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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
THOSE JOINT CASES.

City Attorney Spencer is stumped. He
has 81 liquor cases that he doesn't know
what to do with. on his hands and is
going to ask the city council to tell
him how to let go. Mr.. Spencer says:
Il do not know what viii be done
with these 30 cases. 1 shall prepare
written statement of the conditions, and
explain the cases in detail and submit
the statement to the city council. and
will then proceed with the. 80 cases as
they may direct 1t is expensive to
take these cases UP for trial in the
district court when the result is that
no one is convicted. There have been
over 100 jurors summoned this week for
the cases that have been called"
Mr. Spencer then goes on to explain
the rulings of the supreme court which
clearly implies that none of the 50 joint
cases yet to be called will result in con-
victions.
Mr. Spencer's statement is an open
acknowledgment that some one has
Numbered at the expense of the city.
There is a way of convicting jointists,
as he explains. but it seems that every
one in Topeka concerned in joint prose-
cution has taken pains to avoid that
way
1t may be that Mr.. Spencer should
have instructed the police in the meth
DDS of securing evidence. for it is plain
that he knows the law as interpreted by
the supreme court. If it is his duty to
do this and he failed he must bear at
least part of the blame for the ridicu-
lous and expensive farce which has been
acted in the district court.
Perhaps Police Judge Hamilton, who
is lawyer. is to blame for making APP
peals to the district court necessary
when he must have known that there
was 10 evidence TO convict the culprit
of the misdemeanor charged. This
would have saved a great deal of eX-
pense, but Judge Hamilton would pro-
badly have been charged with favoring
the iointists and he would rather lose
his right hand than be under such a
cloud.
AS the matter rests some one has
Numbered and the city will pay the
bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
KING EDWARDS INNOVATION

King Edward VII has surprised the
English politicians by taking hand in
the solution of the cabinet crisis. They
are so use to doing things without the
Intervention of the ruler that they dc
not know what to make of the inter-
ference.
The modern king or queen is for show
purposes only The people are perfectly
willing to pay a million or two a year
just for the privilege of having a king
or a queen. But so far as the monarch
meddling in the affairs of state, that is
never thought of. The king may spend
his time shooting or playing baccarat if
he wishes but the people do not expect
him to take a hand in the organization
of cabinets and commonplace things like
that
That is why the action of King Ed
ward is arousing so much interest. No
doubt the people thought that Lord
Balfour would have no trouble in form
ing a cabinet but they did not reckon
on royal interference. The king is nom
inally the ruler of England and King
Edward evidently has determined to do
something toward earning the two mill
lion dollars per year that the people pay
him for being king
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Mound Valley win read by gas light
this winter.
The grounds for a Leavenworth divorce
suit were found in the poor coffee.
Glasco farmers are blowing under four
foot suntiowers grown since the wheat
was cut.
A rather odd window attraction at Be
lott is a deep sea turtle and a pair of
monkey faced owls.
An Atchison woman wears A s27 hat. In
Topeka this would be counted the top
notch of extravaganza.
Maple Hin residents will shake the
boarded change from their stockings. The
town is to have bank
One. peach from a Beloit orchard weighs
half pound. In fact the entire crop, the
owner says, are peaches.
Mr. Tuck of Ellnwood has been danger
ously sick-for a time it was nip and tuck
whether he would recover.
An Eskridge lad who was kicked silly by
COW rather enjoyed it because he has
an excuse now to get out of milking
The latest attraction at Canton is visit
ing triplets. They draw more attention
than a circus and the admission is free.
Eskridge has an Animal Rescue
League" the duty of whose members is
to care for all stray cats and homeless
dogs.
One of the delights of living in Topeka
is being enabled to get three Rocky Ford
melons for quarter. At Great Bend they
are 25 cents a dozen.
A swell Great Bend confectionery estab-
lishment has endeared itself to the sweet
sixteen crowd by keeping thirty different
varieties of chocolates.
A Holton woman entertained sixty-f1ve
of her friends with a chicken pie lunch
con: That was happy method of dis
posing of several ancient ROSTERS.
A Clyde peach tree contains a half BUSH
81 of freestones that are monsters. One
OF the smaller ones measured 9s4 inches
at the girth and weighed ounces.
A venerable appearing man who posed
in Cimarron as being an agent to secure
men to work on the Topeka car line, was
In reality a "spotter."
A Belle Plain man sold $50 bushels of
Grimes Golden apples for shipping at IS
cents per four pecks in the orchard. 1t
was simply picking up money.
Twenty years ago a Mcpherson lad
clambering around in the Methodist
church belfry lost a gold ring. This week
workmen repairing the church found the
treasure.
A station agent in Reno county
kicked an Obstreperous passenger from
the depot with his wooden leg. It cost
the railroad man $22 in court fines and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
TAKING THEIR TIME.
City Railway in No Hurry to
Clear Up Street.

City Engineer McCabe is having
trouble with the street railway conrrac-
tors about keeping West Sixth avenue
clear for traffic. The superintendent OF
construction. Mr.. Collins. blocked up the
south side of Sixth street entirely,
which is contrary to law.
People out there commenced to com
plain. and the city engineer sent man
out to notify the company that it must
clear up the roadway. The man asked
one of the colored Workmen to remove
some ties, and the workman replied that
he wasn't in that business.
When this was reported to the city
engineer, he made a complaint to SUI
perintendent Collins. and Collins prons-
ised to discharge the negro. Collins also
agreed to set a big gang to work i'm
mediately cleaning up.
This morning several more COM
plants came iii. and some of the coun-
cilmen were appealed to. A grocer
named Hebb complained toCouncilman
Wolf. He said that Collins was not do
ing anything toward clearing the street
and that he (Collins) had told Hebb
that 1T wouldn't get his street opened a
- bit quicker to roar to the council
men about it,
City Engineer McCabe went out this
afternoon to find out what the trouble
is. Unless the street is cleared and
opened, there will be some arrests
made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
the other fellow. several nights of

the other fellow. several nights of
agony.
Three men arrested at Goodiand on
the charge of breaking into car of
whisky ask clemency on the plea that
drinking the goods was punishment
enough.
A formerly of Colby man writes back
from Ohio that he is getting along we'll
and thinks that state equal to the
.'Jayhawker kingdom" Such a thing
seems impossible.
The grape crop was killed by the
frost and the pessimists in Doniphan
last spring. This week twenty-five
pickers started in on one vineyard.
A BeIleville ring lost twelve years
ago has been found. In answering the
finders query over the phone the ex-
cited owner exclaimed. %Oh, ring off.
With the passing of the good old
summer time" comes the pawpaW sea-
son at Chanute. A sprig bearing seven
specimens of the fruit has been dis
covared.
The Winfield joints were ordered
closed bv the mavor the same day that
one of the saloons received a dazzling
array of cut glass. bar fixtures and
imported moonshine.
Missouri first cousins who came to
Leavenworth to marry were given the
icy mitt.' IT'S against the law" dryly
unused the judge as he glanced across
the street at a saloon in full blast
That "Old Grimes is dead, that good
ex-treasurer is running a shirt fac
healthy boom for national committee
man,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
HANGED IN WYOMING.
James Keefer Executed for Murder of
VIM. Warren.

Lander, Wyo.. Sept. 25.-James Keef-
err, the murderer of William Warren
was hanged in the Jail yard here today
The condemned man spent large part
of his last night on earth in singing
dancing and telling stories to the death
watch. The execution attracted a
great deal of attention, as it was the
first legal hanging in the state since
1879
The crime for which Keefer was
hanged was the murder of William
Warren, an old man who was stock
tender for the Lander Rawlins Stage
company on the Carmody ranch, near
Bruce about two and a half years ago.
Warren was shot while asleep and his
personal effects stolen. Keefer adj
mitted having S. of Warren's money in
his possession. but denied having any
knowledge of the crime. From an in
jury to his head received sevral years
ago. Keefer had been insane at times.
and efforts We're made to obtain a
Communication of the death sentence on
this ground, but Governor Chatterton
refused clemencY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
LOCAL MENTION.

Mr.. Don Paine went to Kansas City
today for a short visit
C. Dolman is here from Las Vegas,
N. M, visiting relatives.
Mr.. Russell Frost left for Lexington,
Mo. today to enter school.
Mr.. Lewis BANTER, of Kansas City, is
visiting friends in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amasa Akers. formerly
| of 521 Tyler street, have located tenn
porarily in Kansas City.
Mr.. S. r. Wilcox, of Harper Kas.,
ton with Vesper's bakery.
Floyd Squires is expected up from
Burlingame to remain over Sunday.
He has position there with the cleo
trio light plant.
Luther Nellis has gone to Fort Mad
ison Iowa. with the BODY of Frank
Hammond, fellow Knight Templar,
who was killed last Tuesday by falling
from a bridge.
r. Whitner of the Rock Island
freight offices. is very sick with heart
trouble at his home on West Fourth
He has been gradually getting worse
for the past four weeks.
Charute Tribune: H. F. Valentine
and Mrs. ]. T. Wallar returned from
Topeka last night with w. NJ. Robinson
who has been in the hospital there. Mr.
Robinsons condition has not improved.
Fireman VIM. Petit, driver of the
AERIAL tiuCh, WIS ldhGL 10 SHT1Sl nos
pital Thursday to have a silver of steel
removed from his knee. The silver
was stuck in several days ago, and has
been gradually getting deeper.
Mrs. G. M. Langdon, of Eleventh and
Tyler. was called TO Kansas City this
afternoon by dispatch stating that
her brother, Mr. Ed FIuke, was in dy-
ing condition. Mr.. Fluke was a former
resident of Topeka and has been ailing
for year.
At the next council meeting, it is
probable that the people who are back
ing the proposed Topeka and Manhat-
tan electric line win ask for franchise
to build inside the city limits. Central
avenue Gordon street and Quincy
street will probably be asked for as
right of way.
Street Commissioner Snyder and City
Engineer McCabe started in today to
make the regular fall examination of
bridges and large culverts. There are
"a such bridges in the city, over the
creeks and drains, and 1T is the custom
of the engineer and street commission
er to inspect them twice year to find
out what repairs are needed.
Frank Thompson, little negro. was
fined SIS in police court this morning for
stealing a bicycle belonging to Don
Jameson The wheel was left at the
Santa Fe office building one night two
weeks ago, and the owner never saw it
again until last night. The little negro
confessed to the theft. and admitted
swapping parts of the bicycle with
another boy to disguise it.
The Topeka burglar is doing a little
daylight work now. Perhaps the nights
are not long enough for him. Yesterday
afternoon the home of L. T. Thompson
was robbed while Mrs. Thompson was
sitting on the front porch. The robber
cut screen in rear window, and went
through the house without attracting
attention Docketbook and small sum
of money was stolen. and the theft was
not discovered for an hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
THE rIME-woRN FACE.

You need not beg, for you shall not
Take my old face in your snapshot,
That picture in the old tin chest
When l was just a girl is best"
So argued grandma. My old face
But, All! that bridal painting gay,
Was not the idol of our day.
All! grandma. after years and years.
Unfogged by light, undimmed by tears,
We each yet keep within our mind
A picture of you, love enshrined,
Just as you sat I'm that old chair,
With warm kind face and wavy hair.
All, mother. here's a sober thought:
We're taken if we will or not,
In childrens kodak eyes, and true,
Just as We are and as we do
And grandma well she never guessed
We loved her time-worn face the besti
MRS. L. E. THORPE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
BEAVERS MAY WAIT.
His Examination Is Once More
Postponed.

New York. Sept. 25-The examinat ton
of George w. Beavers, on the Brook
lyn indictment in the postal investi-
cation, was again adjourned today by
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
until October 5, when the contempt
proceedings against Postoffice Inspec-
tor Little for refusing a subpoeana was
argued.
Mr.. Beavers was also formally ar
raigned oday on the first Washington
conspiracy with the Columbia Supply
company which furnished the large
iron boxes used for receiving packages
and papers.
The defense admitted Mr.. Beavers
identity but gave notice to the prosecu-
ton that they intended to object to the
sufficiency of the Indictment and that
they would on or before Saturday next
file briefs with the commissioner, point
ing out their objections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
WANTS PAY FOR LAND.
Suit for $4,000 Is Filed in Federal
Court.

A suit has been commenced in the Uni
ted States circuit court here by Hunter
M. Meriwether of Kansas City to compel
the payment of So, coo he claims to be due
him for property condemned and bought
by the City Terminal Railroad company.
The suit is brought against Treasurer
John Caskey of Wyandotte county, in
whose hands he claims the money now is.
Suit has also been begun on Caskey's of
fetal bond of $50, 600 by MeriWether.
The claim is made in the PLAINTIFF s petit
ton that about four acres of land in
Kansas City, Kan, owned by Meriwether
was condemned and bought by the City
Terminal Railroad company in February
1901, So. 600 in cash being paid over to the
county treasurer for the ground. Meri-
wether asserts that the county treasurer
has persistently refused his demands for
its payment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Word has been received from Chicago
of the death of Miss Emily Henderson,
only daughter of George r. Henderson,
who was. until recently superintendent
of motive power at the Santa He shops.
Miss Henderson died in Chicago last
Sunday of appendicitis, after an illness
of ten days. The body will be taken to
Philadelphia for burial. Mr.. Henderson
and family removed to Chicago from
this city a few weeks ago.
Mrs. Jeffries. of Silver Lake, died yes
terday at the age of 65 years. The fun
eral was held this afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
MORE COLLIERIES TO QUIT.
Reading Mines Will Work but Four
Days q Week

Philadelphia, Sept. 25.-GeneraI Man
ager Henderson of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal and Iron company today
made the following announcement re-
garding the working of the company's
anthracite coal mines:
THE Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron company will work its Sham
okin collieries only four days next week
The demand for Shamokin coal is limit
ed. Two of the collieries. the Shenan-
doaA City and the Silver Greek will
shut down for repairs on October 3.
The Lehigh & Wilkesbarre colliery will
work as USUAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

Prof Vernon L. Kellogg, instructor In
entomology at Leland Stanford, jr., uni
versit9. formerly student and later
professor at the Kansas university, has
written an elementary text book upon
zoology which is pronounced by the
faculty of Kansas university to be one
OF the most satisfactory text books ever
written on the subject. Prof. Kellogg
has written several other books on the
same subject. He is an old Kansas boy
and was reared at Emporia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
Election Judges in Contempt.

Denver, Sept. 25.-Half a dozen cleo
ton judges in wards three and four
charged with violating an injunction is
sued from Judge Johnson on election
day, have been cited to appear in court
tomorrow morning to show cause why
they should not be punished for cor
tempt. Michael Delaney, police captain
has also been cited to answer for con-
tempt in advising and abetting the vio-
lation of the courts order. The COM.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

If the shippers guess they can outwit
the railroads when it comes to picking
out railroad commissioners, they prob
ably have another guess coming. 1t
win be an extremely chilly day when
you catch the railroads asleep on a
proposition of that kind. But there are
more people than there are railroad at
torneys and If it comes to a showdown
the people can outvote them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

The new book Of rules for employees of
the railroads centering in Chicago
stringently forbids the use of liquor or
cigarettes. The use of tobacco in any
form about or on railroad property is
forbidden The railroads are bearing
down harder than ever in the effort to
suppress these two vices. When strong
commercial organizations join in the
fight that has been carried on for years
by the temperance societies something
IS pretty certain to happen to the liquor
and tobacco business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
Girls Apply for Places.

The Western Union has applications
of a number of girls who wish positions
as messengers, but as vet have not &C.
cided to use girls in that service and
won't unless it gets impossible to find
boys At the present time they have all
the boys they need.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
Dnaenberrv roc Quick tor Him.

A prisoner named Efwick, who is
serving a fve-day sentence for drunKe-1-
ness refused to work in North Topeka,
and escaped from the guards JoGaS
Dusenberry who is one of the guards,
chased Efwick into sorghum field anu
captured him When the prisoners re-
turned to work after dinner Efwiek wore
the official s.jeweIry'' an S-foot chain
with 50-pound charm on the end OF It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

fore the South African war commission
that the Powerful's shooting was pow
erful bad. The British admiralty might
challenge Sir Archibald to a duel and
impress its skill at craftsmanship upon
him by making a few holes in his per-
son-if they could hit him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

Arrangements are being made to pipe
oil from the Indian Territory to the
Standard refinery at Neodesha- The
legislature two years ago passed a law
against piping oil or gas out of the
state. 1t is all right to bring in as much
of it as anybody wants to either by
pipe lines or in barrels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
MONEY IN TREASURY.
There Is Now Nearly a Half
Million on Hand.

The examination of the state treas
ury for September, which has just
been made by the examining board.
composed of Governor Bailey, Secretary
of State Burrow and Auditor Wells.
shows that there is a total of 1856, 940.S "a
in the various funds in the state treas
ury. Of this amount $204, 422. OF is in the
general revenue fund.
The Offsets show that there is on de-
posit in the Topeka banks a little over
100000. The total offsets are as fol-
lows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
MIR. THOMPSON is BACK.
Former Rock Island Agent Returns
to Live Hera.

E. w. Thompson. formerly assistant
general passenger agent of the Rock Is
land, has returned to Topeka with his
family and viii open up state headquar-
ters here for the National Life Insurance
company of Milwaukee.
Mr.. Thompson left the Rock Islanl to
work for the National Life company,
and since then has been at Milwaukee.
He is very well known and popular IN
Topeka, and his return here will be well
coined.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

The poor farmers in Decatur county
are calling for help to thresh their grain
and all the college boys have gone back
TO school 1t is to be hoped that this
will be a lesson to the thriftless agricul-
turists of Decatur county to get their
wheat into sacks before school begins
next season
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

The telegraph is a great institution.
The weather bureau can send out pre-
diction of chilling frost. and, finding
its mistake. come out twelve hours later
and announce hot wave. That is what
happened yesterday and this morning
If the weather changes again the prob
ably man can catch up with it in the
morning editions of the press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
TEST YOUR KIDNEYS

Every two or three weeks. It's the only
way to keep perfect watch of your health.
Just let a tumblerful of morning urine
stand for "a hours, and if it becomes
cloudy. or particles float about in it, or ii
a reddish-brown sediment forms. it is
positive proof that your kidneys are utter
~ unable to do their work correctly. and
unless properly treated at once Bright 5
disease. diabetes. uric acid and blood poi
soning, with fatal results, will surely fol-
low.
The only safe and permanent cure for
all diseases of the kidneys, bladder, liver
IL l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

Lieutenant General Sir Archibald
Hunter. commanding the kings forces
in Scotland, has refused to apologize to
Rear Admiral Lambton. as representa-
tive of the British admiralty. for criti-
rising the Workmanship of the gunners
of the cruiser Powerful at the Siege of
Ladysmith. Sir Archibald testified be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
Fire on East Side.

At S:41 this morning, the fire Depart
ment received an alarm from 434 La
fayette street. where a two story dwell
ling owned and occupied by George
I.ayne was afire The blaze was quickly
extinguished with a loss of only S25. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

The Topeka Choral union is getting
ready to begin singing again. The
Choral union has made place for itself
in Topeka and the music lovers of the
town are looking to the organization to
introduce some good things in the way
of musical entertainments this winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25
BIG Four Men at Work.

Indianapolis. Ind, Sept. 25.-The strik-
ing boilermakers and helpers of the Big
Four road returned to work today pend
ing a settlement of the wage question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

In Washington the city council has
ruled that there is no difference be-
tween milk and cream and therefore
cream vendors must take out milk
license. The said city council must not
have a very discriminating taste.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

Kansas City is. said to purify its
water with alum. And yet it wasn't
very long ago that alum was causing
all kinds Of trouble over in Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-25

A New York scientist refers to Kan
sas as the state where formerly dwelt
the sabre-toothod tiger. after its emf
grafton from ancient Iberia of Europe"
The Oldest Inhabitant ought to be con-
suited about this