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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
LOCAL MENTION.

Ensign and Mrs. Laplount of the Sal
walton Army, are the parents of a son
born Sunday morning
The ladies of the Oakland Christian
church will give a free entertainment
Tuesday night on the lawn at the home
of r. B. Lesson, AS Ohio avenue. Rea-
ner Billiard will play a corner solo.
State Auditor Wells returned today
from a five weeks trip to the Pacific
coast. He has been at his home in
to attend the meeting Of the treasury
board Tuesday.
A charter was granted today to the
Union State bank at Lenora, which
has capital stock of 5000. Con-
gresham William A. Reeder, of Lo-
gan, is one of the incorporators.
The state teachers examinations
commenced today at various points in
the state. The one at Topeka is in
Supt. Dayhoff's office, and only two
people appeared to take the examina-
ton. There are very few applicants
at any of the examination points.
Russell McAdoo sued his wife. Mary
MeAdoo for divorce in the district court
this morning, alleging abandonment. AS
no showing was made by the defend
ant his request was granted.
Stella e. Jones came to the conclusion
some time ago that she could no longer
live with her husband, Herbert w.
Jones, and took the matter before Judge
Dana. who this morning granted her
request for divorce.
In the case of the state VS.. Boltz and
others in the city court this morning a
| continuance was asked by the state and
| granted. This is the case of the Santa
Fe strikers that has been in court for
some time. Attorney w w. Harvey OBJ
tected to the case being postponed again
but the judge made an order setting the
case for August 81.
! The case of Len Johnson against
| Thomas Sheard for salary due on an
alleged violated contract was postponed
| indefinitely.
The case of Thadius WEIGH, charged
with assault upon Miriam Merrett, was
called in the city court this morning
and the defendant bound over to the
district court His bond which had been
| made 81 900 was reduced to $500 which
he will make an attempt TO give today.
The board of county commissioners
| this morning appointed w. H Mauney
! superintendent of construction for the
new bridge that is to be built across
the WakArusa creek in Auburn town
ship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
IN MEMORY OF JUDGE REDDEN
Memorial Adopted by the Shawnee
County Bar Association.

The members of the Shawnee County
Bar association met in the district court
room this morning and adopted resolu-
tions on the death of Judge Redden.
Short addresses were delivered by Judge
"A. w. Dana, Robert Stone and E. D.
McKeever. A memorial was presented
by a committee consisting of H. S.
Allen as chairman, A. w. Dana, A. Ber-
gen, H. G. Larimer and J. G. Waters.
After a review of the life of the late
Judge Redden the memorial says:
Among the gracious things that may
be said of him, he was too much of
man to ever have been a successful
politician and too much of lawyer to
be enamored of political life. 1t is an
act of duty to say this much of him
over his ashes get warm; we have given
him that which he earned. His career
as lawyer has closed; the few animos-
tiles of bygone days, and arising out of
a strenuous practice, have long ago
vanished, and sorrow, unfeigned and
general is felt throughout the state for
his untimely DEATH
I'VE know not any philoSopy that
gives satisfactory answer to his dying.
The long absent ship sinks at the har-
boris mouth. Love dies without good
byes or farewell kisses. The bride drops
at the altar and the bridal wreath is
but withered flowers that bind dead
girls temples. Judge Redden died at
a time when life was at it's best, when
loved him most, when he had reason
able cause to forecast the pleasures of
long years ahead, when his orchards
dropped him their fruit, when his
gardens were bountiful with bloom
when the nights enticed him with
sound slumber, and the days full of
earth's glories and riches, were yield
ing him its choicest bounties.
Death gamers its harvests in its
own way; it asks no advice; it halts at
no prayer and stays not its hand for a
tear, and it comes with felted feet
when our eyes are averted or closed.
We can only recognize the tragedy of
the inevitable and bow before it, Ieav-
ing the reason and the final issues to
that Great Judge, in whose assizes
mercy tempers judgment and love
threads His eternal DEGREES.
I'VE respectfully request that this
memorial be presented to the district
court of Shawnee county, and entered
of record on its proceedings and that
the chairman of this committee may
present the same at the next session of
the supreme court of the state of Kan
sas, and that a copy may be furnish ed
his stricken family that they may know
and feel our profoundest sympathy in
their great bereavement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
SLIGHTLY COOLER WEATHER.
A Fresh SoutherIy Breeze Respon-
sibIe for the Change.

Sundays weather report shows that
the day was not an ideal one, by any
means, although the temperature did
not quite reach the 90 mark at its
highest. Reports from over the state
indicate an abundance of sunshine
but a lower temperature than was ex-
perienced last week. The only pre-
cipitation that is recorded for the
state fell at Topeka, and there was
only .13 of an inch here. Today is
cooler than yesterday by several de-
grees, and a cool 4 mile an hour
wind blowing from the southeast
makes the day seem very comfortable.
Today'S corn and wheat region re-
port says: The temperature has
risen over Kansas and western Mis-
souri, and yesterday reached 100 to 102
degrees in the central counties OF Kan
sas. Clear weather generally pre-
vailed this morning over the district.
Showers have occurred in northwest
ern Missouri.
The maximum and minimum tenn
peratures as recorded at the various
stations over the state for the "a hours
ending at o'clock this morning We're:
Baker. 1854; Concordia, 1886; Dodge
City, 1852; Fort Scott, 90-62; Macks-
willie, 10000; Mcpherson. 1925; Man.
haitian. 1854; Usage City, 94-64; Rus
sell, 1852; Sedan. 9468; Topeka.
1857: Toronto, 94-62; Wichita, 96-6S.
The hourly temperatures recorded
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
PROMISE TO WIDEN ROAD.
Union Pacific Agrees to Improve Cal
houn Bluff Driveway.

In the construction of their double
track at Calhoun Bluff. east of the
city, the Union Pacific track gang
found it necessary to blast away con-
siderable of the county wagon road,
making it too narrow for the safe
passage of vehicles.
The matter was taken up by the
board of county commissioners with
the railroad with the result that the
Union Pacific company has agreed to
make the wagon road twelve feet
wider than it now is for distance of
500 feet. The rock and soil removed
in cutting into the bluff will be used
in filling the draws and ravines and
the indications are that the residents
of that part of the county will have a
better road than ever before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
riend had finished tying me hand and

friend had finished tying me hand and
foot.
what are you doing with ?"
was my natural query.
Just preventing you from getting
into trouble was the answer. Jim,
go down and fasten the outer door and
bring up the TOOLS
81 want to know what this meansn'
| said in pretty bold tones, as the man
disappeared from the room.
Mr.. Hastings sat smoking a cigar. In
lazy way he fiicked off the ashes and
smiled and said:
II thought you were far enough
along in law to tumble to a plain case
when you saw one, but as you are not
1 will explain. We are after the
money in the vault below"
Good heavens, but you don't mean
to tell me that you are bank rob
BERT
That's a pretty rough term for it.
Deplete is a, much nicer word than
rob Yes. we are going to deplete the
bank of its cash. and let me say to
you, that if you hadn't put yourself
out to make my stay pleasant while
here piping off the job, you would
have been cracked on the head instead
of gently assisted to lie down on your
back. Here is Jim, and we shall now
get to work. 1t may help you in later
| years, when you have bank case on
| hand, to watch our operations. don't
think you are fool enough to go to
shouting. If you are we can soon gag
YOU
While the men were stripping off
| coats-and vests and getting tools out of
| a bag I lay there like a stunned sheep.
l couldn't get over it that my friend,
Mr.. Hastings. had blossomed out into a
| bank robber, and kept wondering all
the time if it wasn't some sort OF joke
1 didn't think of calling out. knowing
that almost everybody was in bed by
! that time and the streets deserted. Had
| I yelled my loudest no one would have
heard me.
| The plan of the robbers was to cut a
hole through the floor of our pack room
directly. over the vault, and then go
| down through the brickwork into the
vault itself. They ripped up the car
pet bored a few holes, and then insert
| ed saws and soon had a space four feet
square cut out. They smoked and chat
ted as they worked, and now and then
Mr.. Hastings turned to address word
| or give me q smile. In a little time
| they were at the bricks, and as fast as
taken out they were piled up in the
room. They had gone down tnrougn
three courses when they suddenly. be-
| gan cursing. There was steel plate
under the third layer, and had the rob
| bers had the best of tools they could
not have pierced it in three days. They
| were knocked out in minute, and TO
! save nv life I couldn't help but grin
| over it, Hastings caught me at 1t, and
after a scowl his brow cleared and with
a smile he said:
"AII right, sonny, grin away. 1t was
a long job to pull off, and it has gone
against us, but the next may turn out
! better. Come. Jim, we must be getting
out of this
| The tools were replaced in the bag.
! both of the men bade me good night,
and / was locked in No efforts of mine
awaited to loosen me, and when morn
Ing came nv rescuers made their way
through one of the front windows by
means of a ladder. OF course, the men
had been gone for hours and no one in
Poolsville ever saw them agaln--tCopy-
right, 1905, by R. B. McClure)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
NO PERSONAL BONDS.
Shawnee County Repositories Must
Furnish Surety Company Guarantee.

The board of county commissioners
made a ruling this morning that will
require all of the banks that are desig-
mated as county repositories to give a
bond with a bonding company as secur-
ity.
In the future a personal bond will not
be accepted, as in most cases where d
bank fails the bonds given are made by
friends of the banks and they are gen
orally deprecated by the failure of the
bank, as was the case of the First Ma
tional bank in this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28

the creek a that point. the piers being
of steel. In rebuilding the bridge the
company contemplated replacing the
steel piers with concrete work. This
will narrow the channel about IL feet
and the farmers near the stream fear
that the narrowing of the channel will
cause the stream to overflow when the
spring rains come. A committee of
railroad men will drive out this after
noon to make an inspection of the
bridge and pass upon the protest of
the citizens of the township.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28

The best insurance laws of Massa-
chusetts were patterned after the prac-
tfce of this company many years ago
Always a pioneer in reforms. Leads but
never foIlowsi
National Life Insurance company of
Fifty-sixth year. doing business in AZ
states. VIM B. Henderson, General
Manager, suite 459 Kemper building.
Kansas City, Mo. Both phones 45e
Main; or S. w Thompson, manager.
Columbian building. Phone 1881 Ind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28

New York, Aug. 2s.-MONEY-Mon on
call steady, per cent, closing bid and Of
fered at per cent; time loans firm; 60
days, 81 per cent; so days, 49, per cent; s
months, 4 per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 40
AZ per cent: sterling exchange easy, with
actual business in bankers bills at $4.861a
demand and at s4s465 for 60 day bills
posted rates, SISSY and $4.S77k; commercial
bills, $4.8415
SILVER-Bar silver. 6214c; Mexican dol
BONDS Government bonds steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
TO TRY CITY OWNERSHIP.
Waterworks Bonds Registered Today
by State Auditor.

Independence, Kan. is going into the
municipal ownership of waterworl<s
right. Today the state auditors force is
at work registering an issue of s37. 500
chase of the waterworks plant and an
other issue of SCI, 800 for the purpose of
Improving the plant. 1t would seem that
the independence plant is badly in need
OF Improvement. The total cost of the
Job of municipal ownership win he
100000. DS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
Under the Razor.

One day last week Burt Lynch was
shaving man. He was in a hurry to fin
ish him, as he wanted to go to a show,
and he threw the lather around rather
recklessly. Some of the soap got into a
customers mouth, and he, of course, reg
istered a mighty kick Instead of taking
umbrage at the mans hot language, the
barber told him to keep quiet and be care
full not to let the boss hear him, and he
wouldn't charge him anything extra
Freewater (O.) Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
OBJECT TO LARGE PIERS.
Farmers DO Not Want Cross Greek
Channel Narrowed.

A committee of farmers went before
the officials of the Union Pacific rail-
road this morning to protest against
the narrowing of the channel of Gross
creek near RossVfIle.
The railroad now has a bridge across
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28

IT can't stand it any longer. Please
give me a separation" man whose
head was swathed in bandages made
this appeal to Alderman Huggett, at
the Tottenham police court yesterday.
His wife, he said, was constantly nag
cling him, and had smashed a flower
pot. on his head. Alderman Nugget:
I am afraid we cannot protect you. 1t
is no crime.-Lendon Daily Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28

AttentioA No l. Select Knights and
Ladies. yoe are requested to attend the
funeral of. our late brother. Earnest
Muller, at his home, 12S Quincy street.
Tuesday, August 20, at 2:S0 p MT.
Iseral, Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28


The First regiment is able to console
itself for having only fiRe members on
the team by the fact that the high
man, Sergeant Frank ParmeIee of Bur
1ngton, is First regiment man.
1t is a surprise to those who are
familiar with the shooting of the K N
6. that Lieutenant H H. Shelley of
Hutchinson did not get a place on the
team Shelley has won several gold
medals in the Kansas shoots, and was
counted one of the crack shots of the
state.
Captain A. L. Hitchins of Burlington.
who did not quite get on the team, has
been appointed camp adjutant, and Cap
tain A. H. Herman, of Hiawatha. an
other unsuccessful contestant, is given
place as range officer. These APP
pointments are made by the officers in
charge of the Sea Girt shoot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
PARMELEE HIGHEST.
Led the Kansans in Preliminary Shoot
at Sea Girt.

Adjutant General j. w. F. Hughes to-
day received the names of the Kansas
rifle team which will represent the state
at Sea Girt, and the scores which they
made in the preliminary shoot at Sea
Girt which determined the team. The
team shoot begins today.
The preliminary shoot resulted in the
selection of seven men from the Second
regiment and five men from the First
Colonel Hoisington reports that while
the men who did not get places on the
team are much disappointed, the best of
tatives of the two regiments, and that
the belief is general that the twelve best
men won.
The following is a list of the scores
made in the preliminary, and the first
twelve men constitute the Kansas team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28

I. Sgt. Frank Parmelee, Burlington. 81
2. Maj. T. r. Campbell, Hutchinson. .295
B. *Sgt A. d. Altenreid, Hutchinson. .291
5. alt. r. ]. Kessler, Hutchinson. .... .2S7
s. Musician B. f. Davis, Manhattan. 2S5
z. Sgt q. H. Parsons, Yates Center. ..27S
8. @Sgt. q. P. Sawyer, Newton.
g. @Capt. V. E. Cunningham. Osborn. 276
70. %Capt. J. F. Lawson, Hutchinson 26S
II Corp. X. X. Order, Yates Center. .266
y 1t. G. P. Eagle, Yates Center. 266
13- Capt. A. L. Hitchins, Burlington. .255
a. 1t. A. F. Berg, Salina .............. .254
70 musician H L. Hunt, Lawrence. .253
is. 1T H. H. Shelley. Hutchinson 227
%. Capt A. H Herman, Hiawatha 223
10. Capt salisbury, Burlington, inca
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-07
RoosexeIt and he LIonA

n will be recalled that few years
sgo President Roosevelt visited several
Massachusetts cities. among them
P,ttFfeld. While passing from his
train to the point where he was to
speak to the people aJt electric car was
recklessly driven against the presi
Dental carriage as ii passed the tracks
o. the electric line. The carriage was
demolished and one OF the Presidents
guards was killed.
A short time afterwards a circus
company appeared in the same cits
and IL had the usual attractions of wild
a:Amals. etc. Through mishap some
Ct the animals escaped from their
oS9e- and were roaming at large. One
Of tho Presidents friends saw the
humorous side Of the situation and i'm
meaiately scat the following message
to Nj. Roosevelt: Lions running
wild about our streets; come down
with your gun"
10 this the President replied; Bears
mere liz my line; turn your trolley cars
or tie lions" Boston Herald
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-07
cosr OF CABLES.

The Postal Telegraph Cable COM
pany announces that effective July lst
the rate to Corea VIII be reduced 20
cent? per word via the Commerc al
Pacific cable. ChemuIpo, Fusan and
Seoul will be one dollar and twenty
one cents per word beyond San Fran
cisco. and ether points in corea viii
be one dollar and twenty-nine cents per
word beyond San Francisco
The average reader who glanced at
the announcement may have been
more or less amazed al the reduced
rates OF cable company
Taking up the evening paper-deliv-
cred 70 him for a few cents--he gets
thousands of dollars worth Of news
from all over the world Perusing this
news snresd into type and pictures for
his delectation, he had no adequate
opinion Of the tremendous cost Of the
service rendered him
For instance: During the Spanish
American war the newspapers OF the
country paid as much as s24o per word
for special kilograms from the Philip
pines, The cost was high lRa the pa
pers had to pay.
Because Of the laying Of new cables
ana other facilities the cost OF cable
news is reduced to half the price oi
ave or six years ago. but it Is yet very
expensive
Organization, combination. system
these have made IL possible 10 secure
from every news center on the glob'
the news of the world. A single news
paper could do nothing OF itself Pres
associations that divide the cost o.
gathering and disbursing the news be
tween a lsrge number Of newspaper
make the IN ng possible.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-07

was riding in a North London
tramcar the other night, writes a cor
respondent, when, as happened to Mrs.
Cluppins, cloud voices forced them
selves upon my ear" There entered
the car two cabmen. and one proceeded
to address his companion who sat yis-
avis:
Il was a-settip' down in the city
this evenin'," he said, when the blo-
which could see was a toff, gave mo
a triple tip. II yer ever puts bit on,
e ses, I can put yer up to a good thing
Lord Rosebery's sizaro for the Der
by'-I presumed that Cisero was meant
Ambition for the Jubilee Stakes and
Long Tom for the Chester Cup. Them
was is tips"
AN what yer goin' to doT" inquired
his friend. "Ow does Q know?"
"well, could see e VAS bIoke that
know'd lot Look at Long Tom.
never know'd e was in the Chester Cup
till this bloke mentioned It. Sizaro
for the Derby. Ambition for the Jubilee
and Long aom for the Chester Cup
them was Ii tips. Blow me II don't
put arf a crown on tomorrow. wy, on
a cumulator it might be so TO ART a
crown
But yer DacKeu Long rom y 0vrrer
day and lost" suggested the second
cabman.
$50 / did. But e was then 9 to 2.
Now 'e's 16 70 /. shall put on arf
crown tomorrow. Might make so to
ART a. crown on a cumnlator. That
bloke know'd bit, could see."
And so take II, continues our cor
respondent, "a bit has been put on"
and the foregoing shows the scientific
method on which it's done. No won
der @bookies' stand to win---London
News a
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-07

Santiago. that he holds another con.
eressicnal medal FOR bravery and was
further awarded medal Tor the saw
ms OF lives at sea. ! would consider
these oxtenuatlnn circumstances to
prevent the taking Of a life in the
electric chair al least It seems
stringe thing to me that these facts
were net brought out during Totter.
mans trial"
Tatterfnan's career holds this use;
It illustrates the duN nature of hu.
manity VIII one and the same man
take life and save lie? Can a man be
both hero and murderer Is the story
Of DR. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde a typical
one?
It seems so.
There is that within us that links
us to the divine There is also that
within us that links us to the least
erected aend that fell But for your
heritlge and training you might be an
imp Of the devil. Wen did that anci-
ent divine say. pointing to a drunken
brute, There. but for divine grace,
gees Richard Baxter"
And this realization ought TO make
men very charitable and very kind
For every man has in him an angel
and a beast.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-07
ThE ErERNAL wItL.


There ia nothing we cannot overcome:
o. that some trait inboin makes thy
whole life forlorn,
And cal down punisnmcnt that Is ms
Back Of thy parents md grandparents
Hes
The Great Eesnai WIN: that too. Is
Inheritance-stro beautifw. dsvInc.
Sure lever Of success for one who tries.
Fry W thy faults win this great lever.
win.
Hc~sesr deeply beddcd in propensity
IN that vast power shat comes from
Truths inimensity.
Thou art a part OF that great world. 4
Its iorces lie within thee. stronger far
Than an thy sias and frailties are.
Believe thyself divine and watch and
pray.
There IS no noble height thou canst not
climb
All triumphs may be thine in Times
futurity
H. whatsoe'r thy fault. thou dost not faint
But lean upon the STAFF of Gods secur-
lty.
Earth has no claim the soul cannot con-
test;
Know thyself part Of that Etern
And naught can stand before thy spirts
The souls divine inheritance r. best
Ella Wheeler Wilcox