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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
NEW YORK'S VOTE.
One Part, ? Ost the Right to Go on
Future Tickets.

Albany, n. Y, Dec. 15.-Roosevelt's
plurality in the state of New York. at
the last election was IFS, 552, as shown
by the official returns certified today by
the board of state canvassers. That of
Higgins for governor was 3d. $50. Parker
is shown to have run nearly $4,000 be-
hind Herrick, the Democratic candidate
for governor.
The highest elector on each presiden-
tial ticket is taken as the standard in
the figures which follows, relating to
the choice of presidential electors. Jas.
E. March, eIector for Roosevelt. received
a total of $50, 533 votes, the highest Par
ker elector received $50. 1871. The other
party totals for president are: Debs.
Social Democrat, SO, SS3; Swallow, Prohi-
bition, z0,7S7; Corregan, Socialist Labor,
1927; Watson, Peoples party. 7,459.
For governor, a total of ], 625, 907 votes
were cast, of which Higgins received
S13, 264, a plurality of so, $50 over the to-
tai of ,704 cast for Herrick. Other
candidates for governor received: PEN
dergast, Social Democrat, &c, 259; Mckee,
Prohibition, 20. SOS; DeLeon, Social La
Dor, S,976; Boulton, Peoples party, o.
O15.
One of the results of the state cleo
ton proper will be the loss of status as
an official party by the Socialist Labor
party, it having failed to cast the 1leces-
sary total of 10000 votes for it's candi-
date for governor. The Peoples party
was on the ballot by petition.
The total vote for governor shows an
increase this year over last of 69.3S9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
Holiday Rates.

The Christmas holidays-that period
of good looks, good spirits, good cheer.
and universal joy, will soon be- here.
Are you going to be a direct dispenser
of happiness? Have you no friends or
relations who would rejoice to have you
with them during that glad season? If
they can't visit yol why not go to
them? The Santa Fe will help you.
Greatly reduced rates for those who
want to get right with the season. One
fare plus so cents for round trip, I'M
less one and one-third fare will make a
less rate. Minimum selling rate, so
cents. On sale December "a, %, 26, 81,
and January 1 and 3 Limited to Janu-
airy 4, 1905.
Exact rates from here to any desired
destination, if you'll write, call, or
phone me.
T. L. KING, C. P & T. A,
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
way company, Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

Mr.. Johnson of Dakota had travelled a
hundred miles to offer his hand and heart
to the Widow Carter, and in due time he
reached her humble cabin and timidly
knocked on the door. When she opened it
he began explanations, but after going on
for a couple of minutes she waved her
hand to interrupt him. and then brought
out pencil and note book and queried:
What did you say the cognomen wasp
johnson, ma'am
'Johnson-plain Johnson. How much
land?"
Ninety acres"
Your age?"
About forty-five.''
ANY money ahead?'
Three hundred dollars"
Length of time since your wife died?''
Three years"
Any children to raise row with a
stepmother?"
Nary one"
''All right, Mr.. Plain Johnson-aH right
You are number IL on the list, and if the
ten ahead of you should funk out, your
chances of matrimony are al, 1 have
got down all 1 wish to know, and as
see No. II coming down the road on his
cayuse and this is my busy day, might
ask you to help yourself to a drink of
water at the wei land then skate away?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
A GREAT RECORD.
Hard to Duplicate 1t in Topeka.

Scores of representative citizens of
Topeka are testifying on the following
subject. Such a record of local en-
dorsement is unequaled in modern
times. This public statement made by
a citizen is but one of the many that
have preceded it, and the hundreds that
will follow. Read it:
Mrs. B. d. Williams of 11S East Sew
enth, says: Il was troubled more or less
with my kidneys all my life, and last
winter, 1898, we had good deaf of sick
ness, and overtaxed myself; my whole
system seemed to be out of repair and
severe pains in my back, and head
made me think at times I would lose
my senses. / got Doan's Kidney Pills
at Rowley & Shows drug store and the
results of their use were astonishing.
My general system was toned up and
was relieved of the trouble with my
back and kidneys"
For sale by all dealers. Price, so cents
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. n. Y, sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name - Doan's-and
take no other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

publican committee. A better selec-
ton for adjutant general or any other
office would be hard to find.
The friends of r. r. Hays of Os-
borne will be thankful to Governor
Hoch if he will select him for member
of the board of regents of the State
Agricultural college.
J. c. Brown of Norton, chief clerk
at the state penitentiary, would like to
land the wardenship. Failing in this
he will not decline a second term as
clerk if rendered him.
1t appears that Congressman ReedeT
can see into politics farther than some
of his friends. For instance, there is
Decatur county as a sample When
the congressman was going over De-
catur county his most sanguine friends
told him that he would lose it by be-
tween 500 and 600. After visiting
three or four townships he left his
estimate of how Decatur would go to
some of his Oberlin friends, and he
gave out that he, would lose it by 1926.
When the votes were counted he only
lost it by 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
Mr.. SHAW DENIES 1T.
Says Water Company Isn't Response
BILE for Delays.

Superintendent Jesse Shaw denies
that the Water company is in the least
responsible for any delay in supplying
the citv with abstracts to the COM
pany's property.
"I went with Mr.. Spencer to the alb
stract company" says Mr.. Shaw, land
instructed that company to furnish him
with any information he might call for.
If there has been any delay in getting
this information, it is not the fault OF
the Topeka Water company"
Mr.. Shaw was asked as to the import
ance of making the transfer of the
plant to the city on January 1. He
said:
II regard it of great Importance that
the transfer should take place on that
date as planned. That Is the first OIL
the year. and it opens up new quar-
date, and it would be of great advan-
tage to all concerned if the transfer or
ownership might take place on that
date
Unto whose possession will the books
of the company pass?' was asked.
"I suppose said Mr.. Shaw, that the
old company would retain the books
pertaining to the financial manage
ment of the plant, while all the records
in regard to operation, construction
etc, would pass into the hands OF the
city"
books showing receipts and disburse-
ments for recent years would be or
great value to the city in blocking out
its management of the plant, ana II the
citv is buying, as stated in the deeds,
all the real and personal property of the
comnanv of whatever description, it
would also be entitled to all the books
Of the company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

district court would find very difficult
to sever
Eugene Stotts, who lives at Garden
City, has offered to donate to the poor
of Topeka, through Police Matron
Thorpe, 100 jack rabbits if any one will
pay the freight on the meat from Gar
den City to Topeka. 1t is a good offer
but whoever agrees to pay the freight
should specify that the rabbits be
shorn of their ears before shipment. 1t
will make the freight charges less.
Some good comes of attending a
university and playing football for it
develops muscles equal to the work
of cleaning carpets, according to the
following from the Kansas university
paper. Arthur HuddlestOn, who
played guard and center on the foot
ball team of '92, visited the university
Monday. Mr.. HuddleSron has q. large
carpet and rug cleaning establishment
in Kansas City"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
VERNON INVITATION.
1t Continues to Cause a Great Deal OF
Comment.

The w. T. Vernon incident continues to
be the subject of much attention over the
state, but thus far there is little SYM
pathy expressed for G. W. Mosher. who
wrote the letter to President Valentine of
the Kansas Day club, expressing his dis
approval of the invitation extended to
Prof. Vernon to speak at the coming ban
The Atchison Globe thinks that Prof.
Vernon ought to decline the invitation. in
view of the muss it has stirred up, but
there are many others who will urge him
No one who knows Prof. Vernon can de-
ny that he is one of the best off-hand ora
tors in the state of Kansas, notwithstand-
ing his 6ol9r ,n and what y b he says At tine
vitation, will be worth hearing.
The colored people, Of course. are great
ored Republicans are planning to buy tick
cts to the banquet.
Ths stass Tom j. g E TfSPsu # o
Viola, Kan. on the subject, which fol-
To the Editor of the State Journal:
was provoked upon reading the letter
written by G. w: Moshsr' published in
most incredible that anyone should write
in this manner. The answer of William
Allen White to the sentiments set forth
therein is pointed and complete. It is to
be regretted that In this twentieth CEN
fury of our Christian civilization any IN
giving expression to such resentfuI feel
ings. 1t Is enough to start prolonged
Jim Lane. John Brown and thousands OF
others, who fought for the freedom of the
slaves, for what is the value of that free
dom if those whose chains were severed
by the immortal Lincoln are to be treated
as savages?
William Allen Whites declaration that
''w. T. Vernon will make a better speech
than two-thirds of the men who speak
before the Kansas Day club, may or may
not be true, since it is written that all
men are created free and equal and are
endowed by their creator with certain in
alienable rights, among which are me,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
As 1 view the matter, IL G. w. Moshers
who is so deeply offended by the action
desires TO establish or prove and perpet-
uate the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon
above all others, he should at least in his
public communications exhibit, on the one
hand, less groSsness and vdlgarity, and
cultivate most assiduously the gTaces OF
politeness and refinement on the others.
Yours very truly, j. S. TRUMBULLA
Viola, Kan, Dec. a. 1904.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
Sixth District Notes.

Many of the Sixth district papers
wonder what Governor Hoch- is going
TO give John Q. Royce. Some of them
guess he will get the wardenship of the
penitentiary. He has always been SO
good to Hoch that he ought to land
any position he wants at the dispoasl
of the new governor.
Cantain w, H. Mitchell of Beloit
will refuse the office of adjutant gem
eraI if rendered him by Governor
Hoch. Somehow his name was among
the list of asDirants for this position.
Captain Mitchell was a gallant COM
rade in the Thirty-eighth New York
infantry He is mayor of Beloit and
chairman of the Mitchell county Re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
The Road of Anthracite.

Lackawanna railroad. Best route,
Chicago to New York-three elegant
through trains daily:
Leave Chicago 10:35 a. M, arrive
New York $3.50 p. m. next day.
Leave Chicago 2:30 p. m, arrive
New York 7:30 p. m. next day.
Leave Chicago 9:15 D. m. arrive
New York $50 a. m. second day.
High back seat coaches. New Pull
mans, dining cars, observation cars.
Ask any railroad ticket agent, or
write GEO. A. CULLEN,
Gen. Western Passenger Agt.,
103 Adams St., CHICAGO. Ill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
Revolution Imminent.

A sure sign of approaching revolt and
serious trouble in your system is nervous
ness, sleeplessness. or stomach upsets.
Electric BitterS will quickly dismember
the troublesome causes. 1t never fails to
tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys
and bowels, stimulate the liver and clari-
fly the blood. Run down systems benefit
particularly and all the usual attending
aches vanish under its searching and
thorough effectiveness. Electric Bitters is
only soc, and that is returned if it don't
give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by
Arnold Drug Co., S21 N. Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
Interesting Facts

This company is organized for the purpose of
mining and milling of precious metals. Active work
was begun on the tunnel the latter part of August
1903, and is being pushed day and night by different
shifts of This tunnel is to be driven in about
1900 feet, thus gaining depth of about 1,40O feet
There is an immense iron dyke passing through
of the property, carrying gold values assaying
high $40 per ton There several fine
assure veins the property, of which has pro-
duced in shipping qualities of the value of $40 per
ton. Samples taken from of our lodes Known
as the Jay Gold claim gave returns in gold of
500 per The immense quantities of low grade
be handled by modern machinery, and
prepar red to make a handsome profit for our
stockholders from running only $40 ton.
Our Denver address u.s. The Alnaden Mines
Company, Denver, Colo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

Boys are skating along the edge of
the Kaw river.
c. K. Holiday will leave FOR New
York on Friday.
County Treasurer Bowen received
over $4,000 in taxes yesterday.
The next meeting OF the Commercial
club will take place on January IL.
Next Wednesday is the last day to
pay taxes before the penaltyis attached.
The average attendance at the pub
lie schools of the city of Oaklande1s 21e
The State Teachers association meet
i tn . viii be held in Topeka December u
Prof. L. E. Sayre of the state uni
versity lectures to the students of the
Kansas Medical college.
Twenty-four hours after falling, the
snow must be removed from the side
walks, says an ordinance of the city.
Who Obeyed it?
The Western School Journal of To-
peka was awarded a bronze medal at
Chicago. a silver one at Paris, and a
gold medal at St Louis
Henry w. McAfee was appointed a
delegate to the National Live Stock As
sociation convention by the Commercial
club on Wednesday night.
Gus AIberts is receiving a lot of let
tiers these days asking him for Jobs on
the Wichita baseball team next season.
They seem to think that Gus has the
Windy City franchise. But he hasn' t
1t.
The Kansas university paper says:
Prof. Blackmar of the sociology and
economic department of the University
of Kansas is writing a series of arti-
cles on Taxation and Tax Reform in
Kansas
Lewis e Kitchen, the contractors
who installed the heating systems in
the High, Manual training and Sum
ner schools have the contract for in
stalling the heating plant in the new
First Baptist church.
The KanSan, the Kansas university
paper, says: THE scientific men of
the faculty are preparing for an in
teresting meeting of the Kansas acad-
envy of science which will be held in
Topeka during the holidays"
In the first issue of the Oakland
Blade Editor Anderson says: 1.-THE first
Oakland couple that gets married and
reports to this office, bringing along
with them a piece of the wedding cake
for the editor. will receive six months
subscription free. BY the way, we
might say in passing. that Justice Will
liams can tie a nuptial knot that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
ToIstoi Opens Book Stores.

Moscow, Dec. 15.-Count Tolstoi has
opened book stores here and at st.
Petersburg and is offering to provide
village libraries with books at cheap
prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
Death of General Whfteside.

Washington, Dec 15.-Brigadier
General Samuel H. WhiteSide, retired,
who had command of the department.
of the Santiago during the Spanish
war, died suddenly in this city today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
Norman NfcCon Dead.

London, Dec. 15.-Norman McCo1l,
former editor of the Athenaeum, died
in London today of heart disease. He
was born in 1S43.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
SNAPSHOTS ATHOME NEWS

Now the evening shadows fall
On the messy garden wall.
And the brides, soft and wee,
Sleep within the cherry tree.
But the bee is busy vet
Where the leaves are dewey wet
In the honeysuckle vine.
Baby darling, baby mine.
And the West is full of dreams,
Rosy CLOVIS and golden beams,
Made for slumberS, calm and deep,
BY the lovely Lady Sleep.
With the woolly lamb to hold,
And the bedtime story told,
Sleep. for rosy dreams are near.
Waiting for my baby dear.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

The farmer loves the rolling plain.
The sailor loves the sea;
The girls they love their lovers.
And their Rocky Mountain Tea.
-Gatlin Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

Some of the most conservative business of Kansas
have invested their money in the Almaden Mines
Why have they done it? Simply because they
have investigated this property and
ment and have found them good to their satisfaction
Investigate for yourself Go visit these mines if
please, communicate with responsible
who Them and will find that Almaden
is richly supplied with veins of running
in good quality; will find and modern machin-
work tunneling these promising veins; you
will meet with honest management pushing the
work of development with all their combined energy.
With such working combination, shareholder
good reasons to expect handsome dividends in the
AS the tunnel strikes the continuation
of the Big King Solomon vein, which is expected almost
the price of shares will advance SO
to 800. 1t will pay you money in this
company Don't wait another single day. Write at
for shares
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
A cough medicine over
sixty years old

This must mean merit, solid,
genuine merit. 1t certainly must
be true that Ayers Cherry Pee
toral cures coughs, colds, Group,
bronchitis, asthma. Ask your
own doctor to explain why it |
strengthens weak threats and
heals inhamed lungs. L iS;A{e s Ss;.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

Itching piles? Never mind if physicians
have failed to cure you. Try DOan'S Oint-
ment No failure there. so cents at any
drug store.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-27
Prominent Merchant Assassinated by
Unknown Persons.

Osyka, April PSI. N. Varria-
do, merchant who was very
prominent throughout this Sec
ton, was assassinated in the
swamps nearly four miles south
of Osyka this afternoon. His
body was shot from his buggy,
being filled with buckshot.
Mr.. Varnado this morning
drove to Kentwood on business.
1t is believed be made some col
lections there. This afternoon he
was driving back to Osyka through
the swamp when he was shot, it
is believed from ambush. There
we're no indications that the crime
was committed for the purpose of
robbery, as nothing was stolen
from Mr.. Varnado's person.
The horse drawing the buggy
came into Osyka about $50
O'Clock. This caused an iDvesti-
cation, which resulted in the find
ing of the body. The sheriff and
several posses are searching for
the murderer or murderers.
/. N. Varnado was a kinsman OF
Mr.. Varnado, the Osyka druggist
who was assassinated about Is
years ago.. and for whose murder
DR.. Joel Goss was tried and ac-
quilted and negro hung.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-27
WANT TO GET RID OF MHlTECAPs.
A Delegation Of Lincoln County Citi.
Zens Call on the Governor.
Tuesdays Daily Clarion T. edger. I

Tuesdays Daily Clarion Ledger.
A delegation of about twenty
Lincoln county citizens called on
Governor Vardaman yesterday
afternoon for the purpose of max
ing an appeal for state aid in sup
pressing The whitecapper Dands in
that county.
The delegation reached the city
on the afternoon Illinois Central
train, and the conference with the
Governor lasted for more than an
hour.
What transpired during the in
teryiew was not made public, the
members of the delegation refus-
ing to talk, or even to admit the
object of their trip to the capital.
1t leaked out, however, that the
whitecapper outrages was the
topic of discussion, and that the
delegation requested the Governor
to lend assistance in exterminat-
ing the lawlessenss, which he con-
scented to do.
The recent legislature made an
appropriation Of $500 per year
to be used by the Governor in
suppressing wbitecappers and
other forms of lawIessness, and
the first expenditure from the
fund will be made in Lincoln
county. A few days ago a Lin
coin county negro who was one of
the strongest witnesses against
wiretapper outrages was arrest
ed in Chicago and brought to. this
city by member of the dete ctive
force of that city and turned over
to Governor Vardaman, who or
dered that the negro be placed in
the Kinds county Jail and kept
there until the next term of court
in Lincoln.
Court will convene at Brook
haven on the fourth Monday in
May with Judge Wilkinson pre-
siding. 1t is the intention of the
officers at this term to use every
possible effort to secure indict-
ments against the parties who have
participated in wiretapper out
RACES, and the authorities are de-
termined to nip the reign of law
lessness in the bud before a con-
dition Of affairs is brought about
similar to those now prevailing in
Arlite and Franklin counties
where thousands of acres of fer
tile lands ale lying idle this year
because the whitecap bands have
forced the negroes to leave, and
labor of no kind can be secured in
the two counties.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS

At Biloxi the new electric rail-
way passed 3100 car fares on The
oath.
Tomorrow the Mississippi Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs will
meet in Oxford.
r. G.. Price has succeeded Rev.
j. Z. Jordan in the management
of the Seashore Camp Grounds.
G. G. Gotten and Miss Elinor
G. Atkinson, of Summit, were
married at Summit, on the 18th.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway lee
tured at Magee on Sargent S.
Prentiss and the Flush Times be-
fore the War. :
"A runaway at Greenville was
| the cause of Mrs. d. T.. Hunt
breaking an arm and her collar
bone and Mr.. Hunt receiving
slight injuries.
a dead man was found three
miles west of Clinton. From cor
respondence found on the body,
his name was A. X. GOT. His
skull was broken; and he, evil
IDENTIFY, met violent death.
At the age Of SO years, Mr.. W.
A. Wade died at Old Gallatin,
ICoplah county, where he has resid-
ed for sixty-one years. He was a
prominent farmer and had amass-
ed considerable fortune. A wife
and four children survive him.
Hugh Fallon, lad Of less than
ten years, extracted $165 from the
trousers pocket of Mr.. G. B. De-
kay, travelling man, at the Nor
rison Hotel in jackson. The lit
| tie fellow had lived with his
brother, who is somewhat older,
and who is industrious and is en-
ployed as a messenger at one of
The telegraph Offices. The boy is
SO young the officers do not know
how to proceed.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-27

Miss Sophie B. Wright, the
founder of the Night School SC
famous and far-reaching in its
results in New Orleans, and the
woman to whom was awarded the
Picayune's loving cup, as the
person who had been the greatest
benefactor to New Orleans during
1908. caused a stir at the Kings
Daughters Convention last week.
by her denunciation Of progress
siVe cuchre as a means for raising
funds. Thus, has Miss Wright
demonstrated her royal blood as a
daughter of the King.