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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
Tom OIcNeaI Entertains a visitor.

At present the private secretary's
time is equally divided between his Of
fetal duties as private secretary and the
interviews of various tyne ink paper
and machinery statesmen. They take up
his valuable time in telling him that it
IS impossible to run a print shop with
out their particular brands Of goods
Mr. MCNeal listens with polite gravity
Rbsently ripping open the governors
morning mail the while. But back
OF that placid, towering brow there are
IDEAS OF which the agents wot not.
Wot does he care for their advice ?
Did he not run print shop long years
before most Of them were out Of kits?
OF course he did
And when the governor is at last
forced to Jar loose from his private soc
rotary and employ another, he viii re-
gret that T. A. McNeal was elected
state printer. Never again will his ex-
cellency find a man who can run his
business, tell him in an unObtruSive
way what to do in an emergency and
smear salve on the irritated askers, like
4. A. McNeal
Mr. McNeal is the soothing syrup of
the present administration With a firm
but gentle hand he can push the ami
mails back into the basket and put on
the lid. 1t takes a man with the spirit
OF saint and the cunning of an Apache
4hulan 70 preserve peace in a governors
Office, and at the same time keep his
sacred person out of all disturbances.
And there is only one Tom McNeal.
Frank M. Stahl' is anything but cow
ardly, and he is by no means slxittish
but he admits that he was shocked at
what he saw of existing conditions.
Saturday night He was quick to de-
nounce true story of the Topeka
Bowery' as falsehood. and it shocked
MIN. two weeks later, to find things
worse than they had been painted.
No one expects Mr.. StahI to know as
much OF the lower crust from personal
observation as an outsider-for instance
= member of a Stunning party of
three, but it was not quite right for
MIN TO fly up and call a newspaper
down Tor printing the testimony of
these said Summers who were All
gentlemen of integrity. Now the chief
knows that the Summers were right
ana ne was wrong, and he is acting &C
eordingly. There is still time for him
10 make the Topeka Slums look like a
cyclone had passed that way, and it is
almost cineh that he will do it, now
tnat ne IS convinced that there is such
a thing as crime and vice.
Ehe Lower Crust is not in the habit
2 inviting the chief and his reserves
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CITY SIDE LIGHTS.
Tom McNeaI Finds Himself in a
Predicament.
No One Yet Found to Take One
Of His Jobs.
HE is VERY POPULAR.
Men With Things to Sell Call
Upon Him.
How Chief Frank Stahl Became
Convinced.
HE is VERY POPULAR.

The extreme coyness of Governor
HOch is liable to leave the Honorable
Thomas A McNeal in a predicament.
While the governor is trying to find a
suitable person to take McNeaTs place
as private secretary. the state printer
job will grow on the worthy humorist
like bog SPAWN on a dray horse, and
he will ind himself the proud but un-
comfortable possessor Of two jobs. It
would be rare sight to see the noted
fable writer kicking a job press and
feeding it with one hand. While he set
type with the other and opened the
governors mail with his teeth, mean
while explaining 20 an applicant that
he didn't know exactly what the gov
ernor would do about those appoint
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WANT 1T CHANGED.
Excelsior Coke & Gas Company VIII
Ask Modification of Franchise.

The Excelsior Coke & Gas company
will come before the city council with
in the next two weeks and apply for a
change in their present franchise.
The Excelsior Coke & Gas company
wish to furnish the residents of To-
peka with natural gas and under their
present franchise. which runs for the
next thirty years. no provision is made
Tor this feature. They are permitted
to dispose Of manufactured gas and
that only, and are not allowed to let
the natural gas circulate through
their mains. A conference of the at
torneys of the Excelsior Coke & Gas
company and those of the Kansas Nat
urad Gas company will be held soon in
Topeka with reference to drawing up
a new franchise such as is desired. Mr..
G. X Holiday of the former company
was in Kansas City yesterday with
reference to this matter and talked
over the situation with H. H. Helm of
the Kansas Natural Gas company.
Helm states that work on the pipe line
between here and Ottawa is progress
ing rapidly and that he viii soon send
large shipment of material to To-
peka- It should have been here be-
fore but a delay has been experienced
in securing it from the factories in the
east
The Excelsior Coke & Gas company
has secured the old Continental Oil &
Gas company's franchise from the
Home Heat & Light company, whose
interests and holdings it is understood
have been acquired completely by the
local company. The Continental Oil &
Gas company's franchise never met
the full approval of the Home Heat &
Light company and they were pre-
pared to ask for a new franchise but
were afraid that the city council would
enforce the payment of a large bonus
in return.
1t is evident that the Continental Oil
& Gas company's franchise does not
meet the full approval in a like man
ner of the Excelsior Coke & Gas COM
pany and consequently they win ask
for an entirely new franchise.
The disposition of the present coun-|
Gil however, does not seem to run to
an exceptionally liberal dealing with
franchises, and the request for a. diff
ferent franchise from the Excelsior
Coke & Gas company will be treated
in a like manner The gas company
will have to come forward and make
some concessions in return for the
privilege. There will be no material
difference in the line I'D of the next
council as far as this matter goes
though the opposition will probably be
slightly weakened.
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filed it will take some time for them to
be classified and indexed so that we
can lay our hands on any particular
thing we want. After that is done,
when a complaint comes in it will be
an easy matter to compare the rate
complained of with other rates over
the state to ascertain if sthere is a dis
elimination"
The board of railroad commissioners
is also at work securing the data call
ed for by the Stone resolution. to
make a comparison of Kansas rates
with those in Missouri. Iowa. Illinois,
Nebraska and Texas.
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He Took Subscriptions.

Sheriff Lucas arrested F. B. Kemmett
at the Throop hotel on Saturday night
and charged him with obtaining money
under false pretenses. He represented
himself to be a solicitor for number
of eastern magazines, the keystone of
New York; the Engineer Of Chicago;
the Western Electric of Chicago; the
Readers Gazette of Chicago; the Pro-
gressive Printer of st. Louis and the
Inland Printer of Chicago. He got adj
vance money on alleged subscriptions
from J. 3. NJ. Steves,z ]. 3. Hayden, L.
M. Blitz and Ralph Montgomery, and
others
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to occupy box seats at all their per-
formances. When they see his wills
kers coming in al the door they begin
singing hymns, and heretofore, it ap-
pears, he has judged them by what he
saw Saturday night he sneaked in on
a lot of them. under cover of darkness
and dense cloud of cigarette smoke
and he caught them with the goods
Now that he is on the right trail, it is
time for the speak guiltys" and other
dens of vice to look bigosh out" It is
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too bad that he didn't fall on their
necks ere now. Things are getting
pretty bad when a decent woman can
not safely travel from UP town to the
Rock Island depot without an armed
escort, but such has been the condition
OF lower Kansas avenue. Now that he
has on his war paint, it would be well
for the chief to take a Srge garden
rake and tickle some of that rif-raff in
to commissions He can do it. and may
be he will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

Advertisements signed in care Of State
SSoeutlaI. such as Address A B. C., care
500 journal, or Address Owner. care
safe safe journal" Should be answered IN
m[hihg only. Write your answer and
IA thIau II care State Journal CT leave 1t al
ets stare Journal office. Do not ask the
~. IN the State Journal office to give
Sou t1le name of the advertiser; they can
not give this Information
AdFs.a Not Accepted Over Phone.
ne state journal does not accept
= ant advertisements over the telephone
~ tioI Goes It make charge accounts OF
brfnsr LIZ, Inc most satisfactory plan Is 70 20
Stats your waut advertisement to the
f Jeate Journal office. If you can not do
e o14ass can the Western Union telegraph
s either phone 81, and tell them tnat
you nave an advertisement for the stare
6ot- 1 4s They will send an A. u u \.
10y 70 your house. You pay the boy for
the advertisement. the State Journal
rays Tor his services in bringing it down
- Ss'e s. Cost of classified advertisements
one line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
BUY A FOREST.
Kansas City Parties Make Big Deal
in California.

San Francisco, March ga big tim
Der deal involving the transfer of a mil
lion dollars is reported closed here. The
property changed hands is that of the
Weed Lumber company, consisting of
large tracts of lumber land in northern
California with improved mills and "a
miles Of railroad running out of Weed sta
ton toward the klamath river district. to
which its owners contemplated making an
extension.
The purchasers are R. A Long of Kan
sas City and several business associates
in that place, among them w. F. Ryder,
W. R. Hazen and c. 3. Sweet, and a num-
Der of California capitalists.
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TAYLOR MAKING READY.
Attorney for Railroad Board Planning
= Campaign

Carr W. Taylor, attorney to the rail-
road board. is beginning to shape
things for business. He says there
Will be little doing on the surface,
however, until after the railroads file
their schedules with the board.
THE law gives the railroads thirty
days in which to file these schedules, .
said Mr.. Taylor. land until that is
done little can be done with new COM
plants. After these schedules are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

TOPEKA FREE DISPENSARY. south
east corner 18th and Tyler SITS, from !
to p. m, except Sundays. Conducted by
regular practicing physicians for the
benefit of persons without means who
need medical attention and treatment Pa
tents are assured OF careful and consid-
crate treatment. Medicine furnished Ia
most cases.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

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WANTED-By young lady, situation as
clerk or office girl. Address o. G., care
Journal.
WHEN you want to hire man or boy,
call up Y NJ. c. A telephone 81. We
have a list of men and confidential ref
erences concerning them. z. M c.. a.
Employment bureau. III E. Sth st.
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The ladies of the First Congregs-
tional church will give musicale
Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock
at Mrs. Florence Fox Thatcherss. sos
Fillmore street. Admission Is cents.
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TO WHOM rr MAY CONCERN.


TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN-Our ap-
plication for a permit to sell 1ntoxicat-
ing liquors, according to law, at 500 Kan
sas ave, In the L hsrd yard of the city
the probate Judge of Shawnee comfy,
Kansas. The hearing of the same is set
for Wednesday, at O'Clock q. m, April
3, 1905. KEENE & KNOWLTON.
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WANrE1,-.nrAIlr.n HEr.r..

WANTED-A boy about Is years old to
work in a country store, easy work and
a fine opportunity for young fellow to
learn the country store business. Address
Store, care Journal.
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sTRAYED OR STOLEN.


STRAYED-F'rom go Harrison, Sunday
afternoon, white poodle dog, yellow spot
on right ear and back. Liberal reward for
return 500 Kansas ave. or go Harrison st.
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WANTED-Active young man as receiv
ing clerk; good position for a thorough
" competent man; apply to manager
Jones Dry Goods Co.
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STORAGE

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MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE
Co. packs. ships and stores HOUSEHOLDS
goods Tel. 1S6. Clarence Skinner, 61A
Quincy ST
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WANTED-Iive young man to work
around store; references 11S E. Sth st
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WANTED-A few loads of good black dir
at SIS Topeka ave.
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AUCTToNEERs

MY OFFICE is 200 E 5th ST. Phones $685.
Call or phone Office hours 10 to Il; 2 to
4 Plain John Ashbaugh.
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MTsCELANEOUs.

USE the -'Si1ver Leaf brand pickles, vim
egar, mince meat, etc. Otto Kuehne
Preserving Co., phone 300.
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WANTED nurses for training at the
Keith-Rhodes hospital, 5S1 Kansas ave.
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L. W. THOMPSON, w. 10th, R. F. D. g.
Ind tel. 1898. has good pasture for cattle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
CARPET CLEANING.

CARPET CLEANING.
J. F. PETRIK & SONS, upholsterers, new
carpet cleaning works, carpets cleaned
and secured, refit, seWed and laid 92S-930
Kansas ave. Phones: Ind. 794; Bell 81 J.
F. Petrik, sr-, c. V. Petrik, J. T. Petrik, jr.
WE CLEAN, scour, refit. sew, size and
lay your carpets in workman like
manner. The Mccormick Carpet Cleaning
Works. 522 Van Buren, st. Phones al
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WANTED-Colored boy for tending lawn
and porter work generally, at SIS To-
pelza ave
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MONEY.

MONEY.
MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos
organs, typewriters, household goods ane
personal security L. Btscoe. 523 Kan. av
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WANTED-Men to learn barber trade;
few weeks completes; positions guaran-
teed; prepare now for busy season; more
calls for help than can be supplied; easy
work, big pay. Write for catalogue. Moler
Barber college, st. Louis. Mo-
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WANTED-Frame makers and ap
prentices at Mrs. MorriSon's milliner.
store. 10s z. 9Th st
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wANTED-2 good girls 1929 Harrison st.
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UNpHRTAKERs.


DEMOSS & PENWELL. Funeral D1rac-
tors and Emba1mers First class seFEsca
reasonable prices.5u Quincy. Both telss1SA
GEO. B. PALMER, undertaken. Estah-
lished 1871 Prices reasonable. Tel. offtoa
146. Residence 81. gu jackson st.
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LADIES, earn $50 per 100 writing Short
letters Enclose stamped envelope. Amer
lean Belt works, Batavia, Ill
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WANTED-Lady or gentleman of fair ed
ucation to travel for a firm Of $3.50, COCO
capital; salary 81, or per year and ex
penses, paid weekly. Address with stamp
J. A. Alexander, Topeka, Kan
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WANTED-Good ice box suitable for milk
depot. SIT W. 10th ST. Tel. 2e6
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wANrED-FEOGALE HELP.

WANTED-White girl for general house
work, small family, no washing. Mrs.
C. H. Matthews, 1915 Harrison st.
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.WANTED-White woman general house
work in family of 3. Must stay nights
Call evenings at 229 Van Buren, ST.
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WANTED-At once, white girl for gener
al housework- 414 w. 10th st.
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HAIR DRESSING.

SWITCHES, pompadours, all kinds a
hair work. Mrs Vazl Week. % z. 5th.
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FLORISTS


HOME GROWN CUT FLOWERS, bed
ding plants, floral designs, at Hayes, 1O7
". Sth st. Tel 81.
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FOR EXCHANGE.

FOR ExCHANGE-9ouse rooms, barn
II lots, Oakland, for farm Oklahoma va
cant lots, clear, Oakland, for so acre farm
near Topeka and pay cash difference. P
c. Moore, Oakland. Kan
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FURNITURE PACKERS.

CAPITOL UPHOLSTERING CO., Is years
best Of references. 12s W. 7Gh. Ind. 1895
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WANTED-Elder1y lady to care for baby
prefer one living close in. s. c., Jour
nal.
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ELEVATORS. FLOUR MILLS. ETC
CROSBY ROLLER MILLING CO., man
ufacturers of hard wheat -four.
PHONE 224.
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MASSAGE PARr.oR

and shampooing, toilet articles. Ma
annie a. Trap. 40 Kan. ave-. upstairs.
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WHOLESALERS


THE COUGHLIN HARDWARE co
AardWare, stoves fine tools 7Os Kan
sas ave- Tel. eos.
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cLAERvoYANr.

CIAIRVOYANT,
TRANCE AND TRUMPET MEDIUM
Seances Tues. and Thurs eve, Sunday at
Iernoon. Readings B. m. to p. m. MrE.
Anez Wagner, 20 W. 9Th. Ind. Se3.
MEDIUM, mind reader, tells you what
you are most anxious to know how to
gain love of others, though miles apart
Thompson, III W. 10th. Bell 51s1 black.
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J. c. RODMAe7. blooming plants, cut fow-
ers, palms, designs, decorations. 112 w.
Sth- Phone 81. Greenhouse 18th and Mon
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GO to G. A. Wood for that wall pap,
and painting. $50 Kansas ave. Tel. Ss0-
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D. G. JOHNSON, shave 10c, hair cut
shampoo, massage 15c, work guaranteed
Under Exchange Grocery, corner 9Th and
Quincy.
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STAMPS. SEALS AND sTENCIrs.
49,
5AE J. g DAZZLING CO., 7S4 Kan. ave.
Rubber stamps, brass and alliminl1ra trade
checks Prices low Catalog free. Tel. ga.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-11
Notice of Receivers Sale.

To all whom it may concern notice is
hereby given: That l will. under and by
virtue of a certain decree made and enter
ed on the a7th day of October A. d. Q
by the Hon. Edward A. Mann, presiding
Judge of the District Court for the Sixth
Judicial District, the Territory of New
Mexico, sitting in and for the County of
Quay, in a certain cause therein pending,
wherein the First National Bank OF Tu-
cumcari. New Mexico. was plaintiff and
Cabe Adams and L. E. Speed. were de-
PENDANTS as Receiver OF said Court in said
cause. sell at public vendue to the highest
and best bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed property to-wit:
Seventy-eight head. more or less. OF cat
tie, branded OK on left side.
Said sale to be held on the 27th day of
November A. ID. 1905, at the front door of
the Court House in T%ucumcari, N. NJ. be-
tween the hour Of o a. m. and the setting
of the sun on the same day.
LEE HAMILTON,
Receiver,
Nov. 4-5t
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Notice of Suit.

In the District Court for the Sixth Judi
cial District Of the Territory of New Mex
leo, within and for the County Of Quay
Gross, Kelley & Company
Plaintiff
VS..
Fred G. Browning
Defendant
The said defendant Fred G. Browning is
hereby notified that a suit by attachment
has been commenced against him in the
District Court for the Sixth Judicial Dis
trict of the Territory of New Mexico. with
in and for the county of Quay. by a d
plaintiff Gross. Kelley & Company, upon
an open account for goods. wares and mer-
chandise sold and delivered by said plain
tiff to said defendant. said defendant prom
Using to pay for same. Damages claimed
Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars. That
unless you enter your appearance in said
suit on or before the 23rd day of Decem-
Der A. ID. 1905, judgment by default there
in will be rendered against you.
CHAs. p. Downs,
Clerk.
MERRITT c. MEcHEM. Tucumcari. New
Mexico. Attorney for Plaintiff.
Nov. 4--5t
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A Missouri Editor Thus Writes.

A Missouri editor is said to have gotten
off the following: I'VE live in a land of
high mountains and high taxes: low valleys
and low wages; big crooked rivers and big
crooked statesmen: big lakes and big
strikes: big drinks: big pumpkins; big men
with pumpkin heads: silver streams that
gambol in the mountains and pious politi-
clans that gamble in the night; fast young
men and TASTE: girls; sharp %financiers
and sharp toed shoes; fertile plains lie like
a sheet of water. and thousands OF news
papers that lie like thunder"