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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

Lagerstrom, Vera Eddy, Alice Etmyer,
Isabel Dickinson, Belle Barton, Kear-
ney Faulkner, Archibald Brown, Clar-
ence Hopkins, Russell Hopkins. Sid
ney Keifer, Fabian Dickinson and
Richard barton. .l"
Announcement has been made of the
approaching wedding of Miss Ethel
Leslie Parker, both of Denver, which
will take place October "A at the home
of the brides parents. Miss Hunting
ton is a Lambda Alpha Lambda from
Denver High school and was one of the
girls who installed the Topeka High
school chapter last year at which time
she was the guest of Miss Margaret Co
irs.
The West Side Reading club MEM
bers gave a New England dinner for
theiE husbands and a few other friends
last night at the home of Mrs. Irving
Wellman, 81 Eighth avenue east. Mrs.
Weuman. Mrs. ]. p. FarnsWorth Mrs
Msr. J. NJ. Gordon We're the special
hos esses and the company included Mr..
and Mrs. J. p Farnsworth. Mrs. S. J.
Crumbine, Mrs. J. NJ. Gordon, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Snow, Mrs. ". NJ. Gregory.
Mr.. and Mrs, Myers, Mr. and Mrs. B.
T. WEIGH, Mr.. and Mrs. G. 0. Wilmarth,
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. W. Poindexter, Mr..
and Mrs. J. p Rogers Mr.. and Mrs
BOlu sargent. MI ana MIS-. JOnn ioaI-
gent, Jr., Mr. and Mrs Clement Smith.
Mrs. Ellen Humphreys, Mr. and Mrs
G. B. Bailey, Mr., and Mrs r. A. Van
SAINT and Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Schoch.
see5s-s sa
The wedding of Miss Augusta, Simp-
son of .Paola and Mr.. William Brelsford
of Topeka will take place tonight at
the home of the brides father, MI
Benjamin +. Simpson, at Paola. Mr.
and Mrs BreIsford will be at home in
Topeka.
Mrs. Louise Van Laer is entertaining
this afternoon at Hartford cottage,
Washburn, in compliment to her sister,
Miss Meachem of london, England,
who is visiting her.
The marriage of Miss May Mouldy.
daughter of Mrs. Jane Mouldy of the
Santa Fe hospital, to Mr.. Guy Winner
of Overlook viii take place tonight at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George Q.
Wnmarth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11
A BUILDING ASSOCIATION

Is supposed by many to be for the use Of
a limited few with fines and strict rules
as to deposits and withdrawals. Consider
as liberal a any other savings institution
with the very best Of investments for YOUR
security Call or send for literature
The Capitol Building and Loan
association, 5S4 Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11
L. NJ. PENWFLI.

Undertaken and Embalmer,
611 QuincY Street
Res. $50 Monroe St. Ind. phone 775
GEO. y. KAY. Assistant. open Da.
and Night Roth nh0nes Is2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

The marriage of Miss May Mouldy,
daughter of Mrs. Jane Mouldy of the
Santa Fe hospital, to Mr.. Guy Wymer
of Overlook will take place tonight at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George Q.
Wflmarfh. g.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

Isabel Dickinson, Belle Barton. Kear<
ney Faulkner, Archibald Brown, CLAIR
ence Hopkins, Russell Hopkins. Sid
ney Keifer, Fabian Dickinson and
Richard Barton. sslao
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

Mrs. Louise, Van Laer is entertaining
this afternoon at Hartford cottage,
Washburn, in compliment to her sister,
Miss Meachem of London, England,
who is visiting her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. D. N. Burdge 407 Wood-
lawn avenue. Potwin Place arnounce
the engag cement of their daughter Pearl
to Mr. Lawrence Banks of ST. Louis
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Banks of T05
Fillmore street. The wedding will take
place this Gall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

a dinner tonight for Bishop J. W.
Hamilton of Los Angeles. the Rev. DR..
and Mrs. W. c. Evans. DR. Wilbur
Chapman and his evangelical asso-
ciates. about twenty in all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

Mrs. William A Johnston gave a
luncheon at Elmwood Place today for
Mrs. Frank Merrick of the City of Mex
leo and Mrs. Allen Of Chicago who is
the guest Of her sister. Mrs H NJ.
Philips. Besides the guests Of honor
ten friends enjoyed the occasion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11

The first Helianthus dance will be
given Friday of next week, October 20,
at Steinbergs-
Evening star., 1905-09-30
17s bal se4 54 Co2 153 7se 11o 271 Ia 157 227 as
Commissioner Vests Comment.

In commenting upon the remarkably low
average of illiteracy In the city, as indi-
Gated by the figures Of the police census,
this morning. Commissioner West called
attention to the statement, indicating a con-
trary state of affairs. made at the time when
a compulsory education law was FIRST urged.
The agitation in favor of the enactment
of such a law was started by the schools
committee of the Civic Center, said the
Commissioner, and out Of an old file of
papers he produced the letter which was
written to the Senate District of Column
bia committee and by that committee re-
ferred to the Commissioners.
Statistics adduced In this letter made it
apparent that, in the year ending June
80, 1901, there were in the District 5000
children who were not attending the pub
lie schools. OF these 1t was declared that
21T5 were pupils in private schools, but
that the 6.434 remaining attended no school.
with this total as the only data avail
able heretofore said Commissioner West,
Il cannot help but be gratified by the
surprisingly small number of children out
Of school, as indicated by the returns of
the police enumerators."
Evening star., 1905-09-30
POLICE PROMOTIONS.
One Pension and Several Advances in
Rank,

Tomorrow will mark several changes in
the police department. Some of these have
been announced and were reported in The
Star at the time. Others were made public
today
According to previous announcement
Capt. Isaac Pearson will retire today on
pension of 500 month after a service in
the department lasting for over forty years.
He will be succeeded as mounted captain
by Capt. f. Z. Cross, who has been in
charge of the detective bureau at night.
Lieut.. Amiss will become a captain tomor-
row. and will succeed Capt. Cross. Lieut..
Moore will take charge of the first precinct
station in place of Lieut.. Amiss; Lieut.
Byrnes viii leave the second prscinct to
take supervision of the sixth precinct, va
Gated by Lieut.. Moore Sergt. Sullivan, the
Weii-known member of the first precinct,
VIII rise to the lieutenancy tomorrow, and
he viii assume charge of the second pre-
cinct
10 MI the vacancy at the first precinct
station caused by the promotion and trans
fer of Sergt. Sullivan, Sergt Robert T.. Lee
OF the second precinct station will be trans
ferred to the first precinct Sergt Lee has
been on the police force for about fifteen
years, and he has made an. excellent record
Tor himself in that time. He was made a
sergeant a few years ago, and has done ex-
cellent work Ia that capacity. This trans
fer to the first precinct is regarded as a
merited promotion
To fill the vacancy al the second precinct
f. w. Brown of the seventh precinct, now
precinct detective, will be made an act
ing sergeant, and will do duty In the Sec
ond precinct. His work In Georgetown has
won for him this promotion
Major Sylvester also announced this
morning that Privates !. w. Stewart OF the
tenth preciact and Alexander McKfe Of the
fourth precinct would exchange places.
Evening star., 1905-09-30
DISTRICT POPULATION
Revised Returns Of the Recent
Police Census.
TOTAL FIGURES 323,l23
GRATIFYING DISCLOSURES RE-
sGARDING SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
Alley Population and County Statistics
-s Figures by Precincts
Races and Sexes.

Corrected returns of the police census
taken the 18th day of April last show a
tGtal population of the District of Columbia
of 323. 1913 persons-227 428 white and 80 .oi5
-COlored. The returns show total of llo-
2Tl white males and 117.1J7 white females
The colored population is made up of Az
341 males and s., ,354 females. These fig
suIes show an excess of 1880 females over
males. Maj. Sylvester submitted the re-
port OF the census to Commissioner West
yesterday, and a detailed statement of the
work of the police will form part of the
annual report of the chief of police. The
mCst surprising feature of the report is
that part which relates to children betYeen
the ages of seven and fifteen years not at
tending school Because of the many COM
plants about the number OF children be-
ing permitted to remain away from school
and roam the streets it was thought that
the number would aggregate several thcn-
sands. The figures show, however.
only I'll such children in the District at
the time the census was taken-267 wnIte
and 444 colored.
Evening star., 1905-09-30
New Municipal Building.

Captain Chester Harding. u. S. A, Corps
of Engineers, the officer appointed to super
wise construction of the new municipal
brilding, returned to Washington today af-
ter an Inspection of the Bluehill quarry in
Maine. from which will be supplied the
granite for the structure. He reported that
ali preliminary developments at the quarry
were satisfactory and that just before he
left for home he saw the first schooner
load of the stone started toward the capi-
tai =
Evening star., 1905-09-30
Special Feature.

An interesting feature of the report is
that which deals with the alley popula-
tion, and which also gives the population
of the county. The population of the mum
bered squares Of the city, exclusive of the
alleys, is made up of III .6s1 whites ana
61,TO0 colored, while 1883 whites and 1886
colored persons occupy houses in alleys.
The number Of white residents of the
county who do not live in alleys is 4G,sT4.
and the corresponding colored population
numbers 1872 Twenty white persons and
33T eolored persons live In alleys in che
county In the report of the work of the
'eItUmerators Mai. Sylvester gives the fig
,ures by precincts and shows the number
of persons OF different ages. giving those of
one year and under. those between one ana
FIVE years. all between five and twenty-one
and those over twenty-one. The fifth pre-
oinct. comprising the territory in South
east Washington and the adjacent county
has the largest population. the total being
4i,1SI, and the first precinct, which is COM
Evening star., 1905-09-30
Should Set Example.

mfr. Richetts evidently believes these men
in authority should set the example to their
subordinates of industry, punctuality and
devotion to the affairs of the office, hence
his order of today
Cases were cited where foremen had been
in the habit of reporting for duty late in
the mornings, thus setting an example OF
hardness to the workers under them. Also
that some of them absented themselves
from duty for one more days and were
never required to explain or account for
their absence.
1t is said that. the practice which inn
PEELED Public Printer Ricketts, to issue the
foregoing order prevails to some extent In
other government departments and that the
matter has or will be brought to the atten-
ton of the Keep investigating commission
Evening star., 1905-09-30

Gov. and Mrs. Edwin WarfieId will move
into the executive mansion at Annapolis.
Nd. for the winter on or about October Is
Evening star., 1905-09-30

posed largely of business houses, has the
smallest with a total of IL ,191.
The result is given by precincts as FOL
lows:
Evening star., 1905-09-30

8. x. Darrell business man of POGO
moke Nd. and Benjamin Z. Kecne Of nea I
Cambridge. Nd. are dead
Evening star., 1905-09-30
Order a Bombshell.

The above order, which went into effect
today, means, it is said, that Public Printer
Ricketts, intends to apply rules of strict
business principles to the employees OF Un-
Gle Sans big print shop There will be no
discrimination. The rule will apply with
equal force to all workers In the beehive
of industry under his control, from fore
men of divisions TO the humblest laborer.
This order was like a bombshell In Ger
tain divisions, where, under the former re-
gime, foremen and others in authority had
been in the habit of absenting themselves
from the Office at any and all times during
business hours, it is said. and in many in
stances to attend to private business in
tereSts.
There will be no more privileged charac-
ters in the government printing office while
Mr.. Ricketts, is in charge" said veteran
employe today to a Star reporter. Ger
tain men in authority have been in the
habit of going down town during business
hours, not on government matters, but per-
sonal ones, leaving their divisions or sec
tions in the hands OF sibordinates.
Evening star., 1905-09-30
RICKETTS, NEW RULE
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
employees MUST WORK HOURS.
Habit Of Many Of Going Down Town
on Private Business in Office
Hours is Abolished,

Oscar j. Ricketts,, acting public printer,
today issued an order which officials say
will work a reform In the government
printing office. The order is dated today
and addressed to Mr.. ]. M. A. Spottswood
acting foreman of printing. 1t is as fol-
lows:
September So 1905
Sir: The practice which has grown up
on the part of heads of divisions, their as
sistants and all those charged with execu-
tive responsibility of absenting them
selves from their posts of duty during
working hours without the express con-
sent of the foreman of printing must be
discontinued. The government pays it's
employees in the government printing office
for eight hours service and it has a right
to expect and to exact a full return for the
money exDended
Evening star., 1905-09-30

Miss Alice Hall OF Beaver Dam, yas who
5Uries. .s ssss
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-23
AFFAIRS in RUSSIA
DARK DEEDS OF VIOLENCE and
BLOODSHED REPORTED.
All Parts Of Great Empire in Turmoil
Troops in Manchuria on Point of
Revolt Because of Failure to Get
Pay or Proper Food-Strike on Rail-
road-Linevitch Reports to Gar.

Dark deeds Of violence and blood
shed were reported from all parts OF
the Russian realm the past week. In
st. Petersburg the week opened with
the military arrest of M. Kustaleff,
president of the executive council OF
the striking workmen. This was i'm
mediately followed by wholesale ar
rests of leaders of the insurgent peas
ant leagues throughout the empire, NJ.
Witte having entered upon a more
rigorous policy Of putting down dis
order.
In Moscow the week opened with a
panic on the bourse. The government
met this startling situation by giving
out reassuring statements of Russian
finances and the panic seems to have
been arrested
Meanwhile the storm center shifted
from St. Petersburg, Moscow and the
Odessa country to the Baltic provin-
ces in the west. The ancient kingdom
Of Lithuania is ahame with the spirit
of revolution A provisional govern
ment has been set up in Riga, capital
Of the government of Livonia and seat
Of the governor general of the Baltic
provinces.
Riga is a city of about 300 900 pop
ulation and is on the Duna river,
about 10 miles above its mouth in the
Gulf of Riga, 3b5 miles southwest of
st. Petersburg. The new government
there has declared the separation of
the Lithuanian people from the Rus
sian empire The population around
Riga is largely Germanic, and Lithua
mans are bitter against the German
landlords Bands of peasants are burn
ing the estates ana numbering land
owners. Lithuania was formerly an
Independent kingdom, but in the 10th
century it entered into a union with
Poland. With the dismemberment OF
the Polish empire, the country passed
to Russia and has since been a part Of
that empire.
The Russian government has an ar
my in Riga and dispatches report there
has been fierce fighting in the streets
and that machine guns were used by
the cars soldiers against the in
surgents.
The cars affairs were rendered stii
more desperate the. past week b!
alarming reports from his Manchurial
army. The troops in Manchuria are a
he point of revolt because of failure
to receive their pay and inability o
he government to give them prope
food and clothing, due to the susper
sion of traffic on the transsiberian raj
road, arising from the strike. 1t 1
said that General Linevitch has advis
If a general revolt.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-23
OREGON ITEMS.

One of the most daring robberies
ever recorded in Portland occurred re-
Gently when two masked men entered
the barroom of the Centennial hotel
and held up the bartender and Is men
who were drinking in the place. The
men who attempted to escape the rob-
Ders we're shot, one perhaps fatally.
rhe robbers escaped with the SIPS
stolen.
"a husband is liable for the expen-
ses of his family whether he lives
with them or not, unless one or the
other of the parties has been divorced.
No husband has the right to pick up
mis- hat and walk out of the house and
then say that he will not pay the ex-
penses of his wife and children if he
does not choose to return and I've I'M
der the same roof with them" declares
Presiding Judge Frazer of Portland.
Oregon will have a representative
delegation at the convention to be held
IN Salt Lake City January 20, called
to discuss the subject, See Europe II
you will, but see America first"
g. II. Hartman, president of the
Southern Pacific railway is preparing
to sell a part of the Oregon and Cali
fornia railroad land grant in Oregon
This grant amounts to about 100000
acres. Several years ago some of the
land was sold at prices ranging from
So to s25.
Congressman Binger Hermann has
been in the shadow of death during the
present week and close upon the sud
den death of his distinguished col
league, senator John H. Mitchell
Hon. ]. M. Gearin, appointed to sue
coed the late United States Senator
John II. Mitchell as senator from Ore
gon, has departed for Washington.
The Elks have dedicated a new tenn
pie at Baker City.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-23
RUS JAN GOVERNMENT DEFIANT
Police Hunt Down and Throw Into
Jail Leaders Of the Prcletariat
White Terror Returns.

ST. Petersburg, Dec. 1S.-A shudder
of horror has convulsed Russia. The
government claims It has given battle
only to the red revolutionists, but
the populace generally believes that
the white terror" has returned. AL
ready the leaders of the proletariat
agitation who escaped capture Satur-
day night at the economic society, and
even men of the rank OF Professor
Milukon are in hiding from the police,
who are hunting them down. The gov
ernLeRt evidently anticipates a battle
royal and has made its dispositions ac-
corCingl 1t fully understands that
the proletariat will give blow for blow
in answer to the wholesale arrests.
The workmen's council and the
league of leagues Saturday night is
sued a declaration of general strike,
to begin Immediately, and consequent
ly by an imperial ukase published this
morning all governors general, COVER
nors and projects throughout the en-
pire who are cut off by telegraph are
clothed with almost dictatorial powers,
being authorized without consultation
with st. petersburg to declare a state
of siege and if necessary even martial
law.
AS most of the provincial authorities
are reactionary officials Of the old re-
gime, the advantage they will take of
such power to terrorize the populace
can be easily imagined, they being N
position to become petty tyrants and
wage war each in his own particular
fashion against the revolutionisJs.
Press Is Suppressed.
The Novee Vremya was the only pa
per with the exception Of the Official
Messenger, to appear today, and in
the center of the first page is a half
column of blank paper, showing the
censor had forbidden an article. The
Novoe Vremya seeded from the pub
fishers union and was published I'M
der the protection of the police and
Cossacks.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-23

ilized world pension their civil SER
wants. The full working out of the
merit system in civil service can never
be accomplished, l believe, until we
recognize the principal of a civil PEN
sion for superannuated government
employees. There is no other impor-
tant nation which has not recognized
that principle.
"In an inquiry reaching nearly 1000
corporations replies show that 10 have
adopted some plan for retiring and
providing for employees during old age.
Without single exception these cor
porations which have adopted such a
plan expressed the opinion, after hav-
ing had an opportunity to note its eff
fects, that it was wise business prac-
hce. As a rule those American cor
poratlons which have adopted the old
age pensions system have treated the
matter in the light of deferred wages.
the corporation bearing the entire er-
pense of the pension requirements.
IF | were to attempt to summarize
the reasons why institutions in the
United states are beginning to adopt
old age pension schemes / would saw
that they embrace such considerations
as these: The pension attaches the
employe to the service and thus de-
creases the liability to strike. 1t makes
more certain a continuance Of efficient
men in the lines of work with which
they are perfectly familiar. OF quite
as much Importance is the fact that a
pension system enables employers to
dispense with the elderly and inefi-
cient and thus give constant encour-
agement to good effort on the part of
younger men hoping for promotion. 1t
operates especially as an incentive to
hold men between the ages Of 40 and
30 when they have acquired the ex-
erience and skill which makes them
especially valuable and prevents their
being tempted away by slightly in
creased wages for a temporary period.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-23

by drinking carbolic acid. was held
last Sunday.
Francis Marion Hughes, Ii years
old, born in Bunkum county, N. C.,
in 17SS. Is living today at Grangeville.
Until recently his figure, bent old and
gray. massive in proportion, the typi-
cal type of the aged mountaineer,
could be seen daily upon the streets.
At a total cost Of $4,000 the new
assay building to be erected immedi-
ately for the University of Idaho will
give the mining department of that
institution one of the best equipped
buildings of its kind to be found in
the west
Navigation up the st. Joe river has
become so difficult that only the iron
clad boats of the Red Collar line are
running. Ice is five inches thick IN
places.
Practically all the wheat in the Lew
iston country. with the exception of a
little along the Snake river. has been
sold.
On January 10 $500 acres of school
lands will be sold at the Idaho county
courthouse in Grangeville. The land
is all agricultural land, located mostly
on Camas prairie.
State Land Commissioner G. ]. Nun
son recently sold 1000 acres of school
lands at auction at the county court
house at Lewiston. The land brought
total of $37, 1t had been ap
praised at $35,640.
State Land Commissioner c. ]. Nun
son reports that the state is preparing
for a big sale Of timber in Kootenai
county, which will probably take place
at Rathdrum in February.
r. Reynolds, who has been conduct
ing a saloon at Dublin, was caught re
Gently in the act of selling liquor
without a license and was fined $5C
and costs.