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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
END OF THE FAIR.

The Kansas state fair at Topeka
closes today and thousands of people of
Topeka and from various towns in Kan
sas will turn from its gates pleased with
the advancement in stock breeding and
agriculture that has been shown under
the auspices of the fair management.
Kansas win probably have two years
of preparation for the next fair. Let us
hope they win be prosperous years. A
fair or exposition of industrial activity
of any sort is very valuable from an
educational point of view The State
Exposition company has made a con-
scientious endeavor to bring together
representative exhibits to show what
Kansas capital. brains and energy is
busy at. In great measure the state
fair has been successful.
The support given the fair by sight
seers, despite rather unfavorable wealth
er. shows that the state fair is a popular
institution. Next year the st. Louis en-
position will replace the Kansas state
fair, but the fair company is looking
ahead with the purpose of putting on
another and better fair two years from
this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
THE INDIAN PROBLEM.

A pretty clear conception Of the In
dian problem may be had by study
of an article by Frank Wood, which is
published in today's Outlook. In this
Mr.. Wood gives the following figures
and facts upon which he bases his argu-
ment that the methods of the govern
ment in caring for the Indians are not
the best. He says:
For more than twenty years the peo-
pie of the United States have sought to
find the solution of the Indian problem
in education, and large sums have been
appropriated and used for this purpose
Let us consider some of the figures
Theresare not more than 100000 Indians
in the United States. For them the
government holds in trust funds
amounting to about s24,000,00o They
own about 116.000.000 acres of land, that
is held for them by the government
which would give about $50 acres and
800 in money to every man, woman and
child. After giving $50 acres of land to
each Indian, there would still remain
Sc, 100000 acres which could be sold for
their benefit and thrown open to white
settlement. If the Indians had their
own, and were free from government
care, they would be the richest people
on the face of the globe. Out of the ESQ.,
600 total, 100000 Indians are now self
supporting.
During the last thirty years $240, 600 900
has been spent on an Indian population
not exceeding 100000 The appropria-
tions of the United States government
for Indians in 1901 were So, O40, 1859, and
more than $3,600.000 was used for educa-
ton. In 1877 only $4,000 was appro-
priated for Indian schools. There has
been a large and constant increase to
the present time, until in the last TWEEN
ty years $45, 900 has been spent by the
government for the education of not
over 10000 Indian pupils. In addition, q
very large amount has been spent by
the mission schools of the various Chris
tan denominations. There were, in
1901. 2,208 Indian school employees The
education of each pupil cost the govern
ment more than $50. Have we COM
mensurate results? Is not the solution
of the Indian problem apparently still
far away?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
GOOD STREET CAR SERVICE.

The Street Railway deserves COM
mendation for the manner in which it
handled the crowds during the fair.
This has always been a serious problem
in Topeka. While the City railway
is in a demoralized condition incident
to the reconstruction of the track it has
the advantage of increased equipment.
The large interurban cars bought for
use on the Vinewood line were pressed
into service and did much to relieve
the congestion that usually exists in a
time like this.
The work on the new tracks is pro-
crossing more rapidly than people sup
posed was possible and before the first
of January Topeka will certainly have
a street railway of which it may well
be proud. The people are in a position
to appreciate a good line for it can
scarcely be said that the system has
for several years been first class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
DEATH OF HARMON WILSON.

1t will be with deep and genuine sor-
row that thousands of Kansas people
read that the life of Harmon d. Will
son has come to an end. For several
years he has been one, of the brightest
stars in Kansas journalistic circles,
and many who may never have known
him, perhaps not even by name, have
been cheered by his sunny philosophy.
Especially in the newspaper circles
of Kansas will his loss be felt. There
is scarcely an editorial room in which
feeling of sadness viii not come when
the news of his demise is heard. His
column of kansas News and Com
ment" during the past six years has
always been a source of interest in the
newspaper offices-more so, probably,
than the writings of any other one
newspaper man in Kansas.
The writer of these lines was a
schoolmate OF Harmon Wilson in the
old Ornery Boy days-the days when
the old swimming hole in the Solomon
river at Beloit was far more attractive
on warm spring days than the school
house on the hill-and it is with a
sense of deep personal loss that he is
attempting to give expression to the
tribute which he feels toward the
memory of his dead friend-a feeling,
though. which no cold words can ex-
press.
The Ornery Boy clan lost its best
friend when Harmon Wilson died. He
sympathized with the Ornery Boy and
understood him from the ground up,
and every member of the clan who en-
joyed his personal acquaintance. when
he hears the sad news today will sur
reptitiously draw his coat sleeve across
his eyes as he sniffles and goes out be-
hind the house to give vent to his feel
ings away from pry1ng eyes. The Hon.
Timothy Tugbutton-now a familiar
figure to every reader of Harmon Will
sons column-will drop a tear in MEM
DRY of his friend, and he, too. will pass
out of existence. for no one else can
portray the Hon. Timothy Tugbutton
as did Wilson. The Knights of the
Condemned Cottonwood. too. will prob
ably disband, now that their chief or
ganizer is gone.
Kansas. too-the state-has lost one
of it's best friends. No other newspaper
the Sunf1ower state than Harmon Will
son. and his Kansas verses have been
widely quoted. These and his sunny
philosophy and bright comment will
be greatly missed by the multitude of
Kansas readers, and they will join with
his personal friends and newspaper
associates in tender sympathy with the
sorrowing mother and the bereaved
wife and little son whom he has left
behind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
from the Chicago News. ]

l.
Even the summer girl doesn't trif1e
with the heart of millionaire
The fashionable feminine bathing
suit is built far above sea-level.
Some men brag about their wives as
if they wanted to sell them.
No, Cordelia. it isn't the proper caper
to eat prunes with a pruning knife.
Manv a man who wouldn't make a
wife of his cook makes a cook of his
wife.
You can judge woman pretty well
by the pictures she hangs on her parlor
walls.
No person is so punctual when it
comes to keeping appointments as the
bill collector.
Love sometimes flies out of the
kitchen window when the cooking
school graduate enters the door.
Though it is said that speech was
given men to enable them to conceal
their thoughts. it seems to have been
a needless precaution in many cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
THE BLOODY TURK.

The situation in Turkey is growing
more serious daily if the indiscriminate
slaughter of the people can be any
worse than It has been for years..
The following editorial reference in the
New York American is an excellent re-
view of the conditions:
There is not criminal in a European
jail, there is not cannibal in the South
Sea Islands. whose indignation could not
boil over the recital of that which has
been done. but which remains I'M
avenged"
So asserts Mr.. William T. Stead in
his kilograms from London respecting
the deeds of the Turks in Macedonia.
And every normal man who reads about
those deeds from day to day must agree
with him.
Not only are the men of wide districts
slaughtered, but innocent children, too,
and before being put to death the wo-
men are subjected to every infamy Of
torture.
In the face of these atrocities which
horrify the world the great Christian
powers, a word from which in unison
would end the saturnalia of murder and
outrage, stand stolidly by in silence, as
they have done before under like condi-
tions. for, as Mr.. Stead says, there is
nothing new in all this-they are the an
cient methods of Turkish warfare. prac-
tised without variation ever since the
Turks marked their track across eastern
Europe by a broad line of blood"
What has stirred the powers far more
than the massacre in Macedonia is the
note to them from little Bulgaria, ap-
-
Europe and stating that unless the pow
ers shall intervene she will be forced
to take action, especially in view of the
mobilization of the Turkish army, which
threatens her.
What is the response to this? A Rus
so-Austrian note to the powers setting
forth that in the event of hostilities be-
tween Turkey and Bulgaria, Russia and
Austria will not give their support TO
either of the parties, but will hold each
of them to a strict accountability for
their actions. That is to say, there IS
to be a bowelless attempt at ''neutrali-
ty," which means practically support to
the Turk.
Let Bulgaria be drawn into war, how
ever. and Servia can hardly keep out
of the quarrel. The whole Balkan pen
insula will probably burst into a con-
fagration, for the extinguishing of
which the powers will exert themselves.
to the end that in the outcome the Turk
may remain in Europe as now.
But war forces its own consequences,
and should Bulgaria and Servia take up
arms, there is hope that in the result
there would be such an upheaval as to
make it impossible for the powers, the
Christian powers. to restore the Turk to
his present position.
The moral sense of Christendom can
not forever be ignored or defied by the
government of Europe. Whether they
will or not. the hour must come for the
Turk to be driven into Asia. That the
hour is near for his expulsion from Eur
ope every human being with heart win
pray
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Florence claims to have more pretty
girls than any town in the Cottonwood
valla.-.
Jewell county operators who are close
to a coal vein hope to announce fail
opening soon.
The first cold wave has sent Atchi-
sons poor along the railroad tracks
with baskets after waste coal.
1t must have been pretty vigorous
stroke of lightning that managed to
kill five mules in a pasture near Colony.
One of the prisoners in the Lyndon
Jail is 17-year-old Indian maiden.
She employs her idle moments trilling
| "Hiawatha."
A notorious Topeka jointist has been
arrested about 400 times without con-
viction. It's pretty hard to beat a bag
egg.
A Leavenworth man who noticed a
girl getting on an electric car thinks
she doesn't care a darn about the holes
in her hosiery.
Crap shooting was the cause of a
lively revolver shooting and also a
shooting around the corners at Enter
prise recently.
Geological searchers from the Man
haitian college found bushel of CLAIMS
in a Stockton pond unequaled by those
of New Jersey.
A Solomon man has shipped a car
load of ducks away from Kansas to
Frisco. but the fowls did a heap of
squawking over it.
Evidences of brighter days for Cha
mute multiply. A corner lot has been
sold for $4,000 and the city has pur-
chased street sweeper
curio in d Lawrence store window
is a pair of Laplander overshoes. They
are made of woven straw and large
enough for three ordinary men.
Six Marion boys have organized an
Archaeological club The mission of
the boys is to explore Indian caves and
procure SCALP locks and other curios
Barton county. not content with be-
ing about the best wheat county in
Kansas, now makes claim to having
the most cider apples lying around
loOsa-
Two Hazleton men got into a fstic
dispute over the weight of a water
melon. The court gave them a long
enough sentence to figure UP new esti-
mates.
Twelve marriage licenses were issued
at Wichita. They informed the pro-
bate judge that the party would take
their honeymoon trip to the Topeka
state fair.
Washington correspondents en- route
west were served prairie chicken for
breakfast at Hays City. That was the
sole evidence of pioneer days noted on
their trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
REAL TAXATION FIGURES.

Although a great effort is now being
made to cover up the real issue in the
taxation controversy and divert it from
the amount appropriated for 1904, with
the corresponding tax levy and the
other sources of state revenue, to tho
total appropriations made by the last
legislature, there is some chance that
the muddle may be cleared up.
There has never been any dispute as
to the total amount appropriated fof
1904. 1t is in round numbers $3.50, OO0
and according to the statement of State
Treasurer Kelly on August l, it is di-
vided as follows in round numbers:
For fiscal year ending June 80,
1903 .....---.- -----...-...--..S 100000
For fiscal year ending June 80,
lSO4 .--..---.... ..---.--.-.-.- 2,3IS, 600
For fiscal year ending June 80.
1910 .-........ ............-... 200. 600
The 100000 appropriated for 1908
must have been paid out prior to June
80 last and hence it does not have to
be paid out of the 1904 tax levy. The
only item with which the new tax levy
is concerned is the appropriations for
1904, $2,37S,000. To pay this amount the
state treasurer win have the following
resources:
Balance on hand in the
treasury July 1, 1903. ..$ 339, S15. 81
levy on a valuation of
1888, 724,4 ........ ........ 2,4s7, $685. 90
Fees from various sources,
more than .............. 800, oOO 90
Total ...... ..........Ss, 127, 653. 81
It does not take much of mathe-
matician to figure out that with $2,37s,-
600 to be paid, and with $3.1270o0 to pay
it with. the state treasury will have a
little matter of $749.O left over at the
close of the fiscal year. This, too, sup
posing that all appropriations will be
called for, which will not be the case,
as there are always s25O,0OO of unex-
pended appropriations which do not
have to be met.
Treasurer Kelly pleads that there are
a considerable number of outstanding
warrants against the balance in the
state treasury on July 1, but there will
doubtless be approximately the same
amount outstanding at the close of the
next fiscal year, so that those items
would balance. There doubtless ought
| to be a margin of 100000 or $500. 900 al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IfTrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Most of the fireproof buildings are
insured.
Truth is mighty and will prevaiI-if
it isn't suppressed.
The greatest test of friendship is to
tell a man his faults.
The man who robs Peter to pay Paul
sometimes stands Pat
1t looks as though Turkey would be
somebody's dark meat.
The pessimist rejoices every time he
unearths a new hSDocrite.
He who would reform the world
should practice on himself.
Lots of married men think they
would make ideal widowers.
If It wasn't for the small fry there
would be no captains of industry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IT IUIII IIIt NEW 1UIk TTtss-l
The hardest thing in the world would
be to make an engaged girl understand
that everybody is not dying with envy
of her.
Even when a girl gets to be grand
mother it is next to impossible for her
to convince herself that men aren't try
ing to fiirt with her.
If men weren't afraid women would
be surprised to find how many good
stories have never been told them.
The reason some women's hair changes
to white so suddenly is that it has been
that way for a long time, only nobody
else was allowed TO. know it,
A woman is so naturally deceptive
that no matter how short her legs are
she can dress SO as to make herself look
as if they began under the armpfts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The government bureau of statistics
IS calling the attention OF the farmers of
the United States to the fact that they
are apparently making no effort to reap
any part Of this golden harvest for
themselves in connection with the goat
industry. The census of 1900 showed
the total number of goats in the United
States to be less than two millions in
number. and when it is understood that
the skins of probably 20 million goats
were required to make the 20 million
dollars worth imported last year. it
would be seen that the supply from the
United States could have formed but a
small share of the total consumption
Yet the fact that a large share of our
supply Of this important import comes
from India, China, France and Mexico
suggests that there are large areas in
the United States which might produce
goats successfully and in sufficiently
large numbers to supply the entire home
demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

Labor organizations continue to en-
dorse Mr.. Hearst for the presidency.
This action is complimentary to the
young journalist, but will prove of lit
tie real value in the contest for the NOM
nation. Candidates for the presidency
are not named to please labor unions for
two reasons. One is that the MEM
bers have no money to contribute to the
campoign fund and another is the well
known fact that a trades unionist
doesn't permit his interests to interfere
with his politics on election day. This
class of citizens can hardly hope to
WELD any great influence in nominating
conventions until they win a reputation
for voting with some approach to un-
animity OF purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19
Out of the Mouths of Babes

A correspondent sends us the following
note which contains an interesting in
stance of the mental tendencies of the
modern child: Would any Of your
readers be interested in or amused at
the crying out with tears of a little
granddaughter of ours. aged two years
and eight months only I want yester-
day. Fetch back yesterday Is not
this the outcome of the many attractive
forms of philosophical writings read and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

INDUCED in by our young mothers. and
bearing fruit in the semi-unconsc1ous
utterance of souyoung q child?" This is
certainly q curiously intestesting utter
ance. which should go some way to-
ward convicting the adherents of the
doctrine that up to the age of three
years a child Is "only a young animal"
For does not one of the most fascinating
of modern philosophers write, in an idyll
of animal life, "They have forgotten
yesterday and they do not know of
tomorrow ?''-Westminster Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

the close of the year for the state to
run on, but granting this. the levy
made by the state board of equaliza-
tion Will cause the people Of Kansas
this year at least a half million more
than was necessary to pay the appro-
priations. and this is the real issue at
ct
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The New York Herald publishes a re-
view of the business situation through
out the country regarding which it says
editorially: The whole tenor of re-
ports from the east, west, north and
south Is that business is on stable
foundation. promising an abundant flu
ture in gratifying profits, the consensus
of opinions being that the prosperity of
today is not to lessen. but to continue
o. even to increase" Consent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

After the inhabitants are all killed
perhaps the powers will step in and
take possession of Macedonia, for them
selves. if they can agree on division
of the spoils.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The Nickel Plate road, with its eastern
connections-the Delaware, Lackawan-
ma e. Western and West Shore and
Boston & Maine Railroads.&c. considered
by those who have patronized it as a
most desirable line between Chicago and
New York, Boston and other eastern
points, and takes it's place among the
first-class lines leading eastbound from
Chicago 1t is operating three through
first-class trains. all daily, and equipped
with modern Improvements, for the con-
venience and comforts of the travelling
public, and has succeeded. to remark
able degree, in pleasing its patrons.
growing in popularity every day. One
of its attractive features and thoroughly
appreciated by the travelling public, is
its dining car service. meals being serv-
ed on American Club plan, ranging in
price from 35c to 800; also service Ia
carte. Colored porters are in charge TO
look after the comfort of passengers in
coaches, and especially to assist ladies'
travelling with children. No excess fare
on any train on Nickel Plate road. All
passenger trains arrive at and depart
from the La Sale street station, Chi
cago, the only passenger station in Chi
cago on the Elevated loop. When going
east try the Nickel Plate road. City
Ticket Office, III Adams street, Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

While the powers are watching one
another nobody appears to be watching
the Turk. and he is conducting a cam
paign of murder and pillage in Mace
donia without restraint
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The irrigation congress has decided to
meet in FL Paso next year. BY that
time the government work should begin
to make a showing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

Counterfeiters have been discovered
plying their trade in the Pennsylvania
penitentiary. Is it Pennsylvania am
bition to make the bad money as well
as the good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The last act of a Wellington man be-
fore committing suicide was the COM
position of a poem ION his happy
childhood days" To the most hard
ened criminal at the end always comes
a touch Of home and mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The fact that Mr.. Cleveland's home Is
now in New Jersey makes J. Pierpont
Morgan eligible for toe second place on
the ticket. What's the matter. with
AInrran2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The Detroit Free Press considers auto
MODELLING an excellent substitute for go
ing over Niagara in a barrel and reason
ably certain method of obtaining the
same result
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

Turkish atrocities in the Balkans are
enough to recall to earth the ghost Of
Peter the Hermit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The streets of Dawson are reported to
be paved with gold but the city's re-
Hemblance to the New Jerusalem ends
right there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

When the indicted postohice CRATER,
remembered how easy it was for Rath.
bone, they came right in and surrender
ed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

Up in Detroit a man has cheated tbs
surgeons by dying on the operating ia
BILE before they had a chance to do tho
carving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The inventor Of the quick lunch ha
Bust died at the age of SO. Perhaps h
didn't eat his own lunches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

The principal business of Kentuclxians
appears to be shooting their neighbors
and running for Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

Isn't 1t about time for the Powers t.
get together and order Macedonia t.
stop fighting Turkey?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

Those Macedonians are showing som'
Of the old time Greek fighting spirit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-19

City Ticket On1ce. Onion PNcins
Railroad. SIS Kansas avenue.