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The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
SMITH COUNTY FAIR.
Formal Opening Will Take Place
luna 25.

Smith Center Kan, June 12.-The formal
opening of the Smith County Tair assocIa-
tlon grounds Will take place Thursday.
June o. 1t is the purpose to make the dgy
q holiday so far as Smith Center Is con-
cerned. The two bands of Smith Center
VIII lmake the music. There will be races,
the Congregational church women Will
furnish refreshments. a ball game will he
played and other amusemelsts are down
on the programme. Talks VIII be made by
Judge Dick Picker Ike Mahin. Secre tary
of State BurrOw. Scott Rice. J. T. Reed
and others. The association grounds cover
III acres all fenced. An expenditure Ot
over 5000 has already been made. The
provements at this time consist of an am
phitheater with seating capacity for l-0ee
people, band stand. floral hall. half nile
race track and tWenty-four stalls. All the
buildings have been painted white. Prank
II. Burrow. son of the secretary of stat
is president: E. s. Rice. score tary. and
Henry Williams. treasurer Ten represen- p
tative citizens and business men of smith
Center own the grounds as fellows Hen
ry Williams. T. \. Williams, =. 5. Rice
+. II. Burrow. Dr. 3. W Siagle. z n
Agnew. VIM Peck. w H. Nelson, Ben T.
Baker. j. D. Mollison- The fair associa
tion dates have been fixed Tor August lS
10. 20 and 21 The premium list is in the
hands Of the printer and viii be ready
for circulation in few days.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
AVERAGE 90 BUSHELS.
An Estimate of Wheat Crop of
Mitchell County.

The following letter about the Mitch
ell county wheat crop will give addi-
tional light on the wheat situation:
Beloit Kas.. June p, 1903
J. c. Goings, Topeka. Kas:
Your letter of the 20th received this
morning making inquiry in regard to
the wheat crop in this county. I am
surprised that anybody has sent such
samples as you sneak of from this
county and recommended them to be j
fair sample Of the crop in this locality
have been clear to the county line
south within the last four days and
have seen good part of the wheat IN
the northern part of the county, also
talked with many Of our best farmers.
talked with Pete Enesch yesterday,
brother of the present sheriff; he has
over 700 acres OF wheat out, and tolA
me if it did not yield more than 20
bushels per acre that he would quiz
trying to raise wheat. This wheat is all
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
sherif Needs Soar.

Once a month the county commits
sioners receive acquisitions from the
county officers for supplies and other
things needed. This morning the COM
missicners received the following: The
sheriff needs a box of soap John Os
trand deputy The commissioners
have no reason to doubt Mr.. estrand's
statement, but they may appoint a
commission comoosed of the county
clerk, county surveyor and county cor
oner to investigate Mr.. Sheriff Lucas
condition.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
Peacher Is Arrested.

L. Blackman was bondsman for An
thony Peacher. who is to be tri I'd on
the charge of shooting into mail ear
When it was rumored that Blackmar
had left town Sheriff Lucas hunted up
Peacher and required him to give a
new bond.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
MONEY FROM DENTONvILLE
Contributed $227.oo to the Flood
Sufferers

The county commissioners received
letter this morHing from Dentonvlle,
Kas., With a donation for the Shawnee
county flood sufferers. sent through G.
W Potts. mayor of DentonVilIe
A draft for 1927. 81 was with the let
ter That was turned over to Mayor
Bergundthal. The letter announced that
eleven sacks Of seed potatoes and one
sack Of seed corn had been shipped.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22

Miss Julia Larimer's guests at an in
formal afternoon party today for Miss
Daisy Vance of Oklahoma City were
Miss Vance Miss Ethel Davis, Miss
Alice Meade. Miss Virginia Meade, Miss
Antoinette Schwarzkopf, Miss Jeanette
Wolcott, Miss Permelia Curtis, Miss Nell
Hes Miss Alice Willard, Miss Cora Cod
dard, Miss Mabel Andrews, Miss Maude
Grimes Miss Carlotta Nellis, Miss
Mabel Cuthbert, Miss Hattie Embree,
Miss Bessie Emhree. Miss Agnes Burdge
and Miss Mamie Knox. Assisting the
hostess were Miss Alice Larimer, Miss
Anna Troutman, Miss Mildred Smith,
Miss Myra Tompkins and Miss Emma
Bolmar.
Western Sorosis will have a field day
next Saturday at the Popenoe residence
in Highland park. Breakfast at II
o'clock followed by the programme.
Mrs. A. P. Shreve entertained a party
of little folks at her home on Fillmore
street Saturday evening from until 10,
in honor of her daughter Edna's tenth
birthday. She was assisted in enter
taining by Mrs. D. T. Richards, Miss
Fay Shreve. Miss May Coulter, Miss
Elsie YeWel and Master Louis Fellows.
Those present were: Misses Helen
Brown. Louise Brown, Marjorie
Rodgers. Florence Keating. Ines Duck
worth. Hazel Brown, Marshey Brown,
Fay Davis. Mildred White. Florence
Cox, Dorothy Hadley, Nellie Bone, Edna
Cook Hattie Hill, Masters Theodore
and Cecil Smith. Wayne Richards, Roy
Yewel Ralph Kypers.
Miss Laura Wiskstrum of Lindsbor6
and Mr.. Carl Myers Of Topeka We're
married Wednesday of last week at the
brides home. They are living with Mr..
Myers family at 1929 Topeka avenue.
Miss Linnie Beard and Mr. Fred Gill
legg eyre married Sunday noon at the
Third Presbyterian church, the pastor
of the church officiating. They have
their home.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
Students Lost Their Trunks.

Stanislaus college was totally destroyed
by fire today. The flames spread so rap
idly that the students generally lost
their trunks and clothing. Loss $65, 600:
insurance $36, 800.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
To Boston via Erie r. R.

Very low special excursion rates to
Boston, Mass, Saratoga. n. Y and
Chautauqua Lake in June and July
Liberal limits and stopover privileges.
On and after June Il. new fast train
from Chicago to Buffalo and intermedi-
ate points. 5:15 D. m daily.
For time cards, regular and special
rates. etc. send postal card to a W
Moore. Travelling Passenger Agent.
Kansas City. Mo. or D. NJ. Bowman.
General Western Passenger Agent. Chi
c&go, Ill
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22

Scald head is an eczema of the scalp
very severe sometimes, but it can be
cured. Doan's Ointment, quick and per
manent in its results. At any drug
store 80 cents.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22

The income of Special Policeman G
W Dusenberry. who is paying specia
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
PLANS FOR
Main Canal Thirty-Five Miles Long t.
! Affect 100, 900 Acres.

Washington, Dec. &c. II. Fitch,
chief engineer of the reclamation ser
vice, geological survey, has submitted
to the director q tentative plan for the
Belle Fourche irrigation project in
South Dakota.
sion dam on the Belle Fourche river,
hear the mouth of Redwater creek,
which is Immediately to the south Of
the town of Belle Fourche. The main
anal, as outlined by Mr.. Fitch, will
Eun almost due north from the town
for a distance Of about fifteen miles,
rnd will then take a southeasterly
curse for fifteen or twenty miles. Col
lateral canals will be run from the
lain stem, and water will be stored in
the valleys to the north and east Of
,elle Fourche, in the southern part of
Butte county, along the lines of the
reeks which flow from the Black Hills
If the computing engineers deter
mine that as much as 100, 900 acres can
be reclaimed, INC that the total cost
cf construction will not exceed ST.
zoe, 600, authority will be given for
lalling the necessary contracts for
obstruction. The total given would
llean an expenditure of SO for each
tcre brought under the ditch, and his
appears to be about the limit of cost
fat by the survey officials. 1t is be-
l.eved that settlers will take land at
that price, and, most important of all,
they will b. able to pay for it. If
the price were higher there is some
doubt as to whether the government
will get it's money back from the set
tiers, which the law provides.
1t is probable that all the estimates
in connection with the Belle Fourche
project will be completed by the LIST
Of February, and, it is hoped, if the
l...1it of cost is sufficiently low, to have
the project under contract by the latter
part % next summer. Work is a slow
and tedious project, is each project
has to be treated separately. owing to
the varying conditions.
While MI. Fitch was working in
| the field last summer scores Of home
seekers went on the barren land
witch he hopes to reclaim, and he
was careful to warm them that they
would be subject to hardship for at
least two ears; that they could not
raise crops on the land in its present
condition., and that if the irrigation
works were constructed they would
not be advanced far enough for the
water to be used inside of two years.
| Notwithstanding this warning, how
ever, the people locked on the land and
announced their intention of staying
there until the question of construction
was determined one way or another.
Mr.. Fitch and his assistants will be
in the field next summer continuing
their Investigations to the eastward of
the Belle Fourche region.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
ARE in SALOON FIGHT.
To Make All Sisners Of Petition
Stockholder&i in Establishment.

Canton, S. D., Dec. 19.-The little
town of Fafrview. in this county, Is in
the midst OF a saloon fight of a peculiar
nature. r. Sfefkin, VINO proposes to
start a saloon In the place. has secured
the necessary signers TO his petition
calling for an election ,pn the license
question on the proposition tina If the
question is submitted 1T will carry for
saloons The law provides that the
signers to such a petition must be
in the corporation. The
city council of Fairview declined to
honor the petition of the saloon man,
on the ground that this poStion of the
law a not been complied with. Then.
the saloon man procured title to a lot,
and a Y to eac of his petitioners a,
deed for n square foot of land within
that lot. This he claims will make the;
petitioners ~freeholders in the town
and thus renders their signatures to
the petition eligible to recognition by
h village dads. The town council,
stiH resists the proposition. and a pro-,
longed legal squabble is likely 70 be-
the Eesult. i,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
PROMISES To- Be
SENSATIONAL CASE.
Prominent Sioux Falls Woman
Arrested on Statutory
Charge.
WAS VICTIM OF SLY PLOT
No Doubt a Shrewd scheme Of {. D
Julius to Find a Cause That Would
Justify Him in Disseminating
Payment of Alimony.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. IA sensa-
tional case which promises to ave a
decidedly interesting sequel is that OF
Mrs. e. D.. Julius, formerly of Davis, S.
D., and G. e. league of Davis. who
were arrested ia Sioux Falls a night
or two ago on a statutory charge
which was preferred by the husband of
the woman julius Is a prominent
druggist at Davis. 1t Is now alleged
that league and Mrs. julius were the
the husband and carried to a success
full conclusion by two Sioux City men.
who have now disappeared, lending
color to the claim that they were in
the alleged plot to .injure Mrs. julius.
Julius and wife separated recently, and
since that time he has been paying her
a sum monthly as alimony. To secure
testimony against his wife which would
relieve him Of the monthly payment Is
said to have been the purpose of the al
legged plot. After the two Sioux City
men succeeded in getting Mrs. julius
n league in a room they ummoned
the police and disappeared. and the
husband of the woman appeared on the
scene and preferred the serious charge
against his wife and league. The two.
prisoners were taken before a local
Justice for their preliminary examina-I
ton, but the hearing was postponed un-i
til January IL next and they were re-
peased without bail. If the preliminary
hearing Is held as contemplated, it
promises to be one of the most sensa-i
tional In the history of the local courts.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
ELkS LODGE 70
Be CHARITABLE
The Mambers OF Sioux Falls
Order viii Give Poor a
Christmas Dinner
WILL RECEIVE PRESENTS
the Evening Of Christmas Day tbs
Auditorium Will Be Thrown Open
to Poor of City and Every
Person Treated.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 1S.-On
christmas eve and the forenoon follow
ing the members of the Sioux Falls
Hodge of Elks will give a practical DEM
tonstration of what constitutes true
charity. At a meeting of the Elks a
Especial committee was appointed to
secure the names of all the needy poor
of the city and arrang to give them a
suitable Christmas dinner. On Christ
(mas eve the special committee VIII
visit the homes of the poor with drays
well loaded with provisions and de-
liver to each needy family a sack Of
flour, a loaf of bread, one pie, one
cake, fruit, pickles, celery m a chick
zen or turkey, according to the size of
the family. In addition, at 10 O'Clock
Christmas, Santa Claus will, through
the medium of the ElkS' lodge, make
another visit to the poo of Sioux Falls.
AT that hour the auditorium will be
thrown open to the poor of the city
and every person. man, oma or
child, who calls will be given a present
of some kind,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
SPECIAL LAWS MAY
Be ~NECESSITATED
President Will Demand Them
if Required to Oppose the
Northern Merger.
KNOX is CONGRATULATED
His Argument Declared by Everybody
to Have Been a Mastery One,
Stripping Away All Nom
Essential Views.

Washington, Dec. 1S.-Attorney Gen
eral Knox is being overwhelmed with
congratulations on account of the
strong presentation he made of the
governments side of the merger case
before the supreme court yesterday
afternoon. The president was par
ticularly cordial in his compliments,
and SO were members of the cabinet.
Letters and kilograms are arriving
thick and fast, and Mr.. Knox begins
to feel that he did his share of the
work with credit and IN a way to
merit the approval of the country at
.arge.
1t was one of those weighty and
convincing pleas which affect courts
and educate the public, and is the
strongest address made before the SUI
preme court for years. With skilful
logic, Mr.. Knox stripped the ase of
all secondary issues. Congress has
enacted hat competition shall con-
,tinue. The Northern Securities COM
,pany is a device to eliminate competi-
tion. The existence of the company
raises a direct, unmistakable issue be-
tween the command Of law and the
purpose Of capital. The will of one
or the other must be e%ffectual, and
the history of the people of the United
States and of the supreme court leaves
lHo iucSllOH lIldl DOln propose llldI
Ithe law shall be supreme.
The Hill financiers and the railroad
men who organized the Northern Sc
curities company, Attorney General
Knox says, lost their heads in a mo-
pnent of overweening speculation.
IFhey forgot the fundamental principle
that the power both to combine and
Fix rates cannot be permitted to rail-
poad corporations. If competition dis
appears, the power to fix rates can no
longer be left to railroads..
This is the underlying issue. Neither
"a pool or a "gentlemen's agreement
"a mere rope of sand" as the at
1orney general calls it's permitted
by law. Much more must the same
Jaw prohibit an enduring corporation,
which wholly removes competition,
fixes rates for a great territory, multi
Jtes the act of congress-, brings eco
nomic monopoly certain to be dis
Hstrous, and, as notably in the Rock
lsiand case, enables a few men to con
troll vast capital by a small outlay
under an ingenious fractional control
of successive corporations. This, Mr..
kn0X says, cannot be.
Those who rea his mastery ap-
peal must be convinced that the
Northern Securities company has
challenged the ultimate sovereignty of
the state. If there is not enough law
to prevent this, there will be, for the
president, in case the supreme court
decides against the government, is eX-
pected to submit a special message to
congress, asking for such legislation
as in the opinion of the attorney gen.
eral will be necessary to meet such
| situation.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
"THE cHlLDREN's CARDINAL"
Some Quaint Anecdotes Concerning
Cardinal Vaughan.

bStto .
Temple Bar of London: Here is all as
pect of the late Cardinal Vaughn I'M
known, save by his friends and the mem
beers Of his own religion. This is as
founder of a Catholic children's crusade,
an undertaking to which DR.. Bernardo
sends ali applications from the denomina-
ton; and the cardinals method Of col
Letting funds was to make it a children's
movement throughout Some of his most
energetic helpers, in fact, were mites in
the East End and the poorer parts Of
London
So the children set to work with COL
lecting cards and money boxes, and when
the great day came, in each school rep
resentatives were chosen and sent to the
dingy old house, with the proverbially
dirty windows, at the bottom Of Car
Isle place. The bright faced young ennis
saries trooped in from north, south, east
and west, the girls gay with colored hair
ribbons, the boys in all the agony Of
clean collars and faces. A steady stream
flowed up the broad staircase, Familiarity
known as "the quarter deck" and all
were on the tip toe of expectation as the
clock struck 4 and his eminence sailed
in, literally shining with happiness of be-
ing so neal them at last. Directly he be-
gan to address them it was apparent to
the most casual observer tha he had "a
way with him" which took the child
heart captive at once.
1t had clearly been impressed upon
them, by. anxious teachers, that on no ac-
count were they to let go of their little
bags, and so firmly was this idea rooted
in their minds that they declined to give
them UP even to the cardinal. They
thought he was a goodly sight for baby
eyes in his gold. scarlet and white linen;
they enjoyed giving to the beautiful
cameo ring such damp, smacking kisses
as could be heard all over the room; but,
even for the sake of this fascinating per-
son. they were not going to part with
their money. So the cardinal had to
gently force open their tiny fists for their
hot crumpled contents, eXplainingly kind
ly thar they We're really meant for him.
Some of us feared an outburst of t. US,
but every baby took his loss philosoph:-
cally and toddled away in puzzled resig-
nation.
One little girl, who hid lost her big
brother in the crowd, fought her way
back through the crush alone, nd, scorn-
fully ignoring the group of incompetent
ladies and monsignori round, hurled her
self bodily at the cardinal as the one per-
son capable of finding the missing youth.
Another little mite presented his emf
hence with a nosegay that had evidently
been manufactured on her own lines
without ony grown-up assistance. 1t con-
sisted Of a bunch of dropping white lilacs,
embellished with three or four yellow
dandelions, all of which were carefully
fastened up in a holder of m news
paper. Ministering hands at once offered
to relieve the cardinal Of this inc,m-
brance, but nothing would induce him to
part with it. All the afternoon he chung
to 1t, and was finally seen sweeping away
10 ms own private apartments, still
holding the childish offering in his left
10nQ aH
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
SERIOUS CHARGE.
Prominent Retired Farmer Guilty OF
Assault With Intent to Kill.

Sioux Falls, S. D.. Dec. l9.-On
complaint of his son-in-law, Clint
Jones' a prominent retired farmer who
lives at Hartford, this county, has been
arrested on the serious charge of as
,sault with intent to kill. Family
trouble was the cause of his arrest. 1t
appears that two or three months ago
"a nan INT Clark married Jones'
daughter without the consent of the
father, Since that time it is alleged
Jones has exhibited hostility toward his
son-in-law, Jones approached Clark
while the latter and his wife We're.
t~ransacting business in Hartford, and
Us said to have violently abused him.
Clark knocked Jones down and went
across the street, but vas followed by
his father-in-law, who was again
knocked down by the OUNCE man.
Clark, in an effort to avoid further
trouble, then went to a store where his
wife was, but Jone again followed him.
Clark and his wife left the building by
a side entrance. but were followed by
Jones, who had secured a Ratchet.
When he had overtaken Clark he
struck at him with the Ratchet, but a
bystander grabbed his arm in time to
prevent what might have been q muir
der. AS 1t was. the weapon struck
Clark a glancing blow on the forehead.
cutting quite a cash. Jones furnished
bonds in the sum of $500 for his APP
pearance before the state circuit court.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
is o THE LAW.
President Roosevelt Signs the Cuban
BilI-End of Long Fight. :

DlI"-Io = -SiiS = 'S"ss Dr..
Washington, Dec. 19.-The president
signed the Cuban reciprocity bill a few
minutes before l o'clock yesterday.
When the house convened today the
speaker signed the bill carrying intA
effect the Cuban reciprocity treaty,
using a gold pen provided by the Cuban
minister.
The measure, already ratified by
ICuba, will now become laW. 1t is the
first long step toward establishing CT
Ian effective reciprocity policy. 1t pro-
ivides that imports from Cuba shall be-
admitted to the United States on pay1
lment of duties 20 per cent. less than.
Those rescribed by the Dingley law. In
return, Cub agrees to. make conces-
Isions of duty reductions in favor of the
limited States, ranging from 20 to 40
per cent.
Now that the bill has become a law
"a question of great interest has arisen,
namely, the effect of the reduction Of
duty on Cuban sugar on importationS
of sugar from other countries. The
British government has served formal
notice upon the state department that
under the favored nation clause it eX7
poets that British sugar from the West
Indies shall be admitted into the Unit
ed States on equal terms with Cuban
sugar, and it is not doubted that Ger
many, France, Austria n other great
beet sugar producing countries will do
likewise. An old holding Of Attorney
General Olney in President Cleveland's
administration was adverse to such de-
mandS, but the question promises to be-
reopened with vigOr.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
OBJECTS ASSESSMENTS
Nonresident Owner Serves Injunction
on the Treasurer.

Non resident owner serves nJuhctioE
on the Treasurer.
Hot Springs. S. D., Dec 12.-The city
treasurer Of Hot Springs was served
with injunction writs restraining him
from selling town lots for the non-pay-
of assessments for local improve
ments for grading various streets ten
years age. The city issued for the pay
ment of the work. special granding
warrants, of which there are outstand-
ing about 81, 200, together with interest
at Z per cent. The injunction suits
| were brought by nine property owners,
residents Of the town, who had petl-
| toned for the work to be done. These
| property owners represent about one
half of the lots subject to the assess
ment. Perhaps threc-fourths Of the
nonresident overs of the lots subject
to the tax have paid up. The city Will
make an effort to dissolV the injunc-
tons, but IL this be done, the next sale
under the law cannot take place until
the first Monday in March, 1904.
The circuit court Of Fall River
ty for the November term, 1903, after
holding a ten days session, was ad-
journed over to the first Monday in
February, 1904, where 1t Is likely the
injunction suits will be taken up for
nearing.