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The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
STOP THE CRAFT.
How School Fund Must Now Get
Its Bonds.
Counties and Townships
Must Offer Securities.
CUTS OFF REVENUE.
State Can Not Pay More Than
Par.
Commissioners Have $223,OOO
in the Treasury.

Under a new law. which went into
effect March Is. the cities. counties,
townships and school boards of the
state are practically prohibited from
selling their bonds at a profit. The
law requires that all such bonds must
be offered to the state school fund
commissioners, and that the commits
sioners have the right to purchase
anything they want at par.
This viii cut off a considerable
source of revenue to some cities and
counties of the state. In Topeka, for
example, every issue of bonds is gilt
edged, and every issue offered brings
a premium into the city treasury.
Some issues of Topeka z per cent
bonds have yielded as much as $500,
which has gone into the city'S gen
eral revenue funds.
At the present time the school fund
commissioners have $223,O0O on hand,
waiting for investment in bonds. So
the state is likely to be in the market
for investments for some time to
come.
The new law relating to purchase
of municipal bonds contains this pro-
vision:
sThe several municipal officers who
have charge of the sale of bonds
hereafter to be issued. which the
board of commissioners of the state
school fund are authorized to pur-
chase under the law. are hereby di-
rected to sell such bonds to said board
of commissioners if it will pay par for
the same: and it shall be unlawful for
any municipal boards, members there
of or other municipal officers, to sell
any such bonds without having first
offered such bonds to the board
The penalty for the violation of this
law is fixed at a forfeiture of office
fine not exceeding $500, and Jail SEN
tence not exceeding six months. With
such severe penalties, it is not likely
that any municipal officer would neg
lect to give the state school fund com
mission a chance to buy the munlcl-
pality's bonds.
For this year, Topeka is not likely
to collide with this law, as its $4,000
in paving bonds and $4,000 in sewer
bonds were issued and sold before the
new law went into effect. Next year,
however, the city will have to do one
Of two things; either present the state
with a few thousand dollars in the
form of premium which the bonds
command in the open market or else
reduce its interest rate on the bonds
If the city should cut down the
interest rate of ; per cent on
its general Improvement bonds, 1t
might destroy their sale altogether. as
this class of bonds, while it commands
| a premium, is not considered as de-
sirable as an investment as the long
term 4 4 per cent bonds.
Not Ready for Business.
/ Up to the present time, the scho
! fund commissioners have not made
/ any purchases of bonds under the pro-
visions of the new law The new sys-
item of registry books which are re
ouired under the new law have not
been completed by the state printer
and there are therefore no books IN
which to keep track of transactions
Consequently the funds lying IDLE
in the state treasury to the credit ol
] the school fund are constantly on the
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

increase. The balance of $223,0o0
which the books showed yesterday is
likely to amount to a quarter of a
million in a few weeks.
There is already enough money on
hand to take UP the entire issue of
state oil refinery bonds, in case the
state decides to turn this issue over
to the school fund. The law does not
require that state bonds shall be Of
fered to the school fund commission
ers, and so this leaves way for the
refinery bonds to be scattered to spec
uIators and eastern bond buyers. Gov
ernor Hoch's plan is to sell the bonds
off to public subscription, which
would probably mean that most of
them would be at once gObbled up by
the banks. If they should be placed
in the state school fund, the state
would itself be receiving the $4,000
annual interest, instead of sending this
amount of interest money back to
Wall street, or some other foreign
locality.
If Governor Hoch continues in his
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
TURKISH GIRLS.
Life in the Haren Not So Listlcss and
Dreamy as Depicted.

Turkish girls are not unpicturesaue,
for they have a style of their own: but,
instead of living healthy outdoor life
most of the time they seem to prefer to
Keep right out Of sight in the privacy
of the harem Perhaps this is because
when they walk abroad they are oblig-
ed to wear those thick, long wells
which come right up to their noses,
and leave the rest of their charms to
the Imagination of the behoIder. This
must be very irritating to a girl with
any pretense to good looks, for although
good deal can be said to an impress
slonable young man by means of pair
OF eyes, yet he generally likes to know
rather more about the girl than that
before he takes any definite steps as it
We're.
How is he to know that she hasn't a
mouth the size of a healthy saucepan.
or, perhaps, a nose about the shape of
which it would be kinder to say moth
ing?
Again, another very probable reason
why Turkish girls do not go out much
is because their husband does not know
exactly how many wives he has until
the StOck-taking is over; and he natur-
ally does not like to take whole gang
OF them for walk for fear he shall
miss one or two at the Bon Marche.
You see, if he left any behind he would
! be part of a widOWer, so to speak,
which would be very sad.
Turkish girls who have a husband be-
tween about 50 of them are popularity
supposed to live in a harem, and about
harems various luscious but totally mis-
| leading details have leaked out from
time to time which tend to put people
of an inQuiring nature under a COM
plete misrepresentation as to the facts
/ of the case.
For instance, the generally accepted
idea seems to be that ladies OF the
harem-one might almost call them
( harem lilies are attired in a sort of
living picture" costume of muslin.
Their amusements, too. are set down as
iOlling on cOuches, with an attendant
to fan the blUebottles away, and alter
/ mating sips of sherbet with slabs OF
that stodgy indigesdble sweetmeat mis-
named Turkish delight
But the reality, I am sorry to say, is
{ according to the latest revelations and
news from the front. quite different.
Their style of dress emanates from
Paris nOw-at least, that destined for
holiday use; and on ordinary days they
/ lOll next to nothing. No; they have tC
/ perform such prOsaic household duties
( as sewing, coOkins, busting the orna-
ments on the drawing room mantel-
! pieCe-and so on.
/ 1t is positively shameful! There will
! soon be no romance left in the world.
With regard to personal appearance
/ I believe Turkish girls run in the di-
AS for their everyday costume, could
/ describe it, although I am not supposed
to know anything about such things
/ but then. you see, this is a family pa
/ per. and / have its reputati0n to con
/ sider.-Ilustrate Bits.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
one Way Rates.

Every day from March 1st to May
18th. 1905, the Union Pacific will sell
One-way Colonist tickets at the follow
ing rates, from Missouri River termf-
anis. Council Bluffs, to Kansas City in
elusive:
$4,000 to ogden and Salt Lake city.
$4,000 to Butte, Anaconda and Hell
s22.5O to Spokane and wenatchee.
$500 to Everett. Fairhaven, What
com, Vancouver and Victoria, via
Huntington and Spokane.
$500 to Tacoma and Seattle. via
Huntington and Spokane.
$500 to Portland and Astoria, OF
Ashland. Roseburg, Eugene. Albany
and Salem via Portland
$500 to san Francisco. Los Angeles
and San Diego
Corespondingly low rates to many
other California, oregon, Washington,
Montana, Utah and Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every day
on Union Pacific between Missouri
River and Pacific Coats: double berth
SETS. For full information call on or
address nearest Union Pacific agent.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
Rock Island to T.ouisiana.

Galveston, Tex, April 25.-Plans have
been perfected for the extension of the
Rock Island system through Louisiana
to Baton Rouge, and it is believed this
means to New Orleans. Construction is
promised within 90 days and work is to
be completed within IS months between
Sabine river and Baton Rouge. The
Texas extension will be from Beaumont,
or point above this city, to Sabine
river. 1t is reported on excellent au-
thority that the improvement means
the purchase of the Dallas Sabine line
of the Southern Pacific, which it was
reported recently would be operated as
an Independent road, with headquarters
at Dallas. This would give the Rock
Island a direct route from Dallas
through East Texas to New Orleans,
and through a rich section of the two
states now controlled by the Southern
Pacific, with the proposed Gould exten-
sion from Houston. The Rock Island
and Frisco would then have two lines
through Texas, with outlets for both
lines at Galveston and New Orleans.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
PACKER SECRETS.
Inner Workings of the Beef
Trust Laid Bare.
Private StenOgrapher of Swift
and Armour Tells.
SAVED THE LETTERS.
Although Marked "DestrOy at
Once by Burning.
Handled the Personal and Code
correspondence.

Chicago, April 25.-After playing de
tecttve stenOgrapher" in the private
offices of the packing magnates for
months, Mrs Mary E Marcy, authoress
and social worker, returned to Chicago
from Kansas City and delivered to
United States District Attorney dorri-
son damaging secret and code letters of
the Beef trust heads
Tremendous excitement reigned in the
offices Of the district attorney when
Mrs. Marcy delivered the secret CORE
spondence. every scrap of which the
packers believed to have been burned
or destroyed.
The letters are said to contain signed
statements Of the workings of the Big
Five that show how they manipulated
the markets, placing buying and selling
prices at figures to suit their fancy
and even playing detective on each
other to see that the fixed rates were
not secretly cut.
As a stenOgrapher Mrs Marcy work
ed successfully in the Kansas City and
Chlcago offices of Swift and Armour
gelLlng close to the office heads and
writing the confidential and secret car
respondence that passed between the
members of the trust. She became
possessed of the secret code which the
Big Five used in their rate setting
herself SO useful that she handled all
the secret and code letters.
Although every one of these confiden-
tial messag ges was marked Destroy at
once by burning" Mrs. Marcy as ''wo-
man detective" made carbon copies of
many and kept the original manuscripts
OF the rest 1t is declared by the at
taches OF the United States district at
torney's office that Mrs. Marcy is the
most important witness of the beef
trust Investigation
Mrs Marcys evidence is considered
doubly important because most of the
letters are written directly to or signed
Dy the great millionaire heads of the
packing houses themselves, direct evil
dence Tor which no dummy clerk can
be held responsible.
buces teeum subpoenas have been is
sued 10y the federal authorities to bring
stenographers and one or two clerks.
through whose hands some of the cor
respondence is said to have passed, into
court Immediately
Mrs Marcy is being kept under a
heavy. guard of secret service officials,
and although it is said that she is reg
lstered at the Victoria hotel under an
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
DAD, NIeKenna Writing Historv.

The Railway Bulletin says: Every
body around Emporia, and most all
the old timers on the Santa Fe or
very near all, know old Dad Nc
Kenna, as he was known by that
name among his friends. Dad stiH re-
sides in cur midst and it has only
been during the past three years that
he has not been in actual service on
the road. He is also the inventor of
the McKenna order holder as adopted
by the Great Rock Island system and
many other devices he has had pat
ented. Having passed the age of 70
years he is still ambitious as ever and
is now writing the history of his life;
he has almost completed 500 pages of
the work. The fact that he and his
brother built the first six sawmills in
the state of Kansas is evidence that
the work is history to this country.
Mr. McKenna has a large family and
many of them have like himself taken
to the railroad. We predict for him
much success and wish him the same
in his new venture and may success
crown the efforts of old Dad McKen-
ma is the wish of the Bulletin. Dad
| is an engineer"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

ton between Porum and Honey
Grove, Texas With the completion
of this extension trains will be oper-
ated through from Muscogee to Cal
weston. The Midland Valley traverses
a productive country, penetrating the
rich coal fields of Indian Territory and
the gas and oil fields of the Usage ma
ton.
The Santa Fe is having an extension
surveyed from woodward, Okla,
westward through Beaver City to a
connection with the Rock Island at
Guymon, Okla. At present, although
Beaver county is so by 150 miles in
extent, there is but one railroad in the
county. the Rock Islands Ell Paso
line which cuts Beaver county in
twain, north and south.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
santa Fe C NIidland VaIIey.

Guthrie, Okla, April 25.-Semi- Off
ciaI announcement is made of the
purchase by the Santa Fe of the Mid
land Valley railroad. now in operation
between Fort Smith, Ark. and Mus
cogee, T. T, and rapidly building
northwest from Muscogee through
Tulsa and Pawhuska to Wichita, Kan.
Several weeks ago a party of Santa Fe
officials went over the entire line of
the Midland Valley with the intention
of buying it. The plan is to use the
Midland Valley in another route to
Texas, connecting with the Santa F'e
extension now in course of construc-
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

alias, her place of residence is being
carefully concealed. She first attracted
attention as a writer through her social
settlement studies. Later she wrote a
series of magazine articles entitled
The Letters OF q Pork Packers STEM
ographer." Her home is in Kansas City,
where she is an active worker in the
bureau of associated charities.
Missing Strong Box Found.
Chicago. April 25.-The Tribune today
says: The strong box containing the
papers of the Aetna Trading company,
which were stolen from the residence of
Gustave Freund, one of the members of
the firm, last Wednesday,, has been dis
a negro, by a detective. The Aetna Trad
ing company has figured in the investiga-
tiOn of the beef industry by the federal
grand jury. Heron claims to have found
the papers.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
BOB JOHNsoN's EXPERIENCES.
Some Things He Has Seen and Others
He Has Said.


"Black men knows a heap they
nevah git credit foh," says Bob a
veteran porter on the Lincoln-Denver
run. when I wuz wohking on the
Union Pacific out of Omaha I saw
two men fooling with an OF fahmer
looking fellah in the depot and I sez
to him: 'Bettah let them thar men
alone they is up to no good 70 yo,
and he sez to me quick an sassy like.
Use Travelled some and knows as much
as YOU I sez all right eff 70 do, but
hope they don't get yo money En-
a little While he was yelling 70 the
polees and says they robbed him of
five hundred dollahs. offehed to bet
him a dollah he couldn't ketch the feI-
lahs which was making theh gitaway
uptown ways. He wuz too busy call
in the polees to take up nah bet
Take this Wells-NIrs. SmedIey
case. Wells said he give the woman
sixteen thousan' dolIahs. Huh!
Whafor?
'Denveh pahpers made a hull lot
outen thet case. FelIah asked me
what I thoht NV the Denveh pahers.
Told him when he folded EN- uD one
thing he could say. He asked What p
sed you can say the Denveh pahpers
neveh NEEDLE with the truth He sez
Fac and I sed yo' didn't see thet in
the pahper. He sed 'What?' and 1
sed Fac. Nebraska State Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
THE HORRORS OF WHISKEY
Liquor Habit a Disease-Readilv .C,r
able 10y Orrine. an InfaHibIe
Specific.

1t is now universally conceded that
drunkenness is a disease. and the
orunkard should be treated for this
disease with the one specific for its
cure, Orrine. This remarka BILE rem
edy removes the craving for Honor-
restores the stomach to normal con
dition; creates a natural appetite, and
makes the user man again, free from
all desire for strong drink
Orrine is in two forms-No. /, to
oe given without the patients knowl-
eogei No 2. for those who wish to be
cured The medical profession in
dorses Orrine. 1t can be used at
home, and cures the terrible habit
without publicity or detention from
business. Price is only 81 a box.
Eine, Geo. W. Stansf1eld, druggist. 632
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
New DeDots in Kansas.

The Santa Fe railroad has provided
funds for building three new depots in
Kansas this year in the appropriation
for the expenditures recommended in
the 1905 budget lola and Independence
are each to have fine brick structures
for passengers costing $4,000 each, and
Larned will get a combination freight
and passenger station, also OF brick at
a cost of $4,000. As announced hereto
fore Arkansas City is to have d large
sized building for the headquarters of
the division superintendent and other
officials at a cost of $4,000.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
Men Fired Won't Quit.

Mobile. Ala, April Psf. E. Dewey
general manager, and A. n. Built,
chief engineer of the Mobile, Jackson
&, Kansas City railroad, have been re-
ouested to resign by the board of di-
rectors of the road. President Robinson
of New York, who is here, said the of
fciaIs named were let out for the good
of the service Dewey <as engaged
counsel and will fight. Policemen were
stationed at the Offices of the company
todav to keep Dewey and Built out.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

expressed determination to sell the
bonds to the public, it is likely that
the banks will be given another
chance to bid on the bonds. When
bids were received on the issue some
time ago, they were all from banks
and spectators. Governor E9och s
idea was that the people OF the state
would have more interest in the re-
finery proposition if they owned few
of the bonds themselves. The COM
mon plug citizen did not seem to have
any spare cash to invest in refinery
bonds
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
A Tribute to Mr.. Nudge.

The Kansas City Journal says: "Ah,
me by, heavy aire the hearts shwing-
ing picks today said one of the old
section men of the Santa Fe. in dis
cussing General Manager Mudge's de-
parture from that road No higher com
pliment can ever be paid Mr. Nudge
than the homely little saying of the
old section man who has picked his life
away on the road that Mr.. Nudge has
laInad to make famous.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
BaI,ers WIN EieI,t II Ont

New York. April eft has been decided
by the Greater New York executive board
of the bakers union in consequence of the
decision of the United States supreme
court declaring the ten hour law uncOn-
stitutional, to enforce the demand through
their own efforts, if possible They viii
organize thoroughly as possible and fight
for ten hour day on union lines
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
Rock Island Equipment orders.

It is stated that the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific viii order during the
current year. 80 cars for passenger
service, and upwards of 400 cars for
freight service. The locomotives will
probably be divided as follows: Thirty
switching locomotives, So freight loco
motives and 81 passenger locomotives.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

Iound remedy That would actually
cure them.
More cases Of catarrh of kidneys
and bladder have been cured by Pc
runa than all other medicines COM
bined.
Address DR.. S. B. Hartman. Presi-
dent of The Hartman Sanitarium, CO.
lumbus, Ohio and he will be pleased
to give you the benefit of his medical
advice gratis. All correspondence
held strictly confidential.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

Wichita. Kas., April 25.-William ward
pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the
fourth degree. and was sentenced to six
months in the county pail last evening
He was charged with killing Miss Anna
Jones in this city last June The light
sentence was agreed upon by the prose-
cutting witness. the girls father.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

Hundreds of war veterans have kid
ney and bladder trouble.
Impure drinking water, sleeping on
the ground and all maner of expo
sures to wet and cold weather pro-
duced cataITh of the kidneys and
bladder.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
MILLER GETS A PLACE.
Former General Manager of Rock Is
Innd Goes to Kentucky Road.

ager Of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific, has been elected second vice
president of the Evansville & Terre
Haute and the Evansville & Indian
annlis succeeding B. r. Hammond.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

Mr.. David L. Jaycox Chaplain
Clarinda I. o. G. T.. and Chaplain
G.. A. r.. S65 Broadway, Oakland,
Cal. writes:
IL am an old war veteran. I
contracted severe Bladder and kid
ney trouble. L spent hundreds of
dollars and consulted a host of
doctors, but neither did me any
good.
"Peruna has proven the best
medicine I ever used. NY pains
are gone and believe myself to
be cured. I feel well and would
not be without a bottle in time of
need for ten times its cost
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
Smallpox" :"

Anti-Zymotic (HamiIton) prevents
and cures this fearful disease. Sold
by: Rowley & Snow. A c. KIinga-
man. L. s. Woolverton, Mark O'Don-
nell.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

Tired out, worn out women can not
sleep. eat or work: seems as if she would
fy to pieces. HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea makes strong nerves and rich red
blood 80 cents. Tea. or Tablets. Gatlin
Drug Co
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

The shortest line from Kansas City
to st. Louis is the Wabash. Best
trains day and night Ask your local
agent for tickets via the Wabash.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
! CURED MY RUPTURE
WIN Show YOu How to Cure Yours

Twas helpless and beddden years from double rupture
operated
fooled them all cured myself simple discovery wiz
the write for it. It cured and has
since cured thousands cure you Write to-day Capt
Ceilings Box 544, Watertown, n. Y.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25
Thousands of People Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know II is Catarrh.

They have
d o C t o T e q
W it h every
co nc eiva bic
drug, n a V e
consulted all
Schools 0 f
medicine.
1t was not
until Peru
ma came into
u S G, h o W
e v e r, that
t n Q s G old
S o l d i G 7 S
The Topeka state journal., 1905-04-25

Is an ordeal which all
women approach with
indescribable fear, for
nothing compares with
the pain and horror of
ld-birth. The thought
New-York tribune., 1905-08-11
MR. FIAL4 TO MARRY.
Engagement to Mss PWyear, of
Nashville, announced YESTERDAY.

having been relieved from their pledge Of
secrecy by the news of the safe arrival in Nor
way Of Anthony Fiala, the Arctic explorer his
friends In Brooklyn yesterday made public the
fact or his engagement to Miss Clare Puryear
daughter of Andrew Puryear of Nashville
1ehh- According to the announcement the
young woman, who had been wooed by Mr.
flala since he met her under rather romantic
circumstances eight years ago, gave her promise
10 De his wife just before he left on his voyage
IN 1913. 1t is supposed that they will be mar
RED soon after his return to America
IT rs said that Mr. Fiala first saw his future
pride at a celebration in the New-York State
building at the Nashville Exposition on Brook
day Day He there as a member of Troop
{, the crack militia organization of Brooklyn
MISS Puryear, who is a school teacher. is a rela
tive of Lieutenant Commander Maury, u. S.
N. of the Photographic Office in Washington
Mrs Amelia 9 Ffala mother of the explorer
received the following dispatch from him yes
terday: Returned. Good health. Love from
Anthony" This message was received with
great joy by the mother, who had worried con-
siderably the fate of her son. although she
has had the greatest faith in his PLUCK and
ability overcome obstacles. Living with Mrs
Fiala at her home, No. 3S5 Cuncberland-st
Brooklyn are her Lewis and daughter
Annie.