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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-28

son. and her sisters. Mrs. George
Eagle and Mrs. Margaret Wiggin, re-
turned to their home in Tulsa. l: T.,
Tuesday They stopped here on their
way home from the Atlantic coast
where they spent the summer.
Miss Jessie Strowig of Paxico is the
guest of Miss Taunsie Caps.
DIR. and Mrs. L. c. WATSON have re-
urned from S. Louis. where they spent
the past fortnight.
Mrs. J. w. Stout has returned from
a visit of two weeks at the WORLDS
fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cain are visit
ing the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
E. B. Park. in Chanute.
Mr.. Frank j. Thomas was in Kansas
City Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank Dibert. her two sons and
two daughters of Santa Fe. n; M. are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. d. d. Knox on
Lincoln street. They will leave tonight
for St Louis to visit the fair
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto L. G. RAIN gave
a finch party last night at their home
on Buchanan street. Ihose InVl.e9
Mrs John Petit, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs. George Moeser,
and Mrs Joe Waidelich and Mr.. and
Mrs. George Sardou.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mess, OF ST.
Marys are guests of Mrs. G. H. Guibor
Mr.. H V Hinck1ey of Sulphur, I.
T.. is spending a few days with his
family in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs Roy Crawford have re-
turned from visit to the st. Louis
fair.
Providence, r. l., and other eastern
cities where she spent the past two
months.
Miss Florence Snattinger has re-
turned from Minneapolis, Mimi. where
she spent the summer with her aunt
Mrs. Tuchman. Next week Miss Snat-
finger and Mr.. Irwin Snattinger will
visit the st. Louis fair.
Mrs H A. Spielman and her two
children have come to Topeka from
St Louis and are living at lis Green
wood avenue, Potwin Place. Mrs.
Spielman is Mr.. J. c. Emahizer's sis
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs James Brewer are at
home after months stay in Colorado.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Martin left
for st. Louis for two weeks
visit at the Worlds fair.
Mrs. L. NJ. Weaver and son Lester
who have been visiting in Portsmouth,
Va, for the past six weeks will re-
turn tomorrow and be the guests of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
SchelIe for a few days before going to
their home in wellington.
Mrs. F. E. Brooks has returned from
a three weeks visit with relatives in
Des Moines, Iowa.
is the guest of her cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Widan, of 407 Poplar street.
Miss Alma Nattsen leaves Sunday
for a months visit in Chicago with
her brother, Mr.. A. G.. NattSen, and
other relatives
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THAT KANSAS CLUB HOME.
Named by City Federation
to Help 1t Along.

The most important action of the exec exc;
utive board of the city federation wit n
Mrs A. H. Horton, the president. Tues
day was the appointment of a committee
to investigate Mrs. Noble Prentis' sugges-
ton that the Topeka federation buy the
Kansas building at the St Louis fair tor
a club house. This committee will go into
the matter thoroughly, determining the
attitude of the Kansas worlds fair COM
mission to the disposal of the building
the apportionate cost of removal and re-
building and other details. Later the re-
mort of this committee will be submitted
to the federation and the individual clubs
may vote upon new club mousse PROPOSE
ton.
the federation in Washburn chapel will be
Mr. Willis Gleed and the Rev. Charles M.
Sheldon. The subject of the meeting is
the Club Woman and the University. The
city federation will extend an invitation
to the Kansas State Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs to hold its next annual meet
ing Cday, 1900 in Topeka; At the last
meeting in Emporia last May the next
place of meeting was not decided upon.
The biennial election will be held next
Nav and the meeting will be one of spec
iaI interest and Importance
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UP AND DOWN.
School Population in City Larger, in
Country Smaller.

The school population of Shawnee
county, in the country districts, has de-
creased every year for the past three
years while during the same time the
school population in the city of Topeka
has increased two of the three years.
Tne total school population of the
country for 1902 was 6.055 for 1908 was
1885 and for 1904 is 5,67S. while the
school population in Topeka in 1872 was
11,413, for 1903 was 11,422, and this year
is 10 SOS.
The school census is taken of the
children between the ages OF and u
years. The truancy law requires that
children between the ages of and 10
years shall attend school and that it
shall be optional as TO those under or
over those ages.
The reports received from some of the
Country school districts by County
Truancy Officer Ramsey show that the
percentage of children of school age
attending school varies greatly in the
different districts. In one district with
70 children of school age, 70 of them at
tend school In another with a school
population of IS only 81 attend school.
The school districts reporting with the
number of pupils enrolled in the schools
and the number of children of school
age in Shawnee county are as follows:
No OF district. pupils enrolled and
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Notes aud Personal MenIiou.

Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. McClintock re-
turned Tuesday night from a visit to
Chicago.
Mrs. CLYDE Miller and two daughters
of Usage City are at the National for a
few days with Mr.. Miller.
Mrs. E. B. Kellam and Mr.. Ed KEEL
lam of Cottonwood Falls have been in
town for a few days. Mr.. Kellam re-
turned this morning but Mrs. Kellam
will prolong her stay for another
week.
Mr.. D. r. Anthony, jr., Mr.. E. B.
Baker and Mr.. Walter Starres of Leav-
enworth came over to Topeka in a
touring car Tuesday night, returning
this morning.
Mrs. A. ]. Wo!cott and Miss Susa
Wolcott of Pittsburg, Kan, are expect
ed week after next to visit Mrs. George
Eagle.
Miss Eva Smith and Miss Isabel
Smith left this afternoon for Kenosha,
Wis, for their second year at Kemper
Hall.
Miss Rachel Pugh of Independence.
who sometimes visits Miss Anna Har-
riosn, Miss Helen Smith and Miss
Hazel Fassler here, has been appointed
assistant librarian at the University of
Kansas to succeed Miss Helen SUIT
life, who has gone to Leland Stanford
university to take a similar position.
Mrs. L. w. Willetts and her sons
Winthrop and Frank, who were guests
of her mother. Mrs. Margaret Jahn-1
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In California.

California's climate has a cash
value. The farmer builds more cheap
ly, provides less extensively for stock
laws feed. uses less fuel, does not eat
and burn up in winter what has taken
half a year to produce.
CALIFORNIA; harvest does not hurry
him No summer rains Grain lies
unsheItered in the sack and hay in
the swath. Sowing goes on from No
yernber to March. No cold spells
or 'late springs" hindering growth.
No cyclones destroying the crop.
Californ&a's lands are among the
richest in the world and today are
good investment. VIII yield more
profit with less toll from fewer acres
than under other skies. Get a copy of
The Sacramento Valley 1.-The San
Joaquin Valley THE Coast Country"
South of Techachapi," books of one
hundred pages fully illustrated and
honestly written. Free of H. G.. Kali,
A G.. F. & P. A, Fidelity Trust Co.
bldg, Kansas City, Mo-
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$4,000 NOT TOO MUCH.
Promoter Thinks, for Floating $780,,
900 in Bonds.


Chicago. Sept. 2&-J, Z. Cochran,
jr., of Chester, Pa claims that $4,000
is not too much to- spend in three
months in floating $S'50.o00 bonds of
a new company. His employer claims
the sum is out of proportion. Justice
Foster of South Chicago, unable to de-
eide the merits of the case, held Coch-
ran to the grand jury.
The complaining witness against
Cochran was Edward D. Nelson of
Ironwood, Mich, president of the
Twin City Electric & Supply company,
the Ironwood waterworks, the Hurley
(wis.) waterworks. and the Ironwood
& Bessemer Interurban street railroad
He consolidated the companies as the
Gogebic Electric company of Besse-
mer, Mich, with a capitalization of
100000 and employed Cochran as
promoter, offering, it is said, a bonus
of S125,o0O of stock in the company
for the sale of $35O,000 worth.
Cochran is said to have cashed
draft of $4,000 given him by Nelson,
and later was asked for its return. He
said he had spent it in interesting his
friends in the new company. He was
arrested in Chicago charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
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JONES TO THE RESCUE.
Old Buffalo Slayer Important Witness
in Irrigation Suit.

Wichita. Kan. Sept. 2s.-The Beacon
says:
The attorneys for Kansas in its con-
tention with Colorado over the water
OF the Arkansas river have found a
valuable witness when they We're not
particularly looking for him in the per-
son of Buffalo" James. the Kansas
nontiersman- now government game
warden in the Yellowstone National
park
;. ;. Ashbaugh. who has charge of
the case for Kansas. is in receipt of a
letter from Attorney General Coleman
inclosing "a letter which Mr.. Jones had
written to Governor Bailey. This let
ter encloses a letter from persons IN
Colorado who had written Mr.. Jones
asking him to testify in behalf of that
state concerning the condition of the
Arkansas river in western Kansas
prior to the time the people of Color
ado began using the water for irriga-
ton In his letter to Governor Bailey
Mr. Jones says he never saw such an
exhibition of gall in his life as that
shown by the Colorado people who
wanted him to testify for them. and
expresses his Willingness to testify in
behalf Of Kansas relative to the priori-
~ of Kansas claims for water as well
as on any other point that will be of
interest in the cases. He also encloses
a copy of his reply to the Colorado
people. which reads as follows:
Yellowstone Park, Sept. 16. 1904--
Mr. -, Denver. Col Dear Sir
Yours of the 18th is here. in relation to
water in the Arkansas river, and will
say 1 lived on said river from 1873 I'M
til the spring of 1891. 1 also laid out
and constructed over 100 miles of irri-
eating bitches in Kansas. In fact 1
surveyed and built all the canals be
tween Syracuse and ingalls,. Kan. and
knew the status of the river daily from
1878 up to the fall of 1890, as l lived by
the products of results of irrigation
the greater part of the time, last above
mentioned at Garden City, Kan. Dur
river or in the vicinity of the river I
never knew ii TO go dry until after the
Amity canal in Colorado was in opera
ton.
ITO be sure I saw it very low below
where 1 took out the water for our
Kansas bitches. but it did not entirely
stop flowing.
The people of Colorado ruined me
and hundreds Of my friends by taking
the water to which we had priority of
right, as our canals were in use long
before Mr.. Swink took out his first
ditch at Rocky Ford.
If these facts are of any help TO
your cause. you are at liberty to use
them Respectfully,
&C. ]. JONES"
1t is probable that when it comes
time for Kansas to offer her rebuttal
testimony Mr.. Jones will be asked to
tell what he knows of conditions I'm
western Kansas prior to the opening of
the big irrigation bitches In Colorado.
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MASSACHUSETTS PRIMARIES.
Republicans Are Giving Two Days ia
Making Nominations.

Boston, Sept. 2S.-The preliminary
work of placing candidates in the field
for the November election and choos-
ing delegates to the various party con-
venticns was completed yesterday by
the Democrats in caucuses held
throughout the state. The Republic
cans, however, divided their caucuses,
following those held in twenty-five cit
les yesterday with those in the other
eleven cities and the 800 towns today.
In the Seventh, Fourth and Twelfth
congressional districts, the partial Re-
publican returns showed that Con-
gresham w. e. Roberts. of Chelsea.
in the Seventh, State Representative
George H. Doty of Waltham in the
Fourth and Former Mayor Weeks of
Newton in the Twelfth were in the
lead.
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WILL ENLARGE FooTBR1DGE.
Santa Fe to Make Second Street Via
duct Feet Longer.

The Second street viaduct. or foot
bridge over the Santa Fe railroad
tracks at that point, will soon be en-
Iarged.
An addition of 20 feet will be built
on the west end to accommodate the
increased yard tracks underneath,
which were necessitated on account OF
the building of the new freight depot.
The footbridge will be Just 20 feet
longer than it is at present. 1t is Il
feet wide.
The expense of the building of the
bridge is stood by the Santa Fe Rail-
road company alone. The material
has been placed on the ground and
the construction will be begun in a
few days.
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I.ou Rates to Northern Resorta

Excursion tickets at unusually low
rates, good for the season, on sale daily
to Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha
Green Lake, Devils Lake, Gorebtc'
Ashland, Marquette, Superior, DniutI1
st. Paul, Minneapolis and many other
cool and delightful lake resorts
reached by The Northwestern Line.
Stop-overs at st. Louis permit visit r.
the Worlds fair en- route.
Information and tickets can be Sc
cured from your home agent. Booklet
entitled THE Lakes and Summer re-
sorts of the Northwest mailed 11non
receipt of cents in stamps. A. T.
Fisher, passenger agent, 823 Main St.
Kansas City. No,
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Pat Durkin, the ancient boniface OF
the North side, was fined IS in police
court this morning for harboring a
female dog. Durkin was arrested by
Younkin, the dog catcher, because he
failed to pay the tax on one lady dog
of the Spitz breed. Durkin said that
the dog did not belong to him; it was
the property of railroader who left
it at Durkin'S house, but forgot to
leave his address. Durkin got tired of
having the dog around and gave it to
a farmer. but the farmer was in the
habit of coming to town once a week,
and the dog always came along and
visited until the next week when the
farmer would call and take it away
again. In this manner the dog did
week-in and week-out stunt, but was
not regular resident at the Durkin
home. The court fined Durkin SIS, and
then the old man, who thought that
for anyone to see his side of it, broke
loose and announced that he would
niVver pay wan foive cints av it, so
he wouldn't So they put the old
man in the slat house.
1t seems to be a fixed idea with Mr..
Simons, the pro tenn police court,
that a prisoner who pleads guilty is
a deep-dyed desperado, and should be
soaked the limit. This morning a poor
half-witted boy who had been picked
up for vagrancy, pleaded guilty of the
charge. Some of the prisoners had
told him that was the best thing to
do. and he didn't know any better.
He said that he was living with a fam
lily in the east part of town, but they
were mo relation to him. Then the
court worked up a severe cOunten-
ance and with the air of one who does
his whole duty under all circum-
stances, fined the boy $25. Real
criminal Migrants are released every
day on promise to get out of town.
The police gathered quite string
of jointists yesterday, in honor of
Mrs. Nations visit, and captured
enough beer to make a company of
soldiers respectfully drunk. Among
those picked were John Jeanette,
Sherman Burns and Mack McManns,
who contributed nearly a hundred
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Lansing. Mich, Sept. 2S.-A number
of the fourth class postmasters in the
Michigan Postmasters' association
have met here and effected an organf-
cation. The association favors the or
ganization of a national league of
fourth class postmasters with state
and county auxiliaries and the enact
ment of law providing for the pay
ment of the items of rent, lights, etc,
for fourth class offices. 1t also is in
favor of civil service in fourth class
offices
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Chicago. Sept. 2S.-The Inland Steel
company at Indiana Harbor has post
ed a notice on the gate of it's works that
operation will be resumed in the sheet
mill next Monday. Former employees,
who to the number of 500. went on strike
four months ago, are informed that
they will be taken back at the scale
prevailing before they ceased work. The
plant, it is said, will be run as an open
ShOp
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POLICE JOTTINGS.
Chief Stahl Gets an Axe from
Mrs. Nation.
He Wears it Next to Badge of
Office.
BURGLARS STILL BUSY
X. 8. Paxton of 91S Topeka
Ave. Latest Victim.
Got 3 Valuable Watch and $35
In Money.

Chief Stahl was hit with an axe last
night, but will recover. He was down
at the depot about midnight when
Carrie Nation came through en- route
to Wichita, where she says she will
make business pick I'D this week. Mrs.
Nation, in remembrance of days gone
by, when Chief Stah1 assisted her in
the good work of spelling booze, deco
rated him with the Order of The Axe.
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SDrainS.

s. A. Reed, Cisco, Tex. writes March IL
1901: My wrist was sprained so badly by
a fall that it was useless; and after using
several remedies that failed to give re-
lief used Billiards. Snow Liniment, and
was cured. 1 earnestly recommend it to
any one suffering from sprains." Csc, Soc,
81. 90. Sold by Rowley & Snow and w. s.
Miller.
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sos 90 TO CaIifornia.

Pacific, daily from September 5 to
October Is. Choice of routes via
New Orleans or Ogden. Liberal stop
overs. Write to agent below for Cali
fornia literature before you start H.
Trust Co. bldg, Kansas City, Mo.
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Realizing, from their Sunday morn
ing's business in the west part of town
that the police force is absolutely
harmless, the burglars got busy again
last night, This time business was
better. and they took in more in one
swipe than they secured altogether
Sunday morning. r. S. Paxton, who
lives at 91S Topeka avenue, was the
loser. The burglar removed a screen
from a rear window. He subsequently
removed $35 in good coin and a price
less gold watch, which is a timepiece
of particular family value The thief
kindly left another watch which was
on a table and also the furniture. Dur
ing his search of the house the rob-
Der stepped on SQueaky board,
arousing Frank Paxton, who slept up
stairs. He got up to see about it, but
the cascaret hastily departed by the
back window route. This department
will contain burglar notices at fire.
quent intervals until the residence
part of the city is protided with po
licemen, or some cit%en becomes ex-
asperated and shoots a midnight
prowler.
The police have been very busy for
the past IL hours collecting suspects.
Any person wearing whiskers and a
Russian accent is liable to be Jap
anesed'' for the murderous assault on
Peter Kiel, who was stabbed Monday
night. Up to date Sergeant McElroy
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Kansas City and Return, 81, Santa

Fall festivities and Priests Of Pallas.
Tickets on sale October I'd to 7th in
elusive Final limit returning October
Sth. Eight trains a day each way.
Special train returning after Priests
of Pallas parade Tuesday evening,
October 4th.
T. L KING. c. P. g. T. A.
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Sergeant McElroy is Beating the Brush.

has chased in four Santa Fe employees,
and charged them with assault and in
tent to kill. Mac is persistent, and if
the supply of Russians holds out. is
liable to get the right man. Those
arrested up to date are George Foos,
Davis Zoos and Jacob Heinstein.
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Let us speak of man as we find him,
And censure only what we can see,
Remembering that no one can be perfect,
Unless he uses Rocky Mountain Tea.
GatIin Drug Ca
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$3.50 to St. Louis and Return.

Via Rock Island System. Tickets on
sale daily, except Friday and Saturday,
good { days in ST. Louis.
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bottles Of beer, and George Imbfer and
George Dupree, who made smaller do
nations.
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The decoration is a small pearl and
gold instrument, set with a bogus dia-
mond, and his Chiefness wears it over
and adjacent to his gold badge of
office
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Mrs. Charles Allan Mills will give an
informal afternoon tea. from four until
six O'Clock Tuesday, October A, for Miss
Pearlade Prescott.
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Miss Elizabeth Meade has asked a
small company for dinner tonight in
compliment to Miss Alice Lakin who
leaves Thursday for Boston to enter a
school of domestic science. Miss Lakin
will stop in st. Louis for a. day or two
and go on to Boston the last of the
week.
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The Felicity Gard club had it's first
meeting of the season Tuesday with
Mrs A w. Parks at the Manspeaker.
Mrs. Edwin Lange was elected presi-
dent, Mrs. w. E. .Sterne vice president
and Mrs. Ira Howe reelected secreta-
ry. Mrs. George Eagle will entertain
the club. Octobers 12.ssr-
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The w. G. L. S. and the w. c. L.
S. of Washburn college, will enjoy a
Highland Park Friday evening. There
will be about 300 students in the party.
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Mrs. Chapelle Foote and Mrs. Chas
L. Short sent out invitations yesterday
for an afternoon at Mrs. Foote'S house
in Governors Square, Wednesday, Oc-
tober s. in compliment to Miss Pearlade
Prescott. Mrs. David Owen McCray
and Mrs. Peter Charles Reilly will give
an informal afternoon tea Monday, Oc-
tober 3, for Miss Prescott No formal
Invitations will be extended.
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GREAT THINNING NEEDED.

To utter great words there must be
great thoughts. A real sermon is a
mood. The greatest man always speak
without wax. The dews of sympathy
or insight which they sprinkle upon a
parched land come directly from of
the great sea of spiritual power
Rev. NJ. Walters, Congregationalist,
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How many a man goes to the mar
ket place and to the exchange with
perfect indifference to the prosperity
and happiness of his fellow man and
wrestles with them in business to re-
turn to his home to lavish gladly upon
his family all his ill-gOtten gainS!-
Rev. Z. G. Andrews, Methodist, New
York
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Mr.. Arthur Wolf gave a small din
ner party at his home, 316 Tenth ave-
nue., east, last night for Miss Mar
guerite Jacobs of Cincinnati, o., who is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Kahr,
1912 Tyler street, and Miss Helen Davis
of Concordia, who is the guest of her
sister. Miss Ann Davis and her broth
er, MIR. Fred Davis. The others asked
were Miss Ann Davis, Miss Rose Pres
colt, Miss Lola Berry, Mr.. Fred Davis,
Mr.. Will Lovett, Mr.. Ernest Crawford
and MIR. Ralph Narcotic.