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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
SHOT By ROOM MATE.
Accident May Cause Death of Frank
SWartz.

Frank Swartz, young man room
ing at 514 East Fourth street, was
probably fatally shot Sunday by the
accidental discharge of a revolver in
the hands of Ed Shoaf his room
mate. The shot passed through his
left lung, close to the heart. He was
taken to DR.. Keith's hospital, where
it was necessary to remove a crushed
rib. ft t
The story told by the boys is that
Swartz borrowed the revolver from
Shoaf on the Fourth of July, and that
he had taken it to a gun store to be
repaired, only recently getting it
back. sIt was in the dresser drawer
in a holster, and Swartz took it out
and handed it to Shoaf The latter
drew it out of the holster to examine
the repair which had been made, and
the discharge followed. He does
not know whether the gun was cooked
or whether the hammer caught in the
holster.
Young Shoaf is a nephew of E. E.
Shoaf proprietor of the Holiday
house. The injured boy has exoner-
ated him of firing the shot intention
ally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

commission in the Kansas regiment ne
was first lieutenant in the Second regl-
ment of infantry U. S. A, having been
graduated from West Point on the Eth
of June, 1896, to which he was appoint
ed as cadet on the 18th of June, 1892,
by Congressman Curtis.
After graduation from West Point he
was ASSIGNED to the Seventh infantry as
second lieutenant, transferred 10 the sec
ond infantry the 10th OF July the same
year. He was commissioned nrSt neuten-
ant in the same regiment OF infantry on
the first of January, 1899. and two years
later on the first of June received a Iur7
Their promotion as captain, Delng aSslsIeu
this time to the Twenty -ninth INFANTRY.
On the 14th of November OF the same
wear he received a transfer to the Second
ouarternaster on the 7th of March. 1907
Captain Whitman was porn at 8 31IS ,iii
Kan, and raised in and near Lyndon,
KAN graduating from the high school at
that place in 1880. His father, ]. S. Whit
man. is one of the prominent druggists OF
the place, while a sister Is Ina[it S.o ~ ~
Judge Heller. district judge OF the Usage
county district. Captain Whitman WAS
married to Miss Florence Orr OF Mills
Falls, N Y, February of 1898
Twentieth Kansas. Captain Whitman had
in direct command companies E, q, X
md M. This particular battalion saw ser
vice in a number of engagements WINE
among these were the engagements lIi
and around Mariloa river and IN aTd
about San Fernando. Captain w hltInan
was popular among his associates ana
low OFFICERS He was "a years old on the
nth of June last and is supposed WIS
bound for Manassas, Va, where ne had
been appointed as one OF tneh unplreS OF
xyres which were to be held there, COM
mencing with the first of September.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
FOUND A BODY.
Remains of Unknown Man Taken
From Kansas River.

The badly decomposed body of an
unknown white man. about 80 years
Of age, was found near Kuehne's
pickle factory in the Kaw river this
afternoon at O'Clock by workmen on
the Rock Island bridge. Coroner
Hogeboom was called and is conduct
ing an inquest at Sh barger's un-
dertaking establishment this after
noon.
The body has been in the water for
a long time. as is shown by the fact
that the fingers are off both hands
and the face is badly SCARED and dis
figured While the clothes which the
man wore appear to have been fairly
good, they are of the tramp, order.
1t is probable that he was drowned
at some point UP the river
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.

tFrom the AtchiSon Globe.
When Lovely Character people do get
mad, look out.
Not very long after marriage. people
begin TO look very homesick to be en-
gagged again.
If you harp on your grievance long
enough your friends will have one bigger
than yours.
1t sometimes happens that you want to
speak well of a man. and all you can say
is that he is willing"
No one takes a mans cussing very seri-
ously; then why take so seriously wo-
mans weeping?
No woman with an income of less than
$500 month should be permitted to wear
a dress with a train
a loving wife frequently says of her fat
doesn't say anything"
Usually when the mother goes away on
a visit, the daughter has her first expert
ence in cleaning a chicken.
Do you laugh with the young or do
you laugh at them? The former is the
plan If you wish to remain young.
When a young man calls on girl and
stays late, that noise overhead is not
thunder; it is the old man grumbling.
Old people sometimes complain because
they are left alone so much, but the truth
is that they would be bored to death if
the young people tried to entertain them.
1t should be a compromising thought to
man who dies and leaves insurance
money. that he is benefiting his own sex
for some other man will come along and
get it.
An Atchison woman rather holds it over
the other women in town: A woman is
visiting her who is accompanied by her
children and a governess, who instructs
them daily.
You owe something more to your moth
er than you generally count on. Isn't it
something to be grateful for that you
were not born in street car, or on a
railroad train2
An Atchison girl went to the worlds
fair Her father said Just before she
started: ION your return, if you can't
don't try to describe it,
WOmen'S magazines continue to blame
the men for not saying nice things about
their wives cooking, and the men go on
thinking that if they eat it, that is com
pliment enough
I have just one request to make"
writes a woman to the Globe: That if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
HIS JOW BROKEN.
Dale Straus Attacked Sunday by
Sylvan Kline.

Sylvan Klein knocked down and Sc
verely injured Dale Straus, a young
man employed by the Chicago Lumber
company, in a fight near the transfer
station Sunday afternoon. Klein also
struck a young man named Devlin,
backing both his eyes. Chas. Smith, a
negro policeman, walked away with
Klein, but did not arrested him. Klein
reported to the police station and gave
his version of the fight, and was not
booked.
Stratus jaw bone was broken by
Klein's terrific blow. and DR.. Stewart.
who attended the injured man, had to
wire the bone in place. The spectators
are divided in their opinions of the
fight, a number stating that the assault
was unwarranted and vicious, and 9TH
ers declaring that the two men had
'badgered' and abused Klein on the
street car coming in from the ball
game, until the limit of human endur-
ance was reached. They had been
wrangling about the game and the abil-
ity of the players ever since the car
left the park, and the assault occurred
as soon as the wranglers had left the
car.
Relatives of young Straus say they
will prosecute Klein for the assault.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

1t is hardly a hopeful sign of the
times, this very noticeable tendency on
the part of striking union worknen to
appeal to Washington for aid in set
Ting their troubles with their en-
ployes. Time was, we think. when In
reference on the part of the federal
executive in matters purely local. and
entirely outside of his ordinary duties,
would be resented as foreign to the
spirit. at least, if not the letter, of our
system of government. 1t would seem
recreant to the idea of American citi-
zenship in the various states for work
ingmen, citizens of this or that state, to
overlook their state executive and in
woke the good Offices or the power of
the president of the United States-or
indeed. to appeal to any executive,
state or national.-Boston Transcript.
Perhaps the strikers feel that the
president himself invited such action
on their part by the precedent he es-
tablished in connection with the an
thracite strike. 1t will be remembered
also that Mr.. Cleveland interfered in
the Chicago railroad strike some years
ago without solicitation from the strik-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
No woman ever thinks she looks her
age
A friendless man is one who is learn
ing to play cornet.
When a man constructs air castles he Is
apt to have lofty views.
Fault is the one thing that IS frequent
ly found where it is not.
A man likes to think that others think
he is better than he is.
1t takes more than a coat of paint to
cover a woman's age successfully.
The man who has been fooled twice by
the same woman is hopeIessly foolish
Many a man on the verge of starvation
has committed either suicide or matri-
mony.
If a man is deaf and dumb he escapes
the long-distance bore who makes his
calls by telephone.
What the average man doesn't know is
that he doesn't know half much as he
thinks he knows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
A $4,000 SWALLOW.
f. Barnes Wants Insurance ON Ac-
count of Peculiar Accident.

Because Ezekiel Barnes swallowed a
pin he wants the United Commercial
Travellers to pay him something over
$41,300. And the court of common
pleas of Wyandotte county says he
ought to have it.
Barnes was a travelling man and a
member of the U. c. T., holding an
accident policy. He swallowed the pin
and it sent him to a hospital for sew
eral months, and for a time his life
was despaired of. He recovered, how
ever, and put in a bill on his policy
for $41,353.95. His claim was turned
down by the order and he sued for it
in the courts. The jury in the trial
court gave him the full amount. The
order today appealed the case to the
supreme court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

Leaf by leaf the wooden awnings at
Neodesha are falling.
A Wellington club has but one object in
life-that of cutting out paper dolls.
Its cold comfort to the Armourdale
strikers that the packers can still secure
ice.
The two little girls in blue who play ten
MS for breakfast appetite live at Con-
cordia.
The man that ties tin cans to harmless
lington.
The pride of a Hiawatha household is a
tWo-foot spider web which has over 40
silken strands.
town, but the demand for cold ones has
started up an ice plant.
A candidates life is not always bed of
roses. Wichita admirers have begun nam
ing babies after Judge Dale.
Leavenworth records 40 births for July
and "A deaths. A medal from President
Roosevelt is expected any day.
A Baldwin man did two things success
fully at the same time at the worlds far
spent his money and his vacation.
It's all in the way you're brought up
cnews of tobacco day as its master.
In ADDITION to being first rate pastor.
the Rev Mr. Taylor of Eningham can
bake an angel food cake fit for a king
The Topeka public doesn't have to go to
races to indulge in horse play-they can
do 1t at ball games. mobbing the UNI
pire.
same limb is one of natures curios that
has blown in to the Burlington Jefferson
ian office
The wife of certain Topeka baseball
crank doesn't know home run from a
two ba gger. but she can make mighty
good corn cakeS-which is more to the
purpose.
A shelf bearing so quarts of fruit in a
Hiawatha pastors cellar gave way
pose the good man remarked when he
heard the crash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

Manufacturing defaults for July are
about the same in number as the cor
responding month last year, says r. G.
Dun & Co.. but there was a decrease
of about 40 per cent in liabilities. This
improvement was well distributed
throughout the list. only four of the
fourteen classes reporting larger losses
this year. and in no case was this adj
verse balance a heavy one, whereas in
many of ~he other ten classes the de-
faulted liabilities shrank materially.
Results were particularly satisfactory
in manufacturing lines of leather.
liquors. machinery, lumber, milling,
glass and earthenware, while there was
only one suspension in cotton spinning,
despite the unnatural condition of that
industry. The only notable increase in
number II manufacturing failures oc-
CURED in the clothing division, and the
average loss per failure was only about
$40 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
A school for housewives.

To fit girls of his parish for the
assumption of the practical duties of a
home, Rev. Thomas J. Gillen. the rec
tor of ST. Mary's church, in Paw
tucket, r. l., has established a school
of domestic arts, which has proven
one of the most unique and successful
ventures ever inaugurated by parish,
and at the same time has attained
most practical results.
Father Gillen's idea of the enter
prise, which has become one of unique
endeavor, is a thoroughly practical
one. He argues that home life might
be greatly improved by making the
home as inviting as possible. To &C
complish this, the housewife should
understand the arts of sewing, fancy
work, and, especially, cooking. TIL
problem of today is to preserve a
home atmosphere. If this can be
done, the evils of club life, or bad
companionship with its inevitable re-
suits, will be materially Iessened- Upon
the home, society rests. Anything
which improves the home improves
society and the individuals who COM
pose it. The benefit to religion is
equally patent.
The value of such a school is in
estimabIe and patent at once to every
observer. The question of lukewarm
faith in the younger generation, the
general and deplorable mixed mar
riages, and the general lack of inter-
est young people show, in parish work
may find-we do not say, solution,
but a big assistance to a Solution-in
a school of the kind in question. Its
social features, in connection with It's
practical attachments, will serve to
strengthen the bonds of friendship
which should closely knit the mem
bers of each parish, for the child OF
today is the man or woman OF to-
norrow.-Mary E. Noonan, in Men
and Women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
LOCAL MENTION.

Permits have been issued for the
erection of the following dwellings,: to
VIM. Vesper for history cottage at
70S Lane street to cost $1,000; to c.
E. Often for a 2-story dwelling at
1437 Polk street to cost $1,000; to
dwelling at 1431 Van Buren, tsreet, to
cost $3.50.
L. T. Yount, former election com
missioner, is in Topeka for a few days.
He is now travelling for the Interna-
tional Correspondence schools. His
Headquarters are independence. His
coal mine proposition in Jewell county
has failed owing to the sandy char
acter of the ground which made it
impossible to work out the coal.
State Auditor Wells came up from
Erie today.
John S. Dawson, assistant attorney
general, has returned from a visit to
St Louis and Illinois. His father who
has just come over from Scotland on
his first visit to America, met Mr.
Dawson at st. Louis and came back to
Kansas with him.
Stewart Ripley, son of J. w. Ripley.
last Sunday while playing about in
the back yard of 1874 Woodlawn, is
showing no i'll effects of his little acct
dent The boy was playing about
barefooted when he stepped on the
snake, which aroused coiled itself
about the bare leg of the boy, in
fiicting a bite on the upper part of
the foot The swelling has gone en-
tirely down and the effect of the bite
will be nothing beyond that of a tenn
porary nature.
Walter Johnson, formerly of To-
peka and now with the News at
Hutchinson, is in Topeka today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
SHOT FIVE TIMES.
James Miller Suffered at Hands of
George Hicks.

James Miller, a negro jointist. was
shot five times last night by George
Hicks, another negro. The row
which resulted in the shooting occur
red in the vicinity of the Rock Island
~ Two of the bullets lodged il
Miller's hip, and three more in his
leg. The bullets were extracted by
DIR. H. H. Keith at his hospital this
morning.
by the police on the charge of run
ming a joint in Midtown" the negro
district south of Tenth avenue and
east of the Shunganunga creek. His
injuries are not serious. Hicks was
caught by the sheriff's force soon after
the shooting. and is being held pend
ing a complaint in city court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
LIST OF MISSING.
or Those known to Have Been on
the Wrecked d. & r. G. Train.

Pueblo. Aug. S.-Those known to
be on the wrecked D. & r. G. train
and now missing are:
Hugh McCracken, Aurora, ILL.,
Clyde Price, Aurora, Ill.
Mrs James Keahley, 216 East
Fourth street, Pueblo.
Mrs George West, home unknown.
Little daughter of Mrs Thompson.
F. C. Bochnann-
Mrs. Stearns, sister of Bochmann.
Harry Hough, Pueblo
Frank Bodman, Northampton,
Mass
Mark Mcdonald, Pueblo.
Fred Mahoney, Pueblo
Thomas Sullivan, Pueblo.
L. B. Durham. 1243 Bragdon street.
Pueblo.
Edward Knight, Denver.
T. S. Reese, express messenger,
Denver.
B. T. LasheIl, Denver.
Mrs. j. NJ. Killen and boy.
w. H. Lamoon and wife.
Jesse Gray, Denver.
Mrs. Mary Walsh of Chicago.
Miss Mary Price. La Sale, Ill.
Mrs. Henry Gilbert.
Mrs. A. L. Yeagea, IL West Twelfth
street, Pueblo
Miss Lottie Stroup. Grand Rapids.
Mich.
Alexander S. Maxwell. clerk, with
Pueblo Traction company, Pueblo.
The following were injured, but
escaped:
Theodore Fisher, Pueblo.
J. Gilbert, Pueblo.
j. NJ. KILN, Pueblo.
David Mayffeld, Denver.
Miss Wright, visiting Harry johnson,
of the johnson Mercantile company of
Pueblo.
The IL year old daughter of Harry
Johnson.
l.. B. Durham, 1243 Bragdon, Pueblo,
nephew of A. M. Clark. of Pueblo.
Miss Winnie Pelby, residing on Spruce
street, Pueblo.
Thomas Bantman, Pueblo.
Mrs. Cavanaugh, Pueblo.
John West, Pueblo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

So, Gen Funston's appointment to
command of the department of the At
lantic has been revoked because he is
not considered the social equal of his
brother officers in the east. 1t may
be difficult for people who pay the
taxes for the support of West Point
and the army to understand what con-
nection there is between society and
the ability to direct the affairs of a
military department. but of course that
is regarded as none OF their business.
1t seems that a man may fight his way
to a promotion, but cannot enter upon
the full enjoyment of all to which such
advancement entities him. unless he be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held in Boston this month, and IT
promises to be one of the most sue
cessful encampments of recent years,
both in point of interest and attend
ance. According to the official reports
of a year ago. Massachusetts is one of
five states which have 119,547 of the
surviving 256.510 members of the order.
New York has the largest department,
29. 9SS members. Pennsylvania comes
second with &c, 426 Ohio third with 26.-
52s. Illinois fourth with 2O.sOO. and Mas
sachusetts fifth with 1854.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

Evangelist Charles H. Yatman is Civ
ing a series of popular talks at Ocean
Grove, and has been taking the girls
especially into his confidence. with ad-
vice on a subject of general interest.
In discussing the ice cream habit he
said: Don't imagine that you owe it
TO the young men who buy ice cream
for you to promise to become their
wives. You girls are really the givers
of gifts to us men, because your con-
descension in sitting with young man
in an ice cream parlor more than re-
pays him for the money he has spent
for the ice cream you eat. The girls
I see before me are worth more than
the ice cream output of American for
an entire year"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

trade There will be plenty of steamers
to offer for the risky service at adequa n;e
cargo to Shanghai, Hongkong, etc, and
there it will be transshipped to Japan IN
surance rates on cargoes from Rangoon,
Comparatively low because the approaches
to the western coasts of Japan are pro-
tected to some extent by the japanese
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

AS usual. the campaign is causing a
revival of the discussion regarding
what beat Blaine in 1884. Among the
causes assigned are Burchard's speech,
St. Johns invasion of New York and
the Delmonico dinner. The fact re-
mains, however, that the people gen.
orally believe that he was counted out
in New York City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

In Nebraska the Democrats and Pop
ulists will fuse on the state ticket and
vote for separate electoral tickets. The
New York Globe says this will insure
the state for Roosevelt and declares
that Col. Bryan is responsible for the
arrangement. being actuated by a desire
to beat Parker. The same sort of deal
exists in Kansas. Is Bryan to be held
accountable for that, too?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

The $4,000 idle packing house work
men and the $4,000 cotton mill employees
out of a job have been Joined by 10000
locked out mechanics in New York dur
ing the past week. The business of the
country appears to be moving on about
the same as usual. We never know
what we can stand as nation until
nut to the test
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
Ar THE WORLDS FAIR.

Subscribers TO the State journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may nave
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address in St. Louis at the rate
OF thirty cents n month The last
edition of the State Journal reaches
St. Louis the following morning. The
paper can be sent care of the Kansas
building, IL desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

The American war ships in the Medi-
terranean have been ordered to Turk
fish waters as a hint to the sultan that
1t might be better for him to give
greater heed to the demands which our
minister to Constantinople has made
on his government. Why this is done
at this particular time is not explained.
The same reasons for such action have
existed for years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

If the anti-imperialists. as they call
themselves, under the leadership of
Judge Parker. should carry the country.
what will they do with the victory?
Does anybody believe that possession of
the Philippines will be relinquished or
that a territorial government will be
l,lichnd2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journ"
away during the summer may haN@
the paper mailed regularly each gay
TO any address at the rate OF uilAr1S
cents a month Address changed as
often as desired. While out OF town
the State journal will be to you Ike
an daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
I. Il. U. Meets at St. Louis.

ST. Louis, Mo-, Aug. S.-The fiftieth
meeting of the International Typo
graphical union of North America,
with representatives of 700 subordi-
nate and affiliated bodies present from
various parts of the United States and
Canada, met today and will continue
in session during the week. Arrange
ments have been made whereby all
union printers will be admitted to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
New Worlds Record.

New York. Aug. Sired Winters. a
member of the West Side Athletic club.
has made new worlds record at weight
lifting With one hand he tossed a. dumb
bell weighing al pounds, above his head
from the ground, beating by three pounds
the best previous record, made by G.. w.
Stoessen, in Madison Square Garden De-
cember IL, 1897.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

a Beau Brummel. He may swim a river
in the face of an enemy's fire. but I'M
less he is also a good Walter the east
has no use for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08

The modern saloon is said to have
come into existence along with tenn
perance agitation. Bishop Potter and
his followers appear to think that. they
can drive it out by returning to original
plan for providing for the thirsty.