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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
CONFIDENCE IN oILwAUKEE.
New Warship Is Expectedsto Meet An
Requirements.

o'clock this morning the cruiser AdiIwau-
kee left her anchorage and proceeded TO
the new course, west Of this city, where
the Standardization trials will be held.
The weather conditions were favorable
and before leaving Fred A Gardener
engineer in chief Of the Union Iron
Works, builders of the vessel said he
had every confidence in the NTilwaukee's
ability to come up to. the requirements
1t will be ascertained at the trials to-
day just how many revolutions are nee
essary to produce the speed OF % knots
and tomorrow the cruiser win make the
endurance run of four hours to see il
the required speed can be maintained
Captain Cove, who viii command the
Milwaukee when she is put into com
mission, made the trip from San Fran
cisco on her and expresses himself as
greatly pleased with the vessel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
TEARS UP CAR TRACK.
Mayor Tom johnson Takes Chances
OF Going to Jail.

Cleveland, O.. July 25-The Municipal
Traction company, recently organized
to construct and operate number OF
street car lines in this city on a three
cent fare basis, began a war on the
Cleveland Electric Railway company to-
day by suddenly putting force OF 800
men at work tearing up the tracks OF
the latter company in Fulton street
Mayor Johnson, who is credited with
being largely interested in the Munich
pal Traction company, was personally
on the ground, as was also Chief OF
Police Kohler and a large number OF
officers. Within a short time more than
a quarter of a mile of track had been
torn up.
OficiaIs of the Cleveland Electric
Railway company said they would eap-
Johnson said the action was taken be-
cause the Cleveland Electric Railway
company refused, or neglected to conf
ply with a council resolution requiring
it to take up its tracks in Fulton street
and remove them to the east side Of
the street.
The mayor intimated that he would
not obey an injunction If one were IS
sued and said that as a result he might
be in Jail before night.
Subsequently the mayor stated that
the tracks were being removed by city
employees under the supervision of the
board of public service, and not by
the Municipal Traction company, as
had at first been generally believed.
Judge Ford, in the common pleas
court, granted an injunction restrain
ing the city and Municipal Traction
company from. further interfering
with the tracks of the Cleveland EIec-
trical railway in Fulton street. The
Cleveland Electrical Railway company
declared the action of the city in
granting the right to tear up the
tracks was in violation OF its fran
chise rights.
The injunction was served upon
Mayor johnson. personally as he was
overseeing the work of tearing up the
tracks He acknowledged the service
and put the document in his pockes,
but told the men to proceed with
their work and ignore the court s or
der Quite a large amount of work
remained to be done when the injunc-
ton was served.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
GREAT WINE PLAGUE LEADS.
Largest Percentage of Deaths Is Due
to Consumption.

According to the July bulletin of the
board of health, the contagious dis
eases with their mortality reported
from all portions of the state for the
month of June We're: Tuberculosis, 104
cases, with a deaths; typhoid fever, 50
cases, deaths; diphtheria.. Is cases, 4
deaths; scarlet fever, So cases. no
deaths; smallpox, $50 cases, no deaths,
and measles, 81 cases and no deaths.
In June. 1905 there were 20 cases of
tuberculosis and SO deaths; &c cases of
typhoid. deaths; ~ cases of diphtheria.
5 deaths; 90 cases of scarlet fever, 3
deaths; 274 cases of smallpox, 2 deaths,
and 80 cases of measles and no deaths.
Topeka reported for last month two
cases of tuberculosis; none of typhoid
fever; two cases of diphtheria; one Of
scarlet fever; two of smallpox and none
of measles, with no deaths in any of
these cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
REHEARING is ORDERED
In Case of Rail Companies Against I.
P. for Allowing Elevation Charges.

Washington, July 25.-An order was
made today by the interstate com
nerce commission on petition of the
Chicago Great Western Railway COM
pany. the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railway company and the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company for a rehearing in the matter
of allowances to elevators by the
Union Pacific Railway company.
The petitions allege that the Union
Pacific entered into a contract with
Peavy & Co., under which the latter
company erected grain elevators at
Council Bluffs. Ia. and Kansas City
for the transfer of grain for the public
from incoming cars of the Union Pa
cific to outgoing cars of the connecting
lines. at these terminal points of the
Union Pacific and for this service the
Union Pacific agreed to nay Peavy &
Co IL cents per 100 weight.
The complaining railroads alleged that
the facts are the elevators of Pavey &
co. were not built for such purposes and
never have. to any considerable extent.
If at all thus transferred grain for the
public but were built and have been
used solely and exclusively for their own
use in the grain trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
TIME TABLE PARAMOUNT.
Train wouldn't stop to Let Man see
Dying Wife.

Stroudsburg. Pa. July 25.=With
tears in his eyes z. A. s. Brown. a
Hoboken. N J.. real estate dealer,
pleaded with the conductor of a Lack
awanna train to stop his train at Mt.
Pocono so he could see his dying wife
The conductor replied that the rules
of the company prohibited the stop,
and Brown therefore left the train at
East Stroudsburg and hired an auto
mobile to take him to Mt. Pocono. but
his wife was dead when he arrived.
Had the Lackawanna trainmen let
the man off at Mt. PoconO he would
have arrived at the cottage in plenty
Of time to receive the farewell of his
wife
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
JUST a MOE sEaaa1ER. pay.
Temperature Rather High But CondI-
tons Not Unbearable.

The entire weather department seems
to have taken a vacation to attend the
grocers' and butchers picnic and at
that the day has been all that the pro-
motors OF that enterprise could have
hoped for. There is sunshine and plen-
~ of it, but little humidity in the air
and an occasional cloud in the sky
shields the earth temporarily from the
direct rays of the sun.
The guess of the man who is paid for
writing weather stories but not guess
ing at temperatures is that the mercury
has reached point degree or SO high
er today than it did yesterday when i
registered SO at two o'clock.
p. S.-A quarter of three, and tbs
weather man has just called mp, having
received a wireless Of the story already
in type and announces that he Is not
taking a vacation but must have been
on the roof neighboring with the ap-
paratus when the reporter made a
search for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
40 Fear 81 Tts Returnine.

DR.. John Y. Shoemaker, the well
known physician and editor, was con-
femning euthanasia-tEne painless kill
ing Of incurables.
After. indicating several cases where
supposed fncurables had been cured.
])r. Shoemaker said:
And the euthanasia might lay Itself
open to other abuses. Why, there may
be, for all we know, enough euthanasia
as it is. You've heard the story Of ths
man and the Aberdeen terrier7
There was a man whose wife had
an Aberdeen terrier OF extreme feroc-
ity. It bit the man number OF times.
He expressed great hatred for It.
Finally the terrier bit q large piece
out OF the calf Of the mans leg and
the next day It disappeared.
The man advertised widely for the
dogs return. He offered a reward Of
$500 for it. His friends were amazed
+" thought said friend to him,
that you hated that dogz
.. I do the man admitted.
." Why, then, do you offer such q
large reward for its return
g To please my wife.
q But you're foolish. said the other.
Such a large reward viii be sure 90
bring it back.
50 No, no. said the man, with a smiles
you see, it's dead ''-Eazclange
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
LOCAL MENTION.

Fay Thompson. formerly travelling
passenger agent of the Rock Island
for Kansas, with headquarters at To-
peka, but now general district agent
for the same company at Cleveland.
Ohio, passed through Topeka this
week.
D. E. Cain. general manager of the
Rock Island railroad, returned to To-
peka today.
Mrs. 3. S. Rodey and Miss Helen
Rodey. of Albuquerque. are visiting
Mrs. Rodey's uncle, Mr.. T. Y. Cooling
ton. 1903 West Sixteenth street.
Mr. and Mrs Erie f. Walgren. of
Portland, Ore, who formerly lived in
Topeka, are the parents of a To-
pound boy. born on. July -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
HE'S a NEGRO AND PROUD OF IT
Henry Pearson VIII sue Because lie
Was Called White.

Asheville, n. c.. July 25.=Henry
Pearson, hotel proprietor of this place,
is a negro and is proud of 1t.
Alleging that his character and bust
ness have been damaged to the extent
of several thousand dollars because he
has been listed in the AsheviHe City
directory as a white man, Pearson,
who conducts the Royal Victoria hotel,
a house run exclusively for negroes,
Will file suit within the next few days
against the Hill Directory company,
of Richmond, Va. and the Hackney &
Moale Printing company of Asheville.
The complaint is being drawn up by
Frank Carter, attorney for the negro.
''I am negro says Pearson, "and
1 don't propose to stand for being
cIassed as a white man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
SHAWNEE TEAM DIsBANDs.
QuIgley Back to st. NIarys-NcweiI
Gocs to Oklahoma. City.

shaAnee Okla. July 25.-The base
ball fans of this city sustained q loss
-ir that particl lar line when it becs ME
Certain that he franchise in the South
Central league would be taken away.
The reason for the immediate disband-
nent of the team Is the fact that
Guthrie surrendered her franchise and
the league could not secure another
Oklahoma town to take it.
Captain Quigley departed yesterday
for his home i'll ST. Marys, Kan, where
he IS the director of athletics in the
COLLEGE. Charley Newell, the infielder
from. the Oklahoma university squad,
departed for Oklahoma City, where it
is understood that he will receive a
tryout with the Oklahoma City Metro
politans. Newell was in the lead in
the batting and fielding here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
BONE TO SEE ABOUT m.
WIN Have an Understanding with Arr.
I. E. Lambert.

MIR. Lambert will think differently
when he sees my letter. Practically
agreed upon between him and me we'll
I guess not" said United States Dis
trict Attorney Boone in reply to Mr.
Lambert. attorney for the indicted west
ern Kansas cattlemen. who stated that
Mr. Bone and himself had practically
agreed that the cattlemen have COM
piled with the order in good faith relat-
ing to the taking down Of fences on
government E1nd.
Mr. Lambert said further: Mr.. Bone
IS merely guessing at the situation. It
IS such guess that a district attorney
might make at distance of 800 miles
from the fehces in question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
BABY BETWEEN RUNAwAYs.
Fathers Heroic Risk Conquers His
Wild Horses.

Allentown. Pa, July 25.-Clasping
his 2-year-old son in his arms. John
Lanshe, a merchant of this city, crept
out On The poi, OF his wagon, between
two 1laddened runa way horses. grab
bed the reins, nude his way back to
the wagon again. and after run of
nearly a mile succeeded in stopping
them.
Mr.. Lanshe. accompanied by his
baby boy and his driver, James Seip,
had started out to deliver piano.
when a trolley car bumped their rig
the runaway resulted and the driver
was thrown out and badly injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
LANDRUs BUYS AND SELLS.
Disposes of Flats to DR.. George Sffnney
and Buys Jones Tract.

DR.. Geo. NJ. Minney has just closed a
deal through D. r. Sheldon for the ex-
change of his $50 acre farm west of
town for the % room apartment house
q 709 Topeka avenue, owned by Mr.
Hiram Landrus, The consideration
mentioned in the deed for the apart
ment house Is $4,000. Dr. Minney
has planned to expend several hun
dred dollars in improving this prop
erty.
Mr. Sheldon has also closed a deal
for Mr.. Landrus with Mr.. c. r. Jones
for the purchase of the James Is acres
on Fest Seward avenue, at a consid-
Grafton o. $4,000. This is one of the
many purchases Of late In the vicinity
OF the new Santa Fe shops
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
SOLD USED STAMPS.
Two thousand sfen and Boys Impli-
Gated in the Fraud.

New York, July 25-Ftve men who
were arrested last night were today
held in $1,000 bail in police court for
further examination in connection
with the washing ana eSeiling of state
tax stamps. It was stated by the po-
lice today that 1900 men and boys in
the Wall street district are implicated
in some way in stamp frauds in which
the state government has lost about
100000. Two additional warrants
were issued today for the arrest, it Is
said, of two men who have been oper-
ating stores for the handling Of fraud
ulent stamps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
Txpesetting Maehine romano.

Winfield, Kan, July 25.-The mar
rage here Of Miss Lillian Silver and
Walter J. Draper is the cu mination of
the romance of a typesetting machine.
A few months ago young Draper came
from southern Illinois to work a type
setting machine in the Office of the
Free Press. Shortly afterward Miss
Silver was engaged on the machine as
a helper. She corrected proof and
handled the type. After three months
of combination work the couple be-
came engaged and were married last
right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
BIG YIELDS OF WHEAT.
Average for Ten Fields in Brown
County Thirty-seven Bushels.

Samuel Detwiler of Brown county Kan,
sends to the state board of agriculture a
very ene9uraglng report as 10 me narvest
says that on account of the unusually dry
weather during the month OF May and
the early part of June many of the best
wheat growers in northwestern Kansas
despaired of raising anywhere near a nor
NAL crop. but he also says that they have
harvested and are now threshing the
best crop of wheat, both as to yield and
quality that has been raised there in 30
years
Mr.. Detwiler has a farm near Hiawatha
and he reports yields for ten of his
neighbors, all within a radius of two and
Acres Average
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
FOR SALVATION ARMY.
santa Fe Fund May Be Given to the
Organization.

Several contributors to the fund
raised to adjust the difference in the
Price asked and bid in the land deal be-
tween the Santa Fe railway and ". W.
Webb, have signified their willingness
to permit their share of the fund to be
used in the erection of the Mother
Florerce" memorial building by the
Sal. alton army, if it is decided by the
Commercial club to return the money
in the said fund.
The Salvation army is the owner of
land al the corner of Fifth and Quincy
streets. and it is planned to build
permanent building on the lot as soon
as ! ossible. officers OF tho Salvation
army have taken uD the matter with
officers of the Commercial club, and If
the money is not used for the purpose
for which it was subscribed, which
now seems likely. it will in all prob
ability be turned over to the Salvation
army,
The following have announced their
willingness for their subscriptions to
this fund to be so used:
Arthur Capper .............$ 800
c.. K. Holiday ........ 25
Carver & I.ariner " 10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25

chambery, France July 25@A
cloudburst accompanied by lightning
today destroyed the church of Lese
Chavenness.- about 30 miles from here
The lightning melted the church bells
into a solid mass. A number of per
sons were injured. The storm caused
an enormous amount Of damage along
the Franco italian border. Railway
traffic by way of Mont Gents is inter
rupted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25

call easy. 2d212 per cent; ruling rate "a
closing bid and offered at 21s per cent.
Time loans easier on short maturities
sixty days, 31kd4 per cent; 80 days, 4d44z
per cent six months, 51z per cent.
CLOSE Prime mercantile paper, 512Q
So per. cent; sterling exchange weak. at
81 S5674 S5o5 for demand and at 81 $500
A. 215 for 60 day Bills posted rates, s. S251z
614S3 and S4.S51z014. Sc; commercial bills,
"a S1% a. SIS.
sILVER-Bar silver, e5ssc; Mexican dol
lars, 501hc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
MITCHELL NOR AvERsE.
win Not Deny That He Might Run
as Bryan's Mare.

Mitchell. of the United Mine Workers.
almost indicated by his manner today
that he would not be averse TO stand
ing as Bryan's running-maJe Ii the
presidential campaign of 1903. But
he declined to say whether he would
consider or accept such nominations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25

Two Washington negroes meeting IN the
street fell into a discussion of the pecu-
liarities OF a mutual fTienc. Said one
What kind o. q pusson is dat man ansr
howe Seems to me he never do no
work -.
oh he IS Industrious. al rights
npronptiv responded the second negro.
''eren If he done do nothin hisself. y ny,
only. las week dat man spent two whole
days tryin' TO git his wife a job. SUES
cess Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Ralph. the two years old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Fink. died this morn
ing OF stomach trouble at the family
home, 1854 College avenue The fun
eral arrangements have not yet been
made. The little fellow was the grand
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. d. B. Fink of
North Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25
MR. JENSON IS BACK.
Takes Charge of Continental Creamery
Co.-Air. Parks Leaves.

creamery, who has been living in Lin
coin, has come back to Topeka and
win take full charge of the business of
the company. not only in Topeka but
in Kansas. Missouri and Oklahoma as
we'll.
Mr.. John S. Parks. who has been in
charge in Topeka. win move to Lin
coin. He is treasurer of the Beatrice
Creamery company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25

The average Yield per acre for the ten
fields mentioned is 81 bushels.
Charles Schrader. who has a place
about eight miles northeast of Hiawatha.
has $50 acres of wheat, One hundred
acres of this has been fhreshed and
yielded an average of Sc bushels to the
acre Nj: Detwiler states that he has
parts of the county, but has not verified
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25

''since my wife died. said the sad-eyed
man my grief has increased rather than
diminished with the years believe I
feel vxorse about it now than I did when
It occurred five years ago
yes assented the man with the sub
dued voice There was death that at
fecfed me injust the same way
And that was2''-
THAT Of my wifes first husband
Cleveland Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-25

Philadelphia. July 25.-In the Amer
lean baseball league the Philadelphia
team won the first game from Chicago
today by the score of 5 to !.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04
FREE SHOW IN THE EAST RIVER
Citizens, Sailors and Roustabouts See q
Diver at Hi Work.

There is another New York along the
East River front. Any weekday, unless
there il a downpour, one may find q mixed
population along the piers such as is found
in no other part of the city.
Among the sailors from every port and
the business element found there early
and late, one will discover, at the noon hour,
people from the Office buildings in Broad
way. Wall street, Maiden lane. They
wander out after luncheon on the piers,
in groups and pairs. They add color to
the picture.
One day last week more than a thousand
people stood at the foot of Co entities Slip.
1t was evident that something unusual was
A float belonging to the Department Of
Docks was bobbing up and down in the
| slip. A man in the house on the float was
turning a wheel. AT one end Of the float
another man sat in a camp chair. While
he smoked a pipe he held in his hands and
across his lap a rope and a rubber tube,
| the latter heightened into a coil of sixty
or seventy feet which lay near the door OF
the cabin.
People accustomed to the river front, and
perhaps some others knew that there was q
diver in the water.
Il nave been up in a balloon" said one
Of the crowd who watched the bubbles
which indicated the whereabouts of the
diver. "but l never saw a man working
under water
Il have been in more than a hundred
ports, and have sailed on nearly every sort
of craft" said a salt who was hanging over
the railing, "but | never yet seen a man
90 into the water TO do business. Me for
this spot till that porpoise hobs up"
Wherever one stood he could hear re-
marks which indicated travel and OBJ
sailing vessel, the only one Of the kind
in the East River, lined up on the star
board side Of the craft and watched and
waited.
A cloud Of negro lock wallpapers wait;
on the scene. An old man whose appear
anoe was a reminder of Old Black Joe in
minstrelsy said to his mate, dis hyar
make me recomemba a baptizm in de
Tombigbee Riber.''
ness made bets on the length OF time the
diver would stay under water.
What becomes of the air that is pumped
down to that diver2 1t has got to escape
or he would s~uffocate and there's only one
tube
4Damfno," replied his friend.
Just then there was a jerk Of the rope.
A big pile, ten feet Of which showed above
the surface Of the slip, wabbled, careened
and hoated out toward the river.
simultaneously the diver came to the
surface and after a few motions clambered
to the steps attached to the bow end Of the
float. He had a cross cut saw, eight feet
long, in his hands, which he tossed upon
the float.
The man who had beer holding the rope
and tube unscrewed the helmet from the
suit. Another man Embossed the life line
from the waist. The diver crawled up the
steps and walked into the cabin on the
float.
'He sawed that pile of, under the water,
that's what he did, explained a spectator as
he looked toward the floating timber.
Then the crowd went away apparently
satisfied. The free show on the East River
front was over.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04

tectural beauties thar any Of the old straight
up and down structures that are fast dis
appearing to give way to III apparently
unappeasable demand for office room down
town. In Whitehall street, close to several
of the newest and finest looking Of the
lofty buildings, are still a few of the old
fashioned dwellings that once sheltered
some notable folk of the city; but they
will soon be gone.
The contrast between the twenty stories
Of the Whitehall Building and the puny
structure below is wildly brought out in
the picture. But how would even the
Whitehall Building look If set down beside
that projected forty storied cloud piercer,
the Si~nger-Bourne edifice, 500 feet high2
And how may even Singer-Bourne appear
twenty years hence contrasted with the
/ 800 footer2
You know the Eiffel tower is 1000 feet
high.