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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
SUGAR BEETS PAY WE'LL.
Yield Western Kansas Farmers Often
500 Per Acre.

Lakin, Kan, Dec. 13.-The sugar beet
harvest is over in the Arkansas valley.
Final shipments have been made to the
sugar mills in Colorado. The weather
throughout the harvesting has been
fine. The shipments from Lalxin aggre-
gated ], 900 tons and from Deerfield 4, 900
tons, making 5000 tons from Kearny,
or over 100000 pounds of beets. This
exceeds the big crop of 1902, which was
8,501, 400 pounds, and is nine times as
large as the crop of 1903. The discour-
agements of last year are Danish
ed by the remarkably fine crop just
harvested The present crop was ser
iously threatened by grasshoppers In
the early spring months and which did
destroy several fields of beets around
Lakin. Had it not been for the con-
slant and vigorous war made on this
unusual swarm of hoppers other far
mers would have met defeat in the loss
of their chief money making crop. As
it is, 1904 exceeds all past yields and
makes it the most profitable crop that
can be grown here.
It would take three years, and a, for
tune invested in cattle and lands to
grow 1000 head of steers at $50 per
head to bring as much money as these
Kearny couny farmers realized from 300
acres of beets in one season.
There are fifty-four beet factories in
the United States" said Henry Block,
of Syracuse, Kan, who gathers the
Kansas sugar beet statistics for the
state board of agriculture. Last year
they manufactured 10S, 135 tons of stan
dard granulated sugar. 1t would re-
quire the output of 400 additional fac
tories of 500 ton capacity to supply the
demand in this country. To pay for
sugar now imported we are sending
abroad nearly s125, 900, 900. The Ameri-
can farmer is raising wheat yielding SO
per acre, which is being sent abroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

Deerf1eld wants a cobbler Of course a
peach is preferred.
A woman CRATER has been doing Moran
citizens a la Mrs. Chadwick.
An Ellis Democrat has attracted some
attention by resigning i public office
When the trusts fall out the common
people get their dues. A coal war at OF
tawa has reduced the prices.
Gaylord is getting ready for Chl istmas
A farmer sold 40 turkeys ON the open
market for $115 there the past week.
The latest find at Dexter is a flowing gas
well which refuses to burn. The owners
might place it in escrow for time
Six months ago an lola mother scolded
her son SO severely that he left home A
fortnight before Christmas he returned
A Wakefield man has record of de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
Holiday Rates via Frisco System.

On December 20. FL, 22 and 26 the
Frisco System will sell round trip
tickets limited for return passage to
thirty days from date of sale at rate of
One Fare plus $500 from Kansas City
to all points in the Southeast, includ-
ing Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and
Florida.
The fast Southeastern Limited"
train, carrying through sleeper to
Jacksonville, Fla, leaves Kansas City
daily, at $50 p. m, and arrives at
Memphis 1855 a m; Birmingham 1858
p. m; Atlanta 11:20 D. M; and Jack
sonville at 9:35 a. m. the second morn
ing. J. G. Lovrien, Assistant General
Passenger Agent. Kansas City Mo
A Hilton, General Passenger Agent,
st. Louis. Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

Commenting on the recent panic on
Wall street, Henry Clews, in the FL
nRncial Review, says: AT this writ
ling the crisis appears to be about
over The trouble has been strictly
confined to technical conditions. the
stock market being simply overbought
prices unreasonably high and the spec
ulative spirit reckless. Intrinsic con-
ditions. it should be noted. are undis-
turbed and sound This break is not
likely to have any deterrent effect
upon legitimate business. If it checks
the rampant spirit of speculation that
was rapidly developing it will prove a
blessing in disguise. Our farmers will
be none the less prosperous because
stocks have broken several points; our
manufacturers will produce and sell
none the less and there will be no fall
In wages or any decrease in the num-
Der of hands employed in consequence.
There are just as many mouths to feed
and bodies to shelter, and the many
activities of our Industrial and bust
ness life will go on about as usual. A
Few schemes may be held in allegiance,
Especially those which depend upon
deiuded public buying; but in the
main the latest Wall street shake up
viii have little effect upon general
business. The situation is vastly diff
ferent from the panic of 1903, when
our whole financial and industrial
fabric was weakened by the mass of
fndigestible industrials thrown upon
an overtaxed market. 1t is true. a
good many new issues have recently
been put out, and more are to follow,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

In the latest month for which figures
are available, October, the quantity In
Ida rubber imported was 5,397, 9S1
pounds. and the value s., 45O, $40; so that
I1f the figures of October are an index
TO the prospective figures for November
and December, it seems likely that the
total quantity of India rubber import
ed during the calendar year will reach
'60 million pounds, and the value ex-
coed 40 million dollars. In addition to
iEhis. sundry substitutes for crude rub
Der are, in very recent years, being
Brought in in large quantities. "Gutta
l5oolatong," or East Indian gum" a
product of BOrneo, which is used in
|conjunction with India rubber in GER
tain lines of manufacture, has in recent
years been imported in rapidly increas-
Eng quantities. The rapid increase in
Its use is indicated by the fact that the
quantity imported into the country had
been so small that the bureau of statis-
tics made no separate record of it prior
20 1899. when only million pounds were
recorded as having been imported In
1900 the quantity was s.7O1, 753 pounds;
IN 1903, 1884. S17 pounds, and in the ten
months of the present calendar year for
which figures are available the quaint
|ty imported was 12.265, sol pounds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
HILLS BIG SHIP.
The Minnesota the Largest Steamer on
the Pacific.

San Francisco. Dec. 1.-THE steam
er Minnesota, the largest vessel ever
in the Pacific ocean. arrived here to-
day from Norfolk. Va, on the way to
Seattle, where she is to enter the SER
vice of the Great Northern Railway
company. The Minnesota has a cargo
capacity of more than 10000 tons
Though built expressly for freighting
purposes, she has passenger accom-
modations for 21S first cabin, So sec
ond cabin passengers and 2,400 in the
steerage. She is $50 feet long, 1914
feet beam and 80 feet from her keel
to the upper bridge. She will prob
ably sail from Seattle for the Orient
in January.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

to pay for sugar which he consumes,
while perhaps much of the land upon
which this surplus wheat is grown
would produce sugar beets and yield
from $65 to 500 per acre. 1t is begin
ming to grow very evident that the
semi-arid regions where irrigation is
practiced is the most promising field
for this new industry, and as fast as
population is sufficient to supply the
raw material capital will readily take
hold of the opportunity to invest in this
very profitable industry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

namely: said payments to be made in
$50 equal installments or payments,
one of which shall be paid to the city
at the end of each month beginning
with the first month of the life of this
franchise. And said payments shall
be made monthly by credits given the
city of Topeka upon monthly bills due
to the Edison Electric Illuminating
of Topeka for light furnished
to the city, for its use as above stated
The members of the council to
whom this proposition was made were
not very strongly impressed with the
of the scheme.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

but these are all of the better grade.
likely to find a good market abroad if
not here, and the weakness of the mar
ket can in no sense be attributed to
this feature. In fact, this element has
really been a. source of strength, mas
much as bankers having these issues
in charge were inclined to keep the
market as steady and strong as pos
sible in order to facilitate the placing
of new issues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
THE EDISON FRANCHISE.

After discussing every phrase of the
proposed Edison company franchise
for three months, the council by reso-
luton of Councilman Kutz has finally
stated its peculiar position to be as fol-
lows: I'VE are too busy on the water
works. The city attorney is so busy
with other work that we don't like to
ask him for legal advice on this mat
ter. The council wants more time to
investigate electricity conditions in
other cities. The Legislature. which
convenes every two years in Topeka,
is about to convene again. and may
amend franchise matters
The State Journal cannot agree that
the council has treated the Edison
company just right in thus indefinite
ly postponing the whole matter until
spring. The basis of the resolution
was put entirely upon the fact that the
legislature may change the charter
act governing cities. OF course, the
legislature may do this thing every
two years, but the chances are that it
may make no material change this
winter. One of the main contentious
of the council seems to be that the
Edison people should be given fran
chise for twenty years, instead of
thirty, but as the present legislation on
the subject says franchises may be
is not apparent how any new legisla-
ton would help the council on this
score.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

Mrs Chadwick appears to have impaired
confidentially, of course. to every man
with whom she had business transac-
tions, the information that she was an
ilegitimate daughter of Andrew Car
negie and they believed her. Believing
this, 1t is not so surprising that they
loaned her money. The ironmaster of
course would stand for anything to
keep such a matter quiet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

Members of the house committee,
which has returned from a tour of in
spection OF the fsthmian canal site say
that the nature of the soil is such that
a dam cannot be constructed at the
point originally selected. How do these
congessmen happen to know so much
more about the matter than do the en-
Efneers?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

Philadelphia Record: The main OBJ
5ect OF the enemies of tariff reform is
to dissuade President Roosevelt from
calling an extra session of the next
congress for the purpose. They know
that no revision can be accomplished
in the regular session on the threshold
OF new elections for congress, and they
hope, therefore, to indefinitely post
pone the whole question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

It is suggested that the fact that
AIRS. Chadwick was still at large may
have had something to do with Secre-
fary Shaw's recent call on the banks
20 return some of the governments
deposfts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.


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exposed; Satin Skin Cream and Satin
Skin Face Powder protect, bestow a lovely
satiny skin. 25c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

of the city attorneys time to get this
ordinance in proper shape, considering
the months which have already been
devoted to it. In the last two years
the Edison company has spent some
thing like 5000, 900 here and they now
wish to spend 100000 more. Why
can't the council fix this ordinance up
in some way which seems fair to the
city and to the company and dispose
of it at its meeting next week and not
tie up one big enterprise and countless
smaller ones by waiting for the Iegis-
lature to do some indefinite thing?
The Edison company is certainly not
making the fabulous sums of money
which some of the councilmen seem to
think it is doing. So far as the State
Journal is concerned, We would like to
see the Edison company prosperous, for
prosperity Will not only encourage local
capital directly Interested in it, but will
encourage all other manufacturing in
dustries in the city.
The franchise Furthermore, Itnits the
profits to 10 per cent, which is certain
ly not a 'frenzied financial PROPOSE
ton, considering that some of the coun-
cilmen themselves are in schemes which
they would scorn, did the profit not
give them more than 10 per cent on
their investment.
The councilmen evidently wish to pro-
tect the city, but they should not pro-
tect it by building, a fence around the
town, shutting out enterprises and dis
courage those here.
The State Journal is willing to con-
cede that the councilmen have honest
differences on this subject, for some of
the men who have voted against the
franchise are as good men as we could
expect to enter the council; but we
must bear in mind that in Topeka we
have a way of delay which keeps the
town down. We have been investigat-
ing the waterworks problem for a dozen
years and have only just got at it and
several of the council have only re
Gently said: I'VE should take further
time to study upon this water bust
ness If Topeka is to double in popu-
lation in few years as she should we
have got to get together better, en-
courage capital, stop quarreling and
quibbling; stop knocking" on our town
and our own people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

The recent furry in Wall stree
probably will go down in history as the
Lawson panic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

II seems that Mr.. Lawson has been
INJECTING a little frenzy into finance on
his own account.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

One never can tell when a railroad
aobby is beaten. A change in the
Igthmian canal plans is now being
Rgitated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

Money is quoted as "easy" in New
York The same might have been said
In Oberlin, Ohio, until recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

II Mrs. Chadwick should be released
nepositors all over the country may be
expected to start a run on the banks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

The indefinite postponement really
looks like a lack of consideration to
the local capital which is concerned
in one of the most important indus
tries which Topeka has; an enterprise
which not only supplies the city with
electric light. but which furnishes the
power to our factories and heat to our
stores, and is unable at the present
time to make arrangements to supply
the demand because the council will
not grant the company a franchise to
do business, its present franchise run
ming but a year in the future.
This last summer when the gas
company announced that it wanted to
spend about a hundred thousand dol
lars in improving its plant, but must
have a new franchise before it could
do this, the council, upon a few weeks
notice, gave the company what it
wanted, although it's old franchise had
five or six years to run.
The special interest which the State
Journal has in the Edison company
lies in the fact that it is the one con-
Germ, here or prospective, which is in
a position to grant cheap power to
our present factories and those we
are inviting to come. The further
growth of Topeka must depend largely
upon industrial conditions. If those
which are still here are
fostered and our treatment of them
invites new ones, we will grow. Other
wise, our growth will be checked.
Any one at all familiar with the Edi-
son company's plant and proposition
knows that it is already a large Dor
rover and must spend 100000 addi-
tional in order to equip itself to supply
the present demands and those pro-
spective in the near future.
The Jensen Manufacturing COM
Danv the Otto Kuehne Preserving
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history
following
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14

The Jensen Manufacturing COM
pany, the Otto Kuehne Preserving
works, the Cuthbert and Sargent stone
works, and other industries, want
electric power, but are absolutely I'M
able to get it because the company
has not the equipment There are
numerous new industries which wish
to commence business, but which will
not until they are guaranteed power.
Among these is the Bennett Commits
sion company elevator.
The position of the company is that
it must borrow at least 100000 and
it cannot readily raise this large
amount of money unless it has an
operating franchise. Mr.. Joab Null
vane and Mr.. Edward Wilder are the
large owners in the Edison company.
They are local people who have done
much for the town and are spending
more money in Topeka for the welfare
of the citizens and the growth of the
city. The generous acts of Mr.. Wilder
toward Topeka's upbuilding and COW
ering a quarter of a century past are
numberless. Such men are entitled
to consideration and fair treatment
If the ordinance was not in shape
to suit the council, the council should
have put it in shape and passed it. It
would certainly not require a great
amount of the cOuncilmen's time nor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-14
SUITS AND FURNISHINGS
FOB MEN.

Twenty five Suits -For business and informal occa-
slons; made of meltons, broadcoths, clay worsteds
vicunas venetians and other popular weaves; in col
ors of the latest fancy tailored by hand for the of
trade; all sizes; worth everywhere else and also here
until tomorrow, $18; will be included in 'Eeye-
opener sale at, suit $688.
American Beauty Hats-Known the world over as
standard Of value and STYLE and sold any bargain
market for less than $3.50 each; Thursday Friday
and Saturday here at, choice $188
Gloves-In all shades, sizes and finishes; worth as
high $3.50 each; in this sale they reduced to
58c pair.
When you in the store at this sale you will dis
cover hundreds of other bargains of equally great i'm
portance in the various departments of furnishings for
men and women You will find many things which
not yet moved in at the time of opening last
Saturday, but which carefully arranged for
your inspection.
We should be pleased to meet old friends And
those who have dealt with before in business
and who have receevd favors at hands, to-
geher with others Of Topeka and strangers from of
the city, should remember that regardless of price
reductions "Ther Credit is Still Good at zandton's"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
Others Relate Experiences.
Rates to st. Louis Worlds Fair.

Tickets to Be Sold at Very Low Rates via
Pennsylvania Railroad.
For the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
to be held at St. Louis, Mo-, from April 30
to December l. 1904, several forms of eX-
cursion tickets to st. Louis will be placed
on sale by the Pennsylvania railroad on
April 25. follows:
Season tickets, good to return until De-
cember 10. 1904, to be sold daily at rate Of
$33. 60 from Washington via Pittsburg.
Sixty-day excursion tickets. final limit not
later than December Is, 1904, to be sold
daily at rate of $2S from Washington via
Pittsburg.
Fifteen-day excursion tickets to be sold
at rate of 500 from Washington via Pitts
burg.
Tickets of the forms named above will be
sold from other stations on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at proportionate rates.
Ten-day special coach excursion tickets
will be sold on May 10, and on other dates
to be announced later, good going only on
special coach trains, or in coaches on des-
ignated trains and good returning in
coaches on regular trains, at rate of $50
from New York. $3.50 from Philadelphia
and proportionate rates, approximating one
cent per mile, from other points.
Excursion tickets by variable routes. Sea-
son tickets and sixty-day excursion tickets
will be sold via variable routes; that is
going by one direct route ard returning via
another direct route. Variable route tickets
will be sold applying through Chicago in
one direction at the same rates as apply for
season and siXty-day excursion tickets to
St Louis, going and returning via the di-
rect routes.
reading to points beyond st. Louis a stop
over of ten days will be permitted at st.
Louis on payment of a fee of 81. and de-
post of ticket.-Advt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
CITY GARDEN ASSOCIATION.
Meeting to Be Held at the Shoreham
Monday Evening.

meeting of the City Garden Associa-
ton, under the joint auspices of the Mon
day Night Club and the National Plant,
Fruit and Flower Guild, has been arranged
for next Monday evening at the Shoreham,
when stereopticon lecture will be de-
livered by Mr.. r. F. Powell superintendent
of city farm gardening of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Powell will tell of the results accom-
plished in Philadelphia with respect to city
garden work.
The meeting Monday night will be pre-
sided over by Commissioner Henry B. F.
Macfarland, and the audience will include
representative people of the national CAPT.
tai Invitations have been sent to the
members of the House and Senate COM
mittees on the District of Columbia, the
local ministers, principals of the public
schools, presidents of citizens associa-
tons, and other persons prominent in the
charitable and sociological work of the
city.
Mr.. Powell, it is stated, will arrive in
Washington Monday morning, and during
the day. together with Mr.. B. H. Warner.
Mr.. q. H. Copp and representatives of the
city press, he will make tour of the city,
lions here for city gardens, and also that
he may be able to answer questions rela-
tive to suitable locations for the gardens
and other features of the work proposed
in this city.
The purpose Of the City Garden Asso-
citation is to establish throughout Wash
ington small farms for the industrial
and educational development of the youth
of the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
Donation of a Library.

The board of management of the Tenn
porary Home for EX-Union Soldiers and
Sailors in this city have received from
James A. Garfield Post. No. T. Department
of the Potomac. G. A. r.. it's entire library
consisting of valuable books of reference
history, sketches relating to the civil war
fiction by the best known writer's, and rare
works on science and art. together with
fine photogravure. framed. representing the
battle of Manassas (second), August 80
1862 The picture graces a space in the
entrance hall of the home. The books $50
in number, occupy shelves in the large
reading room provided for the intellectual
comfort and entertainment of the guests.
The occupants of the home are profuse in
their expressions Of gratitude for the gift