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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
TALK OF A CUT.
How the City Would Save SI2,-
1000 Year.
Would Mean Reduction Of 10
Per Cent I'm Salaries.
NO ONE LEFT OUT.
City Now Spends $4,000 a
Year for Work.
Highest Salary Paid IL 81 800
to City Attorney.
NO ONE LEFT OUT

Salaries and wages to the amount of
over 100000 are paid out every year by
the city of Topeka. If the city should
order a 10 per cent horizontal reduction
in salaries, it would result in a saving
of $4,000 year.
Such a move as this. it is believed by
some. should be adopted. No one has
cared to come out and champion the
measure yet. and to tell the truth, it is
doubtful whether anyone will do so. 1t
economy campaign when so many peo-
pie are kicking. Every man who holds
a city job would kick.
Probably the fact that the city at
torney is getting up a compilation of
all the scattered legislation regarding
salaries. and is planning to put all this
legislation into one blanket ordinance
has suggested to some the possibility
of saving a lot of money by a reduc
ton in salaries. Not that the salaries
merely as a war measure to save ex-
pense.
AS matter of cold fact, there are a
lot of city officials and employees are
getting miserably small salaries, and
ought to have more. instead of having
a reduction on what they already get.
But the city has failed to raise their
pay on the ground that it could not af-
ford to do so. 1t could go ahead and
reduce the pay of others on the same
ground: that it can not afford TO pay
what they are getting
10 per cent horizontal reduction
might not be entirely equitable, be-
cause it would hit the man whose sal
airy is too small already just as hard
as it would the man whose pay is good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09

the game well. Their only handicap is
lack of weight, and they will grow.
w. w. Stahl, of Wichita, a Fair
mount college man of last year, who
will arrive in town today. Stahl may
fight his way into the first team bunch.
Thrailkill, of Chanute, who is a foot
ball player from away back, but who
may lack weight to mold down a steady
job on the first team.
Haughey, of Wellington, for three
years star fullback on the Wellington
team. Haughey is likely to surprise
people. He starts out with the dash
and speed which cEaTacterizes first
team man.
White. of Great BeLd, who was ore
of the quart erbacis on the great Linds-
borg team of 1903 He is also dam
gerous candidate for somebody's job on
the first team.
Vorhis, quarterback on last years
has not yet arrived, but is expected
about the end of the week.
A. Williams and w. Williams, both
new men and unknown quantities. w.
Williams weighs 1872, and may get job
in the first bunch on this account. He
is a big man for the second team. A.
Williams is smaller, but knows the
game well.
course, to tell what any of these men
may do. Some of them may jump into
the first squad at once. Others may
turn out to be bitter disappointments
Using bunch of light material 1t may
turn out that Thrailkill. Haughey, John
son, or White is just the man needed
for end or half on the first team. The
tendency this year, however, will be to
select as heavy &, back field as possible.
In this respect, it will be hard for any
of the new men to .diSplace Millice and
Caldwell, the halfbacks. If Mehl does
not return, the job of fullback will be
open, but it is likely that Falls, the
former Haskell Indian player, will be in
school to take this. job. If he is not
there, it may leave an opening for
Haughey, of Wellington, or Johnson, of
Topeka, both former High school full
backs.
Rice and Griggs will very likely play
the halves in all the games not under
the Chicago conference rules.
Some of the college professors are ad-
vocating the construction of a new ath-
letic field for baseball exclusively, leav-
ing the present field for football. They
think that whatever profits there are
from the football season should be de-
voted to this purpose. instead of to the
erection of a gymnasium.
President Plass is said to have prom
Used the athletic management that
within a few years, a gymnasium will
be secured for the college by donation.
He therefore favorS the new athletic
field plan.
The plan is to enlarge the present
athletic field very materially, and con-
struct a new grandstand for the base
ball diamond. The bleachers around the
athletic field will be materially enlarg
ed, and in time VIII completely encir-
Gle the gridiron. This will give every
body a chance to sit down, and will en-
able a much larger crowd to see the
games.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
NORTH TOPEKA.

BAH Printing Co, 912 North Kansas ave.
Independent phone 746.]
Fri Hansford of Kiro was in town
| today.
S. Matson. from northwest of town,
| was in town today.
Miss Birdie Stoker returned yester-
day from visit in the east.
! Ralph Bay has returned from his
vacation spent in st. Louis and Chi
| cago.
Leon Holman, son of M. c. Hol-
! man, is in quarantine with scarlet
| fever.
| George Crouch is expected home to-
morrow from weeks visit to Maple
Hill.
Rev. Bentley will conduct religious
services at Prairie Home next Sunday
at 800 p. m.
| If you have not put in your hard coal
for the winter call up or see Kent's
Kash Koal Koncern.
Miss Minnette Loop. Mrs. w. c.
Steele, Mrs. J. B. Haggerty will go to
the country tomorrow to spend Sun
day.
Mrs. G. w. Petro, Mrs. Chas. Curtis
and Mrs. o. D. Skinner went to Law
renee today to attend the Baptist as
ISOLATION.
spending the summer with relatives
| in North Stockholm, New York, is ex-
pected home today.
c. A. Lewis. r. F. d. Carrier No. 6,
is confined to his home in Shorey on
| account of sickness. T. w. Reedy is
| carrying the route.
Come in and see Mrs. Joseph's up-to-
date fall hats and children's caps. Just
received a new line of millinery goods,
1913 Kansas avenue, upstairs.
| r. B. McMaster & Son. Stock of
shoes and rubber goods will be closed
out at cost at the old stand Blue Front
| Shoe Store, S1S N. Kansas avenue.
| You will miss the opportunity of a
| lifetime if you miss that half price sale
| Saturday, September 9.
NEW YORK MER. Co,
ITO East Sixth.
T. H. Morrison of the Reform
school, c. w. Weightman, steward of
the Reform school, have resigned and
gone to Ottawa. Also F. M. Grinnell,
who has gone to Washington, Kansas.
The Red Men Wampanoa tribe No.
80, held the annual green corn dance
last night. A very nice program was
arranged after which the chiefs and
their squaws went to the banquet room
where ice cream and cake were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kelly and
grandson Glenn Steadway of Conneaut
lake, Pa. stopped yesterday with c.
L. Dolman and family. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kelly are on their way to Silver Lake
to make a short visit to DR.. and Mrs.
A. G.. Magill.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Goodman will
leave tomorrow for Decatur, ILL.,, to WIS.,
it Mr.. Goodmans brother, Frank Good
man. formerly of Topeka. While away
Mr.. c. w. Goodman's position with the
Swift Packing company will be occu-
pied by f. J. Miller of Kansas City.
The Jolly Picnic Girls gave an in
formal lawn party last evening at the
home of Miss Vera Bridge, in honor of
the boys who so successfully entertain
ed them at Silver Lake August "a. The
time was pleasantly spent in playing
ed punch during the evening. Those
who enjoyed the party were Margaret
Birley, Meta Curry, Ethel Grant, Vera
Bridge, Blanch Jones. and Robert Cuth-
bert, Bert Conklin, Edward Collins, Ray
Miller, Harry Mckinley, and Miss En-
lily Hart. who chaperoned them at Sill
yer Lake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
EXTRACTING A HEDGE FENCE.
That Is the Present Task of Street
Commissioner Snyder.

Street Commissioner Snyder has a
gang of men at work removing the
big Usage orange hedge which for the
past thirty years has thrived in what
is now the center of West street, be-
tween Thirteenth and Fifteenth.
This hedge was formerly the ex-
tension of the hedge which still ex-
lists along the east side of the WASH
burn campus. It marked the boun-
dairy of a large conheld. This whole
district has since been sold out as city
lots, and is thickly populated, but the
old hedge has been allowed to remain.
Snyder's men are now tearing the
hedge out by the roots, and will open
up West street to its full size for traf-
nc 1t will be one of the best streets
In that part Of iowa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09

enough. But if the council should try
to arrange a schedule, and say that
this salary shall be cut so much, and
that one so much, it would get into the
hottest kind of trouble.
The highest salary which the city
pays now is $500 for the city attor-
ney, and people who are familiar with
the prices paid attorneys will admit
that for a corporation doing a bust
ness of 100000 year, as Topeka
does, an $1,000 salary for an attorney
is quite modest
But why the fire marshal should re-
ceive $1,650, while the chief of police
gets only $1,000, is a hard question.
theoretically one position is just about
as important as the other, and ought
to command the services of men OF
equal ability. But the man who holds
down the job of chief of police must
be one of two things, either mission
airy or a thief.
The amount expended in the street
department varies considerably. For
the past six months the average of the
pay rolls has been $2,450. This is
probably a little above the average for
the year. But the expense of this de-
partment is very heavy Yet a reduc-
ton of 10 per cent in the wages of all
these day laborers, who get $3.50 a
day, might make it almost impossible
for the city to get men enough to do
it's work. And it would have to take
the inferior workmen and the culls at
that.
When it was suggested to Mayor
Bergundthal the other day that a
horizontal reduction in salaries might
be made to save money, he said: I'VE
would lose a lot of our best men, They
wouldn't stay if their pay was cut. We
would lose men out of the fire depart
ment, the police department, and the
street department, and probably some
of the present officials would also quit.
1 don't see how we would be able to
reduce salaries"
The city might lose lot of its best
men. If it did so. it would have to fill
their places with the best it could get
for the price.
At present the salaries paid for each
position on the city's regular pay roll
are as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09

We. just received a car load of
the handsomest iron beds ever
shipped to Topeka. We are going
to put prices on them ranging from
$1.35 up to $500, and we invite
comparison on these prices. We
know we are selling iron beds
cheaper than any other furniture
house in Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
WATSON COMING TO KANSAS.
PopuIist State Committee Knows
Nothing About 1t.

A report comes from Caldwell that
Thomas E. Watson, the Populist nomi-
nee for president, will make a speech
at Caldwell on next Thursday, Sep
TENDER Is. An old settlers picnic is
scheduled for three days next week
and those back of it are announcing
Watson as one of the big speakers and
they claim to have assurances that he
will be there. 1t is said that Watson
made the date of his own motion.
The Populist state committee knows
nothing of the matter. John H. Cur
ran. secretary of the committee, said
today that he has no information OF
Mr. Watson's coming to Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
Post Season Ban Game.

The premier baseball game of the
season will take place on September
Is, between the "Stockyard" team
and the Democratic Flambeau club.
The first named aggregation is being
backed up by Ed Timon and Lon
Townsend. The players will be as fol-
lows: Gus Alberts and his sixteen
year old son, "Sheep" Lyle, Phil
Meyer, Bill Bryan, B. Goodwin and
Jake BeeIer. Gus Alberts gave out
that array of talent this morning He
says that the event will be a gala
one. A band will dispense cheer, and
happiness will be dealt around without
stint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
smith at Fair Grounds.

Desk Sergeant H. d. Smith will have
charge of the fair grounds police next
week. The officers on duty there will
be Hutton. Bundy. Miller. and Hen
bricks and several specials. The ma
jority of the fourteen specials sworn
in by Chief StahI will be on duty in
the residence district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-09
Dining Chairs

Quarter sawed oak. full box seat,
upholstered in leather, dining
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW.
Bright Prospects for Good Crops
Buoy the Situation Generally.

New York, July 22.-R. G. Dunn &
Company's Weekly Review of Trade
tomorrow will say: Encouraging
factors predominant. Little definite
increase is seen in the distribution Of
merchandise, but the developments Of
the past week promise better things in
the near future. The most important
influence for good is the brigher crop
prospect. For the present the best
news comes from the large cities
where warm weather has stimulated
retail trade in light weight fabrics,
and jobbers report that orders from
agricultural communities are much bet
ter than from manufacturing centers
There are still many complaints of
slow collections.
In the principal manufacturing
branches there is still much idle ma
chinery, especially at cotton mills and
iron plants, while most window glass
producers will not resume until Sep
tembe.. Reports of railway earnings
for July thus far show only small
loss of 5 per cent. as compared with
the same period last year.
In the textile markets the most I'M
portant event is the decision of oper-
atives at Fall River to go on strike
next Monday against further reduction
of 1919 per cent in wages In considering
the fact that there is little demand
and stocks of goods are ample for cur
rent needs, it is probable that the trade
will not be seriously affected.
Failures numbered 23l in the United
States against 191 last year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

ed here say that the Russian vo!un
teer feet steamer Snolensk fred three
blank shots across the bows OF the
British sts amer Ardova, the cargo of
which consists Of coal AID explosives,
and the vessel not stopping the Smo-
lensk set two loaded shots at her, one
of them passing over her amidships
and the other over her stern.
The A.rdova was then seized and her
crew transferred to the Smolensk. The
vessel will be brought to Suez.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

Chsrleston, July 26.-Dr. T. B. Nc
Dow. who killed F. W. Dawson, the
afle and famous editor Of the News
md Courier in March 1889 was found
dead ia his home in this CITY TINS
.orniua. Tne caase Of mis- death has
80 vet been positively deterni ied.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
WEEK END RATES.
Excursion Tickets to Popular Resorts
Now On Sale by Atlantic Coast Line,

The Atlantic Coast Line will sell
week end tickets, beginning May 2oth
and continuing until august 9th to
the following named points. Tickets
sold each Saturday are limited for &c:
turn on Tuesday following date ot
sale. Rates on:
Charleston, So. 85; Cross Hill, s.. To:
Georgetown, $500; Glenn Springs,
81. 10; Greenville, S4.65; Isle OF
Palms, 1885; Spartanburg, s4: 10;
Sullivan's Island, s3.S5; Waterloo,
s3. 95: White Stone, S. c., $3.50; Will
mington, N. g., s.. S5.
J. T. China.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
TWO MORE BRITISH SHIPS SEIZ-
Ed

London, July 23.-Secretary for
Foreign Affairs Lansdowne was noti-
fad today by the Russian Ambassador,
acting on instructions from st. Pc
eersp1rg, that two more British ships
Which were captured in the Rd Sea
yesterday by the st. Petersburg and
Smolensk Of the Russian volunteer feet
are being taken to neutral port for
examination to ascertain if they have
ccntraband goods in their cargoes.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
Housekeepers' Labels.

Housekeepers who are now putting
Up the years supply of preserves, pick
les, jellies, ETC., should obtain book
of Dennison's Ready Gummed Perfor-
ated Labels-printed and ready tor
use. For sale at Osteen's Book Store.
July l9-5t
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

Albany, Ca, July 22.-The first
bale OF Georgia's new cotton crop was
brought in today by Deal Jackson,
. negro farmer, who has marketed the
first bale in this section for several
Years past. The bale weighed 35l
sssunds and classed as good middling.
K was sold for Is cents a pound.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

Rome. July 26.-The Pope decisive
lv and finally rejected the proposals
for a readjustment of the relations be-
tween France and the Vatican. The
breach is now definite ard there is no
hone of a favorable settlement of the
eyistinp differences.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
Neutrality-suspicious. LINE

Suez, July 22.-{Received at 20
The Hamberg- American line steamer
Scandia seized by the Russians in the
Red sea has just arrived here. She
flies the Russian naval flag, is com
minded by Russian naval officer and
is manned by Russian narval crew.
She will enter the canal Her disti-
nation is not known.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

I1sopus, N. Y, July 23.-Judge Par
ker today announced that he had Sc
lected August 10th as the date for the
reception of thecommittee appointed
to officially notify him OF his nomina
tion for the Presidency by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

Rome, July 25.-Cardinal Merry
Del Val. the Pspoi Secretary of State
has resigned his Office. 1t is stated
that he did 80 for the purpose OF pro-
noting the reconciliation of France
with the Vatican.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
JAPANESE DISASTER REPORTED

Chefoo, July % Sa. NJ Thirty
FIVE Chinese refugees who have Just ar
rived here from Port Arthur report
that the japanese made another torpe-
do attack on the Port Arthur feet
last Thursday night. The stories of
the refuaees vary in detail. Some
state that the japanese were repulsed
with a loss of three torpedo boats
while others declare that the move
ment was merely an attempts which
failed owing to the vigilance of the
Russian searchlighes, and that the
japanese escaped unhurt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

August Magazines for sale at Osteen's s
Book Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
NO HOPE IF SETTLEMENT.
Packers ana Butchers Expect a
Long, Hard Struggle.
All Allied Trades Join Strike Except
Teamsters and Stationary Engineers
Plants Continue to Operate.

Chicago, July 25 The strike of the
packing house employees is on with re-
newed force5 this morning, and SER
ious trouble isssfeared. The teamsters
union is making final effort to eff
ect compromise before joining the
other employees. They are the only en-
ployes' who have not joined the butch
ers.
The packers brought in 1000 men to
day to take the place of the strikers.
There have been no riots this morning
but the day can hardly pass without
rioting and blocdshed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27
now TaE ACTION IS RECEIVED.


London. July 2S.-The morning
papers generally express satisfaction
That the Malacca incident has been
settled IN accordance with the de-
Bands OF Great Britain, though there
is an incliuation to await the settle
nent OF the broader question of the
passaee through TIE DarndaueIles of
the rolunteec hset steamers before be-
Iie-ing that all earger has been avert
. . Iris feeling is heighte cd b, Premier
BaifoCr's ans uncemens IN the ad-
iour smeus Of the house of commons
that lie still tad nc official news to
cpmmuaicate ther in connection with
fhe Malacca incident or with the vol
uEteef feet steamers in general. Some
napess are evep inclined to doubt the
autbensicity of the news that the Ma
7acca ircid. pt has been settled. but
tie Daily Telegraph semi officially ex-
pIains the apparent contradiction ex-
sting between Mr.. Balfour's state
msuts and the kilograms from st. Pc
segshuTg
ssTwo dispatches sieft the foreign
og6cs July u, says The Daily Tele-
graph. sone has elected favorable
reply, bat the other has not yet been
answered. The promise that no SINH
lar incident shall cecurr again is
yery vague and elastic. It may mean
that no British vessel shall in the fu-
sura be seized, the papers of which
are regular and the cargo carried by it
wnich belongs TO his British maies-
ty's government. That is not much Of a
eoncession seeing that our feet has
instructions to prevent another such
outrage.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

London, July &c G-War news in the
newspapers this morninsg is most
scant, but all reports indicate that the
Russians have suffered a serious
check in the vicinity of Ia Tcnhe
-Kiao.
The Daily Telegraph's Liao Yang
correspondent, telegraphing Sunday,
reports that Ia Tche Kiao was defni-
rely evacuated after severe engage
ment which was intended to retard
japanese flank movement on Liao
Yang. but the dispatch does not give
the place of the battle or the date.
The correspondent at Tiei- Tisn of
The taudard reports incessant fighting
since Thursday around Ia Tche Kiao
and .Kiaochau, in which the japanese
were steadily forcing the Russians
back
The dispatch from Liao Yang to
news agency here reporting heavy
fighting there all of Sunday, it would
appear refers to this battle and from
this and other reports it seems that
some $4,000 Russians we're engaged,
and that the battle to great extent,
was an artillery duel, no mention be-
ing made of a cavalry charge, al
though the ground is fairly open and
level.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

St. Petersburg, July 26.-The Gov
err ment is in receipt of dispatches
from Viceroy Alexief advising that
the japanese commenced to advance
with strong force with Haichang as
the objective point. Severe fighting
within the next few days is certain
to ensue. The evacuation of New
Chwang by the Russians is now com
plete and the japanese are expected to
utilize that place as new base of op-
erat.ons.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

The hammock season has arrived.
A large stock to select from at Osteen's
Book Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

Hunts Round Pointed Pens for sale
at Osteen's Book Storeo
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-07-27

London, July 26.-As result of the
sinking of the Knight Commander,
an English ship, by the Russian Vlad
ivo8tok squadron and the continued
depredations of the Russian volunteer
feet in the Red Sea, war with Russia
is low regarded as unavoidble. Only
firm and prompt action can save the
Government from a fall. The situa-
ito "a is strained to the utmost tension
ancI there is more excitement than at
any previous time.