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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
MUNDONS ON TRIAL.
Charged With Theft of Over 500
Worth of Brass.

The Mundon family, John Mundon, the
father, and Perry and Claud, his two
sons, We're before the jury in the dis
trict court this morning to defend them
selves in the case against them which
will probably send them to the peni-
tentiary along with Elmer Mundon,
nephew of the father and cousin of the
boys, who is serving time for the muir
der Of Mary Mahanna.
The MundonS father and sons, are
experts in brass. Not that they ham,
mer and mould and work wonderfully in
the metal, but for years they have
carted away brass from the railroad
yards in Topeka, sold it to junk dealers
and thereby made their living.
How many times the Mundons have
been arrested for stealing brass is not
known. The police say that twenty
time would be a low estimate. When
ever brass has been missed the police
have looked first at the MundonS fol
years. They have a reputation of max
ing mrass a speciality just as the Bru-
bakers were rated as being hog special
lists
Never before have the Mundons beer
arrested charged with stealing a suffi-
cient amount of brass, over $40 worth
to make it a penitentiary offense. This
time the brass they are charged witt
having stolen amounts to 800 pounds
worth 13 cents a pound. or a total o1
S104.
The private watchmen and detectives
of the Santa Fe missed large amounts
of brass from the shops and yards. L
was reported to the police. The frs
place the police went to was 407 Crane
street where the Mundons lived. They
discovered traces of brass. The police
found that the MundonS had made ar
rangements to ship 800 pounds of bras:
over the Rock Island to Kansas City
and to sell it at a junk shop. Officer
Henderson went to Kansas City anC
when Claud Mundon walked into tn.
junk shops to be paid S15 cents for 13
cent brass, Henderson arrested him
The brass. or a part of it, will be uset
in evidence against the Mundons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
BURNED 81 HOURS.
Fire Had Exhausted Itself at 2:4O
This Afternoon.

Baltimore, Feb. s.-2:4O p. m.@The
Associated Press is able at this hour
to announce that the progress of the
fire has now been checked and that If
is burning itself out The last places
to go were the ice house and coal yard
of the American Ice company. The coal
yards, which spread out about 200 yards
south of the ice house, was the means
of staying the march of the flames on
the south and Jones Falls on the east
The Norfolk wharf of the Baltimore
Steam Packet company, which was
stocked with barrels of rosin and other
miscellaneous merchandise was des-
troyed before the fire had attacked the
merchandise company's property. 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
BEGINNING OF THE FIRE.
Firemen Struggle With the Flames
Throuohout Sunday.

Baltimore, Feb. S.-A fire broke out
shortly before IL o'clock Sunday morn
ing in the wholesale dry goods store of
John E. Hurst & Co, on Hopkins Place,
with a series Of loud explosions which
were heard in remote parts of the city,
and spread with fearful raDidity.
In a half hour there were dozen
big warehouses in the wholesale dry
goods and notions district burning
fercely. The entire city fire depart
ment was called out but was utterly
powerless to check the spread of the
flames which were aided by high winds,
and by noon there were savage fires
in at least thirty big warehouses, and
the confa grafton was steadily eating
its way into successive blocks east.
north. west. and south
Building after building fell a prey to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
BACK IN WINTERS GRASP.
After Remarkable Slide Mercury
Stops at Eight Degrees.

The mercury in the government ther-
mometer at the weather bureau registered
70l2 degrees at 10 minutes of 5 o'clock Sat
urday afternoon and at o'clock register
ed IS degrees, a fall of 241z degrees in 10
minutes. This is the quickest and most
remarkable fall in temperature ever re-
corded at the Topeka station.
The maximum temperature for Satur-
day was Il degrees at 4:30 o'clock. At 6
o clock the thermometer registered IS de-
grees, at o'clock, q; at o'clock, q, and
at midnight, q degrees The minimum
was reached Sunday morning at o clock
when the mercury was down to degrees
above zero. The fall was 4312 degrees in
two hours.
The cold wave was caused by the low
barometer in Kansas, Colorado and Ne
braska, moving rapidly southeastward
and being followed by high barometer
which swept across the country from the
northwest. At ten minutes to O'Clock
Saturday afternoon, the time when the
temperature fell, the wind changed from
southwest, blowing Is miles hour, to
north. blowing IS miles and hour. The
change was almost instantaneous. For
a minute there was lull and the wind
was west, but the needle of the recording
machine jumped almost instantly from
southwest to north.
weather bureau today is: Probably
snow fiurries tonight or Tuesday.
The wind this morning was east, blow
ing miles hour. The hourly temper
atures recorded by the government ther-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
OVER IS, 800 A MONTH.
What Tt Costs to Run Shawnee
County.

The expenses of Shawnee county for
January amounted to So, SOB. 20 accord
ing to the report of County Auditor
Welch.
In January the county commissioners
expended 81, Z39 of the permanent road
fund for new machinery and equip
ment. The poor farm cost $259, bridges
$156, court house painting and decorat-
ing the offices $351, court of Topeka
S416, district court $764. INDECENT poor
1856, of which amount 1922 was expend-
ed for fuel. The total cost of the coun-
ty jail was s719.A and of the probate
court SEAL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
IN THE DEWEY CASE.
Lawyers Are Unable to Secure
IL Satisfactory Jurymen.

Norton, Kas., Feb. S.-The Dewey
case was called in the district court this
morning and the examination of jurors
continued. Two hundred and six Venire
men have been summoned since Sat
urday. The state has used one per-
emptory challenge and the defense
four. So far $50 veniremen have been
examined, and it will probably be sew
eral days at the present rate before a
jury will be secured. The opinion pre-
walls that the case is being dragged
along in order to make a mistrial.
though every one connected with the
defense denies this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
TO KEEP GOOD COWS.
County Will Buy Pure Blood Herd
for Poor Farm.

The County commissioners intend to
start a pure blooded herd of milch
cows at the county poor farm north of
town.
There are so inmates in heinstitution
and many are old and feeble, neces-
stating the use of a large quantity of
milk. The commissioners believe that
a standard breed of dairy cattle should
be kept there and that some standard
breed of milch cows will furnish more
milk than the scrub cows now kept
there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
OIL FIELD FAILURE.
NJ. L. Lockwood of Independence
Has S25O,OOO Liabilities.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. S-A special
to the Star from Independence, Kas.,
SAYS:
The failure of NJ l. Lockwood. one
of the largest operators in the Kansas
oil field, is announced. The liabilities,
it is said. probably will reach S250,000
The assets are stated to be close to
$100000 Mr.. Lockwood is a heavy op-
orator in the PENNSYLVANIA oil field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
HANNA'S CONDITION.
Doctors Say It Is Good But
Temperature Is High.

Washington, Feb. Sat the Airing
ton hotel this morning it was reported
that Senator Hanna had passed a COM
Portable night. The doctors did not
hold a consultation until IL o'clock.
This bulletin was issued at IL O'Clock
by Senator Hanna's physicians:
Mr. Hanna's temperature is a little
higher, 103; pulse. 81, regular; respira-
ton, "a. A little irritability of stomach;
mind quite clear. General condition
good.-Rixey, Osler, Carter"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
NEWMAN STOPPED 1T.
Thought a County Official Wanted
Too Many Envelopes.

A. Newman, county purchasing agent,
stopped a graft in the court house by
refusing to grant a reQuisition for 1000
envelopes.
The requisition was for sufficient
amount to last a year, thinks Newman,
and as the officer who asked for the
envelopes secured a supply a month ago
which Newman thought ought to last
a year. Newman says the envelopes
were to be used in asking for votes
through the mails
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
LA CROSSE MURDER TRIAL.
Hearing of F. T. Appleton Begins in
Court on Tuesday.

La Crosse. Kas.. Feb. S.-The case of
the state of Kansas VS.. F. T. Appleton
begins here Tuesday in the district
court before Judge Lobdell. Appleton
is charged with fatally shooting the
city marshal, W. J. Tolbert, of La
Crosse on last Wednesday night while
under the influence of liquor. The case
is attracting much attention as both
parties were well known
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
missouri Democratic Dates.

St Louis. Mo, Feb. S.-The Demo-
cratic state central committee today
decided on dates and places of holding
conventions. as follows: State conven-
ton at Jefferson City. July 10; delegate
convention at Joplin, June 20; judicial
convention at St. Joseph, June u.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
Temperatures Of Large cities.

Chicago, Feb. 81 a. m. tempera-
lures: New York, 26; Boston, "a: Phil
adeIphia, %; Washington, -; Chi
cago, 2; Minneapolis, Is below; Cincin-
natl, 20; St Louis, 16.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
Weather Indications.

Chicago, Feb. S--Forecast for Kan
sas: Probably snow 1urries tonight or
Tuesday; variable winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-08
baltimore SWEPT BY FIRE

Four Square Miles of Valuable
Property Destroyed.
Started Sunday Forenoon and
Burned % Hours.
Fire Departments from Neigh
boring Cities Called In.
LOSS OF $500 900.
All Glasses of Business Included
In Destruction.
Every Newspaper Office in the
City Burned Out.
Morning Editions We're Printed
in Washington.
STARTED IN CELLAR.
Origin Is Attributed to SpOn-
taneOus Combustion.
Railroads Are Among the
Heavy Sufferers.
President Sends Force of En-
gineers to the Rescue.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
OLD GUNS ON A MISSOURI FARM.
Obsolete Weapons Buried in Civil War
Recovered.

W. ID. Short. who lives near Rutledge.
has recently dug up on his farm sixty
four old muskets which have been buried
since the spring OF 1863. The farm
where Mr.. Short lives was once owned
by his father In the time of the Civil
war, and the story Of the guns is an IN
tereSting one
Col. Glover, with a force Of Union
soldiers, had camped near the Short
homestead and was preparing supper
dashed upon them and captured the COM
pany. Col. Glover's soldiers were
equipped with fuse guns, an army
musket superseded throughout the army
by more modern weapons long before the
war closed. The Confederate troopers
took the guns, but. finding they had no
ammunition for the old style weapons
left them on the farm of Mr. Short
The possession OF so formidable q dis
play Of arms at that period, when even
a squirrel rifle was on the prohibited list,
very. much alarmed Mr.. Short and his
family, and that night trench was dug,
the guns piled in and covered over. There
the weapons have rested until one day
last week, when W. D. Short by ac-
cident found the resting place of the old
frelocks and brought them to light.
The stocks are all rotted off and the
iron barrels, rods and bayonets eaten
with rust, but they show plainly the
style of the gun, and locks and bands
are all intact. Since his find has become
known Mr.. Short has been besieged by
given them out to all applicants as
souvenirs until all but two or three of
the guns are gone. - Salisbury (Mo.)
PreSS-Spectator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
Sunday Bear Hunt in North Carolina.

Some of the citizens Of the Ashland
section had a novel experience in killing
big black bear Sunday. He was dis
covered passing across the bottoms of the
Bushnell plantation about noon by Alfred
Jones, colored tenant on the place, who
notified all the farmers in the neighbor-
hood. A number of men came with their
dogs and their guns and proceeded to
locate the beast.
The dogs soon struck the track and
several of the hunters got within close
range at 2 O'Clock. Five or six loads
were fired into him before he had APP
parently noticed any onslaught Firing
continued for several hours with slight
effect, and several fierce fights between
the dogs and the bear occurred, but he
apparently made no effort to attack any
Of the huntsmen. Late in the afternoon,
after considerable lodging in a thick
swamp, he climbed large tree. Several
shots were fired at him from below, and
he went out on a limb which was so
small it broke under his weight.
When he fell to the ground Ed Harriil
was at very close range and got a good
aim at point just below the heart
which ended the conflict. Mr.. Summers,
who sent for his wagon, carried the bear
to the nearest scales and found that he
weighed 267 pounds.-Charlotte OBJ
server
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
Shouting Their Praises.

Friarpoint. Miss, Aug. 22.-Special.)
Cured Of Bladder and Kidney TrOu-
bic after 26 years of suffering, Rev. H.
II. Hatch, of this place. is telling the
public the good news and shouting the
praises of the remedy that cured him
-Dodd's Kidney Pills. Rev. Mr.. Hatch
says:
Il have been suffering from Bladder
and Kidney Trouble for % years and
have tried everything that people said
would do me good But nothing did
me auy good except Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
Il haven't felt pain since l took
Dodd's Kidney Pills. They gave me
health and / feel like a new man alto
gether Dodd's Kidney Pills are the
best | ever had"
All Urinary and Bladder Troubles
are caused by diseased kidneys. The
natural way to cure them is to cure the
kidneys. Dodd's Kidney Pills never
fail to cure diseased kidneys in any
stage or place. They always cure
Backache and they are the only remedy
that ever cured Bright's Disease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
Large Grazing Project in Minnesota.

Stockmen and capitalists, mostly from
Chicago, are forming company for the
purpose of buying and utilizing for cattle
grazing purposes the great stretches Of
cutover lands in northern Minnesota.
Thousands of acres of cutoyer lands are
TO be found in this section of the state,
and rs it has been stripped of all market
able timber it IS now practically value
less to the lumber companies and others
who own it. All of these tracts are
thickly covered with wild grass, while in
many places where logging was carried
on more extensively timothy and clover
are found in abundance making the finest
grazing lands to be found. Should the
deal 90 through it is the intention of the
promoters to bring the cattle In from
other states each spring and place them
on the grazing grounds in charge of cow
boys, who will look after them until fall.
when the stock will be shipped out and
sold.-St. Paul CIinn.) Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
Galloway in Andes a. Miles Long.

A huge galloway, which when complet-
ed viii be the longest in the world, is
to be constructed on the Argentine side
of the Andes mountains by the engineer
ing firm of Adolf Bleichert Il Co. of
Leipsic.
This galloway is to extend from the
C'.lecito station of the Argentine North
ern railroad for total distance Of thirty
two miles. Its termination at this end
will be IA 933 feet above the sea level,
and the engine station that will be erect
ed at this point of the galloway will be
the highest in the world.
No less than eighty-seven miles Of ropes
will be required for the cable way. The
project will necessitate many remarkable
enci Ieering difficulties, for at one or two
points the galloway will have to span
gorges $500 feet wide by $50 feet deep.
The galloway is to have carrying ca
pacity of A tons of ore per hour, and
cars, each containing 100 pounds of ore.
are to be dispatched at intervals of 45
seconds.-Scentific American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
A Term Hated Of Men.

Whether it has been altogether the
fault of theologians or not, the hatred OF
theological terms, and particularly of the
unhappy word ''sin," is always very evil
dent in the lay free lance. Sometimes it
is even amusingly evident. Men who
would detest wrongdoing as much as, or
more than, any of us, and who would
bitterly reproach themselves If they had
deliberately yielded to the seductions of
their lower natures, had injured others,
or had damaged some good cause they
had at heart, will yet burst out with
tempersome irritation against the notion
of worrying about their sins"
1t is to them as is a red flag to a bull.
Call mans sins by any other name,
and the best clerical and lay minds are
perfectly as one in their detestation of
Them. They quite equally repudiate
what they consider to be, wrong, or
bad" or ''cruel," or ''blackgnardly," or
"caddish," or in any way contemplate
and unworthy of their highest Ideals
London Spectator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
Exhibiting Crops.

Any farmer who will religiously fol
low his county fairs from year to year
will observe the opportunities there to
make reputation if he can grow one
particular crop better than another.
AS every one knows, one soil worker
is an expert potato grower, another
raises prize swine, another understands
corn better than other crops, and SO
on.
Let each one take a specimen Of
that which he can grow best to the
county fair and exhibit, advises the
indianapolis News. Possibly he may
not win prize, but he will have g.
chance to see what others are doing
and thus ascertain bis own shortcom-
ings. Again, his exhibit may attract
the attention Of some one who wants
just the product he produces and a
profitable business is worked up.
The educational advantages Of the
county fair ought not to be overlooked
and the family should be taken to
every one that can be reached at a
moderate cost. Get out into the world
and see what other farmers are doing:
one will find them willing to talk and
one may get enough good ideas at Il
single fair to pay for the expense Of
attendance twenty times over. Bear
this item in mind as the fairs begin
now and in September.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
AS EASY
Needs Only a Little Thinking

The food of childhood often decides
whether one is TO grow up well nour-
ished and healthy or weak and sickly
from improper food.
It's just as easy to be one as the
other, provided we get proper start.
A wise physician like the Denver
doctor who knew about food can ac-
complish wonders, provided the patient
is willing to help and will eat only
proper food.
Speaking of this case, the mother
said her little four-year-old boy was
suffering from a peculiar arrangement
of the stomach, liver and kidneys, and
his feet became so swollen he couldn' t
take q step. I'VE called a doctor, who
said at once we must be very care
full as to his diet, as improper food was
the only cause of his sickness. Sugar,
especially. he forbid.
$50 the doctor made up a diet, and
the principal food he prescribed was
Grape Nuts, and the boy, who was
very fond of sweet things, took the
Grape-Nuts readily, without adding
any sugar. doctor explained that the
sweet in Grape-Nuts is not at all like
cane or beet sugar. but is the natural
sweet Of the grains.)
I'VE saw big improvement inside a
few days. and now Grape-Nuts are
almost his only food, and he is once
mere a healthy, happy, rosy-cheeked
youngster, with every prospect to grow
up into strong, healthy man." Name
given by Postum Cereal Co., Battle
Creek Mich.
The sweet in Grape-Nuts is the
Nature-sweet known as Post Sugar
not digested in the liver like ordinary
sugar, but predigested. Feed the
youngsters handful of Grape-Nuts
when Nature demands sweet and
prompts them to call for sugar.
There's a reason.
Get the little book 1.-The Road tt
EWellville" in each package.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
Good Summer Hog Pen.

Where swine are to be kept in
somewhat small enclosure and fed in
the house it is not always easy to keep
the floor Of the house clean. The plan
here suggested will accomplish this
and give the hogs something to keep
them busy besides The hoghouse is
built with a slaning floor and in the
end at the high part is cut a trough
the entire width of the house, into
which is thrown leaf mold or broken
sod. This the swine will root down
and 1t will act as an absorbent Of the
manure, particularly the liquid por-
TONS If the floor Is made quite slant
ing most Of this sod, etc, will be root
ed down to the lower end by the hogs.
While the artist has not shown the
floor slanting as it should be, in the H.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
PoIiteness IN Horses.

While showing some pictures of Next
can animals the other day, lecturer
was humorousiy challenged by member
of his audience to explain his strongly ex-
pressed antipathy TO the Mexican donkey
and his whole-hearted admiration of the
Mexican horse. He explained that when
the pedestrian or horseman met a Mexi-
can donkey on a pass or path abutting on
a sheer precipice of some 800 feet, the
donkey always took the inside path and
gave you the outside. with all its attend
ant risks. On the other hand. the Next
can horse invariably gave you the inside
berth and took for himself the outer path.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-08-26
"Tony" Biddle.

Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, the Phila-
delphia millionaire, is by far the most
lantic City this year. Nearly everyone
calls him "Tony Bidde" and he seems to
like it. One day an overzealous New
York newspaper photographer took aim
ut Mr.. Biddle with a camera. The mil
lionaire yelled: Cut that out, young fell
low, or III hand you one that you won't
forget in hurry" AS the millionaire
is we'll known to be very handy with
the gloves the photographer obeyed and
hastily departed. Mr.. Biddle insists that
he can have a much better time in At
lantic City than in Newport or in any of
the European seaside resorts.