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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-07
ALFALFA YIELD.
The Seed Crop Being Threshed
by the Farmers Now.
Returns in the Vicinity of Sa-
lima Are Good Indeed.
FREE OF OTHER SEED.
Ten Acres of James Rulings
Pays $50 Per Acre.
Another Seven Acre Field Goes
About $50 Per Acre.

Salina, Sept THE product of al
faIfa seed in the vicinity of SaIina has
been very good this season. 1t is also
said to be free from deleterious seed
of various kinds. which is a matter of
much importance to alfalfa raisers.
Several farmers have made a report
regarding the cut and yield of alfalfa
seed which is now being threshed-
There are still some seed crops to cut
and thresh- The third cut is the one
saved for the seed crop usually
? A WSisgerber, living one and
one-half miles southwest OF the city.
mas threshed one field of seven acres
OF alfalfa and has two others, consist
ing of fifteen acres, still to cut and
Inresh The seven-acre field yielded
80 bushels of good seed. He sold the
SEED to local dealers for $3.50 per
oushel or a total of S255 Besides the
SEED, Mr. Weisgerber has three tons
OF hay per acre off his alfalfa land.
Its1s he considers worth s21 per acre.
rms makes the product of his field
s57 per acre.
James Rulings has cut and threshed
ten acres of his alfalfa on his farm
two miles southwest of the CITY. From
the ten acres he threshed - bushels
OF seed This is a very large yield
the largest that has been reported TO
this Office Mr. Rulings sold his seed
to Salina dealer and received for the
same SS-75 per bUsheI, or a total value
of $500 The seed returned him $50
per acre and he has hay to the value
of about $50 more
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GOING BACK TO DIXIE.
Native Tennesseeans in Fifth District
to Flock to Nashville.

Lebanan, Sep. THE Tennes-
seeans' home coming week who will
meet in Nashville, Sept. % to %, will
be attended by a large number of
former Teunesseeans scattered in diff
ferentG parts of the Sixth district. Dr.
H A. Dykes was appointed delegate
from the district. who as chairman
has selected assistants, as follows: J.
L. Smiley, DR.. Thos. Justice and Dr.
s B. Dykes, of Esbon, DR.. A. B.
Peters, of MankatO. and John Solo
mon of Smith Center DR.. Henry A
Dykes was appointed delegate by
Governor Hoch He considers it a
handsome compliment. and he and his
asso ciates Will do all in their power to
see and communicate with all former
Tennessee settlers residing in the
Sixth district. He was born in Haw-
kins county. that state He came to
Kansas in 1855. locating in Lebanon
From 1898 to 1895 he was secretary
of the state board Of health He
thinks about so former Tenn esseeans
will attend the home coming week
from the district. and all Of them will
wear a sun1O wer-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-07
PIONEER KANSAN WEEDS.
DIR. w C. Hall of CofeyviIle Goes to
Illinois for 2 Bride.

CoffeyviIIe, Kan. Sept Word
has reached here of the marriage 1T
Quincy. Ill ct DR.. William C Hail,
aged 8 0 years, of this city, TO Miss Mel
lie z. McCord Of Golden Ill
DIR. William c. Hall. one of Mont
gomery cOunty's foremost medical men
men and fnanCiers, is one Of the pio-
neer physicians in this sections. He
came here with his bride from Ohio
more than thirty years ago a poor man
He has amassed a fortune as large as
any in this wealthy community, and
is president of the CofeyvilIe Com
mercial club. director in Condon's Ma
tiOnaI bank, member of the board OF
education, director and official in a
dozen large glass factories. brick fac
tories and Industrial institutions and
owns the finest residence in CcTeyvtIIe.
He had been a Widower for ten years
Friends in CoTeyvflle will give DR.
Hall and wife a reception upon their
return
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-07

Jenner protested and Young Corbett
applied vile epithets to the valet. when
Jenner promptly knocked the fighter
down Jenner would have gone fur
Their had not the proprietor and his
walters interfered. At the time Jen-
ner did not know who it was he had
quarreIed with When he learned that
he was Young Corbett he almost
tainted. But the gang" soon had
Jenner going, and by the next even
ing the valet believed that he could
get a good purse by meeting the fight
er in the ring of one Of the local ath-
Ietic clubs and knocking him out, all
of which they assured Jenuer he would
have no trouble in doing. Young Cor
bett, who was looking for the man
who had given him his quietus for the
purpose Of evening up the scale. was
told Of the proposition. and Of Jenners
ready acquiescence. Young Corbett at
once saw, as he views it, an easy way
of making some coin and at the same
time settling Up with Jenner- So he
agreed at once Arrangements for the
affair are being made with the man
age meut of a club near Times SQUARE
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Tim Payne end His Threshing Engine
Take a Serious Tumble.

Lawrence. kan, Sept Tim
Payue's threshtng engine went
through a small bridge over a deep
guIley in Sarcoxie township. Jefferson
county. late yesterday afternoon. and
turned bottom upward. in which posi-
+f0r, II lies ar the bottom Of the firt.a,l-
foot guIley.
The bridge was a small iron one
erected by the county The euIIev it
crossed ran into Mud creek short
distance below; and was very deep
separator broke loose from the en-
CINE and remained on the bank.
Will Payne, who was on the engine
went down with it and was hadIv
bruised by the fall He is not seri-
ousIy injured. however. and came 70
town last night to have a pFlvsicfsr
dress his injuries. II Will require 2
strong derrick to raise the engine
which is badly damaged
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SINGING FOR GANs-BRTTT GO.
Male Quartet VIII Take Place of
Usual Boxing PreIininaries.

san Francisco, Cal, Sept Jack
Gleason manager of the Britt-Gans
fight plans an innovation which does
not meet with much favor in sporting
circles here. He has arranged for
male quartet to sing instead of the
usual preliminary boxing contest AL
though the betting puts him on the
short end at 10 to Z and there is not
much Britt money in sight. Jimmy
Britt processes the utmost confidence
in the outcome of his battle with Cans
Fe Is practfcing new body punches in
secret which he thinks Will transfer
he title of the championship. Britt
has done less work in training than
Cans and is still some pounds over
y eight He weighed 136 yesterday.
He still continues his boxing He said
today:
IT know I am stronger than ever
be fore and that I have harder
Euhch. Why2 Cans couldn't jar Nell
SOL at CToIGfeld as I did in San Fran
cisco recently Some one is going to
lick Cans and I think the chance is
coming to me-
Cans is tapering off a { Alameda. He
is in perfect shape and declares he was
never in better condition for a fight
He IS about at the weight with moth
f-Ig to worry him. and is simply doing
enough to keep on edge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-07
ONE IN THREE
Every Third Person Poisoned by
Coffee.

1t is difficult to make people believe
that coffee is an absolute poison to at
least one person out OF every three, but
peoule are slowly finding it out. al
though thousands of them suffer terri
bIy before they discover the fact.
A New York hotel man says: Each
time after drinkink coffee became
restIees. nervous and excited, so that 1
was unable to sit five minutes in ore
Mace. was also inclined to von1it and
suffered from loss of sleep, which got
worse and worse.
"A lady said that perhaps coffee was
the cause of my trouble, and suggested
that 1 try Postum Food Coffee L
Iaughed at the thought that coffee hurt
me hut she insisted so hard that final
" had some Postum made. 1 have been
using IL in place of coffee ever since,
for noticed that all my former nerV-
BUSINESS and irritation disappeared L
began to sleep perfectly, and the Pos
turn tasted as good or better than the
old coffee so what was the use or
sticking 10 a beverage that was ruin
ing me?
Zone day on an excursion up the
country I remarked to a young lady
friend on her greatly improved appear
ance She explained that some time be-
fore she had quit using coffee and ia
ken Postum She had gained a number
of pounds and her former paIpttatiOn
of the heart, humming in the ears
trembling of the hands and legs ana
other dfsagreeable feelings had disap-
peared. She recommended me to quit
coffee and take Postum and was very
much surprised to find that I had al
ready made the change.
she. said her brother had also re-
cefved great benefit from leaving of
coffee and taking on Postum Food Cof-
fee" There's a Reason" Read THE
Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
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APPLES AT $1.25 A BUsHEI.
Leavenworth County Man Raises a
Few This Year

Leavenworth, Sept. II Geyer
who lives near the Jewish cemetery on
rural route No. f, brought about ten
bushels of apples tc town yesterday.
which he sold to local grocers for
S1-25 per busheI-
The apples were Jonathan and New
York imperial varieties, and were
mostly wind falls
Geyer has not picked any apples
from the trees as yet, but he thinks
he Will have a crop of nearly twenty
five bushels. He attributes the num-
Der of bushels he has to the fact that
the trees budded later this year than
they usually do, and SO escaped some
of the heavy frosts.
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EXPERTS VIEW U. s LINES.
Parties of German and Japanese En-
gineers Are Here.

gineers Are Here.
New York. Sept. Two parties o.
prominent railroad men and civil en-
gfneers, one from japan and the other
from Germany. are here studying
American railroad systems They VIII
have visited most of the large cities OF
the country before returning TO their
respective countries The Japanese
party consists of K NaDarisakl, man
ager of railroads and counsel IoT ran
roads for the japanese governments
K. Morakaki an attache Of the oeparI-
ment of the imperial government; D
Ish rimarn. a prominent civil englnSet >
B. Shimade, marine engineer; X Lat
SUMO, civil engineer; Y. Yakata, co
seIIor for the imperial railroads. ana .
Furukana, civil engineer They nave
been sent over by their government a.
a preliminary step to the reorganlzA7
ton of the entire Japanese ra1lroau
system, which Is eventually TO De ldkeii
over by the government.
They will also visit Germany. France
and England They have already car
fully observed the working OF Lne
western railroads The German osIs
CATION consists Of H. Gardes, F. Joroan
and NJ Wittefelt. all civil engineer
Their purpose is to acqua1nt lhenl5
selves with American ra1lroaos anu
their methods. to see what lnnpEoNe
ments if any can be Incorporated IleO
the German railway system
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BAIL.ASTED WITH SALT.
Western Pacific VIII Have This Mover
Feature for 12O Miles

A railroad line ba1lasted Tor many
miles of its length with salt Is soon 10
be one of the remarkable features or
American transportation At a point
about 12O miles west Of Salt Lake CITY
on the line of the Western PACING road.
now under construction, is a great area
of salt beds, eight miles wide and 40
miles long Immediately west or SAT-
Lake City the road skirts the great
Salt Lake and crosses its southern end
at one point for a distance of six miles
Eighty miles farther 1t enters the
American Desert, and for a distance OF
40 miles runs over alkaH beds
Near the western end Of the desert
the road runs into the salt beds, and
the crystals are so thickly packed TO-
gether that they form a solid roadbeo
for the tracks Over these beds the
road required no baIIasting other than
the salt itself. These salt deposits are
said to be 80 per cent pure, and their
DEVELOPMENT should be a matter or
great Importance to the road
The theory is that these salt beds
drain into Salt Lake. They are q feet
higher than the lake, and the trend Is
in that direction. The salt deposit con-
taius moisture, as is shown by the ties
and telegraph poles embedded In IL
Placer claims are beginning TO De
staked out on these salt beds and the
opening of the road for operation Is
likely to witness the beginning OF rnelr
DEVELOPMENT
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Theodore Dunmire, a Soldier OF
Fortune, at LeavenWOrth-
The Man Who Married Divorced
Wife of C. j. Guiteau,
SLAYER OF GARFIELD.
Has Led an AdVenturOus Life in
Many Chimes.
Among Other CuriOs Has Rare
and Ancient Books.

Leavenworth. Sept THE Times
says Theodore DunTnir=, who mar
rfed Anna Guiteau, the divorced wife
Of Charles julius Guiteau. and who.
with his wife. was summoned as a
witness at the trial of Guiteau for the
assassination OF President James A.
Garfield. is q resident Of Leavenworth
and lives at No. 514 South Fifth street
He has been a veritabIe Soldier OF
Fortune" and has travelled all over
the United States and engaged in many
ventures in the pursuit OF wealth and
fame. but has finally settled down to
spend the remainder Of his days in
peace and quiet
He was born at HoIIidayberg. Pa, in
1912 He came west with his parents
in 1S45 and settled in Platte county.
No. about twelve miles east of Leav-
enworth- At the outbreak of the Civil
War Dunmfre enlisted in the Fifteenth
Missouri Infantry and fought all
through the war, being mustered out
Of the First United States Volunteers.
engineer corps. in 1865
In 1873 the gold fever struck the
soldier-farmer, and he followed the
trail OF other fortune hunters and
landed in Colorado. where he engaged
in mining speculation with very good
success
While in Boulder in 1879. Dunmfre
met and married Anna Guiteau. who
had been married and had secured a
divorce from GUiteau four years pre-
viOus 10 her marriage to Dunmire. and
two years before the crime was COM
ulitted-
In 1882 Dunmire and his wife were
subpoenaed to appear as witnesses in
the famous trial which occurred in
Washington. D c
They took their little chile with
them. and Mrs. Dunmire was placed
upon the stand and testified against
her former husband. that *. she tes-
-ified that her husband was at all times
sive nature DCnmire was not called
upon 70 testify. though he drew wit
ness fees for four days
After the trial he and his wife and
their little boy visited the condemned
slayer OF the president in his cell At
ter this Dunmire took his family back
ID Leadville. where they lived till 1855.
and being uulucky in some specula-
tons lost nearly all he had saved in
his years in Colorado He went 10
Chicago. where his wife secured a d.
vorce from him, and soon after mar
ried q man named Allen. from whom
she also secured q divorce She went
TO Omaha. Neb- where she now resides
with her daughter, and also Dummies
daughter.
In 1895 the Cripple Creek craze
struck Dunmire, and he went TO Grip
pie Creek. and was there when that
city was visited BY the disastrous fire
which destroyed almost every building
there and Dunnfre seemed TO have
gotten to the end Of his good luck
and MS health being broken he re-
turn=d TO Kansas. where he entered /
the Soldiers home He draws a PEN
sion FOR injuries received while erect |
ing breastworks before the battle Of
Stone river.
He was with General Thomas at |
Chicamauga. followed Sherman on his
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MULE TIES UP RAILROAD.
Takes n Nan on Kansas City North
Westerns Track

Leavenworth, Kan, Sept Maud,
a gray mule, tied up traffic on tne
Kansas City Northwestern railway Tor
almost an hour about $50 yesterday
afternoon. A man purchased the mule
about two weeks ago for s12- 1t ap-
peared to be dOcfle creature
MAUD was hitched to an ice wagon
and since then has been a continual
torment to her drivers Yesterday af-
ternoon she broke out of the barn and
spying an attractive spot in the cen
ter of the Northwestern railroad
tracks, lay down between the rails
The Leavenworth passenger train
came into view The engineer brought
the train to a stop a few feet from
where Maud lay The passeng gers on
the train and several bystanders tried
to get Maud off the track. but were
awed into inactivity by the way in
which she kicked
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writes:
II have suffered with kidney ana
other trouble for ten years past
Last March commenced using Pc
ruua and continued for three months.
I have not used 1t since. nor have felt
a pain
II believe that I am wen and I
therefore give my highest commenda-
ton to the curative qualities OF Peruna.
Pe-ru-na For Kidney Trouble.
Mrs. George H S1mser, Grant. On
tario, Can. writes:
II had not been well for about four;
years L had kidney trouble, and, In
fact. felt badly nearly all the time
This summer I got so very bad
thought I would try Peruns, so wrote
to you and began at once to taxa Pc
runa and Manaiin.
II took only two bottles Of Perma
and one Of Mena1in. and now fsel
better than have for some time
IT feel that Peruna and Maualins
cured me and made different wUrnan3
of me altogether I bless the day =
picked up the little book and Rad OIL
your Peruna."
It is the business OF the Kidneys TO
remove from the blood an poisonous
materials. They must be active all the I!
time, else the system suffers Theres
are times when they need little assist
ance.
Peruna is exactly this sort OF . rem
edy. It has saved many people from
disaster by rendering the kidneys ser
vice at a time when they were not able
tn bear their own burdens.
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SOLD THE WRONG LAND.
Elmer Virgins Claims He Didn't Get
What He Bargained For.

Elmer Virgins of Litchfe1d. Ill.
was in Goodland last week Over a
year ago he bought land eight miles
west of GoodIand through J. O. Lowe,
a real estate dealer of Phulipsburg.
He claims that Lowe took him out and
showed him the farm belonging to S
T. Caldwell, quite well improved, as
the land represented. that il was
leased and he proposed in the bargain
to transfer the lease to Virgins
After purchasing the land he found
that the parcel actually transferred
was one mile west on another section
on section 80 and the land sold was in
section 31-T-4O. Dispositions were be-
ing taken N Goodland last Thursday.
and the case is pending in the district
court at PhilIipsburg.
Mr. Virgins is a nephew Of Willard
Johnson. living one and a half mile
south of GoodIand.-IoodIand Re
public
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v1Nr srILLINGs ABROAD.
SAYS Europeans Think Japan VIII
Whip Americans.

Leaveuworth. Sept 7.-WilIfam 1.
BiddIe has received an interesting let
ter from State Senator Efnt StiIIings,
who is now 50 journing in Europe Fol-
lowing are a few excerpts
I'VE have been on the go ever since
II left. We have been to Bremen.
Hanover, Berlin, Dresden. Leipsic,
weissenfeIIs. Efsenach. Nuremberg,
Munich. all in Germany, and all in the
order named, and now we are doing
Switzerland, and when we leave here
will go to Baden-Baden, Germany
thence down the Rhine to Cologne,
and thence to Paris, France
"As I said, we have been sight-see-
ing every day, and, at night, going to
the theaterS, music halls. and twice to
grand opera, where everyone was in
full dress; at Dresden and in Munich
The grand opera was magnificent, eS-
pecialIy in Munich where it began
promptly at I o'clock IN the afternoon,
ran until O'Clock. when the entire
great audience adjourned to an i'm
mense dining room in the opera house.
dined, stroued in an adjoining garden
for an hour, then returned to the opera
house, and the opera continued There
were two more iutermiSSiOns of three
quarters of an hour each The opera
was Wagner's mountaineering, and
1 never saw as magnificent a spectacle
nor heard such music.
Germany is booming; factories of
every description building up on every
hand. All the Germans French. and
English we met are saying that ia
Ian will make war upon US and that
she will surely whip US This is very
CALLING to American tourists and much
heated argument ensues-
TEL Dan he ought to introduce a
bill IN congress Ievying a heavy tax on
all Americans touring abroad. The
amount of money spent by Americans,
IS FeciaLy the very wealthy ones from
the East is a fright This money is
mo silly made from the farmers of the
west BY trusts and the other cOmbina-
tons. and is spent in Europe, whence
it never comes back
I wish some of the prohibition
cranks could travel through Germany
and see the splendid Industrial de-
veIopmeut of the country. the wonder
fuj health of the peopIe-men. wo-
men and children, the enormous
amount of beer drunk. and never a
drunken man
Tell the crowd a Barlow's in strict
est confidence, for I want it kept
secret. that I will be home in October
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HE WHIPPED YOUNG CoRBETT.
Drunken AFFAIR in New York Likely to
Have Funny Ending

New York Sept William Roth
we'll who is batter known to the pu-
gi1istic world as Young Corbett" had
a ruu-in a few nights ago with man
named Paul Jenner. The affair is
liable to have a funny ending. Jenuer
is big Enelishman. who is valet for
A wealthy New Yorker now in Euro pc.
The rur-in occurred in a restaurant on
W=st F'orty-first street. where the
sports hang out. Young Corbett was
in his cups. Seeing Jenner, he took
him for a policeman and had some
thing nasty to say OF all policemen
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DON'T LIKE NEW LAW.
Railroad Presidents Object to System
of Accounting Demanded.

New York. Sept. THE presidents of
several railways met at a hotel yes
terday to discuss the new law under
which the. railroads have been forced
to charge to operating expenses certain
items that heretofore had been charged
to construction account. From their no.
tel one or mere of the presidents IS
said to have had a telephone conversa-
ton with President Roosevelt, at Oys-
ter Bay It is stated that number
of railroads are holding back the July
statements of their earnings because of
showing up they are compelled to make
under this law
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AN NTERCHANGE PLAN.
Car Inspectors Advocate One to Pre-
vent Shortages.

Chicago. Sept IA general inter
change of cars by all railroads in the
United States was advocated by the
members of the Chief Joint Car II
spactors and Car Foreman's Associa-
ton Of America in its closing session
Yesterday. IF a general exchange is
Instituted by the railroads of this
country car shortages will be a thing
Of the mast" cOntended H. H Harvey.
general car inspector of the Burlington
railroad
A resolution was adopted by the as
socia ton asking that legislation by
congress be taken in that direction
The following officers were reelected:
President H. Boutet. Cincinnati, Ohio;
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HARTMAN WORK IN MEXICO.
Fast Progress Is Being Made on His
New Lines There.

Construction work on the Hartman
lines in western Mexico is reported to
be going on swimmingly. 1t is being
pushed just as fast as it is possible to
get the necessary material on the
ground. The track has been laid for
eight or ten kilometers across the Dor
der of Sonora into SinaIoa, and is be-
ing put down in the interior of the lat
ter state as fast as possible. On the
northern extension, along the Yaqui
river. the grading is done to within a
short distance of Cumurfpo, and work
is progressing rapidly on that part of
the line The line is being laid with
sixty-five-pound steel rails When
completed, it is claimed. this will
equal any branch in the United States.
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Reet Growers 10 Organfze.

Garden city. Kan. Sept This af-
ternOOu the beet growers of F'inney
county will meet in Garden City for
the purpose of organizing Beet
Growers association As soon as per-
uanent officers are chosen. arrange
ments will be made to hold meetings
at stated periods for the purpose of
discussing the questions that are of
particuIar interest 70 the beet grOMars