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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
WILL BUY 1T ANY WAY.
Kansas Bound to Have Silver Service
for Her BattIeship.

1t was decided by the executive
council of the state today that Kansas
shall go ahead and buy the silver
service for the battleship Kansas, even
If it has to ask the silver manufac-
turers to wait until the next session of
the legislature for the pay.
Governor Hoch brought up the
matter. He said, Some question has
been raised about the right of the ex-
ecutive council to purchase this silver
service. We would certainly be a lot
of jays if we did not respond to the
honor which the government has con-
ferred upon u.s.
There is no law authorizing the
purchase" said State Auditor Wells.
81 should like to have that silver serv-
ice bought, but 1 see no way to buy
it,"
Secretary Rurrow asked if any action
of the executive council would help the
situation.
The council can go no further than
the law" said Mr.. Coleman.
Mr.. Burrow moved that the governor
be instructed to go ahead and buy the
silver service with the money appropri-
ated by the last legislature if possible,
and If that is impossible, that the coun-
ell put itself on record as being in favor
of the purchase and urge an appropria-
ton by the next legislature, with the
further understanding that the manu-
facturers of the silver service are will
ing to wait for their money.
Governor Hoch extended to each
member of the executive council an in
vitation to come to Camden and at
tend the launching of the battleship
that can't offer much substantial
encouragement The legislature made
such small appropriation that there
Is not enough to go around
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
ON BOTH SIDES OF A CASE.
Lat Is Position of an Attorney in
City Court.

Squire Wesley I. Jamison, deputy
county attorney and ex-justice of the
peace, is conducting both sides of a
legal tangle for a horse owner and a
clairvoyant.
The first was this: E. E. johnson,
head of the Johnson household at 400
Van Buren, street stated to Jamison
that Mary Campbell, clairvoyant
owed him rent for several weeks and
he wanted to know if he could lock her
out of the house. Jamison said he could.
That night Mary Campbell appeared at
Jamison's home, after office hours, and
said Johnson was holding her personal
belongings, claiming that she owed him
rent. She wanted to know what to do.
Then Jamison, equal to all emergencies
on both sides of the case, told her to
bring a replevin suit She brought q
replevin suit in the city court for her
ordination papers, package of Egypt
ian sacrifices, So fortune telling cards, 1
package spirit photograph cards a re-
volVer, clothing and a few other things
valued at S82.5 Marshal Wintrode of
the city court, is custodian of the sacri-
flee, the ordination papers and spirit
photo cards awaiting a redeIivery bond
from johnson which is not forthcoming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
FIVE SKELETONS FOUND
BY WorIzmen Who Were DismantIing
an Old House.

Hammond, Ind, July 21-Men en-
gagged in dismantling an old house on
Grake island, in the Kankakee river
which was occupied during the Civil
war by a trapper named Steele, today
found in the cellar wall of the house
three male and two female skeletons.
The finding of these skeletons recalls
stories told by old settlers who declare
that an attempt to lynch Steele was
made in 1851, after the disappearance
of a government agent named Bar
rington, who, while having in his pos
session $4,000 with which he was
commissioned to buy horses for the
government, passed the night with
Steele. The next morning his horse
was found in the woods. but no trace
of the man was ever found. In 1861
Steele's wife and daughter disappeared.
Following the threatened lynching
Steele fed. Since that time the house
has been unoccuoied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

The gunmaker of Essen is a woman, a
young woman, and the richest woman
in Europe. She is Miss Krupp, daugh-
ter of the famous Herr Krupp, whose
death occurred some years ago. Essen
exists because of the Krupp gun
works, and practically all its 100, 600
Inhabitants are dependent on her for
their work, directly or indirectly. Miss
Krupp is more powerful in Essen than
many a German princeling in his four
by-nine kingdom. Pretty she is said
to be-she is the richest girl in Europe
clever, 1t is declared-still the
richest girl in Europe-wise beyond
her years-again, the richest girl in
Europe-simple and transformations in
her demeanor-remem the richest
girl in Europe-and she is to be intro
duced to society under the direct pat
ronage of the kaiser and the kaiserin.
There will be heart burnings and jeal-
noses, sneers and disparaging COM
ment-but she is the richest girl in
Europe, and in these days, when a
people tumbles royalty about as King
Oscar was tumbled in Norway, the
greatest heiress in the land cannot be
overlooked even by the court itself.
The descriptions of Miss Krupp read
much as descriptions of rather plain
but very rich American girls do. Per-
haps more Interesting than her wealth
is the fact that by refusing to sell arms
to several nations, Miss Krupp could
insure their good behavior for a while.
They would not know where to go for
guns were she to cut off their credit
with the Procession" Everybody
Magazine for August
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
The miracle of sunburn.

There are certain Arctic animals,
dark coated in the short summer, that
in winter turn pure white, thus match
ing the snow covered landscape and
escaping notice and harm.
This change of color, this protection,
effected no one knows how, is wonder
full as wonderful as a miracle, and yet
a kindred change of color, kindred
protection, happens among mankind
every summer and nobody ever no.
tees it.
When the pale city people go out in
the summer sun at the seashore or the
mountains the light attacks them
fiercely, first reddening their skin, then
swelling, blistering and scorching it. If
they kept in the sun enough, and if
no miracle occurred, the light would
kill them finally, burning off the skin
first and afterward attacking the raw
flesh.
But a miracle does occur. The skin
changes from a pale color to a tan
and on this tan the sun has no effect
The sun may beat on tan colored skin
for days and weeks, but such skin re-
mains always sound, unbIistered
whole.
Thus nature works miracle. The
white skin is suffering, and nature
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

aware, somehow, that a tan skin is
sun proof, changes to tan the white.
How does she do this? Where did
she learn that it was wise to do this !?
No one knows. Only the fact of the
miracle remains.
To prove this mira le-to prove that
it is not the hardening of the skin, but
the change in its color, which protects
it from sunburn-is an easy matter.
Let a pale person, unusued to the
sun, stain one side of his face yellow.
and leaving the other side untouched,
go out in the bright summer sun for a
couple of hours The one side of his
face is no tougher, no more hardened,
than the other, YET the unstained side
will be infianIed, blistered, while the
tan colored one will be quite cool and
unhurt,
Sunburn is a miracle, a protection
to mankind as inexplicable and as
wonderful as the miracle of the Arctic
animals change in the winter from
dark coats to snow white ones.-New
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

sewed it carefully in the lining of the
boys jacket and sent him north by the
first steamer. Her parting Injunction
to him was that he was not to talk to
anybody. The youngster obeyed her
so literally that half the passengers
thought he was dumb. Hardly a word
could anybody get out of him. Sew
eral people took kindly interest in
him and tried to see if they could
make the voyage pleasanter for him.
but he would make no friends AS
soon as the boat locked, he hurried to
the office of the broker where he knew
his father made his headquarters His
father turned pale at the sight of him.
Three or four days before he had re-
ceived a cable from his wife, written
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
Slightly Acquainted.

when 1 introduced you to the lady
in the Pullman this morning said the
drummer to the nursery man, II thought
you seemed a bit confused. She also
seemed a bit put OUT
Well, I dunno
did I understand her to say that the
two of you were slightly acquainted?''
II believe she did murmur something
Of the kind"
Then you had met before ?"
-Y-e-s The fact is. we were man
and wife for over ten years and it is
only year since she got her divorce.
I can't exactly say that was confused,
but I do admit that for a moment I
looked around for the coffee pot and felt
like lodging. Quad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

in code, in which he could make out
nothing but the name of the boy. All
he could think of was that he was
dead OF very i'll. and he was preparing
tn leave for home IN the first steamer
After the first greetings the father
asked him what had brought him
here He answered by shaking his
head and drawing his father into q
private Office. where they were alone.
he shut the door and locked it, Then.
taking off his coat. he showed his
father where to rip it. and the option
was in safe hands. Now" queried the
broker, '-how many boys of that age
do you know who would have carried
a message as well as that New Or
leans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
Faithful Boy.

s'Have you heard of the 12-year-old
boy who carried his message to Gar
ought to be mighty proud of him and
doubtless are. His father owns a big
rubber plantation down in Central
America. He is a great believer in the
future of rubber-cultivated rubber
Not long ago he secured options on
two plantations adjoining his own and
he came to New Orleans to raise the
money to purchase them Meanwhile
his wife secured an option on third
plantation which he very much Qe-
sired. but which he had not been able
to get. With a wife's caution, she was
afraid to trust it to the mails, so she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

The recommendation of Mr.. Howe
has the endorsement of two other
members of the ways and means
committee, Councilmen Hughes and
Green. 1t is expected that there will
be few changes if any in the recon-
mendation of the committee and that
it is entirely probable that it will go
to the council as the report of the
committee. The report is in line with
the effort which is being made to re-
duce the taxation as much as possible,
and comes within SIS hundredths of a
mill of being as low as tn levy of
10000.
The park commissioners have their
old levy re-esta bhshed by this report.
The item of $1,000 a year which a
half-nnill levy brings in was found not
to be sufficient for the needs. The
hydrant rental is done away with but
an interest tax is inserted in it's stead
and the same levy maintained. This
is to procure a continuance of the re-
sources amounting to over $4,000
yearly.
The sinking fund is lowered by almost
one-half, 40 MILL while the interest
fund has been increased by 10 of a mill.
Both the levies on the principal of the
improvement bonds and the interest on
the improvement bonds have been rails
ed The former by $50 of a mill and
the latter by is. The judgment In the
suit of Topeka versus the Topeka Wa
ter company has been paid and this
levy of 1.25 mill has been wiped out.
The other judgment fund has been re-
duced considerably; from one mill to
one-tenth. The library levy remains
the same as do the general revenue and
general Improvement, both of the latter
being at the maximum amounts speci-
fed by law.
I'VE have figured OUT said Mr..
Howe, that we will come out in better
shape the coming year than we did
last year. This levy upon the basis OF
the old assessment of the city's valua-
ton will amount to $23S, 9S4.07. At that
time I figured this 1 did not have the
new assessed valuation and of course
figuring on the basis of the new, the
returns will be higher than that even
since the valuation has been increased.
We have retained the judgment levy,
though at first we were considering SER
iously of doing away with it. But we
have found that we will have to make
up about $973.02 for that fund and so
| decided to retain the judgment levy but
cut it down.
II have made an estimate of the re-
| ceipts which will be at the disposal OF
| the city for the ensuing year for meet
| ing its running expenses at $176,938.72-
! Last year we made an estimate OF the
probable expenses at $175,000 and act
| ually only spent S173,49S, and this year
we will do even better. At least we
| should do as wen.'
The estimate for receipts follows:
II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
MURDER IN ASYLUM.
One Insane Woman Kills Another
While Nurse Is Absent.

Traverse City, Mich, July 21.-Mrs
Mary Larkins, a patient at the state
insane asylum here, was murdered
early today by Mrs Ernestine Berge,
another patient, while the attendant
was absent from the room. When the
nurse, Miss Fenter, returned to the
room she found Mrs. Larkins with
her head crushed from blows with a
granite iron vessel. She died in two
hours. Mrs. Berge, after killing Mrs.
Larkins, quietly walked to her own
bedroom. Both women were victims
of suicidal mania.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
MANY years ago our STOCKHOLDERS vol

Many years ago our stockholders vol
UNFAIRLY retired the capital stock in IA
vor of the policy holders. Hence We
are mutual company from choice We
wish you would search the records for
another case like it.
National Life Insurance company of
Vermont = Mutual = Organized 1850.
Fifty-sixth year. doing business in 42
states VIM B. Henderson, general
manager, suite 45s Kemper building.
Kansas city, Mo. Both phones 459
Main: or E. w. Thompson, manager
Column bian building. Phone 1884 Ind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
NEax Nordau Declines.

London, July 21.-Dr. Max Nordau,
according to the Jewish World, has
definitely declined to be one of the
three leaders of the Zionist movement,
who it was proposed should succeed
the late DR.. Herzl, the founder of the
movement, who died about year ago.
DR.. Nordau gives i'll health as the
reason for his decIination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
H. Clay Evans, Jr.. Dead.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 21.-Cap-
tain H. Clay Evans, jr., retired, died
today at his summer home on Walnut
served in the Philippines and was re-
tired some time ago on account of poor
health He was the only son of H.
Clay Evans, former pension commits
sioner and former consul general at
T,OOdon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Thomas Hollaran, age months, died
at sos East Third street, on Thursday
night. The-funera1 will take place from
the Church of the Assumption at
O'Clock on Saturday morning. Inter
ment will be in the Catholic cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
Proceed Against Illinois Life.

The board of county commissioners
today entered into a contract with
Judge q T. Hazen for him to take
legal proceedings to compel the Illi-
nofs Life Insurance company to pay
taxes on $4,000 worth OF securities
for this year and last The total tax
amounts to about SIS. 900. Hazen re-
ceives a retaining fee of $3.50 and 5
per cent. of the Judgment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

Chicago. July 21.-Twenty deaths
have been added to the list of NOR
talities due to the blighting heat of
the first three days OF this week. OF
this number seven were adults and
the others were infants. The cool
weather continues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
TO REDUCE TAXES
Council Will Make Important
Reduction insLevy.
The Old Park Allowance Is Re-
stored.
WILL SAVE $4,000.
New Levy Recommended Is
2O.55 Mills.
No Provision Made for Marshall's
Band.

If the council adopts Councilman
Howe's recommendation, the tax levy
for 1905 will be 20.55 mills, or 1.45
mills less than last year. This means
in the neighborhood of about $4,000
less taxes for the city.
The matter of the tax levy for the
coming year will be discussed this
evening at the council committee of
the ways and means. Chairman S. T.
Howe of the ways ana means COM
mittee will submit the report of the
proposed levy. It is as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
Woman Held for Assault.

In the city court today Will Monegem-
cry was discharged and Blanche Wood
all was held on $500 bond to stand trial
on the charge of assault and battery
upon Martha Horton in Harye Wheel
er'S Joint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
innate for receipts follows:
General Genera


The above levy. however, fails to take
in account the one-tenth mill levy
which the law permits the council to
assess for band purposes. The ma
jority of the ways and means commit
tee had expressed themselves in favor
of it previously but it seems to have
skipped their memory. The matter
may be brought UP in the committee
meeting this evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
80 Yornce For Nicholas-

st. Petersburg. July 21.-6 .. NJ
Emperor Nicholas remained at Peter
hof palace today. The report that his
majesty was to start on a sea voyage
and meet Emperor William was off,
cially denied. No such trip is con-
terminated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

He (wearer of Yale crew sweater)-Ycs
our family dates back to the Normans
Blue blood counts for something.
1T won't count for much With pa. He:
a Harvard man. Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
The Horse Show

The SWEETEST turnouts, the nobbiest
rigs and the most graceful high school
saddle horses and their riders and
drivers in competition in the Horse
Show events, at night in front Of the
grandstand, during the concerts by
Marshall s full concert band.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-05-27
BROTHER ATHANASIUS
FALLS ASLEEP IN DEATH
Founder of St. StanisIaus College, this
City, Dies at rIobile, Aged So Years
Remains Inferred in College Ce-
metery-A Dsefui Career.

Brother AthanasiuS, known in the
world as John Faugier, the founder and
first President Of st. Stanislaus College,
Bay St. Louis, holding the position Of
honor for more than fifty years, resign
ing the Office five years ago, when, on
account Of old age, he requested to be
released from further duty in the order,
died Wednesday morning at an early
hour, at the Boys Industrial School in
Lafayette street, Mobile, Ala, at the
age Of 50 years. He retired from church
duties two years ago, after more than
fifty years OF active service for his
Church, and requested that he be al
lowed to live the remainder Of his days
with the boys of this weIl-known house
learning, lie having lived there about
five years.
Brother Athanasius was Provincial
Superior Of the Brothers Of the Sacred
Heart of America for forty years. He
was the founder of many houses OF that
order in the United States and Canada,
and was one OF the old-time mission
aries, man of lively faith and ener-
getic will.
Brother Athanasius was born in ST.
Sigoletin, Haute Loire, France, in 1922.
He was the Youngest Of the five Broth
ers brought to America by Rt. Rev.
Bishop PoGCier in 1917. Then he as
sumed the Supenorship of the Order in
America. At that time there were only
two houses and about two dozen Broth
ers in America. Now there are fifty
honses and about five hundred Brothers.
Brother Athanasius was one OF the
best-kn0vn members of the Order Of
the Sacred Heart in this country, and
was very popular with all classes and
creeds.
The remains lay in state all day We'd
nesday in the chapel Of the Brothers
Industrial School, and were viewed by a
large number of citizens of Mobile and
vicinity. In the afternoon the remains,
according to a request of Brother Atha-
nasius, were taken to Bay St. Louis for
interment in the St. Stanislaus College
Cemetery, alongside of the Brothers
who came with him to this country
many years ago.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-05-27
President Davis Birthday VIII Be
Celebrated at Beauvoir Home.

The Third of June will be great day
at Beauvoir.
President Jefferson Davis birthday,
made by the State legislature holiday,
will be celebrated at the Soldiers Home
in various appropriate ways.
The graves of Confederate Veterans
at the home will be decorated and mem
orial services will be conducted by the
local ministers, assisted by the choir OF
the church of the Redeemer.
The Biloxi Chapter, Daughters of the
Confederacy, will bestow fourteen
crosses of honor on veterans at the home
and Biloxi who are ent44slod to that dis
tinction.
Attorney General William Williams
will be the orator OF the occasion.
The Ocean Springs Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, will also
confer crosses and they will have brass
band for the musical part of the pro-
gram. The Gulfport Chapter will take
part in the celebration, and visitors are
expected from all along the coast.
All who care to attend are invited to
ONE and bring their baskets. The oc-
casion will be the most memorable in
the history Of the home.-Biloxi Herald,
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-05-27
THE BAY ST. LOUIS OIL WAGON.

Nothing escapes the eagle-like eye
of State Revenue Agent Writ Adams,
not even the Bay st. Louis oil wagon
Rockefeller's property.
The agent is going out after the
Standard Oil Company over the entire
State in an endeavor to collect from that
corporation back taxes on its tank wag-
ons. The fight for the collection of
taxes on these tank wagons was started
by Vicksburg, but before Vicksburg
made known its intention of trying to
collect, the State revenue agent and his
deputies had been looking into the mat
ter and had come to the conclusion that
the Standard Oil Company was liable.
Mr.. Adams has learned that in many in
stances not only is oil delivered to mer-
chants in these tank wagons, but con-
sumers are also supplied by means Of
same, which means that the Standard,
under the laws of the State, is liable for
a peddlar's license. Some of these de-
linouencies date back to 1890. Blanks
have been sent out from the Office of Mr..
Adams at Jackson to the municipal and
county tax collectors, on which the
Standard will be required to make re-
turns. The tax on each wagon will be
S45 per year for the State and one-half
for the city and county. The total will
foot up to several thousand dollars.
However, it may be some time before
the State Treasury sees the color of the
Rockefeller dollars.
The Bay ST. Louis wagon, it is gen
orally understood, carries on no retail
or peddling business, but delivers to
merchants only; however, should it be
proven that oil has been sold directly
to the consumer, Mr.. Adams will not
take long before "bills for collection"
will be filed with Sheriff Saucier.