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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-27
TO LAUNCH THE DAKOTA
At NEW LONDON, CONN.

NEW LONDON, Conn, Jan. 27.-Ar-
rangements have been completed at
the yards of the Eastern Shipbuilding
company for the launching next week
of another monster cargo carrier. 1t is
twin sister Of the Minnesota, launch
ed last spring, and will be christenad
the Dakota. The ship is owned by
James ]. Hill. and will be used in the
Great Northern railways Pacific car
rving trade-
The Dakota will steam at the rate
Of fourteen knots an hour, and, owing
TO her great size, will be steady iii any
kind of weather She has length Of
$50 feet and a width of 73 feet inch
es. She will be rugged as four-mast-
ed schooner, with pole shafts, and
will have fiye continuous decks and
four short decks.
NORTH DAKOTA HARDWARE
MEN IN SESSION.
GRAND FORKS, N. D.. Jan. 27.--
The annual meeting Of the North Da-
kota Retail Hardware Mems associa-
tion began here today in conjunction
with the convention of the North Da-
kota and Northern Minnesota mple.
ment Dealers association. A large at
tendance and an interesting program
combine to give promise of the most
notable gathering of the trade ever
held in this section of the country.
The proceedings will continue until
Saturday.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-27
MACEDONIAN REVOLT
READY FOR RENEWAL.

BELGRADE, servia. Jan, IL Sara
foff's Macedonian agents have pro
claimed fresh revolt for March 2S.
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soIons Confer.

TOXIC, Jan. FIT IS understood
that the cabinet, assisted by the
elder statesmen, has completed d
financial program, which. 1t IL antici-
pated will be published shortly II is
said to include the issuance of ex-
chequer bonds to the amount Of a
hundred million ven, increasing taxes
to the extent Of fifty million yen.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-27
WAR CLOUD
THREATENS
Partisan Adyices Say Crax Of
Japanese Situation is Al
NEST Reached
NO LACK OF MONEY
Island Empire Completes Her
Financial Program by Issue
ing Il Hundred Million Yen

PARIS, Jan. 27.--All information
reaching the highest quarters here
tends to show that the Russian-Japan.
ese crisis continues acute. 1t ap.
pears to be the accepted conviction in
government circles that the final de-
termination between peace and war
can not be long deferred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-18
PHInANTHROPY AND FLEsHPOTs.
[From the St. Paul Globe.l

From the st. Paul Globe
New York city is considering very
seriously just now the problem of the
hundredth girl She is the girl who
has wandered into the big city from the
home fold in some small town, not with
frivolous or evil intent, but for the
purpose of improving her condition.
Gotham is shocked to discover that
frequently the hundredth girl comes to
grief; that many of her kind have died
Of want and that the weaker ones have
been led astray. And Gotham is
amazed to learn that as a rule this
hundredth girl is but poorly equipped
for her struggle with the relentless
CITY. that she brings nothing superior
to cope with forces that have so many
times crushed genuine superiority.
sVVhy does she conner" it is asking.
and what can we do to prevent her
coming2"
And in looking about for answers to
these questions, the city finds that it
must ask itself and find an answer to
another. How can we make philan-
thropies philanthropic? ?" For in it's in
vestigation of the hundredth girl prob
lem it has discovered that those very
societies and organizations which are
supposed to offer help in time of trou-
bic have turned the hundredth girl
away. The various friendly societies
and Christian organizations apparently
look with as much suspicion upon the
friendless girl as they would were their
sole object in life the detection of
fraud. One society which has branches
in every city of any size in the Union
and which is supposed to give shelter
to girls out Of employment had hIled
its rooms 50 it was reported with girls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-18
DECIDES FOR MRS. WEBB.
A w. Dana, Heir Apparent to District
Court Bench, Makes Decision.

A w Dana, acting as judge pro tenn
and heir apparent to the bench in the
district court. today decided the suit
of Mrs. w. w. Webb against the city
in which the ownership of a ten foot
strip of land adjoining her lots on
Monroe street between Fifth and
Sixth was in question.
The land was once used for a 20
foot alley but was vacated in 1858 and
the act of vacation specified that the
land vacated should revert to the
property. On this account Mrs Webb
claimed ownership of ten feet of land
which the city now wishes to use for
the opening of an alley The city
claims that the land is still an alley
Judge Dana decided that Mrs Webb
owns the land.
The case was not tried by Judge
Hazen as he owns property close to
that in controversy Judge Thomp-
son of Usage City was selected as
Judge pro tern when the case was be-
gun six years ago Before the case
was settled Judge Thompson was sue
ceeded by Judge Heller. As Mr. Dana
is soon to be judge of the Shawnee
district court and as he needs practice
in the art of administering justice tn G
attorneys agreed on him as judge pro
TEN.
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who were able to pay for shelter, and
had refused for several years to take
in penniless strangers.
Not in New York alone but in many
other large cities philanthropies found
ed in a spirit of genuine good will fire.
quently degenerate into institutions
whose object is merely commercial.
Those in charge of others come, in
time, to think more Of the philanthropy
itself and less of the welfare of those
for whom it was planned. Still others
maintain the best intentions, but their
government is placed in charge of peo-
pie who are not in sympathy with these
intentions and interfere with their be-
ing carried out. Perhaps the arousing
of public sentiment in New YORK
through the investigation Of the hun
dredth girl problem will regenerate
those philanthropies that have become
too strongly attached to the comforta-
Bile things of life, and it is possible that
the regeneration may spread to similar
philanthropies in other large. cities.
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Sabetha has three automobiles and
a new road grader.
The only persons sick at Sterling
these days are the doctors.
The Lyndon Record offers a prize
for the hottest roast sent in. Beef
preferred.
A Sunday rain at Parsons prevents
Christians as we'll as sinners from at
tending church.
Selling liquor to the noble Red
Man" is responsible for several Hor-
ton men doing time"
The town feud between Council
Grove and Herington has grown as
bitter as a double dose of quinine.
Sterling has several thousand dol
lars in the city treasury and not a
cent of it raised from saloon license.
Ewing Herbert says newspaper or
gans don't pay" And yet the Brown
County World looks fairly prosperous.
Eight women agents for rival bak-
ing powder concerns were in Belleville
the same day and not a fight is re-
ported.
The first week of a Lyons bride
nursing the brides severe case of
measles.
A Stafford county farmer has thir-
teen little pigs, each and every one so
thin that he feeds them buttermilk
from a jug.
"A oNdIlOIQ IdIIH6E mas CoO yOuA1S
turkeys. He says they will bring him
II cents a pound at Thanksgiving, or
S1,72S. That beats raising wheat
A warning smoke Friday reminded
Carbonate that it had been two years
to a day since the fire that destroyed
the greater portion of the town.
An emery wheel in an Everest
blacksmith shop burst while making
1000 revolutions per minute One
section was found over a block away.
Five members of the Hiawatha
choir of the Christian church have
been married within the past year.
It's no trouble in getting singers to
join that choir.
An Erie girl went up stairs to dress
for a party and in the meantime
dropped on the bed moment to rest.
The next sound she heard was the
breakfast bell.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONs.


The roof garden Is tip top idea.
Some poetry is so clumsy that it trips
over its own feet.
The summer girl now begins to sit up
and notice things.
Even the man who has little may be
satisfied with his lot.
The fellow with a hot temper should re-
ceive cool trea tment-
The counterfeiter may succeed even
when he doesn't make good.
The chronic borrower is a match for
any one who has money to burn.
The fellows who are all wind are sell
dom those who come to blows.
The man who can't stand prosperity
sooner or later takes a tumble to him
self.
It isn't because the dentist is despon-
dent that he always looks down in the
mouth.
The man who is the victim of schemers
is generally the one who does as he would
be done by.
One might think that the vice presidency
IS a second cousin to the tin can tied to a
dogs tail
The cynical bachelor observes that the
best husbands, like the biggest fish, are
those that get away.
Guzzler.-,-My wife says she has no fault
to find with me-" Wigwag-'She has al
ready found them all, I suppose"
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NO YELLOW PERIL.
Subject of Discussion Before National
Editorial Association.

St. Louis. May 1S.-Addressing the
national convention of the National
EDITORIAL association today on respon-
sibilities in the Orient, Prof f. Fenal-
loza OF Mobile, Ala, formerly professor
in the Toxic university, declared that
the present war did not me:%l the ex-
terminal ons Of Russian civilization nor
OF japanese civilization, no matter
which nation was victorious.
There Is no yellow peril, " he said
all talk along such lines is without
foundation This war is the culmina-
ton of conditions and was bound to
come II is just a step nearer to the
ultimate merging of eastern and west
ern civilization
John Eel guson. of Ceylon, was then
introduced as the oldest newspaper
man in Asia, and the oldest member
OF the national editorial assOcia ton.
he was born in Ireland, and for 43
years has conducted a newspaper in
Ceylo7. He made a brief address Chas
M Skinner, state superintendent of
public instruction, New York, spoke on
responsibilities of the press in the edu-
cation of citizenship.
State Senator n. S. Earl. state high
way commissioner of Michigan explain
ed the value of good roads and tried
to impress upon the convention the i'm
portance of agitating the subject in
the press.
A resolution urging more strict en-
forcement of the postal laws to ex-
clude publications characterized as
merely advertising hand bills was
adopted unanimously
A committee on postal regulations
was appointed including j. G. Baum
gartner of California.
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WILL TEST THE LAW.
Where Shall Employees of State Insti-
tutions Vote?

A mandamus action was this after
noon filed in the supreme court which
Will decide the old question of the
residence of public employees. con-
corning which a law was passed by
the last legislature This suit IS
brought to ind out what the law
means.
The action is filed by W. S. jerks.
of Ottawa, who as attorney for Dr. L.
L. Uhls superintendent of the Osa-
watomie asylum, asks for an alterna-
tive writ of mandamus to compel J.
w. Allard city clerk of OsawatOmie.
to register DIR. Uh1s as a voter in the
First ward of Osawatomie-
Under the law passed last winter
the city clerk refuses to let Dr. Uhls
register.
This law provides that for the purpose
of voting. no person who is in the employ
ment of this state or any municipal sub
division thereof, in any civil capacity.
shall be deemed to have gained or lost a
residence by reason OF such employment,
but all such officers or employees shall be
considered as residents OF the place from
whence they were elected or appointed. -
Dr. Uhls makes affidavit that he was
appointed superintendent Of the Osawa-
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CHARGE OF HERESY.
Theological Schools Accused OF Dis
senlinating Dangerous Doctrines.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 18-The ever
recurring charge of heresy is again ag-
itating the delegates to the general
conference of the Methodist church.
It's latest appearance is in the com
mlttee on education, where it has pro
Voked the most acrimonious discussion
that has yet occurred between dele
gates OF the present gathering The
outbreak came as a result of the report
of a subcommittee on the subject of
the memorials received by the confer
ence relating to the alleged dangerous
doctrines that are being disseminated
by some of the theological schools of
the church. DR.. L. W. Munhall, of
Philadelphia, led the supporters of the
charges of heresy. He was combatted
by DR.. Charles J. Little president of
the Garrett Biblical Institute, and Prof
Milton s. Terry, of the same institu-
ton. The fight waxed warm and much
feeling was manifested by both sides
IN the discussion. After hours of heat
ed debate, in which strong charges were
made against the accused institutions
and as vigorously denied on the other
hand. the matter was finally referred
back to the subcommittee for more
extended report.
Its appearance within a day or two
will be the signal for forensic fray that
Will likely be carried to the floor of the
general conference and there fought to
a final conclusion
In addition to the election of new
bishops by the conference one of whom
may be colored, it is also proposed to
elect a colored associate for Bishop
Monrovia, Liberia, is being urged by
the missionary officers for the position,
and II the office is created it is likely
that ne viii be chosen to fill it.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Charles Adams, died at Tecumseh
this morning, aged g. years He was a
veteran of the civil war. He leaves one
daughter Mrs. S. Raster The funeral
win be held at the residence in Tecum-
sch at IL a. m. Thursday, and will be
Conducted by Elder whitehead of To-
peka.
The funeral of Henry Rehkopf, who
died Tuesday night at the home of his
parents at 62S Van Buren, street, was
held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
at 62S Van Buren, streets
Rev. c. W. Soaring, who was strick-
en- with paralysis Tuesday afternoon,
died this morning at his home in Au-
brrndale. He was so years of age The
funeral announcement viii be made Ia
fer For many years Rev. Mr.. Soaring
has been pastor of the Spiritualist
church and has held meetings in the
G. A. r. hall at Sixth and Quincy
streets
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dence rang few evenings ago and a
young woman who was expecting a call.
rushed to answer it, being sure that one
of her admirers had called her up.
Is this --?'' demanded voice, repeat
ing the number of the phone in ques-
ton
Yes, replied the girl
Well continued the voice, I'VE are
testing the wire. VIII you please draw a
long breath and say, very plainly, I will
be good?' -
She obeyed. Il will be good she said.
a little slower, and a little more dis
-wilI--be!-goo said the young wo-
man, trying her best.
NO, that's not right at ALL corrected
the voice We must fix that wire. l
guess Now. make one extra effort and
say it again"
The. girl caught her breath. Il will be
good!' she shouted.
.., You will. will your laughed the voice.
Well, I'm glad to hear you say so. You
were. decidedly unpleasant the last time
I called.
And Just then the man at the other end
of the wire rang off"
Now the young woman is trying to dis
cover just which of her admirers played
such a detestable joke on her.-PhiIadel-
phia Press.
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LOCAL MENTION.

Governor Bailey returned this after
noon from st. Louis.
The S. S. club will meet with Mrs.
Robertson on West Sixth avenue Fri
day afternoon at 2:30.
Catharina Swihart filed suit today
against Jonathan Swihart for divorce
on the ground of abandonment.
Mayor Bergundthal this morning au-
thorized the purchase of a new $50
horse for the patrol wagon.
A. W. Lacey, the North Topeka drug
gist. has rented the north half of Nor
rison's store next to the National hotel
and will move his drug store to that
location about June 1.
Will Kenneday who used to be in the
drug business in Topeka two years ago,
has opened up drug store at 929 Kan
saS avenue.
A great many laboring men seem to
employment agency has dozens of ap-
plicationS for jobs from able bodied
men, who are willing to do any kind of
work. Some of these men have come
from the east to get places here. There
seems to be-small demand for labor just
now.
Dr. T M Hamme of Cottonwood
is the nominee of the Republicans for
state senator in the Twenty fifth dis
trict.
Geo. E. Dougherty was called to
Glen Elder last night by the critical
condition of his father, H. NJ Dough-
erty, who several days ago sustained
serious injuries in the fall of scaffold-
ing on which he was working.
The Abilene Reflector says: DR.. Chas.
B. Buck has moved here from Topeka
to take charge Of DR.. A. A. Sheliey's
practice.
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BE. NoIan,s I1nnbassx.

Mr.. Nolan had acquired a great rep
utation for tact, so that when Mr..
Cassidy fell from a ladder and broke
his leg it was quickly decided by all
the workmen that Mr.. Nolan should
bear the tidings to Mrs. Cassidy.
He broke the news gradual" said
Mr.. Leahy to his wife that night, land
by the time she learned the thruth,
she was as ca m as a clock, they say.
Oh, he's the great man, is Jimmy
NoIanI"
How did he do it?" asked Mrs.
Leahy impatiently.
Like this" said Mr. Nolan's ad-
mirer HE whit to the house and
rang the bell, and he says, Thin Din
mis- is not dead. Mrs. Cassidy, or you d
nivir be SO gay lookin'.
Dead she screeches. Who said
he was dead p
Thin it's not thrue he's near to
dyin' wild the smallpox, either said
Jimmy or you'd nfvir be lookin so
amazed
Smallpox she cries. Has he got
the smallpox, Jimmy Nolan, and been
TUX to the hospital widout me sayin'
good-by to him 2
Sure an he has not said Jimmy
Nolan in a comfortin' tone. It's only
that he's broken a few bones in his
leg, fallin' from a ladder, and I'm sint
ahead wild the news
It's you that's a thrue friend, an
you've lifted a big load from me
heart said Mrs. Cassidy, and she gave
him warm shake of his hand and
whit back to her washin'. Youth S
Companion.
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oNI.Y 500 DIFFERENCE.
Topeka Paving Contractors Have
Same Amount of Work.

There was only $500 difference in
the value of the paving contracts Sc
cured last Monday night by John
Ritchie and the firm of Haskins &
Ramsey Ritchie's total is S9,745.S6,
and Ramsey's is S9,261-29-
On the East Eighth job Ramsey got
considerably the best of it. His con-
tract for the east four and a half
blocks. from Lake street to the city
limits amounts to S6.673.45, while
Ritchie's total for his portion is only
$5,95O.10.
on grading J. H. MaxweIls con
tracts amount to $2,779.65. while
those secured by Samuel Dolman foot
up $4,000.
John Ritchie's contracts for roll
ing the foundation amounts to
$33O.06.
NJ. W. Gilmore will get S3,394.16
for his curbing job on East Eighth.
The curbing contracts secured by
KepIey & Webster amount to ST.
102.4O, while John Ritchie's little
contract for curbing Huntoon street
will bring him S293.36.
The contract for furnishing and
laying sewer pipe on East Eighth
amounts to S2.47s.21, and was Sc
cured by NJ. w. Gilmore. Gilmore
will also furnish % catch basins at
a cost of $3S5.25, and "A sets of cross
ing plates at an aggregate of 1921.
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Even the New York World appears
to have abandoned hope of success in
connection with the Parker movement.
Under the caption Asking for a sign"
The World says:
This persistent talk of a dark horse
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton for president which comes out of
the west can be traced largely to the
fatuousness and fOOHshness of David
3. Hill in attaching Judge Parker S
political fortunes to the Belmont
Woodward Wall street interests.
Mr.. Hill seems to have deluded him
self into believing that western Dem
ocrats were so DESTROYS OF seeing the
party dragged from the slough of Pop
ulism that they would be indifferent to
the men or methods by which the work
was done. AS usual, Mr.. Hill blunder-
ed. The Democrats of the west have
even less regard for 1.-The Populsts OF
Wall street. than for the Populists of
the prairies If the party must be
turned over to either, they prefer the
former, and The World cannot blame
them.
Mr.. Hill. by his too great cunning
and his too little care. mas subjected
the candidacy of Judge Parker 10 a
tremendous load under which it is still
staggering. Once the Democrats or
south and west become supicious that
the party is again being exploited in
the interests of Wall street, 1t Will be
a waste of breath to plead for the
nomination of Judge Parker or any
body else from the east
It is time that Mr.. Hill remedied
such of his plumbers as are remediable,
and gave the Democrats OF the coun-
try some assurance that Judge Par
ISer's candidacy is not being used as a
mask by the same old syndicators that
did so much to discredit MI Cleve-
lands second administration.
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and live happily ever after securing a
divorce
A cat viii not look at a king If there
is mouse in sight.
Tt is a woman's fondness for change
that prevents many a husband from
leaving any in his pocket.
Ambition is a pipe dream preceded by
a horrible nightmare and followed by a
rude awakening when the pipe goes
out.
Even the wise man who thinks he
knows it all doesn't know why the
strenuous old hen lays an egg instead
of standing it on end.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

FROM the ALCn1SOn NTlODe.l
How often the people applaud when
you do not approve!
Sleep more the night before, and quit
yawning at lectures.
No man enjoys a surprise party after
passing his twelfth birthday.
You never can tell how many darkies
live in a house until it is on fire.
If a boy has five or six sisters, he is
lucky if he escapes being a sissy boy.
A man who has a lot of money, and
no sense, is usually a very severe critic.
There are circumstances under which
the boldest bull dog will look sheepish.
We know good joke on Drake Wat
son: he will be fifty years old tomor-
row.
They nearly always say of a married
woman, "She is So jealous of her hus-
band!'
An amateur never begins to hear the
real facts about the show until a month
after it is over.
An Atchison woman has been mar
ried three times. It seems to US that
this is piggish.
Some people claim a lot of credit be-
cause they do not "tell'' the victim of
a surprise party.
How hard it is to make a living sell
ing books. And how easy it is to make
a living selling whisky.
If you will take care of yourself,
young man, it is possible to have fun
without getting drunk.
There is one comfort in old age: the
older you are, the more roses there are
in your birthday bouquet.
After a woman has taken singing les
sons, she may not be much of a singer
but she is a great critic.
After children come, a mother doesn't
go to bed to sleep, but to be near them
when they cry in the night.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago NeWs.l
Today's worry is the result of yester-
days neglect.
Solid business men aren't necessarily
hard characters.
No, Cordelia, a wax figure isn't a
gum chewing female.
Some women sweeten their tea with
gossip instead of sugar.
There should be a law to prohibit
people from impersonating actors on
the stage.
Many man and woman are married