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The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
DIPHTHERIA RECORD.
C0n1agion On Increase According to
state Board Of Health.

Diphtheria is still on the increase in
the state of Kansas. The report for
the month Of November was issued by
the state board OF health and shows
AL cases and 61 deaths during the
month, against 1854 cases and Il deaths
in October and -224 cases and IL deaths
in September.
At Topeka there have been S6 cases
and deaths from diphtheria; at Kan
sas City, II cases and 4 deaths; at
Leavenworth, 81 cases and 2 Deaths
Smallpox also shows a big increase
during the month. There were 253
cases and ne Deaths against "a cases
and I death in October, and 5S cases
and death in September.
There were 7S cases and Al deaths
from tuberculosis during November;
1855 cases and 81 deaths from typh old /;
los cases and 8 deaths from scarlet
fever.
The report of the board also sounds
a warning against public funerals OF
persons who die of diphtheria. DR..
Crumbine says.
Information has come to this office
that there have been several public
funerals in cases of diphtheria. This
is contrary to the law, rules. and regu-
lations of the state board of health,
and must be positively forbidden by
county health officers in the future"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
REPLIES IOMAYOR
City Attorney Drenning Points
to Own Record.
Says 1t Proves He Has Served
City Well.

A signed statement was issued this
morning by F. c. Drenniug, city attor-
ney, covering his position and in answer
to the rebuke which was administered
to him at the hands of Mayor ". H.
Davis last evening.
Councilman F. E. Nipps, chairman of
the committee, to which has been COM
mitted the task of securing a return
of harmony between the. city council
and the city attorney said this morning:
Il haven't anything further to give out
publicly than that we will probably
have the committee get together within
the next ten days. I don't expect to
do anything for a few days at least. Mr..
Dreaming will be invited to attend the
committees meetings. I hope that we
may be able to getDtogethef.Ss 'tGI
Mr.. Drenning's statement follows:
When 1 came into, office there were
225 criminal and several civil cases to
be tried in the district court and one
case in the supreme court. Since then
have framed for the mayor and cOun-
Gil the Edison electric light franchise,
the ordinance governing the waterworks
department of the city the new liquor
ordinance and many others. In addi-
tion i have investig igated and reported
on many legal questions which have
arisen.
Il crowded all work in my office
from week to week until. one week ago
last Wednesday I found I had tried the
entire list of civil~and criminal eases
on the dockets in th6ss tstFtet azd ssll-.
prene courts. There yTRres nu aHQfe
cases which I could .EzS and no Okl1ef
tasks left und0ne. NO more worlds to
conquer, so TO speak, and no more. de-
feats to suffer. BY nature L am COM
PEELED to work to be happy and sought
other fields of labor. It was q laudable
ambition to try in a practical way to
make our city beautiful again by turn
ing the mudholes of Kansas avenue
into street as beautiful as any in
the world. I circulated the Kansas
avenue paving petition as Il private cit
izen and a taxpayer. 1 shall finish the
work and in a few days turn it over to
ty owners and my work then viii be
done. The property owners and the
mayor and council can carry on the
negotiations for the repavingr of kan
sas avenue. a ~ ra.sr.--@ h
'HThe mayor accuses me of not Civ
ing him fair legal opinions on paving
For four years Mr.. Spencer, the form
er city attorney, advised the mayor and
council that Kansas avenue could not
be repaved except by a petition of the
property owners. I have given the
same advice. But the mayor seems to
demand legal advice cOlored to suit his
rapidly changing views on municipal
problems. He will not get it. / will
give the mayor and council the law as
know it to be. In the case Of
Meade VS.. The City of Topeka, in the
district court of Shawnee county, the
mayor and council were determined to
pay Meade $3.50 for a strip of land
fought committees, council mayor.
Meade, the whole outfit to a finish. and
won my case IN the district court My
whole heart is bent on serving faith
fully the people who elected me to Of
fee and 1 shall be faithful to my trust
until the end. F. G.. DRENNING.'
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
COULD SAVE POWERS.
Man in California Says He Knows
Who Killed GoebeI.

Bakersfield Cal. Dec. 28.-Charles t.
Bhler, on a cot in the county hospital.
suffering from a wound presumably
self-infiicted, has admitted to the sup
erintendent, Franz Buckreus, that he.
has information as to the killing Of Gov
ernOr William Goebel OF Kentucky,
which, if it were addueed on the svIt-~
ness stand, 1t is alleged, would clear
Caleb Powers, former secretary Of state
of kentucky and now under sentence
Of death for completely In. the murder
of the late governor.
DO you know anything that would
clear this man of the charge of muir
der?"
Eh1er, who is wracked with pain, after
a moments silence, nodded his head.
Then" said the superintendent in
Gods name, why don't you declare
yourself?"
Because it would implicate others
Ehler replied.
But you would not see an innocent
man executed?" said the superintend-
ent, Indignantly.
EhIer reflected for a moment and said:
We'll, Caleb Powers is not executed
yet
-Thereupons he closed his eyes ana re-
fused TO say more.
Powers has been notified of the ad=
missions of the man now in the hospital,
and whether any steps viii be taken by
the Kentucky authorities is not yet
known here.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
He GETS S56,5O9 MORE
IPisoerfe 2gutElgIr Pays Its DevIfngc IN.
surance Policies.

The Office of the receiver of the
First National bank will probably be
closed a portion of the time during the
holidays Mr. Bradley, the receiver,
left today for his home in the south
ern part of the state and will not re-
turn in all probability until the mid
die of next week. His chief clerk, Wal
ter NiedneF. leaves Saturday also Tor
st. Louis where he will visit his par
ents for several days.
The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
company which had agreed to honor
the six policies held against it by the
receiver came forward with the checks
Friday afternoon. The checks amount
Cd to S56,5O9.40, the policies written
representing $4,000, the excess of
that amount is accrued dividends.
AS in other instances these policies
are those on the life of c. J. Devlin
and. assigned by him before his death
to the First National.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
YoAKU1I ON A TOUR
WIN Take "Trip Over the Rock
Island Lines.

B. F. .Yoakum, recently chosen as the
chairman of the executive. board Of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
way company, is out on a tour OF m
spection of some of the lines of the
company. He left Chicago a couple of
days ago in a special train and was
accompanied by B. L. WncfeI1, presI-
dent of the company and H. U. Nudge,
the. second vice president. The party
Travelled over the lines on the northwest
district Of the road and expect to reach
Kansas City today where they will be
met by Dan E. Cain, general manager
of the road and Frank T. Dolan, general
superintendent of the southwest district.
While in Kansas City Mr. Yoakun
and his associates viii go over. carefully
the matter of terminal facilities in the
freight yards at ArmourdaIe and also
in connection with the Union depot de-
veHopments. after looking over these
situations the party will leave on a
special train for St Louis to inspect
the line between Kansas City and that
point.
Itsis Mr.. Yoakunl's intention to make
an inspection Of all the lines of the
Rock Island and it is possible that he
will come back from St. Louis within
a few days to look over the southwest
district, but it is probable that this in
speetion will be postponed until after
the holidays.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
DELEGATES ARE NAMED.
They VIII Attend the Preliminary Ex-
position Meeting

-Four delegates have so far been APP
pointed to attend the convention sche-
duIed to be held in Topeka on Janaury
9 relative. to the Kansas exposition for
1911.
has appointed H J. Powell, editor Of
the Cherryvale Republican, as delegate
and W. c. Discus as alternate. Mayor
Kincaid writes that he will probably be
here himself.
George w. Hanna, mayor of Clay
Center, has appointed G. NJ. Stratton as
delegate and D. a. Valentine. as altern-
ate.
c. W. Miller Of HAYS City, has been
appointed by the county commissioners
of Ellis county as delegate.
J. B. Cassidy, mayor of Alma, has ap
pointed H. C. Sticher, editor of the. Alma
SignaI as delegate.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
WOULD Pay CLERKS 10 CENTS.
Game Warden Del Travis Would Make
a Compromise With County Clerks.

Del Travis. state game warden,
came to Topeka Friday and asked At.
torney. General Coleman for an opinion.
concerning the authority of the game
warden to allow pay to the county
clerks. of the state, out of the genera
funds of the warden's department as
compensation for the work of the
clerks in making out the license stubs
and sending them to the game warden.
The clerks have. been objecting be-
cause the law required them 20 issue
the licenses. and allowed them no pay.
They tried for a time to insist that
they we're entitled to 20 cents for at
fsc1ing the county seal, but the at
tornev7 general held otherwise
Game Warden Travis, however, has
asked the county clerks to send
him the stubs of the licenses, which
fl7e law. does not require. He has an
noeirieed that he, is willing to pay the
clerks 10 cents for each stub re-
turned to him, provided it can be done
under the law.
1t is understood that the attorney
general will probably put his O. K on
TINS plan, and it will be put into erect
Attorney General Coleman went to
his home in Clay Center Friday with
out rendering any opinion III the mat
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
sNAfShbTs AT HOME NEWS.

Tonight sees the fnish--for the store
clerks.
Henry Allen was IN Topeka Friday
for short time.
Governor Hoeh returned Friday
night from his trip to St. Louis.
The next meeting of the Commercial
club viii take place on January Il.
# you want to have a good wrestling
match buy a pound of holly and carry
# home.
The real martyr is the fellow who will
SEND Jus g3rl a big bunch Of flowers for
Christmas.
Congressman Charles Curtis arrived
IN Topeka from Washington Friday
afternoon.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge has
sent word that he can not address the
Kansas Day club banquet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Martin have
gone to Baltimore to attend the meet
ing of the National Historical society.
Buffalo steaks and rows between
eouncilmen and the city attorney are
/ the popular after-dinner subjects now
in Topeka homes.
Cfas. Fenstermacher, general Sec
retary of the 7. NJ. c. A. at Arkansas
City, will speak at the City Y. NJ. c. A.
tomorrow at p. m.
This is the last chance for the
Christmas trade. The weather is
good, and the merchants seem to be
reaptng-their harvest.
The flags on the Santa Fe office
building are at half. mast as a token
of respect to the late Edward Wilder,
treasurer of the road.
Senator Chester I. Long, who has
been at the Coates house in Kansas
City for the past two days, has re-
turned to Washington.
At the Throop hotel dinner viii be
served both noon and evening Christmas
day; 300 guests can be accommodated.
Tables can be reserved by 'phone.
The man who did not rake un his
leaves this fall and let them blow all
over his neighbor's yard is now the man
who does not clean the snow off his
hsidewalk. fss.
Eastman & Lakip took a party -jatf
buyers to Cove county this week and
sold some fine tracts of land. They
will take out another party jan
uary End.
The people who live at the terminus
of the Fourth street car line complain
that the company is now using old
dlapidated cars without heat. They
say they were given to understand large
cars would be put on as soon as the
wye was completed.
State Treasurer T. T. Kelly has re-
turned from Kansas City. where he
went to introduce Bishop T. E. Lillis,
of the Catholic diocese of Leaven-
worth, to Senator Long Bishop Billfs
wants Catholic chaplain at the fed
eral prison.
If the present grade of weather
continues, the Wash hburn-Fairmou mount
lfootbaH game at Wichita Monday
afternoon VIII draw a big crowd, and
probably pull both teams out Of the
hole, financially. Washburn expects
to make enough on the game to pay
off all its athletic debts.
There are about twelve hundred
members of Masonic lodges in Topeka.
Many of these belong to the higher
Masonic orders also-the Scottish Rite
bodies, the Chapter the Council and
the Knights Templar, making the
total membership of all the Masonic
bodies in Topeka about $500.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
SHOT ON TRAIN.
Two Men Killed, One Wounded and
Car Windows Smashed.

Mount Carmel H.. Dec. 23.-Two men
were killed, and a third was probably
fatally injured and every window was
shot out of a passenger coach on the
Southern railway when two men in Gus
tody for larceny tried to escape by kill
ing a constable. Incidentally 25 pas
sengers in the car were kept busy dodg-
ing bullets for several minutes, the train
meanwhile running at high speed.
When the smoke had cleared away
Constable James Kingston and Isaac
Marshall one A Of the prisoners
were dead and Edward Marshall. the
other prisoner was probably, fatally
wounded A bullet passed through the
cap Of a brakeman but no one else was
harmed
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
CITY GETS THECASH.
Receives over one Hundred Thousand
Dollars From County ~

The city was enriched to the extent
Of S192 600 today which 1t received from
the county in tax money. This is the
first pa ynept sinEe the annual -settle~
nnent IN October ~ $50
Itemizedi the. a41iaulfts are as foaIdBEsS
Sidewalk tax, 50 000;9 9paving tax, 100000
sewer tax, $19,008 city tax, $4,000; board
of education, S49O00 $50
we Will make another payment to
the city some timerin January said
County Treasurer Bowen this morning.
1--WE will keep approximating amounts
right along to help aIae city out"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
EAST SIDE CHRISTMAS TREE.
Little ones in kindergarten Eaj0y
the Event.

The Christmas tree season opened
last night with a premature ceiebras
ton for the infants of the t4st Side
Free Kindergarten, at Eighth avenue
and Lake street. The dozen little tots
of the class made the decorations for
the tree and room, the little 9insei
ornaments and paper chains. and ceIe-
brated the affair in their own way
In the performance, some of thsslft-
tie ones became sleepy and were side
tracked, while the others sang. nlar9h-
ed and played games.
Then the wonderfully decorated tree
was brought out in the center OF ne
room and the presents removed
The usual addition of candy was dis
tributed, and the babes went hon1e
happy and satisfied that They. had doYse
well in their first public performance
The kindergarten Christmas csIe-
bration was held early to avoid inter
ference with any plans OF parents for
the real celebration, and was voted s
complete success by the parents 7syl,o
attended. Under the guidance Of Miss
Lulu Mckee, the teacher, the infants
carried out the programme without :.
sign Of embarrass a vivid go.
trast to the performance of the i{inior
public school children, who alVvsse
seem to- be sInftten with stage fr4e5z4
while under the eye of the public. sn5
go through their routine with Hfa
painful listlessness of a trained
poodle The kindergarten baF,eE gars
not ruled by fear of punfshr1 enf sY7,7
are perfectly free. to offer suerestfens
and change the progranlme at sB6rf
notice.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

die built on the true western type. The
saddle has just been completed and VIII
be shipped east Saturday.
Congressman Cox owns a ranch near
here out By sNapIe Hill He comes out
here quite frequentlys and rides about
quite a good deal" said Bradshaw. He
has given me a nuFnbar of orders but L
have never built a saddle before for
him"
Topeka has a pretty good reputation
through the west and east for manufac-
turing the regulation style cow saddles
and a great many that are used through.
the west come from here.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

To accommodate holiday travellers a
v.1e of. one fare and one-third for the
round trip to many points on the Union
Pacific and it's connecting lines has been
nIaced in erect by the Union Pacific
Dates Of sale. Dec. p, q, "a, %. 30, 81,
1oo5 and Ian L 1906; with final return
AdditionaI dates of sale and longer
li451ff. Tor students and teachers holding
II TnnI1ire etlISr- sof F. A. Lewis, city ticket
agent. or ]. 9. Fulton. depot agent.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

To the Editor Of the state Journal:
Regarding the criticism OF Chief Good
wins clothes. which appeared in your
paper, wish to say that knowing Cshief
Goodwin personally and. being in posi-
ton to know the. kind of clothes the
chief buys, / would bet dollars To.
dOughnuts that when the chief does
appear in the new uniform, it will net
be the SIS sweat shop. kind and aIso
that it will be made by Topeka taiIors
which is a good deal more than can be
said for some of the gentlemen who are
commenting on his apparel
r n AaRFvsvrr4r,-
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
weekly bank Statement.

New YorT- -Dec. 23--Taa weekly 1stafee
raent of the clearing house banks for
this week shows that the banks hold
a surplus over the legal reserve requires
ments of S4, ,159, 400.
Loans 81, ,006. .187. 100, increase 81. .543. 100.
deposits se85-O2g. 400 increase 81, ,13q $40.
Circulation s53. O49, 200. decrease 81 COS
Legal tenders ST., ,20S, 700, decrease ST.,
SIG. .40o.
Specie SIG, ,z12. 800. increase s., ,9g3 7g0-
Reserve s258. 416, 500, increase S4Ss. BOO
Reserve required $246s2 PSI 100, increase
S2sA. .975
Surplus 81 159, 400. increase S188 .325.
Fx-IJnited states deposits s6,524 $50
increase S211, ,T75.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23
NO CHRISTMAS MONEY.
Salaries. OF Canal Employees on Istl1aus
are Unpaid.

Panama. Dec. z3-The local bankers
have not yet received monthly appHca-
tion from the canal officials for the pay
ment in gold of the employees as here
tofore. It is reported that this is due
to the commissions lack Of funds The
Americans on the isthmus VIII. there
fore, pass Christmas and New Years
day with their salaries unpaid
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

I'm the Missouri Woods bv MRS
J. K. Hudson. is for sale III the TroSsssss
and Kansas City book stores for 500
Also Dy the publisher, Franklin Hudson.
The Illustrations were taken from 4,ss
scenes BY Frank G. Willard.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

LReopIe sending items to this department
OF The State Journal viii confer a favor
BY giving the full first name or two
initials, with ali proper names. Items
must be accompanied by the name ana
pubhshedl
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

Social dance. X. of P hau, Deea8nhef
rs. Tickets "a cents.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

Mrs. Frank farrell CDIyra WiIIams) of
Holton has a story in the January num-
Der Of McClure'ss Mr.. Johnson's Let
ter"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

Miss Mabel FOUGHT viii entertain the
Christian Endeavor society of the First
Congregational church Wednesday ev-
ening Of next week at her house, 712
Taylor street
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. z. G. Foster gave a din
ner last night in compliment to Miss
olive Dimenderfer and Mr. Fred Skene
OF st. Louis, whose wedding viii take
place next Wednesday. Following the
dinner a programme Of music and read
ings was given by Miss Lucille hECAfee.
Miss Elizabeth F'iav- Mr.. Irving Difen-
deHfer and Miss Clara Crumb. The din
ner table was decorated with carnations.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-23

s24s Isl 100. Increase
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-02-25
The TuTOTs Of Var.

st. Petersburg, Feb. IA. The
official returns for the first year OF
the war, not including Port Arthur
statistics, show that one hundred and
thirty thousand sick and wounded
officers and men passed through the
hospitals going north, the number Of
sick being considerably larger than
the number of wounded.
About four thousand subsequently,
died in the hospitals, over eighteen
thousand we're invalided and about
twenty-one thousand have presumably
returned to the ranks. These figures
do not include the number killed on
the field of battle, which is estimated
to number fifty thousand, or those
slightly injured and treated in the
field hospitals.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-02-25
ORR TREAT.

At this writing, one way of adver-
Using Welser is open to us, which is
of the richest quality. Were our real
estate men really awake, they
would provide themselves with glass
phials, such as those in which homeo-
pathists place their precious globules,
fill them with the city water and send
them abroad, North, East, South, and
West. Thus people would be widely
informed of the sources of our
Astounding life and prosperity, and of
the harmony which here subsists be-
tween man and nature Our flowers,
grain, trees and tubers grow in the
same soil which, reduced into a
liquid form, nourishes our children
as we'll as our vegetation, and in
which we root that we'll being which
we are intent upon sharing with
Others. If people really knew the
full extent of our earthly privilege,
how they would flock to usl
For this enjoyable and fruitful
condition we must be indebted to the
city authorities. When our water
system was made plant was provided
for due filtration, or was not thus
provided. In the former case proper
use is not being made of it; in the
other, an almost inconceivable act of
folly was perpertrated. Thaws and
the undue flow of surface water have
been known before in Weiser.
The public is always an over-bur-
dened animal. What wonder that he
kicks sometimesl And when has he
had better reason to kick than now.
and right here in our little city of
WeiserY
CITIZEN,
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-02-25

matter what amount of fraud anc
speculation in them is shown to exist
to pass bye the problem and even al
in this instance to enact further laws
allowing their more rapid disposal.
"No more dangerous nor insidious
measure than this square mile home
stead scheme, - said a prominent
member of Congress, "has of late
come before Congress. 1t is unques-
tionably an attractive idea and will
meet with enthusiastic support by
those who desire to secure large tracts
of our agricultural lands. 1 regard
it as most dangerous piece of legis-
lation.''
In speaking of this faction of the
House Public Lands Committee, Sen
ator Gibson, a member of the Public
Lands Committee of the Senate said :
1.-The absorption of our public land
into great private holdings is going
on under our present laws at railroad
speed, but this plan to permit a man
to take up square mile of land is
to my mind little short of ubiquitous.
1t would condemn much of our finest
agricultural lands in the Northwest.
capable of growing crops and sup.
porting families on small tracts. to
PERPETUAL stock grazing. Nor would
it result Il GAO acre stock ranches.
This square mile unit is too much
land for man to farm and too little
for him to successfully raise stock
upon. The result would be that no
one way or another, the land would
be concentrated into big holdings.
very effectively preventing settlement.
There is great future in agriculture
for my state and Adjoining states,
but such law as this would do much
to shatter our hopes for the develop
ment of real farming"
1t is admitted at the Capitol that
to secnre the enactment of general
law allowing homestead entries to
square mile would be impossible
but it is expected to take up the
question state by state, one state hay
ing already been granted the right
and to secure the legislation peice
meal.