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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-24
JEFFRIES WANTED
Wealthy BOokmaker Offers Big
Purse for Him.
TO Go to Australia and Enter
Ring With Local Man.
SHOW HIM GOOD TIME.
John Wren, of Melbourne, Is
Behind the Move.
Would Mean at Least $4,000
for the Champion.
SHOW HIM GOOD TIME.

Chicago, Jan. 24.-The Chronicle
says: An American just back from
Australia says
when L left there was a rumor
ahoat that Jeffries was on his way
over to fight some good man. They
want to see Jeffries in the ring. and
any time he concludes to visit that
country a $4,000 purse awaits him.
There is a wealthy bookmaker at
Melbourne named John Wren who
has offered to give JEFF a purse Of
$4,000. Wren has more money than
he knows what to do with. To give
you an idea of how big a sport he is
he won $25O.0O0 on one of his horses
recently when it Won a cup race. So
you see $4,000 is a small piece of
money for him.
IF Squires, their heavyweight,
should improve, he might establish his
claim upon the heavyweight cham
piOnship beyond dispute. Wren might
feel justified in giving Jeffries a larger
purse III case he desired to go to
Australia. If Jeff goes they will give
him good time, for Australians like
Americans and treat them better than
they do people from England"
Australians best small man is Hook
Reyes. He is a 133-pound man and
Just as fast and clever as Tommy
Ryan. Keyes is whirlwind on his
feet and for jabbing and getting away
and covering he is a phepom.
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Mrs. Craigie. as John Oliver Hobbies
is known in real life. had finished her
lecture at Bryn Mawr college, and now
she was surrounded by a number of
students. These charming girls. their
rose-leaf cOmplexiOns. bright hair. and
clear eyes enhanced by the deep black
of their gowns and mOrtar-bOards
questioned Mrs. Craigie with respect
full curiosity
You live in London, don't you %
one said.
Yes, I live in London: i'm Lancaster
Gate" Mrs. Craigie replied
In Lancaster Gate in the West
yes" said Mrs. Craigie. smiling.
But ON account of the fogs and the
damp, living in London, even in the
West End. is horrible, isn't it," said a
young girl.
oh, not at ALL" said Mrs. Craigie.
If one spends the summer in the
country and the winter on the Riviera.
London is delightful place to live
in. Los Angeles Times
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Baseball Notes.

Up-tO-date no pitcher has announced
the discovery of a new ball for the next
season to succeed the spit-ball. stop
ball, smoke-ball tang1efoOt and fade
away.
Kid Gleason and Sherwood Magee
having predicted that the Phillies will
win the National league pennant this
year. the alarm clock has been set for
July f.
So far Griffin has had no difficult in
signing his men He has the signatures
of EIberfeld. Orth, Chase. Pitcher Hahn
Catcher Thomas of Providence last sea
son, Edward Goode, Walter Clarkson
and Joe Yeager.
If Nordyke. the former Detroiter
whom AIcAleer got from the Pacific
coast. makes good at first base, Tom
Jones will probably be shifted to second.
It's said that Candy Lachance was
released last season against the wishes
of Collins. who was much attached to
the big fellow, and was satisfied that he
was as good a man as could be secured
for the position. The rest of the team,
too. was very foEd Of Lachance, and
there was a mournful feeling in the
ranks. when he was taken off the bag
and allowed to go elsewhere, and several
members Of the team made no bones at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-24
FEW CHANGES AT IOWA.
Suggestions of the Big Nine'' VIII Not
Hamper the Hawkeyes.

Iowa City Ia, Jan. 24.=Aside from
the radical change of shortening the
number of games played and the play
ing season, the recommendation of the
Chicago conference viii make little
change in the conditions which already
exist at the State University of Iowa.
Coach Chalmers has been a member
of the faculty since he came here and
he IS employed by the board of regents.
All members of the hawkeye squad
are required to take fun work at all
times and to have no back conditions.
IoWa's general gate admission is fixed
at so cents, in rare Instances being
raised to IS cents.
The abolition of the training table
will only work a. hardship on the ath-
letes, who will go into games in a
weaker physical condition than for
merly The faculty members have for
two years managed athletics at Iowa.
The proposed change will increase
the breach between the big and small
universities, of which Chicago and
Iowa are types. Iowa with difficulty
secured sufficient funds in twelve
games to support every other branch
of athletics. Chicago will secure at its
five big games allowed practically as
much as it ever had.
Among the second class universities
it is believed the result will be a gen
eral deadening of university life and
spirit.
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TO FIGHT MAIL ORDERS
Retail Merchants Form an association
at Des AIoines.

Des Moines. Ia. Jan. 24.-Many re-
tail merchants from different parts Of
the middle west are in session here
for the purpose of organizing retail
merchants association to cope with
the mail order house competition,
which they claim is almost extermi-
mating them in this section. A Ger
pOratiOn is to be formed and stock
sold to establish wholesale house
in Chicago through which the output
of many eastern factories viii be
handled just as cheaply as the goods
of the large mail order houses Iowa,
Minnesota, Wisconsin. illinois, Indi-
ana, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and
South Dakota will be the first states
to be organized.
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FITzsININIONs' LATEST.
Said to Have Purchased an Interest in
Chicago Hotel.

Chicago, Jan. 24.-Robert Fitzsim-
mons, according to a Wen authenti-
Gated report circulated in local sport
ing circles yesterday, has bought
half interest in big Chicago hotel and
restaurant, and viii make his future
home here. He is declared positively
avenue. to which he will give his per
sonal attention.
According to the report. Fitz will
with the present owner, although it is
thought possible that one of his for
mer business associates may join in
the outright purchase of the property
Although the report lacked vertical
ton in many of its details it was gen
orally credited. Fitzsimmons has re-
peatedly stated lately that he intended
to embark in the hotel business. and as
he likes Chicago and has expressed a
desire to live here the news was not a
surprise. On former visits he has
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CUBA's AUTO CARNIVAL.
The Great Display VIII Be Held This
Year Feb. iii.

New York Jan. 24.-The dates select
ed for this years Cuban automobile
carnival will be Feb to II, taking in
two Sundays as Sunday is the great
holiday in Cuba and the first Sunday in
all probability will be given the floral
fete, known as the Battle of Flowers. -
This feature of the carnival appeals
greatly to the natives of Cuba, for the
Prado, the main street, is a scene of
great brilliancy as the automobiles and
carriages with their fine decorations are
made targets of by the pOpulace. who
pelt them with flowers and confetti.
On Monday and Tuesday, Feb and 8,
short tours win be given, in which the
visiting automobilists viii participate.
On Tuesday the 18th. viii be given the
short races, one. five, ten and twenty
kilometers. and the English mile. The
big event the 2OO-mile cup race, will oc
cur Sunday, Feb. II.
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RAID THE PACIFIC LEAGUE.
Many Good Players VIII Come East
From the Coast

From the Coast.
Chicago, Jan. 24-One of the heav-
lest demands ever made on "a minor
league occurred last fall, when the
American and National leagues took
from the Pacific Coast league eleven of
its star players by purchase and draft
San Francisco was forced to part
with two of its best pitchers, Whelen
and Hit, both being purchased by the
Greater New York club. The San
Francisco club was also forced to part
with Joe Halva, its first baseman, who
has signed a contract to play with the
Pittsburg club.
Oakland has lost Doc Moskiman, a
utility player, who has been drafted by
the Chicago Nationals, and Jimmy
Byrnes, a catcher, who has been draft
ed by Manager Mack of the Philadel-
phia Athletics. Bennett, an infielder of
the Seattle club, has been drafted by
St. Louis, while Schlafiy, second base
man of the Portland club, has been
drafted by the Washington club. Nor
dyke, first baseman of the Tacoma
club, has been sold to the st. Louis
Americans; Graham, captain of the
Tacoma club, will wear a Boston
American league uniform. Robert
Feefe, who was considered the most
deceptive pitcher in the Coast league.
has been sold to the Greater New
York team, and Sheehan, third base
man, also of the Tacoma team, has
been drafted by Pittsburg
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AUTO MEN LEAVE GOTHAM
Some to Chicago, Some to Florida
Sales Were Good.

New York, Jan. 24-Sated with glory
and rejoicing in the prospect of gold
but overborne by a great WEAKNESS, the
exhibitors at the two shows which sup
piled the city with automobile enthusi-
asm all last week have gone scurrying
homeward. The number of principals
and employees from all parts of the coun-
try was sufficient to make it an I'M
usually busy day at the Grand Central
station. See you at Chicago" was the
parting salute of those taking different
trains.
Those who did not go to the races in
Florida viii have a few days in which
to recuperate, and then they will have to
begin preparing for the show in Chicago.
Feb. $40, in the Coliseum and First
Regiment armory.
Said one prOminent western maker
While he was waiting for his train: IF
we do business in Chicago anything like
what we did in New Yorl1 we viii be apt
to have our heads turned. We win not
be able to deliver the goods. and would
rather see light business done there.
I think it is time for conservatism, for
so much success is almost bound to re-
suit in overconfdence and overproduc-
ton and a crash"
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we get cur hints from nature the
inventor said. Take, for instance. the
hollow pillar. which is stronger than
the solid one. The wheat straw showed
US the superior strength of the hollow
pillar. Solid, the wheat straw would
be unable to support its head Of grain.
Where did man get his idea for car
riage splings2 From the hoofs of the
horse. which. like the springs derived
from them are made from parallel
plates.
Scissors we get from the paws of the
tortoise, which are natural scissors
chisels from the squirrel. who carries
them in his mouth; AIDES from the hip
popotamus, whose worries are AIDES of
the best design; the plane from the bees
laws; the triphammer from the wood
Decker. CHICAGO Journal
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does not enjoy. That Rogers does en-
joy special privileges that are realized
a rnismoral and soon will be defined as
illegal, no one can deny.
Rogers represents great class
There is no other distinct class IN
America. We are all Americans-ric
and pOOr-and the poor of today are
the rich of tomorrow. and the rich of
today are the poor of tOmorrOw-all
except those who enjoy these special
privileges. It is those fellows that the
movement is against not only in KAN
sas, but all over the nation. The class
must be destroyed by destroying the
special privileges which make the class.
That can be done only by revising and
bringing down to modern conditions
the laws and the fundament of laws
made for society which did not know
the extra legal power of corporate
weaIth-amassed in vast sums and
used to control the government against
the people. The present movement is
not based on envy of the brains OF the
men of this class; it is based on a de-
sire to see other men with the same
grade of brains, but who are operating
outside of the privileged class, go for
ward to great things, and enjoy all the
comforts and luxuries that their brains
should guarantee them.
That is what the present social and
political movement means. It IS not
revolutionary. 1t was not comp of
rabbfe rOusers 1t was composed of
and the bObtail were not there The
men who promoted and attended that
meeting are the best men in Kansas
1t did not utter a howl of anger; it
voiced a sentiment which demanded
justice to all the people. That meet
ing and the sentiment which it ex-
pressed stand today between corporate
greed and the minimizing revolution
airy rabble, and if corporate greed does
not heed sentiment like the Kansas
sentiment. it may have to cope with
something distinctly more distasteful.
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Sl,45O. 600 MORE.
Roclzefellers Gifts to Chicago Univer-
sity NOW Nearly Is Million.

Chicago, Jan. 24.-John d. Rockefeller
has added again to the heap of millions
OF the University of Chicago He has
just given the sum of 81. 100000. OF this
sum s1000.00O win go for endowment,
$50. COO to meet the deficit in current ex-
penses, and the remainder-$1O000 600
win be held in trust by the university
for Mrs. William r.. Harper, widow of
the president.
Up to the present time Mr.. Rockefeller
has given to the university the sum of
S14,399, 92191, bringing the total endow-
ment Of the Institution UP to within a
few thousand dollars of $40 600, 00O-tWo-
dfths Of the sum needed to complete the
plans for Dr. Harper's great $4,000. 600
university.
Mr. Rockefeller's last previous large
gift came at the winter convention in
December 1905. He then gave, in addi-
ton to several smaller gifts, one fund
of S1,617921.91. Since this time he has
given annually a sum only sufficient to
make up the yearly deficit, which is
placed at S245. 600
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EUTHANASlA Law.
Bill Legalizing killing of Incurables
Introduced at Columbus.

Columbus. O., Jan. 24-Painless
death for pain-racked sufferers who
have no chance for recovery and who
desire to live no longer viii be pos
slpIe II the Dill in the general assembly
of Ohio is passed. If the DroDosed
measure becomes a law, persons suf-
fering from incura bic disease or from
injuries from which there is no hone
OF recovery may be legally chloro-
formed to death or killed in any other
painless way which physicians may
design The measure was introduced
at the request of Miss Anna Hall.
Miss Hall is a woman of wealth
and IS member of a highly respect
aole Cincinnati family. Her father.
few years ago.
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COUNTY MUST PAY 1T.
Responsible for Exchange on the
Drafts to Treasurer.

NJ. r. Johnson. county treasurer Of
P0ttaWatomie county, has written to the
state auditors office to inquire whether
the county or the state has to pay the
exchange on the sight drafts which the
new state depository law provides shall
be drawn by the state treasurer upon
the county treasurers
Mr. johnson says that on some of the
sight drafts drawn upon him by the
state he has been obliged to Dav ex-
change while upon others he has not.
He don't understand the case.
The auditor has notified Mr. Johnson
that the county is supposed to pay the
exchange. as it used to do before the
state depository law went into effect.
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WICHITA PHONE. MEETING.
Independents Decide to Remain in Ma
tiOnaI Association.

Wichita, Kan, Jan 24.-At the
meeting of the Independent Telephone
association here there was a lively dis
cussion over the question of continuing
the membership in the national inter
state association. Robert Burns of
Hutchinson was opposed to the propo-
sition and made motion putting the
matter in the hands of the executive
committee with power to act. A sub
stitute was offered by Mr.. Belts Of
AtchisOn instructing the executive
committee to make an assessment to
pay dues. Vice President Gary of the
National Interstate association, who
was present. explained the work of the
national association and said that he
thought all the opposition originated
with the switch board and supply com
pany. This last remark brought Mr..
Burns to his feet who said that it was
an indictment against him as he was
user of the Kellogg apparatus and he
wanted it understood that he was not
informed by the Kellogg people at all,
but was opposed to the movement be-
cause he could not see any benefit in it.
After a heated discussion in which
nearly everybody present took part the
association decided to remain in the
national association and instructed the
president to appoint such delegates as
the Kansas association was entitled to
to the national convention to be held
in St. Louis next June The following
officers We're elected: President. Will
liam Nelson Smith Center; vice presi-
dents c. T. Bets AtchisOn; ". Mil
Ter, Olathe: A. f. Herzberg. Independ-
ence; Charles Henderson, Alma; John
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Doyle; sixth district. c. c. Vaudeven-
der, Kingman; secretary and treasur-
er. T. NJ Pearl, Hiawatha; member Of
advisory committee, national associa-
ton h d. McVay Wichita. The Sc
lection of d meeting place for the next
convention was left to the executive
committee. j viii probably be held
in Topeka. The following were APP
pointed by President Nelson to cOnsfi-
tute the executive committee: j. r.
Byers. Ottawa; A. p. Rogers, Beloit.
Harry Camman, Winfield; r. NJ
Emery, Severance; c. L. Brown, Adj
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WERE PRoFEssIoNALs.
Serious Charge Against AEerson and
Brockmeyer of NJ. U.

BfOcklneyer of Nj. u.
Columbia, No, Jan. 24.-A rumor is
current here that Akerson, the star
Missouri fullback, was paid by the
Kansas City alumni to play football in
1909 and that Broekmeyer, last sea
sons crack halfback, had be paid S400
by the st. Louis alumni. Dr. Hether-
lngton will institute an investigation
INTO the matter of both Brockmeyer
and Akerson. He is reported to have
said that he had been betrayed in the
mousse OF his friends while attempting
10 enforce policy of clean athletics
He IS greatly grieved over the reports.
notwithstanding his vigilance players
have been hired and he declares now
mat II he cannot get at all the facts in
the case football will be abolished and
missouri Will have no intercollegiate
contests
Neither Brockmeyer nor Akerson is
now in school. Akerson played dur
ing the season of 1904 and was pro-
nounced the best fullback that Mis-
souri, has ever had. He was assistant
coach last year. Brockmeyer was Mis-
souris star for 1905. Immediately
after the Thanksgiving day game he
left school This circumstance and the
fact that he made little pretense at
studying. is considered suspicious by
those who assert that he was paid to
play Students and professors alike do
not believe that Brockmeyer was paid.
Coach Mclean and Captain Salisbury
declare that Brockmeyer did not re-
cefVe money
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HoCH TO PRINT A BOOK.
1t VIII Include His Thoughts We've
Been Thinking

Governor Hoch is planning to publish
a book of his own writings. 1t viii not
be a book of speeches. but a book of
some of the things which the governor
has printed in his paper from time to
time. Some of the Thoughts We've
Been Thinking" may be included, to-
gether with other matter of the same
clssc.
The governor said today: Il do not
expect to reprint any of my speeches.
7 have seen one or two publications
along this lire ard they did not especial
Nv appeal to me. My compilation is on
subjects of sentiment and it viii not
have anything to do with my life here
as governor You see I have written
quite a little bit on lines of sentiment
and I have about decided to put it in
book FORM
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made Inquiries about several proper
ties and has even gone so far as to
have agents Investigate the price for
which they can be obtained
The former champion received con-
siderable money from his recent fight
with o Brien at San FRANCISCO, and is
supposed to have saved quite a sum be-
sides this That he is financially able
to acquire an interest in a big business
IS not doubted In the event that the
report is correct. it would mean that
the old fighter will give up the theat-
rlcal business, with which he has been
largely engaged for several years past.
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FREE

is the best match score ever rolled in a
tournament in Kansas City. The worlds
tournament record is held by Steve
Geroux of Chicago, with a 30-frame
mark of 754. Previous to the perform
ance of Alwes last night Roeder's score
of 692 was the best ever made in Kansas
City. Alwes's game scores were PAL,
245 and 241. He had only one open frame
and that was a split" He rolled
twenty-five strikes and seven spares.
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Are you in favor of the trusts, or do
you favor antimonopOly and the indie
pendent control of Kansas products
If your are a Kansas citizen and in
favor of Kansas interests, then order
your grocer to furnish you with the
Kansas product, the best oil and gaso-
line ever offered for sale in the state.
Be sure and get the Pure Kansas
AntimOnopoly OIL made by the Uncle
Sam Oil company, and refuse the tIs5st
Perfection or Standard Oil and gaso-
line under any other name.
The following grOcers are handling
the Uncle Sam oil and gasoline Shaw
nee grocery. Exchange grocery. ]. s
Grice, Warning & Co, d. d. knox.
Spaulding Bros. McSpadden grocery.
c. w. Carrier Louis Wiss N r. Phil
1ippi, Thos. HOrsf1eld, Harry Michael.
J. J. Carter, II. Moreland @ r.
Croker. J. H. King. B. A. Crawford.
Irwin & Pyles. G. A. Lambert, w. A.
Benson& Co. Chris Roof, j. Mean
drews, w Gordon, NJ Gragg. j. w.
Jones & Son, MoIz Bros. W E Fftz-
gerald. H. H. Marker, J. N. Ferguson.
Green Front Store Lungreen & Eek
blad, Robert Kneisler, W. g Terry. W.
h Matthews, Z. H. Uphaw & SON
MOrns 4 Myers A. Sheetz. O. r.
Adams. J. Q. Brown. w. X Gardner.
F'feger & Fieger. HaRley Bros. J. NJ
Petro, Z. NJ. Stevenson.
If your grocer does not handle it, he
can get same by calling independent
phone 5193.
r. A. RIGHTMIRE, Distributor.
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Jail at IaIsin Empty.

Lakin. Kas. Jan 24.-The Kearny
county Jail win be empty after the
present term OF court. When court
convened yesterday the two culprits
entered a plea Of guilty when their
cases were called. SiIas Quigley, a
young man from Omaha. Ill. prob
ably viii get one year at the Hutchin-
son ref0rmatory for stealing a suit of
clothes. and Alfred Fisher, "a Ger
man. for horse stealing, viii go to the
Fonften tiarv
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washington. Jan. 24.-These post
masters have been appointed: Kansas
Horace, Greeley county. Jennie Douglas.
vice r. NJ. Dufield removed; Mayday.
Riley county, Albert Nelson. vice NJ r.
CSilchrist. resigned; Rome, Sumner
county William II. Thompson, vice J.
III. Thomas. resigned.
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Curtis Redden to Indianapolis.

Grand Rapids Men, Jan. u
Curtis G. Redden, formerly base
ball and football player of the Uni
versity of Michigan and captain of the
1903 Wolverine eleven, has signed to
play with Indianapolis in the Ameri-
can association this year.