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The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12
The WATER RATES
CityCOuncilAdopts New Schedule
Without Division.
Recommendations of the Trus-
tees Agreed To.
HOLIDAY GIVES UP.
Will No Longer Oppose Operation
Of City Plant.
Detailed Table Of Rates as
Adopted by Council.

The schedule of water rates as rec
commended by the board of waterworks
trustees was adopted without a dissent
ing voice by the council last evening
In the mafD. as stated before, there
are more and greater reductions than
increases in the rates. The meter rate
for monthly minimum consumption is
raised from 25 to 40 cents This, in
reality, means that the rate remains
the same but that the amount of water
used as minimum for the month must
be greater-SOO cubic feet instead Of the
500 cubic feet as formerly.
The most significant statement in con-
nection with the adoption of the sched-
ule was the public announcement of
would cease his fight upon the munich
pal ownership of the waterworxs and
would help to build it up into a sue
cess. No more popular announcement
has been made in the council chamber
in months. 1t was greeted with the
clapping of hands on the part of the
councilmen.
In a brief speech explaining his vote
in favor of the adoption of the ordi-
nance governing the operation of the
waterworks department he said: Il
have realized that we have got to stand
right back of these WaterWorks COM
nissioners and nelp them the best way
we can to build up a 81, 1,000,0 600 plant. It
viii all come out in the wash in the
end and I believe that we will have a
plant to be proud of in the course of
time
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12
HoCH TO SPEAK AT OTTAWA.
VIII Deliver Address This Evening at
Republican Banquet.

Governor Hoch will go to Ottawa
this evening to make a speech at the
Republican banquet to be held there.
The governor did not come down to his
Office this morning. It is presumed
that he was out home fixing up his
speech.
Mrs. Paul Jones of Marion an old
friend of the Hoch family, is a guest
at the governors mansion today. She
is on her way home from Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12
More CoIored EpiscopaIians.

In the report Of the church census as
announced at the union meeting On
Sunday afternoon, the statement IS
made that only five colored families, to-
taling sixteen individuals, were affiliat-
ed with the Episcopal church
Bishop Millspaugh announces that st.
Simon's mission on Western avenue has
forty-five communicates and $50 ad-
T,ara1fS
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12

For the Christmas and New Years
holidays tickets will be sold to points
on Santa Fe lines and connecting lines
at rate of one and one-third fare
Tickets on sale December p. %, q,
25, 80, 81 and January L Final re-
turn limit January 4, 1906.
For further paruculars, aooress
Topeka, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12

Residence. occupied by one family
only, or 6 rooms ----..-,------.----. 500
Residence, occupied by one family
only. or s rooms ----.---....-....- 100
Residence, occupied by one family
only, or 10 rooms .--.-..-.-.-.-.-.. 500
l'oHlSsAfY only. Il or = Toonls .. ..' 500
io7iSs'ss oniy. Is or IRON i rooms = s amy 1000
only. IS or IS rooms ......, .'i,.,s LOO
i.ofis9ss oniy e Or oSSroHG IS rooms y 1 am. 200
i'oTt5s'iss oniy Is or Go5S % TooTns :. s . 1900
Residence occupied by one family
only, with more rooms, in the
same ratio
Charges the same for use of yard
hydrants as if the pipes entered
Restaurants, from $15 to ....-.-....... 5000
Sale stable, meter rates.
School, private, for every scholar. .05
Shop, from s. to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
Slaughter house, meter rates
SprinlzIing Rates.
No license less than ......-..........$ 500
Sprinkling public gardens meter
sprinkling street with sprinkIing
cart, per square, meter rates.
Sprinkling to center of street, side
walks and washing fronts of bus
mess streets, per front foot. Is
Sprinkling lawns. when water is ta-
ken for lawn only, including front
park, per front foot lseaS0n rate) 20
When taken for house and lawn, in
Guiding front park .--.......-....... Is
Corner lots, with side park extra,
measured as extra front
Sprinkling through automatic means
Sprinkler fixed supports, etc.)
special
Sprinklfng streets in front of res
licences, special.
Steam boilers. special or meter
rates.
Steam boilers no license less than 1000
Steam heating, private residences. 800
Steam heating. business houses, SO
r, 70 .-.-....--.-. zO-OO
Stock yards, meter rates
Stone work, per perch, -05s or per
cord, measured in wall -............. Is
Store, 50 to -.---......--............ 20.00
tenement per room s.----....-......- LOO
But no license less than............ 500
Tobacco nlanufactory, per hand. LOO
But no license less than .......... 500
Urinal basin, self closing, from S. to 1000
Upinal basin, private .................. 200
Vault for residence .................. 500
Vault, accommodating double house
each house .-.----.-..-.---. .....-..-.- 300
Vault for tenement or boarding
: house, every 10 rooms. 500
Venice ..-.-- Z.UO
Water closet, private ................. 300
Water closet hotel, per bowl. 500
Meter Rates.
The following gives the meter rates per
thousand gallons, according to the num-
Der of cubic feet used per month, varying
from the minimum of ia cents per 1000
gallons to 50 cents. There are seven and
a half gallons in one cubic foot.
AMOUNT USED CUBIC FEET PER
MONTH.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12

Runninez like mad down the street dump
ING fbe occtlpants, or a hundred other ac-
cidents. are every day occurrences. It be-
hooves everybody to have reliable salve
Lens Arnfea SaIye. Burns, cuts sores.
eczema and piles disappear quickly url-
der its soothing erect 25c at the Arnold
Drug Co, 81 II. Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12
SLEEP FOR BABIES

Instant relief and refreshing sleep
for skin-tortured babies, and rest for
tired, fretted mothers, in warm baths
with Cuticura Soap and gentle anoint-
ings with Cuticura Ointment, the great
skin cure, and purest of emollients.
Complete External and Internal Treatment for every
huuo. nom Fpta1 70 screfuia, from Iafaney to AGE
sonrsanz Of Cutieura 6oaPs ass 0insHant Soc Reso-
vent o9e f iofa e ehqcalae Coated PiG a5e paf vial
~ 5-g M naa e4 ~ cEussigls. a single oEtan eara1.
4etssL 9i1g 3 Chem CoTp.s saIe Props, Boston.
~ Mailed lEaei . EicW "a Cure Baby HunqFaH
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12
NortIlrup Goes to Los Angeles.

Kansas City, Mo, Dec. 12-Rev.
Stephen A. Northrup of the First Bap-
tist church of this city. has accepted a
call from the First Baptist church Of
Los Angeles
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12

George came out of the bath room.
grumbling. "Dern it!' he said. Il
made a mistake"
What did you do?" asked his sis
ter.
aI washed my face said George.
can it wusn't necessary. I jist washed
it last ht."-Kansas City Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12

Latest patterns IN Rogers best 1S47
forks. spoons. etc. Chas. Bennett, jew
eler and opdcian. 7s0 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12

Selling at Cost. Chas. Bennett, jew
eler and optician, 730 Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-12

The following gives the meter rates per
thousand gallons, according to the num-
Der of cubic feet used per month, varying
from the minimum of 11A cents per ], 900
gallons to 50 cents. There are seven and
a half gallons in one cubic foot.
AMOUNT USED CUBIC FEET PER
MONTH
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
MORTON VISITS ROOSEVELT.
Incident Said to Be of No Serious Pub-
 lie Signlftcance.

Oyster Bay, July 23-Chairman Paul Morton of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was a guest of the President and Mrs Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. MT. Morton arrived at the Presldenl Home from New York last evening. lie returned to New York this afternoon
 As a former Cabinet officer and close personal friend, he visited tho President to obtain a brief rest from his labors in connection with the read justment of Equitable affairs. Assur- ance is given that his visit was hot OF serious public significance.
 While he excused himself from gem eral discussion of Equitable affairs. MT Morton admitted in response to dlrect inquiry by representative or me AS sociated Press that proposition to dis- continue the pension of S25,00o year. now paid to Mrs. Henry B Hyde, widow of the founder of the Society. was rn- der consideration. The pension. hcW- ever. has not been discontinued yet.
 It was made clear by Chairman Mor- ton that Mrs. Hyde's pension is to be considered with other pensions now paid by the society; that Is. her pension will not be discontinued, If at all, ts an exception The whole matter of pensions by the Equitable will be con- sidered purely as a business proposi- tiCn
 Chairman Morton will present the subject to the directors of the Society at meeting to be held next Wednes- day, but there is no assurance that the matter will be definitely settled at that time. The payment of the current vouchers for Mrs. Hyde's pension. as well as the pensions of others will re- main in allowance until final decision of the general question of pension shall have been made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
ONE OF THE MYSTERIES.

One of the most wonderful among the many incomprehensible mysteries of earth is tree growth. Everything con- nected with life and growth. animal and vegetable.1is . mystery, for that matter. for all human knowledge fails to penetrate the hidden operations of nature. or to tell the why and the how of life. We see two plants growing side by side. fed from the same sources below and above ground. so far as we can determine, yet one produces beau tiful rose and the other an ill-smelling and ugly opposite. One tree produces a delicious peach and another a sour crab, yet 50 far as we can sec the same elements sustain both. We sec and realize the difference but fail to un- derstand it.
 But there are some things about tree growth, aside from leaves. flowers or fruit, that Is as deep a mystery as Is anything connected with animal life. An acorn, for example, is planted in the roots and sends up tiny sprout. If not interfered with 1t continues to grow and in the course of many years be- comes a tree. During this time the roots have been attracting moisture and food from the earth and the trunk and from the air. Each year a new layer of wood is added and so 1t continues till a great giant of the forest Is the result.
 The material for all this wood has been obtained some how and from some source, but how it is done is the mys. tery. It may be one of many great trees growing almost against each other, and each has managed to absorb many cords of wood from some hidden recess of nature which man cannot fathom, We can search the earth and the air with all our powers and with all the instruments and appliances at our command, but we will fall to detect the tree germs.
 Nor is this all or the greatest mys- i tery. Two trees grow up side by side. fed from the same source, yet the wood of one is the soft yellow poplar and the other hard white hickory; one may be beautiful birds-eye or curled maple and the other pitch pine or oak. There is another mystery that man cannot penetrate. Somewhere or somehow the alchemy or chemistry or machinery of nature carries on its tireless and cease less work and the result is before us. P~f. l~ nt he will ever know on the subject All nature is @ mystery and the growth of trees is not the least.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
THE MACON REUNION.
MANY FROM BIRMINGHAM ARE O.
 ING TO TUSKEGEE.
Iron Market Strong and Manufacturers are Expecting Another Advance Injured Victims of the
 Wreck Improving.

Birmingham, July 23.-(Special "A number of Birmingham people will leave here tomorrow morning on a special car attached to train No. 1 of the Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad for Tus- kegee, where a general reunion If old Macon County citizens will De held. Jones G. Moore, former State Senator of Bibb County, and now T resident Of Birmingham. President of the Eirm- ingham Southern Railroad, will head the party. |. O. Thompson, Collector of Internal Revenue, will be in the party. some thirty and more people to take In the trip.
 The reunion will be attended by sev eral hundred people, no few of whom will travel some little distance to get to Tuskegee. The cornerstone of the new Court House and the cornerstone of the new Masonic Temple will be laid during the reunion and Lieutenant Gov ernor R. M. Cunningham will deliver an address. Other prominent citizens are on the program for addresses dur ing the reunion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
THE NEWS OF SELMA
Advertiser Bureau,

selma, July Zo.
 Two shooting scrapes are reported today to have taken place in the coun- try east Of this city. The reports vary somewhat and details could not be obtained. One of the reports says that a woman was killed ana the other that a man was shot. ~
 From the sheriff's office this morning 1t was learned that late last night on the Simpson place, about six miles east of here, a negro man by the name of John Henry Parrish had shot and killed a negro woman by the name of Matilda Harman. It Is said that the two negroes had dispute and that the man pulled a pistol fro minis pocket and shot the woman in the breast, killing her. Late last night a negro from that place called at the fire en- zine house in the city building. asked for an officer and stated that his sister had been shot. The negro was re- ferred to the sheriff by the fireman and left to find the sheriff. According to the sheriff's office the negro, John Henry Parrish, who killed the woman, made his escape soon after the shoot ing. ". .s.<.......'. F.
 The report of the other shooting is to the effect that on the Bat Smith place, which Is also a few miles east of this city, two negro men engaged in a difficulty late last night and In the fight which followed one of the men pulled his pistol and shot the other In the head. infiicting a slight wound. The wounded negro walked to this city about daylight this morning and had his wound dressed and then re- turned to his home. No arrests have as yet been made in the cases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
MONDAY, JULY "A, 1905.
A DANGEROUS ADVISER.

The country has generally been dis posed to regard John Mitchell with some degree of favor. looking on him as a more conservative and sensible man thanS are the majority of union labor leaders. but he is himself educa1- ing them to a different conception of him. On Wednesday of last week he made a speech before great mass meeting of miners at Scranton, Pa. in the course of which he told them that coal miners should never be sat1s- fled with existing conditions" Again he said to them If you get a 20 per cent increase of wages tomorrow l would have you ask for more next day" And yet again he said to them: Every miner will be without contract on April 1 of next year. Every miner will be in a position to demand his wants" -... .4...
 How is that for an alleged conserva- tive labor leader? A man who breaches the doctrine of eternal discon- tent; who tells the laboring men that no matter how well they are paid they SQOulQ not pc catiSiSo "AlA ehos when they get a material increase of pay one day they should demand more the next, such a man is far and away a more dangerous enemy to the work ing men than Is the plutocrat and the capitalist about whom they have so much to say Under such leader as this there can never be any harmony between labor and capital If employ CTS are given to understand that ac- ceding to a demand today for an in- crease will not relieve them from another demand tomorrow how can they be expected to advance the wages of employees on demand?
 Mitchelrs advice. if it should unfor- tunately be followed by laboring men generally, would put stop to all hope of good feeling and harmonious action between the working men and those who employ them. The latter would have no confidence in their men and no encouragement to pay them better wages. It would be dificplt to imagine more dangerous advice than this. Whatever may be Mitchell's object he is advising his men to policy that will mean their own destruction if they follow 1t. If that Is conservatism something else would be much better for all concerned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
APPEAR CNINTERESTED
SONS OF MRS. SMITH, MURDERED
 WOMAN, DISAPPEAR.
Some New Factu Which Come to Light
 at Ga10del Cause Comment Not Very Fsyeeuble to the Two y Yo0ny Men.

vGkJ H0yx8O1e uO tne wv l Ysany Men.
 Gadsden, July e3.-(Special. )-Ihere are no new developments in the smith murder and rape case, except that S great number of suspects have been arrested but SO far the right one mas not been apprehended.
 There is considerable comment upon the fact that the two sons of the deao woman have showed so little interest in the terrible mann or in which their mother met her death. It was some time before they gould be induced 10 come to town on Sunday morning ana look after her remains. and they oio not attend the coroner's inquest. AL though summoned they did not come. The boyJ left town and their where- abouts are unknown. Iris has caused considerable comment of very unfa- vorable kind.
 The negro women involved in the case state most positively that both these boys were out all night on the noun tain with them and if this Is so they about the fearful death of the woman who gave them birth. It has become known that these boys would go home drunk and beat their mother and sthe doctor has been called in more than once to attend to the wounds on Mrs.
 
 Chief of Police White Is in receipt of a letter from the manager of the Stearnes Coal Company, at Barthill, Whiteley County. Ky. stating that Will Johnson, one of the negroes now con- fined in the Jefferson County jail on the charge of rape and murder in the Smith case, Is wanted in that place for mir CT. some time within the past few months. It is stated that Johnson reached Kentucky some time last May from Alabama and soon after murdered a negro miner and returned to Ala bama to escape the Kentucky offcers.
 Frank Allen. the negro who was to have bIen hung on the 4th day of Au- gust at the county jail in this city for the murder of his sweetheart some few months ago in Attalla. will not be hanged then, as his attorney has taken an appeal to the Supreme Court and it will be several months before it Is heard. The negro is reading his Bible surprised when told his attorney had taken an appeal, as he says it Is use- less. He says he killed the girl be- cause he loved her and 1t seemed to him that she dii not return his love.
 Jesse Simpson, tn, 15year-old son of Wm. Simpson, had an exceedingly rarrow escape from death about noon yesterday when the L. and N. passen- ger passed through the city. The boy was on his way to dinner and was rid ing his bicycle along Seventh Street at breakneck speed when he heard the train blow for the crossing, but he was going at such a pace that he could not stop ani when the train shot across the street crossing he was close to the track and struck tho first passenger coach with great force, wrecking his bicycle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
Iron Market strong.

Pig iron manufacturers are antici- pating another advance tn pig iron prices this week and No. foundry, now selling at $11.50 to SIP per ton will probably go to SIP flat and s12.50 asked. Sales made last week aggregate over 10000 tons in the Birmingham district alone, while one company reports sales for the past three weeks to have amounted to 75,000 tons, delivery to be made during the balance of the year.
 The railroad authorities have been notified that there will De an active movement of iron from this week on and there is a stronger demand for cars with which to handle the product. The conditions in the industrial circles of Alabama are more active right now than they have been in several weeks and the only complaint to be heard is in regard to the scarcity of labor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24

Governor Folk. of Missouri, recently published in one of the magazines a paper on The price of the political support of corrupt men" The entire article is good, but there are two sen tences which are really welghty anxioms. He said: The indifference of electors is the weakness of a repub- lican form of government" and "The public official Is a reflection of the pri- vate citizen"
 The truth expressed in these sen tences must strike all who observe for themselves, and who keep themselves informed on all public affairs. If good men are careless and indifferent the other class will control the elections If ineficient or corrupt men hold office it is because their class controlled the ballots. AS a natural result bad of fcials merely reflect the sentiments of the electorate which placed them in power. The two sentences are weighty truths.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
Hnlc NH Hnnc

Wesley Hale, the negro who will be hanged Friday, August 4th, for the murder of the young f1agman on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, F. G. Almon, has not confessed religion yet. He has given up all hopes of a respite and while he does not say that he is ready to die. he appears to be taking things very easy In his cell at the coun- ty jail. Hale confessed to the killing. telling oi his accomplices.
 Ed Johnson, one of the negroes who was in the trlo who killed Almon, was given a life sentence in the peniten- tiary, but he remained only week be- fore he made his escape and is still at large A reward has been offered for the recapture of Johnson.
 It is not believed there will be any curiosity to see Hale hanged and the Sheriff will not be bothered for passes to the execution. Heretofore there have been hundreds Of people anxious to witness the neck stretching, but the novelty mas worn off.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24

Emmett, have returned from a several days visit with Pensacola relatives.
 Mrs. J. B. Rankin has returned from a pleasant visit to her niece in Marion.
 Mrs. A. M. Douglas. Jr., of Millville, Fla, Is visiting relatives and friends in East Brewton.
 Private Gordon Rankin has returned from the encampment at Montgomery, having been attacked with spell of fever, necessitating his return home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24

London is great city and naturally does things on large scale. Recent ly the Royal Commission of Locomotive Engineers has been considering plans for improving railway traffic in the city, and the commission has recom- mended the construction of two main avenues through London 140 feet wide and between four and five miles long, carrying four lines of tramways on the surface and four lines of railways be- low the surface. It is estimated that the cost of construction will be s12o,- 900 ,000."
 This is a vast sum of money to be ex- pended in such a short distance, but there are many difficulties to overcome to make 1t a success. Not the least of these is that thousands of old buildings will have to be torn down, and some of these are of great value and will have to be paid for, often at extra vagant prices. no doubt. It is a great undertaking, but it is argued that the increased facilities for travel will be such that the expense can well be af- forded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
Injured Improving,

The injured persons who were brought here from the scene of the wreck on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad yesterday morning, thirty eight miles north of here, are all get ting along nicely.
 T. M. Glazier, the engineer who had to undergo an operation, losing his right hand and part of his arm, is inn proving slowly It will be several weeks before he will be able to be out. J. c. Putnam. of Birmingham. is sui fering pains in his left arm and the physicians have hopes of saving the member. Miss Annts Milan, of Knox
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-24
The Chinese Boycott.

Shanghai. July 23.-In carrying out the boycott by the Chinese of Ameri- can goods. which was arranged for at a mass meeting here July 20. an ex- ception will be made in the case of American dealers who have not yet received supplies of new goods. They will be allowed to sell their existing stocks but in the future contracts with them are forbidden by the leaders oi the boycott movement.
 It is announced also that Chinese pupils will be allowed to continue in attendance ct Amsxiean schools.