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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
RAZOR In HAND.
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Detective Joe Ross. He said that he
was born I'm Andersen, South Carolina,
and educated at the Brewer normal
school He worked there for a time on
a farm, and then did gardening at
county institution at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Having relatives in Washington and
Oregon he went there and staid for
time He got a place as janitor of the
First Baptist church at Los Angeles,
California After working at that for
time he became a junk dealer Hearing
that land was cheap in New Mexico, he
went to Albuquerque for time and then
moved to Kansas City. where he worked
as a janitor at the Baltimore and later
at the Lafayette hotels He said he
had a room with a man named voorhees,
at Tenth and State streets in Kansas
civ. kan after he quit working at
the hotels. 1T was here that he was hrst
.overtalxen with the hailUcination that
enemies were following Rim to do him
harm Never before in his life, he said,
did he have that feeling.
Hayeood Tells His Story.
ST came UP here to Topeka a week
ago he said but still I couldn't get
rid of that idea. When I got here. I
roomed with Mrs. Slaughter at Four
teenth and Monroe streets. There one
of the roomers told me that two men
were after me. or rather he didn't tell
me DtI i overheard H. ~ il Ny Git ~ L
north of North Topeka and got q job
with a man named Hamacker and did
some gardening for him and chopped
son1e wood. I took some treatments
in divine healing from him. But still
7 thought these people were following
me Sunday night I was sure that
they were right UP close to me. So /
Jumped in the river east of the bridge
and swan down stream piece had
all my clothes on. When I got out 1
them again. But on Monday I thought
they were hunting me again. I started
60 walk around. and I thought I saw
two men behind me, and they were
after me I didn't know them and I
didn't know whether they We're white
or black. I was going along by that
first place I went in Che meant the
Coons residence at 719 Van Buren, I
ran into the basement / told the peO-
pie that some one was after me. But
when he came at me with a gun, I cut
at him to save myself I couldn't do
anything else. didn't want to get
hurt. I just went in there for refuge.
] cannot remember anything about
how it happened I got away and
walked around. Then I went out west
esd stopped in that other place.
THE man let me In and then didn't
want to let me go. He shot at me and
I had to defend myself But 7 got
away again and wandered around on
Tenth street. I saw an automobile go
by towards morning. (Chief Goodwin
with his officers was in the machine
looking for HaygOod). 1t was very
dark Ny shoes had become united
ran awhile and one came off So I
pulled off the other. L don't know
where I threw them. Towards morn
ing I saw man in a wagon and got in
with him. 7 told him I wanted to be
protected. So he took me to the sta
ton"
What did you do with the knife p
asked Ross.
Fl dropped it out of my pocket" he
answered. cit was an old razor / car
gied to shave myself"
'rgYhat did you do after you left tbs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
Kansas City. Feb. %.
Open High Low Close WINS


Kansas City No. Feb. 23.-CATTLE-
Receipts today, 5000 head, including 800
head of southerns. Market steady. Ma
tive steers, s4.o0d6.oo; southern steers. s.. 50
d490 southern cows. S2.25G3.75: native
COWS and heifers 50. 25d5. 90; stockers and
feeders. 50. OOd490; bulls, s2.6004.00: calves.
50. 0065 70: western fed steers. s35065. 50;
western fed cows. 81. 60d4- 25-
S-Receipts today, 1000 head. Mar
ket sc higher. Bulk of sales, $605d6. IS;
heavy, IS. 10d6.20: packers, $60506. 171A
pigs and lights S5.50d6.05.
SHEEP-Receipts today 5000 head.
Market steady Muttons, "a. 25G5 80; lambs,
IS. 50Q76 70; range wethers, S5.50G600; fed
ewes. s.. 25G5.25.
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TO INVESTIGATE OIL RATES.
Agent of Interstate Commerce Com
mission Comes West for Purpose.

Kansas City. Feb. 23-J. T. March
and. agent for the interstate commerce
commission, is in Kansas City to gather
evidence relative to alleged illegal oil
rates in this section of the country
The interstate commerce commission
is to meet here on March II to investi-
gate the situation. Mr.. Marchand is
here to gather evidence to submit to
the mem bers of the commission then
He has been in conference at length
with H z. West, of Peru, Kan, presi-
dent of the Kansas Oil Producers asso-
citation; J. l. Lamprecht, president of
the National Refining company, and
Frank 3. F'retter, secretary of the same
company. both Of Cleveland, o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

washington. Feb Ex-senator Long has
introduced bill to appropriate $4,000 for
the establishment of FISH culture in Kan
as including purchase of site, construc-
lion of buildings and equipment, at some
suitable place to be selected by the sec
refarv of commerce and labor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

Raesints today IS cars Quotations
were arm On & better demand. quota
tions were as follows: May, ls5Aei July 55s
73stc. Sept 731kc Cash. No. Isht e9s.75 q z.
arse: No. 8 hard. 75Q46c; NO : Ieea' o -
No. 3 red, S4QST1zc. co. r,,1,-
CoRN-Marlzef firm. May ssei ~ = uis . 3
395<c. Cash: No. mixed. go ss5z ~
white. 3Ssz dS9c; No. white, $50
RYEEMarxet steady No. = Doc s;,,+,,,-
HAY-Market strong 20 Sae n 'ii''0's''S
5000, choice prairie, 81 49ae;;9o- 2sr
EGGS-Market weak to nc lower-Eresl p
q1ke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

Butte, Mont, Feb. 2s.-Ffve thousand
dollars have been appropriated by the
mill and smelters mems union of this
city to aid IN the defense of Charles +.
Meyer. Haywood, Pettibone and Orch
ard, who are suspected Of the murder
Of Ex-Governor Stuenenberg Of Idaho.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

Liverpool opening cables: Wheat 10
ed lower: corn I'd lower.
Liverpool 100 p M Wheat 1z4@zd
lower; corn 5z6ssd lower
Grain receipts at Chicago; Wheat; Il
cars: graded.51 Corn. 40 cars; graded, 8
oats, I7s- ears graded, q.
Northwest grain receipts today. Mime
apolis, 719 cars Duluth, . cars. a year
cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

New York. Feb. s.-BUTTER---A.l.sar 5sa
firmer. Street price. Extra creamery, ~,
OTfciaI price: Creamery, common - = "
- 1e575se- factory common to nrsIs, Il
Sii7c: western imitation creamery ez e.sts
dc. western imitation creamery, hrsIs'
FcCs-Marxet irregular. Western nIsss'
HE; western seconds, 1S15dl4ci soulil-
erns. 111a6141zc. .,.. easier
western chickens, 19613c; turkeys A99-Ae
fowls 10Gl31kc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

c,l,jcago III FEB 23.-BUTTEH-h4 ar =
lsef steady, Creamery, 17@275ae; dairy Il
e T7551SSGs-Market steady. At mark cases
u III FsF5@Afarket Arm Daisies lSc'
Twins IIs@12c;. Young Americas Gas lSG T,,r-
POULTRY-A1iye poultry ttLa 10 "a
l.svs laal5c. chickens and lows. -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

CU~0r se7ffi f'ceffC0 Nq"vlSPf
New York. Feb 2a-STTCfa R-f2aw SUI
gar steady. Fair retiring. PIC: cehtrifn-
gal Sc test. 1-32d3ssc: molasses SUGAR
27sc- Refined sugar quiet. Crushed. $500
powdered 81 50; sranulated. - so
COFFEE-Market quiet No Rio
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
Narl,et Gossip.

Furnished by the A. N McDern1ott Com
Mission Co, Stocks, Grains. Provisions
and investment securities. Room L
Columbian bldg.J
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

Chicago. Feb q Receipts to-
dav 21 600 head. Market strong. Beeves-
81 40G6. s.; cows and heifers. $L5064 80;
stoekers and feeders, S2-750470; Texans.
50 60d4.40.
HOGS Receip+S today. 10000 head; esti-
mated Saturday, 1900 head. Market
strong to sc higher. Mixed and butchers
s.. GOAT. 20: rough heavy. Sc. 056s. Is; good
heavy. s6-2006, 271z: light, Sc 0od6- PA pigs,
s. 75Ne 10; bulk of sales, S. 15Q6.25.
SHEEP Receipts today. 1000 head.
Market strong. Sheep, $3.6od5-75; lambs,
"a 75dZ10.
Kansas city Live Stock Sales Today.
IThe following sales were made today at
the stock yards. Kansas City Mo. and
teleDhoned to the Topeka State Journal
by Clay. Robinson & Co, live stock com
mission merchants. with offices at all
markets.
Kansas City. Feb. o.
CATTLE-Receipt tod Y, 5000 head.
Market SLOW TO steady.
HOGS-Receipts today. 1000 head. Mar
Aet sc higher Bulk of sales, s6-o5a615
top, $500
Market steady
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

FURNISHED by J. 2. Call Commissions.
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Office no w. Sixth st. Telephone 1851
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

Best carnations. soc a dozen. Saturday
only, at Mrs. Holcraft's. SO7 Kan. ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

FURNISHED by J. E. GALL Commissions,
Grains Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 W. Sixth st. Telephone 4S6.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

Kansas CITY Produce Market.
Kansas City. Feb. 23.-Close-WHEAT-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

Tosaelz2 A1zds Nz---s--1
Topeka. Feb. o
lErlces palo n - AopeiSa this week, based
on Boston quotationz.1
GREEN SALT CURED ....s -;; a7stS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

December 10. 1904. Hoch was mar
ried to Mrs. Marie Welcker, a widow
of this city. the woman for whose
murder he was condemned. Deem
Der 20 the woman became i'll. and jan
uary 2 she died, the cause of death
being stated in the physicians Ger
tifcate, as nephritis. Five days later
Hoch married Mrs. Emile Fischer. a
sister Of Mrs. Welcker-Hoch. He OBJ
tanned $3.50 from her and disappeared
January 4 the last Mrs. Hoch reported
to the police, the disappearance OF
her husband. Suspicion was aroused
by her story and the body of Mrs.
Welcker-Hoch was exhumed, and 7-6
grains Of arsenic were found in the
stomach. Search was made for Hoch
and he was finally discovered in New
York, where his landlady. Mrs. Kim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
I.awHers Nouldn't Give %.

PRESENTATIONS for the hanging were
Immediately begun following Judge
Lands refusal to a writ of habeas
corpus but Hoch's attorneys strenuous
" continued efforts to secure further
delay. While the death march was
starting in the jail. the attorneys were
Just leaving the federal building to get
Hoch's signature to an appeal bond.
After Judge Lands had apparently
closed the case, Hoch S attorneys
hastily prepared an. appeal bond and
Immediately advanced to the court
and renewed the demand for an ap-
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-14
Farm Help.

The following from the Gainesville
Sun needs no comment, but we wish
to put ourselves on record as endOrs-
ing the sentiment emphatically.
Many farmers are having trouble
to secure good help on the farm be
cause the men who are in search of
work get better wages in other pur-
suits. There is no use in Disgusting
the plain fact that if you want good
article of any kind you must pay the
market price. Those who won't pay
the market price may patroniZe bar
gain counters and auctions, but usual
ly get Il poor bargain. Good, intelli-
gent labor will command a good price
wherever offered, hence if you want
intelligent farm help, and no other
should be considered, make up your
mind to pay fair price for it.
Farmers are in a better condition
to meet the demands of labor now
than they ever were before, and we
predict before the year 1906 is wiped
off of the calenred they will have
made more progress in cooperation
and price making than in all the years
before. Therefore look around for
good intelligent help at a fair price.
Your cares for 1906 will be less and
your results better
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-14

ent argues that the present stock law
alone is sufficient to deter every
intelligent person from entering our
borders as permanent settler.
III connection with the above read
the following:
Agricultural editor ". Z. Pabor, in
The sun. gives his own experience
Coming 20 F'lorida in 1892 he settled
in sj.ar.ely populated township in
De Soto county, purchased an hundred
or so acres in Il section that had no
permanent, but many transient inhabi-
tants; these latter were the fOur-leg-
@ed kinH of animals. One day there
came al0n" party of men on horse
back who notified him that he was on
land that they used as PASTURE for
cattle anl "hawgs," and warned him
to leave. They also stuck up a writ
ten notice OIL several pine trees on
the section to the effect that they had
occupied the land between the lakes
for years IL = common range. and that
they proposed to hold it.
Mind You. this entire section had
been purchased in part and on an
option. and the newcomer was on his
own llnd. Every one of these men
was trespasser, and each had a gun
i'm his; hip pocket to enforce his view
of the subject.
But the new settler stuck. and is on
his land today. True. he has had to
spCrd lot Of money he could lily af-
for. to sI'un IL seven-wire hOg-prOOf
fercc around few acres of his home
place. and keep careful watch over
his pasture patch to keep out cattle
that have no respect for fence wire.
Io you suppose this person would
have settled in Florida had he known
that such was the condition of affairs?
no yOu suppose that Florida is likely
to get the settlers it wants while such
laws as now protect cattle and hog
owners to the detriment of settlers
who desire to build up homes are on
our statute books? And yet as the
Herald correspondent says: "Our in
telligent legislators would all fall into
fits if an act should be presented to
them to modify the law. At the same
time they can cry for immigration
Florida is in no condition to invite i'm
migration, and won't be for many
years to Gomez
These adverse conditions must be
changed. How long will it take for
the leaven of Northern intelligence
now in and coming to leaven the lump
of native legislative Indifference? The
truth does not appear on the surface
Of the optimistic literature scattered
abroad outside the state by those in
tereSted in selling its lands, and after
Il man is pinned down by his title
papers Chat sometimes are fraudu-
lent and of no value) he stays ds he
best may through pride or inability
to get away.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-14
Are in Bloom.

''The Land of the Manatee" is now
in full bloom.
The orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit,
and other fruit trees, too numerous to
mention are covered from top to bot
tom with blossoms of fragrance un-
equalled by even the choicest perfum-
ed rose.
Nature, even at this early time,
smiles her sweetest upon this PrOvi-
dence favored section.
The vegetable crops, from the ten
derest to the hardest plants, are now
at their best, and their movement
nOrthward is beginning in earnest.
Notwithstanding that the vegetable
crop will necessarily be a little short
this season. Oh account of excessive
rains, the quality, as Il rule being
shipped out. classifies favOrably with
any ever shipped from this section.
The prices. owing to the limited
crop. are good and entirely salts
factory to the grower. and it is eX-
pected that whatever shortage there
is in the crop it viii be more than
made up for in prices received.
The tomato crop, however, which
is really looked upon as the staple
vegetable crop, will not be effected by
the past heavy rains and everything
now points to it being as large as
usual
From present indications, taking the
bloom as basis, the orange and
grapefruit crop will be unusually large
and fine, and with anything like Il good
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-14
Stick to Strawberries.

The editor of the Tampa Times
change and from it breaches an ex-
cellent sermon. 1t began about straw
berries, but applies equally well to
any form of market gardening or
truck farming.
The Plant City Courier tells of a
man in that vicinity who has already
this season shipped $4,000 worth of
strawberries from two and a half
acres of land, and has yet enough left
to carry the receipts up to round
thousand dollars an acre.
Instances like these come every
now and then to remind us that men
i'm this section ought to stick to a
thing even when it occasionally goes
into eclipse. Strawberries are splen-
didly paying crops three seasons out
of four, and yet there are men so
blind that when they have met a loss
in their cultivation, or failed of the
great reward they expected, quit their
cultivation i'm disgust This has been
a very favorable season, and if a man
has lost three previous crops-which
would have made handsome money in
the long run.
Lack of Systematically sticking to
an intelligent policy in farming is
the bane of operations in South Flo
rida. Following a remarkably good
season like this, many men will go
into berries. Next season may be
only an average, and large portion of
the men in the business will be posi-
bly, disappointed in their returns.
They will quit in disgust, whether the
reason be the season or their own
fault, and will proclaim berry rails
ing to be a fraud. 1t is tOlerably GER
tain that in any business life a man
must follow it steadily and study it
all the time, and be perpetually in
creasing his knowledge and improv
ing his methods. But somehow there
seems to be an impression abroad
that anybody can raise Strawberries,
that it requires neither knowledge nor
experience nothing but plants placed
in the ground. No wonder many peO-
pie fail.
The experienced berry grower will
tell you that there is no business
which requires more knowledge, work,
attention and skill than his pursuit.
The man who applies these things
will win big money, and the man who
tries any other method, or fails in the
application of all these, will make a
miserable failure.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-14

told a story about an old man in Loret-
to.
'sMr. Schwab said that this old man
had a hobby of raising chickens. In
his handsome chicken runs, with their
netting of silver wire and their floor of
clean. white sand. beautiful and rare
birds lived The Loretto people often
came to the old man to buy settings of
eggs He charged them always, for
these settings, fairly high price.
''What angered the people was that
when there was no demand for set
tings the old man sold his eggs to the
town grocer at an ordinary figure
Bought direct. for setting purposes.
the eggs cost twenty cents apiece
Bought through the grocer, they only
cost thirty cents dozen.
'One season the old man displayed
some unusually fine chickens that took
prizes everywhere. His tOwnSfOlk de-
cided that they, too, would raise these
chickens, and they fiOcked to him for
settings. But his price was so high
that only one or two would pay it.
''ThOse who wouldn't pay it laughed.
They had discovered way to get the
dered why the ruse had not occurred
to them before. The new eggs were a
little peculiar in appearance; experts
such as the Loretto chicken growers
were. could easily tell them from ordi-
nary eggs; and every week large
batch of them appeared in the grocer's
shop.
1.-The experts proceeded TO buy their
settings of this new breed of chickens
from the grocer at eating prices instead
of from the old man at breeding ones.
Day by day group of experts could
be seen in the shop, going over great
baskets of eggs with anxious care,
selecting from ordinary eggs those of
the new breed. News of the matter
came to the old man, and, though he
seemed a little hurt, he smiled, and his
sale of fine eggs to the grocer was not
discontinued
in a week or two it was the ex-
perts' turn to seem hurt, for none of
the eggs they had bought from the
grocer Matched successfully. All went
wrong. There was general disappoint-
ment in chicken-raising circles.
''Some one told the old man about
the disappointment, and he expressed
no surprise. He only said:
"'They should come to me for their
settin' eggs. Who ever heard o buyin'
settin' eggs in a grOcer's shop? When
1 sell eggs for eatin' just dip the ends
in bOiIin' water-kill the germ. Them
was eatin' eggs the grocer had. If
these people want settin' eggs they
should come to me honest like. Elk
change
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-14
Free Range in Florida.

The Melbourne Times prints an ar
ticle which we commend to your care
fiji consideration:
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-14

season will mature perfect and carry
well to any of the Northern markets.
Manatee Record, Feb. %.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-31
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
What are Voters Doins Now7

This political chaos will continue
until the people win out against the
bosses. The issue is joined and there
will be no peace until Vermont is con.
trolled by the voters of Vermont
Rutland Herald.
This is an old cry. The late Lord
Morris, formerly lord chief Justice of
Ireland, on one occasion when an elo-
quent advocate had extenuated some
criminal act on the ground that "the
people" were in sympathy with the
offenders said, 81 never knew small
town in Ireland that hadn't a black
guard in it who called himself the
people," The Messenger need not ex-
plain that it designs no inference from
this quotation that its esteemed Rut-
land contemporary is "blackguard. -
1t is merely illustrating how other men
and institutions than The Herald mis-.
use this word "people" too.
Who are "the people,? What do you
call the voters that honestly believe
Vermont is not boss-ridden and that
the voters control the state even now
Are they not "the people" too?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-31
OBITUARY..

j. K. Spaulding. of West Bridgewater,
who passed away on the 23rd inst, was
one of the oldest, if not the Oldest Post
Master in the State. He was chosen
postmaster when the office was first
established Al years ago, and has held it
continuously up to the time of his death
He was man highly esteemed and
respected by all who knew him. Ever
ready with helping hand and word
of sympathy for all who were in trouble.
The deceased was 70 years old and
leaves wife, six children, one brother
and several grandchildren, besides a
large circle of friends to mourn his death
He was laid to rest Sunday, the 26th
inst, his brothers of the Masonic frater.
nifty having charge of the funeral.
Lord, help us to say, Thy will be
done"