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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-11
FIRST OFFER MAY NOT BE THE LAST.

In accepting the prices offered for advertising space by
the Uneeda biscuit people publisher would evidently
need biscuit long, long time before his from
that source would enable him buy The Star has
long since cut out all dealings with advertising
who not willing to pay reasonable compensation
for the service rendered d-Sasaw Star
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-11

AS evidence of prosperity the Vinita Daily Chief
tain dons dress of type with tile beginning of the
New Year The Cheftain is of the Oldest and best
papers in the Indian Territory, and be cassed
among the neatest, geographically -Salsaw Star.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-11
Scfssoreo ano Otherwise

Parsons expects to haye cotton min the coming sea-
SON
d Harper is out Of the cashership Of the First Ma
tional bank of Miami and NJ. r. Tdwell has taken the
place
-O--
Thomas Ella, Wheen Springs, Ark, wishes to find
Mrs Anna Downs supposed to be somewhere in this ter
ritory
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-11

An evening with ''The Merchant of Venice" makes it
appear though most of the quotations in common use
from Shakespeare from this play.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-11

"Kng Dodo,' comic opera, had s715 house at Par
sons last Thursday evening Several neghborng towns
contributed literally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
PHONES IN HOTELS.
Three Larger Ones Having Systems of
Their Own Put In.

Before the legislature meets on Jan
uary 9, each of the three big hotels of
Topeka, the Copeland, Throop and Ma
tional, will be equipped throughout
telephones over which a guest may from
his own room order a pitcher of ice
water from the hotel office, or talk over
business matters with people in Topeka,
Kansas City or elsewhere.
At the Copeland there will be 100 of
these telephones; at, the Throop 120 and
at the National 100. Each hotel will
have private telephone exchange. The
buildings are now being wired and
switchboards are being put in. The in
struments will all be connected up with
the Independent Telephone company's
Topeka exchange and are being put in
by the Independent company.
If a man UP in room 33 wants to talk
to the governors, office at the state
house, he will call up the hotel exchange
and be connected with the Topeka city
exchange He would then call for the
number which he desired. The fee for
this service is cents, which the guest
of the hotel will pay when he pays his
bill.
For telephoning down from the room
to the office, or from one room of the
hotel to another, no fee will be charged.
Out of town messages are charged for
at the usual rates, and collected in
with the hotel bill.
The room telephones are also to be
used as alarm bells. If a guest leaves
word to be Weakened at a certain hour,
the clerk down in the hotel office will
connect up his telephone, and the bell
will ring until the guest gets up, takes
down the receiver and informs the
clerk that he is awake. 1t beats the
alarm clock system.
Bell boys will become an almost I'M
necessary luxury. The guest will no
longer ring for a boy" he will sim
ply call up the clerk down in the of
flee, and tell him what he wants. The
clerk will proceed to carry out the in
structions. The delay of waiting for a
bell boy to answer the call, and then
make return trip with the much
needed ice water, or some other form
of refreshment. will all be avoided.
Incidentally, the tolls for town and
out of town service will doubtless
make it a profitable investment for the
telephone company.
At the Copeland hotel. Manager
Chappelle is having an extensive
change made in the arrangement Of
his office. What has been the check
room will be refitted. and the cigar
case will be placed at the west side.
Inside of the check room will be the
safe and the hotel telephone switch
board. The young lady who will be in
charge of the cigar counter will also
look after the telephone calls from the
guests of the hotel, though in this
work she will be assisted by the man
in charge of the checking counter.
The expense of putting the tele-
phones into the hotels is borne by the
telephone company. They look upon
phones used will be the box phones of
the latest and best pattern and the
whole equipment will be of the best
kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
JAYuAwKER JOTS.

A FRANKFORT man tells of his 5000
sheep. Is this a case of the Iylh al"
the lamb?'
An Emporia auctioneer who once
claimed to follow the sea snouio Aio"
all about sales.
The pride of Great Bend is ply
stefan who has a patient that comes
thousand miles for treatment.
That it doesn't cost to make claims is
shown at Dexter. The latest gas Wen
is an eight million foot producer.
An Overlook mystery is the finding
of an unclaimed hat on the stTee .iSo5
missing owner has not been 1oehtlneu-
Two Greenleaf hunters claim the rea-
son thew only killed 159 rabbits in the
forenoon was because they ran out OF
ammunition.
The sudden appearance of a rat in
tho office of the wellington News
caused the young lady compositor to
pr the fowl.
A wellington reporter counted nVe
bedbugs playing tag on a street corner
loafer'S hat before the hre Dell caleo
him to another item.
Chase is shipping jackrabbits to the
eastern markets which they expect BACK
next spring in the shape OF pressed
chicken and veal loaf.
A number of Abilene people who
were badly defrauded by mute book
agent were far from mute themselves
when the returns came in.
Concordia has an energetic Jack the
Hugger." Three ladies were his vic
tins the other night. two single and one
a widow. All three claim him an ex-
pert.
In order to test the flocl's religion a
Great Bend boy stretched a wire In
front of a church Sunday night. The
majority of the members fell from
grace
A Sumner county farmer with $4,000
- invest is ooine 70 the Colorado mines.
Doesn't he realize that there are scores
of kindergarten Kansas oil and gas
wells awaiting his fund.
In the Bushong neighborhood, Lyon
county. a number of members propose
to clear a church debt. They will give
all the eggs laid by their hens on Sun
days until September l, 1905, for this
purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFron the Atchison Globe.l

from the AICnlSOu GlODS-1
A man calls every thing a woman
wears on her back and shoulders a
''sacque.'
Notice: We refuse to discuss the Mrs.
Chadwick case, or Thos. w. Lawson's
letters.
What has become of the old fashion
ed woman who works her fingers to
the bone?
1t is doubly hard for a man to be
good enough to suit his wife's kin, If
she is their pet
Learn to enjoy sacrificing your pleas
ure for others, and get in training for
old age.
A man cannot understand why the
women have anything to do with other
men after seeing him.
How many people make silly asser-
tions and stick to them! Look your
self over: do YOU do it?
We are not SO thankful for what we
get Christmas, as we are that Christ
mas only comes once a year.
Ever notice that a. rich man will think
he cannot afford luxuries which a poor
man will buy? That's why he is rich.
Every woman doesn't worry enough
about her kin to suit her neighbors, and
her husband.
Father Time, like some other men
we hear of, is not kind to the women.
One wrinkle looks worse on a woman
| than ten on a man.
You know that law the men say is
unjust, and the women say is all right :?
Well, a lot of young fellows are running
the risk of arrest for violating it.
| A country woman came to town to-
| day riding on top of a load of hay. How
did she get down to do her trading 4?
| That's what we would like to know.
Time flies so fast that when the first
child in ten years recently arrived at
an Atchison mans home, every one
screamed: We'll: for heavens sake,
| Another Onei''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
STRANDED IN TOPEKA.
The Lyric Opera Company Will Prob
ably Close Its Career Here.

The Lyric Opera company which
closes a two nights engagement at the
Crawford theater tonight is in trouble
The company is practically stranded
and it may be decided to disband In
Topeka and the remainder of the tour
will in that case be abandoned.
A man named McStey who was
formerly connected with the company
sued the proprietors of the company
at lola, Kan, for a sum amounting to
about $50 which he claimed was due
him.
He was unable to collect the money
at lola and the papers We're sent to
Topeka for collection. Attachment
papers were made out here and Sheriff
Lucas went to Crawford's theater to
levy on the property of the company.
He reported that he was unable to find
anything of value, and it now seems
likely that the judgment will remain
unsatisfied.
Railroad jack which is booked to
play Topeka at the Crawford theater
tomorrow night must be pretty thor
oughly bad The State Journal printed
extracts from papers published at
Lincoln. Neb., and at Beloit, Kan,
yesterday, both of which unreservedly
declared the play was atrocious- The
State Journal is today in receipt of a
letter from Clyde, Kan, a town of
1900 Inhabitants, in regard to the per-
formance of Railroad Jack" at that
town. The letter is from J. d.
oedChlel, the proprietor ana manager
of the Clyde opera house. He says:
Railroad Jack played my house
Dec. 14th. This being my first year
in the show business, L did not know
any better. The show is the limit it
is so bad, and it could not play my
house again under any circumstances.' -
after Midnight" is the attraction
at Crawford's theater on Christmas
Sunday, December %. Parquet seats
will sell for rs cents. The same show
played a week stand at the Gilliss
theater in Kansas City, a 10, 20, 80
and so cent house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
HER SATCHEL GONE
Mrs. Chadwicl1's Luggage Continues to
Turn Up Missing.

Cleveland, Dec. 21.-Still another
satchel, one thought by Receiver
Loeser to contain valuables belonging
to Mrs. Chadwick, was today found to
be missing. This developed in an ex-
animation of Mrs. Mary Londraville,
Mrs. Chadwick's former housekeeper,
held before Referee in Bankruptcy
Remington.
The discovery is in addition to the
missing trunk and grip that disappear
ed from the Holland house in New
York the day before Mrs. Chadwick
was arrested. Mrs. Londraville was
the only witness examined today. She
told of accompanying Mrs. Chadwick
to the Holland hotel here at the lat
ter's request and of taking two satchels
into room.
Judge Albaugh of Canton, and sew
eral men, the witness said, were pres
ent in an adjoining room. She heard
no conversation. Asked as to what
had become of the satchels the wit
ness replied:
ct was instructed to give the large
one to D. L. Pine of this city. L called
him up by telephone and told him
about it and asked him to come for it,
He arrived after Mrs. Chadwick had
left for New York and I gave it to
him.
The satchel, she said, contained let
tiers and papers. She did not know
what had become of the other satchel.
The hearing was continued until after
noon and an effort will be made to
have Mr.. Pine appear for examination
as to the VIII ereabouts of the Satchel
and what it contained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

mate the total to Indicate clearly the
relative value of the breadstuffs ex-
ported in the present year as compared
with those OF last year.
Despite the fact that the breadstuffs
exported will show a fall of practically
100 million dollars for the entire calen-
dar year, indications now are that the
total exports will differ but little from
those of the preceding calendar year
This, of course, means that in other ar
ticles there has been an advance suf1-
cient to nearly offset the great loss In
exports of breadstuffs, and the figures
of the bureau of statistics seem to JUS
tify this conclusion. For the eleven
months ending with November the pre-
liminary figures show an increase OF 10
million dollars in value of mineral oils
exported and IA millions in the value OF
cotton exported, while ten months hg-
ures show an increase of "a million dol
lars in the value of manufactures ex-
ported as compared with the cores
ponding months of the preceding year
In the single month Of october manu-
features showed an increase OF III mil
lion dollars over october of last year.
and should the November and Decem-
Der figures show approximately ike
gains, the increase in manufactures
alone for the calendar year Wouio Elk
coed rs million dollars. Thus, the ng-
ures available at the present time inol-
cate that the loss of approximately 1oo
millions in the value of breadstufrs ex-
ported will be nearly OF quite onset oy
an increase in manufactures and raw
cotton, the bulk of the increase, how
ever, being in manufactures, chiefly IRON
and steel. copper. mineral oils ana cot
ton goods.
This decrease in exports of breadstuns
occurs in all the important classes
grouped under the general title OF
breadstuffs, but is especially marked IN
regard to wheat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
HE SAYS LOOK OUT.
Afraid Bugaboo Legislature Will Get
the Labor Bureau.

Owing to certain rumorS that the
coming session of the legislature may
attempt to abolish labor union control
of the labor commissioners office, and
make the job a part of the guberna-
torial patronage, there is likely to be
an unusually interesting session of the
State Society of Labor and Industry
this year.
w. L. A. Johnson, secretary of the
State Society of Labor and Industry.
is sending out today the official call
for the convention to be held in To-
peka beginning Monday, February 6.
The convention will assemble at the
labor society rooms in the state house
at o'clock a M, but will at once ad-
journ to the Knights and Ladies of
Security hall, where the convention
will be held. The regular sessions of
the convention are secret, but one
sentative hall, probably on the even
ing of February Z.
1t is expected that over 800 dele
gates, representing organized labor
throughout the state, will be present.
There is some talk about the posi-
bility of a repeal of the present laws
creating the society of labor and
placing the selection of the state labor
commissioner in the hands of the gov
ernOr. Labor Commissioner johnson
warns the organized labor people
guard against such action; he says
that every labor union in the state
should be represented at the conven-
ton. The labor people also have
bunch of new legislation affecting la
Dor interests which they hope to have
adopted, and they plan to keep a
lobby here to look after their bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
LESS CEREALS EXPORTED

Breadstuffs exported from the United
States in 1904 seem likely to be less than
one-half in value those exported in
1903. These figures relate to the calen-
dar year and are based upon the eleven
months preliminary statement issued
by the department of commerce and Ia
Dor through its bureau of statistics. The
figures of the November advance state
ment of exports of breadstuffs, proyis-
ions, cotton. and mineral oils issued by
the bureau of statistics show that the
total value OF breadstuffs exported in
the eleven months ending with Noveln-
Der was, in round terms. 81 million dol
lars, against 1T6 millions in the cores
bonding eleven months of last year.
These figures are preliminary and
cover only the more important ports of
the country. but sufficiently approx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
FIERCE STREET BATTLE
Between Sophomores and Freshmen of
Columbia University.

New York. Dec. 21.-No action will be
taken by the Columbia university au-
thorities in the case of Kingdom Gould,
the freshman student, who yesterday
thwarted the purpose of five sopho-
mores who sought to kidnap him, by
shooting a revolver over their heads.
Secretary Keppel said he could see no
reason why the university authorities
should take any action The occur
renee took place outside the university
grounds he said, and was really out of
their jurisdiction.
Indignation at the action of Kingdom
Gould and the desire to secure a. large
contingent of freshmen for the sopho-
more dinner tonight, was the cause
of a remarkable display of interclass
luminosity at Columbia university to-
day over 900 freshmen and sopho-
mores engaged in a fierce street battle
around the subway station at Broad
way and One Hundred and Sixteenth
street. Young Gould himself did not
appear at college today, but the
sophomores were determined to take
revenge for his action yesterday.
A number of freshmen attempting to
spirit away President Holbert of the
first year class in the sciences, were in
tercepted by the waiting sophomores at
the 18th street subway station, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
LAWSON DENIES
Allegations of Conspiracy by Bay State
Gas Co.

Boston, Dec. 21.-Judge Braley, in the
supreme judicial court today, gave a
hearing on the question of allowing the
demurrer of the defendants in the suit
of the Bay State Gas company of Della
ware against Thomas w. Lawson and
others to restrain Lawson and Weldon
field from parting with 50,290 shares of
Bay State Gas company of Delaware
stock, 374 $1,000 per cent bonds of
the Buffalo City Gas company, 140 ($1,-
00O) debentures of the Buffalo City Gas
company. 1t is asked that these securi-
ties be delivered to the plaintiff because
of an alleged conspiracy to divert the
funds of the Delaware company to the
uses of the conspirators. The answer
and demurrer of the defendant Lawson
are denials of the allegations of the
plaintiff The defendant describes many
transactions in connection with gas
matters and declares that the Bay State
Gas company of Delaware still owes
Lawson and Weidenfeld S4S8, 434 as re-
suit of dealings begun in 1888
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
HOW TO GET GOOD ROADS.
TFrom the washington Post.l

From the washington ROSt.J
We note with satisfaction the spread
of the idea, so long advocated by The
Post. that good roads are within the
reach Of all communities which choose
to build them by the simple expedient
OF using their convicts for the purpose
1t has always seemed to us a puerile
and dependent frame of mind that ac-
cepts the alternative of an appeal to
governmental charity. In every county,
from the St. Lawrence to the Rio
Grand. the jails are filled with able
bodied malefactors. supported in ease
and comfort by the taxpayers. In most
of these counties there is need of better
roads for the use and profit of the in
dustrious and the frugal. Why should
this material be wasted? More than
that, why should the spirit of aims
taking from the general government be
nursed and the image of paternalism
set up for worship?
We are the last to advocate the en-
ployment of convict labor in competi-
ton with honest and free industry.
Nothing could be more tyrannical and
demoralizing than the operation of such
an expedient. But to put convicts on
the public roads and thereby make the
enemies and parasites of society dis
habituany endeavor to repudiate-this
would achieve a combination of justice
and utility deserving of all praise. No
doubt idleness and crime would become
less attractive under such a dispensa-
ton.
We can imagine that, as the lesson
was brought home, the ways of decency
might assume a certain charm. Con-
ceivably, there would come a time
when the shiftless and the vicious were
less in evidence and. therefore, less
available for useful if compulsory ap-
plication to the public interests. But
1T will be time enough to consider new
expedients when our tails are empty.
For the present we have road-builders
and to spare at our disposal. Why not
put them to work and stop crying for
government bounty2 Hercules helps
those who help themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

The reports of the interstate COM
merce commission, just made public,
shows that in railway accidents there
were 1886 employees injured and 1857
killed in 1904, as compared with 80, I'll
injuied and ISIS killed in 1902, with
which year comparison is made. There
were S,077 passengers injured and 400
killed. The increase in the number of
deaths of passengers over 1908 is 641a
per cent. There were ten unusually
disastrous accidents during the year,
and the report says that the paramount
requirement is an effective measure for
the prevention of collisions. The COM
mission again urged the adoption of the
block system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
Had RIM for Nothing.

A woman at 1O11 East Eighth avenue
telephoned the police this afternoon
that some bad boys were setting fire
to her backyard weed patch, and she
wanted them arrested. Two officers
went in the patrol wagon, running the
horses all the way, and when they ar
rived the lady said that the next time
the boys did that she was not going to
tell them she had telephoned for the
police OF course there were no boys
in sight, and the insignificant smudge
in the weed patch had gone out. She
had telephoned and then warned the
boys that tka police were coming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21

the fight rapidly centered about there.
Surface traffic was stopped for over an
hour and the subway station was
wrecked, its glass doors being demolish-
ed. Holbert finally escaped from the
crowd and boarded a down town sub
way train, but the fight continued fierce
ly.
The freshmen were led by p. Won Salt
"a, a 200 pound Swedish student, who
bowIed over dozens of sophomores before
he himself overcome by force of
numbers and rendered unconscious. Many
other men on 10th sides were hurt in the
same way, but no serious results were re-
ported
After several hours of continuous fight
ing the ARRAY was abandoned by mutual
consent to be resumed after lectures later
in teh day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
ALL FOR DEPEW
Senator PIatt's Conference Was a Har-
mOniouS Gathering.

New York, Dec. 21.-At the conclusion
of the conference called by Senator Platt
at the Fifth Avenue hotel today 1t was
said by several of those present that the
sentiment of the meeting was unanimous
ly in favor of Senator Depews election.
methods to bring about this result and the
hope was expressed that contest would
be avoided. The meeting appointed a COM
the subject.
After Senator Plat had stated the pur-
pose or the gathering the different leaders
present made speeches setting forth their
preferences in the senatorship matter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-21
HAD CHECK FOR A MILLION.
When Lunatic Tried to Cash 1t He
Was Arrested.

Armed with checks for amounts MAX
ing total of 81, 020, $1,000. an old colored
man approached the First National
bank this afternoon, and wanted to
cash the big one, signed III. S. B. c.
Vanderbilt and filled out for one mill
lion-fifty-six dollars.
The bank telephoned the police sta
ton, and in a few minutes the brave
officers captured the colored man.
The checks were made payable to
ID. ctor Srr. ill.," and ar. signed by per-
sons who humored the old man in his
mania Smith is an escaped lunatic
from the Osawatomie asylum.