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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-15
Ancient Egyptian Herbarlum.
Queer Funerals Of Korea.

The Koreans have curious dread
Of the spirits of their ancestors and
of demons, which leads to all kinds
of precautions and propitations. Most
elaborate and expensive graves are
made for the dead, generally on a ter
race scooped out of hillside, with a
mound and ratings, grove of trees,
and a shrine with an avenue OF
strange carved stone figures of men
and beasts. The amount OF land kept
out of cultivation by these burial
pieces Is said 10 be almost Incredible.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-15
Ships Treasure-Chambers,

The specie.room on the steamship
is very important institution 1t is
located in an out'ofthe-way place
amidships, under the saloon. Few of
the passengers know of its existence,
or OF the valuable treasure that Is
carried across the ocean with them.
The room varies slightly on different
ships, but is usually about 16 feet long
by 10 feet wide and s feet high. 1t is
constructed of steel plates one-quarter
inch thick, and strongly riveted to.
gether. The floor, the ceiling and the
walls are also made of steel plates.
There is heavy door, also made of
steel 1t is provided with a variety
of combination lock that is said to
be burglar-proof.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-15

An agreeable movement of the
bowels without any unpleasant effect
is produced by Chamberlain Stomach
and Liver Tablets. For sale by all
druggists.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-15
Telephone Fences.

Barbed wire fences are being utiliz.
ed for telephone communication
among he farmers in the neighbor.
hood of Woodland, California. Tho
greater part of the lines consist OF
wire fences running along the sides
of the roads or dividing the farms,
poles and elevated wires being sup.
piled wherever necessary, Branches
or loops are added extending to the
residences Of the farmers living along
the route. The undertaking has prov.
ed SO successful that the original pro.
moters have induced others to join
them, and the line is to be greatly ex,
tended.
Ancient Egyptian Herbarlum.
Cairo can boast of the possession of
the Oldest herbarium in the world. II
Is in the museum, and consists of a
collection Of dried plants or portions
of plants taken from the wreaths and
garlands found in mummy-cases and
from the edible plants which were set
in earthenware vessels on the floor of
the sepulchre, Many OF these floral
remains are so well preserved that.
after being treated with warm water.
they can be handled as If they wero
mOfn~0 snecimens, while their Cn'r"'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31

Perhaps New Jersey is not alone in
the shortcomings set forth by the New
ark News in the following: Were a
queer lot of people in New Jersey when
we come to think about 1t. We've kill
ed off the quail until all the covers have
to be restocked. We've killed all the
wild deer until the state has to spend
thousands Of dollars to replenish the
supply. We've killed all the trout and
bass and perch and lake fish until hun
dreds OF thousands of them have to be
brought from other states at great cost
to stock the streams and ponds. We've
killed off the birds till the few that
are left have to be protected by law
and our trees are eaten up with worms.
We've killed the shad to such an extent
that they have to be Matched artiffcially
to reinforce the decimated supply. We've
slaughtered sturgeon till we have to re-
sort to hatcheries to restore the noble
fish to our waters. We've destroyed the
trees till we're obliged to reforest the
bare, desolate hfllsides. We've poisoned
so many living streams by sewage that
we haven't a drop of potable water to
spare for adjacent islanders, and we've
done a whole lot of other things equal
~ foolish. Now we're beginning to pay
for our folly"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
anti BASEBALL.
Measure to Stop Sunday Games
introduced.
Also Includes Prohibition
Against Sunday Theaters.

Robert Stone, representative from
Shawnee county, introduced the anti
Sunday baseball bill on Monday after
noon, and nobody knew it. The bin
title:
An act to amend section 225S Cbeing
section 257 of chapter 81, of the gen
eral statutes of Kansas of 1901, regu-
lat1ng crimes and punishments and to
repeal said section.
The bill not only prohibits Sunday
baseball, but it also prohibits Sunday
theaters.
The penalty for violation and other
details are set forth in the bill, which
is In full as follows:
Be it enacted by the legislature of
the state of Kansas:
Section 1. Section 225S (being sec
ton 257 Of chapter 30, of the general
statutes of Kansas Of 1901, is amended
to read as follows: Every person who
shall be convicted of horse racing, cock
fighting or playing at cards, baseball,
or game of any kind, of giving or as
sisting in giving any theatrical perform
ance for pay, on the first day of the
week, commonly called Sunday, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and fined not exceeding fifty dollars.
''Sec. 2. Section 1858 (being section
257 of chapter 30, of the general sta
tutes of Kansas of 1901, is hereby re-
pealed.
sec. 3. This act shall take effect and
be IN force from ana a1leE It's puD1lCd-
ton in the official state paper"
The bill was this morning referred to
the committee on judiciary of which
A w. Benson is chairman. The bill
will in all probability be favorably re-
ported by the committee. The fight will
come later on.
One OF the leaders of the house said
this morning:
4 do not believe the bill will be passed.
Tt will probably meet Il similar fate to
the Farris anti-foOtbaU bill Still, you
can't always tell. TIE bill may get past
the house, but l don't believe 1t Will go
far in tle senate
Speaker Stubs does not recognize the
anti-basebalI bill an administration
measure. ne said today:
4 never read the bill and I don't have
the least idea what the house will do
with it
It is expected that strong lobby of
preachers will work for this bill. Charles
NJ Sheldon is taking leading part in
the campaign against Sunday amuse-
ments. Mr.. Stone, " no introduced the bill
only after a good deal ot hesitation, said
this morning:
I have concluded to present this bill
and give 1t my support. believe it should
be passed. We do not want in this state
what is called a continental Sunday
believe that the sentiment of the people of
Kansas is in favor of less boisterous
amusements. Baseball in itself may not
be a harmful Sunday amusement, but it
opens the door to other things which may
not be so desirable
A. G.. Mead Of Mitchell, one of the adj
ministration leaders. says: The bill will
probably bring about q spirited fight when
If comes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
MEANT STANDARD OIL.
But Mr.. Stubbs Hit at Other Trusts
as Well.

Speaker w. r. Stubs was asked to-
day what he meant by the following
statement in his speech last night:
Our boasted freedom is only half
complete as long as the citizens of
Kansas, or of any other state, own mil
lions of dollars worth of property that
they dare not even consider marketing
except in the manner, at the time and
upon the terms prescribed by their alb
solute masters, so far as this property
is concerned"
What 1 meant by that is that the
state should no longer endure the tyr
amy of the Standard Oil monopoly, or
any other trust or combine which op-
crates for the detriment of the people
of this state. I cite the Standard Oil
company as an example of this monop-
oily
''Were you referring to the rail-
roads?"
well, was thinking especially of
the Standard Oil, but l mean to include
all trusts and combines which operate
in restraint of the best interests of the
state.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31

features has taken place during the
past decade.
Considering the last decade, in which
the increase was six times as great as
in any preceding decade. the growth
in the closing year, 1904, was greater
than that of any other year of the de-
cade.
The increase of 81 millions, the larg-
est increase shown in exports of man
ufactures in any calendar year in our
export record, is chiefly in iron and
steel, copper. refined mineral oils, and
cotton Comparing 1904 with 1903, the
increase in iron and steel is 2912 mil
lions; in copper. 81 millions; in mineral
oils. millions; and in cotton manu-
features, 61k millions. A statement
printed by the u. 6. bureau Of statis-
tics gives the total value of the ten
principal articles or groups Of articles
classified as manufactures. These ten
articles or groups Of articles, consider
ed in their relative magnitude, are iron
and steel manufactures, copper manu-
features, refined mineral oils, leather
and manufactures thereof, cotton man
ufactures, agricultural implements,
chemicals, and cars and carriages.
Considering iron and steel, the largest
of these groups of manufactured ar
ticles and the most important because
of the fact that it represents in a high
er degree the finished product than is
the case with certain other of the ar
ticles classified as manufactures, it will
be seen that the figures of 1904, $12S,
553 613, are more than four times as
great as those of a decade earlier the
total value of iron and steel manufac-
lures exported in 1894 being but $29.-
94S, 729, while the total value of iron
and steel manufactures exported since
1880 exceeds one billion dollars, the
precise total. considering in all cases
the figures of calendar years, being
81, DOS. 3O7, 466.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
TEAR DOWN THE BILLS.
Crawford Theatre Begins War on New
Vaudeville House.

Indications point to a theatrical war in
Topeka a new 10 cent theater which will
be known as the Star Vaudeville theater
will be formally opened to the public with
a matinee next Saturday afternoon at No.
as Kansas avenue.
The bill posters of the new theater have
been putting out window cards announc-
ing the opening bill, and B. c. Roberts,
the press agent of the new theater, says
that the Crawford theater bill posters fol-
low after the bill posters of the new the
alter and get the window cards of the Star
theater and throw them away.
we have brought union bill posters
here from Kansas City" says Mr.. Rob
erts. and We are going to keep putting
up our window cards as fast as they are
taken down. If the Crawford bill posters
keep up the practice of destroying our
cards the public may look for interesting
developments
The new Star theater is on the Crystal
vaudeville circuit and the actors who APP
pear at Topeka VIII appear at the houses
on this circuit in every city in the coun-
try which is listed on the Crescent cir
cult. The new theater has been nicely
decorated and has n seating capacity flor
800 persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
BARD'S BOMB.
The California Senator Makes
Sensational Charges.
They Involve the President in
Deal With Catholics.

Washington, Jan. 31.-Sensational
disclosures in relation to the alleged
use of Indian trust funds for the sup
port of sectarian schools were made
today by Senator Bard in a statement
to the senate committee on Indian af-
fairs In addition to the charge that
Roman Catholic schools have received
9S per cent of the money expended
under contracts made by the Indian
commissioner the senator said that he
had been approached by a representa-
tive of a Catholic association with a
promise of carrying a certain stated
number of districts in California for
him in return for his influence in
bringing about a continuance of such
favorable contracts.
The statement of Senator Bard
created a stir in the committee and he
was asked to give a detailed account
of the transaction, as well as any
other matters relating to the use of
trust funds for sectarian school pur-
poses, on which he was informed. He
filed with the committee a statement
covering the conversation and also a
list of the districts the Catholic asso-
citation proposed to carry for him. He
then discussed the statement of S. M.
Brosius, agent of the Indian Rights
association, and also quoted from a
circular issued by NJ. K. Sniffen, sec
rotary of the association, charging
that the discrimination in favor of
Roman Catholics was by direction of
the president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
QUAKER REFLECrIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The people who trust to luck are lucky
to set trust
The fellow with a poor memory should
stick to the truth.
The coal man should be brought to
see the error of his weighs
The crook can make a name for him
self by simply adopting alias.
When a warm day comes along the
thermometer always rises to the occasion
A woman can change her mind a dozen
times while a man is making his mp once.
Tt ISN'T always the man with the strong
face who raises the heaviest Whiskers.
Those VINO marry for love are no more
proof against disappointment than those
who marry for money.
What's the use of worrying about
whether or not we shall know each other
in heaven? Few of US really know each
other here.
There is plenty of room at the top
quoted the Wise Guy. Every empty
headed fool must realize that, murmured
the Simple Mug.
Those who own autos say it's fine,
And gladly they display EN-;
But auto fines are not for mine:
I've not enough to pay EN-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
CHANGE MARRIAGE LAWS
Senate Would Adopt More Stringent
Provisions.

The senators spent an hour this
morning on some new marriage laws
affecting runaway marriages and the
marriages of Divorces. The result is
that if the house passes the senate
bills which went through the sena-
torial committee of the whole this
morning, and as the stump speakers say,
ARE written on the statute books as
laws then young ladies can no longer
write rs on q piece of paper, put the
paper in their shoe and then tell the
probate judge, who issues the mar
riage license, that Il am over eight
Gen." Heretofore, while such state
mentS have been made to evade the
law and have been told as untruths,
by some hook or crook of the law I'M
known to any except the legal fra
ternity such statements have not con-
stituted perjury and there has been
no punishment to follow.
Senator Young introduced a bill to
make such statements constitute per-
jury and be followed by punishment,
upon conviction, and Senator Simons
tackled on the resolution placing Il
minimum age limit on all marriages
made in Kansas.
Senator Young's bill provides that
probate judges shall not issue mar
riage licenses to males under 81 years
of age and females under is years of
age unless the parent or guardian of
the party consents to the marriage of
a younger person. An affidavit as to
the age Oh the parties named IN q
marriage license must be sworn to
before a probate judge and a wrong
statement shall constitute perjury
Senator Young said: There are
many instances where such a law is
needful and 1 can recall one in par
ticular. A tramp, SIS years old, stop
ped at the farm of some very respect
able people. Against the consent of
the parents he married the 15-year-
old daughter. He made a false state
ment to the probate Judge as to her
age but he could not be prosecuted.
In thirty days he abandoned her.
Senator Simons was particularly de-
SirOuS that a minimum age limit be
provided for and he offered the
which made II years for
males and Is years for females the
minimum age for marriage in Kan
sas. The senate unanimously adopted
the amendment.
Senator Dumont Smiths bill prohib- |
iting the remarriage of a divorced per- |
son within one year after the decree of |
divorce is granted was amended to pro-
hibit the marrying of a person against |
whom a decree of divorce is granted for |
one year after the granting Of the de- |
cree. The person securing the decree |
may marry again within six months, |
which is the present law regarding both |
parties to a divorce suit Senator Getty |
from Kansas City. offered the amend |
ment.
The bill, if it becomes a law, will pro
hibit the suing on the part of divorced |
parties against each other for property. |
Such cases have been brought, one of |
them being the Johnson case in the |
Shawnee count wherein VIII Johnson |
whose wife had divorced him on the |
ground of abandonment, brought suit to |
ter her death. and before the six months |
provision against remarrying had elaps- /
ed on the ground that the decree was |
final. He lost the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31

Judge Peter s. Grosscup Of the
United States circuit court, speaking
of the decision of the supreme court
in the beef trust case. says: 1.-The de-
cision establishes the right of the gov
eminent to prevent combinations
among the manufacturers of meats.
1t fortifes the Sherman act. 1t is
long step in the direction of effectual
government supervision. But to my
mind the real significance of the de-
cision is much deeper and more far
reaching than even this. 1t effectively
clears the decks for what I believe
will be the next really great national
movements the restriction and
finally the abolition of slavery was the
last great fundamental movement
the organization and supervision, by
the nation itself Of the great corpo-
rations of the future-a movement
whose chief object will be not so much
to control prices. or merely to curb
power, as to bring corporate owner
ship within the reach and reasona BILE
confidence of the people at large and
thus to repeopleize and republfcanize
again, the industrial ownership of the
country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
AIMED AT STANDARD.
Bill to Provide Against Discrimination
TO Be Introduced.

Three oil bills will be introduced in
the senate Wednesday.
One will be to make pipe lines COM
mon carriers and under the control of
the railroad commissioners.
Another is to prohibit discrimina-
ton and provides penalties for VIOLA
ton.
The third is a bill to fix the maxi
mum railroad rate for the transporta-
ton of oil.
The three bills were prepared by
Senator F. D. Smith, and will be in
troduced by the committee on oil and
gas. These three with the state re-
fnery bill will be the four oil bills to
come before the senate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

LF'rom the Chicago News.l
Any person who conceaIs the truth lies
in ambush.
He who attends to his own business is
never out of a job.
After a man is knocked down by his
enemies his friends kick him
Barring boarding house steaks. there
are many things tender and true.
The man who never says anything he
isn't sorry for later never says anything
Most men who cry Down with the
trusts!" would like to own u little stock
in them
A man who is in politics for the good of
the people usually considers his family
the people.
A wise girl occasionally induces a young
man she doesn't like to act as pacemaker
for one she does.
Don't think that just because a man ad-
NOcates the protection of home industries
he IS industrious when at home
The feminine half of the world may not
know how the masculine half lives, but it
never tires of trying to find out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.l
As the clothes are fitted the figure in
clines-
Parents are always praying for the sal
walton of their children and indulging
them to their ruin.
man who knows enough to make his
living is never thought as much of the
genius who can't.
When a man has one and sounds the
final st in valet he seems to think he
isn't getting his moneys worth.
There is something very malicious about
the way a pretty girl is always getting up
excuses to kiss her relatives when you are
around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
NEW EXPORT RECORD.

Exports of domestic manufactures
from the United States in 1904 exceeded
for the first time 500 million dollars
against AL millions in 1908, and AL
millions in the earlier high-record year,
1900. Comparing 1904 with still earlier
periods. it viii be seen that the ex-
ports Of manufactures were in 1894. ten
years earlier. but III millions; in 1884, 1S6
millions; in 1874. 90 millions; in 1854 40
millions, and in 1854, % millions. The
chief growth in the exports of manu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
AND men.
Missouri and Her Attitude on
Kansas Laws.
Attempt to Call Attention to the
Insurance Measures.

Some one has been stuffing the ST.
Louis papers Under the headline
kansas Legislators Chief Thought Is
of Insurance Companies" they assert
that insurance is about the only real
legislation on hand with the Kansas
solons. And this is handed the unsus-
pecting St. Louis sheet as Special
from Topeka 1t shows what a cramp-
ed idea the AIissourian has for the
Kansas legislature. They think be-
cause we have fewer convicted boodlers
than they boast that we have nothing
to do but worry about insurance COM
panies. Because none of our reporters
have been caught with thousand dollar
bills they decide that the Kansas leg
islature is tame and uninteres ting.
Missouri is all swelled up about their
baking powder explosion and a few
other dinkey little affairs, such as the
conviction of Burton. They have the
nerve to assume that Kansas spends
its time figuring out a way to skin
some unSuspecting insurance company,
but they are wrong. There are meas
ures before the present Kansas legis-
lature which, for real Importance, put
the miserable little Missouri accidents
in the deep shade. We have a bill for
the destruction OF the pocket gopher,
one for the protection of the blue jay,
another for the elimination of chicken
hawks and two for the changing of
names.
Go way back, Missouri, and be seat
ed. It is useless for you to attempt to
make the rest of the world believe that
the Kansas legislature wastes its time
over little insurance bills.
It is claimed that a number of legis-
lators got into the Kansas Day ban
quet last night by crawling under the
tent. 1t claimed that a large bevy of
chattering law builders gathered on
the first floor during the evening, and
fought for positions near an aper-
ture in the tent cloth with which the
hole in the floor above the spread
was plugged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31
ADOPTS RESOLUTION.
Senate Would Investigate the Packing
House Trust.

The senate this morning unani-
mously adopted Senator Noftzger's
resolution for the examination of the
packing house trust in Kansas.
This resolution was written before
the decision of the United States SUI
preme court" said Senator Noftzger.
This resolution is directed at a trust
which robs the people of Kansas.
This resolution is to show the attorney
general that the legislature is behind
him. No argument is needed on this"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31

Large railroad earnings and bank
clearings. says Clews & Co.'S Financial
Review, both testify to the heavy vol
ume of business in progress Farm
ers north, south, east and west are
unusually prosperous Manufacturers
are generally well employed, and the
great iron industry shows an alto
gether unexpected degree of activity
at this season. having booked orders
in advance that viii keep furnaces and
mills busy for several months to
come. There is. consequently, no
diminution of earning capacity in
sight for railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-31

The interested parties, through
their friends and senators, got after
Senator F. d. Smiths senate bill to
reduce salaries of county commission
ers, between the senate SESSION Mon
day afternoon and the session this
morning. When the bill came up Sen
ator Griffin from Jefferson county
moved to strike out the enacting
clause and the motion was carried.
The county commissioners salaries
will remain as they are, so far as
Smiths bill might change them.