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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

AOIS DIOS.s hdnSdS city, MO,
The Merchants National bank of 4'OO"
Topeka, Kas., about. ............... 5000
The Southwestern Fuel company
of Topeka, Kas., about ..... 1888 900
The Fourth National bank of ST.
Louis, Mo-, about. 200. coo
Total listed Indebtedness. 81. .724. 600
The First National bank of Toluca, Ill. !;
the Spring Valley National bank of Spring
Valley, Ill, and two national banks Of the
city of New York, whose names petitioners
cannot give out, are not listed as to the
amount OF Indebtedness.
Charles J. Devlin has admitted that
he is a bankrupt.
After the entire day had been spent in
conference among the attorneys and in
terested persons, Charles J. Devlin on
thursday night at 8 o'clock filed in the
United States district court a voluntary
petition of bankruptcy.
The move has been anticipated for
the past two days, on Wednesday noon
talk being current on the streets that
Mr.. Devlin would make to the courts
voluntary statement of insolvency
Practically during the entire day attor-
neys for Mr. Devlin. the interested
banks. and managers of various COM
pan1es, were closeted in the Mt Carmel
I Goal company offices on Ninth street
The filing of the petition last night was
the result of their conference.
No Holding Company Now.
Clifford Histed, Mr.. Deylin's personal
attorney, and who is practically today
In control of the situation, stated after
he filed the petition that the holding
company is now done away with This
gives US just what we want and puts
/ thlngs in such a shape that the people
who were interested in the holding COM
/ pany need no longer worry. All the
| company wanted was to have some i'm
mediate action taken to insure the car
ry1ng on of the business. If the busi-
ness stopped, the assets wuold drop to
one-third what they really are worth .
The Liabilities.
! The petition in the case shows that Mr..
| Devlin's liabilities are probably more
| than has been generally supposed They
amount to $2,724, 600. with four banks
not listed. A list OF the assets is also
given, although there is no valuation
put on any item, most of them being in
leases or in corporation stock, the value
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
Gen. Porter starts Home.

left Paris today for Cherbourg. where he
will sail for New York on the steamer
Deutschland this evening. A number of
officials and friends accompanied the gen
eral to the train and gave him notable
expression of esteem on the termination
of his long service as ambassador to
France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
Temperatures in Large cities.

Chicago, July Tt a. m. temper
atures: New York, 10; Philadelphia,
rs: Chicago, 66; Cincinnati, 10: Bos-
ton, 64; Washington, rs; Minneapolis
go; st. Louis. sc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
Weather Indications.

Chicago, July Forecast for Kan
sas: Generally fair today and Saturday,
varia able winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
S,VW
5000
1900
5000
138,MO
100000
Total listed Indebtedness

The First National bank of Toluca, Ill;
Valley, Ill, and two national banks Of the
city of New York, whose names petitioners
cannot give out, are not listed as to the
amount of Indebtedness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

sas City. Mo, about g
- Hirsch, St. Louis, Mo-, about 5
Long Bros, Kansas City. Mo.
eabOue
The Merchants National bank of
Topeka, Kas., about. 5
Of Topeka, Kas., about ........... 188
The Fourth National bank of ST.
Louis, Mo-, about. 200
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
Analn TaIkinn Peaoe.

From the Toledo Blade
Sir Mortimer Durand, the English
Ambassador. sallded for home Sunday
and Il is said that he bears an import
ant message from the President to
King Edward. NJ. Jusserand. the
French Ambassador, and Baron Stern
burg, the German Ambassador, are
making preparations TO go
TO Europe shortly after the
President returns from his vaca-
tion. They too. viii have important
matters to lay before their respective
soveregns.
There is a revival of peace rumors
and the departure Of these three dis
tingushed diplomats is believed to
mark the beginning of concerted ac-
tion ON the part Of the Powers to force
the issue Whether President Roose-
Welt has learned through Takahira that
Japan believes the time propitious for
negotiations or whether he Is acting
on his own initiative is not clear. but
manifestly every effort is TO be made
90 bring the two warning nations to-
gether. Possibly If there was any as
surance that the conflict could be con-
fined 10 two countries directly inter-
ested, there might be a disposition to
let them fight il out. but with every
move there is international irritation.
IL seems as If all Europe is itching to
take hand i'm the struggle Every na-
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
helninn the Farmer.

From the Chicago Tribune.
1t IS the habit of the farmers and
villagers TO revile the Board Of Trade
They affect to consider IL an enemy
although they have never been able TO
produce satisfactory evidence that il
harmed them, especially II they re-
Trained from speculating on the
Board. There are times when that
institution is of manifest service to
those who abuse IT, although they will
not admit the fact
II there were no Board Of Trade
there would have been no speculative
operations IN May wheat, no abnor-
mally high price, and no opportunity
for the country people who held wheat
at the commencement of the year to
get rid of it on terms which ought TO
have been most satisfactory to them.
Those who sold their wheat last year
got good price for it, and those who
held on did better still.
The corner had the effect which Is
customary but which never appears 10
be fully allowed for by operators. Lit
tie streams Of wheat began flowing
into Chicago from unsuspected
sources The reserve stocks, coaXed
out of their hiding places by the rise
in price, began to come to the front
in, such quantities as to make it peril
GUS to go on with the corner. Prices
have receded and the influx Of wheat
has stopped. Those who had some and
did not dispose of ii at the top notch
are unhappy.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
APPLAusE EoR HONESTY.

a NEW YORY woman ON her way
a home from savings bank
from which she had drawn an Of her
little fortune. amounting TO $500. lost
the money and reached home pros
trated.
The next day the bell rings and a
nice old lady and gentlemen step IN
and produce the missing ron that they
had found. No. they don't want any
reward. and they do not care to see
their names in print so they prefer
10 remain lncognito.
The papers have made much Of the
story. why2 one writer asserts that
had this tale appeared In Sunday
school book It would have excited a
smile OF incredulity. II so what an
awful comment on the average persont
But We don't regard it as particu-
larly remarkable. To find vaIuables
that you know belongs to another and
keep them is pure theft. morally at
least The people who found the purse
had read the advertisement showing
who the real owner was. They appar-
emily never thought Of anything else
than TO return the money.
And they did It in the only proper
manner. They didn't want any reward
for being honest Why should they.
And they didn't want their names in
the papers. because they felt that they
had done nothing to warrant it.
Have we reached a stage Of civiiiza-
tion where an act Of simple honesty
honesty that seeks no applause
must be regarded as an extraordin-
airy thing? il so. We wish it were
otherwise.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
EDITORIAL OPINION
Russian officers.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
a report OF the retreat from Mukden
given TO the Associated Press by an
unknown trader might be regarded as
exaggerated were not the details sub
stantiated by comparison with letters
previously received from correspond
.ents stationed az other points Of con
.oentrntiou. Tho trader tells of ohi-
GERS drinking themselves into uncon-
sciousness on the eve Of the retreat
and being thrown in this condition IN
TO carts. which carried them beyond
the grip Of the JAPANESE pursuit.
Whatever may be the qualifications of
the moro prominent officers IN The RUS
Sian army. IL is undeniahle that the
subordinates or company commanders
average pretty badly. They seem to
be corrupt hard drinking. gambling
and generally pronigate lot Added TO
that their indifference 90 the thnoret-
cal ana scientific side of their profess
sion has become notorious by compa-
rson with the transcendent ability Of
their Japanese rivals The examples
set by the yoneer officers ina the con-
tending armies must have an appre-
oiable effect upon the men who fight
directly under their supervision. is il
any wonder that the japanese pride
themselves on the morale of their arr
my when they are made aware of the
RIGHTEOUSNESS and decentralization ex-
listing among their opponents?
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
ROBBED EQUITABLE SOCIETY
Man Who stole $4,000 From Company
CAUGHT at Stroudsburp, Pa.

WAN WHO ClDlG 4Gf foOO FIOFl COMPANY
Caught at Stroudsbure, Pa.
Stroudsburg, Pa. May 10.-William
Daily was arrested here and placed In
the county Jail by detective agency
of New York city. charged with grand
larceny DAILY. it is alleged, stole s27.-
600 from the Equitable Life Assurance
Society A letter from Robert H.
Elder, first assistant district attorney
Of Kings county, N. Y, sent to Sheriff
Evans Of this county put the authori-
ties here on the watch.
Daly's name is said by detectives
to be Samuel Lobley, but he is alleged
TO have operated under the aliases OF
Edwards, Robert c. Henderson and
Father Smith. William c. Cotton, Of
Brookline, Mass, is the owner Of q
$4,000 policy in the Equitable So
ciety. In March. 1904, he borrowed
$4,000 on it. depositing It with the so
siety as a security for the loan. A few
months later, the officials say, the
policy was stolen from the vaults Of
the society by a trusted employe.
working in conjunction with Lobley,
the books Of the society containing a
record of the previous loan were al
tered, and Cottons name was forged
to an application for another loan of
$27 goo. The second loan was made, it
is declared, 10 Lobley.
Last January. the officials say, the
operation was repeated in part, and a
third loan would have been made if
the paying teller of a bank had not
held up the Equitable Society's check,
suspecting that something was wrong,
and insisting upon Identification. Lob
ley, alleged TO have been the holder
Of the check, disappeared.
The name Of his alleged confederate
in the employ of the Equitable So
ciety has not been made public.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
PENNYPAckER,s sHAME.

- OVERNOR PENNY PACKER
Vt since he appended his signa-
ture TO the Philadelphia ripper bill
has had greater need OF the enforce
ment of his newspaper "muzzler" law
than ever. For the newspapers, ale
most without exception have ridlculed
his explanatory statement and hayed
his hypocrltical utterances.
And everybody including Penny
packer, has full knowledge of what it
means. The ward leaders name the
councllmen, and the councilmen name
the Director Of Public Safety lie in
turn appoints the police. 1t follows
that every policeman ia Philadelphia
viii owe his job TO the ward boss, and
win be obliged TO protect resorts the
boss wants protected and 10 engage
actively in padding the registration
lists.
That is what it means, and with all
Of Pennypacker's nanseatIng drivel, he
knows perfectly that to sign that bill
was an act Of infamy. It is absurd to
call Philadelphia Republican any long
err. Piracy and loot know no party
PennypaclSer viii remain Governor foi
a time. but henceforth no man can re-
spect him.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

Man wants 10 ny IKE a bird, but he
wouldn't want TO walk like one.
il Is no trouble 10 keep on the right
track II you watch the signals.
Talk is cheap when you get ii from a
man who knows It all.
Bills-Did you saw that Smith is a
member OF the stock exchange?
Whistle is the auctioneer at a horse
bazaar.
A man cannot expect to do circus
stunt on a side show reputation.
Boyle-wonder what becomes Of an the
doctors the colleges turn out2
Doyle--I don't know. but l can guess
what becomes Of their patients.
A man would not boast Of his will
power IL he could see the scrap among
his heirs.
Court clerl-Do you swear to tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth.
The witness-Yes, II the lawyer for tn,
other side will let me.
Timid passenger-Do you ever have
any wrecks on this line?
conductor-Yes, we had a financia,
wreck, who tried to bum his way tn,
other day.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
WEDNESDAY,, NAV 70 1905.
AN EMPsRoR,s WISDOM.

n n is the general impression that
4 Emperor william is pretty much
Of a statesman. and st is probably too
late to contest that point with his
eulogists but unless an the reports
of his many addresses are gross per-
versions, William is given to indulglng
Ia much hot air
In referring to the contest between
Russia and Japan he Is reported as
having relieved himself Of this bit Of
sentiment. zone must not draw the
conclusion from the Japanese victories
victories of a heather over a Chris
tian people-that Buddah is superior to
our Lord Christ" He further accounts
for these victories on the ground that
the Japanese are the scourge OF Cod
sent to punish the Russians because
they do not faithfully observe the pre-
cepts Of their religion
That sounds like the utterance Of
some sixteenth century potentate. II
assumes that IN the scheme of things
God has no purpose in allowing the
Japanese 60 win victories but to NE
feet a reform IN Russian morals. OF
course me brave Japs being under iho
special care Of Buddha cannot expect
amy consideration from the God of ga.
chnstians-a most enlightened doc,
irine.
He might 90 further and explain that
this awful scourge of war that has
fallen upon Russia and which has sent
unnumbered poor peasants from Their
families 70 on graves In AIanchurlu
o. 70 punish the sinners who infest st
Petersburg. For them to witness tho
grief and destieuuon Of widows and
orphans win prove lesson to them
Hence. the widows and orphans had
10 be madel
When an emperor is responsible foi
such a deliverance II may be regarded
with admiration, but were it the ora
tion Of our American high school boy
he would be sent home to write
smother
Evening journal., 1905-05-10

stockholm has slot machines which for
"a copper yield a glass Of warm milk
I'm India threshing is sti1 done by hand
or by bunocks treading on the grain, and
the winnowing is also done boy hand.
White women are scarce in the German
colonies; there are only 25i in East Africa
and 100 in the German islands in the Pa
cino ocean.
Trinidad has the largest sugar estate
in the British West Indies, the Made
leine with a capacity for crushing 1900
tons of sugar.
The Catholics of Belgium have decided
to present TO the Pope a new church in
Rome IL will be built in the San Lo-
renzo quarter ana designed by the Pope
himself
Military charts. the size Of "a mans
palm. from reduced photographs OF ord
nance maps, are to be issued. dtted with
powerful pocket lenses TO officers Of the
German army
a Paris bank clerk. carrying Sio0 IN gold
I'm a bag, dropped piece of money worth
s.. 10 search for it he set his bag down
ON the sidewalk When he found the
piece he had lost his bag was gone.
Have a glty loolS-Gold picture frames.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
SPRING cATARRH.
chanseable Weather Causes Disease.
Breathe Hyomei and Cure catarrh.

.chanseable Weather Causes Disease.
Breathe Hyomei and Cure catarrh.
The changeable weather Of spring,
with its warm days and cold nights,
is responsible for a great increase in
the number OF cases Of catarrh. 1t is
now that Hyomei, the only guaranteed
treatment for catarrh that cures with
out stomach dosing, should be used in
every home.
For more than a century physicians
have been sending persons suffering
from catarrh TO Egypt, Colorado, or
Australia, where the pure, healing air
would cure the disease. For one person
who could take this trip thousands
have been compelled TO stay at home
and continue their daily toll. To these
sufferers who could not change their
climatic conditions, we offer Hyomei,
method by which pure air impreg-
mated with Natures own remedies for
the cure Of catarrh, can be inhaled by
every sufferer i'm his or her home.
Breathed through the neat pocket in
holer that comes with every outfit, its
healing, volatile, antispetic fragrance
reaches the lungs and air passages as
no stomach dosing possibly can do. 1t
gives immediate relief and makes last
ing cures.
The complete outfit, consisting Of the
inhaler, medicine dropper, and bottle
Of Hyomei, costs only one dollar, and
extra bottles of Hyomei, If needed, can
be procured for fifty cents.
Proof that the Hyomei treatment will
do all that is claimed for it is found
in the guarantee under which =. James
Belt sells It. an agreement to pay back
the price. if the purchaser can say
that Hyomei has not given satisfac-
! tiOn.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
THE WEATHER

The New York Herald predicts that in
the Middle States and New England to-
day fair TO partly cloudy and slightly
cooler weather will prevail with fresh to
shifting to northeastcrly and becoming
variable. on Thursday partly cloudy TO
overcast weather and nearly stationary
temperature viii prevail, with light TO
fresh variable winds, becoming mostly
easterly, followed by rain in the western
districts Of this section; and on Friday
cloudy weather, with rain and slight tenn
perature changes.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
READABLE RHYMES
A Psalm of Life.

Tell me not in idle Jingle
Marriage is an empty dream,
f'or the girl is dead that's single,
And things are not what they seem
Married life is real in earnest,
Single blessedness is a fib;
Take from man. TO man returnest.
Has been spoken of the rib.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way:
But to act that each tomorrow
Nearer brings our wedding day
Life Is long and youth is feeting.
And our hearts If these we search.
Still like steady drums are beating
Anxious marches to the church.
In the worlds broad field Of battle.
In the bivouac of life,
BE not like dumb driven cattle;
BE woman, be a wife!
Tnust no future. howe'er pleasant
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act. act IN the living present
Heart within, and man aheadi
Lives OF married folks remind us,
We can live our lives as well;
And, departing leave behind us
Such examples as viii tell.
such examples, that another
San far from Hymen's port,
A forlorn, unmarried brother.
Seeing, shall take heart ana court
Let us. then, be up and doing,
With the heart and head begin;
Stin achieving. stiil pursuing.
Nco girl ana her hand to win.
Phoebe Cary, 2d. IN Chester, Pa.
Times
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
THg EouITAaLE DIREeToRs.

II HE Directors of the Equitable
\ are to be relieved of any fur
ther worry In reorganization efforts
Just az present as the courts are going
TO take up the tangled affairs Of the
concern I'm the interests of the stock
holders.
Suit has been begun against all the
officers. including the dummy direc-
tors. The law is likely to presume
that their duty was to direct and to
safeguard the interests Of the stock
holders. They seem, however. to have
been asleep while many millions Cten
is the estimate) were diverted into the
pockets OF individuals
Il would be but a simple act OF JUS
tice to require OF these directors that
they make good an losses due to their
negligence or mismanagement. And
the lesson is needed badly.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
BEAUTIFYINe BALTIMORE
The City Will be More Modern Thai
Ever After Fire.

The City Will be More Modern Than
Ever After Fire.
Baltimore's recovery from the great
fire of February. 1904, has been swift
and thorough. The city was not stag
gered by the disaster which overlook
IL. From the first its people declined
all offers OF outside aid, starting I'm with
true American grit and confidence to
repair their losses. In little more
than "A year they have replanned and
largely rebuilt the burned business
district, and they are now preparing TO
install a sewer system and to Initiate
a general scheme of municipal improve
ments.
on last Tuesday the voters of Balti-
more approved a floating of three muni-
cipal loans, the proceeds Of which are
to be used in beautifying and modern
izing the city. Thirteen million dollars
is to be raised. of which 81 900 600 will
90 to the extension of the park system.
50, 100000 to the Improvement of out
laying territory annexed to the city
proper, and sl0,0C00 900 to the construc.
tion of a sewer ana drainage plant.
Curiously enough, Baltimore has never
had a sub-surface drainage. The gut
ters have been used as sewers, and as
a consequence the streets have always
been crudely and roughly paved and
seldom kept in q presentable or sani-
tary, wholesome condition.
The introduction of underground sew
ers will lead to the asphalting of the
streets and to their Identification and
betterment for travel SO that event.
ually Baltimore viii owe to the fire OF
1904 not only the rebuilding of its busi-
ness section on modernized lines, but
a notable enhancement Of its general
desirabillty as a place Of residence.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
Does Not Represent HoIv Sc.

Rome. May 10-The Vatican has IS
sued a communication stating that the
mission Of RI Rev. Francis Albin
symon, titular archbishop of Alfalfa
70 the United States is not from the
Holy See. Archbishop Symon. Il has
been stated. is coming to the United
States to investigate the conditions Of
the Polish Catholics in this country.
The Polish prelate's errand was un-
dertaken as the result Of the desire of
the Polish Catholics 20 have priests Of
their own nationality elevated to
places IN the American hierarchy. The
plan has been combatted by the Eng
lish-spealing bishops.
Evening journal., 1905-05-10
LITERARY

Carter Goodloe, the author Of College
Girls and Calvert of strathore spent a
summer at a post of the Northwest
Mounted Police in British Columbia. Out
Of that experience has grown a group of
stories which bring in contrast the life or
English younger sons" American ad-
venturers and Indians. One of these will
appear in the May scribners entitled "a
Doubling Thomas" and all of them will
later appear in a book entitled AT tho
Foot of the Rockies"
The Booklovers Magazine for May gives
its readers foretaste of the chauns OF
outdoor sights and sounds i'm an un-
usually attractive number. The Illustrated
paper by Waldemar b. Kaempnert on
"The Protective AIimicry of Insects" is
striking and popular presentation OF
some phases of the struggle for existence
which goes on ceaselessly throughout the
whole animate world, and will be
source of pleasure and profit 20 nature
lovers who wish TO study the subject for
themselves. Joseph Conrad, master OF
sea-craft, contributes deightml dis
sertation on Sailing as a Fine Art"
wherein he expounds the philosophy of
yachting seamanship In its relation TO the
development of character and conduct.
Considerable interest is now being man-
ifested by thinkers and students IN var
ious phases Of practical psychology. brain
building, The development of will power.
concentration, thought force and similar
subjects: TO those who seek information
on these matters the May issue of Sug-
gestion (Chcago) a magazine of the New
Psychology, will prove of interest. It
deals with such matters as auto-sugges-
ton, psychic research. memory culture.
drugloss healing, Nature cure. personal
magnetism and the acquisition OF health,
happiness and success through the apple
cation Of inherent psychic powers all
along ratiouSl and scientific lines.