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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
3. STREET CHURCH ROW
Preacher Declines ia Resign Until Back
Salary Is Paid

What would you do If you were a
member of a church congregation which
owed the pastor $40 back salary and
you didn't have the money and the pas
tor wanted his money right away?
Would you put a mortgage on the
church for $40 to raise the money?
Would you?
Some Of the congregation Of the col
ored B street Baptist church say yes.
They viii decide finally at a meeting to
be held this evening. The street Bap-
list church is located in North Topeka
near the banks, not of the Jordan, but
of the Kansas river.
1t is one of the f1ourishing congrega-
tions of the city. that is at least from
the point of numbers If not in the pock-
etbook. But while this mortgage looms
up pOrtentously there is an over shad-
owing cloud Of differences existing be-
tween factions in the church. some of
them opposed to the pastor G. w. Harris
and others supporting him.
Harris claims that $440 is due him
on back salary. The debt seems to be
a just one for no one denies that the
amount is due. The question seems to
be over the manner Of its payment.
Mr.. Harris says he wants it now and
doesn't think that he should be made
to wait for it. He states that he won't
give up his pastorate until the back
salary due him is paid over.
J. NJ. Dorsey of 116 West Sixth ave-
to Harris to pay $3.50 down with $40 a
month until the debt is paid in full.
Harris states that this Is untrue and
that such an offer was never made to
him. He shoulders the whole blame
for the trouble which has been stirred
up on Mrs. Sallie Barker and a few
others who are members Of the
church
Mrs Barker tried to get me to re-
sign without paying my salary" said
Harris. Il helped them pay off the
mortgage they had on the church and
then came back and agreed to help
them raise the money that was due
me 1t amounts to $439.S5. Mrs.
Barker and about six others tried to
get me to resign before my salary was
paid. but I refused to do this. The
whole trouble is due to this Mrs. Bar
ker, the church board and the church
itself officially, never asked me to re-
sign. I am going to quit when I get
my money but not before. I have an
other place in view here in Topeka
when I quit
"Two-thirds of the congregation want
Rev. Harris to tender his resignation as
pastor. and the pastor has declared that
he wouldn't pastor such a gang of
heather another month under any cir
cumstances,' says J. M. Dorsey. He
an effort to mortgage the church to
raise the money to pay him dues. This
meeting win be held tonight to decide
this mortgage business, and then the
trouble comes
Dorsey is not a member of the
church and what he says isn't true"
said Harris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12

out of the accumulation of great for
tunes This subject will be considered
tomorrow.
NC subject can bring greater good
to this country If correctly solved, .
said he, "Or greater harm If, for wise
and just taxation, punitive spoliauon
and the destruction of our boundless
spirit of enterprise through hamper
ing regulations be substituted
Government by injunction was char
acteTized by Mr.. Belmont as another
burning subject to be discussed" He
said he vas not sure that President
ROosevelt's proposition for COM
pulSOry investigation of industrial dis
turbances IS advisable. He doubted the
wisdom of government Interference
but the greatest justification for such
policy would be in the case of quasi
public corporations.
Mr.. Belmont also called attention to
that portion of President RooseveIt's
message. wherein the president de-
nounced the effort to prohibit all com
binations of capital.
The federation then took up the
government by injunction. Carl Spell
ling, general attorney for the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, said that In
labor disputes judges have set forth
DEGREES which were special legislation
and have paralyzed and rendered
abortive all the efforts on the part Of
the labor side of that dispute. An In
junction he said, should never be
granted except to protect property
rights.
'Itawas depierabie, said Mr.. Spelling.
that men Should be advised to commit
crimes, but more deplorable If ire
sponsible men on the bench are to be
allowed to F.uslTrp authority above the
law and become unrestrained despots;
to take one side in every trade dis
pute, to decide ex-parte that hundreds
and thousands of men are about to
violate the law and send for these
special DEGREES to paralyze and destroy
the rights of all these men.
That IS the most dangerous tendency
in our government. If these vicious and
far reaching precedents are to be rec
ognfzed or permitted to go on building
more on top Of these they will soon con-
stitute and erect a power as despotic
as that which destroyed Rome"
he declared that 1t was very seldom
strikers ever resort to actual violence
but that they frequently appoint COM
mittees to help the police preserve the
peace.
The speaker said the Pearce bill which
is before congress embodies the proper
and legitimate demands of organized
labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
LOCAL MENTION.

A short but important business meet
ing of the city federation of clubs will
be held at the Y. ". c. A parlors to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
An adjourned meeting of the City
Federation of Women's Clubs will be
held at the Y. W. c. A. rooms tomor-
row morning at 10000.
President Norman Plass of Wash
burn college returned from an extern
sive trip in the east today
Congressman w. A. Calderhead is in
Topeka today.
State camp No. 10. w. o. w, elected
the following officers at their meeting
last night: Council commander. A. NJ.
Stitt: adviser lieutenant. c. H. Ander-
son; banker, z. r. Hayes; clerk. n. H
Wolff; escort, T. Parker; watch man. J.
Schiller; sentry w. H. Mattern; man
ager. H. c. Kurtz; physicians. w H.
RICHTER, S. A. Johnson. W. L. Warmer
Delegates to head camp convention at
Ieavenworth. March IL. H. P. Miller
and A. M. Stitt. N. H. Wolff was elect
ed to his office of clerk for the eleventh
term
David Overmyer. who has been sert-
ously III with pneumonia for the past
four days. has recovered sufficiently to
take him out of danger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
THINKS IT WAS SHIELDS.
New Theory About Identity of Great
Bend Bank Robber.

Attorney Nirdlinger of Leavenworth.
SAYS he is convinced that the man who
held up and robbed the Great Bend
bank and was later captured, is Wilmot
Shields, who was released from the
federal penitenuary few days ago,
after serving a year for the robbery of
the postofflce at Quenemo, Kansas.
Attorney Nirdlinger was appointed by
the court to defend Shields. who was
charged with blowing the postofflce
safes at Quenemo and Great Bend
Shields confessed to the Quenemo rob
berry, and the other charge was dis
missed.
If Attorney Nirdlinger is right in his
surnlise, there will be no trouble in
identifying the prisoner. Wilmot Shields
was committed to the Shawnee county
Jail September II. 1903, for postofice
robbery, and was sent to Leavenworth
october Is, 1903 His description in the
ian record Is: Age Is. height 975, eyes
blue, hair light
Carl Lawson, jailor IN charge at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
WOMAN CAR CONDUCTORS
Their Employment in Chilean Town
Attend Wen TO Their Work.

The most remarkable feature OF the
Valparaiso street car system is its con-
ductors; they are women. The sex IS
also employed IN like capacity IN San
tiago and all the other cities Of Chile
that have horse or electric trans. This
practice sprang into being at the time
of the revolution Of 1891, when men
and money were scarce and women
plentiful. Having apparently given
satisfaction to their employers during
the intervening years. they are stu
retained.
The first woman conductors were
said to have been young ana pretty
and to have been dressed in natty uni
forms. Tradition even goes further
and says that at that time youth ana
good looks were part OF the en-
trance requirements" In the light of
the present this seems hard to believe.
1t is also recorded that after while
the natty uniforms were dropped and
it is just possible that the apochryphal
youth and beauty" clause was strick-
en- out at the same time.
Today, Judging from what I have
seen in a somewhat painstaking sur
veg of the situation, I would say that
the possession Of youth and beauty,
far from being requirement was
now the means of earning a fiat dis
qualification. The customary dress OF
lady tram conductor Of today is q
broad-brimmed SLOUGH hat short
Jacket with the sleeves turned back an
inch or two, and a short black skirt
always hanging with a heavy port or
l4starboard list.
They are neither hirtatious nor
prudish, and no scandals arc heard
about them To a foreigner it IS an
interesting sight to observe the street
+ car girl, to note how capably she
manages her car, and the quiet, bust
nesslike way IN which she goes
through the routine of collecting fares,
giving change, discharginE passengers.
and seeing that the rule regarding the
number admitted It not broken.-Los
Angeles Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
GREAT FORTUNES.
To Be Investigated by Committee of
the Civic Federation.

New York, Dec. 12.=With well nigh
ESQ persons in attendance, including
some of the best known men in all
walks and professions, the National
meeting today in the Park Avenue
hotel Among those present were:
Andrew Carnegie. Cornelius N. Bliss.
Oscar S. Stratus, Nicholas Murray But
Ter, Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Potter
Ex-Governor David r. Francis, Henry
Phfpps, Clarence H. Mackay, Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell, the Rev. DR..
Washington GLADDEN., Clark Howell
and James Speyer.
August Belmont. president of the
federation, in his opening address
urged the appointment of a committee
to investigate the problems growing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
CRUSHED BY THE CARS.
Conductor Manning of BuclxIln Killed
Mt Dodge City.

Bucklin, Kan. Dec. 12.=Last even
ing the train crew that runs the train
between Bucklin and Dodge City had
south side of the river at Dodge City
they We're backing up with three
freight cars in the evening to the depot
when the freight cars left the rails and
turned over A brakeman who was on
Sne Of the cars jumped and saved him
self, but Conductor Manning was
caught under one of the overturned
cars and when taken out was found to
be fatally hurt, his legs and arms be
ing broken and his spine injured. He
was taken to the hospital and made as
comfortable as possible, but he died at
8 o'clock Wednesday morning
Mr.. Manning's home was in Buckhn
and a special train was sent to take
his wife to him. She got there just be-
fore he died
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
Edward WAGNER Comes Back.

Edward A Wagner. a former lawyer
of Topeka. has returned to Topeka af-
ter ten years absence in Denver and
Porto Rico. convinced that Topeka Of
fers the best opportunities for the prac-
tice of law. Mr.. Wagner was a men,
Der of the legal profession while resi-
dent here. During the 1ncumbency Of
r. B. Welch as county attorney Wag-
ener was deputy county attorney for
nearly two terms. Later he was a
member of the law firm Of Keller.
WEIGH & WAGNER and was appointed
federal receiver for the E. B. Purcell
Mercantile company of Manhattan In
addition Mr.. Waggener had some ex-
perience In the newspaper line having
been city editor on the Kansas Demo-
crat which was published in eighties by
c. K. Holiday. Since his removal from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
HOPE FOR BROWN.
Crisis in Case VIII Be Reached in
Another Day.

Washington. Dec. 12.-The condition
of former Senator Arthur Brown OF
Utah. who is suffering from the bullet
wound inflicted by Mrs. Anna M. Brad
lev. was reported today to be practi-
cally unchanged. The patient passed a
fairly comfortable night.
Again the physicians find ground for
hope and they say the crisis will be
reached should he survive another IS
hours.
the condition of her victim and to ex-
press the hope that he may recover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
APPROVE TULLY'S BOND
Executive Council Satisfied With
Document Good for $1,O25,OO

At a meeting Of the executive coun-
ell this afternoon which was attended
by Joseph r. Burrow, secretary OF
state; Seth Wells. auditor of state. and
T. r. Kelly, state treasurer, the bond
of Mark Tully, state treasurer elect,
was approved. The bond which Mr.
Tully offered was for $1,O25,0OO, which
is $4,000 more than is required. The
bond is a personal one and is entirely
provided by Mr.. Tully's friends Of his
home town. Independence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
GRIMES RECEIVES SYMPATHY.
Friends Write to Him Commencing
HIS Action of Tuesday.

It IS evident that the public at large
desires to dc what 1t can to make up
In friendly sentiment and good wishes
for the future. the monetary loss sus-
tanned by Frank Grimes.
When asked how he felt after the
reaction Of giving up so much money,
Mr.. Grimes said today:
There IS little use of talking about
It now. It is over, and I intend to con-
self and family. Perhaps I may in
time retrieve the loss of this money,
but if I do not I will continue to live.
/ did what 1 thought was right, and no
man deserves any credit for doing
what he wants to. Although this was
hard on me financially. I wanted to do
It, and it was done after due delibera-
tion-nOt on the strength Of a sudden
Whim.
ct does me good to meet friends,
acquaintances and even strangers,
who commend my course Men who
only know me by sight have stopped
me on the street and told me that they
endorsed nv action My friends all
agree that I did right in making good
the treasury loss. and I meet with
nothing but approval on all sides.
IA sample of the general senti-
ment'' continued Mr.. Grimes, came
10 me today in the shape Of a letter,
which, on account of its source
Mr.. Grimes then produced a short note
from Rev S. S. Estey, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church. The note
was brief, and to the point It read:
MY Dear Grimes:
"Y0u are all right and here's my
hand. I am proud of you and your
deed S. S. ESTEY.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12

Having purchased the Topeka Coal
Co.'S interest in their West 10th st. Of
flee. I desire to announce to the old
patrons and all others that I will con-
tinue to sell coal. wood and feed at
the old stand, and having had several
years experience in the business I can
guarantee you satisfaction, by fair
dealing. Call Ind. phone 992 Bell
number 995- J. K. Mayberry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12

time of Wilmot Shields stop over in To-
peka, could easily identify him, and
may be sent to Great Benz for the pur-
pose.
The prisoner refuses to give his name
or past history since his capture by
Dosse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12

Topeka Mr.. WAGNER served in the ag-
ricultural department of Porto Rico IN
der the provisional government. He has
rented the Office at 500 Kansas avenue.
which is the same Office he had when
he was in Topeka ten years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Mrs. Elizabeth Osenberg of 80 Lime
street died at Keith hospital Monday
of a complication of diseases. The fu-
neral arrangements have not as yet
been made.
Mrs. Jennie Overton has received
word that her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Robert E. Overton, died Tuesday night
at Guthrie. Okla. Mrs. Overton left to-
day to attend the funeral which Will
be held at Guthrie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12

New1ywed-My wife only allows mo
three hooks in the closet to hang my
wardrobe on
Oletiner-Don't worry. Before you've
been married long one hook will Be
enough for all your wardrobe--Stray
Stories
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12

Congress Fixes Adjournment Date.
washington. December 1.-THE house
adopted the concurrent resolution to ad-
journ for the Christmas holidays on
December 20, to reconvene January 3
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-04-14

The outlook for the Elk City basin
was never so bright as at present. Ere
this issue of the MINING NEWS reaches
our out of state readers at least three
important deals will have been conclud-
ed with two more pending. The only
cloud on our horizon being the mix up
between c.. R. M. factions which will
shortly be adjusted by the elimation of
the disturbing element.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
BOOTH GOING TO JAPAN.
Salvation Leader Wants to Inspect
Army's Work There.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
BERLIN, December 22.-Gen. Booth. who
has been here for the purpose of con-
Quoting q monster meeting at the Busch
circus on the occasion of the Prussian day
of humiliation and prayer, says that he is
going to Japan at the beginning Of next
year, and that he hopes to spend April in
that country. The general will travel via
the United States and Canada
The object of his visit is to examine at
close range the work of the Salvation Army
in Japan. The general expressed himself
as highly satisfied with the reports of the
work of the Salvationists IN Japan and said
that these reports showed that they had
met with every courtesy from the authori-
ties. The Salvationsts. according to all
accounts, had been instrumental in res
cuing 10000 geisha girls from the state of
bondage in which they had been held. The
army, Gen. Booth concluded, was also do
ing good work in Korea, where they were
receiving every assistance from the Japa-
nese authorities, and a start would be made
in Manchuria. he said, as soon as the coun-
try was once again fully opened up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
ENERGETIC M. CHERoN.
New French Under Secretary Keeps
War Office Busy.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS. December 22.-Fearful energy is
being shown by NJ Cheron newly appointed
to the newly created post of under secre-
tary of state for war. He turns up at
barracks In the middle of the night to
find out whether the men sleep well,
whether their dormitories are well aired
and whether the black coffee for the next
morning is being carefully prepared.
Three journalists have Just played a
Kopenick-like hoax on a regiment. One
Of them has flowing beard and 30 has
M Cheron Otherwise they are not much
alike, but sergeant majors on duty at 3
am cannot be expected to scrutiniZe like
nesses very closely. The three journalists
motored UP to the barracks In the middle
of the night and said they had come to
visit the quarters. The men on duty, liv-
ing in holy horror of the new under Secre-
tary, took the three journalists all over
the buildings without question and with
due ceremony. On leaving the sham under
secretary and his supposed aids-de-camp
EXPRESSED satisfaction generally, though
recommending that the men be instructed
to sleep with the windows open, in &C
cordance with the modern rules of health.
They ordered an extra quarter of a liter
of red wine to be given out all round the
next day on account of their visit. The
mint was accordingly drunk to the health
If the under secretary before the hoax was
even discovered. Barrackroom guards now
live in twofold terror of the real M. Cheron
and of possibly sham M. Cherons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
DEATH FROM A JOKE.
French Tenants Unwittingly Kill an
Old Woman,

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS. December 22.-Several tenants Of
a house in the Quarter Saint Lambert now
express sincere regret for some practical
Jokes they perpetrated on their landlady,
Madame Mayet aged eighty-three. Mad
anne Mayet was in fact literally frightened
to death. Some weeks ago she approached
the police commissary of the quarter and
said: II request your Intervention to help
me drive out the bad spirits which infest
nv house. They haunt it night and day
and disturb me by rapping at the wall
They even enter the apartments of nv
tenants one of whom has given me notice
this morning that he will quit If the NUS
ance does not cease" The police COM
nissary naturally concluded that the old
lady was slightly unbalanced in her mind.
and a summary inquiry by two policemen
confirmed his view. Two days later, how
ever. Madame Mayet was found dead in
her bed. and there was every indication
that she had died of fright. At her flu
neral the tenants sent a magnificent crown
of flowers with the inscription Many Re-
grets." The police commssary questioned
them closely and they admitted that they
had themselves been the rapping spirits
They wanted the old lady to go elsewhere
of her was to Brighten her. They were
very sorry that 1t had such tragic result,
and that Is why they sent the flowers
with their regret. The police officer repri-
manded them severely. and warned them
that the next time crown Of flowers and
words of regret at funeral would not be
sufficient atonement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
RACIAL LAWS OPPOSED.
South African Chinese Send Repre-
sentative to England.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star
JOHANNESBURG, December 22-The
Transvaal continues to have no end Of
trouble over the orientals. The last Asia
tic ordinance of the Transvaal legislature
passed In September and now awaiting i'm
perial sanction has carried racial distinc-
lions to a degree which has caused the
Indian and the Chinese and the Japanese
residents to protest.
The Indian Association of the Transvaal
has had a deputation in England for some
weeks urging that the new ordinance
should be vetoed and royal commission
people in British South Africa. This depu-
tation has seen the colonial secretary, Lord
Elgin and the secretary of state for India,
Mr. Morley The latter has spoken of the
Injustice and the harshneSs of South Afri-
can policy toward British Indians, of the
bar sinister" that is placed in some Brit
ish colonies upon many millions of the
kings subjects, and in some instances Mr..
Morley adds for the liberal government:
1--WE can more effectively demonstrate with
foreign powers than with our own people
in the colonies"
The Chinese Association of British South
Africa has even gone to the extent of
sending one of it's own number, Mr.. L. M.
James, a Chinese trader of Johannesburg,
to England for the purpose of enlightening
the British public concerning the injustice
and humiliation inflicted by these rae. "a.
dinances. Interviewed just before his de-
parture Mr.. James said that his associa-
ton was in reality not concerned with the
subject to Chinese labor ON the Rand. He
said that he represented Chinese mcr-
chants and traders resident in the country
who in the Transvaal number about 1000.
and 5000 throughout British South Africa
He said what they objected to was the de-
grading laws preventing them from riding
in tram cars and other similar measures