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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
CASE FOR GRAND JURY.
Has Been Called to Doodle
Charges.

1t is common talk on the streets and
among the citizens of Topeka that the
railroad lobby and the Standard Oil
lobby are in Topeka with money.
The attention of the grand jury
which is now in session in Topeka has
been called to these charges and
there now seems to be no doubt but
that a number of the lobbyists and
perhaps members of the legislature
who are supposed to be able to shed
information on the subject will be
called before that body.
One of the leading representatives
of the commercial interests of Topeka
and the state of Kansas said to a re-
porter for the State Journal today:
Il have called the attention of the
grand jury to the charges and the
talk of Doodle which are being so
freely circulated. have asked the
who is generally credited as being here
to direct the fight in the legislature
against any measures which will be
detrimental to the great Standard Oil
monopoly.
IF the grand jury will not sub
pOena the necessary witness to Sift
the matter of these charges to the
bottom without a complaint. there will
be no trouble about the complaint.
Not only myself. but q number of
prominent men representing the COM
mercial interests OF the state and rep
resenting the oil producers of the
state, will step forward and make the
complaints which will be necessary to
cause the investigation.
"Of course it is true that it is a, most
difficult matter to fasten the evidence
of guilt in the matter of Doodle upon
any one When transactions of that
kind are made the deal is handled SO
cleverly that it is hard to actually
prove anything.
The only way the public has to
Judge in such matters is by inference. |
BY watching the deliberations of our
lawmakers, it is possible to get a line
on who is who. The grand jury with
should be able, however, to discover
the truth or falsity of such charges"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
A MILLION A MONTH.
Marked Improvement in Revenue Re
ceipts at Manila.

Manila, Feb 4-The customs re
ceipts of the islands for the month of
January were approximately $1,000,-
600 in gold, a decided increase over
the receipts for the month of Decem-
Der. The indications are that during
the succeeding months there viii be in
creases in both fmportatiOns and ex-
portations though the volume of rice
imports viii fall off owing to the
marketing of the home crop.
The increased commercial activity
is satisfactory from the standpoint of
the importer, although the measure
pending in congress for a revision of
the existing tariff tends to make i'm
porters conservative in acquiring new
goods
Great anxiety prevails in the fear
that congress may fail to enact tariff
legislation favorable to the PhiIin-
pines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
Boiler of Another Train Burst
While Passing.
ENGINE CREW KILLED.
Many Passengers Cut andBruised
by the Shock.
Supreme Court Justice of New
York Among the Injured.

Utica, N. Y, Feb. 1.-Two trainmen
lost their lives and a score or more of
passengers were injured in the wreck
on the New York Central railway at
Whitesboro. three miles west of here,
at an early hour today. None OF the
injured were dangerously hurt, their
wounds being mainly cuts and bruises.
The dead are:
JOHN ALLEN, engineer.
JOHN BRENNAN, fireman of the
locomotive on the Western express.
AS this train was passing the Buff
faIo special east bound the boiler OF
the locomotive of the west bound train
exploded. The force of the explosion
and the upheaval of the engine
threw the entire train of 8 cars COM
posing the special from the rails The
west bound train did not leave the
track, but the cars stopped with
suddenness and a shock which threw
the occupants of the berths backward
with great force, in some cases tossing
them out on the floor. An hour or
more was devoted to extricating pass
engerS from the interior of the east
bound sleeping cars, but while many
were found to be cut and bruised no
one was killed.
Among the injured was state Su-
preme Court Justice Warren B. Hooker
of Fredonia. He was severely bruised
Not until assistance came was the
judge able to leave the car, when was
resting on it's right side with its rear
end splintered. Others injured in
cluded the following:
Walter L. Brown and William ):
Robinson of Buffalo, and Robert Wen
and Sydney J. West of New York, aII
were bruised and cut, not seriously.
Dr. Walsh of New York, scalp
wounds and suffering severely from
shock.
Mrs. Bell of Buffalo, wife of super
intendent of Pullman Car company,
arm broken and other injuries. not
dangerous.
From the fact that Fireman Bren-
nan was instantly killed and that En-
erineer5 Allen lived but a few minutes
the cause of the explosion probably
will never be known. Both men lived
in Albany
The strangest feature of the acci-
dent. as it appears to an onlooker,
was that the boiler of the westbound
locomotive was resting midway be-
tween the rails of the eastbound track
at a point where the eastern train had
passed. This suggested the theory to
trainmen that the boiler had struck
the second car of the eaStbound train
as it rushed by at the rate of SO miles
an hour the blow causing all the fol-
lowing cars to be hurled from the
track.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
BEAR STOPS PLAY
Attacks a Theatrical Company
During a Rehearsal.
Bites and Claws Performers
Causing Stampede.

New York, Feb. 4.-Escaping from
a room in the new Colonial theatre a
bear early today, during a rehearsal
preparatory to the opening of the
theatre tonight rushed on the stage,
attacked several of the performers,
and before he was overcome had so
severely bitten and clawed several of
them that they had to be taken to
their homes.
Miss Libbey Blondell and Junie Nc
Cree were the most severely injured.
AS the bear rushed onto the stage ne
struck Miss Blondell and knocked her
down. When she fell the bear rolled
over her and, enraged by her screams
and attempts to free herself, struck
out savagely at her.
McCree secured the brute and tried
to drag it, away from the actress, but
his strength was not sufficient and he,
too, was bitten and deep gashes were
cut in his arms and legs by the bear S
claws. So terrified were the chorus
girls on the stage that many of them
leaped over the footlights into the
orchestra. Stage hands and men of
the company secured ropes and made
a prisoner of the bear.
The bear was to be used in a wrest-
ling act and was thought to be safely
in the cage. Owing to the injuries sus-
tanned by the principal members of
the company, the theater will not be
opened until next week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04

tect ourselves against such methods,
but by having the state repeat the lick
ing they gave the tWine trust and
saved the farmer hundreds of thou
sands of dollars for the state, in addi-
ton When this was done, no one said
it was socialism. The hirelings of the
Standard trust are bowling that the
state and Republican party are going
to Populisn and Socialism. Why do
they want this doctrine believed? Be
cause if the state asserts its rights to
protect its citizens and builds a refin-
cry. the enormous profit and the wide
pay the people for its crude oil and
what the people pay them for the re-
fined product will be exposed. Why let
the Socialist bugbear cry, raised by
politicians and trust lieutenants. inter
fere with justice being done to all the
people.
Bear in mind one truth that is be-
yond contradiction. The Standard Oil
trust is the only purchaser Of crude oil
in Kansas. It is also the only seller
of refined oil. If it's such a poor thing
for the state, unsafe and dangerous,
why is Topeka full of high-priced re-
tainerS and lobbyists in the employ of
this trust. Why is the dividing line so
ing a retainer fee? to look after the in
terests of the Standard Oil company.
The people of Kansas, the plain, every
day people, the ones who work and in
vest their savings in Internal industries,
are asking for laws to protect them and
for the saving of the state from the
grinding heel of a selfish monopoly.
THE KANSAS OIL PRODUCERS AS
ISOLATION.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
WILL PAT QUIT?
RumOr That Russian COM
mander is to Retire.
Would Turn His Armies Over to
Gen. Linevitch.
Fighting Has Been Resumed
Say Cars Reports.

st. Petersburg, Feb. As p. m.-Ru-
mors Of General Kuropatkin handing
over his command to General Linevitch
Commander of the first army have
been current in St. Petersburg since the
announcement that General Grippen-
berg had been relieved of his command
of the second army. The Associated
Press is unable to obtain any confirm
alton of the representatives. The war
office declares they are improbable but
is unable to deny them.
A distinguished general told the AS
sociated Press that evidently there had
been friction between General kuro-
patIxin and General Grippenberg and
added:
I have heard a great deal of talk
about Kuropatkin's asking to be re
lieved but nothing positive can be said
on the subject at present"
There are two conflicting. versions of
the incident. According to one of them
General Grippenberg complained to the
emperor that General Kuropatkin had
refused to support his hanking move
ment, in view of which Grippenberg
asked to be relieved. The emperor, it
is added, then telegraphed to Kuropat-
kin asking for an explanation in reply
to which Kuropatkin wired that his
health was shattered and requested per-
mission to turn over his command to
General Linevitch.
commonly credited version Of the affair
Kuropa tkin complained to the emperor
that Grippenberg undertook the flank
ing movement in defiance of orders and
demanded the generals dismissal
The hope is generally expressed that
the incident viii be satisfactorily ad-
justed as 1t is realized on all sides that
Kuropatkin's departure from the front
would prove a. severe blow to hopes of
victory in the near future.
Grippenberg's withdrawal has not
changed the situation. The Russians
continue to hold their positions around
Sandepass.
Russians Gain One.
st. Petersburg, Feb. General Ku-
ropat1in telegra phing under date of
February 8, to Emperor Nicholas said
THE village of Chautandhenau has
been completely occupied by our troops
after a fight at o'clock this morning.
We reconnitered the villages of Fan
shen and Pudzova occupied by the
enemy and after several volleys the
sharp shooters entered Fanchen and
shot and bayonetted many japanese
THE latter were reinforced and at
tackled the sharpshooters who retired
carrying off their dead or wounded.
ION our right flank the japanese left
a hundred corpses of which number we
buried ST.
An Artillery Fight
Russian Headquarters, Huan Noun
tain, ManchuTia, Friday, Feb. 3.-De-
layed in transmission-The artillery en-
gagement has been resumed on the
Russian right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
OIL MEMS ADDRESS.
Appeal for the Establishment of State
Refinery.

The Kansas Oil Producers associa-
ton has issued an address to the peo-
pie of Kansas urging them to StanQ
pat for a state oil refinery.
1t is doubtful whether the house
will stand for the state refinery idea.
Beekrnan, chairman of the gas and
oil committee, is openly fighting the
plan. Brandon is opposed to It. Mead
is opposed to it. Stubbs is opposed to
it Creech is opposed to it There
are mighty few of the leaders in the
house who will say a good word for It,
But there are a lot of the common
members who want the state to estab-
lish the refinery. The trouble is tnat
these are easily stampeded when they
see their bosses all going the other
The following is the address issued
by the Oil Producers association:
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 3.-There is
probably not a town or hamlet in the
state whose inhabitants are not dl-
rectIy or indirectly interested in oil,
either crude or refined. In this state,
within the past two years, has been
discovered and opened up an oil Held
so wonderfully productive that it has
attracted the greed of one of the larg-
est. in fact the father of all trusts, the
Standard Oil trust. The people were
encouraged to open UP their industry
and just when they had commenced
to realize the magnitude and posslblh-
ties of their find. this trust put its
mailed hand upon it and stefnly de-
mands all the proceeds. The people,
who are the producers of the crude
petroleum, and nearly every person,
rich or poor, have some interest either
in stock com panies or in small part
nerships, have appealed to the highest
authorities of the state for protection.
asking that they be allowed to dispose
of what their energies have discovered
and obtain a just and fair remunera-
ton for the same As individuals We
cannot compete against this perfectly
organized trust. with its far-reac ching
power. Even transportation COM
panies are denied the right to trans
port our product to a desirable and
ready market.
The people of the state, who are tn
consumers, are compelled to buy from
the trusts and the producers are for
their product. We are asking that
this great state take charge of its own
interests, which are the interests OF
every farmer, mechanic, clerk and
user of oil in any of it's many FORMS
This great trust, when legislative |
laws are proposed to protect the peo- i
pies interests, drops the price of kero- |
sene, in this state, in ten days, four /
cents per gallon, making the price the |
lowest it has ever been here, for the |
purpose of influencing the consumers Of /
the same against any agitation against |
them. This reduction alone, continued |
a year would save the consumers over
four hundred thousand dollars. In re- /
ality this is a bribe to quiet the public /
feeling against them As soon as the |
danger of restrictive legislation is past /
the price of kerosene will at once go up Il
and crude oil go down. How can we pro- I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
END OF ICE WAR.
Seymour & Co. Sell out to Peoples
Company.

Seymour & Co. have discontinued
their retail ice trade and disposed of
the same to the Peoples Ice company.
This is the closing chapter of the ice
war which was inaugurated the latter
part of last year and Wnfcn has con-
tinued up until a few weeks ago.
Ice was sold in large lots as low as
10 cents per 100 pounds to butchers,
the rate now changing to the normal
figure of 20 cents per 100. Seymour
& Co. were one of the companies in
strumental in bringing an active fight
about in the rate cut and commenced
to swing into the retail trade with de-
livery wagons.
1t is probable therefore that the
same era of prices will be scheduled
for this summer as obtained previous
to the establishment of the cut rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
No Hope Of Decided Change for
Next 36 Hours.
Wave Has Spread Over Great
Portion of the Country.
HEAVY RAINFALL.
A Years DOwnpOur in 60 Hours
in Southwest.
Temperature Reaches % Below
at NOrfOrk, Neb.

Washington, Feb. 4.-The reports
to the weather bureau show some
very unusual meteorological condi-
tions throughout the country, particu-
larly the development of an abnor-
NAL cold spell in the north central
states, despite the absence of any gem
eraI storm. and this extreme cold has
spread through most of the United
States during the past four days. A
great contrast also has developed be-
tween the two sides of the Rocky
mountains. West of that range rains
have developed to a remarkable de-
gree. The semi-arid regions of Ari-
zona and southern California have
been visited with almost as much rain
in the last sixty hours as they oroi-
nartly receive in a year. The coldest
weather of the winter has prevailed
in the central and eastern districts
and in the last "a hours the snow and
sleet has extended almost to the coast
line of the east gulf and South At
lantic states. The forecasts do not in
dicate any decided change to warmer
weather during the next 36 hours.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 4.-The severe
cold of the last few days in Nebraska
shows little sign of abatement today.
reading at the weather bureau this
morning. At Norfolk, in the central
part of the state, 27 degrees below is
Woods Hole, Mass, Feb. 4.-Vine-
yard sound is entirely frozen over fer
the first time within the memory Of
the residents of this section. Ice has
filled the harbor at Vineyard Haven,
the great sheltered port of the island
of Martha's Vineyard, for a number
of days and today solid sheet of ice
stretches for miles from the island.
Kansas City. Mo-, Feb. 4.-Th1
weather today in Missouri and Kansas
had moderated while lower tempera-
lures were recorded in Oklahoma, In
dian Territory and Arkansas and Tex
as While the temperature at Kansas
City was degrees below zero and at
Concordia, Kan, II below early today,
1t had risen several degrees by noon,
with prospects Of still warmer wealth
er by Sunday. Oklahoma City report
ed zero weather, Fort Smith, Ark. II
above zero, Little Rock above and
Abilene, Texas, above zero.
Superior, Wis, Feb. 4.-The back
bone of the cold wave which held the
head of the lakes in relentless grip
for sixty hours seems to have been
broken. The temperature remained
stationary at 5 below zero throughout
the night and today the local forecas-
ter announced that the rise in the
mercury probably would continue
during the next "a hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
POLICEMEN WIN A SUIT.
Jury Quickly Decides for Officers in
$4,000 Damage Case.

In the Shawnee county district court
this afternoon the jury returned verdict
for the defendants in the case of Nancy J.
Bishop against Police Officers Hutton and
Small for $500.
The plaintif preferred a charge Of false
Imprisonment in her complaint. She Hyvs
in North Topeka and on January 10. 1904,
according TO the testimony, she quarreled
with her daughter, Mrs A NJ. Olson.
Considerable noise was made and at
tracted the neighbors. Officers Hutton
and Small were called and arrested Mrs.
Bishop. She was detained for a short
time at the station in Police Matron
ThOrpe's quarters.
1t took the jury just five minutes to de-
clare for she Offices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
Gets Another shortstop.

Captain Abbott of the Saints today
announced the signing of another
shortstop, James Boylan of the Kitty
league, which translated is the
Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee
league. Boylan has a batting record
of .265. and fielded .946 last year.
President Shiveley today notified the
local management that Pug Owens,
James Reagan and A H. Depray had
been engaged On the umpire staff for
the Western association next year.
Reagan and Owens worked for Shive-
ley last summer. Depray was with the
Pacific National league in 1904.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
TRAIN IS ICE BOUND.
The Cotton Belt Passenger in River
Transfer With 200 Aboard

Cairo, Ill. Feb. A Cotton Belt pas
senger train from Newport, Ark, Win Win
200 passengers is on board the Dig
transfer boat Henry Marquand III
front of this city in the middle of the
Ohio river unable to land. The boat
has been fighting the ice for seVeIal
hours, but can make no headway.
Never in its history has the Ohio been
so full of ice and river men say it will
be frozen over by morning.
Many factories and mills are closed
down on account of the cold and hum
dreds of laboring men are out of en-
pIoyment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
A BAD WRECK.
c., H. s. D. Passenger Ditched at
FindIay Causes Death and Injuries.

Findlay, O., Feb. 4.-Running at the rate
of 50 miles an hour a north bound Cincin-
natl, Hamilton and Dayton passenger
Florence Frazier of Sidney, O., was killed.
Miss Garrett of Deshler fatally injured
and more than a dozen other persons
hurt The dining and sleeping cars were
hurled, shattered wrecks, 20 reet east of
the track while the locomotive and the
other coaches renamed on the rails. So
tightly had Mrs. Frazier been wedged in
the window of the dining car that it was
necessary to cut the body loose. Each of
the coaches cut off telegraph poles ten
feet high, showing that the cars had been
forced through the air 20 feet at that
height before alighting. After that they
rolled over sever p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
l3 BELOW ZERO.
Another Extremely Cold Morning But
It Soon NIoderates.

Though the temperature this morn
ing was great deal lower than that
of Friday morning the general impress
sion was prevalent that it was not so
sold. Friday morning the lowest min
imum temperature reading was be-
low at $3.50 in the morning while at
$40 this morning the therm mometer
stood at 8 below for the minimum.
Slight fiurries of snow came down
during the various parts of the day.
but not noticeable to any extent until
at , o'clock this afternoon.
The following are the hourly tenn
perature readings recorded at the To-
cal United States weather bureau:
Z o'clock IL belowl11 o'clock below
5 o'clock u belowl12 o'clock Z above
9 o'clock 13 below l o'clock 9 above
10 o'clock 6 below 2 o'clock 3 above
The wind at o'clock was from the
northeast. blowing at a rate of seven
miles per hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
CITY IN PANIC.
Inhabitants Barricade Their
Doors and Windows.

Warsaw, Feb. 4.-Reports from
Czestochowa, Russian Poland, say
that city is in a state of panic. The
inhabitants are barricading their doors
and windows in consequence of the at
titude of the strikers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
No Inducements Returned.

The Shawnee county grand jury was
in session The entire day. No indict-
ments have yet been returned and
io1,Tn,,,a1,+ ~ Altogether 100 witnesses
IN ro,1nd numbers have been sub
poenaed. A licuor case from Willard
occupiej the attention of the jurymen
the ma aior share of the morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04
TOPEKA WON BOTH.
High School Basketball Players Vic
toriOus at HoIton.

The girls basketball team Of the Topeka
high school defeated the girls team of the
Holton (Kan.) nigh school at Holton last
night by a score OF 2S to L.
The boys of the Topeka high school also
defeated the boys Of the HOlton high
school by q score of 81 to Z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04

vides the method of letting contracts
for supplies by bids, and pro-
hibits a member of the board from
receiving any gifts. The board has the
right to fix the salaries of all employees,
except those fixed by law
The officers of institutions who re-
ceive food for their families are re-
quired to use the same food as pro-
vided for inmates.
the board of control shall visit each
institution at least once each month,
without notice of the time of his COM
ing.
The official title of the bill is as fol-
lows:
An act, to create a board of trus-
tees to be known as a state board of
control and to provide for the man
agement and control of the industrial
feeble minded youth, the Osawatomie
state hospital, the Parsons state hos
pital, the Topeka state hospital, the
state reform school, the school for the
blind, the school for the deaf the
Soldiers Orphans home, and such
other charitable institutions as now
exist or which may hereafter be
created; Providing for the compensa-
ton of said board of control, and re-
pealing sections 6521, 6523 1924,
6525, 6526, 6527, 6528. 6529, $3.50,
6531, 65S2, $3.50, 6534, 6535, $685.,
65S7, 6538, 6539, 6540, 6541, 6542,
e54s, 6544, 6545, 6546' 6S47' 6S4S'
6549, $3.50, 6551, 6552, $3.50, 1854
6555, 6556, 6557, 655S, $3.50, $3.50,
6561, 6562, 6563, 1854, 6565 6566
6567, 1868, of the general statutes of
Kansas of 1901, and all acts and parts
of acts in conflict herewith.
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Temperatures in Large Cit,es

Chicago, Feb A. a m. tempera-
lures; New York. Philadelphia. and
Chicago. u; Cincinnati and Washins-
ton, s; Boston, 4 Minneapolis. 10 he
low; st. Louis, 4.