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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
A CoMANCHE COUNTY ECHO.

1t is naturally a source of pride and
a matter of supreme satisfaction to this
paper that the Kansas senate yesterday
unanimously passed a bill which. if it
become a law. will absolutely prevent
the repetition of the ~scandalous trans
action involving the purchase last sum-
mer of certain Comanche county bonds
for the state school fund
This is a subject which the State Jour-
nal approaches with some delicacy for
the reason that the exposure of the
affair at the time brought a $4,000 libel
suit against this paper.
That the senate, without a single dis
senting voice, should pass this kind of
a measure is a most important step
forward, and if the agitation of the
Comanche county transaction produces
no further good effect it will have been
well worth the honest effort on the
part of the State Journal to pose and
toward preventing a repetition of a
future ~scandaloUs purchase of this kind
The bill was fathered by SenatOr F.
Dumont Smith, but important amend
ments were made to it by Senators
Waggener and Young requiring that
the school fund commissioners in pur-
chasing bonds in the future shall be
~ AN N
county as reported by the county au-
thorities, and not by the assessment as
raised or modified by the state officers
themselves, or even by the school fund
commissioners themselves; for one
member of the purchasing board is also
actually a membe Of the state board
of equalization.
The amendments above referred to
also include the requirement that
municipalities shall offer the bonds di-
rect to the school fund commission and
not through unnecessary middle men.
The Comanche county transaction,
it will be remembered, was one in
which a. broker purchased the bonds
from the county and a Few days later
turned them over to the commission
ers at a higher price.
To be sure, this measure as it went
through the senate includes certain
important matters which are already
in the law, but this Will emphasize the
fact that the senate wants the law
enforced. 1t has NOT been enforced
in the past.
The two noteworthy particulars in
which the law has been violated are,
first. that the school fund commission
contrary to law has paid more than
par for many of the bonds now in the
fund. They have done this by allow
ing certain interest oupOn due after
the state should acquire the bonds to
be clipped from the bonds. In some
instances these coupons have been
clipped where they would not be due
for over a year after the purchase by
the state.
Another case in which the law has
been violated, and which is referred
- T. IL -
board of school fund commissioners
must keep a full and correct report OF
it's proceedings. This the commits
sioners have not done. hi was shown
in the testimony taken by the State
and is also shown in the re-
ports of the state on file
in the governors ofice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
THE KANsAs-CoLoRADo SUIT.
j. c. Starr Writes Of Irrigation Article
in Western Kansas.

Recently there appeared in the
State Journal an article in regard to
the Kansas-Colorado litigation. A let
ter has been received from j. c. Starr,
editor of the Scott County News, N
which he takes exceptions to a portion
of the article. Mr.. Starr quotes the
following;
"Rich irrigation ditch companies
and wealthy interests in Colorado
have been spending large sums in
certain directions in western Kansas
for the purpose of trying to create a
sentiment u~nfavorabIe to the further
continuation of the litigation on the
part of the state of Kansas. This
money. it is declared, has been for
the purpose of getting prominent men
TO come out and openly declare that
the litigation should be stopped, n
to try to influence the Kansas legisla-
tI1re to refuse to make an appropria-
ton to further continue the suit.
Mr.. Starr says:
The writer has lived in Scott county
almost 20 years and has been a close OBJ
server of western Kansas interests and
knows whereof he speaks. The integrity
of the Deople of western Kansas shall not
be thus siandered. not even by a person
living in the east half of Kansas
Mr. Starr also makes the liberal offer
to give a thousand acres OF western Kan
saS land to the person who may name any
one guilty of being influenced by money
from Colorado
The Information contained in the article
printed in the State Journal came from
one of the attorneys for the state in. this
famous case and it was presumed that he
knew what he was talking about No ref
11tation on the people of western Kansas
as a whole was intended
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
CHILD LABOR BILL
Reappears In the Senate With Better
Success.

At the beginning of the afternoon
bill was reconsidered on the motion
OF Senator Smith, from Edwards.
The bill was then passed with sew
eral amendments chief of which was
the striking OF the second section,
which allowed children under IA years
to work in the prohibited places If
necessary for the support of a widow
ed mother. The bill as finally passed
absolutely prohibits the employing OF
children under IA years of age in
factories, packing houses, mines and
in dangerous and immoral places.
Fitzpatrick favored the passage of the
bill as The vote for the bill
was 90 with none against.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
RATE UNREASONABLE.
Wichita Merchants Win Their Case
Against Railroads.

Washington. Jan. 26.7The inter
state commission in the
case Of Lehman-Higginson Grocer
company and other wholesale grocers
in Wichita, Kas., against the Santa Fe
and other railroads today decided that
the rate of At cents on sugar from
New Orleans to Wichita is u~nreason-
able; that the present d~iferential of
Is cents applied at Wichita above
Kansas City on shipments of sugar
from the Atlantic seaboard and New
Orleans subjects Wichita to unjust
discrimination. and that such differ
entail should not be more than 8 cents
per 100 pounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Center Line Road, for two large and
luscious pumpkins. They will help us
to struggle through the winter.
The widow Sutcliff authorizes the
Banner" to deny that she has mort
gagged her house and lot in. order TO a
tends to remain right in Hometown
and give a candypull every week.
Three or four evenings ago we were
at h police station when the roll was
called and the Jealous officers sent out
on their beats. and although there were
but two of them, we could not help but
see how metropolitan everything look
ed. Hometown is certainly going
ahead.
Mine host Of the Hometown hotel fed
and lodged four strangers last week,
as well as batting the horse of a tin
peddler, and he predicts that business
is rolling this way and is preparing for
a spring boom.
n report that we were socially snub-
bed last week in not being invited to
Mrs. James Taylor's birthday party is
a canard. We were mong the first in
vited. but found too late that our trou-
sers needed patching and could not be
ready in time. Why will people in
dulge in such vicious gossip?
There is some talk of running us for
mayor of Hometown mex spring. We
believe we could fill the place in a man
ner acceptable to all, but of course our
modeSty forbids IS to put ourself for
ward. We sometimes wish we had
more assurance.
We regret to learn that Mrs. Henry
Davis. wife of the we'll known boot
and shoe man, smashed her knuckles
in a terrible manner one day last week
and will not have the use of her igh
hand for at least a month to come.
Che Gf~rr0I at a tro and hIf the
decreasing.
Miss Winnie Wall. daughter of
Hometown's favorite laundress. has
taken up French without a teacher,
and although she has been at it less
than -four weeks she can already pro-
as nicely as a native. Hometown is
where you find ambition
The Banner announced last week
that Stephen Smith, hired man to
Farmer White, was about to lead
Widow Hampstead to h altar. Ste
|phen called at the office two days g
to deny the statement, and the widow
wouldn't have him if she had to marry
a Chinaman instead. Things do get
mixed up once in awhile in spite of the
utmost care.
We have neither horse nor COW, but
the Banner" will take q or straw
on subscription. We can't eat either
in the raw, but perhaps there is a way
to mix them with something else and
make them DEMONSTRATING for an ed
itor.
Mr.. George Newell, the go-ahead
grocer, who sells kerosene oil a cent
cheaper on the gallon han any other
merchant in town, informs US that he
shall lay ten rods of new sidewalk and
paint his woodshed early in the spring.
.BuliV for Won George. we WOulQ
that Hometown had a hundred more
like you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
HELD UP TROLLEY CARS
Robbers Shoot a Motorman Who Of
fered Resistance.

Philadelphia, Jan. 26.-Three men,
who according to the police are MEM
bers of the gang of safe robbers that
for two years past has been operating
in small towns in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, early today held up and
robbed three trolley cars. several pc
destrians, and shot and seriously
wounded Robert Bruce, a motormam,
who resisted their attempt to hold up
his car Two of the gang were arrest
ed. They gave their names as Hardy
Coleman aged p. and Charles Ryan
aged q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
DEATHS AND

Tbs funeral Of Isaiah Munson Smith
will be held on Friday afternoon at 3
O'Clock from the Barley undertaking.
establishment. Interment will be IN To-
peka cemetery.
W. c. Whittelsey, father Of H. r.
Whittelsey and c.. A. Whittelsey, died at
his home. 1876 Madison street, Wednes-
day evening at 1890 at n advanced
age Of 81 years. Mr.. Whittelsey has
been a resident of Topeka for the past
% years. The funeral will take place
Friday afternoon at , o'clock from he
residence, 135 Madison street. Inter-
ment in Topeka cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
Herinpton,s Gun Club Shoot.

Harrington, Kan, Jan 26.-The six
teenth annual tournament of the Kan
sas State Sportsmen's association viii
be held at Herington, Kan-, under the
Nav Is, II and IS, 1906. in addition
to $3.50 in cash prizes the club will
donate a championship trophy which
will be shot for at this time. This will
be one of the best shoots ever held IN
Kansas. Good grounds, good traps,
good management and a good time to
ali who participate. Programmes will
he out about March 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
REF1ECTIoNs OF a BAcHELoR.
IFrom the New York Press.l

IFTOm the New York Press-I
It is a heavy strain on a woman not
to go shopping.
1t is so expensive being married a
man could pay a bachelor tax of all
his income and be better off.
A women gets very suspicious of her
husband when he goes a long time
without doing anything that looks
suspicious.
When a girl acts as if she were tied
to the end of a comet and tries to
as if she were only buttoning her
gloves. most likely she is Just become
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

New York, Jan. Observation-Disclosures on
call steady, 1Zd2 per cent. closing bid 1A
and offered at 2 per cent; time loans
slightly hrmer; 60 days, 3 per cent; 30
days, 81 per cent; s months. 3Hd3K per
cent.
IOSE Prime mercantile paper. SKI
AZ per cent: sterling exchange steady.
with actual business in bills at
$4.S7% for demand and at 4~4s540Q4.S5h for
commercial bills. AS5A.
sILvER-Bar silver, $3.50; Mexican dol
BoNDs-Government bonds strong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Every day or two somebody hobs up
with q declaration that there was no
adequate cause for the surrender of
Port Arthur 1t is declared that the
provisions and ammunition were suffi-
cient to enable the garrison to hold out
another month. What object could
there have been in prolonging the
struggle? Nobody was doing anything
for the relief of the fortress and its fall
was only a question of time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Washington, jan 26;-Chief OF Detec-
tives Desmond found by Investigation to
dds fy tbaf Johann Hoch, wanted by the
Chicago police for alleged bigamy and
VINE PoisT1 aIiS are one and the same. His
y " 49, extended to the circum-
luvcslas srrroS1nding the death of Mrs.
49, Schultz. wife of JOIN Schultz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
To Establish Reformatory in Missouri

Rev. e. A. FTedenhagen IeIt InIs n
ternoon for Jefferson City, Missouri He
goes under special invitation from the
committee of the State Conference Of
Charities and Correction. which has in
charge the bill in the legislature for es-
tabltshing a new reformatory and VIII
eSIres- The Joint judiciary committee
e - house and senate. Governor
Folk recommended it in his message
and the outlook for its beginning is
hopeful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

The M~issourians are about to reassert
a cherished right Of which they have
been deprived for the past two years
that Of buying baking powder with
alum in it. A bill repeating the law in
tended to prevent the use of alum as
a food has passed the senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

With a law compelling children to go
70 school and another preventing their
being put to work the parent who feels
that the children are his and not the
states probably will regard his liberty
as being unduly restrained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

The United States is about to under
take the collection of San Domingo's
revenue and the application thereof to
the payment of her debts. If Uncle
Sam does the job successfully he may
secure a number of similar jobs in that
part of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

For the first time in months Santa
Fe preferred stocks dropped below par
yesterday. This is doubtless due to the
financial al resulting from the trOu-
bic in Russia and not to any real
weakness in the securities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Street car companies probably have
not found county commissioners as
easy as city councils and for that rea-
son are asking the legislature to pass a
measure granting them the right of
eminent domain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
stockhoIders, NIeeting.

The annual ueeting of the stock
holders Of the Topeka. Frankfort &
Northwestern Railroad company for
the election of a board of directors
and the transaction of such other
business as NAV regularly come before
the meeting, will be held in the rooms
of the Commercial club in h city of
Topeka on Tuesday, February z, 1900,
at 4 o'clock .. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
Breaks Loose From Ice Foe.

Grand Haven. Mich, Jan. 26.-After
having been fast in an ice noe IN Lake
1S5ehiSan since Honda night the Good
rich line steamer Atlanta broke loose
last night off South Haven and returned
ia This port. The 20 passengers on the
steamer were none the worse AO1 tAsH
experience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

In addition to protecting our sister
American republics from European en-
croachments we are now about to show
them how to pay their debts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Those Port Arthur Russians who
chose Japan as a place of temporary
residence appear to have selected
wisely
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
TOO LATE no CLASSIFY.

HYGIENIC, harmless, refined, Satin Skin
Face Powder bestows fascination. that
much admired satiny texture. Flesh,
white, pink, brunei. 25c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

"A National Fraterna1 Sanitarium"
will be the subject of a. special lecture
at No 244's hall tomorrow evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Easton. Pa, Jan. 2~G.-Thousands of
men are at work digging out stalled
trains here today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26
HOMETOWN

Ye editor returns thanks to Mr.. David
Cross, the well-known farmer on the
Center Line Road, for two large and
luscious pumpkins. They will help us
to struggle through the winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Banner" to deny that she has mort
gagged her house and lot in. order TO pay
a visit to Florida this winter. She i'm
end to remain right in Hometown
and give a candypull every week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-26

Three or four evenings ago we were
called and the Jealous officers sent out
on their beats, and although there were
but two of them, we could not help but
see how metropolitan everything look
Hometown is certainly going
ahead.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06
THE TALLEST MAN,

A Russian giant has made his ap-
pearance In London who is said to be
the tallest man in the world. The
giant was measured by tailor for. a
dress suit. It was found that he is
feet 81 inches in height, 463 pounds
in weight and a four shilling piece
can De- passed through the ring which
he wears on the small finger Of his
left hand. The circumference of his
hea dis three-quarters Of a yard, and
he wears a collar Of twenty-three inch
es. The monster wears the largest
boots in the world. His feet are two
feet one and one half inches In size,
and. in consequence, his boots meas
ure two feet three inches. Among the
giants whose records may be regarded
a sauthentic the Russians claim to be
the tallest seems to be justified. Some
Of the famous big men of the past were
John Middleton, feet inches, born
in Lancashire in 1878; Patrick OBrien
feet inches, born In Kinsale, Ire
land, in 1851, and John Frederick, Duke
of Brunswick, feet inches.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06
LABOR's BANNER NOT FLAG OF
REVELATION.

Hnv O1lUI1ONs
What flag 1s tho flag Of labor?
The bunting OF blood and terror:
The standard Of hate and dread.
Shall that banner wac above US,
In our struggle to brighten earth.
That has darkened the years with woes
Since tho day Of it's cursed BIRTH
That symbol Of lust and slaughter:
That beacon Of pillags and flame
Shall 1t cast it's blight DER tho ranks
Of right
And blacken our cause with shame?
Nay! out from tho hosts Of labor
For labor's nag IL no Haunting rag:
IT'S the starry flag Of the free!'
Yea! that 10 tho flag Of labor
The same one that waved on high
When Freedoms CLEAN shed its first
bright beam
Oer our Nations morning sky.
The nag that bade defiance
To the despots who ruled tho earth.
And, with vict'ry blest, told tho worlds
That their haven had found it's birth.
Aye! It was tho nag of labor
who nthe bondman's shackles fell,
And it waved for toll when, on Cuba's
SOIL
Was stamped out the Spanish hell.
Be it over tho dag Of labor;
With its beautious folds unfurled,
When the brutal red and its cause lie
And peace has como to the world.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06

come tsr "a. And 70 the company sde-si
scidSd 70 kill two birds with one stone,
and adeunionixe both subway ana u z
ands get rid Of the question once and
Tor all. Very many Of the motormen
hired outside were non-unionists, but
had to Join the union. These were the
men who did not go out. The secret
agent had the names Of all the agita-
tors. and through the conferences of
the motormen with those Of his own
union learned most Of the names of the
disturbing motormen.
Pepper and Jeneks, the Strike Bosses.
The strike was ordered on the morn
Ing OF March Z. In the first week In
February the Interborough company
had all its arrangements. made to meet
the situation. The information of it's
secret agent was accurate in every re-
spect, and that is why the company
was not taken off its guard when
Jencks and Pepper gave Mr. Hedley a
few hours, time In which to decide to
refuse or grant. the demands Of the
men-or rather their leaders. The Sc
cret agent went out with the strikers
and continued his reports. His fellows
have not the slightest suspicion Of him.
Next to the secret agent who is d.
rectly in. tho employ Of the corporation,
the detective who is employed by the
commander In chief OF the strike break
ers, Is Of importance in tho new sys-
TEN. He ID paid better salary than
the city Of New York pays its star men
In the detective bureau. He is con-
stantly on the move. If trouble il
brewing on a particular street car line
in city, he is pretty sure to find it
out frequently he knows that a
strike is coming before the company
knows it. But his chief duty is to aid
in keeping up the full quote Of strike
breakers in various localities Of the
country.
How the Boss Strfke-Breaker Works.
James Farley, who is the best known
chief strike breaker in the United
States. has a captain in every large
city. This captain maintains a reg
ular headquarters and there keeps an
accurate record Of the number Of men
In his district that he can supply on g.
few hours notice. Farley is In regular
communication with all his captains
and within very short time after he
is notified that a section Of his army
is desired in some CT ty, he has the army
assembled by telegraphic order and
ready to move.
Farley himself goes to the front and
looks over the ground. He first locates
what he terms the trouble spots,'
places where his men are most likely
to be attacked by strikers, and makes
provision to have these places well
guarded by the police. Then he famil-
iarizes himself with the operation Of
the company's lines and waits for the
battle to begin. Immediately his men
are on the ground, he takes absolute
charge of operating the road, because
he knows his men and knows how to
handle them. To all intents and pur-
poses, he is, for the time being, presi-
dent and general manager Of the road,
and the company is obliged to pay gen.
erously for his services.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06

On Tuesday March 81, and each Tues
day thereafter, will have a cheap
homeseekers' exclusion to Western
Canada, where you can procure 100
acres free and purchase cheap lands
adjoining, have ten million acres for
you to select from. Pamphlets and cir
culars will be mailed upon application.
For further particulars and certificates
for cheap rates apply to
J. H. M. PARKER,
Canadian immigration Agent,
21S Providence Building, Duluth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06
HoMEsEEKERs' EXCURSION r
CANADA

And peace has come to the world.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06

q. L Levin's xxx Columbian 40.
rye IL known by many Of Duluth's
best citizsns to be high In quality. and
the vehy best for family use. Try It.
0old at sol West Superior street.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06
[IB||1'|||10
ALL YOU PRODUCE ! ] U|.||C

Wanted 1000 UNION MEN 70 take
homes under our cooperative plan.
$500 earns more than you oan.: Agents
wanted. Write today. %.2, +
UNION LABOR INTERNATIONAL CO.
OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.
s 4 ait Gs':s:i LAYTON, OKLA. u.s.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-06
HERE 10 THE LATEST.
[cDevitt-What happened to McGin.

MIST
Housell-He drowned.
McDevitt-And couldn't he swim%
Housell-He did for eight hours, but
he was a union man.