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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
DOWIE HAS FAILED.
one of the Leaders of Zion Admits It
Frankly.

Chicago, Feb. 5.-Followers of John
Alexander Dowie were amazed to hear
yesterday from the platform Of
Shiioh's tabernacle in Zion City, the
frank admission. that the work of their
leader had failed.
The statement came from Elder w.
H. Cossum, who in a. sermon, declared
that his conception of Mr.. Dowie was
that of a man who had been permitted
to look forward into the future and
grasp the great principles which will
govern the MILLENNIUM and had at
tempted to apply them to present con-
ditions.
'He has not succeeded said the
elder. 'I hesitate to say it, yet I will
say it with love, realizing something
of what the fullness of my statement
means. He may not have measured
up to the great vision which forced
hlm to seek to establish some of the
great idealistic principles of the king
dom of Zion City, in this church and in
the ideals which he thrust into busi-
ness life, but he has not succeeded"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
THE COOLEST DAY.
Mercury Gets Within Two Degrees of
Zero This Morning.

The mercury reached the bottom
mark so far as this locality is
concerned at few minutes before
seven o'clock this morning when it
registered but two degrees above zero,
which is seven degrees below the
lowest mark reached this winter.
At sunrise this morning the sky was
a vast dome of steel blue which SEEM
ed to add intensity to the cold, and the
rays of the rising sun seemed a mock
cry. Besides being biting cold the air
was of that peculiar variety which car
ries sound as though over electric
wires. The crunching of frost and
light snow under the Eoofs of the
horses and under the tires of the
heavily loaded wagons could be heard
for blocks. adding to the bedlam of
sounds to be heard on Kansas avenue
While the temperatur is lower to=
day than it has been at any other time
this winter the cold does not seem so
intense as at other times as there is
hardly 4 breath of air stirring.
The forecast issued by the weather
bureau says. Light flurries of snow
tonight or Tuesday, with a slight rise
in temperature Tuesday
Late Saturday afternoon a bulletin
was issued by the weather departm
and sent out as a warning of the ap-
proaching drop in the mercury so that
the damage done to water pipes and
frozen plants will not be as great as it
might have been, had not the report
been circulated.
With the drop in the mercury which
began late Saturday evening came a
skift of snow which barely covered the
ground. The snow was whirled and
/ twisted about and for a while it seemed
that the city was in the grasp of an
old time blizzard. With the laying of
the wind, the snow ceased falling and
the cold became more intense, until it
reached the low mark for the winter
at about o'clock Monday morning.
Sunday afternoon another bulletin
was issued by the department saying
that Sunday night would be the coolest
night of the winter to date and in this
| as in the previous bulletin the condi-
tions predicted followed.
The cold seemed much more intense
Sunday than today but the mercury
shows six to ten degrees lower today
than yesterday. All day Sunday the
wind blew a gale from the north and
there was enough frost and cold in the
! atmo mosphere to make one decidedly un-
comfortable who was compelled to face
it for any distance.
The hourly temperatures for today
I
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concerning it Will be given later. The
Shawnee County Bar association met
this morning and appointed commit
tees to participate.
Abram Bergen was born in Morgan
county. Illinois, March II, 1886. He
was educated at Fairchid's academy,
Illinois college and Harvard university
law school He was states attorney
for the Twenty judicial district Of
Illinois. Later he was a state senator
from Minnesota.
In 1863 he was married to Louisa
Thompson at Virginia, Ill.
Judge Bergen came to Kansas in
1859 from the territory of New Mexico
where he had been engaged in the prac-
tice of law and opened a law office at
Garnett where he served two terms as
county attorney, moving from there to
Topeka in 1882. After moving to To
pelxa he formed a law partnership with
john Guthrie which was terminated
when his partner was elected as judge
Of the district court. Shortly after the
elevation of Judge Guthrie to the bench
he formed partnership with r. B.
WEIGH which lasted two years and was
terminated when his partner was elect
ed county attorney Shortly after this
he formed a partnership with Judge A.
w. Dana which was terminated by the
elevation of Judge Dana to the district
bench of Shawnee county
For a great many years Judge Bergen
has been a member of the First PTesby-
terian church in this city and while he
has never filed an office in the church
he has always been regarded as one of
the leading church workers in the con
gregatiOn. He was also closely allied
with the Masonic bodies in this city, be-
ing member of Masonic lodge No. II.
AIr. Bergen has been closely identified
with the better class of law practice
since he began practicing i'm this city
rtf
the supreme court of the state, where he
had successfully conducted many of the
more important cases before that trib-
unaL One of the mos important cases
ever tried i'm the state originated in
PottawatOmie county and involved sew
eral thousand acres of very valuable
land. The title of this case was Becky
against Benton and was carried through
all of the courts of the state by Judge
Bergen who won at every trial Of the
case. Tt was after litigation started
that Judge Bergen was sent to Europe
to secure evidence needed i'm the case.
Among his friends and especially
among the members of the bar Of this
city where hr was best known his as
sociates speak of him as possessed ol
the highest sense of honor and truly
good r1an.
Judge Bergen was an intimate friend
of Abraham Lincoln and delivered ar
address before the State Bar associa-
tiOn in this city two years ago which
was reprinted in the North American
Review.
The position OF highest honor which
was held by Judge Bergen was that OF
associate Justice of the supreme court
of the territory of New Mexico. being
appointed TO this place by President
Grant This office he resigned on ac-
count of its isolation as ne was nearly
500 miles from the railroad and nc
schools were asseCcible
The widow Mrs 0ufea T2nrornr7 fr4-r
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VERNON'S NAME IN.
President Sends a Number of Nominal
tiOns to the Senate.

Washington, Feb. 5.-The president
today sent the following nominations
to the senate:
To be placed on the retired list with
the rank of brigadier general, Colonel
P. Henry Ray, Fourth infantry.
Marshal, John R. Abernathy, terri
tory of Oklahoma.
Register of treasury, William T.
Vernon, Kansas
Postmasters-Ca F. L. Bost-
wick. I4aton Colorado, Robert 7.
Chambers, Colorado Springs. Kansas,
John o. Hannon, jamestown; Frank
Huhr. Meade. John NJ Wilson, Frank
fort; Simon Skovgaard, Greenleaf;
Frank Harlow, Kingman; Delmar E.
Deputy. Manhattan; Thomas D. Fftz-
patrick. SaIiua; William A Hopkins,
Solomon.
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SLASHED HER DRESS.
Man Attacks Woman With Knife in a
Department Store.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Mrs. w NJ.
Barton, wife of a local physician, was
the victim of a Jack the Slasher,'' while
walking through a department store
here Saturday afternoon.
The man followed Mrs. Barton for
some time befor slashing her black vel
vet dress. He inflicted a clean, even
cut, about two feet long. the blade Of
the weapon, which was evidently a
long, sharp one, extending almost to the
flesh.
Every effort will be made to appre-
hend the assailant, as former exper-
fence with a "slasher'' in this city was
not only costly but a large number &C
women were terrorized.
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AN INDIAN CADET.
President Roosevelt Appoints Haskell
Graduate to West Point.

Washington, Feb. 5.-President
Roosevelt has appointed Paul Knapp,
an Indian boy and gradute of Haskell
institute. a West Point cadet. Young
Knapp is a Pottawatomie. His mother
was a daughter of Simon Pokegon, a
famous chief of that tribe She mar
ried a soldier of the Union army.
Young Knapp is known as a diligent
student at Haskell institute. In con-
nection with his studies there he learn
ed carpentering. When he left the in
stitute he went to work on farm near
Benton Harbor. Mich, and is now
working as a carpenter at that place.
He owes his appointment as a cadet
chiefly to Indian Commissioner Leupp.
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HEADED FOR GULF.
The Cold Wave Is Passing over the
Land of Cotton.

Kansas City, No, Feb. 5.-The cold
wave central in this part of the south
west last night is moving toward the
gulf according to reports received to-
day at the local weather bureau. The
coolest point in this section today was
at Springfield, No, where it was two
degrees below zero. Zero weather
prevailed in northern Missouri and
through Kansas Other temperatures
reported follow:
Oklahoma City. 6 above; Muskogee.
I. T.. above; Fort Smith, Ark, 10
above; Amarillo, Tex, above; abb
lene and Fort Worth Tex, IA above
zero.
Moderating weather is predicted for
the next u hours.
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The show brought good many peO-
ple to ToGeka from out of town, all
though r. S. Brigham, the secretary and
general manager, is not yet ready to
give out the figures. But he has a meth
cd of keeping tab on this part of the at
tendance very accurately.
by tomorrow night" said Mr.. Brig
ham this morning, I'VE will probably
have the Auditorium clear and ready
for the seats. Everything is going along
nicely I viii move my desks back to
my own Office again this afternoon"
A large force of men is at work in
the big hall bending every effort to
clear away any semblance of fairyland
and gala time. All day Sunday was
spent by many Of the exhibitors in
hacking I'D.
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Another Industry Operating in
Kansas Not Up to Standard.
Chemist for Board of Agriculture
Reports on Fertilizers.
LIABLE TO BIG FINE.
First OfFense Is $500 and
Second $500.
New Law Requires Packages
Must Be Properly Labeled.

According to the results of the chemi-
cal analyses made by the chemist for
the state board of agriculture, nearly
every manufacturer of fertilizer sold in
the state Of Kansas is liable to a fine
OF not less than $500 for the first offense,
and not less than $500 for each subse-
quent offense, for putting a fertilizer
on the market which is lacking N some
Of the component parts claimed for it.
Under the new fertilizer law, every
package of fertilizer sold in the state
must have printed on the outside of the
package a certificate of chemical anal
ysis showing the percentage of nitrogen
of potash and Of phosphoric acid
If it is found that there is a deficiency
Of more than 1 per cent in any of these
component parts, it is considered as evi-
dence of fraudulent intent on the part
of the manufacturer
f. D. Coburn, secretary of tile state
board of agriculture, purchased eight
different samples of fertilizer on the
open market, and turned the samples
over to Prof. Joseph T. Lovewen. chem
ist for the state board of agriculture,
and secretary of the Kansas Academy
of Science. Prof Lovewen made these
analyses, and recently submitted his
report to Secretary Coburn.
one or two of the analyses made cor
respond very closely with what is claim
ed for the fertilizer on the outside Of the
package. some show even more Of
some of the component parts that is re-
quired But in almost every case, there
is a shortage OF more than 1 per cent
1 in some one of the three elements.
Usually the shortage is in phospnoric
acid. Under a strict Interpretation of
the law. these manufacturers have laid
| themselves nable TO Hne, provided, OF
! course, that the chemist for the board
/ mas arrived at correct results. AS eacn
i sample was analyzed twice. with close
4 ~ agreeing results, there is not much
+ chance for mistake in that line.
The following are the results on fVs
of the sslfhples anslS4sed.
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KANSANS INVITED.
Long, Curtis and scott viii Attend the
Marriage of Mr.. LOngwOrth.

Washington, Feb. 5.-There is an un-
usually large demand for invitations to
the wedding of Miss Alice Roosevelt to
Representative Nicholas Longworth, Of
Ohio. Among those included are the
Taft party that visited the Philippines
the entire Ohio and New
York state delegations, besides
some of the mebers who are serving
with Mr. Longworth on house commit
tees. Among those included in the list
are the Kansas members and their
wives, who were members of the Taft
party. They are Senator Long and
Representatives Curtis and Scott.
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BERGEN is CONE. PATTERSON BOLT.
u ell known LAWYER Victim Into the Senate
of Pneumonia by the COOradOan.
Passes AWAY Early Today After Offers
Short Illness Against Caucus Rule.
CAMETO TOPEKA IN1882 HE CLAIMS THE RIGHT
Since Then Has Been One of He Pleases
Leading Attorneys San Domingo Treaty
Was Associated Judge Says Is Not Subject for
A. w. Dana II Practice. Party Action.
1t Is Carried Into the Senate
by the COlOradOan.
Offers Resolution Of Protest
Against Caucus Rule.
HE CLAIMS THE RIGHT
To Vote as He Pleases on the
San Domingo Treaty.
Says It Is Not a Subject for
Party Action.

Washington. FEB. 5.-RIr. Patterson
caused sensation in the senate by intro
ducfng a resolution relating to the right
of senators in voting upon treaties.
Mr.. Patterson's resolution recited that
the action of the Democratic caucus
indicating to senators how they should
vote was a plain violation of the spirit
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u ell known Lawyer a Victim
of Pneumonia.
Passes Away Early Today After
Short Illness.
TOPEKAIN18S2
Since Then Has Been One of
Leading Attorneys.
Was Associated With Judge
A. w. Dana in Practice.

Judge Abram Bergen, one of the
states most noted legal practitioners,
die this morning at $50 o'clock at his
residence. 11I2 Topeka avenue. of
pneumonia complicated with heart
failure. He was 20 years of age. The
funeral VIII take place on Wednesday
afternoon. More definite information
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05

I.eavenworth Feb. 5.-While sitting on
one Of the lawn seats at the Soldiers
home conversing with a comrade, Sam
uel c. McCallah. &c" barracks, gasped
twice for breath and sank over dead.
The deceased served in "A" company,
Eighth Missouri cavalry, and was ad
mitted to the Home last month, coming
from his home in Aurora, No, where
members of his family reside. The de-
ceased was IS years old. His death is
attributed to heart disease.
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II Is not llkGly Lnat any action viii be
taken by the state bOard of agriculture
to prosecute the manufacturers whose
products are not up to the standard re-
Qulred by law. The present law is
rather loosely drawn, and there are too
many loop holes through which q man
ufacturer might crawl in case of his
arrest. The department is not allowed
any special fund for the purpose OF col
lecung samples, and consequently, this
work has to be done somewhat han
hazard. A manufacturer whose prod
uct failed to come up to the standard
would doubtless claim that it had de-
Perforated since leaving the factory or
that the sample for some reason was
not fairly representative Of the product
on the market.
The fact, however, that the analysis
are made public will probably be suffi-
cient incentive to make the manufac-
turers toe the mark" It would in
iure their reputation to have it known
that their fertilizer was materially diff
ferent from what they represented It
to be in their published statements
In addition to requiring that the
fertilizers offered for sale to the farm
ers of Kansas shall come up to certain
standards of chemical purity and
value, the state allows no fertilizer to
be sold in the state which does not
pay license fee of $40 per year. Dur
ing the year, the fertilizer manufac-
turers have paid over to the state the
neat sum of $40 for the privilege OF
putting lnelr pTOQuctS on the market.
This sum was contributed by the fol-
lowing firms:
Mayer Fertilizer and Junk company.
six brands. $12O; Armour Packing
company, seven brands, $40; P B.
Mathiason misunderstanding company,
three brands. $50; Cudahy Packing
company, one brand, $40; Swift &
Company, seven brands, $40; Tusca-
rora Fertilizer company, four brands,
$50.
All Of this money, except the fee for
chemical analyses was turned into the
state treasurer. The total amount turned
over to the treasury was S73S14. The
law says that this money shall be placed
TO the credit of the agricultural fund
apparently intending that il shall be
available for use by the state depart
ment Of agriculture. But there is no
such fund recognized as the "agricul-
turaI fund.-" and in response to a re-
quest from Secretary Coburn, Attorney
General c. c. Coleman gave the follow
ing opinion:
sThere is no fund in your department
OF in the treasury which can with Ger
tainty be denominated the agricultural
fund It follows that the general law
as laid down in sections 1853, 6091 and
elsewhere must apply; and that the sur
plus arising from these licenses must
revert to the general revenue fund Of
the state
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Mr.. WOLFF IS BETTER.
Packer Now Able to BE About His
Home.

Chas. Wolf, president of the Charles
Wolff Packing company, who has been
seriously i'll, has so far recovered as to be
able to be about his home, although it
NAV be several days before he will be at
his place of business. The contemplated
trip to California viii be abandoned if
Mr. WoIff's condition continues to i'm
DrOVe.
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Arrested in Land Fraud Case.

Omaha Neb., Feb. 5.-Irving B. Hull
of Mirade, Neb.. was today arrested and
put under s3. 900 bonds by United States
Commissioner Slattery at Chadron, Neb
on charges of subornation of perjury
in securing fraudulent homestead en-
tries within the enclosure of D. W. c.,
ard T NJ. Huntington. bankers and cat
tlemen Of Gordon. Neb.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
Ice Five Inches Thick.

St Joseph, No. Feb. 5.-The cold
weather of the last two days has made
ice IN the rivers and lakes near here
five inches thick and the first ice of the
winter was cut today. Armies of men
are employed by the packers in an ef-
fort to lay in supply before the ice
vanishes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
COLDEST OF WINTER.
Zero and Below With Snow in Many
Places.

Milwauke. Wis. Feb. 5.-Wisconsin
today is experiencing the coldest wealth
er of the winter, temperatures ranging
from one below zero in Milwaukee to 26
below in Superior
Cleveland. o.. Feb. 5.-snow has been
falling throughout northern Ohio for
more than "a hours, with the result that
traffic on many of the steam and cleo
trie roads was seriously delayed today.
Des Moines. Ia, Dec. 5.-The cold wave
in Iowa reached the maximum at
Charles City. where the mercury drop
ped to u degrees below zero. Des Moines
reports five degrees below with a gradu-
al rise in temperature. A high wind
accompanied the cold wave in Iowa
causing considerable suffering to stock
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COAL PRICES GO UP.
Dealers Make Prospect of a Strike
the Excuse.

Chicago, Feb. 5.-Because of a pos
sibility of the strike of the coal miners,
a number of wholesalers in this city
today advanced the price of soft coal
25 cents per ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
OVER TIE MARK.
Attendance at 1906 Bfidwinter Exposi-
ton Exceeds $1,000.

The Mfdwinter exposition broke its
best previous record this year by 2,21S.
The total number of paid admissions
during the past two weeks was 41,56i-
The best previous year was in 1904,
when the complete attendance figure
was 3e .343 The attendance for the five
years during which 4zhe s4fdwinter has
i.o--, ,,,,sr-1s Fso47 57sa4 as fol 1r,s.-e-
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Chicago, Feb. Forecast for kan
sas: Probably snow lurries late to-
night and Tuesday. slowly rising tenn
uerature.
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Temperatures in Large cities.

Chicago, Feb. 5-=7 a. m. tempera-
lures: Boston. So; New York, 81;
Philadelphia, SO; Washington, Sc: Gin
cinnau, IA; Chicago, y; st. Louis. 6
Minneapolis. 16 below zero Kansas
City, 2.
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Marshall Band at the Rink Tonight.
Ladies admitted free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
Ladies Admitted Free

It steinberg's dancing class tonight.
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Continued on Page six.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-04
Police Board to Decide Dinan's Fate Tonight
Wants an Accounting
From Eddie Graney

Herbert Choynski is bent on demand
ing reckoning of old scores from
Eddie Graney that may wrest from the
fight referee his title of "the honest"
for Choynski stoutiy declares that he
will show Graney up in his true char
acter before he is done with him. and
the tenderloin is expecting results.
Because 1 told the truth to the
Grand Jury Graney has been running
around the town telling every one that
he will put it onto me. [ know few
things about Graney. To begin with,
he is guilty of the sin to which I never
know a man to plead guilty. I have
heard men confess murder, but no man
ever dared to plead guilty to ingrati-
tude That is where Graney shines.
Il have been doing his legal work for
six years, and he has been in trouble
most of the time; but in all the six
years I never got a cent from him.
am going to sue him for an account
ing, and we shall see what we shall
see.
"Graney's strong point has been to
account for money that he should have
by saying that he gave it to fix some
one, or that he paid 1t, to some one
else. The facts, when they are known,
will show that his title of the honest
blacksmith is one that he never won.
He is the crookedest man that ever
refereed prizef1ght. I know that, and
Graney knows that I know it. He has
been crooked in fights that my brother
has been in.
HE says that he gave Ruef 20 per
cent of the stock of the Belvedere. I
have heard Graney tell of valuable
things that he had given away before,
when the facts showed that Nhe had
done nothing of the kind. We may
find out the truth of a few things in
this suit before it is over
In this suit which Choynski is. to
bring against Graney an attachment
probably will be levied against the
Tuxedo. which means that a few facts
about the ownership of that we'll
known saloon will be brought out in
the wash AS matter of fact, Choyn-
ski prepared the papers in tho suit and
for the attachment several days ago.