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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

missioners can be refunded to the coun-
ty treasurer
This procedure will be similar to
the plan followed when the new Santa
Fe shops were brought to Topeka.
Then Topeka business, men contrib
uted the money toward the necessary
fund and advanced it until the en-
abling act was passed by the legisla-
ture and the bonds were voted and
the business men who advanced the
money had the amounts they SO ad-
vanced refunded. The procedure sug-
gested for the raising of money with
which to build the dykes is about the
same except that the county has suf-
f1cient funds to advance and it will
not be necessary for the money to be
raised by private subscription, but
county that the money will be re-
funded.
Jonathan Thomas is one who has
taken an active interest in the pro-
posed dykes and who has urged that
the business men attend the meeting
to be held Friday night. Mr.. Thomas
is strongly in favor of dykes and that
they be built at once. Mr. Thomas
has appeared before the board OF
county commissioners and urged that
steps be taken at once for the pro-
lection of North Topeka. This morn
ing Mr.. Thomas said: 'Since the
flood of 1903 the assessed valuation of
property in North Topeka has been
reduced about 100000. This means
that the per cent. tax levy against
this amount of property is not made
and that thereby the county loses
$4,000 a year in taxes. In two years
this amounts to $4,000, which is
more than enough, in my estimation,
to provide suitable protection for
North Topeka. The estimate is that
such dykes as are necessary to pro-
tect North Topeka from floods will
cost about $4,000 a mile, and that
about four miles of dykes will be
necessary. This will mean cost of
about $4,000 for dykes. The loss in
taxes in North Topeka for one year
will amount to that much and more
and If dykes are built and North To-
peka is properly protected confidence
valuation now not on the tax
rolls will be restored within a short
time.
'-Juss before this years flood there
were eleven vacant store buildings on
Kansas avenue in North Topeka. That
meant that the assessed valuation of
the personal property of eleven bust |
ness establishments was lost from the |
tax rolls in North Topeka. Unless pro- |
lection is given to North Topeka There |
will be more store buildings vacant. |
The merchants can not afford to take |
the chances without protection. The |
Touring mills and the elevators, the |
planning mill and wooden mill and other |
in North Topeka represent
ing large investments can not be aban-
doned when $4,000 would afford them
protection.
1.-The city of New Orleans is lower
than the Mississippi river but a com
plete system of dykes protects New
Orleans most effectua1ly from the floods
Of that river. Were it not for the dykes
New Orleans would be inundated about
every year. Not only is the city pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

tected but farm lands all along the
Mississippi are protected by dykes. II
1t is worth while to protect farm lands
1t is worth while to protect North To-
peka and the 5000 people there. It will
not be necessary to call for any delay
or for experts from anywhere. Our
county surveyor or our city surveyor
can run the levels and prepare the
plans for the dykes The work can be.
commenced at once and it should be
without delay
Mr.. Thomas Page, president of the
Inter-Ocean mills in North Topeka said
today: II am heartily in favor of TAX
ing immediate steps for the protection
of North Topeka from floods and 1
think that every business man should
subscribe toward whatever funds are
necessary and have the work begin at
once
Mr.. c. C. Nicholson said: II think
dykes would furnish protection to
North Topeka but 1 also think that
Soldier creek should be cleaned out.
Last years flood filed the creek with
trees and brush until it is practically
damned in many places. believe there
should be some state law compelling
the farmers to keep the creek bed free
from trees and brush. The farmers who
own land along the creek claim that
they own the creek This would help
matters in North Topeka"
Mayor Bergundthal said this morn
ing: Something should be done at once
for the protection of North Topeka 1
think that there should be no delay.
Just how this will be done and how the
money will be raised / do not know"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
THE DROP IN OIL.
Southeast Kansas Operators Have a
Serious Complaint.

Chanute. Kas., July 14.-An oil
producer can not help but feel dis
gusted when he thinks of the drop
in price of oil from S1.1S to as cents
per barrel. in the course of a few
months. The last drop of 8 cents was
the least expected and greatest cut in
price of crude oil as yet encountered
by the Kansas oil men. Heavy oil was
marked down cents as was all the
production in the various eastern
fields. When North Neodesha oil was
marked down for the first time from
s1.1S, heavy oil was also marked
down from 60 cents to SIS cents and
has remained that way while the bet
ter grades have been continually GO
ing down, two or three cents at a
time, until this last cut which has
affected the entire oil market. The
pipe line runs last month were over
$1,000 barrels short of the previous
month and conditions indicate small
runs for this month. For this reason,
and because the entire Kansas fields
were tied up with floods, a cut of this
magnitude was as sensational as it
was annoying to local operators. The
prices now paid for oil of the local
fields are:
North Neodesha .. rs
IodEIeSNIIle 90
11eaNS OH 81
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1.-THE grocers say that I have not
collected the huckster license. That
is also a charge which 1 deny. I
think / have the name of every Suck-
ster in Topeka, and there are not
more than twenty OF these, twelve
or fourteen have paid, and the rest
have promised to pay on the fifteenth
of this month. The day the council
passed that license ordinance, I be-
gan to receive telephone calls and per-
sonal calls from members of the coun-
Gil asking me to delay the collec-
ton of the tax for that man and this,
owing to his poverty. Then the men
themselves commenced to call on me,
and under the advice of the mayor, I
decided to wait a while before col
lecting from these men. There were
seven or eight of them who agreed
to pay on July Is, and ] believe that
they will do so. The licenses were
dated back and will all expire Dec. 1.
This is all the outgrowth of the
old fight between the grocers and the
hucksters. The grocers secured the
passage of a heavy license law by
the council, but afterwards, the coun-
Gil repealed it. because it was found
new license law was drawn to be fair
with everybody. I expect to. enforce
it fully. I know there are only about
twenty hucksters in the city, becaI Sc
those of them who have taken out a
license tell me about those that have
not, and ask me to make them pay up.
''In regard to express wagons, there
are about so now running in Topeka
and most of them have paid. Those
which have not paid have agreed to
pay. There were about rs wagons in
the city, but a good many of them
and went out of business
when the council imposed a tax on
them
Mayor Bergundthal did not make
any definite promises to the grocers'
committee which called upon him.
He said this morning to a State Jour-
nal reporter:
eff Page has not been doing his
duty, let them show where. AS nearly
as 1 can learn, Mr.. Page has been
turning in a good deal more money
than usual, and unless it can be shown
in what way he had neglected his
work, 1 don't propose to take any ac-
ton against him. If it can be shown
that Mr.. Page has neglected his work,
[ will consider the matter"
The records show that during the
past year, Mr.. Page has collected So
D0S.25. During the last twelve months
of Mr.. Forbes term of Office, he col
ected $4,541.71. The totals by months
are as follows:
Pages Collections Forbes Collections
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WAsHBURN TRAINING TABLE.
Contract Is Let For 1t by Manager
Frank Leach.

Frank Leach, manager of athletics
at Washburn college. announced yes
terday that a training table would be
established for the football team at
Washburn this fall. 1t will be main
tanned at Mrs. Moody's, at Sixteenth
and Lane streets, about two blocks
from the campus. Twenty men will
be kept at the table throughout the
entire season. This will mean much
towards keeping the team in condi-
ton. ARRANGEMENTS arc made nv
which IS is paid for each man each
week.
This is the first time that Wash
burn has had a training table since
the famous team of 1900, when Ben
ME Owens was coach, and the team
consisted of such stars as Wade
Moore, Warren Gill, Bob Roberts
Fat Clark and Jimmie Stewart,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS

A JAPANESE WAR SONG
Their Childish he cries Se sound from afar
To one whose ears can only greet
The distant echo of the war
Z Her little girl. his ''boya," dear.
For nf 20 hs Mom that afq stenng
Stiu follows in the army's train
Across the sea she follows him.
Takes part in every battle fought.
And through the field. with eyes strained
Still finds him whom she sought.
She follows him across the seas
With joy and pain her souls replete-
Rejoices in his victories.
And shrinks, foreboding, from defeat
Gaze far aheld. o strange. sweet eyes!
Thou hndest him where he lies,
A bullet through his dauntess heart.
Chicago Tribune
The Topeka Baseball association
will hold a meeting tonight
c. G. Shear has been appointed
road overseer of the city of Oakland
Topeka post No. Il, G. A r., win
give an ice cream social and lawn
festival at the residence of II. 5. Day,
1900 Clay street. Friday evening.
Miss Lorraine Buchanan and her
company, who will appear at Vine
wood park next week, played al tne
Fftz opera house at Rossville last Sat
urday.
J. G. Emaheizer. of Emaheizer &
Spielman, left today for Chicago and
Grand Rapids to buy the fall stock of
furniture and carpets He Will stop
at St Louis to visit the fair on his
way home.
President Shiveley of the Missouri
Valley league was in Topeka Wednes-
day to see how the plans for Sunday
baseball were progressing They
looked good enough to him to order
a meeting of the league to change the
schedule and give this city Sunday
dates
The boss BARRIERS are trying to get
an exhibition game with the Saints on
next Wednesday, July 20, at which |
time the Topeka club has an open
date The leaguers want to play the |
too tender-hearted to humiliate the
ceIestials.
Aaron Ward has been appointed /
day marshal and Egbert Wilson night |
marshal of the city of Oakland The /
night man will have the most siren |
uouS time for it is the habit of GER
tain young OakIandites to assault and |
batter young men who go to Oakland |
a-wooing at night
Only one picture of a campaign |
candidate so far decorates the streets |
of Topeka and that is of Roosevelt. /
on Kansas avenue between Fifth and /
Sixth streets. The scrap never really /
begins until somebody whips a fish |
ing net with a lot of photographs on
1t across Kansas avenue.
Wednesday afternoon the city rail- |
way ran Pennsylvania freight car |
over the Kansas avenue tracks to the !
car barns from the railroad yards. |
The next step will be to switch entire |
railway trains. locomotive and all, |
on to the street car tracks. and then |
the next step will be to dig a canal |
along Kansas avenue and run tow /
boats.
w. T. Horn while employed clean
ing out the debris from the cellar of
the Sells building burned in the big
fire of the night of February 13 with
the Parkhurst-Davis building, re-
ceived a bad cut on his left leg this
from the blade of a moving
machine which he was pulling out of
the wreck He was sent to his home
at 1107 Euclid avenue. The McCor-
mick Harvester company occupied the
Sells building at the time of the fire. Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

Here, my boy" said the old gentle
man, II wouldn't cry like that"
ICON den," retorted the boy: let :
see how you'd do t.''-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

Excursion to Kansas City. Santa Fe.
Sunday. July II. Round trip SIPS.
Tickets at Rowely & Shows and Santa
Fe depot. Train leaves 500 a. m
Everybody invited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
USE ALIENS FOOT EASE

A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
Your feet feel swollen, nervous and
damp, and get tired easily. If you
have aching feet, try Aliens Foot
Ease. 1t rests the feet and makes
new or tight shoes easy. Cures aching,
swollen, sweating feet. blisters. and
caIlous spots Relieves chilblains, corns
and bunions of all pain, and gives rest
and comfort. Try it today. Sold by
all Druggists, 25c- Don't accept any
substitute. Trial package FREE. Adj
dress Allen s Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
FRENCH FOURTH.
Fall of the BastiIe Is Being Celebrated
i'm Paris.

Paris, July 14.-The French national
holiday is being celebrated in the usual
manner. Business is suspended, the
bourse is closed and the boulevards are
filed with noisy throngs.
President Loubet and the Bey OF
Tunis reviewed 10000 troops at Long
Champ this morning.
The public balls began yesterday ev-
ening and will continue today and to-
morrow throughout the city. The opera
and theaters are giving free perform
ances.
At Worlds Fair.
ST. Louis, July 1a.-French day at the
worlds fair was observed today by the
unwilling of an allegorical statue of
French republic In the French national
pavilion.T The principal address was made
by M. Jules Boeufve, assistant commits
sioner general from France, who later
unveiled the statue under the direction
of the scultor, NJ. Leon Hermant. La
Marseillaise' was sung by M. Gruthier.
the French tenor. reception follow
ed and refreshments were served in the
garden of the French pavilion
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ST. Louis and Return s11.40-Santa
Ee.
Good for Is days; 1910 for go
days
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summer Coal Prices.

AS an inducement to those contem-
plating putting in a supply of coal
early. we Will deliver coal at follow
ing prices:
Lehigh Valley Anthracite, S1O.75
and S11 per ton.
Ouita Arkansas Anthracite No. 4.
for base burners. $3.50 per ton.
Ouita CRATE and egg, for furnaces,
$3.50 per ton
Ouita lump. for furnaces. 1926 per
ton.
Semi-anthracite (JennyLind). 1915
per ton.
Frontenac lump and CRATE, for fur
naces, $4-75 per ton.
Frontenac nut, for ranges. $3.50
per ten.
Usage City shaft. 81 per ton
Buriingame shaft. 1915 per ton
These prices are subject to advance
at any time. and if they appeal to
you, it would be well to have your or
ders soon
We will guarantee the quality of all
these Goals.
THE SOUTHWESTERN FUEL CO.
7S5 Kansas avenue.
Tel. 1913 and IA.
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TEN HOUSES BURNED.
Loss of Marchant's Coal Company
Charged to Incendiary.

Somerset, Pa. July IA block of ten
four room houses, all under one roof.
owned by the Merchants Coal COM
pany, has been burned at the company's
No mine, two miles from Salisbury
General Manager James Stirrat asserts
that the fire was of incendiary origin
he says his company is determined to
operate No. mine and if necessary he
viii install flashlight and rapid fire
gun to protect the property and men.
The strike in the Myersdale region is
now in its seventh month and both
sides seem as determined as at the
start.
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He knew-'You must visit our new
country club, said the suburbanite
The grounds are beautiful: the golf
links superb You won't find such scenery
elsewhere On entering the ground thu,
first thing that strikes your eve
I know interrupted the city man "A
golf ball. ''-Philadelphia Press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-04

itish green The silk panels. the window hangings
and the thick heavy carpets-the latter woven in
-ts41iio ana not in Turkey-are all Of that color
Inc sitting room OF the King which is the apart
ment used a bedroom bv HIS father has a high
wooden dado of tine solid mahogany with beveled
panels ana pllasters running around IT, and has
been painted ivory white. The ceiling is painted,
but IS 4eft perfectly white although Just below it
runs deep freze of pale sea green hue which sets
it off very well The ceiling Is decorated with mould
ings Of flowers and fruit The carpet is Of deem red
velvet PIE the curtains Of red silk match
the carpet and thus warmth is given TO the room
winch II might otherwise have lacked by reason
OF the white ivory color OF the walls The furniture
IS All eighteenth century, reupholstered and
polished 30 suit the Kings taste and the color
scheme OF the room MThe Kings bathroom is of
pink marble and panened in cedar wood.
The telesraDhic dispatches which have reached
England and America from Russia with regard TO
the missing Muscovite Arctic explorer Baron
Edward Toll fer news concerning whom the I'm
perial Academy of Sciences has Just offered re-
ward Of 300 rubies. somewhat misleading
for they intimate that the search expedition
sent out by the Imperial Academy ten months
ago under the command OF Naval Lieutenant
Koichaf, and which has just returned TO civiza-
ton. found traces OF the baron. This is not
the cast. IN the address which Lieutenant Kol-
chak delivered three weeks ago before the I'M
peTial Geographical Society at Irkuts5 before pro-
ceeding 10 join The naval forces Of Russia Mt
Nladlvostoh. lie describes how. after finding Baron
Tolls companion, the Engineer Prousnefr, on the
New Siberia islands, living alone with the
Yakuts. he discovered Bennett Island num-
Der Of traces OF the baron. such empty cartridge
cases, reindeer bones and. last but not least, a
stone cairn containing three documents vrittcn
and signed by Baron Toll OF which an
nourced his safe arrival at Cape Emma on Ben
nett Island in July. 1902. \ second document
gave description ard a plan Of the island while
a third indicated the location OF the camp OF
Baron Tolls expedition on tho most northwest
foint Of the island. Proceeding thther skins OF
polar hears. four cases OF geological specimens
collected by Toll and several letters written by
him were found IN n hut The last letter dated
October =, 1902 in this tho baron declared that
he was leaving the island for the south with pro-
visions for 4 fortnight. The condition OF the ice
became such that Lieutenant Kolchak was unabls
to continue his search. and forced to return
TO the mainland as quickly as possible. along with
Brousne1. That is the last heard OF tho missing
baron who may possibly DO yet living among the
natives Of some remote corner OF Northern
Siberia or ;he islands the coast. or he may have
been rescued by some whaler out for long cruise.
MARQUISE De FONTENOY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-04
DR.. E. I. TRUDEAU, JR., DEAD.
He Suddenly Expires After Recovering from
Pneumonia.

Or. Edward Livingston Trudeau. jr.. son Of
the we'll known physician and writer on medical
subjects. living at Saranac Lake. died sud-
denly II, his home. No. 772 Park-ave. yester-
day. DR.. Trudeau had been suffering from pneu-
monia, but supposed to be recovering. He
was sitting beside his wife in the afternoon
when without warning. lie suddenly dropped to
the floor dead.
DIR. Trudeau IN his thirty-frst year. He
was a graduate Of Yale University In the class
of 80, ana OF the College Of Physicians and
Surgeons in 1900. After two years in the
Presbyterian Hospital he took UP active prac-
tice in this city. and had already good prac-
tice ana wide popularity. Last December he
married Miss Hazel Martyr, Of Chicago. He
at the time OF his death connected with the
Vanderbilt Clinic and with Bellevue Hospital
d.. Trudeau known an athlete in col
lege For three years he was member OF the
Yale baseball team. He was member of the
Skull and Bones the Yale and University clubs.
the Century Club and the New-YorN Academy
OF Medicine
The funeral will take place on Friday at the
Church Of ST. John in the Wilderness at PAU
Smiths, in the A6!Tondacks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-04

He was admitted to the bar attorney IN 1865 and
as counsellor at-law In 1855 The next year the
College Of New-Jsrseyt now Princeton University.
and in 1853 he received that Of Doctor OF Laws from
In 1870 Mr. Kirkpatrick entered into partnership
States Senator. In whose office he had studied.
recog fnaf time ms rise was Tapd lie was soon s
part Of the State and in 1885 appointed presid-
Pleas This position he held TIL 1856 when he re-
signed to accep: appointment by President Cleve-
land to the United States District Court
In spite Of his legal duties Judge Kirkpatrck
lion and promotion of several enterprises. lie was
at various times treasurer OF 7 T. Howell q Co.
Pany, Of that city manager OF the Howard savings
ceiyer OF the Domestic Sewing Machine Company.
He also accepted the position of commissioner for
Commissioners Of the sinking fund OF that city.
Only once in the career OF Judge Kirkpatrick was
mia % iaSI year J 70 srose, Rna:cSe asnr
brS 70 he con9,5c g InSge Kills
patrick * and to Congress- RH1f2 @
the Feders Ts y 6fo s. s
istration into conte!n2t > using his double office
dent referred the case 10 the indlei& department
take the Initiative in case OF Imnsachment, and
that the charges to be effective would have 70 be
case dropped there. and the charges were not gen
The shipbuiIins Company's muddle was adjudi-
Gated by him. and i was he who appointed his
receiver lie had more recently handed the
Northern Securities case in various forms, and on
May was to have heard the Of Hartman
and the Equitable Securities against the distributing
scheme OF the Northern Securities. The Sugar
combination and the so-cal.ed Whskey Trust ard
most other big combinations came before him at
one time or another. relative TO various questions
Judge Kirkpatrick owned large amounts IN real
estate in Newark, New brunswick. where the fam
fly homestead was. and IN various other places.
His fortune a rated several milliors. He
twice married. His frs. wife alice c. Coudit.
and his second wife Louisa Howell. survives him.
lie also leaves six chidren-J. Bayard. lawyer. Of
Newark; Andrew, Jr.. Alice LittletOn, isabelle and
Elizabeth. lie was charter member OF the Essex
club. OF Newark. also a member OF the Essex
County Country Club and the Reform Club OF this