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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-03

Lodge secretary Erie. September 2s-9a
ChanIte Fair and Improvement Assocfa-
ton (NIeosho county)--A- e. T1mpane,
secretary, Chanute. August q to Sep.
Ness County Agricultural Association-I
S. Wagner. secretary, Ness City. seg-
Norton County Agricultural Society-M
Clarity, secretary. Norton. August q to
ossge County Fair Association-H -
Price, secretary, Burlingame. Septeno.
Central Kansas Fair Association (Reno
Hutchinson. September 1s-s.
Rice County Agricultural Fair and Live
stock Association-E. z. Porter, mecre-
tary, Sterling. September 4-6.
Riley County Agricultural Society-Johu
w Cone, secretary, Riley. August SILL
Saline County Agricultural, HorficuItura1
and Mechanical Association--H. b. Wal
lace, secretary. Salina- September 1872
Kansas State Exposition Company SHAW
nee county)-C. H. Samson, Secretary.
Topelxa September Ills.
Smith County Fair Association-A9llo DE-
mond, secretary, Smith Center. August
! Rocks County Fair Association-E. 8. VIII
Iiams secretary, Stockton.
Stafford County Fair Association-Geora
E. Moore. secretary. st. John: August
23-@
Fredonia Agricultural Association Cvilson
county)-J. T. Cooper, secretary. Fredo-
mia. August 22-25.
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peace, of which President Roosevelt
was the authorized exponent that his
majesty, the car, has empowered me
to come hither and ascertain the con-
ditions which our gallant adversary
deems necessary and adequate as a
basis for peace negotiations. I need
hardly point out that it is my ardent
desire that the two chivalrous foes,
who first became acquainted on the
field of battle, may have found in each
others sterling qualities motives pow
erful enough to cultivate that acquaint-
anceship until it ripens into lasting
friendship.
Meantime. however, the terms offer
ed, must first be ascertained, weighed
and judged admissible by Russia before
she can proceed to formal negotiations.
Hitherto, as you are aware, it was Gus
tomary in cases like this to settle all
such preliminaries before the meeting
of the plenipotentiaries, whose task it
was to come to a final agreement on
the matters under discussion. Now, the
very fact that his majesty, the car,
consented to take course involving de-
parture from this ancient diplomatic
usage and to appoint a mission to learn
the nature of our brave enemy's terms
is an eloquent token of the friendly
feeling which he and his subjects con-
tinue to cherish toward the people of
the United States. I say continue to
cherish, because at no epoch in our his
tory have our traditional relations with
this great republic been other than cor
dial. And now 1 should like to say,
aye, and to prove, to your people who
| live less in the past than in the present
and the future, that it is the fervent
wish of the emperor and the people of
Russia further to strengthen the ties of
friendship which have hitherto subsist-
| ed between the two nations.
1T is in virtue of that sincere desire
that his majesty, the cZGr, waving all
other considerations, has unhesitatingly
accepted the cordial invitation of your
first citizen and genial leader. And if
my mission should prove in all other
respects barren and the endeavor to
find a common basis for peace negotia-
the signal proof of friendship given by
his majesty, the car, and the Russian
nation would still stand out as a
memorable event, fraught, trust, with
| far-reaching and benefcent results to
the two great peoples of the west and
| the east
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SHOW A DECREASE.
Santa Fe's Net Earnings Less Than
Last Year.

Last Year.
st. Louis, Aug. 3.-The Santa Fe is
sued its statement of earnings for June
today. It likewise covered the result of
operations for the fiscal year ended
June 80. The statement can hardly be
regarded as a satisfactory one, inso-
much as net earnings for the year show
a decrease as compared with those of
the previous one of So, 090,714. Gross
earnings for the twelve months in
creased by $204, 537, but the increase in
operating expenses wiped this out and
left net short in the amount stated. The
increase in operating expenses was 49,
295, 351. It was caused very largely by
the DISASTROUS floods to which the road
was subjected both this year and last.
Part of last years flood expenses were
carried over to this year and helped to
make today's showing poorer than it
would otherwise have been. Last year.
floods, which made such heavy addi-
lions to the cost of operations, by do
ing immense damage to the crops in
Santa Fe territory, served to reduce
its gross earnings, and thus struck a
double blow to the roads prosperity. Its
officials, however, are by no means
discouraged. They see great prosperity
ahead of them the coming year, and
from now on earnings are expected to
show considerable advancement.
Reports are in circulation that the
Santa Fe is contemplat ting an extension
to San Pedro. 1t may accomplish it's
object, not by the building of any new
track, but through a trackage agree
ment with the San Pedro, Los Angeles
and Salt Lake road, similer to that I'M
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LIST OF KANSAS FAIRS.

Following is a list of fairs to be held In
Kansas in 1906, their dates, locations and
secretaries, as reported to the state board
of agriculture and compiled by Secretary
=. D. Coburn:
Allen County Agricultural, Society,". T.
Treadway, secretary, lola September
12-15.
FEEDER, secretary, Great Bend. August
% to September !.
The Hiawatha Fair Association (Br2Wn
watha September SIS.
Butler County Fair Association-H. N.
Balch. secretary. Ell Dorado. October
Hewins Park and Fair Association (Chau-
tauqua eounty}a o.Vha M 1z jones' secretary
Puckey,. secretary. Clay Center. octo-
Cloud County Fair Association-w. G.
Reid, secretary, Concordia. October s-6
Corey County Agricultural Fair Associa-
tion-H Hem } lac sc secretary Burning
Eastern CoWley County Fair Association
Tetary. sB Sas' September us.
stock AssoeistioE,SW; = wilson. secre-
Crawford County Agricultural Fair Asso-
ciation-Frank Mckay, secretary, Pitts
Elk County Agricultural Fair Association
-E 3. Place, secretary, Grenola. Sep
Finney County Agricultural Society-A. H.
Warner, secretary, Garden City.
! Ford County Agricultural Society-Ni1
Mayratn, secretary, Dodge City. Second
FRANKLIN County Agricultural Society
Carey M Porter. secretary. Ottawa.
September SO.
Greenwood County Fair Association-C
ii, Weiser, secretary, Eureka August
Anthony Fair Association Rarper county,
w. W. Bird. secretary. Anthony. Au.
JE osl Co,,n+v Agricultural Socfetv-J y,
Axtell. secretary. Newton September 20
HoIton street Fair and Carnival, Aug. 30
81. Sept. 1 and 2 w. 7. Beck. secretary
1efFersor County Agricultural and Me.
cbanicaI Association-Georg A. Patter
son, secretary, Oskaloosa. September
Je Ss0; County Agricultural Fair Associa
tion-Henry R. Honey, secretary, Man.
Eato. September SIS.
linn County Fair Association-O. e. Ha
ley, secretary. Mound City. Septembel
M ii-sG County Fair Associatton-E. L.
Miller. secretary. Marysville. Septem
McPbe e County Agricultural Fair AS
sociation-H- A. Rowland. secretary, Nc
| Pherson. September Ills.
| Miami County Agricultural and Mechanf
caI Fair Association-W. H Bradbury
secretary, Paola- September Is -28
Mitchell County Agricultural Association
P. G. Chubbic. secretary. Beloit-
| Coffeyville Fair and Park Association
secrctary, Coffeyville.
| Morris County exposition Company-M
F. Amriness secretary. Council Grove
Mamma County Fair Association-W. H
| FItzwater. secretary, Seneca August 9
| to September l.
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CONv|CT'S PLEA.
Declares Of Course He Was Not
the Guilty Man.
His Sole Sin Was Travelling in
Bad Company.
is NOW 81 YEARS OLD.
Charles Wilson Blames the
Staffieback Family.
Aged Prisoner Weeps as He
Tells His Story.
Is NOW 81 YEARS OLD

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. 3.-Charles
Wilson, a prisoner 81 years old and the
husband of Mrs. Nancy Wilson, gen
orally known as Mrs. Stafieback, has
applied to the warden and directors OF
the Kansas penitentiary to release him
on paroIe Mrs Wilson, formerly
Staf1eback. his wife, is in the peniten-
tiary in very feeble health. They are
not friendly and have never tried 10
speak to each other during the eight
years of confinement in the penitentlary-
George Staffieback, a stepson of Wilson,
serving a life sentence, is in the penl-
tertiary also, but he and Wilson show
no interest in each other. Edward star
deback another stepSOn, died since the
family were brought to the penltntlary.
Wilson is a man prematurely broken
down and he looks much older than OIL
years. He is serving sentence OF 20
years for aiding and abett1ng IN one Oh
the many murders charged against the
Staff1ebacks.
7 am here eight years now ana
can't live out the twenty-nvye years rs % 40
my sentence. Can't you parole me or 40
something for me?" was the way VII
son began telling the story OF his NE
to the warden and directors nau
nothing to do with any of the StaHe-
hack murders and two women swore TO
lies to get me in here. My trouble COM
menced when I married Mrs. Stane-
back I was boarding with Mrs StaI-
feback and was only married 10 neI
seven months before I was sent TO the
penitentiary."
The old prisoner cried while telling
the story of leaving his first wire IN
Missouri and wandering around until ne
fell in with the Staff1ebacks. He told OF
going back to Missouri and living with
relatives near his first wife after the
Staff1ebacks were arrested until Kan
sas sheriff came and got him. He de-
scribed to the board how two women,
Stafffebacks took the witness stand ana
testified that he, Wilson, along with
George and Edward Stafheback, shot
and wounded q stranger running away
from the Staff1eback house, and OF VIII
son helping to throw the man doWn d
coal shaft hole before he was dead.
1T was all lies; was not near the
house that night and was working at
another town, but it carried the jury
was the comment of the prisoner Con-
tinuing, he said: L was mixed up with
the Staf1ebacks and sentiment was
against me and 1 had no chance to
prove an alibi. That's what man gets
for mixing up with bad people. l hope
YOU can do something for me-"
Wilson was sentenced long before the
passage of the indeterminate sentence
law and the conditions surrounding his
case are such that the parole board
can do nothing for him. His former
relatives and friends seem to have lost
interest in him and like many other in
mates in the penitentiary the old man
will mourn alone.
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VACCINATION And DANDRUFF.
There Is as Sure Prevention of Bald
ness as There Is of Smallpox.

1t is now accepted that vaccination rem
ders the vaecinated person exempt from
smallpox; or, at worst, he never has any
thing but the highest kind of a case. Now
as sure preventive and cure for dand-
ruff, which causes falling hair and bald
ness, has been Observation-Disclosures Her
picide. It kills the dandruf germ c. H
Reed, Victor, Idaho, says: Myself and
wife have been troubled with dandruff and
falling hair for several years. We tried
remedies without effect until we used
Newbro's Herpicide. two bottles of which
cured u.s. Hundreds of similar testi-
monials.
Sold by leading druggists. Send Zoe in
stamps for sample to The Heroicide Co.,
Detroit, Mich. J. P. Rowley, special agent.
Successor to Rowley & Snow.
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Denver and Return SIS Santa Fe.

Annual meeting Grand Aerie Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, annual meet
ing American Osteopath1c association
and annual convention of National
Association Fire Insurance agents.
Tickets on sale August IL, IS, Is, re-
turn limit August IS. Can be extend
ed until September 25-
Three fast trains daily, 11:55 a. m,
1925 D. m. and 1000 p. M; observa-
ton cars, rock ballast track, block
signal system, and Harvey eating
houses.
For information, literature, sleeping
car reservations, address
II. l.. KING, C. P. & r. A.,
Topeka, Kansas.
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A TRANsCoNTINENTAL LINE.
Gould May Make Direct Line From
New York to San Francisco.

Chicago, Aug. 3.-From Denver
comes a rurnor to the effect that
George J. Gould intends to build a new
road that will give him a transconti-
mental line. This report is based on
the fact that Mr.. Gould has said that
meeting of Denver & Rio Grande
stockholders to be. held in Denver in
October.
The report further says that Mr..
Gould, while in Denver, will assist in
floating a $45,000,000 bond issue for
the completion of the Western Pa
cific. 1t is also said that he contem-
plates extending the Missouri Pacific
from Atchison and st. Joseph to
Lenora, Kas., westward to Denver, and
that his visit will be primarily for this
purpose.
The Gould system has had this ex-
tension under consideration some time,
and it is now believed that the COM
pany has decided to build. With this
road built and the Western Pacific
a transcontinental road from San
Francisco to New York, and Denver
will be on the direct line.
Besides these improvements a road
connecting Atchison and Omaha will
have to be built in order to complete
the direct line. The Western Pacific
will then be the route from San Fran
cisco to Salt Lake City, the Denver &
Rio Grande to Denver, the Missouri
Pacific to Omaha, the Wabash to Chi
cago and Buffalo, and the New York
Central to New York.
In addition to giving the Goulds a
tranScontinental line such connections
will also provide the shortest route be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific sea-
ports. Such a line, it is said by rail-
road men, will reduce the running
time between New York city and San
Francisco from 80 to 80 hours.
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Horizons Street Fair.

Horton will have a street fair for
the week commencing August z. 1t is
Prof. Rice's Alamo entertainment and
is said to be a good one. The main
free attra ctions consist of a daily bal
loon ascension and parachute jump,
and leaping the fiery chasm by a BIZ
cyclist. There will also be a Ferris
wheel and several paid attractions. The
large bills will give an idea of the per-
Torrance. The show comes without
any cost to our merchants and will be
given as a benefit for the Horton
band. The band will get a per cent.
from the gross proceeds.-Horton
Commercial.
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DIR. SHOWS WEATHER REPORT.
SAYS Most Noteworthy Feature of July
Was Heavy Rains.

Was Heavy Rains.
Lawrence, Kan, Aug. 3.-The wealth
er report for July issued by DIR. +. H.
Snow of the University of Kansas says
that the most noteworthy feature of the
month was the heavy rainfall of 4.SS
inches, which fell on Sunday, July 2,
when the largest precipitation occurred
for any one day in the whole record OF
our observation. The excessive volume
of water draining into the Wakarusa
valley caused an overflow of that stream
which for the third year in succession
has swept away adjacent crops. The
Kansas river, however, kept within it's
banks During the 81 preceding years
of our record only two Julys have been
cooler than the month just closed. In
the month, II days were warmer and II
cooler than the average for those days:
On only five days the mercury reached
80 degrees, which number is eight days
less than the average, and the maxi
mum temperature lacked 16 degrees of
the highest point on our record.
The mean temperature of the month
was 70 80 degrees. The highest temper
allure was 90 degrees on the 10Th and
18th; the lowest was Sc degrees on the
9Th The rainfall was 7.85 inches, which
is 3.04 inches above the July average.
The rain fall for the seven months of
1905 now completed is $3.50 inches,
which is $50 inches above the average
for the same months of the 81 years
preceding. Rain fell in measurable
quantities on 10 days; there were four
thunder storms during the month. The
month was 1872 per cent cloudier than
usual. The run of wind was 1206 miles
below the July average. The highest
velocity was 40 miles an hour on the
Sd. There were two fogs during the
month
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Left 2 Babx on the Porch.

Sunday morning about 3 o'clock, A.
e. billing, who lives about a quarter
of mile north of Meanwhile, was
awakened by a noise on his front
porch. He arose to investigate and
found that a baby, less than "a hours
old, had been left there. The little
one. bright looking boy, was in the
half of a telescope valise and had but
a few clothes on and nothing 20 indi-
cate to whom he belonged. The au-
thorities at Hiawatha were notified
and the baby placed in their charge
Robinson Index.
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SUES HER sTEPFATHER.
Cowley County Citizen Charged With
CrueIty

Winfield, Kan, Aug. 3-Alice LaMottc,
the step daughter of H. G. Fuller. a
wealthy retired citizen of this place. has
brought suit against him for 6.1O7 so for
alleged attack on three different occa sions.
She is 16 years old and claims that Fuller
two years ago promised her a home when
he married her mother. She was later I'M
able to remain there because of his abuse,
and July IS she was felled and beaten and
kicked into Inconsistencies when she
lighted the gas in a stove to heat an iron
after Fuller had turned it out.
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For Raidinc a Melon Patch.

Winfield, Kan, Aug 3.-The Udan base
ball team played in Oxford and on the
way home raided the watermelon patch of
J. A. Notes.-The, who lives neer the Ar
kansas river. Later the team was before
a justice of the peace here and gave bond
to appear for hearing Friday. Two of the
members pleaded guilty and their cases
were taken under Amusement.
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A Touching Story

is the saving from death of the baby girl
of Geo. A Eyler Cumberland, Nd. He
writes: At the age of II months our little
girl was in declining health with serious
throat trouble and two physicians gave
her up We were almost in despair when
We resolved to try DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
taking bottles she was cured. and is now
in perfect health Never fails to relieve
and cure cough or cold At Arnold
Drug Co, S21 N. Kansas ave. Soc and 81.
Guaranteed Trial bottle free.
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How Wheat shrinks.

An experiment was made by Welby
Cunningham of Chapman which is of
interest to wheat growers and grain
buyers. He found that 81 ounces of
wheat lost about 3 ounces in 80 days.
This was new wheat. In other words,
100 bushels shrunk about 40 bushels.
One hundred thousand bushels at the
rate would represent loss of 1900
bushels to the purchaser. If these
figures are correct they are worth con-
sidering when holding wheat for high
er priceS.-Junction City Union,
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INMATES LIKED NEWTON.
Several Patients Left Asylum as
He Did.

Winfield, Kan, Aug. 3.-Several pa
tients in the state asylum for imbecile
youths attempted to escape when DR..
Vannuys, the newly appointed super
intendent. appeared. Two of the in
mates got away and have not been
heard from since. They said, when
leaving, that they did not like the
change in management
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Carbine NIarksmen Arrive.

Junction City, Kan, Aug. 3.-Last night
many carbine marksmen from the Allan
tic, Pacific and southwestern divisions of
the army arrived here from the different
departments in those divisions to partici-
pate in the army cavalry competition that
commences at the National range here
Friday. All of the competitors will be
here by today. The competitors for the
army pistol competition will not commence
to arrive until next week.
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the most horses, 1872 being found
therein. Walnut ranking second with
I,473 horses and Hiawatha third with
1,46S horses. Horses range in price
from S35 to $175. There are 2,127
mules in the county worth on an aver
age of $50 each, making a total valua-
ton of S170,160. There are 10,397
mich cows valued at 1911, $40; 21,066
head of other cattle valued at $S15. $50
and $40 sheep valued at $1,0O0.-Hor-
ION Commercial
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The Right Road.


Chicago Great Western railway
from Kansas City to Chicago, Du-
buque, Des Moines, Marshalltown, st.
Paul and Minneapolis The best of
eouiDment and service on all trains.
Low summer rates now in effect. For
further information apply to ]. H. Ly-
man, G. A, West Ninth street, Kan
sas City Mo.
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RAINED N KANSAS.
West Central Portion Gets Another
Soaking.

Sterling. Kan. Aug. S.-Another heavy
rain fell here again last evening, which
makes about seven inches of rainfall since
o'clock Saturday evening. The corn has
enough moisture to make it in this vicinity
now and this puts the ground in fine
shape for fall wheat sowing. This will
stop threshing until the last of the week
if no more rain falls. as the fields are
very soft.
AT ARKANSAS CITY.
Wednesday afternoon heavy rain fell
between this city and Anthony.
AT JUNCTION CITY.
A heavy rain fell in this county last ev-
ening. In some places the rainfall amount
ed to an inch and half. The rain last
week made the early corn, and the county
never had better prospects for the late
croS.
AT HUTCHINSON.
A very heavy rain fell last night all
over central Kansas, soaking the ground
and doing the corn crop much good.
AT EMPORIA.
A heavy rain fell here Wednesday after
noon and night.
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summer Tourist Rates

points in Illinois. Wisconsin and Mich
igan. one way fare plus 50 for the
round trip. Tickets on sale daily to
september 80. Final return limit
october 81. For further information
apply to any Great Western agent or
!. p. Elnor, G. P. A. st. Pau. MINI.
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Evangelical Association OPENS.

Atchison. Kan, Aug 3.-The Young
Peoples Alliance and Woman's Foreign
Missionary society of the Kansas Con-
ference Evangelical association has be-
gan its fourteenth annual assembly in
Forest park. The session will continue
its services here until August Z. The
delegates are living in tents. Meals are
furnished in a big dining tent.
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kansas Girl q Star.

Kansas City, Kas., Aug. S.-Miss
Goldie Hostetter, daughter of DR.. E.
G. Hostetter, this city, who has been
playing in a stock company in Canada
this summer, will take the leading
lady's part in CalIahan's ''Slaves of the
Mine" in New York city, September
1. Miss Hostetter is 10 years old.
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Going to Colorado?

The rate now is 81. so to Denver, Pueblo
- Colorado Springs, and return ticlr.
cts on sale ds tagd fpal aII limit returning
SS.rsc4ions between Pueblo and Denve-
Gte;r cars and Pullman Sleepers. FAST
time block signal system. Harvey
meals. g. -
.,,-1,1eh Pueblo and Colorado Sprinrs-
rs Summer service better and faster
W. Write for descriptive literature ard
other information.
IL Won want a real pleasure trip Won
viii. T. L. KING, Agent,
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa F'e
Railway
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New Claim Agents on southern.

S. W. Moore, general solicitor of the
Kansas City Southern railway, announces
changes in the claim department of the
system. E. D. Halderman, general claim
agent, having resigned, the office is abol-
ished. The following appointments are
made: ]. B. Green to be claim agent for
the northern division, with office at Pitts
burg, Kan: R. Brunazzi to be claim agent
for the southern division, at Texarkana
Tex. w. D. Sanders has been named as
assistant claim agent at Texarkana.