The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-07
WHO CAUSED TROUBLE
Everybody, Save a Few Carriers,
Particularly Capital Carriers,
Want the Seven Day State Jour-
nal Continued.
1t viii Be. You May Count on
That.

There have been pretty lively times
around the State Journal Office lately
but the subscribers are stiH getting
their papers and they win continue to
get them every day and Sunday morn
ing. They will pay ten cents per week
for the seven papers and viii not be
asked to pay ten cents per week for
six papers.
Last evening, just as the paper was
about to come out, a negro deputy
sheriff walked in behind the counter
i'm the State Journal business office
and was Immediately ordered out. He
thrust blue ominous looking doeu-
ment into Mr.. MacLennan's hands and
shouted in loud words, .'I am the dep
uty sheriff" Mr. MaoLennan nut the
paper aside until the issue of the State
Journal was out and until he saw
that subscribers were receiving their
regular evening edition
Later on he discovered that the pa
per was an injunction to restrain him
from selling newspaper routes and the
Injunction had been temporarily
granted.
As Mr. MacLennan has told the car
riers over and over again that he had
meyer sold any routes and does not in
tend to sell any routes, the injunction
Proceedings were somewhat unca1fs4
for. We are not selling anything but
newspapers and advertising. We ara
selling newspapers by wholesale 1T one
cent per copy and by retail at ten cents
Per week, delivered to any part Of To-
peka or to any postoffce or on anv
rural route in the state of Kansas. or
elsewhere.
Look out for tomorrow's Sunday pa
peri
Last week we delivered many copfes
free Tomorrow newsboys may have
them for one cent a copy to sell on
the streets. They should retail them
for five cents each Subscribers NAV
receive the seven papers from the car
rlrers, delivered in any part of the city.
for ten cents per week
The compliments about the SUNDAY
State Journal have been along one line.
"lt is splendid enterprise It is a
splendid paper. Tt is splendid thing
for Topeka. We congratulate the
paper
The women. God bless them have
said the incest things about the paper.
We viii use one expression from one of
the prominent ladies of Topeka. who
seems to voice the general sentiment
among the ladies: Your Sunday pa
per was fine; it was just what we
wanted. We are all delighted with it,
The petitions to Mr.. MacLennan which
were circulated by the carriers to the
subscribers We're not permitted to be
read by Mr. MacLennan. Two parties
brought ND the petition for a few min
utes on yesterday afternoon. but oe-
elined to leave it. No time was given
to examine the names. Mr.. MacLennan
asked that the petition be returned this
morning so that ne could sHe iusl who
signed and whether the names were
fictitious or real, but the carriers said
that their attorneys had told them not
To permit Mr.. MacLennan to see the
petition at this time.
The petition pu-ported to be a re-
quest from the subscribers to sell the
seven papers to the carriers for the
same price they had been paying fol
the six papers. That is not business
and we are in business.
Be careful how you sign petitions
again, Mr.. Subscriber. When you dc
mean it, we may not believe you: as
you have now signed, as many CT YOU
say, something which you lid nor an
delstand when you were signing, and
now repudiate.
The State Journal is doing some
thing tonight which it has made q
habit heretofore not to do-that is, tC
publish compliments about itself from
other papers. There have been SC
many mean, ugly and malicious at.
taeks during the last week made upor
the State Journal and its plans for tbs
betterment of Topeka and this com
munity that we want our readers tC
see a few things that are said by out
--siders. Here are some of them. and
there are scores of others.
Below We give also some interview