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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
CHANGE THE LAW.
Baron Hayashi Says It's the Only
Way to Stop Boycott.

London. Jan. 13.-The publication of
the Chinese japanese treaty is an inn
portant. event experimenting the treaty
of Portsmouth. Niscount Hayashi. the
Japanese ambassador to the court of st.
James said to a correspondent:
THE chief object of Japan in this
supplementary treaty was to open all
parts of Manchurfa to foreign trade and
so get all the powers interested in the
continued Independence of this part of
the CAIneSe expire. China herself viii
be unable for many years, perhaps CEN
turtles to protect her own interests. I
do not believe the glowing reports of
the new military developments in China.
Such reports have cropped up fire.
quently during the last so years, but
have never been realized. Remember
that the Manchu dynasty depends for its
existence upon the obliteration of mill
tary spirit among the Chinese. If that
spirit took root, the dynasty would in
stantly be destroyed. Therefore, what
ever outward steps may be taken the
Manchu government will always oppose
real military reform.
"ChinS's only possibility of becoming
a strong military power lies in the aboli-
ton of the A1anchu dynasty and there
is reason to suppose that this viii
happen in the near future. In other
respects the Chinese remain fmpervious
to western thought. For example, WI
Ting Fang returned from Washington
full of western ideas and became secre-
tary of the Wa-Wu-Pu or new foreign
Office at Pelzins but it5was soon discov-
cred that he was too pro-foreign and
he was removed to the criminal depart
nent. There is nothing new in the re-
cent anti-foFeigns outbreak at Shanghai.
China was always anti-foreign at heart
and must show her disposition oecas
sionaIly. The boycott of American goods
is the natural outcome of immigration
laws in America and nothing can be
done to prevent it except an alteration
of the immigration laws. Any idea of
the United States using force to stop
the boycott is absurd"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
GIVEN FLOOD DAMAGES.
Fourteen ArmourdaIe Citizens Get
Judgment Against County.

Armourdale. Kan, Jan. 13,-Wyandotte
county probably viii have to pay four
teen Citizens of ArmourdaIe 500 each for
the damage to their. property by the
flood OF 1904. The damages and costs Of
suits amount to about $500.
The suits were brought in the South
city court in Kansas City, Kan. about a
year ago against the county, the railway
companies and the packers. The county
was charged with negligence in failing to
compels the corporations to remove OBJ
structions from the Kaw. Judge G. I.
Griffith decided in favor of the Armour
dale people and when an appeal was. tax
en- an affidavit that the appeal was in
good faith was not fled by the county
attorney on behalf of the county II. A..
Pollock who represents the Armourdale
people, then filed a motion to have the
judgment thrown on the county because
this affidavit was missing. This morning
Judge J. AIcCabe Moore of the district
court sustained this motion. J. S. Glib
son. county attorney, says he sent the
affidavit to be filed and that it was mis-.
laid.
The county might appeal to the SUI
preme court, but this procedure would
probably cost more than to pay the judg-
ments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
NOT FOR LAWSON.
Recalls a Primrose to Attend Banquet
in Vigorous Language.


Boston, Mass. Jan. 19.-Thomas w.
Lawson Will not be a speaker at the
Washington Birthday banquet of the
Creve Occur club. Peoria ILL., In a let
ter mailed tonight to H NJ PindelI.
chairman of the banquet committee. he
says:
I find there is some objection on the
part of some of your members to my
speaking at your banquet. 1 would,
therefore, ask your courtesy in cancel
ing my engagement. It was only at the
urgent and repeated requests of your
OFFICERS that 7 consented to accept.
While thanking the large majority of
your members who have shown their
confidence in me, I must, in justice to
myself, say this: I would see your
club and every other club in America
in hades before j would humiliate my
self by sitting at their board with the
knowledge that I was not a welcome
guest to any single one Of my hosts.
''The ours of the system have seen
fit in the furtherances Of their sneak
thievery and manly warfare to adver-
tise me as having some game want to
work off on the American people.
Il have no game. 1 want neither the
American peoples money, offices or any
thing in their gift. AS I pay my own
way, and, as I took up task which
has brought down on my head the
hatred and Vaccinations of every dnan-
ciaI puppet in the country I am ana
will be, as Independent as Fourth OF
July Yankee with a hide full of hard
cider. Under no circumstances do 1
offer myself as a door mat for the
American people or any section there
rsfs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
eAsKErs FOUND EMPTY
Piece of the Cross and other Holy
Relics Gone.

Rome. Jan. 13.-Devout Catholics
here are much exercised over the dis
covery that the caskets in the little
chapel at the head of the holy stairs
of St. John Lateran, which were sup
posed to contain holy relics, are
empty, and have been so for nobody
knows how long.
No one except Luther ever set foot
upon the holy stairs, all who ap-
preached the chapel going up rev
erently on their knees in the belief
that the caskets before which they
bowed contained such inestimable
treasures as a piece of the real cross
and other equally pious relics. Each
casket, which is deeply chiseled solid
silver, is a rare antique of enormous
value. dating from the second and
third centuries. The caskets have
been declared by antiquaries to be of
inestimable value and the pope has
been approached with a view of hav-
ing them placed in some place where
thew could be viewed with facility by
the general public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

where the current has a tendency to
wash away the banks. The dikes in the
main will be merely dams of earth
The three bikes above the Fifth street
bridge are to cost about 100000 call
for an election viii be issued within
few days to vote bonds to the amount of
Il million dollars for this and other Kaw
river improvements The dikes above
the Fifth street bridge will extend as
far up the river as Turner, Kan. They
are intended to- afford protection to
practically the, whole of aArmourdale and
Argentine. a-t..-H
A suit is now pending in the federal
court in Kansas to decide whether the
Kaw river is navigable. If it is decid-
ed it is a navigable stream it is ex-
pected that the government will take
charge of the Improvements at the
mouth of the river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
LONG LINES OF PEOPLE
File Past the Casket Containing the
Body OF DR. Harper.

Chicago, Jan. 13-The body of William
Rainey Harper, late president of the
University of Chicago, was removed this
forenoon from the Harper home to Has
kell hall escorted by the deans of the
university in cap and gown. Hundreds
of students and citizens were grouped
along the line of march.
The body will lie IN state in Haskell
hall until 1880 p. m Sunday. From
1890 today. until 8 O'Clock this evening
when the doors were closed many thou
sands of people had filed past the
casket. John D. Rockefeller, jr., accom-
panied by his fathers secretary of char
tiles, Fred W. Gates, arrived in Chi
cago today to attend the funeral SER
vices tOmor1 ow.
AIr. Rockefeller paid a long call at
the Harper residence. Later in reply to
questions as to the probable future ben
efactions of his father in connection
with the university, he said he was in
Chicago to pay his respects to the de-
parted and would consider it the height
of bad taste to discuss the other matter.
DR.. Harper died poor man. While
dealing with problems involving mil
lions of dollars, his personal fortune
gave him the least concern. Protect
ing his family against the inevitable
by life insurance, Dr. Harper turned
back into educational channels the
greater part u Ills .iaeotAlS' VIII
would have been sufficient to make
many men wealthy. All the personal
property left by DR.. Harper is approx
mately $4,000 of life insurance and the
ROYALTIES from his text books,
Dr. Harpers salary as head of the
University of Chicago was S100 900 a year
He also received $1,000 year as head
of his teaching department. Thousands
Of dollars came from royalties on the
text books on which his fame, as per
haps the foremost Semitic scholar of the
world at this time will rest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
COLONIZATION BUREAU.
One Is TO BE Established by the West
ern Railroads

Chicago, Jan. 15.-General passen-
ger agents of western lines after three
days of almost continuous discussion
have agreed upon a plan for the or
ganizatiOn of a general colonization
bureau to handle the details of the is
suanee of certificates and tickets for
land and immigration business.
Reports from those who attended
the Western Passenger association
meeting during the life of the i'm
portant debates ON this proposition in
dictate there were some railroads i'm the
conference who were in favor Of
abohshing the privileges the colonial
tiOn departments have found so val
liable i'm building up communities
along the right of way.
1--WE are fearful said a PASSENGER
agent of one western road, that the
issuance of certificates would be
abrogated and that every western state
development would be materially af-
homeseekers' colOnist certificate pro
visions"
According to one Of the active pas
senger. agents in. the association the
bureau viii handle the colonization
business for all the roads in the
Western Passenger association and
there will be no diminution in the vol
11u7e of business. Everything about
the colonization certificate issuance is
nerfectIv legal" continued the gem
eral Messenger agent, "and there need
he no further fear that this important
feature of western railroad work viii
suffer a crimp, so to speak"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
TWO SHOT IN SALOON.
Proprietor and BarEeeper Are Under
Arrest.

New york. jan 13-zJames Fox,
aged 81, and John Scallon, aged %,
are dying in Bellevue hospital from
bullet wounds in the back, side and
head. while Samuel Abelman, pro-
prietor of a saloon at $50 First ave-
nue., and his bartender. John Fish
man, are in the station house charged
with the shooting
According to Abelmau, Fox and
Scallon came into his place tonight
and started a game Of pool They be-
gan to quarrel and When Fishman
tried to separate them they turned on
him and were beating him badly
when Abelman drew his revolver and
fred two shots. intending to scare
them and attract the police. Then
the bartender took q pistol, and the
firing became general. When the po-
liceman on the beat arrived the two
men were unconscious on the floor
and the proprietor and his bartender
were standing over them with revoi-
vers IN their hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
MAYOR ROSE EXPLAINS.
He Qualified Expletive in Speaking of
the Prohibition Law.

Kansas City. Kan, Jan. 13-'I did
say to the Rev. John G. Lynn and the
Rev. j. A. Motter: Damn the prohibit
ton law God could not enforce it and
Jesus Christ would not said Mayor
W. w. Rose of Kansas City. kan, to-
day, when asked about the testimony
of the Rev. John C. Lynn given before
Fl. G. Lariner, special commissioner,
who is taking the testimony in the Gus
ter suit against Mayor Rose.
In the same conversation corrected
the foregoing statement by saying to
the preachers that God did enforce the
prohibition law in the First and Sixth
wards of Kansas City, Kan, for a few
Gays while the flood water was eighteen
Ieet deep in 1903 and every living thing
driven out IL a country or a district
where no man lives the prohibition law
Is good thing and can be enforced.
Statement of the Mayor
mayor Rose discussed the testimony
In the custer suit against him and gave
out typewriter statement explaining
why he had refused TO enforce the city
ordinances and state laws against the
sale of liquor. He said
The cornfield can not govern the
municipalities. The principle of self
government is not dead but sleeping
10 make a thing a crime by law that
D
disrespect for law. When law com
pels its own disrespect. the conditions
tend to anarchy. I hope my stand ia
TINS matter will start a general fight for
local self government.
Il believe that the popular will ought
10 be the ultimate rule of decision in
any matter sufficiently momentous to
justify an appeal to it says the mayor
In connection with the Louisiana pur-
chase, the eminent historian and BIZ
ographer, John T. Morse jr. says Of
Ihomas Jefferson: If the viii OF the
people was with him in an unconstitu-
tlonaI policy which he believed to be
sound, Jefferson did not hesitate to
speak respectfully of the Constitution,
and to disregard it,
Jefferson himself said in defining the
limit of legislative power. My general
plan would be to make the states one as
to everything domestic, and if that
doctrine is sound as to the distinction
between state and national legislation
may be pardoned for believing that
state law is supreme in cities only to the
/ extent that 1t IS in harmony with pop
ular will
VIII Not Resign.
Mayor Rose said that he has no in
tention of Iesigning from office in or
der to avoid final decision Of the su-
/ preme court in the custer suit, and af-
/ forwards running for mayor again in an
effort to vindicate himself before the
people IN refusing to enforce the pro-
hibitiOn law
i am going to fight this custer suit
/ 70 its final determination, said Mayor
I Rose. i am not afraid Of being Gust
/ ed My plan is to stay in office until
the end of my term and not to resign
before that time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
EoKEBs TO STAY.
He Refuses All oners to Go to New
York.

Chicago, Jan. 1s.-Rumors that
James H. Ecke1s is to become presi-
dent of the Mutual Life Insurance
company of New York were proved
false today when Mr.. Eckels an
nounced he would accept his re-elec-
ton as president of the Commercial
National bank. With the death OF the
Mutual Life rumor died also the re-
ports that Mr. Eckels has been con
sfdering removal to New York as the
head of one of two banks whose presi-
denotes have been offered him. The
rumor connecting Mr., Eckels' name
with the insurance company arose
when it was announced that tenta-
tive offer of the Mutual Life presi-
dencv had been refused by j. B. For
gan. president Of the First National
bank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
Sold Liquor to the Indians.

Kansas City, Kan, Jan. 13.=Clark
Liclzlyter and Fred Davis were found
guilty of selling liquor without a gov
eminent license by q jury in the fed
eral court in this cityetoday. The Of
tense was committed at Mayetta, kan,
a small town on the. edge of the Pot
tawatolrlie Indian reservation in jack
son county, The witnesses against the
men were two Pottawatomie Indians.
Sentence win not be passed until the
end of the term. The penalty is a fine
of not less than SIS nor more than
S1oo and q year in Jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
WE CAN'T COMPETE.
Europe Has the Advantage in Trade
With the Orient

Washington, Jan. Especial Agent
Crist of the department of commerce
and labor, has reported that mer-
chandise shipped by expensive trans
continental and Pacific routes. can not
come into competition in the Orient
with like CONNIE ODDITIES coming by the
all water routes from European cOun-
tries. Until steamship lines regularly
ply. between Atlantic ports and north
China as English and German lines
are now doing, he says goods from
this country must go through many
more landings than European goods
and must go at a high cost of trans
portation, deadly to competition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
DEAD AT THE AGE OF 100.
Mrs. Elizabeth NIcGinnis' Memory
Good to the last.

Emporia, Kan, Jan. 13.-Mrs. Eliza
beth NcGinnis. who was 100 years old
August p, is dead at the home of her
son, B. n. Hunt in Hartford, twelve
miles southeast of Emporia. She was
born in Fleming county, kentucky
She was the mother of eight children.
three of whom survive her. She was
twice married.
Mrs. McGinnis' memory was good
and she could read without glasses.
She fell a few days ago and badly in
jured her hip. This INJURY was fol-
lowed by pneumonia. Up to that time
her health had always been good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

"a We absolutely deny
the charge we ever adver-
tised we would sell goods at
cost to Quit Business. We
will give 500 reward for
proof of such advertise
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
NEW ORLEANS RACES.
seven Lively Events on the City Park
Programme.

EEO&EdAAAAAAC.
New Orleans, La, jan 1s.-Results
at City Park:
F'irst race=Two miles: Lou NJ,
won; Harpoon. second; Little Wally,
third. Time, 3:45 4-5.
second raee-Half mile: Francis
Appreciation, third. Time, 81 As.
Third race-Five and a half fur
longs: Air Ship, won; Lucy Young,
second: The Hespian, third. Time,
1909 4-5.
Fourth race=Mile and a sixteenth:
Corusa, won; Drexel, second; Envoy,
third Time, 1852 1-5.
many, won. Nodred. second; Addeso,
third Time, 1:44 4-5.
Sixth race-Six furlongs: Cascine,
won; Lesche, second; FonsOluca,
third Time, 1:17 So.
Seventh race-AEile and 10 yards:
Ivanhoe, won; Merry Acrobat, sec
ond; Kleinwood. third. Time, 1:49 2-5.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
bikes FOR THE KAw.
Flood Protection Planned for Ar
mourdaIe and Argentine.

Kansas city, Jan. 13.-The three dikes
above the Fifth street bridge proposed
by the Kaw Valley Drainage board to
protect Armourdale and Argentine from
FCavy river floods are to be constructed
almost entirely Of earth. The dikes are
to be riprapped with rock only where
there is q sharp curve in the river, near
bridge abutments and at other places
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

week Mr. Brigham spent the major
share of a week in Chicago looking over
attractions and he made a special effort
along this line.
The dates for the show are from jan
uary % to February 8 lasting two weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

New york Jan. 13.@Among the
Messengers arriving today IN the steam
8oi54ogne was Robert S. Mccormick,
.sTnfted states ambassador to France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14


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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

We Huntington half
The lady is leaving Topeka and does not wish to ship It
ONE i second pianos. We
secondhand story Clark organ IImbaH second
hand prce-$200 down. 81 90 a month
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
Gas Stoves and RangeS

We are agents for the Celebrated
Jewell Gas Stoves and Ranges. We
have d plumber with US; he will come
and connect your stove. We put the
stove in your house and make the
connections cheaper than any firm in
Topeka; let US figure with you. The
Jewell is the best gas stove that is
made and the price is only a small
amount higher than cheap stoves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

piano of lines
Of is eal what
much have full
the
IS drawbacks
piano you everything
charged the wor is add on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-22
SORROW OF
 MRS. ADAMS
HER ONLY SON IS BURIED IN P0T-
 TIERS FIELD. X
Aged Woman of New York State | Left Alone In Montgomrry
 Mnd without
 Funds,

While Dexter Avenue today is throng- ed with hundreds cheerful. joyous, buy Ting Christmas presents for their loved ones, Mrs. Mary Adams. an aged wo- man. of New York State, Is in the city destitute. alone. and sorrowing for shel only son, who died yesterday morning.
 As she stood in Oakwood Cemetery yesterday afternoon and heard the last rites over the boy she loved. the old woman almost collapsed.
 He is the last one" she said. the last one."
 The rough box was lowered in grave in potter.s field. and the bereaved moth CT was brought back to the city by sympathetic witnesses of her grief.
 The story of Harry B. Adams Is sad Until few months ago he was sales man for a Chicago firm. travelling out of Albany, N Y. He was the sole sup port of his aged mother and her only near relative. His health failed. and in the hope of recovery he came 10 Montgomery seven months ago. his mother accompanying him. He was 3s years old and always had remained single that he might the better care for his parent
 apartments on Monroe Avenue. He was buried by the city in the. public rlot of ground set apart for paupers. X number of friends of the dead man started subscription for his mother yesteday. Several ladies connected with the Dexter Avenue Methodist Church, who have been helping the sick man and his mother for some ttme,r have become interested in the case.
 Last night Mrs. Adams was cared for by friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-22
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
MoNTG0MfERY,s RECORD DURING
 NOvEMBER.
Report of the Sanitary Departpsepf shows S2 New Hahaes aud 5s '
 Decedents fer Last

Eighty-two births and gfty-eight deaths are recorded by the Sanitary Department of the city ;or November 1908. ~
 Of the decedents twenty-one were white and thirty-seven negroes. Forty seven infants were born to white pa rents and thirty-five to sgroes It to each race is in preponderance over the number of deaths. 1E
 More deaths were resultant from pneumonia than from any other cause. and it ise interesting, though in the face of previous statistics not start ling. to note that all of the fatalities we're in the negro race. Five of the decedents were negro men, and one'a nsgress. and none of them was beyond the age of forty years
 Typhoid fever was the next most fatal disease. five persons being its victims three Of them were white per- sons, and none of them was over thirty years old. Bright's disease caused the death of four persons, equally divided in sex and race, and of ages ranging from thirty years to eighty years.
 Twenty-three cf the. fiftY@eight deaths were in Ward Four. The deaths in the other wards were: Ward ons. six: Ward Two, seven: Ward Three. four; Ward Five, three;' Ward Six, nine, ard Seven, six.
 The causes of death not mentioned hitherto with the number of fatalities are: Drowning, one; fall one; accident in machinery, one; accident from gun shot, one: accident from railroad one' abscess, one: apoplexy, one; cancer, one; diphtheria, one; entero colitts. three, enterItis. three; ki1ious fever. one; gastritis. one; heart disease. two; acute indfRestion one q lilo colitis, two; lagrippe, one; marasmus, one; mainu- triton. one; nephritis, two; paralysis. one; paresis. one; peritonitis, one: phthisfs. one; ptomaine poison. two; schrosis. 4one; senfie debility, three; tuberculosis. three; trlsmus neonatuni. one.
 Thirty-six of the decedents were na. tives of Alabama. The birthplaees Of the others were chiefly in the south ern States. Only seventeen of them were under ten years of age.
 Of the persons born forty-four were male and thirty-eight females. Thirty four deeedents were male and twenty four male.