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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
BRISK FALL TRADE.
Is Indicated by Reports to the Com
mercial Agencies.

New York. Aug. 12.-Reports to the
International Mercantile Agency from
commercial centers indicate increased
distribution of merchandise al the west
and south. with excellent outlook for a
brisk fall trade. Adverse factors such
as strikes and crop damage, while cur
failing local business in some parts of
the country. have not been generally eff
fective. interfering little with business
as a whole. For these reasons the out
look is encouraging. although trade is
apt TO remain quiet until after election,
when the outlook for the fall can be
more clearly discerned.
Conditions in the west are especially
satisfactory. Jobbers in dry goods,
clothing, shoes, mems and women's APP
parel are preparing for heavy fall
business. Advance orders are satisfac-
tory and the outlook is regarded as en-
coura ging. Increased travel to ST.
Louis is stimulating trade in districts
tributary to that center. with the result
that wholesalers are booking larger or
ders than usual. In territory affected
by the excitement over the reported in
jury to wheat certain branches of bust
ness have shown some falling Off al
though the decrease has not been i'm
portant or very much below the volume
in sight at this date a year ago.
The south shows up well, with re-
ports of excellent business at Louis
Vile and surrounding country. which
appears to be unusually prosperous.
Dry goods in that section hold firm with
rev price changes and collections sat
isfactory. Although quiet. the boot and
shoe industry shows a heavier move
ment than last year. and increased or
ders for manufactured tobacco indicate
strong conditions in the trade. More
abundant rains in Texas have improved
the outlook in that state. which reports
satisfactory demand for wholesale hard
ware. dry goods and groceries. Sales
men for Baltimore houses show salts
factory results and jobbers in that sec
ton look for an increased number of
buyers in the fall markets. Collections
in that territory are reported to be
only fair. with some concern over the
outlook in clothing branches.
PlttSburg reports a revival of hope in
the iron trade due to better inquiry for
future deliveries and gradually stiffen-
ing prices Far reaching disturbance is
not expected to follow the cut in billet
prices which one producing concern this
week promulgated and unless unfore-
seen obstacles are encountered there
viii be disruption of the so-called billet
pool. Conditions in general confirm the
reinsurance derived from the Iron Ages
summary of July pig iron production
showing a falling off of 209. 236 tons for
the month. Owing to the interference
of the lake strike. coal tonnage is very
heavy with. indications that the de-
crease in spring business may be made
good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
STOLE DIAMONDS.
Thief Snatched $500 Worth of
JeWelry and Ran.
PaWnbrOker Saw Him Disap-
pear Through Back Door.

Abe Jacobson, proprietor of a pawn
shop at 500 Kansas avenue. was this
morning made the victim of one of the
boldest daylight robberies which has
taken place in this city in recent years.
He was robbed of $500 worth of dia-
monds by a stranger who was looking
at the goods in the place. under the
pretense of buying.
The thief picked up three rings, with
large diamond settings, and one stud
with a very small diamond setting, and
ran out of the back door while Jacob
son was reaching into his front window
for more jewelry.
7 should know him again if I should
see him." said Jacobson. He was
young man about 25 years of age,
smooth shaver. had very dark hair and
weighed about 160 pounds. He was
dressed in a heavy black suit and wore
a light felt hat He had dark eyes He
was very pleasant and apparently we'll
educated and seemed to be all right.
He came into my store last night after
the banks had closed and said that he
wanted a ring. 1 showed him several
small ones with small diamonds in
them. and he finally took one, giving
me a check on the First National bank
of Topeka signed H Johnson, for S11.
/ thought it was all right, judging from
the mans appearance. This morning
before took the check to the bank. he
came in about IL o'clock and said that
he would like to exchange the ring
which he got last night for another
one. So / took the three rings and the
small stud out of the window, and laid
them on the show case He said they
didn't suit him. so I went back to the
window for more. The little boy who
works in my office yelled and 1 turned
around to see what was the matter. /
noticed that the man was gone and that
the diamonds were not on the show
case. He ran out of the back door
said my boy, and took the diamonds
with him
Sheriff Lucas. with two of his depu-
ties at once went to work on the case.
Chief Stahl put several of his men out
on the case. but they were unable to
get a single clue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12

The Big Chief evidently thinks he has
Frank Keith, the druggist-defendant,
where he cannot get away. Thirty wit
nesses, thinks the chief, should be
enough to convict Mr.. Keith of any
thing from riding on the sidewalk to
arson. If all the witnesses are heard
and cross-examined, the case will be
going on still at dinner time tomorrow
The list of witnesses includes every
thing from county officials down to
troopers in the White Horse brigade.
The information collector evidently
stood in front of the drug store de post
office and chalked down the name of
every person who entered at the portal.
Two of the witnesses are in jail taking
the jag cure, but will probably be turn
ed out soon enough to get their wit
ness fees and buy more white horse.
Attorney Charles Magaw, for the de-
Tense. wrecked a police court precedent
this morning by bringing a law book
into action. This is strictly against the
rules, and he did so only after securing
the reluctant permission of City Attor-
ney Spencer. The prosecution side of
the case is being observed closely by
Senator ]. K. Codding, who represents
the State Temperance union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
PRICE RAID CLAIMS.
Commissioner Allen Will File His Re-
port Before September.

James M. Allen, Price raid commits
sioner, is in Topeka today to talk over
his report with Governor Bailey. Ac-
cording to the law creating the Price
raid commissioner, he has until Sep
TENDER l to examine the scrip. On
that date he goes out of office, and any
scrip that has not been presented to
him then is forever barred from pay
ment.
This union military scrip has
been hanging fire for more than thirty
years Four different commissions
have passed on its validity. That
which is now outstan ding was issued
chiefly to pay claims for damages
done to Kansas settlers during the
Price raid during the war. The fed
eral government at one time PAID the
state of Kansas several hundred thou
sand dollars to meet these claims, but
owing to a question involving the va
lidity of some of them they have
never been paid.
Little of the scrip now remains in
the hands of the original owners.
Much of it was bought up by specu-
lators. Some has passed into the
hands of heirs who know nothing of
its history. 1t is claimed that some
of it was illegally issued
According to the statute, the gov
ernor and state auditor must join in
the report of the scrip commissioner
to the legislature concerning the
scrip. Governor Bailey and Auditor
Wells are having a sitting with Com
missioner Allen this afternoon, going
over the matter.
1T is a hard matter at this late
day to tell what of this scrip is legal
and what is not" said Governor
Bailey today There were two COM
missions which passed on it within
ten years after it was issued, and
those commissions ought to have been
able then to decide what was valid.
That which is in the hands of the
original owners who can tell
straight story about it and produce
proof that it is genuine we could pass
on now, but the bulk of it is not in the
hands of people who know its history
1 don't know but what as good a
plan as any would be to accept the
reports of those first two commits
sions. These claims have been pend
ing against the state for thirty-f1ve or
forty years, and they ought to be
cleaned up in some way. Much of
the scrip which is on record in the
old records has never been filed with
the present commissioner, and unless
it gets in before the first day of Sep
TENDER. less than three weeks off
now. it will be forever barred from
payment under the terms of the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
STANDS HER GROUND.
Russia Replies to England on Knight
Commander Case.

St Petersburg. Aug. 1.-THE Rus
sian reply to the British representation
in the Knight Commander case was
handed to AMBASSADOR Harding today
As cabled to the Associated Press Aug
ust 10, while couched in the most
friendly terms it does not recede from
the Russian position as set forth in the
prize regulations to exercise the right
to destroy in cases of emergency neu-
trail vessels carrying contra band At
the same time Russia assured Great
Britain that there would be no more
neutral vessels sunk unless circum-
stances render it impossible to bring
the vessel before a prize court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Has a Woman Mail Carrier.

Manchester. Kas., Aug. 12.-Dickin-
son county's first woman mail carrier
has been appointed, Miss Hannah
Blatchford. of Manchester, who won
her place in competitive examination.
She will begin work Monday on the
east route with her brother George as
substitute. A. A. Young will carry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Chickens Are Not Household Goods

New York, Aug 12.-In a ruling by
Judge H NJ. Somerville. the board of
United States general appraisers has
decided that chickens are not house
hold effects. In so doing the board
overruled a claim of Mrs. F. Lamarre
OF Port Townsend. Wash. for free en-
try for a coop of chickens. Mrs.
Lamarre contended that the fowls
were exempt from duty under the
clause of the tariff law providing for
the household effects of an immigrant,
which have been in use abroad for
more than one year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
To the Worlds Fair via the Missouri
Pacific.

If you do NOT live on the line of the
Missouri Pacific, ask for your ticket
via that line from Kansas City There
are seven daily trains between Kansas
City and St Louis, making connection
with all trains on all lines running
into Kansas City. Any ticket agent
will sell you a ticket at the reduced
rate reading over the Missouri Pacific
from Kansas CITY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
FINED FOR BRIBING WITNESSES
William ToIbert Made an Example of
in City Court.

William Tolbert was this morning
fined IS and costs in the city court
and sentenced to L 3 days in Jail for
bribing a witness in the Harvey Toll
bert case. The latter was arrested for
criminal assault and William Tolbert
induced one of the witnesses. Edith
Peterson, to go to Kansas City when
the case was I'D for trial. The court
sent for her and she made a statement
on the witness stand that William
Tolbert had bribed her to go away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12

here today. Judge Thompson was a
well known jurist and had written
many works on legal practice. He
was recently appointed by President
Roosevelt as a delegate to the con-
gress of law and iurists to be held in
st. Louis next month. He was born
in Illinois in 1912, and was veteran
of the Civil war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Ann Wrecked But Enginc.

Racine, Wis, Aug. 12.-Chicago &
Northwestern passenger train south
bound is reported to be in the ditch
at Berryville. Everything but the en-
CINE is said to be wrecked but no one
reported killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
The Clinton Chautauoua.

The NJ. K. & T. railway will for this
occasion make a rate of one fare plus
so cents for the round trip. Tickets
on sale August "a to September 4,
good to return until September 5. The
Chautauqua this year will be better
than ever. Katy, with four through
trains in each direction is well equip
ped to handle the crowds. See Katy's
agent about this. George Morton, G.
p. and 7. A, st. Louis, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12

of the Christians" by NJ A. Hudson,
who told of his recent trip to the holy
land as delegate to the worlds
fourth Sunday school convention at
Jerusalem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Baraca Union in Convention.

St Louis, Mo-, Aug. 12.-At the
eighth annual convention of the Bara-
ca union, which is being held in the
Delrnar Baptist church, delegates are
present representing nearly every
Baraca club in the country. Among
4he addresses was one O. '.EhA Cxlsiaa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12

not mentioned IN the city ordnance
His motion was as formally overruled,
and the row began. Where it will end
is a cinch,-in the district court.
Rev. John Frezise a Methodist minis
ter residing in the westerly part of
town, was Dusenberried last evening
on the charge of allowing his fowls to
wander at large Rev. Precise lives at
Sixteenth and Warren streets. and his
fowls are evidently of a migratory dis
position. as the complaining witness,
L. c. Dukes, gave his residence as
Twelfth and Buchanan street. The
usual stale joke concerning the connec-
ton between the fowl and the Method
list minister will be left out of this case.
Last night PatroIman Frank Hend-
ricks corraled the white horse brigade,
consisting of Lieut.. Charles Boyer, First
Sergeant Frank Summerot. Brigadier
WNliam Kane and new recruit, Will
lam FaIlon. The charge of the light
brigade was, drunk in a public place"
They got five each this morning.
E. A. Russell. of Omaha. thinks that
he was Mary Waded last evening by
and in one wad of soft paper. He says
the dusky damsel perpetrated the
crime on East Fifth street. He had
been to the postoffice to mail letter.
and being q stranger, decided to ask
the first person he met how to get to
the Nickum hotel without walking too
far. The first meeting CHANGED to be
with the colored woman. who said she
could show him better than she could
tell him. So she went along. and play
fully felt of his vest. He made a grab
for the roll in his vest pocket, felt it
there and decided that it was al right.
But when he examined his roll after
reaching the hotel il consisted of paper.
only paper, and not the kind of paper
for which the United States treasury
yearns to exchange gold and silver
discs.
1t is not very often that a city pris-
oner refuses to chew what the gods
and the city of Topeka furnish him,
but the whole bunch struck when din
ner was served yesterday. The meat
was bad, bad that it was almost
vicious. 1t did not look good to the
prisoners, and when the chief inspected
it, it did not look very good to him. So
it was cast out and the official chuck
man ordered to dig up some more meat,
but to choose meat which had not been
dead so long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Jndce Thompson Dead.

East Orange, n. J., Aug 12.-Sey-
mour d. Thompson, former associate
justice of the court of appeals at St
Louis, died of diabetes at his home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12

the west route with Tom Young sub
stitute. These are Manchester's first
mail routes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
$3.50 St. Louis and Return

Via Rock Island system. Tickets on
sale Tuesdays and Thursdays during
August and September.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Special Sale

Sorosis Skirts tomorrow.
NEW YORK MER- Co,
ITO East Sixth streae
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Through sIeeper to sd. louis. santa Fe

IIIIOusII 0IeeE'eL 70 q. IUuIs' oanta Q
Leaving Topeka 4:3O D. m. and $500
p. m. arriving st. Louis 7:15 a. m.
Call or address. T. L. King, c. p. & I.
A., Topeka, or phone $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12

The defense formally moved to quash
the complaint on the grounds that the
ordinance was n. g., and sprung his law
book to prove it. He read a fragment
of the 339tn psalm of the Session Laws
of 1903, regarding the sales made by one
druggist to another, a clause which is
not mentioned in the city ordinance.
His motion was as formally overruled,
and the row began. Where it will end
is a cinch,-in the district court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12
Police Court Devoted Entirely
to Prosecuting Pharmacists.
Chief Stahl Thinks 80 Witnesses
Enough to Convict.
MINISTER CAPTURED.
Dusenberry Charges Devine
With Letting Chickens Run.
Perhaps They Ran Too Fast for
the officer.

The big booze case of the season is on
trial in police court today, and the
court room is so full of witnesses that
there is no room for evidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-12

leave items for this column with Kim
ball Printing Co, 912 North Kansas ave.
Independent phone 1851
Mrs. c. w. Wilson was in today from
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York. Feb. 6-The action OF TO-
days stock market indicates 1eehng OF
greater apprehension over the SUBJECT OF
bank loans than over the impending war
in the. Far East. Prices reDounded from
the slight opening depression renecteo
from foreign stock markets, where the
hope of a peaceful outcome was report
ed practically abandoned. The borrow
ing of $50. 600. 900 by the Pennsylvania
Company induced heavy selling OF Penn
sylyania Railroad stock, the latter com
pany owning the stock of the borrow
ing corporation. This latest fear is that
there was a preclude to similar heavy
buyings b yother railroad corporations
caused marked depression in sentiment
all through the street. The loss In Penn
sylvania itself reached IL at the low
est price of the morning. Wabash pre-
ferred was notably firm, in spite OF the
official disclaimers from Pennsylvania
sources that the loan was to figure in any
settlement of differences with the Wa
bash. United States S.eel preferred all
showed conspicuous resistance to the
weakness elsewhere manifest. The tone
of the market underwent marked
change after the issuance OF the bank
statement, and this was clearly due to
the moderate expansions shown by the
loan item, which was not large enough to
wipe out the narrow margin below the
billion dollar mark, at which the clear
ing house loans now stand. This erect
of the bank statemen was made tne
more clear by the fact that the cash re,
serve of the banks showed decrease OF
S2,4s3 100, where an increast OF almost
equal amount had been indicated. Penn
sylvania's rally left its net loss than q
point and United States Steel preferred
and Wabash preferred finished the day
about point higher than last night.
The closing was firm and practically at
the hest prices.
Bonds have turned heavy on diminish
ed volume of business
United States IS, the IS coupon and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
Ware g. Leland's
Cotton Letter.

Raleieh N c.. Feb. 6.-Unless some
thing very serious happens in New Or
leans. we are inclined to think the worst
is over The break this morning showed
that there was very little cotton long of
a threatening nature held on slim mar
gins and this hepled the situation very
much The crash Of &c. in spot cotton
in Liverpool and the break in futures
there shows a rather bad position, but
this should not continue. Prices have
now worked back TO a point where buS-
ing is likely to be of more substantial
character and the market should DC
steadier. In the end, of course, every
thing will depend on the crop. we can
expect more selling by the South on any
advance from this point. Alter break
of this kind advances VIII depend more
on virtue and less on force. II the crop
proves ten million bales, or under, we
will have higher prices later. But the
figures show the movement is only
few thousand bales less than last year,
several thousand more than two years
ago, both 100000, 900 bale crops, and 400
600 bales over three years ago. We
should think these figures would lead any
one to believe III a crop OF l0,2OO,O0O or
10000 900 bales in which event 15c is
good price For time we would buy
moderately ON any big break unless New
Orleans let go
Port receipts today were estimated at
$4,000 bales against 49, S1 bales last week,
and 24,259 bales last year.
New York spot market today was dull
and unchanged; middling uplands 1850;
middling gulf, 1915.
WARE e LELAND.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-07
lopening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Cash quotations were as follows:

straights s.S5asllO spring patent, 4.iO@so;
straights S.7O@l; bakers s3OO@S IO;wheat, No
s 81 OATS No eoaH i'5sS5z Soa White. az
8 No sM g9os fe .sns Sag
seed, No. l, Ill; No. northwestern. LIS,
prime timothy seed, 3.l5, mess pork per Dbl.
i35O@lSo41a; lard per IOOib., ':s5@S7.S7h: short
d dlSs s'd iboHe e9se ' short clear sides
tboxed1 . 75ae.SI, wa'hiskey, basis Of high
grade wines, III; clover, contract grade. 1915
9ll.00.
NEW YORK PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK; Feb. 6-Fiour-quiet, winter
Rive tiour-nrm fair to good S3.45 $3.50;
choice to fancy S3:50@3.95.
Buckwheat fiour--dull; s200@2.2j.
Corn-meal steady; yellow western SIG
kiln dried 2.90@3.
Kye-firm, No. 2western 7l%.
.Barley-dul: feeding y; mailing 5I@3l.
Wheat easier, No. red, 96td; May, so3S; July
sV Gso,r 1e dall; No. 2, 60; May, 5oas July
575s.
Oats firm No. 2. 1917
Beef-stea Nv: family SlOOO61, w: mess 5000
800; beef hams ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS @lO
Cut meats.qniet picked led :, bellies 5Z tSs
Lard-st, ady; western steamed 40; refined
steady; continent 7.75; compound, 6ssg6T.
Pork steady; family l5:0O@l5.5O; short clear
IL250l6OO mess l4.75ll5.25.
Tallow-quiet, city S. per package, country
505N
Rosiri--stt ady; strained 295t9s.o0.
Turpentine-steady @66H.
Kice-steady: domestic, fair to extra, 3s4@51s,
japan nominal.
tMolasses-firm New Orleans, open Kettle,
Coffee-spot Rio steady; No invoice 1918
mild steady cordova S54@l3H.
Sugar-raw steady, fair refining 27-2, CEN
. f,lpc
refined steady, confec. A 4.30, mould A 4SO cut
loaf 5.l5, crushed 5.lj, powderedI.5o, graduated
4.45, cubes 40,
Potatoes-frm; Long Islands. 0093.5O, Jersey
2.5O0325 Jersey sweets 1.50@3.75, state and
western sacks 2.50t927o.
Peanuts-irm: fancy hand-picked, @5H,
Cabbase-steady; domestic per ton 2OOO5 $500.
per iMi 50l0.
Freight to Liverpool 12e
Butter-firm: extra creamery A' sta'e
Cheese-steady state full cream fancy small
)lored Sept. IL, late made l014; small white
sgp f. la.e install state And Penn. nearby
Cotton seed oil was quiet but steady,
crude /. .. b. mills 5000, prime summer yel.
foo; prime winter yellow i0942,
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 6-Flour firm, winter
patents, "a o0l4.95spring patents S4.S194...
s7,IaDs.: DO red western 9334o6s, Feb 97s4@y,.
'' n,sornnH0quiel; spo, .5o1at95s Feb. oV's@E'
Southern White 4e612.
Uats-strong; No. white 1870: 80
Rye-firm; No. 2, ~, ex. elevator b, uptown
89ea70. 1900 s..
Bu1ter-steady fancy imitation 1921, fancy
creamery Z4agl5, fancy ladle l6@H
Cheese steady. small I2C1L for Sept and
early Oct lO>a@li Nov, Small l2,@A 1or Jept;
sugar steady; tine ana cUarse srahulaoeo