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New-York tribune., 1906-09-01
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New-York tribune., 1906-09-01
PUPILS AID IN DISiNFECTiNG BOOKS.

The Beard Of Health of Buffalo has dsinfectcd
all textbooks in in the rublic schools. An ur-
used selected in each school building. and
into this the textbooks taken by the pupils
and spread out directed. The room then
closed and the fumigatiOn carried ON By means of
formaldehyde gas. During the summer before. the
Health Department fumieatfd the books during
the vacation period and found the work OF han
ding the books be- slow and troublesome without
the help OF the rupils-SchoO Board Journal
New-York tribune., 1906-09-01

The Board of Education OF Milwaukee conducted
during the winter of i9E5t6 a series Of thirty five
lectures in the school halls at average cost
S37 ~ per lecture. With few exceptions audiences
that taxed the capacity of the halls greeted the
lecturers. \ for the fall months has just
been arranged. tn cost of 81 Il lecture
The lectures will treat chiefly of travel and history
with few art literature and science. Most
of the lectures will be illustrated with stereopticon
New-York tribune., 1906-09-01
NOn-ATTENOANCE IN WASHINGTON.

Congress- has enacted compulsory education law
for Dis; ~tct Columbia. providing that chill
drcn i,e.4cen the ages Of eight and fourteen must
attend school. is estimated that more than 800
children Of 9chco' aga reside in the district |ho
were not attending school during 1905.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
ECUADOR'S NEW TARIFF
Complete Reconsideration Of Most
Goods Sent From This Country.

Washington, Aug. 2o.-Ecuador has
proclaimed a new tariff schedule which
has just reached the state department
and will become effective November L
The schedules provide for a complete
Reconsideration and make reductions on
some classes OF goods sent from the
United States to Ecuador, but make no
marked alterations on the chief exports
from this country to Ecuador.
A reduction of about ore cent a pound
is made on manufactured steel, iron,
brass. bronze, copper and tin.
Flour and lard are the chief exports
from this country to Ecuador and on
these products there IS no change in
duty
The American flour trade with Ecua-
dor shows a marked increase. In 1904
it WAS $685. S41, and year later the total
was S259, OFT The exports to Ecuador
from the United States for 1905, aggre-
gated 81, $50, 900 and the imports from
Ecuador were 81, 500, 900.
A curious feature of the new tariff
act in Ecuador IS that it permits cab
met mem bers tt enjoy exemption from
duty on goods they import for their own
use
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
SAELOW FACES
often Caused by Coffee Drinking.

How many persons realize that eoffee
so disturbs digestion that 1t produces a
muddy, yellow complexion
A ten days trial of Postum Food Cot
fee has proven a means. in thousands
of cases. of clearing up bad compilations
A Washn. young lady tells her ex-
perience:
''All of us-father. mother, sister and
brother-had used tea and coffee for
many years until finally we all had
stomach troubles more or less
we were all sallow and troubled with
pinples. breath bad, oissgreeable taste
in the mouth, and all of US simply 50
many bundles of nerves
I'VE didn't realize that coffee was the
cause Of the trouble and went to borrow
some from a neighbor. She gave US
some Postum and told US TO try that.
Although we started TO make It. We
all felt sure we would be sick If we
missed our strong coffee, but we were
forced to try Postum and were sur
prised to find it delicious
We read the statements on the pkg,
got more and in a month and half you
wouldn't have known US. We Wsre all
able to digest our food without any
trouble. each ones skin became clear.
tongues cleaned on and 1erves in fine
condition We never use kisything now
but Postum. There IS nothing like 1t. "
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the little book, The
Road to Wellville.'' There's a reason. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20

Cuba Daylight, and it was such poetry
as man never wrote before. It was so
atroeiously, SO grotesquely bad that 1t
beat all previous attempts at poetic
lunacy and it was copied in all the
city papers, West always signed him
self Robert West, Poet"
IN speaking of the poet whom he
discovered, Mr.. Novak said today:
This man Robert West is the owner
of a small farm near Cuba. and is
probably the most peculiar looking
man in the state He has a wife and
family, and all his children are school
teachers. Vests pecuIiarities are not
limited to his face. He has some ideas
of poetry which have almost made him
famous. He does not write this poetry
out himself, but memories it, and then
comes to town and gets somebody to
put in on paper for him. Then he
brings it up to our Office.
'One of Vests sons tried to get me
to stop printing his fathers poetry once.
because he said people were laughing
at 1t. I told him that his father was
old enough not to need a guardian
and the next time 1 met the poet I
told him what his son wanted He was
very indignant about It. You tell
Dick he said, that viii bet him I'VE
dollars 1 can write better poetry than
he can
Robert West is an enthusiastic Re
publican, but his poeticaI talents have
not caused him to take much of 4 hand
in political affaires
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
HOME ON WEDNESDAY.
White sox-Webb City Games Trans
ferred to Topeka.

The series between Topeka and
Webb City which were to have been
played n Webb City Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of this week have
been transferred to Topeka. An ugly
runor has been floating around the
circuit for some time which was sent
out from Wichita to the effect that
poor crowds were attending the games
in Topeka. That this rumOr is alto
gether unfounded and is but an at
tempt on the part of Wichita to break
into the Western league by sldndering
all the other teams in the league Is
shown by the fact that all the teams
Topeka and show no hesitancy in so
doing because of the larger gate re-
ceipts here than any other city in the
league. On the other hand it was
found necessary to transfer three of
Wichita's games to Kingman. a little
town in the short grass region, because
Of the better attendance there than in
Wichita. The games in Webb City this
year have been meeting with but
mediocre attendance because of the
closeness to Joplin.
a communication was received this
morning from Lee Goldberg, the sec
rotary of the Kansas City team in the
American association, by Herman
Crow, asking as to the possibility OF
arran ging for a couple OF post season
games between tndl team ana rope
ka Mr.. Goldberg stated that he con-
sidered the Topeka team the most
formidable in the Western associa-
ton and that he considered that such
a series of games would be a good
drawing card. Mr.. Crow replied that
the games would be arranged and To-
peka will get to see some good post
season games after the pennant race
is over and the bunting won by the
Cooleycrows. Des Moines will also
likely play a series of games here at
the close Of the Western League
season Wichita is arranging a Sc
ries with some of the towns in the
Kansas State and South Central
leagues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
ROCKEFELLER LAID UP
Unable to Go to Church and Hear a
Few Good Words About Himself.

Cleveland. O.. Aug. 20.-Indiges-
ton, from which he has suffered for
three days, kept Mr.. Rockefeller IN
doors at his Forest Hill home Sunday.
The Euclid Avenue Baptist church
was crowded, many of those present
being strangers led by the announce
ment that Mr.. Rockefeller would be
present. DR.. Cortland Myers of the
Baptist tabernacle. Brooklyn. preach
ed the sermon, during the course of
which he defended Mr.. Rockefeller
from newspaper attacks He said:
Il have known men to be unjustly
accused and made to appear worse
than those inside of the gates of HI,
still among the friends who know
them and live with them they are
loved and respected"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
HOME FORCHORUSGIRLS
John d. Rockefeller Considering a
Proposition to Endow One.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 20.-According
to report received here John D.
Rockefeller has under consideration a
proposition to endow a home for
chorus girls to the extent of 100000.
The project, it is said. was planned by
Miss Marie Cahill. the actress.
Through a clergyman who is ac-
Quainted with Mr.. Rockefeller she
contrived to present the matter to the
Standard OIL head.
His donation will be conditional on
a like amount being raised by Miss
Cahill and those interested with her
The home will serve as a place where
chorus girls will be trained and edu-
Gated for their work, and also as a
home should illness or age prevent
them continuing their profession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
SUES THE ELECTRIC LINE.
Leavenworth Man Thinks He Has Been
Injured $1z,5Oo worth.

Leavenworth. Aug. 20.-In the district
court here Chas. W. Baker, a well
known local real estate man who for
merry operated the Planters hotel. has
sued the K c. W. railway company
through Attorneys OsKeefe and Baker.
FOR 81, 500 for personal injuries
Baker alleges that on or about Feb
ruary Is, 1905, he was a passenger on
one or the Spruce street cars of the local
electric line; that he was on his way
nome and was injured by a fall in the
car while hanging on to a rotten stra D.
He says that he is now paralyzed and
crippled because of his fall in the car
that whereas he was earning $4,000 a
year in the real estate business he has
been almost unable to attend to his
business since his injury; that he has
been confined to his bed much of the
time and can hardly walk with the aid
Of q stick and that he has been to great
expense for drugs and doctors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20

w w Mills has returned from Two
weeks business trip to New York city.
Bernard Crosby will sail from Naples
on his homeward trip a week from to-
morrow.
CIriciHo's band of Italian boys vii.
open up a weeks engagement at Vine
wood park this evening.
One of the new cars recently re
ceived by the street railway company
has been placed in service.
The seed dealers are advocating the
sowing Of blue grass seed this month.
But why shouldn't they as they have 4
large stock Of seed on hand.
The replacing of the asphalt on kan
sas avenue, where the gas company latd
new mains is certainly a most wonder
tld piece Of work-patch work.
Watermelons are cheaper now than
they have been in years and there are
some of enormous size and also of
luscious 7avoring on the market
The members of the Euclid Avenue
Methodist Sunday school viii have 2
picnic at VineWOOd tomorrow. They VIII
have special car to take them out.
Fully ], 500 excursiOnists from Holt n,
EmpOria and Kansas City We're in town
yesterday to attend the sessions OF
Evangelical Alliance at Garfield park.
The home grown watermelons which
are now plentiful on the local market
that have been raised for a number OF
seasons.
Four Of the new telegraph transmit
ting machines invented and manufac-
tured in Topeka by Topeka men are
being displayed IN local cigar store
window.
A little black and tan dog on Kan
sas avenue with more than its share Of
heas created a mad dog scare Satur-
day and was shot by one of the city's
bravest.
That fish story from lola to the eff
feet that three small boys pulled a
forty pound catfish from the NeOsho
river, IS easily the record fish story of
the year
Pat .Coney has not returned from
Minneapolis and it will never be known
just exactly how it happened until he
gets home to diagram the situation as
Il existed.
chief of Police Donovan is cortemplat-
ing removing the old tower over the
city prison which was condemned a
dozen years go and is a menace to the
safety Of the public
with the mercury standing near the
hundred mark a Topeka couple eloped
TO Kansas City Saturday and were mar
ried, but there was no chase by stern
parents-it was too hot.
There was a big crowd at Vinewo
mark Sunday afternoon and last night
and a good many of them were excur-
sionists who came to town to attend
the Evangelical Alliance.
A glance at the asphalt pavement on
Jackson street in front Of the Hall
Iithograpning c9mpany's building con
veys a fair idea Of the work Of repav wing
which the gas company is doing.
Topeka is considering the advisable
ity of voting a marksman's medal &c
Policeman Duncan who killed sup
rfoeed mad dog on Kansas avenue Sat
urday evening the first shot he made
The plan of the Democratic state GER
tral' committee for raising its campaigf
h,n5 is not meeting with much success.
b these parts. People Of Topeka have
gubscribed for SO many things withia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
ARE NOT WORRIED.
Kansas Oil Men Can stand Cut in
Standard Prices.

Cherryvale, Kan, Aug. 2O.-A1though
the Standard Oil company has reduced
the price of crude oil ten cents barrel
by means of three cuts in the last
month, the Independent producers and
refiners in the Kansas fields are not
much worried.
The Kansas Independent refneries an
ticipated this situation and bought their
production, drilled their own wells and
are therefore Indifferent as to what
prices the Standard puts on crude and
refined oils. The Standard does not own
it's wells and has to buy the oil for the
Neodesha and Sugar Creek 1efineries,
but its control of the markets enaOles
it to force the price down to or below
the cost of production and buy oil al
most as cheaply as the Independents can
produce it.
Still the Standard has no method by
which it can produce oil cheaper than
the independents. Nor is it believed that
the Standard will put the price Of re-
fined oil much lower. The anti-discrim-
nation law in Kansas requires that
when the price is reduced in one part
Of the. state it must be reduced in all
parts of the state in equal ratio making
allowances for cost of transportation
and each reduction of one cent a gall
lon means $1,000 a day.
The present average price of kero-
sene oil in Kansas is eight cents a gal
lon. Before the passage of the anti
discrimination law and the maximum
freight rate ietW the average pl1SS HaS
fourteen cents a gallon. The reduc-
ton in two years has amounted to
fraction less than 10 per cent The
average daily consumption of kero-
sene and gasoline in Kansas is 10O,-
600 gallons. This reduction of
cents a gallon means saving of
5000 a day to the consumers of the
state. This amount stays in the pock-
cts of the people of Kansas.
The producers of the Indian ter
ritory are being made to pay for the
campaign against the Standard. The
reductions IN the price of crude oil
fall heaviest on the territory produc-
ers for the reason that drilling Is
more expensive and the prices paid
for leases are very much higher than
solutely no other market than the
Standard for the territory production.
Territory operators have relied upon
promises of the Standard. For a
long time there was a dffferential of
twenty cents a barrel given the ter
ritory producers over the Kansas
producers. This differential was abol-
ished as the first step of the Standard
in equaBzing things. Then came rapid
reductions in price.
The result is that territory opera
tors are in despair and many Of them
are shutting down. Unfortunately
down because in many of the leases
there is a drilling clause which re-
quires the drilling Of SO many wells
within a given time and unless these
wells are drilled the lease is forfeited.
This forces operators, in order to save
their leases, to drill wells and sell oil
at loss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
HE DISCOVERED ROBERT WEST.
Joseph E. Novak OF Cuba Enjoys That
Distinction.

The man who discovered Robert
West, poet is in town. Joseph E.
Novak, editor of the Cuba Daylight, is
the man, and he is here visiting rela-
tives and talking politics with Chair
man drummer of the Republican state
committee.
Who is Robert West, poet?'' Well,
if you haven't heard of him you are
behind the times. He has written stuff
for publication in the Cuba Daylight
which has been copied all the way
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
New York Sun said of him a year or
so ago:
People have lamented because this
country has thus far produced no true
American poet; no poet whose verses
were Characteristic of this country and
different from the verses Of any other
country. Kansas has at last come for
ward with a candidate for this honor.
It is Robert West Of Cuba, Republic
county
Robert West wrote popetry for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
HOUSE OF GOD STRUCK.
Lightning Bolt Throws 500 Worship
pers Into . Panic.

Chicago Aug. 20.-Three hundred wor-
shippers at the Hegewisch Swedish Luth-
eran church, One Hundred and Thirty
second street and Ontario avenue, were
thrown into a panic yesterday by a bolt
of lightning which set fire to the build
ing. Alex Anderson and Miss Anna Ole
son were thrown to the floor and render
ed unconscious, but We're later revived
The church was crowded and because of
the heat several of the windows had been
opened to admit the air.
bolt of lightning struck the edifiee
and Travelled downward and through the
open window.
The woodwork was set afire by the bolt
and the wOrshippers. becoming frightened,
fled panic-stricken from the place None
was injured in leaving the place and,
acting under the direction of the pastor,
several of the men returned to the church
and extinguished the fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
DENIES THE BURTON REPORT.
Christian Science Official says He Isn't
to Be Lecturer for Church.
Atchison, Kan, Aug. 1e. 1906.

Atchison, Kan. Aug. Is, 1905.
To the Editor of the State Journal
May I say that the report mentioned
in the State Journal of the 18th that
ex-senator Burton was to be a Chris
tian Science lecturer under. the au-
spices of THE First Church of Christ
Scientist of Boston. Mass, is an err
ror. The gentleman's connection with
Christian Science, so far. is that of an
interested attendant at the meetings In
his home town. This is said with a
full knowledge of the facts in the case.
The Christian Science board of lee
tureship is appointed by the directors
of the First Church in Boston, and the
announcement of its personnel is only
made by their authority and through
the official organs, the Christian Sci
ence Sentinel and Journal
A. 2. COCHRAN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
CUBAN CONSPIRACY.
Extraordinary Effort Being Made by
Government to Suppress 1t.

New York, Aug. 2O.-A cable from
Havana says that following the arrests
yesterday in connection with an al
legged conspiracy to assassinate Presi-
dent Palma and overturn the govern
ment. it has been decided to summon
an extraordinary session of the house
al once.
Numerous bands are joining Pine
Guerrero. A suspicious looking steam
err is off Pinar Del Rio.
All the coast roads from Havana
are closely guarded.
The government has established a
censorship over press dispatches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
ANARCHIST ARRESTED
Man Thought to Be in Plot Against
Frances Chief Had Bombs.

New York. Aug. 20.-A cable dis
patch to a morning paper from Mar
seilles says:
The police yesterday arrested an
Italian anarchist named Cirillo Frame.
a bootmaker, on suspicion of being in
a plot to assassinate President Fal-
laries on his approac ching visit to Mar
settles exposition In Frances lodging
the police found numerous bomb &C
cessories
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
FOREST FIRES RAGE.
Millions Of Dollars Worth of Property
in Minnesota in Peril.

Duluth, MINI. Aug. 20.-The lack If
wind is the only condition that now
prevents a possible reign of terror from
forest fire on the Mesaba and Fermillion
ranges. The Mesaba Is a veritable fur
mace, as result of the fires that are
still spreading over the parched surface
of ground and swamps. Millions of dol
lars worth of property, towns and mines
are in peril
People at various points are back
firing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
New kansas Postnasters.

Washington. Aug z0.-The following
changes Of fourth-class postmasters
have been announced: Kansas-Bala
Riley county, Almena Thomas. vice NJ
TrudeH. resigned; Danville, Harper
county, Lou E. Salser, vice L o. Mont
gomery, removed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
srACKPoLE GOES Up FOR LIFE.
Mrs. schecIx Confessed to Her Part in
Murder of Husband.

; Los Angeles. Cal. Aug. 20.-The july
in the case of Ernest G. Stackpole, tried
for the murder of his mistress husband,
Joel Scheck. June "A, yesterday, return
ed a verdict of murder In the first de-
gree and fixed the penalty at life i'm
prisonment
During the trial of Staekpole, Mrs.
Scheck confessed to her part in the
murder. She had expected to collect
the murdered mans insurance money
and then marry Stackpole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
Cheap Rates to Canadian ana We,
ENGLAND Points. Santa Fe

Concord, n. II, and return. sss os
Montpelier, Vt, and return, s2e.0s
Portland. Ne, and return, $37.o0
And many other points at low rae.
on sale August %, good 30 DAYS fro1,,
date of sale.
Toronto, Canada. and return. sac. en-
Collengwood. Can, and return. S32 an
And many other Canadian points ~
sale daily to September 10th, Hnnited
80 days from date Of sale. Address
T. L King. Agent. Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
Building a Home.

We can assist you. Monthly paymenta
Call for booklet
The Capital Building and Loan Aaso'n-
6S4 Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
Denver. Colorado Springs. Pueblo and
Return $50. Santa Ee-

Iicl It's on sale daily. good returning
as late as October s1st. liberal stopover
privilege allowed Fast Colorado Flyer
m Topeka 1895 p. m. arrives Colo
raeo early ne-t morning. Rock ballast
track and Harvey eating houses. 4. u
King. c P. s. T. A.. Topeka.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-10-12


cured IRON some source the necessary
means to secure legal assistance. and
win fight against conviction. II is re-
ported this morning that Anderson has
secured the services Of Attorney w. E.
Yates. OF this city. 1t was generally
supposed that he was without means or
rela tives who would supply the necessary
funds.
A bout ninety people enjoyed the hos-
pltalfty OF the K. o T. MS Wednesday
night at their hall. There wasa pro-
gram which embraced two piano solos by
Mrs. E. E, Jackson, recitation, Miss
Helen Lewis, remarks by Rev. 6. H.
Feese and "a short but interesting ad.
dress by ]. w. Sherwood. State Conn
mander of the MaccabeeA. Games and
refreshments were enjoyed and the gem
eral verdict was that the K o. T. MS
are royal hosts.