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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
Kansas Semi Centennial Won't
Be Restricted.
Will Open on Monday and Close
Thursday.
FOR AFLOWER PARADE
One Will Be Given on Wednes-
day.
Expected to Be the Feature Of
the Celebration.

It was definitely determined by the
Commercial club committee last night
to have the Semi Centennial celebra-
tion last four days. beginning with
May so. Memorial day. The general
programme is under course of prepara-
tion and its outline follows:
Monday, May 80. G. A. r. day.
Tuesday. June I, Territorial day.
Wednesday, June 2. Woman's day.
Thursday, June 3. Topeka day.
Memorial day Will be replete with
many features. The morning is to be
devoted to decorating the graves OF
the soldiers in the various cemeteries
about the city. 1t is likely that artil-
lery troops will be here from Fort
Riley and Leavenworth to assist in the
ceremonies. In the afternoon Secretary
of War Taft will speak at the auditor
ium. At night the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra and the Topeka Choral So
ciety Will give a patriotic concert in
the auditorium.
Tuesday is to be given over entirely
to historical reproductions of the times
when Kansas was still a territory A
programme of considerable extent is
being worked at by the committee but
only the StereOpticOn review at night
IN the auditorium has definitely been
decided upon Secretary George Mar
tin of the State Historical society was
at the meeting last night and stated
that he has a great many pictures and
relics which he would gladly turn over
to the committee so that photographs
may be made for slides.
The women have planned a big flower
parade for their day Wednesday. This
will probably be one of the big features
of the Iour days Of festivity. Many OF
the individual citizens OF Topeka have
promised to decorate carriages, some Of
the women's clubs viii enter hoats, and
the matter is also being brought to the
attention of the schools in the city The
railroads have practically promised to
prepare displays and have them in the
parade. The women are hard at work to
get up long list of entries Some orig
lessly the flower parade will be a great
feature of the celebration
The. women asked that the COMMITTEES
dette or Mrs. Denison from St louis to
4 Topeka. Both of the ladies' VIII be e
the fair during the tores res sFlsitte' a5lo
one of them here on the day OF the flower
parade.
| The plans for Topeka day have not yet
( been worked out. The evening viii ba
given over to a finale in the way Of a great
display of fireworks, probably from the
state house dome. as ~ the ceieDIattoit
upon the return of the Twentieth Kansas
/ from the Philippines.
ON next Friday night another meeting
I will he hold and more definite plans viii
/ be determined upon relative 70 the en1lre
celebration
upon because of the failure OF both the
state executive council and the city OF
Topeka to announce in what way they
would cooperate to light up the state
house dome and Kansas avenue
The Parker shows Will be here the en-
tire four days and viii pitch their tents
/ ton is said to be unusually good and OF
I a high order. Major Anderson recently
tion, and he declares the show to be very
/ good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19

business we believe that by wise leg
islation, rigidiy enforced against such
combinations, their evil tendencies can
be prevented without needless destruc-
tion to the capital upon which. labor
must depend for employment and com
pensation. We believe that a majority
of the unlawful trusts now in eXiss-
ence are the direct and natural result
of excessive Republican tariff duties
which destroy competition, and newt
ably breed combinations for monopoly.
To remedy this evil should be one of
the first purposes OF tariff revision 10
such revision our party stands pledged
Federal taxation of all kinds
should be reduced The enormous
surplus accumulated by the govern
ment has not only brought extraVa-
gance but has become a standing men
ace to the financial stability of the
country. The entire currency today
affecting all business is made to de-
Dend upOn the mood and Whim of the
secretary of the treasury in his
manipulation of the government de-
posits. This condition has become in
toIerabIe and should be remedied by
taxation.
''Our national strength should rath-
er be exhibited in resisting the ag-
gressions of great powers than in
browbeating the weak American re-
publics, whose guardianship and pro-
lection we have so long assumed and
maintained.
I'VE favor the speedy completion of
the Panama canal but regret that our
government should have permitted
this great project to be stained with
evidence of dishOnorable intrigue
against the integrity of a friendly re-
public.
I'VE deplore the continued exist
ence of labor troubles affecting inn
portant industries and vast numbers
of people and express the earnest
hopes that through concession, arbi-
tration, moderation and fair dealing,
early adjustments may be reached.
Labor unions organized for the
betterment of the condition of wage
earners acting within the limits of
law and not subversive of public or
der or individual rights are not only
lawful but commendable and SHOULD
be met. recognized and dealt with ac-
cordingly-"
gates to the national convention ''to
vote as a unit in all matters entrusted
to their charge"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
DEFICIENCY BILL PASSED.
Provides Money for Carrying Out the
New Pension Order.

Washington. April 19.-The House
passed the last of the supply bills Of
the government the general deficiency
apDropriatfon measure after a stormy
session which lasted till S:15 in the
evening The contest was a party one
over the deficiency appropriation for
pensions which the Democrats tried
ineffectively to amend by incorporat-
ing as a law the recent executive age
disa bility pension order An effort
was made BY Mr. Moon (Tenn.) to Sc
cure a yea and nay vote on his amend
ment as to the age disability order,
but the speaker refused to recognize
him for this purpose On a pro fOrma
motion to recommit the bill the Dem
ocrats angered by the speakers re-
fusal to recognize Mr. Moon, secured
a roll call but after the vote had been
taken all further opposition ceased
and the bill was passed. Mr.. Hit Of
fered his Chinese exclusion bill, intro
duced Saturday as an amendment to
the general deficiency bill and it was
accepted without objection
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
1T COST HIM $50.
Chanute Man Fined for Winking at a
Salvation Army Lassie.

Chanute. Kan. April 19.-Because
he winked at a Salvation army lass1e
and called her sweetheart" Ed john
son was fined $50 and the costs in po-
lice court. In pronouncing sentence,
the judge said:
Il am surprised that you. who have
a wife and children, should be brought
before me for an offense growing out
of an insult to a 15-year-old girl, who
was passing along the street attending
to her own affairs, modestly and in
nocently. The adjutant who took the
girls part did perfectly right and
would have been justified if he had
acted in much more aggressive man
ner. I am going to fine you $50 and
the costs, and am strongly tempted
to make 1t 500"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
WAS COOL THIS MORNING.
Temperature Drops Down to Forty
Degrees.

Todays corn and wheat region bull
letin, issued by Director Jennings of
the weather bureau, says: THE
weather is cloudy this morning in
southwestern Kansas. partly cloudy in
the central and northern counties, but
clear in the southeastern counties and
in western Missouri. The temperature
has risen in Kansas but fallen slight
ly in Nebraska"
The maximum and minimum tenn
peratures reported from the Kansas
stations for the "A hours ending this
morning at seven o'clock were as fol-
Bai1er 81. "a: Concordia ss, 40; Dodge
City so, 40; Fort Scott rs, 40; Macks-
vile IS, 42; Mcpherson as, "A; Manhat-
tan r. Sc; Usage City IS, 38; Sedan 76,
"A; Topeka 81, 40: Toronto rs, 81;
Wichita 76, A.
The forecast for Kansas sent out to-
day is partly cloudy with possibly
showers Wednesday and west portion
tonight" The wind at noon was east
blowing eight miles an hour. The hour
ly temperat atures recorded by the gov
ernment thermometer today were as
Z 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
WANT EXTENSIONS.
East siders Ask for City Railway
Service.

Two petitions for suburban extern
sions Of the city railway have been
presented to L. E Myers. and the petit
TONERS in neither instance got much
encouragement of immediate action
"Our first business" says Mr.. Myers,
is to finish up our work here in To-
peka. We have work to do on several
lines. our barn to build, and lot OF
curves, crossings. etc, to put in We
ought to have india rubber money SO
thar we could stretch it over all this
work. These petitions will be taken up
by the management Of the road
One of the committee which brought
a long petition to Mr.. Myers, offered
to get 100 more signatures on it. If il
would do any good
I wouldn't advise you to spend
your time doing it," said Mr- Myers
1T is purely a question of business
with US If the business is out there.
it viii have more influence in getting
US to build a line than a petition would
one petition asks that the present
cemetery line be extended from its
present terminus on California avenue
TO Rvers' corner, south, thence east
past the school house to Highland, o.
Golden avenue, thence north to Sixth
avenue, thence west to connect with
the line already completed at Benson's
store Part Of this line Is already
graded. it having been used by the old
Cottage Grove dummy line. If built
as proposed. this line viii pass by the
Industrial institute, the negro school
which is doing good work east Of the
city
Another petition asks for an extern
sion clear to Tecumseh-
Considerable heavy grading is said
to be involved in the construction Of
such a line. The petition is as fol-
lows.
your petitioners respectfully rep
resent that they are citizens and prop
erty holders of Shawnee county that
they are interested in close intercourse
with the city Of Topeka, and would
respectfully present to your notice the
J feasibility and desirability of a line.
/ for both passenger and freight, using
the East Sixth street line to a point
east of the present viaduct over the
A. T. & S F. railway; thence by the
best route northerly and easterly,
! crossing the A, T. e. $. r. railway over
/ and above the A, T. e S. f. tracks, to
a point on Seward avenue; thence fol-
1 lowing Seward avenue and its con-
tinuation to and into Tecumseh, re-
turning via the Sixth street road. using
the roadbed of the old abandoned Cot
| tage Grove dummy line. to an inter
section Of the present East Sixth street
line"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
ALL LOOK TO sKRYDLoFF.
People of st. Petersburg Regard Him
as Nations SaviOrr.

st. Petersburg, April 19.-Vice Ad-
miral SkUydlOff arrived here today on
his way to the far east where he will
take command of the Russian fleet at
Port Arthur. He was accorded an en-
thusiastic reception by the people who
thronged the streets.
The vast Senamifskaia square op-
posite the Nicholas railroad station
was black with people and the police
guarding the platform were quite un-
able to cope with the crowds which
broke through the Gordon and rushed
toward the train There We're repeat
ed outbreaks of enthusiastic cheers as
the admiral left the car and from
the pareheaded throng a peasant
stepped out and presented Skrydloff
with a copy of a picture entitled THE
holy virgin of JOY to the afflicted, -
which is reputed to have miraculous
power. The peasant also presented
the admiral with cOnSecrated bread,
telling Skrydloff that he saluted him
in the name of the masses of the
Russian people, all of whose hopes de-
pended on him as the hero of the
Russo-Turlxish war.
The people are convinced" added
the spokesman, that Admiral Skryd-
loft viii justify the hopes of the en-
perOr and the fatherland and like the
virgin whose picture has just been
given him, will bring joy and that
soon to a people now afflicted
The admiral. who was visibly af-
fected took the picture, declaring that
he accepted it as happy presage and
adding that he would not part with
the picture throughout the campaign
and that he would put all his faith in
God.
A representative of the middle
classes presented the admiral with a
picture of St. TheOdosius, the miracle
worker of Czerniakoff
The admiral then entered a car
riage and drove off, followed by def
ening shouts of Long live Skrydloff. -
on arrival at his hotel a little girl
presented the admiral with a bouquet
hailing Skrydloff as the Supreme
commander OF my brothers who are
serving in the navy in the far east.
God help YOU said the child in
all your paths and may Heaven grant
that good fortune attend you always
during the war for the glory of our
dear countr-F."
The admiral embraced the girl and
the action brought out salvos and
cheers. Addressing the newspaper
men the admiral declared he was
deeply Sensible of the kindness shown
him. subsequently Skrydloff called
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19

Lao Yang. April ia number of
unimportant skirmishes are reported
along the Yalu river. Six Japanese
soldiers were killed by Russian scouts
on April 16. Firing was heard on
April IS, but the result of the engage
ment is unknown.
VIadivOstOIx in Want.
St Petersburg, April 19-The popula
tion Of Vladivostok is in want of the
most necessary kinds of provisions and
in consequence of flooded rivers which
interrupt communications it is impOs-
sibIe to furnish them supplies. There
is also a scarcity of money. Many
inhabitants, particularly the women
and children, are leaving the city,
abandoning their property, which they
are unable to sell. Half of the houses
in Vladivostok are empty and the
civilian population is already reduced
to 5000.
Pension for NIakaroff's Widow.
St. Petersburg, April 19.-Vice Ad-
miral Makaroff's widow has been
granted an annual pension of $4,000.
A detachment of Russian troops
which left southern Ussuri has reach
ed Maoer-Shan, Con the west bank OF
the Yalu river, 175 miles north of
Ping Yang) without having encOun-
tered any of the enemy. The detach-
ment has occupied a mountain pass
between Manchuria and Korea, which
it is fortifying with mountain bat
teries.
An official telegram states there is
no change in the situation on the Yalu
river. The Russian outposts are now
on Islands of the river close to the
japanese outposts, which are prepar-
ing to retire.
Major General Plug, chief of the
military staff at Port Arthur, tele-
graphs that all statements regarding
a siege and fall of Port Arthur are
unfounded.
Japanese in Complete Control.
Shanghai, April 19.-Authentic ad-
vices from Seoul dated the 18th inst
declare that the Japanese are in COM
plete control of Korea and that the
Russian scouting parties have retired
across the Yalu before the Japanesf
who occupied Wiju practically without
resistance.
The Japanese army is divided into
two forces, one for extraordinary pur-
poses and the other for occupation
The former, numbering $4,000 is ad-
Vancing to the Yalu and the latter
consisting of Is, 900 reserves is making
far sighted communication arrange
nents with headquarters at SeCu
where there is a garrison of 1000. Th@
headquarters of the transport service
is at ChemulpO. Railroad building ana
road grading is progressing rapidly
The fOrtiflcation of KOjedo island al
the mouth of Masampo harbor. which
protects the southern terminus of over
land communication also guards the
passage to Vladicostok and Port Ar
thur through Boughton strait.
Forty transports off Haiju are sup
posed to have landed part of then
forces at Takushan and it is the evt
dent intention to disembark a secG&-
army at Yongampo preparatory tC
forcing the Yalu.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19

on the Grand Duke Alexis, high ad-
miral and Vice Admiral Avellan. chief
of the admiralty. Tomorrow he will
be received in audience by the emper-
or and empress. Probably he will re-
turn to Esebastopol Saturday to form
ally hand over the Black sea fleet to
his successor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
LITTLE GIRL BURNED.
Rock Creek Farmers Child Caught in
Prairie Fire

Rock Creek, Kan, April 19.--Blancil,
the 5-year-old daughter of George Hat
field, living three miles south of this
place, was seriously burned in prai-
RE fire at 9 o'clock this morning.
The clothing of the little girl was al
most entirely burned away and she
was severely burned on the legs and
n bo4at the birs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19

Seattle, Wash, April ia special to
the Post-Inteliigencer from Dawson says:
The Klondike will produce al least S1o.-
OyG.909 this. season. Nome has done more
work this winter than ever before and
will swell the total several millions more.
The first sluicing of the year in the Klon-
dixie has begun The cleanup viii be in
full blast in three weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
A Chimney Fire.

At s:45 this morning. the chemical
engine was called to 81 East Eighth
avenue on a still alarm. A chimney
was burning out. No damage was
done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19

Chicago, April I9.=Forecast for
Kansas. Partly cloudy with possibly
showers Wednesday and in west por-
ton tonight; rising tempera ture;
fresh sOutherly winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

The Moore faction in the Eighth Ju-
dicial district held a convention ut
White City Monday afternoon and
nominated Judge o. l. Moore. of Abb
lene, for district Judge Only three
counties. Dickinson, Geary, and Nor
ris, participated in the convention,
Marion was not represented
The Dickerson faction viii hold a
primary election on Tuesday of next
week and viii probably nominate
Judge J. 4. DickersOn of Marion Then
the state election board will have more
work to do.
AS in the Second congressional dis
trict case, the contest hinges partially
on whether a certain man is mem
Der OF the committee. In the Eighth
district case the Dickerson faction con-
tends that J. K. Owen is not a member
of the committee. Owen belongs to the
Moore crowd and his vote made ma
jority in calling the judicial convention
held Monday.
6. s. Longly, of Greenleaf, is a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for state senator in Washington coun-
1 tv to succeed Senator Morrow LOngly
has served two terms in the lower
house from Washington county >. II.
Hamilton, chief Of the Washington
his candidacy for senator some time
ago. and there Will doubtless be 9TH
ers.
y M 1tIlus DA II OIL CtOtAr HAS NoiiiF-
/ out as a candidate for state senator
in Bourbon county against Major c. l.
Martin He was a candidate four years
ago but was defeated. Prof. w C
/ Iansdon expected to run for senator,
/ but he is one of the leading Burton
men of the county, and the Burton
crowd is not very much in favor there
I at present, so he withdrew.
A report comes from Cherryvale that
/ Jerry Simpson is down there this week
| looking over the gas and oil fields with
/ a view to making Investments for
/ some New Mexico capitalists He MAY
return to Kansas and locate in the oil
I belt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-19
FIGHTING ON
YALU RIVER.
A Number Of SRirmishes Be-
tween Scouting Parties.
Six japanese Soldiers Killed in
One Engagement.
SHORT OF PROVISIONS.
People of VIadiYOstOk Are Said
to Be in Want.
Inhabitants Leaving and Half
the Houses Are Empty.

Lao Yang. April ia number of
unimportant skirmishes are reported
along the Yalu river. Six Japanese
soldiers were killed by Russian scouts
on April Is. Firing was heard on
April IS, but the result of the engage
ment is unknown.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-26
answered by Prof. ". F. Massey, Horticulturist
/ North Carolina Experiment Station.O
Rowan Co., N. @.

answered by Prof. W. F. Massey, Horticulturist
North Carolina Experiment Station0
The best way to grow a crop of late potatoes in
your section will be to get seed potatoes that
have been kept in cold storage and that are ready
to plant in late June. You can get these from
L. w. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va. The Bur
bank is a favorite sort for planting, but the South
ern second crop seed of the early varieties will
do very we'll. The land should be very thoroughly
and deeply prepared and the seed should be plant
ed in deep burrows, using a good high-grade
fertilizer in thief ,urrow. Stir this into the soil
with a shovel pillow, plant and cover only even
with the surface, and then work the ground at
first with the slant tooth harrow till the potatoes
show along the rows. Then cultivate with a small
tooth cultivator, keeping the land as level as DOS
sible and never killing the potatoes at all. Early
potatoes are better hilled up in laying by, but
late potatoes grow in hot and dry weather and
we should do everything we can to retain mois-
ture in the ground. Hence they should be cult
waited very shallow and fat and very frequently
stirred, especially if the weather is dry.
Peas can be sown the middle of April. but there
is no advantage ia doing it. A month later Is far
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-26
A Remedy for the Potato Beetle.
Editors Progressive Farmer:

Editors Progressive Farmer:
I wish to say that I fully endorse every state
ment made by Mr.. Franklin Sherman on the DO
tato beetle, and I wish to add my experience to
what he has said, also giving a never-failing rem
edy for the pest. Until about ten years ago I
never saw the potato beetle that Mr.. Sherman so
infinitely describes in The Progressive Farmer of
April 18th, except on "nettle briars." I fully be-
lieve this modern potato beetle to be the old
"nettle briar beetle" as it was known In this section
of the State, SO common upon the nettle briar
plant. When it first attacked our potato crop we
thought we would experiment. a little. So a
friend of mind concluded that he would destroy
the pest by first shaking them off and then cover
ing with a turning blow so deep that they never
would appear above ground again. So the work
was accomplished in good earnest, and as a re-
suit, IN about a week or ten days, the whole field
was just covered with the pest.
Now we have found, that after making many
experiments to no avail, in the absence of the
very efficient remedies given by Mr.. Sherman,
that there is one that never fails and that is
handy to many farmers in North Carolina. It
IS what we call cold field pine brush" After
the potatoes have come up, we go to the pine
woods and get loads Cor as many as is necessary
to a given space), laying them between the pota-
to rows Just SO the -aat~teuch each other
and l. assure you that the pest will not trouble
you, and if they have made their appearance
IN a very days after the brush has been applied,
they will disappear in some unknown way. This
remedy has been thoroughly tested without fail.
Success to The Progressive Farmer.
T. H. SIMPSON.
Forsyth Co., N. G..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-26
Dust Boards.
Forsyth Co., N. @.

A dust board is simply a piece of board set be-
hind the pillow to scrape the surface and leave it
loose. Any kind of board and any convenient size
may be used. A piece of inch plank six inches
wide and about thirty inches long is about right.
Fasten this by two steel strips to the pillow stock,
SO the board will run behind the pillow and just
serape the surface. 1t should be set to decline
backward, so that it will drag over the bed rather
than forward, so that it would carry trash with it.
Ihe dust board brushes the clods behind the pillow
and leaves a dust blanket on the surface which
keeps the moisture from evaporating. If you buy
the bolts and strips they will cost about ten cents,
and the dust board is worth $40 in a dry season
Farmer.