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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
GEN. BOOTH'S sCHEME.
Would Establish a Great University
to Educate the Workers.

New York, March Gen. William
Booth. the venerable head of the Sal
walton Army. last night announced q
new plan for the regeneration of the
slums He wants to found a great uni
versity where Salvation Army workers
may be trained scientifically in rescue
work The main establishment he de-
sires to locate in New York or London
He spoke at farewell meeting at the
academy of Music He viii speak to-
morrow for the last time before return
ing to Europe
"A university of the Science Of HUI
manity, where men and women can be
trained to reclaim deoraved women
criminals and drunkaTds-that's what
I want now said General Booth ]
mean a great institution, with its main
establishments in London and New
York. correlated with branches in Mel
bourne Toronto, Berlin and Paris, from
which thousands of Salvation Army
workers shall be sent to the submerged
masses each year, skilled in every meth
Cd of rescuins human beings from the
underworld OF despair"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
WHIsKEY COFFEE
A woman Experiments.

Some families have sad experiences
with whisky Probably twice as many
families have sickness and distress
caused by. coffee and the cause not sus-
pected half the time.
A woman from Tacoma, Wash, says:
zone of our family had become so i'll
that the doctor finally pronounced him
incurable from enlarged liver. He rec
commended a sea voyage which might
prolong his life but said it was only a
question of time when he would die
from the disease.
He was dreadfuly nervous. thin.
could not sleep at night lost flesh and
strength daily and everything he ate
or drank soured on his stomach. He
was so weak and faint he could hardly
walk about.
I finally came to the conclusion that
coffee made the mischief so took coffee
away from him altogether and next
morning gave him Postum Food Coffee.
He steadily began to get better and has
never had a sour stomach from that
time. He now sleeps all night where he
used to suffer the agonies of death. He
has gained over 20 pounds and is well
and strong.
My little boy was given coffee at an
early age and he began to have spells
of sickness at times. 1 did not suspect
the trouble until my experience with
Postum opened my eyes. then I took
coffee away from him and gave him
Postum steadily If you should see him
now and see how well and strong he is
you would not believe it was the same
puny boy he was when he was drink
ing coffee
An acquaintance OF ours carried
Postum with him to the gold fields Of
Alaska He says he met some men up
there who had run out of Postum and
could not drink coffee They offered
for the Postum. He said it was worth
forty dollars a pound to him for it gave
him strength to endure the hardships
and that he would not part with it at
any price until he could get more
Now about my own case [ was a
sick, nervous woman and did not sus-
pect it was coffee, but from the expert
I quit coffee and took up Postum Food
Coffee. Ny appetite improved I can
eat anything, have no Indigestion, and
have gained about forty pounds in the
two years
Il know of a man whose eyes were so
affected by coffee drinking that he was
going blind The doctor suspected cof-
to quit and take on Postum Food COf-
fee. The change produced a great
change IN his eyes. He gradually got
better and has now left off his glasses
altogether. He would have been stone
blind if he had not quit coffee and taken
up Postum" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek. Mich
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
NzgAzIcE LAgzZEMAW

own name. came to Winfield and deposited
$500 with an attorney to hush the matter
uo-
The girl and her father showed great
willingness to receive the money and clear
out. but the attorney was not so easy.
In fact he already began to smell rat
from various hints dropped and told the
girl he would take care of the money for
her-that she would need it later. and re-
cent events show his wisdom The first
development in the case is the fact that
the girl had been incorporating things:
second. news comes that the Hooser man
is missing. and now the girl has also left
home, apparently with the fun consent Of
her black bearded prea cher father; and
last. but not least the mans wife, when
asked if she would prosecute him, replied:
oh no; he'll come back some time, ana
her $500 has been returned--Winfeld COur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
LEFT Sc. O00 TO FAMILY.
Estate of Wealthy Man Who Was
Sent to Prison for Life.

La Crosse, Wis, March Sword from
Elkader, Iowa, has reached here to the
effect that the estate of Andrew Thomp-
son, who murdered a woman and her
two children and who was known as
convict No. 2e65 in the AnamOsa state
prison. is about to be closed. The es-
tate is valued at $4,000 and is left by
will to his family. His will provided for
decent burial but It is alleged that in
stead his body found its way to the
dissecting table of one of the n--@-zi
colleges He died in 1901 and the viii
was admitted to probate in December
of that year. On account of the landed
properties it has not been closed.
Thompson was once an influential
man. The crime fer which he spent
third of a century in prison was com
mitted in the early 'T0s. Having had
trouble with a neighbor woman, wild
ow with TWO children, he undertook to
spirit them out of the country. He start
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
ABILENE LABoR MRErINa.
New Lodges Being Formed in Inter
Tor Kansas Towns.

New Lodges Being Formed in Inter
Tor Kansas Towns.
Abilene. March 81. J. Lucy. general
organizer of the American Federation
of Labor. with headquarters at Wash
lngtOn, addressed a large meeting of la
boring men here last night A union
has been formed here with 20 members
including workers on the sewer system
iaboring men, clerks, etc. Charles Glenn
ence is president. Mr.. Lucy says the la
Dor movement is growing rapidly in
KANSAS Abilene has the largest union
of any city of Its size in the state Dur
ing the fiscal year ending February l.
1903, the number Of labor organizations
I'm Kansas increased from 335 to AZ
some as much as 500 per cent and all
the smaller cities are taking up the
work and getting on the same basis as
the iabOrers in the cities.
The eight hour law has been declared
constitutional by the Kansas supreme
court. and wherever there is a viola
ton of the law a request of the labor
commissioner to investigate will effect
speedy settlement. Another strong law
I'm favor of organized labor is the one
compelling employers to give written
reasons to a discharged employee for said
discharge, failure to do so making the
employer liable TO a fine and Jail SEN
tence; this also applies to an employer
dlscharging help because they belong to
union The labor movement in Kan
sas is becoming a paramount issue.
MI Lucy viii spend several weeks or
ganizing unions in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
PoPHAm MURDER TRIAL.
Testimony Shows Feud Between Him
and Kerr.

Testimony Shows Feud Between Him
and Kerr.
Minneapolis. Kan, March 6.-The
preliminary hearing of E. T. Kerr,
charged with the murder of A. B. Pop
ham here February 49, was held Thurs
day. Popham was struck by q pitch
fork in the hands of Kerr, on the date
mentioned and died February 20 in To-
peka, where he was taken for an OPP
Grafton in the hope of saving his life.
A feud had existed for some time be-
tween these two men. and their families
and the fatal quarrel took place in the
road, near Popham's farm house. where
they CHANGED to meet, Kerr has been
confined in the county jail since the
assault. He was charged with murder
in the first degree. At the hearing to-
day. the state produced twelve wit
nesses whose testimony showed that
the quarrel had been of long standing
and that Kerr had threatened to do
violence to Popham if he got the op-
portunity. The defense produced no
evidence and the prisoner was bound
over to the next term of the district
court without bail.
e. c. Sweet appeared as prosecuting
attorney, and J. B. Tomlinson for the
defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
KANSAS NEWS.
Land Owners Around Independ-
enee Too Greedy.
Ask $500 Per Acre and Bar
Out Big Factories.
GREAT LOSS TO CITY.
Meant 500 More Families and
S35, 900 Monthly Pay Roll.
Eastern Capital Seeking Place
for Investment Are FOiled.

Independence. Kas. March 6-The Re
porter says: Yesterday and today
Father Charles Dbl of Hartford City
Ind. has been negotiating with our
Commercial club for the location of some
big Industries here. AS his title inn
plies. Father Dbl is a Catholic priest.
and he is seeking a location for a roll
ing m.ll. windew glass plant almost
three times as large as the one we have.
and bottle making plant. The three
plants would bring here 500 families ana
the monthly pay roll would be about
$751; 600.
Father Dbl had visited nearly all OF
the towns in the gas belt before COM
ing here. and he was so well pleased
with the outlook here that ne dismissed
from his mind all thought of any other
location. and last evening and this
morning it seemed a certain that
these Institutions would all be located
here and contracts signed before the
day was done. This afternoon. however
II looks as if the whole scheme had
fallen through, simply because land
impossible price for their land Not
less than forty acres are needed. and
Father Dbl is not willing to 90 two or
three miles into the country, because
ms -eooie must be near to school and
churches our fine advantages in this
respect being to him a very strong at
traction.
When the Commercial club began to
look around for the land near town
they found it held at about $500 an acre
"a price that could not be considered al
all and so these fine industries that
would have added 1000 or 1900 to our
n9ppiau9n Will probably go elsewhere.
Rather Dbl expressed the intention of
leaving tonight for Hartford Citv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
THE HoLDEBmAN CASE.
A Divorce Decree Brought Up as Evil
dence 100000 at Stake.

EmpOria, Kas., March 6.-Mrs. Hanna
NJ. Leslie, of LeavenwOTth, a defendant
in the Holderman estate case now OF
trial is here. Before Mrs. Leslie for
merry Mrs. Holderman, nee Miss Han
ma Oracle, married Daniel Holderman,
she was a clerk in G. w. Newman
store Mr.. Holderman was nearly twice
as old as his second wife. Upon his
death she was one of the wealthiest per-
brought by the cO-defendant. Mrs
Laura Holderman-W Wagner, daughter Of
Mr.. Holderman by his first wife. to cs-
tabIish the legitimacy Of her birth. The
first wife was sent to an asylum for
the insane shortly after the childs birth
in 1851 In 1888 Daniel Holderman was
divorced from his first wife. The deCi-
sion of the court virtually made Mrs.
Wagner, then Laura HOlderman. An
Legitimate child. as it sustained TIE
plea that Carrie Rain was insane when
Daniel HOldernan was married to her
thus declaring that there had been no
marriage.
Carrie ahn-Holderman alleges that
she was not aware that divorce pro
ceedings had been filed against her un-
til after it had been granted. She says
she was rot represented in court by an
attorney or by her guardian. II. c.
Cross. On this ground plot against
H. c. Cross. the guardian. Mr. SterrN
and L p. Lambert, attorneys. is alleged.
Thus far the evidence in the case has
been concerning the sanity of the first
wife Dispositions have been read thai
there is insanity i'm the Rain family
Daniel HClderman's sister, Miss Lizzie
HOlderman. is an important witness for
the first wife and Mrs Laura Wagner.
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MARRIED AFTER FORTY YEARS
Kickapoo Weds Wife With Whom He
Had Long Lived

Hiawatha. Kas. March 6.-The In
dams on the two reservations in this
county are pretty well civilized ana
have intermarried so much with white
people that there are but few of the
full-blOods found any more. Stin those
who are full blood Indians hang to their
old customs to a remaTlza BILE extent. For
an Indian to take a wife it is only neces.
sary for him to express his intention Of
doing SO and she then lives with him
and carries his name. Though the full
blood Indians yet marry according to
that custom. many of them have been
won over the white mans way of doing
things.
Jim Anderson, a full-blood Hic1apOo
Indian recently appeared before Indian
Agent Honnell. on the reservation in the
south part Of the county, with his
squaw and had the agent marry them
according to the law. Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Anderson have been living together fer
forty years in the Indian way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

'''rhis is the county's month" The coun-
tvs month aIternates with the city s
month and between the Two the loIntlsts
of the city are dividing Sl2.00 or $l5,VJO a
year. County Attorney Griffith TINS morn
ing issued complaints against each OF the
eleven jointists-there are but eleven now
house provision of the prohibitory law The
complains We're all filed in A1argrave's
court in the absence of Judge Franken-
burger and they were all arrested Each
of them viii plead guilty in an informal
way and wiz pay 81 600 into the school fund
-S25 in each case to the county attorney,
and the remainder of the Sl2950 goes to
the constables and the justice-F'ort Scott
rTrih1lnp
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IS THIS WOMAN sANEP
Does Not Appear to Be and Papers in
the Case Are Destroyed.

Emporia, Kas.. March 6.-Wide spread
interest is being developed by the in
vestigation into the sanity of Miss. Sarah
Jones' a patient of the county poor
farm She was sent to the state asylum
in 1898 and was sent back to the poor
farm last fall because the asylum was
crowded Now the state has ordered her
returned to the asylum and her friends,
at her request, are interceding for her.
An investigation of her case shows
that the papers in her trial We're destroy
ed. Her friends contend that she is not
insane and are determined on a thor
ough examination She has no apparent
symptoms of insanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
AN IRRIGATION CONGRESS-.
Call Is Issued for One to Be Held at
Garden CITY.

Garden City. March 6.-The follow
ing call signed by I. l.. Diesem, presi-
dent of the State Irrigation association
Garden City Industrial club has been
issued for an irrigation congress to be
held in Garden City kan, March 49,.
'Ehe feeling seems to be prevalent
among the people along the Arkansas
river and the country tributary there
to i'm western Kansas that something
should be done towards procuring
larger supplies of water for irrigation.
as the demands for this are increasing
each year.
THE people in the last two years
along the valley branched out into the
industry of growing sugar beets for
the manufacture of sugar, this being a
crop that needs irrigation at stated
times. possibly more water than some
other crops that have been grown in
this section in the past. Realizing this
our farmers and land owners are feel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
Minneapolis IN Darknesg.

Minneapolis, March 6.-AinneapoIis
is in darkness. the street lights having
been shut off because the CITY refused
to pay its electric light bills. The coun-
ell has beer. very much dissatisfied with
the lights furnished. claiming the lights
are not up to contract The electric light
company claims to have furnished all
the power the contract calls for. and
that the lights are the best to be pro-
cured. The council however, refuses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
WEDDING DINNER POISONED.
A Hundred Guests Taken Sick at a
Celebration at OIpe.

Emporia Kas.. March 6-Of the
guests who attended the wedding of
William Kitsenberger and Miss Clara
Schmidt at Olpe, a hundred were taken
sick shortly after dinner had been.
served. The whole house was converted
into temporary hospital and a doctor
was called However, all of the guests
recovered. It is supposed that the food
contained poison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

Farmers Near Independence Search
ing for q Wagon Trains Treasure.

Independence, Kas.. March 6.-Many
years ago among the early freighters,
between Neodesha and this place. there
was rumor that a government wagon
train had been held up" by Indians
and thousands of dollars worth of gold
buried in a spring on the banks of the
Fall river near its junction with the
Verdigris.
It was said that this story was told
to the white men by an Indian squaw,
but the location of the spring was never
diVulged. Recently it was noticed that
in a remote corner of pasture on the
; c. Horney farm the ground had been
dug up in several place. 1t is now be-
lieved that the treasure was buried at
this place and Mr.. Horney and his
neighbors are making a search. The old
spring in which this gold was buried
probably has been dry many years. The
ground is being dug up several feet
deep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

To points in Montana. Idaho. Washing
ton, Oregon. British Columbia. Utah sTF
Colorado. IN effect daily from February
. to April 30, via Chicago Great West
ern railway. For full particulars anniv
to G. w: Lincoln, T. P. A.. Kansas civ.
Missouri. sS'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
outg Her Throat with 60.

Newton. Kas, March 6.-N1rs- T }
Dilley. wife of d weli-to-dO farmer living
near Elbing, attempted suicide by cut
ting her throat with a razor Her life IS
desoaired of No cause is known for
the act which was probably committed
in a nit of temporary insanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

produces better results in two minutes9
Everything IN the package. Simply add hot
water and set to cool It's perfection A sur
prise to the housewife. No trouble, less ex-
pense. Try it to-day. In -Four Fruit Fla
vors: Lemon, Orange, Strawberry, Rasp-
berry. At grocers. 10c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

Il owe my whole life to Burdoclx blood
t5ltters, Serofulous sores covered nv
body. I seemed beyond cure r p
has made me perfectly wen woman 5
Mrs. Chas. Hutton. Berville. Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

to pay for street lighting until better
service is given. The contract calls Tor
street lamps Of 1900 candle power. Au-
thorities have informed members of the
council that the lamps used, while nom
inally 1000 candle power lamps, IN real
ity furnish only half that much light
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

CURE ALL KINDS OF PAINS AND ACHES.

General Charles Dick the eminent con.
gresham from the famous Garfield dis
trict of Ohio says: i believe there Is no
remedy so efficient for headache as DR..
Miles Pain Pills.
Wm. B. Bell. general secretary Home,
Frontier and Foreign Missionary society,
of the United Brethren in Christ, Dayton.
O.. writes: sI am never without a supply
Of Dr. Miles Pain Pills and derive most
excellent results from their use"
I N Lagrange. elder in the Presbyterian
church at Franklin Ind. has long suffered
from chronic headache, but he says he has
at last found solace in Dr. Miles Pain
Pills. He says nothing can equal them in
giving relief from intense headache oE
any pain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
Del 81 WiIIian .. Thompson. s

Minneapolis, Kan. March civilian
D. Thompson, one of the most prom
inent citizens of this town, died here
Thursday afternoon after a weeks i'll
ness. He leaves three children, all mar
ried and his wife Mr.. Thompson had
lived in Minneapolis since 1878 and was
probate judge here from 1887 to 1891.
He was a prominent member of the
Masonic lodge. having served several
years as grand master in this state He
was born in McConnellsville, Ill, IN
1910. In 1852 he enlisted as first SER
geant of Company c, Ninety
Ohio volunteer infantry and was dis
charged as first lieutenant June 10,
1865. The immediate cause of his death
was heart failure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06

pains. neuralgia. or in fact any pain
have taken them with best results. and
have given them TO others and they never
disappoint. Gilbert r. Houser, Milford
Center. 0.
I recommend DR. Miles Pain Pills for
headache or any kind of Pain."i-E. J.
lima. O.
Have used Pain Pills in my family with
the best OF results. They will do all you
claim for them-''-A- c. Huston, Ashland.
III.
IT can not speak too highly of DIR. Miles
Pain Pills. as I know them to be a positive
cure for headache and neuralgia palms,
Thomas Bright, Marengo, Ill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-06
What People Saw:

J. r. ". Mcbride of Indianapolis. late Of
the Indiana supreme court. says: They
are simply marvellous in their instantane-
Gus relief"
DR. Miles Pain Pills never fail to cure
headache in any form. and I have given
them to little children with the best re-
suits and without any i'll effects afterWard.
When my daughter was confined they
greatly aneviated her suffering In fact
we consider them full legal tender for any
kind of pain. Mrs. William Roberts,
Eln1wooG. III
DR. Miles Pain Pills are a perfect rem
edy for sick headache. I am never with
out them Mary Bungert, Reneville, Ill.
DR. Miles Pain Pills never fail to cure
headache, pain in the back of neck. cold
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-11
WILLING TO SELL
THEIR LIFE'S BLOOD
Unemployed Men in New York Show
EaSerness to Earn
So.

New York. March 11.-Scores of
men in New York's army of unem-
ployed are willing to sell the blood in
their veins for So. DR.. Ernest T..
Smith. a pathological expert, has
been besieged with letters with offers
to sell him as much of their blood as
he wants for s.. These offers came in
answer to the following advertise
ment in last Saturdays paper:
So will be given to any healthy man
in exchange for small quantity of his
blood for use of physician; no pain
or injury.
The eagerness of many of those
who offered their blood for money
was pathetic. Up to tonight DR..
Smith had opened and read "A an
swers, and many more remained un-
opened. In almost every case the APP
plicant was out of work. and every
letter told a story of hard luck and
misfortune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-11
MANY CATTLE PERISH
ON KANSAS RANGES
Snow and Cold Combined Too Much
for Stock and Loss is
Great.

Topeka, Kans., March 11.-Dctailed
reports. concerning the effect OF the
snow storm in western Kansas on
cattle are being received. Thousands
of cattle have died, and more will be
lost before the snow disappears. The
weather has not been so cold but that
the stock could have survived it, but
the snow has been so deep that the
animals could not get either feed or
water. The same conditions prevail
on the western ranges now, and cat
tie in large numbers are starving to
death every day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-11
1000 OF MAD MULLAH'S
FOLLOWERS DIE IN BATTLE
RACE PROBLEM IDEA
HELD OF NO VALUE
Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, Not in Sym
pathy With Wisconsin
Movement.

Indianapolis, March II. - Governor
Durbin is not in sympathy with the
movement started by the Wisconsin
state senate for national convention
at Atlanta. Ca, July 4, to discuss the
race problem. The suggestion. how
ever, has attracted much attention and
Il number of governors have gone on
record on the question. The govern
ors have been asked to appoint ten
men to represent their state. \ few
have consented, but most of them seem
opposed.
The idea is to lay aside party poll
ties and to discuss the proposition with
4 view of uplifting the negroes and Of
making their relation with the whites
more amicable. Governor Durbin said
he had been asked to give his opinion.
and while he had not gone into the
matter fully. ne did not consider it
seriously. and he will not appoint a
committee. 1 do not think" said he,
that it would settle the race question
or benefit it greatly"