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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
Notes and Personal Mention.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Crosby leave Mon
day for New York, to be gone about a
month. They will stop a week in Elk
celsior Springs en- route.
Mrs. Harry Weaver of Kansas City,
who is the guest of her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. L. s. McCIintock, will go to
Lincoln, Nebraska, tomorrow, to visit
her brother, Mr.. Arthur McClintock, and
Mrs McClintock.
Mrs A B. Quinton went to Lake View.
last night to spend a day or two with
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Crane at their
cottage.
Miss Mabel Thomas of Kansas City.
is expected tomorrow to visit her grand
mother, Mrs. M. D. Larimer.
Miss Anna Hoch has returned from a
visit to Miss Ora Allen, of Chanute.
Miss Mary Moore left today for San
Diego, California, to visit Miss Helen
Boal for the rest of the summer.
Miss Juanita Lord will go to Richland
tomorrow to visit the J. W. Stout family
who are camping there.
Miss Muriel Hoadley and Miss Elean-
or Whine of Manhattan, are the guests
of Miss Mildred Poindexter.
Miss Anna Harrison has returned
from Philadelphia where she attended
the Kappa Alpha Theta convention.
Mrs. L. H. Wolfe, of Indianapolis and
her children, Jessie and Herman. are ex-
pected soon to spend the remainder of
the summer with her father, Judge J. T.
Clarke in Potwin Place.
MISS Helen HdTkef OF kansas city,
who is the guest of Miss Mary Mac
Lehman, will return home Friday.
Mr.. Harry Rigby has returned from
trip to Chicago
Miss Jennie Wilson of Valencia, was
in town yesterday, the guest of Mrs.
Veale.
Miss Jessie Upton has taken an apart
ment at 720 Harrison street vacated by
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Larimer.
Mr.. Rex Stout has gone to Annapolis,
Maryland, to take his entrance examina-
lions at the United States naval acad-
envy.
Mrs. James A. Johnston of Little Rock
and her son who are guests of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Babcock,
825 Tyler street will go to Salt Lake
City the first of August to join Mr..
Johnston in a. permanent residence.
Mrs. NJ. F. Rigby has returned from
a visit to Ottumwa, Iowa.
Miss Elizabeth La Bar has gone to
her home in Erie for a few weeks and
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Who Is to Blame?

TFrom the Concor6ia Blade.
Should the state lose the half a mil
lion dollars deposited in the First Ma
tional bank of Topeka by State Treas
urer Kelly, who will be to blame? 1t
certainly will not be Tom Kelly, who
has the whole state bluffed to a stand
still, but it will be Governor Hoch and
the other state officers who stood for
KelIy's reelection and it will be every
Republican in the state who voted for
him for a second term in the face of
indisputable evidence of his dishon-
esty and of the boss buster newspapers
that defended and supported him
meant inevitable loss and scandal.
The blame attaches to the Republican
party and to each unit of it that was
so imbued with partisanship that they
could not rise to a plain duty and vote
against a man whose record is so
wretched that a private individual
would refuse to employ him in a place
of trust. Time and again his dis
reputable methods were exposed by
pers, yet there were enough Repub-
licans so blinded by partisanship that
the man was Reelected and his record
endorsed. With this endorsement is it
any wonder that he continued to violate
the law and that the state is heavy
loser?
We have no sympathy for the state
or the men who are responsible for
this condition. They deserve just what
in Kansas, from Governor Hoch on
down, who had any part in kelly's re-
nomination and reelection who is not
deserving of censure and who is not
in measure to blame for his short
conings.
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will spend the rest of the summer in
Colorado Springs.
Justice and Mrs. Henry +. Mason
have gone to their home in Garden City
for the summer.
Mrs. E. D. Bunker has returned from
the Ottawa Chautauqua.
Mrs. Nelson Giles, Jr., left last even
ing for Portland, Oregon, California and
Colorado to spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Sare and their
two sons have returned from visit to
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mr.. Matthew Weightman and his son
Alden of Las Vegas are guests OF his
mother, Mrs. Weightman, on Topeka
avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Grimes and their
family went to Excelsior Springs today
to spend fortnight.
Mrs. w. E. McVey and her daugh-
tiers, Maud and Pauline. will go to
Maplehurst farm, near Valley Falls,
Saturday to spend a month.
Mrs. n. w. Laubach is attending
the Ottawa Chautauqua.
Mrs. j. c. McClintock, Miss Helen
and Miss Gertrude McClintock went
to Lake View yesterday for a day.
Mrs George w. England and Miss
Miller of ST. Marys spent yesterday
with Mrs L. H. Mum.
Miss BeuIah Burnham, who has
been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Frederick
S. Savage. returned yesterday to her
nome III Il orr &OODs Ohtc
Mrs George Banter and Miss Fife
Banter will return to Kansas City to-
morrow.
Mrs Lenore Doster Cook, of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, is the guest of her
parents, Judge and Mrs. Frank Doster.
Miss Susie Guild returned to her
home in Sabetha today after visit
to Mrs. Willis Dana Storrs.
Miss Florence Wright of Charleston,
ILL.,, is the guest of her cousins, Miss
Lillian and Miss Jessie Curtis, 1918
Euclid avenue. having accompanied
the latter home. She will remain for
six weeks.
Mrs Joe Letter, of Oakland, Cal,
and Mrs. P. A. Rogers, of Burlingame,
will be guests next week of Mrs. j.
G. Elliott. 1917 Monroe street.
Camp 1243, M. w. A., presents the
four-act comedy drama, "a Forged
Certificate" July 10, at Lukens' opera
house, North Topeka. Tickets for sale
by G. w. Stansfield, 632 Kansas ave
nue., and Arnold Drug Co, 819-821
North Kansas avenue.
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ARMY CLOTHING SCANDAL.
Government Said to Have Lost Mil
lions Through Loose Methods.

Philadelphia, Pa, July 1.-THE
Public Ledger says that work on 200,-
600 dress coats contracted for through
the Schuylkill arsenal here has been
Quartermaster General Humphreys, in
Washington, and that a thorough in
vestigation of the affairs at the arsenal
has been begun.
Continuing, the Ledger says:
Because Of conditions under which
contracts are given out at the arsenal
nearly half of the dress coats in ques-
ton have been manufactured and paid
for. They lie idle in the storehouse
at the depot and in the opinion of ex-
perts of the government who have ex-
amined them, are absolutely worthless
for the purpose they were made. A
contract for about 100000 pairs of
dress trousers is in the hands of the
Is expected within a few days. 1t is
believed that the investigation which
has been started will show that the
government has lost to the extent of
millions of dollars by the methods in
vogue here.
1.-The contracts in question are held
by three firms which have factories in
this city and in Redbank, N. J., and
no charges of fraud in connection with
the investigation. The colossal losses
are attributed to loose ways of doing
business.
1.-THE investigation is the outcome of
the trouble with the arsenal employees
dating back to last winter and of the
more recent scandal when the foreman
of the arsenal was forced to resign and
eight cutters were dismissed.
Suggestions of irregularities and
sinister influences in connection with
the contract for army clothing were
aired last December, when, at the or
der of President Roosevelt, work was
once more given to hundreds of seam
stresses"
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TO HAVE A MODEL DAIRY.
That Is One of the Plans for Kansas
State Fair.

Arrangements have been made to have
a model dairy, complete in all essential
parts, in operation on the grounds dur
ing the entire week of the state fair in
Topeka next September. The apparatus
for this dairy will be supplied by the
state agricultural college, and the whole
will be operated by students of the state
agricultural college under the direction
of Prof Oscar Err, of the dairy hus-
bandry department.
The dairy department of the Kansas
state fair will be especially strong this
year. In addition to the regular prizes
offered for various classes of dairy and
creamery products, there will be prem
dairy butter in pals and in prints.
There will also be a special premium
for the ten exhibitors making the high
est total scores in the regular classes.
This premium will be divided pro rata.
Special arrangements have been made
by which owners of pure bred Holstein-
Friesian cattle may qualify for the adj
vanced registry under the rules of the
Holstein-F riesian association of Amer
lea. This arrangement will include both
males and females and will be under the
direction of Prof. Oscar Err, OF the de-
partment of dairy husbandry of the
Kansas agricultural college, and the
records made will be accepted by the
Holstein-F riesian association and the
prize money paid by them.
It is also expected that somewhat
similar arrangements will be announced
for Jersey and Red Polled cattle. The
test for cows will last seven days and
will end on the last day of the fair, Sat
urday, September 16.
The greatest interest, however, gill
perhaps center around the four days
contest for farmers cows. The pure bred
cows of the other classes will not be adj
mitted in this competition. In order to
encourage the development of milking
qualities of farmers COWS, the follow
ing business houses have contributed a
sum of money which will be awarded in
prizes for this competition: Continental
Creamery company, Topeka; Blue VAL
ley Creamery company, st. Joseph, Mo-;
John Deere Plow company, separator
department, Kansas City, Mo-; Empire
Separator company, Bloomfield, N. J.,
and Kansas City.
Premiums will be awarded in two
classes for the cow giving the largest
yield of milk; for the COW showing the
highest percentage of butter fat and a
championship for the COW giving the
largest yield of milk and the largest
amount of butter fat These premiums
will be paid in cash through the gener-
osity of the firms named above.
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VIII Have to Answer.

From the Fort Scott Republican
There are several things for which
Governor Hoch will have to answer to
his party and the people of Kansas.
When he took charge of the gov
ernor's Office there was placed in his
hands an official report of a state Of
lcer showing that thousands of dollars
had been stolen from the state treas
ury. He refused to even open and
read it. Then the legislature demand
ed an investigation of the treasury
and placed a large sum of money in
the governors hands for this purpose.
This matter was allowed to rest for
nearly six months before any move
was made toward starting an investi-
CATION. The state law requires the
governor to make an examination of
the treasury once each month. The
governor has been in Office six months
and has never made a single examina-
ton.
These three things will defeat Gov
ernor Hoch for denomination and
would defeat him at the polls if he
was renominated.
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Medicine Tastes Bitter.

From the CoffeyviIle Journal.l
Governor Hoch's action in regard to
Ke11y's bond was timely and effective.
If he lives UP to it to the letter he
will have done both the right and the
just thing. Not half of the roar now
being made by Democratic, Populist
and reform papers over the state is
warranted. and besides it is harmful
to the state. The First National fail
ure and the half million of state funds
deposited in that institution afford
food for thought and action, but the
roar being made is not because of
these things, but because Kelly is
state treasurer and deposited the
money in this bank. The fellows now
bowling the loudest nominated and
elected him. His bond, that they now
denounce. was accepted by the admin
istration- He deposited the states
money in the First National There is
no law against this and won't be until
September /. The Republican party
of Kansas and a majority of the peo-
pie of the Sunfiower state INDICATED
Kellys past by electing him to the
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PILES UP HER RICHES.
Mrs. Hermann OeIrichs Makes Profit
of $2O,OOO,0OO in Two Years.

New York, July 12.-Mrs. Hermann
Oeirichs has improved her ability as a
business woman by piling UP a profit
on transactions conducted by herself of
$40, 000, 900 within the last two years.
Her fortune is now estimated at $780,
100000, and is rapidly growing, with
prospects that she may become the
richest woman in the world. Mrs. DEL
richs is a daughter of the late Senator
Fair OF California, and a, sister of Mrs.
William K. Vanderbilt. Her originality
and progressive ideas have marked her
among society women.
In 1897 she gave her husband a power
of attorney, permitting him to control
all her business affairs Under his sup
ervision. the wealth of Mrs. Oelrichs in
creased slowly. In November, 1903, Mrs.
Oelrichs revoked the authority given to
her husband and since then she has
managed her own affairs.
Mrs. Oelrichs is always doing orig
inal things. She had to fight for share
in the Fair millions. Her aggressiveness
resulted in a settlement that yielded
81, 100000 to the heirs of the dead SEN
atof.
She grew tired of life in her native
state and sold all her real estate hold
ings in San Francisco for 100000, and
came to this city. She bought a house
in East Fifty-Seventh street, and While
the necessary repairs were being made,
the workmen struck. Mrs. Oelrichs had
all of their tools, scaffolding and ladders
thrown into the street, with the remark
that she intended to boss her own prop
erty.
She bought a fine residence at New
port and started to lead the social set
there. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Og-
den Goelet and on one occasion the
Baroness Seilliere joined in resisting
her; but Mrs. Oelrichs inaugurated such
a programme of entertainments that
she soon overcame the opposition. Then
she permitted Harry Lehr to patch up
a peace with her social foes.
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LIGHTED BIRDS NESTS.
Boys Experimental and Nearly
Burned School House.


A bunch of inquisitive boys who
wished to perform an experiment in
the destructive qualities of fire clam
bered up to the belfry of the Nickel
Plate school house at Second and Bu-
cllanan streets Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock and succeeded so admirably
that they came very near burning up
the whole building The boys were
in search of birds eggs and visited
the school house belfry on this ac-
count.
Birds, sparrows and pigeons. have
collected a great mass of rubbish for
their nests in the belfry, and the sight
of this inf1ammable stuff caused the
boys to wonder what sort of fire would
be produced provided match was
dropped in the mass. They found out.
1t famed up SO quickly that they had
barely time to get out. They became
scared and took to their heels. The
alarm was turned in at 1855 by neigh
bors who saw the smoke and flames.
The fire department made the run
and saved the building from anything
but a trif1ing loss.
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Albaugll Was Right.
[From the Parsons Sun

IT TUfl L1lG PARSONS sun.
The people will remember that eigh-
teen months ago when the board of
which Mr.. Kelly and Secretary of State
Burrow are members met to fix the
state taxes that it raised them alleging
that it was necessary in order to meet
the expenses of the state. At that time
Mort Albaugh, the chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee,
charged that the only purpose was to
raise 100000 more than was needed so
that Kelly could augment the balance
he would have in the Topeka banks
upon which to receive illegal interest.
Mr.. Kelly and Mr.. Burrow stated that
the taxes were raised to meet the ex-
travagance of the legislature of 1903.
The financial failure of c. J. Devlin
which uncovered over half a million
dollars which Kelly had in the First
National bank of Topeka contrary to
law, shows which was right. 1t is time
for the Republican party to look back
a few years and take stock of its lead
ers and determine who are safe and
who have been false to the trust that
has been reDosed in them.
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The following comments on the
Devlin failure and the state house
muddle show that the state is not los
ing interest:
Turn the RascaIs Out!
IFrom the Leavenworth Times.1
The people of Kansas are slow to
anger, but once aroused, it Will not
follow that they are p1enteous IN
mercy. This statement is apropos the
discoveries that are following one an
other thick and fast at the Kansas
state capitol. What is to be the up
shot of it all? is the topic rich for
speculation.
The ante-election charges made
against Treasurer Kelly were looked
upon at the time by many as a politi-
cal trick, and the resignation In
escrow" was humorously regarded as
a political checkmate. In the light of
recent events, however. those of the
voters who formerly declined to con-
slider the allegations made against the
state treasurer are beginning to Won
had a foundation in fact. Bad as is
Kelly's error it is the logical sequence
of numerous other transgressions in
Kansas public life that have taken
place in the last two years.
It is being recalled how the Kelly
Burton-Burrow crowd has been re-
sorting to measures of every character
to perpetuate itself in power. First
there was the turning down OF Gov
ernor Bailey and then the cutting
adrift of Governor Hoch. The con-
quest as viewed retrospectively seems
now to have been animated on the
Kelly Burton-Burrow side, not by a
desire for more political supremacy,
but for the opportunities for graft that
still seem to exist at the state house.
There have been some very rotten
goings-on at Topeka. This is a fact
that is of late impressing itself upon
the people. The Topeka bank failure
brings into bold relief the climax of
| all this rottenness.
The result of it all can hardly be
anything but a thorough shakeup in
Kansas Republican politics. Kelly
will not be left alone to bear the brunt
of the trouble. The Republican voters
will recall the First and Second dis
| trict contest cases. and those affairs
that were not sufficiently deplored al
the time will, with the perpetrators of
those crimes, be bitterly condemned.
| And the school bond deals which,
when exposed, fell short in attracting
even the interest of the state, will be
likewise condemned at the time of the
final roundup, and there will be no
place for Burrow, Coleman and Day
hoff, the men who were implicated in
these deals, or for the adherents of
| these men. sss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
TOO FREE WITH GUNS.
Henry Phipps' Boys Are in Trouble in
Scotland

London. July IA. S. and H. C.
Phipps, sons of Henry Phipps of Pitts
fore a sheriff with the reckless dis
charge of firearms on the Beaufort
estate. in the highlands of Scotland,
leased by Mr.. Phipps from Lord Lovat,
by which they wounded three persons,
were committed for trial today. The
defendants were liberated in $4,000
bail each. The boys discharged shot
guns at three men whom they believed
to be poachers. One of the men was
struck in the face and lost the sight
of All eye.
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Governor Hocil's Stand.

From the AtchISOn GIobe.I
It seems that Governor Hoch does
not have much respect fer some laws.
He is quoted as saying: while I do
not want to belittle any law on the
statute books, the one concerning the
examination of the treasury by the
governor and other officials, is about
as useless as any, Still, if Governor
Hoch had paid attention to this law,
the state would not have lost $4,000
in the Dev1in failure. If the governor
violates a useless law, why should
he be so indignant because other use
less laws are violated?
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Ben Jordan Retires.

New York. July 12.-Ben Jordan, the
little English boxer, who was the first
to stop little George Dixon in his win
ming streak at the old Lenox Athletic
club on Lexington avenue, some four or
five years ago, has retired from pugil-
ism. Jordan was made good offer
recently to visit this country. but he
declined, saying that the young blood
now engaged in the boxing game was
too swift for him. Jordan, while being
a very rich man, holds a very import
ant position in the city council of Lon
don. England.
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CHINA LEFT OUT.
She Will Not Be Considered in Nego-
tiation for Peace.

Pelzin, July 12.-Afternoon-The Chi
nese government recently notified the
Russian, japanese and also the other
legations that China would refuse to
recognize any arrangements made at
the approaching peace conference in the
United States regarding China. unless
China was consulted in the matter.
The reply of Japan plainly intimated
that the notification received from
China would in no wise affect the plan
of action adopted by Japan.
No reply has been received from Rus
STA
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initials. with ali proper names. Iterns
must be accompanied by the name and
address of the writer or they can not
De published.l
An event of unusual interest and i'm
portance and the largest of the mid
summer season in Topeka is the recep-
ton to be given tonight by Mr.. and
Mrs. M. A Low for their son, Mr.. Dean
Ruskin Low, and his bride, whose
wedding took place in Chicago last
month and who are stopping here on
their wedding journey for a few DAYS
before going on to their new home in
Chelsea, I. T.
This will be by no means the young
Mrs Lows first introduction to the
Topeka friends of her husbands fam
lily for she visited here frequently as
Miss Noretta Mix of Chicago, first the
guest of Mrs. J. D. NJ. Hamilton at
whose house she met Mr.. Low last
summer, and again this spring when
she was with Mr.. Lows sister, Mrs
Albert 7. Reid. for a few days. No
visiting girl in Topeka was ever given
a greater measure of admiration and
popularity than Miss Mix and much
interest attaches to the opportunity
which her friends and the friends of
the Low family are to be given tonight
10 meet her, formally. in her new role
OF young matron.
The hours of the reception are from
to II O'Clock and the friends asked
to assist are Mrs. Albert T. Reid,
Mrs Clifford c. Baker, Mrs. Edward
"a. Herbst, Mrs. Jonathan Thomas,
Mrs. Hammatt, Mrs. P. G. Noel Mrs
w. A L. Thompson, Mrs. Hiram Price
Dillon, Mrs. Eugene Hagan, Mrs. John
B. Bartholomew, Mrs. A. A. Hurd Mrs.
Eugene S. Quinton, Mrs. William
Joseph Black, Mrs. John Norton Mrs
Edward Wilder. Mrs. T. J. KelIam,
Mrs. Everett J. Dallas, Miss Eliza beth
Mix of Chicago, Miss Helen Ripley of
Boston, Miss Louise Kel1am and Miss
Helen Thompson. Mr.. and Mrs. Ira J.
Mix and Miss Elizabeth Mix of Chi
cago, the parents and sister of Mrs
Dean Low, Miss Sarah Low of Hamil-
ton, Mo-, Mr.. and Mrs. Ford E. Hovey
OF Horton and Mr.. George Hovey of
Kansas City came on today to attend
the reception.
Mrs. ChappeI Foote gave a luncheon
for fourteen young girls today in com
pltment to her guest, Miss Grace Tobin
and table decorations were in garden
flowers.
Mrs. P. c. Chamberlain entertained
a limited company of young friends at
luncheon today for Mr.. Chamberlain's
niece, Miss Jeanette Lewis of Knox
vile, Ill.
Mrs. w. E. McVey gave luncheon
today in compliment to Mrs. Samuel
Larimer who leaves this afternoon for
trip to Cleveland Cincinnati and Detroit
and who goes from the latter town to
her new home in Des Moines, Iowa. The
friends asked were Mrs. Samuel Lari-
1ner. Mrs Harry G. Larimer, Mrs. John
T. Clancy, Mrs. Thomas J. Myers Mrs.
Charles H. Gaunt, Mrs. ArTnin A. Weis-