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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

customary to hear a gurgling sound
of distress from the direction of Park
dale, as the people skurry out of their
homes to a place of safety. Before
the torrents of rain water are swept
down from the steep bluffs southeast
of town. turned into the channel of a
ravine which runs parallel TO Shunga-
nunga creek for some distance and
grows wider and deeper as it goes.
This ravine will carry off a reasonable
amount of storm water without diff
Guilty, but when the rain comes too
OverfiowS and floods the surrounding
country After repeated demonstra-
tons of its power in this direction, the
ravine has achieved sufficient dis
tinction to be given a name of its
own 1t is now called Biddle creek
How it received this appellatiOn is
something which the city engineers
records do not show 1t was not
named from the present superintend-
ent of the state insane asylum, al
though ii must be admitted that Bid
die creek has a. very queer way about
IL sometimes like the people under Dr.
Biddle.
city Engineer McCabe has a plan
for solving the Second ward drainage
problem. 1t involves the appropr1a-
tion of the idea which nature had in
creating Biddle creek, and improving
upon this idea. Mr.. McCabe would
make of Biddle creek a legal, law
aDlOlnS waterway, instead OF a Steep
ing outlaw which awakes now and
then and goes on a tear without re-
gard for the customs of the commune
ty or police regulations
Let us take Biddle creek says the
city engineer, tame it down. straight
en- it out, give it a recognized channel
over which it has a right to flow
whenever it Dleases, give it room to
spread itself when necessary, and
make it do for us exactly what nature
intended il should do. namely. carry
off storm water. The trouble is that
we have tried to take Biddle creek
by the throat and choke it to death.
That's not the right way to go at It.
We can't balk nature that way. If We
do not let nature have her way, we
must give her something which suits
her better.
MY suggestion is that the city buy
a right of way for Biddle creek, fol-
lowing the general lines of the creek
as it now runs I do not think it
of way. For some considerable dis
rances the water could flow in the
street. But we should remove the
distractions which we have put in
the way of the creek, in our efforts
TO improve our streets We must
dig out the channel and make it deep
and wide enough to carry the water
We must make our bridges big enough
to resist the erosion of the water, and
not congest the channel
This plan ought to be worked out
so that it would not cost the city at
large. / believe that-the people living
down in that part of town would be
very willing to be included in a benefit
district created for the purpose Of
Improving Biddle creek. They OPP
posed the sewer because of it's ex-
pense, but to fix uD Biddle creek to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
BurIington's Ice Houses Go.

Burlington. Kan, July 12.-Both of
the large ice houses owned by Peters
& Drake went down in the flood with
all their contents. The loss is total.
The water was about five feet deep
around the ice houses and the current
was very swift. The loss will be at
least $1,000 and of course there was no
insurance against water. The build
ings were worth about 81, 900 and the
ice at least 50, 0O0 The loss falls heavi-
ly upon Peters & Drake as they had
used about every cent they could
scrape up to get up enough good ice to
last two seasons and now ii is all gone
and there is nothing left to show for
their work or their investment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Notes and Personal Mention.

Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Zahner and
Miss Charlotte Parkhurst will sail to-
morrow from Liverpool on the steamer
Crown Prince of the North German
Lloyd line for New York.
Mr.. w. B. Storey, who has been in
San Francisco since last November, re-
turned to Topeka Sunday to remain
permanently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lewis returned
from ST. Louis Sunday.
Mrs. Catherine O'Reilly went to Ar
kansas City today to bring home with
her her baby niece, Catherine Ketner.
who will make her home with Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Martin and Mrs.
O'Reilly.
Mr.. Lew Graham returned Monday
from the Democratic national conven-
ton at st. Louis.
Mrs. c. w. Snyder. Miss Edith Sny-
der and Mr.. George Snyder will leave
Friday for Walloon Lake, Mich, to
spend the rest of the summer.
Mrs. MacLennan will leave Thursday
for Chicago to spend the rest of the
week. The first of next week Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank P. MacLennan, Miss Mary
MacLennan, Mrs. Mary Goddard, Miss
Caroline Goddard, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Barlow Penny and their sons, Carl and
Vernon, will meet her and the party will
go on together to Manitowish, Wis.
where they have a cottage for the sum-
mer.
Mrs Mary Weaver and Mrs. Dorr
Norton of Kansas City will leave next
Monday for Colorado to spend several
weeks.
Miss Jean Rodgers is visiting in Val
ley Falls.
Miss Efie Graham went to Wichita
today.
Mrs Clyde Miller and her children of
Usage City will visit Mrs. Charles
Barnes next week. Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
Ter are looking for furnished house in
Topeka to rent for the summer and
until after the close of the fall cam
paign which will keep Mr.. Miller, who
is secretary of the Republican state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Night Was Her Terror.

II would cough nearly all night long. .
writes Mrs. Charles Applegate of Alexan-
dria. Ind, land could hardly get any
sleep. 1 had consumption bad that If
/ walked block l would cough frightful-
ly and spit blood but. when all other
medicines failed three s1.00 bottles of
DIR. Kings New Discovery wholly cured
me and / gained IS pounds" It's abso-
lutely guaranteed to cure coughs, colds
la grippe, bronchitis and all throat and
Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Bey of Tunis i'm Paris.

Paris. July 12.-The hey of Tunis arrived
here this morning. He was accorded mill
itary honors, received a notable, popular
reception and visited President Loubet at
the Elysee palace. where they held a
long and cordial exchange of friendly
sentiments. The hey will be the guest Of
honor at a garden party tonight at the
Elysee palace. The visit of the hey to
Paris is significant of the STRENGTHENING
of the French protectorate over Tunis
and the development of the government
North African empire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Dynnmite ON the TRACK.

Salonica, July 12.-Twenty persons
have been injured as the result of a
wreck on the railway running from Sa-
lonica to Constantinople near Dede-
Agach, the capital of the province of
the same name in European Turkey
and the terminus of a branch of the
rade-Constantinople road The
wreck was caused by dynamite placed
on the track by Bulgarians insurgents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Biddle Greek a Menace to the
East Side.
Engineer McCabe Has a Plan to
Fix 1t.
COVERS MUCH GROUND.
Would StraIghten Out Bends in
the Channel.
Condemn Property and Make 1t
Permanent Ditch.
COVERS MUCH GROUND.

With the defeat of the Second ward
sewer project by the big remonstrance
which has been fled against it. arises
the old question of drainage for storm
water in the east portion of town.
Every time there is a big rain, such
rs seem to be getting quite habitual in
this part of the civilized world. it is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Working Night and Day.

The busiest and mightiest little thine
that ever was made is DIR. Kings NeX,
Life Pills. These pills change weaRxness
into strength. Hstlessness into enereT
brain-fag into mental power Thev7re
wonderful in building up the health. ONLY
&c Sold by Arnold Drug Co, 81 North
Kansas ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
Broke His own RECORD

Mount Washington, N. H., July 12-F
terday made the eight mile ascent OF
Mount Washington in 81 minutes Is sec
oonds, breaking the previous record by IT
minutes A seconds, today lowered his
own figures by nearly three minutes, GO
ing UP the mountain in Is minutes 10 2-S
seconds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

1t warns the heart like sunshine, cheers
the soul like wine, gives hope for the flu
ture. blots out the past. That's what
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea does IS
cents, Tea or Tablets. GatIin Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

An approaching wedding of inter
est, invitations to which will be is
sued within a fortnight, is that OF
Miss Effie Neil. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Neil, and Mr.. George
Overmyer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. David
Overmyer, which will be celebrated
Wednesday evening, August 10, at the
Neil residence 1857 Fillmore street.
A new house is being built for the
young people on Fillmore near the
Neil residence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

People sending items to this department
of the State Journal will confer favor
by giving the full first name or two
initials, with all proper names. Items
must be accompanied by the name and
address OF the writer or they can not
be published.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12
S2n.nO

Chicago and return via Rock Island
system; good all summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

Chief Justice and Mrs. w. A. john
ston have issued invitations for a
midsummer reception at their home,
Elmwood Place. Wednesday evening.
July 20. Miss Margaret Johnston
cards are enclosed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

Line parties at the horse training
exhibition at the fair grounds are a
popular diversion now. Monday night
there were two parties. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Freeman, Mr.. and Mrs. John 5.
Parks, Miss Meryl Parks, Mr.. and
Mrs. Willard Hall. Mr.. Richard Hall,
Mr.. Horace Hall, and Mrs. Louis Hall
composed one, and in the other were
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Mulvane, Mr.. and
Mrs Arthur McClintock, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Barnes, and Miss Gunther.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

Miss Bessie Lagerstrom will give
party at her home on Lincoln stree
Wednesday to celebrate her twelfth
birthday anniversary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

A Vinewood picnic party planned 70
Wednesday evening will include tn
following: Miss Helen Morrow, Mis-
Bess Morrow, Miss Grace Wilcox, Mis-
Eva Curry, Miss Jennie MoneypennS
Miss Ora Moneypenny, Mr.. Allen Phil
ipps Mr.. Frank Durant Mr.. Johl
Washburn, Mr.. George Boone, Mr.. Jas
Campbell and Mr.. Robert Forbes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-12

Mrs. McClintock also gave a luncheon
Monday for Mrs. Ware and Mrs. Chas
Curtis. The others asked were Mrs
Hammatt, Mrs. George Noble, Mrs. j
NJ. French. Mrs. Charles Holiday, Mrs
Charles Knowles, Mrs. John E. Lord
land and Mrs. Jonathan Thomas.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-12-16
State Land Notice

United States Land Oflce Salt
Lake City, Utah, November l. 1904.
10 Whom it May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the
state of Utah has filed in this office
list No. 81, of lands selected NV
the said State for tho establishment
ana maintenance of Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, under section II of the act
Oh Congress approved July 16, 1884.
Inc following tracts embraced in
said list are in a township containing
mineral claims of record, viz:
SEA SW}4 section 30, TIP. AZ S.,
II. IA W., S. l.. Mer.
A copy of said list, so far as it
relates to said tracts by descriptive
subdivisions, has been consipcuouslv
posted in this office for inspection
by any person interested, and bp thu
PM RnaPlitfh ep dgfc- 81 this notice. under
instructions OF NO
vember 81, 1896, (23 L. d. 4ool'
protests or contests against the claim
90 the state to any of the tracts OF
.-s.orcrnbef described,
on the ground that the same is more
valuable for mineral than for agri
cultural purposes, will be received
and noted for report to the General
Land Office at Washington. ID. g.
Failure so to protest br contest
within the time specified will be con
sidered sufficient evidence of the non
mineral character of the said tracts,
and the selection thereof being other
wise free from objection, will be
recommended for approval. /.
FRANK d. HOBBS,
Register.
GEO. A. SMITH,
Receiver.
(Tirst Nov. 10, 'ol. Last Jan.
G, '05.)
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-12-16
State Land Notice.
United States Land Office, Salt
Lake City, Utah, Oct. "a, 1904.
To .ybDp, ~ nav nopoarn.

United States Land Office, Salt
Lake City, Utah, Oct. "a, 1904.
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the
State of Utah has filed in this office a
list No. oil, of lands selected by the
said State for the establishment of
permanent water reservoirs for irri-
eating purposes, under the 18th sec
tion of the act of Congress approved
July 16, 1894. The following
tracts embraced in said list are in
township containing mineral claims
of record, viz:
Lot ., section 4, TIP. Al S., r. II
| W., S. L. NJ.
A copy of said list, so far as it
relates to said tracts by descriptive
subdivisions, has been conspicuously
posted in this office for inspection by
any person interested and by tho PUB
lie generally.
Within the next sixty days follow
ing the date of this notice, under de-
partmental Instructions of November
q, 1896, (23 l., ID. 459, protests or
contests against the claim of the
State to any of the tracts or subdivi-
sions hereinbefore described, on the
ground that the same is more valua-
BILE for mineral than for agricultural
purposes, will be received and noted
for report to tho General Land office
at Washington, ID. g. Failure 20 to
protest or contest within tho time
, specified will be considered sufficient
evidence of the non-mineral charac-
ter Of the said land, and the selection
thereof being otherwise free from
objection Will be recommended for
! approval. FRANK ID. HOBBS,
4 Register.
: GEO. A. SMITH,
Receiver.
tFirst, Nov. last, Dec. 3d.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-23
REVERSION TO CRIME.

The case of Schaffner. the burglar who
was found dead in this city few days ago.
presents some unusual features. When
quite young man Schaffner was arrested
twice for burglary and served time first in
the Reformatory for Boys and then in the
Northern Prison. This was more than
twenty years ago. After his second dis
charge Schaffner came to this city. adopted
an honest life, married and raised family,
whom he supported as a machinist. The
few persons who knew his past record. in
Guiding one or two policemen, had almost
forgotten ii, and he was regarded as an
honest man and good citizen. A few weeks
ago, after a wordy quarrel with his wife.
not serious, he said: "You know what this
means to me, Mary; if go it means re-
turn to the old life" He left the house
and was never seen again till he was found
a few weeks later with his neck broken by
a fall from the window of a store he had
burglarized.
What sent this man back TO crime after
twenty years of honest life? We know that
in many cases discharged convicts are
bounded back to crime by the police or by
society, that will not give them a chance
to reform. But this man had reformed
at least, to all appearances. For twenty
years ne had lived an honest life, and his
criminal record was forgotten. Yet for a
seemingly trivial cause he discards his
twenty years of honest iife and returns to
crime. Was his inherited tendency to crime
crime the same sort of fascination over
those who have once followed it that liquor
has over those who have formed the drink
habit?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-23

denial of his right of free speech He had
been requested 10 move his meeting to the
courthouse square. but that did not suit
him. He would speak on the street corner.
where traffic became blocked by the crowd.
and when arrested and released on his own
recognizance he declared he would take the
matter TO higher court and make thor
ough test of the law which deprived him Of
free speech. If he does he will learn that
the right of free speech does not entitie
any person to hold street meetings that in
terfere with public traffic or convenience.
This is one of the cases in which the rights
of the community and, the public are SUI
perior to those of the individual. Ii is such
crude and distorted notions of personal
rights. based on an imperfect knowledge
of law and a disposition to exasgerate
their own rights. while ignoring those of
others, that lead many Socialists 10 make
unwarranted claims. Such men are blind
leaders of the blind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-23
Religious Notes.

The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
General Assembly without deficit. has been
obliged to close this year with a deficiency Of
s5s. 900. caused by the increased appropriations
and the decrease in legacies. great effort will
be made to wipe out the deficiency before the
meeting of the General Assembly.
Dr. Carl Schmidt of Heidelberg. after seven
years of hard labor has succeeded in piecing
translating the contents from the Coptic. DR..
Schmidt claims that he is thus enabled to give
TO the world the first accurate account of the
acts Of Paul. The papyrus is thought to have
been inscribed in $50 Ammo Domin
Mrs. Darlington Booth has issued a statement
denying that the Volunteers in financial diff
nculties or that she intends to close her Hope
teers is reported to be in even better financial
condition than before. An endowment Is
needed by which Mrs. Booth would be relieved
from the burden of Embarrassing every year.
Los Angeles. Cal. is rapidly becoming city
of churches. The Methodist denomination occu-
pies the largest and most beautiful church edi-
fee in the city, DR.. Robert Mcintyre. it's pastor.
Sunday. The Presbyterians are also strong and
have the services of several talented ministers
and the support of a large number of capitalists.
DIR. Burdette attracts immense audience of
cultivated people and has greatly strengthened
the Baptist denomination. which not very
strong before his coming to the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-23

The fact is despite Mr.. Boks. reverence for
them. young men are not. a whole. fitted
either intellectually morally TO sit in judg-
ment upon others who do go to church-their
mothers and sisters. for example. There are in
secondary and higher institutions OF learn
ing to-day 81 262 more young women than young
men; and we must go to our young women If we
wish to get the judgment of the educated
classes of America. There may have been
time when the young man represented the Gull
longer. He represents a lower grade of mental
training than his sister. and possibly less deli
cate moral sense The best known English
biographer of Goethe. apologizing for some Of
his eccentricities in youth. wrote that the great
German author had then reached that age
when he most agreeable to himself, but
most trying to his friends" The young man
may be very positive what he wants. but he is
not altogether the wisest judge of what the
world needs. That he is found in swarms at the
Sunday evening vaudeville and the Sunday
ing bar is the best evidence that such young
men are fitted to decide ifes serious problems.
Our neighbor has two sons. both young men. not
far apart in years. One of them seldom misses
a church service and the other rarely attends.
Is the nonattendant the only one capable of de-
termining what is worth while? Suppose young
men were divided into two positive classes
which they are not-of 30 and 20 per cent,
spectively. The one class attends church, the
other attends the theater and the saloon and the
billiard room. Does that settle IL that the
church is of less value than the play? Hardly.
M Box must revise his logic. II not his figures
The Interior
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-23
JAPANESE BULLETS.

A dispatch says the Russians express adj
miration for the bullets used by the Japa-
nese They are said to be small and not
calculated to infiict ugly wounds. AS evil
dence of this fact 1t is mentioned that a
Russian officer who received twenty bullet
wounds was expected to recover. The fact
that the Japanese are using such bullets
shows that they are fully abreast with the
modern spirit of mitigating the horrors of
war.
The object of war is not primarily to kill
men, but to win victories. To accomplish
this some men must, of course be killed,
but If victories can be won and ends OBJ
tanned by disabling them and placing them
out of the fight. something is gained for
humanity One of the objects of modern
progress in warfare has been to lessen the
killing qualities of bullets as we'll as their
mangling qualities. If a man can be put out
of the fight without mutilating him for life
so much the better. Until within compare
lively recent years bullets were made to kill
and mangle. Some of them were explosive.
At the Paris exposition of 1867 there was ex-
hibited explosive rife bullet of French
invention. which, when exploding in the
heart of an oak plank eight inches in thick
ness, would break itself into fine frag-
ments tearing the plank to pieces. Such a
bullet lodging in a mans body would tear
him to pieces. Lodging in a limb, If IL did
not shatter il so as to cause the wounded
man to bleed to death. ii would certainly
cause excruciating pain and probably mutt
iation for life When this bullet was ex-
hibited it was regarded as an up-to-date
weapon Now no civilized nation would
think of using it.
The mimic bullet, which was mainly used
during our civil war. was a terrible weapon
| on account of its size. weight and projectile
| force. Ii consisted of an elongated cylinder
| conical In 'front.' coming TO q kind of blunt
point hollow behind and fitted with a cap
OF thin iron. which. by filling the grooves
of the gun barrel as the ball was forced
through. gave the bullet precision and
range OF flight previously unknown among
projectiles. Nothing could resist the power
OF this bullet. 1t killed. crushed and man.
gled. On holly contested battlefields trees
were some times cut down by its resistless