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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
VIC MURpocK.s PLANS.
Hopes That Government VIII Do Some
Practical Irrigation Work

Congressman Victor Murdoch has
been making special effort to secure
something practical from the govern
ment in the way of irrigation expert
ments in western Kansas. Extensive
works have been undertaken in other
states and territories, but until recent
~ no definite plan has been outlined
in Kansas, although Mr.. Murdoch has
designations with reference to what
can be DONE
The government reclamation fund
now amounts to about sixteen million
dollars, and a plan has now been
formulated for using a little of it IN
Kansas. A board of government en-
gineers in Denver is now at work on a
complete plan for western Kansas
The plan was submitted by Prof G.
S Slichter of the geological survey,
and is complete as to every detail.
The project includes the construc-
ton by the government of an immense
we'll, which is to be the center of other
wells, the system being known as an
infiItration gallery Prof. Slichter
spent last summer in the Arkansas
valley studying the underfoW and
making exhaustive tests. The results
of his experiment and his findings
revolutionized the theories of the
geological survey in regard to the vol
ume of the underfiow and the prac-
ticability of irrigation in western
Kansas.
The first work will be near Garden
City In discussing the matter Mr..
Murdoch said:
when this work is commenced, Kan
sas will have her first participation IN
the reclamation fund, which now
amounts to $4,000 Goo Professor Sl1ch-
teF's project will irrigate from $1,000 to
&c, 600 acres Water viii be pumped
from the huge central gallery into a
ditch and the farmers on the ditch viii
form themselves into an association, as
is the custom in the reclamation ser
vice.
Two bureaus of the government are
working on the irrigation project, the
geological survey, and the bureau or
experimental irrigation of the agrtcul-
tural department Both will continue
their work and Investigations in kan
SaS.
Few Kansans appreciate the future
awaiting the western third of Kansas.
There are 100000 farms in the United
States today OF these, 5000. 600 are &C.
cupied by owners. Two million are oc-
cupied by tenants. The ambition OF
the tenant is to become an occupying
owner, said to be the highest economic
condition in the world. This pressure OF
the tenants, who are increasing largely
in numbers every year, the disappear
ance of available public land, is turning
attention to the western pFai-
ries of Kansas, Nebraska and the Da-
kotas.
"The new immigration, now quite
plain in every western Kansas county, |
is taking with it an understanding of
the country, new systems of moisture
retaining soil culture, new and adapted +
plant life, such as the new hard wheat, I
the dufen. With the government sup
this new settlement with /
adequate and practicable irrigation pro I
jects, a new era is before the state of /
Kansas. already in improved acreage /
the third state in the Union, Illinois +
having %. 900, 900 improved acres, Iowa /
&c, 000, goo and Kansas 24.OOO,OOO-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
PREvENTIoN oF pIvoRoE.

Judge Marcus Kavanagh Of one of
the Chicago courts has been Obliged
to hear many hundreds of divorce
cases In newspaper article based
on this sad experience he offers some
suggestions for the abatement of the
divorce evil
The great primary cause of divorce
is manifestly the observation-disclosures
with which the marriage contract is
often entered into. Marriage should
be the most serious act Of human life.
cit is a relation whose existence be-
tween man and woman" Judge Kav-
anagh says. ''is justified only upon the
assumption that it shall last for life -
Commenting on the judges views
the Inter-Ocean says
This primary cause Of divorce the
state cannot reach directly No statute
can make men and women wiser than
they are or give them a keener moral
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

sense than is born and bred in them
such Improvement must await the
slow growth of right opinions and so
cIaI customs.
But the state can do something d.
rectly. 1t can hang out warning,
It can make the penalties of mistaken
marriage SO plain, and enforce those
penalties so vigorously, that even the
Iightest minds must think a. little be-
fore risking the infection Of them The
state can enact that no marriage shall
be absolutely dissolved save for actual
infidehty. and then that the guilty per-
son shall not be permitted to marry
again.
ITO give nismated couples no other
relief would impose upon some men
and upon many women intolerable
hardships. But in most such cases
simple separation-from bed and
board, as the legal phrase runs
would meet every real need of the in
nocent person and impose on the
guilty no undeserved penalty.
IF the offending husband were
compelled in every case to continue to
support his wife. and the offending.
wife were compelled to leave her hus-
band in peace, and neither could mar
ry again, it is safe to say that one-half
the domestic disorders which now
crowd the court calendars would new
er arise"
Perhaps after all the remedy ap-
piled in the south. and one which
seems most effective there, would be
found the best in other sections. 1t
Is social ostracism. In most southern
the divorced person Isl
tabooed by society and the severance
Of the marriage tie is vastly more in
frequent than it is in the north
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
SMILEY TO H0CH.
He Makes Formal Application for a
Pardon.

E. j. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas
! Grain Dealers association, is this
afternoon presenting his petition for a
pardon to Governor Hoch- Or rather
his attorney and a few of his friends
are doing So Mr. SmiIey's attorney is
Judge H Whiteside of Hutchinson
Accompanying him are L. Cortelyou
! of Muscotah, president of the Grain
Dealers association, and Judge s. h.
Allen of Topeka. Judge Allen was at
tOrney for the farmers Cooperative
Shipping association and helped to
prosecute Mr.. Smiley for violating the
antitrust law, but now he is helping
Smiley in his efforts to secure par
I don
1t is rather unusual for the person
who wants the pardon to appear in
person before the governor. It Is
doubtful if such a thing ever hap
pened before, for the applicant is
usually in Jail. But in this instance
the mandate of the higher courts has
not yet been served. and SO MI Sml-
ley has not commenced his sentence OF
ninety days in the Rush county jail.
THE idea of compelling a man to
serve a Jail sentence for this is
afternoon. Ordinarily a fine of two
dollars and a half would be sufficient
This law is violated by thousands of
men every day in Kansas just as much
picked out to suffer, not only a fine,
but a Jail sentence besides. If they
would go after the men in their own
county who were in the combine there
might be some sense in it, but here
they picked out a man who had no
monetary interest in the transaction
whatever.
Judge Allen, who was one Of the at
torneys for the prosecution, is here to tell
the governor that he thinks the sentence
imposed on Mr. Smiley unjust, and Judge
Doster, who was on the bench when this
matter was passed on by the supreme
court. has written letter to the governor
stating that there was grave doubt as toI
the eonstitutionality of the antitrust law,
and that Mr.. Smiley was warranted in be-
lieving it unconstitutional.
of course we are unfortunate in hav-
ing to consider this matter just at this
time. Just now there is a wave of anti
trust sentiment sweeping over the state
that will not discriminate between what is
just and what is unjust
Mr.. Smiley says he does not like to be
compared to Rockefeller. In referring to
an editorial which the State Journal pub
lished Saturday with reference to his case,
Mr.. Smiley said:
II have no exceptions to make regard
ing that editorial except in one particular:
It Hkened me to Rockefeller. and kick
on that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

The accident statistics show that dur
ing the year ending June 80. 1902. 1.21s
persons were killed and 47.429 were in
5ured by street railway lines. OF the
total number killed PCS were passengers.
122 were employees. and s31 were persons
on foot or riding in vehicles other than
street cars; Of the injured &c, $50 were
passengers, 3.699 were employees. and
1000 were other persons. These num-
bers form only an inappreciabIe percent
age of the total number of passengers
carried One passenger was killed for
every 1s,Ol5,S94 fare passengers carried.
and one was injured for every IT'S SIG
passengers. The rate of accident for
the wage-earners was one killed out of
1,095 and one injured out of So This
rate is very much lower than the rate
for steam railroads, for which one en-
ploye out of every 401 was killed and
one out Of every "a was injured. The
reform in the direction of safety provi-
sions for steam railway crossings has
of late years been quite considerab bic in
all large American cities, and has been
carried on at an enormous expense. so
that, of the steam railway CROSSINGS
now unprotected. a large proportion are
TO be found in rural districts. In 1902
there were 4.4S1 crossings. of which
more than half were protected: !. e67
however, were still without any form of
protection, not even being supplied with
bells or watchmen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
BRIEF BITS OF CITY NEWS.
A Collection Of Important Para
graphs for Your Consideration.

A still alarm was turned in from 404
Madison street Sunday afternoon at
2:45. The house was occupied and own
ed by John Nelson. The damage by
fire was small and was confined to SO.
The cause of the fire is unknown
Dr. Berry, specialist in catarrh Of
the head, throat, lungs, stomach, ana
fntestines, 725 Kansas avenue
The excavating machine employed
upon the Fifth ward sewer has broken
down again and the contractors have
been forced to rely upon their laborers
to fill the needs. The machine appears
to be too complicated to work efectiVe-
" without constant breaking down ana
a stoppage for repairs.
The offices in the Rock Island depot
which are being prepared for the trans
fer of the general superintendent s and
assistant engineers departments to TINS
city are rapidly being completed ana
will be ready for occupancy within
few days.
MANY good men fail because their
wish bones are where their backDones
ought to be. Our insurance is too good
for chicken hearted" folks. National
Life Insurance company Of Vermont
acknowledgements 1850. Fifty-sixtn
year, doing business In ~ states VIM
B. Henderson, general manager, suite
459 Kemper building, Kansas CITY, MO
Both phones 459 Main
Superintendent Mcclellan, of the San
ia Fe. took a trip of inspection over
the lines of the Leavenworth, Topeka q
Southwestern this morning.
Trains were generally late over the
Santa Fe this morning from the west.
The California limited was reported
eight hours late.
The fire department extinguished af-
ter an hours hard work an obstinate
chimney fire at 1928 Clay street at 1920
this morning. The high wind and the
close proximity of other dwellings made
e --eryy danpero11s The loss amounted
nra cticaliy to nothing. Mrs A. B. Lewis
occupied the residence.
The s55. 600 worth of Fifth ward sewer
bonds were registered this afternoon at
the secretary of states office.
A building permit was issued this af-
+ernoon to J. p. Douglas of 625 Chan
der street for the erection of a story
and 3. halk residence to cost $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
PRODUCTION IS LOWERED.
CoTeyviIIe Field Allowed to Run One
Tank Per Day.

Coffeyville, Kan, March 27.-The
STANDARD company has notified the
CofTeyv1lIe producers that onIv one
tank OF crude oil would be taken per
the local field viii not amount to
much over IT'S barrels every twenty
four hours, hardly enough oil to keen
the hne creased. During last week
the production was cut to ESQ barrels
per day and the producers began to
look around for some relief Now
that the production has been given
another knockout blow the men who
nave OIL for sale are ready to welcome
almost any kind of a change in order
to get rid of their product
Not only has the production been
lowered but the price was cut again
yesterday and the men having the
best grade of oil are now to receive
local producers received last week as
low as SIS cents for their product The
several edictS that have been issued
the past week that deal directly with
the Kansas producers is taken to mean
that the company means to follow out
the plans that have been predicted: to
boycott the field. The Standard con-
tends that it is only cutting down the
production in order to handle the OIL
but the producers think that they read
the signs in a different way
Whether the Standard is boycotting
the field or not the indications are that
SUITE hk1liQ Oh pan Is Delng followed
out that means their ruin if they at
tempt to stay in the business without
seeking some kind of relief
The older producers, the men who
have been up against the trust in other
fields, are not expressing themselves in
I told yoa so" language, but rather lit
beats anything I ever saw" The gen
era1 opinion is that Coffeyvi1Ie in order
to get relief for the oil industry must
have some kind of a refinery.
The farmers on whose land oil has
been found are determined that if there
ever should come a time when it was
found necessary to extend the pipe lines
that either the atmosphere or the pub
lie highway would have to be used. 1t
was rumored last week that a line
would be built from the Victor COM
pany's property to the Frank May Oil
company on the Shockman farm. 1.-The
line will not go across our land,'' said
some of the farmers whose land would
be needed for right of way.
Coffeyville has never been very radi-
cal against the Standard Oil company,
but that does not signify that it is not
possible for her to become so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

been brought to the attention of the
license commissioner by proceedings to
revoke the permit held by z. L. Evans
and the recent surrender of his permit.
1t was scarcely to be expected that an
officer having a discretion to grant or
refuse a permit however satisfactory
the compliance with all statutory re-
quirements. would issue a permit on
this showing to an emplOye of Evans,
and the deficiencies in the proof were
not pointed out as carefully as might
have been done under other circun-
stances. 1t had been my previous i'm
preston that the drug business here
had been demoralized by the establish
ment of stores for the very purpose of
getting liquor permit because the
license commissioner had somehow got
the idea from the decision Of the dis
tTict court in the Lake case that he
must grant a permit if the applicant
made a prima facie showing; but that
does not explain this decision.
A permit granted under such cir
cumstances is obviously of no validity;
but the statutory provision for review
ing it in the district court is as obvi-
ously invalid, because the proceeding
IS not judicial, and non-Judicial func-
lions may not be conferred on the dis
trfct court. 1t would have a little ap-
pearance of harshness to prosecute
criminally on the theory is simply
void. My own notion is that this right
to sell liquor is special privilege or
franchise, and that the validity of a
permit can be appropriately tested by
a proceeding in quo waranto. But
that is an action that private persons
can not institute. The sale of liquor
for the excepted purposes will not be
conducted as contemplated by law un-
less it is committed to men of good
moral character who are total alb
stainers. and some proceeding should
be taken to stop the granting of per-
mits to applicants who do not salts
factoriIy prove their possession Of
these qualifications.
w. H. COWLES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

The Pretoria Arrives After n Temples
tuOus Voyage.

/ New York. March 27-Three DAYS
behind her record time for her pas
sage, the Hamburg American line
steamer Pretoria came in today from
Hamburg, with a story of extremely
bad weather on the Atlantic. Con-
slant westerly gales and head seas.
varied only in periods marked by an
increase in the adverse conditions,
was in brief the Pretoria's experience
as related by her officers. One life
was lost. that of a seaman, who was
blown into the sea. during a hurricane.
The Pretoria passenger list was in
creased by three during the voyage.
All the births were in the steerage
quarters.
Among the passenge were Lieut.
Vargyos, of the Russian army. He is
going to San Francisco to look after
Russian transport affairs there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

/ Little grains of powder,
/ Little gobs of paint
Make a girls complexion
Look like what it amt
-ConeyviIle Record.
The Lawrence World: The next phi
lanthropist ought to endow a packing
house. Commissioner Garfield says
| they are benevolent institutions.
The lola Register: 1t is very kind
of the newspapers to offer General
Bristow his choice between going on
the Panama canal commission and go
ing to the United States senate. And
he may conclude to do both.
The lola Register: The report is
again sent out that Admiral Rojest-
venSky has started to find Admiral
Togo. If the Russian admiral has
it may be set down that he is
hunting the Japanese ships for the
reason that Jim Lane asked a friend
to point him out the disreputable
houses in the city.-'So 1 can avoid
them, sir"
Lawrence Gazette: Wyandotte is
the tighten est town in this whole
country. They are in a scrap down
there all the time Just now they
have four city tickets in the field, and
after the election is over, every fellow
viii claim to be elected, and some OF
the cases will go to supreme court
for settlement Then something else
that causes trouble viii be started
The FL Dorado Republican. A
frazzled out, -the-heel old
codEer, who has lived in FL Dorado
thirty five years, got off the train at
noon today and was Immediately sur
rounded by u lot of hotel drummers
who wanted to take him to a tavern.
This all goes to show that If old
codger doesn't want to be forgotten
he should stay at home occasionally
Kansas City Star: Miss Tarbell's
advice to the Kansas oil producers is
to quit effervescing and saw wood
This merely shows that Miss Tarbell
does not understand the Kansas
nature or the true Kansas spirit The
wood will be sawed all right, but the
right to effervesce is one of the most
fnalienable and cherished heritages OF
the true Kansan.
There is a hot city campaign on in
Ottawa and the Republic tells how the
votes are secured as follows: Good
morning: have you been whipped in
line - was the salutatiOn of one bust
ness man to another, as they met on
the street. WELL" was the sig
nificant reply, ct promised the boys to
support Mort, but 1 had my fingers
crossed at the time" There is more
finger crossing in this springs mayor
atty contest than Ottawa has known in
a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
HE TOOK $40 AND LEFT $50.
u. L. Moon Must Answer to Uncle
Sam just the Same.

Assistant United States Attorney E.
D. McKeever has returned from juno
ton City where he presented the gov
ernment's case against L. L. Moon,
charged with robbing the postofice at
HayWorth, Kan. Moon was bound
over.
Hayworth is a town with only three
h ouses. One of these was the post
office. Moon was rolling stone,
whose starting place was Hayworth.
He used to hang around the postoffice,
where his cousin was postmistresS,
but he never did any work. One day
he saw his cousin put $94 into an en-
velope and lay it in one of the draw
ers of the postoffice desk After she
went away, Moon, it is claimed, pried
open a window. and took SO out of
the envelope. This is the offense for
which he has been bound over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE.
George Burlington Who Killed Man
Wants Third Trial.

The murder case of George NJ.
Burlington of Ellsworth county was
today appealed to the supreme court
for a second time. In 1902 Buffing-
ton shot a young man named Oda
Miller on Buffington's ranch in Els
worth county. The shooting was the
outcome of a bill for two or three
dollars which Burlington owed Miller
for work.
Burlington was tried and convicted
of murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for
twenty years. He was taken to the
penitentiary but appealed his case to
the supreme court and got a new trial
of the same degree of murder. but
the jury recommended that his sem
tence be made ten years. Judge Rees
gave him twelve for good measure.
Now Burlington appeals again, asking
another trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

The supreme court of Ohio holds that
the criminal section of the Ohio anti
trust law is constitutional A short
time ago it decided that the civil sec
ton was valid AS the best decision
was, in effect. a reversal of decision
given by the next lower court. the
chances are that an appeal will be
taken to the United States supreme
court 1t is believed that the only
state antitrust law overthrown by the
United States supreme court was that
of Illinois. which specifically exempted
farmers. The Ohio law does not con-
tain this exemption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
New York Money.

New York, March 27.-MONEY-Nfoney
on call firm 35ka3h per cent, closing bid
81 and offered at 315 per cent: time loans
hrmer; 60 and 80 days. 80 per cent; six
months. 35kd3s per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. 34zN41a
per cent. sterling exchange opened easy,
with actual business in bankers bills at
s.. S5S0d4. s5S5 for demand and at $4.S3sz q
1880 for 50 day bills; posted rates. $4S41z0
ass and $4.S65zG4.S7; commercial bills, 81 80
a S35k
sILVER-Bar silver. $3.50; Mexican dol
BONDS Government bonds irregular
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
MONTGOMERY PARK OPENS.
Renewal of the Handicap an Interest
ing Feature of the Day.

Memphis. Tenn. March 27.-For the
opening of the Memphis Jockey clubs
spring meeting this afternoon at Mont
gonlery park, the annual renewal of
the Montgomery handicap was an in
teresting feature. OF the 10 entries. the
following were named as doubtful
starters:
Spencarian, Kings Trophy, Gregor
X Terra Firma, PretensiOn and
Lueralighter.
RAMS Horn and Bull Finch. coupled
as the entry of Captain Williams, were
the favorites. Tokalon was second
choice. but Dalva, Little Scout and
Canteen had many admirers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
ROUGH RIDERS TROUBLES.
Came Home From Hunting and Found
Wife and Baby Gone.

Weldon Brannock, the only Roose-
Welt Rough Rider in Topeka, had a
complaint to make before Assistant
County Attorney McNary this morn
ing. He said that he went off on a
hunting trip on Saturday with a friend
of his who lives close to his home in
North Topeka. When he returned
home, he said, that his wife had sold
all the furniture in the house. his
clothes, and about everything that was
movable. She and the baby were
gone.
The county officers informed him
that the replevin law was his only re-
course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27

Paris, March 27.-The police are
exercising extensive surveillance over
Russian refugees in Paris. owing to
reports that they are organizing to
assist the revolutionary movement in
Russia It is claimed that much COM
promising correspondence has been
seized. but the refugees assert that it
is principally matter connected with
the student agitations. The surveil-
lance follows continuous rumors that
Father Gapon is hiding in or about
Paris