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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-12-01
70 see . g deal Of this done in ~
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Dan p. Fer. Of Monroe county. |
raised this " from sixteen asr0
OF ground = big bales Of cotton
$50 bushels .orn, . good oat Drop.
plenty Of pea,e hay. 100 bushels Of
sweet potatota big pumpkin crop
and an abundse Of meat. How 10
this for o gooteld? II there . SEC
tion In the We country that will
give to the hundman so much for
his labor! Miisippi has millions
Of acres Of jusach land awaiting
the advent Of thnsrgetic settler.
Yazoo City 10 barring to organise
business league aid In the work
of development mat huutling delta
city. IT'S strange,at a place with
30 much energy I enterprise has
not long since pEded itself with
such an organizat. Nothing will
and can do the goohat q live bust
ness league can.
II seems that more,mmunities are
hustling in the State,day than yes-
terday. and all throug.he month the
good work goes on. Spy old towns
that have never done ything except
exist are up and tryirto get along
better There is = brit day ahead
for Mississippi.
The oyster industry Mississippi
received recognition athe Worlds
Fair in the shape Of hold medal
for excellence. The BSaria Can.
ming Company. Of Gulfpt was the
lucky contestant in thisase. Our
oysters arc fast taking thlead over
those caught in any secd Of the
United States. and this idal only
goes to prove that we wisoon be
far In the lead of all competrs.
Over half a million dollars being
spent by Mississippi countiein the
erection of new courthouses Some
Of these buildings are stone 4 tile,
costing more than $4,000. VIE all
Of them are good and servAable.
Only a few years back the rule n to
spend as little as possible In therec
tion Of public buildings-$10. 900 einr
near the limit. Now the COUNT dc
not hesitate to put $4,000 in . urt
house, and many Of them are sind
| larger sums for buildings with aca
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-12-01

Eupora Is to have an oil mill and
electric lights in the near future. The
town is hustling for business and
seems TO be progressive along all lines.
Keep pushing and the result will be
satisfactory.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-12-01
NEW MILLION DOLLAR
BANK FOR MEMPHIS.

Capital VIII Be Paid In Dollar for
Dollar Before the Doom Open for
Business--Three Hundred Banks In
Tennessee, MIssIsslppI and Arkan-
sas VIII Hold Stock.
Memphis. Tenn. Nov. 2s.--Memphis
II to have brand new million dollar
bank.
1t is to start on with that much
paid up capital, It's full stock being
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-12-01

While Mississippi may not have
gold and silver mines. her people dig
up over eighty million dollars in gold
from one crop alone-cotton. More
than all the gold and silver mined in
the same length Of time.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-12-01

BY H. z. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-12-01

Quite a large number Of homeseek-
ers, who came down on Capt. Merry's
sxcursion, have bought land and Will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
THE CITY PRINTING.
Investigation Gets Into State Journal
and Old Capital Accounts

At the meeting of the ways and
means committee Wednesday even
ing, the city printing bills of the State
Journal for ten months in 1899 and
1900 were checked, and an alleged net
overcharge of $3.50 discovered for the
ten months. an average of 10 cents 4
months C. F. Kimball, the expert
printer employed by the committee,
stated that this insignificant variation
might easily be attributed to the slight
mistakes of a line or two in measure
ment which cannot be avoided in
checking up legal advertising.
When the committee finished check
ing ten months. it was satisfied. The
members unanimously decided that it
was not worth while to bother with
the other two months of the year.
Some of the months checked show
ed that the State Journals bill was
too small. and the committee gave
credit for these amounts. Other
months showed such trifiing total over
charges as 20 cents. % cents, As cents,
go cents and rs cents. The largest
overcharge in a single month was
May, 1900. where the committee de-
cided that the excess was $685. The
largest undercharge was in August,
1899. the State Journals bill being
$1.40 too small in this month.
Altogether, the investigation was a
complete vindication for the State
Journal and this fact was emphasized
when the committee checked up eight
items in the August, 1898. bill of the
Daily Capital, when that paper was
under the Keller management, and
found overcharges on those eight
items of S1S.25. This was in the year
prior to the one when the State Jour
nal had the printing the last time. The
Keller bills were not properly drawn.
the items not being separated, the
amount of space not being given, and
the bills being in respects similar to
the ones presented by the present Cap
ital mana cement.
The following are the items on the
Keller bill for August. 1898. which
were checked by the committee, an
overcharge being found in every item
checked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
THEY EXPECT SICKNESS.
Physicians Anticipate This as Result
of Wet Weather.

There have been rumors that in
| creased sickness is commencing in
some portions of the state as a result
of the recent floods. No such reports
have come to the state board OF
health, however.
DR.. Charles Lowry, the retiring Sec
rotary of the board, says he will
be surprised if the floods do not pro-
duce some sickness, although he be-
lieves that locally the people will re-
member the lessons learned from last
years flood and will boil their drink
ing water.
TT seems to me that such will be
the case" said DIR. Lowry this after
noon I'VE had something over two
hundred cases OF typhoid fever in To-
peka last year, and out of over forty
cases examined none at all were pa
tients who had used boiled water all
the time for drinking purposes. With
this object lesson before them / think
people will boil their water this year,
and that is certainly a preventive of
typhoid.
'I presume there will be increased
sickness over the state as a result of
high water. 1 have just returned
from trip out over the Central
Branch, and I have noticed a great
deal of standing water in the eastern
portion of the state. We have had no
increased reports to the state board
yet, but 1t is too early to expect
them
DR.. Lowry has just returned from
Osborne, where he went to examine a
reported scarlet fever epidemic. He
found that there had been a public
funeral over a victim of scarlet fever
about two weeks ago, and ten or a
dozen cases of fever have resulted
altogether. Strict quarantine regula-
lions are now observed.
DR.. Lowry's term as secretary of
the state board of health expired on
July 1, but he has been continuing the
work pending the time the new sec
rotary, DIR. S. J. Crumbine who comes
from Dodge City, could take IL up.
DR.. Crumbine is now here and re-
lieved DR.. Lowry today. DR.. Lowry
has made an excellent official
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
THE Rack TRACK

The Democrats assembled at st. Louis
last week may or may not have felt
that they had been wrong on the money
question. but they took nothing back.
On the civil service it was different.
The Democratic platform OF 1896 had
contained the following plank, directly
and Intentionally hostile to the civil
service law:
I'VE are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appointments
based on merit. fixed terms of office.
and such an administration of the civil
service as will afford equal opportuni-
ties to all citizens of ascertained fit
ness
The objects here aimed at were evil
IDENTIFY. frequent vacancies made auto
matfcally by the expiration of fixed
terms. and the filling of the vacancies
by non-competitive examination.
The Democratic platform adopted at
St. Louis contains the following declar-
alton:
THE Democratic party stands COM
mitted to the principles of civil service
reform, and we demand their honest,
Just and impartial enforcement"
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ever, I think that we should leave this
matter to the council to SETTLE.
Councilman Hughes said: THE coun-
ell Will say, You fellows have been
studying on this matter, and you ought
to make a recommendation to us.
What's the matter with calling Mr..
Capper before this committee and hear
ing his statement
1t was finally decided to ask Mr.. Cap
per to meet with the committee Satur-
day evening. and explain his position
in regard to leading. At the Saturday
evening meeting, the committee will
also hear the draft of the report read,
and will get it into shape for presenta-
ton to the council on the evening of
July 49,
The following table shows the result
of the examination of the State Jour
nails bills for city printing, rendered to
the city from August 1899, to August,
1900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

A Nortonville curiosity is a four
legged chicken
The Murdoch family own and control
nVe daily Kansas newspapers.
Spearing rattIers with umbrellas is a
summer pastime at Goodland.
A Brown county man was in a bar
per shop this week for the first time in
eight months.
Peaches in Rice county are a dollar
per ousbei and harvest apples a drug
on the market.
Too much new alfalfa is responsible
Tor the death of five horses in a bunch
at Garden City.
The weeds are high enough now on
Cove City vacant lots to furnish shade
Tor picnic parties.
Only one Arkansas City citizen was
brave enough to wear a yellow ribbon
OranSeman's day.
lack of patronage owing to high
prices has caused the Sharon meat
shop to close its doors.
Mr.. Lemon, of Greensburg, is proud
OF the fact that he has never been
squeezed on the stock market.
FTedonia has a daring youth who
gives daily exhibitions of lofty diving
from the bridge into the river below.
The Arkansas City Jail is so loosely
constructed that prisoner pried his
way out in about 60 minutes with a
poker.
ion services this summer. Why not in
the winter. too? 1t would be a saving
of fuel.
An Eflngham man celebrated the 4th
by drinking a case of beer. He didn't
buy any fireworks and probably didn't
need any.
Hiawatha disposed of 100 gallons of
ice cream July 4th. The gallons con-
stunned of other thirst quenchers are not
mentioned.
A Goodland bull who had long been
terrorized by larger one. got even re-
Gently by slipping up and butting him
in an old we'll
The Ruleton band consists of only
three girls and the leader but from a
point of noise they have Liberati
skinned to a frazzle.''
On July 4. 1876. a HoIton man was
at the Philadelphia Centennial, July f.
80, he spent at the Chicago exposition
On July 4, 80. he was at the Omaha
show and this 4th he was at St. i auis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
VIII Try a Humorist.

At a meeting of the entertainment
committee of the Commercial club on
Wednesday afternoon to check UP the
accounts of the Semi-Centennial fes-
tivities, it was decided to arrange a
series of entertainments, the proceeds
from which are to be used to Iidui-
date all the subscriptions solicited for
the expenses of the big celebration
About $4,000 of this amount is still
unpaid. The first entertainment to be
given will be by Ralph Parlette, a
humorist from Ada, o. He is con-
sidered an equal of Bill Nye by people
who have heard both. Major Ander-
son states that he wants all of the
subscriptions paid back, because that
was the first intention of the associa-
ton when the money was asked for
The bad weather of the week put the
association in debt. but for the sake
of future contingencies. 1t was decided
to refund all the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

The itemized bills for the months of
August, November and December 1893,
and January, February and March, 1900,
were missing from the city clerks files,
and the deficiency was supplied by the
State Journal which submitted its
ledgers and files to the committee.
Items in the last column of the table
marked with q star 90 are returned Dy
the committee as under charges. Items
without the ~ are returned as over
charges. The State Journal regards
both alleged undercharges and alleged
overcharges as differences in measure
ments that might be honestly made
both by the committee and the paper,
as explained by Mr.. Kimball, the Off
ciaI measurer. The dotted blanks show
where Mr.. Kimball and the State Jour
nal agree to the twentieth part of a
square, or within less than two cents.
One of these publications was nine
teen columns long, ana the commit
tee found only a difference or $1-l5,
and for the month of August, in
which the big ordinance of nineteen
columns was printed, the committee
declared the state Journal had actual
ly made an undercharge or $14O!
Where an ordinance ran on several
pages not consecutive, the state
journal considered it right to charge
for the Continued line and did SO.
This the committee in it's wisdom last
night would not allow, in fact might
not, because in FASTING clippings IN a
string the continued line would be
cut out or pasted over. 1t was not
the custom of the State Journal to
charge for the heading Legal, al
though it took up such small frac-
times measured in to make even
tenths. Sometimes the city was given
the benefit, sometimes it went to the
paper. Hairs were not split.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFromt the Philadelphia Record
Grape-shot-the man with wine jag.
The sure thing at the race track NAV
be sure enough, but it's usually slow.
The barber seldom asks ''does the razor
hurt unless he's sure that it doesn't.
The person of average intelligence does
not care a rap for spiritualistic seance.
Disa ppointmcnt in love is the keenest
of all pangs. especially disappointment in
love of money.
The season is approa ching when the
small boy imagines that gunpowder is
good for his complexion.
The free silver movement is still NOV
ing. but it's moving further back into the
past all the time
Very few men may truly be called well
known and popular" Most men are pom
ular for what people don't know about
them.
What did your fountain pen cost
you?' .-Twenty-six dollars ''What?''
One dollar for the pen and SIS for the
suit it ruined"
This letter writings dangerous
Be careful what you do.
But worse than all the others are
The letters /. o. u.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
a REAssURING OUTDOOR.
IFrom the Omaha Bee.l

From the Omaha Bee.I
One of the most conservative of the
Journals that give special attention
to financial and business conditions,
the United States Investor, in its lat
est issue expresses the opinion that
the present is a favorable time for
the natural laws of business to begin
to operate and that on the whole the
outlook is reassuring. The wheat crop
of the country is in fairly good con-
dition and reports from European
countries do not indicate that their
crops will be so large as to depress
prices. so that there is every reason
to believe that the American wheat
farmer will have fairly large crop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

which he will be able to sell at a
remunerative figure. There is more
uncertainty about the corn crop, but
that has got good start generally,
while the cotton crop is progressing
finely.
If the expectation regarding the
crops that is warranted by existing
conditions shall be realized. the first
effect will be to revive transportation
activity. probably to be followed by
an enlarged demand from the rail-
roads for iron and steel and of course
greater activity in that line of pro-
duction. At present the iron and steel
industry is quiet and indeed it has
been depressed for a year past. but
good crops will result in giving re-
newed vitality to this in common with
other industries and in increasing the
general prosperity. 1t appears to be
the quite general view of those who
reflect opinion in financial and COM
mercial circles that the presidential
campaign will not unfavorably affect
the course of business. Certainly there
cannot be any such fear and anxiety
2his year as prevailed eight years ago
and had a most depressing effect in
every line of business. There is no
menace now, as there was then, to
the monetary system and the financial
credit of the country. Everybody now
knows that whatever the outcome of
on a sound money basis and the gold
standard. firmly established by the
republican party, will be maintained
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
HORTON TRIES RETALIATION.
Street Stand Keeper Forces City Rail-
way to Move Cars

r. ]. Horton, who is testing the street
stand ordinance, undertook. retaIiatory
measures against the city street railway,
who was instrumental in seeing the ordi-
nance passed. 1t is understood that the
ordinance was passed largely at the in
stgauon OF the city street railway, who
a stand maintained near their transfer
station such as the one owned by Horton.
ton flied a complaint with the chief of po-
lice that the city street railway was main
company's cars to stand upon the tracks
on Jackson street. The tracks in this in
stance have been used for storing the
cars and rolling stock until the new car
barns are completed. With this complaint
registered by Horton. Chief Stahl made
request upon the street railway com
pany to move their rolling stock, which
lotson is acting as the attorney for Hor-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

LFrom the Chicago News.I
Marriage is a pottery in which family
Jars are made.
Courtship is the frying pan and matri-
mony is the fire.
Before jumping at conclusion be sure
you see your finish.
A woman's words usually have less
weight than her angel cake
Nine-tenths of life's pleasures are de-
MED the woman who is dumb.
good many people fail to appreciate
salvation because it is free.
Clothes make the man. That's why
cheap clothes make man feel that way.
A woman does a lot of things while a
man is figuring out how they should be
done.
No matter how mean a man is he con-
soles himself by saying: ''Oh, there are
othersi'
When a promissory note gets old
enough to have whiSxers il is time to
take it to a note shaver.
The young man who marries an heiress
has a soft Snap-unless she's a Boston
girl, then it's a cold snap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

have made other lines of business more
profitable and many of the older teach
ers have quit teaching and taken up
other work, and the wages paid teach
ers have not been sufficient to draw
enough recruits to fill up the vacant
ranks. AS a result there are counties
in Kansas today where the entire num-
Der of persons holding certificates and
thereby qualified to teach does not be-
gin to equal the number of teachers
that Will be required. On the other
hand there may be some counties with
more teachers than schools. To sup
ply the vacancies and furnish qualified
teachers with employment is what
superintendent Dayhon is now at
tempting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
WILL HELP THE TEACHERS.
superintendent DayhoR Has System
for Securing Positions.

Because of the threatening famine
in country school teachers the coming
year, State Superintendent Dayhon
has arranged a sort of bureau in con-
nection with his department for the
purpose Of bringing together teachers
who may be looking for schools and
districts which are unable to secure
teachers. He is now sending out let
tiers to county and state superintend-
ents over the state with this object in
view
For several years there has been a
steady decrease in the supply of teach
ers in many counties. This has been
caused by the fact that. good times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. T. ]. Coughlin underwent very
serious operation at Christ hospital
this morning.
The Nissley Boys club will go camp
ing next week and be gone three and
possibly four days. There will be prob
ably forty boys enjoy the fun. Those
who intend to go will be enrolled by
Saturday night. No expense is attach
ed to the outing and, with good Teath-
er, a splendid time is anticipated.
On next Monday the Master BARRIERS
and the Journeynen BARRIERS of Topeka
will play baseball on Washburn field.
Secretary Logan of the Topeka Base
ball association will umpire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

The gold production from the Trans
vaaI in 1903 reached SCI. 454, 4Ss. thus ex-
ceeding by nearly 20 millions, the out
put for 1895. the year preceding the
Jameson raid. The output of diamonds
has never recovered normality since
the war The total exports from the
diamond mines of Cape Colony and the
Transvaal. from 1867 to 1900, were val
ued at s477. 900. A large proportion
OF the diamonds used in the United
States comes from South African fields
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
DECLINE Nomination-

Steubenville, o. July III. H.
Undertake. of SteubenvilIe, who was
nominated by the Democrats for con-
gress in the Sixteenth district, has
sent a letter declining the nomination
and states that he will not support
ing of the trusts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
AT THE WORLD's FAIR.

Subscribers to the State Journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address in ST. Louis mt the rate
of thirty cents a month. The last
edition of the State journal reaches
st. Louis the following morning. The
paper can be sent care of the Kansas
building, il desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate OF thirty
cents n month. Address changed as
often as desired While out OF town
the State Journal will be to you Hike
. daily letter from home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

St Louis boodlers appear to have
lost faith in the supreme court of
Missouri. One by one they are plead
ing guilty and receiving penitentiary
sentences. This should help Mr.. Folk
in his campaign, and they may hope
that he will reciprocate by pardoning
them out after his election
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

Pittsburg Dispatch: Mr.. LittIeton
of New York. who asserted that Judge
Parker would have no policy except
the policy of the convention, is now in
position to give an improved and
authentic reading of the judges char
aCfer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

Maps showing the route in Shawnee
county of the proposed Topeka &
Northwestern railroad. together with
the profiles and other information,
were filed with the county clerk of
Shawnee county today by the officers
of the proposed new railroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

The conclusion generally reached is
that Mr.. Hearst has the experience
and the other fellow has the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

Vice Presidential Candidate Davis
is a silver man by marriage. His SON.
in-law. Senator Elkins, owns mines
in New Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

For the FIRST time since the close OF
the civil war there is no veteran OF
that struggle on either national
ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

A sidetrack Is being built at Esopus
but there appears to be no present in
tention of placing Judge Parker on it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14

A fall of II inches of rain in 81
hours in Luzon should make North
Topeka people feel that they are not
so unlucl<y.