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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23

Wednesday night, brutally murdered
his wife by cutting her throat from ear
to ear with a razor. She died within a
few minutes.
He then turned the razor against him
self, and slashed his own throat Though
he did not touch the jugulars, he opened
up a number of large veins and severed
the windpipe. He was taken to Christ
hospital where he died this morning at
Z o'clock.
I done it all right" was the adrnis-
sion he made when found by the off
GERS.
she provoked me to it," he said to
the doctors at the hospital while his
wounds were being dressed, when asked
why he murdered his wife.
These were his only statements to
either the police or the doctors The
crime was evidently without motive
and but a shocking climax to a drunken
debauch.
The murder occurred in the yard back
of the Underestimate home The hus-
band had come into the house in a
drunken condition and evidently had
Quarreled with his wife. Mrs Linden
schmidt called up the police station over
the telephone and asked Sergeant Nc
Elroy to send an officer to protect her.
This enraged Underestimate, and he
chased her from the house and down
the walk in the back yard, to the fence
at the rear of the lot, where he caught
She evidently got back to the porch of
her home again, where she was found
by Officer DusenbeEry who answered
her telephone call for help. She died
just as he stopped over her The porch
was covered with blood.
Officers Dusenberry found Linden
schmidt tirst.H He was lying near the fence
at the back of the lot. As a light was
turned on his face. he made a feeble
enort to rise and said:
done it all right
There was one eyewitness to the
ILagedy- w T Penney. who lives at
zSU harrison street, heard the woman
scream, and went into his back yard.
heard two people running down
thS oodIu walk back of Underestimate
mouse, he said. I thought one was a
woman and the other a man When
the man caught up with her. and grab
ped ner' she uttered terrible scream,
ana from the sound of her voice knew
that something frightful must he going
on. As ran back into the house to
call the police, I heard rather than saw
the man throw the woman against tte
fence, her body striking with a siclxen
ing sound" IN
DR.. c. B. Van Horn was called inpoe-
diately by the officers. After nlocinp
temporary dressings upon Iinden7
Schmidt's injuries he sent hin, 70 C,11,fe..
hospital He thought lasr nieht - tt,st -
LindenSchmidt might recover rI7a
larynx was severed with number of
the larger blood vessels, causing violent
hemorrhages- The jugulars were un-
touched
Mrs. Lindenschnidt's injuries were
frightful. The windpipe. both iugular
veins. the larynx and all the other
throat vessels were severed She nro-
baby did not live ten minutes after
the attack, for she died just as the Of
dcers reached her The police station
Is only a. few blocks from the Linden
schmidt home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23
NIEDRINGHAUS TO QUIT.
1t Is Said That He Will Release His
Followers.

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 2S.-A spe-
cial to the Star from Jefferson City
says:
us" was the information passed about
among Republican leaders today. Just
where it came from was not easily
traced at first, but it developed later
that Niedringhaus had indicated to his
lieutenants that he was ready for them
to see what could be done in the di-
rection of getting together on some
one else He has not announced to
anybody that he intended to withdraw
his name. but the first move has been
made to encourage talking of some
body else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23
GUI hEk InkUAIu
VIM. LindenSchmidt Uses a
Razor With Fatal Effect.
Crazed With Drink He Stays His
Helpmeet.
THEN KILLS HIMSELF.
WOmanDies Instantly, Murderer
Lives Through Night.
Told Doctors He Was Provoked
to the Act.
SHE SOUGHT POLICE
Asked Them to Protect HerFrOm
Husband.
Angered the Man Who Nearly
Severed Her Head.
Asked Them to Protect HerFrOm
Husband.
Angered the Man Who Nearly
Severed Her Head.

A dual tragedy-a murdered wife, and
q husband dead by suicide-occurred on
Wednesday night
Drunk, maddened and crazed by
liquor. William Underestimate, a Ger
man iron worker. whose home was at
232 Harrison street. about 7:9O O'Clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23
AGAIN GOING DOWN.
A Slight Drop in Temperature Is
Recorded Today.

With the veering of the wind
around towards the northwest today
an ACCOMMODATING drop of the tempera-
ture was experienced as against the
high record established yesterday
afternoon The minimum today was
at O'Clock when the thermometer
stood at 36 above. The following are
the hourly temperature readings as
recorded by the government ther-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23
rrenther Indications.

Chicago. Feb. 2S.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Fair tonight and Friday; mod
crate temperature; fresh southwest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23

The wind at o'clock was blowing
from the west at a rate OF 2 mile!
ner hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23

Chicago. Feb. 80 a m. tempera-
lures: New York zei boston: IS; Phil
V1egbine,ton sfP,ir,, %; Minneapolis, 80; St
Louis. SO.
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Warsaw, Feb. 23.=3:51 p. m.-The
workrnen have struck in all the fac
tories of the CzarinakOwslxa district,
the chief manufacturing suburb OF
Warsaw. There have been serious dis
turbances and strong forces OF police
and troops were summoned. The sol
diers fired but no casualties were re-
ported.
New-York tribune., 1905-05-14

by the people, for nine-tenths of the
people would not know the meaning
of the phrase All the intelligent
people in Russia, from the Gar down.
ward, recognize the necessity for a
change. But what the change is to
be not one of them can tell.
had talk not long ago with NJ.
de Witte, admittedly the ablest states
New-York tribune., 1905-05-14
MELVILLE z. STONE

man in Russia and he said without hesitation
THE conditions very bad, but the problem
is how to reform them" The Minister of Finance
and Prince Sviatopolk- Mrsky both accepted as
bien entendn the statement that the existing
conditions were insupportable, but said that
yet had offered a practical solution.
ANY solution which ignores the peasant is no
solution at ALL" said de Witte, and this is
the fact
Minute minorities, theorists, dreamers revo-
lutionists and others clamoring from their own
narrow standpOints ignorant of and Indifferent to
the general situation. The question is being dis
cussed openly and everywhere by all intelligent
Russians, in a way that fifteen years ago was
unknown and impossible In that day no one
dared to speak of reform That the whole situation
has liberalzed is evident from the widespread dis
cussions of to-day in the hotel reading-rooms and
cafes of St Petersburg which at the former period
would have been held only in whispers and behind
locked doors.
There are only two classes in Russia the nobles
governing class, and the peasants. The latter,
has been said, constitute nine-tenths. The re-
manning tenth, outside of the mobiles, is largely
German All the rich merchants in the large
cities Germans, and there is scarcely a promi-
nent Russian merchant in all Russia. The bureau
cratic class the clerks, almost entirely of Ger
man descent. These clerks originally were i'm
ported by a former Gar partly as a precautionary
measure, and partly through the entire lack of
clerical material at home. MOBILES could not be
clerks, and peasants knew too little.
Now, this bureaucratic class, the "Chinoviks
is numerically large, but totally without progressive
spirit. They politically inert, their sympathes
naturally with the Government through which
they profit and the radical elements, and even the
better Russian element hate them cordially for
eign intruders upon the scene But they form
appreciable part of the educated tenth.
AS factories have developed in late years, there
has grown up a working class, which now, in its
tirety throughout the Empire numbers perhaps two
and half millions. These are the elements who
are striking and rioting just working men, under
injustice, strike and riot in all countries.
But the important point is that yet there are
only two factors in the problem, the noble and
the peasant. There is middle class. Out
of the two and a half millions of wOrking-men the
future middle class of Russia is being born only
now
Here then is country containing a small domi-
nant class OF real Russians, a commercial class
Continued a
New-York tribune., 1905-05-14

I
| sible for any American or English
man who has not been in touch NV
with the Russian people to understand
the present situation in Russia For M
one, who lives in a country where MI JG
nine-tenths OF the people read news
papers and COlYdHt with all
the daily happenings of the world, to
realize the actualities of a country in which nine
tenths of the people can neither read nor write
and evince not the slightest interest in public
affairs IS beyond the practical limits of the
imagination
OF the one hundred and forty millions now COM
posing the population of Russia one hundred and
twenty-six millions entirely iterate and take
no interest in and exert influence upon public
affairs whatever.
once just prior to the beginning of the war with
Japan, suggested to the Gar in a jocular way
that there seemed to be some room for i'm
provement in the Russian method of government.
He said in reply, frankly and with unmistakabe
sincerity: You say that there are some things
which might be done better than they are; but YOU
do not know conditions. The problems pre-
sented TO unlike those of any other Govern
nent in the world. When l tell you that hundred
and twenty-siN millions of our people iterate
and that the great majority have only lust emerged
from barbarisn, while of many that could not
be said, you understand some of our difficulties
We have found in experience that if we take Young
without fortune and put them in universities
and graduate them, give them the higher education,
but no means of applying their knowledge or of
earning a livelihood, they become unhappy dis
contentei and revolutionary.
We consequently have adopted a plan which
we think better Every year we draw as many
as possible into the army, not for war, be
cause the world knows well that I desire
peace. but for education We require everyone
in the army to learn at least to read and
write to have the rudnents of an education, be
fore he can gain freedom from military duty. If
he attain this in three years, well and good if
not he IS compelled to remain for four even five
years. And 1t is experience that when have
given him this elementary education and the dis
Cipline of army life have done a great deal
toward making him a good citizen
x
This is the governmental and the govern
rncntal -lan But TO realiZe the inertness and 10
New-York tribune., 1905-05-14

This is the governmental view and the govern
mental plan. But realize the inertness and ig-
Dorance Of the peasant class with which it has to
deal, the real Russia of the peasant, the station
masters at wilma and Dvinsk not bad illus
tration Four days after the war broke out, left
St Petersburg for Berlin, and all the way down to
Wrbalen on the Russian side Of the frontier,
naturally anxious to know of any developments
at Port Arthur. While the whole civilized world
outside OF Russia was throbbing over the dramatic
story of the torpedo attack upon the Russian ships
Of war and the destruction of the Varag and Korctz
at Chenulpo, while this exciting news was known
in the homes of every town in the United States,
New-York tribune., 1905-05-14

~
IV1IIE E. STO
General Manager of the Associated Press
left the train both at Wilma and at Dvinsk to ask
the station-masters: Have you any late news?"
News of what?"
The war"
''What war;"
They stared at me with polite surprise and stolid
ignorance. | did not answer, because as they were
merely Russians | feared that the facts might not
interest them.
went back to the train and waited for Wirbaen
AT the news stand of the station l asked for the
French and German papers. They offered me the
illustrated papers and comic journals of the week
preceding. l explained that | wanted the daily pa
pers, and they promptly offered me a Berlin paper
four days old. But it had been to St. Petersburg
before 1t returned to Wirballen on the train
preceding mine, and contained no reference to
the war.
All the peoples of the world knew of the war ex-
cept the Russian peasants. The great current of
their common life moved on without disturbance
Men and went to their ordinary avoCatons;
few knew that there a war and all were
trely indifferent respecting it. So they have
moved since, and it would be entirely safe to
say that a vast number of the people of Russia do
not know to-day that a war has been in progress
And when talks of a revolution which is either
great popular movement nothing, how is a
revolution to occur among people nine-tenths of
whom plunged in a Grass ignorance which is
equaled only by their utter indifference?
In such country reforms are difficult and a
revolution is impossible. We read and hear daily
that Russia is on the verge of a great upheaval
similar to the French Revolution. But in France
there intelligent peasantry, educated by
Noltaire and Rousseau and intellectually ready for
revolt 1t was a homogeneous population, the
people were compact, and the distances were short
Men could march, if necessary, from Bordeaux
and Marseies upon Paris. The army under
the command of Lafayette, himself a Repubi-
educated to liberal ideas in the United
States. And the army spoke the language Of
the people.
Now, Russia is country of many and
many tongues and many religions. 1t is a country
OF vast distances and even if any able to
walk from Odessa Kieff to St. Petersburg Mos
COW, he could not leave his town without the consent
of the police and without having his passport visGd
by the police police too which stands sOldly for
the Government and could not be induced to stand
otherwise There is no temptation which can be
offered them as class, to stand otherwise.
1t is the principle which is lacking. What is
that principle to be? 1t cannot be a government
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07
Confederate Flags Return.

A dispatch from Baton Rouge dated
last Friday says: Louisiana battle
flags held by the department of war
and the property of this state under
recent act of congress reached the
state capital yesterday by express.
Governor Blanchard has suggested
to the Confederate organizations in
New Orleans to arrange appropriate
ceremonies for receiving the flags into
the state and make it date in history.
Gen. Booth, in response to the
Governors suggestion, has called a
special meeting of is staff to arrange
for the event.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07
Proclamation Of Election.
RESOLUTION.

Be 1t Resolved, by the Mayor and
Board of Trustees of the town Of
Welsh, La, That the Mayor be and
he is hereby instructed to issue his
proclamation ordering an election to
he held in the town of Welsh, La, on
the first Tuesday of May, 1905, for the
purpose Of electing IA mayor and board
of of FIVE trustees to serve for two
years as provided by the ordinances
Of the town OF Welsh.
Be it Further Resolved, That the
following persons be and are hereby
appointed as commissioners and clerk
to hold said election: G. NJ. Fields,
A. E. Bell and j. W. Armstrong com
missioners and VIM. ?. Russell, Jr.,
clerk.
j. H. Cooper, aye: II. A. Davidson.
aye; c. P. Martin, aye; $. W. Day,
aye.
Passed the council April 18th, 1905.
S. BLACKBOARD, Sec.
Approved April 4th, 1905.
L. E. ROBINSON, Mayor.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07
FOUND DEAD FROM GUN WOUND
". J. keatOn, Bridge Tender for The
X. c. 5. Meets MYsteriOus Death.

W. j. Keaton, bridge Waterman at
the Kansas City Southern bridge over
Houston river at the section house
No. ll5, was killed at 1870 o'clock
Saturday afternoon by self-inhicted
gunshOt wound which severed the
jugular vein completely and caused
death almost instantly. Whether the
shot was fired by Keaton with the in
tent to take his own life or whether
the gun was accidentally discharged
will probably never be known, for he
was in a room alone when the occur
renee took place. Keaton's son be-
lieyes that the shot that killed his
father was accidental. but Coroner
Fisher, in view of the relative posi-
tions of the body of Keaton, the gun
and walking stick, is inclined to-
ward the theory that it was case of
suicide, although there was ap-
pareatly no cause for such an action.
"Keaton was about 80 years DID,"
said DR.. Fisher Sunday morning,
''and the way his death happened,
with the event Immediately before it
occurred, were, as near as got them,
as follows: Keaton came into the
kitchen about 1870 o'clock, and said
he would like q drink of water, and
took a drink out of bucketful that
had been freshly drawn. Then he
asked what time it was, and went into
an adjoining room, where few
seconds later was fired the shot that
ended his life. Mrs. Keaton heard
the shot, and rushed into the room.
keaton was lying on the floor, bleed
ing profusely from the wound in the
left side of his neck. A shotgun was
lying between his legs with the muzzle
pointing toward his head. He was
unconscious, and died within a few
seconds.n
Coroner Fisher was notified and
went out to the place on the S:5(
Kansas City Southern train. He
viewed the remains and came to the
conclusion that Keaton came t. bis
death at his own hand, either acct.
dentally, or with intent.-L. c.
American.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
By the Teachers Institute HelG at
Roanoke, March 25, 1905.

Resolved: That It is the sense ard
expression OF this institute assemble,
through its committee on resolutions,
that we feel highly complimented in
being the guest OF people so highly
in favor OF education, that at ii e
last election for a special tax for
school there was not one vote in t. q
district polled against it: their entire
burden for school buildings, supplies
and maintenance amounting TO eight
mills, six being special tax.
Resolved: That we most earnestly
express ourselves in praise of Il e
neat, commodious and up 70 date
school building which considering its
size, is not excelled in any part Ct
the state: while the work of the fac
ulty and pupils has met with the ex-
pectations of patrons in our presence
expressed.
Resolved: That we also feel it due
the people assembled with us to eX-
press our thanks to them for their
presence in such goodly number, and
for their kind disposition to partici-
pate with us in all the discussions of
the session.
Resolved, That though it went be-
fore US that the women of Roanoke
we're noted for their generosity and
ability in preparing and serving good
things to comfort the inner man, in
the way of sumDtuous spreads: we
never expected to be the beneficiaries
OF such sutiiciency and variety to
constitute an ideal banquet, so modest
ly yet so artistically served.
Resolved, That our thanks and COM
mendations, being due, 90 out most
freely TO Miss Macleod and her as
slstantS for the most excellent exbibi-
ton OF what the school has done in
the accomplishments of music and
recitation for the purpose of morning
exercises, said exhibition being the
most entertaining part of the occasion.
We also extend our thanks to Miss
Macleod for synopsis of Jean
Mitchells success in the school room.
JNO. NJ. FOTTF. Chr.
EDITH DUNCAN,
JNO. Men EESE.
Committee
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07

little late on account of the severe
weather during the early part of the
sason. However, crops over the
entire country are correspondingly
late, and this will not affect the
market. Truck farming around Rus
ton, Calhoun, Homer and Minden has
become quite an industry. Louisiana
shipments find better market in the
north, on account Of the peculiar and
delicious flavor that the iron ore in
the soil gives the truck and fruit.
About the 1st Of May shipment will be
made from the trucking section to the
north"
Colonel Bonner has been engaged
during the last several weeks In the
southwestern part of the state in
urging the farmers to intensity their
methods of cultivation, to use much
fertilizer early on the crops in order
that the the cotton may be gathered
before the boil weevil makes its ap.
pearance. Colonel Bonner says that
he has been very successful in this
work, and has succeeded in getting
many of the farmers to try the method.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07
CROP DIVERSITY GROWS IN FAVOR
Louisiana Farmers Utilizing Hitherto
Untried Sources Of Wealth.

In discussing the farming opera
lions and conditions throughout
Louisiana, Colonel D. H. L. Bonner,
who has just completed a tour OF the
state In the interest of diversificatlon,
said In an interview at Baton Rouge:
1.-THE crops in the state this year
are late on account of the cold spell
and the heavy rains and the planting
Is several weeks behind. This is true
With cane, cotton and corn, though |
find places where farm has had
plenty of help and has corn crop
planted.
II am confident that in Louisiana
the campaign for a reduction of the
cotton acreage is going to bear good
results. From what | have gathered
from talking to farmers, l am sure
there will be a reduction of about 20
per cent in the cotton planted, COM
pared to what was planted last year,
and there will be a corresponding
increase in the amount of corn planted.
This land being put into corn.
There are more orchards being
planted every year in Louisiana.
More fruit trees we're planted this
year than ever before in the history
OF the state, especially in the north
ern part of the state, where fruit
Using is becoming quite an industry.
sfgood market is being developed in
4 the north for Louisiana fruits and
the planters are realizing good returns
upon their investment.
u think this is going to be a
good year for the trucking industry
OF the state, though the crop is just
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07
NOTICE OF Town CAUCAS.

By the authority in me vested as
Mayor of the Town of Welsh, La,
and in pursuance of the ordinances of
the town relative thereto, |, Lee E..
Robinson, Mayor of the Town of
Welsh, La, do hereby order that a
caucus of all of the legal qualified
voters and electors of said town, be
held at the Town Hall, on Saturday
evening, April 10, 1905, at Eight
O'Clock, p. NJ, for the purpose OF
placing in nomination one candidate
for mayor and five candidates for
trustees to be voted for at the Town
election to be held on Tuesday, May
2. 1905. 1t is urgently requested that
all legal and qualified electors attend
this caucus. L f. ROBINS SON,
Welsh, La, April 6, 1905. Mayor,