The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
IT'S GREAT INDEED
Ellis H. Roberts Opinion of
Kansas.
Treasurer of United States Ar
riyes Today.
TO TALK TO BANK Frs.
His Meeting at Auditorium
Wednesday Evening.
Says PeOpIeDOn { RealizeKansas'
Importance.
% TALK TO HAMMERS.

Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer Of the
United States. IS at the Copeland hotel.
He came to Topeka today to attend
the convention Of the members OF the
Kansas State Bankers association.
which eonvenes here tomorrow and
which adjourns after a banquet at the
Throop hotel Thursday night
Mr.. Roberts is rs years of age. He
has pure white hair and a gray beard.
He appears strong and hearty ana one
would not guess from his appearance
that he was born in 1927.
A reporter for the state Journal
round Mr.. Roberts just as he was
leaving the dining room today noon
He was in 3. compliment mood and has
been enjoying thoroughly the inyigor-
aung air of the Kansas climate.
our people are only beginning to
realize what a great state you have, .
he said. II predict that the next 10
years viii develop great strides in the
progress of the state
Mr.. Roberts is enthusiastic in his
expression of his opinion of Kansas.
The great crops about to be harvest
ed, the cattle interests and the great
mineral wealth of the state are mat
ters Wen worthy the pride of all the
people of the state" he declared.
Mr.. Roberts will address the mem
bers of the bankers convention at the
Auditorium tomorrow night. The
meeting Will be open to the public, and
an invitation is extended to all who
wish to hear him to attend.
Treasurer Roberts was at one time
an editor. He published for several
years tn e Utica. N. Y. Morning Herald,
the leading paper of his native town.
Before his newspaper experience Mr..
Roberts finished q course at Yale and
received the degree of IL. D. He was
principal of the Utica Free Academy
and was teacher of Latin at the Utica
Female seminary.
In 1885 he was elected to the New
York assembly. and was afterward
elected to congress. He was assistant
treasurer OF the United States from
1889 to 1898. and he was appointed
treasurer of the United States under
the Mckinley administration. He is
also the author of several books.
Mr.. Roberts expressed. great inter-
est In the city of Topeka and visited
the Auditorium and several other pub
lie buildings in company with a re-
porter of the State Journal
This is the first, time he has ever
made a trip to Kansas, although he
has passed drought the state on a
number OF occasions. He will remain
In Topeka Wednesday and Thursday
and will return to Washington D. C.
on Friday morning, a.sa.-..- aaseeak s7fs
The local committee i'm charge of
the arrangements for entertaining the
delegates to the bankers convention
are confronted with a problem. The
national convention of the Royal
11efghbors of America and the Modern
Woodmen, which began here yester-
day, have so drawn upon the hotel
accomm odations that it will be with
some difficulty that all the bankers
are cared for.
The opening session tonight will be
informal and the delegates will be
taken on a trolley ride to Washburn
college, where by the courtesy of the
college management they will be given
a peep at the stars through the new
telescope
The business sessions will begin to-
morrow morning in the senate
chamber.