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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
PEOPLE MAY BE HEARD.
Move to Permit Vote on Water
works Management.

There is still a chance that the
people of Topeka may be given an
opportunity to vote on the adoption
OF the law passed by the last legisIa-
rure providing the method for the
management OF the city waterworks
councilman S A. Swendson last
night reintroduced the ordinance
which was proposed before the recent
election, providing that the law should
be submitted to the people of the city
Tor adoption, as is provided by the
law itself That this ordinance is
likely to meet with approval was in
dlcated by the fact that the council
postponed the consideration of Coun-
Gilman Howes alternative ordinance,
which will be adopted in case the
state law proposition is turned down.
At meeting of the committee of
the whole council held March %,
with Councilman Ryder in the chair
and Councilman Holiday absent, it
was decided by a tie vote not to sub
NIT this proposition at the recent
election. The vote stood:
Ayes--criley, Green, Nellis. Swend-
son and Nell.
Nays-Kutz, Rice, Howe. Sinner,
Hughes.
Since that vote was taken the stu
alton has changed considerably. Nell
lis and Neil, who voted aye, have left
the council. Green is out of the city.
The ayes have therefore lost three
votes.
The nays have lost Kutz and it is
said that Hughes has switched, and
will vote in favor of submitting the
proposition.
Holiday will be in the chair in
committee of the whole. and Ryder
will be able to vote aye on the propo-
sition. The ayes will therefore have
four votes sure and the nays three.
The newly elected councilmen, Nipps,
Simms and Horne, can settle the thing
with their votes.
If the council does not decide to
adopt the plan of management as pro-
posed by the state law, it will then
take up the consideration of S. T.
Howe's proposed ordinance. Howe's
ordinance is a good one, but it is de-
fective, just as all such ordinances
must be defective: it can be repealed
or amended by the council at any
time Consequently the management
of the waterworks is left virtually in
the control of the city council.
On the other hand, if the state law
is submitted to the people and adopt
! ed, the board of water commissioners
/ is given an Independent existence, the
same as the council, and the council
cannot wipe it off the map at its own
discretion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
ATHOL WANTS SITE.
Claims Rock Island Isn't Acting Right
About Elevator.

Another complaint concerning an ele-
Vator site has been filed with the rail-
road commissioners. This one comes
from Athol, Smith county. and asks the
railroad board if it cannot do something
to compel the Rock Island to give the
Farmers Shipping association Of Athol
an elevator site.
The complaint comes from c. A. Borg
man, who says that the shipping as
ISOLATION in 1904 shipped III cars of cat
tie, and since November, 1908, it has
shipped 100 cars of grain. It is for the
grain business that it needs an elevator
It has been compelled to scoop" these
100 cars of grain because it has had no
elevator site.
Several months ago the association
applied to the railroad company for an
elevator site, but the company has not
granted it, nor has the request been
refused, although the company sent a.
man to investigate the situation, who
reported that the sidetrack would have
! to be extended in order to give room for
another elevator. Mr.. Bergman says
the railroad company claims it owes a
certain amount of protection to the ele-
vators already established.
It seems that the elevators now doing
business there are line elevators not
owned by home people, and Mr. Borg
man does not hesitate to designate them
as robbers" He says that he shipped
! one car OF wheat some time ago which
/ brought him II cents a, bushel more
/ than the line elevators at Athol would
1 pay him.
I'VE are able to do our own business, %
writes the complainant. I'VE want to
ship our own grain and get what it is
worth. and we don't want some eastern
millionaire to make more profit off our
/ farms than we make ourselves
He says the farmers are getting in a
i hurry to get their elevator up for It's
I years wheat crop and he thinks the
railroad company is trying to delay
matters so as to give the present eleva-
! tors a monopoly as long as possible on
the new crop. He asks the railroad
commissioners to hurry the matter up II
| possible.
Incidentally Mr.. Bergman says that
! Senator Haskell tells him that the law
/ to compel railroads TO furnish elevator
sites passed the legislature but the
railroad representatives say that it did
not.
T. w. McFerland of HaIstead sends
the railroad commissioners a peculiar
| complaint He says the Santa Fe runs
through his farm, and he has a private
roadway across it, with gates through
the fences on each side of the right OF
/ wav He has to cross through these
/ gates nearly every day to get to MS
1 farm work and also drives his COWS
through them to pasture.
Mr.. AcFerland says the ralIroac
company recently asked him to sign q
1 contract about the gates, but he die
not think it was a fair contract an6
wouldn't sign it. Now the company is
about to close up the gates and he
asks the railroad board what he car
He sends the board a copy of the
contract and it does not seem SO very
unfair. It simply provides that Mr.
McFerland agrees to keep the gates
| closed. and if any of his stock should
oct through when the gates are oper
i and get killed or injured by trains il
relieves the railroad company Of la
| hilifY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
FLAG TRAMPLED ON.
Porto Rico Strikers in a Clash with
the Police.

San Juan, P. r., April IS.-Six
meetings of strikers were held sim
ultaneously yesterday in the Ponce
district. The insular police report
that at one meeting an American flag
was torn and trampled upon. They
attempted to make arrests and a riot
followed. The crowd attacked the
police, clubs and revolvers We're used
and a number of persons were wound
ed, including three police. A iieuten-
ant of police received a. scalp wound
from a machete. After a number Of
arrests had been made order was re-
stored though with great difficulty.
About 4. 900 strikers attended another
meeting on the plaza at Ponce. Ora
tors of the American Federation of
Labor and President Sanchez of the
local organization addressed the men.
A disturbance ensued and the police
used their clubs which were followed
by revolver shooting from the crowd.
The situation became decidedly alarm
ing but the firing brought reinforce
ments of police and order was partly
restored.
An attempt to rescue the arrested
strikers while. they were on their way
to jail provoked another disturbance
during which a number of persons
were injured though not seriously. The
Federation orators are bitter in their
denunciations of the political parties
of Porto Rico and accuse the police of
wilfully melting the strikers to riot.
Quiet has been restored.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
He WILL TRY To SAVE.
City Physician Hogeboom Won't spend
Money Outside the City.

City Physician HOgeboom, the new
city physician, will handle infectious
disease which arise outside of the city
limits in different manner from that
of his predecessor. During the past
two years the city has assumed the
entire expense of maintaining a quar-
antine at houses outside of the city
limits where diseases of infection eX-
listed though in reality that expense
should have been borne by the county
authorities. During the past year 30
cases of infection which existed all
the way from several blocks outside
of the city limits to three miles We're
taken care of entirely by the city'S
health department at considerable ex-
pense. The department always offered
as an excuse in the past for such ac-
ton that the position of the city and
county health departments was not
well defined with reference to those
cases and that the county was negli.-
gent in taking care of those cases SO
near the city's-i limits and that as 4
consequence the city had to assume
the expense incident to protecting
itself from the entrance into its limits
of the diseases prevailing on the out
side.
City Physician Hogeboom said to-
day: No sir. We won't take care of
those cases. The laws on that subject
are well defined and all we will do is
to see that the quarantine is enforced
/ by the county within a radius of five
miles as is specified by the statutes.
| The county establishes the quarantine
and assumes the burden of the ex-
pense. We won't do anything of that
kind any more. don't think that we
shall have to call the attention of the
county especially to this change of
policy. they know what the laws are
regarding that subject"
It is evident that the city will be
given an opportunity to retrench on
some of its $4,000 year policy of its
| IaaIfla dana TN ant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18

hospital at Fort Leavenworth on a
charge of acute alcoholism.
Mrs. Taggart. in her answer and
cross petition, says that she has al
ways demeaned herself as a faithful
obedient wife and charges extreme
cruelty and neglect of herself and
children. She alleges that while in
Manila in 1901 her husband struck
her with his fists on two occasions
while drunk. She also charges him
with improper conduct with a native
Filipino woman named Augustine.
Mrs. Taggart alleges that after re-
turning home from a dance at Fort
Leavenworth. to which she had been
escorted by Capt. Poore and Lieut.
FOrtesque at her husbands request
he met her at the door, tore her gown
completely off and beat her savagely.
Mrs. Taggart alleges that her hus-
bands superior officer at Fort Leav-
enworth learned of his conduct and
threatened him with court-Inartial,
and that for a time sentinels We're
placed over him. Counsel for Mrs.
Taggart said that several officers who
have been named by Major Taggart
have signified their intention of com
ing here to testify at the trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
McGovERN A WRECK.
Escapes From sanitarium Keepers
and Returns Home.

Stamford, Conn, April 1s.-Terry Nc
Govern, the pugilist who was brought to
Stamford hall sanitarium, escaped from
a keeper in the afternoon while taking
walk. The keeper followed McGovern,
but was unable to overtake him Word
and a hunt was made for him, and he
was finally located at home. where he is
being cared for by his wife. He win be
kept there about week. when he viii re-
turn to the sanitarium. Immediately af-
ter his escape he boarded a freight train
and came directly to this city.
At his home last night he said after
emerging from the woods and finding that
he had eluded his puFsuers he walked
along the railroad tracks until a freight
train approached. Then he said he put
a large stone on the track. compelling
the engineer to stop. When he did so
MeGovern climbed aboard and explained
his situation. He said he was recognized
by some of the train hands and they per-
Ynitted him to ride.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
WOMEN PULLING WIRES
D. a. r. to Elect a New Head of
Organization Tomorrow.

Washington, April 1S.-Interest of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton today. centered in the prelimi-
nary campaign of the candidates for
president-generaI of the society. Mrs.
George NJ. Sternberg of this city Mrs.
Donald Mclean of New York, and
Mrs. Charles Warren Lippitt of Rhode
Island are the active candidates. The
election viii take place tomorrow.
Active work in support of the candi-
dates was the absorbing feature of
the congress.
Completion of Continental Memorial
hall is figuring prominently in the
campaign, the desire being to elect a
woman who will carry forward
a work begun so auspiciously by
Mrs. Fairbanks, the present president
general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
TWO COLD WAVES IN A WEEK.
Temperature in Northwestern Kansas
Counties Was Down to 10 Degrees.

OOuHlles " as DOWN. 10 10 degrees.
The weekly climate and crop report
for Kansas issued today by Director
Jennings of the weather bureau says:
GENERAL CONDITIONS.
The week has been cool, the tenn
perature ranging below normal, with
two cold waves crossing the state, the
temperature falling to Is degrees
above zero in the northwestern cOun-
ties and to freezing in the eastern.
The precipitation has been light ex-
cept in the extreme northeastern
counties. It was partly snow, with
quite snowstorm night Of the 14th.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Wheat is in very good condition ex-
cept in Brown county. where the fly
appears to have injured it somewhat
Oats show d good stand though the
cool weather has prevented rapid
growth this week. A large acreage of
corn has been planted and more
ground is being prepared for corn
The early planted corn is coming up
in the southern counties. Apples
cherries, pears and plums are in
bloom Peaches were not all killed
in Brown and are in blossom in JEFF
ferson. Strawberries have bloomed
well in the southern counties but are
reported injured by frost in Riley
county. Blackberries appear to have
been winter killed Potatoes are up
in Riley and coming up in Johnson
county. Alfalfa has made good
growth this week. Cattle are doing
well on pasture in the southern coun-
ties. The ground is in fine condition.
MIDDLE DIVISION.
Wheat generally is in very good con-
dition but is now beginning to need rain
/ in several counties; in the southern part
Of Sumner it has not been in very, fair
condition and many fields are now be-
| ing plowed up. Oats are up and give
good promise, though the crop is be-
ginning to need rain in some counties.
/ Barley is up and doing we'll Corn
planting continues in the southern and
I central counties and is beginning in the
northern. Alfalfa is in very good con-
dition Wild grass has made but little
progress during the week, too cold. Po-
/ fatoes are about all planted. and in Nc
| Pherson are coming UP. The ground
generally is in good condition and plOw-
| ing is progressing. Gardens were in
/ jured by the cold weather and it is fear
| ed that fruit has been hurt.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Winter wheat is in fine condition, ex-
cept in the northeast part of Thona:
/ county. A large acreage of oats has
! been soWn and the oats are coming up
/ but some fields have been injured By
the cold. Corn planting and listing arr
progressing in several counties, while
/ in others blowing for corn is in progress
Barley presents a. fine stand. though II
! Thomas it has been injured by the cold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
ATCHIsON BALL PLAYERS.
Earl Green's Team VIII Be Here on
Tomorrow.

President Sheard of the baseball as
ISOLATION has arranged game to be
played in Topeka on Wednesday after
noon between the White Sex and Earl
Green's Atchison Independents. The Toe
peka Yannigans were trounced by a
score of to 0 at the Corntown a week
ago. Atchison has been growing ever
since about it, and the Sox are anxious
to clip their wings.
The game to have been played with
St. Nary's college this afternoon was
called off. What is the use2" is all
the comment Mr.. Sheard thought neces-
sary.
On next Sunday the Kansas City
Thomas Blues are here to play the Sox.
An effort viii be made to bring the
Kansas City Spaulding Blues here Sat
urday. Negotiations are also on to
bring the team from Kansas university
here for a game this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
HOW FOOD WORKS
A Sure Way Out Of Bowel Troubles


So called "septic appendicitis will
often hang on for years. This is caused
by white bread, potatoes and other
forms Of starchy food that the individ-
ual does not properly digest, and it is
useless to attempt to make a permanent
change by any form of drug, for all
drugs wear out and in time refuse
to benefit where the cause of the dis
turbance is not removed.
Septic appendicitis is a general term
for a diseased condition of the bowels
caused from undigested starch, and, as
stated above, it may go on for years;
yet people must have starchy food.
1t is d well esta blished fact among
physicians and individuals who have
made the experiment, that when bowel
disturbances are shown, a change in
food must be made, and that the fam
Gus predigested food-Grape- Nuts-is
the most perfect remedy, for it contains
no medicine of any sort, but 1t is made
up of the selected parts of wheat and
barley in which the starchy part has
that is found in the human intestines
after the Starchy part of the food has
been perfectly dlgested.
When Grape-Nuts food is used in
of starch, the body is supplied with the
necessary elements already in the form
of this sugar (known as Post sugar')
and is therefore ready for immediate
assimilation for the first act of diges-
ton has taken place outside of the body
and during the process of manufacture
Absolute certainty of results can be
depended upon and the disease relieved
by this method.
A prominent Missouri editor tells this
cheerful story:
For three years I suffered from sep
/ tic appendicitis, with all that involves
/ The aid of physicians was inadequate
and the difficulty of finding food thai
would assimilate without great annoy
ance in the region of the vermiform ap-
I pendix was fairly insurmountable unit
I struck Grape-Nuts.
''Grap e-Nuts I relish and digest com.
fortably. They have not only proven
to be most satisfying and nutrition.
food, but they have actually healed my
/ ailment I am. today. after severa
months use of Grape-Nuts. absoluteIs
/ free from any disorder whatever-if
! perfect heaith-and I attribute ny
strength of mind and body to Crane.
/ Nuts" Name given by Postum Co.
j Battle Greek, Mich.
There's a reason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
MooDY's ANSWER TO RAILROADS.
Congress Has Power to Name a Rate
Making Commission.

Washington, April 18.-It is reported
that the attorney general, Mr. Moody.
in an opinion soon to be announced, will
hold that congress, under the constitu-
ton, has authority to delegate the rail-
road ratemaking pOWer to 4 commits
sion. This opinion answers the strong
est argument so far advanced by the
railroad interests against the legislation
suggested in the presidents message.
Senator Elkins, chairman of the SEN
ate committee on interstate commerce,
admits that he has been notified of the
attorney generals view and has with
drawn his contention that q cOnstitu-
tiOnal bar exists against such Iegisla-
ton as was proposed by the Townsend
EsCh bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
CURFEW IS DEAD.
Old Ordinance Repealed With a Dis
senting Vote.

c. K. Holidays ordinance repeating
the old curfew ordinance was passed
unanimously by the council last night.
This viii put a stop to the changing
of the fire bell at a certain hour every
evening. The ordinance has never been
enforced, and the only reminder of its
existence has been the faithful adher-
ence to duty of Fire Marshal Wilmarth.
Councilman Holiday said the. curfeW
is a relic of the times of William the
Conquerer, and the streets and walks
committee endorsed his views by recon-
mending the ordinance for passage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
vANDEGRIFr WILL LEAVE.
Veteran Newspaper Nan to Go Into
Business for Himself.

Fred L. Vandegrift, who, as the
Kansas representative of the Kansas
City Star. has been the dean of To-
peka newspaper correspondents al
most from time immemorial, will
leave the service of the Star on May
1 and 90 into business for himself.
Mr.. Vandegrift viii probably en-
gage in some sort of business in the
oil belt and do newspaper work on
the side. He will be succeeded in
Kansas by Fred Bullene, one Of the
Stars citv force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
as Any COLD NAY TO Cl4T14RRH- PEPCN4 SHOULD
7Ek J7pT ~ EVERY HOalE, - D..

Many people persist in riding on
the street cars, insuHciently protect
ed by clothing.
They start out perhaps. in the heat
Of the day and do not feel the need
The rapid moving of the car cools
--s the body unduly.
Precaution When they board
Better Than the car pe 5i'.5is
Medicine. lley g-.i.-,. are si TSJ 49,
the BODY Is in this condition it is
easily chilled. This is especially true
when a person is sitting.
Beginning a street car ride In the
middle of the day and ending it in the
evening almost invariably requires e11-
ira wraps, but people do not observe
these precautions, hence they catch
cold.
colds are very frequent in the
" Spring on this ac-
Mn Colds count. and as the
in the Summer advances
F2ep5nufror they do not de-
crease. During the
Spring months, no one should think
of riding on the car without being
provided with a. wrap.
A could caught in the Spring is liza
bic to last through the entire Sum
s mer. Great caution
Pe-ru-na should be observed
Prevents at this o II
Colds. against exposure %
fiTsf few pleasant DAYS Of spring. the
liability Of catching cold is great.
No wonder so many people acquire
muscular rheumatism and catarrhal
diseases during this season
However, in spite of the greatest
precautions, colds viii be caught.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
sixty-ninth Kansas Nearly Ready.

The sixty-ninth volume of the Kan
sas supreme court reports has been
printed up to the index. It contains
the work of the supreme court for
April May, June and July, 1904. a
uolstl OF 100 cases When there We're
only three judges on the supreme
bench it was sometimes possible to get
whole years work in a single vol
une of reports. but now the seven
Judges do as much work irf four
months as was formerly done by three
judges in a whole year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
JEROME'S CHARGES.
say j. Morgan smith and Wife We're
Kept Away by Counsel.

New York. April 1S.-District Attor-
ney Jerome by affidavit made the open
charge before Judge Foster in the court
Of general sessions today that J. Nor
gan Smith and his wife Julia, for nine
months were kept out of the jurisdic-
ton of the New York courts by advice
of counsel.
Mr.. jerome said he had this informa-
ton in writing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
SAVE MONEY
aEn

weather. Alfalfa generally is in fine
condition. but in Decatur county it was
injured BY the freeze this week PO-
tatoes are sprouting. Range grass has
started we'll. It is feared that gardens
and fruit trees have been hurt by the
cold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
Mrs. Nation PAYS a Debt.

Kansas City, Kan, April l8.-Mrs.
Carrie A Nation. the Kansas Joint
snasher, has paid off the mortgage on
the home for drunkards' wives which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18

she gave to this city, and tonight she
will attend a meeting of the board of
managers when the mortgage will be
burned The home building will be re-
paired during the summer.