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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
The German Grocer.

A German grocer, newly arrived IN
New Orleans, opened up a downtown
establishment. He got along fairly well
for awhile, but soon all his customers
ceased coming.
Meeting one of them on the street one
day. he inquired the cause.
Because you don't give lagniappe,"
was the curt reply.
But what is dot lagniappe?" he per-
sisted.
oh, simply custom here. When one
buys anything at grocery store the
clerk or proprietor usually gives lag
niappe-thHt is, little something in ad-
dition."
Och, dot is it. eh?' replied the grocer
re1ectively, and went his way.
The next customer who came In was
served by him in person.
After the package was tied and hand
ed over the counter, the grocer exclaiIn-
ed suddenly:
What is der sum of sixteen hundert
unit forty-seven unit eighteen hundert
unit nine?"
why, whatever do you mean?" cried
the astonished purchaser.
why, dots your lagniappe-a leetle
something in addition, aindt id?"
The grocer shop closed the following
week.-New Orleans Times-Democrat
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to be that the possession of this office
will not interfere materially with his
chances for the state partnership, and
touch with the situation.
But even if McNeaI should land the
place, there is strong possibility
that he would be kept out of posses
sion of the Office for long time by
legal proceedings. Geo. Clark is not
likely to give up the office without a
struggle. If the struggle comes, Nc
Neal can sit back in his 81, 600 job as
private secretary, and take it easy till
the clouds roll by.
The Emporia Gazette says: If politi-
cal platforms mean anything, and the
Gazette believes they should be as sa-
cred an obligation as a personal prom
Use, the Republican leaders of Kansas
are under bond to make good the prom
fSeS of the Wichita platform. A better,
more sensible platform was never writ
ten in Kansas. There was not a word
of buncombe in it. Every promise may
can party in power in the executive and
legislative branches of the state are
honest and efficient The failure to
keep those promises will mean just one
thing: That the leaders are not sincere.
The leaders can if they will. They are
in absolute control. There is no force
that can overcome the present Republi-
can leaders, but there are forces that
will try to overthrow the leaders, and
prevent the passage of honest laws that
were Squarely promised. The railroads
will organize, and block legislation so
that railroad legislation will be left over
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SMOKE NUISANCE.
The President Urges Some Action
Looking to Abating 1t.

Washington, Dec. 24.-Drastic ac-
ton has been recommended by the
president looking to the suppression OF
tn smoke nuisance in the city of
Washington. A letter was sent by his
direction to the District commissioners
on November 80 inquiring if it were
not possible to proceed criminally
against the officers of an electric light
COMPANY He denounced the violation
of the smoke law by the company at
the very doors of the White House as
an outrage and urged that the man
ayers of the company be arrested
again and again at short intervals, in
an effort to abate the nuisance.
No response having been received
that was satisfactory, the president
authorized today the publication OF the
letter to the District commissioners.
1t follows:
white House, Washington, Nov. "a,
1904.-TO the District Commissioners:
The president has again taken I'D with
his cabinet the smoke nuisance so far
as the public buildings are concerned.
He would like especially to call your
attention, however. to the well-nigh
intolerable manifestation of the nui-
sance by the electric light company.
Is 1T not possible to proceed criminally
against the managers of this company?
If not, drastic legislation should be
recommended 1t is an outrage on the
city that such a nuisance should be
permitted to exist right by the White
House. At almost every hour of the
day this great chimney can be seen
emitting dense clouds of black smoke.
1t would seem to be wise to go to the
very limit of the law and to arrest the
head of the company or those highest
I'D in the company again and again at
the shortest possible intervals in order
to put a stop to this nuisance. for the
conduct on their part amounts to
fragrant defiance of the law and of re-
spect for public opinion and is fraught
with serious consequences to the city
of Washington.
WILLIAM LOEB, JR.,
Secretary to the President"
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4 Straw Vote.

Coming over from Europe in the
Crown Prince just prior to the presi-
Dental election, a fellow voyager and
I concluded to break the monotony of
the trip by taking a straw ballot
among the passengers" said Colonel
Henry I. Kowalsky of San Francisco
at the New Willard. eve approached
a mournfuI looking man who was
gazing out to sea. and my partner
said: Sir, we seek to find out your
political preferences; are you Demo-
crat or a Republican, Parker or
Roosevelt MANI I am a Protestant
quoth the melancholy one. Go away
and leave me to myself The next
man we tackled was a prosperous
seeming Dutchmans and to him the
same inquiry was addressed. He look
ed at US suspiciously. You got any
thing to do NIT de custom house?' he
said, somewhat uneasily. He was told
that our mission had nothing to do
with the custom house. Veil, den,'
somewhat relieved it don't
matter a damn if 1 be for Roosevelt
or Parker. and I keeps it to meinself.
Washington Post.
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OLD AND NEW COINS.
Interesting Facts About Coinage at
the Different MINIS.

The director of the mint is called on
to answer such a wide range OF Ques-
tons concerning the values or old ana
new cdins and medals that he mas
found it necessary to issue circulars
covering matters of this sort. They
tell some interesting facts 1t ap-
pears that the mint does not puy Ola
coins or paper money, except some
rare colonial coins in fine condltlon,
which are desired for the mint cab
met. Mutilated or uncurrent united
States gold and silver coin is pur-
chased as bullion. The mint has no
pattern pieces for sale. The govern
ment pays no premium for the return
of any of its coins or paper money.
New coins cannot be struck until au-
thoriZed by an act of congress Inc
mint supplies United States coins only
and not of any past date. The 500
gold piece and the half dollar and
quarter dollar pieces in gold were
struck by private parties on the Cali
fornia coast during the 40 period, and
not by the United States government
The coinage of the following coins
ceased in the years named: HAIR ana
one cent. copper, in 1857; one cent,
nickel, 1864: half dime and three
cents, silver, and two cents, bronze, in
1873; twenty cents, silver, 1873; trade
dollars, 1888; one dollar and three
dollars, gold, and three cents, nickel,
1889. The Columbian half dollar was
coined in 1892, and the Isabella quar-
ter in 1898. The Lafayette dollar was
struck in 1899, the date on the coin
$4,000 being that of the unwilling of
the memorial.
There are certain markings on every
United States coin that enable the
place of its coinage to be located.
Those struck at the Philadelphia mint
have no mint mark, but those struck
at all other minis are distinguished
by a small letter on the reverse, near
the bottom. These letters are for
Charlotte, N. c., discontinued in 1861;
&C for Carson City, Nevada, discon-
tinued in 1898; D for Dahlonega, Ga,
discontinued in 1861; o for New Or
leans, and S for San Francisco. The
coins of the United States now author
lied by law are: In gold, double eagle,
eagle, half eagle, quarter eagle; in
silver, half dollar. quarter dollar and
dime; minor, five cent, nickel, and one
cent bronze. A person may buy
proof set of gold coins from the mint
for $3.50. When the business of the
minis is slack, medals may be struck
from dies furnished by individuals,
public institutions and Incorporated So
cieties, at a charge sufficient to cover
the cost of the operation and the
value of the metal-Brooklyn Eagle.
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An Uneouivocal Answer.

Prof. Wiley of the bureau of agrieul-
lures chemical department was talking
about explana lions that do not explain
'sThese explanations that make nothing
clear, these answers that throw no light,
make me think of an acquaintance of my
boyhood, Jerome Hert, of Indiana.
One day he was at work in a lonely field
when he heard voice from the upper
air.
:. 'Heyl Hey. your the voice shouted.
Jerome looked up in amazement. About
so feet above his head was a balloonist.
The balloonist, on a wager, was doing a
so mile journey to Evansville. Now,
though he had lost his way, and from
Jerome Hert he wished to ascertain 1t.
q Hey, thereH ne repeated.
" WALL! said Jerome.
a. Where am ~ cried the balloonist
''Thereupon Jerome made a reply of
that Opaque, dark sort that we are speak
ing of.
. Where are you? Why, up in a bal
LOOM, he said. ''-San Antonio Express.
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KANSAS WANTS A FARM.
Much Litigation Over John Gamers
Butler County Property

There is a 160-acre farm down in
Butler county which the state of Kan
sas wants to own. The state of Kan
sas is not expecting to quit politics
and go to farming, but 1t wants to
own the land on general principles,
and is making a fight for possession.
For long time the farm was owned
by John Gamer, a native of Ireland
Gamer in this case seems to have been
a loser. He was a bachelor. His
father and mother lived and died in
Ireland. John Gamer was a natural
Gamer died in 1900, at the age of 70,
some of his half-brothers. half-sisters.
and heirs of other half-brothers and
half-sisters stepped in and claimed his
i60-acre farm.
Then the state of Kansas took a
hand 1t said: The law does not
allow one brother to inherit property
from another brother, except through
the parents. If a man dies intestate,
as John Gamer did, his property is
supposed to go to his parents, and
then descend to the surviving brothers
and sisters. John Gamers parents
were aliens, and under the alien land
law cannot inherit property from a
citizen of this country Hence there is
no way for property to pass by 1nher1-
lance to John Gamers half-brothers
and half-sisters. Since there are no
heirs to the property, it reverts to the
state"
That is where the state gets its
claim to John Gamers 160-acre farm.
The case was tried in the Butler coun-
ty district court, and the heirs won.
1t was held that the state could not
step in and take property in this man
ner. But the state has appealed to
the supreme court, and Assistant At
torney General Close has just finished
writing a brief in the case.
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Kuropatkin Reports a victory.

St Petersburg, Dec. 24.-General
Kuropatkin reported having made De-
cember % reconnaissance in force in
the direction of the Japanese positions
at Benztiaputz. The Russians forced
an entry into Bentziaputz. occupied
some of the entertainments and re-
pulsed the counter attacks of two bat
talions of Japanese with great loss,
the Japanese leaving nine prisoners in
the hands of the Russians. The Rus
sian losses were three officers and six
men killed and three officers and 81
men wounded The night of December
%. General Kuropatkin adds, was
quiet
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Chicago Live Stock MarkeA.

Chicago, Dec. 2.-CATTLE-Receip to-
day, 200 head. Market steady. Good to
prime steers, $6-20q660; poor to medium,
cows, s1.35q4.50; heifers, $2.OOd6 90; can
ners, 81. 1892. 40; bulls, $200Q4.10; calves,
s.. 50Q6.5
HOGS-Receipts today, 5000 head; esti-
mated Monday, 25,00o head. Market
stronger. Mixed and butchers 81 BOO
4.5212; good to choice heavy, $4.5OCd4 60;
rough heavy, A30d4.40; light, $4O5aJ4 As;
bulk of sales, $4.35Q4. As.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 1900 head.
Sheep strong; lambs steady. Good to
choice wethers, a. 60d5.20; fair/ to choice
mixed, $3.75Ql4. Is; western sheep, So 500I5 Is:
native lambs, $5.O0q70O; western lambs,
$5.00d6.75.
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A Quiet Christmas at Home.

The state house will be closed all day
Monday. Most of the state officers
whose families are not in Topeka left
for their homes the latter part of the
week. Governor Bailey will spend
Christmas at the executive mansion.
I'VE are not going to have any COM
pany-just a quiet little home celebra-
ton" said the governor today. State
Auditor Wells, Insurance Superintend-
ent Luling, Secretary of State Burrow,
and several of the supreme court judges
have gone to their homes.
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Cincinnati. Dec. 24.-Eleven rubber
tire manufacturing concerns compris-
ing the so-called rubber tire combine,
were made defendants in the United
States court by suit filed by the
Munford Rubber Tire company of At
lanta, Ga The suit is for damages
under the Sherman antitrust law. the
plaintiff claiming the defendants have
injured the cOmDany'S business to the
extent of $4,000. The suit is for $59,-
100, three times the amount of dam
age, in accordance with the Sherman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
GreeI Cabinet Resions

Athens, Dec. 24.-The Greek cab
met resigned today in consequence of
the defeat of the government in the
chamber yesterday on a vote of no
confidence moved by former Premier
Delyannis. The latter sharply criti-
cized the governments general policy
and NJ. Zaimis did the same. King
George is considering whether to form
a stop-gap cabinet or dissolve the
chamber and entrust NJ. Delyannis
with the task of forming a new cab
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
Kansas CITY Livestock MnrIet-

Receipts today, 100 head. Market un-
changed. Native steers, $1,000. so; south
ern steers, 81. 50q4.50; southern cows, 81. 759
3.25; native cows and heifers, 81. T5Q5. 90;
stockers and feeders, s.. 9O6l4 10; bulls, $40
614O0; calves, 50. OOd6 so; western steers, 50 90
$500; western cows, 81. 75G3.50.
HOGS-Receipts today, 1000 head. Mar
ket strong to &c higher. Bulk of sales,
GAS; pigs and lights, 50. 75Q4.45.
SHEEP-Marxet nominally steady. Nut
tons, $4.O0Q5.25; lambs, $5.00d6.50; range
wethers $4.25Q5.50; fed ewes. So 75QD4.50.
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St. Louis, Dec. 24-According to a
cablegram from Baron Kioyura, minis
ter of agriculture and commerce Of
Japan, received here D. R. Francis, of
the Louisiana Purchase exposition, is
to be decorated with the gold medal of
the first grade of merit of the Order of
the Rising Sun. Frederic J. V. Skirf
director of exhibits, and ]. E. Smith,
who was sent to Japan to solicit the
participation OF the nation as well as of
private exhibitors, also are to be decor
ated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
.Irish Giant Goes to AImshouse

New York. Dec. 24.-After having
been exhibited for more than forty
years. during which time he has visit
ed nearly all the principal cities of the
United States and Europe. William
Connery, known as the Irish giant -
today was sent to the city almshouse
Connery is seven feet one inch in
height.
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days, and the Cunard line steamer
Saxonia, from Boston, December Is,
which had been fog-bound for two
days, landed their passengers this
morning. The White Star line steamer
Cedric, which had been fog-bound
since Wednesday, when she was to
have sailed for New York, proceeded
on her voyage today.
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To Abolish Passports.

St. PETERSBURG, Dec. 24-The Associated
Press can announce that Russia is on the
eve fabol1shing the passport system. The
matter has already been decided in prin-
ciple by the commission which is inves-
ugating the passport question. a new
law will be promulgated by the senate
within six weeks as one of the solid re-
forms resulting from the administration
of Interior Minister -Mirisky.
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Moro Steamers for the p,

Victoria B. c., Dec. 24.-The Canad-
ian Pacific Railway company has decid-
ed to place two new steamers, each $50
feet long with a speed of 10 knots in
the Oriental trade in conjunction with
three Empress liners operated by the
company. The steamers are being built
by the Fairfield on the CLYDE
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REPORT COMPLETED.
State Accountant Rowett Submits
Findings to Governor.

State Accountant Rowett's final re-
port is complete, and is now being pre-
pared for transmission to Governor
Bailey. The report will be a volumin-
Gus document, and may not be made
public for some time.
Governor Bailey said today: 81 under
stand that the report is nearly ready to
be transmitted to me, but don't know
when it will be made public: possibly
not for some time.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24

New York, Dec. 4-MONEY-Money on
call nominal; no loans. Time loans NOM
inal; 60 days, 80 days and six months, 81
H31a per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 4Gi4IA
per cent; sterling exchange nominal, with
actual business in bankers bills at 81. S15
GI4S720 for demand and at S4s460Q4.S46 for
60 day bills; posted rates, $4.S51A and 81 IS;
commercial bills, $4.S41z.
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Cardinals Greet the Pope.

Rome, Dec. 24.-The cardinals were
received today by the pope and offered
their Christmas greetings. The pontiff
thanked the prelates and conversed IA
military with them for half an hour,
avoiding any allusion to politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24
Asks Extradition of DR. Chadvicl,

Cleveland. Dec. 24-Sheriff Barry to-
day telegraphed Governor OdelI of New
York. asking that the extradition pa
pers for DR.. Leroy s. Chadwick Jointly
indicted with his wife. Cassie L. Chad
wick. on a charge of forgery, be granted
on the sheriff's arrival in Albany Mon
day.
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POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Tom M'Neal Accepts Position OF
Private Secretary.
uooh,. E;rsf Anno;ntn,an< C,vas
Hoch's First appointment Gives
Universal Satisfaction.
HAS LONG CONFERENCE.
Governor Elect Talks Things
Over With Advisors.
Says DOIley, Stubs and Others
Have First Call.

At 9 o'clock Friday evening T. A.
McNeal notified Governor z. w. Hoch
that he would accept the position of
private secretary which Mr.. Hoch ten
dered him Friday afternoon.
By so doing Mr.. McNeal does not
withdraw from the race for state
printer. He will hold down the job
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Chicago, Dec. 24.-Four deaths in the
isolation hospital today broke the rec
ord for the institution, and cost a chill
over the Christmas festivities which had
been planned for the So smallpox pa
tients. One of the dead is a babe five
days old born in the institution The
mother is also among the dead.
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Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, Ill, Dec. 24.-BUTTER-Marke
firm. Creamery, 16GD27c; dairy, 16d22c.
EGGS-Market easy. At mark, cases in
Guided 17Q21c.
CHEESE-Market steady. Daisies, uts9
11Ac; Twins, 11q111zc: Young Americas,
u24 Q12c.
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady. Tur-
keys, 121ac; chickens, Sc; springs, $40
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-24

Chernigov, Russia Dec. 24-Forty
members of the local zemstvo, including
the president who signed the recent
telegram to Emperor Nicholas, have re-
signed
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Translated Into vernacuIar.

"Cap'n'' Jotham Slow had strong OBJ
jections to what he called the new
minister's high talk" Since his settle
ment over the Clamtown parish, Cap'n
lothian had been heard to say that
church was for them that needed it,
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New York Rutter

New York, Dec. 24-BUTTER-Marke
firm Street Street prices; Extra creamery; ZIG
to extra, 17@271zc; creamery, hel dcommon
to extra, 20025c; state dairy, common to
extra. 16625c.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT

No sessions of New York and Chicago
Boards of Trade today account of Holt
day.
St. Louis, Mo, Dec. 24-No cattle mar
ket today or Monday.
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Liverpool, Dec. 24.-The White Star
line steamer Oceanic. from New York,
December IA, which had been fog
bound off the Mersy bar for three
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as unfinished business" The state
treasurer's lobby will do exactly what
it did two years ago-block all honest
effort to take the graft out of the
treasurer's office. The political pie
biters will try to block a civil service
law. Political bosses big and little will
fight a decent primary law.
1t is going to take nerve and hard
sense to get these promises redeemed.
But they should be redeemed, and I'M
less they are redeemed the Republican
party will suffer.
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ForSha,

Sam Forsha, the we'll known
Seventh district politician, who has
been seriously i'll with typhoid fever
City, is reported to be improving al
though his fever is still high, and no
visitors are allowed to see him.
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The people down in Mcpherson
county have raised $4,000 for the pur-
pose of holding a county fair at Nc
Pherson, and at a mass meeting held
recently, requested their representa-
tives in the legislature to support a
general law exempting from taxation
grounds used for general fair pur-
poses.
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Topeka Hide Market

Topeka, Dec. "a
lPrices paid IN Topeka this week, based
on Boston quotations:1 eo
GREEN SALT CURED ....... a.
NO. L TALLOW Observation-Disclosures. -
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1t is considered by the politicians a
pretty foxy move on the part of Tom
McNeal to accept the position of pri-
vate secretary. The impression seems
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-30

The Archbishop of Canterbury takes
rank rs first peer Of the realm.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-30
. Stocks& Bonds : Cereals

Ohio valley ana Texas Tho situation
tonight D. certainly very heaMfh aaJ
the market has c,srg appearance OIL
working to Il lower level We balieyo
any attempt IT, liQuidate long wnea
win undoubtedly result in q quick &c..
cline. We strongly a3yius selling
wheat around the present s$leyeI. as
we expect to see much lower prices
during the coming week.
CORN-Close: July Il; September
4G7s "a; December A. Long corn
has been coming on the market all
day and prices have settled steadily
downward The biz movement from
The country is the influence along
with the fine weather Receipts We're
over estimates and aggregated GS4
cars. Estimates for Monday 4Sl cars
Love has been prominent on the sell
ling side and the trade has been slow
to absorb these offerings. those from
receiving houses and the short sales
There were 2S7000 contract corn out
of public elevators. There were %
cars contract in new receipts and 81
from private elevators on today's
sheet Expect receipts to show a
further increase during the coming
week. 1t looks very much as if corn
is on the eve of a good break Would
not be surprised to see July sell I'M