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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-07-11

0. & SCHAEFER, Drugs, Connections.
X. J. TAuPERT, Jewelry, Cut Glass, etc.
c. nyEoUCHER, Groceries.
THE Boston CLOTHING HOUSE. Clothing.
Mrs. c. WARING, Books, Stationery.
LAS VEGAS STEAM LAUNDRY.
Il. T. TURNER, The Butcher,
+. GEHRINo, Hardware and Plumbing.
o. l.. GREGORY, Barber and Baths.
THE S%PoRLEDER BooT AND SHo Co.
CooRs LUMBER Co, Lumber and Coal.
NJ. BIEHL Bicycles and Sporting Goods.
BAcHARAcH Bros, Dry Goods.
RUSSELL g. LEWIS, Merchant Tailoring.
LAS VEGAS CIGAR Co., Wholesale and Retail
The BIsMARK, Restaurant and Lunch Room.
LEHMANN.BAKERY, Fine Baked Goods.
MR.. {. WARING, Curios and Queensware.
LEWIS, THE UNDERTAKER, Cut Flowers,
picture framing.
CooRs LUMBER Co, Wall Paper, Paints, etc
NJ. l.. COOLEY, Livery.
TAUPERT, The Optician.
THE NEW MILLINERY Co.. Mrs. Ely, Prop.
o. L. GREGORY, Billiards and Pool.
STIRRAT STUDIO, Fin Photographs.
FURMAN, Clothes cleaned and repaired.
ARCADE CLUB SALOON, Liquors and Wines.
ANTLERs SALOON, Wines and Liquors.
A. H. LoRENZEN, Blacksmith.
Have you ever been at Bacharach Bros
MARTINEZ Publishing Co.
Following is the poll of votes to
date in original trade contest:
Clerks union .............l7,ill
Fraternal Brotherhood ....14,5bS
ElkS SPOT
W II. c A. ....s..,....... o,loi
Christian Bros. ........... Z,t3o
Societies not polling 1000 votes are
not listed.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-07-11

Territory Of New Mexico,
In the District Court
County Of San Miguel.
No. GQ4G.
Judson A. Elston, Plaintiff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
NIB. BRIsToW,s IDEA.

Joseph L. Bristow, now editor of the
Salina Journal who has considerable
personal knowledge of the problems in
volved in the construction of the Pana-
ma canal, because of his Investigations
down there last spring as the special
agent of the president, is in favor of a
canal at sea level instead of one with
locks, although its construction will take
some longer. He says there are no great
problems involved in the digging of the
canal-it is simply big job. The high
est elevation along the route of the ca
nal is less than $50 feet, and fully so feet
of this has been taken away by the
French and Americans before they
stopped excavations.
Regarding his reasons for advocating
a canal at sea level Mr.. Bristow says:
ITO build a lock canal will mean
greater expense of maintenance, greater
time in passing through and quite pro-
badly a higher toll for ships and ton
mage. The immediate cost of the sea
level canal will be greater, but if pro-
perly constructed it is there for all time
and will be more useful to commerce
because it will be more easily operated.
If q lock canal is constructed and be-
cause of excessive weight of water or
| commissions of the earth one of the
locks shall give way it would place the
canal out of use for probably from one
to two years. It is the opinion of Mr..
| Wallace, the late chief engineer, that a
sea level canal is the more feasible, the
more practicable and by far better and
that the excess of cost would not be
very great. While Mr.. Wallace failed in
the discharge of his full obligations to
Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt
in face of the great consideration that
had been shown him in the reorganiza-
ton of the commission, yet his judg-
ment as an engineer and his ability as
an executive officer have not been as
sailed. He spent year upon the 18TH
mus and great weight should be given
his unbiased judgment.
THE influences in the country that
are opposed to the construction of the
canal will probably exert every posi-
bic effort in behalf of a lock instead OF
a sea level canal. Being opposed to any
canal they will of course favor that
one which will be the less useful when
completed. The American people will
mot be content unless the canal be madt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
HOW ne GEN TT.

The Topeka Journal has glirnnner
of hope that the next legislature VIII
enact a law to prohibit officials from
accepting railroad passes. The Journal
is growing optimistic in its prosperous
days. But the hope expressed is vain
To begin with, every public official IN
the state would use his pull against
such a law, and judging the future by
the past. which is about the only way
to judge 1t, a majority of the leg1s-
lators, with their array of kin, would
die in the ditch rather than give up
the pass perquisite. There ought to be
an anti-pass law, but it will do no
good to start agitation in the legis-
lature. Let the advocates of an anti
pass law take the case before the
political conventions and have their
demands Incorporated in the party
platforms. The crowd that gets in
might be honest enough, or sufficiently
cowed by public sentiment, to redeem
the pledge.-Holton Signal.
The convention method is the way
that is being pursued by the Repub-
licans of Nebraska right now. The
question of passes or no passes is the
great issue in Nebraska today. just as
it is bound to be one of the great is
sues in Kansas. Perhaps if the next
Republican state convention in Kan
sas can be persuaded to take a stand
against the issuance of railroad passes,
particularly to public officials, the next
legislature will pass such a law. Let
it be tried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
JOURNAL ENTRLES

Some people are so suspicious that
they think the airship at the fair
grounds is only hot-air ship.
Korea's emperor is named XII. We
are getting the directory of eastern
potentates down pat these days.
You can shoot prairie chickens dur
ing the next thirty days, providing you
can shoot straight enough, and provid-
ing you can find the chickens.
The time of year is once more here
when modest men must skip the adj
vertising pages or else be confronted
with those union suit advertisements.
Some people say there are no sure
things. They evidently never watched
some of the skin games that were in
operation at the fair early in the
week.
If the gas won't work we might try
putting some yeast under the airship.
Although Jake StahI is manager of
the Washburn football team this year,
it is to be hoped that nobody will refer
to the boys as Stahlwarts.
A Topeka doctor recently bought a
new encyclopedia, and the first thing
he did was to operate on it by cutting
out its appendix.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
QUAKER REFLECTION.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Time to spring fall openings.
Even the dinner bell is ringer.
Man proposes, woman simply poses.
The door of adversely always has the
latch string out.
1t takes more than an amateur gar
dener to raise hopes.
The dealer in artificial limbs should
give his wife free foot.
With the coming of autumn the
thermometer isn't so stuck up.
1t is easier to make a fool of your
self than to convince others that you
haven't.
every dog has his day." quoted the
Wise Guy. Yes" agreed the Simple
Mug; "but dog days are over
The department store proprietor
must expect a perfect jam when he
advertises bargain sale in preserves.
Wigg-"Bjones married a rich wife,
but he hasn't a cent. She even buys
his shoes Wagg-"Can't call his sole
his own, eh ?"
The careful girl doesn't like to see a
thing going to waste, unless it's her
own waist and the thing is her best
young mans arm.
Fanny Footlights-"She says she is
a leading lady. L didn't even know
tights-"She isn't. She is married to
blind man.
Wil1ie's Mamma-'Why didn't you
answer me?' WiIlie-s'Didn't you tell
me to think twice before 1 speak %
WilIie's Mamma Yes Willie =
'FWell, first I thought 1 would answer
you and then I thought wouldn't"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
Big Day for Rattlesnakes.

One day last week Mr.. and Mrs. w.
W. Woods, who live in the Pine Grove
section. established a record for killing
rattlesnakes. During the forenoon,
while Mr. Woods was working in the
field, he succeeded in killing a good
sized RATHER. On returning to the house
for dinner he boastingly informed his
wife of what he had done. Mrs. Woods
Immediately informed her husband that
he was not IN it when it came to killing
rattlesnakes, and showed him two that
she had killed in the chicken stable
during his absence. After dinner Mr..
Woods attention was attracted to the
barn by the barking of a dog, and upon
Investigation found another RATHER
making it's way into hole. Mr.. Woods
called his wife to watch for the appear
ance of the snake, and he returned to
his labor in the field. The good house
wife, armed with club and in COM
pany with two dogs, began the watch.
In a short time the snake crawled out
and met his fate at the hands of the
trio. This made four snakes for the
day. and the last killed was feet 4
inches long.-Elgin (Ore.) Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison G

From the Atchison Giobel
If Russia were a thoroughbred, she
would pay that fiddler as if she en-
joyed paying fiddIers every day.,
What's the best thing to do with
your opposition? Let him have his
money?
There is one thing I can't under
stand" man said today. There are
thousand things we can't under
stand. -s-.
If you do not know there is nothing
in fortune telling or spiritualisn, there
is no hope for you; you will be a fool
all your days.
They say of an Atchison man that
he is good looking, good natured, in
dustrious, has good habits. is honest,
and neat. yet he is a failure. We looked
up this remarkable man, and found
that he is a poor workman. That's
the secret.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
Bound TO Sing It.

Ex-Congressman Harry Libby Of vir-
einia tells a story of John Randolph
of Roanoke, which has never been
printed. Randolph had employed a
preacher named C1opton to deliver some
sermons to the negroes in the chapel
on the plantation. One Sunday when
the weather was very cold the preacher
was giving out the hymns, two lines at
a time when he saw a negro put his
foot on the red-hot stove. and called to
him: "You rascal, you; you'll burn
your shoe"
That fitted rhyme and meter. and the
negroes sang it. The preacher smiled
and explained: MY coIored friends,
indeed you're wrong; I didn't intend
that for the song.
The negroes also sang this verse very
piously, and then the preacher impa
tientIy shouted at them: Il hope you
will not sing again. until have time
to explain And this they sang with
strenuous earnestness. SO that Clopton
gave up in despair, took up his Bible.
announced a text and delivered SER
mon which was not so rhythmical as
his other utterances.-Los Angeles
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
SURVIVAL OF THE FTTrrEsT

A parrot met a graphophone
And listened to its chat
Let me depart" they heard her groan
can't compete with that
A lion, once the jungle's pride,
Heard of a famous trust
faik of the lions share" he sighed
One gasp and he was dust.
A polecat sat beside the way
An auto by him rushed;
he died at the first Whit, they say,
he was SO dazed and crushed.
A trolley swiftly cleft the air
Fan shooke her head and cried,
VOW wouldn't that make any mare
Commit race suicide?''
Thus at no very distant date,
since good must yield to best,
Old Mother Nature'Il abdicate
And man will do the. rest
New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
HUMOR OF THE Day

s.I thought, senator, that you were going
to insist on being vindicated before
IT was, but my lawyers have been for
tunate enough to find flaw IN the in
dictment. Record-Herald.
do you pay poets?, asked the long
''Sometimes." replied the editor, without
s'For what size poems7',
Don't pay them for poems. Pay them
for washing the windows and scrubbfne
Browne-Is your daughter going TO take
postgraduate course after college?
Green--Yes. Love-making, raising or
ange blossoms and the care of the young.
Life.
Sillicus-When was a boy the doctors
said If didn't stop smoking cigarettes
would become weak minded.
Cynicus-Well why didn't you7-PhiIa-
delphia Record
..Who is it that robs us while we are
asleep?'' asked the teacher, trying to get
''De gas meter!'' shouted the boys in
unison.-Chicago News
Shell am so fond of trees. The oak il
my favorite. it Is strong, no nobel
Which do you like best?
He Oromptly)-Yew.-J
There's a campmeeting on one side of
US and a circus on the other.'
(which are you going top
81 don't know. Each promises uha%
neither can fulfil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
KANSAS COAMENT
DISHONEST sHowINGs.

vestigation can hardly fail to be the
destruction of whatever confidence
the public has heretofore had in the
published statements of the conditions
of such institutions. The instances
brought out-in the examination of one
of the largest companies, in which
two clerks signed notes for more than
two million dollars to be used in a
trick in bookkeeping will be sufficient
to cast discredit upon any figures pro-
duced by any company however hon
est as showing of its financial
strength Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
TFrom the New york Press.1

from the New York Press
Not being able to tell the truth is
very useful if you want to compliment
a woman.
When man rows a woman across a
creek she tells about it as if she had
been off yachting.
A man can marry a girl for her looks
but when it comes to living with her
what he counts on is her disposition.
A woman can always be happy for a
while by imagining how all her friends
would envy her If, she were a widow
There is so much deception in a wo-
man that she can make herself believe
she is going to nurse a sick friend when
she is going to make her sick with envy
over the clothes she is wearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
THE PARALLEL.

The parallel between the state auditor
of Indiana and the state treasurer of
Kansas continues. The auditor of In
diana complains that he is being perse-
cuted; that he can make good all the
money that the treasury is short if he
is given a little time; that the state
won't lose anything; that the money
will all be paid back.
Doesn't it sound natural.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
"a eOINCIpENCE.

For the first time since the days Of
reconstruction, Missouri is today gov
erned by a Missouri governor. And
stranger STILL his name is Mckinley. By
way of explanation it might be stated
that Governor Folk is attending the
Portland exposition and the lieutenant
governor is holding the reins Of state
Coffeyville Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

the greatest and the best that man can
devise. Any other kind would not be
consistent with the spirit of American
enterprise, and unworthy the dignity OIL
this great republic. The canal is being
constructed for the benefit of commerce
and will be of undesirable advantage
to mankind and should be the best that
man can create
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chicago News.1

LFrom the Chicago News.J
A cloak of charity is often a sad
misfit.
Love frequently begets hate, but
hate never begets love.
Somehow people never like to take
advice from q poor man.
Narrow-minded men seldom travel
in the strait and narrow path.
Health food is so called because a
healthy person can eat It with iua-
punity. SD :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
as No RACE sIIIcIDE.

Every day somebody tells us about
Race Suicide. 1.-The Decrease in the
Birth Rate, and 1.-THE Shortage in the
Baby Crop Well, what of it? We
still find a lot of people wherever we
go; and it appears to us the world
would get along just as well. If there
were not half as many people standing
around in the way, as there are now
Bent Murdoch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
SEVERE PUNISHMENT.

Governor Hoch has received word
from Texas that lone of the QuantreN
band is there but adds that it will
take the state OF Kansas to get him.
Kansas has never forgiven the Guam
trell raiders, and there is no one here
to lift his hands to save the poor man
from Texas. Kansas rather glories in
his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
AN I'LL WIND.

It is an i'll wind that blows no one
good. The destruction of the oil field at
Baku is likely to revive and make sue
cessful the project to build a pipe line
from the Kansas oil fields to the Gulf of
Mexico, in order to supply the foreign
market, which has been supplied large
ly heretofore from the Baku field
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
SSIBLE.

The talk of running A. e. Crane for
attorney general may not materialize,
but it has caused many who know
them both to compare Crane with
Coleman, with the result that it makes
Coleman look smaller than eyer
Holton Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
DOWN IN PANAMA.

Governor Magoon proposes to con-
struct forty little red school houses in
the canal zone. After the canal zone
has got plenty of school houses and
churches and theaters and other para
phernalia. perhaps somebody may be
persuaded to begin the construction of
a canal, and then, in the course of
time, there may be practical exem-
pliication of '.the earth divided and
the world united. San Antonio Ex-
DresS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
nvine Made Easy.

One of the modern schemes of physi-
cal development that has won favor
is a systematic method of breathing. A
certain inquirer who was interested in
the principles of this system recently
wrote to one of its professors for a
descriptive pamphlet. One of the rules
on the first mage read as follows:
AFTER the morning bath take deep
breath, retain it as long as possible,
then slowly expire
He decided not to try the system
Harper's Weekl--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Japan" says the Los Angeles Ex-
press, will adnonish Emperor XII of
Korea that his role is to be seen and
not heard" And incidentally he is not
to be seen too much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Prince Henry has decided not to come
and see us again. While we are, of
course, stricken with anguish over the
announcement, we think we will be able
to control our feelings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

A jackson county Republican com
planned that Father Beck, Of the Re-
corder, had stopped fighting the Dem
ocratic party up there. Thereupon
Father Beck told the complainant to
bring on his Democratic party If he
wants it fought. Mr.. Beck says there
is no Democratic party in Jackson
county to speak of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Some Republican papers are mean
enough to insinuate that the ovation re-
Gently given to Colonel Bryan was be-
cause he was Just about to leave the
,,nnntr,r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

away during the suHuraer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
~ any address at the rate. of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While cat Of town
the State Journal will be to you like
. daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Very likely the Democrats may
nominate Tom Lawson for the presi-
dency, provided the convention thinks
it needs a sacrifice instead of a candi-
date
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
CAN'T BE DONE.

Treasurer Kelly charges that Cover
nor Hoch is traitor to his party. The
worthy treasurer hasn't any time to
throw mud. He can keep awfully busy
twenty-four hours each day using Sa-
polio on his own reputation and then
need more time to make it shine.-Cha-
mute Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Bishop Potter is inclined to be rather
silent as to why his effort to sanctify
the cocktail and whisky straight was a
failure. Perhaps he hasn't discovered
WHY himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

There are no candidates for the
county offices in Pratt county SO far.
The farmers are all so prosperous that
none of them want to spare time to
run for any county offices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

The freight rate on coal to Topeka
has been reduced % cents ton. Now
we will see who gets the benefit of
that % cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Mr.. Rockefeller predicts that there
will be financial panic inside of two or
three years. If he means that it will
be among those f1nanciers who are
mixed up with some insurance com
panies we will agree with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

A Chicago mail order house has re-
Gently placed an order for two million
catalogues, which win be sent out to
two million customers. And every one
of those customers was secured through
advertising. That is what advertising
vii do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

foreign admirer- of President Roose-
Welt wishes him delegated by the pow
ers as Supreme Arbitrator and Peace
Plenipotentiary of the World" That
sounds too much like a lodge title.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Governor Folk lis different from some
Kansas state officers in this also: He
did not accept the courtesy of a free
Pullman to take his friends to Port
land in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

The University of Chicago closed its
year with only $24 in the treasury
but it has pretty good idea where
it can get more,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

The name of G. Cleveland is conspicu-
ously absent from the list of "distin-
guished Democrats" who attended the
Chicago banquet at which Mr.. Bryan's
presidential boom was launched.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

But then, you can't blame Portsmouth
for making as good a thing as possible
out of it. A peace conference doesnt
come there ever. summer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Is not this the day for w. R. Stubs
to have the state board of control find
Henry Allen guilty of something. He
has let two days go to waste.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

Now that Miss Tarbell has filed hel
report on the oil situation in Kansas
Commissioner Garfield can follow hel
example.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

If Mr.. Kuropatkin is still anxious to
eat a Christmas dinner in Toxic he
can probably. do so next Christmas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

If you want to have a good hearty
laugh hunt up the old magazines and
newspaper files and see the predictions
we all made just as the war was be-
ginning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
DISGUISE UNAvALING.
NOT "MADE IN GERMANY"

The Germans are saying that Mr..
Roosevelt is 1.-THE greatest living mas
ter of statecraft," which is a crafty
ing indication that the Germans are
capable of seeing merit in some things
not made in Germany. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.