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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-07

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-07

Nippeno ana return ,...... 1880
Final Limit 80 days from date OF
sale,
City Ticket once. II W, End South.
J. L. MOORE,
Dist Pass Agt.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
TOPEKA AND THE GAS BELT.

The Commercial club of Topeka is
offering free gas for year to all fac
tories located there. The gas is from
the Kansas Natural mains aud comes
from Montgomery county. This is
the same gas which the Topeka papers
yelled SO loudly last year should be
sent throughout the state for the pur-
pose of reducing the price of the
poor mans fuel The residents Of
the county where the gas was in use
and where it was discovered and de-
veloped with their money, at their
risk, are to see the product of their
daring sent to Topeka. not for the
poor mans fuel. but for the rich
mans greed. And a lot of legislators
who cared nothing for the equities in
the case prevented the passage of a
bill to prevent it. VIII the people
ever elect q legislature that will pass
honest laws lola Record.
Isn't the Records memory trihe
overheated? AS the State Journal re-
members the controversy about piping
gas last year. the gas belt people said
they had no objection 20 piping it
within the state. but they did object
to piping it over to Missouri. The
rallying cry was kansas gas for Kan
sas," and as Topeka is in Kansas it
naturally supposed it is is entitled to
natural gas, providing it is willing to
pay the price.
If the State Journal is not mistaken
numerous gentlemen, not only in To-
peka but also from other parts of the
state, have put both money and labor
into the gas belt developing the fields.
and it is difficult to see how it is "the
product of the daring of the people
Of Montgomery, or any other single
/ county.
The gas belt stin has a tremendous
advantage over towns which have to
depend on piped gas. Down there gas
is almost free, while Topeka has to
pay twenty-five cents q thousand feet
for it for household use and fifteen
| cents for manufacturing purposes.
Why should the gas belt Degrudge us
the use of a little of its products, mas
much as we are willing to pay for it ?
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
JAYHA WKER .JOTS

Parsons has a city bastile,'' accord
ing to the Eclipse.
A Council Grove woman confesses that
next to saurkraut she likes onions best.
Corn huskers are getting four cents a
bushel up in Jewell county. An exper-
fenced man can make pretty good wages
at that price.
Pointer from Mabel Chilcott- -Anlrine:
If the girls only knew it, the snowfiakes
falling on their cheeks viii do more to
make them like roses than any amount
Of red paint.
Speaking of Kansas being up-to-date,
the newspapers record that a bath room
German Methodist church at Bushton,
out in the wheat country.
All sorts of vegetation seems to be
getting crazy this year. An Atchison
woman cut open a pumpkin the other
day and found every seed sprouted with
a healthy-loOking leaf growing on each
sprout.
Jewell Republican: The NJ. E. annual
conference was to have been held at
Ellis this year but the wife of the pas
tor became insane and had to be sent to
an asylum. The conference must there
fore be relocated. The official board of
the Jewell church has invited the con-
ference to come here.
The announcement of the publication
3
of Mr. J. E. House viii be pleasant news
to the admirers of NIr. Houses writings,
and they are by no means few. Mr.
House is one of the most entertaining
newspaper writer's, not only in Kansas,
but in the west and his volume will un-
doubtedly be distinct addition to Kan
sas literature. It viii be published
shortly under the title 'From the Grass
Roots"
Bill Allen White hands out this hunk
of advice to W. r. Stubbs: Get right
with Henry Allen. Henry is a young
man. He is bound to be more or less ac-
! tive in Kansas politics for q generation
| to come. If he is nominated for con-
gress. he will make business pick up
for the Lawrence statesman. If he IS
| defeated, he will have a lot of time on
/ his hands, and viii have q certain seven
devil delight in putting rock on the track
of the Stubbs through car. This is said
/ in the friendliest spirit to Brother
| Stubbs 1t costs nothing, and if at the
end of a year Stubbs can find that If It
I is not good advice, he can bring it back
and get his investment returned. This
/ looks fair enough"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
As 70 VENEzI-EIlA-

One Of the subjects which has been
before the American. people to Il con
siderable extent during the last three
or four years is our controversy-or
supposed controversy Venezuela,
and it is a matter of some moment
that not word concerning this sub
ject appears in the presidents mes
sage. This is taken TO mean that our
alleged difficulties with Castro's coun-
try have been disposed of, for which
the American people viii be extremely
grateful. The Washington Post, in
discussing this matter says:
IAN interesting and significant fea-
ture of the presidents message is to
be found in the careful, almost Osten-
tatious, industry with which it ignores
Venezuela. For two or three years
past. and up to the moment of Mr..
Roots assumption of the portfolio of
state, Venezuela has been a burning
issue. During the Hay regime. with
LOOMS, acting to the fore, we were
scowling at Venezuela almost con-
stantly. 1t is not TOO much to say. in
deed that we contracted the habit of
threatening Castro and promising him
hostile ultimatums and naval demon
stratiOns any fine morning you might
name. We nursed in our affectionate
arms the bleeding martyrs of the New
York asphalt trust. Their wounds
were ours. Their wrongs ranked in a
bosom which-but no matter now.
Castro was d devastating tyrant. Our
adventurers in Venezuela were the
pathetic victims OF his wickedness.
iNewsDaper corresDondents enjoying
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
CFrom the chicapo News !

lF'rom the Chicago News
Shortcake is one of the things small
boys long for.
Contentment abides with those who
have out few wants
Without excitement of some kind
we rust, body and soul.
Speak we'll of your friends: of vo,l,.
enemies speak not at all.
All men are liberal when if cou,cs
to spending other peoples money.
Under the classification Of married
men we find a lot of unknown heroes.
Two of lifes urgent requisites are
good health and a little more money.
There is small raorn for domestic han
plness in the head filed with fash
ions,
There are two classes of women
those who like nice clothes and those
who are dead.
When the small boy takes the cake
he thinks that he is receiving only his
just dessert.
If trouble doesn't lie in the vav NJ
some people they go out of their wa Y
to find it.
A thing that is fashionable beca,,se
It IS expensive is usually expensive be-
cause it is fashionable.
As long as he is permitted to handla
the COIN the insurance magnate ca res
not who pays the freight.
When a woman is left a. widow, al,
the eligible men in the neighborhood
want TO know how much the late la
mented left her.
It is unlawful for a man f., ,,-e..,-
more than eight hours dav in soy,,e. n
states, but there is no law aeair7s+ -
woman working eighteen hours q da1
at home. Jay
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The season is rapidly approaching
when the well-meaning individual is
foolish enough to consent to act as an
amateur Santa Claus.
Won't be long now till the little
Theodore r. Smiths. and Browns, and
Joneses, and Johnsons Will be start
ing to school.
When a man marries his stenog-
rapher he is no longer able to dictate
TO her.
For some reason or other the presi-
dent also forgot TO mention in his
message the muzzle that he has fitted
on the cabinet
Some surprise is occasioned that
the chaplain of the senate should have
been reelected in view of the poor job
he has done in reforming that body.
But then it must be remembered that
the senate itself elected him
One thing is sure: We Will never be
a candidate for reading clerk in the
Russian douma. Think of calling the
roll!
Judging from the present situation
IN Russia it is not at all improba BILE
that the car, after he has put the
cat out and locked the palace door,
also looks under the bed.
You will notice that some of the big
colleges are picking out their next
years bruisers just as though football
is not TO be reformed.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l

From the AtchisOn GlObe-J
We have noticed that the man who has
10 work hard from early 10 late soon has
the artistic temperament in him smashed
as fat as if Il rock crusher had rolled
over it
We wonder if the recording angel gives
as big a credit mark to the man who
stands at the door Of i church entertain
ment and sells tickets as to the woman
who got it up.
Has anybody ever discovered why q
drunk man always wants to look the per-
son he is talking to square in the eyes?
Does he purposely want to unload his
breath on his victim2
1t has been figured out by the North
Side Every Night club that when naturaI
gas is in general use girl can entertain
four nights in the parlor for the price
of the gas now consumed i'll one-ilight
session.
a wedding in Coolidge last week was so
swell that every usher had from six to
eight names, and they were printed out
in full For instance; Cyril James Ham
mond Worthington Huntingdaie Brown
Jones.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelnhia- Record

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.
A fellow may lead a girl to Abe altar
but after that she generally takes the
reins.
Somehow or other we never seem to
fully realize the pleasures of life until
We look back on them.
Blobbs-"The English girls drop their
his SlObbs-' That's no crime. Most
girls droD their eyes
Any detective win tell you that it's
hard to get on the trail of a woman who
wears rainy day skirt.
A woman can make her old things
look new almost as successfully as a
man can make his new things look old.
When an ordinary. everyday woman
meets with an accident she sends for
her doctor. An actress sends for her
press agent.
Wigg-"So he died from the effects of
an operation for appendicitis, eh 2''
Wagg-'I imagine so. At any rate, his
tombstone inscription reads: Gone to
join his vermiform appendix
Overheard in the dime museum
What was that row up stairs last
night?' asked the living skeleton. only
the two-headed girl replied the fat
lady. she was having the usual serap
with herself about what she was going
to have for supper after the show
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

The F'ifty-ninth congress assembled
yesterday with a. large Republican ma
iority. in which it is impossible not to
take satisfaction as an evidence of the
peoples trust in the party and its policies.
but which from other points of view is
not without its Disadvantages. Speaker
Cannon's short address acknowledging
his deserved reelection, after promising
faithful and impartial performance of
duty on his part, justly enforced upon
the minds of The members their duty to
attend to business and make the session
a success. It not infrequently happens
in legislative bodies that smallmajority
is really more competent to transact
business than a very large one, because
under a greater sense of responsibility.-
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

confused. with an impulsive gesture
sDo play. she exclaimed. 1--WE
must get this set.
Sinclair rather sulky at being
forced to play on a hot afternoon. haq
hitherto not chosen to exert himself,
letting the games go to his adver-
saries. But now he was beginning TO
be interested. If they we're to win,
johnson must concentrate. And john
son. all at once infected by something
in the girls manner Strengthened him
self. The other side should not win
single game. Love three. love four!
Sinclair. subtly aware of an unwOnted
tension in the air. strove his utmost,
unavaiIingIy. Johnson, his mouth
shut hard. played as though muscled
with steel. Love fivei Helen was
breathless, her lips parted. Love six!
with great sigh johnson faced
her.
we've Won" he whispered exult-
antly. just loud enough for her to
hear Helen. her eyes unfathomable,
glanced for a moment across at Sim
clair-SincIair, with his millions, then
the sweetest. tenderest smile curving
her mobile mouth, she lifted her face
to Johnson.
YES she said softly-"a Love
Match. ''-( Copyright, 1905, by p. e
Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
YoUT.T. NEvFR KNOVv.

I thought perhaps she might say no
Or even yes" She didn't, though.
She didn't say I'D rather not.
II you'll excuse me, share your lot.''
Nor did she make that time-worn crack.
RMS IS so sudden, dearest Jack
T would have given me a jar
II she had nuriaureds Ask pa-par,'
Or asked me if I would object
70 wait, so thai she might reflect.
But she did not-nor said she'd be
4 sort of sister unto me.
She did not even shyly rest
Her golden head upon my breast.
Though it may give you some surprise,
she did not drop her lovely eyes.
Emotion she did not display:
She did not turn her head away
And tell me that another, had
Put all my chances to the bad.
What did she say or do2 Well. Welll
Now, do you think I'd go and tell?
-l Chicago News
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
Wanted to Sell.

Dr. Washington GLADDEN. was talk
ing to two young men about the evil
of speculation.
Speculation is gambling" he said.
Tt is injurious to the morals always.
and in the majority of cases it is in-
furious to the bank account.
Whenever am tempted to specu<
late think OF Ben Smith and Asa
Jones, of Pottsgrove, my native place.
This thought causes me to refrain.
Ben and Asa, out walking one af-
ternoon, got to talking about money
matters
"'I have some money lying idle,
said Ben Smith. I think I'll take a
flyer in the stock market. What is the
best stock to buy, Asa2'
Greenland Improvement preferred
is the best thing I know off, Asa an
sweerd.
Where can I get some Of it?' said
Asa replied promptly.
I can let you have all you want. ''
Cleveland Leader
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

Senator MilIard, while at Panama,
observed a scene illustrative OF the
quality of labor which is obtained
there. He was watching the unloading
of a heavy piece of machinery. The
tackle became entangled, Whereupon
the foreman of a gang sent a man to
cast it free. The laborer did as he
was bid and the foreman, missing him
few minutes later, discovered him
sitting peacefully on the spot to which
he had been sent. "What are you do
ing there?' yelled the foreman. "You
told me to come here, sah.'' "Well
why didn't you come back?" You
didn't tell me to, sab. cleveland
Leader.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

told their papers every day that some
thing dreadful would happen right
away. if not sooner, and the always
creduIous and complacent home editor
reproduced the oracle under glewering
headlines. Yet. now the president,
after careful contemplation Of the
facts submitted to him by intelligent
and honest men, omits Venezuela in
the formulation Of his deliberate horO-
iscope. And there we are! The Incl
dent is cIosed-honorably thank
jheaven."and the country has reason
Ito rejoice in the fact that President
Roosevelt at last has at his elbow an
adviser who wants & tfle7 light and
knows how to turn it on"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
THE LAND T1EAIrn INDICTMENTS

THE LAND FRAUD INDICTMENTS.
There are undoubtedly two ways of
looking at most of the indictments con-
corning public lands that have been
brought by The federal grand Jury IN
Topeka recently. While these are
spoken OF as land frauds. only a few Of
them are really fraud cases-those in
which frauds have been practice1 N
securing title to public land Persons
guilty of these crimes should, Of course,
be severely punished.
Most of the indictments. however,
have been for fencing public lands
lands open to homestead, and to which
the cattlemen fencing it in have no
claim. This is not a fraud, but simply
a misdemeanor in violation of law.
The defense of the cattlemen is that
they own all the territory surrounding
the government land and that they sim
ply fence their own property; that they
cannot help it if the government land
happens to lie inside of theirs; that the
government land as a rule is not good
for anything except grazing and would
not be homesteaded even if it were not
fenced. Some Of them also assert that
they have been assured by government
inspectors that they would not be prose-
cuted for fencing public lands without
first having been given due notice to
take their fences down.
This is the cattlenen's : side Of the case,
but the fact remains that they were
openly violating the law, and they
knew they were. They have no right to
assume that the government land would
not be homesteaded If it were not fenced
1t does not belong to them and they
have no more right to it than though
| it belonged to a private individual.
The Berry tragedy in Cheyenne coun-
ty was largely the result of fencing pub
lie lands within the Dewey ranch
lands on which the Berry family settled.
Trouble necessarily followed. Govern
ment land inside Of a big ranch pasture
would need to be of. considerable value
to tempt the average man to homestead
it and risk having trouble with the
wealthy land owner who has it entirely
surrounded with his own lands and
fences.
If a ranch owner has been promised
immunity from prosecution by q govern
ment Official that is a matter for the
court to take into consideration in try
/ ing the case. The fact remains that the
law has been violated. The only right
way to do is to respect and obey the law.
The cattleman who does that will have
no trouble with thc government.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
Tic Exception.

Many years ago Uncle" Jerry
Pease was a well known character in
the town of Southbridge. Mass. He
worked by the day for different per-
sons. during the week, and SO. says the
Boston Herald. he had not much time
to devote to his own little place I'M
less he cultivated on Sundays; and
this he sometimes did
One Sunday morning, when Uncle
Jerry was busy in his garden, which
was near the church. the minister
came upon him before he knew it. It
was too late to get out of the way,
and fearing the minister's censure,
Uncle Jerry resolved to have the first
word.
seDo YOU think" he began, with an
uncertain smile, that they raise any
vegeta bles in heaven? ??
sAll kinds. sir. but peas" replied
the minister. r.''-Exchang
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

''The marble season is on the wane
now" said the toy shop man. ut
opened, as usual, in September. It
was an excellent season. have rare
ly seen a better
Marbles, most of them. come from
Germany. They are made of marble
and agate. But only the refuse of the
quarries are used.
''This refuse. stones about the size
of cobbles, is broken up by men and
boys with hammers into cubes of an
inch or less.
1.-THE cubes are thrown into a mill
consisting of a grooved bed-stone and
a revolving runner. Water is let into
the mile and the runner is rotated
apidly. Friction does the rest.
''Out drop the marbles, perfect
spheres. each mill grinding a bushel
every fifteen minutes.
81 know in Germany man who
has done nothing but make marbles
all his life. He began the work at
eleven and he is now sixty-two. -
Minneapolis Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
FREE SEEDS.

About the most ridiculous thing
that has come to notice lately is the
action by the leading seeds dealers in
the country of sending the president
a petition protesting against the free
seed distribution. The petitioners al
lege that the practice is a ''grievous
restraint of trade" AS a matter of
fact not half of the free seed is ever
planted, it is usually unreliable and a
gardener would not waste time upon
it. The free seed graft is a moderately
harmless diversion for our congress-
men and few of us have the heart to
say anything against it. The seeds
men are precipitate to say the least
LeaVenWoFth Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BAoHELoR.

LFrom the New York Press.l
It's very easy for a woman to he
proud of her husband unless fbes1 -
a SON for her to be proud of instead
When man kisses a girl In the darn,
ana she IS terribly SURPRISED j. is a
sign she thought it was sor1ebo51- 80
A girl could never be comforrablo ~
trousers, because she could never trcst
q pair of supenders the way she does a
safety pin. d
A woman has as much faith in ber
instinct about the way to tell whe.ber
men are good as in her mothers recipe
for the way TO make pumpkin pies
a woman's way Of saving fo 49,, 49,,
ister that she would like to whale bs.
boy, who has just knocked over the
water pitcher. is to declare: ssI9esr ltt+iS
chap he - SO full. Of innocent spirita.''
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
In Brief

"You know Mr.. Phunnypheller, who
always prides himself on answering
remarks with one word Wen, met
him today, and when I told him I had
just come across our doctor at the
friends 1 had been calling on. he
smiled and said Metaphysician'
Then I asked him if he could guess at
what hour we had breakfast that
morning, and he nodded his head and
said, 'Attenuate.' To change the con-
versation [ inquired what he thought
of peroxide hair bleach and he said
sharply. shaking his head, Dynasty
I invited him to come home with me
and take a bite at least, and he re-
piled with an accepting nod, sDyna-
mite But he capped the climax when
I asked him if we might hope to hear
q speech from him at the public din
ner next week bv proudly saying Tx
pectoration. Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

Again It is demcnstrated that the
conclusion of jury is far and away
beyond comprehension. Two men rob
bed a druggist in Topeka about a year
ago. One of them confessed and Inn
plicated the other beyond the possibili-
ty of a rational doubt. They beat the
poor victim over the head with ham,
mer in a manner SO brutal as to raise
again the question of total depravity.
He lived, just lived The jury acquit-
ted the one who braved it out and went
to trial. The other got u years. How
the jury arrived at its conclusion is
puzzling thinking people beyond all
measure.-CIay Center Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

If you think that because the pres
ident must concern himself with af-
fairs of tremendous moment for the
country and the world. he cannot
romp with his little folk as other
fathers do YOU are much mistaken.
And if you think that Mrs. Roosevelt
has no time to see that the children
learn their lessons, or to tuck them
comfortably in bed. even on the nights
Of great receptions or state dinners,
YOU are likewise mistaken. Or if you
think that the young persons at the
White House are excused from any
educational tasks, or have any special
privileges as to lessons or school work.
and envy them on that account. get
rid of the impression at once. Pocket
money for ice cream soda and chocO-
lates is not unknown, but there is no
unlimited indulgence in them. The
president likes all wholesome things,
and he is not above the fairy tales
that all children love.-St. Nicholas.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11

Governor LaFollette said his con-
science would not, for some time, allow
him TO accept the senatorship. Are we
to understand from that that he laid
his conscience away out Of sight where
1t could not object when he finally de
cided TO go to Washington The trouble
with the United States senate is that
too many Of fits members have disposed
Of their eonscfences before going to
washington, and better things We're
hoped oe LaFOllette.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-11
King Alfonso's Night Guards.

King Alfonso is perhaps more securely
and carefully guarded during the hours
of darlSness than is any other European
monarch, except, perhaps. the sultan OF
turkey For four centuries the slumbers
Of successive sOvereigns OF Spain nave
de Fsspinosa''-a body Of men to whom
IS relegated the exclusive privilege OF
sYlardir1q their monarch from sunset to
sunrise. They must have an honorable
military career and be natives Of the
town Of Espinosa. Ceremoniousiy they
lock the palace gates at midnight. open
ing them at z O'Clock the next morning
London TattIer.