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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
SCORES GULLIBLE PUBLIC.
New Jersey Vice Chancellor Says
Stocks Are Inflated for Fools.

Newark, N J., Aug. 17-"You know,
and 1 and everybody ought to know,
that stock is inflated to unload it on
the public. consider it a fraud. and
the people who buy are fools. The
men who initiate stocks take advantage
of the old adage, All fools are not yet
dead" said Vice Chancellor Pitney
during the argument in the application
of Edwin A. McAlpin and others for a
receiver for the Universal Tobacco
comDanv.
Attorney General McCarter, of coun-
sci for the defendant corporation,
claimed that the allegation of insolv-
ency made by the complainants was
false. He said that the fact that the
corporation wanted more capital was
proof of solvency. He said: Where
are those men who have made millions
out of the scheme by selling out?"
Vice Chancellor Pitney, interrupting,
said: Il do not quite agree with coun-
sci that they made millions. l assume
that they made about 100000, less ex-
penses. What they got beyond that
was by cheating somebody
At the close of Mr.. McCarter's argu-
ment Wheeler H. Peckham followed for
text of the new Massachusetts corpora
ton law, but was interrupted by Vice
Chancellor Pitney.
THE Massachusetts judiciary is de-
generating" announced the vice chan
cellor, land 1 don't consider their opin-
ion any more. Thirty years ago it was
different"
Vice Chancellor Pitney suggested, be-
fore the hearing of the argument began,
that he was fully decided that he could
not interfere with the Butler voting
trust at this time. and requested coun-
sci to address themselves as to the
courts action in maintaining the modus
vivendi
THE important matter to be settled
now" he said, ''is to decide upon action
to be taken in the restraining order now
in force against the bond issue AS the
order stands today it stops the sale or
transfer of these bonds"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
IAYHAwKERI oTs.

The fad at ST. Francis is painting
houses red
The pride of Stockton is their new
q 500 bushel elevator.
Hutchinsons salt plant was destroyed
by fire. Even the contents couldn't save
Horton is full of tramps and the
tramps are full of nerve. say the house
wives
"Candeling" shows fresh country
eggs brought to Mankato Sc per cent
stale.
Almena is to have an alfalfa carnival.
All those who attend may expect to be
in clover.
A Reno county citizen is gaining some
notoriety by cutting his corn with
Philippine bolo.
The Missouri Pacific pays its section
men $1.45 at Downs. Harvest hand
prices are responsible.
An Augusta bride palmed off a second
growth of apple blooms on her guests
for orange blossoms.
Now that the corn crop is saved
Stockton citizens are praying for a frost
to NOW their tremendous weed crop.
A Topeka mute predicted the defeat of
Jeffries in writing which shows that
dumb man can not give sound advice.
The German Burial association of
Newton had a car load of beer they
failed to inter. The sheriff beat them
to it.
About the worst appears to be from
LeaVenworth where trusting young
bride thought the alarm clock would
make the bread rise.
Gradually the short grass" line is
being pushed over in Colorado. A corn
cutting machine made its appearance In
Syracuse the past week.
A Mcpherson firm who has manu-
featured dog collars for New Zealand
ard Finland shipments think they are
doing a bowling good business.
! Roosevelt's reign and August's rain
seem to have provided such an album
dance of political forage that Populist
| leaders are casting Sleeps eyes at the
Republican pastures.
II thought you promised me you would
| only take an eyeopener." said the WITCH
ita wife to her jovial husband. Il have
| two eyes of deepest blue he hummed
and the curtain dropped
A Logan man thanks Providence for
rising from the section to a wheat king
in a couple of years It's all right to
place some faith in Providence, but
| hustling is also a big factor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.

Ih'rom the Minneapolis Tribune.1
Rural free delivery is row to be put
on business basis. Last year it was
a riot OF politics and speculation. The
Idea Of free delivery in the country had
a popular fascination, which was i'm
proved by politicians and contractors.
Members Of congress besieged the de-
partment to extend the service to ex-
tend their popularity with their constit-
uents. Men with material to sell worked
up public sentiment in favor of rural
routes to increase their bills for sun
plies. There was not only new bust
ness with the department to look after
but there were sales of horses and carts
to men who got rural contracts. and
mall boxes to furnish farmers. The pub
lie which was to benefit by delivery of
letters was almost lost to sight in the
importunate crowd of those who were
to benefit in their business of trade or
politics.
The result was that the extension of
rural free delivery was overdone. 1t
was carried farther than the revenues
of the department would warrant. The
craze much resembled that for extern
sion Of star routes when the west was
settling fast. with politicians and con-
tractors combining to make money and
popularity out of a public demand they
fostered. 1t might have ended In a worse
scandal, had not the get-rich-quick ex-
posures in the postoffice provoked q
general inquiry, and brought to light
the smaller frauds in free delivery and
revealed the big deficiency that was
coming at the end Of the year That
put an end to rural free delivery as q
promotion business.
The first story was that all pending
orders would be hung up and that NJ
more routes would be established. But
the department soon learned under tn,
instruction of the real popular demand
for free delivery in the country, to dis
tinguish between extensions for tn,
benefit of politicians and contractor
and for that Of the public. The servic
has been put in charge of Mr. Bristow
who will reduce it to a system. Exten
sions Will be made in the public interes
and the cost kept within the appropria
ton. Twelve thousand applications ar
on file, OF which not more than half cal
be granted this year. The length o
routes viii be extended to thirty mile
In good travelling country and twent,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
KEPT FROM CRUISER.
No One Allow TO See Oriental Spleen
dor OF Presidents Yacht.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE recent
reftting of the beautiful cruiser May
flower, which is known as the presi-
dents yacht" in order that still more
luxurious quarters may be provided for
Mr. Roosevelt and his family when they
care to go to sea for a day or two, has
called attention to the fact that the
Mayffower is the only ship of the navy
which is always barred to visitors and
of whose interior fittings no photographs
are ever seen.
All other naval ships are open to the
inspection even of foreigners and pic
lures of all parts of the ships are widely
distributed, but not so with the May
flower She is preserved inviolate from
the vulgar gaze. None but Mr.. Roose-
Welt and his friends are allowed ABOARD
Of her The magniicence of her dining
saloon and lounging room, the beauty or
the large cabins and staterooms and the
glory of solid marble bath tubs can
only be imagined from the enormous
sums of government money that have
been expended on the ship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
Voyage of the Kearsarge.
New York Sun.

New 7 DIX SUN
The ease of the long distance speed
test of the battleship Kearsarge puts
that vessel in the front rank of the ma
val vessels of her class. Her steaning
qualities have proved equal to her fight
ing ones. Sailing from Portsmouth. Eng
land. on the 18th of last month. she ar
rived at Frenchmans Bay, Mount Des-
ert on the 26th, having covered q course
of 2,SS5 nautical miles, about 1888 stat.
ute miles, in nine days, four hours and
Is minutes at the average rate of 1912
knots an hour. This is said to be the
best record for a battleshiD on a long
voyage. Practically no preparations
were made for the trip. The Kearsarge
had been sent to England in the latter
part of June, crossing the Atlantic in
10 days and 16 hours, at an average
speed of more than IL knots. With 10
further preparation than the cleaning Of
her propellers, she started back again,
with the result noted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
UPHOLDS BLACKLIST.
u. s. Circuit Court Sustain De.
murrer of Western Union.

ST. Louis. Mo-, Aug. 17.-Judge Rog-
ers in the United States circuit court
today handed down an opinion sustain
ing the demurrer of the Western Union
Telegraph company in the labor injunc-
ton case of Bever ct al, against that
company. In the written opinion Judge
Rogers sustains every point urged by
Attorney Elenious Smith, representing
the defendant company, holding that
the company has the absolute right to
dismiss employees because they belong
to the union. OF for any other reason;
that there can be no conspiracy to do q
lawful act; that the so-called blacklist
may be maintained and given out for
the use of others.
superintendent ]. G. Frankel. of the
Second district of the Western Union
said:
1.-The case arose from the fact that a
certain number of operators were re-
lieved on account of reduction in force,
some for INSTRUMENTATION and for other
causes. They contended it was on ac-
count of belonging to the union. and
they were therefore deprived of liveli-
hood. 1t was conclusively shown that
all operators so relieved were emf
ployed either by brokers or railroad
companies, with the exception of one,
who could not be located. I do not care
to say anything further"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
NELSON OBJECTS.
Montgomery County Man Doesn't
Like to STAY in Jail.

]. H. Keith of Montgomery county is in
Topeka today asking the supreme court fer
a writ of habeas corpus to get Jonn Nelson
out of the county Jail down there, pending
the decision of the court on a motion for
new trial in a case in which he is defend
ant.
Nelson is accused of numbering Albert
Morris in Montgomery county. He was
tried once for the murder in the first de-
gree and convicted of granddaughter in the
second degree but he was not satisfied at
getting off even that easily. He appealed
to the supreme court and was granted
new trial The second trial resulted the
same as the first and now he has motion
for another trial pending. In the meantime
IN to a month or so ago he has been out
on 5000 bail. fixed by the supreme court.
Some time ago he went down into the
Indian Territory and when his case was
called in the district court for some sort of
action he was not there. He alleges that
he could not get back in time because Of
the foods in the Verdigris. The court or
dered his bond forfeited, but shortly af-
forwards Nelson appeared and gave him
self up to one of his bondsmen, Wfereupon
he was promptly locked up. His attor-
neys contend that he is still entitled to
his liberty and they ask the supreme court
to release him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
LOCAL MENTION.

Cooper Jackson has returned from a
vacation in Michigan.
and Earle Williams of Crosby Brothers
go to New York Friday on business
trip.
H. A. Auerbach of the Palace Cloth
ing company was in Kansas City Sun
day.
Mrs. Katherine Glatfelter of Chicago
is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. j.
w. .woodding, 504 Van Buren, street.
Frank FARRELL has gone to Manitou to
join his family in two weeks outing
Mrs. NJ. ]. Mercer. Miss Alma Conklin
Harry E. Brent, stenographer to
Governor Bailey, has gone with his fam
lily to Manitou for a brief vacation T.
r. Simon is taking his place in the gov
errors office in the meantime
Miss Mamie Kahr and Mr.. Frank G.
SQUIRE were married at half past z
O'Clock this afternoon at the Parish
house of the Church of the Assumption,
the Rev. Father Hayden officiating.
Thev left this afternoon for New York
CITY for their wedding journey.
II. s. District Attorney J. S. Dean is
working upon several more injunction
cases which will be brought by him
against cattlemen in western Kansas
for keeping fences upon government
lands. They will be filed within a few
dave
There will be a meeting of the coun-
ell this evening. Reports of appraisers
upon benefit districts win be heard at
7:3O o'clock, and the council will go into
session for regular business immedi-
ately afterward. The proposed tax levy
of 20 mills for city purposes. recon-
mended by the ways and means COM
nittee, will be acted upon by the whole
council
The local. chapter of the Phi Lambda
Epsilon, a high school and college fra
ternity is making preparations for the
annual national conclave of the frater-
nifty to be held here the 3rd, 4th and 5th
of September. The Phi Lambdas have
% chapters in Kansas. Missouri, Colo
RADIO, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois which
will be represented here next month
About 100 Rah-Rah boys from the col
leges and high schools of these states
are expected here. The events of the
conclave will be a smoker, banquet
and a ball The fraternity had it's an
nual meeting in Kansas City last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
MARRIED ELOPERS CAUGHT
Deserted Their Families at Scranton,
Pennsylvania.

Leavenworth, Kan. Aug. 17.-Await-
ing the arrival of officers to take them
back to Scranton, Pa. Emil Geisler,
married man and Mrs Margaretta Low
enstein, a married woman, who eloPed
together and came to Leavenworth. are
confined in the city jail.
On August I Chief of Police Taylor re
perintendent of the bureau of police at
Scranton Pa, in which was enclosed the
photograph of Mrs. Margaretta low
enstein taken with her four children,
Hans aged s: Minnie, aged s; Adolph,
aged II, and Fred, the oldest, Is years. A
second photograph was enclosed, that OF
the man now in the city jail, Emil Geisler,
and his child
The letter stated that on July 81 Geisler
and Mrs Lowenstein had eloped taking
with them the four children of Mrs Low
enstein. 1t was believed that the couple
had come here and Immediately on receipt
of the letter and photographs Chief Taylor
set out determined to find them If they
had come to this locality
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
POLICE AND FIREMEN GO.
Hamilton Mayor Removes Entire
Force in Both Departments.

Hamilton, Ohio, Aug. 17.-Mayor
Bosch has discharged the entire police
force and fire departments, in all sixty
men, and including the chiefs of both
departments Many of the old men who
were dropped were members of the
Gray Mason faction hostile to the may
or Chief OF Police Sipp, despite an in
junction restraining the mayor from re-
moving him. is replaced by Charles A
Strobel, a hotel-keeper, who at once
qualified and took charge. George Eel
liner was appointed inspector. Fire
Chief Becker was supplanted by David
Lingler and was appointed fire mar
shall, but says he will not accept, and
will sue to enjoin his removal Seven
policemen and seven firemen who were
dropped will bring injunction proceed
inQS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
POINTED PARAeRAPHs.

IFrom the Chicago Daily News.1
A call to arms: John. take the baby"
One week in the country should make
one strong in the city.
People who pour water into a sieve can
not be straining for effect.
Every time girl gets a small dent in
her heart she imagineS it is broken
It's a wise girl who doesn't begin eating
onions until after she lands a husband.
All men are architects of their own for
tunes but few~e ever get sufficient money
to build.
The life of the book agent is full of
NORWOOD and gall; but the wormwood is
scarcely perceptible.
Although nature makes no mistakes, she
might have improved en- her work a little
by hitching the luminous end of the FREELY
to the business end of a mosquito.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
Do-Nothine custom Housea

New York Tribune:
Nathaniel Hawthorne once pictured-in the
preface to The Scarlet Letter''-the joys
of life in neglected cob-webbed custom
house. No retreat can be more tranquil
than the collectors office at some decay
ing, nnoss-grown entry port. No labor can
be less exacting, no sinecure more comfort
ing. than that which falls to the federal
employee who stands guard over some I'M
visited harbor. burdening his ledgers with
only one OF two stray invoices each year.
What haven of rest. What a castle of
Incidence. It is indeed a gTotesque show
ing which the auditor for the treasury de-
partment Is able to make. He has on his
list a dozen custom houses whose cost OF
maintenance is fabulously dispropoTtionate
to the revenues they bring in. At YaQuina.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
Our Kishinef Archive.

New York Press:
The Endorsement of President Roose-
velts course in the matter of the klsn-
inef petition by the men who were the
most deeply interested in 1t ana VINO
followed its every step anxiously is most
fitting. The last act of placing the Pc
tition in the archives of our state de-
partment is peculiarly satisfying as 1t
completes the record both of the petit
TONERS and of our government Deahng
direct with Russia, the president ana
Secretary Hay went far as 1t was
possible for them to go in informing
them of the petition and asking Tor It's
presentation. With that denied the IN
cident seemed closed, and no person
could ask for further action. But the
president has gone further. That great
petition, signed in the name OF common
humanity by men of all nationalities
and of every creed. has not been re-
turned to the committee having it in
charge, but will forever remain among
the official papers in our state depart
rf1arf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
At the Play Last Night.

The theatrical season was opened at
the Crawford last night with the old
reliable Orphans Prayer" a ten
twenty-thirty show which has become
almost Uncletomish in its staying abil-
ity. Nettie De Coursey, a clever little
actress, who has been seen here several
times before, handled the leading part
that of Calamity, the orphan" and
put a little ginger in melodrama of
the "Oh Spar-r-r-r-re me- variety which
is rather fat The house was we1l
filed. and the numerous electric fans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
Rockefeller in Colorado.

Pueblo Colo, Aug. 17.-John D. Rock
efeller, jr., arrived this morning on a
special train over the Missouri Pacific
railroad from the east He was met
at the union station by President Keb-
Ter and other officials of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company and taken out to
the steel works. Mr.. Rockefeller with
the others is expected to leave this
evening for Denver to attend the an
nual meeting of the company there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
NIckELRA1E. d; ;s::;:..
NsSo.bt. AEases aksdsRR TRAM Ts ns'

Three Express Trains East every day In the year.
Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars on all
Trains. Trans Continental Tourist Cars leave
CHICAGO Tri Weekly on Tuesd avs and Saturdays
a. ESQ p m, on Wednesdays at 1876 .. m
Chice to Boston without change. Modern Din
Ing Cars serving meals on individual club plan.
ranging in price from 35c TO 81 90 also service
q IL carte. Direct line to Fort Wayne, Ffndiay.
Cleveland, Erie. Buffalo. Rochester. syracuse.
Btn9han1ton, Scranton. New York City. Boston
and all points East. Rates always the lowest.
Oolored porters in Uniform In attendance on all
Coach Passengers. II you contemplate a trip
East, call on any convenient Ticket Agent or
address JOHN Y. CALLAHAN. Gent Agent,
lis Adams ST.. Chicago nj
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

SHIscriEcrs of The Slate journal
aSvay during The SIMMER may haze
Me PAPER mailed regularly each day
10 any address at The rate Of thirty
ccnfs n month. address changed as
CJf6n as desired. UAf7e cut Of foSC"
nc State journal all be to yOW like
q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

Recently rattlesnake escaped from
a show in Newark. and a month later
a boy discovered him crawling up the
cellarway Of a drug store. If this had
happened in Kansas it would not have
been regarded as being worthy of re-
mark 1t would have been thought
that he was merely seeking the society
of his kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

A cry has been sent up that Topeka
needs more laborers. Before more peo-
pie are invited to locate IN the city
somebody ought to build enough houses
to shelter them. Not many desirable
persons will locate here if they first
learn the figures for house rent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

A feature of Iowas dairy exhibit at
the worlds fair will be a statue in
butter of John Stewart. the pioneer
creamery man of that state. 1t will be
life-size and will be kept frozen in
glass case throughout the exposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

in bad. and no route will be established
for less than 100 families. The public
will be better served for less money,
but there will be less patronage for con-
gressmen and spoil for contractors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

Ever since the present era of pros
perity set in Kansas has striven sue
cessfully against another boom. but
with the great crops of every kind this
year, people pouring into the state, and
the immense amount of Improvement
going on. it looks as though it might
overtake US vet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

Among the many booms for Demo-
Gratis in connection with the presiden-
tial nomination. those which are show
ing staying qualities belong respec-
lively to Cleveland, Tom Johnson,
Hearst and German.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
A BATTERY OF CAMERAS.
Alice Roosevelt Annoyed While Driv
ing a Tandem.

Newport. r. L, Aug. 17.-Miss Alice
Roosevelt ran the batteries of brigade
of cameras Saturday while she took her
second lesson in driving.
She showed some annoyance, but no
nervousness, and made good progress
in learning to turn a tandem in small
compass
The presidents daughter has proved
an unusually apt pupil. She now is
anxious to try to tool four horses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

prevented a general melt-down. Last
nights performance is the forerunner
of well booked season, which includes
some, nearly all, of the best melo-
dramas. farce comedies and comic
operas on the market. among them the
latest hits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

Ore. for instance. it costs 8. 0s4 year to
pay officials whose collections for the last
five years have averaged just 40 cents a
year At Cherrystone, Va, $9n is spent
each year to insure collections also aver
s. year. while expenses are S,l55 and at
Teche, La, $3.047 has been expended an
nually, while only $40 has been taken IN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

The rally in prices Of railroad stocks
perhaps. means that the Rock Island has
bought all the roads it cares about for
the present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

The Miles boom for the Democratic
nomination for president has progressed
sufficiently 20 begin to call out editorial
notice from the big eastern papers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17

New York. Aug. 7-MONEY-Money on
call steady at 2&a3 per cent, closing 2d3
per cent: time money firm; 60 days. AZ
as per cent.
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The announcement that Mrs. Carrie
Nation and her husband have made
up" doesn't warrant the conclusion that
they have buried the Ratchet.