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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. T. H. Bacon is the city visiting
friends.
F. r. Osgood returned today from
trip to- Chicago.
Fl. L. DweIle. of Emporia, is visiting
in Topeka for a few days.
Miss Fannie Overmyer of Kansas City
is in the city for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs Hugo Demuth are the
parents of a son born Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Schaeffer have re-
turned from four months stay at
Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Collins have re
turned from one months stay in Colo
RADIO and California.
Nettie Borders has asked Judge Hazen
to divorce her from Charles T. Borders.
She says her husband has abused her.
Mrs. Lucy J. Mercer has filed suit in
the district court for a divorce from D.
w Mercer. She alleges extreme cru
city.
This afternoon the Rock Island haul
ed through Topeka special train of
seven coaches containing 1876 bankers
on their way home to Cleveland, Ohio.
from the national convention at San
Francisco.
Bailiff John Coyne, of the district
court, has lost his pension papers. If
they are not restored to his possession
soon the wheels of justice may be de-
layed in the usual grind until Coyne
finds them.
The Modoc club will celebrate its
twenty-seventh anniversary at the Ma
tional hotel this evening with banquet.
The annual election of officers will be
held at o'clock and will be followed
by a social session and smoker The
supper will wind up the evening
Chas. c. Smith, a former Topeka
newspaper man, and J. K. Miller, ex-
mayor of Manhattan have purchased
the real estate office and employment
bureau owned by Josiah Ross under
the Central National bank Mr. Smith
and Mr. Miller will both locate in To-
peka Mr.. Smith is here now, and MI
Miller will come in about a month.
Robert C. Roediger, junior member
of the firm of Roediger & Son, is dying.
He has been sick with typhoid fever
for nearly month, and has been very
low for the past few days. Mr.
Roedi~er. before his illness, was a
young man of exceptionally fine
physique, an athlete. and one of the
leading members of the Turner's ath-
letic class He is in the tailoring bust
ness with his father at S26 Kansas ave-
nue.
Charles clearinghouse of fire depart
ment headquarters broke the record for
fast horse clipping this morning. He
completed one of the big fire depart
ment horses in just so minutes. 1t
seems a little bit unkind to remove a
horses hair at this season of the year.
but the firemen say that the horses are
always blanketed when standing out
doors at a fire, and that the sweat dries
off quicker when the h-5r is clipped
short.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
TELEPHONE CASE UP.
Wichita Controversy Reaches the su-
preme Court.

The Wichita telephone controversy has
reached the supreme court. This is the
case in which the city of Wichita and
the Missouri & Kansas Telephone COM
pany have been at war for several
months. The telephone company's fran
chise expired some time ago, and the
city granted new franchise to an in
dependent company started by Frank
Brown, clerk of the United States dis
trict court. and refused to renew the
franchise of the Missouri & Kansas
company. The workmen of the latter
company were arrested when they tried
to put up new wires. and the company
was finally ordered to take its wires and
poles out of the streets entirely.
The case came up in the Sedgwicl1
county district court recently in the
form of an injunction, and the city lost.
Judge Dale held that under the old city
charter act a telephone company could
not be entirely shut out of the use of
the streets and alleys for it's lines. but
the city council could regulate their
use. The city now appeals to the su-
Dreme court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
RYDER TO TAKE PLACE.
He VIII Be Sworn in as Councilman
Tonight.

hmm ediatelv after the roll-cail at the
council meeting this evening DR.. L A.
Ryder Will be sworn in and will take
his seat as representative from the
First ward of the city OF Topeka. He
will thus be able to-p participate in the
proceedings.
The most important piece of business
to come before the meeting is the pro-
posed franchise for the interur ban
railway company. This franchise comes
PACK from the streets and walks COM
m1ttee with a favorable report, but
TINS simply means that the committee
tninks some sort of franchise should
De granted the company. It does not
recommend the proposed ordinance in
TOTO. There seems to be considerab BILE
determination among the eouncilmen
10 compel the company to put up a
guarantee, bond to insure the compile
ton of the work, and the vote may be
SO close on this point that the new
councilman. DR.. Ryder. will have the
deciding of it.
The charge filed by H. B. Howard
against Food Inspector Farnsworth
Will also come up, and will probably be
referred to some committee.
The pay rolls for the month were all
placed on file this morning. That of
the street commissioner has fallen to
1888 LII, instead of $4,000 as it was last
month The other pay rolls We're as
follows; Sanitary department, $44S; city
officers, $1,119.86; fire department, ST.
1856; police department, 81, 036.4T; en-
cheering department, $444.10; electric
light plant, $610.83.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

IRON the 0H1cdSO ANSWS-1
If man lengthens his nights he
shortens his days
It's a poor dog that can't make a man
mad by biting him.
Hard cash is probably so-called be-
cause it is hard to get
Yes. Cordena, there are sheets on
oyster beds-sheets of water.
The lantern jawed man isn't neees-
sariIy a brilliant conversationalist.
1t is easier to judge a woman by what
she doesn't say than by what she does
Faint heart never won fair lady with
out a lot of strenuous assistance on her
part.
A woman may cure her husband of
the tobacco habit by purchasing his
cigars for him.
Muscular rhumatism is the kind that
gets a man on his back and keeps him
there for a month.
When a married man declares that he
never felt better in his life his other
half should look out for squalls.
No, Cordelia. a woman doesn't neces-
sarily have to be a real estate owner in
order to have grounds for divorce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
SANTA FE LAY OFF.
Sixt teen Men at Boiler Shop Let
Ont.

Saturday afternoon the Santa Fe
laid off 16 men at the boiler shops here.
Eight of the men We're boilermakers
and eight were helpers. Four of the
boilermakers and four helpers were
sent to Albuquerque, where there is
more work on hand than at Topeka.
The Santa Fe officials state that the
cause of the lay off here was shortage
of work. There are still about $50 men
employed in the boilermaking depart
ment.
The men fear that the Santa Fe has
adopted the plan of saving money by
cutting down its working force, and
further reductions in the force are
feared
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

Dissatisfaction in Canada over the
Alaskan award is already bearing fruit
in the shape of newspaper appeals for
secession from the British federation.
The Halifax Chronicle. for example, de-
seribes the position of Canada as hu-
initiating and uncomfortable and argues
for the Establishment of an independent
sovereignty. The United States is not
in so good a position to lead encourage
ment to sentiment of this sort as it
once was. The acquisition of Porto Rico
and the Philippines has made many
things different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
GOOD AND BAD MEMORIES.
Why Persons Forget Some Things
and Remember Others.

Good memory is a subject regarding
which good deal of nonsense is habit
ually talked. We often hear people say
that they have a good memory for GER
tain things, but a bad one for other
things. This believe to be a delusion.
A mans memory may be good or it may
be bad but it cannot we'll be good for
one thing and bad for another thing. It
might as well be said that bottle was
good for holding brandy, but bad for
holding whisky. In the case of a feeble
intellect all its faculties will be feeble
memory, Judgment and all the rest
but they will not be feeble for one pur-
pose and vigorous for another purpose.
The fact is that our memory is in itself
equally powerful or feeble for all pur-
poses but we remember best those
things which interest us most, and so
say that we have good memories for
such things, While we forget those
things which do not interest US, and we
say accordingly, that we have bad
memories for those things Horace Wal
pole used to say that his memory was
all-retentive as to the names of persons
and of places, but that it was absolute
ly impotent in regard to dates 1t has
been said of him-by Macaulay, / think
that he could tell you the name of the
grandaunt of King Ethelwald, but that
he could not tell you whether she lived
in the year 500 or in the year 1900. The
truth was that he took an interest In
ndInSS ana SCAcd1OS1SSsf Dut uOIC
dates. Similarly, in his introductions to
Anne of Geierstein." Scott aptly says:
Il have through life been entitled to
adopt old Beattie of Meiklidale's answer
to his parish minister When the latter was
eulogizing him with respect to the same
faculty: No, doctor, said the honest Dor
der laird, I have no command of my
memory; it retains only what happens TO
hit my fancy; and, like enough, sir, if
you were to preach to me fer couple Of
hours on end I might be unable at the
close of the discourse to remember one
word of it Perhaps there are few men
whose memory serves them with equal
fidelity as to many different classes of
subjects, but 1 sorry to say that While
mine has rarely failed me as to any
snatch of verse or trait of character that
had once interested my fancy, it has gen
names and dates and other minute teehni-
calities of history. but as to many more
important things.
No. it is pretty certain that We have
not got good memories for this and bad
memories for that, in any other sense
than that we remember that which inter
ests us and forget that which interests US
not.
| will not insult readers by reproducing
here the good old chestnut as to Dugald
of certain of his friends who We're corn
pairing notes as to their earliest recollec-
tions. But ii may be lawful to recall Fred
Lockers capital verse rendering of it:
recollect nurse called Ann
Who carried me about the grass;
And one fine day fine-young man
Came up and kissed the pretty lass.
She did not make the least objection
Thinks I "Ahai
When I can talk I'll tell mamma
And that's my earliest recollection.
Notes and Queries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

Rev Merle St. Clair Wright in his
after dinner speech before the banquet
ing members of the New York State
Medical association. created something
of a sensatio when he planted himself
on the doctrine that to kill an incurable
patient would be "a step forward in
civilization and a step further away
from barbarism." Rev. Mr.. Wright ap-
pears TO be in the position of the old
gentleman who was the father of a
number of bad boys. When told by his
neighbors that he ought to do some
things with them. he said he knew they
were bad-very bad-and they ought to
be killed but he hated to do it. If the
suggestion of Rev. Mr. Wright were
put in practice who would do the
killing?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

stop your paper?.. No. she replied. I'm
take it again. She just wanted to get IN
her kick
The danger of telling a girl that she
writes an interesting letter is that she
begins to hunt up more men to correspond
with
We do not believe presidents are made
of the kind of boys who get what they
want out of Mother by threatening TO
I had an awfuily swell caller yester-
day" said an Atchison young lady this
morning. -and not single neighbor was
looking.
1t is not only more peaceful for a wo-
man to believe all her husband says. but
it saves lots of time which she needs in
her baking and washing dishes.
When you get through with your bust
ness get out. Nine out of ten people
transact their business very slowly. and
then frivol half an hour longer.
The magazine known as 1.-The Smart
Set" asks the question: Can Women
Smoke Tobaceo?'' They can. but it will
make them sick until they become used
to it.
We are glad of the Russian-Japaa
sQuabble for this reason: The names OF
aging to the pests who like to read out
loud.
Every time there is company Mrs. makes
statements which cause Mr.. to gulp with
that women are not more truthful than
men.
Il notice, said john AlnSWortn, ire
brakeman. at noon today. seeing the So
ciety people heading for Trinity church,
that the preacher is about to make a
coupling
Probably men would not be so glad they
are not women could they have the dim
NEST suspicion of the joy there is in boast
ing how long they can make old trim
ming do over
Church White has been sick day 50
with indigestion. There is just one thing
good for it, dieting and eating less II
the rest of your life.
Doc Morrison says the people are stu
saying, when there is a rain: This will
be fine for corn Doc is disguised: he
says the corn is safe and that people
should say now, during rain: This will
be fine for the wheat
There are certain people who are al
ways insisting on the town securing a
store that will give goods away. OF
course such a thing is impossible, and
those who advocate it fail to do modest
reform work that is practical.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

There appears to be much uncertain
ty regarding the result of the election in
Greater New York tomorrow. Partisans
on both sides are claiming victory, VIII re
figures are produced. by so narrow a
margin that their forecasts only serve
to add to the uncertainty. The Herald
whose prediction estimates are gener-
ally credited with being the most reli-
able offered, gives Mr.. Low a margin of
but 10000 and the Herald is a supporter
of the Fusion ticket. The America I
which is on the other side. claims the
election of the Tammany ticket by
about 10000 plurality. basing it's figures
on careful poll. The World has been
as noncommittal as it could well be cor
sidering the fact that it is a partisan in
the campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
UP GOES THEIR PAY.
Rock Island Photographers Are Grant
ed 10 Per Cent.

Announcement was made today to the
Rock Island telegraphers that effective
November 1. they would be allowed an
increase of from 10 to Is per cent in
salaries. The telegraphers' demand for
a strict nine-hour day for all classes is
granted, and the men who have beer
working 10 or II hours day on night
shifts will be relieved of part of their
work.
The increase in pay is understood to
apply to all parts of the line west of the
Missouri river, and is in addition to the
5 per cent increase which was granted
during the summer. AT Topeka IA Rock
Island telegra piers are affected by the
increase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
RIVER RISING RAPIDLY.
There Is, However, No Danger of an
Overflow.

The Kansas river is rising rapidly
here as a result of the rains which
have been soaking the state west of
Topeka. All the sandbars which have
been exposed during the summer are
now under water. and the esurface OF
the water this morning was covered
with floating foam. The foam indi-
Gates that the water has been flowing
in very rapidly from somewhere west
of lsera.
Street Commissioner Snyder says that
there is no danger of an overflow, even
If the river rises many feet. 'Nortn
Topeka is as safe now as it ever was"
said Mr. Snyder. 1.-The water would
have to come I'D as high as.it did last
spring to get over the banks"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

The importations of coal into the
United States during the first nine
months of the present calendar year
have amounted to 1881 s1 tons. against
1.546112 tons in the corresponding
months of the preceding year. an in
crease of LAO, s69 tons. The rebate of
duty on coal authorized by congress in
January, 1903, went into operation Jan
uary IA. so that the figures for the nine
months of 1903 represent the importa-
ton of coal free of duty during prac-
tically all of that period compared with
the corresponding period of the preced-
ing year, in which the importations of
bituminous coal were dutiable The fig
ures here quoted, as presented by the
department of commerce and labor
through its bureau of statistics. include
both bituminous and anthracite coal,
but as the total imports of anthracite
In the nine months of 1908 amounted to
but 137.24S tons. the chief increase is in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
jumped Track on a Bridge.

New York, Nov. "A great fatality
was narrowly averted here today when
an engine jumped the track on the ap-
proach to the Second avenue bridge
over the Harlem river and crashed into
the crowded car of an elevated train.
deraiIing it and all but pushing it from
the bridge to the surface so feet below.
Among the 100 passengers on the train
there was a slight panic. Several wo-
men tainted and all others made a
wild rush for the doors of the car, but
cool work by the guards prevented any
injury to passengers in the rush.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
WIN. CARTRIDGE PROMOTED
Has Been Made Claim Agent of the
Rock Island.

William Cartilage, well known To-
peka boy who has been serving for
some time as stenographer for A. A.
Graham, the Rock Island claim agent
here at Topeka. has been promoted to
the position of claim agent, with head
quarters at Chicago. He will be one of
the field force under the direct charge or
G.. E. Mclaughlin. the general claim
agent for the Rock Island system.
Mr.. Cartridges headquarters will be
in Chicago. and he left today for his
new post of duty C. L Grice will take
Mr.. Cartridges place under Mr.. era
ham.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
rhav Gould Mot Aeres.

The Blitz divorce case was called in
the district court this afternoon but did
not come to trial Mrs. Pearl A BlitZ
sued Isaac M. Blitz for divorce and Mr..
Blitz agreed to having the decree grant
ed and adjust the division of the prop
erty and alimony but when the case
was set and both Mr.. and Mrs. Blitz
and their attorneys appeared at the
court house they failed to agree on the
decree in the case and the hearing was
postponed. Mr.. BlitZ's attorney, p. H.
Coney, asked permission to amend the
answer made in the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

A somewhat amusing commentary on
the costumes of New York society is
Afforded through the suit of a New
York dressmaker for pay for a gown
made for a st. Louis actress. The act
ress solemnly declares that the gown
was cut so low as to make her blush
and had to be built up before she
could wear it without making herself
amenable to the laws of the state On
the other hand the dressmaker asserts
with equal positiveness that the gown
was cut in the prevailing fashion, in
accord with what our best New York
women wear" Apparently either the
actress is supersensitively modest or
New York society women array them
selves in extraordinarily decollete
gowns. Which?-Springfield Mass. }
Union.
Perhaps the explanation lies in the
fact that the actress or the dressmaker
or both needed the advertising
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
SMITH GETS OFF EASILY.
Negro Who Stabbed Nan at Cover
nor's Mansion Fined.

Orville Smith. the colored man who
assaulted and stabbed Joe Powell at
the governors house last spring, enter
ed a plea of guilty before Judge Hazen
this afternoon to the charge of assault
and battery and was sentenced to pay
a fine of 500. Smith was first charged
with assault with intent to kill but
Powell can not be found to appear
against him and the charge was modi-
fed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
NEAR HALF MILLION.
Loss From Dynamite Explosion
at Crestline Was Heavy.

Crestline. O., Nov 1.-The Pennsylvania
railroad yards here presented a scene of
ruins today as result of the explosion of
a car of dynamite on a side track last ev-
ening. So far as learned lives were
lost, although the mass of wrecked freight
cars have not yet been thoroughly search
ed. It Is estimated that the financial loss
will run from 100000 to $4,000. Hundreds
of freight cars were almost completely
demolished, while a number of houses in
the vicinity of the explosion We're badly
wrecked. A number of persons received
serious cuts and bruises from flying glass
Nearly every window in town was smash
ed by the terrific conclusion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

Gen. Funston's recommendation that
the dress chapeau and epaulets of gen.
eral officers in the army should be abol-
ished, as too heavy and gaudy for any
use. is positively revolutionary. 1t is al
most as unheard of as Funston's getting
busy and winning a promotion over the
heads of a few hundred chaps of the
regulars. Seattle Times.
Any serious curtailment in the gaudi-
ness of uniforms and regalia would
strike a death blow at the national
guard system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
Dead Number Is.

Indianapolis Ind. Nov 2-Four of The
"a injured lying in hospitals as the result
of the Big Four wreck Saturday are in a
critical condition today They are John
c. Taylor of Lafayette. Hendricks John
son of Evansville, H O. Wright of Pen
dleton Ind. and L. G. Smith of Lafay-
cite OF the others who were hurt w. r.
Butler of Pittsburg will probably recover,
though hfs skull is fractured The six
teeAth dead body was shipped away today.
Cfficiai Investigations as to the cause of
the wreck are being made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

A miniature railway system will be an
attraction at the Worlds fair, St Louis.
At least 80 trains of miniature cars
drawn by baby locomotives will be run
throughout the grounds. The system
will be run not only as an amusement
feature but as a means also of trans
porting visitors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
leonard Lodged in Jail.

New York. Nov. Charles H.
Leonard, of East Orange, N. J.. charged
with obtaining $10.076 on two forged
checks passed on New York banks. has
been brought back from Vancouver,
B. c. where he was arrested while on
his honeymoon, and has been lodged in
Jail. He viii be arraigned at once. The
young bride was allowed to go to her
h0rsaa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
NO. 6 OFF AGAIN.
Santa Fe Passenger Train
Wrecked at Thatcher.

La Junta, Colo, Nov 2-Santa Fe
passenger. No. 6, east bound, which was
wrecked by unknown persons at Apis
hapa creek last Friday. met with dis
aster again today at Thatcher. where
the engine left the track and turned
over on it's side. killing Fireman
Charles Everhart, of Syracuse. Kas.
No passengers were hurt. The accident
is attributed to spreading of the rails.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
w. E. Anderson Resigns.

W. E. Anderson. master mechanic OF
the Rock Island at Goodland, having In
charge the Colorado division of the
road, has resigned his position. Super
intendent Gruber and Assistant Super
intendent of Machinery Root of the
Rock Island are now at Goodland and
it is expectaed that they will appoint
arc there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
bic Drop in interpretations.

New York. Nov. 2.-Another big drop
in new interpretations is shown by the
record of the eastern states for October.
The total of new companies with d
capital 81, 900, 900 or more was $67, 200 600,
which covers New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania New York and Delaware, and
represents not only new promotions but
also an increase in the capital stock or
a PENNSYLVANIA trust company. In Sep
tember the total was S79. $50, 000 while in
October a year ago it was 1896, 194, 800.