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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-10
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or a harsh word, the general and his
force marched UP to the mine, took
concerning the present disposition of
the mine and then left with employees
of the company in charge of the plant
Following the closing of the Portland
it was announced that the mines will
begin to reopen today, the nOn-un1on
mines first and others later, and that
business is to be resumed in the dis
trict at once. All miners who want
work must first secure working card
from the Mine Owners association.
News of the intended assault upon
the Portland and the closing down OF
the mine spread like W1ldhre through
the town and the hills and bluffs
about the station were black with
swarming humanity as the train load
of soldiers with Krag-J orgensens
sticking from every window steamed
away. Just as the train rounded the
hill and stopped for the soldiers 10
make the ascent to the mine a United
States flag was hoisted from one of
the mine houses. The deputies sprang
up the zigzag line of steps scattering
as they approached the mine and Gen
eraI Bell and staff went straight to
the general Office, where the genera
read the proclamation. Super1ntend-
ent Kurie of the mine listened to the
reading and then said:
do you want US to close rlghI
away?"
IF it will inconvenience you, GER
tatnly not" replied General Bell.
Very well then, let US wait until
the shift comes off at half past tour,
replied the superintendent, addlngs
do you want any of the mem
Il DO not" said the general s.
1t was then arranged that twenty
four of the company's employees
should be left in charge to guard the
property and keep necessary parts
running, and General Bell assured the
that he would furnish
all the guards necessary to help pro-
tect the mine. General Bell then dis
missed all but few of the soldiers
and deputies and with the remainder
waited for the men in the mine to
come off shift. Later about 800
miners came out. AS today is pay
day General Bell told the men they
could take their checks and return for
their pay. About 100 took their
All the miners went quietly to their
homes after being told that the mine
was closed down for the present.
General Bell and his staff then re-
turned to Victor There was an in
tense feeling of relief when news
came that possession of the Portland
had been secured without trouble.
General Bell on returning to town
said: business will resume tomor-
row, and from now on things will run
right"
1t is also announced that the mines
will begin reOpening at once. The
non-Union mines, including the indie
pendence. it is said will be among
those to start On Saturday and Mon
later the Portland is to be reopened.
The saloons, which have been closed
for some days, Will also be reOpened
it is said.
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L. z. LETTER.

In the latter seventies and early
eighties the contest between hard and
soft Wheats was rife. Russian emf
grants, from near the Red sea, had
brought with them to Kansas seed of
the Russian hard red wheat. These
Mennonites knew no other wheat. In
their simple manner they reasoned that
1t would grow in the new country.
They were right. For several years
the Russians were the only wheat
raisers in Kansas who sowed and
reaped the hard red kind. The other
wheat growers in the state raised the
soft varieties.
The Russians persisted in planting
hard red wheat although the millers
dtsparaged its production, as it was
difficult to grind it. The Russians
however, would sow no other wheat
They plOwed their fields and planted
the hard red seed and they raised
larger crops than their American
neighbors who sowed the soft wheats.
Gradually the American farmers
adopted the Russian ideas of wheat
raising and soon the yield of hard
red wheat ran into the million bushels
per year-and now past the ninety mill
lion mark.
When the contest between the millers
and the raisers over the hard red wheat
was in progress experiments were made
to discover a process for reducing the
hard red wheat to flour in a quick and
profitable manner. The millers found
that the equipment for the soft wheat
mills would not do for the hard wheat.
The process decided upon was to soft
en- the wheat by wetting and by steam
ing.
Even after the process was perfected
II was difficult to convince millers that
they should re-eQuip their mills and
abandon soft wheat for hard.
It was about 1880 that MI. Letter
began investing in real estate and man
ufacturing Institutions. In 1881 the To
peka Mil & Elevator was built. Levi
Z. Letter was one of the principal stock
holders in the new institution.
The question of hard VS.. soft wheat
was up. While Mr.. Letter was not a
practical miller he was convinced that
hard red wheat was the coming wheat
and that the conditions were such that
no mill should attempt to enter the
field unless equipped for the Russian
wheat He was one who insisted that
the Topeka mill be equipped to handle
the hard red wheat from the Kansas
wheat belt.
OF course after a time when the mill
ers saw that Kansas was raising prac-
tically nothing but hard red wheat they
all got into line ready to handle the
more than 80, coo, 600 bushels of hard red
wheat annually. is celebrated the world
over for the particular variety of wheat
raised nowhere but in Kansas. The
Touring mills of Kansas are turning
out IA 600 barrels of wheat annually
from the hard red wheat. In France
and other foreign countries the flour
ground from the hard red wheat of the
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MARKETS TODAY.
Kansas Report Causes Easier
Tone in Wheat.
Wet Weather Here Also Holds
Corn Steady.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Are Steady to a Shade
Lower.
Hogs FiTm-Bulk of Sales S4.65
TO $3.50.

Chicago, June 10.-WHEAT-Iarge Ar
genuine shipments and a gain during May
OF Z points In the condition of Kansas
wheat, as shown by the state report to-
day. onset the bullish effect of heavy rain
Ialls IN the southwest, causing easier
tone in the wheat market. July opened
4s414c higher, at S6s4 1850, but on cOnsid-
efaDle pressure and prospects of a bear
Ish- government report, July sold off 20
S512c- Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago
reported receipts Of 159 cars, against 30l
cars a year ago.
A reported decline Of SC in the price of
cash wheat at Toledo and decline Of Ia
&c at Kansas City helped to create weak
ness in the speculative trading. July sold
OF to S59sc, rallied and closed 11zd15sc
lower, at S6dS6Isc-
CORN-Wet weather in Kansas, togeth-
er with a bullish Nebraska crop report,
held corn steady in the face of easier ca
bles and weakness of wheat. July opened
a shade to sc lower, at 4Ssz G4S7sc to 4S7sc.
sold up to 1870, and then steadied around
4S24 04SAc.
July closed a shade lower at 4S7kc af-
ter selling down to 4S1ac.
OATS-Oats were about steady. July
opened unchanged to a shade higher, 1T
395sG39s4c to 39s4c, and held at $3.50.
VISIONS-PrOvisions were firm.
September pork opened unchanged to &c
higher, at $1250d1235, advanced later 10
Sl23f12. September lard was down &c, at
$3.50. Ribs were Up 21zd5c, at S7.15qZ17i5
WHEAT-CaShF No. red, $1.O8d1 10; No.
red, S1.02d1. O6; No. 2 hard, 92d9Sc: No. 3
hard, S9Gl94c; No. northern, 99c4$1. Oh: No.
northern, 93gI9Sc: No. 3 spring, S6q97c.
OATS-No. 2, 391zc; No. 3, 39c-
RYE-June, 75c; July, &c. Sept, &c.
ELAX-CaSh: NV, S1-07; S.-W., 81 co.;
June, 800 July, S1Oo;; Sept. a-O6;
CLOVER-June, S10.5.
BARLEY-CaSh- 40d5TC.
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come to stop at rs feet?" and the
witness replied:
The fireman told me that there
was something wrong, and l was
about to stop anyway Somebody sig
nailed the fireman to stop. When 1
heard the explosion 1 thought 1t was
a powder house or magazine. We had
no warning whatever up to the time
the explosion occurred. We ran some
SO or 60 feet afterward."
when did he tell you he received
the signal to stop2''
Just before stopped"
Then you stopped after he told
you he had received the signal?"
Yes, the tracks turned to the left
and 1 could see very little coming in
there have had no conversation
with him since. The only persons
saw as 1 went to the left side of the
engine were some miners that had
been on the platform at the time of
the explosion. The only thing
know about the finding of the wire
was that when I returned to the sta
ton the second time Watson and I
went back to the depot to see if we
could find wire. We did not have
sufhcient time to make a thorough in
Vestigation and we did not see any
signs of anything until the depot had
Deen closed for some time"
The testimony of the rest of the
tram crew was practically the same
as the engineers
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A TRAvEsTY ON MACBETH.
The Washburn Seniors Will Present
One Tonight.

Tonight a travesty on Shakespere's
Macbeth will be given at Wash
burn college by the senior class
Every liberty imaginable is taken
upon the great dramatist's tragedy
and a sad slaughter is made of its
most temperamental parts. College
humor and jokes are inserted so
plentifully that it would be hard to
recognize the original play with a
microscope and a force of Pinkerton
detectives No admission is charged
and as usual the chapel, in which the
obsequies are to be given. will be
packed to its capacity. The senior
play is one of the most popular and
prominent events OF the college year.
Full details of the lineup were not
given out by the manager for the fear
of the safety of some of the partici-
pants. This much was revealed:
Mr. Macbeth Oooley Delay
Mrs. Macbeth -.- Edna MorroW
Mr. Macduft- - rank Mohler
Lord Seyton ...... Louis Fritts
Mr. BanquO-. John Maynard
witches. Miss Westernhaver. Mr.
Louis Fritts, Miss Gage.
On next Tuesday afternoon the
senior class day will take place on the
campus The programme will be
given later. The ivy planting and its
accompanying ceremonies are also
scheduled for the same time.
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Denver, Col, June 1O.-In an inter
view published here concerning the
closing of the Portland mine at Victor
by order of General Sherman NJ. Bell,
who is in command of the Teller coun-
ty military district James F. Burns
president of the Portland company, said
that nearly one-half of the Portland
force We're not members of the miners
union.
There were about four hundred as
good miners as ever handled a pick
working there said Mr.. Burns. "They
are, most of them, men with families
and they are neither law-breakers nor
agitators. I would not refuse man
work because he did not belong to the
union, nor because ne did. I wanted
the best miners, and kept wedding out
the poorer ones without reference to
unions, I am a firm believer in what
they call the open shop If other mine
owners had adopted my plan there
would not an idle mine in the
camp today. and there would not be
a disturbance worthy of the name
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MRS. TEACHER IS CHOSEN.
She Takes Mrs. GrimsIey's Place in
Washburn Music Department.

The Washburn college executive
committee has elected Mrs. Florence
Fox Thatcher to succeed Mrs. George
P. Grimsley, resigned, as instructor in
vocal music at Washburn.
Mrs Thacher is very well known in
Topeka, where she has lived ever since
childhood. She is the daughter of o.
w. Fox. one of the best known tenors
Topeka ever had. For a number of
years Mrs. Thatcher was teaching
music in Topeka, and singing in the
First CONGREGATIONAL church choir.
She then went to the Wisconsin State
Normal school, at River Falls, where
for twelve years she has been head
teacher of vocal music. She has
studied under Fred w. Root, William
Courtney and Francis Fischer Pow
ers. She recently returned 10 Topeka
and opened a studio here
Mrs C4rinnsIey will probably remain
in Topeka for some time, and con-
duct a private musical studio
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more than guess. Dewey's only
son, Chauncey, has lived in Manhattan
a great deal, and is now manager of
the RaWlins county ranch. He is well
known in Topeka.
The foregoing are facts and figures
as shown by the ledger in the account
of Q. T. Dewey with Manhattan and
the state of Kansas.
Why Dewey opened the account in
the first place is nobody's business.
The entries are nearly all on the
credit side of Dewey's page. Any time
Manhattan desires to close up the
business there are five hundred other
towns in Kansas ready to furnish a
site for the Dewey enterprises
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Kansas fields is pronounced equal to
the flour made from the famous wheats
of Belgium and Hungary.
Kansas flour is eaten the world over.
Those men, who in the early days in
vested their money and took the first
steps in an untried field and equipped
their mills to handle this new flour, is
due some recognition by the people Of
Kansas who are now profting by the
fact that Kansas raises the biggest
wheat crop in the world.
And L II. Letter was one of these
pioneers who advocated the equipping
of the mill in which he was interested,
for the handling of the new wheat. Q.
Hoffman, of Eenterprise, was another
to equip his mill for hard red wheat.
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SEARCH FOR THE CoNENIAUGH.
The Cruiser Tacoma Ordered to Look
for Missing Steamer.

Washington, June 1O.-In response
to an earnest request from the mari
time exchange of New York, Secre-
tary Moody has telegraphed orders to
Commander Nicholson, commanding
the cruiser Tacoma, at San Francisco,
to proceed without delay in search of
the freight steamer COnemaugh, now
about two months overdue at New
York city from Chile. When last heard
from there were about forty persons
on the steamer, including the crew,
and Notwithstanding her long absence
from port there is a strong hope that
she may still be affoat somewhat out
of the course of vessels making the
trip around the Horn.
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C. P. DEWEY DEAD.
Continued from Page one)

He introduced the brougham. the
stanhope and the tally-ho to Kansas.
There was nothing in the livery line
west of Chicago to equal his horses and
vehicles. The barn extends the full
depth of the block. It is half a block
in width He kept more than a hun
dred head of horses and every cOnceiv-
able sort of vehicle is at the service Of
the public. The Dewey barn can furnish
as stylish a turnout as one Will see on
the Chicago boulevards. AS evidence of
the lavishness with which the barn is
equipped he keeps four buses. No
ness pays; that is Dewey's affair over
the barn is a salesroom, 50X150 feet. It
is filed with new vehicles and his bus
mess in this line is also large
The service afforded by the electric
light plant at Manhattan didn't satisfy
Dewey, so he bought it. He equipped
the power house with the best machine
ry money could buy. He put in a new
plant all through in keeping with the
machinery. AS a result Manhattan has
a day and night lighting plant, the ser
vice of which is not excelled anywhere
in Kansas. He is also interested in the
Dewey Wareham telephone system.
Five miles west of Manhattan and a
couple of miles north of the line of the
Union Pacific railway is Eureka lake
Eureka lake was formerly the bed of
the Kansas river, but the current of the
river introduced proceedings and was
granted a divorce a good many years
ago The lake is two miles long and
a quarter of a mile wide at it's widest
point On the shore of this lake, two
years ago, Dewey built a summer no.
tel and the grass grown banks of Eure-
ka lake were transformed into Man
haitian beach. Like everything else
upon which Dewey sets out to spend
money he spared no expense in its con-
struction and equipment. It wacs his
idea to make it the ideal summer re-
sort of the West. They say at Man
haitian that the summer resort is real
ly the apple of DeWey's eye. He beau
titled the grounds and constructed
walks and drives Along the lake front
he built a pavilion half mile long
There are boats and bath houses galore.
The fishing is passing good and every
Sunday during the season the band
plays At night there is dancing and
youthful frivolity. Five hundred cleo
trio lights tied to a wire from the Man
haitian plant twinkle in the grounds
Eureka lake is not deep enough to float
a ship. so Dewey has set about to raise
being drilled. Water from the wells
win be pumped into the lake with the
hope of making it navigable for steam
boats. A handsome arch which repre-
SCENTS lavish outlay of money is be
ing erected at the entrance TO the
grounds This spring the shore of the
lake opposite the hotel will be sown to
hollyhoclIs and other gaudy flowers e,s
Dewey's family lives in chicago
He had large business interests there
an ice plant and a real estate and
rental agency. He owned iron mines
in West Virginia. They said in Man
haitian that his profits from his West
Virginia properties were 100000 last
year. But this is probably nothing
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DECORATIONS CONTINUE.
Ninety-seven Union Men to Be Sen
Out of Teller County Today.


Out OF Teller County Today.
Cripple. Creek. Col, June 1O.-Depor-
tatlons are the order of the day. Gen
eraI sherman NJ. Bell. military com
IlanQefs mas ordered that nfnetv-s seven
members Of the miners union shall he
taken outside of Teller county on a spe-
clal tram this afternoon in accordance
Win the recommendation of the COM
iiIltee Wnich examined them. This
committee was IN session all night in
Nesugatlng the cases of 100 other union
men, who are confined in the Victor
arnory and submitted another report
10 General Bell today recommending
further deportations.
Within forty-eight hours this dis
tI1ct VIII be rid of all agftators and
other objectionable men," said General
Bell today. "One deportation after
another will be made until none of the
men VINO terrorized the district so long
VIII De left here. We intend to con-
tnue arrestlng men who are not want
ed mere and they will be run out as
fast as possible. The unfonists are
scared and many are leaving the conn
" OF their own volition to avoid arrest
ana incarceration. There are still some
desperate characters among the hills
however, whom we intend getting no
matter what the cost. In running them
down there may occur some FIGHTS b1It
do not look for any serious trouble"
Squads are out securing the hills in
search or certain men who are wanted
in connection with the Independence
assassinations- kilograms have been
sent to sheriffs and chiefs of police at
outside points asking them to watch
Tor these persons whose names are not
made public.
Sheriff Edward Bell has issued an or
der that all saloons in the district must
remain closed until Monday, June Is
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Chicneo LIre1tocIz nTnrlet.

Chicago, June 10.-CATTLE-Receip to-
day, 100 head. Market steady Good TO
prime steers. S5.75d6.50: poor to medium,
S475d5.60; stockers and feeders 50, 00G4-6o,
cows, s1-75n4.75s heifers, &. 5JG5-0o; can
ners. 81. 75d2 IS; bulls, s2-509430; calves,
50 00d5. 50.
HOGS Receipts today, 1900 head; esti-
mated Saturday, l. $50 head Market steady
to strong Mixed and butchers. A.75d49 g.
good to choice heavy. $4.90d5.00; rough
heavy, s. 7564.90; light, $475d4-S5; bulk Of
sales, S4s5n495.
SHEEP-Receipts today. 5000 head
Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice
vrethers s.. 0065-50: fair- to. choice mixed.
So 1915. 90: western sheep. S4-25d5.25: native
lambs s.. O0d675: western lambs, S5.006l SIS
spring lambs, 81. 50Q735.
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Kansas City, June 10.-CIose-WHEAT-
Receipts today, q cars. Quotations
were lower May. 755kG75ssc; July, 70asc;
Sept, T05sc. Cash: No. hard, size: No
red, $3.50
CORN-Market firm. May, 45kd5c; Ju-
y, 43c; Sept, CSC. Cash: No. 2 mixed $50
$40; No. mixed. 4s5zc; No. white, 40c;
No. white, 4S1kc
OATS-Marl1et steady. No. 2 white, 42c;
No. , mixed, 391kc
RYE-Marlket steady, 63d64c.
HAY-Market steady Choice timothy,
S10-50d1LO0: choice prairie. SS.5069 90
UTTER-Creamerys 15d15c; dairy, fan
cy, 12c
EGGS-13c
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Kansas city. June 10
open High Low Close Yes


Kansas City, No. June 1O.-CATTLE-
Receipts today, 1000 head, including 100
head of southerns. Market steady to a
shade lower Native steers. S4.75d6.35:
southern steers, g. 5Od5O0: southern COWS,
s2.250400. native cows and heifers. s.. 50q
$50; stoclxers and feeders, s.. 25l14. IS; bulls,
S. 00Q4 50; western steers, $4.75n590; calves,
-, % 10 western cows S5-9Vlo-lg-
ISet steady. Bulk of Sales. 81 65d4. 80: heavy,
S4.75d4S5; packers, $465d4s5; pigs and
lights. 81 25N4 10
SHEEP-Receipts today, $500 head
Market steady Muttons, S450d5-75; lambs,
s5.2507.D0; range wethers, $4.00Q4.s0; ewes.
e. 50G450
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Forced the Recognition of Kan.
sas Hard Wheat.
ORe of First to Discover Excel
lence of That Grade Of Flour.
FOUND A NEW PROCESS.
Started System for Treating
Hard Wheat in Topeka.
Other Kansas Mills Soon Fol-
lowed His Lead.

L. y. Letter, who died suddenly at
Bar HarbOr, Maine, yesterday morn
ing, is not man whose name is close
ly identified with Kansas nor did he
live in the state and become a Kan
san, nor one of that large family of
formerly of Kansas" but in his way
he was one among several who did
much for the state.
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Sale of the Abilene Chronicle.

Abilene, Kas., June 1O.-The Abb
lene Daily Chronicle has been sold by
the publishers. S. H. Haffa and P. w.
Heath, to a company composed of P.
w. Heath, Frank D. Parent and other
prominent business men of this city.
The new company will take possess
sion July ,. The Chronicle is the old
est newspaper in Abilene, and is one
of the leading Republican papers of
central Kansas
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RebeIs ACCOM- Pence Terms.

New York. June 10.-The revoIu-
tionists of Santo Domingo are re-
ported in a dispatch from Puerto
Plata to have accepted in full the
terms of peace proposed by the gov
eminent. Although General Pcd-
riguez had difficulty in convincing his
compatriots that they should accent.
everyone is satisfied with the arrange
ment.
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NV York. June OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on
cali easv: highest IL. lowest 1, ruling rate
- last loan IL, closing bid and offered
at Ia per cent Time loans easy and DUH
e0 and 80 days, 2d21a per cent; 8 months,
3d3a4 per cent 49,
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, $40
AZ per cent: sterling exchange easy, with
actual business in bankers bills at A6l1z
"a SOS for demand and at 81 S56Qd4. $50 for
50 day bills; posted rates $4sod4;s5z2 ana
81 SsSI4 ssh; commercial bills, 81. s51z a $50.
SILVER-Bar silver, 55s4c; Mexican dol
BONES Government bonds irregular.
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Beef steers, $4.OOa6 30: stocIers and feed
ers, S3.50d4.50 cows and heifers g. soak. 10:
Texas steers, g. 5005.50; Texas cows and
heifers, s. 1904 p.
Receipts today, 500 head. Mar
ket steady to strong. Pigs and lights
S4-15d4. rs; packers, S. 60a4.s5; butchers
and best heavy, $4S0d5-OO.
SHEEP-Recelpts today, 700 head.
Market steady. Natives, $4.Ood525; lambs,
s5.OOd7S5.
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San Quentin, Cal, June 1O.-Francisco
O'Chago was hanged in the state prison
here TODAY for the murder of Marie Ber-
era at Bakersfield in 1899 He showed no
efeus Of fear
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opening cables: Wheat "a

Liverpool opening cables: Wheat ia
lower; corn unchanged.
Liverpool, 100 p. m: Wheat sd lower;
corn sd lower.
Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat. q
cars; graded, 0. Corn, $40 cars; graded.
81. Oats. IS cars; graded, 5.
Grain receipts at Kansas City todayf
Wheat, 3 cars; corn p cars; oats, II
cars.
Northwest grain receipts today: MINES
apolis, 40 cars; Duluth, p cars. A year
ago: Minneapolis, 25S cars Duluth, q