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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

used as a bait by swindlers. Would
you buy house or a farm without
knowing that the seller had a clear
title? Would you buy into any bust
ness unless you knew you were getting
what you paid for? Just apply your
business sense to investments in
mining stock.
Or you may have your money in oil
or oil lands I hope you have if it is
paying you; but is it? If it is it will
be to your advantage to see me and
invest your winnings in something
more enduring. And / have it. If your
oil investment is not paying, and you
have lost your money, don't lie down
and be a gutter" but come in with
us and get it back
My partner and I buy as largely of
our own stocks as our pocketbooks
win allow. and our returns are better
than any investments We ever made.
Some are at the rate of 40 per cent. per
annum. and some as low as u per
cent; this without counting the great
increase in the value of the stocks that
are returning these rates of dividend.
Yes, l can prove every word of this;
don't worry.
Do you know of any investment that
you can make where your principal is
absolutely protected by a trust fund
in prominent New York bank, and
where your returns in dividends are
u per cent. on your money? This is
the straight investment feature of our
business. The speculative end is in the
increase in the value of your holdings
as more development work is done and
more bullion produced.
All stock that we sell is preferred
stock to the extent of II per cent, and
after that pro rata disbursement of
excess profits, so that you come in
again. Now how does this work out,
you ask2 will tell you from past
history. not futare prospects.
In the last three years our firm has
invested for their customers three and
a half million dollars in their thirty
two mining, oil, refinery and smelling
propositions, and from profits derived
in the various branches, mostly from
gold mines, have disbursed in dividends
four hundred thousand dollars.
Take the Aurora Consolidated Mining
company for illustrations: Two years
ago now this stock was offered and
taken by the public at 712 cents per
share. It has paid back in dividends
to date so per cent, and the next divi-
dend disbursement in May will put
every ground-foor purchaser ION
valvet."
During our recent trip to New York
we secured options on some blocks of
this stock from those who purchased at
III cents at prices which gave them a
profit of 300 per cent. as the specula-
tive feature, besides returning them 80
per cent. on their investment
Understand, the company has sold no
stock since April, 1902, and this we are
now offering at 25 cents per share
carries 51a per cent. dividend now
accrued to those who buy it of us. AS
the preferred stock dividend amounts
to per cent. annually on it's par value
! of $100, you will see that at 25 cents
per share it pays you IL per cent. on
your investment. And the mine has
not been stopped" below the 200 foot
level After our new electric power
and central milling plants are in opera
tion about six months hence, the pre-
| ferred and secondary dividends on this
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NOT ENOUGH ENGINES.
Western Roads Unable to Take Care
of Immense Traffic.

Chicago, March 12.-1nadequacy OF
the present motive power of the west
ern roads has been emphasized by the
experience of all the roads during the
last winter. A prominent operating
official in discussing the matter said:
If the winter of 10000 has taught
US one lesson more than another, it
has taught US that we need locomo-
tives, need lots of them and need them
very badly. The kind of economy that
prompted railroad managers a year ago
to recall orders for new engines has
been proved a very expensive brand of
economy. I can name one road that
lost in January alone S250,000 through
lack of motive power. That would
pay 121k Der cent. for a year on the
cost of 100 locomotives
The same fact is commented upon by
almost every authority in the west
One usually conservative official esti-
mates that within the next twelve
months the lines west of Toledo will
place orders for 400 locomotives for
delivery as soon as possible Some of
the lines need as high as 25 per cent
of their present engine equipment
The volume of traffic il the west at
the present moment. either in transit
or waiting transit, is stated to be prob
ably the heaviest aggregate tonnage
ever in the hands of the railroads at
any one time. From all but one or two
of the roads the same story comes,
namely. that cars and engines cannot
hope TO get the western lines clear of
business in a month, and cannot hope
to keep them clear so long as new ton
mage originates at the present rate.
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FOR FREE CONCERTS.
Will Topeka Have Them Next
Summer?

The question of whether or not To-
peka will have free band concerts this
summer is up to the people and will be
decided at the Auditorium next Wed
nesday evening. MarshalIs band has
arranged an elaborate programme for
this event and the proceeds are to go
into the free concert fund. If it is
possible to realize enough from an an
nual concert each year to pay the
bands running expenses, the paid adj
mission concerts will be discontinued
and free concerts given throughout the
summer.
That free summer band concerts are
popular in Topeka is assured from the
success of those given last summer
and the hundreds of people who heard
these concerts should not forget the
fact that 1t takes finances to maintain
an organization of this kind. The band
has arranged for professional assist
ance and promises an entertainment
such as it has never given in its u
years of existence. The people con-
tracted for are Miss Olive w. L. White
ley, violin and H. Y. Balloon, flute and
rank among the best in the country in
their respective line of work. The band
has worked hard in arranging for this
concert and a large crowd is expected.
The Topeka City Troop will usher
and it is to be hoped that Topeka peo-
pie will show their appreciation of the
many things Marshaus band has done
for Topeka, by their presence in the.
Auditorium next Wednesday evening.
The reserve seat chart will open at
Stansheld'S Monday morning. The pro-
gramme will be as follows:
March-"Uncle Sammy 1890. Hoffman
Overture-"The Wanderers Hope" .Suppe
1dyl-"May. Day on the kaw'' Marshall
Violin Solo-''Romance," ''Zingara"
Second Concerto. ...............W ieniaWski
Miss Olive W. L. Whiteley.
Selection from Doris Collier
Trinity Bells ....-.....-... Hall
Flute Solo-Op. %, Variations sur I'm
Air Allemdnd. .BOeHIH
Mr.. H. v Balloon.
Waltz-'fWith Merry Hearts" .Rollinston
Trio-"Serenade" .-.................... It'll
com, flute; E. c. Lewis, piano.
Gelection-''E Echoes from the Metropol-
ttan Opera House" ..........Arr. Tobani
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STEAL OR STARvE.
Santa Fe Section Hand Discusses the
Wage Reduction.
Newton, March Il.
To the Editor of State Journal.


Newton. March II.
To the Editor of State Journal.
Having read your article in regard
to section men being on strike ON
the Santa Fe, I would like to inform
the readers of your paper and give
them a correct statement in regard 10
the trouble now on between the Santa
Fe and their section men.
During the winter months the Santa
Fe Railway company paid their section
men 1.25 for nine hours work. An or
der was issued that the wages of sec
ton men on and after the first day CT
March, 1904, would be s1.25 for ten
hours work. This was the reason that
good many good men left the service
of the company. Their places were fill
ed by green men, and lots of them not
worth their board. At the rate of 81. %
pany, on account of being almost
worthless. I am very safe in saying
that 80 per cent of the section men on
this division are men with families
and some with very large ones, and
to keep a family on $1.25 per day under
the present high prices of all kinds of
produce, paying from to dollars for
house rent per month and to buy shoes
and clothing for himself and family is
almost impossible.
The only way, perhaps, a section man
could make a living would be by work
ing for the company during the day
and steal all he can by night. ?
But a man that works on section
for SIPS and supports a family is no
thief if he was he would not work as a
section hand. The paltry sum of $1.25
which they are paying to these most
faithful of men would not keep some OF
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SLOW UP ON DIVORCES.
Wichita Judge Thinks Too Many
Gases Are UnwarranteG.

Wichita, Kan, March 12.-Judge T. c.
Wilson of the Sedgwick county district
court has finished assigning forty-seven
court cases, twenty-four of which are
for alimony or divorce, to be heard dur
ing the remainder of the present term.
After arranging the docket, and in the
presence of a large number of Wichita
attorneys, the judge announced a new
ruling that will apply in all petitions for
divorces filed. 1t follows:
Hereafter DEGREES will not be grant
ed unless the allegations of the petition
are corroborated by the evidence of wit
nesses, and that to merely state extreme
cruelty as grounds for a divorce will be
insufficient cause. The allegations must
be explicit and be borne out by suff1-
cient evidence"
There are too many people, said
Judge Wilson afterward, who make APP
plication for divorce without sufficient
cause, and I do not believe in the in
discriminate granting of divorces
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Western Leaeue Afairs.

Des Moines. March 12.-President
Sexton of the Western league was in
duced to reconsider his resignation, and
will remain at the head of the league.
This decision was reached after consid
cradle wrangling in the annual meet
ing here, and is in the interests of har
mony. Tebeau was present and also
spoke at some length. 1t was decided
to charge the uniform admission of %
cents in each city of the Ieag que. Month
~ assessments to guarantee expenses
were decided on. There are six teams in
the league, and $50 games will be play
ed, ten more than last year. The sea-
son opens Sunday, April 8, and closes
September 25. Des Moines will open at
Denver, st. Joseph at Sioux City and
Omaha at Colorado Springs.
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stock should be much more than double
present rate.
Another thing, the stockholders of
this company have just been offered
$5,O00.O00 cash for these properties, and
refused 1t. That is the entire capitali-
cation of this company at $1.O0 per
share, and is a small part of the actual
value now blocked out and measured
in the mine. and which can be taken
out with least expense when the new
plant is in operation. have every
conceivable proof of these statements
that you may require, right here with
and descriptions of the property. l
nave been to, over, under and all
around these mines, and have pieces of
as rich ore as you ever saw which 1
got there year ago.
The Home Run located seven
miles south of Prescott, Ariz., is an
other winner. Stock first offered Aug
ust last, only enough sold to put in
complete mill. Mill installed and
started November 80, 1903 and produc-
ing $4,000 in bullion every month The
preferred stock dividend on sold stock
amounts in a whole year to but little
more than the monthly profit Mine
developed three years ahead of the mill,
and ore getting richer with depth. Yet
you can buy this stock of us at SIS
per thousand shares, because we
bought big bunch in August before
it was all taken. This is now on II
per cent. QlN1Q6nQ OASIS ana VIII III ali
human probability pay first dividend
in May next. Is this a winner? I have
with me six photographs of this prop
erty.
Maybe YOU want a successful oil in
vestment We have it in our California
oil property, with twenty pumping
wells in city of Los Angeles, four flow
ing wells ria Sespe canon: owning or.
leasing e, geo acres of oil-lands; paid in
DO, de- lot We fur
nish you this stock for 20 cents per
share, paying II per cent. on this price,
the first dividend next May. We
bought this of people with cold feet"
who needed the money.
None of these three stocks I have
mentioned are on sale by the COM
panies, they having sold the treasury
stock long ago, and we are picking it
UP from ground-f1oor buyers.
Our people sell only enough stock of
each new proposition to put it on a
producing basis. We do not look to
make our money from stock sales, but
we do make money for all investors
from the resources of old Mother
as clean as this? Such wealth robs no
man, and adds to the wealth of the
world.
! Now Mr. Conservative Investor who
believes that per cent. is the limit
that good investments can possibly pay
with safety, I am talking to you'll Get
! rid of those ideas which apply only
to other lines of business than legiti-
mate mining.
| 1 am about through with this sermon
on investments Remember, all state
ments will be absolutely proved to your
entire satisfaction, if you are interest
| ed enough to see me. Even if you
| don't buy share / will be glad to see
old friends and make new ones, and
think 1 can tell you things of interest
| that you may not know. Come and get
| acquainted, anyway.
| Yours very truly,
w. H. CANNIFF.
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TAFT IS COMING.
Secretary eff War Will Speak
Here May so.

Washington, March 12.-William H.
Taft, secretary of war, will make an
address at the celebration of the semi
centennial of the organization of Kan
sas as a territory, to be held at To-
peka, Decoration day. About a year
ago a delegation representing the Grand
Army of the Republic of Kansas and
the Commercial club of Topeka was
here and invited President Roosevelt to
attend the celebration. Mr.. Roosevelt
took the invitation under advisement.
Last week he informed Representative
Curtis that he would be unable to ac-
capt.
Secretary Taft was invited.
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Commerce Commission Hearings.

Washington, March 12.-What is
known as the Planters Compress COM
pany case, involving many disputed
points between round bale and square
bale cotton interests in the country will
be heard by the interstate commerce
commission in this city next Monday.
A hearing in the case of the Cattle
Raisers' association of Texas, against
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and 9TH
er railroads, involving alleged unreal
sonable advance in rates on carload
shipments of cattle from the southwest
to the principal markets has been set
for April IS, at Fit. Worth.
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MUST HOLD THEM.
Warrants for Last Month ofTeachers
Wages.

County Superintendent Wright has
notified the county commissioners that
the warrants for the payment of the
last months wages in the term of each
school teacher in the county must be
held up until he orders them released
Wright says that the law provides
that the last months salary shall not
be paid the teachers until they have
sent to the county superintendent full
reports as required by law. When this
is done Wright will order the checks
diStrihf1fe1
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Snow Is Feet Deep.

Sacramento. Cal, March 12.-On ae-
count of the high water the railroad
lines between this city and Davisville
and the Beach line between Oroville
and Marysville and the line running TO
Willows are out of service. Trains De-
tween this city and San FRANCISCO nave
TO rake the round about Stockton route,
making a difference of several hours
more in time. During the past 4S hours
there was a fall of II feet of snow IN
the mountains, making total depth Oh
Is feet at Summit.
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aNsIlis Blv,, a Widow.

New York. March 12-Robert Sea-
man, president of the Ironclad Manu-
featuring company, is dead at his home
here from heart failure following in
juries received three weeks ego when
he was run down by a horse and
wagon near his residence. Mr.. Sea-
man, who was so years old. was mar
ried in 1895 to Nellie Bly," the author
ess.
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Inspects Knight Templars.

Manhattan, Kan. March 12.-Joseph
D. Foil of Concordia, grand sword
bearer of the Grand commandery of
Kansas, made official inspection of Or
iental commandery No. 4S knights
Templar here He also communicated
the order of Malta A past eminent
commanders jewel was presented to
George S. Murphy the first and only
member having this rank. The jewel
is of solid gold with diamond in NAL
tese cross.
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Heart to Heart Talk With Prospective Investors

Do you happen to know me? No?
Well, that's my misfortune. But there
are many who do know me. If you
care to inquire about me, ask any of
the following citizens of your beau
tiful city:
E. Wilder. treasurer A. T. & S. f.
E. L. Copeland, cashier A. t. & S. F.
A. D. Gray, assistant cashier A. 7.
& S. F.
James Moore, paymaster A. T. &
S. =.
master A. I. & S. F.
Any other Santa Fe official or en-
ploye who is not too recent.
c. ]. Devlin. the largest individual
coal operator in the country.
Any of the bank presidents or their
cashiers; most of whom know me well.
Ask any of the prominent lawyers,
including C. S. Gleed and G. E. Gault.
Any of your successful business men
citizens.
Well, what do you find? Am I worth
your confidence? Do you think I value
the few dollars 1 might make as legit-
innate commission on your business
above the good name 1 have with your
leading citizens?.
Do 1 know what I am talking
about? This latter I will prove to you
beyond a question, if you come to see
me.
Your money is in the bank, is it? If
it is drawing interest at all. it pays
you possibly 4 per cent annually.
Should you have great many thou
sand at this rate the income from it
might be sufficient for your support,
but it is simply '-molding,'' and your
money Is not working for you. And
Banks do fail, you know, once in II
while and depositors lose all. Do you
know what the National Banker in its
issue of August rs last says about
mining? II you don't, I will give it to
you, word for word:
THE dividends paid by gold and
silver mines are greater than the divi-
dends paid by all the banks in this
country, and the dividends paid by
copper mines are greater than the divi-
dends paid by all the railroads in this
country. We believe that if an in
weston is reasona bly, sure that the peo-
pie connected with a gold mine are
honest; that the money invested will
be used for the purposes specified; and
that the management will be conServ-
alive, he may feel sure that he has a
on his investment"
Statistics show that results from
legitimate mining give profits of 300
per cent. with So per cent. failures,
while manufacturing and kindred in
dustries give from 10 to 25 per cent
profit with failures of rs per cent.
Oh, you have some mining stock now
that is paying you nothing, and prob
ably never will? You are not alone.
You cannot throw a stone in a crowd
without hitting a man that is in your
position. But whose fault is it? You
dumped your money into some project
that you knew nothing about, expect
| ing to get something for nothing; you
4 were swindied, that's all Why are
/ there so many fakes" in mining? Be
cause it is the most profitable bust
ness on earth, and the good things are
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these look wise officials in cigars or
chewing gum, and still they expect
strong healthy man who works ten
hours at hard labor to support himself
and family. Still they say section men
SECTION MAN.
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Flick siens WITH CIeveland.

Cleveland. March 12.-Elmer Flick,
right fielder for the Cleveland ball club,
has signed for the coming season. Flick
and Pitcher Donahue were the only
two men reserved from last year who
had failed to agree to terms. Donahue
still remains unsigned and states that
he will not sign at a salary less than he
received last year.
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Hudson River Tunnel Completed.

New York, March 12.-Begun 80 years
ago and twice abandoned for long per-
iods because of accidents and financial
difficulties, the Hudson river tunnel,
connecting Fourteenth street, Jersey
City, with Morton street, New York
city was finished today.
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Senator Clark Returns.

passengers who arrived today on the
steamer Trinidad from Bermuda was
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana, who
is convalescent from a recent surgical
operation
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Mach1nes in o. s. Printine office.

Washington, March 12-Public Printer
Palmer indicated to the house commit
tee on appropriations today that this
year he will begin the equipment of
the government printing office with
typesetting machines despite the op-
position of the Typographical union.
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Kelly to Bet $500 on Britt.

San Francisco, March 12.-"Spider''
Kelly. who has been watching Britt
train for his fight with Young Corbett,
is Sc. confident the Californian will win
that he will bet $500 on him.
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Baseball for Hutchinson.

Hutchinson, Kan, March 12.-Hutch-
inson will have baseball this year. Ted
Sullivan writes from Wichita that he
has secured the grounds and that grand
stands will be built and the season
ready to commence the first of May. 1t
is expected to have the games on by
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Weekly Bank Statement.

New York, March 12.-The statement
of averages of the clearing house banks
of this city for the week shows:
Loans S997, 1893 900, decrease 81, 519, 400;
deposits s1,037. 26s. 900. decrease So, 1924. 900;
circulation $37, 962, 600, decrease 81, 206,-
900 legal tenders $40, lis, 200 decrease
$3.50, 200; specie $219, 135. 100, decrease $751;
3O0 reserve $289, 254, 300, decrease $751;
500; reserve required $259, BIT, 225. de-
crease 1881, 225; surplus $29, 937, 075 de-
crease $6,275; ex-United States deposits
S39, $40 1925, increase $93, IT'S.
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Mrs. MoIlie Allen of South Fork. KY,
says she has prevented attacks of chol-
era morbus by taking Chamberlain
Stomach and Liver Tablets when she felt
an attack coming on. Such attacks are
usually caused by indigest ton and these
tablets are just what is needed to cleanse
the stomach and ward off the approach
ing attack. Attacks of bilious collie may
be prevented in the same way. For sale
by all druggists.
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POSTSCRIPT

Since this made for the printers have been with
a Douglas, Company
to inZesgate the oil territory lying around Barsyiie In
ceedingly quick profits in this field that company
ganzed produce this high grade OIL You all familiar
Standard Oil takes the production
We expert ground who will
simultaneously time this.
Only treasury price
$780, Half of the capital stock
placed the Trust Fund the
this dividend
witt nexts I surprised
this would investment
within
yourself extremely conservative estimate
per we'll
that Is wells
this
The price Of oil 81 IS barrel and the Standard
sight; at35bbs well
$13S bbl
Allowing only 20 pumping month. this
$12,490 monthly $149S0000 for year.
CUT THIS IN HALF MAKE $4,000 per year The
Figure per
$4,000 will be divided in
dends, amounting 21ac As
on inve
and about this ground floor offers
over-SubScribed
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the first of May in Hutchinson, also.
and the schedule will keep things NOV
ing from that time on.
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M. w. a. Bead ATTORNEY Dead.

Rock Island, Ill, March 12.-John w
White. head attorney of the Modern
Woodmen is dead of Bright's disease
aged 81 years.