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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
A Leon Man Is Building an Air
ship of Merit.
Expects to Take q Prize at the
Worlds Fair.
TO WEIGH $50 POUNDS.
The Machine Is Is Feet High
and 8 Feet Long.
Sort of Endless Chain Movement
Fitted With Sails.

Leon, Kan, Feb. 6.-There is building
here an airship which its inventor con-
tends is the ouly real airship in exist
ence. He says all others are 'dirigibIe
balloons" He avs that his pet will fly
and viii win the $150, 900 offered in prizes
at the Worlds fair next summer. Speak
ing of the machine W. NJ. Warren, who
has a one-third interest in the venture,
said:
THE idea is that OLA. V. weingardner.
/ know that there is a great deal of
sport made of men who even dare to
talk about navigating the air and arm
also aware that it seems like presumT1-
4ion for men of only ordinary ability to
cope with such men as Prof. Langley in
the field of aeronautics, but I declare to
you that we have ecipsed them all and
that we will be able to give d practical
deuonstrat ion of this fact within the
next thirty days. I confess it has b cen
q great strain and have had hardly a
nights sound sleep in a year. We have
demonstrated to our own satisfaction
that the principle involved is the con-
rect one, and all that remains is to con-
struct a machine large enough for
public demonstration
1.-THE machine we are now building
will be 16 feet high and feet long. 1t
will be fitted with a horsepower alum
mum engine which weighs only 80
pleted. will weigh not more than 100
pounds. We are confident that Mr..
Weingardner who weighs about $50
pounds. win be able to demonstrate
that It can carry him with ease"
Mr.. Warren said he had be en- offered
$4,000 for his one-third interest by a
Washington man who had seen the
model, but would not take $500, 600 for
it. A photograph Of the model showed
the machine to be built upon the idea
of an endless chain fitted with sails.
BY an intricate system of wheels and
chains fitted to two upright frames
these sails are made to follow each
other with great rapid ty, opening as
they go toward the ground, and closing
as they go upward. The propellers
which are fitted on each side of a boat
shaped body below the stalls work on
the same principle. The body of the
machine is of sheet steel A parachute,
released by spring. insures the oper-
ator q safe return to land in case of
accident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
CUTTING BASEBALL SALARIES
California Agreement Means Rigid
Scaling Along the Line.

New York, Feb. 6.-With the admis-
sion Of the California baseball league
into the national agreement, which will
be consummated shortly, the days of
high salaries for ball players will be at
an end. There will be no refuge for
players who are asked to accept a re-
duction and the owners of clubs in
both the American and the National
leagues viii get to work with the prun-
ing knife. Before the war there was
a 50, 400 salary limit in the National
league. Few clubs had salary list of
more than $4,000.
Players who have iron-bound con-
tracts to run another year or more are
in clover, or at least they think they
are. But the others will be cut. The
Cleveland club, for instance, has al
ready Topped $1,000 from Elmer Flick s
salary of last year and has reduced
Frank Donohue from $1,000 to $500.
This is in line with the general policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
AUCTIONS IN KANSAS.
This Time It Is an Indication of
Prosperity, Not Hard Times.

Abilene. Kan, Feb. 6-This is the
time of the public auction in Kansas.
There are in all the country weeklies long
lists of public sales at which horses,
cattle, hogs and farm implements are
to be disposed of to the highest bidder
for cash. The number increases each
year as the prosperity of the farmers
bring to them a larger surplus of goods
that they want to dispose of to the best
advantage.
Some of the sales are to allow the
farmers to move to town, and every
town is gaining a large number of
jewellers of the retired farmer class
Others are moving to different parts of
the west, some to the Pacific coast and
others to Manitoba The reports from
the settlers who have gone to Manitoba
are not encouraging.
Once in a while a farmer sells his
farm at auction, such an instance oc-
curing here recently. However, the
demand for real estate is too strong to
make this necessary. Land is changing
hands rapidly. and the prices are far
better than they were a few months
ago, showing a larger field for invest
ment. Eastern Kansas farmers are
the most numerous buyers in this sec
ton
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TO RESPECT CONTRACTS.
National League Stands by Pacific
Coast Committee.

New York, Feb. 6.-President P. T
Powers of the National Association
Minor Baseball leagues, has received the
following telegram from Edward Han
lon of Baltimore club, who represented
the association in the conference with
the Pacific coast league in San Fran
cisco early in the week:
please request all leagues to refrain
from contracting with Pacific coast
league players, as that league will re-
spect all national agreement require
ments pending committees report"
This shows that a truce has been de-
clared and while Messrs. Johnson, Hart
and Hanlon, as a committee represent
ing the major and minor leagues, had
no power to act. they have succeeded in
arranging matters satisfactory with the
Pacific coast representatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06

And that's aI?"
"Of course it is. Do you expect they
mix coffee, and tea. and sugar with the
sand and Iime?"
It expect there's hair mixed with
them. If there was not the plaster
would not cling to the 1aths.''
Mr.. Bowser's jaw dropped. and when
the cat winked at him he determined
that he would make her suffer at no
distant day.
Jimmy Green comes in here quite
often,' continued Mrs. Bowser, land
I'm always asking him about his
studies. Suppose he should ask me, for
instance, what white paint is made Off"
IT'S made of white paint. of course
growled Mr.. Bowser.
But what is the foundation of it?
There must be something to start on
Won't you kindly post me?''
81 say that white paint is white paint,
the same as mud is mud
WELL you may be stopped on the
street some day by q school boy, and
will tell you that the foundation of
white paint is corroded zinc. In its
pure state it is called zinc white, and
| is used for inside work As prepared for
market, there is more or less adultera-
ton as the zinc is ground in oil White
is the basis of several colors, but red
/ and black stand by themselves. OF
course, you knew all this, but had for
gotten"
OF course Mr.. Bowser knew nothing
of the sort, and the fact that he didn't
| humbled and hurt him. He was trying
to think of some excuse to get down
cellar or upstairs and take it out in
kicking things over, when Mrs. Bowser
quietly said:
| Yes, your ideas on education are all
right. Little Jennie Brown is as smart
as a whip in arithmetic, but when 1
asked her the other day what glass was
made of she hadn't the slightest idea.
If you were running a kindergarten,
yuo'd explain that the first thing,
wouldn't your
81 certainly should. The idea of any
one not knowing how glass is made!"
please explain to me the same as
if I were pupil"
IT'S made of a mineral, of course"
/ But what minera1?''
81 don't remember just this minute,
but it's a mineral found in various
parts of the world. When melted up
1t is run off into window panes or
moulded into bottles. I suppose you'll
be just coneeited enough to go at it
and tell me I'm wrong
You are just little bit out Of the
way, Mr.. Bowser. The substance o.
glass is a combination of fiintsand with
one or more of the salts of sodium, and
various metallic oxides are mixed in
while melting. The common window
glass is simply silicate of soda and lime.
In other words, fine sand and potash. .
And didn't I say so? Woman, dom
have a pleasant evening, and we are
hardly started when you
And while all public schools teach
a pupil cube root interrupted Mrs.
Bowser, s'how many teach him the diff
ference between horses, foot and that
OF a cow IF you had your little kim
Idergarten you would explain that at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
BOWSER SLIPS DOWN.
He Had a Good Thing Until Mrs.
Bowaar Mixed In.

The Bowsers had finished dinner and
returned to the sitting room, and the
family cat had about made up her
mind that there would be nothing do
ing, and that she might as well get
into the back yard and pick two or
three fights, when Mr.. Bowser casually
remarked:
"A school master was in the office
today. and I had quite an interesting
argument with him. It's funny how
these old pedagogues insist upon look
ing on their pupils as so many bags
to be stuffed with so much sawdust.'
"Yes?' queried Mrs. Bowser-
81 believe I could take a boy ten
years old and put more horse sense
into his head in five years than any
professional teacher could in fifteen.
am one who believes that the present
school system should be overturned"
''How do you mean?
s'Why, I can. step outdoors and find
half a dozen boys who can figure al
sorts of vulgar fractions and rattle of
all sorts of answers in geography. but
not one of them could tell me how a
brick is made. What we want is horse
sense mingled with statistics. Our
children ought to be taught that the
North sea separates the British isles
from France, but they should also have
flour holds only 1876 pounds instead OF
children are as stupid as donkeys.s
your idea is all right" replied Mrs.
Bowser. and has been in practice for
a good many years. Didn't you ever
hear of the kindersartens? 2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
DIR. @. ST. JOHN DEAD.
Was Brother of John P. st. John,
Once Governor of Kansas.

Salfna, Feb. 6.-Dr. Charles st. John,
a brother of Ex-Governor John P. st.
John, is dead at his home here after
a lingering illness of several weeks.
DR.. st. John practiced law in Dem
yer for number of years and had
practiced medicine for a number of
years and was at one time pastor of an
M. E. church in Kansas City, Kan,
but he was most favorabIy known as a
temperance worker and Y. NJ. G. A. or
ganizer. He spent a number of years
in England organizing the young men's
society. In this country he also did
good work and especially in Kansas
City, he is known among the temper
ance workers. He, with his wife, Mrs.
Eugenia st. John, have spent many
years in Christian and temperance
work in the Kansas Chautauquas. The
funeral will be held Sunday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
Always Remsrber Name
axatXe BEomo Ouinine e III e onsvsy
-. ~ <>|US>S@ Oo2 @oc

Bowser. TT is not blue clay at all, but
white clay After being dug"
Woman, de you mean to insult me?''
demanded Mr.. Bowser, as he rose up in
his majesty and glared at her.
"Of course not I was simply going
to tell you how bricks are made, so
that you might tell a boy some day. AS
you say, almost any boy can tell you
where Thibet is, but can he tell you
the ingredients Of common house p1as-
ter? You can, of course?"
Don't take me for a fool"
Certainly not. I wish you would
kindly tell me, the same as If you were
teacher and I pupil
plaster is made of sand, of course"
Anything else?"
"Theres-there's lime in it, Yes, OF
course there's lime"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06

Philadelphia, Feb. 6.-Jack O'Brien is
after the middleweight championship
in earnest and will bet $4,000 he is the
best man in the world at the middle
weight limit. He offers to bet that
O'Brien wants to meet Tommy Ryan
first, but if Ryan is not prepared TO
accept a good offer for Is or 20 round
fight O'Brien will talk business with
Fitzsimmons. O'Brien stated that he
believed Ryan is afraid to meet him
again. AS an additional inducement
to make another match with Ryan for
any number of rounds, even to 20, he
will make a personal side bet of SO, 900
that he can beat him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
ICE SKATING.
Sometimes the Ice Is Too Hard for
Good Sport.

A man who was doing some fancy
figures on the ice in Central Park
during the last freeze remarked to a
party of friends:
81 like to skate on a mild day like
this. Out west the ice is often SO hard
we can't skate on it."
There you go again. said one of the
group. when you talk of the west
there's no believing you
When his incredulous friends had
skated off the westerner said:
L suppose that statement has made
me appear to be a liar oftener than
any statement I ever have made, and
yet it is true. When the temperature
hangs around 80 degrees below zero for
a week, as I have seen it in Dakota
and Minnesota, the ice becomes SO hard
the skate won't take hold, and in a
sense it Is like skating on iron or
stone.
Most people know little of figure
skating, being happy if they can skate
straight forward or backward, and are
unaware of the Importance the temper
allure is to a fancy skater He will
prefer any day a temperature of 20 to
25 above to zero or even 10 above. The
principle of figure skating is the inner
and outer edge of the blade. In all one
foot figures the renewal of motion is
done by changing the edge. The sway
ing of the body and the fling given to
the foot off the ice are elements in this
change of edge. 1t is clear that when
the ice is too hard the blade will not
sink deeply. enough into the ice to sup
port the body's weight in the making
of turns.
Another story eastern people always
brand as a lie, to the serious injury of
my reputation for veractity also deals
with ice and winter. The lake near
my home froze over one night in an ex-
ceedingIy sudden change from rain te
freezing. I went down to skate on it
the next morning. ]. noticed what look
ed like stones frozen in the ice, as if
boys had been throwing things on the
ice. The lake was a mile long and
three-quarters of a mile wide. AS /
was skating I cut through one of the
black objects. Examining it, I found
it was a frog. Then I saw that the
sudden snap had caught the frogs while
they were migrating across the lake,
having been deceived by the rain that
had preceded the frost New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06

well, they teach by that method,
and so do many of the public schools.
If you were instructing a pupil, would
you tell him that the North sea sepa-
rated the British isles from France -
"Of course I should
Then you would be wrong. 1t sepa-
rates the isles from Denmark
mot on your 1ifei Geography was
always took all the prizes. That's Just
like you. Whenever make an asser-
ton YOU are always ready to combat
it.
Mrs Bowser went into the library
and brought out an atlas and proved
her assertion correct Mr. Bowser
flushed I'D and swallowed at the lump
IN his throat, and got out of it by say
ing he presumed the North sea had
shifted since he was a boy
You were speaking about bricks a
moment ago. Mr.. Bowser. 1 agree with
you that every boy ten years old should
know how they are made. Can you de-
scribe the process to me2"
Can I? Can I tell you what a turnip
is? Don's run into silly questions
But I should really like to know
We'll. bricks are made of clay
What kind Of clay2'
Blue clay, Of course
rs that why bricks are red ?"
Mr.. Bowser saw that he had slipped
a cog Moreover, when he came to think
Of it, he couldn't tell anything further.
He had seen brick yards and brick kilns,
but as to the process of brick making he
knew nothing.
It win tell you about it, said Mrs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
MAY FIGHT A NEGRO.
Jeffries May Consent to Go in the
Ring With Johnson.

New York, Feb. 6.-According to a
letter received by a local sporting man
from Billy Delaney, Jim Jeffries' train
er. the champion is soon to fight again.
It is understood that Jeffries' next OPP
ponent will be Jack johnson, the negro
heavyweight of California, despite the
many assertions from the champion
that he would never meet a colored
man.
Delaney in his letter says he is COM
ing east in a few days to have a talk
with Jeffries. Delaney does not wish
Jeffries to appear on the stage, and
would rather have him fight some one.
The only available opponent for JEFF
fries just now is Johnson. and there
are some who think the negro will give
the boilermaker hard mill
johnson is popular on the Pacific
coast. Besides being clever, he is a
stiff puncher. Jeffries is in fair condi-
ton, and if the contest is arranged 1t
will probably take place next summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
WHO WILL PLAY BALLP
Comisk ey Hardly Knows What Men
He Will Use.

Chicago, Feb. 6.-Not all of the 81
men Corniskey drafted or reserved Will
Hulseman has already been given to
the ST. Louis Browns and Charles Don
ahue to the Cardinals. Two or three
drafted on recommendation have been
found wanting in the necessary speed
for major league company and will be
returned to the minor leagues from
whence they came. The list so far as
can be fofetold win be about as fol-
lows:
Catchers-William Sullivan. Jack
Slattery, Claude Berry.
Pitchers-Harry White, Roy Patter-
son, Frank Owen. Nick Altrock, and
Pat F1aherty of last years staff
Dougherty. Walsh and Stricklett. new
onos
Infelders-Isben. Jiggs Donahue, Cal
lahan. Clarke, Dundon. Tannehill-
Outfielders-C. Jones, Green Holmes,
La1lman.
This leaves the questionable ores out.
Eddie Mcfarland an6 Magocn vii!
probably figure in a trade before the
season opens, while what will become
of Davis and Fielder Jones is still prob
1enaticaI. The action of the Pacific
coast leag que. known as the OUTLAWS, .
puts a Grimm in his plans to play with
Portland. and if he lives up &c his as
sertions of last summer ne will cult
the game for good. Portland was dick
ering with Jones and some other Amer
lean 1eaguers last summer and late in
the fall and went so far as to send
them signed contracts, permitting the
players to fill in the salary space. Put
before the arrangements could be COM
p1eted Geographic messages were
flashed to them that all deals were off.
The baseball organization was getting
in and the OUTLAWS were considering
coming into the fold.
Talk now is to the effect that Com
iskey is figuring on trade with Crit
fifth for Davis and Jones and there are
circumstances that make the deal look
as though it might go through.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
EASTERN PAPER HERE.
The Better Money Market Reelected
in Tntarast offered Kansas Ranka.

Abilene, Kan, Feb. 6.-The increasing
plenty of the money supply in the east
is reflected in the offerings of CONNER
cial paper made to western banks. Last
fail the lists received gave opportunity
for investment at rates ranging from
to per cent, but such was the hes
itancy among western banks as to the
conditions III the east that very little
was taken. The present offerings are
at to 51z per cent and include a gilt
edged list of paper.
The lower rate has not affected the
western loan field so largely as yet and
it is improbable that there will be a
great investment in this sort OF securi-
ties until it is certain what is to be the
outcome of the wheat condition.
However," remarked an interior
banker there is no more of the quasi
alarm felt in the fall as to the casts
condition. The business interests of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
Fort Erie Makes q Bid for q Big
Prize Fight.
international Club Offers an
$4,000 Purse for 90 Rounds.
FOR RYAN AND O'BRIEN
Would Pull OFF the Battle on ST.
Patrick's Day.
Another Offer Is Made by Mauch
Chunck Club.

Buffalo, N. z, Feb. 6.-Tommy Ryan
and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien can set
tie their differences in the ring of the
International Athletic club of Fort Erie
if they are anxious to fight. The man
agement of the club in Fort Erie has
made the fighters an offer of a purse of
IS, 900 for a twenty-round fight and will
pull the battle off on ST. Patrick's day,
March II. If the fighters accept the
offer the battle will be held in the aft
ernoon.
While neither fighter has signided his
intention of signing with the interna-
tional organization, it is thought they
will agree to battle for the purse Of
fered.
Boxing has been on the shelf at the
Fort Erie club since the Fourth of
July, when George Gardner won the
light-heavy- weight championship from
Jack Root.
1t is the intention of the management
to secure the best scrappers of Fist
iania, and for that reason every effort
will be made to secure Ryan and
one of the leading stockholders of
the club made the following statement
today:
"A purse of $4,000 or percentage
privilege will be offered Ryan and
O'Brien for a twenty-round fight Ne
gotiations are under way now and both
fighters have been communicated with
If they will agree on terms and accept
the purse or percentage the battle will
take place on ST. Patrick's day. Fail
ing to match O'Brien and Ryan, an eff
fort will be made to bring together
Jack Munroe and either Kid Mccoy or
Marvin Hart. AS a matter of fact,
Ryan looks favorably on the PROPOSE
ton and I believe everything will be
arranged in a short time for this great
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once"
81 would if the pupils were all foolsI"
gruffIy replied the uneasy Mr.. Bowser.
Cant a child see that a. horse has a
round foot and a cow a cloven one?"
THAT is true. but why is it SOP Why
are not their hoofs alike? That Ques-
ton would surely be asked you"
Got another chance to show off. Ell?
Well, go ahead"
1.-The foot of a horse is made for
travelling over hard surfaces, and is
provided with a frog or cushion to act
as spring. The foot of a COW or OK
is made for soft ground and has no
frog. It is split that it may take a
grip on the soil. If you are going to
start q school, you should brush up
on these things. Suppose Harry Thorn
as, who thinks you know everything on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
New Wes,ern Postmaaters.

Washington, Feb. 6.-These postmas-
ters have been appointed: Indian Ter
ritory-Utica, Choctaw Nation, Butler
R. Childers, vice R. H. Williams, re-
signed. Missouri-Antonia, Jefferson
county, Julius a. KohIer, vice William
Noehre, removed; Brunot, Waye coun-
ty, Eva NJ. Bedford, vice F. F. Farr,
resigned. Texas-Myrtie Springs, Van
zandt county, Charles w. Ashworth, vice
A. J. Hubbard. resigned; Schlade, Lee
county, Herman Marburger. vice J. A.
Schlade, removed.
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west are possessed of much confidence
and self-reliance and they are willing
to branch out in other fields. It would
not be surprising to see a more general
investment in bonds on the part of
western banks and their customers
than at any time in the last two years.
The opinion is rife that this is a good
time to buy. Stocks are not in favor,
but the bond issue and well-secured
commercial paper are considered all
right. Loan demands are not insist
ent now and with the deposits piling
up and customers asking for place in
which to place their money there is a
strong sentiment for liberal dealings
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building large enough to hold 20, 600
people, and they agree to have seating
capacity for 10000 Mr.. Macias irnme-
diately wired the offer to O'Brien and
Ryan and is now awaiting their reply.
If the men accept the club will imme-
diately place $4,000 with Macias as a
guarantee that the match will be pull
ed off without interference. All the
arrangements for carrying on the con-
test will be placed in the hands of
Macias, who has had a. great deal of
experience in handling big pugiIstic
affairs.