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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
BREAK IN MAY WHEAT
Market Ran OF Nearly Four Cents a
BuShel.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-The price for
May delivery broke nearly four cents
a bushel here today At the same time
the July option sold off nc. The
sharp decline was due to general
Liquidation participated in by many of
the large holders. The first signs of a
seeming collapse of the May deal
brought out numerous stop loss orders,
thus increasing the weakness. May
opened at $1.1S to $1.1SA, practically
the closing figures of Saturday Ini-
tial quotations on July were at $1.01 %
to S1.O15s. An advance in May to
$1.1Sss was followed by a sudden drop
off to 80 C. The market rallied later
on covering.
New York. Feb. 27.-Theres was a
sharp decline in the wheat today. May
fell Is c on excited trading. There
was a rally from the low point, but
later the market turned weak again
and the decline was resumed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27

cloth which he used in his chop to hold
his irons was found near Jodrys body on
Fifth street When Olson was found
about Sunday noon he was very drunk-
Detectives Lucas and Ross and took him
TO the station and booked him on the
charge of drunkenness County Attorney
Hungate will sweat him today
DO you think he IS the man. was ASK
ed County Hungate on Sunday eVenlhg
I'VE can't say. To get right down TO
plain black and white we are as mucn at
sea as ever, so far as the identity of Jod-
rvs assailant is concerned
Aren't we about getting enough OF TINS
rnurderinE'' continued the county attor-
ney why it is certainly a fright. Some
thing has to be done"
A peculiar thing concerning the assault,
was that Policeman Duncan, who has the
Fifth street beat at night this month,
was in the PostOffice Drug Store when
Jodry left it at 4 o'clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
FORMERLY OF TOPEKA.
Mr.. j. e. Gorman's Successor L
Known Here.

Fred Houghton. who has been Sc
Iected to succeed J. E. German as as
sistant freight traffice manager of the
Santa Fe, is another formerly of To-
peka' man.
the Santa F'e in the auditing office on
the west end about 90 years ago Later
he came to Topeka and spent several
years in the offices here as rate clrk-
He then went to Chicago and was
RAPIDLY advanced through the Offices
there. He was sent to El Paso as a
general agent of the freight depart
ment and was later selected to be as
sistant general freight agnt of the
Santa Fe coast lines at San Francisco.
His new promotion will now take him
to Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
!. SHELL MUKDEN.
Japanese Reported to Be Throw
ing IL Inch Shells
Into General KurOpatkin's Base
of Operations.
GENERAL ENGAGEMENT
In Progress All Along the Line
Heaviest ON Right.
KurOki Is Sweeping Around the
Russian Flank.
GENERAL ENGAGEMENT

New Chwang, Feb. 27.-via Tien
Tsin, p. m.-According to a person
who has just returned here from the
front, the Japanese are shelling Muk-
den with II inch mortars. The bonn
bardment which was recently COM
menced is further reported to have
caused great damage far behind the
Russian lines.
Advices from Chinese sources say
that a general engagement is in prog
ress all along the line. The heaviest
fighting is reported to be occurring on
the japanese right and General
Kuroki is said to be sweeping far
north and threatening to crumple the
Russians back on the railroad. A
special force is reported to be moving
from the south and east with the in
tention of cutting off the Russians
communications from Vladfvostok
Both FIanks Turned.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 27.-7 D. M
A dispatch from General Kuropatlzin
dated February &c says:
''The enemy is continuing the Of
fensive against the front of our Tsink-
hetchen detachment and has turned
both its f1anks.
1.-The Japanese have also advanced
against kantie pass, turning our left
flank but all his attacks on Tangu and
Beydaling have been repulsed. His
offensive movement against Bona
pudz has also been repulsed. At some
positions our rifiemen forced the Jap
anese outposts to retire.
Colonel Gorsky was severely
wounded
General Kuropatkin in a dispatch
dated February 26, announced that
the Japanese have commenced can
nonading in the direction of Gauto and
Wanfun passes.
Cold and Snow
Toxic, Feb. 27.-6 p. m.=The only
announcement made today from the
headquarters of the Japanese armies
in Manchuria was a brief statemen to
a bombardment Saturday and Sunday
that the weather is very cold and that
it is showing
They Must Come Back.
St. Petersburg. Feb. 27=Yielding
to the demand of the United States,
Russia has not only ordered the Of
ficers of the Cruiser Lena who violated
their paroles to return to San Fran
CISCO but has reduced them one grade
as punishment. The only excuse Of
fered was their youth.
Losses of 40 Per Cent.
Madyadani, Manchuria, Feb. 27.-
After fighting of the most desperate
nature the Russians remained yester-
Da passes against which the japanese
had been flinging themselves madly
from noon till dark. The Russians
who were greatly outnumbered sus-
tanned repeated attacks, some units
losing as high as 20 per cent in killed
or wounded in hand to hand fighting
with the bayonet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
SPENCER A CANDIDATE.
He Asks to Be Reelected for City
Attorney.

One of the most important Offices in
municipal affairs is that of city attor-
ney. Charles F. Spencer. the present
city attorney, has had four years ac-
quaintance with the duties pertaining
to that office and feels that he prob
ably more fully appreciates those
duties and their relation with refer
ence to that office than any other who
not enjoyed the experience to be Sc
cured from such an office.
He has been in close touch with the
legal status of a number of business
transactions in which the city is in
volved and has the situation well in
hand. Those transactions in a number
of instances are still pending and about
to be closed and still demand the
closest attention from a city attorney.
Mr Spencer naturally is well ac-
uuainted with their progress and what
remains to be desired. Mr.. Spencer
has given conscientious attention to-
the duties of his office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
BAILEY'S PLAN.
Makes Oklahoma Statehood Rider to
Appropriation Bill.

washington, Feb. 27.-Senator Bal
ley today introduced as an amend
roent to the Indian appropriation bill
a bill for creating one state of Okla
horna and Indian Terrotory-
Senator Dubois introduced a joint
resolution providing for a constitution
al amendment prohibiting poIygaIny
and polygamous cohabitation-
In the House.
Washington, Feb. 27.-The confer
ence report on the army appropriation
bin was agreed to. This passes the
bill. The sundry civil bill was then
taken uQ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
ARABS IN REVOLT.
Turkey Is Greatly Embarrassed in
Efforts at Suppression.

Constantinople. Feb. 27.-The in
surrection in the province of Yemen,
Arabia. is assuming alarming proper
tons Almost the whole country
southwark of Sanaa is in revolt and
the towns of Kataba and Tais have
fallen into the hands of the insurgent
Arabs whose forces are constantly in
creasing. Defective transport renders
the dispatch of Turkish reinforce
ments most difficult. Great numbers
of camels are perishing on the road,
while large numbers of troops are de-
serting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
Policeman KiIIs a woman

Chicago, Feb 27.-On the street
here today Daniel Herman, a police
man. shot and killed Miss Minnie Null
veil. a teacher in st. James parochfal
school They met and exchanged
angry words, when Herman drew his
revolver and deliberately pointing it
at the woman fired. Miss Mulveil fell
dead. Herman escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
Temperatures bal Large Citlea.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-7 a. m. tempera-
lures: New York, Is; Philadelphia,
20; Chicago, 20; Cincinnati, 80; Bos-
ton, IS; Washington, %; Minneapolis,
%; ST. Louis, 34-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27

Speaker w. R. Stubbs is verv much
aggrieved at a story printed on the
first page of the State journal Sat11r-
day evening. The story was headed
'"They May Take IT. and Mr.. Stubbs
says it is a malicious. unmitigated lie
from start to finish. However. the
part TO which he especially objects is
the following extract:
There was a queer deal worl-ed
Friday in connection with the anti
discrimination bill. It is claimed tI,a+
the sudden decision of Speaker Stubbs
70 put the anti ti-discrimination hill
pach pa On ane calendar as special or
DER -tor tuesday was brought about
through Stubs anxiety for fha defea+
of Henry Allen. 10e''
The anti-discrimination bill was
So senator SMITH backfire against the
mouse railroad bill. It was intended
It is said. as a menace to the SINNERS
OF the state. in case the shinDers
snoulu push too hard for the passage
OF .., 1ne mousse railroad bill.
r1day morning Speaker Stubbs, A.
". Benson, P. c. Young and several
others had a conference and agreed
that the special order on the antf-dis-
crlmination bill should be declared off
ana the bill go to the foot of the cal
.'As soon as Senator Smith heard
this he rushed over to the house and
told Speaker Stubbs that unless the
anu-discrimination. bill be put back on
down in his fight on Henry Allen
This brought Stubs to his knees. He
agreed to put the anti discriminate
bill back on the calendar, and Senator
Smith at once went back to the senate
and led the fight on Henry Allen.
Late in the same afternoon St1Ibhs
switched his position on the anti-5is~
bill and made the motion
to put it back on the calendar as a
special order"
About $50 o'clock Saturday even
ing, when the State Journal reDortar
who looks after the house of represen-
tatives work for this paper was sitting
at the south side of Representative
hall, engaged in private Conversation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27

Chicago, Feb. 27.=Forecast for
Kansas: Fair tonight and Tuesday;
no decided change in temperature; /;
variable winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
on THE DowN GRApE.
Temperature Takes a Small Drop This
Morning.

The temperature sIumped down today
from the point which has been record
ed for the past several days. The high
est recorded for Sunday was Sc above,
this was shortly after noon Towards
s o'clock the wind arose and brought
with it a. drop in the temperature.
Following are the hourly temperature
readings as recorded by the govern
mont
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27

The wind at 2 o'clock was blowing al
a rate of II miles from the west. The
minimum recorded today was 80.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27

He was talking with Frank Barnes, a
former patrolman, now a plain clothes
man. working for private parties. They
remained in the store until about half
past four, talking. Both then went north
on Kansas avenue, neither hearing of the
murder until after it was reported at the
zfqffOp
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CONTINUED on Page Sikh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-27
Found Dying a Block From PO'
lice Station.
NO CLUE TO ASSAILANT
Tailor Arrested Because He Was
Victims Friend.

Officers Admit That They Are at
Sea.
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26
NAMES HAD NOT CHANGED
Londoner Astonished at the Complaint
Of Visitors.

Londoner Astonished at the Complaint
Of Visitors.
Americans in London are apt to be
confused by the fact that the same
thoroughfare bears many different
names as it pursues it's oftentimes
crooked course through the fascinat-
ing old city.
Two young Chicago women, wander
ing through what they affectionately
called Dickens, London last sum
mer, went into a bun shop to ask.
the nearest way to one of the less
frequented spots that the great writer
has made sacred to all lovers of his
stories.
A good-natured clerk gave them min.
ute directions, to which they listened
attentively and with strong efforts to
be intelligent when he spoke of the
top of the bottom" of certain
streets, told them to go straight
away" and that the place was only
ten minutes off"
Thank you so much" said the
younger girl, hut I'm afraid that we
may lose our way after all Your
streets here have such perplexing
way of CT angling their names every
few minutes that we are never really
sure Just where we are
Why, madame demonstrated the
clerk, in tore of mingled reproof and
pity. these streets. don't change their
names. They have had the same
names for hundreds of years. Lip
pincotta
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS


Charges of graft were made follow
ing the opening of the primary cleo
tions by President John P. Dullard, of
the City Board of Assessors, of Tren-
Ton, sitting as member Of the County
Board of Assessors. The charge is
that the Board of Chosen Freeholders
had illegally expanded last year ST.
2S3.26, and because of graft the float
ing indebtedness, which should have
been reduced to $112,224, was now
S27O,50O. Mr.. Dullard, who is DEM
0crat, in charging graft against the
Republican Board of Freehoiders,
called for full investigation, and
said the blame should be placed Of
keeping the taxes of Trenton at an
abnormal figure, while money was be-
ng Illegally spent. City Assessor Ed
ward nj. Reading, also Democrat,
who was chairman of the meeting,
ruled Mr.. Dullard out of order, but not
before Mr.. Dullard had put his protest
On the record 1t is believed that the
Democrats viii make their fight this
fall on these disclosures
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26
In Al Parts Of the state.

Martin J. O'Brien was reappointed
morguekeeper Of Camden County by
Judge JoliDe.
The date Of the annual United Towns
Fair. Gibbsboro, has been fixed fol
September 30.
Bridgeton sportsmen say reedbirds
are plentiful but so poor and thin thai
they do not make good eating.
During the counting of the votes al
one of the primary polls in BridgetoE
a piekpocket made a rich haul by
Iningling with the crowds.
Many of the oyster tongers who have
been working on the Cohansey Creek
beds have quit, as the market is Sc
dull for plants that they canno,
make living.
The Sorrel Horse Hotel, located OF
the Burlington turnpike rear the Bur
lingtoE County line, in Camden County
has been purchased by Hart Brothers
of Philadelphia.
Capt. Furman Mukord has seeurec
the names of several hundred citizens
of MilIyille to a petition asking a
steamboat company for line OF
freight boats between that city an0
philadelphia
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26
As to Goiafsh.

There are some creatures apparently
born to have bad time, says the
Ladies' Pictorial, and goldfish are GER
tainly OF the unlucky number. Some,
times. hundreds of the poor 7hinga,
fresh from the steam-heated 1nillponds,
where their breeding is often quite an
industry, get violently douched by a
fishmonger's hose, by icy-cold water
dashing into the glass tank, or, still
worse, into the little globes in which
they are stuffed by dozens. Light is
not a tish's idea Of satisfaction; the
calm green twilight at the bottom Of
q pond is what he chooses.
Most of the goldfish bought and kept
for a time in little globes die, because
people think they can live on the ami
malculae in tap water-a fatal mistake.
/ would not pay it the compliment of
denying the existence OF microbes, but
they win not sustain, any fish in glass.
Crumbs make the water sour, and then
changing it bruises and worries the
fish. It is kind not to keep fish at all
unless they can have good-sized
aquarium with thick layer OF loan
at the bottom in which vallisneria &c
best of water weeds should be planted
weeks before the fish are put in; on the
loan an inch or two Of gravel, and then
filtered rainwater, never to be changed,
but to be added to now and again as it
wastes. Gnat larvae are, in their sea-
son, the best goldfish food: failing
these. ants cocoons, or small meat
worms, always procurable from bird
shops. are tempting to the iishy palate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26

There arrived another letter from MT.
Wilmot, conveying the welcome intel
ligence that he would be with MS in
the course OF the ensuing week.
Now / said, joyfully, to my wife,
.'our troubles are coming to an END"
1 expected that she would respond
tn like manner, and it surprised me
to see grave look in her eyes.
II am not one to meet troubles half
way" she said, I'm explanation; but it
is well to be prepared
Eyes, my love-" said. what are
You about to speak OFF"
..Of your uncle and Mr.. Mortiock, +
replied my wife. II should ike to say
what is in my mind concerning tnem.'
.'Speak freely" said. 'Inere have
never been any concealments between
us, ana there should be none now when
happy event is approaching"
"It has been in my mind for some
little time past, but 1 was not sure, and,
indeed, am not sure now. Your uncle
says nothing in either OF his letters OF
Eunice's engagement"
"He cannot be aware of it. MY letter
to him. written on the day the engage
ment was entered into, remains. am
afraid, unopened in his lawyers Office
in London"
"rhere appears 70 be close init
macy between him ana Mr. Mortl0ck."
Eyes. my dear, and 4 am sorry e
think So
lit would not surprise me to learn
| that It is an atfectionate intimacy
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26
Wrong Body to Cemetery.

A new complication has arisen in the
case of the man found dead and mu-
'filated on q trolley track in Hilton.
Mrs. Grove. of 375 Main street, East
Orange, identified the body as that Of
her husband John by tattoo marks.
Grove, it is now said by the Grove
family, is alive and working in Pough-
keepsie. The body was placed in a
coffin and taken to the Cemetery of
the Holy Sepulchre. The other night
Mrs. Grove decided that the body
was not that of her husband. 1t ap-
pears that Mrs. Grove and her sons
were somewhat in doubt about the
identity when they left Kunz's morgue,
m Orange, on the previous morning.
They received information that Grove
was in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. They sent
word to the address given there and
received a message from him saying
he was well and had coed job. The
body was brought back to the morgue.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26

Strict speed laws are becoming com
mon and their enforcement is rigidly
demanded by public opinion, says the
Omaha News. 1t is all because of a
few harebrained scorchers who were
eiivinely designed to run wheeIbarrows
instead of automobiles. The governor
valve of the intellect of automobile
scorchers was never designed to be at,
taclled to machinery. Against the fool
In an auto the war ought to be one of
determination. 1t would be cheaper
and pleasanter for the public to exter-
inmate the auto fool than to permit
him to continue exterminating the pub
Ale. The folly of intrusting machines
TO incompetent drivers, and especially
to the youth and children OF both
sexes. should be too obvious for com
ment. OF course the abuse has got to
stop. The menaced public win not
stand it. Owners and makers of auto
mobiles ought to be the first to move
seward stopping it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26

When he turns his eye westward ana
inquiries what effect has been pro-
aiuced upon his country's weight and
prestige in Europe by her Far Eastern
adventure Russian can find but little
comfort, says the New York Sum- He
learns that naval experts have strlck-
en- Russia permanently out of the list
az naval powers. on the ground that
the total collapse of her navy, in spite
OF vast nstensihle superiority in num-
bers and armament, was due 10 a gross
lack of efficiency. to deep seated, all
peryading and apparently ineradica-
BILE defects of organization, manage
ment and training He learns also
that in the judgment of military ex-
perts the huge Russian army has
ceased 10 be an object Of terror. con-
sidered as fighting machine, because
among Its generals there are no strate-
glsts or even skilled tacticians. and
among its star officers no first rate in
feliigence or adequate scientific knowl-
edge. He learns that the Russian ord
nance is i'll equipped. III placed. III
served; that the Russian quartermas-
aers department ard comrnlssariat are
unworthy Of q moderA army; that the
surgical. medical and sanitary depart
Hnent is regarded with contempt.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26
Rounding uu Burglar Gang.

The police of MiIIville are still try
ing to round up the burglar gang which
has been terrori2ing residents for sew
eral months, and arrested William
Bates as one of the gang, which, il
was charged, was led by Charles Cor
son, who was previously arrested.
There are more than dozen charges
against the prisoners, and, although
Corson has almost admitted his guilt,
be and Bates pleaded mot guilty. at a
hearing before Mayor Payne. OF the
wagonload Of plumber recovered at the
home of Corson, most OF it has been
identified by residents whose prop
critics have been entered The author
tiles tried to induce one OF the prison.
ers to confess and divuige the names
of the remainder of the gang, and the
place where the rest OF the booty was
stored Counsel for Bates said he
would show that the prisoner was in.
sane.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26

Theodore Roosevelt has set his name
ineffacably upon the page of history,
declares the San Francisco Argonaut.
We may before have thought him a
man of destiny; the world may have
thought him an enticingly romantic
figure; nation may have done him
honor unprecedented; his acts may
have seemed to change the currents
of national life, but none of these
things are even remotely comparable
to the achievement of, first, inducing
two nations at war to consent to a
conference Of ENJOYS, and then having
by sheer genius Of persistence made
that conference to accomplish the
greatly desired thing. AS the man
who brought to an end great war,
Theodore RooseveIt's place among
great historic figures is absolute and
secure. The world of to-day praises
him; the world 200 years hence will
yet know well his name.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26

The emperor" penguin. one Of the
discoveries of Capt. Scott's recent
antarctic expedition, was the subject
of an interesting illustrated lecture
by Or. Wilson before the recent orni-
biological congress in London. The
bird stands about four feet high,
weighs eighty pounds or more, and
with its black coat and erect posture
has, when seen at q distance. truly
startling resemblance to q dwarf
man. These .'emperors" of the pen
gum world live upon the great girdle
OF pack ice which surrounds the ant
arctic continent. and seem to depend
daily for their food on crustaceans
caught in the creyices OF the ice.
The female lays a solitary egg,
which is caught on the great web
feet, SO that it never touches the ice.
and is held there covered with the
mothers body until Matching occurs.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-09-26

These japanese talk as well as they
fight, declares the Louisville Courier
Journal While the Russians have
been hysterical from the beginning Of
the war the Japanese have not been
heard, except soberIy and wisely.
1.-THE Japanese people" says Baron
Kaneko, ''are not going to isolate them
selves because they believe they have
learned all there is to be known about
Western civilization, and have over
come a great Western Power in war.
We owe too much to the United States
and Europe to forget the debt. or to
think we can't learn moFe.~ That is
only one bit Of good sense in ansinter-
view which contains nothing but good
sense