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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08

The newspapers have been running
for the amusement of the people and
to keep them from investigating MD
den fields of graft and corruption, two
of the greatest fakes ever imposed on
the public. The facts in the Chad
wick woman case, who borrowed many
vast sums of money, eouid have been
obtained in "a hours by any trained
reporter. The great mystery thrown
around it is to fill space and amuse
the people. The stories of war, gat-
ling guns and pompoms at Zeigler, H..
i, of the same character. There never
dsreputable than the plu:ocratlc way
disreputable that the plutocratic way
OF conducting newspapers.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08

President Diaz has been inaugurated
president Of Mexico for the seventh
time. He did not announce that he
would not be candidate again.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08

There were seventy-one races OF men
at the ST. Louis fair, ranging from the
pigmies from Africa to thu highest type
of man known. The anthropolologist
says that the general structure OF the
human mind and mentality of all
races is Identical, but the super struc-
ture built upon it presents the most
striking differences. Science seems to
confirm the statement of Paul that all
men are Of one blood. that is, they
have one common origin.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08

than $10,O00,000. Not cent Will De
paid on the stock of the company.
The daily newspapers would not ap
pear quite so silly if they would quit
asking lis marriage failure?' and as
instead ask "are the courts failure?'
That question seems to be more press
ing just at present than ever.
A writer, who has recently visited
Mexico, says: Mexico real estate, city
and suburban has gone UP from 200 TO
500 per cent in the last few years. The
city is being built with American cap
ital, business and residential sections
alike; trolleys run to all the suburban
towns, and these are being rebuilt also
in costly and substantial style. Tne
city shows all up to date improvements
in construction and equipment, and the
signs likewise of abundant prosperity
And Mexico is still on the silver stand
ard.
President Woodrow Wilson OF Prin-
ceton is taking hand in the reorgan-
ling business. He would read out OF
the democratic party the "discredited
radicals" and calls upon the south ITO
utterly and at once thrust them out Ct
democratic councils" AS the south Is
all that is left, it has right to do that
thing.
Mayor Mcclellan and Tammany have
at last been forced to show the source
of their power and it turns out to be
Rockefeller. A while ago the mayor
signed a bill, got through the leglsla-
ture first by Sheehan on a $4,000 fee
that gave away a franchise to the
Standard Oil crowd franchise worth
millions, and now Mcclellan has made
contr~ct with the same old crowd
for city gas and electric lights at a
most outrageous price, besides hand
ing over $1,000 100000 which the Low
administration held up. The city VII.
hereafter pay Rockefeller $14O year
for electric lights which are furnished
to other cities at $50. As an excuse, u
is said that the city will introduce q
bill in the next legislature to allow /
to put in city plant for electricity and
gas. While they are doing-a an immense
amount of democratic stealing they
promise in the far distant future some
populist relief.
The complications that come iron
the divorce courts grow more entans
ling every day. A recent decision an
nnling a divorce where the woman nae
married again after obtaining 1T. leaves
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08

The complications that come from
the divorce courts grow more entans'
ling every day. A recent decision an
nnling a divorce where the woman had
married again after obtaining 1T. leaves
her in possession of two husbands aud
she says she is not able to support
more than one.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08

The talk that shippers associations
are indulging in these days would
lead one to think that they were more
wild-eyed and crazy than any populist
that ever roamed over these plains
Forty of them are in Chicago ready to
act as witnesses against the raise III
rates involved in the new uniform bill
OF lading. They do not wait until they
get on the stand to do their swearing,
either. 1t has been figured out that
the scheme devised by the railroads
will take $3.50, 100000 more out Of the
shippers pockets above what they
L have been contributing TO the roads
in former years, and they howl and
swear and charge around il most ex-
cited sort of way. They had just as
well cool down. That increase in rates
| is part of the landslide, and it is too
late to do anything about it now.
The scheme that railroads have de-
vised is very simple. This new bill
of lading, which is to go into effect
on January 1, provides that all goods
transported at existing freight rates
must be at the owners liability. If the
carriers assume the liability 20 per
cent is added to the tariff. This prac-
t!cally will amount, it is contended, to
an advance Of 20 per cent in the freight
rates for most merchandise, and for
produce, manufactured articles, hay,
grain and lumber. The shippers might
as well take their medicine without
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-12-08

The daily newspapers would not ap-
pear quite so silly if the.g would quit
asking lis marriage failure?' and as
instead ask ARE the courts failure!
That question seems to be more press
ing just at present than ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
More Mysterious Discrepancies
Concerning State Taxes.
Labette Treasurer Claims He
Sent i'm Money.
KELLY SAYS He DIDN'T
County officer Has No Receipts
to Prove Assertions.
Money Left i'm Miami County on
Kelly's Order.

The State Journal is in receipt of
marked copy of the Oswego indie
pendent in which it is alleged that
the books of the county treasurer of
Labette county show that on January
90. $27,S37.47 of Labette county's
state tax was sent to the state treas
urer. No receipts from State Treas
urer Kelly, however, were shown the
reporter who secured the informa-
ton.
The Independent, which is the Off
cial county paper and the Republican
organ at Oswego, republishes the
statement from the State Journal that
Labette county is one of those delin-
quent in RENTING anything on it's
state taxes for 1908. 1t then says:
IAN Independent reporter called on
the county treasurer Thursday, and
handed to the deputy, Miss Woodford,
the above article. She stated that she
was not treasurer and that Mr.. Rock
hold was absent. A repeated request
brought this, as she had no control of
the books. On January 20, 1904,
$27,837.47 was sent to the state treas
urer. She did not show the receipt.
On July Is. 1904, $6,SS1 was sent.
No receipt was filed.
'Labette county people who hold
the receipts to their land showing that
assertions that Labette is short
State Treasurer Kelly stated to the
State Journal last week that he re-
ceived nothing from Labette county
last January. If the county treasurer
can show no receipt from Mr.. Kelly
for the money, he is liable for it. If
the county treasurer really RENTED
that money, he had better hurry
around and find where it went. If he
didn't remit it and his books show
that he did, it is a still more serious
matter.
Paola, Kan, July 19.-Miami county's
state taxes were kept in the banks here
instead of being sent to the state
treasury last January at the sugges-
county treasurer himself has had no
communication with Mr.. Kelly on the
subject, but early last January Mr..
Kelly suggested to one of the county
commissioners that he felt kindly
toward Miami county and that Miami
be left in the banks here to draw in
terest for the county as to be sent to
Topeka. He said he would call for it
when ne needed it. Acting on this sug-
gestion the state funds were kept here
until July 8, when the county treasurer
ury.
1t is supposed here that Mr.. Kelly
made this suggestion for two reasons.
One was that he wanted to curry favor
with the people of, this county, whom
he robbed when he was county clerk,
and the other was that he wanted to
favor the banks here. Both the banks
here are friendly to Kelly and by leav
ing the state funds on deposit here the
banks in which they were deposited got
which they pay the county for coun-
~ depOSitS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
DIES MARTYR TO DUTY.
St. Louis Man Expires in Midst of
Honeymoon Deferred IL Years.

st. Louis, Mo-, July 19.-John Nc
Avoy died while enjoying his honey
moon, for which he had worked near
ly two decades.
For seventeen long, hopeful, disap-
pointing years death foiled love in his
case.
Early in 1887 his school playmate.
Bridget Mahoney, said she would
marry him. She waited seventeen
long years, until Johnny was ready to
wed. When he married her at the
Church of the isitation, February 10.
1904, he was feeble. He had spent his
strength supporting his brothers and
a sister They died, and John helped
share the funeral expenses. He
worked in a. tobacco factory all the
time, inhaling dust, which was the
final cause of his death.
When John McAvoy married the
girl he had courted for seventeen
years he was a physical wreck. His
physician DR., Marks, told him to go
to a warmer climate.
81 cannot, pay the mortgage on my
home,'' McAvoy replied.
You viii die if you stay here" the
doctor said.
Il will work and die AcAvoy re-
piled.
He worked on; worked in the dust
and sitting heat of the factory. Mon
day he went home. - He sat in the
Kitchen awhile and tainted. Revived,
he insisted on going back to work.
Mrs McAvoy dissuaded him. He
tainted again, and when the physician
summoned by Mrs. McAvoy arrived
her husband was dead.
John McAvoy died a martyr to duty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
MARKETS TODAY.
Improved Weather Causes
Break in Wheat.
This Also Causes Easier Tone
in Corn.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Few Cattle in the Pens-Prices
Steady.
Tendency of the Hogs Market Is
Somewhat Lower.

Chicago, July 19.-WHEAT-As a result
of heavy liquidation. consequent to i'm
proved weather conditions, september
wheat declined more than 1c today. Sep
TENDER opened ss@1ac to %@7sc lower, at
8S1sQSS15c, and declined to S7Zc. Mime
apolis, Duluth and Chicago reported re-
ceipts of 27S cars, against 1856 cars a year
ago.
After declining to S71zc September closed
with a net loss of NC, at S7as@S7Ac.
CORN-The break in the wheat was the
cause of considerable selling of corn, re-
sulting in an easier undertone. Septem-
Der o pened &c lower, at 49c, sold at 1850,
and then reacted to 4SAc.
OATS-September oats opened unchang-
ed to Sc higher, at 324q32Bc, and eased
off to 325s@s2azc.
On crop damage reports September adj
vanced to 1890, and closed &c higher, at
491zc
PROVISIONS The provision market
was steady with only light trade. Sep
t tf5 pork opened 21ka5c higher, at
$l2S712Q12.90. September lard was I'M
changed, at $685.. Ribs were up 21zc, at
$.621a
WHEAT-cash: No. red, s1.O9; No. 3
red, $1.00; No. 2 hard, 95@98c; No. 3 hard,
9ods5c; No: northern. 500; No. north
ern, CSC; No. 3 spring, CSC.
CORN-No. 2, .4912M50c; No. 8, 491z4491sc.
OATS-No. 2. 3619Q37c; No. 3, S51kq36c.
RYE.-Juiy, SIC; Sept, $50.
July, SIG; Sept, $1.1S.
TIMoTHY77Ju1y, g s.; Sept, $500
BARLEY-Cash: 3Od53c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19

the police of the Madison street sta
ton in particular
Mrs. Yeisk saw the boy fall and ran
screaming into the street. Her
screams so alarmed someone that he
or she turned in an alarm of fire from
Clinton and Monroe streets. At the
same time an ambulance was sum-
moned from the same corner.
Mrs. William Blank, who lives in
the rear of the Rutgers Place house,
also saw the boy fall. She rushed
across the street to the Madison street
station, where she excitedly told Ser
geant Northrup what had happened.
He Immediately turned in an ambu-
lance call.
In response to various calls two
ambulances from Gouverneur hospital
and three engines and a truck soon
assent led at Clinton and Monroe
streets. The truck hook and ladder
No. 6, was coming down through
East Broadway when, at Jefferson
street, the ladders hit a lamp post
breaking it down. In it's fall it struck
Isaac Rosenberg, an expressman liv-
ing at 240 Division street, knocking
him senseIess. Another Gouverneur
hospital ambulance came, and Rosen-
berg was taken to the hospital suffer-
ing from a severe scalp wound, if not
a broken skull.
AS further result of the lamp post
accident several children were nearly
asphyxiated by the gas escaping be-
fore the gas men shut off the supply
and made temporary repairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
RESPONSIBLE FOR WRECK.
Operator and FIagman Held for Mid
vale Disaster.

New York, July 19.-William T. Rich
ards, station operator, and Ernest
Heller, rear flagman, were found re-
the Greenwood lake division of the Erie
at MidYale station a week ago by which
16 persons lost their lives and fifty were
injured
Coroner Blauvelt instituted the in
quiry by holding an inquest over the
body of Henry Kanzer who lost his life
in the accident. BY his own admission
Heller did not go back more than 200 or
300 feet at any time after mis- train
stopped and had partly retraced his
steps. 1t had also been shown that he
held his flag rolled up. Richards knew
his signal was out of order and uncer-
tain of action and was told by an en-
gineer who was on the station plat
form that it was set clear. 1t remained
as it was and the crash followed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
New York sroclk..

Wall Street, New York, July 49,
STOCKS-The internationa stocks re-
Elected the depression in the London mar
and carried the general list downwards
with them with the exception of a few
specialties. Union Pacific, st. Paul, Atch-
States Steel preferred went down u to
q point. There was a gain of Ia points
in United States Rubber preferred.
The lowest prices proved attractive to
buyers and a pretty general recovery fol-
lowed. Selling orders were then met in
United States Steel preferred after it
had rallied to 81 and it yielded to s1as,
dragging down the general market again.
The decline in United States Steel pre-
ferred carried it rs points under yester-
day rise to 81 in Amalgamated Copper
caused the market to harden a fraction
in sympathy. But trading became very
Goods stocks rose to III points and Uni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
STREET CARS STALLED.
Passengers Compelled to Remain in
Them All Night.

st. Louis, July ia fire that last
night destroyed the boiler house of the
East st. Louis & Suburban Street Rail-
way and threatened with destruction
the million dollar plant, caused a dam
age estimated at from $4,000 to $50, 900.
A fire wall averted a total loss.
The fire that started about midnight
threw the city into darkness and STALL
ed cars on the suburban line running
between East St. Louis and CaseyVille,
Lebanon, EdwardsviIle, Collinsvills and
BelleviIle, Ill. The IL cars on the lines
running between these towns carried
in the neighborhoOd of 100 passengers
who were compelled to stay in the con-
veyances until morning.
President Haynes put 400 men to
work on the power house ruins at 1
o'clock when he stated that he would
have the debris removed and the cars
moving by morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
WOMAN KILLS PANTHER.
Cuts Its Throat After 1t Had Knocked
Her Husband to Ground.

Camden, n. J., July 19.-While
Claude Robinson and his wife were
fishing on Mad river, two miles from
Camden. on the edge of the Orson
woods swamps, a full grown panther
leaped from a tree and fastened its
claws in the neck and shoulders of
Mr.. Robinson. who was thrown to the
ground.
Mrs. Robinson is a slight woman,
but her nerve did not desert her. With
the aid of only a hunting knife she
went Immediately to her husbands
rescue and succeeded in cutting the
animals throat. and then, womanlike
tainted after the danger was over.
The dead panther weighs SO pounds
and is beautifully striped.
Robinson, while badly lacerated
about the upper part of the body is
not seriously injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
REIMBURSEMENT OF RATES.
Most Important Business Before Mac
cabees Supreme Tent.

Detroit, Mich, July 19.-With the
readjustment of the rates as the more
important business for consideration,
the triennial review of the supreme
tent, Knights of Maccabees of the
world, opened here today. Supreme
Commander d. p. Marley in his an
nual report stated that the member
ship of the order at the close of the
three-year term was 362,3S5. a net
gain during the three-years of 1874
700.
The report of Supreme Record
Keeper Aitken showed that there
have been paid during the past term
5,15S death claims, amounting to ST.
337,431. Mr.. Aitken. who is also SUI
preme councillor of the order, re-
viewed the proposed change in the
rates at length, concluding as follows:
eff we wish to be true to ourselves
and to the membership we represent,
and hope to see this fraternal order
the pride of its membership and pro-
tector of their homes, we must pro-
vide for collections equal to the
amount demonstrated to be necessary
by the mortality table based on our
own experience"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
HE RAPs THE w. C. T. U.
General Carter Officially Upholds the
Army Canteen.

Manila, July 19.-Brigadier General
William H. Carter, commanding the
department of Vizayas, with headquar-
ters at Iloilo, in his annual report on
the establishment of army posts, speaks
as follows:
This has been followed by the usual
crop of saloons and disreputable people.
With the well regulated post exchanges
of former days weak men had a choice
of evils and generally chose the lesser
the pure beer of the exchange. So long
as the misguided Christian women of
America insist on carrying the canteen
into politics young soldiers, whose pow
ers of resistance to temptation are be-
low the norma l or. not firmly exercised
will continue TO fall victims to the
plague of service in India and the ORR
ent generally: Namely drunkenness,
dissolute company and venersa1 dis
cases. 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
HORTON CASE Is ARGUED.
Validity of Street Stand Ordinance
Now Before the Court

The case of r. l. Horton versus the
city of Topeka in which the validity of
the street stand ordinance as passed by
a late action of the council was attack
ed had a hearing before Judge Hamil-
ton in police court this morning. The
claim was set up in addition that the
arrest of Horton for a violation of the
questioned ordinance was not called for
since the complaint against him was
not complete enough in its context to
cover the entire situation.
The testimony brought out the
fact that Thomas de Put, a confectioner,
who has a store at 1872 West Eighth
avenue, was in reality the owner OF
the stand at the corner of Eighth and
Kansas avenue which figures in the
case and that r. I. Horton was running
the stand on a percentage basis. Judge
Hamilton will hand down an opinion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
NEW NORTH SIDE CHURCH.
Second Presbyterian Congregation VIII
Have Home.

Cuthbert & Sargent, contractors,
took out a building permit today for
the erection of the new North Topeka
Second. Presbyterian church, which
will be constructed at the northwest
corner of Jackson and Gordon streets.
on the north side. The cost of the
building will be $13,500.
The building will be constructed of
brick and stone. with a slate roof. 1t
will be SIS by so feet in size, and
promises to be one of the most hand
some and modern churches in the city.
Evidently the church people of
North Topeka have not been diScour
aged by the high water tendencies of
that part of town. The construction
of a $4,000 church edifce indicates
that they are there to stay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Mexican National Pavilion at ST. Louis
Damaged.

st. Louis, Mo-, July 19.-The Mexican
national pavilion was struck by light
ming today during a severe storm at the
Worlds fair grounds.
A large number of visitors were in
the building when the storm broke. The
flag staff and cupoIa surrounding the
pavilion were destroyed, but the build
ing did not catch fire. The damage is
estimated at $500.
There was considera BILE excitement
among those in the building, but the
visitors fears were quickly allayed by
those in charge of the building. Follow
ing the storm there was a drop in the
temperature of % degrees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
Seems to Be Hoodooed.

Plymouth, England, July 19.-Trag
edy again marked the homeward
voyage of the North German Lloyd
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II. On the
arrival of the vessel here, almost at
the hour that an inquest was being
held over the body of F. Kent Loomis,
it was announced that a second class
passenger, Mrs. Lipschitz, had COM
mitted suicide by jumping overheard
when the ship was one day out from
New York. Hundreds of passengers
witnessed the suicide and watched the
efforts of life boat to rescue the
woman. No trace of the body was
found.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
LOVERS TRAVEL 1000 MILES.
To Get Married and Are Now Return
ing to Their Homes.

Chicago, July 19.-Having travelled p
600 miles that they might carry on their
courtship without interruption, G. "A.
Gordon and Miss Katherine Hucek of
Tacoma, Wash. have been married in
Evanston, Ill. After the ceremony they
began the return trip to the Pacific
coast to seek the forgiveness of Miss
Huceks father, who had forbidden the
marriage.
Gordon is a student in a Chicago
medical school. To be near her lover
and to educate herself in a way con-
genial with his tastes. Miss Hucek
came to Chicago to study a trained
nurse. The bride is daughter of J.
r. Hueck, a wealthy grain merchant of
Tacoma.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19

Chicago, July 19.-CATTLE+Receip to-
day, 10000 head. Market steady. Good to
prime steers, $5.60@6.So; poor to medium,
81. 5Gd525: stockerS and feeders, $2.25Q4.50;
heifers, 81 OOd5. so; Gamers 81. 5Oa2 40 bulls,
81. OG94o0; calves, $2-5Gd5.75; Texas fed
steers, So. 00d400
HOGS-Receipt today, 1900 head: esti-
mated Wednesday, 10000 head. Market 10
G15c higher. Mixed and butchers, $3.50
$50; good to choice heavy, S.. 60Q5.S5;
rough heavy, s500G5. 40; light, IS. 4Oq5S5;
bulk of sales, $5.4Gd575.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 5000 head.
Sheep slow; lambs steady. Good to choice
wethers. s4O0d4.50; fair to choice mixed,
81 2564. 90: western sheep, 80. 506D4 Is; native
lambs, 81. OOa7. %; western lambs, s4.OO66.75.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19

man who believes it his duty to refuse
to vote for a dishonest or incapable
man merely because that man is NOM
mated by party. Once going through
Kansas an Iowa editor on the train
boosted to Roosevelt that he had never
scratched his party ticket Quick as
flash Roosevelt responded: (which is
perfectly absurd; I have scratched
my ticket a dozen times and if 1 live
expect to scratch it a dozen times
more"
When a dishonest man is put on a
ticket of either party no one is bound
to support him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
MONEY NOT YET PAID.
Daily Capital Check for $3,O52.14 Isn't
in CitY's Hands.

Up to o'clock today, the Daily
Capital had not paid over to the city
the little item of $3,052.14 which it
was found that paper had over
charged the city on the city printing.
So far as known, the Capital manage
ment had not made any arrangements
for paying the money, although it was
announced in that paper this morning
that "a check for the amount of the
overcharge will be sent to the proper
official this morning.
The money will have to be paid di-
rectly to the city treasurer. None of
the other city officials have the right
to receive any money belonging to the
city.