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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-05
BRYAN AT URBANA.
Assists Tom johnson in Pushing
His Boom for President.

Urbana, O., Aug. 5.-Colonel William
J. Bryan was the attraction here to-
day at the Chautauqua assembly.
The Democratic convention of Cham
paign county to nominate a ticket and
to select delegates to the Democratic
state convention two weeks hence was
also held today and Bryan's presence
was made the occasion for a conference
of leaders. 1t had been announced as
the occasion for making the johnson
programme for the state convention but
the invitations of the committee were
not limited to any faction Among
those accepting invitations were Mayor
Johnson of Cleveland, John L. thinner
man of Springfield and former Con-
gressman Lentz of Columbus.
While the visitors addressed the con-
vention the principal work was done
in private conferences. Johnson is
recognized as a candidate for the next
Democratic nomination for president
and all the movements for the governor
ship or for the senatorship this year are
considered preliminary to the national
contest next year.
1t is said that former Congressman
Lentz will present Johnson's name 70
the convention for governor and II
Johnson is nominated that Lentz will
be endorsed for senator
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THEY GET BAIL.
Dusenberry Highway Robbery Case
May Become Famous.

The two little Dusenberries who were
arrested on the charge of highway rob-
berry. were admitted to bond this morn
ing of 500 each.
AIr Dusenberry says he has lnVestlga-
ted the case of the Weir boy who claims
that the children robbed him of 25 cents,
with the following result: He finds that
the youth did have such an amount cf
money in his possession, which his moth
er had given him to purchase groceries;
that he snent ten cents thereof for can
DIV at the store where the groceries
should have been purchased, and the re-
rnainder for lemonade at a. stand kept
by some boys in that vicinity.
Dusenberry says he will not stand for
a cornnron,ise now and that he intends
tn make thingsA sultry for the family
which charged his sons with highway
rnhherX
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ALLEN SAT UPON.
Wanted Pay for Work He
Didn't Do.
Auditor Wells Therefore Holds
Up His Voucher.
BAILEY DISAPPROVES.
System of Price Raid Commits
siOner Isn't Satisfactory.
Asks H i'm to Come In and Talk
1t Over.

1t is reported around the state house
today that Senator James NJ. Allen,
Price raid scrip commissioner, is to be
in his office tomorrow, and there is great
excitement over the announcement.
Senator Allen has not been inside the
state house, it is asserted. for a month.
There is a big bunch of official mail
awaiting his consideration in the COVER
nor's office and he is almost a stranger
to the people around the state house.
Hence, the excitement over the an
nouncement that he will be here tomor-
row.
The announcement is made in a letter
received at the governors office from
Senator Allen today. He says that he
has been sick and has been busy NOV
ing and hence has been unable to come
to Topeka. Senator Allen has become a
Missouri business man, having opened a
law Office in company with r. I. Her
rick, late of Topeka, in Kansas City,
Mo.
State Auditor Wells today declined to
issue a warrant to pay Senator Allen
for his work as Price raid scrip COM
missioner during the past month. Audi
tor Wells intimated that he didn't think
any such work had been done. The
technical ground on which the warrant
was held up was that the voucher was
not approved by the governor, as pro-
Vided by the statute creating the scrip
commissioner. The voucher came in by
mail, and Auditor Wells took it over
to Governor Bailey for his approval. The
governor refused to approve it today
| but asked Auditor Wells to send it back
to Senator Allen and let him bring it il
for approval Whether this means that
! the governor may withhold his approVa
| is not known.
1t is known that Governor Bailey is dis
satisfied with the way Senator Allen ha'
been doing the work of the scrip commits
sioner-or rather. the way he hasn't beer
doing it. 1t is told that he wrote sharl
letter to Allen recently which IS respon
sibIe for Aliens explanation of why he ha
not been here.
| Il don't want to be narrow or close abou
this business said Auditor Wells today
| but 1t looked to me like travesty upol
| justice to make the state pay for the Worl
which has not been DONE do not insis
upon Aliens staying here all the time, bu
| when he isn't here 1t seems TO me Una
he should have a clerk or somebody keei
his office open to receive mail and atten'
to business
| 1t now seems to be up to Gov. Bailey a
to whether Allen will be paid for his Worl
during July as scrip commissioner It /
quite likely that the governor wishes Sen
proval of the voucher so as 10 have
heart-to-heart talk with him.
Senator Allen will doubtless attend [
the work of his office in the future, a
him to time. In the statute providing TO
the office of scrip commissioner there is
little clause which reads that such com
missioner shall hold his office until tn
at any time at the pleasure of the gov
error
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climb. A few days before he left Ven
ice for Rome, he assembled Mt Grappa,
$500 feet high. But his greatest enjoy
ment is music. He is a great admlrer
of Lorenz Perosi, the eminent director
of the pontifical choir who was for
merly maestro at St Marks, Venice.
Perosi is chiefly indebted to him for his
musical career
MUCCIOLI ASKS A FAVOR.
Rome, Aug. 5.-Count Muccioli, of the
noble guard who was attached to the
pontiff during the conclave and who has
an American wife availing himself of
the privilege to ask the new pope IA
Vor, has implored Plus X to reinstate
his comrade of the noble guard, Count
PietrO march,, who not long ago was
suspended for having given an after
noon tea inside the vatican to several
ladies of the quirinal society, including
Mrs. Myer. the wife of the American
ambassador.
DISAPPOINTED AT RAMPOLLAAS s
DEFEAT.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 5.-Although dis
appointed at Cardinal Rampolla's de-
feat the newspapers accept Sarto's cleo
ton with good grace They regard it as
a compromise between the followers OF
Cardinals Serafino Vanneutilli and RAM
polla. and therefore deny that the Ger
man element has won a victory. The
new pontiff is regarded here as the pos
SCISSOR of statesmanlike, practical and
administrative qualities and one who
will pursue a cautious political policy
and as most likely to effect changes IN
the religious field of the church rather
than in its political sphere.
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M'hALL IS WAvERING.
Believed He Is About to Return
to Republican Fold.

If the presidential race narrows down to
a choice between Hill or German or some
similar Democrat, and Theodore Roosevelt,
Webb McNall, who is half of the Silver
Republican, &karty of Kansas and who has
stood high in Populist circles since 1895,
viii support Roosevelt. In an interview in
Kansas City last night Mr.. McNall is
quoted as saying:
II never have been anything but a Re
publican and Silver Republican. Kansas,
of course, will give big Republican ma
jority next year, and 1 suppose Roosevelt
will be elected. Twill support him myself
in preference to anyone like Hill, and Cor
man is the same as HILL
This eounds a great deal as though the
Smith county statesman is getting ready
to follow Conner Davies back into the Re
publican party. And this statement sets
forth the sentiments of large number OF
Populists who have a secret adnira ton
eastern Democrat.
'eThere is one thing which amuses me a
good deal" continued Mr.. McNall, "and
that is the present talk on currency. re
form, in which the Wall street bankers
are demanding what they call asset cur
rency. 1t is nothing more or les than the
same scheme demanded by the Farmers
Alliance when that great reform organi-
zation was first perfected, when they de-
mandeo that the government should build
what they called subtreasurieS in which
the farmers could store their wheat and
a
farmers were laughed at a good deal for
their visionary scheme Of securing money
from the government but this scheme OF
the Wall street bankers to secure asset
currency is the old Farmers Alliance plar
done over by the bankers.
And by the way, l used to know the
man who has become chief apostle OF
this asset currency scheme. His name Is
Charles n. Fowler and he is now known
as an ex-member of congress from New
Jersey. He has been induStriously conduct
ing the bureau of information to educate
the country up to the new idea But this
man Fowler used to be Kansas man anc
lived up at Beloit, in my part of the state
Back in the SOS he became imbued Witf
the idea that the road to wealth was II
the creamery business. and he became {
member of the firm of Fowler & Co They
had creameries in Ave or six differen
towns including Beloit. and the result o.
the venture was a failure. The firm busted
up owing the farmers lot of money, anc
MIR Fowler moved to New York, and the1
drifted over into New Jersey. He wal
elected to congress for a term or two, ane
has since become an expert in the matter
of finance. and conducts the literary bu
reau for the Wall street bankers who wan
asset currency. But those cream bills arr
| still due the farmers of Mitchell county
KAN
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Firm Had Mercantile Rating OF
100000 to 100000.
CAUSED BY SHRINKAGE
Value of Assets Dependent UpOn
Future Market.
Will Pay Out If There Be No
Further Decline.
HTlbutt, Hatch & Co. Also
Drop Out of Race.

New York. Aug 5.-The suspension of
the firm of Sharp & Bryan was an
nounced on the stock exchange today.
Charles S Bryan, of the suspended
firm, was elected a member of the
governing committee of the exchange at
h&siast election.
The firm was organized July ,, 1901.
the individual members being w. w.
Sharp and Charles S. BryanF both board
members. The office of the firm is al %
Broad street and they were known as
Specialists in Virginia Carolina Chemi-
cal, United States Realty and Construc-
fion and Southern railway. The firm
had a mercantile agency rating of from
eS2oO.000 to $500, 900.
G. II. Sullivan, of the law ffrm of Sui
ivan & Cromwell was made assignee of
tha suspended firm. It was announced
that the assignee would make a state
ment as soon as it could be prepared.
Mr. Cromwell. counsel for the assig-
nee of Sharp & Bryan. made the follow
ing statement:
The firm made the general assign
ment for the purpose of insuring equal
ity among it's creditors without prefer
ence- The cause is directly attributable
TO the sudden and extreme shrinkage
in the market value of the securities of
the firm. The liabilities, mostly Sc
cured, are about 1000, 900. The value of
assets comprising almost exclusively
stock exchange securities to the amount
of several million dollars is dependent
on market conditions Most of the cred
ftOrs recognizing that present conditions
re short lived are very fairly and wise
Iy Withholding their securities from
sale"
An unofficial statement was made to
the effect that the firm had no open
contracts in the market and that at to-
days prices there was still a fair mar
gin on their loans. 1t was announced
that If prices did not decline further
the firm would be able to iquidate its
assets on a satisfactory basis.
Sharp & Bryan were prominent in OPP
erations on the curb. They were spe-
cialists in American Bridge, Northern
Securities and Seaboard shares. The
firm offered large blocks of Seaboaro
shares for sale on the curb yesterday
The greater part of Sharp & Bryan:
obligations on the exchange were liqui
dated yesterday and several banks anC
- the trust companies threw out thei
loans. In fact the greater part of yes
terday's liquidation on the exchang
was for Sharp & Bryan's account.
HURLBUTT. HATCH & CO. GO
UNDER
New York, Aug 5.-Hurlbutt, Hate
& Co, members of the stock exchange
have failed.
The firm of Hurlbutt, Hatch & &C
was composed of John H Hurlbutt. f
s. Hatch, a board member, and ].
Smith. The co-partnership was forme
Fcr,1 loea1~
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Mr.. SCHELL NAMED.
Will Have Charge of Kansas
Horticultural Exhibit.

w. F. Schen. of Wichita, will have
charge of the Kansas horticultural ex-
hibit at the St. Louis exposition. This
is the job over which there has been
little friction between w. H. Barnes,
secretary of the state horticultural So
Ciety, and some of the members of the
Kansas Worlds fair commission. Sec
retary Barnes did not want Schell to
have the place. He claimed that Schell
was not a member of the state horticul-
tural society and he wanted member
of the society to superintend the eXhib-
1t
Mr.. Barnes appeared before the COM
mission the latter part of June" said
Senator Morrow, a member of the COM
mission, today. "and told us he was not
a candidate for the appointment as he
would not have time to attend to it,
but he said he would like to have a
member of the horticultural society ap-
pointed Schell was endorsed by a great
many prominent horticulturists. he
proved that he was a member of the so
ciety. and so we complied with Mr.
barnes request by appointing him"
Mr. Schen appeared before the COM
mission last night ard presented papers
TO show that he was one of the founders
of the horticultural society. and also
presented receipt showing that he had
paid his dues for this year
1t is possible that H. II. Kerns, of
Bonrer Springs, may be given charge
of the agricultural display Mr.. Ker1s
has had considerable experience in this
line and the comm ssion wired him last
Iitsht to come to Topeka and talk the
matter over TIE commission Is holding
a consultatsr~. with him this afternoon
The agricultural exhibit will of course
be the most important made by the
state and it will therefore receive
careful consideration. The commission
is considering a t this meeting the deco
rations for the agricultural exhibit
Kansas will have a space 81 feet long
in a prominent place in the agricultural
building. c. H. Kassebaum, of Atchi-
son. has prepared a plan for a pavilion
TO be made largely of Kansas grains
and the commission is rather favorable
TO it. One of the chief features will be
3 globe showing the western hemis-
phere prominently, with a cornucopia
situated where Kansas would be on the
map, from which a mechanical device
Will pour continual stream of wheat
over the rest of the world.
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HELD UP THE MAIL.
Fraud Order Enforced Against
II TOwnsite Company.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 5.-Postmas-
ter Harris today held up the mail of the
Monarch Investment company, an Ok
lahoma townsite company, on fraud
order issued by the postmaster general
upon the ground that it was doing a
lottery business. The company sold
$50, 600 worth of lots at Apalachia, Okla,
and disposed of them at a drawing held
July % and had advertised another
drawing of lots in Warwick, Okla, for
August 10 There was no fraud but the
government objects to the lottery fea-
ture..
The company today applied to Judge
Phillips of the United States district
court here for a temporary injunction
against Postmaster Harris to keep him
from Withholding its mail, but the court
refused to hear argument on the petit
ton before October.
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PROMISES AID.
President Roosevelt Writes a Letter
to Chairman Kiesel

Ogden, Utah, Aug. 5.-The eleventh
national irrigation congress, which
meets in this city September Is, prom
ises to be the most important and in
teresting irrigation convention ever
held in America
President Roosevelt has written a
personal letter to Chairman Kiesel of
the executive committee, promising
active aid and support and stating that
he will be represented by a member OF
his cabinet.
The agricultural department at
Washington is taking an especial inter
est in the coming convention, and Sec
retary Wilson states that he will make
it a point to have as many scientists of
that department attend as can be con-
veniently spared
Numerous valuable prizes are to be
offered for exhibits of fruits and
cereals grown under irrigation. Sen
ator w. A Clark cabled from Europe
offering a $500 cup for the best exhibit
of green fruits, and Col Fred pabst.
of Milwaukee. telegraphs that he will
offer a cup of the same value for the
best barley exhibit
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PROMISE COOLER WEATHER
Today Has, However, Been Uncom
fortably Hot

The government forecast for Kansas
sent out by the weather bureau today Is
Generally fair tonight and Thursday:
Cooler Thursday and in north and west
portion tonight"
Todays corn and wheat region bull
letin says: Clear weather prevails
over Kansas and western Missouri this
morning. There was a slight though
general rise in the maximum tempera-
ture yesterday, with the minimum sta
tionary this morning, except in the
western portion of this state, where it
has fallen. No rainfall reported this
morning"
The maximum and minimum temper
atures reported from over Kansas for
the "A hours ending at o'clock were as
follows:
Baker, 90, 20: Concordia, 80. 72: Dodge
City. 9S. 20; Dresden. SO, so; Fort Scott.
a. 6S; Hays, "a, IS; Macksville, "a, 6S;
Mcpherson. "a, 20; Manhattan, "a, "A;
Usage City, 90 20; Sedan, "a, 20; To-
peka. 80, 70; Toronto. 92. 6S; Wichita.
80, "A.
The wind at noon was southwest,
blowing eight miles an hour. The hour
ly temperatures recorded today by the
government thermometer were as fol-
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TRY TO FIX 1T UP.
Gas Franchise Question Is Near
ing Il Head.

A strong effort is being made to iron
out the natural gas franchise question
today. The ROhrer faction is circulat-
ing a sort of a petition, and is trying to
get a compact among the members of
the council to support the franchise of
that company. and not the other fran
chise proposed by the Continental COM
pany. Several of the cOuncilmen have
already been interviewed. and at the
next council meeting, the Rohrer COM
pany will try to go in with seven
pledged votes.
The Rohrer company asserts that it
will not take a franchise if a franchise
is also granted to the Continental
crowd They say that the Continental
people have already cost them dearly,
by bidding down the price of gas from
60 cents and 45 cents, the price fixed in
the Rohrer franchise, to As and 80 cents.
On the other hand the Continental
company claims that all it asks is a
franchise, and it does not care whether
similar. franchise is granted to any
one else or not. II is willing to put uE
it's $1,000 to carry out its contract, and
seems to feel confident that it VIII be
able to get its plant into operation
quicker than the Rohrer company can.
A Topeka councilman said today: u
don't like the way things went at the
council meeting Monday night, and ]
shall try to line up in the future In
such a way that Topeka will get fran
chise of some sort. L would not object
to granting both companies franchise
Put in a provision that to accept the
franchise 81 900 must be deposited, ano
venture to say that this would make
one of the two concerns take to the
woods.
L understand that certain Topeka
newspaper is interested in the outcome
of the contest because one of the own
ers of the paper owns or expects tc
own some stock in one of the com
panies. I don't know that this is true
/ but if so it sheds considerable illum
ination on the attitude which that pa
per has assumed
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STATE OFFICERS CALLED.
Testify Before Grand Jury Regarding
Legislative Boodling.

jefferson City Mo-, Aug. 5.-Governor
Dockery, Secretary of State Cook,
Treasurer williams and Auditor Allen.
who comprise the executive department
of the state were today summoned be-
fore the Cole county grand jury that is
investigating charges of legislative
boodling. All the officials acknowledged
service and proceeded together to the
court house, in the company of the at
torney general.
The governor was the first to enter the
Jury room He remained about five
minutes and was followed by Cook,
williams and Allen, who remained only
a short while.
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ALDEN REUNION.
Descendants of John and Priscilla
Meet at Duxbury.

Plymouth, Mass, Aug 5.-Between 700
and 800 defendants of the Pilgrim John
Alden immortalized by Longfellow have
gathered in Duxbury at the second an
nual reunion of the Alden family.
Representatives were present from ev-
cry town in the old colony, every New
England state, New York. New Jersey,
Maryland Indiana, Wisconsin, Kansas,
and California The exercises were held
at the Alden homestead. built in the
seventeenth century by Jonathan grand
son of the famous John and his equally
famous wife, Priscilla.
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GirI Commits suicide

New York, Aug. 5.-Mabel Main, "a
years old, student at a training school
for nurses here, has committed suicide
because of the alleged objection of her
parents to a contemplated appearance
on the stage. She is said to have been
the daughter of a banker in Falmouth,
Jamaica, and showed considerable dra-
matte talent.
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Strike for Lower Wages.

New York, Aug. 5.-Union men re-
Gently employed by a firm of machinists
in Jersey City have struck practically
for a reduction from 1915 to $500 for a
DAVIS work The men were brought
from other points and paid more than
the union scale but the proprietors as
sert they demand recognition of the
union. regardless of the consequent re-
auction of Wages.
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Four Negroes Arrested.

New York. Aug. 5.-Following the dis
coyery in the Harlem river of the nude
hodv of an unidentified white man, with
q ont in the forehead, four negroes have
heen arrested on suspicion of murder.
one of the prisoners has told the police
that he met the white man in a Har-
lem saloon, that the three others came
in and saw the man show a roll of bills
and that one of the crowd bought a
flask of liquor into which he poured "A
quantity of snuff. He left the party
and later says he met one of them car
ryine in his arms the white mans
clothes.
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700 DROWNED
Two Thousand Families Left
Homeless by Flood.

Berlin, Aug. 5.-A dispatch received
here says 700 persons were drowned in
the disastrous floods which occurred at
Che Foo, China, July 27. The bridges
within the city and many houses with
their occupants were swept away in the
torrent. Two thousand of the inhabit-
ants are left without means of subsist-
ence.
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R.nral carriers to Meet.

Fredonia. Kan, Aug. 5.-H. NJ. Gordon.
chairman Of the committee on state organ
ization has issued a call for a meeting OF
the rural free delivery carriers of Kansas
at Ernporia September to perfect a state
organization. Mr.. Gordon urges that each
county having five or more carriers snail
form a county organization by electing a
president a secretary. a treasurer and
delegate to the state convention.
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1.4oo Pennies in Her Pocket.

New York, Aug. 5.-A woman giving
the name of Applestin, upon being
brought before police magistrate here
charged with vagrancy as a profession
al beggar was found to have bank de-
posits of 81 675 in currency. The latter
did not include l. 400 pennies found in her
pockets, which weighed, all told, 15
pounds 1t took the court attaches half
an hour to count the money. She was
handed over to a charity organization.
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Notice to the Public.

Beginning with Thursday. August g.
1908, the cars on the Lowman Hill line
and the West Eighth street line of the
Topeka Railway company will leave the
terminus at the bridge and at the end
of the lines five minutes earlier than
has been done heretofore.
THE TOPEKA RAILWAY co.