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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

to the railroad. 1t appears to answer
the purpose. D. E. Books is presi-
dent Albert Hilmer is secretary and
Z. G.. Behrhorst is manager.
The general prosperity of Sylvan
Grove was never better. The Union
Pacific has doubled its depot room,
and built new stock yards which are
as good as any on the Salina and
oakley branch.
Behrhorst Bros. with their stock
of hardware and implements, harness
vehicles and pumps, occupy q room
50x70 feet with q $4,000 stock
Their sales the last year foot up
about 100000. This building has the
opera house on the second floor of
the same dimensions, with a seating
capacity of about 500. It has Il large
stage and ample scenery.
Probably no less than twenty new
residences were added to Sylvan Grove
during the year some of them costing
from $1,000 to $4,000. Eward Bueh-
ring. for five years postmaster, has
completed his new residence at cost
of $4,000. A few business buildings
We're also added, including the opera
house block at d cost of $4,000.
The Raffety Brothers. three of
them. general merchants, occupy a
building 75x60 feet. with a SO foot
wareroOm. They have been in con-
tinuOus business in Sylvan Grove since
1889. Their sales the past year have
$4,000 and 100000. They are also
owners of other good business and
residence property. In the residence
part they own block of ground
which contains 1000 bearing fruit
trees of most every variety This
spring they will set out several hun
bred evergreens. Somebody has said
they refused $4,000 for this home and
block Of ground
For town the size of Sylvan Grove
the people boast of their fine musical
talent Six pianos were delivered in
one day to those who had bought
them. The music loving people are
already at work or their annual jubi-
lee. The band is good, but their male
quartette is better, the members of the
latter being Ozroe Raffey, Ray Peck,
Robert Cross and Tell Peterson.
The Sylvan Grove hotel, the pioneer
hotel in the town, has recently made
improvements both inside and out. so
much so that the familiar hotel of a
few years ago is scarcely recognized
today. Mrs. F. w. VanWie and her
daughters are doing all they can in
keeping the hotel the popular resort
No people have ever worked with more
interest to keep up this popular hotel
than Mrs NanWie and her children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20
THRILLING RESCUE.
How the Crew of the Kipling Escaped
From PeriIOus Position.

New York. Jan. 20.-An account of
strange and thrilling rescue of seven
seaman from the shipwrecked schooner
Kipling was brought here today by the
steamer Maine from London. The
steamer found the Kfpling on January
II, near the British coast sinking from
the effects of the pounding of huge
waves The schooner's seams were
sprung and leaking. part of her spars
and deck fixtures had been snapped off
and big seas We're washing over her
decks when the Maine sent a boat to
Iakes OH the kiplingiS crew. This bOat
was manned by an officer and three
sailors, 1t stood alongside the schooner
sometimes rising to the level of the
decks and sometimes dropping far be-
low them with the roll of the waves
Jumped into this bobbing boat and
the oars had been dipped to row away
when the schooner swung around so
that her bowsprit was directly over the
lifeboat. simultaneously, a sea rose
beneath the boat carrying it up, and
crushing it against the bow spirit which
struck it directly across the midship
section. In the midst of swapping oars
and flying splinters, the seven seamen
from the Kipling leaped up to the bow
spirit throwing their arms around avail
able supports and with their feet try
ing to kick the lifeboat free from its
peFllOuS poSlllOn. lniS they dld but the
lifebOat swept clear of the schooner,
leaving them clinging to the bow spirit.
In the bottom of the boat one rescuer
lay unconscious, having been struck on
the head during the collision and the
boat itself was so badly damaged that
it was in danger of sinking. 1t was
rowed back to the Maine while the crew
of the Kipling clambered back to the
vessel. The Maine. however, sent a
second life boat to the schooner and
this time the shipwreeked men were
safely taken aboard the steamer.
The Kipling had been crippled for 20
days before sighting the Maine She
was bound for America
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WHAT HE FOUND.
City Chemist at x. C. Analyses Some
Food Samples.

Kansas city, Jan 2O.-In a half
pound sample of cheap strawberry
jelly an unexpected ingredient has
been discovered by DR.. W. NJ. Cross,
city chemist. It was seed-actually
seed. The chemist first thought that it
was strawberry seed that had got in
somehow by mistake Further in
vestigation showed that it was anise
seed, used to create the delusiOn that
the jelly was made out of real straw
berries
The other ingredients were 54 per
cent of glucose, starch as a coagulator,
enough salicylic acid preservative to
give an attack of indigestion, ana, in
a spoonful of the jelly, enough coal
tar dye to color single strand of yarn
two yards long a bright red. There
was no sugar in it.
Also the city chemist has discovered
new use for pumpkins. 1t is the
principal substance in cheap apple but
tiers that he put under test. The
pumpkin forms the body and CHINA
mon and other spices are used to give
a flavor that suggests apple pies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20
THEvALUE OF CHARCOAL
Few People Know HOW Useful 1t Is in
Preserving Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature. but
few realize its value when taken into
the human system for the same
cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
YOU take of it the better; it is not a
drug at all but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities Arrays present in
the stomach and intestines and carries
them out of the system.
Charcoal sveetens the breath after
smoking. drinking or after eating
onions and other OdOrous vegetables.
Charcoal effectzally clears and i'm
proves the complexion. il whitens the
teeth and further acts as natural
and enlinently safe cathartic.
1t absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach ana bowels. #
dfsinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in ono
form or another. but probably the hest
charcoal and the most for the money
IS i'm Stuart's Charcoal Lozs nges; tn ev
are composed of the finest powdered
Willow charcoal, and ether harmless
antiseDtics in tablet form OK rather in
the form of large, pleasant tasting
Iozenges. the charcoal oein- mixed
with honey
The daily use of these lezenges will
soon tell in much improved condf
ton of the general health, better com
plexion. sweeter breath and Durer
blood and the beauty Of it IS, that no
possible harm can result from their
continued use. but on the contrary.
great benefit
A Buffalo physician in speaking OF
the benefits of charcoal says: 81 ad-
wise Stuart's Charcoal Lozeuges to an
patients suffering from gas in stomach
and bowels, and to clear the complex
ion and purify the breath, mouth and
throat; I also believe the liver is great
ly benefited by the daily use oe them:
they cost but twenty-five cents a box
at drug stores, and although in some
sense a patent preparation, yet I be-
lieve I get more and better charcoal in
Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges than in any
of the ordinary charcoal tablets"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20
SEE THE PACKING HOUSES.
Chinese Visitors to Chicago Shown
the Real Thing.

Chicago. Jan. 2o.-The imperial Chi
nese commissioners. Tuan Fang and Tai
Nun Tsu, entered promptly upon the
programme outlined fol- their second
day in Chicago A special train car
RED the visitors to the stock yards to-
day.
The usual plan of inspecting the
methods of killing and packing We're
followed, the visitors following an ami
into the packing house alive until it
was hanging in sections in the cooling
rooms. They displayed the greatest in
terest in all they saw Luncheon was
served in one of the large packing
houses. The commissioners We're then
taken to the Mccormick Harvester
company's plant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20
SMILEY is REELECTED.
He Is again secretary of Grain Deal
crs' Association.

Kansas City. Jan. 20 E ]. Smiley,
secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers
association, the first mar ever sent to
Jail under the Kansas antitrust law,
was rewarded for his three months
term of imprisonment I'm the Rush
county prison a La Crosse, Kan, last
summer by being reelected secretary of
the association. Smiley's jail sentence
was for acts committed as secretary OF
the association. He Is said 10 be lhe
only man ever imprisoned in the United
States for violating any of the numer-
GUS antitrust laws.
Smiley was convicted in 1902 of hav-
ing formed a pool among the four mill
ers at Bison, a small town in Rush
county lis object was TO keep down
the price of wheat In addition to the
Jail sentence imposed he was fined
$500. He appealed the case through the
state courts to the United states SUI
preme court, where the sentence was al
frmed. The Grain Dealers association
made a strenuous effort to secure Smi-
leys pardon before he began his sen
tence. but Governor HOch refused H.
He declared Smiley was miniature
Rockefeller" Smiley began serving his
sentence last May and was released
early ia August.
while i'm the Rush county Jail Smi-
ley continued to transact the business
of the Kansas Grain Dealers assOcia-
ton He had a typewriting machine
and other office necessities there. He
took his meals with the sheriff's family
and when the sheriff had to leave town
Smiley carried the key to his own cell.
His only annoyance was the almost
daily calls made by farmers to have a
look at him and to see that he was in
his cell The farmers considered his
Incarceration i'm the nature of a personal
victory
The convention which reelected Smi-
ley was the eighth annual gathering of
the organization The meeting was held
at the Midland hotel 1t adjourned
finally at 3 o'clock last night. L. Cortel-
YOU of Muscotah, Kan. president, was
also reelected. J. T. White Of Ada,
Kan. was elected vice president. The
following were elected directors for
1906 w. S. Washer. Atchison: s. ].
Thompson. Holton, and E. n Bailey,
AdaVille
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INSURANCE MEN ON TRIAL.
They Are Charged With Violating
Antitrust Law at Atchison.

Atchison, Kas., Jan. z0.-F'ive spe-
cial agents of fire insurance com
panies, all non-residents of Atchison,
are on trial in the district court here
on charges of violating the Kansas
antitrust law. They are W. H. Lin
niger. Topeka, representing the
Springfield Fire and Marine company;
Frank Mauritzius. Omaha. represent
ing the Fire Association of Philadel-
phia: R. D. Air. Topeka. representing
the Phoenix. of Brooklyn; H a Bush,
Kansas City. of the Hartford Fire IN
surance company, and Will I. Drum,
Topeka. Cerman-American company
The arrests were the result of a
rate war inaugurated in Atchison
last month, and the warrants were
sworn out by local agents of nom
union companies B. P. Waggener is
assisting J. NJ. Challiss. county attor-
ney. in the prosecution of the cases.
Thomas Bales. Chicago insurance
attorney. and H. NJ. Jackson. of Atch-
ison, are defending. The case will
be prolonged for several terms. It
took one entire day to secure a jury.
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SYLVAN GROVES BOOM.
One Feature the Unloading of Six
Pianos in one Day.

Sylvan Grove, Kas.. Jan. 2O--Six
pianos were unloaded at the depot
here one day recently and delivered
to the owners. This ought to indicate
that Sylvan Grove and the farming
community enjoy prosperity.
Another prosperity item is the fact
that Miss jeanette ZachO has com
pleted a modern residence at cost
Of about $4,000. Her sister Miss Liz
zie Zacho. and jeanette are occupying
IT. Miss Lizzie owns a good quarter
section of Lincoln county land, said
tn be worth not less than $4,000.
They are very independent ladies and
highly respected. This is not intend
ed to open up a communication for
any bachelor who is after helpmeet
for life
Among other prosperity items NAV
be mentioned the Sylvan Grove State
bank. with capital and surplus of
100000. A. r. Buick one of the
largest and most successful cattle
feeders is president. John Calene is
vice president. II. S. Buick is cashier.
and W Il. Breihan assistant cashier.
Tt has been i'm operation since 1892
and during this time the bank has lost
only S14 on bad paper The last
statement showed $1SL128.22 on de-
post.
During the last year two elevators
were completed, making four in all
The G. e. Robinson elevator with
headquarters i'm Lincoln. kas.. was
built at a cost of over $4,000. with
a capacity for handling $4,000 bush
els of grain daily. The Farmers EIe-
Nator company opened business i'm
their new elevator in October last
Their first days work was the pur-
chase of 1900 bushels of grain. From
that date to the present they claim
TO have handled upwards of $4,000
bushels. The farmers invested in me
tnF
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MUST LIVE TO BE 1876.
To serve His Sentence and Emerge
From Prison Alive.

Chicago, Jan. 2O.-The law laid an
iron hand today on offenders of the
class who have terrorized Chicago re-
Gently by their armed hold-up and at
tacks on women. In one case an oc-
togenarian in spite of the plea of his
attorneys that his life race was nearly
run. was sentenced to ninety-nine
years in the penitentiary. In another
court three youths under 10 years Of
age were sentenced to prison for life
after having been convicted of an
armed robbery.
No mercy because of his great age
was shown Nicholas Holland, when
he was found guilty of attacking a lit
tie girl. and although Sc years of age.
he was given a sentence that, if he
could live that long would free him
from prison at the age Of 1875.
Peter Brady, Joseph Hase and Law
renee Roscoe. convicted of eight rob-
berries. were the youths sentenced to
the penitentiary for life. The largest
amount of money secured by them as
booty was one dollar.
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MILLER ACQUITTED.
Jury Refused to Credit Statements of
the Witnesses.

Kansas City Jan 2O.-Jay J. Miller
was acquitted of the charge of per
jury. on which he was tried in the
criminal court
Miller was a dealer in cattle at the
stock yards and a member of the
Traders exchange Last July the
grand jury was investigating an al
legged conspiracy upon the part of deal
ers and weighmasters at the stock
yards to defraud by means of false
weights Miller was witness before
the grand jury and he swore that he
had no connection with any such con-
splracy and that he knew of no such
conspiracy. The grand jury indicted
him for perjury
At his trial Bruce Riech eIderfer,
Charles Virgins and A. J. Judy, all un-
der Indictment for the alleged frauds,
testified that there was such con-
spiracy and that Miller was a party to
1t. There was circumstantial evidence
by other witnesses not a party to the
alleged conspiracy, which indicated in
a general way that Miller insisted on
weighing the cattle he bought and sold
over the scales of Virgins, who has
confessed that he gave false weights in
order to defraud
The defense of Miller consisted of
a denial by himself and the testimony
of several live stock dealers of good
reputation that his character was
good.
Miller's lawyer argued to the jury
that the only direct evidence against
Miller was the testimony of self-con-
fessed perjurers. The jury took the
same view of it. The first vote was
eleven for acquittal and one for con-
vtction. The jury was out only two
hours The jurors said that they
would not convict upon the testimony
of men who acknowledged under oath
that they had sworn falsely before the
grand jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20
CHANGE THE BALL GAMES.
Washburn VIII Play It's series at
Association Park.

The baseball games in the Wash
burn college schedule this coming
spring will be played on the Western
association grounds. The schedule of
the college games has not been made
yet awaiting the schedule Of the
Western association games. This is
done to avoid any chance of a con-
f1ict in the dates.
Baseball games will probably never
be played again on the present Wash
burn athletic field; a new diamond
will be laid out later when the
finances Of the athletic association viii
warrant such an expenditure.
The present athletic field viii be
devoted to football entirely. and the
field will be =sodded for this purpose
Football nowadays is played on turf
in preference to packed bare ground
A force OF men viii be set to work
within the next few weeks sodding
the entire field so that a firm texture
of bluegrass will be formed by next
fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

this color being .used-the company
must be over stocked on this color of
paint.
Capt. P. H. Coney, department COM
mander of the G. A. r., went to Ell
Dorado to attend camp fire. He viii
speak at Junction City February and
at the Soldiers Home at Fort Dodge
February 10.
The city officials who went to Fort
Scott were shown the time of their
lives. They were taken on free street
car rides. to the show and given free
franks to use the long distance tele-
phone in addition to a very nice ban
quet which formed the climax of the
session of the Municipal league.
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GAVE A GOOD PROGRAMME.
Ampliion Quartette PIeases Audience
ON West Side.

The Amphion male quartette of the
Kansas College of Music. assisted by
Miss EIenior Lincoln, reader, gave a
musical programme last evening at
the Cum berland Presbyterian church
Twelve numbers, each Of which ne
cessitated an encore, were given. The
programme was well balanced be-
tween classical and popular selec-
tions in the musical line.
The members of the quartette are.
Nj. Karl HummeI, first tenor; Mr..
S. Van Warnica, second tenor; Mr..
Edward F. Subway. first bass, and
Mr.. John D. Brown. second bass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

Attempted Suicide Three Times.

Kansas City, Kas. Jan ga. J.
Donnelly, of Sol Nebraska avenue,
who is being held at police head
quarters for investigation on a charge
Of being short in his accounts with
an Omaha firm. attempted suicide
lnree times in his cell yesterday after
noon. The police strapped him fast
10 prevent him from attempting fur
tner self injury. DonneIiy IS 43 years
old and was salesman
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DUTIES TO BE RAISED.
Foreign Manufacturers in Russia VIII
Be Protected.

Chicago. Jan. 20.-A dispatch to the
Record Herald from Washington says:
On the first of March next the duties
upon machinery, electrical supplies
and other articles which are shipped in
large quantities from the United States
to Russia viii be taxed nearly 100 per
cent more than at present. The duties
are to be raised for the protection Of
American. German and other manufac-
turers, who have been induced to build
factories and invest capital in the Rus
sian empire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20
Picture sale Realizes s11z.OsO.

New York, Jan. 20-A total of S117, O90
was realized at last nights sale of paint
ings from the Heber R. Bishop collec-
ton The highest price of the evening
was brought by a Schroyer, Bulgarian
Smugglers' which started off at S., 1000,
the highest opening bid Of the evening,
and ran up to $4,000. The Dupre
brought the first consfdera bic price So
100 beginning a $1,000. Then a Corot
jumped to $500 and in the meantime
an Israels had gone for s4.S09.
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Burns Wins in Cateh-as-Catch-Can.

Des Moines, Ia. Jan. 2O-Farmer
Burns defeated Ed Adamson. of Chi
cagO. in fest rafol7-a So t~7a o.if "
wrestling match last night. Adamson
snoWeu remarka Die agility ana won
the first fall in "a minutes anu . see
onds. outWrestling Burnst Burns
won TIE next two in d minutes 55
seconds and 10 minutes IS seconds.
respectively.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

At its regular meeting last night sew
eial members of the Topeka Whist club
eNIl essed their intention of attending
the twelfth annual meeting of the Cen
tlal Whist association to be held Feb
ruary is and II at Grand Island, Neb.
a team of four and several pair teams
VIII probably take part in the contests.
The following scores were made last
nipht-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

The following table, compiled by Brad
street. shows the bank cIearings at the
| principal cities for the week ended Jan.
IS, with the percentage of increase and
decrease, as compared with the cores
pOnding week last year:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

31.001.O06 bushels in 1904 and Is. 2so.-
S13 bushels in 1908.
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Total in L. SO. SS1. So. 452 s5.6
Outside n. y. 1. 1858. 93S, $50 2O.6
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-09-06
Womans Suffrage Convention.

The Eighth annual convention
of Custer county Womans Suf-
frage association will he held al
the residence of Mrs. DIR. c.
Pickett, September 22nd, 1906,
at 2 o'clock p. m. Reports will
be expected from each local club
in the county. The local treas.
urers are requested to forward all
county and state dues to the
treasurer of the county associa-
tion sufficient time before the
date above named, in order that
she may have her report ready
for the convention.
Clara A. Young, state vice.
president, will have paper and
the representatives of the local
clubs will be expected to report.
A short program will be rendered
after the election of officers.
The Executive board, of which
all local presidents are members,
will have business meeting at
the above mentioned place and
date at 10 o'clock a. IN.
Mrs. DIR. c. PICKETT. Pres.
MRS. w. A. GEORGE, Sec.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-09-06
OF Interest to Teachers.

! am in receipt of a circular
from State Supt. McBrien, stat.
ing that no questions will be sent
out for the September examina-
tions. He desires that the State
Board of Examiners may have a
much-needed rest after the exact
ing and arduous labors of the
past two months. All holders OF
Emergency Certificates" as
we'll as those whose examinations
are incomplete, are urged to pre-
pare for the regular examination
of October l9 and 20, and by
direction of the state superin-
tendent all such certificates are
to be accredited until that time.
All teachers interested will please
take notice of this and govern
themselves accordingly.
H. M. PINcKNEY,
County Superintendent.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-09-06

happy and prosperous life. Just
before the leave taking Mr.. Ed.
Purcell, with his ever ready
kodac, "shot" the bridal party
and later the entire company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker left Monday
morning for a short wedding trip
to his old home and TO Lincoln.
On their return the groom will
build a new house on his farm,
W miles north of town. In one
of the numerous presents was the
following verse:
biing flowers. fresh flowers for the bride 10
wear,
They were born to blush Ia her shining hair.
She is leaving the home of childhoods mirth,
She has bid farewell to her fathers hearth.
Her place Is now by anotheIs side,
Bring flowers for the locks Of the fair young
BRIDE