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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

He was a Philadelphia lawyer who
had business in a village up the state q
few days ago, and when night came he
dropped into the village drug store to
hear the gossip. A dozen or more loung-
ers soon gathered and began to talk
about the weather and the state of the
Thermometer. The first one started off
by remarking that his Thermometer
marked five below zero. The second
went him two degrees better, and the
thing went on until one old fellow OBJ
served:
WAL, boys, I expect my house is
rather more exposed to the cold than
any of the rest, for when I left home
the cold was marking 20 below. Yes,
sir, she was right on the mark
Il am here to buy thermometers,
said the lawyer, land you seem to have
Just the kind want. I don't suppose
any of you paid over 80 cents for your
instruments, but III give each one of
you IS. Let me have them this evening.
please.''
wen, then, I'll make it 80" said the
lawyer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
PosTsfAsTEBs IN POLITICS.
Mr.. CorteIyou VIII Tell You Where
You Stand.

Washington, April 22.-Explicit in
Quiry from the Republican organization
of Pennsylvania as to the extent TO
which postmasters may be identified in
party politics is said to have led Post
master General Cortelyou to decide to
prumulgate a definite ruling on that
question, which will be issued to post
masters throughout the country within
the next few days. This ruling. it is
understood, will stipulate that post
masters may act as delegates to party
conventions, local and national, but
that they may not serve as ehalrmen
of county central committees, or occu-
py similar positions in the party or
ganization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

There was a stunning of feet and a
hitching around, but no one closed with
the offer
Then make it $40"
There was an embarrassing silence,
and then the old man who had told the
last lie spoke up and said:
Stranger, where you from?'
Philadelphia"
tAnd what's your manner"
Snyder"
'I thought So Nobody but man
named Snyder from Philadelphia would
come along here and bluff around and
expose the fact that there amt a durn-
ed thermometer in this town, and that
we are all a pack OF cold weather liars!"
M. Quad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
GAMMA SIGMA VICTORIOUS.
This Society Wins Over the w. c. L.
S. In the Academic Debate.

The first academic debate between the
members OF the Washburn College Lit
erary society and the Gamma Sigma
Literary society, both of Washburn
college. resulted in a victory for the
latter.
The question debated was. Resolved,
That the determination not to hold ter
ritory permanently unless with the in
tention of its ultimately being admitted
to statehood. should be the policy of
the United States.
The Washburn College Literary sOcie-
ty upheld the affirmative and was rep
resented by Mr.. Ayers, Mr.. Welding
and Mr.. Popenoe.
The Gamma Sigma Literary society
WAS represented by Mr. Rooms, Mr..
Ulrich and Mr.. Crane.
The judges were superintendent L H
Whittemore, Mr.. R. B. Gilluly and Mr..
Geo. H. Whitcomb.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
How TOpeka's System Has Been
ReVOlutiOnized.
Company Has Spent Close to a
Million Dollars.
PLACE FOR THE MEN.
New Club House With Baths
and Billiard Tables.
Up-tO-Date Machine Shops Are a
Feature.
Bridge Across Kansas Avenue Is
Nearing Completion.

Residents who lived here 1--WE and
six years ago viii remember without a
great deal of effort the street car sys-
tenn in vogue at that time. 1t was
an apology of a system and the worst
sort of an apology. 1t was a standing
coke among all of the newspapers
over the state and the particular bug
aboo which confronted the suburban
Ste who was compelled to take the car
in order to get down to his work in
the morning. It was always a great
matter of speculation, however,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

you didn't have very far to fall.
sonny said the pedestrian to the small
boy who had fallen down on an icy
spot and got UP crying.
mo, sir. I know I didn't"
s-Then you couldn't have hurt your
self much"
mo, sir I hain't cryin' because I'm
hurt
what for, them"
because Pm in love with that little
girl over there. and she seen me take
the tumbIelr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
alagas Of Bats Nearly wsrpsa ont

Since Stearns' Electric Rat and
Roach Paste has been recommended
by the dealers of this city, there has
been a great decrease in the rat and
mice family. 500 reward is offered
to any one who uses Stearns' Electric
Paste and does not find it successful
IN killing off mice, rats. water bugs.
devoured by rats mice, cockroaches
and all vernin. It is sure death. and
gives universal satisfaction. especiaIiv
as the rats and mice do not die in the
mouse If you cannot obtain this
Paste of your druggist, it will be senf
express prepaid on receipt of price Nv
the Stearns' Electric Paste Co, chi
eago, Ill, u S. A. Small size. csc.
aotsl size, eight times the quantity,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
SAVED BY Rain.
Ward & Co. Warehouse Was Marked
for Destruction.

Chicago, April 22.-Ten witnesses
were summoned to testify before the
grand jury. What is believed to have
been an attempt to blow I'D one of
Montgomery Ward & Co.'S ware
houses was thwarted by a heavy rain
fall. Today a small bomb or dyna-
mite cartridge was discovered in a
pool of water in the rear of the ware
house. The bomb is three inches
long, more than an inch in diameter
and weighs nearly half a pound. 1t
has COPPER caps on each end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
SUES FOR $4,000 DAMAGES.
independence Boy Claims Santa Fe
Crippled Him for Life.

independence, Kan, April ga
suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed against the Santa Fe Railway
company by Glen 3. Edminston
through his first friend, Thomas Ed
Winston Glen Edminston is a minor.
s years Of age On the 10th of April,
1902, while playing on a trestle at
Coffeyville used by the Santa F'e for
switching purposes he was run over by
a switch engine and his left leg sew
cred between the knee and ankle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
ED. WOODRUFF DEAD.
Wen Known Travelling Man Victim of
Bright's Disease.

Ed R. Woodruff, who has been in
the employ of the Hall LithOgraphing
company for Is years, died this morn
ing of Bright's disease at his home,
1920 Jackson street.
Mr.. Woodruff has been confined to
his bed for three weeks He was one
of the best known travelling men in
Kansas.
The funeral service will be held at
the family residence, 1920 Jackson,
Monday at $3.50 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

-~---~~~~-~~-~-~O----~-
ADHESIVE, invisible, harmless, Satin skin
powder is made In alluring tints. Csc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
HoNoRs FOR FATHER THEN.
Wichita Priest Appointed Chamber
lain to PONG Plus

Wichita. Kan. April z2-Father John
Henry Then, In charge of the bro-Ca-
thedral parish of the Catholic church to-
day received notice from Rome of his APP
The office carries with it the honorary IL
tie Of monsignor and it is conferred for
distinguished services in the cause Of
Catholicism. The recent visit to Rome
Of Right Rev. Bishop Hennessy of the
Wichita diocese, is responsible for the ap-
pointment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22
LOCAL MENTION.

]. r. Kline is very sick at his home,
1924 West street, with an attack of ST.
ATTIC rheumatism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

Standard Reduces Price OF Refined.
Cleveland, O.; April 22.-The STANDARD
of a half cent a gallon on all grades OF
refined OIL No change is made in quota
tons on pahtha. or gasoline
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

Even on the sea of matrimony lots
Of people are obliged to travel second
class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

For restoring
the stomach to
it's normal con
d tiOn OF to
overcome I n a t
tired feeling SO
prevalent in
the Spring the
Bitters should
be your first
C n &c G. It
never fails in
cases of
SDring Fever,
General
Debility.
Impure Blood.
Indigestion.
Dyspepsia.
COStlveness or
Malarial Fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

rect railway Bridge kansas River winch VIM
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
DULY MUTUALIzES
Equitable Life Stockholders
Take the Saddle

NEW YORK, March 21.-A plan for
the gradual admission of the policy
holders of the Equitable Life assurance
society to share in the control of its
affairs was adopted by the directors
today. The plan provides for an
amendment TO the charter so that
% of the so directors shall at the ex-
piration of four years have been elect
ed by the policy holders and the re-
naming "a by the stockholders. I'm
der the new plan of the 13 directors
annually elected will be chosen by the
policy holders and by the stock
holders. The new method of control
will thereafter become effective after
four years.
The adoption of this plan is the out
come of an agitation by President
James w. Alexander and others for the
naturalization of the society which be-
gan several weeks ago. Mr. Alexander
pointed out that the control of the So
ciety rested in 100000 stock capital, a
majority of which was under the con-
troll of James H. Hyde, the vice presi-
dent, and that such a power in the
nahds OF one man was fraught with
oanger: The board of directors voted
on tep. 16 that the policy holders
should be given right to vote for ffi
rectors and appointed committee of
seven directors to arrange the details.
The committee was composed of .Valen-
tine r. Snyder, James w. Alexander
James III. Hyde, Gage z. Tarbell. Cor
nellus N. Bliss, T. Dewitt, Cuyler and
Chauncey M. Depew, and the commit
tee today reported the plan which was
adopted by the directors, together With
the amended charter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
FREE TRADERS WAX
MOST HILARIOUS
Claim BaIfour Has Virtually
Deserted Chamberlain and
His Policy

LONDON, March 21.-The cabinet
meeting today discussed the fiscal sit
uation in the house of commons and
decided that the government will not
use pressure upon its followers in re-
gard to the opposition's resolutions
framed to commit the government on
the fiscal question. AS a result the res
olution announced for the night ses-
sion of March %, expressing the oppo-
sitlon OF the house TO a tax on i'm
ported manufactured articles will prob
ably be carried by comfortable ma
tority, but the opposition will be un-
able to reap more than ain indirect po-
iitieal benefit
The decision of the cabinet was
backed up by Joseph Chamberlain's
followers tonight when at meeting of
unionist tariff reformers 1t was de-
cided not to participate in the debates
or divisions on the resolution the vote
on which will, however, be interesting
because 1t will be "go as you please"
The government having decided that
the fiscal question is not a critical
party issue, whips will not be sent out.
A majority for the resolution will not
be considered defeat for the govern
ment.
This move on the part of Premier
Balfour is the political sensation of the
hour and is being hailed with great joy
by free traders, who claim that 1t is a
definite desertion of Mr.. Chamberlain
by his former cabinet associates.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
SKULL HAUNTS. HER
Des Moines Woman Has Creepy
Experiences

Special to The Globe
+ DES MONIES, Ia, March 81. -
Aroused to a pitch of nervous excite
ment by groans she thought enanated
nightly from her cellar, Mrs. Mary
Francis OF this city started to give the
cellar a thorough cleaning. She scraped
her hoe against some object protruding
from the earthen floor. She pulled Wig
orousIy and dislodged human skull.
After her momentary fright had passed
she dislodged a number of bones of the
human body. including vertabrae. The
skull and bones We're thrown out in the
back yard.
did you ever have a skull haunt
you?" said Mrs. Francis. We'll, this
4 one haunted me and seemed TO have a
will of its own. 1t didn't act as though
1t cared to stay. in the yard. On the
contrary. something impelled me TO go
TO Ii and every time looked at 1T I
felt something whisper to me to bury
il again quickly in the cellar. Finally
l decided TO do this and there in my
+ cellar the bones are resting. No more
/. groans seem To rise from the base
ment and il there be spirits with bones
this one Is now at rest. Now we joke
and laugh about the man in the cellar
and believe we have protector with
US always.
The only solution for the mystery
yet advanced is that the skeleton was
buried there by a medical student who
roomed In the house some years ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

considered properly attlred after that
IL he were not neatly gloved. Her en-
tertainments We're ever novel and ele-
CANT and took rank before those of any
other American woman in Paris. She
received the homage of men as a mat
ter of course and continued upon her
joyous way unmoved until the earl of
Rosslyn declared himself
Just how she happened to succumb
to his entreaties the dispatch does not
tell, but those who have interestedly
followed her variegated career since
she departed from Minneapolis wisely
shake their heads and declare that
there's some romance back of the sud-
den marriage.
He's Picturesque Lord
He is James Francis Harry St Clair
Erskine, the fifth earl of Rosslyn and
member of one of the Oldest English
families. He saw a bit of the Boer war
as a correspondent for the London
Daily Mail and from 1880 TO 1897 he
was captain of the Fife horse guards.
At the present time he is editor of
the Scottish Life.
But his fame does not rest with his
military or literary achievements. Prin-
cipally IL is with his exploits on the
stage, where he appeared for several
years under the name of James Frs
kline. imbued with an ambition to make
a lasting name for himself. He was
then, as his wife has ever been, quite a
fad in a manner. He might have made
money in the profession IL he had not
Continued on Fifth Page
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
THE NEWS lNDExED
PAGE I

PAGE
Hog in Control of Sewer
Senators Sore at President
Manitoba Watches Smuuuiers
Setback for Joseph Chamberlain
Commercial Club Plans Auditorium
PAGE N
Farmers Exchange Convention
PAGE III
News of the Northwest
Minneapolis Matters
PAGE Nv
Editorial Comment
President on Canal Commission
PAGE v
In the World of Sport -
PAGE VI
Hartmann Inquest Today
Erie Official Discusses Rate REGULATION
News of the Railroads
PAGE Vii
Of Interest to Women
PAGE Viii
Commercial and Financial
PAGE TX
Paying Wants
Legislature
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
LORD ROssIYN AND HIS BRIDE

her. but she ultimately rejecter him.
After this she declared her inten-
tion of retiring from the stage and she
was as good as her word. She went to
Paris to live. -remarking: In New York
they step on your toes in the street
cars or drunken cabbies drive you TO
the wrong street. Here In Paris counts
and barons pelt you with diamonds
and flowers. / am going to stay in
Paris"
Her statement was right concerning
the pelting proclivities OF the counts
and others. She became known as La
Belle Americana" one of the best
dressed women i'm Europe, the possess
sor of pint of diamonds, a regiment
of rejected suitors and another regi-
ment of suitors still dangling in the
air of beautiful uncertainty. They
were such characters as the duke of
Manchester and the comte de Gauetz.
Cracked the Bank, Too
She took trip to Monte Carlo and
the croupiers there still shiver, ,involun-
tarily, at the mention of her name, for
she came the nearest that any woman
ever did of carrying the bank roll OF
the institution back TO Paris with her
In May, 1901, she fell off the yacht of
a noble admirer in which she was
cruising in the bay OF Nice. The noble
admirer Immediately plunged into the
water after her and rescued her. A
little later she refused his earnest plea
for her hand in marriage. s
Her fads became the fad OF faddish
Europe. She put gloves on her poodle
and no poodle on the continent was
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
directors of Commercial Club Take
First Real Step in Attempt to
Secure Mammoth Hall for St. Paul
---Ways and Means Will Be Dis
cussed at Second Meeting, and
Mass Meeting to Sound Sentiment
OF Representative Citizens Is Pro-
posed

The first real development In the
plan to secure an auditorium for. st.
Paul was. taken last night at the big
gest meeting Of the directorate of the
Commercial club since ii was formed.
Four plans were considered, each diff
fering from the other in some material
particular. but the one that attracted
the most attention was the first sub
mitted TO the meeting.
This was to build a giant building to
accommodate four of the semi public
organizations of st. Paul and the great
convention hall.
II was proposed that the Commercial
club. the public library, the Masonic
temple and the Y. NJ. c. A. be brought
under one colossal roof which would
also cover the auditorium.
The committee that has been consid-
ering this plan showed that there was
about s2S0.000 in the treasures of the
four organizations for the specific pur-
pose of building homes for them. 1t
was suggested that this be used.
The plan cortemplates a building
covering whole square of ground.
The building, according to the ideas
outlined last night to be rectangular
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

New York city to begin their stage ca
reers. Both were immediate successes,
but with her greater beauty and pow
ers for acting, Miss Anna soon out
shone her less brilliant sister to such
an extent that relationship with the
reigning beauty soon became Miss
Margarets premier claim on fame.
Miss Robinson appeared in st. Paul
several times, first with the Lift stock
company atlthe Grand, later with va
rious of the Hoyt farces, where she
succeeded TO the leading roles made va
cant by the death of Caroline Miskel
Hoyt Her last appearance here was
with F'rohman's Shenandoah
Had Many Suitors
Shortly after her return to New
York she departed for Europe to play
a long engagement In London town.
But long before her departure from
this country she had come TO be known
as well for the attention which she at
tracted among well known men of the
country as for her art. Among the
suitors for her hand had come Stewart
NJ. Brice, son of the late senator from
Ohio.
In London she became on the instant
the reigning belle of the stage. Titled
and wealthy men were suppliants be-
fore the altar of her beauty King
Leopold, the roguish old ruler of the
Belgians, was in London and the
transatlantic cables were fairly burned
up in telling America of the ardent
court which he paid her. He rained
diamonds and bouquets, and atten-
tions, and proposals of marriage on
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
FUNERAL PARTY IS
WRECKED ON TROLLEY
Aged Man Returning From Wife's Blu
rial Is Among the Fatally Hurt

LANCASTER. Pa, March 21.-while
descending a steep hill on the Lancas-
ter q Southern railway, near Martin
Forge, twenty miles south of this city,
this afternoon, trolley car bearing
funeral party got beyond control of
te motorman and was wrecked against
a embankment at the foot of the hill.
Not one of the twenty-one persons
aboard escaped injury. Thomas Cum
mings, aged so. whose wife had Just
been buried, was so badly injured that
he will die. The injuries of several
others are serious. The car had borne
the party from this city 10 a cemetery
at Mount Nebo church and was re-
turning when the accident occurred.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
BATTLE OVER SETH
BULLOCK is NEAR
Senate's Latest Rebellion
Against the President Bids
Fair to Break Loose
Globe Special Washington Service
~


WASHINGTON. March 21.-Strained
relations are likely to result between
President Roosevelt and the South Da-
kota senators and representatives if
the president persists in his intimated
intention to appoint Capt. Seth Bullock
as successor to Marshal Kennedy of
South Dakota. 1t is not so much any
objection to Bullock personally as it is
the principle of the thing that has
stirred up the delegation.
In this as other states the members
of congress think the president is too
little disposed to consult with senators
in matters of appointment. OF late it
has become quite customary for sena-
tors to pick men for positions like
these, and the appointing is a mere for
mality amounting to acquiesence by
the president in the choice of the sena :
tors. Mr.. Roosevelt is disposed to pick
up old friends and land them in good
places without asking leave of the SEN
ate.
1t is only question of time when the
latent rebellion Of the senators will
break loose. for they declare under their
breath that they do not propose to give
up patronage without struggle.
Walter Z. Clark
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

ST. PETERSBURG, March 21.-Gen
Kuropatkin has been appointed COM
mander Of the first Manchurian army.
He is considered by many, in spite of
his reverses, the best general and fore
most strategist of the Russian army.
Sinking all feeling of personal bitter
ness because of his supersession and
all the oldtime enmity between himself
and Gen. Linevitch in a patriotic desire
to be of service to the fatherland, the
former commander in chief volunteered
to remain in ary capacity with the
army which he had SO long commanded.
The tender has been accented by EN-
peror Nicholas and gratefully received
by the new leader of the army. The
change exactly reverses the old order
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

and oblong. In each corner of the build
Ing one of the organizations could be
located and in the center q giant au-
ditorium TO be placed.
Have City Donate Park
The second plan was to press upon
the city the advantage that would fol-
low the donation of Rice or Smith park
as the site OF building to be erected
by public subscription, and to be used
solely as convention hall.
The third was for the Commercial
club to build suitable structure, the
upper floors of which could be used as
the home of the club and the ground
floor for large auditorium.
The fourth plan under discussion last
night was based on a proposition of
Probate Judge F.. w. Bazille, who Of
fered to the auditorium all or as much
as was deemed necessary by the COM
mittee of the old state capitol lot as
site for the auditorium in case the
contention of the Bazille heirs that the
property should revert to them is sus-
tanned The lot upon which the cap
itol stands was given to the territory
of Minnesota by an ancestor of Judge
Bazille with the single condition at
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