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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

March came III like a lamb all right
but it was a deuced frisky one.
An Abilene COW gives II quarts of
milk daily. She's the cream of the
herd.
A Butler county lad hunting for wild
geese succeeding in winging a farmer s
fine horse.
Hutchinson is paying no attention to
the discovery of the north pole. Oil or
gas is good enough for her.
Fort Scott is troubled with brass
thieves. Most rogues have enough of
that material without stealing it.
A Uniontown man who is in jail for
stealing telegraph company's proper
ty seemed to have touched live wire.
The latest returns from Norton indi-
cate that the Berrys ended their life
by poison and that the DeWeyS were in
Missouri at the time.
The ministers at Fort Scott are out
against Sunday baseball. The pastors
want the games confined to the days
when they can attend.
A Trades Display at Nickerson
brought $lOO to the school library be-
sides giving the people something 10
talk about for a week or so.
After reading the convention pro-
ceedings at Garnett, Editor Hoch took
down the writings of Ingalls, and turn
ed to the purity of politics" epigram.
Turon claims to have the champion
crank of Kansas. When his wife wants
to go anywhere he is always ill and
when she is sick he is wild to make
calls.
Governor Bailey thinks the photo of
the late Senator Ingalls, resembles Cy~
rus Leland. There was a time when
the governor wouldn't have dared to
say that.
An lola merchant advertised: "A big
sack of marbles given with every sale
of shoes" One enterprising lad after
a purchase reached up under his coat
and drew out a gunnysaek.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
SOCIALIST CITY TICKET.
Will Have Full Complement of
Candidates.

Topeka socialists have nominated a
ticket for the coming city election, and
adopted a lengthy platform, or declara-
ton of principles. The nominees are as
follows:
First ward, councilman, r. K. Peck,
beard of education, A. ]. Hager; Second
ward, council, r. NJ. VanZant, board,
Mrs. Z. Schultz: Third ward, council,
Emery Foote, board. NJ. Hamilton;
Fourth ward, council. Mr.. Kemp, board,
Mrs. M. L. Powell; Fifth ward, coln-
ell, P. B. Moore, board, Gilbert Frantz;
Sixth ward, council, c. A. Parr, board,
Chas. Carlson.
The convention also elected a central
committee which will have charge of
the campaign. and will fill any vacan-
cies which may arise on the ticket be-
cause of designations. First ward, Mr..
Matthews; Second ward, Mr.. Olmstead;
Third ward. Mr.. Gulbuy; Fourth ward,
Mr.. Griggsby; Fifth ward, F. Curry;
Sixth ward, J. N. Pixley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
1000 HOMELESS.
Latest Report from Fire-Swspt
District of Oklahoma.

Lawton, Okla, March $50 far only
two deaths from the prairie fires that
swept the Kiowa and Comanche coun-
try have been verified, those of DR..
Harmon and an unknown boy near
here, although rumors of deaths at
numerous isolated points have been re-
ported. Twelve persons were burned,
three perhaps fatally. Those most SER
iously burned are John Harmon, brother
of DR.. Harmon; Mrs. John Henderson.
a. widow living near Lawton, and l. c.
Strickland sexton of the Lawton ceme-
terry. It is estimated that one thousand
persons have been made homeless and
are penniless. Suffering ampng the
destitute is intense and the citizens of
this and adjoining towns are doing all
in their power to bring relief. The ag-
gregate property loss is estimated at
5000 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

1904, are reported at s31. 1852. SIT, against
S22, 514, 843 for the corresponding months
last year, and 49, OBS. 1928 for the CORE
spending period of the year preceding.
Refined mineral oil is next in the list
of manufactured articles showing an
increase in export values, being for
the seven months ending with January,
1904, $40, 029, 461, against $50. 324, 067 in the
corresponding period of the preceding
year.
Iron and steel stand next in the list
of manufactured articles showing an
increase in exports. The total value OF
iron and steel exported in the seven
months ending with January, 1904, is
$50. 125, $50, against SIS, 997, 942 in the cor
responding months ending with Janu-
ary, 1903, and $57, $40, 1913 in the CORE
spending months of the preceding year.
For January alone the exports of iron
and steel are $S,171, 1873, against $7,437,.
298 in January, 1903, making the in
crease for the single month $734 ,440 and
for the seven months about millions.
Agricultural implements also show an
increase in exports, amounting to a lit
tie over million dollars for the seven
months ending with January, 1904, as
compared with the corresponding
months of last year and about million
dollars increase as compared with the
seven months ending with January,
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to the following: zaidee Cooper, OF
Kansas City, has filed suit for divorce
from George Cooper, because he "groWi-
ed at her!
Il wrote a letter." we heard man
say today, land then / burned it up.
That's the best way.
There is much worry in Atchison over
the peculiar actions of a woman: sne
never goes to bargain sales.
When a mother is impressed with the
resemblance her baby bears to it's
father. that is one sign it is cross
This is the season when a man either
submits to jokes about his hair being
long enough to braid, or has it cut, and
takes cold.
Here is something new for the wo-
men: Stockings with pockets in them
They have been put on the market for
women to wear to the st. Louis expo
sition.
Two farmers were quarreling TO-DAY.
and one of them used an expression
that would have done credit to an
Irishman: IF it amt all right. there
is something the matter with it,
We have noticed that when the en-
gagement is young, the girl works at
odd moments on doilies, but that Wnen
it is nearing a elimination, she works
fiercely and long on pillow cases ana
sheets.
Notice is served on the female Sher-
lock Holmes that girl who works
down town, and who is wearing d1a-
mond ring, bought the ring with money
she earned herself. There is no man
in the case.
It seems that the priestess of occult
ism at Horton didn't do SO much when
she brought teaspoons to the picnic Dy
simply wishing them buried in the
ground at her feet. An Atchison woman
claims that if you think sickness, you
bring sickness. This is really as much
a feat as wishing teaspoons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
STONE WON'T DO.
That at Fair Grounds Not Suitable
for Macadam.

The county commissioners have found
that the stone in the fair ground quar-
ries is not suitable for macadam roads
and it cannot be used.
The commissioners expected to use
stone from the fair grounds on the
BurIingame road when that highway is
macadamized. The stone found in the
Martin Hill quarry. west of town, and
the stone taken from Calhoun bluffs,
east of Topeka and north of the Kan
sas river, are both especially good for
macadam.
AS the fair ground stone cannot be
used the commissioners will be trou-
bled by long haul from the Quarries
to the Burlingame road. When the
East Eighth street road or the river
road through Oakland is maeadamized
the commissioners will have use for a
bridge across the Kansas river, if the
stone from Calhoun bluffs is used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
NEW RECORD IN EXPORTS.

Exports of manufactures in January
and in the seven months ending with
January show a larger total than ever
before in the same portions of the year.
For the month. of January they amount
ed to sSs,213, 1852, while the highest Jan
uary record on any former occasion
was that of 1900, when they were $35,
5S6,940. For the seven months ending
with January they amount to $3.50 214,-
1856. and the highest record for that
seven months period in any preceding
year was that ending with January,
1901, when the total was $239, 564, 064
Thus the total for January is 2l5 mil
lion dollars in excess of any preceding
January, and for the seven months
ending with January is about IL mil
lions more than in any preceding seven
months ending with January These
figures are shown by an analysis of the
January exports just prepared by the
department of commerce and labor
through it's bureau of statistics.
This increase of 20 million dollars in
exports of manufactures in the seven
months ending with January as com
pared with the corresponding seven
months of last year is distributed
among most of the leading classes of
manufactures exported. BY far the
largest increase is in manufactured
copper. of which the exports in the
asven months ending with January,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
REASON FOR IT.

st reached Cheyenne one day in the
year agone with d silk hat on" said
the Chicago drummer. land I knew
that that hat would be riddled with
bullets before I had gone a block.
I wore it to simply show my nerve.
I wanted these wild and woollies to
understand that Chicago had a man
or two with pluck AS I turned into
the main street I saw that it was
crowded with tough characters, but
looking neither to the right or the left,
/ made my way"
And the hat was shot off your head
''And the hat was shot off your head,
of course?" was asked.
mo sir: not shot was fired. When
I had gone three blocks without hear
ing a bullet hum I stepped up to the
two gun man and asked him why the
hat hadn't been shot at.
oh, the boys got the wink he
replied
q What wink?"
Why. that the first bullet fired
through that hat would probably skeer
you to death on the spot. and we'd
rather save We for hangin' to-
morrerP ''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
GROWTH oF WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Touching the progress made in wo-
man suffrage, Miss Susan B. Anthony
in the preface to the fourth and last
volume of her History of Woman suf-
frage." gives a summary of what has
been accomplished.
Seventy years ago women could not
vote upon any question.
In 1888 Kentucky gave school suf-
frage to widows.
In 1850 Ontario gave the privilege to
all women, either married or single.
In 1867 New South Wales gave to the
sex municipal suffrage. while England,
in 1859. conferred the right upon single
women and widows. Victoria following
with municipal suffrage for all women,
and Wyoming with full suffrage.
Between 1870 and 1880 West Australia,
Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado. New
Zealand, New Hampshire, Oregon,
Massachusetts, New York, Vermont
and South Australia granted either
municipal or school suffrage.
In the next decade seven states gave
school suffrage, and Kansas the mu-
nicipal privilege.
During the same period Scotland,
Ontario, Tasmania, New Zealand. New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba,
British Columbia and the Northwest
Territory granted municipal suffrage,
while Montana granted the privilege to
tax-paying women to vote on all ques-
lions involving the payment of taxes.
In 1888 England gave county suffrage
to the women, and in 1889 Scotland did
the same thing.
In Arkansas they have some saysc
with reference to the liquor trade
while in Iowa all women may vote or
bond issues.
Norway gives municipal suffrage and
Australia and New Zealand the full
right to vote, while France allows the
ballot to women in the election OF
judges of the tribunal of commerce
and in Ireland they can vote for al
offices except parliamentary.
The record shows that Miss Anthony
has not worked in vain for the prin-
ciple that she has always held dear tt
her heart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TF'rom the Philadelphia Record
The mint ought to be capital place
to work in.
Every year is leap year, so far as
frogs are concerned.
Borrowing is a disease that is con-
tagious rather than infectious.
A baby will keep a man up all night
almost as successfully as poker game.
Many man who goes into a scheme
on the ground floor looks around later
for a fire escape.
Nell-'.Yes. indeed! He told me I
was a dream" BeIle-"And then l
suppose, he woke up."
There are some people who wouldn' t
want to go to heaven unless assured
that it was PERFECTLY fireproof.
The trouble with the average wom-
ans request for pin money is that she
generally has her eye on a diamond
sip
De Tanque-"What did Guzzler do
when the doctor told him he would have
to stop drinking?" O'Soaque-"Got an
other DOCTOR
Mrs. Muggins-"Are you suited with
your new cook?' Mrs. Buggins-"Oh,
perfectly. but I'm not quite satisfied
that she is suited with me.
Have you any choice of an epitaph for
your tombstone?" asked his wife with
unwonted solicitude. YES" replied the
henpecked man. Il should like the SIM
pie inscription: AT peace -
THE fellow who talks to his wife
about the coffee his mother used to
make" says the Manayunk Philosopher
will come home late at night and ex-
pect her to swallow the same old ex-
cuse that her daddy uesd to make.
cuse that her daddy used to make.
I'm lookin' forward to the glad
spring time.
Just the mention of 1t seems to make
a rhyme.
And I guess there's lots of fellers in
the same boat
Waitin' for chance to hook the win
ter oYercOatI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
DESERT ANIMALS.
Can Go for Months Without a Drink
of Water.

But other creatures than the camel
are able to get along for extended per-
lods without drinking. Sheep in the
southwestern deserts go for 40 to so
days in winter without drink, grazing
on the green, succulent vegetation of
that season Peccaries in the desert of
Sonora live in little dry hills, where
there is no natural water, for long per-
iods. They cannt possibly find water
in fact. for months at a time. The
only moisture they can obtain comes
from roots and the fruits of cacti
But the most extraordinary case is
that of the pocket mouse, one of the
common rodents of the desert. This lit
tie creature, by the way, has a genuine
fur-lined pocket on the outside of it's
cheek. When it is hungry It takes food
from this pocket with it's paw, just as
a man would pull ham sandwich from
his pocket.
One of these mice has been kept for
three years with no other food than
the mixed birdseed of commerce. Dur
ing this period it had not a taste of
either water or green food. Other ex-
perimenters have found, in fact, that
these mice in captivity refuse such
treats, not seeming to know that water
is good to drink. The birdseed put be-
fore this mouse contained not more
than 10 per cent of moisture which
is less than is necessary for digestion.
Stuff so dry as this cannot even be
swallowed until it is moistened by
saliva. Yet this remarkable mouse
gave nothing but his time to the inter
ests of science. He suffered nothing in
health or spirits during his captivity.
The absolutely abstemious ass of
which Edward Lear wrote is complete
ly outclassed.
The question is seriously raised
whether this mouse is provided with a
condensing apparatus by which it is
able to absorb moisture from the at
mosphere. At night and in the bur-
rows the humidity is much higher than
in the daytime above ground, but it
never reaches the dew point.-New
York Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
NEED THE MONEY.
That Ia Why the Sheriffs Want More
Fees

The Kansas Sheriffs' association will
meet this afternoon at the court house
to elect officers. Sheriff Lucas is not
here to meet with his fellow thief
catchers.
In the year just preceding a session
of the legislature the Kansas sheriffs
generally mold about six annual
meetings during that year. This year
proceeds the session of the legislature
in 1905. Two years ago the sheriffs
met quite regularly to work up their
fee and salary bill. They all want an
increase in fees. They need more
money. When the general bill was de-
feated in the legislature in 1903 sixteen
sheriffs succeeded in having 16 special
bills passed increasing the fees of the
sheriffs in Is counties. The fees of the
sheriff in Shawnee county were in
creased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
fFrom the New York P

1FTOm the New YORK PfeSSI
One thing a woman can always forgive
a man for is being the father of her chill
dren.
The golden slipper must have been
marked a size smaller than it was or Gin
derella would have refused to try it on.
When woman gets letter from an
other woman that isn't UNDERSIGNED every
her.
It would make a bachelor terribly
ashamed of himself if he had such evil
thoughts as his women friends try to
make him think he has.
The first thing a family man should be
able to do is to write checks and the next
70 pretend he would be unhappy if he
didn't have to do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
New YORK money market.

New York, March Money
on call steady. 1902 per cent, closing bid
Ia and offered at per cent; time loans
steady and dull; 80 days, 3031k per cent;
90 days. 3l4@3sz per cent; months, Az
Al per cent
per cent: sterling exchange strong, then
easy with actual business in bankers
bills at 81 S665m4 S670 for demand and at
81. S3Soa4 1885 for 60 day bills: posted rates.
81 S41z and S4.S71z commercial bills, $4.S31zq
sILvER-Bar silver. 57ssc; Mexican dol
BONDS Government bonds steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
FIRE LOSS AT HOLLAND.
Several Injured and the U. B. Church
Destroyed.

Kansas City, Mo-, March 4.-Reports
of loss from the prairie fires in Kansas
continue to come in, although the fires
have burned themselves out Near Ho1-
land six members of the family of John
Mcclure, a farmer, were burned, none
fatally, in the destruction of the Nc
Clune home. At Holland the United
Brethren church and several small
buildings were destroyed.
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Mr.. Richardson Back.

r. w. Richardson of ST. Louis, who is
secretary of the National Good Roads
association, is in Topeka today in the
interest of the national convention
which will be held in St. Louis May Is
to u. In conference with the officers
of the Commercial club Mr. Richard
son has arranged that the subject viii
be taken up at the meeting of the club
next Wednesday night. It is expected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

Secretary Shaw's assertion that the
boy who sticks to the farm shows great
good sense indicates a decided opinion
that the conditions have changed. since
Secretary Shaw didn't stick.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
That is a charitable view to take Of
it. and one which doubtless will be ap-
precfated by the secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
To Drill at Big Strings.

A drill will begin work prospecting
for oil and gas near Big Springs, Is
miles southeast of Topeka on the upper
Lawrence-Topeka road. The drill out
fit is now on the ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
Saloon Keeper Deported.

Telluride. Colo, March &C. w.
Baldwin, proprietor of the Cosmopol-
itan saloon and restaurant here, was
deported today to Ridgeway- The Cos
mopoltan has been used as a free eat
ing house for the strikers. 1t was
closed last week by the military au-
thorities and Baldwin reopened it with
out having secured their consent to do
So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
LOCAL MENTION.

A barn at 500 Monroe street was par
TALLY destroyed by fire this morning ut
4:55 o'clock. The barn is owned by A.
K. Rodgers. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Mayor Bergundthal returned today
from a duck hunt at Rossville. He
went with Frank Edison, and they
brought home II ducks. Judge Hazen
and Otis Hungate were also there
shooting, and had bagged IA ducks
when Bergundthal and Edison started
for home.
Councilman C. v Wolf is out of town
for q day or two.
The streets and walks committee of
the city council is holding a meeting
this afternoon to decide among other
things, what will be done with the Pc
titio1Is for new pavement.
At noon today Peter Anderson, an in
sane Swede, escaped from the state
asylum while the attendants were at
dinner The police have been requested
to look out for him.
Three small boys, Willie Solen and
Leo and Carl Anderson, aged u, II and
10, ran away from their homes in Oak
land last night. Their parents are
anxious to find them, and have asked
the assistance of the police
I. S. Curtis, clerk of the district court,
is confined to his home by sickness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

Mr.. Cleveland's denial of Congress-
man Scott's assertion that c. H j.
Taylor ate luncheon with the former
president at the White House, ought
to secure for the gentleman from
Princeton every delegate from the
south in the ST. Louis convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

The president of the Mormon church
tells the Snoot investigating commit
tee that he has five wives and by his
manner If not in so many words says:
what are you going to do about it?"
Perhaps there are others who mentally
are asking the same question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

that a convention will be called at To-
peka on March %. at which delegates
from the counties in this section OF the
state viii be present and that its pur-
pose viii be to send a delegate or more
to St. Louis. A similar convention viii
be held at Fort Scott on March 30.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

The body of Mrs. Georgia Richard
son, colored, who died at Kansas City,
Mo-. was brought to Topeka. The fun
eral was held at 2:3o O'Clock today from
the church at the corner of Fourteenth
and Van Buren, streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

It must be disappointing to General
Funston to see war going on in a
country where there are so many rivers
and be unable to take a hand in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
you are not looking for
Fish, we can show you lots of
Fine Meat and Chickens

Tomorrow for your Sunday
dinner. You know we only
buy the Best Meats. There is
a big difference between No. !
Meat and No. 2 Meat. We've
enough trouble without hand
ling cheap meat.
While we are in the Meat
Department, we might just as
well mention our Country
Lard. We bought a lot from
one of Shawnee county's pros
porous farmers, that knows
how to make Lard. There is
only a limited amount, bot we
will sell it as long as it lasts at
121ac a pound.
Better get some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

The investigation of Senator Reed
smoot has developed into an investiga-
ton of the Mormon church, it's beliefs
and practices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
Cudahv La Ill.

Pasadena, Cal, March 4.-Michael
Cudahy, the millionaire packer of Chi
cago, has been removed from his win
pital suffering from an attack of mas
toiditis. His condition is not thought
to be serious.
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u. 8. Soldiers in Knrea-

Seoul, March 4.-Sixty United States
soldiers have been ordered to the WI
San gold mines, so miles north of Ping
Yang.
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GLOBE SIGRTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.l
+Things are so quiet said a brake
man today, that you can hear the mi
crobes gnaw."
The attention of the women is called
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Lima, Peru. March A tremendous
earthquake, which did much damage,
occurred here at $40 this morning.
Nothing comparable with it had been
experienced during the last thirty
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-04

Washington, March 4.-The president
has sent to the senate the new treaty
with Cuba concerning the Isles of Pines
and it was referred to the committee
on foreign relations