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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06
4 COMING CONTENTION.

Argentina already competes with us that she will soon compete with us in clothing it. There are, it appears, now in Argentina several of the best Euro lpean experts on cotton growing, who have been travelling all over numerous | experiments in cotton growing. These men previously visited the cotton-grow- ling sections of the United States, Egypt and India, and are therefore competent ! to make comparisons. Several of them have told Minister Barrett that they fully believe that In the course of a ! flew years Argentina can be made one ] of the chief producing countries Iof the world. One of the confidential agents of the Argentina Department of Agriculture, who has been quietly in- vestigating this matter, tells MT. Bar Irett that while all present reports pub- Ilished must naturally be conservative, result will be presently realized that will attract the attention of the world. And Minister Barrett himself says:
 have not, however, depended on hear say alone. On the contrary, have per- sonally visited and travelled through many of the provinces suited to cotton growing, and made my own compari- sons with what have repeatedly seen | in the southern States at home. I do not think, therefore, in the light of all the information have been able to ob- tain, that am far from the truth when I state that Argentina has the area, the soil the climate and the transpor tation facilities to make it a great cotton growing country and so become 8 seri- ous competitor of the United States in the cotton markets of the world.
 The great cotton corner may have had in it the benefits which MT. Sully
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06

One of the results of the recent An glo-French agreement is renewal of the scheme of tunneling the channel between France and England. The London and Paris chambers of com merce are leading in the matter. It is nearly fifty years since the tunnel pro- ject was first put upon practical basis of experiment, but since then the or iginal estimate of cost has been re- duced from s5O,OOO,O 900 to s2O,OoO.OOO.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06
The Funny Mans Last E9ort.

He read from the war news eagerly, The fearsome funny man; Then reaching for his stock of puns The punishment began. To Russian army to the front
 The willy Jap to beat, Will show my skill the Czar declared, And prove the Russian fleet And yet, how could the Russian bear To leave his home and wife To rush across Siberian snowS
 And risk his precious life? "Yet never did the Russian flag
 Through obstacles like these, He vowed he'd bring those awful Japs Upon their Japan knees. The laps had eyed Manchuria
 And said in manner cool Since now we rule upon the seas--
 Let's seize upon the rule. Into a Russian harbor then
 They sailed with conscience clear, Those JapS feared not harbor
 And they harbored not fear. They found the enemy asleep,
 They aimed their shots as well As Dewey at Manila when
 He gave the Spanish shell. And if you ask how goes the fight
 As it has gone thus far, And who is being bested now,
 I think the Russianzar." And having thus expressed himself
 The punster dropped his head And fixed in space a glassy stare.
 They shook him. He was dead.
 --C. L. E. in Kansas City Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each insertion. Five Gents Word for a full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch, one insertion, $1.20; each subsequent ,inser- ton. 40 cents; one week, sS.2o;. one month. s10; one year, $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06

Last year there were built in German shipyards 220 steamships of 26s,9SS gross tons, an increase of two steamers and 47,4OO tonnage. At the beginning of the present year there were 12S steamers of 18S,s9O tons in course of construction in German shipyards Twelve of the steamers built and in course of construction are warships with tonnage of 2S,256 tons. Besides this increase German shippers received last year seven foreign-built steamers of tonnage of S7.S71 tons. German commerce and shipbuilding are doing remarkably well under present German laws.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06

[ She's the valedictorian of her class, isn't she?" "Yes.'' "Wonder why they give it that sort of a farewell name. ? "oh. shes saying farewell to the ideal ities of life as preliminary to bump ing up against the realities. ."-Chicago Evening Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06

Old lady (who has given tramp three pence)-'Don't think I'm giving this for charity's sake. It's only because it pleases me to do so." Tramp" Make it three-bob instead of three-pence. and enjoy yourself, mem!"-Glasgow Even ing Times.
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 your doin' anything like that, almost the first time tryin Washington Star.
 -------.- Young man, this elevator is out oi order. I shall certainly report 1t to my husband. who is an assistant elevator inspector" 'sWh-wh- whats the mat ter with it. ma amp "The mirrors are soiled and dingy, sir."-Chicago Tri- bune.
 Mrs. Title-"Wasn't it disgraceful the way those women talked during the play last night?' Mrs. Tattle-eWell, should say so! Sarah SnoolSins was trying to tell me the fuss in the Erin dles family, and those two women made such a chatter I couldn't hear more than half she said. Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-06
Pedestrian Skirts

50 Skirts made of good quality Chew lots and msnnish materials. Worth from ss to SIP.
 30 Skirts made from light weight Cheviots, Worth SC to ss. Assllliii=zA NOW SS.SO voffe Skirts in walking and dress skirt lengths, trimmed with soutache and Persian. Worth s15 tc s25.
 NOW s12.oo
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Shirt Waists.

ooks& e Go spia Co.,. Special wor Waists AN nsrHae at
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said were there. but the United States may not get hold of all of them.
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Tailor Made Suits

% Suits made of mannish materials, and Cheviots, worth s15 to SEQ.
 NOW s10.00 IS Suits made of good quality Chew lots, coats finely tailored. Worth s2O
 NOW s15.oo 25 Suits made of best quality Chew lots, and new mannish materials. Coats and Skirts trimmed with soutache, and Persian braids. Worth $50 and $40.
 NOW s20.00 30 Suits of fine French Voiie, silk Drop Skirt. Coats and Skirts cut in latest styles. Worth s35 to geo.
 NOW s25.00
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, P CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS 4 MONTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS. st A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES, CENTS.
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President Thomas of Bryn Mawr made this contrast between oldtime and modern conditions in discussing the value of the future of college girls: The semi-cloistered life of women in the past has developed many priceless virtues, such as purity, family affec- ton, unspoiIed enthusiasm, devoted re- ligious belief; but in the past women have not been able to work together for common end; loyalty to one an- other as it has been understood among men has been unknown; good women and good men have seldom been able to stand side by side to fight the worst evils of our civilization, because of wornen's ignorance of what is involved in most social questions.
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Rain Goats.

rrxr TINT, oF MEMS AND LADIES'
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Linen Suits

Linen and Lawn Shirt Waist suitss Worth $7 to s12.
 NOW ss75 to ss.oe Extra fine Linen Suits, coats cut Eton and Blouse effects. Wcrth sf0 to w NOW sySo Butchers Linen suitA extYH nervy quality, coats and skirts cut and xsadc in latest style. Worth $i5 to $50.
 NOW E11.oo
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Marine Minister Pelletan said in the French chamber of deputies: In the event of naval war we must more es- pecially depend upon torpedo boat de- stroyers, torpedo boats and submar- ines. They are indispensable to the protection of our distant possessions Events in the Far East have shown the part that will, perhaps, be played by the torpedo in future wars. At mo- ment when the construction of large armored ships abosrbs from two-thirds to three-fourths of our resources we see similar colossal structures sink in a few seconds when struck by one of these petty machines hidden under the surface of the sea.
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Sale.

GREATER. COMFORT PATRONS IMPERATIVE ENLARGE STORE ADDITIONS FLOOR SPACE CARPENTERS MAsoNs WE PRESENT STOCK
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Jeremiah Lynch tells of his surprise at the shallowness of the water all the way up from San Francisco, especially in the Behring Sea, where, forty miles from shore, there were but ten feet of water under the keel. This is caused by the Yukon river bringing down in the spring freshet trees, earth and brush in vast quantities, that lodge on the shallow eastern shores of the sea. For hundreds of miles along the east ern littoral of the Alaskan coast line this extraordinary phenomenon exists, and eventually the Arctic ocean will be an inland sea, and people will walk from North America to Asia dry shod
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The Nagasaki correspondent of the London Express says that although nearly 200,O men, more than 400 guns, thousands of horses and wagons and tons of supplies have left Japan in the last three months, there is not the slightest sign of reduction in the rate of the exodus. Transports leave every western port daily, each carrying an average of 1000 men. There is every indication that this rate can be main- tained for months. The distances are so short that the number of transports required is not very large, while the available troops, including the reserves, are far from exhausted. The work goes on without hitch Every de- tachment takes it's own quota of guns ammunition and stores.
 The population of Russia is perhaps the most mixed of all nations, and is made up in large measure of conquered peoples who still remember their over throw with bitterness. Probably not far from one-third of the whole-from 4O,Ooo,0OO to 5o,O0O,OO0-are true Musco- vites. Around the central Muscovites are grouped Lapps, Films, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles. Little Russians, Ruthenians, Roumanians, Greeks,
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yn LINE or MrN,s AND LADIES'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
TRAIN WAS HooDooED.
Del Monte Flyer Had a Series of
Fatal Accidents.

A dispatch from San Jose, Cal, says:
The trip of the Del Monte flyer from
San Francisco to San Jose this after
noon was attended with accidents from
one end of the line to the other.
At the end of the first fifty miles of
Its trip was a collision with a truck in
which one man was killed and another
seriously injured, and two passengers
sick and in a state of nervous collapse
from the shock and shaking up caused
by vigorous applications of the air
brakes. In addition there was a panic
among the passengers over their hair
raising incidents, and some angry
scenes thrown in.
The train left San Francisco on time
as a double-header. Near Valencia,
street station she collided with a team
killed one of the horses, while the
driver was hurled through the air,
alighting on top of a box car standing
on a side track.
Near San Mateo a pedestrian who
has not as vet been identified, was
struck and instantly killed. His body
was hurled to the side of the track,
and was not mangled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
SAN FRANCISCO, TERMINUS.
Gould Said to Be Spending $76,-
100000 for Pacific Line.

Chicago. Ill. Feb. 13.-In speaking of
George Gould's alleged connection with
the Western Pacific railroad a Dromi-
ret official recently said: 81 think both
the Moffett line and Western Pacific
will ultimately be Gould lines. I think
the western terminus of Missouri Pa
cific in 1908 will be San Francisco bav.
Hill. Hartman and Rock Island will
leave Mr.. Gould with big local line
on his hands and no through business
If that isn't true
Gould and Rockefeller cash is build
ing both lines. There is over $4,000
600 CT money either already in these
bonds or to go into them shortly It's
easy to say that the S25, 00O. 600 of Den
yer, Northwestern 81 Pacific bonds have
been syndicated and that they won't he
sold by the syndicate for a while. Mr..
Moffatt said that late in 1902. The in
tervening fifteen months have been
rather strenuous times for syndicates
with over $4,000 900 of cash tied up
The Gould estate and the Rockefeller
treasury could stand pat on an ad-
vance like that. and I believe they did
it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

has been general that Germany had a
secret understanding with Russia in
the far east, but it was said tonight
this government is now convinced of
the sincerity Of Germany insistence all
along that her interests in the far east
were largely commercial and that she
wished the maintenance of the integrl-
ty of China.
RUSSIA NOT READY.
ST. Petersburg, Feb. 13.-Russia is
evidently not prepared at this time to
give an answer to the United States
to Secretary Hays note on the subject
of neutrality of China. AS previously
stated in these dispatches hOstilities
having begun, the military authorities
must be consulted, and the czar doubt
less will refer the matter to Viceroy
Alexieff, if he has not already done SO.
Russia, it can be said, is certainly as
anxious as the United States that th5
war cause no risings or disorders in
China; indeed, the attitude of China
is already causing some miSgivingS
here, as she has not declared her neu-
trality.
1t is thought here that the action of
the Japanese in flooding Pekin with
posters relating their victories is part
of a well laid campaign projected from
the beginning to break down Russia s
prestige in China for the purpose Of
ultimately effecting union of the two
races, which would make the " elbow
peril a reality.
Russia has already learned Of the
position taken by several powers re-
garding Secretary Hays note.
Germany and Great Britain. it is
said, both express sympathy with its
purpose, but with an important reser-
walton concerning Manchuria, which is
now the theater of war
Germany's views in this respect were
anticipated, but Great Britain's failure
to give Secretary Hay unqualified sup
port has caused surprise here.
AUSTRIA WITH THE MAJORITY.
Vienna, Feb. 13.-U. S. Ambassador
Storer presented Secretary Hays note
on the subject of China to the foreign
office and afterward had a long inter-
view with Count Goluchowski, the
Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign
affairs Well informed persons believe
the policy of Austria-Hungary in the
far east will be entire acquiescence
with that OF the most interested
powers. It is not considered likely that
Austria Hungary win take any steps in
the matter. her interests in the far
east being Slight.
The Austro- Hungarian cruiser Aspen
has been ordered to leave her winter
station at Hong Kong and proceed to
Chefoo. so as to be nearer the scene
Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Conductor Refuses to
Obey Orders.
Would Not Take Out Double
Header Train.
MAY BE DISCHARGED.
VIII Have a Hearing Before
Santa Fe Officials.
Question Is Whether Tonnage
Was Too Great.
MAY BE DISCHARGED.

It is reported here that Santa F'e Con-
ductor Mead of Emporia recently re
fused to go out on a double-header
train with thirty-fve cars over the
Howard branch and that another con-
ductor was sent in his place Mr.. Mead
held that under certain rules that were
In effect on the lines of the Santa Fe
he was not required to take charge of
double-header train. His case will OF
course be brought before the local Off
Gals Of the road and it promises to be
an interesting one.
About a year ago when the Santa Fe
officials and the trainmen in the en-
plov Of the road held their last confer
enee in Topeka this subject came up for
discussion and the men were finally
given a decision which was entirely
satisfactory to them. The statement
which was issued after this meeting in
cIuded a new rule which provided that a
train crew was not required to go out
on a double-header where the tonnage
Of the train exceeded the rating of one
engine. If this was the case with Mr..
Mead's train his action was justifable,
but if the tonnage of the train did not
exceed the limit he was in the wrong
and will no doubt loose his position.
In any case Mr.. Mead'S hearing will
no doubt be an interesting one, as it is
the first case on record where the pro-
visions of the new rule have been put to
the test
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
HISTORY OF HAYS NOTE
Including the Status Of the Pro-
posal at Present Time.

Washington. Feb. 13.-To Russia and
Japan the Washington government sug-
gests the propriety of limiting hostili-
ties within as small an area as possible
and of respecting the neutrality ana
administrative entity of China, that
China may be free from disturbances and
foreign interests there from menace.
This the Associated Press is enabled
to give as the substance of the note ad-
dressed by Secretary Hay on February
10 to the St. Petersburg and Toxic gov
ernments. On February in note to
Germany, Great Britain and France.
Mr.. Hay invited those powers concur
rently to address Russia and Japan
with the same suggestion and on Febru-
ary IL this invitation was extended to
Italy, Austria Hungary, the Neither
lands, Denmark, Spain and Belgium.
Germany was the first to respond, with
a prompt acceptance of the invitation
and the promise that she Immediately
would address the two combatants
Great Britain was heard from next
expressing adherence to the principle
laid down in the note, but Withholding
formal acceptance pending az 2nsWsz to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
WANT MORE OIL LAND.
Southern Pacific Would Extend Its
Present Holdings.

Active measures have been adopted
by the Southern Pacific road for the
development of its oil lands in Cali
fornia, Louisiana and Texas. The oil
lands of the company begin at Lafay-
cite, in Louisiana, and extend westward
along the line of the road, including
considerable acreage in both Beau
mont and Sour Lake fields.
The policy of the road is to purchase
from time to time parcels of land that
appear to promise we'll and that lie
within the territory reached by the
lines of Southern Pacific. Immense oil
tanks have been built at various points
on the system at heavy expense. The
biggest of them hold $4,000 gallons of
oil.
A considerable portion of the Kern
county oil fields in California is land
leased from Southern Pacific by its
present holders. In some cases land
bought for 81 or SO an acre as grazing
land is now held at prices ranging
from 81 1000 to $4,000 an acre. Southern
Pacific lands not leased in that terri
tory are extensive, and the road has in
them an equity of unknown value. The
same is true of the Beaumont district
and the Sour Lake lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
HERE ARE THE RATES.
What 1t VIII Cost to Travel to st.
Louis Exposition.

The Central Passenger association
roads have reached an agreement as to
rates and arrangements for worlds falr
traffic The following proposition from
the St. Louis terminal lines was ap-
proved:
i That so-called season excursion
tickets be sold to ST. Louis daily, begin
ming April 25 1904 and continuing DIR
ing the period of the exposition, with
final return limit of December Is. 1904
Rate so per cent. double the one-way
fare.
Q. That excursion tickets be sold to
St Louis daily, beginning April 25,
1904. and continuing during the pericd
of the exposition. with final return
limit of sixty days. Rate one and one
third Sares.
The further proposition of the st.
Louis terminal lines that excursion
tickets be sold to st. Louis daily. be
ginning April 25, 1904, and continuing
during the period of the exposition,
with final return limit of ten days from
date Of sale from territory distant $50
miles or more from ST Louis, at rate of
one fare plus 49," was amended 50 20
provide for a ten day limit from ter
IitorY $50 miles or less from St. Louis
and a fifteen day limit for over $50
miles.
Another recommendation agreed
upon was that coach excursions may
be run not Oftener than once a weak
by each line from competitive points at
approximately one cent a mile. the re-
turn limit to be six days.
1t was also agreed that fares and
arrangements for each class of round
trip tickets. including coach excursions
may be authorized; that stop-over OF
ten days be allowed on all one-way and
round-triD tickets through the St
Louis gateway, upon tickets being de-
posted with the joint agent, accom-
panied by a deposit of $40: that within
a specified territory variable routes
may be authorized for DeOnle tn on via
one gateway and return via another
This means that tickets to st. Louis
by direct lines shall be good to return
via Chicago. or vice versa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
Speed of American Railways.

George G. Tunell. a railway expert,
has prepared statistics showing that
the speed in actual running of Ameri-
can railroad trains is higher than that
of the trains of European roads. The
average speed of SIS trains between
Jersey City and Philadelphia is 49, 50
miles an hour; 80 trains between New
York and Buffalo and st. Louis. S7.7S;
q trains from New York to Boston,
1906; 10 trains from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg, 81. The average speed of
trains from Leipsic to Hamburg is
1916; from Bremen to Nuremberg
1851; from Munich to Frankfort, a. Il.
The speed of fast expresses is highest
over the Reading and Pennsylvania
from Atlantic City to Camden. 81 IS,
and 66.s2, respectively. The Mediter-
ranean express from Paris has a speed
of 59.72; the Empire State express,
$40; the Hamburg express, the Edin-
burgh express, the Plymouth express
and the Twentieth Gentry limited come
in order. The fastest express to st.
Petersburg, from Ostend, has an aver
age speed of $3.50: the express from
Paris to Madrid runs 1870; the Cali
fornia limited of the Atchison, 80. 70,
and the overland limited of the North
western and Union Pacific, 1892