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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17
CASHIER A SUICIDE

Official Of Internal Revenue Office in
Milwaukee Kills Himself and Exam
iner Finds Shortage in His Accounts.
milwaukee, May 17-George D.
Richardson. aged 46, cashier of the in
ternal revenue office Of this city, COM
mitted suicide today by shooting. A
special examiner is now making an ex-
animation Of Richardson's books and
1t is said has discovered discrepan-
cies.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17
PAGE ONE,

Telegrahpic News.
Rojestvensky Reported Very Ill.
Sensational News From Saigon.
Reforms Genuine in Russia.
Gompers Arrives in Chicago.
Will Act as q Peacemaker.
Mcmillan Summoned in Dennison
Case.
Fatal Accident at Greene.
PAGES TWO AND THREE
lowe News.
Not Satisfied With Finkbine.
Churchmen Meet at Sioux CITY.
Ticket Agent and Cash Gone.
"A Week t Shell Rock.
Grand Army Parade.
Mason City Stirred Up.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial
New Elements in Transit.
McMasters and Carnegie.
Syttende Mai.
Topics of the Times.
Iowa Opinions Looker-O On.
PAGE FIVE.
Miscellaneous.
Government Experiment in Horses.
: Return Of Sherlock Holmes.
Miscellaneous News.
PAGES SIX AND SEVEN.
Local News.
Elopers Wed at st. Joe, Mich. J,
Telegram Received by Parents.
Silk Robbery Suspects Under Arrest
Chris" Ritter is Held.
River Rising Slowly.
Facts About City Park.
Commencement Programs.
The City Field.
PAGE EIGHT.
General Market News.
Wheat Ruled Weaker.
Board of Trade Quotations.
The Livestock Markets.
Strike Breakers Murder Boy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17

Ralph, the 17-months-old son of MIR.
and Mrs. Henry Heron of Deer Grove,
Ill, fell into jar of water and was
drowned.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17
lNpEpENpENT PHONE sysrEM.

United States Company Sold 70 Two
lows Men Today.
Special to Times-Republican:
Waterloo, May 1.-THE United
States Telephone Company was sold
today to A. T. Averill, Of Cedar Rapids
and Stanley s. Lichty, Of vinton. Il
is said their intention is to make thiO
mart OF a big independent system.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17

Miss Eva Booth Recovering.
Kansas City. May 1.-THE condition
of Commander Eva Booth, of the SAL
walton Army, is so much improved to-
day she was able to continue her trip
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17

John Mitchell's Daughter Dead.
Spring Valley. ILL. May 17.-Marie
P. the year old daughter of John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
Workers, died today, of pneumonia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17
FOSTER, ELECTED TO CONGRESS

Republican Chosen to Succeed Hemen-
| Way In Indiana District.
Evansville, Ind, May 17.-Judge
John H. Foster, republican, of this city,
was elected yesterday in the special
congressional election over Major G. ".
Menzies. democrat, OF Mount Vernon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17
T-.R. BULLETIN.
NOTICEABLE NEWS OF TODAY
Weather.

Weather.
Sun rises May 1s, 4:40; sets, 1912.
Iowa-Fair tonight and Thursday;
warmer Thursday.
Illinois - Partly cloudy. continued
cool tonight; Thursday fair with ris-
ing temperature.
south Dakota - Fair tonight and
Thursday, except possible showers
west Thursday; warmer tonight ana
in the east Thursday.
Missouri-Fair tonight and Thurs
day; warmer Thursday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-17
BULLETIN.

{ ST. Petersburg, May lit Is an
nounced from Cronstadt that Vice Ad-
1niral Birileff, commando chief OF
the Baltic ports, has ordered the com
1nanders In the fourth division OF Ro-
iestyensky's fleet to hold their ships IN
readiness to leave for the far east by
June IA, without fail.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
NEWSPAPERS SELLING BLER-
CHANDISE.

A Topeka newspaper has pledged it.
self to buy of Topeka dealers and
is devoting several columns Of space to
a $4,000 club, the members whereof
agree to patronize home industry. This
same newspaper recently gave CD
away a piano which it purchased IN
Lawrence. This same newspaper now
advertises to give 90 away another
piano which it claims cost $3.50. The
piano is not handled by any Topeka
dealer and number of Topeka dealers
can furnish better instrument for
s2oe.
There is a good deal Of a humbug
about this $4,000 club. It is a good
thing if carried out in practice, but
many of the people who are making the
most fuss about it are the biggest hyp-
ocrites.
The editor of the State Journal al
ways insists upon buying Otto Kuehne's
pickles and catsup, but he has the
greatest difficulty in getting the goods.
The grocers who belong to the $4,000
club almost invariably try to palm off
on him goods made in New York and
eastern cities, when Kuehne makes the
better article here at home. Talk is all
right but it should be backed up with
practice and the home goods.
BY the way. our readers would do
well to always beware of these propo-
sitions to give ~ away articles. Things
Of value are not given away. You have
to work for them or pay for them.
There is a catch somewhere, you can
be sure Of that.
A newspaper which is constantly
obliged to give (?) away musical in
struments, maps, books, charts. garden
seeds, cook books, encyclopedias, maga-
zines, or queensware, must naturally
have something wrong with it. 1t seems
to feel obliged to throw in these things
to make up in a lack of size, or the
quantity or quality Of the real thing
it has to sell: news. DO not be deceiv-
ed. Newspapers do not give away any
thing. The subscriber pays for it in
some way. Sometimes a subscriber
pays in signing a contract which he
finds expensive to carry out.
The State Journal is not selling plan
os. books. nursery stock or recipe
books.
It sells news.
It sells more of this in Topeka at a
greater bargain than any other news
paper. 1t has more customers in To-
pelza for news than the combined To-
peka newspapers who sell music
shrubs, cheap histories. dishes. and in
cidentary what news and items they
can collect and throw in with the mer-
chandise.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
RAILROAD VALUATIONS.

The State Journal recently showed
that the railroads of Kansas are not
assessed anywhere near what they
should be if it is proposed to assess
them at one-third of their actual value,
as other property is supposed to be as
sessed.
Railroad property is assessed at an
average of about $500 mile, yet the
bonded indebtedness alone Of Kansas
railroads averages s32, 388 a mile. Bond
ed Indebtedness, of course, does not
necessarily represent the actual value
of any road-in fact, no road ought to
be bonded for all it is worth The Santa
Fe, for instance. is bonded for less
than $4,000 a mile, while the Union Pa
cif1c is bonded for more than $4,000 a
mile. The Santa F'e has a great mile
age of branch lines which brings down
its average actual value per mile, but
there is no such discrepancy between it
and the Union Pacific as those figures
indicate.
The railroads argue that farm land
and much other property is also some
times under-valued for taxation pur-
poses. This is true. but it is also true
that considerable property is also over
valued. There are many inequalities in
our system of taxation, but this is no
excuse for the railroads to escape pay
ing so per cent of the taxes they ought
to pay.
When it comes to fixing railroad rates
the railroads do not figure these valu-
ations on their property at all. Instead
they figure on making the interest on
their bonded Indebtedness and then
dividends on the vast amount of wa
tered stock besides. Rates which do
not allow them to do this the railroads
will claim are eonfscatory.
At present it looks very much as
though the railroads are escaping the
payment of over a million and a half
dollars of the burden of taxation every
year that should rest upon them, and
this amount has to be made up by 9TH
er taxpayers.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.

EFronn the Atchison Globe.l
When a fish pole costs more than dime
it IS a rod
Don't apologize for having eaten onions.
It was your privilege.
1t is not enough to admit that you are
a fool you must try to get over It.
You can't help admiring a woman VINO
is in love with her husband
The time is almost here when the man
with children can beat the shoe man.
Why is it people always look at a mans
socks when he takes off his shoes!
This is the limit: A little Atchison boy
not only wears long curls, but they are
red.
Ever notice that the ugliest girl in a
bunch Of girls generally does the most
II the automobile craze keeps up, repair
ing them will be the surest way to make
money.
middle of the night, you give mighty poor
satisfaction
Good letter writers. the same as good
converse ationalists, have to exaggerate oc-
casionaily.
Dressy neckties appear to advantage on
ly in store windows: they do not look well
on men.
It's hard for a lecturer to get the people
out and hard to entertain them after he
does get them out.
When a man takes naturally to the new
style of pajamaS, and sleeps in them, his
wife is terribly proud of him.
Johann Hoch had been married forty
times. Perhaps such a little thing as hang
ing will not bother him much.
The man in a restaurant who can cut
ham and cheese for sandwiches the thin
nest is the one who is promoted.
When a man does wrong and is punish
ed you have to get up before the rooster
crows to be the first to say; 1t serves
him right
We are progressing: a few generations
ago the men scorned night shirts. Now,
they have passed the nightshirt stage and
are wearing pajamas.
We have an idea that a baby becomes
as tired of being kissed as parrot be-
comes of being asked; Polly want
craclzer?a
The truth is that If woman went into
the barnlot attired as the milk maid is
attired on the stage, the COW would be SO
scared that she would refuse to give milk.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
JAYHA AWKER JOTS

The Mitchell county poor farm is a
source Of income to this. county. 1t has
earned $500 over ana above expenses
Curing the past year and has etusned
that amount lnco the county treasury
At that rate it might pay counties 10
have more poor farms.
PoFtis is talking OF rural school con
solidation- There is d move on foot 10
combine four school districts into one
rms Is subject that mas not been agl~
tated as much as 1t should have been
since Frank Nelson went out of the
state superintendent office.
J. Austin Marshall, who used to be
connected with the newspaper busi-
ness at Concordia, has fallen from
grace so far that he is engaged in the
life insurance business, and he was re-
Gently given a prize by his company
for writing more Spolicies than any
other agent. incidentally it might be
remarked that he used to practice
hypnotism-
Vic Murdoch viii have to square some
things when he gets back from Cali
fornia. He sent back word that he could
not meet some of his Kansas engage
naents because he was laid up with the
rheumatism out there and a day or two
later the story came along about his
plunging into the ocean and rescuing a
couple of women from drowning. That
looks like he was laid up with rheuma-
tism, doesn't it!
The Eclipse is authority for a story
that a female shepherd dog a t the Par
sons state insane hospital has adopted
number of motherless kittens, and the
dog is not an inmate of the asylum,
either. The dog carried the kittens to
the store room, a distance of 300 yards,
and seemed so attached to them that
Mr.. Harvey, the steward at the hospital.
secured a box large enough for the dog
and the kittens, which the strange fam
lily is now occupying. The dog puts in
the most of the time with the kittens,
and the attachment is as strong as it
ordinarily is between a mother cat and
her kittens.
Park Findley of Beloit has received a
letter from a friend who lives near Sny-
der, Okla, and who visited the scene of
the recent tornado shortly after the
storm. It gives a better idea of what
the tornado actually did than many of
the newspaper dispatches. An extract
from the letter as published in the BE
lott Gazette, is as follows: 1.-THE only
way to get a correct idea of the awful
ness of the storm is to look over the
ground. A space a quarter of a mile
wide clear across the main residence
part of town, where probably 100 dwell
ings stood, there is not a vestige of any
thing, except occasionally a dead horse
or cow even the grass is cut off right
close to the ground. One can track the
storms width to a hairs breadth, as the
ground in its path is without grass and
covered with mud and slime, with splin-
ters from as long as ones finger to as
long as ones arm driven in the earth.
On the north side of town, where the
storm was the heaviest. you can't find
a particle of anything that looks like a
piece of q house. or furniture, or stove,
or bed, or anything that pertains to
housekeeping absolutely every vestige
of everything is gone, and gone out of
sight There are more boards house,
hold effects. plunder, etc, twenty miles
from the town than there is any place
between
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
The Hot One.

August Belmont, at a certain di-
rectOrs' meeting, was describing fraud
that had been brought to light in a
proposition laid before the board.
These gentlemen said Mr.. Belmont,
gave themselves away. They stood
convicted out of their own mouths.
They were like the innkeeper's family
that conducted the weekly rattle.
In this rattle the prizes were turkeys,
ducks, young pigs, baskets of eggs, and
such like rural commodities. A guam
tity of steel discs, numbered from 1 to
%, were put into a black bag, and the
little daughter of the innkeeper put her
hand into the bag and drew a disc for
each speculator in turn. The person
whose number was the highest got the
prize.
well, it had been noticed that the
innkeeper's wife got the prize pretty
frequently, but nothing was thought OF
this by the simple, honest rural folk.
"One evening, though, the little girl,
with her hand in the bag, paused. It
was her mothers turn, and she did not
draw forth her mothers disc in her
usual quick and careless way. She
rummaged about. The other raflers
looked at one. another oddly The inn
keeper said si-st H
" 'Cof1e, come, child, hurry up
g Butt father said the little girl,
can't ind the hot one "
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
TARIFF REVISION.

Wall street is beginning to see tariff
revision inevitably ahead. The big
trusts which have clamored for a
protective" tariff along with those in
dustries which really needed protec-
ton, are now beginning to see that re-
vision is coming, and they are getting
ready to do as well as possible for
themselves in the change.
Henry Clews. the New York banker
who is more or less a mouthpiece of
Wall street, in his weekly letter this
week states positively that tariff re-
vision is coming, and that it cannot be
headed off. If the friends of the
tariff do not revise it, its enemies will
be given a chance to do so. In dis
cussing the political situation in its
relation to finance he says:
'As for the tariff problem, that may
or may not be disturbing It is quite
evident that this question viii not
down and that sooner or later a re-
vision of the tariff must be made; if
not by its friends then by its enemies.
The former method is the more de-
sirable from the business standpoint,
and is most likely to prevail. In any
event, it is well to remember that the
country is vastly better able to endure
a revision Of the tariff than it was ten
years ago. Industries which then
were absolutely dependent upon some
form of protection are now quite able
to stand alone; and tariff revision. if
confined to reasonable lines. will re-
suit in no serious interruption of bust
ness, while many lines of industry will
be positively benefited. The worst
that could be anticipated would be the
period Of business hesitation which
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24

Who took marriage just as joch.
OF his wives. eleven
He sent to heaven,
And now he will have to croch.
This is the limit: A Topeka girl
dated a letter Tuesday, "Iae 23d."
Is this the day to guess that Willie
Sell will or will not be pardoned? We
have lost count.
81 notice Secretary Shaw saws he
isn't worrying any about the treasury
deficit remarked Bill Doolittle today.
Il amt either. The deficit I am
worrying about just now is the one in
the column showing the standing of
the White sox.'
Here is good joke: You know how
strenuously faithful the Capital is to
Tom Kelly. Well, the other day the
State Journal printed an editorial set
the treasury situation, and now it is
going the rounds of the state press
credited to the Capital.
81 notice that Rojestvensky is hav-
ing nervous prostration," remarked
Deacon Twogood today. ''I used to
have it too when father would tell me
to meet him in the Woodshed and
knew there was licking ahead for
me-"
This is the closed season for most
game, but it is the open season for
umbrellas much Of the time.
The State Journal has cheering
news that the supply OF winter is
about exhausted where they keep that
sort of thing.
"Corn jumps six cents" says a dis
patch. A Topeka man has one which
made him jump 2T inches straight up
the other day when he accidentally
dropped brick on it.
If we have to wait more than a
month longer for that scrap to be
pulled off in the China sea, bur waiter
will be pretty we'll worn out.
The cable dispatches say that an
other batch of NToros have been paci-
fed. Nothing is said about the funer-
al arrangements.
The Washington correspondents
have accepted only four new jobs for
Paul Morton in the last three days.
New jobs paying $4,000 a year or
more seem to be getting scarce.
What is so rare as day in June ?''
queries an eastern editor in a quota
tive mood. Come to think about it,
they are pretty rare along in the mid
die of May, but if he can wait two
or three weeks there will be June days
to burn.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24

1T is a tremendous undertaking to
get new play accepted and produced, .
said Clyde Fitch to a friend the other
day. so many are written and so few
ever see the light of day. An English
playwright with a gift of humorous ex-
aggeration illustrated this fact once. He
told me he submitted a play to q cele-
brated actor, and how in the course of
the conversation the actor remarked:
Don't you think this room is rather
cold?'
It is rather coid.' the young play
wright admitted
Then the actor rang and a servant
appeared.
E James, he said, put three more
manuscripts on the fire. '-AIilYaukee
Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
Modern Arnlaments.

S. W. Briggs. secretary of the Amer
lean Red Cross, said of modern war
fare the other day:
THE expense of keeping perfectly
armed is infinite. For a nation to
keep perfectly armed is, indeed, i'm
possible. 1t is like trying to fill sieve
with water.
There was repeated to me the 9TH
er day a remark that illustrates, in a
humorous way, the futility and the
cost of modern armaments.
"The head of great armor and
gun making house said to the agent
of a foreign government:
want US to make you an armor plate
no projectile can pierce? We are
producing armor plate like that daily.
" No, replied the military agent.
you mistake me. I want to know if
you can make a gun that will pierce
any armor plate.
manufacturer. We are doing that
sort of thing every day.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

TFronl the Chicago Newsl
Deliriun tremens is but another name
for tight fit.
Men have been arrested for merely tax
ing things as they come.
If a gown becomes d woman she be-
comes anxious to show off in it
Money talks of its own accord. but a
frugal man makes every penny count.
Technicalities are what the lawyers fight
over when the evidence is limited.
If a man will stand for being petted his
wife has no earthly use for any other pet
animal.
It isn't the way a man looks at other
women that makes his wife mad: it's the
way he doesn't look at her.
Nothing seems to please a woman so
much as her ability to manufacture q
piece of furniture out OF few yards Of
fancy calico and a dry goods box.
Rollingstone Nomoss-eI don't believe
half Wot 7 read in de PAPERS" Hungry
Hawkins No; it's shameful de lies dey
tell. I read de odder day dat half de sick
ness was caused by eatin' too muca.'
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
Reciprocity in Business.

The owner of the Makepiece Fioar
Mills looked sternly at the provision
dealer who had for some years supplied
the wants of his household.
Those last apples you sent us were
good" he said with a keen eye fixed
on the other mans face, but they were
in undersized barrels. my wife tells me.
smaller than ever before. She says that
the three barrels would scarcely make
two and a half Of the proper size. How
do you account for it?''
Il can't" said the provision dealer,
with apparent distress of mind, Il sRum.
1 can't! There I had my wife send
me down three of your barrels that
we've been getting flour in, and just
packed the apples in and headed 'em
up with burlap. For says I to her, I
believe in reciprocity, and I'm bound
he shall have just as good measure of
apples as we got of -four says. Now
don't it beat all?''-Youth's Companion.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press

Generally a woman will mind a man If
she thinks he doesn't mean It.
A woman's time to be cheerful is when
she doesn't want people to know she is
blue.
A man gets so much older than his wife
as they go on that it seems almost like a
crime for her to be married to him
There is something mighty deceptive
about the way a girl let's you think you
are interesting because her mother told
her to.
About the only consolation in being old
is that you realize you know less than Won
thought you did when you were young and
had more fun
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
TFITs Is no MuCH.

They were so very trig and trim,
So fine and delicately slim,
Well-formed and neat.
Beneath her skirt just peepIng out,
With creamy laces set about,
Her fairy feet.
Their charm was such, the truth to tell
Before them soon I PROSTATE fell.
Prostration sweet
Though now il does seem rather odd,
love the very ground they trod,
Her fairy feet.
I pay the bills to shoe them now,
A privilege, must allow
A perfect treati
But still she should not take, I'm sure,
MY razor blades to pedieure
Her fairy feet.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24

would inevitably have to be faced until
the future was absolutely settled.
Neither Of these problems, however,
need cause any serious anxiety in gen
eral business circles, although they
may temporarily complicate stock
market movements
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-24
Ambition.

"secretary Hay. before he went
abroad for his health" said a con-
gressman, "talked a little sadly about
ambition.
'TIe was i'll, and ambition seemed to
be, after ALI not very wise thing.
''de told me, with a smile. of q lit
tie English farm boy whom he had
once heard say:
'' I wish was a king
interested and amused by such
remark, Mr.. Hay said to the little
farm boy:
were a king2'
"a eat my fill of fat bacon and
swing on a gate all day long