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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

The figures of the business of the
Manchester ship canal in England are
made public for the six months ending
June 80. These show a revenue of
$4,000 and expenses of 1881, 900, leaving
about 100000 to the good. Other sources
brought in about $50. 500, making the net
$462, 500 After paying interest on all
other obligations, the directors paid
to the city of Manchester 1920, 900 inter
est for the six months on the deben-
lures it holds, as against S150.000 paid
at the end of the corresponding half of
the previous wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
BASEBALL AT NIGHT.
Sioux Indians Would Play in Topeka
by Electric Light.

Secretary Logan of the Topeka
Baseball association this morning re-
ceived a letter from the Sioux Indian
baseball club for an exhibition game
some night next week.
These Indians travel about the
country in a private car. They carry
with them an electric light plant by
which they say they are able to IL
illuminate a baseball field as light as
day. Secretary Logan at once answer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
AT THE WORLDS FAIR

Subscribers to the State Journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may nave
Rhe paper mailed regularly each day
90 amy address I'm ST. Louis at the rate
wf thirty cents m month The last
edition OF the State journal reaches
nc. Louis the following morning. The
u,aper can be sent care of the Kansas
building, IL desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
New york Money Market.

New York, Aug. 15.-MONEY-Mone
on call easy, 7sa1 per cent, closing bid ct
/ and offered at 1 per cent. Time loans
easy, but dull: 60 days and 80 days, 2Q214
per cent; 6months, 315 per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 4Q472
per cent; sterling exchange easy, and
then firmer, with actual business in
bankers bills at 81. 1904. 1906 for demand
and at $4S5A@4.S $3.50 for 60 day bills; post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly eacn Gay
10 any address at the rate OF tnirlS
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out OF town
the state Journal Will be to you Ike
n daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
STRIKERS MASS MEETING.
Wilson and BuckaIew Will Address
Machinists at Auditorium.

j. D Buckalew is expected to arrive in
Iopeka today and Thomas l. Wilson is
announcement is made today that the
striking machinists of the Santa Fe will
Wednesday night, at which time Wilson
and Buckalew will address the local
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Charles Powers, aged 70 years, died
this morning at his late home in Fra
zier'S addition, of consumtion. The fun
eral will take place on Tuesday after
noon at o'clock from Lane chapel. In
terment in Topeka cemetery.
Iona kirkpatrick, aged 5 years, died
of tonsilitis at 40 East Fourth street
this morning. The funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

1t is said that a snake bite will cure
leprosy. A lot of old topers have been
looking for some excuse to get snake
bitten for a long time. All they need
DO now is emigrate to Hawaii. The rest
fG
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

The New York Suns decision to sup
port Roosevelt is not without conpen-
sation to the Democrats. 1t carries
with it the support of ]. Pierpont Nor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

Judge Parker declares that he will
not be a candidate for a second term.
but we don't understand that he has
put up any forfeit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

ed rates, s4.s6@4 S61s and 81. ss@4 s91k; com
mercia1 bills, $4.S47s.
SILVER-Bar silver, 575sc; Mevfcan dol
lars, 451zc.
BONDSLGovernmen bonds steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

No wonder the 400 has been cut down
to 200. Not many people have enough
jewels to misIay 500. 900 worth and for
get where they are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

The man who in former times COM
planned that corn and wheat were
grown at a loss seems to have dropped
out of sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

1t is not the fault of Mr.. Davis that
he is so old a candidate Why didn't
they nominate him earlier in his life?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

Through sleeper to st. Louis. Santa Fe
Leaving Topeka 4:3O D. m. and 500
u. m, arriving ST. Louis 7:15 a. m.
call or address, T. L. King c. P. & T.
A, Topeka, or phone 6S2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
ATTENDANCE INCREASING.
Growing Crowds at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis.

st Louis, Aug. 15-WorId's fair grounds
The admissions last week show an in
crease over the previous six days, which
was the largest total iSince the
opening of the exposition. The in
crease last week was 5000, and the
worlds fair management is much graft
ned as each day showed a healthy in
crease there being no one specially large
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

WHEN uwanta fair satin skin apply
Satin Skin Cream and Satin Skin Pow
der. CSC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

If every state in the Union was like
Iowa how little work there would be
for the campaign managers to do.-Des
Gkoines Capital.
Yes or Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

II the japanese succeed in surround
ing Kuropatl<in he may do something
that will cause them to regret it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
Impaired Digestion

May not be all that is meant by dyspepsia
now, but it will be if neglected.
The uneasiness after eating, fits OF nerv-
Gus headache, sourness OF the stomach, and
disagreeable belching may not be very bad
now, but they will be if the stomach is
suffered to grow weaker.
Dyspepsia is such a miserable disease
that the tendency to it should be given
early attention. This is completely over
come by
Hoods I0rS0p0riLL0
which strengthens theHhole dieastiza sxster,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

The FIRST shot in the Vermont cam
paagn was fired by Cannon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

Probably the car, by this time, is
eongratulating himself on the fact that
his capital is so far from Japan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

try to arrange a date. The novelty
of the thing would appeal to many
people, and there would without Ques-
ton be an immense crowd out to wit
ness the event. The Indians will be at
Beatrice, Neb., the latter part of this
week, and want a date here shortly.
The Saints are home all next week and
an exhibition game between them and
the redskins could easily be arranged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15

The Ohio club will meet tonight at
the home of ]. H. FOUGHT, 712 Taylor
street.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

We handle a straight line OF furni-
ture,, window blinds, mirrors and pic
lures: Fairmont Furniture Co. OPP
#posite$postomce-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03
Il Meeting VIII Touos

Ate had been IN the war
room for son time Captain aka
Irabe,Scommander o the Manshu Maru,
entered and announced. Gentlemen.
admiral Togo. Every one sprang to
his feet and fixed his eyes on a little
officer, small ven for a japanese,
the admiral OF the fleet. a calm, de-
termined looking man, about ifty-siN
years of age, with coal black hair
standing straight up from his head.
eNpressicnless yes, prominent cheek
bones and a powerful jaw. relieved by
an imperial. Calmness Is q great
characteristic of Admiral Togo. He
saZed Oh the scene before him without
any sign of interest or#emotion. 1t
was not by any means an unSindiy
look. but simply the look of a man.
whose body was present. but whose.
mind was elsewhere. Just the same
look Nelson might have had during
one of those lonely vigiis before Brest
or Toulon a century age. Togo is a
man of few words, but of iron deter
mination. never saw any one who
impressed me so much with a sense
OF real greatness, something above the
ordinary rlcll Of Shall never
forget the picture he made as he stood
in the ward room of he Mil1asa, sur
rounded by his stan and the represent
tatiyes of the powers. Shorter In stat
Qare shan any present, he nevertheless,
like the mighty Corsican. stood out be-
fore all. and Vas the cyllosurR of all
eyes The representatives OF every
nationality, some OF them actually hos
tile to the japanese cause, felt direct
~ as they came into the presence of
The fighting admiral the spell Of his
fascination, and sinking all differ
ences, crowded round this little man
III a mad endeavor to shake him by
the hand AT the same time you could
heard words Of aduIation and
congratulation uttered in English.
French, German, Italian, Austrian and
Japanese. AS for Togo, he sazed on
the Eel before him unchanged as
ne a gazed unchanged ten years bel
on the sinking of the Kowshing.
and the sending of two thousand hui
man beings to a watery grave, an
which awoke the world 10 the
rising of a new star in the Far East.
" frank the health of the admiral
in champagne, and he S far u%nbended
as to just QUO the glass in return to
lie compliment. This vas no sign of
lnSraciousness. 1t simply mean the
of the man was centered else
wherein the fortress forty miles
away. and the message which might
at any moment that the enemy
put to sea."-Collier's Weekly.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

The West Virgin1an JOB department
is turning i nice Inject work..
Read the West VirginIan. it has
the latest news. Z
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03
PILES! PILES! PILEsl

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
will cure Blind, Bleeding, liberated
mors, allays the itching at once, acts
as a poultice, gives instant relief. Dr..
Williams Indian Pile Ointment is pre-.
pared only for Piles and Itching OF
the private parts, 4 nothing else.
Every box is guaranteed Sold by
druggists, sent by mai, for Soc and
800 pei box WILLIAMS MFG.
CO., Propr's. Cleveland, Ohio.
Some nice4lots on Hamilton Hill Tor
SALE at a good bargain. H8H.sLan-
ham. $sS a
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03
American ard British Railroads.

a comparison of British and Amerl
can railroads is made possible by
United States Consul Mahin's report
to the State Department from Noting
ham. just published, Of British lines
The figures for Great Britain and Ire
land are for 1903: for the United
the island kingdom a slight advantage.
Great Britain has 22.3SO miles of
track. About a hundre new miles a
year are built. The United States has
199,6S4 miles of rae and $4,000 miles
of sidings. Roughly. we have more
than eight miles to Britain's n mile.
The total capital of American rail-
roads now amounts to thirteen and a
half billions, about equally divided
between stocks and bonds. The Brit
ish capital was six billions and eighty
millions in~1903, and increasing at the
rate of one hundred and twenty-five
million a year. Meanwhile gross earn
ings increased from 1901 to 1902 $12.-
100000 per year; the increase In net
earnings was much smaller, which
alarms British railroad men.
American railroads increased in cap
italization in 1901 and 1902 Ca very
extravagant period) by S53O,0o0,000.
Gross earnings had increased for five
years in succession more than a hun
bred million a year upon an average.
British railroads are capitalized at
S2SO,0Oo per mile and earn at gross
$4,000 per mile, or sA per cent. gross.
American railroads are capitalized at
$GS,O0O per mile and earn nearly nine
dollars a mile, or IL per cent.
upon gross capital; but British rail
way b~onds~bear lower interest than
ours, and their more concentrated
business is more economical in some
to handle.
Gross receipts: American, S1,720,-
00O, 900; net receipts, $637 100000 600.
Gross receipts: British. $3.50, 200. 900.
Number of passengers carried: Brit
ish, 1.194, 100000 in 1902; in America,
655, $50, 900 The British rails carry
nearly twice as many individual fares,
but the average passage is much
shorter. City people, i the British,
frequent short rides. American
farmers travel less often and further.
the extension of our trolley
car systems to proportions undreamed
of abroad has robbed the railroads of
short distance suburban traffic.
We have twenty-siX and a quarterd
miles of line for each ten thousand
Britain has five and a third
miles per ten thousand inhabitants
New York World.
We handle a straight line of furni-
-ure, window blinds, mirrors and pic
.ures Fairnont Furniture Co OPP
oosite$postomce.
ThegyVest Virgin1ansstop departmental
urnin i NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Read the West virginian. Il has
latest
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

Visit U department. &c ANTE
ailunainum 4 SqueensWsaaggse#
and = Kitchen utennssdillso n IoaSs
az observation-disclosures block D nuss
will lind seaIines eompIets u
prices low @.HIaus HardMr
Store
Some best lots on Fairfnaar
SAFE see H.HEISanhat
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03
You Want the Best.

Are you going to spend your vaca.
ton somewhere out Of town?
If So, of course you will want one
of you home papers to follow you.
Why not the West Virginian?
It's the best, and of course you want
the best, and it will only cost you ten
cents per week mailed to any address
IN he United States.
Some one Will get the hundred dol
lars in gold. It IS worth guessing
for. g.S8S s Ss4s $s <.
- 9 M ct the habit win
always buy your furniture from the
F,airmont Furniture &C Opposite
spostohlce.Ss 8@@
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

and full information, call at Ticket
Office, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

SIXTY DAY Excursion Tickets,
final limit not later than December
Is, 1904, to be sold daily at rate of
$22.10 round trip.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

SEASON TICKETS, good to return
until December Is. 1904, to be sold
daily at the ate of s2e.6o round trip.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

Various forms OF excursion tickets
to ST. Louis, via Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad nof on sale from Fairmont
as follows:
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

Magnificent coaches, sleeping cars,
car service
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

FIFTEEN DAY Excursion tickets,
to be sold daily at rate of s1s.6O round
trip.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD

To the Worlds Fair-very Low Rates.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

VARIABLE ROUTE EXCURSION
tickets, either season or sixty day,
will be sold going via one direct
route and returning ii another direct
route, full information concerning
which can be obtained from Ticket
Agent.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-03

STOP-OVERS not exceeding ten
days at each point will be allowed at
Washington, Deer Park, Mountain
Lake Park, Oakland, Mitchell. Ind,
(for French Lick and West Baden
Springs, Cincinnati and Chicago
within return limit, upon notice to
conductor and deposit of ticket with
Depot Ticket Agent Immediately
upon arrival.
STOP-OVERS not exceeding ten
days will be allowed at st. Louis on
all one-way Except Colonists' Tick
cts to the Pacific Coast and round
trip tickets reading to points beyond
ST. Louis, upon deposit of ticket with
Validating Agent and payment Of fee
of s1.OO.
Three solid vestibuled trains are
run daily from New York. Philadel-
phia. Baltimore and Washington via
Parkersburg and Cincinnati to ST.
louis.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-22

MAKES A PLEA
FOR BIG NAVY
Captain HobsOn Delivers an
Interesting Lecture Before
Chautauquan Assembly

PACIFIC GROVE, July 21.-Captain
Hobson lectured in the Chautauquan
Auditorium this afternoon on The
American Navy" and made a strong
plea for it's strengthening. He said his
highest ambition was to see America
mistress of the seas. He wanted to see
so many guns in our navy that their
great number would make it unneces-
sary to use them.
Give us an adequate navy" said he,
'and no foreign power can ever land
on our 1900 miles of seacoast, within
gunshot of which 20, 900 of our peO-
pie have their homes. Russia would
now mortgage her empire for four gen.
erations to get twenty battleShips. but
she can't get them, while Japan is
happy because she spent so much
money on her navy"
Captain Hobson said that there was
an understanding among the military
powers of Europe to dismember and di-
vide China among themselves, and he
wanted the Monroe doctrine extended
to China to prevent it, The powers
would take advantage of the present
war to divide China. He predicted that
Port Arthur would fall. as only 10000
men were left there instead of 10000
1.-The European nations will not de-
clare war on Japan" he said, but will
notify her that she is disturbing the
peace of the world. Then the present
war will stop and the powers will ex-
tend their possessions in China as an
excuse for maintaining peace there.
The moment the partition Of China be-
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-22
RAILROAD WAR
IS TO CONTINUE
President Elliott of the
Northern Pacific Company
Denies Settlement Story
Special Dispatch to The Call.

TACOMA, July 21.-President Elliott
Of the Northern Pacific makes a posi-
tive denial Of the reports that peace
has been made between the Northern
Pacific and the Hartman system,
whereby the Hartman roads are to Sc
cure an entrance to Puget Sound cities
over the Northern Pacific tracks from
Portland. Recent tide land purchases
in Seattle were supposed to be for
either the Hartman system or the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
way, or these two systems jointly.
These options have been allowed to
lapse, giving rise to report of track
age arrangements. The options taken
on Tacoma tide lands have not yet ex-
pired.
The Northern Pacific is preparing to
combat the entrance of another system
to Puget Sound by further shortening
its own line and making ready to build
down the north bank of the Columbia
River, thereby securing a water grade
for its Oregon business.
President Elliott and all the heads OF
departments have just spent ten days
In Idaho inspecting the route of the
proposed cutoff from Missoula, Mont,
to Lewiston, Idaho, together with the
extensions through the wheat district
of Idaho and the proposed short cut
across the Palouse wheat district of
Eastern Washington. These extensions
are in strictly Oregon Railroad and
Navigation territory, further evidenc-
ing the fact that no peace has been
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-22
BRYAN SPRINGS NEW ISSUE.
Advocates the Ownership of Railroads
by the States.


LINCOLN, Neb., July 21.-William J.
Bryan's plan for the reformation of
Democracy was published to-day.
Bryan favors radical changes, but ad-
vocates the election of Judge Parker
for President as a good beginning. He
declares for state ownership of rail-
roads, Government control of tele-
graphs, adjustment of private monop-
oily, the income tax and the election of
Federal Judges by the people. Bryan
says in part:
The money question is for the pres
ent in abeyance. The increased produc-
ton Of gold has lessened the strain
upon the dollar, and while bimetaIlism
is as sound in the ordinary as it ever
was. the necessity for it is not so ap-
parent.
While / have heretofore refused to
take a position upon the question Of
Government ownership of railroads, re-
cent events have convinced me that the
time is now ripe for the presentation of
the question. The plan usually sug-
gested is for the purchase of these
roads by the Federal Government. This
plan, II seems to me, is more objection
able than plan which involves the
ownership and operation of these roads
by the several States. To put the rails.
in the hands Of the Federal Govern
ment would mean an enormous CEN
tralization of power 1t would give to
the Federal Government a largely in
creased influence over the citizen and
the citizens affairs, and such centraIi-
zatlon is not at all necessary. The
States can own and operate railroads
within their borders just as effectively
as il can be done by the Federal Cow
ernment. and if it is done by the States
the objection based upon the fear Of
Capitalization is entirely answered. a
board composed of representative
from the various States could deal with
Interstate traffic of the various lines
While the Democratic party in the
nation is advocating Government own
ership Of railroads, the Democratic
party in the cities should, upon the
same theory, espouse the cause of mu-
nicipal ownership of municipal fran
chises.
We have also reached a time when
the Postoffice Department should en-
brace telegraphic system as well as a
mail system. While the telegraph
lines do not reach as many people as
the railroads do, and while the abuses
OF private ownership have not been so
open and are not serious, there is no
reason why this nation should not do
what other nations are doing in this re-
spect."
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-22

German will not take the chairman
| ship of the Democratic National Com
mittee, the men who have been urging
MIN for the place will turn their at
tentlon to William F. Sheehan and try
to cause his election by the national
committee. They say either Sheehan
or Gorham is preferred over Taggart,
because either of them would be able
to command the attention of Eastern
business men and obtain large cam
paign fund. While the judges ad-
visors say that Taggart will be amply
provided for in an advisory capacity,
they think that either German or
Sheehan, with their wide experience,
would be better able to conduct the
campaign.
Henry G. Davis, the Democratic
candidate for Vice President, started
for Bedford Springs, Pa, to-day.
Thomas Taggart, member of the Demo
cratic National Committee from In
diana, to-day had d conference with
John w. Kern. Mr.. Kern is just as de-
termined as ever to insist upon Mr.
Taggart, and is still talking about the
Importance of the West in connection
with the campaign.
Taggart, it is expected will meet the
members of the national committee as
they arrive here. He says that there
is nothing for him TO say now and he
does not intend TO discuss the matter.
August Belmont settled all talk about
himself in connection with the national
craftsmanship by telling his friends
that he would not be considered for the
place. 1t is said Belmont favors Tag
CART for the place.
Unless Taggart should voluntarily
withdraw it is not believed Senator
German would allow his name to be
used, and perhaps not even in that con-
tingency. At the same time some of
the Eastern men still think that the
Maryland Senator is a possibility and
do not relinGuish the hope that he will
manage the campaign.
Most of the Democratic leaders who
have been comforting about the chair
manship have left the city and are not
expected to return until Monday.