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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
FOR A REAL SHOW GROUND.
One Will Be Provided on the Fair
Grounds.

improvements are to be made at the
fair grounds that will provide a circus
lot for all SHOWS that come in the fu-
ture Rarnum & Bailey will inaug-
urate the new circus lot Wednesday,
September 21.
M. A. Low, president and c. H. Sam
son. secretary of the Topeka Fair as
ISOLATION, and General Manager Pat
ten and Treasurer Kelly, of the City
grounds Tuesday afternoon and plan
ned many improvements. The principal
feature for the accommodation of the
public is that a new entrance to the
grounds for pedestrians only, will be
made at Eighteenth and Topeka ave-
nue., a block nearer the grand stand
and race track and the center of the
grounds than the present Seventeenth
street entrance. The old Seventeenth
street entrance will hereafter be used
for vehicles only. The city railway will
car tracks at the Eighteenth street en-
trance. A wide walk direct from the
new entrance to the grand stand will
be constructed and people going to the
fair grounds on foot will not be bother
ed by vehicles either at the entrance
or the walk to the grand stand.
There will be a ticket office at the Sew
enteenth street and another at the
Eighteenth street entrance.
The low part of the fair grounds, on
the east side from Seventeenth to Nine
teenth street will be used for the show
lot and a system of tile drains to keep
the ground dry will be put in at once.
superintendent POttenger of the fair
grounds has been instructed to start
the work OF making the improvements
at once. fti
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03

Col. Merlin Jackson, of Indianola,
Miss, stopped over between trains at
the Hotel Pfister recently and told
an amusing incident, which shows
how the race question is regarded in
the south, 1t was at Indianola that
a negro postmistress resigned because
of the opposition of the whites, and
the president and postmaster general
declined to appoint any one in her
place. st was one of the committee
from our section to wait upon our
congressman and the administration
officers at Washington in regard to
the matter" said Colonel Jackson.
He spoke with the soft southern &C
cent 81 conferred with many of the
officers and finally I got to talk with
Secretary Cortelyou- I presented our
case to him plainly and emphatically
and Mr.. Cortelyou listened attentively
and respectfully. Finally he said:
You gentlemen do not know with
whom you are dealing in this matter
The president is one of the most de-
termined men ever born and his mind
is made up. He will stay with you
until hell freezes over
81 said to Mr.. Cortelyou: You
please tell the president for me that
as regards determination we have
schools of determination in Mississippi
and we have them in every block in
Indianola. And you tell the presi-
dent for me that if he persists to
the end he will have to give up at last
because the niggers won't last-there
will not be any left in the state. And
if he stays with US till hell freezes
the ice is thick enough We will put
on skates and skate all through
eternity with him, sab milwaukee,
Wisconsin,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l


When a man carries his gloves, it is a
greater offense than wearing them
We would all raise the devil more If we
could induce others to do the work.
Ever remark that the medicine that
seems to cure other people, does you no
goodi
Do you like to talk up to people, even
when you are in the right! Or, do you
dread it!
A farmer likes to think that wheat is
all right in his neighborhood, and no &C
count anywhere else
What has become of the old fashioned
husband who gave satisfaction If he were
a good proyider?"
A good many people in this town ought
to jump in the river; but it is difficult to
induce them to do 1t.
An Atchison man has made a great fall
ure in life. So has his wife, but failure
is not noticeable in a woman.
1t is said of an Atehison man that he
has fallen into such habit of picking
his teeth that he picks them after kissing
girl.
The men stand going to church pretty
well until the tall stranger gets up and
begins to talk about raising more money
for the foreign missions.
things up that her husband expects to
come home some night and find the chill
dren in pickles and preserves.
This is the season when women place
the picturesque railroad folders where
months later they will be scattering col
lege catalogs in front of the Old Man.
An AtchiSon woman secured a divorce
from her husband last week. Yesterday
mourning. why do. you wear mourn
ing?" a reporter asked her. For my hus-
band" she replied Besides, black is be-
other man. have as much right to wear
black other widows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
TO SETTLE STRIKE.
Western Stockmen Will Take Up the
Subject at Denver.

Denver, Colo. Aug. 3.-Western
stockmen to about the number of
sixty met in the Quincy building at
10 o'clock today to confer with the
federal land commission to formulate
some general plan for the settlement
of the grazing land question. 1t is
expected the conference will also take
some means to bring about an end to
the packing house strike, either by
the appointment of a committee to
intercede between the unions and
packers, offering its services as a
board of arbitration, or by adopting
n strong resolution asking President
Roosevelt to intervene as he did in
the Pennsylvania strike.
The conference was called to order
today by F. J. Hagerbarth, of Utah.
The first session was taken up in
reading the call and looking over the
credentials of the delegates. A num-
Der of letters and kilograms were
read and the conference took a recess
to o'clock this afternoon, when it
will reassemble in the ordinary of the
Brown Palace hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
JAYHAwKER JOTs.

Topeka is full of bourbon Democrats;
there are also several who take rye.
The Topeka Automobile club is push
ing the good roads convention along.
Henry Aliens Parsons Sun shines for
ell but would it If in Bowersock's dis
trict?
The pioneer nag of Jewell county has
passed away at the ripe old age of AZ
years.
The Wilson county man who knows
everything says it's high time to plant
turnip seed
His alfalfa crop is turning out so
we'll that Mr.. Sixbits of Graham coun-
ty feels like 75 cents.
Speaking of strikes a Mankato fam
lily has clock that has been at that
sort of business for 200 years.
If the Hill City girls can raise enough
money to start the ball rolling they will
organize a basket ball team.
Hoxie is to nave a three days base
ball tournament at which time every
thing I'm town will be on the fly.
The Hill City postmaster can't go to
the mountains for a vacation but ne
Will sort of even UP matters by OPEN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
sCHAEFER's CHALLENGE.
Has Been Greatly Modified Since Is
sued at Paris.

New York, Aug. 3.--Jacob Schaefer'S
challenge for a billiard match has been
greatly modified since 1t was first given
out by him in Paris Friday, on the eve
of his sailing for America.
AS now stated, Schaefer will make
match to take place either in Paris or
New York next December and will toss
for the choice of cushions. The original
challege provided that the first game
should be on a new cushion, for attach
ing his name to which Schaefer is paid
a salary, and the winner should select
the cushion for the second.
The difference in wording the chal-
lenge is very material since Schaefer
has been using the new cushion nearly
a year, while all other leading players
who might accept have been playing orr
another cushion. The inventor of the
new cushion says he will provide equip
ment for practice of any player accent
ing Schaefer's challenge, but accept
ances are extremely doubtful, according
to the statements made by Slosson
DAILY and others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
DON'T WANT FUSION.
Populists Hear From the National
Headquarters.

At the anti-fusion caucus this after
noon the following telegram was re-
ceived from the national committee
headquarters at Joliet, ILL.,:
Joliet, ILL.,, Aug. 3.
]. A. Wright:
Fusion in Kansas will take the life out
of our campaign: draw the line between
Populism and the debauched Democracy.
JOE A PARKER.
Joe A. Parker is a member of the ma
tional convention.
Delegate Brown arose and challenged
the telegram. II believe it is fraud.
have heard of such things being sprung
on conventions before. L don't know this
Joe A. Parker. 1 never heard of him.
The telegram created quite a large
sized ensation in the caucus, and it
was used by the anti-fusionists with
good effect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
HIS LEG CRUSHED OFF.
t. e. Handy, Conductor on City Rail-
way FrightfuIIy Injured.

t. E. Handy, of 18th and Tyler
streets, conductor in the employ of
the Topeka City railway, had his right
leg crushed between two street cars
at 18th and Kansas avenue at O'Clock
this morning. He was taken to Christ
hospital where the leg was amputated
above the knee by DIR. j. G. Mulvane.
The street cars are left to stand on
the tracks in the street at night until
the new car barns are completed, and
the accident occurred this morning
when Motorneer E. C. Clearinghouse and
Conductor Handy We're starting to take
their car out for the days work. The
track is on a grade at that point and
Handy had just turned his trolley
when he called out 'all right" to go
ahead. The mortorneer released his
brakes butsdid not start the car so that
it ran backward, the track being on
a down hill grade. Conductor Handy
was caught between the moving car
and the one next it which was stand
ing still.
Handy is a gritty fellow. He had an
accident in which he had nearly all
the flesh torn from his arm in a ma
chine number of years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
THEY LIKE "a FAMILY AFFAIR"
Theater at Vinewood Park Is Proving
Popular.

"A Family Affair." this weeks bill
at the Vinewood Park theater, is con-
tinuing to attract large crowds to the
park theater. The public is discovering
the fact that the open air theater at
the park is a pretty comfortable place
to go to spend an evening. A breeze is
always stirring and the entertainment
good. The Lorraine Buchanan stock
company has some very clever people
in the cast and the plays which have
been presented here have been well
liked. This weeks bill has been best
liked of all.
Dolly Jarvis, late of the stock COM
pany which was playing at Elitch's
gardens at Denver, has been doing a
Sis Hopkins speciality this week and she
is declared a great hit. Bert Granville
is doing a black face monologue and
Lotus Flower and Dorothy Benton are
singing the duet "Bashful Jane"
Friday night the weekly amateur con-
test for prizes will take place again.
Last Friday night there were more ap-
plicants to enter the contest than there
was time for them all to appear. These
amateur contests are proving popular
with the patrons of the park theater.
Next week Jack Forester also of the
Denver garden stock company, will be
in the cast of players.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
GO TO EUREKA LAKE,
Butchers and Grocers Decide on Place
for Their Picnic.

will be held at Eureka Lake on We'd
nesday, August "a. A fare of one
dollar for the round trip has been OBJ
tanned. The train will leave in the
morning about z o'clock and return
late at night. The Eureka Lake man
agement has contributed $500 to the
big event.
Marshalls band will be engaged by
the butchers and grocers. Special ar
rangements will be made with the
hotel at the picnic grounds to provide
dinners for those who wish them.
Tickets for meals will be sold here
before the train leaves.
The committee having the affair in
charge promise some original meth DDS
of entertainment for those who go.
The programme will be out within a
few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03

operators and station agents on the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas railroad
system are out, only six men of the
whole force having remained at work.
Not one of this number, it was also
said, has returned to work.
Reports from South McAlester, I. r, az
to the situation say there is no change.
The operators there are, remaining firm
and say they will win the victory. The
katy is running trains on nearly sched-
ule time out of there and the officials
say they have enough operators tc nil
the important positions, and that trains
will be running regularly in day or so.
A dispatch from Emporia, Kan, says:
The strike of the union operators on the
Katy system is about over as far as the
Neosho river branch of the road is con-
cerned. Charles Stevenson, the agent
here, said nearly every agent along the
division was at work this afternoon. tele-
graphing and selling tickets and trains
ran usual"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

The funeral services over the body OF
Walter T. Noble will be held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ. Noble,
915 Harrison street at o'clock Thurs
day afternoon. The services will be
conducted by Rev. S. w. Naylor, pastor
of the First Methodist church, assisted
by the Rev. DR.. Boyle of the First
Methodist church of Atchison. Friends
desiring to see the deceased will please
call at the house between $3.50 O'CLOCK
and noon on Thursday. The raIl-
bearers are as follows: c. B. Merriam.
P. T. Hammett, E. s. Quinton, w. ].
Black, H. T. Ashby, J. F. FARRELL. Ar
thur Capper, George Crawford, H. L.
Armstrong Harold i. Chase e ID.
Osborn, DR.. w. n. West.
Alice Wade, aged Is years. died at the
tuberculosis this morning. The funeral
will take place on Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock in Rochester cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
CLICK FOR CHAIRMAN.
Former Governor Takes Gavel in
Democratic Convention.

Ex-Governor George w. Click of
Atchison is permanent chairman of the
Democratic convention. This was rec
commended by the committee on per-
manent organization when the conven-
ton was called to order at 2:45 this af
ternoon. The announcement was re-
ceiVed with cheers, which grew louder
as 1.-THE grand old man of Kansas De-
mocracy' was escorted to the platform.
The other permanent officers of the
convention are as follows.
Vice chairman-W. w. Rose of Wy
andotte.
Secretary-Colonel Charles McCrum
of Anderson.
Assistant secretaries-B. F. Hide
brand of Brown, J. A. F'lack of Dickin-
son and E. E. Murphy of Leavenworth.
Governor Click made a brief speech
in taking the gavel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

IFfOm the OhICdBO NeWS.J
When a poor girl is said to be pretty
she is positively handsome.
A lot of men are unable to prove that
the world owes them a living.
Those people who come early to avoid
the rush form the nucleus of the crowd
Consistency may be a jewel, but you
can't soak it with the three-ball mer-
chant.
When a man can do almost anything
except make living he is dubbed gen.
ius.
The sweetness of loves young dream Of
ten depends upon the amount of taffy
there is in it.
1t sometimes happens that a widow
marrieS old bachelor because she has
a grudge against him.
1t is the limit of impertinence for a man
to take shelter in an umbrella store dur
ing a thunder shower.
A medical student says he has often
heard OF the trombone. but he can't find
any reference to it in the medical books.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03

sign the blanks stating that the liquor
purposes.
Keith and Moss continued the drug
store during all of July without any per-
nit to sell liquor. The permit issued to
Mr.. Gish could be used by him alone and
expired with his death. During July
Keith and Moss made 342 separate sales
and reported them to the probate court.
Keith and Moss went through the re-
quirements of making the 342 sales legally
If they had held a permit, but they did
not, and under the law they are liable
count. Prosecution can not be started
in the probate court, as Keith and Moss
did not hold any permit and therefore
are not within the Jurisdiction of the pro-
bate court. There is no permit for the
probate court to revoke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT.

The annual crop scare in Kansas
has come, run it's course and gone,
and as usual the state will turn out
a big surplus of staple cereals. These
rights about crops have appeared
every year since the drouth of 1860.
When the Kansas wheat condition
has been good beyond dispute, a
shortage in the other wheat states
has been reported. When Kansas
corn has passed the possibility of
damage the people have heard that
the crop was almost or quite ruined
in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. The
stories of probable crop failure in
Kansas always find persons ready to
believe them, regardless of the fact
that there has been nothing ap-
preaching a shortage since 1874.
Wall street, which always keeps an
eye out for such things, takes a most
hopeful view of the situation, as
Henry Clews & Co.'S Financial Re-
view:
Another week OF excellent growing
weather has been experienced. in
creasing the promise for cotton, corn.
wheat, oats, hay, potatoes and other
crops, and diminishing the chances
of injury. Only one more month re-
mains in which damage can be done.
Drouth is now the single serious pos
sibiIity; and it must be admitted there
is little danger in that respect because
the soil has been so we'll saturated by
general rains and the plants have
made such strong growth that they
are in a good condition to stand a
lack of moisture, should that hap
pen. Absence of rain in August, the
ripening month, is much less serious
than in the previous or growing
months. AS for frost, the danger from
that source is less than usual, since
most of the crops, especially cotton,
are early. Complaints of chinch bugs
and other injuries are unusually rare;
while the rapacious boil weevil. which
caused such loss of cotton last year,
and which may be counted on for
some damage this year, is exciting
much less concern than a year ago.
In short, it is many years since the
crop outlook was so favorable, and
while after such a long period of I'M
interrupted progress some setback
may be expected, still the assurances
of today are as much in favor of both
liberal and profitable crops to the
farmers as could be expected.
This is the key to the situation,
and as this fact becomes more evil
dent the confidence which it begets
must become more pronounced. The
farmer, the merchant, the railroad
manager, the manufacturer and the
banker each in turn is Influenced by
such considerations. Their first effect
is a more hopeful sentiment. This
sentiment soon expresses itself in
action; then deferred enterprises are
taken up, orders are placed and the
whole machinery of commerce and
industry is set in motion. At the same
time there is absolutely nothing in
the situation to warrant extravaganza
hopes. We can boast of nothing more
than a reasonable recovery from re-
cent depression, based chiefly on good
crops. Pessimism has had it's day,
and the business public needs to get
itself into a more hopeful and better
balanced state of mind than that in
which il began 1904"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
FUND FOR A BAND STAND.
Employees in Central National Bank
s Subscribe.

The clerks in the various offices in the
Central National Bank building today
started a subscription paper to raise a
fund to build a bandstand for Marshalls
band.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO TINS Iund may De sent
band will give free concerts in Topeka
provided a suitable bandstand is given
them for that purpose. The sum OF 81
was raised before o'clock today.
The following is the subscription paper:
Editor State Journal:
Observing that MarshalIs band will
furnish music If the citizens of Topeka
will furnish a suitable bandstand. We the
undersigned, subscribe the amount oppo-
site our name to be applied to a fund for
that purpose, placing the money in your
han
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
RAN INTO TROUBLE.
Druggists Sold Liquor Without Having
n Permit.

Frank Keith and A. G. Moss are threat
ened with twenty-eight years in jail and
fines amounting to 1920 for violating the
prohibitory law on 342 counts. They MAJ
have to settle the serving of the jail SEN
fences and the payment of the fine be-
tween them if they are prosecuted.
Keith and Moss have filed the testimony
against themselves in the probate court
and it is there to be used against them
if they are prosecuted. 1t is a peculiar
ca Sc and perhaps Keith and Moss did not
intend to violate any law, but they did.
drug store on East Fourth street, died
He held a permit to sell liquor. After his
death Keith and Moss ran the drug store
and they sold liquor and had customers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03

The end of the first half of the cur
rent year affords opportunity for COM
pairing commercial operations in domes-
tic trade with those of 1903 Reports
made to the department of commerce
and labor through it's bureau of statis-
tics by commercial organization in va
rious parts of the country furnish data
of value in gauging the volume of bust
ness in representative sections and CEN
tiers of the country. The end of the
half year shows that to June 80 receipts
at IL primary grain markets were con-
siderably below those of last season
The total receipts of grain during June
were six million bushels below those OF
June, 1903, when 49. 5O4. 166 bushels were
reported. compared with 40 So. 81 BUSH
els this June. For six months this year
receipts were PCS. 1853. ISL bushels and 2S3, =
S46. 361 bushels last year, showing
shortage of about per cent. The mar
kets which have thus far in the year
increased their receipts over those of
the first half of 1902 are Cincinnati,
Kansas City, Louisville, and Minneap-
oils. Chicago and the four great mar
kets on the Missouri closed the first
half of the year with 16.655.s SOS head of
live stock received since January L Last
years corresponding total was 1922. Gel
head, against All head in 1902 of
this years total 7.923.S47 head were
credited to Chicago, comprising 4S per
cent; Kansas City received 2.507, f59
head. or Is per cent; Omaha. 2.517, GIG
head, or Is per cent; St. Louis, z, 1874, 8S4
head, or IS per cent, and St. Joseph, L.
s12, SIS head, or per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03

Minneapolis Journal: Speaking of the
cost of living. it has been observed that
the bottom of the berrybox is getting
higher every year. If there ever was
cheap swindle on the American house
holder. it is the architecture of the lit
tie Eastwood boxes in which strawber-
rtes, raspberries, cherries and blue
berries are displayed for sale. They
stand so tempting, their elevation hold
ing bright promise of an honest quart
or an honest pint, and giving no hint
or suggestion of the outrageous false
bottom which cuts off a full third of
their capacity. OF course we all know
better. The dealer who sells US berries
does not dare to sell them by the pint
or quart. To this extent the law pro-
tects us The dealer will sell by the
box. but not by any kind of measure.
dry or liquid. When we buy berries we
know very well that the bottom of
quart box is only two inches from the
top. and that the box would hold at
least half as much upside down as it
does when mendaciously upright So
why this standing object-lesson in de-
ceptiOn?