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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
Cotton Market.

New York, Aug. 25.-COTTON-The cot
ton market had another excited start to-
day. With cables lower than expected
and the weather good the market opened
weak at a decline of 80 points on Sep
There was a lot of cotton for sale, APP
parently, but the f1rmness at New Os-
of 7GS points on the active months, I'M
settled remaining shorts and Immediately
following the call prices shot up to with
in a point or two of last nights closing
figure, after which they ruled exceeding
ly nervous and erratic.
Spot cotton closed quiet. Sales were 200
bales. Quotations per 100 pounds: Mid
ding uplands, 81. 20; middling gulf, $11 As.
Galveston, Tex, Aug. 25.-COTTON-
Market higher, at lie per pound.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25

two hours before he returned to his
office The dentists collector not only
still fingered, but he had his coat off
and his feet on the window sill, and
had turned away three or four other
collectors who had called.
Didn't hurry, 1 hope?" he said with
smile as he saw who 1t was:
Could interest you in the World
Wide Blackberry Jam company" ask
ed the major as he sat down with a
sigh.
mot today"
IF you wanted the secretaryship of
The Artificial Daylight company 1
think L could manage it. The place
pays only. $4,000 a year at present, but
that isn't so bad. We will soon be fur
nishing artificial daylight to all the fac
tories of Europe. AS soon as darkness
sets in
The collector began to slap his leg
and grow red in the face and motion
with his hands. and the major stopped
his speech to switch off and say:
oh. well, Wen make an end of this
trif1ing matter. l will write you
check for the amount.
eff you do-if you do, major, 1 shall
have to laugh. and the broken ribs, you
know. The idea that your check would
be paid would surely set me to gig
Cling"
The man of millions Gin his eye) sat
down and emPtied his pockets. He had
just Site That meant a weeks board
to him, but the collector had come to
stay.
VIII you take it and receipt the
bill?" he asked.
LAS the account is four years old.
and as
''Will you take it %
The collector took it. ESEs eyes twin
killed., his smile expanded, and he might
have laughed and damaged his ribs, but
at that moment three other collectors
came filing in, and he bowed good ma
turedly to the major and left him to
sink or swim.-Copyright, 1904, by 7.
c. McClure.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
Mr.. WARES REPORT.
Indications That Pension List Has
Passed the Maximum.

Washington. Aug. 25.-On the pen
sion rolls of the government July L,
there were e94,762 names. During
the fiscal year closing June 30. the
cost to the government of its PEN
sioners was s144.e42. s37.74- The COM
missioner of pensions, Mr. Ware. in his
report, recommends service pensions
for department clerks, the forfeiture
of pension rights on the conviction
of crime, the prohibition of pensions
to women who marry soldiers after
the soldiers become pensioners, and
the consolidation of the three New
England pension agencies in one.
In proportion to its representation
Kansas has more pensioners than any
other state in the Union In the total
number, however. 1t has 5000 fewer
than Missouri and nov quite half so
many as Pennsylvania or Ohio Fol-
lowing is a table showing the number
of pensioners and the amount received
in the leading states, and also In In
IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25

July I, 1908, there were e96, 545 pen
sioners- A year later there was de-
crease in this Rumber of LISA During
the year just cloSed there was added to
the pension las 1874 names. OF these
additions 32e were made at the direc-
ton OF congress, and the remainder by
the pension bureau in the every day
conduct of its business. These additions
were more than balanced by deaths of
pensioners and removals from the rolls
for specific causes The loss through
death was 1880; by remarriage of Wild
ows, LOLA: by minors becoming of age,
1859; by failure to claim, 1887, and for
other causes, n,2Sz
at Is sorrowful to contemplate"
writes the commissioner, that the
deaths among the soldier pensioners for
the year were 31,72s. Among these, 3d.
civil war; The death rate among the
pensioners for the coming year will be
about 1900 and the losses to the roll
from other causes will be about 5,000'
from the civil war. Today there are
so, 7e2 invalid soldiers on the rolls. The
widows OF the civil war number 253,-
3d. the army nurses, 606- In the last
pensioners of the civil war has increas-
ed q. 457- The number OF soldier pen
gioners has decreased in the same time
80. 4s7.
The present number OF invalid SOL
diers OF the Spanish war on the pen
sion rolls is IL. 40. The widows of the
Spanish war soldiers that are being
pensioned number 4.Sss. There was an
Increase in the number of Spanish war
soldiers pensions from July /, 1903, to
July 1 last, of 3.240. The number of
widows increased In the same time by
727. There are 1851 regular army in
valid soldiers pensioned and 1921 wild |
ows of regular army soldiers carried on |
the rolls There are 1910 pensioners re- |
siding outside the United States, draw |
Ing 1922. 40.
The total amount r,af5 in MANSIONS ~,
10 this time is S3.179. III, ISL IS. This gil |
gantic sum has been divided among |
!. 304. 995 soldiers of all the American !
wars and the regular army. The cost |
Of the pension system per capita OF !
population is $1-77, according to the |
He says: The pension |
system was the greatest as a burden |
to the people Of the United States in /
1898 since which time the burden has |
been constantly decreased until ii has /
shrunk in eleven years from 1924 to /
less than S1.32 per $1,000 of taxable |
wealth In ten years more the burden /
will cease to be noticed"
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Kansas Cftx Prodnoe A1nrket.

Kansas City, Aug 25.-Close-WHEAT-
were higher. Sept. $40; Dec. SIG: Nay Nay.
No SS 8 hard, sscaH 90; No. Z hard, SasS Ease
No. red, $O5q1.O6; No. red, s.. 02Q1.05.
CORNL-Market higher. Sept. 4s1kc;
Dec, 46Ac; May, $3.50 Cash: No. 2 mix
ed, Sic; No. mixed, 50Q503kc; No. 2 white,
Size; No. 3 white, sic.
OATS-Market firm. No. white 360
361kc; No. mixed, 34965c.
RYE-75c.
HAY-Market Arm fChoice timothy. IS. 80
G9.00; choice prairie, Sc. 50Q6 70.
121%c.
EGGSFresh, 171kc
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medium, s.. 50d5.O0; stockers and feeders.
s.. oOa4oO; cows, 81. $500. 40; heifers, $3.50
AIS; Gamers. $1.5062.50; bulls, 81. 0O64. Is;
$50; western steers, So. OOq3. 60.
HOGS-Receipts today, 1900 head; esti-
mated Friday 900 head. Market strong
to higher. Mixed and butchers, $5.15G5. %:
good to choice heavy, S .35g5.50; rough
heavy, $4:85Q530; light, s5.30Qe. 40; bulk of
sales, S.. 2505.45.
SHEEP-Receipts today. 5000 head
Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice
wethers, 50. 5G@4 rs; fair to choice mixed,
So. 25G3. rs; western sheep, $3.25@4. 10; native
lambs, $4.25Q6.0 90; western lambs, 81 00Q5.75.
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St. Louis Livestock Marker.

ST. Louis, Mo. Aug. 25.-CATTLE-Re
ceipts today, 5000 head, including $500
head of Texans. Market a shade lower.
Beef steers, So. 75d5. 80; stockers and feed
ers, s.. 00d3.65; cows and heifers, $A41l3.75:
Texas steers, 81. 50Q3. IS; Texas cows and
heffers, S1.75G2.75
HOGS-Receipts today. 5000 head. Mar
ket steady and sc higher Pigs and lights,
s5.0OQ5 so; packers, So 10@5.46 butchers
and best heavy, IS $685.
Msrst EteddS s+,v today x s 1a nehe
$4.25Q5.50; Texans, s350d4.O0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
FURNISHED

FURNISHED by A. M. McDermott Commits
sion Co., Stocks, Grains, Provisions and
Investment Securities. Rooms 20 and a,
502 Kansas ave.
Cincinnati Price Current says: "Impor-
tant betterment of corn situation. Crop
probably 2500,0O0 is practically assured,
only contingency serious early frosts.''
Liverpool opening cables: Wheat 19sd
Liverpool. i:sO p. M: Wheat 2ssd lower;
corn sd lower.
Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, 1os
cars; graded, l. Corn, 167 cars; graded,
20. Oats, 2O3 cars; graded, "A.
Liverpool closing cables; Wheat 17Sd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25

head of southerns. Market for best,
strong; others steady. Native steers, g. IS
$500; southern steers, 81 501S. 70: southern
COWS, 81. 15QS. 90; stockers and feeders, 81. %
western steers, $3.25G4.75; western cows.
81. 75G3. 80.
HOGS--Receipts today, 5000 head. Mar
ket steady. Bulk of sales. s.. 10d5 Is:
heavy, s5.1OQ5.2 20: packers, s5.o6G5 Is; pigs
and lights, $5.O0d535.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 1900 head.
Market steady. Muttons, s. 25d4 Is; lambs,
4.o0Q56 SO; range wethers, $3.BqS.75; ewes,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25

St. Louis. Mo-, Aug. 25.-At a meet
ing today of the German Veterans As
ISOLATION of North America at the
worlds fair a cablegram was sent to
Emperor William rendering to him
the enthusiastic homage of the Ger
man veterans. DR.. Lewald, the i'm
perial commissioner general to the
worlds fair from Germany, addressed
the veterans and at the conclusion of
his remarks called for three cheers
for Emperor William and President
Roosevelt, which were responded to
with resounding "hochs."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 25.-J. T. Laney,
formerly receiving clerk of the West
ern Union Telegraph company at Dali
las. Tex, was arrested here today on
a telegram from the company in Dali
las Laney, who is under 20 years of
age, admitted that he and a confed-
crate, whose name he gave as Black,
alias Edmund Seaborn, had stolen
$1,000 on bogus kilograms Accord
ing to Laney's story. his father is now
chief operator of the Western Union
cOmpanY in Dallas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25

London. Aug. 25.-The Anchor line
steamer Asia, which sailed August IL
from Liverpool for Calcutta, has ar
rived at Port Said and reports having
been detained for two hours while her
papers and cargo were examined by
the Russian cruiser Ural. The search
took place go miles east of Capt st.
Vincent, Portugal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
Jnst AM Ordinarr Nfnrder.

New York, Aug. est has devel-
oped that the killing of Salvatore Bos-
soto yesterday was not connected with
the black hand or Malta societies,
but a crime of ordinary character.
The shooting was done by a drunken
relative of young Bossoto's mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
He Came to Write a Book.

ST. Louis, Mo-, Aug. 25-Rev. Henry
Baas, IS years old, of London. England,
died suddenly at the Inside Inn today
Mr.. Baas' mission to the Worlds fair
was to write a book on the exposition
for a religious publication of London.
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Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, Ill, Aug. 25-BUTTTR-dar-
l1et steady. Creamery, 13@1sc; dairy, 10
1511c.
EGGS-Market steady. At mark, cases
included, 13Q161Ac.
CHEESE-Market steady. Daisies, $40
&c; Twins, S@S1zc; Young Americans, S1Ie1
Sc.
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady. Tur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
Committed Suicide in wife's Presence.

EIdora, Ia, Aug. 25.-M. S. Body,
prominent Spectator and stockman
committed suicide before his wife to
day by shooting because of financia
and domestic troubles.
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speciaI Troin 70 Marian

The Santa Fe will run a special
train to Marion for Republican rally
Thursday, Sept 1st- This will be the
biggest political rally ever held in
Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25

FURNISHED py ]. E. Gan. Commissions.
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office ITO West Sixth street. Telephone
4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co, Kansas City, Mol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
Sugar and Coree i'm New york.

New York, Aug. 25.-SUGAR-Raw SUI
gar quiet. Fair refining, 3 11-16c; centrifu-
gal, Sc test, 414c; molasses sugar, 3 7-16c.
Refined sugar quiet. Crushed, $50; pow
dered, $3.50; granulated, $50
COFFEE-Market steady. No. Rio,
S3sc.
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Range OF Prices.

Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street. Telephone
486. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co., Kansas City, Mol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
Knox Sails for Home.

Liverpool, Aug. 25.-Former Attorney
General Knox was among the paSSen-
gers who sailed today for New York on
the Baltic.
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Wool Market.

st. Louis, Mo-. Aug. 25-WOOI-Market
steady. Territory and western mediums,
22Q241kc; fine mediums, 16@18c; fine, 15q16c.
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New York Butter.


New York. Aug. 25.-BUTTER-Marke
firm and unchanged.
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CHICAGO Livestock MARKED

Chicago, Aug. 25.-CATTLE-Receip to-
day, 1850 head. Market steady to higher.
Good to prime steers, $5.50G6. 10; poor to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-25
Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. Z.-CATTLE-
Receipts today, 5000 head, including LOO
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Kansas City Grain.

Furnished by ]. e. Gall Commissions,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks
Office no West Sixth street. Telephone
1885, Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co., Kansas City, Mol
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Topeka Hide Market.

Topeka, Aug. ..
on Boston quotati ons):
GREEN SALT CURED - On
NO. 1 TALLOW Observation-Disclosures. "a
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24
RUSSIA WANTS new navy
AMERICA MAY PROFIT BY II
land for years.

st. Petersburg, Nov 21..-America
is likely to profit, both directly and
indirectly from the execution of the
large naval programme which Russia
is now celebrating.
The vital Importance of the sea
power has been Russia's bitterest les
son of the war, and the government
is fully determined that the mainten-
ance of the empires position in fu-
ture as a first class power will be
impossible without an adequate navy.
If the losses the Pacific fleet has al
ready sustained should be followed
by disaster to Vice Admiral Rojest-
venslky's squadron, it will be neces-
sary not only to rebuild the whole
navy, but to increase its strength. The
immensely of the task seems to be
fully appreciated While some of the
contracts will be placed abroad, ow-
ing to the limited facilities of Rus
sian yards land it is expected that at
least one big ship will be constructed
in America). the admiralty's plans
will be directed toward ultimate di-
vorce from dependence upon foreign
shipbuilders by the organization at
home of vast shipbuilding, armour
plate, ordnance and kindred indus
tries. For this purpose it is realized,
however that foreign builders and
specialists must be attracted, and
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24
THE BIG STRIKE FUND
MORE when IT is CONE

San Francisco, Nov. 21.-By a
unanimous vote the delegates to the
American Federation of Labor de-
cided to aid financially the striking
textile workers of Fall River to the
extent of $4,000 per week for three
weeks If by the end of this time it
is found that the strike is not broken
the executive council will, if it sees
fit, continue the donation. The money
for the purpose is to be raised by an
assessment of 1 cent a week, levied
on each member of every labor or
ganization affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor
Some stirring and impassioned ad-
dresses on behalf of the workers of
the Fall River district were delivered.
Delegate Mrs. Mary Kenney O'Suli-
van, of the National Women's Trade
Union League, depicted the scenes
there since the strike began. She
characterized the conditions existent
as more terrible than those attendant
on the anthracite coal strike. One
meal day consisting Of soup and two
slices of bread was, she alleged, the
fare of 400 women and children. To
safeguard the virtue of these unfor-
tunate women and protect the health
and perhaps the lives of the children
she prayed that financial aid might be
given until the strike was won.
Delegate Driscoll, of Boston, put
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24
AVOID SUN OF INDIA.

White Men Return From That coun.
try With PaIlor.
The missionary was SO pale that
his friend exclaimed:
Have you had spell Of sickness,
Jake?"
mo. l have been to India" the
other answered.
India? That sunny, sizzling
place? How is it you are not brown,
them"
ut is plain to be seen that you
don't know what you're talking about
said the missionary. white people
that go to India don't come back
brown. They come back paler than
ghosts. India fades white people out
l thought everybody knew that"
81 didn't know it, Jake. What is
the philosophy of it?"
THE philosophy is that the Indian
sun is so deadly that we whites have
to keep out of it. In the sun, in In
dia, the thermometer will register 160
degrees. Well, with the thermometer
at $50 can you imagine a white man
bustling about in the glare? He is ly-
ing on a dim piazza with an iced
drink beside him and fan stirring
the air above his head.
Eyes," said the missionary, white
men in India avoid the sun as young
girls at home avoid mice. White
men return from India as pale as you
see me. The Indian pallor,' we
call it."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24

the motion before the house, which
was carried amid the cheers of the
entire convention. Many delegates
arose in their seats, and, on behalf of
the organization which they repre-
scented, offered then and there to hand
over to Delegate Golden checks to
cover the amount of their respective
unions assessments. Delegate Keefe.
of Chicago, handed over a check for
81 500 on behalf of the longshoremen,
dock and marine workers of his city
Others quickly followed suit, dele
gate from the brewers union even Of
fering to turn over the actual cash if
given few moments time to get it.
Further than considering few re-
solutions, no other business was trans
acted by the delegates and an adj
journment was taken until tomorrow
morning
During the evening mass meetings
in nearby towns were addressed by
different labor leaders.
Twenty-Five thousand textile opera
tives in the city of Fall River, Mass,
have been on strike since July 25,
1904, against a reduction in wages
ranging from twelve and one-half per
cent. to as high as forty per cent.
tile Workers of America, an organi-
cation that has been in existence since
1858.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24

some alluring prospects are likely to
present themselves. Vickers Sons &
Maxim, and Armstrong. Whiteworth
& Co. Limited. Of England, have al
ready made advances, but, owing TO
the -anti-English sentiment, British
firms are not meeting with very cor
dial reception.
The disposition is to turn toward
France, Germany and the United
States; and a great plant at Libau or
on the banks of the Neva, directed
by American brains and possibly in
association with French and German
enterprises, is one of the possibilities
of the near future.
Among the Americans here ne
gotiating with the Russian govern
ment is J. E.. Wilson, who is trying
to sell an invention of smokeless
powder perfected by a Scotchman
named Archbold, who once was resi-
dent of the United States. The par
ticular merit of the powder, it is
claimed, which is adapted to heavy
artillery, is quick drying quality,
ordinary smokeless powder taking
several months to dry.
Theodore S. Darling, who has op-
lions on the dynamite guns at San
Francisco which were recently sold
by the United States, is trying to ne
gotiate their sale to Russia with a
view to their shipment to Vladivostok.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24

| there, headless, trussed, and stuffed
and garnished. The gobbler gulped
with emotion as he followed the pic
ture to its finish. A shudder 70"
through the audience, and feathers
trembled like the leaves of the forest
when storm approaches. Each tur
key saw his finish, too.
Farmer Cuisine will never know
how narrowly he escaped death him.
self that night. 1t was actually pro-
posed by some of the younger and
more excitable birds that the flock
unftedly set upon their confessed en-.
envy and beat him to earth with claw
and beak and wings. But, as some
one has said. "Calmer counsels pre-
vailed" and the unanimous decision
of the meeting was that safety could
best be found in fight. From that
pOint the discussion was carried on in
turkey whispers.
The meeting stands adjourned"
finally gobbled the forensic fowl, as
one by one the turks trooped away.
The rest Of the story is almost too
distressing to be told, but an extract
from one of the morning papers, pub.
lished the day after the mass meet.
ing, may be here reprinted. 1t ran:
Last night a band of skillful ras.
Gals completely cleaned out Farmer
Cuisines turkey house. So cleverly
was the robbery effected that not a
single feather remained on the
ground, and not a sound was heard to
disturb the farmer or his family.
Some persons in this vicinity are
sure of a turkey dinner on Thanks
giving day. From the wholesale ma,
ture of the steal it seems likely that
the thieves contemplated supplying an
entire township with Thanksgiving
dinners. There is no clew to the rob.
hers.
'Later-Some wag caused much
merriment by relating a circumstan-
tial story of seeing the Cuisine flock
of turkeys, led by one solemn looking
gobbler, walking, in single file down
the main street, in the dead of night
He watched them, said the wag, and
could swear that they all marched on
until they reached the edge of the
woods, where they separated with
chorus of gleeful gobbles and disap-
peared in the bushes. 1t was a good
little story, well told, and the teller's
stock rose appreciably in the COM
munity. He repeated it with such
gravity and apparent conviction of its
truth that the listeners were con-
vulsed.'
But that didn't bring back Farmer
Cuisines turkeys, and he is still in
consolable. He has given up raising
turkeys, and says he intends to raise
turkey rhubarb instead.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24

DERUNA is known from the Atlantic
i to the Pacific. Letters of congrat-
ulation and commendation testify
ing to the merits of Peruna as catarrh
remedy are pouring in from every State
of the Union.
DIR. Hartman is receiving hundreds
of such letters daily. All classes write
these letters, from the highest to the
lowest.
The outdoor laborer. the indoor arti-
san, the clerk, the editor the statesman,
the preacher-all agree that Peruna is
the catarrh remedy of the age.
The stage and rostrum, recognizing
catarrh as their greatest enemy, are es-
pecially enthusiastic in their praise and
testimony.
Any man who wishes perfect health
must be entirely free from catarrh.
Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost
omnipresent.
Peruna is the only absolute safeguard
known. A cold is the beginning of
catarrh. To prevent colds. to cure colds,
is to cheat catarrh of its victims.
Peruna NOT only cures cafarrh, but
prevents IL. Every household should
be supplied with this great remedy for
coughs, colds and so forth.
The Ex-Governor of Oregon is an
ardent admirer of Peruna. He keeps it
continually in the house.