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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07

Some of the country papers that are
the loudest in their denunciation of
catalog houses are furnishing their
subscribers with ma gazine supplements
that are teeming with all kinds OF
catch-penny and catalog house adver-
tisements," asserts the Rockford Regis
ter
There may be demagogues among
the progressives," says the Sioux Rap
ids RepubHcanPress, just as there
are black sheep in every organization,
but the time has gone by when the
reform sentiment can be sneered out
demagogue."
THE Des Moines News wants the
Des Moines baby farms turned into
state Institutions" observes the Cedar
Rapids Republican. and asks: But
Why should the state maintain institu
tions where unfortunate and thought
less girls can conceal their troubles?
Why not abolish such maternity
homes altogether. They are simply
places of concealment and for the en-
couragement of crimes. The state has
quite enough on it's shoulders already
in the way of institutions. 1t would
better keep out of the baby farming
business, even if the capital city would
enjoy the sensation of having still
something else paid for out of the state
treasury
Noting that a movement is on foot at
Sioux City to require the high school
graduates to be attired in cap and
gown during the commencement ex-
ercises and while attending high school
functions before and after the cere-
mony which are strictly class affairs"
the Waterloo Reporter commends the
initiative taken by the Sioux City board
of directors as highly commendable and
suggests that the plan should be adopt
ed universally.
Secretary Shaw having suggested
bonded port at which goods could be
manufactured from imported free raw
material, for export, even the Dubuque
Times journal is constrained to re-
mark: 1.-The secretary is hardly in
earnest. He can scarcely imagine that
the people would consent to suspend
duties on raw materials in order that
manufactures might be produced
cheaply for foreign consumption only"
Summed up then,' argues the Sioux
City Tribune, 'Mr. Shaw would have
US provide for making things at less
cost for foreigners than for ourselves
and in addition, go down into our
pockets to pay ships for carrying the
articles to the foreigners" and in
quires Isn't this putting a big pre-
MUM on beoing foreigners?'
mo matter what the personal pref
erences of the individual members of
the legislature may be in regard to a
statewide primary, those who We're
elected as republicans are in duty
bound to redeem the pledge made by
the republican PLATFORM" insists the
Webster City Freeman-Tribune.
There is a bill before the legisla-
ture looking to the popular election of
judges of the supreme court" notes the
Grinnell Register. "a better one" it
thinks, would be to remove the judges
and also the educators of the state
from the influence of politics. The ma
ture of these two oceuptions is not one
which mixes well with politics."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07
Often The kidneys Are
Weakened by Over Work.

Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
1t used to be considered that only
urinary and bladder troubles were to be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07

mo matter what the personal pref
erences of the individual members of
the legislature may be in regard to a
statewide primary, those who We're
elected as republicans are in duty
bound to redeem the pledge made by
the republican PLATFORM" insists the
Webster City Freeman Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07
,uwA OPINIONS AND NOTES

Some Of the country papers that are
the loudest in their denunciation of
catalog houses are furnishing their
subscribers with magazine supplements
that are teeming with all kinds Of
ch-penny and catalog house adver-
tisements," asserts the Rockford Regis
ter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07

"There may be dema gogues among
the progressives," says the Sioux Rap
ids Republcan-Pres just as there
are black sheep in every organization,
but the time has gone by when the
reform sentiment can be sneered out
of existence by the demagogic cry of
demagogue.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07

The Educational Review has discov-
cred that In sixty -four American cities
school teachers wages average 95 cents
u working day, while the bricklayers'
average is from So to $3.50 and the
more to keep bricks straight than chill
dren?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07

You have had great deal to say
about the income tax"
Yes" answered the candid citizen;
II favor it; but Pm like everybody else
in believing that it ought to start with
the next thousand dollars above my
own income. Washing Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
N. a. BROWN ARRESTED
Passed Worthless Checks on Il. j.
Myers, Grain Broker.

N. A. Brown, whose present post
office address is Fort Scott, Kan, ar
rived in Topeka this morning accom-
panied by the sheriff of Bourbon ccun-
ty, and is charged with passing three
checks aggregating about $1,000 on T.
j. Myers, a grain broker with offices in
the Columbian building, about the mid
die of last June.
A few weeks previous to this time
Brown drifted into Topeka with the
free and easy air of westerner and
talked mining stock to all who would
listen and in the meantime was bll<si9v
engaged in securing the confidence Of
those whom he met. The result is that
there are several checks in the civ
winch We're protested when presented
to the bank where he claimed thai he
was transacting his business
Myers conducts a brokerage business
in the city and claims that all the bust
ness and profits which come to him
are as commissions on the business
which he secures for eastern firms. The
Saturday previous to the days on which
Brown gave Myers the three checks
ms Pronts on his operations on the
board of trade amounted to $3.50 and
as he was a paying patron of the firm
his check was accepted by Mr. Myers
without a question.
When the checks were protested
Brown claimed that the money ha5
been sent to the bank to protect them
but that it had been delayed but would
uncouptedly be there within few days
Oh account OF these claims the matter
was not pressed until within the ,9st
two weeks when a warrant was pIacei
in the hands of the sheriff of Bourbon
county with instructions to serve it at
the first opportunity
Brown claims that the checks were
given in payment of a gambling dent
and that they cannot be collected in
this state This statement is denied nv
MYERS inns
Quoting q legitimate business and that
ms prohts are in commissions. and that
there is no gambling connection with
II n any way; and it is evident that
ex-Ccunty Attorney Hungate who is.
sued the complaint took the same view
OF the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
GOES THROUGH SENATE
Not Vote Against the Land For
fixture Bill.

The western school land forfeiture
bill passed the senate this afternoon,
every senator present, 35, casting his
vote for the passage of the bill. The
senate this morning. sitting as COM
mittee of the Whole, considered the
bill at length. Senator Young imme-
diately moved that the rules be sus-
pended during the consideration this
afternoon and it was placed on its final
passage. No objection was made to
this motion.
Senator Smith. who previously had
led a fight against the measure for the
purpose of introducing a number of
important amendments and who was
beaten, explained his vote. He stated
that While he believed certain sections
of the bill inyalidated it, he believed
that other features of the bill would
be to the interests of the people who
were demanding its passage and
would vote for it. The bill will now
go to the house.
The senate adjourned at PAS this
afternoon until p. m. Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
LEVEE IN DANGER.
Shawnectown, H.. Threatened With
Another Disastrous Flood.

Shawneetown, Ill. Jan. 1S.-As a re-
suit of the flood in the Ohio river. a
break is threatened in the levee here.
At 80 a. m. the high water levee was
still intact.
Shawneetown, a village of 800 popu-
lation, on the bend of the Ohio river
near The Indiana and Kentucky lines,
is threatened with a repetition of the
great flood of 1898. which devastated
the country for miles around, and
caused loss of life and great suffering.
The wate- at noon today had reached
4S feet and was steadily rising. The
heavy rains continue. Flood stage of
30 feet is looked for by tomorrow, no
probability of the river stopping at that
point. The high water mark of 1898
was So feet.
Secretary of State Rose this morning
received a message asking that 60 tents
be sent at once for the use of those
driven from their homes. All of the
stores and buildings on the water front
have been abandoned, and the people
are homeless.
News of the flood conditions at Shaw
neetown were communicated to Cover
nor Deneen at Chicago by long dis
tance telephone and he at once directed
that Adjutant General Scott send a
supply of tents for the relief of flood suf-
ferers. Every precaution is being ia
ken by the adjutant general to insure
InG safety u the peOpIe ana property
in the flooded district. Company F of
the Fourth regiment Illinois National
Guard. located at Mount Vernon. rs
miles from Shawneetown, will be df-
rected to hold itself in readiness for
possible service in case the Ievee
breaks.
At Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, o.. Jan. 1S.-Flood condi-
tions continued to grow worse TODAY.
At o'clock this morning the stage in
this city was 59.5, the river rising at the
rate of one-tenth of q foot an hour. The
suffering among the residents of the
lower sections of this city and the Ken
lucky suburbs was great, many electric
lines having impossible gaps several
blocks long. Heavy rain was falling
this morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
KEEP MEMORIAL DAY.
Senator Noftzger Would Force It's OBJ
servance by Heavy Penalties.

Senator Thomas Noftzger has Joined
the ranks of the pressing multitude in
the state who are working for the ele-
walton of public morals. He introduced
a bill in the senate today making it a
misdemeanor for any one to hold or
participate in any carnival, circus pa
rade, ball game, horse racing or any
other sporting entertainment in public
on May 80, Memorial day. The bill
also makes it unlawful for the cities or
Kansas to authorize a license or per-
NIT for any of the entertainments men
toned. violation of this act, If it
becomes a law, is punishable by a fine
of not less than $500 or more than $5,-
600 for each offense.
And Senator Noftzger also introduce
ed sort of a sister bill to this one
which will help along the proper" OBJ
servance of Memorial day. 1t proposes
that all cities in the state shall have
the right, through their common coun-
cils, to appropriate 500 for the obser-
vance of Memorial day and this money
is to be expended under the direction
of the G.. A R. posts in the city. In
cities having a population of over 3d.
900, the common councils may appro-
pirate $500 for this purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
STARVING SELF TO DEATH.
Aged Mrs Weisour With $1,000 in
Bank Wouldn't Eat.

Sheriff John Wilkerson arrived at the
county jail late Thursday afternoon
having in custody Mrs. Anna Weisour
of Richland whom he arrested on a
charge of insanity at the request of her
neighbors who claim that she is slowly
starving herself to death, though she
has nearly $1,000 on deposit in one of
the Topeka banks.
Although nearly rs years of age Mrs.
\. eisour defied the officers when she
saw them approaching and after barri-
cading the doors stopped the keyholes
and windows and it took several hours
of strategy and force for them to gain
an entrance and overpower her. There
was no food of any kind, in the house
with the exception of a half decayed
pumpkin and a few small potatoes when
II was entered and the neighbors assert
that she is trying to starve herself to
death. Her eyes are shrunken and her
form emaciated and everything bears
out the story they tell.
All the way from Richland to Tope-
ka Mrs. Weisour. fought and pleaded
and even after she was placed in the
padded cell she raved that she was be-
ing robbed of her property which she
had worked all of her life to accumu-
late Besides nearly thousand dollars
which she has in the bank she owns
valuable real estate in Shawnee county
and starved herself with the idea of
econornizing and saving her earnings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
MURPHY AND THE CHICKENS.
Runaway Hack Team and Other
Things Complicated His Troubles.

A crate of squaking chickens.a snort
ing steam engine and runaway team
of horses attached to a hack, attracted
the attention of Detective Butler, one
of the Santa Fe's special men who was
on duty at the depot last night. He
sauntered towards the noise center and
captured r. Murphy, who was much
confused with the events which Were
trans piring about him.
The hack is driven by E. Beckelhimer
ard the chickens which figure in the
story belong to an uncle who was pass
ing through the city on a Santa Fe
freight train, Murphy and Beckelhimer
had met the uncle of the latter. and
while the hack driver was showing hiri
the sights of the city which are to be
seen about the depot it is charged that
Mur ply took the hack ard drove to the
ernigrant car in which the chickens
were travelling
Here the story grows more mixed but
it is the superstition of Santa Fe De-
tective Butler, who made the captures
that Murphy left the hack standing
near the train while he assisted the
chickens and their coop from the car
preparatory to loading them into the
hack for a further ride about the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

"A
the feeding and handling of dairy
ccws.9 The salary is $4,000 year and
travelling expenses and he must give
a bond for $4,000. The bill also pro-
sioner shall be at the State Agricul-
tural college and a deputy commits
s1oners is auth ortzed who is a chemist
and is to receive $1,000 a year.
The duties of the commissioner are
shown in the following section of the
bill: 1r ~e3J-t
1T shall be the duty of the state
dairy commissioner to inspect or cause
to be inspected all the creameries.
public dairies and butter or cheese
factories of the state ct least once a
year or oftener if possible; in connec-
ton with the secretary of the state
board of agriculture, the director of
the Kansas experiment station of the
Agricultural college and the live stock
sanitary commissioner to formulate
and prescribe such reasonable rules
and regulations for the operation of
creameries, butter and cheese fac
tories and public dairfes as shall be
deemed necessary; and for the promo
health and safety and also for advance
ing the value to the outside world of
Kansas dairy products
The commissioner is also required
to act on complaints that milk, cream,
butter and cheese is not fresh and
clean and he is to inspect the places
and utensils where such products are
kept or handled. 1--WE advice or in
structions for the proper performance
of the work and when such instruc-
lions are disobeyed to prohibit sale of
such products. He is required to COM
pile and publish statistics and informa-
ton of the dairy industry in kansas
and in other states and cooperate
with the Agricultural college in hold
ing farmers institutes and dairy meet
inoS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. Anna Engle, deputy city clerk.
is confined to her home by an attack of
illness.
Mayor W. H Davis has been notified
Of his appointment to membership in
the National Historical and Biographi-
cal society. The mayor is rather
dubious Of the appointment and thinks
that there may be dues.
The application of the trustees of the
Devlin estate TO sell certain personal
property valued at upwards of $150,000
and in addition the plant of the Toluca
Electric Light company will be heard
before Referee N. n. hIoornis Saturday.
The last dividend of so per cent will
also be declared and paid at the same
time.
The Republican city central commit
tee meets in the Topeka city court room
at To- this evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
STATE DAIRY COMMISSIONERS.
Bills Providing for One in Both House
and Senate.

A bill has been introduced in both
branches of the legislature. by Sena :
tor J. E. Brewer in the senate and c.
A. Stannard in the house creating a
state dairy comm issioner, providin o
Tor the preparation of literature for
the education Of Kansas dairymen
and the producers of dairy products.
for improving and advancing the value
Of such products, regulating the pro-
ducticn, sale and shipment of milk.
cream. butter and cheese and for the
inspection Of creamerfes. cheese fac
tories, dairy barns and utensils used
in the work.
The dairy commissioner IS to be ap-
pointed by the governor for a term of
two years. The governor is REQUIRED
to appoint the comm issioner nomi-
mated by the secretary of the state
board of agriculture, the director Of
the experiment station, the live stock
sanitary commissioner. The appoint
ment is to be nonpolitical and the com
missioner must have a practical
knowledge of and experience in the
manufacture of dairy products and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
STATE OWNERSHIP.
Oklahoma Is Planning to Mine Her
Own Coal.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. 1S.-The spec
ial committee of the constitutional
convention on segregated coal and as
phalt lands in the Indian Territory to-
day made it's final report to the con-
vention in the form of a congressional
memorial notifying congress and
President Roosevelt that the state of
Oklahoma desires to open negotiations
with the federal government and at an
early date purchase the lands.
The committee is of the opinion that
the lands can be purchased for about
100000. The lands embrace one
of the most valuable mineral deposits
in the southwest and the state pro.
poses state ownership and state oper-
alton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Gilbert f. Tucker. a Rock Island
conductor, died in Kansas City We'd
nesday night from. pneumonia at the
age of AZ years. The body will arrive
in Topeka tomorrow over the Rock
Island at 1880 o'clock and will be
buried IN Prairie Home cemetery. The
deceased leaves a wife, and two chill
dren. The funeral arrangements will
be under the auspices of the A. F. and
A. Nj. lodge No. 3D..
The funeral of i Mrs. Amy Cooley
will be held from the residence of
George H. Smith at BIG Quincy street
at . D. M All friends of the family
are invited
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
Eco Adams Goes Free.

The case of the state against Bee
Adams who was charged with ASSAULT
ing and beating Cora Patterson at his
morning and the costs amounting to
about $25 assessed against the COM
planning witness. 1t was claimed by the
defendant that the prosecution was
malicious and Judge McCabe of the
city court took the same view OF the
matter. If the Patterson woman does
not pay the costs in the case she will
be compelled to serve a Jail sentence
instead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
Money Market.

New York, Jan. 1S-MONEY-On call
easy at 3GtS1k per cent; ruling rate, 8 per
cent; closing bid, 3 per cent offered at s1z
per cent. Time loans were steady; sixty
days. 51k per cent; ninety days, 5H per
cent; six months, 51sGD5A per cent
Close: Prime mercantile paper 6a6iz
per cent.
Sterling exchange steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at S4.S540674 S555
for. demand and at 81 .S135G4 $40 for sixty
day bills; posted rates, 81. S214. S21z and
"a -S604 .S61k; commercial bills, 81 .S1H.
Government bonds steady; railroad
bonds irregular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
PORTRAIT OF MIR. CoBURN.
Lifelike Painting by George NJ. Stone
Attracts Attention.

An oil painting of Secretary F. d.
Coburn, by George NJ. Stone now on
display in one of the windows of NILS
& CO.. store is attracting much atten-
ton from pedestrians on that side of
the street and the comments are OF the
most iattering kind. The painting
shows Mr. Coburn seated at his desk
in one of his characteristic attitudes
and the likeness is life like. The artist
commenced work on the painting last
spring on an order from Mr.. Coburn
though the work was discontinued
through the summer months While Mr.
Stone was in the east
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

Something frightened the team, posi-
bly, the protest Of some old hen to rid
ing in a hack at that late hour of the
night, and they started to run, leaving
Murphy standing alongside of the cars
with enough chickens in his possession
to send him to the penitentiary If it is
proven that he intended to steal them.
Murphy will recite his story to Judge
Urmy at the afternoon session of the
pO1ice court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
Reid on Nhite TIorse Rriande-

The police got busy this morning
and rounded up the remnant of the
white horse brigade, consisting Of
Charles Boyer, Oscar Brown, Frank
SummerhoIt and Charles Baker,
the first three on a vagrancy
charge and the latter Is charged with
petty larceny. The quartette have had
their liberty for some time and COIN
cident with this fact considerable
petty stealing has been going on about
the citv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

for the writ of prohibition to prevent
Judge Carnes from trying the case of
Judge James Hargis, charged with the
murder of Dr. B. D. Cox, was denied
This decision sustains Special Judge
Carnes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

fcials and delegates to political con-
ventions. The only exceptions are
shippers and constaIbles while in dis
charge of duty. A penalty of 500 is
placed for a violation of the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

st. Louis Mo, Jan. 1s-Adolphus
Busch, the brewer. has suffered anoth
er relapse His condition TO-DAY was
aga IN reported grave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
NOTES FROM THE LEGISLATURE.

A joint meeting of the ways and
means committee of the senate and
the house will be held this evening for
the purpose of talking over in a pre-
liminary fashion the attitude of the
committees on the financial measures
before the legislature. that is those
making appropriations, and also what
the attitude will be concerning the APP
preparation measures which are sure
to come. 1t is the understanding that
the members of the senate committee
on ways and means are in favor of re-
trenchment along all lines within rea-
son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

The house this morning ordered that
400 copies of all primary election bills
be printed at once for the use of the
house members
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

Joe Burrows bill providing for new
scheme for changes in the corporation
laws has been printed in pamphlet
form as a supplement" to the report
of the secretary of state, and was
placed on the desks of the members
this morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

The report of the committee on rules
was presented to the house at noon. 1t
provides for the same number of en-
ployes used at the last house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
Robertson's Anti-Pass Bin.

Senator Robertson introduced an
anti-pass bill in the senate this after
noon. The bill prohibits the issuance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18

All the pages of the house were
given Office knives this morning by a
resolution offered by J. w. Holdren Of
Montgomery county.