.
joyed all rights OF citizens.
Adopted sons gained rights only TO
personal property. Votarles or yestal
virgins were allowed to marry by dep
uty and had wives property rights.
SO In Roman law a yestal virgin. In
order TO enable the temple to receive
lesacies, was assumed to have three
children.
This $500 year old code has an
elaborate law OF agency and proyls.
ions for labor regulations. but did not
recognize murder as a crime. II was
merely question OF damage payable
10 the relatives.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31

Light upon the age OF human laws
is furnished by n slab OF black stone
unearthed at Persepolla last year by
j. de Morgan, an antiquary working
for the French government. says the
New York World. The monument con.
aims picture Of King Hammurabl
receiving his laws from the seated
sun I'D Samas.
Hammurabi has been $500 years
dead. but his code doesn't seem 80
old fashioned. II recognizes the
widows thirds" OF her husbands real
estate The custom OF making Wills
was already established. A man could
not directly will his property out OF
the family. II he wished to benefit n
stranger to the blood" he had first
to adopt him.
The husband could leave his proper.
~ 10 his wife. and she could leave II
to such OF her children as she chose.
but not 10 her brothers. Moreover. a
father could leave a marriage portion
TO a daughter vowed TO religion. and
her brothers had no claim on the
property.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31
WOODS OF THE NORTHWEST

coated with brown bark. It's mighty
base setting firmly In the earth, It's
roots gripping deep. was growing be-
fore Columbus saw America. Five
hundred years has II been standing
there raising liz head to the sky.
What storms has Il cent before;
under what ages Of sunshine has Il
gained strength; what lightning
strokes have threatened II. what
sweeping hrosl And still II stands
with the sublime majesty OF age and
strength, fearful Of nothlng-and the
sound OF axes knocking In the valley
belOwl
But long before the seed OF this
hoary giant was sown In the wind
forests were old on these hills. For
$4,000 years and more have these
mountains been forestclad, one for
est rising In 500 years from youth to
maturity. sinking away 10 ripe old
age. and giving room to another gen.
GRAFTON Of trees. Deep In the earth
to-day lie some OF these ancient for
ests, changed by slow chemistry
OF tho aEls into coal. and now at last
beginning to give out for men The
sunshine which they stored up cor
turtles before tho beginning OF his
tory.-Century magazine.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31

Nowhere else In the world is there
such forest as this. A few steps In
any direction from tho roads of the
loggers bring one at once to the prl.
meyal wood
Turn to the north. A thousand and
FIVE hundred miles you may wander
II you will, and never escape tho en-.
closing sllences OF this wood. Across
the British possessions. through end
less reaches OF mountains, snow
capped. inaccessible, and onward to
Alaska, nothing but trees and trees
cedar. fr, hemlock. pine, spruce.
Turn TO the south. For thousand
miles Of Sierra. through the heart OF
California, whore grows the sequoia
the monarch among trees. to the very
deserts Of the Mexican border. and
you win find this forest stu covering
all the hills. thick. silent and all but
undlsturbed. A continent long is this
wood. facing the Paclnc, here 200
miles wide. from the waters edge
across the nights OF the Cascade and
the Sierra, there narrowing to a thin,
struggling, yet persistent growth
along the mountain tops.
This tree before you. rising $50
feet in air, straight and strong. thick
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31
DANGEROUS KIDNEY DISEASES CURED
Pe-ru-na Creating a National Sensation IN the Cure
Of Chronic Ailments Of the kidneys.

Major T. II. Mars, OF the First wisoon-
Sin Cavalry regiment. writes from l425
Dunning street, Chicago, ILL.,, the following
letter.
"For years I suffered with cafarrh OF
the Kidneys contracted In the army.
Medicine did moi help me any until a
oomrade who had bean helped by Pc
runa advised me 10 toy H. bought
some al once, and soon found blessed
relief Ikepf taking n four months,
and am now well and strong and feel
better than ! have done for the past
twenty years. thanks 10 PerunR. -
r. H. Mars.
At the appearance Of the FIRST symptom
OF kidney trouble Peruna should be taken.
This remedy strikes at once the very root
OF the disease. II at once relieves tho
catarrhal kidneys of the stagnant blood.
preventing the escape OF serum from the
blood. Peruna stimulates the kidneys 10
sKoreto from the blood the accommodating
poison. and thus prevents the eonvulsions
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31
GILL Nvz TO MAJOR POND.
Characteristic Letter Of the late Ia.
mented Humorist

aUAfuetNfltAlN GHAANI oi tOe IaNo ~
mented HumoriGt
More han one successful lecture
star has had to thank Major Pond for
his start He had keen discrimination
aud not infroqucntly sought out and
dragged upon the platform an obscure
genius who never thought to sec him.
self before tho fooulghts Such a
genius was Bill Nye when the ma
ior found him he was acting as post.
master and editing the Laramie Boom.
erang over livery stable (Wals
down the Alley Twist the Gray Mules
Tail. Take the Elevator immediate.
lyi'D
Pond persuaded him TO try lecturlng
Ing. and as there proved to be both
money and useful publicity In It, Nyc
was grateful and used for years to
remember tho major with characters
tic notes. one OF which had tho follow
Ing exhaustive signature.
Yours with heart full OF gratitude
and a system full OF drugs, paints, oil
turpentine. glass, putty and every
thing usually kept In a hrstclass drug
store. Bin Nye
"P. s.-opon all night"-Bostor
Transcript
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31

Would you believe that the nature
" beasts is softoned by distress and
suderIug7' asked man who has
spent most Of his life In the Delta.
1T is feet More than once have
lad remarkable instances OF the truth
OF this assertion brought under my
very eyes. BY our own feelings We
know that men, waon q great calam-
ity befalls community. forget all
differences OF race or creed and so
into the rescue business with a whole
soul just IN the same way animals
lose their savage natures. experience
a change Of feeling as TO other ami.
mails and become softened when
brought face to face with almost in
evitahle doom. Il is n somewhat curl
Gus thing, but even when starvation
is one Of the chief sufiorlngs which
beset them they have been known to
refrain from feeding on weaker ami.
mails. which under ordinary clrcum.
stances are their natural prey. Here
are some instances: In 1889. during
the flood Of that year, ! had good
many cattle In the lowlands that were
hemmod up on a ridge. / paid as
high as $50 day for n natboat to
ferry them out. This ridge was about
two miles long and 800 yards wide. II
Is no exaggeration to say that some
sort OF an animal occupied every ten
foot square Of that space. Horses.
hogs, cows, calves, wolves and rab.
bits were so crowded on the ridge
that you could hardly walk for them.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31
KIDNEY

Aching backs arr cased.
Hip. back, aud ioin palms
overcome. Swelling Of tho
limits and dronsy signs
vanish.
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment high
colore d, pain la passing,
drihbllug, frequency, bed
wctting. Deans kidney Pills
remove calouli and gravel.
Relieve heart palpltation,
aleeplonsness, headache,
nervousness, dizziness.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31
BRUTEs tanned BY DISTRESS


have seen wolves crouch at ne ap.
preach Of men. and barring q surly
srowl aud the display OF white teeth.
give no otlcr sign OF their savage
nature. have seen a rabbit. shiv.
oring win cold and uibbling at the
stub OF a green cane. squattlng with.
In hfieen feet OF hungry gaunt
wolf, and undor ordinary circum
stances ho wolf would have pounccd
upon the rabbit aud devourod him.
And have seen young calves within
several hundred yards OF a whole
pack OF hungry wolves. and yet NOT
ore. TO my knowledge. was ever dc
vourod The wolves oven approached
near our camp nrcs. either coyotinp
the warmth II the Gre or the food W,
had, and Instead OF a lusty, frightened
howl they offered us only a whine
They We're half famed by their suffer
ing by the helplcssness OF their situa
tlon. and evidently realized that they
were at the mercy OF some power
over which they had not the slight:
est control. The natures OF these wilt
beasts mad changed under the weigh
of distress that was common amonr
them. = harc seen rabbits jump into
the boats from floating logs as We
passed through the cane breaks. and
tamely crouch at mems feet whercn
greyhound could scarcely have
caught one had there been room foI
race. As strange as II may seem
these things are true. and any one
who can explain them 10 welcome &c
the task"
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31
a FEW ODD SUGGESTIONS.
They Arc Of Interest to Mothers and
Pretty Girls.

They Arc Of Interest to Mothers and
Pretty Girls.
up In Bucks county last week,
said a traveller, IAN old woman re.
counted to me some odd superstitions,
These. she declared. she and all her
friends believed In implicitly.
"ono regarded newborn babies
when the baby is taken for the first
time into a strange house to dine IN
egg aud a piece Of bread should be
given to II by the houses owner. 9th
orwise the child will have bad luck for
ten days
Another regarded marrlaEeabl6
maids. When a maiden is Smelling
peas she should. II she find a pod with
nine peas in II, put II over the house
door; then the hrst young man to on
ter the house through the door vii
marry her. "-Philadelphia Record.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31

NrS. Anderson, q prominent
society woman OF Jacksonville,
Fla, daughter Of Recorder Of
Deeds, West, says:
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without gaining great benefit A
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appetite, aud tones up tho entire
system. Your medicine has been tried
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it, Mus. r. A. ANDERSON, 225 Wash.
ington ST., Jacksonville, Fla. - 5000
forfeit n original Of above tsIuHoaiai pscpinp gene
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The experience and testimony
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The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31

An Insurance agent called at the
house OF a newly married couple and
lurlpg the conversation urged the hus,
land to take out a policy. but when he
leard the lalr young wiie say 10 her
usband, Yes, do so, Charlie. and III
lak9 you some nice pastry for your
upper" be siood a moment, as II con.
iderlng the risks, AID then he closed
10 book aud fed.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-07-31

When electric lights were intro
iucod into the small town on MARTHA
Vineyard. where little Jennie lives. she
vent out walking one evening with
her mother. Suddenly coming out from
under some trees she saw the magic
light for the first time In her life, "Oh.
mammal" eho cried. fairly dancing
with excitement; mamma. looki See
he moon; It's on stick tonight"