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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
.rHE aEx-MAcHINE.n

Frank Grimes, who recently retired
from politics, to pursue as he declared
an untrammeled career in business cir
cles, has been made a sort of assistant
manager to Mr.. Stubs in the Hoch
campaign His title is committeeman
at-large. There are not many positions
in the Hoch campaign that Senator
Burton has overlooked for any of his
political associates and in the rank and
file are battalions of his cohorts.
Most of Mr.. Hochs managers. like
himself, are of a retiring or retired dis
position. Among those that are being
recalled from their late retirement and
were present at the recent resurrection
to act as reception committee for
votes and funds may be mentioned: B.
H. Tracey, ex-candidate for attorney for
the United States; William Higgins, ex-
secretary of state; A. w. Smith, ex-
nominee for governor; Richard w. Blue,
ex-congressman, beaten by Bailey, and
ex-candidate for the pension bureau;
F. B. Dawes, ex-attorney general;
w. r. Stubs, ex-member of the ways
and means committee of the late Ia
mented legislature; T. Benton Murdoch.
ex-candidate for member state board of
charities; Frank z. Grimes, ex-man who
| =
Davies ex-Republican-Popu Will
liam Martindale, ex-vice president ex-
First National bank, Emporia; H. E
Richter, ex-lieutenant governor; H. B.
Miller, ex-candidate for governor; John
Dudley, ex-state house custodian and
ex- Shawnee machine; D. w. Mulvane.
ex-machine politician; H. NJ. Philips,
ex-treasurer and ex-candidate county
commissioner; Nat Barnes. ex-mayor
Kansas City; C. Ridgeway, ex-deputy
insurance commissioner; ]. N. Dolley,
ex-member late Legislature; J. w. John
son. ex-live stock board; S. S. Benedict.
ex-senator; ex-Pete Foley, Cmistake;
Foley lost out. Where was Foley?)
Let our motto be Elk" we sing,
simply to this X we cling The ma
jority are with US, why-because there
are more out of Office than in. All who
are disappointed with the present state
administration, or disposition, of the
offices at its disposal are invited, as the
call says, to come forward and con-
tribute to the Hoch fund and the New
Jerusalem exhibit of exes.
We will yet walk the golden streets
and in the language of our senator at
Washington in his recent address to the
school marms. I'VE must purify poll
tics, down with all machines but our
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
WIFE HELD HIM FOR POLICE
Paterson Woman Charges Her Hus-
band With BigamY.

Paterson. Jan. 15.-Jesse P. Barnes,
an electrician. is under arrest here on
a charge of bigamy. Barnes was ar
rested in the home of Sarah E. Tenn
pleton, in No. II Graham avenue, who
is alleged to be his second wife.
He had come from New York to visit
her, ignorant of the fact that his al
legged duplicity had been discovered.
Barnes was detained in the house I'M
til the police could be called Barnes
married Miss Temoleton in May, 1902.
A child was born to them and they
lived happily until about six months
ago, when he left home one morning
saying he was going to New York for
work. This was the last Miss Tam
pleton saw of him until last night. but
in the meantime she learned that
Barnes was apparently a married man
before he began to pay court to her.
Through friends she learned that
Barnes had visited Middletown about
a month ago with a young woman from
New York. whom he introduced as his
wife. Miss Temoleton went to Middle
town Immediately to run down her hus-
band. There, her story was, she learned
from Sarah Stach Barnes that she had
been married to the electrician in 1892.
when he was IS years old, and that two
children were born to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
HALLS CLOSED.
Seventeen Shut Up by Order of
Chicago Commissioner

Chicago, Jan. 15.-Seventeen halls
were closed today by order of City
Building Commissioner Williams. Non
compliance with city ordinances was
the reason assigned.
Commissioner williams said: 1.-THE
building ordinance is to be enforced to
the last letter. I believe that it will be
necessary to practically close up all
Chicago to enforce the law, but never
theless we are going to do it. Factories,
schools, churches and business establish
ments will all come under the ban if the
ordinances are insisted upon. Mayor
Harrison has known as well as I and
told the council so. But the law is now
being enforced as fast as inspectors can
discover violations and such will be the
rule from this time on"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

This is going a bushel every four and
half minutes.
A Manhattan laundryman has fed the
town with his pretty bookkeeper. The
suit his wife will bring will be hard for
him to iron out
A fortnight ago a Newton man lost
this week in the manger. The horses
had kept hands off.
A sick man was found in chicken
house near Holton who had been there
four days without food. He was too
weak to reach the roosts.
Right in the dawn OF leap year an
Enterprise young lady has left for
lengthy service in the school department
of the Zuni Indians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

The stock breeders of the country
have grown tired waiting for the courts
to accomplish anything in the direction
of breaking up the meat trust and have
decided to adopt a more expeditions
method, that of establishing independ-
ent packing houses and stock yards.
The trusts that have collapsed have
done so as the result of competition
or over capitalization and not as the
result of interference by the legal ma
@ ninprV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
THEY WORE APRONS.
Washburn Juniors Have Fun With
the Seniors.

This morning the Junior class at Wash
burn appeared in chapel arrayed in long
calico aprons and dust caps. Boys, as
well as girls, wore this striking costume
and their appearance, about 40 strong,
almost created a panic.
Their action was intended as a take
off on the senior class which commenced
wearing it's new caps and gowns at chapel
Thursday. The juniors will probably not
continue to parade around the campus
with calico aprons on, however. in which
respect they seem to have the advantage
of the seniors. who have to wear their
dresses until next June.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
He BREEDS WHEAT.
Prof. Hays, Who Originates
New Varieties, Is Here.

Prof. willet NJ. Hays. of the Mime
sofa Agricultural college, is in Topeka
today and will lecture before the state
board of agriculture tonight. Tomor-
row he will go to Manhattan to make
an address before the students at the
Kansas Agricultural college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

Mr. H. G. Burt late president of the
Union Pacific railroad. who it was re-
ported retired from office for the pur-
pose of taking a long rest" is said to
have been chosen to the presidency of
the Chicago & Northwestern. Does this
mean that the Northwestern has no
business?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
COLD WAVE COMING.
1t VIII Arrive Some Time
Saturday.

At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon Wealth
er Observer T. 3. Jennings received a
notification from the Chicago station
that a cold wave will reach Kansas
some time during the next Sc hours.
The message says: "A cold wave is
coming and the tempera ture will fall
as low as 10 degrees above zero by or
during Saturday night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

The house il committee of the whole
eliminated from the appropriation bill
the item covering the expenses of the
civil service commission. The civil ser
vice system has been a source of an
noyance to the politicians for many
years and they must have grown des-
perate indeed. if they are willing to
thus fly in the face of public senti-
mont
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

Indiana is reported to be for Hanna.
Possibly the Hoosiers do not take the
papers and therefore have not read
that the Ohio senator is not land never
will be candidate for the presidency"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

Uniform graft laws. or uniform court
rulings in graft cases, are needed about
as much as uniform divorce legislation.
A case against U. S. senator is dis
missed in Nebraska because he had not
taken the oath of Office when the
alleged transaction took place. An ex-
congressman from another state is con-
victed although a similar condition pre-
vailed. A Missouri Doodle conviction is
turned down by the supreme court be-
cause the wrong party was bribed, and
SO it goes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

Examination of failures last year
according to occupation, says r. G.
Dun & Co. shows very large liabilities
in iron and machinery, and in lumber
and clothing the losses were far above
normal In view of the demoralized
situation at the cotton mills, owing to
the high cost of raw material, it is en-
couraging to find so few defaults in
this industry Among the trades, the
largest number Of defaults was in gro
ceries and meat. closely followed by
general stores, in which liabilities were
heaviest. Losses were also far above
normal in dry goods, but, on the whole,
the ira lie showed no heavier liability
than in an average year. All branches
Of business suffered most severely dur
ing the closing months. The last quar-
ter recorded over one-third more sus-
pensions than in any three months of
1902. and the amount of liabilities ex-
ceeded any quarter of the last twenty
eight. In 1896, however, there were
much larger insolvencies, not only for
the three-month period, but for the
whole year. Despite an increase in the
total number OF concerns in business,
the defaulted liabilities to each firm
was $41.94 for the last quarter and
S122.33 for the full year, the highest
average for over five years. Owing to
the combination of smaller bank ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
Cohnrn Is Reelected.

All the old officers of the state board
of agriculture, including the directors,
whose terms expired this year, were re-
elected this afternoon. This is the sew
enth time Mr.. Coburn has been elected
secretary. It is President Churchill 5
second election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

changes and larger failures. the pro
portion of defauIted liabilities to $1,000
of solvent payments through clearing
houses was S2.02 in the last quarter and
81 AZ for the year, which is far above
recent averages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
STRIKERS WIN
Chicago Livery Drivers Granted
a Closed Shop.

Chicago, Jan. 15.-The livery drivers
strike was settled this afternoon, the
employees securing a "closed shop
agreement and arbitration of the IS
sue as to an advance in wages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
OFFICERS ELECTED.

Portland, Ore, Jan. 15.-The National
Live Stock association elected thei fol-
lowing officers to look after the inter-
ests of the association during the COM
lear: Frank J. Hagenbarth of Idaho,
president; Charles F. Martin of Colo
rado, secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
Marx rwain's sister-in-Law Dead.

Keokuk, Ia, Jan. 15.-Mrs Orion
Clements died at her home here today.
Her late husband, who was the brother
of Mark Twain, the writer, was the
acting governor of Nevada territory,
during the civil war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

While looking after the safety Of the
ater audiences why not arrange a cur
tain to be operated from the auditorium
when a bad actor comes on?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
Free. Free.

A handsome gold decorated jug with
one can baking powder. Saturday, Jan
uary 16. and Monday, January Is.
Grand Union Tea Co., GA Kan. ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

About the only reason that the
breaking out of war between Russia
and Japan is delayed appears to be the
fact that neither nation is quite ready
Both are hurrying additional warships
and supplies to the scene of possible
trouble Japans two new cruisers re-
Gently purchased from Argentina enter
ed the Suez canal yesterday, bound for
che Orient and We're closely followed by
a Russian battleship. A number of
Russian transports passed through the
Bosphorus at about the same time,
laden with Russian troops destined for
duty in eastern Asia. While news
emanating from St. Petersburg and
Paris is uniformly peaceful in tone, that
from Toxic. London and Berlin is
gloomy in the extreme. The preponder-
ance of the worlds opinion seems to be
that war is inevitable, with the date
fixed early in February
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

Santo Domingo revolutions are as
harmless as French dueIs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

Circuit Attorney Folk Of ST. Louis
has discovered another attempt at
boodling in the city council. This is no
cause for surprise. Why should the
aldermen stop that sort of business?
He has not succeeded in Furnishing any
OF them. Doodle prosecutions in st.
Louis and at Jefferson City have be-
come q theme for laughter all over the
country. Missouri is a state where the
professional boodler is permitted to
thrive and grow fat on the money of
the public and of the corporations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

s. L. Thompson of 113 North Chandler
street died at his home Thursday after
noon. The funeral was held at 2 y. m.
Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
Sugar the Cook y

is a commercial phrase in vogue
among some grocerynen that allow
commissions to your help for send
ing business their way We can
sugar the whole family this week;
prices are a little lower
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Simmons of Seabrook died this morning.
The funeral arrangements have not yet
been announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-15
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Enos
Kistner of 120 North Locust street died
Thursday morning. The funeral was held
at a. m. today from st. Joseph's Cath
olic church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.
A woman is always pretending that she
never pretendS.
Shut your eyes when you look at the
faults of a friend.
Nearly every time a man displays his
temper he loses it.
A man may mind his own business and
still be narrow-minded-
Love not only laughs at locksmiths, but
giggleS at any old thing.
A crank is the discoverer of theory
before the public is ready to pay for it,
A mans idea of hard work is any kind
at which he can't sit down ana smoke.
More worry is caused by the money
people have than by the money they
haven't.
When the curtain drops between the
acts a man is reminded that he needs a
few drops.
BY the time g. wise guy is rich enough
to marry the fool has children big
enough to support him.
A man likes to get his wife in an au-
tomobile and then run 1t so fast that she
is frightened speeches.
A woman can get real more enjoyment
out of glass of ice cream soda than a
man can get out of two gallon demi-
john.
Men should be elected to office because
of their qualifications for the job and not
for the purpose OF keeping them out Of
Jail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30

command. It is better to be bolter
to party than a traitor to state.
That last sentence ought to be made
to stick. in the Folk campaign. 1t
would be a good motto at the head of
the columns of every honest Republic
can or independent paper in Missouri.
1t would be a fine device upon the
banners and transparencies of the in
dependent Folk organizations which
ought to be springing up. before long,
all over the state. There is not a word
OF exaggeration in it, either in the
abstract or in its application to the
question before the people of Missouri.
In every substantial sense of the
word, the man who votes against Folk
against the man who has been fight
ing the states fight against the states
enemies-is traitor to the state.
And 1T is better to be a boiler to
party than traitor to a state"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30


/. have been hearing a good deal
lately about fish and big catches. First
| comes George Clark with a story
about some bass he caught at Lake
View which, if they had lived, would
have grown to be whales in three
years. Otis Hungate modestly comes
along and says he caught four that
weighed six pounds apiece. Bent
Murdoch, the Isaac Walton of the
| Walnut, says the only bass he ever
saw that weighed six pounds were
filled with shot
Now George Clark may have caught
some big fish, and Bent Murdoch may
know every bass in the Walnut by
name. but what are bass after all :?
Just bass They are not to be classed
in the same category with catfish, and
when it comes to catfish Otis Hun gate
holds the record, with the assistance
of two friends, and it has stood for
fourteen years. This fishing record of
Hungate'S happened before he went
to the law school at Ann Arbor and
before he learned how to tell big fish
stories and make disputed catches and
before he put on the airs that go with
an SIS split bamboo rod, a collection
of imitation flies and small windlass
to haul in his few catches. When
fisherman deteriorates from the trot-
line, or from the pole cut from the
bank and worms for bait, the real
sport of the streams is forever lost to
him. After he adopts those fashion
able appliances he simply goes in for
oil hIIlOS OF TeSdlld, announcements
and fancy clothes and fish baskets and
nets.
But to go back to the record
breaking catfish catch. 1t was in
1890 that Otis Hungate, big" Ander
son and the writer pulled more fish
out of Mill creek, in Wabaunsee
county, than have been caught before
or since at one session.
The three had been fishing on Mill creek
for couple of days and hadn't had a
bite except those administered by mos
quitoes and by horse flies when the three
couraging outlook and ali decided to load
the boat in the wagon and pull out for
began to rain and the rain fell all night
and every time a drop of rain struck the
water of Mill creek a cat fish tried to
There were dozen trot lines strung
across the creek. Along about o'clock
Big Anderson and Hungate and the
writer the lines. There were four
or five fish on each line.
lines and spent an hour stringing them
across the creek. About ten o'clock the
lines were run again and eight or ten
then until morning the lines were run as
fast as the three fishermen could work
next and then dropping down stream to
run them again.
Fish. The party had no scales to weigh
them on (and for the benefit of Bent
Murdoch, no shot to load them WITH but
and the fish were measured in them.
Just eleven (no, not a DOZEN bushel
basket measures Of cat fish WIS the re-
bed of the wagon was filed with fish and
the fishermen rode to Topeka, % miles,
f fhe wagon an oe bo8 Eerybody along the
route to town got all the FISH they would
city ate fish for days after the Usher
can tell the truth and beat this story,
please write.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Gil,

IFrom the Atchison GIobe.J
Men have no sense: they keep on try
ing to beat the cantaloupe game.
Shippers of eantaloupes from Texas
obtain money under false pretenses.
An Atchison man who lacked cour-
age, got on the fence, and finds that it
is of barbed wire.
The Democrats who are trying to fill
their barrel can realize how women
have to work at a church social.
Mrs. Florence Maybricz is said to be
worth $1,000, 600, Remember this when
asked to buy ticket to her lecture.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton recalls
that when her uncle died, his friends
gave a floral piece that was nine feet
high.
By working hard, Blind Charley can
make so cents day profit, selling
brooms. That's better than loafng. But
it's not so good as begging.
The smaller the town. the more par
ticular the policemen are about being
whipped. Anybody can whip a police
man in Chicago, but it wouldn't be safe
to try it in Atchison.
The Shriners are going to st. Louis
August z. While there, they will ride
about the fair grounds on camelS. 1t
is wonderful what sensible men will do
simply because they belong to a lodge.
An Atchison man heard he was being
jumped for attention to other women,
so he headed off talk, and became de-
Noleu 10 MS Wlle. oIHce MS ueVoLlorl
began two weeks ago, she has grown
five years younger. 1t might be an ex-
pertinent for others to try.
These cat fights that occur around
your house at night: who starts them:
the boy cat or the girl cat? At our
house, every evening, a girl cat belong
ing to neighbor. appears on the lawn.
Soon thereafter there is the doggondest
fight going on you ever heard. But we
never see the boy cat: he knows he's n
dirty dog, and keeps out of sight. But
the girl cat walks to the meeting place
as bold as you please.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
TWO KENTUCKY CowARDs.

Our notions of the chivalry supposed
to be Unborn with native Kentuckians
have received two separate and dis
tinct shocks through telegraphic re-
ports of two assaults made upon Carrie
Nation, one at Trenton, KY, by a
young blood of the town. from whose
lips she had knocked cigarette. and
the other at Elizabethtown by a sa-
loonkeeper whose business she was de-
nouncing, says the Washington Post
There is nothing in the reports to in
dictate that Mrs. Nation was doing any
thing more than to use her vitriolic
tongue to provoke the assaults upon
her. She enjoys the dubious distinc-
ton of being something of a public
nuisance who makes herself welI-nigh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
TFrom the Phil -elthia Record. ]

CF'rom the Pnila -elthia RecordJ
The soda fountain is known by its fizz.
Silence is golden; but sometimes it is
a gold brick.
A man is seldom hungry enough to eat
his own words.
The odds are against the people who
marry to get even.
No, .Maude, dear; too much finery is not
considered refined.
A man is sometimes known by the COM
pany he doesn't keep.
The fellow who never comes to the point
is always the greatest bore
In their eagerness to be known as good
fellows lots of men go to the bad.
Even the fellow who puts his best foot
forward sometimes has his leg pulled.
The people who view the mistakes of
others through a magnifying glass can't
see their own with a telescope.
He (passionately)-"I would die for
you'll" She-s'I appreciate your kindness,
but. really. have no use for dead ones +"
The driver of the sprinkling cart may
occasionally take a drink, in spite of the
fact that he is on the water wagon.