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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-28
WASHINGTON December 27.-spec-

N WASHINGTON, December 2T.-Spec-
 w ial.)-Representatiye James D.
 Richardson of Tennessee said to. day that in his opinion the prospects for democratic success are better than they have been since 1892.
 "A majority of white people of the United States are democrats" said MT. Richardson, "and they want to see dem ocratic principles triumph Democrats are now where they were before the split on the money question: continued Mr Rich ardson. there is no division of belief on the cardinal doctrines of the party The money question is not an issue, and will not be an issue in next years campaign. have no desire to attempt to write democratic platform, but a reform of the tariff looking toward freer trade is some- thing in which all democrats believe, and something that is imperativey demanded by the best interests of the country. Mind
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Heveridqe's Father-in.Law Dead.

Indianapolis. December ZIG. Langs- dale. father-in-law of Senator Albert ] Beveridge died here today. He was unti recently auditor of the Indianapolis pos l. office. For twenty years he edited a re publican paper at Green Castle. Ind.
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Automobile Races June 17.

Berlin, December 27.-The automobile races pr the James Gordon Bennett cup will take place June 17, 1904, as definitely decided today.
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Ma-riane at Canp Hlll.

Camp Hill. December 7.--(special )-Carl Rhyme of Jasper. Ga, married Miss Kate Slaughter here this evening. Both are of prominent families.
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T oRT WORTH, Tex, December 27- F A special from South McAlester,


 A special from South McAlester, Il I. T., to the Record says:
 "A bold bank robbery, attended by desperate battle between posse of citi- zens and robbers. occurred at 1<iowa. a small town sixteen miles south of this city, today. the robbers securing and de- stroying about S2SOO, which was in the bank
 The men gained entrance to the bank building through rear window. The first charge of nitro-glycerine made no impression on the safe, but the noise aroused residents of the town and soon a posse composed of fifty men was con gregated in the stock yards at the rear of the bank A volley of shots was fired at the building and it was at once return cd by the sentnels of the robbers, se- creted on the outside of the structure
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THE WEATHER.

Washington. December 27.-Fore- case for Alabama; Fair Monday and Tuesday; variable winds.
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State Department Has General
 Reyes Note Under Consideration
MANY EXCHANGES EXPECTED
Grievances Are Discussed by colon1- bia's Representative in Calm and
 Dignified nanner-CIaims to
 Have Suffered Under Treaty.

Washington, December H.-State de- partment officials have under considera- ton the nature of the reply which is to be made to the note of General Reyes the Colombian minister, regarding the ac- ton of the United States in connection with affairs growing out of the secession of the department of Panama.
 Just when the answer is to be ready is not definitely known. General Reyes is anxious for an early reply and the state department officials are equally as anx- ious that the matter shall be disposed of as quickly as is consistent with careful preparation of the administrators an- swef.
 The Colombian note contains state- ment of the grievances which that coun- try claims to have suffered under the in- terpretations put upon the treaty of lS46 It discusses these grievances in calm and dignified tone and sets out reasons which General Reyes claims supports the contention he has made. The probability is there will be several diplomatic ex- changes between Colombia and the Unit ed States before anything like a conolu- sion of the discussion of the matters at issue is reached.
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Take your meals at Gelders'.
 no N. Twentieth st
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WORK OF LOADING
 THE DIXIE HURRIED.

Philadelphia, December H.-The Sab bath stiffness at the League Island navy yard was broken today by the hurried fit ting out of the cruiser Dixie for her trip to Colon and tonight the trim vessel is ready to sail tomorrow morning. The ac- tivity at the yard resembed much the busy scenes there prior to the Spanish American war Brigadier General Elliott. commanding the marine corps, and who is going to the isthmus on the Dixie, ar rived in the afternoon. Three companies of marines. one from Boston and the oth- CTS from Washington. also arrived. Al- together the Dixie will take south 600 ma rnes who will be under the command of lieutenant Colonel Waller.
 The work of loading the cruiser con- tinued until midnight Saturday, and was completed this afternoon. The quantity and character of her cargo indicated that the government expects a long encamp- ment at Panama. Her hold and decks are crowded to the limit with stores. Be- sides the regular stores and other outfit for the marines on board of the vessel, and now at the isthmus the Dixie will take on five wagon loads of small ammu- nition, a quantity of lumber camp sup plies and a number of wagons
 Elections in Panama.
 Panama. December Publications for members of the constitutional conven- tion took place in every part of the re- public. The results are not yet known, but telegrams from the interior report the apparent triumph of the candidates proposed by the popular junta composed of liberals and conservatives.
 For the first time in the history of the isthmus the elections in the city of Pan anna have been conducted without any attempt at bribery or other illegaities
 Sir Mortimer Notified.
 New York, December 27.-Mr. Bunau- Varilla minister from Panama, stated to- night that he had notified Sir Mortimer Durand. British ambassador to the Unit ed States, of Panama's willingness to assume a part of the exterior debt of Colombia in proportion to the population of Panama, compared with Colombia. The ministers say this will be done as soon as the independence of Panama is recog- nized by Colombia.
 Panamans here who were informed of the course adopted by Mir. Bunau-Varilla said that this step had been taken to show the good faith of the new republic. They believe that no court of arbitration would have reached the conclusion that any part of Colombias exterior debt should be assumed by Panama. as never in the history of the country was any part of the exterior loans utilized for the benefit of Panama The total amount of the exterior debt with interest added is sl500O.OOo. and PansA1a has T population about one-fifteenth of that of Colombia. so that Panama will take upon itself the payment of million dollars, if the cond- tions are carried out
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Conflicting Statements.

Investigation by the Pere Marquette of feials into the cause of the wreck has brought out some conflicting statements Operator r. NJ. Booth at McCords states most emphaticaly that when he received orders to hold the west bound train at L--~-~~-----~-~~~
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
SAVING THE FORESTS.

Seasoning experiments with railroad
ties are being conducted in cooperation
with the Santa Fe railroad and the Kir-
by Lumber company at Silsbee, Tex,
and the ties are being treated with
personalities at Somerville, Tex. The
timbers undergoing the experiments are
longleaf, loblolly, and shortleaf pines.
All along the lines of the Illinois
Central and the ST. Louis and San Fran
cisco seasoning experiments are in pro-
gross on swamp, red, pin, and COW oak
and beech and gum.
The experiments in seasoning the
lodgepole pine, carried on last year for
the Burlington railroad in Bear Canyon,
Montana, and Sheridan, Wyo., have
been continued this year. Last year it
was found that SO per cent of the
weight of the ties was lost by open-air
drying, which resulted in an enormous
saving in freight.
Work of a similar nature to the rail-
road experiments is being carried on
for the American Telegraph and Tele-
phone company which used last year
loo, 600 telephone poles and 100000 feet
of timber in cross-arms. Seasoning ex-
periments are being conducted on chest
nut telephone poles near Harrisburg,
Pa, and on cedar poles near Whining
ton, n. c.
Important and valuable as this work
is to the railroad and telegraph COM
panies, it is of far greater Importance
and value to the country at large. The
use of cheaper timbers for railroad ties
is in several ways an economic saving;
it relieves the high grade timbers of a
part of the heavy demand that is being
made upon them, opens a market for
timbers for which there is now little
sale, and affords splendid opportunities
for conservative management of tim
Der lands. The work is being prosecuted
according to the regular cooperative
system of the bureau of forestry by
which the field and travelling expenses
of the bureaus agents are paid by
those for whom the work is done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23

squeezing process was applied which re-
duced the apparent (but not the reaD
value of securities by many millions of
dollars. The stock market hysteria
halted the optimism of the nation just
long enough to permit it to take an in
ventory of business conditions and the
inventory is highly satisfactory. The
earnings of the railroads which move
commodities from point to point of con-
sumption are in excess of earnings for
previous years. and with the bank
exchanges, which also reveal the de-
gree of activity of exchanges of COM
modities, furnish satisfactory evidence
that there has been no check to produc-
ton and no slowing of demand. The
crop reports indicate a plentiful food
supply, and the output of the manufac-
tories is such as to indicate that each
product will make a good market for
the other The general foundation OF
security values is. therefore, unimpair-
ed. so that there is no danger of i'm
pairment of income from securities.
Wealth Is not improperly measured by
earning power, so that If the Wall
street quotations for stocks and bonds
are not so high as a short time ago, the
owners of securities (taking no account
of the fact that prices are sure to be
higher) are in as good a position now
as they were six months ago. 1t is only
those who were forced to sell who are
worse off, not the nation as a whole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The MIX in the Cocoanut.

Bl1ladelDhla BuIIeIlQ.
What may prove to be the milk in
the Colombian cocoanut is revealed by
an interview with a member of the BO-
gotta Congress, who is represented as
declaring that his country ought to re-
ceive much more than the $4,000, 900
which the United States has offered
for the right of way across the isth>
mus
If matters remain in their present
condition, this legislator is represent
ed as pointing out, the franchise of the
Panama Canal Company will shortly
be forfeited to the Colombian govern
ment, owing to the inability of the gov
eminent to carry out the terms of its
contract by completing the canal. This
company has agreed to pay $40, 100000
to the French concern for it's rights.
Should those rights lapse and fall into
the possession of Colombia, the French
stockholders would receive nothing;
while the Colombians would be in
position to demand that this huge sum
should be paid over to them as the
owners of the forfeited franchise.
Several more or less vague intima-
tons have previously appeared to this
effect, and it may be that this feature
of the situation is influential in induc-
ing the congress of Colombia to de-
lay action on the treaty. If this as
sumption is based on fact, the OBJ
structionists are playing for the high
stake of $50 600, 900 instead of $4,000, 900.
The former sum no doubt seems fabu>
lOuS TO the needy pOHllcal dQVenIuIeIS
in the South republic. There is an inn
portant consideration, however, which
these schemers apparently fail to take
into account. That is the question
whether the United States, if the rati-
fication of the treaty should be held UP
until the French company's franchise
expires, would consent to become a
party to any such transaction.
Colombia has contributed neither
work nor money to the building of so
much of the canal as has been finished.
Both the expenditure and the labor
have been contributed by the French
organization which succeeded the de.
funct enterprise of De Lesseps. If the
ColombianS propose to cheat the
French stockholders out of the amount
which this country has promised to
pay them, they will probably find that
they have reckoned without their host
This policy involves in the first place
prolonged delay, which the admins
tration at Washington is not likely to
tolerate. 1t comprehends in the second
place an act of colossal sharp practice.
1t is insulting to the United States to
suppose for one moment that it would
become a partner in any such scoun-
drellY transaction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
SUES A POSTMASTER.
Damages Asked for Failure to De-
liver Card.


One of the interesting problems which
the supreme court will have to unravel
next winter is whether or not a post
master is liable for damages if his
clerks fail to deliver to a patron a
postal card bearing the announcement
of that patrons fathers death
Such case was filed in the supreme
court today, as an appeal from Coffey
county, where Dennis Madden, judge,
held that the plaintiff, f. N. Cole did
not have sufficient grounds for action
against Postmaster c. c. Gray, of Lee
roy, Kan.
Postmaster Gray has two clerks in his
office, Charles Gray and Miss Stanley.
They were left in charge of the office
at one time, and while they were in
charge a postal card was written from
Burlington, June Is. 1902, and received
in Leroy, according to the postmark, on
June 16 at a. m. The postal card was
as follows:
BRO. Frank: Father died at 1:25 yes
treday afternoon. Will be buried some
time tomorrow. Mave not set time yet
till some of the rest of family get here.
FROM SISTER NET"
Cole says he called at the postoffice
every day. but did not get the card
until June 10. Then the clerks told him
they had overlooked the card. He sued
Postmaster Gray for 81, 900 damages,
and after the evidence on behalf of the
plaintiff had been presented Judge
Madden sustained demurrer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
SUES e. E. BROWN.
Insurance Company Asks Judgment
Against Him and Bondsmen.

E. E. Brown and w. F. Sapp are de-
PENDANTS in a suit filed today in the SUI
preme court by the Fidelity & Casualty
company as an appeal from Cherokee
county. The Fidelity & Casualty COM
pany does a general accident insurance
business, and Brown was its agent.
Sapp acted as surety for Brown. The
company claimed that Brown had failed
to turn in money which he received, and
sued him for S407 IS. The suit seems to
really have been against his bondsman,
w F. Sapp.
The court not only refused to allow
the insurance company's claim, but it
gave Sapp a judgment for $3.50 costs
against the company.
w. F. Sapp is the well known Demo-
cratic politician of Galena, Kas. E. Z.
Brown was at one time in Topeka.
running the Democratic weekly called
the Observer. Prior to that he operated
the same publication at Guthrie, Okla
He is also the man who organized the
Sunf1ower league, which was to be the
Kansas Day club of the Democratic
Da----.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
FROM BINGEN ON THE RHINE
Youngster and Dachshund Travel
Thousands of Miles.

Hagerstown, Ind, July ga ten
year-old boy was checked through from
Bingen on the Rhine to Cando, N. D.,
as baggage. He was sent over the
PENNSYLVANIA on train 81 from New
York to Indianapolis, where he was
transferred to the Monon for Chicago.
thence over the Northwestern railroad.
About a month ago he had started
from Bingen on the Rhine to go to his
parents in Cando, n. ID. More than a
year ago they had left their native lana
to try their fortunes in America. Their
little son had been left in charge of an
aunt, who was to care for him until
his parents could make enough money
to send for their boy. The child knew
that his parents had prospered in the
new country, for he said they had
home and cattle and horses. They
sent money to pay his fare and plenty
for his expenses. His aunt had accom-
panied him to Hamburg but from there
he had Travelled alone, except for
the little dachshund under his arm.
which had not left his side day or
night since starting.
While the boy was checked through
like any other baggage, he carried
ticket and rode in the coaches like other
passengers. The baggage check was
used only to identify him and be placed
In charge of every new conductor who
came on duty. He was very impatient
TO meet his parents, and spoke of his
longing to be with them once more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
NO NATIONAL LOSS

The attitude of the country toward
the recent gyrations executed by the
Bulls and Bears on Wall street is aptlv
expressed by the Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph in the following:
OF course. persons who bought securi-
ties when they were selling at a higher
price in the market and sold them at
a price below that at which they bought
nave suffered an actual loss. Persons
who bought when securities were before
at this level and have held them
through all the ups and downs of the
market have lost nothing, but possibly
regret that they did. not increase their
fortunes by selling when they could get
more for their property than they can
now obtain. They have seen a fortune
grow only to be swept away again. but
It was only a paper fortune and they
have suffered no actual loss. Aside
however, from the actual losses of the
one class of individuals and the paper
losses Of the other class the country is
no worse off at this moment than be-
fore the Wall street slump The volume
of securities has not diminished and
their earning power is no less now than
It was at the first of the year. Meas
ured by income account instead of by
capital valuation the country is not a
penny poorer than it was before the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
Conquest of Wheat.

Everything points to continued ex-
pansion of the oriental trade That Jap
an is now buying American flour in un-
usually large quantities is significant. 1t
may be partially explained by prepare
ton for possible war between Japan and
Russia, but we fancy that the truth is,
as careful students of commercial move
ments have foreseen, that the consump-
ton of wheat flour by the peoples of the
orient is permanently expanding. War or
no war, and regardless of climatic and
other conditions, both Japan and China
are going to adopt the staple food of the
highly civilized nations, and must adopt
it, just as they must use modern weap-
ons and come to the modern system of
commercial exchange There is IS
cape from it. You might Just as well
expect China, after her recent expef4-
ence with the nations. to go on think
ing that she could win battles by burn
ing incense, beating tomtoms and rails
ing a general hulfabaloo. as to think
that she could expect to maintain any
standing of efficiency that would fit her
new-world conditions on her accustom-
ed food ration. American wheat flour
is going to be the food of the orient.
lust as certainly as American textiles
now are it's clothing.-Seattle Post-In-
telligencer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.

We hate aesthetic people.
A real lover of music loves it as he does
his sweetheart
When anyone complains a great deal Of
boys it is bad sign.
Il know l wouldn't be good to STEP
children Drake Watson.
An Atchison child is so amiable that she
gets along with two step-parents.
An Atchison man wears a shirt which
is red enough to stop the limited.
When fat man dances during the sum-
mer. the girls say the odor is something
awful.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who referred to her enemy as IAN
old gump''?
A daughters chaperonage of her bereft
father begins on the way back from her
mothers funeral.
If anyone writes more than two letters
home when on a vacation, it means he is
not having a good time.
1t is a good idea to have telephone in
the house: it gives a man something else
to get provoked about besides the baby.
Come, confess up, men: if your children
were to describe their father as 'the man
who scolds mother would it fit?
We suppose that when woman lifts
eff her hair and takes out her teeth. con-
tractors call it removing the false work -
When perspiration begins to show in the
back of the shirt waists worn by women.
we know that the weather is hot
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Speculation and Business.
Washington Post.

washington Post.
The injurious effects upon business of
speculation in futures is being very
forcibly illustrated just now in the cot
ton market. The country generally has
had no particular interest in the Wall
street gambling in that product. other
than to watch. for the collapse of the
speculative bubble and read the list of
the spectators pinched in the deal. But
the fight is by no means settled between
the cotton bulls and bears, and the ef-
feet of it is being felt by the cotton
manufacturers of laborers who find en-
ployment in the cotton mills of the
country. Finally. the effect will be felt
by the consumers, as there is now every
indication that prices of manufactured
cotton goods will be higher than before
in years. Leaders in the speculative
movement have been making or losing
millions in this commodity for several
weeks, and the entire market supply OF
cotton for July. August and September
has been bought and sold many times
over, with the result that the real ar
ticle is held at a price out of all pro-
portion to its actual value. Traders
have been buying and selling something
that they never had, and never expect to
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have, trusting to some lucky fiuke of
the market to enable them to get out
with profit leaving the unlucky stock
gambler to bear the burden when the
bottom drops out of the inflated prices.
The general public has little concern
and no choice as to which Wall street
Spectator is forced to the wall by the
collapse of the cotton boom, but the
stock jobbing has been carried to sucn
an extreme in this commodity that the
mill owner, the laboring man in the
cotton mill, and the merchant are al
ready beginning to feel the effects of the
inflated conditions. Cotton mills in the
south have already commenced closing
down, and 1000 hands are idle in the
Atlanta district alone because the mill
owners cannot afford 20 tuy raw ma
terial or manufacture the stock already
in hand at the prevailing prices. Mill
managers in New England and through
out the cotton belt in the south are con-
fronted with the serious problem of clos
ing their plants OF operating them at
loss. Dry goods jobberS and retailers,
in the meantime, are buying from
hand to mouth, unwilling to make the
usual investments so long as the cotton
prices are in heir unsettled condition.
Legitimate trade is being seriously in
jured to make a holiday for the Wall
street gamblers.
There is slight prospect of relief from
a repetition of such conditions in the
future Shrewd spectators, who realize
that there is a grave danger in this
Misrepresentation. have started a move
ment for the protection, not only of the
trader, but of a great industry which
has been seriously handicapped by this
years speculative operations. 1t is pro-
posed to confine trading hereafter to
actualitfes by conducting it upon the
basis of warehouse receipts. It is pro-
posed to have all the cotton exchanges
of the county unite upon adopting this
standard, agreeing to deal only in cot
ton represented by warehouse receipts
or upon contracts representing cotton
actually in sight in the fields Such a
plan would not. of course, prevent gam
bling in cotton futures, but it would
check speculation from running wild,
as it has been doing in the last two
months. to the injury of legitimate bust
ness.