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The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
Governor HOch Will Not Give
Her a Pardon.
Says That Sentiment Is Opposed
to Her Release.
PENDLETON DENIED.
EmpOria Man Who Had Two
Wives Refused Parole.
Several COnYicts Receive Their
Good Behavior Releases.

Governor Hoch has decided to re-
ject the application Of Amelia New, of
Greenwood county. for a pardon from
the penitentiary. He said today:
Nothing viii be done in this mat
ter of the New pardon, at least for the
present. The officials of Greenwood
county seem to be opposed to the par
don, and the people living in the
country adjacent to where the crime
was committed are also opposed to it.
In the town perhaps a great many
favor the pardon. Personally, I do
not think it would do anybody any
harm to turn this old woman loose,
but I do not feel justified in taking
action contrary to existing sentiment" :"
The crime for which Mrs. New is
serving a sentence is the murder of
her husband. She was convicted as
accessory. The New family lived on
farm five miles from Eureka; Geo.
DObbs lived on a neighbOring farm
1t was shown that Dobbs and Mrs
New We're somewhat interested in
each other. One evening about 9
O'Clock Mr.. New went out to the shed
to investigate a noise in the henhouse,
and was shot dead. On purely cir
cumstantial evidence Dobbs was con-
Vlcted of the murder, with Mrs New
as accessory. DObbs died in the peni-
tentary year ago. Mrs. News SEN
tence is for forty years.
PendletOn Parole Refused.
The governor has also refused to
sign-the parole from the penitentiary
of James n. Pendleton, who was SEN
fenced to serve five years for bigamy.
PendeltOn is an EmpOria man who
found himself in the embarrassing po-
sldOn of having two wives on his hands.
He went to Oklahoma, and reported
himself dead. To carry out the fake,
he arranged a mock funeral, and a
casket supposed to contain his remains
was laid away in due order.
Some time after, PendletOn sent a
box of flowers to his first wife, and the
result was the exposure of the whole
scheme. He was arrested and sem
fenced.
As soon as the Emporia people dis
covered that Pendleton was after a
parole, they sent a big protest to the
governor.
Two paroles for Shawnee county
prisoners at the state penitentiary were
issued today. One is for Joseph john
son, sent up for assault with intent to
kill and James Bradford, convicted of
grand larceny.
Other paroles signed were these:
Eugene Baker, Crawford county. man
slaughter in the fourth degree; James
Hayden, Morris county, grand larceny;
J. n. Brown, Neosho county, embezzle-
ment: George Bentley. Reno county,
grand larceny; J. H. Green, Ieayen-
worth county, embezzIement; Harvey
Patterson, Elk county, grand larceny.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
LineVitch la Tronble.


Ex-senator Lake Jones Of Wayne
county, Ohio. who is known all over as
the hound pup statesman" from his
passionate love of fox hunting. was
talking with a party of old time friends
in the lobby Of a Columbus hotel re-
Gently.
Il have an aunt said Jones. "who
has most pronounced ideas of right and
wrong, and a rather exaggerated sense
of justice Nearly thirty years ago she
bought a piece Of property from hey
brother in st. Louis.
In dozen years the property had
quadrupled in value. Today It is worth
ten or fifteen times what she paid for
it. As the value advanced her worry
increased. Finally she mailed MIN a
check for $4,000, explaining that she
felt she had not paid him what the
property was really worth.
He promptly returned it, saying she
had paid him all he asked for it, and
all it was worth at the time of the sale.
But she wouldn't take no for an answer,
and sent it back to him.
Now. don't you know laughed
Jones, that check has been passing
back and forth through the mails be
tween our families for the past fifteen
years"
Did it ever fan into your hands.
Lake?" asked Major Eddy, Jones friend
of d lifetime. smiling meaningly.
No admitted Jones, half sadly, mot
yet''-PittsbuTg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
GETS $4,000 MORE.
Mutual Benefit Company Pays Devlin
Insurance.

The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
company of Newark, New Jersey, paid
over SIS, 600 to James T. Bradley, re-
ceiver of the defunct First National
bank this morning The insurance was
on a policy of the late c. J. Devlin
which had been assigned to the bank
But two premiums had been paid on the
policy and the cost had amounted to
81. .410. It was a very profitable assign
ment for the bank therefore. The pay
ment was made through John z. Lord,
the local agent for the company
There was a funny thing about this
policy" said Mr.. Lord. THE company
had turned down Mr.. Devlin's applica-
ton several years ago before ] became
connected with them, because Mr.. Dew
lin was overweight. As soon as be-
came connected with the company I got
after them to accept the application of
Mr.. Devlir and finally they wrote the
policy In a short while afterwards Mr..
Devlin died and the policy had to be
met -
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
KANSAS FAIR CIRCUITS.
Officers Elected at Wichita Meeting
and Dates Are Set.

Wichita. Kan, Dec, 16.-The annual
meeting of the secretaries of the Kan
sas grand circuit of fairs was held at
the Carey hotel here last night. The
following officers were elected: DR.. J.
T Axten. Newton, president; W j.
Wilson, Winfield. Kan, vice president;
c. M Porter, Ottawa, Kan, secretary
and treasurer on account Of the large
mum Der of towns in the circuit it was
decided to divide the circuit in two di-
visions, known as the east and west di-
visions. The schedule adopted is as fol-
lows:
East division-Parsons. August q;
Cofeyville. August "A: Eureka, August
21; Chanute, a@ugust Is; ottawa, Sep
tenber 3; Topeka, September 10; lola.
September II: Fredonia, September a;
Erie. october i: El Dorado, october 8;
Burlington. October Is.
west dfvision-Blackwen, August q;
Anthony. August IA; Kingman. August
21: st. John, August %; Great Bend,
September 9; Mcpherson. September 10;
Hutchinson, September II: Newton,
September "a: Winfield. October 1;
Newkirk, october 8; Harper. October
Is.
Another meeting win be held in New
ton, kan, December y.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
WEARS MOTOR BOOTS
The Inventor Travels at Rate of q
Miles an Hour.

Chicago, Dec. 15.-A dispatch to
the Tribune from Paris says
Parisians were startled yesterday by
seeing a big booted man whizzing
along the Avenue des Champs Elysees
and thence to the Bois de Boulogne at
the rate of 25 miles an hour. 1t was
COnstantini. the inventor of motor
boots displaying his new footwear
The boots resemble tiny automo-
biles, Is inches long, fixed on high
boots Each has four rubber tired
wheels inches in diameter. Accumu-
latOrs are carried ia a belt They
transmit by wires one and one-fourth
horse power to each motor The
motors can be run at speed ranging
from six to fifty miles an hour. Each
boot weighs 16 pounds but as the feet
are not lifted up the weight does not
matter
Constantini claims to have Travelled
several hundred miles with them. He
intends to travel from Paris to st.
Petersburg on them. When asked
what would happen if one motor
started at the rate of six miles an
hour and the other at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, he became diff
fdent and declined to discuss the
subject.
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CRASHED INTO TRAIN.
Accident on Santa Fe at Lamar
Colorado.

Santa Fe passenger train No. 8
crashed into the rear of an extra freight
train short distance west Of Lamar,
Col. at $3.50 o'clock this morning but
there were no disastrous consequences.
The freight had pulled up about q
thousand feet west of the Lamar sta
tion just a few minutes before No. 6
was due and a trainman was sent back
to flag the passenger train. He had got
back only about hundred yards When
the passenger train came along. In
gfneer Schrum on the passenger loco
motive saw the flag and applied the
emergency brakes but he was so close
to the freight that it was impossible to
avert a crash.
The cabOOse and three freight cars
were thrown off the track and piled up
fin a heap in the ditch and this wreck
age caught fire from the Overturning OF
the stove in the caboose. Luckily there
was no one in the caboose at the time
OF the crash.
Passengers on the train were given a
good shaking up but none of them were
injured. In fact the only injury re-
ported in the advices of the wreck re-
ceived at the Santa Fe general offices
was a slight scalp wound sustained by
Engineer Schrum. 1t took about six
hours to clear away the wreck and
traffic was delayed that long accord
ingly.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
- E,rom the Wrong SIDE.

a Boston lawyer who was recently
asked to talk to the boys of a business
school prefaced his address by few
extemporaneous remarks.
my young friends" he said, "as I
approached the entrance to this room
I noticed on the panel of the door a
word eminently appropriate to an in
stitution of this kind. It expresses the
one thing most useful to the average
man when he steps into the arena OF
life. It was
"PuIi" shouted the boys, with a
roar of laughter while the Mortified
lawyer recognized that he had taken
his text from the wrong side Of the
door.-EXchange
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
WILL TRY ARTEsIAN WELLS.
Edison Company viii Sink Several to
Get Water Supply.

The city waterworks department is
going to lose cne of its best customers
in the Edison electric company who will
sink four artesian wells for their plant
on jackson street. The company's bills
for water amount to 1925 a month; they
use close to million gallons of water
Mr.. Maunseu says: I'VE are trying to
save as much as possible and have de-
cided to sink artesian wells for our
water supply. We have just constructed
a water system of our own. included
in which are two large reserve tanks
holding about IS 900 gallons each. We
are now negotiating with some Topeka
parties for the drilling and viii send the
wells down from 500 to 700 feet. The
holes viii be fourteen inches in diane
tef.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
LOSE ANOTHER NAME
Lincoln Street Paving Gets One More
Setback.

Mrs. Katherine Kelly. wife of State
Treasurer Thomas Kelly, had her
name removed from the petition re-
questing the paving of Lincoln street
between Eighth avenue and Tenth
avenue. City Engineer 8IcCabe in
quired Of the state treasurer where he
maintained his official residence The
reply came that the state treasurer
voted at Paola in Miami county. Tn
der the city charter act a nonresident
property owner has no right to sign a
paving petition and the city engineer
informed the state treasurer that the
signature of Mrs. Kelly would have to
the lead that the opposing property
owners have over those who desire
the pavement.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
MARK MASON IS NAMED.
Local Politician Appointed License
Collector by Mayor Davis.

Mark Mason has been appointed by
Mayor Davis as license inspector. vice
Raymond ClOugh, who rendered his
resignation at the first of the month.
The new appOintee was formerly
sewer inspector under the Parker ad-
ministratiOn.
Mr.. Clough, who resigns because of
Roor health, was one of the best
ncense inspectors that has been on
the city pay roll for several years. His
collections from the time of his ap-
pointment in April to the first of De
cember were in excess by $4,000 of
any amount collected for a similar
length of time in previous administra-
tions. Mr. ClOugh left today for Cali
fornia, where he hopes the climate
will benefit his health. The position
pays $50 month.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
TOPEKA CASH GETS THE BULK.
VIII Furnish All Queensware for the
State Institutions.

Topeka firms will supply practically
all of the queensware and stationery
supplies used in the state institutions
during the next six months. The
contracts on these supplies We're let
control.
All of the queensware, except that
for OsawatOmie and Kansas City will
be furnished by the Topeka Cash Dry
Goods company. Kansas City and
and Osawatomie contracts were not
let, and these institutions viii buy
whatever supplies they need on the
open market
Nearly all of the stationery supplies
were awarded to the Hail Stationery
company, of Topeka. which was the
only bidder on many items. The To-
peka Cash Dry Goods company Sc
cured the contracts for bunch toilet
paper, crayons, Spencerian pens and
note paper
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The following names were drawn this
morning and viii be the jury for the
January term of district court: George
Christman, NJ. F. Rigby. S. Reub, George
Hanley. A. J. Briggs. Simon Hoe. J. W
Mcclure, T. ]. Coughlin, b. F. Pankey,
John Griley, w. c. Stein. c. z. Jewell,
]. w. FarnsWOrth, NJ. L. Zercher, w L.
Osborne. T. A Lewis of Topeka. Adam
Dagg and Dave Harmon of Dover, S. H
5trump of Bcssville Mort Hutchinson
Of Menoken, James Murphy of Tecum-
sch, Charles Kramer of Mission town
ship, Freeman Sardou and James Hayes
u Topeka township.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
G.E. Lyle to Build Houses.

A contract has been let to E. D.
Murphy by G. E. Lytle for the erection
Of ave houses. to cost $4,000 apiece.
The houses will be of frame, eight
rooms each, and modern in every par
ticular The houses will be erected
in Investment addition, Just laid out
between Eighth and Tenth avenues and
from Lincoln to West streets. and Will
face Lane. West and Eighth streets.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
Holiday Recess Will Begin in
Congress December 81
And Continue Until January I
of the New Year.
INSURANCE DEBATE
Continues With Almost Every
body Wanting to Talk.
Tfllman Calls for Testimony in
Santa Fe Rebate Case.

Washington. Dec. 16--The house
today fixed the holiday recess by pro
viding for adjournment next Thurs
day, December Il, until January 4
The insurance debate was then re-
sumed. More than Is members nave
applied for recognition on the suDJect
and there is no disposition to limit
Representativ Norris (Neb.) open
A bill to prevent the marine band
from compelling with civilian musl-
clans was introduced today by Repre-
sentative BarthOldt (Mo.)-
In the Senate.
Washington. Dec. 16.-When the Pana-
ma canal appropriation bill was taken up
bv the senate today Mr.. Bacon TOOK tile
dOor in support of his amendment, requllI-
ING 0uarteTIv estimates of the salaries
and other expenses Of the canal commls-
sion. -
A resolution by Mr.. Tflman was adop@ 55,.s
ed requesting the interstate commerce
commission to send to the senate the tes-
timony in the Atchison, Topeka and san
ia Fe case, where rebates were aLeged TO
have been given.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
STATES CASE WEAK.
Not Making a Strong Showing in Hill
City Murder Trial.

Hill City Kas, Dec. 16.=After a
hard legal fight in the Charles Wetzel
murder case here the state rested at
1890 today
Except the testimony of Roberts
that Ke1cher was present at the time
Of the killing. there was little evidence
against Kelcher.
Roberts testimony was weakened
by previous contradictory confess
sions.
The defense claims it viii prove a
strong alibi.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
A WHISTLER SELLS FOR $25,OoO.
Portrait of Irving as Philip II VII
Come to America.

London. Dec. 16-The famous Whist
Ter portrait of the late Sir Hery irving
as King Philip II of Spain, was sold
at auction today among the remainder
of the actors effects for S25,000-
Sargent's portrait of Ellen Terry IN
the character of Lady Macbeth realized
$1,000.
me whistler picture goes to America.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Luke Coney, father Of P. IL f. Cqney died
at the home of his son at 80 this morn
ing. He was "a years of age and came to
Topeka IS years ago. He was a native of
Ireland emigrated to New York and
then came here
The funeral will take place at 9 o o'eloc1
Sunday morning from the Church of the
Assumption. Interment in the Catholic
cemetery.
Grenit Thostin. aged So years, died of
heart trouble at 414 East First street. on
Friday. The funeral viii be held Sun
day afternoon at o'clock from the St.
John A. NJ T. church. Interment in To
peka cemetery.
The funeral of Emmett Ragsdale. son
of George Ragsdale, who died at Roswell,
N NJ. viii be held from Penweus s under
taking rooms Sunday afternoon at 2.30
O'Clock. Interment in Topeka cemetery.
dyron J. Clark. aged 80 years died of
Brights disease at I113 Ridge street. on
Thursday evening. The funeral VIII take
place Sunday afternoon at o'clock from
the residence. Interment in Topeka Gem
etery. Mr.. Clark was a member OF A. o.
u. w. lodge No and was a foreman in
the Santa Fe shops
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
weather still pleasant.

True to the prediction made yester-
day the weather conditions are all that
could be expected today. The sky is
clear and the temperature is of that
variety which prompts the birds to
sing The day is more like day in
early spring than one of midwinter
The hourly temperatures for today
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
GETS $4,000 MORE.
Mrs. Devlin Gets Another Big Pay
ment of Insurance.

The insurance money received by Mrs.
Devlin was further supplemented today
by the receipt of $50, 900 from the Fidelity
Mutual Life Insurance company of Phil
o5
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
UndeveIoped.

Bessie's voice as she. came to breakfast.
you'll have to take something for
that frog in your throat, child" said
her mother
''I dess not, mamma" said Bessie.
1T isn't a fwog. It's only a little p0llgs
wog.''-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
MARQUETTE SHAKEN.
BY the Explosion of 1,4O0 Pounds of
Nitro Glycerine.

Detroit, Mich. Dee. 16.-A Jews spe-
cial from Marquette Mich, says five
men were killed by an exnlosion TO-DAY
at the Dupont company's dynamite
works here of 400 pounds of nitro
glycerfne
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
Temperatures Of Large cities.

Chicago. Dec. 16.-7 a. m. tempera-
lures: New York. Chicago and Gin
cinnati. 80: Boston, %; Philadelphia
and Washington, %; Minneapolis and
st. Louis. "a.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16
Weather INDICATIONS

Chicago, Dec. 16.=Forecast fol-
Kansas: Fair tonight and Sunday.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-12-16

Names IOsfmastcT Tor chicago.
Washington, Dec. 16.-President
Roosevelt today sent to the senate the
nomination of Fred B. Busse to be post
master at Chicago.
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TbefQs4oqsop@

in by a cannon; a second announced
the first faint etchings of the sun on
the edge Of the horizon. During the
night several vessels had arrived, and
the eye rested with pleasure on the
spectacle of thirty-two sails at anchor
In the cove, boats plying incessantlN
off and on from the shore, groups of
beautiful women every moment max
ing their appearance, crowds fiocking
in from every part of the adjacent
country and the Powhatan (now the
James, River evolving in silent ma
Jesty his flood, margined as far as the
eye could reach with cultivated planta-
lions and gay villas.
About II o'clock the long deserted
shores of jamestown witnessed a spec
tacle equally picturesque and impress
sive. 1t was no longer the mournfuI
image and gloomy silence of depopula-
ton. Thirty-two vessels graced the an
Gent harbor; upward of four hundred
ladies embellished the scene, which be-
came every moment more animated by
the increasing }conceurse of citizens
and upon which the presence Of the
military and band of music of Cap-
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been given the high boon of living to
see the light of that day, and of ac-
knowledgeing tnta Thy promises are
as steadfast as the everlasting hills.
To US has been given the triumph
which this day affords. 1t was Thy
providence which rared the tender
plant that here took root, and which
nourished it with the dews of heaven
until its branches have cast their shade
from ocean to ocean. 1t was Thy pro-
violence, gracious Benefactor of man,
which awoke in our breasts a just
sense of the inappreciable value of
our rights, and infused, that indomi-
table spirit which effected revolu-
ton the most important in the annals
of time, and which led to the establish
ment of civil governments throughout
this rising empire upon the broad and
firm basis of equal laws. 1t was Thy
providence which inspired that wis
dom which hath guarded US against
the horrors of war, and which amidst
the dread commissions that agitate the
old world, hath still irradiated this
Thy chosen land with the blessings of
peace. To Thee, o God, we ascribe, as
is most due, that never ceasing cur
rent of national prosperity which has
daily increased, and which, under Thy
auspices, we trust win contiue to in
crease, until it's waters, spreading
throughout every region of the earth,
shall gladden., with their salubrious
streams, nations which are now the
victims of ambition, and thence diff
fuse peace and good will among the
whole family of mankind
Contrast this scene in the minds eye
with hundred thousand soldiery, a
thousand soldiery, a Thousand men of
war, ten thousand merchant ships,
mammoth structures Of modern arclii-
lecture. and a million people on the
shore the whole ilIumined by hundreds
Of powerful searchlights and myriads
of subaqueous incandescents, and you
have before you the progress of a cen
tury.-Raleigh (N8 e. News and
Observer. &''
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AN INDIAN LEGEND.

An Indian story that has been hand
ed down and is still believed by many
Indian tribes is one about the trans
formation, of leaves into birds. Long
years ago, when the; world was young
the Great Spirit went about the earth
making it beautiful. Whenever his
feet touched the ground lovely trees
and flowers sprang, up. All sumner the
trees wore their short green dresses.
The leaves were very happy and they
sang their sweet songs to the breeze as
1t passed them. One day the wind told
them the time would soon come when
the would have to fall from the trees
and die This made the leaves feel very
bad, but they tried to be bright and do
the best they could so as not to make
the mother trees unhappy. But at last
the time. came and htey let go of the
twigs and branches and fluttered to the
ground. They lay perfectly quiet, not
able to move except as the wind would
lift them.
The Great Spirit saw them and
thought they were so lovely that he did
not want to see them die, but live and
be beautiful forever, so he gave to
each bright leaf a pair of wings and
power to fly. Then he called them his
birds" From the red and brown leaves
Of the oak came the robins, and yellow
birds from the yellow willow leaves,
and from bright maple leaves he made
the red birds; the brown leaves because
wrens. sparroWs and other brown
birds. This is why the birds love the
trees and always go to them to build
their nests and look for food and shade.
Kansas Cit Journal.
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COULD SEE HIS HEART.

In Moberly recently there was man
selling muciIage, who is curiosity to the
medical fraternity, as his left lung is
eaten away with consumption, and
from six operations to obtain relief
from physical ills hole was made in
his left side through which his heart
could be plainly seen and its throhbing
Witnessed, The man claims that by
holding his nose and closing his mouth
he is enabls to breath through the hole
in his side, He has photographs show
the hcle in his side and the caved-in
appearance of his chest, which is due
to some Of his ibis being removed. The
man lives In Colorado, and has written
a book about himself upon which he
will obtain a copyright. Until he obtain
the legal papers he refuses to make his
name putlie.--Kansas City Journal.