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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24

OYSTER BAY, Aug. 24.-The proc
hamaton as issued by the president
IN regard to the official adoption of
the system of reformed spelling will
undoubtedly have an effect, whether
J I practical or otherwise, on the SPELL
'1ng and style Of journalism of this
kountry. The method has been at
hacked and repelled by all manner
h newspaper critics and journalists.
Such opposition has been unintelli-
eent and is due to the fact that the
umber of journalists acquainted
With the principle of phonetics is very
llmlted" says Rev. Walter William
Ekeet, an authority on such spelling.
blr. Skeet continues to state that the
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24

ovcTER BAY, Aug. 24.-President
|,.osevelt today announced that he
- adopted the Carnegie reformed
.tbod of spelling and that he has
[ns,ructed the pubne printer that all
|osc,al documents from the White
H,Ouse including the presidents mes
yes shall be printed according to
H. recommendations of spelling re-
borm committee.
This committee, whose head is
lnrander Matthews, has published
bst of 400 words in which the SPELL
|ng has been reformed. This list ccn-
|,ons such words as thru" and
E~bo" for through" and though"
rhe president's official recognition Of
he system is regarded as the most
Elective and speediest method to in
|.ueurate the new system.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24
MANY KILLED
IN WRECK

DETROIT, Aug. PA bulletin to
the News from ST. Thomas, Ont re-
ports several killed in a Canadian Pa
cific wreck today.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24

HAVANA. Aug. 24.--Pino Guerrero.
With most Of his command. left San
Juan Marines this morning to occupy
Guanes.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24

likely to support the government. A
detachment Of 200 Cuban artilIsrymen
have gone to Pinar Del Rio to CO.
operate with the rurals. The artillery
can only act ms infantry as they are
The prince Of Havana is quiet. Con. .
siderable sympathy is developing for
General Gomez, who is commonly be-
Iieved to be too broadminded a patrio.
to mix up in revolutionary schemes.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24

suffer the greatest damage. The stAcl@
Ing In aome Of the cases Aas been poor
" done, and the stacks may be soaked
with rain.
At noon today Il seemed ~ II thu
rain was entirely over, but late this
afternoon 1t began to look moro
stormy.
The farmers have not had 80 good
a year ar average. and Il the rain
damages their short crop II will be :
hard year for them,
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24

Marshal Wsrren yesterday arrested
John Vanguard for violating the bicy-
Gle ordinance and riding on tho lower
end OF Sixth street. He was brought
before Justice Clear and paid the re-
quired. S. fine.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24
insurgents Routed First.

insurgents Routed First.
HAVANA, Aug. 24.-The first en-
counter was in Santa Clara province
this morning. The rurals attacked
mingo and Colon. Insurgents were
routed.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24
TACOMA STEAMER REFUSES
TO ASSIST RIVAL IN DISTRESS
UNTIL The SIGNAL IS GIVEN
Feeling is so Intense Between the two Boats That IS
Passengers Would Have Been Left Adrift
on a Helpless Craft

'acona, WASH, Aug. 24.-As the
P'sa' steamers, Burton and vashon,
"''s nurryins to Tacoma from island
|p''"'' this morning the boiler tube on
4" burton broke, scattering live Goals
I" "er lower deck. and filling the YES
v with sitting smoke. The crew ex.
f''su'shsd the fire before the rs pas.
wye" had time to become panic
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-24

stricken.
The vashon was few lengths be-
hind and as the boats are deadly
rivals, it is alleged they were inclined
Vashon took off the passengers, ieav.
Iina the Burton adrift. She was later
picked up by tug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
A sTRIKING cONrRAsr

One Of the pronounced features of the
Norris report is that Mr.. Morris went
back TO Jan. 1, 1898. Investigating the last
year during which d. H. Hedebower was
state treasurer, and In that year he did
not ind a single dollar missing from the
state school fund in any way, while dur
ing the Grimes and Kelly administra-
tlons he found over $4,000 short, the
shortages beginning apparently as soon
as Grimes became treasurer and Kelly
assistant treasurer.
In the Oklahoma warrant interest fund
AR. Norris found shortage of s34.77
during the closing days Of the Hehe-
bower administration, against short
age of over $4,000 during the Grimes and
Kelly administrations. This is the only
irregularity found in the whole year of
The Hedebower period examined
mis- is a matter which has. never been
touched upon before. and is a striking
commentary on the conduct Of the treas
ury since the Burton crowd. Grimes and
Kelly. got control of It.
The contrast between the Crimes
Kelly conduct of the state treasury and
that Of Mr.. Hehebower is so striking
that it emphasizes in the strongest man
ner the fact that colossal thefts have
Bean going on in the treasury in the past
G1ven years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe.l

From the Atchison Globe.l
Getting married develops the detec-
tive instinct in the most trusting of wo-
men.
The best you can do isn't going to
help you very much unless It is better
than some other mans best.
If a girl has on something of a bright
cOlors half the men who see her get
the impression that she is well dressed.
When a man says he got up nine
time with the baby six nights IN sue
cession, it means that one night he woke
up and heard his wife get up
An Atchison man married a woman
who weighed 125 pounds. She now
weighs $50 pounds, and he wants to
know if he can be ranked as a biga-
mist.
An Atchison man has bad luck: Just
as his friends are beginning to find
that he is an interesting talker, the doc
tors are about to adjudge him insane
It is some wonder women don't give
expression to what they regard their
great burden by working in cardboard
for wall decoration, this motto: BE
Patient with Pa"
Some years ago a good cook would
not allow anyone to cross the Kitchen
floor If she had a cake in the oven,
fearing that the jar would make it fall
Owing to the genius put into baking
powder Of late years, 1t is now possible
to dance a highland fling on top of the
oven and the cake Will rise as if on
heavenly wings. and VIII not notice it.
The evolution of a love affair: Minnie
a thertor and Walt Egerton begin go
ing together. Minnie Afherton whispers
80 ner best friend that she and Walter
are engaged: Walter denies to his folks
and to his friends that he has proposed
to Minnie AthertOn: Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam John Anterior announce the en-
gagemeut of their daughter. Minerva
Pierce Atherton. to Walter Munroe
Egerton: Miss Jennie Davis entertained
with shower yesterday for Miss Min
ME Atherton whose marriage to Walter
Egerton occurs in three weeks: All
kinds of showers, luncheons. card par
ties. etc Mr. and Mrs. William John
Atherton invite you to the marriage Of
their daughter Minerva Pierce, and
Walter Munroe Egerton Wednesday.
June the eighteenth, nineteen hundred
and six. at eight o'clock IN the evening
in the church of the Holy Angels; Miss
Annie Thompson, Of Coolidge. is in
town for the Atherton- Egerton wedding
which occurs this evening: a description
of the wedding. including march and
counter march OF the bridal party: we'd
ding gown of the bride; toilettes of the
bridesmaids. reception and wedding
supper to the bridal party, brief we'd
ding trip; Mr.. and Mrs. Walt Egerton
have gone to housekeeping in a new cot
tage on the corner Of 18th and Smith
streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
JANA DZKER J0Ty

The business of the Salina postOffice
for 1905 exceeded $4,000.
Two game dealers in Mcpherson are
said to receive an average Of about two
thousand rabbits a day.
by the way, why is a tea-kettle2 ."
asks the LeavenwOrth Post Was
anyone ever known to make tea IN it -
A Saline county man had the usual
accident with a gun, but he almost
escaped. The load just caught his big
toe.
The Congregational church at Great
Bend has taken another great step
forward The women folks are re-
quired to remove their hats during the
services.
At the dedication of the new Meth O.
dist church at Marquette recently ST.
400 was raised. And this in Q com
munity that was swept by cyclone
only eight months ago. The new
church takes the place of one blown
away.
Here's the way it goes. The Linds-
borg News says two men went into a
newspaper Office at Wellington the 9th
er day and kicked because the paper
didn't print all the news. That night
those very same men got into trouble
and the next morning they called at
the same newspaper office bright and
early and asked that the editor sup
press the story People are very apt
to condemn the newspapers for not
printing all the news until they them
selves get into trouble and then they
appreciate silence on the part of the
newspaper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
GovERNoR HocH,s Duty.

The crisis has now come in the gu
bernatOriaI career of Governor Hoch.
The moment for the action which he
promised the people of Kansas, prior
to the election, should be taken under
certain circumstances is here.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that Gov
ernor HOch may rise to the occasion in
the way his friends believed he would
when he made the promise to the peo-
pie sixteen months ago. If the gov
ernor performs his whole duty without
fear or favor but only that the law may
be preserved and justice be done, he
viii have the sincere support of every
loyal citizen of Kansas.
When the Rowett report showed a
great shortage in the treasury and after
the State Journal had revealed the in
iquity of the Comanche county bond
deal Kelly offered his resigna ton in
escrow as state treasurer for the
term to which he had not been elected
Governor Hoch made his promise on
the stump that if elected he would at
once make a thorough investigation Of
the state treasury and if any thing
wrong should be found he would take
prompt measures to bring the guilty
parties to justice.
OF course, Kelly's resignation in es-
crow was of no force. as the State
Journal pointed out at the time 1t was
made simply to get in on and having
accomplished it's mission Kelly at
tempted to withdraw it. But the sup
posed resignation coupled with the
faith the people had in Governor Hoch,
led enough voters to vote for Kelly to
re-elect him.
Since then fifteen months have
elapsed. Kelly deposited large sums of
money in Wichita, Hutchinson and
Kansas City banks directly contrary to
law, he loaned more than half a million
dollars of state money to his chief
bondsman through the First National
bank, which was caught in the Devlin
smash.
Through all of this the people have.
more or less patiently, waited for the
report of Governor Hoch's investiga-
ton. Now it is here, and it not only
confirms the Rowett report. but it
goes further. 1t describes the mutila-
ton of the records. 1t confirms the
State Journals charges against Kelly
in connection with the Comanche
county bond deal. It traces the Garden
City shortage directly into Kelly's
hands personally.
Governor Hoch's first imperative
duty is to demand Kelly's resignation
forthwith. Kelly has either been chief
or assistant chief in charge of the
funds of the treasury during the six
and a half years in which this money
has been taken. and all precedents de-
mand that all persons on whom sus-
picion might fall should cease their
i connection with the treasury
Governor Hoch's next duty-and this
too should be ate-should be
to prosecute whoever he believes to be
guilty of the state treasury thefts. If
F. Z. Grimes is guilty the statute of
limitations may have run against him
but the statute of limitations has not
run against Kelly in connection with
the Comanche county embezzlement.
and the tracing of some of the short
ages directly to Kefly's hands. to say
nothing of his former record i'm Miami
county. directs suspicion towards him.
Governor Hoch's third duty should
be to bring suit 10 recover the short
ages to the state. F. E. Grimes is. of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
oKLAHoAfA WARRANTS.

The state Of Kansas kept certain Ok
lahoma prisoners. The territory paid
for this service in warrants The law
says the state treasurer shall hold any
unpaid warrants and collect the inter
est when paid. The state treasurers.
during the period of the accountants
examination January /. 1898, to July /.
1905. have not always held the war
rants: have generally cashed them and
ct their face value. The state thus got
its money. but not the interest. The
accountant figures this interest loss as
q shortage during the Grimes and Kelly
administrations amounting to about
$1,000.
1t is rumored. but not established. that
some OF these warrants were eashed by
taking money from another state fund,
holding the warrants until paid and
dfverting the interest paid into the per-
sonal receipts Of some one in the treas
urer's office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record
When votes are dirt cheap heelers
claim a clean sweep
If ghosts ever really came back how
they would roast the doctors.
Some girls can blush whenever they
please. and other only when they have
the price.
One half the world doesn't know
how much the other half lives beyond
its means.
The average small boy doesn't care
particularly about soap, so long as he
can get the soap box.
He-"A sailors life is the life for
me" Shelves; sailors seem to have
such good times ashore
To acquire proficiency in social mat
ters one should never let ones duties
interfere with ones pleasures
Nell-'The girl who marries a title
is sold. There's nothing else to call
it, Belle-''Oh. I don't know Some
times she is merely leased
When it comes to choosing wife a
woman who can make good speech
isn't in it with the woman who can
make a good loaf of bread.
Mrs Observation-Disclosures is pictures q
my ancestors, hand painted to ordeS
by one O. the old masters" Mrs. KID
der='Indeed! And where are your
husbands ?" Mrs. Newrich-+Oh.
these is his'n, too. It's share an share
alike in everything wild me an jim
A little boy once told a lie.
Twas the lie of a hero. renowned;
For he said that he didn't like pie
When there wasn't enough to go
round
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
LIE NroRRIs REPoRr.

Right at the outset the State Jour
nal wishes to disavow any intention to
say. w told YOU so. 1t is a fact that
cannot escape notice, however, that the
report of Haskins & Sells, as submit
ted by Accountant Morris. after an ex-
animation Of the state treasury contfn-
uing for seven months. corroborates
not only the report of former State Ac-
countant Rowett regarding the school
fund and also regarding the interest
on Oklahoma warrants. but it further
cOrroborates the exposures made by
the State journal regarding the Co
manehe county bond deal.
Mr. Morris made a complete exam
nation of the state school fund, while
Mr.. Rowetts examination was only
partial, which accounts for the much
larger shortage, aggregating over S60,-
000 in the school fund and $1,000 in
the Oklahoma interest fund. discovered
by Mr.. Morris.
The findings of Mr.. Morris concern
ing the Garden City shortage, which
was mysteriously returned by "A. r.
Brown" are exactly the same as the
findings of Mr.. Rowett. Mr.. Morris
traces the coupons from the hands of
T. T. Kelly to the state fiscal agency in
New York and traces the money pay
ing for them back to the hands of T. t.
Kelly. where it disappears-or remains
until "A. r. Brown" sends it by mail
to the treasury more than a year later.
Mr.. Morris has evidently not been able
to find the mysterious Brown any
more than Rowett did. but there is
strong suspicion that he is the state
treasurer of Kansas.
corning the mutilation of the records
more fully than did Mr.. Rowett. He
not only describes some very apparent
and clumsy mutations in the bond
register i'm the auditors office, con-
corning which notations have been
made by the bond clerk in the au-
ditor's office but Mr.. Norris also
shows that page after page of records
i'm the treasurer's office have been cut
from the books. Mr.. Rowett found
the same thing but did not report on
it in detail.
The bulk of the shortages are under
the Grimes administration. but mas
much as T. r. Kelly was assistant state
treasurer at that time and handled the
funds, the fact that the shortage oc-
CURED under the Crimes administra-
ton does not relieve him of suspicion,
and the fact that some of the money
was traced directly into his hands en-
phasizes this suspicion. of the miss
ing coupons. however, $S33.6O have
been traced directly to the state trea-
surer since Kelly became treasurer.
OF course Mr.. Grimes is civilly liza
bic for the shortages that occurred
under his administration but he holds
Kelly's bond for 500. 600 as his as
sistant. The state should not be salts
fed with merely recovering its money.
Kelly has established a reputation for
paying back what he had taken. He did
that ia Miami county-after he was
caught The person who is guilty of
the thefts in the state treasury should
be punished
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
me- sAcRED sCENE

This is the path down which we came
Ihat glad June morning long ago.
On yonder tree I carved her name
And cut my thumb while doing So
z was there we climbed across the fence
And there she slipped. and it was wen
That I. with muscles strong and tense,
Could bravely catch her as she fell.
Here by the peaceful. pebbly brook,
We gladly fingered half the day.
ana mere her hands in mine took
And told her all had to say.
Ihere are the selfsame slippery stones
Ihat put my fondest hopes to rout;
Reproach ana grief were in her tones
AS we got up and waded out.
Twas here she. chose to stop and toss
Her No, siri'' back defiantly:
q no there's the fence she got across
without the slightest aid from me.
IS. +. Kiser.
in Chicago Record-IIeraid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the New York Press
The way to make a fool OF a man is
to make him think you think he IS
popular
A girl could always keep a pink
complexion if it was as easy to get rid
of as freckles.
Most women have an idea that after
they get through having babies they
will write a novel about them.
One of the very surest ways to
marry a girl is to make up your mind
you are not going to let her do it.
A woman's idea of a nice home dav
for her husband is falling or chairs
trying to put up curtains for her.
No matter how she acts. YOU never
hurt a girls feelings by sticking ont
for it that you couldn't help kissing
her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
Mrs. senator Knox Makes Butter.

Far out of the common run of pres
ents is the kind of gift Mrs. P. c.
Knox makes now and then to certain
Of her closest friends. Books? No
Plctures3 Pshawi Jewels2 Never.
Just dainty little cases. holding i've
pounds of butter apiece.
NO grocery stuff this but from the
Knox dairy, and Immensely proud of
1t is the wife of the senator from
pennsylvania. About three years ago
her eldest son. Reed Knox elected to
be farmer, and his parents bought
for him a rich stretch of land near
Valley Forge. The senator and Mrs
Knox are delighted with rustic life and
spend much time on the farm.
Last winter Mrs. Knox suffered
from nervous trouble, so she Cancelled
her social engagements and retired to
Valley Forge. She spent the summer
and autumn in the dairy. superintend-
ing the milking and churning, and at
odd times she read the advanced work
on the subject.
She is as proud of her butter as any
of the model farmers wives in old
fashioned English novels. For several
weeks before her departure for Wash
ington to get her home In readiness
for the winter she has been sending
the proofs of her proficiency in the
butter making line.-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17

I have lived my life and I face the end
But that other life I might have led.
Where lay the road, and who was its
friend
And where was the goal. when the
years were fled2
Where lay the road? Did miss the
turn2
The FRIEND unknown? our greetings un-
And the goal unsousht? Shall I never
What was that life might have led?
As the springs last look. for one dear
From skies autumnal ON earth may
bend,
So lures me that other life-but. nayl
have lived my life, and [ face the end.
Edith NJ Thomas, in February Smart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-17
Americas First Stage Coach.

As public eonveyances. or the stage
coach, had been in vogue in England
since 1910, the establishment of a sim
liar convenience was demanded i'm
America many years before the war for
independence As early as 1744 there
fore, q stage line started to run between
New Brunswick and Trenton, N J., and
by 1856, this route had been extended
over from New York to Philadelphia.
Moreover, as in England, so in Aneri-
ca-the advent of the stage coach neces-
STATED marked improvements in the
highways while the building of better
roads and turnpikes naturally created
q greater demand for more coaches, and,
what was more to the purpose lighter
vehicles.
In 1771 there were but thirty-eight
conveyances of every description in the
city Of Philadelphia, but by 1894 their
number had increased to S27-more than
two-thirds of which We're comparativ
light vehicles-a condition which led
one of the local papers to publish
most deprecatory article concerning the
use of conveyances in which it was
stated that the custom of riding was
then being carried to such extrava-
gance that ''even farmers want car
riages. metropolitan Magazine.