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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
-RoosEvELrss BoMBsHElL.

When the story was sent out from
Washington by the Associated Press that
John D. Rockefeller had been trying to
influence congress in the matter of trust
legislation. probably few people be-
Ieved it to be strictly true. 1t was diff
hcult to realize that a man with the
capacity for amassing money possessed
by the Standard Oil magnate could act
I'm so insane and suicidal a manner.
Later it was learned that the matter
as it appeared in the daily press
throughout the country was taken
bodily from the Washington Post and
teieglaDhed an over h country. A
better guarantee Of it's truthfulness than
the fact hat it appeared originally in
the Post could hardly be imagined.
Walter Wellman has added another
chapter to the history of his startling
exposition Of trust methods. by the
statement President Roosevelt himself
is responsible for it.
I'm a special to the Chicago Record
Herald Mr.. Wellman says:
with one blow straight from the
shoulder President Roosevelt knocked
out the Standard Oil trust. 1t was the
president who gave to the public the
news that representatives of the oil mo-
nopoly had been in washington trying
to defeat an antitrust legislation, and
that kilograms had been received by
senators signed John d. Rockefeller.
urging that the antitrust act now pend
ing be either emasculated or killed.
This stroke Of publicity on the part Of
the president has raised a storm il
Nashington and has rendered it morally
certain that such legislation as the adj
1pinistration desires VIII be passed be
fore March 8 The mere fact that the
head Of the Standard on trust is USING
his influence against the pending meas
ure Is sufficient to insure success. Mr.
Rockefeller. w~hatever his personal Vir-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
OLD UPSET.
Naval Prisoner Receivers Pay for
Time He Was Shut Up.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE court of
claims has rendered a decision of far
reaching Importance to the naval es
adjustment. If sustained by the Unit
ed States supreme court. to which aan
appeal has been taken. the decision will
affect every court martial case tried III
b past forty years in which the sem,
tence Involved a loss of pay. The case
decided by the court was that of John
Smith, a fireman in the navy. who was
tried and convicted by court martial on
the charge Of refusing to obey a proper
order from his superior officer and SEN
fenced to one years Imprisonment with
loss of pay during confinement. The
gave judgment in his favor for thk
full amount OF pay claimed, amounting
TO about S376. The decision was based
on the broad ground that the accused
had not been furnished with a copy Of
the charges and specifications on which
he was to be tried, at the time he was
put under arrest" according to the re-
quirements Oe the naval regulations.
1t IS represented by the law officers Of
the navy department that the decision
past forty years and it is moreover i'm
possible of enforcement in the naval
service under existing conditions. I'm
der the practice that has always pre-
vailed in the navy department the
charges and specifications upon which
an officer or enlisted man is tried be-
fore the general court martial, are not
draWn up and presented to the accused
until after he has been placed under
arrest and the case against him is ready
for trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Ottawa will organize a weed club and
trim out some of the vacant lot jungles.
Fire horses lead an arcadian existence
in Lawrence. Only n has died in the
last dozen years.
The latest news from Wichita is that
Kansas Will have a menbe on he
commission.
The Labette county anti-horsethief
association is putting in phones at
homes where fine stock is raised.
Mcpherson county children have an
epidemic of the pink eye" Black eye
is he general rule with sehool boys
The claim is made that Oklahoma
prisoners have been boarded too cheap
ly by Kansas. The convicts themselves
enter 10 denial.
Leavenworth bakers are after the
dough and will advance the price OF
bread. Their patrons win undoubtedly
rise to h situation.
A Junction City man was nearly mob
bed for kissing a woman at the train.
The episode ended by the discovery
that it was his wife.
A Concordia husband and wife were
baptised through the river ice this week.
Such faith as that will surely last to
the grave and beyond.
An Ottawa citizen is wearing an or
ang branch around bearing a number
of blossoms. 1t is safe to say he will
remove it ere March II.
The Blue Mound u shines warm and
bright yet a load of wood on subscrfp-
ton will be accepted with pleasure for
the culinary department.
One of the Mellin food GROVE at En-
poria avoided a breach of promise suit
by swearing he was under q years
when he proposed marriage.
A Lyon county farmer never thought
until he reached home that he had for
gotten his wife in Emporia six miles
away. And yet his initials are Q. K.
One Wellington man confesses to be-
ing in the church once in five years, an
other in eight. One was to the marriage
of a sister, the other a wife's funeral.
Governor Stanley seems to be able to
deal with Indians pretty well. His rec
crd in the senatorial light was probably
his endorsement for the Dawes COM
mission appOintment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
PASSES The BILL.
Senate Agrees to Report on De-
partment of Commerce.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE senate has
agreed to the conference report on the
department of m bill This
passes the bill, the report having pre-
viously been agreed to in the house.
Upon the conclusion of morning BUSH
ness in the senate today a house bill
was passed extending the homestead
laws in Alaska.
The statehood bill then was taken up
and Mr.. Morgan resumed his remarks
in its favor.
Taking uD the subject of Mormon in
huence in politics Mr.. Morgan referred
to the election of Mr.. SmoOt as senator
from Utah and said he would never
think or opposing his entry TO the SEN
ate because he was an apostle OF the
Mormon church. because religion in this
country by the constitution is intended
to be free and intended to be protected.
Reverting to the treaty with Colon
bia for the construction of an isthmlan
canal Mr. Morgan said the United
States intended to put the heel Of ig-
nOm1nlOuS contempt on the organic
law of Colombia with respect to reEg-
ious freedom and trample it under foot
We are treating with those people, -
he said, with the intent and purpose
of destroying tina law or else for the
purpose and under such circum-
stances as to disgrace the United
States" He asked who was to recon
cile the two propositions when the Co
lombians contend for their organic re-
ligious law while the United States is
cOntending for constitution of the
United States and who would prevent
q return to hostilities now apparently
closed between the all church party
who maintained these dogInas and the
liberal party who have been fighting
them in every country.
ODELL IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, Feb. 11.-Gov. Odel of New
York was on the floor when the house
met todaSF-
Senate bills were passed to authorize the
Pittsburg. Carnegie and Western conpan
to construct a bridge across the Allegheny
river and to authorize the Memphis. Hell
ena and Louisiana railway to construct
a bridge across the St. Francis river, Ar
kansas.
Mr.. Grosvenor from the ways and means
committee called I'D the bill reported by
that committee yesterday to amend the
Dingley act so as to admit free of duty
domestic animals for breeding purposes
1t was passed.
The further consideration of the sundry
/ civil appropriation bill was then resumed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11

tues may be. is not dearly loved by the
average member of congress or by the
public at large. OF all the trusts in the
country the oil trust is the one which
has the least respect here and which
would stand the smallest chance of hay
ing its wishes gratihed in legislation.
Though the episode has raised a
storm in Washington and created a o
dition of mind in which the daring pres
ident is master of the situation. and Will
get what he wants from congress with
out the necessity of calling an extra
session. there are still some phases of
the affair which are not easy to I'M
derstand. IN the first place no copy of
the alleged telegram from Mr.. Rookie
Teller has been seen. 1t is said. and
President Roosevelt is authority for the
statement. that half a dozen such tele-
grams have been received by senators.
So far no senator can be found who is
willing to admit that he was n of the
half dozen. According to rumor, the
little missives expressive of Mr.. Rookie
feIler's desire to have all trust legisla-
ton stopped were duly delivered to
Senators Aldrich. Hale, Kean. Spooner,
Hanna and Depew. All have denied hav-
ing received the kilograms. There is
eircumstantial evidence that messages
of this character were delivered to W.
OF three senators. and no one is sur
prised that the recipients Mould not
wish to appear before the house as be-
ing in Mr.. Rockefe1er's confidence and
good graces to the extent hat he would
select them as detectives Of his con
gressional campaigning. Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's friendship might be an awkward
thing to explain to ones constituents. ="
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
LOCAL MENTION.

One of the pupils of Sumner school
lost a bunch of ten tickets for the City
Federation lecture course. PRINCIPAL May
of Sumner school would like to have
the tickets returned to him If they are
found.
The public meeting to which all can
didates before the coming Republican
primaries are invited, viii be held to-
night under the auspices of the RoOse-
Welt Fifth Ward Republican club at
1901 Washington street.
When DR.. Francis Clark. founder Of
the Christian Endeavor society. is in
trodueed at the Auditorium tonight
he viii be greeted by 500 of his follow
ers, who viii rise, sing one verse Of the
Christian Endeavor song and salute. A
block Of 500 seats nave been reserved
for members of the @. E., who viii at
tend wearing their badges. DR.. Clark
viii make an address before the State
Temperance union.
One CT the new gray horses
for the Topeka fire department is in had
condition physically, and has been re-
moved from the fire department head
quarters to a livery stable, where fl WIN
be treated" for a while. The sick horse
IS the one which was first
and as nearly as can be figured ont fhe
animal is hcmesick. 1t has not been
accustomed to being closely confined a.,
a Ws~m room. and it is used to more
s~cciability with other horses. IT hos ~
seemed to be entirely happy from fh-
time il was bought. and recenfIv II hes
entirely refused to eat anything. If il
thought that 1t win gradually become
accustomed to its new
pul 1or Lhe present it VIII be carefully
looked after by the veterfnarieR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
A THREE FOR
Dallas Women Ask Mrs. RoOse-
velt for a Handkerchief.

Dallas, Tex, Feb. 1.-THE fact that
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. wife of the
president of the United States. sent a
cheap handkerchief to be sold at Col
umDia's reception" a local entertain
Inent in the interest of the Dallas kin
~dergarten, has created a storm among
the ladies who are managing the kim
dergarten festival.
At a mass meeting today there was
indignation expressed at h gift,
and remarks were made as to Mrs.
R~oosevelt's handkerchief taste, which
were uncomplimentary in the extreme.
The handkerchief is a cotton affair,
machine hemstitched. and is said by
ladies who are competent judges that IT
could be duplicated at any dry goods
store in Dallas for the small sum of 10
cents, or three for a quarter"
At the mass meeting at the Elks' club
some OF the most prominent society Wo-
men of the city were present. The gift
was solicited by Mrs. w. A. Galloway,
editor of the wCmen's and children's de-
partnaent of a Dallas paper, who wrote
to Mrs. Roosevelt, asking that she give
something that could be sold, the pro-
ceeds to go to the free kindergarten
fund.
At the same time she wrote to Mrs. JEFF
terson Davis and received from her a cost
hand-worked by Mrs Davis and bears ter
monogram worked in exquisite taste. Last
Saturday this gift was accepted unani-
mously-
But after much discussion today over
Mrs Roosevelt's gift it was moved and
seconded that the piece of cotton should
be returned to Mrs. Roosevelt. after it bad
been exhibited at so much per look at the
reception.
Some Of the women tried TO have the
motion withdrawn. 1t was passed, howev-
consider their action, the handkerchief viii
be sent back to Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
POINTED


IFrom the Chicago NewS.l
Weak minded people sometimes are
the most headstrong.
Don't prolong a quarrel. Make one
hard fight and then quit-Win or lose.
A woman's mind is on something
higher than dress when she wants a
new bonnet.
Two heads are said to be better than
one, yet we are told that too many cooks
spoil the broth.
When some men hear of a neighbor
losing his good name they are probably
glad they have none to lose.
The trouble with the average mar at
so is that he's only about half as smart
as he thought he was at %.
Holding the breath occasionally is said
to be resting. If it doesn't rest the
holder it will at least give the others
a rest.
A young man may be a trihe sadder
but he certainly isn't any wiser when
he calls to see his best girl and finds
her out
There are ffty-seven different metals.
but if a man has plenty of gold he
doesn't have to worry about the other
hfty-six.
One might as well attempt to rear
range the rainbow colors of a soap
bubble as to undertake the reformation
of ones neighbOrs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
The Alaska

New York Sun:
This government has properly de-
clined to submit to arbitration our title
to the land acquired from Russia and
recently claimed by the Dominion of
Canada.
If the contents of the new treaty
with Great Britain are accurately
stated by the Washington correspond
ents, the plan of settlement now pro-
posed can scarcely be described as ar
bitration.
The question is to go to a commission
of six jurists, three American judges
and three British. The essential factor
of arbitration. the arbiter, the umpire,
the supposedly neutral and impartial
holder of the decisive vote, is absent
from this tribunal.
The three representatives of the
American case will have an opportuni-
ty to convince one or two or all of
their British brethren of the ~soundness
of cur title to the territory now on the
Canadian side of the modus yivendi
line
If they fail. not a square foot of
territory r%ightfully ours Will be alien
ated; the matter Will simply stand
where it stands today.
IF they succeed. our friends of Great
Britain will have an opportunity to
withdraw Canada gracefully from its
u~ntenable claim. and at the same time
to insert another very strong rivet in
the friendship binding the two peo-
ples.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11

The following reasons why women are
needed in government are given by
Henry b.. Blackwell: Women are need
ed in government because women are
unlike men. They are a class of citi-
zens. and government by men alone is
class legislation, always imperfect, al
ways unjust. In some qualities men are
superior to women: in others women are
superior to men Every class that votes
makes itself felt in the government in
the direction of its own qualities and in
t~erests. Women. on the average, are
more peaceful and gentle, more temper
ate, more chaste. more economical and
more law abiding than men. When they
vote, these qualities win be felt in legis-
lation, and they are the very qualities in
which our government is defective. Our
present government has in it all the
masculine qualities. Add those Of wo-
men. N the result viii be a govern
ment Of the people, for the people and
BY the people"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11

A Woman Boss.

Post-Dispateh:
Since women took practical work
outside of the home they have dis
tinguished themselves in many fields of
endeavor but, strangely enough we have
yet to meet and greet the oma polit-
zeal boss
Mrs. Calderhead, wife of the Kansas
congressman, essayed that role lin q
small way when she bossed her hus-
bands campaign for the senatorship.
He was defeated, but not from any want
of skill on her part. The fight was
hopeless from the beginning. The situa-
ton had no element of success in it.
But the lady showed great political
sagacity and may yet play a consider
able part in public life.
1t is a great career. Kate Chase did
some bOssing, but always worked in
visible. Jessie Benton Fremont tried the
part with Indifferent success and in a
very narrow personal sphere.
What we want is a boss of the femi-
nine gender, a good all rOund
full boss.
1t would make the Judicious grieve
and the unskillful laugh, however, if the
woman boss should take Croker or But
Ter or Matt Quay as an example. What
we want is a woman who can run the
machine as ThurlOw Weed ran it long
ago-fOr good and patriotic purposes, a
woman who will work in~telligently and
devotedly for the party cause and make
it fit IN as a part of the patriotic cause,
a woman who can hold her tongue and
saw wood, industrious, t~ireless, discreet
and silent.
A woman of that sort is needed in St.
Louis. The party machines have broken
down from bad management. Why
them or both. or build a new one? It is
q great career.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
JEFF'S CONDITION PERFECT
Physician Pronounc8 the Champion
the Finest Man He Has Ever Seen.

Louisville. Ky, Feb. 1.-THE various
stories that James J.. Jefries is fail
ing physically were disposed of today
by DIR. T. Hunt STICKY, who examined
the champion at the Louisville hotel.
STICKY was for many years at the
head of the Louisville baseball club
ard his knowledge of athletes, together
with his medical standing, makes him
a competent judge. DR.. STICKY, after
an examination of every vital organ,
declared that Jeffries IS in perfect CON
diton. and that there is nothing in the
world the matter with him. Jeffries
submitted to the examination, because
of recent reports that the champion
had been dissipating and was going
back"
The finest man I ever saw" said
DR.. STICKY this evening Heart
sounds all normal: pulse free and
strong; skin clear, pink and soft: liver
normal in size: no evidence of dissipa-
ton: not large as would be the case in
dissipation; no evidence of bloat; lung
sound clear. All indications that
the best of care is taken of health"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11

Washington Post: 1t is a deDIorable
fact that. with few exceptions. the pro-
visions made by states and municipal
ties for the care Of the dependent classes
are grossly Inadequate Great as are
the expenditures of state and municipal
governments for such purposes, and
munidcent as have been the gifts OF
philanthro2ists to similar ends. it is the
d~isgraceful truth that the insane. the
sick, the INDECENT. and other unfor-
tunafes are. in thousands of instances.
treated with shameful disregard of the
dictates of humanity. Add to these
abuses the brutal m-istreatment of pris-
oners of all grades. and we have a sit
uation to which no good citizen points
with pride. If it be true, as we think it
is. that the best test of a community'a
civilization is found in its treatment OF
its helpless wards, there are many COM
munities whose pride would experience
a decided decline were their civilization
thus tested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
BLEW HIM TO PIECES.
A Hermit Commits Suicide With
10 lbs. of Dynamite.

Decatur, III. Feb. Investigation
today by Coroner Dawson into the death
of George B. Rue shows that it was
suicide and that he used 10 pounds of
dynamite to blow himself out of the
world. His two feet and a lot of frag-
ments of flesh could be picked up and
these were scattered over an acre.
Thousands of small particles of flesh
We're found everywhere even in the tops
of trees.
Coroner Dawson put In two hour
trying to gather up enough of the body
to hold an inquest on and bury. The
suicide took place Monday morning and
people for miles around heard the noise
of the explosion. The cause was not
known until fragments of the body were
found late Tuesday night. Even then it
was thought it might have been an ac-
cident. Rue lived alone in the timber.
III health was the supposed cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11
GLoBE SIGHTS.
IFrom he Atchison GIo

JFrom the Atchison Globe.l
A devoted father is one who takes
care of the children when he doesn't
have to.
An Atchison woman who wanted her
husband to be her master" finds he is
her boss.
When Suspicion is seeking a place to
light, it picks out the shoulder of some
married man.
Occasionally a woman gets the notion
that she isn't helping the world any un-
less her heart is aching for it.
No school boy ever had to write a
good moral copy book text so often that
he wrote it on the fence on the way
home.
Tell about a child that talked at two
years old, and nearly all the women
will sniff. and say their Willie, or Allie,
talked younger than that.
The Globe las found three watches
lost by girls in the past week. and now
has another to find. We are glad we are
not a watch belonging to a woman
How is your home equipped? It is
told of an Atchison woman that she can
entertain ten tables at cards without
borrowing a lunch CLOTH, but that h
has to borrow a sheet when a guest
stays longer than a week.
Boy notes; Blair Hackney and Frank
Baker, little boys. were playing with
matches. Frank Baker had a pocket
full. but refused to divide with Blair.
We have spent SO much on our house, y
Frank said. that I am compelled to
economize."
Edward Elsbrenner of Roger City.
Mich, has issued one thousand tickets,
which will be sold. the one getting the
Why isn't this a better scheme
than to gomoOning around catching cold,
burning fuel. and taking chances at
marrying the wrong girl, after all?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-11

POst-Dispatch.
The Texas court of criminal appeals
has spoken out plainly for the liberty
of the press.
The editor of the Houston Chronicle
printed the testimony in a murder case
against the order of the trial judge.
The judge fined the editor and sent
him to jail, but the court of appeals re-
leases him on habeas corpus proceed
ings.
The surprising feature in the case is
hat any judge or respectable lawyer
could imagine such publication might
be prohibited.
The greatest public service a newspa-
per can perform is faithfully and ac-
curately to publish al facts of public
interest. This is not only a right: it IS
a duty. And he who would restrain the
liberty of the press in the exercise of
the right and performance of the duty
is an anachronism, a curious survival of
an age when manhood shrank before ty-
ranny and freedom was yet a pretty
dream.
The liberty Of the press has been vim
dicated in Texas. Now ret South Caro-
lima pull herself together and do like
wise.
To do its perfect work the press must
be free from judicial tyranny and fear
of violence.